Madam clerk Madam clerk hello is that working can you hear me yes is that one second yeah okay tell me when are you good will you turn it up it sounds like it's on now okay are we ready all right good morning everyone thank you for joining us this morning for the Reno city council Wednesday June 12th 2024 um I know we have some people still waiting outside to get in so we were just trying to give a minute to get them in the door um I have a very special guest with me this morning future mayor Geneva Jessie thank you so much for joining us I'm going to have you start us out for the pledge allegiance okay so go ahead and take it away I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands God indivisible withy andice for all good job all right I'm going to send it back to you madam clerk for roll call thank you Madame mayor good morning we're calling rooll for Reno City Council on Wednesday June 12th 2024 council member breus here der here Martinez here Ebert absent at this time Taylor here Rees here shivi here Madame mayor you do have a quorum of the Reno City Council okay thank you so much um we're actually going to go into public comment my first public comment is going to be um introducing all of you to the wonderful Geneva Jesse you already have a talent for public service I was so impressed and so I said you have to come and be my mayor for the day because I know you will be a future mayor maybe future President right we need a future President right yeah um but you have sort of an incredible story this man reached out to me wonderful man his name is John Herrera and he built a bridge in your neighborhood for a very special neighbor that passed away so to honor this neighbor they built this beautiful little bridge and I got a call from John Herrera and other people and I think did you maybe start like a change.org she started a change.org petition so um so people started reaching out to me and they said oh my goodness we heard that the bridge is going to be taken down for structural issues so I started to research the bridge and found out that it was actually in the county but this was very special to your heart because this is one of your favorite places that your little brother likes to play Dylan good morning Dylan hi future mayor how are you I hear you're joined by Mom uh which is Kristen right Kristen soberg you're also joined by um obviously Dylan and Dylan Davis and Grandpa Gary soberg good morning thank you so much for being here and you also have someone special next to you I think that's your boyfriend yeah are you allowed to have boyfriends at your age of course you are because matter of fact she's getting ready to graduate from Reno High School when on Friday on Friday oh I'm so excited for you that's so special so in all of this hoopla and it was getting really um it was getting like close to the time that they were coming out to dismantle the bridge I had called uh a good friend of mine County Commissioner Alexis Hill and she jumped in for the rescue so um I invited you to come today come on up because I know Geneva wanted to thank you for all your efforts and I remember we spoke on the phone a couple times and I and she said Hillary they're here to come to come save the bridge and I thought she said dismantle the bridge so I got super nervous I said hold on I'm I'm coming down right now remember I was coming down to your neighbor we're gonna stop them right in their tracks and then I got this wonderful call from Alexis and she said no that's not the case I got it handled so um I just want to say thank you so much but I also want to really recognize how one person can have such a profound effect on a neighborhood and a community so um Alexis just speak a little bit about your experience because I was super super grateful absolutely I'm so pleased to be here mayor thank you for having me in Geneva congratulations I think the thing that we have learned being in government is something you know intrinsically is that it all comes from empathy and serving people who can't speak for themselves and you helping your brother to ensure he could access that Park and create a safe way for him to go ac across um the drainage ditch is amazing and so our staff we wanted to step up and make sure that we uh supported you and your family and everyone who access is that Park so um I'm so touched by your work your family they deserve big credit for um the work that they've done to instill that uh Public Service in you and thank you Madame mayor for the opportunity and for recognizing Geneva she's amazing yeah thank you so much and Dylan your sister must love you a lot right she loves you a lot all right well uh Madam uh mayor for the day uh we'd love for you to say a few few words cuz I know that your family's right here and we want to get some pictures so go ahead okay it's all you um well I'm just so thankful to Hillary and Alexis um for helping me make the um just the park more and more accessible place to everyone to my grandma who lives across the street to my brother to every neighbor every dog everyone that comes there um love it and so everyone's just been um so supportive and um it's really helps me recognize how important local government is and how if you want to change something you really can make a difference and um be impactful so thank you again well we look forward to your your run for city council for mayor Senate and president what do you think I'm mayor make me do it all right well thank you so much all right we're going to head into uh public comment sending it back to you madam CL thank you Madame mayor I'm actually going to send it over to council member Martinez yes so much I do want to take time a little bit to recognize a special group of folks the youth city council who are here with us today and there's a few of them that have signed up to give public comment and I just wanted to say I'm very honored and proud to be working alongside them in the work they have done already uh the youth city council wasn't active since 2018 and because of covid it was on pause and luckily we had a great group of individuals and with the help of the parks and director Nathan ulia we got a good group of folks that are here not just today representing the whole youth city council but making progress on updating their bylaws and their Charter and making sure they're getting involved some of you all as liaison to some of other boards and commissions have seen maybe some requests for them to come in and have Representatives on your boards and commissions so I know they're super engaged and motivated um and looking forward to them giving their public comment I know they wanted to take a picture with us I don't know if that's okay with you Madame mayor for them to come up and take a picture before their public comment are we still in school uh no I think they're done yeah they're done they're on break now oh you're on break well then stay through public comment and then we can do it after you want to do that sounds good yeah I don't know how their sches are but their future city council raise your hand they're all guys thanks so much for being here fantastic fantastic thank you so max finstein avelyn Campos and Daisy Miller if you guys can approach for your presentation if you all want to approach you're more than welcome to Good Morning Council my name is Max Greenstein M ax g r i n s t i n for the record I'm a recent graduate of the Davidson Academy and I also currently serve as the vice chair of the Reno youth city council today I'm joined by youth City Council Members avelyn Campos and Daisy Miller who will be speaking after me um and we also have members Alex strou Ira Harts and Addison gynan who are here and additionally Egan ROM Nathan Gonzalez and Maya zanowski serve on the council though they're not present today uh together we'd like to provide an update on the youth city council's meetings and activities since our appointment in October of last year during our monthly meetings facilitated by the city of Renos Mr Nathan oote Miss Karina Lindsay and Miss lesie Smith we discuss issues facing Reno Youth and we've established as well as we work towards communal goals we've also heard from guests from Senator rosen's office and nonprofit organizations like the children's cabinet of Nevada across these meetings we we've also worked towards developing mission and vision statements for both our cohort and for future cohorts of the Reno you city council and I'd like to briefly share those with you today the mission statement that we voted on and agreed to is to provide a platform to address youth issues by facilitating Hands-On resources and activities that Inspire Empower unify and connect and then the vision statement that we've adopted together is to help progress towards a Reno of tomorrow where youth are recognized and contribute to the community now with that it's my pleasure to turn the presentation over to youth city council member avelyn Campos who will continue the presentation with some of our goals and objectives that we've outlined for the year great job good morning Council um this is AVN campus for the record um I just want to say that it is a pleasure to be here to everyone today and um I just would like to introduce myself so again my name is aene Campos I am um treasurer of the youth city council right now and um besides that I am also a senior atani Ranch High School which I will also be serving as Vice uh student body vice president so ah congratulations thank you all right so one of our goals as um youth city council is mental health and we want to improve mental health among Youth and teens because um looking back at our vision statement we want to um give recognition to um teenagers and just youth all around the city and with that we also want to improve Mental Health Resources and activities so one of our objectives is to partner with organizations such as hom Means Nevada and mental health um a mental health um project and the children's cabinet um the government and other Northern Nevada resources to connect Youth and teens to Services through events and activities and some of these activities are going to be like workshops or like um maybe concerts perhaps um we have a lot of things that we've been brainstorming a lot of events that we would like to do just to promote just um Unity throughout the whole community and we feel like this is a good opportunity to get teenagers to just band together and recogn and recognize each other as peers all right and then our second our second objective is to Advocate to local government agencies and nonprofits to provide um improved access and support to Area Schools including updating Antiquated programs um we really want to focus on just um providing access to what's it called um resources around town just because a lot of kids are struggling with mental health nowadays and I feel like even though it is being talked about there isn't much action being done towards that so we definitely want to focus on that as youth city council and for the third um objective we want to sponsor activities for personal expression through the Arts at local facilities and venues so for example um I'm currently working on together some sort of um open mic event with the Holland which is a venue for like art and music um it's located in Midtown and a lot of teenagers go to that venue just to meet people and also to like Express themselves through music and other creative mediums so I definitely want to take um that opportunity to just promote mental health through that event um and then our fourth objective is to provide personal hygiene supplies and haircuts for back to school through red equity and Eddie house so if you are not familiar with red Equity it's basically a program that promotes um female hygienic health and a lot of teenagers my age and just um people that identify as females or have female parts they aren't able to have access to these supplies due to financial issues or other conflicts so through that we want to provide um equal access to that so that everyone has a chance to receive those products and if you're not familiar with the Eddy house they are a um they they are um an organization that helps homeless Youth and through that we want to um just give haircuts because um when back to school season comes around a lot of kids they want to look their best and feel their best so with that um giving haircuts would be a great way to just improve overall youth mental health and now I am passing the um presentation to Daisy Miller thank you hi um I'm Daisy Miller for the record um a little bit about me I go to Coral Academy of Science I'm going into my junior year and I am the secretary on the um youth Reno youth city council so for our second goal is to have youth more involved in the government by engaging with our local state and national government our first objective is to appoint a Reno use City Council lays on to community focused City of Reno boards and commissions as of right now we have already selected members for interested in attending and participating in the Recreation and Parks Commission and the Reno access advisory commiss um committee we are actively working on this with the purpose to provide the youth perspective to recommendations that affect our community our second objective is to plan um and facilitate Areno Day event for local students to meet and interact with local state and National Representatives as of right now one of our members have been actively reaching out to various people within our local government to prepare this lastly we have appointed two of our council members to participate in the Ros citizens Institute in order to have a full understanding of our City's government and resources and to report back to the Reno youth city council to gain Insight on the value information that the Reno citizens Institute will provide about our local government also being here today is part of our goal as we have made this we have been able to communicate and relay what we have been doing here um as the Reno youth city council and I would just like to say on behalf of the renoth city council thank you for supporting us without you we wouldn't be able to do all these amazing goals and have these objectives to make this change for our youth in our area thank you that's it yeah great job oh my goodness I am so impressed that you are taking on mental health because it has such a huge stigma to it so um I really want to commend you guys I impressive I love everything that you guys are going to be bringing forward government day sounds one wonderful the other uh resource that we have is something called hopeful cities we were the first city to launch it across the country and it's got a lot of free workbooks and things that um can sort of res especially with your age group so it's something to really sort of use as a tool and a resource um you guys are a Future Leaders I'm so impressed fantastic great job councilman Martinez all I won't take any other credit they they're great I will I do want to um because I know Madam clerk said we have quite a bit of public comment and I know that some of you have places that you have to be so we will let's get a picture um and but before we do that let's do that with your family so that they have a picture and they can remember and then you can send it to Mr Herrera who built the original Bridge because I know um he called me and he had tears so he he recently passed the other day like a couple weeks ago he just pass what so um yeah oh oh I'm so sorry oh so that is this much more special I did not know more special so it'll be in the honor of him as well oh so the man that built this bridge for this wonderful neighbor um just recently passed away and we had several phone calls and he was just so grateful to you and your family and so enthusiastic and especially to Dylan cuz he knew how important the bridge was to Dylan I'm so so sorry for your loss okay well then we need to do a plaque there or tree or something in John's honor okay all right um um oh wow um why don't you come on up Mom and Grandpa and Dylan and boyfriend come on up let's take let's take a a quick picture so that we um that we have it someone loves you that much no one's building a bridge for me for coming all right all right here we one two me try it are you're good you're great wait if you guys will stay there we'll have the you city council come up right now too okay cityil picture [Music] [Applause] you're the clerk you run this all right one two and three Perfect all right Madame mayor now we can transition into uh opening public comments so I will go ahead and read my disclosure Ure Madame mayor our first item today is public comment members of the public may hear observe and provide public comment virtually by registering through the following link which can be found on reno.gov meetings https colon forli i n KS period re n o period G oov SL capital c o u n c i l 06-12 it should be noted for those in the audience that comments are to be addressed to the mayor and Council as a whole comments heard under this item will be limited to 3 minutes per person and may pertain to matters both on and off the council's agenda Council may not take action on any matter not agendized 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 say your name and you will be afforded 3 minutes for those participating in Chambers in accordance with Council rules six . 3.11 while in this room please be respectful disrupted 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 are an attendee in the zoom meeting would like to make public comment please raise your hand at this time our first public commenter today is Ilia arbitman followed by sorry Jake Maynard followed by Rosie Zuckerman and and I'm going to we're going to you we're our three comments are part of one and we're going to use this thingy there we go okay hi everybody please enter this um and the following comments into the public feedback portion of the annual action plan the AAP that required to submit um along um with uh with the report today we'll be speaking on item C1 the annual action plan that the city submits to HUD for approval in order to receive certain crucial entitlement grants specifically earmarked for Community Development affordable housing and the prevention of homelessness the goals for these hubs HUD subsidized projects are among other things to support organizations that provide Supportive Services to low-income homeless and special needs residents and assist persons who are homeless or risk of homelessness to obtain housing although there are many things we could speak to we will be focusing on surprise the community Assistance Center also known as the CAC at record Street Shelter and its bizarre troubling and still quite uncertain status specifically as it pertains to the city's ostensible goals as outlined in the AAP here is a passage from today's proposed AAP P so look at the top passage here about publicly owned land and property notice the highlighted section here's an eer SIM eerily similar passage from the Consolidated 5-year plan that the city submitted to HUD in 2020 which is the guiding document today's AAP works from notice this at the end the city also owns the community Assistance Center the CAC the homeless shelter in the region that's from four years ago the CAC is not just missing in this one passage from today's report it is completely erased as if it already has been demolished almost as it it has never existed but we all know that these buildings still stand and can very much be reactivated if we only stopped playing jurisdictional Hot Potato sto passing the buck from the city to the county to the state to the feds and back again like we did with this wonderful bridge for example that was a great example of collaboration between the city and the county and actually committed ourselves by getting creative and working across agencies to the so-called priority needs emphasized in this report here's the priority needs at the top there in yellow here are a few more passages from 2020 is 5year plan the City of Reno will commit the maximum amount of allowable cdbg Public Service funds towards the operation of the CAC to help meet the needs of families individuals experiencing homelessness here's some thing about the anti-poverty plan quote the City of Reno does not have a standalone anti-poverty policy or strategy the city's actions to address poverty are evident in the creation and support of the CAC and priorities to fund housing developments and other things unsurprisingly the CAC is a central feature of 2020 is plan here for contrast is a passage we have now become all too familiar with now immortalized in the recently released RFP for the community Assistance Center and I have it quoted here the city no longer um has a public need for the facilities and the city could dispose of these properties how can the city claim it quote no longer has a public need for the facility that was basically its only poverty Reduction Program for nearly 20 years and at the same time say now this is from today's AAP affordable housing improvements to public facilities and infrastructure and vital public services for LMI households and special needs persons remain one of the most prolific needs facing the City of Reno as documented by the Consolidated plan do we have a need or don't we why are we here spelling this out yet again in partnership with the county and other local agencies the CAC could absolutely be reactivated to serve many of the Urgent needs it was built for from transitional housing to Mental Health Services to youth programs and more the City of Reno will use cdbg to fund CAC a One-Stop resource center and fishing provider of resources to Residents in need that's from 2020 his report wow Jake mayard followed by Rosie Zuckerman [Music] um Jake mayard uh also please enter these following comments into the public feedback portion of the AAP that you are required to submit along with the report because of its direct relevance to item C1 we'd like to discuss the RFP that the city put out this month for potential sale lease or other transfer of the cic we are hoping that this is a step towards a brighter future when when we will see the cic in use again serving those who most need it but there are many causes of concern at this stage this quote here especially the part the reestablishment of blight does not occur this kind of language is disrespectful and downright offensive the cic was built to serve those most in need and to centralize those services so as to make them more efficient and effective its proximity to the bus depot which is a huge asset we should not Overlook and to other down down toown resources was intentional the RFP is supposed to be open for any biders yet referring to blight in this case poor people effectively disqualifies service providers or other agencies that might actually want to reactivate the CAC for some of its original intended purposes we're also curious where at what public meeting were the following goals also taken from the RFP determined for the cic the city is in communication with HUD regarding the housing and homelessness crisis why are those needs and goals suddenly irrelevant to the cic which was until very recently the city's primary resource for its most vulnerable residents it Bears repeating this is not just any old building it is a very specific complex designed and built for very specific uses both appraisals included with the RFP cite an astronomical figure to repair the damage once done the Damage Done to the building by the city's years of neglect when the manager's office released the memo in September 2023 the estimate for repair was 2.75 million now it's up to 10 thou 10,00,000 we need an explanation for this dramatic increase in cost otherwise we have to assume that the new inflated figure is intended to discourage demolition of the buildings most of the r RF P corroborates this intention the appraisals and supporting documents are clearly geared towards developers who will just tear the cic down and build more unaffordable luxury apartments we obviously need more facilities and service providers working to provide transitional and Supportive Housing these goals need to be foregrounded not ignored during any discussion around the Cs CAC and especially during the ongoing RFP process cares has not solved homelessness in our region we need more good [Music] job Rosie Zuckerman followed by Terry Brooks followed by Kelly Hyatt Rosie Zuckerman for the record please enter this and following comments into public feedback portion of the AAP that you are required to submit along with the report to conclude our discussion pertaining to item C point1 we want to put into the plan that we are sending along to HUD information included in the RFP that many people currently present including some members of the members of the council we assume have not previously seen in all of this talk of the cac's deplorable condition a picture forms in our head of some sort of disgusting dilapidated building molding into Oblivion the photos included in the manager's memo certainly corroborate this narrative but what does it actually look like in there so here are some pictures this is the outside of the building Pantry day room single user restroom women's dorm group restroom day room office area nurses station 24-hour Men's Room drop in sleeping room single user bathroom elevators reception desk day room laundry room nurses station nurses station offices Reception Area storage space server room maintenance office laundry room multi-use room sleeping rooms built-in store storage sleeping rooms single-use bathroom so it may need some work but there's no denying that this is an incredible facility not only that it is highly specialized for a very specific need that remains urgent today as it ever was helping people get back on their feet um so here's a picture of some happy public servants unveiling the new Resource Center at cares the caption reads 2023 will close with more services available to those experiencing homelessness than ever before Under One Roof we know that's not true we are simply not efficiently and effectively using the assets at our disposal other than removing blight from downtown and forcing the unsightly poor to live next door to where we put our trash which is the dump we can no longer find logical or plausible explanation for continuing to neglect ignore and encourage actual destruction of the CAC if we claim to be using our resources and entitlements properly cdbg funding for example we cannot ignore the potential and relevance of the react activated CAC please let's not squander this vital resource the city will likely never construct a Phil facility like the CAC again let's work together to reactivate it and make Reno an actual model for Creative outof the-box Progressive change Terry Brooks followed by Kelly hayatt good morning it's me Terry Brooks again and today I'm sharing my presentation on culture and politics when it comes to discrimination article six of the Constitution of the United States says no religious test shall be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States some state States had banned people of certain religions from holding office they only wanted people of their own culture to have the right to hold office the majority religion has the majority of money as well as the majority of votes and some politicians say they favor other religions too some to do so just to get even more votes our country has gone through some rough times in fighting against discrimination but doing so through through those times has made us a stronger Nation our people have become more open-minded in electing people to office who may better represent all people and all cultures while serving in that office the best way to have a government without discrimination is to make sure that its elections don't use discrimination those politicians who know they won't get people of certain cultures votes try to do what they can to prevent the people of that culture to cast votes all citizens have a right to vote of that there is no doubt because that is what our democracy is all about it has taken a long time for us to get diverse cultures elected to office and when we do so we increase diversity in every office when people of different cultures are elected and then spend time together they learn how to work together in order to service together a culture is formed by a lot of people who have lived and worked together a good government is formed by a lot of cultures who live and work together if there is a wall between us we need to tear down that wall so that we are indivisible with liberty and justice for all I would like to thank you all for listening to me today and I look forward to coming back because I still got more to say love it okay where are we at oh this is chapter 33 and just so you know I've only got 13 more chapters to go fantastic thank you Terry great job Kelly hayatt followed by Carolyn sto Smith followed by Jason May off you hi I'm Kelly hayatt I'm back again um I'm going to try to be fast my dog's having surgery soon first I want to thank all of you for what you've already done for the project for contingency funds for the wild horse fencing um I'm back again to ask you for that again I live in toll road and this fence is going to stop horses Civ from coming through here all the way down getting into all the roads as far down as RC Willie And even the highway there's been a horse on the highway his name's freeway now he was taken off um this also is going to prevent this 43 dead horses 43 dead horses at least 22 I can name not all of them died immediately it's a public safety issue for more than just horses getting killed on the road by cars are dying they don't always die sometimes the sheriff has to shoot them sometimes on a busy road which they absolutely don't want to do but sometimes that's what happens that's a public safety issue if you ask me all these kids people are standing around people people are crying it's it's terrible also there's at least 38 people families individuals fireman everyone else that's been involved in this because everyone comes out to look at this when it happens and this fence is going to prevent that the only thing that prevents horses wild or large or Wildlife or anything from getting into a town or a city or city limits is a fence the Virginia range is mostly fenced all the way around from Sparks to Fernley to Silver Springs to Carson City but this is open and all the horses that are up there could come down here if they start looking for water food or girlfriends because that's what they do this fence will stop this and this this horse is in a swimming pool by the way she fell into a swimming pool at someone's house horses get on Parks they get on to walkways this town is set up to um have walkways waterways flood zones that go out into the range on the edge that needs to be fced off this is some things that we do we walk them off the highway that's what we do we can't keep them behind the fence that's not there it needs to look like this please please give the contingency funds to finish this fence one thing I want to say also there was a last time I was here there was a couple of questions Miss Taylor why isn't the NDA going to do this they are going to build a fence just not this one this is the one that needs to be done first to protect the public the citizens and tourists thank you very much thank you so much I gotta V Carolyn strell Smith followed by Jason marro followed by Jerry miid [Music] good morning thank you for allowing me to speak I'm here not requesting anything and not complaining about anything um I'm a member of the trucky meows quilt Guild and we were allowed to have the art display in the lobby this month and we want to thank you for the opportunity want to tell you just a thumbnail about who we are and someday I might come back and ask you for something but not now we um are a group of approximately 150 members we draw members from as far away as trucky we have people from Sparks and Reno and out past Red Rock and it's it's a very all-encompassing group the age range is um probably more white hair than brown hair but that's who has the time to do it we wanted to let you know that excuse me that we have some upcoming events we will be participating in arttown with a display of about 120 quilts in the downtown library um we will be doing a display at the Sparks Library later in the year we um have this display here and then our big event is we have an annual quilt show this year we combined with the Traveling Show so we're at the GSR Thursday Friday Saturday with about 160 quilts on display and um an opportunity to buy raffle tickets I didn't bring you any today because one of the things we do it's called opportunity quilt and we um someone donates a quilt we sell raffle tickets all year wherever we're invited and that money is donated to a local group last year and this year we are donating to our place and we raise approximately $3,000 each year for our charity prior to that we've donated to Eddie House we've donated to Children's cabinet um we've we donated to that's when I joined so um we try to find a worthwhile charity that meets our goals and kind of put our mission statement up there because um those are our goals I won't read it to you because you can read and I have a booklet to give you all at the end we also donate quilts as I mentioned and last year we donated 68 quilts to different groups in the community mostly lap siiz a few full size cuz sometimes a group wants to raffle one off so we make a big one for them we also donate quilts to um prior with St Mary's now it's Northern Nevada for the Pediatric unit and the pries and the moms that have to be hospitalized prior to giving birth we also donate to CPUs and we do what are called fidget quilts for the seniors in um Alzheimer care facilities and they're little quilts for their lap that have like buttons and zippers and things for them to do with their hands so I want to thank you for the opportunity to be here and I invite you to come to the quilt show and thanks to councilman Egbert for encouraging us to come well thank you so much for being here and um you know it's always really important to hear about Community initiatives like this now more than ever we are seeing an epidemic of loneliness and isolation and so when other people especially we have a lot of new residents here in the City of Reno to get the word out so I encourage anyone doing community initiatives like this to please come forward and tell us what you're doing um and also what an incredible art form that you um that you do it's so hard I wish I'm to to artist in our group yeah it's amazing and several of those are hand done by the way they're they're unable and all of you know if you've ever spent time in a hospital there's nothing like a really really good quilt on top of you and so thank you for keeping um so many people warm well thank you for allowing us to be here passionate I love it thank you so much yeah go ahead I just wanted to say I was at the um the event last Thursday the reception for the quilts show and it was just great we had a great turnout and Carolyn's daughter introduced us I don't want to put her on the spot but she was just really proud of her mom and and the work that they do so just wanted to say thanks to her too yeah that's awesome yeah Suzanne yeah yeah I didn't want to put suzan that's your M yeah it was really hi suzan's Mom we love Suzanne you would be very proud of your daughter if you saw the works that she does every single day I'm proud of her all the time well we are too thank you so much Jason Mar off followed by Jerry miid followed by Nicole Hayes hi I'm Jason marof and I live in Golden Valley just outside the city limits for the third year in a row now I've come to speak with you about uh bike Lanes on North Virginia and as we all know last month on May 16th there was a gentleman named Kenneth Kinsley and he was killed in Ward 4 at the corner of Panther and North Virginia this is a place I bicycle a lot and these days I only I only bicycle there on the weekend when I know there's not going to be much traffic yeah um as we all know Reno we have a beautiful area it's great for bicycling great for running but we need to have safe bicycling infrastructure you've been great about getting us bike Lanes around downtown however there's a lot of folks uh for example Kenneth Kinley was killed on May 16th when I saw the news reports it looked like he was not a rich man his Twisted mangled by bicycle was not a titanium carbon fiber bike like some of us have um however these people need a voice and we need safe bicycling infrastructure one of the many issues that has been pointed out to me by the bicycling Community is that we have these great companies who have warehouses off North Virginia and from what I understand if they even show up two minutes late they're fired automatically without any human interaction you know it's great to have these companies here like chewys like Amazon however if they're late to work they're going like a bat out of hell to get to work and you know just just the other day I was running on North Virginia and a a woman turned right in front of me missed me about by two feet when I was running on North Virginia so these if someone's late for work they're going to go drive like crazy to get to work and so maybe this is what happened to Mr Kinsley who is not here to uh speak because he was killed bicycling um you know even though he may have had a cheap bicycle he's part of my community the Northern Nevada Endurance Sports Community um so maybe if we had started this when I first started advocating for bicycle Lanes um this problem could have been solved and he'd be alive mayor Hillary you've been a fantastic mayor but I wish that you could leave a legacy of bicycle Lanes on North Virginia yeah you're very very kind Jason um such a good comment because I did not think of that at all about the employers out there yeah and the stringent rules and so people are speeding and driving you know radically to do that you bring up such a good point and something that we need to address um so I'm thinking in my head certain ways the other thing that I want to tell you um I will have you get with gu at RTC because that's all being redone and being addressed to have bike Lanes so we're excited about that unfortunately infrastructure takes a long time but we do have the funding for it I would love for you to sit with G um because it's so important to have bicycle bicyclists especially enthusiasts sit down with them because you see things they don't see so I I am excited that RTC is going to address it I know that Council eert is excited about it it's been her big cup peeve too yeah councilman Reese who sits on RTC Alexis Hill um all of them are Avid writers but you write it every single day but I am I'm so glad to finally see that that project coming to fruition because it's going to be a game changer yeah another thing I like to point out I realize I'm out of time however the only way to get from Red rockstead Lemon Valley Golden Valley Panther Valley in Torino is via North Virginia and so this this is a very special Road for non-motorized Citizens such as myself absolutely Jason thank you so very much I'm GNA have staff um get with you go ahead councilwoman eert I just wanted to say they are as the uh mayor stated we are going to be putting in a um separated bike path so hopefully safety will improve but also thank you so much for coming out and just kind of sharing what I've been saying as a council member that we do need more safety on that road we do need it to be widened to help with the safe and um we are the only Ward that only has essentially at this time three lanes connecting the entire North Valley to the rest of Arena we don't have city of Arena Roads connecting so I'm very aware of that it is something that I I bring up frequently and it's something that I I bring up whenever we're discussing um development of warehouses anywhere out there that that I'm concerned about the big rigs interacting even with just regular commuters and school buses out there so just know that this is something that is huge for me as well and something that I always talk about whenever we have development up there and when you come in and make these comments and other people come in and make those comments it helps me up here um when we discuss how we want to plan and develop up there so thank you so much for coming in today matter of fact um on Friday was it we had a right white house representative here uh from Pete budha Judge's office and you know he's an avid cyclist so we were touring him that whole area um because they're such bike enthusiasts so um you know we've actually been doing really well with getting a lot of the funding on the federal side and that's one of those projects so um it's a it's a big deal and they came out specifically just to see it so that was kind of a an exciting um opportunity to really show them you know all the work that we're getting ready to put in so than thank you very much thank you J Jerry mid followed by Nicole Hayes followed by Allison Hinkle good morning Jerry M CH how about that's when I had [Music] teeth Reno city council good morning nice to see you all uh Carl Hall City attorney and we have Nathan over here the parks department they need more money um in case I'm a little bit unruly I have an escort from the Reno Police Department chief of police Nance who looked over the top of her glasses at me anyway you know I have pictured here my dear friend Lieutenant Colonel Bud Anderson Bud was the old living Triple H fighter PL from World War II he recently died on D-Day 105 years old um I'm giving a copy of this tape um to his son and daughter Kitty and Jim who are friends of mine but bud has been a friend of mine for a long time um an inspiration he flew a P-51 ahead of the bombers into Germany and cleared the way for us to bomb Hitler's installations oil and gas and practically brought a halt to World War II if you see a veteran from any War Vietnam say three words welcome home son they never heard that and you'll see a an old person tears weld up in their eyes from Vietnam let alone any War um Bud would say we're better off the negotiating table rather than go the war because what are we lose in war our youth young people that's that's that's not acceptable but we're the only nation in the world that's willing to stick our neck out for other nations so I'm proud to be an American so think of those veterans that come back you'll see them wearing their your combat clothes and what have you just walk up to them and say thank you for your service they're willing to put their life on the line for me and you and you too um my my therapist tell me not to look directly into your eyes because because all my words um just they turn into tortilla chips um it's really a pleasure to be a part of of family and a family is about the community and those who we hire public servants and when we work good together we get lot done excuse my former manner which has been a little bit unruly but uh I promised the chief of police n over there that I behave myself or else she said she'd escort me out of the building um God bless you God Bless America right thank you so much Nicole Hayes followed by Allison hle followed by Pablo Nava Duran we go good morning hello my name is Nicole Hayes and I would like to submit a comment on agenda item D2 Reno has seen rapid growth over the past several years and while growth can be very positive development must be done responsibly for the Safety and Security of his residents it's quite clear that de developers did not take into account the Virginia range horses or its Wildlife um when building on areas that these animals once occupied grass line streets and yards are all too temp Ing and an easy meal especially when there are no barriers a responsibly designed Urban Wildlife interface is critical for protecting not only the animals on the Range but the people who live there as well fencing is the simple answer we can clearly see that in other areas of the range where it has been installed it works we sincerely appreciate all the City of Reno has done so far to address this issue but a complete fence is truly critical moving forward all future accidents are preventable if we take the time and resources to build offense thank you so much thank you Allison Hinkle followed by Pablo navad Duran good morning council members uh so my name is Allison Hinkle and I'm the Virginia range coordinator for American Wild Horse conservation and I'm also a resident of w 4 today my comment is in regards to item D2 on the agenda and I'll be echoing what Nicole just said um so in my time in Reno this city has grown rapidly without consideration for the Virginia range horses or other Wildlife with tens of thousands of homes being built in the area without any fencing it is a public safety hazard this is unacceptable and dangerous for both the resent residents and the iconic wild horses that shared this land with us as we have seen in other areas where it's been installed fencing is the answer Public Safety has to be our priority and fencing is the solution to prevent future accidents thank you to the City of Reno for setting the standard and dealing with Urban Wildland interfaces for not only the rest of the Virginia range but the state as well thank you thank you Pablo Nava Direct followed by Josh Theo followed by Lorie Smith hi Pablo nice to see you nice to see you too so see last night uh see like last night so I want to congratulate Miguel Martina for Advent for general election and then congratu for cathine Taylor for Advent for general election and uh I want to congratulate dein ree for V general election and then I'm sorry for why M for not making not selected for the state center but you could be coming next the next C mayor 202 I will see you 2026 here we go at the two concerns so one I live in War 3 so I'm a War 3 member uh resident so so number one on the Wickerson Park you see the on the street over there there like there um there are a lot of issue on the world that being grass the grass being grown into woods and a water the the the water you know that like a water you flow in but the water doesn't flow in it's a create like the one massive hole one a circle so i k can prevent in fun situation so I think that this one should be taken action immediately or if not maybe one or two month or or like 12 month and then the third one is uh it's to talk about the horses so horses are very issue you know people have have work want to see their want to see their friends you know they want to being missed by work you know when when I driv around the around the M Ranch area I had to stop for the horse you know call in for be late for work so because I have to try to protect the horse so so on fancy it's a solution so I know see we are growing on war six so probably we get to spend it to you know Galina area to see if we know so in future welome well good to see you thank you so much Josh throw followed by Lorie Smith followed by Lisa o Ulan uh Josh tyot for the record uh morning Madame mayor council members um City Areno development team if they're here and uh Chief n so um as some of you are aware uh I'm an owner and operator of properties here in Reno throughout Reno with a heavy interest in Fourth Street um so I spent a lot of time on the streets of Reno uh regardless of uh what is reported in the Wall Street Journal the state of Fourth Street both East and West um and the city in general continues to get worse unfortunately uh as uh some of you know I've been uh investing and attempting to improve for Street for well over a decade now I continue to be optimistic but after the last few weeks I think seriously about stalling my efforts until we begin to see progress in reducing crime and harassment um reflecting on this year thus far just this year uh we've dealt with multiple we've dealt multiple times with cut fences bronen Windows graffiti vandalism trash fires defecation theft dumping trespassing and I guess I should add General blight um if I in uh if I include the last part of 2023 I can add trespass and assault with a deadly weapon breaking and entering resulting in Grand Theft shootings and overdoses um The Assault was the assault with a deadly weapon shooting and overdose were all new experiences for my team none of these events were initiated by my customers um but they were impacted uh reflecting more recently on the last two weeks uh building we were renovating and restoring for a local business uh that has been on West for Street for approximately 45 years had all the newly installed Windows smashed out new mechanical equipment vandalized and the company sign graffitied additionally last Friday at a different location on East Fourth Street um uh sorry I lost my spot here um additionally last Friday on a different location on East for street we had someone drive through a fence steal a trailer and destroy the gates when exiting causing thousands of dollars of damage to the fence and the Grand Theft loss of the trailer thousands of dollars that come out of my Redevelopment budget that are going into restoring Parts Areno uh not the insurance company's budget focusing outside of Fourth Street the shooting at the University in 2023 unfortunately happened at one of my properties as well uh did not involve any of my customers but my customers were exposed to the trauma and danger caused by Young ignorant gang bangers um uh a few weeks prior to the shooting last year customer of mine in Midtown I'm moving my way around the city here uh dealt with multiple break-ins and theft fortunately RPD has apprehended the bad guys from both crime scenes so kudos to them and their Hustle um the issues that span the issues span the city and the volume is increasing a few weeks ago I got into an altercation with a man sleeping at the door of my office which is near the uh Nevada Museum of Art um I asked him Polly to grab his items such as his phone which he was charging with one of my exterior outlets and move on his response was nothing short of disrespectful and Shameless the entitlement of these criminals and Vang vagrants to help themselves to the livelihood of Reno's businesses and residents is growing stronger and is dis I able to say the least beyond my frustration uh I'm going to jump to the end here um uh beyond my frustration uh for how the situation is growing worse my concern is for my customers my staff and the residents of Reno I encourage all of you and those with whom you work to continue increasing the focus the resources and overall efforts to this return the city to a safe and enjoyable place to live and conduct business we are quickly joining the ranks of our neighbors San Francisco Oakland Seattle Portland thank you for your time and the opportunity thank you so much Josh and there was a um email request that went out for a meeting uh with the county because we're talking about a substation jointly together um because we're very concerned much like you are I don't know if you were on that email I will make sure that Jackie includes you um and it was important uh Kathleen Taylor and I got together and said we've got to do it together with Sparks and the county um but again I don't think he was on that email councilwoman Taylor I don't I don't remember but I'm going to have Jackie make sure you're included on that okay um with uh Eric um scoler uh yes yeah we actually have a meeting Friday okay for the the Fourth Street Coalition so okay um that okay that's good to know that's on my okay perfect all right thank you so much thank you Lorie Smith followed by O Sullivan followed by sioban beard good morning my name is Lori Smith and I live in South Reno and I'm speaking on item D2 regarding the contingency funds for the fencing project I think that passing and providing this money will definitely help protect people and the horses I was a person who experienced seeing a horse hit by a car the horse hobbled off had to be killed shot four times I heard each bullet coming out of the gun it was horrifying the it was late at night the next morning the horse body was still there for several hours I every time I looked I could see it um first then they finally took the horse away the first came all the other horses to visit the site that the horse had where he had died after they left the coyotes came and then the Ravens it was a horrible experience to it seems like it was yesterday that this happened to me and it was a year and a half ago thank goodness this driver was not hurt I think that I with this project I will feel safe driving down veterans and not have to worry about hitting a horse and I would like to have everybody in favor of this please stand that we need this funding to get the fencing done thank you it's a very important project and I hope you sincerely fund this project thank you so much thank you thank you I'm sorry Lisa O Sullivan followed by sioban beard followed by jod Perkins good morning my name is Lisa O Sullivan and I live in South Reno one of the reasons I bought a home here is in 2018 is because of the wild horses they are that special and we are very lucky and blessed to live amongst them I am here today for agenda item D2 to ask you to please use some of those funds to fence the South part of the South Reno fencing project we we already have half a fence thanks to council member door I want to thank you and thank all of you for all your hard work um but we know that half a fence will not work we have a chance right here and now we need to do the right thing which should have been done years ago and finish this range fence Reno is growing in Leaps and Bounds more and more people move in and they don't even realize what danger they are in driving in that area especially at night horses coats do do not reflect light I remember when I first volunteered and started to learn about the horses getting onto the dangerous roadways and they were getting hit and killed I said to myself how in the world do these people hit a horse well let me tell you they are hard to at night I joined the moving team and remember driving around looking for some horses that we got a call to move and I only saw them when one turned around and my headlights caught his eyes I was in shock that I hadn't even seen the group of four horses that were just a few feet in front of me I said wow I Now understand how this happens as a volunteer I'm going to tell you that late last summer into fall and winter was what I would describe as hell I lived a good part of my life in the demani ctie ranch toll Geer area's moving horses it was absolutely crazy and it cannot be repeated five or six months no family time dirty hair dirty clothes exhausted upset that our beautiful horses were getting hit and killed and I can't forget the 2 and 3:00 a.m. calls that we had to pop up go to veteran Steamboat real Wrangler to move horses please care enough about me and the thousands of people that live in the area that need to drive on those dangerous roads cuz it is an inevitable a person or persons will die will it be a friend will it be your friend will it be a neighbor or could it be my son it could be anybody in the grand scheme of things 550,000 is not a lot when you know it will save lives thank you for your time sioban beard followed by jod Perkins followed by Steve Page hi I'm sioban beard a resident of South Reno I live right on Veterans Parkway in Gyer and I love living here I last year was around the time we moved and I remember looking outside my balcony and seen a horse right there I like all these people a lot of people here and a lot of people on Zoom a lot of people out there I support D2 to use contingency funds for the South Reno fencing to keep wild horses and people safe that's the important thing that I needed to say um please please please get that contingency fund get get get do do what you need to do I I plead with you like Lisa just said it is a matter of time someone will be killed somebody will be killed and it's not just the horses thank you so much for all your work we appreciate you so much thank you Jody Perkins followed by Steve pagee followed by Henry and Manny Mandy hodach hello and thank you to Naomi and the rest of you for all that you're doing for these horses uh I am here for D2 the contingency funds I have lived in Reno for 36 years I have seen a lot of growth from Carson City to Verde the wild horses have been H Rino for a long time as well and their numbers are growing every single year the human population in Reno Sparks Carson area has more than doubled from 1992 to 2023 that means more people more building more cars on our roads and highways the problem problem with living so close to the horses accidents will happen Public Safety is an issue here adding the lights to our busy streets and lowering the speed limit have not helped much we lost six horses in six weeks October and November of last year the horses are still dying private property is also an issue a lot of people don't like them in their yards they don't want to put up fencing for that and the car accidents keep happening most likely the horse will die the car will be total and hopefully no humans will die from these collisions fencing is the only answer it has worked in many other areas in the past saving both human lives and horses lives we need the contingency funds to complete a second phase of the fencing in South Reno and Beyond I know this can work and we can all live together sharing this beautiful place we all call home thank you thank you so much Steve paage followed by Henry and Mandy hodach followed by Candace Perry via Zoom good morning uh my name is Steve pagee I'm just here to reiterate the need for the fencing to go in reena's been rapidly growing and there's not been a lot of consideration for any of the horses or the wildlife and now we have these major thorough fares thousands of homes and sprinkler systems I mean it's green grass I mean what horse wouldn't go there um I don't know how you keep them off the street other than just a basic fence I mean I don't I don't see any other solution we have people spending a lot of their time moving these horses um trying to put them to safety but where do you put them there's no fence I can move it off across the street but it's going to come back I mean there's green grass you have sprinkler systems you have beautiful areas and no fence so thank you for considering defense thank you Henry and Mandy hodach followed by Candace Perry via Zoom followed by Elizabeth SoDo mayor hello hi you must be Henry this is how old are you uh 11 turning 12 July oh you're turning 12 in July yeah July what uh uh 14th yes that's correct July 14th are you a Leo yes yeah see I know my signs um how how old are you Henry yeah uh 12 you're 12 almost 12 what school do you go to uh St tereso okay good all right future mayor this one you've got to be our youngest public commenter today um I'm Henry's mom Mandy um Henry wrote something he was just feeling a little bit anxious about sharing it so I will show it to you okay um on March 7th of 2023 Henry and his fourth grade class went to the state capital he was one of the fourth grade classes from Dural Academy that went to ask for protection of the horses um was not passed um and we live in South Rena we're in War II um we see the horses all the time I call a lot um we do our best to kind of stay away from them but admire them from afar um but what Henry is asking is that he would had asked uh for protecting the wild horses I'm here today to ask again to protect the wild horses and build a fence my hope is to build a fence and not get any horses hit a good job impressive anything else you'd like to add no no I think primarily from my standpoint as his mother I would just like to be able to travel around South Reno and feel safe with my kids in my car um at night especially um sometimes in the morning they're right outside the entrance of our community um they're easy to mess so please and okay you're good you're a good mom can I ask a quick question go right ahead so Henry who did you you wrote that I just saw that but who did you send that to somebody at the state I put it on his the um can you just talk in the mic uh I I don't know you went with your teacher yeah I went with Mrs katees from Dural we went to the state senate yeah yeah we went to the state senate and we were hoping to pass a bill that the Wild Mustang could be our state horse since we don't have a state horse right yeah I love that and what happened um it didn't pass it didn't why not I don't know why it didn't pass sometimes things happen there that are um not easy to understand see that I I already see your campaign commercial in a few years right Dad you have a you have a minute I don't have anything else to okay anyway you should be proud thank you thank you great job I'm impressed question Madam mayor go ahead how many of you are aware that the city also has an item today to Annex about 80 acres up the hill today and make that land from rural to Suburban to bring you know maybe upward of 75 more lots and maybe make the fence even ineffective so um we talk about a long time ago no I'm just clarifying when we get on the that item then we can get into it but you kind I mean I can ask questions too if other members can and I just I'm clarifying that I'm hearing they're hear about a finance issue but we also have a l use issue in this area and I wanted to clarify what their comments were I know but I don't even know if that's accurate until we get there so um does City attorney I when we get to that item that's when the appropriate time is correct yes okay thank you because I don't know if that that's accurate okay uh go ahead Candace Perry via Zoom followed by Elizabeth SoDo mayor followed by Damen Cole via Zoom hi can you guys hear me we can please St your name for the record and begin speaking good morning I'm Candace Perry and I'm here for agenda item D2 I would like to just say that I have been on scene for at least 80% of the horse firsts vehicle accidents in the South Reno area over the past few years the scene in itself is and can be very traumatic it's something you don't ever forget I often think when will be the time I arrive on it will it will be more than just a dead horse it will be a dead person I've talked to many of the drivers of the vehicles involved in some of these accidents and they all say they have heard of people hitting horses but never thought that it could happen to them thinking hindsight on this matter we would never think right now we could hit a horse but it could very well happen with a constant building it has forced horses out of the area they once called home from any years and into the roadways we all drive with even more building happening it varies soon will result in even more horses in the roadway which will then lead to more accidents and someone will be killed that someone could be you or your loved one I think about the comment made on the last hearing that the funding needed seemed like a lot of money for just a fence in my opinion it's not just a fence it's a life-saving fence for both horse and human think for a moment the person you love dearly someone you couldn't bear to lose or see get hurt what is their value to you what price tag would you put on them in order to keep them safe from something preventable life is immeasurably valuable no price is too high when it comes to safety fencing is what's needed fencing is the solution fencing has proven to work the time is now let's not let a human death be the deciding factor it's the city of Reno's responsibility to assist in keeping us as a community safe and we greatly appreciate all the efforts that have been put into this but the time is now this is a public safety issue with what I have seen years over year in South Areno with horses and roadways it will happen someone will pay that price that someone could be you please let's work together as a community and approve this project thank you thank you Elizabeth Soto mayor followed by Damen Cole via Zoom sorry can't can't see with them good morning Council members and Madame mayor my name is Elizabeth sotoor and a resident of South Areno I am here today to request use of conting contingency funds to complete the second phase of the South Reno fencing project to be addressed today in D2 I want to say thank you for the funding that has already been approved but it is crucial to the safety of our community and the wild horses that the entire section be fully funded and completed the safety of our community is in jeopardy and it is not a question of if but when someone will die the horses are seen at parks where kids and adults are present and often get too close trying to feed them and pet them these are wild horses that although peaceful and calm will bite and kick when they feel threatened last year a toddler trying to pet a horse at the park was kicked the child was fine but you can only imagine how this could have resulted in a very in a complete tragedy excuse me in addition people throw things at them and even chase them down with their cars some of these bands have 10 plus horses imagine them running into busy roads like Geer grade toll road or Veterans Parkway right into traffic horse vehicle collisions are the most devastating the horse usually dies or has to be euthanized and you don't want to know the details in addition the car is absolutely destroyed as you know South Reno is exploding with construction projects and the Widing of widening of Steamboat Parkway is currently underway to accommodate the additional traffic then add wild horses that are crossing the streets at all hours of the day or night now is a time to approve this funding so plans can be put in place to complete this fence to keep the horses in the hills and away from our streets and growing traffic once and for all Naomi der understands because she has been representing this Ward and has seen the pictures of the horses agonizing and the destroyed cars and the abund abundance of complaints and safety concerns from her constituents we know you what you have done for a community we are all very very thankful but I respectfully ask that the rest of you take the necessary action by not just V voting to approve the funding for the fence but voting to keep us safe thank you thank you so much our final public commenter is Damen Cole via Zoom hello can you hear me we can please state your name for the record and begin speaking yes hi this is Daman Cole I'm sorry for any background noise you might hear I am currently at work making cars um I would like to mirror the comments of the previous gentleman about the need for bike facilities on North Virginia Street um it was a tragic loss that we had in the community of yet another cyclist uh killed in that area where there is both no sidewalk and no bike facilities I would like to remind the city council of what Public Works plan was 50 years ago in 19 1976 with the passing of the 20-year plan everything north of McCaron loop on Virginia Street was meant to have separated bike facilities I would recommend for a shared use pathway exactly like the type that is on Veterans Parkway and Sparks Boulevard do not put cycle Lanes there because the speed and mass difference combined on a single roadway is two rates and imposes too much risk to anyone who is not in a car so I took a look at the uh bosel County Assessors map and I determined that there is plenty of room on both the the east and west side of that road heading Northbound and southbound take your pick and if you were to place Offroad shared used path just like at Veterans Parkway you can provide both cycling and pedestrian facilities in one go just using asphalt don't even need to touch the road I'm glad that the uh the feds are getting into the action of from you know people with the jud's office and I congratulate you for for showing them this area it was on the plan 50 years ago so let's do this thank you very much all right Madame mayor with that we have no additional public comment for the record we did receive four comments which were General in nature or not directly associated with an agenda item prior to 400 p.m. yesterday June 11th these comments were voicemail and or written correspondence received via our reno.gov online public comment form or by email to our office copies of these have been distributed to the Reno city council and are available to the public on reno.gov meetings one letter in opposition and three letters of concern um thank you very much madam mayor I um I'm sorry I had to step out for a second but I I just was wondering I it sounds like the public comment's over yes okay I was wondering given who's here if we could go to item D2 which is is that what has already been said uh so we are actually going to CU they um we're going to stay on the agenda and go to the DRP presentation and then horse and then the D2 okay um hold on one second so so Madame mayor at this time we're on item A4 and I believe um ACM Bryant has some announcements I was going to head to um just to clarify for the agenda to make sure that everyone in the room knows when their item is going to be heard and the only reason is I also know people from the DRP um have flights to catch yes so go ahead thank you mayor so to confirm we will go out of order with item D3 May 2024 downtown monthly update followed by item D2 contingency funds allocation and budget augmentation all right perfect Madame mayor with those changes I'll move to approve excuse me can we have comment on that and questions I have a motion second Madam mayor May hold on hold on I have a motion I have a second discussion yeah we usually take discussion under our rules before motions come on so is C2 and C3 and C4 going to be heard after the conting Mercy funds okay well you know the way I prepared is I'm going to have a hard time voting to uh outlay for this fencing project with an understanding that our staff and the Planning Commission are recommending that we continue development up above this mountain side because I think the implications are that the fencing is for not if the council decides to continue to suburbanized up that hill in Horseland so that's going to be a problem for me I just want people to know that um I may be voting if they continue to do it this way I may be voting against the contingency because I think it's going to be counterproductive to what staff is recommending to us to do on the C items so thank you all right well that's very unfort I wish we could do it the other way I wish we could do it the other way the way the agenda was ordered and then I I would have the information I was hoping for but I was just asking for that is a courtesy but that's that's okay thank you all right I have a motion in a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion carries and Madame mayor um since I I don't know who will be here when and when we're taking a lunch break and all the stuff I I just want to um say to those that came to comment today on the horses that I'm very grateful that you took the time out of your day to come here and talk to us and speak from the heart because I have been advocating for this issue for 10 years and I think it's time and I think there is support on the council to take the action regardless of any future developments or no there's there's um effort needed now uh to deal with the current problems and so you spoke very eloquently and from the heart and it meant a lot so thank you all right thank you so much I appreciate that Madam Clerk uh hold on one second one second one second um at this time I'd like to get approval of the minutes so moved I have a motion a second I have a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion carries all right um Madam clerk um ACM Bryant did we want to at least pull items off the consent so majority of the ones that are passed can be done yes please okay please thank you so we're moving in to consent agenda and for the record Madame mayor I do have a public commenter on this item all right perfect then I'm going to send it right back to you for Li heler Lily nice to see you wonderful to see you this morning good morning everybody I'm here to provide comment on item B2 a act uh sorry b28 actually more of an impact report thank you for the record I'm Lily helzer cancer prevention program manager with the Nevada cancer Coalition I just want to thank the council for the generous support of the biggest little skin cancer screening event on May 7th at Greater Nevada field we were a little worried that nobody was going to show up to that event yeah there was a line a half an hour before the doors even opened hundreds of people attended the team of dermatologists medical students we do me a favor and pull that mic down a little closer to you it's because I'm short me too I so I so get you goad stand on might Tipp pardon perfect hundreds of people attended the team of dermatologists medical students Nevada cancer Coalition staff Aces staff and many others screened nearly 200 people a third of those were referred or scheduled for followup because they had lesions that needed further evaluation of those 11 were identified as likely skin cancers at least one of those has already been identified and treated for stage 1 a melanoma wow I want to share a little more on that Dr havan the lead dermatologist who spearheaded this event saw a patient who had lost their job lost their insurance was a little worried about a spot on their arm saw the event on the news thought I'll go down I'll see what I can do she saw that spot on his arm he told her I would have never made an appointment I don't have the time and doctors scare me mhm it wasn't the spot on the arm it was the spot she found on his back that he couldn't see that really worried her so she recommended that he talked to our patient Navigators the next week he showed up in Dr Haven's office it was biopsy it was identified as stage onea melanoma because the skin is so incredibly close to the blood melanoma moves fast yeah about a week later he was completely treated his was found so early that it was treated right there in office that quickly Dr havet confered that had this person not come to the screening it would have continued to grow in metastasize before they even needed knew that they needed treatment this is just one life likely saved so far we're still watching the stories roll in so thank you so much for your support of this event Lily thank you so much to the Nevada cancer Coalition you guys are absolutely trous tremendous the work that you are doing I cannot thank Dr havick enough for just coming to all of us and saying we need to do this and because it's something that we forget especially here in Northern Nevada we're subjected to this climate that is so harsh on our skin um I mean it was unbelievable to see that many people lining up and it really makes you think how many people you know feel like they get busy and they just don't have time or they don't think about it and doctors scare them and that was a great environment because it was done at the Ballpark want to thank AC's Ballpark and now this is turning into a national initiative across the country with Mayors so I'm super um excited and I just want to thank you guys enough because that event truly saved lives but it um it really people forget about their skin and it's our largest organ correct it is the largest organ and wonderful to have doctors in our community the champion events like this as well a free service making it accessible having sort of this you know fun event where people come together uh she just did a phenomenal job I'm so grateful for Physicians like this in our community we have a a lot of wonderful healthc care workers um but this was a testament to what you guys do so thank you so much thank you thank you all Madame mayor with that we have no additional public comment and have not received any correspondent so we're just looking for disclosures and items that need to be pulled all right at this time I'm going to ask any council members do you have any disclosures seeing that there are oh go ahead uh councilman Martinez go ahead with your disclosure thanks so much uh Madame mayor fellow City Council Members this is an item B20 and Madam clerk I am on the board of directors for the United wave Nevada and the Sierra which is making a $ 49,50 Grant to the city I have sought guidance from the city attorney's office I have been advised that as a board member I have a commitment and a private capacity to the interests of United Way of no Nevada and the Sierra because the city is receiving the grant a reasonable person in my situation would not be materially affected by my commitment to the United Way of North Nevada and the Sierra accordingly I will I will be participating and voting on this item today Madame clerk please accept this disclosure and Lodge it on the record for this meeting pertaining to these agenda items thank you all right thank you so much anyone else nope okay moving right along uh I'm going to ask for council members to pull items off of consent I'm going to start uh to the left of me councilwoman Ebert go ahead yes I'd like to pull [Music] items uh B12 B 26 27 and 35 did you say 27 um 27 and 35 uh yeah 26 27 and 35 okay uh Council dur go ahead yep I'm P I'd like to pull B B13 and B27 B13 yeah okay councilman Reese no Madam mayor all right I am going to be pulling b11 actually no it can that can be heard in B12 so I won't be pulling that um I'm I'm going to pull B1 and and um B2 and quickly be 21 okay all right councilman Taylor for thank you councilman Martinez B7 please Perfect councilwoman breus I am going to pull um b 17 18 and 19 all right everything else uh may get a motion to approve so moved all right I have a motion a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion carries unanimously we will head back to those items um in a minute after we hear uh both of our items okay or C D oh yeah cuz we're moving oh oh I see we're moving over here all right that being said uh Madam clerk we are going to head into um hold on a item D3 my agenda looks a little different okay item D3 do you have any public comment on this item Madam Clerk Madame mayor we do not have any public comment registered additionally we did not receive any correspondence on this item okay thank you so much okay heading into presentation hi Brian hello Mr Mardo for the record thanks so much for being here I guess you're going to kick us off correct Mr mardle for the record revitalization manager for the city Reno thank you so we are here to give a uh now monthly update on the status of downtown from multiple departments and efforts happening in downtown so we have a few agencies uh and departments here to give monthly updates um any other questions before we get into it no but I I'm excited all right for the monthly app all right we will kick things off then let's go right to May police now it's uh good morning Council uh Captain Jerry Howard from the Reno Police Department for the record so as we're going down some of the metrics that we looked at for the month of May um you'll notice the first one's going to be our posted occupied Vehicles so we did Post 6 63 posted vehicles in the downtown core um and that's just not within the bit that expands out out out of that boundary um of those 63 we towed 10 so um as far as occupied Vehicles what we concern that's anything from a passenger car to a recreational vehicle that believe is occupied uh by a person so uh it takes a little bit more time to get those posted and towed um but pretty pretty decent stats for the month of May um and the thing you'll see is the downtown walking and that's our total contact so that's um after chief n's Deeds presentation in April that was something that we put into play and uh we started now with two officers walking downtown between 8:00 a.m. and 600 p.m. um so of that um in the month of May we had 878 total contacts which is really pretty impressive for two officers per day Monday through Friday so um and that those contacts are with our visitors to this to the city our business owners um really just getting back to kind of community policing principles and strategies um and in total that 878 contacts actually equates to 343 hours for the officers on the street so um a pretty impressive stat as well um downtown planned operations we had 24 operations in the month of May um those do overlap a little bit with us working with clean and safe and the downtown partnership uh those operations can be anything from enforcement based operations to Resource allocations and resourcing with different partners and then our help tickets so that is our liaison program that's run through our CAO division the community action and Outreach so that's how we get um transportation to some of our unsheltered population so that they can go and live with a family member or someone they know that's a friend that's willing to assist them in getting back on their feet so we had five of those help tickets that were issued in the month of May um looking at our police initiatives for may obviously we just talked about the downtown walking assignments U and those will continue U they've been extremely successful and our our representation and the officers that are they're doing the walking assignments is very very positive so uh that's been pretty amazing uh looking at our community action Outreach uh right now we're working on getting an intern hired so the goal of getting that intern um on boarded with us is so that they can look uh in working with our crime analysis unit so we can and see how we can better Implement long-term problem solving um in the downtown area so that that'll be nice for us cuz it's it's a it's a resource that we haven't had that officers try to do along with their regular policing duties so by having that intern onboarded they can now work with crime analysis and work with our stakeholders and business owners downtown to work on those long-term Solutions and then uh the last Initiative for May was uh developing and implementing a monthly operational plans so now we're doing that more strategically we're looking at problems and long-term Solutions and how we can how we can hit multiple modalities um in those OP plans as far as working with resources working with our mobile Outreach and safety team um for mental health um assistance for some of our unsheltered population and then working through obviously enforcement um un unoccupied Vehicles occupied vehicles uh really just kind of everything that encompasses downtown for law enforcement and I'll move next over to Alex all right great job I can't remember have you been before us before officer Hower uh yeah when you put the park exclusion order in in 2010 2010 I wasn't even here then but excellent job thank you very clear and concise thank you all right go ahead and congratulations to Mr Woodley thank you madam chilling it last night thank you impressive so proud good job thank you ma'am uh good morning Alex Woodley director of Code Enforcement parking enforcement for the record so um in response to this council's desire to focus on the downtown area and um based on the um the great Fortune for my department that we did get new code enforcement officers which I appreciate very much thank you for approving that in the anticipation of that back in January in collaboration with the city manager's office we were looking at if we got these resources in the department we were going to shift responsibilities around to include the ability to create a downtown code enforcement officer so we are in the works of acquiring that uh position we will be moving forward with that so you may see these numbers grow in our next uh subsequent uh presentations back in January we drafted I drafted a letter and we sent it out to 677 property owners in the downtown area pretty much giving them a heads up that we will be focusing in the next fiscal year on all code violations and code issues in the downtown area because this has been deemed a priority for the city council is that all the code everything this isn't just parking it's all this is this is both ma'am this is both yes I'll go through these numbers now perfect so with that being said for the month of May uh keep in mind this doesn't include any impacts from our new uh positions uh but what we did do was focusing on the downtown uh we were able to issue 478 infractions uh from parking enforcement uh service requests addressed received an address were 18 22 uh cases were closed identified and and assessed and handled uh we did open proactively um 15 Code Enforcement cases um through the service request we did receive seven and which were all addressed and then we also closed 29 cases just in the month of May so our initiatives is moving forward our intent is to proactively address parking enforcement code enforcement violation and our intent is to maintain a constant presence in the downtown area especially once we have this designated code officer for downtown who will be working in collaboration with uh the Reno police department and they will get to know the officers that we will have uh working there every day um and we'll be working collab collaborative collaboratively every day and hopefully make some big impacts on the downtown area with that being said I am going to defer to Mrs sparza all right and uh by the way congratulations you're going to be a new dad yes ma'am and I just love and adore your wife Crystal and so how's she doing she's doing good she I've heard it's been tough it has been yes yeah well tell her send her our best we will oh my how do you stay so looking so good whenever you got so much stress going on thanks Alex thank you man good morning Cynthia SM as the chief equity and community relations officer for the record what you have before you is an overview of of combined interactions led by this uh clean and safe team so that includes our Outreach efforts uh contracted work Crews that we have and City walks uh our city walks program has been around for over a year now it's actually going to be two years in October and two of those walks occur every week within the bid on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8:00 a.m. we take direction from the downtown Reno partnership on areas to visit and two additional City walks occur out outside the bid so those would be on Monday and Wednesday so those statistics are not included here I'm just focusing on downtown the um overall there were 44 interactions with unsheltered individuals and four of those individuals did connect to a level of service it included accessing uh pet services so a referral to a local uh provider housing referrals one bed Arrangement and transportation to the car's campus and one individual is currently working with housing and neighborhood development to access uh deposit and rental assistance in addition to that 117 yards of trash were collected and to provide a visual um your average trash bag is roughly 13 gallons that would amount to 1,800 trash bags collected last month and initiatives uh for the month of may we have standing meetings with Union Pacific we meet with them every quarter in April we met and we reached an agreement to have Union Pacific host or hold uh 12 cleanups a year so a schedule was approved and the first cleanup took place on June 4th so that was all in the works in May the next one is taking place on June 25th so that's great progress there in addition to that peer-to-peer support is an on effort um as well as collaboration with the downtown Reno partnership clean and safe provides support as needed to the DRP um and their Outreach teams and also cleanups as needed um and on that note I do want to highlight that at the May 8th city council meeting Council approved a 12-month contract with Allied security and I'm happy to report that two security officers will be starting next Monday uh they will be available from 4 to midnight 5 days a week we are still pending two additional security officers and once they come on board we will have S day a week coverage um and their area of focus will really be areas that are City of Reno property that are not intended for public use and pose public health and safety concerns so thought that was a significant update to share this month and with that we'll pass it on to Mr Trill all right thank thanks so much looks like it's afternoon now so good afternoon mayor and city council uh my name is Travis trial director of Maintenance and operations our team that maintains the um downtown B area is is small but they're they're Mighty um over the last month we had seven uh service requests that were uh brought forward to us six were closed out at the time this report uh was made all seven have now been closed out that's actually a pretty small number if you think about the entire area of the B so that's kind of a wind for us um we swept 76 Mi of roadway had 210 blocks of sideway sidewalk that was either pressure washed or spot cleaned in the districts um 285 hours of time was dedicated to just litter removal yeah for this last month uh some of our priorities were to refurbish the the Riverwalk uh fountains the uh as you guys as you're aware the The Fountains have been in disrepair for a while um they were not functioning and so we took the initiative to take those fountains and convert them over into planner boxes if you haven't had a chance to get down there it looks amazing they they really look great I I would say that they look better far better than they did when they were running just uh four or five years ago uh the um we converted and added uh 20 new metered parking spaces in the downtown B area and we performed sidewalk ceiling in in the Virginia Street uh Premium Plus area some of the initiatives that we're going to have for this next uh month or the month we're currently in is we're working currently on sidewalk uh restriping and Longline striping that's the lane lines that you see running down the roadways we're upgrading the lighting uh to led the existing lighting that is along the river walk to LED uh we're we're having some parts issues with the suppliers but we expect to hopefully be on that in the next couple weeks so that's going to be a big win uh for really Illuminating that area and uh we are going to continue planting flowers in the rest of the remaining planner boxes that are within the uh District so with that I will turn it over to the B Miss Nea Jordan all right thank you so much thank you thank you so much Nea jardan for the record uh and thank you for moving this up so I could catch my flight I appreciate that I wanted to give just a quick update I know you all got our full presentation just a a recent recent L but um rides to services our um 28 ambassadors are out there working 24/7 helping to connect individuals with Services you can see the number of rides that they have uh performed the number of encampments that they've addressed the 155 shopping carts that they have recovered and uh returned to their rightful owners 23,000 PBS of trash uh we take about five truckloads of trash to the dump every single day and pressure washes we have some consistent places that we pressure wash as well as on call pressure washing so they do 251 of those um during the month of May you do have before you the street report that we put out monthly this has more statistics and data on it than you could probably ever want but this is a great tool um that tracks month to- month so you can kind of see how things are trending um and we're going to keep working with our partners uh at the City of Reno to modify this in the way that you all deem most beneficial and most valuable I would be remiss if I didn't say thank thank you to all of our partners that are sitting behind me in the great work that Reena police and code and uh clean and safe and op maintenance does none of this happens in a vacuum and it doesn't happen by one and you can see by everybody together we're working closely with each other so thank you um love The Walking police by the way they're doing fantastic um the initiative for us in May and the reason we have one is is uh for us it's a biggie this is before you as well this is the state of downtown this is a document that has every bit of information that anybody that is looking to open a business invest money open a retail shop uh do anything in the downtown area these are all the questions they ask about downtown where are you where you're going what how many people what's the demographics this is what's going to help to get us to that hopefully grocery store downtown to get us those retail shops downtown to get us uh more investment and less vacancy so this is a a an incredible document we are going out on what I call the road show soon to go meet with Brokers and potential investors in the downtown to use this document as kind of the Baseline for all future uh Economic Development as it relates to our bid boundaries which is for everybody if they're not familiar is 110 blocks and we represent 1500 Property Owners so thank you it's a lot fantastic excellent uh Brian mararo revitalization manager for the record um so if you'll remember last year we passed the restore facade in tend Improvement program uh about 40 properties and business businesses received Awards under that program but just in downtown specifically uh we have 20 properties that received Awards so far six facades have been improved uh and three tenative improvements um that's a small number but those are new storefronts that we will see every day uh the good news is we have 11 more to go in the downtown area of new businesses and new facades some of those businesses that have improved their facades and redone uh our dub Sports Lounge uh right on Sierra Street if you have noticed Cal Nea has all new sighting on their businesses as well as new signage uh in addition to what we supported them they put in new lighting new sofits and replaced a lot of their uh signage throughout the whole entire building that is three full city blocks so uh it's great to see downtown Property Owners making those types of Investments we also have pigeon Head Brewing that on their 10year anniversary they took over a blighted uh little piece of property next to them and turned it into a vibrant beer garden they announced it at their 10-year party and it is uh new fencing new lighting uh whole new space for them to enjoy just outside of the boundary we have sleeve brewing and Desert Sun Bagels who uh did a total repaint of their building as well as added outside seating which is something we love to see and we also have a uh the block which is a climbing and fitness gym that also opened so of those two new businesses uh that would be the uh dub Sports Lounge and the block and we have many more to come so happy to report as they continue to open new residential units under construction we don't have a new residential units to report today but we have 19 and 20 uh 929 units in the hopper coming online this year why that is important is downtown Reno in the last decade decade has added 336 units of housing in a decade 150 of those were the canyon Flats student housing so we've only added really 150 units of housing in our downtown in a decade um with 929 units coming online this year we will triple our the growth we've had in over a decade in a single year so we'll see those coming online planned and that does not include the Reno City Center we have 2528 units uh that we can see out to that are either in discussion in the permitting stage uh that does include Reno City Center if we see these 2500 units uh proceed and get built we will double the population of our downtown um which is something we have not seen we've practically had zero population growth in our downtown for about 30 years uh so that's also exciting and property values are increasing in our downtown uh roughly 9% they went up this year and what we did in May uh so our team as well as naate dangi from downtown Reno partnership the bid uh joined us in attending the ICC conference in Las Vegas ICC is the international Council for shopping centers it is where all the retailers uh attend to try to figure out where they're going to open up new locations we are trying to develop a retail strategy for downtown so we can continue to fill some of those storefronts and we wanted to know who is in the market how do we attract them to downtown and what data do they need to see and so having that state of downtown report that neom just presented is an incredibly valuable piece of information but the resounding thing we heard from retailers is that we need to see population growth which is why adding those housing units are so important uh we are uh in the process of relaunching the Redevelopment agency a ton of work is going to that right now that we will be bringing forward in the next month or two for Council to review and approve as well as uh we did release the RFP for the record Street uh property formally the community Assistance Center and so that RFP is open for the next 45 days and we will be bringing that before Council Late July uh early August and do you want to cover oh there you are all right AC attorney I guess you're up next I'm up good team sport government is a team sport as you are seeing here today U Ashley attorney assistant city manager for the record and to close out as we talked about in the beginning with this group data is important this Council makes data driven decisions and what we're finding is we're bringing forward this information we know this will be more useful to you as we continue to monitor Trends so there will be a few months that some of this may be stagnant uh but we'll bring forward the information to make sure that you know where we're going because we find often times that if things go unsaid they go unseen so we think it's important that this body is able to identify very clearly what this group of downtown workers are focusing on um in June RPD is really going to focus on their operations in coordination with the private Partners we understand how important it is with that relationship with stakeholders in our downtown core code is continuing to work on enhancement of vacant properties uh this body approved an additional body specifically for the RDA 1 and two areas which is very important and we're excited to see what that position will do the DRP has uh almost called their council member jarden old habits die hard provided in that downtown state report that will tie very closely into into what revitalization is doing the activation of our pilot program Council may have seen a recent memo that came out in some online media that we've done we have tons of events scheduled for our downtown Corps this summer activating our underutilized spaces for the public these are all free to the public they're posted on our website you'll see monthly and weekly events happening in Locomotion Plaza West Street Plaza and some additional spaces along the Riverwalk maintenance and Ops they're continuing to work out the bid contractual work that is obligated for our downtown Corp to keep it clean and safe and then tying into clean and safe they're focusing on our Outreach and advancement of their operations as we continue to work through the members who are vulnerable in our community and making sure that they're connected with all the services that our region can provide recommended motion today we're asking for is just acceptance of our report for the May of 2024 and again this was brought forward as the request of Mayor we want to make sure that it is seen to the public so the efforts don't go unnoticed especially from this body as your commitment is to our downtown all right fantastic job all of you yay I'm so impressed I am so impressed um and so we will be doing this once a month and I absolutely love it hearing from each and every single one of you because it gives I think the council a full perspective because usually we sort of hear here and there maybe just the DRP or code separately and I think together it really brings um the initiative to a a full circle a couple things that I would love to put in there um each each of you did a phenomenal job absolutely and I think the information was outstanding especially Brian the units coming on is a game Cher I don't think people realize that because for so long we've been talking to um supermarkets and you know services that we need downtown and every single person said we can't do Services until you have those doors down there to support services so that's why it's so critical not to mention you can now see the shift people are really wanting to start to live downtown work downtown so that's the shift that we needed in order to get the services and the services are really important too for the people that don't have transportation so that they can walk make it accessible so all of that needs to come together to have a very vibrant downtown but that's the game Cher when when did you say the last time we only created 150 units downtown so when was that yeah obviously the Great Recession ground everything to a halt so the B padio and Kings uh sorry the former Kings in which is about the kings in which was a major that was the last multi family project to really get finished in downtown so we have the plao uh Third Street flats and that small project uh on Pine Street which was a uh conversion it's only 24 units but every unit matters at the moment but yeah 150 units in since since probably 2012 that's unbelievable uh and over 40 years we've only grown by 900 individuals in 40 years in our downtown so we need to see population growth especially in our downtown uh and when are the ballark coming on hopefully August okay those are going to be incredible so these these 929 units are going to be rolling every month for the next six seven months probably okay fantastic thank you so much um short memories we have right Alex because Kings in I remember whenever I first uh my very first campaign I was knocking on doors almost every single door said what are you going to do about the kings in it's horrible right and so I just remember that so vividly and look at it today we never even talk about it what a huge isore it was and Alex was such a driver of making that project happen so thank you so much um I just want to include if we could so bring it back once a month in that I would like to see um River improvements um you'll have to add someone to your team on for the river component I would also like to see facade improvements particularly uh Virginia Street and then um timetable of improvements because I know you're working on the infrastructure to get over that beautiful overhead lighting that you see in most cities that Reno doesn't have but we will have but it's um I want a timetable of that which I think will be great an event wrapup I would love to have the events um from River fuss to hot AUST nights to the rodeo whatever event that we are having particularly downtown um I would love to see them come and do uh a wrap up um on their events and how it went um because I think if we're all doing it together it's going to make such a huge difference yep Madam mayor U Ashley turny for the record we're happy to invite those special events um we have currently we permit over 200 special events in the City of Reno every year and that does not include all of the new activation events that the City of Reno is co-p partnering with so we'll make sure that we invite them and see who we can get to show but otherwise we'll make sure that we give you a recap of events regard great job I'm super impressed um councilwoman Ebert any questions I do so I know this is kind of a new thing but do we have any um previous data for some of the metrics to do compare like maybe for the code enforcement metrics or um the police reports like different um things that they've done or is this kind of our our Baseline now we Ashley attorney for the record we would like to recommend this as a bit of a baseline we have the data it's just not been compiled before in this same specific notion for Council to see so if there's something that Council has specific interest in that's something that we can either talk to you offline to get you that data or we can bring that forward if there's interesting things that you want to see or something of that nature great thank you uh really quickly I would love to see just a breakdown of code uh VI viations so we know what they're attached to CU some of them might be facades correct correct yes there's yes okay I'm my hesitation yes we will work to bring you what we can if we have open cases uh some of that information is confidential until that case is closed out so we'll see what we can bring forward public is so that we know that it's getting addressed instead of just code violations we'll work with our illustrious City attorneys to ID identify what can be brought forward in public sure they can do it I'm sure they'll find us a great path forward Madam mayor all right and then also maybe think about this and um sort of the alcohol licensing component and also um some of the bars and businesses late night um especially for sound issues and other um violations particularly if they're crime or things like that so that needs to be another component I'm going to keep throwing it out there but uh we look forward to seeing you once a month go ahead councilwoman dur yeah thank you I I thought it was incredible the way that you have done a comprehensive look and I thank you mayor for asking for this kind of report it really does give us a much better feel than just occasionally hearing about one thing or another things in different settings um I want to support my colleague in her request because I do know that we have a decade of data on some of these maybe not everyone to her point but we do have have code enforcement violations we have um police reports that we I think we really should take the time to compile them because why should we be considering today uh as um the starting point of zero I I think we have to look at where we've been so we understand where we are now correct yes so to clarify thank you for that comment uh vice mayor so we do have the data we're just bringing this forward as the Baseline for Council so you have an understanding of where we've entered in uh staff is constantly monitoring the trending it's just to compile going backwards may not be as useful because we're targeting specific market and metrics now for Council so we'll continue to monitor the trends and make sure that you're aware okay but I think the ones that you can pull out we should we should see them I mean even if that's a simple as code enforcement you know which you have they have many records they do yes and if you have a prescribed methodology of what you're looking for we're happy to discuss what that can look like I'd be happy to help okay all right go ahead councilman ree thank you madam mayor my com ments are General because it's sort of the nature of a presentation so um I'm not in a particular order but I want to say a couple of things uh first uh Sergeant Howard so incredible to see you at the seek Festival this weekend I know that you are wearing many hats and all of these things are related to community engagement uh but that was a particularly special event and your presence there was really uh meaningful both to me and to the members who were there uh council member or vice mayor der and I were there together and it just great to see you out there so thank you for that uh director Trill um the sign shop has been doing a great job Madame mayor has asked for signs to help our furry friends not get their paws burned downtown we've had a bunch of events the Riverfest and so thank you for getting on that ever so quickly uh because that's an important part of uh I think uh you just a welcoming environment we we do want our our furry friends to come down and enjoy but we don't want them getting hurt right so that was good your road team and the thick Orange Line are also out there doing incredible work work with street closures and opening for all these events uh and I just see them out there every day they were at the seek Festival this weekend so thank you for that um our clean and safe folks uh Mrs spara uh really appreciate hearing your particular part of the presentation because it tells me that we're moving in the right direction but we still have work to do so thank you for that um I think in the future obviously um I love to see some of our partners if they want to give us presentations that could be included in this because we've asked them to come and maybe it could be folded into this so that's kind of a great thing I want to also give a shout out to our horticulturist Mr Sherer and our arborist Matt Basil because all of those plants that we've done in the the plantings the flower baskets they grew with the volunteer support out of our Greenhouse including in that is our new planters that are being transformed from the old um Fountain so thank you to them uh council member Jordan the DRP the skating night wow what an incredible event um it was I don't know if anyone could have believed how successful it was and and what I'm looking for is to the next version of it um I think council member Taylor and I want to do a skate the city like maybe we'll have different venues where they're doing it uh but it just brought so many people into downtown and they were just a lot of activity which I very much appreciated and I know that you're not an events promoting organization I I know that's not the focus of the DRP but those activations I think meet the qu criteria guidelines for what the DRP is doing and so I really thought wow home run really cool and I know your team did uh all the leg work on it um and of course extend my thanks to them for it because I thought it was just an incredible event ACM attorney um I do want to see the river projects that we've just recently been promoting uh be become a part of this update as we go through as as Madame mayor said because I do think that's important and then the last thing is maybe more a general thing um and this uh I suppose could be relevant to one or more of you but one of our public speakers this morning uh Mr Tiote over on Fourth Street really has some valuable insight into what's going on on Fourth Street and I want to make sure that we include um that in our walking plans for our our uh our um police officers and also with our code enforcement that we're really trying to get over there and see what's going on look some level of those things happen in any Community I don't think we can pretend that it wouldn't but where we we can we've got to put eyes on Four Street in a major way it is part of the DRP at least a large section of it it does it just goes right yeah just stops right at the edge um but whatever we can do on for street I think is part of the general things that you're all working on so I appreciate that um and maybe that could be um some update in the next round of this um go ahead councilman Taylor thank you madam mayor um so very impressed with everybody's efforts thank you so much um much appreciated I know it's it's a huge effort um I'm just going to jump into a couple of things that I heard at my NAB last night and it does not it does not lessen what you are doing and how you are doing it in all of your efforts um very again so much thanks the first thing is um we have got to work on some sort of enforcement downtown at night um and at night I mean we are having challenges at 2:00 and 3:00 in the morning with um businesses and the patrons around there that is one thing that I heard loud and clear at my NAB last night so please let us know how we can give you the resources you need to make that happen I know we said we can maybe do some sees SAS operations one once a month but we we've got to work together on that the second thing is um certainly appreciate the efforts uh councilwoman jardan on everybody on the railroad that has been a huge area of challenges for everybody in the city so thank you thank you thank you let us know how we can help you on that and then my next is uh a question we provided or we gave back a certain amount of money $800,000 or whatever to DRP and I think that was going to be going to security um can you please briefly tell us where we are in those efforts and how can we get them sooner rather than later absolutely thank you very much for the question Nea jardan for the for the record um and and just quickly um one of the things I think we all noted that was missing from this presentation was some visual some visuals you need some photos or something to kind of go with it so we're going to work on that for the next one um yes this Council we did return some of the police funding um it is going towards our ambassador security program where we'll have eight additional security guards under our ambassador team we have gone through the process of applying with the state um and we are starting the process to onboard those individuals now um what I will share with you we have run into with getting the licensing from the state is they have said um they will review our application in September so um we've tried everything to try to see if they could expedite so we could get that sooner we are still going to bring the individuals on and and get them out on the street but to have them actually doing security guard type work um that won't be until September so in the interim we would look at how we might be able to deploy some other private security through the summer we understand the summer is the busiest time so we want to look in our exploring options to um fill the Gap during the summer that's perfect that's what I was going to I was thinking if there's a way that we could supplement those efforts until September and I don't know what the city um assistant city manager um Briant if we can do anything with that application or help move that along or what connections we have in September it doesn't sound like I know I know Council Jan put a lot of pressure on them and they still said September but they did um let us know how we can help you get those security people out and um ACM attorney whenever uh thank you thank you um whatever ideas you and your team have for helping those late night activities come into compliance would be much appreciated thank you so much thank you martinz thanks so much Madam mayor thank you to each of you in this front row and for the efforts that you have done to lead downtown making those changes I know we hear from residents that have been here for a long time or recent transplants or folks that come to visit our area about some of the issues and I think every step that the police department the downtown Reno partnership or through the revitalization efforts we're making great progress in downtown and seeing a lot of those efforts already starting to pay off so I'm excited about the housing and the units that were talked about um I just want to Echo the comments that were just made um about including visuals yeah data is important but it would be nice to have some visuals up to share the differences between some of the efforts that of how things looked maybe and then after you all implemented some of these strategies how they looked afterwards it could have really helped Drive the point home so next month hopefully we get some of those in there but appreciate the data appreciate the efforts and appreciate what you all are doing to help downtown come back alive and Revitalize in the ways that we're hoping to accomplish so thanks again all right thank you so much councilman breus yeah and I just um I know Miss uh Jordan's trying to catch a plane so I won't ask for any repes for anyone I hope you're going somewhere fun but um number one is um from the operations perspective of streets um and since we've talked about bike safety that pilot project where they're separated of the bike lane you know it's minimal it's not much you know I but it needs to get swept and if you don't have the tool no don't you don't have to get up we're trying to go I just I just want to give that feedback because um you know we want to go in a different direction the mayor was talking about walkability and other users and if you're not sweeping following up on operations it's just and this is firsthand yesterday's experience number two is um I am I did support that security contract that Miss Esparza mentioned of um security guards to City owned properties and she mentioned where the public isn't accessible but I am always concerned about the training of security guards who are going to interact with the um you know the public um and just want to make sure that you know they're wellt trained whoever's managing that contract his work they're not like we're not creating a shadow Police Department um so I just you know but I think it is a tool to be used I just want to you know um uh you know hear about it as it moves forward and the last thing is the comment of uh relaunching the Redevelopment agency will the Redevelopment agency never went away and I know that because I read the financials very closely and there's a lot of finances and we have stewardship over that so I don't think anyone should say we're relaunching it because it's a going thing and it is of significant fiscal importance to this body which has a lot of you know that's where the buck stops but having said that the comment was it's going to be relaunched and up to council to review and approve I think the outline of that needs to be Council how do you want to go about relaunching and talking about the Redevelopment agency not here's the plan we created approve it and adopt it I'm very I'm very I think um you know that need we have a value of transparency we have a value of inclusiveness we need as we reactivate it to include the public there's a lot of people paying into it it has implications to the general fund because it's straining money off the general fund that goes to other taxing agencies and it cannot be a here's what we worked on behind you know up on the 15th floor with these people and these stakeholders it needs to be a very public inclusive transparent process to reactivate the Redevelopment agency and I don't think any of my colleagues would would disagree with that a lot of public has a stake in it and um it's time to have conversations publicly about how we're going for not a dialed up project already you know here Council just bless it okay thank you all right thank you so much um lastly let let's talk about this railroad um have there been any fines um uh issued to the rail road we did Issue some fines do you want to speak into more thank you yes thank you absolutely full record yes madame mayor we have and we continue to issue fines and we even got a little creative on issuing fines so we're issuing fines even on Parcels that don't have parcel numbers so they're getting all the fines that we can give them I am incredibly disappointed uh with their lack of response I wonder if it's something that we could sort of elevate is that something you could Elevate sort of you know $55,000 a day um and and I'll tell you why because someone's going to get killed along those tracks and not only that um there is a lot of hazardous waste along those tracks and the trash and the garbage and the resources that the city is putting in to maintain their property um and we've given them ample time it's really unacceptable what what's your thoughts on I think that U we have elevated it from the perspective of not so much enforcement issuing citations because those can always be appealed and we can end up you know waiting to go to go to a hearing but the fact that we actually had them fly in from all over the country to meet with us from the city manager's office the ability to have that meeting um I believe uh uh um Jackie Bryant I our AC city manager Jackie Bryan Jackie got it done right Jackie got it done yes exact exactly so that was really good that was and that's how we got the um the agreement of them coming here and cleaning it up every month and we've actually seen them visibly here so that's been a significant improvement from what we've seen over the last uh decade okay thank you so much I appreciate last but not least I have not seen a vacant building ordinance um when can we bring something like that forward I think there are a lot of downtown Property Owners uh that have quite a bit of vacancies down there and they they cause blight and they um are dark and the facades um are decaying and I feel like a a broken record so what what what can be done to implement a vacant building ordinance we are in ongoing conversations with the city attorney's office to understand what our options are based off of Nevada law we do see a lot of those vacant property taxes or registrations in other states some of our existing nrss prevent us from duplicating that in its same sense so we're trying to figure out what our options are to bring something forward to council okay when soon Madame mayor I know when we say talks with the city attorney's office love you Carl but you know sometimes it takes a long time not on I mean it's just it's a whole thing we have to go through a lot but I would like to see something sooner than later so that would be good I know you guys have a lot of work ahead but I think um everyone is rowing in the same direction and things are really happen happing downtown I know that a lot of people might not see it but and and the perception of downtown quite honestly is Virginia Street but there are a lot of things that are happening around Virginia Street but that would give you a Telltale sign that Virginia Street is struggling um and I think a lot of that has to do with property owners and um some of the infrastructure problems we're seeing the sidewalks need some big help um they don't look good I don't know if it's like the concrete we use or the paint we use or um you know there there is a lot of work that needs to be done um on Virginia Street so that's what we're going to really push for yes madame mayor to that point I think a lot of what you are seeing from the decaying infrastructure was things were put into place over 20 years ago and we still had actual income coming into the Redevelopment Agency 1 which is primarily downtown uh we are hopeful based off of our projections that we will actually start to be back in the black in the Redevelopment one agency in the next year year to 18 months uh so we've had over 20 years of only debt in that space and so that would mean general fund dollars that would have to be invested in order to update the sidewalks and help with the infrastructure and we know this body has to find a way to stretch that money as far as you can so we're very excited about the opportunity of those infrastructure opportunities coming online in the next year to 18 months and that will come before this body it'll be brought forward as a capital Improvement Project Style so that will there'll be a forecast so this Council can vote on exactly what you'd like to see and the public will know exactly what infrastructure updates are coming okay that would be great and I also think that we should have a very robust conversation on Redevelopment agency because you are starting to see um money coming into that space which we haven't seen in so long so we really do need to have a serious conversation what that looks like um like a Redevelopment agency director um where we want to focus so that we can really hone in on revitalization of downtown so thank you great job everyone so so impressed so thank you thank you to the team all right may I get a motion I'm happy to make a motion oh go ahead Council Ebert I had another question it's uh relates to something um Madam mayor brought up um in regards to the vacant um buildings would that also include um vacant lots for it could yes uh depending ashy attorney for the record depending on what the attorneys can identify that's allowable by state law that would bring something we'd bring whatever menu of options are available to this body and that could be an option for you to decide how you like to proceed I'd like that to be considered too okay thank you okay may I get a motion uh Madame mayor go ahead a motion to accept the report regarding the downtown Improvement report thank you the uh monthly downtown Improvement report I have a motion and second all those in favor say I opposed motion carries unanimously all right thank you so much okay we are now going to head into um and thank you guys for um being so patient with this next item I'm going to send it to Madame clerk do you have any public comment on item D2 and then just to update the council right after that uh we are going to go into a break I need you guys to get up I need you to go to the bathroom drink some water get something to eat um so that we can hear the rest of the items on the agenda okay Madam clerk any public com thank you madam mayor on item D2 We do have public comment registered we have Jen stall followed by Deanna Kirk followed by Tracy Williams oh I'm sorry Tracy Wilson if you're a participant in the zoom meeting and would like to make public comment please raise your hand at this time Jen stall let's see good afternoon hi Jen Madam mayor council members my name is Jen stall and I'm a resident of Steamboat Valley thank you for the opportunity to make comment regarding the need for fencing in South Reno and the use of contingency funds to accomplish this while there may be differing views or levels of appreciation when it comes to the horses I would hope we would all agree that horses do not belong along vetrans Parkway or grazing on someone's yard off Rio Wrangler or sleeping in front of one of the schools in South Reno they belong on the Range as part of the rescue team that responds to calls when vehicles and horses Collide I can tell you it is devastating it's devastating for the horse for the other horses in that band for those who witnessed the incident for those who live in the vicinity and of course devastating for the person driving the vehicle we can encourage people to slow down and be more watchful which has been attempted and I thank you for the efforts the city has made in this direction and while these measures may help they don't stop these incidents I live in an area where the horses visit time from time to time and even driving 5 miles an hour down roads road at night is not slow enough sometimes one minute there's nothing on the road and the next minute a horse appears from the darkness and I know who to be watching for and where they tend to be and yet I feel it nearly impossible to make that drive the pace of development has been so rapid around Reno and continues to be so the horses have no idea what the plans are for a given development they just know this is an open area where they have been living for years moving through grazing watering resting day in and day out and then things change but they come to discover while they're now buildings where there once was open ground there is still grass to eat probably tastier grass than what they had before so they still come add to that the folks in the neighborhoods who feel the need to put things out for the horses whether that's flakes of hay apples carrots whatever providing food only reinforces the behavior of the horses these well-intentioned people are not helping the horses when they do this my point in saying this is we really should not be blaming the horses for the situation we are in we are the ones developing the land and changing the environment right or wrong good or bad that's a completely different conversation but the point here is we have a situation where we have grown and developed communities and have not provided safeguards that are now really really needed it seems if we want to address the issue of Public Safety and safety for the horses we need fencing to restrict their movement into the neighborhoods and Commercial and Retail areas I would humbly ask that you vote to access the contingency funds to provide the needed fencing from Kenneth way to roads road to address this public safety issue thank you thank you good job Deanna Kirk followed by Tracy Wilson followed by Kevin Williams good afternoon my name is Dina Kirk I am the Nevada operations coordinator for American Wild Horse conservation and a dman ranch resident I am also the assistant supervisor for the large animal rescue team I'm asking you to please approve the funding for the entire offense that is so desperately needed in South Reno I would like to start by addressing a question I have heard from City Council Members recently the question is where is the city's responsibility in this the answer is simple Public Safety the city provides traffic signals stop signs street lights crosswalks and speed limits you have a responsibility to provide its residents with appropriate public safety measures and this fence does just that I would like to remind everyone that Nevada is a fence out state that means it is not the resp responsibility of the livestock and in this casee horse owners to keep their animals off of private property if the city wants to keep the horses out of their neighborhoods they are responsible for fencing them out now I would like to help you better understand what I mean when I speak about public safety and your responsibility for it Wild Horse connection has a hotline for people to call when there are horses in the road or injured those calls get dispatched to Volunteers in the Large Animal Rescue Team between the months of September through December we received 1,129 calls for the South Reno area alone we respond to every single call 407 of those calls were in one month that averages to more than 13 calls a day that means volunteers are out moving horses out of traffic and out of the neighborhood for each and every call many times Law Enforcement Officers respond with to help with traffic control I personally respond to almost every single car versus horse accident in the last 5 years I've only missed two these accidents cost the city both money and resources multiple Law Enforcement Officers respond to these accidents and remain on scen for several hours firefighters and EMS respond as well as biohazard cleanup Crews I have seen firsthand the trauma and the emotional toll these accidents take on both First Responders and community members I have watched school buses full of young children drive around the broken and bloodied body of a horse in fact I have had to Shield a child's eyes and walk them around an accident scene so they could get to their bus stop before school children have had to experience the horror of a horse hitting the windshield of the car they were riding in so when the city asks where is their responsibility in providing this fence I can tell you that the community members do not take that well not providing the fence is dismissive reckless and borderline negligent the community is asking for the safety precautions to be taken and I hope the council can do the right thing I would also like to add that potential future development does not negate the need for fencing as developers are required to follow Title 18 and install their own fencing thank you Tracy Williams or sorry Tracy Wilson Wilson followed by Kevin Williams followed by Terry Farley it's a lot of W's yeah guys are throwing me off here good afternoon Madame mayor and council members Tracy Wilson I'm the Nevada state director for American Wild Horse conservation I'm a volunteer liaison for Wild Horse connection uh the core of the South Meadows development was approved several decades ago no one thought to secure fencing along this newly created Urban Wildland interface back then no one thought ahead that by planting green grass along the streets and in lawns all over this new development area that it would attract Wildlife from the brown Hills into the neighborhoods not just horses there was an injured deer euthanized in ctie ranch just over a year ago mountain lion and bear are routinely cited but the animals and the people who unknowingly moved here are not to blame as the years have gone by more development has been approved and is still being approved parcel by parcel in fact on today's agenda there is a request to Annex more land into this area for more development that equals more car trips on these local roadways the city has now implemented safeguards into city code AS Dena just said and that requires new development to fully fence their property and tie into the existing fences that is huge and that does help uh maintain once we get the vening in place um but past oversights still have to be addressed well this council did not approve these long ago plans it is the council it is this Council that is now faced with addressing the current issues this is not only a community concern the local community concern as the years I'm sorry and as the years have gone by different issues have had to be addressed but it is time to address this one not only if I can put this up not only have thousands upon thousands of homes been built in the area but a major thoroughfare was built through the area so now this doesn't just affect the residents in the City of Reno but also those driving through the city on streets such as Veterans Parkway as has been discussed it should the city be responsible if they're not responsible for the horses horses themselves um for background management of the Virginia range horses has been more consistent for The Last 5 Years with Cooperative agreements in place with the Nevada Department of Agriculture fertility control has been implemented and it's working the population of horses along the city interface from Hidden Valley to Geer grade has been reduced well over 25% and continues to decline as birth rates are held down the recorded population in the herd just south of the City Line peaked in 2021 po that's when population uh was fully documented and it's continued to decline since then awhc as a nonprofit organization is doing our part to address population numbers at no cost to the taxpayer implemented by people from our communities volunteer in their time because they care Wild Horse connection has worked with land owners to address holes in existing fencing it deals with conflict issues rescue diversionary feeding and sadly the results of vehicle accidents 43 since December of 2019 because in considering each development each Road each building that comes in you must also consider how the world surrounding that project intertwines with the project itself the community as a whole the broader landscape as a whole and how it affects Public Safety I plead with you to fully fund the fencing to make it complete all right thank you Kevin Williams followed by Terry Farley followed by Shannon Wendell good afternoon Madame mayor and the council my name is Kevin Williams I am just a concerned citizen I've been uh working with nonprofits and trying to improve waser County uh I've been doing a lot with uh for years with the homeless feeding the homeless for over a decade uh keep trucky met is beautiful uh um even at Burning Man I'm a burner uh I I uh volunteer with Earth Guardians we try and teach people how to recreate responsibly in such a fragile environment and I know that's kind of my intro so I wrote everything down I thought it'd be a little better uh this is going to be kind of like a I'm for I'm against so it's kind of a odd situation here uh I'm all for keeping the horses safe I spent many hours and miles walking the horses out of the neighborhoods I know what it mean what happens with horses and cars this was my Honda on uh September of 2019 I was driving I you uh working at at USA Parkway and this is what happened to my car I hit a herd of horses um and 3 days later this horse died I was checking on it daily before and after work each day uh this really messed up my brain uh for maybe months and years I was terrified of driving I hated driving at night I just it was just bad it I you can't explain it so the fence needs to happen uh but killing hundreds of horses to save a few this fence May kill whole bands of animals and that is from the lack of water nobody has addressed how dry the Virginia range Hills are I grew up in wo so roaming the hills from Carson Nino was my playground and I know that the Virginia range is a very dry uh very sparse uh it's just a harsh environment maybe a few streams early in the season and only a handful of Springs and the water that is up there is already supporting horses already uh it's like that new $60,000 opening in the fence uh oh my God uh uh in South the Hidden Valley I've been keeping an eye on it and very few horses are utilizing it it's important as this fence as important as this fence is a year-long supply of water is needed for the horses uh or you will be killing many animals from the lack of uh the lack of water we have three homeowners which water the horses two in head Valley one on the top of hidden Western Skies I don't know if the horses will even have access to the water once the fence is built and once the gate closes at The Meadows you will be cutting off the only water some of the horses have used all their lives and The Meadows horses are not using the water axis at the $60,000 Alexander site no matter what you were told there is no water on the western side of the Virginia range and this group um I'll skip down so my vote is to build a fence but after finding an adequate supply of water for the horses to survive that's all I'm asking so I don't know that's me and a nutshell all right thank you sir thank you um let me turn it over to our staff if there's no more comments or questions Madam clerk what's that are there there it sounds like there's more comments yes Terry Farley followed by Shannon Wendell followed by Laura fsen hi good morning good afternoon Terry that moves all the way around it does anything you need to do to get it to you okay um obviously I'm here to support uh the horses the funding for the fencing but I'm going to take a little different tack I write um books about wild horses that are published around the world and I know that many of my readers are coming to Nevada are coming to Reno to see Wild Horses because it's on their bucket list and I've inadvertently become a travel agent for some of these people because I am what they know about Nevada and I want to tell you especially um tourists from Germany and the Scandinavian countries and of course around the US are just overwhelmed by a beauty they never anticipated they like Sage Brush they like Hills that aren't green and they like our Wildlife one of my German readers was posting on Tik Tok every day just spinning around looking at our open Skies and T trying to interpret the smell of Sage Brush in German I didn't understand it but she told me what she was doing so what I'm really hoping is that we can rethink the way we look at open land I hope that we can balance out building and development with Wild Horse tourism talk about low impact all they're going to do is probably sit in their cars or sit on a hill and watch the Wild Horses go to water and interact as families um let me look at my notes because I I get off on the these these readers and I mean there are hundreds at least of them that have contacted me saying that wild horses are on their bucket list before they die they want to see wild horses and they're not just obviously not just kids they're adults who are spending their money in the casinos they are spending their money in hotels they are asking me where they get a good taco these people are supporting this town I think that's it but just rethink the way you're looking at open land and I know some of you already have and I really appreciate that thank you all right thank you so much Terry Shannon Windle followed by Laura Fen good afternoon my name is Shannon wendle I am president of hidden Wild Horse protection fund the good people of Hidden Valley back in the '90s saw the situation that they had that they were facing with the wild horses out of the Virginia range they rallied together they um collected money and volunteers and they put up a fence all the way around Hidden Valley and guess what it worked what you're looking at today this money it will work I got involved with wild horses in 2009 as a Damonte Ranch uh resident and I asked what can I do we rallied together a few people we got the money uh we went and installed approximately a qu mile of fencing it worked we had a reported our own um statistics the winter of 2009 2010 we had 18 horses hit and killed in deont ranch alone in the spring we put up the fencing kept out the horses that winter the number the number dropped to three horses horse to vehicle um interactions the two Winters after that it dropped to zero until once again development in dman ranch started up again and then everything went to hell but what you're looking at I can't emphasize enough it's going to make a huge difference it's going to make a difference with regard to Public Safety for the people living in South Reno it's going to keep our horses safer up on the Range where they belong and that's what all of us believe finally I want to make this short because your day is long I want you to recognize each each one of you how grateful we all are for you taking this action having it come towards the council today and for you to vote on this we are so very appreciative of what you're doing thank you so much all right thank you so much Sharon I know you've been a very very longtime Advocate involved Laura fussen followed by Kristen Moffett good afternoon thank you for letting me voice my thoughts my name is Laura fusen I live in Carson City Nevada and I have been following this urban sprawl and horse issue it's dear to my heart it's heartbreaking but you guys have a solution and that makes me very happy the balls in your court if we put up this fence if if you put up this fence think of the health and safety of the public and the horses the balls in your court I highly highly hope that you will approve this fence for the future of horses and the future of development of Reno we know it's sprawling but let's protect the horses let's protect the public thank you right thank you Laura Kristen Moffett hello hi everyone can you hear me should I great uh my name is Kristen Moffett and I live in Reno um I don't live in South Reno but I am um very concerned and very passionate about what's happening there I have a lot of friends and family there um but the thing is I'm new to Wild Horses the last couple of years I've been um working with two eoin therapy groups and a wild horse rescue um I my two youngest daughters were adopted through Washo County Social Services and my youngest of the two has benefited so greatly from ecin therapy um and I know this sounds a little bit irrelevant I've heard so many wonderful things that I don't really know what to say more than what's been said already as far as protecting citizens and horses um except for the value of these horses two of our most um Wanted and and most loving e uh therapy horses are were once Wild Horses I'm not supporting capturing horses and and train I'm just saying that the therapy is in the horses it's in being there seeing them and then someone was talking about tourism Nevada tourism because of horses and that was something that I was going to talk about but the point is is that if we create a wall where we can keep horses where they belong and people where they belong and we can take away the that nuisance or whatever the stigma the horses have they're a nuisance they're this they're that and take that away from people's minds because they're not out in the public causing problems but they can look at them for their value they can look at the horses for what their value is is for their beauty how they help people how they help children with needs you know we talked about mental health oh my gosh like some of the best mental health comes from standing and looking at wild horses and having the privilege to be near horses that maybe were once wild those that are sadly being contained and we don't know quite yet what we can do um but just that feeling with them um I I just really want to support building that wall because I think that if we can keep them where they need to be we can re we can appreciate them again for what they really truly for their value and what they are so that's all right thanks Kristen thank you Madame vice mayor we do not have any other public comment registered um for the record I would like to note that we did receive 37 comments associated with this item today 37 of them were in favor additionally we did have two members of the public registered speak but did not want to actually make a comment um Steve Cochran and Mike marquat okay all right well thank you so much and we welcome Vicky good afternoon Madam vice mayor and council members um Vicky van Bean for the record Director of Finance before you today you have the final augmentation for our budget for the current year we do this quarterly to do cleanup that comes along and then also to record anything that comes in during that quarter that needs to be added to the budget uh this aligns with the Strategic plan that you have of fiscal sustainability as we continue to look at the budget throughout the year and bring these items forward to you quarterly so for this particular item we have about 700 and a little over $750,000 in uh augmentations to the general fund these are mostly grants and reimbursements that have occurred during this quarter you'll see that the majority are from police and fire between those two and then we did have some grants and reimbursements that occurred in parks and mun Court as well and then we're going to look at the contingency allocation um that you've heard so much about today as well so if we go on to the contingency item I want to spend some time on that just to to refresh your memory on this we budgeted a million dollars at the beginning of the year contingency funds are meant for anything that occurs during the year that we didn't anticipate when we built the budget so it could be an emergency item it could be anything that comes up that you don't have funds for but you feel that is critical and necessary during the budget cycle these this is what this money is meant for in the current year us Council you've approved the city manager search for 75,000 out of this funding and also emergency horse fencing of the 60,000 uh at a previous meeting so right now you have remaining funds of $865,000 in the contingency in the contingency to be allocated out we did talk about during the budget process and the budget cycle as we were building the budget for next year that we did have some needs that we were not able to address with the funds and the money that we anticipate for next year and some of these items were would be good items to propose here because they would be onetime in nature um at this point and so some of these items that we do have proposed you'll see on your right hand side for use in that 86 $65,000 we have $100,000 for Cold Case investigations this was an item that um the mayor brought up during budget cycle we did not have funding outside of what we had presented but we're trying to anticipate how we can do this in some other ways using funds that we don't really have um allocated for something else at this point and these would be good funds available for that um another item would be the hazard Eid waste cleanups these are programs that are currently uh the city is doing they received a great response from the community um with the budget that was approved for next year council did approve a new position a neighborhood coordinator that would be coordinating these cleanups but we didn't have funding to actually um put money toward those cleanups in the current year Council has donated some of their discretionary funds to do that in the meantime but this would uh give some funding to that program for next year City C has was actually added to this uh agenda item here and this was not discussed during budget but it is something that has come up uh we're currently looking at the infrastructure that we have for security and security cameras city has around 280 cameras around uh City facilities that would be buildings Parks use those to monitor security to also make sure um infrastructure is safe the buildings are safe people are safe whe whether that's um the public or employees um and out of those uh 280 or so cameras that we have about half of them need repair or maintenance and this is not something that we've been done for a very long time this inventory of this security area and so this is kind of an emergency type item that has been added to this list because it's really something that's currently not functioning as it should and it's been recognized um that it is would be a security Fe feature here emergency horse fencing is back on here again this would add another $215,000 to the horse fencing program um Mr flansburg is here to explain some additional information on that and what that gets gets for that money but with the 215 plus the 60,000 previously allocated that would be 275,000 for this particular uh item and then rapid rehousing was an item that vice mayor der brought up at our last meeting when we were adopting the budget looking at um that bridge between when people get into housing and then they're still waiting for a voucher from the Reno Housing Authority so that could take up to 12 to 18 months depending on where we know Housing Authority is with their vouchers and so there's really uh there was really a need for funding in that space to get someone from a short term in that interum while they're still waiting for a voucher so that's what that $200,000 here is meant for and so with that that concludes my presentation but I'm going to go back and leave it on this slide so that you can have some conversations on this thank you Vicki and I see that the mayor's back but before I give it back to her I did want to call up John flansburg if we could you mentioned um some changes and I I will just start by saying that yesterday I had a chance to talk to Mr flansburg and uh gu oxel who's our jub consultant who's doing um the uh design for the fence and I found out that there was a potential uh disconnect between what the two of them uh thought the total number was needed and I wonder if we could get Mr flansburg to clarify that thank you for the record John flansburg Regional infrastructure um first off I just want to say that um this Council has been very committed to the wild horse fence fencing and I just want to remind that we have $500,000 in arpa funds that were set aside for fencing and that that project is now out to bid and we look forward to bringing that back to you um at a future council meeting uh to award that contract that will get take care of everything from meroma Drive tying in to the fence line there South uh to real Wrangler and then a couple spot locations uh that need to be taken care of including up and around Carmelo uh Ranch so I just want to mention that first and foremost that that that is all part of the of work that we have going on second of all the 60,000 for emergency horse fencing uh that was allocated that emergency fence was completed last week and so the horses have access to about 500 feet of Frontage of water um at Alexander Lake Road and so appreciate that we able to get that done and and make that happen what we're asking for today and what was asked asked for here in the 215,000 additional would take us from the south end including um from about that Carmelo ranch or a little further south tying in guer grade um OT has uh um committed to putting in a a horse guard cattle guard on uh guer grade and then the fencing along there that they would reimburse the city for that fencing we need the money up front but we would get reimbursed for that and so um that's very helpful and then we would take the fence down to tol Road and tie in that was the plan to where the Nevada Department of Agriculture is planning to bring their 2 three miles of fencing from Carson City up over the range to that location uh in my discussion with G and the disconnect that council member dur brings up is that when uh he was having further conversations with indot they wanted to moov the location of the cattle guard uh on guer grade they didn't like the location that was proposed and that was going to add about $50,000 more in fencing along Giger grade now that's $50,000 more that we need to come up with Upfront for the contract we will get would get reimbursed for that 50,000 so it's not a net out of our pocket but it would be something that we would include in that contract and then on top of that uh there was a realization that if there's a long time lag between the Department of Agriculture Spence going in uh we could put in an additional cattle guard on Raza Road and tie in some additional fencing and that would add about another 30,000 and so um the proposal or the we're going to need we're going to need more money than we show here although majority of that would be reimbursed and it's going to be closer to 315,000 is what we had talked about yesterday so I just want to bring that up uh to describe what it is that we're trying to do I want to recognize that we are working with our partners OT and with Department of a on on their fencing and um have come to a better conclusion than what we presented a few a couple weeks ago okay well thank you for clarifying that so just to be clear what you're recommending here is instead of 215,000 315,000 um and you basically just told us where and you left out a little bit of contingency as well um rounding that up to 100 um I wanted to point out to the group that I was actually the one who recommended $75 to $100,000 for hazards and e-w cleanups because they have been so successful I started them about six years ago um and then the city has really uh Blossom by moving those to all the wards um and they've put uh with arpa money but arpa money is gone and so we said and there was General support for that uh could we put some money in next year's budget the second item uh was also mentioned that I also supported which is rapid rehousing program and I do um and we've already described it I will tell you that um the Hazardous Waste is very important but it's more in the nice to do uh than the Must List in my opinion we've had an issue for 10 years with um horses we've heard about the Last 5 Years with 43 uh horses being it and having to either be killed or or put to death um I put the 215 and now 315 in the public safety must do category and I think that they H it has a higher priority I know that the staff are very concerned about the rehousing and that's why I advocated it as well it's been one of my passions to do more for for BL so my recommendation based on what you have said would be um I think what I heard you say and just to recap what I understand is that endot has offered to reimburse 115,000 my understanding is of fence that we would install and they would pay for but we have to include it in uh the monies when we go out to bid the money will come back later so I would be very comfortable making a recommendation I like all the projects we heard about the cold case I'd be very comfortable recommending that we up the number to 315 we hold on the 100,000 for the Hazardous Waste I have put about $122,000 of my next year's Council funds to two hazardous waste cleanups and I think by that point we'll either have reimbursement from endot or other funds will become available at other times I've heard from our staff um we do this quarterly in other words and we may be able to cover that at that point um the other point is that I have one second point and that is that there's not a lot of money in there for contingency I know you're out to bid on the first phase if that first phase comes in higher this phase is going to come in higher and so I think it's important for the council to make a commitment so that to to I think every single person spoke here about completing the fence if we need another $50,000 because bids have coming higher then I think that that should be brought back to the council at that time and uh fund should be found to finish off the project so um that's where you know my recommendation to you Madame mayor um is how to uh make this whole and still be able to move forward with the projects we've got listed here okay thank you so much um quick question probably for you Vicki I'm I'm a little um break this down for me again so and and maybe flansburg you said that there was already $500,000 of arpa money dedicated to the fence yes correct yes so has that been spent no it's out to bid right now that just went I'm sorry you said that um Mr flansburg I apologize okay so we we did allocate that so and then is that the same because um there was a project that came forward was about a $5 million project um for expansion of um oh uh Neil Road um for medical services yes um part of that though I saw like maybe there was Furniture included in there and I asked for a 500,000 to be set aside um for um fencing as well instead of and they were going to go raise their own money on that project so is that something we're not even we haven't brought that forward we're not even talking about that because contingency funds because I want to remind everyone is separate than arpa funds yes correct okay so that's where I wanted the additional money to come from I didn't want it to even come from contingency I knew contingency um probably we needed to do the 60,000 but there there is that project out there where I wanted to hold back 500,000 and they could go raise the money um for furniture what have you because I felt like um you know that was just like not do or die I think this is do or die so I would just ask staff that that's where I'm thinking the money come from instead of coming out of contingency if if that would help that's down the road so I think that um is a solution because I know people are like ah contingency and you know there's a little bit of angst there it doesn't have to be that way um so I would just say to backfill back the contingency funds to make sure when that project comes back to us and we will have arpa updates because remember arpa up arpa dollar are on um timelines and some of those projects might even not come to fruition so I want to remind everyone that I think this is incredibly critical and when we do this this is where I get frustrated when everyone's like oh no but that's so and so's responsibility that's so and so's responsibility do you remember how um it it's the County's responsibility to um provide a lot of Social Services when it comes from the homeless well the city did it for uh I think a couple of decades and that was the right thing to do because someone needs to do it someone's going to get killed this is a do or di situation if you have ever seen a horse being hit by a car you will never ever ever ever forget it and if it's your child you would absolutely be horrified devastated and you will have nightmares for the rest of your life it is absolutely horrific um I think you know and I hate to hear oh that's rtc's responsibility yes but if they don't do it I hope everyone understands then it's on us because it is our responsibility to provide safety in the city so um I don't want people to get all crazy about where it comes from but I know that there is money on the on the arpa side that we could back fill this in and then um it would take care of that sort of Gap that we're seeing with contingency so that's just how strongly I feel about it okay I do think there's an opportunity to do that in the future if you wanted to I don't think that has been um discussed or em motion made on that I think I believe the 5 million is still allocated to that project pending some thank you and I appreciate you saying that because I don't want to miss the opportunity so I'm sort of pinging staff right now that that opportunity is there um and also the council that the opportunity is there because I don't want it to uh pass Us by so okay may go ahead Council to speak well hold on you can let me just go through everyone well we originally um I just want to say that when the original funds were put in for the fence for the arpa we had no idea what it would cost and someone said what should I put in as a placeholder we said 500,000 there was a full commitment at that time to do the project we didn't know would have come in at 400 600 ultimately we were told by our consultant it was coming in at 1.1 million I'm really pleased to see that we're able to bring it down to something on the order of um less than 1.1 million I think it's around 900,000 total just rounding and I think that shows good work by the staff and our J Consultants to actually reduce the cost of the project so I just wanted to go on record for that that you know as recently as a a month ago the total was 1.1 million staff have been able to get that down to looks like 875 so kudos to you I I didn't want that to pass without noting that I do think it's very important no matter where the funds come that we do allocate them today and here's why we are getting started on phase one phase two has to follow very closely on the heels of phase one there can't really be a gap until we get the entire fence done we will not have a complete project and horses will continue to go around and that is that's the challenge we either do the whole thing or we shouldn't do any of it I mean frankly and this is not a threat it's just being very practical it's like building a road one side of a road without building the full project so I'm very sensitive to what the staff have to go through in the Contracting um we're going to be going over timelines for this too but I just wanted to put that out there okay thank you thank you so much I I I hope you don't misunder understand that I think that we have to move forward but I would I don't want to get in the weeds of contingency where it's coming from and so forth okay I must add one thing the the monies have different um processes for which for which they're ated understand and one is very complex being federal dollars and one is incredibly simple being City dollars yeah I understand you're right thanks so much okay go ahead councilman ree thank you Madame mayor um Miss vuran thank you so much for the presentation um I uh like council member der and Madame mayor am very strongly in favor of completing the fence that being said I want to make sure I know what the price tag is that is being attached to it and where it comes from and so I need some of your help to just help me understand as I understand it today the fence is now pegged at 875,000 is that a you question or a Mr flansburg question I think that's more of a Mr flansburg Question Mr flansburg do I have the numbers right it's it's today believed to be 875 today if you're looking at the chart in front of you on proposed allocations it would go from 215 215,000 to 315,000 right but the numbers are 00 that was already allocated through the arer process 3115 is here proposed today and we've already spent 60 yes that's 875 that all go combined together yes correct so I have the numbers there correctly now miss vuran I want to make sure look I believe that all of the things on the proposed allocations are very important and they have been the product of some discussion at this Das over the course of many months so there's nothing here that I want to see cut right so how can we do um the emergency horse fencing at 315 under the set of circumstances which I have now described well we would need to rearrange some of these numbers on here to do that and so we would have to postpone some of these item one or potentially more of these items until next year and try to figure that out with next year's budget because this is our final one for this current year and so um one thing that um Council uh vice mayor derer did bring up that she did use some of her um discretionary funds for the hazard and e-w cleanup that's potentially something that can be done in the future too I mean there's some options here but we are locked in at that $865,000 today and so let me ask this question um there was this part about the state repaying us some of the funds so I understand we have to spend it and then someday they'll give it back yes so is that the way that we could delay one of the other line items meaning if I think that the state's going to pay us back a 100 Grand can I take the 100 grand out of the e-hazard waste for a period of time and then come back to it in six months yes absolutely so here is I think where the discussion Point has to be had at the dis now I think the Hazardous and e-w is not a nicity I think it's a must because when people don't have access to it in the way that we have given them access to it those things end up in our desert and and they end up on the side of Roads right or they get put into the waist basket hidden under a tarp or whatever so um I'm not sure that I think that that's the area where we should uh automatically delay it but I'm interested in hearing my colleagues thoughts on it and again I Now understand that we will get at least 100 to 115,000 back but I don't know what the time frame for that being given back back to us is and I wonder um right and I don't think we do either yeah at this point okay I I do have a second round but I want to be sensitive my colleagues and so I'll pass it back to Madame mayor um I I have a question about the rapid rehousing program all right Council thank you madam mayor why is the state why is endot asking us and this is maybe a question for John to put up the money at front why are why is endot asking us to do this we're putting up money for flashing flashing beacons why why don't they do I mean I don't understand why they're asking us for the money up front for the record John flansburg Regional infrastructure I believe it is economy of scale we have a project going in we're going to have fence going in one contractor they will reimburse us for the cost of the fence on their RightWay I think that's the reason why oh so it's their right away correct and we're going to pay to put fencing on their right away again and get reimbursed and get reimbursed up to $115,000 what whatever the cost is on the RightWay they will they will reimburse us our cost for that up to $15,000 whatever the cost whatever the cost is on there right away um my other question is and I guess this is for assistant city manager I mean I was I I was leaning towards being in favor of this project with the reimbursement cost now we're adding another $100,000 to it and it's not that I I I I fully am supportive of Public Safety last night at my NAB I had 40 people saying that they were not feeling safe in the streets because of gunshots and because of things that are happening in the alleyway so I think it's all a matter of priority but do we have to vote on all of this at the at one or can we vote on individually the items or is there procedurally some way that um I'm I'm just wondering do we have to say every we vote on it for all five things or we can we take things individually I'll let you asking us to approve all those things today yeah yes okay I got you and let me you can make changes to it but we just need to know what you want that $ 865,000 to go to so in the motion you would just need to say approve these items with these changes or such this was just a proposal sure but what I'm getting on is um if there's a motion and we put 350 ,000 and take $100,000 away from something I'm not necessarily sure if I'm going to be in favor of that but I'm in favor of other things so I'm I'm wondering if there's an opportunity to vote on everything individually I would have to defer to the attorneys on that one because I'm not sure if you not sure of the yes we can do separate motions on yes you can yeah yeah the answer is yes um but I want to Circle back to the mayor's comment about the $500 500,000 in arpa funds um assuming that that were cleared up at the next council meeting that would certainly be enough more than enough to complete the fence then I guess John from a timing perspective would that work for the project for the record John flansburg Regional infrastructure there's going to be a fair amount of work on that South End that's going to have to take place um so I I I'm reluctant to commit to a time frame specifically but it would work with us in terms of when we get the bid out to make sure that we have the proper language and we follow the proper procedures that arpa requires and since we're using arpa funds for the north phase um in our and our consultant is um under that obligation now it should not be an issue for the South phas thank you and just again to be clear it's not that I'm not in favor of horse safety or people safety I'm just not sure that this is the biggest priority for the city as far as this money um and that's just the reality of it for me um the other question I had is on the $200,000 rapid rehousing program do you know if um we're going to be getting the 1.4 million from the state at some point for rental re assistance rental assistance that we um were allocated last year I'm going to ask uh Jana to come up and address that from housing hi Jana litz housing manager we are receiving the it's 1.5 million again for our second allocation this year from the state okay so we will have and everybody is going to be working together RHA um City of Reno on how these rental programs are working to make sure that we are reaching everybody that we possibly can because I know there's different programs so I want to make sure there's collaboration is what I'm getting at yes we collaborate with um bro housing Authority and the county and Sparks to see what their programs are doing and we use that funding mainly to serve the entire region okay so again we're using a million dollars to help people that don't have houses too and we're going to spend we're thinking about spending $800,000 on fencing it's again it's all about priorities my other question is on the cameras I sent um I I talked to director Ilia about some cameras that had voice activated Steph I'm wondering if this camera allocation includes these cameras or is it just for the maintenance okay thank you assistant City Manor J Hodge I'm just we had and I'm gonna cut you off right after that that's fine okay thank you for the question JW HJ assistant city manager for the record this this covers both the replacement and repair of about 121 cameras um in that could include some updates to cameras which may include new technology but right now we have about 95 cameras that need to be replaced so we could replace them with newer technology cameras okay I'd be interested in that too thank you thank all right Council Martinez thanks so much Madame mayor and thank you to all of my colleagues for the comments so far and helping us get to this point um before I go on my comments I do want to publicly apologize to Miss Wilson for having missed our meeting I did get your email and I appreciate you sending that and giving me more information to consider during this process um I appreciate the sensitivity to getting this horse fencing done um and making sure that the continuation happens throughout all of uh the southern portion of Reno and making sure that we provide healthy transit for and safe transit for our residents which is important um the sticking point for me I have two things I think that I'm that I'm getting challenged getting across is to the Hazardous in E waste cleanup are something that we had heard from our community members that they're very interested in us seeing that move forward and I am appreciative to vice mayor doer for allocating some of her funds but not all of us have access to funds to be able to bring those things into our words and so having the ability to have this at every single cleanup regardless of what w they're being held in is a priority for me and something that I think our residents would be happy with doing so um I think the other thing I would mention is that we did hear a strong commitment from uh our lease holders for the Neo Road recreation uh activity center for them to meet the Delta so if that's another way for us to explore the possibility of getting the horse fence finished I would be in favor of exploring that that commitment from our partners and getting that done and so I'm currently leaning towards still approving 215,000 for the Emergency horse fencing um and keeping the other allocations as they are as proposed from staff at the moment so thank you thank you so much councilman breus yeah Mr flansburg the um the fence I understand it's going to be on end. rway and then the miroma section the steamboat section what are those also going to be on rideway Whose property for the record John flansburg Regional infrastructure so there are several different properties um primarily along Veterans Parkway so it'll be on city property uh from miroma uh where it crosses the steamboat Creek at uh veterans so a large portion about a half mile is going to be along Veterans Parkway to Alexander Lake Road then the other Parcels are um are either on City or uh some private or um uh I'm trying to remember if there's a BLM parcel involved or not I don't believe so but we we did get a clearance from BLM on uh work that we'll be doing in there right away so let's talk about this I mean the the problem and I do see it emergency and I agree it's an emergency is for the motoring public you know other people have their lawns chewed up and I I could see that's a problem you know and Public Safety of them and the horses and have you had discussions with RTC about making these rideways because you they are following rideways about RTC coming to the table with Transportation funds we did and what did RT what happened there they did not have any funds that were set aside in the current budget year to do this and that's the discussions that we've had and that's why the arpa funds were set aside and that's what the arpa funds have always been um allocated for when that was allocated be previously the funds that we're talking about here are actually in the southern phase which should be um near guer grade down to toll road and tying in there yeah I just don't know why transportation funds and I I won't you know I don't want to yield my time to my colleagues but you they go through a budget process over there they're about to get a jump up on fuel tax I think it should be there miss um van beran what is our F we have fiscal policies to keep ourselves in in good shape what is our fiscal policy related to the contingency fund the contingency fund uh can be used for two sources and actually um well let me go back contingency can in this case is out of the general fund and can be used for any source um that comes up during the year as I mentioned if you have an emergency in the past we've used it to buy an emergency fire truck um we've used it for other items that were not budgeted during the year and they come up and Council has a priority for something we can use those funds for that um if we do not assign these contingency funds today what will happen to these based on our fund policy is that anything remaining in contingency that's left over at the end of the year goes over to our stabilization fund yeah and that that is very that is very important to me cuz I came on at the time when your predecessor was you know had maybe 13 days of cash flow to keep the city a flat we were in auction rate Securities we were struggling and we work really hard to make those very difficult policies one was we're going to fund OPB which we haven't done now for two budgets and the other one was to roll this over and build our stabilization and to me it's I will see of these cold cased investigations coming out of our largest but Jedi the police chief I'm sure she can find 100 Grand somewhere has waste you know what's the growth in the waste management franchises let's go there City cameras haven't earned much about that the only one I see is the word emergency emergency and that's the only one that to me Rises to the level of pulling off of our fiscal prudent um policies of letting all this money go to the stabilization and I'm very concerned I'll just tell my colleagues because you know some of a lot of you haven't weren't around when we were in real difficult shape and there weren't options there weren't options the the only thing was keeping our head above Flo we have laid off a third of the city Workforce at that time this place was a shell you know this place was empty and I'm just real troubled with this notion that we're going to put in great things but non-emergencies it's kind of playing a little Christmas tree little Christmas and the budget's the time to do that and maybe there's if I could maybe there was some horse trading going on we'll you know if we're doing that but to me I see the word emergency and the only thing I want to do is understand to go into the contingency on emergency I also have questions about on my second round okay on the on some of the other two minutes over so I'm going to just move on cuz I want to make sure everyone gets a uh opportunity here Council neber go ahead so I I just wanted to talk about you know the Hazardous and e-w um allocation I know that it's important to a lot of us up here but $100,000 is not like and that's something that we could cover from our own personal discretionary I'm glad you mention that let me ask one thing and I know councilwoman dur we both worked on the contract together for Waste Management and that was part of the contract we said we want these free dump days I know a lot of people in the community are getting the free dump days CU we pushed for that in the contract and 35 bins and 35 bins so this is additional money on top of the the allocation we already got these are for hazardous waste that's paint oil gas propane is for ew is that Waste Management though no no it's separate it's outside our contract people have to go pay for example to get rid of a TV 200 bucks today you have to find a purveyor pay him 200 bucks to take your TV we take the TV in these cleanups but I mean that's something that we we could pay our in the future in the future it would be good to include it in our Waste Management contract today it's not no it's a different purveyor is it hero environmental yeah well there you go well I mean also just to call out I've been asking staff if we could put in an RFP for another um opportunity for other um recycling places to put in a bid for that or um waste removal companies to see if maybe we can get this reduced but also again this is something that we could individually cover from our discretionary funds if that's something that we individually think is important to us then we can do that um you know if that's what it takes and then everybody else can keep their things that they want um but I also am disappointed to hear you know people saying no I I don't want to do this because it's not important to me specifically in my ward again we're all supposed to care about all of Reno no you're not sorry W only voting happened that's what the voters did I got to tell you it's a big it's been a big issue with me you can thank W only voting for what you see up here how we're playing Hunger Games I mean this is something gross none of this is going to apply to my ward but I can support the horse fencing um so I'm I'm just disappointed in that pick Ando based on their wordss and so everyone can thank uh you know the last election for that I think it was wrong I don't think Reno is big enough to where all this Council up here should be fighting um you know for their own their own kingdoms and it's so bothersome so I and I hope that the people that are watching that push for that W only voting can see today how damaging it is to the whole entire city of Reno and puts uh safety and Jeopardy so don't get me going all right go ahead uh Council yeah um we we have to recognize the fall is coming and numerous of the people that testified spoke that they cannot endure another year like we had last year they cannot deal with another let's say in one year 10 12 horses dead it's like if we don't fund this we are ignoring the entire problem we have a moment here to address it we we have gotten arpa dollars we're not asking for 865,000 yeah that is the total or 75,000 that is the total but 500,000 has come out of arpa which is we've put 25 million out of arpa for housing we've put arpa to pay for City Services we put arpa to pay for the river arpa to pay for placemaking downtown now it is reasonable to pay for something that covers two Wards Wards two and Wards three not one Ward but two Wards the entire length on the western side out of these funds my recommendation if you don't want to do hazardous waste because I completely support what uh Miss eert said I have been paying for hazardous waste for six years other people can also pay for it out of their Council funds it's only $6,000 per cleanup Do It um it's you know if you have $40,000 allocate $6,000 if you want to do it twice in a year allocate $112,000 which is what I've done but the point is is maybe an opportunity here would be to look at the rapid rehousing program which is just getting started one idea from my colleague uh Mr ree was perhaps we start with $100,000 and Rapid rehousing see what we can do for two months and then in October when you bring back the next budget allocation redistribution whatever you want to call it put in another hundred grand into into rapid rehousing I agree with council member breus this is an emergency this has been an emergency we have tried everything we have put in the lights the speed speed limits the noticing the education programs we have to step up and do it and one of the speakers said it very well we pay for Signal lights warning lights sidewalks other kinds of fences this is just one more Road Safety project that needs to be done um and it's far less we just paid out of a city budget to put in flashers over at Dural uh at um Coral Academy over by Home Depot that have been the school district probably could it have been the coral Academy yes but it had to be done people are going to get killed if we didn't do it and I view this in the very same uh way we we have to tackle it and we can defer some things um build a program for Rapid rehousing build the Cold Case investigation it's not like we're starting uh in three days for that but we are starting immediately on the fencing so I would ask my colleagues I'm comfortable with the allation we are not adding a 100,000 we are deferring something on this list we are putting the money in the budget so that we can actually move forward with a contract you can't move forward with a contract unless you have all the money in the budget we are going to get reimbursed by. good for them that they've stepped up to do this and help us unlike some other agencies so I just ask my colleagues I I I'm not comfortable with the hunar games I support all of us supporting each other which we have done think but like I said that system has put this in place so um it's just and I suggest we back fill if you have to backfill use the 500,000 from arpa for housing again all right thank you Council M you know I've worked with you for a long time and everyone that's sitting here listening I've never heard her that passionate very rarely do I hear her like raise her voice at like at all but um so I I appreciate it and thank you for your passion I'm going to um send it to councilman Reese because I want to say that you had the discussion over RTC you were fighting for it over there an allocation and um maybe you can give me an update yeah thank you Madame mayor so uh to our general colleague from Ward one's inquiry about rtc's role in all of this um I think they will have a future role in it I don't think they have a current role we and the Madame mayor and I are both advocating for uh right ofwe issues to be addressed over there but it just wasn't in the last rollup of the uh budget but it will be in future it doesn't really help us today but IT addresses some concerns in the future but you did you did put that because I remember yeah we're having those conversations I appreciate that um I will say I want to say a couple of comments and I'll preface it by saying I'm going to support the emergency horse fencing allocation that's been requested today but I also want to just make a point of a couple of things one is that the Hazardous and E-Waste cleanups are they benefit all the wards and quite frankly I think they may benefit Ward four the most because when when people don't have the ability to throw their garbage away what they do unfortunately is they drive into the desert and they throw it into the desert and the easiest place for them to access that unfortunately happens to be in Ward 4 um tires I mean I think but I I can pay for that out of my own discretionary funds I have $40,000 to do as I please and I can pay for that myself yeah but I guess my point is when I was holding the cleanups at in Ward five I asked each of the people who were there where are you from where are you coming in from and they came from all over the city they they weren't just coming from my ward they come where they can where it's convenient so it benefits our entire city I think it's a very good program I think it's um hard to allocate it out of the council discretionary funds consistently over time and what we're trying to do is build a program that has some resilience I do believe long term we can go to waste management and ask for more bins but because the Hazardous component isn't Waste Management it's hard to make them do the thing but I think there's room for that right I think we can have those conversations um I want to speak about the rapid rehousing program first of all I think the allocation is too low but it is where we are today right the idea was to put something there so we could make a a step in the right direction the rapid rehousing program really is quite frankly it's a form of Ubi it's a form of universal basic income it's a commitment to help people with a certain set dollar amount for I think it's a two-year period where maybe they get $200 a month for two years to be used on their housing differential when they can't get off the weight list so it is V is essentially a version of universal basic income my thought is that for today's purposes because we have to allocate a certain dollar amount that Miss man beuran is going to hold us to that we will perhaps the easiest thing would be for us to say um that the rapid rehousing program will get $100,000 less than is identified on the chart here today with the hope being that in October we will come back and not only put the other 100,000 but I my expectation and hope is that we would fund it more robustly and maybe that's going to come out of the $500,000 of arpa money that's floating around I don't know entirely where it will come from when we come next to it but it's too low as it is at 200 I think we can delay fully funding it today but make a commitment uh I'm making a commitment in the sort of uh talking point not in the motion point to come back to that so um I when when the body is through with our rounds I am prepared to make a motion that would be consistent with what is identified here as the proposed allocations but moving a 100,000 out of the rapid rehousing and into the line item that would be emergency horse fencing I believe that's gets us the total dollar amount we need today but understanding my expectation is and my hope will be that when we get to we'll have the opportunity to fully fund and more robustly fund the rapid rehousing program second hold on I'm appreciate the enthusiasm all right I'm going down here go ahead councilwoman Taylor U thank you Madame mayor and I guess I just wanted to clarify that my comments weren't necessarily to my ward it was to the city um as a city representative the fencing would not not be my top priority it wasn't just for my War just so there's an understanding there um but based on what councilman ree said I mean I would I would say almost the Cold Case investigations might not be a a uh something that's a priority to do um that might be able to wait um I just have a hard time allocating $315,000 for emergency horse fencing especially if we were to take it away from Rapid rehousing program for people that are looking to be housed um again that's my priorities for the city sitting as an R commissioner that's what I see as an emergency in the city right now um additionally I think um you know the fence it just keeps getting more expensive and more expensive and more expensive every time it comes back there's something more we didn't budget enough or so when when is now we're asking for $315,000 and then maybe the the bids come in higher so we're going to ask for another $50,000 more it's not that this isn't an emergency or a priority it's just when when does the city when do we start getting help from other people or other entities to help this and and yes I guess endot is going to give us $115,000 at some point but as a city not just in W five downtown the horse fencing is in my view um I will just say housing is more important to me than horse fencing right now but um I defer to my colleagues thank you councilman Martinez thanks so much M mayor and I also just want to uh you know mention that in my comments before weren't specific to a single W either I think we had talked about during our last meeting how disgruntled some of our community members had been when they showed up to some of our community cleanups and realized that E-Waste and hazardous waste were not available to them at those cleanups and so just making sure that that's uniform throughout all of our offerings was something that I was getting to um and not necessarily for one word in particular um and the other thing is I do appreciate how staff especially Mr FBG has worked to get the numbers down a little bit and make sure that we have collaboration with other partners to get these done and again I'm still in favor of what's being proposed by staff as is with the proposed allocations so thank you counc breas yeah um so miss vanjor there was interest earnings of 1.5 million in this were those interest earnings that's unusual and then there was also um a sale of a fixed asset that was on page three and while you all are looking because my time gets very limited um I just wanted to say you know again um we have to be prudent on the the the not the fun things which is you know the principles of fiscal management and I'm very concerned that we added 31 positions here we haven't P paid OPB twice in a year we're not going to roll over to stabilization as we did in the years that we were we were being thoughtful on this secondly is you know the has e-w it's great um but as the one who was here when the waste management contract went into effect it was voted agreed upon a week before I was elected is there is a provision for greymar which is down on South Virginia Street to have people the public can go there on certain days so we have an e-w component I don't know how many people here know that not everyone has can drive down there but a number of folks rather than waiting in line at one of these you know cleanups I think we need to work on publicizing that the the cameras the the Chiefs spending $100,000 to do her Cold Case investigations when she's got the largest budget in the city I think those can all be done it's really a principle of things is are you going to be a council that takes the contingency very seriously as an emergency thing and not an end of the year play money and and that's that's what I want to stand on um very seriously to you all I see the word emergency on the horse fencing I do think it's an emergency it's an emergency really we own because we inherited dman Ranch but we started marching up those hillsides this Council and you know we spoke at every one of those hearings the horse issues was kind of blown off by our staff under the findings and By Us in those master plan amendments and you know we do own it and we've created a big problem so um I'm if I'm the one who's called on to do a motion by Miss shivi mayor I will make a motion that we put do with our contingency what you know the policy is by default and only spend $250,000 15,000 on emergency horse funding that's that's what I think is the most prudent under our principles but could I get the answer please um from both of you cuz I saw Revenue come in that I I'm not familiar with 1.5 million in interest earnings and then the sale of an asset for $874,000 sure what I'm not sure what page you're on because I'm on page three and I don't see anything on page three okay well if you bring up your resolution um could could you page up is your resolution able to be viewed no it's not part of the presentation it's part of the attachments yeah I mean it's your state document right right your state doc you tell me what page you're on on the state do I think I wrote down that page um page three and I I read off a iPad but sometimes they don't correspond page three you had a um page three you had sale of fixed asset under other accounting sources $878,000 what what was that that's not an augmentation to the current budget the current budget is the center column the okay and did you have interest earnings not on this one no okay okay well I apologize I I like to sit down with our finance director quarterly and go over these so I know what's coming on but our city manager has not allowed me to meet with the finance director to go over these details so sometimes I have to get reminded how to read these things it's very comp this is a complicated document I know some of you are here just for you know $255,000 but this is a document that is inform form going to the state on our overall budget and it's it's a very big complex document and I have asked but been denied the opportunity to sit and go over this in advance so sometimes I have to take up more time in our meetings than I would like to but thank you very much thank you so much um so here's here's just what I think I know we will have that money from arpa on the arpa side uh to fill some of this in so I don't want to get too crazy and then the next thing that happens in the media oh they're not funding rapid rehousing I want to also reiterate um because I couldn't follow that closely with the rapid rehousing I think in total we've spent I know an emergency assistance we have spent $7 million so $200,000 is nothing compared um and I also think that that uh program it is wonderful I call it um seriously Miracle funding um on a lot of levels but it also is very broken um that that initiative in the sense that we might pay for um large deposits which are really necessary because it's very hard for people to save up for large deposits um or just certain issues that we've seen but you know you can give someone a deposit but then that money never goes back to the city um and that is really problematic so I think you know there needs to be a lot of reworking with like rapid rehousing but I want to put it in perspective we've spent $7 million um you know in emergency assistance for housing so um but I also think all of it is important I don't think we need to play Hunger Games up here Vicki do you think we do I do not I just think looking at priorities today and what's most important today moving forward because we know we'll have an opportunity to make some changes when we come back um after this year ends on June 30 we'll come back in the first quarter and we'll have some opportunity to do some other things so I think think today's message is kind of what's more critical today to make sure we have those funds available today I think all of us care about every single initiative that's on there and it's giving us absolute anxiety because you know what the narrative will be oh see they don't care about this they don't care about that they don't care about this we very much very much care about this I don't think again um that we need to play Hunger Games or Survivor up here um and I trust you and you're super talented at what you do so I'm going to leave it in your hand because you are the expert can I make a quick suggestion here too because I think it might help everyone here is if some of these programs we know that this money is not going to be used right immediately today and so could I make the suggestion that potentially you look at doing 50,000 to the Hazardous e-w program that will get that started when you have that person that potentially could start on July 1 if they're recruiting them right now they would have funds to work with and then take 50,000 from City cameras that would be the that you would be looking for for the horse fencing at this point it would continue those programs it would get us funding to move forward with City cameras we know we're not going to be able to jump on and do everything all at once but it will give us that little bit of breathing room and we'll come back and revisit those um with some final numbers exactly okay thank you so much I really appreciate those suggestions I think they're very helpful so I'm gonna um send it to councilwoman dur or Council have another question okay no go ahead believe we on two rounds so I'm going to send it to councilwoman all right I'll just make a motion to uh follow a recommendation of our finance director and that is to uh move forward with the proposed allocations as shown uh subtracting five $50,000 from the waste cleanups and $50,000 from the city cameras at this time and to look at Future funding for those continuing programs yes Motion in a second and putting that 100 to the Emergen I'm sorry putting the additional 100 to the emergency horse fencing okay second so I have a motion in a second um Council breus I know you're going to chime in for discussion hold on one second um I just wanted to say councilwoman dur because we worked with Waste Management I would like to see you reach out to uh what is it Helio hero her hero I want you to reach out to them and also um it's important that the partners that we have um you know in these initiatives because they're really important I could see why people would be pissed when they show up to um a cleanup and they can't drop that stuff off so I'd love to have that conversation with them I'm going to leave that up to you to reach out but I want to say thank you to waste management for doing those free cleanups for us because those have been really helpful so I think that's another area that we probably need to focus on that we haven't quite thought of okay councilman breast yeah I'm not going to support because I believe that the contingency is for unexpected emergency issues and I think that's consistent with our fiscal policies of having it if it's unused going to the stabilization fund which is a really important fund for when the economy turns and it will turn because it's cyclical for that reason I will not support the motion I just want to add one last thing about the rapid rehousing program great program a lot of people in need but to my understanding that program and ones like it have always been used with Federal money Reena our city government and our Revenue sources just aren't set up to do these sort of things and I I hope my colleagues will go in and understand and look at the history of how Reno uses money for social services like that because it really has a history of Federal money and we just went through a period of having a lot of federal money and I just don't know that going forward there's a lot of backfill money that can come out of and be supported out of the general fund I I'm I'm concerned about our budget right now I'm very concerned we've got labor group labor agreements coming up we've added 31 positions I think it's time to buckle down on financial and lawsuits and what and lawsuits yep we paid $3.5 million out of our risk fund to Mr Lucas a while ago so I think and that's not play money I do think that we need to um really revisit some of those fiscal strategies um and and spent a lot of time thinking about budget as we move into this Federal this year and and really the role of the contingency is one that's not being adhered to in my mind so I won't support the motion all right thank you so much go ahead thank you um so I just wanted to comment that um to another Council member's point that the the bids keep going up by thousands and we know that I mean the police station went up by millions um so I think that um time is of the essence because if we stall on this and then we decide later that we need um the fence it is going to be thousands more um and I think ultimately if we stall on this we're just kicking the can down the road because this is a necessity if we don't do it now we'll do it later for more money so I think that we need to do it we need to do it now because it will never be cheaper um and with regard to the waste manage management contract I just wanted to call out that I have been trying to find out if we could get this on the agenda to discuss but the the contract that we have does have a clause in there that says that if if you want to cancel the contract with Waste Management you have to let them know five years in advance I'm not saying that we should cancel the contract but that 5year window is now um the contract ends in 2029 so if we want to have discussions about it we should start talking about it now and especially if we want to review anything like adding E-Waste or hazardous waste we need to start talking about that as a council now we have a two-year window to discuss it but after that closes okay good good so um just wanted to kind of let everybody know about that I wasn't aware that that was already going to happen but thank you AUST you'll see that all right okay and Madam mayor I just want to thank the council um for their embracing the Hazardous in E waste cleanups I mean we've got a tiger by the tail something our community loves and turn out for and I love seeing that and when you get to waste management don't forget we've Al also been experimenting with composting that needs to be discussed so okay all right thank you so I had a motion in a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed opposed um I I roll call vote Madame clerk all right Madame mayor council member breus no dur i Martinez I eert I Taylor I Rees I shivi I Madame mayor you do have a passing vote all right thank you so much um yeah motion carries thank you all right thanks so much I'm gonna ask everyone we've got to take a break at least um for 45 minutes so we lab oh we have Labor lab okay so we should probably come back at 3: so letting everyone know we'll resume at 3 o' thanks everyone e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e it's 309 and at this point it looks like um council member Dora is in the room but she's not present on the DIA so we will count her as absent at this time if you would like we're going to go ahead and move into our consent agenda items item B1 was pulled by you yeah thank you um I'm what I'm curious is uh but is Lance here Lance hi okay quick question for you because I see a couple of them on here um this is change of ownership and it does have one name on here Sunny Newman great guy know um full disclosure love Sunny Newman but what I'm curious because I see a few of them on here is about the process why doesn't it have the other cuz this is transferring from Mr Newman to someone else correct Lance forado director of business license for the record so it's uh it's one entity that's coming in and taking over for another entity generally speaking uh our licensure and process only requires one name on there the attachments on there do show all the people so if you look back to the CCB approval um that's attached to the staff report it does list everybody out there okay um it's also part of a publicly traded company so there are obviously many many owners that hold a small percentage that wouldn't be list well you're going to hate me cuz what I would love to see is now on cuz you have a few of them on here on change of ownership it only lists the one IND individual I'd like to see it list the who it's going to I think that would be helpful and then the other on all licenses you're saying um yeah I think anytime we transfer sure um and especially like the marijuana licenses because um we actually require more for the liquor licenses than we do with the marijuana licenses so that would be fantastic cuz I do think and and here's why let's just say um that is someone um or you know a business that has code violations things of that nature um and then that was something else I was going to ask because I don't think oh my gosh I think I I might have gotten rid of all every item that I pulled for B so Jackie you might have to back me up um that and 20 and 21 yeah was it 21 so I'm sorry and I didn't want to keep you up here all day this was like just a short request and ask just so that there was more transparency on the agenda and like you said you can go back and look at it but I think you know when we're reading like this massive binder it can be just sometimes so hard to sip through and find all the information but other than that thank you so much that that was the only reason I was just curious why we didn't why we don't provide that of course yeah no problem I don't think that that was your being I think that was a long time ago sure yeah it's been it's been that way since I've been here for a million years okay thanks Lance appreciate it all right may I get a motion on B1 so moved I have a motion second I have a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion carries unanimously okay do you want to go through the rest of consent or do you want to do um all right Madame mayor we're on item B7 pulled by council member Martinez thank you so much yeah Mr F I just want to confirm I saw that the agenda item stated W five and it is on Lake Street just making sure that it is that I know in the past we've had had some challenges just because things weren't itemized the way that they should be and just making sure we're clear there I don't have any objections to what is being asked I just want to make sure that W five is the the exact location for this license Lance R director of business licensing for the record yes I actually just checked that this morning um it's right on the border it's right on that street but yes it is technically on wari right now five okay perfect yeah then with that I'm ready to motion to approve second I have a motion in a second all those in favor say I I I all those opposed motion carries unanimously hold on Lance before you leave because I just thought why we have you here any questions for Mr ferado anything no nothing okay thanks so much you're good to go thanks have going thanks Lance all right mad mayor we're on item B12 pulled by council member Ebert okay go ahead Council Ebert okay so I don't know if you have a presentation or anything or okay great okay hold on sorry before we go down this road I want to actually get um I think Jackie you have taken an inventory of everyone here who's here for an item cuz I want to be respectful of their time if you're sitting in the gallery today so before we do this um C6 C2 so let's do C6 C2 what is that c24 uh4 and E1 and E1 okay so we'll take those first and then I'll come back to you thank you so much okay so we're moving into our public noticing items I'm is City staff here for items C2 through C4 is that what you said mayor I thought you said C6 no C2 through C4 okay do we have City staff here for C6 so Madame mayor can we just stay on item B12 for now and we'll just get staff back down here for RC items uh no don't what what do we have next we don't have staff here to do presentations for C2 through 4 yet um and then what do we have next C6 okay do you want to take C6 we don't have staff here for ourc items no C items or we take a break for a minute no it's fine we'll go to the uh item B12 thanks Madam clerk no worries keeping me on on track sorry just kidding nice to see you guys back she's like yes now we can get back to work all right take it away all right good afternoon Madame mayor council members I'm Justin George senior civil engineer for public works and I'm here today for the Reno Event Center outdoor video board replacement um this purchase um aligns with the following strategic plan for the city and what we're looking at here today is the Reno Event Center the outdoor video board display that faces the intersection of University and Fourth Avenue has failed you can see in this photo there are several um pixels a almost an entire top row of the video board that are no longer functioning so the board has failed staff has put out an a request for proposals to purchase and install a new board um we went through the process and yesco LLC was the winning proposer they submitted the lowest um responsive responsible bid for our project um here's the project schedule we're looking at last year the C project searge advisory committee prioritized replacement of the outdoor video board and approved up to $350,000 to replace it um we put out a request for proposal earlier this year and are here today asking for approval and upon approval we're going to streamline the procurement and installation and hopefully get that done by the end of summer all right thank you so much go ahead Council ber thank you I had some questions about this process so when I read through the packet it seems like there was only actually one application that met the requirements that we put out is that true correct yeah that's what we call that the one responsive and responsible proposal that was submitted there were two submitted but the other firm that submitted a proposal they had several exclusions that tried to work around some of the parameters of this project like making sure we've got the infrastructure there for the electric and fiber optics and the structure to support a board so they were excluded from that process because of all the exclusions that they they put in their proposal okay and it says you received uh three other proposals did they fall into that category two one of those um proposers was the same one so that was excluded for that reason the other one that the the proposer did not fill out the forms that we had requested correctly they use their own proposal forms rather than filling out our proposal forms so they were rejected for that because of the language we specifically state in the request for proposals so we had to put it back out for a brief time advertise it to the public again for a brief time to get new proposals that did meet our requirements of the request for proposal was there any communication with that applicant that didn't use the right format or wording or whatever they are was and they didn't with the proposals but the way the the request for proposal is written is it need to be submitted on our documentation at the time that proposals are opened okay so did we give them an opportunity to correct their erir we did and that's why we put it back out to proposals they did not okay proposal all right so then um my other question is um you know we had we had it out there we put it out um May 21st and whole process was closed by the 28th and we give them it looked like what is it three or four days to to ask questions and have them answered is that typical so I think the reason we ran into or we put it back out for a week um the reason being is we were anticipating the proposes that originally proposed to correct their their documentation get it on the correct forms and submit it back to us so the proposers that submitted the first time um two of them also submitted again the second time okay um did anybody from the first batch reach out after that the the May 28th and say hey sorry we missed a deadline or anything they had reached out after the time the proposal period closed okay um I will have more questions but I don't know if anybody else has anything right now all right any further say it back to you all right um so um I don't know if I'm really comfortable saying that this is the best and lowest price bid if if we have you know essentially one bid that we said met the qualifications and we basically gave them uh seven days to do this and I'm also wondering why you know Council voted on this or um I'm trying to find the date here it was voted on in June June 29th of 2023 I can't remember what body voted on it and we didn't put it out until May why is there a reason why there was such a a gap there so it was the the capital project search charge advisory committee yeah that voted on putting it out to bid and staff had to worked with rscva to identify the parameters of the video board to get something out to bid and work with um Finance on identifying the proper way do we put it out as a uh request for proposal or request for qualifications and that that took a little bit of time for staff to identify the best way to get the best response from the the local sign vendors in the area Okay so the first if you could just help me with the timeline the first time we put it out and the three people didn't do it right when what date was that let me look at my notes I believe the April 25th okay I got it so essentially people had from April 25th to May 28th so we had about a month that first time and the reason for the long duration between those is we had um pre-proposal meetings and we gave vendors the time to come out and inspect the board get up and actually physically look at the board um move the board out and look behind it and identify what it's going to take for them to remove and replace the screen because we're not asking for that whole wall to be replaced it's just the actual video screen that you see okay and at that time the let me look at my notes May 28th three proposals were submitted okay um first proposal they did not submit on our RFP documents which was a a requirement the second proposer they're the ones with all the exclusions that made us reject their bid and then the third proposer their bonding limit for a procurement and install of this size didn't meet the requirements the their proposed amount was above their bonding limits so they were not responsive for that reason got it okay so I guess I just have one more question if I can just have another just second here is this going it be replacement of the same size or are we going to go bigger or anything like that we're going for the same size the reason being is we've got a nice size board there and if we were to go larger we would have to do a lot of architectural and structural upgrades and it's to try to keep costs low so we're putting in the same exact size trying to put back a board that fits the size or the space available okay all right thank you okay any further questions see there are none all right uh make a motion to approve okay thank you I have a motion and second all those in favor say I mayor if I could just a little comment on the motion I'm not going to support it um this is the um Capital project sech charge that comes from um room tax in the downtown area it can be used for a variety of um purposes um we fulfilled all the obligations we had under the bowling agreement this is nice add-ons of this fund which I think had a million and now maybe it's down to 34 million and um I'm not going to support anything more until at this table we prioritize our priorities for how these funds can be used we just had a lot of drama about money for cameras I think it was cameras in the downtown area this money could be used for improvements in the downtown area like cameras so um I don't know why rscva staff gets to be the consult on uses for these funds but I'd like the city council to be the consult for the use of these funds and I'll continue to vote against these until we have a discussion at this table on our priorities for these funds for downtown thank you okay thank you so much councilwoman breus all those in favor say I all those opposed motion carries all right thank you see to oh [Applause] okay okay where's my thank you Madame mayor would you like to open the public hearing for items C2 through thank you so much I will now open the public hearing Madam clerk let the record reflect the council is opening the public hearing uh please can you confirm was proper notice given given and any correspondence received thank you madam mayor for items C2 C3 and C4 proper notice was given and we did receive um various correspondents on each item um they have been recorded into the record there were six comments five in opposition and one concern on item C2 there were five comments on item C3 five in opposition and there were five comments on item C4 um I'm sorry four comments on item C4 three in opposition and one of concern okay thank you so much do any council members uh need to make any disclosures um I'll just please do note that I had a chance excuse me to meet with that applicant uh prior to today okay thank you very much and the staff Madam clerk do you have any public comments we do not have any public comment registered on this these items okay thank you um City attorney I can't speak today City attorney Carl Hall you have to read the ordin ordinance my friend yes thank you madam mayor uh this is item C2 ordinance introduction bill number 7270 case number anx 23-2 valy View Estates ordinance Annex in two and making part of the City of Reno certain specifically described property being plus or minus 81. 81 Acres of property consisting of two Parcels located plus or minus 350 ft Southwest of the intersection of Claim Jumper way in tarian mine drive and directly east of the trucky Metals Water Authority reservoir tank the subject side is adjacent to the City of Reno jurisdictional boundary located within the sphere of influence and has a master plan land use designation of unincorporated transition together with other matters properly related there too in W two okay thank you that being are you ready how you doing I'm doing well how are you nice to see you the same thank you are we not reading all all opening all three of them all four of them okay everything is open Jeff okay everything's open just reading that one okay all right uh good afternoon Madame mayor members of the council Jeff Foster associate planner for the record uh bringing you today Valley View Estates you might recall this came to you on October 25th of last year that item was continued and so here we are bringing it to you again today I'm sorry for the record Madame mayor we're opening items C2 through C5 that was my error okay so the subject site is about an 81. 81 Acre Site um you can see it here in the Yellow Boxes this is in ward two uh nestled up against the Virginia Foothills as a frame of reference you can see here is dman Ranch High School and there is the dman ranch d uh just to the north of the site in that gray box is approximately 160 Acres that's the Canyons planned unit development um also wanted to point out that there are a couple of roads that are clearly stubbed out uh to the West there uh for the canyons and uh Valley View contemplating development in these areas the request before you today is an annexation a master plan Amendment and a zoning map amendment to plan unit development the reason the Pud request exists is to provide some flexibility while incorporating critical code elements such as Hillside development standards so that future development is carried out in a coherent and contextually appropriate way so for as far as the annexation goes uh the first thing that we look at is whether or not the subject site is contiguous and as you can see the the blue cross hatching represents the current city limits and therefore the subject site is contiguous next we look at uh the sphere of influence you can see that clearly the uh subject site is within the city's sphere of influence this is a voluntary annexation um having been the site having been within the city's sphere since at least 2002 um annexation uh by the city was clearly contemplated and perhaps essentially assumed um development is uh governed by the City of Reno even though it's in our since it's in our Sphere not within the city limits it is governed by the City of Reno um waso County would essentially tell the applicant that they would need to come to the city uh were the applicant to go to them for proposed development and so therefore they're kind of in the middle if the city does not Annex the property uh looking next the regional tier designation uh the subject site is tier 2 which is land that is suitable for development uh utilities and services are either available or are uh nearby and tier three which is east of the site is less suitable an annexation requires an accompanying master plan Amendment and Zone M zoning map amendments um if changes are intended uh and that is to facilit facilitate transparency also noting that there's a fiscal impact analysis that was conducted and recently updated um this FIA was prepared in accordance with City guidelines and requirements and was reviewed by the city's finance department uh which concurred with the calculation calculations um and it does show a positive impact to the city over a 20-year time frame looking looking next at the master plan land use uh you can see that the current site is uh UT unincorporated transition which is unincorporated land within the sphere of influence unincorporated land um generally does not have immediate access to Municipal services but will likely develop within 20 years you can also see that there are single family Parks Greenways in open space and nolu which is no land use uh which simply indicates that a master plan designation has not been assigned yet looking at the proposed master plan land use you can see that the development areas are proposed to be single family and then the remainder of the site would be Parks Greenways and open space on the right hand side you see the existing zoning which is large lot residential 2.5 and ut4 uh these are translations from the current County zoning and of course the request is to rezone the site to planned unit development uh note that the county uh zoning would translate to about six acres of allow sorry sorry six units allowed on the site um whereas the proposed PUD is for 43 units which is about one unit per dwelling uh two dwell sorry one dwelling unit per two acres and that's close to the llr 2.5 last but not least a master plan Amendment uh will require the regional uh governing board the regional tmpa to review for conformance tmpa has identifi has not identified any potential issues uh at this point in time so a plan unit development uh is intended to implement the master plan and I will be doing a deeper dive on uh alignment with the master plan on a later slide uh puds encourage flexibility they promote uh compatible uses such as the single family attached and detached uses that are proposed in the Pud handbook uh design uh is improved services and utilities are provided and open space is preserved uh staff has worked with the applicant to bring to you uh uh responsible Foothill development in terms of connectivity it connects to the adjacent Canyons PUD both in terms of the roadway Network as well as the trails Network um the Pud handbook allows for recreational opportunities the open space areas will be uh deed restricted with Public Access easement so they will be open to the public in perpetuity uh the Pud handbook has context sensitive architecture which is architecture reflecting topography it also has a mixture of housing types including adus and um there will be an affordable housing agreement with the city per the Pud handbook the last three issues are the Wildland Urban interface wildlife and the Virginia range um those will be discussed further on a subsequent uh subsequent slides so um from October 25th of last year I wanted to just uh bring to you the summary of the issues that were discussed and go over them in further detail Council discussed uh annexation timing the need for the proposed type of homes comparisons to the Canyons project earthquakes uh wooi the Wildland Urban interface traffic feral horses uh special status species steep slopes and how suitable development islands are accessed the trail and Road network connectivity drainage Crossing to connect to the Canyons for secondary access and uh master plan conformance um so diving into the ones that are highlighted in bold uh on this slide and subsequent slides so uh earthquakes um as is typical well we all know earthquakes are a fact of life in this area right um earthquakes will be addressed as they are customarily are in terms of geotechnical studies done at a tentative map uh stage down the road um and and that's the way things are uh typically done here the Wildland Urban interface is addressed in the Pud handbook um and per the fire marshal uh the proposed secondary access is good and the homes will need to be sprinkler due to being outside of the six- minute response time on traffic uh the applicant had a trip generation letter prepared recently uh that shows no significant impacts on the roadway Network and no mitigation measures are required uh most traffic will use mcau Ranch uh Road and Rio rangler Parkway uh the intersection there is planned for a roundabout by RTC which will help improve traffic flow in that area as far as feral horses go I wanted to point out that um the staff and the applicant worked with the American Wild Horse conservation group to specifically review the Pud handbook uh their specific requests have been Incorporated in the Pud handbook um which conforms with Title 18 for example the as you can see the green outline is the horse fencing um one of their requests was to tuck the green the horse fencing around the development areas and that was specifically done so again just to point out that the applicant has been responsive uh in dealing with the um Wild Horse issue and uh and in the P handbook special status species the Nevada Department of Wildlife uh and Nevada division of natural heritage were consulted uh andow noted only mule deer distribution in this area uh the Nevada division of natural heritage Research indicates no taxa no sorry no atrisk taxa are recorded in the area uh and that's a 2 kmet radius around the subject site steep slopes Road Network and trails uh here you can see the um uh the slope analysis and in the PED handbook uh this shows where development is appropriate obviously those green areas are where the development pods are proposed connecting roads will be properly designed with tentative maps and building permits and also this uh again I mentioned the trails connection to the Canyons as far as the secondary access and drainage crossing the proposed secondary access uh connection to Canyons was rerouted to address the drainage Crossing issue in the northeast corner so I provided this slide so you can see clearly uh the area out LED in blue that is a drainage way it's actually a major drainage way drains approximately 1400 Acres above the canyons and uh Valley View uh web or uh sub subject sites um the drainage way contains no identified Wetlands or riparian vegetation in fact water rarely flows through it recognize however that as a major drainage way any disturbance to the drainage way as a part of a future tentative map would require the review and approval by the city of a major site plan review also wanted to show you on the next slide uh this is a before and after the previous development plan on the left and the uh current development plan on the right so here is that same Blue Area the the major drainage way and this is another drainage way that also uh merges there in that northeast corner you can see on the previous land use plan uh that there was a development pod in Road uh in that area on the current development plan here are the same two areas and as you can see the development pod has been moved out of that area and the roadway Crossing um has been realigned uh to cross the drainageway uh perpendicular in a perpendicular fashion which would minimize the amount of potential impact to the drainage way okay almost there uh the master plan conformance uh at the these four policies are discussed discussed in the annexation staff report but there are a whole Litany of other policies that the project is in conformance with or are supported by the project and these are the the various policies from the master plan that the project uh lines up with so the annexation findings staff has reviewed and can make all of the findings for an annexation similar for the master plan Amendment and the zoning map Amendment here are the recommended motions again we have an annexation a master plan Amendment and a zoning map Amendment so here are the three recommended motions and I'm available for questions thanks Jeff appreciate it okay um yeah is there I'm curious is there anyone else making a presentation Mr ktic good afternoon Madam mayor thank you John krmpotic for the record I'm representing the owners they're with me this afternoon uh Chris tormi and Chico mcau they both own one of the 40 Acre Properties um I'm always sensitive to being redundant to staff so we're going to buzz through this sure Jeff did a very deep dive mine has focused on the efforts since we continued last October and I would start with the 2 and 1 half hour meeting we had with councilwoman dur in the field with our development team oh good and we learned a lot from that I think uh councilwoman D would agree um huge kudos to her because I remember standing on top of this big nose that's kind of the highest point of the property and she pointed to that northeast corner and says John what can you do about that I'd like to see those lots reconfigured that Development Area relocated whatever it takes to get that open for H uh horses and for uh less impact into the drainageway so that was the big focus of our effort by way of reference you see the Canyon's PUD there and Valley View to the south of it and I just want to remind um this project came back it was when when did we look at this we uh late October I think it was the 25th we continued it okay yeah it was in late October so working a lot with staff since then particularly on the Pud and a design and then you went back to the drawing board and then you're back I just want people to know cuz sometimes we might see you on a different project and think it's a different appreciate that thank you um there's the Pud to the north the Canyons Again by reference and then the Valley View PUD uh staff touched on this I think it's uh critical and significant to the annexation policy annexation findings is that we are in tier 2 we are in the sphere and uh you know Chris Tor tormi told me today that he bought his property 20 years ago when the tmsa was established when the tier 2 was established when the sphere of influence said this is going into the city Areno and so you wonder why uh 20 years later here we are well it's taken a certain level of maturity of the adjacent development to get it to this point to then uh propose um this level of planning uh similar to the maps identical to the maps that staff showed but uh one other thing I'd like to point out the little on the on the revised plan uh kind of the intense neon green is a lookout area uh that's for obviously Public Access then you see a lot more squiggly black lines in this case what we did to prepare for the tentative map if uh the council is supportive at this level we would then we basically have the the development pods and the roadway Network entirely worked out engineered which was not a PUD thing but in preparation for future subdivision so it's all there right in front of you a lot more black lines um key issues on that postponement hearing I'll go through them again some of them staff has touched on engineered roads specific to Hillside development we actually crafted with the engineering staff some standards for narrower roads because we want be sensitive to disturbance and Grading in this kind of environment at the end of the end of development at the city Areno Lots in the northeast corner as I touched redesigned and re um relocated crossing the drainage way it's squared to the drainage way now it's less disruptive and it's generally the way you want to do a crossing of a drainage way uh also coordinated with the Canyon's people so that's it's really sensitive to how we deal with that Crossing environmentally fer horse manag it has been vetted and approved by the advocacy groups uh and then addition to their uh the their review and approval has been um uh the fencing of which uh staff touched on updated fiscal studies I'll be glad to talk to you about uh I want to deal with this head on uh traffic was uh you know frankly nothing's trivial in this but there's 43 lots and they are accommodated easily in the roadway Network and in the traffic study as represented by the traffic engineer on the fiscal Barry Duplantis who's a respectable leader in the community he and I spoke yesterday because of his public record I learned of it uh from a staff about his letter it was very articulate I know Barry for many years and I've worked with him on this kind of work we work together in a uh Church environment and he um he brought up some really valid concerns without knowing the criteria that goes into the fiscal study Eugene larmore is a PhD fiscal consultant I'm sure all of you know her and she said um he brings up a good point but the reason she did what she did is because the criteria is established by the economic model the uh that was established by the consultant that the city hired and so set forth for example those um criteria for inflation on costs and on Revenue when I shared that with him following up this morning he was completely satisfied and said it made perfect sense that she was doing it per the guidelines of the City of Reno and their uh economic consultant woi Fire Marshall I understand has approved this plan um for we have secondary access again coordinated with the Canyons project and over to the West geotechnical study that is a tentative map issue there's been a fair amount discussed about the soil concerns quality and geot uh and earthquake uh potential here so uh that would be deferred to the tenative map and then Wildlife as staff touched on we have a response from n and Nevada natural heritage there are no specific concerns identified on this property comprehensive planning I think that's really important again because I'm calling this confidently the end of the end there's nowhere to go further to the east as um as it relates to this part of the city you can see we don't have stub out Road this is it there's a reason for that it's a closed loop that goes to the Canyons but the comprehensive planning that kind of looks at all of this remaining area is the roadway Network the water planning with the Tuma tank over on the North property there on the east side of the Canyons and then the trail connections thought out and made for public access and uh good connections between the properties and then there's our development plan a little more detail basically 23% of the site becomes development pods 77% is open space obviously that's a product of the uh Hillside development ordinance that we deal with and then um that density is one home per 1.9 Acres of gross density I think oh there's the horse fencing exhibit again uh we we close it in tight to the development footprint and so all of the open space on the exterior of that fence would be accessible for the feral hor horse environment when I say there's no going further east just to share in a three and a photo image of what it really looks like in the foreground there is the mcau property you can see it's flatter just behind it off the property is the mountain side um that defines a completely different topographic environment with that that's all I have uh council members thank you uh Madam mayor and Council for your time and it be here for any question appreciate it all right thank you so much I appreciate that I'm seeing all the um the uh additions and um I'm really really glad to see that really helpful John thank you all right any other presentations nothing okay I'm going to send it to you Council woman do our three minutes and I'm going to keep going around and then do you have um when do we do public comment I'm just not sure uh we already did public comment we didn't have any registered in the audience on this one okay great on C2 through C5 we did that first okay great okay um I wanted to thank um John and the Developers for meeting with me out on the site and for making some changes um in response to what we saw um so I have two different sets of comments one is specifically and we've lost the maps but um in the upper northeast corner last time we met John we talked about also having the horse fence hug that road because that's why you moved the development pod you were you were there uh you you were there at the orange U yeah so on the leftand one was before and the right is after and now on the left the before you can see development in the upper northeast corner and so that was removed so that it wouldn't be sitting in the middle of the drainage and also blocking up uh for horses or any other kind of wildlife because you're kind of crammed in with the canyon there but when you had the fencing plan um you moved some of the fencing but not in that section and I think we discussed that you would when you come back that or if it's revised that's what you would do um my big question I have a couple questions I want to start with the annexation if I want to Jeff well they haven't moved it yet right but what what's your plan yeah we'll be we'll be glad to I just got client approval today to do it as you suggested we'll we'll we'll revise that I thought they agreed yes yeah wait can you clue the rest of us in on what like deals are being made here up been made it's not a deal Jenny it is a recommendation that they move it he's saying that they have agreed that's a good idea I know you were out negotiating I just I'm not following okay can you point it out please you had the first po pointer for this uh Mouse yeah John there should be a mouse or Jeff is there a mouse up there it's on the desk if you want to point to it perfect Council woman and I agreed to this um the other day so you can see okay boy that's a real weird uh what do they call it roll space um you see the fence here what we're talking about consistent with the rest is to hug the exterior of the road here uh see there you can see it's sort of blending with that property line as it sits today and what we would do is basically hug the road uh and the point was to get both the development and the road and the fence out of the major drainage which would come up on your tentative map anyway yeah sure is another good thought yeah and then um the the question I had was you mentioned the traffic and that the traffic's minimal but a couple weeks ago or months ago I'm losing track we had some church right at the base of mcau Ranch Road and um the council decided to approve that and to work with um my understanding was work with RTC on two different roundabouts but I'm not aware that any progress has been made um but yet you said it was in the RTC plan Jeff and I got confused by that could you address that sure um Jeff Foster associate planner for the record I was also the Planner on the Life Church uh minor conditional use permit uh that went to uh Council on appeal um the RTC has two roundabouts programmed one at uh Steamboat sorry Steamboat and Rio Wrangler and the other at Rio Wrangler and uh what's the name of the other treat there anyway M Ranch yeah mcau Ranch thank you did is this a new agreement you say they haven't planned when they were here a few weeks ago they had nothing planned and and they got the director online and he said it was not in a five-year plan so so based on our conversations based on engineering staff's conversations with uh and Public Works conversations with RTC um they had indicated to the applicant and the applicant's traffic engineer on that project that there were roundabouts programmed at those two intersections there may not be planned in terms of a specific timeline um they had indicated somewhere maybe in the next 5 years uh but that they are planned in the larger scheme of things at those two intersections okay so at some point at some point but but not in any plan or approved plan not a specific time frame that we can pinpoint no all right um so I am concerned because I had already voted no on the church because of my concern that there was no plan to move forward and um I don't know how how to add additional traffic right on this very same road I understand it's di minimal uh Dom Minimus but what happens is you end up with cumulative impacts right it's just a little bit here it's just a little bit there it's just a little from dman high school it's just this development we haven't factored in the canyon development to my knowledge and and where does it end you know when when is it too much and when do we have concurrency you know when do we have the roads being built at the same time that the impacts are being experienced because to my knowledge impacts are already being experienced before the church school is even built before the Canyons is built and before this is built so that's a concern I have I wanted to just take a moment to go back to the oh go back to the um um annexation and in I just want to understand this and it doesn't have a page number but it has a number seven and this is about the um I'm on asking questions on this project I'm asking oh I okay all right um on number seven it says Street fund impacts over the 20-year analysis period the projects estimated to generate a revenue deficit for the city Areno Street Fund in the amount of $985,000 so that's a deficit do we care about that how does that factor in the fiscal analysis for the annexation so the way the Eugenia here no okay anyway the the the my understanding is the the way that the finance Department looks at it and uh remember that markstone in the city finance department did review uh the fiscal impact analysis and concurred with the calculations so I say that just as a background um that we did have this uh FIA reviewed um so the general fund uh impact is about 1.1 to the positive and the street fund is about 985 th000 as you mentioned to the negative so the net I got you is the is about 1.15 in the previous comment about general fund impacts it said 1.1 million and then it said 1.8 million and then it came up with the 697 net so I this was treated separately and I are they combined they're they're treated separately um in terms of how the analysis is done my understanding is that the city looks at it as a as a net overall between the two numbers okay well one is positive one's negative so I'm not sure how to interpret that so I'll stop there and I think there'll probably be some other questions um to the left of me councilwoman Ebert anything I think this is for staff um hi I have some questions for you so this is in the sphere of influence but if if this doesn't get annexed or the zone change doesn't happen What could happen with this land it would just sit because it's because it's not within the county so or sorry it's within the county but it's in in our sphere so essentially that's what I mentioned earlier is if it if nothing happens to Annex it into the city they're kind of in a hinterland of some sort where they can't do anything because the county would tell them to come to the city and the city's saying we can't do anything because you haven't been annexed okay all right um all right uh that's it for this round thank you okay thank you so much councilman Reese thank you madam mayor I suppose for my part I want to just res situate ourselves and Mr Foster I don't think I have questions but um what I observe is that in October of last year this project came before us and there were lots of questions we spent a considerable amount of time at that time saying what those concerns were and we asked the developer and their team to go back to the drawing board because sometimes when the projects come to us we feel as though they are not fully baked and so for my part then what has happened over the last eight months is the developer their team of experts and our city staff and various other agencies and outside advocacy groups have worked to make a better project and from all accounts what I can see is a better project right things are moved to various areas where they're less environmentally difficult they have been um we've taken into account certain impacts on fire safety Road configurations and the like and ultimately that's what we want at this di is we we know that we have some legal obligations around annexation we know that we have private property rights that are attendant to people who own property uh and obviously because this has been in the sphere of influence um for 20 years it was anticipated that it would somebody be developed uh I think as my colleague to the left is fond of saying all the easy land has been developed now we're talking about more challenging land this is a challenging area no doubt about it but I think that the developer and the the folks who have worked on this have done everything they can to answer the questions we raised and have built a better project and so for my part um I think all the concerns that I raised back in October have now been addressed um I think that um again we're if I had a magic wand and we never were cutting into the hillsides of any of the communities where we are maybe I wouldn't be in favor of it but because we have some other obligations under our various legal obligations and roles I am um happy to have seen a project which is turned into a better project through the process of having come here and so for my part I will be supportive of the staff's recommendations and believe that all the things that have happened to get us this point have made for that better project so I thank everybody who's been involved in it and and I'll be interested to hear the council colleagues all right councilman Taylor councilman Martinez nothing for me Madam mayor breus go ahead yeah thank you Madame mayor and I'm I'm just going to talk on the annexation then I'll be given an opportunity if we vote on the annexation to have my questions answered on the other two items correct yeah thank you so I'll just be narrow on the annexation Mr Foster um is this in our program of annexation this more specific seven-year plan that says where we're going to Annex um Jeff Foster associate planner for the record unfortunately I don't know that exact information I I don't know I'm sorry okay well because you say it's 20 years it's been in for 20 years correct okay but does that mean by virtue of that does it mean it's time for it to come into the Suburban footprint in and of itself is the calculation of years enough to say no no simply just acknowledging that it was at least contemplated since 200 years ago yeah but you know there's a lot of dominoes to line up to go you know to expand your footprint and you know some of those the services and so on C certainly a lot of the homes right below were not developed 20 years ago sure and another question and maybe you need to go back and check on that is I I really don't see a world where you know nothing can happen with this property and it's in this catch 21 because you know they do have property rights for the six units they should be able to get a building permit for the six units um so I just I'm I'm pretty unsure of you know like you don't know about our seven-year annexation program I think that there's a world where the city or the county would issue a building permit for what their current property rights are for six units um in the past and you might want to go check this the city had an agreement that we would process things in the sphere or within the seven-year annexation program um but that's not the case right now so I just I don't want that because I think that's not correct to be a basis for annexation the Pud would not be able to be moved forward without the annexation correct well of course the Pud but there are development property rights for six units right here and I would submit to the Council on the findings that I see of you know the logical extension of the municipal boundaries that six units is the right way to go because I heard a whole lot of people people worried about horses and while miss derer was up negotiating fence lines I'm really worried about water for the horses there was a gentleman who talked about the water and an area that has 20 years to plan for growth should have done a complete survey of this sphere and wherever and look to this important component you know fencing out is maybe the emergency we have right now down where people are in deani but it is certainly not a solution to you know planning and that's what we're trying to do is planning so I I have problems with that and then I I really want to take Miss Stewart got onto it a little bit about the road impact um okay I just I I will on my second round of the annexation considerations okay thanks so much I appreciate it okay um one of the things that um was a concern one slide I actually would love for you to bring up is the slide of the thing that you have accomplished I noticed um on there there was sign off from um our horse advocacy groups is that correct our participation was in placement of gates and fencing can you can you come out Tracy I'm sorry sorry Tracy Wilson for the record um our participation W particip I can't even talk today was as far as on this on looking at this project where is the best place for Gates for fencing for the type of gates to go in so that was where we put our input in um obviously when we do a development like this we always want to plan for the unforeseen which includes if a horse is to get inside there how do we get it out um the best kind of pedestrian Gat so they don't get left open by somebody who doesn't bother to close it and we don't have horses coming in so those are the things that we worked with them on okay thank you and what about the water uh this particular project does not have water impact other than tucking the fence in to allow the horses to pass we worked really hard with the Canyon's Edge project to get them to agree to grade a a path above their fencing so that the horses could get past our big concern with this one was if they fence the property the horses were now going to get down that path and not be able to get around and that's why we asked for that fence to get tucked in next to the homes and not on the property line okay thank you so much I appreciate that and again just for the record that was agreed to yeah to to bring that in correct I just want to make sure on the record yeah I I want to be very clear because I I don't like the way it was represented we do not approve the project right like we worked with them on the horse mitigations that's what we that's what you do yeah yeah thank you no I I I know what you meant thanks um and then the next question that uh because it was brought up and it was um obviously a big stick sticking point for me and that was um Public Safety emergency access uh do we have someone from Fire here talk a little bit about that have you signed off on it why give me John Beck um fire marshal for the record renal fire department um yes ma'am we've taken a a hard look at the secondary access and was added correct is that based on the presentation that was added to this new okay correct correct okay and and that was that was contiguous of the of the project that is actually going to be completed to the north so the connection through that um provided ample separation distance for that secondary access okay do the secondary access correct okay all right and um Jeff did you want to add anything no just figure to show that okay show it please uh yeah so the connection up through the canyon and then the additional secondary access there okay all right so because of that secondary access you feel comfortable that there is enough um yes ma'am so the intent of the code access to get in and out correct the intent of the code is to ensure that there's not one single event that could cut off um access either evacuating or allowing our fire suppression to apparatus to access that area and that's far enough apart where where their that intent is preserved okay thank you so much appreciate it okay Council manber yeah I think some of my questions actually got answered it was about the um horses but also what what other kind of wildlife was up there did you say it was mu deer yeah Jeff Foster associate planner for the record uh endow the Nevada Nevada Department of Wildlife I identified mule deer habitat uh within the area so yeah okay and what kind of impact is that on them as a horse fencing it's simply to acknowledge that it exists at the tentative map phase the Pud handbook requires that um endow be consulted with and critical uh habitat identified and worked on require you know requirements working with endow okay so this won't interfere with where they need to go to get to anything if we have the fening up or anything um and then also um so it sounds like they could do six units but they'd rather do the 43 obviously and then roads you said RTC is working on the improvements but you don't specifically know the timelines further down for the intersection of mcau and Rio Wrangler correct yeah okay okay and simply that intersection is brought up because most of the traffic the 43 units you however many trips would be generated by that would use that intersection so it was acknowledged in the trip generation letter that RTC plans a roundabout at that intersection in order to improve traffic flow in the area okay and did this project trigger any kind of traffic study or was it just small the trip generation the trip generation letter is is the amount is is what what's required yeah yeah okay and how many was that again just the trip generation letter um let's see here I've got it right here uh so I apologize it's not on this screen it it's it's 43 units John you know that what is it 40 peak hour trips 40 peak hour trips okay so that's not a lot of vehicles to use councilwoman doors uh were Dom Minimus yeah okay thank you Council Mur yeah um I just want to I'm still on the annexation and I just want to make sure the criteria are met um in order for this to pencil so to come in positive my understanding is they had to set a base rate of at least a million and a half per home or higher is that correct because that's what they've informed me um I won't be able to answer that question I think the applicant can speak to that okay well I just wonder I mean the we base the annexation on this whole fiscal analysis so is there someone at the city like in the finance area that does it yeah so markstone reviewed fiscal impact analysis I'm not sure if yeah no no okay all right and eugia the the consultant was going to be here but uh she's unfortunately at a deposition so okay yeah well my question is just there's a the very excuse me at the beginning we talk about the need for expansion to accommodate plan regional growth we're we're talking about 43 homes that are I guess $1.5 to $2 million a piece and my question is just do we get into no one told me we needed houses of this um level you know this expense to to I know we need houses at all levels but I would say mo this would be out of the reach of most people in the Reno area that I know of but um so in doing these analysis we base it on we set a house price and one of the things that people have consistently including right in the same area I've asked me about is they said Naomi what we're concerned about is they'll do something like this Annex they'll do a master plan but then they come in to change a master plan so the annexation done on the basis of let's say a home price of John told me earlier $ 1.75 to $2 million but then maybe they decide they want to do condos that cost half of that or some other housing product how I I don't understand if we if we come in with one thing but then we change it to be a different mix of housing does that get reevaluated in the fiscal analysis for the annexation no because the annexation would already be done the the the Pud handbook contemplated uh a mixture of housing types uh single family attached single family detached uh even adus so the the allowed housing moving forward if this is annexed and the master plan Amendment goes through and the zone change goes through to PUD then the subsequent development based on uh the Pud handbook would only allow a development in conformance with the handbook I.E the types of homes the sizes of the Lots uh the quality but people come here all the time and ask for amendments I mean they get Amendment to the PD and the master in in in theory the Pud hook could be requested to be amended you're correct yeah okay well I just want to know where we stand because we're making a decision to Annex something the future is unknown all those proposals will come in later you said Thea map will come in later and so on which lays down the specifics and I really appreciate I'm going to reiterate the work that was done to Pro provide more definition and why was this done because it's a PUD right P why was why was what done I'm sorry more detail I mean you're asking us we're being asked to approve an annexation of master plan and PUD puds generally lay out the details of a project right in in a broad brush correct yes they just they don't Define exactly okay you know where the homes are going to go and things like that sure yep okay all right well um um okay I'm going to let it go there okay thanks all right councilman Reese nothing any questions Council uh woman Taylor I guess you're not there councilman Martinez councilman Reus yeah and I'm still on the annexation I'll have other questions when we talk about you know if the annexation vote goes the other ones um you know the need one of the criteria is the need for expansion to accommodate plan regional growth and then you have two paragraphs and it just seems to this logic that I was talking about is well it's in the sphere and you know so that's why but then you also said well it's 43 units that would be the comparative of the llr 2.5 well the llr 2.5 back when we did our analysis and this is from the technical analysis to the ma master plan showed that we had a 3600 dwelling unit Surplus in that area these are the real big expensive ones the I looked on um homes.com and I couldn't see a home under $900,000 in adjacent Palisades and these are even larger lot there so I guess what I'm saying to you is I think your logic and your your reasoning to help us make the decision is not um up to the caliber it needs to be because you know we were going to divvy down what this product was and how this is needed to plan regional growth no one walks around and tells me Jenny we need more million doll homes on 2 and half acre lots I hear Jenny we need you know uh 800 square foot Apartments you know you know very affordable we need the low low so you know when you say it's for expansion for plan growth every the evidence I have is we have a surplus of this so then you have to weigh it out and this is where I go to the next one of the you know the the infrastructure structure and services and you're telling me you know on the regional Network we're going to get a road in uh some improvements in for something Downstream that's not working so you know to me your argument falls apart there but the big concerning one to me is to see your um The Proposal of how much linear foot of Roads you have how many do you have a a number of how much road that is to those 43 houses you know cuz it does curve around quite a bit in terms of mileage yeah um let me ask the consultant um yeah John you know I don't have number okay okay yeah it's big and you know on the one hand You' got sensitive area so we're only doing 43 units on the other end that's 43 units spread out on a lot of Road Network that we have to maintain because it'll be public right correct it's proposed to be dedicated to the yes okay so it's public dedicated road that doesn't serve a lot of people that have to compete with deteriorating roads in other parts of the city where you got a lot of people more people on those roads and it's got some snowplow considerations because we're high up right we're pretty high up we're above 5500 maybe perhaps we're not plowing 5500 in a timely consideration now I mean I'm I'm being you know lit up for a week two weeks after a snow event in lower elevations and I don't know if my colleagues are either having snowplow concerns do you hear snowplow concerns colleagues so here we have it looks to me like maybe it's 2 three miles of Road Network coming in and to serve 43 homes and we've got to deal with rebuilding those when they fail and the cuts of the rideway and we've got to plow it I don't see how it makes the condition cut for this I just don't okay moving along thanks so much all right uh sending it back down to you councilwoman Ebert uh Mr compa you're sort of raising your hand is there something that you want to just just wanted to respond uh uh councilwoman breus was talking about how much roadway three miles there's actually 1.2 total from the fiscal study that's directly from the engineering so it's much less than three it's I think it's of significance thank you okay thank you so much go ahead Council Ebert I was just going to ask about that is there a way to keep it so that it's maintained by the HOA or anything like that so it wouldn't be a burden oh absolutely absolutely and not only that it may only be 1.2 but when you get into those cuts guess who's dealing with those slopes on a rebuild we're not just milling and Paving we're dealing with slope stabilization councilman breus okay um any more questions Council woman Ebert no I think that was it just if we can do that so that we don't have to take that on do yeah are you done with your rounds oh oh I'm I'm going through no I have come back okay yeah councilman no councilman Taylor councilman Martinez councilman Reus and then then I'm going to send it back to you okay all right um so here's my struggle I think the developer did a good job in trying to address the questions and spent several months although I personally didn't know they were done and this is something I think we we need to fix with our process is when they're done I think we need a heads up that they're coming back in you know not just a week or two ahead or three weeks but some notice uh just like the public that's you know um where my challenge is is with the annexation um I don't think I can make all the findings and so I don't think I'm the right person to make a motion um and I I think I'll just for the record say maybe at this moment what findings I can't make that doesn't mean it doesn't get annexed I mean someone else here or the body at large may think that it should be annexed and I I'm trying to keep the annexation separate from the project so where I'm struggling is we have to make a finding on accommodating plan regional growth and I can't uh that's three five is about Community goals that would be met by the proposed annexation and there's an a that talks about coordinated expansion of City infrastructure and efficient presision of services and a c that has to do with existing or funded adequate facilities to support growth I I just don't see it there now and this is the same reasons that I haven't supported a few other annexations it uh some the council supported and some they haven't um and then there's just a few others my challenge is with about creating a fiscal burden and mitigating fiscal burdens um on mitigation um I see actually a fiscal burden that's identified right in the report of almost a million dollars and it's separate from the general fund impacts and I think one of the challenges is with the street fund impacts they aren't escalated for inflation like the general fund ones are and I think that's probably an error in our analysis but that's the way it's done now and then finally um there's a concurrency management system policy 21b under J and that's um providing a timely ordinary and efficient arrangement of adequate public facilities and infrastructure that support existing and planned land use po patterns I I know they've been in the wings for 20 years um it's taken all that time to develop other parts of this area um I don't know that we're ready to handle this so that's where I'm at but I'm not trying to um put a kabash on it for others I just personally can't make the findings all right thank you councilwoman I appreciate your your comments okay um at large council member re Madame mayor uh I can make all the findings under NRS 28.67 and therefore move to refer all right I have a motion to refer I have a second uh any discussion councilwoman breus yeah I mean I just you know at what point is this Council going to stop chain daisy chaining you know someone's 80 acres up to the story county line I mean the argument is that well this is it this is where I go does not buy any um uh traction because it's just been Daisy chained up and the problem is it's not planning you know the the path forward is to deal with this area of the valley cooperatively with the county and all the infrastructure providers so you're not in you know crisis mode when you've got people at risk of dying you know with you know hitting horses or you're blowing the fiscal you know analysis with $43 million plus homes that are going to require 1.2 miles of snow plowing at high elevation I mean it's it really is um it is um um a and you know it doesn't meet the uh the housing needs you can't have it both ways you can't be saying we're addressing the housing problems and uh you know only so many homes are going to get built and the more Million Dollar Plus ones at the far reaches of the valley happen the less you um get you know want to have the resources to rebuild the core and build the other type of housing we need so I I'm disappointed I'm disappointing that staff's analysis is so um uh you know elliptical I guess I would say or um so so LAX in really probing big decisions like expanding the footprint of the municipality so uh I think six units is really what this region us and the county can afford up there in terms of service delivery and responses and most prudent so I won't support the annexation thank you okay thank you so much Madam mayor I left one thing out when I gave my list and that was um my concern about fire you know a couple weeks ago there was a proposal to um change a verd uh development um Santa and to move the fire station to remove it as a condition and to buy a fire ambulance and move it to South Reno which you know I should be cheering I mean I'm the you know council member for South Reno but what I was really concerned about was well how do they provide services in the verd area or the Santa area what I'm concerned about is they're already our our fire is already telling us they have a deficit of of fire ambulances I guess is what they were going to buy and and that's remains and so I just wanted to make sure I amended my findings and just put that on the record that I'm concerned they've already told I okay and I specifically brought up our that was about Escape rout Department yeah that was about um alternate routes two routes in two routes out but you weren't here when we I don't believe when they were talking about doing away with the um fire building out at Canta and putting it as an ambulance down in South Reno and so that told me that they already felt there was a a need and do you understand what I'm saying they we didn't address fire ambulances I I want to make sure that you're talking about a different project I'm talking about this project uh our staff told us they wanted to get a fire ambulance for South Reno to respond to current needs okay okay you just you weren't happen to be here but we had a long conversation about it at Council and so it's just another concern I have that I said I don't know if that's relevant well it is because it's you say you want one but that wasn't proposed here today I don't want one they told us they need one okay so I'm just concerned still I hear them I think they do need it and I think this isn't exacerbates a need that's all it's just an amendment I'm I'm not trying to add whole new ideas but it's just in here about growth okay no I understand I it it's just frustrating I also think whenever um first of all I want to I appreciate um Mr catic and all the work that you put into this I think that's important it speaks volumes do you not feel like this project is much better since you went back to the drawing board those are the kinds of things that I think we want to see beforehand instead of like after the so just just to sort of send a little bit of a message to what those things can be done I think that you used a really good model and um our a model project for that so um I think very nicely done the other thing is I I think we got to quit attacking council members when we don't agree with each other it's okay to disagree but I mean some of this stuff gets a little bit um old and I keep looking back at it and saying no word only voting word only voting so there you go um whenever you feel like you know maybe everyone's not rowing in the same direction um I I again it's funny because we saw that earlier and I think it's more Stark now than ever so um I do have a I'm not going to uh continue to break this but um I have a motion in a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed noos post motion carries all right thank you so much okay we're going to move on we have something much more light-hearted and exciting well I think we have two other the okay Madam mayor on item Charlie 3 I move to uphold the recommendations of the Planning Commission subject to compliance with condition one which includes changes of the PD handbook including uh the tucking in of the roadway adjacent to the or the fence to the roadway okay uh and I think for my part I'll I'll add to that the master plan Amendment moving to adopt the resolution once uh and then for the zoning map amendment I need to wait till it's read yeah okay I do have some questions I thought we were going to be given a chance to talk about the master plan Amendment separately so I do have questions on the master plan Amendment the master plan amend I'll second just for okay I have a motion in a second your discussion go ahead well you're going out of process because our rules um no I don't think so I think we can go under one look at the rules um I will have why don't City attorney you guys want to weigh in because I think we have the ability to vote on if we're going to expand that it was under my impression we were taking these all at once we did open them all at once but we're taking the votes individually corre so that's that's what we're doing so there's Motion in second bring back to the I thought once the motion was on the table we're not to ask questions so if we've already got the motion on the table then I vented from asking the questions that I want to ask did she want to all right we're in discussion so um go ahead councilwoman breus disc in order it I think it says um after all members desire to speak on a a motion have I had an opportunity to um I'm I'm sorry so I am allowed to ask questions under our rules of staff on a motion do the rules specify that I thought discussion was you could ask questions you could go ahead and ask a question I'm just moving on I thought I got okay so um Mr Foster what what particularly is the uh master plan um item I'm sorry I I'm can you explain outline what what it is you you said several times in your annexation presentation you were going to discuss it again so I'd like to see what what your presentation on the master plan Amendment had that was this whole section right here the master plan conformance how is it described as I'm I'm sorry I don't understand the question the acreage of what what what how many acres are being changed from what to what so 8181 Acres okay of of all right we'll goated transition yeah okay all right I'm sorry I just this is you know this is how it's always been done unincorporated transition unincorporated transition okay and then that's going to it's about 17 Acres of single family and about 63 Acres of sorry 18 Acres of single family in 63 Acres of parks Greenways in open space Okay so existing it has llr 2.5 that's the zoning that's on the right hand side okay okay so we're going from completely UT to some single family correct uhuh and is the um single family when it went to the Planning Commission is it the same acreage of single family uh no it it's slightly increased it's increased and the reason is is because the overall acreage went from 80 to 81.8 one based on the surveys oh so the Planning Commission saw a lesser project of Acres approximately 1.81 Acres difference yes okay so that's so okay y okay so you've got it refined in here yeah so we just updated the the okay that was my one of my you know questions now the pgos correct public what is it called park parks Greenways and open space you made a comment about how that land would be used how what what is the use on that land it's effectively left as open space what what does that mean who owns it it's owned by the HOA it's owned it's the it's the overall property and who is entitled to access that uh it's open to the public okay so the public will always be entitled to walk and can they drive up there too um there are some there are some Jeep roads up there there yes um may not be encouraged but yeah there are Jeep roads up there m there Jeep roads up there okay I'm just okay so here's a here's a issue I have with taking this to open space is it just doesn't seem like it's open space I mean you know if it's Jeep roads the public can use it um I just you know does it tie into other open space that the public has access to does it back up to M or anything there trail head there's wo County Land to the South there's Trails uh my understanding there's a comprehensive Trail Network that's in the process of being developed the Canyons is tying into you can see the dashed green lines and those are also uh coming down coming down into the uh Valley View project as well okay so it's an integrated Trails Network yes and who's going to maintain the trails to to further point out on that um you can see the yellow line with the uh that's going to the left here yeah um that's actually going out of the uh Development Area uh to kind of a Scenic Overlook area uh so it's a it's a trail that's kind of going out U you know to the adjacent property there who's who owns that property umor remember the the name but huh yeah Brad okay thank you Jeff I appreciate it we're a minute and half over so we are still in discussion question yeah councilwoman dur yeah I just have one comment um about the trail Network so we want to recall that we did an arpa project and we asked the um the uh Parks Foundation to do open space plan a trail plan through this area as well as the others and so when we say there's open space I think the anticipation because I asked about the trails when I met with John it didn't sound like they were all laid out but it sounded like coordination was going to be happening is that right John yeah on the along with the parks foundation on their Trail Network that they're proposing I don't know about the parks Foundation uh you don't know about the project undergoing on the Virginia range I didn't know that reference to the Virginia range yes my understanding was when you come in with the tened map you're going to propose the trail Network that would be consistent with the parks Foundation overall Trail network is that correct I believe it is I don't want to overstate this but we're coordinating with adjacent Property Owners with Stouts with advocacy groups on trail planning yes okay okay thank you all right I have a motion and a second all those in favor Madam mayor I'm not going to support because the single family land use up there I think it sh it's at the very far extent of what's buildable and we need to keep at a rural transition master plan so I think the existing master plan land use there is the most appropriate and I just want to comment on um the single family uh nature of it um because I did know my annexation is putting single family up there is also putting our firefighters at risk up there in very extreme Wildland um situation for 43 homes where those fires will be coming through and I think sometimes we we lose that you know we know we have evacuations we know the same Hills burn over and over and I think this is one of them and so single family is just not appropriate at that elevation with that Canyon Network that remote to the valley so for that reason I can't all right thank you I appreciate that I would just like to ask um our Fire Marshall please come up and address that do you feel that that's did those are appropriate comments for the record uh John Beck sorry about that I'm short also um John Beck Fire Marshal Reno Fire Department we don't really get too much into the to the Weeds on as far as how many or who uh we just go and do our job as as as we're lined out to go into protection and life safety and you would approve this project based on safety access in and out um as far as as far as this project is concerned with the fire code it meets all the the the code requirements as far as access and and and Code Compliance yes and and the Wildland Urban interface i' I've actually looked through this PUD and examin it myself um I I examined this about a month ago okay and and it adheres to everything that's that's code compliant absolutely because hearing from you is really important to me because you're the expert I appreciate that I appreciate that ma'am okay thank you so much all right all those in favor say I I Mr Hall oh sorry we got to go to the City attorney uh Mr Hall go ahead read the um read the or where we c521 states can you make sure your mic is on and that you're speaking into it cuz I don't think we can hear you it's not getting recorded okay I guess that's a little better sorry about that I'll start over again bill number 7271 case number LDC 23-21 valo States ordinance to amend Title 18 chapter 18.02 of the Reno Municipal Code entitled zoning rezoning a plus or minus 81. 81 Acre Site consisting of two Parcels located plus or minus 350 ft southeast of the intersection of Claim Jumper way andar M drive directly east of the trucky meows Water Authority reservoir tank from plus or minus 71.9 Acres of Incorporated transition 40 acres UT 40 and plus or minus 10.62 Acres of large lot residential 2.5 acres llr 2.5 to 81.81% for the developers going forward um when we talked about fire it's just something to be aware of it's not addressed by our rules which is why I did not bring it up earlier but one of the comments that's been brought up that you need to be aware of is that uh apparently insurance companies are retracting fire coverage in areas that are susceptible to fire or charging extraordinary premiums and so when you're doing your planning you have to think about that can will they be able to get insurance so up near verd they're withdrawing insurance coverages the Santa area uh that's proposed it was one of the reasons I didn't support that project was fire concerns but I just think it needs to be put on the record this is happening our community right now much like because of hurricane impacts they've uh raised the incre uh raise the price for insurance for those kind of um things in Florida and this is being driven by the pg& fires California Oregon all the areas so it's coming here so we just need to be aware of it as you move forward okay thank you and Mr Shipman or Mr Hall C6 Charlie 6 do we have an ordinance to introduce there as well sorry council member ree can I just confirm who were Nays on that last vote councilman breus just breus yeah thank you I do have questions on the Pud before we um go to a motion it's a rather involve what is it 73 page document custom zoning ordinance all right any questions other than councilwoman breus ma Madam clerk for my purposes which item are we now opening I thought we opened all of them at once we did I just needed to record them because you went through them very quickly so now we're moving on to item C6 okay Charlie 6 which is an ordinance introduction first I'm just trying to help out where I can appreciate it all right item C6 ordinance introduction ordinance or Bill number 7272 case number LD C 24- 000044 Riverside Drive SPD a request has been made for a zoning map Amendment from multif family 30 units per acre mf32 specific plan District SPD the plus or minus 1.39 Acre Site is located west of the Terminus of Riverside Drive North of the trucky River the site has master plan land use designation of suburban mixed use SMU W one wait a second what we did we do the Pud yes yes we did keep trying to go out you keep trying to go out of order how many votes did we take two or three no we took two we took two but we should be taking three I was looking for a C4 I mean okay we're gonna move on go ahead Madame mayor yeah you know do we take a vote on C4 okay we're GNA just move ahead because you're trying to go in a totally different direction and and it's just getting to the point where we need to move on well we've done a master plan in an annexation we haven't done a zoning Council and breus thank you please C4 is actually a reservoir tank um go ahead do we have any public comment on this item Madam clerk sorry Madame mayor did you open the public hearing oh did I miss that we did earlier okay yeah so for the record proper notice was given on this item we do have one public commenter Ronda Tyson and for the record as Rhonda makes her way up we did receive seven comments six in opposition and one of concern those have been distributed to Reno city council additionally if you're in public or if you're in the zoom meeting would like to make public comment on item C6 please raise your hand at this time okay great thank you so much I appreciate it hi I'm Rhonda Tyson um you own this parcel you wrote a condition of the sale of this parcel that you changed the zoning so I'm not so fool hearty to think that you won't Grant your own motion so that you can complete your sale so I only have two requests of you well maybe three the same things I asked of the Planning Commission don't make this decision until you have complete and accurate information we can start with the traffic study it was done on a random day in November it did not even include the time of day when Reno high school students flood the intersection at Booth Street and Riverside it concluded that Riverside Drive could handle another 802 traffic events from that property that was a study that only the Postmaster General could love because he doesn't recognize there's a difference between January and June there is a difference between November and April November in July do that traffic study on a food truck Friday and then you'll have complete information but the accurate information is that the planning map that's been presented to you relies on a throughway through 1200 Riverside Drive the applicant has been advised he doesn't get to do that we have not given him permission that is owned by TW by 100 owners and they do not see any benefit for using our property so that you can overburden that lot so due diligence requires you to even find out if this project can be built as designed I have another little niggling thing and that has to do with you want to relieve him of meeting the landscape requirements that you impose on everybody else because of the possibility that someday there might be a flood wall built down on the river well a flood wall is not going to be built up on the buildable property all of these three things have in common this you want to use our property as a throughway you want not to pay attention to the actual traffic patterns in that area and you want to minimize the Landscaping all that you can build all four four corners of the lot in concrete and cement I just want you to consider the long-term effects the short-term effects on Idle Wild on Riverside Drive and understand what actually can be built on this lot and if I might just make one gratuitous comment it is so nice to see someone sitting in the city manager seat who actually looks engaged and interested in what people in this room are saying thank you additionally we have Sally Tate via Zoom well as far as this goes number one the pentary procedure in this uh meeting today has just been kind of very confusing to me I used to run meetings and I feel like uh maybe everybody needs to take a look at the book to see every single pentary procedure that goes on and how you conduct a meeting but aside from that um this particular Riverside development I walk this street all the time and I agree with this lady who just spoke um it it is just overextending the whole river that I mean our trucky river is going to be inundated with these apartments and condos that are all again not geared for affordable housing and um let's protect our our trucky Meadow area and make it beautiful not concrete and cement and um and and let's make really wise decisions about building in in the hills and um I I I can't I am I have had a major headache listening to all this stuff that happened today I'm glad I wasn't there in person but um those are my comments okay Sally thank you so much great comments couldn't agree more okay any more uh further public comment no madame mayor we have no additional public comment on this item okay grace how are you how you doing good hanging in there I'm hanging in there oh goodness yes um good afternoon Madame mayor and council members Grace Ma Senior Management analyst for the record here to discuss the Riverside SPD so the 1.39 Acre Site is located AB budding the Chucky River across from Idol wild park west of the Terminus of Riverside Drive the applicant is requesting a zone change from multifam 30 units per acre to a specific plan district Key issues analyzed with this request were compatibility availability of services and INF infrastructure and conformance with the master plan I also think it's important to point out some background with this site currently the site is owned by the City of Reno in 2022 the city issued a request for proposals to find a party that would develop this site the city entered a purchase and sale agreement with Built For This proposed project the proposed change from mf30 to SPD will allow for the development of up to a 65t tall 180 unit building although the applicant is only planning for about 123 three units at 55 ft tall to provide some flexibility for the future without requiring an amendment for the applicant to come back here um the applicant proposed development standards based on that larger project as discussed the overall development plan for this project is 65 ft tall with 180 units and 109 parking spaces all other items will defer to Title 18 as amended something else this handbook will allow is to exempt them from our shadowing ordinance this shadowing ordinance requires all structures that are outside of downtown and exceed 45 ft in height shall not cast a shadow on residentially zoned property between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 2: p.m. on December 21st due to the proximity of this project to downtown the height of existing surrounding buildings and opportunity for infill staff supports this exemption of shadowing as mentioned previously all development that is not addressed in this handbook will defer to mf30 standards in RMC as amended here's a comparison of RMC standards and the development standards within this handbook as you can see it's fairly comparable aside from that density um I'd also like to point out that although the front setback is a minimum of 10 ft due to the access to the river and them fronting the river it will be significantly larger than this in conclusion here are the findings for a zoning map Amendment here are the findings for a specific plan plan District the project does not conflict with state law conforms to multiple master plan policies and provides a project for a unique parcel with infill development that concludes my presentation the proposed motion is on your screen I'm available for questions the applicant is also here they have a minor Amendment or change to the proposed handbook that staff is in supportive and is in support of and so I will let them kind of go over that proposed change thank you so much you know I was just reflecting that you have a really hard job because I get all the time people calling my office and complaining about our planning staff that oh you guys are you know too strict you're too strict they're making me do this they're making me do that all these things right and then when you come up before us then you get accused by the public um you know that you can't get it right even council members criticize you you have a tough job MH you really do super fun well you're very very good at it and I and I hear um you're incredibly thoughtful you have a lot of respect um from people in the community you need to know that but I was just thinking about it how difficult and Chris uh I don't think pingry is down here but oh there you are oh he is you should be very proud because that also is a balance and when you're hearing on both sides you know that you guys are making people go back to the drawing board but then you come before us it makes me also feel like how thoughtful you are that you really thought about this the reason being is you don't want to come back up here and be criticized and belittle cor correct it's great motivation so my point is you're not going to go out there and approve something totally if you don't feel like in your heart of hearts it's the best thing look at how critical some council members can be right yeah and so and I know how tough that is we've actually had even Council or uh people in your departments quit over that over that criticism so I was just thinking about that that it has to be difficult to get up here and present um and believe in your heart of hearts that you uh believe in what you're doing because we're always called we're on the take or it's not enough affordable housing oh and it's a million dooll housing we can't win we cannot win so I just want to say thank you because I it can't be easy your job at all thank you I appreciate it so much okay all right your [Laughter] turn Madam mayor Chris Baker manhard Consulting here on behalf of the applicant thanks for having us uh now this afternoon um again I I uh I Echo your comments about Grace she's been great to work with um I'm not going to go through a a full presentation here um Grace did a great job and I know you guys have had a long day um again this is city-owned property uh there was an RFP that the applicant responded to uh was awarded um there's a purchase and sale agreement uh and this SPD is a condition of such um really what we've done like Grace indicated is just used the base MF 30 zoning as our Baseline and and where the city's goals differed uh mainly increased density um we incorporated uh the mix Suburban which is the next tier up in your own zoning code uh We've Incorporated those uh and we've used really two designations that you're familiar with kind of combine the two of those to achieve your own strategic goals um there is one modification and uh Rhonda actually discussed it on the initial uh site plan there was improvements an increase in the adjacent property's dry bile width for secondary access we've actually since taken that off uh we do still believe and are still efforting that there's Mutual benefit uh and some Synergy between these properties and hopefully we can come to an agreement but obviously we can't assume that there is an agreement in place uh since since those discussions have kind of flatlined I guess uh we're in a situation where we've met with the fire department out on site uh and we're confident that we can include elements that are consistent with uh with the SPD that we've put forth and uh can meet fire code independent of them so with that we're available for questions okay thank you so much I appreciate that I'm actually going to call it Mr Stitzer come on up um I uh I think Ronda had some really really good points um can you address some of those because they are concerning sure um yeah I mean as far as the traffic study goes I'm not a certified traffic engineer and sorry for the record CT okay uh with built um good afternoon everybody um so I can defer to manhard to address that one specifically as far as the uh proposed access through 1200 Riverside to clarify that was not meant to be in Access for everyday use for tenant use or anything of the such what we had proposed doing was widening the road through their property such that their prop is now compliant with current fire code as well as providing a gate at the property line that would limit access for my tenants to go onto their property but would still allow for their uh homeowners to use access through our property or to Ingress or egress theirs so that was The Proposal on the board and again we think that that is a mutual benefit to both to both properties um but we have come up with a design solution with the current building configuration and a redesign of of the site plan on the south end of the property that satisfies um fire code and we have our secondary access as well so um that is resolved I again I like Chris said we still hope to be able to be uh collaborative neighbors and and to create Mutual benefit for both properties but if we can't get there um yeah you don't need it correct correct don't need it so why are you offering to do that because I still think it's the right thing to do for both properties I think it enhances their property and it does make our property um work a little better but we've got an alternate solution so you know again I'm doing what I'm trying to do and and as a developer and be a good neighbor and and a steward of the community and um if it doesn't get through their HOA there's only so much I can do and um and I know I mean you one of the things that I hear about you don't know you that well but I um hear that you always have a very open door policy is that correct absolutely yeah I mean you're actually one of the good ones anybody can get a hold of me no you shouldn't say that all the other developers are going to call me how dare you well I appreciate that yeah I mean we we've done a lot of effort um you know I've I've participated in two HOA meetings in a number of one-on-one meetings with uh Ronda and other um owners of property within 1200 Riverside to get to this point so right um yeah we're trying our best thank you we really appreciate that super important um okay traffic let's talk about traffic is that true um when did you do the traffic study and why do you do it then and not in the summer months where there are more people and also whenever school gets out um I would also say I would think events probably don't qualify because events are usually like sometimes they're continuous and sometimes they're not and sometimes they're seasonal so I bet that might be hard to factor in and say oh because you have this one event a year then we have a different outcome am I correct that's correct so this is David Joan kimley horn traffic engineer for the project so when we do a traffic study we first scope this with the city and we look at standard weekday times between 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. and 4: to 6:00 p.m. so we do not look at Food Truck Fridays or what's going on with the high school we look at standard times and we analyze the traffic with this project and wait go back to maybe I I missed it um and we we used a a Wednesday uh the week before Thanksgiving on on November we don't why why why do you do that in November and not um like in heavy heavier summer months because I would think in the summer months more people are down there so we look at uh count station from the nearby area and there isn't actually that much difference between those times of day uh depending on the time of year there might be busier times in the summer but not necessarily on that time of day during a standard weekday okay okay I guess I I still some I'm sometimes I just don't understand traffic studies I'm not the expert so I I can't tell you like or feel like I could tell you that's a good or bad thing so but I appreciate the answer so sure thank you so much um okay I'm gonna send it to uh Council Newbert we're going to go from starting with you and on down yeah I have to agree that's a little odd with the traffic study I mean I don't know like are you familiar with the area do you know like the events that we have here in the warmer months yeah so I've David jman again I used to live downtown uh back in 2015 to 2018 I will say I now live in dman and I love living downtown so I was going to say when you were five you look so young I was in my 20s so okay yeah wow you look so young say when was that so um to answer your question I am familiar with the area and this is a standard time of day on a standard weekday to analyze traffic which is what you're supposed to do in a traffic study you do not necessarily look at specific events that fall in the summertime or um with a high school which may be egressing at an earlier time in the afternoon you look at the standard times which are defined as 4:00 to 6: p.m. Tuesday Wednesday or Thursday and not adjacent to a holiday preferably not on a week of a holiday so that's what we did okay so I understand that you want to find like a true Baseline right not not something that's uh you know a parade going by or something but the reality is there's a lot of stuff that does go on there and um the Wednesday before Thanksgiving is that what you said the week before Thanksgiving happens to be a Wednesday not the week of Thanksgiving okay so I mean theoretically like people could also be gone traveling too like I just don't know that that's necessarily a good even just Baseline I I can't speak to everybody's personal travel plans but I personally seldom travel the entire week before Thanksgiving okay I'll give you that but still you know we have a lot of stuff in the summer downtown so I don't know I I have concerns about that okay that's it for now thank you councilwoman door yeah um my biggest question about this is this upzoning who am I talking to uh this upzoning from 30 units per acre and you said this is a little over an acre correct it's 1.39 1 Point okay call it 1.4 it's almost 1 and A2 acre but going to 180 units correct so um what I'm really concerned about I brought this up before so it should be no surprise I'm extremely concerned about the parking and the fact that we don't even have one parking unit per resident and the idea that I heard floated when we discussed this was well they'll bike and they'll walk and they'll take a bus and I'm not aware that there's buses that go right here maybe it's over on Keystone um I'm not really sure shaking ah head yeah I have a map for you if you want to see it um I I don't agree building a brand new apartment complex without sufficient parking and what I had brought up then was not just the residents the people that work there the people that have to come service the building whether it's mowing or maintenance of a particular unit which there's almost always maintenance people and they always end up parking in random odd spots um maybe there's overflow or staff parking that you didn't mention um do you want to address that yes so this is the proposed bus route or the existing bus route um I think the existing site is right around here um they're less than a mile from a bus stop so I did I did kind of map that as far as our parking goes they exceed the parking based on our zoning code so our zoning code um if you're within a certain distance from the downtown you can provide parking at 60% of a of our normal ratio and my concern is that Idle Wild is our second busiest Park after Wingfield and before Virginia Lake and what I'm concerned about is you already can't park and what I'm concerned about is that people that live here will want to go parking uh on the bridge or across the way to park their car they may have visitors come there's no place to park it just it's maxed out and I heard that there was a proposal to create some parking on an alley I don't know if that's really part of this plan or not but I'm it's my perspective and it's be based on 10 years of seeing developments built that our code maybe say something but what I see our developers do is they exceed the code right they tend to say well I understand the code but I also understand our people and our people this is a very car Centric in uh community in a very car Centric State Western Nevada and it is um you know I think it's it's shortsighted um if the developer really plans to do this I I think they're going to constant challenges pretty soon we're going to have to set up designated parking spots like we've done over by the university just for to cover the apartment complex it'll be out on the road by the Idol wild I mean I I think we've set ourselves up it may work in downtown Reno I don't think it works adjacent to our second busiest out of 87 Parks so that's my my thought my perspective I think there should be more parking okay go ahead councilman ree thank you madam mayor Miss mckin can you just resituate um our colleagues and the public on this particular site the City of Reno owned it or owns it today correct and we put out a request for proposals to the universe correct and then those proposals came back and then this body voted to accept one of those proposals is that correct correct and what was that vote do you recall I do not recall the exact vote okay 6 to1 I heard yeah and so it was a 6 to1 vote and there were lots of concerns about parking raised and fire Ingress and egress and we still voted to approve it and then we arrived at today which is now a whole another set of issues to be resolved but not to relitigate all the things that we've already resolved previously correct correct the idea is the creation of the SPD so that handbook that allows them to then go out and carry the vision that we've already approve 6 to1 into the future correct correct that was also reviewed by the Planning Commission unanimously approved correct correct so this is where I'm having some disconnect with um what we're doing then today because I'm hearing people who are saying I had these issues before I still have them today this is fine this can happen but ultimately we've also gone through a day worth of hearings in which we've said we can't build here last week we said you can't build there the week before that it was don't build in the North Valleys then it was don't build next to Mount Rose Elementary School and at some point in time we are going to have to acknowledge that that that we live in a challenged environment the built environment is not getting any different and some people are going to vote no no matter what we do on every project and so um I am a bit uh frustrated for our development Community who is um trying to bring the vision that we ask them to bring to us and we just keep having hearing after hearing roadblock after roadblock I know that there's a new group that's formed here in Reno called strong towns they had their inaugural meeting last week and it really was um a lot of people who showed up to that meeting who I think are going to start showing up to our meetings and they're really just trying to push back on the idea that we need to have the same parking requirements that we had in 1952 we need to have the same density issues that we had in 1972 um we've heard public commenters uh one of the deer commenters who I had the uh privilege of going and sitting and breaking uh bread with Sally Tate and her husband who are understandably concerned about changes but they also have their plot of land and they they've got their home and so I I grow concern that we listen sometimes to the voices that are the loudest and and can make that concern known but yet there's a whole group of people who who want to get into a micro unit that's beautiful on Riverside Drive in a building that will have great amenities and will activate a parcel that's been vacant for 40 years so for my part I am uh going to recommend that we move to adopt this zoning map Amendment and move this project forward and and continue to believe that it's an awesome project and that this developer is really doing what we ask them to do and so the idea that we continue to try to interpose barriers to their success really is frustrating to me and I think it would be frustrating to anyone who's watching thank you Madame mayor I will be very brief um I'm excited about this project and I'm happy to Second any motion that would come to the table for approval thank you yeah thank you I um I don't want to get ahead um and I have specific questions so someone handed me this what is this C6 on it it's the ordinance what how is it different than the ordinance that I had in the packet it's I don't think there is an ordinance in the packet oh you didn't put the ordinance in the packet okay okay there were some some things I uh I did have questions about in the packet but um Mr attorney are we sitting quasi judicial can't hear you I can't really see you okay okay that's fine so um a couple things is um do you have a copy of the SPD with you yes can you put up page six of the um traffic study oh I don't think I have the full traffic study cuz that's the document we're adopting it's a um so we're adopting a document it's a custom zoning ordinance it's not sf6 it's this is really it it's a it's a hybrid it's special privilege rights um and what let me just expand is this does show the private property improvements on someone else's property yes and I don't think that we can put and adopt a document that shows private property property improvements on someone else's property cuz we we advertise we're working on this and if we have a document that shows we're doing and I think it's showed as proposed asphalt pavement on a neighbor's document correct and that was the change that was recommended by the applicant that will be reflected um by by the second reading it will be okay that's what I was looking for I was I was confused I was like is this is that not mismatch what you told me so I I just okay now I understand that clarification I'd also like to know if that and the other documents that show that will they then be changing the Improvement on the private on the parcel to show some sort of hammerhead or something or will that configuration be changed I don't and I can defer to the applicant just but I don't believe that that needs to change I think that the configuration was appropriate when they met with the fire marshall on site but I can defer to appropriate parties for that well let's get the fire marshall up and ask him um Fire Marshall back um I I because this is a long document with a lot of different exhibits I don't want any lack of clarity I mean we don't have the right we did not advertise we don't have an application from the adjoiner so we can't show improvements on their property okay and so this shows improvements on their property and so take that off that that shaded line that says Asal pavement we're not going to give anyone approval to go over and trespass on someone's property improv something does the does the the drive a there then without that satisfy so um for the record John Beck Fire Marshal Reno fire department so that the the exhibit as I see it right there um on the south end which is our our fire uh aerial apparatus access that's existing on the property and that's that's all in play as far as I'm I'm I'm not really sure what you're saying is not well I mean it's really not existing because it's just a dirt road you know you have a lot of turnaround room right now so my question is how it is designed to the western boundary of that property does that give you what you need for maneuvering take you know presuming you could even say there's a brick wall there at the next you know that you won't can't get past so we've talked I've talked to the developers and the engineers what you're seeing here is is merely proposal it's not the final product and there are there are changes that can be made um basically what we we came up with is is the available space with that with that structure allows us to to create U fire apparatus access and turnaround which will meet IFC appendix d as far as apparatus access okay well I think what we need for the second reading if we move forward is all reference to improving other people property you know not on there and I think we need reference that we do have you know that we will that this is conceptual to the degree of of that that they will meet that standard you just mentioned um okay yes we we we spoke about that and and and there are options that that we we can get there okay thank you but I just don't want M mayor I just us we're a minute and 45 over oh I I apologize M mayor I will on my second round discuss the shading sure that would be great okay I think you're up um did you want to include something okay go ahead you're good uh Chris Baker manhard Consulting for the record uh what you're actually looking at now is the updated document uh again based on conversations we had over the week uh and based on public comment that you heard today and public comment that was drafted um we took off any proposed improvements what you're looking at there the Shaded area that's the existing Road uh before in the area on the Northern portion of that we showed expanding that uh this area here mhm uh to 20 ft to meet current fire code again that's the Synergy between the two properties um Mutual benefit but since there isn't an agreement in place we have since taken that off all of the exhibits have been updated and provided to staff so the document that uh councilman breus has requested is already in staff's possession and is ready uh for the second reading um on a couple other things there was uh parking um councilwoman doer we we kind of anticipated this Al what's of youday is zoning cting forward a hybrid zoning code essentially to meet your own goals the goals of your RFP and the goals of your purchase and sale agreement um and we used only your current zoning designations and we made a hybrid right so there was there was no new stuff there's no there's no gimmick here um but we did obviously because there is a point allowance for parking um and is it's it's a busy area in the summer um you know we wanted to make sure and be cognizant of that so we did actually went out and did an inventory um there's actually 984 stalls that are all either on or off Street no pay stalls they're all public within one quar mile of this project so I hear when I hear things like that's great downtown there's significantly more parking in this area than anywhere downtown um especially because it's all free and it's all open to the public so at any point we kind of were kind of bird dogging these these typically are about 30% full on a weekday and even during events don't ever get to full capacity so there's available parking um and it's it's great because it's it's all City parking that you guys currently provide so we're just utilizing the resource that you guys already pay for thank you thank you okay um you know what I should just ask really quickly and maybe this is for you Grace I know one of things that Mr Thornley uh was talking about he said oh Hillary we need to take an inventory of the parking in that whole area because there's something where it will say like this is all parking reserved for this address and then we're coming to find out that like that hasn't changed in you know two decades and um you know the the building like is not even you know um it's not even something where people are using it for part it's you know obsolete there's a lot of spaces like that have we done that inventory yet cuz I'm not so sure I I don't know if we have um not to my knowledge I know that there's some parking that's on private property um yeah this is all and it has signage from the city and it says this is reserved for you know this address and it's all over down there and I know there's a lot of um and you know there's red zones there's yellow zones I also think that could help tremendously because during that walk along that we did that we noticed that a lot of those spaces um were being reserved and didn't need to be MH yeah it's a little outdated um I think I would have to defer to our public works department on the the parking that's in the public right away with the City of Reno signs I'm not sure if they've done that inventory I know that it was in the works though okay yeah it was something we talked about I just thought was interesting that there was that much inventory out there that we weren't utilizing go ahead Council um Eber Council yeah thank you um just a um quite a while back in this conversation um comments were made that everything was resolved and then we're just supposed to approve today what I recall being told was when it comes in for the SPD you can work through all the issues that's the right time to do it and that's what we're reviewing here today and that's why I gave a a heads up that it was a concern and when we got to the SPD I would bring it up so I'm just being uh clear that I am trying to bring this up at exactly the right time and not say we litigated it before and now we're retiga it again we we didn't know the specifics there there wasn't a design uh there was a theory of a concept but you know for example this entire project or at least two-thirds of the property floods that's one reason it stood vacant so long at the previous conversations I asked are we providing parking below is that what we're doing so that those areas can flood and are they being built you know with all the venting and that needs to be done to allow for flooding parking yes okay and then um when we the reason I'm concerned too and I want to ask this puds don't expire spds but yes and I'm about to say spds also don't expire and um yes correct so the zoning will stick not it's not a zoning I mean it's not a regular straight zoning SPD gives you an extra privilege it doesn't expire when you get zoning I mean when you come in with tened maps they last four years my understanding but this is in lie of that and so I think it's appropriate to dive in and make sure we know what we're doing it's our own property and I don't want to create a super congested area at a lter on a Riverside going over the boo Street Bridge into this very visited Park I find it a very congested area and I think it's legitimate that I bring up my concerns so I'm just and at this moment during the SPD that's when we're supposed to do it so I'm just sharing with you I think it's um it's too dense it may be too high I don't think the fire issues are worked out but I do see good space to potentially work something out when does that happen and do you come back with a tentative map when you have all these details it would not be a tentative map if it's a multif family apartment complex it would go straight to a building permit and at that point we would review it for anything that's not in this handbook we would review it for standard zoning code well speaking a standard um I heard that a lot of vegetation would be requirement would be removed uh over some theoretical flood project which we uh myself and Miguel have gone round and around the flood project and a third party trying to even figure out what they might build Someday my proposal would be to leave our um vegetation requirements the same and if and when something came in they can get modified at that time okay me um one two things sorry that's what I was looking for prev previously when you said it doesn't expire we have been working in um like a sunset Clause into some of these puds and spds and so I just wanted to verify it it is in here for 5 years if significant progress has not been made um at that time then um they will come back to the to this they can come back okay and and then as far what was the vegetation the vegetation so this was actually um a recommendation because if this proposed flood wall is built we don't know where it will be built so although that they are planning on 20% Landscaping if it's a requirement that we are placing on them to build this flood wall on their property and it requires them to remove Landscaping um we wanted to make sure that there was flexibility so we aren't imposing something on them that what what I see is a property that looks like it's about 90% covered with Hardscape there's very narrow little road around the edge there's a turnaround area and we're talking about not having Landscaping that concerns me I think property should have an appropriate setback and appropriate vegetation given that you know we're fast Waring vegetation is one of the things that can help cool so you know I would like to see that changed so thank you yeah thank you so much just a quick question I know when we had spoken about this when we were going to sell the property at first there was some talk about affordable housing units going in this and I just want to get reminded of that since there was comment about it earlier so this particular um proposal does not have affordable housing projects within the handbook um part of that is kind of the hurdles with RIS getting these projects to be subsidized affordable units um and so I think just the sheer number of units and the density in the infill was kind of what we heard was the primary concern and and the priority of council um and so that will just by the nature of them provide some sort of mobility of units and diversity of housing types and then going back to the vegetation questions that were being asked you I guess are they being required to build a flood wall or is it contingent on what the flood Management Authority board decides to do so and forgive me because this is definitely within our utility services for the details of what this flood wall will look like um this would be from my understanding built by the City of Reno and so we would get a relocatable easement from from this developer when we sell this property to build this flood wall somewhere on their property since we don't know exactly where that will be um we H we propose providing some flexibility with the Landscaping in case we as a city have to remove Landscaping um as part of that flood wall development and so it's this flood wall is in the very early stages I don't know that we have any um you know drawings of where this will be what it will look like or when it will be built okay that's up coun brius thank you Madame mayor so um back to the point about the the what we would see on second second reading you have a copy I it's not loaded up is it no it is not this is very yeah but it will because I hate to do a second reading on something I haven't seen you know that has changes to it but I understand from you that you know we are won't be showing any improvements on property that's not part of the request correct the only changes that will be made is any um reference on the site plans to any improvements on a different property okay and then the Fire Marshall will have an exhibit that meets what he needs to meet or set or you know I I'd hate these things you know I administered these things so I know and i' I'd hate for an exhibit to be shown that is inconsistent but say well the applicate comes in and says points to it and then fire is is you know doesn't have their APF whatever standard they need it needs to say explicitly on there that the the APF whatever standard of turnaround is in there it needs to say that it because because they will have a property right of with that exhibit so that I'll be looking for that in the second reading okay now the parking um I'm not so worried about it you know I I although you know it's moral hazard and I know he he knows about that because we've discussed it on other areas is you know there was an underp parking and um well when you underp park and you say there's 100 or 90 parcel parking spots around there may be and that's great parking should be streets should be used for car storage but when your residents start screaming about you know well my car is getting scraped or I'm getting break-ins then a pro then a someone who's owning and leasing something up has a problem and but we've made the decision and I think it's the right one to let you know apartment people Builders you know have that that role and that decision cuz they're they're not going to you know they're going to play with that and I think that's the right decision it's the right path but um you know I don't see anyone leasing out there and telling someone they're going to park over on Idle Wild or or Vine Street um when you know parking security is going to be an issue so you know let but I I'm comfortable with letting them deal with it now the shade ordinance is really a problem for me because we always said the spds were not going to do variances and I didn't catch it originally in my read and did you um look into what the design would have involved with a stepback or something to not to meet the shade ordinance did you did you have a design of that I don't have conceptually what that would look like because um with this SPD all of our um drawings are conceptual anyways but um when we briefly talked about it it would have been a significant amount of units that would have been cut out um and the shadowing pattern developed in this area already um doesn't meet the shadowing ordinance and so that was what was analyzed at the time to make that justification I don't understand what you mean by that the shadowing pattern isn't met by by what property the property to the West Shadows on this property oh it Shadows okay cuz it what is it's it's the solstice on correct December 21st okay and so it is a western Setting Sun issue okay and you know here here's just a a point is I think for analysis purposes I think it would have been an appropriate exercise to make them you know show that or demonstrate the shadowing however I think I can be comfortable with that because the existing Improvement and I noticed it you know because you got a bunch of parcel numbers here is there is a high rise condominium on this property already correct I would have liked to have seen how that staff planner at that time dealt with the shadowing ordinance discussion in that staff report did you read that staff report yep it was exempt from the I think they did a variance at the time they did variance okay that is that is helpful I I could be councilwoman breus I'm going to send it back to you uh We've exhausted three rounds now um and so it's your word give me a motion yeah I I will make a motion to move forward to a second reading and I have comfort in what I've heard I'm going to see I'm very I I you know I'm I'm having issues with like what's loaded up on you know for our reading not always matching what's on the table and I know things kind of come in last minute but if you have it you know someone we have copy machines we could have had it run through here but but I can move to a second reading but I'm really going to be looking for those exhibits to outline what you said they okay so do is that your motion well it's a referral yeah so I do I second okay all those in favor say I I all those opposed opposed motion carries okay okay um all right on to something a little bit more lighthearted and I'm I'm really excited to see an oldtime friend and many of you will remember and I am just shocked cuz you guys the last time you were here you were about this big well this big you were tiny um but anyway so this is reeno Scout Troop One how do you get to be number one and that's got to be a lot of pressure like we are number one scoot Scout Troop number one like I would be full of pressure there um to outperform all the other uh troops right um anyway so we had for we have former councilman uh David bobian with us today he is their troop leader and what else should I tell you guys are your area downtown and Northwest Reno correct okay kind of I kind of know you'll just okay all right and you and your troop is working on am I right it's called the citizen Citizenship in the community merit badge is that true so what do you have to do you have to come and sub subject yourself to Long Council meetings where you're like why am I here they're laughing they're like yes these are both yours in front I cannot believe stand up how tall have you gotten oh come on oh my gosh let me see wow it's amaz you're taller than Dad no I'm just kidding he's he's he's not having that but um why don't you come up and introduce everyone um David or whoever all yeah I would love for everyone to come up and introduce yourselves and um tell me you know something that this Council should know about your troop or what you're working on or what just anything like because I know you do community-driven initiatives right and obviously with a dad like uh your dad who's in like ingrained in public service I know you guys are all probably doing something I'm going to put these guys on the spot um but I'm going to get them ready for it so that they're ready so mad mayor for the record uh David Bobs I'm currently the troop committee uh chairman for Troop one um I'm not going to introduce all the scouts other than we do have Mr Todd Marky who is the scout master so he's actually the guy that you know really makes it all happen come on come on forward guys come on for everybody up up up up up um I guess the oh I'm sorry for the record uh my name is Todd Mary um being scoutmaster I guess the the I get the the yay or nay the yes or no the final like you know check off I but um yeah it's not just me there is there is a whole host of parents and Dave um that that support Troop One for the American Legion so yep but I I I will say to put them on the spot David Bobs in for the record um I'm going to put I'll task Luca to do this and maybe finigan can jump in and other Scouts can as well if you guys could say a couple quick words about our relationship with the American Legion Post and particularly um what we do uh every year at Memorial Day um which we just did right and that's part of our community service and certainly um this uh Council has a long history with uh Hillside Cemetery so you can relate to a lot of this because it all feeds together so all right Luca you're on the spot do it take you got this introduce yourself say your name for the record uh Luka keny bobson for the record um natural so um recently this past Memorial day we um this day before we did a um cleanup of uh the semetery that um is uh managed by the uh American Legion Grand Army of the Republic Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery um and then we hold we held a color ceremony on the uh day of Memorial Day yeah wow that's incredible and what's let's see who's our all right you're going to do it what what are we doing this weekend uh for the record this we oh my name is why James Marky for the record um and this weekend we're going to um a scout camp uh camp royan in California and it's a Summer Camp California yeah what's that about I don't know are you supposed to stay it's gross well so here let's let's get another another Scout talk about Camp Flashman and where we are with Camp Flashman come on up Cruz come on up talk about Camp Flashman and our Council camp in that situation right Cruz Miller um FL spin it has a lot of different opportunities for us um like ranging from everything that like can be available at different camp games from like ATV to like um crafts or learning about the like environment more there's like a bunch of different aspects that we can but what happened FL oh Flashman oh it burned down Dixie fire so the Nevada area council is currently without a camp so we rotate around but we'll be back but even camp fman is in California so just anyways what else do you want to tell them what should we ask Matthew should say something come on real thing like you learn how to I always wonder like is this really happening and tell me about your talk about some skills talk come on I want to hear about your skills give five things that you learn int free introduce yourself get in Cory boing for the record so like some of the things that we like some of the things we work on at like meetings and at Camp are like we've done like tent we like put up our tents every once in a while to check that everything like we have all the parts and stuff we do a bunch of not tying and then at the end of each meeting we do like some games and stuff like that oh you do cool cool okay how how would one get involved if we wanted to be part of your troop Troop One um I bet everyone wants to be involved with Troop One how do do that. so BS scout.org and then I think you sign up through there and then like coming to check out some of our meetings and some of the like or like a service project that we do and stuff like that be a good way to get involved how and what's like the requirement like I obviously probably have to live in that area I certain age what's the so I sixth grade um to be in Boy Scouts um and then like in the area yeah and you're in sixth grade no I was going to say you seem a lot older you're not ready for this oh what grade you no you have to be in sixth grade to like to join minimum oh minimum so six to what 12 to six through eight like six and then the maximum when you age out is 18 oh okay yes so you could literally go through high school yeah okay all right that's what I was wondering cuz I was going to say you a lot older than so like grade most of us are like freshman in high freshman in high school and then love it this cohort and then next year we're going to be sophomores sophomores and where are you going to school Ren oh high nice oh my goodness I can't believe it I cannot believe it okay tell me where you're going to school everyone introduce yourselves cuz I your parents are probably here your name it seems a little complicated say it slowly for the record Wyatt Marque um McQueen oh I go to um I go to uh McQueen High School McQueen yeah all right okay that's cool cuz everyone's from different high schools then correct okay yeah I'm not a dirty Reno kid so okay go ahead next uh Matthew to for the record uh I go to McQueen High School uh [Laughter] yeah and L that's his his school Lancer Pride okay Andrew mle I'm going to go to McQueen you're going where where are you going now uh well I just graduated eth grade what's your name Andrew mle I love your hair thank you it's kick ass this awesome thank okay um anything else you want to tell us no are you are you hiding back there and you haven't come on he's like I leis I go to Reno high school yay Huskies go Huskies good good job Austin my um Austin Mia and I'm gonna be going to McQueen all right nice to meet you Austin um I go to I go to Reno reio yeah all right and I Wyatt that's Wyatt okay let's do do you want to do a picture right yeah okay come on so you can get your what your citizenship in the community community citizenship in the community merit badge all right come on up we'll have you squeeze in just a little bit here we are good stuff three two one fold your smiles good stuff [Music] ibly so much for coming we appreciate you all right good luck let us know let us know if you ended up getting your badge yeah okay we are GNA um do E1 let's get to E1 because we have someone in we might not have enough people here you do 1 two three four okay let's um hurry and get to E1 because I know that we had told some people that were sitting here there was public comment am I right Madam clerk public comment on E1 Aiden Madame mayor we did have someone in the audience for E1 but they are not present at this time we do have someone here for d d is and David one if you'd like or we can go back in order okay so we do have a lot of staff that are here for B items perfect let's get them out of the room but I think are we just reading this one is this what let me look Carl you want to are we doing E1 yeah ordinance introduction bill number 7273 case number txt2 24- 0000001 Title 18 affordable housing initiatives ordinance amending the Rena Municipal Code Title 18 annexation Land Development specifically in chapter 18.03 use regulations section 18.03 206 table of allowed uses section 18 03302 residential uses chapter 18.04 development standard section 18 0495 additional standards for milal district section 18.04.1 153 initiatives for affordable housing section 18.04.1 154 density bonuses initiatives for small unit sizes in order to expand which zoning districts multif family and single family attached uses are allowed amend use standards for residential uses relocate the standards for density bonuses and multif family districts and certain multi-use districts to a different section of the zoning code and an expedited building permit process for affordable housing proc projects increase the density bonuses for affordable housing projects and to increase the density bonuses for small units ranging in size from 800 square ft up to 1200 ft together with matters which pertain to or are necessarily connected therewith WS 1 2 3 4 5 and at large thank you so much good job um I'm G to um M clerk you have any a public comment you did but they we did but we don't have anyone present if you're in oh I we do have one via Zoom Jarett they come back then that'll be fine we have one via Zoom okay Jarrett Singh please unmute state your name for the record and begin speaking hi Jarrett hello is Jarrett saying I actually was in the audience earlier but I had to leave um I do have some comment on this one moment so I'm actually here I'm part of the War 3 Na and then I'm also represent counts group and Reno as well um so today I'm speaking to express my strong disappointment with the recent decision not to increase the construction of new housing and Reno um it's my understanding that the city council expressed their lack of desire to up zone for duplex Triplex and blex units to allow housing by right and to allow for increased height of portable projects these are exactly the type of things that Reno needs to be doing to allow more housing to be built in order to bring down costs um president I believe this decision does not align with the needs of our growing community and this is our opportunity to address our housing crisis more effectively the recommendations provide City Planning staff are well considered and aimed at improving housing availability expanding Zoning for M dwellings would have been a significant step towards increasing affordable housing off and promoting sustainable growth by limiting these changes stifling necessary development and perpetuating the challenges fac seeking affordable housing I urge the council to reconsider recommendations take more decisive to support zoning expansions at this council meeting doing so would demonstrate a strong commitment to addressing the housing needs of all Reno residents thank you for your attention to this important matter um I look forward to seeing you take more proactive measures in the future uh I also wanted to that was my like prepared remarks I also wanted to make a comment that if we do plan on expanding Westward or anywhere else and in terms of if it's single family homes we kind of end up in the same situation that we end up with the horses in South Reno but now we're looking Bobcats mountain lions to the West um so it is important that we're thinking about how we can develop densely to fit our housing needs and not continue to sprawl out supporting a need going to be in the higher price ranges I would imagine a home with mountain views is not going to be in affordable housing that's the single family home so those are just some other things to consider outside of immediate need for demand of for but also the wildlife ramifications that we just have to deal with that are innate to our area so that's what I have for you all today I appreciate the time thank you all all right thank you so much great comments okay hey uh where we at it's been one of those days that's okay so Madame mayor for the record we also received corespondence on this item um one letter of support which has been distributed to the Reno city council thank you so much I'm going to send it to councilman Reese Madame mayor I moved to refer what we're we're we're not going to have questions on this item well we've had questions on this item for the past six meetings that we've covered this you know I in the minutes I asked to have a meeting with staff on this and they had said months ago they would and no one met with me in the interim Miss St asked for a checklist on this I mean I have substantive questions on this and I just I really find it um you know the management of this just jumping ahead I mean are we just here running through some mechanics and you know just say having pictures with people okay we're going to get up and do um recess because today has been very very challenging we'll continue to come back um until everyone can be respectful um it this has been a little interesting today that everyone's kind of going in their own different directions you guys all know the process we have done this for years and years and years and then all of a sudden you want it to work a different way whenever it um sort of appeases the direction you want to go it's got to be that everyone's respectful of each other and their time and it's not about one or the other it's got to be working together and that's not what's happening today so we're going to take five minutes and everyone can come back with a different mindset and if we can't then we'll take another five minutes if we can't do that we'll take another five minutes until everyone can get along and work together all right thanks e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e okay they are in the room okay have ation all right Madame mayor we're reconvening the meeting at 5:54 and at this time council member eert and council member D absent okay uh just to recap um ordinance I believe was read and then councilman ree had his hand up and then we move forward and then councilwoman breus wanted to weigh in um usually I go from this side to this side so I'm going to start with you Council breus you get uh two minutes or 3 minutes two rounds yeah I have questions about this and I have because this is code I have actual documents I think it's section 18453 um and um if you don't have that um up um or can't put it on the display I um took photo copy photos of it on my iPad and I'm happy to hand you that to to look at it it's the one that starts subsection where it says a b expedited building permit processing yeah right there expedited I just I'm wondering why you know a a kind of an operational issue what decided to go into code you know you're we we did say that we wanted you know and we wanted a person assigned but I I didn't think that you were going to drop it into code because it's it's kind of a um a binding thing for you it is and so for the record Angela fous assistant director with development services again per that AB 213 that we are trying to comply with we have been tasked with adopting an ordinance by July 1st that deals with Expediting and also incentivizing affordable housing and so because we don't have anything else that we have supported that expedites affordable housing we felt that this is something we can put in the code that we can do and it guarantees that we have the ability then to expedite building permit review for affordable housing projects yeah I mean that was the checklist that Miss do were asked for and that I was looking for too was to see you know AB 2014 says this this this I was I was looking for that you know it wasn't in the motion but it was did you want to go back and do a presentation and we can show because um I the next page though when it says and these are more my my specific ones sub um now it's subd the average total gross income project calculation is based on existing units plus new proposed units what does that mean the the the the um the average no no no I don't I don't see it here it's D it's the it's the next page over yeah the average total gross income project calculation is based on existing units yeah what is that refer to what what is grow po income project calculation we've had some challenges with interpreting how we base uh when we're looking at density bonuses um and we have different projects that have come forward so let's take an example of an affordable housing project let's say has 10 units and five units are at 50% of the area median income and maybe two units are at 30% of the area median income and maybe the remaining seven units or two units have no affordable housing so from a staff perspective we need something to clarify how we come up with the average income again the the challenge that we have had is there's nothing clear to Define well what if I have a project that has one unit that's affordable do I get all these density bonuses for affordable housing if I just do one unit that's affordable so we said no let's clarify what that means so the intent was for us to better understand how to interpret when there's multiple units at different income levels how do we Define that well I mean here's the question is you got Council and breus I'm going to cut you off because you are three minutes yes I am okay going to send it to you councilman manber go ahead nothing okay yet councilman Reese go ahead thank you madam mayor um Miss fous I want to just thank you for the team effort that you've LED because I know that this has been the outgrowth and sort almost like a culmination moment for it's not just one meeting or two meetings it's literally been several years years of effort by your team whether it's involved the bringing of experts from outside the community as Shane Phillips came and visit with us whether it's the individual workshops that you all have spent whether it's the planning commission's efforts to improve a lot of the different minutia uh none of this happens alone right it's not done in a vacuum and it's been a really incredible and transformative process in many ways certainly and you heard one of the public commenters I think comment on it we haven't gotten everything that everyone wanted we haven't gotten nothing that no one wanted right I mean I I just think there's been a lot of balancing and um I I can't say that any specific singular item is going to move our needle in some immeasurable way but I can say that the totality of the things that your group and really has brought to the Forefront will make an impact and so all of the things that are identified here have been the product of a lot of conversation and and where you have laid them now into the various C- Provisions I think makes sense uh in many ways it's uh an art not a science right and I think oftentimes people are looking for a scientific explanation for the problem and then they would address it in a sciencey way um and that's not really a word I suppose but you know you get my drift I appreciate that uh we have taken kind of the all tools and the toolbox approach and again some of them I might have preferred that we went further some of them I would have preferred maybe we didn't do it all and we've taken a lot of time to approach the community's interest and we've had full rooms of people who have been interested we've had people comment a thousand times on on next door and the like and all that's to say that again you've gotten us to a good place I'm very happy with the work that your team has done and and of course it's always a choice between the many things that we've tasked you with doing and sometimes I think we've tasked you with more than anyone could measurably do as one human being but your team has really pitched in to make it work so for my point and my thought process all of these things seem appropriate and and where they are placed in the code and how we've changed some of the language to fit the reflections that we've had over these past many years of conversation I think is really good work product and it really uh speaks to a lot of the efforts that we've made I I think we'll continue to refine them as we go forward because I do think also that your uh under your leadership we've really tried to stretch and grow as a city right the mayor is fond of saying that we are a a growing city we're we're not a small City anymore we're a medium-sized City and we have some medium and big city problems right and so we're trying to address them um again I think the Planning Commission also deserves a lot of credit for the work that they did and in getting us to this point and they probably would say hey you didn't go far enough and you didn't do some of the things we did but it's it's a a collaborative process and there's a lot of balancing that goes on so thank you for that great uh Council Taylor I'm going to show my appreciation by not making any comments thank you okay councilman Martinez thank so much just like to Echo some of the comments that were already made I know the work that you and your team have already done to get us to this place and personally I've already shared this in the past but I think that you know some of the recommendations that were made by the Planning Commission would have gotten us a little bit further than I would have liked but I understand that as a council overall this is where we're decided to head in the direction and the progress that we're making today will hopefully get us closer to Bringing more affordable and more housing in general into the market today so thank you for your efforts all right Council breus yeah could we just go back to that discussion about gross income and show that up on the screen please so I I'm I'm struggling with this so you're going to take the average gross income if you take your example where you had maybe a 10un complex and three people are 30 Mii Ami and one is 5 Ami 50 Ami that's four so do the other six people have to demonstrate their income and then you average it out is that what you're doing when a project comes in and they want to get this density bonus they have to show us and again on item um at the very bottom item F they have to deed restrict this property so when they show us they're also tying it to a deed restriction of that affordability so they will show us how if it's 10 units which units will come in at 60% Ami or 50% Ami and then we're able to calculate I will also add that that language average total gross income came from state law when state law came up with that enabling legislation that allowed us to do the fee waivers um that we do for sewer connection fees and building permit fees that specific language was in state law so the average is based on existing units Plus new promot I don't I don't understand so what does it mean existing units plus new proposed so as another example we had a project approach us that had an existing already built project okay and that was not affordable and they said hey we want to use this density bonus and add 10 new units so they want to construct 10 new units and we they said well we want to use the density bonus so we said whoa whoa whoa you have to look at how many units are actually affordable to use this density bonus because they were trying to say no no no have a a project and we're going to add 10 affordable units so you should give us the full density bonus as if the whole project had this affordability component and it did not so this hopefully will clarify what is in state law that specific terminology um as staff now we have something to help us understand what that means so is there going to be in these Deeds or covenants a requirement every year to make sure that everyone through the 20 years in the the four units is within the those income param no when it's deed restricted it's specific to the property and so that is for 20 years so if you are building a building and you want it to have this density bonus incentive you are deed restricted for 20 years to always have that affordability on four units if that's what you've committed to then yes that whatever you your increment is okay so it doesn't the other folks they don't have it to demonstrate income or anything this is this section here is specific to the afford housing density bonus the density bonus okay and then can the unit is it unit six and unit seven or can the property owner say well unit six and seven I leased out to a market raised person now it's unit three can they are they going to be able to do that they can yes okay but and and you're going to check these every year so again we talked about this last time the housing department Monica's team they have a program set up where they are monitoring all of our affordable housing projects so this Falls within the purview of what they do yeah well they do it under the federal guidelines and so we're setting up our own program so they're going to have to set up their own program okay well I guess I UND is based on existing units that reads a little tough for me but okay thank you thanks go ahead uh councilman Rees or councilman councilwoman Ebert anything um you just kind of questions on timing of things you said we have to submit or pass something by July 1st and correct me if I'm wrong but don't we already have some stuff in place that kind of qualify for this the way that the state legislature adopted that regulation was they said state of Nevada as a whole jurisdictions are not doing enough and Reno was part of that discussion okay they didn't say Reno you guys are good you don't have to do anything more they specifically said do more okay and so they put that language in so that we have the ability as as a city to do what council wants to do they're not requiring anything specific Civic but the two things they said is come up with something that incentivizes affordable housing and um speeds up the process to review affordable housing those were the two kind of thresholds that they gave us okay so did they give us like any list of options or anything like okay thank you all right councilman re nothing all right councilman Taylor councilman Martinez councilman breus nope okay councilman um I think I've made a motion okay to refer and was second I have a motion I have a second all those in favor say I all those opposed motion carries okay thank you madam clerk all right Madame mayor if you would like to get back in order or we can see let's go to B items okay [Music] okay okay Madame mayor we're on item B13 boy 13 okay that was pull mad mayor this was pulled by council member derer oh she's not here so let's so I'll I'll make a motion to approve okay all right so I have a motion a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion carries okay next up is item 17 yep B7 team pulled by council member breus yeah it might take me a second to bring this up cuz I um Okay C it up and then we juggle around and so but I think my point was um this interlocal agreement with um I I'll bring it up on this device this interlocal agreement with a couple other folks um about the Hazmat there's bring it brings on a position a um Battalion level position um which I'm a little uncomfortable doing budg budgeting outside of budget um and particularly new positions particularly one is as high um level as a battalion who's whose employee is that going to be David cooch Reno fire chief so I'd start like to start by pointing out we have no Reno has no responsibility for that position um and we would have brought that to council as part of the budgeting process if we were going to be responsible for that it's a Sparks employee yes it is at the battalion chief level but Sparks and try Meadows are solely responsible for that position and the funding of that position where does it say that in the agreement it does I didn't see this it's in there it's explicit yeah okay then I can support it so it's talking about a Sparks level balion a Sparks level battalion chief that will act as a Hazmat coordinator for the region for the Trad TR has met yeah I sure think it should say Sparks level Battalion in the agreement because who's got the most Battalion Chiefs Trey medals anyway well with that I'll I'll support um okay thank you from councilwoman breus a second from councilman Reese all those in favor say I all those opposed motion carries all right next 18 yeah 18 pulled by council member brickus go ahead Council yeah I'm going to let staff get up here and introduce themselves I'm I'm uncertain of your name hi Adria white risk manager for oh Adrian I'm sorry white yeah hey so this was a little odd I mean it's something we've long-standing um you know the the arc for the you know bringing on the folks but why' you decide to leave the Washo County Joiner we did this uh for continuity of medical services with our employees currently so um excuse me sorry I have something in my throat here's a here's a water thank you um so waso County recently went out to RFP and they were still in the midst of that so we did that this way so we could um move forward with our employees okay okay so the Joiner went away correct so you did you how did you do this did you do Soul Source or did you do a Professional Services Professional Services contract okay yes and it's continue okay I get that I got that it's just odd you know we're usually we're always doing joiners we're rarely separating from a joiner so that what through me okay thank you all right Council give me a motion please move to um let's see stop report approve all right I have a motion in a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion carries breus 19 breus 19 hi good evening you guys have stayed here all day long we have I'm so sorry okay go ahead take it away hi hi what's your name again oh for the record I'm Angela Davis Angela Davis sorry sorry I got you guys mixed I love you Angela you're amazing thank you for your service oh you're welcome so great so you mentioned a no laser provision in here yeah I read these things diligently for a decade and I've never heard of a no laser provision th this is this is a wonderful provision and and truly a gift so a laser on your stoploss is when they call out like a high dollar um a high dollar claim that they know is going to be expensive and they say you know I will cover this at this rate except for this high dollar claim we won't cover or we'll cover it at an attachment point of a million dollar instead of$ 400,000 so to have a no laser when we do have some known risk is a big deal they're they're putting their confidence in us to manage our plan as we have in the past okay and um really make that viable okay uh you know I think I remember this they were always worried about transplants you know and maybe that would be that's be a big that would be an example of one we know those are big so we'll laser that out of your stop loss and stop losses is based on your known risk will you turn the mic so it's so we can get you on thank you okay well that term of the you know art of art of the what do they call Art of the field or something I just yep went over my head so thank you very much absolutely anybody else Madam mayor I would I don't want Miss Davis to go away without me saying thank you so much for all the help that you've been to me in my needs as a a city employee um it's a very complicated area of work that you do and often very difficult for other people who don't have the head knowledge that you do to navigate and so there has not been an email that has gone unanswered a claim that has not been processed and it's always done with such a glad heart so thank you so very much for all the that makes me feel wonderful well you are wonderful you make us uh healthy right you you have done so many good things for the employees of this organization and because we don't get to see in Chambers enough um it's just nice for me to be able to say thank you thank you thank you well you are welcome it is totally my pleasure and my passion so hopefully that comes through and it shines through cuz I got to tell you we know you by phone not by so had I known earlier thank you for everything that you've done CU I know you've been on the phone a lot with sort of the transition Y and you have done a wonderful job you call back people immediately but other people have come to me and um have just sang your Praises too so it's not just me cuz I know you know we always think that oh are are we getting better treatment but no you have just treated everyone so wonderfully so thank you well thank you it is my pleasure to serve our people both you guys thank you all right thank you have a good night okay councilwoman uh I'll move to approve I I've got a motion I have a second all those in favor say I all those opposed motion carries next new 20 uh 20 I just wanted to know um really quickly this was just super quick um uh the efsp explain that hi Jana litz for the record efsp is the emergency food and shelter program it's a federal program that's administered by the United Way and our local our local board administers a small amount of money that local nonprofits and government entities can apply for for things like shelter um Food Services like the food bank and different kinds of housing I've never heard of this how come like all of a sudden I I mean we've been in this massive crisis and all of a sudden it just pops up and I'm like what is this because we know all our players in the space where have they been we have we have been awarded this before it has never come before Council how much it's usually around 50,000 we used to apply for it to help with our contribution to the shelter operations okay and since we don't have that obligation anymore we saw a need for this interim Hotel assistance for some of our deposit and rental assistance applicants yeah that are without housing until their unit is ready so we applied for it and this will be our second year running that program okay um I just wanted to know I've never heard of it and it's through the United Way yes okay and just it's important that we should put it on there so we can recognize them so that they know how grateful we are cuz I'm like who is this never heard of this but um it is really important cuz uh you know you wonder well where is this going and what are we doing but and so grateful for anyone that helps us in this space because you know it's so needed so good job I'm excited thank you it might not seem like a lot of money but we did help 37 households with that amount of money last year and in addition to this we have another 50,000 from United Healthcare going to the program this year so yeah you're you're getting a match right that's fantastic um and it is a lot of money but it I I don't think people understand that it just Pals in comparison whenever you help one family get into permanent housing because you can take that money to afford to get down deposits and get them out of really horrible situation so it's like game Cher for people so any amount of money we're grateful for so good job thank you so much okay uh I'll make a motion second I have a second all those in favor say I all those opposed motion carries okay 21 21 um so I'm just curious when we put the joiners on there it doesn't say who with when we do that is there a reason Vicky V bu and Director of Finance for the record it does not it it's Whoever has the contracts that are out there so if there's a contract with the state that we can join on to and meets our needs then that would allow us to be able to do that and this would allow it for 5 years you previously saw this in 2019 um and these are services that we use on a daily basis like the mats at the doors uh the facilities um shirts pants and things that they use at Fleet in those areas um aprons that they have to wear that are OSHA regulated for welding I mean there's a lot of different areas where we use services like that okay cuz there's a lot of them on here joined or join her joined her 1 2 3 four they are and they all previously came five years 5 years ago in 2019 tires and I know it's like nothing but I'm I'm just always curious of like who we're partnering with is it the county is it Sparks is it the state most of them are the state state okay all right I didn't know if that like when you see joiners always state or because we've done we can do them with County it just depends on who has the services that we need and what meets the needs of the department and these these are like this because these are things that we need on a daily basis for these departments to operate and run efficiently yeah and it's nice just to see collaboration because I know it also saves US money and yes it's good so thank you so much absolutely okay uh I'll make a motion second second all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion carries Ebert 26 councilwoman eert your 26 go ahead hey Megan Hi Megan burner arts and culture manager for the record hi it's making time so I just wanted to just kind of talk about this a little bit if you can share sure yeah I don't have a presentation um but no but you got Eric Burke is what you got this is yeah an approval of an artist for the Evelyn Mount Northeast Community Center mural project um there was previously a mural on this building uh over 20 years old that was in total disrepair we could not repair it because the paint was literally peeling off of the building and so we are replacing the mural um and did a call for artists and the public art committee landed on Eric Burke um based on those applications we don't actually have the design for the artwork just yet because we are doing a process similar to teglia's Paradise Park Activity Center yes where the artists will work closely with the community to create that design great and then will you come back before Council once we have kind of like a mockup or something to show us what's going to happen or that can happen if y all would like but that's not the the idea um we can update you on it like through a memo process potentially about that yeah that'd be great yeah all right thank you yeah all right I guess motion to accept okay I have a motion a second all those in favor say I all those opposed motion carries unanimously good job I'm I'm back to you 27 same thing again uh just want to talk about it okay yeah Megan burner again arts and culture manager for the record um this is an approval of another artist for the North Valley Sky Vista roundabout project um this is a similar situation we did actually do community engagement at the beginning with this we narrowed it down to three fin ists um and we have been talking to like the ward for NAB throughout this process and also doing community surveys and so the um public art committee and the Arts commission recommended this artist James Den based on um the community surveys as well he held a margin over the other two artists and he's going to work with the community so we're as soon as we get this approval we'll start on scheduling multiple Community engagement sessions to design that artwork great thank you motion to approve I have a motion I have a second all those in favor say I all those opposed motion carries all right thanks Megan uh we are going back to 35 councilwoman eert 35 oh my gosh they're probably not here but I just wanted to say that they do a great job my kids were used to go there they don't anymore but um I'm just trying to recognize all the schools in War four and just show them that I I appreciate the work that they do and try and build relationships there um I know we're not the school board but um you know we're we're all members of a community so just want to um have them you know see some appreciation from the city council so well I appreciate your donation of the council discretionary funds we had one student who was here in the building today from the youth city council that said they attended I don't know which campus yeah um but I thought that was cool that they got to be here to see it because they were noticing it when I was talking to them in the hall yeah all right give me a motion motion to approve second I have a motion I have a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion carries unanimously all right Madame clerk I'm now sending it back to you regard goinging to item am I right C1 that is correct Madame mayor do you have any public comment on this item um I do not have any public comment and additionally I have not received any correspondence on this item okay yes so just for the record we're opening the public hearing so let the record reflect that the council um has um let's see was proper notice given any correspondence received proper notice was given and no correspondence was received all right any council members with disclosures seeing that there are none I'm going to um send it right on back to you thank you hi good evening Jana litz for the record this is our presentation and public hearing for the annual action plan every year we have to to do the annual action plan and submit it to the Department of Housing and Urban Development it's one of our two required public hearings each year and it outlines our goals and plans for the coming year with our three entitlement grants this aligns with the Strategic plan under economic and Community Development and Economic Opportunity homelessness and affordable housing so the City of Reno is an entitlement jurisdiction and we receive three grants from the Department of her Housing and Urban Development each year the Community Development block grant Home Investments partnership Grant and emergency Solutions Grant as you can see the numbers the dollar amounts on the slide represent our allocations for the 2024 to 2025 year so about 2 million for cdbg 1.3 million for home and 176,000 for ESG the purpose of these federal funds is a little bit different for each grant for Community Development block grant there's a high focus on neighborhood development uh all the grants focus on low to moderate income households but with cdbg it's a focus on providing decent housing suitable living environments and expanding economic opportunities we do this through projects such as Park improvements accessibility improvements around the city and uh public facility improvements home investment Partnerships has a high focus on affordable housing that we do that through the waso county home Consortium as the lead entity and we do development we fund development and Rehabilitation of affordable housing for rental purposes currently with that one the emergency Solutions Grant has a high focus on stability for those making 30% and Below area median income we do that through Outreach we used to use this for Sheltering and we currently use it for homelessness prevention and Rapid rehousing services for homeless and average risk households the timeline for us to get to the submission of the annual action plan starts in the fall of the previous year so last November uh we solicited interest from other departments in the city for cdbg projects um the affordable housing Municipal Loan program application for home also went out during that time in March staff was CIP p and the city manager reviewed the cdbg projects and made recommendations based on their review from February to April the Washo County Home Consortium technical Review Committee had three meetings to review applications from Developers for rehabilitation and development of affordable housing on April 17th the home director's meeting which consists of the managers of the three jurisdictions that are part of the home Consortium met to make a final recommendation that recommendation for home funds goes to the trucky Meadows Regional planning governing board tomorrow for ratification and on April 18th the cdbg subcommittee met and made their final recommendation for the action plan projects that are included in the draft which is being brought before you today uh this also requires us to advertise the draft plan for a 30-day public comment period which started on May 24th and today we're bringing the plan before you for adoption all right so let me talk about more fun stuff which is what we're going to do with the funds for Community Development block grant the Wilkinson park playground and dog park um it's a dual project so there's they're two separate projects in the same place um but staff found that this was a high priority because it's a high need area um residents that live around that Park use it as a dog park but it's not fenced it's just a big grass area and it hasn't had a new playground in a long time so um Canyon Creek Park pathway we sorry I always get nervous up here no you're fine you're doing you're doing great matter of fact honestly you seem like super calm and chill normally you can kind of tell I wouldn't have known at all so you're doing great just take your time we just I mean these are exciting so it's good yes thank you we just funded some playground improvements at Canyon Creek so staff thought that um doing the pathway would just wrap this project up and finish it nicely um there is a significant backlog of ADA pedestrian ramps and audible pedestrian signals so they always try to chip away at it using cdbg funding when possible so those are on there school zone flashing Beacon signals um those are a high need right now they're trying to get those all knocked out and then the California building Ada improvements this actually includes uh a kitchen remodel and they're going to be doing some stuff to the patio and with this $150,000 this is not enough to do the project they got a an earmark award from the community Project funding grants in 870,000 so this little bit is really helping that project to be able to get done all right so we've got our four home investment Partnerships Grant projects that are going to trucky Meadows Regional planning governing board tomorrow [Laughter] okay right great thanks are doing great a leaf on Harvard um it's a proposed 168 unit affordable complex it's over off near kidy and Vasser the Hawk View Apartments are it's going to be a rehabilitation of aund 100 unit multif family development into 199 units um and that one is an R project okay Sutro Street senior Sanctuary this is 170 unit new development and it's located on two different Parcels on Sutra the Empowerment Center 2 is a proposed 43 unit all Studio new construction development so the total number of affordable units between all four of these projects is 580 amazing and emergency Solutions Grant small But Mighty we're going to use it for rental assistance again under the homelessness prevention category so so there you go yes and all of these things that we're doing align with our departmental goals to increase affordable housing stock increase residents access to housing stability invests in low to moderate income neighborhoods and keep and improve affordable housing and here's your recommended motion you did a great job you made it thank you how do you feel good you should because those are really really good projects I I'm happy to emper that's huge we need to be doing more of that I'm so so glad to see it on there that's incredible um I love all this the only thing that I would just ask is that um especially like with cdbg money we we have that um that wonderful Advocate now her name is drawing a blank but she comes and she talks about the slides in the Parks and she's exactly right um so I want to make sure that we're allocating money to get that done and not get it done like 3 or 4 months from now cuz we still are in summer but the sooner the better but um and there's probably an already an allocation for it but it I just would like to make sure like that's super important to with those cdbg funds because we've done it in the past but anyway so all right go ahead councilwoman Taylor thank you Madame mayor I have two questions thank you for the presentation I think this is all great and um my questions are just more because I have a I I don't understand fully but on school's Z flashing Beacon signals which I think are very important but I see that we're picking money up from different places I know some members are allocating Council funds um they're coming from other places whose actual responsibility is that is the cities is it Enda is it everybody's and the reason why I'm asking is when it is budget time for whatever organization is responsible I think we need to start Maybe advoca um for more of them totally agree that's a good question that I don't know the answer to and I'm looking I think everyone sort of has a different idea but I I just me personally I think it's the responsibility of RTC quite honestly um I really really do and I think to your point that you just said we need to be pushing over there much much more um it's always been like this who's doing what and why does that qualify for that and you know they get they get money over there for that kind of stuff okay so I can follow up with somebody after that and then the other question I had is the 20% of the 20 24 allocation for Grant Administration is that the cost that the city takes to implement the program so it's almost $400,000 is that going to a person or staff time and if you could just clarify that for me please yes each of the grants has an administrative allocation that we take because our department is primar Grant funded so that is majorly to pay staff salaries as well as training supplies or software like our rental assistance software that we purchase pay for those licenses things like that so it's kind of the cost of doing business yeah okay thank you so much thank you madam mayor all right councilman Martinez thanks so much mad thank you for the presentation I just want to give you all kudos for spending some money in Wilkinson Park I know that's one thing that I've heard from a lot of the Neighbors in that area especially with dogs and as you mentioned a lot of folks do use that space as a dog park and sometimes there's children playing soccer baseball or whatever and they'll start sliding and all of a sudden they're in some substance that they don't want to be in that they're covered in and so I appreciate that I mean just you may not know at this point but just kind of give an understanding where the dog park will be if you know and if not that's fine I can follow up at a later time about that I don't yet so we don't have it's kind of preliminary parks and Public Works submit applications to me for the subcommittee for the cdbg subcommittee and they're I think they're pretty preliminary until they know if they're going to get approved and then they don't have to submit their scope of work with their plans until we get our Awards and we're doing the environmental reviews so they might not quite know yet um but I can follow up with Matt brazina on that yeah if you get any more info I just appreciate that thank you so much thank you so much okay councilman breus yeah um so the commenters this morning who asked for their comments to come in will those be recorded and put into the you know as the public comments yes there's a a couple of sections in the plan where we have to put a summary of the public comments public comments okay well I ask my comments here to be included in those and theirs will be also because I I um incorporate their comments into my comments and I add on that page 43 where we talk about helping homeless persons make the transition to permanent Independent Living I absolutely believe that the CAC facility is perfectly designed for that and hadn't looked at I've been asking to go in that building for over a year but having looked at the photos and I remember being in that building that building is absolutely suited to meet the um the charge in number on page 43 on the um heading helping homeless persons on page um 28 where it talks about public facilities um I I think I think the draft is inadequate um in that it says something like um it says if appropriate describ publicly owned land or property located within the jurisdiction that may me used to address the needs identified in the plan the CAC is perfectly suited for that purpose it's served it in before and it says here the City of Reno maintains a list of city-owned properties they may be used sold or traded in the future to help address both affordable Housing and Community Development needs we're continuously searching for additional properties well we have one it should be mentioned in here that we have one that can serve the purposes so I would like that to be incorporated into the draft if my collegs don't incorporate that into the draft you know as we adopt it I wanted as a standalone comment that I think that there's a Miss on this page in not discussing the CAC and then I do have some additional questions on the oh on did you well let me let me continue on because I I get cut off a lot the beacons that's $600,000 I really don't think that should come through the Community Development block grant I know the council wants them but we need to get the transportation agency to do that because our money this is money that can be used very specifically for poverty and that is you know a mega million doll Transportation Network need and I I really wish that that traction was being made over at RTC on this and other issues but I have a question about the empowerment Zone in that 900,000 um they just are not thriving on that is there a drop dead date on that for them because we've been rolling it over quite a bit and that project is not under construction what project the Empowerment Center is that the one wait is that the one on West four Street the Empowerment Center showed it up you showed it up on your list let me grab it was on your slide yeah so where is that one hold on a second sorry I don't have the home projects memorized like I do the cdbg one Julie okay I've got a home person here our management assistant Julie Henderson who can answer that question okay hi Julie Henderson from housing and neighborhood development um it's on Marvel way oh it's on Marvel way which is the one on West four Street the why the Y yep or something I'm not sure about that one yep the N yep is the nyep mention men in this plan no not that I are you talking about the multi project that they're trying to build yeah it I don't think yeah through a previous annual allocation I'll um I'll I'll inquire you know if it's not in the plan it's not on the list that's fine I just I hate just for everyone's information you know I've been on the longest with council member um with the mayor and we used to get HUD audit after HUD audit for not spending down and letting money hang around and I have a I have a concern that that money is hanging out there somewhere well as far as the Empowerment Center goes this was the last funding they were waiting on I think they're pretty much ready to go okay yeah yeah I'm I'm talk about that and if anyone um has the opportunity to go and see the Empowerment Center it is absolutely phenomenal it is amazing um okay we're 2 minutes over almost 2 minutes over um with councilwoman Brea so I'm going to go to you councilwoman Ebert anything no okay councilman Rees thank you so much so uh first of all we're in hour nine of being here so I want to just sort of apologize to your team um this is important work and probably one of the more impactful things that we will do today is decide on these allocations so in that regard I want to say thank you to housing and neighborhood development for the work that you're doing um I wish the room was filled with people who could hear all this stuff and it it's by no fault of yours or ours it's just how the nature of our meetings can sometimes go but I think um everything on this is just something to be jumping up and down and be excited about whether it's the home investment Partnerships because each of these projects and I think you said it was 509 units or right around there 580 580 that's crazy good and that's very exciting but for this activity it wouldn't happen want to focus on the cdbg side of it because I've had the privilege of serving on that committee for the last several years and each year when the action plan comes to the subcommittee um it's always comes with so much work done by the um staff who are each prioritizing projects and trying to mix and match where we're trying to get funds from and I always Marvel at how much work you all have done to just get it to that point and then you got all of us who have different priorities and different interests and different Wards of the city so I think that what you've done here is a really good mix of the different priorities we have um I sort of for my part I've never been a huge fan of the 88 pedestrian signals but I know we have to do them right and we kind of take a bite at it each year and the school own flashing beacons yeah I believe that that should be the responsibility of RTC or the school district or some combination but I I I sort of surmise that we're here because we have to be and so I have appreciated that um I will also say because I'm I'm absolutely supportive of everything you've done here tonight and then would be supportive of the recommended motion but I want to flag for our colleagues who don't serve on the CG subcommittee that there is a project that keeps getting kicked around in cdbg and that is the restoration work that would happen at Virginia Lake Park and part of the reason why get kicked around is because the price tag is so large that we don't have a way to take our very limited money even make it cover it so we'd basically have to put on pause everything for a couple of years to make it happen so I flag it because as a council I think we should figure out a way and maybe I'm also speaking very specifically um to miss Bryant because I want to see us find a way to get to that project at some point in time and I don't want it to only live inside of cdbg land so both our Parks director Mr ulot and and our um assistant city manager Miss Bryant know that I'm coming for that those funds and if Miss der was here she would be coming for it I I think um Miss Ebert has been very supportive of it as well and it's just something that we get the practicality of our inability to fund it all so we've got to move it out probably have cdbg and try to look for money in other places but kudos to your team you're doing incredible work um it's so much joy on these Pages uh and I wish we could just jump up and down about each one of them but the hours long and late and so I'll just say thank you again thanks okay anything go ahead yeah I just wanted to add I mean that was something that I just mentioned with council member re a second ago that I know that the U Virginia Lake Project is going to be a big Financial um burden but it's something that we really need to do um so I just wanted to you know repeat that but also I share a council member Brea's um concerns about the record Street facility I think that's a really important thing too so thank you okay councilman Taylor councilman Martinez councilman breus no I'll move to approve the 2024 2025 annual action plan and related materials as submitted second all right I have a motion a second Madam mayor um I'll just comment um I just want to reiterate since the mayor didn't call on me to make the motion the motion did include those changes on page 28 and 43 discussing the ca my public comments are recorded on those that the CAC is is an important component answering those um those charges of um using the funds for those purposes okay I have a motion in a second all those in favor say I all those opposed motion carries thank you okay we are going to jump to item C7 C9 what is it seven to n yeah and then um we'll take separate motions for each okay yes thank you hi everybody uh noroo HR director that is correct we do need separate motions for each of the items since I'm presenting three different collective bargaining agreements so I'm happy to share that we have gotten to yes with um three of our Labor uh groups the sergeants lieutenants and captains so I am presenting to you our tentative agreement and requesting your approval okay thank you before I do that just for the record this is a public hearing so I'm going to just double check with Madam clerk let the record reflect that the city council is now opening the public hearing let's see at almost 10 to 7 um it is uh has proper notice been given any correspondence received proper notice has been given and no correspondence was received on item C6 C7 C8 and C9 thank you so much any disclosures from Council seeing there are none sending it right back you nor thank you so much so much all right very good so just real quick uh collectively sergeants lieutenants and captains uh comprise about 60% of our Workforce over at the police department we did uh come to an a three-year agreement and so these are the highlights in front of you year one uh includes a 4% cost of living adjustment also in year one we do have a compaction correction between lieutenants and captains that is going into effect as well as um deferred compensation so this group does not have have Deferred Comp but the police officers do so it's just a minimal $20 per individual that can be matched um we did also employ a percentage based shift differential which is industry standard with our competitors and it actually doesn't net any additional cost because the percentage is the same amount of money we're spending this fiscal year in a flat dollar amount um additionally we are um implementing a post certification pay for lieutenant unit and this is minimal cost because I think only one Lieutenant is impacted in year two we did agree on a 4% um increase in salary with a very limited reopener to the salary article uh when we learn more about the uh Nevada purs contribution rate increase and then lastly on year three it's a 3% cost of living adjustment in front of you is the costing for year one year two and year three and then the total contract cost uh right there in front of you I'm not going to read all those numbers for you but you do have him in front of you lastly is a recommended motion if you could make individual motions that would be much appreciated I'm here to answer any questions all right thank you so much Norma great job okay Council M breus yeah I do have some questions number one um is um you mentioned that there was a letter of agreement executed between the city on January 24th about this who who what was the context of that letter yeah uh Chief so our police chief noun did uh Implement a reorganization of her Department which included um creating uh two assistant uh police Chiefs and reclassifying the deputy chief classification into a captain classification all and essentially uh all the benefits and pay of the Deputy Chiefs remained in effect all we did was a title change that was uh executed through a side letter that is um under the authority of the city manager under what how does the city manager get S letter Authority I'll defer to legal on that there wasn't any additional benefits or pay uh extended to membership it was solely a classification change of the position it's my understanding that that is under the city manager's Authority uh to administer the operations of the city are there any other side letters with this agreement uh not with this agreement no um and we now have an assistant chief we have two assistant Chiefs of police okay but they're not bargained that's correct they're unrepresented so the deputy Chiefs are now called captains that's correct okay how many captains do we have four we have four I think it's four yes okay so we have four Deputy Chiefs the same number of positions we had as a deputy chief now um they get additional three personal days oh yes yes that's correct um what was the basis for that in the the side letter one of the agreements uh uh points was that there would be a differential between TOP Step lieutenant and captain of about 16.7% which is essentially the differential that exists right now prior to this collective bargaining agreement um through our negotiation process uh we were able to agree to reduce that percentage separation in exchange for personal days at these these additional personal days and then they are Cash Out is increased up to a th for employees after 2011 that's correct we did increase their cash out on S leave for those employees after 2011 and then the reopener for purs what what is the reopener provision on page 16 specify it specifically says uh the article the salary article which I don't recall which article it is can be opened um once we know what the purs the Nevada pension increases will be the goal here is last time we saw significant increases in the pension your all of our labor force is significantly concerned with the pension increases eating up the cost of living adjustment so they'd like an opportunity to sit at the table to see if the city is able to at that time help with those increases when will we get the increase when will we get the word on that typically the Nevada Pur board um has a decision by the December of the end of this calendar year but the Nevada legislature Also may have influence so it might be um during the legislative process I I don't I don't have a the pur board I am on the pur board and then the six and a half okay I'm gonna cut you off sorry uh because I need to make sure that everyone has equal time okay councilwoman Ebert do you have any questions councilman ree thank you Madame mayor for my part I want to say thank you Miss anoo to you and your team for the excellent job in negotiations uh you've been keeping us very a prize and I appreciate that very much um look it's no secret that I uh think very highly of our rpsa Le folks I think that they um man they have a tough job and they are working very hard to keep this community safe and there's a lot of changes that have happened in the profession over the last I'll just even say 10 years and those changes I think are um bringing us uh where we've got just great people in the profession and these are folks who have been in that profession a long time and so they've had to make choices about whether they're going to change and adapt and move on or or where they want to go with their professional careers and I see this group of people every day just leaving all out there for this community and working very hard to keep us safe and protect us so I'm very honored to support them uh especially in light of all the work that they put in every day to keep this community safe so great work by your team these folks are certainly deserving of what's been proposed thanks all right councilwoman Taylor do you have any any comments no okay councilman Martinez councilman breus yeah on page 26 there's a 6 and a half% um for special assignments um that is actually the so the shift differential So currently um currently we are the only one in our region between Sparks and Washo that for shift differential that means if an employee that works I think think p.m. through 6:00 a.m. the majority of that shift is eligible for $3.50 an hour um and we've converted that into a percentage base um which is industry standard and keeps us competitive that's what that's for well but I thought it was and I get the night differential but I thought this was for special assignments like no that's just the night you know the it's just a night shift thing and then is there a daisy chain on here to what we haven't seen yet which is the um rpsa one that's still under negotiation isn't there a provision in here that's on the other ones we'll see that says that if rpsa gets this then the other ones get this these the only thing in this agreement is we did agree and that's because police officers promote up to sergeant lieutenant and Captain is the Deferred Compensation is the only uh we did agree that if Police Officers Association gets more in in their um Deferred Comp that that we would offer this group the same they currently get $20 a pay period per member other than that there is no other follow along type of language I don't like building them up upon and this is only for four four individuals no that would be for the the collective of the three units which is about 56 members I believe well I thought there were oh wait wait we are opening these all individually C7 correct so this is C we're doing C7 you wanted no council member we opened up all three together and we need three different individual votes oh okay well I was just asking on C7 and you know I because I have different questions about the other ones but this C C7 is just for four individuals correct the captains is correct the captains used to be Deputy Chiefs okay and they are getting I I support the compaction but the other factors um I am troubled by and I'm troubled by putting a daisy chain on the agreement we hadn't seen already so I'm struggling with this one um but I'm happy to um take the boat and then move on to C8 councilman Reese go ahead give me Mo well Madam mayor let me get clarity from um either Madam Clerk or U Mr Hall uh we opened S 8 and nine all together but we want to vote on each one individually uh is that what you'd like yes okay so as to C7 which is with regard to the uh agreement between the City of Reno and the Reno Police supervisory administrative police captain employees uh I'll move to approve staff recommendations all right I have a motion I have a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed post motion carries okay next now with regard to item Charlie 8 this is a motion now for an agreement between the City of Reno and police supervisor administrative Lieutenant employees and I'll move for staff recommendations as to that group can I ask questions on can I ask questions on this one because they're all different get to discussion I have a motion do have a second second councilman breus three minutes okay I I am still struggling on the um shift at differential I I I think that um on and it's on page 26 and there weren't any side letters on this one no correct okay not not for this agreement no okay the CD agrees to 6 and one half% of base pay plus special assignments with the exception of second watch so six and a half a base play plus special assignments what are the special assignments could that be special events for example no um a special assignment would be if they're on SWAT and if you get a an incentive to be on the SWAT team then that would be uh incorporated as your base to build on your six and a half and so that again is the standard that we are in the market so so is it SWAT is SWAT um okay say I'm a SWAT officer do I get special pay when I'm on that assignment um you know activated for that assignment do I get it all the time I don't recall specifically on special assignment I think they get it all the time but I don't recall specifically there's a a series of special assignments that are called out in their contract and that's just one example yeah so I mean I just don't see a consistency of costing when you're going 6 and a half% of base pay plus special assignments so with the exception of the second watch what does that mean I I why are you accepting the second watch well the second watch is day shift so you should get extra pay if okay so we're taking the other shifts the night shifts which I support at 6 and a half Bas play plus special assignments why' you why' you rope in other special assignments because because that really you know there's special assignments all over the place yeah we already uh include special assignments and other special pay so it really is consistent throughout the CBA and that's also industry standard so it's a consistency in the collective bargaining agreement on other pays I can't think of one right now as an example but yeah I just I I really am having a hard time with that one um and so and then on page 27 you daisy chain into what the rppa may or may not get we don't know what the rppa may or may not get but you have a tight relationship ship here to rppa so if an so they get 20 on the Deferred Comp which we just gave them last agreement correct this group does not have Deferred Comp and the only language that we agreed would change would be if police Frontline officers get more in Deferred Comp that we would offer these 60 members the same that's it I you know I am having a real hard time with this in having this one in here and not having rppa I want to get rppa done we've never done it this way of bringing in a daisy chain to one that we have hanging out there we're being more intentional about having a a developmental process to be able to get officers to want to promote up the ranks and so it's intentionally to make sure that we have people wanting to take on sergeant and lieutenant and up the ranks that's I think critical operational need okay thank you so much okay so we do have have a motion we have a second all those in favor say I I all those opposed I'm opposed okay motion carries go ahead councilman ree Madame mayor on item Charlie 9 uh this will be my motion to approve staff recommendations with regard to the Reno Police supervisor administrative Sergeant employees uh consistent with staff recommendation all right I have a motion you have a second I do have go ahead councilwoman breus yeah um this one I am inclined to support report um although I think I made my point on the the daisy chain of the other ones um which do you have a I mean do we have that a markup on the rppa one showing the Deferred Comp just recall that we are still in active NE um can you bring down the the this on on page n 17 you have a lot of language that isn't Redline but is in italics and I just didn't understand that okay I don't know which one we're referring to too so huh I I don't have it in front of me what is it what are we talking about well I'm asking staff to can can you tell us what attachment you'd like pulled up cuz I the red line of the CBA please thank you yeah when we put motions on the table it populates with the vote rather than letting me bring up the page number did you say I said page uh 17 Miss breus are you referring to a me too Clause I I you keep using a word that I'm not familiar with um yeah well I I defer to your expertise because you you know Bargains for for the group daisy chain I think has a very different connotation probably one we don't want to have discussed in Council so I just just like yeah I appreciate that just like laser provision don't know that can um why if could you scroll up a little bit why is this in italics article 17 compensation upon promotion you know I I um I would say that's an error the only uh there's no changes to this article this is exactly the way the article was before um the changes are in redlined so I'm not sure why it's a tasz like this but there is no changes to the to I just wanted you would think legal or someone would catch that but um there it's just a really long document yeah no I know but you know just wanted to make sure that I wasn't missing anything because it is very important you know um so okay thank you all right councilman Reese oh go ahead councilman thank you madam Mary I just I just quick clarification thank you so much for all your work but we've had so many meetings this isn't this is a long document and this isn't the first time we're seeing this or you we we have been doing this for several months correct have been okay I just want to make sure I was in the right meetings and I've been seeing the right stuff and um thank you thank you for you and your team and all your work and thank you thank you in the right meetings I think also people don't understand we get briefed on this um yeah for um we have our labor negotiations meeting so I think what she's referring to because people might not understand at watching this that we um have these briefings for a long time getting into this position and we only Bring It Forward when we're ready right um and so then it's also a requirement to do that so it is transparent it is out in the open correct yes I I work really hard to keep you informed throughout the process so yeah I hope I I just wanted to reiterate I think councilwoman Taylor's right and it does sound like oh it's the first time they're hearing this what staff been hiding but anyway first time we've seen a red line all right first time we've seen a red line that's true that's true can I have a motion to a second all those in favor say I I will I will support this one this one um okay go ahead but I do want to say it's the first time we've seen a red line Okay so we've seen bullet points we've had conversations in years past I've seen red lines and in years past I've had conversations with our bargaining group and and but the city manager is embargo on this but fine you know you got if you if you're not reading the document and the document only became available last Friday you're not you haven't seen the document you have seen bullet points I okay true I motion carries unanimously if you can believe that okay it was it I'm sorry I'm so tired it was a very very long night okay uh for a couple reasons obviously elections and fires it was a tough one so I think we're all just I know I am I'm tired okay all right here we go item um D1 did we have a motion in a second did we take a vote on that one oh we did sorry see we're all we've all been here too long but listen we're out of practice cuz this was normal before the pandemic okay remember the days remember the days okay Madame mayor on item D1 I am prepared to make a motion unless someone desires a staff presentation you know I here's the only thing just give me really quickly uh they want an extension and um just tell us why yep so we have a 62 unit building it's five stories it's off of Stevenson in first it was brand new it was built it was part of the Thousand homes and 120-day program they built it the way it works is we defer your fees and you don't have to start paying the fees back until one year after you've built it so they are now getting ready to hit their one-year Mark we're they're going to owe us the first set of installments and they're asking to defer those fees for up to 120 I'm sorry up to 180 days the applicant is here um if you would like any questions or information from them as to why they're requesting the deferral no I yeah no sorry mam mayor I'll move to make I want to I want to discuss this um okay you go ahead yeah so sewer our sewer rates are due by the end of the month I went upstairs and paid mine for $170 and if I'm late I have to pay 15% fee okay and we have a blended we have a blended sewer Utility Fund this program was set up to give people something that not other people were given because it closed it was brief and I don't think it's right to everyone else who's doing the hookup fees and everyone else who's paying rates to let one person walk in and ask for a continuance and you know if they've got a problem project and and what is it $96,000 how how much is this there the amount is 72,000 72,000 if 72,000 is that much of a problem for them to pay they've got bigger headaches on their financing you know I don't think we should be um their their bank or line of credit I think that Equity calls for all of us to pay our sewer bills on time what is in ordinance what is agreed upon these were in ordinance and no one gets a you know if we want to make a you know do a onetime you know thing for everyone else to be late fine but I think this is very wrong to let someone walk in on an already generous project and have more time to pay their sewer fee when our rates are going up all the time and we all the ratee payers don't have that leniency Madame mayor I'm prepared to make a motion I'm gonna ask Council Ebert for a second I well I just say I agree okay that's fine yeah go ahead Madam mayor I'll say why I disagree and and here's the truth um we started the program we invited people to build in our community and building is challenging under any set of circumstances but also the set of circumstances that presented themselves were a pandemic labor shortages construction and material shortage and we really have some responsibility to be partners with our builders in this community and if we want to be good partners we will extend them the 180-day grace period the alternative is is they miss a payment and we lean their property which will take us time effort energy and money to do something which will then prevent them from being able to go out and try to refinance it and it's just a small thing to allow them the freedom to go out and seek the financing they need to refinance or take out debt or Partners or however they're doing it I don't know I don't know who this group is but what I can tell you is it's a great project if you drive over in that area it's a a project that was built in an area that needed some improvements and we've all talked about from the dis today energizing downtown how do you energize downtown if you don't have people living there and we want to make sure that these folks are successful and again it's a partnership getting people who live in this particular building it's not full up as my understanding but soon will be and getting full up will also allow them a greater flexibility in approaching their lending institutions for whatever their financial needs are I I don't disagree with Miss breus that there may be something much uh deeper here but I'm not to judge that today from the Das I I think we'll give the grace that we can much like if someone appied applied to our sewer fund or sewer rate uh or sewer bill for some kind of grace period we do give those um there are programs set up the city to help those be deferred or paid for by other funds so it's a very small ask but I think it's meaningful to you know the ECI Riviera 2 LLC because they've asked for it so that's my point is I I think we can be better Partners to the people who are coming and building in our community and other developers uh can see that yeah and I you know I I think you make excellent excellent points if you really care about housing you'll work with with your development Community figure out how you can get there those units are important matter of fact and here's the thing development is not getting any money right now it it is all across the country because of the interest rates being so outrageously High everything is stopped and so there's also a big Point um that I don't think people realize there's over probably I don't know Angela you might know better than I do but I know from just one project alone I'm going to say there's over probably a thousand units waiting out in the wings that are not coming to fruition um because banks are not lending and they're lending at super high rates and so they just don't make it doable for people to come in I'm seeing this and hearing this constantly and so I I also think that um we do have hardship Clauses for people that um cannot pay those fees correct and so I think we should try to have that grace and mercy like you said across the board and I also think you know be be careful cuz like I I don't know to me I mean we're human things happen you don't know whatever happens in someone else's life you know walk with maybe some compassion and a little bit of understanding you have no idea no idea but just to say definitely not and I paid mine and you know um that's also kind of what I hear about the city sometimes is that we aren't um good partners to work with and it's kind of embarrassing in some ways so I want to be able to give someone the benefit of the doubt instead of acting like oh forget it I did mine and being so righteous right people have hardships and I think that's problematic when you forget about um compassion and empathy for others I really do so uh eventually I think these units will come online and they will be nice homes for people that's what we should be looking at and that should be the goal absolutely and just to add to this this is not just free money we're not we're not giving them a waver this is just deferring it so they still have to pay us the full amount um they did I will add to they did run into a a global supply chain issue we heard a lot about this during covid they had submitted their building permit in November of 2020 so that was really at the the heart of covid they started construction I believe it was in May of 2021 they ran into what was supposed to be probably about a year and a half of a construction timeline and it was doubled it was um over over two years for them to get through one of the biggest hurdles was getting the elevator this is a five-story building we don't get many five-story buildings so to get that in an infill area in our downtown again that that is the targeted area where we want to see these projects but they have a huge supply chain with elevators at that time and so that held them up probably 18 months and we as a city would not issue them uh um the ability to start leasing some of their bottom floors until they had that elevator so on one hand I feel like gosh you know not that we're to blame because we have rules and regulations but I would like to be able to say that you know this wasn't entirely their fault there was a lot of things that happened that were out of their control out of our control and so this is one step we can do to help keep them moving forward it's 69 units I think they have 10 left to to lease up and they can refinance at a lower interest St so this really will help them get through the next couple months okay thank you I don't know what the reason is but I'm just going to say one saying that it really resonates in this situation and truly there but for the grace of God go I um that really resonates with me so well I mean I just they've had five years and I have constituents that can't pay their bills they they're not getting a 5-year grace period and asking for another 180-day extension they have 50 units rented that I mean I we don't give this kind of grace to the the people that need it the most I mean this isn't this isn't a person that's living on food stamps you know it talking about being a good partner those are just not equivalent statements you're mixing two different things something about a person's individual home life is not the same thing as saying we asked this program to be launched and go out and build there were issues during the build there facing a thing it's better to do that than to let them to go into foreclosure because we put the lean on it you will not see your money any sooner than the 180 days so it's no skin off our back to do it it's just not you're not comparing the two same two things mam mayor and then also we have hardship waivers for individuals this is very different in individual situation versus sort of I think what you said to the program if we really want housing everyone feels philosophically different obviously it's it's fine mad mayor all right wait where are we Madam clerk where are we I think we're on our last round yeah okay go ahead you know I just want to call it also is trickle down economics of this council is you know the biggest bang that we have to help people in housing is to adopt a rent stabilization ordinance and no one has ever wanted to do that or bring that forward talk about compassion talk about helping people we have the authority to do a rent stabilization and we should be doing it and I can't even under our former city manager get it on the table for a discussion and when we were in legislature we couldn't even get support for a bill that clarified rant stabilization so when it's pushed back to me as you know against these people or that people and you know it is a serious policy issue that you know we're not advancing and I'm going to call that out this one Advanced one policy but the one that I feel was the most important to poor people struggling in our community we never even discuss so you want to do something on this let's rent stabilize this project for five years let's say there is a price for this it's a rent stabilization of these units for five years under you know no 8% raises no no above CPI rais increases for five years for this property let's R stabilize this one and show that um there's going to be um there's going to be you know shared benefit to people because time and time again this Council benefits the builders and the cons those who are doing development but not the people down be who are in most need unless we're spending Federal money C that I think that is a very inappropriate statement absolutely and you keep saying this Council this Council this Council well Council breus you've been part of this coun you voted against 99% of housing unless it was possibly affordable I don't think I could ever remember a time when you actually voted for a a a regular project so either you want housing or you don't want housing and you want to point the finger down at the legislature or at us it's constant and one of the reasons is it's it's very you have been difficult to deal with on so many different levels and you and combative and and listen I think you're one of of the smartest council members we have but getting along with each other is important to be heard you know I I want to be able to support the things that you do and it just it makes it very very difficult whenever um you're you're demeaning everyone else even staff I I I have to apologize a lot to staff and that just shouldn't be the way it is because we would get a lot more done together than we would separately and that's just unfortunate all right moving on I have a motion no I need a motion do I have a motion I have a motion from councilman Reese I have a second from councilwoman Taylor all those in favor say I I all those opposed opposed motion carries okay D4 thank you so much Jackie it's been a long day and I think we've all been sitting here and we're tired and we're delirious and I need some coffee and you probably need some coffee or someone needs a cocktail not just coffee all right Norma nice to see you I'm back you're back noroo uh HR Director okay I'm here uh for your consideration of the appointment of Jackie Bryant as our interim uh city manager so I have a quick PowerPoint presentation for you um as you know we'll have the city manager position vacate uh vac vacant on July 8th and our Charter does require the position be filled within 6 months we've already hired an executive recruitment from if you've already provided an additional Direction and that is underway while that is happening I think it's important to have an appointment of an interim city manager to ensure the smooth continuation of city services therefore uh bringing forward for your consideration a recommendation to appoint our assistant city manager Jackie Bryant as interim um just for a quick highlight of her background Jackie's been with us as an assistant city manager since April of 2021 she came with us with a very impressive of an extensive uh background uh in legal Regulatory and administrative law and she has also served um significant roles as general counsel and Deputy Chief of Staff for state of Nevada Governors and held a significantly uh important leadership position at the Second Judicial District Court so you can see how impressive her background is and these are just some highlights um today uh what we're looking for is your consideration of the appointment and then also some guidance on salary uh placement if you do approve the interm appointment all all of our management level employees including our assistant city managers are governed under resolution 9170 for benefits and pay the resolution currently is silent on interim appointments as well as silent on salary placement just for reference our current city manager salary is right there in front of you and so I do think that the salary placement of the inter is at your discretion I am making a recommendation of minimum of 15% increase because of the complexity and significance of the role which would place um Miss Bryant at a little over $330,000 a year um the recommendation for 15% that comes from um looking at our cbas and kind of what other labor employees or other groups get we have a variety from 5 to 10 to 15 % um so that's a recommendation in front of you the salary uh savings due to the vacancy are going going to cover this this ask so lastly I have a motion in front of you and if if you wouldn't mind also including a salary recommendation or actually a decision I would be happy to answer any questions if you have okay thank you so much I appreciate it councilwoman eert do you do you have any questions not yet thank you councilman yes madame U mayor a couple things number one um I think the world of Miss Bryant so all of these things uh that you've put up I certainly know uh but every day I see her leadership skill in City Hall and and taking so much of the burden of some of the very challenging areas that uh touch upon City Life and uh some of the areas I don't have a lot of interaction with for example Miss Bryant oversees a lot lot of our clean and safe and and some of the more human Centric Focus side of the house and I don't always get to see it but what I hear from our employees and also the people impacted by those decisions is just Stellar um certainly uh I think to uh it's a job no one wants the interim title right some people want the interim title because they're jocking to then be later appointed to the final thing and I know that neither one of those are true either a Miss Bryant does not want to be the interm city manager but what someone has to do it because I think it's a a heavy burden and B I know she's not interested in the long-term uh uh appointment can we go back one slide sure um I will say one thing that does challenge me is I believe fundamentally that we're really as an organization have done some incredible things in the last 4ish years since Mr Thornley came on and I want to make sure our employees know that I am interested in many of those leadership thoughts and processes going forward I would expect all of our acms and our directors um to really be in position even once we hire a new um city manager but so I I really want to have some some stability among those people and sometimes a person in Miss Bryant's position does not apply for or seek out and I know it's not like that the interim position because sometimes that puts a Target on you when the new person comes in and they're like oh this other person thinks that they were the interim and I I want to make sure that all of our acms know how very much I value their unique assets and roles in the city and certainly of course uh especially important in this discussion is Miss Bryant so I want to understand how we might uh go about making sure that we there is continuity in the organization and that those acms and my my advice would have been is to provide for contracts for the ACM level folks um but I'm not sure why this resolution maybe it does govern it doesn't I don't know if that's something I'll have to address with the city attorney um and then the other thing and I'm I certainly want to hear my colleagues concerns I feel very uncomfortable asking a person um uh who is a woman to do the same job that we are then functionally paying currently a man to do but not paying them the same I I don't understand that we have an incredible um pay Equity Gap in this country between men and women doing the same job and so I do worry that just saying we're going to just bump it up ever so slightly is not indicative even if for the short time that Miss Bryant might be in the role so I don't know why we wouldn't just say the current city manager salary is X and Miss Bryant would be fulfilling that role and therefore entitled that same thing it's a short window that it's going to happen and of course the vacancy salary savings would pay for that too so I I just think that this issue in our country about pay inequality is really real to me and I don't want us to make a decision here today that does not reflect the reality of that happening so those are my thoughts right now and I'm interested to hear my colleagues I was kind of stream of Consciousness thanks so much okay Council woman Taylor thank you Madame mayor um I can't really say more than what councilman ree said I agree absolutely with everything that you said and thank you so much for bringing up the dispar you know the disparen and or I'm not saying the right word because I can't think but the pay Gap I think that is something that is absolutely absolutely I mean it's a no-brainer to me um the other thing that I would think that I think about is the stability of the organization and how far we've come and making sure that there is some sort of contract whatever that is I don't know if this is the time to do it but I want the organization to know that they are valued and we are going to keep moving forward and I'm I'm super excited about our future so thank you very much and and and thank you to miss Bryant for even considering the position councilman Martinez thanks so much Madame mayor thank you Miss anoya for the presentation Jackie thank you for being willing to take on this inim role I know we're asking a lot of of you and I know that uh you're going to do great I obviously have worked with you a couple of times and very prompt very professional very informative discussions that we always have in reaching a resolution whether is what I wanted at the beginning or not we still end up getting some place that moves the organization forward and so I think the the only thing I'll mention on top of that is making sure that folks within the city staff understand that as a board I think all of us have been wanting to continue the direction that the city is heading into and continuing some of those winds that we've been experiencing under uh city manager Thornley and and trying to move some of those cultural changes that have happened moving forward and and ensuring as best as we can to our abilities to continue the efforts and the support that staff have been feeling over the last couple of years so thank you all right councilman breus yeah um thank you Miss santoya for bringing this forward on April 8th the day after Mr Thornley announced his resignation you wrote the council a memo and said that you'd be in May bringing forward a a selection for us and this doesn't feel like a selection because selection involves choice and here we are in June and it's our last gathering before Mr Thornley departs and um we need us someone to be a an an interim and you're not bringing us a choice and I'm just I'm a little confused um you know you're the Human Resources Director you're a department head this is the person who you report to you sent this through Mr Thornley so I presume you and him had a dialogue about it and the mayor you know puts together the agenda with the city manager how did you come about with Miss Bryant as the choice who' you speak to about this in our organization or on the council because the first I saw about it was when I saw a draft agenda I as your as the HR Director am a messenger collectively your assistant city managers and and your city manager have decided to put forward Miss Bryant for your consideration did you have any conversations with the council members on this Mr Reese said I think I quoted no one wants this um and she you know she doesn't want the long-term appointment so how would did who who's been talking about this to the council members did you run this by council members did you talk to the mayor or any of the council members about this proposal I am right now but I have not prior Miss Bryant did you talk to any of the council members about your interest in this or the mayor um I have indicated and uh I will State for the record I am not interested in a long-term position who' you speak to about your interest in this I indicated that to the recruiter at the end of the last meeting but you haven't spoken to any of the council members about this item step in let me step in so how this came to be is Doug Thornley had asked me what what you what does the council want to do and I said I don't really know but I said I think it is more about what you guys want to do because some of you may not be suited to want to do the interim position or bring someone forward that's um uh you know in independent not from the city you guys decide what you want to do and bring it forward to the council I left that up to Mr Thornley that's the very brief conversation we had about this um and I think each I would imagine each one of you have very personal reasons not to um want to be interim um for you know I think very valid reasons I would assume so that's how we got here I left it up to him said you bring It Forward what you think um is appropriate for the city and I put it in his hands it was a very very very brief conversation and I'm sorry if you feel differently but that's why we're here today you can express your disappointment for that um but that was the process so going back to that May April 8th memo where you said you'd be bringing a selection you came consequently in May to talk about the recruitment process and I brought up options I said you want to go with an executive recruiter maybe we should talk to that executive recruiter about an term outside of the organization placement so I was looking for options okay I would have been no no I'm you off okay well minute over okay okay go ahead councilwoman Ebert go ahead yeah I'm curious to how how we came to Jackie without having Council weigh in on it or you know have meetings with the other assistant uh City uh city managers I believe it was the discretion of Doug Thornley am I am I correct well I I shared earlier and I I can be corrected like there's a Goa there's something out there I'm not saying that there is I'm just curious about the process you know cuz when we hear about it the first time okay thank you um but you know council member ree did seem to know that she doesn't want the position full-time so there does seem like there is information that don't know I don't understand this is not like a cross examination I'm not cross-examining am I not allowed to ask because there seems like there's information that I don't know but I just answered it for you I just feels like there might be an underlying sort of you know conspiracy here like there's some gotcha something you know that's I'm sorry I thought I was on a council and my job is to ask questions be defensive trying to tell you I just was accused of uh interrogating somebody yes I was all right I if it was an interrog not going to argue about this okay go ahead I I I was there a question I'm sorry I lost was question I think it's very late okay and we've been sitting here for a long time okay we're moving on M mayor could I have a second round um hold on one second I want to make sure I've asked everyone else okay um councilwoman Eber I assume you're finished with your question starting over for the good for the good of the body it was my understanding that the council appoints who the city manager is so if it was an appointment from the city manager to another city manager that's you know a new process to me so I was just trying to understand what happened here without being accused of being a conspiracy theorist or interrogating anyone so I'm just trying to understand because apparently the understanding I had for the way things work the process flow in my mind was wrong because I thought it was our job to appoint it wasn't Doug Thornley that was appointing his predecessor so that's all now I'm I do sound upset because I've been kind of attacked for trying to find something out but I just wanted to know how we came on this and now I don't want Jackie to think that I don't want her to be in this position I have no problem with Jackie being here I think it's it's wonderful that anybody wants to do it we're crazy up here right but um I just was curious about the process to be frank you're absolutely right the council gets to you it's your you appoint the city manager and this is why we're and this is an interim but that's why we're here so I am bringing forward a recommendation from staff which is I think you know our city manager having a conversation with his assistant city managers and collectively they are bringing this forward for your consideration all right hold on one second hold on just give me a minute or we'll go into 5 minute recess everyone needs to like cool off give us a minute we're going to go into time out okay no the I think the feeling was that you know you were saying oh have you talk to anyone have you talked to anyone is it not appropriate to talk about this so they can collectively come up with whoever might um want it or be most suited or I mean if I'm being considered I want to be part of the conversation with my colleagues and my supervisor so right that's just my personal opinion okay um and this is a little bit different I want to just point out this is important to point out this is different than selecting a city manager because we do get names when it comes to selecting a city manager that's right so just to clarify for the record this is an interim correct correct interim um so just to clarify in an interim um the incumbent or Miss Miss Bryant would keep her assistant city manager job and she would step out of that and enact basically so she's not formally filling the the job I guess like we would under Charter right that's why we have a recruitment yeah not part of this top this subject but the recruiter will be in touch with you to talk about the process for the permanent appointment okay so then to council member's point about the pay if her pay were to change temporarily then does she get reset back to her current position that's correct okay all right yes okay any more questions Council woman any more questions no no okay you doing okay calm down it's okay you're all right all right here we go all right councilman Taylor councilman Martinez yeah thank you I think I the only thing I'll add to the qu to the conversation is that normally staff always gives us recommendations and at the end of the day we have the decision you know we get to make that decision here on the Das and so despite these illusion that are getting propagated about you know something going on underneath the surface I think that this is normal from what I have seen over the past year and a half um on as on my time on the on the dice so I appreciate you doing the work be like in the interim to get us to this point and making that recommendation and so at this point we can decide to either agree with your recommendation um or change it up a little bit and not saying I want to do that Jackie I think I want to support you and doing that you sure I yes I am sure at this moment I want to support you doing that so I just wanted to throw that out there as well okay councilman breus yeah I I just I I want to go back to the process on April 8th a day after he said resignation a memo was written by staff saying they'd bring an item for our selection but somehow in between it appears that the mayor and Mr Thornley decided that staff was going to talk among themselves and recommend one to us and that that was not that should have been happened in public forum but that's what we're doing now no no we're not right now we have an up or down on Miss Bryant being the intern we were going to in may talk about the selection you gave Direction with Mr Thorley for staff to talk about to among themselves about who wanted to do this and that is wrong we are the council we should have had had a public process about who we were going to fill and how we were going to go about filling it we could have said look we're going to want to leave it open some organizations do um you know recruitments apply we could have had an application point where Miss Bryant could have put it in some people could have talked to her and said I you know I'd love to see you put in for it but we could have done it transparently with an application process for an interm appointment we could have had the discussion about asking Bob Murray hey Bob Murray or or whoever you wanted to use um you know do you have any candidates who could apply we could have been very transparent and the problem with this is is well one it seems like there were a lot of closed door walk-in cor discussions but also it's too late and now we're up or down on a vote and I think it really bootes poorly for how we do business here in in moving forward with the permanent selection if we can't even get this one right which I find very flawed to have staff a department head coming forward with their own recommendation for one person without the council having the ability to have the discussions on how we wanted to do these options and you know it's the last day he's out the door unless the mayor did a did a special meeting for us to talk about this you know we have to do this today but I'm not going to support it and I am very concerned that there were walking quorum decision making being made by members of the Council on this again okay thank you are you finished yes I am okay thank you um it's constant insinuation of backdoor deals and a walking Quorum um none of that exists that I am aware of none of that and this is exactly why we bring these issues forward right now right here because you could vote up you could vote down you could give direction and say um you know what Norma that's not not what how I think I would like to see you come back with 10 names bring them back that's what the opportunity is here today but you have someone that actually wants you to believe that there's something going on behind the scenes that is completely nef nefarious and also just the constant insinuations of you know there's all these things going on secretly behind closed doors um conspiracy theories at City Hall it gets really really old and part of that might be because she doesn't get dab communication with others because of sort of the level of hostility that gets sort of brought up continuously so um that's what the option is for the council am I correct Norma we could literally say go get us 10 names bring them forward you could vote for Jackie you could vote against Jackie isn't that what we're doing here today can you clarify for me because I'm getting really confus my understanding really it's a discretion of council how you want to move forward right so there's not none of this you know oh it didn't come on and Doug and I had this private conversation you know it's not like that so there you go it's just constantly trying to um undermine the city and the rest of the council to be honest okay go ahead councilman Reese Madame mayor um I wanted to sort of res situate something and think about when we made our last interm appointment which was when Chief SoDo actually was the interim City Manager for a period of time we didn't have a big big executive recruitment we didn't put it out to the universe and as I recall Miss breus was the one who very much supported Chief SoDo being made the interim person so this claim that we've somehow done something different than we have ever done is fabricated suggestive of a willful disregard of reality and the truth is is that you've done everything right Miss santoyo you've done exactly what uh I I'm not even sure I I recall the I guess the April uh memo I'm not sure that was intended to be the uh Ten Commandments written in stone for people to interpret as they have tonight uh but I can tell you you've done everything right uh our body now has to choose what we want to do here today um I think um I talked to our city managers and directors multiple times a week I ask them check in with them what projects I'm working on of course I ask Miss Bryant whether or not she was up for the task because I want to make sure that we're not setting people up to fail or we're not asking too much of them and quite frankly given this discussion I I if I were Miss Bryant I would run from the building screaming but I was thinking that too I was like a gracious person to a fault she's absolutely the right person for us to be an interim city manager um and so I'm excited that uh that she might even consider it um I'm prepared to make a motion Madam mayor all right thank you so much okay we are ready to make a motion you've had two rounds you've had two rounds you've had two rounds two rounds two rounds okay we're good to go all right give me a motion um uh Mr Reese thank you so much Madame mayor I moved who are you I moved to too long the appointment of Jackie Bryant as interm city manager effective July 8th 2024 at the same rate of pay as the current city manager okay uh I have a motion from councilman Reese I have a second discussion go ahead councilman breus yeah I'm not going to support I mean the statement that well we could have done anything else no the only option here is presentation discussion and po potential appointment of Jackie Bryan it doesn't say or others or to discuss another process this is this is how this filling is the only option before us and I feel it's very wrong that the counil has not had a broader the opportunity to have a broader discussion about how they like to fill this interm appointment and the agenda item was populated by the mayor and staff and um you know who else got you know discussed or gave their you know I'm okay with that nod you know it wasn't me because it never came to me and you know if there were serial discussions are you okay with this are you okay with that that's called a working a walk-in Quorum and it it's a meeting open meeting violation so I really hope that it didn't come to that okay I will vote no you've got to stop with the insinuating and and lying you're you're out and outright lying that's a lie not I that is no and it's constant we're constantly and everyone's like oh just shut up just go along to get along and don't say anything about whenever things are inaccurate and they're not they're not right and they're not right that is not right and you know it well I bring it up Madam mayor because Miss santoyo is a professional it's my time it's my time as you remind me it's your time it is not right it's inaccurate and it's a lie councilwoman breus and you know it is and you constantly do that to undermine the council and so everyone can go out there and say how dare you know this this Council and you you you do it all the time and it's not accurate and it's a way to undermine the city and everyone else that works hard here at City Hall there's a $2,200 or 2200 page report that shows that and I have to call it out because everyone has been saying don't say anything don't say anything don't you know don't do this don't do this just move on move on no but when when it's inaccurate to that level I'm sorry it's a lie and you know better all right we're done I I all right I have a motion and a second do you want I had a discussion yeah um so I'm not trying to Fan any Flames here and I'm not trying to make any kind of accusation or anything I'm just I'm being 100% honest in how I feel as a relatively new council member who has not been through this process I'm being honest here when I say we've been through appointments and we typically have a list of people to choose from for appointments we have one staff report for one person I'm not saying anything nefarious happened to get here but from my perspective it did feel like there was something that I wasn't aware of I just it just seems different than our other appointments and I'm not saying that to be mean or conspir like I I truly didn't know if I was missing something um and Jackie this is no disrespect to you whatsoever but because there wasn't like oh here's the three assistant city managers we're going to you know go over their resumes or whatever it kind of felt like that step had happened but I didn't know about it um so I'm just saying that just to to clarify where I was coming from and I I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings but I'm just trying to be honest with where what I felt like and um you know I I'm not trying to make enemies I appreciate that councilman rebert and thank you for your concern and um articulating it the way that you did so I will just clear the deck here uh Norma and Doug did their due diligence and inquired as to were there options there were none there were none none because no one really wanted to do it and here we we are M with one option and it was not that there was a walk-in Quorum or an backo deal decision it was there were not three options or two to put before you no one want that's what happened well what about asking Bob Murray or one of the recruiters for an interim placement that was an option that's what we're doing but listen that's what we're doing you can give direction we do it all the time councilman breus or I don't want to I I don't want to keep going on and on and on um but we we do change course all the time when there's a motion we modify motions we add things we subtract things so it happens all the time we can change course at any time but how sad is that we really had only one person that I guess said they would take it on because I know how challenging it is this has been a challenging Council I think today has kind of shown you know that we're very very fragmented and I'm so sorry Jackie and I'm I'm embarrassed and I want to apologize to you and I think you're an amazing leader and we're super fortunate to have you so um I want to be extremely supportive because um it's it's been a very tough ride for a long time I I appreciate it but it's it's past my bedtime so we should wrap so I have a motion in second all those in favor say I all those opposed motion um carries uh Council mber were you you yes or no okay thanks all right uh now we've got one more poor poor Mickey is like oh no not now not no anyway no we're excited to um have you present this is always one of my favorite presentations so come on up uh do we have any public comment no see there none okay you should have had like your your mom your dog your brother your sister oh they're here to public comment see you got to get up and say my daughter's amazing no give me one second Madame mayor sorry about that just locating the document bless you no madame mayor at this time we do not have any public comment is there any on Zoom no mad mayor we do not have public comment I guess with that last item where we were trying to not embarrass ourselves and show that we didn't have anyone that wanted to do it okay Jackie Jackie did not want to probably do it you have not received any public comment okay no we do not thank you take it away it's all you Madame mayor council my name is Cody Freeman HR business partner for the City of Reno HR department it's been about a year since I've been up here so it's nice seeing everybody again today I'm going to present on I guess this evening I'm going to present on item G1 that's the 360 degree performance evaluation for the city clerk and I'm going to provide everybody with a hopefully very brief and short summary of The stakeholder feedback first I wanted to talk a little bit about the process and what went into it and so it was a 360° review it was facilitated by the human resources department and we broke it out into three sections external stakeholders those are individuals outside of the organization that work closely with the city clerk internal those are inside the internal stakeholders are inside the organization that work closely with the clerk and then there was a desire from Council last year to break out Council and carve them out so uh we listened to that and we made sure that Council had their own carved out uh survey everybody had 11 days to complete the survey and uh we we sent out several reminders throughout that to make sure sure that uh everyone who wanted to submit a response did what went into the criteria um we rated everything from it exceeds expectations to no basis for judgment and what no basis for judgment simply means is that the person completing the review did not have the opportunity to work work with the clerk um in that scenario so they didn't have a basis for judgment to fill out that portion we also looked at five areas communication interpersonal leadership Innovation management and we had a a field for open comments and you're going to see those comments spread throughout the PowerPoint as well the results for communication skills we decided to look at fundamentals of oral communication and written communication along with the ability to present effective and quality presentations and public settings you'll see on the screen in front of you 95% of stakeholders feel the city clerk exceeds or meets expectations and again on the right side um you'll see a theme here about 4% answered no basis for judgment next we looked at interpersonal skills and relationship summaries when we looked at this category there was a focus on the ability to gain trust relate well to others Foster positive working relationships with Council colleag Community organizations and government agencies you'll find on this screen that 86% of the stakeholders feel the city clerk exceed or meet expectations again um with about 13% over on the right side answering no basis for judgment next we looked at leadership when examining leadership that included the ability to make decisions in a timely manner use sound judgement and decision making and stay current on management practices and techniques to increase the value brought to the city in front of you you see 89% of stakeholders feel the city clerk exceeds or meets expectations with about uh 11% there on the right with for no basis for judgment the next category was Innovation and this category focused on the ability to exhibit short-term and long-term forward thinking approaches and being receptive to change and new ideas 85% of stakeholders feel the city clerk exceeds or meets expectations with about 133% on the right 14% um answering no basis for judgment the final category management when looking at management that focused on being knowledgeable of the city Charter possessing the ability to delegate Authority and Grant Authority at proper times and operate with sound judgment in the evaluation of when the delegation is appropriate stakeholders found that the city clerk exceeds or meets expectations 82% of the time with 18% of them answering no basis for Judgment at this time this concludes my summary of stakeholder feedback and I would like to invite city clerk Mickey Huntsman to the podium to present the final item of the day her self evalu last but not least the we save the best for last there you go Cody great job Cody you did an excellent job I love have you presented were you nervous on and off you don't seem like it you don't seem you seem so like calm and cool I think I thought you did a great job all right Mickey take it away thank you Madame mayor for the record I'm Mickey Huntsman your Reno city clerk um i' just like to acknowledge I'm also very tired I was at elections all day yesterday and all night last night so what time did you get home um we left there a little after midnight like 1 1:00 yeah I knew that was a long which I'm normally like a 8 p.m. or right right so you are really tired today don't mind me yeah you're going to be great go for it um and I just want to acknowledge the the respondents they they only had 11 days um and to get that many people responding I'm I'm very appreciative of that especially my fellow clerks I know only seven of them got back to us um but it is election season early voting was happening during this time um and a lot of them were at a conference in Canada so I just want to say thank you to them for taking the time to do the thing because we're all very busy Madame mayor city council members and esteemed colleagues and valued citizens it's both an honor and a privilege to stand here before you today to reflect on the progress we've made over the past year and also to set goals for this upcoming season I love quotes um I love how they encapsulate an essence of an idea and each year you all probably know that I start my presentation off with a quote um and this one this year really struck me so with that welcome to my book club my staff is listening and they're probably all cringing because they've been through so many with me um but with this quote and with your permission I'd like to start by reviewing the last 365 pages of my story oh sorry um so before you now is my big three for year three so these were the goals that I set for myself last year um and on reflecting upon these I'm really proud to say that my team relentlessly pursued the achievement of these goals um in the first area of enhancing Services one of the many ways we enhan services in the last year remarked uh yielded remarkable results you may remember that I brought forward last year we were performing um a review that we collaborated with Chief Nance and the command staff on with RPD to assess their current practices of the records team um I could not have imagined the success that we would see from this effort through just slight restructuring and process modification the city has seen a 90% reduction in the completion time for RPD records requests I honestly could not have done it without the support and Lead uh the support of the leadership team in RPD records which is me Nina Mary Dorene and Lynn um also with assistant chief olly Miller he was phenomenal through the process and very supportive um and finally with Chief Larsson honestly we could not have made changes and seen this Improvement without their help and now I'm happy to say that we're ensuring access to crucial RPD records to the citizens of Reno um in a much quicker and efficient way in the second space equity and government um when I set out with this goal last year it seemed more like I would be trying to fill something in a Dei space working with Cynthia sparza um on the language access plan finding better ways to connect with the community and City Council meetings and while we did some of that um it really panned out differently than I thought most of my time and efforts were spent working with other city clerks across Nevada um for equity and simplicity with candidate filing and voter access the Washo County registar of Voters and the Secretary of State's office were really receptive to the feedback that the city clerks were providing um and there's a lot of work still to be done in this area but I am proud of the progress that we have made um over the last 12 months and finally last year I wanted to tackle technology enhancements or improvements uh and to be honest I have no idea what I was thinking um I don't work in it I don't manage it Craig isn't in the room but um honestly if he's listening and hiring like he wouldn't want me I'm just kidding it's fine um but in these spaces that we have decision in and influence um we did accomplish quite a bit it's new and we're still learning about the technology and Chambers but honestly it's awesome the changes have been phenomenal we have less Gremlins in the room we have Tech less Tech issues um and I was really happy and honored that it came alongside the clerk's office to be able to launch a system in this room that has been seamless um and in addition to just the mics and the screens we also now have um Technologies to assist with the hearing impaired community that launched a few weeks ago um and so we're really excited that we were able to work with them to get that to get that moving the city team that manages and M maintains City Records is simply incredible um this is not limited to my for employees but also to the IT team that also supports us the onbase team went through a system upgrade this year while on its face sounds like restart button um refreshing of your web page but the reality was they spent 3 months prepping for the upgrade um they spent three and a half months testing the upgrade in a test system before we actually pushed it out to the staff and then about two and a half plus months actually working through the bugs once it actually went live and so just the amount of work that that takes in addition to their daily tasks was just a huge undertaking and I'm so proud that they were able to do that um and so nothing with technology is easy but honestly I'm glad that I took took on this task um and you will see that because it is here it will continue on to my upcoming goals for this year because technology changes um and I think it's our responsibility to make sure that we stay fresh in this space now uh my my numbers may not have shown it but my closing thoughts for this last year um I just want to acknowledge that it also presented some challenges um as the city clerk I recognized that I did have more on my plate than ever before and some areas where I feel like I generally SAR may have dipped um to know me is to know that I love this organization and I love my team but the communication and collaboration at times have suffered because of busyness and imbalances of my priorities and so to those who are impacted primarily my staff I would just like to say that I'm sorry um and to this body and to my colleagues please know that I'm committed to finding a better balance um in this upcoming season so the last of my highlights for 23 and 24 is to mention and highlight my exceptional team there are a group of women whose dedication has propelled us into New Heights together we processed a record breaking 22350 records requests um which do not include subpoenas which were about 50 additional summons or or subpoenas for records our parking services team serviced over 1,200 customers with residential parking permits citation appeals um or about 5,000 plus or minus customers for payments um in sewer so on and so forth my team processed admin and council's appeals they accepted decision letters publicly noticed hearings and meetings honestly wrangled their chaos creating a boss um all while just providing outstanding customer service to our constituency day after day and I wouldn't be successful without them I love them and I am so proud of them but let's be honest it was not all work there was lots of play so the Reno city clerk's office proudly celebrated the 50th 55th birthday of professional Municipal Clerk's week with uh an event we we dubbed clerk Cella um we traveled through musical eras and genres fostered camaraderie and had just a blast doing so we were like fighting criminals on Cowboy day we had headbanger day we handed out um Candy grams on um retro day it was a good time and so that leaves us looking forward to the unwritten pages of this upcoming year with city manager Thornley departing and at least one new city council member joining the board identifying my upcoming goals brought on its own set of emotions and challenges I consistently tell my team to find their why meaningful change happens with a focal point and so this is how I've landed on my 24 25 areas of focus before I get into my goals please pin these six areas as I'll focus on these as I pursue my goals for this upcoming year under number one I've identified change management inevitably the next year um for the City of Reno will be consumed with managing the changes happening to it Mr Thornley has done an incredible job at creating processes establishing working paths for projects and creating a culture unique in in municipal government I know that you all have the impossible task as we just heard of replacing someone so special and I hope um and my hope is just to support this organization by approaching this change with intentionality empathy and strategic planning Reno and its employees um often know how to position themselves because we live in an everchanging landscape and to me this looks like more mentorship opportunities both for myself seeking mentorship but also providing mentorship to the people in this organization and outside of it it looks like clearer communication um more opportunities for engagement in the right spaces resiliency and mostly just support number two is continuity in government I used to watch my predecessor and still do in her new role as ACM pursue continuity and government with Vigor how can we expect our constituency to understand and support its local government when we all manage practices completely different we see this happening specifically in the space of public records day in and day out and frankly it's unfair clerks play a crucial role in their organizations by setting the tone and my commitment to this change um is the consistency in messaging and the visible support to the fundamental change that we need to see happen um I'm excited to face these obstacles I'm excited to spend more time at the legislature just having more of those conversations um and just working with the city manager's office and our government team to just make sure that we are actually a part of that conversation and that we are driving the change rather than allowing the change to continue happening to us and finally it's the technology enhancements um and so again without a ton of detail in this specific space um I really want to focus efforts on our boards and commissions um application acceptances and processing member training and website management um we are looking forward to launching a Citywide parking service platform this would essentially be a One-Stop solution for um to improve the customer experience and then also uh improve the internal workflows for parking and then finally um working on a customer facing payment portal so that there there is one allocated location for our customers and our constituency to be able to come and just pay their bills so in closing I just want to express my gratitude to each and one each and every one of you for your unwavering support of me together I am confident that we will continue to serve our community with excellence and integrity in the years to come and here are your next steps and when you're ready for it we have a motion well this is interesting cuz you're actually you work for the council I was going to say Norma um because first of all I think you've done a phenomenal job I love how you are training every single person in your department so that you can duplicate yourself that shows strong leadership and confidence um I mean really honestly Mickey there is nothing that I could say about you that um the only thing is maybe I would allow you to cut off council members so I don't look like the bad guy all the time cuz they think that I'm being mean and nasty when I'm trying to be fair to everyone maybe here it's going to be your job but thank you so much okay Council woman neber I'm going to send it to you I just want to say thank you for all the work that you do I know it's such a huge you know task that you have with you know you're the clerk but what does that mean right all the records and you know the payment system that you're working on and the staff and everything and I don't think people really um realize how much you do for the city and and for the staff here and for us and I just really appreciate your work and um it's really apparent how much you love it and I really appreciate that and I appreciate working with you so thank you all right go ahead councilman uh re thank you madam mayor and I'll try to be brief because the hour is late but I do want to acknowledge how important this is and each year I know that you may not look forward to it but I do um as um Madame mayor said we have two employees the city manager and the city clerk and so in that regard uh you know I take a great deal of pride in the fact that we have you and you have been so tremendous for this organization I want to encourage you to continue to seek um opportunities to learn and grow um I think um everyone especially when you get to the level you are and you're leading whole groups of people and you're a leader among your peers in this date it can be easy to think like hey I've arrived and I know that that's not true for you because you always are trying to find the latest book to read and read with your team and do these great things but you have to also take time for yourself and in that regard I'll um say that you should investigate whatever professional development opportunities you can I would throw Harvard in there as an example there were several clerks in my um uh cohort and they were people doing the same kind of work and really it's just an opportunity to grow your individual Network and also to learn a lot more about the craft second is your team is often the first people that I interact with in the morning and also the first team that anyone interacts with of people who come in from the street uh because they're right there inside the door and sometimes their businesses with the clerk's office and I can tell you um because your leadership style is so engaging your it spills out into your uh co-workers and colleagues um and they just seem to have such a good attitude and and they're just working so diligently and and we've tasked them with a lot of varied things and so I know that you give a lot of credit to your team um but a good team doesn't happen by accident so you have to take some credit for it but it's also me acknowledging how incredible I think they are at their craft and and what they're doing so uh kudos to the entire team uh the third thing and because you mentioned it in your presentation I'll say is about technology um I I um I think this is an area where we as a city can get better and it's kind of like the Confluence between it and your office part of it is I think we have not yet figured out all the things that can be done with our program software that we use in Council and so I'd like to figure out that in the next year um and so um and again I I'm getting really granular and nitty picky because there's so many good things and Madame mayor said you know what could we say I I just think you've done a tremendous job so instead I've got a poem for you so I wrote in Reno's halls there dwells a name Mickey Huntsman a clerkly Fame with diligence and Grace she steers the ship through paperwork waves never aslip in files and folders her kingdom lies each document placed with careful eyes from permits to ballot she tends with care ensuring Reno's Affairs are always fair with a smile and a laugh she tackles each task no challenge too great no question to bask in Mickey's hands records find their home in Reno's heart her dedication is shown so here's to Mickey the city's own star guiding reeno with talents afar in her hands the city Finds Its Groove with Micky's touch Reno will always improve thank you chat GPT for the help you I love it I love it that's so great and I do Madame mayor uh for my colleagues benefit I do have a recommendation which I think uh would come with the motion practice but I thought I could come to that in the second round all right all right councilwoman Taylor thank you madam mayor and um Mickey I'm just it's a pleasure to work with you and your team I sometimes lose sight of everything that you do and it's a good reminder um to see your accomplishments and what you and you your team have done over the last year and it's very impressive um I often look at what you're doing over here and trying with all the things that we are throwing at you and that's first of mine for me and you do a tremendous job at that and so so do your folks um looking at the back end of things there's so much more that you do that is valuable to the city and valuable to our community and I said it last year we are lucky to have you and um I'm I'm just really I'm really pleased with all of the work that you do all of the work that your team does as councilman ree said I when I walk in on the second floor it is the joy of the [Music] day to see you and um everybody's helping some somebody and it's just the face that um it's the face of the city that I want people to see so thank you very much thanks so much Madame mayor and Miss hman thank you for the presentation just want to highlight you know some of the accomplishments that you uh had already put in here but over 22,000 record requests that your team has processed um and I I was reading your self- evaluation and I think you are very analytical and truthful and really using your own knowledge of your field and your profession and how you can improve and so I like what you said about mentoring uh folks within your group and outside uh the organization and making sure that you're also receiving that sort of mentorship to grow and that just takes a strong dedicated uh leader like yourself to continue doing the work that you do helping more than 5,000 of our residents come through City Hall and being um one of the first public facing you know departments that we have I think it's important of the team that you've built I know they're always very friendly very engaging and you have a lot of multilingual folks in your department and I know that helps bring more people in um as they continue to navigate our our processes so continue to do the great work um continue to look for ways to expand and increase technology um and the way that you manage your team you're doing a great job thank you go ahead yeah thank you um you know I just want to say last um year when you asked for a raise commensurate with the finance director uh I didn't support it because I just don't think the clerk's job has the scope of responsibilities and equal compensation I think that's consistent um with you know how other cities operate but having said that so I think it was a little awkward you know between us for a while but I I just I really do think you do a good job I've tried to um you know I did my evaluation late this year I was on vacation I apologize and if you have any qu usually I meet with you before but I didn't but you had any questions and you know I just or years ago we had a vacancy in the Civil Service Commission and we hired an interim placement a woman who came from Long Beach to help work for the civil service for about 6 months or so and I remember her telling me that in Long Beach where she had she had just left they had an interim placement for city manager and the council went with the clerk to be the interim city manager and I had thought that maybe the council was going to you know have a discussion about how to fill and you're you know I think you would have had the opportunity and the leadership and the the equilibrium to to step into that role of given that opportunity I don't know if it was ever in your mind it would ever went that way um but I I think that um I think that you know that's and I don't mean it to throw back to the council the process that I I you know we went over last time but um which you know I've said my comments in that but really that's just the praise that I have for you because I think that um you know I think you're doing a great job in the clerk's office you know I encourage you to make a career of it and really be a Shiner for that profession but I think that you have um other reach areas that you could have been gone and if the council had decided to have a a discussion about you know who they wanted I would have I would have thought that you could hold down the fort you know for this organization and I know you love it so you know keep doing that great work in the clerk and and I think you'll um you know have other opportunities to have a long rewarding career here and um and and you know build the needs you know that are needed above and beyond because I think you've got this clerk stuff down quite a bit um I'm not encouraging you to jump but you know I think I think you know maybe there'll be another inter term someday cuz um I think that you do very well in and I think you're you have very good discernment well that was nice thank you I appreciate that I wish we'd been able to talk about who we wanted to be inter but you could have we had the discussion anyone could have been it it I don't care could have been Carl huh Carl no you don't want [Laughter] it um all right Mickey what are we going to do with you Madame mayor I'm prepared to accept the um city clerk's um presentation and believe that it is appropriate based on the factors identified in the overall evaluation metrics uh to uh propose a raise of uh 5% okay uh I have a motion second I have a second uh any discussion Council one breus no okay um all those in favor say hi all those opposed motion carries congratulations thank you so much Mickey you're one of the everyone just loves and adors and you're just so nice to be around well you have family here I could ask them and they're going to tell us the real deal right they be like that's not true no you don't live with her Mickey yeah you don't live with her thanks Mickey for everything you're amazing and we appreciate everything you've you've been doing for us have a good night go home get some sleep we we still have item j i we have Jay but let let her go [Laughter] home okay it's okay I'll go back all right Madame mayor with that we're on item H1 city council comments I think we've had a lot of those today a lot of us are tired and cranky and no comments All I would say is don't take it personal when you walk away we should all get along right see there you go we're all okay so Madame mayor we're on item J1 we do have one public commenter here with us tonight and if you're in zoom and would like to make public comment raise your hand Pablo Nava Duran Pablo you stay with us all day long yes you win the medal yes I do you win the Medal of Honor good for you yep I hadd to stay here all day long impressed yeah I'm impressed because it's my day off today so oh bless your heart and you chose to spend it with us your day off okay yes go ahead PA so wanted to what see conso what how work Cino doing so far so go so so I bought the like a neighborhood of Advisory Board the nap one so I live in War I so I could maybe apply it for nap war and then I was thinking Martinez like so I have questions so what happened so so with the nap meeting like if a person who on in a nap meeting like War five current War five meeting the their war going be changing to war one now they're War one meeting right so I I don't know what go to do they just need to reapply to the new number in November mhm uh yes November all right when it takes place all right I'm going I'm going to apply for in in November okay good all right sound good and know also take some rest have a great summer oh thanks Pa that's so kind of you likewise to you get some rest and have a great summer and maybe on your days off go do something that you just absolutely love to do instead of spending it here where we get all like you know little we get a a little what I don't know panicked I don't know it's been a long one thanks so much how you welcome okay okay Madame mayor additionally for the record we received 33 comments which were General in nature or received after 400 p.m. yesterday June 11th 26 letters in favor three in opposition and four of concern those have been distributed to the Reno city council and are a part of the record so we are just looking for a motion to adjourn so moved oh I have a motion to adjourned can we open it up for discussion just kidding I get a second from Council discussion from that was funny that was very funny good sense of humor although fa say hi all those oppos motion cares I want to know what happens if I don't accept the motion can I keep you here all night I I want to live here night John night Carl