foreign foreign foreign um foreign you want to unmute us good morning Madame mayor if you are ready to call the meeting to order we are all set I am thank you so much I'm ready to call the meeting to order for Wednesday April 26 2023. before we do that I'm going to send it over to councilman Martinez he has some special guests in the audience today thank you mayor appreciate that yeah we do have some special guests I want to recognize today I want to appreciate the students from matter Academy for being here and some of the staff and I'm wondering if I can ask you all to lead us in the pledge today so if you're willing if you could come up to the podium for us yeah and lead us in the pledge thanks I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice good job future mayors all right Madam clerk I'm going to send it back to you for roll call thank you madam mayor calling to order Wednesday April 26th councilmember breakfast I'm here duer here Martinez here Ebert here Taylor here Reese absent at this time Chevy here Madame mayor you do have a quorum of the Reno city council all right thank you so much Madam clerk I'm going to send it right back to you for item A3 public comments thank you we're gonna go ahead and open item A3 which I believe is we're going to start off with a proclamation from council member door she's very excited about this she called me last night and said she is thrilled and over the moon love it over in the moon and hanging with the trees um my name is Naomi Dewer Arena council member and I have with me um some of our key staff that are carrying the torch so to speak for our trees and I first want to introduce uh Nathan uliat if I got that right right um Matt brezina Mattis here and Matt Basil and so Nathan is our department head map resin is in charge of parks maintenance and Matt Basil's our Urban Forester and then also joining us is Katie and Katie your last name Harris Harrison right um Katie Harrison who has been doing a phenomenal job here as we've seen on a lot of the engineering projects and we also have who will be introduced later a surprise guest so I want to just mention that um Arbor Day is this coming Friday it's celebrated nationally the whole America gathers to celebrate our trees and we do too we're going to have an event at 1pm all of you are invited everyone in the audience everyone listening all of our staff out to Whitney Peak and our biggest little dog park where we will be recognizing some of our volunteers have been working on planting trees and some of the challenging spaces in our community and I just want to note that we've had many plans I call for trees the starting with the downtown action plan those have been around a while remember that one the Puma plan are reimagine Reno master plan trees are threaded throughout that we have a separate Tree Management plan we recently adopted just last meeting the place making study that also called for trees um and then I all of those studies say trees are what makes a difference in a community especially when you are a fast warming Community such as Reno very fast warming we've got Urban heat even the legislature is recognizing the issue and adopting some Urban heat mitigation proposals and they are also um looking at additional funding for the division of Forestry to support us in our efforts in urban forestry and then finally a good announcement in the last two weeks I've spent a lot of time with Kerry Koski her team working out the trees right on here on First Street and it looks like we have a go forward Solution on that we'll be talking about it later in our agenda but with that I'd like to call on Nathan and maprazina to read a proclamation in honor of our Arbor Day thank you [Music] thank you madam mayor members of the council thank you for having me here for the record Matt brezina City of Reno Parks manager and I'm happy to read the proclamation so whereas Arbor Day is dedicated to the planting of trees in our community in order to promote a sustainable environment and bolster our quality of life and whereas the covid-19 pandemic has shown through multiple National surveys that parks and Open Spaces are essential to the physical and mental well-being of adults in the United States and whereas trees are important to the quality of life as they remove carbon dioxide filter air pollutants and cut costs for heating cooling while providing environmental benefits and whereas trees in our community and trees in our city increase property values enhance the economic Vitality of business areas and beautify our community and whereas the City of Reno has been recognized as a tree City USA by the National Arbor Day Foundation each year since 1982 and will celebrate the its 41st year as a tree City USA the longest a city in the state of Nevada has held such title and whereas the City of Reno is committed to planting new trees and expanding its tree canopy through the releaf renal program by sponsoring a tree planting event at the biggest little dog park and at Center Creek Park in partnership with keep Truckee Meadows beautiful now therefore I Hilary L Chevy mayor of the City of Reno Nevada do hereby declare Friday April 28th as Arbor Day enough note one of the things Matt mentioned in the proclamation is that we are the oldest tree City in Nevada about to celebrate now our 41st year that is a long history for a place like us and I want to say that started 41 years ago but today we have Nathan I've spent at least an hour talking with Nathan about trees since he's come on board and I know that he is going to be a terrific Champion for this effort and with that I'd like to hand it over to Matt Basil we will be presenting awards at the awards ceremony but while we're here we wanted to recognize the city employees who have been nominated and won an award for their work with trees Matt thank you honorable mayor and city council uh thank you for having me here today to recognize the city's efforts in urban forestry and growing our Urban Tree canopy uh we wanted to recognize three City staff today who have made major contributions to our program uh Greg Johnson Kyle daders and Brandon Hill of the right-of-way management team in public works have made great strides in capturing data and historical agreement documents into GIS geographic information systems that have helped us immensely to be more efficient effective and targeted in the tree maintenance work that we do the members of this team are behind the scenes but are doing incredibly important work for our city Greg Kyle and Brandon will be receiving Awards this Friday at the biggest little dog park downtown during our Arbor Day ceremony which is at one o'clock and all are welcome thank you did you want to run it so this is uh Greg Johnson here um and he is what's your job titles [Music] of us don't get to get to me that's right about what you're doing yeah [Music] um it's Greg Johnson and the asset data program manager for Public Works um been working with Matt and uh his team on developing a landscape area maintenance database so that him and his team can recall and pull up information related to Beauty handbooks and agreements in particular landscaped treed areas of the city so that they can make more informed decisions and operational decisions so yeah well it's great to meet you great to have you here it's really important I don't think people really realize what happens behind the scenes in a city and who really makes it run and really it's all of you guys so instead of the Dream Team you're the tree team yeah there you go okay you can add and we could not do it without their leadership so thank you so much Carrie's been amazing working with me on First Street totally unraveling their plan and coming up with new plans so that we can actually live the dream as you say manamere thank you for having us taking this time this morning thank you thank you thank you yeah please [Music] yeah Mountain Clerk yes members yeah council member Martinez if you would like to go first I think they gotta get back we do have a gmrsini they gotta go back to school with matter Academy of Northern Nevada okay okay Madam mayor and all all your council members I want to thank you guys for giving us the opportunity to be here today um we had the delightful pleasure of giving um council member Martinez a tour of our school and he saw the efforts of our dedicated first graders as they were raising funds to go to the Sacramento Zoo so we uh thank you for entertaining the idea of helping support that very excited um as we look forward to getting on a chartered bus and going to the zoo they will all be presenting their uh Zoo reports that they have been working on in front of the zoo animal and they're going to really take it from here because they really know a whole lot more about the zoo than I do are we ready okay my name is Julia and my animal is a red panda and I am I so excited to go to the zoo you're gonna love that did you say red panda red panda okay my name is margel my favorite animal is the poison dart frog and it's my favorite part of the zoo is seeing my animal okay poison dark frog I am going to assume he's very poisonous why is that your favorite if he's dangerous [Laughter] hi my name is Selena and my animal name is for the turtles and I'm excited for the zoo to eat ice cream oh good well you're gonna love it you're gonna have a great time thank you all for thinking about us thank you we would also encourage anyone who would like to come see our school to come visit we really do have some magical things happening and our students are pretty amazing huh and yeah tell us a little bit about your school where it is what grade I am a charter school at k-a Charter School attached to the Boys and Girls Club so we are on 9th Street and um we yeah we are working some magic every single day we'd love to have anyone who'd like to come and see us take a visit and it sounds like you're taking donations to send the kids to the zoo yeah okay so our family when are you going they go in a couple of weeks week next week next Friday we go next Friday because there's a lot of people also watching this and there's a lot of people in the audience and oftentimes they um reach out and offer donations oh that would be exciting wouldn't it well I'm excited for you guys bring us back pictures we will huh yeah thank you thank you so much councilman Martinez is there anything you'd like that yeah we'll just add that I appreciate the time um that I shared not just with staff but with the students there and seeing how engaged the students were in the classrooms and the technology that was used in the classroom I was very impressed about why you all are doing so I hope you enjoy the zoo and that you get to see the animals that are your favorites so enjoy the red panda and the Frog and the ice cream and the ice cream don't forget the ice cream all right thank you so much okay Madam clerk I'm going to send it back to you thanks Madam mayor so we're going to go ahead and open general public comment item A3 it should be noted to those in the audience that comments are to be addressed to the mayor and Council as a whole comments heard under this item will be limited to three minutes per person and may pertain to matters both on and off the council's agenda please note that the council may not take action upon 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 three minutes if you're in attending the zoo meeting would like to make public comment please raise your hand at this time and lastly while in this room please be respectful warnings will be issued by the presiding officer if there's disruptive behavior and you will be asked to leave Chambers if the behavior continues our first public commenter today is Mack Rossi followed by Terry Brooks followed by Rosita toward derova good morning good morning mayor um council members Doug my name is Mack Rossi and I'd like to share an experience that I've had with the Warsaw County Commission while applying for a position with the county committee I was introduced to their program for how they handle volunteers the program starts with recruiting how they recruit it's it's set up for interviews with the HR department also with their committees and then at the last resort to the Commissioners themselves after being able to be placed on a committee you receive an ongoing update of any information that may relate to the program after you've served on the length of the committee you are recognized with your certificate of appreciation for your service of that committee I'll give you a little history a little history on my comments about volunteering with the City of Reno first I feel the City of Reno has missed a couple of steps in their programming and working with volunteers for better results after being on the on the North neighborhood why neighborhood Advisory board for five of Ward five for ten years and knowing how many hours of hours I got invested and volunteered and how many projects I left that committee without even the type of a thank you from the City of Reno after being on the senior citizens Advisory board for the city for over 14 years and knowing how many hundreds of hours involved in all the projects I departed from the committee without any type of a thank you from the City of Reno after being involved in the city Charter committee for four years and all the involvement with government Affairs and leaving that committee without even a thank you from the City of Reno that I live in so that's just some information I just wanted to share I I want to let you know that this isn't just about me I've talked to many other the Pasco volunteers and heard the same story at the end of their term they never received a thank you or even a patent on the back for their service for the city Arena I've also talked to these past com co-volunteers and said it was a personal reward experience to have served the City of Reno they live in my point maybe is a time for the city to review their volunteer program and start to start to finish and hope you have one I hope I've left you with some food for thought I thank you and one other comment is that one of your council members has served on the committee for the Planning Commission for many years and for that committee she deserved a plaque thank you thank you so much Mack great point Terry Brooks followed by Rosita tordorova followed by Donna Collins hey Terry Brooks again and today I came here to face the act of discrimination when it comes to health and race when people who own a lot of housing discriminate against people because of their race then a lot of people live in worse housing because of their race and because a lot of schools were once segregated by race kids then lived with less education because of their race and because they had less education because of their race they wound up getting fewer and lower paying jobs because of their race and because of lack of employment and he also lacked Health Care so they wound up living most of their lives without having any health care but now things are somewhat better and health care workers don't refer to race they use the word ethnicity instead when referring to a case the true meaning of the word ethnicity is a subcultural group within a Multicultural Society and by using the word ethnicity not only is it more accurate but it has much better publicity so by using such an accurate words such health care workers see humans as they are instead of using the words that discriminators say they are health care workers do their work to keep people alive so they do their best to help everyone survive it's true that some ethnicities are more susceptible to some diseases so instead of discriminating by race helping all ethnicities pleases helping people of all ethnicities to recover and stay alive eventually helps the whole human species to recover and stay alive when I studied anthropology in classes at the University one thing I learned about Evolution was the value of diversity I would like to thank you all for listening to me today and I look forward to coming back if I'm healthy enough that day thank you so much great job and then I would just say I know councilman Durer would love one on trees if we could get one on trees if councilwoman dur will hang it in her office please trees please Rosita todorova followed by Donna clontz good morning Madam mayor and city council thank you so much for giving me the time to speak with you today my name is Rosita and I'm a local artist and educator and I am your 2022 23 Reno City artist I'm honored to serve in this role where I get to advocate for the Arts and I also get to have a solo Exhibition at the Metro Gallery and I've currently curated a group exhibit for you guys in the Metro Gallery it's right outside of your chamber doors the exhibit is called between Earth and Sky and features 13 artists Northern Nevada artists that are making artwork about the Great Basin uh when I was putting this show together it was really important for me to show the diversity of artists that we have here in Northern Nevada but also have artists that are working in very different ways to depict this amazing place that we live that looks like nowhere else on Earth uh when I was putting the show together I was thinking about a few different ideas one materiality what kind of materials are artists using to depict the Great Basin two just depiction like how are they going to show the Nevada uh desert uh and then um abstraction how do artists reframe what we see into something new through their hand as well as documentation through photography I had a longer idea of what I was going to talk to you about but realizing I only have three minutes I just want to tell you about one artist um and they happen to be a previous student of mine I'm a professor of art at Truckee Meadows Community College and I've included one of my students in this show a photographer Kirsten massenger and she um in her photography two photos that are outside is depicting zero finic plants plants that take very little water to grow and are native here in Nevada and when she first showed me these photographs I looked at them and I thought gosh I've never seen these plants before and she's used a micro lens so you see these tiny plants in a Monumental scale and uh and and I was so surprised because I had never seen them and then right after seeing them I went on my daily walk and I saw them everywhere and that's what art can do an artist can give you a reframing of something that you thought you knew so I hope that you look outside at the artist that we have exhibited it I've put information about how each artist is thinking about their work next to the artwork a little statement that you can read and I hope that they help you see our world uh our Great Basin in a new light in a new way uh we have a reception for the exhibition on May 18th in about a month from five to seven the artists will be there and I've also included our Reno Poet Laureate uh Dustin Howard as part of this I asked him if he would collaborate with me to write something about a great the Great Basin and of course he went one step further he wrote a poem about the exhibition and each stanza of the exhibit actually is about one of the artists the poem is up on display along with the art right outside of the chambers and I hope that you turn it into a scavenger hunt for yourself read the poem and see if you can identify which stanza goes with each artist I'm also creating a catalog for this show which will be available during the reception and I hope that you can join us in the public endurance for that as well happy to take any questions I think well thank you so much we're super excited to have you we did meet outside and I I was just um thrilled to be able to see the work but also how you've included all the other artists I think that is fantastic when you're promoting other artists and you're an artist thank you right and so you're really trying to lift everyone else up but the work is fantastic I can't wait to for all of us to come to the reception and we're excited to have you so great job and it's so true how art can open your eyes yeah and you just you just made such a good point how I think we get so used to day-to-day living and someone might give us a different perspective and then all of a sudden we see it everywhere around us exactly and it's um that's you're exactly right it's what art does so congratulations thank you we're excited for you Donna clontz followed by Chris Bell via zoom and Paco La Choi via Zoom I gave the clerk some materials did everybody get them perfect a little packet okay I'll start my name's Donna clontz um good good morning mayor Chevy Council and Mr city manager I'm here today to talk to you a little bit about some of the senior things that are happening and I wanted you all to have copies of the new uh older Americans booklet I gave some to councilman Martinez last night at the record Parks meeting we have them in Spanish as well I wanted you to know that and this is 30 days of fun all over the city for our senior community in parks in buildings in um non-profits all kinds all kinds of things and our museums are doing free days for seniors this year as well so the theme this year is aging Unbound and we are definitely that also in your packet I've given you this month's senior Spectrum for April a lot of great information there about senior activities going on we have gotten a new uh form for a survey for the age friendly programs in Sparks and in Washoe County so Reno's been doing R since 2018 and they're about to start so their survey is there you can see a a piece of it or you have a copy of what it is and it's going to be the whole of Washoe County so we're going to get a five years after kind of survey information back on what people think about what makes a place a great place to be uh to be Aging in and I gave you one more one more which is the flyer for our next two resource fairs which are at Spanish Springs Library so we're moving up to the north end of our of our region to give those seniors a chance to get it to meet and get resources that they might need the last thing I wanted to talk about was your item D3 today which is the arpa funding that you set aside for the seniors it took a long time there was a lot of back and forth between the community the the senior board and the staff to find get a lot of questions asked and answered and to see what made up the the requests for use of these funds and again we thank the council greatly for setting aside the million dollars for our seniors there's so much that it will do my big concern is that there will be a new person hired in the city the senior coordinator I voiced it at all the meetings before this person needs to be someone who's very versed in our senior community someone who may be a senior themselves maybe not but they need to be someone who knows seniors who has years of experience working with seniors who knows programming and can be a person who can hit the ground running and not not be someone brand new who's going to learn on the job so that's my main thing there and the second is engage with the seniors this person needs to not just be the the detail of this job is amazing they need to be out and about with the seniors as well they get to they need to know and speak with the seniors who are in our programs here in town and get to know a lot of the resource providers that are out there we're a great group to know we've got a lot of things going on we're going to welcome this new person to uh to the group and we're so glad you're that you're putting a special emphasis on having a new staff person that will work with all of us on the things that will make a life better place here age friendly here in Reno thank you and maybe there's some way to coordinate um part of in the interview process or something that'd be great because I think that's helpful when you have a say definitely all right thanks so much time one question is this just do you do this every month this though a older Americans month is one in one month it's one month every year month of May because this is pricey it is that was done uh as part of Washoe County's contribution to the to the uh effort all of the senior advisory boards and a lot of the seniors played a role in figuring out what we should do this year and so there's something for everyone and again first time we've translated the booklet into Spanish and I gave a few of those to councilman Martinez and I can get more if you need the Spanish version for our Spanish-speaking residence it's done really well so thanks yeah I will pass it on thank you thank you we have Chris Bell via Zoom Chris please state your name for the record and begin speaking Chris give us just a second we need to make some audio adjustments [Music] okay Chris can you go ahead and try again it's coming out of there okay sorry Chris one more second foreign okay Chris third time's the charm I can still hear it in the back Chris I apologize we're having some technical issues we're going to move you back over as a panelist we're going to open our next item but we will come back and hear these two Zoom comments that we have waiting in the room all right thank you madam clerk um our next item is approval the agenda and I want to turn to our city manager and see if anything needs to be taken out of order or pulled no not today okay um I am looking for a motion please for to approve the agenda motion to approve second okay we have a motion to approve and a second is there any discussion on the motion all in favor please say aye aye aye any opposed motion passes unanimously um we are now looking at the consent agenda and I'm asking council members if they'd like to pull any items off the consent agenda and I'm going to start to my left councilmember drawer before we do that if you don't mind we do have a public commenter in the audience if I can go ahead and take that first sure fine we'll go back to public comment okay great Riley Sherman thank you hello my name is Riley Sherman and I live in Ward 2 represented by our council member Naomi Dewar as a student at Galena High School my life has become surrounded by the stress of whether there will be a future for not only me but all of my classmates climate change is one of the most daunting issues facing our society and the small actions I have taken to reduce my waste will never be enough even though I run an environmental Club I know the only way to save the state of our world is through lawmakers like yourselves I now stand to this pledge in the citizens climate Lobby I appreciate all the city has already done to achieve the goals of a sustainable future as a biker I love the push towards more micro Mobility infrastructure these little changes can add up to substantial impact this is why I urge all of you to support the rooftop solar project at the Moana Springs Community Center as an abundant source of energy these solar panels can be the stepping stone to a brighter cleaner and healthier future for the next generation of Voters like myself thank you thanks so much Riley and just as a note I feel a bond with you I was head of my environmental Club in high school that's amazing yes so there's a big future ahead of you thank you thanks for being here all right I'm going to turn it back to Madame mayor and we are um about to go unless there's more public comment oh sorry just for the record um and I know we're going to go back to opening public comments so I do have some um issues there that I need to record but for the record for consent agenda items we did receive seven comments which were directly associated with various consent agenda items prior to 4 pm yesterday April 25th copies of these comments were distributed to the Reno city council and are available on our reno.gov online public comment portal um there were six items in favor from various commenters all right thank you um with that Madam mayor we're checked in with our manager there's no items to approve um pull but we're now at the consent agenda and we're just starting to uh pull items appreciate it okay I'm going to start with councilman neighbor I'd like to pull B8 B9 b11 B15 and b19 please all right Council on doer yeah I'd like to pull B6 which is the Moana solar uh B12 which is a three million dollar item and and wear items oh and B17 all right councilman Taylor no Madam mayor thank you councilman Martinez um I was also going to do B6 but it looks like it was already called and then B21 and 22 as well sorry was that 6 and 21. 21 and 22 22. yeah all right councilman Ruckus thank you madam mayor I think all of mine were pulled but I'm gonna reserve the you want to just go privilege when you summarize to um jump in if one was mine was not do you just have uh the numbers just read them out loud yeah let's we'll want to summarize sure I've got V6 B8 B9 b11 B12 B15 B17 b19 B21 and B22 okay Madam mayor if you would like I will make a motion for the ones that were not pulled all right thank you so much councilman breakfast I have a motion do I have a second I have a second fly Martinez all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed motion carries unanimously okay I'm gonna head over to councilwoman doer with items isn't that you yeah thank you madam mayor um I wondered if we have our sustainability manager in the room and possibly Kiri Koski to just go over this project which is very exciting I've gotten all kind of I think we all got all kind of letters of support most of those letters in on the consent agenda I think were letters of support for this so could you just run over this and tell us what's special and how do we get here sure and um I do have a presentation if you'd like um Suzanne groneman sustainability manager for the record uh this is a really exciting project and um I just really briefly before I start I want to thank our Senators Cortez masto and Rosen this project wouldn't have been possible or this grant wouldn't have been possible without their support so we really appreciate that um City staff had applied for Community Project funding award to fund this project it was awarded so this is a grant to build the solar at the Moana Springs aquatic center and I can give specific details on some of the benefits of the project if we have the presentation if we want to pull it up it's just a couple slides what I have to say goes better with the visuals because we have our lovely son in the picture if it doesn't come up that's okay too all right um so as stated this is a grant acceptance of the Moana springs for excuse me for the Moana Springs rooftop solar project oh um some project information this is a um the project will sit on the rooftop of the Aquatic Center it's approximately 250 kilowatts and what that equates to is about 2 million four hundred thousand kilowatt hours of electricity will be generated every year this is equivalent to 1 715 metric tons of avoided CO2 and the project will run from approximately this month to the summer of 24. some of the grant information this was a community funding Excuse excuse me Community Project funding award for eight hundred thousand dollars it is coming to the city through HUD and it is a joint effort of a few different departments here at the city including housing and neighborhood development sustainability and our Public Works team so my recommendation is that Council approved the grant award through HUD to fund the Moana Springs Community Aquatics and fitness center in the amount of eight hundred thousand all right thanks a lot again I have two questions sure one is I don't know if you've done the calculation but in terms of how much energy this will produce have did you translate or could you translate it into numbers of homes like the a similar sized project might generate or support so many homes I don't know if you um offhand probably not it's I would have to sit down and actually calculate that out but I'm happy to provide that information yeah it would be great to know because that's something we can all relate to you know uh more than millions of megawatts it's not a a number we're used to dealing with and the second thing is I know that the city prior to this had 14 solar projects and they're sprinkled around at fire stations in various places do you know if this is one of the larger ones or just in the middle of the batch or do you know that um this would be one of the larger arrays and yes we have them at the Corp yards from the fire stations our stead treatment plant so all over the city this is actually the second of our major sort of Rehabilitation and new construction projects we've managed to put solar on both projects so we're two for two what's the other one um the public safety center also will have solar and storage okay well then all of our Advocates should know about that that's a fantastic news and I guess the last point is just more General so years ago around 2014 time frame 2015 there was a huge conversation in Nevada about solar rooftop solar including our systems many people thought it was just about houses but it was also about smaller scale solar systems like ours and they were basically looking at the puc was looking at making it actually more expensive for people to use solar than last because they were accounting for the transmission lines which they said had not been accounted for there were a whole bunch of hearings even the legislative commission got involved in reviewing the Public Utilities Commission and at the end of the day they decided to grant a 20-year grandfathering to all those early start projects like this 14 that the city has and like many people about 5 000 Homes at that time had solar in Northern Nevada so that was a win for solar Advocates and but there was also something where you pay for solar you get paid so the people have net metering and I don't know if we're on the net metering system so that's where I'm going um actually get paid for feeding their energy back to the grid IAP and app Solar and and participate that and got it through a lottery system a pretty high price for my solar pain and the energy paying me to generate electricity for everyone else it goes to my neighbors but do you know if the city's solar systems are also on net metering um yes so Suzanne grunemin for the record so correct there was a brief period of time there where it changed it was not very favorable it then changed again and they went to a tier system right in 80 80 megawatt tranches so this these new systems are net metered they are um not it's not the same relationship as it was in 2014 but they are still considered net metered systems it's just not as favorable as back then so we'll get paid for energy that we sell back to the grid through the Moana system um up to a certain percentage and then it cuts off correct okay but at least I mean when the pool is not operating and it's the downtime we can at least sell energy back to the grid with the system which I think helps offset the costs fantastic thank you all right any further questions Suzanne you're doing an amazing job oh thank you not just on this project but everything that you're doing I mean I just hear Praise all over for you thank you thank you so much all right no further questions motion to approve item B6 all right thank you so much I have a motion I have a second all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed motion carries unanimously okay I'm gonna skip on over to councilwoman Ebert I believe we're gonna go to B8 okay metamere doesn't appear that Megan Ebert is in the room at the moment oh where I don't see her over here oh I'm sorry I met Megan burner my brain is saying Megan Megan you're up you got all the magnets sorry I'm reading all the words on my papers yep all right and then I would just ask Madam clerk um keep me on time today because I know our agenda's long so just to let everyone know I'm gonna try to be really efficient all right go ahead councilwoman Ebert thank you all right good morning um Madame mayor city council Megan burner arts and culture manager for the record um the item before you today the item B8 is an acceptance of a grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts um to support the planning and design process and public art installation at the North Valleys Regional Park roundabout in the amount of thirty five thousand dollars and I'm happy to answer any questions that you have okay this one's actually I can I can ask some questions go ahead too if you go ahead this is one of the ones I was gonna pull um and as the council knows I'm the liaison to the arts and culture commission and um so I try and you know keep track of this unfortunately my request to meet with staff to the commission has been denied as recently as last week for what I believe are retaliatory measures by our city managers preventing me from doing my job you've appointed me to be the liaison I have a requested an onboarding meeting to understand what's in the queue what are the regulations what are the bylaws how the ins and out of the body are and I've been deprived from even meeting with staff to have those understandings so one I'll be bringing up quite a bit more of these retaliatory measures by our city manager that are preventing me from doing my job the job you sent me over to do the job the ward one residents have put me in the seat to do so with that it looks like someone else had questions about this um and maybe that was um Miss uh Ebert I was going to be asking these questions in this meeting that why I was deprived of having with Miss Berner so can you just summarize um how this idea came up and the role of the arts and culture commission and is it is it money that was earmarked by this body as part of their funding bucket that they get each year yes so um Megan burner for the record um the the opportunity came up Public Works actually brought to staff this project that RTC is doing on Sky Vista Boulevard they're widening and they're putting in a roundabout and thought it would be a great opportunity for artwork and so asked us to take it to the public art committee and the Arts commission to get their input on it they were very much in favor of applying for a grant to do a project in this area because we have um very few public art projects out in that area and so um they directed staff or recommended staff apply for this National Endowment for the Arts Grant actually for the amount of seventy five thousand dollars we were only awarded thirty five thousand dollars but um the matching funds are in their funding that's already set aside for the public art and the Arts commission okay and that was really my question because I am trying to understand you want you know you sent me over to be the liaison I'm trying to understand the funding bucket so that's this FY right correct it will actually come out of next year okay that's that's material because it's jumping a queue on a budget that we have not set um and I'm trying to understand you know so then the bucket and we'll we're going into Budget on Wednesday the bucket that they have we will know that Council and everyone will know council's already scraped a little bit for the match the whole project say that again what's the total amount of the well currently it is 70 000 because there's 35 000 from the Grant and then 35 000 to match um the county has also expressed a willingness to contribute to this project because it is close to right at the entrance of their Regional Park yeah yeah um okay so um depending on how much funding is available within their budget they'll have some rollover from this year so it is available in this year's budget um if we wanted to take it out of this year's budget and then with that amount known then do we do the call for artists yes okay that's what I'm trying to understand and is really filling in my gaps all right I'm gonna head over to councilwoman Ebert and just before that councilwoman breakfast and and I don't know maybe you submitted questions via email and I would just say if you could also do that so that everyone is sort of on the same page I will not be held differently than the others who have access and are able to have in-person inquiries to the members well I've been told that all my communication has to be in writing and I will not okay I just wanted to know if you've asked those questions via email no I'm asking in-person questions in-person meetings like every other member of this body okay thank you so much all right go ahead councilwoman Ebert so I didn't I was not able to have my briefing this past week so I'm sorry um I I'm just curious I mean we don't have art installations up on my ward so I do uh want to see more of that you know we have the Lemon Drive uh on-ramp and off ramp redone we don't have any you know art installations there but I'm just curious you know what type of art we're going to be looking for will be like sculpture like the um art we have downtown in the roundabouts or we just kind of just open we don't really know yet until we get this approved so I think for this um Megan burner for the record the specific um space sculpture is likely what will be you know the appropriate type of artwork for this and as part of their project RTC is going to be installing foundations for large-scale sculpture so that you know is is part of the collaboration um and so we're expecting some kind of sculpture but that is open we will be doing community engagement as part of this process too to help select artists and the direction of the artwork okay thank you um real quick the RTC so Clerk up the RTC um is actually the one funding this project no no they are not no the overall roundabout oh yes yes the street I don't have all the details of that I think public works because I could answer that better but that is my understanding okay but they're planning to do the match RTC or the city uh the city okay and then um do we have any funds coming from City funds for the roundabout or related I don't think so so let me ask this um maybe it's a Carrie question we have an ordinance two percent for art which means that when we build infrastructure such as roads such as roundabouts other infrastructure we're going to set aside two percent for art we're doing it on the public safety center Moana Etc um is one of the outstanding questions has been is RTC Bound by our city ordinance to dedicate funds two percent for art based on what they're building um what I've heard from them is sometimes and sometimes not if they have if the funding from the project will allow it they will do it such as and they say that some federal funds will not allow it but a lot of their funds come from Impact fees locally and so do you know anything about that Carrie director of Public Works your city engineer um you are correct there are some some federal funds that are eligible for art on RTC projects many are not I believe that we've had um we've had some legal determinations about the uh the whether RMC can be applied to the RTC overall and um I don't believe it can be if I recall correctly but but what we have been doing is we've been collaborating and we've been looking at things like infrastructure we talked about Megan talked about the foundations um electrical right water that sort of thing they've been putting in that type of infrastructure to support the art okay so it's like an in-kind yes and it's the base for this the art um and so something we may want to look at Madame mayor is that ordinance has been in place for a very long time and over 10 years and we may want to look at updating it so it is clear about who it does and does not apply to since there's a question maybe we should clarify that and we have certainly led the way with the public safety center seven hundred thousand dollars for art with Moana pool I'm sorry if I got those numbers right but I think it's 700 000 a mo in a pool is that right so I don't know the number for public safety center but I'm just saying you know we want our whole Community all all people installing infrastructure to participate in this program and so it's just something to think about we're already updating the arena municipal code and so it's an opportune time with a slight amendment to make it clear okay I think that's a great recommendation yeah all right councilman breakfast what um you know my questions have been answered um thank you and I mean I presume the call for artists will be agendized before the you know the arts and culture commission and we'll we'll fall that'll be part of their work program this year uh yeah yes likely um it'll it'll actually probably happen um next fiscal year Yeah well yeah I understood what you've been sliding it in but um but we do I think it is material to the council to understand you know when that crossover how the budget is being when we're pre-budgeting that's that's material information I don't you know hey talk to you about it but I talked to you know it needs to show up in the budget materials all right no further questions why don't you give me a motion to approve okay thank you I have a motion to approve second I have a second from councilman Martinez all those in favor say aye aye aye all those opposed motion carries unanimously okay I think heading back to you councilman Uber item B9 foreign good morning mayor and city council my name is Eric Miller associate civil engineer with utility services for the record before you today are two design agreements uh for two different lift station projects B9 is an agreement with Atkins for improvements to the Donner Springs steadbus Sagittarius and South Dakota lift stations b11 is an agreement with carollo for the improvements of the Corey lift station and the Sky Vista lift station these projects are recommended to improve safety for Lift Station operators enhance operations during emergencies replace outdated infrastructures and bring the lift stations up to current industry standards Council approved an assessment to be completed to review All City lift stations and in 2020 the assessment was completed and determined recommendation recommended improvements for all lift stations each list station was given a priority score between one and five with one being the highest priority requiring immediate improvements City staff has completed all Priority One lift station improvements and most of the priority lift stations sites to as this day for item B9 this is an agreement with Atkins for design improvements of four lift stations the Donner Springs lift station is located at the intersection of Snowshoe Lane and Reggie Ward Reggie wrote in ward 3 off of McCarran Boulevard the lift station was built in 1960 but reconstructed in 2014. the lift station received a priority score of two and received minor improvements not addressed during the Reconstruction project nine years ago the stead bus lift station is located on a Washoe County School District parcel off of us-395 and Ward 4. the lift station was built in 1988 and has had no major Improvement since the lift station received a priority two score and received minor improvements the Sagittarius lift station is located on Sagittarius drive and Ward one it was built in 1989 and had no major improvements the lift station received a priority score of three and will receive minor improvements finally the South Dakota lift station located off smokewood court and Ward 2 was built in 1986 reconstructed in 2017. the lift station received a priority score of five and will receive minor improvements not documented during the assessment for item b11 this is an agreement with carollo for design improvements at two lift stations the Quarry lift station is located off Quarry Drive in Ward one it was built in 1960 in reconstructed in 2007 the lift station received a priority score of two and is set to receive minor electrical and mechanical improvements the Sky Vista lift station is located at the intersection of Lear Boulevard and Sage Point Court in Ward 4. the lift station was built in 1996 and it received a priority score of one due mainly to capacity concerns and at the time which has been addressed since that assessment has been completed finally these lift station design agreements represent the remainder of the high priority projects to be completed as indicated in the 2020 lift station assessment report that concludes my presentation I have the Motions on the screen and I'm happy to answer any questions okay thank you so much on what kind of impact this will have on the roads in Ward 4 during this construction is there any um you know conflict with the roads that you know will be torn up in this process no we will be solely on the lift station site and we won't be touching the roads part of the improvements great um my next question is what kind of impact will this have like on the flow shave that we need to do currently out of the North Valleys will that affect our ability to do that during this construction process for the lift stations in Ward 4 we are just uh enhancing for operators in terms of emergencies replacing outdated pipes infrastructure and stuff like that from corrosion so um has we won't be having any capacity increases so the flow shave won't have any of a concern here so while we're doing construction we'll still be able to continue with the flow shave out of the North Valleys yep yeah Madam mayor council members for the record Dustin Waters assistant director utility services so the construction associated with these locations on lift stations will not adversely impact our ability to flow shave so is that is that it okay question okay yeah okay thank you all right councilman Beckett yeah why is the why is the Lear one that was built in 1996 doing so poorly it's it's it's new relatively it's doing poorly the Sky Vista left station yeah yeah built in 1996 yeah so it received a priority score of one when the assessment was completed due to it hitting the max capacity at the time okay lift station was built to have a full build out of three pumps but at the time only two pumps were put in okay and since then a developer paid for project put in that third pump so the capacity concerns are fully taken care of which was a majority of wires out of one okay so this is a misfit of planning from the land development side and your infrastructure you know and that's urban planning and I'm an urban planner um because you know if you if you knew 1996 wasn't that long ago you know relative to all other things if you knew where your gross projections were you would have built it at a greater capacity and so now we're going up and spending more money up there because we've had so much growth and you know that's fine we've made decisions to grow there and we have grown there but when we spend this much money on sewer and I know that a large swath of Southwest Reno from just at the edge of uh Colin Ranch in the inside McCarran loop to really less than a quarter mile from West Plum Lane is an area that's completely on septics some are failing there's no sewer infrastructure in there it's polluting the river I ask why aren't we spending money to expand sewer infrastructure there why are we expanding money spending this much money to expend sewer infrastructure into these areas and even replace ones that should still be in their own life life cycle those are the Forward Thinking growth management infrastructure issues that we need to address and we have not addressed and it's causing a real real problem when Southwest Reno and I've seen it myself I've stood on people's front yards with sewer bubbling up in their side yard because they have run out of leech Fields no septic tanks can go about to be have a 60 year old home condemned by the health department so I think our priorities are a little reversed and I'm going to use this great expenditure of our sewer funds to bring that up thank you all right councilman Ebert I have no other questions okay anyone else can I give you a motion please motion to approve all right thank you I have a motion I have a second all those in favor say aye all those opposed motion makers thank you yeah we're going to um councilwoman Ebert we're going back to you item b11. oh sorry motion to approve all right thank you I have a motion I have a second all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed motion carries unanimously all right Madam clerk I think we're going to be 12 this would be councilwoman doer hi there um I asked for this item it's over three million dollars I say the same thing I always do which is that when we spend these kind of dollars uh to support our residents I think they should know about it not just miss it entirely and these kind of improvements are very important to their life so could you just give us a brief update on this one absolutely yeah uh good morning Madonna mayor and council members name is Jonathan Smith Senior civil engineer with the public works department I have a quick presentation to highlight our sewer cipp Rehabilitation project this is a really great annual project that we we do that helps the city maintain and prolong the life of our sewer infrastructure you may be familiar with what Capp is but for those that don't cfpb stands for cured in place pipe this is a trenchless method of sewer construction that requires little or no digging cfp cipp installation involves inserting a flexible liner inside an existing pipe that is inflated and when it is exposed to heat it hardens inside the pipe restoring the pipe to near new condition the picture on the left shows liner installation for a CPP project that the city had at Oxbow Park or near Oxbow Park and the picture of the right shows how cfpp liner inflates the size of the hose pipe this method is significantly cheaper it's roughly a tenth the cost of traditional dig methods and a lot quicker and once in place cfpp can prolong the life of an existing pipe for over 50 years this project this year's project will focus in two primary areas but we're calling the Thomas Jefferson area in Southwest Reno as well as the South Yori area City staff selects coppp candidates based on a few factors the first factor is pipe condition where this where City staff performs a condition assessment on of our sewer system on a regular basis it gives it a rating from one to five with one being pipe that's in near new condition and five being failing pipe this project focuses in on the condition rating of three to five we also like to look at pipe location and focus on areas where digging would be challenging and expensive such as backyards and close proximity to buildings we also like to look at project area or future project areas this way if a pipe cannot be lined we can dig and replace it with a street Rehabilitation project or a future project to minimize the disturbance to a neighborhood the red lines in this image represent sewer main that will be lined with this project and in all we will be lining over 10 miles of existing sewer infrastructure this project was bid early March we opened bids March 23rd for proof today this would go to Construction in the summer and have a midwinter construction complete and completion date I recommend the award of the contract in such form Technologies as well as approve the consultant agreement with brown Caldwell for engineering support and inspection services for the 2023 sewer cipp Rehabilitation project thank you thank you great countable maneuver or count the one door oh I can make a sorry I can make a motion through this item thank you okay councilwoman breakfast go ahead yeah we're calling and I I always support this project you know I think it everything I've heard is it's a it's a good um you know tool in terms of your collection system management but we're calling it The Thomas Jefferson division which is rather ironic okay can you explain why so like I said we we have future I try to focus on future Street Rehabilitation projects which we're calling that one the Thomas Jefferson neighborhood so I'm just looking at the pipe Network that are around that I know it's a Sewer Septic um neighborhood which we will have a project in 2020. okay okay yeah but it's just focusing in areas that are around it so if you need to include something yeah yeah yeah so the irony here is and doesn't have sewer so to call it the Thomas Jefferson you know cure in place is is a little misleading some people call it the president's area and that's an area that was annexed under great controversy in 1999 when the city um really had surrounded unincorporated Washoe County exercise its powers to Annex but then fell short on some of its promises which were to bring in the infrastructure projects so 25 you know quarter Century later we'll get there good thank you yeah thank you thank you um and I'm going to remind people I I had a great conversation with our assistant city manager Jackie Bryan about this but back in 2009 time frame um myself and the county water manager jointly proposed a bill to the legislature ab54 as I recall to set up a program to provide a loan program through the county to convert from septic to sewer and from Wells to Water Systems and if you're in a flood plain to allow you to do non-structural improvements and get a grant for that and so that program's been in place for over 10 years I think very few people have access to it but the intent was a lot of the conversation when it was a put into place was the Hepner subdivision which is out by Swan Lake people on Wells going to the idea was going to a water system so I just want to point that out and then when we have these conversations I know our staff are looking for grant opportunities but there are loan opportunities as well and they're low interest loans over 40 years so with that I would recommend a motion to approve item B12 I'll second all right I have a motion in a second all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed motion carries unanimously thank you good job okay moving on to Ink we're going to what 70 15 followed by council member Ebert okay councilman Ebert so just um wanted a little information as to why this property owners easement um was uh valued a lot higher than the other easements and the surrounding Parcels the appraisals conducted on the surrounding Parcels for the the easements purchase were uh 29 600 um the uh payment to um this uh property owner the act with total acquisition was negotiated to the cost of ninety thousand so just wanted to know if we could just get um kind of a breakdown as to why this property owners um payment for this easement was so much greater than the initial appraisal sure Madam mayor council members for the record Dustin Waters assistant director Utility Services kind of short presentation I'll go through I think that'll answer your questions so the item before you is acquisition of Sue reasons for the parts to a rehabilitation project just to kind of give everyone the location it's at the intersection of par Boulevard North Virginia this project will decommission a failing existing sewer pump station and replace it with a gravity sewer line that kind of flows from the location of the pump station to the southwest and we'll connect to the South Virginia Armenian North Virginia interceptor so here's the the tentative settlement costs for this property owner let me go back one click so another thing to highlight on this figure is the areas in blue are easements that have already been acquired by the city this was done in September and the areas in red are the easements that are before you now to be acquired and all three of those Parcels in red are owned by the same property owner GRT LLC so the tentative settlement costs are this so for the easement it's um forty two thousand dollars for the easement and forty eight thousand for other services that will be provided by the property owner to facilitate construction of the project and so the 42 000 while it is the initial appraisal done a couple years ago was closer to thirty thousand dollars it was we were in the process of reappraising that updating that appraisal and it was we didn't quite finish that appraisal when we reached these this tentative agreement but it was looking to come in at about 33 500. so this is still a little bit higher than what we anticipated for the updated appraisal but still you know within reason I'll go to the next slide so these are the easement costs by parcel so there's different square footages of course for Japan which parcel we're talking about and with the appraisal you know where the easement lies on the parcel impacts the value of that easement so whether you know an easement that's closer to a property line versus an easement that goes right through the center of someone's parcel is going to be valued differently but as you can see with even with the forty two thousand dollar easement cost it is in line with the other the other costs that were paid due to the adjacent Property Owners so we have a range from 44 cents a square foot all the way to over three dollars a square foot and the item before you is uh 225 per square foot so essentially you're saying it it changes because of the square footage so you calculate it that way yeah so so for the overall values you know those are going to vary yeah from 600 000 based on yeah square footage but try to kind of to compare apples to apples um you can see the price per square foot in the far right and you know the one that's three dollars that parcel that appraisal you know that easement is going to impact that parcel to a greater extent than the parcel that's you know 44 cents a square foot okay any questions councilman for me for her no councilwoman Ebert yeah answer your question yes thank you for for that it was also stated that the property owner would be providing some Services could we get a little more detail on that as well sure yeah I went over that pretty quick so so these are the services provided by the property owner so he will um be disassembling concrete block walls that are along the sewer alignment relocating Rock piles equipment concrete blocks and then also Vehicles ahead of the contractor coming into to the construction for the project thank you I don't have any more questions okay Council endure any questions no council on breakfast go ahead yeah this was when I was gonna pull and I know you've been working on this for a long time it's been a while yeah and just to let others know and maybe I'm my memory isn't as well I have not been receiving the policy briefs for the better part of the year they've been coming in writing to me but before the manager uh stopped that access to staff I remember having a briefing with you all and I thought that was good forward thinking because the council's never really gone into a condemnation in the 10 years I've been here for a public works project and it's a very um it's a very prolonged protracted process and it seemed like um you know you were giving us advance notice we might be going there um you got you know obviously you've you've done it all and you're here with the last one um so I may have missed some briefings in between in those discussions but I know that this item hit the agenda a couple times and one was to even take it to the litigation in the condemnation process and it pulled off and um you know I'm just you know maybe I've missed something uh we're in negotiation could have even you know I I think because we were considering litigation but we never got there we could have gone in and discussed under closed doors our attorney client roll but uh we didn't get there and I'm just problematic I'm having a hard time with this Services by them because I think it does an injustice to the others who came forward in good faith and that and and also um I haven't read the appraisal I think maybe one of the times it was on way back when the first appraisal but the one who's at two and a quarter that's that long slender one that touches par is that correct yeah let me um so the two and a quarter per square foot yeah the mat the comparable so where the star is is that the one no so the two and a quarter per square foot is the cost of the easements across the parcels shown in red here so no no but I thought I thought in your your revised um presentation showed someone else was paying two and a quarter not just Archie else right yeah so yeah you're right very at the bottom there there is another property owner that's it happened to be the same price per square foot and that when you add in this um on the straight easement or on the added of the services no this cost reflects just the easement so go back to this slide okay this is yeah so there's an additional 48 000 on top I have a problem with this because I cannot um believe that the appraisal price did not contemplate all of the internal issues that the property owner had to do um and I One don't have the agreement I'm not comfortable for you know doing a real estate property acquisition with a contract for services you know that's that's like a vendor it's probably a public works project that should be going prevailing wage I'll raise that up right now okay so um I I I'm having issues I don't I think we should have gotten you know just done thing gotten into the litigation and move forward on that I think it's unfair to the other folks and I also question one I want to see the agreement because it's saying we'll do it and then authorize the manager to sign and you know that prevailing what wage question is a public works project I think it's problematic so do you have a response to any of that as far as the agreement yeah we can get that to you we do have an agreement that legal helped us draft Yeah for these services that hopefully will cover the concerns that you're raising okay in the future if those even if it's not executed that would have been a good background for us and I'll send that to the manager and then what about the prevailing wage you're way over hold on do you have any questions councilwoman Ebert councilman door no okay councilman Martinez go ahead and then councilman breakfast I'll send it to you for three minutes and then I'll ask for a motion go ahead councilman thank you madam Mr Waters um first any of the other properties were there other services that have to be done in order for these easements and the work to be done on that the other properties not that I'm aware well I don't believe there were the kind of obstructions that we're seeing at this property so the other properties are fairly more straightforward but um you know but those costs are all kind of accounted for in the project but when it goes out to bid so the contractor is looking at the conditions the existing conditions and pricing that into what they have to contend with when they build this project so in this situation you know if the property owner did not offer to do the do this that would have been the city would have been paying for that and it's our estimation that the city would would have paid a significant amount more than forty eight thousand dollars to to handle these obstructions that were in the way of construction and so as far as other Provisions I believe there was a sewer step out provided to one of the property owners so that is just like a 10 foot um connection you know a connection to the new silver line and then like a 10 foot stick of pipe extending out from there so that they can connect to that in the future so any property owners that asked for you know Provisions for a stub out for future connection that was provided and to my recollection I believe that was just one property owner that asked for that and if the city were to seek these Services is that something that would be done by City staff or an outside contract with another agency to do that is the city were to seek the services that are being proposed to be done by the owner right so that would have been that would have been reflected in the um the bid for the project so so that um you know so the property owner did not provide that then the contractor would be responsible for doing that work themselves and the city would you know pay that way for that work okay thanks two questions question number one did the appraisal for this Archie contemplate the obstructions of these rocks and walls and materials and setting the square footage prior acquisition price for the easement no no as far as to my knowledge the appraisal does not account for the challenges during construction what it looks at is the value you know how that's going to impact the property and an appropriate compensation you know you know when this property after the easement's in place how that property will be impacted services that they're providing that'll be in this agreement are those going to be subject to prevailing wage um I I'm not I'm not familiar with that aspect of it I can get back to you did the legal did you have any discussions with legal on this legal one answering yeah yeah it's I mean two parts number one is so this isn't part of the construction this is actually the property owner's property being moved and for an alignment that the property owner wants and there was alternative alignments that were considered and this was one that the property owner wanted so this was a negotiated settlement in that respect and that's where this differs from a lot of the other I mean every property is different and so you know in this one uh you know there was discussion about multiple alignments um and this is the one that ultimately worked um yeah as far as the prevailing wage goes this is not part of the city's construction project this is part of you know the the uh the property owner moving his own materials to accommodate himself in his business so he can continue selling um you know the materials and uh and and again it's doesn't meet the threshold of prevailing wage so it's you know for Miss Koski so um yeah this we we're comfortable that this doesn't implicate prevailing wage and it doesn't um and it's the appropriate solution given where we were with the property owner foreign yeah you know I'll tell you I'm not convinced I'm not convinced that this is the best approach because um these sort of higher than appraised values add-ons need to come through a condemnation process and a settlement because it it hurts the city's bargaining power in the long time when we go out and get easements and everyone knows if you just hold out long enough you can you know get your services your services add-on contract add-on not good needs to be under the condemnation process we have the rights to do that you know but you've been at it a long time we could have been into court on that some time ago learn live and learn but also without the agreement I'm not going to be supporting this thank you in addition to not having an agreement in front of me and delegating that authority to see what these quote services are thank you okay councilwomaniebert yeah I did have another question can we bring the map back up again of where the uh new line is going to be going through thank you so is all the area in red the Reno Rock property the record Dustin Waters is the same property owner area is shown in Red so no other property owners will be using this section of pipe after we put this in correct this will just be that I'm using it no other homes or businesses will be hooking up to this section that goes to their property any other I guess any other party that would want to connect to this sewer line in the red area would have to get permission from GRT LLC to do so since it's on his property so there is an easement you know for the city to maintain that line through his property but any connections would Traverse private property so anyone else connecting to that portion of the line yes would have to get permission from the property owner okay thank you all right Council neighbor I make a motion to approve all right thank you I have a motion I have a second all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed post motion carries okay we are now going to go back to are we going to council Missouri 17. yep thank you let me just pull that up so on 17 if you could uh give us a brief presentation all right good morning Madam mayor and council members I'm Justin George senior civil engineer for public works and item B17 is for a word of a Construction contract for the First Street sidewalk and access improvements to Sierra Nevada Construction I have a short presentation to walk you through how this project will help make the first floor entrance the primary access point for City Hall and that's just in time for the opening of the coffee cart here on the first floor the purpose of this project is to ramp up accessibility to City Hall between the parking garage and the North Virginia Street entrance and before we get into the details of the improvements I just want to let you know we're pres we presented this project to the access advisory committee and Incorporated their comments into the design what we're looking at here is a couple of photos of the access ramp in the City Hall Parking Garage currently it is not in compliance what this project will do is to install the landing at the top and make improvements to the bottom landing and replace the handrails bringing those all into compliance with Ada another thing we're going to do is highlight that that steep access ramp to the left on the the bottom picture is marked for loading only because if you're you've walked it before you know it's a steep Ram so we're going to be incorporating some wayfinding to help folks that come off of the elevator make the the right correct path down the Ada access path another thing we're going to be looking at is the some minor improvements to the Virginia Street ramp just outside of the the first floor entrance here just to make sure that that is ADA compliance we'll be making some improvements so that the cross slopes are where they need to be at looking at the the First Street sidewalk um what we'll be doing is on the north side of First Street between North Virginia and University way we will be removing and replacing the concrete sidewalk from the back of the curb up to the building and that includes the the driveway exit out of the parking garage and the alley driveway what we've done with this is we've worked with the urban Forester through design and we'll continue to work with the urban Forester through construction to minimize impacts to the trees to the three existing trees on that north side of Virginia Street so those three trees are are going to remain as is and we're going to work with them to to make sure that they continue to thrive in their location so five hundred thousand dollars in arpa funds were allocated by Council in the March meeting for this project Public Works followed city state and federal requirements for bidding and we received one responsive bid that was right in line with our Engineers estimate um that concludes my presentation thank you all right thank you could you go back to that slide on the First Street and I just wanted to thank you um Justin and also Carrie for continuing to work with us I know you're all ready to go and you like we're gonna cut down these trees and just have a clear slate but I appreciate you being willing to rethink this and I know it creates a little Challenge and so I had a further conversation with Miss Koski today for about an hour I think and what we talked about is I appreciated you saying continue to evaluate because one way to go is what you've just shown here which is basically an open planting strip which is often very effective it's what number of the downtown Builders have chosen to do rather than put in the silver cells and that can work we might also do one idea is to excavate around the tree in front of the garage see what's actually set up as it is the tree in a box or a pot or is it just in the soil excavate the soil and replace it with fresh oil you know it's not compacted and maybe build a build a box for it I mean I know the goal is that both the garage and the City Hall have a basement and so there are challenges there I don't know if the garage basement leaks I know the uh City Hall one does and I've talked to manager Thornley about doing some repair work to the basement I don't know what that looks like I'm not that kind of uh designer engineer but um I just what I'd like to do is um alert the council that you may come back you you've uh you have a fifty thousand dollar contingency in here to my knowledge and you may come back based on what you need to do for the trees with requesting the remaining 50 000 that council's already approved once which was the overall budget you came in less than that which is good but the money is there and this is a important city goal so if we do have to spend more money I do encourage you to come back and talk to us potentially to amend the contract to make sure you can really do do it right and finally I just really appreciate you continuing to work with the parks department and our Urban Forester to make sure that at the end of the day when we're all done these trees are actually going to live because the last thing I'd want to do is go to all this effort but it's not quite enough and I use the example of sometimes you know we are looking at life cycle costs if you have to keep replacing the sidewalk every three to five years that's no good you know that's a cost that we have to calculate in it might be better to do it in a more sustainable way up front and get cost savings and I know I sending an article to um Carrie about the Edmonton Canada project they've used thousands of these silver cells up there they're having great success with them I know snc the contractor for this project installed 127 silver cells in the Midtown project so if anyone has expertise in doing it they do and they're the same contractor on this project so I just wanted to get all those points on the record so we all know where we're going agreed to meet with Carrie some more out front you and whoever else we need to Matt Basil whoever um so with that Madam mayor I don't know if there's other questions about this but I'm willing to move forward to make a motion to approve thank you so much any questions yeah I was going to pull also and you know like I said because I'm not having these meetings I might be out of the loop but I do remember you know delegating uh you know voting for a half million dollars for this project but somewhere between project and bid award I thought there was going to be some scoping by this body to this very prominent spot and you know didn't even see it in the staff report you came in with the presentation but it's still not answering my questions which you know um one I'll state that this building um is a significant building it's a um probably one of just a few and one that's not endangered mid-century modern buildings in our downtown and um uh you know I've had a long-standing interest in it both formerly as the historic resources liaison and as the arts and culture liaison and um particularly the planners out front long time ago I delegated some discretionary funds to the public works department to you know look at the old renderings of the building and decide an appropriate beautification measure in front that project for whatever reasons that I never understood failed to thrive and I think it's been a lost Urban Design statement on this building and so as you move into you know dealing with the front of this building I still cannot tell what you're doing you know because you didn't put a you know you're only your only image here is on your slide that yet it up you know before the you know after supplemented is just that corner and I I just and you don't have a you know uh an aerial view so I cannot understand what you're doing so um you know tell me this I understand what you're doing in the garage and then is the Ada route going to be on the sidewalk or is it it's going to be on the city sidewalk so what what we're doing is we're removing and replacing existing sidewalk that is in place if you go out now the cross slope of the sidewalk is over two percent yeah so we're going to be creating a pedestrian path that is under that two percent cross low so it's essentially replacing the sidewalk to avoid those those cross slope um interferences and then to the ramps we're removing and replacing concrete it's it's going to look essentially the same as it is just within compliance after we're done so we're not not making any aesthetic improvements it's it's all to make sure that ADA accessibility is is uh met yeah well number one is that brings up another issue about the stamp concrete and I think at one point we gave it approval to deviate from that but it was always going to come back and I think it was around the time Mr Thomas was leaving it are you going to re use the stamp concrete so what's going back in place for the sidewalk is the new city standard for a downtown it's the the jointed pattern so it's not a stamped concrete it's similar to what's down on First Street between University and Lake okay and then two I I just this if you bring up your image I just can't tell where you're putting this new cross section and is this before or after the stairs entrance here or is it to the and talking directions is it to the east of the entrance here or is it to the west of the entrance so we're we're not or are you talking this yeah right there yeah this is an existing ramp the current running slope and cross slope of it is out of compliance yeah all we're doing is removing and replacing and that's the ramp that's right outside of the existing entrance over here on the true First Street around there we're not adding anything we're simply removing concrete and putting it back into okay yeah yeah so and and then we have the flagpoles there yeah so it's between the door yeah yeah okay now I understand um you know you know with our lockdown of our city organization I get security but um and I'm you know we should have an open door um that's pedestrian can't go out and tell everyone to help Revitalize Reno's downtown open their close storefronts and not have our storefront open big big problem year overdue so you're saying this will be the main entrance okay I'll just I'll wait for my next go around four okay councilman door yeah um real quick just if I I want to support one thing that councilmember breakfast brought up and that is that when you're evaluating the trees you really should to her point we I was here when she donated her Council funds and I know there were some maybe leakage issues or whatever but we we can create a planter there or something that is a beautification element we have a city horticulturist the city not not the urban Forester different person the city Horticulture should be able to help us design something for the planter and the planters that are to the left of this ramp so you do have some additional funds and I want to encourage you to do the extra work to her point to to finally at least make this a an appealing front door I am too very glad that we're opening our front door and I know that you've been waiting um for the improvements in the lobby with the um service the state service for food and drink but I also talked to Carrie about potentially delaying the project I know you said get the project done by the time the coffee carts open but I suggested to her that she wait and get the full design figure out the whole tree thing now the Horticulture thing and maybe push the actual construction of the concrete sidewalk part back a little you know let's not be in such a hard a hurry that we skip a step or two that could make even better projects something you'd be really proud of not just beautiful concrete but the whole streetscape and to that point She also asked about the streetscape so we have a streetscape design I think you participated or came in after it was approved but it did do away with the stamped concrete which they felt was both expensive and trip Hazard and went with a flatter cheaper option so that they could put in some of these other streetscape improvements whether it's lights trees Landscaping so I encourage you while we're doing this to just look at the landscape you know the Horticulture aspect and then I wanted to mention I also talked with Carrie about potentially widening this sidewalk maybe a foot because we do have a wide Road here we only have two pull outs on each side it's not a two two-lane road so it may be widening a foot to allow the implementation of everything you're looking for so I just wanted to help relieve you of the pressure to get it done before the coffee cart and know that we're getting it done for the long term so thank you Justin for all your work thank you any other questions hold on one second just want to make sure go ahead councilman brackets yeah yeah so um I I think I'm starting to understand the project um a lot of this and I'll direct this to Mr manager because he sets the agenda is a break between us allocating these arpa budgets going into some design functionality consideration in concert with our boards possibly and then go into bed too much stuff is going straight to bed we got a hot bid we gotta go I'm sorry I know you're the engineers but you know maybe we need a landscape architect on contract to help you show the Urban Design component of this because it's not being shown I mean even maybe you have some as builts of the building in the corner that were you know attached the bid I I tried to find those on the web I couldn't find them so it's it is a problem her point about the street you know the street widening I think or the you know The Pedestrian whining is not a bad one and um especially since you got a tough little right-of-way there uh one way um that with a lot of pedestrian uncontrolled pedestrian activity back and forth so I I wish we had taken a pause gone to Urban Design consideration on this critical intersection and then gone forward um and and I'm not even married to the landscape vegetation around the building I think the river rock that's glued into some of the spots is not a bad feature other features could go forward a real good landscape architect would help us figure that out so I don't know maybe we should hold on this this project the contractors if anything are getting more and more antsy for work I think as the private stuff dries up so I I don't know how can we get there how can we get there to keep this going and you come back with some land with some considerations but I do think that you're missing the boat on maybe pulling out That Sidewalk a little bit come out of Mayor I'm ready to make a motion no question I'm I guess I I did have a question and I'm sorry you said how do we get there and how can we get no Miss Koski how can we get there if if we're only going you know 40 percent here with a half a million dollars we're missing um some it's a missed opportunity your director of Public Works city engineer um how do we get there I would recommend at this point that we move forward with the bid award today let Justin and his team work with the urban Forester and others to look at some sort of a planter box design in the front of the building as we talked about before one of the the issues there was was getting irrigation water to the planter box that's how that was very difficult and the irrigation that was there prior I believe was turned off because we weren't able to contain it it kept leaking into the basement so we could look at some things for the front of the building that maybe doesn't need irrigation maybe we could look at some something else that we could utilize and we could bring that back to the council as a change order that is a that's an option can I ask one other around metamere how does First Street Council on breakfast yeah in your view thank you in your view how does First Street function from Virginia to what we now call University way is it loading is it parking how does it function because we do have a lot of land um we have a lot of Earth there you know it's a wide right away so how does the street function it functions very well as a um uh Urban collector if you will slash arterial it doesn't have a tremendous amount of traffic but we do see uh some loading but we utilize a lot of people do utilize that street um because it is a one-way street from getting basically from the west side of Virginia Street to the east side so it does function it does have have a very um High purpose in the vehicle world and it will also most likely have a purpose in the multimodal world but in parking how does it function is it critical to the city's operations to have those loading zones there and then on the other side is their prior parking for private vehicles I do believe it is critical to have loading zone um we did move some of the um the loading or excuse me some of the um accessible parking over there by the by the uh Plaza so we really limited the amount of loading and I hear about that because whenever we do work in this building it's very difficult for our contractors to to do you know their work as as well as loading and unloading for mail services and deliveries that we get and we and we do get quite a bit okay Council one door yeah send it to you now thanks um I want to move to approve this item with a couple caveats I'd like you to consider revising the schedule so that you have some additional time to complete your evaluation of the urban forestry out front and any additional landscape Horticultural designs and feel free to come back and use the full amount of money that the city council has approved conceptually for this project if you need it whether that's a hire a landscape designer put in trees foot implants put in drip irrigation whatever that looks like you know you I want you to feel empowered to do what you do to make this is a corner of first in Virginia this is one of your iconic spots in all of Reno in front of the plaza it should look good so and you're going to spend a lot of money making it function let's make it look good too so my motion is for approval with the option to come back and use additional funding to complete the design I have a second from councilwoman Taylor one minute discussion councilman breakfast yeah I'm gonna support the motion but um I think this gets to a lot of the other things that we're doing with downtown in terms of Street use which is real piecemeal um so in that spirit I think that I I want to see and understand what's the vision for how that street is it functions I I am I am sensitive to the Loading needs but I also feel that you know in lieu of what our master plan said we were going to do and maybe when we get into the strategic planning workshop you know after half a decade goes through we will say we're going to have a parking management plan because we you know we put that really in the master plan we're going to do it because um we we need to we need to get there and figure out how we're managing parking now I think what's going to happen is when you start thinking about First Street functionality conflicts parking management you start to wonder what are we doing with City Plaza because no one knows what we're doing with City Plaza it is a haphazard but um I would like to see a design for the you know at this point in time parking and use of First Street so I'll support it but I hope you'll bring that back too thank you all right thank you so much all right I have a motion in a second all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed motion carries unanimously okay thank you so much okay I'm gonna send it over to you councilman Martinez or no maybe it's councilwoman Ebert at item 19. be 19. um just would like to get a brief presentation about these flashers because I'm super excited about them great um Amy Pennington um special projects and Community or Outreach coordination for public works and I don't have slides but I do have a minute I would love to give a brief um description of this new program that councilmember Eber is actually the first to put her funds toward and I don't think everyone's had a chance to hear about it so I'm excited to share what we've been up to with school flashers and um I have a map to show where the new locations are going um flasher beacons thank you products so School flasher beacons um yeah not just not you're you're right you're right um so this basically the city Traffic Engineers and some other partners have embarked on creating a list and evaluation of all of the school zones in Reno for safety and um in that seeing where the gaps are and where is the where are the areas where we can improve them so we have finished that evaluation and we now have a ranked list of safety of all of our school zones um we evaluated 198 school zones and there's actually more school zones than there are schools at times because one school might have multiple roads adjacent to it or coming to it so that's why that number is so high we discovered that there are 50 over 50 school zones in Reno that don't have school flasher beacons and that is largely because either um So currently Washoe County School District does make those part of their school plans when they build them but there are some schools that or many schools in our area that were built prior to that being part of their design and so um we have over 50 that don't have school zone flasher beacons on every road going into that school um we have ranked all of these zones for safety needs and that's based on predicted crashes that could be based on the volume of the road the speed of the road um how many conflicts there are like driveways adjacent streets sidewalks all of those things go into account and so with that list um we we are excited to start working through that and adding schools and flasher begins where we can and one stat that I've seen a few different ways I've seen it at 15 and up to 20 in different studies is that just having the Flasher beacons on a school zone can reduce crashes by 15 to 20 so um we're very excited that council member Eber is um putting her arpa money toward four zones in Ward four and um show where they're at possible um so all right let's um so we have um let's see so um here we go yeah yeah thank you thank you um so Desert Heights Elementary School has two streets that are being um addressed Mount Bismarck and Echo Drive but when you have the pen on there it has trouble focusing a little bit sorry um and then stead elementary school needs beacons on Silver Lake Boulevard and coral Academy a little bit further south there needs beacons on Valley Road so um each each Beacon set for a side mount is just under 20 000 and so um her seventy thousand dollars is able to cover these four zones and um some streets are larger if a street is a multi-lane street it needs actually overhead beacons which can be much closer to eighty thousand dollars and so um just come and keep in mind this is expensive to be able to put these in but it's well worth the safety for our region and if anybody else has funds they'd like to put towards school so let's talk about that yeah because I know that we have made these school zones a priority right we've been talking about this for a long time um so I would assume this is something that we were going to do anyway correct um this is something that we would we are doing this anyway there is a far greater need than Finance than financial because I hate resources you have to be like oh we gotta go to council and get their their output funds like that's ridiculous like we should be able to say this is a priority we're making it happen regardless if someone comes forward I will tell you this I just brought up an RTC I want them to put funding aside for and um and I want to thank Carrie Koski because she's been like so amazing at kind of what how we need to be rethinking things and one of the things is asking RTC to put set-asides for the Sparks Washoe County and Reno um to do things like potholes and things like this and minor Road repairs because there's like nothing there nothing so I I would like to see that sort of wrapped up into that because I just feel like this this should be a priority and not because a council member wants you to um do it yes does that make sense yeah so part of our um Our Hope and strategy in this so the the full amount of funding needed to address all the school zone flasher beacons just in Reno is over three million dollars so we're pursuing grants we pursued a grant that we haven't heard back quite yet from but it was for a million dollars we are um asking Partners like Washington County School District if there's areas where they can join us we're asking RTC there's definitely other requests out there we're trying to um we have the prioritized lists and so as money comes in and is made available it allows us to work through that list in the order of safety I just want to do it like sooner than later yes and if it's something an ass from RTC because honestly I I think that needs some overhaul and how you know they're holding on to the funds and we desperately need them here and our kids should be first priorities so I hate to hear that oh we have a council member that's willing to do that and then we'll we'll get to the rest later you know what I mean um so I'm gonna ask RTC I do think that they should play a much bigger role than what they've played in in since I've been on the council um and that's just one little piece because I think that's a big broader discussion but um okay I just I guess I'm just a little frustrated but thank you I thought you did a great job and I love how you just smile and you just you you do a phenomenal job and I know this is your second time up here but you seem like you've already done it a million times before so okay uh any questions yeah yeah councilman breakfast I have some funds left over can I give those to us uh School signal safety signal for Wooster on Plum Lane pardon me would that those be okay to put that that Improvement there and where's the list like maybe we could see the list yeah we have the list available and um yeah we would love to talk to everybody about the schools and their awards that are in need and um I do believe that Wooster is on that list and we'd love to talk online yes great thank you and council member Martinez has also talked to us in um the number one school in need was actually in Ward three so we're excited to be bringing that to council soon okay good thank you so much okay councilman Ebert uh I don't have any more questions unless anymore okay uh move to approve all right thank you I have a motion in a second all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed motion carries all right I'm going to send it over to councilman Martinez item B21 and B22 yeah thank you madam mayor I just uh was a little bit confused by both of these um items because it from my understanding the way that I'm reading it looks like um these funds I'm not saying I have any issues with them being used in any of these manners or what the committee has already done I'm just trying to understand if these funds are specifically allocated from the general fund for the Reno access advisory committee to decide on or how that works here internally so I don't know if the city manager if any of the staff are able to respond to that question and how this money is set up for this committee to be able to decide how these funds are being used first time up here excuse me all right congratulations thank you it feels good welcome feels good thank you councilmember Martinez mayor and Council for the record Nathan only at parks and rec director happy to be here those funds are allocated from the general fund and then distributed both of those items were distributed at the the meeting in April so um if you want any more detail on what they're going to specifically happy to do that no no questions about what's happening with the money I was just curious funding wise where the money was coming out of and how that all works internally for the committee to have yeah it's the general thing it's allocated as part of the general fund and then it goes to the committee meeting as a grant proposal and then the the Reno access committee votes on that and distributes fund I just wanted to clarify that thank you madam mayor yes question on this too um I also contacted our parks department about the same question because we seem to have a little bit of a uneven um discrepancy between our various commissions some have money uh to to put to projects of interest to that commission some don't there's a couple ways to solve this one way is to just make the allocation to the um staff person that helps with that committee like they've done with this one the renal access to spend in conjunction and on behalf of another is to allocate it to the council member um that is the liaison to that um board five or ten thousand dollars and I bring this up because um Mr Martinez asked myself and Mr Reese to contribute to a project for the Human Rights Commission I know urban forestry has no funds to even do the rewards I've given them the money out of my Council funds I know that um another group that doesn't have funds is the historic Resources Commission I've also given them money just to even just have their Awards by the awards have their event and it just seems like some of these are very basic to the operation of those commissions so I hope in the budget process that our team will come forward with a proposal it doesn't have to be a lot of money it just has to be enough to kind of move some things along so I like what they've done in parks with this committee but there might be several other different ways to go about it Mr manager you know that might be more equitable I don't know what those are but I'm going to be there aren't a lot that don't have the funding and I'm just saying the ones I seem to be assigned to keep coming to me um for the funds and so I don't give it to the non-profit or I don't give it to something else I could just to support our internal commissions so just just some food for thought you know don't am not married to how we get there would even just to start at five thousand would help us just even with the annual Awards all right councilmember you want to give me a motion I definitely want to thank you madam mayor I motion to approve agenda items B21 and B22 okay thanks hi all those opposed motion carries unanimously councilwoman Ebert has asked that we take a 10-minute recess and um I would ask the same and then we will come back after we just closed out consent agenda items Madam clerk correct I believe that was all of them that I had that is correct okay and Madame mayor can we do take a 10 minute break and then we'll come back got it some great news um heard from our sustainability manager on a few uh past consent item related to the Moana pools the solar system remember I asked her the question about how many homes that would cover she says over 200. so that's enough power generated off Moanna to power 200 to 230 homes that's quite a bit so I think that's a remarkable number that we can have as a takeaway just while we're still thinking about consent thank you I'm not a mayor before we go on break um just to Circle back we are having some technical issues I guess there was a power outage last night and so this room is not able to connect to the zoom audio and so for that we aren't able to do any Zoom public comments today and additionally we can't play any voicemails today I know um and so just for the record on A3 because I didn't read it in we did receive 17 comments which were General in nature four in favor to an opposition and 11 concerns and then again there were four voicemails which are not able to be played today but those transcripts are part of the record all right thank you so much and I believe also councilman Reese was trying to weigh in and that's not possible either so great yes thank you all right thank you so much Madam Clerk and we will see you in 10 minutes um thank you all right Madame mayor if you're ready we can call this meeting back to order all right thank you yes we're going to call the meeting back to order okay we're calling it back to order at 12 36 with council member door and council member Reese absent okay thank you so much so at this time Madam clerk we are going to go into item D1 I believe we're now going to open um okay am I right D1 we are on D1 and it is not a public hearing no we are I just noticed that it's not okay all right perfect all right any public comment at this time Madam clerk thank you Madame mayor we did receive 10 comments which were directly associated with this item prior to 4 pm yesterday three I three letters in favor zero in opposition and set seven letters expressing concerns those have been distributed to the Reno city council and are part of the permanent record we do not have any live public comment okay thank you so much so at this time I'm going to hand it over to you for presentation thanks all right good afternoon Madam Aaron council members and Katie Harrison the engineering manager with the public works department and I'm here today with Dale Keller with RTC and we're excited to be here to present the findings from the micro Mobility pilot project that the city and RTC partnered on Last Summer and so we will be discussing the findings talking about some next steps and I'm just asking for acceptance of the report so a brief overview of the presentation first we'll talk about why we're interested in micro Mobility both in Reno and regionally in the Truckee Meadows next we'll go through the scope of the pilot project that took place last summer and fall then we'll move into the results of both the technical lidar study as well as the public survey and then we'll look at the next steps of applying these infrastructure tools moving forward so first why micro Mobility and again micro Mobility refers to small lightweight Vehicles such as bikes e-bikes and scooters that typically travel less than 20 miles per hour and regionally as we grow we have the need to move more people and we know that these micro modes are well suited to Shorter trips less than five miles and in our region we have over a half a million of those trips daily within the McCarran loop in our Urban core and other U.S communities that have well-built and well-connected infrastructure have seen a mode share of roughly five percent using micro modes which would represent nearly 30 000 daily trips and just for reference that's the same number of daily trips as our most used spaghetti Bowl ramp and we're looking to those communities as kind of a goal but why don't more people ride National surveys have evaluated various types of bicycle or micro mode design user profiles and what's not shown on this infographic is the roughly 30 to 40 percent that fall into the no way know-how group so they they will not ride regardless of the infrastructure that's installed and then there's a small portion on this infograph on the right that of the highly confident so folks that will ride regardless of the infrastructure and are comfortable riding with traffic but the largest portion of the population falls into this interested but concerned range and this segment is not comfortable riding with traffic and our current micro mode infrastructure does not serve the needs of this largest group and so what can we do to encourage um this group it's important that we provide additional separation from traffic especially on high speed and high volume roadways we also need to look to reduce Conflict at intersections and improve the continuity and connectivity of our Network um this was reiterated at two Community workshops that agency staff and community members attended last summer including the league of American bicyclists bicycle friendly America Workshop along with the Dutch cycling Embassy think bike Workshop now we know many implementation challenges exist especially because there's limited space on our Urban arterial roadways that also need to move large volumes of traffic however we know opportunities exist to look to adjacent streets that have excess capacity to implement these micro mode features so also at the City of Reno we're interested in micro Mobility because it addresses portions of three of our strategic goals first IT addresses the public safety goal of increased attention and efforts on traffic and pedestrian safety second it follows strategies in the economic and Community Development Goal by implementing elements of the downtown action plan and finally IT addresses goals under infrastructure climate change and environmental sustainability by collaborating with RTC in support of Reno's Transportation infrastructure to minimize the environmental impacts which is Guided by our climate action plan so in summary increasing access to these micro modes promotes options for active Equitable and sustainable transportation that can increase the quality of life in our community so here's a schedule of the pilot project so we designed and set up the temporary features February through May of last year then June through October the project was open for use and we collected data and then during this phase we incorporated an educational component including media interviews social media posts identifying quick and easy user guides to for example show where do you stop ahead of a bike box the city also produced a video showing a ride through of the projects and how to interact with the features we also presented to a wide variety of community groups to encourage as much feedback as possible also in August and September agency staff along with community members attended the two workshops that I mentioned and I wanted to mention that although these workshops were happening concurrently with the pilot project many of the recommendations are the same with the Dutch cycling Embassy we learned that there were five design criteria of safety directness coherence comfort and attractiveness so specifically you can't just add segments here or there the focus needs to be getting the right infrastructure in those segments where it's needed and it's all about a cohesive and connected Network and then they also reiterated the need for separation where there's High volumes and high vehicle speed and then we presented the draft findings at a public engagement meeting last month and we're here today presenting the findings and the final report primary goal of the pilot project was to inform future permanent installations to really evaluate the tools in the toolbox and we did this through introducing new features to the community with temporary infrastructure and this was located on Virginia Street from Liberty to Fifth and on 5th street from Vine to Evans we also collected Community feedback and um analyzed technical data on the volume of traffic use of space and conflicts between users and a few more specifics on the pilot project itself we implemented two segment treatments and three intersection treatments and basically a segment is any section of Road between intersections and for Segment treatments we looked at both buffered lanes and a two-way micro mode track so the photo on the left shows a buffered micro mode Lane and these are Lanes on either side of the road that go in the same direction as vehicle traffic and we use utilized a few different types of buffers these included a painted buffer vertical delineators shown in this photo and in some sections we shifted the parking Lane away from the curb and the parked cars served as an additional buffer and the photo on the right shows the two direction micro mode track and this is where there's two directions of micro mode traffic on one side of the road and we implemented three intersection treatments the photo on the left shows a bike box and these were installed at several intersections and they allow increased visibility between micro mode users and vehicle traffic the photo in the middle shows the bike signal and this allows for greater separation from Vehicles because there's a dedicated micro mode phase so micro modes pass through an intersection at a different time from conflicting vehicular movements and then finally the image on the right shows the protected intersection that was installed at 5th and Arlington and again allows greater visibility between micro mode users and vehicles and also allows micro mode users to make a two-stage left turn without ever needing to merge into vehicle traffic so with this project we collected both technical data in collaboration with UNR that I'll discuss on the next slide and also public feedback in general the findings of the project were that by adding these micro mode specific features we increased to the number of micro mode users while decreasing the conflict rate between vehicles and all other roadway users we also found that the user shifted from using the sidewalks and roadways to the micro mode Lanes through the survey we gained valuable public feedback on the items that worked well and those that could use some modification to work better and we knew going into this project that education was critical due to these features being new to our community and we know any project moving forward will need education as well now we're fortunate to live in a community that has world-class researchers up at UNR and RTC partnered with unr's center for advanced Transportation research group on a lidar assisted study of the project now lidar stands for light detection and ranging and it allows us to collect data on volumes speeds and locations of users in the road or sidewalk space and we can also visualize conflicts between those users so the photo in the top left shows the equipment that's used to collect this data includes a sensor and a cabinet that's mounted to Signal poles or street lights and then the data that's collected it's I know it's kind of hard to see in that middle photo on the bottom is these Cloud points that then can be classified into pedestrians scooters bikes vehicles and then the photo in the top right shows how users trajectories are mapped through an intersection so each dot is a point in time where um someone's you going through an intersection so you can see it's a vast quantity of data that's collected and analyzed but through it we're allowed to or we're able to collect um speed volume and conflicts now we collected this data at nine sites throughout the project over three separate rounds and the first round was before the features were installed and the second two rounds were after they were in place so looking at volumes or how many people are using the lanes and for Virginia Street for the micro modes for bikes and scooters we after installing the features we more than doubled the number of users so that looked like um 91 bikes to nearly 200 on an average day and for scooters that went from 250 to over 600. and Fifth Street we saw a more modest increase but we still increased 40 percent and for bikes that went from 94 to over 130 and for scooters from 138 to nearly 200. we also looked at vehicle volumes and on 5th Street we reduced the number of travel Lanes from two lanes in each direction to one lane in each Direction but we actually saw an increase in automobile traffic so that indicates that there is excess vehicle capacity capacity to reallocate for micro mode in this area and still efficiently move vehicles through the roadway and on Virginia Street that decrease was due to removing the Northbound traffic through the pilot project um time period and we also looked at conflict rates and I want to emphasize that conflict does not equal crash so the study identified a conflict is any time two separate users were in the same space within two seconds so if I'm walking through a crosswalk and I pass a certain location and a vehicle passes that same location within two seconds that would be flagged as a conflict and what we found is there was a decrease conflict rate between vehicles and all other users so not only did did vehicle to bike or scooter rate decrease with these increased separation we also saw a decrease in vehicle to vehicle conflict rates which was a benefit for all users now the city received over a thousand survey responses with the project and the survey asked about the overall project along with questions on each of the specific features and this slide shows the respondents level of satisfaction regarding the pilot project overall and overall more than half of respondents felt positive or neutral about the project and among micro mode users this increased to 85 percent and decreased to 30 for auto users and we provided a rating scale and also comment options and from the comments from micro mode users generally centered around increased feelings of safety and lower traffic stress with this increased separation and I wanted to note that the comments from Auto users focused more specifically on the removal of the Northbound traffic on Virginia than on the features themselves although there were some comments on the roadway feeling tighter I wanted to note that nearly half of respondents and 47 percent said that this type of infrastructure would make them more likely to bike or walk downtown and if you remember back to the beginning of the presentation this matches well with those bicycle design user profiles so our community is matching with those National surveys so this project really looked at the tools in the toolbox and and how to apply those tools in the future so we're here today presenting the findings of the pilot and asking for acceptance of the report however we know that the primary goal of this project is to inform future permanent installations so we wanted to give an overview of what comes next a key theme that was echoed through the project and the workshops that we attended was the importance of continuity and connectivity in the micro mode Network so the city is working with RTC and their consultant on a downtown micro Mobility connectivity plan that will include Corridor Concepts and cost estimates and this will allow prioritized recommendations on cost and public benefit RTC will be seeking public input over the next couple months on that connectivity plan and we'll be bringing project recommendations back to the RTC board and city council later this summer so again today I'm asking for acceptance of the report thank you for your time and I'm available for any questions okay thank you so much okay I'm going to start with you councilman door well first of all great presentation I saw this a version of this presentation at RTC and I think you took it up a notch so I appreciate that you had more detail and a clearer path forward so I appreciate that um so let me if you could go back to the next step slide what I understand you're saying is that you would want us to accept this report and then it looks like in immediately May June you want to go out with public and put on concept designs for downtown connectivity so I want to understand in this usage of the term downtown does that include only Virginia Street does that include multiple streets because Fifth Street was included here we've heard a lot of talk about Center we've even heard talk about even streets that are um you know to the east and west of Sierra and Center University that are smaller that also probably need some bike capacity um so what does it mean to you downtown connectivity so the connectivity will include corridors and concepts for several north south options they will look at different options several that you mentioned and also Vine Street and then the East-West Corridor locations that they're evaluating are 5th Street Third Street and 6th Street thank you okay all right and then in the July August time frame you're saying you would actually have come up with a project by then and bring it back to us there would be concepts with cost estimates or preliminary cost estimates associated with them so they can be prioritized for next for direction for next steps okay well let me just speak to kind of the elephant in the room which is that our biking Community is very eager to get going right and they feel that they've been on pause we've heard that word with RTC um we're studying studying but I'm going to bring up a concept I brought up earlier with the front of this building I'd rather do it right and try to get it as right as we can then just run out and do something because somebody's anxious so at the same time I don't want this to take you only show three months I think three months till you're coming back to us with proposed projects and money so I'm willing to accept that kind of time frame I think that's reasonable but if you were to say we're going to come back to you next summer with the ideas I think that is way too long and I think that would really frustrate people what's really good about this project is so many people have become engaged in this issue we've only probably heard from some buckets of people maybe some people that frequently already go downtown maybe some bike riders Etc but here this conversation is engaging a lot more people so that's something I love about it um I see Kathleen nodding I know you do a lot of public engagement so just getting many more voices I can relate with the car drivers right I do not ride my bike downtown today and I like to get where I'm going frankly and I have mentioned before that I tend to use the Center University and Sierra to go north south I use all of the streets to go east to west I use first second all all of them so I guess I just want to say that as long as we keep the focus on getting to the action points I'm going to be very good with accepting this report and looking for your next steps to actually implement this stuff for our very frustrated micro Mobility folks whether it's scooters bikes or Walkers thank you madam mayor toilet paper yeah I have a lot of questions so we'll just get through what we can right now um have we received any input from First Responders fire police and also from local hospitals has there been any kind of increase of uh you know accidents during the time that we had this test run in any kind of uh input from firefighters with uh maybe difficulty reaching accidents or any kind of emergency that happened within shops that were in these areas where they were you know doing these test micro Mobility Lanes thank you for that question and we we fire and police prior to the installation of the features and Incorporated feedback I had up front there was some additional feedback they had during the project for modifications in certain areas of types of delineators and we accommodated that as we went there was no negative feedback throughout the project or lack of response ability and we have continued to work with RPD and traffic enforcement on ensuring that as we move forward so none that we are we're aware of okay so there was feedback given during the the test period so we coordinated back and forth throughout the project with regular check-ins to make sure things were still functioning as as we all anticipated at the beginning of the project okay but there was no particular Outreach after the fact we have met with both fire and police after the project Ended as well just as a recap of okay if they had additional feedback to give us okay um and is there um accommodations for Access when this happens well they have to uh if this goes forward will they have to drive on sidewalks if there's an emergency say somebody has a heart attack and a business or there's an accident in an area where we just have one lane going each Direction and we have a micro Mobility Lane how will First Responders get to accidents so the the feedback that we received is that they did not have any um negative impact to be able to access during emergency situations okay um my next questions um are regarding the feedback we received um in in this packet it says that we have received over a thousand responses and more than half felt positive or neutral so this is going to have a large impact on the city and a thousand responses given how many people live in the city of Reno is not a really large sample section and to hear that the majority were positive or neutral that says that there's a lot that were negative are we taking any of the negative feedback into account when we're um you know making any kind of modifications to these designs yes so thank you for the feedback um the as far as the number of surveys so we evaluated you know what would be statistically significant and it's been found nationally that after that thousand surveys that the um that that gives you a statistical representation of um respondents so we felt good with the response that we got um and we have made modifications in the interim features um as there's been suggestions for minor changes but I would say that we are looking also broadly at the council's Strategic priorities for looking at accessibility to transportation and equitability to Transportation as well so did we use any feedback to make any modifications yes okay all right I'll have more questions later thank you thank you madam Mary thank you Katie um and your team and actually I think um getting a thousand responses is really quite an accomplishment and also based on the other studies that you guys did I think Amy and team are doing a great job with the Outreach to get those kind of responses one of the questions had um based on councilwoman eberts questions was when I was looking through the comments a lot of the I would say negative or neutral comments were about the education of not knowing what to do so I would imagine that when you say education is vital for Success once that's part of the Outreach those comments would become more positive would that be on the right track think that is valid to say okay and I just um I think accepting the report is a really great step forward and I agree that getting these projects online is going to be super positive for the community so thank you very much thank you thank you madamer councilman Martinez thank you madam mayor thanks for the presentation and all the work that you've done I was just curious about the similar to some of the comments from my fellow council members about the public input and just seeing if there was any Outreach done in other languages or whether there if there were plans for that to be incorporated in that public input on the concept designs scheduled for May in June of this year we have worked with the Communications Department on ensuring that Outreach is available in multiple languages and we will continue to do that with future Outreach awesome thank you I'm looking up those public input opportunities just out of curiosity do you have any of those dates or times set or well I'm sure we're going to get information on that if that's available be coming very soon awesome thank you yeah you know good presentation and good methodology um I think one of the circles of Economic Opportunity is and my data might be a little late a little uh dated but you know Transportation costs usually are the second most highest household costs to housing and when people can you know suppress those they can spend money on other things housing but also other things education uh savings that they'd like retirement savings um and transportation costs can really vary but one of the big numbers is if you if a household can reduce you know from two to one card that can that can really make a savings and a lot of these micro Mobility along with Transit can help people get there because there's a big range from usually I think 12 to 25 percent some people in Western households sprawling households spend up to 25 27 percent of household expenditures go to Transportation that's a big big chunk when you have to rely upon um expensive modes like automobile so um but I want to go back to this item this item is just accept it's not asked for direction and I I'm a little disappointed not with you I think your report has a four paragraph conclusion none of them really say where the city is going as an organization on this just you know it's technical information a little quantitative with you know attitudinal information but doesn't show how it's going to integrate in the organization and I'm disappointed I read after last time when we had the the Virginia Street you know some of the discussion was uh Council was saying something in there was said oh and the manager said you can't talk like that because it's not on the agenda well the manager sets the agenda and this isn't necessarily A criticism him it's just um stating it where we're at is the council needs the opportunity to discuss implementation on this item and it's not here it wasn't the last meeting it can't and I and this is your slide and you very you know perceptively put four points down but I want more I want the council to talk about implementation for the downtown connectivity plan now when you were saying RDC is working on this plan and you looked over Miss Koski and said what streets are on that plan I want to see the scope of that plan but I think because I I've been following this very closely from my understanding that we were going to see that in July and August right I don't want to come back I don't want to see the results of the plan I want to see the scope of where we're going and I want to see the scope of the plan who's on the technical team who's on the stakeholders what is the scope of that effort I also think there's a few things left off the table here in implementation that I've heard one is have you learned things that you're going to incorporate into our design your your design manual I want to know what those are I want to know if you're going out and doing an intersection what is the design manual going to respond to that I'd also like to know because I've heard a lot about the ordinance about riding on the streets so we need to have a discussion on what we've learned in this and how we're integrating into the organization but with the non and I'll I'll the non-transparent way of Center Street that we know about University way um I'll leave it here and I'll pick up that thought in a few minutes thank you okay thank you um just really quickly so just reiterate for me Mr city manager because I was under the impression you will bring this back July and August before we do anything um I don't know that it's necessarily exactly before we do anything we have the Virginia Street Place making um work a component part of which is some micro Mobility features um that said the the consistent theme that we get when we talk about micro Mobility is that it has to be a network of interconnected Pathways so that people can get around our city and so we have for you today the summary report on what we've learned from the pilot projects that we had last year on Virginia and fifth we're thrilled with the input that we got we're thrilled with the methodology and how involved folks have been we have learned a lot and I think Miss Harrison has touched on those points and we've learned a bunch from the Dutch cycling Embassy and other outside entities that said it is two streets in a broader much broader network of Roads downtown and so we'd like to use the summer for more public input not just on those two streets but on how folks would like to see that Network evolve and what features are important to them and better understanding uh you know why a person goes from point x to uh in the community and how we can better facilitate that for a number of um modes of transportation once we have that input we will be better able to suggest amendments to the public works design manual to propose for you a network of interconnected spaces and we'll be able to give you an idea of what the magnitude of that is both with respect to timing and expense um I think you know the the work that's been done so far is an incredibly exciting jumping off point um but it reveals sort of just how broad the opportunity is uh and it and it you know leaves us with a handful of questions that need to be answered before we can bring you a comprehensive strategy on connecting folks in in meaningful ways okay I I just want I think the connectivity is really critical obviously we all think that um and then am I right this will go to RTC and then come back here is that right Dale good afternoon Dale killer uh director of engineering for ROTC Madame mayor uh we'll discuss work with staff about the the sequence of that if it goes to city council first and then to the RTC board uh been that July August time frame what we'd like to present to the RTC board is that Suite of projects that we are ready to go implement and so we want that public input in that May June time frame to talk about that Suite of projects once again the Implement in downtown Reno okay thank you so much I mean and I don't remember and maybe I'm wrong but like you know so much happens even with the Center Street project I mean you guys did a study on that as well correct yes ma'am we did and that would be part of the analysis as we talk about this concept designs for downtown connectivity that'll be part of the conversation okay because there are a lot of people because honestly like I this is just me and maybe I don't know anything but like with all the connectivity all the streets somehow play a role so there is that connectivity because I also think if we're really wanting to be serious about bicycling then we have you know this network that really does all the streets right because I start to think that isn't it more dangerous without having a bike lane I cringe to think like you know could we have prevented accidents had we had the bike lane on sir and on any Street and so my thought is like every street should have bicycling capacity now more than ever I think this new generation they love micro Mobility people have shifted from getting out of cars I think in in the pandemic people always tell me I'd like to walk I'd like to be outside there it just I just think it's shifted the way that we think about it and we give people opportunities they'll start to really use micro Mobility but we have to design it in such that um your city also like takes on that sort of mentality I I was just looking at a study in New York City I mean they have crazy traffic in cars and if they can do it why can't we so it's just my two cents okay um hold on councilman breakfast go ahead councilwoman Ebert and then I will come back to you councilman breakfast um so on page 10 of the presentation there was some data about the increase in bicycles and scooters and traffic volumes um so I wanted to call out that on Virginia Street there was an increase in bicycle traffic from 91 to 198 bicycles and scooters it was excuse me it was increased from 254 to 605 which is a lot on Fifth Street it was an increase of 94 bikes to 131 scooters 138 297. uh meanwhile traffic volumes on 5th Street there was a 24 increase from 7200 to 8 900 and Virginia Street there was a 30 percent decrease from thirteen thousand to nine thousand so it's safe to say by looking at these numbers there is a greater impact to Vehicles than bicycles Virginia Street had the greatest increase with scooters going from 254 to 605 that's great but um we only have 2 000 I'm sorry uh less than 2 000 increase of traffic on 5th Street with cars and Virginia Street has a 4 000 car decrease this is commuters this is Shoppers that are now not on Fifth Street and Virginia Street and these increases in bikes and scooters does not make up for the decrease in traffic and the increase on 5th Street does not make up for the decrease in traffic on Virginia Street I hope I'm making sense here we're losing a lot of traffic on Virginia Street correct in vehicles the the vehicle traffic on 5th Street even with the reduction in Lanes increased so we saw an increase in vehicle traffic even with reducing the number of lanes so it says okay so a slight increase on Fifth Street but we have a 25 nearly 25 yeah 7 200 to 8 900 and on Virginia Street we have a decrease of four thousand from the removal of the northbound lane the southbound lane still moved the same volume of traffic as it did prior to the um to the project implementation and I think it goes back to that network connectivity okay for um a rebalancing of both all types of traffic um that's one of the reasons I believe that the recommendation on the place making study was to bring back two directions of vehicle traffic um that would address that reduction due to the removal of the northbound lane okay okay so all right so that that is a big concern for me I mean the businesses downtown are already struggling so I'd like to see you know numbers with traffic going both ways because if we're having 4 000 less uh vehicles on Virginia Street that's a significant impact to businesses downtown okay thank you I'm gonna move on all right councilman breakfast go ahead yeah so I'm still unclear where we're headed and I think a lot of this is above Miss Harrison's head um so others please weigh in um you know learning about what we do in the design manual that's totally inappropriate like I will no I don't wanna I know you might not have met anything but you probably should apologize for that I don't wanna no I'm not going to be told how to address people but I don't know what I said it was over in your head I don't wanna the and typically that's a word to sit down and maybe others will be called up by the um by the questioner uh because I may be asking questions that you don't have the answers I I just don't want her okay to be so disrespected she's not in any way but your opinion is one mine is another and I don't want to put you on the spot because I think these questions are to others you're presenting a technical report and I'm asking about the implementation I'm still confused about the implementation now the design manual is city-wide so we're not going to learn on that just for you know unless this design manual is just going to do for downtown but Mr Keller talked about this concept designs for connectivity like there's some study underway right now I have two questions on that is there a study underway looking at the whole area right now with a consultant on board and a technical you know tell me that and two why is RTC taking the lead on this downtown study rather than the City of Reno where was that decision made I think those are fair questions and they're not for Miss Harrison and therefore whoever else in the audience Mr Keller stuck up so for the record Dale Keller director of engineer for RTC to answer your first question the the projects in the quarters we're looking at are part of our regional transportation plan as well as projects that have been identified in our regional transportation Improvement plan The First Five-Year window now we're looking to bridge the gap between the planning effort to the engineering effort we heard from our RTC board that we need to understand better how we can use the tools that we found from this study from this pilot project and incorporate those in those RTP projects so those are the projects we're looking to in evaluating now the question is for I think how for us as a community can move forward is where do we want to put the money to and what projects so we're working with our RTC board to identify what that funding source is to help Implement our projects once again in that July August time frame for the RTC board to approve and Implement and start moving for a final design now as the leader as we look into some Regional operations and traffic operations we're a part of this but the city staff and working with the Direction with Kerry koskey your city engineer she's in the great job of leading this effort and from this pilot project alone this is a city Arena micro Mobility pilot project that was started by the City of Reno do you have a consultant on board to do this this to this Concepts two projects do you have a consultant working yes ma'am who's the Ulta and who hired them administratively at RTC yes ma'am and do you have a technical team figure technical team correct so as we look into this major time frame as we look into this once again analyzing what that Corridor would look like with on the tools that we learned from this micro Mobility pilot study that will present those tools at a public setting here in that May June time frame but will the public be given a chance to understand how you're framing this study through understanding the scope and the study that you've already commissioned with a consultant to do that work for you how does the public going to understand what questions are going to be asked if it's already underway so Miss Harrison did a great job outlining the next steps and this is the next steps that we also presented to the RT sport last Friday okay we'll be looking for a copy of that all I'm going to cut you off okay councilwoman Ebert um just a couple more questions about um ease of access to downtown businesses um I'm assuming parking in some areas will be taken away to accommodate these micro Mobility Lanes correct their specific corridors have not been identified okay but there will be parking that's lost correct I mean even if we don't know specifically where there's going to be some parking areas that are removed to put in the micro Mobility Lanes not not necessarily okay so on the Virginia Street Place making study it was identified that no parking would be lost with the implementation of those features and that loading zones may be repurposed for maybe additional parking okay okay thank you all right councilman door well I just wanted a couple points here following up on your last point about the loading zones it's been my impression that a lot of places could be converted from loading zones to parking because we have loading zones everywhere and sometimes what I see is just people parking like a like a van you know some random band it's not like they're dropping off and leaving like loading and unloading and they're just parked and so that we don't have parking meters on those places in other words those are designed to help move traffic uh parking open it up to others um so I think that's a great opportunity to look at expanding the use of the road and bringing more people down because I hear this concept there's nowhere to park right so I point to our City Garage which is primarily almost free parking we have a parking Gallery it's a little bit more there are major casino parking garages but people don't think of those terms they think of what I see on the street and when it's all yellow or red curved and and or people parking there all day they just figure out what's others not me so an example of that would be Sierra Street right I I don't see any parking over on Sierra Street even random even temporary even 30 minutes you know that kind of thing so I'd love to see that um there was a one or two I I think where some of the conversation today is going is just that we want to make sure that we're communicating to our residents people are really interested in this what's going to happen next and how they get involved so they're going to be waiting and so to the point about questions about scope or the questions they're they're wondering well what is going to be done is it is it just about bikes is it just about parking zones is it just about scooters we had questions here where I don't think Miss Ebert knew that you were planning to put two-way traffic back on Virginia even though I know you presented that before but in other words a lot of the details get lost because it's so much and everybody's kind of looking at it with their letting she's asking questions about shopping and and businesses and bike people asking about bikes and other people are wondering um where do I fit as a walker so I I just I'm just trying to bring this conversation together and help provide you some guidance on how to go forward and I think the more clear if if you actually announce a project and announce with end of the project is and a clear scope and a time frame to the public with multiple opportunities like at least two one to say what they're thinking and then maybe one to respond to what others have so already said I think that would go quite far to get us where we need to go I think the goal of those um those Outreach meetings will be to look at Concepts on the specific corridors so I think to look at parking impacts or what it would look like on the roadway itself so we're not just talking hypotheticals gotcha thank you one second I just want to say too um I think everyone gets really passionate about this councilman daughter you make some good points in the sense like let's talk about before we make a motion like okay what's next because I don't think I mean I know you had it up there but like I think people are not like like so a vague phrase yeah right and then um and also RTC in there like here's what's happening next for one the other thing is I I mentioned people get passionate about this I get a lot of email about how someone has this idea and that idea and that all sounds great like and we all want to implement everything every idea that someone has because I think that that um just validates that they're part of this process which is important but that doesn't also mean that you don't hear and respect and understand where they're coming from I want to say thank you to Carrie Koski because you know I see some of the email that comes in and you are like such a champion for for this because matter of fact what people probably don't know you were like mayor we'd love to do this pilot project and you were so supportive of doing Bridge industry it was actually you that really implemented it so a lot of the people with passion should understand that you were like the biggest one to say we need this we need you know bicycles in our community in our downtown so like you really are you're like probably the number one champion and that's why it actually gets done so I want people to know that because I think you end up getting a lot of heat um and then you know of course when we don't get our way we all get frustrated and then we're going to tell you that oh no that's not the way it should be because our way is the right way right like it's ridiculous and and I'm sorry that we get that way you guys are the engineers um you're the ex experts I don't think this is over your head in any way I value your expertise here um and so you know I I just want you to know we appreciate what you're what you're doing what you're implementing so a couple things I just want to touch on maybe Dutch cycling Embassy love them love love love them um maybe talk a little bit about that and then let's come up with the timeline what does it look like from RTC Dale and also I would just say this this has got to be a cohesive effort between RTC and the city because we have to work together even though necessarily sometimes we don't always agree right it's just a thing I want more money from you guys you don't want me to have more money but that's anyway um so kind of tell me what what you think with the Dutch cycling Embassy their recommendations and then uh the timeline so the for the question the Dutch cycling Embassy um we they really reiterated needing a connected and cohesive Network so not just a lane here a lane there but so you can really get where you need to go and and applying the right features in the right locations and they also spoke to this um the concept of really needing increased separation when there's higher volumes of traffic and higher speeds of traffic and there was a lot of Statistics that we discussed regarding you know if there's a a crash at a higher speed it's you know the likelihood of it being a fatality is much more significant than on Lower speed roads so that on higher speed roads you need to be more physically separated from the vehicle traffic okay and just this timeline to wrap it up so May June public input on concept designs for downtown so what does that mean like the public needs to get their input in I went Dale Keller director of engineer for the record for RTC uh that's what we're working on as a group right so we need to get what we learned from this pilot study we're taking all those Concepts that we have identified in the RTP the downtown based off what we've learned from the 2050 RTP that they're good projects now taking the tools of providing low stress facilities that's where we'll be engaging the public on and matching that with Public Funding and Project funding so once we have that together talk about the initial I'll call it deposit in the downtown Reno of how to make and Implement micro mode projects and that's what we're looking in that June time frame there okay and the then the final final July August connectivity right so we'll present the the suite of projects to the public in that June time frame that are out of our RTP and that has been identifying that Five-Year Plan we'll be able to communicate to the public and to this board and to this Council uh regarding what our strategies are as we're moving forward that receive that public input in that July August time frame be able to wrap that up and make recommendations to say this is how we'd like to spend Project funding and transportation funding to implement these projects in downtown Reno okay thank you so much councilman breakfast and um you know I will apologize I when I meant beyond your pay grade you know the proverbial beyond your pay grade and you know the item is not agendized you know for the implementation and Direction so and you have technical proficiency that I know you know you have very very skilled but the question really is I'm still confused I still wish I had the scope of the Alta study to understand that that was an implementation step you're going to have public records requests for that they're probably already being sent to RTC and you know the Center Street university project really became a black mark on the on the community lack of transparency I think that RDJ article which pointed to a whole host of issues that RTC started as an article on the centers track cycle and now RTC presumably as a result of it is doing an informal study to see how how the organization's doing so let's take this seriously let's release today the Ulta study let's release who's on the technical communities I still don't understand if the Alta study is a work for to amend the five-year or is it to the engineering work along the lines of where we were on the Center Street but for different streets I don't know that information didn't come forward it should have and it should before the July time frame it should come forward on this agenda for us to understand but Mr Keller is making some really great points and that is well Reno wants these projects to go into the five-year Reno has not taken a vote on those projects for the five-year okay we have not taken a vote because those projects need stood with Keystone Avenue with lemon drive with Arlington Avenue Bridge so I want to see you know the work on the Center Street but this body needs to come together on if we're going to do the downtown we're kicking something else off I don't I want to know what we're kicking off and so we've got two things here we've got transparency on what the implementation of this is in this connectivity the Alta study that no one knows about no one has seen the scope no one knows how your Consultants are out doing their methodology because only you only technical ins people were involved in that contract letting have that and then two is if this is a priority of this body for the next five year cycle what's moving and what's getting cut off that five year and that's an RTC issue but if RTC is going to say city of Arena wants this I would make very sure that the City of Reno city council has taken a vote on it because you know In fairness to you you just you made a statement earlier on your first come up Mr Keller that was not correct you you said that Reno says they want these projects on the five-year Reno has not taken a vote on what our five-year priorities are thank you this may be them these may very well be them but we need to have them all lined up and no at this table what we're giving up because it could be something Miss Ebert 's constituents are looking for it could be something down that came out of the southeast connector study it could be Keystone Avenue bridge design thank you Kerry Koski your director of Public Works um I'd like to address that at the May 10th meeting I'll be bringing back bringing two Council out the interlocal agreement for the fiscal year 24 projects okay we don't have a three year month three month calendar so I don't know what's coming sure for 20 years we had a three-month calendar so I'm glad to hear that because I never know what's coming forward anymore so I am going to bring that back and those projects were identified in the regional transportation plan um many of these uh all of the streets that we were looking at um I mean that I'm bringing back to this Council on the 10th um what I'm going to be asking for at that time is uh uh permission to move ahead because you brought up really good points we don't want to we don't want to delay very important capacity projects like the way I have in the North Valleys we want to make sure that we're moving forward with the the council's priorities um as as they were set by the uh um the adoption of the RTP so with that that item I will also be asking for permission to come back to council with an amendment to that ICA so you're absolutely right we will be doing that [Music] thank you I'll also make sure um yes Dale that we get those things that councilwoman breakfast asked for because they're not a secret they're they're available and so and I think too sometimes we're um you know we shouldn't be up here acting like we're mind readers if we would have known that that should have been in this study we could have easily called you and said will you include that and then you would have had them I did you know what I mean like I just don't want you to feel like attack that it's it's not being transparent because I know that those studies are there and available so whatever um we need I'm sure you'll be happy to get them and absolutely we are very excited about this as your staff to carry this this very important um initiative forward this micro mobility and um I appreciate the very nice things you said mayor um we are trying to stay a step ahead you know just to move through the process as quickly as as we can and by doing that that all of the efforts that my team has and our teams have um produced here recently has given this the ability to say in three months we're going to be bringing you you the network connectivity Concepts so we're not trying to hide anything we are trying to be thoughtful and stay ahead of things and keep things moving so the community can get what they want yeah thank you so much okay any further questions go ahead councilwoman ever um I don't know I think you're on two rounds so we're going to get one more I want to make sure everyone's getting their equal time go ahead so I and I'm sorry I missed the part about um Virginia being returned to two-way traffic in the presentation I couldn't find anything that said that um with these numbers but do we have any numbers for um car traffic with two-way traffic and again this is just out of concern for these businesses on Virginia Street I mean if we have a 4 000 car decrease or anywhere near that on Virginia Street that's a huge impact to local businesses in an area that we want to kind of revitalize so do we have any numbers um with two-way traffic and these micro Mobility Lanes we not in that Corridor where the two-way track was because the implementation itself was in order to incorporate the two-way micro Road Track would require the removal of that northbound lane so we did not Implement a One Direction either side in that same segment but we did include that in the southern portion of Virginia that's still there and I could evaluate the traffic numbers through there although it'll be slightly different because they're in a different location but I could um yeah I'm really curious about that because this this is a huge impact I mean 4 000 Cars 4 000 less cars if it's anywhere near that that is huge to local businesses to accommodate you know less than 400 more scooters in the area it's just it doesn't make sense to me personally and I know we need micro Mobility like I'm all for that I know climate change is a huge deal but I if there's a way to do this without taking away 4 000 potential customers for Virginia Street I think would be a lot better and I don't know if we could utilize space on the sidewalk to make the bike Lanes I know we want to keep everything kind of connected and not just have random bike Lanes here and there but again potentially losing anywhere near 4 000 people using fourth out um Virginia Street is just it could be a death sentence to some businesses downtown and that is the exact opposite of what we're trying to do so I just really want to call that out and if there's any way to get those numbers prior to any kind of vote I think that that would be really beneficial I was just I just want to say I've done a lot of research because I am a small business owner and actually the research that they've done and I'm happy to share it with you guys and with you um the economic impacts of cycling and on businesses they actually show that it goes up quite a bit so and I'm happy to get anyone all those studies and reports that's a known fact and I'm very sensitive to the parking and to how much traffic that we have because I own a business so I just want to make I just you know well and and part two to all my concerns about traffic is I I'm just out of the stroller period with two little one so it was like taking enough to go camping for a week every time we left the house so having convenient parking is a big deal for me and on the other side of the spectrum I'm a caregiver for an 83 year old parent who can't get around without a walker or wheelchair so these are the reasons why I'm very concerned about parking uh Ada access to these um shops downtown and again commuter traffic somebody that's coming from out of the area I'm just trying to think about all the different needs for all the different citizens in Reno it's cars it's commuters it's people with restricted Mobility it's people that need to unload and park you know not necessarily businesses loading on and unloading so I'm just trying to make sure that we're looking big picture here and not just getting excited about bikes and scooters because I am I'm excited about that too but they're not the only people using Virginia councilman I'm gonna just cut you off there because we're overtime but I I think she makes a great point but you do have to design your roads for and the place making for everyone not just cars and Cars and Cars so she does make a good point designing it for everyone right um and so thank you for that okay go ahead councilwoman doer yeah um just real quick um the points councilmember Ebert brought up are they very similar to the points I brought up at Midtown that I too had elderly parents people in wheelchairs often to go to a restaurant downtown they needed I needed a place to pull over let them out even if I wasn't parking so I think the loading and loading for people is really important not just packages and furniture and those kind of things number two is that I just want to get this clear you lost 4 000 cars because you cut out an entire Lane if you put back the lane do you think you're going to get those 4 000 cars back I would estimate that would be the case Okay and then do you have any sense why Fifth Street actually increased traffic going you know volumes even though we were put in bike Lanes we evaluated that as thoroughly you know the change in season maybe important portion of it um UNR back in session if that's a commuter route rebalancing of traffic throughout the entire network there's a variety of reasons so it's it's one of those results that is a head scratcher and I think it's worth following the trail to figure it out because it could have important implications maybe if we hadn't cut out Virginia Street going one way maybe it would have gone up two because of the same impacts whatever was impacting 5th Street to your point if it was change of season students whatever Virginia Street might have actually seen an increase in vehicle traffic itself so I mean it's it's I don't think we're ready to draw a conclusion about this because we only we changed one variable we haven't really tested the whole system secondly we want to drive more business to downtown more interesting shops more things to do so at the end of the day I don't think we want to reduce anyone's access to shopping I want to increase it we want to add more places to go and see it might be historic plaques one of my current passions it might be you know a walking tour that was designed for Virginia Street as part of the place making so I I think that as long as we all understand our set of assumptions then we're going to be good you know that we have the same goals in mind okay I'm set enough all right councilman breakfast mean I'm I'm just ready to move towards emotion I uh I will make a motion I am in support I believe in pilot studies I mean before most a lot of people here are no longer working but 2 000 I was a planner for the city and we did a pilot project on Wells Avenue um for traffic circles that then led to that roundabout you know temporary roundabouts were put in they're very proven efforts and exercises you got good data you got some things that work some things that didn't work the agenda only says to accept a report I'm comfortable there but this altar report you know you're hearing from the council because you heard it on the First Street you know I had a lot of questions about how First Street works and parking and so on you're hearing from Miss Ebert a lot about parking management you know when I read this altoscope about these projects this connectivity Concepts if it doesn't talk about you know diagnosing functionality in terms of parking and managing parking if it's going toward engineering it doesn't show parking Concepts so I wish the skull scope of the Alta study the implementation steps were put in either as this item or another item that got some daylighting before the consultant went out and started working and I know it's not going to be part of the May 10th item because it's that's projects so I do support but I really wish the next steps um in this Alta study and what we're looking at the pr the premises to build these projects um I think I think has been skipped with that that outline of that Alta scope not coming forward so I'll look at it when I see it but with that I can make a motion to support the micro Mobility to accept the final report second I have a motion from councilwoman breakfast I have a second from councilman Maduro all those in favor say aye aye aye all those opposed motion carries unanimously all right good job and thank you so much Miss Harrison um I really appreciate it and I apologize but good job okay Madam Clerk thanks Madam mayor we're moving on to item D2 which is Katie Harrison get to listen to me so you're going nowhere I'm staying right here okay all right um so good afternoon again Madame mayor and council members Katie Harrison engineering manager for public works for the record the item before you is an interlocal Cooperative agreement with the Regional Transportation Commission to purchase specialized multi-use path maintenance equipment in an amount not to exceed 190 000. so the funding for this was prioritized in rtc's Regional Transportation Improvement program and this program prioritizes meeting our Region's growing Transportation needs while improving the safety air quality Transportation efficiency and Mobility so the funding for this is specifically identified to purchase specialized small-scale equipment used to maintain multi-use or off-street Packs along with buffered micro Mobility Lanes like what is shown in the photo on the right and our maintenance and operations department has use for this type of equipment currently and that need will only continue to grow as we expand and improve our micro Mobility Network throughout the city so the RTC will reimburse up to 190 000 with required match of ten thousand dollars from the city which is available in the street fund and similar funding is going to the city of Sparks in Washoe County to improve these filicilities throughout the Truckee Meadows and with that recommend approval of the agreement available for questions okay thank you so much any questions go ahead Council on breakfast yeah you know um really two questions this is great this is forward thinking it's something I've been advocating for a long time for a long time and that is with RTC getting the Lion's Share of our escalating and tremendous gas to fuel tax that the voters voted for some money needs to be put aside to set aside for maintenance on a set aside formula for set aside to the local governments and we need this to be the start of that this is precedent setting correct I haven't haven't set aside for maintenance equipment purchases this is the first one I've been a part of okay not I can't speak to previous things I think it I think it is but it needs to continue on a population basis the local governments need a share of RTC Revenue to do maintenance Dale why don't you come on up um there are some formula set aside but it does not readjust with the growth in sales checks that's number one number two question and this probably is for Miss Harrison is we are seeing a lot of Redevelopment it's a great thing in the urban core in the urban core a lot of this development is taking advantage of the alley grid Street Network correct correct yes um and we you know I've had some discussion here when someone wanted to name an alley and so on we don't bring our street sweepers the ones that we have currently down the alleys is my understanding is this also going to be able to sweep in alleys I will defer to send it over to operations okay operations yes good afternoon Madam mayor council members for the record Tim Hendricks streets division manager um yes this will be able to uh sweet sweep in the alleys um with this particular piece of equipment we're actually getting it it comes with a vacuum sweeper okay and then a snowplow attachment and a city street cleaner high pressure system so it's going to be very multifunctional as far as the Alleyways okay bike Lanes great great I mean I know the bike Lanes you know I've had focused a lot on that particularly the California Avenue wall but on the alleys how soon do you think it'll be till you'll get it and be able to incorporate it into your um sweeping schedule that every that you know we can send people to go look at when you when you plug down the alleys do you think you'll be able to get that up pretty soon as soon as we get it it's gonna be ready to go um being multifunctional we'll be able to to get it out right away okay it's pretty quick so it's it's much faster than anything we have now as far as cleaning oh okay so it'll be able to ZIP down a bike lane go right into an alley okay all in the same area okay okay it's gonna be very efficient okay okay so by Leaf season we'll be able to see the um where it how your schedule rotation is yes yeah once we get it um and it's it's deployed we'll see a huge difference right Away Great thank you for that that is really good because I didn't see that you know mentioned but I I wondered and then really really set aside Mr Keller I I think the mayor brought you up let's talk about how that's what I was talking about earlier that I asked for yeah over there so he knows it was at the last board meeting and I said we should have set-asides for all three jurisdictions so he knows Premier CV Dale Keller director engineer for ROTC we hear uh mayor shivi loud and clear from the RTC board as she sits and represents the city what I'd like to focus and make sure he's a little bit cautious about setting precedent on this item alone initially we're looking to use federal funds to help pay for this equipment and we recognized it was a very difficult for the city to procure this type of street soup equipment with the federal regulations of buy America we stepped in and said we recognize there's a need in our community to go ahead and get this equipment done so we said all right we will not be able to use these federal funds let's set that aside and now let's go ahead and use local fuel tax as that match that helped deliver much necessary equipment to maintain multimodal facilities so I wanted to express caution as we look into overall maintenance side and that's a larger part of the conversation that needs to happen with the RTC board thank you thank you you know maintaining the important than building new you have to maintain and we need to flip the script over at RTC on that in a big way thank you well does he know things are really changing over there it's really very different and so I'm excited I think it's just a whole sort of like the way you would head into transportation for the future just because the board is new and uh it's a big turnover so I I think everyone is really excited about sort of the new Direction I thought it was a very good meeting last RTC meeting um Tim why don't you come up here we don't get to see you that much because like I said we have incredible people behind the scenes and people really don't know who you are you should tell the council Who You Are by the way everyone sings your Praises they love love love you thank you for all the hard work that you do in our city but just for the council that don't know who you are tell them exactly what you do because you actually have like a major major important job all right so for the record team Hendrick streets manager so um our streets maintenance section we we are the snowplow guys we are the asphalt maintenance guys we are the right away guys we're the street sweeper downtown cleaners we're this we're this paint and sign um we are to pretty much do everything guys so that that's who we are we but we notice that when it's not there right absolutely then we're like oh this is how we want it we want you to go to college and you realize wait a minute it's not free yeah that's that's what we wanted we don't want to notice us that means we are are doing our jobs so we take you for granted is my point and we never should because you your job is so critical to making our city run in every way and especially this winter I want everyone to know they had to work there excuse my French asses off and like literally you guys worked 24 7 around the clock and we did not get to thank you and we want you to know that you've done an amazing job well thank you we appreciate that um yeah 37 000 Lane miles can you believe that that is amazing it snowed a lot it did yeah it did I'm still holding my breath just a little because I have seen it snow here but I I think we're I think we're through it okay okay okay I'm holding you to it all right thank you all right thank you so much all right any other questions appreciate the um comments from councilwoman breakfast why don't you councilwoman breakfast give us the motion move to approve the agreement um with is the agreement with RTC an authorized mayor to sign okay thank you I have a motion I have a second all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed motion carries unanimously sending it back to you madam Clerk sorry madam there that uh motion came much quicker than I was prepared sorry so just for the record we did receive seven comments associated with that item seven in favor and zero in opposition are concerned but now we're moving on to item D3 D3 okay thank you so much at this time Madam clerk do you have any public comments we have no public comment and none registered thank you okay thank you so much I'm gonna um had handed off to Noemi nice to see you we haven't seen you in a while I'm excited for this item it's awesome excited to be here and we have some good stuff to present for you I know you're excited you're telling me how excited you are um with the senior allocation and everything you're doing so thank you so much uh the four is yours great thank you well good afternoon Madame mayor members of the council Noemi Gomez Martinez for the record I'm here to provide an updated presentation on the proposed plan for the senior arpa allocations of the amount of one million dollars to go towards senior programming and initiatives this is a timeline of the process and development of the plan at the February 8th council meeting staff was directed by Council to seek further input from the community and bring back an updated plan approved by the senior citizen advisory committee since that time three additional meetings were held to discuss senior arpa and the key priorities for seniors the community had an opportunity to discuss and provide feedback after extensive discussion and hearing from the organizations that submitted proposals the committee voted on the following plan so what you have in front of you is the final recommendation plan approved by the committee and the four original categories to remain the same and so we're going to start with line item number one which is the food and security health and wellness and to meet the growing food insecurity and improved nutritional needs the committee selected Reno Food Systems through the use of funding Reno Food Systems will provide four programs that includes a senior Farmers Market nutrition program a mobile Farmers Market a peer-to-peer nutrition education program and a gardening program for seniors for line item 2 for senior Transportation the neighbor network of Northern Nevada short for N4 was selected to help reduce Transportation barriers for seniors and through this program seniors would access monthly vouchers to utilize Lyft and or Uber and seniors will be able to use their mobile device to reserve the service or contact enforce concierge service to coordinate the transportation line item three is singer engagement and funds will be used to increase City of Reno senior engagement throughout the entire city programs and initiatives will augment programming opportunities and I will include our technology classes among other engagement opportunities to help combat senior isolation and this will vary year to year but it's an opportunity for seniors to to get engaged and for the city to provide that those opportunities for for them throughout the entire city and lastly you see the senior program coordinator so these are a substantial programs and will require significant project management for like senior engagement and working with our senior community the senior program coordinator will be responsible for planning executing and implementing these initiatives while also engaging the senior community and supporting the SEC this position will be advertised as a temporary and also Grant funded position so be very transparent with that um so these are the this is a final recommendation in proposed plants and the recommended motion is to approve the senior arpa plan allocated with one million of one million dollars all right thank you so much and I'm super excited about this this is really really significant for them I sat on um that board for a very very long time and one of the things that I just felt like we have to get this money into seniors hands that can't afford to do a lot of these programs I mean I know we make them pretty affordable but some of them this can be the difference between eating a meal um and so everyone was so supportive you guys were so supportive so I was just I was so happy because I don't we've never seen since I've been here an allocation to this magnitude um to you know have kind of have the leeway to bring in more funding and ways to program for our seniors so I'm super happy about it I was I want to say thank you to Doug because I think it was Doug that came to me and said I know that you're passionate about this and you were very very supportive so thank you so much I mean honestly like I know you take a lot of heat Doug but the seniors probably should know it was like you it was like honestly they probably don't know really where it came from whenever you know it was sort of talked about how important seniors were and probably have not had an allocation I mean obviously not we haven't had that with the arpa but just the fact that we're having the opportunity to utilize it for our seniors is super exciting so great job thank you so much okay uh Megan it is your board so I'm gonna let you do the honors and make the motions first I want to ask if there's anything else you guys would like to say I know Paco came out so is there anything you would like to share before we make a motion was trying to be very helpful over there and as you know Paco has no problem speaking that's true um I I have to thank Naomi and and City staff for all their hard work because from where we started to where we are now is totally different the buckets are still kind of the same um and but we felt we wanted the biggest bang for the buck because this is a one-time shot for us most of the pilot programs that we have we think can continue on at some point but we've got the money to do them so we're facing where working on food insecurity which is a big senior problem we're working on Transportation which is an issue for me since I can't drive anymore and RTC does not serve my area um and um I think that it's good I take a lot of Naomi's time um from our committee our committee is very active councilwoman Ebert will tell you that older American Smith is coming up um we have an art the art show that we've got going on at McKinley right now we have 95 artists this year with over 180 pieces of art they are at reception and we'd like to see Council there if you're available is May the 4th at 4 o'clock at McKinley other than that I will be so glad to have a senior coordinator the committee is really really looking forward to have one person dedicated to us okay awesome and Poco if you would just state your name and position for the record I am Paco the Choi chairman of the Arena senior citizen advisory committee thank you great job all right so just real quick I just wanted to call out the senior Art Fest I was there the first day they started collecting art and it was really great it was just a constant stream of people bringing in art the participation is fantastic and I'm really looking forward to the official opening date I highly recommend everybody go it's going to be awesome so I just want to give a quick uh plug for that it opened today and it's open Monday through Friday from nine until four so I'll be there tomorrow all right go ahead Council on door yeah um thank you for coming up knowing me because it's really to you I wanted to speak um I think this is such a turnaround from where we were so and I have to compliment you when I had a briefing with you I asked you how many times did you go back and visit with the seniors I think you said at least twice maybe it was three times but what we have now is a program of projects that's endorsed by the senior committee and it took some Outreach it took some time it took some massaging but we got there and I think it's such a better result than where we were just a few short months ago so I just I really wanted to thank you because you have had a key hand in turning this around thank you thanks motion carries unanimously all right great job thank you so much Madam Clerk thank you Madame mayor we're moving on to item D4 which is Elaine Wiseman and Monica Cochran and for the record we do not have any public comment on this item nor do I have any registered hi hi so great to see you I never get to see you anymore thank you yes it's good to be here all right awesome well good afternoon mayor council members and city manager Thornley for the record Elaine Wiseman I'm a management analyst with housing and neighborhood development the item before you today is approval of an application by the Reno Housing Authority for an affordable housing fee waiver for Dick Scott Manor Apartments in 2019 state law was passed which allows local jurisdictions to reduce or subsidize sewer and building fees for affordable housing development in 2020 this Council adopted an ordinance which set the affordable housing fee reduction standards and criteria so many of you are familiar with Dick Scott Manor um it's the project will be located at 1035 East 8th Street this is a City of Reno owned parcel which is leased to the Housing Authority for specifically for the development of Dick Scott Manor the Reno Housing Authority will be developing a 12-unit affordable housing apartment complex all for veterans at or below 50 Ami and six of those 12 units will be for veterans below 30 percent Ami so deeply subsidized all of the units will be supported by a project-based head Vash voucher and I just wanted to note that because it's important to see the multiple agency collaboration that really has gone into this project and as most of you know to have such low Amis on these rents um you need normally need some sort of voucher rental subsidy tied to it in order to maintain the long-term viability of the project so Reno Housing Authority is requesting and is eligible for a hundred percent reduction in sewer and building fees so that's the 65 340 in sewer connection fees and 14 202 dollars in building permit fees um again it's a total of 12 affordable housing units that will be added to the market and all of the units have project-based HUD vouchers tied to them which I just want everyone to understand what a Vash voucher is um it's a housing Choice voucher for rental assistance for homeless veterans that also comes with Supportive Services and clinical case management and it's Project based so it's tied to the unit so even as the veterans come out of homelessness they move in there they get the full wraparound Services when they move on to other housing the voucher stays there so we'll see a continuous flow of veterans coming out of homelessness that we'll be able to utilize this project which is so great for our community um this next slide shows the total subsidies of building and Sewer permit fees that this Council has approved to date the subsidies have contributed to the creation of a thousand nine um affordable housing units and that will go up to 1021 after the 12 units are approved today for subsidy and that number that's a little over 5 million um that's the total monetary value of the subsidies so with that I am available for any questions and I I thought someone are you all right okay there is someone here from RHA um if there are any Project Specific questions that I can't answer thank you so much an excellent presentation I love how you also explained what batch bash vouchers are a lot of people don't know what that initiative was all about under the Obama Administration it has really been a lifesaver in our community on so many levels so it's awesome awesome and I know that Dick Scott would be incredibly incredibly proud um so I just wanted you to know thank you so so much this is awesome anyway okay councilwoman breakfast go ahead yeah and and great presentation um remind me again Scott Manor is that a low does it have tax credits deal too or is it a Housing Authority project it's a Housing Authority oh it is okay and um you know I really thank you for that last slide of showing how much we've put in all together um some you know I've been I've been you know calling out what I believe are a fair amount of omissions in staff reports and staff presentations but this really does help me understand particularly because we're in budget season you know how much we've done of this you know this assistance and it's it's been great it's non-federal money it's rate payer money on the sewer subsidy it's building fee payer on the other side um I do think we need a policy though and set it at budget how much we're going to allocate each year I really really do and I'll just tell you Council see that five million dollars and you don't have the date you know it's not calendar I was going to ask calendar a year but it's probably going back what was the date that you said we put the ordinance in place um 2020 2020. so that's three years but when we um when we did the uh fee connection uh increases you know we increased how much more we're going to get with these new fees and we may be erasing it all through these subsidies you know so it's really just going to the subsidy effort it's not necessarily going to pay for all the big things we need on for the sewer fund like lift stations so I I do think that we need a discussion on how much we're going to budget each fiscal year for each of the funds I'm not so worried about the building subsidy fund because that one's running very flush with not a lot of obligations I actually have said many times that I think it should be of General fun fun get rid of the building Enterprise fund and let it pay for General City op operations like business licenses but the sewer fund I do think that we need and I'll ask this next week during budget um if we need to earmark an amount that everyone knows and with probably that'll translate to an application cycle too you're probably already thinking about that right and we are Monica and I are working with Mr flansburg to start having those conversations so those are in the world yes just bring it you know bring it absolutely I look for a proposal to come to us and if it's not wrapped into the budget you know soon after when the FY starts because that's how we should be tracking it I think but thank you very much for that presentation and I look forward to the Dick Scott Manor yeah okay any other questions from Council seeing that they're not council member breakfast give me a motion please all motion all right thank you I have a motion second from um councilman Martinez all those in favor say aye aye motion carries unanimously congratulations and nice to see you foreign we're now on item G1 which is an appointment to the historical Resources Commission and this is an appointment by council member door councilwoman doer go thank you um thank you for indulging me while I ensured I interviewed most of the people that applied there were almost 20 people applied and I get to recommend to the council three people um so I am prepared to do that today I would like to recommend Bradley Carlson for a reappointment I'd like to recommend Tina Davis as the historian we're required to note someone with a historic historian with knowledge of local history that would be Tina Davis and I'd like to recommend will Durham as the at large or one of the at-large okay uh great choice by the way so can I second that please all right so I have a motion and a second all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed okay motion carries no I have one more thing to say go ahead uh I was so impressed with the people who applied that I came up with an idea that I'm going to pose to the historic Resources Commission and that is to establish a working Committee subcommittee of their board that would go out and actually dig into the ground boots on the ground to make some recommendations to the commission for example the place making study visit the businesses and buildings on Virginia Street come back with a recommendation of which one should be memorialized perhaps in a plaque help design redesign a plaque recommend that to the commission much like the public art committee subcommittee works with the arts and culture commission and then this would also provide some training some additional training for these people who are just about ready to join the commission so that as other people go off the commission we have a ready pool of people that have been working and got their feet on the ground and also um keep them engaged I mean I do not want to lose these people they care about Reno's history I want to put them to work so just sort of some Coming Attractions yeah that's awesome okay thanks all right Madam Clerk thank you madam mayor if you would like we can go ahead and open in the Redevelopment agency board at this time I'm going to go ahead and call roll main council member breckus Duart here Martinez Ebert here Taylor Rhys absent at this time shibi here Madame mayor you do have a quorum of the Redevelopment agency board okay thank you item L2 is public comment we have none so we will close it item L3 is approval of the agenda all right may I get an approval of the agenda I have a motion from councilman Martinez second second from councilwoman doer all those in favor say aye aye as opposed motion carries unanimously item L4 is approval of the joint minutes from March 22nd 2023. all right may I get a motion for the minute so moved all right thank you I've I have a motion from councilwoman Stewart second from councilman Martinez all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed motion carries unanimously all right good job all right so we're gonna go to item L6 which is closing public comment for redevelopment agency board which we have none so we will close that item item L8 is adjournment of the Redevelopment agency board all right make an emotion so move I have a motion I have a second all those in favor say aye aye motion carries thank you item H1 is city council Commons all right any Council comments something that there are none or go ahead councilman Martinez just quickly for the record yesterday um the city of Sparks the City of Reno and Washoe County um to talk about Parks um and possibly a Parks District so I just wanted to put that on everybody's radar um my Nathan our Parks director was there where like where it was talking about what was that where were they talking about a Parks District all over yeah it would Encompass it sounds like the jurisdiction for all three municipalities okay yeah and that's just in the works but I'm sure we will hear more from our recreational parks commission um coming up but I just wanted to flag that for you all while I was there yesterday I'll give you that update anyone else updates all right I think that there are none I'm gonna send it back to you I have one oh you do okay I want to make sure I get this on everybody's agenda or radar May 11th May 11th which is a Thursday in a couple weeks we're going to have a very unique event which is going to be the historic resources Awards there are some between 15 and 20 Awards the event is going to be at the alma state uh we are going to have a tour of the elm estate property the house and the grounds by the owner prior to the awards what day is that this is Thursday May 11th awesome yeah and um you know I'm I've really pushed this because prior to that the awards have been very low-key yeah uh we're inviting media um in fact the alma state is not on uh Reno historical which is an app I encourage you to download it that is supported by Alicia Barber so she's doing a special entry for the alma state in honor of this move it's free to the public there will be food and drink some music it'll it'll be a special event and kind of I'm trying to set a new bar and get some a little bit more recognition about what amazing um work is going on in our community both on the residential side the business side and the advocate side they've been a little jammed up with covid they canceled one or two held to a very low-key celebration at McKinley so this is this is a kind of a 1 8 change so encourage you to come if you can if you have time on a Thursday evening to join us see what's what yeah I'm glad you're doing that okay good thank you so much all right anything else see nothing I'm gonna send it to you about them thank you we're moving on to item J1 which is closing public comment for today we did receive three comments which were General in nature and not directly associated with an item or after 4 pm yesterday April 25th those have been distributed to the Reno city council there were three letters in total um one of which came from the same person on two different occasions so you have one in favor and one in opposition additionally we do have one voicemail transcription that will be distributed since we are having technology issues and now we're looking at closing public comment and a motion to adjourn today's Arena city council meeting all right make an emotion I have a motion family second all those in favor say aye all those all right thank you everyone motion passes