cheese good thank you thank you foreign they are Madam clerk if you're ready let me know please are you ready [Music] all right vice mayor Reese we are ready to start the meeting okay thank you and welcome good morning we've got a full house it's so nice to see all of you here today I'll call to order the meeting of the Reno city council for Wednesday May 10 2023 and we'll start off with the introductory items under A1 with the Pledge of Allegiance and today we're really excited because we've got some students from Bernice Martin Matthews Elementary School here so I'm going to ask you all to lead us in the pledge so let's all do that together of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you students that was very uh heartwarming appreciate you for being here and excited to have you Bernice uh Matthews is a dear friend and you go to a great school so thanks welcome Madam clerk roll call please thank you calling roll for Wednesday May 10th council member breckis absent at this time doer here Martinez here Ebert here Taylor here Reese here shavy absent this time vice mayor you do have a quorum of the Reno city council thank you so much Madam Clerk we do have a special a few special items today before we open general public comment um so I think Mr Pingree is going to go ahead and join us at the podium for the reading of a proclamation Mr Pingree welcome and it's exciting to see so many of your team here today good morning thank you for having us today it's an exciting day today to celebrate Building Safety month and we have a proclamation that's been prepared to help celebrate all of our folks that are involved in in not only the department of development services but many of the others throughout the city so I'm going to go through the formality of reading the wonderful Proclamation here the City of Reno is committed to recognizing that our growth and strength depends on the safety and its Central role of our homes buildings infrastructure and they play it both in everyday life when disasters strike our confidence and the resilience of these buildings that make up our community is achieved through the devotion of vigilant Guardians building safety and Fire Prevention officials Architects Engineers Builders trades people design professionals laborers plumbers and others in the construction industry who work year-round to ensure the safe construction of buildings these modern building codes include safeguards to protect the public from hazards such as hurricanes snowstorms tornadoes Wildland fires floods and earthquakes Building Safety month is sponsored by the International Code Council to remind the public about the critical role of our communities largely unknown Protectors of Public Safety our local code officials who assure us of safe sustainable and affordable buildings that are essential to prosperity it starts with you the theme for building safety month 2023 encourages us all to raise awareness about building safety on a personal local and global scale each year in observance of building safety month people all over the world are asked to consider the commitment to improve Building Safety resilience and economic investment at home and in the community and to acknowledge the essential service provided to all of us by local and State Building departments fire prevention bureaus and federal agencies in protecting lives and property now therefore I Chris pinkry on behalf of the honorable mayor Hillary L Chevy mayor of the City of Reno do hereby declare May 2023 as Building Safety month in and for the City of Reno encouraging our citizens to join the communities in participation in building safety month activities thank you I do want to give a personal shout out to all of our internal teams that work with our department we have been a just a leader in the area of the way we we handle the development community and the processes that we that we enforce and everybody in this room that stand along that back wall they're just amazing amazing people who truly truly truly believe every day in what they do and they work so hard to complete that mission every day so thank you to everybody here happy building and safety month 2023. foreign I do want to introduce our building official our building and safety manager Bob Flores he does have some words he wants to share as well so thank you Bob welcome good morning thank you good morning City of Reno council members um the City of Reno Building a safety division is made up of some of the most dedicated Professionals in the industry not only are they the most dedicated professionals together they make up some of the most certified building department in the nation we have over 300 certified ICC members standing behind me not only that we have over 11 ICC accredited in-house training programs that was developed by our building and safety team which is outstanding I mean it takes a quite an accomplishment to get that just an approval through the International Code Council and we have it in-house that shows the dedication and the commitment our individuals have to our community and our visitors to the City of Reno and it's my honor to work with such a great team together alongside with fire prevention we will continue our mission to keep our citizens safe thank you for this recognition and this time City of Reno council members thank you again Madam clerk I believe we're going to welcome Chief Dave Cochran Mr Cochran thank you welcome good morning hey before we get into your video presentation um I'll just reflect that yesterday was the city of Reno's 155th birthday so happy birthday to the City of Reno but you also have a special birthday to share with us today is that right we do so today is the Reno fire department's 135th birthday so we are here to recognize that I'm very excited you know obviously that's a long and storied history we've got a lot of shared experiences um we're going to show our annual report which we produced in video format which is really kind of the highlight of the show I'd like to make a couple brief comments um before we do that kind of metaphorically looking behind me and in front of me um behind me see the members some members of the Reno Fire Department were over 300 strong and we are an extremely busy Department these are the people that do the training and the emergency responses and the fire prevention and the community engagement all the things that are still valuable to our department and to our community just as an example today we are participating in a drill an EOC drill which operations drill at the regional train Center engine 3 is down doing supporting fire prevention training at the Atlantis Engine 7 is at Colin Ranch Elementary School doing support supporting National Educators week up there um and in between all that we're going to run 130 140 calls today so that's where the work is getting done oh I don't want to leave out we have 24 recruits that are out training getting ready to hit the line in about six weeks um like I said though the boots on the ground that's where the heart of the department is looking forward at people in front of me we don't get new firefighters we aren't able to expand and develop new programs like our single roll Medics buy new fire engines plan for new fire station without the support of the people in front of me and so I'm very grateful to all of you for what you do in supporting us and allowing us giving us the tools to support the city and to provide the service that we do and we're very proud of that service so with that I think we're ready to play our annual report so Mickey if you're ready thank you Chief Cochrane an hello I'm Reno fire chief Dave Cochran every year the men and women of Reno Fire Department proudly answered the call to serve and protect our community 2022 was a year full of determination and growth of the Reno fire department and we are pleased to share some of our most impactful accomplishments you will also hear more about an exciting Edition coming soon to the biggest little city as well as our continuing efforts to increase Staffing and add Stations of the coming years to enhance the safety of the citizens and visitors to Reno I'd like to thank our Reno city council as well as City leadership along with our state and federal governments for supporting our mission to provide the best service to the citizens and visitors of Reno around the clock for the second year in a row we've exceeded calls for service with 2022 being the busiest year on record for the arena party Department our firefighters responded to 49 604 calls for service averaging 135 calls per day in addition to fire calls we responded to numerous vehicle accidents rescue calls and hazardous materials incidents 2022 is also a busy year for wildlifiers in the Western United States the arena fire department sent more than 50 personnel and equipment to over 4 40 incidents across 12 States from Florida to California the rapid extraction module was deployed nearly continuously throughout the summer for three different incidents in three states the Training Division completed two firefighter academies one 19-week new recruit Academy and for the first time in Reno Fire Department history an eight-week lateral firefighter Academy this training here at the Reno Fire Academy directly mirrors what we will be doing on the line every single day and prepares us to serve our community greatly rfd's Training Division offered over 300 firefighter trainings in 2022 covering all aspects of firefighting and Emergency Medical Services this included monthly special teams trainings our HazMat team water entry team and urban surgeon Rescue Team are each composed of 36 firefighters with hundreds of additional training hours to ensure RFD is prepared and ready to respond to even the most complex emergencies from new businesses to new buildings Reno continues to grow in 2022 we completed over 4 300 safety inspections on existing commercial and residential properties we reviewed 1936 new construction plans and conducted 4 352 new construction inspections the fire investigation team was busier this year as well we graduated two new fire investigators from the police academy and our team investigated 238 fires our certified fire investigation team made 13 separate arson arrests the Emergency Management division works diligently with our regional Partners to ensure our communities are prepared and resilient to all risks and Hazards in 2022 13 key staff members from the city Arena were part of 67 Regional and state partners that attended the Emergency Management Institute in Emmitsburg Maryland to collaborate in a week-long emergency preparedness train the week of training culminated in a full-scale earthquake and flood exercise that was specific to the City of Reno and our region the health and wellness division we continue to work hard on maintaining the health and safety of our team one of the ways we do this is through our firefighter Advanced cancer testing and screening program I'm proud to say that we recently completed our second year of this program which greatly improves our health outcomes through early detection with over 30 000 medical responses in 2022 the EMS division continues to expand and diversify to best meet the needs of our community in 2022 we launched an in-house Advanced emergency medical technician program which allows our firefighters to expand their emergency medical care knowledge and scope of practice this program has set the foundation for the Department to provide higher level emergency care to our community with the support of the Reno city council we hired six single repair medics for Medics to respond exclusively to Medical calls in the City of Reno leaving our firefighters free to respond to fires and other all-risk emergencies our Reno city council recently entered into an agreement to expand our ability to fund our EMS Services through an ongoing reimbursement program with the federal government ultimately this funding will help RFD use the best resources to deliver the right level of emergency care as quickly and efficiently as possible RFD is always improving our resources to respond of emergencies as quickly and efficiently as possible in 2022 Makita Tool Corporation Reno fire established a partnership involving the standardization of power tools on all RFD apparatus as well as in training for RFD Personnel on those new tools looking ahead Makita will continue to work closely with rft to develop new and Innovative tools for the Reno fire department and Emergency Operations finally the Reno Fire Department took delivery of several apparatus including the new aerial platform this specialized apparatus will provide RFD with unique capabilities when mitigating emergency incidents no matter the size it's safe to say our team reached New Heights in 2022. in the year ahead we look forward to the graduation of our current recruit Academy which we anticipate will get the Department up to fully approved Staffing this is critical as the biggest little city along with our calls for service continues to grow finally I am pleased to announce that the Reno city council has approved the initial steps to the construction of a new Central fire station which will be located in the heart of downtown Reno there will be at least three stories tall with more than 65 000 square feet it has six fire engine Bays two ambulance days administrative and fire personnel and of course our emergency response Crews we will deploy multiple crews in this facility to serve the busiest section of our city along with some of our special teams resources such as the water entry team we anticipate opening station in 2027. half of the Reno Fire Department I would like to extend my sincere thanks for trusting us serve you and your loved ones we take great pride in making Reno not just livable but lovable Chief Cochran thank you so much [Music] and just one quick addition uh Mr vice mayor if I could add you saw sprinkle throughout that video and in fact development services mentioned our interaction with multiple different departments throughout the city and we take great pride in those Partnerships and those working relationships we have uh to put a bow on it or crack Communications team Rebecca Cassie and their that group put together this annual report so we're very appreciative them for that and for the support so thank you thank you Chief Cochran all right and we do have one last special guest in the office or in the audience the Bernice Matthews Elementary School here where is our teacher today yay thank you so much for all that you do I know that teacher appreciation was I think last week but we appreciate our teachers every day we've got one of our trustees also here in the house our trustee is here this morning so thank you all for being here today always a privilege to have young people in the chambers future Mayors right we'll get a picture here of the class Adam Clerk we'll come back to you oh we're going to welcome them forward yeah that's great we're going to have you all come forward and do a picture with the group so that's um and they also have a public comment to make for them great fabulous who is going to be leading Us in the public comment maybe we'll start with the public comment and then we'll come off the dies for the picture so come on forward will the whole class come up here to the microphone and that microphone moves it's bendy it's kind of Wiggly like a worm yeah you can pull it around it won't break it but that you can touch it it's okay it'll come right down to you maybe come a little bit everybody shift a little oh you're going to start us off okay great well let's give a second for your classmates to join you and then we'll get started with the public comment wow you all look so great today and smiling thanks for being here again okay are we ready for public comment okay welcome hello our names are Camila and Ziana and we're part of Bernice Matthew student council we are here to discuss some issues we've realized in our community around the school first we'd like to talk about bike trails a lot of us kids really love to ride our bikes around and for all the speeding cars it's not really that safe so we are wondering if we can add a lot more bike chills in the dirt and on the road Camila okay another Improvement is more cleaning re-realized it's really messy and it causes more pollution and danger to our environment lastly safety we noticed a lot of homeless people and called yellows we would like to have more gates and safety signs now we will talk about the community center hello my name is Aloma I'm here to speak about some improvements on the community center I'd like to see more culture events and more after school activities some after school activity ideas are art soccer and planting activities and more for the cultural events we can do more Show and Tell shows about cultures and food taste testing every once a month one more thing is we would like to see more flyers advertising activities and now it's time for my friend Ali to speak hello my name is Ali Aliana people call me Ali for sure short I'm here to discuss our ideas about the mural I we could like to see many cultures represented and we could also like to see components of family in the mirror we could also like to see sports outdoors in words of encouragement and we could also like to see more things like more colors to represent our school and to represent our community hi my name is emery and I don't really have a script but I'd like to say that I think we should add more uh water parks kind of thing to put so people could go out more for summer and around Reno we have very few and I think if we if we could build some more uh we could have more people go out for summer hi my name is Paulina and uh I don't really have a speech either but the thing I really want is more safe environments for more children because the parks around don't really have a lot of security around here so yeah hi my name is Lila and I would like more safety things around here because there's a lot of speeding cars and there's people there's a lot more called yellows like they said and I would just like more safety things um hello my name is Camila and um I agree with them I think we should have more safety so we won't have as much code yellows hi my name is and I just want more safety hi my name is Camilo and I want more parking lots because whenever I go somewhere not as much as the parking space hi my name is dayanira and I would also want more safety it would be more safe for people hello my name is Gio and I would like to for people to like uh clean up more the park because I see a lot of trash in the ports and stuff like that hi my name is Hayden and I think one of my friends here said about like activities maybe at the park they should put like two goalie things so people could play soccer wow great ideas all of you congratulations we're going to come down and take a picture but I'll tell you also afterwards we've got a surprise for you Reno uh fire department has some treats in the lobby for you so we'll take pictures now and come forward and do that but afterwards and as long as it's okay with our teachers they'll have the opportunity to step outside the chamber so thanks welcome again come on forward here we're going to line you up and we'll take our pictures from up here yeah our teachers have got to join us of course for sure come on down parent helpers and volunteers too yeah come on in we got to get everybody in here thank you all right vice mayor Reese is there clearing out I'm going to go ahead and read our public comment disclosure and additionally I just would like to say we had several people sign up for the bid which is item C1 we're moving you over to C1 for public comment however if you wanted to be in public comment A3 please come see us up here so we can move you back into the appropriate spot it should be noted for those in the audience that comments are to be addressed to the mayor and Council as a whole comments heard under this item will be limited to three minutes per person and may pertain to matters both on and off the council's agenda please note that Council may not take action upon any matter not agendized on today's agenda when you are called on for public comment please state your name for the record and begin speaking the timer will begin when you say your name and you will be afforded three minutes if you're an attendee in the zoo meeting and would like to make public comment please raise your hand at this time and lastly while in this room please be respectful warnings will be issued by the presiding officer if there's disruptive behavior and you will be asked to leave Chambers if the behavior continues our first public commenter today is Ron Trevor followed by Terry Brooks followed by Tammy holtstall Mr Trevor welcome always good to have you in Chambers good morning and thank you my name is Ron Trevor and I'd like to thank the council for allowing me to speak this morning I'm a representative of Save which stands for senior auxiliary volunteer effort that works with the Reno Police Department today I've got the Recaps of our hours volunteered first quarter 2023. save currently has 66 active volunteers and another one in training during the first quarter there was a total of 3535 hours volunteered by members of save this represents the savings of over a hundred thousand dollars to the City of Reno some of the key areas that were covered during the quarter we had 3822 citizen contacts we had 1261 48-hour notices placed on abandoned vehicles we had 592 School patrols 144 handicapped violation citations 41 traffic surveys and 17 stolen vehicles or fictitious plates located that's it anybody have any questions thank you very much Terry Brooks followed by Tammy holtstall followed by Manuel Medeiros good morning it's me Terry Brooks again and today I came here to face the problem of discrimination when it comes to politics and race when I was just a kid I saw discrimination was really strange but over the years as I grew up I saw some stages of change I lived in a Midwest town where most neighborhoods were segregated I lived in one of the few neighborhoods that was somewhat integrated all but one of the elementary schools were for a long time segregated the first elementary school I went to was fortunately integrated we would go to movie theaters with a ground floor and a balcony the majority had to sit on the ground floor the minority had to sit in the balcony the first few jobs I ever had there discriminated against any minority they would only hire the people of the majority in 1869 Nevada was the first state to ratify the 15th Amendment and put it in place which said that no one could be denied the right to vote because of their race it took a long time for minorities to be allowed to vote in elections and it took even longer but now minorities have even won a lot of Elections and so through many years of time discrimination was debated in politics it took a long time but it has been somewhat improved through politics so discrimination is not nearly as bad as it used to be but the situation is still not quite as good as it ought to be I remember back in the 1960s the introduction of affirmative action but in the 1980s some politicians tried to dismantle affirmative action some politicians said if you grab people by their self-interests their hearts and Minds would follow so those politicians would approve enforcing equality just to get votes that they thought would follow those politicians used what was called quiet racism and principles supporting equality but they did so just to get votes and then opposed programs to help bring equality I would like to thank you all for listening to me today and I look forward to coming back and being loud to say what I say oh and by the way this is chapter six just so you know I've only got 40 more chapters to go thank you Mr Brooks [Music] Tammy holtstall followed by Manuel Medeiros followed by Ray Hogg Tammy Hill still I am here regarding something that was brought up two weeks ago my Washoe County City of Reno and tamwa talking about pfas well one councilwoman said to me well it was just a Trace that we found in the stead sewer plant so the first thing I did was I it bugged me that it was said it's just a trace like it doesn't matter but it does matter a trace is when you do a test you're doing it in a 100 millimeter jar so I decided to figure out dead sewer plant discharges 2 million gallons of effluent a day so I figured out it is 7 billion 570 million milliliters that are being put of just a Trace of the pfas into the Swan Lake palia which is a public Playa there's no fencing around it there's no protection for the citizens nothing so that Trace is a lot then whenever you drain or dewater or evaporate all those TR all that affluent you're left with all these traces that then float in the air so times up by a hundred because now it's spreading all over everywhere and then he wanted to blame it on the fire department that was doing training out there and it was only the fire department's phone that caused that that is not true if you look at warehousing there is over 11 different types of where or not warehousing but manufacturers that are out in that area that drain to your sewer plant and then goes to our public lake or Playa not all and one thing that isn't mentioned on there is the um cleaning of the waste management substation you don't know what's coming through that so a trace is not just a Trace minimizing it maximizes my anger towards all of you and what you're trying to put out there it is more than a trace I have been fighting since 2017 that a fluent no matter a C it doesn't belong there unless it is 100 recreational proof it does not belong in that Playa that is a public Playa it does not belong to sewage where people live as far as how mayor shivi handles getting appointments I'm very disappointed in that also thank you Madam clerk before we move to the next speaker I meant to go along and ask my colleague Mr Martinez he had some comments for our young people who were in the audience today I see have come back in the room because I missed that on the agenda so Mr Martinez the floor is yours thank you so much vice mayor appreciate the opportunity students of her niece Matthews Bienvenidos gracias thanks for being here today and engaging in your local government and expressing some of the concerns that you all are experiencing I appreciate your input on what you want to see in terms of parks recreation and activities and outdoor stuff so I hope you enjoy the rest of your agenda here with us today and hopefully that the treats and the people that you were will interact with today will give you a good sense of the good work that the City of Reno is doing on your behalf and trying to look out for you as you grow and develop in this region the other opportunity I wanted to take is to celebrate las Madres which I know in the United States is celebrated on Sunday but in Mexico it's always the 10th of May which is today and I'm honored to be joined by my own mother who's in the chambers with us so graciasis [Music] my aunt also accompanies her and if you're ever instead definitely recommend trying out her tacos at the La Barca 99 store instead so thank you so much for indulging me I appreciate the time foreign Martinez it's an honor to have your family here uh what an absolute joy that must be so welcome Adam Clerk thank you moving on to Manuel Maderos followed by Ray Hogg borrowed followed by Karen Hill Grissom [Music] good morning I'm the language access specialist for the Northern Nevada International Center I'm honored to be here thank you Reno city council for having me here today as I mentioned I'm Manuel Meadows I represent the Northern Nevada International Center which is affiliated with the University of Nevada Reno it's a non-profit organization affiliated with the university and I'm here today to Simply say thank you muchas gracias to the City of Reno and specially councilwoman Naomi medulla for her continued support for all of our programs the professional and cultural exchanges the refugee resettlement program and our language Bank nnic fulfills a vital role in our community making sure that newly arrived refugees asylis and victims of human trafficking find a way to create a new life for themselves and their families since 2016 we have resettled 550 newcomers to our community from countries ranging from the Democratic Republic of the Congo Syria Afghanistan Ukraine as well as Cuba Haiti and various countries in Central America many of our refugees have now gained U.S citizenship and they're now ready to deepen their ties in our community that is thanks to welcoming City like Reno and officials who are who are assured that no barriers exist for our clients and our clients children's become their Leaders of Tomorrow we continue to rely on your partnership as our new neighbors establish the businesses such as Middle Eastern grocery stores tailored shops and many more so thank you thank you on behalf of the board of and staff we hope you join us for our world Refugee day once again on June 25th again that is June 25th at Miguel Rivera Park on Neil Road and thank you so much Naomi for all the work and all the council members yeah and if I may you may um I just want to say thank you for the work that you you and the team over there at the International Center have done uh these are refugees fleeing very difficult circumstances uh these are not people sneaking over a border they are coming here very forthrightly seeking Asylum due to persecution of all types and I know that they seek to be good residents and good citizens and I'm glad to hear many of them have gone through the citizenship program so when I got the call that you all were in need I could not but respond and I appreciate the council supporting me in that so thank you thank you Ray Hogg followed by Karen hilgerson followed by Chris shanks hello my name is Ray Hague I've been a professional driver since 1993. um you name it I've driven it all over this country and I've been seeing a big issue since I moved here about five years ago and I fell in love with this community in the city um yellow curbs are for loading and unloading passengers and supplies and stuff it's turned into a regular parking lot with zero enforcement it becomes a hazard to our emergency service Personnel for law enforcement and fire departments to be able to get into the casinos for the ambulances Etc creates a hazard to the customers of the ride shares cab companies and the casinos when they've picked up people um because we have to double park around them and that causes traffic issues so if you look at the photos and I'll Point here the no parking sign is facing the street not where people are parking so their excuse could be I didn't see the sign because it's based in the opposite direction where people Park the yellow zone is loading and unloading only it's all over town this is one day I didn't bother going out days and nights because I had hundreds of photos and I just picked some of the good ones where they're parking next to casino everywhere and there's signs everywhere people are ignoring them because there's zero enforcement on that um other places I've been loading and unloading if people including Manhattan if people are parked where they're not supposed to be they're ticketed if they're there for an extended amount of time they're towed because it is a danger there's a reason why those are yellow curbs um I saw this out in front of the courthouse county courthouse over here there was two officers parked on the red curb called the police department asked about it they said they parked there when they go into court when they go into court I understand they're in there for extended period of time so I know that they don't have parking I've been formed that they park there all the time signage if we put signs up saying that this parking is red curb and it's for law enforcement Personnel when they're going into Kirk Court it legitimizes them parking there if we don't have signage there they're parked illegally even though they're law enforcement they're not above the law and it sets a bad example for everybody else who's parking illegally all over town without being challenged at all no tickets no Towing nothing it's just day and night 24 hours a day and the the hazard is getting worse and worse and worse people just they go in they go in the casino for several hours they come out they get in their car and leave the whole time it's occupied I really appreciate you guys times I hope you take these considerations in if we just turn the side and side where sideways so people can see them when they Park and then start enforcing it I'm sure it'll disappear it'll slow down it'll remove that safety hazard and I do support law enforcement but they are our example and so if we can just put sinus there then that could help solve that issue as well I appreciate you giving me time and thank you guys ever very much thank you foreign welcome no see yes anyway I'm Karen hilgers of Truckee Meadows Community College for the record I am so happy to be here today happy Wednesday all uh I'm here because I I want to offer a thank you on behalf of TMCC I'm also here with vice president of student services and diversity Estella Gutierrez who's right there uh and and I want to say thank you because we held a very successful TMCC first ever Unity graduation celebration it was a very well attended the students were joyful it was really a great event I'm very thankful to councilman Martinez for his advocacy and for his work with TMCC think about all those future TMCC graduates that we saw in the room today with their really good ideas for what to do for for their communities I also want to thank a special thanks to councilwoman Ebert and councilwoman Taylor for their total donation use of discretionary funds of three thousand dollars for the meal boy that was that was really terrific sometimes it's those those little things that create really great memories for students and their families and their families were also in attendance so it was a very very special event and the food was great so thank you thank you thank you TMCC is community we function at like to exemplify the wonderful diversity in this region I'm very proud to continue to serve for for the college the Reno Sparks area and so uh I think you're you're rocking it I know you work hard and and we are grateful at TMCC thank you so much president Hill Griffin congratulations on your graduation this Friday I know you're expecting a record number of attendees uh 500 attendees but you've got significantly more of that in graduation and I know councilmember Martinez will be there to do some of the hooding ceremonies and miss good theater is always a privilege to have you in Chambers as you know thank you so much for the work you do in go lizards that's right Madam clerk Mr Shanks Chris Shanks followed by Rhonda Tyson followed by Alan FEMA my name is Chris Shanks I'm here is my capacity he is the chair of the board for the downtown Reno improvement district or the DRP for short I'm here in park to show my support for our assessment our budget which we presented in the March 22nd meeting for the 23-24 fiscal year and also to show my support for agenda item C1 2 and 3 in today's meeting I wanted to provide a little color on how our funding basically occurs we are an assessment that was used to replace the sad1 and sad2 special assessment districts for downtown Reno as such we are collected in conjunction with your property taxes our annual budget per se our funding is determined by applying a flat rate to that taxable value that the Washoe County Assessor establishes for your property we have no say in that matter we do not evaluate your property we do not come up with values they do not seek our opinion and what we think downtown property values are so just wanted for the record state that we are simply charging a fixed rate we've charged since our Inception this year's budget has increased significantly because the property value is also of commission really increased as such I believe in our presentation we presented to you guys how the line share those funds are going to be spent I wanted to reiterate that the majority of it's being spent on something we're very excited about it is the development and deployment of a overnight ambassador program currently our ambassadors only work during the daytime hours obviously we know issues don't stop when the Sun goes down if anything they get worse so we're able to with these increased funds hire four new ambassadors that are going to be overnight five nights a week so that is a great step towards our goal of eventually being 24 7 presence downtown we think we've been really focusing on hot spots downtown at night we measure that based off calls for service and so that team of two teams of two will be deployed to those hot spots and hopefully we'll see a lot less work for our daytime Crews when they come and watch all their hard work basically get erased during the nighttime hours so that's the bulk of where those funds are being spent secondarily they're being spent on the activation and place making for downtown spaces that was something that was outlined in the Gale study that was recently approved by everybody for example of what that is last night we actually hosted our very first downtown Tuesday which we are doing on the first Tuesday of the month in the summer time very well attended we had about over 200 people attend last night there was food trucks live music councilwoman Everett was there as well so that was great to see you there thank you so stuff like that is what we're really trying to accomplish really activating these dead zones downtown trying to get community buy-in it's great for residents and tourists alike so that is also earmarked for some of those dollars and lastly is the activation of vacant space obviously you want to see vacant spaces have tenants but we can't really control the economy so in the meantime we are having artists paint murals on plywood and we're putting them up in front of those vacant storefronts to create more of a sense of community sense of Art and just make it more visually appealing for residents and visitors for downtown if there's any questions about assessments budget Etc happy to answer maybe later on during c one two and three but thank you for your time today Mr Shanks thank you and I apologize I must have missed you last night at the downtown Tuesday it was a great event congratulations on your recent promotion over at uh Dixon it's great to see you here in the chamber as always thank you very much Mr Shanks if you are speaking on those other items I'm going to need new public comment forms for each of them I'm more here to address any questions if they get addressed to us thank you thank you thank you Rhonda Tyson followed by Alan bema followed by Josh thearot can I get the overhead Miss Tyson you may need to address the brightness on your foam well actually I'll just skip that part good morning I'm Rhonda Tyson I'm the president of the 1200 Riverside Drive Community Association I brought photos again not that I needed to this is my seventh appearance I think since the events of October 3rd 2022 in addition to those seven appearances I've also addressed this question these questions at the neighborhood Advisory Board um I came in part because last month at the meeting I mentioned that I had extended a written invitation to the city manager to come and look at the damage and Devastation to my community that was caused by the City of Reno over seven months ago he didn't acknowledge or respond to that mayor shivi invited me at that meeting to directly contact her which I did that very day unfortunately the mayor isn't here to respond to why she also didn't acknowledge respond to my request you know the truth of the matter is that when this body became aware more than six months ago that the damage inflicted to my community was 20 times 20 times what was reported in the official Reno Fire Department report you should have been contacting me you should have because our Devastation our displacement our financial cost is higher than any of the other recent disasters in this city and yet nobody except for a councilwoman breckis who is always concerned about her constituents even reached out to me to find out what was going on in my community and that includes the vice mayor who as the representative at large should also be interested in what happens in Ward one you know I I was stunned by the irony of the video that we watched this morning I love and appreciate the Reno Fire Department make no mistake about that but there wasn't one word in that presentation about high-rise fires training prevention assistance we've been completely ignored we have been ignored by this body and I understand I understand why you're sitting on potentially 25 separate and distinct tort claims you're sitting on a potential subrogation of five million dollars so nobody wants to talk about it nobody wants to think about it but the human toll the financial toll is real um and I wish that this body would at least send people out to take a look at what you did if you're not gonna change paths at least you could learn from the mistakes of October 3rd so that nobody has to suffer the way my community has suffered you inflicted a grievous wound to a 51 year old community and I've heard nothing from the city in response Alan bema followed by Josh thearot followed by Tony harsh good morning council members I am Alan bema I'm a resident of Ward 5. I have a major problem on 7th Street the stub that turns into Morrell Avenue there are people parking there with expired license plates they Park their for weeks at a time I complained to Reno direct and they come and they they offer them to leave they don't leave if they leave they come back the next day and these people roam through my particular area and my property in in general uh I am forced to go armed in my own property I am re ejecting about one or two people a day from trespassing on my property apparently the police do not have the manpower to handle this if they don't deputize citizens I guarantee you that we can deal with the problem my next door neighbor has had two stolen from his truck has had his tires slashed I've had over two thousand dollars damage to my own detail excuse me detached garage and something needs to be done if you don't want to do it I can do it and let me know please I need some some response as to how we can stop these people from prowling the area and creating a hazard for the people who live there thank you deputy chief Miller would you meet with this gentleman out in the hall please thank you so much Josh Thera followed by Tony harsh followed by Kai plaskin my name is Josh Jarrett good morning Council good to see you all um I made a good picked a good time to come down and talk about safety because it seems to be the reoccurring theme this morning from RFD to some of our upcoming leaders um uh safety is very important around this city and it's becoming more and more rare there's been a lot of effort by many to address some of the safety issues down on Fourth Street Corridor east and west I give kudos to the bid and all the business owners down there who have been working diligently to try to maintain maintain a safe environment um I also give kudos to the Reno Fire Department um sorry they left but they did an outstanding job responding to the fire at the old lumber mill down on Memorial Street last week hopefully that fire was not a surprise to anyone um there have been several fires down there major fires that RFD has dealt with um uh many smaller fires that the business owners deal with I've got pictures of buildings with flame marks on them I've actually put out a fire myself that was lit next to the awaken building down off of 4th Street in between Spokane and Morel so um um there's just a lot of effort a lot of time a lot of money and I'm here to emphasize that um we're we need to keep working at that most of the businesses down on the forestry Corridor are local family-owned and operated businesses these businesses are there every day providing for their families contributing to the community and if it's not fire it's theft vandalism everything and you've heard this from me before so I just um want to thank all those who are contributing and working at it and uh to mention that we we have a long ways to go because it's um not really improving yet so we've we've got a lot of effort to put forward so thank you foreign followed by Kai plaskin followed by Paco La Choi [Music] good morning my name is Tony harsh and thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today I'm actually speaking under public comment but I'm going to be talking a bit about redistricting um this is a issue that I have been watching since I was a city council person for Ward one in 2000 when we redistrict um and it's fun to come back to City Hall where I've actually sat in these seats I was over right over there anyway um you have before you um the principles and the rules that you will be following for redistricting this is a big deal this is really exciting I have been watching with anticipation and following the whole development of Ward 6 and I think that it is going to be a fine addition to the city I also had the opportunity to watch how that redistricting was done with flow and analytics which was the independent consultant they did an amazing job I thought that it was very very well done um and so I would encourage that the other thing though under the rules and principles that you'll be discussing and developing today these are your rules this is like your house rules this is when you're going to decide is the ace high or is the Ace low so you get to set these rules um I would draw your attention to equal population just because you've struck the ability to redistrict if you get out of compliance of that five percent when you have unprecedented growth to the South or to the north um I think that that is an important thing to discuss so I'll be interested to hear your discussion on that also um you're discussing American Community survey and using that as an additional resource I don't know what that is I'd like to know about that so just in your discussion I would like to hear about that in the redistricting I'm watching my time 30 50 seconds and you're redistricting um one of the Q and A's that was brought up by residents was the idea of what happens if in this great re-change you end up with a city council person that isn't in their District temporarily and so your rules do not allow for that but it is allowed in other cities and I think it's a creative idea that might be discussed in such a big time thank you so much and have fun with redistricting council member harsh always a privilege to have and welcome you back a former member thank you so much for being here that was very kind of you come down and I'm glad you're paying attention I love that fantastic thank you so much by plaskin followed by Pacho La Troy followed by Danny cleus can bring it up it is coming okay uh Kai plascon with the trekimoto's bicycle Alliance I hope you're all enjoying bike month uh and I've already ridden 160 miles this month I hope many of you are out there riding um I wanted to thank uh Jenny brackis councilwoman Jenny breckis uh Devin Reese and uh uh Naomi duer for your support of the cycling Community it's just been absolutely wonderful to see you doing this over the past three years or so I wanted to say that we we are coming to council and you're seeing us more often because City and RTC staff have never come to us asking for the assistance in the development of projects and that goes for Grants as well which item D1 is a Federal Grant and it's a huge one 662 million dollars or something like that and so we're here to give our feedback on that and what you see right now is a letter of support that we were asked to sign for the RTC when they applied for the same Federal Grant and that Federal grant uh failed they didn't succeed in that Federal grant for 50 million dollars you can see that it's focused on schools and on um health clinics so we thought you know what we better take a closer look we we signed this letter without any questions asked and we thought we better take a closer look at what is it exactly that we're applying for here and this item D1 is for 50 million dollars which may be a little bit too much money so we took a look at the previous grants and what they were what uh succeeded and of the 511 that succeeded 400 of them were only for a million dollars not 62 million and only two were above 50 million it makes our grant look pretty bad um now let's talk a little bit about what we're asking for in this grant in the application uh we're asking for like nine streets at nine million dollars per mile uh Washington DC installed a hundred miles of uh bike paths for 50 million dollars they don't need to cost nine million dollars this is one that's in Washington DC there's a ton of them there just like this it's concrete plastic pylons cost 650 000 per mile that's it not 9 million so what are we asking for here nine million dollars 62 million dollars is too much money uh the city's proposal doesn't address some of the biggest concerns either downtown so this proposal in D1 is a bunch of different streets but the the items that we have circled there this is from the downtown circulation study that's those three streets are Sierra Virginia and um uh Center Center Street in University way those are the ones with serious uh safety concerns and they need to be dealt with uh and this item D1 doesn't deal with those at all so what we're asking for is can you please postpone item D1 ask City staff and the RTC to come with us and develop a program develop a Grant application together that's the bike friendly way and that's the way that it's done in most communities this Grand application isn't due until June 10th or so and so we would like to be more fiscally responsible and possibly come to you with a plan that we can all stand behind I really appreciate your time and I am available for questions Paco La Choy followed by Danny cleus followed by Dana Miller good morning Council I am Paco lachoi and I chair your Reno senior citizen advisory committee and may is older American Smith and I'm sorry I couldn't be here last meeting but we were involved with the info Fair where we had over 800 seniors coming and getting information about activities services and various other things plus they served spaghetti lunch and I guess that's one of the most popular things that the washer County Senior Center for congregate meals is when they have spaghetti I have given these cards that we developed for older Americans month showing that we celebrate our seniors here in our town we have 14 activities that we are doing during the month and the biggest one is our senior artist exhibit in show where we had over 162 people at the artist reception last Thursday if you go there now it's the biggest exhibit that McKinley ever had has had and and shown the auditory portion of the exhibit closes tomorrow because we could only get the space for so long next year we have already tried to get we're getting it for the whole month so that will be great and we anticipate probably 150 artists next year we had 95 artists this year we have 10 that are age 90 or over the committee also wants to thank Council for approving our recommendations on the arpa funds and we too want to activate Paradise Park that's very important to us I think that after talking to Chief Nance on our radio program there are ways to do that and I we actually as a community need to take back that park because of all the things that go on we also want to encourage the kids from Bernice Matthews to you know get involved with some of the seniors that are there there is a community garden there one of our arpa things that we're supporting is with Reno Food Systems who do gardening and growing fruits and vegetables and we have the community garden that's there we also are proposing that that we look at building a community garden at Hill Road and getting kids and seniors involved with growing things there and working together so we have lots of plans our committee is quite active especially during May and we hope to see some of the council members at some of our events seniors feel that that's very important that they get to meet our elected officials thank you Mr La Choi thank you so much for being here I'll tell you that councilmember Ebert is the one who brought to my attention the senior artists exhibit and show and just raved about it so I was really excited to hear about it and I'll be at going over there and checking it out Mr Cleese welcome Danny cleus followed by Dana Miller followed by Lawrence McNutt Danny cleus for the record I don't know if you were saying hello to me in the elevator but good morning I didn't want to really ignore you 've been doing this since 2017 coming here and talking to you all nothing's ever been done with that Lake out there in Lemon Valley it's a mess it's the most polluted body of water in the area now we've been telling you that lake has been polluted for a long time and everybody keeps ignoring it now it's getting worse now it has chemicals in it that causes cancer that's real nice with all the building that you guys continue to do because you will not read the Dr dri reports you didn't read the quad and can off report he didn't read any reports for that area particularly the dri you guys wanted it done so bad well it's done and now it puts you in an even worse light than the quad and can off report did as you know the residents out there myself Tammy Holt still and Denise Ross we do our research we dig we dig and we dig we've proven that your staff doesn't tell the truth up here about that area out there and it's sad the lawsuit I used your guys's reports against you it's not my reports I'm not digging them up making it making up stuff I'm using your reports now my area is really polluted and we haven't heard nothing since the so-called press conference which I really got upset and it made me have a seizure according to the doctors they had to change my medicine why does it take so long for somebody to act on something so easy it could have been fixed years ago is six years guys six years you guys said it would never flood again where's the water height on the lake right now do anybody know because that nice concrete ditch that you guys put down in the middle of Lemon Drive is still flowing it started in January and it hasn't quit since I wish the City of Reno would get their act together and do something because I shouldn't have to worry every winter that something's going to happen and now with the chemicals in it if the wind blows it's in my yard Dana Miller followed by Lawrence McNutt followed by Bill shrimp via Zoom good morning it's nice to see you all today um let me put my glasses on before I started um hi my name is Dana Miller from the River Inn we bought the signature property December 18th 2020. we have been trespassed by targeted harassed bullied and now we are having trouble getting public records in a timely manner it's taking three to four months for us to get any public records from the City of Reno our experience with the city has honestly been horrible it continues to be to be we have told the city we are have been told the city has to investigate all the complaints but in this case it is the same people complaining the same people every time and the city is not doing anything about it these people are the people that are saying not in my backyard and they're using the city to bully us 99 of the complaints that have been given to the city are either are false and exaggerated we have gotten permits and still the harassment has not stopped as a matter of fact it has gotten worse the permits that we have gotten are with for doing work within a quarter mile of the river do you know how many houses are within a quarter mile of the river and you need these permits to do anything to landscape to do anything and not one of those people has these permits that we are we prior to have them we have been um we have been talked about through the city walls in an unkind unprofessional manner with text messages and emails between City officials one in-house text reads quote ugh he's going to be difficult to deal with I mean the owner of the River Inn unquote another by a city council person I reply quote I reply to them and they never got back to me and I'm having challenges responding or I'm having challenges responding to them as I would any constituent unquote this one was sent to a neighbor I would give more examples but we don't have time the city enforcers lied code enforcement lied to get on our property when we were not present they did not ID themselves they did not leave when we we asked them to and it took us a week to find out who everyone was and yes we filed trespassing to the police but we did not press charges I wanted to be nice and I regret that decision every single day the city has been on a Witch Hunt since day one with us and our property not because we're doing anything wrong but because the neighbors do not want us here not in our backyard and the city is standing up for them and letting this happen this is why we feel targeted harassed and bullied we have invited city council we have invited everyone out to meet us and to see our property and only one person has ever given us respect to do that thank you Devin for two years we've worked on this property cleaning it up and we are even threatened by the um not a bill we are threatened that we will not be able to stay on our property yet we pay taxes on it while homeless people and everybody sleep in our hotels and outside of our fences we have the right to our dreams is two our dreams too we have the right to our freedoms and we pay taxes in the city for that freedom my question to you is do you want to keep the city coming after us and harassing us and spending the money there or do you want to work with us and make this work for everybody in the community because this is what we wanted from day one and this is where we would like to go so thank you for your time I appreciate it [Applause] Lawrence mcnupp followed by Bill shrimp via Zoom hello I'm Lawrence McNutt I'm the owner of the River Inn Dana and I purchased the property two and a half years ago we came to Reno to make a positive impact that's why we're here okay we chose the river in as our first project and I say first because this is what we do for a living we we come into communities and we help um we have an incredible vision for the property and even more importantly it's attainable okay it's attainable with the support of the city it's not attainable on our own um we've been open and invite and generous to all neighbors City County state and federal officials and trust me we have met everyone as they come onto our property to accuse us of something um we've invited everyone in the city county to be part of our vision revive the river in emails and this is me personally sending these emails phone calls LinkedIn invites to every city council member and again only one person had the courtesy to respond thank you Devin foreign County officials have been far more supportive than the city which I'm surprised about I would expect the property a signature property in the city to Garner some some attention some communication some assistance um we sincerely expected the city of Arena to be supportive rather than aggressively detrimental to our efforts to clean up a signature property of Reno that has tragically been ignored for 40 years 40 years that property has sat there abandoned vandalized druggies homeless okay the first year of living there or working on that property it was frightening to be on the property at some point in time each one of you will need to take a stand to support or not support us that time is now we asked the city council to tell us what you want and we'll support us in moving forward two and a half years of endless harassment intensive personal stress and financial challenges if the city wants what are tens of thousands of social media followers want which is to bring the property back to the community take a stand with us if it's a preference to have low income housing Rehabilitation homeless let the community know we'll build a plan for that and we'll move to a city that's more favorable and welcoming to our efforts we have presented our plans to the city Outreach to the county for public-private partnership collaboratively worked with no less than 10 agencies City County State and fed and Federal as we head into litigation with our neighbors who have used the city to harass us for the past two and a half years we ask you to be an advocate for our project of Reviving The River in and bringing it back to the community you said some frustration in our voice it's there it's very frustrating okay I came here and opened three businesses in Reno Dana's partner in one of them okay my intention was to have 16 plus employees by this point in time I've finally put out my second requisition everyone else I hired elsewhere okay I want you to welcome me we want to be a part of this community thank you [Applause] you know I just want to say if I may um I would look forward I I have confined nowhere in my emails and I don't often see my LinkedIn an invitation but I'd be happy to I um I'm interested in all things River so thank you I just didn't see any invitations so I didn't respond so I'm sorry if I probably missed it so what's that okay well I just I'm pretty good with the email so I just checked mine as well I don't see an invitation liaison staff to make sure that they are members who would like to get out there get out there thank you so much Bill shrimp followed by Pat Figley oh no Pat one second one second we've got one before you hello good morning thank you madam Clerk and uh members of the council can you hear me we can thank you so much for being here thank you very much I want to thank you guys for being here as well uh as I said last time I was here I know sometimes uh the job that you have is very difficult very challenging so thank you for putting yourselves forward to do this uh I also want to say that the energy this morning having the kids in chamber is just phenomenal uh I saw that a couple weeks ago last month I think that's really great work I hope the city continues to do that that's that's a good thing uh one of the things that they brought up and other people brought up today is safety um there was a report recently that the Nevada Ohio Patrol also the uh they changed their name to the Nevada state police are uh unable to maintain funding or maintain Patrols in Reno During certain late night hours which is probably when we need those patrols the most uh I sent an email to most of you or lots of you sitting up there I want to thank one of you who at least took the minute or two to respond I appreciate that but as you guys move into your budget discussions I know you got a couple more weeks of that please take that in consideration and I hope the renal police out a little bit give them the patrols that they need particularly as our special events uh ramp up and these early morning hours we're going to lose this cooperation from the Nevada State Police because they don't have the money so please walk that fine line I know it's not an easy thing to do I know you're the budget's limited it's flat and all that kind of stuff but please take a real good close look at that and make sure we are safe you're hearing that from a lot of different people today so again thank you for your time and uh hope you guys have a great day Figley well thank you for giving me a moment to speak with you all I appreciate it um and the reason I came in today was because I received a notification in the mail for another tax assessment on my property and it you know I mentioned special benefits of being downtown and I was uh talking with somebody and they said well you know we're improving downtown we're increasing security we're we're trying to clean it up and things like that I don't see those things happening on my street I'm on Court Street right across the courthouse and I'm always out picking up trash that people have left behind whether the homeless people or other people not only in front of the building but in between my building and another building I've actually had to chase people away that were actually going to the bathroom on my building so I don't I don't see a lot of things happening on that street so that's just one thing I wanted to mention um today also I also um I had some ideas for the city actually generate Revenue I did write a letter and never received a response on it because I've been in sales for about 40 years and so I've seen a lot of ways to generate generate revenue and and such and I and I had some good ideas I'm not sure who to bring those to um some things and they won't even cost anything they wouldn't cost anything at all for the city to do they're more like marketing ideas um I had one that that actually would cost a little bit of money but I would like to bring them to somebody as well sit down and kind of discuss them I don't have a lot of time right now to go into detail but that's really all I wanted to say was I'd like to see if I'm going to pay this additional tax of twelve hundred dollars a year I would like to see more benefits on my street because I I mean I have homeless people sleeping across the street I have homeless people sitting across the street yelling at me I have a lot of trash that I have to constantly pick up around the building and between the buildings and so that that's all I had to say um but if you guys could let me know who to uh who to contact about a few a few ideas that they could actually generate more revenue for the city um then maybe you don't have to tax as much so again uh thanks very much appreciate it Mr pigley I'm happy to meet with you anytime in my liaison will be with you outside to get that scheduled okay thank you Martin Dever good morning I'm Martin with the courtyard Reno downtown Riverfront um we got this notification for a proposed assessment coming up um that's going to be discussed in today's meeting I just have three quick questions that I need clarification on how was the assessment assessed or how was it determined what was the determination of the assessment um is this a one-time assessment or an annual assessment and when will it go into effect um I understand that the bid is expanding the boundaries and I think our property is like right on the cusp or the threshold of where the new expansion actually has taken place so if anybody has answers to those three questions I'd greatly appreciate it it's not it's not an iterative process we don't answer questions from the diets but we're happy to meet with you offline and if you send me an email or you want to meet with my liaison we're happy to schedule something for you okay yeah thank you thank you all right vice mayor Reese that is the close of opening public comment um for the record I would like to state that we did receive eight comments which were General in nature um before 4 P.M yesterday two in favor one in opposition and five concerns those have been logged in the public record and will be attached to this meeting and we have one voicemail which we'll play now thank you so much yes this is the uh I think so and lived here the uh three plus years I enjoyed this time and I appreciate the wellness The Wonder of uh what's going to happen every day that I picked up rubbish up the street put it in a barrel of course welcome to your concept thank you so much Reno [Music] and I apologize vice mayor Reese we do have one additional public commenter from June Udell good morning Council my name is Julie Juniata Udell um I have some complaints about the assessment from bid um I live in Arlington Towers in a small one bedroom one bath unit under 650 square feet my property tax last year was just under twelve hundred dollars a year so last year been assisted made my assessment 167.58 this year they want 212 dollars so um I would last year we were supposed to have our sidewalks cleaned sprayed as part of that assessment and it never happened until I called the day I called they came they never came back so if I'm going to pay that much money I'd like to see them there as often as they go to other places downtown um I'm a senior citizen I'm on a tight budget every year that fee increases I propose that you charge every property owner in the city limits not just that downtown corridor that would lower everyone's assessment and the people that live downtown which I am one of are not the problem everyone in outlying areas come into town for entertainment and leave a mess so I would like to propose that that would be part of an answer for that assessment is to have every homeowner in the city limits charged the same as we're being charged thank you thank you for being here I appreciate your time we're going to ask staff to meet with you in the hall if you wouldn't mind so we can talk about the City of Reno and what we can help you to accomplish what I mean in the hall yeah they're just outside if you'll meet with this young man here someone will help you but Mr vice mayor shouldn't we inform these people who are commenting on the item that the item that they are commenting on is going to be heard in a few minutes the item is and that's why we post an agenda thank you so we would we will let these people are stopping me okay Miss breakfast you understand the rules of our Chambers require me to recognize you first it's just decorum I would like to give you the same respect that you afford to me thank you so much Madam Clerk thank you vice mayor Reese we are closing public comment and moving on to item A4 approval of the agenda okay as to the agenda I'm going to go first to Mr manager I understand that um there are no items to remove or continue today but a number of items will be taken out of order due to some legislative meetings and scheduling conflicts is that correct that's correct um as you said we have nothing to pull but we do have some things that need to move around to accommodate some schedules so it would be our recommendation that we open up consent and you go through the the items and and make the list of items that may or may not be pulled vote on the items that are not pulled and then go to E1 and E2 C1 and C3 and then D2 prior to adjudicating the remainder of the consent agenda no problem it's going to be relatively uh floating agenda today and we'll just have to be paying attention and careful attention Miss clerk to where we are but given those constraints can I get a motion on the agenda please uh so moved okay I have a motion by Miss Doer second by Mr Martinez any discussion at this time hearing none I'll call for the question all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye aye any opposed motion carries unanimously all right Vice we're going to move on to our consent agenda items to be pulled let me start with the gentlewoman from Ward one miss breakfast any items to be pulled from the agenda today B13 and b14 uh B13 and b14 okay Mr Martinez any items today yes um be 15 and 17 please Mitch Taylor any items no Mr Vice chair thank you so much Miss Dewar B12 and B16 and Miss Ebert my items are already pulled okay thank you so much I have none Madam clerk is madam mayor on with us at this time she is not present at this time okay and did Madame clerk note when Miss breakfast arrived I think it was not but a minute after we started but I want to make sure there was for the record it is in the record thank you thank you so much okay um we'll be pulling items B 13 14 15 17 12 and 16. so it looks like B12 through 17. did I miss any Madam clerk that is what I have as well can I get a motion on the remaining I'd like to make a motion and I'd like to give a disclosure when I make that motion that item B10 I own a I'm a partner in a property two doors over from that property but I didn't want to pull it because I didn't want to keep that person around while we go on to the rest of our agenda so with that uh disclosure on item B10 I will make a motion to approve the rest okay before I do that Mr attorney is the disclosure sufficient for the city attorney's office at this time yes okay we have a motion by Miss breakfast can I get a second second I have a motion by Miss breakfast so second by Mr Martinez any additional discussion at this time here and done I'll call for the question all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye any opposed motion carries unanimously okay at this time Madam clerk we're going to hold the items that have been pulled which are items B12 through B17 and move to items E1 through E2 am I correct that is correct thank you so we're going to go ahead and open item E1 which is an ordinance introduction to be read by the City attorney okay chief Nance welcome and Mr suti always a privilege to have the both of you and Chambers items E1 and E2 the floor is yours Mr Hall let me see if I can get to my part of this is there something to be read by the city attorney's office he needs to read the ordinance introduction let's start with him Adam E1 this is ordinance introduction bill number 7239 ordinance to amend Reno Municipal Code title 6 chapter 6 0 6 section 6.06 170 making it a misdemeanor to knowingly attend unpermitted motor vehicle race contests contest or exhibition as a spectator E2 is ordinance introduction bill number 7240 ordinance to amend Reno Municipal Code title 8 chapter 8.12 section 8.12.170 making it a misdemeanor to knowingly attend an unpermitted motor vehicle race contacts contest or exhibition as a spectator and Madam Court do we have any public comment on either item vice mayor Reese we have no public comment registered on either item okay I take it Miss Nance the four is yours or chief Nance yes yes welcome thank you thank you for having me Catherine Nance chief police for Reno uh just to talk a little bit about side shows and The Spectator ordinance just a reminder so that everybody's understand what we're actually doing here today this isn't a new ordinance this is a move of an existing ordinance to a different location and I'll explain why and what that allows us to do a little better um the goal today is to ensure that we can continue to enforce The Spectator ordinance and the manner that it was intended for in the manner that's going to help us both alleviate Sideshow issues and then also resolve the issues of spectators at the side shows and presence there so we know what sideshows are a lot of people have been informed about this already their street and parking lot takeovers some of these are pre-planned events that we respond to others of these uh happen without our knowledge so we still respond and take care of the issues that are there they're not just street racing or individual acts that are occurring they are more violent dangerous and they're not always done by locals or people that are from here but there are planned events that happen go through some photos everybody can see just some of the issues this has been on the news we've heard a lot about it but I can answer questions about this I chose if needed but for the most part this is really an opportunity to talk about where the spectators fall in this last year over the summer there was a significant increase in these uh type of events they kind of took us by surprise as the arena Police Department moved into a planning and mechanism for how we will continue to enforce these and we have a plan in place on how this looks part of the understanding of this is that these events are fueled by side by the spectators of the sideshows the more people that are assembled the more the bigger a chance that the air put out on social media they're memorialized in different ways creating a bigger problem for the sideshow response team to handle How We Do enforcement at these events the events are not something that happens just quickly there are things that go on go are ongoing for a period of time the spectators follow the uh events around and continue to create problems in different neighborhoods not in just one place this is a tool that we can use to continue to ensure that we are able to do enforcement as needed in the last last year we did approximately 16 Sideshow related Mission with missions with about five major events 400 citations were issued and at least 40 of those were issued to spectators so as an understanding of what a spectator actually is and what we're how we're using that term in this ordinance it there are people that are present during an illegal motor vehicle speed race or side show when the violations are occurring they're not just people that are standing there happen to be on the street when this happens in front of them they don't come upon these they're actually there for the purpose of viewing observing watching or witnessing the event as it progresses so they're actively participating in the sideshow by being a witness or an active participant but not the car driver their intended purpose is to encourage record promote or share these illegal activities and their presence increases the illegal activities and the amount of people that are present there so they're not a casual Observer they're not somebody that just walks out of their business and happens to see this there's definite safety concerns for spectators you can see here the cars get too close to them they lose control there's injuries that can occur and then other acts of violence that are done by The Spectators as they're watching these Spectators are primarily the the people that are going to be responsible for graffiti other damage littering and other property issues that we will see foreign to just to recap where we came from and where we're at today in 2003 the council adopted this law to prohibit spectators at illegal street races so this is not a new ordinance this is something that happened before this was done to discourage Spectators from organizing participating in this illegal activity in 2021 the legislator changed the law uh ab116 was enacted and it changed traffic offenses to civil offenses to civil infractions I'm sorry so where this law currently lives in the municipal code is in title VI which is now going to be considered a civil infraction due to its placement and it's considered to be a traffic offense spectatorship is not a traffic offense it should not live there it lived there because of its Nexus to sideshows but today the move is to make the ordinance into title eight which will make it a misdemeanor as it was intended to be and move it from the Civil infraction to a place where it should live better in the in the misdemeanor sense so that's the end of my portion of this I'm going to turn it over to Brian's Beauty for some legal analysis but at this time I'll take any questions that you might have about the spectatorship or the sideshows in general okay Mr SUNY are you going to come forward and make your presentation or you wanted to stop here Chief Nance we'll pause it then he'll pick it up there understand let me see if my colleagues have any questions thanks um great presentation thank you so much um you have stepped right into this role I know where you came from in Stockton steer racing and sideshows were an issue as well I know you've convened an internal stack uh task force already or meetings I know you're planning a press conference next week on this issue and I know you're planning to testify at the legislature today yes so I I think we can say with confidence that you have taken this issue under your wing and are taking it very seriously and I just want to thank you the residents first of all the residents in the entire city have been affected by this but um for whatever reason and I think I know the reason and Ward 2 has been a a home for uh intersection takeover sideshows and so on to the point that I even wrote an editorial about it last year I've had many many residents and maybe it's because of the way we have our parking lots laid out there uh there's professional office space that has large parking lots too not just your Walmarts and your targets and your Reno Town malls um so I know that all the residents are thrilled with what the work you're doing first here uh to clarify our ordinance we're going to hear the new stuff in a minute but also to work with our counterparts throughout the state to make sure the entire state is on this because I think what happens when these kind of events happen is it it's sort of um it makes people feel that there's a sort of recklessness happening a uh almost not just an intersection takeover it's sort of like a town takeover a city takeover it feels bad and it directly affects people not just one at a time but many at a time in an entire neighborhood so it's not just um one person had their car broke into or something but an entire neighborhood maybe multiple neighborhoods are affected by these um Street intersection takeovers so thank you for your work and um thanks for getting right on it and I know this isn't new we have had this in our ordinance you said I think since I'm not sure going back to the 2000 what was that 2003 2003 that we have been addressing Spectators but it sounds like you're gonna step it up now so thank you for everything thank you it's breakfast the floor is yours yeah thank you thank you Chief you know I um I recognize the issue in the problem but I do have concerns I have concerns one that we have formatted and you're not aware because you're new but this is to Mr manager a two-step process for new ordinance making and that is one that we take it at the conceptual level and then second we go to an introduction because once you do an introduction you have to adopt within 35 45 days or you have to go through the process again so it puts us on a Time clicker and I am concerned about being on a Time Time clicker about this um most of my concerns are going to be legal the move over to the nuisance chapter which I have long said needs some examination because there's some things in there that I think um you know our our uh would put people in Jeopardy and now we're adding to it so I recognize we've had a spectator issue you said that you know we were kind of caught it surprised by it last year do you have any documented um uh you know actions arrests fines citations to people who were spectators last year who were doing those things that you talked about like um I wrote it down graffiti or property damage did you do you have documented incidences so I know that if the sideshow uh task force and the depleted Reno Police Department wrote about 400 citations of those we were able to identify approximately 40 it could be more but at least 40 citations that were for spectators with the nature of the other citations where I don't have that information right now so for me our two-step process avails us to have that kind of information understood of those 40 I want to know where how they all were disposed as they went through the process okay so those are the sort of things because I think this is serious policy making I'm also wondering and it might be for legal so the legislature said um traffic is civil now but now you're saying it's moving into a title where it could be a misdemeanor are the misdemeanors Criminal yes it's because this is not a traffic offense this is not attractive related offense okay it just was housed in traffic prior yeah and we're moving it but this is not a traffic effect but the legislature and I and I'll tell you I have concerns with what they did but they do what they do they said traffic is civil so now we're saying oh we don't want The Spectator issue to be civil we're putting it into Criminal concern for me I don't know if we're doing what the legislature wanted we can do what we want within our tools but you know we're putting these Spectators into a criminal situation I I need to I'll ask questions for legal but I would really like to know if the body decides not to move forward today if you wrote 40 citations Last Summer I want to know how those were disposed of where those people went and what they were doing that's the evidence that I need to feel confident of putting someone who's you know sister or cousin says hey we're gonna go here tonight get in the car and all of a sudden that person is standing you know on a sideshow so I I don't know I I recognize there's a problem um and I recognize that Spectators are part of the problem I just wish that we were being a little more evidence-based in coming to this ordinance to give me the the consideration that I feel I need because hitting someone up on a misdemeanor um that is Criminal is a big deal for me and I think it's actually trending a different way than where the legislature that focuses on this issue a lot more because they you know took a big stab at it we're just taking a little stab so uh on one on one issue um so I'll wait for legal but um Chief if you could get us for the adoption you know a um report if you will because I know you guys you all do a lot of reporting let us know how many people got written up for or this activity last year and how The Spectators you know how what happened with those cases I would like to know that thank you thank you Ms Perkins any additional comments from the body Chief Nance for my part I want to say thank you both to you and your team for the work that's gone on certainly um this has been an issue that councilmember Dewar and Madam mayor have been very Vigilant about making certain was addressed over the last year council member doer specifically I'll thank her for the work that she's done in this area it goes beyond of course the writing of an op-ed Ms Stewart has attended Town Hall meetings has scheduled constituent Outreach has met with residents in their homes even so I appreciate that it takes all of us at the city council level to move a policy issue forward and so I appreciate that for my part I am interested in hearing Mr suny's presentation which may then cause me to have more questions for you but I understood the history I also I'm not sure with Miss breckis's concerns about what happened to the folks I don't know what we would learn in that process and so I'll be interested to know when you do have that answer what it reveals obviously one of the things that we're trying to balance are the safety concerns of our citizens who feel some fear and concern over the damage that cause is caused in these sideshows there have been reports of injuries and even deaths that have occurred maybe not here on the death side but those are the things that we're worried about so someone is not does not arrive at a sideshow I don't think by happenstance or chance it happens on social media that they see that they're happening or there's some underground chat groups that get sent out and circulating people appear out of sort of nowhere as Miss Dewar alluded to and then are found to be somewhere that's not safe for them certainly not safe for our residents and you know these parking lots can get significant damage as well so thank you for the work that you're doing this area and we'll look forward to Mr suny's presentation as well thank you thank you so much Mr SUNY vice mayor Reese mayor she does have her grace mayor shivi welcome hi thank you so much Chief Nance thank you so much for bringing this forward I really really appreciate it I know councilwoman duer does as well um I think we've been particularly as the whole Council has been concerned I actually feel a little bit different I think that we have to take a hard approach or someone is going to get killed and when you do go to these events you you do know pretty much where you're going you might have you know one or two that okay you know tag along but they're very very organized and I think councilman doors said it they can feel you know like a takeover incredibly hot hostile and if you end up in one they can be incredibly dangerous so I I actually um if I'm the mindset that we need to take a strict approach and I appreciate you bringing it forward in this manner and uh very supportive so thank you thank you so much because a lot of people um at least the feedback I've gotten have said you know we're not doing enough and so I think this is another step to work towards that goal um and also how we message that it just won't be tolerated thank you so much and thank you thank you madam mayor Mr suti good morning Council uh Brian City Deputy City attorney for the record couple things I'll begin with and and let's I'll make it very clear we are not changing anything about spectating in and of itself this has been a law for over 20 years some historical background as you guys may recall in the early 2000s Hollywood glorified street racing in a movie called Fast and the Furious across the country including within the ninth circuit in and of itself spectating became started becoming illegal California has had it for 22 years under the books Washington's have it we've had it uh Las Vegas had it in 2004 and I can continue across the country as well there is long settled legal precedence to actually eliminate Spectators who are engaging in this activity promoting the illegal activity of the vehicles on the roadways on parking lots and so forth so spectating in and of itself has been a misdemeanor for over 20 years in our city we are not changing that what we are only doing is because of what happened with the Nevada legislature and the way this law was written it was just housed in traffic and it actually was out of ease for police because that's where they would go look to cite someone under this Las Vegas's code is not in traffic a lot of the California codes are not part of traffic they are part of the more of the disturbing the peace of Frey and causing other activities which is what this is in and of itself so we are just moving it back into the misdemeanor world to allow police officers more discretion and to allow them the ability to enforce against this activity instead of just issuing a ticket which will result in a fine only with that being said the years that I have spent Prosecuting these cases we've had terminology being used in the courtroom such as Donuts burnouts those sort of things that were never really defined so to have the court have a definition which they can rely on and then the police officers can associate that the person's actively engaging in observing that activity helps the court enforce against the spectating law so it actually makes it a little bit harder to prove because that activity has to be occurring someone has to be performing a donut it's defined now in the spectating law the vehicle is performing the donut The Spectator is actually observing that so that's what we are doing with it but in and of itself the definition has not changed it was a misdemeanor all the way up until January 1 to 23 and the only reason it's not was because it was housed in the 606s so that that's remaining the same I am bringing in some personal experience of Prosecuting these cases and adding in some more defined definitions under the new 812170 proposed law with that said this is the other change that we're doing is allowing it access to where the public has access to incorporate this activity to be on parking lots and so forth when there is no property owner at night there may be no trespassing signs posted on the property and yet we're having having this type of behavior performed at 2 am at some industrial area that that may have a parking lot there so we were actually extending that to where the public has access to to being able to enforce in the parking lots of well that is really the only two changes that's happening otherwise it is exactly the same law that we've had for over 20 years this is not an operational motor vehicle this is not has anything to do with traffic in and of itself these are people who are gathering and and in essence causing a disturbance so this allows police to enforce on on that uh I will leave this up on the screen because these are the two proposed motions that we are seeking today one is the repeal of the 606 and then moving it into the eight one two so those are the two motions that staff is seeking and I'll just open it up for questions but yeah I'm going to start um first let me ask um in the city attorney's office where have these historically been um directed meaning are you the person who is appearing on behalf of the city when various complaints come forward and we end up in court and a person has been cited in some way is that you for 12 years it was me okay so it is not you currently not currently um but can you speak to any of the last uh maybe we'll talk about just the last year who would have been in charge during the last year so the prosecution of of these are misdemeanor offenses occurring in the City of Reno those are all housed and prosecuted through the Criminal Division of the Reno City attorney's office which we have prosecutors who prosecute and those cases are all heard in the Reno municipal court so the Reno Municipal Court judges are the ones imposing whatever uh punishment if they find the person guilty of the activity they're the ones imposing punishment um in my years of prosecuting these cases I've seen simple fines of 50 bucks ranging all the way to probation with community service so it just depends on the activity that they're engaging in what I can tell you what I've personally seen working with the police is this the days of Fast and the Furious are not out there today what the police are facing is a much different type of scene as a car Enthusiast myself this is not what car enthusiasts are engaging these people engaging in these Street takeovers are not driving hundred thousand dollar souped-up cars with nitrous oxide and so forth and they're racing them these are very cheap cars they don't care about the damage they're causing but what police have found is this the dangers not necessarily with the driving but with the crowd the guns the violence the destruction of property those things and that is actually occurring from the spectators not the person who's actually driving the car these are the ones causing the damage on the outside when the police arrive over the summer they were counter not with street racing but with weapons that caught them off guard as Chief said this is a new era this is a new scene so this isn't Cars lining up on the street like in the 50s with muscle cars racing down the street this is much different than that well you heard that Ward one member asks questions of Chief Nance specifically about the 40 or so that Chief Nance could recall having been prosecuted in the recent history and so I want to try to understand is that are those gun possession crimes I'm not sure I understood your point about the the crowd violence so violence in the crowd this is something that's new to street racing but presumably that's handled by others that would be handled by other statues if caught if they're caught but in and of itself The Spectators are the ones promoting that activity they're the ones if there's no one there to watch they won't do it and and based on your 12 years of experience how have the 40 or so that we that Chief Nance opined about how have those been resolved or what has been what happens with them it ranges you know I've seen you and our students who were participating in it get a fine you know because they were students they didn't know they they explained their story to the court and the judges use their discretion on that however if it's someone who's more likely than not known by the police to be engaging in street racing and that type of behavior the courts will listen to that information and then assess appropriate punishment and are there reports that can be generated which would help us to understand the disposition of those 40. I'm sure the Reno Municipal Court could actually pull the outcome of of those cases okay thank you so much appreciate that Mr SUNY let me come to the body and see if we have any comments councilmember um first of all I want to acknowledge councilmember Rex at this point because we do have a process for ordinance introduction which is come to us and let's talk about it conceptually and then bring the Ordinance one two however um I think sometimes you know every rule has an exception and I think in this case the exception is warranted to come right to us with the ordinance and here's why it is spring and street racing and intersection takeovers and sideshows have already begun you have already gone out or at least our police have already gone out on a very some very serious incidents and some not so serious incidents both it shows no signs of abating and I would hate given our schedule to not have this at your hand to help you enforce against what we're seeing so in this case I think it is rather urgent and I think it's appropriate potentially to skip the step but I do think the information is important and so to that end I want to just ask how do you think this will actually help us so it'll retain its status as misdemeanor as you've said and then having the definitions how will this help us I think this this actually helps the court more so than anybody else um and that's that was my intent with adding in some of the definitions of the actual you know burnout um in the years of Prosecuting you can hear an officer say well they were doing donuts that's kind of hard to Define and in one person's mind a donut of doing a view it might be something completely different than someone else and this is I think was to assist the judges in understanding what is happening out there and that also that a person can't just be charged with spectating unless they are actively watching this type of activity and that actually solidifies and protects the people who might be innocent bystanders might be happening just walking down the street and two cars go racing by that eliminates them as Spectators but if you're actively watching and engaging and cheering on a vehicle doing donuts that's what this law is intended but the problem is is what's a donut now we have that definition so now there's no confusion and someone else is saying well I believe this is a donut I believe this is a donut this is to help the court well it's somewhat ironic I didn't know you were going to go there but I will just say that ironically um that was actually the point of my editorial and it was called it's not just donuts meaning it's not just for fun and games this is gone to a different level of crime and it has a different level of seriousness for our community the injury that you're speaking of that Chief Nance spoke about the crime within the crowd uh the possibility of even crime when they disperse because they've gotten all riled up and now they're carrying weapons or they're in a mode or a mood to do more you know oh gosh that we that ended in 15 minutes let's go do something else I mean I I really believe that it brings an element of lawlessness to our community and we've seen it throughout the west and especially California once I think think once it takes hold it's very hard to stop it and that's why I was so passionate last year when we had the very first one in Ward 2 in Reno but in Ward 2 and Reno Town mall to get right on top of it and not let it take hold and not become part of our culture here we need to say now not in our town thank you it's breakfast the floor is yours thank you so I'm hearing two things I'm hearing well we can clarify what a donut is but we can clarify that where it exists right now in the traffic title so why do we have to move it over to the I call that um uh what is it offenses against public peace which carries Criminal fines potentially so a few things donut is not defined in state law or in our Muni code currently we had no definition hence why I thought it was important to add that in because of the years of Prosecuting terminology like this does not exist in our law second off Dona in and of itself is a matter that is related to reckless driving and category of reckless driving is Trick driving under our state law which is still a misdemeanor so this that will Target the driver who's performing this vehicle that gets them under that law for the crime that they're committing and this is now saying if I'm actively participating and encouraging that driver to perform that behavior I am going to get in trouble as well because I'm there and I'm actively participating and spectating that that behavior without the spectators I I can tell you without Spectators you will not see this type of behavior if it's not posted on social media if it's not recently about three weeks ago there was a video in Nashville of a street takeover I think it was the highway where individuals were hanging out of the car with weapons but someone's posting that someone's observing that and they're glorifying that and I think this is what Chief Nance was trying to hammer home is is that if you eliminate that spectating and that encouragement you eliminate the actual driving activity I get that but I just you know the legislature is on a path to take offenses and put them civil and to me if there's one to stay civil it's this one where someone isn't with a car and doing the driving that can kill someone they are a watcher and I recognize that they can promote it by putting up the videos but it it takes them into that criminal justice cycle that you know we're trying to not put people in and it seems like it's going at odds with what the legislature wanted to do so tell me this so someone does a takeover and or as a spectator and they're in this misdemeanor world are they entitled to um Public Defense then that's at the discretion of the municipal court so the Municipal Court should assign them a so there's no certainty then this is where I'm having a real problem so say someone somewhere let me just go someone somewhere okay and they think they're at a shining show and all of a sudden it's this and law enforcement comes in and they take everyone out and they're like you know you're cited side excited you're going to Muny court and then it's up to the judge to decide whether or not they get public defender assistance where we know as a civil they don't but we also know they're not going to face a record of a criminal misdemeanor on them that's a tough one for me any additional comments or questions at this time oh we've got a public commenter or Madam mayor yes thank you so much um Ryan great job always always I respect you greatly uh because we've worked on several initiatives um for safety so I think you've done a great job can you tell me I think that spark city council just put something in place do you know what that was based on Spectators yes um Sparks just passed they didn't have a spectator law so they just enacted one in their ordinance as a misdemeanor um unlike how we had ours already as a misdemeanor and just moving it over they actually enacted a brand new one so we've had it for 20 years we've had it for 20 years okay okay that that makes sense I Wonder has anyone on the council come up on one of these yes raise your hand me who Naomi yes so I think that also is another reason why because we both have seen this firsthand I've come up on one it was quite shocking I think to um to finance's point and to your point Mr they are a whole different level absolutely a whole different level and I think we are liable if we don't actually do something about this level of Engagement and danger then there's a whole other level to the social media side I don't know if you you have seen that but I've done a lot of studying on that side of the social media aspect where that is a whole other game in itself they you know love to organize on there and then they you know they post these videos but they're they're really just conjured up for this type of activity and The Spectators that are there know that they're there this is incredibly organized and it's actually a game if the car hits the person you get points so if you've ever been in one and you've seen it on especially on private property I came up on one over where um Old Town Mall was and it was it was very very frightening it's something I've never ever seen before so I think if if we don't take a strong stance I think Naomi's actually so spot on we're coming across summer and it's going to get much worse and if someone dies we're going to feel very responsible that we could have done more and we didn't so thank you so much Brian appreciate you one clarification a Stewart yeah I have one clarification and you brought it up Madame mayor um and I would love to hear from both our police officers and Mr suti so the situation where it is an intersection takeover and the one ones we've experienced such as McCarron you're in a uh multi-lane Road you come upon it you cannot back up you cannot go around you are stuck there um we don't I'm going to be careful here those people who are caught in it we don't want that they're not conscious Spectators they are victims of a takeover and how do you distinguish that so I think that understanding what a sideshow is and what the roles that the people are playing in there is probably the most important so part of the point of having the task force is having that education piece of our officers to understand what's enforceable when and how to handle these situations so people that are participating that are driving the cars that are actively performing the acts that are doing those things there's a set of laws that govern that so they would enforce that the people that surround that to stop police from coming in to block the roadways so that other people can't disrupt them to encourage that behavior to promote it to record it to do all of the things that allow that Sideshow to happen those are spectators now our Spectators might also commit other crimes while they're there with guns or violence or you know other things that could happen vandalisms there's a lot of things that they could do the bottom line is there's this group of people that is actively promoting the illegal activities that are happening there those are going to be our Spectators so we're going to educate our officers we're going to make sure that they understand what the difference is and then it's very apparent when you see these things unfold who is who and who is playing but the people stuck in their car Spectators though they are not Spectators they're technically victims of an incident that's happening in front of them or reporting parties or Witnesses and our goal is to get them out of there as quickly as we can in whatever means we can do that if it's you know allowing this to happen for a few minutes while we redirect traffic to make people that are unsafe get into a safe space before we move forward with enforcement if it's asking them to call the police when they see these things happening so we can we can respond if we weren't already aware of it they're not Spectators they do not fall into that category got it I think that's really important to clarify too thank you councilmember Martinez thank you so much vice mayor thank you Chief Nance bill for the presentation and for taking um an opportunity to create a safer Community for the people of our city and so I do just want to make sure I'm wrapping my mind around what you're trying to do and so before 2021 Spectators could get cited as a misdemeanor that's correct from 2003 when this ordinance was enacted until January 1st of 2022. I'm sorry 23. now we're all now I've got all my dates wrong just five months ago they were missed it was a misdemeanor crime yes okay and then based on the calls that you have received in the past is there a timeline where these calls Spike up I'm assuming it is the summer based on some of the comments from my colleagues but I just want to clarify that with you generally warmer months and on weekends weekend nights is when we usually see them happening okay thank you thank you thank you it's breakfast yeah so um Chief did Sparks put this in this into their traffic code or do they put it into their um you know corresponding chapter of offenses against public peace I don't know where exactly it falls but it is a misdemeanor in Sparks so it is me Criminal yes okay it's the exact same thing and and the reason it's no longer Criminal offense is because the state of Nevada in the 21 legislative session said we're taking all these offenses and we're making them civil is that correct not specific this one this one traffic ordinance traffic ordinances are civil but again this is not a traffic ordinance in the sense of what they're doing is not a traffic related effect they're observing a criminal activity which is they're not the drivers of this and also just to be clear participation in the sideshow as a driver is still a misdemeanor because it is not a traffic offense in that way so here's my real challenge to my colleagues is you know the legislature has decided that they want to make some of these traffic events a civil and some I don't agree with like you know I see too many people with the expired tags and so on but you know if they they have the authority but for this one I really think it should stay civil and I'll tell you why because a spectator in some ways is engaging in assembly an assembly we know is a First Amendment right and I I think when you're going up against those those Bill of Rights the number one the first the assembly is one that's where it becomes problematic and say you're assembling and we've got a lot in here where things all of a sudden by no cause of you go by no Act of yourself just your mere appearance there turns into an offense and you're being violated or you're being fine as a spectator who's assembling and engaging in something lawful which is assembly by virtue of someone else deciding they're going to do a trick and I think that is very tenuous ground and so for me my comfort remains on this um staying civil and I encourage my colleagues to um put in the out of definitions and work with this staying in the traffic sex section title thank you Chief Nance I'll ask you but we may defer to Mr suti either one spectating is not a protected activity under the Constitution under the first amendment is it it is not right if there's no exercise of political speech or any uh right of assembly related to showing up an illegal activity is that correct that is correct thank you so much look I understand the balance that is being sought to concern ourselves and our legislature has I think in the last several Cycles attempted to very narrowly Define those things for which criminal liability attaches in part because we know historically some of our criminal laws have not been applied evenly or fairly equity and diversity is an important concept for all bodies of government so I appreciate the council member from Ward one's focus on it I think it's somewhat in Artful because it does not capture the gravity of the situation it also does not speak to the fact that our legislature has not made a pronouncement as relates to spectator shows and I can tell you that spectating and sideshows in Las Vegas are a whole other level right and they are dealing with these things and certainly have not made any movement towards we'll call it decriminalizing it right moving it out of that I appreciate the presentations today at the end of the day I'll be supportive of the ordinance instructions because they answer the central question which is the safety of the community the safety of the bystanders the folks who get caught up in it and I think it also speaks to trying to undercut the reasons why people show up at these certainly the Fast and the Furious franchise I think they're on like part 10 or 987 I don't know is not really what we're talking about I think there was a time when people would go to show and shines and really interested in cars Hot August Nights is built around that this is not that councilmember duer and Madame mayor have made some very significant Research into this area and I trust their judgment I certainly thank you Chief Nance and Mr suti for the presentations we have some obligations to our community that are larger than the obligations I think that way again the concerns raised by the ward 1 member and for that reason I'll be supportive thank you so much any other questions at this time hearing that I'm going to go to councilmember Dewer ready to make a motion thank you so much okay um I will take these one at a time I would motion to initiate the ordinance under E1 is that D is that enough or do you need it different would you put it back up sure we can you just move to refer oh sorry if we put it back up okay so we're going to take each one on the at a time as you suggested so the first motion is there on the board for E1 okay so I'd uh motion to refer E1 ordinance to amend Reno Municipal Code title six chapter 6.06 section 6.06.170 making it a misdemeanor to knowingly attend an unpermitted motor vehicle race contest or exhibition as a spectator second okay okay I have a motion by council member doer second by Madame mayor any additional questions or comments at this time hearing none I'll call for the question all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye aye any opposed motion carries and then I would move to refer E2 ordinance to a man Reno Municipal Code title 8 chapter 8.12 section 8.12.170 making it a misdemeanor to knowingly attend an unpermitted motor vehicle race contest or exhibition as a spectator have a motion by councilman second by Mr Martinez any additional questions at this time hearing none I'll call for the question all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye aye any opposed motion carries thank you so much Madam clerk I think we're on to items Charlie one and Charlie three Charlie one through Charlie three c one cc C3 opening items C1 through C3 and these are public hearings okay hold on one second and I'll get there [Applause] okay Madam clerk let the record reflect that the city council is opening the public hearings for item C 1.1 through C 1.3 C 1.3 the items will be heard together Madam clerk was proper notice given any correspondence received sorry vice mayor just for correction we are opening items C1 through C3 is that correct yes that is true okay just making sure um we have you threw me off there for a second for public comment um so we did receive some public comment um via email additionally we had one public commenter David Matthews who was here earlier but could not stay and he was speaking in opposition of the item we did receive three comments um one in favor one in opposition and one concerned okay let me also ask Madam clerk do any council members have any disclosures no okay we'll take public comment after the presentation and see if the presentation answers but it sounds like we don't have any in the room at this point okay thank you so much uh welcome Mr McArdle uh the floor is yours thank you vice mayor and council members good morning uh Brian McArdle city revitalization manager and today we're having the public hearing discussing the downtown business improvement district assessment uh today the three items just to summarize those we'll be having the public hearing uh based to to hear complaints protests and objections to the assessment as well reviewing any hardship applications that were received uh part following that we'll do a resolution to adopt the assessment and then the ordinance that puts that into place so just to give a summary about how the the business improvement district was created and I do want to state that the business improvement district and the downtown Reno partnership are sort of two different things in 2018 uh property owners in downtown petitioned the city to create a business improvement district those are the boundaries of the district and within that district there are three um stages of services they provide within the the broader area basic Services which is assessed on property and then you have the green and yellow areas which get additional Services based on the linear foot of how those properties are in that area coming back through the process uh the downtown management organization the city creates the bid allows the city to do the assessment the downtown management organization which is the Downtown Arena partnership comes to this body uh gives the rate and uh presents the operating budget for the year uh the council adopted that budget on March 22nd we which then causes the city engineer to work with the county to develop an assessment role we set the date on the assessment role um April 12th and today we're having the public hearing to Levy the assessments and just for clarity uh the rates were not changed this year as recommended by the downtown management organization the DRP uh rates have not changed they have not changed over the last four or four to five years uh and that is based on the two things the standard service and then the previous service so rates have not changed what has changed is the value of the properties within the corridor um that is something done by the Washington County assessor's office this is a rate comparison of uh how it spreads out through commercial residential what the city pays and others so there's a slight increase this year and the business improvement district assessment comes out to 3 million six hundred and eighty seven thousand dollars uh just to cover the assessment history uh it did go down a bit last year and back up this year this is likely based on property value since rates have not changed and the point we're going to get to now uh to present to you is through this process we noticed everyone uh there were four objections received formally 10 formal hardship applications received staff has verified that they do meet the income requirements based on giving those hardships it's based on low incomes uh and if they're eligible based on the city's ordinance to Grant the hardship so we've we've validated that and at this time we will uh we recommend uh that the 10 hardships were are be approved okay Mr McArdle thank you for the presentation Let Me Maybe start off um we had a public commenter who came and and made a very uh good point quite frankly about the fact that their assessment was going up and we asked that uh participant to step outside and perhaps explore the hardship issues but it's not that we have raised anything it's that the assessments on property values have increased over at the county and the assessor's office which results in increased costs because they're paying the same rate but the assessments have gone up is that correct that is correct okay so I just want to make sure that folks who are watching at home or even in the audience if anyone's listening understands that it's it we have not raised it in fact the DRP has not raised those rates but the assessment values go up as property values increase within the district can I also ask because I heard another comment that was raised it was in one of the written correspondents about the the boundaries growing has the boundaries grown in any way boundaries have not changed was was not recommended by the Downtown Arena partnership to change the boundaries they have a board who decides these things the rates were not recommended to be changed the only adjustment through that management plan this year was to add additional nighttime ambassadors to do some place making activities like the event last night and some visual Improvement downtown which tomorrow they'll be doing a mural uh reveal on Virginia Street well I've been watching it's quite fascinating to see the artist at work because he's worked during the day and the night and very interesting art let me also ask a number of commenters in here in the chambers today and then online and in the written correspondents have raised concerns about you know what is the value of the service they're receiving so if they see trash or in some cases a dirty sidewalk or something like that how do people make sure that they are getting what they're paying for how do we make sure if they have complaints about um uh trash or those kind of things that they're able to get the service that they have bargained for there is a the downtown Reno partnership website has a great one-pager that says who to call if you need Ambassador Services uh who to call for anything else um and so it's a great one page that is a great education piece but if people do have a issue with Services want to see more maintenance just have questions they can contact the Downtown Arena partnership well I think there was kind of a kernel of a good and a positive so I think one of the public testimony was today that they hadn't seen the sidewalks getting clean they called to report it they were out the same day to do it but they haven't been back since so that's just something I think that the the folks that are running the DRP have to appreciate and understand it's about consistent action over time not so much that just when the squeaky wheel gets the grease they get the thing that they want but it's about overtime and I will say for my part I was there last night at the unveiling of the new event Plaza it was beautiful to see the work that's been done there I do notice an improved downtown in terms of when I walk along the river or when I walk from here to the casino Corridor even to the bowling alley that it seems to be significantly cleaner than it has been in the past which tells me that the work is being done now admittedly there's no shortage of work I'm sure that that's undoubtedly the case so on any given day people will of course notice things that don't make them happy about the cleanliness of downtown but in general I would say there's Market Improvement in the last six months to a year I think I've seen A Renewed Focus so that's good um okay those are all the questions I have for you Mr Ricardo thank you for the presentation and we'll come back to the body and see if there are questions here before we do anything substantive though I want to just check in councilmember Taylor um are you with us and are you prepared to I think you might have a disclosure yes missing a little bit of technical difficulty no problem I resemble that remark so I understand that um let me um see if before we do anything substantive let's make sure that I don't forget that you would like to do that but I'll come back to the body and see if there are any questions from my colleagues at this time I'll start um Miss Hebert do you have any questions at this time thank you so much okay any questions councilmember beckus the floor is yours yes um thank you for the presentation Mr McCarter um so this is the fifth year of our assessment seventh seventh but aren't we okay we did we adopted in 1819. so 1 1920 2021 21 22 23 24 aren't we required under inrs to do an evaluation of it after five years I recall listening in on the financial Advisory board meeting in March and you said that we weren't going to be doing it part of the services agreement does state that at year five you do a evaluation with the city and the association which is the downtown management organization uh with changeover bandwidth and the process going forward that has not been done it was not done last year but we in are in conversations to look at having a consultant come in do the full evaluation assess Services rates all the other stuff within um get some stakeholder feedback so we do plan to do that I have concern about not meeting that threshold and I think even though it's in the agreement it's also in the Nevada revised Statute that's where it derives from if my memory is is accurate and you know we've had people sue us on this so I'm very concerned about this non-compliance with our agreements with NRS and saying you know we're kind of picking and choosing which rules we want to comply with it's problematic to me um because so I'll move on because some of the things that we were going to find out and focus on in my view particularly because people what people pay is increasing we have evidence of that their valuation may be going up but if it's income producing property it may not be that the return on that investment is increasing for them so it's not increasing um you know their um their revenue models and households or households you know circumstances vary but I really wanted to understand and there's a lot of basis for it in the downtown plan which was our policy basis for doing this is what is the overall budget of the management organization because we had a sample budget for them and I want to know how that is being um how they're doing because they were supposed to do a whole lot of other things and not just rely upon our money and I want to make sure that the households and the businesses who are paying in aren't paying for extracurricular activities of this organization that may not benefit them their focus was very narrow and then it was a larger umbrella that this group that we contracted with was gonna go and I've been asking since it first came up to see a copy of their budget I haven't seen it have you seen their budget are you privy to their budget through the services agreement they have met the obligation to give a line item budget based on the services the standard Services premium services and premium plus services for Ambassador Services maintenance uh staff as well as Street Maintenance so they have met the obligation in I think it's exhibit F in the services agreement right are they bringing in 150 000 a year a private investment is that in their line item they're not required to disclose any additional dollars that they bring in they're a separate non-profit entity yes I understand that but in a five year where at that and it certainly is shown here on a table in our downtown plan now the other question is can we push pause for a second because you're over time I just want to see if anyone else has questions then I'll come back to you okay Miss breakfast the floor is yours the budget I don't have the budget in front of me because we're just discussing the assessment today not the Downtown Arena Partnerships budget is any of this assessment going toward marketing it will be yes the budget the budget and the rates have already been approved at the March 22nd meeting and we are which informed the levy of the assessment which is sure we're discussing today but the concept that gave birth to this was not going to have that money come out of the assessments so something's gone awry if I live in the Montage or the Arlington Tower I don't need to be paying you know on my tax bill to the county assessor for marketing you know if I should sell my lot sell my unit I will hire a real estate person to do that and that's where my interests get marketed it is problematic I submit to the body and I think maybe Miss Stewart was on when we did it maybe I know the mayor was certainly but I was I was the liaison to the two precursor assessment districts yes okay I was the proponent of the downtown plan and it was never going to be that marketing was going to be paid for out of these assessments it was always and it's in the downtown plan going to be the funds to enhance policing and the funds to maintenance so as far as I'm concerned seeing and hearing there's a budget that take flows our assessment to this group that does beyond these two buckets is a no-go is an absolute no-go and a Divergence from how we settled them up now is any money from that these assessments then going back into the Reno Police Department for increased Patrols I believe so yes how much is is that I do not have the budget in front of me okay any additional questions at this time okay I'll bring it back to you madam clerk um at this time I'll note that the I'll close the public hearing and proceed to emotions um can I get a motion weissner yes Miss Taylor I have oh you're ready perfect thank you for indulging me I have had the chance to pull this up now Madame mayor fellow City Council Members Mr vice mayor Madam clerk in the interest of full transparency on items C1 to C3 I am disclosing I serve on the board of the directors of the downtown Reno business improvement district DRP a non-profit organization designated by the city council to implement a clean and safe program of safety ambassadors and maintenance workers throughout downtown Reno item C1 through C3 finalizing finalizes and lovies the assessments for FY 2024. on this matter I have sought guidance from the city attorney's office here city council appointed me to the DRP board of directors as a director I have a per se commitment in a private capacity to the interests of the DRP pursuant to NRS 281a.0656 the DRP provides clean and safe services that would otherwise fall to the city to provide because the drp's interest goals and operations closely align with the city's inter-schools and operations my commitment in a private capacity to the interest of the DRP would not clearly and materially affect the independence of Judgment of a reasonable person in my position to Warrant abstention under NRS 281 a.4203 um public officer is not required to abstain from acting on matters involving a non-profit entity before the governing body where the interests are aligned Madam clerk please accept the disclosure and log it onto the record for this meeting and subsequent meetings pertaining to these agenda items thank you thank you Mr vice mayor thank you councilmember Taylor I'll turn now to the city attorney's office and ask as the disclosure sufficient yes that's sufficient thank you and at this time I'd also like to read the ordinance introduction C2 before any votes are taken okay can we go to see do we do we need to go to C1 first boats in order would be nice for my record keeping and additionally advice memories I apologize we do have one voicemail that we need let's start with the voicemail and then we'll go to Charlie one uh for the first motion then we'll come to you Mr Hall good afternoon this is Sean Murphy Pacific development uh providing public comment regarding the bid assessment items C1 through C3 we are in support of these additional assessments for the bid is a very important that's consistent with the reimagined Reno master plan that additional [Music] ambassadors are in the downtown Zone especially as new housing new office and new retail is being developed in that downtown core for the safety of all folks especially in light of recent arsons that we have seen uh in and around Reno it's been very important that we [Music] get that additional security for the nighttime Services the overnight so look forward to the city council's support of this additional assessments for this improvement district at the downtown Reno Park ship thank you very much thank you madam clerk we'll start with item C1 yeah I'm prepared to make a motion thank you Mr Vice chair I do have a question though it looks like in C1 we have three embedded motions one dealing with hardships one dealing with um a resolution and one dealing with ordinance I think the process would be C1 is the public hearing where people provide content right and then C2 before ratifying the assessment you would determine you would Grant the hardships these are all embedded under C1 like they're subsections of C1 so I just want to make sure if it had three parts and if I need to go to C2 for that motion so can we start with C1 I believe so yeah okay and there's there's three sections here well we'll see when if you just move to approved staff recommendation okay all right that's fine I'll uh um I think they're just mislabeled so it should be C1 says C1 C11 C12 C13 but it's really just C1 C2 C3 okay thank you well I will move to recommend um staff excuse me I will motion to approve staff recommendations okay I have a motion by councilmember Dewar second by council member Martinez any additional questions at this time hearing none I'll call for the question all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye aye any opposed motion carries six to one no no I was not enough oh I apologize motion carries unanimously we heard you now ask item Charlie two we'll start with Mr Hall is that correct yes thank you Mr vice mayor ordinance introduction bill number 7237 ordinance of the Reno city council providing for the levy and manner of collection of Assessments for the City of Reno Nevada neighborhood Improvement project otherwise known as the downtown Reno business improvement district ratifying approving and confirming all of their actions previously taken by the city council in the City of Reno and the officers of said City directed toward the acquisition and improvements of said project in the district together with other matters properly relating there to Ward 5. and I am prepared to make a motion but I want to make sure so the one up on the screen is labeled c1.2 is really C2 but it speaks about a resolution and you just read an ordinance introduction so I just wanted to make sure I think I I just want a motion to do you want to guide me Mickey yep so the motion numbers are off this C2 is for the ordinance um introduction so can you go to maybe it's C3 is for the ordinance so okay so if you can read that motion he read the um ordinance so I'm just making a motion to um approve the ordinance introduction they have a motion by council member Doer a second by Mr Martinez any additional questions hearing none I'll call for the question all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye aye any opposed post all right okay ordinance adopted six to one sorry yep or for a second reading in a doctor adoption right thank you for clarifying and then on uh the third one for C3 which is the resolution and I'm sorry just everything was mislabeled so it was uh throwing me there for a minute um I want to move to approve the resolution of the Reno city council dispensing with certain complaints protests and objections made at the public hearing about the assessment role for the City of Reno Nevada neighborhood Improvement project okay the motion by councilmember second by Mr Martinez any additional questions at this time hearing none I'll call for the question all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye opposed hi and I wanted to clarify that that um includes the 10 hardship exemptions yes thank you so much councilmember Doer okay Madam Clerk I think that this ends our CE one through three items and I believe we are going back in order for our consent agenda nope we're going to go now to the D2 item is that correct thank you item D2 get Mr Hodge give us a second just to reset all of our computers okay Mr Hodge the floor is yours good afternoon vice mayor members of council JW Hodge for the record here today to provide a short presentation on the redistricting principles and the process that we're about to kick off uh today we're going to do two things we're going to talk about the process and we're going to move over the eight identified principles outlined for your review and approval as you're aware the charter section 1.050 requires us to divide the city Arena into six Wards effective January 1st 2024 assembly Bill 36 in 2017 actually pushed forward and requires us to make this move to six Wards and replacing the at-large member effective next year award boundaries are changed by ordinance which requires a five sevens votes of this body today we begin the process by adopting a set of principles outlined to help us guide and art and understand how the redistricting process will work and allow us to work with our independent consultant pending the approval today will kick off tomorrow with a robust Community input and independent analytics process this is going to include postcards to the community a website Community meetings and drop-in opportunities for the community as well as a new online portal that allow community members to provide updated ideas on maps or thoughts or communities of Interest all of this will also be provided provided in Spanish including our drop-in and meeting opportunities so that we can make sure we're hitting all the communities of interest and making sure we're providing an adequate process for the council uh following those meetings in August Cali will be back to council to present options to this body to review and select the Final maps for the process all of this is based on a compressed timeline requiring us to submit maps to the registrar by September 1st that requirement is coming from the presidential election that's coming up in February of 2024. the meat of what we want to talk about today is the eight principles identified for this body to review and approve saying these are the things that we want to push forward and help us in identifying what we want to do when it comes to redistricting this is going to be the philosophy that we measure all the models against so the following things are things we will do we will follow state and federal regulations including the Voting Rights Act and the equal protection clause we're going to follow the charter making sure that we are within five percent and that we create wards that are equal in population size we're going to consider consider geography and make sure that our boards are as contiguous as possible we're going to understand the common interests of neighborhoods in the neighborhood Integrity this includes natural geographic boundaries or man-made boundaries and making sure we're not splitting neighborhoods in half or areas of Interest such as the brewery District or Midtown or a certain homeowners associations of course I just talked about the vast amount of community input that we're going to seek and that's going to be a critical piece of this process implementation date there are two we have one timeline with two very distinct purposes so for the purposes of the 2024 election the maps begin on January 1st 2024. this allows candidates to file know which precincts which Wards they need to walk in how they need to run for candidacy the second timeline is following the canvassing of the vote we will then seat the Sixth Ward member at that point so one timeline just two distinct periods of time Council residence is still continues to be one of our principals when it comes to redistricting what's different this time is that we have council members two council members that will be in their seats past 2024. so both of those council members addresses where they reside will be taken into consideration as we redraw the map and make sure that we don't accidentally redistrict those two council members into the same ward the other members of the body are not elected past 2024 at this point so we'll take things into consideration however we do not have to take the actual address of their residence into consideration and then finally the data source that we will use is the 2020 Census Data it's the most accurate and valid data that we have there was a comment earlier about the American data as well that we can use as a reference point that more relates to some of the economic changes and different changes related to the data but the Census Data will be our fundamental piece of data that our independent consultant will use very short presentation but the goal of today's make sure that Council understands and approves of the adoption of the principles that we've set forward and I'm here to answer any questions you may have okay before we go to the questions from the body can I just turn to Madam Clerk and let me know do we have public comment on this item thank you vice mayor Reese we do have one public commenter in the audience Margot hiskovich Miss piskovitz welcome always a privilege to have another member of the bar in Chambers and that microphone moves around quite a bit so you just put it where you want it to be well first of all I just have a question I'd like to know who the Consultants are that we're using and that doesn't hasn't been talked about yet also I have some Concepts that are kind of worried in the City of Reno redistricting principles for 2023. I I do believe that the [Music] um that would be one two three four the fifth one down reflect the core of existing words I think that should be kept I think the word should retain the core of the existing War to the extent possible and I I don't have a problem about I don't care about the language otherwise but I think everybody should know like where my district is you know I mean I don't have a clue what's happening there um I said it's not pro or con it's just my concerns um I understand why you put currently current council members because you have two that aren't elected but I that's a concern to me because you guys have at least gone out and been elected um and I think that's that's important and I realize that you need to be in the area where you live because that's the way this is set up um I also have some concerns about this sentence here if any award is more than five percent larger based on population boundaries must be redrawn to balance than population I think that should be left in as well it says that you're supposed to be pretty equal I mean you're not going to have the exact same number but it should be relatively equal so when you look at this overall and I'm not looking at it as a lawyer I'm looking at it as a I mean I don't practice law anymore I'm looking at it as a voter so I think that it would be really nice if we could get some of this organization done and and make sure that I know who what Ward I'm in and you know and it's not cutting across something etc etc so I think and I like the idea that there will be compute Community input I think you said in the month of May so I think that's great but I said it's not a pro or con I just think we need to straighten some things out thank you thank you Miss piskovich additionally we have Bill shrimp via Zoom okay Mr Shrimp foreign sorry about that thank you uh I think it was a great day for uh a representative democracy today it's uh good to see this moving forward um and to uh to get additional Awards I'm going to Echo the comments of my previous speaker regarding retaining the uh the core of existing Awards as much as possible and to keep the language about rebalancing um you know the words plus or minus five percent geez that makes sense why would we get rid of that in terms of population um so and I also want to very specifically say I think it's a good thing that we're looking at current folks um home address so that you don't get drawn out of your ward but I want to specifically make sure that Council knows maybe it goes unspoken that that doesn't apply to the at-large role that is being removed so that shouldn't be part of the the criteria that staff takes into account so again thank you everybody for being here I know it's a tough job and appreciate you doing it have a great day thank you so much for staying with us during this process I'll come now to the body and see if anyone has questions at this time we'll start on my left from Miss Ebert did you have any questions at this time okay sure just took to clarify it was a it was egg when you said numbers so just to clarify my understanding is uh council member Ebert and myself Ward four and two we were just elected for our Awards and you're saying that you do need to draw the war to include us in our Ward you said to not include us in the same word so that was confusing to me but could you clarify that nope you're correct we have to maintain you in two separate warts we can't we can't create a scenario in which you both live in the same ward and now no longer have a word to represent gotcha okay so I mean um could you like move me into Ward one or three as long as I had a ward or do I have to be with ward two I I think the the labels are irrelevant like you could become Ward one right I think I got an option of the body but you still have a ward um I don't think that's something that will happen based on how people live right now and where you and councilmember Ebert live but it's it's the labels are less important than actually you living within a ward gotcha okay that's interesting and then I think I heard you say and this I think is a very interesting provision and kind of speaks to a public comment we heard earlier which is you also said that you do not have to pay attention to the addresses of the other four Ward members the Mayors for the whole city but what you're saying is for for their addresses you don't have to recognize two could be in the same ward three could be in the same ward one could be an award none could be an award is what you're saying yes that's what I'm saying but I think if you do look at the addresses of the current members and look at the fact that we're going to shrink Wards by 8 8 500 to 8 800 people per Ward the likelihood that they will end up in the same ward is very very low we're going smaller not bigger oh it's low that they end up in the same way correct okay that's an important point I think and then I think the point was brought up by a member of the public about I think the point was um so you just made it you can be drawn out of your of your ward correct because it doesn't start until 2024. so at that point You're Not Elected to that award yeah unlike you and council member Ebert okay so we are following that principle exactly the one that was brought up earlier okay thank you okay uh councilmember Martinez thank you vice mayor um I think my question was along the lines of what councilmember um was asking I was just wondering because last time I know this redistricting happened about two years ago um so I'm just wondering why um the philosophy changed a little bit so if you could just address some of the reasoning behind the addition of the residents of course I can address two things in that question I think the philosophy changed as far as addresses go because we in the middle of redistricting last time we had members that were elected to their seats beyond the point of when the map was adopted so at this point the legal interpretation of that is the members are not elected to their seats and as we shrink Wards we're making much larger changes than we did last time and they're going to be significant so at this point because we only have two members that are elected Beyond 2024 they we don't that principle doesn't apply it only applies for members that have been elected to that seat beyond the adoption of the map and just to clarify it's not appointed or elected it's not that they're appointed it has nothing to do with that it's it's be the date correct in the date of for instance councilman Martinez you are appointed through 2024. correct so that date would align regardless if you were elected or appointed and is that similar reasoning to uh remove the point about reflecting the core of the existing words because of the addition and some of the flux that we're going to see in the redistricting yes and that answers both your question in the public comment we just received I think when you look at taking a Ward from 50 plus thousand down to 44 43 000. the the goal of reflecting the original core of that Ward Wards are going to change more significantly this time than last time they're going to get smaller and that might mean a area of significance like the brewery District or something that we wouldn't want to split in half might move from one word to another word where we consider that the core of the ward before but we we don't want to limit ourselves or put ourselves in a situation where we're cutting important neighborhoods of Integrity in half to retain what was a previous score of something that we now have to decrease by a significant number of residents and in terms of the equal and population philosophy striking the five percent um rule I guess is that if the population were to change between now and the next census or is that only when another census comes out when some of the redistricting would happen again I'm just trying to understand why in this situation we're trying to strike out that specific so let me let me add Clarity that we're not that's a charter requirement so we're not striking that out the charter specifically states that we have to create main create and maintain words with equal as possible balance and that there's a five percent rule in Charter that says when we're building the wards we have to make sure that there are no more than five percent difference word toward that rule also states that if we get three or four or five years down the road before the next census and we have reasonable reliable data that says one word is ten percent out of whack compared to other words this body can then come back and say that we can redistrict to make sure that we get those back in alignment within that five percent rule so that five percent is not going away that is a that is in law it is in Charter it is one of our requirements to maintain that five percent balance thanks for clarifying Mr Hutch it's breakfast the floor is yours I have concerns with the process that staff has laid out tremendous concerns as I understand it is unfolding and what it is is we have people on this body are self-interested in how it draws out presumably all of us with exception of me who's presumably turned out and the mayor who doesn't run an award okay we know we have three people who are already raising funds for an election because they filed those with the clerk and da is saying we're going to hire a consultant and that consultant is going to work with these principals and take their direction from staff but stop takes their direction from the council and it's not always vote of the bodies sometimes it's you know what conversation with a staff member the manager and you know that's very invested interest in I'd like to see the principles applied so that I'm not in the same ward with another member who would compete with my seat for me for my seat with me so if we are analyzing the law and saying that more than one of us could be an award with another one of us right there we've got an opponent potentially with us and if and so I think that we need to be very hands-off it's elected officials jobs not to draw the lines but to get into the lines and that's why I think we need not to have any involvement from us with this process we need a map shown to us that staff has not you know had conversations with any of us from and and it's it's a very independent process that's why I don't like your process I want to see a process where we each appoint a person they come together as the map drawing committee there's seven of us they prevent them present the map to us the consultant listens to them okay because I don't want you know say me to talk to our manager and say hey I really think the principal should apply with the map going this way so I'm not in the same ward as you know uh council member um race because we could compete against each other I think we need to be very hands off I think that's the way that you promote Integrity in elections and I think that we need to have a body that's hands off from us present us a map and we get an up or down vote that's how I see it because there's a lot of room for mischief and it was very very um contentious Among Us last time I know the hard feelings were there and we're drawing much closer much closer to the filing date than we did before when the census came out so I'm a little disappointed the way it's been set up because I think it's set up to have the self-interest here whispered into the manager's ears and then dictated to the consultant who take their lines from you know the project managers so I would like to advocate for an independent District in committee that Council appoints at our next meeting and we each recommend seven names and they together do all the work and are the are the director over this process thank you okay any other additional questions at this time oh miss Ebert the floor is yours yeah I'm sorry I know this has been asked a couple times but I'm just trying to make sure I understand so districts will be redrawn Naomi and I will still be in our basically the same area even though the the ward number might change for us potentially okay but potentially it could okay um and the next point I want to make is I agree with council member breckis that just given the timing with elections coming up and the fact that we have three council members coming up for election then I think it would be um just good to have um outside or independent people draw these Maps just so that it doesn't look like we're having City Council Members influence their Awards and also so that we don't have an environment where we have Sitting council members now become you know adversaries and running against each other I think that could make things very uncomfortable on the council I just want to chime in on that I think it's important to clarify that that is the actual reason why we're using the same group we used last time they draw the maps based on the community input and the community feedback and the information they get online and then those maps are presented to council regardless if it's an independent redistricting committee if it's staff which it's not if it's an independent consultant those maps have to come back to council for an organ which requires a 5 7 vote so the process described to make sure that it's transparent and fair and meets the needs of the community is the one that we've set up it's the group that we used the last time and I think we even had the ACLU here praising the work that was done by this body and using that group to make sure that we were doing a transparent process that took into consideration what the community wanted to see in maps not Council not staff so we've retained the same group they've even made the community process even more robust and it's the intent is for them to gather input from the community use the data they have on the City of Reno use the work they did less than 24 months ago to inform their options and drawing maps that make sense to meet the principles and the laws of the country and the state and the city and then present those to you as a body for you to make a final selection which you would have to do regardless of what what organization brought that forward okay and another question might be a little off topic but why didn't we do like a tentative map for this when we we did the last um redistricting for the 2021 uh census update being presumptuous and building a map for the Sixth Ward when you're trying to ethically and honestly make five Wards based on the community feedback was probably not in the best interest and met the principles at the time so to say to the community we want you to build five Maps but we're also going to plan and we want you to give feedback to build a Sixth Ward would cross over the what the feedback they were giving and that would put them at odds for making wards that are going to be essentially 8 500 people smaller at the time we needed to keep the five Wards because the law hadn't gone to effect yet and we had a potential bdr at the time okay um I do have one other question and I'm sorry I lost my train here um I don't know does anybody else have questions we can come back to me yeah we'll come back to you but I'm gonna come uh jump ahead of you Mr yeah um first of all um Mr Hodge thank you for the presentation obviously I think that um our colleagues have raised some important questions especially as it relates to who is going to be uh hired to do the work and I just want to go back in time a little especially for the colleagues who weren't on the body at the time um the group that was hired and went out and did the work to create the maps which ultimately then we approved here I don't get the sense that there was any ill feelings on the dice I don't know what the word one member is talking about when they say that what I recall is a very hands-off process I mean I don't um believe that any of the council members had any role in how those Maps ultimately came to be other than the hiring of the entity which ultimately was hired to do it and then they went out and presented it to the community as I recall and you did say but I think it's important to point out out is that I think both the ACLU and plan both groups commented and really I think the exact comment was that the city of Reno's process was the gold standard of all entities in the state who had done it because we weren't engaged in partisan gerrymandering we hold nonpartisan offices so none of the maps I don't think have anything to do with who's in our who's at the E where does any of that happen so ultimately I think that using that same group will you know provide the greatest result I think it is disingenuous to suggest that when a person appoints another person to be on a body as council member for Ward one it suggested to believe that that person wouldn't be someone who aligns with your values I think is pretty uh disingenuous right I think if I look at the bodies to which we appoint I can see the appointees from the Ward one member who have a very specific frame of mind and reference point whether that's on the Planning Commission or any other one um because ultimately you're trying to find people who are representative of the same values that you hold so to say that somehow it would be like independent because we've appointed another body is silly the United States Supreme Court of course over the last five years has really dealt very deeply into this question about how maps are drawn you look at other communities in Alabama North Carolina and I think the city attorney's office can speak to this and ultimately the Supreme Court's conclusion has been that the decision about redistricting is purely a legislative function of an executive branch that we operate on and that it can be incredibly partisan now I hope we won't engage in that I don't think that helps us we're a very small community geographically we're somewhat narrow so I think sometimes the ward boundaries get drawn I think someone online referred to them as a raw shot inkblot you know as the the but that's because communities don't grow in neat little square patterns so I'm interested to see how we move forward with it I don't think there's any need for any other body other than ours I think our consultant will be excellent and we'll do the work and they'll go out and they'll engage with the community as I recall some council members went to those I did not I felt that was inappropriate because I really wanted the community's input to be what was valued not my impression of it or in that way so I think the last thing I'll say is that in the core principles My Hope of course is that what we are able to accomplish is that we would have um not just one majority minority District which we were able to accomplish in the last go-round but I My Hope Is that there would be two and I think that's one of the core guiding principles of our city and it's reflected here at Social Equity piece to it so I think that there's enough diversity of of this community that will reflect that in whatever maps come to us and so those will be key components and I certainly believe that those same groups will be that we out did Outreach with last time whether it's the African-American Community the Hispanic Community um that they would be very much in involved in all of those Community engagements I think we've got a former council member and a member of the past president of the State Bar of Nevada who have taken some Keen interest in this I think one serves on the word one nav I hope that they'll be present for those discussions as well so it'll be I think a good uh it'll it'll be well done when it's done I'll come back now to the body and come back to miss doer yeah um I think my comment was broader not not about your specific principles which I was fine with but I wanted to say a comment about the process first of all could you just State the name of the group for direct flow analytics flow analytics and they are the same people that you worked with last time they're the same and we've actually worked into their contract the same language that prohibits them from working on any elected or political campaigns through the end of 2026 based on them working with us on redistricting to make sure that we put in that barrier that they're not there's no political gain for them either good um I so I heard a lot of positive about this group from all sectors of our community and almost the proof of the pudding that council members can't influence the process there are many pieces at least a probably five aspects of what they did that I wasn't so happy about um and uh that was not changed despite the fact that I was spoke about it and was articulate about it I think and explained my concerns now what was changed was that there were some maps that to your point cut HOAs in half cut communities in half and those people we had one that 30 letters were sent in for Double Diamond saying don't cut us in half that may look like just a place on a map to a consultant but to us it's our community we're one HOA we don't want to have two Representatives so I mean they were hurt same thing happened with Lakeridge they said the same thing there was a proposal to cut them in half by McCarran put one in one word one half but the other half in ward two um they wrote it saying they didn't like that so I think the Consultants paid far more attention to the public and what they were thinking about than anyone councilman were frankly um that's just my observation um so I you know it didn't really matter how I felt about it at the end of the day What mattered was that the process was seen as clean transparent uh supported by the community and um it made some rational sense and so therefore I'm very comfortable with it and I actually think it would enable us to get additional public input I mean you said that this time they hope to even do more Outreach correct and what are you thinking there so we will host of course a series of community meetings we're also going to have drop-in locations where public can provide feedback and then we're also launching one of the tools that the flow analytics uses is an online portal for people to get in and even say this is an area of interest to me that we shouldn't break up or here's what I think a map should look like so they could do it on an online comment not just show up at a meeting or participate in a meeting on Zoom correct but also apart from that yep and then finally you know I gave a fair amount of thought to the idea of an independent Council oh sorry a commission and um in this case I I'm gonna not support that concept and here's why no matter what body we appoint whether it's a Planning Commission the charter commission whoever we're all appointing them usually we appoint people that are of like-mind to ourselves or at least can you know share views or values with us 80 overlap somebody we can talk to um and I would expect if we appointed a commission it would probably be seven people appointed by seven people and I mean it's it's kind of a there's probably a word for this that it appears more independent than it is in some ways and so therefore I'd just rather have them do their work and have us do our voting and move on so that's just my thought and that's the process so you're saying it's a process but did we have to vote on that we're voting on the principles that will be used in that process and if if the principles didn't align with your values or if you wanted to change something today's the day to do that but that is the process we have outlined to include using those principles what I mean as part of your process having a consultant and not having a commission correct so if we vote today that's what we would be voting if we make I for that we start tomorrow okay Council Barber I think you raised some good points I will comment on one of them it has to do with how we divide like HOAs I think what I recall from learning about it in the last time it's much like in my community I live in Somerset and summer said I am represented by I think in the legislature uh Senator Hansen maybe up out of the rurals because it comes down into my neighborhood and so Somerset residents were very perplexed by that because most of it is represented by Senator Ganser but just one small part of it by another so I mean maps are not you know perfect in any way I think that and it might happen it might happen I'm just saying last time we had bigger areas this time we have to cut them by another 9000 roughly and so you it could end up cutting HOA but it you could also try not to as a starting point but I also recall that one of the things that they are that they do not bisect or cut up are like precincts voting precincts right right they're much smaller yeah so that that makes a little more sense because some and some areas are simply much larger I look at some of the areas down south and think about their voting precincts or can be very unwieldy so to divide them and to make sure we're doing all the other things whether that's focusing on some Equity component or trying to make sure that we're not drawing the lines in such a way that's you know inconsistent with how our Geographic limitations are you know there's like this rule that you can't create an island I suppose and that was one of them so lots of principles but I will say too using the same group flow analytics they're not starting from zero right so all of that work that they did in the last redistricting is still there I assume they fire up their computers and start to input data into it all they're doing is taking the maps that we approved the last time and they're shrinking them to add another award so I think they'll be able to do a great job for us and I appreciate um I do appreciate their I I've never I don't believe maybe I met with the flow analytics people before they were hired maybe we were choosing the things that we were asked questions but I can't even recall if that's true I don't recall any of the people who work for them but um there was no engagement I don't think by any members of this body with them other than the public process which we are all in front of so appreciate that let me see if any other questions it's breakfast yeah it's all over they're not going to ruin their reputation and let a council member influence the process but the review of the maps is with staff and staff has dialogue with the colleagues on this body and if a member is talking to a staff member and says I'd like the map to look like this or I'd like the map to look like that there could be reasons for that I think someone who wants to run is over here I'd rather see him here that is fraught that violates our policies about political engagement in the office because you're engaging on a political matter with a body there's nothing wrong with body anyone bringing their Maps forward we could all bring our Maps forward but it needs to be in a transparent way it can't be inside conversations with staff that is problematic so y'all be sure that you know if you don't want to go down this independent route but you're having conversations with staff about how you'd like to see the maps outside of a public setting you that could be problem in Los Angeles an illegal wiretap of some people during the redistricting process and the comments they made has been referred to the district attorney big Scandal down there okay it could be and sometimes things come up in different ways you don't know it's for everyone's interest interest you know if you don't want to go the independent redistricting then let's put in the process that each and every one of us will stand on oath and say I had no conversation with staff about any preference I have for Matt we all be doing that because I'll make the motion that we'll do that before the maps are adopted we will stand up and say I'm on oath I had no conversations and we'll put our staff members under oath because we cannot be influencing and partisan is not the issue it's almost more dangerous because it's individual interests and how it draws and I don't think they are that great I mean I I'll compete in any neighborhood really you know because I think you know I've been come I've run Citywide but it's this meddling risk that is really in the interest of the bodies to be very handoff hand off with staff who will be influencing the Consultants don't have those conversations don't have those text messages if you want a map of what you want your ward to look like bring that forward in a public setting I I think I think you're making a big mistake here and sometimes things come up back in after you you know you don't really know they're coming so I I'm not going to support the processes outlined I think it would stop in a vulnerable position I think it has too much Folly for those of us who want to get into the lines through election to be involved in the drawing of them thank you okay any additional comments of this time hold on one second Miss Ebert did you what oh okay miss doing I just in light of what our colleague just said I think we couldn't be doing this at a better time when so few of us are in award turned out you only really have one person you know who is going to continue on past into another election everyone else is uh Not Elected past 2024 so at the end of the day I know they're all running for office at some point or another or maybe yes maybe no but it's it's good that it's right now you know because we probably couldn't have picked a better time really except when you look at it that way I mean there's probably the least self-interest thank you so much Miss Stewart Miss Hebert the question on you know what will the Outreach look like I know that you know we're starting a new development or potential development in different areas we send out postcards to the surrounding area will we do anything like that send out a postcard to all the residents and say Here's a link to where you can give your input online are we planning on doing anything like that or do we not know yet postcards were approved yesterday and they will go out after this vote today by the end of this week and they're going to go out to every resident and then because we know about 50 of our population are renters but they're also people that live in Wards Cali has worked with development services to Identity and business licensing to identify rental owners and we're sending information to all those renters as well so it's probably what it's the I think the largest mailing the city has ever done okay so when we had to identify renters who were not just using like a a list of addresses we're not just sending it out to everyone in the City of Reno we're sending it out but you have to use the certain address so we're using it's renters and owners of houses and residents in the city okay so I didn't realize we would need to differentiate we wouldn't just say residents of when you pull the list from it's the pro who owns the property so if I own a property here but I live in California if you just pulled a list of who owns the properties the person who rents and lives in that house is not going to get that mailing yeah I guess that's where I'm confused like why would we need to pull the owners name why couldn't we just say residents of uh that's how the lists are pulled from the people that manage the list so we found a way to make sure that we can get renters and owners okay all right um my next question is um will we get more than one option to vote on because sometimes I feel like we get one option and it's take it or leave it will we get more than one opportunity to say hey no you know my constituents don't like this or I have a particular group of people that don't want to be divided maybe it's not necessarily an HOA situation but it's a close-knit community that doesn't want to be divided will we have the opportunity to say hey this this doesn't necessarily work or we'll need our constituents to come in and particularly give feedback for that I think consistent with the last round of redistricting we presented three or four map options each time we came back okay um and the number of options will be dependent on the feedback they get from the community and how much of it can make sense in one or two or three map options but there will most likely be more than two options okay um and the next one I have is um yeah what will happen with precincts are we gonna have to renumber precincts or so part of the reason we're on the timeline of September 1st for the registrar so they can redraw all the precincts the registrar has to keep precincts be below 5000 people per Precinct and they try and keep them much lower than that okay the intent is to make sure that we can redraw those because you can't have multiple candidates for different seats in one Precinct so the precincts have to be within our Ward Maps which is an added layer of complexity for the registrar so that's why we have to submit that so they can redraw all the precincts with our new Wards and every other line they have to school board members and regions and all the other things they have to draw um so all those will be redrawn between September 1st and November 7th and the registrar has to submit all the maps to the state on November 7th okay I did have one more question okay there's another minute or not a question really um I just want to say agree with Jenny's statement that maybe we should all just agree that we're not going to try and have influence over these maps I mean we're all saying that we won't so maybe going on the record to say we're not going to put any influence over personal influence over how these Maps will will be redrawn I think would be really great to kind of put the public at ease to say hey we're not going to try and and draw these lines in a way that's favorable to my you know potential election outcomes just you know we're all agreeing that we're not going to try and do that but I think it would be really nice to put that on the record and um just say that we're not going to do that okay any additional questions at this time councilmember Martinez I think this is your second time yes thank you vice mayor appreciate it um you mentioned the postcards I was just curious if there's any verbiage in Spanish on the postcards postcards are in Spanish and English on both sides similarly with the website is do you already have the URL for that I'm sure it's in the web on the postcard sorry thank you we have a reno.gov redistricting URL but the once we get through today we'll uh start the process of bringing up the website for the redistricting from the flow analytics side which will have options for translation as well thanks I do just want to Echo some of the comments by my colleagues and say that I believe this process should be Community Driven and the needs of the community should be taken into consideration first and foremost throughout this process I also want to ask if um in terms of the staff within the city from what I remember most of them go through civil service and there's a process right it is in like the council members are appointing staff at the City of Reno correct if I understand your question the civil service is the the process that 95 96 of our employees come through the into the organization and they work for the city manager not the city council okay thanks for clarifying that and then if you'll indulge me I will just put an invitation on Spanish for anybody who watches this so distributions thank you so much thank you councilman okay Miss breakfast you have one minute so um let's talk about what how that worked out some folks weren't three maps come forward what what we were talking blocks and you know and we sent it back to staff to rework a certain area so we're going to come up here with three maps and have a conversation with people who are already maybe even walking neighborhoods talking to voters saying well I'd like this in or that out let's get this in get that out are we going to have in September or late August at this table talking about blocks and lots in which Ward and what Ward when people are actively launching campaigns I don't think so so how do you get away from that you tell staff to come forward with one map well who's had conversations with staff with the one map that we're just going to vote up or we're gonna go vote down any of you I mean it's really fraught it's very fraught because it's too it's too close to the election and I'll say it's too close to the election because this body wanted to not do this they didn't want to do this so it it put us you know why keeping that at large and I never supported that um it puts us on a deadline it puts us on a deadline um and it's just putting people in too much of a position of self-interest if they've already announced re-election um so we'll see but August could be very distasteful in the eyes of the public if they see us talking about lots and blocks up here and HOA boundaries because that's not what we should be doing our job is to get in the lines our job is not to draw the lines that's my view my world Outlook I think this is a big pass by the council to stand up the most democratic process which is an independent redistricting Commission thank you thank you Mr beckus I think we're at the moment for emotion so I'll come to you now Miss Stewart oh wait so this is just a motion to decide if we're using a consultant or I don't know what the motion is yet okay so until we get the motion I can't advise okay um first a note I do expect to see several Maps I don't expect I'm sorry to interrupt we do have Miss Taylor's hand is raised as well okay I apologize promotion I just want to make sure they have that we'll come back to you Miss Taylor oh thank you Mr um vice mayor I just wanted to comment that I fully appreciate the process being put forward by staff and JW and I support I'm not gonna go on the give an oath or anything about what I am or who I'm going to talk to or anything like that but I I have a commitment to serve the city and we all do and you know wherever the maps go that's that's what we'll that's what we'll work off of so I I missed appreciative of this information and I if anybody's listening I don't want there to be some nefarious back room hand shaking of map drawing conversations that you think are happening because for for my understanding that is that is not the part um that we play in the city so thank you very much thank you Miss Taylor for your comments I'll just uh sort of build on that I think it's unfortunate we live in a society in which disinformation and conspiracy theories and these claims are are sort of just at the surface in a lot of America we've we've become very divided in how we see America and unfortunately people who thrive on that kind of chaos like to create specters and Boogeyman I don't think that exists you you've got great people on this diocese who are working very hard in the service of community our last go-around I think proof is in the pudding all the Consultants I think would be able to speak to that all of the community engagement that was involved and we'll continue to say the course so that very alt-right kind of talking point about somehow there's always these backdoor dealings that just doesn't happen it doesn't happen at the City of Reno there's uh it's too small of a town for any of that so I appreciate Miss Taylor you're calling that out what we all want is is transparency what we want are maps that fairly and accurately represent the communities that we serve here in the City of Reno I think all the principles are those guiding principles and of course later on top of that are all the Constitutional and legal principles so all of those things will ultimately lead us to maps that would we will all be proud of right I recall last time during the process that there were a number of iterations of maps over a period of time none of which were ultimately influenced by anyone saying well I want this neighborhood or not that neighborhood that it just didn't happen and so trying to create problems were not exist I think is is really the very height of you know paranoia it's like that tinfoil hat this whole concept of maybe we'll pinky swear on it about who we spoke to or not again it's a red herring I think it's not real and so at the end of the day again I think we can all be proud of the work that we did last time some of the members are new obviously and I think you'll find that the process is very iterative and engaging and so ultimately I like my colleagues it sounds like support this concept of moving forward with the principles let us make sure those principles guide us in all that we do certainly I think given the track record of your office and the office or the flow analytics folks that that will be the case so I'm happy to come back now to Miss Stewart and seek a motion did you have more I did have a comment just about you know drawing districts in people's favor I mean we have a term for it it's called gerrymandering and it has nothing to do with party lines whether you're an alt-right person or a Democrat this is something that affects politics across our country and I think it's valid to call it out again we have a term specifically for it because it's a reality and to say that it would just never happen in the City of Reno I think is a little naive frankly so just wanted to chime in on that Miss Stewart yeah so um I was about to say that I expect several maps to come back because the Consultants do not live here and they do not they they could hear about our people but they don't know our people I think we know our people best I think that was the process that you that we went through and it was very productive we got to speak publicly about what our issues were or if a constituent group we felt they weren't hurt you know we got to elevate their conversation to make sure they are heard so with that in mind I'm feeling very comfortable with the um the scientific process that the consultant employed I would motion to adopt the City of Reno redistricting principles as you've laid them out uh direct staff to move forward with hiring the consultant and working with a consultant on the redistricting process as you proposed a second I have a motion by Ms do or a second by Mr Martinez any additional comments at this time this breakfast as I understand it's a process for staff to hire the consultant and it is uh not the process that I think is the best example of uh in of Independence and hands-off for drawing this redistricting which is an unusual redistricting close to the one that's been delayed through the failed legislative process and one that is going on and amending the the map more than a usual census one and because the council motion is for staff to work with and we know that stop is in Daily communication individually with us via the manager or others I think that it is not as hands-off and transparent as it should be and that's a shame it's a pass by this Council to step up and be the most independent it could be on this process which we have self-interest in if we're running and um and I object to three Maps why not one we say yes we say no thank you okay any additional comments at this time hearing none I'll call for the question all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye aye any opposed post opposed motion carries four to two Okay okay at this time we're going to take a break uh my apologies to those in the audience but we've been here uh since 10 and so we'll return at uh it is now 1 35 we'll return at 2 30 and we're in recess [Music] [Applause] sure love it yes yes Mr clerk are we ready to get started with our afternoon we sure are I'll call us back to order can you tell me do we have colleagues on the phone uh back in Zoom land we have council members breckis and Taylor joining us on Zoom okay Mr Mr vice mayor yes Miss breakfast yeah I I really advocate for um explaining when we're not at the diocese where we are and unfortunately is yours thank you I had to go home um I have a minor uh temporary illness I think caused by my sensitivities to some materials that are being used in the building or right outside um by a construction crew I I once had some exposure to some industrial toxins and I have a real high Titan sensitivity and I was smelling it in Chambers and I just had to go home so I apologize but I will be here for the rest of the meeting thank you no need to apologize we're sorry you're not feeling well and we'll be happy to have you here by Zoom okay Mr uh clerk can we start off on item I think we're on D1 correct are we at David one D1 correct okay let's start off with our staff presentation and then Mr clerk just keep me on track if I don't ask you for public comment it's not because I don't want to but you'll let me know if we have public comment sure we do have correspondence for this I'll just read that really quick we received 17 comments for item D1 which were directly associated with the agenda item prior to 4 pm on May 9th these comments were written correspondence received via our reno.gov online public comment form or by email to our office and copies of these comments have been distributed to the Reno city council and are available to the public on the reno.gov meeting portal they represented zero in favor 14 in opposition and three concerned in addition we have one voicemail to play for you thank you so much let's go ahead and do that and Mr Wilson will get with you in just a second foreign Schmidt and I am a Reno resident thank you for working to secure 62 million dollars in federal funding for improving safety for all of downtown Reno with micro Mobility however I oppose item D1 because it doesn't fix the biggest problem in downtown Reno safety on Streets between UNR and Midtown please make the following Amendment so I can support item D1 one all proposed micro modal projects in the inter local agreement should follow the Federal Highway administration's Bikeway collection Guide to the interlocal agreement falls short on connectivity between UNR and Midtown please add University Way Center Street and Sierra Street to the list of projects in this interlocal agreement in 2019 University Way Center Street and Sierra streets were the best options to improve safety and Virginia Street was not because it closes for special events City of Reno staff have stalled the university Way Center Street and Sierra Street they projects for far too long prioritizing parking loading zones and high-speed high volume car traffic and sacrificing safety businesses on Center Street including the Discovery Museum and Library needs safety now for kids the Reno city council has the opportunity to send a message safety is the top priority please add University Way Center Street and Sierra Street to this interlocal agreement in item D1 and make these streets a top priority the other nine lower priority streets in the interlocal agreement including Virginia Street can be completed with the left over 50 million dollars I believe that all the multimodal Improvement projects can be completed for less than 62.5 million if the city of Reno's staff stop insisting that entire streets need to be resurfaced every time a bike path is painted on the road thank you seeing as we have no speakers registered in the room that concludes our public comment thank you Mr Clerk and we'll start now with a staff presentation by Mr Wilson Mr Wilson thank you for your patience today and the floor is yours thank you son so uh good afternoon vice mayor and council members my name is Khalil Wilson I'm the assistant director in public works um I'm pleased today present to you this item the Regional Transportation Commission RTC FY 2024 into local Cooperative agreement with me here today is Mr Bill Thomas executive director of the Regional Transportation Commission and Mr Dale Keller director of engineering of the Regional Transportation Commission we're seeking Direction in two areas to continue the important infrastructure work to be completed in Reno first we're seeking to approve to seeking approval of the RTC fiscal year 2024 interlocal agreement so projects that identify can advance to design and construction second direction to bring back to council an amendment to this interlocal agreement to include streets in the downtown micro Mobility Network RTC interlocal Cooperative agreement specifies the responsibilities for delivery of identified projects it gives authorization to RTC to use imminent domain if needed and identify as a program of projects to advance to design and construction you may have also heard programs of projects referred to as pop or pop like take a little bit of time and talk about the 2050 RTP the regional transportation plan or RTP functions as the principal document for implementing the goals of regional transportation system the last version of this is the 2050 RTP you may recall RTC provided a presentation to this body on February 12 2020 where they discussed the process for the development of the 2050 RTP and ask Council to provide input on Reno's priorities to be included in the regional transportation Plan update in addition Reno city council RTC presented to spark city council Washoe County Commission and other Regional boards soliciting input RTC also conducted an extensive 12-month Community engagement effort while developing a 2050 RTP over those 12 months Reno's staff worked with RTC to include Council identified priorities and projects that would benefit Reno's residents and businesses RTC returned to City Council on January 27 2021 to provide an update to the 2050 RTP and include the responses to city council under recommendations and priorities so this slide shows rtc's project implementation process kind of working left to right on March 19 2021 the RTC board approved the 2050 Regional Transportation plan that serves as a 20-year outlook for regional projects at the same board meeting the RTC board approved the regional transportation Improvement program or r-tip where projects Advanced to funding in a five-year Outlook this brings us here today working to the right in the color red where we're seeking approval to to the ICA so these exciting projects that are identified in the art the RTP and the rtip can advance into design and construction so what's included in the 2024 ICA the 2024 icas divided into three project categories the first category on the left is pavement preservation with this year's budget of 22.5 million dollars the goal of this project within this category is to keep the regional roads in good shape payment maintenance projects such as surface treatments are currently being identified also included in this category is roadway Rehabilitation projects that are prioritized on payment condition ratings and usage of the roadway or average daily traffic ADT Rehabilitation projects this year include sell me drive between Sutro and clearacre North Virginia near the University of Nevada between McCarran and 16th Street and Raleigh Heights area including Carlisle Drive Lancaster Drive and Yorkshire Drive oops excuse me the second category of projects is uh traffic and intelligence transportation systems or its this category has just a 10 million dollar budget this year and includes types of projects as intersection improvements and safety projects new traffic signals upgrades to exist existing signalized intersections installation of fiber fiber optic connections between intersections projects of this category are prioritized to the rtc's traffic and operations management subcommittee or Toms the third category of projects is roadway projects this year 144 million dollars in projects have been identified in four types of projects that I'll go into more detail in the following slides but in summary the projects are circulation and capacity bus Rapid Transit infrastructure safety and operational and micro Mobility circulation and capacity RTC is anticipating spending about 84 million dollars on three projects in the North Valleys to expand capacity and improve traffic circulation it should be noted that the 84 million is for regional roadways and does not include the the money that ndot is investing in widening 395 in the North Valleys the first project is Military Road capacity improvements that's the blue line at the top of the exhibit on the left-hand side of the exhibit this is widening Military Road from two lanes to four between lemon and echo echo Avenue design is scheduled to start in 2023 with the construction to begin in 2025. the second is Buck Drive circulation that's a small blue line in the middle of the middle of the exhibit this project will improve traffic circulation between Buck drive and North Hills Boulevard and include a new traffic signal at this intersection this four million dollar project is scheduled to begin in 2023 and be constructed in 2025. the third project the pink line at the bottom of the exhibit is north in North Valleys is the North Virginia widening from two lanes to four between Panther Valley instead this project is scheduled to begin to begin design in 2024 and be constructed in 2026. I want to kind of make note of the photos on the screen there the one on the top right is a photo of North Hills Boulevard uh looking north towards Buck drive as you can see the traffic queuing up to get through that inner that's uh three-way stop sign at this particular location and the new traffic signal will help that circulation the photo on the bottom right is along Virginia Street within the limits of the project and showing two lanes of traffic with uh with no curb gutter sidewalk or pedestrian connectivity brt infrastructure VRT stands for bus rapid transit and the image on the left shows the Virginia Street brt Transit line from South mcguinia South Virginia Street to Liberty the project limits for this project however is in the inset there on the right hand side of the exhibit between Gentry and Peckham RTC is anticipating spending about 50 million dollars in this project and the need for this project has been identified in the 2050 RTP the project will add northbound bus only lane from Peckham to Gentry and upgraded elevated platform bus shelters and provide Ada improvements throughout the corridor this will fill a gap and connect to existing bus only Lanes to the north and south of the project limits to provide a faster more efficient Transit line throughout the Virginia Street corridor final design for this project will be completed in 2024 and be constructed in 2025. just on the right there shows Gentry at Virginia Street on the top right with showing what the existing today and the bottom right shows the elevated bus shelters that will be upgraded safety and operations improvements RTC is anticipating spending about 35 million dollars on two projects in Reno to improve safety and operations and a need for both have been identified in the 2050 RTP first on the left hand side there is a slide the McCarran Boulevard Corridor improvements from Plum Lane to South Virginia Street will implement the corridor Improvement recommendations from the McCarran Boulevard study this comprehensive study included all of McCarran Boulevard but the first project to move forward is in the southwest Reno outlined there in red ndot owns this roadway so extensive coordination is needed to develop this project the project will begin design in 2024 estimated cost of construction is 50 million dollars and is anticipated to begin in 2025. the second roadway project is in southeast Reno Geiger grade realignment the project will include capacity improvements on from Virginia to toll road the projects identified in the 2050 RTP as a regional priority and recommended project in the South Meadows multimodal Transportation study this project has an estimated construction cost of 20 million dollars and would begin design in 2024 with an estimated construction start of 2026. micro Mobility projects the streets highlighted in green are the streets in the 2050 RT T RTP identified as for future downtown circulation planned projects based on the best information that we had at the time when the 2050 RTP was updated in 2021. RTC is anticipating spending about 20 million dollars for micro Mobility projects this amount could be significantly increased if we're successful with the Safe Streets for all Grant or ss-4a Grant these streets were grouped together for the first round of funding under the federal ss-4a program but we were unsuccessful in receiving the grant funding however we'll be trying again this year and RTC is currently working on the application between 2021 and today we've completed a micro Mobility pilot project the Gale Place making study and conducted extensive public Outreach engagements it's fair to say that we have learned a lot so here's what staff is recommending we work with RTC and bring back an amendment to these list of streets that includes the next steps in the downtown micro-mobility Network what the micro Mobility project Gale placemaking study feedback from workshops and public Outreach has shown us that there is a need and desire for continuous micro mode Network East-West and north south due to downtown core the network needs to increase separation from high volume high speed streets and needs to include installation of low stress infrastructure for micro mode users so this map on the screen is showing a lot so I'd like to walk through it the blue solid lines on this on the on the map shows existing streets with existing micro modes infrastructure and you can see that they're not continuous north-south or east west to the Core second we know that the ICA Amendment will need to include Virginia Street from Liberty the 9th as identified an implementation plan of the Gale placemaking study that is indicated in red third the dash blue lines are additional candidates for the downtown micro mode Network being evaluated by rtc's consultant and will be presented for public feedback next month RTC and City staff will gather feedback evaluate and will be presenting recommended projects at the July 19th council meeting depending on the recommended projects we'll see Council approval for an amendment to the ICA to include streets in the addition to Virginia Street so those are the Motions on the screen and I will answer any questions you may have okay thank you Mr Wilson for the presentation outstanding I'm going to start with the members of the body and see where we get started here and I know that we've got a couple members online and so I can't see you so you'll just have to let me know that you're interested in communicating do you have any hands raised I'm sorry yes uh councilmember breakfast has our hand raised okay councilmember breakfast the floor is yours thank you could we go back to the table in the stock report exhibit a give us a second to find it and we'll pull it up Mr clerk can we find that please it's not part of the presentation correct Miss breakfast it's the staff report okay one second yeah no problem let us pull it up and then make sure the timer doesn't start on Miss breakfast's time before we can get that foreign what is it that you wanted to look out with Mr Wilson again it's it's the table of the agreement so we have the agreement that is partially executed by the RTC what what page is it on um I think it's on well I'm off of an iPad page six of seven and I don't think it's on the stop report it's the attachment to the stop report which is the actual interlocal agreement right here we'll put that on the uh we're getting that on the overhead right now perfect I think I think I saw someone put it on this yeah right there yep we have it yeah if we could put that on there okay so that is one two five columns and I brought this up last time we did one of these interlocals because I have every single one of these that I've been presented with since I came on the council in 2012 and for example the 2017 one that I have here in my lap one two three four five six seven it had seven columns and the missing information to understand you know this the best has been for me to understand and I'll just I'll move beyond the ones with asterisks because those are more or less buckets but say I'll take Buck Drive circulation which is I think on um Row one two three four five six Drive circulation you have a description of what it is and the estimated cost is that estimated costs 4 million for the total of the project or for the design of the project it's the total of the project that includes the the design permitting and construction cost okay so how much because in past years they showed how much is going to be used for the 24 year and then they showed what year it was going to go to construction so how much is going to go for design this year I would have to pass that question off to of the 4 million to dark color good afternoon uh vice mayor and members of the council Dale Keller director of engineering for the RTC uh councilwoman breakfast that has not been approved by our RTC board yet for this fiscal 24 budget so we need to have the program and projects for this FY 24th Street and Highway project is approved we anticipate roughly in generality about 10 percent it takes to get these branches going out of the overall project cost I don't have the numbers in front of you but roughly about call it 400 000. but I have a signal but it's attached to a document that's been signed by your executive director and as Mr Wilson uh provided in the presentation going about the stage of the process is a four-step process we talked about the overall planning of the 20-year look ahead with the 2050 RTP then we look at the five-year and look ahead with the RTC awards for the regional transportation Improvement plan which is the five-year look and now we're at this two-year look ahead that so it allows us to move forward from a planning effort now actually move it to engineering into final design so that's where we are today we need approval before we can actually start spending money to move these projects to final design see that's part of the problem and how it was done better in the past in the past they gave you the better vision of all the money that exists over the two year and the five year and then how much was allocated each year for design and construction so this is very much in a isolated fashion where are the projects you're constructing this year are those on here your director of Public Works city engineer so the projects that we're constructing this year councilwoman breakfast um we provided a memo to the council I believe on Thursday or Friday last week that gave the status of every one of those projects well [Applause] is that under design yes it is then why it's not why is it not showing on this table because this is for the program of projects for 2024. the um the Arlington bridge design was approved in 2023 and that was on the ICA for the interlocal agreement for 2023. and how long is it just going to just gonna um that one there I believe were scheduled to go to Construction in 26. 25. so and that's okay hold on one second hold on one second we I've let you go significantly over let me come back to the body and see if there are any questions and then we'll get you back into the queue hold on one second please any other questions from the body at this time I I have a couple that I want to sort of address but maybe I'll start at the beginning Mr Wilson can we go back to the slide that identifies the status the bubbles I think we're in the red bubble now and I apologize to our clerk I can ask questions while you're bringing it up because I have it in front of me um I suppose for my part five yeah it's slide number five in your presentation today to us thank you so much for my part because I am I do have the privilege of serving on the RTC board and so um in the last I guess at our most recent Retreat I got to learn a lot more about the r-tip and the rtip part of the issue is is that when we have these conversations the public is somewhat excluded from it because we tend to talk in acronyms and we talk as though we are all government persons and we're we're certainly all not so I suppose for my part I want to sort of come down a level from that and just have you help me understand you've identified a number of projects that are about ready to for example the circulation capacity projects all of those things once we approve today the interlocal agreement then those can go into the next phase and really start to be constructed is that correct that is correct okay and how long Mr Wilson have you been with the city um I started the city in 2001 so this is my 21st year so the the question that Miss breakfast was asking about columns and being confused by fewer columns today than there were some years ago what's going on there I mean can you just help me understand because I haven't been here as long as you have well I believe is the the different columns would indicate um the the program of projects that would that we were we were doing from year to year to year and what we wanted to do is basically say this is the program of projects for this particular year and so so we didn't get confused with our dealers well no that's sort of how I understood it so I just want to make sure I was tracking let me then go back to slide number seven which is the circulation and capacity projects first of all thank you I mean these are important projects especially to the North Valleys and the residents who live here and you know they're waiting very diligently to see one of the websites that Miss koski's provided me a number of times when I've had questions about it is the north Alley's improvements landing page and in fact I think last week I went on I couldn't get to where I was trying to go so and I had to call Miss Koski and she was able to get the bugs worked out in the system but I think this is an important part of this conversation today because because as we go through the various stages this is the important part I'm not so interested in Who's got what columns on a page I'm not interested in a history of the universe I'm interested in what you are presenting in these particular slides because I don't think our residents in the North Valley should have to wait any longer for these projects to get going so I am supportive of the approval of this and think that it is important that we look at the very specific projects that are being called out now I also think that at the end of your presentation when you begin to speak about the micro modal projects you are threading a very difficult needle that is also something that we're seeing ourselves have to thread both in the media with constituents who are very focused on on bicycle safety and ridership and I think you've done that today too because I think you're at least my takeaway from it we'll see what the body thinks is that you know the goal is to get started on Virginia as soon as practicable and hopefully this summer we will start to see those improvements and then come back back and it sounds like in June and July when we talk about whether we will add other additional streets and for that I'm also thankful because there's been a lot of maybe not disinformation so much just misinformation and I don't ascribe any ill motive to it but it just seems like there's a lot of information out there some of which is not correct and so I appreciate your having sort of clarified that important part of this process and and what our options as a body are so thank you for that let me come now back to the body and we'll see if we have other comments Mr Stewart for sure thank you um so yes very thorough presentation appreciate it I had a couple questions so the first one is about um you had the roundabout down on excuse me not the roundabout you had the geiger grade I'm not let me look what's called here it's called Geiger grade realignment thank you sorry so I just wondered I didn't though I don't think I I have the picture up but it doesn't really tell me what you're doing so could you tell me what we're doing so uh so I'll get have Dale come up in a second though what I believe what we're doing is essentially they're realigning uh Geiger grade um from toll road over to Virginia Street right I mean I've seen the picture where it cuts across and crossed the steamboat Creek at a different point so what I wasn't sure is are we going to leave the roundabout the same and then just have it like two accesses or something so I'll have uh deal anymore about the details of that but yes good afternoon Dale Keller director of engineer for RTC councilman door uh the goal of the realignment project is take all that traffic's coming down Geiger and not put it on that roundabout that's what I was thinking right and so we have so much traffic that's flowing through Veterans through that roundabout we want to make sure that's a priority do you know how many trips you have through the roundabout not offhand but I can get you that information okay I know we had or had 60 000 around the Neil Road kitski Road roundabout that was like two years ago probably more now but I wondered how much this one's carrying it's much smaller but there's still a lot of traffic so let me just understand to get on your new realignment would you go through the light uh um on Virginia past Geiger and take a left at some other point yes okay so you would be putting maybe a traffic light in there too on on South Virginia we would consider many different options for an intersection we'd consider a traffic light or a roundabout and trying to find out around about right on Virginia Street as a possibility part of that process we want to get public input what that design is this will allow us to start moving forward those options and presenting it to the public that's interesting how we want to move forward okay so if you're going off on toll road what you would do is bypass this Geiger and you would go down one more stop and take a left to get over to toll road and it wouldn't go to also Geiger it would just probably just go to toll road to use that new roadway oh just to avoid the roundabout and we want to split the traffic up right we want to we don't want all that traffic to be focused as a bullseye at that roundabout so we can take that traffic out and make that roundabout function more efficiently with some other modifications that we're currently working on right now and so it's a good creative one more question when you leave the roundabout and you're on now on Geiger okay you're going up to Virginia City you're on Guyer will you now intersect another light that is where this bypass comes in maybe a light maybe another roundabout so how do you efficiently move that traffic so you might have two roundabouts within like a half a mile possibly okay interesting I have more questions but I don't want to overstay my time no no problem Mr um you're always very gracious can I start with Mr Martinez and then come back yeah yeah thank you so much vice mayor um Khalil thanks for the presentation and getting that information to us I did have a question about your second recommended motion I was just wondering if you can get some if I could get some clarification on some of those additional streets um that you're wanting included from the downtown micro Mobility Network so the ones shown on the the screen here in in dashed are are the some of the streets that are being uh that are being considered for candidates for the north south and east west East-West micro Mobility it's part of what rtc's consultant in the City of Reno is working with the uh RTC on developing okay they're just the Highlight because I'm sorry yeah Third Street um uh University Way Lake and fifth and Sixth Street and Vine perfect thank you Mr Wilson not to put too find a point on it but because Mr Martinez has graciously brought up this slide there's a number of different blue dash marked streets and you've identified some of them but of course I want to talk very specifically about Center Street and University way so is a vote today by this body if it adopts the recommended motions does it foreclose us working on a Center Street cycle track if we decide that that's what we're interested in doing no okay does it mean that we have made a priority or a choice or decision about the importance of Virginia Street in the sense that the gal and the place making Studies have recommended that and that's why this is in red on your slide that's correct okay and look you've been with the city now you said 21 years um are we doing what we can to create a bike safe and bike friendly environment in the City of Reno maybe perhaps differently than in your earlier time of year without a doubt this is this has been the the greatest effort that I've seen since I've been here of of doing exactly that you know working with the community working with stakeholders and especially with the the subject matter experts in this area to provide this connectivity through the downtown core well and that that effort is not any one person's effort right that is an effort by your team Miss Koski the RTC the political stakeholders but also it includes the bicycle Community right that's correct so the bicycle Community is is quite um smitten or taken with the Center Street cycle track and I think for good reason right they they believe something was coming and now that something has either been delayed or is not the right one so I I suppose what I'm trying to figure out is how do we communicate to our important cycling community that we do desire to understand all the implications of a university or Center Street bicycle cycle track but perhaps that's not today's decision no it's and it's in the next steps these are coming in the next month with the public the public Outreach engagements and then and then working with the those those stakeholders in order to truly get a collaborative connection and and and work together to get it get it across the finish line and as a practical matter what is the downside for fifth first example today there were certain of us who were Desiring us to put a pause for a moment on approving the interlocal agreement so that we could get closer to the bicycle period in June July like why today help us understand why today so with the with the ICA the first motion is essentially so those projects can move forward to design and construction and then on the second motion is essentially to go back and go with the RTC and with the Consulting to to figure out exactly what we want for the micro Mobility Network and if we don't move forward today with the interlocal agreement the risk then is that we don't get into the design phase which then puts off the ability to construct it which then we're in the winter and then we're back here in some many months from now trying to make these decisions that is correct okay and again I appreciate your indulging me in somewhat a leading line of questioning lawyers are prone to do that at times but I want to make sure that we're clear with our public and our publicists who we're trying to speak to I know that you know where we're headed and you've been very gracious with your time this morning so I thank you for that thank you let's come back to the body and it looks like Minister vice mayor councilman beckus has her hand race okay can I go to miss breakfast of course she's been patients we're in the rounds round two I think yeah thank you so I am still struggling because for example in 2017 we showed funding sources we showed the range of funding sources this year we're just showing we're not showing funding sources but some show pending Federal funding and I guess the question is if the how much Federal funding is it contemplated on that project and does that project not go if that Federal funding is not available so that's a question another question is let's take um let's take the geiger grade realignment of 20 million no no let's take the Military Road capacity which is a 30 million dollar project and proposed year of construction is 2025. so one would presume if it's in preliminaries design based upon what we've been told it's already got three million dollars so that means we need 27 million dollars for just next year next year when we go to construction we need 27 million dollars for that well what else is up for construction next year I thought I heard Arlington Avenue Bridge was up for construction next year I also heard and Mr and I wrote it down Mr Reese said the goal is to get Virginia Street done as soon as possible well if that's going in 26 you know is there enough money to do for example Military Road Virginia Street the micro Mobility ones in Arlington Avenue Bridge this is the unclear information that we had in previous years we knew how much was being spent on design how many projects were under construction and even how much money was anticipated for the project year and the years out and the failure to have this out right now transparently and and those that it is really a problem because what it does is it allows for smoke-filled room decisions and deal cuttings of what goes to construction everything can show up on design and and I want to know how many have not are already been designer just waiting construction to get moved down the road so the council needs to have a fuller understanding of ha of each year not just design but what is under construction what is under design and how these projects are going what is already done in environmental in years past this information used to be provided now it is very opaque it's very hard to understand what project is going to go and then the projects that die we never hear boo about them thank you I'd like to hear RTC explain why they have an abbreviated program of projects from what they had in Prior years which month with much more detail on the projects under design and construction thank you thank you Miss breakfast I'm going to welcome Mr Thomas to the uh lectern I guess it is but the podium Mr Thomas did you have some comments in response to miss breakfast's line of inquiry certainly for the record I'm honored to be here Bill Thomas executive director of artist s did you just heard is the exact reason why we don't present to you a detailed layout of what we're going to do because to be quite honest these projects are very very complex there's a lot of variables that cause delay changes to the projects in this conversation today is authorization from the city of council to do these projects I will promise the board that I will come back the council that I will come back and I've talked to your manager about finding a time on your agenda where I can do a status report to address some of the questions that have been asked by councilmember breakfast but that's not what the point of today is the point of today really is is the city council of Reno ready to move these projects forward we've got the vote from Washoe County we've got the vote from the city of Sparks they're ready to move their projects forward in order to be timely as you said by chair Reese we need an indication from Reno that these can move forward really the question would be if you don't want to move some of these forward that's what we need to hear today but I will promise I'll come back and give this broad conversation of everything in the works because it is very complex because every one of these moves at its own pace based on a lot of variables not the least of which is even getting the property which sometimes requires condemnation Court processes things that are beyond our control so there's no attempt here to hide anything from anyone and in fact it's very transparent all of these documents including those four circles you saw there's individual documents people can go to to find out where these projects are at a point in time well Mr Thomas to be clear though Miss breckis is really wanting to make sure that our public is aware of what's going on and so I appreciate the complexities of construction projects and we can all accept that to a certain point right but I also imagine that part of the complexity lies in the the funding sources which is happening between multiple jurisdictions the state the federal government I think you all have done a very good job and Mr Keller especially in helping us to explain how the transportation infrastructure dollars have been flowing into this region I also know that you Mr Thomas have been to DC a number of times to Advocate on behalf of the region and trying to make sure and ensure that we have those dollars coming in I think what it is is it's when you've been in the position a long time and as government officials we are sort of getting to that point where we acknowledge how long processes take but it's very difficult at times to accept it and so I think Miss breakfast is saying there have been projects that have been said to be being constructed but then do not and while I don't ascribe any ill intention or or smoke-filled rooms I don't smoke I never have I don't think Mr Thomas you're a smoker yourself but my point is is that these conspiracy theories about how things happen I think does a disservice to the process right so ultimately if there is a way for you to modify this table in the future when you come come back please make sure it includes some historical analysis right you're looking at a future and perspective analysis make sure it includes those historical ones and and if it can break down the decisions between spending and design and whatever it is that that's helpful to the members who are looking very carefully at that again I ascribe no ill motive to you or your staff or to miss Koski or Mr Wilson just that sometimes change is hard and when you're used to for seven years getting a chart that had seven columns and then today it shows up with only five you know there's all measure of concerns about why it happened that way does that make sense fair enough yes okay let me see if there are other questions it looks like Miss Stewart is next on the button yeah um so I have a couple couple things the first one is on was a follow-on from previous council members about the micro Mobility Network and I want to make sure I understand what you want from us today so first of all really pleased with the progress we're making on micro Mobility yay for us right and I feel like in some ways the people that are want want this built yesterday so they could be biking on it today and that you know I'd like to be one of those people too feeling safe on a road with some perception of a barrier or just having even a bike lane striping right which most of these dotted lines probably are so could you yeah I was just going to ask thank you for anticipating um what I'm a little confused about in this chart is er uh previously previous council meeting the plan was laid out that you guys were going to be taking public comment have an in-depth roll up your sleeves conversations about this downtown bike Network and then you were going to come back to us I think in July and propose a series of projects I assume um what I'm a little bit confused about I'm I'm completely supportive of approving The interlocal Cooperative agreement okay what I what I'm not sure about is this item two and is it just a piece of it is it just the Virginia Street piece of the downtown micro Mobility what what would we be approving in in motion to so in motion two you you'll be asking us to come back to city council to present the the the projects for the microwave Network well that's great which was include Virginia Street okay yeah it's fantastic I I think it's best to take them all together and for two reasons one probably results in a better project instead of pre-determining one and then saying we're doing the rest I get how important Virginia Street is it's our main thoroughfare I also get that we've also talked often about turning it into like Fremont Street like closing it up and having it be a plaza so those things are kind of incongruous right having a major bike thoroughfare and closing it up so we've been talking about closing it up the whole darn time I've been on Council nine years and we I guess we haven't thought that's really a good idea so so so a is doing it together and B I think it's very important for our publics we're getting this close and they can taste it um to know that we aren't prejudging I'm confident something's going to come out on Virginia Street I don't know what it looks like if it's one way two-way a cyclic track we take out the sidewalks and just bike I don't know what the right answer is but something's going to happen on Virginia Street but I think the public perception the 14 letters we got the gal that called in today I haven't met her but her point is just we we want more and they're nervous that we're going to jump the gun and by making that decision preclude other decisions it's a perception thing I think and I think the best way to deal with the perception is to hold off an official decision on one piece of the micro modal downtown we've already got lots of blue that's already built I think you show us um and and just bring it back as one package and I think that's what you're saying frankly it sounds like what you're saying so good job I probably have one more question I'll wait for my third round and vice mayor councilmember breckets has her hand raised council member Reckless the floor is yours thank you well the 23 projects so the Keystone Bridge replacement which is a 47 million dollar project in 23 the 23 agreement was under design and it's going to be done in 2027. now how do we know that there'll be money for construction for that in 2027 when we've been hearing the Virginia streets going and the geiger grade one's going likewise I have a uh on on the 2023 uh the South Virginia ramp Street widening a 25.6 million dollars under construction it's supposed to be under construction 2023 is that going right now is that 23 million dollars under construction and also in a past one I noticed the Mill Street The Mill Street capacity Improvement where's that one because that one was approved in a previous pop and I don't know if there's construction dollars for that I really feel that the whole picture of projects that have gone under design that are waiting for construction are not shown and so everything's in isolation and that's when we don't know why projects you know we can't prioritize you know that I heard the council needs to tell us to go well how how can we tell you to go if we don't know or have all the other projects that we've already approved um thank you so much hold on one second thank you for your comments Mr Keller or Mr Wilson does anyone want to address some of the concerns for my part before you do I'll just say there's this joke right that the state of Nevada Wildflower is really the traffic cone right so it seems like we're always under construction somewhere everywhere so the question is where are the projects and if you remember any of that specific ones it would be helpful to answer them and then if perhaps there could be a broad update in the next time we're together you know we get questions from constituents when is the insert project going to go I heard it was X so can you speak to any of the specific ones that you heard if you recall once again Dill killer objective engineering for ROTC uh councilwoman breakfast I think as executive director Thomas said we're working with the city manager to come back and to give a broad presentation about where we are the where the projects are at today I will say there's a laundry this Project's at the councilwoman identified and yes there are very different stages but they're all underway moving forward now I like to say part of what the RTC does really well at is we have a great and maybe in a city Reno term a CIP a capital Improvement plan right and that's what our R tip is all these acronyms are out there is accomplishing the same thing as a fiscally constraint plan with many different types of funding sources that add that complexity to that between Federal funding State funding local funding and part of our goal is to bring in more federal dollars to the region and find ways to implement these projects that are much needed for our region so we have a especially a construction plan that is ready to move forward and that's how we move these projects along okay thank you so much Mr Thomas can I have you come forward because I have a question for you so you you are unique among folks in our region because not only are you the director at RTC but you used to spend a fair amount of your time in this building um and so I want to sort of think very carefully about the North Valleys very specifically and you have served in local uh government uh service for nearly 30 years I think as you're coming up on and don't mean to Aid you there unnecessarily but maybe a few more but I'm trying to understand have you ever seen as much Focus or intense desire to see improvements be made as we are trying to make in the North Valleys meaning at the RTC I think you know that I have as has the mayor I'm very much pushed for improvements in the North Valleys because this is an area where we have an extreme gridlock we have people who are sitting in their car for hours trying to get their families to the grocery store to school or if a snowstorm happens it can be gridlocked for two three hours so I'm just trying to understand your sense of sort of more like history where we are where we're headed how are we doing can you give us a rating I mean a grade ABC what how do you characterize it um glad to so I think if you think of RTC as what it really is which is it's we're the regional partner for the three local governments to implement major transportation improvements which means we walk that fine line of balancing all of the impacts across the region particularly from growth well I think it'd be fair to say that um the most recent Focus has really been kind of in the Spanish Springs area which was probably the biggest growth area for many years I think the southeast with the southeast study recognize that the southeast was starting to advance significantly in growth and I think it was time for us because of what's going on the North Valleys to move our Focus up there so I would say you know our goal is always to be ahead of it if we could be perfect we would build the roads before people felt the traffic impacts the reality is that we struggle to get ahead of it but we do our best well it's clear to us as Transportation experts that the North Valley needs the attention that's reflected in this plan and it doesn't mean that next year or the year after we might be looking at other quadrants or sections of the community but those will be based on actually what we're measuring the things we're hearing from people in our own applying our technical expertise to design like what are the best possibilities with our fiduciary responsibility of the public to spend their hard-earned money in the most effective way well and I think you've answered my question I suppose for my part you know the mayor who's not with us but I think has expressed the concern that I have at the same time at the RTC and I and certainly Miss Ebert in Ward four um need some help in the North Valleys and I I don't know it's going to be a one-year thing might be a several many year project and I think uh thankfully um also I think Miss Koski understands how important it is that we get it right and so I appreciate that okay if I might just real sure because I think it's relevant to the question you asked me earlier so for all of my career there's been conversations about widening 395 in the North Valleys um and I do want to basically Pat all of ourselves on the back we were able to successfully get a grant from the federal government for 89 million dollars work with indot to do that Improvement which the people in North Valleys have been asking for for as long as I can remember so I think to get to your point about North Valleys is probably not enough and it's probably too late for many people but there's a lot of effort that's focused on North Valley's reflected specifically by the icas that are here today well I appreciate that thank you so much I'll come back now I think most of us have gone through our rounds but we'll see Miss Hebert you're you're uh and then miss Doer um I just said there might be different interests next year but I just want to confirm if we um vote to approve these projects today that these will still go forward you know uh that's great okay okay thank you yeah I was just saying we'll have this conversation with you and the other local governments next year so that's I just wanted to point out this is a dynamic process but these ones approved today will move forward okay thank you image tour I think a couple things um the 62 million I was a little so are we a for a grant of a subset of those what I kind of have deduced not uh we're not sending a request for 62 million to the federal government thank you for asking that question because there's a lot of confusion about this so um with the iija sometimes I forget what the acronym means but basically a bunch of money for five years by the federal government was plugged into transportation with that came brand new programs that nobody understood the Safe Streets for all this was the first year of a national competitive program for that Grant we chose and we we searched for advice but couldn't find it we chose to go all in okay and ask for the full amount that you could get which is 50 million dollars we learned later that maybe that wasn't such a wise choice but at the time you know we had to make a decision okay so where we're at now is we've learned because every time we do one of these grants we do a debrief with the federal agencies that give these grants and we've learned that we need to be a little more targeted we need to have a little more data on one so it may cold down to perhaps three or four projects that we think we have the best chance of getting the discretionary Grant on which means this subset of projects could be well less than 60 million God it could be more than 60 million but what we want to do what your staff is mentioned is to just Define what we need and then to be strategic about what we ask for okay that makes a lot of sense the I had three questions so I'm sorry I'm over the one minute but um the cost for bike Lanes so apparently uh you guys had cost it out and I don't know where I'm getting these numbers but a a cost of let's say four million dollars for a certain thing and then it's 11 million dollars and then some of the public are wondering what is the cost increase and I know that some of this costing was done several years ago we've had cost increases covid blah blah blah but then also I understand that the projects enlarged maybe we're resurfacing a street in advance maybe earlier than we had planned but we're putting the bike thing on so we might as well do it or I understand from Kerry that maybe there's some street lights that need to be reconfigured she mentioned in Center Street if we did that nine I know how much a street light costs a million bucks but I'm sure it doesn't cost nine million bucks but you know something has to happen there that isn't happening now so is that what accounts for the costs or is there something we're still missing is there is it scope enlargement is it incremental increases in costs what would you say I'll let Dale answer specifically but the short answer is probably all of those okay it's rare that we start a project that we don't find more things sure and all I want to add to say yes we have to say no we don't have the money to do all of them sure so okay on Mr Keller you weren't here this morning I don't know if Mr Thomas was but one of the public commenters said like DC paves millions of miles of roadway for five dollars and here at the state of Rhema we spend 500 million dollars on it so I just want to and of course I'm exaggerating for dramatic effect uh but we we want to be responsive because these are folks who care very deeply about biking and that's what and if it costs less they could do more miles of bike that's right we all want to stretch all those dollars as far as we can so can you answer dewer's question in that vein customer yeah I mean painting is cheap but with these projects Incorporated more than just bike Lanes we're talking about low stress facilities and that's what we're hearing from the community I don't even know what that term is we can talk in pretty quickly but for time's sake we want to build some facilities that are going to be useful that we get the ridership that we anticipate but also what we talk about for Safe Streets for all for that Grant right so we're not bullying this just for bikes but also for pedestrian connectivity okay the whole network together works together with safety the number one priorities we looked in these projects okay well that really helps I think because there's a complete misunderstanding I think of what we're buying you know what we're building and planning last thing is that I don't need to get into this you can fill me in later just in the interest of time I am interested in what the Virginia Street Rapid Transit South Peckham Lane to Gentry Way part of that's in my ward now I didn't know if we're just adding a bus stop or a something else it's a pretty short distance but it had a pretty high price tag that I seem to say seem to think this project is building on our backbone of our transit system with this the brt the bus Rapid Transit so as you know coming out of Midtown we also have bus only Lane South of this area this is still in that gaps while bus only is the Northbound Direction but very important for this project is getting the ridership to those stations so the facilities such as sidewalks is a big Improvement the stops are an upgrade okay so how do you increase that ridership for our Transit and that's the ways we're making those improvements that makes sense and then the last thing I wanted to ask you was you know getting back to this issue about what what was approved in previous years what are we doing the one thing I guess I having done a lot of capital programs myself one of the things I've often done is a chart that you know kind of like a Gantt chart but showing the times we're starting here we're finishing here so you have all kind of bars going right we're just talking about starting projects but there's a lot of ongoing projects and it can almost be where those are in blue these are in red the blue ones are ongoing and here's the seven that we're working on in Reno and here's the eight that we want to start this year in planning design whatever director of public works very good very good and enlightening that that is a something that Mr Thomas and I were just talking about okay so we're gonna dive into that a little bit more the two agencies so common on Capital something projects to do that yes okay thank you Ms Stewart a moment to collect her thoughts about emotion but I'm going to conclude and give her that time to do it Mr Wilson thank you so much for your presentation Mr Keller Mr Thomas miskowski what I will say is please observe that all the members of the community are looking for the same thing including you which is the best roads we can have the best infrastructure we can have our bicycling Community is desperate to get us moving in that direction I even notice on one of the slides there's a little earlier it's got like a little bicycle wheel and in in that spirit I know that one of the there you go wow that's pretty neat I hope we'll put that on a t-shirt but I think in the spirit of that collaboration please continue to reach out to our bicycle community and not as an afterthought but really as something that they're an important part of this community and and they often and add nuanced flavor color to our decisions I think one of the gracious offers was made this week that said hey we on our own dime meaning the bicycle Community will invite certain of you to take us up on the offer to go hang out in Davis California for a day and see all the cool bike things they're doing obviously Miss Koski you and I and Mr Thomas are going to Denver next week to really dig deeply into what they're doing right as uh Transportation Systems we're all looking for the same thing so please make sure that someone takes them up on the offer I don't know that they have to pay for it I'm sure we can figure out how to do that here but they offer it as a as an olive branch not as a way to focus in the eye and so continue to trust and believe that they are equally like-minded in as much as you are that they want to do the right thing and they want us to do the right thing again more information is better putting out information that helps people have a complete and accurate understanding and picture of it I think is always good that includes numbers timelines pictures everyone's very visual these days so please do your best to continue in the spirit of good governance and cooperation and do those things with them and now I'll come to miss doer and see if we can Harbor emotions sure um I'll take them separately um first one would be I move to approve the RTC FY 2024 interlocal Cooperative agreement I have a motion by Miss Dewar a second by Mr Martinez any additional questions at this time oh go ahead Miss breakfast go ahead Warren I I think the council needs to hold accountability RTC and to our staff to get the full picture here I'll tell you I was absolutely stunned and it I was just looking through to see when the press release came when one of our Senators announced a you know an earmark if you will for lemon drive a while ago wow that was our Region's number one Grant go get them I've never had that conversation I didn't know that we sh you know as another example of the deficiencies of this we've got so many in in close Year by the time the decade's over wanting Federal funding the council should be ranking what what the asks are in DC through this process not we're going to come back to you later we'll get to you we should absolutely know where we're at on every project so we can come to our priorities and I'm a little sympathetic to RTC but they need to level with people they work in a world where the federal government makes it known that that your resource constraint and what you can find and we need to all understand where resource constraint when everything gets a yes nothing gets built and that's where we're at Arlington Avenue Bridge Keystone Avenue Bridge Lemon Valley Drive there are so many out there that really even in these early stages need to be prioritized where's that Mill Street one I don't know it's very problematic and it is why this Pro this process is so befuddling to so many so we need to demand the certainty as best you can at this point and there's examples of how it was done better and not take these steps backwards with these very loose um pops so I vote no thank you okay thank you Miss breakfast okay we'll call for the question all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye any opposed opposed okay motion carries okay um just a point on that I I think that you made some great comments earlier uh vice mayor about improving the process and we now have two new members on RTC you and our mayor and I think that um I think that you're going to continue to strike that note about we need we do need Clarity this is so much money right and it's like the backbone of everything it affects everybody getting anywhere is what you know and if you would just move I'm looking at bill um thank you affects everybody and um so Clarity the more charts the more information we have the better I mean that makes us all better stewards of the dollar and it also helps us prioritize together right I mean we're given these what eight projects or something on your list I don't know what what's on The Cutting Room floor you know what's still there that didn't quite make this list and I know this list actually started five years ago when we did the art tip right or RTP I get the things mixed up and I was talking to vice mayor earlier another day about we we don't have the level of focus on this RTP that we probably need because it's setting the guidelines for where we're going to be today at the same time we need to be flexible and just like we're adding stuff today our next motion we need to have flexibility so that we can deal with emerging demands so I I I do agree with Miss precis that you know if there's going to be a huge bunch of money coming from the feds I would like to have some and put into that too I might have said Virginia Street frankly or 395 frankly so I might have so on to check a motion thank you okay um so just getting some clarity I'm willing to move to direct staff to bring an amendment to the RTC 2024 ICA that includes additional streets in the downtown micro Mobility Network but I have a question I just want to confirm what uh you know our presenter said so wait for a second get a second yep so I want to confirm what you said earlier that the plan is to do this public input process and this amendment would be coming July August July okay I bet the amendment will come afterwards right after this process it'll be end of July August whenever but sometime after this fall what's that fall okay I'm comfortable with that okay Mr Stewart we have a motion in a second but I have a question on the motion please so I'm not sure I understood the motion um and and not because the motion isn't clear but are we I don't know whether we'll need additional streets so I cannot foreclose a possibility that I would not be in favor of an amendment to the ICA I just don't know at this point so this motion suggests that I already believe that additional streets must be added so Mr Wilson or or Miss Koski I'm not sure I understand what is the goal or what do you see why do you need this right now Kerry Koski director of Public Works the reason we need this is because we know Virginia Street has already been prioritized through the place making study and that one is not included in the ICA that you're voting on today so we already know that Virginia Street will become is isn't going to be included in the amendment so it's less of a motion about action and more about staff direction is what your your suggesting um well I believe the RTC also needs that action in order for them to move forward but what if we do not decide to prioritize any additional streams the motion is confusing to me because we have now voted to approve the ICA for fiscal year 2024 right so you've taken that piece off the table I don't know whether I want to amend it today and so I'm not predisposed to the idea that we would so help me to understand what we will be doing with the motion would you like to have Micro Mobility installed on Virginia Street amen then we need to amend the ICA oh well okay that's not what I understand that's not what I understood so let's have a conversation about it tell us what you hope to accomplish I would like could I would miss breakfast hold on one second we're trying to get an answer from the staff first so ideally [Music] um through the public Outreach process we'll be able to build a recommendation for a more robust network of micro mobility in the downtown area correct we know from hearing all of you except the place making study and the discussion that went into accepting that report that at a very base level Virginia Street will be included in any sort of further conversation about a network for micro mobility in the downtown space and so at a minimum to accomplish Virginia Street in a vacuum we would need to amend the ICA it is our hope that we'll be able to bring a more robust network of streets that would also be part of that Amendment but as one bookend of the conversation the amendment will need to would need to occur to include Virginia Street on its own well and Miss uh doer you and I are sort of I think we are struggling like just bring it to us like when it's ready just bring it to us give us that direction today do you feel that that's the direction we're giving you by making this motion I do I thought we voted the last meeting for you to do the micro Mobility study have the you input bring you you thought we did yes you did but we need missionary confirmation for Mr Thomas so uh thoroughly laid it out clearly let me tell you the perspective from RTC we as an agency serve the local governments which means we don't work in your space without your authorization so right now we have an ICA that includes everything that you saw but doesn't include Virginia because heretofore Virginia Street was not in the mix since we put this all together and the ICA was prepared you may took a vote from your place making study so for me as a person needs to take this back to your Regional partners if you say Virginia Street is a top priority for us that helps me when I explain to the members who aren't on your Council who need to be brought into the fold in terms of funding this and moving this forward and I think what I heard your manager say is if you want to do it quick you got to get it in we can certainly wait any one of these icas can be moved back in time but it just means your Virginia Street project won't move as fast at least as far as rtc's involvement you can always do it yourself but if you want us to help and fund it it needs to be part of an ICA okay so let me see if I can explain it the way I understand it so there was a slide and perhaps we'll put back up number six in this packet for our clerk that says fy24 ICA projects in three categories that's payment preservation 22.5 million Virginia Street's not that right right traffic and intelligent Transportation Systems 10 million Virginia Street's not that correct no and roadway 144 million Virginia streets not that right so in order for us to get what we want on Virginia Street because it's not in these three things which we just approved in the previous motion we have a second motion the steward has now made seeking to amend it and at some point in time here in the future we'll come back and put Virginia Street into it presumably and perhaps others it's your choice okay I have a question as well and support my motion as soon as I get that rest the answer I have not presumed just so you know I am not making a presumption that Virginia Street is the street I would say a street is in this basket yes a street is could be Sierra okay could be mentioned a Street East of Center I don't know what the street is I think there'll be multiple streets but right now your conversations focused around Virginia and I'm trying to move it away from Virginia and say I understand what you're saying which is in our world we gave staff direction to go create a micro Mobility Network in downtown Reno and come back to us in the July time frame with the answer but you weren't part of that conversation and that isn't your process but maybe what you need to know is yes an amendment is likely coming and it is likely about micro Mobility but to say that it is just to say this word Virginia that is that's not where I'm at I'm just at yes I'm going to bring Amendment yes we're going to do micro Mobility I don't know what it looks like because we haven't done a process yet so I'm withholding judgment so I am not applying and the words do not say and that's why I'm trying to dig is there something underneath these words that I'm missing that says Virginia Street so can you explain that so I'll try for my vantage point up to now in the conversations about micro Mobility there was no assumption from rtc's standpoint of what the future was for Virginia Street as you said earlier it could be that city council says this is going to be blocked off abandoned never used for anything other than pedestrians that obviously leads to a certain series of other projects coming out of the downtown to do this micro Mobility network but it looks like and again that's why we're here because you we we're not going to interpret you need to tell us what your intent was if your intent was to move immediately or quickly on the Virginia Street then this is the time to do it if you're not ready that's fine as RTC whenever you're ready let us know and then we will take it back to our board from the standpoint of rtc's involvement and say this is what the City of Reno is presenting to you regionally to spend the regional money on in your mind is a motion to amend the ICA today well that I can only take back what you tell me well it doesn't mean bring an amendment to amend the ICA and our staff just said in July time frame sounds to me like you may not be able to answer the question Miss kosky can you come forward please yes that is correct is to bring an amendment back yes okay I'm this body head the plain words of the I'm good with that like I I am just I'm trying to dig out that I'm not implying anything here other than we're going to bring an amendment put me on notice RTC we're gonna bring something more correct councilwoman you did give staff the direction at our last meeting with the place making yeah that Virginia Street was a priority yeah and what I'm saying to you today is I say that it is a priority I just don't know where it ranks and all the priorities so I'm going to be as clear as I can until we get through this process I don't know if it's priority one or two sure or four and I don't know what it looks like is it a single Lane dual Lane does it take up the whole dang Street I don't really know until you guys tell us what the proposal is okay let me check on the phone Miss breakfast uh yes and we also have council member uh Taylor after thank you let's start with Miss breakfast thing and I think it illustrates my prior concerns and why I vote it against the last vote so I'm trying to understand so Council saying Virginia Street's number one what is that push of other Reno priorities because if everyone's going to say Reno Council says by this vote Virginia Street is number one we don't even know what what what is our current number one I'm holding up the last pop and I've got Mill Street capacity project for 17 and a half million dollars was a widening I know they're not that's not going yet is that now number two was that number one and now it's number two I've got Sierra Street Bridge I've got Keystone Avenue Bridge are those what are the other things that have completed design that are gonna get bumped by making Virginia Street and or these downtown streets uh number one that's what the council needs to understand it it's great to prioritize and put a number one but you need to be aware of what then Falls to two three four five or six because three and four may not get done until 2030 past the decade and if that's the overpass over and bird eye you're gonna have a little bit of a problem because you approved a whole lot of growth out there and it's a dangerous situation so this is premature Council as was your prior vote we need to understand what are all our needs where what different stages they are in and then we have enough information to make the priorities please do not make this vote today to say this is number one and then you'll be crying later because a project that you thought was gonna go is not going to go that's the problem right here thank you Miss breakfast thank you Miss Taylor thank you Mr vice mayor um Carrie I think I have a couple questions um sure by making this motion are we saying that other are we saying that Virginia Street is our number one top priority or are we saying that we want to make improvements on Virginia Street by how we voted at our meeting before the budget meeting based on our plot Place making recommendations yes the latter the the second so will other things be able to get done or is this the only thing that's going to happen I guess I'm not understanding because we said I thought I voted during the place making that we accepted those recommendations and we wanted to move forward with them correct and this motion gives us the tool correct to do that that's correct it does give us the tool to do that yes the the other projects you know there's other funding sources I mean this isn't going to say that this is going to bump another project um I can safely say that okay so now I guess I'm not understanding what my my colleagues are saying because I think the place making study vote passed correct we gave you direction to do something correct you're coming back helping us do it correct now we're saying we don't want to do it or we might not want to do it which might be confusing to you and your team yes I'm gonna weigh in here if I may uh the place making it was a lot more than bike lane it was sidewalks it was trees it was a converting a circus circus garage it was creating a space over by um an open space over by the event center but bar TC is not going to do those projects we're talking about the RTC but but there's also Road and sidewalk improvements at all right you see the road and the sidewalk improvements we have to work with RTC that's what we're that's looking at there's a lot of things in the place making that aren't going to happen with this motion so I'm just I'm super confused on how we vote on something well especially I'm saying that we're not going to do anything else well especially because this number two only deals with micro Mobility it's not about sidewalk that I I have to my knowledge or redoing the street other things RTC works with us on so I'm I am also confused would it would it be better to just bring the amendment when you have it ready for us and and bring it I mean I think RTC has heard the conversation they know what we're doing they know what we voted on with Place making that it's a giant project they have a piece of it but it's bigger than bikes right for the record Bill Thomas um yes but I also want to make it clear if we were bumping other projects we would be telling you that so when we're talking about prioritization here it's going forward you know we're saying give us the indication we can take back to the board and what's important to you if there were some other project not happening I would assure you we would tell you so you're not choosing amongst projects you're deciding on this particular case do you want Virginia Street ahead of other things that's how I understand it or do you want to throw it into the package with everything else and I understand the conversation you just had is you want to see the whole package I do I mean personally I do and I don't see Virginia Street written here I'm sorry and I understand the implication I I just there was no backup to say it's Virginia Street or that I understood I apologize I just thought you're saying hey we're going to come with a package in July about micro Mobility RTC don't let the train leave the station you should know we have one more thing coming that's that's how I read this motion I didn't read and our number one priority and the next stuff coming is Virginia Street so that I didn't read into it Dell Keller director of engineering for the record councilwoman correct so in order for us to go ahead we're all working together with the city staff to look at the growing the downtown network from the slide that Mr Wilson presented right now for us technically we need a little bit more direction for RDC to make sure we include that so when we present everything to the public here in June we have uh we're looking at Virginia Street work on University we're looking at Lake Sinclair we're looking at the East West everything you see in there as a whole list of picture okay at that time we have public input and then staff for you know stuff's coming back and say here's what we heard we're a bit part of the other question part of the other part of this is the funding side is making sure that we can align funding that we have that we can say yes we have secured funding for construction let's move forward on this package of projects okay my request so thank you for explaining that because we didn't know about the June we didn't know about the public hearing it's just not like you said it's not our world instead of we're using the word this is just my suggestion studies in the word Virginia Street uh Place making or bike lane or whatever you were going to use perhaps you could put downtown micro Mobility and then put your budget number does that work for you for your process your June public hearings if once again going back to the motion that was I think drafted being proposed right now is moved to direct South to bring in Amendment so when that Amendment does come forward more clarity is going to be presented and that Clarity is going to be from the public input that we see receive in July and then also action taken by this Council then when we go back all the way back you look at those big four circles we need to bring that to RTC board make sure that's approval and then we'll work that process back downtown micro Mobility Network the words they've written down here are very clear to me and if you want to put that in your project that you are sharing with the public I think that'd be good is that good with you I mean is that Clarity uh that's what the motion says just helping um tell me what what you're hearing what what do you need from us what I'm hearing is that you would like staff to bring back an amendment to this ICA that includes the additional streets in the downtown micro Mobility Network 100 okay I think we're we understand now and you understand Let's uh get to the point where we can call for a question vice mayor sorry councilmember Taylor has raised Taylor back to you thank you Mr vice mayor I think with that Clarity I don't I don't have anything to say thank you great thank you so much I'll call for the question all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye aye any opposed yeah I'm not gonna support I mean when they say Miss breakfast hold on one second we're just here at the not a speaking motion or a speaking objection just oh I'm sorry I thought we had to deliberate discussion we already did that part so um thank you but I'll call for the question again all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye aye aye any opposed motion carries okay let's come back first to the manager Mr manager we have jumped around this agenda more than we've ever jumped around any agenda in the history of the universe it appears to me based on my review of what we have remaining we have one more D item is that correct that's correct which is the legislative update but that's contingent upon our folks in Carson being available um is that something we need to Trail uh I think so it sounds like we we might so we'll not go to D3 now but um perhaps what we'll do is go to the G item do I have the wrong a D3 I see as possible update and discussion on the 82nd session of Nevada legislature am I correct oh here we go I found it so we've got D3 which we might not have a person ready for we've got a g item Mr manager so we have a d item we have a g item and we still have our consent items pulled and you still have C4 C5 C6 C7 and C8 okay and so let's um let's see um can you let our folks and Carson know where we are um and and sure tee that up and then we'll just go into the B items um that we're told I'm raising my hand Miss doer um there's a gentleman who's been sitting here all day for C4 let's see where we are on C4 give me one second in word two I'm inclined to do that because I don't like people to be sitting here all day but let me just look to my colleagues does anyone have any other thoughts about what order we should go with Mr manager do you have any thoughts about what order we should go in let's just get it done which one C4 okay Charlie four will be called let the record reflected city council is opening the public hearing for agenda item I won LDC 2335 appeal to planning commission's decision to approve one a conditional use permit for a 310 unit Mini Storage Warehouse facility comprising of seven buildings RV storage and two alternative equivalent compliances to vary from landscape site requirements this item was continued from the April 12 2023 city council meeting I have now opened the public hearing any council members have any disclosures at this time saying then I'll come back to me let the record reflect also that I have watched the appeal proceeding from the April 12th council meeting this item was heard and discussed at the April 12th council meeting and is there any let's see not public comment um at this time Mr clerk um and there is no correspondence received on this and for the record proper notice was given on the item thank you somewhere along the way I should have asked that will the city oh maybe I have read the city attorney's portion of it anyways on the agenda item sorry about that everything is yellow here um would the applicant like to present additional testimony if so you have 10 minutes are you the applicant I'm I'm the attorney for the applicant yes great thank you appellant excuse me okay um all right so um so everyone has seen the video from last time yes okay there's a there's a couple of things that I kind of want to jump to then um so this the on the left the the photo there shows a recent storm it wasn't a 100 Year storm um and basically there's this is from Downstream of my client's property um and you see how far of the water goes and that actual storm um undermined the dirt on the side next to the the Truckee Meadow pumping station and actually exposed some I think condo for like for their electrical conduit it also later further down did some damage to the the downstream area and that again that wasn't a hundred year storm um let me jump to we talked about the uh something new now is talking about the flood zone so um what I've what I've added is the gray section there is the historic FEMA boundary um and then the blue section there if you can see um is the uh the Loma which is a letter of map Amendment and that was done in 1997 which is my understanding was the last time there was a drainage study that actually analyzed like the area there and the Upstream area to determine what the flow is which is I think what we're actually dealing with now which is I think very problematic um if you can see from uh the on the bottom right corner the design that's been presented um that design basically there's no there's nothing there it's all Hardscape they're increasing the flows they're not doing anything to reduce the flows or to they're just dumping it in to the uh the FEMA area and then you can see on the next map see see where the yellow is um where the APN 43 28203 that's the Green Acres property they're gonna have to fill in that whole area in the flood zone which is going to affect the way the water goes if you put it if you put a dam in the wall and the water's flowing that direction it's going to hit the wall it's going to come back whether it hits the buildings or whether they raise the the elevation of um it still is very problematic for for my client who's who's Upstream um let's see we're on so basically this is we believe this is creating a let me let me Lemon Valley two for my client which is going to come in the future which they're going to have to deal with um so we did talk about the line of sight uh this is sitting on the old bridge uh looking up that that sign is my client if you look on the right side um my clients over the years have actually reinforced that because they have an agreement um uh with the um with the Corps of Engineers that they can go and actually um maintain that area now they have no access to it it's my client has no access to it's been blocked so how are they going to go to the other side and keep that aside from from having additional problems and let's see if I can get okay so um I think there were some comments last time when I was here about um it wasn't landlocked the sign area is landlocked my client now has no access to that sign with a truck um it's it's huge problems for my client um we're asking that the that the city council requires some kind of access to be continued through um otherwise it's our opinion that the city is basically authorizing um this partial this piece of our property become landlocked um I last time talked about some cases and some statutes um one of the issues here is I think the comment was brought up last time about white my client go and and bid on the on the on this piece my client was never provided any knowledge of it we're sitting in the middle of covet my clients are older they're told they have to stay in their house the first time they realize this property is sold is when Green Acres comes and starts um messing with the fence though my clients had up for for years and years all right so um we did file a lawsuit was talking about we talked about that before we did that to be totally transparent so everybody understood what we were doing um now I'm coming to the part where I think is probably the most important part so the Harveys have had this property for um I think when the state of Nevada was created um they've had this property one of the most important parts of this property is their water rights they have a well in the property as you can see from the bottom red arrow there's a well they've had since the 1800s okay flooding over the years has happened in this area so it is prone for flooding in 2015 the Truckee Meadow Water Authority obtained a permit and see right in the gray area the flood zone like map area um that that's where the the well is right next to the current FEMA a and it's also in the historic flood area um my clients aquifers connected that same same well so because when they when they put that in there they drilled down my client had to go down further because they were drawing down so much water that my client had to get under it in order to keep the water that they've had for you know since the 1800s um if this gets contaminated it's going to contaminate my clients well and my client again has had it for a long time I have to tell you I hate water I don't like to drink water but I actually like your water out of a tap I will not drink water out of a tap in Las Vegas because it tastes gross but here is actually really good um again we have another you know Lemon Valley so both both for flooding and water contamination we my client has problems with this the there's nothing being required from Green Valley to to do to ameliorate any of these problems so from my understanding from my studies from what I've come up with the last time there was a flow analysis of how much water is going under the freeway and and hitting onto my client's property and then going towards um the Green Acres parcel um was 1997 and I think in the last hearing um um councilwoman um breakfast said we haven't done anything for 30 years so I have we we have a an expert that we've hired for our lawsuit that did the development to the southeast back in 2000 and they used the 1997 um studies okay so there's been a ton of development to the southeast a ton of development since 1997. the flows we don't know what they are so um so basically we're sitting here with a um an analysis that if if we just let it go just turn it over to the the development department um they're going to basically say okay what's the 1997 flows let's run some heck 2 analysis let's figure out what the flows are they're going to raise the the fill in that flood zone area say oh we have to be a foot above the flood zone area and they're going to allow the development to go forward um and it won't it won't do any of the analysis of the impacts that that's going to affect my clients property um so during the Planning Commission there was a conditional letter of approval um number 11 said it only referred to the finished four elevations of the development and we had a big problem with that we think that there needs to be more um so it's our opinion the city has failed to require Green Acres to perform a new drainage study to show the current Hundred Year flows According to which I gave you guys I sent out before the hearing title 42 of the code of federal regulations Section 60.3 talks about minimum requirements for flood zones minimum requirements um section B2 I believe is the part that references where we're at in here and uh B2 basically refers to sections A2 through A6 that have to be complied with um A2 talks about the federal Water Pollution Control Act um uh section four um A4 is about to protect the current utilities which would include the uh the Water being drawn out from the well for the Truckee Valley Water Authority uh number five talks about protecting the water supply the potable water supply which is one of my clients biggest concerns and also any kind of sewer my client has a leech bed out there as well so if there's a big flood then that adds lots of problems um and then section B7 says that they have to assure that the flood carrying capacity is maintained if you turn it over to the building department they will look at it and say Here's the 1997 flows we're going to run it there's not going to be any analysis on this and so we're asking number one we'd ask that that the court would or not the court I'm sorry um that the the council would add the requirements um to allow not block the site of our sign but as far as on Section 11 there needs to be some criteria on there that specifically identifies what the what the federal government requires in flood zone areas to require them to actually um address these issues to make sure that they're they're they're maintained otherwise you're going to get a real hundred year flood in there it's going to cause a ton of damage it's going to it's gonna go in rip out the area under where the the Truckee Valley well is it's going to contaminate that area and then my client's going to not be able to have the water that they've had since the 1800s it's going to be contaminated the last section that I talked about just was there was something that was brought up in the Planning Commission about an easement which is not true we've looked at it there is no easement that was suggested that there was some other easement that our client had an access to and it simply isn't true it's not there so my client right now has no access to that that landlocked portion to do anything to to improve the the uh the channel to keep it from having problems if there's anything major that has to be done on the sign can't get to it and so we're asking the city council um to to go in and um and make make the changes necessary so that either it doesn't get built it gets redesigned so it so it's designed in accordance with the CFR um or that um I guess I'm done thank you if anybody have any questions or May thank you for your zealous advocacy I appreciate your time with the applicant like to present any additional materials hello everyone my name is Craig Olson and I'm the managing member of Green Acres storage Partners LLC we own the Self Storage that is directly to the north side of Green Acres Court and we bought the property to the South Side that abuts uh the appellate's property uh I put an offer in November 30th of 2016. to purchase a property a letter of interest three months later I had ndot asking me to go survey the drainage systems out there maybe we need to keep some of the property to maintain drainage whatever I think that was a job for ndot but ndot moves slowly I went ahead and I looked there I was provided uh maps from the construction of 580 and I went out there to take pictures the day I was out there I met Mr Dave Harvey Mr Dave Harvey and I had a very nice conversation we discussed uh why was there the property I was looking at and uh he kind of just gave me a little bit of history there we exchanged phone numbers dare so later he calls me back to ask if I'd like to join Venture with him on his other property which he has for sale right there in South Virginia I say this because we had a very nice conversation very open very straightforward and Mr Harvey knew that I was looking to buy that property fast forward December 2020. I'm over the years reaching out to end on it takes them forever to get back to me finally they say they are going to sell the property but they won't sell it directly to me they're going to put up for public auction and I'm not going to go through all that whole process but that's what they did and I went and bid on the property and uh uh early 2021 and I had one other biddy that gives me virtual bid and I bought the property uh I went through my due diligence I questioned about easements access property the whole nine yards I also reached out to Mr Harvey and Mr Harvey seemed a bit confused at the time uh went back and forth with a few phone calls went back and forth about four phone calls with his family attorney and his family attorney tells me well I can't deal with this any longer my last request was can you just remove pipe rails in the sailboat that's on what is my property because that surveyors come out and look at it uh his attorney Mr Murphy says I'm no longer on the case call Phillip Stone Esquire four calls back and forth with Mr stone with no response of anything all I'm asking is talk to me or at least remove the property my last phone call to Mr Stone was you don't respond you don't call me back 90 days I'm just going to consider whatever's there my property and I'll dispose of as need be now that's what I said I've done nothing since then but I didn't hear another word that's a total of 16 conversations back and forth of me attempting to talk to these people about that property and about any issues that they might have until I go forward to get my conditional use permit and suddenly an attorney from Reno shows are from Las Vegas shows up and uh I find out that they're going to file a lawsuit now that lawsuit has been filed we have received it and I've engaged counsel there's a lot of claims have been made here and in the lawsuit and I will say that they're all unsubstantiated and it's a civil matter and something for the courts to figure out I don't believe there's something for the Planning Commission to decide I really don't think it's something that should be in front of you guys and a lot of time has been spent a lot of time wasted especially today sitting here waiting to go over this issue we've gone through the process the Planning Commission approved our layout as it was it is not all Hardscape we got a slight variance on the Landscaping because it is a long and narrow parcel we'll do whatever we need to do to go through all the processes that planning is asked for the building and safety will require to build a beautiful project that is in in concert with the City of Reno in that area as far as claims that I'm going to uh dirty their water I take I take objection to that all these other claims I take objection to I'm being painted as as a not good person and I've been an excellent person an excellent businessman all my life I've been this business Self Storage business for 50 years and I've never had any sort of problem like this so I'm asking you today to deny this appeal and let me move forward with my project and obviously with a lawsuit sitting out there right now guess it's going to be a little bit on hold anyways so I don't think there's anything that really needs to be done here from uh from the city council I'm available for any questions okay thank you sir let's first start by identifying the public comment on this management you can sit down get public comment on this matter is now closed Madam clerk is that acceptable yes thank you okay thank you so much are there any follow-up questions from the body for the appellant the staff or the applicant I know the staff has not spoken but I'm not sure they were intending to so let's come to the body and see where we are Miss doer yeah thank you um I'd like to call Mr Olsen back up um you know I've given this one second let Mr Olson get there so he can get prepared yes just gonna give a preamble that I've given this a lot of thought in the past month and as soon as our last meeting I reached out to our drainage staff and I said uh look you weren't here in the audience they are now um so I wrote a condition that I was hopeful would make it clear that you can't harm anyone else can increase flows can increase induce flooding on someone else's property but I asked our staff if my condition didn't get there and didn't achieve what I was trying to get to please advise me and they advised me that we could probably drop that condition but we should probably add something to condition 11. condition 11 is already addressing uh flooding it's talking about FEMA a flood zone it talks about that your finished floors can't be you know they have to be one foot above it's basically restating the FEMA requirements okay but there are other requirements in our ordinances that speak to what the issue I was trying to get to and so I drafted a condition well actually our stuff helped me and I sent it to you Mr Olsen and I asked you is that acceptable to you and you had told me yes but I wanted to ask you again in case you've changed your mind and Mr are we able to put the condition up to the discussion I sent it to our staff um I don't know if you have it in your email there you can just put on your phone or I can see what I got here you might want to did you print it or I Trina Magoon director of utilities for the record I do have a copy of the email I sent you just correcting that language I can put that on over that's what I have yeah great let us get it on there and then we'll have it to look out together foreign maybe you could read it for us sure [Music] the added condition says the flood study shall demonstrate that any modification within the FEMA flood plain shall not raise Dry Creek flood levels or velocities on adjacent properties and shall be in accordance with Reno Municipal coal Reno Municipal Code 1801 102 b3a4 which essentially States the same fit and and this is in our code it's not uh necessary to be a condition but for added emphasis right I'm just putting it in I recommend it for added emphasis since a portion of the appeal was about flood concerns um and I you know I have a big background on flooding meaning I think a lot about it I thought it was good that even though it's in our code to actually come right out and state it and when I um discussed it with Mr Olson he seemed okay with that but I want to confirm that so yes you did discuss that with me uh you sent me a copy of it I saw it I shared it with not only my civil engineer who's in the process working on the clomar and ultimately the low mark uh and I also uh shared it with my legal counsel and everyone says it's fine great this is what we have to do this is what we'll do and I thought just in light of the fact that the appeal was referencing that issue that I always am concerned you and I had a nice conversation about that I I just asked for it to be put in just to provide Clarity to you to our staff to everyone so um I don't know if there are more questions but I'm where I was last time which is I'm of a mode to um deny the appeal give me one second okay if we have any other additional comments from Council saying that I'm going to come to you Miss Dewar for a question all right and I hope I State this right but what I'm interested in doing is um adding a condition and denying the appeal yeah adding the condition that was read into the record Carter Williams assistant planner for the record there is in the original staff report there is a recommended condition that you can use to draft that that has language to him to add conditions okay it's a modification right yes modification so you'd like to modify condition 11 okay thank you record I'd like to modify condition 11 as read into the record and deny the appeal okay I have a motion by councilmember Dewer the second prime minister Martinez sorry vice mayor we do have Jenny uh councilmember breakfast's hand is raised and then I wanted to just finish saying like given that if we make that change um I could make all the findings no problem okay so we have a motion we have a second I'm going to come to you Miss breakfast for discussion on the motion yeah I'm not going to support the motion um I'm going to stay consistent with my view that the clomars on an outdated blood map are problematic I know that they're approved routinely administratively because our code is most so administratively and this came to us only by way of an appeal but when they come to appeal it's my turn to vote my conscience which is it is disingenuous from everything I've heard about mapping in this region particularly the South South part of the valley to build clomars upon an outdated map I also want to express tremendous concern with the member Miss Stewart who is out there communicating outside of the hearing with an applicant that's an ex-party communication that I don't think is right and you know this thing already has legal uh tentacles a lot of those are not before this body but going out and doing extracurricular activity extracurricular communication with a party when the other party isn't at the table is so problematic to me I learned that on the Stan Lucas case because we we were faulted on procedural issues there and I'm just I'm really concerned I wish we weren't having members who are going off and doing what would be staff work or you know mediator work we can't do that so I vote no and I also Express concern about a procedural defect that has come to light thank you thank you Miss breakfast all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye aye any opposed Madam clerk what do you have the record as I have five one thank you so much motion carries five to one okay Mr manager we're now going to go to C5 Charlie five because we have another member of the audience who has been waiting patiently on Charlie five and so let's let all of our staff get there let's let me look at where we're going on Charlie 5. and we'll start by saying let the record reflect that the city council is opening the public hearing on item C5 Madam clerk was proper notice given and any correspondence received thank you vice mayor proper notice was given on this item and no correspondence was received thank you so much do any council members need to make any disclosures at this time hearing none I'll call for our staff presentation good afternoon members of the council Jeff Foster associate planner for the record tonight or well almost tonight jump in the gun a little bit we have LDC 2348 which is The Shepherd of the mountain zone change so this is a an approximate 2.06 Acre Site it is two Parcels on the northeast corner of Lakeside and Peckham for reference you can see Moana Park and Stadium up in the upper right corner the site is developed with a church and a former preschool School building the request is a zoning map Amendment from sf3 to public facilities to bring into conformance with the master plan and there are no additional uses or buildings proposed key issues are zoning compatibility and conformance with the zoning code zooming in a little bit you can see the church site to the South we have single-family homes across Peckham to the west across Lakeside there's another church to the north we have proposed or sorry approved and existing town homes and to the east we have offices so you can see the current zoning and the proposed zoning single family three proposed zoning as public facilities the current sf3 zoning does not conform what the master plan designation which is Suburban mixed use we'll as we'll see on the next slide and the proposed zone change to public facilities is primarily uh well it's related to bringing into conformance with the master plan but PF in particular because PF among other things is intended for religious institutions here's the master plan land use Suburban mixed use and a handful of policies that the request is in line with um there are four Zone conforming zoning districts that allow the existing uses by right we have public facilities mixed use Suburban General commercial and neighborhood commercial uh all four of these allow the existing uses by right um and public facilities is recommended as it is the most restrictive and the most uh contextually approach and is sorry it's more contextually appropriate than the other three zoning districts um here are the recommended finding stuff can make all the findings and here's the recommended motion available for questions Mr Foster great job thank you so much I don't know that we've seen you in chambers before but welcome come back up there you can't get away so quickly thank you for the presentation I um and really the staff report quite frankly is very well done so thank you for that I'm going to come to my colleagues and start with Miss doer in ward two so um at the NAB the question came up and if you could put the chart back up and I don't think you were there were you I was not it was someone else so if you go back a couple slides this table and then the one before uh two tables before where you had the blue so my question is and I came up with the NAB why public facility so you went through that pretty well Mike and you could go to now the table if you would um here's the concern so public facility includes a lot of things I mean it could be a prison it could be a school um there's a lot of things that fall under it could be any kind of government building that can be had um what what what is um the question that is on many people's mind is you're sitting there nobody's bothering you right I mean you're doing the church business not you but they are doing the church business what brings them to come in make an application goes through this whole process if they plan no changes it creates a question what changes our plan and you said there are no changes planned but then what drives them to go through this whole process at this time I excellent and fair question I appreciate the question so the reason is is when uh back in December I believe it was December and the applicant is here you can speak to that directly if necessary but in December they were approached let's say at the end of last year okay they were approached about the possibility of uh doing a driver's education course in the classroom building uh the school building on the site okay and as a part of that in doing their due diligence they reached out to the city to the planner of the day and they were informed among other things during the discussions it came out that their existing zoning was not in in conformance with the master plan and as a part of that conversation they were informed that they could apply for a master plan or sorry a zone change to bring the site's zoning into conformance with the master plan and that it was free of charge okay and so it was essentially a decision that they made that that as informed by that discussion yeah and so the last time this happened very recently a church wanted to expand their use this one's a driver's ed that one was a daycare and they were informed by our staff they could not expand the daycare and they were informed by our staff they cannot put in driver's ed and in each case they were driven to do a zone change of like this and the last case everybody remembers we we said no we don't want to see that zone change it was in the middle a bunch of residential like this one is and we had them go back and they did a site plan review if I recall I don't it was it was you Grace and um they they took another a different approach to solving the problem and I'm not gonna ask you to do that here um you know I think that time's passed the nap came and went uh we could have had that conversation before but I guess it's more of a global point for our staff we keep running into these things that our code is kind of rigid and doesn't allow these slight changes of daycare a driver's ed class necessitating in some cases the last case fair amount of money they spent on hiring Consultants to do zone changes and such on and they came back with the simple answer of a site plan site review I'm not really sure what's called I think it's called a sup but a minor maybe something like that anyway didn't have to come to us um and I guess I'm just going to ask generally if we can continue that mode of leaning in looking for a lower cost option keeping the zoning as is because every time you change the zoning you raise red flags to a residential neighborhood which is you showed all the yellow to the South you know there are other churches in the region very familiar there are Apartments not far away but it's generally residential so any thoughts on that just that's my basic it's kind of a philosophy uh you know of helping people get where they need to be without having to come all the way to us sure sure so um a couple thoughts one is that that any future non-residential uh development on the site because of residential adjacency right would require at a minimum a site plan review okay so were the church to sell the property or propose some additional use that is non-residential uh they would be the The Entity would be required to go through at a minimum a site plan review process um the second thing and that okay that would go to staff what's that that would go to reviews so that is the concern from the public that we get it the staff looked at it but are they hearing from us the general public not as much as when it comes to council right so here they got the whole Forum they can do whatever so I'm going to stop I'm going to support this but I'm also cautioning that if these keep coming and it makes us uncomfortable with the location that one was embedded I mean you had one little Trail in you know travel was challenging this is on a major arterial Lakeside and another arterial peculum it's not as problematic so I'm I'm going to be okay with it thank you Mr Stewart any other questions from the body this is council member breckis the floor is yours thank you so you know this has been that a public facility use is it a private driver's education operator the applicant would need to respond to that I'm not aware of the particulars however I would submit that that is not actually the case at this point that was something that they were presented with at the end of the year that opportunity went away but it was a part of the conversation that precipitated the zone change request well let's follow up along those lines you said there'd be a site plan review for residential adjacency would it involve say the driver's ed business which is a private business wanted to go in the classrooms that are vacant with that just by virtue of occupying those existing classrooms require that site plan review I do not believe so no Okay so like my colleague said um about the parallel discussion we just had um you know houses of worship I think that's what we're calling them a religious institutions are allowed in the zoning and the public facility is very broad can bring in a lot of uses say a charter school could come in now and we're very limited in how we can review schools so a lot of impacts a lot of trips um government laboratory drivers uh driver the DMV satellite office you know a lot of things can come in and I think we're doing a disservice to our community when we are opening up these public facilities zoning it hasn't bitten us yet but it surely could and will if you think about what we're doing as churches we're always integrated into neighborhoods and so staying with their Church zoning is perfectly fine or they go to a completely different zoning District that has more complementary uses that it to me is clearly the neighborhood commercial but not the public facility that can be so wide open and I think it's very problematic I was quite shocked to see that this was even coming through that staff is directing churches to go into this public facility which is such a broad use I don't think it's best planning Administration uh you know of this um of the zoning code uh to recommend you know people apply for what they apply but staff is directing people and all over all of a sudden every Church in every neighborhood now can be a charter school can be a laboratory it can be a prison as Miss Stewart said we're going to have a problem one is going to come back in a problematic way and for that reason I'm not going to support this zone change thank you hey any additional questions or comments at the time Ms Stewart can I get a motion yeah go ahead and read this item so this is um item C5 ordinance introduction known as number 7238 kiss number LDC 23-00048 Shepherd of the mountains ordinance to men Title 18 chapter 18.02 at the Reno municipal code entitled zoning District zoning a plus or minus 2.06 Acre Site from single-family residential three units per acre sf3 to public facility PF the site is located on the north east corner of Lakeside Drive and West Peckham Lane the subject side has a master plan land use designation of suburban mix use SMU Ward 2. and Madam clerk before I go to Miss Stewart for the motion I will remind you that I have open public comment and which there is none and also similarly I have now closed public comment um and will now go to Miss Stewart for the required motion sure um just pull it up here um I moved uphold the recommendation of the Planning Commission and refer this for a second reading and adoption okay if a motion by Miss doer a second by Mr Martinez any additional questions at this time Eric none I'll call for the question all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye aye aye any opposed opposed motion carries five to one and Madam follow-up comment Mr no we voted um I just I I I I very much agree with Miss breckis and that's why I brought up the points I brought up earlier I would like you to just go back and talk to your team about are there other ways to get there besides doing this very significant kind of up zoning um I really think it's it's advisable to consider it okay thank you thank you again Mr Foster and welcome aboard to this uh Jolly group of folks Mr manager and Madam clerk are we on item b12b as in boy 12 we can be I know we were waiting we're going to go to item the B items these are consent items that were pulled by members earlier in the day and we're going to start with item B12 as pulled by council member doer yep let me let me yep everybody's got to get re-situated and back to thinking about B items okay just one more second I just like misplaced the paper here it is Mr Cochran welcome back oh here it goes well we missed uh got it thank you I am I am messed up here B12 the reason I pulled this I thought this would be a perfect opportunity for you Chief to just tell us we're about to enter a summer and Fire season after extraordinarily record-breaking rain season snow season it's going to mean a lot of things are growing we've already seen it um I just wondered this is for Wildland Fire Protection Program I wondered just what you were planning what you were expecting for this Wildland Fire season your floor thank you very much I appreciate that Dave Cochran Reno fire chief so um we have been preparing we've been getting all our seasonal training we do annual training every year before Wildfire season we've been paying attention going to the briefings I participated in the governor's Wildfire briefing about two weeks ago and generally what I can tell you is because of the heavy rain and snowfall that we experienced we expect to see not as much fire activity in the higher elevations and the timber areas so we won't see the large Timber fires that we have in the past but we do expect to see large or very active fire Behavior down here basically in The Valleys wow where there's that snow and that water that snow is going to melt quicker the water is going to evaporate quicker and the fuels are going to dry out quicker when we get the starts and that's always a question does the fire start most fires are actually human caused at maybe news to some people and that doesn't mean arson that means that somebody did something by mistake started to fire um and then they're often weather driven because of the high winds which we know we have here in the area and that can cause the fire to spread very rapidly very make it very hard to control and that's how we get the large fires across our landscape here in Nevada okay like I said we are 100 prepared we have four people deployed already out in Florida they're fighting fires out there already so we expect as it typically does the Fire season to move west and North and then that's where it will come into so if I can paraphrase we don't expect the high elevation Timber fire but we expect lower elevation brush fires correct and we're expecting them because you said you think it'll dry out quicker that was the only part I didn't understand yes and I don't want to take credit for that that's the National Weather Service there analysis indicates that the snow is melted largely down here the fuels are going to dry out that's kind of a term of art they get dry they get combustible and susceptible to catching fire if they get a start whether it's through lightning or some human activity just to tie it in very quickly with the contract that's before you that's a contract between us and ndf and Nevada division of Forestry right and what they do is provide access to the amount of resources a huge amount of resources that could possibly be needed if we get one of those big fights okay well thanks for being proactive I don't know if anyone else has any questions okay hearing no no I'll come back to you missed two or four motion a motion to approve item B12 and thank you for being so proactive thank you appreciate it okay you have a motion by uh Miss tour a second by uh Miss Ebert any additional comments at this time hearing none I'll call for the question all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye any opposed aye motion carries unanimously thank you Chief item B13 has pulled by oh actually do we have I apologize we do have um Nick zirconian for our legislative update item and since he is in Carson and unlimited amounts of time if it would be okay we would prefer to move to item d as in David 3. we are there now David three is the discussion and potential Direction staff regarding the proposed legislation at the 82nd session of the Nevada legislature uh Mr cecconi is joining us live from Carson City like the way you said that exactly live from Carson States capital can I also ask before Mr cecconi reveals us with the stories of Carson do we have any public comment on this item thank you vice mayor we have no public comment registered additionally have not received any public comment okay Mr cecconi the floor is yours and vice mayor members of the Reno city council Nixa County legislative relations program manager for the record uh I am sorry but I'm having technical difficulties and cannot update the slide so appreciate the help there uh My laptop decided to stop working right before this presentation um could you go to the next slide please so today is 90 uh day 94. um as you know we have passed a few of the major Milestones uh the next one's coming up on May 19th um because we haven't passed that that Milestone yet I don't have a lot of updates from uh our previous briefings and policy discussions but uh happy to go in a little bit on how these bills have uh gone through the process I know that many of the bills that I will be covering today I've already talked to uh to y'all about uh in some details so I'm hoping to mostly provide an update on where they stand in the legislative process next slide please so our top priorities I wanted to go over those housing homelessness prevailing wage and some other items that we have been following closely um I do apologize I did need to include some of the open meeting law bills in this presentation and I'm happy to answer any questions about those uh as they come up next slide please so assembly Bill 62 that is currently in ways and means I know that I've given you that update a few times now but the update and the bill hearings or work sessions for any bills and Ways and Means or Finance as I understand it I'm reliably told that um those will not be heard until after Mother's Day so starting next week we'll start to see any bills in the money committee start to move uh assembly bill is 396 that's our rental assistance allocation Amendment there's that bill out there that is allocating 44 million dollars to Clark County for the rental assistance program we have asked for eight million dollars as it currently stands I know that there's been some discussions about creating a 16 million dollar pot of money for non-clark entities to apply for those funds I'm continuing to work with the bill sponsor and other legislators to let them know that that would potentially harm some of our most vulnerable residents in creating that it did that initial 8 million dollar infusion to the city of Reno's program will allow us to quickly get that money out and funded to all three jurisdictions up here given that we are taking the role of the County uh given that the original Bill had touched on Clark County uh assembly Bill 408 that bill was said to be heard today but it was abruptly canceled I believe that the next bill the bill hearing will be next week and I'm excited to have Chief Nance down here hopefully if we can work out the scheduling and timing that Bill had passed on a partisan line vote so we're continuing to work with the bill sponsor so that we can gin up bipartisan support for this bill uh these are the tenant protection bills that I have gone over a few times uh some highlights uh the first two so the the online fees that bill did pass out of uh the first house with um all the Democrats supporting it and all the Republicans opposing it assembly Bill 340 which makes those changes to the summary eviction process and puts the onus on the landlord rather than the um the tenant to file the answer that bill also passed out 28 to 14 in the assembly um Senate Bill 78 that one is tenant protections uh talks a little bit about listing out all the fees uh that bill was interesting because it did pass out with bipartisan support with one Republican voting to support the measure and we're continuing to follow that in the other house uh Senate Bill 335 also makes some changes to summary evictions they are no longer the same bill and there's uh some variances in the processes I'm happy to answer questions more in depth about those but as I said my laptop is not currently working so if you have any very specific questions I might not be able to answer those at this time uh and then Senate Bill 381 that's just another bill that passed out unanimous uh but it would uh prohibit landlords from charging tenants fees for man uh necessary or needed repairs to the unit uh assembly Bill 62 as I had mentioned is in Ways and Means assembly Bill 213 uh they did propose another amendment that actually made it a little bit more favorable to local governments and gave us some more time to review the complete list of those applications uh but the majority leader and the Builders Association have been great to work with and have made many changes in order to make this more favorable to local government Senate Bill 318 was the sewer surcharge fee that would allow us to as a municipality charge an additional surcharge up to 25 for affordable housing services that bill passed out of committee but failed to make it to a floor vote out of the Senate assembly Bill 10 was the city of Las Vegas's bill that bill failed to get out of committee assembly Bill 298 that one's another interesting one I know I had put it on your radar before but that has a fee appendix appendix for all the fees or fines that a tenant might be charged it also has a pilot rent stabilization program that would prohibit landlords from charging more than 10 percent from the previous lease agreement it would only last from July of this year to the end of uh next year so December 2024 that was interesting because it did have bipartisan support coming out of the assembly uh assembly book 416 that allows for uh individuals that are renting out adus to someone that might be using a housing Choice voucher to get property tax exemptions for that uh that parcel Senate bills 371 is still moving through the process it has not yet had a hearing and assembly government Affairs but it does authorize local governments to enact uh rent control and Senate Bill 426 that's the state cost of living increase Provisions for rent on the Nevada housing division would be responsible for monitoring those and setting that that system up and it is continuing to move through the process I believe that that was a partisan vote uh assembly Bill 135 just allows and makes it easier for folks to get identification if they are unhoused Senate Bill 142 the homeless person's Bill of Rights uh failed to make it out of uh its committee and has not continued moving forward Senate Bill 155 uh is a measure that is now copying our community Court uh our team will be down in Carson tomorrow morning to present co-present that bill with these uh the ACLU and we're continuing to work with our other local jurisdictions to see if they have any concerns but as it's written right now it is a permissive language and just allows other cities to copy the systems that we've put in place and that it works so effectively up here Senate Bill 317 uh would allow for Timber temporary mailing addresses for on-house persons as I understand it the cares campus already currently does that but generally we are supportive of that because it would help us give additional services to any of these folks Senate Bill 400 originally started off as an amendment to the Metropolitan Police act they are still working uh Through The Kinks and hurdles to figure out exactly what this funding source would look like but as I understand it they would be taking a portion of the gaming tax revenue and giving it back to localities or the cocs in order to fund uh supporter Supportive Housing Services assembly Bill 235 was just heard again today we continue to to have that concern about being able to enforce prevailing wage in another state or even country so we're continuing to work with the bill sponsor uh and try to limit or narrow the scope so that's understood that it would be incredibly difficult for us to enforce programming wage in another jurisdiction Senate Bill 226 that has been amended a bit but I know that um ourselves the other local jurisdictions any of the affordable housing Advocates are having trouble coming to a support or neutral stance on that bill because the the breadth of that bill is so Broad and would enact prevailing wage for affordable housing projects if we were to for example donate land to um to an affordable housing developer Senate Bill 433 has been uh greatly changed it initially was a prevailing wage bill that uh just broadened the scope of what projects would be eligible or required to pay out prevailing wage that bill has been substantially amended and now just requires that if a public body so the City of Reno made the determination that uh we did not have to pay prevailing wage for our project uh the Labor Commissioner would be the final Authority before judicial review uh and they could overturn that decision and require that we paid that prevailing wage assembly build 2 is continuing to move through a process I believe it just uh got out of its work session is continuing to move um move through the process assembly Bill 102 that bill did not move forward and I know it was supported by our legislative platform so we did testify in support of the measure but uh it is not continuing to move forward assembly Bill 112 is a wildlife Crossings fund none of that money would go to local jurisdictions but we're continuing to monitor it because we as we understand it there might be some money or funding that would be able to impact the Virginia range forces and provide funding for those Crossings in uh along I believe Geiger grade assembly Bill 131 that's the Statewide urban forestry program I believe that was just voted out of committee we're continuing to support that measure and the committee had a ton of questions about what our urban forestry program looks like assembly Bill 258 we're continuing to work with the bill sponsor on that but we continue to share as local governments and and a plethora of folks have many concerns about what this would mean for public records and making sure that we're scanning and keeping off the non-profit information that might be in a requested public record confidential it would be a significant administrative burden and so we're continuing to oppose that measure and hopefully we can get to some sort of agreement with the bill sponsor Senate Bill 11 allows for joint use for building inspections I understand there's another amendment that might be coming because um uh they had created a Prohibition or directed the Department of Public Safety to create a Prohibition for certain drones made in specific countries um the Department of Public Safety will continue to work with the bill sponsor just to clarify any of that language so they built 81 is just the county growth reporting based on economic development impacts that bill just had its hearing yesterday and I believe uh although some of the more rural counties still have concerns about what the composition of um of that makeup and of that body looks like uh that will extend the gross reporting that we have to do and give to the legislature uh and could provide for um ways or means for us to continue to work through uh what revenues look like when we're talking about economic development in the region Senate Bill 92 that bill is continuing to be worked on that's the sidewalk food vendors bill um the chair of the committee says that she would like to work with local governments to give even more of the regulatory powers back to local governments so we will continue working with her Senate Bill 169 is the master plan heat mitigation element we were happy to co-present that bill uh Suzanne came down and co-presented with the assembly mid Watts uh when it came to the assembly side Senate Bill 208 uh we are continuing to work with the bill sponsor here but I think that we have come up with a a an amenable uh amendment that would allow us to continue to regulate or prohibit battery charge fences and mixed-use developments currently uh that would probe the the way that the bill is currently written we would not be able to regulate any battery charge fences in residential areas we've just asked to clarify that language so that we can make sure that mixed-use Parcels are included and that is my presentation I've opened any questions Mr cecconi thank you so much let's start with councilmember Dewar here in the chambers and we'll look to Madam clerk to tell me if we've got anyone online Madam do where the floor is yours yeah uh Nick that was amazing that's so much happening right now um just a few quick questions ab112 on the wildlife Crossings fund so um Before the bill ndot told us they already had money they were working on uh Wildlife Crossing on Geiger grade so it was my understanding that this Wildlife Crossings fund would expand upon that and we could potentially use this funding for example there's a proposal to put a South Meadows Parkway right through the Virginia range over to Story County that's going to require probably multiple Wildlife Crossing fun uh Crossings probably two so just I I didn't know if you had heard more about it or you know why you thought it was just about Geiger grade Maybe the reason I specified Geiger grade is because I understand that this would have to be for State highways okay allocate well that's a good I'm glad I asked so you're saying this funding might not be available for a South Meadows Parkway because it's not a state highway that is correct my understanding but uh I will say if there is additional funding that funding might be uh available for the purpose unit okay um thank you another question was I was a little confused on the bill you said that rent control for local governments is alive so that would specifically authorize us to do it right that's pretty much a sum and substance but ab298 which is the pilot rent stabilization for seniors can you tell us like now it sounds like they've kind of put it into a more of a box that one is uh definitely the smallest in scope it would only apply to I believe individuals 62 years or older I believe from our previous conversations you had mentioned like what does that look like for affordable housing projects or Secrets I did this would apply to those projects there is no prohibitions or exclusions from that pilot program okay that's cool and then on AB 396 the emergency rental assistance for Clark County I know we were working hard saying hey we desperately need affordable housing here too have have any of your arguments been persuasive on that yeah I think uh the only hiccup that we are hitting is that um there is some confusion about why the City of Reno is asking for the money rather than Washoe County directly as I mentioned they're talking about creating a larger pot at 16 million dollars that we could all apply for my concern and I will continue to share that concern with the the members of the committee is that that would prolong the process and could potentially harm uh members of all three jurisdictions up in Northern Nevada I think the compromise could be that we asked for eight million dollars and then an additional pot of 8 million dollars could be created for other entities right sounds good to me um and then on SB 426 which is the state cost of living increase Provisions for rent what does that mean so the Nevada housing division would come up with a cost of living increase number uh and then the landlords would be prohibited unless they applied for an exemption uh to raise above that oh oh okay all right I didn't understand I thought they were giving extra money or something okay I got it okay well it looks like my time's up so I'll come back if I have any more questions anybody else have any questions for Mr Martinez thank you vice mayor Nick thanks again for the presentation uh just quickly on SB 208 um an image has been my ignorance but what are battery charge fences and when you talk about the regulations in mult MF zonings and not being able to do that I was just wondering if you could clarify some of your comments on that yeah so this battery charge defense as I understand it is um it is a type of electric fence that is monitored kind of like an alarm system uh there are protective measures and I believe there are specific um entities that sell these kinds of fences um I'm not sure of which jurisdictions but they had some trouble getting the approval process through and so now they've taken it to the state to mandate that cities and act ordinances that allow for these in certain areas as it was previously written without the amendment it just said that we could not allow for these in residential zones because of the broadness or bigness of this we were concerned about what that would mean if there was a mixed-use development that had both residential and Commercial is it electric fences like a different term for electric fence do they shock when you touch them is that what I'm not an expert on this but they are 12 volt battery charged fences they may they may shock an individual okay thank you okay any other questions from Council Members at this time one hold on one second Miss tour yeah hey uh Nick just one more on the trick driving did you say that this uh testimony was delayed today yes it was uh the the bill hearing or the entire Committee hearing that that bill was going to be heard in was canceled okay okay all right thanks okay Madam uh Mr cecconi thank you so much any other questions from Mr Saccone at this time I know your time is valuable down there thanks for all the good work and keeping up to date um Miss Stewart can I get a motion please motion to approve the report I have a motion by Mr second by Mr Martinez any additional questions at this time hearing that I'll call for the question all those in favor please divide by saying aye aye aye any opposed motion carries unanimously thank you very much Madam clerk back to the B items moving back to B13 B13 was pulled by Miss breakfast Miss breakfast let us get hold on one second let us just transition get us to our staff Union Grace Macedon Senior Management analyst I do have a brief presentation otherwise I can just answer questions that are particular Miss breakfast what is your preference here let's make it done the four is yours all right the grace mechanism academic Services here to discuss the annual report to Truckee Meadows Regional planning agency this report comes before the council every year both state law and the regional plan require local jurisdictions to provide an annual report highlighting the city's numerous efforts last calendar year to implement the Truckee Meadows Regional plan this year some of the highlights we will go over include affordable housing efforts sustainability milestones and some projects that had some Regional impacts affordable housing continues to be a top goal for City Council in the region as a whole in 2022 the City of Reno weighed 3.5 million dollars in sewer connection fees for affordable housing we weigh 480 000 in building permit fees and approve 787 multi-family affordable units Council contributed over 37 million dollars towards affordable housing initiatives sustainability is another goal that the city is working on last year we received the soul smart silver designation and Lead gold certifications for the first time in City history we have continued to participate in the Truckee Meadows Regional planning agency's national natural resource plan we have made substantial progress in the new parks recreation and open space master plan the City of Reno processed four master plan amendments last year in addition to the four master plan amendments we also processed 87 planning cases through discretionary review processes this report summarizes what we accomplished accomplished in 2022 but we also discussed our efforts and goals for 2023. we will continue to prioritize affordable housing and sustainability initiatives we are focusing on the title 18 zoning code amendments to make some of these processes better continuing to collaborate on the natural resource and public infrastructure investment plan that Regional is coordinating and we are currently in the middle as we just heard in the 2023 legislative session where we are reviewing any bills that may impact Us in the CSL whole so for this item we are just asking that you accept the 2022 annual report and that concludes my presentation I'm available for questions okay Miss breakfast yeah I wanna um thank Ms McDon for the presentation but I want to narrow down on the affordable housing efforts you know a lot of it is is using the federal money that comes our way and the FEDS even pay us to have staff to do that so we have the resources to do that but every other community does that it's really um very operational and formulaic but one that crosses over to Title 18 in housing was going to be an accessory dwelling unit ordinance we had a housing affordability Workshop I think we had two last spring and that accessory dwelling into North never made it to the Planning Commission and never made it to the city council I don't think did it no that's a question no sorry it did not why not why didn't it get done I I can't speak to the specifics of that I mean I know that we are going down the path of some Title 18 Updates this year um but this report is just what actually happened um it's a summary of the events that did take place so the Adu ordinance did not happen can you tell me what were a couple Title 18 amendments that did happen yes so in the in the report I do discuss some of the text amendments that did occur um and I can get through those specifics at a later time but the Adu ordinance was not one of those most of those text amendments were cleanup one of them specifically that comes to mind was that adult ordinance so these are things that um were kind of priorities that were either mistakes or things we wanted to get clean up before we had this larger Title 18 zoning code update that we will be processing this year I recall one was doing cannabis lounges which seemed to be on hold and at the time I spoke and voted against that because I wanted to see other things come forward and I know Ms Stewart the other day talked about height limits for industrial buildings on the 395 quarter and that's a fair thing to bring forward but I thought we prioritize getting an accessory dwelling unit ordinance done at two you know very long very well attended um special meetings we don't have a lot of special meetings and when I read this report and saw that it hadn't made progress or you know wanted that clarified it was a disappointing report to me and so um I think everyone for their work but I'm not going to vote this for this it's going to go over to the Truckee Meadows Regional plan and it'll be reported to the governing body upon which I sit but our colleagues from Sparks and our colleagues from Washoe County they have accessory dwelling unit ordinances in their books and we don't and and we're losing out I want to let the council know that it my understanding is that last year 20 of the new housing units in California were accessory accessory dwelling units what if we were at that point in 2016 when the council took a pass on the accessory dwelling units think how many more affordable units and smaller units we would have and um if we were even at that point and we uh you know we said we wanted this we reversed in 2022 we said we're ready for it it hasn't come forward it's not a priority it's a priority of mine and I don't have any other way to to let staff know and to let my colleagues know except for a forum like this that I'm disappointed that we're not bringing that market uh housing unit um you know forward the the legislature is focusing even on on um giving tax credits for people who take vouchers when they build one on their property we can't even take Avail ourselves of that so um too bad not not a great year in my view in getting what's needed for housing affordability and I'm gonna I'm gonna um symbolically vote no on accepting this report thank you okay any other questions from Council at this time hearing none Madam doer yep um I'd like to make a motion to accept the report thank you I have a motion by Miss Dewar a second by Mr Martinez any additional questions or comments at this time hearing none I'll call for the question all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye aye aye any opposed opposed motion carries item b14 as polled by councilmember breakfast Miss breakfast give us one second and we'll get reset on this item Mr Garcia LaBeouf hello good afternoon good evening good afternoon vice mayor and council members for the record my name is Jason Garcia labu planning manager this item is cleanup language and the Planning Commission bylaws changes are identified in the staff report I'm available for any questions and I apologize Mr labou I think I mispronounced your name you actually said it right I did okay yeah it's such a beautiful name actually so I I want to get it right but I apologize if I didn't do that but I'll defer um Miss breakfast do you have questions for staff yeah I want to under substitute now one of the provisions was that the bylaws say that the Planning Commission meets at City Hall and the bylaws are being changed to sedate that the Planning Commission can meet in other locations as decided by the administrator is that correct that is correct that was specifically put in for emergency situations such as um if covid-19 were to happen or City Hall was unavailable to meet or other public places that the administrator could reach out and coordinate with the chair of the commission to find a place to hold a virtual meeting or excuse me hold a meeting or in those cases where they were unable to do that have a virtual meeting well that that's an emergency and there's a whole lot of other protocols under emergency City Hall Chambers being unavailable because say we're having a council meeting or something is a different thing um not really an emergency but an inconvenience but the option to move virtual at by the unelected administrator um is a concern of mine and I don't know how many of my colleagues are tracking um but recently um very recently in the last week um the Attorney General ruled that last July when I wanted to come down to see to the chambers and was told I couldn't come to the chambers that was violating the spirit of the open meeting law so here we have a parallel situation and I do believe there's a difference between governing bodies and other bodies but I've been advocating that um to the legislature in their open meeting law work that you know an unelected person say the city manager who under our rule sets the agenda or the um with the mayor you know should not be the decider on whether or not I who was voted to represent 42 000 people um has to stay home in my living room to do a meeting or um can come down to Chambers and um you know the the legislature now has to Grapple with it and if they want to you know do do that for governing bodies that's fine but um I think this brings up questions of the bodies that have other authorities and the Planning Commission in my view and you know I am kind of an expert on it um as someone who's you know a planner a long history on this um the Planning Commission has powers unlike any other body they have their own statutory ones that even the city council doesn't have then they have delegated ones from the city council so they do things that the governing body says we don't want to do you do and then the legislature gave them their own unique powers so to me they really do a heavy lift and I'm very concerned that the planning administrator and we don't know what the planning administrator may do could move all the Planning Commission meetings to Virtual under this now the Public's going to have the ability to come down there they're going to have the ability to come down there and they can speak to an empty Dice and head on a screen but the um I think that we need to not do that and I'll tell you I've done some research in the last week There's four bills in the California Assembly that are going through right now that would allow governing bodies to go totally remote and there's cities advocating for that I don't know what California is going to do I know our legislature has to decide what to do but to me it should be the exception not the rule at least for the Planning Commission and for the city council the nabs some of our other boards you know we should have a a policy maybe on those but the Planning Commission I believe should not be all virtual it should be the exception and not the rule and the exception should be for people who decide for whatever reason like I did today because I was sick by the sickened by the fumes that I know were bothering a lot of people in the building um to come home for the second half of the meeting but I don't think a planning manager should get to decide the seven planning Commissioners are all going to be virtual all the time there were the Sonoma um press wrote a really great editorial on it about the importance of in-person meetings in local decision making and I think that's going to rule the day in California and I'm also asking the council to not approve this to if you do want to do it say that meetings can be virtual when meetings are virtual shall only be if there's a declaration of emergency in place locally and if it's virtual it should be the decision of any individual Planning Commission member whether or not they want to come to that meeting thank you yeah thank you any additional questions or comments at this time Mr Martinez thank you so much vice mayor just out of curiosity if uh the administrator were to decide to switch to video conferencing what is the communication um that I sent out to any public members that want to participate in that meeting so just for your information already written into the existing bylaws and being untouched is NRS chapter 241 which is the open meeting law that has specific language in there on that uh remote conferencing it requires uh noticing as well as availability of information on the website and access to viewing those meetings where possible so all of that would be required in those situations if it were a virtual situation now in practice are pretty much most of our meetings here at the city are hybrid so we have that available to members of the public so and I just see it catching up with the times so hopefully that answered your question it does thank you any additional questions from the body I do I it's breakfast hold on one second Miss Ebert was your hand raised I'm so sorry okay um from my part um I want to make sure that I say Obviously all public bodies express some preference for meeting in person the open meeting law governs the requirements of it and are certainly part of that if any member of this body chooses not to be able to participate or for some reason cannot as are the gentlewoman from Ward one is today I think that's acceptable No One Believes that this is a path or a slippery slope towards running all meetings virtually I just don't see that happening and if it were to happen certainly we can course correct right so I appreciate the work that the Planning Commission did in bringing this forward it was unanimously supported by them and simply is just a reflection of their desire to make sure that they have their bylaws that align with the law and with sort of common sense right I I don't frequently watch the Planning Commission because I find that that is a difficult place for me to be when I want to hear the information sort of new but I sometimes review them afterwards and by and large their members appear always in person I think once or twice when a member has been traveling or maybe sick or a sick child or something like that they've appeared virtually but I appreciate the work that's gone into it and understand entirely why you brought it forward Miss breckis Mr Reese I think you misunderstand no I understand fully you're on you're you're online virtually and you don't want others to be able to appear virtually and my point is it's always the exception not the rule no one is looking to make nor have my comments should they be construed as meaning we should be able to appear entirely virtual settings for any of our meetings quite frankly we're working with technology technology has gotten significantly better I'm thrilled that you're able to participate fully here from the comfort of your home and we've had other members who are not here today as well so if I go outside please yes you have the floor what this does is it allows the administrator to decide it will be an all-virtual meeting by the planning Commissioners all seven of them are told and and the administrators empowered to make the decision that all seven have to be virtual they are not given the option to come in so what will happen in that instance if the planning planning administrator decides it's an all-virtual meeting someone cannot make that decision how they want to do it they have to be away it's an all-virtual meeting and what will happen to members of the public who get those cards they will come down and some of them come down once in their life the only time they're ever in city hall there's a big development I'm concerned I want to come down they will not be aware that they are speaking to an empty Diocese of seven people they will not be aware of that and that is problematic because people do not understand that and really I don't think that should be the expectation I think the expectation should be that we give the option to all seven planning Commissioners under normal times non-emergency times to come in and sit at the meeting with the public the public is allowed to be there the planning Commissioners to the individual level should also be if you pass these laws today the administrator can rule that it's in all seven in all virtual meeting no planning Commissioners can come in and do their job from those seats right there where you're sitting that's how I read it and it was confirmed by staff thank you thank you Miss breakfast I'll note for the record that the Attorney General's office did not find a violation of the open meeting law by any of the bodies that you referred to earlier in fact I think they pointed out the sort of silliness of the complaint originally and so I'll leave it to our lawyers to continue to reflect upon the open meeting law and its importance to all of us any additional questions from the body at this time um just a comment you know my experience this is an experience not theoretical has been that the decisions about having meetings in place and virtual is usually made by the chair of the commission or body in collaboration if it's a commission with the liaison or I could see it with the staff but it's usually a collaborative decision you know they arrive at based on something and that's I I guess I would just ask our staff is that the envisionment here I mean what do you envision so just for clarification staff's original proposal to the Planning Commission had it through the chair so the Planning Commission at the April 19th meeting modified that to change it to the administrator so we typically coordinate though with the chair so I I don't see that practice changing that's been my experience so did they say why you want to change it they wanted to delegate it over to staff okay they didn't want to make the decision okay like it's a snow day we're gonna do it remotely today that's correct so that's where the intent of that is if okay for some reason well I hope they do do it collaboratively I think that's the best way to go so I'll leave it at that thank you Miss Stewart can I get a motion please oh thank you Ebert so this will just be meeting by meeting basis right this isn't a lot unilateral decision to say all meetings will be virtual going forward that's correct for for all intents and purposes um we'll still have planning Commissions in person okay unless there was some kind of unforeseen emergency event okay and you said it's the administrator that's going to make this decision what if the chair says no I want to come in in person what happens at that point um typically City staff will coordinate with the chair so if uh can you re-ask your question I'm sorry if they want to have the meeting all virtual but the chair or somebody else on the committee says I would like to come in in person what happens we it it would depend on the um facilities if that they were available so for instance if this building was shut down for whatever reason and we were unable to um have the meeting based out of here that would be kind of a different circumstance but what happens currently if that was a situation like if it was snow we were snowed in right now what would happen with that without the change that's where the the new um language in there addresses both the virtual meeting aspect but it also addresses remote attendance so it what are we doing right now it would have never happened it would address either situation so for instance if somebody's unable to make it because they're sick or whatnot they could still log in remotely in that situation if it were the chair typically we does the chair would designate somebody else to run the meeting um over here at City Hall similar to what's happening with uh the mayor and vice mayor so it's similar to the chair and vice chair for the Planning Commission so if we didn't change anything at all no and we're snowed out of here nobody can get here what happened like do we have to change the rules to accommodate this so that's where this gives us the ability to still carry out those meetings if people aren't able to show but it's not necessary uh it could potentially be canceled but I don't really see that happening in most situations okay so we don't have to change this rule to have meetings virtually um under current NRS chapter 241 it allows for that so you are correct okay so I guess I'm just not really understanding why we need to do that if we already have the flexibility to do virtual meetings as needed it's really meant to just have especially since it's going to be now staff making that decision and not the body themselves it's meant to have a procedure in place a protocol for staff to follow to reach out to the chair or some means of that to address these situations whether it be a remote attendance or virtual meetings shouldn't that be the decision of the body and not the staff that is what staff originally proposed but again through discussion the Planning Commission uh modified that action they recommended you to change it to the administrator okay but the people in the body are not there forever right like that will change in the future but making this change to having the staff decide that will be likely permanent right um unless it was modified in the future the bylaws could be further revised in the future okay any other additional comments or questions at this time yeah yeah let's practice you have one minute yeah I think Mr labou you you did not accurately state it um if it snowed out you can't have them you have to have a physical place for the public to come you're going to have a meeting you have to have a physical place for the for the public to come is my understanding is that correct is that your understanding so I think really the reason that we have these this policy in place or the proposed policy is to address emergency situations because we still want to have those we still want to have those publicly available meetings when possible at City Hall so again this is I think I think emergencies are a whole different Hannah landscape a whole different landscape so under Miss Ebert's question if there was a snowstorm and you're still gonna have the meeting would you have to have a a physical place for the public to come to someone's like I don't care I Snowshoe in whatever [Music] you can potentially have a virtual meeting in those situations according to the NRS okay so you can take this body completely virtual so people would get their yellow card and they would know that you cannot come here that it's at all virtual meeting and they would know it before the snowstorm because they're getting in the mail four days before the snowstorm hits so okay Miss breakfast your time is up okay we'll come back to the body okay any additional comments from anyone Mr Martinez I just want to read a sentence into the record it's uh in this uh just give me one second uh so the revised bylaws for the funding commission that we got um page three in the second paragraph of the proposed amendments um it states when video conferencing is used facilities will be utilized which permit the public to hear and or observe all telephonic and or video conferencing end quote I just want to read that into the record thank you Mr Martinez any other questions or comments at this time I I have a comment I just I'm not comfortable with taking away the uh Authority from the body to give the staff the ability to just make that decision um I I don't support this okay thank you I'll move to approve the adopt the revised Planning Commission bylaws as recommended by the Planning Commission presenting the staff report second disc session okay I have a motion by myself a second by Mr Martinez uh miss breckis you have the floor into what Mr Martinez said because he said he read the stop report that there has to be a place for people to be able to participate remotely so say I'm a resident and I want to come down and participate remotely I'll have a public building to do that so there always will be a public Building open what I am saying is that public building should also have a place for one of the seven planning Commissioners if he or she decides she wants to do the building in public the meeting in person and that will not happen that's what this does we'll see if there's abuse with this I'm very concerned there will be I think that's the trajectory because frankly as I read in this op-ed from California people want to make decisions that impact other people and not be in the same physical presence with them that's that's very undemocratic and I'm disturbed about that and I'm disturbed that our city is taking a step forward in that way too thank you I won't be voting okay any additional comments at this time hearing none I'll call for the question all those in favor please say goodbye by saying aye aye aye any opposed opposed motion carries okay we're going to go and recess for um until 6 15 for a comfort break foreign you know foreign 30 minutes okay temperature all right because head up Clerk and we have four anyway foreign that's me all right vice mayor if you are ready we can reconvene the meeting at 6 24 with looks like just mayor Shiva absent at this time thank you so much um well welcome um item B15 and Mrs Esparza is that your item it is fabulous welcome hello vice mayor city council manager thoroughly Cynthia as far as the chief equity and community relations officer for the record uh B15 is a contract for control consulting services with MGT who will help us develop our Equity plan for the organization we have spent significant amount of time on just building organizational capacity and this will really take us to the next step and look at processes systems and policies yeah this is a very exciting uh item and I'm so thrilled that my colleague Mr Martinez pulled up for a discussion I'll turn the floor over to him thank you so much I appreciate it I do just want to to highlight um your work on this plan and making sure that we get another Strategic Equity plan for the city up and going and just your the research that you had done in terms of what Consulting agency you're going to hire and just to highlight some of their work it looks like they have recommendations from Oregon City city of Battle Creek uh the and Shaker Heights so I really just want to bring attention to this and highlight the work that the city is doing in terms of equity and if nobody has any other questions or comments I'm ready to emotion uh to approve item b15. any other questions from Council hearing that I'll take that as a motion can I get a second okay I have a motion by Mr Martinez a second by miss duer any additional questions at this time hearing none I'll call for the question all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye any opposed motion carries unanimously thank you Mrs thank you so much appreciate it item B16 is pulled by Miss doer yeah thank you you've been asking me all day to wait till staff gets up so I'm not talking no it's just easier on them they feel less anxious so um I pulled this for a couple reasons but I wish I didn't because I didn't mean to keep you here all day I had no I thought we'd be in there in 10 minutes talking about it so um I usually pull things that are around a million dollars plus and this is if it's that category um I just wanted to I've had a good chance to talk to our staff about what's planned but could you just lay out what we're planning it looks like you have a PowerPoint I have a quick presentation sure go for it sure okay yeah well good evening vice mayor and council members name is Jonathan Smith I'm senior civil engineer with public works department um here to give a quick presentation on the Reno tennis courts Rehabilitation project his projects are located in Ward one in Southwest Reno just west of pluma Street and south of urban road it's adjacent to the Washoe Golf Course for reference this is a really great project for the community as we'll be rehabilitating courts 13 14 15 and 16 which are located on the North End of the Reno Tennis Center as shown on this slide these existing asphalt courts have outlived their service life and now have an uneven playing surface with large cracks that have become a trip hazard which is why these courts are rarely used this project will replace the Aged quarks with a new 5-inch post-tensioned concrete slab we will also apply an acrylic surface coating and we'll re-stripe quartz 13 and 14 for tennis and courts 15 and 16 for pickleball so they'll just be only tennis and only pickleball because they have been told to me they were going to be both right now it is currently just stripe for that's the way we put the contract out so this project was advertised in March we opened bids March 30th of approved today we would put this out to construction uh this summer there are some temperature dependent items like the acrylic surface coating um so we're in a rush to get this one out so we get to complete this summer when the temperatures are accurate and uh get it so I recommend we're into the contract to Spanish Springs construction which has done these before and authorize the matter sign thank you okay well first of all I want to thank council member Rhys because he has been a passionate advocate for our tennis our whole tennis System including particularly these courts so I one of the reasons I was pulling it was to thank you uh for taking the leadership on this and I understand you're a bit of a tennis player becoming a pickleball player is that right yeah okay um the second thing is that I know we're going to have some leftover money I brought it up a few times and I just I want to make sure that um specifically about that money that we go out for a conversation with the community that's the main thing I'm worried about I I it's not that I'm I said the wrong word worried about interested in is more of an appropriate um and I'll give you one example of something I've heard something about so there's shade there between I think or there was between the different courts um I've heard that it doesn't really do much because when you're standing under shade you know the sun might be coming this way it might be coming that way and I just thought maybe you guys could think of something creative to create shade on the southwest side of the tennis courts or something where there would actually be a back or something where it would be shaded you know where you could actually get a break from the Sun but I don't play tennis and I don't even know if that's important so I'm not the one to ask but it's just an idea I had because we ran into the same thing quite near here in the dog park they want to shade and it's the same thing you know the shade you only can sit on one bench to kind of get shaded because the Sun hits the bench and you work in a park you got you know this issue so I just saw one built yesterday coincidentally where it was a it was more of a porch development uh rehab but it had the shade developed on the actually to the ground and I think it was going to provide much more shade so just some ideas like this whatever you're thinking of I'm sure whatever you do will be great out there this plus whatever comes next the next million two or so so keep up the good work I'm ready to make a motion but maybe you want to make a motion no I'm I'm happy to let you but I'll sort of speak to a couple things number one is it can be difficult with shading with tennis facilities right because courts don't have shade over them because balls go high and that's not how it works this particular facility has some walkways in the middle of it and for many years there have been shade at the front part of it and it's quite good right and people tend to congregate there when it gets pretty hot so I'm finding a way to extend the shade throughout the entirety of the price adjective certainly appreciated and then on the court sides you'll see on the picture that you've got there there are a little like greenish dots in the middle of tennis courts those are where players sit between changeovers and that sort of thing and there is some shade to that although they're they're aging and so we'll and I think some of them have been replaced already over time so it'll be good but the next iteration yeah we should be hoping to look for my hope of course is lighting lighting's a big deal but I know how expensive it is certainly shade is important providing access in terms of water to people you know that kind of imagine you can fill up your your own water bottle water bottle dispenser I know that the the actual building where our operator is housed is quite old the restrooms have gotten a little bit of love very minor because of ADA access issues but they need some help the other thing is that councilmember Dewer led the discussion in charge to look for some roadway improvements along this stretch too which are some sidewalk improvements that are along Plumas and also extend around the golf course and when all that's complete and then when the My Hope of course is that the sidewalks will continue to go south towards Moana and then maybe they'll hook around back to the other tennis facility that's owned by Washoe County but as with anything there's always more needs than money so I'll be looking for Mr President you and your staff and and certainly in the engineering side to just be really cognizant of how critical it is that we use the money instructor as far as we can I think they've done a good job of discussing the dreams and the hopes with this community the mayor and I for example the other day were talking about whether or not some of this land to the it would be to the west of the courts on your picture there have been discussions over the years about whether or not the county might donate some of it to create domed courts there there's a discussion some years ago about whether there would be domed courts up nearer to Moana in this doors Wards this is because we don't have enough tennis facilities so at the end of the day dream big you know you don't get anywhere by dreaming uh you know small dream big with it because these courts are really quite fantastic and and well used my hope of course as we continue to allow programming to occur but it's an absolute joy to see the parks department having all these kind of projects really it is it's a great thing so I'm happy to let Madame do her make the motion okay well I moved to approve item B16 and I'll second it so I have a motion by Miss doer a second by me any additional questions or comments at time hearing none I'll call for the question all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye aye any opposed motion carries unanimously thank you so much Mr Smith okay item the last B item that I have is item B17 Mr manager am I correct in that yes okay B17 as pulled by council member Martinez I think right yeah yes Mr vice mayor I was wondering if our city engineer could provide a little bit more information about this item [Music] be careful there I know um Kerry Koski your director of Public Works like your city engineer so on the overhead here um I'm just super excited about this this is an initiative that we have for school safety and um this particular item is for some school beacons and councilman Martinez has uh graciously uh um decided that he will use his discretionary funds here for two locations the first location is Rita Cannon Elementary School we'll put the school beacons two of them over off of clearacre and the other location is on Veterans Elementary and we'll put the school beacons on basser what these beacons will do is give more awareness to our drivers we heard from our young individuals this morning from from them that they're concerned about safety and as well as I am concerned about safety and hopefully that this will get us a little bit closer to giving them giving them the comfort that they need and just to provide some context can you kind of talk about why those two schools were the ones that were chosen sure I knew I would miss something there so in our analysis we have just we have discovered that um veterans actually Elementary School is one of is the highest um ranking school for needs of school flashers it has um one of the highest safety concerns and I think Rita Cannon is number seven so these two schools are in high need of the school begins thank you Miss koskin I appreciate you sharing um obviously all the data in order to get to this decision and I also want to highlight the efforts by uh council member Ebert last meeting to also increase the safety around our schools and so uh in tandem with what you're doing just trying to increase the safety of our pedestrians and our kids walking to their schools to and from so yeah I just want to highlight that and then if no one has any questions I'm ready to make a motion to approve item b17. I don't have any questions Mr Martinez but I think Miss Ebert wanted to weigh in I just wanted to say a second okay well then I'll weigh in and say I thank you for taking this project under your wings council member Martinez um of course we all have a lot of projects that come our way and and we try to find our path but thank you for this one because I do think it's very important so I have a motion by Mr Martinez a second by Miss Ebert any additional questions at this time hearing none I'll call for the question all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye any opposed motion carries unanimously Madam clerk I think we're back to Charlie items Charlie six and seven are we opening those together Mr managers but we'll uh come to you madam Clerk and say let the record reflect that the city council is opening the public hearing on item C6 and C7 Madam clerk was proper notice given any correspondence received proper notice was given we do not have an any public comments in the audience however we did receive four comments directly associated with this item three letters of Correspondence in opposition one letter of concern and those have been distributed to the Reno City Council okay and do any council members do they make any disclosures at this time okay let's call uh forward our staff ing good evening council members Grace Mackin Senior Management analyst with development services for the record here to discuss the official sun setting of the Reno stud Corridor joint plan [Music] to start off I would like to provide a map demonstrating the parcels that are currently within the special planning area which is the renosteid corridor joint plan the map on your screen shows the parcels within the joint plan highlighted in yellow I have called out some points of interest to help you Orient yourselves the master plan specifically calls out the implementation strategy to work with regional partners and officially Sunset the Reno stud Corridor joint plan Truckee Meadows Regional planning got rid of the plan in 2019 Washoe County got rid of the plan in 2020 and now we are the last to do so now now I would like to briefly discuss what the Reno stud Corridor joint plan was from a high level it was an agreement between Washoe County and the City of Reno to help guide future growth and development in the North Valleys for a 20-year period this was established in 1996 by Truckee Meadows Regional planning this area is all within Ward 4 and generally it's between Red Rock and Golden Valley as seen in the previous slide the document established master plan designations for each parcel within this boundary and any changes were required to go before County and City through joint hearings today we are requesting to officially Sunset the Reno stead Corridor joint plan Truckee Meadows Regional planning agency Sunset the plan in 2019 and Washoe County Sunset the plan in 2020 as I previously mentioned and now we are completing this process so something I think that's very important to point out is that NRS only allows for a joint planning area if it is designated by Regional planning so once Truckee Meadows Regional decided to Sunset this plan we no longer have the authority to cons to continue this plan so currently there are no master plan designations on these Parcels the map on your screen gives you a general idea of what we're trying to do here the top map is what is existing with the striped area including everything within the renostide corridor joint plan and the bottom map shows you what we were proposing I would like to note here that we are not changing anybody's zoning staff did a robust analysis to apply a master plan designation to each parcel to match the existing zoning and development on site I think now is an appropriate time to pause and quickly discuss the difference between a master plan and Zoning so a master plan tells you what you could the zoning that you can have on your site and Zoning tells you what you can build and how you can build it none of that will change with this request this request will not change anyone's zoning and it will not change anyone's ability to develop on their property and there will be no new development with this request for this case we sent out a courtesy notice and a legal notice our courtesy notice was sent out in January to encourage recipients to participate in the neighborhood meetings we hosted these notices were sent out to everyone within the Reno stud Corridor boundary as well as everyone within 750 feet of the boundary we held a neighborhood meeting at O'Brien Middle School on February 6th where seven people attended we also attended the ward 4 neighborhood meeting on February 16th a separate web page was also created with detailed information and interactive maps so when we'd send out these postcards it had a link to this webpage they could type in their address and it would tell them how they were affected if at all in conclusion I would like to reiterate that this will not change anyone's zoning nor will it impact anyone's ability to develop on their property it is simply replacing a plan that no longer exists with current master plan designations to ensure each parcel has a clear path for future growth and development on your screen are the master plan Amendment findings that Planning Commission could make Planning Commission recommended approval of the master plan Amendment with six in favor and one absent on your screen is recommended motion and I am available for questions okay Do my colleagues have any questions at this time Miss Perkins the floor is yours yeah and I'm going to apologize if I get very technical I um uh I don't show authorship on this but I worked on this plan uh back when in 98 so I'm very familiar with the technique and and how it how it worked out but I do have a specific question um about the um uh more or less default master plan and corresponding Zoning for a certain area of tremendous sensitivity and if you could bring up the map um the case Maps um attached to item C7 I would appreciate it [Music] let's pause for a second Miss breakfast so we make sure that we get you to where you want to be and not using your time what are the case Maps attached in the presentation yeah they're they're on item C7 case Maps maybe you have a hard copy and you're they're on this they're on the staff report but okay you brought your file I might see them on the staff report so let's just make sure Exhibit C case Maps they are attached to the staff report I just didn't bring all of the exhibits foreign I see it Exhibit C case maps and you're pulling it up now thank you madam clerk for humoring us yep okay let's practice I think we're on the same page okay so this is the first of the maps and um could you guys scroll it up a little bit so we we don't need to see the legend and it's perfectly fine if it's oriented the other way up up yeah yeah okay so if you see where the out that the little arrow comes from basically P binding says subject sight you know the cursor there yes okay so it's delineating that the Aries in yellow I was home and I turn my okay so um so C7 so yellow is subject area correct those are the lands impacted correct correct and coincidentally my con my questions inquiry and desire for information is related to basically the the area where the subject site shows and um everything on uh that side the black ribbon side of that the black ribbon side is what I know to be the railroad right away would you agree with that yes okay so let's move up to the next map thank you if you guys could advance to the next there's there'd be one map and then another one okay yeah the third yeah the third one then yeah yeah okay so we're showing for some of that area it's showing you that that's great LL some of it looks like it's zoned llr correct and is that the new zoning that it'll have no zoning is changing so that is what it is currently zoned um and then what about the area that doesn't show any zoning what's that going to be that is um a United States Forest Service land and so that will remain as such there is no zoning attached to it and we are not assigning a zoning to it every piece of land in the City of Reno zone no not necessarily and that that particular property actually might be County I believe it is City though and it does not have a zoning and we are not applying a zoning as part of this process to that land what if someone come came in and said I own this land I want to know what it's owned you have to have a you have a way in the in the in the code yes to determine what that would be what would you find it would be I believe it would be ut40 okay what about the land then where the subject side arrow is all the red all the gray what's that sound yes so this came forward through uh zoning map Amendment and so like I said none of this map is existing and none of nothing on this map is changing with this request that came forward with the pvine employment center zoning map Amendment um that zoning is existing so that's not part of this process the master plan that was assigned to this site is just matching what has either already been entitled or is already zoned so all that all that gray all that green all that red is what the P Vine employment people have to deal with correct okay and then what about the ut40 to the South that is also existing as ut40 okay okay then let's Advance one more time to the next map please thank you it's breakfast I'm going to just continue with you as the um speaker because I think it's important and your knowledge is obviously very in-depth now what's this what's this this is the master plan land use as it stands today this is special planning area which is the Reno's headquarter joint plan so if you were to go into our Maps this is what you would see and then is this how it's going to be then no this is what's existing and then how is it going to be is that on the next map yes what is the next map show it as SMU is that nope so they will all be different depending on what the zoning is so this is the robust analysis that staff did to make sure we match that master plan with the zoning so that we didn't have to change anyone's zoning or development capabilities okay so everything on the other side I see some eye I see some SMU I see some space but it looks like it's still going to be zoned Spa no the master plans Spa that's what the final map shows it is Spa master plan no if we could go then the next map so if it if it is Spa um this is the proposed master plan so this is a side by side on the bottom is existing compared to proposed okay so the proposed will be all that I correct all that SMU and then LL correct and the green is the UT u-t okay and then what what is covered by the pbine employment again the ismu and um pgos in that red outline kind of on the bottom right is the P Vine employment and so that was existing entitlements I SMU pqp or PPU no pgos Parks Greenway is an open space oh the p-vine employment crossed the freeway it does have some pgos in it it was built in as part of those natural features slopes to to protect some of that so if you do look in the eye SMU there's some green built into that to help preserve some of those you buy an employment crossed the freeway no because that's oh okay no that's okay the one that says pgos is a different site but you can see that that identifies the green which is sorry okay okay well I'm I guess you know with that I I can be satisfied thank you thank you Miss breakfast any additional questions or comments from my colleagues at this time Miss Perkins can I come to you for a motion no I won't make a motion it's not my ward okay it's no problem let me see if I can nope that's okay I'll move to uphold the recommendation of the Planning Commission adopt the resolution septic and foreign by the trucking Meadows Regional Planning Commission okay have a motion that I've made a second by Miss do or any additional comments or questions at this time hearing none I'll call for the question all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye any opposed motion carries unanimously Madam Clerk Madam clerk I want to make sure too that I identified that we had open public comment you said there was none I should have also told you that I would close public comment and I have done so um oh look to Mr Hall did we catch everything that you needed on both items as we opened up okay okay thank you so much I appreciate the presentations and we'll move on now to Charlie eight Charlie eat okay let's get everyone re-situated for C8 one second okay Miss let's welcome and thank you so much for your patience today I know it's been an incredibly long day and we've taken a lot of things out of order today and you'll just have to indulge us we don't normally do that and so I apologize very much to you for that but this is a very important topic and so the floor is now yours thank you good evening vice mayor give me one second oh yes observe some formalities because the clerk will not let me get away from that let the record reflect that the city council is hoping the public hearing on item C8 Madam clerk was proper notice given any correspondence received thank you vice mayor proper notice was given and no correspondence was received additionally we have no public comment registered in the audience okay so all both open public comment and closed public comment in one Fell Swoop and ask if my colleagues have any disclosures that need to be made okay having done that Miss Blitz the floor is now yours thank you good evening vice mayor council members and city manager Thorley jnlitz management analyst for the record today we are presenting the annual action plan for the use of Grant funds for the 23-24 program year this is one of two public hearings that is required each year by the Department of Housing and Urban Development for entitlement jurisdictions each year the city receives an entitlement allocation from HUD as you can see on the slide the city's award this year is approximately 3.8 million between the three different grants this is a great timeline that shows how comprehensive the allocation process is it starts about a year in advance in the fall with the cdbg subcommittee and the Washoe County Home Consortium once projects are vetted through those bodies they are included in the annual action plan which is brought forward for approval by Council however the final recommendation for home projects comes from the Truckee Meadows Regional planning governing board the Community Development block grant is used primarily to assist families at or below 80 percent of area median income as you can see from the examples on this slide cdbg can be used for a variety of activities to assist these low to moderate income households this year's proposed projects came from the cdbg subcommittee process I spoke about a few slides back twenty percent of the award is used for Grant Administration and the project recommendations are listed under uses I'd like to point out a couple of exciting projects there's been 30 percent of the award reserved for Workforce housing initiatives and the Miguel Ribeiro Park is going to have a complete renovation of the small and large playgrounds we're super grateful to the cdbg subcommittee for their work in making these recommendations this year foreign funds are used for housing related activities the Washoe County Home Consortium primarily chooses to use home funds for new affordable rental housing or Rehabilitation the Washoe County Home Consortium process begins with meetings and recommendations by the technical Review Committee the managers and directors of the three jurisdictions and finally a ratification by the Truckee Meadows Regional planning governing board this year's home Revenue totals about 2.8 million dollars which is quite a lot 10 will be used for Grant Administration and the projects listed under uses will equate to 652 affordable units at 60 percent or below area median income with 32 of those being more deeply subsidized at 50 40 and 30 percent area median income the emergency Solutions Grant is our Third Federal award that we receive it is designed to serve the lowest income populations examples are those that are homeless or at risk of homelessness the draft annual action plan includes about a hundred and eighty one thousand dollars in ESG to be used for rental and deposit assistance serving those that make thirty percent and Below area median income this is a small but vital allocation as it serves a very vulnerable population this fiscal year to date with ESG we've assisted 83 households however with the rental and deposit assistance program as a whole we've been able to help over 1200 households if you factor in all funding sources and as you may recall last year housing and neighborhood Development Division completed a strategic plan that includes four goals which all of the annual action plan projects align with the goals are to increase affordable housing stock increase residence access to housing stability invest in low to moderate income neighborhoods and to keep and improve affordable housing units each of these goals is indirect alignment with City and Regional goals as well here is staff's recommendation and I'm available for questions [Music] okay Miss let's wow incredible presentation truly because of the subject matter too I mean thank you for helping us to understand how all this complicated and interlayered funding happens and where this horses come from um I suppose my question for you is really just a theoretical and philosophical one um your department is doing incredible work what do you need from us to keep doing that work how can we help your division do the work it's doing I mean we've added some things to it recently I think neighborhood cleanups have come under it you've got just a great team you've been able to I think grow internally together as a team by going to conferences and learning but what can we do to empower or assist your division with the good work that you do I think that I should defer to Monica Cochran the manager causing a neighborhood development I appreciate that and I know Miss Cochran is very quick often to give all praise and honor to you all because I know that you all are very collaborative in your approach um so I would love to hear from Miss Cochran too but I just want to make sure you understand that we value your input we see the work that you're doing the council knows how complex it is we get to sometimes take a lot of credit for your work and we see quite frankly lives being changed but I want you to know we see you as ultimately my point and so happy to have either one of you answer that question but keep up the good work thank you so much thank you trend okay well I will give it a start and then if Monica wants to add anything I think one of the most important things about our division is that our bandwidth has been able to expand with the addition of more more staff members however I think we still need more staff members so that we can continue to expand and our problem is that we are almost entirely Grant funded so we can only take those Grant funds so much to fund a certain number of Staff members that makes sense yes I appreciate that Miss Cochran did you want to add to that uh Monica Cochran for the record housing neighborhood development manager uh I think uh jaina uh Miss litz said kind of exactly what I would have said in a different manner but I would also like to uh thank the council for the support over the last couple years as we grow and take on new challenges and my ask would just be that that support continue well I think that you and I have had this conversation before and it's sort of an outgrowth of a ongoing series of I'll call it leadership uh changes and that is that you gotta identify where you want to go don't just get there by happenstance or circumstance or by The Winds of Fate right chart your own path and I think you've been very good about that in your department leading that charge so we'll do what we can and obviously we are somewhat confined this year to our budget being what it is but we're trying our best so thank you for that I appreciate it I appreciate that statement and I think one of the things we all learned when we were in Columbus together was the intentionality and um potentiality and I think that is uh really what's been driving us over the since we probably over the last year since we went to Columbus and really putting that effort into making sure that we're being intentional with our actions well I see it so thank you for reminding me of that let me go to the body and see if there are any questions anybody has any questions at this time oh miss breakfast the floor is yours yeah yeah um hard and I know it's been unusual times you know uh not necessarily in a bad way because of the great you know investment that was done during the two tranches of you know pandemic relief and then the inflation reduction act brought you additional resources but under this one it seems like hours ago it was it was ten hours ago I started my morning at um Echo loader which is uh the Yuri neighborhood um with their parent teacher Association which it's been maybe four years since I've been and sat with them and they have a whole new group new parents and new principal and all and um as it does up there you know the a lot of the issues haven't changed and uh is good to know that they will have flashing beacons um I was not so sure that that was a possible ability when they talk to me today about it because the intersection of Yuri and grow Yuri and apple are two local roads do you know where exactly those flashing beacons will go I do not have that map with me currently or is it over on Plum well we've got one going in for Echo loader one for Vaughn middle school and a third one with those three yeah okay well if I could get the map and see where that is yes the and then and then you know another thing that came up was Ada sidewalk right there in front of the Yuri Park is that where this Ada sidewalk is going to go right in front of the park yeah so there are several different areas and again I don't have that map with me okay I apologize for that I would like to you know because I I have a task list from that meeting they have a task list too so that's helpful and I know that you said we're putting in Workforce housing for 30 percent um is there flexibility on that because I have seen that we really held back some cdbg for housing but then at the same time we got all the housing resources what's the concept with that 30 because the other thing they brought back brought up and I thought we had addressed it some time ago was the the um water feature there is not working and they're very troubled by it we put in the fencing on either side and this has been a very challenging park for many years um it really I remember when it was built it was not an ideal uh prototype of a park property so it's I think because of that it has struggled with some of the issues and it's just a a long lot with a trailer park on either side usually our parks are on corners and have sidewalks and neighborhoods around um you know are isolated on a block um not with adjacent neighborhoods so what about ages of properties is it what's that Workforce housing for and is there any flexibility to re-do that water feature um over there so the workforce housing is still in the planning stages it's not associated with a certain location yet and the 30 is actually the amount of the grant that's going to be taken to commit to Workforce housing yeah no I get that I get that but you know we have all this other housing money that has come through a lot of a lot of it and this money can be used in the eligible neighborhoods or Park projects whereas the housing money cannot so did you have a layered subsidy plug for this 30 that you thought it was going to take us to a place that yes good question so the 30 of the grant that we would like to use for Workforce housing initiatives actually takes us into a different income bracket than yeah is usually able to be used for the current sources of funding have a lot of limits on them like 60 area meeting income yeah yeah cdbg we can go up to 80 so we can serve that you know 60 to 80 percent with the cdbg funding is it going to be layered though through the qap process is that what it what what were we going to bring it into a tax credit deal what were we going to do with that I'm going to defer to Monica for that at this Monica Cochran for the record at this stage we haven't developed the plan of how we're actually going to utilize those funds that's what we're going to do um between now and next fall with a whole process there's so many uh other processes that are going on currently with the university with revitalization with Redevelopment that we want to make sure that we align all priorities and make sure we focus in the right areas as you'll remember in the cdbg subcommittee meeting last fall the committee requested like a public process to determine how we want how we are going to utilize these funds so we don't have an exact project yet okay and we wouldn't it wouldn't go through the qap process because it's a different income group this is the 60 to 80 percent and typically there are no funds to subsidize this missing middle and that was the point on investing in that lane okay well here's my point is um you know I just heard the other night that we're doing Summit Ridge and um The yory Grove is is obviously very eligible um they want the water feature done and it's not just to have a water feature it's to make sure that good people can go to that park instead of all the bad people at that park because there's a lot of bad people who populate that Park and it chases out the good people and even just having water spray around will bother the bad people and I I have no qualms making these public statements because you know it's it's pretty widely known but um we need to find a path to to get that and you know I I really support what how we've been using our federal funds when I came on early the audits audit after audit after audit was you're on Hud's bad list you're on Hud's bad list you're not spending you're not spending you're not spending if this gets a little long in the tooth and you know we got an annual appropriation and you're sitting on this money even one year I would like discussion if I'm still looking to see the Yuri splash park done I would like to see this kind of rethought out and then take it to next year if you're if you're moving a little bit slower on that so I just I just want to let that know I did support that 30 percent but um I am also looking for funds for the um Yori Grove Park right now I don't know how we get there um Mr manager Mr Park liaison I know a lot of Park District money has gone off on the Red Zone and this is right there and uh I want to find a way to get get that splash park there thank you well thanks for your advocacy on that council member I think councilmember Martinez and I would both be happy to come alongside and try to find solutions to get their important community resource so thank you for that any additional questions from the body at this time Mr Martinez yeah I do just want to highlight that Park I appreciate you bringing attention to it I do remember walking with my cousins as we lived a couple of mobile parks down the street from there and I appreciate you doing some of the work on Yuri to increase pedestrian safety in there and yeah the the splash park was working when I used to use it back in the day I wasn't aware that it wasn't functioning now but I know it was a huge component to the fun that we used to have as kids using that space so regardless of where it was I know for me and my family it was a great space to have so close to home thank you for those comments any additional comments at this time okay I'll ask for a motion I can't remember it was cdbg has been so changed I'm not sure perfect council member I'll just make a motion okay I have a motion by council member second second by Mr Martinez any additional questions at this time hearing none I'll call for the question all those in favor please identify by saying aye aye aye any opposed motion carries you unanimously thank you so much Miss Cochran and Miss litz okay Madam clerk am I correct that we're on to the G items G is in good sorry vice mayor Reese yes we're moving on to item G1 which is an appointment to the building Enterprise fund advisory committee okay this is for up to four individuals to the building Enterprise fund Madam clerk do we have any uh comments public comments on this item we have no public comment registered additionally we have not received any correspondence okay any questions from the council okay may I have a motion uh councilmember Taylor I think Mr vice mayor I would like to reappoint Teresa DiLoreto Andy Durling Shirley fulkins Roberts and Brian moon to the be fat committee please okay and to be clear is only one of those a reappointment Miss DiLoreto yes Misty Loretto is a reappointment okay so it's Misty Loretto Mr darling Miss Falcon Roberts and Mr Moon correct okay can I get a second please I have a motion by councilmember Taylor a second by a councilmember Martinez any additional questions or comments at this time hearing none I'll call for the question all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye aye any opposed motion carries unanimously thank you for moving on to item H1 which is city council comments okay council member breckis any comments at this time under H1 Miss doer any comments yes um I want to reiterate uh the invite for tomorrow night uh it is the historical resources awards that they're in their 30th year so we're putting on a special celebration if you can make it and I want to make sure that the whole city knew they were invited and all departments that that are interested um it's going to be pretty special we're going to have some good things to eat and drink and celebrate 19 people I think on projects buildings such as the Jesse such as Louie's bass Corner what time are you inviting all this marriage yes thank you so the event starts at 5 30. there's a tour of the uh Chisholm house starting at 4 30. so if you want to come early get a tour do that and if you want to join for the awards that's at 5 30 and we've already had a tremendous turnout of RSVP so yay held at the Elmo El mistake thank you I'm getting tired Elma State um and so lots of people are interested in seeing that and experiencing that venue so please come yeah gorgeous thanks for the invite I hope to be there councilmember Martinez anything from you at this time thank you so much Mr Rosemary I'd just like to invite anybody on Council or anybody in the community to attend our biggest little spring cleaning this Saturday May 13th starting at 9 until the bins get full at trainer Middle School which is located at 1700 Carville drive thank you yeah I'll tell you that we had the first of them last weekend in Ward five how'd it go it was fantastic hand has taken over the running of it and has expanded really the opportunities for people to be able to bring a household items that they might not have otherwise been able to bring like that he waste and hazardous hazardous waste it's um paint we saw a lot of refrigerators older TVs are not accepted but newer TVs are so nothing from like 1990 and older but things newer yes but it's super awesome and well run you're going to be impressed thanks for that invite councilmember Martinez do you have any idea how many people showed up oh my goodness it was in the hundreds for sure we had a line and I will say that the location Choice helps right because the parking lot if it's big it allows the flow of traffic to get in there the one thing that people ought not bring if anyone's paying attention is yard waste they're not looking for green waste at this time so we wouldn't turn it away but they're not looking for it councilmember Ebert I just want to remind everybody about the older Americans month going on the different events and the uh Art Exhibit that's at the McKinley arts and culture center so please stop by there's a lot of incredible art work there okay councilmember Taylor anything at this time no Mr weissner thank you so much and I don't have anything either so that'll close out the H items I don't think we have anything other than I'll come to you madam uh clerk for item J thank you vice mayor we have we don't have any closing public comment registered however for the record I would like to state that we did receive several letters of Correspondence either after 4 pm yesterday or for unassociated items three letters of opposition and one letter of concerns those have been distributed to the Reno city council and will be a part of the permanent record and finally we have two voicemails we'll play now yeah I have a message for the Reno city council regarding the new chief police I've sent letters and phone numerous phone calls to uh for her to respond to what she's going to do about these high-speed fatalities these drunk drivers and 95 percent of them are from the the mug shots are showing on the local news or Guatemalans Hispanics Latinos whatever Mexicans and they're driving without insurance no licenses they're driving way over the speed limit the fatality that just happened here the other night on El Rancho Drive uh 100 miles an hour they quoted um and killed one person injured others and this is going on on a regular basis almost a daily basis where these high-speed crashes and fatalities are taking place now and we can't even get the new chief police to respond to my letters or phone calls and we've had several near misses herself recently in the last month with these type of drivers racing with each other on Rob drive and a Mayan drive and even Audi Boulevard and nobody's nobody's paying attention and the mayor doesn't respond um uh yeah I don't know where she's hiding she doesn't respond the chief doesn't respond the the chief the police chief probably is worried about her salary and her pension and and double dipping you know from her prior job and I don't know what her issue is but she doesn't seem to care about the issues he's got a big smile and smiling or you know big makeup on and smile when she first came on the scene and then she's not approachable she doesn't respond she doesn't give a damn course I'm concerned and others I've talked to it's the same old routine you know just get a job get us get get it in a city position and ignore the issues and um anyway uh the the new chief of Reno PD needs to be removed and and to get somebody in there that will do the job the fatality rate has gone through the roof we've got numerous pedestrians getting killed uh people driving without insurance they're on marijuana which is the illegal drug that's a minority drug It's A Dangerous Drug and people drive without insurance no licenses um driving excessive speeds no wonder you got so many fatalities and people get killed you want me to behooves it'd be whose who's ever responding to this phone call for their safety also that the deal with this probably because everybody's at risk of getting run over uh and killed by these these people in the and she wears makeup hello my name is Jennifer Rippy my phone number is 775-527-5615 I am a resident of downtown Reno um I live off of Keystone uh down 2nd Street where it turns into Dickerson I live at Upstream Townhomes um my son is a student at Reno high school and so we commute to and from the high school daily I had a question or a concern about the street that's now closed is our main way to get to the school safely um and it's been closed I don't know the name of the street but it's the under under the bridge that's the overpass to also get to the high school um under there it's been fenced off for a while but now the whole Road is closed and I just wanted to know if that is temporary or permanent I have concerns about it being permanent as a resident because that is a safe way for me to drive him to school as we're not in the midst of a lot of student and teacher driving in the morning time as well as you know I just had a question about it because it's been closed for a few days now it was closed a few days last week as well as the um the gates on the exit to that parking lot under the bridge have been fenced off for some time now we'd walk under there a lot and when I park under there and try to get out it is very dangerous because you cannot see oncoming traffic um you know when you're pulling out from underneath that bridge I don't know if that has anything to do with the whole Road being fenced off um but it's not a problem to see when you can exit the parking lot at the designated area you can see completely clearly for people coming um I would love to know if if there's um you know any other so solution because that's the main way we go to school and it's really problematic the other way to go over the bridge or the overpass to the high school um and so if there's anything that can be done or that I could do right in have other parents that take that same route right in I know numbers make a difference not just a single complain or concern that would be wonderful again I'm Jennifer Rippy 775-527-5615 thank you so much [Music] okay Madam clerk I'm looking for a motion to adjourn so moved second motion by council member uh Dewer a second by councilmember Martinez any discussion at this item hearing none I'll call for the question all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye aye any opposed motion carries unanimously we are adjourned