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Meeting everybody, before we start, the city council just met on three closed session items, and there is nothing to report out at this time.

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Good evening and thank you for viewing the June 12th special meeting of the Arcade of City Council.

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The City Council meeting is being held as a hybrid meeting with both in person, attendance, and teleconference access via Zoom.

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As this is a special meeting, we will take public comment now at the beginning of the meeting, and only for items that are on the agenda.

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If you're interested in providing public comments on the consent calendar, the budget or the November elections, please line up at the podium or raise your zoom hand now.

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You'll take in person comments first and then move to zoom. We're not going to go back and forth.

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So line up after we do our ceremonial matter.

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So this is a proclamation and celebration of the 4th of July.

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you believe which will be July 4th, 2024 and this proclamation will be read by Council Member

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Reckon Selazar.

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Thank you.

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In celebration of the 4th of July, Jubilee, whereas the city of Arcada, known for its vibrant

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community spirit and commitment to fostering local businesses, recognizes the importance

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of celebrating our nation's independence and the contributions of our local commerce.

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And whereas, the Arcade of Chamber of Commerce has organized a grand event to commemorate

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the significant, this significant day with the festive celebration that brings together

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businesses, residents, and visitors alike, and whereas, the Jubilee promises to be a

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day filled with joy, camaraderie, and entertainment featuring activities, live music, local

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artisans, and food vendors that highlight the diverse talents of our local community.

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And whereas, this event not only provides an opportunity for our community members to come together

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and enjoy the festive atmosphere, but also acts as a catalyst for the growth and success of our local economy,

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creating a platform for businesses to showcase their offerings and gain exposure to a wider audience.

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And whereas, the Jubilee is the longest running event on the Arcade of Plaza dating back over 150 years.

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Therefore, be it resolved that the City Council of the City of Arquita encourages all residents

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to attend the Arquita Chamber of Commerce 4th of July, Jubilee on the Arquita Plaza

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on Thursday, July 4th, signed by our mayor, Meredith Matthews.

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And we have JD Garcia Valencia from the Chamber to accept.

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Can we dance?

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Yeah.

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Granted, I can do it.

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And JD, you're welcome to say a few words.

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It should be preferred.

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Thank you so much.

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Council members, community members, on behalf of the Arcade at Chamber of Commerce, I'd

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like to express our deepest gratitude for this proclamation, the folks over at the Chamber

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are doing wonderful work in our community and this is definitely a grand event, so thank you.

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Thank you so much.

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All right, let's go to public comment. Remember this is a special meeting,

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we're only going to be taking public comment. Once the top of the meeting and only for items

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that they are on the agenda, so if you have public comment today, now it's your time.

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Yes, on the agenda?

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On the agenda, at a session.

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So we are talking about budget, and we are talking about the tax, and we are talking about declaring the public election.

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Well, I was thinking the opposite that wasn't on the, that's our normal routine.

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So, I wasn't quite prepared for this.

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I would, okay, let's go with an article that I was reading on safe parking, that's on the agenda, right?

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It's interesting that the article-

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No, it's not on the agenda.

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It's a bunch of nights.

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So go ahead.

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Okay.

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I'm just curious about this, because there's an article in the post journal on this, and it gives out a price from Arcata

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house of $477,477,000 and then on your agenda I mean I don't remember I read it

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and I'm Friday but I think it's like 670,000 that's what you're saying that the

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safe parking is costiness and I think we've also had sessions where it was in 700 and

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something so I think we need to have some clarity of exactly what this program

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pass because I've seen three different price ranges where some of them are off by a couple

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hundred thousand dollars. So the other area that I would get into from reading that article

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is to that we're sort of letting people we give money for these programs and they sound very

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good and things that problems that we want to solve but we sort of the valuation of these programs

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which we've put out a lot of money for as sort of left in this case for the person who

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evaluate in themselves. So questions I would have on this program itself. It looked like it was

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a warehouse and I was a parking lot and you know it's some pretty serious money that basically

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we're not going to have that program because we don't have the funding anymore. So I would

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address what was what was the run on that? I mean it seems like a lot of money got used up quickly

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for something that was, you know, you were proud of and successful for.

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And also, I think in that article, they mentioned three meals a day.

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I recall one community member going out there and sort of they were a little disappointed

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from the standpoint of there's some cold cereal and some coffee.

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So there's another example of if you're going to have three meals a day, maybe like,

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you know, tell us what you're actually serving these people to, you know, that this money is

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going towards, you know, it just needs, I mean, this is the basic question of all government

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from the standpoint.

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We spend, I mean, California has spent billions of dollars addressing homelessness and the money

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just like goes and it's just a bandaid and there's nobody really like looking at what was

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bang for the buck and succeeded in feeding people, taking care of people, setting up goals

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for the future so that it wasn't just a bandate.

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So that's why basic a summary for your whole budget in a way is that nobody really critiques

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it too well.

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It just kind of like, here it is, sounds good, let's vote for it, and that's it, and there's

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never really too much follow through on the standpoint of what was successful and what's

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help us in the future because obviously our state is like 75 billion I think in deficit so there's going to be cutbacks.

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Thank you. Anybody else for a public comment? Do you have anybody online?

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If there are any people online that would like to make public comment please raise your zoom hand now.

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This is a special meeting so we will be only taking public comment on all the items that are on the agenda now.

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If you'd like to make public comment please raise your hand now.

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There is no online public comment.

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All right.

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Close public comment and let's move to the consent calendar.

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All matters on the consent calendar are considered to be routine

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about the city council and are enacted in one motion.

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There is no separate discussion of any of these items.

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If discussion is required, that item is removed from the consent calendar

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and considered separately at the end of the reading of the consent calendar.

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Council members can request an item be removed for separate discussion.

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Item A is approved the fiscal year 2024 25 senior resource centers Arcada Community Center

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application and permit use of the facilities wave usage fees associated with the

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season your resource centers meal and activity programs at the Arcada Community Center

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and authorize the city manager to execute all applicable documents through 2030.

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B is to adopt resolution number 234-60 approving the fiscal year 2024 25 annual

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report on stormwater drainage maintenance fee for all non-tax exempt parcels and directing

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that said fee be collected through property tax rules for fiscal year 202425 and

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see is approved amendments to the agreement between the city of Arcada and the humble

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transit authority HTA for operations and maintenance of the Arcada and mad river transit system

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A and MRTS and vehicles and authorize the city manager to execute all applicable documents with any staff or council member like to remove items from the consent calendar.

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I don't want to remove anything. I just want to say with regards to the senior resource.

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It's an invaluable resource to our K to seniors and, you know, as pointed out, nearly 100 meals are served.

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It's including delivered meals for those that are homebound.

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So I'm just really happy that we're doing this and we'll be renewing it for what five years now.

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So we don't want to come in every year.

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Thank you.

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Anybody else want to pull anything else?

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We have a motion.

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Well, I'll re-bove for the consent calendar, which includes A, B, and C.

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We'll second.

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All right.

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We have a motion.

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If I may or still mind a second from Council Member White, I'll in favor.

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Bye.

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Bye.

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All right.

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Let's move on to, oh, lovely.

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last one.

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It's move on to old business.

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A is public hearing on fiscal year 2024 25 appropriation limit consider adopting resolution

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number 234-61 adopting the appropriation limit for FY 2025 public hearing on FY 2425 proposed budget

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and consider adoption of resolution number 234-62 adopting the city budget for FY 2024-25.

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and can finance director Tabitha Miller give us a staff report please.

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Good evening Mayor City Council, so just a couple of logistics items.

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One is that you do have a correction to the resolution on your table in front of you and

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there's an extra one over there.

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I had an error in a calculation in my Excel spreadsheet and so we've updated the numbers.

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I have also removed what was paragraph six, one of the warehouses on the original resolution

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because it doesn't apply to this particular year.

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So I apologize for those errors.

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And we're going to take these in two separate items.

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So we'll take the Appropriations GAN limit first.

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We'll have go through the process.

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And then we'll talk about the budget,

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and hopefully you'll adopt that also.

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One thing I would ask is that we probably

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do want to open a public hearing for this.

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Have the staff report.

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You can take public comment specific to began limit, and then take action on it, and then we'll do the same thing for the budget and that way it's all on record.

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I'll make a motion to open the public hearing regarding the appropriations limit for fiscal year 2025.

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24 or 25?

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All second.

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Public.

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We can have a point of order.

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We can.

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I think our finance directors probably correct that as a public hearing, we probably should

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even though it is a special meeting and we don't have to.

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So I apologize to the mayor for that.

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But we'll just keep moving through.

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We have one person online, but not with the hand-offs.

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All right.

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That's fantastic.

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So we have a motion and a second.

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All in favor?

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Thank you.

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So just really quickly, this is something that we are expected to do every year and it's gone through a series of

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Propositions so it's been voter initiated over three different periods of time, but basically what it does is it sets both the state and each local government on an annual basis

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must go through the process of establishing their appropriations limit and this is a sort of what what their total expenditures can be

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There are a number of items that are sort of excluded from it.

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It really, when it comes right down to it, what it applies to is your general fund taxes and a few fees and other charges, your outside grants for the most part are excluded, your enterprise funds are excluded.

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So it is limited, we have always had a pretty big margin.

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You will remember last year because we had that big margin, the state sort of borrowed, excuse me, is how they termed it.

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of our appropriation limit because they had exceeded theirs and they sort of it was how they figured

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out they could get around that process. Unfortunately for all of us, they have a pretty

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big deficit this year so they do not need to borrow any of our limit anymore. But it is in place

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to manage spending. So this is, and this is when I calculated these numbers, I discovered

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the error today but this is it's a pretty simple calculation at the very top you can see

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we take the prior year's appropriation limit and then we adjust it for two factors.

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One is a price it's actually a per capita income number that the state provides us and then

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a population factor. The price factor is an increase unfortunately the population factor is a

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increase. So all of, and I'll show you in the next page, all of Humboldt County saw a decrease

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in their population this last year. The year before we were actually the only city to have

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a population increase. So we actually got a positive bump here. When you put-

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Those two together, essentially, our factor for growth, is a little over 2%, so we multiply that 1.0202 times our number a, which is our current appropriation limit, the difference, which is the $400,000, $219, $219 is how we increase it. We add that to it.

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So our appropriations limit for 2425 will be 20 million, 349,412 dollars.

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When you go through and look at all of the revenues that are subject to the appropriations

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limit, we are limited to about 14.5 million.

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So at the end of the day, we have a surplus or an excess appropriation of just under $5.9

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million dollars.

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So we still have ample room, we're not even close to budding up against that right now.

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I thought it would be interesting just to show you the populations in Humboldt County and as you can see where the top there and we did have a small adjustment down of about a percentage and a half which is pretty consistent with the rest of the county and overall the county is down about 1.11% and again these are numbers that the California Department of Finance provides and it is built into the process that those are the numbers that we have to rely on for our cost and population factors.

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And with that, because this is pretty simple, I'll take any questions and ask you to evaluate the resolution.

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Okay, well since this is a public hearing, open it up for public comment first.

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Anybody have any questions or comments on the gain on the mid.

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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

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All right, then I'll bring you back to the council.

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I'll make a motion to adopt Resolution 234-61 Resolution the City Council City of Arquita,

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adopting the 2024 25 appropriations on that under Article 13B of the California Constitution.

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All right, we have a motion and a second. Does anybody else have any comments or?

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All in favor?

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Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye.

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Motion passes. And let's move on to Part 2.

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And then do we need to move to open the public hearing on this is so I would I would ask that you close the public hearing on the gand limit and then we open the public hearing on the budget

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So I'm over

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I'll second it if someone's moved to close the public hearing. So moved

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Second all of favor. Hi. Hi. Hi. All right. Thank you. And so we move on to the adoption of the proposed 2425 budget

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Just a brief. Isn't that a nice picture?

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So just for quickly what we're going to go through tonight is the City Council goals and priority projects. We're going to go through a budget overview. We'll look at some of the programs that we are funding for 2425. We'll look at our ARPA projects sort of some of wrapping up those funds. The capital improvement program. We've got some other considerations I want you just to talk about.

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And then we can go through questions.

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So these are big picture of these are your goals.

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There are a little bit more detail in both the budget

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book that's online and the one that's in your packet.

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But I just wanted to remind everybody about how important these

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are and that we should be looking and we do.

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Look at these as we develop the budget and make sure

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that we're really complying and that we're

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falling through with the policy that you all are establishing.

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And so I think it's really important to remind us

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of kind of where we're starting out.

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That doesn't mean that we don't have to take into account state mandates and requirements, but it is behind all of that.

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Just a kind of an overview of some of your council priority projects for this year, and again, as a part of adopting the budget,

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you will be adopting re-adopting your goals and establishing the priority projects for the new fiscal year also.

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The homeless, homeless reduction strategy, valley-west improvements.

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We still want to collaborate with other agencies, mental health and social services, public

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safety, is always a top priority working to improve government relations with the local

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tribal governments, economic development strategies, prioritized future planning, implementing

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the Arcades Arcades Arts, Strategic Plan, Climate Change and Climate Adaptation, Parks

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improvements, safe streets, our partnership with Cal Poly Humboldt, we want to have Spanish

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translation of council meetings available, diversity equity and inclusion, and then of course

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supporting our capital improvement project, which continues to be a pretty large portion

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of the city's budget. I went through an exercise to take the $87.6 million expenditure budget

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for this year and match it to those goals. And so this is a little bit subjective because it was

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trying to put it into place but there's also a lot of overlap and what I found is that you

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really are matching and meeting many of your goals and I would just again kind of put it

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out there that you may want to look at how much of the dollars are going to each of those areas

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and if there's something that you want to adjust at some point in the future that's something you

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can consider but safety and livability is the largest portion and that's not surprising because

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its public safety and its safety and comforts and it really includes your police department.

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You think about things that are for safety and comfort of your citizens, water and sewer

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services.

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It's awfully nice to have water come to your house and then have the dirty water taken

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away.

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So that really is going to be the bulk of what we do and it's also really the essential services

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that are provided.

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I was a little surprised but it works out well.

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environment is our second largest factor at 13%. And again, if you think about sort of the

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things that we're doing right now, especially in our capital projects, you're investing

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in your parks, your forest, and also again in your environment with clean water. Both your water

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and your wastewater projects are about making sure that the water that is out there and is returned

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into the system is clean and safe. And so you're making a pretty big kind of use in there.

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ask a quick question and here it says it's 20%

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of the second which is the future

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educational opportunities and those kinds of things

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that we're included.

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You are correct.

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You are correct.

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It's me going in order and not paying attention

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to my own graph.

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So you are correct.

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So the future.

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These numbers as we move through can kind of be a living document

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if we decide that maybe we want to

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You know, put more effort into public service or whatever that might be.

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We can flip these around and make our pie chart different.

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And it would be how you set your budget and how you set your goals every year.

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And so yes, that is.

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And keep in mind, there are many that can overlap.

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You know, when we talk about safety and water and sewer and environment, they all are related.

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The same thing, even when you talk about health, you know, health and environment are pretty

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closely related to an essential services.

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But yes, thank you for pointing pointing that out.

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Sustainable development, you know, is a little bit lower, but that's also something

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that's a little bit more niche, less of an essential service.

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Public service is really that outreach, it's engagement with the community, and it's not

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that you don't do quite a bit, it's just that on a dollar value, it doesn't rise to

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the same level.

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Your health is about 8% and again that's going to also be reflected in your Parks and Recreation

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Programs and your Capital Investments in those facilities that will be helpful to our community

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as far as exercise and well being.

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And then as council member, white pointed out, futures 20%.

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And again, some of that, a small portion of that is the planning that we're doing in order

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to sort of contribute to planning for the future and the things that we're doing there.

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But a lot of it also comes back to those capital projects because you're investing in projects

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today that will last in some cases 20, 30, 50 years from now.

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And so, you know, it's really a reflection of your capital program.

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I suspect if we just use me.

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If we pulled that that $40 million out, you know, these numbers would change a little bit.

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And again, it's just something to think about.

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The last number is administration and it's really, it's financed the city manager's office.

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It's the human resources.

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It's those departments that when you think about them, don't necessarily have a direct role in those,

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providing those services that are support for all of them.

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And you could argue that you would allocate it back out proportionally.

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But I wanted to just kind of point that out, see if we keep that.

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Could I ask one more question?

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So next year when we don't have ARPA funds depending on how this ballot initiative plays out,

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this is going to change significantly.

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I wouldn't say necessarily significantly because your ARPA funds of your $87.6 million this year,

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they're only about 900,000. So we're talking a pretty small amount. So even those dollars going away

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will shift things a little bit. It's the capital piece that's really driving it. And that's the,

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$40 million or $39.8 million that really is establishing it.

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So as our capital program decreases, if it does, then you would definitely see changes.

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This is in all the programs that we've provided and are addressing in this year's budget

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based on your goals and priority projects.

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But there are a few that I thought I would point out really quickly.

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We are looking at sea level rise vulnerability this year.

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We are finishing the upgrades to our Arcade of Ball Park.

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We've got traffic calming plan for KN11 Street.

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We've got the reconnecting communities planning.

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We're still waiting to figure out how much money we have,

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but that's going to be a big project.

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The support for the climate action plan,

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the county should be moving forward with soon,

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phase one of old Arcade of Road.

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We've got a full-time equity Arcade Accordinator.

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We've got most of that funding coming from outside in order to support it.

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We've got economic development strategic plan plans.

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We've got the Arcana Chinatown Project and we've got small amount of funds set aside for that.

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The Valley West Improvements adopting your general plan update, which should happen just after the first of the fiscal year.

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Your potential West End Road property purchase.

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We've got about 1.1 million, 1.7 million dollars set aside if that happens.

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We do have three over higher officers approved, and this is really kind of talks about the next item,

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which is that's how we're able to add those additional toll services in the downtown area.

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We've got somebody dedicated valley west and then the march in the park, the parks patrol.

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Those overhires really are not about being overhired.

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They're about making sure that through the transitions in the police department staff.

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we can stay at the total number of staff in the total number of 27 offers officers who are actually

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budgeted and then authorized. It takes six to nine months to replace a police officer down there.

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And then redevelopment planning for a happy valley and little lakes properties. This is also an

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economic development piece. We've got completing the solar and electric updates to the Arcade

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community center. We did get a $576,000 loan, which will be paid off with the savings that

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the energy savings. And then we do also include a part-time position to help out down at the

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marsh.

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So, these are sort of big picture numbers and they're really the highlights. We've talked a

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little bit about a few of them, but they're the kind of thing that if you go to not that you go

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finance department, swing digs, and conferences, and cocktail parties, but these are the numbers

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that you pass back and forth. So I wanted you all to be prepared in case you need to know exactly

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what our budget is. So you'll be in the know. So as I mentioned, the total budget is 87.6

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million dollars. That is a total increase over last year's adoptive budget of 2.1%. The capital

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budget the total capital is 44.7 million of that 39.8 is part of our capital improvements program.

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The difference are things like setting aside money for that potential property purchase. We've got

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about $2 million in vehicles lined up and we've got a few other odds and ends that are included in the

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total capital that are more related to equipment and things like that. Your total payroll and

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benefits is $20.8 million. I will tell you that we've adjusted the number so that the two labor

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agreements that you approved at your last week's meeting. Those numbers have been updated. You

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still have your arcade-up police association that has not been settled, so there may be some minor

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adjustments there. In our city payments, this is a number that is really where we're paying ourselves

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for services. And a good example of this is our IT services. So the IT department provides

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services exclusively to city departments. And in order to sort of allocate the cost of that

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out appropriately, we charge each of those departments and funds for those services. So really

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what we're doing is we're sending money back to IT to pay for services. What it does is it kind

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of creates a little bit of an over budgeting. It inflates the budget because you're recognizing

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those as revenues and expenses and they're really a net zero. So if you think about that,

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your budget would be 82.5 million. So it reduces it a little bit. As far as full time,

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authorized employees, there are 130 employees plus five counts of members. And then your general

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fund budget is $24.4 million. A couple other things to let you know, none, we have not included any

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of the dollars from a proposed tax measure in this budget for a couple of reasons one.

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We don't want to count on it before it's approved or make any assumptions.

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And it also even if it passes in November because of the delay in collections.

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We wouldn't start being collected until April of 2025,

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which means that we wouldn't actually even receive the money until essentially the next fiscal year.

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So, it does, the budget does use,

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3.1 million dollars of one-time funds. It's where feasible. We are committing to a green fleet, where we can take that banage. And then, I wanted to point out this last figure. So your general fund balance, which includes your reserved, which is the 30% operating reserve that you set up last year, plus sort of the unreserved amount, is equal to 299 days of operations. So if you're if your general fund stop taking money into tomorrow, you could almost get in.

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through a full year of operations just on your reserves.

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And that's a pretty good amount of money.

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It goes fast with your just spending it.

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But it is over an 80% of reserve, which is something

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that it puts us in good stead.

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So, we start in a few slides.

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When we start talking about structural deficits

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and some of the challenges we have,

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I do want to just commend the council and the city

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on really sort of putting us in a solid position

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and so that we're not panicking.

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We're not having to make decisions immediately

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and we can continue to make, you know,

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thoughtful processes as we go through the next couple of years.

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This is just a real big overview of all the funds.

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It's that $87.6 million.

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Again, the capital outlay is your largest expenditure

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at 48%.

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Your personal services or your labor is 24% materials

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and services 19, that five million dollars that goes back and forth is about seven percent

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including a couple other things here.

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That service is almost minimal at less than one percent and then other expenditures is

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just a catch-all.

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So this is kind of the big picture again.

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You're going to see the same dollars if you look over on the far right-hand side.

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Your total revenue is 84.5 million, and you can see how it works the way through, and if you go to the middle of the page, the expense total is the 87.6 million we've talked about.

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I don't think there's any surprises here. Your capital outplay, your personal services, all of those numbers are the percentages that you saw on the back page.

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If you do again have a $3.1 million one-time use of fund balance, most of that actually is

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coming out of the general fund and it has to do with that money we've set aside for

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the potential purchase of property in the West End Street, that's a largest chunk of it.

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And I will say that if you are interested and I can certainly, at any point, if you wanted

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to go and see any of the details, we could go into the online budget tool and drill down

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anybody has a desire to do that. And this is just by function and again, it's it's pretty

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straightforward. Police are 35% your largest portion of your general fund budget, public works,

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and parks react and recreation are large here, but it's because you've got $5 million with the

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capital projects that are embedded in both of those. So if you pulled those out, you parks and public

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works and recreation would be a much smaller portion of the total. So, but it gives you an idea

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of where you're spending your money as far as departments and expenses.

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Could I just ask a clarifying question?

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Those a lot of that is actually grant funded, though, right?

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It's not necessarily coming from the general fund.

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So, for the capital projects in the general fund, yes.

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There's about $2.5 million that is grant funded.

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When we talk about bigger picture, when we talk about your wastewater fund and your water fund,

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it's a much larger portion of grant funded.

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But, yes, you're much of your parks and your streets programs that are included in parks and recreation and public works are coming from outside sources.

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And then, off in your parks projects, we'll also have an allocation that come from development fees, so what we call either recreation fee for new construction or park and loufies, where they are general fund dollars, they are earmarked from the extraction of that through development specific to those park improvements.

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So, what just legislative means, legislative means, you are considered a legislative body in the fact that you are making rules and regulations for the city, same, so that is, and so basically it takes into account city council and typically your city clerk because your city clerk is essentially the person who is overseeing that process.

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So

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we'll move on to the special revenue funds.

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So you have, I think I counted 30, 34 or 35 special revenue funds.

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We have some that are like our bicycle registration that literally only has a couple hundred

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dollars a year in it.

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And then you have some that have been stagnant for quite a few years.

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We are closing a few of those, but it is pretty diverse.

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And if you're interested again, they are online.

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But for the most part, these are revenues, for entirely, they're revenues that are set aside and

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legally required to be used for a special purpose.

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Probably your mainstays are going to be your community development block grants, and then your streets and road taxes,

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the ones that are sort of reliable and regular.

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You'll see, and I would point out here on your revised budget and your assules in

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22, 21, excuse me, 22, 23, and those big increases in revenue, we're really about the

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ARPA funds and your project home key funds that you got paid up front.

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It's also the reason that you have some negative spending going on because you've been spending

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down those proceeds, and again, they have to be used for that specific program or specific

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identified project and so it's a good thing but it is something that you should be aware of.

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So this stormwater utility, I think we've talked about a few times and the reason I am highlighting

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it here, it's a fairly small fund but it is one that is challenged and it is one that really

430
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:24,540
does meet the definition of a structural deficit and a structural deficit is basically when you go

431
00:36:24,540 --> 00:36:30,380
multiple years with your expenses exceeding your revenues and you're running negative to the

432
00:36:30,380 --> 00:36:34,320
point where you are running out of funds and this is a fund that is there.

433
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:41,280
That said, I would point out that we are in the process of a stormwater rate study.

434
00:36:41,980 --> 00:36:46,800
I know they're going back and forth with that and I believe that the environmental services

435
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:52,860
department will be coming forward late this next year, late this year, 2024 calendar year,

436
00:36:52,860 --> 00:36:59,740
with some solutions and some ways and a real review and evaluation of how to sort of write

437
00:36:59,740 --> 00:37:07,200
that fund and what's really required to maintain those services and the MS4 permit that we

438
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,220
are required to keep current and comply with.

439
00:37:10,860 --> 00:37:12,220
Could I ask a third question?

440
00:37:12,580 --> 00:37:13,640
You guys bear with me I'm learning.

441
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:19,080
Does that mean there will be a special will that go on to the water bill?

442
00:37:20,100 --> 00:37:21,160
Not automatically.

443
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:28,000
So currently your charges for service at the very top here under revenues is actually up it's a parcel

444
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:38,000
It's on a it's per parcel tax. So it actually goes on your property taxes. Okay, um, and so I'm not exactly sure what the proposal will be from from the consultants

445
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,460
to come out of the right study, but

446
00:37:40,460 --> 00:37:47,060
It would have to be it still has to go through an election process to either be increased as a parcel tax or

447
00:37:47,060 --> 00:37:53,480
to end up on the bills, so there'll be a process that would go through probably sometime in spring or summer of 2025.

448
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:55,060
Thank you.

449
00:37:55,720 --> 00:38:01,680
The other piece I'll add to this is that the Department of Environmental Services is going through an audit of all of our stormwater parcels.

450
00:38:02,260 --> 00:38:12,360
When this fee was initially enacted in the city was actually before we were even regulated through a municipal stormwater permit from the Regional Water Quality Control Board.

451
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:19,360
And there were a lot of early exemptions that the past council and past staff made associated with stormwater.

452
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:25,160
So part of this process is just to audit all of those parcels that once received an exemption

453
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:27,720
to see if there has been development since them.

454
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:34,320
To see if they now meet the definition to have an exemption since a lot of legislation has changed in stormwater,

455
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:38,160
which might also help us write a little bit of this deficit.

456
00:38:43,180 --> 00:38:55,860
You're a wastewater enterprise utility and again, I think the picture over the last three years really reflects the wastewater treatment plant upgrade project.

457
00:38:56,220 --> 00:39:07,320
So we're talking about a $54 million construction project, a total of $67 million when you add in your consulting fees, your engineering and all of the costs that are involved.

458
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:16,740
But you know, you can really see in your revenues from 2223 actual the jump up and then obviously the expense reflects the same thing.

459
00:39:17,240 --> 00:39:24,640
But again, that is one place where we are very lucky that it is outside state funding that is essentially covering all of that.

460
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:28,800
So we've got a pretty good shape here.

461
00:39:30,910 --> 00:39:39,830
And the water fund is also in decent shape, and certainly has made some investments in capital programs too.

462
00:39:40,130 --> 00:39:48,150
It will say about half of the programs in the water fund have been funded from outside sources and the other half have been funded through rates.

463
00:39:48,850 --> 00:39:57,550
And essentially what's really funding that is that you've been able to over time build up some fund balance reserves and set aside money specifically for capital replacement.

464
00:39:57,550 --> 00:40:03,250
And so you're using some of that, which is why you've got some higher expense totals in the current years.

465
00:40:03,630 --> 00:40:05,590
And so that's really a reflection there.

466
00:40:05,650 --> 00:40:07,110
Otherwise, it's pretty straightforward.

467
00:40:07,930 --> 00:40:15,630
Just a reminder in when you pass the new master fee schedule in April that'll be effective on July 1st.

468
00:40:15,870 --> 00:40:22,110
It did include a 1.5% increase in water rates and an 8% increase in the wastewater rates.

469
00:40:22,110 --> 00:40:27,950
And that is the last increase that has built into the current rate study and the current approved

470
00:40:27,950 --> 00:40:28,670
rate structure.

471
00:40:29,350 --> 00:40:33,650
So that's something else that may be revisited in the next year or two.

472
00:40:34,210 --> 00:40:39,450
Okay, shifting gears a little bit to the American Rescue Plan Act or ARPA programs and projects.

473
00:40:39,730 --> 00:40:43,310
And as we already mentioned, we are sort of at the end.

474
00:40:43,550 --> 00:40:45,030
This is about the end of the funds.

475
00:40:45,210 --> 00:40:49,930
And I expect that if we don't spend all of it, it will be essentially all of the money will

476
00:40:49,930 --> 00:40:53,630
likely be gone by the end of fiscal year 2024, 25.

477
00:40:54,330 --> 00:40:58,610
Just a reminder when we talk about the projects and commitments is that one of the deadlines

478
00:40:58,610 --> 00:41:05,710
we have in order to comply with and keep those funds is that we have to have the funds committed

479
00:41:05,710 --> 00:41:08,130
before 1231 of 2024.

480
00:41:09,070 --> 00:41:13,930
And so when you're reviewing the projects and I'm going to also make sure that staff is really

481
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:19,130
also on board with this, we want to make sure that we have contracts in place.

482
00:41:19,130 --> 00:41:25,710
we have firm commitments to programs before 2024 or that we have looked at alternatives and

483
00:41:25,710 --> 00:41:31,690
something that we have used and we can certainly use to sort of make sure that we meet,

484
00:41:32,010 --> 00:41:38,890
we comply with those requirements, we had staff that you all had frozen back or the council

485
00:41:38,890 --> 00:41:44,790
of the frozen sort of pre and post pandemic that we were able to bring on, that is a certainly

486
00:41:44,790 --> 00:41:50,270
valid use of ARPA funds, we have used it in the past, and it's an easy way to, if we need

487
00:41:50,270 --> 00:41:54,450
to make sure that we spend all of the dollars, we can certainly shift some of that back

488
00:41:54,450 --> 00:41:59,290
to staff, those same staff members for a short period of time. And what I would suggest there

489
00:41:59,290 --> 00:42:04,390
is if there are projects that you are still very much committed to and we want to complete

490
00:42:04,390 --> 00:42:11,170
or see through, we could set aside money in the general fund for those projects and it would

491
00:42:11,170 --> 00:42:15,030
us a little bit more time in order to complete those. So that's something to do.

492
00:42:15,030 --> 00:42:17,850
And we have to 26 to spend it.

493
00:42:17,890 --> 00:42:24,510
We haven't till 1231 of 26 to spend it, but we definitely need to, we need commitments that are

494
00:42:24,510 --> 00:42:30,790
in writing and are firm. And the one challenge too is that once you commit that money after

495
00:42:30,790 --> 00:42:37,550
after 1231-24, we can't move it around. So the flexibility goes away. And so we've got

496
00:42:37,550 --> 00:42:42,550
flexibility in roughly the next six months to address this if we need to.

497
00:42:43,970 --> 00:42:48,610
So I think the recommendation in approving this year's budget will be to provide

498
00:42:48,610 --> 00:42:52,550
some authority to the finance director to an essence shift money's.

499
00:42:53,110 --> 00:42:55,610
Money's this year that we would be paying out of the general fund.

500
00:42:55,610 --> 00:43:00,810
If they are eligible for reimbursable expense to be able to get that reimbursement done and

501
00:43:00,810 --> 00:43:04,230
set aside those funds for the project if it's going to be pushed off another year.

502
00:43:04,230 --> 00:43:06,770
And then that frees up our general thing for other things.

503
00:43:07,810 --> 00:43:08,030
Yeah.

504
00:43:08,030 --> 00:43:11,470
Well, specific to complete the projects that you've outlined at this point,

505
00:43:11,790 --> 00:43:13,010
because that's all you would have approved.

506
00:43:14,970 --> 00:43:15,130
Yeah.

507
00:43:15,450 --> 00:43:20,290
We're essentially just spending pre-spending these dollars and backfilling it

508
00:43:20,290 --> 00:43:22,130
with general fund dollars is what we would be doing.

509
00:43:23,090 --> 00:43:26,250
But it continues the community and bastard or program.

510
00:43:26,990 --> 00:43:30,590
You have set aside $10,000 for a joint tribal project.

511
00:43:30,610 --> 00:43:33,250
And that's why I am a little concerned about the deadline.

512
00:43:33,250 --> 00:43:35,670
because I don't know that we have anything identified.

513
00:43:36,370 --> 00:43:39,210
We do have $75,000 in for the Mr.

514
00:43:39,270 --> 00:43:41,250
the Mobile Intervention Services team.

515
00:43:41,610 --> 00:43:43,510
This is based on what we've spent in the past.

516
00:43:43,750 --> 00:43:49,410
I do know that there are challenges at the county in how this is going to operate.

517
00:43:49,690 --> 00:43:51,270
I don't have any specific details.

518
00:43:51,610 --> 00:43:54,510
So this is something that is really kind of a placeholder right now.

519
00:43:54,850 --> 00:43:57,990
And it may be something that we reallocate or look at

520
00:43:57,990 --> 00:43:59,650
at doing differently going forward.

521
00:44:00,730 --> 00:44:02,770
We do have the outreach sergeant that's funded

522
00:44:02,770 --> 00:44:09,770
from ARPA for another year, we have a bike storage project, we've got value-esque community

523
00:44:09,770 --> 00:44:15,310
center project, we've got the final phase of the public art call for arts, we've got

524
00:44:15,310 --> 00:44:20,890
completion of the Green and Gold corridor crosswalks, climate change action plan support,

525
00:44:21,590 --> 00:44:25,490
this is another one we may want to kind of make sure that we set aside because I'm not sure

526
00:44:25,490 --> 00:44:30,670
exactly where that project is, we've got the remaining Kuna contract and then there is still

527
00:44:30,670 --> 00:44:38,650
$60,000 that is sort of un-designated, there is also a chance we'll do a final accounting

528
00:44:38,650 --> 00:44:42,750
once the books have closed and we'll see if there's any additional funds that will be rolling

529
00:44:42,750 --> 00:44:46,950
forward but we'll let you know that too. And so this, as the city manager said, I think this

530
00:44:46,950 --> 00:44:52,010
is an item that we will probably check in with you not too long after the beginning of the new

531
00:44:52,010 --> 00:44:57,790
fiscal year just to make sure that everything is on track and we know where we're at and also to

532
00:44:57,790 --> 00:44:59,970
use them octades on stepresis. So the

533
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:12,260
Endspend 60,000 could be more possibly. It could be more. Okay, but that's the, but yeah. It's what I, it's what I know, it could be more, I don't expect it to be much more, though.

534
00:45:12,660 --> 00:45:14,100
We're talking thousands probably.

535
00:45:20,900 --> 00:45:30,660
So I also thought it would be useful to just highlight a few of the capital improvement program. Again, we've talked a lot about this because it is a good chunk of your budget.

536
00:45:30,660 --> 00:45:42,840
You have 37 active projects. We've got six new ones this year. You completed 15 in fiscal year 2324. And again, it's just under a $40 million budget item.

537
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:55,160
This is just a breakout of in millions of where what funds they're coming from. And again, it's not anything surprising we've already talked about the wastewater treatment plan upgrade.

538
00:45:55,160 --> 00:46:00,640
and the I&I project that is making up that $22.5 million.

539
00:46:01,260 --> 00:46:05,480
Your general fund $5.1 million. Water is 5.

540
00:46:05,940 --> 00:46:11,660
You've got state transportation improvement program funding for a number of transportation projects at 4.8.

541
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:19,980
And then there's a few smaller special revenue fund grant projects that make up that last 2.4.

542
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:26,540
I'm going to highlight just a couple of the projects because I think that they're either

543
00:46:26,540 --> 00:46:31,200
a significant amount of money or it also shows sort of how the funding is working and

544
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:32,920
one of them is the old Arcade of Road.

545
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:38,820
It's a $6 million construction price tag and it really, we're getting a lot of the state

546
00:46:38,820 --> 00:46:43,940
transportation funding but we are also contributing major G money which is the previous

547
00:46:43,940 --> 00:46:50,220
TUT tax that was set aside for public safety and streets so it's a perfect use for it.

548
00:46:51,570 --> 00:46:55,470
And I would also point out that this does meet the city's complete street policies.

549
00:46:55,850 --> 00:46:57,250
So another, another plus.

550
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:00,900
The Annie and Mary Trail.

551
00:47:01,180 --> 00:47:03,000
We're going to be doing design work this year.

552
00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:11,100
And again, this is pretty much this point funded from outside resources is where it's coming from.

553
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:13,200
And obviously that's going to be an exciting project.

554
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:16,120
And certainly we'll add to our alternative transportation and

555
00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:19,420
and pedestrian non-motorized ways to get around town.

556
00:47:21,620 --> 00:47:24,840
This one is on here really just because I thought this was a cool picture.

557
00:47:25,780 --> 00:47:28,260
Otherwise it's not that exciting of a project.

558
00:47:28,780 --> 00:47:34,760
But the water tank is being completed and we're on the final stages of closing out that project

559
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:41,720
and actually probably moving on to rehabbing tank 4c is it?

560
00:47:42,240 --> 00:47:42,840
Take 4.

561
00:47:43,100 --> 00:47:43,740
Okay, tank 4.

562
00:47:44,020 --> 00:47:44,860
So we've got another one.

563
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:50,740
But you know, this is pretty, this is our tank and this is putting on the interior.

564
00:47:50,740 --> 00:47:51,500
You're coding.

565
00:47:53,140 --> 00:47:54,160
Yeah, isn't it cool?

566
00:47:59,540 --> 00:48:04,600
And again, you know, that funding came from the infant infrastructure grant and then also some.

567
00:48:05,240 --> 00:48:07,200
It should be water funds that makes water funds.

568
00:48:09,510 --> 00:48:16,170
Probably our most popular CIP project is the Redwood Park that you've just recently opened.

569
00:48:16,170 --> 00:48:21,710
had to grand opening and obviously is causing all sorts of issues with parking and bathrooms

570
00:48:21,710 --> 00:48:26,150
and overused but it is pretty exciting and it's pretty exciting to see everybody up there

571
00:48:26,150 --> 00:48:32,570
playing and enjoying it and again it had an assortment of outside funds that helped us

572
00:48:32,570 --> 00:48:37,130
complete that sounds like a good problem to have it's getting used. It is a good problem.

573
00:48:38,450 --> 00:48:45,370
And then the soon to be open Carlson Park, which again another other big add to Valley West

574
00:48:45,370 --> 00:48:55,210
And we certainly received funds from the state level and other grant tourism and other dollars that really made most of this come together.

575
00:48:55,830 --> 00:49:01,130
So it's another one that we have, we have to really say thank you to our outside partners.

576
00:49:01,290 --> 00:49:02,290
Could I ask a question?

577
00:49:02,290 --> 00:49:03,790
This is 1.4 million.

578
00:49:03,830 --> 00:49:05,370
I thought it was 2.4.

579
00:49:06,910 --> 00:49:09,210
Because millions from Senator McGuire.

580
00:49:09,210 --> 00:49:16,190
Yeah, this phase is just the construction of the playground and the records on the entire, not the entire.

581
00:49:17,710 --> 00:49:18,510
What happened?

582
00:49:20,930 --> 00:49:21,170
Okay.

583
00:49:22,030 --> 00:49:27,850
And with that, and I wanted to just kind of circle back on a few items that you may want to consider.

584
00:49:28,850 --> 00:49:32,310
And these are decisions that don't necessarily have to be made this evening.

585
00:49:32,390 --> 00:49:34,490
We can certainly bring them back after the beginning of the year.

586
00:49:34,510 --> 00:49:37,270
We've got a couple things to check in with you about.

587
00:49:37,270 --> 00:49:42,690
The first two are a grant management program and economic development program.

588
00:49:42,790 --> 00:49:54,270
These are two thoughts that came out of our management team meeting and it was when we were talking about and we were doing the haggling of cutting budgets in each department to try to bring things.

589
00:49:55,810 --> 00:50:05,930
Balance in the balance and the conversation came up about sort of what we really need and what we think is important to sort of the fiscal future of the city.

590
00:50:05,930 --> 00:50:13,230
and these two programs were something that universally amongst the department heads and other

591
00:50:13,230 --> 00:50:15,010
managers we thought were important.

592
00:50:15,190 --> 00:50:21,270
And the thing that really struck me is that neither of these are necessarily going to help

593
00:50:21,270 --> 00:50:26,030
individual departments, they're really about helping the whole, helping all departments

594
00:50:26,030 --> 00:50:31,030
and probably more importantly helping the city, you know, a grant management program.

595
00:50:31,230 --> 00:50:35,470
As you can see, we've talked about a lot tonight already and we have in the past is that

596
00:50:35,470 --> 00:50:42,890
We see a lot of money, and we apply for a lot of grants, we receive a lot of grants, and it is a big job managing them.

597
00:50:43,130 --> 00:50:47,010
It's also something that the skill sets vary from department to department.

598
00:50:47,550 --> 00:50:54,010
We also find that we're using high-end staff, some of our highest-paid staff to do just the basic reporting,

599
00:50:55,570 --> 00:51:01,610
and the basic invoicing, it's fairly complex, and that may or may not be the best use of resources.

600
00:51:01,610 --> 00:51:06,690
The other thing that came out of this is that there's no, it's not, it's not a cohesive

601
00:51:06,690 --> 00:51:13,810
overall program or policy, so it's very much made up of departments kind of going after

602
00:51:13,810 --> 00:51:18,870
what they want, but we're not necessarily doing as great a job of planning it and looking

603
00:51:18,870 --> 00:51:23,710
at strategically looking at that process and there are departments that just quite frankly don't

604
00:51:23,710 --> 00:51:28,210
have the resources and are probably missing out on grants because that they just don't have

605
00:51:28,210 --> 00:51:32,810
capacity within the department and so we really feel like it's something that we'd like the

606
00:51:32,810 --> 00:51:37,690
Council to consider, at least at the very least identifying as a project so that we start

607
00:51:37,690 --> 00:51:43,490
working on how to put that together. We've also found that many of the grants and our city

608
00:51:43,490 --> 00:51:48,970
engineer can certainly speak to this but a lot of the grants actually have some funding for staff.

609
00:51:49,570 --> 00:51:54,910
They wouldn't necessarily cover a full staff person or 100% of a staff person but we can get

610
00:51:54,910 --> 00:51:59,330
some of that money back. So that's something else that we'd like to really explore a little bit more.

611
00:51:59,450 --> 00:52:03,910
Did I ask was were you thinking a full-time position, part-time position?

612
00:52:04,650 --> 00:52:07,850
I think we would take whatever we could get ideally a full-time position.

613
00:52:08,490 --> 00:52:13,410
And just to clarify, when you say management, that includes not just managing but writing, correct?

614
00:52:13,910 --> 00:52:16,950
Yes. So it would be helping, it would be helping write the grants,

615
00:52:17,370 --> 00:52:20,210
it would be helping with the reporting, and it would be helping with the invoicing.

616
00:52:20,750 --> 00:52:24,850
You are obviously still going to be very much dependent on a department because they are

617
00:52:24,850 --> 00:52:31,470
the experts in their area and so there's no way that you can just that I could write a grant

618
00:52:31,470 --> 00:52:37,350
specific about you know wastewater treatment upgrade there's there's just certain things that

619
00:52:37,350 --> 00:52:45,730
so another dimension we may or may not can we decide this tonight that's up to you all

620
00:52:46,190 --> 00:52:52,170
okay I'm excited but one thing we thought we don't yeah we could recommend that we look into it

621
00:52:52,170 --> 00:52:54,610
that we have staff look into it and see the possibilities

622
00:52:54,610 --> 00:52:57,070
and then we could bring it back to our council meeting.

623
00:52:57,270 --> 00:52:58,910
The recommendation is whether or not you

624
00:52:58,910 --> 00:53:02,430
would want to add staff doing research around this

625
00:53:02,430 --> 00:53:04,270
to your priority projects for this year

626
00:53:04,270 --> 00:53:07,630
and the economic development program, two year council goals.

627
00:53:08,110 --> 00:53:09,950
They're not included in this year's budget.

628
00:53:10,750 --> 00:53:13,330
It would be additional dipping into reserves

629
00:53:13,330 --> 00:53:15,750
to fund those this year and they are ongoing costs.

630
00:53:16,390 --> 00:53:18,790
So, but at least to be able to research that and to...

631
00:53:18,790 --> 00:53:19,770
We get the ball rolling.

632
00:53:20,570 --> 00:53:30,010
And to identify the need, and again, it is the grant management program would be something we would ask you to set a priority for and then staff would work on it.

633
00:53:30,150 --> 00:53:41,890
And the second one, the economic development program, I think, is important to consider the fact that we do have money in the budget for developing a strategic plan, so it's not that you probably need to work on that this year.

634
00:53:41,890 --> 00:53:47,710
But the idea being that we'd like to make sure that when we complete that plan and we put the work into it,

635
00:53:48,110 --> 00:53:51,870
that we have the ability to actually implement it and work it.

636
00:53:51,870 --> 00:53:58,230
And so it's probably a future, a future which is why I said it as a goal as opposed to a priority project.

637
00:53:59,810 --> 00:54:06,270
Again, the other thing I'm reminding of is just the storm water that that will be coming back to you and that's something we need to keep our eyes on.

638
00:54:06,270 --> 00:54:19,630
The next item setting aside 25% of the general fund surplus from 2223 is a part of your pension funding policy that you adopted last August.

639
00:54:20,350 --> 00:54:26,710
Technically, though, this surplus happened in 2223 and you adopted that policy in 2324.

640
00:54:27,610 --> 00:54:30,390
The recommendation is, and we can bring this back to you.

641
00:54:30,390 --> 00:54:33,290
But the recommendation is that we actually set aside

642
00:54:33,290 --> 00:54:36,450
that 25% which is about $484,000.

643
00:54:37,170 --> 00:54:39,950
We would put it into our section 115 trust,

644
00:54:40,190 --> 00:54:42,050
which means that we have some flexibility.

645
00:54:43,230 --> 00:54:46,730
The section 11515 trust is to build funds

646
00:54:46,730 --> 00:54:48,790
or save funds for the pension liability.

647
00:54:49,110 --> 00:54:50,790
And so goal would not be to use it.

648
00:54:51,110 --> 00:54:54,130
But if we had a really rough year or a real dire need

649
00:54:54,130 --> 00:54:57,670
in the future, we could use it to offset that year's cost.

650
00:54:57,670 --> 00:55:05,770
and so it would help us subsidize any given years budget and so it's still money that is somewhat

651
00:55:05,770 --> 00:55:10,050
available but specific to pension and so that would be our recommendation if the council

652
00:55:10,050 --> 00:55:14,810
would be willing to appropriate good idea to do that after our whole conversation ahead of

653
00:55:14,810 --> 00:55:20,910
how we're going to handle everything. So if I had a question and it's on page 13, would this

654
00:55:20,910 --> 00:55:24,910
to be the timer later about item number two at the bottom of the page.

655
00:55:27,230 --> 00:55:29,150
You're going to have money that we saved.

656
00:55:29,650 --> 00:55:31,930
You're going to have to give us a little bit of...

657
00:55:31,930 --> 00:55:33,050
Let's go through this presentation.

658
00:55:33,450 --> 00:55:40,030
So it's on packet page 113 number two and it's about the annual UAL pre-payment.

659
00:55:40,410 --> 00:55:42,910
It sounds like we by pre-paying.

660
00:55:43,670 --> 00:55:48,010
We saved 66, almost 67,000 dollars.

661
00:55:50,430 --> 00:56:11,850
We did that last year, and I will tell you that it is a good thing, but I'll give a caveat here in that interest rates last year also went up, and so we probably didn't do that much better, and we might have even maybe done a little bit better if we had just left it in a savings account, we probably would have ended up about the same place.

662
00:56:11,850 --> 00:56:17,010
So we will likely look at interest rates, in fact, we have to make that decision in the next

663
00:56:17,010 --> 00:56:17,490
month.

664
00:56:17,730 --> 00:56:21,930
But when interest rates a year before that, when interest rates were rock bottom, it was a

665
00:56:21,930 --> 00:56:22,450
great deal.

666
00:56:23,110 --> 00:56:26,230
And you did save money and you didn't, you weren't getting interest elsewhere.

667
00:56:27,170 --> 00:56:36,220
So again, we've still got the Arcade of Police Association Labor Agreement to manage that

668
00:56:36,220 --> 00:56:38,660
might have minor changes to some of your cost factors.

669
00:56:38,660 --> 00:56:49,900
And again, a reminder on the ARPA that this is something that we can certainly come back to you early in the fiscal year and sort of do just a touch, touch based on each and every one of these items.

670
00:56:50,360 --> 00:56:54,160
I'm not asking you to necessarily make a decision tonight, but you're welcome to.

671
00:56:56,140 --> 00:57:00,220
And if not, we probably would schedule something in August to come back on that.

672
00:57:05,880 --> 00:57:09,620
Hey, well, as this is a public hearing, I think I'll open it up for public comment first.

673
00:57:10,740 --> 00:57:12,000
There is no online public comment.

674
00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:13,420
Okay, let's bring it back to the council.

675
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:15,160
Who wants to start?

676
00:57:17,400 --> 00:57:27,900
I would just say, actually, you know, I said, I don't really like to do this and then I looked at everything that you had and I don't know if you could tell I did or not.

677
00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:36,700
But anyway, I thought it was very good. I liked it. I was interested in the whole thing, then I asked you interesting questions, but what's happening was so and so.

678
00:57:36,700 --> 00:57:39,780
So, but I thought it was excellent.

679
00:57:40,260 --> 00:57:41,660
I really appreciate it.

680
00:57:41,740 --> 00:57:47,200
I like the format and the fact that it's a 100% online.

681
00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:52,660
So, every facet of this budget is available for any member of the public to click on

682
00:57:52,660 --> 00:57:55,640
and look at where every of the needs being spent.

683
00:57:56,440 --> 00:57:59,400
And I wanted to add to that.

684
00:57:59,580 --> 00:58:04,600
One of the things that I wanted all of you to know and even the public is that the budget

685
00:58:04,600 --> 00:58:08,220
gets that those numbers online get updated nightly.

686
00:58:08,660 --> 00:58:10,860
And so the only ones that really, your budget numbers typically

687
00:58:10,860 --> 00:58:14,460
don't change much over time, there'll be a few adjustments.

688
00:58:14,880 --> 00:58:18,260
But the year to date for 2324, the Actuals,

689
00:58:18,320 --> 00:58:21,080
we need real-end the reports and see those will change nightly.

690
00:58:21,440 --> 00:58:24,840
And so anybody who's interested in sort of monitoring the budget

691
00:58:24,840 --> 00:58:26,800
over time will be able to do that.

692
00:58:26,980 --> 00:58:29,820
And we will probably adjust those reports

693
00:58:29,820 --> 00:58:33,500
so that people can see, when we roll into the new fiscal year,

694
00:58:33,500 --> 00:58:38,280
at a column for actual. So if anybody is interested in just sort of monitoring it and being able

695
00:58:38,280 --> 00:58:43,480
to drill in to the line item detail, we'll make it a little bit more user friendly for

696
00:58:43,480 --> 00:58:44,020
every once.

697
00:58:48,040 --> 00:58:52,640
I was just going to, you know, comment. But I don't really have any questions,

698
00:58:53,180 --> 00:58:57,820
but you make our job very easy to have a test. Thank you. Just to agree with Alex about how

699
00:58:57,820 --> 00:59:02,680
clear everything was laid out and just how meaning was so helpful and just the way you

700
00:59:02,680 --> 00:59:04,540
it's so clear and it really makes a lot of sense.

701
00:59:05,240 --> 00:59:11,280
I do want to just say that I definitely support kind of pursuing some of these positions

702
00:59:11,280 --> 00:59:17,600
that you guys talked about, especially I think that we get a lot of comments from the

703
00:59:17,600 --> 00:59:21,720
public that want us to take immediate action on things that happen whether it be public.

704
00:59:21,800 --> 00:59:26,780
See if you related or traffic related or whatever that might be and one of the huge limiting

705
00:59:26,780 --> 00:59:32,580
factors for doing anything like that is money and from what I hear just in conversation

706
00:59:32,580 --> 00:59:37,120
with people that work doing a lot of grants and staff and at cities and counties and everything

707
00:59:37,120 --> 00:59:40,900
like there's money out there and there's a lot of it it's just that and I know like my

708
00:59:40,900 --> 00:59:46,780
GPA struggles from this as well like you can't have you know you can't write enough grants

709
00:59:46,780 --> 00:59:51,180
because there's always money for for something out there and so I think having a dedicated person

710
00:59:51,180 --> 00:59:56,220
staff that can help you know liaison with departments and seek out those fundings to do a lot of

711
00:59:56,220 --> 00:59:59,920
projects that we want, because we talk a lot about projects that do incorporate.

712
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:11,320
Reallments that are prime for grant funding, things like affordable housing and safe streets and all that stuff, you know, there's money out there and so I really support pursuing that.

713
01:00:11,620 --> 01:00:12,000
I agree.

714
01:00:14,540 --> 01:00:25,600
I agree with the grant management program making economic development a goal and also the 484,000 that you're recommending of surplus.

715
01:00:25,600 --> 01:00:27,580
I support all of those.

716
01:00:28,240 --> 01:00:31,280
And yes, having someone that you really trust,

717
01:00:31,580 --> 01:00:34,040
it's pretty easy to accept recommendations

718
01:00:34,040 --> 01:00:37,940
because we know that you take your job very seriously.

719
01:00:38,920 --> 01:00:41,800
So it's easy to see as to those.

720
01:00:42,260 --> 01:00:45,260
And I have something I would like to do more of a dive into,

721
01:00:45,460 --> 01:00:47,720
but I don't know if you want to go to other people first.

722
01:00:48,340 --> 01:00:50,260
For you that I just wanted to thank you

723
01:00:50,260 --> 01:00:53,040
because I feel like I got budgeting 101,

724
01:00:53,040 --> 01:01:03,180
And I didn't think I'd enjoy it, and I'm excited and kind of wish I would have got a little head start, but it's always, it's it's a moving target. We're going to be doing it all year.

725
01:01:03,880 --> 01:01:05,560
So yeah, just thank you.

726
01:01:08,970 --> 01:01:13,910
Again, thank you. Everything is always presented so clearly and detailed.

727
01:01:14,750 --> 01:01:21,090
I was thinking about the ARPA funds, specifically the $10,000 that we had committed to

728
01:01:21,930 --> 01:01:27,870
joint tribal project and also thinking about how, you know, signage was kind of a

729
01:01:27,870 --> 01:01:34,410
priority that got left off when we were planning for our perfons and so maybe seeing

730
01:01:34,410 --> 01:01:39,750
if we could work with a tribe and using that 10,000 and maybe some of that other 60,000 to

731
01:01:39,750 --> 01:01:47,110
do like a big welcome to Arcade a slash, you know, welcome to Gootie design and kind of combine

732
01:01:47,110 --> 01:01:55,150
those two things that could be beneficial way to use those tribal funds while still looking

733
01:01:55,150 --> 01:02:00,410
for other projects to work with the tribe and getting some welcome signage because I don't

734
01:02:00,410 --> 01:02:05,630
think really arcade has any signage like that. And that's a great idea. That's a great idea

735
01:02:05,630 --> 01:02:10,210
and it would be something that would be, I think we would definitely want to do the, you know,

736
01:02:10,310 --> 01:02:14,810
let's set aside the money and the general fund and use ARPA funds now so that we,

737
01:02:14,810 --> 01:02:17,170
because that's going to be longer than six months.

738
01:02:17,510 --> 01:02:18,110
That's good.

739
01:02:18,330 --> 01:02:19,270
Yeah, thank you.

740
01:02:20,050 --> 01:02:22,330
Yeah, because signage was something that a lot

741
01:02:22,330 --> 01:02:23,870
of the businesses want, whether they're

742
01:02:23,870 --> 01:02:26,290
directional signages along the plaza,

743
01:02:26,510 --> 01:02:28,610
and those are also things that I would like to consider

744
01:02:28,610 --> 01:02:31,750
if we find ourselves with extra funds

745
01:02:31,750 --> 01:02:35,110
as we're getting close to the end of December

746
01:02:35,110 --> 01:02:40,470
is just more robust signage in Arcita.

747
01:02:40,470 --> 01:02:49,230
Um, and then we were talking about, um, some of these funds that are, that we're closing,

748
01:02:49,830 --> 01:02:49,850
right?

749
01:02:49,850 --> 01:02:53,710
Some of them that just, we started to ears go and just never got used.

750
01:02:54,290 --> 01:02:58,810
So, um, one of the funds that, gosh, I feel like I asked about this.

751
01:02:58,990 --> 01:03:02,090
Like, way the beginning of my term is the parking in Lou funds.

752
01:03:03,690 --> 01:03:08,910
And, you know, I think that, um, if we're just going to close it, maybe a good use of it,

753
01:03:08,910 --> 01:03:12,990
be to do like parking study is that something that is feasible.

754
01:03:15,210 --> 01:03:16,670
I will have to because because

755
01:03:16,670 --> 01:03:20,790
that fund sort of predated me I haven't looked at the details of what the legal requirements

756
01:03:20,790 --> 01:03:27,030
for being for what it can be used for but I'm happy to look at that and I know we have we have

757
01:03:27,030 --> 01:03:32,190
allocated some of those funds that have been around for a while where we could to some of nature

758
01:03:32,190 --> 01:03:36,890
projects so we'll see what's available we can look into what's available and then whether or not

759
01:03:36,890 --> 01:03:39,050
parking study as appropriate.

760
01:03:39,890 --> 01:03:45,850
And yes, again, I'm really, really in favor of a strong economic development plan, and then

761
01:03:45,850 --> 01:03:51,570
then starting on thinking about how we can implement it, I think it's, it's great.

762
01:03:52,190 --> 01:03:52,890
And I'll pass it on.

763
01:03:52,970 --> 01:03:58,810
So I was just, we used to have a sign a long time ago, was now we had, we owned the property,

764
01:03:59,010 --> 01:04:04,470
but at one time we didn't, and there was a mound, and we had a welcome sign to Arcada,

765
01:04:04,470 --> 01:04:09,450
And the cows kept knocking it over, but it was mounded sign.

766
01:04:09,550 --> 01:04:12,370
And I don't even know if we have that mounded area out there anymore,

767
01:04:12,390 --> 01:04:15,170
it'd have to go look to see if it's still there.

768
01:04:15,310 --> 01:04:18,570
Because part of it is the coastal commission and getting it signed,

769
01:04:18,770 --> 01:04:22,690
located in that area to welcome people to our kida.

770
01:04:23,470 --> 01:04:25,930
So I just had to mention that.

771
01:04:25,970 --> 01:04:29,350
And in parking, we haven't used that for many years,

772
01:04:29,850 --> 01:04:33,930
but if you wanted to build a remodel on the plaza or a certain area,

773
01:04:33,930 --> 01:04:41,230
You had to put money into an parking in Lou because you were doing that instead of putting in a parking space.

774
01:04:41,990 --> 01:04:49,270
And so that went away when we finally took a district in the downtown and said you do not require a gap working on site.

775
01:04:49,510 --> 01:04:51,830
And therefore we no longer had to have a parking in Lou.

776
01:04:53,070 --> 01:04:59,090
So I thought it could go if we're going to ever get into parking meters kind of thing.

777
01:04:59,270 --> 01:05:01,010
Maybe that could be just in that area.

778
01:05:01,010 --> 01:05:02,630
That was the thought I had.

779
01:05:05,080 --> 01:05:08,660
It sounds like we're all kind of on the same page, which is nice.

780
01:05:10,120 --> 01:05:12,060
So are we ready then? Do you have a motion?

781
01:05:12,320 --> 01:05:13,380
This is already there.

782
01:05:13,940 --> 01:05:15,540
Oh, she wants to die beach.

783
01:05:18,240 --> 01:05:23,000
No, so nothing this is early to act on today,

784
01:05:23,100 --> 01:05:26,280
but I just wanted to share some of my thoughts with all of you

785
01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:29,780
and see if you feel the same and just have a little discussion.

786
01:05:29,780 --> 01:05:33,900
But so we have the $75,000 budgetage for missed.

787
01:05:36,220 --> 01:05:43,040
And I have, since day one, asked for specific statistics,

788
01:05:43,200 --> 01:05:44,740
what are we accomplishing with that money?

789
01:05:45,000 --> 01:05:48,920
And for whatever reasons we haven't seen that.

790
01:05:49,620 --> 01:05:52,080
And that doesn't mean that valuable work isn't being done,

791
01:05:52,200 --> 01:05:57,560
but it's hard to justify spending when we're not sure.

792
01:05:57,560 --> 01:06:04,800
So, I think I would love to maybe hear from someone from the police department to say,

793
01:06:04,820 --> 01:06:11,200
if that's the right person, I would assume, to really talk about that and see what benefits

794
01:06:11,200 --> 01:06:12,480
we're getting from it.

795
01:06:12,900 --> 01:06:16,340
We know the benefits that we're getting from the community ambassadors.

796
01:06:17,440 --> 01:06:19,660
We've talked about it scanning them to Valley West.

797
01:06:19,780 --> 01:06:24,240
We've talked about like a clean streets helping with business cleanups in the morning that

798
01:06:24,240 --> 01:06:25,620
our ambassadors would do.

799
01:06:25,620 --> 01:06:33,680
We've talked about expanding the program and so I guess I'm curious to know if we want

800
01:06:33,680 --> 01:06:39,000
to keep that if the 75,000 should continue to go to missed and that's a great spend

801
01:06:39,000 --> 01:06:47,400
or should we reconsider spending that on the community ambassador program, realizing that

802
01:06:47,400 --> 01:06:53,620
it could come to an end if we don't pass this tax measure but in another part of that program

803
01:06:53,620 --> 01:06:58,620
besides that I think is important in addition to expanding next to Valley West.

804
01:06:58,880 --> 01:07:05,780
I think that having perhaps the discussion of a full-time ambassador that is really

805
01:07:05,780 --> 01:07:11,600
in charge of the program of, you know, if we get too far out of the downtown just to over

806
01:07:11,600 --> 01:07:15,660
see things and manage it as we grow, we, you know, we definitely want it to be managed

807
01:07:15,660 --> 01:07:16,060
well.

808
01:07:16,380 --> 01:07:19,420
And they do do a great job of, we see this statistics.

809
01:07:19,420 --> 01:07:25,080
So they're very good about doing that, which to me makes it easier to want to expand and fund

810
01:07:25,080 --> 01:07:27,680
that program because we actually know what's happening.

811
01:07:28,540 --> 01:07:33,820
So those are just some thoughts, and I'm just curious to know how the rest of you feel about

812
01:07:33,820 --> 01:07:34,820
those thoughts.

813
01:07:35,280 --> 01:07:36,300
I love to go ahead.

814
01:07:36,740 --> 01:07:43,520
Yeah, I just want to add, I think to, I like that idea a lot, Susie, and I totally agree

815
01:07:43,520 --> 01:07:48,920
that I think we kind of have been waiting to hear about missed and what's going on and

816
01:07:48,920 --> 01:07:53,320
who's out in the field and what that looks like and not being built and all that stuff in

817
01:07:53,320 --> 01:07:58,560
between and and just that I think that both expanding and kind of enhancing and supporting

818
01:07:58,560 --> 01:08:03,260
our community ambassador to you to get them kind of like the supplies that they need as

819
01:08:03,260 --> 01:08:03,640
well.

820
01:08:04,680 --> 01:08:09,400
I was recently in Chico and they have lovely people and little teal shirts walking around

821
01:08:09,400 --> 01:08:12,840
that our community ambassadors and they have like a little cart that had like their trash

822
01:08:12,840 --> 01:08:17,440
can and like their trash picker and like some cleaning supplies and like you know it seemed

823
01:08:17,440 --> 01:08:20,080
like they were covering more ground and it was just,

824
01:08:20,400 --> 01:08:22,800
you know, so that they are not like constantly running back

825
01:08:22,800 --> 01:08:25,460
before I think can have, you know, the supplies that they need

826
01:08:25,460 --> 01:08:28,160
also to be doing the job to the best of their abilities

827
01:08:28,160 --> 01:08:30,280
and kind of maybe get some feedback from the community of masters

828
01:08:30,280 --> 01:08:35,400
of like what could help, you know, support that program physically

829
01:08:35,400 --> 01:08:39,060
as well, and I like the idea of definitely having like a go

830
01:08:39,060 --> 01:08:42,100
to lead ambassador position that is designated.

831
01:08:42,360 --> 01:08:45,980
And I think those are all fantastic ideas.

832
01:08:48,060 --> 01:08:53,520
One of the things I would really like to sit down with some of the ambassadors, and then you

833
01:08:53,520 --> 01:08:57,320
talk about deep diving, I would like to get their opinions.

834
01:08:57,520 --> 01:09:03,000
We have a report that comes to us, and that's great, but what are some of the personal issues

835
01:09:03,000 --> 01:09:08,100
and some of the personal things they have to deal with that we probably may and may not get

836
01:09:08,100 --> 01:09:08,860
any reports.

837
01:09:09,380 --> 01:09:15,520
So I don't know if that's possible, but I was thinking maybe eventually somehow we could

838
01:09:15,520 --> 01:09:20,240
do something like that and just maybe I don't know how it would be, you know, we have to

839
01:09:20,240 --> 01:09:23,660
structure it to be correct blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,

840
01:09:23,660 --> 01:09:28,220
but maybe like council could assign a subcommittee to have that meeting and then be

841
01:09:28,220 --> 01:09:29,740
perfect at the whole.

842
01:09:29,760 --> 01:09:30,620
It's just an option.

843
01:09:31,140 --> 01:09:34,760
And another thing you could do is go on a walk around because that's what I did.

844
01:09:34,800 --> 01:09:39,340
And if you go on instead of a right along, if you go on a walk around, then they're, they're

845
01:09:39,340 --> 01:09:44,180
very happy to tell you what they need, what's going well so you can also do that.

846
01:09:44,180 --> 01:10:05,840
So, yes, to all of those things for the ambassador program, but one of the things that really hit home for me was when there is a mental health issue, and it doesn't necessitate sending out law enforcement, then we send out these highly trained, de-escalating social workers.

847
01:10:05,840 --> 01:10:11,120
But I agree without data, we don't know how we're using them.

848
01:10:11,200 --> 01:10:17,660
I'd like to see some statistics and how many are being dispatched and how many end up having

849
01:10:17,660 --> 01:10:20,200
to have APD come any way or not.

850
01:10:20,740 --> 01:10:24,720
And then also, I'd like some clarification because right now, I don't think that we have really,

851
01:10:24,860 --> 01:10:30,740
I mean, I know that it's been mentioned to me that we have juvenile diversion, but my understanding

852
01:10:30,740 --> 01:10:35,020
is they're like eight to five and maybe missed is two and you can't plan these emergencies.

853
01:10:35,020 --> 01:10:56,900
But if a adolescent youth is having a mental health issue, we don't really have anything within the city of Arcade to respond to them except for to call the Arcade of Police Department because, honestly, our DHSS in, you know, the county, they're not, it just doesn't happen.

854
01:10:58,250 --> 01:11:05,110
Yeah, we do not have 24-7 alternative response, juvenile diversion, really steps in for low-level

855
01:11:05,110 --> 01:11:09,890
crimes after a juvenile has had interaction, typically with our police department.

856
01:11:10,110 --> 01:11:12,490
So not mental health issues, only crime.

857
01:11:12,610 --> 01:11:19,730
Often there are certainly anti-aliasing issues, but the initial, you know, responses, there

858
01:11:19,730 --> 01:11:23,490
was a crime committed instead of sending that juvenile through the criminal justice system.

859
01:11:23,650 --> 01:11:26,830
We divert them away from that and then into the diversion program.

860
01:11:27,630 --> 01:11:32,110
It's a good topic to bring up, they are, we have two positions that are funded this year.

861
01:11:32,310 --> 01:11:36,170
We work out of the Northern Humboldt School, we work in all of our K to school districts,

862
01:11:36,430 --> 01:11:40,010
but we also work in both our K to M McKinleyville High, because they're one district.

863
01:11:40,870 --> 01:11:45,030
We have always done that because that has been funded, that's for the Juvenile Diversion version.

864
01:11:45,490 --> 01:11:45,970
Yeah, that's been funded.

865
01:11:45,970 --> 01:11:47,070
You have to tell me on that program.

866
01:11:47,130 --> 01:11:48,090
I love that program.

867
01:11:48,650 --> 01:11:52,870
But I do want to share with you some budget concerns I have, that has long time been funded

868
01:11:52,870 --> 01:11:53,750
through measures E.

869
01:11:54,030 --> 01:11:55,390
It was not funded last year.

870
01:11:55,630 --> 01:11:58,750
You were able to continue to fund that with ARPA funds that we had.

871
01:11:59,470 --> 01:12:05,690
This year, we got right from the county just a portion of one position, but the school

872
01:12:05,690 --> 01:12:10,170
district also did receive a grant to help offset the majority of the cost.

873
01:12:11,010 --> 01:12:16,430
If we don't have outside funding, it is going to be impossible for us to recommend to juvenile

874
01:12:16,430 --> 01:12:17,330
diversion counselors.

875
01:12:17,370 --> 01:12:21,230
If one of them is predominantly, you know, if half of the work is predominantly outside

876
01:12:21,230 --> 01:12:22,010
the city limits.

877
01:12:22,670 --> 01:12:22,970
Right.

878
01:12:22,970 --> 01:12:28,050
So that is going to be something that I think is going to be critical for us to look at next fiscal year.

879
01:12:28,070 --> 01:12:30,090
I think we're okay for this fiscal year.

880
01:12:30,970 --> 01:12:35,990
And in terms of mental health response, the county does have a mental health crisis that our police

881
01:12:35,990 --> 01:12:40,550
call probably every single week outside of our missed.

882
01:12:40,930 --> 01:12:43,830
If missed does only work during the days.

883
01:12:43,910 --> 01:12:46,490
It has been sporadic in terms of when we've had staff.

884
01:12:46,610 --> 01:12:49,450
The billing, you know, has been reflective of when we've had staff.

885
01:12:49,510 --> 01:12:51,690
And when we haven't, these are county staff members.

886
01:12:52,250 --> 01:12:59,270
working out of APD. I would say it is rare if it has ever happened that they go to a 911

887
01:12:59,270 --> 01:13:04,970
called by themselves, but what is frequent is that they will do follow-up after or they

888
01:13:04,970 --> 01:13:08,970
will be out in the community, you know, talking, you know, predominantly with people in the

889
01:13:08,970 --> 01:13:13,810
and house community trying to get them into services. You're all right.

890
01:13:14,050 --> 01:13:15,530
There are all adults, right? Not adolescents.

891
01:13:15,530 --> 01:13:21,290
to miss, can work across any age and they do work across any age and with families.

892
01:13:22,250 --> 01:13:26,710
You know that being said, I think we have all seen some shortcomings in the program, a lot

893
01:13:26,710 --> 01:13:31,850
of it being that it's hard even for them as county workers to connect to a services on the

894
01:13:31,850 --> 01:13:35,170
other side that are needed for them to be able to make a difference.

895
01:13:35,990 --> 01:13:40,930
And so the county is looking through a whole revamp of kind of that outreach as well.

896
01:13:41,310 --> 01:13:44,930
And I think that's why the finance director said we're not sure if we're going to be able

897
01:13:44,930 --> 01:13:50,250
even allocate those funds by the end of this calendar year to be able to commit them to

898
01:13:50,250 --> 01:13:54,350
the ARP of funds and maybe need to look at another program such as Expansion of Community

899
01:13:54,350 --> 01:13:54,790
Ambassador.

900
01:13:55,410 --> 01:13:58,530
So that question that Stacey brought up was very timely.

901
01:13:58,990 --> 01:14:03,410
Yeah, so I'm hearing from the Council is that we're going to tentatively keep this

902
01:14:04,230 --> 01:14:11,110
missed funding while at the same time having some kind of report from them and then moving

903
01:14:11,110 --> 01:14:13,230
off from there to see if we want to reallocate those funds.

904
01:14:13,230 --> 01:14:19,530
is that the general idea I'm getting from it, but the first test you did see was in the chief's

905
01:14:19,530 --> 01:14:21,930
quarterly report and so those would be updated in this next.

906
01:14:22,030 --> 01:14:25,530
Don't we can have all of that for you by August when we revisit our part?

907
01:14:26,430 --> 01:14:31,130
The other thing is our diversion program also has family meetings and they do get and they

908
01:14:31,130 --> 01:14:34,130
have trainings for families and they pull that together.

909
01:14:34,570 --> 01:14:38,230
They have a wonderful project and loving solutions program.

910
01:14:39,150 --> 01:14:39,830
Great program.

911
01:14:40,330 --> 01:14:40,530
All right.

912
01:14:40,530 --> 01:14:43,470
So anybody else have any more questions?

913
01:14:49,160 --> 01:14:52,380
Okay, just some of them make a motion or any other questions.

914
01:14:53,140 --> 01:14:59,980
If there isn't any, I would like to adopt, move to adopt resolution number two, three, four.

915
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:12,860
As 62, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Arcada adopting FY2024-25, and I would like to close the public hearing, but that may take another motion.

916
01:15:13,320 --> 01:15:13,640
All second.

917
01:15:14,740 --> 01:15:19,460
All right, we have a motion from Vice Mayor Stolenin, second and council member, Shaefer, all in favor.

918
01:15:20,260 --> 01:15:24,720
Aye. Aye. All right, motion passes. Does anybody need a break before we move on to the next law?

919
01:15:25,280 --> 01:15:26,640
I did we close the public hearing.

920
01:15:26,700 --> 01:15:27,860
I think that worked, yes.

921
01:15:27,860 --> 01:15:30,400
Okay. Thank you. Good. You okay? Are you want to break?

922
01:15:31,520 --> 01:15:32,320
Let me know.

923
01:15:33,220 --> 01:15:37,920
All right. Let's move. All right. We're going to, we'll check in after the next item.

924
01:15:38,340 --> 01:15:44,080
Okay. So let's move on to item B, place transaction and use tax measure on ballot for November

925
01:15:44,080 --> 01:15:47,100
5th, 2024. Can we have a stop report please?

926
01:15:53,720 --> 01:15:56,980
Okay. So as you all know, this was supposed

927
01:15:56,980 --> 01:16:02,880
to come last week and it got pushed. But I think we've talked about it quite a bit and gone

928
01:16:02,880 --> 01:16:07,720
the details. So this should be pretty straightforward this evening. This is just a summary

929
01:16:07,720 --> 01:16:11,780
and a few items that I think we've talked about before, but a reminder that our current rate

930
01:16:11,780 --> 01:16:20,460
is at 8.5%. If we do pass the 0.75% it'll raise the the limit or the city's tax to 9.25%

931
01:16:20,460 --> 01:16:26,420
which is currently where the city of Eureka is. It does not take into account whether or not the

932
01:16:26,420 --> 01:16:31,840
county is successful or puts forth a measure of this fall, but we do anticipate that in their

933
01:16:31,840 --> 01:16:36,420
year this evening, so I expect that that's part of the conversation. What does that mean?

934
01:16:36,960 --> 01:16:41,960
I can't follow that. So does that mean how does that affect our 9.25?

935
01:16:42,940 --> 01:16:50,960
So all it does is that it would be an additional tax. So if ours is successful by itself,

936
01:16:51,080 --> 01:16:58,200
our tax rate in city limits would be 9.25%. If the county's ballot measure is successful,

937
01:16:58,200 --> 01:17:04,580
it would be added on to that. So it would be either, I think they're looking at also a 0.75%

938
01:17:04,580 --> 01:17:11,380
which would mean that our tax rate would be 10% for the city of, okay, that would also be the

939
01:17:11,380 --> 01:17:16,620
same for the city of Eureka and if Fortuna was successful with their measure, which they are also

940
01:17:16,620 --> 01:17:25,260
putting 0.75% the tax rate for Fortuna would also be the 10%. So we would kind of be with the rest of California.

941
01:17:25,260 --> 01:17:40,260
And I think you may have seen I attached a copy of all the tax rates and it was, you know, it ranges from the low, which is state only at 7.25% up to 10.75% and especially in the southern region.

942
01:17:40,460 --> 01:17:42,740
You know, there are many cities that are at that high end.

943
01:17:42,880 --> 01:17:43,940
Thank you to that clarification.

944
01:17:44,560 --> 01:17:46,420
So it's like you won't want to go buy your car.

945
01:17:48,260 --> 01:17:52,280
McKinleyville, if you could buy it in Fort Chinat because all the taxes are the same.

946
01:17:53,340 --> 01:18:00,220
There is a little bit difference on the vehicles, so most of the tax goes to where the

947
01:18:00,220 --> 01:18:00,920
sale happens.

948
01:18:01,160 --> 01:18:05,620
So yes, if you buy a vehicle in the Kennyville, the tax would stay there.

949
01:18:05,920 --> 01:18:10,160
T-U-T, which is our major G, and it's also what we're proposing on the ballot in November,

950
01:18:10,860 --> 01:18:12,440
follows the car where it's used.

951
01:18:13,020 --> 01:18:19,940
So when you drive the car back into our toilet paper state, yeah, wherever you buy it, it stays

952
01:18:19,940 --> 01:18:20,260
there.

953
01:18:20,260 --> 01:18:24,640
Don't you aren't going to go to Virginia to buy your child paper because it's cheaper than our cat

954
01:18:24,640 --> 01:18:30,840
Well, and you know, it's it's the Eureka and we see this when you look at the statistical numbers lots of people from

955
01:18:30,840 --> 01:18:34,440
Arcada drive to Eureka to buy things like toilet paper

956
01:18:36,060 --> 01:18:46,240
But we are it would bring about 2.6 million dollars and we certainly have lots of uses for that and just to remind her as we we talked about the moving back and forth between borders

957
01:18:46,240 --> 01:18:48,100
You know the tax really does

958
01:18:48,100 --> 01:18:54,080
is not is pretty fluid within a community, and we, you know, when we go to our

959
01:18:54,080 --> 01:18:59,900
cater, when folks from our cater go to the city of Eureka to buy things, they're

960
01:18:59,900 --> 01:19:04,900
paying the Eureka tax at the higher amount and they're contributing to that

961
01:19:04,900 --> 01:19:08,720
municipalities while being programs, things like that. So it's something to

962
01:19:08,720 --> 01:19:09,560
consider.

963
01:19:12,840 --> 01:19:16,300
Does a few quick requirements, and this is why we push this from

964
01:19:16,300 --> 01:19:22,340
last week. I do want to make clear it is a general tax, which means that the use of it

965
01:19:22,340 --> 01:19:27,860
while we are designating and we are committing to certain uses, it is unrestricted legally.

966
01:19:28,440 --> 01:19:33,280
It can be used for anything it does become general fund funds. It does require tonight. It

967
01:19:33,280 --> 01:19:37,480
will require two thirds or a super majority of the city council's approval, which means

968
01:19:37,480 --> 01:19:43,060
at least four of you have to vote for the tax. And we are limited as we've talked about

969
01:19:43,060 --> 01:19:46,120
before unless we declare a fiscal emergency,

970
01:19:46,480 --> 01:19:50,060
the tax would have to go on a ballot measure or an election

971
01:19:50,060 --> 01:19:56,780
where our elected officials are elected officials are on the ballot,

972
01:19:56,920 --> 01:19:58,400
which means that it's every other year.

973
01:19:58,720 --> 01:20:01,680
So the next time we would be able to take this would be 2026.

974
01:20:04,430 --> 01:20:07,050
And one of the reasons that we are really looking at this,

975
01:20:07,050 --> 01:20:08,570
and we talked about it in the staff report,

976
01:20:08,730 --> 01:20:10,230
and we talked about it a little bit in our budget,

977
01:20:10,490 --> 01:20:13,690
is that when we look out, the city has done a really good job

978
01:20:13,690 --> 01:20:18,030
of laying a good solid fiscal or financial foundation.

979
01:20:18,530 --> 01:20:22,170
But when we look out, we're looking at budget deficits

980
01:20:22,170 --> 01:20:24,270
in every year going forward.

981
01:20:24,690 --> 01:20:26,450
And so we're looking at running into the negative.

982
01:20:26,910 --> 01:20:28,210
And you can do that for a few years,

983
01:20:28,390 --> 01:20:31,150
especially if you have some reserve saved up like we do.

984
01:20:31,830 --> 01:20:33,570
But there's a point when you cross that line

985
01:20:33,570 --> 01:20:34,370
and it's a problem.

986
01:20:34,850 --> 01:20:38,110
And when you're not balancing, when your budget's not balancing,

987
01:20:38,510 --> 01:20:41,710
at least most of the time, you really do have to make some changes.

988
01:20:41,710 --> 01:20:46,250
and there's there's fundamentally two ways to make changes. One is to look at additional

989
01:20:46,250 --> 01:20:50,990
revenue sources and or decrease expenses. And we're we're kind of at that point where

990
01:20:50,990 --> 01:20:56,230
we're going to have to take those adjustments to wait to want to get into the position of where

991
01:20:56,230 --> 01:21:00,610
the county is right now. No, we do not there definitely have to. We do not want to be in a crisis.

992
01:21:01,030 --> 01:21:07,890
That's the word. But I mean in that being said, there will come a time whether it's sooner

993
01:21:07,890 --> 01:21:12,910
or later we're going to have to make some really tough choices about where we want our revenue

994
01:21:12,910 --> 01:21:18,470
sources to come from because we will need to increase revenues and so whether that's looking

995
01:21:18,470 --> 01:21:23,050
at what kind of businesses we want to bring into our, I mean there's going to be some tough

996
01:21:23,050 --> 01:21:28,850
decisions so just keeping that in the back of our minds that we are going to sooner or later have

997
01:21:28,850 --> 01:21:35,170
to start looking for bigger sources of revenue for Arcadeok. And that really raises the point

998
01:21:35,170 --> 01:21:37,750
which is if if the tax doesn't pass in November,

999
01:21:38,430 --> 01:21:40,070
I would probably come back to you

1000
01:21:40,070 --> 01:21:42,350
at the first part of the next calendar year

1001
01:21:42,350 --> 01:21:43,310
with recommendations,

1002
01:21:43,630 --> 01:21:44,730
and I'll mention a few of the things

1003
01:21:44,730 --> 01:21:46,710
that I would think that we would consider

1004
01:21:46,710 --> 01:21:48,470
that we would have to start making those choices.

1005
01:21:48,570 --> 01:21:51,290
Because we don't want to get so far behind

1006
01:21:51,290 --> 01:21:52,450
that we don't have flexibility,

1007
01:21:52,810 --> 01:21:54,830
we want to be able to plan accordingly

1008
01:21:54,830 --> 01:21:57,270
and not have to make major reactions.

1009
01:21:58,930 --> 01:22:02,150
This was a version of what was in the staff report.

1010
01:22:02,330 --> 01:22:03,650
And it's basically your general fund

1011
01:22:03,650 --> 01:22:09,090
I'm going to, because you can see at the bottom, you're, you're decreasing your fund balance

1012
01:22:09,090 --> 01:22:15,650
every year from this year, from the current year forward through 2029. And at the end of the

1013
01:22:15,650 --> 01:22:20,210
five year period, you actually run it negative. I'm going to move forward one. It's the same numbers

1014
01:22:20,210 --> 01:22:26,010
here. It's just a little bit bigger. And, and the one thing I will say is that the estimated beginning

1015
01:22:26,010 --> 01:22:31,890
available is your, it is your unreserved fund balance in your general fund. It does not include

1016
01:22:31,890 --> 01:22:37,110
the 30% reserve. So you still have that set aside. So again, I feel like we're coming from

1017
01:22:37,110 --> 01:22:44,110
a strong place into this, but we are taking proactive steps to make sure that we can continue

1018
01:22:44,110 --> 01:22:49,470
to provide the services that we believe that our residents and businesses and visitors want,

1019
01:22:50,250 --> 01:22:55,990
but also in a very, you know, financially structured way. So we are in a good position, you

1020
01:22:55,990 --> 01:23:01,590
know, this year we actually budget it a deficit. We probably will be close to breaking even.

1021
01:23:01,590 --> 01:23:06,770
a little bit maybe a little bit negative. Next year we've got the $2.4 million in one-time

1022
01:23:06,770 --> 01:23:13,370
expenses and it's budgeted at a negative two and a half. And the next year 2020-26, let me

1023
01:23:13,370 --> 01:23:20,610
see if I can. Here's really where the change happens. I've stripped out the the CIP and the associated

1024
01:23:20,610 --> 01:23:25,990
grant funding and that really sees our starting point and you can see that we're at about a $1.3

1025
01:23:25,990 --> 01:23:31,390
million annual deficit. And the problem is our revenues are not growing as fast as our

1026
01:23:31,390 --> 01:23:33,590
expenses or at least that's what we're projecting out.

1027
01:23:34,090 --> 01:23:37,290
So that's where we start just slowly eating away at our reserves

1028
01:23:37,290 --> 01:23:40,050
to the point where we have nothing in five years.

1029
01:23:41,490 --> 01:23:43,430
And I think, you know, there are a few things.

1030
01:23:43,690 --> 01:23:46,850
These are recommendations that if I was at a staff level

1031
01:23:46,850 --> 01:23:49,590
having this conversation in January with you, you know,

1032
01:23:49,730 --> 01:23:54,330
we would certainly talk about, you know, cutting the, you know,

1033
01:23:54,430 --> 01:23:57,290
the ARPA funded programs, probably sooner rather than later.

1034
01:23:57,910 --> 01:24:01,250
And plan on that, at least by the end of the fiscal year, you know,

1035
01:24:01,250 --> 01:24:05,230
We would consider the measures the funded programs and whether or not we could support those.

1036
01:24:06,210 --> 01:24:10,230
We may look at things like re-evaluating the commitment to a green or zero emissions

1037
01:24:10,230 --> 01:24:10,730
fleet.

1038
01:24:10,890 --> 01:24:14,310
We do know that those vehicles are probably two and three times.

1039
01:24:15,450 --> 01:24:20,190
They're great investment in the long term, but not necessarily in the short term and

1040
01:24:20,190 --> 01:24:21,730
they are also hard to get.

1041
01:24:22,730 --> 01:24:28,330
We would consider sort of placing a freeze on staff replacements and evaluating service and service

1042
01:24:28,330 --> 01:24:33,850
levels. We would consider consolidation of city facilities and property. IE, we may look at

1043
01:24:33,850 --> 01:24:39,510
see if there's things that we can sell or, you know, distribute or allocate to somebody else.

1044
01:24:39,850 --> 01:24:44,050
And then I am always an advocate for reducing the interest cost on the pension liability.

1045
01:24:44,810 --> 01:24:51,490
It's still at 6.8% is what we pay when we don't fund it. I realize it takes money at front

1046
01:24:51,490 --> 01:24:56,590
but in the long term you will save money and so I don't want us to lose track of that.

1047
01:24:57,630 --> 01:25:26,390
The other thing, and the mayor sort of mentioned, is that we would have to start looking at how to increase revenue loss of that's the other side of the equation and a proactive economic development strategy with focus on businesses that really generate sales tax, transaction and use tax, and transient occupancy tax would be the focus that's where the money is, that's kind of what we need and that may look at ways to look at businesses.

1048
01:25:26,390 --> 01:25:32,350
that may be have not been necessarily favored here in the past, redevelopment and infill

1049
01:25:32,350 --> 01:25:38,050
to increase property taxes, but also to pull in additional growth that would add to our

1050
01:25:38,050 --> 01:25:44,190
sales tax base, and I realize that we have the general plan 25, 45 that is doing that and that

1051
01:25:44,190 --> 01:25:50,790
has some controversy. Taking a look at our subsidized programs and also improving cost recovery,

1052
01:25:50,810 --> 01:25:56,370
making sure that in the fees that we can charge that we are accurately recouping the

1053
01:25:56,370 --> 01:26:01,990
cost considering things like developer impact fees and other revenue sources that don't require

1054
01:26:01,990 --> 01:26:02,830
voter approval.

1055
01:26:03,230 --> 01:26:07,810
You know, I know there are some of these are a double-edged sword in the sense that developer

1056
01:26:07,810 --> 01:26:12,210
impact fees can discourage development, especially in housing, but it may be something

1057
01:26:12,210 --> 01:26:16,990
we want to dig into a little bit more and then things like the enhanced infrastructure financing

1058
01:26:16,990 --> 01:26:22,110
districts, which is really sort of a new tool that sort of looks like redevelopment agencies

1059
01:26:22,110 --> 01:26:29,710
from back in, you know, before 2012, but it's another way to add a layer of funding on your

1060
01:26:29,710 --> 01:26:34,950
property tax based on the increased values. And again, these may not all be popular, but they

1061
01:26:34,950 --> 01:26:37,890
are possibilities that the council would probably need to consider.

1062
01:26:38,070 --> 01:26:44,990
Could I clarify, when you say a number one, are you increasing not favorable businesses?

1063
01:26:51,530 --> 01:26:52,090
We're

1064
01:26:52,090 --> 01:26:55,530
has codified and it's coded and caps and things like that.

1065
01:26:57,710 --> 01:27:02,030
And this is just a list of programs that you could fund and I think that we've talked

1066
01:27:02,030 --> 01:27:06,310
about really wanting to continue in the ambassador program, juvenile diversion counselors,

1067
01:27:06,990 --> 01:27:14,410
missed or some version of this, out reach sergeant, valley west community center, electrification

1068
01:27:14,410 --> 01:27:19,250
of the city's fleet and equipment, complete streets program, homeless services, and then

1069
01:27:19,250 --> 01:27:23,990
making sure that we are maintaining our infrastructure. It's great that we've been able

1070
01:27:23,990 --> 01:27:27,750
to get these grants and we're adding new parks and we're adding new facilities and we're

1071
01:27:27,750 --> 01:27:32,950
adding new plants, but we do have to remember that in a short period of time, those actually

1072
01:27:32,950 --> 01:27:36,910
will require additional staff that we just don't have built into the current projections.

1073
01:27:37,710 --> 01:27:42,570
I could do. I know that we've already provided the link or the language has been provided

1074
01:27:42,570 --> 01:27:49,230
and you've included the community ambassador program and I know when FM3 did their survey a lot of

1075
01:27:49,230 --> 01:27:53,070
folks or some folks, we're not aware of the Ambassador program, but I don't see it in the

1076
01:27:53,070 --> 01:27:53,350
language.

1077
01:27:53,490 --> 01:27:58,790
I think it's an opportunity to educate folks between now and November, and I'm wondering

1078
01:27:58,790 --> 01:28:05,630
if it's not too late to put it in the Ambassador program seems to have such a positive response

1079
01:28:05,630 --> 01:28:07,650
for those who are aware of it.

1080
01:28:07,650 --> 01:28:12,450
I think if we were to educate the rest of those folks that are not aware of it, it might

1081
01:28:14,010 --> 01:28:20,230
might be able to pass the ballot, because it's these programs that are going to lose if

1082
01:28:20,230 --> 01:28:26,410
it doesn't pass, and I feel like our constituents need to hear that in particular the community

1083
01:28:26,410 --> 01:28:27,510
ambassador program.

1084
01:28:27,910 --> 01:28:34,050
And we didn't specifically talk about it for a few reasons. One that we want to be able to

1085
01:28:34,050 --> 01:28:39,590
over time make sure that the programs that we're offering really need the needs of the community.

1086
01:28:39,590 --> 01:28:45,590
And the community ambassador program may very well be one of those, but we we probably want a little bit of flexibility

1087
01:28:45,590 --> 01:28:55,790
And I do agree absolutely that we do need to get the word out and that we do need to do some some, you know, positive marketing of what they do and and

1088
01:28:55,790 --> 01:29:04,290
And to be honest, they are a fairly small cost for what they provide because they're part time because, you know, they they provide a service that

1089
01:29:04,290 --> 01:29:10,010
we don't get otherwise I would probably discourage you but it is up to council and you certainly

1090
01:29:10,010 --> 01:29:14,730
can decide if you want to add it to not change language at this time but we could if that was

1091
01:29:14,730 --> 01:29:20,710
something that you all chose to do. He's a small cost we're looking at 150,000. We're talking

1092
01:29:20,710 --> 01:29:26,530
about that's essentially one you know that's one that's actually less than one police officer.

1093
01:29:26,850 --> 01:29:31,350
I know fully good. I mean it's an amazing program yeah yeah I mean but I just

1094
01:29:31,350 --> 01:29:39,710
But I do think we did find that there were lots of folks who weren't in that a huge number, but of the people who were positive about the tax

1095
01:29:40,170 --> 01:29:47,430
And what the city was doing that was one that they seemed to not have quite a grasp of the program and I think we do need to get the word out there

1096
01:29:49,440 --> 01:29:54,620
Well, and if the idea is to provide flexibility in the funding and in case

1097
01:29:54,620 --> 01:29:59,900
I mean, of course, they weren't the program to be successful, but for some reason that's not meeting the needs anymore

1098
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:10,120
And then that's just one less thing to allocate funds for. So I understand why you're suggesting that we keep the language more general.

1099
01:30:11,900 --> 01:30:23,720
So just make sure I understand. So if we don't you include that in the language and it does pass, we still have the latitude to use that tax for funding program.

1100
01:30:24,040 --> 01:30:26,000
Okay, perfect. Thank you.

1101
01:30:26,000 --> 01:30:33,940
I just want a number of years ago when our city manager actually probably pretty close

1102
01:30:33,940 --> 01:30:39,360
when she came on board. She really looked at the entire city and tried to consolidate

1103
01:30:39,360 --> 01:30:46,620
things and reduced expenses. And so now it really feels wonderful to have the opportunity

1104
01:30:46,620 --> 01:30:53,760
to have to fill some of the gaps that we had had with staff in a set and I really appreciate

1105
01:30:53,760 --> 01:30:59,580
what you did, Karen, when you've scratched everything down and looked around and we're going,

1106
01:30:59,660 --> 01:31:05,620
oh my gosh, you know, and everybody was carrying a bigger load and gradually we've been able to

1107
01:31:05,620 --> 01:31:11,360
change that. That was our crisis moment. So we have built up and I don't want you to see you go there again.

1108
01:31:14,750 --> 01:31:23,230
We're doing that and then it's allowed us to see the difference and being able to come back closer to

1109
01:31:23,230 --> 01:31:25,750
what we should be having to run a city or a size.

1110
01:31:27,270 --> 01:31:29,310
All right, does anybody have any more discussion

1111
01:31:30,250 --> 01:31:34,560
on this agenda item?

1112
01:31:36,630 --> 01:31:40,190
This is just the language that is in your packet

1113
01:31:40,190 --> 01:31:41,090
in the resolution.

1114
01:31:42,350 --> 01:31:45,870
And again, unless you wanted to make some changes to it.

1115
01:31:46,210 --> 01:31:50,830
And just a reminder that you did have 72% support

1116
01:31:50,830 --> 01:31:53,170
for this from FM3 research.

1117
01:31:53,410 --> 01:31:55,250
And so we really want to carry that forward.

1118
01:31:55,250 --> 01:32:00,990
That's a pretty good number going in to putting it on the ballot and potentially elections.

1119
01:32:02,390 --> 01:32:11,410
I noticed on F on here it says authorizes the City Council or any member or members of the City Council to write the argument for the measure.

1120
01:32:14,070 --> 01:32:15,130
So we have a little bit.

1121
01:32:15,390 --> 01:32:16,030
I'm jumping to that.

1122
01:32:16,030 --> 01:32:23,350
No, and actually it is, I will tell you there's a little bit of duplicate between my resolution and the City Clerk's resolution.

1123
01:32:23,350 --> 01:32:29,630
and it was partly just wanting, I was, I probably overstepped, I'll to say that, but I wanted

1124
01:32:29,630 --> 01:32:34,930
to make sure that it was all covered and I didn't miss anything. So I think in the next

1125
01:32:34,930 --> 01:32:40,630
agenda item, it's more specific to who's probably appropriate to be on that committee than

1126
01:32:40,630 --> 01:32:45,350
the generic language that I included. So I don't think you need to take it that action.

1127
01:32:47,510 --> 01:33:07,450
So, if we're ready, I would build to adopt resolution number 234-52, which places a 3-4-1-cent addition to the city's transactions and use tax measure on the ballot for the general election to be held November 5th to 2024.

1128
01:33:07,450 --> 01:33:12,670
I will second. Okay, we have a motion time at Vice-Mary.

1129
01:33:13,650 --> 01:33:16,710
Stillman and a second from Councilman Shafer, all in favor.

1130
01:33:17,610 --> 01:33:19,450
Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. All right, motion passes.

1131
01:33:20,090 --> 01:33:22,630
How are we doing? Anybody need a breaker? Can we do it?

1132
01:33:22,890 --> 01:33:27,210
Great. Okay. Okay. Let's take a five minute break.

1133
01:33:27,550 --> 01:33:29,250
Okay. Yeah, we're going to take away.

1134
01:37:07,090 --> 01:37:09,210
If we're already to come back. Let's,

1135
01:37:20,500 --> 01:37:21,140
we're coming back.

1136
01:37:40,220 --> 01:37:43,940
Good have watched like the first couple innings of the crabs game maybe.

1137
01:37:43,940 --> 01:37:44,860
not in a hot dog.

1138
01:37:47,040 --> 01:37:47,300
All right.

1139
01:37:48,080 --> 01:37:51,980
Our next item for new business is to adopt resolution

1140
01:37:51,980 --> 01:37:56,000
number 234-57, calling for a general municipal

1141
01:37:56,000 --> 01:37:58,980
election to be held in November 5th, 2024,

1142
01:37:59,320 --> 01:38:01,820
and consider appointing a subcommittee to draft arguments

1143
01:38:01,820 --> 01:38:05,300
in favor of the transaction and use tax to you.

1144
01:38:05,300 --> 01:38:06,040
Team measure.

1145
01:38:06,100 --> 01:38:08,980
We have a staff report from Mr. Thank you.

1146
01:38:09,220 --> 01:38:10,860
Part of the role of local government

1147
01:38:10,860 --> 01:38:16,180
is to establish policies that ultimately conduct our municipal elections.

1148
01:38:16,780 --> 01:38:25,560
So in preparation for November 5th, 2024, staff has prepared resolution 234-57 which establishes

1149
01:38:25,560 --> 01:38:31,180
that process and then request that our general municipal election be consolidated with the statewide

1150
01:38:31,180 --> 01:38:37,320
general election, which is a minister by Hon. County. So our November ballot will elect

1151
01:38:37,320 --> 01:38:42,760
three council members, each full full full terms, and we'll consider the ballot measure calling

1152
01:38:42,760 --> 01:38:47,020
for the three quarter percent of one percent sale to you team, measure that you just passed

1153
01:38:47,020 --> 01:38:54,060
your previous item. Tonight is recommended that the City Council adopt resolution, number 234-57,

1154
01:38:54,380 --> 01:39:00,060
please read the whole title when you do. And if you agree to appoint a subcommittee of two council

1155
01:39:00,060 --> 01:39:06,240
numbers to draft the primary argument in favor of the transaction use tax ballot measure, and then

1156
01:39:06,240 --> 01:39:11,780
If needed, every butler argument, following the elections, scheduled deadlines, and I make

1157
01:39:11,780 --> 01:39:14,340
happy to lay out those deadlines in if you want to walk through them.

1158
01:39:14,440 --> 01:39:18,440
But I think if we can call for the election, then that I can work with that subcommittee.

1159
01:39:19,140 --> 01:39:19,220
Sure.

1160
01:39:20,060 --> 01:39:25,000
How did that, would there other people interested in being part of that subcommittee, people from

1161
01:39:26,680 --> 01:39:33,800
the, so I know that we had one volunteer from the Energy Committee Commission, and

1162
01:39:33,800 --> 01:39:42,320
Then we had a couple that were interested originally from the TUTO, the TUTOC committee that

1163
01:39:42,320 --> 01:39:46,600
were interested in participating, and I didn't reach out to them, but we could.

1164
01:39:47,100 --> 01:39:52,080
So if you wanted to, you wanted staff to take that role and see if anybody else is interested

1165
01:39:52,080 --> 01:39:57,040
in joining council, we certainly can do that, and it might be a good way to get a few more

1166
01:39:57,040 --> 01:39:57,740
people involved.

1167
01:39:58,000 --> 01:39:58,240
Sure.

1168
01:39:58,240 --> 01:40:02,740
And I think that time is kind of the absolute point.

1169
01:40:04,160 --> 01:40:07,200
So I think that, I'm sorry, go ahead, anybody else?

1170
01:40:08,060 --> 01:40:09,180
I'm happy to do it.

1171
01:40:09,240 --> 01:40:12,760
I feel like it's my job to be part of that subcommittee.

1172
01:40:13,460 --> 01:40:16,520
If there's two people, then anybody else is wanting

1173
01:40:16,520 --> 01:40:17,420
to be part of that subcommittee.

1174
01:40:17,420 --> 01:40:19,400
Yeah, I was going to say I don't think that

1175
01:40:19,400 --> 01:40:21,900
me Alex or Stacey should do it, because we are already

1176
01:40:21,900 --> 01:40:24,140
going to be on the ballot in that election.

1177
01:40:24,940 --> 01:40:26,320
I just, I don't know, something about that doesn't seem right

1178
01:40:26,320 --> 01:40:26,800
to me.

1179
01:40:26,800 --> 01:40:36,780
And Stacey and I did our last one, and Alex has probably done a million too, so, you know, I think to let Kimberly and Meredith get some experience doing this and being part of it would be an idea.

1180
01:40:37,660 --> 01:40:39,700
So, but I also wanted to encourage-

1181
01:40:39,700 --> 01:40:39,920
Let's just-

1182
01:40:39,920 --> 01:40:40,960
Let's just don't want to-

1183
01:40:40,960 --> 01:40:42,800
But because in the past,

1184
01:40:44,000 --> 01:40:47,220
well, we talk or however you want to say to UT,

1185
01:40:48,220 --> 01:40:52,800
several people on their, you have worked on ballot measures before and the wording,

1186
01:40:52,800 --> 01:40:57,740
and it would be nice if those people are interested in helping this time too because they

1187
01:40:57,740 --> 01:40:59,440
have that experience in the past.

1188
01:40:59,840 --> 01:41:00,420
Yeah, so absolutely.

1189
01:41:00,600 --> 01:41:07,060
So I'm willing if it only needs to be one council member and those two talk people and I

1190
01:41:07,060 --> 01:41:11,840
think it was my blinker, then I'm fine to work with those people if council member White

1191
01:41:11,840 --> 01:41:17,140
wants to be a part of that, for example, to have her along, it is up to you.

1192
01:41:19,980 --> 01:41:23,880
And I would add that even though it is an election year, it's up to each of you individually,

1193
01:41:23,880 --> 01:41:29,700
they can argument some paper can have up to five signatures. It has an incustomary for the

1194
01:41:29,700 --> 01:41:34,580
entire council to sign them in the past so that's something that you'll consider at their

1195
01:41:34,580 --> 01:41:38,480
July meeting. We would want this prepared and coming back to for your July 19 meeting.

1196
01:41:39,540 --> 01:41:46,760
So the last one we had when we did measure G, no council member signed that. I'm going to

1197
01:41:46,760 --> 01:41:52,440
around and I got different people in the community. I'm trying to get a wide group of people from

1198
01:41:52,440 --> 01:41:57,840
for an area as avenues of life, just sign it, because I thought that was more effective

1199
01:41:57,840 --> 01:42:03,320
in the council's climate, but we can do whatever, but I'm just suggesting that.

1200
01:42:03,560 --> 01:42:09,280
Yeah, and so I think that in this resolution, we are going to consider appointing a subcommittee,

1201
01:42:09,580 --> 01:42:14,340
so I say we consider appointing a subcommittee, so let's somebody make a motion.

1202
01:42:15,260 --> 01:42:21,440
I will make a motion to adopt resolution number two three four dash five seven, calling for a

1203
01:42:21,440 --> 01:42:29,700
I don't mean this collection to be held November 5th, 2024 and a point, a subcommittee of Mayor Matthews and

1204
01:42:29,700 --> 01:42:34,400
interested committee members and Council Member White if she wants to.

1205
01:42:35,720 --> 01:42:40,520
To drop arguments in favor of the transaction and use tax measure.

1206
01:42:41,980 --> 01:42:47,240
Okay. Okay, be the most in by Council Member Schiefer, second by my mayor, still in all in favor.

1207
01:42:47,580 --> 01:42:48,800
Hi. Hi. Hi.

1208
01:42:48,800 --> 01:42:54,080
All right, motion passes, and now we can move on to receive a report from the County of

1209
01:42:54,080 --> 01:42:59,000
Humboldt, and provide input to the county to share our Cata's prioritization of essential

1210
01:42:59,000 --> 01:43:01,560
services in an era of natural disasters.

1211
01:43:04,590 --> 01:43:10,370
All right, thank you, Mayor and Council Sean Quincy, with the County Administrative Office,

1212
01:43:12,170 --> 01:43:20,090
and I feel like I came in on a kind of a treat of an agenda for you all with the budget

1213
01:43:20,090 --> 01:43:26,770
and sales tax measure because I am one of those people as Miss Miller talked about who

1214
01:43:26,770 --> 01:43:33,210
goes to those financial conferences and goes to the student deex afterwards and we talk about

1215
01:43:33,210 --> 01:43:39,630
general find and total personnel and cost allocation plans and things like that so I feel

1216
01:43:39,630 --> 01:43:46,350
at home in this conversation. But before we get into our presentation this is my first time addressing

1217
01:43:46,350 --> 01:43:52,110
this spot in. So I just really quickly wanted to do this myself and then get into kind of why we're

1218
01:43:52,110 --> 01:44:00,550
here. But originally from San Diego moved up here in O2, went to formerly above a symbol state.

1219
01:44:01,190 --> 01:44:06,590
Studied early childhood development and journalism came out and worked at a couple of the newspapers.

1220
01:44:06,810 --> 01:44:13,910
I'm seeing a duric for reporter. We're also working in early childhood. Started at the county in 2012

1221
01:44:13,910 --> 01:44:21,010
and communications that have moved on to working on more policy and management issues, work

1222
01:44:21,010 --> 01:44:28,630
done measure Z back in 2014, renewal, measure J, the TOT and freeze, and so some additional

1223
01:44:28,630 --> 01:44:33,230
local revenue measures there, but it gives me a chance to work with fine quotes like your

1224
01:44:33,230 --> 01:44:38,930
city staff and several of you on some other issues and director Tom Matson on two other

1225
01:44:38,930 --> 01:44:39,210
issues.

1226
01:44:39,210 --> 01:44:42,190
So I'll tell you a second to introduce himself as well.

1227
01:44:43,030 --> 01:44:44,990
Currently Director of Public Works for the county,

1228
01:44:45,070 --> 01:44:47,110
I like Shaw and I came up here in 1986

1229
01:44:47,790 --> 01:44:50,510
to go to Humboldt State to get my engineering degree.

1230
01:44:51,030 --> 01:44:53,430
I'm currently chair of the engineering advisory board

1231
01:44:53,430 --> 01:44:56,690
for Cal Poly Humboldt as one of my side gigs.

1232
01:44:58,350 --> 01:44:59,970
I went down south for a couple of years back.

1233
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:06,720
The San Francisco Bay Area, and then as soon as SHN had a job opening in 1992, I jumped back up here, worked with

1234
01:45:06,720 --> 01:45:11,920
them a couple of years, ran the landfill for a recology for a few years, and then jumped over to the county

1235
01:45:11,920 --> 01:45:18,800
as deputy director of roads, and became director in 2005, and 19 years after that, I'm still here.

1236
01:45:19,620 --> 01:45:23,700
And things have been getting progressively better. Okay.

1237
01:45:26,000 --> 01:45:29,980
But the reason we are, thank you for that. But the reason we're here

1238
01:45:29,980 --> 01:45:36,040
today as to talk about kind of how things have progressed as director mats and kind of alluded

1239
01:45:36,040 --> 01:45:42,560
to and where we are now working, where we could be heading to the future. And specifically

1240
01:45:42,560 --> 01:45:48,560
in terms of natural disasters, over the last 10 years or so we've seen an increase in the number

1241
01:45:48,560 --> 01:45:54,900
of natural disasters that are hitting our area. These disasters vary from storms and landslides

1242
01:45:54,900 --> 01:46:01,920
we saw down in a fully-recreet couple months ago, earthquakes, snowstorms, just runs the gamut,

1243
01:46:02,540 --> 01:46:07,500
the disasters are sometimes localized, sometimes they hit our entire community. But we're

1244
01:46:07,500 --> 01:46:14,160
seeing that they're increasing in frequency and intensity. And when these disasters happen along

1245
01:46:14,160 --> 01:46:19,740
with the city, the county will proclaim local disasters, local emergencies, less frequently the state

1246
01:46:19,740 --> 01:46:23,860
and the federal government will proclaim emergencies. The reason that's relevant is because

1247
01:46:23,860 --> 01:46:29,740
is if the state and the federal governments declare disasters, that opens up funding channels.

1248
01:46:30,920 --> 01:46:35,620
And for us to reclaim some of those costs, but if those disasters are not declared

1249
01:46:35,620 --> 01:46:40,100
at the state and federal level, those funding channels are cut off and were left to bear

1250
01:46:40,100 --> 01:46:44,120
the cost of those emergencies that are not of our own doing.

1251
01:46:45,760 --> 01:46:52,940
But these disasters, these rolling disasters, are starting to take a heavier poll on the county

1252
01:46:52,940 --> 01:46:57,880
government. At the same time, these are happening. We still need to find ways to deliver

1253
01:46:57,880 --> 01:47:02,320
the essential services that our community needs. As you guys have been talking about,

1254
01:47:02,440 --> 01:47:12,240
I'll leave you. And to talk a little bit about how we got here, our story begins with,

1255
01:47:12,240 --> 01:47:16,940
at least for the kind of government's point of view, it begins with looking at the state. Because over the last

1256
01:47:16,940 --> 01:47:21,100
plus here's a state has taken more than a half billion dollars from the county's general

1257
01:47:21,100 --> 01:47:21,460
fund.

1258
01:47:22,020 --> 01:47:27,360
This is not hyperballyed, it's not funny math, these are reportable numbers, back in the

1259
01:47:27,360 --> 01:47:32,100
90s, if you remember, the state could not meet its obligations, and so it changed the way

1260
01:47:32,100 --> 01:47:39,320
that local public taxes were allocated, and so it shifted our public taxes to take care

1261
01:47:39,320 --> 01:47:40,100
of state obligations,

1262
01:47:42,740 --> 01:47:46,920
and as I mentioned that I don't feel bad about

1263
01:47:46,920 --> 01:47:52,400
talking about something that happened way back in the 90s because our infrastructure was created

1264
01:47:52,400 --> 01:47:57,380
well before that and our local needs and the way we addressed those local needs were

1265
01:47:57,380 --> 01:48:01,440
we're created in such a way that local property taxes were meant to take care of those local needs

1266
01:48:01,440 --> 01:48:08,040
and when the state outspent themselves they dip into local governments to take care of their own needs

1267
01:48:08,040 --> 01:48:15,480
and so we're still fighting that battle back here 30 plus years later and so that number

1268
01:48:16,200 --> 01:48:26,440
We tell you that number every year what that diversion cost and in the current year 2324 that amount of that diversion equals is more than $25 million.

1269
01:48:26,740 --> 01:48:32,080
That's $25 million that would have otherwise been the county's general funds take care of local needs.

1270
01:48:32,880 --> 01:48:37,260
And that doesn't include some of the state mandates that staff mentioned tonight.

1271
01:48:37,260 --> 01:48:43,200
And it doesn't include future state takeaways as you all are well aware of the state

1272
01:48:43,200 --> 01:48:49,700
of facing a record deficit of between 37 and 73 billion dollars, depending on who is

1273
01:48:49,700 --> 01:48:50,500
kind of the numbers.

1274
01:48:51,520 --> 01:48:55,520
And we find ourselves in an incredibly defensive position right now trying to protect from

1275
01:48:55,520 --> 01:48:56,800
future state takeaways.

1276
01:48:57,720 --> 01:49:03,180
The governors may revise from a few weeks ago, had hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts

1277
01:49:03,180 --> 01:49:07,240
to local emergency preparedness and transportation programs.

1278
01:49:08,100 --> 01:49:10,240
And so this is how these things happen.

1279
01:49:10,500 --> 01:49:12,280
When the state finds itself in a bind,

1280
01:49:12,700 --> 01:49:15,660
when the first place is that it goes as to dip into local governments

1281
01:49:15,660 --> 01:49:18,480
and redirect shift money.

1282
01:49:18,940 --> 01:49:22,340
If you look at all the proposals, there's a lot of this redirect

1283
01:49:22,340 --> 01:49:25,360
and shift that you'll find in there and we worry about that

1284
01:49:25,360 --> 01:49:29,800
because that's shifting money away from local governments

1285
01:49:29,800 --> 01:49:31,280
to take care of our local needs.

1286
01:49:31,280 --> 01:49:42,380
And so we're not the only ones who are recognizing our need to do more in terms of local disaster preparedness.

1287
01:49:43,380 --> 01:49:56,500
The grand jury last year in oblivious and June issued a report that said no uncertain turns that the humble county in the county government itself needs to do more to prepare for natural disasters.

1288
01:49:56,500 --> 01:50:09,480
because of our seismic, the way our topography is, our inclination for bad storms, and because

1289
01:50:09,480 --> 01:50:15,520
sea level rises exacerbating climate changes exacerbating the impacts of sea level

1290
01:50:15,520 --> 01:50:22,660
rise on our community. And so I mentioned the Grand Juries report from last year, because

1291
01:50:22,660 --> 01:50:27,920
The grand jury is an independent body who is making a public statement to our local community

1292
01:50:27,920 --> 01:50:33,960
and our local leaders saying that we need to do more and so what we're doing now is an attempt

1293
01:50:33,960 --> 01:50:43,860
to rectify that. And I kind of, earlier in my presentation, I want to be, I meant to be

1294
01:50:43,860 --> 01:50:50,080
to address this issue and I wanted to be upfront with this council and this community that one

1295
01:50:50,080 --> 01:50:56,960
our ways to rectify this issue or begin to help us prepare for, prepare better for natural

1296
01:50:56,960 --> 01:51:04,360
disasters is by placing a revenue measure on the ballot number. Staff alluded to it a little bit

1297
01:51:04,360 --> 01:51:10,040
earlier but that is one of the things that we are heavily considering. We consider doing that in

1298
01:51:10,040 --> 01:51:15,840
March and our board has directed us to do some more research and to potentially place something on

1299
01:51:15,840 --> 01:51:24,540
out in November. So you all likely received a fine piece of mail. Sometimes last week

1300
01:51:24,540 --> 01:51:29,520
asked me to take a survey and identify which of priorities are, and that was part of this

1301
01:51:29,520 --> 01:51:32,240
education effort that we're involved in on right now.

1302
01:51:34,680 --> 01:51:41,480
So to continue on, if I could leave this council with one thing, it's that we simply believe

1303
01:51:41,480 --> 01:51:45,640
that natural disasters are an everyday part of life

1304
01:51:45,640 --> 01:51:46,900
for Humbuk County now.

1305
01:51:47,300 --> 01:51:49,480
And what that means for us is that we need to re-orient

1306
01:51:49,480 --> 01:51:52,180
the way that we deliver public services in the light

1307
01:51:52,180 --> 01:51:53,180
of this new reality.

1308
01:51:56,020 --> 01:51:59,220
And for the county government, we're seeing the impacts

1309
01:51:59,220 --> 01:52:02,300
of these natural disasters, mostly on our roads.

1310
01:52:03,460 --> 01:52:07,220
Tom can talk a little bit more about what these disasters

1311
01:52:07,220 --> 01:52:08,320
mean for our roads.

1312
01:52:08,760 --> 01:52:10,420
But one thing that we need to do is that we

1313
01:52:10,420 --> 01:52:19,120
needs to harden our roads and that's, I mentioned that in the context of state and federal

1314
01:52:19,120 --> 01:52:25,940
reimbursements, when we can state and federal reimbursements, that doesn't cover the full

1315
01:52:25,940 --> 01:52:32,060
cost of our natural disasters and the activities that we need to take in response to natural disasters

1316
01:52:32,060 --> 01:52:40,400
and repairing our roads. But all that Tom talked a little bit more about why that is and kind of

1317
01:52:40,400 --> 01:52:46,120
So I'm going to mainly focus on the roads because without roads you have no disaster response.

1318
01:52:47,360 --> 01:52:56,360
So if we look back when I started with the county in February 1998, that March was my first declared disaster working for the county on the floods.

1319
01:52:57,520 --> 01:53:06,040
I wondered what I got into, so I looked past 20 years before that, and we were on average getting a federal declaration about once every three years.

1320
01:53:06,040 --> 01:53:14,300
spread out over time because many years we'll get a storm disaster in December. There's an 80% chance we're going to have another one in March

1321
01:53:14,300 --> 01:53:16,500
That's just the way our winners roll

1322
01:53:16,500 --> 01:53:18,220
So that was little bit

1323
01:53:18,780 --> 01:53:24,460
Then comes 2017 we got here with 41 million dollars a damage to the road system

1324
01:53:24,460 --> 01:53:32,000
Follow two years later by another 15 million and from 2022 to 2024 we have actually five disasters

1325
01:53:32,000 --> 01:53:38,040
3 federally declared one state declared and one local disaster that were offered under.

1326
01:53:38,460 --> 01:53:42,100
And that's hit the road's department to at the tune of about $70 million.

1327
01:53:42,820 --> 01:53:45,200
My annual revenue is about $15 million.

1328
01:53:46,160 --> 01:53:53,000
And where it creates the problem is FEMA does not pay to harden the road's system after a disaster.

1329
01:53:53,200 --> 01:53:55,180
They pay to put it back the way it was.

1330
01:53:55,820 --> 01:53:58,760
Well, if it failed, the way it was, it's found a fail again.

1331
01:53:58,760 --> 01:54:13,300
There are ways, but there are very few to get additional hardening, which we've done, but we have repeat sites that are repeat sites, that are critical locations in the county to get supplies and people and food and everything else.

1332
01:54:13,300 --> 01:54:19,380
And so I'm having to take my maintenance money to pay because FEMA doesn't pay up front.

1333
01:54:19,540 --> 01:54:24,060
I have to pay for this right out of my local funding so that takes away from the maintenance.

1334
01:54:24,760 --> 01:54:28,400
And then it takes me six to ten years to get reimbursement.

1335
01:54:28,720 --> 01:54:35,080
So right now my road fund budget is actually a negative 10 million and it's being flooded by the county tax tax pressure

1336
01:54:35,560 --> 01:54:42,400
because they know I'm going to get money hopefully eventually, but it puts me in a position where I'm having the cut maintenance

1337
01:54:42,400 --> 01:54:47,060
our maintenance, I'm sure you all know what a pavement condition index is, I'm sure

1338
01:54:47,060 --> 01:54:52,520
Nicholas presented to you on that. We were in the 60's going in a 2017, went

1339
01:54:52,520 --> 01:54:56,860
out down the 49, and if we don't make changes in our funding stream and our

1340
01:54:56,860 --> 01:55:01,260
ability to do things, we're projecting to go down the 23 and 10 years, which is

1341
01:55:01,260 --> 01:55:05,420
basically most of our rural roads are going to start getting converted back to

1342
01:55:05,420 --> 01:55:11,660
gravel. And so that's, that's the vicious circle that we were in, we get the

1343
01:55:11,660 --> 01:55:36,360
with front-the-money, we don't have the money to harden the system, we defer maintenance, we get more damage, and as he said, it's, when I look at it as just like seven disasters since 2017, and one every three years history before that, things are changing, we're getting hit harder, and we're not able to keep up with things with the county infrastructure.

1344
01:55:38,400 --> 01:55:51,160
And one point that we like to, I like to stress to this body when Tom mentions the PCI index

1345
01:55:51,160 --> 01:55:58,180
on the scale of 1-100, so 69 is kind of average going down a little average.

1346
01:55:59,040 --> 01:56:08,260
There are six counties that are in what's considered a good range, 70 in above, and each of

1347
01:56:08,260 --> 01:56:11,280
them have multiple local revenue measures dedicated to railroad.

1348
01:56:11,480 --> 01:56:15,020
And so it's no surprise that additional local funding

1349
01:56:15,020 --> 01:56:17,400
needs better service on the roads.

1350
01:56:17,780 --> 01:56:21,880
And that 70 number is magical because that's where you're

1351
01:56:21,880 --> 01:56:25,880
basically reworking your house before your house collapses.

1352
01:56:26,720 --> 01:56:28,040
Where our house is collapsing.

1353
01:56:28,500 --> 01:56:31,880
It's a lot cheaper to maintain a road system that has a high PCI

1354
01:56:31,880 --> 01:56:36,520
than it is to rebuild entire road systems when we're getting to it.

1355
01:56:38,160 --> 01:56:40,940
And so this leads to

1356
01:56:40,940 --> 01:56:42,800
Is it a pay to ask the question?

1357
01:56:45,100 --> 01:56:48,560
We're happy to answer your questions as your light.

1358
01:56:48,600 --> 01:56:50,100
You're talking about harming roads.

1359
01:56:50,280 --> 01:56:52,320
Could you explain what that means?

1360
01:56:52,780 --> 01:56:55,440
That means putting in better retaining walls.

1361
01:56:55,760 --> 01:56:57,580
That means a lot more rocks low protection.

1362
01:56:57,920 --> 01:56:59,200
That means we're routing roads.

1363
01:56:59,440 --> 01:57:03,020
What we can't do things to tie into about better geography.

1364
01:57:03,880 --> 01:57:07,480
A lot of the county's roads for the old wagon grass.

1365
01:57:07,480 --> 01:57:12,720
There were never designed, there were just pushed in, wherever it was easiest to get through,

1366
01:57:12,820 --> 01:57:18,120
and easiest to maintain at the time, which basically meant push and dirt into the river,

1367
01:57:18,220 --> 01:57:24,680
because they followed the river, or the ridges, and so hardening them means making them resilient

1368
01:57:24,680 --> 01:57:30,400
to the rainfall, making them resilient to earthquakes, instead of having roads on jello,

1369
01:57:30,720 --> 01:57:33,600
having roads that are based in a foundation.

1370
01:57:33,600 --> 01:57:34,620
So

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01:57:36,700 --> 01:57:45,660
this leads us to the ask that we have with this council and that is last year as the

1372
01:57:45,660 --> 01:57:50,700
county was considering placing a measure on the ballot and for the March ballot.

1373
01:57:50,860 --> 01:57:56,840
We worked with FM3 to do a poll of the community and determined with our priorities

1374
01:57:56,840 --> 01:57:59,820
where and they came back with the list of priorities.

1375
01:57:59,820 --> 01:58:07,120
And I believe it's, I believe it may be in the packet tonight or not, but it was definitely

1376
01:58:07,120 --> 01:58:13,040
on the mail or that you all received last week, there was a list of, I think, seven rate

1377
01:58:13,040 --> 01:58:13,520
priorities.

1378
01:58:14,460 --> 01:58:20,400
And it's a really disparate list of services, ranging from homelessness services to transportation,

1379
01:58:21,120 --> 01:58:23,220
to roads and 911 response.

1380
01:58:25,520 --> 01:58:37,500
But right now, because our funding is so limited, we need to get really granular on what the community really wants and so we want to build what the highest priority as among these high-ranking priorities.

1381
01:58:38,280 --> 01:58:45,420
And so the ask of this council in this community is to weigh in and go to our website and take this survey and let us know what's important to you.

1382
01:58:45,420 --> 01:58:48,200
provide additional comments and things like that.

1383
01:58:49,040 --> 01:58:52,400
Later, this summer, we're a little bit behind you all

1384
01:58:52,400 --> 01:58:54,460
in terms of developing our revenue measure

1385
01:58:54,460 --> 01:58:56,400
for the ballot in November.

1386
01:58:57,400 --> 01:59:00,020
But we'll be doing another scientific poll,

1387
01:59:00,360 --> 01:59:04,020
where we call about 600 like the voters,

1388
01:59:05,040 --> 01:59:12,200
and really get kind of a scientifically backed idea

1389
01:59:12,200 --> 01:59:19,060
of where people's residents, priorities are, but we would like the community to take this

1390
01:59:19,060 --> 01:59:23,400
poll now and let us know among these priorities what's the highest.

1391
01:59:24,360 --> 01:59:29,820
The second ask that we would have this council and this community is that if there are other

1392
01:59:29,820 --> 01:59:36,920
community groups and within Arcada that you think would be a good fit to hear this message

1393
01:59:36,920 --> 01:59:42,260
and ask questions of us to let us know so that we can go out and talk to those groups, or

1394
01:59:42,260 --> 01:59:46,740
more than happy to go out and talk to folks about this and the impacts and natural disasters

1395
01:59:46,740 --> 01:59:52,360
and where we're going in the future. But with that, we are happy to answer any other questions

1396
01:59:52,360 --> 01:59:56,940
that you might have and thank you for your time, thank you for having us.

1397
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:11,120
I just want to remind folks because disaster related and maybe an opportunity for you to share is July 12th, 14th, the Arcada

1398
02:00:11,120 --> 02:00:20,320
Cert Community Emergency Response Team will be doing a training, so there will be 30 plus people and then of course everyone that they know they can share.

1399
02:00:20,320 --> 02:00:26,540
maybe I don't know. I was going to ask you because I didn't receive that survey so thank you for

1400
02:00:26,540 --> 02:00:34,560
directing me to the website and I will commit to take that survey. I guess what I this is we can't count

1401
02:00:34,560 --> 02:00:42,440
on the vet. We found this out when we had our December 2022 earthquake when Rio Del got hit really

1402
02:00:42,440 --> 02:00:48,600
hard and they're still dealing with the aftermath of that. If it wasn't for boots on the ground like

1403
02:00:48,600 --> 02:00:55,120
brown-croffered and bringing in the world kitchen and other programs that be a lot worse off,

1404
02:00:55,660 --> 02:01:02,840
but this ballot measure will fill in that gap so that I mean if it is claimed a federal national

1405
02:01:02,840 --> 02:01:07,800
disaster that's great then we can put that money back in and use it somewhere you can pay

1406
02:01:07,800 --> 02:01:13,900
yourself back if they come in but if not you know they're still suffering and if we had that

1407
02:01:13,900 --> 02:01:19,980
of funds, or in this case the ballot measure, things would already be taken care of there.

1408
02:01:20,260 --> 02:01:21,900
So thank you for sharing this.

1409
02:01:23,380 --> 02:01:24,840
I would thank you for that.

1410
02:01:25,040 --> 02:01:30,840
I'll remember an example from the real dull earthquake was there were a number.

1411
02:01:31,040 --> 02:01:35,280
I think there were 100 structures that were really yellow or red tagged.

1412
02:01:36,380 --> 02:01:38,780
And those families couldn't go back into those homes.

1413
02:01:38,780 --> 02:01:50,500
And so we needed to provide funding for some of those things to go live in hotels for a while and so the homes could get prepared.

1414
02:01:51,800 --> 02:01:58,460
And that funding is still looking for reimbursement for those funds, two almost two years later.

1415
02:01:58,900 --> 02:02:02,860
And that's local funding that was spent to do that luckily.

1416
02:02:02,860 --> 02:02:07,360
we had some art of money to spend on that.

1417
02:02:07,420 --> 02:02:10,340
So that's another example of some of these local needs

1418
02:02:10,340 --> 02:02:12,060
that may or may not get me in first

1419
02:02:12,060 --> 02:02:15,140
that we need to take care of our local community.

1420
02:02:17,420 --> 02:02:19,600
Just some thoughts to, I don't know,

1421
02:02:19,620 --> 02:02:20,820
share with everybody and share with you guys,

1422
02:02:20,980 --> 02:02:23,460
but I think that, and I haven't seen the survey yet,

1423
02:02:23,620 --> 02:02:25,840
we're taking it, but thank you for directing us that.

1424
02:02:26,260 --> 02:02:30,200
But I think it's really smart to take,

1425
02:02:30,200 --> 02:02:32,540
this lens of disaster preparedness

1426
02:02:32,540 --> 02:02:39,220
and bringing in the idea of climate change and that we are living in a reality where we are

1427
02:02:39,220 --> 02:02:44,200
only going to see more extreme weather, more extreme storms, and that literally our infrastructure

1428
02:02:44,200 --> 02:02:50,800
cannot handle it. And I think that coming at, you know, a measure of this way, especially looking

1429
02:02:50,800 --> 02:02:54,700
at what communities, right, countywider, are going to be voting on and we talked about how for tuna

1430
02:02:54,700 --> 02:02:59,500
is going to have a tax measure in Arcada, and all of this that could be competing with those funds.

1431
02:02:59,500 --> 02:03:02,980
But I think to really focus effort in a community like Arcada

1432
02:03:02,980 --> 02:03:06,040
that has a track record of approving tax measures

1433
02:03:06,040 --> 02:03:08,880
and being pretty favorable to more taxes.

1434
02:03:09,820 --> 02:03:12,660
I think in my whole time living in Arcada,

1435
02:03:13,000 --> 02:03:17,060
which is my whole life, we usually tend to approve tax measures

1436
02:03:17,060 --> 02:03:18,520
and at least since I've been a voter.

1437
02:03:19,780 --> 02:03:21,840
And so to kind of take some of those priorities,

1438
02:03:22,080 --> 02:03:25,080
especially in Arcada where we're talking about climate change

1439
02:03:25,080 --> 02:03:28,280
and mitigating disasters, is definitely a higher priority,

1440
02:03:28,280 --> 02:03:41,540
probably for a lot of the voters than maybe in different parts of the county where there might be more conservative viewpoints that do not take the, you know, importance of time and change into account.

1441
02:03:42,140 --> 02:03:50,100
I think that, you know, that is a good viewpoint to take and I appreciate, you know, just the thoughtful presentation on that.

1442
02:03:51,400 --> 02:04:02,920
And, you know, because to focus that it is a different type of service, then for example our sales tax would be, you know, necessarily, there's definitely some overlap, but to focus on that.

1443
02:04:03,060 --> 02:04:05,040
And so thank you guys for your presentation tonight.

1444
02:04:05,040 --> 02:04:10,160
And I just think that, you know, you've got a good beginning starts here.

1445
02:04:10,520 --> 02:04:14,100
So, yeah, looking forward to taking the survey as well.

1446
02:04:14,820 --> 02:04:20,220
One of the things, that's right, and then thinking of that too, just as far as groups to

1447
02:04:20,220 --> 02:04:24,660
liaison with and present to you, I mean, I think that especially in Arcade, I like our business

1448
02:04:24,660 --> 02:04:30,360
community is pretty active and reach out to the Chamber of Commerce and be able to talk to those

1449
02:04:30,360 --> 02:04:37,840
businesses about how it will impact them, but to be able to generate some of these positive ideas

1450
02:04:37,840 --> 02:04:41,620
around what the chat tax would be going to, and then we're going to SACE.

1451
02:04:44,270 --> 02:04:50,550
I might have already said this when you guys presented at the circumuiting, I don't know, so I apologize if I did.

1452
02:04:50,870 --> 02:05:02,190
But what would be helpful to me and probably others that will have, you know, friends, family members, community members, asking us about this measure and like if they should support it or why.

1453
02:05:02,450 --> 02:05:11,030
Some type of a one-sheeter with some of the information you provide, especially regarding the roads, like what you said, is very powerful.

1454
02:05:11,770 --> 02:05:17,970
because you're talking about, you know, facts and numbers and some history, and so I think

1455
02:05:17,970 --> 02:05:21,970
if we had some of that information at our fingertips when it gets time to start talking

1456
02:05:21,970 --> 02:05:26,390
about this, we just need some cheat notes to help you out, is what I'm asking for, I guess.

1457
02:05:27,030 --> 02:05:29,070
Yeah, we're definitely in the process of helping you out.

1458
02:05:30,310 --> 02:05:35,790
Cool. Yeah, I can say from personal history, I lived in Orleans for 10 years. I know what is

1459
02:05:35,790 --> 02:05:42,850
disaster. Those roads are being stuck behind like rock size and whatnot. So it's super

1460
02:05:42,850 --> 02:05:50,230
important. I do think that keeping this in a very broad lens of climate change is probably

1461
02:05:50,230 --> 02:05:58,830
important because unfortunately but honestly like none of the taxific goes to roads is going

1462
02:05:59,570 --> 02:06:05,970
really go to Arcada. These are all like county districts and so I just want to

1463
02:06:05,970 --> 02:06:10,250
make sure because we have a very important tax measure and our ballot too that

1464
02:06:10,250 --> 02:06:16,570
we are capturing a kind of what's in it for us as well because

1465
02:06:20,990 --> 02:06:22,410
we're all of

1466
02:06:22,410 --> 02:06:27,310
this. We're all in the same boat. I mean we had long discussions because we know

1467
02:06:27,310 --> 02:06:31,150
whether people are going forward, but we can't not do anything.

1468
02:06:33,390 --> 02:06:37,990
And if you want to go somewhere else than just in Arquita, you may have to take

1469
02:06:37,990 --> 02:06:41,010
one of your roads if you want to tell them how to road.

1470
02:06:41,510 --> 02:06:46,310
And so that might be, you know, for citizens, I would suggest you hit the road

1471
02:06:46,310 --> 02:06:47,550
reason Arquita.

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Sunrise and moon.

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It's funny you mentioned that because in 1964, the only way into the county was Bell Springs

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road, which is a county road from Mendocino to Ambo County.

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Or you flew in because I worked for the airlines and all the planes just had boxes

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in the seats and all over the airport, everyone's sleeping because they couldn't all over the

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floor.

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They couldn't get here.

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My own was entire house was moved because of 60 were fled down in or it means it's all

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thing.

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Anyway, thank you so much.

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Please reach out to us if there's anything else we can do to help you and there's no other

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questions.

1484
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Thanks, thank you.

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explaining hardening, because it's all we hear about it is from fire point of view where

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you're getting rid of the vegetation around your house and you're doing this and that.

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But hardening roads is a, I'm glad you explained that.

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Thank you, Tom.

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And if I might just add as a final note, and thank you again, to the point of different jurisdictions,

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placing measures on the ballot, what I'd begin the presentation with on the state

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takeways, affects cities too, that property tax

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reallocation, that hits cities too in a big way.

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And so when we hear that cities are putting sales, tax

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measures are local, sales tax measures on the ballot,

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or responses we get it.

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We understand that there is, there's not enough funding

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to take care of local needs, even at the county

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in the city.

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And Council Member Schaefer, to your point about the climate

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change piece. I would say that there's shared interest throughout the county around doing

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our part to whatever extent we can to reverse the effects of climate change or neutralized

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natural neutralize them or do what we can. Especially in terms of public transportation,

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the public transportation system here in bus service, especially for seniors, disability,

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low income. We need to make sure that that service is guaranteed for those who need it.

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And so that's a big emphasis in this measure too. That's to the point of taking a climate effort

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with some climate action as well. But thank you again for having us who really appreciate it.

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Thank you so much. So following up on what Stacy said, and you get that sheet,

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You should really make sure it's available for everyone that represents people on HTA, how much transit authority is you know, talking about the roads and probably H. Cog also.

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Well, I think you should look at all the joint power agreements and make sure everyone in joint power gets hit because there are different representatives on each joint power.

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So that way you could cover at least the council members. Thank you.

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You'd expect it in your inbox.

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Thank you so much.

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Thank you.

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And with that, this meeting is adjourned.

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Thank you so much.