1 00:00:08,100 --> 00:00:13,401 Meir Porta Maki to the flag of the United 2 00:00:16,877 --> 00:00:20,280 States of America. to the Republic for which it 3 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:25,680 stands, one nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and 4 00:00:26,860 --> 00:00:29,222 justice for all. I think you'll be seated. We'll 5 00:00:29,222 --> 00:00:32,893 do the roll call starting with city council member Hernandez, 6 00:00:32,893 --> 00:00:34,893 District one. P 7 00:00:36,363 --> 00:00:39,363 Councilor Hill, Conor Jordan, present. 8 00:00:39,767 --> 00:00:44,238 Councilor Simmons, uh, is under the weather and she will not be 9 00:00:44,238 --> 00:00:48,509 attending the next meeting. Council member Ots present. 10 00:00:48,509 --> 00:00:54,470 Uh, Councilor Ranker also is away. Mayor Putha Maki and 11 00:00:54,470 --> 00:00:58,719 council member Mitchell. We'll do the announcement and 12 00:00:58,719 --> 00:01:02,322 comments in the same order, starting with Councilor 13 00:01:02,322 --> 00:01:05,322 Hernandez. Hello, everyone. Happy June. 14 00:01:05,325 --> 00:01:08,662 Happy Pride Month. I just want to remind everyone, uh, that 15 00:01:08,662 --> 00:01:13,200 this, this month we take a moment to recognize that love 16 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:18,339 exists in all shapes and sizes and forms and that we here in 17 00:01:18,339 --> 00:01:21,274 the City of College Park provide a welcoming, uh, 18 00:01:21,274 --> 00:01:25,790 environment for all. We're gonna be celebrating pride on 19 00:01:25,790 --> 00:01:27,615 Friday, uh, with our, uh, city's Pride event, uh, the 20 00:01:27,615 --> 00:01:32,860 Friday Night Live. Uh, I wanna share, uh, as the summer comes, 21 00:01:32,860 --> 00:01:33,821 uh, to our I guess our sessions come to 22 00:01:33,821 --> 00:01:37,224 a close for at least about a month that there's gonna be 23 00:01:37,224 --> 00:01:39,626 schools that are graduating. I wanna congratulate Hollywood 24 00:01:39,626 --> 00:01:42,630 Elementary School and the Monarch Preschool, uh, 25 00:01:42,630 --> 00:01:45,299 graduates, uh, and all the other high school students who 26 00:01:45,299 --> 00:01:48,768 made it to the end. This is a great opportunity to check out 27 00:01:48,768 --> 00:01:52,773 some of the cities's, uh, reading programs 28 00:01:52,773 --> 00:01:55,375 that we are currently offering. You can find more information 29 00:01:55,375 --> 00:01:59,379 at the website, uh, uh, or any social media that you may have. 30 00:01:59,379 --> 00:02:04,584 Finally, uh, I wanna just take a second to remind folks that 31 00:02:04,584 --> 00:02:09,456 if you are uh going out of town, there is an opportunity that, 32 00:02:09,456 --> 00:02:13,326 uh, is provided by our College Park contract police that they 33 00:02:13,326 --> 00:02:16,797 go and do a, uh, a checkup on your property. Uh, all you have 34 00:02:16,797 --> 00:02:21,668 to do is register online with uh the Prince George's County 35 00:02:21,668 --> 00:02:24,872 Police Department. It's a good opportunity for, uh, folks to 36 00:02:24,872 --> 00:02:28,141 make sure they just keep an extra eye on your, uh, property. 37 00:02:28,141 --> 00:02:30,677 Separately and uh there's, I know that there's 38 00:02:30,677 --> 00:02:33,347 gonna be a lot of opportunities over the summer, but if you're 39 00:02:33,347 --> 00:02:35,820 interested in helping out with some of the projects that we've 40 00:02:35,820 --> 00:02:38,619 got going on around the city. I know that many, I, I have some 41 00:02:38,619 --> 00:02:40,553 opportunities, but some other people may have some 42 00:02:40,553 --> 00:02:42,889 opportunities too, uh, to get involved. So please reach out. 43 00:02:42,889 --> 00:02:49,489 Talk to you guys soon. Yes, hi, so this past Friday, 44 00:02:55,168 --> 00:03:01,768 uh, uh, myself and, um, um, Morten Maki, uh, attended the 45 00:03:01,975 --> 00:03:05,913 uh city employee employee appreciation, um, lunch. It was 46 00:03:05,913 --> 00:03:09,783 a great turnout. It was great to, uh, see the, the 47 00:03:09,783 --> 00:03:13,720 hardworking, um, employees of the city be recognized for the 48 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:18,125 work you've done. Um, and today I had an institutional 49 00:03:18,125 --> 00:03:20,861 biosafety Committee meeting for the University of Maryland 50 00:03:20,861 --> 00:03:23,730 review ing um biological research at 51 00:03:23,730 --> 00:03:29,937 the at the um university and, uh, let's see, tomorrow will be 52 00:03:29,937 --> 00:03:33,607 the United States Green Building Commission, uh, 53 00:03:33,607 --> 00:03:35,943 workshop that uh the mayor and I will be attending at 54 00:03:35,943 --> 00:03:38,110 University of Maryland day after tomorrow, day after 55 00:03:38,110 --> 00:03:39,480 tomorrow Thursday, right, that's right. 56 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:45,752 And then um we have Friday Night Live, this Friday, the 66 57 00:03:45,752 --> 00:03:50,290 or 8:30 right here at City City Hall, um, courtyard, and on 58 00:03:50,290 --> 00:03:54,161 Saturday we have the trolley trail day and um that'll be 59 00:03:54,161 --> 00:03:57,970 from, where's the time on the trolley showing? 60 00:03:57,970 --> 00:04:02,497 I believe it's 8. Depending on where the event is 61 00:04:03,570 --> 00:04:07,908 happening, but it goes all, all kind of most of the day and it 62 00:04:07,908 --> 00:04:11,712 ends up in um at the College Park Airport Museum with a 63 00:04:11,712 --> 00:04:15,649 great performance usually, uh, great, great, uh, music and, 64 00:04:15,649 --> 00:04:19,453 and, and performances there. Uh, and then most of us will be 65 00:04:19,453 --> 00:04:23,857 heading out to Maryland to Maryland municipal, uh, League, 66 00:04:23,857 --> 00:04:29,129 uh, Saturday, Sunday, and on Sunday, there will be um a 67 00:04:29,129 --> 00:04:30,531 history month um. 68 00:04:30,531 --> 00:04:34,334 uh event at the College Park Airport Museum as well with ice 69 00:04:34,334 --> 00:04:37,334 cream. and uh let's see. 70 00:04:40,340 --> 00:04:45,812 Oh, on June 26th, there will be the, uh, committees and boards 71 00:04:45,812 --> 00:04:48,415 appreciation dinner at the uh hotel. 72 00:04:48,415 --> 00:04:51,685 That's all I have for now Thank you. A lot's going on 73 00:04:51,685 --> 00:04:56,890 Um, thank you, Councilor Jordan. Yes, thank you. On Monday I had 74 00:04:56,890 --> 00:04:58,826 the um the pleasure of attending with Mayor Kabir, um, 75 00:04:58,826 --> 00:05:02,629 the celebration of the $3.1 million award to Attic Towers. 76 00:05:02,629 --> 00:05:05,432 Senators Van Hollen and also Brooks and Representative Ivey 77 00:05:05,432 --> 00:05:10,306 and State Senator Rosa Pep all, um, uh, uh, presented a a check 78 00:05:10,306 --> 00:05:13,709 to them. It was a, a, a wonderful ceremony and um, uh, 79 00:05:13,709 --> 00:05:18,380 just a, a, a great time to, to, uh, to be able to, to celebrate 80 00:05:18,380 --> 00:05:21,500 this, um, director Michelle Johnson was instrumental in the 81 00:05:21,500 --> 00:05:22,785 effort and it will bring much-needed 82 00:05:22,785 --> 00:05:25,521 repairs to the attic Towers building and be a great help to 83 00:05:25,521 --> 00:05:28,924 the residents there. It houses low-income seniors and 84 00:05:28,924 --> 00:05:32,928 residents with disabilities. Um, uh, I was able to stop by the 85 00:05:32,928 --> 00:05:37,466 BBCA planting event where they planted 500 plants donated, uh, 86 00:05:37,466 --> 00:05:41,803 for the per permaculture garden, um, I, I did, uh, I did see 87 00:05:41,803 --> 00:05:45,407 that, um, the board the Board of Education has announced they 88 00:05:45,407 --> 00:05:48,677 will have a continuation of the Chinese immersion program 89 00:05:48,677 --> 00:05:50,879 across all of Prince George's County, including Paint French 90 00:05:50,879 --> 00:05:53,282 Elementary School and District 2 yes. 91 00:05:53,282 --> 00:05:58,287 I will show you Um, uh, on a lighter note this 92 00:05:58,287 --> 00:06:00,956 weekend, uh, the Boy Scout troupe that meets in District 2 93 00:06:00,956 --> 00:06:06,295 will be walking to their summer camp. It is, uh, 208 miles over 94 00:06:06,295 --> 00:06:09,164 14 days that they will be walking, just starting at Holy 95 00:06:09,164 --> 00:06:13,435 Redeemer, um, in District 2, uh, there are two meetings that 96 00:06:13,435 --> 00:06:16,305 may be of interest to District 2 residents and, and throughout 97 00:06:16,305 --> 00:06:21,510 the city, uh, in College Park, uh, on, um, June 24th, the 98 00:06:21,510 --> 00:06:24,913 State Highway Association is having um a meeting with res 99 00:06:24,913 --> 00:06:28,651 with residents to discuss, uh, the development and 100 00:06:28,651 --> 00:06:32,851 improvements on uh Baltimore Avenue between 193 and 101 00:06:33,255 --> 00:06:37,993 Sunnyside Avenue and then on June 25th, uh, Thursday at 6:45 102 00:06:37,993 --> 00:06:42,264 p.m., um, the Metropolitan will be hosting a, um, a resident 103 00:06:42,264 --> 00:06:45,334 engagement time, uh, the city was gracious enough to host, I 104 00:06:45,334 --> 00:06:48,671 mean to, uh, to provide, um, a meeting space for this. It'll 105 00:06:48,671 --> 00:06:52,140 be at Davis Hall and that is a that will have a 106 00:06:52,140 --> 00:06:55,678 hybrid, um, a hybrid option, and then finally, uh, the city 107 00:06:55,678 --> 00:06:59,347 has put together a walking tour and survey for community 108 00:06:59,347 --> 00:07:05,870 members to give feedback, uh, for a space in Berwyn, um, but 109 00:07:05,870 --> 00:07:09,291 the 8807 and 8811 Rhode Island Island Avenue, property that 110 00:07:09,291 --> 00:07:13,229 the city owns, um, it's a, a community space exploration 111 00:07:13,229 --> 00:07:16,699 walk and it's designed to be, um, uh, like there's a survey 112 00:07:16,699 --> 00:07:18,967 that you can take that you can give feedback about what you 113 00:07:18,967 --> 00:07:20,969 would like to see in that in that area. Thank you 114 00:07:20,969 --> 00:07:26,908 very much. Thank you. um, so I had the honor and the privilege 115 00:07:26,908 --> 00:07:32,314 to attend rather represent um College Park at the US Mayor's 116 00:07:32,314 --> 00:07:36,318 Conference, um uh, last week, um, and it was a 117 00:07:36,318 --> 00:07:38,721 wonderful opportunity to connect with, uh, quite a few 118 00:07:38,721 --> 00:07:42,591 mayors I already know and connect with the new mayors and 119 00:07:42,591 --> 00:07:45,393 uh it's a wonderful opportunity of networking. 120 00:07:45,393 --> 00:07:49,593 and lots of learning in different sessions. 121 00:07:50,332 --> 00:07:54,803 Um, I also, I had the opportunity to attend yesterday 122 00:07:54,803 --> 00:07:57,739 morning with Councilor Jordan at the attic towers, and this 123 00:07:57,739 --> 00:08:02,211 is such a huge deal for College Park, uh, because of attic 124 00:08:02,211 --> 00:08:05,347 towers in College Park, the senior housing, and they 125 00:08:05,347 --> 00:08:10,747 received, um, 3.5 and $3.15 million. It's a lot of money, 126 00:08:12,687 --> 00:08:17,559 um, for much needed repair at the attic towers and um 127 00:08:17,559 --> 00:08:21,830 they brought a big check, um, but, uh, it is, it is, it is, 128 00:08:21,830 --> 00:08:26,435 it is very wonderful, um, event and um I'm, I'm sure this will 129 00:08:26,435 --> 00:08:30,972 benefit the community at the Attic Towers. Um, and I'll be 130 00:08:30,972 --> 00:08:34,509 at the MML conference and the day after tomorrow, as 131 00:08:34,509 --> 00:08:40,182 Councilor he mentioned, I will also have the honor to welcome 132 00:08:40,182 --> 00:08:44,382 the participants at the US Green Building 133 00:08:45,254 --> 00:08:51,254 Is that coalition or uh USGBC, um, uh, they, they're 134 00:08:51,860 --> 00:08:57,266 very first symposium. um, in College Park, it will be 135 00:08:57,266 --> 00:09:02,137 on uh River Road. I believe it's called Physics Building, 136 00:09:02,137 --> 00:09:07,800 um, and there'll be, um, close to 100 people attending, um, 137 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:10,608 talking about different sustainability initiatives. Um, 138 00:09:11,130 --> 00:09:13,682 so this is such an honor for College Park because this is 139 00:09:13,682 --> 00:09:16,752 being hosted in College Park for the very first time. 140 00:09:16,752 --> 00:09:20,155 That's all I have. Thank you, Councilor Mar Oz. 141 00:09:20,155 --> 00:09:23,758 Thanks. Um, I won't repeat, uh, some of the things, but look, 142 00:09:23,758 --> 00:09:26,280 we'll look forward to seeing folks at Friday Night Live and 143 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:32,100 trolley Trail day. Um, I will note, um, that the, uh, it's 144 00:09:32,100 --> 00:09:35,971 summer, uh, and so wanted to remind people that you can get 145 00:09:35,971 --> 00:09:40,108 30% off, uh, outdoor pool memberships as part of Reckwell, 146 00:09:40,108 --> 00:09:44,646 um, for the UMD pool. Um, so encourage people to avail 147 00:09:44,646 --> 00:09:48,850 themselves of that, um, and then also, um, just to flag the 148 00:09:48,850 --> 00:09:51,250 national orchestral Institute is 149 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:54,523 ongoing, um, at the Clarice and so there's lots of performances 150 00:09:54,523 --> 00:09:58,590 folks may wish to join. Thank you for mentioning that 151 00:09:58,590 --> 00:10:01,863 Appreciate it. Mayor Putan Mackay. Yes, thank you. Um, I 152 00:10:01,863 --> 00:10:05,734 won't repeat either, um, but I wanted to just thank the West 153 00:10:05,734 --> 00:10:08,537 College Park neighborhood watch for doing an ice cream social. 154 00:10:08,537 --> 00:10:14,409 That was a lot of fun on Saturday. Um, I want to also 155 00:10:14,409 --> 00:10:18,614 encourage people to take advantage of the GoGov app, 156 00:10:18,614 --> 00:10:22,551 which is College Park Connect on there you can get, uh, you 157 00:10:22,551 --> 00:10:25,754 can sign up to get all kinds of alerts and bulletins about 158 00:10:25,754 --> 00:10:29,825 what's going on in the city. uh, because like my colleagues 159 00:10:29,825 --> 00:10:33,962 have said, several of us are going to be out at MML, which 160 00:10:33,962 --> 00:10:37,700 is, um, we will be out of town, so the app will be something 161 00:10:37,700 --> 00:10:41,836 that you'll, you'll need to be using. um 162 00:10:41,836 --> 00:10:46,174 I also wanted to just encourage people to take advantage of the 163 00:10:46,174 --> 00:10:51,574 free parking that's available over the summer and um 164 00:10:51,646 --> 00:10:57,986 to um make sure that uh you're just uh looking out uh for in 165 00:10:57,986 --> 00:11:02,191 this extreme heat to stay hydrated and looking out for 166 00:11:02,191 --> 00:11:05,727 young people and older people, um, making sure that you look 167 00:11:05,727 --> 00:11:09,932 in on on neighbors that might have, um, might be senior 168 00:11:09,932 --> 00:11:14,135 citizens or have a lot of young children just to make sure that 169 00:11:14,135 --> 00:11:18,600 we are mindful of our neighbors during the hot summer months. 170 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:19,274 Thank you. Thank you. 171 00:11:19,274 --> 00:11:21,831 Uh, let's go to Councilor Mitchell. 172 00:11:21,831 --> 00:11:26,369 Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Well, is that time? It is coming. It's 173 00:11:26,369 --> 00:11:30,706 here in a couple of days, early voting is your time to exercise 174 00:11:30,706 --> 00:11:35,845 your right to vote. Um, voting, early voting will begin on June 175 00:11:35,845 --> 00:11:40,250 11th through 18th from 7 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. and you can go to 176 00:11:40,250 --> 00:11:43,520 the College Park Community Center, or you still have time 177 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:46,322 to submit your replacement ballot. 178 00:11:46,322 --> 00:11:52,128 a ballot that says replacement on there in the box uh don't 179 00:11:52,128 --> 00:11:57,600 laugh, Mr. Mayor. Um, to, uh, no, I, I did too. 180 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:02,710 The exercise your right to vote. So I wanted to, um, uh, 181 00:12:02,710 --> 00:12:05,208 acknowledge that for a second, I want to acknledge that people 182 00:12:05,208 --> 00:12:08,344 having such problems with their water bill or your utility 183 00:12:08,344 --> 00:12:13,550 bills, you can call 211 211 is the main number the 184 00:12:13,550 --> 00:12:17,420 warehouses on customer service where you can ask questions 185 00:12:17,420 --> 00:12:21,224 about either your WSSC bill, your PEPCO bill, any utility 186 00:12:21,224 --> 00:12:24,260 bill, you can go there and they can provide you assistance with 187 00:12:24,260 --> 00:12:27,564 that. Also, I don't have all the information, but there's an 188 00:12:27,564 --> 00:12:30,766 AI technology workshop for adults that's being hosted by 189 00:12:30,766 --> 00:12:33,636 University of Maryland College of Information. I will need to 190 00:12:33,636 --> 00:12:36,505 get more information in regards to time, and I will pass along 191 00:12:36,505 --> 00:12:40,577 the flyer to deceased staff so they can post that to the 192 00:12:40,577 --> 00:12:43,580 website hopefully And for single fathers, we know 193 00:12:43,580 --> 00:12:46,916 Father's Day is coming up. There's a single father's 194 00:12:46,916 --> 00:12:52,880 Awareness Care Day for you, um, which will be held on June 22nd 195 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:57,259 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and the location will be at the Mixed 196 00:12:57,259 --> 00:13:02,465 Food Hall, which is 3809 Rhode Island Avenue and Brentwood, 197 00:13:02,465 --> 00:13:05,935 Maryland. Also, there is a job fair on 198 00:13:05,935 --> 00:13:12,700 June 17th from 10 to 1210 a.m. to 12 noon, being hosted by the 199 00:13:12,700 --> 00:13:15,545 Greater Washington region, Clean Cities Coalition, 200 00:13:15,545 --> 00:13:20,945 coalition at the Second Baptist Church at 5501 Silverhill Road 201 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:23,619 and District Heights, Maryland, and I will leave this with the 202 00:13:23,619 --> 00:13:27,690 step also to um publicize and put information on the website. 203 00:13:27,690 --> 00:13:30,159 And that's all I have, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. Thank you. 204 00:13:30,159 --> 00:13:34,163 I'm sorry, I forgot one thing. This coming Wednesday, there is 205 00:13:34,163 --> 00:13:37,299 a senior activity at the College Park Woods Clubhouse 206 00:13:37,299 --> 00:13:41,704 from 1 to 3, which is game time. It's loads of fun and I hope 207 00:13:41,704 --> 00:13:45,774 that lots of seniors come out and and participate. Thank you. 208 00:13:45,774 --> 00:13:47,777 Thank you. It's good I'm sorry It's, Mr It's. Mayor, I did 209 00:13:47,777 --> 00:13:51,580 want to add something. I'm not, it's senoritis day to day. It's 210 00:13:51,580 --> 00:13:54,650 really sad. But um just to echo my comments of my colleagues 211 00:13:54,650 --> 00:13:58,987 that most of us, 3/4 of us will be out next week attending the 212 00:13:58,987 --> 00:14:00,256 Amre Municipal League Conference. 213 00:14:00,256 --> 00:14:03,326 and just want residents to know it's not an opportunity just a 214 00:14:03,326 --> 00:14:07,630 fellowship, but an opportunity to to learn different 215 00:14:07,630 --> 00:14:10,399 information about affordable housing or anything to that 216 00:14:10,399 --> 00:14:12,602 nature that we are working on in regards to our strategic 217 00:14:12,602 --> 00:14:15,138 plan, and we look forward to bringing back a report, a 218 00:14:15,138 --> 00:14:17,673 comprehensive report from all of us when we get back. Thank 219 00:14:17,673 --> 00:14:21,410 you. College Park will be in force. 220 00:14:21,410 --> 00:14:26,820 Thank you. All right, let's go to our 221 00:14:26,820 --> 00:14:29,686 student liaison, uh, starting with, uh, Stone liaisons. 222 00:14:29,686 --> 00:14:33,623 Martin. Hi, uh, so we've been meeting 223 00:14:33,623 --> 00:14:36,826 with the council members. We're trying to meet with everyone, 224 00:14:36,826 --> 00:14:39,495 um, Sammy and I to discuss our initiatives and then how we can 225 00:14:39,495 --> 00:14:43,990 help you guys with your own initiatives and then I recently 226 00:14:43,990 --> 00:14:46,903 applied for the bicycle and pedestrian Advisory Committee. 227 00:14:46,903 --> 00:14:51,306 So I'm excited to maybe uh do some work with that and then 228 00:14:51,306 --> 00:14:53,776 we're also restructuring the student liaison advisory 229 00:14:53,776 --> 00:14:56,645 committee, um, and we're working on getting that, uh, 230 00:14:56,645 --> 00:15:00,249 fully ready for when the semester starts in the fall. 231 00:15:00,249 --> 00:15:03,586 Let's go to side. Yeah, just, you know, building 232 00:15:03,586 --> 00:15:06,255 on that, we're kind of creating our priorities for the year, uh, 233 00:15:06,255 --> 00:15:08,891 really excited to work with you all on those and just building 234 00:15:08,891 --> 00:15:10,993 a really strong student advisory council as well as 235 00:15:10,993 --> 00:15:13,996 important because it's gonna allow us to connect student 236 00:15:13,996 --> 00:15:16,650 voices with all of you. So there's ever an issue you guys 237 00:15:16,650 --> 00:15:18,935 want student voice on, we're gonna have a very, very active 238 00:15:18,935 --> 00:15:21,471 council who's going to be able to immediately provide input. 239 00:15:21,471 --> 00:15:23,605 So that's kind of the structure we're formatting it around, but, 240 00:15:23,605 --> 00:15:25,274 uh, you know, just really looking forward to building 241 00:15:25,274 --> 00:15:27,900 initiatives and working with you all to do that. 242 00:15:27,900 --> 00:15:30,746 certainly. Thank you. Let's go to our city 243 00:15:30,746 --> 00:15:33,949 manager's report, Mr. Yang, uh, good evening, Mayor and council, 244 00:15:33,949 --> 00:15:36,485 residents of College Park, uh, just a couple of quick 245 00:15:36,485 --> 00:15:39,222 announcements. One, we'll be having some roadway patching 246 00:15:39,222 --> 00:15:42,291 work done this week. Uh, our contractors will begin, uh, 247 00:15:42,291 --> 00:15:45,761 roadway pageant and College Park Woods, and the Hollywood 248 00:15:45,761 --> 00:15:50,561 area to fix the deteriorating asphalt's following locations, 249 00:15:51,100 --> 00:15:55,900 uh, 3706 Marlborough Way, 3735 Marlboro Way, the 4900 block of 250 00:15:57,390 --> 00:15:59,442 Indian Lane between Forty-ninth Avenue and R 251 00:15:59,442 --> 00:16:03,513 ho de Island Avenue, Hollywood Road, and 51st Place 252 00:16:03,513 --> 00:16:07,984 intersection, and we also will have the 9700 block of 253 00:16:07,984 --> 00:16:11,787 Narragansett Parkway on the West Roadway section, and then 254 00:16:11,787 --> 00:16:15,191 we also will have the 4900 block of Nantucket Road. Uh, so 255 00:16:15,191 --> 00:16:18,260 we'll be having, uh, parking restrictions posted where 256 00:16:18,260 --> 00:16:21,130 necessary and just ask people to use caution in those work 257 00:16:21,130 --> 00:16:24,199 zones and adhere to posted parking restrictions. Um, we 258 00:16:24,199 --> 00:16:27,870 also have uh, College Park, uh, the 259 00:16:27,870 --> 00:16:32,942 Friday Night Live, our encore event, uh, this Friday from 6 260 00:16:32,942 --> 00:16:39,542 to 8:30 p.m. uh in our City Hall Plaza, uh, the 261 00:16:40,749 --> 00:16:43,352 entertainment is the dead flowers. I just had to make 262 00:16:43,352 --> 00:16:47,156 sure I was reading that right. And uh uh free parking will be 263 00:16:47,156 --> 00:16:50,626 available in our, our parking garage. Um, we also will have 264 00:16:50,626 --> 00:16:54,226 um begun our college planning for 265 00:16:54,763 --> 00:16:57,100 College Park Day, uh, believe it or not, we're already 266 00:16:57,100 --> 00:17:00,703 working for that, that's coming up in October. Um, right now, 267 00:17:00,703 --> 00:17:04,173 we're officially, uh, have opened our vendor food vendor 268 00:17:04,173 --> 00:17:07,110 applications, and we're encouraging people to apply for 269 00:17:07,110 --> 00:17:09,978 that. Uh, this year's event will be on Saturday, October 270 00:17:09,978 --> 00:17:14,583 3rd. It'll be from 12:00 to 6 p.m. at the College Park 271 00:17:14,583 --> 00:17:18,588 Aviation Museum and Airport. Um, usually we get about 12,000 272 00:17:18,588 --> 00:17:21,257 visitors over those coast of those hours. Um 273 00:17:21,257 --> 00:17:25,394 so we would, uh, encourage, uh, anybody interested in being a 274 00:17:25,394 --> 00:17:31,601 vendor, uh, the applications, uh, are due by June 30th. We've 275 00:17:31,601 --> 00:17:35,606 only pick about 15 to 20 vendors. So there's, it's very 276 00:17:35,606 --> 00:17:40,900 limited, um, and, but we also look for a very wide diversity 277 00:17:40,900 --> 00:17:44,415 of food offerings, uh, for attendees, uh, to apply. You 278 00:17:44,415 --> 00:17:51,615 just need to go to www. College ParkMD.gov/CPD food vendor. 279 00:17:54,892 --> 00:17:57,694 You can also go to our website and you can uh see where you 280 00:17:57,694 --> 00:18:01,431 can apply there. Um, so, the applicants will be, uh, 281 00:18:01,431 --> 00:18:04,835 notified by July 15th of, of whether or not they were 282 00:18:04,835 --> 00:18:07,771 selected for our event, and then there's a $100 283 00:18:07,771 --> 00:18:10,774 registration that's due upon, um, approval. 284 00:18:10,774 --> 00:18:13,911 Uh, lastly, I just wanted to say thank you to, uh, Prince 285 00:18:13,911 --> 00:18:19,450 George's fire chief. I'm gonna, uh, butcher her last name, 286 00:18:19,450 --> 00:18:23,653 Michaelottis and Deputy Chief Harris and their staff as well 287 00:18:23,653 --> 00:18:28,191 as the council member Eric Olson, uh, uh, for a meeting 288 00:18:28,191 --> 00:18:32,462 that we held today, they kind of gave uh our staff briefing 289 00:18:32,462 --> 00:18:36,332 on some of the changes that are upcoming uh for the College 290 00:18:36,332 --> 00:18:40,670 Park Station. I've sent to each of you in your email 291 00:18:40,670 --> 00:18:44,875 um, uh, internal, uh, memo that that kind of outlines what 292 00:18:44,875 --> 00:18:50,875 those changes are, um, basically, um, it will remove a 293 00:18:51,415 --> 00:18:54,217 um, a unit, uh, advanced life support unit, out of the 294 00:18:54,217 --> 00:18:59,617 College Park, uh, location, uh, after 3 p.m. um 295 00:18:59,956 --> 00:19:03,960 so Monday through Friday and then on, on, on the weekends. 296 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:08,364 Uh, so, um a little different, not ideal 297 00:19:08,364 --> 00:19:11,835 kind of model uh for us, but, um 298 00:19:11,835 --> 00:19:14,771 I think we're going to try and work with the university. I've 299 00:19:14,771 --> 00:19:19,576 already had discussions with uh Ms. Claros from the university 300 00:19:19,576 --> 00:19:23,179 and um also talked a little bit with the council member, uh, 301 00:19:23,179 --> 00:19:25,382 Olsen today. That's all I have for today 302 00:19:25,382 --> 00:19:28,251 Thank you, thank you for the update. Any question for Mr. 303 00:19:28,251 --> 00:19:31,251 Young? Seeingan. Let's do acknowledge, 304 00:19:34,390 --> 00:19:39,262 sorry, Muram Mr. Hernandez had his hand up very late, sir. I 305 00:19:39,262 --> 00:19:42,532 apologize. Uh, Mr. City Manager, the only question that I have 306 00:19:42,532 --> 00:19:45,869 is, uh, you said that they would be responded to by July 307 00:19:45,869 --> 00:19:50,807 15th, uh, whether they did or didn't get uh accepted, right, 308 00:19:50,807 --> 00:19:52,876 the vendors, OK, I just wanted to make sure that we can 309 00:19:52,876 --> 00:19:55,211 communicate that back. Thank you. That's correct. July 15th 310 00:19:55,211 --> 00:19:59,149 is our um notification, uh, we'll start 311 00:19:59,149 --> 00:20:03,349 reviewing applications, obviously, uh, on July 1, so 312 00:20:03,820 --> 00:20:05,622 great, thank you. Thank you. 313 00:20:05,622 --> 00:20:08,691 Uh, let's do the acknowledgement. Uh, we have 314 00:20:08,691 --> 00:20:14,910 two elected, former elected officials in the meeting, um, 315 00:20:14,831 --> 00:20:18,769 one is in the room, a former district to council member Bob 316 00:20:18,769 --> 00:20:21,905 Catlin. Thank you, Mr. Catlin, for joining and also we have 317 00:20:21,905 --> 00:20:24,305 um District 3, former District 3 318 00:20:26,576 --> 00:20:29,512 city councilor John Rigg also joined online. Thank you, Mr. 319 00:20:29,512 --> 00:20:33,250 Rick, for joining Uh, Mr. Shorter, where did I 320 00:20:33,250 --> 00:20:37,854 miss? Uh, former District one city council or uh 321 00:20:37,854 --> 00:20:42,392 Mark Shorter also as shown. And Miss Collipark is with us 322 00:20:42,392 --> 00:20:48,650 as well. Thank you for coming. All right, um, let's do the 323 00:20:48,650 --> 00:20:53,269 proclamation an awards. We have 4 of them and let me read them, 324 00:20:53,269 --> 00:20:58,608 and they're fairly short. The first one is about 325 00:20:58,608 --> 00:21:03,408 Juneteenth and it reads as follows, whereas President 326 00:21:04,481 --> 00:21:08,810 Abraham Lincoln's emancipation Proclamation declared the 327 00:21:08,685 --> 00:21:12,555 freedom of enslaved people in Confederate territory and 328 00:21:12,555 --> 00:21:16,693 helped pave the way for the abolition of slavery in the 329 00:21:16,693 --> 00:21:21,493 United States, and whereas on June 19, 168 1865. News of 330 00:21:24,340 --> 00:21:26,636 emancipation raged and enslaved Africa 331 00:21:26,636 --> 00:21:30,907 n Americans in Texas, giving rise to the observance now 332 00:21:30,907 --> 00:21:34,507 known as Juneteenth. and whereas Juneteenth 333 00:21:35,578 --> 00:21:38,578 commemorates freedom, resilience, and the 334 00:21:39,249 --> 00:21:41,249 contributions of African-American. 335 00:21:41,785 --> 00:21:44,588 while providing an opportunity to 336 00:21:44,588 --> 00:21:47,390 reflect on our nation's history. 337 00:21:47,390 --> 00:21:51,600 and the ongoing pursuit of equality and justice, and 338 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:53,730 whereas the city of College Park joins communities across 339 00:21:53,730 --> 00:21:57,330 the nation. in recognizing the significance 340 00:21:58,201 --> 00:22:01,671 and legacy of Juneteenth. Now they are forbid proclaimed by 341 00:22:01,671 --> 00:22:06,342 the iron council of the city of College Park, Maryland, that 342 00:22:06,342 --> 00:22:11,142 June 19, 2026 is hereby recognized as Juneteenth in the 343 00:22:11,481 --> 00:22:15,218 city of College Park and that all residents are 344 00:22:15,218 --> 00:22:19,222 encouraged to reflect upon our nation's history. 345 00:22:19,222 --> 00:22:22,626 and the continued pursuit of liberty, justice and equality 346 00:22:22,626 --> 00:22:28,231 for all. Proclaim this 9th day of June 2026, fozul Kabir mayor. 347 00:22:28,231 --> 00:22:33,310 City of College Park I will read the 348 00:22:34,637 --> 00:22:37,908 one on parade at the very end, and you 349 00:22:37,908 --> 00:22:41,444 will find out why I'll be doing it. 350 00:22:41,444 --> 00:22:45,649 Um, I'll then read the proclamations on the pollinator 351 00:22:45,649 --> 00:22:52,122 week, which is June 22nd to June 28, 2026. And it is as 352 00:22:52,122 --> 00:22:55,258 follows, whereas pollinators such as bees, butterflies, 353 00:22:55,258 --> 00:23:00,130 birds, bats, and other animals play a vital role in 354 00:23:00,130 --> 00:23:02,530 reproduction of flowering plants 355 00:23:03,133 --> 00:23:07,333 supporting healthy ecosystems that biodiversity and food 356 00:23:08,710 --> 00:23:11,475 production and whereas pollinators contribute to the 357 00:23:11,475 --> 00:23:16,275 production of approximately 1/3 of the food consumed worldwide 358 00:23:16,679 --> 00:23:20,279 and are essential to maintaining healthy 359 00:23:20,684 --> 00:23:24,284 agricultural and natural environments, and whereas 360 00:23:24,954 --> 00:23:28,892 pollinator populations face increasing threats from habitat 361 00:23:28,892 --> 00:23:33,163 loss, pesticide yields, climate change and other environmental 362 00:23:33,163 --> 00:23:35,498 pressures And whereas the city of College 363 00:23:35,498 --> 00:23:39,698 Park is committed to environmental stewardships and 364 00:23:40,837 --> 00:23:43,173 to supporting efforts that protect 365 00:23:43,173 --> 00:23:46,710 pollinators and their habitats. Now therefore be proclaimed by 366 00:23:46,710 --> 00:23:50,381 the Miran Council of the city of College Park that June 22 to 367 00:23:50,381 --> 00:23:55,781 28, 2026 is hereby recognized as pollinator week in the city 368 00:23:55,852 --> 00:24:01,252 of College Park and residents are encouraged to support 369 00:24:01,257 --> 00:24:05,457 pollinator friendly practices that help sustain healthy 370 00:24:05,662 --> 00:24:10,267 ecosystems, strengthen food systems and enhance the quality 371 00:24:10,267 --> 00:24:13,736 of life in our community proclaim this 9th day of June 372 00:24:13,736 --> 00:24:17,336 2026. Fazil Kerier city of College Park. 373 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:22,808 and the third one is about the 25th 374 00:24:23,479 --> 00:24:26,479 250th anniversary of American independence. 375 00:24:27,417 --> 00:24:33,417 and it reads as follows, whereas on July 4th, 1776, the 376 00:24:33,423 --> 00:24:37,623 13 American colonies adopted the United States Declaration 377 00:24:37,828 --> 00:24:42,980 of Independence proclaiming the principles of liberty, equality, 378 00:24:42,980 --> 00:24:45,698 self-government, and the pursuit of happiness. 379 00:24:45,902 --> 00:24:51,302 and on July 4th, 2026, the United States will commemorate 380 00:24:51,842 --> 00:24:57,180 the 250th anniversary of its founding, known as America's 381 00:24:57,180 --> 00:24:59,580 semi Quincendental. semiquincentennial marking 2.5 382 00:25:04,321 --> 00:25:07,921 centuries of democratic governance, civic participation, 383 00:25:07,991 --> 00:25:11,928 resilience and progress. And whereas Independence Day 384 00:25:11,928 --> 00:25:15,599 provides an opportunity to honor the generations of 385 00:25:15,599 --> 00:25:18,735 military services, service members, public servants, 386 00:25:18,735 --> 00:25:22,939 community leaders and citizens whose efforts have helped 387 00:25:22,939 --> 00:25:27,477 preserve and strengthen the ideals upon which this nation 388 00:25:27,477 --> 00:25:31,214 was founded. And whereas the city of College 389 00:25:31,214 --> 00:25:35,618 Park joins communities across the nation in recognizing the 390 00:25:35,618 --> 00:25:39,818 significance of this historic milestone and encouraging 391 00:25:40,357 --> 00:25:44,761 residents to reflect on our nation's history and the 392 00:25:44,761 --> 00:25:47,761 endearing principles that unite us. 393 00:25:47,964 --> 00:25:52,436 Now therefore be proclaimed by the Mean council of the City of 394 00:25:52,436 --> 00:25:57,774 College Park that July 4th, 2 2026 is hereby recognized as 395 00:25:57,774 --> 00:26:01,778 Independence Day and the 250th anniversary of the United 396 00:26:01,778 --> 00:26:07,178 States of America and all residents are encouraged to 397 00:26:07,317 --> 00:26:11,254 commemorate this historic milestone and renew their 398 00:26:11,254 --> 00:26:15,580 commitment to the ideals of liberty, equality, and 399 00:26:15,580 --> 00:26:18,328 self-government, proclaimed this 9th day of June 400 00:26:18,328 --> 00:26:21,328 2026 Basil Kabir mayor's City of 401 00:26:21,531 --> 00:26:25,268 College Park and the 4th and final one. 402 00:26:25,268 --> 00:26:30,273 is about the turret syndrome awareness month and it 403 00:26:30,273 --> 00:26:34,477 is as follows. Whereas Tourette's syndrome or TS, in 404 00:26:34,477 --> 00:26:38,677 short, is a neurological disorder characterized by 405 00:26:41,351 --> 00:26:45,551 involuntary movements and vocalizations known as tics, 406 00:26:46,890 --> 00:26:50,627 affecting individuals of all ages and backgrounds, and 407 00:26:50,627 --> 00:26:55,310 whereas Tourette's syndrome, and other tic disorders can 408 00:26:55,310 --> 00:26:59,969 impact daily life and are often misunderstood, leading to a 409 00:26:59,969 --> 00:27:04,769 stigma and barriers to inclusion and whereas increased 410 00:27:05,175 --> 00:27:07,575 awareness. education, and understanding 411 00:27:09,450 --> 00:27:13,583 help faster acceptance and support for individuals and 412 00:27:13,583 --> 00:27:16,583 families affected by Tare syndrome 413 00:27:17,787 --> 00:27:21,725 and whereas individuals living with Tourette's syndrome make 414 00:27:21,725 --> 00:27:24,928 valuable contributions to their schools, workplaces, 415 00:27:24,928 --> 00:27:30,670 communities, and civic life. And where organizations such as 416 00:27:30,670 --> 00:27:33,667 Turret Association of America, promote research 417 00:27:34,137 --> 00:27:38,750 education, advocacy, and support for those affected by 418 00:27:38,750 --> 00:27:41,144 Tourette syndrome. Now therefore be it proclaimed by 419 00:27:41,144 --> 00:27:44,347 the mayor and council of the city of College Park that the 420 00:27:44,347 --> 00:27:49,747 month of May is hereby recognized as Toret syndrome 421 00:27:50,190 --> 00:27:54,357 awareness Month in the city of College Park and all residents 422 00:27:54,357 --> 00:27:58,428 are encouraged to learn more about Tourette's syndrome, 423 00:27:58,428 --> 00:28:02,766 support those affected by condition and help create a 424 00:28:02,766 --> 00:28:06,103 more inclusive and understanding community for all, 425 00:28:06,103 --> 00:28:11,174 proclaimed this 9th day of June 2026, Fazil Kiir Mayor, Syria 426 00:28:11,174 --> 00:28:15,178 College Park. So what I'm going to do, this 427 00:28:15,178 --> 00:28:19,316 is a proclamation that was requested by our Miss College 428 00:28:19,316 --> 00:28:22,586 Park, and thank you for asking us to do it. So I'm going to go 429 00:28:22,586 --> 00:28:26,723 to the podium. and give the proclamation to 430 00:28:26,723 --> 00:28:30,393 her. Um, I hope that is OK with the council. 431 00:28:30,393 --> 00:28:33,863 Um, and probably I think it'd be fitting if you all can take 432 00:28:33,863 --> 00:28:39,263 a group photo with his college park. Thank you. 433 00:28:51,214 --> 00:28:55,752 So let's give it to you first I. 434 00:28:55,752 --> 00:28:59,952 I think Thank you. Your counsel, please 435 00:29:03,693 --> 00:29:09,232 come forward and we can tell you what to see 436 00:29:09,232 --> 00:29:12,232 Oh It's a good idea 437 00:30:04,771 --> 00:30:08,971 Thank you. That's our, that's our city 438 00:30:14,381 --> 00:30:17,981 center. All right, that was wonderful. 439 00:30:26,127 --> 00:30:30,130 So let's do our next order of business, which is about public 440 00:30:30,130 --> 00:30:32,667 comments. So if you have been patiently waiting to make 441 00:30:32,667 --> 00:30:36,737 public comments. This is your time. If you have joined online, 442 00:30:36,737 --> 00:30:41,750 please raise your virtual hands, and we will allow you to speak. 443 00:30:41,750 --> 00:30:45,275 um Thank you, Mr. Dors and using, 444 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:51,218 if you follow our new rules of councils council's rules and 445 00:30:51,218 --> 00:30:56,223 procedure, you can talk about anything under the sun at the 446 00:30:56,223 --> 00:31:00,961 the only condition is you only have 3 minutes, no more than 3 447 00:31:00,961 --> 00:31:05,365 minutes. Right, uh, my name is Dave Dorse and I'm here for 448 00:31:05,365 --> 00:31:08,902 over half a century in the city of College Park. Uh, one of the 449 00:31:08,902 --> 00:31:11,305 things that I wanted to find out is did you guys sell that 450 00:31:11,305 --> 00:31:15,505 house at 4704 Calvert Road yet if not, 451 00:31:15,976 --> 00:31:20,470 why not? The city does not need to be in the housing business 452 00:31:20,470 --> 00:31:24,118 The other thing I've noticed is that we've started putting 453 00:31:24,118 --> 00:31:26,920 these cameras on the stop signs. 454 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:30,191 Now supposedly this was for a public purpose. 455 00:31:30,191 --> 00:31:33,861 But the purpose is, it seems to be just gouging money out of 456 00:31:33,861 --> 00:31:38,733 people that, that the wheel doesn't come to a 100% complete 457 00:31:38,733 --> 00:31:43,300 stop, even though it might just be turning a quarter of the way. 458 00:31:43,300 --> 00:31:47,141 Nope. fines, and I don't think that's 459 00:31:47,141 --> 00:31:50,344 really justified unless you've had a lot of accidents at one 460 00:31:50,344 --> 00:31:54,214 of these intersections. I don't think this is justified. The 461 00:31:54,214 --> 00:31:57,417 only people that make anything out of this or the company that 462 00:31:57,417 --> 00:32:00,621 supplies it in the city because both of them get the money. 463 00:32:00,621 --> 00:32:07,161 Thank you. Thank you so much. Let's allow, unless someone, OK. 464 00:32:07,161 --> 00:32:09,163 Councilor Catlin, former councilor. 465 00:32:09,163 --> 00:32:11,899 Please come forward For the record, please state 466 00:32:11,899 --> 00:32:15,102 your name and if you're a resident. Yes, thank you. I'm 467 00:32:15,102 --> 00:32:19,440 Bob Catlin, Collis Park resident since the late 80s, uh, 468 00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:22,576 also I'm currently the vice chair of the College Park 469 00:32:22,576 --> 00:32:26,914 Housing Authority. So I'd like to thank the mayor and uh 470 00:32:26,914 --> 00:32:30,514 Councilwoman Jordan for attending the ceremony 471 00:32:30,985 --> 00:32:35,522 yesterday honoring the award of $3.15 million to Attic towers 472 00:32:35,522 --> 00:32:38,859 for much needed renovations uh, that helps. We've got money 473 00:32:38,859 --> 00:32:41,595 from a couple of other people that stayed in from the city in 474 00:32:41,595 --> 00:32:44,865 the past couple of years, so that contributes a lot to the 475 00:32:44,865 --> 00:32:47,201 funds that we have to make these renovations. We're not 476 00:32:47,201 --> 00:32:49,603 all the way there yet, but I think we will be in the near 477 00:32:49,603 --> 00:32:51,603 future. um. 478 00:32:53,273 --> 00:32:56,143 A few weeks ago, you started talking about the boulevard 479 00:32:56,143 --> 00:33:01,882 project, which was uh the resurrection of a detailed site 480 00:33:01,882 --> 00:33:06,353 plan for uh an apartment project at Cherokee Street and 481 00:33:06,353 --> 00:33:11,692 it's had 3 DSPs approved since the early 2000s and the one now 482 00:33:11,692 --> 00:33:14,361 apparently is resurrecting the last one that was approved 483 00:33:14,361 --> 00:33:17,898 about 2013. So it gave me a topic because we've had other 484 00:33:17,898 --> 00:33:21,435 DSPs approved in the city over the last 30 years, where the 485 00:33:21,435 --> 00:33:23,637 projects never got built either. Uh, 486 00:33:23,637 --> 00:33:26,640 so it's, I can't talk about all of them in the next minute and 487 00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:30,377 a half, but I get probably take 2 sessions to 488 00:33:30,377 --> 00:33:34,515 give you just a quick, uh, rundown on what happened. uh 489 00:33:34,515 --> 00:33:38,519 about 30 years ago, McDonald, it was a McDonald's next to the 490 00:33:38,519 --> 00:33:40,519 vigilante Coffee. and 491 00:33:41,788 --> 00:33:46,527 it got approved to put another McDonald's behind that one, and 492 00:33:46,527 --> 00:33:49,597 that never got built, uh, because McDonald's bought the 493 00:33:49,597 --> 00:33:52,399 property across the street where the McDonald's is 494 00:33:52,399 --> 00:33:56,937 currently, and they resurrected that as a McDonald's. We had 495 00:33:56,937 --> 00:34:02,143 two other, uh, fast food projects approved with DSPs on 496 00:34:02,143 --> 00:34:05,546 Route one in that area, a Wendy's and one I can't recall, 497 00:34:05,546 --> 00:34:07,881 and they were approved by the planning board, and they never 498 00:34:07,881 --> 00:34:10,151 got built. But they were not built for the 499 00:34:10,151 --> 00:34:12,887 same reason that the first project at the Metropolitan 500 00:34:12,887 --> 00:34:16,890 wasn't built. The counts, the uh county councilman for the 501 00:34:16,890 --> 00:34:19,226 district rejected the planning board's approval. That was 502 00:34:19,226 --> 00:34:22,162 something they could do way back then. They could change 503 00:34:22,162 --> 00:34:26,366 the approval or they could reject the approval. Uh 504 00:34:26,366 --> 00:34:31,638 so the city opposed both of those uh fast food projects and 505 00:34:31,638 --> 00:34:34,775 fortunately we got them rejected by the district 506 00:34:34,775 --> 00:34:37,178 council. So those are two things that 507 00:34:37,178 --> 00:34:39,180 happened that were really important. College Park would 508 00:34:39,180 --> 00:34:43,250 look a lot different today if we had two more fast food 509 00:34:43,250 --> 00:34:45,986 restaurants across from Lakeland and Berwyn. Thank you. 510 00:34:45,986 --> 00:34:48,856 Thank you so much and thank you for your service to the housing 511 00:34:48,856 --> 00:34:50,856 Authority. Appreciate that 512 00:34:51,392 --> 00:34:55,796 Um, saying none in the room, let's go to virtual and let's 513 00:34:55,796 --> 00:34:59,660 start with former consumer John Rick. Um, let's kind of staff 514 00:34:59,660 --> 00:35:03,336 allow Mr. Rick to speak. I don't have that privilege. 515 00:35:03,336 --> 00:35:06,206 Yes, can you hear me? Yes, please. Thank you, Mr. Rick. 516 00:35:06,206 --> 00:35:09,209 Please go ahead. Thank you, Mr. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank 517 00:35:09,209 --> 00:35:12,278 you for uh the council for permitting me to speak this 518 00:35:12,278 --> 00:35:16,617 evening. I'm coming to you with a matter of uh substantial 519 00:35:16,617 --> 00:35:20,220 importance and also of time sensitivity. Um, I was notified 520 00:35:20,220 --> 00:35:22,556 last week through colleagues who, well, for those of you who 521 00:35:22,556 --> 00:35:25,159 don't know me, I've worked for the last 25 years as a, as a 522 00:35:25,159 --> 00:35:27,894 paramedic. A paramedic is an emergency medical services 523 00:35:27,894 --> 00:35:31,431 provider with the highest level of training. We can provide 524 00:35:31,431 --> 00:35:34,768 certain surgical interventions administer medications and de 525 00:35:34,768 --> 00:35:37,838 fi b ri ll ate uh, or, or change the heart rate or rhythm 526 00:35:37,838 --> 00:35:40,574 of, of many different heart rates that will otherwise kill 527 00:35:40,574 --> 00:35:42,776 somebody. We're also extremely helpful in the event of a 528 00:35:42,776 --> 00:35:44,978 massive trauma and are considered sort of the top of 529 00:35:44,978 --> 00:35:47,648 the profession in terms of emergency medical services that 530 00:35:47,648 --> 00:35:51,117 are provided by calling 911. Our only paramedic unit in the 531 00:35:51,117 --> 00:35:55,522 city of College Park is Medic 812, which sits at the Company 532 00:35:55,522 --> 00:35:59,541 12 fire station on uh in Lakeland, um right there that 533 00:35:59,541 --> 00:36:01,543 you all are familiar with across the street. Uh, 534 00:36:01,543 --> 00:36:04,213 basically from, from City Hall, just down the street 535 00:36:04,213 --> 00:36:07,749 from City Hall. Early last week, I was notified by a colleague 536 00:36:07,749 --> 00:36:10,552 of mine who is a Prince George's County firefighter 537 00:36:10,552 --> 00:36:13,288 that, uh, the county is proposing to pull the only 538 00:36:13,288 --> 00:36:15,757 paramedic unit in the City of College Park out of the city of 539 00:36:15,757 --> 00:36:19,294 College Park, except for the hours of 7 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. 540 00:36:19,294 --> 00:36:22,164 Monday through Friday. This will leave an enormous gap 541 00:36:22,164 --> 00:36:24,232 in service in the city of College Park. We will have to 542 00:36:24,232 --> 00:36:28,903 be served by other outlying organizations for, for, for 543 00:36:28,903 --> 00:36:31,774 paramedic service. They would have to come from A Delphi or 544 00:36:31,774 --> 00:36:36,245 from Greenbelt, um, and Company 812, Paramedicate12 is the only 545 00:36:36,245 --> 00:36:39,470 medic service between Beltsville and the DC line. Um, 546 00:36:39,470 --> 00:36:41,490 it will leave an enormous gap, not just for the City of 547 00:36:41,490 --> 00:36:43,585 College Park, but also as a primary paramedic service for 548 00:36:43,585 --> 00:36:47,722 the cities of Hyattsville, uh, the city of, uh, Riverdale Park 549 00:36:47,722 --> 00:36:50,325 and, and others up and down the Rat one corridor. 550 00:36:50,325 --> 00:36:52,794 My understanding is that the county is proceeding very 551 00:36:52,794 --> 00:36:56,198 quickly with implementation of this change, which will have an 552 00:36:56,198 --> 00:36:58,800 extremely negative impact on our own emergency response in 553 00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:01,270 the city of College Park. I believe that they intend to 554 00:37:01,270 --> 00:37:04,339 implement it on the first day of the new fiscal year, which 555 00:37:04,339 --> 00:37:07,810 is July 1. I would urge the City of College Park to speak 556 00:37:07,810 --> 00:37:10,345 strongly out against this. I've had conversations with the 557 00:37:10,345 --> 00:37:13,215 university and with other concerned uh residents, but 558 00:37:13,215 --> 00:37:15,216 it's happening so quickly, it seems as though the county's 559 00:37:15,216 --> 00:37:18,887 going to try to to pull a fast one and do this as quickly as 560 00:37:18,887 --> 00:37:21,890 possible and then um and then try to make us fight to get it 561 00:37:21,890 --> 00:37:25,361 back. I, I would urge you to, to draft a letter tonight in 562 00:37:25,361 --> 00:37:29,698 strong opposition to making this change and protect the 563 00:37:29,698 --> 00:37:31,967 residents of the city of College Park. Um, as I've 564 00:37:31,967 --> 00:37:34,369 listened to all of you, uh, make your announcements tonight. 565 00:37:34,369 --> 00:37:38,373 I'm reminded of the many residents in our city who are 566 00:37:38,373 --> 00:37:42,110 vulnerable to having an emergency who might require the 567 00:37:42,110 --> 00:37:44,579 services of a paramedic, the prompt services of a paramedic, 568 00:37:44,579 --> 00:37:47,515 uh, College Park Day is a graded example. Attic Towers is 569 00:37:47,515 --> 00:37:50,319 a primary user of advanced life support services in our city. 570 00:37:50,319 --> 00:37:52,654 Both of those just as small examples 571 00:37:52,654 --> 00:37:55,523 would be much. more poorly served if that 572 00:37:55,523 --> 00:37:58,326 medic unit were removed from the city of College Park. So on 573 00:37:58,326 --> 00:38:01,997 behalf of our city and our 35,000 residents, I would urge 574 00:38:01,997 --> 00:38:05,734 the city council to draft a letter to to the county, uh, 575 00:38:05,734 --> 00:38:08,203 instructing them to keep advanced life support services 576 00:38:08,203 --> 00:38:10,472 in the City of College Park. Thank you. 577 00:38:10,472 --> 00:38:13,675 Thank you so much for your advocacy and 578 00:38:13,675 --> 00:38:16,812 we will consider sending a letter today, uh, as well. 579 00:38:16,812 --> 00:38:21,350 Thank you. It's coming. All right, let's go to the next 580 00:38:21,350 --> 00:38:26,150 speaker, Jay Herrera. Can you please unmute yourself 581 00:38:28,900 --> 00:38:31,226 and uh for the record please state your name and if 582 00:38:31,226 --> 00:38:33,561 you're a resident of College Park. 583 00:38:33,561 --> 00:38:36,898 My name is Juan Herrera, and I am a resident of College Park. 584 00:38:36,898 --> 00:38:38,967 Are you able to hear me? You can hear you. Please go 585 00:38:38,967 --> 00:38:42,567 ahead OK. I initially wasn't gonna 586 00:38:42,571 --> 00:38:46,708 say anything, but council remember Hernandez brought 587 00:38:46,708 --> 00:38:49,778 something up, so. I wanna speak to that, um. 588 00:38:49,778 --> 00:38:53,449 back in May, I went on vacation and I did fill out that uh 589 00:38:53,449 --> 00:38:57,252 premise check form online. I did not receive anything from 590 00:38:57,252 --> 00:39:01,190 the city or the county saying that my form had been received, 591 00:39:01,190 --> 00:39:04,659 that it had been approved, or that it had been forwarded. It 592 00:39:04,659 --> 00:39:08,196 was just utter silence since I completed the form and like 593 00:39:08,196 --> 00:39:12,201 I've said in prior meetings, even my neighbors, they told me 594 00:39:12,201 --> 00:39:15,336 that they didn't see any police presence during that time that 595 00:39:15,336 --> 00:39:20,142 I was on vacation. Uh, my ring cameras also didn't catch any 596 00:39:20,142 --> 00:39:22,410 anybody. anybody that, uh, they caught 597 00:39:22,410 --> 00:39:25,480 other people, but they didn't catch any police like pull up 598 00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:29,284 to my house, kind of look around, or it was just regular 599 00:39:29,284 --> 00:39:32,287 people, regular neighbors that I would see on the ring cameras, 600 00:39:32,287 --> 00:39:35,900 never saw a police officer, never saw a police car stop in 601 00:39:35,900 --> 00:39:38,159 front of my house, and according to my neighbors, also 602 00:39:38,159 --> 00:39:41,296 they never saw no police. so I just wanted to bring that 603 00:39:41,296 --> 00:39:45,467 up, so you know, I'm not sure if you even do get a response 604 00:39:45,467 --> 00:39:50,105 when you complete the form or or not. That was all. 605 00:39:50,105 --> 00:39:53,642 Yeah, I would strongly encourage you to be in touch 606 00:39:53,642 --> 00:39:58,847 with our staff, um, and they can probably find out what 607 00:39:58,847 --> 00:40:02,500 happened and suddenly we are here to serve you and make 608 00:40:02,500 --> 00:40:05,500 things better. Um, thank you 609 00:40:06,989 --> 00:40:09,458 Mr. Mayor, may I make a suggestion that, uh, Mr. 610 00:40:09,458 --> 00:40:11,860 Herrera sent an email so that we can follow up with the 611 00:40:11,860 --> 00:40:13,662 details with our contract please. 612 00:40:13,662 --> 00:40:18,660 So that because I mean it would it's just a like a prudent step 613 00:40:18,660 --> 00:40:20,803 of us. I know that we're not supposed to respond, but yeah, 614 00:40:20,803 --> 00:40:22,938 certainly I'm just making the recommendation. 615 00:40:22,938 --> 00:40:26,740 Yeah, um, please reach out to the staff and certainly, um, we 616 00:40:26,740 --> 00:40:30,274 can find out more. from our side 617 00:40:30,545 --> 00:40:33,548 So just via email, uh, Mr. Herrera. I just think it's, 618 00:40:33,548 --> 00:40:36,418 it's important for us to be able to follow up through our 619 00:40:36,418 --> 00:40:40,155 liaising, uh, with the director of Public Services. 620 00:40:40,155 --> 00:40:44,955 Thank you. All right, uh, Xing Nan, let's 621 00:40:45,426 --> 00:40:51,426 go to the next order of business, and which is. 622 00:40:52,167 --> 00:40:56,304 um amendments to and approval of the agenda, Council member 623 00:40:56,304 --> 00:40:59,304 Os. Yeah, uh, Consumer Hernandez, 624 00:40:59,707 --> 00:41:04,112 who's gonna do it. You wanna do it? OK, sure, um, so, uh, 625 00:41:04,112 --> 00:41:07,582 wanted to thank, uh, former council member Rigg, uh, for 626 00:41:07,582 --> 00:41:12,253 his attention issue and again appreciate staff uh and had a 627 00:41:12,253 --> 00:41:14,789 meeting earlier today regarding this issue with the Prince 628 00:41:14,789 --> 00:41:16,792 George's County Department of Fire and Emergency Medical 629 00:41:16,792 --> 00:41:20,395 Services, um, I think knowing that this is um coming up 630 00:41:20,395 --> 00:41:24,266 quickly, uh, I would like to propose to add to our consent 631 00:41:24,266 --> 00:41:27,936 agenda, um, to ask staff to send a letter conveying the 632 00:41:27,936 --> 00:41:30,739 strong view of our city council that College Park continued to 633 00:41:30,739 --> 00:41:35,209 have advanced life support, uh, in College Park, um. 634 00:41:35,209 --> 00:41:39,948 happy to, uh, have any discussion of other things that 635 00:41:39,948 --> 00:41:42,684 folks would like added. Thank you. I think, I think 636 00:41:42,684 --> 00:41:46,621 it's pretty clear. I don't think there is a discussion for 637 00:41:46,621 --> 00:41:49,490 Councilor Hernandez, 2, but just to add a comment, I mean, 638 00:41:49,490 --> 00:41:53,428 I hope that this is just like the letters the first step and 639 00:41:53,428 --> 00:41:57,899 that we include the our our legislative officials, county 640 00:41:57,899 --> 00:42:02,990 officials, and other impacted municipalities, uh, for 641 00:42:02,437 --> 00:42:05,774 awareness, uh, I think it's, it's an important step, but we 642 00:42:05,774 --> 00:42:09,720 also have a county lobbyist, don't we? Uh, this time around 643 00:42:09,720 --> 00:42:11,389 we're not, we're gonna ask them for some help. 644 00:42:11,389 --> 00:42:15,259 uh to make sure that they're, they're advocating, I mean, 645 00:42:15,259 --> 00:42:18,595 we're gonna go into like a big hiatus throughout the month, so 646 00:42:18,595 --> 00:42:21,398 the um maybe Mr. Yang, do you have any 647 00:42:21,398 --> 00:42:23,133 comments? Uh, I think that would be 648 00:42:23,133 --> 00:42:26,737 appropriate. I think we'd add, uh, University of Maryland as 649 00:42:26,737 --> 00:42:31,542 well, um, along with that, but yes, we can, LA Perez and 650 00:42:31,542 --> 00:42:34,545 Associates were also involve them as well, certainly, thank 651 00:42:34,545 --> 00:42:39,416 you, Mr. Holtz just suggest that, uh, you know, as opposed 652 00:42:39,416 --> 00:42:41,886 to the focus being on the letter, I think it's, you know, 653 00:42:41,886 --> 00:42:45,390 that's a part of this, but I'm trying to convey it on behalf 654 00:42:45,390 --> 00:42:48,893 of council, um, although it is on the proposed for the consent 655 00:42:48,893 --> 00:42:52,496 agenda that, um, you know, the policy of the council and the 656 00:42:52,496 --> 00:42:54,832 mayor of council is that, you know, we want this, 657 00:42:54,832 --> 00:42:57,368 so what you know if there's other advocacy that's needed, I 658 00:42:57,368 --> 00:42:59,370 think that can be a staff discretion. 659 00:42:59,370 --> 00:43:02,173 Thank you. All right, Council on this for 660 00:43:02,173 --> 00:43:05,509 the comment. Yeah, sorry, Mr. Mayer. Uh, if possible, if the 661 00:43:05,509 --> 00:43:09,460 letter could request the data, uh, and analysis demonstrating 662 00:43:09,460 --> 00:43:12,717 the need to do this pilot, uh, I understand that we've asked 663 00:43:12,717 --> 00:43:17,455 in the past for uh Prince George's County fire and EMS to 664 00:43:17,455 --> 00:43:21,526 provide data, but it, we need to be able to tell the 665 00:43:21,526 --> 00:43:24,661 residents what the impact is going to, like how it's going 666 00:43:24,661 --> 00:43:28,799 to affect them. Uh, I'd also ask for them to encourage the, 667 00:43:28,799 --> 00:43:33,604 the county fire, uh, to uh engage residents and other 668 00:43:33,604 --> 00:43:36,207 stakeholders. I feels like this is just like a, a quick letter 669 00:43:36,207 --> 00:43:40,745 that was sent on I see June 5th for action on June 29th. I'm 670 00:43:40,745 --> 00:43:43,800 sure that there's a lot of different things that go on, uh, 671 00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:46,617 and that this is a well-meaning effort by our partners at the 672 00:43:46,617 --> 00:43:50,554 county, but we want to express our our deep concern. Certainly. 673 00:43:50,554 --> 00:43:54,240 So I think there is an agreement and there is a motion 674 00:43:54,240 --> 00:43:59,430 and the second, um, all in favor. Say I on this amendment. 675 00:43:59,430 --> 00:44:01,966 I, and he opposed to any abs 10 tion 676 00:44:01,966 --> 00:44:06,103 So this motion, this item has been 677 00:44:06,103 --> 00:44:08,705 added to the agenda. Is there any 678 00:44:08,705 --> 00:44:12,305 other amendment? Saying none, I entertain 679 00:44:12,910 --> 00:44:16,847 emotion right now. to accept the agenda the way it 680 00:44:16,847 --> 00:44:21,647 was amended. All in Swiss 2nd, second by 681 00:44:22,186 --> 00:44:25,857 Councilor Hernandez, um, all in favor say aye, and he opposed 682 00:44:25,857 --> 00:44:30,657 any abstention. the um agenda has been approved. 683 00:44:30,727 --> 00:44:34,927 So now we have 2 consent agenda items 684 00:44:36,934 --> 00:44:42,807 Mr. Mayor, what is the item number for the, um, letter? It 685 00:44:42,807 --> 00:44:49,213 should be 26159. Am I correct? Am I sure, Madam Clark, OK. 26G 686 00:44:49,213 --> 00:44:52,550 59. So there are two concerned agenda. Let me read them first, 687 00:44:52,550 --> 00:44:56,420 and then I will entertain emotion. The first one is 26G58, 688 00:44:56,420 --> 00:45:00,691 which is the approval of the March 3, 2026, Mayor and 689 00:45:00,691 --> 00:45:04,562 council minutes, and the second, which had just has been added, 690 00:45:04,562 --> 00:45:09,362 is 26G59. is a letter to Prince George's 691 00:45:12,637 --> 00:45:17,437 Fire department and other entities as expressed during 692 00:45:18,309 --> 00:45:23,109 the council comments about expressing concerns about the 693 00:45:23,514 --> 00:45:29,514 um discontinuation or lack of services of the advanced life 694 00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:33,324 support, um, services in College Park, otherwise called 695 00:45:33,324 --> 00:45:36,927 ALS. Um, and the staff will, um 696 00:45:36,927 --> 00:45:40,665 take from there Uh, I entertain emotion at this 697 00:45:40,665 --> 00:45:42,733 point? Moved to accept the consent 698 00:45:42,733 --> 00:45:44,733 agenda. Second. 699 00:45:46,700 --> 00:45:49,807 Council member, moved by Mayor Putam Maki and seconded by 700 00:45:49,807 --> 00:45:53,610 Council member. Oates, all in favors the I. 701 00:45:53,610 --> 00:45:57,210 and he opposed any abstention, the 702 00:45:58,282 --> 00:46:01,152 consent agenda has been approved. 703 00:46:01,152 --> 00:46:06,230 All right, now we go to uh the two actually quite a few 704 00:46:06,230 --> 00:46:10,294 presentations we have a we'll, we'll start with 705 00:46:10,294 --> 00:46:13,564 4 of them. Well, let's start with the first one, which is 706 00:46:13,564 --> 00:46:18,340 the um where the discussion of the bike and pedestrian 707 00:46:18,340 --> 00:46:22,106 community, BPAC regarding their annual work plan, and this will 708 00:46:22,106 --> 00:46:25,576 be kicked off by our grants coordinator 709 00:46:25,576 --> 00:46:30,180 Mr. Rafi and thank you, um, um, the 710 00:46:30,180 --> 00:46:34,118 members of the uh BPAC for your service to the community. Thank 711 00:46:34,118 --> 00:46:36,987 you. Uh, I appreciate that. Uh, Mr. Rafi, please. Good 712 00:46:36,987 --> 00:46:42,987 evening, Mayor and council. Um, I'm joined here by Chair 713 00:46:42,993 --> 00:46:46,864 Schroeder and um by committee member Shelby Burke. Uh, today 714 00:46:46,864 --> 00:46:51,135 will be a brief presentation just to discuss um a committee 715 00:46:51,135 --> 00:46:54,104 overview what we do as a committee, um, then I'll pass 716 00:46:54,104 --> 00:46:58,476 it over to, um Mark to discuss some of the committee 717 00:46:58,476 --> 00:47:02,120 priorities over the past, uh, mentioned over the past 6 718 00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:05,160 months or so, and then we'll conclude with the Q& 719 00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:07,885 A session Um, for some background, the 720 00:47:07,885 --> 00:47:12,355 committee was formed in 2023. Um, it functions as an advisory 721 00:47:12,355 --> 00:47:16,293 committee, uh, with a focus on assisting in the preparation of 722 00:47:16,293 --> 00:47:21,298 a citywide, uh, bikeway master plan and assisting in 723 00:47:21,298 --> 00:47:24,340 conducting evaluation and assessments of bike and 724 00:47:24,340 --> 00:47:27,304 walkability equity in the city. uh, to date 725 00:47:27,304 --> 00:47:29,640 the committee has developed an annual plan, which is a 726 00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:34,111 document that's a high level strategic document, uh, that 727 00:47:34,111 --> 00:47:37,781 collects our recommendations and it will be a form of a 728 00:47:37,781 --> 00:47:42,520 foundation for either a bikeway master plan or, or any uh 729 00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:46,560 similar plan that the city will put out eventually. Um 730 00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:50,795 some things we've completed or are working on are the um we've 731 00:47:50,795 --> 00:47:55,465 received a bike friendly community uh designation, uh, 732 00:47:55,465 --> 00:48:00,204 bronze designation, um, we've advocated for the ordinance on 733 00:48:00,204 --> 00:48:03,700 enforcing bike lane obstructions in the past year, 734 00:48:03,700 --> 00:48:09,700 uh, the committee has, uh, assisted staff in, um, applying 735 00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:13,884 for and um positioning ourselves for uh safe streets 736 00:48:13,884 --> 00:48:17,421 and roads for all, which is a federal grant program to 737 00:48:17,421 --> 00:48:21,233 establish a comprehensive safety action plan, uh, that's 738 00:48:21,233 --> 00:48:24,904 to eliminate roadway, uh, fatalities and serious injuries 739 00:48:24,904 --> 00:48:27,904 for all modes of transportation. 740 00:48:28,441 --> 00:48:33,111 and um the committee has assisted staff in bicycle and 741 00:48:33,111 --> 00:48:36,248 pedestrian impact statements which make recommendations for 742 00:48:36,248 --> 00:48:39,651 infrastructure and facilities within a half mile of new 743 00:48:39,651 --> 00:48:43,722 development. Uh, the committee is also involved, uh, in, uh, 744 00:48:43,722 --> 00:48:46,925 community outreach, uh, that includes bike to Work Day, 745 00:48:46,925 --> 00:48:51,263 College Park Day, Hollywood Farmers' Market, uh, conducting 746 00:48:51,263 --> 00:48:54,666 community surveys and audits with other committees as well, 747 00:48:54,666 --> 00:48:57,736 um, and some of the outputs include assisting development 748 00:48:57,736 --> 00:49:00,500 of citywide, uh, safety action plan, which is forthcoming in 749 00:49:00,500 --> 00:49:05,144 the next few months we'll be working on that, um, informing 750 00:49:05,144 --> 00:49:08,814 city policies and planning similar similarly to what we um 751 00:49:08,814 --> 00:49:13,819 helped with the uh bike lane obstruction ordinance and just 752 00:49:13,819 --> 00:49:17,222 continuing community engagement and expanding on those measures. 753 00:49:17,222 --> 00:49:20,159 I'll go ahead and turn it over to um Mark now. 754 00:49:20,159 --> 00:49:23,159 Mr. Shorter, thank you OK 755 00:49:24,497 --> 00:49:28,968 Thank you. Um, first, I would like to address what I take to 756 00:49:28,968 --> 00:49:32,171 have been uh, a complaint at the, when we 757 00:49:32,171 --> 00:49:36,575 were asked to present and the complaint was that the bike 758 00:49:36,575 --> 00:49:41,513 plan was vastly greater than any possible activity we could 759 00:49:41,513 --> 00:49:44,850 accomplish in the in the coming year. That's true. I take 760 00:49:44,850 --> 00:49:50,550 responsibility for it. Um, the reason it is such a a wide 761 00:49:50,550 --> 00:49:55,527 ranging plan is that to a large extent we don't control. 762 00:49:55,527 --> 00:49:58,630 uh, our priorities. Our priorities come from you and 763 00:49:58,630 --> 00:50:02,134 your priorities tend to change. We are advisory, um, we tend 764 00:50:02,134 --> 00:50:05,404 not to want to spend a lot of time advising you about things 765 00:50:05,404 --> 00:50:08,730 that you don't want advice about. 766 00:50:08,730 --> 00:50:13,780 Um, so, uh, and, and since the things you want advice about 767 00:50:13,780 --> 00:50:18,830 tend to change. We wanted to, to make ourselves available to 768 00:50:18,830 --> 00:50:21,553 give you advice about whatever that might happen to be. And so 769 00:50:21,553 --> 00:50:24,490 that's why it's uh that's why it's all over the map there. 770 00:50:24,490 --> 00:50:30,280 Um, now for in preparation for, uh, for this presentation, I 771 00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:34,767 went to the, to BPAC and, and proposed certain priorities 772 00:50:34,767 --> 00:50:37,903 based on what you have been doing and what you have been 773 00:50:37,903 --> 00:50:40,706 asking for from us or what we thought you were asking for 774 00:50:40,706 --> 00:50:44,976 from us. Um number one, our first priority 775 00:50:44,976 --> 00:50:46,779 is your complete streets program. 776 00:50:46,779 --> 00:50:50,916 uh, and to remind you what is the plan 777 00:50:50,916 --> 00:50:55,254 for Complete Streets in FY 27. that would be 778 00:50:55,254 --> 00:50:58,457 uh DARP, um, excuse me, 4-eighth 779 00:50:58,457 --> 00:51:01,457 Place. uh, possibly Dartmouth, there's 780 00:51:01,927 --> 00:51:04,263 a, there's an indication here that it's on hold for some 781 00:51:04,263 --> 00:51:07,263 reason. Badwin, also a possibility 782 00:51:07,733 --> 00:51:11,333 that's on hold. Wellesley ranchville Road 783 00:51:12,805 --> 00:51:15,675 um, and in FY 28, the indications are 784 00:51:15,675 --> 00:51:17,675 uh, Dartmouth 785 00:51:18,770 --> 00:51:20,477 Bowden 51st Avenue phase 2. 786 00:51:22,748 --> 00:51:26,348 and uh uh Saint Andrew's Place. 787 00:51:27,953 --> 00:51:31,553 Um the second priority we had 788 00:51:32,358 --> 00:51:36,280 based on your preliminary budget, which turned out not to 789 00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:38,764 this item turned out not to get into your final budget was for 790 00:51:38,764 --> 00:51:43,235 bike racks. That was a potentially very interesting 791 00:51:43,235 --> 00:51:46,572 program, but since it isn't currently funded, it may not be 792 00:51:46,572 --> 00:51:51,243 our second priority. Uh, the third item I'm going to 793 00:51:51,243 --> 00:51:54,112 combine these two because although they're somewhat 794 00:51:54,112 --> 00:51:58,517 different, they're both tend to be very cheap projects, uh, 795 00:51:58,517 --> 00:52:03,317 BPIS, uh, bicycle pedestrian impact statements. Those are, 796 00:52:03,455 --> 00:52:07,793 those are pri private development will have impacts 797 00:52:07,793 --> 00:52:13,866 on on cyclists and pedestrians. Um, but we can't ask for a 798 00:52:13,866 --> 00:52:18,200 million dollars for impact mitigation. Um, they tends to 799 00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:22,141 be less than, less than $100,000. So those will be 800 00:52:22,141 --> 00:52:25,811 fairly cheap projects. Um, safe streets for all, 801 00:52:25,811 --> 00:52:30,611 similarly, uh, those will be demonstration projects, which 802 00:52:30,949 --> 00:52:34,860 means that you can't put up, you can't spend the money on 803 00:52:34,860 --> 00:52:36,688 anything that will be a permanent change to the street 804 00:52:36,688 --> 00:52:43,288 grid, um, so those will, those will be like temporary barriers. 805 00:52:43,695 --> 00:52:47,633 Our 4th priority is connectivity, and here we're 806 00:52:47,633 --> 00:52:51,503 getting into some fairly deep waters, but many neighborhoods 807 00:52:51,503 --> 00:52:55,574 in the city were built without any thought that the people who 808 00:52:55,574 --> 00:52:59,511 live there might have to leave there by 809 00:52:59,511 --> 00:53:02,714 foot or bicycle. Um, I will go through a I will 810 00:53:02,714 --> 00:53:06,785 go through a couple of the, of, of examples and at, and at the 811 00:53:06,785 --> 00:53:09,988 end of what I have to say, shall be bid, we'll have a, 812 00:53:09,988 --> 00:53:13,859 we'll have a cut, we'll have some comments about College 813 00:53:13,859 --> 00:53:18,731 Park Woods. Um, so I was on the council when we 814 00:53:18,731 --> 00:53:23,535 approved the IKEA project with the associated, uh, apartments 815 00:53:23,535 --> 00:53:28,607 and townhouses, um we were giving no thought to 816 00:53:28,607 --> 00:53:31,476 anything except get that project was going to be built 817 00:53:31,476 --> 00:53:34,146 regardless. We were giving no thought to anything except 818 00:53:34,146 --> 00:53:38,160 getting the tax revenue. We did, it was clear that if we, if we 819 00:53:38,160 --> 00:53:41,487 wanted to have a, an exit out of there that would serve 820 00:53:41,487 --> 00:53:43,755 cyclists and pedestrians. um 821 00:53:43,755 --> 00:53:46,891 not Route one um, that it would just be, it 822 00:53:46,891 --> 00:53:51,563 would just it would just kill the project if we, if we, if we 823 00:53:51,563 --> 00:53:54,966 got it, but we weren't going to get it. The project was going 824 00:53:54,966 --> 00:53:57,302 to go ahead anyway. What we have is 825 00:53:57,302 --> 00:54:02,574 you can't get in there and out of there by, by bicycle or foot. 826 00:54:02,574 --> 00:54:05,176 Um, if you're going to, if you're going from the city or, 827 00:54:05,176 --> 00:54:07,379 or to the city. Um. 828 00:54:07,379 --> 00:54:09,779 that's unsafe Um, second 829 00:54:10,248 --> 00:54:12,248 um we have 830 00:54:13,385 --> 00:54:16,989 Crystal Springs Crystal Springs, the only way 831 00:54:16,989 --> 00:54:20,526 in and out, it's legal. is Metarat Road 832 00:54:20,526 --> 00:54:24,362 If you want, if you, if you want to get to the university 833 00:54:24,362 --> 00:54:28,136 from there by, by what? uh I wouldn't suggest doing 834 00:54:28,136 --> 00:54:33,475 this by bicycle. You will walk up, you will walk over a wooded 835 00:54:33,475 --> 00:54:37,546 grassy area to 193 walk in, walk in the, on the shoulder of 836 00:54:37,546 --> 00:54:40,815 193 until you get, until you get to a red light to cross 837 00:54:40,815 --> 00:54:42,815 there. Um 838 00:54:43,180 --> 00:54:46,622 Metsarat Road is not appropriate for, for banks for 839 00:54:46,622 --> 00:54:51,159 bikes or pedestrians. and they're any number of other 840 00:54:51,159 --> 00:54:56,297 um ways in which we have created bottle bottlenecks, 841 00:54:56,297 --> 00:54:59,501 lack of con connectivity like and therefore lack of safe 842 00:54:59,501 --> 00:55:04,301 egress. Um our fifth priority and this one, 843 00:55:04,907 --> 00:55:08,711 I abstained on this one because I didn't think you wanted any 844 00:55:08,711 --> 00:55:13,181 advice about it. Um, is lowering the speed limit to 20 845 00:55:13,181 --> 00:55:18,581 MPH in the city. Um, and, uh, the uh 846 00:55:18,854 --> 00:55:21,323 my fellow committee members would like to point out to you 847 00:55:21,323 --> 00:55:25,260 that the enfor that if you said a 20 mile per hour speed limit, 848 00:55:25,260 --> 00:55:29,640 it's really only enforceable about 40 miles an hour, um, and 849 00:55:29,640 --> 00:55:34,690 at 40, so if you set it at 25 miles an hour, it's only really 850 00:55:34,690 --> 00:55:37,606 enforceable at 45, and if, if a car hits a pedestrian at 45 851 00:55:37,606 --> 00:55:40,275 miles an hour, the pedestrian is probably going to die. 852 00:55:40,275 --> 00:55:46,548 That's what they would like to tell you. Um, number 6, we, we 853 00:55:46,548 --> 00:55:50,753 want to cont we want to work with the city on, uh, improving 854 00:55:50,753 --> 00:55:54,756 certain, certain important corridors in the, in the city. 855 00:55:54,756 --> 00:55:57,893 Obviously Rhode Island Avenue, um, Duke Street, Saint Andrew's 856 00:55:57,893 --> 00:56:01,493 Place, Edward 49th Greenbelt, Rhode Island 857 00:56:01,496 --> 00:56:04,966 Campus Drive at Route 1 and the Mets, and Metzra Road 858 00:56:04,966 --> 00:56:09,505 crossings. Uh, and if Shelby has a word to 859 00:56:09,505 --> 00:56:15,440 say. Sure, thank you so much. um, Shelby Bird, District 4, 860 00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:18,447 and College Park Woods residents. So thank you all so 861 00:56:18,447 --> 00:56:20,648 much for the opportunity to speak. Thank you, Mark. Thank 862 00:56:20,648 --> 00:56:26,188 you, Mr. Rafi, for your leadership as well. And just to 863 00:56:26,188 --> 00:56:30,125 add on how important connectivity is in building 864 00:56:30,125 --> 00:56:34,263 community in College Park Woods, we have several, um, amenities 865 00:56:34,263 --> 00:56:36,931 that have been invested in by the city 866 00:56:36,931 --> 00:56:40,268 as well as by the County and the Park Commission, and they 867 00:56:40,268 --> 00:56:46,275 are very difficult to get to. without a car, and so as part 868 00:56:46,275 --> 00:56:51,800 of the bicycle pedestrian advisory Committee. We want to 869 00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:55,483 emphasize that being able to reach elementary schools by 870 00:56:55,483 --> 00:57:00,289 foot, perhaps such as Cherokee Lane, um, would be possible if 871 00:57:00,289 --> 00:57:05,294 it were safe to walk to where those paths are, at this time, 872 00:57:05,294 --> 00:57:09,164 we have many parents who choose to drive their students, uh, 873 00:57:09,164 --> 00:57:13,435 down to the park entrance, um, very close to my 874 00:57:13,435 --> 00:57:17,239 residence on 9116 St. Andrew's Place, and they choose to do 875 00:57:17,239 --> 00:57:21,910 that not just in bad weather, but in all times because it is 876 00:57:21,910 --> 00:57:26,515 the safest way to transport their children. Similarly, my 877 00:57:26,515 --> 00:57:30,251 daughter attends Robert Goddard Montessori School. Her bus stop 878 00:57:30,251 --> 00:57:34,256 is at the top of our neighborhood, Saint Andrews and 879 00:57:34,256 --> 00:57:38,460 Duke, and um she is a very quick, uh, 5 year old, but I 880 00:57:38,460 --> 00:57:41,196 would not trust her to be able to walk up there by herself, 881 00:57:41,196 --> 00:57:46,596 nor would I feel safe walking her even holding 882 00:57:47,402 --> 00:57:52,941 hands as surprisingly, um, how fast individuals are able to 883 00:57:52,941 --> 00:57:58,347 drive between two stop signs in front of my house that are 0.1 884 00:57:58,347 --> 00:58:03,285 miles apart with a speed hump at each stop sign, and folks 885 00:58:03,285 --> 00:58:08,890 are still able to reach speeds that would be catastrophic if 886 00:58:08,890 --> 00:58:12,160 they were to hit a pedestrian. And so we certainly appreciate 887 00:58:12,160 --> 00:58:15,290 the continu ous investment and research 888 00:58:15,290 --> 00:58:18,166 that it takes to make the best decisions for our community to 889 00:58:18,166 --> 00:58:20,768 make everybody safe. Thank you. Thank you 890 00:58:20,768 --> 00:58:24,368 Um Mr. Raffi, please. Yeah, I'll 891 00:58:26,108 --> 00:58:28,242 just turn it over to questions at this point if there are any. 892 00:58:28,242 --> 00:58:30,242 OK. So, um 893 00:58:31,113 --> 00:58:35,117 there are, there have been quite a few, uh 894 00:58:35,117 --> 00:58:38,587 ideas and suggestions from VPAC and thank you, thank you for 895 00:58:38,587 --> 00:58:43,324 sharing those ideas. Let's hear from the council, um, we'll 896 00:58:43,324 --> 00:58:46,728 start with Councilor Hernandez. Hey, thanks for, thanks for the, 897 00:58:46,728 --> 00:58:49,997 the very thorough report and the strategic nature of it. It 898 00:58:49,997 --> 00:58:52,267 was really well, you can tell a council 899 00:58:52,267 --> 00:58:55,670 member, a former council member is leading the charge there. Um, 900 00:58:55,670 --> 00:58:57,873 I've, I've had the opportunity to join some of these BPAC 901 00:58:57,873 --> 00:59:03,278 meetings, and they are run like a well-oiled machine. Uh, I 902 00:59:03,278 --> 00:59:07,215 wanna make a suggestion slash recommendation, uh, to the 903 00:59:07,215 --> 00:59:10,285 bicycle and pedestrian advisory Committee. The Route One 904 00:59:10,285 --> 00:59:13,488 developments that are coming up. I mean, we need all hands on 905 00:59:13,488 --> 00:59:20,880 deck in order to make sure that like proper bicycle and 906 00:59:20,161 --> 00:59:22,964 pedestrian infrastructure is in place. 907 00:59:22,964 --> 00:59:25,633 So I mean that means comments, that means showing up to the 908 00:59:25,633 --> 00:59:28,636 meetings, that means writing letters. It's gonna be super 909 00:59:28,636 --> 00:59:32,707 important because I've heard or the suggestion that it might 910 00:59:32,707 --> 00:59:37,378 not necessarily be suitable for, but I, uh, bicycle like 911 00:59:37,378 --> 00:59:41,449 infrastructure north of Maryland 193. So, as the most 912 00:59:41,449 --> 00:59:44,318 uh organized I've ever seen, uh, a, 913 00:59:44,318 --> 00:59:48,657 a committee, uh, to, to, to lobby and advocate. I'd really, 914 00:59:48,657 --> 00:59:51,526 really appreciate seeing some of those recommendations being 915 00:59:51,526 --> 00:59:56,330 pushed, mostly in a, in a, in a way that can be executable, 916 00:59:56,330 --> 00:59:59,134 right? Uh, there's gonna be a lot of folks that talk, but I 917 00:59:59,134 --> 01:00:01,135 mean, if people show up and they're organized, I think 918 01:00:01,135 --> 01:00:05,730 we're gonna see some successful recommendations. One of the 919 01:00:05,730 --> 01:00:08,410 things I, I didn't have the opportunity to, I guess, really 920 01:00:08,410 --> 01:00:12,814 get into, but or see Edgewood itself is, so Edgewood, 921 01:00:12,814 --> 01:00:16,151 which sits in District one, in North College Park for those 922 01:00:16,151 --> 01:00:21,490 who are unaware, um at some point was going to be 923 01:00:21,490 --> 01:00:25,900 redone Uh, I'm wondering or curious 924 01:00:27,162 --> 01:00:32,701 what recommendations BPA has in place ready for that, um, for 925 01:00:32,701 --> 01:00:35,370 that development, I know that we've seen recommendations 926 01:00:35,370 --> 01:00:38,400 prior to or I've seen them from, uh, Mr. Hayes, I want to 927 01:00:38,400 --> 01:00:42,311 believe, uh, when during one of his presentations, uh, do you 928 01:00:42,311 --> 01:00:46,449 have any, uh, predictions on how you guys 929 01:00:46,449 --> 01:00:47,850 hope to work with the city engineer. 930 01:00:47,850 --> 01:00:52,500 So Steve Halperin told us that his 931 01:00:52,922 --> 01:01:00,122 plan, his plan, which of course is subject to your approval. Uh, 932 01:01:00,196 --> 01:01:06,796 when Edward next needs uh repaving is to install a bike 933 01:01:07,336 --> 01:01:12,740 lane on the north end of it. from, uh, Route one to Rhode 934 01:01:12,740 --> 01:01:15,740 Island. Um, that would have 935 01:01:15,477 --> 01:01:21,818 two effects. Uh, first of all, it would protect bikers in the, 936 01:01:21,818 --> 01:01:23,953 in the bike lane in that stretch. 937 01:01:23,953 --> 01:01:27,490 Uh, and second, it would, uh, force narrowing of, it would 938 01:01:27,490 --> 01:01:32,628 narrow the street, which would force slower traffic, which 939 01:01:32,628 --> 01:01:37,233 would tend to pre protect both the children walking to 940 01:01:37,233 --> 01:01:41,304 Hollywood Elementary, and the people and the children walking 941 01:01:41,304 --> 01:01:44,106 to the bus stop, that's right near Hollywood Elementary. 942 01:01:44,106 --> 01:01:46,106 um so 943 01:01:47,430 --> 01:01:51,780 we thought that was a good plan, um, and 944 01:01:51,780 --> 01:01:53,983 uh, we are therefore waiting for 945 01:01:53,983 --> 01:01:57,252 Edgewood to get torn up I, I, I'm hopeful that when we 946 01:01:57,252 --> 01:02:01,124 do do that, we preserve the like some aspects of the 947 01:02:01,124 --> 01:02:03,659 parking. I know a lot of the residents have have raised 948 01:02:03,659 --> 01:02:06,662 concerns about the limited parking that's on Edgewood. So, 949 01:02:06,662 --> 01:02:10,800 I mean, we're gonna need to work together. Um, and secondly, 950 01:02:10,800 --> 01:02:14,937 I know that, uh, the North College Park Community 951 01:02:14,937 --> 01:02:19,541 Association sent over a letter requesting the extension of the 952 01:02:19,541 --> 01:02:22,611 trolley trail. Uh, we can get into the historic elements of 953 01:02:22,611 --> 01:02:26,215 where the trolley was or where the trolley was not, but 954 01:02:26,215 --> 01:02:29,752 uh I believe that you all have been connected with uh Megan 955 01:02:29,752 --> 01:02:33,823 and their team, uh, in order to try to, to look at what it 956 01:02:33,823 --> 01:02:37,860 would look like to expand north of, I want to say it's, I guess 957 01:02:37,860 --> 01:02:41,164 north of Maryland, 193, and possibly connecting to the 958 01:02:41,164 --> 01:02:45,964 counties recently, uh, developed a large sidewalk just 959 01:02:46,102 --> 01:02:50,573 north of Odessa, uh, heading up towards, uh, Sunnyside. I'd 960 01:02:50,573 --> 01:02:52,708 like for there to be some strategic consideration here, 961 01:02:52,708 --> 01:02:55,978 given the fact that many of our projects that are forward 962 01:02:55,978 --> 01:02:59,848 facing, including uh the annexation efforts may connect 963 01:02:59,848 --> 01:03:04,453 back into that if we are successful. So I, I believe it 964 01:03:04,453 --> 01:03:09,853 would be very helpful. if, uh, the city engineer 965 01:03:11,326 --> 01:03:14,130 received a message from the council 966 01:03:14,130 --> 01:03:18,801 that they would like him to do a walking tour. 967 01:03:18,801 --> 01:03:22,338 and indicate which there are there are at least 3 ways. 968 01:03:22,338 --> 01:03:26,274 that you can extend the trolley trail for, for 969 01:03:26,274 --> 01:03:29,545 pedestrians, um, one is with the current 970 01:03:29,545 --> 01:03:31,545 substandard uh 971 01:03:33,949 --> 01:03:39,221 sidewalk on the west side. uh, on the Western Service Road. 972 01:03:39,221 --> 01:03:44,590 One is by putting a sidewalk which does not currently exist 973 01:03:44,590 --> 01:03:49,310 on the eastern Service Road and the third is, I'm probably the 974 01:03:49,310 --> 01:03:54,431 most expensive alternative. Um the, uh, putting a sidewalk 975 01:03:55,104 --> 01:03:59,410 directly next to uh, the, the bike lanes that 976 01:03:59,410 --> 01:04:02,641 you've already got there. Um, now, 977 01:04:02,844 --> 01:04:05,714 I think it is not helpful, it is not useful. 978 01:04:05,714 --> 01:04:09,914 to have to not have some expert 979 01:04:11,720 --> 01:04:16,392 opinions about whether one of those alternatives is cost 980 01:04:16,392 --> 01:04:19,728 prohibitive or not. Um, so in my view, 981 01:04:19,728 --> 01:04:23,732 um, we, you need to, we need to 982 01:04:23,732 --> 01:04:26,100 have an idea about what's feasible. 983 01:04:26,100 --> 01:04:30,500 Thank you. Yes, uh, for those who don't know or who aren't, 984 01:04:30,500 --> 01:04:33,609 uh, regularly up in this area. uh 985 01:04:33,609 --> 01:04:38,547 there tends to be a lot of residents who use the bicycle 986 01:04:38,547 --> 01:04:42,752 lane as a walking lane. Uh, I mean, it is an active road, uh, 987 01:04:42,752 --> 01:04:46,688 Rhode Island Avenue. Uh, and these are, you know, temporary 988 01:04:46,688 --> 01:04:51,930 bollards that won't necessarily do much to stop, uh, any sort 989 01:04:51,930 --> 01:04:53,896 of car should something happen, it's more of a reminder of 990 01:04:53,896 --> 01:04:56,365 anything. Uh, what I'd like to make sure that we're all 991 01:04:56,365 --> 01:05:00,302 working together, right, on is, is what that looks like in the 992 01:05:00,302 --> 01:05:02,838 future. Happy to have a larger conversation on council. I 993 01:05:02,838 --> 01:05:05,107 don't know if you're aware, but Conso was 994 01:05:05,107 --> 01:05:09,311 proud to uh to include in this year's budget a traffic study 995 01:05:09,311 --> 01:05:13,315 that's going to look at what potential uh 996 01:05:13,315 --> 01:05:18,920 outlets, I guess like egress, uh, spots will be best for cars 997 01:05:18,920 --> 01:05:21,524 to come out of the service roads. Right now, what's 998 01:05:21,524 --> 01:05:23,926 happening is people are rushing right out of them to try to get 999 01:05:23,926 --> 01:05:26,328 onto Rhode Island Service Road, uh, potentially putting a lot 1000 01:05:26,328 --> 01:05:29,732 of people in danger and also just causing extreme backup and 1001 01:05:29,732 --> 01:05:32,567 delays, uh, and with Duval Field coming on board, uh, 1002 01:05:32,567 --> 01:05:36,138 we're gonna see a lot more traffic. So hopefully we can 1003 01:05:36,138 --> 01:05:39,800 tie all of these multiple efforts together in order to be 1004 01:05:39,800 --> 01:05:41,343 able to move forward successfully. Thank you, thank 1005 01:05:41,343 --> 01:05:44,413 you so much. Let's go to Councilor Mitchell and then 1006 01:05:44,413 --> 01:05:46,413 Councilor Oates. No. 1007 01:05:50,180 --> 01:05:53,889 No. OK, thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you for your report. I 1008 01:05:53,889 --> 01:05:57,893 appreciate your due diligence and intentionality, um, one 1009 01:05:57,893 --> 01:06:01,697 thing I, I know we just have the, uh, we will have the 1010 01:06:01,697 --> 01:06:05,835 opportunity to nominate Miss Martin to be a part of the BPAC 1011 01:06:05,835 --> 01:06:07,570 Committee, and one of the things that we talked about 1012 01:06:07,570 --> 01:06:12,775 with her, I did, was the fact that, um, looking at the 1013 01:06:12,775 --> 01:06:15,577 university's transportation plan and trying to incorporate 1014 01:06:15,577 --> 01:06:19,382 that into our plan as well, moving forward to help us with 1015 01:06:19,382 --> 01:06:23,252 um um bicycle safety as well as um 1016 01:06:23,252 --> 01:06:27,256 those who are pedestrians. Um, also, I just wanted to ask in 1017 01:06:27,256 --> 01:06:32,661 regards to your plan, I hope it's my hope that we will have 1018 01:06:32,661 --> 01:06:36,799 more opportunities for engagement with the community. 1019 01:06:36,799 --> 01:06:40,269 Going out to the community and talk about 1020 01:06:40,269 --> 01:06:44,874 what you do as a committee and what your recommendations are. 1021 01:06:44,874 --> 01:06:49,990 I think what comes as a little bit of a uh. 1022 01:06:49,990 --> 01:06:54,971 how can I say the word, um, heartburn for some individuals 1023 01:06:54,971 --> 01:06:57,574 cause they don't know what you're actually doing as a 1024 01:06:57,574 --> 01:07:01,978 committee and what you're trying to achieve. So I hope we 1025 01:07:01,978 --> 01:07:05,470 can have more conversations, especially in the District 4 1026 01:07:05,470 --> 01:07:08,251 area, um, I rega regards to what the committee is actually 1027 01:07:08,251 --> 01:07:12,722 doing. And the third point is Crystal Springs, yes, there 1028 01:07:12,722 --> 01:07:16,590 needs to be some type of help with Crystal Springs, as long 1029 01:07:16,590 --> 01:07:19,863 as myself and may approach and Mackie lived there. That has 1030 01:07:19,863 --> 01:07:23,533 been a sticking point with us in a really public safety 1031 01:07:23,533 --> 01:07:26,269 concern cause as you know, far, you know, 1032 01:07:26,269 --> 01:07:29,673 ambulance can get down there. No one can get out if there was 1033 01:07:29,673 --> 01:07:32,943 an emergency. So if anything can be done, I know the city 1034 01:07:32,943 --> 01:07:37,213 has put in for plans with um parking planning to do. I know 1035 01:07:37,213 --> 01:07:40,750 Mr. Young's doing something with regard to 35th Avenue, but 1036 01:07:40,750 --> 01:07:44,754 that is huge. Um, my other point, my 1037 01:07:44,754 --> 01:07:50,260 last point is, um, we would like to think about possibility, 1038 01:07:50,260 --> 01:07:52,229 some residents were asked by Lauren Speed. 1039 01:07:52,229 --> 01:07:56,165 because we know that's a problem, but also along Metarat 1040 01:07:56,165 --> 01:07:59,836 Road, you know, there's a potential development with the 1041 01:07:59,836 --> 01:08:02,773 county. Many residents are now aware about that in the 1042 01:08:02,773 --> 01:08:07,643 sidewalk and how that will impact Metaro going into Saint 1043 01:08:07,643 --> 01:08:11,470 Andrews and along that Duke corridor. So what we can't, 1044 01:08:11,470 --> 01:08:15,452 what can be done in order to, number one, bring that report 1045 01:08:15,452 --> 01:08:19,122 back and bring out the actual essential components, so 1046 01:08:19,122 --> 01:08:21,858 reticence are made aware, especially on Metarat Road 1047 01:08:21,858 --> 01:08:26,396 because many of them do not know there's a potentiality of 1048 01:08:26,396 --> 01:08:30,660 a sidewalk coming and they're gonna be caught off guard by 1049 01:08:30,660 --> 01:08:34,203 how we can work with them, the county and your committee can 1050 01:08:34,203 --> 01:08:37,473 work together to get the communication, but also to see 1051 01:08:37,473 --> 01:08:40,876 the feasibility of other safety measures. 1052 01:08:40,876 --> 01:08:45,281 Thank you, councilmember Mitchell. I, I will, I will ask 1053 01:08:45,281 --> 01:08:51,687 in return that that there be um second appointment to the to 1054 01:08:51,687 --> 01:08:55,250 BPAC from from District 4, you have a, you have a, you have a 1055 01:08:55,250 --> 01:08:58,962 vacant, you have a vacant seat here. We appreciate very much 1056 01:08:58,962 --> 01:09:02,832 Shelby being with us, um, otherwise this would not be 1057 01:09:02,832 --> 01:09:06,169 represented. District 3 is not currently represented at 1058 01:09:06,169 --> 01:09:09,705 District 2 is not currently represented. Um, we need, uh, 1059 01:09:09,705 --> 01:09:14,243 we need to, we need to have those vacancies filled because 1060 01:09:14,243 --> 01:09:17,980 I know, I know as a former council member, I know you want 1061 01:09:17,980 --> 01:09:20,983 to be hearing from the committee, from a 1062 01:09:20,983 --> 01:09:25,255 committee of your constituents. and and and we are definitely 1063 01:09:25,255 --> 01:09:28,191 gonna be looking for someone else to be on that committee, 1064 01:09:28,191 --> 01:09:32,695 but again, I, this is important, um, for all of us, especially 1065 01:09:32,695 --> 01:09:36,666 as we start to talk about our strategic plan. We need to have 1066 01:09:36,666 --> 01:09:39,402 as many many of you on the table to talk about how we move 1067 01:09:39,402 --> 01:09:40,870 forward. So thank you, Mr. Mayor. 1068 01:09:40,870 --> 01:09:45,608 Thank you. Um, I see Cons Ols and then Mayor Potamaki. That 1069 01:09:45,608 --> 01:09:48,144 story. Great. First, I just want to thank you both for your 1070 01:09:48,144 --> 01:09:52,810 report and for um coming here today before us, um, and, uh, 1071 01:09:52,810 --> 01:09:55,352 I'll say we're working on it for District 3, and it we'll 1072 01:09:55,352 --> 01:09:58,354 make our our broader, um, advisory board appointments, 1073 01:09:58,354 --> 01:10:00,990 and there are some new appointments, um, uh, including 1074 01:10:00,990 --> 01:10:06,296 one in District 3. I wanted to pull on a few threads, um, and 1075 01:10:06,296 --> 01:10:09,365 the first one was related to bike racks, um, because I think 1076 01:10:09,365 --> 01:10:13,703 that in my view, uh, to some extent, this is 1077 01:10:13,703 --> 01:10:16,706 actually um an economic development issue in the city 1078 01:10:16,706 --> 01:10:19,642 of, you know, people, uh, try to visit College Park 1079 01:10:19,642 --> 01:10:22,512 businesses or restaurants or other places and then don't 1080 01:10:22,512 --> 01:10:25,315 have any place to put their bike, um, or go to a playground 1081 01:10:25,315 --> 01:10:30,653 and, you know, don't, don't have things. Um, so, uh, I had, 1082 01:10:30,653 --> 01:10:33,589 uh, in our council discussions on the budget proposed that 1083 01:10:33,589 --> 01:10:36,659 there be money put in the budget to support bike racks. 1084 01:10:36,659 --> 01:10:39,929 Um, the reason that didn't end up, um, in the final budget was 1085 01:10:39,929 --> 01:10:42,866 that the view was uh, existing resources can meet 1086 01:10:42,866 --> 01:10:46,690 the need and that there's grant opportunities, um, that we 1087 01:10:46,690 --> 01:10:49,500 could pursue that would effectively pay for what the 1088 01:10:49,500 --> 01:10:51,675 needs are. So I'll just say I personally would be very 1089 01:10:51,675 --> 01:10:56,146 interested to hear more from BPAC on what, where are the 1090 01:10:56,146 --> 01:11:00,160 places that in the city um where you think there should be 1091 01:11:00,160 --> 01:11:04,870 by cracks, and in particular thinking about um, you know, so 1092 01:11:04,870 --> 01:11:06,756 new developments have to kind of build that infrastructure in, 1093 01:11:06,756 --> 01:11:09,959 but what is our, our older development and where, uh, 1094 01:11:09,959 --> 01:11:13,697 we're, where, where that ' s needed. Well, one of our 1095 01:11:13,697 --> 01:11:19,502 members was going to do a a a a huge survey operation to get 1096 01:11:19,502 --> 01:11:22,839 recommendations and, and when we found out there was no 1097 01:11:22,839 --> 01:11:26,709 funding, then she has she has suspended that effort, but I 1098 01:11:26,709 --> 01:11:29,913 will, um, I will say personally that I was 1099 01:11:29,913 --> 01:11:33,716 uh I think it was, was it yesterday or the day before, um, 1100 01:11:33,716 --> 01:11:38,454 in the College Park Shopping Center, which has no bike racks. 1101 01:11:38,454 --> 01:11:43,193 Um, I had, I got there by bicycle and I had to go, go, go 1102 01:11:43,193 --> 01:11:45,327 outside, go outside the shopping center to find a 1103 01:11:45,327 --> 01:11:49,532 railing to, to, to park my bike at. So it's 1104 01:11:49,532 --> 01:11:53,403 um, it's, it's all around us Yeah, I'm, so I'm happy to, 1105 01:11:53,403 --> 01:11:56,272 I'll, I'll be joining your meeting, uh, next Thursday. So 1106 01:11:56,272 --> 01:11:59,275 happy to, happy to chat more, but, um, I do think that that 1107 01:11:59,275 --> 01:12:04,280 is a need and one that, uh, is pretty easy to fulfill, but 1108 01:12:04,280 --> 01:12:08,218 that will change the feel of, oh, this is hard, even so even 1109 01:12:08,218 --> 01:12:10,553 if you have the connectivity, if the endpoints, you don't 1110 01:12:10,553 --> 01:12:13,289 have anywhere to put your, um, your bike, then it, it's not 1111 01:12:13,289 --> 01:12:17,493 there. I think, um, the other one, question I had for you all 1112 01:12:17,493 --> 01:12:22,431 is, is kind of, um, a weird one, but, uh, 1113 01:12:22,431 --> 01:12:28,972 I think I assume that when uh BPAC was last, uh, given a 1114 01:12:28,972 --> 01:12:34,444 charge. Um, it, uh, it was probably before the the era of 1115 01:12:34,444 --> 01:12:38,180 electric scooters. And so, you know, the focus on pedestrians, 1116 01:12:38,180 --> 01:12:44,780 the focus on bicycles, um, are scooters, uh, within the scope 1117 01:12:45,540 --> 01:12:47,991 of BPAC and do you think they should be? 1118 01:12:47,991 --> 01:12:51,127 Um I, I'll tell you what, if, if 1119 01:12:51,127 --> 01:12:54,630 you want to add it to our charge, we will take it in our 1120 01:12:54,630 --> 01:12:57,416 charge, and especially if you want to, if you want to add any 1121 01:12:57,416 --> 01:13:01,286 scooter activists to our, to our, to our committee, and we 1122 01:13:01,286 --> 01:13:03,956 will definitely be working on that. Um, 1123 01:13:03,956 --> 01:13:07,556 I, I haven't frankly seen. uh 1124 01:13:08,930 --> 01:13:11,964 much of an much of an issue where you're treating, where we 1125 01:13:11,964 --> 01:13:14,633 would be treating scooters differently from bi bicycle or 1126 01:13:14,633 --> 01:13:18,170 pedestrian. But you know, I'm open to it. 1127 01:13:18,170 --> 01:13:21,507 Yeah, part of the reason I ask is just, you know, the city 1128 01:13:21,507 --> 01:13:27,245 does have uh viaride contract, there are other issues where, 1129 01:13:27,245 --> 01:13:31,500 um, uh, they share resources with bikes and pedestrians. I 1130 01:13:31,500 --> 01:13:33,785 sure do. It seems to me like something that if we in the 1131 01:13:33,785 --> 01:13:36,722 future are reviewing the charge of the committee, it might be 1132 01:13:36,722 --> 01:13:39,580 worthwhile to include in scope. Thank you. 1133 01:13:39,580 --> 01:13:42,927 Thank you. Uh, let's go to Murta Maki and then 1134 01:13:42,927 --> 01:13:46,131 Councilorgil. Yes, thank you, and thank you for your report 1135 01:13:46,131 --> 01:13:50,869 and thank you to whoever answered all of my questions. I, 1136 01:13:50,869 --> 01:13:55,741 um, that I sent earlier. It was very helpful to receive those, 1137 01:13:55,741 --> 01:14:02,881 um, those answers. And I, I too, um, support your idea about 1138 01:14:02,881 --> 01:14:05,684 lowering the speed limit. I was the one who asked for this 1139 01:14:05,684 --> 01:14:08,753 speed limit to be lowered on Rhode Island Avenue, um, 1140 01:14:08,753 --> 01:14:12,900 several years ago. Um, and I'm glad that I did. I 1141 01:14:12,900 --> 01:14:17,229 don't know that it's it's, it's effective, but I 1142 01:14:17,229 --> 01:14:21,499 think it is that we went down and lowered the speed limit. Um, 1143 01:14:21,499 --> 01:14:25,636 one of the things with lowering speed limits and, and having 1144 01:14:25,636 --> 01:14:29,908 traffic calming. Those are all voluntary, um, you know, people 1145 01:14:29,908 --> 01:14:33,245 can choose to go over this beat hops really fast. They can 1146 01:14:33,245 --> 01:14:36,581 choose to not follow the speed limit. They can choose to go 1147 01:14:36,581 --> 01:14:44,322 through stop signs and not slow down. Um, so I am very um 1148 01:14:44,322 --> 01:14:47,322 supportive of measures that protect 1149 01:14:47,325 --> 01:14:53,532 cyclists and pedestrians, um, in ways that keep them safe. Um, 1150 01:14:53,532 --> 01:14:57,100 not just slowing people down, but keeping them safe. I want 1151 01:14:57,100 --> 01:15:00,939 to tell you that I actually went to the meeting about 1152 01:15:00,939 --> 01:15:07,539 Metarra Road. Um, it's a very extensive study and report that 1153 01:15:07,746 --> 01:15:10,816 if you haven't seen it, you should. And, um, you should 1154 01:15:10,816 --> 01:15:14,860 look at it. I think I might still have it if you want to 1155 01:15:14,860 --> 01:15:17,289 contact me um, but it's a very interesting 1156 01:15:17,289 --> 01:15:21,226 report about, um, that's Sara Road and um. 1157 01:15:21,226 --> 01:15:26,898 I'm, I just wanted to say that for me, um, engaging the 1158 01:15:26,898 --> 01:15:32,104 community is very, very important and also looking at, 1159 01:15:32,104 --> 01:15:36,141 um, issues, um, like one of the issues is that 1160 01:15:36,141 --> 01:15:41,312 we have a a epidemic in our country of childhood obesity 1161 01:15:41,312 --> 01:15:44,850 too. So it's very important that we're making places where 1162 01:15:44,850 --> 01:15:49,854 children can walk to parks, can walk to school, can walk to to 1163 01:15:49,854 --> 01:15:54,258 the the bike, um, to the bus stop. I saw the, uh, I was 1164 01:15:54,258 --> 01:15:58,663 driving back home into College Park Woods and saw the two bus 1165 01:15:58,663 --> 01:16:03,134 stops and was shocked at the amount of cars waiting there to 1166 01:16:03,134 --> 01:16:05,203 pick up their kids from the bus stops. 1167 01:16:05,203 --> 01:16:09,274 So, um, thank you for this report. Thank you for outlining 1168 01:16:09,274 --> 01:16:14,278 your priorities, um, and, uh, and um I just really want to 1169 01:16:14,278 --> 01:16:18,383 applaud you for the work that you're doing in the city and um 1170 01:16:18,383 --> 01:16:20,752 to really encourage you to continue. Thank you. 1171 01:16:20,752 --> 01:16:24,690 Well thank you and Rocky, uh, we've had now two requests that 1172 01:16:24,690 --> 01:16:29,227 we look at the messra Road development for our next BPEC 1173 01:16:29,227 --> 01:16:31,763 meeting? Can we do that? Yeah, we can review it. Um, we 1174 01:16:31,763 --> 01:16:36,340 have reviewed it after, uh, the county did go over it. There 1175 01:16:36,340 --> 01:16:39,171 was a, I think there was a workshop or something that they 1176 01:16:39,171 --> 01:16:43,308 conducted. It was a virtual one. so we did do, uh, overview of 1177 01:16:43,308 --> 01:16:46,378 that, just a quick rundown, I believe in one more, um, beatPA 1178 01:16:46,378 --> 01:16:50,382 member was part of that, uh, session, but we did run down, 1179 01:16:50,382 --> 01:16:54,586 but we can do it again, uh, just as a refresher again just 1180 01:16:54,586 --> 01:16:57,455 so we're I don't know if, I don't know if we ever had an an 1181 01:16:57,455 --> 01:17:02,255 our agenda. Yeah, yeah, OK. OK, go ahead 1182 01:17:04,596 --> 01:17:09,396 Um um, Mr. Mayor, if I can just 1183 01:17:12,470 --> 01:17:17,270 extend my um my day jobs, expertise in 1184 01:17:18,476 --> 01:17:23,949 getting you a point of contact to DPWT's liaison, who can 1185 01:17:23,949 --> 01:17:27,352 actually come to the meeting. and with 1186 01:17:27,352 --> 01:17:29,821 the committee to talk about the actual 1187 01:17:29,821 --> 01:17:32,757 project, so you'll have someone there firsthand to answer 1188 01:17:32,757 --> 01:17:35,757 questions for you. Thank you 1189 01:17:35,760 --> 01:17:38,563 because Mets are that that road is a county road, correct? 1190 01:17:38,563 --> 01:17:41,432 That's the reason? OK. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Hill, 1191 01:17:41,432 --> 01:17:44,169 for patiently waiting. Please go ahead and then Councilor 1192 01:17:44,169 --> 01:17:47,239 Jordan, I believe. Sure. Um, I'd just like to, uh, kind of 1193 01:17:47,239 --> 01:17:51,509 follow up on a council member Oates' comments. Uh, he, he 1194 01:17:51,509 --> 01:17:56,448 made me think about um uh something that was brought to 1195 01:17:56,448 --> 01:18:00,252 my attention by another resident, um, there are more 1196 01:18:00,252 --> 01:18:04,856 and more e-bikes on, on these trails nowadays and um 1197 01:18:04,856 --> 01:18:09,193 I, I have one myself from early adopter, but um one of the 1198 01:18:09,193 --> 01:18:12,531 things that can be an issue is that that 1199 01:18:12,531 --> 01:18:15,133 the amount of power, the wattage. 1200 01:18:15,133 --> 01:18:19,404 of these bikes, um, the residents urged me an article, 1201 01:18:19,404 --> 01:18:25,277 I forget where it was where a regular cyclist and a uh uh 1202 01:18:25,277 --> 01:18:29,130 biker that had a high powered motor. 1203 01:18:29,130 --> 01:18:32,217 um, head-on collided and uh they both died. 1204 01:18:32,217 --> 01:18:36,154 So, um, that's something that we need to take into 1205 01:18:36,154 --> 01:18:40,892 consideration. I've noticed a number of these um souped up 1206 01:18:40,892 --> 01:18:45,496 e-bikes now beginning to uh make appearances and um the 1207 01:18:45,496 --> 01:18:48,699 young individuals that have them uh are getting together 1208 01:18:48,699 --> 01:18:52,504 and, you know, daring each other to do, you know, kind of 1209 01:18:52,504 --> 01:18:58,243 reckless things. So, um, I know that some trails are 1210 01:18:58,243 --> 01:19:01,513 limited to the wattage, and then you can, you can only have 1211 01:19:01,513 --> 01:19:04,816 500 watts to blow, you know, that sort of thing. So this 1212 01:19:04,816 --> 01:19:08,200 might be something you might want to start considering as it 1213 01:19:08,200 --> 01:19:11,937 become more frequent, um, out there. Yeah, Yeah the Yeah,, 1214 01:19:11,937 --> 01:19:16,750 the Yeah,, the trail from um. think of it as the Park Run 1215 01:19:16,750 --> 01:19:19,478 trail, but, uh, I, I believe it's technically the paint 1216 01:19:19,478 --> 01:19:24,550 branch trail of, uh, is uh they have a limit, they have, 1217 01:19:24,550 --> 01:19:27,552 they say low powered bikes only that, but that's park and 1218 01:19:27,552 --> 01:19:31,691 planning. That's not the city, um, you would, you would have 1219 01:19:31,691 --> 01:19:34,260 to have, uh, you would have to have, if you want to address 1220 01:19:34,260 --> 01:19:37,362 this on city um city right away, you're 1221 01:19:37,362 --> 01:19:40,765 going to have to pass an ordinance, um, and if you want 1222 01:19:40,765 --> 01:19:44,302 us to talk about it, we can talk about it. 1223 01:19:44,302 --> 01:19:47,639 My main concern is the Charlie Trail. 1224 01:19:47,639 --> 01:19:53,846 the, the other, other, um, uh, bike lanes on Route 1, you know, 1225 01:19:53,846 --> 01:19:57,182 they're, they're single direction and you're flowing, 1226 01:19:57,182 --> 01:20:01,787 you're flowing with a faster um pace, uh, vehicles and new 1227 01:20:01,787 --> 01:20:05,457 sidewalks for pedestrians, but we're pedestrians and, and 1228 01:20:05,457 --> 01:20:08,227 other cyclists mixed together like on a trolley trail. I 1229 01:20:08,227 --> 01:20:14,227 think we need to consider um some sort of regulation. 1230 01:20:16,402 --> 01:20:22,600 Um, before my Jordan Cosmomo Jordan speaks. So in regards to 1231 01:20:22,600 --> 01:20:24,600 the scooters on 1232 01:20:25,410 --> 01:20:31,283 college, not the trial trail, but Payne ran trail, um, Mr. 1233 01:20:31,283 --> 01:20:35,483 Rafi probably remember we made a request 1234 01:20:36,154 --> 01:20:40,892 to, um, change the geo fencing of the vehicle. 1235 01:20:40,892 --> 01:20:45,970 so that our residents can use the trail to get into College 1236 01:20:45,970 --> 01:20:48,901 Parkwood. a couple of months ago. Um, 1237 01:20:48,901 --> 01:20:51,303 there's a complaint that the residents could not get into 1238 01:20:51,303 --> 01:20:53,303 the neighborhood. Um 1239 01:20:56,174 --> 01:21:00,913 as they are trying to cross, I I believe uh the um golf course 1240 01:21:00,913 --> 01:21:03,648 is road which the intersection is. 1241 01:21:03,648 --> 01:21:08,586 um, so there was a cutoff in in power once they passed the geo 1242 01:21:08,586 --> 01:21:13,592 fence or correct. Yeah. Um, that was handled by my 1243 01:21:13,592 --> 01:21:17,792 colleague Carlos, um, presumably, um, who spearheads 1244 01:21:18,663 --> 01:21:21,466 uh efforts with VO, um, but I can definitely follow up with 1245 01:21:21,466 --> 01:21:25,370 them. I wasn't included in in any updates for that, but, um, 1246 01:21:25,370 --> 01:21:29,208 I'm sure we would hear more if it wasn't taken care of. Let me 1247 01:21:29,208 --> 01:21:31,944 check and follow up if you could, please. Yeah, that would 1248 01:21:31,944 --> 01:21:36,810 address the, the, um, the um, connectivity issues that Ms. 1249 01:21:36,810 --> 01:21:39,180 Shelby was talking about, you know, residents. 1250 01:21:39,180 --> 01:21:42,488 don't have many options to get into College Park Es other than 1251 01:21:42,488 --> 01:21:44,488 driving. um 1252 01:21:44,690 --> 01:21:48,930 This is a wonderful opportunity Thank you. Thank you, Miss. 1253 01:21:48,930 --> 01:21:51,964 Councilor Jordan. Thank you very much for this 1254 01:21:51,964 --> 01:21:55,330 report and um this is an important issue for the council 1255 01:21:55,330 --> 01:21:57,836 and for the, the residents of College Park. Um, I want to 1256 01:21:57,836 --> 01:22:02,174 echo, um, Council member Hernandez about the advocacy, 1257 01:22:02,174 --> 01:22:04,976 especially for the um developments and improvements 1258 01:22:04,976 --> 01:22:07,979 that are coming to, um, some of these areas that you 1259 01:22:07,979 --> 01:22:12,718 highlighted in your, in your report, um, specifically the 1260 01:22:12,718 --> 01:22:16,121 Metropolitan is having uh a a session for community 1261 01:22:16,121 --> 01:22:19,858 engagement on, uh, January 25th. I mean, sorry, June 25th, um 1262 01:22:19,858 --> 01:22:23,328 but they're, they're, uh, in, in their, um, detailed site 1263 01:22:23,328 --> 01:22:30,135 plan in their, in their, uh, um, presentation to the um College 1264 01:22:30,135 --> 01:22:32,271 Park Mayor and council, uh, they talked about different 1265 01:22:32,271 --> 01:22:34,672 kinds of improvements that have to do with, with lighting and 1266 01:22:34,672 --> 01:22:38,410 bike lanes and and things like that. And so I think having uh 1267 01:22:38,410 --> 01:22:43,415 as as council member Hernandez said having members of BPAC or 1268 01:22:43,415 --> 01:22:46,418 are more and more residents who can show that the um the 1269 01:22:46,418 --> 01:22:48,620 interest of College Park that this would be something that 1270 01:22:48,620 --> 01:22:50,555 would be sorely needed. And similarly, 1271 01:22:50,555 --> 01:22:55,294 on June 24th, the, um, uh, State Highway Association for, 1272 01:22:55,294 --> 01:23:00,566 uh, is, is having a a community engagement meeting up for 1273 01:23:00,566 --> 01:23:04,303 Baltimore Avenue from 193 to Sunnyside and and as you know, 1274 01:23:04,303 --> 01:23:08,774 that is, that is one of the areas that you, um, that you 1275 01:23:08,774 --> 01:23:12,577 identified and so um. I think that this would be a a 1276 01:23:12,577 --> 01:23:15,470 a ripe opportunity for this. We already know that this, that 1277 01:23:15,470 --> 01:23:19,317 there will be changes to those areas and so if we can get in 1278 01:23:19,317 --> 01:23:23,388 and uh have a seat at the table, have a voice, then, um, then we 1279 01:23:23,388 --> 01:23:27,326 can see what we can do about, about, uh, affecting change for 1280 01:23:27,326 --> 01:23:29,995 College Park and then I also would like to echo Council 1281 01:23:29,995 --> 01:23:32,730 member Oates on the importance of bike racks. Again, I, I 1282 01:23:32,730 --> 01:23:36,468 don't know that it was, um, the intention of council that these 1283 01:23:36,468 --> 01:23:39,872 were not important. It was, it was, it had to do with the 1284 01:23:39,872 --> 01:23:42,274 funding sources, not not that it was not something 1285 01:23:42,274 --> 01:23:44,843 that we wanted to move forward with. Um, certainly it would be 1286 01:23:44,843 --> 01:23:48,814 one of my priorities, um, that's a part of using your 1287 01:23:48,814 --> 01:23:52,830 bicycle to go places means that you can go places. It isn't 1288 01:23:52,830 --> 01:23:55,754 just, um, I wanted, I wanted to ride my bicycle and then go 1289 01:23:55,754 --> 01:23:58,757 home, right? You, you want to go to dinner, you wanna go to 1290 01:23:58,757 --> 01:24:01,559 school, you wanna go, you wanna commute, you want to go 1291 01:24:01,559 --> 01:24:05,630 shopping, all these different things, um, so I appreciate, uh, 1292 01:24:05,630 --> 01:24:10,235 I, I do want to, to make sure that that is one of the 1293 01:24:10,235 --> 01:24:12,704 priorities, I believe, of, of counsel, certainly of myself. 1294 01:24:12,704 --> 01:24:17,910 Thank you. Thank you. I, I do echo the 1295 01:24:17,910 --> 01:24:21,513 importance of attending um, not only by BPAC but also community 1296 01:24:21,513 --> 01:24:27,119 as a whole, um, at the um, the rawan phase 2 and phase 1297 01:24:27,119 --> 01:24:31,523 3 meeting at Bellsville. Um, because this is a 1298 01:24:31,523 --> 01:24:36,395 once in a lifetime opportunity for us to advocate whether we 1299 01:24:36,395 --> 01:24:40,398 need to have multi-moral um privilege, transportation 1300 01:24:40,398 --> 01:24:45,300 options on Route one, once this is built, it's built, and we 1301 01:24:45,300 --> 01:24:48,473 lose that opportunity. Thank you. Um, question to Mr. 1302 01:24:48,473 --> 01:24:52,100 Yang. I know you have been involved in organizing this 1303 01:24:52,100 --> 01:24:57,616 meeting on face2 and phase 3. how will this meeting will be 1304 01:24:57,616 --> 01:25:01,286 handled, is it there, I don't think there'll be any QA 1305 01:25:01,286 --> 01:25:04,423 session or anything or any presentation's going to be more 1306 01:25:04,423 --> 01:25:09,223 participatory, um, kind of roundtable, uh, discussions, uh, 1307 01:25:09,962 --> 01:25:12,964 and presentations by the engineers they're involved, 1308 01:25:12,964 --> 01:25:17,116 they'll have the, the sketches, the um draft 1309 01:25:17,116 --> 01:25:19,652 um. renderings of, of, of their 1310 01:25:19,652 --> 01:25:22,856 project engineering. I'm not sure at what um 1311 01:25:22,856 --> 01:25:25,992 percentage of engineering, they're presenting, uh, at that 1312 01:25:25,992 --> 01:25:28,994 meeting, but, uh, it'll be the first time I, I, I will have 1313 01:25:28,994 --> 01:25:33,466 seen it myself. Thank you. So, there'll be some sort of, uh, 1314 01:25:33,466 --> 01:25:37,700 way to get community input, uh, as part of the discussion. So 1315 01:25:37,700 --> 01:25:40,600 suddenly, uh, you're input will be very valuable. Yeah, that's 1316 01:25:40,600 --> 01:25:42,475 been part of the delay is really getting some of the 1317 01:25:42,475 --> 01:25:45,278 preliminary engineering, uh, completed so that they could at 1318 01:25:45,278 --> 01:25:48,347 least start the conversation and people would have a place 1319 01:25:48,347 --> 01:25:51,484 at which to start and to have the conversation as to what 1320 01:25:51,484 --> 01:25:53,180 improvements would be needed. Thank you. 1321 01:25:53,180 --> 01:25:59,180 I appreciate it. All right, um, so Steph and BPA. 1322 01:25:59,626 --> 01:26:03,763 I, I, I think you had quite a bit, um, um, I'm, I'm sure that 1323 01:26:03,763 --> 01:26:06,699 we'll be working on and coming back with a report or something, 1324 01:26:06,699 --> 01:26:12,172 so, and some of the projects are related to his complete 1325 01:26:12,172 --> 01:26:16,309 street projects and probably could be incorporated in the, 1326 01:26:16,309 --> 01:26:18,110 yeah. the CIP 1327 01:26:18,110 --> 01:26:21,848 and some of them like the bike rack, I don't think, you know, 1328 01:26:21,848 --> 01:26:25,719 they need a CAP that could be done by our maintenance budget, 1329 01:26:25,719 --> 01:26:29,189 public works maybe. Um, so it looks like the 1330 01:26:29,189 --> 01:26:33,460 council has a support for that. Uh, so please let us know how 1331 01:26:33,460 --> 01:26:37,330 can we support you, soundly, and please continue to, uh, 1332 01:26:37,330 --> 01:26:41,867 advise us. uh, the way you want to say 1333 01:26:41,867 --> 01:26:44,400 College Park more walkable and bikeable. 1334 01:26:44,400 --> 01:26:46,606 Thank you for your work. Appreciate it. 1335 01:26:46,606 --> 01:26:51,944 All right, let's go to the next presentation, which is about 1336 01:26:51,944 --> 01:26:54,814 the framework for strengthening property regulations through 1337 01:26:54,814 --> 01:26:59,618 licensing and to its included business and residential rental 1338 01:26:59,618 --> 01:27:04,418 and vacant property registries, short term rental oversight. 1339 01:27:04,491 --> 01:27:08,940 overcrowding enforcement and adoption of updated property 1340 01:27:08,940 --> 01:27:14,694 maintenance code. And this will be taken by our deputy city 1341 01:27:14,834 --> 01:27:16,636 manager. Good evening, Mayor and council. 1342 01:27:16,636 --> 01:27:18,571 Thank you. Hi, um, thank you for reading 1343 01:27:18,571 --> 01:27:21,841 all of that, Mayor. That was a, I made the longest title for 1344 01:27:21,841 --> 01:27:27,514 you ever and I apologize for that. Truly, so, um, thank you 1345 01:27:27,514 --> 01:27:31,650 again and um so toni tonight council, we're here, this is, 1346 01:27:31,650 --> 01:27:34,387 uh, so for the record, Michelle Billy Hedgepeth, deputy city 1347 01:27:34,387 --> 01:27:38,580 manager, um, I want to first acknowledge staff, um, I've got 1348 01:27:38,580 --> 01:27:42,862 to Tinder, Cookar our our Department of Public Services, 1349 01:27:42,862 --> 01:27:46,466 um, David Spalding's here. He's our code enforcement manager 1350 01:27:46,466 --> 01:27:48,802 and Derrek Davies, our code-enf f or ce ment supervisors in the 1351 01:27:48,802 --> 01:27:51,670 audience. Mr. Davis, please come forward. Yeah, Davies. 1352 01:27:51,670 --> 01:27:57,877 Come on come on. So, um, what we wanted to first just provide 1353 01:27:57,877 --> 01:28:00,880 some um an overview, uh, for the council kind of something 1354 01:28:00,880 --> 01:28:03,750 brief today to get us started because there's been so many 1355 01:28:03,750 --> 01:28:06,180 questions about code enforcement. What are, you know, 1356 01:28:06,180 --> 01:28:09,155 how are we working through some items? Where are we going? And 1357 01:28:09,155 --> 01:28:12,558 I think over my 1st 2.5, I guess, whatever, whatever I'm, 1358 01:28:12,558 --> 01:28:16,830 I don't even, I'm kind of lost about I about 2.5 or maybe 3 1359 01:28:16,830 --> 01:28:20,433 months, whatever we' ve been kind of working on some 1360 01:28:20,433 --> 01:28:23,970 ideas of things that need to be addressed. So what we did is 1361 01:28:23,970 --> 01:28:27,306 put together this framework as a way for the council to sort 1362 01:28:27,306 --> 01:28:30,710 of see where we are. So I'm not gonna read every 1363 01:28:30,710 --> 01:28:33,579 slide. I'm just gonna kind of acknowledge some things that we 1364 01:28:33,579 --> 01:28:36,916 all know that's going on. One, that this presentation will 1365 01:28:36,916 --> 01:28:40,253 then just summarize some of our challenges. Um, it'll start to 1366 01:28:40,253 --> 01:28:44,324 align where we go with code enforcement. Um, we'll provide 1367 01:28:44,324 --> 01:28:47,726 some refinements to what we're looking at for the regulatory 1368 01:28:47,726 --> 01:28:50,630 items like our like the International Property 1369 01:28:50,630 --> 01:28:53,833 Maintenance Code, um, outlined some coordinated next steps and 1370 01:28:53,833 --> 01:28:57,690 then just kind of establish this framework for the council 1371 01:28:57,690 --> 01:28:58,804 in a policy direction moving forward. 1372 01:28:58,804 --> 01:29:02,275 Um, what we wanted to kind of just kind of say is like we 1373 01:29:02,275 --> 01:29:04,878 understand and we get them all the time or what are the 1374 01:29:04,878 --> 01:29:08,481 recurring nuisances that the council sees that residents see 1375 01:29:08,481 --> 01:29:12,151 that are out there, um, you know, we see businesses 1376 01:29:12,151 --> 01:29:16,489 operating outside of the zone uses. There's noise, we get 1377 01:29:16,489 --> 01:29:19,492 overcrowded rentals, um, and then, um, 1378 01:29:19,492 --> 01:29:22,162 we've got a lot of, um, just a lot of news we have some 1379 01:29:22,162 --> 01:29:25,231 nuisance issues, parking, trash, all those kinds of things. 1380 01:29:25,231 --> 01:29:29,369 Because we're a university, we have transient issues. Um, we 1381 01:29:29,369 --> 01:29:32,772 have unauthorized uses, um, in our short term rentals like 1382 01:29:32,772 --> 01:29:38,430 yard events, um, and we, we're still trying to get our arms 1383 01:29:38,430 --> 01:29:41,470 around short-term uses or short-term rentals. I think the 1384 01:29:41,470 --> 01:29:44,517 rise of Airbnb sort of put this in the forefront for everybody. 1385 01:29:44,517 --> 01:29:49,255 So we, um, we did adopt a we adopt a, um, we adopted an 1386 01:29:49,255 --> 01:29:51,925 ordinance for it, but with everything else that's going on, 1387 01:29:51,925 --> 01:29:55,862 we're gonna, we need to really tighten that up and also put 1388 01:29:55,862 --> 01:29:57,396 that together. And then repeated 1389 01:29:57,396 --> 01:29:59,396 property maintenance violations. 1390 01:29:59,466 --> 01:30:03,690 Again, that same trash and litter and then um adjacent 1391 01:30:03,690 --> 01:30:05,805 Holmes, homeowners, and long-term residents that clash 1392 01:30:05,805 --> 01:30:09,750 that kind of happens and university towns. All right. 1393 01:30:09,750 --> 01:30:12,278 I'm always forgetting which one to do. All right. Next one. So 1394 01:30:12,278 --> 01:30:17,217 we did just a quick overview of the complaint process. Um, Mr. 1395 01:30:17,217 --> 01:30:19,619 um Cookar kind of like, and I love his notes because he's got 1396 01:30:19,619 --> 01:30:21,987 the best handwriting in the world. So he put together kind 1397 01:30:21,987 --> 01:30:26,426 of these great notes for me in regards to what, what happens 1398 01:30:26,426 --> 01:30:28,628 in a complaint. You know, we perform the research and assign 1399 01:30:28,628 --> 01:30:31,631 an officer We start to activate the case, 1400 01:30:31,631 --> 01:30:35,101 advise the the complaint of a case number and provide a staff 1401 01:30:35,101 --> 01:30:38,838 contact. We do that field inspection, and then we verify, 1402 01:30:38,838 --> 01:30:42,308 and then we have a decision point, you know, issue a code 1403 01:30:42,308 --> 01:30:45,644 enforcement finding or not, um. and then what we do is we 1404 01:30:45,644 --> 01:30:49,382 comply, we follow up through inspections and compliance and 1405 01:30:49,382 --> 01:30:52,685 then either that case is closed or it's moving on. 1406 01:30:52,685 --> 01:30:56,255 When I'm looking at like this whole idea of our notice of 1407 01:30:56,255 --> 01:30:59,592 violations and steps. We have the, you know, what we collect 1408 01:30:59,592 --> 01:31:03,595 on notice of violation. So when the RNR is a violations, these 1409 01:31:03,595 --> 01:31:06,732 are the things that we, that we see and then these are what, 1410 01:31:06,732 --> 01:31:09,935 what's part of a notice of violation when something occurs. 1411 01:31:09,935 --> 01:31:13,406 I'm going to just kind of go through um some of these issues 1412 01:31:13,406 --> 01:31:15,875 that and and then staff will be here to answer the questions 1413 01:31:15,875 --> 01:31:20,213 that, you know, to answer where we are, but 1414 01:31:20,213 --> 01:31:22,682 again, where are we? What are we doing and how are we going 1415 01:31:22,682 --> 01:31:25,217 to get there in these focus areas. 1416 01:31:25,217 --> 01:31:31,817 Um, in the area of the city businesses rental licenses, etc. 1417 01:31:32,105 --> 01:31:36,909 um, we're primarily, um, working through this whole idea 1418 01:31:36,909 --> 01:31:42,470 of permit or permitting so we have um occupancy permits and 1419 01:31:42,470 --> 01:31:45,184 most people usually kind of call them rental licenses. I 1420 01:31:45,184 --> 01:31:48,187 think we even call them rental licenses and business licenses, 1421 01:31:48,187 --> 01:31:52,792 but we, um, are really looking to move to make it more 1422 01:31:52,792 --> 01:31:56,620 more consistent in our in our nomenclature and also making 1423 01:31:56,620 --> 01:32:00,650 sure that we are kind of not calling them necessarily 1424 01:32:00,650 --> 01:32:03,535 occupancy permits because some people um 1425 01:32:03,535 --> 01:32:06,405 have occupants believe their occupancy perm are the same as 1426 01:32:06,405 --> 01:32:09,808 the state, I mean sorry, the county has an occupancy permit, 1427 01:32:09,808 --> 01:32:12,812 and when they get an occupancy permit from the from the county, 1428 01:32:12,812 --> 01:32:16,749 they think that they don't need one when they come to the city 1429 01:32:16,749 --> 01:32:21,954 of College Park and it's not a, it's not right, but, um, it's 1430 01:32:21,954 --> 01:32:23,823 an issue that we've kind of find all the time. We were like, 1431 01:32:23,823 --> 01:32:26,959 well, I've gone to this, the county, and it should be the 1432 01:32:26,959 --> 01:32:31,230 same thing. You have to have the occupancy permit, and we're 1433 01:32:31,230 --> 01:32:33,565 not saying that we're going to change our process 1434 01:32:33,565 --> 01:32:35,568 a great deal about what we're going to inspect or what we're 1435 01:32:35,568 --> 01:32:39,171 going to look at, but we are still going to maintain the 1436 01:32:39,171 --> 01:32:42,175 fact that we need to have, um, we're gonna have the pretty 1437 01:32:42,175 --> 01:32:47,113 much the same idea. The next thing we found is our 1438 01:32:47,113 --> 01:32:51,184 um our code enforcement software, um, even today, and 1439 01:32:51,184 --> 01:32:55,540 our ability to answer things in a, in a, a really coherent way. 1440 01:32:55,540 --> 01:32:57,523 It's not great. Uh, we've had, we've had an experiment with 1441 01:32:57,523 --> 01:33:03,262 the cello over the last 2.5, last 3 or 4 years. Um, no, um, 1442 01:33:03,262 --> 01:33:08,334 no, no knock on a cellar, but totally knock on aa that um it 1443 01:33:08,334 --> 01:33:12,605 hasn't been what we expected, um, and we use our GoGov, which 1444 01:33:12,605 --> 01:33:14,940 is a separate process that what the um Department of 1445 01:33:14,940 --> 01:33:19,679 Public Works has been using and we'd like to move to GoGov, um, 1446 01:33:19,679 --> 01:33:22,481 in regards to your code enforcement. So we are working 1447 01:33:22,481 --> 01:33:25,217 through that module and we'll have some timelines, but what 1448 01:33:25,217 --> 01:33:27,820 we're hoping to do is we, we're going to enter into that this 1449 01:33:27,820 --> 01:33:32,910 summer, get it completed by the end of the summer and then stop 1450 01:33:32,910 --> 01:33:35,494 and start implementing through GoGov, which will allow us to 1451 01:33:35,494 --> 01:33:39,565 do a lot of the things, um, mobilely. I mean, I hate to 1452 01:33:39,565 --> 01:33:45,104 kind of to expose all of our secrets, but it's hard 1453 01:33:45,104 --> 01:33:48,641 um, for our employees to, um, they don't do our everything 1454 01:33:48,641 --> 01:33:51,444 mobilely. They have to come back to the office, download 1455 01:33:51,444 --> 01:33:55,314 photos and coming back and forth. And so you would think 1456 01:33:55,314 --> 01:33:57,450 that their jobs should mostly mobile, and it's really not at 1457 01:33:57,450 --> 01:34:00,586 this point. Um, in our parking, it is, but for our code 1458 01:34:00,586 --> 01:34:05,257 enforcement, it isn't. And so getting those processes, we 1459 01:34:05,257 --> 01:34:07,926 streamlined and putting them together in a way that really 1460 01:34:07,926 --> 01:34:10,630 works efficiently and effectively. It's something 1461 01:34:10,630 --> 01:34:12,331 that we'll be working on this summer. 1462 01:34:12,331 --> 01:34:15,334 All right So again, this is the whole 1463 01:34:15,334 --> 01:34:19,672 idea of the transitioning to licensing. Um, again, defining 1464 01:34:19,672 --> 01:34:23,609 the regula like regularly activities, reducing that 1465 01:34:23,609 --> 01:34:26,278 confusion, improving the tracking and the responsible 1466 01:34:26,278 --> 01:34:29,882 priorities, um, and then, you know, basically aligning our 1467 01:34:29,882 --> 01:34:32,818 enforcement tools across rentals, short-term rental, 1468 01:34:32,818 --> 01:34:35,870 non-residential, and the vacant property. 1469 01:34:35,870 --> 01:34:39,492 Um, we've passed an, a lot of ordinances recently. We've got 1470 01:34:39,492 --> 01:34:43,696 the, um, vacant property ordinance. We have the short 1471 01:34:43,696 --> 01:34:47,330 term rental property, and we also have the early lease 1472 01:34:47,330 --> 01:34:49,568 option. The early lease, which we're all working on 1473 01:34:49,568 --> 01:34:51,637 simultaneously and I don't even have early lease in here. 1474 01:34:51,637 --> 01:34:53,973 You'll have a separate thing while I'll just talk about 1475 01:34:53,973 --> 01:34:58,978 early lease, um, but those are all sort of, those are all um 1476 01:34:58,978 --> 01:35:02,382 uh enforced by our code enforcement officers. Um, and 1477 01:35:02,382 --> 01:35:06,520 so right now we are trying to make sure they're all aligned 1478 01:35:06,520 --> 01:35:08,988 and they're all in their individual buckets. And what a 1479 01:35:08,988 --> 01:35:13,459 lot of this is, is sorting and placing and sorting and placing 1480 01:35:13,459 --> 01:35:16,929 for you all to understand where everything is. Um, what we're 1481 01:35:16,929 --> 01:35:19,932 proposing is that we're gonna regulate it as our rental 1482 01:35:19,932 --> 01:35:23,869 license, our business license, a distinct short-term rental 1483 01:35:23,869 --> 01:35:26,472 license, a vacant property license aligned with the 1484 01:35:26,472 --> 01:35:28,941 registry. That's part of the ordinance. And then 1485 01:35:28,941 --> 01:35:34,120 licenses that are in Chapter 129, which are special licenses 1486 01:35:34,120 --> 01:35:36,682 and Sharon has explained to me what all these are, but I will, 1487 01:35:36,682 --> 01:35:40,860 I will depend on, um, Derek and them to answer those 1488 01:35:40,860 --> 01:35:44,357 extensively for you. Um, lastly, on the last ones is 1489 01:35:44,357 --> 01:35:46,250 about going to the short-term rental. 1490 01:35:46,250 --> 01:35:50,830 Um, some of the issues is that we said, the boom of Airbnb 1491 01:35:50,830 --> 01:35:53,232 kind of caused these short-term bundles to pop up, and I know 1492 01:35:53,232 --> 01:35:55,901 that a couple of the council members have, um, have, have 1493 01:35:55,901 --> 01:35:59,105 alerted us, and we, we know they're out there and they've 1494 01:35:59,105 --> 01:36:01,574 been operating. And a lot of questions have been asked like, 1495 01:36:01,574 --> 01:36:06,112 well, I can't, can staff go on and, you know, basically go on 1496 01:36:06,112 --> 01:36:08,114 to Airbnb and just kind of figure out where they are, 1497 01:36:08,114 --> 01:36:11,584 which I'd love to have the time to do that, but what I'm hoping 1498 01:36:11,584 --> 01:36:14,520 is maybe something that we can figure out through AI or 1499 01:36:14,520 --> 01:36:17,189 figuring out to be able to track these better 1500 01:36:17,189 --> 01:36:20,126 um, is a better response for us than probably looking through 1501 01:36:20,126 --> 01:36:25,397 Airbnb every day to see who and what, but we will use it as a 1502 01:36:25,397 --> 01:36:28,968 resource when we see, you know, when they're reported to see 1503 01:36:28,968 --> 01:36:34,473 how they're listed. Um, but beyond just that normal um 1504 01:36:34,473 --> 01:36:38,410 short-term rental, we also have these special event and party 1505 01:36:38,410 --> 01:36:42,748 houses and outdoor areas and pools that extend beyond that 1506 01:36:42,748 --> 01:36:46,886 typical family and vacation rentals. So that's where the 1507 01:36:46,886 --> 01:36:49,154 issues are. The issue of overcrowding, I 1508 01:36:49,154 --> 01:36:54,426 wanted to do a quick, um, slide on that. Overcrowding itself is 1509 01:36:54,426 --> 01:36:58,497 something that has been a pain, I would say I guess of the code 1510 01:36:58,497 --> 01:37:01,534 enforce its existence and even the council's existence from 1511 01:37:01,534 --> 01:37:05,104 the standpoint of identifying it properly, understanding 1512 01:37:05,104 --> 01:37:09,508 where it's occurring and being able to coordinate, you know, 1513 01:37:09,508 --> 01:37:12,578 an effective enforcement, you know, a lot of times it takes 1514 01:37:12,578 --> 01:37:16,381 working with um our parking enforcement. It's how it takes 1515 01:37:16,381 --> 01:37:18,183 looking at trash and working with public works. 1516 01:37:18,183 --> 01:37:21,720 and you know doing that and Jacob Basilotti, I'd have to 1517 01:37:21,720 --> 01:37:24,923 give him his shoutouts today that he's done a really good 1518 01:37:24,923 --> 01:37:29,928 job with a project when we look at looking at where the um 1519 01:37:29,928 --> 01:37:35,000 garbage cans are. And so he's actually he's and uh um they've 1520 01:37:35,000 --> 01:37:37,214 they've got they've done a, it's like it's amazing how 1521 01:37:37,214 --> 01:37:40,418 they're tracking where the tra the trash cans are that will 1522 01:37:40,418 --> 01:37:44,688 help us to understand where we're where we're seeing this 1523 01:37:44,688 --> 01:37:47,225 issue. So we're starting to get the data and since they have 1524 01:37:47,225 --> 01:37:49,627 GoGov and we have GoGov, that can all 1525 01:37:49,627 --> 01:37:52,897 overlap together, which is going to be helpful to us. 1526 01:37:52,897 --> 01:37:55,700 So here's our proposed timeline. 1527 01:37:55,700 --> 01:37:59,103 So implementing of GOGA would be the again, the summer of 1528 01:37:59,103 --> 01:38:03,174 2026, we're looking to purchase the program. I think we've 1529 01:38:03,174 --> 01:38:07,111 finally purchased it in the last couple of days. So that's 1530 01:38:07,111 --> 01:38:10,715 done and programming, it will take another month or two to 1531 01:38:10,715 --> 01:38:14,718 get it together. Staff has been working really hard on that and 1532 01:38:14,718 --> 01:38:17,655 really putting together those processes. I'd also like to 1533 01:38:17,655 --> 01:38:21,926 thank, um, to Tinder and the and actually the code team. Um, 1534 01:38:21,926 --> 01:38:24,328 there's several days and nights when I'm walking around here 1535 01:38:24,328 --> 01:38:26,731 and they're still here working on the policies and 1536 01:38:26,731 --> 01:38:30,601 procedures that we've been revising and aligning so that 1537 01:38:30,601 --> 01:38:35,473 when we use GoGov, it's correct. It matches our code, it matches 1538 01:38:35,473 --> 01:38:38,943 as our operations. And so over the last few months, we've been 1539 01:38:38,943 --> 01:38:42,413 really working on one of our processes and what our policies. 1540 01:38:42,413 --> 01:38:46,617 And then the next step would be developing a comprehensive 1541 01:38:46,617 --> 01:38:49,620 licensing framework. Um, the Code of amendments that we'll 1542 01:38:49,620 --> 01:38:54,910 be working on, and I'm going to overwhelm probably poor 1543 01:38:54,910 --> 01:38:56,627 Stephanie, our our city attorney on this as well. 1544 01:38:56,627 --> 01:39:00,898 is working through our code and um looking at that for the 1545 01:39:00,898 --> 01:39:04,435 standpoint of our IM of the IMPC and making sure that we're 1546 01:39:04,435 --> 01:39:07,238 aligning that to our licensing structure and we believe that 1547 01:39:07,238 --> 01:39:10,307 that should occur through August through November, August 1548 01:39:10,307 --> 01:39:14,779 through November of 2026. Um, we're also right now 1549 01:39:14,779 --> 01:39:17,114 implementing a new code enforcement standards and 1550 01:39:17,114 --> 01:39:19,583 operating procedures. It's kind of backwards. I have this 1551 01:39:19,583 --> 01:39:22,353 listed, um, which is going on right now in theta, as I 1552 01:39:22,353 --> 01:39:25,890 mentioned, the staff is working through that, which is in July. 1553 01:39:25,890 --> 01:39:28,590 Um, which should be completed in July. Um, we're doing 1554 01:39:28,590 --> 01:39:30,928 training with our staff, which the first set of training is 1555 01:39:30,928 --> 01:39:34,265 actually in the next 2 weeks, and we will continue to train 1556 01:39:34,265 --> 01:39:37,735 our code enforcement staff throughout the summer on both 1557 01:39:37,735 --> 01:39:40,938 the launch and also this change in our framework. 1558 01:39:40,938 --> 01:39:45,476 And then the public launch will happen this fall to the winter, 1559 01:39:45,476 --> 01:39:48,146 depending on how we, how the implementation of some of the 1560 01:39:48,146 --> 01:39:50,546 code changes happen. Um 1561 01:39:51,482 --> 01:39:55,353 we are reviewing, um, the fees and costs. We've got some 1562 01:39:55,353 --> 01:39:58,356 information that we provide some initial information that 1563 01:39:58,356 --> 01:40:01,292 you will see from us and that item will be presented this 1564 01:40:01,292 --> 01:40:05,563 fall, um, and probably fall to winter, which I like to not 1565 01:40:05,563 --> 01:40:10,501 give box myself in too much and then hopefully we can get an 1566 01:40:10,501 --> 01:40:13,501 adoption of the 2021 International Property 1567 01:40:13,504 --> 01:40:16,440 Maintenance Code. And why aren't we adopting, let's say 1568 01:40:16,440 --> 01:40:20,244 the 2026 or 2024, um, the county, I believe is still on 1569 01:40:20,244 --> 01:40:23,314 2021, um, and it's got one of those things 1570 01:40:23,314 --> 01:40:25,916 that you kind of take a little bit more gradually than just 1571 01:40:25,916 --> 01:40:28,585 doing the latest and greatest. So just in case you get that 1572 01:40:28,585 --> 01:40:30,788 question, like, why aren't you doing the new one? Because this 1573 01:40:30,788 --> 01:40:34,658 is much newer than the one we have. So 1574 01:40:34,658 --> 01:40:37,328 I'm here for questions and staff's here. Thank you. Thank 1575 01:40:37,328 --> 01:40:41,265 you so much. I have a couple of questions if I may ask, very 1576 01:40:41,265 --> 01:40:45,803 quick ones. Um the, I, I, I think you 1577 01:40:45,803 --> 01:40:50,603 mentioned the public works ceases go go and. 1578 01:40:51,800 --> 01:40:56,814 and public services yes DPS is Asala, am I correct? That is 1579 01:40:56,814 --> 01:40:58,950 correct, Mayor. Yeah, we've been using Acela for our 1580 01:40:58,950 --> 01:41:03,150 licensing, um, since about 2021, 22 or 2020, 2020, excuse me, 1581 01:41:06,891 --> 01:41:11,496 it's 2020. So when, when residents like us, uh, we use 1582 01:41:11,496 --> 01:41:17,368 the, the uh interface, the Collegeber Connect, or tell us, 1583 01:41:17,368 --> 01:41:20,838 um, what those those requests go to the CRM, which are the 1584 01:41:20,838 --> 01:41:23,400 customer service ones go through GoGov, 1585 01:41:23,400 --> 01:41:26,711 but the licensing and all those are going through. We are, we 1586 01:41:26,711 --> 01:41:29,847 are duplicating that in the cellar, so they're duplicated, 1587 01:41:29,847 --> 01:41:32,183 OK. Yeah. So that's why the process is. They're two 1588 01:41:32,183 --> 01:41:34,585 separate streams and my and staff is nodding so I'm getting 1589 01:41:34,585 --> 01:41:36,988 it right. So they're two separate streams. Uh, that's, 1590 01:41:36,988 --> 01:41:40,124 that's not the most efficient, uh, doing business. So I, that 1591 01:41:40,124 --> 01:41:42,794 makes sense that uh if you could use the same system. 1592 01:41:42,794 --> 01:41:48,132 Thank you. Totally agree. Um, 11 other thing as we've been 1593 01:41:48,132 --> 01:41:51,100 attending different conferences and the meetings, so we have 1594 01:41:51,100 --> 01:41:54,138 been seeing. uh more and more um cities and 1595 01:41:54,138 --> 01:41:59,538 towns and even counties, there have been adopting, um, 1596 01:42:00,410 --> 01:42:05,282 AI-driven software to do the initial screening. I'm not 1597 01:42:05,282 --> 01:42:08,151 talking about the review. I'm talking about the initial 1598 01:42:08,151 --> 01:42:11,555 screening, did you. the when someone submits the 1599 01:42:11,555 --> 01:42:15,492 forms and associated documents, the AI could be very helpful in 1600 01:42:15,492 --> 01:42:19,362 the software um to do the initial pass, um, is there 1601 01:42:19,362 --> 01:42:23,768 something, um, go go or Acea or any other software could uh 1602 01:42:23,768 --> 01:42:26,703 support. Yeah, I can speak to, uh, this 1603 01:42:26,703 --> 01:42:31,909 mayor. I think AI and machine learning, that process has been 1604 01:42:31,909 --> 01:42:34,845 used in building plan review process for new construction 1605 01:42:34,845 --> 01:42:38,916 aspect of things. And even in that it's still in the early 1606 01:42:38,916 --> 01:42:42,987 stages of implementation in the country. There are some, uh, 1607 01:42:42,987 --> 01:42:46,123 you know, big organizations who have, uh, started to, you know, 1608 01:42:46,123 --> 01:42:48,992 think through that, but there are still many challenges and 1609 01:42:48,992 --> 01:42:54,131 they are in terms of QAQC and other aspects of the operation. 1610 01:42:54,131 --> 01:42:57,801 As far as this, uh, uh, I think Accella 1611 01:42:57,801 --> 01:43:01,272 and GoGov, uh, uh, they don't talk to each other very well, 1612 01:43:01,272 --> 01:43:05,476 and, uh, uh, you know, we have had challenges in the Xala 1613 01:43:05,476 --> 01:43:09,279 implementation, how it was sold to us and how it was 1614 01:43:09,279 --> 01:43:15,352 implemented, so we probably had a lot of interfacing and uh the 1615 01:43:15,352 --> 01:43:20,900 software's working together for the, uh, effectiveness and uh 1616 01:43:20,900 --> 01:43:23,494 streamlining and efficiency part of our operation. What we 1617 01:43:23,494 --> 01:43:27,565 have realized, we imple ment ed uh CRM in the later 1618 01:43:27,565 --> 01:43:31,101 part of 24, and we are really doing well, and that is helping 1619 01:43:31,101 --> 01:43:36,307 us, but I think since, uh, you know, our licensing and 1620 01:43:36,307 --> 01:43:40,311 permitting aspects in our system is through Excella. So 1621 01:43:40,311 --> 01:43:43,247 in many cases we are duplicating a lot of things, 1622 01:43:43,247 --> 01:43:47,594 and sometime in Aksala there are some inherent, uh, you know, 1623 01:43:47,594 --> 01:43:50,932 automation functions which are not implemented correctly when 1624 01:43:50,932 --> 01:43:54,469 we bought the software as itself, uh, we are just working 1625 01:43:54,469 --> 01:43:57,138 through those phases and, uh, we have 1626 01:43:57,138 --> 01:44:01,542 recently kind of uh, uh, you know, uh, signed an agreement 1627 01:44:01,542 --> 01:44:07,140 with uh GoGov to move on to the licensing and permitting aspect 1628 01:44:07,140 --> 01:44:11,419 so that uh the same kind of software is used all across the 1629 01:44:11,419 --> 01:44:16,900 organization like DPW was you know, permitting and 1630 01:44:16,900 --> 01:44:20,228 licensing aspects all on the same, you know, like portal. 1631 01:44:20,228 --> 01:44:24,899 it'll streamline the efficiency, streamline the information flow 1632 01:44:24,899 --> 01:44:28,350 to the public internally as well as externally. 1633 01:44:28,350 --> 01:44:30,772 Thank you. I appreciate that. I'm, I'm suddenly took their 1634 01:44:30,772 --> 01:44:35,109 right initiative by the steps to streamline the two softwas 1635 01:44:35,109 --> 01:44:38,450 into one. Thank you. All right, um, let's see. I see a couple 1636 01:44:38,450 --> 01:44:41,248 of hands, starting with Councilor Hu and then Councilor 1637 01:44:41,248 --> 01:44:44,520 Hernandez. Uh, yes, thank you. I, I'm just 1638 01:44:44,520 --> 01:44:49,590 curious, what is the process for, you know, an individual to, 1639 01:44:49,590 --> 01:44:56,397 to register a uh rental, you know, it is a totally volunteer 1640 01:44:56,397 --> 01:45:01,602 volunteer or um. is it uh something that staff 1641 01:45:01,602 --> 01:45:05,539 you know. um intervenes on how, how is it 1642 01:45:05,539 --> 01:45:10,277 that, uh, a rental is declared cause I, I just reported, um, I 1643 01:45:10,277 --> 01:45:14,214 guess today, um, that the house went for sale. I had sold and 1644 01:45:14,214 --> 01:45:19,954 now it's a ferreent sign is up. So as new homes get sold, um, 1645 01:45:19,954 --> 01:45:24,625 you know, there's a high ratio of homes that are, are bought 1646 01:45:24,625 --> 01:45:28,896 in this city, get turned into rentals. So what's, what's the 1647 01:45:28,896 --> 01:45:32,496 process for following up on that? 1648 01:45:34,234 --> 01:45:39,340 Yes, um we try to track all the 1649 01:45:39,373 --> 01:45:41,642 properties that are sold in College Park and we'll reach 1650 01:45:41,642 --> 01:45:45,712 out to the new owner. We'll take down that information and 1651 01:45:45,712 --> 01:45:50,518 then we will issue an invoice or a letter to the new owner, 1652 01:45:50,518 --> 01:45:53,321 uh, talking about the rules of renting a College Park and how 1653 01:45:53,321 --> 01:45:56,190 to apply. We'll send them a leak on how to apply for rental 1654 01:45:56,190 --> 01:45:58,326 and we'll follow up with that as well. 1655 01:45:58,326 --> 01:46:01,529 But as far as volunteer, a lot of times that they buy in 1656 01:46:01,529 --> 01:46:03,664 College Park, they're not aware that they need to get a rental 1657 01:46:03,664 --> 01:46:05,664 license. um 1658 01:46:06,600 --> 01:46:08,600 Oh. so 1659 01:46:09,537 --> 01:46:11,937 Oh. OK. And um 1660 01:46:14,208 --> 01:46:16,208 and how 1661 01:46:17,545 --> 01:46:23,150 I, I know that when, when I'm out there campaigning and I, 1662 01:46:23,150 --> 01:46:25,486 I'll be talking to residents and they'll be, you know, 1663 01:46:25,486 --> 01:46:30,230 saying that there's all these unregistered, um, no. 1664 01:46:30,230 --> 01:46:33,230 uh rentals that, uh, we 1665 01:46:33,427 --> 01:46:36,964 are maybe aware of, not aware of 1666 01:46:36,964 --> 01:46:40,501 that, you know, it has not been followed up on that they've 1667 01:46:40,501 --> 01:46:43,170 complained about um, you know, what, what, 1668 01:46:43,170 --> 01:46:47,508 what's, how can we help? fix that situation when we're 1669 01:46:47,508 --> 01:46:50,611 told about this. I think Councilman, what you know what 1670 01:46:50,611 --> 01:46:53,848 you did when you submit through, let's say go, like when you 1671 01:46:53,848 --> 01:46:56,651 submitted it to us, we actually are going to put that we put 1672 01:46:56,651 --> 01:47:00,121 that into GoGov and we do that. So we take, I think 1673 01:47:00,121 --> 01:47:04,192 it's a multi-pronged approach, right? It's the enforcement 1674 01:47:04,192 --> 01:47:06,927 through the fact that we're we're, you know, we're we're 1675 01:47:06,927 --> 01:47:11,332 sending it as the things get sold. We're following up with 1676 01:47:11,332 --> 01:47:14,868 on complaints. I mean, it's complaint driven. It's it's 1677 01:47:14,868 --> 01:47:18,605 process driven. It's like, you know, we're going to have to do 1678 01:47:18,605 --> 01:47:21,609 multiple hits. So it's not perfect, and I think the other 1679 01:47:21,609 --> 01:47:24,278 part, what we're also looking at, we also look at previous 1680 01:47:24,278 --> 01:47:27,748 databases and we look at that homes that have been um 1681 01:47:27,748 --> 01:47:29,816 historically rented, right, Derek? I mean, do you want to 1682 01:47:29,816 --> 01:47:32,190 talk a little bit about like, so we we do 1683 01:47:32,190 --> 01:47:37,224 have an idea of houses that are traditionally have been rentals, 1684 01:47:37,224 --> 01:47:39,427 and we have a list that we follow up on that, but the 1685 01:47:39,427 --> 01:47:44,164 issue that we've had with the cella is that every year we 1686 01:47:44,164 --> 01:47:48,101 create a brand new license, and that license is not necessarily 1687 01:47:48,101 --> 01:47:53,441 linked to the old license, and so we have all of these files 1688 01:47:53,441 --> 01:47:57,511 that are not connected, and we've got to then connect the 1689 01:47:57,511 --> 01:48:00,981 different um files together and so part of it has been 1690 01:48:00,981 --> 01:48:04,185 very hard in our tracking, and we're hoping that with the new 1691 01:48:04,185 --> 01:48:09,323 system that this some of these um inefficiencies will be 1692 01:48:09,323 --> 01:48:12,793 corrected, but I think the one good thing is that our staff 1693 01:48:12,793 --> 01:48:16,463 themselves does have a good idea before we had a cella with 1694 01:48:16,463 --> 01:48:18,866 our old program um, and I don't know, I'll just 1695 01:48:18,866 --> 01:48:20,934 let you guys talk to that. So let me, let me stop talking and 1696 01:48:20,934 --> 01:48:23,334 let you talk. So 1697 01:48:24,710 --> 01:48:26,941 So a lot of y'all that have been around for a while, 1698 01:48:26,941 --> 01:48:31,412 remember the old green screens, the legacy system, they have 1699 01:48:31,412 --> 01:48:36,416 400. They would alert us that system would alert every time a 1700 01:48:36,416 --> 01:48:40,721 property came up for renewal for an annual permit. 1701 01:48:40,721 --> 01:48:44,291 The Ocea is not alerting us. Um, so we basically have to 1702 01:48:44,291 --> 01:48:48,695 manually go in to find what is being expired or it's getting 1703 01:48:48,695 --> 01:48:51,899 ready to expire. Sometimes it's slipping through the cracks, 1704 01:48:51,899 --> 01:48:55,635 trying to get that, um, so we're looking forward to going 1705 01:48:55,635 --> 01:49:00,374 to GoGov to be able to have that and also email 1706 01:49:00,374 --> 01:49:03,711 notifications as well, the old system would give out an email 1707 01:49:03,711 --> 01:49:06,446 notification to a property owner saying, you're, your 1708 01:49:06,446 --> 01:49:09,183 permit's gonna expire in 30 days. It's time to re-up. It's 1709 01:49:09,183 --> 01:49:11,251 time to renew. We're not finding that right 1710 01:49:11,251 --> 01:49:14,540 now with, with our system, so we're looking forward to that 1711 01:49:14,540 --> 01:49:18,854 as well. Thank you and lastly, um, I, 1712 01:49:19,590 --> 01:49:24,732 when I attend the um National League of Cities in their expo 1713 01:49:24,732 --> 01:49:28,269 uh hall. I'm not sure if you'll be there at MML. I hope they 1714 01:49:28,269 --> 01:49:33,140 will be, but there is a vendor who will 1715 01:49:33,140 --> 01:49:37,745 utilize all the online services like uh for for short term 1716 01:49:37,745 --> 01:49:42,416 rentals, like, you know, uh, Airb Airbnb and Purple and all 1717 01:49:42,416 --> 01:49:47,210 that to, to give us a profile of all the um short term 1718 01:49:47,210 --> 01:49:50,825 rentals that are operating within our city, uh, you know, 1719 01:49:50,825 --> 01:49:53,894 the hunt that stuff down and provide that information, so 1720 01:49:53,894 --> 01:49:56,302 this might be initially something we might want to 1721 01:49:56,302 --> 01:49:59,571 consider to get a baseline, uh, of the short term rentals in 1722 01:49:59,571 --> 01:50:01,974 our city. I appreciate that and we can 1723 01:50:01,974 --> 01:50:06,779 look that up. That's thank you. Yeah, please connect uh offline, 1724 01:50:06,779 --> 01:50:10,383 please. Thank you. Uh council member Hernandez and Councilor 1725 01:50:10,383 --> 01:50:13,186 Arts after that and then Councilor Mitchell. 1726 01:50:13,186 --> 01:50:16,722 So first and foremost, I'm supportive of, of us like 1727 01:50:16,722 --> 01:50:21,260 transitioning entirely to GoGov from just uh a standardization 1728 01:50:21,260 --> 01:50:24,864 perspective. What I found useful is, you know, that's. 1729 01:50:24,864 --> 01:50:29,602 it's easier and easier to sell to to residents to submit their 1730 01:50:29,602 --> 01:50:34,730 own complaints. Um, one of the things as a council member, if, 1731 01:50:34,730 --> 01:50:37,677 if it's possible for us to, I don't know if you can, but like 1732 01:50:37,677 --> 01:50:41,748 for us to be able to track some of the, some of the items 1733 01:50:41,748 --> 01:50:45,170 because otherwise we're kind of just repeating the same 1734 01:50:45,170 --> 01:50:47,860 submissions. I don't know if that's a growth opportunity 1735 01:50:47,860 --> 01:50:52,910 that we can do, um, but I think that would be helpful and also 1736 01:50:52,910 --> 01:50:54,426 helpful for us to be able to follow up with our residents 1737 01:50:54,426 --> 01:50:56,162 and says, hey, that proper ty ' s already been submitted, 1738 01:50:56,162 --> 01:50:59,980 like they're working on it and we can track it. Otherwise, 1739 01:50:59,980 --> 01:51:01,901 it's us submitting it in addition to our residents. So 1740 01:51:01,901 --> 01:51:04,971 any, any efforts to try to optimize it, it's fantastic. 1741 01:51:04,971 --> 01:51:09,442 I'll say when it comes to some of the other more lofty uh 1742 01:51:09,442 --> 01:51:13,446 frameworks that we're proposing, uh, it's, it's gonna be a lot. 1743 01:51:13,446 --> 01:51:16,249 It's gonna be a lot. I know that we've worked on the vacant 1744 01:51:16,249 --> 01:51:18,784 and blinded property tax in the previous council. I think it's 1745 01:51:18,784 --> 01:51:23,522 really, really important that we do that, especially with the 1746 01:51:23,522 --> 01:51:27,660 commercial properties across the city, uh, and some that are 1747 01:51:27,660 --> 01:51:32,932 just chrono like chrono or chronically uh just mm, I don't 1748 01:51:32,932 --> 01:51:37,690 know, uh, operating out of bad faith, I really don't know, uh, 1749 01:51:37,690 --> 01:51:40,806 so early intervention is more effective and less costly than 1750 01:51:40,806 --> 01:51:43,743 adjusting the long-term deterioration that we've seen 1751 01:51:43,743 --> 01:51:48,543 in uh some of our communities. I'm wondering 1752 01:51:48,681 --> 01:51:53,219 I'm wondering if when we do launch these different 1753 01:51:53,219 --> 01:51:56,889 ordinances that we, we possibly work across some of the 1754 01:51:56,889 --> 01:51:59,959 departments, right? Code enforcement and public services 1755 01:51:59,959 --> 01:52:03,695 has a, has a really important role in enforcing 1756 01:52:03,695 --> 01:52:06,999 efforts, but we have other departments, let's just say if 1757 01:52:06,999 --> 01:52:10,502 we're talking about commercial sectors, to work hand in hand 1758 01:52:10,502 --> 01:52:14,507 with economic development, work hand in hand with uh 1759 01:52:14,507 --> 01:52:18,177 some of the other departments that may be able to assist, 1760 01:52:18,177 --> 01:52:22,782 perhaps planning, uh, as you do these targeted areas. Uh, I'm 1761 01:52:22,782 --> 01:52:25,551 specifically focused right now on Edgewood and Rhode Island 1762 01:52:25,551 --> 01:52:32,124 and in the future, uh, Route one north of north of Maryland 1763 01:52:32,124 --> 01:52:35,600 193. There are a lot of businesses there that operate, 1764 01:52:35,600 --> 01:52:39,532 um, and when you just see the consistency of, of broken code. 1765 01:52:39,532 --> 01:52:43,869 I mean, you'll see the yard's out of place, the, uh, what's 1766 01:52:43,869 --> 01:52:45,938 it called? Uh, smoke shops that just 1767 01:52:45,938 --> 01:52:49,942 continue to pop up like, like just a bad weed, uh, and I'm 1768 01:52:49,942 --> 01:52:54,347 not really sure if they have licenses, but I don't know the 1769 01:52:54,347 --> 01:52:57,149 operational tempo that code enforcement is doing this. I'm 1770 01:52:57,149 --> 01:53:00,686 hoping that this serves like this, the standardization 1771 01:53:00,686 --> 01:53:04,890 serves as an like a, a trackable, measurable 1772 01:53:04,890 --> 01:53:08,627 effort for us to be able to to go after some of these long 1773 01:53:08,627 --> 01:53:12,498 term issues. Um, on the short term rental, just one, just one 1774 01:53:12,498 --> 01:53:15,300 comment. Uh, one of the issues that I've seen, at least 1775 01:53:15,300 --> 01:53:22,441 through one of the short term rentals in our district is a 1776 01:53:22,441 --> 01:53:28,113 lack of ability to enforce. Do we need ordinances in place 1777 01:53:28,113 --> 01:53:31,917 to be able to enforce some of the ordinances that we have 1778 01:53:31,917 --> 01:53:36,322 currently. in order for you all to be able 1779 01:53:36,322 --> 01:53:42,261 to address those issues. We need a process and we need a 1780 01:53:42,261 --> 01:53:45,797 license that allows us to, um, we have the ordinance in place 1781 01:53:45,797 --> 01:53:50,690 and I think, and I believe that we have the fine structure in 1782 01:53:50,690 --> 01:53:54,406 order to do it. We just need the operational, um. 1783 01:53:54,406 --> 01:53:56,876 so that someone can get our license. Does that make sense? 1784 01:53:56,876 --> 01:53:59,478 because the county license exists and Jatender please take 1785 01:53:59,478 --> 01:54:02,681 it on from there. Uh, I think Council member 1786 01:54:02,681 --> 01:54:06,552 Hernandez, you make a great point. Uh, one of the reasons, 1787 01:54:06,552 --> 01:54:10,220 uh, why we are switching our licensing, you know, from 1788 01:54:10,220 --> 01:54:15,940 Excella to Goavis. We want all that database within one system 1789 01:54:15,940 --> 01:54:19,498 and I will give you one example. I think we implemented, you 1790 01:54:19,498 --> 01:54:23,969 know, trash fees recently, and we were trying to implement 1791 01:54:23,969 --> 01:54:27,906 that in our Exceler software, but they were like they were 1792 01:54:27,906 --> 01:54:31,177 not avenues to generate billing within that, uh, 1793 01:54:31,177 --> 01:54:34,980 whereas, you know, like, uh, uh, when we talk to the Goga people 1794 01:54:34,980 --> 01:54:41,187 to implement that, they are just creating that. And as uh 1795 01:54:41,187 --> 01:54:45,560 Michelle has indicated earlier in her presentation that uh uh 1796 01:54:45,560 --> 01:54:49,195 we basically have rental property database. We got 1797 01:54:49,195 --> 01:54:53,599 business license database and then we got uh vacant property 1798 01:54:53,599 --> 01:54:57,200 registry, and then, uh, we're gonna be doing, uh, you know, 1799 01:54:57,200 --> 01:55:00,405 like any uh enforcement issues. They are all going to be in one 1800 01:55:00,405 --> 01:55:04,760 software talking to each other, and then also 1801 01:55:04,760 --> 01:55:06,946 all the transitional information that is also being 1802 01:55:06,946 --> 01:55:10,483 used by public works that is also going to be all in that as 1803 01:55:10,483 --> 01:55:14,486 well. So that will definitely enhance the streamlining and 1804 01:55:14,486 --> 01:55:17,289 the systems are easily talking to each other. So, you know, 1805 01:55:17,289 --> 01:55:21,960 for example, short term rental was implemented back in 23 and, 1806 01:55:21,960 --> 01:55:25,498 but we did not have means to implement that in Excella, but 1807 01:55:25,498 --> 01:55:28,100 with Goga when we are transitioning for this 1808 01:55:28,100 --> 01:55:32,370 licensing, we are already creating those applications and 1809 01:55:32,370 --> 01:55:34,907 because I think legally we cannot utilize the same rental 1810 01:55:34,907 --> 01:55:37,443 application for short term rentals. There has to be a 1811 01:55:37,443 --> 01:55:39,978 separate application based on the, you know, legal 1812 01:55:39,978 --> 01:55:42,848 department's suggestion, and even the vacant registry we 1813 01:55:42,848 --> 01:55:47,119 passed last year, and we have created a database and we are 1814 01:55:47,119 --> 01:55:50,256 managing that process at the present time through the uh 1815 01:55:50,256 --> 01:55:53,525 regular, you know, Excel spreadsheets that we have in 1816 01:55:53,525 --> 01:55:57,997 our system, but we will be implementing that also as a 1817 01:55:57,997 --> 01:56:00,265 license in GoGov, you know, implementation that we are 1818 01:56:00,265 --> 01:56:03,469 doing. Yes, it seems like lofty, but it is 1819 01:56:03,469 --> 01:56:07,100 doable, and that is probably the best streamlined process as 1820 01:56:07,100 --> 01:56:10,879 we go forward. OK. And we are not going to have a, you know, 1821 01:56:10,879 --> 01:56:14,683 like a big bite, but I think we're going to implement one by 1822 01:56:14,683 --> 01:56:17,753 one and to implement those we're gonna have to bring in 1823 01:56:17,753 --> 01:56:21,490 the ordinance changes, and that was the whole purpose why we 1824 01:56:21,490 --> 01:56:24,827 implemented the timeline in one of the slides that Michelle 1825 01:56:24,827 --> 01:56:28,630 talked about earlier. Thank you. Uh, so I, what I'm hearing is 1826 01:56:28,630 --> 01:56:31,166 that the current state is unwieldy, right? You're getting 1827 01:56:31,166 --> 01:56:34,236 it's, it's very difficult to take pictures, go back, process 1828 01:56:34,236 --> 01:56:39,909 it. And as we introduce new ordinances, you all are having 1829 01:56:39,909 --> 01:56:44,380 a challenging time, making sure that there's a streamlined 1830 01:56:44,380 --> 01:56:48,384 methodology to be able to to hit those certain 1831 01:56:48,384 --> 01:56:52,321 enforcement metrics This is going to help resolve 1832 01:56:52,321 --> 01:56:55,591 that. Absolutely. What I'm, what I'd like to ask just for 1833 01:56:55,591 --> 01:56:58,461 clarification purposes, and this can be taken entirely 1834 01:56:58,461 --> 01:57:04,400 offline, um, is, do you have the ordinance infrastructure in 1835 01:57:04,400 --> 01:57:08,204 place to be able to hold these entities accountable, uh, 1836 01:57:08,204 --> 01:57:11,874 because as I've understood that may have been an oversight 1837 01:57:11,874 --> 01:57:15,411 in the 2023 provision, at least for the short-term rentals. 1838 01:57:15,411 --> 01:57:18,548 Yeah, I think there will be minor, you know, ordinance 1839 01:57:18,548 --> 01:57:21,350 amendments that will be needed. And we will go forward with 1840 01:57:21,350 --> 01:57:25,688 those, you know, like efforts as well as we go along this 1841 01:57:25,688 --> 01:57:28,557 process. Fantastic. I, and I, uh, I'm interested in making 1842 01:57:28,557 --> 01:57:30,959 sure that we continue that discussion. uh, but it doesn't 1843 01:57:30,959 --> 01:57:33,896 need to happen right now. Uh, one final thing, I think 1844 01:57:33,896 --> 01:57:36,899 registration and licensing provide accountability and 1845 01:57:36,899 --> 01:57:40,499 transparency. and this new licensing, uh, 1846 01:57:41,704 --> 01:57:46,308 structure that we would potentially explore, could be a 1847 01:57:46,308 --> 01:57:50,179 huge revenue driver for, uh, the city. I think I saw our 1848 01:57:50,179 --> 01:57:53,449 financials, uh, come in for, was it the last quarter here? 1849 01:57:53,449 --> 01:57:58,454 Uh, we were close to just one, just under 1 million in, in, uh, 1850 01:57:58,454 --> 01:58:01,524 licensing and registration fees. I think it's fantastic. I think 1851 01:58:01,524 --> 01:58:04,727 even me, I have one of the, like a rental property. 1852 01:58:04,727 --> 01:58:10,727 It's not deep, um, but it's, it's definitely provides us 1853 01:58:11,134 --> 01:58:14,537 an accountability like metric. I think if we have to add 1854 01:58:14,537 --> 01:58:18,141 business licenses, we should talk about it and have like, is 1855 01:58:18,141 --> 01:58:22,110 this multiple entities that they own? Is it a restaurant? I, 1856 01:58:22,110 --> 01:58:24,480 we have to have a full conversation across council 1857 01:58:24,480 --> 01:58:27,150 before we end up doing that business license. Thank you and 1858 01:58:27,150 --> 01:58:30,286 we'll bring it back to you. Thank you. I appreciate it. Um, 1859 01:58:30,286 --> 01:58:34,890 let's see. Councilor Mitchell, sorry, Councilor Os, counselor, 1860 01:58:34,890 --> 01:58:37,626 and then Councilor Mitchell. And then Conover Hughes the 2nd 1861 01:58:37,626 --> 01:58:40,763 bite. Thank you. Um, thank you and 1862 01:58:40,763 --> 01:58:42,965 really I just want to say I appreciate the work that we've 1863 01:58:42,965 --> 01:58:45,301 done together over the last several months, um, and excited 1864 01:58:45,301 --> 01:58:48,637 to, to be here and getting these updates from you. Um, and, 1865 01:58:48,637 --> 01:58:51,173 and really appreciate the work that you did with our, um, 1866 01:58:51,173 --> 01:58:55,578 District 3 intern, Oliver Slade, um, uh, to collect data in in 1867 01:58:55,578 --> 01:59:00,249 District 3. I think, um, on the, the business license point, I, 1868 01:59:00,249 --> 01:59:04,186 you know, my understanding is that um we currently don't 1869 01:59:04,186 --> 01:59:06,989 issue our own city business licenses. It's like a state and 1870 01:59:06,989 --> 01:59:09,458 county re gu late d piece, um, so I want 1871 01:59:09,458 --> 01:59:11,727 to understand that more, um, that doesn't have to be right 1872 01:59:11,727 --> 01:59:17,332 now, but, um, but I think on, uh, kind of revising the code 1873 01:59:17,332 --> 01:59:20,690 and and moving towards licensing instead of permitting 1874 01:59:20,690 --> 01:59:25,730 and moving towards GoGov, all sounds great. I think one thing 1875 01:59:25,730 --> 01:59:29,211 as uh as part of that transition implementation, um, 1876 01:59:29,211 --> 01:59:34,216 that I know folks in the past, uh, that we had prior to Eella, 1877 01:59:34,216 --> 01:59:37,619 um, that people appreciated was having contact info publicly 1878 01:59:37,619 --> 01:59:40,288 available for landlords or landlords agents. 1879 01:59:40,288 --> 01:59:46,162 Um, so that residents or city staff could contact, uh, if 1880 01:59:46,162 --> 01:59:49,431 there are problems, uh, with particular rental properties, 1881 01:59:49,431 --> 01:59:52,101 um, I think that was helpful for folks, um, who would want 1882 01:59:52,101 --> 01:59:55,905 to see that, um, continue to, to move forward. I know that, 1883 01:59:55,905 --> 01:59:59,175 uh, we raised a question on AI earlier, I think, trying to 1884 01:59:59,175 --> 02:00:05,581 figure out how to use AI to review, um, uh, rental 1885 02:00:05,581 --> 02:00:09,510 advertisements for potential violations or um, you know, if 1886 02:00:09,510 --> 02:00:11,253 you're adver ti s ing a 14 bedroom house 1887 02:00:11,253 --> 02:00:14,523 that's permitted for 5 people, maybe, you know, look into that. 1888 02:00:14,523 --> 02:00:18,600 Um, uh, but, uh, and then, uh, on the point on vacant 1889 02:00:18,600 --> 02:00:22,860 properties, I think, you know, really, uh, great 1890 02:00:23,332 --> 02:00:28,404 uh first steps in terms of kind of understanding uh what the 1891 02:00:28,404 --> 02:00:31,139 scope of the problem is. I think it would, I'd like to see 1892 02:00:31,139 --> 02:00:35,611 the city do more in terms of actually maybe doing outreach 1893 02:00:35,611 --> 02:00:38,480 to improve the utilization of the housing stock and vacant 1894 02:00:38,480 --> 02:00:42,840 properties, particularly. I'll say uh uh a non-resident 1895 02:00:42,840 --> 02:00:46,555 reached out to me, uh, and from a, a neighboring municipality, 1896 02:00:46,555 --> 02:00:50,292 uh, recently and noted, you know, said, hey, you know, can, 1897 02:00:50,292 --> 02:00:53,829 can I, um uh, can I get access to the 1898 02:00:53,829 --> 02:00:56,298 vacant property lists like so I can contact the homeowners and 1899 02:00:56,298 --> 02:00:59,235 try to buy their home, those, those homes, right? And so like 1900 02:00:59,235 --> 02:01:04,440 the, the point isn't to just study the problem, it's also to, 1901 02:01:04,440 --> 02:01:06,709 um, uh, figure out why particular properties are 1902 02:01:06,709 --> 02:01:11,180 vacant and how do we, um, how do we convert them into, um, uh, 1903 02:01:11,180 --> 02:01:14,516 things that are helping, uh, housing, the housing stock, um, 1904 02:01:14,516 --> 02:01:18,987 within the city. So, um, and that can be, I think, through 1905 02:01:18,987 --> 02:01:21,523 collaborative means with landlords or with property 1906 02:01:21,523 --> 02:01:23,125 owners and through maybe less 1907 02:01:23,125 --> 02:01:26,195 collaborative means, um, but, uh, I think ultimately the goal 1908 02:01:26,195 --> 02:01:30,933 is to ensure that, um, as, uh, we're dealing with uh housing 1909 02:01:30,933 --> 02:01:33,201 affordability issues that there's not just vacant 1910 02:01:33,201 --> 02:01:35,338 properties, um, that are, aren't contributing to the 1911 02:01:35,338 --> 02:01:38,741 community. So again, uh, really excited 1912 02:01:38,741 --> 02:01:41,944 for for this work, um, and really appreciate the work of 1913 02:01:41,944 --> 02:01:45,800 staff to um put this together and look forward to many 1914 02:01:45,800 --> 02:01:48,830 further conversations, um, particularly on the, um, 1915 02:01:48,830 --> 02:01:52,287 changes to code, um, um, uh, that will have in the future. 1916 02:01:52,287 --> 02:01:57,870 Thank you. Um, let's go to Council member 1917 02:02:00,229 --> 02:02:03,632 Mitchell first and then Councilor Mackey and then 1918 02:02:03,632 --> 02:02:06,101 Councilor Hull. Canomer he has to get off. I 1919 02:02:06,101 --> 02:02:08,101 don't. Yes. 1920 02:02:10,390 --> 02:02:14,443 OK, there we go. We got you, got it. We, 3rd time it's a job, 1921 02:02:14,443 --> 02:02:18,717 John. Um, thank you, Mr. Mayor, I appreciate it. Um, thank you 1922 02:02:18,717 --> 02:02:24,717 for your report. I appreciate the information. I know this 1923 02:02:25,390 --> 02:02:28,527 has been a long time in discussion and coming around 1924 02:02:28,527 --> 02:02:31,596 the corner and the bend, but we are here and I know that um 1925 02:02:31,596 --> 02:02:34,199 moving forward, this is gonna be some excellent work that's 1926 02:02:34,199 --> 02:02:37,302 gonna be come out of your department. Um, one thing I 1927 02:02:37,302 --> 02:02:40,472 wanted to ask in regards to, we talked about the short term ren 1928 02:02:40,472 --> 02:02:45,410 tal s and the um Airbnbs we can we can we consider them 1929 02:02:45,410 --> 02:02:48,346 businesses, so hopefully you will consider them as a 1930 02:02:48,346 --> 02:02:52,170 business license versus a rental license, but also are we 1931 02:02:52,170 --> 02:02:56,488 gonna be um looking at some of the social media platforms such 1932 02:02:56,488 --> 02:03:02,488 as Willow and Zillow to obtain information on regarding those 1933 02:03:03,270 --> 02:03:06,632 entities, those houses who are using their house as a rental, 1934 02:03:06,632 --> 02:03:08,834 but now it's really as an Airbnb. 1935 02:03:08,834 --> 02:03:13,304 Yes, uh, no, maybe. I think that, you know what 1936 02:03:13,304 --> 02:03:16,241 Councilmember Hume is mentioning is that looking and 1937 02:03:16,241 --> 02:03:19,444 trying to find, I think an AI bot probably would help us a 1938 02:03:19,444 --> 02:03:23,470 lot in this, um, in the search and I think the one thing that 1939 02:03:23,470 --> 02:03:27,319 it's, it's really um, let's say providential that we're going 1940 02:03:27,319 --> 02:03:31,256 to um go to um MML very shortly and I think 1941 02:03:31,256 --> 02:03:33,792 that we'll probably see some resources that will be able to 1942 02:03:33,792 --> 02:03:38,263 help us with this in the data. So I think it is something I, I 1943 02:03:38,263 --> 02:03:42,334 feel like it's much better. It's a much better, um 1944 02:03:42,334 --> 02:03:46,605 lift for some something that's not um not staff intensive by 1945 02:03:46,605 --> 02:03:49,341 using AI or something like that, so we will, we will, we will 1946 02:03:49,341 --> 02:03:53,780 figure that out as a next step. And I hope that be going along 1947 02:03:53,780 --> 02:03:58,283 the lines when we talk about illegal construction. Um, with 1948 02:03:58,283 --> 02:04:01,686 houses that are being purchased and assumed to be Reynolds, but 1949 02:04:01,686 --> 02:04:04,756 they're all, but they are building them out to add more 1950 02:04:04,756 --> 02:04:09,761 rooms to them, and I know uh Mary Parton Mac and I have seen 1951 02:04:09,761 --> 02:04:11,897 many iterations of calls from residents about 1952 02:04:11,897 --> 02:04:15,670 several homes in the woods and in Crystal Springs have been 1953 02:04:15,670 --> 02:04:19,637 that have been done I know Mr. Days has been working with Depa 1954 02:04:19,637 --> 02:04:23,107 very intentionally in trying to help us um get violations on 1955 02:04:23,107 --> 02:04:28,460 that, so I hope that's another aspect that we can work on, um. 1956 02:04:28,460 --> 02:04:32,846 I think um those are my questions my 1957 02:04:33,518 --> 02:04:36,254 colleagues answer other questions that I was gonna ask, 1958 02:04:36,254 --> 02:04:38,990 but I received the answers, but I just really look forward to 1959 02:04:38,990 --> 02:04:44,596 the outcome, but I also hope that we can really also work 1960 02:04:44,596 --> 02:04:47,999 with the county with some of their best practices that they 1961 02:04:47,999 --> 02:04:52,871 have and trying to dig out the um the 1962 02:04:52,871 --> 02:04:55,874 large volume of issues that they have to deal with and how 1963 02:04:55,874 --> 02:04:58,744 we can rectify them in a timely fashion about some of their 1964 02:04:58,744 --> 02:05:02,680 best practices. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Let's go to Mayor 1965 02:05:02,680 --> 02:05:06,840 Potomaki. Yes, thank you. Thank you for answering all my 1966 02:05:06,840 --> 02:05:11,556 questions that I sent you, and I just had a, a few additional 1967 02:05:11,556 --> 02:05:16,270 from your presentation. Um, so you said that there that um. 1968 02:05:16,270 --> 02:05:20,227 that DPW is doing a trash study. 1969 02:05:21,833 --> 02:05:26,104 Like I, I was very interested in that because there's houses 1970 02:05:26,104 --> 02:05:31,509 that have like 4 trash cans and 4 recycling. So I'm thinking to 1971 02:05:31,509 --> 02:05:34,713 myself, how many people are living there to make that much 1972 02:05:34,713 --> 02:05:39,518 trash and that much recycling, so I was, so you're studying 1973 02:05:39,518 --> 02:05:43,321 the like how much trash is being, so we're doing inventory 1974 02:05:43,321 --> 02:05:46,458 of, they were doing an inventory of the, um, number of 1975 02:05:46,458 --> 02:05:49,727 trash and recycling bins and where they're assigned 1976 02:05:49,727 --> 02:05:53,650 and trying to determine which ones belong at which houses and 1977 02:05:53,650 --> 02:05:56,670 all that information and so that's what we're trying to do 1978 02:05:56,670 --> 02:05:59,738 is to see where, what the actual numbers are. And I mean, 1979 02:05:59,738 --> 02:06:02,874 you know, Robert's really passionate about all this stuff. 1980 02:06:02,874 --> 02:06:05,877 I'm like I, I don't, I only, I can't even match his enthusiasm 1981 02:06:05,877 --> 02:06:10,348 on half of the stuff, but um I'll say that that's that is 1982 02:06:10,348 --> 02:06:14,219 something that is going on in public works that is sort of is 1983 02:06:14,219 --> 02:06:16,421 happening in parallel, and I guess that's the one good thing 1984 02:06:16,421 --> 02:06:20,158 about working with both public works and with DPS and with 1985 02:06:20,158 --> 02:06:23,950 planning, is that we're kind of talking about these issues now 1986 02:06:23,950 --> 02:06:25,764 a little bit broadly like I'll hear one thing here and connect 1987 02:06:25,764 --> 02:06:28,500 it to there and so I think we're connecting more on those 1988 02:06:28,500 --> 02:06:31,970 levels, but yes, this is going on simultaneously. We had an 1989 02:06:31,970 --> 02:06:36,842 intern who did a um. who did a, uh, what's a 1990 02:06:36,842 --> 02:06:40,645 capstone process we had a capstone project on this where 1991 02:06:40,645 --> 02:06:44,382 not a capstone, um the university project, the 1992 02:06:44,382 --> 02:06:47,386 Powells project were interns actually looked at all these 1993 02:06:47,386 --> 02:06:49,921 and worked with Jacob as well. So we have some very 1994 02:06:49,921 --> 02:06:52,723 interesting results that we will be working through and 1995 02:06:52,723 --> 02:06:57,620 along with um what Overton District 3, we've got some 1996 02:06:57,620 --> 02:07:00,998 really good synergies even from that and how that also kind of 1997 02:07:00,998 --> 02:07:04,402 overlaps. I can add there, you know, what it really uh allowed 1998 02:07:04,402 --> 02:07:08,940 us to do is make sure that we are billing for through the 1999 02:07:08,940 --> 02:07:12,811 amount of uh trash and recycling uh containers at each 2000 02:07:12,811 --> 02:07:14,746 proper ty has because we, we, we found 2001 02:07:14,746 --> 02:07:18,349 some, uh that we were only getting, uh, 2002 02:07:18,349 --> 02:07:22,549 one, uh revenue source for, for one 2003 02:07:23,880 --> 02:07:27,825 can and they probably had about 66 to 8. So, um, and that was 2004 02:07:27,825 --> 02:07:33,898 from, um, probably, uh, one of our, I guess they call those uh 2005 02:07:33,898 --> 02:07:37,369 more of a nonprofit organization uh that we were 2006 02:07:37,369 --> 02:07:39,771 trying to assist over the years. So, um, they were already at 2007 02:07:39,771 --> 02:07:42,908 our lowest rate. So, um, you know, we have to work toward 2008 02:07:42,908 --> 02:07:46,244 correcting that because, you know, our, our resources, um, 2009 02:07:46,244 --> 02:07:50,382 require that we make sure that we're accurately, um, charging 2010 02:07:50,382 --> 02:07:52,917 for the services that we're delivering. Right. I had one 2011 02:07:52,917 --> 02:07:58,256 more question, I think, um, so, am I understanding this 2012 02:07:58,256 --> 02:08:01,660 correctly that, um parking is staying with the 2013 02:08:01,660 --> 02:08:05,260 cella. or no, no, they're, they're, 2014 02:08:05,330 --> 02:08:07,799 they're already on GoGovern. They're, they have a different, 2015 02:08:07,799 --> 02:08:12,270 they have a different one, AIs, they have AI, AI which is 2016 02:08:12,270 --> 02:08:15,600 separate. So they're gonna stay on that. And they're fine. Yeah, 2017 02:08:15,600 --> 02:08:19,343 that's working. That's working because I think that 2018 02:08:19,343 --> 02:08:23,215 when you drive by a house and they have 3 cars in the park in 2019 02:08:23,215 --> 02:08:26,885 the in the driveway and 3 cars in front, and there's no place 2020 02:08:26,885 --> 02:08:30,890 to park on the street. It's a pretty good indication that 2021 02:08:30,890 --> 02:08:35,761 there's more than 5 unrelated people living in the house, so 2022 02:08:35,761 --> 02:08:40,766 I was just wondering if parking is gonna be in on on this too, 2023 02:08:40,766 --> 02:08:43,836 like in in some way. I believe that Ames has better 2024 02:08:43,836 --> 02:08:47,390 reporting and we're able to pull that reporting a lot more 2025 02:08:47,390 --> 02:08:49,908 consistently and we're able to pull those reports to get the 2026 02:08:49,908 --> 02:08:52,311 information, which is why we're considering this, we're 2027 02:08:52,311 --> 02:08:56,182 continuing to stay with Ames, um, and I don't think go and I 2028 02:08:56,182 --> 02:08:59,118 was mentioning it to Mr. Young is that when I was in 2029 02:08:59,118 --> 02:09:02,788 Bladensburg, we had GoGov and I wanted to move to parking, and 2030 02:09:02,788 --> 02:09:05,991 they couldn't do the parking the way I needed it, so I would 2031 02:09:05,991 --> 02:09:08,794 say stick with AMS because that was one of the ones I did look 2032 02:09:08,794 --> 02:09:11,630 at, and I would say that they are do it that we are not 2033 02:09:11,630 --> 02:09:13,650 having problems so this one's not broke. I 2034 02:09:13,650 --> 02:09:15,735 don't want to fix it this minute, OK, that's good to know. 2035 02:09:15,735 --> 02:09:18,938 So thank you very much and thank you again for answering 2036 02:09:18,938 --> 02:09:22,208 all my questions earlier. Thank you. Let's go to Councilor 2037 02:09:22,208 --> 02:09:25,440 Jordan. Thank you again for your report. 2038 02:09:25,440 --> 02:09:28,481 Um, I had a question about, uh, the inspections and how those 2039 02:09:28,481 --> 02:09:31,484 would happen and who they would like what properties those 2040 02:09:31,484 --> 02:09:38,291 would be applying to, um, so can you walk me through, uh, um, 2041 02:09:38,291 --> 02:09:41,760 what happens now and and what differences there would be 2042 02:09:41,760 --> 02:09:44,763 after this. I'm gonna let Mr. Spalding or 2043 02:09:44,763 --> 02:09:48,100 Mr. Mr. uh Davies worked with it, yeah. 2044 02:09:48,100 --> 02:09:51,103 Um, cause I, it's, uh, I, it'll be pretty much the same, but it 2045 02:09:51,103 --> 02:09:54,573 will be more of an electronic process, but Mr. Davies, take 2046 02:09:54,573 --> 02:10:00,573 it on from here. Dave, sorry. I know the last 2047 02:10:02,782 --> 02:10:06,919 name and I just I broke my mostly beat up. So the process 2048 02:10:06,919 --> 02:10:11,123 is really not going to change, um, the new software is going 2049 02:10:11,123 --> 02:10:15,461 to be able to enable us to track it better, to be able to 2050 02:10:15,461 --> 02:10:18,998 renew things quicker and be on the alert for those things that 2051 02:10:18,998 --> 02:10:22,601 um come up when it's time to renew. So the actual inspection 2052 02:10:22,601 --> 02:10:27,406 process will still be the same. We're still going to be 2053 02:10:27,406 --> 02:10:30,942 inspecting all residential rentals, all commercial 2054 02:10:30,942 --> 02:10:33,545 properties, all multi-family buildings all the way across 2055 02:10:33,545 --> 02:10:36,810 the board. So that, that process is not going to change. 2056 02:10:36,810 --> 02:10:39,685 And then my understanding is that um we're we're expecting 2057 02:10:39,685 --> 02:10:42,288 that there are some under the radar rentals at the moment 2058 02:10:42,288 --> 02:10:46,910 that will that will likely be found in this new process, and 2059 02:10:46,910 --> 02:10:50,296 so, um, that that's, that's good because the inspections in 2060 02:10:50,296 --> 02:10:53,833 addition to um you know, the, the rental 2061 02:10:53,833 --> 02:10:57,369 license has has benefits for the city financially, but also 2062 02:10:57,369 --> 02:10:59,972 we, we do want to see that our residents live in a safe 2063 02:10:59,972 --> 02:11:04,243 environment, um, and we want to make sure that, that, um, that 2064 02:11:04,243 --> 02:11:06,846 the buildings are, are in proper order and all those 2065 02:11:06,846 --> 02:11:11,249 kinds of things. Um, so this, this will be, uh, so 2066 02:11:11,249 --> 02:11:15,654 so short term, medium-term and long-term rentals, and vacant 2067 02:11:15,654 --> 02:11:20,926 properties. Is that my, is that what you, what you were saying? 2068 02:11:20,926 --> 02:11:24,396 um, and then businesses as well, uh, to the extent that we do 2069 02:11:24,396 --> 02:11:29,796 them now. All right. We encourage all residents to 2070 02:11:29,935 --> 02:11:33,338 notify us 30 ears and eyes of the neighborhoods. They're 2071 02:11:33,338 --> 02:11:35,674 there all the time. If they suspect there's a rental 2072 02:11:35,674 --> 02:11:39,100 property and they don't think it's licensed, please reach out 2073 02:11:39,100 --> 02:11:41,547 to us, um, send us an email or give us a call so we can 2074 02:11:41,547 --> 02:11:44,216 investigate to see if that's the case. 2075 02:11:44,216 --> 02:11:47,153 but please, yeah, please encourage your residents to do 2076 02:11:47,153 --> 02:11:51,900 that. Thank you very much. Thank you. Before we go to 2077 02:11:51,900 --> 02:11:55,361 Councilor Hull, um, um, Mr. Cocker, uh, thank you, 2078 02:11:55,361 --> 02:12:00,990 thank you for your email to one of our residents, um, over the 2079 02:12:00,990 --> 02:12:04,103 weekend and you gave uh some good news about 2080 02:12:04,103 --> 02:12:08,903 keeping track of a rental property database. I 2081 02:12:09,841 --> 02:12:12,778 remember many years ago we used to have it under proper 2082 02:12:12,778 --> 02:12:15,580 database, but because of some reasons. Yeah, we don't use it, 2083 02:12:15,580 --> 02:12:19,351 but now it looks like you have a way to bring that back. Yeah, 2084 02:12:19,351 --> 02:12:24,323 sure. Uh, I think in the legacy system we had that there and I 2085 02:12:24,323 --> 02:12:27,126 think all the residents, all the, you know, like management 2086 02:12:27,126 --> 02:12:30,662 company, they really liked it. Uh, when Excella was 2087 02:12:30,662 --> 02:12:34,660 implemented, there were some inherent, you know, security 2088 02:12:34,660 --> 02:12:36,135 issues as well as like, uh, uh, you know 2089 02:12:36,135 --> 02:12:39,605 certain things that we couldn't share that in a public forum or 2090 02:12:39,605 --> 02:12:43,609 a public portal because the, uh, we were concerned about the 2091 02:12:43,609 --> 02:12:48,347 system being hacked, uh, with this, uh, implementation, 2092 02:12:48,347 --> 02:12:51,417 everything across through the GoGov, you know, like platform, 2093 02:12:51,417 --> 02:12:54,219 uh, that issue is gonna be resolved, and we have heard 2094 02:12:54,219 --> 02:12:58,900 that loud and clear from all the stakeholders in the city. 2095 02:12:58,900 --> 02:13:00,626 We are going to do that and we are going to implement that. 2096 02:13:00,626 --> 02:13:04,296 There's already, you know, conversation happening in the 2097 02:13:04,296 --> 02:13:07,499 design of the switchover. Thank you. And this will be in 2098 02:13:07,499 --> 02:13:09,835 terms of timeline. This will be done by the summer. Am I 2099 02:13:09,835 --> 02:13:13,435 correct? We hope. OK, let's, let's, 2100 02:13:14,774 --> 02:13:18,110 that's around the corner. Uh, and, uh, the residents will be 2101 02:13:18,110 --> 02:13:22,981 able to search the property by the address or straight timer, 2102 02:13:22,981 --> 02:13:27,653 so, uh, they will, uh, like have the same capability as it 2103 02:13:27,653 --> 02:13:30,256 was in the legacy system. I think we, we have already 2104 02:13:30,256 --> 02:13:32,858 talked to GoGov about that particular need. Yeah. 2105 02:13:32,858 --> 02:13:37,797 Yeah, the, um, I think it's been at least 4 or 5 years, 2106 02:13:37,797 --> 02:13:44,397 then. Yeah, up until 19 uh 2019 or 2020 it was there, but when 2107 02:13:44,670 --> 02:13:48,474 there's like in 201 and when this thing got, you know, like 2108 02:13:48,474 --> 02:13:52,811 moved to Acella, uh, that was a, uh, you know, inherent 2109 02:13:52,811 --> 02:13:56,749 incapability. Yeah, it's kind of downgrading but I'm very 2110 02:13:56,749 --> 02:13:59,351 happy that this is coming back. Appreciate your work. 2111 02:13:59,351 --> 02:14:01,153 All right, Councilor Mar here, thanks for your patience so I 2112 02:14:01,153 --> 02:14:04,490 think you just asked my question whether we would have 2113 02:14:04,490 --> 02:14:08,493 access to the uh rental, um uh what 2114 02:14:08,493 --> 02:14:13,432 the rental listings so that we can, uh, provide accurate 2115 02:14:13,432 --> 02:14:17,636 updates sounds like everybody will, uh, residents and council. 2116 02:14:17,636 --> 02:14:21,240 who have access to that database. It'll be made public, 2117 02:14:21,240 --> 02:14:25,440 correct? that interface to yeah, like, uh, I think the, the 2118 02:14:25,440 --> 02:14:28,381 things which are, uh, you know, like legally rented uh through 2119 02:14:28,381 --> 02:14:31,917 our process, that listing will be there, right? Of course, I 2120 02:14:31,917 --> 02:14:35,921 think when I heard council member Mitchell, uh, like, uh, 2121 02:14:35,921 --> 02:14:38,945 there are other, you know, platforms or the conversation 2122 02:14:38,945 --> 02:14:42,682 like from Michelle about chatbot or utilizing. There are 2123 02:14:42,682 --> 02:14:45,952 companies out there who probably have reached out to us, 2124 02:14:45,952 --> 02:14:49,122 but I think we want to make sure that uh how much we are 2125 02:14:49,122 --> 02:14:52,225 gonna utilize or what is the extent of, you know, like a 2126 02:14:52,225 --> 02:14:56,763 short term rentals out there, I think the numbers differ like 2127 02:14:56,763 --> 02:14:59,432 it, you know, like uh earlier, you know, like they were single, 2128 02:14:59,432 --> 02:15:04,437 there may be 30 or 400 just in one district, you know, in one 2129 02:15:04,437 --> 02:15:08,307 area, and the, the reality is when we are trying to check it 2130 02:15:08,307 --> 02:15:12,512 from the outside, you know, available, uh, listings, those 2131 02:15:12,512 --> 02:15:15,715 numbers are a lot smaller, but we are definitely in case we 2132 02:15:15,715 --> 02:15:17,384 have a need, we will definitely look 2133 02:15:17,384 --> 02:15:20,987 into that option. Thank you, just to be clear, 2134 02:15:20,987 --> 02:15:24,857 not, not everything will be accessible to the public. Not 2135 02:15:24,857 --> 02:15:28,795 everything will be accessible to council members as well. So, 2136 02:15:28,795 --> 02:15:31,564 um, but there will be things that will be appropriate to be 2137 02:15:31,564 --> 02:15:35,100 able to share and we'll walk through that process, um, if I, 2138 02:15:35,100 --> 02:15:40,740 if I recall in the old system 5 years ago, we could only see um 2139 02:15:40,740 --> 02:15:45,745 the name of the property and when was the last time a 2140 02:15:45,745 --> 02:15:48,214 citation was given Mayor, you are taking me to the side of 2141 02:15:48,214 --> 02:15:52,952 that I'm thinking of bring ing my legal hat here. Uh, I 2142 02:15:52,952 --> 02:15:56,355 think anything that we share with the public, uh, you know, 2143 02:15:56,355 --> 02:16:01,628 it has connotations of privacy and uh definitely certain 2144 02:16:01,628 --> 02:16:05,498 things we can share without any issue coming back to us, but I 2145 02:16:05,498 --> 02:16:08,301 think those things definitely as the city manager said, they 2146 02:16:08,301 --> 02:16:11,237 will have to be kind of vetted through the legal process as 2147 02:16:11,237 --> 02:16:15,441 well, certainly, yeah, and I agree totally. Thank you. um, 2148 02:16:15,441 --> 02:16:18,845 just to um clarify on this point, I think, um, there is 2149 02:16:18,845 --> 02:16:21,381 some information that is currently available, um, 2150 02:16:21,381 --> 02:16:24,250 publicly, um, it is not, most of the information, I think 2151 02:16:24,250 --> 02:16:28,121 what you're hearing from council is not all information, 2152 02:16:28,121 --> 02:16:30,723 but some information should be available. I think that the 2153 02:16:30,723 --> 02:16:34,600 intention from from my perspective is, um, having the 2154 02:16:34,600 --> 02:16:38,598 city be able to help uh people solve their own problems, um, 2155 02:16:38,598 --> 02:16:41,801 when there are issues with uh rental properties, um, and I 2156 02:16:41,801 --> 02:16:48,740 think when the city removed uh the listing of a contact phone 2157 02:16:48,740 --> 02:16:50,543 number or other things. It meant that 2158 02:16:50,543 --> 02:16:53,279 people ended up having to go to the city to help solve those 2159 02:16:53,279 --> 02:16:56,216 issues more rather than just, you know, calling the landlord 2160 02:16:56,216 --> 02:16:58,840 and saying, hey, you know, can you 2161 02:16:58,840 --> 02:17:02,880 um, check in on this? So I, I, I, I think that's clear, um, 2162 02:17:02,880 --> 02:17:06,292 and I appreciate your, um, your work, but if, if, I think to, 2163 02:17:06,292 --> 02:17:10,290 to um council member Hughes's question around like which 2164 02:17:10,290 --> 02:17:13,990 properties are rentals. That's already public information 2165 02:17:13,990 --> 02:17:16,703 that's on the city's databases that are publicly available 2166 02:17:16,703 --> 02:17:23,309 online. Um, so where, uh, if, if they are permitted, um, then 2167 02:17:23,309 --> 02:17:26,713 that information is, is available. Um, what is not uh 2168 02:17:26,713 --> 02:17:29,782 available is the contact information for a landlord 2169 02:17:29,782 --> 02:17:33,385 Thank you Appreciate it. So, looks like 2170 02:17:33,385 --> 02:17:36,723 you had a robust discussion and there's quite a few good ideas 2171 02:17:36,723 --> 02:17:41,194 came sorry, Mr. Coker thank you Council members. I think you 2172 02:17:41,194 --> 02:17:43,263 expressed it very well. Thank you. 2173 02:17:43,263 --> 02:17:47,660 Thank you, Mayor, please, can I ask a question? Sorry, I don't 2174 02:17:47,660 --> 02:17:50,270 know how this works, and I apologize the question suddenly, 2175 02:17:50,270 --> 02:17:53,600 yeah, no problem. Um, yeah, thank you so much for the 2176 02:17:53,600 --> 02:17:55,700 fantastic presentation. Looking forward to a lot of items in 2177 02:17:55,700 --> 02:17:57,210 here, especially you guys we're talking about monitoring 2178 02:17:57,210 --> 02:18:00,212 parking and, you know, trash to look at overcrowding. That's 2179 02:18:00,212 --> 02:18:02,282 going to be very interesting and looking forward to the 2180 02:18:02,282 --> 02:18:04,617 reintroduction of that database. Uh, one thing I want to 2181 02:18:04,617 --> 02:18:07,200 highlight, I don't think is important when we're developing 2182 02:18:07,200 --> 02:18:10,220 these codes and you know, any ways you guys can support this. 2183 02:18:10,220 --> 02:18:12,491 I think there's often times a case where landlords, 2184 02:18:12,491 --> 02:18:14,760 especially for young college students, are not fully 2185 02:18:14,760 --> 02:18:17,363 informing them of all of the rules around, for example, how 2186 02:18:17,363 --> 02:18:20,100 many people can stay in a house, uh, the trash fee for the 2187 02:18:20,100 --> 02:18:23,436 number of trash and recycling bins. So we want to make sure 2188 02:18:23,436 --> 02:18:26,839 that we're protecting tenants who may not actually know about 2189 02:18:26,839 --> 02:18:29,309 these roles because you might tell the landlord and if the 2190 02:18:29,309 --> 02:18:31,778 landlord doesn't pass that on, then they get a fee for it. The 2191 02:18:31,778 --> 02:18:34,114 student gets a fee. That's gonna be on a bunch of college 2192 02:18:34,114 --> 02:18:36,783 kids who quite simply did not know the, the very specific 2193 02:18:36,783 --> 02:18:39,510 rules and codes we're going to be introducing. So when you 2194 02:18:39,510 --> 02:18:41,187 guys are creating these codes, figuring out ways that we can 2195 02:18:41,187 --> 02:18:43,523 make sure to be informing tenants with a 2196 02:18:43,523 --> 02:18:46,126 be through online, mail, anything like that. Uh, I think 2197 02:18:46,126 --> 02:18:49,195 that's key because I definitely know that I did not know all 2198 02:18:49,195 --> 02:18:51,798 the rules about my own home when I moved in, you know, the 2199 02:18:51,798 --> 02:18:53,533 landlord doesn't sit down with their tenants and say, OK, 2200 02:18:53,533 --> 02:18:56,870 here's all the College Park codes that, you know, are, are 2201 02:18:56,870 --> 02:18:59,605 applied, but I know for a fact that we pay fees on those. So 2202 02:18:59,605 --> 02:19:02,809 making sure to protect tenants, I think should be a key part of 2203 02:19:02,809 --> 02:19:07,480 this and whatever way you think of. So, just FYI, mayor, um, we 2204 02:19:07,480 --> 02:19:11,551 will be attending some, um some of the things that the 2205 02:19:11,551 --> 02:19:14,353 university provides to students in regards to housing 2206 02:19:14,353 --> 02:19:18,758 Actually, Lisa and I are signed up for an event that's actually 2207 02:19:18,758 --> 02:19:21,160 happening, I think this summer, but we'll continue to do 2208 02:19:21,160 --> 02:19:24,964 outreach to the students, um, population in regards to our, 2209 02:19:24,964 --> 02:19:27,834 you know, in regards to our public services, um, and a 2210 02:19:27,834 --> 02:19:31,237 different pro and the different things that are going on. We're 2211 02:19:31,237 --> 02:19:35,107 working closely with Laura on um just making sure that more 2212 02:19:35,107 --> 02:19:38,444 of this is available online. Um, especially because we're, we're, 2213 02:19:38,444 --> 02:19:42,314 again, like we have the ELO, we have the new move-ins. We are 2214 02:19:42,314 --> 02:19:45,652 part of Maryland Day and when people come, so we 2215 02:19:45,652 --> 02:19:49,550 are really working towards those to getting students more 2216 02:19:49,550 --> 02:19:51,791 educated, but I mean, I also think, Derek, we do knock and 2217 02:19:51,791 --> 02:19:54,994 talks and do you want to talk a little bit about that? Yes, um, 2218 02:19:54,994 --> 02:19:58,598 the first week of school we started this, uh, almost 20 2219 02:19:58,598 --> 02:20:03,336 years ago. The first week of school, we spend, uh, the 3 2220 02:20:03,336 --> 02:20:06,472 nights, about 3 hours each night, and we're concentrated 2221 02:20:06,472 --> 02:20:11,110 in the old town area where its students, and we knock on doors, 2222 02:20:11,110 --> 02:20:13,947 we provide information about the rules just like you 2223 02:20:13,947 --> 02:20:16,750 were talking about, um, we have code of student conduct comes 2224 02:20:16,750 --> 02:20:19,952 along, a police officer comes along, talks about safety, and 2225 02:20:19,952 --> 02:20:22,488 then I'll talk about noise, I'll talk about trash pickup 2226 02:20:22,488 --> 02:20:26,920 days, things like that, and we do that throughout the old town 2227 02:20:26,920 --> 02:20:28,561 area, the first week of school, trying to get the word out that 2228 02:20:28,561 --> 02:20:31,564 way. If you can think of anything else, we're all ears 2229 02:20:31,564 --> 02:20:34,501 here. Yeah, perfect. I, I think, uh, you guys came by my house 2230 02:20:34,501 --> 02:20:36,970 when I wasn't there that day, but my housemates informed me 2231 02:20:36,970 --> 02:20:39,439 about that. So that's a perfect example. But just making sure 2232 02:20:39,439 --> 02:20:42,175 if there's any new rules that get introduced that, you know, 2233 02:20:42,175 --> 02:20:44,177 tenants are informed of that Um, we're protecting tenants 2234 02:20:44,177 --> 02:20:46,996 from getting fees that they weren't aware of short so, but 2235 02:20:46,996 --> 02:20:48,397 everything else sounds great. Thank you all for the 2236 02:20:48,397 --> 02:20:51,266 presentation. Thank you. I appreciate it. I 2237 02:20:51,266 --> 02:20:55,700 think uh we had a good discussion. A staff, uh, final. 2238 02:20:55,700 --> 02:20:59,341 I'm sorry, very final one. I'm sorry, I just got a, a text 2239 02:20:59,341 --> 02:21:02,277 question from a resident, um, regarding and just want to make 2240 02:21:02,277 --> 02:21:07,482 sure they that they heard going back to the initial process 2241 02:21:07,482 --> 02:21:11,190 when someone purchases a home and they are intending to use 2242 02:21:11,190 --> 02:21:15,219 it for um they say rental property. 2243 02:21:15,758 --> 02:21:18,560 You sent out a well let me back it up. 2244 02:21:18,560 --> 02:21:22,430 When they purchased a home, do you send them a letter 2245 02:21:22,430 --> 02:21:28,103 asking them their intent on what the use of the house is. 2246 02:21:28,103 --> 02:21:32,307 Yes, we send out what we call usage intention statement to 2247 02:21:32,307 --> 02:21:35,711 the new owner, um, A lot of times we get the 2248 02:21:35,711 --> 02:21:40,916 information by doing to door knock because STAT doesn't 2249 02:21:40,916 --> 02:21:44,530 update very quickly. Sometimes it can take 5 or 6 months 2250 02:21:44,530 --> 02:21:46,721 before even find out who the new owner information is. So a 2251 02:21:46,721 --> 02:21:50,580 lot of times we will just do a door knock and try to find out 2252 02:21:50,580 --> 02:21:52,795 who the new owner is and may contact that way. 2253 02:21:52,795 --> 02:21:57,132 So the person who purchased the house, you sent the letter of 2254 02:21:57,132 --> 02:22:02,671 intent. They had not responded and you just said that SA takes 2255 02:22:02,671 --> 02:22:06,675 a couple months. But if you're using it as a rental property 2256 02:22:06,675 --> 02:22:10,120 instead of as a owner occupied property. 2257 02:22:10,120 --> 02:22:14,616 What is the ruling? So if we can confirm that it is 2258 02:22:14,616 --> 02:22:18,486 a rental and being rented without a license, we will 2259 02:22:18,486 --> 02:22:21,356 issue basically a notice of violation saying you're 2260 02:22:21,356 --> 02:22:25,427 rendering without a rental license, and you have 10 days 2261 02:22:25,427 --> 02:22:29,431 to make application. If you don't, then they can be subject 2262 02:22:29,431 --> 02:22:35,771 to amissible infraction fine. A mere prote Maki just asked me 2263 02:22:35,771 --> 02:22:40,508 that, what is the, the fine, the monetary amount of the fine. 2264 02:22:40,508 --> 02:22:44,708 How much is it changed. It's now $2500. 2265 02:22:47,480 --> 02:22:51,453 $2500. OK. And if between the time of them applying for the 2266 02:22:51,453 --> 02:22:55,924 license and acquiring the license, they have uh 2267 02:22:55,924 --> 02:23:00,729 violations in between that are very um uh guess pub public 2268 02:23:00,729 --> 02:23:04,400 safety, what happens then? We will knock on the door and 2269 02:23:04,400 --> 02:23:07,602 ask to do uh an inspection at the time to see if tenants will 2270 02:23:07,602 --> 02:23:11,273 let us in to confirm that it is safe property. We can do that. 2271 02:23:11,273 --> 02:23:15,100 OK. All right. Thank you. Thank you. 2272 02:23:15,100 --> 02:23:18,280 Appreciate it. All right, so that's all we have. Thank you. 2273 02:23:18,280 --> 02:23:21,817 um, thank you for all the um all the work you have done and 2274 02:23:21,817 --> 02:23:24,953 looks like some good stuff is coming in the pipe and I can't 2275 02:23:24,953 --> 02:23:28,157 wait to see them coming. Uh, maybe end of summer. 2276 02:23:28,157 --> 02:23:31,560 as early as that Thank you. Keep doing you, 2277 02:23:31,560 --> 02:23:35,160 counsel. Appreciate it. Alright, so next 2278 02:23:36,498 --> 02:23:42,171 two items will be um Res items, right? I can see. 2279 02:23:42,171 --> 02:23:45,574 The first one is the strategic priorities and the long-term 2280 02:23:45,574 --> 02:23:48,510 visual framework. Um, please go ahead. Floor is 2281 02:23:48,510 --> 02:23:51,647 yours. Thank you so much. Good evening, Mayor and council. 2282 02:23:51,647 --> 02:23:56,500 Tonight I am very pleased and excited to be here to talk to 2283 02:23:56,500 --> 02:23:59,254 you about strategic priorities in a long-term vision framework 2284 02:23:59,254 --> 02:24:02,791 for the city of College Park. Um, I've got a few slides 2285 02:24:02,791 --> 02:24:04,793 hopefully we'll get through them quickly because I think 2286 02:24:04,793 --> 02:24:07,262 what I'm most interested in tonight is hearing your 2287 02:24:07,262 --> 02:24:11,266 feedback on this proposal. Um, so why now? Um, our 2288 02:24:11,266 --> 02:24:15,700 strategic plan that we had in place between FY 21 and FY 25 2289 02:24:15,700 --> 02:24:18,874 has reached the end of its life cycle. It did serve as a 2290 02:24:18,874 --> 02:24:21,943 guiding document for us throughout this past budget 2291 02:24:21,943 --> 02:24:25,800 season and I think it's important for us to also 2292 02:24:25,800 --> 02:24:28,830 consider community contexts. So we know that there's been 2293 02:24:28,830 --> 02:24:31,620 significant redevelopment and investment underway. There are 2294 02:24:31,620 --> 02:24:35,891 obviously changing needs in the community and priorities, we 2295 02:24:35,891 --> 02:24:38,627 see increased demands on city services as well as our 2296 02:24:38,627 --> 02:24:40,895 infrastructure. the continued growth of the 2297 02:24:40,895 --> 02:24:43,899 university and I think what I've seen in my time here is a 2298 02:24:43,899 --> 02:24:47,836 recognition, you know, by this council as well as by staff and 2299 02:24:47,836 --> 02:24:51,706 members of the public that the decisions that we are making 2300 02:24:51,706 --> 02:24:55,844 today in this room will shape the future of College Park. 2301 02:24:55,844 --> 02:24:59,782 I want to explain this slide to you this all these speech 2302 02:24:59,782 --> 02:25:04,786 bubbles with lots of big buzzwords in them and what it 2303 02:25:04,786 --> 02:25:08,256 is is when I joined the city 5 months ago, I walked in here 2304 02:25:08,256 --> 02:25:10,992 knowing that one of the items I'd be working on was the 2305 02:25:10,992 --> 02:25:13,929 strategic plan and it was something that was really 2306 02:25:13,929 --> 02:25:17,199 excited about, but it was also something that was a very aware 2307 02:25:17,199 --> 02:25:20,602 of as somebody new to this community that I needed to do a 2308 02:25:20,602 --> 02:25:23,538 lot of listening. and so I joined here right when 2309 02:25:23,538 --> 02:25:25,607 we were talking about budgets, and there were a lot of budget 2310 02:25:25,607 --> 02:25:28,477 meetings, a lot of individual meetings, and I started doing a 2311 02:25:28,477 --> 02:25:31,613 lot of listening and taking a lot of notes, and I started 2312 02:25:31,613 --> 02:25:35,750 hearing a lot of common themes come up in those conversations 2313 02:25:35,750 --> 02:25:38,821 between council members as well as conversations with the 2314 02:25:38,821 --> 02:25:42,900 members of the public and so common themes started to emerge 2315 02:25:42,900 --> 02:25:46,895 and as I was hearing those themes, it started to emerge as 2316 02:25:46,895 --> 02:25:49,431 balancing today's priorities with college parks and 2317 02:25:49,431 --> 02:25:52,634 long-term future. And so as I continue to think 2318 02:25:52,634 --> 02:25:57,373 about that, and I think about the strategic plan, it started 2319 02:25:57,373 --> 02:26:00,308 to come together in a framework where we can look at planning 2320 02:26:00,308 --> 02:26:03,450 for today and for tomorrow. So what does 2321 02:26:03,450 --> 02:26:07,490 that mean? That means looking at the next 3 to 5 years, what 2322 02:26:07,490 --> 02:26:09,851 our strategic priorities? What are the operational needs we 2323 02:26:09,851 --> 02:26:13,122 have. So where should we put our efforts and focus on? How 2324 02:26:13,122 --> 02:26:17,590 do we allocate our resources and then thinking about what 2325 02:26:17,590 --> 02:26:20,862 outcomes matter the most and then thinking beyond that in 2326 02:26:20,862 --> 02:26:23,732 terms of a community vision. So that's what kind of 2327 02:26:23,732 --> 02:26:26,601 community do we want to see College Park B? How do we want 2328 02:26:26,601 --> 02:26:30,710 to see College Park grow and evolve. And it started to come 2329 02:26:30,710 --> 02:26:33,642 together that I think we haven't clear opportunity here 2330 02:26:33,642 --> 02:26:36,745 to establish clearer priorities for the near term, while also 2331 02:26:36,745 --> 02:26:39,147 being able to define the long-term vision for College 2332 02:26:39,147 --> 02:26:43,840 Park's future. So what you'll see here is kind 2333 02:26:43,840 --> 02:26:46,354 of a three-part structure. We'll get into the next slides 2334 02:26:46,354 --> 02:26:49,357 a little bit more detail here on the structure. What I want 2335 02:26:49,357 --> 02:26:53,695 to highlight here is really the two pieces that will run 2336 02:26:53,695 --> 02:26:57,580 concurrently, so that's the looking ahead piece, which is 2337 02:26:57,580 --> 02:27:00,116 our near-term strategic priorities and then looking 2338 02:27:00,116 --> 02:27:05,454 beyond peace, which is a vision proposed vision for 2045. So 2339 02:27:05,454 --> 02:27:08,324 those processes have different purposes, but they are 2340 02:27:08,324 --> 02:27:10,793 complimentary, and we're suggesting that they would be 2341 02:27:10,793 --> 02:27:13,596 developed concurrently through a coordinated public 2342 02:27:13,596 --> 02:27:17,466 engagement process. Doing them concurrently allows us to 2343 02:27:17,466 --> 02:27:20,336 maximize our community engagement efforts, maximize 2344 02:27:20,336 --> 02:27:24,207 staff capacity and time as well as our community's time and 2345 02:27:24,207 --> 02:27:27,143 input into this process and ensures our near term 2346 02:27:27,143 --> 02:27:30,547 priorities, those strategic priorities are informed by the 2347 02:27:30,547 --> 02:27:33,350 visioning process. So now I'm gonna dive a little 2348 02:27:33,350 --> 02:27:38,287 bit deep into this. So first step would be looking 2349 02:27:38,287 --> 02:27:41,424 back and I think it's really important that we look back to 2350 02:27:41,424 --> 02:27:45,828 close out the priorities that we had identified in the FY 21 2351 02:27:45,828 --> 02:27:50,500 to FY 25 plan by doing a strategic plan closeout 2352 02:27:50,500 --> 02:27:53,102 assessment. So what that means is looking at our 2353 02:27:53,102 --> 02:27:56,106 accomplishments during those times, evaluating the progress 2354 02:27:56,106 --> 02:27:59,575 that we made on the goals that we adopted, identifying any 2355 02:27:59,575 --> 02:28:03,312 unfinished initiatives. taking some lessons learned and 2356 02:28:03,312 --> 02:28:06,382 establishing what our baseline is for future planning. 2357 02:28:06,382 --> 02:28:10,319 This is proposed as a staff-led project, um, something that we 2358 02:28:10,319 --> 02:28:13,590 do leading up to the next two steps. And it's main 2359 02:28:13,590 --> 02:28:16,926 deliverable would be a strategic plan assessment 2360 02:28:16,926 --> 02:28:18,728 report. and our proposed timeline for 2361 02:28:18,728 --> 02:28:22,398 bringing that forward to council is this September. 2362 02:28:22,398 --> 02:28:25,602 Then, once we accomplish that, I think we get into two of the 2363 02:28:25,602 --> 02:28:29,271 more exciting pieces. So then we start looking ahead 2364 02:28:29,271 --> 02:28:31,675 and we start thinking about what are our strategic 2365 02:28:31,675 --> 02:28:36,120 priorities for the next 3 to 5 years. And again, that is more 2366 02:28:36,120 --> 02:28:38,481 like what are immediate organizational needs and 2367 02:28:38,481 --> 02:28:41,250 priorities are? What are the actions that we need to take? 2368 02:28:41,250 --> 02:28:44,220 What is the resource allocation that we have? What data do we 2369 02:28:44,220 --> 02:28:47,691 need to collect so we can measure those outcomes, and we 2370 02:28:47,691 --> 02:28:50,960 use those priorities to guide our annual budgets as well as 2371 02:28:50,960 --> 02:28:54,297 our departmental work plans. This is proposed to be led, as 2372 02:28:54,297 --> 02:28:58,340 I mentioned earlier, concurrently, led by consultant, 2373 02:28:58,340 --> 02:29:00,636 and it has several deliverables. So those deliverables, the 2374 02:29:00,636 --> 02:29:04,236 strategic priorities, the action initiatives, those 2375 02:29:04,841 --> 02:29:07,309 measurable and data-driven outcomes so we can keep track 2376 02:29:07,309 --> 02:29:10,313 of things, aligning with the budget as well as an 2377 02:29:10,313 --> 02:29:12,649 implementation and a reporting framework. 2378 02:29:12,649 --> 02:29:15,518 The timeline that you'll see here is proposed to start this 2379 02:29:15,518 --> 02:29:20,256 September and then take us up through that next FY 28 coming 2380 02:29:20,256 --> 02:29:25,328 up budget cycle. And then now the piece that I 2381 02:29:25,328 --> 02:29:31,200 think I'm most excited about. is why beyond 5 years and why 2382 02:29:31,200 --> 02:29:34,670 2045, um, so I don't know if everybody knows this, but the 2383 02:29:34,670 --> 02:29:40,343 city was incorporated in 1945, so in 2045 College Park will be 2384 02:29:40,343 --> 02:29:42,743 celebrating 100 years since incorporation. 2385 02:29:42,946 --> 02:29:45,881 and I think that Centennial milestone really gives us an 2386 02:29:45,881 --> 02:29:49,850 opportunity to think about what kind of city we wanna be, how 2387 02:29:49,850 --> 02:29:51,421 we're growing, how we're evolving. 2388 02:29:51,421 --> 02:29:55,491 how do we intentionally strengthen our partnerships? 2389 02:29:55,491 --> 02:29:58,270 What investments we're making that are gonna have the longest 2390 02:29:58,270 --> 02:30:02,310 term impact. and what legacy do we all wanna 2391 02:30:02,310 --> 02:30:06,502 leave for future generations. So this is again proposed as 2392 02:30:06,502 --> 02:30:09,439 consultant-led, and the deliverable, I'm calling 2393 02:30:09,439 --> 02:30:12,439 College Park 100, a vision 2045 plan. 2394 02:30:13,309 --> 02:30:16,846 It's a working title open to suggestions, um, the timeline 2395 02:30:16,846 --> 02:30:19,716 for this one is a little bit longer. So again, kicking off 2396 02:30:19,716 --> 02:30:22,985 at the same time as the other one, but then extending through 2397 02:30:22,985 --> 02:30:27,785 November of next year. Why use a consultant 2398 02:30:28,190 --> 02:30:32,462 So I think we've heard earlier that our staff has a lot on its 2399 02:30:32,462 --> 02:30:36,999 plate, um, so that's one piece of it a consultant can also 2400 02:30:36,999 --> 02:30:40,690 offer us uh specialized expertise and strategic 2401 02:30:40,690 --> 02:30:43,272 planning, best practices, benchmarking, other communities 2402 02:30:43,272 --> 02:30:47,472 processes. It also gives that independent facilitation 2403 02:30:47,944 --> 02:30:50,680 perspective to really guide the community engagement, which I 2404 02:30:50,680 --> 02:30:53,416 think is important for the public trust piece of this. 2405 02:30:53,416 --> 02:30:56,419 and then that ties into the community engagement capacity 2406 02:30:56,419 --> 02:31:00,489 as well as our communications capacity on this process. This 2407 02:31:00,489 --> 02:31:04,694 process is going to require a lot of outreach. It is a very 2408 02:31:04,694 --> 02:31:07,963 important process for the city and we don't want to skimp on 2409 02:31:07,963 --> 02:31:11,901 outreach, so I think that by adding a consultant to this, 2410 02:31:11,901 --> 02:31:14,904 that allows our staff to continue. It's very busy daily 2411 02:31:14,904 --> 02:31:18,410 operations. Support this process, but have 2412 02:31:18,410 --> 02:31:21,578 it be led and give it the attention that it deserves. 2413 02:31:21,578 --> 02:31:25,181 Um, so what does a consultant do that manages and leads that 2414 02:31:25,181 --> 02:31:29,381 citywide community engagement and communication support for 2415 02:31:29,519 --> 02:31:32,550 the engagement meeting facilitation that can include 2416 02:31:32,550 --> 02:31:34,657 things like council retreats, stakeholder interviews, 2417 02:31:34,657 --> 02:31:37,393 community forums, surveys. There may be other methods of 2418 02:31:37,393 --> 02:31:41,640 outreach that are proposed by our consultant as well and then 2419 02:31:41,640 --> 02:31:44,670 developing that strategic priorities framework that I 2420 02:31:44,670 --> 02:31:47,300 mentioned earlier and facilitating leading the 2421 02:31:47,300 --> 02:31:49,873 visioning process. Now this does not mean that staff is out 2422 02:31:49,873 --> 02:31:53,810 of it. We're not, um, staff are will remain responsible for 2423 02:31:53,810 --> 02:31:56,612 implementation as well as project management throughout 2424 02:31:56,612 --> 02:31:59,612 and the ongoing plan management. 2425 02:31:59,615 --> 02:32:03,180 Um, roles and responsibilities. I've already talked here about 2426 02:32:03,180 --> 02:32:08,900 what the consultant will do, um, staff obviously, I think I've 2427 02:32:08,900 --> 02:32:11,160 spoken to that as as well. I do want to highlight that. I think 2428 02:32:11,160 --> 02:32:14,697 it's important um that staff is involved in this too in terms 2429 02:32:14,697 --> 02:32:18,101 of like giving input to the plan and being involved in the 2430 02:32:18,101 --> 02:32:20,969 planning process as well, just as much as council and just as 2431 02:32:20,969 --> 02:32:24,440 much as the community and the stakeholders, um, council is 2432 02:32:24,440 --> 02:32:27,777 obviously an incredibly important stakeholder for us to 2433 02:32:27,777 --> 02:32:31,247 establish the priorities to participate all throughout this 2434 02:32:31,247 --> 02:32:33,850 process, and then ultimately this council will be 2435 02:32:33,850 --> 02:32:37,186 responsible for reviewing adopting the final plans. The 2436 02:32:37,186 --> 02:32:40,589 community and stakeholders, so again this is gonna be heavy on 2437 02:32:40,589 --> 02:32:43,590 community outreach. We want to hear from our community. We 2438 02:32:43,590 --> 02:32:44,660 want to hear what their priorities. We want to hear 2439 02:32:44,660 --> 02:32:48,531 what their vision is for College Park at 100 years. So 2440 02:32:48,531 --> 02:32:50,999 we're asking folks to participate in these engagement 2441 02:32:50,999 --> 02:32:54,403 activities. Give us the feedback on priorities and 2442 02:32:54,403 --> 02:32:57,740 visions and help us identify what issues and opportunities 2443 02:32:57,740 --> 02:33:01,610 this community has. Um, proposed timeline and I 2444 02:33:01,610 --> 02:33:05,948 will say that this, uh, timeline is kind of my best 2445 02:33:05,948 --> 02:33:09,330 case scenario here. We do need to hire a consultant and work 2446 02:33:09,330 --> 02:33:12,968 with a consultant on timelines and hear their, their strategic 2447 02:33:12,968 --> 02:33:15,771 advice on this, but this is kind of how we sketched it out 2448 02:33:15,771 --> 02:33:18,640 so far. The things that you'll see highlighted here in yellow 2449 02:33:18,640 --> 02:33:22,410 are the major deliverables for this plan. So this summer, um, 2450 02:33:22,410 --> 02:33:25,447 as I mentioned earlier, staff will be conducting a strategic 2451 02:33:25,447 --> 02:33:29,510 panel and close out assessment of our past plan. We would also 2452 02:33:29,510 --> 02:33:31,587 be issuing an RFP for the consultant and working 2453 02:33:31,587 --> 02:33:34,523 through that selection process that would then come back to 2454 02:33:34,523 --> 02:33:38,660 council, um, to authorize that contract for the selection in 2455 02:33:38,660 --> 02:33:41,663 the fall. In the fall, you would see that closeout report. 2456 02:33:41,663 --> 02:33:45,200 We would kick off this project with the consultant, and that 2457 02:33:45,200 --> 02:33:47,335 will very likely include something like a council 2458 02:33:47,335 --> 02:33:49,738 retreat to have to make sure that council is very involved 2459 02:33:49,738 --> 02:33:52,541 in this process from the beginning and then moving into 2460 02:33:52,541 --> 02:33:57,780 winter, we would be deep in community engagement, 2461 02:33:57,780 --> 02:34:00,148 stakeholder interviews, visioning activities, so very 2462 02:34:00,148 --> 02:34:02,417 much working with the community during that time. 2463 02:34:02,417 --> 02:34:05,487 In spring, it's our hope to align the priorities that we've 2464 02:34:05,487 --> 02:34:08,724 identified with our budget process so we can make sure 2465 02:34:08,724 --> 02:34:12,293 that we are aligning our resources with our priorities 2466 02:34:12,293 --> 02:34:16,297 and in the summer really looking at what that draft 2467 02:34:16,297 --> 02:34:21,102 vision 2045 is with a goal to adopt that in the fall. 2468 02:34:21,102 --> 02:34:24,273 Once you adopt, of course, it doesn't end. So you see there's 2469 02:34:24,273 --> 02:34:29,673 a very long horizon there, 2028 to 2045, which is implementing 2470 02:34:30,312 --> 02:34:33,315 and assessing the plan and so I, I think on the next slide I've 2471 02:34:33,315 --> 02:34:36,184 kind of set up a framework for how we might do that just to 2472 02:34:36,184 --> 02:34:39,521 give some insight into that. So how do we maintain this plan? 2473 02:34:39,521 --> 02:34:42,791 I I think it's something that becomes a part of the lives of 2474 02:34:42,791 --> 02:34:45,994 the staff and the council here as well as we want to integrate 2475 02:34:45,994 --> 02:34:48,663 it with the community, so we're making sure on an annual basis 2476 02:34:48,663 --> 02:34:52,934 we're aligning with the budget and the work plans with those 2477 02:34:52,934 --> 02:34:55,671 priorities were consistently monitoring progress and 2478 02:34:55,671 --> 02:34:58,540 reporting outcomes. We're reporting on data and our 2479 02:34:58,540 --> 02:35:01,677 departmental work plans are being updated to align with the 2480 02:35:01,677 --> 02:35:05,214 strategic plans, um, on an every 2 to 3 year basis, I 2481 02:35:05,214 --> 02:35:07,949 think it's very important to intentionally look at 2482 02:35:07,949 --> 02:35:10,819 doing a council strategic retreat, reviewing the goals 2483 02:35:10,819 --> 02:35:14,289 and objectives. I think this has to be a living document too 2484 02:35:14,289 --> 02:35:18,626 and update that document as needed. And on every 5-year 2485 02:35:18,626 --> 02:35:21,430 plan, really looking at those strategic priorities, how are 2486 02:35:21,430 --> 02:35:25,100 we refreshing them? How are we moving forward and then putting 2487 02:35:25,100 --> 02:35:28,837 in those checkpoints at the 10 and 15 year mark, which I know 2488 02:35:28,837 --> 02:35:33,642 sounds very far ahead, but it's really not um so looking at 2489 02:35:33,642 --> 02:35:36,512 that what that progress assessment looks like as we 2490 02:35:36,512 --> 02:35:38,912 head towards College Park 100 2491 02:35:40,249 --> 02:35:43,185 So tonight, um, what I'm really looking forward to is hearing 2492 02:35:43,185 --> 02:35:46,655 your input on a few things. So first off, we would love to 2493 02:35:46,655 --> 02:35:50,926 hear your input on the proposed framework. So do you support 2494 02:35:50,926 --> 02:35:53,395 this kind of three-stage framework which we have 2495 02:35:53,395 --> 02:35:58,467 proposed as like looking back by closing out the FY 21 to 25 2496 02:35:58,467 --> 02:36:00,467 plan. looking ahead 2497 02:36:00,869 --> 02:36:03,405 developing those strategic priorities for the near term, 2498 02:36:03,405 --> 02:36:07,208 for the next 3 to 5 years, and then looking beyond for a 2499 02:36:07,208 --> 02:36:10,278 longer term community visioning process. And if you are 2500 02:36:10,278 --> 02:36:13,615 interested in that longer term community visioning process, um, 2501 02:36:13,615 --> 02:36:16,418 the, the follow up question is really should the city's 2502 02:36:16,418 --> 02:36:20,355 centennial be that goal, um, that planning horizon for our 2503 02:36:20,355 --> 02:36:23,292 long-term vision. Based on the feedback that we hear tonight, 2504 02:36:23,292 --> 02:36:26,562 um, we will refine the project scope. Uh, we will develop an 2505 02:36:26,562 --> 02:36:29,631 issue that RFP this summer and then we'll begin working on 2506 02:36:29,631 --> 02:36:32,768 closing out the plan. So with that, I will turn it 2507 02:36:32,768 --> 02:36:35,170 back over to council and thank you for your time. 2508 02:36:35,170 --> 02:36:41,770 Thank you, thank you. I, um what is interesting, um, you 2509 02:36:43,111 --> 02:36:47,782 went beyond the our traditional five-year cycle planning 2510 02:36:47,782 --> 02:36:50,520 process, you, you went even further. 2511 02:36:50,520 --> 02:36:53,655 and that's probably because of the centennial milestone we'll 2512 02:36:53,655 --> 02:36:56,550 be having in 2045 Yeah. 2513 02:36:56,724 --> 02:37:02,630 Um, will the consultant be working on both plans 2514 02:37:02,630 --> 02:37:05,000 simultaneously or two different consultants. No, no, it would 2515 02:37:05,000 --> 02:37:07,136 be one consultant. I think that's definitely the way to do 2516 02:37:07,136 --> 02:37:09,405 it, that maximizes your time with the consultant. The 2517 02:37:09,405 --> 02:37:12,407 strategic expertise, and it rolls into one. I would not 2518 02:37:12,407 --> 02:37:16,110 propose having two different consultants. So there'll be 2519 02:37:16,110 --> 02:37:19,415 engagement either through a staff, city councilor, or the 2520 02:37:19,415 --> 02:37:25,415 community, uh, those engagement will be for both plans short 2521 02:37:28,900 --> 02:37:29,424 term and the long term. Correct, yes, 2522 02:37:29,424 --> 02:37:32,160 and we would work very closely with our consultant to make 2523 02:37:32,160 --> 02:37:36,310 sure that they're strategically organized to get to, I think, 2524 02:37:36,310 --> 02:37:37,899 you know, both of those two things. So the longer term 2525 02:37:37,899 --> 02:37:41,169 horizon, the overall visioning, as well as those kind of 2526 02:37:41,169 --> 02:37:44,106 near-term action things within that same meeting and I think 2527 02:37:44,106 --> 02:37:47,509 that benefits us too in terms of, you know, having these two 2528 02:37:47,509 --> 02:37:51,246 items which are very heavy on community engagement. Sometimes 2529 02:37:51,246 --> 02:37:53,715 when you continually going out to your community and asking 2530 02:37:53,715 --> 02:37:55,317 them, well, what do you think about this? What do you think 2531 02:37:55,317 --> 02:37:57,519 about that? That can lead to some fatigue 2532 02:37:57,519 --> 02:38:00,588 just on the part of your resonance. So being able to 2533 02:38:00,588 --> 02:38:04,726 combine these two efforts into one, I think overall benefits 2534 02:38:04,726 --> 02:38:07,529 both the community as well as us. Yeah, it's the, is the same 2535 02:38:07,529 --> 02:38:12,734 person, same resident will be giving input and residents 2536 02:38:12,734 --> 02:38:15,871 oftentimes could be thinking short term, 2537 02:38:15,871 --> 02:38:21,276 but they might have also some kind of dream ideas that think 2538 02:38:21,276 --> 02:38:23,745 it farther ahead. um, so it probably makes sense 2539 02:38:23,745 --> 02:38:27,816 if you go into that both routes. Thank you. All right, I see a 2540 02:38:27,816 --> 02:38:30,552 couple of uh starting with uh Mayor Porte. 2541 02:38:30,552 --> 02:38:35,957 Yes, I just, I love this report and I support the idea of doing 2542 02:38:35,957 --> 02:38:40,828 a five-year and then the longer plan. I, I think that that's 2543 02:38:40,828 --> 02:38:44,699 very important. Um, and I love the community engagement. I 2544 02:38:44,699 --> 02:38:49,370 think it's really important because this is, this is, uh, 2545 02:38:49,370 --> 02:38:52,507 people's homes, whether they're 4 years here or whether they're 2546 02:38:52,507 --> 02:38:57,446 50 years here. Um, I think it's really important that we have 2547 02:38:57,446 --> 02:39:02,316 community engagement to, to give us a vision for the future 2548 02:39:02,316 --> 02:39:06,188 and for the short term future and for the long term future. 2549 02:39:06,188 --> 02:39:08,924 Um, I'm looking forward to it. I, I thought you did a great 2550 02:39:08,924 --> 02:39:12,661 job with this, and I didn't really have 2551 02:39:12,661 --> 02:39:18,544 many things to add or, um, you know, I, I think that the 2552 02:39:18,544 --> 02:39:23,682 process will help us to hone in on things that have changed for 2553 02:39:23,682 --> 02:39:27,882 the, from the last time. And, um 2554 02:39:28,870 --> 02:39:31,757 just making it very clear to the residents what what we're 2555 02:39:31,757 --> 02:39:36,429 doing cause, you know, if you don't have a plan, you just, 2556 02:39:36,429 --> 02:39:40,299 you know, you, you, you're, you're going to fail. And so 2557 02:39:40,299 --> 02:39:43,836 it's really important that we have this plan, so I, I, I 2558 02:39:43,836 --> 02:39:48,841 support this, so I thought I'd start off um just telling you 2559 02:39:48,841 --> 02:39:51,440 that thank you. Thank you 2560 02:39:51,440 --> 02:39:55,448 Uh, let's see customer Os. Um, also I want to thank you 2561 02:39:55,448 --> 02:39:59,318 for this as I have reached out, I'm interested in kind of the 2562 02:39:59,318 --> 02:40:04,523 long term vision and how uh what we, what we want to be as 2563 02:40:04,523 --> 02:40:07,593 the future of College Park and how we can think about how to 2564 02:40:07,593 --> 02:40:15,935 make a a sticky, um, uh, slogan. I think one question I had on 2565 02:40:15,935 --> 02:40:21,935 the, the schedule, um, was related to agreement on the 2566 02:40:23,810 --> 02:40:26,210 vision part. versus the 2567 02:40:26,345 --> 02:40:28,881 um uh strategic priorities in 2568 02:40:28,881 --> 02:40:32,218 alignment with the budget. So like, knowing that like budget 2569 02:40:32,218 --> 02:40:37,189 is a driver of a lot of big ideas and big thinking, um, you 2570 02:40:37,189 --> 02:40:42,228 know, to what extent will we have discussions on the under 2571 02:40:42,228 --> 02:40:47,280 this proposed timeline, the discussions on Vision 2045, um, 2572 02:40:47,567 --> 02:40:51,437 will that not start until summer 2027, or would that be 2573 02:40:51,437 --> 02:40:58,577 like I, I think my uh proposal would be that like we have 2574 02:40:58,577 --> 02:41:04,117 the bigger picture outline um by uh the spring 2027 as we're 2575 02:41:04,117 --> 02:41:07,253 thinking about our budget, so we're aligning our vision, or 2576 02:41:07,253 --> 02:41:09,655 aligning our strategic priorities, and then, you know, 2577 02:41:09,655 --> 02:41:12,910 assuming that this is some longer report that, you know, 2578 02:41:12,910 --> 02:41:16,395 OK, it takes some time to put meat on the bones of uh of what 2579 02:41:16,395 --> 02:41:18,997 we're doing. Is that basically what you're proposing? I think 2580 02:41:18,997 --> 02:41:21,670 we're definitely aligned in that. I think it, you know, it 2581 02:41:21,670 --> 02:41:24,300 does. start with the vision, right? 2582 02:41:24,300 --> 02:41:27,940 and it ties into it. What I, what I didn't want to miss was 2583 02:41:27,940 --> 02:41:31,477 the opportunity to make sure we had actions that we could tie 2584 02:41:31,477 --> 02:41:34,213 to the budget, and we, when we did the timing with that, but I 2585 02:41:34,213 --> 02:41:38,884 agree with you. I think they're very interconnected, um, but I 2586 02:41:38,884 --> 02:41:42,688 think you do have to start with the overall kind of mission and 2587 02:41:42,688 --> 02:41:45,691 vision before and then you kind of drill down into it. So it, 2588 02:41:45,691 --> 02:41:48,628 it will be happening concurrently. I just, in my 2589 02:41:48,628 --> 02:41:52,765 experience, I think that we will get to a good kind of 2590 02:41:52,765 --> 02:41:55,768 midway point, by the time we're in budget, but I don't think 2591 02:41:55,768 --> 02:41:57,704 we're going to be at the wrap up point, which is why I've 2592 02:41:57,704 --> 02:41:59,438 left additional time at the end 2593 02:41:59,438 --> 02:42:02,842 Yeah, I think, I think time at the end to 2594 02:42:02,842 --> 02:42:05,644 finish the product, but my hope would be that for council that 2595 02:42:05,644 --> 02:42:08,470 we would buy the budget point, you know, 2596 02:42:08,470 --> 02:42:11,517 like our vision can drive our, our strategic priorities as 2597 02:42:11,517 --> 02:42:13,519 opposed to developing our priorities and then figuring 2598 02:42:13,519 --> 02:42:16,388 out why we, why those were our priorities afterwards. I think 2599 02:42:16,388 --> 02:42:19,525 the, um, thank you. Thank you, Councilor Jordan. 2600 02:42:19,525 --> 02:42:24,263 Yes, thank you for this report. Um, I, uh, I'm in, in favor of 2601 02:42:24,263 --> 02:42:28,134 the, the framework, the closeout, the, the strategic 2602 02:42:28,134 --> 02:42:33,406 plan and the long-term vision all um as you've laid out, uh, 2603 02:42:33,406 --> 02:42:36,476 when you're creating the RFP for the consultant, um, I 2604 02:42:36,476 --> 02:42:41,214 wanted to, uh, to bring up just sort of to highlight that the 2605 02:42:41,214 --> 02:42:45,840 uniqueness of College Park. So this is this this global hub, I 2606 02:42:45,840 --> 02:42:50,289 mean just a driver and and uh um accumulating knowledge to 2607 02:42:50,289 --> 02:42:52,758 disseminate to the world and it's a place to raise 2608 02:42:52,758 --> 02:42:55,428 a family, you know, it's a place to just, you know, to 2609 02:42:55,428 --> 02:42:58,231 live and be and so when you're creating it, when you're 2610 02:42:58,231 --> 02:43:00,900 creating the RFP and and the things that you're looking for 2611 02:43:00,900 --> 02:43:05,771 as a for a consultant that to keep that in mind um that uh 2612 02:43:05,771 --> 02:43:09,775 we're, we're all residents as students and long-term 2613 02:43:09,775 --> 02:43:15,113 residents and uh but also um what the university provides, 2614 02:43:15,113 --> 02:43:18,984 not just that people live here, but also that makes perfect 2615 02:43:18,984 --> 02:43:24,390 sense. Yeah, so, uh, I know Cons Hernandez wants to talk. 2616 02:43:24,390 --> 02:43:28,927 The uh the consultant who will be coming um what Councilor 2617 02:43:28,927 --> 02:43:33,532 Jordan and I believe Councilor also also uh talked about the 2618 02:43:33,532 --> 02:43:38,137 opportunities we have about branding College Park, like, 2619 02:43:38,137 --> 02:43:41,273 you know, having a slogan or something like that and even 2620 02:43:41,273 --> 02:43:45,110 bringing some logos um, and we actually did that 2621 02:43:45,110 --> 02:43:49,810 exercise of about 1015 years ago, um, there was a separate 2622 02:43:49,810 --> 02:43:52,884 but totally done by a separate consultant, not as part of the 2623 02:43:52,884 --> 02:43:57,155 strategic plan, um, so, um, maybe branding is 2624 02:43:57,155 --> 02:44:02,428 you know, a separate piece of it. I mean, I think that 2625 02:44:02,428 --> 02:44:06,165 we could certainly look at having that included into this. 2626 02:44:06,165 --> 02:44:08,567 Um, you know, this kind of slogan, the sticky slogan that 2627 02:44:08,567 --> 02:44:11,170 we were talking about, I think that ties very much into the 2628 02:44:11,170 --> 02:44:16,410 vision of it. Um, you're prob probably getting a little bit 2629 02:44:16,410 --> 02:44:18,643 deeper into another project as we go into branding and maybe 2630 02:44:18,643 --> 02:44:21,781 that's something that branches off from this once that's 2631 02:44:21,781 --> 02:44:25,510 decided. Yeah, and, and, and there's lots of brainstorming 2632 02:44:25,510 --> 02:44:30,589 in the end we selected the slogan Smart place to live, but 2633 02:44:30,589 --> 02:44:33,592 we never used it. for some reason. Anyway, uh, 2634 02:44:33,592 --> 02:44:35,592 Conor Hernandez. Sorry. 2635 02:44:36,528 --> 02:44:42,735 Thank you. Uh, first off, thank it's a thing. Are you guys here? 2636 02:44:42,735 --> 02:44:45,471 Is it like the speaker? Is it that? 2637 02:44:45,471 --> 02:44:47,806 No, oh, no, no No, I think it's a microphone 2638 02:44:47,806 --> 02:44:52,606 that's right there. 000, really? Oh, we don't know. 2639 02:44:55,347 --> 02:44:58,830 Uh, we seem to be having some technical difficulties here and 2640 02:44:58,830 --> 02:45:00,830 uh. chambers, uh 2641 02:45:00,352 --> 02:45:04,552 oh. I suppose it's me. All right, 2642 02:45:05,691 --> 02:45:09,280 uh, let me just, let me really just say this has taken an 2643 02:45:09,280 --> 02:45:11,697 incredible amount of work. I know that we started talking 2644 02:45:11,697 --> 02:45:16,836 about this probably probably a couple of the little 2645 02:45:16,836 --> 02:45:22,574 fan maybe, um, so uh I think a couple of years 2646 02:45:22,574 --> 02:45:26,118 ago and it's really refreshing to see how much thought is 2647 02:45:26,118 --> 02:45:29,721 being put into this. Um. so thank you. I know it's, it's, 2648 02:45:29,721 --> 02:45:33,725 it's a lot of work, uh, so I'll start off with saying that I'm 2649 02:45:33,725 --> 02:45:35,927 fully supportive. What's happening 2650 02:45:35,927 --> 02:45:39,527 Oh All right. Well, it's fully 2651 02:45:40,799 --> 02:45:44,402 supportive of uh bringing in consultants to help support 2652 02:45:44,402 --> 02:45:49,808 some of the extra work It maybe your computer laptop, 2653 02:45:49,808 --> 02:45:52,808 uh, volume. No, no. I. 2654 02:45:52,944 --> 02:45:56,544 Oh, it just went away. Oh. 2655 02:45:58,820 --> 02:46:01,353 hello All right, somebody's trying to 2656 02:46:01,353 --> 02:46:06,153 tell me not to talk, uh Kenny, um. 2657 02:46:07,825 --> 02:46:11,296 yeah, right Can you hear me now? Yeah, I 2658 02:46:11,296 --> 02:46:15,834 can hear you. All right, great. Um, so yes, supportive of, of 2659 02:46:15,834 --> 02:46:21,573 bringing in consultants uh to help out, uh, with refining the, 2660 02:46:21,573 --> 02:46:25,510 the overall workload, uh, for those people who, who struggle 2661 02:46:25,510 --> 02:46:28,446 with the understanding of why we need consultants. Uh, I 2662 02:46:28,446 --> 02:46:32,383 think that it takes a dedicated team that specialized on this 2663 02:46:32,383 --> 02:46:36,583 particular, uh, effort, um development of strategic 2664 02:46:36,922 --> 02:46:40,391 priorities and actions for the next 3 to 5 years. I think 2665 02:46:40,391 --> 02:46:45,263 that's great because I think right now what we're facing is 2666 02:46:45,263 --> 02:46:50,668 we're operating off of a, uh, a strategic plan that was 2667 02:46:50,668 --> 02:46:55,740 built out almost now almost 8 years ago, um, so although 2668 02:46:55,740 --> 02:46:58,610 we're all eager to make sure that this happens, uh, I think 2669 02:46:58,610 --> 02:47:01,880 real good thought is needed. Of course we're gonna need a lot 2670 02:47:01,880 --> 02:47:04,749 of community input, uh, and having that dedicated support 2671 02:47:04,749 --> 02:47:09,755 is definitely going to be super important. Um, a long term. 2672 02:47:09,755 --> 02:47:11,889 community visioning process. I'm trying to go off of the 2673 02:47:11,889 --> 02:47:14,759 things that you want from us, um, the one thing that I wanna 2674 02:47:14,759 --> 02:47:19,364 make sure is threaded in. whether adjacent to the entire 2675 02:47:19,364 --> 02:47:23,301 effort or as a part of the process is some sort of 2676 02:47:23,301 --> 02:47:26,204 strategic communications plan. Uh, I think that 2677 02:47:26,204 --> 02:47:31,400 what the city does very well is uh 2678 02:47:31,420 --> 02:47:34,178 it, it has a lot of programs. We have a lot of different 2679 02:47:34,178 --> 02:47:38,316 efforts, a lot of different initiatives that staff works on 2680 02:47:38,316 --> 02:47:42,516 consistently, right? Um, but I believe that 2681 02:47:43,121 --> 02:47:48,192 we could optimize by refining the entire approach to how we 2682 02:47:48,192 --> 02:47:52,130 do communications, uh, I say that because there's 2683 02:47:52,130 --> 02:47:55,533 there's just a such, such a, such an important 2684 02:47:55,533 --> 02:48:00,738 element of civic engagement is going to be to understand not 2685 02:48:00,738 --> 02:48:04,900 just the tools that are available for us. 2686 02:48:04,900 --> 02:48:07,212 but like the priorities from that. 2687 02:48:07,212 --> 02:48:10,481 communication strategy. Uh, so I'm hopeful that we can, we can 2688 02:48:10,481 --> 02:48:14,552 find some sort of opportunities, uh, I, I didn't see that in the, 2689 02:48:14,552 --> 02:48:18,957 uh, I think it was the word clouds that were presented, uh, 2690 02:48:18,957 --> 02:48:21,359 I don't know if it was a word cloud, but it was definitely 2691 02:48:21,359 --> 02:48:25,230 the various, uh, buzzwords that you said a lot of words. Yes, 2692 02:48:25,230 --> 02:48:28,100 uh, so I really, I just wanna, I wanna a footst stop as, as 2693 02:48:28,100 --> 02:48:33,571 hard as I can, uh, the, the, the communication not only to 2694 02:48:33,571 --> 02:48:36,307 the residents, but just in terms of our overall 2695 02:48:36,307 --> 02:48:40,645 policy, uh, I'm, I'm, I'm well aware that there are often a 2696 02:48:40,645 --> 02:48:45,716 lot of different, um, staff that handle communications for 2697 02:48:45,716 --> 02:48:48,119 the various projects that we have and maybe our 2698 02:48:48,119 --> 02:48:52,123 it's, it's framed in an entirely different way, but I 2699 02:48:52,123 --> 02:48:55,460 think that we should be thinking about how we, how we 2700 02:48:55,460 --> 02:48:59,600 conduct outreach, how we implement bilingual 2701 02:48:59,330 --> 02:49:01,933 communication, how we're speaking towards the business 2702 02:49:01,933 --> 02:49:08,206 community, uh, with an effort to, to hopefully, uh, draw the, 2703 02:49:08,206 --> 02:49:12,900 the outcomes that we, we all want. I will say I wanna say it 2704 02:49:12,900 --> 02:49:16,514 was a council member Oates, uh, sent around a uh 2705 02:49:16,514 --> 02:49:19,818 a vision which I found incredible. Uh, it was, it was 2706 02:49:19,818 --> 02:49:23,955 wall that out, it was forward looking. We, we should be 2707 02:49:23,955 --> 02:49:27,920 thinking about the, the massive investment that's coming in 2708 02:49:27,920 --> 02:49:30,628 from the world, uh, into College Park as the Quantum 2709 02:49:30,628 --> 02:49:34,232 capital of the world, right? So how, what are we doing to make 2710 02:49:34,232 --> 02:49:40,105 sure that we are not only just a willing host, but also, uh, 2711 02:49:40,105 --> 02:49:44,109 an economic driver that brings in those entities, uh, and the 2712 02:49:44,109 --> 02:49:46,644 supporting entities, um, so I'm hopeful that that can 2713 02:49:46,644 --> 02:49:49,180 be kind of threaded in here. It doesn't need to be specific to 2714 02:49:49,180 --> 02:49:53,918 quantum. It can be towards technology innovation, uh, and 2715 02:49:53,918 --> 02:49:58,723 then I would also add an element of trying to, uh, if at 2716 02:49:58,723 --> 02:50:02,126 the very least consult with the university, um, they have a 2717 02:50:02,126 --> 02:50:05,797 very large uh, planning process when it 2718 02:50:05,797 --> 02:50:09,467 comes to how they build out, um, I think it would be helpful for 2719 02:50:09,467 --> 02:50:12,870 us to conduct that outreach ahead of time, um. 2720 02:50:12,870 --> 02:50:16,730 it's just, it's, it's, uh, something that we're, we're, 2721 02:50:16,730 --> 02:50:18,209 we're gonna work with them as partners or we're gonna be 2722 02:50:18,209 --> 02:50:20,611 working at odds and I really would rather work with them as 2723 02:50:20,611 --> 02:50:22,611 partners. OK then 2724 02:50:24,150 --> 02:50:27,850 that's helpful. I appreciate that. Um, I agree with, uh, 2725 02:50:27,850 --> 02:50:29,421 just to address some of your points, um, consulting with the 2726 02:50:29,421 --> 02:50:31,555 university, yes, they're incredibly important 2727 02:50:31,555 --> 02:50:35,292 stakeholder, and we would be a full not to look and see what 2728 02:50:35,292 --> 02:50:39,764 resources they have. So I agree with you, um. 2729 02:50:39,764 --> 02:50:42,233 regarding the strategic communications plan. I, so 2730 02:50:42,233 --> 02:50:44,569 communications as you know, you know how I feel about it. I 2731 02:50:44,569 --> 02:50:48,506 think it's incredibly important. Um, I do think that a strategic 2732 02:50:48,506 --> 02:50:52,310 communications plan is a different effort that involves, 2733 02:50:52,310 --> 02:50:55,450 you know, looking at our communications audience 2734 02:50:55,450 --> 02:50:59,117 analysis. it is a different thing than a 2735 02:50:59,117 --> 02:51:02,720 than this plan. I think that communications can absolutely 2736 02:51:02,720 --> 02:51:06,458 be threaded into this plan. but I don't want to put out the 2737 02:51:06,458 --> 02:51:08,993 false impression that this will also be a strategic 2738 02:51:08,993 --> 02:51:11,396 communications plan because that is a different thing and 2739 02:51:11,396 --> 02:51:16,796 it's worthy of its own effort. You have to 2740 02:51:25,343 --> 02:51:31,115 Thank you. Uh, see, that's the muzzling. Um, I, I entirely 2741 02:51:31,115 --> 02:51:35,286 agree. I think that the maybe it would be worthy to to push 2742 02:51:35,286 --> 02:51:37,250 that, uh, for a different effort. 2743 02:51:37,250 --> 02:51:40,962 I just want to be mindful that everything that we're doing 2744 02:51:40,962 --> 02:51:45,162 with this strategy has a communication element. 2745 02:51:45,834 --> 02:51:49,638 Absolutely. Involved with it, uh, whether that be what our 2746 02:51:49,638 --> 02:51:53,175 what our affordable housing plan is, uh, or our economic 2747 02:51:53,175 --> 02:51:56,378 development. Everything should have some sort of effort to 2748 02:51:56,378 --> 02:51:58,713 explain the why back to the residents and to whatever 2749 02:51:58,713 --> 02:52:02,851 stakeholders are, are their public safety, uh, I mean, what, 2750 02:52:02,851 --> 02:52:07,189 what does our current crime statistics look like more than 2751 02:52:07,189 --> 02:52:11,326 just an insert in the uh in like the weekly bulletin, right? 2752 02:52:11,326 --> 02:52:13,996 Uh, it's you know sus tain ability We have so many 2753 02:52:13,996 --> 02:52:17,799 different programs and advisory boards. How do we communicate 2754 02:52:17,799 --> 02:52:22,271 that back and also draw on some of the efforts that have been 2755 02:52:22,271 --> 02:52:28,210 successful like LED, um, and our investment into the city 2756 02:52:28,210 --> 02:52:30,946 streetscape, all of it just threading together to say, hey, 2757 02:52:30,946 --> 02:52:33,148 this is what we're doing. Absolutely. I mean, I 2758 02:52:33,148 --> 02:52:36,418 completely agree with that. I think that once, you know, we 2759 02:52:36,418 --> 02:52:39,421 develop that vision and then that vision obviously comes 2760 02:52:39,421 --> 02:52:42,958 with action plans as well as like key things that we wanna 2761 02:52:42,958 --> 02:52:47,496 focus on and each one of those deserves its own communication 2762 02:52:47,496 --> 02:52:50,765 strategy. So I think we're aligned on that for sure. OK. 2763 02:52:50,765 --> 02:52:54,169 Thank you. And if, if, I mean, I'll ask my colleagues, uh, if 2764 02:52:54,169 --> 02:52:57,773 we want to do some sort of larger project, but, uh, we'll 2765 02:52:57,773 --> 02:53:01,376 take that offline. Thank you. Thank you. Um, speaking of the 2766 02:53:01,376 --> 02:53:05,447 universities's plan, I believe they have a 10 year plan, 20202, 2767 02:53:05,447 --> 02:53:09,470 2030. So, um, that might be helpful 2768 02:53:09,384 --> 02:53:13,540 as well. I know our plan is our plan, but uh we can always look 2769 02:53:13,540 --> 02:53:16,725 into what they have as well so that 2770 02:53:16,725 --> 02:53:18,725 we can um 2771 02:53:19,194 --> 02:53:21,729 it can be complementary to each other. 2772 02:53:21,729 --> 02:53:26,334 All right, uh, who is next? Council member Hill, I believe. 2773 02:53:26,334 --> 02:53:29,805 because also, yeah, sorry for a second bite, um, but just on 2774 02:53:29,805 --> 02:53:33,742 this point, I do think um doing more than I think it's 2775 02:53:33,742 --> 02:53:35,477 important to understand what the university is doing in 2776 02:53:35,477 --> 02:53:38,880 terms of their long term planning, but I also think, 2777 02:53:38,880 --> 02:53:40,749 um, looking at what opportunities there for 2778 02:53:40,749 --> 02:53:44,687 alignment, so more than just kind of talking to them, but, 2779 02:53:44,687 --> 02:53:48,356 uh, you know, the future of College Park is inextricably 2780 02:53:48,356 --> 02:53:51,260 linked to the future of the University of Maryland College 2781 02:53:51,260 --> 02:53:54,897 Park, um, and we should recognize that fact and um and 2782 02:53:54,897 --> 02:53:58,320 see how we can work together towards a common vision so that 2783 02:53:58,320 --> 02:54:00,569 university is not pulling in one direction to say, oh, you 2784 02:54:00,569 --> 02:54:03,710 know, the only thing that matters is quantum, and we're 2785 02:54:03,710 --> 02:54:05,441 pulling in a different direction or vice versa. um, 2786 02:54:05,441 --> 02:54:07,976 but I think, um, so I think they'll be a, a 2787 02:54:07,976 --> 02:54:11,245 very important stakeholder, um, in the process and would be 2788 02:54:11,245 --> 02:54:13,382 good to to chat with them. And again, thank you for your 2789 02:54:13,382 --> 02:54:17,986 help. OK, thank you. Councilor here. Thank you. Um. 2790 02:54:17,986 --> 02:54:22,924 so, so when we're looking at our long term strategic plans, 2791 02:54:22,924 --> 02:54:29,524 uh, going out to 2045. I think that that also are setting 2792 02:54:37,806 --> 02:54:42,544 standards for the region, and we should keep the regional 2793 02:54:42,544 --> 02:54:46,800 goals in mind as well, especially along the lines of 2794 02:54:46,800 --> 02:54:48,480 environment and sustainability issues. 2795 02:54:48,550 --> 02:54:50,886 That's a great point. Thank you. 2796 02:54:50,886 --> 02:54:53,889 Thank you. Um I believe those are the 2797 02:54:53,889 --> 02:54:56,691 comments they have. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. And 2798 02:54:56,691 --> 02:54:59,627 thank you for your leadership and your work. I know it's a 2799 02:54:59,627 --> 02:55:03,298 lot of work and more work is coming on the way. OK, so 2800 02:55:03,298 --> 02:55:06,340 you're not going away because next item I can see your name. 2801 02:55:06,340 --> 02:55:10,572 against it Um I'm not allowed to leave. 2802 02:55:10,572 --> 02:55:16,440 None of us are living, um, charter review workgroup. Last 2803 02:55:16,440 --> 02:55:19,381 one, please. Thank you so much. OK, um, and we'll get into this 2804 02:55:19,381 --> 02:55:23,585 next one, which is our charter review workgroup, um, get into 2805 02:55:23,585 --> 02:55:26,654 this one. I do want to acknowledge just right off the 2806 02:55:26,654 --> 02:55:30,525 bat that this was um a council initiative. I, I think it's 2807 02:55:30,525 --> 02:55:33,395 very much aligned with best practices and governance, so I 2808 02:55:33,395 --> 02:55:36,998 wanna give some shout outs to our council members. I believe 2809 02:55:36,998 --> 02:55:40,335 those council member Mitchell who was spearheading this 2810 02:55:40,335 --> 02:55:41,603 originally and then of course support 2811 02:55:41,603 --> 02:55:44,720 ed by council member Mackey so I wanna give credit where 2812 02:55:44,720 --> 02:55:47,742 credit is due as we get into this, um, I do want to talk 2813 02:55:47,742 --> 02:55:50,545 through just kind of some kind of basics of how this work 2814 02:55:50,545 --> 02:55:53,949 group would be set up. um, first off, what is it? We're 2815 02:55:53,949 --> 02:55:58,220 proposing it as an internal advisory work group. Keyword is 2816 02:55:58,220 --> 02:56:02,957 advisory there, um, that is tasked with reviewing the 2817 02:56:02,957 --> 02:56:05,894 charter and developing recommendations that will come 2818 02:56:05,894 --> 02:56:08,296 forward for council consideration. What is the 2819 02:56:08,296 --> 02:56:10,899 scope of work so our city charter, I'm sure you've all 2820 02:56:10,899 --> 02:56:12,367 read it. You probably read it every 2821 02:56:12,367 --> 02:56:15,837 night before you go to bed. um, you're looking at those 12 2822 02:56:15,837 --> 02:56:19,841 charter articles. I mean, that's what I do, right? 2823 02:56:19,841 --> 02:56:22,777 Bedtime story bedtime story. Um, so you're looking at those 12 2824 02:56:22,777 --> 02:56:26,581 charter articles that cover all kinds of things, the governance, 2825 02:56:26,581 --> 02:56:29,984 elections, personnel, public improvements, finance, and 2826 02:56:29,984 --> 02:56:32,988 really looking at those, um, it's been a while since they've 2827 02:56:32,988 --> 02:56:36,792 been looked at, looking at them for compliance with state law. 2828 02:56:36,792 --> 02:56:40,128 Look at them, are there outdated references and 2829 02:56:40,128 --> 02:56:43,465 provisions in there. My guess is that yes, there are, and as 2830 02:56:43,465 --> 02:56:46,268 well as making sure that we're consistent aligned with the 2831 02:56:46,268 --> 02:56:49,604 city's current practices as well as municipal best 2832 02:56:49,604 --> 02:56:52,808 practices, so the main deliverable coming out of this 2833 02:56:52,808 --> 02:56:56,878 work group would be a report that is presented to council 2834 02:56:56,878 --> 02:57:01,820 with recommended amendments for council's consideration. As far 2835 02:57:01,820 --> 02:57:04,886 as the composition of this work group goes again it's composed 2836 02:57:04,886 --> 02:57:08,756 of um both staff and council members. It's an internal 2837 02:57:08,756 --> 02:57:11,226 advisory group, and that was being proposed 2838 02:57:11,226 --> 02:57:14,162 as made up of the mayor 4 council members, 1 from each 2839 02:57:14,162 --> 02:57:17,762 district. Our city manager or his 2840 02:57:18,834 --> 02:57:22,771 designee, our city attorney or her designee, um, our city 2841 02:57:22,771 --> 02:57:25,973 clerk and then a staff member subject matter expert, which 2842 02:57:25,973 --> 02:57:29,110 may vary based on what the needed basis is, and what do I 2843 02:57:29,110 --> 02:57:33,582 mean by that? So if we're talking about finance chapter. 2844 02:57:33,582 --> 02:57:35,717 We may want to have our treasurer there for that 2845 02:57:35,717 --> 02:57:38,453 conversation. If we're talking about personnel, we may wanna 2846 02:57:38,453 --> 02:57:41,923 have our human resources director there. So that that 2847 02:57:41,923 --> 02:57:44,259 position kind of varies depending on what the work 2848 02:57:44,259 --> 02:57:46,263 group is working on at that particular 2849 02:57:46,263 --> 02:57:49,670 time. Um, what I have proposed here 2850 02:57:49,670 --> 02:57:53,538 is a phased work plan and really like looking at this in 2851 02:57:53,538 --> 02:57:57,274 the phased in order to kind of help us manage the capacity of 2852 02:57:57,274 --> 02:58:00,411 this. So allowing to give us time for detailed review, sort 2853 02:58:00,411 --> 02:58:05,683 of section by section or kind of um category by category, 2854 02:58:05,683 --> 02:58:08,819 while also really trying to keep the workload to this 2855 02:58:08,819 --> 02:58:12,220 approximately one meeting per month. So kind of thinking 2856 02:58:12,220 --> 02:58:15,827 about both staff and council's capacity to get this done. So 2857 02:58:15,827 --> 02:58:18,496 as we look at the phases here we've broken this down 2858 02:58:18,496 --> 02:58:22,967 into phase one, which is really just kind of an overall sort of 2859 02:58:22,967 --> 02:58:26,838 flagging stage is kind of how I see it. So looking at all the 2860 02:58:26,838 --> 02:58:29,400 different articles we have looking for state law 2861 02:58:29,400 --> 02:58:31,775 compliance looking for those outdated references kind of 2862 02:58:31,775 --> 02:58:34,645 flagging areas where we think that I, I don't know what I'm 2863 02:58:34,645 --> 02:58:38,245 doing with this. I can try. 2864 02:58:41,652 --> 02:58:45,790 Yeah, I don't you try to, yeah, I think this might be a little 2865 02:58:45,790 --> 02:58:48,659 clicker thing? Yeah, there's a clicker, OK. Give me the 2866 02:58:48,659 --> 02:58:52,259 clicker. I'll sit down. Thank you. 2867 02:58:52,663 --> 02:58:55,630 That It's not you? 2868 02:58:56,467 --> 02:59:00,400 Jacob, OK, you know what, I can just reach over here and, and 2869 02:59:00,400 --> 02:59:04,800 tap it. We'll make it work. OK, guys. 2870 02:59:04,800 --> 02:59:07,945 Hope this doesn't do it to me. All right, um, so looking at 2871 02:59:07,945 --> 02:59:10,748 that ambiguous language and then flagging it. Thank you, I 2872 02:59:10,748 --> 02:59:15,352 hear that. Um, for review. that would be sort of overall 2873 02:59:15,352 --> 02:59:19,223 phase one, do some flagging, where areas that we'd like to 2874 02:59:19,223 --> 02:59:22,260 dive into deeper and then moving on to phase two, which 2875 02:59:22,260 --> 02:59:24,362 we have set up here looking at the various articles that 2876 02:59:24,362 --> 02:59:27,564 you'll see listed there, which is really focused on our 2877 02:59:27,564 --> 02:59:30,301 elected officials in the charter and governance. So 2878 02:59:30,301 --> 02:59:33,304 looking at the powers and duties of the mayor and council 2879 02:59:33,304 --> 02:59:36,240 looking at elections, looking at our districts and our 2880 02:59:36,240 --> 02:59:39,420 boundaries and looking at council meetings and what's in 2881 02:59:39,420 --> 02:59:41,578 there for that. So that is, that's kind of a beefy section 2882 02:59:41,578 --> 02:59:43,447 right there. There's a lot in there 2883 02:59:43,447 --> 02:59:47,317 Um, moving through to that, we would move on to legislative 2884 02:59:47,317 --> 02:59:50,588 procedures that is very much tied closely with state law, of 2885 02:59:50,588 --> 02:59:52,790 course, looking at whether we're compliant with the 2886 02:59:52,790 --> 02:59:55,593 adoption of our ordinances and charter amendments. Excuse me, 2887 02:59:55,593 --> 03:00:00,393 I'm sorry, I have a motion to extend. 2888 03:00:01,398 --> 03:00:04,802 All in All in favor side. We don't need it, right? Oh, the 2889 03:00:04,802 --> 03:00:11,742 new rules. Oh, here you go. Still living in the old time. 2890 03:00:11,742 --> 03:00:16,146 No worries. OK, um, moving on, so then we'd be looking at 2891 03:00:16,146 --> 03:00:18,549 after that personnel and administration, so looking at 2892 03:00:18,549 --> 03:00:21,850 the charter provisions that relate to our personnel, our 2893 03:00:21,850 --> 03:00:25,289 study manager as well as other personnel, and then moving into 2894 03:00:25,289 --> 03:00:28,590 finance and infrastructure. So there are pieces of our charter 2895 03:00:28,590 --> 03:00:32,229 that relate to budget, taxes, public improvements, special 2896 03:00:32,229 --> 03:00:35,933 assessments, um, and then that would take us to a final phase 2897 03:00:35,933 --> 03:00:40,771 where we'd have that internal advisory work group develop 2898 03:00:40,771 --> 03:00:43,107 their recommendations. So looking at all of the 2899 03:00:43,107 --> 03:00:45,309 recommendations that they've done through the phases I 2900 03:00:45,309 --> 03:00:48,579 mentioned before, prioritizing those recommendations and 2901 03:00:48,579 --> 03:00:52,116 developing a final report that would come back to submission 2902 03:00:52,116 --> 03:00:55,186 and presentation to the full council as well as members of 2903 03:00:55,186 --> 03:00:57,588 the public at a meeting just like this. 2904 03:00:57,588 --> 03:00:59,790 um the deliverable, as I mentioned 2905 03:00:59,790 --> 03:01:02,793 earlier, would be the report to counsel. 2906 03:01:02,793 --> 03:01:06,597 Ideally, that report would include what the rationale is 2907 03:01:06,597 --> 03:01:10,267 for each recommendation. And a prioritization on the 2908 03:01:10,267 --> 03:01:13,604 recommendations as well, we may come out of this process with a 2909 03:01:13,604 --> 03:01:16,600 number of recommendations. I think it's really important for 2910 03:01:16,600 --> 03:01:19,677 that advisory group to say, OK, this is the number one thing 2911 03:01:19,677 --> 03:01:21,745 that we've got to accomplish and here are kind of the 2912 03:01:21,745 --> 03:01:24,748 subsequent ones we have. Another suggestion here would 2913 03:01:24,748 --> 03:01:26,683 be to categorize the recommendations, are they 2914 03:01:26,683 --> 03:01:28,753 technical? Are they administrative? Are they 2915 03:01:28,753 --> 03:01:30,687 compliance or are they substantive? 2916 03:01:30,687 --> 03:01:36,427 right? The ones that obviously that are most meaningful and 2917 03:01:36,427 --> 03:01:38,962 will require the most amount of public engagement are ones that 2918 03:01:38,962 --> 03:01:42,320 are substantive, and that takes us to the public engagement 2919 03:01:42,320 --> 03:01:45,235 process, um, so I think all of you know that prior to the 2920 03:01:45,235 --> 03:01:48,539 adoption of any recommended charter amendments. 2921 03:01:48,539 --> 03:01:52,109 the city has to provide opportunities for public input. 2922 03:01:52,109 --> 03:01:56,460 At a minimum, a public hearing is required for any change to 2923 03:01:56,460 --> 03:02:00,584 the charter, but there are certainly opportunities for us 2924 03:02:00,584 --> 03:02:03,787 to give additional input opportunities. I think that 2925 03:02:03,787 --> 03:02:06,724 that could really depend on what changes we're talking 2926 03:02:06,724 --> 03:02:10,600 about. If we're talking about a change to make us just 2927 03:02:10,600 --> 03:02:13,597 compliant with state law, that probably does not need the same 2928 03:02:13,597 --> 03:02:17,467 level of public engagement as something that may relates to 2929 03:02:17,467 --> 03:02:19,337 how we do elections or the terms of 2930 03:02:19,337 --> 03:02:21,739 council members. That is something that is more deep to 2931 03:02:21,739 --> 03:02:25,543 the core of our governance that would require things like 2932 03:02:25,543 --> 03:02:28,679 informational meetings, public forums, surveys. Now I threw 2933 03:02:28,679 --> 03:02:32,750 that one out there just as an example. Don't get nervous. But 2934 03:02:32,750 --> 03:02:35,553 just to explain, you know, there could be some substantive 2935 03:02:35,553 --> 03:02:38,556 things in there. um, so what you have here is a proposed 2936 03:02:38,556 --> 03:02:42,426 timeline, um, so this is really broken down taking each of 2937 03:02:42,426 --> 03:02:46,564 those phases and I'll kind of one month chunk, um, starting 2938 03:02:46,564 --> 03:02:48,310 in July, if the council wants to 2939 03:02:48,310 --> 03:02:50,634 move forward with this, we would establish the work group 2940 03:02:50,634 --> 03:02:53,236 and appoint the members, um, have an organizational meeting 2941 03:02:53,236 --> 03:02:55,639 in August and then really kick off the work in the fall, which 2942 03:02:55,639 --> 03:02:59,710 would take us up through early next year with a goal of 2943 03:02:59,710 --> 03:03:04,181 presenting that report to the full council in March, and then 2944 03:03:04,181 --> 03:03:08,185 giving council time to absorb and digest those 2945 03:03:08,185 --> 03:03:11,455 recommendations as well as doing some initial public 2946 03:03:11,455 --> 03:03:14,592 engagement. And then summer would really be the time where 2947 03:03:14,592 --> 03:03:17,728 we look at that list that this council has come up or the 2948 03:03:17,728 --> 03:03:19,597 advisory work group has come up with that 2949 03:03:19,597 --> 03:03:22,666 prioritize the list and saying, OK, we're gonna consider X, Y, 2950 03:03:22,666 --> 03:03:26,300 and Z first and moving forward from there. 2951 03:03:26,300 --> 03:03:29,139 Um, so tonight, uh, just immediate next steps, uh, 2952 03:03:29,139 --> 03:03:32,900 hoping to receive feedback from council on this proposed, uh, 2953 03:03:32,900 --> 03:03:35,746 work group, and then you'll see sort of the sequencing of 2954 03:03:35,746 --> 03:03:38,282 events after that and I'm really glad this stopped 2955 03:03:38,282 --> 03:03:41,952 ringing on me here, so thank you for that. Like we're all 2956 03:03:41,952 --> 03:03:43,952 done. Thank you 2957 03:03:45,956 --> 03:03:50,294 Um, any comments? So I, I see the council packet and there 2958 03:03:50,294 --> 03:03:54,494 there's a there is a guidance of 2959 03:03:54,565 --> 03:03:58,169 kind of high level guidance or the other goal 2960 03:03:58,169 --> 03:04:01,339 the goal of this charter review committee and what kind of work 2961 03:04:01,339 --> 03:04:04,442 they'll be doing. The goal is to ensure the charter is in 2962 03:04:04,442 --> 03:04:08,713 compliance with the applicable municipal law and aligned with 2963 03:04:08,713 --> 03:04:11,113 best governance practices. um, 2964 03:04:11,649 --> 03:04:16,321 yeah, I, I, I I, I, I like that kind of guidance, otherwise, 2965 03:04:16,321 --> 03:04:20,859 you know, it could probably talk about anything we want. 2966 03:04:20,859 --> 03:04:23,461 Yeah, I don't think that is a good idea on the scope. Yeah, 2967 03:04:23,461 --> 03:04:26,731 we need to, we need to keep ourselves within, within the uh 2968 03:04:26,731 --> 03:04:29,131 framework. Uh thank you 2969 03:04:29,467 --> 03:04:33,671 All right, I see, uh, Mayor Puran May Puran Puran May 2970 03:04:33,671 --> 03:04:38,610 Puran Puran May. Yes, um, this is a very, um, I, I love the 2971 03:04:38,610 --> 03:04:42,280 report. I think it's very well done and and um 2972 03:04:42,280 --> 03:04:46,751 I support the, the idea my colleague has been saying it, I 2973 03:04:46,751 --> 03:04:51,155 think, from before I, I was on council, so I'm very glad that 2974 03:04:51,155 --> 03:04:56,494 this is coming to fruition. I'm just a little worried about the 2975 03:04:56,494 --> 03:05:00,298 aggressiveness of the timeline with you just talked about the 2976 03:05:00,298 --> 03:05:05,636 strategic plan and then, um, the deputy, uh, city manager 2977 03:05:05,636 --> 03:05:10,574 was talking about the major changes in, so, um, I, I'm just 2978 03:05:10,574 --> 03:05:13,377 a little concerned about the the timeline. Yeah, I, I think 2979 03:05:13,377 --> 03:05:16,514 that's fair. I think it is an aggressive timeline, um, and we 2980 03:05:16,514 --> 03:05:20,518 certainly do, we, we absolutely have a lot on our plates, um, 2981 03:05:20,518 --> 03:05:25,560 so, you know, I put this word as sort of best case scenario. 2982 03:05:25,560 --> 03:05:30,595 I think that um we, we should also, you know, provide this 2983 03:05:30,595 --> 03:05:36,267 work group with the flexibility to shift and adjust as needed. 2984 03:05:36,267 --> 03:05:39,300 You know, I, I don't think you want to have it be, you don't 2985 03:05:39,300 --> 03:05:42,139 want to be be a work group that lives forever, right? Of course 2986 03:05:42,139 --> 03:05:44,809 not. So there's gotta be like some reasonable stop point on 2987 03:05:44,809 --> 03:05:47,612 it, but at the same time, I think, um, you know, internally, 2988 03:05:47,612 --> 03:05:50,414 and that's one of the benefits of having it be an internal 2989 03:05:50,414 --> 03:05:54,952 advisory group, you can have some flexibility there. 2990 03:05:54,952 --> 03:05:58,552 OK, thank you. Any other comments? 2991 03:05:58,556 --> 03:06:05,960 concerns about us? Yeah, I had one which is uh how around how 2992 03:06:05,960 --> 03:06:09,233 often do we review the charter? or do municipalities or when 2993 03:06:09,233 --> 03:06:13,371 was the last time we did Councilor Mitchell can remember? 2994 03:06:13,371 --> 03:06:17,909 10 years. Yeah, last time I did, I think it was a resident 2995 03:06:17,909 --> 03:06:23,909 community, am I correct? Yes, we had um residents and 2996 03:06:24,315 --> 03:06:27,451 two council members and the city attorney are part of it. 2997 03:06:27,451 --> 03:06:32,456 Yeah, I, I would say around every 10 years is 2998 03:06:32,456 --> 03:06:35,526 probably the standard that I've heard, but it can vary from 2999 03:06:35,526 --> 03:06:39,263 community to community. So, my, my only question then 3000 03:06:39,263 --> 03:06:45,202 is, um, if we are keeping the scope tight to only look at the 3001 03:06:45,202 --> 03:06:49,540 part I, I, I would be open to thinking about potential 3002 03:06:49,540 --> 03:06:53,211 additions as opposed to only amendments if, if we, if there 3003 03:06:53,211 --> 03:06:56,214 are like through we realize, oh, actually every other 3004 03:06:56,214 --> 03:06:59,550 municipality has this thing and we don't even talk about that. 3005 03:06:59,550 --> 03:07:04,622 Um, uh, I think given if we're not looking at this. 3006 03:07:04,622 --> 03:07:08,292 except once a decade. Um, I think it's worth, uh, including 3007 03:07:08,292 --> 03:07:12,960 that as part of the scope that. you know, we're looking at 3008 03:07:12,960 --> 03:07:16,501 legal sufficiency, but if we identify gaps that there can be 3009 03:07:16,501 --> 03:07:18,502 things that we would potentially change. Again, not 3010 03:07:18,502 --> 03:07:21,772 trying to boil the ocean, but um, I, I wouldn't want to 3011 03:07:21,772 --> 03:07:27,772 preclude at the, at the initial stage, um, that, uh, 3012 03:07:28,245 --> 03:07:31,915 at potential additions. I don't it wasn't my intention to 3013 03:07:31,915 --> 03:07:33,918 preclude that. you know, I, I think if we're 3014 03:07:33,918 --> 03:07:36,787 in there we're in there 3015 03:07:36,787 --> 03:07:40,324 if you're making changes, you're making changes, yeah. 3016 03:07:40,324 --> 03:07:43,728 an amendment to the absence of addition addition is a change 3017 03:07:43,728 --> 03:07:46,597 too, right? All right. Any other comments? 3018 03:07:46,597 --> 03:07:48,999 Uh, Councilor Jordan. Yes, thank you. Um, thank you for 3019 03:07:48,999 --> 03:07:52,937 your work on this. It's, uh, it's going to be needed. It 3020 03:07:52,937 --> 03:07:55,606 sounds like there are a lot of things to clean up and, and we 3021 03:07:55,606 --> 03:07:57,675 always want to be in compliance with state law, and it's good 3022 03:07:57,675 --> 03:08:01,780 to think about the bigger picture, um, as Council member 3023 03:08:01,780 --> 03:08:05,483 Oates said, um, my question is, uh, can you, um, can you walk 3024 03:08:05,483 --> 03:08:11,880 me through at what points, um, this will be something like, 3025 03:08:11,880 --> 03:08:14,225 will the, uh, will these be made public or brought to mayor 3026 03:08:14,225 --> 03:08:17,270 and council? at each of the phases or only 3027 03:08:17,270 --> 03:08:21,980 at the final recommendations, uh, portion please. So the way 3028 03:08:21,980 --> 03:08:24,101 that I was thinking about it was that it would only come 3029 03:08:24,101 --> 03:08:27,772 forward as part of the final recommendations. So giving the 3030 03:08:27,772 --> 03:08:30,908 working group really the time, yes, work on it in phases, but 3031 03:08:30,908 --> 03:08:35,460 then take sort of that last month or 6 weeks to really 3032 03:08:35,460 --> 03:08:38,382 compile all the things that we've learned from the 3033 03:08:38,382 --> 03:08:41,185 different sections into one report that would then be 3034 03:08:41,185 --> 03:08:44,522 public, rather than doing it, you know, piece by piece. 3035 03:08:44,522 --> 03:08:48,926 I think as I was thinking through this I was also in my 3036 03:08:48,926 --> 03:08:51,462 head thinking about what we're going 3037 03:08:51,462 --> 03:08:54,265 into with the strategic plan and vision and how we're going 3038 03:08:54,265 --> 03:08:58,269 out to the community and that will also be happening sort of 3039 03:08:58,269 --> 03:09:02,340 in this like winter time period. So I wanted to keep it to like 3040 03:09:02,340 --> 03:09:06,477 one real really like one major public engagement piece on the 3041 03:09:06,477 --> 03:09:08,345 actual report. Thank you. 3042 03:09:08,345 --> 03:09:12,545 Yeah All right, that's all we have. 3043 03:09:12,550 --> 03:09:15,820 I think you have clear guidance from the council. 3044 03:09:15,820 --> 03:09:20,892 That's, uh, bring it up, um we don't need a resolution to 3045 03:09:20,892 --> 03:09:22,493 form the committee. 3046 03:09:22,493 --> 03:09:26,230 right? I, I don't believe so because it's an internal 3047 03:09:26,230 --> 03:09:29,990 working group. Um, I can consult with the city attorney 3048 03:09:29,990 --> 03:09:32,236 on that and confirm. OK. Thank you. 3049 03:09:32,236 --> 03:09:36,974 All right, so we are done with all the presentations. So we 3050 03:09:36,974 --> 03:09:40,778 are the very last item, which is interestingly action item, 3051 03:09:40,778 --> 03:09:45,578 uh, and now it's 10 : 30 Actually, more than that 3052 03:09:45,850 --> 03:09:52,450 1040, um, and this is about 26G55 approval of the boats and 3053 03:09:53,124 --> 03:09:57,924 committee reappointments and appointments and our city clerk, 3054 03:09:58,610 --> 03:10:02,400 Ms. Ellen, do you have any comments before we, we take a 3055 03:10:02,400 --> 03:10:05,336 motion? No, I have no additional comments. OK. Thank 3056 03:10:05,336 --> 03:10:10,963 you. Um, I believe, uh, we have the list in the packet. 3057 03:10:10,963 --> 03:10:15,763 and also you have a updated list on 3058 03:10:16,101 --> 03:10:20,105 um, with the one additional change to one of the committees. 3059 03:10:20,105 --> 03:10:23,776 Um, looks like, um, the council is in agreement. If that is the 3060 03:10:23,776 --> 03:10:27,913 case, I will entertain a motion. Mr. Mayor, I move to approve 3061 03:10:27,913 --> 03:10:31,116 the appointments, uh, as included in the attached list. 3062 03:10:31,116 --> 03:10:34,716 So I uh, moved by Councilor 3063 03:10:35,540 --> 03:10:38,654 Hernandez, seconded by, I believe, Councilor. 3064 03:10:38,990 --> 03:10:42,590 Mayorpotamaki, um, for comments, Councilmember Hernandez. 3065 03:10:44,262 --> 03:10:47,132 No thank you. We greatly appreciate, absolutely everyone 3066 03:10:47,132 --> 03:10:51,200 who applied, uh, and if you weren't considered, we highly, 3067 03:10:51,200 --> 03:10:53,205 uh, encourage you to participate as a part of the 3068 03:10:53,205 --> 03:10:57,809 boards, though you may not be a voting member, your input is 3069 03:10:57,809 --> 03:11:00,345 absolutely welcomed and appreciated. I mean, it, it's 3070 03:11:00,345 --> 03:11:03,810 impossible to be able to fill all of these thoughts with all 3071 03:11:03,810 --> 03:11:06,170 the amazing qualified, uh, candidates. So thank you so 3072 03:11:06,170 --> 03:11:08,954 much for applying and hope to have a great year. 3073 03:11:08,954 --> 03:11:14,292 Yeah, and, uh, do, do echo that. um, thank you all who stepped 3074 03:11:14,292 --> 03:11:17,895 forward. uh to serve College Park, um, 3075 03:11:17,895 --> 03:11:20,431 and this is not an easy job. There's lots of volunteering 3076 03:11:20,431 --> 03:11:25,770 time they need to spend on um, if there is no comment, 3077 03:11:25,770 --> 03:11:29,307 I'll take a, uh, you have a comment? Um, I just, uh, uh, 3078 03:11:29,307 --> 03:11:33,912 also for anyone who, um, uh, who does not receive a, um, uh, 3079 03:11:33,912 --> 03:11:37,849 a spot in on one of these, uh, commissions or or committees 3080 03:11:37,849 --> 03:11:40,385 that the process will begin again in December. Yeah, this 3081 03:11:40,385 --> 03:11:42,854 is not the last time. And consulos 3082 03:11:42,854 --> 03:11:47,654 You have a comment You have a question 3083 03:11:48,459 --> 03:11:50,662 Question, that that's the next item, right? 3084 03:11:50,662 --> 03:11:56,200 All right, uh, we are not going to go to the audience to take a, 3085 03:11:56,200 --> 03:12:00,205 take a, take comments because that was, that actually 3086 03:12:00,205 --> 03:12:01,740 happened in the beginning of the meeting. 3087 03:12:01,740 --> 03:12:06,144 Um, so this is the time to take the vote. All in favor, say I. 3088 03:12:06,144 --> 03:12:10,215 Any he opposed, any abstention, the motion passes. 3089 03:12:10,215 --> 03:12:13,618 So we're done with the action item and the very final one is 3090 03:12:13,618 --> 03:12:16,421 the request for status of the future agenda items. Is there 3091 03:12:16,421 --> 03:12:20,225 an application? Probably not. Then I entertain 3092 03:12:20,225 --> 03:12:22,894 emotion to hold on, hold on, hold on. 3093 03:12:22,894 --> 03:12:26,631 Sorry, I did I just have a question on the future that 3094 03:12:26,631 --> 03:12:30,702 giant items, um, I see on consent the renewal of the 3095 03:12:30,702 --> 03:12:33,505 Acela contract as we're talking about GoGov. 3096 03:12:33,505 --> 03:12:38,243 is that yes, I can explain that um because of the um term in 3097 03:12:38,243 --> 03:12:42,914 which the um ELA contract renewed and in 3098 03:12:42,914 --> 03:12:45,983 order to have continuity, we asked to actually have a six 3099 03:12:45,983 --> 03:12:49,921 month contract. They refused and so we've reduced the number 3100 03:12:49,921 --> 03:12:53,592 of licenses, um, to the what we need, the bare minimum, and 3101 03:12:53,592 --> 03:12:56,194 then we're renewing for the one year, so we have time to go 3102 03:12:56,194 --> 03:13:00,332 from one to the other, but unfortunately we have to renew 3103 03:13:00,332 --> 03:13:02,467 with them because they hold all our data. 3104 03:13:02,467 --> 03:13:05,403 Does that make sense I'm sorry. Interestingly, even 3105 03:13:05,403 --> 03:13:07,872 though we might not be using them, I feel like. Well, we'll 3106 03:13:07,872 --> 03:13:11,810 use them, we'll be using them, um, you know, in July 1st, 3107 03:13:11,810 --> 03:13:14,679 which is when it starts again and so we'll have to use them 3108 03:13:14,679 --> 03:13:18,883 for a couple months, so we can share our experience with other 3109 03:13:18,883 --> 03:13:21,686 Maryland municipalities, uh, we will. And I think it's all 3110 03:13:21,686 --> 03:13:24,556 about timing, right? So we have to really next time we've been 3111 03:13:24,556 --> 03:13:26,758 working on this for the last few months, but it's just, it 3112 03:13:26,758 --> 03:13:30,228 just got too close. Thank you for thank you for 3113 03:13:30,228 --> 03:13:33,228 asking. Appreciate it. All right 3114 03:13:33,765 --> 03:13:38,503 uming Nan, um, I entertain a motion to adjourn. Move to 3115 03:13:38,503 --> 03:13:42,240 adjourn. All in favor, say I. Any, any 3116 03:13:42,240 --> 03:13:45,977 opposed to no extension or council meeting is adjourned. 3117 03:13:45,977 --> 03:13:50,449 Goodnight College Park. So this, the motion was council 3118 03:13:50,449 --> 03:13:52,449 member.