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We'll go ahead and start the finance and economic developments that committee meeting. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands.

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One nation under God, individual with liberty and justice for all.

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agenda item B, roll call. Mayor Pro 10-boil. Here. Councilmember Tau.

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like to remind the audience that if they wish to address the

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Complete a green request to speak card available at the back of the council chamber

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disruptions or issues. Staff will do their best to ensure everyone gets an opportunity to speak.

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Additionally, citizens can submit public comment to the subcommittee electronically,

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know later than 10 a.m. on the day of the meeting. Comments received before the deadline will be sent to the subcommittee and will be part of the record and will be

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mentioned as part of the public comment portion of the agenda and will be posted on the city's website.

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Material may be emailed to economic development at cityamorside.gov.

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Also, for audience members who wish to have Spanish or long translation services, please let our interpreters know.

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Hola, mi nombre es el y sabeteo, es el interpe de español.

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Voy a estar localizada atrás de ustedes si tiene cualquier pregunta,

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pueden preguntarme.

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I'm a member of

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the public who is to speak on any matter not listed on the agenda may speak during this portion of the meeting and will be a lot of three minutes.

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The subcommittee may propose a further limit to the time available for all speakers at their discretion in order to accommodate as many speakers as possible.

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State law prohibits the subcommittee from acting at this meeting on any matter raised during the public comment period.

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Members of the public who is to speak on a matter that is listed on the agenda will be called upon to speak during discussion of that item.

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We have received no e-mails before the 10 a.m. deadline.

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Any e-mails received after the 10 a.m. deadline will be sent to the subcommittee.

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So, community members, we currently have no registered speakers.

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Should I close public comment?

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Agenda, item D, action items.

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Agenda, item D1, discussion on the roles and duties and setting

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reoccurring meeting dates.

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And time for the finance and economic development subcommittee.

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There are no registered speakers.

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Would you like me to close the public comment?

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Okay, and we're available for discussion now.

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Okay, Council members. I'm going to start this one off. If you don't mind. Obviously, this is a very new process for us.

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I want to thank the staff that have been working so diligently to be able to get to the point where we are today to have this meeting.

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As you know, there are other subcommittees made up by the City Council members.

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We do have a goal to have all five meet before early October, so it might be a little ambitious if that's kind of the plan that we have.

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And so the group, the departments, are going to be clerking, staffing, and working on these all have to get training in the whole process.

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And so you're going to see Amanda and even Venus here, they're not normally clerks, they're not normally clerks, they're not normally staff meetings.

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So they've had to go through the clerking training in the 87-07 training, which is normally just for our clerk team.

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But not only that before you get to date, it is also the formatting of the agenda publishing it all the steps that have to be gone through.

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Essentially, this is just like a council meeting. So with that in mind, we can only have the meetings here in this one room.

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That's where the technology is.

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ECGF in the back. We're also being televised and pushed through social media. I'm sorry through our

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Internet channel so to speak

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So again, it's just like your normal council meetings and having said that you're gonna have meeting minutes like you do for your council meetings

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You'll have to take action on the future meetings

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So those things won't change and of course the public participation is there both in person and and

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One of the things that was not discussed when we created the subcommittees with the resolution is some of the responsibilities, some of the specific areas, and a Jennifer has some things that she wants to bring up, and so I'll defer to her, but one of the first sort of a business that we have is really setting recurring times in dates.

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because all five have to meet in the same room

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because we've got other competition for this room,

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and we need to arrange interpreters and other staff.

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We do need to come up with a schedule,

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and it's got to be blessed by the City Council

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before becomes effective.

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But another thing is to get through,

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so I'll kind of curtail my remarks from the time being.

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So, good afternoon.

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It's almost a good evening.

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It's a good evening.

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The purpose of this particular item

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is to establish the roles and duties of this particular subcommittee, that way everyone understands

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what the purview is, not just us, but the public as well.

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And then also, like, city manager stated, is to try to figure out dates, like standing dates

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that we can hold these meetings.

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So in the packet, I did provide a calendar.

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Now it's only, like, September through December, and that's just because there's no need

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do a whole year. It kind of gives you the just of what those kind of months look like.

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So there's some boards and commission meetings that meet every other month, like every

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even number month, every odd number month. You have the tax transparency that meets

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quarterly, which is February, May, August, and November. Then you have planning commission that meets

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twice a month. You'll have recreation and parks that meets every fourth Monday of the month.

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And personnel, I believe, meets every second Tuesday of the month.

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So this kind of just gives you an idea of what the calendar looks like as we have it already.

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Between council meetings, all of our boards and commissions, and then you can see what dates are potentially available still.

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So I'll leave those two things up to you guys for discussion.

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And then the idea is whatever you guys give, as a recommendation, we'll put it into a resolution

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to bring to council for final approval, so then it's more on the record of how these meetings

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are going to be structured.

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I'm doing a user request to speak, but not okay.

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I guess a few questions I have is how often or not how often, how many items do you think

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we're going to be needing to look at for the remainder of the year and looking at next year

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And thinking of what those items could or cannot be, whatever it could be, I think that

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really should determine how often we meet.

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Do we need to meet monthly?

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Is it by monthly?

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Is it quarterly?

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I mean, I don't know what items are going to be put on the agenda.

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So it's hard for me to determine how often we should be meeting.

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When we had the regular, the old subcommittees, it was just as as needed.

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And I felt like it was almost either quarterly or every other month.

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If that.

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To answer your question, we don't know.

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So I think Mike plays too often.

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By month, that's hard too often.

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I think quarterly is good, and you can always have special meetings if the need to.

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Okay, then I'm motion for at least be quarterly or

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three times a year.

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I'm fine with that too.

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Yeah.

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I'm good three times a year.

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Because you said there was five subcommittees I have to schedule.

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So we have five subcommittees, we have council, I think we have a total of, I just did the

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math earlier.

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I want to say close to 15 different committees between council subcommittees and boards

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and commissions.

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I will say though that the majority of our boards and commissions with the exception of three

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happen after five.

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So like arts commission is that four recreation and parks is that five 30 so it's still close to six or actually after five

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And then you have personal board that's at four and then I think B pack is at four as well

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So it's really kind of trying to fit in

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certain days

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times

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I mean if you guys want to do early in the afternoon kind of how we're doing it now

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That actually wouldn't help in this scheduling portion of it

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Um, but it's really up to how you guys want to structure that.

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I'm open to uh, same time with me today.

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So up to see his, can some of them boil.

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I mean, personally like I'm taking work off right now,

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so it doesn't really work.

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It was just kind of, hey, this is the only thing that's offered, so it is what it is that we even have a council member that's not here today, and I don't know if it's because of work.

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But I know that he works as well, so, and it's not just for us that are here today who's going to be here in the future.

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Yeah. And what's their schedule is going to be like, I don't mind meeting like at four or four thirty, even though, I mean, even looking at the items after this, I feel like they're going to be quick meetings.

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I'm not seeing that's what it's always going to be like, but just for scheduling purposes.

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Yeah, I mean, I look at this, we decided to make, and sorry, this is my not topic.

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We decided to make these subcommittees not realizing what SB 707 was going to entail and here we are.

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So, so

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you want to do three times a year.

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I'm fine with three times a year.

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Is there like certain months we,

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if you want to start narrowing it down,

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you want to do like in first of the month

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or first of the year, middle of the year,

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then at the end of the year, close to the end of the year,

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something like that?

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Well, I must even think,

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say we do three meetings and every other subcommittee

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to three meetings, there are 15 meetings right there.

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And it starts to get trickier as we move along.

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Are we the first to meet?

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Well, we better say what we want now.

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for anyone else takes it.

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So, I mean, we can look at the calendars where,

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like, so like, this one, what does this one?

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October looks a little bit more open,

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so we can look for more months that are a little bit more open

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and then maybe kind of schedule around those

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that might be a little bit easier.

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I was just gonna ask you,

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think that we're gonna have to meet again

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the remainder of this year, this calendar year.

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So, I guess, you know, you're asking about how many items

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So I think maybe the items actually are important.

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So what should come to this group for discussion

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and feedback maybe direction?

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So I would envision that this is where

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we talk about things like draft budget.

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We talk perhaps about audit for the international statements.

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Today you're talking about a land use lease.

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There might be other things that you think are important

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to discuss with that, but those are a few things

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that we came up with, so obviously we're going to talk about budget, it needs to be early enough

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in the process before it gets to the full council and like May, so that may be one of

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your later in the year meetings, I mean, I don't remember the oddity schedule is usually...

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Okay, it's odd.

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Audits schedule usually were done, it's kind of depends, but February through June is usually

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round the financial statements are complete.

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Okay, so that that's good overlap, so I think this is some of the things that we would envision that this subcommittee would be involved in.

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I think early December would be a good time to have next week.

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Early December, okay.

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For finance.

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So if we did a December every year, what would be the other months?

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A month before budget or a month or two before budget adoption.

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So, may usually include tax transparency, right?

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So, we usually presenting some version of the budget to them for measures C and measure

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Y.

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So, if you wanted it before after that, it would either be late April or late May,

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but you're

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also, first budget session to the council is for second meeting in May, right?

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So, those kind of get the timing gets a little odd.

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So would April be better for us to see it?

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I would agree with the I think every three months.

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So like December and then skip January very March and then we do a early April.

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And then we got May and June for the budget.

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And then July and then we'll come back and August again.

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And then the first meeting all the year.

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So April.

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August and December.

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Okay.

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And then if you want, we can kind of plug in what days those fall in, and in those months.

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And then we can figure out, would you guys prefer after five? A little bit before five? Can I get like an idea of a time that would work best?

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I mean, typically, I'm off work at four, but I do have some meetings that start at four.

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So, just, yeah, I just really depends on the day.

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Five, thirty.

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I mean, five.

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Five, five.

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Yeah.

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I mean, after five works, too.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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So, we'll shoot four.

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Was it April, August, in December?

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We'll find dates in there to plug those in, and those will be like a standing, meeting dates.

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And then the time will be about 530, and then we can start plugging them into this calendar

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that way we can kind of see what if that's going to work.

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And then it'll be good when we schedule it, you guys will already have it in your schedules,

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knowing that those dates are a meeting date, and if we don't have anything that needs to

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be a gender, we can always cancel it.

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So, okay.

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There's that option as well.

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Now as far as like rolls and duties, I know we kind of touched on it a little bit.

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I think this will kind of help when we're adding items for a subcommittee or if Council is going to direct staff to take it to the subcommittee.

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And I think it also helped the public understand kind of what the subcommittees about.

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If we can have some sort of, I'd like framework as to what you guys want to focus on.

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I think that would be helpful for kind of all of us when we put these meetings together.

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Okay, so I think it's I know we got the finance part down right that one's fairly simple to

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narrow down on what that scope would be I think it's more active so I can refer to a Frank if there's certain things that he thinks would

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Should come to this up committee and we can kind of frame it around that I can read from the policy. There's some broad

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There's some broad strokes in the policy

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Okay

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City Budget Review, retail and commercial business outreach, job creation and retention, community

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development and coordination with parks and community services, arts and cultural commission.

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and in a applicable Council's representative to the Merced County Local Agency Formation Commission shall be a member of Finance Committee unless otherwise directed by Council.

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If that works for everybody.

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If I may please, we also need to remember that in economic development the umbrella includes parking.

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So there may be time when we need to bring downtown parking.

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And although we can't discuss at this meeting, but for example, we have a request for Parklet

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to go on Main Street again.

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We also oversee the airport industrial park so that it may be improvements, land sales,

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or other infrastructure that needs to be installed, that we would need to discuss airports

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items while we have the commission not everything goes to the airport authority and sometimes

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we just need directions so that may be something that may be brought up here.

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So, economic development is a little broader than your traditional business retention expansion

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and recruitment efforts.

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So, if you guys are okay with kind of what both Craig and Frank said we can put something

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together and bring it to Council as well for a final formal vote.

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Okay.

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Yeah, because I think it's already stayed in the policy CA of what this circumneed so what's

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focused on.

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And then we can now refrain to sit on it.

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Perfect.

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All right.

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Thank you guys.

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Agenda item D2 recommendation for proposal selection to the city council.

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All

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right, I'll jump right into the Francisco Mendoza with the economic development. The item that you have before you provides an opportunity to continue the transformation downtown.

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and the enhancement to the arts and cultural district designation.

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The task will be to look at three proposals,

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three development proposals that are triggered by the cell of the city property

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as 626 West Main Street.

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So citywide context maps, you can see here through the Gold Star,

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the subject sites located in Central Merced.

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Here's an aerial image that provides a little bit more context.

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subject sites located south of Maine between MNN Street.

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It's the parcel that's outlined in yellow.

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Some of the major landmarks in the area include to the north.

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I'll keep 10 hotel and the northwest major in Thayoga.

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If you were to look at this site from Street View,

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it would look like one large undeveloped parcel,

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but actually it's four parcels.

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And the other three parcels include the two to the left,

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640 and 636, which are owned by Hopton Properties who submitted a request for proposal, a proposal, and then the other parcel shown on the right

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620 West Main is owned by the Larson family who also submitted a proposal. So 626 West Main, again shown here in yellow.

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It's original intent was really to provide access from the parking lot to the South, two Main Street, so it creates a direct access so that folks don't have to walk around the block.

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So, 626 West Main Street, it's about 2,500 square feet in terms of land use, has a designation

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of regional community commercial, and zoning of central commercial, so essentially what

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you see in downtown that same land use is very, very flexible, allow things like restaurants,

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retail, multi-family, things of that nature.

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Earlier this year, in January 5, 26, Council directed the initiation of the cell of the site

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future development, which then led to the releasing of the RFP, a request for proposal.

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And the cycle for that lasted between June 3rd to June 30th, 2026, the RFP disclosed

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the praise value of the 2,500 square foot law, which came in at $55,000, and also requested

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a few things, which included three references, disclosing any litigation with public agencies

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over the last 10 years, and also requires construction within 18 months of closing escrow.

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So from that period, that review period, the city received three proposals.

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Here is

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proposal number one. It's known as the porch on May. It's submitted by Caleb Metaphine

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Hopeton Properties and the cell price that they're proposing is $25,000.

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Here is the project

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area, so each one of these three options is going to have a different project area, different sizes.

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So this one has like a minimum and a maximum. So at a bare minimum, you'd be looking at the

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green area, which would be three-fourths of the undeveloped area. Since they have so much control

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of the parcels adjacent to the west, at the most, they would actually develop the entire

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or a vacant area if they can enter into an agreement with the property owner to the east

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site plan.

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As you can see here is a very dynamic site plan.

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As a lot of activation going on, kind of working our way from the left to the right

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starting at the top left, which is closest to Main Street.

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There'd be some flexible seating, which includes picnic tables and some smaller seats

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as well, smaller tables.

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Below that would be a stage for light entertainment.

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seating capacity would be between the Dalvin and 1500 people.

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Below that closest to the alley would be a beer and wine station,

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some restrooms, some storage space,

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to be using containers to help build the facilities for that.

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Right down the middle is what they call the mobile vendor zone,

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and so the mobile vendor zone would.

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The surface would be redone.

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It would include stamp concrete to look like stones.

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There would be some movable plantters and there would be enough space for 8 to 10 vendors and then includes food vendors

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On the right-hand side would be the recreation area, and so the recreation area includes

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a bunch of all courts, fire pits, game areas, and the surface of that would be the composite granite.

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Here is a conceptual rendering of that project, gives you a sense of the scale and the massing

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and the infrastructure improvements. And this rendering here gives you an idea of what the finished product

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would look like on the top left would be the most visible aspect of the project, which would

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be the main entrance, and so you can see here the entrance on the top left, the bottom left

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would be the stage area, it kind of has that country rustic style aesthetic, and then on

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the top right would be the food truck corridor. This is a night rendering which mostly illustrates

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the recreation area so you can see the vatubo area, the fire pits, and the recreation space.

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A couple of details about their proposal. The proposal would include 23 to 55 jobs,

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then includes part-time jobs, full-time jobs, and seasonal jobs. In terms of experience,

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this applicant, he has K-Lemetaphine, he's local, office-nelling, and he works with managing

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and we storm her said, and he has done other projects in the Southwest, including the Convention Center in downtown Phoenix,

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and also a hotel in 18-story hotel in Allington, Texas, in terms of capital investment for the improvements.

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You'd be looking at somewhere between 450,000 and 550,000 dollars.

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Proposal number two, Proposal number two is Mercedes-Benz Plaza, and this was submitted by John Martin and

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626 West Main Street LLC, purchase price is $65,000, the scale or the project areas smaller

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than the previous projects.

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So you'd be looking at $7,500 fee or about a third of the undeveloped area.

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This is a site plan.

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So the site plan is a lot more open than the previous one.

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It includes landscaping along the perimeter and also within the interior.

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This project also includes a stage which would be located closer to the alley and it would be a gate with a pergola and also some shaded cells that would tie everything together.

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This slide here shows essentially what the project would look like at street level.

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Again, you can see the pergola, the shaded structure, and also the stage jobs generated and capital improvement costs.

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Those were not provided. Those are still to be determined.

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experience with this developer, with similar projects, they actually have a lot of local

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experience, they've done some projects across the street, which include the Occupy

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Ten Hotel, Mainzor Theatre, and Tailor Co-Partments.

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The third and final proposal includes the Mainstree Bell A-Lane and Parking Improvement

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Project, submitted by John Larson and ERE construction.

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Their proposed purchase price would be $25,000.

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This project area is the smallest of the three proposed.

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It's a lot more constrained.

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It would only be limited to the city property.

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So it wouldn't include any adjacent parcels.

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Site plan, a site plan was not submitted.

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Rendering celebrations were not submitted as well.

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Project details.

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So this would be really just utilitarian.

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It would serve one function which is to provide parking for the hotel across the street for a

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CalCaptain hotel. It would create between seven and 10 parking spaces, and it would help with the

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ballet parking and also short-term parking in terms of jobs generated between five and nine jobs.

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Part-time and full-time references were not included with their submission, and in terms of capital

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you'd be looking at somewhere between 175 to $250,000.

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staff did evaluate the proposals committee from three different departments committee of four

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and the three departments for the city manager's office, economic development and planning.

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It was very broad, open-ended discussion but it also included a few topics that helped guide the discussion

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and those topics included the quality of the project.

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So the architecture and landscaping, the community benefits,

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such as the job creation, the flexibility space.

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I'd also include economic value, maximizing the site's

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potential, and also the experience and qualifications

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from the developer.

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So one project stood out above the rest from staff,

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that project that really stood out is the porch on main.

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And a couple of things that helped it stand out,

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included just overall family.

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Finally, design of it. It included just additional aspects, such as the recreation area, the fire pits that kind of make it a more welcoming space to people of all ages.

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Job creation was the highest out of all the proposals at 23 to 55 jobs.

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Capital improvement was the highest as well, at $450 to $500,000. The scale of the project was also the biggest out of all the three, which included somewhere between three quarters to the entire site on the

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site there. Staff also like the business incubation opportunity, which would essentially allow

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for micro retail businesses to test out the market here and eventually maybe graduate to a

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physical building sort of like Joy-T-Bar, which started off doing pop-ups and now has a physical

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location here in town. And the last thing we looked at that really helped to stand out was really

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this is activation. It has the ability to draw between a dials in and 1,500 people to the west

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side of downtown further again enhancing it as an arts and cultural destination. There's ample

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parking to accommodate this capacity. There's a parking lot to the south as I mentioned and to

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other parking garages to the north that are underutilized during the weekend. And so those are some

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things that really help this project stand out compared to the others.

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So that's the recommendation from staff.

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Obviously, the subcommittee can make your own recommendation to city council based off

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of your assessment.

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There's obviously three options here, poor chon main, where's that come in plaza and then

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the parking structure.

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We know it's difficult to have two people agree on three different options, so you also

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have the ability of making recommendations even if they don't align and we can still move it

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forward to the city council. All of the applicants have expressed interest in keeping this

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project moving. So even if you don't agree, you can still move it forward if you desire to do so.

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So that concludes the presentation. I'm available for any questions.

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I have no questions.

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Yeah, I don't have a question for you. Okay. Thank you.

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I will make a motion recommending the city council to select the porch on main proposals submitted by

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and properties LLC for the purchase of 626 with West Main Street.

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So again.

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And we will make note of the recommendations we don't need a formal vote for this subcommittee.

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Thank you.

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agenda item e business agenda item e1 subcommittee comments.

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Is there any comments this up committee would like to make at this time?

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A comment for me.

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No comment for me either.

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agenda item E2, request to add items to future agenda. Is there any items of the subcommittee

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would like to add to the future agenda?

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None for me.

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None for me.

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agenda item E adjournment. All in favor?

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Aye. Aye.

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This meeting is adjourned.