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[0:26] Good evening. We're meeting a bill that requires our item. Start. Please call the roll.
[0:32] We have confidence.
[0:35] We have a car.
[0:39] We have a stop-stop.
[0:48] You have no idea what it is. In the court, in the court, it's 7-7 for 5-4-9-5-4-20.
[0:55] Okay, tonight we have three proclamations, the first one I'll read is for over American
[1:02] group proclamations, and then we also have one for cleaning the week of May 17th, due
[1:08] 23rd, 2020, as public works week, and then also, we're cleaning the month of May, 2020,
[1:15] as Ellen is a Dan Lowe's syndrome and I'm really expect from this sort of awareness month.
[1:22] The organization that requested these proclamations will be receiving these proclamations in the mail.
[1:28] This time I will ask the student manager for Stanford if she has a report this evening.
[1:33] Good evening Mr. Mayor, Madam of the Council members of my team that are here as well as the community.
[1:38] I do have a few updates for you this evening.
[1:40] The first relate to COVID testing, and you've probably heard testing has really opened up,
[1:48] and specifically in our county, they have extra capacity to test.
[1:52] And they're actually encouraging essential workers and others to get tested.
[1:57] And in the South County, the available community testing site that's open to everyone is at Christopher High School,
[2:03] and you can make an appointment by calling 180-634-1123.
[2:09] There's also another side of the call, which is in Morgan's role, but not everyone can get tested there.
[2:16] It is still closely at the contact one's regular healthcare provider, yes, one wants to be tested.
[2:23] This kind of thing that I wanted to note is that the Morgan Hill technology park draft EIR was released flat Friday.
[2:30] It has been widely distributed to the community, and a reminder that Carmen should be referred to in all the communications
[2:37] It's out to Adam to scout the honor on our team and he will be compiling all of the comments on the EIR.
[2:45] In addition to tonight's conversation that we're going to have on business recovery,
[2:50] we're going to have a town hall meeting tomorrow that we usually do in Thursday that 530.
[2:55] And tomorrow we're going to be soliciting the community's input on the idea for business recovery.
[3:01] The Morgan Hill Chamber of Commerce also moves to the student world meeting to solicit
[3:07] ideas.
[3:08] And this is going to add to ideas that they have that we're going to basically mention tonight.
[3:15] The information to join the call is available on our website.
[3:18] I have one more update and that is related to the Council for a week front Thursday.
[3:23] So that's May 28th.
[3:25] That town hall is going to have a focus on the Monterey Road, Complete Street, Inc. or Lane
[3:32] Reduction.
[3:34] The meeting is notified today that it will be discussed at the two hall on May 28th, and
[3:40] in addition to that, the council will hear this item on June 3rd, and we encourage everyone
[3:46] to share their thoughts and ideas, and on our website and on what the communication
[3:51] that went out today, comments should be directed to Chris Yeo-Nee or William Tobin, and that concludes
[3:57] my report.
[4:05] I'll be providing a written report on some sensitive issues.
[4:09] One thing I did want to mention, there is a closed session at the end of tonight's agenda
[4:14] normally we would come back from closed session and report out to the people remaining
[4:20] in the capital chambers, but because of the Zoom meetings, we won't be reporting out
[4:25] in the meeting, but I will say and say, a co-session is asking direction on a real state,
[4:33] a transaction, and therefore there wouldn't be any reportable action to report out, but
[4:37] I will report up formally at the next regular account to me.
[4:42] And Mr. Mayor, may I also have one more item I would like to report on?
[4:46] Of course.
[4:47] And it's related to public safety.
[4:50] And so I'm going to turn it over to Chief Powell's growth and Michelle's going to put up a map.
[4:55] We just wanted to provide an update on a call for service comparing this time last year with the time that we've been in the shelter and place.
[5:04] So, did that Chief I turn it over to you?
[5:07] It didn't be in there.
[5:08] There was a city council for the managers to be attorney.
[5:11] My name is Shane Cousin.
[5:14] And I am the interim questions.
[5:16] First, the good news.
[5:17] Also, the rest of the federal board was responsible for the uptake in our commercial
[5:21] board release.
[5:23] Also, there's also a degree that they have stopped the person, or personally responsible
[5:27] for setting off illegal fireworks through voluntary compliance, as it's ensuing since
[5:32] they have contacted some people of interest and the fireworks have stopped.
[5:39] Now for the challenging news, we are experiencing a 36% increase of criminal activities
[5:44] on the conduit road in connection with cranial staying at our hotels, that amounts to about
[5:50] two hundred and fifteen calls for service compared to a hundred and fifty-seven calls for service.
[5:55] We're going to take too much period, we're getting much seventy-two today's dates.
[6:01] The activity that's to be sheltered in place further, we're getting the occupancy rate of hotel
[6:07] and the zero dollar debt will release in criminals after they will arrest them, in some cases, multiple times.
[6:15] We do not have the spring events construction workers or other business guests staying at their hotels, helping us to determine the crime from happening there.
[6:25] The built-in window area is in full effect where criminals are attacking criminals and facing crime.
[6:30] We have been told that they are staying in our hotel because of the low price point compared to other hotels and other jurisdictions.
[6:39] Some of their increased calls for service are coming from a select deal, the county's homeless shelter placement program.
[6:47] We have been told by the Hinton Inn that there are 52 occupants staying there.
[6:52] And from our experience, those calling the problems invite others to play with them,
[6:58] which increased the numbers and the calls for service.
[7:02] This is not reflective of the majority of the people saying they're only a select student.
[7:07] So what are they doing?
[7:09] County LES has been very responsible in a working with us.
[7:12] They have our state-cranes detectives.
[7:14] We're assigned to address this problem through the retail management meetings.
[7:19] Find first and effort, implement the development, and document and use and supply relations.
[7:25] And that concludes my report. Thank you.
[7:29] Thank you, Mr. Mayor, that concludes our report.
[7:32] Great. Thank you.
[7:33] Mr. Washington, where you finished?
[7:36] Thank you very much.
[7:37] We'll move on to the public comment.
[7:39] This is the public or entitled to address the city council
[7:42] considering any item within the Morgan Hill City Council
[7:45] subject matter jurisdiction.
[7:46] Public comment is limited to no more than three minutes,
[7:49] except for certain circumstances, the City Council is prohibited from discussing or taking action
[7:55] in any item not appearing on the close to the agenda.
[7:59] And I will look at participants.
[8:01] Let's hear this seat if there are any participants who wish to.
[8:05] And Mr. Bernoulli has a chance, but when we show that you could open up,
[8:08] Mr. Bernoulli has a chance.
[8:10] And then as I am doing that, I just would like to thank you, um, I would like to remind
[8:17] that anybody calling in can rate their hands by dialing certain.
[8:24] I'll see you here.
[8:24] Make it up.
[8:26] Good evening, Council.
[8:27] I'll follow you on the city manager's comment regarding the availability of the FDR.
[8:32] I would see you see none of the email from David Elliott who is the chair of Westmont,
[8:36] senior living council.
[8:39] I'm not a spokesman for them obviously, but one thing that always wrankled me and one of
[8:46] the reasons I became such an added opponent of how this project has proceeded is because of
[8:52] the total disregard and total disrespect that the city had in the original application of
[8:57] that project. They were completely ignored and even know about the project until they heard from
[9:02] public media. Now, the city had them, that the email was sent to Adam, I hope they soon just
[9:08] you walked in a bucket and left sitting there. Those residents are 300 feet away from
[9:13] this massive project and deserve an answer to the very serious concerns they have about
[9:19] the big picture. I'm not going to go into what the email said. I urge the council person who
[9:25] is responsible for that district to go talk to these people and tell them how their concerns
[9:31] are going to be interrupted around the waiting 60 days until the shoe is going to drop
[9:37] there's a big meeting and they don't know what's going on.
[9:39] Only people have in the last time I urge you to go talk to those people and hear their concerns
[9:45] about this process, don't delay, they are concerned and they've already told you that these
[9:52] paid attention to them.
[9:53] Thank you.
[9:55] It is very nice to see any other hand going up.
[10:06] I'm trying to bring it back.
[10:09] Brian said, if you could open up Brian, Michael Holmes,
[10:19] you're in Michael Holmes.
[10:21] Michael Holmes.
[10:21] Michael Holmes, I'm trying to bring it back.
[10:24] And I just have a brilliant comment about the COVID-19 pandemic.
[10:33] And I think it's a little bit serious.
[10:35] There will be very many things on the phone, so the truth is that when it is there, there will be
[10:43] very much in the presence of the other state that has been prepared about all of this
[10:52] together, I think that there is a disservice for the people who have been retired,
[11:02] they send
[11:08] So I think it's a very consistent series, and I had so many times, I think it was a very
[11:18] consistent series, and I had so many times, I think it was a very, very large
[11:20] together.
[11:21] Thank you.
[11:22] Here's the first one.
[11:28] So I don't see any more hand going up.
[11:34] I will close public comment and for the adoption of tonight's agenda.
[11:39] So this, that's it.
[11:44] I will call it open.
[11:47] What's the bank?
[11:53] My thing has about that.
[12:01] And your chance consent calendar has.
[12:05] For item, I am sorry that a pair are considered reaching
[12:10] and may be approved by one motion for citizens to decal some policy and procedures.
[12:15] Just any member of the council or public may request to have an item that moves in the consent
[12:19] calendar.
[12:21] I will pop it in action and now ask my colleague if there are anyone
[12:30] willing.
[12:31] Then I will ask, we will do a little bit of a concern for your office.
[12:35] Second.
[12:36] Okay.
[12:36] Motion.
[12:37] Open the second.
[12:39] Hold on.
[12:40] Continue to have the public.
[12:45] And go up.
[12:47] I read that.
[12:49] Okay.
[12:50] Okay.
[12:50] Thank you.
[12:51] It's up.
[12:52] That's okay.
[12:52] And I always have this of mere questions, protecting the mere die hard, I understand, I appreciate it, thank you.
[13:00] Okay, protecting the public.
[13:03] The motion in a second, all and until we need to roll a couple things.
[13:07] May I come to time?
[13:09] Hi.
[13:10] May I come?
[13:11] Yes.
[13:12] Yes.
[13:13] Thank you.
[13:14] Might be in a thousand?
[13:16] Yes.
[13:16] Okay.
[13:18] All right.
[13:20] Okay.
[13:21] We will not move on to you either five other business, which is the same as recommended
[13:24] fiscal year 2021 and 2022, on start 2021, 2022, upgrade budget, and this will
[13:31] year 2021 through 25 plain six capital improvements program budget.
[13:39] Okay, so what I'd like to do is sharing my screen where we kind of let's off from Friday,
[13:44] the first list of some of our app Friday's budget workshops, we got through the vast majority
[13:51] of material, and we covered the operations budget, both the budget that was recommended
[13:57] for on April 22nd and introduced, as well as the proposed reductions in light of the
[14:04] revenue loss that were in experience with COVID-19.
[14:08] And so this evening where we, where we will start is the enterprise fund.
[14:13] And then after the enterprise fund, I'll turn it over to Post Service Director Chris
[14:17] we need to talk about our capital imprisonment program.
[14:21] And so with that, I'm going to forward the slide here,
[14:24] and we're just going to talk about water and wastewater.
[14:28] And so our anticipating some level of additional bad debt
[14:35] as it relates to water.
[14:37] And we are not allowed to do shut off per the governor's order.
[14:41] And so, you know, shut off to allow us to ensure
[14:44] our higher level of classability, and so because of that, we do anticipate additional
[14:50] bad debts.
[14:51] In addition, we anticipate that we'll have lower commercial usage due to the shelter
[14:56] in place, and that that would be offset, though.
[15:00] We'll find some great revenue that we're anticipating to receive from valley water. In addition to that, we do anticipate increased consumption on the residential side due to the shelter in place.
[15:14] I also wanted to mention about that on groundwater charge, valley water has announced that they are deferring their July 1st increase, and boards going to visit the amount in the time in October of the year and a few months.
[15:31] On the way, we clarify, we are anticipating a reduction revenue by about 300,000, once again that's due to the bad debt that I mentioned for the uncolectable accounts as well as lower commercial usage.
[15:47] There is no impact of due to our increased residential consumption as it's based on a six monthly charge that's adjusted annually.
[15:57] And once again, the right-offs are due to the order that prevents the shut-off of the water.
[16:02] In addition to that, I just want to mention that we do have a plan for our capital project.
[16:08] And that's outlight in our outline in our CIP.
[16:11] We'll talk a little bit more about that in a moment.
[16:14] And that will be the turning of final amount
[16:17] that we need to bond for.
[16:19] And when the time is appropriate, we'll
[16:21] be coming back to council.
[16:23] So I believe that concludes what we wanted to mention
[16:26] on wastewater water.
[16:27] Once again, this just is meant to be an update
[16:30] from where we were originally introduced to budget
[16:33] to where we're at now.
[16:35] And so, I now want to go ahead and invite and move to the Capital Improvement Program and ask for a few minutes to step in.
[16:50] I'm giving mayor to help some of this
[16:55] director
[17:02] questions if that's okay with the council to kind of.
[17:08] And before we get started, just want to.
[17:11] We are, we did you could move to the background, so we are doing a six year CIP.
[17:16] It's
[17:22] in that
[17:27] series because that's where we know what we have planned and we plan through the whole six
[17:41] year in the CIP that we will be ready to discuss any project that we have.
[17:46] But we will discuss some of the larger projects and the key projects in each area and see back on those.
[17:57] And as we, as we walk through this, we have six areas of the CIP and we grew things in the areas, but I want to talk a little bit just about how we fund the CIP.
[18:08] When we look at this program for, say, 2021, we're talking about a $48 million CIP,
[18:18] about or closer to $49, of that money, $250,000 is from the general fund.
[18:25] And the rest of those dollars are from other funds.
[18:30] The biggest portion from impact funds, and then from our enterprise funds, and then from grants.
[18:34] And then some remainder from some of the voluntary contributions from RDCS.
[18:42] So besides that $250,000 that is being put towards unreadability, the rest of the CIP
[18:52] is a pretty defined funding source.
[18:55] So I know there's been so much discretion is there in the CIP.
[19:02] If you don't want to know, we do not have a lot.
[19:07] From their general funds, roll into the CIP or other things,
[19:10] where they have more discussion on their dollars in their
[19:13] capital improvement program, we do not have that.
[19:17] And we can talk about that specifically for each project.
[19:20] It doesn't mean the council can't make choices.
[19:22] It just means the choices on how you use the dollars are
[19:24] unlimited to the buckets where
[19:29] the, and for the next two years,
[19:33] this is the breakdown of the funding among the different areas.
[19:37] You'll see wastewater, a big portion as well as streets and roads.
[19:40] and then smaller portions for some of the other areas.
[19:43] And that really fluctuates on which years
[19:47] we're being more planning versus which years
[19:49] we have bigger projects scheduled,
[19:51] and you'll see that as we go.
[19:55] And so the the largest projects per se,
[20:01] and we'll talk about these in each of their areas
[20:03] are listed up there, obviously hail out of new extension.
[20:08] The sewer system repair replacements,
[20:10] treatment plan expansion, treatment rehabilitation program, flood control project with the water district and the water supply facility and pipeline repairs and storm system expansion and then for all of school.
[20:31] Just some of the guiding principles for the CIP, we need the projects to be consistent with the general plan, the planning commission at their last meeting sound, the proposed CIP consistent with the general plan, and the projects are typically in one of our adopted master plans, or other guiding documents, we try and align the capital improvement program with the council priorities.
[20:55] We hope that we are discussing in many cases maintenance or efficiency issues and then we
[21:02] have to have the obviously available revenues to pay for the project itself but then we also
[21:08] have to consider what is that project due to our long-term maintenance and how does the impact
[21:12] of general fund.
[21:13] And then the last part really goes into that detail mentioned about the buckets.
[21:18] We have to use the funds legally so we have to use the funds.
[21:21] They saw state law, how would they say we can use impact funds, grant funds, we have to use them for their intended purpose, so we have to follow the law, so it restricts us.
[21:34] And so since the initial CIP was presented to the council, we have updated the budget and we have reduced revenue assumptions related to development impact fees at the same ratio that
[21:48] that Christina and Dad discussed are development fee, revenue reductions, and then we've
[21:55] reduced revenue assumptions for Mr. B and S. B. One, the payment rehabilitation, and then
[22:01] added a non-profit center project, which was inadvertently left out of the previous.
[22:12] Before we get to the projects that are in the CAP, I want to talk about the projects that are under
[22:17] away and not necessarily in the CFPN. I know there's some discussion from Chancellor on these
[22:22] very happy to discuss go back in discusses. But our magical brings inclusive playground.
[22:27] That project is in contract and scheduled to break around next month. We don't have a date,
[22:34] but it is in contract approved by Council. We've finished, we're finishing up the tenant
[22:39] sewer main projects, so everyone saw that work on tenant that's been completed. We have
[22:47] are should be installed in the coming months
[22:49] that have been approved.
[22:50] Those are lighted crosswalks in some safety fencing.
[22:55] The main avenue bike lane project will
[22:57] be coming to the council shortly.
[22:59] That project bids were just received on that.
[23:01] And that's actually a pavement and bike lane project
[23:04] that the council will receive an update on.
[23:09] Shortly, the Moduring Channel Trail project,
[23:11] which is a completely grant funded project
[23:13] will also be bid shortly.
[23:15] And that's in the work.
[23:16] and then the Butterfield app project is
[23:23] that we've had that is
[23:28] on to the council.
[23:30] And then you see out there, the CRC and Library Expansion Projects are halfway done.
[23:39] Just I'm going to go through the highlights for the Parks and Recreation section.
[23:44] So, for all of the school part, this would be a joint
[23:49] on the land we would ask for,
[24:00] to book everything to do with this project including improving the funding, improving the agreement,
[24:06] And the provenant design is all going to come back to the council.
[24:11] This is just allocating dollars, and that's in the second year of the CIT.
[24:16] The list will be August Creek Trail.
[24:18] This is almost a fully grant funded
[24:23] it for next year.
[24:25] And this would coincide with the completion of the U.S. Creek Federal
[24:31] Project
[24:33] Watsonville Road.
[24:34] It would continue that trail and do pedestrian crossing that Watsonville
[24:38] and middle for that to be used.
[24:42] This is a project that will require some maintenance, it is going to require some additional maintenance.
[24:53] We haven't
[24:57] been completely defined, but it'll be in the CIP and as the years go forward, it will grow more.
[25:02] And that is really the intent to renovate existing parts of recreation facilities using or
[25:14] be allowed to do that.
[25:16] So we will allow the users to run for renovation versus new and expansion.
[25:19] We want to do that, because that will help us with maintaining our parts long term.
[25:23] We
[25:26] have a funding for the Office for the Outdoor Sports Center area which includes a vacant property that the city has purchased in recent years to master plan that whole site and then work on the environmental review which would be one of the next steps in developing the property.
[25:46] So we have that in the immediate two-year term development of that site would be farther out.
[25:52] We have 500,000 in the first year for potential land bank for neighborhood park, and we have 800,000
[26:01] for the non-profit center that the city has negotiated the agreement with the part of the
[26:15] People with a taller project at the CCC with the realignment that's approved by that agreement is
[26:24] for them.
[26:24] They will construct a non-profit center and that's the price we will pay for that.
[26:38] And then, some of these days and they use further up in the first two years, the potential of the San Motival Facilities, the Billing Ramante Expansion, both of those items we have,
[26:49] The ability studies that have just gone to commissions that will be committed to the council in the near future and additional parking recreation facility renovations that we talked about we have the amounts further out and then you don't see a lot more in the CIP as a city would continue banking funds for the future multi-led site.
[27:13] Public facilities, there is not a lot in the next two years, the next major C would be the
[27:25] fire station and construction would, when start told 2223, and we would work on
[27:30] design of that facility. As we go forward, we understand there's operational impacts,
[27:35] but that serves in the CIP because we've been collecting dollars for that. And it's actually
[27:40] how that design and what it's constructed there will really be determined through work with
[27:45] you know, our fire department as well as coming back to the City Council with some policy decisions there.
[27:51] And then we have something very far out for a potential police department expansion and that's not building out the building to a larger building that would be the potential.
[28:00] If there is growth in the police department to take over use of the tenant space that's located at the police department and help with renovations there and then making that.
[28:12] And of
[28:16] course, there's a much more talk and discussion that needs to happen there's operational impacts as well.
[28:25] So storm grain, and the first one, the council's were well aware of, and that is the work we're going to be doing in conjunction with the with valley water as they move through the various phases of developing the flood control project through town.
[28:46] And so that will help with our connections, our infrastructure that's related to that project and support that project being completed.
[28:54] That's funded with storm drain impact funds.
[28:57] And then we have, we're planning expansions of some of our storm facilities, and that is based on projects that have been outlined in our master plan.
[29:05] And we've collected impacts these four to expand the storm system capacity.
[29:12] And then the other one that is a very interesting one for us is we have a study to develop a plan
[29:22] for meeting the trash compliance requirement.
[29:26] So we talked about this during the infrastructure report a couple weeks ago.
[29:30] This is one of the items we feel the actual capital improvements are unfunded.
[29:35] And this is going to help us identify what the funding needs and what exactly we're going to need to do.
[29:42] over the next nine years, as it relates to this.
[29:47] And then here's one of our favorite ones for sure.
[29:53] We talked about our PCI regularly, and the pavement rehabilitation program is the project.
[30:00] We do each summer and so we will continue to do that and we've had previous reports where we provided the council with information on the roads that are being planned for rehabilitation and we continue to do that.
[30:15] That is the single project within the CIP at this point that has general fund support of $250,000 each year in the CIP.
[30:27] The next one is the Hail Avenue Extension Project.
[30:31] This would be to construct, continue Hail Avenue for Maine Avenue to the intercession
[30:39] of the Witt and Spring.
[30:41] And the city has spent over $10 million designing through the environmental clearance and
[30:49] acquiring the property to for this roadway and we expect to have a funding agreement
[30:54] for the construction from the VGA to the council in the next month and then begin construction
[31:04] in the fall and the system ended $17 million construction project.
[31:10] And then we are continuing to fund sidewalk repairs to the tune of 150,000 annually.
[31:16] That money is drawing down on contributions to the former RDCS system, so that we'll make,
[31:27] we do have enough money bank in that area to make it through the next six years of continuing that funding.
[31:34] So it is going away, but we'll make it last for the, for the likes of this CIP.
[31:41] And then, for our wastewater highlights, we have the services to repair and replacement.
[31:50] This is, this is repair and replacement to our existing wastewater system.
[31:56] Primarily, our pipes and everything that's underground and that's everything from replacing pipes to lining pipes.
[32:03] And that is to stop water from coming in in the winter.
[32:06] And this is something we have to do by our regulators.
[32:13] We have to do this and it really was what set the stage for our wastewater rate study.
[32:21] And now we're getting into these projects and we'll be doing them for the next several
[32:24] years and they will be a significant project.
[32:27] We did a smaller one last summer and we'll have another one coming out this summer.
[32:33] And then the treatment plan expansion, so this is not a project we've managed ourselves,
[32:39] but it is our share, our 41% share, our stake in the treatment plan that's operated
[32:46] by the South County Regional Wastewater Authority, that we partner with GoA to operate and we
[32:52] can go into detail if the council has questions.
[32:55] I know two council members have great detail on this project, but we anticipate that project
[33:00] starting in the next fiscal year as well.
[33:07] That project is funded by three funded by impact fees that we're collecting on development.
[33:13] Then, most station improvements those are renovating our existing lift stations and then the other major
[33:19] project is our second point down the go-led that we've been plugging away on the design for several years.
[33:26] We do continually but design and acquisition right away acquisition is going to be needed for two more years.
[33:33] before we get to plan construction in 2022-23, and that is also a project that is primarily funded by
[33:40] impact fees. And then we will be updating our wastewater and water master plan in the second year
[33:48] of the CIP. So we'll be updating those strategic documents as well.
[33:56] And then on the water area,
[33:58] We had put these projects off,
[34:05] we needed to demolish and abandon some of the wells that are
[34:09] no longer used.
[34:12] And so, and we are required to do that.
[34:15] And so we find the funding for that, and then the repair and replacement of water lines,
[34:21] and those are based on projects outlined in our master plan.
[34:24] And then the big one that was discussed some years ago that's now coming up on our radar
[34:28] Again, it's the Holiday Lake Reservoir Improvements, and that's the Reservoir that would be
[34:35] up.
[34:35] Each done avenue, as you head towards Jackson Oaks, and I've got many, many conversations
[34:40] with Jackson Oaks residents up there on this project.
[34:44] And that would begin in the second year of this year.
[34:54] I just wanted to go through some of the unfunded, or personally funded projects, and I do need
[35:00] to apologize to the intended to make a quick update based on the meeting with the
[35:05] commission, but two items that they felt should be on here as well are actually up
[35:16] to the
[35:16] traffic signal prevention they wanted me to make sure that I noted that that was a significant
[35:20] project that we have not funded for public safety although it is funded down the road from the
[35:30] public safety impact fee. Corporation your expansion and renovation is another one that we would
[35:35] that we're looking at when we update our strategic documents to see if we can figure out the funding
[35:39] for that old term, and I did talk about the storm,
[35:42] a trust and client, sorry, jumping backwards,
[35:44] the bald field development, we talked about that.
[35:47] But the one I really would like to mention,
[35:50] we have several projects in the pipeline,
[35:54] as I mentioned, that are coming to the council
[35:56] from the main avenue bike lanes.
[36:00] We have school ped,
[36:01] you did mention school history and safety things
[36:04] that Britain that will happen.
[36:05] And he has crosswalks, these things are all in the workshop now that we actually are planned
[36:12] for this summer.
[36:13] But going forward with the loss of RDCS, we don't have a dedicated funding source for
[36:18] these items.
[36:19] And we don't have an impact feed that we can pull from to do these.
[36:23] We'll do a lot of these when we repave our roads.
[36:26] We improve our bike lanes and fix those things.
[36:29] But we don't have a dedicated funding source for doing these sort of things any longer
[36:34] without RDCS. That's a big impact for us, and it doesn't show up in our budget as
[36:45] something that we have to pay for. I mean, we want to pay for it, but it's a loss to us.
[36:56] We just found
[37:00] the CFP in conformance with the general plan, and a rigid, explicit desire
[37:07] to increase the general funds spending on pavement rehabilitation, so they must have that be presented
[37:14] to the council as well.
[37:15] Part of the United States Commission, they ended
[37:20] up approval of the proposed
[37:25] region,
[37:34] and we're very excited to
[37:40] see up talking in ask if anyone has any questions
[38:12] or any questions
[38:12] and there's things going on.
[38:14] Thank you, Mayor.
[38:16] A couple of questions,
[38:19] Claire, we're all going to talk to you about the
[38:25] information I'm kind
[38:26] of listening to, really make if you're educated.
[38:36] and they were in now, which ones might possibly rely
[38:46] because of all these yet, no longer
[38:51] helping out in others, and which ones might be impacted by less money coming in, because
[38:58] of measure B, because of the optimal cost by the count, the or state, or even on federal
[39:05] level, I don't know if you already know all that.
[39:09] It makes it very hard to give you that kind of feedback right now.
[39:14] But I have, I mentioned before, I still have a concern with just pushing ahead of the
[39:23] Halo Extension, not knowing if the county is still, still helping.
[39:28] I was still getting the MesoB funds expected, and but even more importantly, the impact
[39:39] The Western part of our town where I live in, we already have a huge traffic issue, it's
[39:46] downhill, and the way I look at it is, unless we have a good idea how to fix that early
[39:54] on it will make it even worse if we try to entice people to use hail even more so and earlier,
[40:01] Right now, traffic is nice, because no one goes to a hot anyone uses hail, but they were
[40:07] days when I would start coming home at the very exit already, and that's before we have
[40:13] the hail extension.
[40:15] And then you just do the way to more than a year or a picture of our 45 minutes to get
[40:21] into town.
[40:22] So that's a huge concern.
[40:24] I know a lot of people who like to see a portion ahead of them in a long time project,
[40:29] But I mean we would like to see to have some sort of a town or meeting with the residents of my districts that are primarily impacted, and that's the part of the northern part, North West part of town, along the way that they can understand that what's going on, that they can ask questions and ways of concerns on the traffic flow that I only can see getting worse and getting better no matter what we do.
[41:00] You might maybe solve a problem that there's a lot of hope of a lot of way, but you definitely
[41:06] might be worse for the website of our city, and now I'm the only one of the five of us
[41:12] to listen to that side and it's mostly impacted, but it is a real problem, crazy, and you
[41:17] like, talk about that tragedy, it's hilarious, it's a long hairline. And we keep pushing your
[41:23] and just keep pushing ahead and down to really look at that again.
[41:29] I'd like this to have a second look.
[41:31] The other part that I have, I'm issue with the three of the Borello School Park right now.
[41:36] I don't even know if there's going to be a second school, but at this point,
[41:40] there you will have some serious funding issues too.
[41:45] And the maintenance of yet another part is a huge concern.
[41:49] And I'd like us to have the discussions, people who just struggle long and just let everything.
[41:59] So I'll try to answer the questions you have.
[42:04] So just starting with the general questions on decisions and more back on the make decisions on funding.
[42:10] So we've updated the CIP to account for any revenue loss.
[42:14] And this is our anticipated what revenue based on the anticipated fees that are going to come in,
[42:18] based on what we've seen in the budget.
[42:21] So payment we have, for example, lots of funding due to lots of sales tax revenue,
[42:26] a major B is included, lots of gas tax revenue for SB1 is included.
[42:30] So we figured that into the fund, what we're recommending.
[42:34] Obviously, if things get worse, we won't be able to do the project.
[42:38] So as we come in, the project will be smaller,
[42:40] we won't be able to do in the most pictures.
[42:42] But everything that you see in the CIP,
[42:44] We have funding to cover and in the first two years we're obviously more confident and things go out.
[42:52] You'll see these projects and remember, you're not approving these projects tonight, you're just approving the path forward.
[42:59] And that's why I went through and talked about some of the projects that we're in play.
[43:02] So already some of them you have already approved.
[43:04] But everything you see in the overall safety, you have not approved and these projects come back to you for approval.
[43:09] So they're not none of them are a done deal.
[43:12] This is just a plan.
[43:15] So we believe that we presented the details
[43:18] of the best of our knowledge on what funding we have.
[43:21] Now, the other question is the funding
[43:22] on maintaining and operating these.
[43:25] And as I went through, I really outlined the say,
[43:27] hey, some of these are projects that are gonna cost us money
[43:32] to maintain.
[43:33] And for example, the West Lady August Creek Trail,
[43:36] that could potentially cost us money to maintain.
[43:38] We have a, you're not making the decision to move forward on that project tonight, but we're
[43:44] working on ideas on how to fund the maintenance.
[43:46] For our school, same thing, we would work on ideas to fund the maintenance before we come
[43:51] to it for your approval.
[43:52] And then if you, as a council say, we can't maintain it.
[43:55] We're not going to approve it right now.
[43:56] You can absolutely not approve it when it comes to approval.
[44:01] But here we have an extension.
[44:02] So, Mr. B funds, you have to, we can rely on those, so I know that
[44:12] CAA
[44:17] has authority to sign our agreement.
[44:21] And I have commitments at the staff level that we will not only get the 13.5 that was originally we're supposed to get, but we will get 16.5 million to cover the construction.
[44:32] And I'll bring that forward to the council, obviously, if that isn't the case.
[44:35] The
[44:41] Council,
[44:45] something changes and
[44:49] defined the smaller portion that we have been allocated money,
[44:58] the Harkin.
[45:00] A test to send of this information as well. So the impact on the Western part of town, the
[45:08] positive and negative impacts of every project for sure. And when we agreed this project and went through,
[45:17] it's initial design. We did a residential street study. It's a really look at this. And we updated our
[45:24] of our master plan so we looked at what the impact was on each street given that was some time ago
[45:30] things have changed when we did our cut through traffic study.
[45:34] We said hey what is what is the elaborate is going to do to the other areas.
[45:39] And it will improve Monterey to some extent.
[45:42] But what the study did say is it's not going to encourage much more cut through traffic.
[45:48] So there's benefits, there's benefits obviously we hear from parents at PAW
[45:52] It would definitely be looking forward to this project
[45:55] and taking people also main and peak that are cutting through that way.
[45:59] And there's other people that
[46:10] want the traffic in practice.
[46:13] And then you have a lot of question on what will happen at the south.
[46:21] Sound the impact on there is
[46:26] really to finish
[46:27] and it's in a straight
[46:34] through that.
[46:37] Resections along the way once we have this through.
[46:40] So we've improved the intersections at sunny side
[46:42] and Watsonville.
[46:43] We've improved the intersections at
[46:50] your point.
[46:51] As long as we have people cutting through town,
[46:54] it's not going to, it's not going to solve the problem
[46:56] until we get more people on public transportation from the South and we expand how they want to
[47:01] want both of the two things that are big priorities for us. So we know we need those to happen.
[47:06] And then the last question is, can we hold the town hall meeting and I think the city manager would say
[47:10] absolutely, I didn't want them to have to work with you on that and do
[47:17] it. And then I think your
[47:18] ask questions were on the Berlin School Park. So the first one
[47:27] that we won't forward without
[47:30] approval,
[47:34] and how we're going to do maintenance, and we've had some preliminary discussion
[47:36] about all the systems and ideas, so we can definitely continue those discussions and bring
[47:42] back a proposal for you to review.
[47:47] I think tonight it's been something that's been
[47:50] years waiting with the school, and he's in a master plan, but obviously the council could
[47:55] choose not to go forward with that project,
[47:59] and we can definitely ask for it, I'll stay
[48:01] on the funding from the school district, so you have data on that,
[48:08] as I'm convinced construction
[48:10] approach to that school, but we can get you more detailed data, and I can do that.
[48:16] I think that was all the questions.
[48:18] Any other questions?
[48:20] Any other questions?
[48:27] Any other questions?
[48:30] Sorry, what was that a classic study down for the handling extensions?
[48:33] So it was the first, the residential streets study was done with the circulation element,
[48:39] and I believe that it was 2010 or 11.
[48:40] So sometime ago, and then we did the cut-through traffic study that we did the review on that was last year.
[48:46] Okay, Alan, I won't time it go on fortunately.
[48:50] See, I think that's the second question.
[48:52] I'll come back tonight.
[48:53] Thank you.
[48:54] Thank you.
[48:55] Okay.
[49:01] So, real quick, great.
[49:03] And the future, you know, as we progress and we see which projects as they come forward.
[49:09] So, what are we going to get to play tonight and get placed in the queue?
[49:12] What are the obviously we do those again before that actually put into
[49:17] in the place. We're going to get at least one more chance to look at it. So what happens
[49:23] if we get down the road and we have, but all, $2 million project. And we say, okay, we're
[49:29] not going to plan for a single path. And what do we do if those $2,000 in funds? We do distribute
[49:36] those in, for a life use because we realize if those are restricted funds or that, so we can
[49:42] other things along with the future, is that, in other case?
[49:47] So I'd like you to start out on that.
[49:49] So what will you prove the capital budget in the operating budget that matter?
[49:53] What you're doing is you're immediately appropriating the dollars.
[49:59] And it's far and right that is what is happening.
[50:02] If you come back and depending on the project and the size and what it is, you know,
[50:07] you come back, you know, with the first one there's in different phases along the way.
[50:11] John, I just received from your Google, but it's a meter and you want to say something and have want to do so.
[50:20] We want to add to that what you want to say to approval actually does.
[50:24] Yeah, I think the short answer to your question customer chains.
[50:29] Yes, we have, for example, the girl's school doesn't move forward.
[50:33] we would take that to many dollars and put that to some other park acquisition use.
[50:43] And if there are very bigalities depending on the sorts of funds,
[50:47] you can tell that it's an example.
[50:50] The 10 million dollars that we spent so far,
[50:53] the majority of that from one inventory that might be coming from traffic impacts.
[50:57] These, I'm present in fact, these are paid under the mitigation fee act, which is a specific law that allows us to collect fees to offset the impacts from development.
[51:12] Those fee collected based on specific impact from specific development.
[51:17] And we have five years to spend most of them.
[51:20] doesn't mean you have to actually spend money,
[51:22] but we have to attach that to a specific project.
[51:26] In this case, that would spend that 10 million dollars.
[51:30] We sort of, now we're going to work on the proof of the project,
[51:34] and we have to move forward, because the alternative would be,
[51:36] we can't take that 10 million dollars and spend it
[51:40] to mitigate those specific traffic impacts somewhere else.
[51:44] We have to, now, complete that project,
[51:46] or pay back that $10 million because we want to spend this within five years.
[51:54] So I've very depending on the project, but if we're talking about parking parts, we would
[51:58] need to spend, we could repurpose that money because it's for you too many dollars and too many
[52:04] dollars in the lot of land acquisition, it's what we call a regional park, so we'd have
[52:10] to spend that $2 million to collect the required parkland, somewhere else in the general
[52:14] And it's easy for all school, but it's been missed, so I have to be on that site.
[52:21] That's a specific example.
[52:22] We actually do will have, we'll like to have the ability to, you know, reallocate those funds.
[52:29] So that's one of the things I wanted to ask and find out about because that is in my district.
[52:34] And I, I have been part of many different community outreach meetings where we talk about what we want in parks.
[52:42] I know the, you know, east side and more, you know, really does no park.
[52:47] And so that was one of the things that we talked about, was trying to get a park and so...
[52:51] Anyway, the implementation there to me obviously is that there's a requires a lot of maintenance,
[52:56] especially when we count it out of everything we've been saying.
[52:59] And I just, I couldn't appreciate that.
[53:01] So when that comes back a little bit different, it gets through tonight and when I will approve it,
[53:07] then certainly, well, I'll be fine.
[53:08] I know I will be looking at what the cost of maintenance.
[53:10] And the bulk field, some of the sports stuff on the bulk fields, we will talk about
[53:18] bulk fields, is there a definitive bulk field or is it still a kind of a nebulous
[53:24] bulk field somewhere, or do we have, what do we have that is anything tangible or is
[53:30] it right now just in the planning somewhere.
[53:34] So, we own property, 22 acres for baseball field sites, so I'll tell you, we have direction
[53:43] from the City Council to look at alternatives to that site and that's what we're continuing
[53:47] to do.
[53:48] But it's not easy task, and you've also directed us to work with our partners, regional partners
[53:53] on that.
[53:53] So we're working on that.
[53:54] So there's not a definitive answer to that question, and I just to be honest, I don't think
[54:02] will be in the short term because we're really trying to work through something that's pretty complex.
[54:08] We have made progress and myself from our community development director have met with our partners
[54:14] most of the times, but we don't know how quickly we're going to be able to move on that.
[54:21] This is a desire and our master plan calls for this. And so we have that property whether it's there,
[54:25] we have to move it somewhere else. Again, we have some issues just like Dom discussed on
[54:31] a lot of them because we purchased that property with parking tax funds that we would have to
[54:35] resolve.
[54:36] But we're working on that.
[54:37] So I can't give you much more of a definitive answer that we're working on counsel's
[54:42] direction.
[54:44] And that was the genesis of my question.
[54:46] I know there's some complications with the existing sites.
[54:49] Okay.
[54:50] So nothing really has been established any further than what we have learned up today.
[54:55] The volleyball courts, is that in the sports facility and performances, would that be captured in that?
[55:02] Yeah, and it's not so far, they're out in the CIP for actual construction, but we have talked about that and had that in the CIP in the past.
[55:12] But before that goes forward, as I mentioned, we'll be bringing a feasibility study.
[55:17] And so you think for the bill or more multi-ternovations, we have those feasibility studies that just went to our commissions,
[55:23] and then we'll become into Council shortly, so those projects are further out in the CIP.
[55:28] There's time for the Council to review those, and that's part of the process.
[55:32] Yeah, I just wanted to think it was specifically that would be where the federal land is
[55:36] in that item, so I'm not asked a question about the fire station.
[55:46] I don't know how much of a discussion will have about right now, but I know that that's one
[55:49] of those things.
[55:50] So again, we can build a fire station that then, yeah, come and man it, what exactly constitutes
[55:57] completion?
[55:58] I mean, obviously, we're committed to building the station.
[56:01] Obviously, we have the funds in place.
[56:03] We have all that.
[56:04] But what actually constitutes completion?
[56:07] And then what do we do if we complete it?
[56:09] And we can't man it.
[56:16] I can start it.
[56:17] I think Leslie, little kid, kid health and dog can help.
[56:21] I mean, the life perspective, the way we've read in the way we discussed it, we have to operate it in some sense, but that doesn't mean that it's got to be operated as a full on fire station to keep the property.
[56:33] In order that the agreement through the dissolution of the RDA was that we will have a station there by August of 2024.
[56:42] So that coincides with our timeline to construct the fire station.
[56:48] Does it have to be fully operating 24-7?
[56:52] We don't believe that's the case, but it needs to be a fire station at this point,
[56:58] based on our agreement.
[57:00] It could be open and never and not operated right away.
[57:06] But I think we mentioned at one of the prior meetings that really
[57:09] things that, lastly, it's starting to look into is the possibility of looking for an
[57:15] extension for a construction date.
[57:20] Okay, and that would be wonderful.
[57:22] But also, it's nice to know there's some flexibility in the definition of use because,
[57:26] in my mind, we're going to have a fully staff fire station that those are big dollars.
[57:32] Again, you know, what are we really doing in these times, which are so difficult?
[57:38] I think that's really good for my questions, I guess one comment I have, our question
[57:43] comment and that is, you said that Chris, you said that on the yellow extension that the
[57:48] depth project includes traffic signals, it tells him and, you know, we saw it and what's
[57:55] going to do that.
[57:56] So basically, we would actually have signalized, we would be signalized including at main
[58:00] And Hale, so we have better control, so that's
[58:03] for theoretically, could actually much, much more smooth.
[58:07] And it made in Hale, yes, and that's in the project.
[58:11] The other signals I mentioned at TOTING and at SEMI side,
[58:15] they're in a different project, the intersection improvement
[58:19] project and their father out, and they
[58:21] need to be more planning done for that.
[58:25] One of the things that we are working on with Leslie's team
[58:29] is the potential update and you heard about this during the operational section of our transportation
[58:37] element of our general plan and I think you'd have great opportunity to comment on those
[58:42] projects that were being moved through that piece.
[58:44] That's good.
[58:45] And one of the committees that I'm going to find on the outside is the kind of expressory committee
[58:53] and so I actually did, so we made one survey couple of years and we did talk about how
[58:59] More than those projects, this project is a priority one of the priority projects, so I'm sure nothing's going to happen with those plans, which I'm sure learned in front.
[59:08] Thank you.
[59:09] I'm done.
[59:11] Okay, thank you.
[59:12] Come on.
[59:16] Okay.
[59:16] Thank you, Mayor.
[59:20] Let's see.
[59:21] I want to take us back to the slide.
[59:25] you share with us the Capital Improvement Program summary update that it looked for years, lots
[59:33] of money up in this chart. This coming through, basically, that we're talking at $20-$20-$20-$1.
[59:40] There's a half million dollars in projects. You may have some comments about how we don't have
[59:46] general funding in there. Tell me a little bit about the sources, just in general and briefly,
[59:51] the sources of the dollar is going into that 48 and a half million dollars.
[1:00:00] We mentioned that the major sources you see that in the water and wastewater side are impact fees and are enterprise fund fees that which are our rate pair fees that can only be used for water or wastewater for working on our existing system.
[1:00:18] And then our impact fees obviously for expansion of those systems. So that is well over 50% of our funding just related to water and wastewater.
[1:00:27] And then when you look at the roads section that is primarily our traffic in Park Fee,
[1:00:36] new
[1:00:36] developments such as tail avenue or the signalizations, and that is our grant funding that
[1:00:41] will be receiving from outside agencies or dedicated funding, gas tax funding from the state.
[1:00:48] So that is the piece in the park area that is our park in Park Fee and our Quinn B. Fee
[1:00:55] and grant funding. And then in our store drain area that is primarily storm drain impact
[1:01:00] funds with a little bit of remnant RDS funds to work on the current system.
[1:01:08] As I understood correctly the thing is that you have been telling us that don't I was
[1:01:12] sick of seeing it as it has been telling us. We can't just move those things into other things.
[1:01:19] We can't just say we've got an operating deficit and we're going to fill it with these
[1:01:24] Yeah.
[1:01:43] But they did not.
[1:01:48] The category of streets and roads in 2021 were talking about just over 19 million.
[1:01:54] Does that include the 16 and a half million from BGA for a mail?
[1:02:02] But I know it's a drop dramatically in the, in the outgoing years.
[1:02:06] And so when we get to those outgoing years, we're looking at funding sources.
[1:02:10] It's very just gas tax and impact is correct.
[1:02:15] All right.
[1:02:15] And there's the payment money as well.
[1:02:18] Yes, thank you.
[1:02:29] In your inputting, it's best to be able to talk about the CIP program, including the
[1:02:35] lawsuit revenue, something like measure B,
[1:02:46] and going over the economy today to lower those
[1:02:49] revenue sources, you've already built BAMs your plan.
[1:02:57] I know Christina can speak to this, but the same assumptions that we've used for sales tax
[1:03:02] for us.
[1:03:03] It's not the exact same assumption, but the state sales tax, or sorry, the counting
[1:03:07] for major B, that assumption's common, and then the state
[1:03:15] of tax revenue, as well as B.
[1:03:24] How do you get to add to that?
[1:03:25] Each of the objects are using these sort of existing sungouns and some sub-overtimes.
[1:03:32] And they also have some level of assumed revenues that will earn into the future.
[1:03:36] So I have Chris mentioned the first couple of years, maybe some more certainty.
[1:03:40] But as we go out a little bit more in certainty.
[1:03:43] And so if we don't see the revenue that we're anticipating,
[1:03:46] I'll be at inverted drop that dates on so that it makes the impact.
[1:03:50] Then we will be coming back and letting you know, hey, we're not seeing development
[1:03:54] impact.
[1:03:55] We're not going to be able to move forward with certain
[1:04:00] problems.
[1:04:01] Before I ask about some kind of specific graphics, I want to
[1:04:07] be itself here.
[1:04:11] Probably we have it somewhere.
[1:04:15] Have you anticipated that the increases to maintenance costs are through the different projects
[1:04:21] that you're putting for a peer.
[1:04:32] When you are
[1:04:38] above, do you think about when it's going to hit us?
[1:04:42] Where is this well?
[1:04:42] No, they have an extension.
[1:04:44] They're going to have famous costs that added miles of roads at a maintenance cost.
[1:04:47] But it's not going to be a mistress for you.
[1:04:49] It's not going to be a next mistress for you.
[1:04:51] But do you know when that added maintenance cost will actually start hitting our budget?
[1:04:57] That, that
[1:05:01] we did about, you know, so is our specific way about roads and streets.
[1:05:05] What is the funding source for maintenance and roads and streets?
[1:05:07] Well, we could talk about the day-to-day funding of our street maintenance program, which we're trying to include in that piece.
[1:05:14] So that day-to-day funding,
[1:05:18] we're not going to see an impact on Hill Avenue hitting that day-to-day funding for another 10 years.
[1:05:30] So that piece will be taking care of.
[1:05:34] We will have things that happen that we have to repair, but the significant maintenance costs of those projects are far down the road.
[1:05:41] And to be honest, Dennis, for a roadway like that, I mean, we'll see that
[1:05:54] up until farther down the road.
[1:05:57] And to what?
[1:05:59] The biggest impact to us is going to be if we fund our payment rehab overall.
[1:06:05] And the streets are much, much, much more maintenance.
[1:06:07] That way, we're dealing
[1:06:21] at rehab, which we get our still short run.
[1:06:25] In general,
[1:06:37] isn't it?
[1:06:47] We're a bit about this CIP that's before us tonight that we would be improving with our overall budget.
[1:06:54] is really the path forward and that we're not approving any specific projects tonight, but
[1:07:00] we're saying that, yes, this is the priority list, these are the things that we want
[1:07:05] to move forward, and that you would be bringing back in a digital project to us for our actual
[1:07:11] approval projects.
[1:07:12] But
[1:07:16] there's so cost and getting to that point.
[1:07:18] There's so cost and getting to the point where you come to Council and ask for approval
[1:07:23] funding for Dino's overall property.
[1:07:29] I think we've actually approved that a lot of extension.
[1:07:32] But in some of these projects, there's a
[1:07:47] part of the individual projects.
[1:07:48] You can look, for example, in the outline of the construction costs as well as the design costs
[1:07:54] and what we call our implementation costs.
[1:07:57] And that implementation costs is a cost that
[1:08:04] our fund is through.
[1:08:05] So our staff are funded through the CFP.
[1:08:07] So if you look at any type specific project in projects, you see each year a
[1:08:16] funding
[1:08:16] for our staff to run these projects.
[1:08:19] And then you know, everyone who's watching tonight at all of us
[1:08:22] who are watching, well, when you say,
[1:08:24] when you look at a project, we're actually referring
[1:08:26] to the budget document.
[1:08:27] I think I can hear the decades' week is you're working
[1:08:29] at it right now.
[1:08:31] Then you bring through a specific project within,
[1:08:44] when you think about a project like the hell of an extension,
[1:08:53] to get that project covered ready,
[1:08:55] if you will, or approve a ready at the council,
[1:08:58] is being charged to the CIP itself.
[1:09:00] It's not coming out of the general fund, or an operating fund, or something that we would pay for at
[1:09:09] its correct, and we charge those appropriately so that we can fund the pressure of my time for managing this portion of Christina's time to the general fund administration.
[1:09:20] So we absolutely charge those impact fees to cover our costs
[1:09:27] to, okay, thank you, I associate that.
[1:09:31] If you want to ask about a couple specific projects, it's a sort of plan to expansion
[1:09:39] of different dollars and two
[1:09:45] different ideas on million dollars,
[1:09:53] but didn't not move
[1:09:53] in those shares.
[1:09:55] Now, that is more than hell's share.
[1:09:58] Now, maybe as you have, consider eight,
[1:10:09] you know, 11.8 million on the side-type of capital,
[1:10:13] and top eight projects.
[1:10:16] And that's because we, the anticipate,
[1:10:18] spending on one, eight million, and that's just
[1:10:21] the use that is correct, and then overall,
[1:10:26] our share of it is the
[1:10:31] way we,
[1:10:32] because of the way it works, we
[1:10:50] in expansion,
[1:10:51] or if we're doing the project ourselves,
[1:10:53] we usually budget that money up front,
[1:10:54] when we appropriate it.
[1:10:55] So it's just a little bit different for
[1:11:00] them,
[1:11:01] into that these costs are all born by
[1:11:05] taxis that we will be collecting from the government and to state of future.
[1:11:13] So, the 11.8 over the next two years of the CIP is money that we've already collected
[1:11:18] in in packages.
[1:11:19] And we have those dollars ready.
[1:11:21] Yes, we do.
[1:11:22] I would say for the treatment plant expansion and the trunk line construction, which is the other
[1:11:28] big one, which we get funding from in-pack fees, because these products are going to support
[1:11:33] Those, that future development for many years, we don't have all the funds to do those projects
[1:11:40] but we would bond for those funds and then future development would pay pay that back.
[1:11:45] So that, the development pays for it's share and our rate pairs are not paying for it.
[1:11:52] So then the one inside the last one you just made, correct rate pairs are not paying
[1:11:56] for these expansion projects, the sewer system, either the trunk or the plant.
[1:12:03] The truck lines are is a portion to the existing rate pairs, and that's because of the deficiency
[1:12:09] of the existing concline.
[1:12:10] So in the master prime determination of percentage, smaller percentage was calculated
[1:12:15] to the existing rate pairs.
[1:12:18] So when the council approves that, it really sets how much is tarp should rate pairs versus
[1:12:22] the impact fee when there's a project that has been admitted to both.
[1:12:26] Because some of that front-line products as it is would pair that current users would get
[1:12:32] benefit out of the addition to expansion for future users. That's correct. And then the
[1:12:38] way that has the score,
[1:12:43] it will be to operate the newly expanded advanced and we know it's
[1:12:58] our exact number for that because that is thought
[1:13:12] that has been included in our wastewater
[1:13:14] rate study, but do we have the exact amount? We do not have that.
[1:13:39] And there's all those
[1:13:44] rate phase. It's primarily funded out of impact fees. Two-thirds impact fees, one-third
[1:13:52] rate pairs. And the reason for that is although it's in one area, that reservoir will
[1:13:58] help support the water supply across the entire city.
[1:14:04] And then it's finally, if I may
[1:14:12] Well, you said that once it is broken up in operational, we might be able to repeat when
[1:14:19] we need these to pay those maintenance costs, we won't be able to do that for maintenance.
[1:14:25] We could potentially renovate the trail down the road, but we cannot use it for maintenance.
[1:14:29] So with that trail, when we bring that project back, and when we bring it back, the
[1:14:35] opportunities we have on something specific like that, it really doesn't cost very much to
[1:14:39] maintain.
[1:14:40] It's basically little pickup and that we reseal the trail once every seven years and that's the maintenance on that on that trail
[1:14:47] So it's very that
[1:14:52] cost
[1:14:58] the happen we need someone to take
[1:15:00] On the letter clean up for the entire trail, and really do that, but also it would just continue to burden our existing park maintenance staff and spread out the crease level of service.
[1:15:12] So that's one of the things we're contemplating with that, but it really is not a big, big maintenance cost associated with it.
[1:15:20] And at 80 and 50,000 that you put in there to develop the trail itself, that's been done in connection with the control projects.
[1:15:34] Yeah, we're actually going to believe we're working on finishing the design and working with Valley Water.
[1:15:40] And we believe we might have an opportunity to partner with them to save some cost on the construction and construct it quicker, but that would be something we would bring back to the City Council.
[1:15:50] through a cost sharing agreement with
[1:15:57] them.
[1:15:58] Thank you.
[1:15:59] Thank you.
[1:16:00] Thank you.
[1:16:00] Thank you.
[1:16:02] Thank you, Mayor.
[1:16:06] Perfect.
[1:16:07] How are you?
[1:16:08] Thank you for all the work you've done with that.
[1:16:10] For setting this thing going through this.
[1:16:14] I wanted to just ask, you know,
[1:16:17] I'd like to understand why we prioritize some of the certain projects that you're seeing tonight.
[1:16:24] And so I just wanted to give this kind of, you know, some background on that.
[1:16:31] Sure.
[1:16:31] I was quite merrily through whatever type they need and by the Master Plan and by commitments
[1:16:37] in the past CIP, as well as projects we know, we won't have a large operational impact.
[1:16:46] So we rooted all those things and prioritized them based on those factors and really the things
[1:16:51] I outlined as a start of the presentation.
[1:16:53] On Master Plan, we do our Master Plan's really guidance on these, so as I mentioned, we would
[1:16:58] be bringing back the water and wastewater Master Plan, looking at those, that's what guides
[1:17:02] our CIP going forward.
[1:17:09] So I'm hearing Master Plan, the CIP that we've had and, you know, probably I've been getting
[1:17:15] to the system is, I just want to make sure we're not approving a task board because
[1:17:20] that's been the path that we've been on so that, you know, we're looking to see, if we're
[1:17:27] looking at, if you were looking at the CIP that we were doing today, well that CIP I have
[1:17:33] a feeling it would be very different or somewhat different, of course, than what we're
[1:17:37] looking at now.
[1:17:39] And so that's kind of the one that I want to look at this through and so when we're talking
[1:17:44] about the projects that we have prioritized, I also want to make sure that we look at the
[1:17:50] equity of that. So, the impact of most of them, because it's a squeaky will, you just
[1:17:56] gave a great example of it. Well, there's the record, or I'm not going to affect, you
[1:17:59] know, the whole city. And I know that most of them are that way. So, there's other reasons
[1:18:04] for why we do some of the other. So, I guess, you know, if we look at, I'd like the public
[1:18:11] to see it know much of what I got the privilege to know. And what we've scratched, can you tell
[1:18:19] quickly, what is the we're seeing what we have, but what are some of the things that we
[1:18:24] scratched, if you could quickly point that out?
[1:18:28] Well, I think the things that we have scratched are things that we don't have funding source
[1:18:34] for.
[1:18:35] I mean, and if you ask me what we would like to do is we would like to, you know, be the
[1:18:41] most, you know, walkable, livable place in the community and a lot of that is, you
[1:18:48] funds to improve sidewalks, to improve our walking paths,
[1:18:54] to do, to put in traffic safety
[1:18:58] elements, those things, and we don't have the discretionary revenue to do that. I can't say
[1:19:03] we can prioritize that over anything, because we don't have a funding source to fund that.
[1:19:08] Okay, so can we just give me a quick rule out of what are some of those projects that we're
[1:19:15] So, we have, I mean, we, what we were hoping to do is to roll out our, and we still
[1:19:21] have some that are planned this current year CIP, we're hoping to roll out the annual
[1:19:27] of adding enhanced crosswalks throughout the city into continue putting those in.
[1:19:32] And they're not super expensive, but we don't, we don't have the discretionary funds to do that.
[1:19:37] We are absolutely, continue looking for grants for those things, but we just don't have
[1:19:42] funding sources directly tied to that. That's an example.
[1:19:46] Okay.
[1:19:49] You know, I see that there's a, let's see.
[1:19:55] It says 250 is coming from the general fund.
[1:19:58] The tool from the CXC projects that we're looking at.
[1:20:02] And I guess one of my questions is that, is that all going between this?
[1:20:06] Those 250, so everything that is coming from the general fund is going to the pavement.
[1:20:12] Yes.
[1:20:14] Okay.
[1:20:14] So, is there only other general fund funds that are going to any other capital improvement
[1:20:22] projects?
[1:20:25] Okay.
[1:20:25] Thank you.
[1:20:26] And then, what portion for a year or two through six of the general fund is going to the
[1:20:34] CIT?
[1:20:37] Okay.
[1:20:37] Do you repeat that question?
[1:20:38] So we've got 250,000 that's going from the general fund to the IP Vets here and I'm just looking
[1:20:45] out since it's a six-year plan to give me an idea of what that will be for the next
[1:20:52] to the six-year.
[1:20:54] 250,000 a year.
[1:20:56] Okay, great.
[1:20:56] Thank you very much.
[1:20:59] And we're going to, we're going to those 250 views.
[1:21:03] Will those all go to pavement rehab or does that differ as he goes through that six year period?
[1:21:09] They may be.
[1:21:10] They may be.
[1:21:11] They're all we have.
[1:21:16] And then stand those funds that 250,000 be used elsewhere.
[1:21:24] Yes.
[1:21:24] And I think the city manager presented last week that if we move in the phase two, one of her considerations would be to move that 250.
[1:21:33] 50,000 to support the general fund.
[1:21:40] And then on average, what is the park maintenance cost?
[1:21:46] The park maintenance costs for all of our parks?
[1:21:50] Yeah, so.
[1:21:52] It's put like operating budget required.
[1:21:54] It's a little over a million dollars.
[1:21:56] But I'll get you the exact amount in just about two.
[1:22:00] And that's for all the parks.
[1:22:02] It's part of open space, so it's
[1:22:14] fine, Chris.
[1:22:15] No, it's at home.
[1:22:16] I know that, right?
[1:22:18] You know, we took one point.
[1:22:35] I just read a list of it, too.
[1:22:37] I'm sure you know off the top of your head.
[1:22:38] You know many parts, do we have?
[1:22:40] We have, I think it's part of the biggest point, too, right now.
[1:22:45] All right.
[1:22:46] So what do you do?
[1:22:47] Cool.
[1:22:48] It's on page one, eight, two, the flipping book?
[1:22:51] Yeah, I don't know that just I think that we're not split. I was stuck there.
[1:22:55] Oh, man.
[1:22:56] Think of things, though.
[1:22:57] It's been a couple
[1:23:01] of times, you know.
[1:23:03] Christine, you've got to read it.
[1:23:04] You've got to read it a little bit.
[1:23:06] I'll read it a little bit.
[1:23:06] It's cool to budget.
[1:23:07] So that's the question now of the supply.
[1:23:10] Internal service funds is 1.1 million.
[1:23:14] Yeah.
[1:23:14] And now, pretty much what you were going to say, Chris, before I'm looking.
[1:23:18] Yeah.
[1:23:19] I just did not notice it.
[1:23:19] I just did not notice it.
[1:23:20] I just did not notice it.
[1:23:20] I just did not notice it.
[1:23:22] That's for all of the 22 parks and that covers our staff that also manage the open space areas.
[1:23:28] Okay, that's your acreage.
[1:23:30] Say, that's the 16 main acre, so that's the parks and the trails in our civic center campus.
[1:23:36] Okay, thank you.
[1:23:37] I just wanted to give everybody kind of an idea of what, you know, what the maintenance cost is for us to do that.
[1:23:43] And so, that is something that I hope that we look at and when we look at the overalls,
[1:23:51] I know that I got up to National Park Bridge last time.
[1:23:55] I did meet with some of the staff in detail on that.
[1:23:58] I did some more research on that.
[1:24:00] And I didn't expect that because I brought it up.
[1:24:02] Last time the maintenance was one of my big concerns about that.
[1:24:07] talking, you know, with the staff, they feel very confident that we would be able to cover
[1:24:12] that maintenance. It's something that I really would love to have. But my real concern is,
[1:24:19] you know, we're talking honestly and we're talking frankly, I appreciate talking on the
[1:24:23] number card going through this in detail and sharing this expertise with us to get through this.
[1:24:29] Because if we don't talk about, if we don't talk about everything, then we're not going to get
[1:24:37] I think that the support that we're looking for and so you know I think that's one of the one thing to start out with everything on the table.
[1:24:45] So when I look at this you know I'm looking at if we have to go into bankruptcy we're not going there but that's the possibility.
[1:24:54] And so my question was to stop you think that we be able and one of the one of the comments that we can look at volunteers we can look at people covering that.
[1:25:02] So, fine, if we can do that now, I'm going to ask you, do you feel like that that has
[1:25:08] some more notoriety to that part?
[1:25:10] Do you feel that we would have that enthusiastic for other parts as well?
[1:25:18] To be honest, now, we can try community, but our community is burdened right now and there's
[1:25:26] a lot of issues.
[1:25:27] I think with the magical birds playground, we have a very activated and excited group in
[1:25:34] population. And I think there's other people, the tennis club that will put the tennis clubs
[1:25:39] and do a great job in other groups that we can get on specific things, but we do not have,
[1:25:45] it will be great if we did, but we do not have the activation for volunteers to support our
[1:25:52] park citywide. And we're open to doing that and we'll continue to work on that. But our community
[1:25:59] members are dressed.
[1:26:02] But yeah, they're dressed, and even before they're dressed, you know, we have many,
[1:26:07] you know, families, parents, they're looking and they're, you know, people are dressed.
[1:26:15] Okay, thank you.
[1:26:17] So that's actually really appreciate that.
[1:26:19] And so that, you know, that kind of stuff, that was one of my questions with the
[1:26:29] we're probably having talks with the school district on that, do you have, you know, what is their, what is their position on that now?
[1:26:39] On the for a little part, and the funding of the maintenance, and.
[1:26:43] Yeah, so we're working on the maintenance.
[1:26:45] We have some creative ideas.
[1:26:46] They understand that we are going to be very limited.
[1:26:48] They are very limited to working on some different ideas on that.
[1:26:52] And we just, I honestly can't tell you that I haven't answered right now because they don't.
[1:26:56] and I haven't worked through it with them,
[1:26:58] but we would bring back that recommendation to you
[1:27:01] on how we can do that night.
[1:27:02] I absolutely understand your concern
[1:27:04] in the entire council's concern,
[1:27:06] and I know the school districts
[1:27:07] have to understand it as well.
[1:27:10] Okay, I mean, I think that's not only something
[1:27:12] we'll be able to want to look at further
[1:27:14] before we approve something.
[1:27:18] My next question is about sports facility planning,
[1:27:22] and what would this be for?
[1:27:24] I did see environmental and now that could you talk a little bit more about the sports facility planning?
[1:27:30] Yeah, with our recommendation is to really look at the open, are the end of those spaces you have there, which is in the county that we're talking to our partners on.
[1:27:41] There's more of these existing spaces of the outdoor sports center and the aquatic center and updating a master plan for that site that reflects the council's priorities, the council's direction and our master plan.
[1:27:51] And that's what would happen next this year, and then once we can see that master plan that would give us the opportunities and move forward with environmental review of the new areas that are there.
[1:28:04] Now let's listen to conclude the, we've talked about a miniature golf.
[1:28:10] We talked about the, the risk include both of those items.
[1:28:15] The Minister of North Court, of course, has already approved and we had it ready to be set up in mid-March, and it's sitting in Oxford being ready to be set up, and we will set it up to see if we can open it when we can.
[1:28:32] So that's happening. That's on our existing property, and then San volleyball would be included for sure.
[1:28:37] And Paul, I thought would be included for sure.
[1:28:41] And do you anticipate that we'll be wrapping you with that?
[1:28:44] So, we will be bringing a report to you for the family.
[1:28:49] I'll see the ability study.
[1:28:51] And you'll receive that.
[1:28:53] And that'll give you one answer to that question.
[1:28:56] I will say there are opportunities there.
[1:29:00] But nothing is a lot at this point.
[1:29:03] So you bring you that report and you can make a full evaluation for yourself.
[1:29:09] Another thing and this isn't just specific to you,
[1:29:12] but it goes back to the question about equity and how we're looking at the project.
[1:29:18] And you really do a great job.
[1:29:19] None of this is criticism that's just I'm trying to, you know,
[1:29:24] see how we can do a better job.
[1:29:26] And I'm wondering how we certainly talk about equity and getting,
[1:29:31] I see lots of familiar faces often engaged
[1:29:34] because people are engaged and I want to know what's happening.
[1:29:37] But as far as questionnaires of the grocery stores,
[1:29:41] I haven't always seen much outreach in different languages.
[1:29:47] And these are the things that I am really interested in seeing
[1:29:50] if we have maybe with low income programs.
[1:29:54] Is that happening?
[1:29:55] And I just because I'm not in the everyday,
[1:29:58] Nothing, nothing, nothing.
[1:30:00] Can you talk a little bit about that? And I don't know, you know, more easier, but.
[1:30:07] Sure, so this is a good question.
[1:30:09] I used that there's part questioners related to related to the budget in particular.
[1:30:15] Related to questionnaires in different languages, questionnaires that are going kind of outside the online,
[1:30:23] maybe going to the grocery store and getting the average, not involved person to give us some
[1:30:30] feedback, maybe someone who does use the low income programs to give us that feedback on the
[1:30:36] projects that we're proposing or that means not to be the budget here.
[1:30:44] Can I ask, are you talking about incorporation of the CIP or the budget in general?
[1:30:49] because it's a better than general, but of course, I mean, in the CIP, I guess, you know, the
[1:30:54] reason that I'm asking here is because this is where we're talking about parks, we're talking
[1:31:01] about parks.
[1:31:01] So that might.
[1:31:02] If I could just answer the CIP question that I'm no more in, to answer in general, but
[1:31:07] for the CIP, it really goes back to the planning process.
[1:31:11] It's really hard for us to change mid course on developing a park, that's something that
[1:31:15] many, many years. So just, just for example, in 2007, we have proved our 2017, our updated
[1:31:23] bike racerals Parks and Recreation Master Plan. We set a year of outreach to every community,
[1:31:29] every area of the community, in multiple languages, and we spent a year developing that. We
[1:31:34] can't do that planning every year because we need to develop the plan and start moving and
[1:31:38] then update the plan, which we will do, again, in a couple more years. Now, just in example,
[1:31:45] that we met with Groupset, Calvin Park, and Chris Neighborhood, as we were developing this and
[1:31:52] said, hey, how can we figure out supporting the park? As we went through that, they said,
[1:31:58] you know what we would like is a set of handball courts, and the mail was very involved in this,
[1:32:02] but we said, okay, well what makes sense, and we work with them, we found grant funding,
[1:32:07] we use our own existing funding to leverage it, and that project occurred because of that exact
[1:32:13] outreach and how we're having outreach similar to that on this in a different language going
[1:32:21] to, you know, galvan, going to the boys and girls club, going to Park Place where we're cutting
[1:32:25] if we have to get them out. That's my question, I guess.
[1:32:32] So, for CFP, I know again because when you go and talk about the CFP, most of this is not
[1:32:39] question area where they can have it. We do this through the budget process. We definitely
[1:32:44] and we can talk about the budget piece, but on the recreation side, we've been talking
[1:32:50] with the boys and girls club about how we can maintain those programs, even though we're
[1:32:54] cutting funding. So we're cutting funding, but we're doing our best to maintain those programs.
[1:33:00] At this time, when we're in a fiscal emergency, it's very hard to say, hey, do you want us to
[1:33:05] cut this program? Because no one wants us to cut any program. So what we're doing is trying
[1:33:09] to figure out how to deliver that program versus asking if you want the program reduced
[1:33:14] or not.
[1:33:15] We all have to be looking at the management at that site to see how can we make this program
[1:33:19] work, and that's what we're focusing on.
[1:33:21] Thank you.
[1:33:22] Thank you very much.
[1:33:23] We're talking about the CSC and parks.
[1:33:26] We're really talking about mitigating impact of pursuers, developments on the city.
[1:33:33] And so when we collect those impacts, they have to be spent to mitigate the impact of
[1:33:38] projects and things, that's why I like with the girl of school, if we were not moving forward,
[1:33:44] with the girl of school, we would still need to find
[1:33:48] more of these
[1:33:52] cities because that's
[1:33:53] where the impact is and that's where the need is. For those particular impacts, what we can do,
[1:34:01] what Chris is talking about is for those programs that we support outside of the CNP, which is
[1:34:07] That's kind of a capital improvement, you know, that's probably where we can look to certain
[1:34:14] as under certain meetings, but it's not through the same thing.
[1:34:19] What it's actually done, we do get a lot of grant funding that focuses on our most
[1:34:25] advocacy, so we do, we already will talk to them and then apply for grants that are associated
[1:34:31] with what they've done, that's we've done that in many ways, so there is some piece of that
[1:34:36] we can do because a lot of the grant funding is targeted.
[1:34:39] If you more in terms of how we're spending our, like,
[1:34:43] like, biomedical bridge, if we were to move money away from that,
[1:34:46] it's not like we could spend it any more than we want for any project.
[1:34:51] And you think we're going to move it up?
[1:34:54] Some ones, Merchick, to say, some ones are to galvan parts.
[1:34:58] So I'm another part who's dying in a part.
[1:35:01] That's what I'm trying to do.
[1:35:03] We can move it from those schools to another part, but it couldn't be any part that couldn't be
[1:35:12] an effort.
[1:35:14] We have to be a part that serves that Michigan-Rash development, because that's the development.
[1:35:22] That's exactly the impact.
[1:35:24] We have a really wide facility, and that's what many of our folks, because there's a future
[1:35:30] parts of the community, why community parts?
[1:35:34] OK.
[1:35:34] The next question that I have is on Hill Avenue, and I didn't get a chance to comment
[1:35:42] on this last time.
[1:35:44] But you know, if you hear a lot of things with the world, I didn't necessarily depend
[1:35:48] on whether or not to build forward.
[1:35:51] But again, kind of looking at this through all the only ones and just kind of, I didn't
[1:35:57] If you thank you to find out, what was the final cost that you had on that first?
[1:36:02] We talked to the public, there was some comments last time on this, so I did walk it
[1:36:09] and I then went and asked you a bunch of detailed questions and I wanted to see if you could
[1:36:14] maybe share that with us, so you wouldn't get any of that final cost.
[1:36:20] But if we opt out of the, you know, I have a new extension that this is what Dawn was referring to to pay back those in taxis.
[1:36:30] I know it's not the exact cost of land acquisition.
[1:36:33] So thank you.
[1:36:34] And because we need to look through and this project is gone back.
[1:36:40] So many years that it was a little bit harder, but I'm assuming at least $8 million for the land acquisition season.
[1:36:47] And then there's plenty of dollars above that.
[1:36:51] And so I don't have the exact number, but that's the estimate.
[1:36:55] Okay.
[1:36:56] And so the services of understanding, because this took me quite a while to understand
[1:37:00] something that really quickly, you said that there was, we were glad to get in.
[1:37:10] That first $2.5 million, and now we're looking at $16.5 million to complete the project, that
[1:37:17] the properties that these purchase were about an estimate of $8 million, and so if we were
[1:37:26] to move out of the project and decided that we needed to pivot or wait for the native
[1:37:34] So whatever the reason is, that we would then come to make up that difference because we would need to pay that cost that we have, basically, for purchasing all that property.
[1:37:48] We would have to reimburse somehow that estimated $8 million.
[1:37:52] dollars. So the 16.5 million dollars is not really a cost, it's an opportunity cost, right?
[1:38:01] It's not a fund that we've saved for this project. That's what we'll be relying to get this
[1:38:10] grant will get 16.5 million dollars to complete the project. But what we truly, the city, would
[1:38:17] The paying would be the 8 million or so to, I guess, to, we could so seize to the developers,
[1:38:28] is that it?
[1:38:34] And the 8.5 is for what?
[1:38:41] The $8 million would be for what?
[1:38:44] What was that cost before?
[1:38:46] After the active issue,
[1:38:49] that's what we pay, we would be reimburfing.
[1:38:55] So the money, Donald can help explain this to you.
[1:38:58] The money is in a fund, so we spent this money.
[1:39:01] So that land, it's almost like that land belongs to that fund.
[1:39:05] It's not that exact same thing as an enterprise fund,
[1:39:07] but that cost people wants you that fund.
[1:39:08] So if we want to use that land for something else, you change your mind.
[1:39:14] We have to put that dollars back in the fund.
[1:39:16] There is a chance we could use those dollars for something else, but since our traffic
[1:39:21] impact fund doesn't have that many projects that would be a big stretch and since this
[1:39:26] is gone on for so long, that would be a very big stretch and I believe it would be nearly
[1:39:31] impossible.
[1:39:34] So, we have to find something else that's in a row,
[1:39:38] especially when we have to do more things
[1:39:40] that those funds to people.
[1:39:42] And I understand what you've seen on the also is there's going to be that much traffic.
[1:39:49] Right now, we're not seeing the traffic.
[1:39:51] I don't know.
[1:39:52] And I'm not saying that we don't do the hairless extension,
[1:39:55] but what I am saying is, I guess, similar to what Council Member Spring is saying,
[1:40:00] is that I would like for us to talk about that rather than kind of just push this through on the old thinking.
[1:40:09] I get the hesitation.
[1:40:12] I realize in talking with Chris and others that they started in 1960, but I don't think
[1:40:17] we just go to the path because that's the path that we're on and that's the path that
[1:40:22] You know, that's been looking great and we've got the money for it.
[1:40:25] I think we get go down that path because that is the right path today in the middle of COVID
[1:40:31] and what's going on.
[1:40:32] I think that just to be correct by a niche, what the issue would be is we would need to find
[1:40:38] some other project to spend that money on and we got to find a way to refund that $10 million
[1:40:46] and only where we do that today in bankruptcy. So what's your witness? There is no way out of
[1:40:52] this situation on where we were just going, where we can benefit by not doing that project because
[1:40:58] only further self-centered and moving forward.
[1:41:02] I understand, and I will, I'm not, again,
[1:41:06] I'm not saying that this is necessarily the answer,
[1:41:08] but if we will put into a tight position today,
[1:41:12] we would figure, try and figure something now
[1:41:15] out before saying the answer to bankruptcy.
[1:41:18] And so all I'm saying is that,
[1:41:21] because this is such a huge project,
[1:41:24] That it does want having that conversation I think I certainly understand you know there's some of these things
[1:41:33] You don't come on something you get a point where you really don't have much room to put it
[1:41:37] But I do think that we need to be having that conversation.
[1:41:43] I think it's something for a moment.
[1:41:44] You know, if you don't, one's trying to present, you know, just a case of any sort of
[1:41:49] product that has similar background, as far as, you know, reviews, development and
[1:41:55] taxis.
[1:41:56] They have many coming in from GTA.
[1:41:58] What would happen if they didn't move forward?
[1:42:00] They didn't have the sort of funding that would take to, we've paid up money.
[1:42:05] But putting that sort of aside, your staff still recommends that this is a project that
[1:42:12] the best interest of our city, the multiple reasons, some of which Chris went into, and we
[1:42:19] could give a full report on why we continue to recommend this project, not just because
[1:42:25] we have to go forward or want to go forward, but there are many benefits to this.
[1:42:33] And I completely understand that, and I appreciate that, because I know how much time
[1:42:38] and work is, I've put in it, I do think that there's a valid point, and we've talked
[1:42:43] about, I mean, our budget, we were looking at 10 million, our small budget comparatively to
[1:42:50] other cities in County. We were looking at a 10 million dollar deficit. And then, within
[1:42:57] a week, we were at 17 million. And so I think that there's some validity to say, you know,
[1:43:02] we're already going to really get the 16 and a half million that we think we're going to get,
[1:43:09] And it should we be planning to move down that well when we know that that may not happen.
[1:43:18] That's again, this is all that I'm saying.
[1:43:21] These are the things that I think about.
[1:43:22] I think that I would be remiss if I didn't share this with the council.
[1:43:27] I don't necessarily think others whether or not you agree with me.
[1:43:32] I think that it's something that we need to think about.
[1:43:34] And that's the purpose of me bringing it up.
[1:43:36] Yeah, right, just, just, just, just, just, just make sure that they're talking about the capital budget.
[1:43:46] You just want to make sure that, you know, they're clear that there's, for this particular project,
[1:43:51] there's no money coming from the general fund. So while we talk about revenue loss in the general fund,
[1:43:56] there's no impact rate on this particular project for the general fund.
[1:44:01] And so each fund can't be used to cover operational costs that we have, you know, whether
[1:44:08] the needs are fired, totally separate, totally different sources of funds.
[1:44:13] You know, this is not dispersionary funding.
[1:44:15] As far as the money goes, so 13 and a half million is part of measure B.
[1:44:21] That money is already instead of size.
[1:44:24] specifically for this project near, I think, Chris, probably two weeks away, a couple weeks away from actually getting confirmation that the board level from VTA is going to cover the additional cost, which is $3 million.
[1:44:38] And that's six because Measure B was approved back in 2006 by the voters.
[1:44:43] So we are in 2020.
[1:44:44] The project is rebuilt in the near future, but cost is escalated.
[1:44:49] And so we're pretty certain that we're going to also have that three million dollars.
[1:44:54] And so dancers, yes, those sons are certain they'd be paying.
[1:44:58] They're not dependent upon, you know.
[1:45:00] Those that impact those are set aside at the BCA level. And at Maryview, Maryview, we should probably practice this for the committee, why people keep occurring to Larry.
[1:45:09] These are representatives on the Board of Directors for the BCA. So he has the South County seat.
[1:45:15] They're held by a DOA Council member or Morton Hill Council member. And so Larry can tell that seat for the last three or four years, I believe.
[1:45:25] So anything that you want to add, of course, the certain key of those funds from VTA.
[1:45:30] Yeah, I mean, they're certain that the approvals of money, these money are coming out of a share of,
[1:45:39] maybe the 2016, maybe the sales tax, and there's a certain dollar, not the county expressways,
[1:45:45] and the only expressway that is called out specifically in there is the hell out in the extension and more than hell.
[1:45:52] BTA and the county, those are, so those money, BTA tax are going to the county because
[1:45:57] the county runs and manages expressways with the role exception of hell out of me through
[1:46:03] more than hell, the San Trees are hell, or the more than hell.
[1:46:07] The county and BTA have been sent into the Green and Dalwadi that says BTA will be this
[1:46:11] project directly with more than hell instead of going to the county first, and that we sign
[1:46:17] and formulas already approved that we're in medical units on this specific project and the funding for the first round of funding to go into Expressways has already been approved by BCA and this project is a part of that funding cycle.
[1:46:32] And they've never said about it, they're 16 and a half million dollars, which is more than what we're doing in 2016 to be, those running disappear if we don't do this project.
[1:46:41] We don't get to rude county money to something else.
[1:46:46] That funding category is already a rich sense.
[1:46:51] We're guaranteed 60 because we're in the first round.
[1:46:53] The guys are going to be in the last rounds.
[1:46:56] The ones expressed ways are going to struggle to get their money.
[1:46:58] Because they're at the end of the line.
[1:47:01] That money will be beaten up immediately.
[1:47:03] And it is only coming to us because in the measure itself,
[1:47:07] We negotiated, putting the symmetry to hail expansion in the measure itself.
[1:47:13] It's not 65.5 that more than others do decide what we're going to do with it.
[1:47:17] It is very, very difficult to give mark for this project.
[1:47:20] It disappears if
[1:47:24] we have that in
[1:47:27] spending time.
[1:48:04] Well, really, thank you so much.
[1:48:06] Thank you for sharing that.
[1:48:07] And can you then tell me where, where is the F-B-1 fund?
[1:48:12] F-B-1 fund is that we get money from F-B-1 that goes to our payment rehab program.
[1:48:19] that is the statewide job text.
[1:48:26] Okay.
[1:48:27] And so that brings that, you know, this has been funded, where he's made that very clear
[1:48:32] that you know, he believes this is going to be funded perhaps there might be something that,
[1:48:37] you know, such as her right now, you know, there's lots of questions, so something could
[1:48:41] happen.
[1:48:42] We always said that the call hospital, or I was always told, oh, the call hospital,
[1:48:46] no, never be anything.
[1:48:48] And here we are, with our testing center there.
[1:48:50] But we just don't know, but what it will do is with F.U.1, what we don't know how covered
[1:48:57] is the maintenance of this.
[1:49:00] And so that, you know, delay, that was something that I heard from John, and maybe that's
[1:49:07] that's even a possibility if we don't, you know, lose funding.
[1:49:10] But so that we don't have these maintenance additional maintenance fees when we know
[1:49:15] that that's coming from the general funds.
[1:49:18] We're just talking about where the money is coming from from the general fund, 250,000.
[1:49:24] It comes from general fund, it's going to payment, rehabilitation.
[1:49:28] So, if we're adding a hell of extension, which we know is going to need payment rehabilitation,
[1:49:34] and we may possibly lose some of the S-E-1 gas taxes, again, just reason to think about this.
[1:49:42] Not to alarm anybody, not to say that, you know, we don't, but again, this is these
[1:49:47] things that I think we have to be thinking about.
[1:49:50] I'm going to move on from that and then the last one would be, I guess, just kind
[1:49:58] of looking out some of the projects that what happened to the sort of the linear
[1:50:06] part and the output of trail, those were some that I had noticed that didn't make or didn't
[1:50:15] show up.
[1:50:16] So, I showed the Battlefield linear park on the first slide for the rapid project and it's
[1:50:23] because we're going to actually thought we'd be in a construction, so we didn't want to put things
[1:50:28] in the CIP that were approved in a construction, but you should see that project in the next
[1:50:33] two months coming forward and moving forward.
[1:50:35] So that was one of the projects.
[1:50:37] The Explore Trail Project is in the CIP, so with money for a land acquisition a few years
[1:50:44] And we still are actively working on that, but we don't have a immediate path forward, but still on the CIP, because we only work with willing landowners and people in that end, it's going to take some time and we're working with the open space authority, but we don't have a time table because we're working with the residents and working with others who we're asking for the property at market rate and we aren't telling them, so it's just going to take some time.
[1:51:10] Okay, so it was going to be deferred anyway, it's pretty much what you're saying.
[1:51:16] So, and then if we looked at the, you know, we talked about safety and looking at projects that bring in revenue,
[1:51:24] can we talk a little bit about the bike and pedestrian safety projects that we aren't able to do, or any of those critical?
[1:51:32] I would say, they're all critical because they're going to make our city safer, as I mentioned,
[1:51:38] BTS crosswalk from piece with something we have, some coming up right now, obviously I mentioned down town.
[1:51:44] We have others in design that we would hopefully be able to install shortly in a couple of areas right Avenue.
[1:51:51] But our plan was to continue to do those year over year and that would improve pedestrian safety
[1:51:59] for us on a citywide basis.
[1:52:02] Okay, one of them that I was really thinking about was, should we rethink the pedestrian
[1:52:07] safety that we're doing on Monterey or downtown only because we're having conversations now
[1:52:14] about possibly reconfiguring Monterey.
[1:52:16] So this makes sense for us to see how we might need to use those money.
[1:52:23] It does.
[1:52:24] The unfortunate part is that contract started and awarded.
[1:52:27] And it was just been held off because of COVID-19.
[1:52:30] The good thing about that one is they are in-ground lights that we will be able to move
[1:52:35] for an absolute minimal cost.
[1:52:38] So if the council gave us direction on the next meeting to do something,
[1:52:45] We could definitely hold on that, but we'll be able to reconfigure those, so it's a pretty
[1:52:51] pretty good.
[1:52:52] And unfortunately, we have several projects that are under construction that we have contracts
[1:52:59] with that if we back out will cost a significant amount of money each, and it's backwards
[1:53:07] on those things.
[1:53:08] We had a
[1:53:14] quality center, we probably wouldn't have signed that contract and we wouldn't
[1:53:17] I'm going
[1:53:24] to remember we'll make that case once we do the
[1:53:33] history on the planning service
[1:53:34] and to be expected.
[1:53:35] Can you tell me about why or what would be behind this comment that you felt inclined to include
[1:53:43] the pavement rehab they wanted to see and increase from what to what or about before your
[1:53:49] estimate is that after your estimate.
[1:53:51] One of the seeds that we have fully, would you remember where about $1.1 million off a year on average?
[1:54:00] I'm going to do this right here but to do that, right.
[1:54:04] Not within our existing budget, no.
[1:54:06] So that's why it's on our intended need list.
[1:54:09] But, and in fact, isn't it not?
[1:54:11] You just said earlier and things too that some of that may be taken out.
[1:54:19] That's all I have.
[1:54:20] Thank you so much for entertaining my questions.
[1:54:22] Thank you, Mayor, and helpful.
[1:54:23] Thank you.
[1:54:24] And at this time, we're looking at the public comment, and I see one blue hand up Mr.
[1:54:30] Downey, shall I open your mic?
[1:54:42] You agree?
[1:54:47] No, the elusive treatment of chalk.
[1:54:50] Listen, more of you should have a treatment of chalk.
[1:54:55] On our cover topics,
[1:54:59] we heard that public mission feedback of treatment is,
[1:55:02] I just want to reiterate,
[1:55:04] I think the prediction is hot topic in the community.
[1:55:07] maybe not the best topic to be having in this COVID-19 situation, but it's a little disappointing
[1:55:12] to see some admittedly around the very little, but heading to street meetings when it's
[1:55:16] one of the biggest complaints in the city.
[1:55:19] But again, I understand that maybe there's not a whole lot of evidence, but there was,
[1:55:22] you should certainly consider, maybe even, times, a little better.
[1:55:27] We're really, personally, getting this to that job time, but we're going to see a CIP,
[1:55:31] maybe think that I could have his own standard dilemma, you know, you're getting any
[1:55:34] for certain things, you have to spend it on certain things,
[1:55:37] you can't have a long time, sometimes you're not sure
[1:55:40] I have to execute them.
[1:55:42] But my concern is all of the draw that it has on staff,
[1:55:46] like in general, right?
[1:55:47] And I think they're hitting a situation there,
[1:55:49] we need to be struggling with funding to staff and all of the things.
[1:55:52] I would mind how they'd be.
[1:55:54] If there's anything they can do, maybe they should think
[1:55:56] of the money, right?
[1:55:57] And if they can't, they'll stand,
[1:55:59] but if they can, they should really think about that.
[1:56:01] The last one is, when I say the topic, it's just like considering the spreading of
[1:56:06] others.
[1:56:07] They have to have the extension on that of time.
[1:56:10] I don't know if I can say this about it.
[1:56:13] I think it can have a significant impact on traffic, which is already a common
[1:56:16] to the city.
[1:56:17] It's kind of the way to the other.
[1:56:19] You know, it's going to be a half failure.
[1:56:21] That again, I understand.
[1:56:22] They've been working for years to get the funding on it.
[1:56:25] We've got it.
[1:56:26] We may have to spend it.
[1:56:27] We may have to build it.
[1:56:28] I don't think it's going to go beyond that.
[1:56:30] So the idea is that because a lot of people don't understand the dynamics and economics
[1:56:34] of how this money is allocated in spent.
[1:56:37] But at the end, there is an opportunity to delay that without losing a funding, I think
[1:56:41] we should think about it.
[1:56:43] We make a lot of references to, you know, we need to put this on, have a transfer to the expansion
[1:56:48] of money, but there is an opening or a continued pipeline.
[1:56:52] We're not going to see anyone on the expanded.
[1:56:54] And I'm stuck with all of you going to see any major improvements to our public transport.
[1:56:58] It's just more of a thing that's the hell out of you, it's just going to drop more and more people off of bulletin.
[1:57:04] You're going to come to spring.
[1:57:06] I came down and hear a lot of news.
[1:57:08] I'm glad you didn't see it.
[1:57:09] Because if you thought it was going to sound,
[1:57:11] I think that there will be a way for everybody else to realize more than you can.
[1:57:16] Thank you.
[1:57:24] And then I see Brian a bit.
[1:57:26] Mr. Faircloth?
[1:57:27] Yes.
[1:57:28] You did.
[1:57:29] You might as I'm reading?
[1:57:31] Thank you, Mr. Mayor, I'd like to make a comment on this in the panel of the
[1:57:37] Extension to remind people that as they're here, they're here, and they're here
[1:57:45] and they're here, and they're here, and they're here.
[1:57:49] And I think that when the consultant came in and then we found it off,
[1:57:55] it's kind of, there's two ways of doing the same,
[1:57:58] saying the design of this, the consultant came in and said,
[1:58:05] why would it change the executives between an and an end and end,
[1:58:10] and then we would ask the question,
[1:58:11] So, I have to do all the topics that I've discussed, I don't think I can get on
[1:58:18] on any more.
[1:58:20] And it's kind of a, well, I just want some of the things that I really need to know
[1:58:26] if it's on that.
[1:58:27] And that's part of the issues, however, there's a disaster in the sky, in the east, in the
[1:58:35] in between ladies and girls on my way, and I don't know any of the losses has been done
[1:58:44] but I know people are concerned about this tension in ladies and ears because of how
[1:58:50] the culture's gone, but I can tell you that there's absolutely no way to get traffic on the
[1:58:58] Sometimes, all, excuse me, what's the matter?
[1:59:07] To be, to be housing, active is those down here.
[1:59:14] There is certain number of missing on this.
[1:59:17] To be, you can say that there is yarn traffic.
[1:59:21] The very things are just about being,
[1:59:25] And so we built a lot now on the left side of the construction of the town room and
[1:59:33] you got to get through a simple order, there's no other transportation or expenses
[1:59:40] that can impact the health, the health, the health, the health and the health and the health
[1:59:48] It's a long way to move that stuff.
[1:59:53] It's a fight game that says that let's move it all over the battlefield.
[1:59:58] Especially to the bottom of the wall and all on it.
[2:00:00] And that, on Sunday, seeing the other morning, from back in the time, to get to the west side of the music room, it's just an excuse to go.
[2:00:11] So, councilman's hearing is up to you, right? It's just an excuse to go and hire an estimate in that.
[2:00:18] It's just a hand of hand, the silent time is in the remote restrictions, because I'm really, really, it's clear, we're in and done.
[2:00:28] I think it's a fair comment.
[2:00:30] Mr. Baron Oskie, your Michael B is going to be a winner.
[2:00:35] Chris, your breath of knowledge on city issues is truly amazing.
[2:00:39] I appreciate your direct answers in my comments.
[2:00:42] I want to reference something you said.
[2:00:43] I'm not directed at you.
[2:00:44] That's not at all right.
[2:00:46] I think they belong.
[2:00:47] Some constant call asks about maintenance on the Hill Avenue Extension.
[2:00:52] They ask, well, yeah, they're street lights.
[2:00:55] And you know, every once in a while something happened,
[2:00:57] but the heck roads are a lot better now.
[2:00:59] So 10 years was, you know, let's not worry about that.
[2:01:02] The roads we got last for 10 years,
[2:01:04] but the problem is that 10 years ago,
[2:01:05] something else was saying that about it, some other project.
[2:01:08] And so that's exactly how,
[2:01:10] but no COVID involved.
[2:01:11] This is way before COVID's,
[2:01:12] for everyone, even new back COVID,
[2:01:14] we had a $1.1 million of payment
[2:01:17] to rehab unfunded journal for me.
[2:01:20] Now, I assume,
[2:01:22] since you mentioned that there's other benefits,
[2:01:24] One of the benefits would be some assumption that opening jail out and you will, you know, be good for businesses or eventually increase sales tax or property tax or more businesses will want to come or something, or the city just thinks that it's such a great idea.
[2:01:38] They will continue to say, well, let's support that from the general fund.
[2:01:41] But the problem is that we do projects across the board with no idea of how it's going to
[2:01:47] impact impact maintenance. As an example, we approach 2,000. No one has a core with the
[2:01:52] long-term maintenance costs of that project. If you have 54 doctors, there is no study to
[2:01:57] estimate what the impact I'm welcome to try on the growth will be. You know, the city of
[2:02:02] 10 last year is the city of emergency ordinance to disallow any new building that has greater than
[2:02:08] 140,000 square feet, because there's real time data show that one truck is equal in
[2:02:15] a 8,000 cars when it comes to road maintenance.
[2:02:18] These things add up.
[2:02:20] Here we are talking in the next presentation about economic development, impact and budget, and
[2:02:25] the draft BI of being available for a tram walk flow, a million square feet, hundreds of
[2:02:31] docked doors.
[2:02:32] The document card follows us a year ago that we would see an economic impact in that
[2:02:36] process of that project as part of the EIR. What do we have today? Nothing. No visibility whatsoever.
[2:02:43] Well, that project pays for maintenance long-term, nobody knows. So when we just kind of
[2:02:48] close our eyes and kick again and hope for the best, we're going to continue to end up with these
[2:02:53] unsundid maintenance needs that are coming out of the general fund until a viable economic analysis is done on a
[2:03:01] chronic faith that that is believable is detail and
[2:03:11] before COVID appreciate the
[2:03:19] U.C.
[2:03:20] I
[2:03:36] actually didn't know how to use them.
[2:03:39] Some kind of apologies.
[2:03:40] I did more of a make-to-comment about the volunteer and surgical bridge.
[2:03:44] As a volunteer for medical bridge, both in Morgan Hill and having gone up to Palo Alto on numerous occasions.
[2:03:50] I would definitely say there is a large population of people who would be very willing to support
[2:03:55] measure the bridge. I also do a close. We might have more of a challenge finding it for other parks and we have a group as a active community.
[2:04:04] Volunteer. I have a finding challenges. I don't know if there's a lot of different days to right now during COVID and so forth.
[2:04:10] I do those think there is still a great deal of support for the magical bridge and I can tell you when I've seen to the park.
[2:04:16] I've got people coming up from Santa Cruz and further south to come and enjoy the park and the screenings are there.
[2:04:21] So just as a sign of, I know that I know a lot of people talking about how I just want to put them in that as a sign of that.
[2:04:29] Thank you.
[2:04:30] Thank you.
[2:04:31] And you ran into me.
[2:04:33] Okay.
[2:04:34] I don't see any of those hands going up.
[2:04:38] I will, you know, remind my colleagues that this is a non-action.
[2:04:43] This is a continuation of the discussion we had on May 15th.
[2:04:46] I left my positive.
[2:04:47] Any other comments about the make regarding this?
[2:04:50] if not we'll take a five minute break there I see I see a hand from one of the attendees
[2:04:56] say when I find a couple of comment just as you were closing it okay thank you very much
[2:05:02] I see Doug you had a comment on this item actually I know I'm just about my mistake I think
[2:05:11] my comment was actually on for general public comment not specific to this item I apologize
[2:05:18] So I'll again ask my colleagues that there's anything any comments that I'd like to make otherwise we'll take a five minute break.
[2:05:26] I'll go see it again.
[2:05:27] These hands going up.
[2:05:29] So why don't we go ahead and take a five minute break?
[2:05:33] Actually, maybe seven or maybe nine good teams will come back and vote to item six on tonight's agenda.
[2:05:51] Do you need the economic development?
[2:05:52] This is recovery plan.
[2:05:54] And I will now let the manager start this one.
[2:05:58] Thank you.
[2:06:01] So the next thing before you can phone community relates to economic development that needs
[2:06:06] recovery.
[2:06:06] So what we wanted to do is giving you an overview of our economic development work plan.
[2:06:12] I didn't get our, that we've already been in our work plan, and I didn't get well recommending
[2:06:17] not moving forward with.
[2:06:19] And then looking at what we're doing right now in response to COVID and in response to COVID
[2:06:25] and helping our businesses.
[2:06:27] And then in addition to that, looking at our resiliency plans to assist businesses, I didn't
[2:06:34] think these already started and we have a way of options that you're just going to walk through.
[2:06:38] You want to get some feedback from you and some direction as far as the next step.
[2:06:43] So, is that it if you can take over?
[2:06:47] What do you mean to the council team meet and who is disliking from home?
[2:06:53] You guys from the area, you come up with the ballman director, so there's a city that's more
[2:06:57] than hell.
[2:06:59] Tonight we have joining us this week's little or assistance to the manager for community
[2:07:06] development as well as the team ready to answer any questions.
[2:07:14] What I'm going to show my screen if I can, Michelle, if you may allow me.
[2:07:27] I call it the please move their mics during the presentation.
[2:07:31] Thank you.
[2:07:39] Very good.
[2:07:41] So as Christine mentioned today, it's to engage the Council on the community on what are the things
[2:07:48] that Morgan Hill can do to help with the economic recovery.
[2:07:56] So what we'll talk about is what is the rule of economic development, especially in an economic crisis, and what are the things we can do within our office to best serve the community?
[2:08:12] If you know, and I'm going to discuss mostly for whoever might be watching at home.
[2:08:18] As you know, the team will send March.
[2:08:22] We have been focused on getting information out to the community on a number of platforms,
[2:08:28] whether it's social media, the websites, postcards, newsletters that we're sending.
[2:08:34] We're working with our community partners on reaching out to the businesses with a survey
[2:08:40] in trying to understand the impacts of COVID on the basis of the majority of our businesses
[2:08:49] are small businesses and they have provided a range of time frame as to how long the
[2:08:58] things they can survive under the sheltering place time frame. Many of our businesses
[2:09:05] where and have conveyed that they were applying or have applied for financial resources and that they're thinking about their own recovery time.
[2:09:17] In addition to reaching out to all those businesses, we have also gone ahead and made a personal connection to our top 100 sales tax generators.
[2:09:30] And our top 100 largest employers, so we have made phone calls to them as well, trying
[2:09:40] to engage them as they ensure that they are getting the information from us.
[2:09:45] We're also continuing to reach out to the development community that had projects in various
[2:09:53] various stages, and we are seeking to find out, are they going to proceed with their project?
[2:10:00] is their project going to need to be modified.
[2:10:04] What is it that the city can do as they are having
[2:10:07] to maybe value engineer the project.
[2:10:12] And the conversation with the development community
[2:10:15] ranges depending on the projects.
[2:10:20] We are also working with our partners at the ACBC.
[2:10:27] All the folks that are providing financial and technical
[2:10:29] information to our community, we have completed a number of round
[2:10:35] tables that were done by industry. The most recent one was the
[2:10:40] restaurant round table where we have the California
[2:10:43] restaurant association, as well as ABC. Join us for
[2:10:48] a presentation with our restaurant. I should say that the
[2:10:55] Big bad that we received from the round table was provided to you as part of a council report.
[2:11:03] And what's amended today was the comments from the rest-time round table.
[2:11:09] So the community is able to go back and see those comments.
[2:11:15] So as we think about the meeting tonight and I know it's late, so I'm going to go through my slides.
[2:11:20] quickly, but the feedback that we're seeking from you is to give us guidance on where would
[2:11:27] you like us to focus as we go forward.
[2:11:31] How can we be best supporting the economic recovery?
[2:11:37] And if you think about those things and if you think about the next set of slides that I'll
[2:11:43] go through, I want you to help us think through the balancing aspect that we might need
[2:11:49] We recognize that there is need to focus on small businesses as well as the larger businesses that generate revenue for the community.
[2:12:01] We recognize that there is a big focus right now all hemp on debt to manage the crisis.
[2:12:08] But at the end, we're also looking for feedback on what you want to focus on for the next year, right?
[2:12:14] what is the longer work programs and what are the things that we should be doing that are
[2:12:20] feasible, that are manageable, that are within the resources and also within the context
[2:12:25] of our budget constraints. As you heard at the budget workshop on Friday, you could
[2:12:32] almost do not mean like pretty much everywhere else in the city, it's also just being considered
[2:12:37] budget cuts. The fellow position is going to have to be reduced as well, or if it is
[2:12:46] eliminated, as well as a significant amount of programing. And we also recognize that it's not the case.
[2:12:55] If we don't do that, then the council is going to have to balance the budget through some other
[2:13:00] is there's different changes, different direction on that.
[2:13:06] We ground ourselves and again this is more for the community that is listening.
[2:13:10] We ground ourselves with a general plan and the goals and strategies that have to
[2:13:14] identify with in the general plan.
[2:13:16] That is our foundation on everything that we do and how we have to develop our work program.
[2:13:25] This is just the segment that is associated with economic, associated on economic development,
[2:13:32] the economic development element of the general plan.
[2:13:35] The talk about attracting businesses trying to grow our tech space, diversify our tech
[2:13:42] space so that when we have this kind of pandemic and situations, we have the ability to
[2:13:48] whether they're stormed.
[2:13:50] So, how can we attract investment job opportunities for our community, job opportunities
[2:13:56] for 70% of our community that can use outside to go find a better salary?
[2:14:04] So, you know, it's not at the highest level, and we use the economic blueprint that was approved
[2:14:10] by the City Council in 2017.
[2:14:12] This economic blueprint is a strategy.
[2:14:17] It took us two years to put us together with reaching out to community across the board,
[2:14:23] focus groups, what have you over 400 independent inputs into creating this economic blueprint.
[2:14:32] What makes this economic blueprint somewhat unique from any other economic development strategy
[2:14:38] is that we, once we developed the plan, we took it out to the industry, experts and other economic development professionals,
[2:14:47] and we have to really test it, and focus on it, if you will, to make sure that the strategy connections that we're going to focus on
[2:14:55] We are going to be things that we can actually do and I will move the needle for this.
[2:15:00] At the end of the day, we're looking at having something that was tangible, that was doable, and that we're going to be whipping our reach.
[2:15:10] So for that, we have four strategies, healthcare, tourism, retail, innovation and manufacturing that we have been focused on.
[2:15:17] We are approaching the end of sort of like the short cycle or runway that we have identified this for the economic blueprint.
[2:15:28] We know that looking back, we've had great successes when we have the community have come
[2:15:34] together with folks on what we want to do and accomplish.
[2:15:38] And this is just a little collage of what we have been able to achieve in downtown.
[2:15:44] The number of projects,
[2:15:47] the type of project that we have are amazing for our community
[2:15:51] or sites within the short time frame that we've been able to put it all together.
[2:15:56] And this is without that out because the community came together, provided us a vision, the planning
[2:16:02] commission and city council supported that vision.
[2:16:05] When it comes down to industrial and commercial development, we've also been able to attract
[2:16:11] quite a bit of investment realizing that there is certainly a lot of feedback right now across
[2:16:20] community platforms, such as that is a kind of development that we should be had to hear in the
[2:16:25] But if we're looking at what, the projects that we've had have been approved between commercial and industrial projects, we're finally seeing an investment that we haven't seen in this community for decades, including,
[2:16:41] effective development, speculative development, which is someone building something without
[2:16:47] a tenant and that just shows the health of the market and where we're at and how we
[2:16:53] have finally arrived in being viewed a certain way.
[2:16:59] The economic development influences the general fund.
[2:17:03] The actions that you take, the planning commission of a city council take, in terms of
[2:17:08] land conditions impact our property tax, our sales tax, our hotel tax, and all of that
[2:17:16] together is almost 60 percent that economic development decisions, your policy decisions,
[2:17:23] and that's influencing the general fund. The general fund is 23.5 almost million dollars of
[2:17:33] The majority of that is absolutely needed and goes straight into our public safety groups and
[2:17:41] fires, and that is why communities need economic development, because it's both funds
[2:17:48] to a great extent, even though they go into the general fund they end up supporting public
[2:17:52] safety.
[2:17:54] So, this is a slide that you've seen at use in previous presentations, what a community can
[2:18:02] that would come down to a hotel development, a dealership, or perhaps a Costco, type of fake
[2:18:09] box retail, and this kind of just represents the amount of police officers that is
[2:18:16] an example, right, that one can go and hire, he doesn't
[2:18:24] say we maintain, he could be something
[2:18:25] of the community has priorities on.
[2:18:31] Also, the way that we think about land use impacts the city and the ability for us to provide services.
[2:18:39] While both residential and commercial land generate revenue for the city because they generate property tax,
[2:18:48] is they generate our sales tax residents that are going out and shopping and buying as well as the
[2:18:54] police.
[2:18:55] We know that the cost of residential property is compensating more.
[2:19:02] So in the long run, you want to have a community that is diversified that has enough commercial
[2:19:09] and industrial use to support the community that you have, because in the long run, well,
[2:19:15] at the very beginning, residential is positive,
[2:19:18] is essentially because a negative for the city.
[2:19:24] We just got to pay for it, for the service that is associated.
[2:19:28] So we think about economic development,
[2:19:30] and how can we move the needle for the city?
[2:19:36] We think about the investment that we can attract,
[2:19:39] and we look at specifically the vacant properties
[2:19:42] that we have, because that is the option
[2:19:45] where we have the ability to try to attract that investment.
[2:19:50] So when it comes down to morning, we don't have necessarily a whole lot of industrial commercial vacant property.
[2:19:58] And because of that, we are having a conversation right now about our industrial lands and commercial properties and what is the future of those properties.
[2:20:09] And what do we do? What's we're getting pressure to do the more housing? And let's
[2:20:16] be at the housing team. It's going to have to figure out how to meet those housing
[2:20:20] rena members. And they're going to be looking at those vacant properties. And we're
[2:20:25] already getting that pressure from folks that are looking to change the general plan.
[2:20:31] So, again, as we look at perhaps that conversation of changing users on those properties,
[2:20:38] We need to be mindful of how is that going to impact the city financially in the long run and how do we create a sustainable financial, sustainable city.
[2:20:51] So thinking about the economic blueprint as the general plan, we have a work program for the economic development team.
[2:20:58] Above and beyond what we do every day on answering phone calls, people that they want to open up a business,
[2:21:05] developer that may want to understand, damning, or what have you.
[2:21:10] So they've kind of worked and happened just today.
[2:21:15] But if you have in front of you here, it's sort of like the special projects that just kind of make the budget document as you will.
[2:21:23] So this is the top of the project that we have already in our work program.
[2:21:29] I mentioned industrial preservation policy is something that we want to further detail
[2:21:38] for the planning convention and city council.
[2:21:41] So we have a couple of council members that were planning commission and they were in many
[2:21:46] conversations when we did get senior fees required to convert an industrial property into
[2:21:51] school, well, should we be doing that even under the CEP when we have very limited industrial
[2:21:58] land, right?
[2:21:59] But we have that, we have the retail concentration, and that is the policy that it's
[2:22:04] going to help us understand as we're getting pressure to convert those commercial properties.
[2:22:09] And the shopping centers have already reached a different place in their health, should we be
[2:22:16] looking at a concentrating that retail?
[2:22:20] He goes into which we tell to be had, what do we want it?
[2:22:24] And some of it is already happening, Monterey Road,
[2:22:27] is the 30th of now allowing housing to happen
[2:22:30] without commercial on those next year's properties.
[2:22:34] The next one is the downtown property,
[2:22:36] the ASEAN prison district.
[2:22:39] This one is what's following the tourism difference in prison district.
[2:22:46] We have it on a work program.
[2:22:48] It was not budgeted.
[2:22:49] we didn't put dollars associated with that.
[2:22:53] And just having finished
[2:22:55] the choice of business and corporate industry,
[2:22:58] I will say that there's efforts,
[2:23:02] take a lot of resources and staff resources,
[2:23:05] a lot of community conversations.
[2:23:07] There don't just happen very easily,
[2:23:11] even though we do higher consultants
[2:23:13] to help us with the engineering document.
[2:23:16] I think part of our focus right now,
[2:23:17] even the way the middle of COVID is high speed rail EAR, and as far as we know, high speed rail
[2:23:24] is still not changing the date or when they expect comments, so we have all hemp on deck
[2:23:29] trying to review the comments, the council approved a contract, so we are very grateful for the
[2:23:38] resources we have to be able to really tackle the adult community that EAR has in front of us.
[2:23:44] Telecommunications is also another big part of our work program.
[2:23:50] This is all within the service of John Man.
[2:23:57] He's not only had been championing our tokenization strategy,
[2:24:01] and we actually reviewed the wireless policies and zoning.
[2:24:06] But now this year with the RSP,
[2:24:08] we have the opportunity to look at a different provider
[2:24:12] to do the connectivity for the city facility, and not only do we have the opportunity to
[2:24:19] as that contract is done setting, we have the opportunity to look at that provider,
[2:24:24] see you at who's the best provider, but can we also expand that service to the community?
[2:24:30] There's an opportunity to use our only buying power, if you will, with health
[2:24:35] to then share that with the community.
[2:24:39] The support and expansion of health care facilities, we've done a lot of that, but
[2:24:43] we are now working and working with a number of health care providers.
[2:24:49] So we're holding hands with them.
[2:24:51] It's evaluating the index seed links program.
[2:24:54] It is sun setting, a pilot program, but the city council approved.
[2:24:58] And now we want to bring this back to you with, okay, this is what we've learned from that program.
[2:25:04] We don't have a lot of resources on economic development for businesses because there's been one of them going to look forward to that conversation with you.
[2:25:12] If you want us to continue to have it an implemented and what kind of changes we want to see if any.
[2:25:20] When the last two items is participating in the U-Li fall conference, it just happens to be the U-Li is what's going to have a healing San Francisco which was just in our backyard.
[2:25:31] So the economic development alliance, so Silicon Valley decided this year that if we were not going to host the
[2:25:39] Sanctuary's economic development symposium, and instead we're going to take a big seat at the table if you will at this conference, and then the last one is
[2:25:50] and marketing promotions, and that sort of is the activities that we've done to engage the community and bring the economic development conversation closer to home.
[2:26:01] And engage the community, you might remember, we held a number speaker series, and that was intended to talk to our own community about economic development.
[2:26:11] people are having that conversation on what is the right kind of economic development who wanted to reengage them.
[2:26:19] So, as we're rounding out to hear the presentation, we are today doing the things on the left
[2:26:27] of the screen that the other active COVID crisis management that I've already mentioned.
[2:26:35] We continue to do that. We plan to continue doing the work program that I just went through.
[2:26:41] With the exception of the ULI conference and the event marketing and promotion, not only because we saw the opportunity with not the certain of what kind of event could be had, so this is one of the things that we suggest it to be cut as going forward in the budget.
[2:27:06] Over the last couple of months, we've been engaging the community through town hall meetings
[2:27:11] and the economic ground tables, and we've been asking for feedback on what are the things
[2:27:17] that we could be doing here to promote that economic recovery.
[2:27:22] And in your attachment, this is just a, not a complete list, but in the exhibits, you have
[2:27:29] some of the ideas that have come in, we have tried to organize them in a way that
[2:27:35] that type to tell us if those ideas support retail or manufacturing, if they support certain
[2:27:43] business districts, I mean, they cost funding.
[2:27:47] I will say that this is not a perfect list, it is a draft and we just need to continue adding
[2:27:55] to it.
[2:27:56] But with that in mind, we have looked at what is a very diverse recommendation to use to
[2:28:04] council to the community. I will say we don't have the answers. I will say we are in unprecedented
[2:28:14] times everybody in the country is having this conversation and I think that what works best
[2:28:24] for us, it has to be local, it has to be meaningful to our residents, it has to be representing
[2:28:32] what our community wants, and this is, this is, this is, right here, a set of activities
[2:28:39] is just a very best recommendation of a range of things that not only address the small
[2:28:46] businesses that we love and we care about, but also focuses on some of the other bigger businesses
[2:28:56] and development.
[2:28:57] So, with that, existing work programs, including the PVED, the Monterey Road Compense, the
[2:29:05] Improvement is Accountable Gift Direction to do that, that will be under the leadership
[2:29:10] of our engineering teammates.
[2:29:13] And that is to be determined if the council chooses to go that route.
[2:29:18] Talk of retail window activation.
[2:29:20] We expect that there's going to be some vacancies.
[2:29:22] And we thought that it could be an opportunity to engage people that don't have or might lose their brick and mortar to then match them with temporary window activation, and then that way we balance those.
[2:29:36] We recognize that even program is going to change, but we want to be in a place.
[2:29:42] One of the things that communities throughout Silicon Valley are talking about, our peers are discussing is place making, place branding.
[2:29:50] How can they get this community ready to be well ready for visitors, come and visit us,
[2:29:56] dying in our restaurants, spend money in our stores.
[2:30:00] So, even programming and click making is made that missed by local campaign.
[2:30:06] The bi-local campaign is a message that tells the community that every dollar makes the difference.
[2:30:16] When you buy online as comfortable as that might be, it impacts our store.
[2:30:21] So, it could be a really good reminder to our community,
[2:30:28] and the next two of our city
[2:30:30] policies reviews, we're doing our CUP, we're doing our sign warnings, we're doing our
[2:30:35] parking policies, but it's a bit of a bit of a bit to do on this with an our real-house.
[2:30:39] And the number six is already something we're doing is preliminary review, when somebody
[2:30:45] wants to come in and do a development, we're already pulling the team, the idea here is
[2:30:50] as it was formulated, and maybe do it once a month and bring the whole team and then that way
[2:30:56] the development community knows that we're still open for a business.
[2:30:59] The last one is there is an EVA grant that usually those friends are very complicated, they're
[2:31:07] federal funds.
[2:31:09] They are, they require a lot of paperwork, and usually communities that come together as
[2:31:14] a region do better at getting those grants.
[2:31:17] We think that there's an opportunity for us to go pursue those funds for telecommunications.
[2:31:24] We think telecommunications is the area that we are best positioned to go pursue for specific details that I'm happy to get into.
[2:31:33] So with that, I'm ending my presentation with some thoughts that we would see from the community.
[2:31:38] This is not mind, this is our comment that you received here, you know, and you have seen them in the supplements that you received.
[2:31:46] The folks said that out of your thoughts and comfort zone city, however, being mindful of ideas or projects and strategies that are more idealistic versus realistic.
[2:32:01] We move anything that is within our power of hurdles to the economic recovery or adult
[2:32:07] men.
[2:32:08] These facts be handled, take risks, and be creative.
[2:32:13] And finally, be aware of what drives the primary funding for our city.
[2:32:18] So those are recommendations from our own community.
[2:32:20] And with that, I conclude my presentation and the Leslie John, Christine and the rest
[2:32:25] of the team, we're available to take your comments or questions.
[2:32:32] Okay, and with that, I seek out some number of car.
[2:32:37] Thank you, Mayor.
[2:32:39] Either thank you.
[2:32:40] You know, I've been anticipating this discussion for a while, so.
[2:32:44] Thank you for putting together a comprehensive report for us to start the conversation with.
[2:32:50] Can you talk about the beginning?
[2:32:51] The outreach that has gone on things like the business survey.
[2:32:57] I spent a lot of time going through that business survey that has done in connection with the chamber.
[2:33:00] And there was a lot of things like a brains and a lot of things that were about, you know, money and things that we don't have.
[2:33:08] But you commented that we reached out to the top 100 sales tax providers in our city.
[2:33:14] Then we went from that.
[2:33:18] I wish I had my notes.
[2:33:20] I, we had some really good feedback from some of the folks.
[2:33:24] I think John can chime in if you remember some of them.
[2:33:28] You know, the feedback was all over the place where some folks had near the feedback we got from our small businesses, and others essentially said, yes, we are pivoting, we are reprogramming, we are looking at different ways of doing things, certainly we have some great examples, some ambassadors, one of them.
[2:33:55] But that's a company that makes it the liver's food.
[2:34:00] Turns out that they have doubled in size since COVID.
[2:34:05] And the implemented is a report of our manufacturing
[2:34:08] around table as well.
[2:34:09] And they've implemented a number of practices.
[2:34:12] I think that the things that we're learning from some
[2:34:14] of the larger companies, especially the manufacturing
[2:34:16] companies, is that the implementing social distancing
[2:34:22] within and that means that the production is going to be delayed and that means that they're
[2:34:28] going to have to do multiple shifts. So this is probably one of the constant things that
[2:34:32] we heard across the board is they are just going to have to run different shifts. They can't do
[2:34:39] it in one or just two. Right. The least you said that's the other example. In industry that is essential
[2:34:48] and it's doing great business and it is doing more right now while we're all in the
[2:34:54] shelter place.
[2:34:56] What is any from the city to support that expansion, what a help that expansion, just be
[2:35:02] up that expansion?
[2:35:06] So on the fund last bit side, we know that the ship is with an issue, I mean they're just moving
[2:35:15] forward with different shifts and it is something that we have identified ourselves
[2:35:19] thinking that the new normal, even after the children's place is over, my still requires
[2:35:29] distancing, we're formatting workplaces.
[2:35:34] And therefore we think that our sub-operation and our restrictions and hours might have to be re-loved
[2:35:43] Yeah, or for a period of time, just not at night and for it, so it is something that we
[2:35:50] are ready to discuss with our city attorney and our community development director.
[2:35:56] So any kind of conditions that may underlie the use of the permitting or their operations
[2:36:03] may still have to make sure that in those conditions don't inhibit their ability
[2:36:08] to operate right now under these emergency conditions?
[2:36:11] Right.
[2:36:11] Okay.
[2:36:12] And things like, I think they're ability to get shittments in that they need trucking
[2:36:17] hours and things like that, we probably need to make sure that our rules aren't inhibiting
[2:36:23] their ability to operate.
[2:36:28] Let me ask you well on that same slide that you've put up there that pie chart into the survey,
[2:36:33] and then the two responding category in that was personal services.
[2:36:37] One of the areas that the governor has been the most hastened towards opening up, but I mean all of us has some needs, and we're here a lot of the things around personal services.
[2:36:49] What are we learning from those kinds of shops in more than hell? Those kinds of providers in more than hell about things that we could be in that granted, I realize that the reason that they're not open is not because of the city more than hell.
[2:37:01] But what ways can we be helping them to be ready for when they can or be advocating for the day when they can?
[2:37:10] That's a really good question. Personal service is a tricky one.
[2:37:17] I think that is the industry that perhaps is receiving that the biggest pain right now because it's not like they can fail something online.
[2:37:29] And their income has just completely stopped.
[2:37:34] We are building emails from folks here.
[2:37:35] We see some of the emails I think today.
[2:37:40] And your communications folks that are just not going to be able to recover right
[2:37:47] for being able to open back up.
[2:37:50] We know that other cities and other communities and you've had to
[2:37:53] at some time to time in our conversations is, well, what else can we do? Can we push out
[2:37:59] services to be outdoors? That sort of, what can we do to think outside of the block?
[2:38:10] I think
[2:38:10] that those are the sort of activities, and we think of personal services. Many of the personal
[2:38:15] services that are office related, I think they're still working, right? So if you are an accountant,
[2:38:20] If you're at a training, if you are doing stuff that's in your computer, you're fine, but
[2:38:25] you're going to be a very physical position if you're doing here and now there's sort
[2:38:32] of a personal service stuff.
[2:38:35] Yeah, and we all really feel for those operators quite honestly, I think that the state
[2:38:42] and the county's limits on them and that they are in the governor's state five plan or
[2:38:48] something like that, really sort of disrespect those offers, those that I know, all the ones
[2:38:54] that are going to be able to read us, and what are going to be the hygiene, what are
[2:38:59] going to be the ways that we can actually do this correctly and protect people and, you know,
[2:39:06] I wish we could take a more stronger advocacy role on their behalf to help them out.
[2:39:12] And it's probably something I'll be suggesting here in a minute.
[2:39:15] I want to talk a little bit about different kinds of permits and encroach me in
[2:39:19] format.
[2:39:20] So you talk a little bit about that, but we've all heard about, you know, any of the best
[2:39:24] problems could, you know, pull it off the chair, the tables and chairs outside, if our
[2:39:29] we tell them that on Friday, we tell them we can be allowed to be on the crew side, say,
[2:39:33] always, and not just in the downtown, but throughout our town.
[2:39:38] One of the things that are going to be needed on Friday, they're not just going to be able to,
[2:39:41] You know, Bix-Mine and Piccadore is not going to be able to just pull their stuff outside and tell it.
[2:39:47] There's going to be some steps that are going to need to be taken in order to do that.
[2:39:52] What are those steps in corporate permits working there with our partners, UC&HRs?
[2:39:58] Have we begun any of those?
[2:39:59] We need to begin those.
[2:40:01] How can we be ready so that when they're allowed to do things that they want to.
[2:40:05] They can do it and we're not holding back.
[2:40:08] Thank you. I'm looking at the guests and the attendees to see if we have some of our shopping
[2:40:13] center risks on the line. So I think two different thoughts that come to mind. One, the
[2:40:23] retailers that happen to be facing the public right of way. So they put them to the
[2:40:28] retailers in downtown Main Street boutique. What do they need to do to come out and bring
[2:40:34] people outside. And we're having those conversations with Claes and Don,
[2:40:40] mainly there is a process where we would require an encroachment permit.
[2:40:47] We would require insurance, and we are already having those conversations internally.
[2:40:53] And how can we expedite, simplify, and make it reasonable for those folks to immediately push
[2:41:02] out, and Daughton, Chris, and Chairman on that.
[2:41:06] So we're having that conversation for the public right away for the majority of our businesses
[2:41:12] during shopping centers, and they're in private property, and we're reaching out to folks
[2:41:19] to those property owners and representatives
[2:41:22] and asking what do you need from us?
[2:41:26] They are regulated, they're in private property
[2:41:29] and they're regulated by their city and arts.
[2:41:32] So it could be a symbol of saying,
[2:41:33] you don't need to get a permit from the city
[2:41:35] and we are not going to enforce during this time,
[2:41:40] parking and signage type of activities.
[2:41:44] So those competitions are underway.
[2:41:47] the shopping centers, but the folks that I've talked to, they're still trying to figure out
[2:41:53] if they're going to need to do anything. They think that there might be enough wiggle room
[2:41:57] for the retailers to just come out. I think that what is yet to be seen is how the traffic
[2:42:04] is going to flow. Is it truly, it's not necessarily like a drive-through situation, right?
[2:42:11] you're gonna say you're going to be different and I think that there is a little bit
[2:42:20] of way to see from the property owners.
[2:42:24] Yeah, I get that, you know, target and safety are very simple as to drive up and go that
[2:42:29] exist already.
[2:42:30] So there's a lot to be learned from those and there's a lot to be learned from those and
[2:42:33] there's a lot to be learned from those.
[2:42:37] There's a lot to be learned from those.
[2:42:38] There's a lot to be learned from those.
[2:42:39] And, you know, I would agree that those are private and, and I'm not debating the issue with you here, but those shopping centers are all developed based on city parking standards.
[2:42:51] And we're there in the States I think about this parking standards.
[2:42:53] So we're going to just wait the percentage of parking that's required during emergency.
[2:42:58] Yes, or not.
[2:43:01] So a private shopping center may say, well, it's our problem that our CCNRs, but actually it's our standards that set them up in the first place.
[2:43:11] So I think there is something that we may need to do there.
[2:43:14] It's also fine.
[2:43:16] But we can be encouraging them to less.
[2:43:19] So absolutely right, Council Member.
[2:43:20] And we are thinking that we could, given the direction and given the solution that we're developing,
[2:43:26] But we can handle those through a Q&A that the city has and how we're going to be handling those sort of the enforcement of those.
[2:43:37] I do want to talk a little bit about events.
[2:43:41] I know that's probably a category that makes most of us very anxious about how we're going to be doing that again.
[2:43:51] One of the things, I know we all love about public health, particularly in the summertime
[2:43:57] is that these are that starting with Memorial Day, all the way to the end of September.
[2:44:04] And I know we have to be super cautious with all of this, but whether we're doing to think
[2:44:10] about the reason if the governor and Dr. Cody said tomorrow we're going to allow events, we still
[2:44:17] the private process to allow events that all of the events that happen in more
[2:44:23] April. And I would really give you thinking about, are we just going to go through
[2:44:28] a normal private process or are there a private process now going to take these things
[2:44:34] into account, take social distancing, take COVID-19 into account, and how are we thinking through
[2:44:42] those ways. And as we think about that, have we thought, are we having conversations with
[2:44:50] a bit managers and people who put on these events, do we think differently about
[2:44:54] their events? You know, this is an opportunity to reimagine things, and are we thinking differently
[2:44:59] about them?
[2:45:00] We're just saying, we're like on your shoulders, do the same thing we've always done.
[2:45:05] We're thinking about, and we're going to chance to do things differently. I really like it.
[2:45:09] For the set-up to do certain things and maybe that's not their skill set,
[2:45:16] but it's a way we can encourage them to think differently,
[2:45:19] and maybe do more things that otherwise we would just postpone good off.
[2:45:25] Thank you. I will call a friend.
[2:45:27] So, this one is being managed that part of it, and I know it's been engaged with a
[2:45:34] event organizer.
[2:45:38] Thank you.
[2:45:40] I think, yes, I think in many cases, as a city, we don't have to help them.
[2:45:47] I can tell you that the IDC is still coming up with, I can't even tell you how many
[2:45:54] the idea that come up with a 99 out of 100 of them that have been shot down, not by the city,
[2:46:00] but by the shelter of place order, but by keep working, far past any other event that's done
[2:46:06] that.
[2:46:07] So I know our event organizers are thinking they're being creative, they're talking about combining
[2:46:11] events.
[2:46:14] So, I think the culture we've built in Morgan Hill, from the leadership of the council
[2:46:20] on down. We want to have these events for our community. We want to have people to come here
[2:46:25] for tourism. So we have one of the most, I think, efficient, that's pretty processes for
[2:46:33] use of our public spaces. We can always do better. But as we talk about that, we try and promote
[2:46:38] it versus just being a language of attorney group. And that's what, you know, I talk about
[2:46:43] Christina talks about, you talk about with our team and our police department, a fire department
[2:46:49] do an amazing job of thinking about it that way compared to all of their cities but we can
[2:46:52] always get better so we can look at that ourselves and try and make that simple for those
[2:46:57] events and we'll continue to do that and then by far it's the toughest one that we're trying
[2:47:06] to get guidance on because there's just no guidance yet I mean like I said we're far off
[2:47:10] from pools and gyms and we're still looking for guidance there but events are so much
[2:47:15] Father, it's just been tough.
[2:47:19] And before that, I'd totally agree that we are the most efficient and encouraging
[2:47:25] of events.
[2:47:26] I guess I'm suggesting that, you know, we don't want to be discouraging of events.
[2:47:31] But we're going to need to think about our approvals of events and making sure that they,
[2:47:37] that an event organizer has thought about the implications of coming out of a shelter
[2:47:43] play sort of the implications of social distancing, how they clean everything and how they
[2:47:48] sanitize how food service works and who's going to be handed to that beer cup at an
[2:47:54] event.
[2:47:57] I just think it's just to be considering all of that
[2:48:03] now while we have some planning to do
[2:48:05] this.
[2:48:06] I sort of think I want to allow my colleagues to jump in here as well.
[2:48:11] I'm hoping that when we get into discussion that one of the things we really have a little bit
[2:48:16] I'm on to give some direction is really defining what he found the development means to us right now.
[2:48:22] And the question, I mean, I don't have the right answer on this, but the question,
[2:48:25] my mind is, then we can only development about attracting this.
[2:48:30] What is it about saving what we've got today?
[2:48:33] And we need to provide some direction to our team as to where we want them to be sending their limited resources and time in those,
[2:48:42] Probably in those two questions, and we're all these other things sitting there, so I love some comments.
[2:48:50] Thank you, Mary. Thank you.
[2:48:51] And if I may, may you brought up the world end, and now it's the time as it is one of the next Monday.
[2:48:58] They will not be a regular Earth Memorial Day service downtown this year.
[2:49:04] I did speak with the usual event organizer today.
[2:49:08] He has cleaned up that area and we did take the flowers in that area, but because of the
[2:49:13] going on, it's clear that we can't have a gathering of people, but people can walk
[2:49:19] by during their recreational crime and see their own observance.
[2:49:27] Thank you very much.
[2:49:28] We know I'm going to come to this for you.
[2:49:30] Thank you.
[2:49:31] Thank you.
[2:49:32] Thank you.
[2:49:32] Thank you.
[2:49:35] Thank you.
[2:49:36] Thank you.
[2:49:37] Thank you.
[2:49:39] Thank you.
[2:49:40] for your questions and comments.
[2:49:44] A couple of questions I have here.
[2:49:46] If you know what I think through this,
[2:49:49] a lot of the feedbacks in very centric to our downtown,
[2:49:54] but a lot of our businesses are not downtown.
[2:49:58] What kind of feedback do you get from the businesses that are not downtown?
[2:50:03] It is.
[2:50:06] Well, one of the comments we received recently
[2:50:11] was just that. You get to always focusing on downtown and what about the rest of the businesses.
[2:50:19] I think you're absolutely right.
[2:50:23] It's not necessarily by oversight as much as some people
[2:50:30] might think. There's a couple of things I want to say to answer your question.
[2:50:40] For the
[2:50:41] our partners. The Chamber of Commerce is the tremendous partner. And during my 10 years
[2:50:47] here, I have been very fortunate to have worked with under the leadership, the Chamber
[2:50:53] with the leadership of John Horner and now with the Sherman. And they really expand the
[2:51:01] arm of economic development doing a lot of the small business focus. And we are so grateful for that
[2:51:05] because it allows us to be focused on the things that other things that we can do.
[2:51:10] They don't tell this get a little bit more attention in the rest of the areas in part of
[2:51:18] that is because they don't tell unlike a shopping center, has a couple of dynamics.
[2:51:24] One is the sort of like everybody's living room, but it's the part of the community.
[2:51:29] I mean, require special attention.
[2:51:32] It also has multiple property owners.
[2:51:35] If they're complex, they're different.
[2:51:37] They're a whole different animal.
[2:51:39] They don't have CCNRs like shopping centers.
[2:51:42] And therefore, they don't tell them to be like heavily
[2:51:45] on the city to come in and provide guidance and leadership
[2:51:48] to come in a system.
[2:51:50] For the rest of this small business is,
[2:51:52] we do are very best that we can,
[2:51:55] and certainly we could be doing a lot more.
[2:51:58] We work with our shopping center property owners
[2:52:01] and representatives.
[2:52:02] I know that Dick's C, I see that she,
[2:52:05] join us in a state with our sixth grade at 9th and 6th grade, she represents three of our larger
[2:52:10] shopping centers and she can turn the chime in, but we are in close contact with people
[2:52:17] like 60 with people like John 10 and try to engage them and they engage us when they need us.
[2:52:27] I hope that is not really to be honest, because I need to sit at the end for some of the businesses outside downtown.
[2:52:39] I think they seem to have a very strong lobby in and they're maybe they're organized enough.
[2:52:44] But that's the effect it is to me, it's extremely important.
[2:52:48] Do you know, Christina, how much of our sales tax revenues is coming from?
[2:52:53] So the business is downtown versus the rest of our city.
[2:52:56] We've tried to have that in my sector and so that on her show may have been looked at and this is like that.
[2:53:03] You know, barra laughs and funny things.
[2:53:05] We'll reply to that back then.
[2:53:09] And I can move on while you're finished.
[2:53:12] Yes, that's going on.
[2:53:13] That's the way.
[2:53:15] You know, the other time the office is as I'm seeing, you did the night on that, you see the same.
[2:53:21] But I predict the way people will work, moving forward and then there's a lot of host who have jobs.
[2:53:28] But now we work from home all the time, and I think that will continue for many of us, like I think I Twitter just announced today, that they will continue that model in place and their employees will work from home.
[2:53:41] So do we have any idea to assume that really will continue, which is for months, it's not for, for a new time, to make sure that we support, not in all of those work, it's actually at home.
[2:53:56] I still work, they know that they're still busy all the time, but folks like me, I make use of it in the car and both of that and all those services, right, except you, though, are local businesses.
[2:54:08] But I don't go there, I don't need that curve, I pick up, I don't need anything fancy, I just want them to bring it home to me.
[2:54:16] I'm bringing my life, and I like my life, eat it as I can do my job at home, and you get my money, but I don't need to come to you, right?
[2:54:23] And then it's even safe to do that, right?
[2:54:25] I think that is developing the new future, even more so.
[2:54:29] In the past, many of the companies that I worked for,
[2:54:32] we had services coming to our work, so that we would stay at the office.
[2:54:36] Including cleaning up, filling up gas, and dry cleans,
[2:54:40] and you name it, massage it, and I can use it,
[2:54:44] but people could get their hair cut and so on.
[2:54:48] And I think models like that are the most or not
[2:54:51] come that instead of us going to business, this is what goes to those of us who have jobs.
[2:54:59] And I think I haven't heard much about those changing models, and I don't know if you
[2:55:06] have heard anything, but I think that's the future and I think we need to grasp that much
[2:55:12] more and support those that's much more than just the old-fashioned model, well, I'm just
[2:55:18] a way for people to come, whether they're coming up as a matter of us go waste.
[2:55:23] Some of the restraining results you have questioned, down below, you know, things about
[2:55:27] five to seven of our annual sales tax are not 400,000.
[2:55:34] And if you see that, is that a percentage of total sales tax from just retail, because a lot
[2:55:40] of those are not retail centers.
[2:55:42] I think he was asking for a comparison as much of this retail area of downtown due compared
[2:55:50] to other retail areas of downtown.
[2:55:53] So the 5% is a total sales net.
[2:55:57] We have it.
[2:55:58] We have, so that's one way of kind of looking at it.
[2:56:00] I think it would be a very difficult way to really
[2:56:03] quantify downtown.
[2:56:04] But we have in our HDL numbers,
[2:56:08] identify shopping centers.
[2:56:10] And we can kind of gauge who's doing what by shopping center.
[2:56:14] So we have those numbers that we can share.
[2:56:17] And I don't know if they're sort of big enough to be
[2:56:20] but the team can figure it out.
[2:56:23] To answer your question, Council Member Spring,
[2:56:25] I think you're right, I think that the new or more is
[2:56:29] something that we don't know.
[2:56:31] I think that the things like the food truck concept
[2:56:34] is going to have to apply to non-food activities.
[2:56:39] The children say that the link that we send today
[2:56:42] to the Council and the Prime Commission talks about,
[2:56:46] oh, since the children's place, and the neighborhood is mixed use.
[2:56:49] Every neighborhood had people working at home, and what does that mean going forward?
[2:56:54] Is that it's a new normal? How do we think about our zoning?
[2:56:57] How do we think about the viability of distance is when people might not be so comfortable to come out and shock?
[2:57:05] I think that a lot of that is still yet evolving, and we're looking, keeping an eye out for best friends.
[2:57:13] And the reality is that we have a lot of our very, the majority of our businesses are
[2:57:22] small businesses and there are many of them in the service industry as Council Member
[2:57:30] Card mentioned, it's certainly very, fairly reflective of the breakup of our businesses.
[2:57:38] Thank you.
[2:57:39] And this is my answer for this.
[2:57:41] I was like, it's really, it's a solution.
[2:57:44] And I think our efforts and that of that something you asked about should be aligned with
[2:57:49] where the money is coming from, right?
[2:57:51] I think you should support the businesses that are bringing in the most sales set and the location
[2:57:57] to bring in the most.
[2:57:58] Because you only have limited amount of resources if they all put it in an area where we don't
[2:58:04] really get much out of it.
[2:58:05] To me, that does not necessarily make its long success with the little amount of money we actually have.
[2:58:14] You may want to elaborate a little bit more on maybe John Kant's hand about the outreach that was done through the top 100 sales activators.
[2:58:22] They do the best.
[2:58:23] That effort was addressing the council member's friends, you know, thought process about
[2:58:29] you need to make sure that you have to return on our investment and invest our resources
[2:58:34] where, you know, that, you know, in accordance with the revenue comes in from.
[2:58:38] Leslie, did you listen to this?
[2:58:40] I also, if I could, I thought it's a response that today I had conversation with folks in the community
[2:58:48] that we're talking about, just this topic,
[2:58:53] counseling with the screen, the people now are going to be home.
[2:58:56] And, you know, it used to be in the real days,
[2:58:59] when a brand new family was into a neighborhood,
[2:59:03] the welcome ligament showed up and we had.
[2:59:05] This business is in shop here, and in addition,
[2:59:09] I should talk about the fact that you used door-dash,
[2:59:12] and other delivery systems, and whatnot.
[2:59:16] We potentially need to do the same kind of things.
[2:59:19] I've been Southern California over the weekend and I have a community there that organized
[2:59:23] a volunteer delivery service from their own local community so that they local shops didn't
[2:59:30] have to bear the burden of the cost of the delivery service, which reduces their profit margin
[2:59:35] even further.
[2:59:37] Lots of interesting ideas, but I think that that itself is one of those things that also
[2:59:43] causes me to think that as it is introduced or items right, you don't have all the answers,
[2:59:50] but what we also can do as a facilitator, you have to change our commerce and just catch
[2:59:55] different kinds of creative ideas that these businesses have.
[3:00:00] Start as to introduce and share them so that other people might be either inspired by them or those kinds of creative ideas might be able to be used in a different way by a different business in a different model.
[3:00:15] So, again, it's speaking to someone today, they talked about the fact that linking with the PTA from a school up business, the PTA instead of find gifts for the teachers actually bought gift cards from a business that had been a really big supporter of the community that was linked to education and educational materials.
[3:00:42] And that way we were able to support teachers and teachers could go through the call of business or go online and go with things through them.
[3:00:51] And in that way there was this kind of symbiotic relationship.
[3:00:58] Let's say conversations for what kind of bigger business in the town or industrial users do to buy local.
[3:01:08] How can we, if we don't have money to give to businesses, how can we collectively give our money through our purchases here in our town?
[3:01:18] I think there's lots of interesting ideas.
[3:01:22] I think the ones for the city to pick out the ones that we can master and do a good job with, but the basis.
[3:01:31] Yeah, I actually don't want to continue on my thought train.
[3:01:38] Let's not just focus on downtown only, let's focus on the money comes from and ask those companies and businesses what do you need for ultimately help you do even better and to stick around?
[3:01:51] Maybe that can just be an agree or putting a policy in place that you still don't allow rent increases and stuff like that,
[3:01:59] or not the six months, or whatever will do,
[3:02:02] it might take up my health, right,
[3:02:04] and in other thoughts, telecommunication improves and so on.
[3:02:07] This is as I've shown, but we'll see and actually
[3:02:10] in this time, like the ones, that employ a role-paying job,
[3:02:16] so I do on e-business and so on.
[3:02:19] And then we have to cater to dogs and make sure
[3:02:22] they have to know a town, and so do more of those welcome
[3:02:25] to our town, the retail itself, and I don't think they have the biggest future right, they
[3:02:33] struggle people, and they'll continue to struggle, especially even worse, so accelerated
[3:02:39] with the more people now going online.
[3:02:42] And if you're this is not being online, you probably lost.
[3:02:47] And that we cannot help with this city.
[3:02:50] We can just tell them hey, you need to have them online presence and give you more
[3:02:53] to think and invest that people know who you are, but that takes money and time and knowledge.
[3:03:01] But with regards to the downtown itself, the idea is when present all over the place.
[3:03:07] I got a lot of phone calls and has the talks that are in various ideas.
[3:03:12] But one that is that I really personally like in one and one for you.
[3:03:17] I don't have to look at making more years of the parking space that I'm not used versus
[3:03:24] Monterey as a through of as we open up and nobody see it in town.
[3:03:30] I see it.
[3:03:30] It traffic has already increased just the past couple of weeks and I expect traffic will soon
[3:03:36] be back to the moment, I don't like, but it will come back, right, and that includes Monterey
[3:03:44] of course, to get in an island so long.
[3:03:47] So I did all five streets, right?
[3:03:49] There are parking places, there are empty places
[3:03:51] like the outdoor parking lots, in that area, right?
[3:03:56] And others are.
[3:03:57] Have you have this caution, though,
[3:04:00] that it's a business downtown that restaurants,
[3:04:02] that still empty, right?
[3:04:04] Have we have thoughts that those all in which maybe
[3:04:07] temporarily make use of fish, fish, and have other restaurants
[3:04:13] you think they're open, they're open, they're talking lots instead of using one of
[3:04:19] ways.
[3:04:19] I don't know.
[3:04:20] I'm trying to think outside the box here as well.
[3:04:23] I have you had those kinds of talks with those on this.
[3:04:27] But I currently not having a business, but maybe cook up kids.
[3:04:30] They'll probably do someone else temporarily.
[3:04:35] Thank you.
[3:04:37] We had a quite a healthy conversation at the restaurant roundtable that just happened yesterday
[3:04:43] And certainly, we recognize the need to be able to push out.
[3:04:51] So the restaurant is on Monterey Road on third street or what have you.
[3:04:57] We recognize that they're going to need more space.
[3:04:59] And we're going to have to rethink the way that we use those public spaces, parking spaces, and sidewalks.
[3:05:08] One of the road is sort of a sort of conversation, even though it's a very complicated
[3:05:16] conversation.
[3:05:18] It is also a conversation that community has had, right?
[3:05:21] And we have talked about it in the past.
[3:05:24] I think that the same thing needs to be applied across the board.
[3:05:28] Other streets, whether it's third, whether it's feet, both streets.
[3:05:32] And you're the life and private parking lots and sidewalks.
[3:05:36] Each restaurant is going to have to figure out what works for them.
[3:05:40] They're going to have to work with their property owners and with the city.
[3:05:43] We had agency on the call and they themselves are getting ready to develop a form that
[3:05:50] they can quickly turn around a review of changes to the application for alcohol cells for those
[3:05:57] restaurants.
[3:05:58] So I think the conversations are underway, certainly what we just want to say that we
[3:06:04] were recommending on our suggestion, was trying to achieve some of what you're mentioning
[3:06:13] of focusing on things to support the small businesses as well.
[3:06:20] Our economic blueprint already gives us guidance for things that will financially move the needle
[3:06:26] for the city, but the activities that we're proposing to enhance the work program of what we're
[3:06:32] doing is really to expand additional support for the small businesses like the buy local
[3:06:37] campaign.
[3:06:38] And even though small businesses as the makeup of our sales tax generation, they don't really generate
[3:06:46] a lot of revenue for the city, so when we're looking at, you know, poor energy, where the money
[3:06:51] comes back to the city, that's what we have been doing.
[3:06:55] is very strategic that way, and then utilizing the chambers to do a lot of that additional work
[3:07:01] with the small business, but today in a very different world, we recognize that we've
[3:07:08] got to probably do both, and we've got to do more for the small business in addition to utilizing
[3:07:14] our partners, and that's why the recommendations before you even though the recommendation
[3:07:20] by require funding. And again, even though small businesses as a percentage of revenue
[3:07:25] don't generate a lot of revenue for the city, we know that they are sort of part of
[3:07:30] the backbone of our communities, and we were trying to kind of balance those things for
[3:07:35] your consideration tonight.
[3:07:37] Well, let me let me be specific. I know me and say I might not in favor of supporting small businesses.
[3:07:44] My point is that it's not all downtown, so there's small businesses from Josephine's factory and north side to north and sides during the south side.
[3:07:53] But they're not downtown, and they all are surrounded by other businesses.
[3:07:58] That might need help too.
[3:08:01] And I think we shouldn't forget about those, right?
[3:08:03] And we should help with just as much as we would.
[3:08:05] And not just focus on the few downtown, that there's a fairly concern to request, but there's many others that might need help too.
[3:08:13] and support from the city, in my point of view,
[3:08:16] let's not forget about,
[3:08:17] because I think that is not downtown.
[3:08:21] And you know, there's a shopping centre close to
[3:08:24] in corner of Maine, and hail and fell on, right?
[3:08:28] Those businesses helped too.
[3:08:31] And then you've helped from the city,
[3:08:32] and the Chamber and others in the Southern.
[3:08:36] Actually, that's my feedback and a question really,
[3:08:38] I should move forward, don't forget about looking
[3:08:43] into helping them at all.
[3:08:48] Let me have a few, if you have any insight,
[3:08:51] and that's not the ideal question,
[3:08:54] if we were, let's say, to hypothetically,
[3:09:00] maybe allow a bigger event and a restaurant
[3:09:03] to use modeling close-down on a Saturday,
[3:09:07] or maybe a week and drive once a month or every week,
[3:09:11] and if it works well,
[3:09:12] would that be considered an event that then by the government's direction is not allowed?
[3:09:18] Where is the fine line between an event versus open air seeding next to each other?
[3:09:27] That quickly adds up to more than 60% of the community.
[3:09:32] We have to comply with a couple of things.
[3:09:36] First of all, we have to compare the substance and guidelines to state has put out for
[3:09:42] restaurants.
[3:09:43] So if we were allowing open-air seating, we would still have to have the separation in
[3:09:49] terms of reason for having that open-air seating to be, so that we could allow for the
[3:09:54] separation and for all of the social distancing requirements that those restaurants are
[3:10:00] going to be required to implement.
[3:10:01] It would not be a kind of event, a kind of gathering that the governor's orders prohibit
[3:10:10] and we kind of would include that social distancing.
[3:10:12] It would be more like with the farmer's market where we close public space to allow farmers
[3:10:19] market to occur, that's still allowed in the governor's orders.
[3:10:23] So we would just be extension of that.
[3:10:25] And the other thing we have to be mindful of in all of this is in why the region could still have some sort of a prominent environment and take this way of everything.
[3:10:36] We do have to make sure that whatever we're doing, we need to be compliant in the own third and all the safety precautions.
[3:10:44] But in terms of deferring those years of money ready, we can continue to do those, as long as we are following all of the difference rules, now a long people to sit,
[3:11:00] close together, and when they remember people to come to the end.
[3:11:04] I think I know we're going to have a more deep dive into that topic and a couple of
[3:11:09] things I don't go in there and personally not a huge fan of going back to trying experience,
[3:11:16] but I think we should explore the five streets of the parking lot and make those available
[3:11:21] to restaurants and so on but we'll talk about that in a couple of weeks more I think.
[3:11:27] So I'll just back my time throughout this for now.
[3:11:30] Thank you very much, because we're okay.
[3:11:34] Thank you.
[3:11:34] This has been quite the conversation so far.
[3:11:37] Quite the question and response groups, so far.
[3:11:41] I just want to thank staff for putting this together.
[3:11:45] It's what we need that now, right?
[3:11:47] This is what the community needs is you know.
[3:11:48] They want to hear what are we going to do?
[3:11:51] Actually a lot of stuff that we can do.
[3:11:53] I also say that we have benefited from Councilman,
[3:11:56] the cause of reach out in the community, bringing forward some ideas, trying to get some response
[3:12:01] or then benefit from those conversations.
[3:12:04] And so I'm going to repeat some of what I'm hearing from the community that I wish I could
[3:12:09] say it's all my stuff.
[3:12:10] It isn't.
[3:12:11] The first thing is we've had a series of round table discussions,
[3:12:18] town hall discussions, and a lot
[3:12:21] of focus discussions.
[3:12:22] And I want to make sure, or ask, you know, if there is an end to it, but we're going to
[3:12:29] continue to reach out in the media community because I keep on hearing from some community
[3:12:33] members and you know, most of us are aware that we need to think out of the box.
[3:12:39] We need to be creative.
[3:12:39] We need to be doing this and that and the other thing, well, quite frankly, sometimes it takes
[3:12:43] out entire community to come up with some of those ideas on their stuff that I know what
[3:12:48] a lot of you know and so is this going to be an ongoing process and I think I'm answering
[3:12:53] an question of the answer to that is this is going to be an ongoing process right we
[3:12:58] are going to constantly take in but we've in the past none of this council said hey we want
[3:13:04] to we want to open we want to turn over every rock as far as opportunities to streamline processes
[3:13:09] to open up you know opportunities and all that and I'm hearing that repeated from the community
[3:13:15] So, how we have that direction is, and I think I see that you are, some of us made a
[3:13:20] sort of look at our question, but are we going to continue to continue to continue to
[3:13:26] Like we do.
[3:13:28] Absolutely.
[3:13:32] No, I really have seen so much that I just wanted to make sure that I just don't want that
[3:13:37] to ever end.
[3:13:39] I see that we're really focusing on retailer that's, you know, restaurant or other hard
[3:13:46] We're not going to pay a lot of attention to our industrial sectors, and all that.
[3:13:51] What the strategy of looking at right now is are we doing that because we said that they
[3:13:56] have such a venue of broader demand that we can't really satisfy and help push, or are
[3:14:03] we actually hitting a lot of those businesses and I'm just not realizing it.
[3:14:09] We are, thank you for the question, we are reaching out to those companies as well.
[3:14:17] You know, I was talking with John Lang on the kind of feedback that he got from, from his outreach to some of the companies.
[3:14:24] You know, the larger companies, what we're hearing from them.
[3:14:30] So, great majority of them, I still open because they've had some sort of a link to an essential type of business,
[3:14:38] whether it's aviation, cars, what have you, medical supplies, and a lot of the feet that
[3:14:46] we've got from them was a strong reminder of me things like operations for their employees
[3:14:52] and safety for their employees and rethinking the safety for their own employees, what
[3:14:57] have they got to do?
[3:15:00] The focus, and again, I think, is thinking for mentioning that the focus of the recommendations was the least targeted to the retail. It is targeted to the smaller businesses because that's where we see the need right now.
[3:15:15] Okay, and then we'll keep in mind that maybe with some of our policy things like CUPs and all that we can't help it as businesses when if they have something that comes up.
[3:15:26] So, but I got that clear, so we're focusing pretty much on retail, which is what we can affect the most.
[3:15:34] How much influence do we have at the county level over the COVID-19 policies?
[3:15:40] I go over and over again from the community.
[3:15:42] How come you can't do this?
[3:15:44] How can you can't do that?
[3:15:46] And I have a standard response when getting tired of giving,
[3:15:49] but how much is the county listening to us?
[3:15:51] How much are they paying attention to the fact
[3:15:53] that Morgan Hill is not far away.
[3:15:55] But Morgan Hill is not mountain view.
[3:15:58] If they will not send us a other day,
[3:16:00] how much attention are they paying to that
[3:16:02] where is it just this real broad brush
[3:16:04] because we're just one big part of humanity for them?
[3:16:09] So, if I could start answering that question, I'd like to jump in as well.
[3:16:15] So, first off, we are subject to the county's order.
[3:16:19] We refer to their public health officer and the state sets it to order, the county sets it to order,
[3:16:27] and so whichever the district is the one that has to be invited by.
[3:16:31] You know, in the county, you know, make the clear whichever the district is.
[3:16:36] So, you know, all day listening, I think I'd love to turn it over to the mayor who's got to ask questions, you know, today on the county call, about, you know, when are things and when are things that may or do you want to do?
[3:16:51] Yeah, so I have had an opportunity to ask a question for the health officer, Dr. Cotty.
[3:17:00] And the question I asked was, you know, with the great news that's coming up,
[3:17:03] obviously more people are very getting very frustrated.
[3:17:06] And as the governor's loosening things up in the state, the county is moving a little bit slower.
[3:17:13] And I mentioned the fact that the governor has given county benchmarks to allow them to open up
[3:17:20] But the county really hasn't been giving us those same benchmarks.
[3:17:24] So there's answer with basically in two weeks, they'll have a better idea of the amount
[3:17:31] of cases that are going down in the increase in testing.
[3:17:36] One of the things that the CEO of Dr. Smith has talked about was that the county would like
[3:17:41] to have a minimum of 4,000 tests a day right now they're just over a thousand.
[3:17:47] And then with that, they also need to have contact officers.
[3:17:51] Contact tracing is, you all know, when someone has positive, then they have to be interviewed by someone who will then get their information down, find out who they spoke with, and those people will have to be interviewed and test this well.
[3:18:03] So there are things that are following that are only in place, but the county is still getting a handle on it.
[3:18:10] And part of it is trying to air inside of caution.
[3:18:14] We are one of the hardest economies in the Bay Area, and we were one of the first counties to actually add down.
[3:18:22] But this advances in my question was that they told us there would be about two weeks before they would have an intervention.
[3:18:30] Just cross my fingers, and I guess I'm going to put a plug in.
[3:18:34] Everybody that lives in Morgan Hills should get their COVID-19 testing.
[3:18:38] They get a really good representation of what's going on here, so they can lighten up on it.
[3:18:47] So the longer the same ones, some of the things are holding us back with events and
[3:18:53] you know, I don't like that is, you know, the county regulations, state regulations.
[3:18:58] With the current spirit that we have of really trying to help our business, which includes, you know,
[3:19:03] take out drinks, which is something new.
[3:19:08] Do we have a strong sense of lobbying, I was on the restaurant, down table quality yesterday,
[3:19:14] it's not like it's really up to our legislators.
[3:19:16] Probably a portion of our legislators are saying, and saying, look, COVID-19's bad thing.
[3:19:22] It's going to work, shifting our priorities and how we do things, how about you give us a
[3:19:27] helping hand here.
[3:19:29] You can change you on with things like being able to take out liquor, but then also things,
[3:19:34] You know, like maybe listening to some of those restrictions that hold back some of our events,
[3:19:40] you know, the costs on, on, on, on a time that's for food, or a bit,
[3:19:44] they consider that if you have an event, ABC licensing and, and all that, where,
[3:19:51] it's not so much restricted, it's, it's not so much cost,
[3:19:54] there's some restrictions in there that really hold us back.
[3:19:57] And along those lines, can we consider, in Oregon Hill, we have an ordinance that says,
[3:20:01] where I'm allowed to drink alcohol on an open street.
[3:20:05] And so can we look at that when we start to look at
[3:20:08] possible lane closures and let that be a little bit more fluid?
[3:20:12] I know that's opening a channel where I just want to
[3:20:14] throw it out there can we can look at those test defense.
[3:20:19] So is there any coordinated push towards our legislators to work on this?
[3:20:24] I mean kind of things.
[3:20:26] Thank you, gentlemen.
[3:20:27] That was an idea that it was kicked around in some detail at the round table yesterday.
[3:20:35] But no, there's not a coordinated effort right now.
[3:20:37] I think that it certainly looks over to the council's direction.
[3:20:42] And this is an area that you want us to explore.
[3:20:47] I know that so when it comes down to selling alcohol to go, that is something that the state
[3:20:55] has to decide and we would want to have a city make a decision to advocate for that,
[3:21:01] certainly you can provide us that direction.
[3:21:04] I'm going to come down to alcohol containers in the downtown area or, you know, not just
[3:21:15] who's necessarily to go.
[3:21:17] I know Loseltos had that, and I don't know how long they've had it, but I think that
[3:21:21] that is an open container downtown, you know, of effort to our police chief to, to
[3:21:29] training on that.
[3:21:30] But certainly, the purpose of this meeting today is to hear from you, to hear all the
[3:21:34] feedback that you're giving us so far and the areas you want us to go and explore.
[3:21:43] That idea?
[3:21:43] Good idea.
[3:21:45] I know ABC logs restrict the FLs of alcohol, so I have to double check to see what those
[3:21:55] laws are, between the two.
[3:22:00] It's our RFC ordinance, specifically, consumption of all in a lot of our measures and
[3:22:08] and follow that trend, I think we would have to look at whether or not it would create some
[3:22:18] unintended consequences with the recent restrictions, and we'd probably want to take
[3:22:23] a closer look at that, but I think if the idea is to allow people to, who are going to be
[3:22:33] dining outside in a state that's not typically reserved for, you know, who are going to be
[3:22:41] I'm going to talk to you about your part-click to a lot of that, but I'm trying to stand there dining areas.
[3:22:48] And I'm going to have all consumption will vary, but I think that's a easier.
[3:22:52] So all of them just removing or eliminating our public consumption for them to speak of that.
[3:23:03] It's difficult to say that you can break out the hall that you purchased at a restaurant that you can't drink.
[3:23:11] to be ready to be your holding.
[3:23:13] You should buy it.
[3:23:14] Take away and watch on the street with this.
[3:23:17] And that's the one with the test.
[3:23:18] Yeah, exactly.
[3:23:20] We have to be aware of the liquor store, too.
[3:23:23] So people buy it in alcohol and liquor stores and then
[3:23:26] lock them out and then the streets going to drink an alcohol.
[3:23:29] Yeah.
[3:23:29] And I could see that open.
[3:23:31] Kind of when they should refine that, too.
[3:23:34] For, um, for events.
[3:23:35] When we have events.
[3:23:36] That people could move around a little bit more freely on those special days.
[3:23:40] when they're otherwise, we wouldn't be doing that.
[3:23:44] That's just, that's just a part that came out of the community.
[3:23:47] I thought I'd share that.
[3:23:50] Kind of getting back to what's going on at City Hall.
[3:23:53] Is there any, you know, the more you've been given to all the departments just to kind
[3:23:57] of sit there and think about what they do and how they can change what they do, you know,
[3:24:03] internally, that would have a more global effect on how we're dealing with the COVID-19 issue
[3:24:09] And I, you know, I like to think that everybody sits down on that medically does that, but is that something that has done down other places that we could reach into that we don't normally think about.
[3:24:20] And all of those people know those departments would think about those things.
[3:24:24] I just don't know everything you guys do.
[3:24:28] I'm not exactly sure what you're asking, but what I think you're asking is department by department or we sort of looking at innovative ways to do things differently with our new role.
[3:24:40] people are calling it absolutely, you know, I think that he's already done a lot of that.
[3:24:46] And you know, just first and foremost, just taking a local government to go virtual and then have people working
[3:24:53] from home is something that I think nobody thought would ever would be possible.
[3:24:58] Just because they're not specifically set up with the, you know, you know, a lot of investment in that sort of infrastructure.
[3:25:04] But we, along with many others, to be felt there have been success in doing it.
[3:25:10] And so that above and beyond that, yes, to the bottom of the net's and their teams are coming up with,
[3:25:16] you know, a lot of different ways to start doing things differently.
[3:25:18] When I was in the state of the field, you know, it was related to how can we do things more efficiently,
[3:25:23] and virtually that, you know, you know, strength and strength forms for a recreation process now and
[3:25:29] we've been all in line with more people's forms, you know, so something, you know, there's
[3:25:33] huge, straightforward people who are now going to be able to do that and will continue to be
[3:25:39] thinking outside the box.
[3:25:40] Yes.
[3:25:43] And one of the recommendations for tonight for your consideration is to go back and talk to
[3:25:50] Jennifer and her team and everybody else and then look at policy regulations.
[3:25:56] What's within our power that we regulate, that we can just relax, how can we get out of the way to make it easier?
[3:26:04] How can we continue to send a message that we're open for business?
[3:26:08] So, certainly, we're doing that, we're already having those questions asked,
[3:26:13] and it is something we recommend that we efficiently do, I guess?
[3:26:19] Yeah, and part of it is, you know, this is a time when we can't deliver uncomfortable.
[3:26:23] I know that most, you know, most city policies are very, very cautious and conservative and maybe we can...
[3:26:31] Maybe it's part of a little bit of caution for when that too much that just enough to see if we can make a difference.
[3:26:38] So, kind of said to get more in the detail here.
[3:26:42] And I've been talking to lots of folks, including, you know, that made the change of commerce.
[3:26:46] not that, but we're now moving into curbside retail service. But how do people know
[3:26:53] what's in their own workplace? We can't go on the store, how do you know what's in the store?
[3:26:58] And so one question is, you know, does is there if they have non-line presence? And what part of this,
[3:27:05] you know, cost in the shop local could we really emphasize assisting the businesses that really
[3:27:10] that up to do online, you know, retail to get a jump on it, because kind of what I was
[3:27:19] talking to, one of the marketing trends, and I think what would it take to get somebody
[3:27:25] signed up to a website, so I don't know that. Well, it's quite a bit of work, and if it's
[3:27:29] something that only doesn't do for this kind of time that renders a COVID shelter in place,
[3:27:34] maybe it's not worth it to them. So are there other resources that we can help our businesses
[3:27:38] with to set up that online retail presence, just sort of people, in the way they're supposed
[3:27:46] to go up and look in the window and see what they're got. How else do you know what they're
[3:27:51] got so you can buy it? Is there something that we're working on at that time?
[3:27:57] So, we hosted a roundtable on communication social media and that it's sort of like the effort
[3:28:05] of what we can do within the resources of what we have.
[3:28:10] We utilize our partners like FBBC to provide technical, more technical assistance
[3:28:15] to the businesses, but you know, we don't have the bandwidth to information that everybody
[3:28:21] has to website.
[3:28:22] I think that this is, this time is going to challenge this is community to evolve.
[3:28:28] I mean, the way that it's challenging us at the city to evolve.
[3:28:32] I mean, we are now being faced with our own ways, schools, the same, and the business
[3:28:39] community is going to have to adapt.
[3:28:43] And it's going to be survival of the most adaptable.
[3:28:46] That is the name of the game across the board.
[3:28:49] So for the question on, how do we help our small businesses get more technically acquainted
[3:28:58] other than doing the kind of like round tables and kind of putting resources in front of them.
[3:29:04] I don't know how much more we ourselves with our limited resources can do in all honesty.
[3:29:11] I think you just said something which is important, which is that there are going to have to step up.
[3:29:18] And there are going to have to take responsibility to do these things and maybe the message is that time is changing.
[3:29:25] And maybe this isn't just a temporary thing and it's going to be overall better for the business staff
[3:29:30] that online retail presence from this point on.
[3:29:36] I'm trying to shorten the steps I've been talking for quite a while longer than anything
[3:29:40] to state closure deadlines.
[3:29:43] That's been something that we discussed.
[3:29:45] We actually kind of restricted some more.
[3:29:48] So I'd like to see if we could set the look at state closure deadlines.
[3:29:51] See if that's one of the things we can do is it may be reduced some of the minimums
[3:29:57] We're doing it after closing for a straight distance.
[3:30:00] Take with us those policies. We have, yes.
[3:30:08] In fact, the question section, I think that you men have you. Have you looked at stakeholders?
[3:30:14] We have, and we will certainly continue to look at that.
[3:30:20] Well, they didn't sound good question, I'm sorry.
[3:30:23] A lot of those lines, is it possible that we could train our staff to perform street closures
[3:30:31] right now at my back on a dollar event, you know, and one of the things that's really costly
[3:30:35] is a street closure.
[3:30:37] And the quality right now is you submit a plan for maybe one that you have to go and
[3:30:42] have to hire a company to come actually perform at most, you know, there's an agreement
[3:30:48] I mean, is that something we can do or start to get our staff to do the street closures?
[3:30:53] That's what they do on your right.
[3:30:55] In your right, there's staff and then closed down streets for the music and all that stuff at night.
[3:31:00] Is that something we consider doing?
[3:31:02] That's a question, but I'm looking sorry.
[3:31:06] I'm looking at Chris thinking that he was going to jump in.
[3:31:10] I'm ready.
[3:31:12] Yeah, our staff are actually trying to do that.
[3:31:14] And we do do that, we just don't have the resources to do it.
[3:31:19] It costs us money just like we pay someone.
[3:31:21] The other piece is we do not have a traffic engineer on staff so we still need a traffic engineer
[3:31:27] to design the traffic control plans.
[3:31:30] And then we can implement them but we also have to purchase all the equipment, we don't keep
[3:31:35] enough equipment to implement major pieces.
[3:31:39] We can obviously do stuff like clothing, third street, that sort of thing, but we have
[3:31:43] cost to. So if we start taking that on, we're either not doing something or we're passing
[3:31:50] the cost along and doing it on our team's overtime.
[3:31:55] Okay, that was something that was about that was kind of interesting.
[3:32:02] And I guess the last question, I've been talking long enough.
[3:32:07] What is the lowest thing right now of these items?
[3:32:11] And, you know, I'll back up and I'll say, what can we do to make our community comfortable
[3:32:17] going back out again?
[3:32:18] I have a sense that's one reasonable focus on the downtown, is that the difference back
[3:32:22] to downtown was fair to get that sense of normalcy, that's kind of, you know, the communities
[3:32:28] within you.
[3:32:31] But through this, what is, you know, what's the one thing for it, and what will get people
[3:32:36] comfortable to come out. And just being out in the public and
[3:32:41] patronizing businesses, I mean, as I mentioned before, that's the one of our greatest
[3:32:45] impediments is just people's willingness to come out.
[3:32:49] What's here gets us to the best.
[3:32:52] That's thanks to the box.
[3:32:55] That's a question.
[3:32:58] I was going to be a little smart in the way that I was going to answer to when you said,
[3:33:02] This is an interesting fruit.
[3:33:06] I was going to say, well, to do what exactly, what is it that we're solving for?
[3:33:10] We're solving for a tremendous budget deficit that we're going to have that we're going
[3:33:15] to be kind of crossing our fingers hoping that we don't go to the next phase, where we
[3:33:20] are we solving for at the city, and I just want to be mindful that while we have our
[3:33:32] is that there is so much we can possibly do, and even the recommendations that we have
[3:33:40] before you tonight, even though they are narrow, and we didn't recommend the low opinion
[3:33:47] food.
[3:33:48] We wanted to provide something that Council Member Spring mentioned, something that stretches
[3:33:54] to the small business community, because it has to necessarily be not focused in the past.
[3:33:58] So what you'll have before is the recommendation before you are any attempt to address that need of the retail that is turning so much right now of the small businesses.
[3:34:11] Now, fight the lowest hanging fruit, but to get us to come out again.
[3:34:16] But I will say that the activities listed there are not budgeted.
[3:34:23] Even the PD, the property business equivalent district, is not in the budget, and if we as a city want to dedicate resources to do that,
[3:34:36] those additional resources are going to have to come from somewhere else.
[3:34:39] So the reality is that there's going to be some tough decisions that the council's going to have to make.
[3:34:45] And, and truthfully, you're just going to have to make choices and telling us where you want us.
[3:34:51] I just asked about you in the question of low sleep.
[3:34:57] But look how to lie for me, it's what we have the most control of it.
[3:35:01] And that is in the list on the slide is number five, the C-call feature view.
[3:35:11] And you know, not calling to the code, you know, ourselves,
[3:35:14] but hearing from our business to, you know, first at the chamber,
[3:35:18] webinar and then tomorrow night and all the outreach that our economic development team is doing
[3:35:23] finding out what businesses that we have and by way of those are closed that might get
[3:35:30] in the way of businesses being able to reopen. So I think in some cases, in many cases, that
[3:35:36] that's one of the reasons we need to make sure that we're active in that area. And then your second
[3:35:43] The second one, your question must have been a trust.
[3:35:47] And that's the big one.
[3:35:49] And you know, a lot of that of course is outside of our control, you know, one of the things
[3:35:53] that comes to mind for, you know, for me, is, you know, are all the social distancing protocols
[3:36:00] in place, you know, that the county has required, you know, is everyone wearing the facial
[3:36:05] covering and they go into the business.
[3:36:07] Now, the business is responsibility to make sure that facial coverings are all worn.
[3:36:12] And so I think that that sort of helps with the trust back.
[3:36:19] And kind of adding to it, I guess one of the things I'm seeing, I've noticed feedback
[3:36:24] from community members is when they're shown that people are actually, you know, behaving safely.
[3:36:31] Businesses, you know, they have their face masks on.
[3:36:34] You've got to be seated at, you know, the hand sanitizer.
[3:36:38] If we can continue to get that message out that we're in clear of businesses.
[3:36:42] So, I'm very required to the much to say that we also encourage them to be safe, I don't
[3:36:47] know what the mentality of is of everybody out there at this one trip, what they should
[3:36:52] be doing.
[3:36:53] But I know there's been good response when they see examples of us being safe and I was just
[3:36:59] hoping we could perpetuate that.
[3:37:02] So, anyway, hopefully we can do that.
[3:37:04] That's a question.
[3:37:05] Thank you.
[3:37:07] That particular one, there's been some conversations, I know Council Member Clark has brought this at multiple times to our attention of what is it that we can do to develop protocols to kind of give the guidance to the businesses to kind of build that trust and that awareness.
[3:37:26] And we're trying to do a little bit of that.
[3:37:31] One of the challenges is that there's so many different guidance points out there from CBC, from the state, from the county, and by industry,
[3:37:44] and even for ourselves, it's really hard to be that gatekeeper,
[3:37:50] and there's a little bit of apprehension as well as to the rule that we play in trying to be the ones that tell the difference it did what you're supposed to do.
[3:37:59] Certainly, we will play as much of in that in that sandbox as much as we can, but I just
[3:38:08] want to recognize only because Council Member Court has brought it to my attention.
[3:38:13] If there are some limitations on the role that we play in that regard, in our most recent
[3:38:20] newsletter that went out this week, we identified the links to the state protocols for reopening
[3:38:29] by industry, right, so we're sending that out.
[3:38:33] But I think you're doing this as a measure.
[3:38:35] Also, to another question, terms of whether the company is listening to us, one area
[3:38:40] where we have had some good interactions with the company is when we get those questions from
[3:38:47] businesses and the others that we can't answer.
[3:38:50] You can often go to the company.
[3:38:53] If they haven't already answered the question, then you can send them.
[3:38:58] you're understanding with the need to answer that question, because we're asking it.
[3:39:02] I mean, the information is not out there.
[3:39:04] I mean, it's a very responsive thing.
[3:39:06] We'll see directly, specifically on the specific types of business that are considered
[3:39:11] being the governor's orders, and that's what it means.
[3:39:15] Thank you very much.
[3:39:16] Before you want to bear for 10, I'm going to need a motion to extend the wait.
[3:39:23] Come on.
[3:39:28] What else do we have?
[3:39:32] This is our last item.
[3:39:33] It's a really cold day ahead of course session.
[3:39:37] Okay, love and dirty.
[3:39:40] Oh, second one.
[3:39:41] Give me the motion.
[3:39:42] Second one.
[3:39:43] You're all good, please.
[3:39:47] And concentrate.
[3:39:51] Have you remembered the car?
[3:39:57] Have you remembered my car?
[3:39:59] Yes.
[3:40:00] Have you remembered the screen?
[3:40:17] Thank you, Mayor.
[3:40:17] I want to thank you, Mayor, for your comments on the testing and the fact that you have a good
[3:40:21] grand meeting.
[3:40:22] You just, you guys, just have really done a great job with questions today.
[3:40:30] There are all tough questions, and I know that you don't have the answers, but you're
[3:40:34] giving us the honest, and what you do have, so very much appreciated with that.
[3:40:41] Yes, my first question is to respond to you, Edith, and your questions, but you've asked
[3:40:46] And you asked about your economic work planning, getting some comments from that, the development,
[3:40:53] about retail concentration, strategy, looking at the economic blueprint, I wonder, you know,
[3:40:59] do we put more emphasis on healthcare?
[3:41:02] And perhaps some things, education.
[3:41:05] When recession happens, we often see people retrain and trying to figure out how they're going
[3:41:10] be entered the workforce of shifts, and go back to school, and maybe trade school, so
[3:41:17] maybe those are some of the areas that we looked at as we know that resellers is not
[3:41:23] really happening right now.
[3:41:27] As far as the downtown business property business improvement district, I wonder if maybe that
[3:41:34] was something that we were, we rely on our partners, a lot, as we said before, could we
[3:41:39] to downtown association so we would be willing to do that and you talked with David and the
[3:41:44] whole board there and see if that something that they might be able to take on the, you know,
[3:41:50] the big chunk of because you're right it is very resource and sense of. And then you talked about
[3:41:58] evaluating the intact fee freeze program and I guess my question would be that on what benefits
[3:42:03] using that we could see there. Do you think that there's some benefits that we could see there for some
[3:42:09] of our, you know, for any kind of economic development,
[3:42:15] whether it's existing or attracting.
[3:42:18] And then, click the speedy when the urban land institutes.
[3:42:22] I guess my question or not would be, I mean, it's fantastic.
[3:42:26] I used to go all the time when I was in New York,
[3:42:29] but I don't know what is the cost you talked about,
[3:42:33] possibly, you know, having a big presence there,
[3:42:35] I wonder for that present, what would that cost each for us through SATA?
[3:42:40] So, those are some of my comments you want to respond to those, you know, you can, but don't
[3:42:45] so.
[3:42:47] Thank you.
[3:42:47] I'll be brief and I'll have John, if you want to chime in on the impact piece with program
[3:42:51] because he's been working on bringing that back to you.
[3:42:55] On the ULI, we're not proposing to go forward with that program.
[3:43:00] And we're now, now, let's say, and we're not proposing to do the activity, the programming, the marketing, the promotions that we were, that we had finally gotten to a really good rhythm.
[3:43:19] doing, and we were finally getting some really good
[3:43:21] direction when people were looking forward to those,
[3:43:24] but unfortunately, you know, something that again,
[3:43:27] I think that from my economic development side,
[3:43:30] we're trying to share the pain that the city is feeling across the board,
[3:43:36] and we just recognize we've got to do more with less.
[3:43:40] John, any talk on the index fee free program?
[3:43:43] I would say that certainly it has been productive as a useful tool,
[3:43:47] But I'll let you train me.
[3:43:51] Thank you very much.
[3:43:53] John, may you please don't go.
[3:43:55] Yes.
[3:43:55] I've also been a great tool to talk about making capital investments in working
[3:44:02] homes and building buildings.
[3:44:04] There's really a lot of benefits and power benefits.
[3:44:08] You're in property tax.
[3:44:09] That's your sales tax or other revenue sources.
[3:44:12] So this is one of the tools that you do have on our tool pit.
[3:44:16] is then very valuable. We have, I know, full projects that are very interested in money
[3:44:22] fee freezes, but we do need to rethink for reimagining, I think, the problem a little bit,
[3:44:29] as we have topics developers about making those investments, and they're keen on making
[3:44:35] sure that the costs are consistent. So if the projects move across different years, that they
[3:44:41] what their cost is going to be. Having that assurance is really critical for them.
[3:44:47] It's a few years that it is, but creating that assurance is very important to them.
[3:44:52] So it's an important tool.
[3:44:56] Thank you.
[3:44:58] Okay, so now I'm going to...
[3:45:00] Put my urban catalogs to the, and I get we've talked about thinking big and maybe they have to have been quite the right time for some of us to say in your ideas or otherwise, but I think now is, and at ever, is the time.
[3:45:19] So, again, you know, thinking about some of these
[3:45:21] denser areas in New York, Europe,
[3:45:25] there's, in both these places that I remember
[3:45:27] is being in very, very tight spaces being in a plane outside
[3:45:36] and even in the heat, even in the cold,
[3:45:38] it's really matter.
[3:45:40] So, those are some of the things that, you know,
[3:45:43] that's one of the things we are thinking about,
[3:45:45] How do we do this, man?
[3:45:48] I'm wondering, can we look at that?
[3:45:52] Can we look at, for example, as Liz
[3:45:55] didn't already know my whole life?
[3:45:57] But there are so many things to learn.
[3:46:00] And so we can do something like a rediscovered
[3:46:03] more than hell where, let's say, maybe you have biting.
[3:46:10] We used to buy all three out, man, honey,
[3:46:12] and you go from Brooklyn to clean and back.
[3:46:17] But along the way, what we're dealing is you're
[3:46:19] stopping on that bike ride and your eating,
[3:46:22] and you're drinking, and you're snacking, and you're shopping,
[3:46:25] and you're all day riding.
[3:46:29] So maybe that's something that we can do.
[3:46:31] We put together some route throughout town
[3:46:34] and people like those routes.
[3:46:37] Have we, you know, that question have we done something around that?
[3:46:44] Made it up working with the wine trails, with the restaurant, with the radio tone, it can kind of bring everyone together, I guess.
[3:46:55] Great idea, now we haven't thought about that.
[3:47:00] There's also walking, and everybody is walking right now.
[3:47:04] Everybody's talking about, they're walking.
[3:47:07] What did you do?
[3:47:08] We went walking.
[3:47:08] What else can you ever do?
[3:47:10] So maybe instead of going hiking, same idea,
[3:47:13] rediscover more in-home,
[3:47:14] we set up some like walking routes,
[3:47:18] you know, where you same idea.
[3:47:21] You stop and you, you visit these different places,
[3:47:24] and rather than going hiking,
[3:47:26] or going to coyote-cree, could go into her bed,
[3:47:30] or you take a walk through town.
[3:47:32] So I mean, my kids will always rather go,
[3:47:34] a lot of the time, today on town,
[3:47:37] go to GDA or go to a nice place.
[3:47:38] So we need that something that we could try and do and get some later to be included in this and see what they might have for some interesting ways to stop people.
[3:47:54] So get people to stop.
[3:47:55] And
[3:48:01] then the blue print, before I go to the other side, I wanted to ask, how relevant is that now?
[3:48:09] You still have a still relevant?
[3:48:11] You just decided to still, you know, something that should be our guiding north star?
[3:48:19] And thank you.
[3:48:20] Yes.
[3:48:20] I think that the blue print still holds the foundation that allowed us to work towards a sustainable financial
[3:48:30] sustainable Morgan Hill. The activities in the blue-printed rear are finishing those up.
[3:48:37] A lot of, I think that we have about a year, so worth the activities, and that's including
[3:48:42] this year. Okay.
[3:48:48] Okay. That was just a question. I wanted to make sure that you felt comfortable.
[3:48:53] We should still be going down this route. But I would suggest that maybe we, you know,
[3:48:58] weeks of emphasis, maybe way from retail, like, you know, education, and then health care.
[3:49:03] Health care is such a possibility right now, and we see, you know, our site opening
[3:49:08] out that's a problem.
[3:49:09] I really like to see it's kind of explore that a little bit and see what else it might
[3:49:13] be able to transition from health care opportunities, and I don't know if you have any ideas
[3:49:20] where those might be.
[3:49:23] Absolutely, so on the health care, it is one of the four pillars that we're coming to
[3:49:27] print.
[3:49:29] As a city, the first thing that we have done is we have, what do you think, how do we get out
[3:49:34] of the way?
[3:49:35] So 90% of our zoning districts allow health care users, thank you, John, did a lot of that
[3:49:41] zoning work to get us moving forward on that.
[3:49:44] And now, we are in the statistician on health reasons that we have this pandemic,
[3:49:51] we have
[3:49:51] we have not only the depot, now under the investment of the county looking at a future of
[3:49:58] healthcare at the depot center.
[3:50:00] We have a new hospital as one of the candidates that is being proposed as part of a general plan.
[3:50:05] And Kaiser Permanente is looking at facilities in Morgan Hill.
[3:50:09] And within the last couple of weeks, we know that they're still looking at moving with their expansion plants in Morgan Hill.
[3:50:20] Okay, that's great.
[3:50:23] So then we talked about, well, if we're looking back again at the blue crit, tourism is a piece there.
[3:50:30] But as we know, it's taking a big hit and I think maybe you'll out for that come.
[3:50:34] I don't know, you don't know.
[3:50:36] we don't know, but I've seen move that to a local destination travel, again, this type
[3:50:43] of rediscover more than hell and become the local destination regional destination, if you
[3:50:50] will,
[3:50:53] and see if that's something that we said to do.
[3:50:57] I also would like, I did see that you definitely looked into the art, and you've thought
[3:51:03] that incorporated and I think that's fantastic. We got some that with that local artist
[3:51:08] not familiar with interested in doing a year old. Michael, we just saw in the comments
[3:51:13] from the art school. So, again, it's interesting about art and entertainment.
[3:51:19] A non-profit operator, how would that work to feel providing maybe some art for us to
[3:51:26] ways that committee that they might need in order to set up and do whatever it is that
[3:51:34] there maybe they're cleaning, or maybe they're dancing, or they're playing, are we able
[3:51:40] to within our budget is there any room for us to accommodate waiting those committee?
[3:51:48] Thank you, so let me answer it this way.
[3:51:52] We will certainly look at what policies would enhance place making,
[3:51:57] whether there are men in or temporary place making.
[3:52:00] And in regards to your previous comment slash question,
[3:52:04] I'll soon, you know, the rediscover more than he'll.
[3:52:07] Why I said earlier like great idea,
[3:52:10] I was also thinking that a visit Morgan Hill is doing their strategic plan right now,
[3:52:14] And that is one of our partners that is stretchers or economic staff, if you will, but I'm just a strike at what we can do and they're doing the strategic plan and the branding, so we're going to be looking to them to take on what you just mentioned at the local and the marketing and promotions of the area.
[3:52:37] Awesome. Okay, that's great.
[3:52:40] I just, and, and we know that more than ever, retail is going to have to have some kind of experience being now.
[3:52:48] The regular retail is not going to work unless you're the big box.
[3:52:52] It's just not going to happen.
[3:52:54] So, so I think that that's, you know, that's fantastic if we could get people going and send it to them.
[3:53:01] And then I wanted to talk a little bit about the big companies,
[3:53:06] and changing the permits maybe for treatment improvements for them, so that they can
[3:53:11] shift that it happens to rock with social distancing, rebuilding, re-outfitting if we
[3:53:16] look at doing that for them. And you're shaking your head, yes, it's being definitely possible.
[3:53:24] Well, yes, yes, yes. I was saying, yes, I was going to meet that. I'm going to take one of
[3:53:30] the things that's sitting there looking across the board. They might have to move machinery.
[3:53:34] they may have to move those things. But I didn't want to step on on
[3:53:40] Leslie's crisis and Jennifer's toast on speaking on behalf of the team
[3:53:45] because we recognize that that team is already super stretched.
[3:53:50] But I do think that some of this is expected being able to turn around
[3:53:54] any tenant imprisonment on the quick for those businesses would be very helpful.
[3:53:59] Okay, and then also can we, if they're in the way for us to help us, maybe it's just connecting to pivot into other areas, some of the big companies.
[3:54:11] We've seen some of them do very successful really during COVID.
[3:54:16] But maybe there's others that might need a nudge or might need some guidance to do that.
[3:54:22] Are we able to provide that?
[3:54:24] And what does that look like?
[3:54:26] Is that really just connecting at this point?
[3:54:29] How do we provide an edge to the businesses that don't have one?
[3:54:34] It's almost like the Council Member Matisse question.
[3:54:36] How do we provide a website to the business that didn't quite have one yet?
[3:54:41] I think that we are, and I'm being playful here, but the reality is that
[3:54:49] if it's a business, you didn't have a website before, they were already late to the game.
[3:54:55] And this pandemic and the factors that we have to social distance is going to have to,
[3:55:01] it's putting pressure on us to reinvent ourselves.
[3:55:04] Not just the businesses but government as well.
[3:55:07] And we are all moving hands learning.
[3:55:10] So the purpose of the rent table was to not only hear from the experts,
[3:55:15] but to hear from one another, we are all listening.
[3:55:22] This is the best thing we can do is run from each other and share the best resources that we have.
[3:55:28] And that's what we're trying to do right now.
[3:55:31] Leslie, I know you guys are really struck.
[3:55:33] We talked about this last meeting.
[3:55:34] Did you want to say something on that as far as the tenant and professor?
[3:55:37] Do you think that's possible?
[3:55:38] to
[3:55:45] want to mention that you have a lot of
[3:55:52] smaller commitment actually to come into a building
[3:55:54] department right now in daily conversations with our building officials.
[3:56:00] He's talking about the fact that we have a lot of small commits, a lot of these kinds of
[3:56:06] movements and we can take a kind of commitment things going on with our businesses now.
[3:56:12] We intend to be able to turn those around fairly quickly as it is.
[3:56:17] We can't live in for free because we're a cost recovery department.
[3:56:22] So we can't help them that way.
[3:56:24] But what we can do is make commitments to try to get some process.
[3:56:29] And we'll do that the best we can.
[3:56:32] As a city, we're pretty fortunate in that.
[3:56:36] We do pretty much all of our tenant improvement work over our own public counter.
[3:56:40] And so to the extent that we've got plenty of inspectors, and both the annual and parents
[3:56:47] who are our combination certified inspectors can come in and do some of that review.
[3:56:52] We'll do that and we'll make those a priority.
[3:56:57] I mean, the telecom I think that's already helping the big businesses, and then I won't ask you
[3:57:02] this.
[3:57:03] I'll just continue doing that, which is allowing them to reuse spaces as they shift with employees
[3:57:08] going and working from home as well or trying to accommodate that as much as it can.
[3:57:14] And then I wanted to talk about services.
[3:57:15] We talked about retail.
[3:57:17] We talked about restaurants.
[3:57:20] But we haven't talked about what about services or services that we have in town and yet
[3:57:25] can only do for them.
[3:57:28] So, you know, is there a way that we're able to allow them to do maybe retail only?
[3:57:36] And, you know, this is a question that I have.
[3:57:38] So if you have a salon, they're not able to cut hair, but they are able to sell shampoo.
[3:57:44] They are able to sell touch-ups, teleplot-ups, set-up brain moves, all of those styling
[3:57:51] products, and still maybe have a safe in the community if they could set up and do kind
[3:57:56] of the pickup, you know, where people are able to come and stop my and pick up.
[3:58:01] And just listen, no, we're still here.
[3:58:03] I know our doors have been closed for two months, but we're hanging on for you and hopefully
[3:58:08] will be able to see you soon. So I think, you know, that would be what may have the one selling
[3:58:14] policy. And you know, things like that, is there a way that we're able to incorporate them somehow?
[3:58:24] See, I know that we've got the county, you know, but if they're doing retail,
[3:58:30] if there's some way for us even those that question that the county and see is there a way for them to
[3:58:35] do that.
[3:58:37] I don't know if I have a restriction that since they've done you might want to try
[3:58:41] to do that.
[3:58:41] But if one of those they have retail, they can sell clothes to ideas.
[3:58:47] They have a clothes.
[3:58:48] So on here we agree with that?
[3:58:50] Yes.
[3:58:52] But there's a slight retail constraint for a lot of them that would apply to any business that
[3:58:59] has retail components, whether it's a business to be able to sell to you.
[3:59:17] And then I want to go back to families and just making sure that, you know, we have some family-based tourism,
[3:59:27] but it shows that we get into events, kids' conferences, trying to not only do we do that,
[3:59:33] become a local vaccination, but a family vaccination, we're a family community, and I think
[3:59:39] that would be a great another type of tourism that we could shuttle us all that, so
[3:59:47] I'm hoping that we can look at that, that's the question that you don't have to really
[3:59:51] don't answer.
[3:59:54] And then you probably spread the wealth, talking about, you know, the photos on downtown,
[3:59:59] That they're all in tune.
[4:00:00] Ladies, other nos, if we look at and we've just seen what those are, it'd be interesting to see what
[4:00:07] our field tax is. Some of those other nos such as Cochrane, you've got tenant, you have done
[4:00:16] and conned it. You know, see, you've got these different retail centers, Monterey, and right where
[4:00:21] And just to see, you know, is there something that we could create maybe programming for those areas as well?
[4:00:32] Well, certainly, I know that Vixie is still hanging on there and she might hang in to Vixie.
[4:00:38] Probably comment, but we'll certainly work with the shopping centers.
[4:00:44] I mean, we're hearing from you a lot of visitors from Council Member Spring.
[4:00:47] Let's make sure that we are stretching our resources across this and this district and
[4:00:53] realizing that it's not, we're not looking at those shopping centers that's to walk.
[4:00:58] Who's ringing the most money and they're going to get the attention from the city?
[4:01:01] It's all this is the same across the board.
[4:01:04] I think that what we will be looking at is partnerships with those business shopping center owners to see
[4:01:15] what sort of activation could be done.
[4:01:18] I mean, the reality is that there's only so much that we can do
[4:01:21] without their support and help.
[4:01:23] And again, financially, we don't have any resources
[4:01:26] that we're bringing to the table to activate.
[4:01:29] Now, I just, I do want to echo that.
[4:01:31] I think that that's really important.
[4:01:33] I mean, I love the downtown.
[4:01:35] And it absolutely is a connector.
[4:01:36] It is a part of the community.
[4:01:38] It does deserve special recognition.
[4:01:40] That's the whole reason we have our downtown specific
[4:01:44] plan. But we also need to remember that there are so many other areas in more
[4:01:50] internal make sure that they get that attention as well.
[4:01:56] Then, in talking about this rediscover, you know, more internal type of a
[4:02:00] campaign, how do we, we gotta think about safety and, and, in
[4:02:06] in programming and crypt-touch-to-bit a bit about that, you are able to divert, will we divert
[4:02:14] traffic? So is that, is that truly labor intensive law? It's not necessarily closing the
[4:02:22] street and manning it, but just, is routing traffic? Is that also very labor intensive? So we're
[4:02:29] creating a bike route, and we need to make sure that we've got safety as well. And then
[4:02:36] If I'm looking at the square word places in English, I'm not completely understanding the
[4:02:42] question if you're putting up signs of citizens where bikes could go, that's not labor-intensive.
[4:02:48] If we're changing traffic, closing lanes, or doing anything like that, that is labor-intensive.
[4:02:57] And doing things on a temporary basis where you're setting up, ticking down, setting up, ticking down,
[4:03:01] that's more labor-intensive than if you have something that's permanently set.
[4:03:08] Okay, okay, and then the last thing we've got working with the school and seeing if there's, you know,
[4:03:16] the way that we do, we work with schools and connect them with some of these providers, services, restaurants, retailers,
[4:03:23] and adopting, I love what they've done with the school of a doctor senior and some type of a doctor of business,
[4:03:29] even if it's bigger businesses, adopting a smaller business or school classrooms,
[4:03:33] to go and have their lunch, you know, you didn't know you can't, you're online, but, you know, let's say you've take a rest on, you know, what was the world going to go this in the world for lunch today or dinner tonight, and it's just kind of build camaraderie within the classroom.
[4:03:51] That's all I have, thank you.
[4:03:57] Okay, now I'll open it to the public comments, I see one blue hand up right now I have four.
[4:04:04] The first one will be missing down me.
[4:04:10] Am I in the middle?
[4:04:13] Right.
[4:04:16] So I'm pretty patient here, I need to hour number five.
[4:04:20] I'm going to be further, I'm going to charge up the light.
[4:04:22] I prefer not to see the clock if I could.
[4:04:24] You can put me on three minutes if you want.
[4:04:26] I would ask you guys there to give us a look at this.
[4:04:29] Hang in there to give us a little bit of a little to hear.
[4:04:31] they're ready for four hours to be in the center. So maybe you can give a little bit more.
[4:04:39] So my commentary, I actually had some other commentary prepared for you, but the thing
[4:04:43] that I'll ask you to ask you are actually changing a little bit.
[4:04:48] And, you know, for those
[4:04:49] of you, you know, maybe there's a little direct, I kind of stick my mind. So take all of this
[4:04:56] in the best of it. Oh, we're all doing the right thing. Similarly, this is meant to be an
[4:05:01] All of this in the last few hours, I think the phrase that can remind to me is talk of street,
[4:05:07] but not doing enough.
[4:05:08] You're not taking enough time to election.
[4:05:10] There are eight to ten weeks into a serious situation here.
[4:05:15] You're on the line, heading for the second line, and we have no time to election as far as I can see.
[4:05:23] Nothing substantial in my opinion.
[4:05:25] You have to stop making some decisions.
[4:05:28] And in my opinion, we talked, I was actually going to be the people I think, I need it to be, I've got most of them, but I was going to be the people that said, we got a step on your box, I think it's all there every day, forcing people to step on the box.
[4:05:42] I feel like listening to that for the last few hours, some of you are not only in your box, but you're putting it to another tip over the top and future aspect of your box, right?
[4:05:53] And you have to stop acting in the law that you're in, and you really have to open up, and you really have to stop taking some risk here.
[4:06:01] You'll also have things and follow every way that's what we feel to you, that you're really dying.
[4:06:08] Start taking some risk. Can I walk in the street? Can I have a street? Can I have some people out?
[4:06:14] Stop making some of those decisions that take you to the risk.
[4:06:17] I don't know why they really believe in a dying design year.
[4:06:20] I'm not saying we should come into Westworld.
[4:06:23] You know, I'm not suggesting that.
[4:06:26] But I'm suggesting is we need to take some action now, not later.
[4:06:33] Take it now.
[4:06:34] I'm supposed to do that because if you don't take the action now,
[4:06:37] the actions you have to take in six months of problems are things like layers,
[4:06:43] So, this is the potential even something as close as bankruptcy, the value of the system.
[4:06:53] So, at the same time, I think the answer to one of our questions here is the case.
[4:07:00] I agree that you want to say, you know, don't tell me the question.
[4:07:03] It's not that special.
[4:07:05] And in this specific situation, it contributes 5%.
[4:07:13] Okay?
[4:07:14] focus on the 95% and all that 95% locked in in the brain some of the income back to the city.
[4:07:23] Another big thing to say, if you make a 50% impact on 5% as a 10% or 20% impact on the 95%
[4:07:33] you get used to attacking a block.
[4:07:36] So, my children's homes need to be, we talk about specificity of the box, you say it is
[4:07:42] specificity of the box, you've got a step out, it's not taking some risk, I can take it.
[4:07:49] Thank you.
[4:07:51] I'm just a good one, please.
[4:08:02] Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
[4:08:04] Thank you, Mr. Mary, and Comfort.
[4:08:09] All right, I'll tell you what.
[4:08:14] I can't believe what I'm hearing.
[4:08:18] All these problems that you're trying to solve,
[4:08:21] all of the problems that you're trying to tell a business
[4:08:24] people how can you help you in this time?
[4:08:29] You made the decision to shut them down.
[4:08:32] You did.
[4:08:34] Nobody else did.
[4:08:35] You did.
[4:08:37] You in your hands, you can say, you're going to work a lot more than you.
[4:08:42] That's what you're doing.
[4:08:44] I've crossed into business cruisers for a long time and I've heard comments about,
[4:08:51] You know, they can use this, they can do the work and they can use it.
[4:08:56] So now they will be asked to know what they're going to do.
[4:09:00] And only you ask if you're doing this so long.
[4:09:04] Tell them they can open up.
[4:09:06] They think people are very resourceful.
[4:09:09] Do you have a real deal?
[4:09:12] You still work and then information that you just plan their next study.
[4:09:19] You don't have to listen to the mothers and we know we've got to actually obey them.
[4:09:26] It's just unbelievable that we will continually work as an understand color of their
[4:09:35] people.
[4:09:38] You're saying, how did these people bow down down?
[4:09:42] You know, politicians have escaped the moment.
[4:09:47] You know, you've got kids staying home, I don't know.
[4:09:50] I can't see them.
[4:09:51] I can't see them.
[4:09:53] I can't go outside and say this, my friends,
[4:09:55] because I don't know.
[4:09:56] It's covered in medicine.
[4:09:58] You know, they often adapt.
[4:10:00] I mean, you actually, you can't see them.
[4:10:03] You go outside and out and out and out.
[4:10:05] You go inside and out and out.
[4:10:06] You go inside and out and out.
[4:10:09] You go inside and out and out.
[4:10:12] So, you know, at a top-down town ladder, it's made a great thing out of this.
[4:10:19] All the business is closed up.
[4:10:22] And let's see how good it is.
[4:10:25] I mean, you're talking about a guy in the bathtub.
[4:10:29] She thought it's right.
[4:10:31] We're not gonna hear what he was.
[4:10:33] Listen, at least in the town hall, it's gonna be top-down.
[4:10:37] You're just 17, you're just 23.
[4:10:39] and the kind of district with coverage,
[4:10:42] also and the rights of the doctor,
[4:10:44] but I'm not sure.
[4:10:45] Listen to those at the time of health.
[4:10:50] And you see it there, something to see.
[4:10:53] You know what?
[4:10:54] You better.
[4:10:55] You better.
[4:10:55] You better.
[4:10:56] You better.
[4:10:57] You better.
[4:10:57] You better.
[4:10:58] You better.
[4:11:04] Because the health care investors and health
[4:11:07] the United States, they're telling the city,
[4:11:12] and there is open because the nine Kurdish things that we're seeing
[4:11:16] are going to say the most of the coast are going to,
[4:11:20] are going to bring them to the end of the land,
[4:11:24] where the thing that is going to happen is greater,
[4:11:26] and most people are being ignored.
[4:11:29] You're being removed because they're going to be saying,
[4:11:33] well, you're doing it there.
[4:11:35] Here is the exercise.
[4:11:36] This is one of the states shutdowns.
[4:11:38] So if you all want to open up all of the next six months, let's do it.
[4:11:43] Really?
[4:11:43] Well, those are the problems that these are my states.
[4:11:47] Meanwhile, I'm working with a company.
[4:11:50] Please like the decisions.
[4:11:52] Open up more than just.
[4:11:54] And then the businesses will respond to that.
[4:11:58] Thank you.
[4:12:00] Good day.
[4:12:04] Come on there.
[4:12:05] There you go.
[4:12:05] I think I'm in need of now, yeah?
[4:12:07] Very good.
[4:12:08] Thank you, Mayor.
[4:12:09] Council members and staff.
[4:12:13] You know, I'm going to tell you I had a lot of things written down here that I wanted
[4:12:17] to talk about.
[4:12:19] But, again, I'm kind of with Liam and Brian.
[4:12:23] I'm sorry.
[4:12:24] I'm sorry.
[4:12:24] I'm sorry.
[4:12:28] I'm really, really disappointed.
[4:12:31] Because you guys don't need your responsibility and everyone that I have seen popular
[4:12:37] social media and that people I talk to you, you need to go to see down your hands
[4:12:42] and that kind of waiting in life.
[4:12:45] I need to hear these down for one but that.
[4:12:48] That is actually what it says on Facebook.
[4:12:50] It may be after the shelter in place like down.
[4:12:54] It seems like it's sort of a safe site of, you know,
[4:13:00] day, I didn't email from the chamber, telling me what they're doing to try and make this thing work.
[4:13:09] And I got a lot of these guys. Maybe you guys are doing that in getting out of the community.
[4:13:16] I'm not seeing it, and all of you know, I want to not stop, and I'm not seeing it.
[4:13:21] I think you can remember Christ said about taking a stronger advocacy bill.
[4:13:26] You know, why are you doing that?
[4:13:29] I mean, you'd have to have, you know, shutting down modeling, which, again, a lot of you know,
[4:13:33] might feel about that.
[4:13:34] I think it's a parallel idea.
[4:13:36] And we do more harm in one one.
[4:13:39] But you've got to do this, you know, why don't you do this with your child?
[4:13:43] There are a lot of stress-long networks that are really, really clean.
[4:13:49] And you've got the governor talking about them being in phase 3, which, based on what
[4:13:53] the same looks like seed was going to be September. These babies are going to last
[4:13:59] for September and they have to take a leadership role, come more than you know, hopefully
[4:14:03] not. You know what's going on here better than seed eggs better than Dr. Cox does.
[4:14:11] You know what's going on here? Tell them, tell them, this is what we're doing here. People will decide
[4:14:17] if they want to go out. If it's safer than them or it's not safer than them. They're
[4:14:21] You know,
[4:14:26] you know, you know, you know, because it's
[4:14:34] a fucking last year much longer.
[4:14:36] It can go and see anything.
[4:14:39] There's COVID-19 bad.
[4:14:41] More than you'll be coming in just to turn those towns into bad sales.
[4:14:47] You guys got back, you can be, you can take away your ship all, and you know, you talked about
[4:14:55] more than a new business, your focus might now, isn't China.
[4:15:00] Local government meeting.
[4:15:01] If the business is that I am able to function right now, may I be going?
[4:15:07] That should be a priority.
[4:15:09] Thank you, guys.
[4:15:11] They must be ready.
[4:15:12] They're not here.
[4:15:16] They're making no.
[4:15:17] On the slide that was discussing a commercial and industrial development,
[4:15:21] especially looking at future pipeline, which is based on the fact that some of the largest scale projects
[4:15:28] to mention that investment dollars needed is called a representative of how we are being
[4:15:35] viewed a certain way.
[4:15:36] I agree with that.
[4:15:38] And it's been no secret.
[4:15:39] For example, they have staffed to communicate it today.
[4:15:41] Association there, governments, and their own words, which is equivalent to the world,
[4:15:46] that of all the industries that we could have named as key industries in the PPA application.
[4:15:50] We named last mile distribution.
[4:15:52] Even though that was never made public and it was going to be approved by consent.
[4:15:57] And so we open that discussion.
[4:15:59] We approved a 500,000 square foot distribution set in less than six months, but no vote,
[4:16:04] no review by a finite commission.
[4:16:06] And I'm sure outside developers look at that beautiful world one highway,
[4:16:12] like through Morgan Hill, which is taken by a relatively cheap land on it.
[4:16:16] Basically, a 250% discount on a per acre basis from free month.
[4:16:22] And what COVID has shown us, for sure, is that if you want to become a distribution
[4:16:27] Center, what has been communicated, you will succeed because as an in-face will demand for that.
[4:16:35] The problem with that is that citizens have a completely polar opposite view of how we want
[4:16:41] to be new.
[4:16:42] We don't want to be viewed by that.
[4:16:45] We can pretend that we call things technology centers when they are distribution centers.
[4:16:49] We can say that 500.0.0 is just an expansion even though the developer had any attention
[4:16:54] move into it. And if you think that when we come out of COVID, that somehow, because we're in a
[4:17:01] difficult situation, we're going to suddenly disclose our lives, and you're going to have
[4:17:06] to support, to perceive the wow distribution centers to become like this is pound for.
[4:17:14] I'd like to point you to the supplement that was added. In the previous event, item five,
[4:17:21] problem number two, I skip Houston, I don't know this down, I don't know this down, I
[4:17:25] know this is a very short letter, I will take you left in 40 seconds to read if you
[4:17:29] haven't read it. That's what's going to happen. So you can continue to pretend that
[4:17:36] trample crow is going to proceed at plan SEPPA and other applications for
[4:17:41] distribution center being built on a industrial land is the way forward, but it's
[4:17:47] time to own up to the fact that all that may have some sales tax return, investment dollars
[4:17:54] are hundreds of millions, but the question is, what is the return on investment?
[4:17:58] Who's getting that return on the investment?
[4:18:00] The lower the developers make a huge return on the investment, the citizens don't believe
[4:18:04] for one second that the citizens will get to return on the investment.
[4:18:08] And now's the time to start thinking about whether that plan is going to work, because I can
[4:18:13] tell you that it's not.
[4:18:15] Thank you.
[4:18:15] Thank you, Mr. Brennan.
[4:18:17] Excuse me, Mr. McGill.
[4:18:18] Actually, before Mr. McGill starts,
[4:18:20] I want to ask my colleagues to make a motion
[4:18:23] to extend the meeting further.
[4:18:29] To extend the meeting.
[4:18:32] To extend the meeting to midnight.
[4:18:34] Second motion.
[4:18:35] Second roll.
[4:18:36] Call both seats.
[4:18:41] Call.
[4:18:44] All right.
[4:18:45] My seat is Nelson.
[4:18:49] All right.
[4:18:51] Excuse me.
[4:18:51] Mr. McGill.
[4:18:52] Are you going to unmute you?
[4:18:54] And unmute you.
[4:18:56] Hello, Mr. McGill.
[4:18:57] Yes, again.
[4:18:57] Yes, again.
[4:18:59] Great.
[4:18:59] Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
[4:19:00] Thank you, City Council.
[4:19:01] I appreciate the opportunity to speak for the record.
[4:19:05] I am a planning commissioner for the city, but I am commenting tonight, of course, as a warning real residents.
[4:19:13] And the interest of time and the long discussion that's preceded my comments.
[4:19:18] I'll try to be concise.
[4:19:20] I'm going to make a full private point based on the economic recovery conversation that was made today with some side notes on them.
[4:19:27] And these are all, as you'll see, as I go through my comments, they're very closely mirroring.
[4:19:34] Some of the narrative that was shared by Edith, I believe it was today or yesterday, around the strong towns.
[4:19:40] It was a link to a very interesting read, which I found very useful.
[4:19:45] The first thing I'd like to make is that city, that being since the National Council Commission,
[4:19:51] We really need to actually, and we have to have a voice of unity, and we need to figure out what our unified message is.
[4:19:59] And to me, part of that has to include supporting the expertise in our public health department and other public health officials who are kind of leading the charge at a broader level.
[4:20:12] We need to be able to kind of have a unified message behind the best interests of our community.
[4:20:18] The second one, kind of looking at economic recovery, is the idea of that was presented
[4:20:24] in that test, which is to kind of go easy on enforcement.
[4:20:29] I know I'm not quite sure how we could achieve this through policy, but the priority
[4:20:33] to prioritization of pursuing COVID-related infractions could be a way to allow businesses
[4:20:42] to be a little cavalier, I'm sure we can all agree that the American spirit definitely
[4:20:47] is sprinkled with a little bit of civil disobedience, so to the common server for me, to
[4:20:53] her point, you know, perhaps we don't, we as leaders don't necessarily always know
[4:20:57] what might be best for every single person and sometimes the best thing we can do is just
[4:21:02] politely kind of step aside and allow that ingenuity to kind of come through and see what kind
[4:21:09] of other solutions may come where we will not control in the conversation.
[4:21:13] The third point in order to make is to strongly support out of patient.
[4:21:17] We've already had some conversation around every neighborhood that's mixed use.
[4:21:21] You've talked about really strengthening broadband for all these working-home people.
[4:21:26] You even mentioned your reclaiming open spaces for people instead of cars like these
[4:21:30] and parking restrictions, the rethinking kind of sidewalks and streets gates, you know,
[4:21:35] the reduction of Monterey road.
[4:21:38] You also mentioned considering different uses for alcohol consumption.
[4:21:42] and open computer downtown.
[4:21:44] All of these are fun, very interesting.
[4:21:46] But of course, would be remiss if I didn't remind you that it's a way to increase
[4:21:51] access of alcohol for other people including minors.
[4:21:54] And you had in front of you measure I, which is a revenue source for you, and many of the
[4:21:59] arguments have been put against it, have to do with access for children.
[4:22:04] So I would urge you to keep the policies consistent with one another and to align them properly
[4:22:09] and to not forego any potential revenue source at this point given the gravity of the situation.
[4:22:15] Finally, the last one that I'll make briefly, Mr. Mayor, is that I agree with the text
[4:22:21] that recovery should not equal restoration.
[4:22:24] So in other words, to simplify it, I don't think we need to be focusing on bailing out existing
[4:22:27] businesses.
[4:22:29] I think the best use of city resources is to provide the landscape and opportunities and
[4:22:34] flexibility for businesses to be able to succeed and whatever the new normal may be, but
[4:22:39] not necessarily to invest in a business simply because it's been here before.
[4:22:44] I would hate for the city to show favoritism towards one business or one business or
[4:22:49] one business or over the other.
[4:22:50] And what I want you to thank you very much.
[4:22:52] Thank you.
[4:22:53] This is divine.
[4:22:59] You did.
[4:23:01] Well, thank you.
[4:23:02] Good evening.
[4:23:03] Everybody.
[4:23:05] Thank you for.
[4:23:06] For this meeting, and for all the information, it is that you are amazing.
[4:23:14] I have taken the opportunity to speak to my landlords.
[4:23:20] And I represent quite a few properties in Morgan Hill.
[4:23:25] And the ideas that they have come up with or have been pushing our way are not new ideas.
[4:23:31] They are the same ideas that you guys have been discussing all evenings.
[4:23:39] Something that is rising to the top is the ability to get our services up and running as soon as possible.
[4:23:55] That across the board has been a point that almost every single one of our landlords have requested.
[4:24:12] They are an important part of our retail community.
[4:24:19] Obviously, restaurants and retailers having the ability to spill out into the common areas
[4:24:24] and sidewalks will be necessary with the social distancing, the ability for the city
[4:24:33] to be creative and either way, reducing and expedite the permits is going to be really important.
[4:24:40] Not only for the filling out into the sidewalks and common areas, but also for the
[4:24:47] Ingress and egress, the traffic flow within the shopping centers, relaxing the restrictions
[4:24:56] and the hours are really, I think, something that has been talked about quite a bit.
[4:25:05] Designating specific pick-up areas and curbside short-term parking for deliveries and
[4:25:15] The use of handicapped parking spaces has come up quite a few times because it's generally
[4:25:26] closed and not used and maybe it's just on a temporary basis, but that is come up quite
[4:25:36] bit.
[4:25:38] We've also been asked about the COVID testing locations, where are we going to be doing
[4:25:48] these COVID testing and there are the ability to incorporate some of those into some of
[4:25:58] our shopping centers or into some of the areas that are not being used and it's so provide
[4:26:05] a map with location and hours, these are just some of the very many comments that we've
[4:26:14] gotten, but I think you guys have touched on just about everything that I've said
[4:26:21] plus.
[4:26:23] So I think you're doing a really good job in this very difficult time and hopefully we can
[4:26:32] come out of this. Okay.
[4:26:35] It can be divine. Okay.
[4:26:38] Let's see the blue hands going up, so I'm going to go ahead.
[4:26:41] Okay. One this came up.
[4:26:44] And this is from Josh.
[4:26:49] Did you make it open?
[4:26:52] Hi, man. Council. I appreciate your time.
[4:26:55] Are you able to get in here?
[4:26:57] Okay, great.
[4:26:59] I spoke just a few days ago.
[4:27:02] And maybe if you may know, my name is called, that can I'm the chairman of the Morgan
[4:27:05] Public Health and Safety.
[4:27:08] I've heard a number of comments from different, uh, uh, uh, uh, the members, one of them
[4:27:15] being real, who had mentioned it's trying to take action, it's trying to step out of your
[4:27:20] box.
[4:27:21] The members may have to rethink against personal or political support or bias or reasons
[4:27:30] why they may or may not have wanted cannabis in our city.
[4:27:35] I bring this up because we talked about a $250,000 sidewalk improvement, $1.1 million
[4:27:41] to maintain our 22 parks, as Edith mentioned, having the possibility value engineering
[4:27:47] for projects and developers in the city may be not even building their projects, talking
[4:27:52] about attracting businesses to Morgan Hill, sustaining businesses in Morgan Hill.
[4:27:58] With all of that, it looks like
[4:28:07] Council had mentioned that when you're looking for local business,
[4:28:11] something new for the Morgan Hill to buy local and what represents what our community wants.
[4:28:16] These are all things that I've heard in this discussion.
[4:28:21] Part of what our community wants is a little history.
[4:28:24] In 2018, the city sponsored poll, the city, supported by 61.3% medical cannabis and Morgan Hill.
[4:28:33] In 2008, they supported by 79% taxing cannabis.
[4:28:39] So further illustrate the support of cannabis in Morgan Hill.
[4:28:43] On February 7th, we started our petition gathering campaign.
[4:28:47] We needed a little over 4200 signatures.
[4:28:50] We gathered signatures for five weeks.
[4:28:53] We have thousands of signatures of registered voters in Morgan Hill
[4:28:57] that they're voting preference, they're party preference in voting history.
[4:29:00] With all of that said, we start looking at downtown and locations.
[4:29:06] We just heard that downtown generates five percent of the taxes, or roughly 400,000
[4:29:12] dollars in taxes for the city of Morgan Hill.
[4:29:14] If we compare that to some projections, using Lydia San Jose and reducing the numbers,
[4:29:21] I've tried to do this quick, so I don't have time.
[4:29:23] Then if they have the million residents, they're 16 dispensaries.
[4:29:27] That's one dispensary per 65,000 adults.
[4:29:30] Morgan Hill has 35,000 residents who proposed in three distensory.
[4:29:34] That's one story per 50% to a 70% 76% population density reduction per distensory.
[4:29:44] That gives us our base
[4:29:48] in a day at $843,000.
[4:29:53] There's numbers by seven.
[4:30:00] 1,500 dollars per dispensary, collectively, that's $364,000 from that we generally almost the same amount of taxes
[4:30:14] found district of businesses come to the city of Morgan Hill.
[4:30:20] I would urge
[4:30:27] by the Morgan Hill residents and I urge you to bring this up one more time please.
[4:30:32] Thank you, Mr. COVID.
[4:30:35] Okay.
[4:30:38] I'm coming up.
[4:30:39] I'm going to go ahead and close public comments.
[4:30:42] We're going to go over to Council discussion.
[4:30:45] Councillor Cary your hand is up.
[4:30:49] Thank you, Mayor.
[4:30:50] I can do it.
[4:30:51] I know that I was late.
[4:30:52] So I'll try to be as quick as possible.
[4:30:54] I know we do not have any action on this item tonight.
[4:30:58] But I do want to provide some suggestions and direction to staff.
[4:31:04] is item was something that I had asked for it two weeks ago.
[4:31:09] First, I wanted to comment that my degree was the notion that we should be spending more
[4:31:18] time where our efforts reach the grid that is forward.
[4:31:22] So, I first asked that question about the 100 yard of sales tax generators, because I think
[4:31:28] we should spend an effort there, the way that the questions have been answered the way
[4:31:34] the night, I'm getting the impression that they don't need as much help as perhaps others
[4:31:40] do, but we should always keep our eye on that to make sure that, you know, wearing the
[4:31:46] migratory person, that's important to have as a council member, is my fiduciary responsibility
[4:31:50] to the city, and so we need to keep our focus on our large sales tax generators so that
[4:31:56] we can do our best with our cities budget to provide the services that our citizens want.
[4:32:02] That means that our small business is, our local business is integral, our downtown, our
[4:32:10] the heart and soul of our community, and we cannot forget that.
[4:32:12] We can't ever forget that.
[4:32:14] So we need to stick to those values as well so that we're not just simply chasing every
[4:32:19] tax dollar that we are also keeping true to our values at the same time.
[4:32:24] But the rest of my comments I want to make sure that I practice them by saying at any
[4:32:28] First and foremost, we always have to keep public safety as our priority and our budget is presented by the City Manager does.
[4:32:37] In this case, our public safety is about health and health always first.
[4:32:42] That means that I do want to try to push the envelope a little bit on some of those things.
[4:32:46] Keep in mind that that is our focus.
[4:32:48] If you're on the development of something that I think we need to rephrase in more than hell
[4:32:53] as being the responsibility throughout the entire organization.
[4:32:58] It's not just eat at the job.
[4:33:00] It is throughout the whole organization and the whole organization needs to be on board
[4:33:04] for the direction that the council gives on economic development.
[4:33:09] As legislators, we don't pick the winners and losers.
[4:33:13] It's our job to set the environment that they can all succeed.
[4:33:17] And those that won't take advantage of it, those that want to succeed will.
[4:33:20] But we don't pick the winners and losers.
[4:33:22] I
[4:33:27] mean, we do have a much stronger world than what we have played.
[4:33:39] We're not powerful also.
[4:33:43] The health officer, but you know what? The things that are happening
[4:33:46] in other cities may not be happening here. The things that are happening here may not be
[4:33:50] happening in other cities. Who else is best to
[4:33:59] recruit the better and trade out about testing
[4:34:03] in more than hell than more than hell? And so I think we need to take a stronger world in advocating
[4:34:09] for ourselves. We're not, you know, there's always so much we can do but we do need to start taking
[4:34:14] have voiced that we need to look out for more of the deal and we need to make sure that we
[4:34:19] are not seen as the same as San Jose as the CEO and everyone else. That may need that
[4:34:25] we want to try to advocate for more testing and more to know. And at the same time, one of
[4:34:29] my colleagues said, we want to make sure we advocate with our residents to don't get tested.
[4:34:35] We can hear that that's the key, so we should be advocating with our residents to build
[4:34:38] it tested. The county has said they're going to be starting more tracing or starting a tracing
[4:34:43] program,
[4:34:46] and saying, we have full-world recreation staff that we think we are constrained
[4:34:52] to be traceers in lower health as they know our community,
[4:34:59] communicate best and be able
[4:35:00] to follow the
[4:35:07] person services, open personal services today,
[4:35:15] hunt some borrowers, and come
[4:35:17] up with our own plan.
[4:35:24] Now, we're not going to, I did, there's nothing that makes me believe that the county is going
[4:35:28] to say, no, we need to do it out of the heck you want.
[4:35:31] But if we start making a stronger voice, the county might say, you know, there are some good points
[4:35:35] to be having here.
[4:35:37] And on that show, as well, I think we have been looking at the county public health orders
[4:35:41] and finding the ways that we can open up things within the county's health orders.
[4:35:46] Get involved with it with chair outside of the red services.
[4:35:49] I don't know.
[4:35:50] Maybe that's allowed today.
[4:35:52] But we have been looking into that and then finding out and have a creative for it.
[4:35:56] I mean, we're very quickly going there.
[4:35:58] We think that I think should be priorities for us.
[4:36:02] In court statements, we should very quickly figure out how to do
[4:36:05] was quickly cheaply and efficiently for businesses throughout
[4:36:11] Board of Health, not just downtown,
[4:36:29] based on the emergencies.
[4:36:31] I think we added, you had to bring back to us to
[4:36:40] provide it,
[4:36:43] parking restrictions or no longer limits,
[4:36:49] and non-traditional retail
[4:36:50] occasions, and bring back the policy about no industrial
[4:36:54] conversion.
[4:36:55] I don't think we need to do a study or a plan on all that
[4:37:00] necessarily
[4:37:00] knowing industrial conversions in Board of Health.
[4:37:03] These days, yes.
[4:37:04] We had to go for a period, we had to move it quickly.
[4:37:06] We're out of just bring it to about people think we need to do the big campaign and the outreach.
[4:37:13] We're just bring it once to help themselves,
[4:37:20] things that we're doing and where we ought to go.
[4:37:24] It's on the work plan,
[4:37:28] we're delay,
[4:37:33] but the comments on high-speed work.
[4:37:35] That would be the case.
[4:37:36] That would be absolutely, we need to move forward with that.
[4:37:39] We need to get it done.
[4:37:40] We need to find ways that we can tap fees on.
[4:37:43] The new business is just coming in the town and new providers and telecommunications
[4:37:46] communications out to the areas of our community that are lacking in service today
[4:37:59] and on that
[4:38:00] more so than anything else.
[4:38:08] We're bringing the three policy to us as quickly as you can so we can have a discussion
[4:38:12] about it and we can move it forward to be working on providing more resources about the guidelines
[4:38:20] that are out there to our businesses, work with the Chamber to do that and get those resources
[4:38:25] out there, setting up on advocacy, I think we need to get more on it and our partners
[4:38:30] and make sure that we were maintaining our partnerships.
[4:38:34] Tonight we did a big step in our partnership with the YNCA.
[4:38:39] We have done some things, or we have proposed some things to our partnership with the Historical Society and the budget.
[4:38:45] And I think we ought to be doing more and stronger with the chamber.
[4:38:50] And, finally, we can contract the services with the chamber on things that they can provide to that our economic development staff and the rest of our organization.
[4:38:58] And it's
[4:39:02] fair enough that economic development organization right now and not just on the small budget and the two people that we have in there, but it is something that the entire organization needs to be looking at because I asked a question in the beginning of
[4:39:20] that right now is it about attracting new business or saving what we have and I guess this is one of those examples of where we need to be able to walk and choose them at the same time because we need to do vote.
[4:39:31] I think for me, a little bit more of the priority is trying to save what we have today,
[4:39:38] and that's what the priority on attracting new business.
[4:39:42] And with that mirror, thank you for the time.
[4:39:46] Congressman Smith.
[4:39:57] Right.
[4:39:57] I'll tell you a lot less play.
[4:39:58] Thank you.
[4:39:59] I agree with many of the point you just made.
[4:40:03] You know, with regard to advocacy in county, I agree.
[4:40:08] On face level, they do that too.
[4:40:10] Like they distinguish between the populace area and county.
[4:40:14] And everyone, I think the same applies to Santa Clara County, we're not San Jose, we're not San Jose, right?
[4:40:22] I think we have more open space that should give us some leeway.
[4:40:27] And some of the policies that don't make sense, right, that are kind of hard to explain to anyone.
[4:40:34] And if we can open up more businesses in a safe way, by being a bit creative and maybe close to our lives,
[4:40:42] if we have to, then I think he's sure.
[4:40:45] The I-I-E-Bree, on the focus, he did, I mentioned it earlier, I think we should focus on
[4:40:51] those that they're getting the most amount of money, check in with those businesses to make
[4:40:59] sure they continue to do well, if they need help, make sure that a couple months from now
[4:41:05] they're not struggling as well.
[4:41:08] And with lots of development, this is likely the heart and soul, but it's all over all over our city, not just in one area, so we need to treat them equally, and treat each other equally as well.
[4:41:22] I'd love to idea of blocking a pet centrist in some of the areas.
[4:41:27] Actually, the answer is that sent the quest right downtown, a lot of people might not know, but it is downtown.
[4:41:33] they actually do testing for anti-bodies.
[4:41:37] You can go there now as we speak.
[4:41:39] There's a lot of confusion around with what kind of testing
[4:41:42] if you go to quit for high school,
[4:41:44] so they only test you for COVID-19.
[4:41:47] They don't test you for anti-bodies.
[4:41:49] A lot of us want to know how we added maybe,
[4:41:52] where we both people,
[4:41:54] and we can do that kind of test things in the lab
[4:41:56] that it's in the middle of our downtown.
[4:41:59] You might have to pay for it,
[4:42:01] depending on your insurance.
[4:42:03] I'd like the idea to maybe, you know, I would just draw the urgent care at
[4:42:08] favory, right, to maybe we get places back again if we do it at a
[4:42:13] phase where you're in a target shopping center or in another shopping
[4:42:17] center, and it can even be, I mentioned that to the account that you have
[4:42:21] a day to even be a model of offering mobile test services and co-in to
[4:42:27] various neighborhoods.
[4:42:31] So I got, you know, I've been a promoter of the cannabis industry early on in this
[4:42:38] city.
[4:42:38] I have not changed my mind.
[4:42:40] I'm looking at the three that sold it twice again.
[4:42:44] Again, that is meant to maybe a weak competitor, keeping where we are.
[4:42:49] There's good reasons.
[4:42:52] If we want to relax and have people walking around the alcohol across the city,
[4:42:56] and I can't say it's not the choice, I'm going to say it's the right.
[4:43:00] Just don't get that we make a difference to be honest.
[4:43:05] And it could be nice local businesses.
[4:43:08] I really thank you.
[4:43:10] You eat it and you staffed on for whole-to-good comments.
[4:43:14] There's many of those hard to play over dice.
[4:43:17] But maybe when you come back and have to clear play over it,
[4:43:20] you put the dollar sign behind and not just the dollar.
[4:43:24] It's to make sure that we actually know what it is to try it out, what does it mean to make a decision?
[4:43:31] And we're about to the blueprint, I think we have to focus less on retail and more on green job,
[4:43:37] green jobs and white college jobs.
[4:43:39] And when I look at some of the tables, you show it, that's manufactured.
[4:43:42] And in my opinion, you should say R&B and research and that kind of jobs.
[4:43:47] And to focus on the business, we'll actually do well in our city right now, but they're small or bigger.
[4:43:55] We could talk them to see about this topic.
[4:43:58] It's an important topic, but many good points were made,
[4:44:03] including from the public.
[4:44:05] And many ideas were.
[4:44:07] So I hope you've got some helpful input to me.
[4:44:11] You're welcome.
[4:44:12] You're welcome.
[4:44:14] Thank you, Mayor.
[4:44:15] Thank you.
[4:44:16] Thank you.
[4:44:17] Thank you.
[4:44:17] Thank you.
[4:44:17] Thank you, Mayor.
[4:44:25] Sorry, all of those I do, I did forget to talk about the person I used to think that that is important as we move forward and think about that
[4:44:35] And also just, you know, how we open I think is just as important as when we open so I want to thank you for all the works that you've done and bringing us all of this.
[4:44:46] I also want to say to everybody who did hang on and did share your comments that I very much appreciate them and I know everyone here appreciates them.
[4:44:56] Um, I mean, not necessarily agree with them, but I-
[4:45:00] I have heard you and I'm thinking about how we incorporate all that and I do think that there is a place for us to, you know, the services are just in touch and it becomes almost like there's different uses, there's different businesses and some that help and some are just left on the line and that just doesn't seem fair in the equity that I was talking about much earlier in this conversation.
[4:45:29] And so I want to make sure that we spend it to there.
[4:45:33] But I also would say we do need to follow,
[4:45:39] we don't have our own public health director.
[4:45:41] And so that's part of the reason why we have been
[4:45:45] in step for if you have watched any of these children
[4:45:48] needing to know that I don't just get in step to get in step.
[4:45:53] There's got to be good reason.
[4:45:54] And one good reason is that we don't have a public health director
[4:45:57] here for the city of Morgan Hill.
[4:45:59] And so we have probably the lead of the county.
[4:46:03] And I think that we will continue to do so, as long as that makes sense.
[4:46:09] Now, when they are here, share with us that in two weeks we'll be having a revisit of that.
[4:46:13] You sit on these, which probably not everybody knows.
[4:46:16] You sit on these elected calls from the county, you know, used to be three times a week.
[4:46:21] Now, it's two times a week.
[4:46:23] And so getting these updates is far as what's happening.
[4:46:26] But I do think part of this, you know, as maybe we, you know, and all proposals in the
[4:46:32] agenda item, if it's not taken now, hopefully it will be, that we propose reopening plans
[4:46:38] to send on behalf of Morgan Hill to the county that they can consider in the next two
[4:46:45] weeks.
[4:46:46] There's simply advocating for where we are.
[4:46:49] I think it should be data based.
[4:46:51] I think it should be, you know, I'm not sure who's talking about testing that for example
[4:46:56] like I said earlier, you know, can people, can services provide that outside, can they,
[4:47:04] can they possibly go get tested because, I think, part of the reason with the services like
[4:47:10] nails, lawns, and headphones, there's so much connecting and contact with other people.
[4:47:17] But are they able to perhaps open if they are tested and if they, if they agree to provide
[4:47:24] those services outside?
[4:47:25] And maybe we can consider providing suggestions to the county that make sense for Morgan Hill based on how many
[4:47:33] incidents is a COVID that we have, which is currently as what I know for the eight.
[4:47:39] And see if we could get somewhere, you know, looking at the data there.
[4:47:43] So that's something that I would certainly like to do.
[4:47:47] Going back to where we are with economic development, I think that we do need to reuse some of our resources here.
[4:47:55] so that we can cover some more territory, if you will, literally, not just, you know,
[4:48:01] if I'm hard, but if we can cover more territory, I think we might need some more
[4:48:04] deployment, Christina, and looking at, you know, how we really use resources for economic
[4:48:10] development.
[4:48:11] And then when we're asked, you know, what is it for economic development, how are we
[4:48:16] find that. I think that we, for me, specifically, is to help folks to understand what we have
[4:48:25] here in Oregon Health. And the reason is, because they have been our tax base, we know what that
[4:48:30] tax base is. And we don't know, we have no idea to predict what kinds of businesses we will get,
[4:48:38] or what times we're fishing in by trying to bring in new business.
[4:48:44] Now, by changing our, you know,
[4:48:47] changing improvements by changing our permitting,
[4:48:50] we are already by default, making it a more business-friendly environment
[4:48:56] here and more in health.
[4:48:57] So I think already, innately, we're making it more business-friendly.
[4:49:02] But I think we should look at doing that
[4:49:04] for existing big businesses, our 100 businesses,
[4:49:08] and then also for all of the small businesses that are here.
[4:49:14] And so, you know, some of the other comments that have
[4:49:17] talked about how can we do some more advocating?
[4:49:23] Can we look at Canada?
[4:49:24] We're looking at everything.
[4:49:26] We are looking at everything.
[4:49:28] But we have had that discussion.
[4:49:32] And so I think that we really need to look at some of the
[4:49:36] opportunities that exist right now that are low-paying for as we said that we can put into practice immediately.
[4:49:44] Thank you very much.
[4:49:46] You've never seen it before.
[4:49:50] First of all, you can make a motion to a STEM meeting.
[4:49:52] Yes, yes.
[4:49:53] Okay.
[4:49:54] Move to a STEM meeting to 1230.
[4:49:59] In motion.
[4:50:00] Second.
[4:50:01] Motion to a second.
[4:50:03] Work all those please.
[4:50:05] And constant
[4:50:07] and current.
[4:50:09] Yes.
[4:50:10] Bring.
[4:50:10] I might think it felt fine?
[4:50:14] Okay.
[4:50:17] Okay.
[4:50:17] I'm going to continue and I'm going to be as big as possible because
[4:50:21] very much most of the things I want to say is what he then said.
[4:50:24] So thank you to all of you that have already said it.
[4:50:28] I think one of the things I could probably also say,
[4:50:31] because we safely use the economic development team,
[4:50:34] has probably thought I have been heard
[4:50:36] almost everything that we said again tonight.
[4:50:38] I doubt that very little was new to them.
[4:50:42] But what I want to say is that the idea is in the halls of City Hall, they're not here
[4:50:49] because, quite frankly, when you're in City Hall, there's the same work you work with him.
[4:50:54] And I think that those kind of certain limitations, I would like to do some of the wildest ideas
[4:50:58] out of City Hall because you guys know where the change in the armor is, you know, you know what you can work,
[4:51:04] what you can't, so that's my challenge.
[4:51:08] I'll take it out in the public if you don't think it's a good idea for you to do it.
[4:51:12] I'll try.
[4:51:13] My reputation all along, the community has been always kind of pushed things into chances and upset
[4:51:17] a few people.
[4:51:19] Why stop now?
[4:51:22] I think that, you know, I'm hearing the community, I get it all the time.
[4:51:27] The community said, why are you doing more?
[4:51:29] Why can't you do this?
[4:51:30] Why can't you do this?
[4:51:30] Why can't you do this?
[4:51:33] Why can't you do this?
[4:51:35] But if we do the consequences, so the role we break, what would be really, really worth it?
[4:51:42] Because, quite frankly, the city government would have responsibility to have life.
[4:51:46] One of the reasons that we follow the county is quite frankly, besides the fact that we don't have our own public health officer,
[4:51:52] is because we can't supersede a county regulation in a sense of lessening anything.
[4:52:04] You know, we can not make, we can all make rules that are strict or so.
[4:52:08] For example, you're county, that's the limit.
[4:52:12] That's the most yielding we can get right now as our county is so.
[4:52:16] With that in mind, you know, somebody tell me where can we go,
[4:52:21] and what will come and then, because I hear a lot of talks about,
[4:52:27] let's do this with you that, but what I need is I need some ideas.
[4:52:29] So if you don't feel like saying publicly reach out to me,
[4:52:32] And give me some ideas, because quite frankly, you've got some really good people working hard on that.
[4:52:38] So I've gotten to a number of round tables, and you know, as far as I've checked out the things, whatever.
[4:52:46] And we'll listen to all of them.
[4:52:47] So let's keep the ideas coming.
[4:52:49] That's what we really need is somebody might have that idea that is that just that gem that we just can't think of.
[4:52:58] So it's not the lack of trying, quite frankly.
[4:53:01] Maybe we're, maybe we're tapped out, maybe we know restrictions and we either spend the rules or somebody, you know, everybody, get ahold of me, come in, come in with it, where we can make the rules.
[4:53:13] The question is that we have an obligation or a community to stay safe.
[4:53:16] And if we violate that, then we really violated our, our primary guidance principle, which is safe in a community.
[4:53:24] So, hopefully that was enough said, and I thank all of this, I could say there's more
[4:53:31] to come.
[4:53:32] I know it doesn't seem like a moving fast enough, but believe it or not, I've seen I clearly
[4:53:37] move pretty quick in city hall, but I think that this is really going to solve bound up.
[4:53:42] And I think that now is a time to go out into the community to push government to push
[4:53:47] the community.
[4:53:48] Just push each other because this is a time when we're already, we already feel this
[4:53:53] That's, let's find out what our limits are.
[4:53:56] Let's keep on pushing this thing until we can do it for each other.
[4:53:59] But I can't support it as I'm grateful it can speak.
[4:54:02] And I have to delve into the old policy results for most of our community.
[4:54:08] Thank you very much.
[4:54:10] Thank you.
[4:54:10] Thank you.
[4:54:11] So there are two leaders.
[4:54:13] I was trying to take it down tonight.
[4:54:15] One of the questions that you asked was, what do we want?
[4:54:19] I think another development team to focus on when it being business retention or expansion.
[4:54:24] My answer is both.
[4:54:26] But also, what we're saying on this business retention, you know, one of the things that I ran was, I said,
[4:54:33] I want more business to come to more of you, but I also want to make sure that this that we have, are happy.
[4:54:39] Because there's a better time for any city with a company doing well and they're happy with the city.
[4:54:45] They'll tell everybody in their universe.
[4:54:48] And that will help bring business.
[4:54:50] So we definitely need to focus on business retention, but the expression is well, we can't, we can't let that go.
[4:54:59] We talked about the conversion of industrial and commercial.
[4:55:03] We have to stay the course.
[4:55:05] You're absolutely right when you said that there's going to be a lot of pressure to change land designations from industrial and commercial to residential.
[4:55:15] But we do have to maintain that course because we have a general plan which was worked on by
[4:55:23] members of the public, school districts, business community,
[4:55:30] the proposed board of
[4:55:31] Canada goes to 2030 by the net plan and the net that you show is part of that plan.
[4:55:37] That shows where this community has said they want to have industrial commercial property.
[4:55:42] So, we need to, I think we need to stay in the course because we have to diversify, we have to have a good economic, we have to have great businesses as well community because I always tell people,
[4:55:56] Morty Hill is not hesitant, we cannot live on our property taxes. We have to diversify, so we have to get those businesses.
[4:56:02] And not in any cost, you know, I keep hearing the word distribution center thrown around and that's not the case.
[4:56:14] There's no one in this council that wants 500 trucks driving through Morgan Hill.
[4:56:20] So, let's set on that one.
[4:56:23] But the things that we've been doing, we also need to continue.
[4:56:27] The business ability around table, or it's so important.
[4:56:29] And so, Councilor McCarton had a very expensive list, but I wanted to answer those directions.
[4:56:36] Those questions that you had directly, and I also want to make sure that we have a council
[4:56:40] when we give directions to the economic development team, and we follow through with that.
[4:56:45] We don't send mixed messages to business community and our team.
[4:56:49] We have to stay focused, and we have to maintain the orders that we were given.
[4:56:58] I
[4:57:01] understand the frustration that people are having, and when I ask the question of Dr. Cody,
[4:57:09] why are the benchmarks give me something that I can go back to my constituents and say,
[4:57:15] this thing happened, then we can open.
[4:57:18] And that's when we got the two week window.
[4:57:22] And I hear people saying, well, it's just like the fool.
[4:57:24] Well, think about this, if 45 to 60,000 Americans died yearly from the flu, without any
[4:57:34] social distancing, and we killed over 90,000 U.S. citizens with basically shutting down
[4:57:42] an economic engine of the United States down, that should give you a very chilling understanding
[4:57:49] of what COVID-19 is. And I've said many, many times,
[4:57:56] the only thing that we have to defend against
[4:57:58] COVID-19 is social distancing, is making the sacrifice of shutting down our economy. This is
[4:58:09] worldwide, this is not a game. Again, I understand the frustration, but until we have enough
[4:58:17] test until we have the contact tracing in place until we have a vaccine, what we're doing,
[4:58:28] the second question that we're making, the only thing that they're keeping us alive.
[4:58:33] And I have to also address, you know, the things that we've done at the city, we are
[4:58:38] definitely not sitting on our hands, since the inception of the emergency, we declare local
[4:58:46] You can act in a emergency order for meeting running creases or cultivating anxiety,
[4:58:52] ready to make some mental accidents on.
[4:58:54] Oh, ladies.
[4:58:55] We provided guidance to local business for the shelter and safe orders.
[4:58:59] We advocated for funding at all levels.
[4:59:02] We worked with a county for plan for testing at the Paul Center and in and around.
[4:59:09] Also, the county has also said that they're right now in the process of a beta test
[4:59:13] of a mobile testing,
[4:59:18] we're creating an updating daily
[4:59:20] the City Mortodale COVID website.
[4:59:22] We are also sending out the email blast one to two times
[4:59:27] for a week at our website.
[4:59:30] We send regular social media to email update
[4:59:33] for paying our and broadcasting videos
[4:59:35] created by the City Council.
[4:59:37] We've done that.
[4:59:38] We managed a virtual information call center.
[4:59:42] Support for residents.
[4:59:43] We post a weekly Zoom meeting every Thursday at 530 we have a Zoom meeting for the community
[4:59:51] to get it so they can get information directly from City staff on the COVID response.
[4:59:57] We're collaborating with regional partners in a community-based organization.
[5:00:00] With this family and individuals in need of regular assistance and or hotel vouchers for homeless families and health conditions, with health conditions, and certainly the state and county non-eviction order.
[5:00:15] Applying with the statement more current on water services, connection created and managing local with a food community resources available to the community during the COVID-19 process.
[5:00:25] We've also collaborated with Silicon Valley Strong, and Senator County Merit's The Upracist
[5:00:30] Center, together, ideas, resources, volunteer opportunities, and needs to create a regional
[5:00:37] website for Silicon Valley residents.
[5:00:40] We've also opened a virtual membership for our CRC membership community, and we were created
[5:00:45] as part of it with a YNCA to provide a pick-up of nearly 100 meals a day to our seniors.
[5:01:04] We'll get that out.
[5:01:09] The business is dealing around the table that we've held for our businesses to make sure
[5:01:13] that their became
[5:01:31] reconnaissance and mission.
[5:01:32] We're also working with a downtown association, visit, and we're looking to support our businesses.
[5:01:37] And we're working with our development
[5:01:42] and eligibility.
[5:02:03] Community to
[5:02:07] ensure that
[5:02:10] that is by no means
[5:02:16] to have this city.
[5:02:22] It's our state, but our businesses throughout
[5:02:26] this world pandemic.
[5:02:35] We'll see body planning, we'll all think everything's okay.
[5:02:38] But as I mentioned,
[5:02:43] many thousand Americans, by shutting down this country,
[5:02:48] we can't open it up and we need to follow the recommendations from the county and the scientists and the doctors.
[5:02:56] And I, for one, am not going to put the health and welfare of our citizens at risk.
[5:03:02] Without any preparation or knowledge, they suspect that it's open.
[5:03:08] We have to be careful.
[5:03:12] I'm going to go back to the agenda.
[5:03:14] Thank you for indulging me everybody.
[5:03:15] That was item number six.
[5:03:18] I asked my colleagues if they have any future council agenda items.
[5:03:24] I do hear.
[5:03:25] I'm wishing for.
[5:03:27] There for ten has one.
[5:03:28] You're looking for your notes.
[5:03:29] I was looking for to raise my hand.
[5:03:33] Thank you.
[5:03:34] And then the first item.
[5:03:37] Pardon me?
[5:03:38] I'm sorry.
[5:03:38] Okay.
[5:03:38] in the city map.
[5:03:40] Oh, thank you.
[5:03:41] The first is in the argument that I'd like would be that if you do do the road diet and
[5:03:46] our successful with that proposal that I understand is coming to us, I'd like to kind of
[5:03:54] evaluate a traffic impact while that's going on for the hill extension.
[5:04:00] And the other one would be, as you just so, I would quickly said, man, we do have to follow and have data driven policies.
[5:04:15] And so, I would propose that we provide suggestions to the county for a reopening plan to go more into, to consider in the two weeks.
[5:04:28] their suggestion. They're, you know, hopefully they can come in from us. Hopefully they can
[5:04:36] consider maybe we do alternate days. I'm not sure, but I would like for us to have a
[5:04:40] discussion about that. You know, this isn't demand. This is us working with the county and
[5:04:46] understanding better what it is that we need to reach. And if it's the testing, then, you know,
[5:04:53] How do we try and get some more security on that testing?
[5:04:59] Great.
[5:04:59] Thanks very much.
[5:05:00] Thank you very much.
[5:05:02] And it's been a long time.
[5:05:06] I just wanted to sort of wrap up, you know,
[5:05:08] it's, you know, my very, very briefly.
[5:05:12] We've heard a lot in a lot of great comments from those
[5:05:15] the council and from the community and so what I recommend is that we come back with an
[5:05:24] action plan and I don't, you know, I tie this with the essence, see that with the stuff,
[5:05:30] some of it, we're already working on but I just think that we need to come back and make sure
[5:05:35] that we're sort of on the same page on where we're developing our efforts and so I propose
[5:05:41] that we come back and present to the Council our work plan.
[5:05:45] Oh, it was actionable, Seth.
[5:05:48] OK.
[5:05:49] So it's good.
[5:05:50] Thank you very much.
[5:05:53] When I'll ask these to the attorney to announce the post session.
[5:06:03] And if the attorney is speaking, you're not coming here.
[5:06:08] I think I'm here.
[5:06:12] I don't know if I need my talking to him.
[5:06:14] So
[5:06:33] if you do want to call,
[5:06:48] if any of you is in the public,
[5:06:49] we should address the cast on the closed session item,
[5:06:57] move in, going up, and we will adjourn
[5:07:01] to the closed session.