Nov 12, 2020 City Council Meetings

SO ONLY, OKAY.

UM, LATE BACKUP, THERE'S LATE BACKUP FOR ITEM 10, ITEM 11 ITEM 17, ITEM 42, ITEM 43, ITEM 50 ITEM 51 ITEM 52 ITEM 53 ITEM 58 ITEMS, 66 ITEMS, 71 73 AND 74.

UM, ARE THERE, DOES ANYBODY ELSE WANT TO PULL SOMETHING FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA COUNCIL MEMBER IDENTITY? YEAH.

SO I WANT TO PULL ITEM 20, UH, COUNSELOR, UH, KITCHEN.

UM, I DON'T NEED TO PULL THIS, BUT I DO HAVE A, UH, ONE SHORT QUESTION AND SOME POTENTIAL DIRECTION ON 34.

SINCE WE HAVE SUCH A SHORT AGENDA, LET'S JUST GO AHEAD AND PULL IT IF THAT'S OKAY.

YEAH, THAT'S FINE.

IF YOU WANT TO PULL UP THIS ONE.

ANYBODY ELSE? I HAVE 14, 20 AND 34.

THE CONSENT ITEMS ARE ONE THROUGH 43.

AND ON THE REDUNDANT 67 THROUGH 71, IF NOT, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO, UH, TO PASS THE CONSENT AGENDA.

UM, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND HEAR FROM THE SPEAKERS RIGHT NOW AND THE SPEAKERS HAVE THREE MINUTES.

THE FIRST SPEAKER WILL BE BRANDON PHARMICINE.

UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, COUNSEL.

UM, I'LL MAKE THIS BRIEF SINCE IT'S ON THE CONSENT AGENDA, WHICH IS REALLY GREAT TO HEAR, UH, I'M IN, UH, DIJUAN WHAT I CALL FAR EAST AUSTIN, WHERE THIS ITEM WOULD COVER.

AND I COULD SAY, UM, HAVING BEEN HERE FOR QUITE A WHILE, UH, THIS IS LONG, LONG OVERDUE FOR THE NEGLECTED FAR EAST SIDE OF AUSTIN.

UM, THE COMMUNITY IS CALLING FOR DEVELOPMENT THAT FITS THEIR NEEDS OR TALKING ABOUT BASIC NEEDS, LIKE FOOD THAT DOESN'T COME IN.

PLASTIC WRAP.

SORRY.

MY DOGS IS A DELIVERY DATE HERE.

UM, AND, UH, YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT INTERESTED IN SETTING A WORLD RECORD FOR THE NUMBER OF GAS STATIONS ON A SINGLE CORRIDOR.

SO THERE'S A REAL LACK OF ABILITY RIGHT NOW FOR THE COMMUNITY TO OFFICIALLY COMMUNICATE THEIR DESIRES AND THEIR WANTS RIGHT NOW TO INTERESTED DEVELOPERS AND LANDOWNERS.

SO I THINK THIS IS A REALLY GREAT STEP.

I'M HAPPY TO HEAR IT'S ON THE CONSENT AGENDA AND I HOPE YOU COUNCIL WILL CONSIDER, UH, WHEN WE EVENTUALLY CAN GET THE ITEM TO YOU TO OFFICIALLY BE NAMED FM NINE 69, ALL THE WAY TO DECKER, TO MARTIN LUTHER KING BOULEVARD, UM, AS IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE 30 YEARS AGO, WHEN THIS AREA WAS ANNEX.

THE NEXT SPEAKER IS CARLOS .

SO I CARLOS LEON FIRST AND FOREMOST, CAUSE I SAW THE ILS FOR LETTING ME SPEAK TO ITEMS ONE 23 AND 24 FIRST BRING BACK THE PRAYER TO GOD TO START CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS.

SECOND.

WITHOUT ANY VOTES GOING TO TRUMP GAS, LIGHTER HIS PROJECT, THEIR CRIMES AND CHARACTER UNDER THEIR TARGETS TO BLAME AND PUNISH VICTIMS FOR WHAT GAS LIGHTER SAID AND DID TO THEM.

TO COMBATING GASLIGHTING, A PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE TACTIC SEX OFFENDERS USE AGAINST TARGETS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND STALKING PSYCHOLOGY TODAY SAYS GAS, SLIDERS MANIPULATE AND PSYCHOLOGICALLY CONTROL TARGETED INDIVIDUALS BY DELIBERATELY AND SYSTEMATICALLY FEEDING THEM FALSE INFORMATION.

SO THEY QUESTION WHAT THEY KNOW TO BE TRUE, DOUBTING THEIR MEMORY PERCEPTION AND SANITY.

EVERYONE NEEDS TO DEFEND THEMSELVES AGAINST SUCH A TEXT BECAUSE EVIL IS USING FAKE POLLS NEWS BALLOTS AND VOTE TOTALS TO GASLIT US INTO BELIEVING BIDEN.

THE 2020 ELECTION THOUGH CERTIFIED STATE BY STATE TRUE VOTING RESULTS DO NOT YET EXIST, ESPECIALLY IN SWING STATES WITH RECOUNTS AUDITS AND OR VOTER FRAUD LITIGATION PENDING THOSE OFFICIAL RESULTS.

POINT TWO ELECTORS APPOINTED BY STATE LEGISLATURES WHO CHOOSE THE WINNER UNLESS NEITHER CANDIDATE REACHES TO 17 ELECTORAL COLLEGE FORCING THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TO DECIDE IN A ONE VOTE PER STATE SPECIAL SESSION PER ARTICLE TWO, SECTION ONE OF THE CONSTITUTION, THEREFORE UNTIL IT'S LEGALLY DECIDED THERE'S NO PRESIDENT ELECT YET GASLIT HAS PUSHED SUCH FALSE NARRATIVES TO TRANSMOGRIFY YOUR PERCEIVED REALITY TO IMPRISON YOU IN THERE UPSIDE DOWN ANTI REALITY, TO CONFUSE AND CONTROL YOU TO BLIND YOU, TO AND DETOUR YOU AWAY FROM RIGHT SIDE UP REALITY, CAUSING COGNITIVE DISSONANCE TO MAKE ACCEPTING THE TRUTH TO FREE YOURSELF DIFFICULT AND PAINFUL.

THAT'S WHY THEY FLIP FACTS AND MAKE UP STUFF ON ELECTION NIGHT ON CNN, ABOUT 20,000 PENNSYLVANIA, TRUMP VOTES WERE ERASED, THEN ADDED A BIDEN LATER, 138,000 MICHIGAN VOTES.

AND 200,000 WISCONSIN BOATS WENT TO BIDEN

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IT'S THE COUNTING OF EACH AND EVERY LEGAL, LEGITIMATE VOTE ONLY PRESIDENT TRUMP AND HIS SUPPORTERS FOLLOWED THE LAW, DOING NOTHING WRONG TO ACHIEVE THAT TRUE RESULT.

IF PRESIDENT TRUMP LEGALLY DEFENDS HIMSELF AGAINST BIDEN HARRIS, FALSELY BENEFITING FROM MASSIVE SYSTEMIC VOTER FRAUD TO ILLEGALLY STEAL THE ELECTION AND AMERICA FROM HIM AND HIS SUPPORTERS, GAS LIGHTERS LABELED TRUMP AND HIS SUPPORTERS, THESE CRIMINALS AND ENEMIES OF AMERICA, GAS LIGHTERS, REJECT TRUTH AND SILENT SPEECH CONTRADICTING AND EXPOSING THEM LIKE BIG TECH AND MAINSTREAM MEDIA BENDING AND CENSORING CONSERVATIVE, ANTI BIDEN, CRO TRUMP PRO-AMERICA PRO-LIFE PRO LIBERTY PRO CHRISTIAN CONTENT REJECTING GLOBALIST FASCIST ALIEN TYRANNY.

IT'S NOT TIME TO HEAL.

IT'S TIME TO UNIFY UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP TO FIGHT FOR WHAT'S RIGHT, REAL RESULTS FROM FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS TO SAVE OUR REPUBLIC.

MAY GOD SHOW US TRUTH TO HELP US TO FEED GASLIGHTING AND DESTROY ITS WORK.

TRUE.

SOME SLIDE 2022 RED WAVES.

UM, JUST THIS IS, THIS IS THE CONSENT AGENDA, CORRECT? UM, YES.

I'M JUST MAKING SURE I WAS, I WAS TRYING TO, TO, TO, TO GET INTO LET MR. LEO KNOW THAT, BUT WE ALSO DO HAVE CITIZENS COMMUNICATION.

IS THAT RIGHT? WE DO.

YOU CAN GO AHEAD WITH THE SPEAKERS AND JUST FOR THE SPEAKERS.

THIS IS, IF YOU'RE SPEAKING ON AN ITEM, THE CONSENT AGENDA, WHICH ARE ITEMS ONE THROUGH 43 AND 67 THROUGH 71, KIMBERLY LEVINSON.

HI.

UH, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT I'M A LITTLE THROWN FOR A LOOP HERE BY THE FACT THAT THEY PULLED THE ITEM I WAS GOING TO SPEAK ON, BUT DANA IS VERY SUPPORTIVE OF THE STREET IMPACT FEES AS THEY WERE WRITTEN.

WE BELIEVE THAT THIS IS AN IMPORTANT TOOL TO HELP CREATE A MORE TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT, TO ENCOURAGE DEVELOPERS, TO BUILD LESS PARKING AND BUILD NEAR TO TRANSIT LINES.

ESPECIALLY NOW THAT WE HAVE PROJECT CONNECT TO HAVING PAST WHEW, BUT WE SUPPORTED THAT TOO.

AND WE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO ENCOURAGE THE COUNCIL TO CONSIDER DOING AWAY WITH PARKING MINIMUMS AND ALLOWING DEVELOPERS TO DECIDE FOR THEMSELVES HOW MUCH PARKING THEY NEED.

THEY WOULD CERTAINLY STILL BUILD PLENTY OF PARKING WHERE THEY NEEDED IT, BUT IT WOULD BE REALLY GREAT IF THEY WEREN'T FORCED TO BUILD PARKING THAT THEY DIDN'T NEED, ESPECIALLY IF THEY'RE BUILDING NEAR TRANSIT LINES AND, UM, YOU KNOW, BUS STOPS AND WE CAN DISCOURAGE INDIVIDUAL DRIVING AND HELP HOPEFULLY HAVE AN IMPACT ON OUR TRAFFIC.

ANYWAY, I HOPE THAT THE COUNCIL WILL VOTE TO HANDLE THE STREET IMPACT FEE.

AND WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO THINK ABOUT ENCOURAGING MORE TRANSIT USE AND FEWER CAR TRIPS, BUT, UH, WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU DO.

YOU GUYS DO A LOT OF GOOD WORK AND I'M SURE THAT YOU DON'T GET NEARLY ENOUGH POSITIVE FEEDBACK.

SO THANK YOU FOR, THANK YOU.

NEXT SPEAKER IS RHODA.

AYE.

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE.

MY NAME IS RHODA.

I DON'T HAVE MUCH TO STAY ON TO CITY COUNCIL, BUT UM, WHATEVER FUNDS THAT WE'VE REALLOCATED FROM, UM, THE APD SHOULD BE GIVEN BACK TO THE HOMELESS POPULATION.

WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF A GLOBAL PANDEMIC RIGHT NOW AS WE SPEAK.

AND, UH, I WOULD LIKE FOR EVERYONE TO UNDERSTAND THAT HOMELESSNESS IS A HUMANITARIAN CRISIS, WE DO NEED TO DO RIGHT BY THESE PEOPLE AND PROVIDE THEM THE NECESSARY AND URGENT FUND, UM, AND RESOURCES SUCH AS HOUSING IT'S, UM, NOT SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD HOLD BACK ON AND, UH, THERE'S NOT MUCH TO TALK ABOUT THERE'S MUCH TO DO.

AND, UM, I STRONGLY URGE AND IMPLORE YOU JUST LIKE MYSELF.

AND SO MANY OTHERS ARE DOING THE WORK.

I IMPLORE YOU ALL TO DO THE WORK.

UM, ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAD THE SAY.

SO WHEN IT COMES TO FUNDING AND WHAT TO DO WITH THE RESOURCES.

THANK THAT.

CONCLUDES ALL OF THE SPEAKERS.

SO ONCE, UH, ONCE AGAIN, UH, THE CONSENT AGENDA IS ITEMS ONE THROUGH 43 AND 67 THROUGH 71, AND THE ITEMS PULLED ARE 14, 20, 34.

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WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO SPEAK ON THE CONSENT AGENDA BEFORE WE VOTE ON IT? COUNSEL FOR HARBOR MADISON AM SORRY.

LET ME GET A MOTION.

UM, CAN I GET A MOTION ON THE CONSENT AGENDA? COUNCILOR COSTAR MAKES THE MOTION.

COUNCILOR HART, MADISON SECONDS.

GO AHEAD.

COUNCILOR HARPER, MADISON.

UM, I LAID OUT ITEM 43 ON TUESDAY, SO, UM, I'LL KEEP IT BRIEF.

I JUST WANTED TO SAY SOME THANK YOUS.

UH, FIRST AND FOREMOST, I'D LIKE TO THINK MY POLICY DIRECTOR AND LAUREN HARTNETT, UM, MUCH LIKE THE SENTIMENT YOU LAID UP THIS MORNING.

THEY'RE PRETEND.

I MEAN, THERE ARE MEMBERS OF OUR STAFF THAT WE, WE OWN THE AMOUNT OF THANK YOU'S THAT I DON'T EVEN KNOW THAT THERE ARE ENOUGH OF THEM.

UM, SO THANK YOU.

SHE WORKED TIRELESSLY TIRELESSLY OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS, ENGAGING WITH COMMUNITY MEMBERS, CITY STAFF, AND DRAFTING THIS RESOLUTION.

UM, THIS IS TRULY A PRODUCT OF HER HARD WORK, THE MAYOR'S OFFICE FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS, PARTICULARLY SURROUNDING THE EXPO CENTER ITEM.

UM, AS WELL AS CITY STAFF AND THEIR WILLINGNESS TO COLLABORATE WITH OUR OFFICE ON THIS INITIATIVE, THE COLONY PARK NEIGHBORHOOD FOR THEIR SUPPORT, THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS, UM, IN PARTICULAR.

AND NOBODY WILL BE SURPRISED WHEN I SING HER PRAISES, BUT MS. OH, NO.

UM, COUNSELOR, BARBARA MADISON, CAN YOU HEAR US? DOES ANYBODY ELSE WANT TO SPEAK ON THE CONSENT AGENDA? AND THEN I CAN MAYBE GO BACK TO COUNSELING FOR HARPER MADISON.

I CAN HEAR YOU.

CAN YOU NOT HEAR ME? YOU, YOU CUT OFF.

UM, YOU SAID YOU'RE ABOUT TO SING THE PRAISES OF, I THINK A COMMUNITY MEMBER.

MAYBE I WAS, I SAID NICK FARBER.

SCOTT, OF COURSE.

HEAR ME AGAIN.

AM I HEARING THEM? YES, YES.

I WAS TALKING ABOUT MS. SCOTT.

UM, IT'S IT'S I WAS SAYING THANKS TO HER UNWAVERING LEADERSHIP AND ADVOCACY THAT THE CITY IS INCHING FORWARD WITH THE COLONY PARK MASTER PLAN, A PROJECT THAT WILL BE THE CATALYST FOR EQUITABLE GROWTH IN THIS AREA OF THE EASTERN CRESCENT.

AS I MENTIONED DURING WORK SESSION, UM, I NOT ONLY BELIEVE IN THE VISION, EXCUSE ME, THAT THIS PLAN WILL HELP TO GUIDE EXCUSE ME, THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS AREA, UM, AND TO CREATE COMPLETE COMMUNITIES, BUT IT WILL ULTIMATELY BE THE MODEL, HONESTLY, THE MODEL FOR EQUITABLE PLANNING IN THE CITY AS A WHOLE.

SO AGAIN, THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HAD A HAND IN PRODUCING THE DOCUMENT THAT IS BEFORE US TODAY.

AND I LOOK FORWARD TO OUR CONTINUED COLLABORATION AS WE MOVE FORWARD.

I THINK THE, UH, I THINK AUDIO GUIDES KNEW THAT I WAS ABOUT TO SNEEZE AND MAYBE THAT'S WHY I CUT OUT, BUT THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY WHO HAD A HAND IN MAKING THIS HAPPEN.

ALL RIGHT.

UM, IT'S BEEN THE CONSENT AGENDA.

IT'S BEEN MOVED BY COUNSELOR COSARA AND SECONDED BY COUNSELOR HARPER, BATESON, ALL THOSE MAY I APPROACH HIM.

THIS IS KATHY.

I HAVE A QUICK QUESTION FOR OUR STAFF.

I KNOW THAT ITEM 10, THAT THE T PIT IS BEING INDEFINITELY POSTPONED, BUT I WONDER IF STAFF COULD GIVE US A SENSE OF WHEN IT MIGHT BE BACK ON THE AGENDA AND, AND WHAT WERE, UM, IS HAPPENING IN THE INTERIM? THE SHORT ANSWER IS WE DON'T KNOW WHEN IT MIGHT BE BACK.

WE'RE TRYING TO GET IT BACK AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, BUT THERE ARE MANY CONVERSATIONS THAT STILL NEED TO HAPPEN, INCLUDING WHICH I THINK YOU'VE REQUESTED AS A EXECUTIVE SESSION REGARDING THIS.

BUT YOU SEE IN GONZALES, WE'LL FILL IN ANY DETAILS THAT I HAVE.

YOU'RE CORRECT.

WE DON'T HAVE A DEPLETED, BUT IN SPEAKING WITH TOM AND HE DEFINITELY WANTS IT TO GET BACK TO, HE WANTS TO GET, HE WANTS YOU TO COME BACK TO COUNCIL AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

GREAT.

AND I WONDER IF WE MIGHT, UM, HAVE THAT EXECUTIVE SESSION AT OUR NEXT COUNCIL MEETING WHILE THE ISSUE IS STILL FRESH IN OUR HEADS.

WE'LL PUT IT ON THE LIST.

SO LET'S GO AHEAD AND GO TO ITEM 14.

ALL RIGHT.

UM, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE CONSENT AGENDA, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.

I SEE EVERYBODY'S THAT'S ON THE SCREEN.

UM, HOLD ON ONE SIX, SEVEN, THAT'S A 10 IN FAVOR WITH THE MAYOR.

UM, I'M NOT HERE TODAY.

YEP.

[14. Approve execution of a Participation Agreement with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for participation in the Emergency Triage, Treat, and Transport Model (ET3 Model), and approve negotiation and execution of all related agreements with Qualified Health Practitioners and Alternate Destinations necessary or desirable for participation in the ET3 Model.]

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YOU'RE LOOKING COUNCILLOR KITCHEN.

UM, SO I PULLED ITEM 14.

UM, FIRST LET ME JUST SAY IT ABOUT US TAKING THE NEXT STEPS ON THE EMERGENCY TRIAGE TREATMENT TRANSPORT OR MODEL.

UM, I BELIEVE THIS IS AN INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT PIECE OF IMPROVING MEDICAL CARE IN AUSTIN.

UM, I PULLED ITEM 14 BECAUSE IN ADDITION TO THE CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES AGREEMENT, THE POSTING LANGUAGE ALSO APPROVES THE NEGOTIATION AND EXECUTION OF ALL RELATED AGREEMENTS WITH QUALIFIED HEALTH PRACTITIONERS AND ALTERNATE DESTINATIONS NECESSARY OR DESIRABLE FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE MODEL, UM, WHICH IS POTENTIALLY QUITE A LOT OF AUTHORITY.

UM, AND THE BACKUP DOESN'T PROVIDE MUCH INFORMATION ON WHAT THAT MEANS OR WHAT THAT PROCESS ENTAILS.

AND SO I WANTED STAFF TO SPEAK TO WHAT THAT SECOND PORTION OF THIS ITEM INVOLVED ENTAILS.

WE DO HAVE STAFF TO SPEAK TO THAT IF YOU WOULD JUST HOLD ONE MINUTE WHILE THEY GET MOVED OVER COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, RAY ARIANO, ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER, UH, I JUST WANT TO DO WHILE WE'RE WAITING TO SEE IF WE CAN GET SOME OTHERS FROM EITHER, UH, EMS OR THE OFFICE OF MEDICAL, UM, THE DIRECTOR TO PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL ON THAT.

I KNOW THAT THERE ARE POTENTIALLY SOME, UM, AGENCIES I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH ALL OF THE DETAILS, BUT I JUST WANTED TO SPEAK UP WHILE WE'RE TRYING TO GET SOME OF THE, UH, THE EXPERTS THAT ARE GOING TO BE INVOLVED IN THIS INITIATIVE.

SO I'LL JUST, UH, HANG ON A MOMENT.

WE'LL SEE IF WE CAN GET YOU THE ANSWERS.

UM, YEAH, ASSOCIATE ARIANA.

I BELIEVE THAT THIS, UM, I'M TRYING TO REMEMBER THE SPECIFICS OF THIS, BUT I BELIEVE THIS IS, HAS TO DO WITH THE SERVICES THAT EMS WILL BE, WE'LL BE MAKING AVAILABLE, UH, WITH DIFFERENT PROVIDERS, FOR EXAMPLE.

AND SO THAT'S WHAT THE AGREEMENTS, I THINK, COUNCIL MEMBER ALTAR MAYBE ASKING ABOUT.

SO IS THAT YOUR UNDERSTANDING OR DO WE JUST NEED TO WAIT FOR EMS TO COME? I THINK I PREFER TO WAIT UNTIL EMS COMES ON BOARD.

AND I JUST TO BE CLEAR I'M I UNDERSTAND THAT IN ORDER TO MAKE THIS WORK, ULTIMATELY THAT THERE HAVE TO BE AGREEMENTS WITH DESTINATIONS.

YOU CAN'T BRING THEM TO ALTERNATE ALTERNATIVE CARE LOCATIONS THAN AN EMERGENCY ROOM.

IF YOU DON'T HAVE AGREEMENTS TO DO THAT.

I UNDERSTAND THE BROADER SCOPE.

WHAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND IS THE AUTHORITY.

I WANTED TO GET SOME CLARITY ON THE AUTHORITY AND THE PROCESS BY WHICH THAT WAS HAPPENING, BECAUSE THAT IS POTENTIALLY A LOT OF ALREADY THAT FRANTIC TODAY.

UM, AND I JUST WANT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE PROCESS IS GOING TO BE, UM, FOR FOLLOWING THROUGH WITH THAT NEXT STEPS.

TH TH THAT'S, UM, I JUST, I, I DON'T THINK THAT'S THE KIND OF AGREEMENTS THAT AS A COUNCIL, WE NEED TO BE REALLY CLEAN AND WEIGHED IN ON.

SO, BUT I THINK IT'S A GOOD QUESTION TO ASK AND THEY'LL PROVIDE US SOME MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THAT BECAUSE I DO SEE, UH, UH, KEEP A STAFF JASPER BRIAN FROM EMS IS ON YES, UH, COUNCIL, UH, CHIEF OF STAFF JASPER AROUND ALL STRAPS COUNTY EMS. UM, THE AGREEMENTS WOULD BE BETWEEN THE, AS YOU SAID, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER ALTER THE, UH, ALTERNATE FACILITIES, UH, AND THE DEPARTMENT AND THE OFFICE OF THE MEDICAL DIRECTOR.

UM, ANYONE PARTICIPATING IN THE PROGRAM HAS TO HAVE AN AGREEMENT THAT THEY WOULD BE, UM, UH, THAT THEY WOULD ACCEPT ALTERNATE TRANSPORTATION PATIENTS AND, UM, PARTICIPATE IN THE PROGRAM WITH THE, UM, RELEVANT DATA AND OUTCOMES.

SO, UH, TO BE PART OF THAT MODEL, THEY HAVE TO DO IT ON AN OVERALL STANDARD AGREEMENT.

UM, AND ALL THAT WOULD BE DONE WITH THE DEPARTMENT O AND D AND, UM, LEGAL, UH, WITH CITY OF AUSTIN.

DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN THIS PROCESS AS IT MOVES FORWARD.

AND THAT WAS PART OF WHAT I WANTED TO UNDERSTAND IS I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAD CLARITY, UM, AND EXPECTATIONS THAT THE OFFICE OF THE MEDICAL DIRECTOR, AND SOON TO BE THE OFFICE OF THE CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER, UM, WILL BE DIRECTLY AND INTIMATELY INVOLVED IN, IN THIS PROCESS MOVING FORWARD.

UM, YOU KNOW, I AGREE WITH COUNCIL MEMBER KITCHEN, THAT WE, AS A COUNCIL DON'T NECESSARILY NEED TO BE INVOLVED IN APPROVING THOSE, BUT, UM, IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE UNDERSTAND, UM, THE PROCESS.

SO I'LL JUST UNDERSCORE THAT IT IS MY EXPECTATION.

AS, AS MR AS CHIEF BROWN JUST LAID OUT THE OFFICE OF THE MEDICAL DIRECTOR, THE OFFICE OF THE CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER WILL, UM, BE

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UM, SO WITH THAT, I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE APPROVAL OF ITEM 14, UNLESS STAFF WANTS TO SAY ANYTHING MORE TO THAT.

I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING ELSE TO ADD.

OKAY, GREAT.

THEN I'LL MOVE APPROVAL OF ITEM 14.

AND I LOOK FORWARD TO US MOVING FORWARD WITH THIS, AND HOPEFULLY, UM, YOU KNOW, AS ADMINISTRATION CHANGES, THERE'LL BE EVEN MORE INVESTMENTS OF THIS KIND COMING THROUGH SO THAT WE CAN DELIVER BETTER HEALTH CARE, UM, WITH SOME OF THE EXISTING RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE.

IS THERE A SECOND COUNCILOR POOL SECONDS, UH, ANY QUESTIONS OR MORE DISCUSSION, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, RAISE YOUR HAND ITEM 14.

THAT IS 10 KIDS WERE FLOODING.

AND YOU RAISED YOUR HAND, RIGHT? YES.

THE NEXT ITEM IS TOLD, WAS ITEM 20 COUNCIL MEMBER NVIDIA.

THAT'S A 10 WITH MAYOR ADLER OUT.

THIS IS JEANETTE KEN COUNCIL MEMBER.

TOVO JUST VERBALIZE HER.

OH, SORRY ABOUT THAT COUNSEL.

ARE YOU, ARE YOU THERE? ALL RIGHT, SO LET'S MAKE THAT A NINE, A NINE IN FAVOR, THE MAYOR'S OUT AND COUNCILOR TOBA IS OFF THE DICE.

UH,

[20. Authorize the negotiation and execution of a lease agreement with an option to purchase with 3423 Holdings, LLC, a Texas limited liability company, for approximately 30,000 square feet of office space for the Downtown Austin Community Court, located at 1719 East 2nd Street, for a 120 month lease with one ten-year extension option, in an amount not to exceed $21,562,500.]

UH, UH, RENT AREAS FOR POSTPONEMENT COUNSELOR WHERE HARPER, MADISON MAKES A SECOND? AND I, I WOULD JUST, MAYBE STAFF IS OBVIOUSLY ALWAYS VERY IMPORTANT CONCERNS.

I JUST WANNA, UM, GET ALONG, I'M REALLY ASKING A PRO POSTPONEMENT ON THIS.

UH, UH, UM, NOW GETTING LETTERS FROM EMAILS FROM MY STATE REP EDDIE, WHEREVER HE IS, BUT MY COURT AND ALL THAT, ALTHOUGH, UM, MITCH COURTS AND, UM, YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW PEOPLE ARE SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING TO OUR, UH, BEAUTIFUL LIBRARIES BEING DESTROYED RIGHT NOW BY THE HOMELESS, CAMPING ALL THE WAY AROUND THERE.

THEY HAVE TORN UP ALL OUR, UH, UH, KIOSK THERE.

AND I'M REALLY CONCERNED THAT, YOU KNOW, WITH THE CAMPING ORDINANCE, THE WAY IT'S WRITTEN, I THINK IT'S CAMP AROUND THERE AND, UH, RIGHT AWAY, UH, WITHOUT ANY KIND OF, UH, UH, HELP RESEARCH OR, OR BACKUP OF ANY KIND OF, UH, TRASH PICKED UP AND ALL THAT OTHER THAT GOES ON ON THESE LITTLE MINI CAMPS.

UH, I'M REALLY CONCERNED THAT WE, IF WE BRING THIS INTO THIS PARTICULAR AREA, THIS PARTICULAR AREA HAS SUFFERED OVER THE YEARS WHERE SOME METHADONE CENTERS, UH, THE INTAKE FOR MENTAL HEALTH IS LOCATED JUST A HALF A BLOCK AWAY.

AND, UH, WE REALLY HAD A GOOD YEAR TO, TO REHAB TO REBUILT THAT AREA.

AND, UM, WE JUST NEED TO BE ABLE TO HAVE MORE IN THERE, SEE WHAT, WHAT KIND OF SECURITY OR, OR WHATEVER THEY'RE GOING TO DO THERE, IF IT GOES THROUGH, BECAUSE IT DOESN'T HAVE THE COMMUNITY SUPPORT RIGHT NOW.

AND THAT'S WHAT MY BIGGEST CONCERN HAD SAID, NO, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO GO THROUGH ANOTHER YEAR OF FIGHTING.

IF WE GO AHEAD AND DO THIS WITHOUT GETTING INPUT FROM, FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

CAN STAFF SPEAK TO, UM, THE EFFECTS OF A POSTPONEMENT MARIN COUNCIL, RUNNING GONZALEZ, GONZALES, ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER, UH, THERE WOULD BE TWO, UH, STAFF THAT WOULD SPEAK ALEC SCALE COURSE WHO WORKS WITH THE PROPERTY OWNER, UH, TO INFORM YOU OF THAT INFORMATION.

THAT IS WELL, PETE RODRIGUEZ, UH, DAC ADMINISTRATOR CAN SPEAK FROM AN OPERATIONAL STANDPOINT, MAYOR AND COUNCIL, ALEX DALE, UH, INTERIM OFFICER FOR THE OFFICE OF REAL ESTATE SERVICES.

THANK YOU, RODNEY.

UM, WE HAVE REACHED OUT TO THE LANDOWNER, UH, KNOWING THAT AFTER WORK SESSION, THAT THIS ITEM DID COME UP FOR A POTENTIAL POSTPONEMENT.

UM, WE HAVE NOT HEARD BACK FROM HIM AT, UH, DUE TO OUR CONVERSATIONS WITH HIM.

WE DON'T BELIEVE THAT POSTPONING THIS, UH, POTENTIALLY TO ONE OF THE DECEMBER MEETINGS WOULD, UH, HURT.

WELL, THANK YOU FOR THANK YOU STAFF.

AND I THINK WE W WE ALWAYS, UM, WANT TO ALLOW A COLLEAGUE, ESPECIALLY IF IT'S SOMETHINGS IN THEIR DISTRICT, IF THEY ASK FOR A POSTPONEMENT.

SO, UM, IS THERE A SECOND TO COUNCIL MEMBERS,

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UM, I'M JUST THINKING OF THE LOCATION OF THE DAC NOW.

AND, UM, I, MAYBE IF WE, IF EVERYONE KNOWS HOW, HOW, HOW THE LOCATION NOW, TO MY KNOWLEDGE, WHEN I VISITED IS NOT, UM, CREATED A, YOU KNOW, A SITUATION THAT MIGHT BE CONCERNING.

SO MAYBE WE CAN GET TO A PLACE WHERE THE COMMUNITY KNOWS THE HOURS OF OPERATION AND YOU KNOW, HOW THE FACILITY HAS BEEN RUN IN THE PAST.

AND, AND I'M ASSUMING THAT WOULD, YOU KNOW, GO OVER WHERE ANY NEW LOCATION.

UM, SO, UH, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF POSTPONING TILL OUR NEXT DECEMBER, OUR FIRST MEETING IN DECEMBER, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.

HOW ARE YOU VOTING ON THIS? YES.

YOUR, YOUR, YOUR, YOUR VIDEO IS SKIPPING.

SO I S SORRY, IF YOU RAISED YOUR HAND.

UH, BUT THAT LOOKED LIKE 10 IN FAVOR.

AND, UH, WITH THE MAYOR, UM, OFF THE DYES ARE NOT HERE TODAY, BENCH AND CHAIR.

UH, I REALLY WANT TO THINK OF FOR COMMUNITIES, I CAN, EXCUSE ME, EMAILED ABOUT THIS LOCATION AND THE STAFF.

I DO REALLY JUST WANT TO THINK OF IT THIS WAY.

UM, THE NEXT ITEM IS ITEM 34.

THANK YOU, STAFF.

[34. Authorize negotiation and execution of three multi-term contracts with Asplundh Tree Expert LLC; Davey Tree Surgery Co; and Wright Tree Service, Inc.; to provide vegetation management services on distribution energized lines, each for up to five years, for total amounts not to exceed $85,000,000, divided among the contractors.]

I THINK THAT WAS THE COUNSELOR KITCHEN.

WANTED TO ADD SOME DIRECTION.

UH, YES.

UM, THIS IS AN ITEM RELATED TO, UM, A CONTRACT FOR LINE CLEARANCE FOR AUSTIN ENERGY'S POWER LINES.

AND, UM, I DON'T HAVE AN OBJECTION TO THE CONTRACT, BUT MY, UH, QUESTION AND I THINK DIRECTION RELATES TO THE, THE USE OF THE CHEMICALS THAT ARE BEING USED.

UM, THERE'S UM, MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THERE ARE, THERE'S BEEN SOME QUESTIONS RAISED REGARDING THE USE OF, UH, GARLON FOUR.

SO, UH, ALL I WOULD ASK AT THIS POINT IS, IS TWO THINGS.

FIRST.

I THINK THAT, UM, UH, I WOULD LIKE TO ASK AS PART OF THIS PROCESS, IF I BELIEVE RESIDENTS, HOMEOWNERS ARE GIVEN A NOTICE WHEN, UH, UM, WHEN THIS IS BEING DONE IN THEIR AREA, AND I'M WANTING TO ASK THAT PART OF IT THAT IS BEING INCLUDED IN THE CONTRACT, THIS IS TO EXECUTE AND NEGOTIATE THE CONTRACT.

AND SO I'M ASKING OUR STAFF TO INCLUDE IN THE CONTRACT WHEN THEY EXECUTED, NEGOTIATED A PROVISION THAT, UM, THAT, UH, PROVIDES FOR NOTICE TO RESIDENTS OR HOMEOWNERS AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO REQUEST THAT THE CHEMICALS NOT BE USED ON THEIR PROPERTY.

SO THAT'S MY REQUEST.

AND THEN, UM, UM, AS ACTUALLY DIRECTION THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT I'D LIKE TO ASK FOR DIRECTION.

I THINK THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT STAFF COULD DO.

THAT WOULD BE, IT WOULDN'T BE AN ISSUE.

I KNOW THERE'S A NOTICE PROVISION REQUIRED AT THIS POINT.

SO, UM, SO THERE'S THAT, AND THEN THE SECOND THING IS THAT I WOULD, UM, I, I JUST THINK THAT THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY HERE IN THE FUTURE AND PERHAPS, UH, CHAIR ELLIS WOULD BE INTERESTED IN THIS AS PART OF THE WATER COMMITTEE, BUT, UM, I THINK IT MIGHT BE TIME FOR US TO HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT OUR POLICY IS, UH, INVOLVING HERBICIDE USE AND THE RISK TO, UM, OUR WATERWAYS.

SO, UH, AGAIN, I WOULD JUST TEE THAT UP FOR A FUTURE CONVERSATION WITH OUR, UH, YOU KNOW, WITH OUR WATER COMMITTEE, BUT FOR TODAY, FOR THIS ITEM, I'M JUST ASKING THAT OUR STAFF, UH, INCLUDE IN THE CONTRACT, THEY'RE NEGOTIATING, UH, THE PROVISION REGARDING NOTICE TO A RESIDENT OR HOMEOWNER AND ALLOWING THAT RESIDENT OR HOMEOWNER THE OPPORTUNITY TO REQUEST THAT CHEMICALS NOT BE USED ON THEIR PROPERTY.

THANK YOU FOR THAT DIRECTION COUNCIL MEMBER, AND WE'LL PROCEED ACCORDINGLY.

AND IF THERE'S ANY LEGAL OR OTHER OPEX CONSTRAINTS, WE'LL, WE'LL MAKE SURE TO GET BACK TO COUNCIL ALTAR.

I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY WHAT THE NEXT STEP IS, BECAUSE I BELIEVE THIS WAS REVIEWED AT, UM, THE ELECTRIC UTILITY COMMISSION.

IT WAS PAST THE YEAR, ET CETERA.

AND, YOU KNOW, ON THE SURFACE, I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT KIND OF NOTIFICATION OR WHATEVER, BUT I'M JUST WONDERING THAT THIS CONTRACT AND WAS NOT ALREADY PART OF THAT.

IF THERE'S SOME INFORMATION

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WE SHOULD KNOW BEFORE WE, WE PROCEED.

OR IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, MR. CHRONIC, THAT YOU'LL SURFACE, IF THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH THAT MOVING FORWARD? I WASN'T QUITE SURE IF I UNDERSTOOD YOUR NEXT STEP.

I REMEMBER KITCHENS DIRECTION.

I WAS TAKING PILLS.

I THINK THAT'S IN LINE WITH WHAT WE HAD BEEN MOVING FORWARD WITH, BUT IF THERE'S ANY ADDITIONAL CONSTRAINTS BASED ON THAT, THAT I'M NOT AWARE OF RIGHT NOW, WE'LL CERTAINLY BE RAISING THAT TO COUNCIL.

WE'RE TRYING TO ALSO HAVE OUR PROCUREMENT OFFICER COME TO THE MEETING AND SEE IF ABLE TO WEIGH IN JUST TO CONFIRM THAT.

WHILE WE WAIT FOR THAT COUNSELOR POOL.

THANKS.

YEAH, I HAVE TO SAY, UM, I REALLY APPRECIATE IT.

UM, KAREN HAD SENDING US THAT ALERT ABOUT THE CHEMICALS THAT ARE BEING USED.

I REALLY DIDN'T KNOW THAT, AND I DON'T KNOW WHERE IN THE CONTRACT I WOULD HAVE HAD TO LOOK IN ORDER TO SURFACE THAT INFORMATION, OR MAYBE IT WAS RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF ME.

AND I JUST ASKED IT BY, I DON'T REMEMBER IT BEING MENTIONED WHEN WE DID TAKE THIS ITEM UP IN OUR AUSTIN ENERGY OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE MEETING.

SO I, I, I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG THOSE CHEMICALS HAVE BEEN IN USE IN OUR CITY, BUT IT CONCERNS ME DEEPLY THAT, BUT IT'S HAPPENING AND I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT IT.

AND THAT MEANS THE PUBLIC AS AN OWNER AS WELL.

SO THANK YOU CITY MANAGER FOR, UM, AND, AND FOR ACTING ON THE DIRECTION AND ALSO TO COUNCIL MEMBER KITCHEN FOR RAISING THAT CONCERN TO THE DIOCESE.

AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT IF THOSE KINDS OF CHEMICALS, I JUST KEEP THINKING AGENT ORANGE.

I KNOW THIS ISN'T IN THAT CATEGORY, BUT I GREW UP AT A TIME WHEN, UH, THESE KINDS OF CHEMICALS WERE BEING USED PRETTY LIBERALLY, AND WE DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THE LONG-TERM EFFECTS IN SCHOOL A LOT LATER.

AND SO I DON'T WANT US TO BE INADVERTENTLY OR, UH, OR CASUALLY ENTERING INTO A NEW PHASE WHERE CHEMICALS ARE BROUGHT INTO OUR COMMUNITY, AND THAT WILL HAVE LONG LASTING EFFECTS THAT ARE NOT CLEAR UNTIL DEPENDENCY.

SO THANKS FOR LOOKING INTO IT.

THERE'S A WAY THAT WE CAN BE, UM, THAT THE CHEMICALS THAT MIGHT BE USED, WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE NONE, BUT THE ONES THAT MAY BE USED IF THEY CAN BE IDENTIFIED.

SO THANKS.

THIS IS, THIS IS THE INTERIM COO FOR AUSTIN ENERGY.

UH, THE GALLON FOR IS HAZARDOUS FISH, BUT IT IS ONLY WHEN IT'S PUT DIRECTLY INTO THE WATERWAY, THE DIRECTIONS FOR USE CLEARLY STATE THAT IT IS NOT TO BE USED NEAR WATERWAYS OR PUT INTO THE WATER ITSELF TO GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE.

OUR FISCAL YEAR 20 BUDGET WAS $13 MILLION OR LINE CLEARANCE.

ONLY 51,000 OF THAT WAS USED ON A CHEMICAL AND THE HERBICIDE.

THAT'S PRIMARILY AT THE SUBSTATIONS AND SELECTED THE STUMP MANAGEMENT.

AND I, I APPRECIATE THAT, BUT, BUT WHAT I WOULD SAY IS, UM, RUNOFF ENDS UP IN THE COLORADO RIVER AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT HALF-LIFE IS OF THAT PARTICULAR HERBICIDE.

UM, I APPRECIATE WOR YOUR POSITION ON IT.

I THINK THAT THERE'S MORE INFORMATION THAT WE ALL NEED TO GET ABOUT IT.

AND AGAIN, I THANK MY COLLEAGUES FOR RAISING IT, I THINK, IS HAVING FOR, UM, ALSO UPRISING, UH, FOR BRINGING IT TO US IN FIRST PLACE FOR, UM, HELPING US WITH OUR DUE DILIGENCE REGARD TO A COUNSELOR, A KITCHEN.

UM, YES.

AND, AND JUST TO CLARIFY, THE DIRECTION TODAY HAS TO DO WITH NOTICE AND THE OPPORTUNITY FOR AN INDIVIDUAL TO, TO, UM, REQUEST THAT CHEMICALS NOT BE USED ON THEIR OWN PROPERTY.

UM, A LONGER CONVERSATION IS NEEDED AS ALONG THE LINES OF WHAT COUNCILMAN POOL IS TALKING ABOUT, UM, UH, ABOUT, YOU KNOW, ABOUT WHAT OUR POLICY IS AROUND THE USE OF HERBICIDES.

SO THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER KITCHEN.

THIS IS JAMES SCARBOROUGH FROM THE PURCHASING OFFICE.

WE'VE RECEIVED YOUR, UH, YOUR REQUEST.

AND WE ARE GLAD TO, UH, ADDRESS THAT WITH THE CONTRACTOR, TO THE EXTENT THAT IT'S POSSIBLE AS THE, UH, CITY MANAGER MENTIONED, IF FOR WHATEVER REASON THERE ARE ANY LEGAL CONSTRAINTS OR, OR ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH US ADDING THOSE PROVISIONS, UH, WE WILL FOLLOW BACK UP WITH CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE AND WITH COUNCIL.

AND YOU WOULD LET US KNOW BEFORE, UH, BEFORE IT'S PAST TIME THAT WE CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

RIGHT.

I MEAN, YOU WOULD LET US KNOW WHEN IT'S SURFACED, IF THERE'S ALL RIGHT.

MS. KITCHEN ON THE DIRECTION.

ABSOLUTELY.

THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER ALTAR.

UM, THANK YOU FOR THAT CLARIFICATION,

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I THINK THAT MAKES SENSE FOR, UM, FOR TODAY.

UM, WE'VE HAD, YOU KNOW, CONVERSATIONS IN THE PAST ABOUT, YOU KNOW, PESTICIDES AND HERBICIDES.

I SPONSORED A RESOLUTION A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO RELATED TO THAT.

I JUST WANTED TO SAY, I AGREED WITH THE SECOND PART OF YOUR DIRECTION OF THINKING ABOUT, UM, YOU KNOW, REVISITING SOME OF THESE QUESTIONS TO SEE WHERE, UM, ANY OF THESE CHEMICALS THAT MAY BE USED IN AND CITY PROPERTIES OR NEAR CITY, UM, WHAT ARE WAYS, UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT THAT IMPACT IS ON THE WATER SIDE, IN LIGHT OF MORE RECENT RESEARCH.

SO APPRECIATE THAT.

UM, DOES ANYBODY WANT TO MAKE A MOTION FOR ITEM 34 COUNCILOR KITCHEN MAKES THE MOTION ALTER SECONDS? UM, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, RAISE YOUR HAND.

UM, EVERYBODY COUNCILOR TOBO.

CAN YOU HEAR US? SO THAT'S A NINE, UM, NINE VOTES IN FAVOR OF THE MAYOR IS, IS OUT AND COUNCIL MEMBER TOBA IS OFF THE DICE.

UM, I'M GONNA RECESS.

I THINK THOSE ARE ALL THE, ALL THE GO AHEAD WERE ALTERED.

I'M JUST WONDERING, UM, PROCEDURALLY, SINCE I KNOW THAT MS. TEBOW HAS MADE A LOT OF EFFORTS TO TRY TO BE AT THE MEETING.

UM, IF, IF SHE CLARIFY ABOUT LATER ON, IF SHE WANTS TO ON, IF IT'S JUST DETERMINED RIGHT NOW, SOUNDS LIKE SHE MIGHT BE BACK.

ARE YOU THERE A COUNSELOR? TOBO YES.

YOU CAN ALWAYS, WHEN SHE GETS BACK, SHE CAN ALWAYS, I SAY, ARE YOU ABLE TO HEAR ME? YES.

UM, YOU WERE A LITTLE, UM, GARBLED COUNSELING ROOM TOPO.

I THINK SHE SAID SHE WAS REALLY NICE.

AND THEN THINKING COUNSELING.

UM, DO I NEED TO DO A MOTION TO RECONSIDER COUNCIL? I MEAN, UH, ANNE, OR SHOULD WE JUST SAY STUPID? I THINK IN THIS SITUATION, BECAUSE YOU ASKED ME THE QUESTION RIGHT NOW AND SHE'S INDICATED COUNSELOR TOBA, WHO'S INDICATED THAT SHE VOTED I FOR THIS ITEM, THEN THAT'S FINE.

SO THAT'S 10 BOATS AND TWO, TYPICALLY WHEN SOMEBODY IS OFF THE DIET, YOU WOULD HAVE TO DO A MOTION TO RECONSIDER IF YOU WANTED TO, UH, RECONSIDER THE VOTE.

SO, UM, YEAH.

UM, SO I'M GOING TO RECESS THE COUNCIL MEETING.

SO THAT'S 10 IN FAVOR OF ITEM 34.

AND, UM, UH, THE MAYOR IS NOT HERE TODAY.

[Austin Housing Finance Corporation]

IT'S 10 51 AND CALL TO ORDER THE HOUSING AND FINANCE CORPORATION MEETING TO HAVE STAFF AVAILABLE.

YEAH, WE DO.

GOOD MORNING.

THIS IS MANDY WITH AUSTIN HOUSING FINANCE CORPORATION.

YOU HAVE EIGHT ITEMS ON YOUR AGENDA FOR CONSIDERATION, UM, AND I OFFER THEM ON CONSENT.

THOSE AGENDA ITEMS ARE APPROVING THE MEETING MINUTES FOR THE OCTOBER 15TH MEETING.

UM, NUMBER TWO IS AUTHORIZING STAFF TO MOVE BOARD WITH THE ACQUISITION OF A THREE ACRE PROPERTY IN DISTRICT EIGHT ROAD.

ITEM THREE IS AUTHORIZING STAFF TO MOVE FORWARD WITH, UH, THE ACQUISITION OF NEARLY FIVE ACRES, UH, AT 6,200 MAN MEN CHAKA ROAD AND DISTRICT FIVE.

UH, ITEM NUMBER FOUR IS THE FORMATION OF A NEW PARTNERSHIP, A H S C SPARROW NONPROFIT CORPORATION WITH WILL OWN AND MANAGE THE PROPOSED 171 UNIT, UM, SUPPORTIVE HOUSING PROJECT TO BE DEVELOPED WITH THE CASINO GROUP AND KARA TOTS OF AUSTIN.

ITEM.

NUMBER FIVE IS THE AUTHORIZATION THAT LOAN LOAN AGREEMENT WITH BLACK LAND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION FOR $70,000.

THE ACQUISITION OF A CONDOMINIUM ITEM NUMBER SIX IS, UH, ADMINISTRATIVE IT'S APPROVING, WHICH THEY DID, UM, UH, BYLAWS FOR EIGHT HFC RECOGNIZING THE MERGER OF OUR DEPARTMENT ITEM SEVEN IS AUTHORIZING US TO MOVE FORWARD WITH A LOAN TO ASPERO AT RUTLAND WOMEN IN PARTNERSHIP, IN AN AMOUNT OF APPROXIMATELY $6 MILLION, BRINGING THE LOAN TOTAL LOAN AMOUNT TO $8.5 MILLION WHERE THE 171 UNIT AT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AT 1934 RUTLAND RIGHT BEFORE AND ITEM NUMBER EIGHT IS UPRISING SAC MOVE FORWARD WITH THE LOAN AGREEMENT FOR NEARLY $72,000 FOR

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A OWNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT, ONE 55 19 JACKIE ROBINSON STREET.

UM, I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS, BUT I OFFER ALL OF THE ITEMS ON CONSENT COUNCIL MEMBER ELLIS.

I'M HAPPY TO MAKE THAT MOTION.

UM, BUT I DID WANT TO SPEAK BRIEFLY ABOUT THE ITEM IN MY DISTRICT, BUT LEAVE IT, LET ME GET IT SECOND.

AND THEN, AND THEN I'LL COME BACK TO YOU THAT CUSTOMER RAPPORT.

SECOND, THE MOTION.

GO AHEAD, COUNCIL MEMBER ELSE.

I AM SO EXCITED TO SEE THIS ITEM IN MY DISTRICT ON THIS AGENDA.

I REMEMBER WHEN IT CAME TO US AS A ZONING CASE AND PEOPLE WOULD, THEY LIKED THAT THEY WANTED TO SEE THIS TO BE AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND IT'S ON AND NEAR EXISTING BUS ROUTES.

IT'S NEAR THE VIOLET CROWN TRAIL HEAD.

IT'S NEAR GROCERY STORES, GOOD JOBS THAT PEOPLE WILL HAVE, AND IT'S IN A HIGH OPPORTUNITY AREA.

SO IT'S SO EXCITING TO SEE SOMETHING IN MY DISTRICT.

I KNOW Y'ALL WORKED VERY HARD TO MAKE SURE THERE'S PLACES ALL OVER TOWN, WHERE PEOPLE CAN HAVE AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

AND SO I JUST WANTED TO NOT LET THE MOMENT PASS US BY, BUT TO SHOW MY SUPPORT FOR THIS PROJECT AND MY EXCITEMENT FOR Y'ALL TO BE ACQUIRING THIS LAND FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

UH, IS THERE ANYBODY ELSE WHO WANTS TO SPEAK ON THE AUSTIN HOUSING CONSENT AGENDA? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE CONSENT AGENDA IS RAISE YOUR HAND.

I SEE EVERYBODY .

CAN YOU HEAR US STARTING VOTING? AYE.

THANKS.

UH, THE NEXT ITEM WOULD BE ITEM 72, WHICH WAS AN ITEM HEARD AT THE AUDIT AND FINANCE COMMITTEE.

THAT IS A 10 VOTES IN FAVOR WITH, UH, MAYOR ADLER.

I'M NOT HERE TODAY.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

THANK YOU, STAFF.

AND THEN I THINK THAT WE'RE NOW WE'RE.

UM, SO I'M, UH, JOURNEY IN THE AUSTIN HOUSING FINANCE MEETING AT 10 54 AND RECONVENING THE AUSTIN CITY COUNCIL MEETING.

[72. Approve amendments to the Downtown Commission bylaws.]

IF, IF, UH, THE CHAIR WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO THAT BEFORE WE, UM, GET A MOTION ON IT.

UM, SO THIS ITEM IS JUST, UM, ADDING A ANOTHER, UM, I BELIEVE IT'S JUST ADDING ANOTHER, UM, STAKEHOLDER GROUP TO BE ABLE TO SPEAK AT THE DOWNTOWN, UM, COMMISSION.

THAT'S THE NUMBER RIGHT HERE.

MAKE THE MOTION.

CAUSE WE'RE ALL SHARING PASSAGE, ADAM, IS THERE A SECOND IN 72 SECONDS? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF ITEM 72, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.

THAT'S EVERYBODY THAT, UM, COUNCILMAN TOBO.

UH, THE NEXT ITEMS ARE 73 AND 74.

SO THAT'S A NINE VOTES IN FAVOR.

MAYOR ADLER IS OUT TODAY AND COUNCIL ROBERTO'S OFF THE DICE.

[Items 73 & 74]

I BELIEVE THE SPEAKER WAS SPOKE DURING, UM, THE EARLIER SECTION OF, OF SPEAKERS.

IS THERE A MOTION OR DOES ANYBODY WOULDN'T EVEN LIKE TO SPEAK TO, CAN I TAKE THOSE UP TOGETHER? AND YES, YOU'VE ALREADY HAD THE SPEAKERS FOR THE PUBLIC HEARING AND SO YOU'RE GOING TO DO THEM TOGETHER IF IT'S POSSIBLE.

THEM AND READ THEM AND THEY WERE PRETTY SIMPLE, SO I DIDN'T, BUT I CAN READ THEM IF YOU PREFER.

SO, UM, IS THERE A MOTION FOR SENTENCE COUNT COUNCIL MEMBER KITCHEN? I MOVE PASSAGE.

I BELIEVE IT'S ON FIRST READING.

I'M UNDERSTANDING CORRECTLY FOR FIRST READING TO HAVE THE PASSAGE.

SO IT'S 73 FIRST READING.

THE MOTION IS FOR 73 AND 74 ON FIRST READING.

UM, HEARING STAYS OPEN AND, UH, IS THERE A SECOND COUNCILOR ALTERS SECOND, IS THERE A DISCUSSION COUNSELOR ALTAR? UM, I HAVE POSTED, UM, TWO AMENDMENTS ON, UM, THE MESSAGE FORWARD.

UM, YOU'RE GOING SO FAST.

I DON'T HAVE THEM RIGHT, RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME HERE.

UM, THE FIRST ONE, UM, IS TO AMEND THE PROPOSED EXHIBIT A, TO THE ORDINANCES, UM, TO, UM, AMEND THE DEFINITION OF WALKING BANK AND DRIVING.

AND THE SECOND ONE IS TO CLARIFY THAT THE BURDEN OF QUALIFYING FOR REDUCTION IS ON THE APPLICANT.

I HAVE REVIEWED BOTH OF THESE, UM, WITH STAFF, UM, AND I WOULD, UM, MOVE APPROVAL OF MY TWO AMENDMENTS.

ARE THOSE, ARE THOSE ON THE MESSAGE BOARD OR DID, DID YOU SAY YOU, I POSTED THEM ON THE MESSAGE BOARD YESTERDAY AND KATIE DISTRIBUTED THEM THIS MORNING.

I CAN, I'M HAPPY TO READ THEM IF YOU DON'T HAVE ON MY WAS JUST THOUGHT PEOPLE HAD READ

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I JUST WANT IT, I JUST ASKED THAT FOR THE, FOR THE DYES, MOSTLY IT'S JUST IN CASE SOMEBODY WAS LOOKING FOR IT, BUT, UM, I THINK, I THINK IT'S FINE AS, AS THE MOTION IT, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER KITCHEN, UM, IF IT'S AN ORDER AND IT ACCEPT THAT AS A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT.

UM, SO AS AMENDED, UM, OR IT'S A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT FROM A COUNSELOR OR ALTERNATIVE COUNSEL OF KITCHEN'S MOTION ON FIRST READING, KEEPING THE PUBLIC HEARING OPEN, UM, ANY MORE DISCUSSION OR STAFF WANT TO SAY ANYTHING, LOOK LIKE IT.

OH, WELL COUNCIL MEMBER FLANIGAN.

IT DOES IT.

MY COMPUTER'S RUNNING SMALL.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS WITH THIS PLATFORM.

UM, THANK YOU, CUSTOMER ALTAR FOR YOUR AMENDMENTS.

UM, AND I'M GLAD TO SEE THIS MOVING FORWARD ON FIRST READING.

UM, I'M SURE MANY OF US CONTINUE TO TALK WITH STAKEHOLDERS ON THIS TOPIC.

SO I DON'T THINK ANYONE SHOULD ASSUME THAT SECOND AND THIRD READING IS A FOREGONE CONCLUSION.

I THINK THERE'S STILL WORK TO BE DONE HERE.

UM, AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO DOING IT THEN I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE IT WASN'T CONFUSION ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS TO DO FIRST READING CAUSE WE CAN CONTINUE.

AND I THINK A LOT OF US WILL CONTINUE TO WORK ON THIS AT SECONDARY COUNCIL WERE ALTERED.

UM, I WAS JUST ASKING FOR, YOU'RE GOING TO BE MAKING, YOU KNOW, AMENDMENTS ON SECOND THEME WHENEVER THAT HAPPENS TO BE THAT WE MAKE SURE THAT WE, UM, PROVIDE ENOUGH TIME FOR US TO REALLY UNDERSTAND THE IMPLICATIONS, THE THINGS THAT FOLLOW FROM SOME OF THIS.

UM, DO YOU GET, GET RATHER COMPLICATED AND IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT I HOPE THAT WE'LL BE LIKE DECIDING ON THE FLY ON THE, ON THE DICE.

I'M NOT SAYING THIS IS YOUR PLAN AT ALL, MR. FLANAGAN.

I'M JUST, UM, THIS IS A PROCESS THAT HAS GONE FOR, FOR A LONG, A LONG TIME.

UM, AND I, AND I BELIEVE THAT, UM, THERE'S A BENEFIT FOR HAVING, UM, THAT, THAT SLOW REFLECTIVE PROCESS ON IT.

UM, SO I WOULD JUST ASK IF FOLKS ARE GOING TO BE, UM, MAKING AMENDMENTS THAT REALLY GO WITH THE CORE OF HOW THE FEES ARE BEING ASSESSED OR THINGS LIKE THAT, THAT WE REALLY, UM, ARE ABLE TO TAKE THE TIME TO, TO THINK ABOUT THAT.

UM, JUST IN TERMS OF A PROCESS SUGGESTION, UM, MOVING FORWARD.

MR. SPILLER, UM, STAFF NEEDS TO MAKE A PRESENTATION.

SO, UM, COUNSELOR KITCHEN, DO YOU WANT TO SPEAK BEFORE THE PRESENTATION OR AFTER? YEAH, JUST, JUST REAL QUICKLY JUST TO SAY THAT, UM, UH, WE, OUR STAFF AND, UM, COUNCIL HAVE WORKED ON THIS FOR A WHILE AND IT'S REALLY EXCITING TO SEE IT COMING TO US.

UM, I AGREE THAT MANY OF US HAVE MORE THINKING TO DO AND MAY HAVE SOME MORE THAT WE WANT IN THE FUTURE.

AND I AGREE WITH BOTH COUNCIL MEMBER PLANNING AND COUNCIL MEMBER ALTAR THAT WE SHOULD GIVE SOME THOUGHT TO THAT.

AND, AND MR. SPILLER, UM, I'M SURE YOU CAN TELL US WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING TO BRING SECOND READING BACK, BUT JUST, JUST FOR A SECOND HERE, I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE BIG PICTURE.

I THINK THIS IS BEEN A LONG TIME COMING.

UH, WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT IT FOR WHILE IT'S, IT'S REALLY A TOOL THAT WILL HELP US, UM, AS A COMMUNITY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE ALIGNING THE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT, UH, INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WE NEED WITH OUR DEVELOPMENTS.

AND SO I THINK IT'S VERY EXCITING.

WE'VE HAD LOTS OF CONVERSATION ABOUT ENSURING THAT THE, THE PROCESS AND THE, UM, THE FEES THAT WE SET, UM, ALIGN WITH OUR GOALS AROUND AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

UM, AND, UM, SO I KNOW THAT I'LL TRY AND TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT HAPPENS.

UM, AND THANK MR. SPILLER AND HIS STAFF FOR ALL THE WORK THEY'VE DONE OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS.

I AM VERY EXCITED THAT WE'RE GETTING TO THE POINT NOW OR JUST COMING TO COUNCIL.

SO MR. SPILLER, AS PART OF YOUR PRESENTATION, IF YOU COULD LET US KNOW WHEN TO COME BACK ON SECOND READING, UH, YES.

COUNCIL MEMBER.

WE'RE READY WHENEVER YOU ARE.

OH, COUNCIL MEMBER HARPER.

MADISON.

DID YOU, I'M SORRY.

WERE YOU, ARE YOU DONE COUNCILMAN KITCHEN.

DO YOU WANT TO SPEAK BEFORE THE STAFF PRESENTATION OR AFTER? WELL, SO MAYBE I COULD JUST GO AHEAD AND LAY MY QUESTION OUT AND THEN, UM, UH, THAT WAY THEY MAKE CERTAIN TO ADDRESS IT DURING THE COURSE OF THEIR PRESENTATION.

SO IF WE CAN MAKE SURE TO ADDRESS THAT ONE QUESTION DURING THE COURSE OF THE PRESENTATION.

SO I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHAT SYSTEMS, UM, DO ATD HAVE IN PLACE WITHIN THEIR DEPARTMENT TO ENSURE THAT THE FUNDS COLLECTED THROUGH STREET IMPACT FEES ARE SPENT EFFECTIVELY, EFFICIENTLY AND IN A TIMELY MANNER.

UM, I HAVE SOME MORE COMMENTS, BUT I'M CERTAIN THAT, UM, UH, THE PRESENTATION MAY, EH, WHAT I DO OR DON'T SAY.

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ALL RIGHT, MR. SPILLER, THE FLOOR IS YOURS.

UH, THANK YOU, MAYOR PRO TEM COUNCIL MEMBER.

SORRY.

THANKS SO MUCH.

I ALSO WANTED TO JUST ASK, UM, ASK, UH, A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS OR LET YOU KNOW A COUPLE OF THE THINGS THAT I'LL BE LOOKING AT AS WE MOVE TOWARDS SECOND READING.

AND I KNOW I'VE REACHED OUT TO SIT DOWN WITH OUR TEAM AND GET MORE INFORMATION ABOUT IT, BUT IN PARTICULAR, AS IT'S CURRENTLY CRAFTED, IT WOULD, UM, THE STREET IMPACT YOU WOULD BE REDUCED FOR DOWNTOWN, FOR DOWNTOWN, WHICH INCLUDES RENT STREET.

AND AS WE KNOW, WE HAVE LOTS OF, LOTS OF CHALLENGES THERE, UM, LITTLE FUNDING TO HELP WITH THE MOBILITY CHALLENGES.

SO ESPECIALLY WITHIN RAINY.

SO IF THAT'S A PART OF YOUR PRESENTATION, THAT WOULD BE INTERESTING.

AND AGAIN, BETWEEN TWO, BETWEEN THIS READING AND OUR NEXT, UM, THAT'S SOMETHING, ALL RIGHT.

ANYBODY ELSE? ALL RIGHT.

UM, MR. SPILLER, I THINK.

STUDY AND ARE IN THE POLICY DEVELOPMENT PHASE.

MAYOR PRO TEM AND COUNCIL FOR LETTING US PRESENT TODAY, I'M GOING TO BE JOINED BY A RANGE OF STAFF.

WE HAVE, UH, LEANNE MILLER FROM OUR STAFF HERE AT ATD AND UDL.

BERRERA, WHO'S DIRECTLY GOING TO BE INVOLVED IN IMPLEMENTING THESE FEES.

BOTH OF THEM.

UH, JEFF WHITAKER IS OUR CONSULTANT LEAD IS PARTICIPATING, UH, BY, UH, UM, UM, VIDEO TODAY AS ARE TERRY MORGAN, ANGELA RODRIGUEZ, AND ERICA LOPEZ FROM OUR LEGAL TEAM.

AND SO HOPEFULLY WE CAN ANSWER SOME OF THESE QUESTIONS, UH, OTHERS, WE MAY WANT TO COME BACK BETWEEN NOW AND FIRST READING CAUSE THEY DON'T LEND THEMSELVES EASILY TO, UH, A OFF THE CUFF ANSWER.

AND SO IF YOU'LL ALLOW US THAT, I'D APPRECIATE IT.

UH, AGAIN, I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR HOLDING THESE PUBLIC MEETINGS TODAY AND FOR CONSIDERING ESTABLISHMENT OF STREET IMPACT FEES, UH, THROUGH THE FIRST READING, UH, WE ARE REALLY, UH, HERE TO WORK AT THE PACE OF COUNCIL PLEASURE, UH, IN TERMS OF COMING BACK FOR SECOND AND THIRD READINGS, UH, STAFF WOULD REALLY LIKE TO TRY TO COME, UH, AS SOON AS DECEMBER WITH THE SECOND AND THIRD READINGS, UH, OBVIOUSLY THERE, THERE MAY BE SOME, UH, TURNOVER AT THE COUNCIL LEVEL MAYOR PRO TEM, AS YOU MOVED TO THE, UH, COUNTY THAT WOULD ALLOW US TO BE CONSISTENT WITH A GROUP OF FOLKS WE'VE WORKED THROUGH AND PRESENTED TO.

AND SO, BUT AGAIN, THAT'S, COUNCIL'S PLEASURE AS TO WHEN WE COME BACK.

UM, THESE ACTIONS REPRESENT A POLICY MILESTONE AND I BELIEVE WE HAVE A POWERPOINT SLIDE IF, UH, THE AAV FOLKS COULD GO AHEAD AND BRING THAT UP AND WE'LL JUST STAY ON THE FIRST SLIDE FOR A SECOND.

UM, THESE ACTIONS TODAY REALLY, UH, REPRESENT A POLICY MILESTONE IN YOUR EFFORT TO ASSURE THAT NEW DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE OF TRANSPORTATION COSTS.

UH, THIS WHOLE PROCESS WAS LAUNCHED BY COUNCIL IN 2015, WHEN YOU APPROVED LINE ITEM FUNDING IN OUR BUDGET, AND IT GAVE DIRECTION DURING THE ANNUAL BUDGET PROCESS.

UM, BEFORE I MOVED TO, UH, DISCUSS THE PROCESS.

AND SINCE YOU'VE ALREADY PASSED FIRST READING, WE'LL TRY TO GO QUICKLY AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS THAT WE'RE ABLE TO TODAY.

I REALLY NEED TO THANK SOME STAFF, UM, AND ACKNOWLEDGE THE TEAM THAT HAS REALLY WORKED HARD ON THIS.

OF COURSE, WE COULDN'T HAVE DONE THIS WITHOUT, UH, THE SUPPORT OF, UH, ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER, GINA FIDANKA, AND OUR ASSISTANT DIRECTOR.

AND EVERY DAY THROUGHOUT THIS, UH, THEIR LEADERSHIP HAS BEEN OUTSTANDING AND SUPPORTIVE, UH, LEANNE, WHO WILL BE MAKING MOST OF THE TECHNICAL PRESENTATION TODAY.

UH, WE, AGAIN, UH, I, I JUST SALUTE HER FOR THE WORK SHE'S DONE.

UM, COLE KITTEN, LUPO, BARRERA, CHEYENNE KRAUS, UH, ALSO PARTICIPATED.

I ALSO WANT TO THANK YOU AND YOUR COUNCIL AIDS.

YOU'VE BEEN AMAZING AND WILLING TO WORK WITH US DIRECTLY.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

AND OF COURSE OUR ADVISORY COMMITTEE THAT WE FORMED VERY EARLY ON, IF WE COULD GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE SLIDE NUMBER TWO.

UM, YOU'VE ALL SEEN THIS BEFORE THE SCHEDULE, UH, BUT WE'RE NEARLY AT THE FINISH LINE.

THAT'S THE EXCITING PART THAT LAST LITTLE BUBBLE AT THE END SAYS, COUNCIL ACTION ON POLICIES WHERE WE SIT TODAY.

UM, YOU KNOW, I, I DO WANT TO POINT OUT TEXAS LAW CHAPTER THREE 95 IS VERY PRESCRIPTIVE IN TERMS OF HOW IMPACT FEES CAN BE IMPOSED IN TEXAS.

THERE'S A REQUIRED STUDY, REQUIRED ADVISORY COMMITTEE, PUBLIC HEARINGS, THERE'S RESTRICTIONS ON WHAT KIND OF DISCOUNTS WE CAN GIVE.

UH, AND SO I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU THAT AS A COUNCIL MEMBER ALTAR DID, UH, CONSULT WITH OUR LEGAL TEAM THAT'S ON THIS TO HELP WRITE ANY AMENDMENTS THAT YOU WISH TO BRING FORWARD, TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT WE'RE ABLE TO BE SUPPORTIVE AS WE GO FORWARD.

AND SO I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO BE THOUGHTFUL ABOUT THOSE AND WORK WITH LAW AS WE GO FORWARD, BUT WE'VE NOW COMPLETED THAT REQUIRED

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AND AS WE SHOULD EXPECT, UM, UM, VARIOUS GROUPS THAT ARE INVOLVED IN THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS, UH, AND CITIZENS ARE GOING TO BE MOST INTERESTED IN THE POLICY, UH, DISCUSSION.

UH, BUT HOPEFULLY WE'VE DONE A GOOD JOB ABOUT INFORMING THAT, UH, DEBATE OR DISCUSSION WITH YOU, UH, OVER THE PERIOD OF THIS SEVERAL YEAR PROCESS.

UM, THROUGHOUT THIS WE'VE BEEN TO COUNCIL AND YOU'LL SEE THE RANGE OF MEETINGS HERE SHORTLY ON THE NEXT SLIDE, BUT, UH, WE'VE BEEN TO COUNCIL AT KEY POINTS TO GET CONFIRMATION ON ASSUMPTIONS AND POLICIES.

IT WAS A KEY MEETING WITH COUNCIL AT THE END OF 2019, WHERE YOU ALL ADOPTED A RESOLUTION THAT APPROVED THE ASSUMPTIONS THAT INCLUDED THE, UM, PROJECTS THAT WERE PART OF OUR TRANSPORTATION PROJECT LISTINGS, AS WELL AS, UH, THE DISTRICTS FOR WHICH THEY WERE COLLECTED.

IF WE COULD GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE, NUMBER THREE, UM, AGAIN, UH, YOU KNOW, THIS SHOULD NOT BE NEW TO YOU.

UH, WE'VE BEEN MEETING WITH, UH, AROUND THE CLOCK WITH VARIOUS GROUPS SINCE JUNE 9TH, 2016, REALLY MOVING THROUGH THAT PROCESS.

UH, YOU AUTHORIZED ON THE NINTH, THAT STREET IMPACT FEES, UH, TO ASK DEVELOPMENT, TO PAY ITS FAIR SHARE OF TRANSPORTATION, UM, THROUGHOUT OUR CITY, AS WE GROW TO, TO SHIFT PART OF THAT CLASS, TO THE DEL VERSE OR CONTINUE TO SHIFT TO MAKE SURE THEY PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE, YOU CAN SEE WE, WE FORMED AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE.

THIS IS REALLY A, UH, BOTH CITIZENS, AS WELL AS STAKEHOLDERS, PEOPLE THAT PRACTICE IN THIS AREA.

I KNOW SOME OF THOSE PEOPLE HAVE REACHED OUT TO YOU TO TALK ABOUT AND EXPLAIN SPECIFIC ASSUMPTIONS AND SPECIFIC PROCESSES THAT WE WENT THROUGH.

AND YOU CAN SEE WE'VE GONE ALL THE WAY THROUGH, UH, THE APPROVAL OF THE SIF STUDY ASSUMPTIONS, WHICH INCLUDED NOT ONLY THE PROJECTS THAT ARE PART OF OUR TRANSPORTATION PROJECT, UM, LIST OF NEEDS IN EACH DISTRICT, BUT THE DISTRICTS THEMSELVES, WHICH AGAIN, WERE ALL OPERATING UNDER THE VERY SPECIFIC GUIDELINES OF STATE LAW.

CAN WE GO TO NUMBER FOUR, PLEASE? SLIDE FOUR.

UH, AND YOU SEE WHERE YOU MET WITH A RANGE OF COMMITTEES AND ADVISORY GROUPS.

UH, WE REALLY TRIED TO BE INCLUSIVE AND REACH OUT NOT ONLY ON THE ASSUMPTIONS, BUT ALSO ON POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS THROUGHOUT THIS PROCESS.

UH, AND WE'RE HERE, UH, UH, AT COUNCIL REALLY TO CONSIDER THOSE NEXT STEPS, THE POLICY DISCUSSION, OUR LAST MEETING WITH, UH, UH, UH, THE MOBILITY COMMITTEE WAS ON OCTOBER 8TH, 2020.

AND I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE CHAIR THERE OF HELPING US, UH, HAVE THAT DISCUSSION WITH THE COUNCIL MEMBERS PARTICIPATING IF WE COULD GO TO SLIDE NUMBER FIVE.

SO THAT BRINGS US TO TODAY.

UH, I, THIS IS MY SLIDE WHERE I TURN IT OVER TO LAND BECAUSE IT GETS TECHNICAL, BUT WE ARE CONSIDERING TWO ORDINANCES.

ONE IS A CODE ORDINANCE, AND ONE IS A FEE ORDINANCE.

UH, YOUR PUBLIC HEARING IS ON BOTH OF THOSE TODAY OR, OR CONTINUES ON BOTH OF THOSE.

UM, BUT THERE ARE TWO SEPARATE ORDINANCES.

WE'RE REALLY TRYING TO FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE THAT, UH, THE WATER DEPARTMENT USED, UM, BOSTON WATER STRUCTURE, UH, TO HAVE BOTH ENABLING LANGUAGE IN THE CODE AND FEE ORDINANCE, UM, AND, UH, TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU NOT ONLY HAVE, UM, THAT STRUCTURE, BUT THAT IT'S CLEAR AS TO WHAT WE'RE ESTABLISHING HERE.

SO WITH THAT, I'D LIKE TO TURN IT OVER TO LEANNE AND I'LL GO ON MUTE AND COME BACK AT THE VERY END TO TALK ABOUT NEXT STEPS.

THANKS, ROB.

UM, IF WE COULD GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.

UM, GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL MEMBERS.

MY NAME IS LEANNE MILLER.

UM, THANK YOU AGAIN FOR HAVING US BACK TO TALK ABOUT THE STREET IMPACT FEE.

UM, THE SIGNING TIME, UM, TO BE BRINGING THIS ITEM TO YOU ON FIRST READING, UM, HAPPY TO ANSWER AND CONTINUE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS YOU ALL HAVE AND WORK WITH YOU ON, UM, ON ANY AMENDMENTS YOU WOULD WANT TO BRING, UM, TO THIS ITEM, I'M GOING TO WALK THROUGH WHAT THE STAFF RECOMMENDATION IS AND THE ORDINANCES THAT YOU HAVE IN YOUR BACKUPS.

UM, SO, UM, THERE ARE FOUR MAIN ELEMENTS OF THE STAFF RECOMMENDATION.

UM, THESE ARE THE ELEMENTS THAT WE'VE HEARD THE MOST ABOUT AND HAD THE MOST DISCUSSION WITH THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND STAKEHOLDERS THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS.

UM, THEY ARE THE COLLECTION RATE.

SO THAT'S THE, THE ACTUAL RATE THAT THE COUNCIL IS SETTING, UM, FOR ADOPTION, THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE ORDINANCE, UM, THE OFFSETS THAT WOULD BE, UM, CONSIDERED AND THEN P REDUCTION.

SO FIRST ON THE COLLECTION RATE, THIS IS REALLY THE MAIN ITEM THAT COUNCIL IS DETERMINING.

THIS IS THE, THE DOLLAR AMOUNT FOR THE FEE FOR RESIDENTIAL AND NON-RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT, A LOT OF DISCUSSION, UM, AND FEEDBACK FROM THE IMPACT FEE ADVISORY COMMITTEE, AS WELL AS CITY STAFF FROM SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS HAS GONE INTO THIS RECOMMENDATION.

UH, IT CAN BE FOUND WITHIN THE FEET ORDINANCE ITEMS, 73, UH, THE RECOMMENDED RATES ARE, UM, AT

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50% OF THE CITYWIDE MAXIMUM FOR NON-RESIDENTIAL LAND USES THAT RESULTS IN A, UM, $1,215 PER VEHICLE MILE.

AND AT 35% OF THE CITYWIDE MAXIMUM FOR RESIDENTIAL LAND USES THAT'S $850 PER VEHICLE MILE.

UM, AND THEN WE HAVE A FEW, UM, EXEMPTIONS THAT ARE ALSO CONTAINED WITHIN THE FEE ORDINANCE FOR SMALL BUSINESSES.

UNDER CERTAIN SQUARE FOOTAGES WOULD HAVE REDUCED COLLECTION RATES AS WELL AS FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS.

UM, COUNCIL MEMBER ALTERS AMENDMENT ADDRESS THAT, UM, PROVISION SPECIFICALLY, AND THEN GROCERY STORES AND SPECIFIC SERVICE AREAS WITHIN THE CITY WHERE WE HAVE, UM, A DEFICIENCY IN THOSE LAND USES.

UM, THEY WOULD HAVE A DIFFERENT COLLECTION RATES AND THEN, UH, FOR THE EFFECTIVE DATE, UM, THIS IS WHEN THE FEE GOES INTO EFFECT AND SEE COLLECTIONS WOULD ACTUALLY BEGIN, UH, THE IMPACT.

THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED A ONE-YEAR GRACE PERIOD FOR ALL PROPERTIES.

THIS IS AN EXTENSION OF THE STATUTORILY REQUIRED GRACE PERIOD OF ONE YEAR FOR PREVIOUSLY PLOTTED PROPERTIES.

THE IMPACT OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE EXTENDED THAT ONE YEAR GRACE PERIOD TO ALL PROPERTIES.

UM, STAFF AGREED WITH THAT RECOMMENDATION AND AFTER ADDITIONAL FEEDBACK FROM THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY, UH, ADDED AN EXCEPTION FOR DEVELOPMENTS THAT HAVE APPROVED TRANSPORTATION IMPACT ANALYSIS ON THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE ORDINANCE.

SO THOSE DEVELOPMENTS WITH APPROVED TA'S WOULD HAVE A THREE YEAR GRACE PERIOD.

SO THREE YEARS TO SEEK THEIR BUILDING PERMITS BEFORE FEES WOULD GO INTO EFFECT.

WE THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS FAIR AND PROVIDES FOR A TRANSITION FOR THOSE DEVELOPMENTS THAT MAY HAVE RELIED ON A PREVIOUSLY APPROVED ANALYSIS.

WE CAN GO TO SLIDE SEVEN, PLEASE WE'LL GO OVER THE LAST TWO ELEMENTS OF THE STAFF RECOMMENDATION, WHICH ARE THE FEE OFFSETS AND FEE REDUCTIONS.

UM, SO OFFSETS ARE REDUCTIONS TO THE IMPACT FEE TO REFLECT THE VALUE OF ANY CONSTRUCTION OF A SYSTEM FACILITY THAT A DEVELOPMENT CONTRIBUTES.

SO WE WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE AND RECOGNIZE THE CONTRIBUTION OF A DEVELOPMENT TOWARDS THE SYSTEM FACILITY, IF THEY CHOOSE TO BUILD THAT FACILITY, UM, AND AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY IS REQUIRED TO DOCUMENT THE VALUE OF THAT OFFSET, UM, SO THAT WHEN THEY ARE, UH, PULLING A BUILDING PERMIT, THEY ARE WORKING AGAINST THOSE OFFSETS THAT THEY'VE ACCRUED, UM, AND A LARGER PROJECT THAT HAS PLANNED TO OCCUR OVER MULTIPLE PHASES.

UM, CAN ENTER INTO AN, AN OFFSET AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY, FOR THE ENTIRETY OF THEIR DEVELOPMENT TO PROVIDE, UM, ADDITIONAL PREDICTABILITY FOR THOSE MASTER PLAN PROJECTS.

UM, LASTLY, THE FEE REDUCTIONS, THIS IS WHERE, UM, MOST OF THE DISCUSSION WITH THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND STAFF HAS OCCURRED, ESPECIALLY WITH TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING AND PLANNING, STAFF, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STAFF.

WE'RE ALSO INVOLVED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THESE ORDINANCES, AND I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE.

WHO'S HELPED ME, UM, DEVELOP THESE, THESE RECOMMENDATIONS.

THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF REDUCTIONS CAPTURED IN THE, UM, CODE ORDINANCE THAT'S ITEM, 74 IS A MOBILITY AND AFFORDABILITY REDUCTION.

SO, UH, THE NOBILITY REDUCTIONS ARE PROVISIONS WITHIN THE ORDINANCE TO RECOGNIZE REDUCED DEMAND ON THE TRANSPORTATION NETWORK FROM DEVELOPMENT WHO ARE, UM, UTILIZING TRANSPORTATION, DEMAND MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES, SUCH AS PROXIMITY TO TRANSIT, TO LOCATING THEIR SITES, PROXIMATE TO TRANSIT SYSTEM, AS WELL AS REDUCED PARKING.

SO PROVIDING LESS PARKING THAN IS REQUIRED.

UM, AND THEN THE AFFORDABILITY REDUCTIONS ARE TO PROVIDE A 100% REDUCTION FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS THAT MEET THE REQUIREMENTS AS STATED IN THE ORDINANCE.

THIS IS AUTHORIZED, UM, THROUGH THE STATE STATUTE AND IS IN ALIGNMENT WITH LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE THREE 95.

UM, GOING ON TO SLIDE EIGHT, UM, I JUST WANT TO COVER AGAIN, THE FEEDBACK THAT WE'VE HEARD.

UM, YOU SAW THIS BACK IN YOUR JUNE 9TH WORK SESSION WHEN I WAS ABLE TO PRESENT TO YOU, BUT WE'VE RECEIVED ADDITIONAL FEEDBACK FROM URBAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION PLANNING, COMMISSION, OUR BIKE AND PEDESTRIAN ADVISORY COUNCILS, AND MANY DIFFERENT COMMUNITY GROUPS.

SO I WANTED TO RECAP THE SENTIMENTS THAT WE'VE HEARD AROUND THE STREET IMPACT THE PROPOSAL, AND REALLY JUST ACKNOWLEDGE THE DIFFERENT GOALS THAT WE'VE BEEN BALANCING AND DEVELOPING THE STAFF RECOMMENDATION.

UM, WE'VE HEARD A LOT FROM THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY AND NEIGHBORHOODS ABOUT WANTING TO MAKE SURE THAT, UM, SMALLER INFILL DEVELOPMENT IS STILL, UM, ENCOURAGED AS A POLICY GOAL.

THE CITY THAT WE ARE ENCOURAGING ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS AND MISSING MIDDLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT.

WE HAVE A SPECIFIC, UM, REDUCTION WITHIN THE MOBILITY REDUCTIONS TO ADDRESS THOSE SMALLER SCALE, UM, DEVELOPMENT, UM, CONSIDERING EQUITY AND AFFORDABILITY ACROSS THE CITY.

THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT WE TOOK INTO ACCOUNT AS PART OF OUR STAFF RECOMMENDATION, TO LOOK AT A CITYWIDE MAXIMUM AND SETTING THE COLLECTION RATE REDUCTIONS FOR DEEPLY AFFORDABLE HOUSING,

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ENCOURAGING SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION AND MEETING OUR ASN P GOALS AND 50 50 MODE HERE IN THE FUTURE.

THAT REALLY WENT INTO OUR RECOMMENDATIONS ON TRANSIT PROXIMITY AND REDUCED PARKING.

UM, OBVIOUSLY THE CURRENT ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT BEING IN A PANDEMIC, UM, AND WANTING, UM, GROWTH TO PAY ITS FAIR SHARE IN PROVIDING TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE.

SO A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS THAT WE WERE TRYING TO BALANCE IN DEVELOPING THIS RECOMMENDATION ON SLIDE NINE.

THIS IS A SLIDE YOU'VE SEEN BEFORE.

IT'S ALWAYS WANTING TO BRING IT BACK AND EMPHASIZE WHY ARE WE PURSUING A STREET IMPACT FEE? WE WANT TO DEVELOP A METHOD FOR GROWTH TO PAY ITS FAIR SHARE OF THE NECESSARY INFRASTRUCTURE TO SERVE THAT NEW GROWTH IN A WAY THAT IS, UM, FAIR TO DEVELOPMENT THAT IS MORE PREDICTABLE THAN THE SYSTEM WE HAVE TODAY THAT IS TRANSPARENT TO THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY, AS WELL AS THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE, WHAT FEES ARE BEING COLLECTED, HOW THEY ARE BEING SPENT.

UM, AND ALSO THAT'S FLEXIBLE SO THAT THE CITY CAN, UH, UTILIZE THAT REVENUE MORE FLEXIBLY THAN WE ARE TODAY TO BE ABLE TO ACTUALLY DELIVER INFRASTRUCTURE, UM, IN A MORE EFFICIENT MANNER.

SO ULTIMATELY WE WANT THIS TO BE A FAIR AND REASONABLE, UM, SEE PROCESS FOR, UM, FOR PROVIDING THOSE, UH, ROADWAY SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS.

AND THEN SLIDE 10, JUST RECAPPING AGAIN, THOSE FOUR ELEMENTS.

I THINK YOUR GUYS ARE GOING TO REALLY DIG INTO MORE AS THE COLLECTION RATE.

THAT'S THE DOLLAR PER VEHICLE MILE FOR DEVELOPMENT UNIT THAT YOU WOULD BE SETTING IN THE FEE ORDINANCE, THE EFFECTIVE DATA IN THE ORDINANCE AND THE ASSOCIATED GRACE PERIOD.

UM, THE OFFSETS THAT ARE GRANTED TO DEVELOPMENT FOR THE SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS THEY MAKE.

AND THEN THOSE FEE REDUCTIONS THAT FROM THE COLLECTION RATE FURTHER REDUCED, UM, TO RECOGNIZE DEVELOPMENTS THAT ARE REDUCING THEIR IMPACT ON THE TRANSPORTATION NETWORK OR PROVIDING AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

UM, ROB, I CAN HAND IT OVER BACK TO YOU TO TALK THROUGH WHAT WE THINK THE NEXT STEPS ARE AND BRINGING YOU BACK, UM, THIS, UH, ITEM FOR SECOND READING.

THE QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE.

UH, IF WE COULD GO TO SLIDE 11.

SO WE STARTED THE PUBLIC HEARINGS TODAY, UH, REALLY TALKING ABOUT THE NEXT STEPS AND THEN THE, UH, READINGS, UH, OBVIOUSLY YOU'VE MOVED FOR FIRST READING TODAY.

AND SO, UH, WE WILL WORK TO COME BACK IN FUTURE MEETINGS WITH, UH, ADDITIONAL, UH, UH, OR FUTURE MEETINGS WITH ADDITIONAL READING OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOU TO CONSIDER.

UH, IN THE MEANTIME, WE'LL BE WORKING WITH INDIVIDUAL OFFICES TO TRY TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS AND WE'LL MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY GETS THE ANSWERS TO THOSE QUESTIONS.

UM, I THINK WE CAN, UH, PARTIALLY, UH, ADDRESS, UH, COUNCILOR HARPER MADISON'S QUESTIONS WITH REGARDS TO, HOW DO WE MAKE SURE THAT, UH, THE, UH, THE FUNDS, UH, ARE COLLECTED EFFICIENTLY AND EFFECTIVELY, UH, AND SPENT WITHIN A TIMELY MANNER.

THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE WILL BE FOCUSED ON OVER THE NEXT YEAR DURING THAT GRAY SPIRIT, UH, DEVELOPING OUR INTERNAL SYSTEMS TO VERIFY THAT THOSE FUNDS ARE BEING, BEING SPENT.

WE RECEIVED THE RECOMMENDATION FROM OUR CONSULTANT.

YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE KEY THINGS IS THAT WITHIN EACH OF THOSE SERVICE AREAS, UH, WE CAN SCOOP THE IMPACT FEES TOGETHER FOR THAT SERVICE AREA AND USE THEM ON THAT LIST OF PRIORITY PROJECTS AS WE WORKED THROUGH THOSE.

UH, AND SO, UH, WE'VE RECEIVED THE RECOMMENDATION, UH, THAT MONEY AND SHOULD BE FIRST MONEY AND SHOULD BE THE FIRST MONEY OUT SPENT SO THAT WE MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE DELIVERING THOSE TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENTS, UH, IN A TIMELY MANNER.

WE HAVE STAFF RIGHT NOW DEPLOYED AND DEVELOPING SORT OF THAT INTERNAL BANKING SYSTEM.

UH, OUR FINANCES ARE ALWAYS OPEN FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION AND, UH, THROUGH THE AUDIT AND FINANCE COMMITTEE.

UH, AND CERTAINLY, UH, WE WOULD ALWAYS WORK WITH THE CITY AUDITOR AS WE ALWAYS HAVE TO REVIEW THOSE FINANCIAL ISSUES TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE TELLING YOU WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO, DOING WHAT WE'RE TELLING YOU WE DID, AND THEN MAKING SURE WE'RE REPORTING AND ACCOUNTING IT APPROPRIATELY.

UH, AND THEN WITH COUNCIL MEMBER TELEPHONE QUESTION, BUT THAT'S A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAILED QUESTION AND LEANNE, I WOULD SUGGEST THAT WE NEED GET DIRECTLY WITH THAT OFFICE AND PROVIDE WRITTEN ANSWER.

AND WE'LL THAT WITH ALL THE QUESTIONS WE GET FROM YOU FROM HERE ON OUT SINCE THE PUBLIC HEARING IS OPEN, UH, WE WILL CONTINUE TO RESPOND IN WRITING AND MAKE THAT AVAILABLE TO, TO, UM, ALL COUNCIL MEMBERS.

UH, SO, UH, WE ARE WORKING ON THOSE DEVELOPMENT, UH, DEVELOPING THOSE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES, AS WE JUST SAID.

AND, UH, AGAIN, YOU KNOW, DEPENDING ON WHEN COUNCIL PASSES ALL THREE READINGS, UH, THE FIRST FEES WOULD BE COLLECTED A YEAR LATER AFTER THAT EFFECTIVE DATE.

AND SO WE'VE SUGGESTED DECEMBER 20, 21.

WE'RE OPTIMISTIC THAT WE CAN DO THIS IN DECEMBER OR JANUARY OF 2022, UH, DEPENDING ON WHEN YOU, UH, FINALIZE, UM, THE ORDINANCE.

AND SO WITH THAT MAYOR PRO TEM, I RETURN IT BACK OVER TO YOU AND, AND OFFER MY STAFF TO ANSWER QUESTIONS THAT WE CAN, OR IF NOT THAT AT LEAST ACKNOWLEDGE

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UM, THANK YOU, STAFF.

I KNOW THERE'S BEEN A LOT, A LOT OF HOMEWORK ON THIS, AND I APPRECIATE IT.

HOW YOU STARTED YOUR PRESENTATION WITH THE LIMITATIONS WE HAVE BECAUSE OF STATE LAW.

AND BECAUSE IT IS OFTEN THE NUMBER ONE THING, CONSTITUENTS ASK ABOUT IT, WHY CAN'T YOU MAKE DEVELOPERS DO THIS, OR WHY DIDN'T YOU, AND, AND IT'S, IT'S WE'RE OFF AND IT FEELS AWFUL, ALWAYS PLANTING, BUT IT'S TRUE.

WE, WE CANNOT REQUIRE MORE THAN STATE LAW ALLOWS US TO FROM DEVELOPMENT, BUT WE, WE CERTAINLY WANT TO REQUIRE IT WHERE WE CAN.

SO, UM, WERE THERE ANY MORE QUESTIONS FOR STAFF, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER HARPER, MADISON, THANK YOU.

BUT MAY HAVE PRETENDED I THINK, UH, CAN YOU HEAR ME OKAY.

MY THING IS GOING WEIRD TODAY.

WE CAN HEAR YOU.

GOOD.

SO I THINK IT'S EQUAL PARTS QUESTION AND COMMENT.

UM, I, I THINK I'M COMFORTABLE WITH VOTING ON THE FIRST READING ON THIS ONE TODAY, BUT I DO THINK I'M GOING TO POSSIBLY HAVE SOME THE MINUTES FOR SECOND READING.

UM, AND THEN JUST A LITTLE BIT IN THE WAY OF, UM, DIRECTION.

AND THEN, UM, I GUESS IT IS THE QUESTION I'M OFFERING, I'M ASKING FOR SOME CLARIFICATION, UM, THIS IS THE KIND OF SUBJECT MATTER, WHICH BY THE WAY, HAS BEEN VERY DIFFICULT TO DIG INTO AS A LAYMAN, UM, IT'S COMPLEX AND IT'S COMPLICATED.

UM, I RECOGNIZE THE VALUE IN IMPLEMENTING THIS PROGRAM.

I DO, UM, I THINK IT WILL HELP ENSURE THAT OUR INFRASTRUCTURE KEEPS PACE WITH OUR RAPIDLY GROWING CITY, UM, AND PROVIDE SOME MUCH NEEDED PREDICTABILITY, WHICH THAT'S THE THING THAT CAUGHT MY ATTENTION, BOTH FOR RESIDENTS AND FOR THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY.

UM, THAT MAKES SENSE TO ME.

UM, I DO HAVE TO SAY THE INFORMATION PROVIDED, UM, GIVES ME SOME CONCERN IF I UNDERSTAND IT CORRECTLY, FOR EVERY $1,000 INCREASE ON THE PRICE OF A HOME 1200 FAMILIES ARE PRICED OUT OF THE AUSTIN HOUSING MARKET.

UM, I'D LIKE SOME CLARITY THERE.

UH, IF THAT'S THE CASE, IF I MISINTERPRETED THAT I'D LOVE FOR SOMEBODY TO OFFER ME SOMETHING IN THE WAY OF CLARITY THERE, IT, DOESN'T MY UNDERSTANDING THAT, UM, AUSTIN'S DEVELOPMENT FEES ON AVERAGE ARE THREE TO FOUR TIMES HIGHER THAN OTHER SIMILARLY SIZED CITIES.

UM, AND, UH, I READ A STATEMENT THAT REPORTED THAT IT CAN BE UPWARDS OF EIGHT TIMES HIGHER THAN THE CITY OF DALLAS.

UM, AND AS WE KNOW, THE COST OF FEES ARE ULTIMATELY PASSED ONTO BOTH, UH, HOME BUYERS AND TO RENTERS.

I THINK THIS CONTRIBUTES TO OUR HOUSING AFFORDABILITY CRISIS.

UM, LIKE I SAID, I SEE THE, THE VALUE IN IMPLEMENTING STREET IMPACT FEES.

SO I WOULD LIKE TO DIRECT THE RELEVANT CITY STAFF, UM, AND ACROSS DEPARTMENT MENTAL EFFORT TO EVALUATE ALL THE EXISTS EXISTING FEES THAT ARE LEVIED ON DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AND IDENTIFIED THAT, UM, THESE COULD EITHER BE ELIMINATED OR REDUCED TO OFFSET THE INCREASES FROM STREET IMPACT FEES.

UM, I THINK IDEALLY A CURSORY REVIEW WOULD BE COMPLETED BEFORE SECOND AND THIRD READINGS WHERE YOU HAVE THE QUESTIONS TO START WANTING TO ADDRESS ANY OF THOSE.

LIKE I SAID, I THINK THERE WERE MORE COMMENTS THAN QUESTIONS JUST TO OFFER A LITTLE BIT IN THE WAY BACK UP, THE, THE DATA THAT I'M PRODUCING.

IT CAME FROM A REPORT THAT WAS CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL, UM, NATIONAL HOME BUILDERS ASSOCIATION.

SO, UM, YEAH, IF, IF THAT'S HELPFUL AT ALL.

ALL HOUSING IS HOUSING AT A LEVEL THAT MOST PEOPLE CAN AFFORD.

COUNSEL WE'RE KITCHEN COUNTER, UM, TO, UH, TO GET MORE INFORMATION ALONG THE LINES OF WHAT COUNCIL MEMBER HARPER MADISON IS ASKING FOR.

I DO WANT TO MAKE A COUPLE COMMENTS ABOUT THAT THOUGH.

UM, I THINK THAT, UM, I KNOW YOU ALL, UH, OUR STAFF DID SOME ANALYSIS TO ARRIVE AT THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE 35%, UM, SENDING THE FEE THERE AND ALSO, UH, TAKING IT DOWN TO ZERO IF THE HOUSING WAS AFFORDABLE HOUSING, UH, WHICH I THINK IS, UH, WHICH IS PART OF THE CONVERSATION HERE IS HOW DO YOU, HOW DO WE, WHERE'S THE BALANCE POINT? YOU KNOW, IN OTHER WORDS, WHERE'S THE APPROPRIATE BALANCE POINT.

UM, I DO THINK WE HAVE TO, UM, REMEMBER THAT THERE ARE COSTS, UM, RELATED TO, UM, THE STREET IMPACTS.

UM, AND IF WE DON'T, YOU KNOW, IF OUR HOUSING IS, YOU KNOW, IF A HOUSING DEVELOPMENT IS NOT PAYING THOSE FEES OR THOSE COSTS, THEN THE REST OF THE COMMUNITY, THE COMMUNITY HAS TO PICK THOSE UP IN SOME WAY, UH, IN ORDER TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT ON OUR STREET INFRASTRUCTURE.

UM, THE OTHER THING TO REMEMBER IS NOT

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SO, UM, SO I, I THINK THAT, THAT, THAT WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT TOO.

I THINK IT IS APPROPRIATE TO HAVE THESE ON HOUSING.

UM, I THINK IT'S A MATTER OF WHAT IS THE RIGHT, WHAT LEVEL DO YOU SET IT AT? AND SO I THINK MORE INFORMATION CAN BE HELPFUL TO US, BUT, UM, BUT ALL OF THESE DEVELOPMENTS HAVE AN IMPACT ON THE INFRASTRUCTURE AROUND THEM.

AND THERE IS A VERY, YOU KNOW, THERE IS AN, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A CLOSE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN, UH, TRANSPORTATION AND, AND STREETS AND HOUSING.

THEY HAVE TO WORK TOGETHER.

AND SO WE HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE HAVE TO HAVE A WAY TO PAY FOR THEM WHEN WE HAVE, UH, WHEN WE HAVE DEVELOPMENT COMING IN.

UM, WHETHER IN THAT INCLUDES, THAT INCLUDES HOUSING.

WE'VE HAD LOTS OF CONVERSATIONS ON THIS DIOCESE ABOUT, UM, HOUSING THAT'S BEEN BROUGHT TO US THAT HAS IMPACTED STREETS THAT ARE, UM, THAT ARE NOT SAFE AND HAVE TO BE FIXED IN SOME WAY.

AND WHERE'S THE MONEY COMING FROM FOR THAT.

SO, SO ANYWAY, UM, I, I THINK THIS IS THE HEART OF THE MATTER, YOU KNOW, FOR US IS, UH, I THINK LAN, UM, MS. MILLER, I THINK YOU SAID THIS IS, YOU KNOW, WHERE WHERE'S THE BALANCE POINT, WHERE DO WE SET IT OUT? UM, AND I THINK MORE CRITICALLY THAN EVEN THAT IS WHERE DO WE SET IT AT WITH REGARD TO HOUSING? SO I APPRECIATE THE REQUEST, BUT I DO WANNA, I DO WANNA MAKE THE POINT THAT I DO THINK IT'S APPROPRIATE THAT, UM, HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS PAY, PAY A STREET IMPACT FEE.

I DO THINK IT'S REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE GET DOWN TO ZERO FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS.

UM, AND THEN I'M HAPPY TO HAVE THE CONVERSATION ABOUT WHETHER THAT'S AT 35% OR WHETHER IT'S AT SOMETHING ELSE.

SO THANK YOU.

UH, THANKS.

UM, YEAH, I, MY COMMENTS ARE ALONG THE SAME LINES AS, UM, PENNSYLVANIA KITCHEN, SOMEONE HAS TO PAY FOR KEEPING THE ROADS PAVED AND, UM, FOR YOUR POTHOLES AND THAT CHAN, UM, MANAGE AND MAY BE MAINTAINED WITH A LEVEL OF TRAFFIC IT'S ON THEM.

SO IF NOT THE DEVELOPERS, THEN THAT THEN BECOMES, UM, CITY OF AUSTIN EVERYWHERE.

UM, AND THAT HAS TO COME FROM GENERAL REVENUE.

I WAS IMPRESSED WITH THE, UM, STATISTICAL WORK AND THE TECHNICAL WORK THAT OUR STAFF DID.

UM, A DIFFERENT WAY TO LOOK AT THE COST TO THE DEVELOPER IS INSTEAD OF SAYING THAT 10% OF IT, YOU COULD LOOK AT, UH, HOW THE CITY IS PAYING TWO-THIRDS OF IT 66%, AND THEN THE DEVELOPMENT WILL BE PAYING ONE THIRD OF IT.

AND I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT I WAS LOOKING AT THAT PROPERLY.

MR. SPILLER, CAN YOU SPEAK TO THAT IF THE PASTA ROAD MAINTENANCE AND, UM, UM, IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE, IN ORDER TO ACCOMMODATE WHAT THE, SORRY, THE COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL IS A HUNDRED PERCENT AND WE WERE LOOKING AT A, UM, THAT REDUCED COST TO THE DEVELOPER.

WHEN I LOOKING AT THAT, UH, THANK YOU, COUNSEL, BARBARA COLE, AND I WANT TO CUE UP LEANNE TO MAKE SURE I GIVE YOU THE RIGHT ANSWER.

FIRST OF ALL, REMEMBER THE SIF IS ABOUT NEW CAPACITY, AND SO IT DOESN'T MAINTAIN THE ROADS, BUT OBVIOUSLY, UH, MONEY WE SPENT ON NEW CAPACITY, UH, WITH OUR, WITH CITY FUNDS, OUR FUNDS THAT CAN'T BE USED TO MAINTAIN THE ROADS.

AND SO WE'RE STILL AT THE CITY LEVEL RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING, BUT I BELIEVE YOU'RE RIGHT.

YOU KNOW, THE STATE LAW LIMITS US TO, UH, 50% THE MAXIMUM WE CAN GO TO, UH, AGAIN, TO SHARE WITH DEVELOPERS.

AND SO IF WE HAVE CORRECTLY IDENTIFIED THESE PROJECTS AS NEW CAPACITY PROJECTS WE NEED, WHICH THEY ARE, UH, THEN ANYTHING THAT'S NOT PAID FOR BY THE DEVELOPER, THE CITY AS A WHOLE WOULD HAVE TO PICK UP.

SO IF THAT'S WHATEVER THE PERCENTAGE IS, YOU SAID ADDS UP TO A HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE COST PLAN.

IS THERE ANYTHING YOU NEED TO CORRECT THERE? YEAH, THAT'S CORRECT.

ROB.

UM, AND, UH, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE SOME, SOME SLIDES THAT WE CAN SHOW IF YOU WANT TO LOOK INTO THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE IN DETAIL ABOUT WHAT ARE THE IMPACTS WHO, UM, RATHER THAN DO, IF YOU, IF YOU REDUCE THE COLLECTION RATE.

UM, BUT YES, THE, THE COLLECTION RATE ITSELF AT 35% IS, UM, YOU KNOW, WOULD BE CUTTING INTO THAT REVENUE.

UM, AND, AND THAT WOULD MEAN THAT THAT WOULD NEED TO COME TO MAKE THOSE IMPROVEMENTS AND THOSE PROJECTS, UM, THE CITY WOULD HAVE TO, WITH SOME OTHER FUNDING SOURCES, UM, PAY FOR THOSE IMPROVEMENTS OR THOSE IMPROVEMENTS DON'T, DON'T GET BUILT PROPERLY.

UM, YOU KNOW, THE OTHER LIKELY SCENARIO.

SO THAT'S A FACTOR TO CONSIDER AND WHERE YOU'RE SETTING THAT COLLECTION RATE.

UM, AND THAT WAS THE OTHER PART OF THE BALANCE THAT I WAS TRYING TO GET TO IF THE CITY IS, IS NOT ABLE TO SHARE IN THE COST STRAIGHT IMPACT FEES AND ALL OF IT HAS TO COME FROM OUR, OUR BUDGET AND TRANSPORTATION

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BUDGET.

AND THAT PUTS ADDITIONAL PRESSURES ON WHAT WORK WE CAN DO, WHERE AND WHEN.

AND SO WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT GROWTH, HELPING TO PAY FOR ITSELF, AND THIS IS A REALLY KIND OF A CLASSIC EXAMPLE OF WHERE THAT'S IMPORTANT.

AND THEN I WOULD JUST CLOSE BY SAYING, UM, WE GOT A LOT OF, UM, WHAT FOLKS WERE ASKING, UH, IN THIS LAST ELECTION CYCLE ABOUT SIDEWALKS AROUND THE CITY AND WHY IS IT THAT WE SEEM TO HAVE SIDEWALKS AVAILABLE FOR EVERYBODY AND WHY AREN'T THEY IN REALLY GOOD SHAPE? AND I KNOW THAT THE STREET IMPACT FEE IS NOT GOING TO HELP KEEP OUR SIDEWALKS PAVED AND LAID.

AND SO THAT IS A PRESSURE ON THE LARGER BUDGET AND THE ALLOCATION OF THOSE MONIES IN ORDER TO PROVIDE THE INFRASTRUCTURE.

SO IT'S KIND OF LIKE ICING ON A CAKE, YOU HAVE TO SPREAD IT ALL THE WAY AROUND.

YOU HAVE SOME FOR IN THE LAYERS, AND THEN YOU HAVE TO HAVE ENOUGH LIFT FOR ALL OF THE REST OF IT.

AND THAT'S ABOUT THE TASTIEST EXAMPLE THAT I COULD COME UP WITH IN ORDER TO KIND OF, KIND OF GIVE A SENSE IT'S, IT'S ALL THE ECOSYSTEM OF THE TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT BUDGET INCLUDES US BEING ABLE TO PUT UP OUR GENERAL REVENUES WITH THESE, IF WE WAVE ALL OF THEM OR DON'T, OR DON'T LEVY, ANY OF THEM THAT IT MAKES FOR A REAL OPEN ICING YES.

COUNCIL MEMBER.

AND IF I COULD JUST SAY, YOU KNOW, MANY OF OUR NEW CAPACITY PROJECTS ARE PAID FOR, WITH BOND MONIES, WE BORROW MONEY TO PAY FOR IT.

AND AS YOU KNOW, EVERY TIME WE HAVE A DISCUSSION AT COUNCIL ABOUT GOING TO THE VOTERS ABOUT BONDS, UH, THERE'S MANY NEEDS FOR THOSE.

AND SO IF WE CAN REDUCE THE NEED FOR NEW CAPACITY STREETS, THEN SOME OF THAT BOND CAPACITY OR THE WILLINGNESS OF THE, THE REGION TO PAY FOR A NEW CAPACITY OR NEW THINGS WITH BONDS CAN BE SPREAD TO OTHER SUBJECT ITEMS AND NOT USE.

THE OTHER THING IS I JUST WANT TO KEY IN, ON SIDEWALKS, AS YOU SAID, YOU KNOW, AS WE BUILD NEW STREETS, WE ARE REQUIRING THEM TO BE QUOTE UNQUOTE, COMPLETE STREETS.

THAT MEANS SIDEWALKS AND, AND PROVIDE CAPABILITY FOR ALL, UH, UH, TRAVELERS ON THOSE ROADWAYS.

AND SO WHERE WE'RE BUILDING NEW STREETS AND WHERE NEW SIDEWALKS ARE PART OF THAT DEFINITION.

THAT'S NEW CAPACITY AS WELL, THAT CAN BE PAID FOR AS PART OF THESE PROJECTS.

UH, BUT NOT NECESSARILY IN AND OF THEMSELVES SEPARATELY FROM STREETS.

UM, THANK YOU, COUNCIL REPORT.

NOW I'M CRAVING CAKE AND MY WAISTBAND SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN CREATING CAKE RIGHT NOW, BUT, UH, COUNSELOR FLANAGAN.

UH, YEAH.

THANK YOU, ROB, FOR CLARIFYING THE USE OF STREET IMPACT PIECES FOR NEW CAPACITY.

ONLY THE, I WANT TO BACK UP CHELSEA MEMBER HARPER.

MADISON IS I DO.

UM, I DO SUPPORT WHAT SHE'S SAYING.

I AM.

I'M INTERESTED IN THE TRADE-OFF BETWEEN, UH, THE AMOUNT OF THE FEE INHIBITING NEW HOUSING COMPARED TO A LOWER DENSITY HOUSING, PAYING LESS IN PROPERTY TAX AND TRANSPORTATION USER FEE, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE NEW DEVELOPMENT DOESN'T KNOW IT PAYS NOW PART OF ALL THE TAXES AND IN PERPETUITY.

SO THERE'S, THERE'S A TRADE OFF KIND OF A TIME VALUE OF MONEY QUESTIONS TO ME ABOUT AN UPFRONT FEE.

AND THEN THAT UPFRONT FEE INHIBITS THE ABILITY OF THAT PROPERTY TO GENERATE MORE REVENUE AS A, AS A TAXING, AS A TAX PARTICIPANT, BOTH AS A PROPERTY TAX AND AS A TRANSPORTATION USER FEE PARTICIPANT THAN, THAN WE MIGHT BE KIND OF ROBBING PETER TO PAY PAUL IF THE FEE IS TOO HIGH AND IT'S ESPECIALLY TRUE IN THE TRANSPORTATION USER FEE, BECAUSE THAT ONE IS ASSESSED ON UTILITY BILLS WHERE YOU CAN ACTUALLY DISTRIBUTE MORE OF THE COST OF TRANSPORTATION ACROSS MORE TAXPAYERS, INCREMENTALLY LOWERING THE COST PER TAXPAYER.

THE MORE TEXTURES YOU HAVE, JUST KIND OF SOME BASIC ALGEBRA.

SO THAT'S, THAT'S PART OF AN ANALYSIS I'VE BEEN ASKING FOR FOR A LONG TIME.

I KNOW THAT IT'S, IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT TRANSPORTATION FEES, RIGHT? IT'S, IT'S A MUCH BIGGER QUESTION ABOUT THE COST THAT IT TAKES FOR, UH, UH, THE CITY TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY AT DIFFERENT DENSITIES AND, AND HOW, YOU KNOW, WE CAN, WE CAN BETTER BALANCE OUR, OUR FINANCES.

SO, UM, YOU KNOW, I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH OF THAT ANALYSIS I'M EXPECTING BEFORE I CAN SUPPORT SCREENING IMPACT FEES, BUT, BUT I DO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT THAT IF A FEE UP FRONT INHIBITS THE DEVELOPMENT, IT ALSO INHIBITS THE LONGTERM PERPETUAL TAX WE MIGHT COLLECT FROM THAT DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL MEMBER ELLIS.

I DID HAVE TWO THOUGHTS THAT CAME TO ME RECENTLY, UM, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT WE HAVE SPOKEN OFFLINE ABOUT THIS.

I REALLY DO APPRECIATE ALL THE WORK THAT THE TRANSPORTATION STAFF HAS PUT INTO THIS.

CAUSE I KNOW WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON IT FOR A LONG TIME AND IT STARTED BEFORE EVEN I WAS ON COUNCIL.

UM,

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UM, BUT IF YOU'RE PREPARING RESPONSES IN DETAILED SO THAT WE CAN ALL REVIEW THEM BEFORE SECOND READING, UM, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW A LITTLE MORE ABOUT HOW THIS MIGHT AFFECT AN AREA LIKE DOWNTOWN, WHERE YOU DO SEE DEVELOPMENT, BUT YOU MAY NOT HAVE ROOM FOR ADDED CAPACITY.

AND, UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT OTHER, WHAT ARE ALL THE WAYS THAT A, UH, PLACE IN THAT SITUATION COULD, COULD APPLY AND USE THESE FUNDS FOR THIS TYPE OF INFRASTRUCTURE? UM, AND ALSO UNDERSTANDING, I THINK THERE IS ALREADY MAYBE A SPREADSHEET OUT THERE FOR BUILDERS TO UNDERSTAND HOW THIS MIGHT AFFECT PROJECTS THAT THEY'RE EITHER WORKING ON OR CONSIDERING BEGINNING AND UNDERSTAND IF THERE'S SOME SORT OF CALCULATOR OR WORKSHEET, OR MAYBE A GROUP OF EXAMPLES BY SERVICE AREA, SO THAT SOMEONE MIGHT HAVE AN EASIER WAY TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS FEED MIGHT BE ASSESSED AT FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF PROJECTS, LIKE, YOU KNOW, COMMERCIAL VERSUS RESIDENTIAL, KNOWING THAT THE SERVICE AREA AMOUNTS ARE, ARE SET IN DIFFERENT CAPACITIES.

SO THOSE ARE TWO THINGS I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT.

I'M STILL GOING TO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT THIS ON FIRST READING, BUT WE'D LIKE TO HAVE A LITTLE MORE CLARITY ON, ON THOSE BEFORE MOVING TO SECOND RATING COUNCIL MEMBER KITCHEN.

UM, THE OTHER THING THAT MIGHT BE HELPFUL, UM, MR. SPILLER, AS YOU RESPOND TO PEOPLE'S QUESTIONS BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND, UM, IS JUST TO, UM, JUST TO, TO THINK THROUGH AND PROVIDE SOME INFORMATION THAT, UM, I KNOW YOU'VE, UM, SHARED WITH US, UM, IN THE PAST IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THIS AND THE CURRENCIES.

OUR STREET IMPACT FEES ARE NOT NEW IN THE SENSE THAT, UM, UH, DEVELOPERS PAY A FEE NOW AND HAVE BEEN PAYING A FEE.

UH, WHAT THIS DOES IS IT GIVES US SOME MORE CERTAINTY.

UM, IT PROVIDES MORE CERTAINTY FOR DEVELOPERS, MORE CERTAINTY FOR THE CITY.

SO IT'S NOT JUST, UM, AFTER NEGOTIATE SINGLE ONE.

UH, THE OTHER THING IS THAT IT'S, WE'RE, WE ARE STILL UNDER THE SAME PARAMETERS UNDER STATE LAW ON WHAT THE MAXIMUM CAN BE, BUT THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH, UH, WITH OUR CURRENT FEES.

THE OTHER THING IS IT GIVES US MORE OPPORTUNITY TO MORE FLEXIBILITY ACTUALLY, IN TERMS OF, OF HOW WE USE THE FEES, UM, AND TO REALLY USE A MORE EFFECTIVE WAY THAN WE CAN CURRENTLY, UH, BECAUSE THERE'S, UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LARGER, UM, RADIUS AROUND A, WITHIN THE ZONE SPACE, BASICALLY THAT YOU'RE SETTING.

SO I THINK, UM, HELPING, UM, UH, MAKE THAT CLEAR TO THE, TO THE PUBLIC WOULD BE HELPFUL, UH, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S NOT LIKE I DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO LISTEN TO THIS AND THINK THAT WE'RE BRINGING IN A BRAND NEW FEE ON DEVELOPERS, UH, BECAUSE NOT WHAT IT IS.

AND THERE'S ACTUALLY A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WHICH YOU ALL HAVE RECOMMENDED AND WHAT PEOPLE TYPICALLY PLAY PAY RIGHT NOW.

SO, UH, YES, COUNSEL, WE WILL RESPOND TO THAT IN WRITING TO HELP, UH, CITIZENS TO UNDERSTAND THAT, UM, WHAT I THINK YOU'RE REFERRING TO IS LARGER DEVELOPMENTS USUALLY GO THROUGH A TRAFFIC IMPACT ANALYSIS AND, AND, UH, MITIGATE THOSE IMPACTS.

UH, BUT YOU REALLY HAVE TO BE A LARGER DEVELOPMENT TO BE GOING THROUGH THAT PROCESS, SMALLER DEVELOPMENTS, UM, EITHER, UH, BECAUSE THEY'RE DESIGNED TO BE SMALLER OR THEY'RE ON A SMALLER PIECE OF PROPERTY, OFTEN ESCAPE DIRECT PAYMENT INTO A MITIGATION CONCEPT THAT THEY, THEY WILL CERTAINLY DO THE IMPROVEMENTS THAT ARE ADJACENT TO THEIR SITE, BUT THEY MAY NOT CONTRIBUTE TO TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS, UH, FURTHER FROM THEIR SITES.

SO WE, THERE WILL BE SOME SORTING OUT.

SOME PEOPLE WILL CERTAINLY, OR SOME DEVELOPMENTS WILL PERCEIVE THAT THEY'RE PAYING MORE AND OTHERS HOPEFULLY WILL PERCEIVE THAT THEY'RE PAYING APPROXIMATELY SIMILAR TO WHAT THEY'RE DOING NOW CAN THANK YOU FOR THAT, CLAIRE.

THANK YOU FOR THAT CLARIFICATION.

CURRENT FEE APPLIES, WHETHER THEY'RE RESIDENTIAL, ARE THERE A COMMERCIAL IT'S MORE OF A SCIENCE-BASED YES, YES.

WE, WE ASKED THE LARGER DEVELOPMENTS TO PAY, UH, THEIR SHARE OF THE TRANSPORTATION IMPACT FEES, OBVIOUSLY ALL GOVERNED BY ROUGH PROPORTIONALITY, UH, WHICH THE SIF ALSO TAKES INTO ACCOUNT.

YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS WE WILL BE NEEDING TO DO OVER THIS FIRST PERIOD OF PHASE IS TO CALIBRATE THIS FEE AND, AND DIAL IT IN, UH, BETTER.

THANKS.

I APPRECIATE THAT.

STAFF'S GONNA CONTINUE TO WORK WITH THE IMPACT ADVISORY COMMITTEE, IS THAT CORRECT? AND SO Y'ALL CONTINUE TO CORRECT.

THE FEES ARE WORKING IN DETERMINING THAT THEY NEED TO BE TWEAKED IF SOMETHING ISN'T QUITE WORKING.

SO WHEN WE, UM, COME BACK FOR SECOND AND THIRD READING, YOU CAN GIVE US AN UPDATE.

UM, IS IT CORRECT ALSO THAT WE'LL HEAR FROM STAFF AND THE COMMITTEES AT AN ANNUAL ON AN ANNUAL BASIS AS PART OF A REGULAR UPDATE? UM, I WILL LET LEANNE REFER TO THAT, BUT YES.

UM,

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UH, WE THINK WE'VE DONE A LOT OF WORK, BUT THERE'S OBVIOUSLY THAT OPPORTUNITY WE'RE REQUIRED TO COME BACK TO COUNCIL FOR REAUTHORIZATION EVERY FIVE YEARS.

UH, BUT WE CAN CERTAINLY BASED ON THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE IMPACT ADVISORY COMMITTEE, UH, COME BACK MORE FREQUENTLY WHEN THEY THINK WE NEED TO RECALIBRATE AS WELL.

SO THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES, LEANNE, IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WANT TO ADD THERE? YES.

TOTAL NUMBER WE'LL CONTINUE TO WORK WITH THE IMPACT OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE.

THEY ARE REQUIRED BY THE STATE, UH, THE STATE LAW.

THEY HAVE BEEN ADVISING AUSTIN WATER ON THE WATER WASTEWATER IMPACT FEES FOR FEW DECADES NOW.

UM, AND SO THEY HAVE A LOT OF EXPERIENCE AND THEY WILL RECEIVE BY ANNUAL REPORTS FROM US.

UM, AND, AND THEN THEY HAVE THE CHARGE TO ADVISE THE COUNCIL, UM, IN THE MONITORING OF THE, OF THE, OF THE PROGRAM, WHETHER OR NOT, UM, THERE'S A NEED TO REEVALUATE THE STUDY.

IF THERE IS A NEED TO CHANGE THE IMPACT FEES, OR IF THEY DON'T SEE THAT THE IMPLEMENTATION IS GOING AS ANTICIPATED, UM, THAT IS THEIR CHARGED TO, UM, TO BRING THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS TO COUNCIL.

AND SO THEY HAVE, THAT'S WHY THEY GET THOSE, UM, TWICE A YEAR REPORTS, UM, FROM STAFF SO THAT THEY CAN BE INFORMED AND MAKING THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS.

THAT'S GREAT.

THANKS SO MUCH.

I DON'T THINK ANYONE HERE DISAGREES THAT WE SHOULDN'T HAVE, WHO USE ON, ON MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS, YOU SEE IT IN EVERY ZONING CASE, EVERY DEVELOPMENT IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS, WHERE USUALLY I KNOW EVERY ONE OF US TALKING TO CONSTITUENTS ABOUT THIS IS GOING TO CONTRIBUTE SOMETHING TO THIS OR TO THAT.

UM, AND I'LL BE WATCHING ON SECOND READING ABOUT HOW WE BEST SET THIS ONE, BUT I AM INTERESTED, ESPECIALLY NOW THAT WE'RE ADDING THIS NEW ONE MOST LIKELY TO, UH, FOR US TO, TO GET WITH THAT IMPACT FEE ADVISORY COMMITTEE BEFORE WHATEVER THE FIVE-YEAR TIMELINE IS TO LOOK AT THESE ALL IN TOTAL.

I THINK THAT WAS SOME STUFF, PARTLY WHAT WE WERE DISCUSSING.

ONE OF THE MANY THINGS WE WERE DISCUSSING IN THE LDC REWRITE, BUT AGAIN, THE COUNCIL MEMBER HARPER MADISON'S POINT, IF IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT ANY ONE INDIVIDUAL, ONE IT'S, IF WE, IF WE ADD THEM ALL UP AND MISS A SWEET SPOT, THEN WE COULD WIND UP WITH LESS DOLLARS FOR THE COMMUNITY AND INHIBITING HOUSING, WHICH ISN'T, I DON'T THINK ANYONE'S INTENT HERE.

UM, BUT THEN AT THE SAME TIME, WE DON'T WANT TO LEAVE, UM, COMMUNITY BENEFIT ON THE TABLE EITHER.

AND SO IT'S KIND OF, I'LL, I'LL SAY AT LEAST SPEAK FOR MYSELF THAT IT IS HARD TO PICK EXACTLY THE RIGHT AMOUNT FOR THIS ONE WITHOUT HAVING ALL THE OTHERS ON THE TABLE.

I KNOW THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TASKED WITH DOING, AND WE'LL DO OUR BEST, BUT, UM, DIRECTOR SPELLER, I AM INTERESTED AS YOU DIAL THIS ONE IN THAT WE CAN BE WORKING WITH THE MANAGER AND WITH THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS TO ACTUALLY THINK OF IT HOLISTICALLY BECAUSE THEY DON'T.

TO HAVE, YOU KNOW, THEIR FAMILIES GROWING OR THEIR MOTHER-IN-LAW'S GOING TO COME LIVE WITH THEM TO HELP WE KNOW WHAT CHILDCARE OR SOMETHING.

THEY DON'T WORK INDEPENDENTLY OF ONE ANOTHER.

THE SPEED.

UH, YES, WE UNDERSTAND THAT CANCER HARPER, MADISON.

I APPRECIATE THE HELP IN ARTICULATING WHAT MY INTENT THERE WAS.

THERE'S A COUPLE THINGS THAT I FEEL ARE MISSING FROM THE CONVERSATION.

I KNOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT AFFORDABLE HOUSING, BUT I HAVEN'T HEARD IMPACT ON MARKET RATE HOUSING THAT'S OF INTEREST TO ME.

SO, YOU KNOW, AS WE TALK ABOUT HOUSING, WE'RE SAYING WE NEED ALL HOUSING TYPES.

SO THAT'S OF INTEREST TO ME.

AND THEN I'M HEARING, YOU KNOW, SIDEWALKS WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE COMPLETE STREETS CONSIDERATIONS, BUT SIDEWALKS FOR CARVED CENTRIC ROADS.

UM, AND SO WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TRANSIT AND TRANSPORTATION AND INCLUDING OUR ACCESS BY WAY OF MODES, I'M HEARING MORE ROADS FOR MORE CARS IN ADDITION TO THE SIDEWALK.

AND SO THAT'S ANOTHER POINT OF CONSIDERATION FOR ME.

AND IF I FORGOT TO SAY SO EARLIER, I APPRECIATE THE, OBVIOUSLY APPRECIATE THE WORK THAT'S GONE INTO, UH, ALL THESE POINTS OF CONSIDERATION ON THIS COMPLICATED SUBJECT MATTER BY WAY OF STAFF.

SO JUST ADDING TO THOSE ARE THINGS THAT I'M THINKING ABOUT AS WE'RE HAVING THIS CONVERSATION.

UM, I HAD A QUESTION ABOUT, UM, I BELIEVE IT'S INCLUDED IN THE CHANGES, BUT, UM, AND I HAD THAT A RESOLUTION ABOUT MAKING IT MORE AFFORDABLE FOR, FOR FAMILIES TO BE ABLE TO STAY IN PLACE AND, AND REMODEL AND ADD TO THEIR HOMES AND ADDING X, INCLUDING ADDING ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS.

AND RIGHT NOW IN OUR LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE AND OUR TRANSPORTATION CODE, UM, IF YOU ADD AN ACCESSORY THAT YOU, THAT YOU WERE EITHER REQUIRED TO PAY A SIDEWALK FEE OR BUILD A SIDEWALK.

UM, AND SO THAT BEEN, UM, IS THAT, WHICH I ALWAYS THOUGHT WAS NOT FAIR FOR HOMEOWNERS WHO SOMETIMES THEY'RE NOT, THEY'RE NOT EVEN GOING TO RENT THEIR ADU OUT, THEY'RE GOING

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AND SO, UM, IS THAT BEING ADDRESSED IN THE CHANGES? LEANNE, DO YOU WANT TO SPEAK TO THAT? SURE.

MERE PRETEND THE W THE CONCEPT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT OF ADDING AN ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT OR ADDING ON TO AN EXISTING HOME, UM, IS ADDRESSED IN THE ORDINANCE, UM, IN 25, SIX, SIX, SIX, SEVEN C OF THE CODE ORDINANCE.

UM, WE SPECIFICALLY CALL OUT DEVELOPMENT THAT DOES NOT INCREASE NET NEW TRIPS BY, UM, 10:00 PM PEAK HOUR TRIPS.

I KNOW IT'S VERY, UM, TRANSPORTATION, ENGINEERING SPEAK.

UM, BUT, BUT THAT WAS TO CAPTURE THOSE, UM, MAHLER INFILL IMPROVEMENTS THAT, UM, EXISTING HOMEOWNERS ARE MAKING.

UM, WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE ARE NOT DISINCENTIVIZED, UM, YEAH, THIS FEE.

AND SO THAT FEE WOULD ESSENTIALLY BE WAIVED.

IT WOULD BE A HUNDRED PERCENT REDUCTION FOR THOSE TYPES OF, UM, CHANGES, BUT IS THAT SOMETHING THEY WOULD HAVE TO SEEK LIKE A VARIANCE OR THAT WOULD JUST, THEY JUST WOULDN'T BE REQUIRED TO IT WOULDN'T LEAVE A REQUIREMENT OF THEIR DEVELOPMENT.

IT WOULDN'T BE A REQUIREMENT OF THEIR DEVELOPMENT.

I BELIEVE THEY WOULD HAVE TO REQUEST TO THE, THE REDUCTION.

UM, BUT THE, THE LANGUAGE CLEARLY SAYS THAT THEY WOULD RECEIVE A ONE-TIME A HUNDRED PERCENT REDUCTION.

SO THEY WOULD SHOW THAT THEY AREN'T CREASING INCREASING TRIPS BY THAT MANY THAT'S AN EASY CALCULATION, UM, THAT THERE WILL BE A WORKSHEET THAT THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO, UM, USE TO DO THAT, UM, AND SHOW THAT THEY'RE NOT, UM, INCREASING I'M MORE THAN THAT.

UM, THANK YOU.

UM, I'LL JUST ADD TO THE DISCUSSION THAT THERE'S SO MANY MOVING PARTS TO, TO HOW IT'S SERVING THESE.

AND I KNOW IT'S INCREDIBLY HARD TO GET PERFECT FORMULA THAT, THAT EVERYONE THAT EVERYONE IS HAPPY WITH, I, I WOULD WANT TO CAUTION US FROM COMPARING OURSELVES TO OTHER COMMUNITIES NOBODY'S SEEING THE GROWTH LIKE WE'RE SEEING HERE IN AUSTIN.

I MEAN, WHEN, IF FOR THOSE OF US WHO CERTAINLY BELIEVE WE'RE IN A HOUSING CRISIS AND THAT CAUGHT SUPPLY AND DEMAND IS AN ACTUAL THING.

AND, UM, UM, IT'S NOT THE SAME IN OTHER COMMUNITIES.

AND SO I'M ALWAYS, YOU KNOW, COMPARING OURSELVES TO OTHER CITIES LIKE DALLAS.

I DON'T THINK THEY'RE SEEING THE GROWTH THAT WE'RE SEEING HERE.

I, I DON'T, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEIR HOUSING MARKET LOOKS LIKE, AND I, AND AT THE SAME TIME, I, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A CONSISTENT VOTE ON, ON ADDING MORE HOUSING.

BUT, UM, THIS, THIS I'VE ALWAYS HAD AN ISSUE WHEN WE HEAR, IF YOU ADD MORE, IT'S GONNA, I'M GONNA PASS IT ON TO THE HOMEOWNER BECAUSE IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE PASSED ON TO THE HOMEOWNER.

UM, AND, AND I JUST FEEL LIKE IF WE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE IN THIS PLACE THAT WE HAVE SO MANY CRISIS IS GOING ON RIGHT NOW, INCLUDING A HOUSING CRISIS.

AND IF WE ARE, WANT TO BE BIG ENOUGH TO, YOU KNOW, RE-IMAGINE PUBLIC SAFETY, I WOULD JUST ASK OUR DEVELOPERS TO RE-IMAGINE THEIR MATRIXES AND THEIR CAPITAL STACK.

AND, YOU KNOW, AND, AND MAYBE WE CAN FIND A WAY TO WORK WITH MUNICIPALITIES AND UNDERSTAND THE, THE INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT, UM, REQUESTS THAT WE GET AND, AND, AND COMMUNITIES NOT HAVING SIDEWALKS AND, AND WANTING EVERYONE TO PAY, YOU KNOW, TO REALLY PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE.

AND SO THAT'S WHERE WE'RE AT, WHERE I AM ON THIS.

UM, I DON'T KNOW IF IT WILL COME BACK IN TIME FOR ME TO CHIME IN MORE.

UM, BUT AGAIN, I DO, I DO APPRECIATE THAT THE COMMENT THAT THESE AREN'T NEW, UM, FEES, THESE WERE FEES THAT PEOPLE WERE PAYING ANYWAY.

AND IN FACT, I, I APPRECIATE THAT WE ARE, YOU KNOW, THE WAY THE CODE IS WRITTEN RIGHT NOW, HOMEOWNERS EXISTING HOMEOWNERS WERE HAVING TO PAY FOR A SIDEWALK IN OF THEIR HOME SIMPLY FOR A REMODEL OR, AND THOSE THINGS REALLY NEEDED, NEEDED TO BE FIXED.

AND SO I'M, I'M GRATEFUL THAT THOSE FIXES ARE IN THERE, BUT, UM, IT LOOKS LIKE I DON'T SEE ANY OTHER HANDS RAISED, SO I WILL ENTERTAIN.

I DON'T THINK THERE'S BEEN A MOTION FOR EITHER ONE OF THESE, BUT ACTUALLY THERE WAS A MOTION IN THE VERY BEGINNING.

SO THERE'S BEEN A MOTION.

AND A SECOND ON FIRST READING, THE PUBLIC HEARING WILL REMAIN OPEN.

THIS MAY COME BACK IN DECEMBER, BUT STAFF WILL LET US KNOW WHEN IT WILL COME BACK.

ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF 73 AND 74, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.

AND I SEE COUNCIL WROTE TABO.

UH, EVERYBODY HAS THEIR HANDS UP.

UH, SO THAT'S A 10 IN FAVOR AND, UH, MAYOR ADLER, UM, OUT TODAY.

THANK YOU STAFF AGAIN FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK ON THIS.

WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING SECOND RATING.

THANK YOU, MAYOR PRO TEM AND COUNCIL.

WE APPRECIATE IT.

UM, WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TILL CITIZENS COMMUNICATION.

IF, IF STAFF SEES OTHERWISE, PLEASE SIGNAL TO ME.

AND SO LET'S GO AHEAD AND RECESS

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FOR SEVEN MINUTES.

PLEASE BE BACK AT, AT NOON FOR CITIZEN COMMUNICATION.

WE HAVE A QUORUM, UH, FOR CITIZENS COMMUNICATION AS THE CLERK READY? YES.

AT 1206,

[Public Comment]

FIRST SPEAKER IS SARAH BLACK, AUSTIN CITY COUNCIL AND FELLOW AUSTINITES I'M SARAH BLACK, LONG TIME RESIDENT OF AUSTIN, TEXAS.

THAT'S MY US AIR FORCE FATHER REPORTED TO BERKS FROM IN 1970.

UM, THERE'S A PROBLEM IN AUSTIN.

APD IS IN CONTROL OF THE VIDEO AND AUDIO EVIDENCE OF INTERACTIONS, INCLUDING THE ONES INVOLVING RACIAL BIAS.

THEY SAID, I'VE DONE SOMETHING BAD, BUT THAT'S NOT TRUE.

THE TRUTH POINTS TO CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS.

I'VE INCLUDED A COPY OF A 2005 POLICE REPORT.

THAT CLEARLY WAS CLEARLY FALSIFIED.

APD MADE IT SEEM AS IF THERE WAS NO CRIME.

THAT INTERACTION IS WHERE I REALIZED THAT, UM, THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG AT APD CHANGES WERE MADE TO GET THE REAL CRIMINAL OFF.

THEY TOLD HIM HOW TO EVICT ME AND WHEN THE OFFICERS DIDN'T HELP ME, I STARTED CALLING FRIENDS TO RE AND THE, THE REPORT SHOWS THAT THE OFFICER LOOKED LIKE THEY RIDICULED ME BECAUSE MY FRIENDS DIDN'T SEEM TO BE HELPING ME.

AND THAT'S OF COURSE WHY I WANT TO BE FUNDED BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT, THEY WEREN'T DOING THEIR JOB AT THAT TIME.

SO FAST FORWARD 2020, THIS IS STILL HAPPENING.

WHY IS IT STILL HAPPENING? UM, SO IN JANUARY I WAS KIDNAPPED, UM, AND ABD COVERED IT UP.

THEY INVERTED THE CRIME.

SO I WAS KIDNAPPED AGAIN, UM, AFTER ALL THESE MONTHS.

SO THAT HAPPENED IN JANUARY.

THIS IS NOVEMBER.

UM, I STILL HAVEN'T BEEN GIVEN THE NINE 11 CALLS OR THE DASH CAM.

UM, IT'S UNDER LOCK AND KEY AT APD.

AFTER SEVERAL MONTHS, I FINALLY GOT THE POLICE REPORT.

UM, TWO ZERO DASH ONE, ONE THREE EIGHT, SIX.

IT SHOWS THAT A DETECTIVE BUSTED CHANGED MY KIDNAPPING TO DISTURBANCE WHERE I'M THE SUSPECT.

HE CLOSED MY CASE AND ORDERED NOBODY TO INVESTIGATE FROM MY REGION.

AND IT TURNS OUT THAT THEY WANTED TO ARREST ME AFTER I WAS KIDNAPPED.

THAT WOULD BE ANOTHER MUCH OUT OF A BLACK PERSON ON THE NEWS ENFORCED THE APD NARRATIVES THAT BLACKS ARE THE CRIMINAL.

UM, I WAS KIDNAPPED EACH TIME BY CAPITOL METRO DRIVER, A WHITE VAN, UM, WHO WAS DECIDED WHERE HE THOUGHT I SHOULD BE GETTING OFF THE BUS AND NOT WHERE I WANTED TO GET OFF CALLED KIDNAPPING.

UM, CAPITOL METRO DID SEND ME A LIST OF PEOPLE THAT WORKED FOR THEM AND WOW.

IT INCLUDED ORIGINAL.

BOSTIK THE DETECTIVE.

AND ALSO SERGEANT DAVID DANIELS, WHO, UM, WAS, IS OVER ABD PUBLIC INFORMATION.

SO THAT LOOKS LIKE THERE'S A CRIME GOING ON THERE.

AND UNFORTUNATELY WITH APD CONTROLS, THE, THE, UM, NINE ONE, ONE CALLS HAS CONTROL OF THAT.

AND THE DASH CAM AND THE BODY CAM, THEN IT'S HARD FOR ME TO BUILD THE CASE, SHOWING THAT I AM INNOCENT OF THIS CRIME.

I BELIEVE THAT THE CITY SHOULD MAKE IT EASIER FOR RESIDENTS TO OBTAIN THESE RECORDS HELD BY THE AUSTIN POLICE DEPARTMENT.

SO WE HAVE A BETTER SAFER CITY OF KIM CASSIDY ALWAYS TALKS ABOUT TO THE MEDIA ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF NINE ONE, ONE CALLS AND VIDEO EVIDENCE.

AND POLICE TALK A FREQUENTLY ASKED FOR PERS PERSON TO PROVIDE AUDIO AND VIDEO EVIDENCE.

SO I'VE BEEN STONEWALLED, PLEASE HELP ME.

AND ALL THE OTHER RESIDENTS ARE IN THE THINGS THAT ARE IN THE SAME SITUATION.

AND AT THE SAME TIME BE PLANNING THIS MAJOR EXPANSION OF THE AIRPORT.

UM, CITY MANAGER.

CAN WE JUST MAKE SURE SOMEBODY REACHES OUT TO MS. FLACK, THOSE ARE SOME SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS AND JUST WANT TO FOLLOW UP IF POSSIBLE.

WE'LL DO SUSAN PANTO.

THE CITY IS PLANNING A MAJOR EXPANSION OF THE AIRPORT INITIALLY DOUBLING IN SIZE AND IN THE LONGER TERM, MORE THAN QUADRUPLY QUADRUPLING IN SIZE.

UM, THE CLIMATE CHANGE EMISSIONS FROM THIS AIRPORT EXPANSION ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THE CLIMATE PLAN THAT THE COUNCIL IS GOING TO REVIEW LATER THIS MONTH.

AND SO I'M ASKING THAT YOU HAVE A PUBLIC MEETING TO DISCUSS THE CLIMATE CHANGE EMISSIONS, UH, FROM THE, FROM THE AIRPORT EXPANSION SO THAT THE PUBLIC CAN HAVE SOME INPUT ON THIS ISSUE.

I DON'T THINK IT'S CONSISTENT FOR THE COUNCIL FOR THE CITY TO HAVE A NET ZERO CLIMATE CHANGE EMISSION GOAL BY 2040.

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I UNDERSTAND THAT THE AIRPORT EXPANSION GOAL IS FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, BUT I THINK THAT IN RECENT YEARS, THE COUNCIL HAS MOVED AWAY FROM THAT AS A PRIMARY GOAL AND HAS, HAS FOCUSED MORE ON EQUITY AND AFFORDABILITY.

AND I THINK THE AIRPORT EXPANSION HAS SOME EQUITY ISSUES.

ONE OF THEM BEING THAT THE PEOPLE WHO FLY ARE MOSTLY A WEALTHIER PEOPLE, ANOTHER ISSUE IS THAT THE FLY OVER ZONE LIMITS THE ABILITY OF TO BUILD HOUSING LIMITS AREA FOR HOUSING.

AND ANOTHER ISSUE IS THAT IF WE BRING IN NEW BUSINESSES WITH HIRING COME EMPLOYEES THAT TENDS TO DRIVE UP HOUSES, UH, HOUSING COSTS AND REDUCE SUPPORTABILITY.

THE CITY OF AUSTIN HAS BEEN A LEADER IN CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUES.

WE'VE BEEN A LEADER IN REDUCING FOSSIL FUELS FOR ELECTRICITY.

WE'VE BEEN A LEADER IN, UM, BUILDING ENERGY REJECTION.

AND SO I REALLY THINK WE CAN BE A LEADER IN THIS, IN THIS AREA OF REALLY RECONSIDERING WHETHER AIRPORT EXPANSION IS THE BEST IDEA.

AND I KNOW THAT, UH, PRESIDENT LIKE BIDEN IS PLANNING TO FOCUS ON EXPANDING RAIL THROUGHOUT THE, THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.

SO I'M NOT ASKING YOU TO REVISE THE CLIMATE PLAN, AND I'M NOT ASKING YOU TO STOP THE AIRPORT EXPANSION.

ALL THAT I'M ASKING FOR IS THAT WE HAVE A, A COMMUNITY DISCUSSION, A PUBLIC MEETING ABOUT THIS SO THAT WE CAN, UM, DISCUSS IT, BRING IT OUT IN THE OPEN AND HAVE A, UH, PUBLIC INPUT.

CLOSING THESE FACILITIES, ALL WE'RE DOING IS PUSHING PEOPLE TO, UH, PARTICIPATE IN ACTIVITIES LIKE EXERCISE ACTIVITIES THAT THEY WOULDN'T TRADITIONALLY LIKE WALKING ON THE TRAIL OR GOING, UM, JUST OUTSIDE OF THE CLOSE TENNIS COURTS, BUT PLAY ON ONES THAT ARE OPEN PUSHING TRAFFIC TO A VERY COUNTERINTUITIVE RESULT.

THANK YOU, ADAM LACER.

HI, MY NAME IS ADAM LACER AND I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT IMMUNO HEALTH AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO EXERCISE.

FIRST, I WANTED TO READ THE FIRST CONCLUSION FROM A REPORT PUBLISHED IN THE JOURNAL OF SPORT AND HEALTH SCIENCE TITLED THE COMPELLING LINK BETWEEN PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND THE BODY'S DEFENSE SYSTEM.

THEIR FIRST CONCLUSION FROM THIS STUDY IS THAT, IS THAT ACUTE EXERCISE IS NOW VIEWED AS AN IMPORTANT IMMUNE SYSTEM.

HAVE YOU BEEN TO STIMULATE THE ONGOING EXCHANGE OF DISTINCT AND HIGHLY ACTIVE IMMUNE CELL BETWEEN THE CIRCULATION AND TISSUES WITHIN YOUR DAILY EXERCISE? THESE ACUTE CHANGES OPERATE THROUGH A SUMMATION OF THREATS TO ENHANCE IMMUNE DEFENSE ACTIVITY AND METABOLIC HEALTH.

I'D BE HAPPY TO SHARE THIS REPORT WITH ANYONE THAT'S INTERESTED IN READING IT IN DEPTH, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO USE THIS CONCLUSION POINT TO RELATE TO THE CLOSURES THAT WE'VE EXPERIENCED IN THE CITY OF AUSTIN.

UM, SPECIFICALLY TO OUR TENNIS COURTS, I'VE SPOKEN WITH THREE, ONE, ONE I'VE SPOKEN WITH MY CITY COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVE, AND I'VE SPOKEN WITH THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE ASKING FOR AN EXPLANATION AS TO WHY WE'VE CLOSED THESE COURTS.

WHEN THERE'S LEGIT THERE'S LEGISLATION PUT OUT BY THE CITY OF AUSTIN SAYING THAT, UM, WITH LESS THAN 44 PEOPLE OR LESS ON THE COURT, WE ARE PROPERLY SOCIAL DISTANCE IN A NORMAL GAME OF TENNIS, MUCH MORE THAN SIX FEET OF SPACE.

UM, YOU BRING YOUR OWN RACKETS, YOU BRING YOUR OWN BALLS.

YOU DON'T EVEN NEED TO TOUCH THE HANDLE WHEN YOU WALK IN BECAUSE A LOT OF THEM HAVE BEEN REMOVED AT THIS POINT.

AND IF YOU DO VERY EASY TO USE YOUR SHIRT OR A CLOTH, BUT, UM, I BELIEVE THAT IT IS OUR GOVERNMENT'S RESPONSIBILITY AND SOLE ROLE TO PROTECT, UM, CITIZENS.

AND A MAJOR PART OF PROTECTING CITIZENS IS MAINTAINING THEIR HEALTH.

ADDITIONALLY, THE RESPONSE THAT I GOT FROM THREE ONE, ONE, MY CITY COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES AND THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE WAS THAT THE REASON WHY THESE TENNIS COURTS WERE CLOSED WAS TO SEND A MESSAGE TO THE PUBLIC THAT WE SHOULD NOT BE GOING OUT AND SPREADING CORONAVIRUS, WHICH I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND.

I AGREE WITH, BUT THE HAND IS DOING ONE THING AS THE MOUTH IS TELLING THE PEOPLE ONE OTHER THING IN MY EYES, BECAUSE ALL OF OUR CHILDREN HAVE BEEN SENT TO SCHOOL.

OUR BLUE AND OUR WHITE COLLAR WORKERS ARE SENT TO WORK.

ADDITIONALLY, OUR PAID AUSTIN TENNIS FACILITIES, THE ONES THAT YOU HAVE TO PAY AND RESERVE A COURT TO PLAY AT, THEY'RE STILL OPEN, UM, CASUAL TENNIS CENTER, THE SOUTH AUSTIN TENNIS CENTER, THE AUSTIN TENNIS CENTER.

I JUST GOT OFF THE PHONE WITH THE CASUAL TENNIS CENTER.

AND THEY TOLD ME THAT I COULD MAKE A RESERVATION WITH SIX PEOPLE.

UM, I CAN'T EVEN HAVE THAT MANY PEOPLE ON MOST OF THE AUSTIN TENNIS COURTS THAT I WANT TO PLAY AT.

UM, AND BY

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UM, WE'RE HAVING MORE PEOPLE ON THE WALKING TRAILS.

WE'RE HAVING MORE PEOPLE IN THE, UH, EXTERIORS TENNIS COURTS THAT ARE AVAILABLE.

AND REALLY ALL IT'S DOING IS PUTTING PEOPLE CLOSER TO EACH OTHER AND PREVENTING THEM FROM EXERCISING AND MAINTAINING, UH, MENTAL HEALTH.

THAT IS WELL UNDERSTOOD AS A VERY DEEP COMPONENT IN COMBATING CORONA VIRUS.

I WOULD LIKE TO, I'M SORRY, CAN YOU, CAN YOU WRAP UP, SIR? YEAH, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO ASK OUR PUBLIC REPRESENTATIVES, UM, WHY THEY'RE ALLOWING TENANT CENTERS TO STAY OPEN WHEN IT COSTS ME MONEY, BUT IF I WANT TO PLAY FOR FREE, I'M NOT ALLOWED TO DO THAT.

THE LAST SPEAKER IS JASON RYAN.

GOOD AFTERNOON TO EVERYBODY.

THAT'S LISTENING.

EVEN HERE AT CITY HALL, I'M HERE TODAY TO SPEAK ABOUT BREAKING THE LANGUAGE BARRIERS AND ITS CONSTITUENT AND OFFICIAL ENGAGEMENT.

THAT FOR EXAMPLE, UM, I'M GOING TO GIVE ONE ISSUE.

LIKE I'VE TRIED TO REACH OUT AT LEAST 30, 40 TIMES TO MY COUNCIL MEMBER, NO RESPONSE, NOT EVEN FROM HER STAFF.

I'VE TRIED TO REACH OUT TO OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS, EVEN MAYOR ADLER, NO RESPONSE, I'M NOBODY SPECIAL.

BUT AS A, AS AN OFFICIAL Y'ALL ARE PUBLIC SERVANTS, THEY ENGAGE IN THE MUSTARD AMONGST YOUR CONSTITUENTS.

FOR EXAMPLE, TONY DOES A SCAM, BISCO PROMPTLY RESPOND TO EMAILS, CORRESPONDS TO PHONE CALLS, ALL THE COMMISSIONERS DO.

AND THAT IS THE CHIEF OFFICER OF THE COUNTY.

ON TOP OF THAT.

NOW, IF THERE WAS MORE, THERE WAS BETTER TRANSPARENCY AND COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE CONSTITUENTS AND THE COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT I'M SEEING RIGHT HERE IN FRONT OF ME, THEN THERE MIGHT BE AN ALLEVIATION AND A RESOLUTION THAT THERE WOULDN'T BE SO MUCH ANGER ON THE STREETS AND ANGER FROM Y'ALL'S PEOPLE ON THE OUTSIDE.

I MEAN, I THINK Y'ALL ARE DOING A GREAT JOB.

I MEAN, I UNDERSTAND THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S CERTAIN PROTOCOLS AND POLICIES THAT GOTTA BE FOLLOWED, BUT MAYBE IF THEY WERE EXPLAINED TO THE PEOPLE AND THE CONSTITUENTS IN A CLEAR, CONCISE MANNER, THERE'S SOME PLAIN LANGUAGE, THEN MAYBE PEOPLE WOULD STOP RIDING OVER THE CITY OF AUSTIN CITY, COUNCIL, CITY, MID THE MAYOR IS DOING THIS AND DOING THAT.

THERE HAS TO BE A FINE POINT WHEN WE MEET IN THE MIDDLE, LIKE A MEDIATOR, YOU KNOW, CAUSE I MEAN, Y'ALL MAKE A LOT OF DECISIONS AND I'M GOING THROUGH, I'M GOING THROUGH THE WHOLE ENTIRE AGENDA RIGHT NOW.

AND I'M A PROPERTY TAX AGENT FOR 260 PROPERTIES.

AND ALL OF THIS LOOKS PRETTY DARN CONFUSING TO ME.

I'M NOT GOING TO LIE TO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S ONE THING I'M NOT, NOT A LIAR.

SO IT'S HARD FOR ME.

HOW MANY PEOPLE OUT THERE IS IT HARD FOR NOW? I'M GOING TO WRAP THIS UP AND SAY THAT I HAVE A RESOLUTION TO HOW WE CAN MEET IN THE MIDDLE WITH ALL THIS.

BUT IF Y'ALL CARE TO HEAR ME OUT, MY NUMBER IS (737) 465-7112.

AND I THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

THANK YOU, SIR.

I'LL CONCLUDE ALL THE SPEAKERS.

UM, SO ACCORDING TO MY NOTES HERE, I THINK ALL WE HAVE IS ZONING ITEMS AT TWO.

AND IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT ALL OF THEM ARE, UM, WE'LL EITHER GO ON CONSENT OR, UM, WE'LL, WE'LL BE POSTPONED.

UM, AND I ONLY, I'M ONLY ASKING THIS BECAUSE I'M TRYING TO DETERMINE IF I HAVE TIME TO GET HOME, TO DO A CHILD TRADE-OFF WITH MY HUSBAND WHO THEN HAS TO GO TO A WORK THING.

UM, IF WE THINK THERE'S GOING TO BE LENGTHY DISCUSSION THAT TOO, I NEED TO CHANGE LOCATIONS, BUT IF WE THINK IT'S GOING TO BE REALLY QUICK, UM, I CAN STAY HERE IN THE OFFICE.

SO I'M JUST, IT DOESN'T DOES ANYBODY THINK THEY WILL BE PULLING ANYTHING? AND OF COURSE YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR MIND AT TOO, OBVIOUSLY, BUT I WAS JUST CURIOUS IF ANYONE KNOWS IF THERE'LL BE PULLING ANYTHING OFF OF CONSENT.

TWO O'CLOCK I'M GOING TO RECONVENE OUR CITY COUNCIL MEETING.

SO, UM, THEN WE ARE IN RECESS TILL TWO O'CLOCK.

THERE IS NO EXECUTIVE SESSION TODAY.

SO WE ARE IN RACIST TILL TWO O'CLOCK YES,

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UH, THE ONLY THING WE HAVE LEFT ARE THE ZONING ITEMS. I BELIEVE MOST OF THEM ARE BEING EITHER POSTPONED OR WE'LL BE, WE'LL GO ON CONSENT.

UH, SO FIRST

[Zoning Consent Agenda]

THAT'S YOUR SPEAKERS? UM, OR JERRY, DO YOU WANT TO GO FIRST? I FORGET THE ORDER.

OH, IT'S UP TO YOU.

I THINK THE ONLY SPEAKERS WE HAVE SIGNED UP FOR A CASE THAT'S LIKELY TO BE POSTPONED.

UM, SO, UM, BUT MAYBE WE'LL RUN THROUGH IT AND, AND SEE IF THEY STILL WANT TO SPEAK AFTER, WALK THROUGH.

OKAY, GO AHEAD AND GO.

AND THEN WE'LL, WE'LL SEE IF ANY SPEAKERS WANT TO SPEAK.

10 TO DECEMBER 3RD, IS THAT WHAT YOU REQUESTED? YES.

UM, A NEW MAYOR, UH, AND COUNCIL MEMBERS FROM JERRY RESTAURANT WITH THE HOUSING AND PLANNING DEPARTMENT DOES ON THE AGENDA TODAY INCLUDES ITEMS 47, A C 14 2019 ZERO ONE ZERO EIGHT.

I CAN OFFER THIS CASE FOR CONSENT APPROVAL.

ON SECOND AND THIRD READING ITEM 48 IS KC 14, 2017, ZERO ONE 48.

I CAN ALSO ALSO OFFER THIS FOR CONSENT APPROVAL.

ON SECOND AND THIRD READING ITEM NUMBER 49 HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN BY THE APPLICANT AND NO ACTION IS REQUIRED.

ITEM NUMBER 15, CASEY EIGHT 14, 2018 ZERO ONE 21 HAS THE POSTPONEMENT REQUESTS BY THE STAFF TO DECEMBER 3RD, ITEM 51, CASEY 14, 2020 ZERO, ZERO 59.

I CAN OFFER THIS CASE FOR CONSENT APPROVAL ON ALL THREE READINGS.

I AM 52 IS CASE NPA 2020 ZERO ZERO 3.01.

THIS IS ALFRED FOR CONSENT APPROVAL ON ALL THREE READINGS ITEM 53 IS C 40 AND 2020 ZERO, ZERO 74.

ALSO OFFERED FOR CONSENT APPROVAL ON ALL THREE READINGS ITEM NUMBER 54 IS KC 14, 2020 ZERO ONE ZERO FIVE.

THIS IS THE STAFF POSTPONEMENT REQUESTED DECEMBER 3RD, ITEM 55 IS C 14, 2020 ZERO ONE ZERO SIX.

THIS IS ALSO A STAFF POSTPONEMENT TO DECEMBER 3RD AND A RELATED CASE TO THE OTHER.

TWO'S KC 14, 2020 ZERO ONE ZERO SEVEN, EIGHT AND 56.

THIS ALSO HAS A STAFF POSTPARTUM TO DECEMBER 3RD, ITEM 57.

THIS CASE C 14 2020 ZERO ZERO 99.

I CAN OFFER THIS FOR CONSENT APPROVAL ON ALL THREE READINGS ITEM 58 IS KC 14, 2020 ZERO, ZERO 93.

ALSO OFFERED FOR CONSENT APPROVAL ON ALL THREE READINGS.

I AM 59 IS MPA 2020 ZERO ZERO ONE 7.02.

I CAN OFFER THIS FOR CONSENT APPROVAL ON ALL THREE READINGS ITEM 60 IS KC 14, 2020 ZERO, ZERO 47 AND SENT APPROVAL ON ALL THREE READINGS ITEM 61 IS KC 14, 2020 ZEROS OR 96.

I CAN OFFER THIS FOR CONSENT APPROVAL.

ON FIRST READING ITEM NUMBER 62 HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN BY THE APPLICANT.

NO ACTION IS REQUIRED.

ITEM 63 IS K C 40 AND 2020 ZERO, ZERO 63.

UH, I BELIEVE COUNCIL MEMBER ALTER IS REQUESTING A POSTPONEMENT OF THIS CASE TO DECEMBER 10TH.

THAT MAYOR PRETEND IT'S THE ONE THAT THE SPEAKERS SIGNED UP FOR.

AND I'M 63 ITEM 64 IS K C 14, 2020 ZEROS OR 84.

I CAN OFFER FOR THIS FOR CONSENT APPROVAL.

ON SECOND, THIRD READINGS WITH A NOTATION THAT WE WILL BE REMOVING THE PROHIBITION OF DAYCARE SERVICES.

ITEM 65 IS CASE C 14 H 2020 ZERO ZERO 87.

THIS SAYS THE POSTPARTUM REQUEST BY THE STAFF TO DECEMBER 10TH.

AND FINALLY I AM 66, THIS CASE C 14, 2020 ZERO ZERO 55.

I CAN OFFER THIS FOR CONSENT APPROVAL ON SECOND AND THIRD READINGS AND THAT'S DOES ANYBODY WANT TO PULL ANY OF THE ITEMS OFF THE CONSENT AGENDA? NOT SEE IT ANY, ANY HANDS? UM, OH, OKAY.

I JUST WANT TO, UH, PULL ITEM 58 FOR DISCUSSION RIGHT NOW.

IT WON'T BE LONG.

I JUST WANT TO, UH, I KNOW THAT THE APPLICANT AND THE TEAM HAD ASKED FOR A TWO WEEKS DELAY AND THEN I DIDN'T HAVE ANY PROBLEMS WITH IT.

SO IT JUST, I MEAN, WE'RE LIKE 99.9% AGREED THAT WE JUST NEED JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME TO MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, DO YOUR PART, UH, THERE, THE DONATION OF THAT, THE PARKS FOR THE PARKS THAT THEY'RE GOING TO MAKE OUTSIDE OF THE PARKLAND DEDICATION, AND ALSO WANT TO HAVE A DIRECTION SET UP THAT WHATEVER MONEY THEY GET OUT OF THAT ALSO GOES TO THE PARK AS MUCH AS THEY COULD SPEND LEGALLY.

AND, AND, UH, SO WE'RE JUST, WE'RE JUST VERY CLOSE TO AN AGREEMENT THAT THE NEIGHBORHOOD'S SECOND LETTER SAYING THAT THEY SUPPORT THE PROJECT.

WE'RE JUST THAT CLOSE TO, SO I'M JUST ASKING FOR POSTPONEMENT AND THEY BOTH AGREED, BUT THE CONTACT TEAM IS ASKING FOR THAT.

SO CUSTOMER POSTPONE ITEM 58,

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PO CAN WE KEEP IT ON CONSENT, UM, WITH THE NOTATION THAT IT'S BEING POSTPONED? YES.

SO THAT MEANS EVERYTHING IS ON CONSENT OR BEING, UH, WELL AS, AS RED AND BYE BYE JERRY.

THIS IS JEANETTE.

CAN WE CONFIRM ON ITEM 61 THAT THE PUBLIC HEARING IS CLOSED SINCE ITS APPROVAL ON FIRST READING ONLY? I DON'T THINK WE CAN CLOSE KARIN'S ANYMORE.

CAN WE, EVEN IF WE SAY SO, WELL, YOU CAN CLOSE THE OFFICIAL PUBLIC HEARING.

PEOPLE CAN STILL SPEAK, BUT IT'S IMPORTANT THAT AT SOME POINT WE CLOSE THE OFFICIAL REQUIRED STATUTORY PUBLIC HEARING.

UM, THAT WAS 60, 61 61.

PUBLIC HEARING, COUNSELOR.

IS THERE ANY OPPOSITION TO CLOSING THE PUBLIC HEARING ON ITEM 61? ALL RIGHT.

TONGAL ARE YOU TRYING TO SAY SOMETHING? UM, I JUST WANT IT TO REGISTER MY HEAD EXTENSION AT THE APPROPRIATE TIME ON ITEM 47 DAYS.

UM, SO 61, THE, THE, UM, PUBLIC HEARING IS CLOSED, UM, UNDERTONE EMOTION, CA CATHY, AND THEN I'LL, I'LL, I'LL RECOGNIZE YOU.

AND THEN I'LL SEE IF ANY SPEAKERS WANT TO SPEAK.

IS THERE A MOTION TO PASS THE CONSENT AGENDA, COUNSELOR POOL, MIXED EMOTION, COUNSELOR, KITCHEN SECONDS.

UH, COUNSELOR.

TOBO DO YOU WANT TO GO AHEAD AND SPEAK? I REGISTER MY OBSESSION ON ITEM NUMBER 47, PLEASE.

COUNCIL MEMBER OF FUNDING AGAIN.

WELL, I'LL STAY AS A YES.

ON ITEM 53.

ALTHOUGH I AM CONCERNED ABOUT WHY WE ARE RESTRICTING COUNSELING SERVICES IN THE CEO, THE OTHER RESTRICTIONS SEEM MORE LIKE WORK DIRECTING FOR A BAD CODE, BUT THAT'S WHEN SERVICES SOME SECOND APPROPRIATE USE.

AND THEN IF ANYONE ELSE WANTS TO JOIN ME ON THAT, THAT'S FINE, BUT I'M HAPPY TO LEAVE IT WITH CONSENT.

UM, ARE THERE ANY SPEAKERS ON THE CONSENT AGENDA? UM, THERE ARE NO SPEAKERS.

THEY DECIDED NOT TO SPEAK.

ALL RIGHT.

UH, SO NO SPEAKERS, NO.

ANY DISCUSSION ON ANY THAT CONSENT ITEMS ASIDE FROM THOSE NOTED? UM, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE ZONING CONSENTED, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.

UH, I THINK EVERYBODY A YES.

GETSMARTER TAVO DID YOU WANT TO? YES.

ALL THE ITEMS OTHER THAN THE ONE.