 I'm going to call the board of finance, the order at 5.08 p.m. She just can't, it's not a trouble. Okay. First item on the agenda is the agenda. I'm going to call the board of finance, the order at 5.08 p.m. That brings us to the public forum. Is there any member of the board of finance? Do you see and raise GP casino? Go ahead. We should be able to talk to you. Can you guys hear me again now? Yes. Okay. So I'm JP casino. I own North star sports with my family at 100 main street in Burlington. I under the, you know, the guidance of cheap and Spencer thought it would be best to speak today here instead of the city council or just to make it a little bit easier to talk. And that was about the great streets beats, you know, main street redo for parking. So I'm going to talk to you guys about that. And how I wanted to recommend. Waiting on a decision to change the layout of the streets for the parking primarily because I don't think we have not received any, you know, calls. Stop advise visits, like from anyone saying, you know, Hey, this is what's happening. How's it going to affect your business? And we unfortunately are, we sell bikes. And it's not something that's simple to, you know, put in a bag, walk five blocks and drop off. What, you know, we have our people that come out, need us for help to unload a bike, load it back up. You know, bikes can be, you know, 60 pounds if it's an e-bike. And they have special wraps on them, which would mainly stick out more, which require more space. So I'm a little concerned how quickly and without much notice from anybody, or at least to any of the businesses that the city has decided to make a permanent change to the layout for the streets for parking. And I would love to get first them to meet with us. And other businesses to say, Hey, this is what's going on. And to see what, you know, how it's going to affect us. That is honestly, that's my main concern right now is. The parking and just honestly, the lack of clarification from anybody. About eating or changes that's been going on. I only found out about this just randomly through it. You know, a message group. And that's all I had found out about it. So I kind of just want a little bit more. Help from the city to navigate this and just to let them know, like, Hey, Parking for my customers is a big thing because it is a heavy item. We've been around for 30 years. So I'm just going to make it quick for you folks, but I would say if you can wait, talk to us. Give us some explanations where the parking is going to get lost. If it is going to get lost, that would be a big thing for us so that we can feel better about, can you continue to grow our community of bike years and just our business as well. Thank you. Thank you. We also received an email from you. Yeah. No, I appreciate it. Great. Also, we have an attendance. Sandy. Somebody is keeping madly out there. I don't know if I know that too much, but this is dragging with us. It's not necessarily that. It's a. Oh, see what I'm saying. Thank you for that. I also have a comment on the. The main tree project, which I think is a very exciting opportunity obviously for the city. And I understand the urgency of the funding. And some of the benefits. That are, I think, transformative potentially for the city. Absolutely. And I'm particularly. Excited about the opportunity to. Make some significant headway of the storm water. Control as we're having more intense. Shorter rainfalls that make it very hard to manage the. The. Impact on our sewer treatment plan. And our wastewater. So. A lot of positives. To get to the issue. One thing is going to happen today. Is that there's, it's likely that the amendment. There's an amendment to this. Proposal. This is going to include some. Some shared youth path all the way down. I believe. Six blocks instead of five. And. At the city council meeting. And the impact. And I think that's a good idea. I think it was a little bit of any consistency. Why are we doing, and there was private property. And there was business. And they didn't want to take that land. So I think the intention is good. But I think they're going to eliminate some further parking. And without that change. The six blocks. We're going to lose 67. Spots. And I think that. What I'm interested in. And the reason I'm here at the city council meeting. I'm interested in. I think that. What I'm interested in. And the reason I'm here in finance is because. You want business to succeed. We're part of the picture. And after all the federal money is coming gone. Which we're all benefiting from. And very happy about. But. Some point the rest of us going to have to perform. And continue to. Generate sales tax. And make this place a terrific place to visit. And be. So my, my, my request. And the recommendation is that. We. Ask the city. Well, my goal first is. I think the city and the private sector should work together. To come up with some. Parking options. That. That don't that accommodate. Some people. And it might be two to four blocks. From where people are used to park. They're not going to park. Right outside my front door necessarily. They're not going to do that. And it's not going to be available. But are we going to communicate through excellent signage. Digital communication. And planned. And plan strategies. And we're going to find something. And if I see a really good direction. And I take a right. And I find a place. It looks like this town wants me to be here. And if it's clean. Well, then. And safe. I'm good. And I'm not sure if we have the clear way finding. Or the other characteristics of our parking. I think that's a very consistent basis. So there is in the proposal. Some money for some. Parking study. I believe is going to be in there. And I think that's a. Good start. I'm not interested in the study on a shelf. And I'd like to see a commitment that. The private public sector. Come up with some options. It's not going to be easy for people. Which is right outside my door. But is solid accommodations. From the new parent. That brought somebody to. The UVM or sake mics. Or Champagne. The people that are just visiting the people that are. Used to shopping downtown. Used to getting services. Getting the nails done. The hairdo. This is not going to be easy for people. 67 spots and six boxes. I'm not sure where to go. So that's my request, my encourage. And I know we did this on North Moosky Avenue, do we not? We made some moves for the bike path and then we discovered that the workers at the health center were using a lot of the spaces and then we're like, oh my goodness, we have no spots. Let's be proactive. And let's not be afraid to get us to show some commitment, spend a little money and do some planning and get the public working to think of the private sector working with the city to get the stuff. Great, thank you very much, Sandy and T.P. This isn't really set up, it's like a back and forth. There will be a presentation from Public Works at the home meeting tonight. And I think it will be sticking with the process issues and that idea such as the ones that are raised. And just for those of us who don't know, Andy, can you say who you are? Sandy Miller, I'm one of the owners of the Ski Rack. Great, thank you. Thank you, Jessica. I should have, we don't have public forum comment here for our finance staff, I didn't have my protocols down. All right, so I'm gonna, if there's no one else online or in person we're gonna close the public forum and we'll move to the consent agenda, which is welcome, motion to adopt consent agenda and take the actions that we can. So moved. Thank you, Councilor Hightower. Seconded by Councilor McKee, discussion. Seeing none, we will go to vote. All those who are motion to please say aye. All right. Aye. President Paul, are there any opposed? Motion carries. Are you able to hear me now? We are able to hear you, yes. Okay, great, thank you. You're bringing us clearly. Yep, yep. Okay. We have trouble with applications. The next item, we have two budget items. 4.02 is the tax rate discussion. People, Councilor, if you haven't seen it yet, you did get a communication from us earlier today about you meeting next week for 4.01 or 4.01, please, if I did, I'll start with the question next week. She's going to let us know what effects I might have to be able to join us. 4.02 is the tax rate discussion and the CAO, Catherine Shep's tonight. Yes, thank you, Mayor. In the interest of time, I will keep it brief. If you are interested, there is a quick PowerPoint online, but this is one of the more important and exciting, even though it's taxes part of my job. We talk about the tax rate, which shows up at the bottom here. This is the rate people will be familiar with. A municipal rate last year was just over 67 cents. But as you can see here, it's really made up of these 14 individual rates. And so we'll just go through them very quickly and then see if you have questions. An important component of this worksheet is the value of our grand list that is up here. You can see the value last year was just over 53 million. Now it's 56. And that is because we were conservative last year. We were thinking that we would have to give away more in, why can't I think of the word? When we can. Appeals, thank you. I'm reminded of appeals. Yes, thank you, Mayor. So that has come up about $3 million and we're at 56.3 at this point. So the first two ratings people probably know about, the general city rate and the public safety or police and fire rate. These are what we call revenue neutral rates. And we say that because last year's rate was 19.52 for general city. And so is this year's rate. It's generating a little more income for us because of this grand list issue I talked about. This next group, this rate packed by voters. These are various taxes. I just, I will, I'm concerned people I think at that point I just wanted to make sure. I'm not saying that the revenue neutral, the big revenue to neutral point is going from FY 21 to FY 22, where we did the reappraisal, the grand list went up dramatically, of course because of the reappraisal, but you can see the general city rate, the rate changed dramatically but we basically reduced the rate dramatically. So that there was very little, other than very little change in revenue flowing to the city. FY 22 to FY 23, there is some real growth in the grand list which does generate some additional revenue. That is not, that is development related, new construction related. That does create some increase in revenue but the revenue neutral is marked largely just FY 21 to FY 22. And the reason there's a big jump in police of fire is you will recall that was the tax increase specifically for police of fire for the additional ambulance. That's a perfect point. Thank you. Yes, of course. That's a very important point. Thank you. This next category, rates packed by voters are things by and large that were put into place by various city council resolutions along the way for as you can see here, specific purposes. We have a resolution for parks and then we have one for penny for parks. We have library money, housing trust, I won't go through them all but those of you who were paying attention last year know that in FY 22, we held those rates down because we were still in the midst of COVID and because of the reappraisal, we knew that homeowners and property taxpayers were feeling the effects of that. And so it meant that BPRW and others had less money going to some of those dedicated funds. And so we said last year, we would do everything we could to restore those monies up to their caps this year and that is what you will see in FY 23. Those monies are at the caps allowed by those various resolutions. Then the last category are rates over which it's just the budget is what the budget is. GMT in the county, we have very little control over and then retirement and debt service kind of are what they are and those also get added here when those all get added up. You can see we are proposing a tax rate that would go from about 67 cents to just over 70 cents. So it is a slight tax increase and that comes from the fact that even though no tax increase passed again, it's these rates capped by voters floating up. We don't have exact numbers on the education tax rate yet. As you know, this is just one component of the property taxes, those will be going down to the point of which people should property taxes will see their overall property tax rate go down, but I don't know exactly how much. With that, I'm happy to take questions and I know the payers as well. Thank you, Catherine. The floor is open for any council questions about the current estimated tax rates. Great, no questions on that. Our no questions will close this section and final budget reviewed for the night is also CAO office item which is going to be this, the health retirement workers' comp insurance lines for the budget, which are always interesting and significant lines. So I have three different funds that I'm going to cover. I think I can get to all about 10 minutes of retirement. I'm going to give you five minutes when we get health insurance to read, I'm going to give the insurance of it. So the one I'm presenting here or I'm going to cover is what you've already approved to approve the retirement and health expenditures in the individual budgets. The budgets were built that we're collecting X amount of money from our employees and it summits us to get money from our taxpayers. So I'll start out with the retirement fund, which is fund 125 at a very, very high level. The retirement budget is $22.3 billion. So it's substantial in nature. The largest expense for the retirement fund is actually coming, what's called the monthly burn. What am I paying my retirees on an annual basis? That's approximately $20 million. In addition to that, we have return of contributions that could range from a half a million to three quarters of a million dollars. The retirement department consists of a one half time FTD, that's it. They were going to be in looking to bring on one full FTD in-house to provide the level of service that's needed. The amount of individuals that the retirement fund provides support to it's larger than any other department in the entire city. It basically provides support to all active employees, all invested employees, and all retirees. And that's 2,300 people. And that's three times the size of our general fund. What you've seen from CDO Schard's presentation, you would know that the dedicated tax for retirement actually dropped by 66 and 2 thirds of a penny, so to say, three quarters of a penny. So that is actually good news to the taxpayers. How did that happen? I'm pleased to state that the retirement fund had its highest return on investment in its history last year. It was 31% phenomenal year. And that basically has driven a dedicated tax down. It also has resulted in our employees paying less that's coming out of the paycheck of this year, 23.5, about three quarters of a penny. One more thing that's worth noting, our investment portfolio, and it's not the end of presentation, but it went from 200 million to 250 million dollars a month. So it was a ban again. So that's 5125. You can see that it's self-balancing. My revenue streams are coming from my employees to departments in our tax base. And they get it self-balancing, period. Any questions on the retirement fund? Good morning. Yes, good morning. When you say now, how pleased would you say this? Nathalie, how pleased would you say this? Yes, so basically that's another piece that a lot of people are unaware of that. The retirement fund basically provides support to the Burlington School District for all non-teachers, administrative staff. So again, that's just another subsection. The amount of Burlington School District individuals that we provide support to is actually equivalent of the Burlington Electric Department. So we're talking about 100 employees are part of that plan. So the school district will benefit as well. The individuals that get paycheck still notice there is a slight reduction in what's being taken from their paycheck for such a service. What is the relationship with the enterprise for companies specific to our understanding of the question? We have employees going to the airport. Yes. And I'm going to talk about that. Yes. What is their relationship with this type? Do they contribute to that space? They're in the front. They do contribute as well. However, the dedicated tax that is paid does not come from the Burlington Electric Department or the resources airport. Their revenue streams pay for the cost of such plan and the dedicated tax that you pay for is only for the general fund. Does not include the school district and all enterprise funds. Thank you very much. Yes. Sorry, I've got a slightly more basic question, which it would be hard to answer and I hope it's quick, but how would it? So when we have like a big year like this, it sounds like, you know, the things go down. How do we balance that with bad years? Is there so much care we have or is it all? So one thing that I didn't mention is that we're required that on our earnings that there's actually we use this called a smoothing method. So the gains that we experienced in fiscal year 2021 was just a foundation of what we used to build a budget fiscal point, right? Basically, there is at least $10 million in gains that we got this year that is going to spread over the next five years. So the beauty is, even though we're having a challenging year for returns, our returns get a date of 7.3% as a loss, you know, the good news is we're sitting on about $10 million. So that's going to result in taking a little bit of the sting of what we're going to see in the future. The other piece that I've noticed is that because of the design of the administration on the retirement plan, it's actually resulting in substantial dividends. So for example, I've seen years when we have zero gains, we're at a great even on the investment portfolio, yet there's little to no change in the amount that our taxpayers pay or our employees. So if we have a good year and we're doing double digit returns or slightly less than 10, what I'm seeing is that the, what's called ADAC, the contributions that are required based on the actual report and basically are in this award point to help you with this. The mayor will get this question, I think, but generally it's in the 70 percentile. Our funded liability. Funded liability is very attractive. It's in the 70 percentile, long-term goals to try to get that to 80 percent. But that's just showing that the retirement plan is very helpful. And one last question on that. What is our spending period? Is it five years? Five years, five years. We recently reduced that smoothing cycle from seven to five. We have also reduced what's called an actuarial assumption for investor returns from 7.5 percentage of 10 basis point, 10 basis point per year and adults to get that to 7 percent so that our funded liability that was showing it's very nice. We'll do the next one. Okay. All right. Please. Thank you. Yeah. So this is three minutes. So self-insurance, fund 150, it says self-insurance because it was self-insured but really it's just a budget for a health and dental expenditures. That budget is $15 million a year. The claims that I'm budgeting for this year is $13.1 million, half a million dollars a dental. Again, that particular department or that particular fund, there are no employees that are in that fund. It's primarily managed by Catherine, our HR director myself on the finance side. And again, what I'm seeing is that the amount of money that our employees are paying this year is actually less than a prior year. So this is the first time in a decade that our employees are paying less for retirement health in one year. It's never happened in a decade. That's just a positive trend that I am seeing any questions on this slide very much. Last one is our insurance fund. This particular fund has one employee that works in it. They have a safety manager, name is Nicole Blow, that individual wants to keep its function. And it's recently retired and will be replaced shortly. I didn't know about that person. Yes. That's new to me, but I built the budget for Nicole. Yes. Fund 175. Again, it's $4.7 million. It is really growing down to two components. One is basic insurance. The other's work is comp. Work is comp is about $2.5 million. Our work is comp has been driven or it's gone up as a direct result of our actual wages that we're budgeting. The only other piece that's worth mentioning, it's very important that the what a finance and city council are well aware of this fact. Fund 175, which is the insurance fund. And Fund 150, which is the health and dental. In the event that they go over budget, it has a direct impact on the general funds on a sign fund balance. So it's really important that we watch this to manage it. We just break up these funds for ease of tracking, but in the consolidated, audited, financial support, those funds are wrapped in, along with the general fund, the determined overall profit development. So we have to be very aggressive and oversight the management of both of those funds. Questions? Thank you, Rick. I'm gonna close the sand unless there are any questions. Great, we will now move to 5.01, which is a council initiative, funds break through the wood from Bartheece Jericho. Let me get on to the local families. Is there a council that wants to speak to this as coming up? It is coming from a councillor's house or stand in this year. A council member of Bartheece. Oh, great, okay. Yeah, good. I can't check. Yeah. We're going to have to use a $1,000 of property from the city, but I don't think we're good to move on to the second piece. I think we're good to move on to the second piece. Great, let's just finish this. Great, is there a second for that motion? Second. Great. Second for President Paul. Discussion, if they would like to say anything more about this. Okay, we'll go to a vote. All those in favor, or emotionally say aye. Aye. Any comments? Carries unanimously. And just a thank you to the committee and Councilor Chenow, bring that forward. Bring, this brings us to 5.02, authorization to execute a contract for a Dewey Park project with Humanity Memorial Inc. and transfer funds to the public arts capital budget for this application. Bring in for being here. Anything else? Well, why don't you give a quick update on this part, it's been a while, so let's switch to that discussion, I think. Steve. What's this? Project, a Dewey Park project that PCA and RAV have been working with for almost a year. And we worked together to execute an artist's call that was not nationwide in the Dewey or about to five. And of that five, it got to the Humanity Memorial who is built up a contract with us. We weren't able to execute that contract this fiscal year and $165,000 was allocated for this one-time project, which we want to get approved, a BA from the REID's general fund to the public art capital fund so that it can be executed for next year and also to approve the contract with Humanity Memorial and have the PCA execute that. So those are our two requests. Sarah, Cass is also here with us. We have, Any questions for? I'm going to take the recommended action as it's supposed to work out. It's our second second by Councilor Jang. Discussion, that's right there. Just thank you to Sarah, especially for shuffling us through this process and I appreciate your leadership on that. I appreciate your excellent commentary as a panelist. I thought that Zariah could have had a, had another career as an art historian. First time I went to work with Sarah was when I was the airport commissioner. Yep, yep. Contest for the skylights that are still there. A long time ago. Any further discussion? So let me know about the location. I think she's the specific location of the school. Okay. This is Sarah can best answer this. The, what led to that? Can you repeat that? Oh, what led to the location? Yes. We did a three department tour of the old North Bend. Last summer, so it was Parks and Rec, Burlington City Arts and REIB staff looking at a number of different potential park locations in the old North end. And Dewey Park was ultimately selected for a number of reasons, but largely because it's in a very central location. It is right across from the Integrated Arts Academy, which was appreciated by lots of members of that group. And it seemed to be a project that, or a, it seemed to be a park where a public art project would really enhance the experience of the park, whereas some of the other parks we looked at already had been through other public processes or had other functions that may have not been as easy to integrate a public art piece into. So that was, those were the main reasons that, and the farmer's market was another reason too. We really liked the idea that it was already kind of a community centered space where the piece would experience a lot of engagement through the school and the other activities that were, that the space is used for. Okay, if there are no further questions, we will go to a vote. All those in favor of the motion, please say aye. All right. All right. Okay, post. Motion carries unanimously, and then we move up for the installation, Sarah. Which, Sarah, what should we, like starting next year with the installation, right? Yeah, so we would be, this is about a year long process. Actually, we would, once we execute this contract, we are gonna want to put it into play pretty quickly, thanks to the materials issues that everybody's facing. And so it's about one year from the date of signing the contract to the artist that fabrication and installation will take place. You can see there's also a beauty element that you'll be standing next year. Maybe before two years. Well, keep up the good work. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. The materials can't hear you, man. Yeah, I have a lot to ask, but we'll just wait. Yes, we will definitely plan an event to celebrate. Cool. Yeah. Very good. Thank you, Sarah. All right, thank you, Ben. Yeah, thanks. Thank you, everyone. Thank you so much. Thanks, guys. Thank you. Thank you, Chippen. Thank you. Thank you. I'm gonna, sorry, Chippen, if I get on. Great. It relates to the... Yes, and this is on the deliberative agenda for tonight. So we are happy to answer detailed questions. We have a very short presentation that answers some of the questions that you've heard tonight from my answers. And actually, have Olivia just give a quick synopsis of the action we're seeking the board of finance to recommend approval of the council. I'll keep it brief since I know we're running short on time. But obviously, in October 2021, we kicked off this project bringing our consultant on board, authorizing the start word for the outreach phase, potential design phase. Since then, we've performed various outreach to policies covered through various FBAs, most neighborhood meetings, business outreach meetings, data collection, conceptual design, as outlined in the conceptual scope of the project. As we approach a milestone tonight, as we'll be talking more about at the council, we're seeking authorization to increase our design budget and amend our contract with our consultant to optimize additional scope items, such as pulling additional project meetings, we needed to accommodate high level of coordination and our aggressive schedule, additional outreach work that needs to be administered to meet the needs of our public and business community. Additional data collection required to move into some of the next preliminary phases of engineering design, as well as additional work for the parking and intersection studies, which we'll be talking about in more detail tonight, which of course is designed to address the sort of concerns you've been hearing on our public forum tonight. So again, we're happy to take questions now or during public city council if that works better, as this agenda item will be on the city council as well. Thank you. I'd more like to proceed. Our solicitors. Happy to in the memo towards the end listed four areas that we are working through with this project, once the condition of the subterrain utilities and please let me know if it's better than I do. There's some contaminated soils work associated with a project, again, more of a preach. We've just been finding out more and more outreach throughout this project. So there's various like components that are so kind of like for man unknown state until we get further into the design right away. If you want to kind of find something the right way to say is that we need to require some different rates for potentially slow the product down. So we want to make sure we have that funding available as quickly as possible if we still want something like that. And those things can be can be extensive. Move to approve and to take the record. Second by Councilor McGee discussion. All those are there. And what should we say? Okay, close. Motion carries unanimously. Thank you. We'll see you tonight. Later on. See you later. We'll be there. It's not fine too. We'll be there. And whether you'd like to talk a couple of comments. End it over to you there. Sure. Thank you for having me. Good evening, everybody. What you have before you is a five year recommendation of award for contract for the July 3rd fireworks show, which is an annual celebration on the city's waterfront. Our recommendation is that we award the contract to a Vermont local company named North Star. There's some detail in the memo. This is a $40,000 per year contract. What we're seeking is approval for a $40,000 per year contract over the course of five years, which brings the grand total to $200,000. I'm happy to answer any questions that you might have or any specifics around the show. That's right. I assume we expect to be getting donations around the level that we have in there. Brett, can I know that all Palma Loaves have stepped up for the second year in a row with an additional 10,000, so they contribute $25,000 towards the show. When I first saw this, for a second I thought it was $200 per year and I almost... Okay, I don't know if I can answer that. There's quite a bit of a show. I think you'd end up with like a neck cramp because it won't do so long. But if there's another thing that I'm happy to do I think we're going to take it off, right? I think I'll try this. I'm sorry, Tara. I think that's Jay. For the discussion. I think like the final is going to be one aspect of the show. You'll see that there's all the ways that we can move on. Partly else, all the details around the show. When that comes out, I'll say, yeah, this contract is basically just for... Correct. Yeah, we have performers at Waterfront Park. They'll be vendors down on the waterfront. So is the question, when will... Okay, so the performers are... I guess we're going to have that in the budget. That's just part of our general fund budget. It's also part of the people who are by the vendors down at the Waterfront too. But there is a... But you're correct in that there's more than a $40,000 budget for the fireworks. I don't, unfortunately, have that total in my head. You're welcome. For the discussion. Certainly, I think it's exciting. Relation with North Star, that's outstanding job. Tom, second generation artists. Yeah, second generation too. I believe it's his father, originally, I think. Every year there's some innovation, so I guess that's pretty good. So I'm going to vote on all those if they're emotionally sad. All right, I'm going to close. She carries unanimously. Thank you very much. We're on five contract extensions for a wastewater testing program. We are looking for extension to this contract for primarily COVID testing in the wastewater. This contract has been in place since fall of 2020 and we're still continuing. The contract will cover, like I said, COVID testing, any variant testing that might come up along with flu and RSV. And we, at this point, we only need extension to the contract. We are still using the ARCA money that was approved last year. So it's not operating new funds just for the year for contract? Yeah, that's correct. In previous council authorizations, you've dedicated the funding and because of the city's receipt of two different grant funding sources, we've been able to pay for the vast majority of the program so far through those grant funds. So I think we've only paid one or two of our monthly invoices using ARCA. So we're anticipating to continue using the already allocated ARCA money. Can you advise some status of testing for other viruses or cold air? So we have been testing for flu and RSV throughout this winter. There has not been a ton of it found and we're gonna scale back that testing over the summer and then probably resume it every other week. And then we did conduct a pilot study to test for drugs, opioids and other substances over using spherical samples and the results were not very conclusive. Our vendor is currently attempting to develop some better methodologies and depending on the results of that, we would test for the second half of the year. Again, thank you. I certainly support this extension still where the future has had respect to COVID. This capacity, especially with the phase now of the state free testing study, it's less peaceful necessarily. Testing data, we want to stay at home, test it, it's been important to ask for that. So we'll get us another year. This gets us to the end of this year. End of 2022. The calendar year. Yes. Okay, okay. Floor's open for the council. All right, thank you. Do we expect to be able to plan for the state-of-the-art program or are we pretty sure that it's going to be our approach to that? That's a great question. The grant funding that we were using before was the local government expense reimbursement grant, which I think we've exhausted. And there was another coronavirus emergency supplemental funding program grant. I'm not sure what the status of that is. So at least through this six month extension, we are anticipating just using PARPA, but the team, Kara, Alma Suarez team, has been really great in helping us identify other funding sources we could use first before spending PARPA money. So if anything else comes up, we will certainly take advantage of it. That's a great question. Councilor Dianna, I think it's worth all sorts of budget passing. There's a bunch. Almost every department, agency or state has new programs, which is a question that the Department of Health does appreciate this data as well. Let's hear it fast, please. Further discussion? I'm back, we're actually just reminded from Councilor Dianna this week about the capacity, so we'll put that in the screen, but it's starting to gear up. That's some capacity now, so more of these there. All right, we'll move on. All those in favor of motion, please say aye. Sorry. Let's go here. Oh, sorry. Let's see that. I hope we'd be glad to take the recommendation of the action of the box. Okay. All those in favor of motion, please say aye. All right. The opposed, motion carries unanimously. I'm sorry, Chris, I thought we got to get you here. It's all right, I just don't want to, like, totally up just from the front. I said, why don't you move down? Yeah, it's all right. I can do that. Thank you. All right. 5.06, spot positions, you execute contract, for the best supply and installation of taxiway, even the marketing and production of our airport, this is my late-end services, LC, but it's going to be a fairly routine item, thank you. Great explanation says us all, it's a fairly routine. We have to do this as a required by FAA, and the price is right there, just over $100,000. All right, for motion, I'll accept. The function will be approved. Second by Chancellor Jenning, discussion. All those in favor, motion, please say aye. Aye. All right, opposed, motion carries unanimously. Princess 2.07, application S2A contract, for the preventive maintenance and servicing of passenger boarding bridges, and conveyor baggage handling system, and I actually have a couple of options left for us. All right, all right. Again, this is an extremely routine maintenance item for the airport. This is a highly recommended contract to help us with our preventive maintenance, jet bridges, and our bagels. Good discussion, motion, motion. Thank you, too, and I take the action as recommended by the panelists. Second by Councillor Jenning, discussion. All those in favor, motion, please say aye. All right, all right, opposed, motion carries unanimously. Princess 2.07, final item of the meeting, for board finance approval, or at least for the long contract for landscape improvements, budget mutual amendments, CFI 22, please. Go ahead, next. This is, yeah, this is a required item as part of our terminal integration project, the new portion of the terminal. This is the required South Rowington landscape portion that, of course, we can't fit it on the actual site of the terminal project, so this is going at the gateway of the airport, which is the intersection of Airport Drive and Williston Road. This is stonework, landscape work, and other items associated with that particular area. You're gonna see this come up eventually with time. Is this the actual contract that I'm working on? This is the answer. Correct, yeah, with the pooling program. Right, let's see what we call it. So we actually changed the airport's project right now. Essentially, it's just an effort to make it say SBTB, as I mentioned. Also, we had to initially take out the letters because they didn't consider this culture would go for a separate process for the site. So this is just the landscape. The site needs to go back before. It'll go back before the minute, it might come back before you as well. That is gonna be a separate concept, but we are working on that particular sign and sculpture in front of that gateway area. Sculpture would account towards landscape work, but signs don't. All right, we're ready for our motion here? Present moment. Thank you for making that motion. Take the action. So Councilor Hightower, discuss it. All those in favor of motion, please say aye. All right, we pose motion carries unanimously. We are adjourned without objection. Support of finance, it's at 6.03 PM. I'm going upstairs, staying on the same Zoom. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, so people who are on the Zoom, stay there and you will see the camera stay on the Zoom. Yes, stay on the Zoom. See you in a second. It's going to be really awesome.