 on Monday, May 16th. So I'm gonna call it to order this meeting of the Winnieski City Council. Please join us in the Pledge of Allegiance led by Deputy Mayor Jim Duncan. Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, one God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Next up is agenda review. Any questions about the agenda? Concerns? Nope. All right. We then have public comment. This is a chance for members of the public to speak to a topic not included on tonight's agenda. I see a hand raised. It's Ariya. Hi, hi. So I'm here for a couple of questions. Both are bike related. The first one, I'm just here again. I came several times last year to city council meetings and wondered when the bike lanes were going to be striped in the city. Currently, I'm a bike commuter and this is actually the carbon week for everyone to leave your vehicles home. And the bike lanes are still not striped in the city. Center Street in particular is very dangerous. It's a one way street. People are constantly in the bike lane and it's a dangerous situation. There are no bike lanes in the city right now that are actually visible. And here again in front of the council to request that the bike lanes be striped and that we start to, as a city, start thinking about taking alternate means of transportation seriously and one way to do that would be to get those bike lanes striped. So that's the first part of my public comment. The second part is I had reached out probably two or three years ago about the tables and chairs at Mandarin. The way that they're set up down there, it's not ADA accessible when they're set up on the sidewalk. And I had stopped and talked to the owner once and he said that the city allowed him to do that that way and also to put his sandwich board in the middle of the sidewalk. And I had reached out to Jessie when she was city manager and told me that everything was totally fine. I know that the ADA rules say that there has to be three feet and the way that the tables and chairs are set up down there with the light pole in the way, there is no three feet there. If I was to walk my bicycle as the sign suggests, I can't fit through the between the light pole and the tables and chairs that they have set up outside. A person in a wheelchair certainly couldn't get through that space, a parent with a stroller couldn't get through that space. So I'm here to ask if there's some kind of creative solution that the city and Mandarin owner could make about rearranging those tables. So that people with bicycles that are walking them, people with strollers, people in wheelchairs, people in walkers, whatever the situation can get through there. I would have come to the control meeting and spoken about this if I had been able to but I was in a place where I didn't have internet so I couldn't come to express those concerns at that time. Yeah, so John, do you wanna first respond on the bike lanes? Hi Terry, so regarding the bike lanes, we do have budget for FY23 for some of that paint striping. We are, I mean, it's still pretty early season for painting too. We're still doing a lot of the street sweeping operation so typically we don't paint until June, July. The other thing I wanted to mention was Eric or Planning and Zoning Director. He's procured a grant for a bike pad master plan for this year so that might be something you may be interested in. We expect to start on that probably in August so that's gonna drive a lot of where we place bike lanes around the city so it'll be good to get your feedback on that piece. Do you want me to talk about the tables? So for the tables, yeah, that's correct. It has to be 36 inches. What we can do is go out there and mark that clear space just so that somebody's not inadvertently pushing the tables or chairs within that clear space distance so that might just give a better visual. The issue, John, is the light pole. That there is three feet if you don't include that the light pole is there but there's no way to get around that light pole in between the tables so that's the problem. Okay. So in the election last year when Jesse looked into this is that the ADA compliance only requires one side of the, like both sidewalks don't have to meet that. I think it's something we can have staff look at again but I believe that was the issue last year that there wasn't actually something we could enforce in that situation. Well, on a day like today, if you were down there with one of your kids in a stroller, would you want to have to zigzag back and forth across the street in the pouring rain? I don't think so. And if you're in a wheelchair, I don't think so either. So I'm just, you know, I mean, I'm just asking if there's some kind of creative solution they can come up with over there. I think they probably can't. Right. So what I'm saying is I recall last year what the answer was but staff can look at this again, Terry. We will definitely, John, the paint was an issue too for the bike lanes. Is that available now? We're not sure. So last year with the COVID impacts it was really challenging to buy roadway paint. So that caused a lot of the issues last year because you'll notice even the crosswalks really didn't get painted and that's because we couldn't find paint. So we're starting to talk with vendors right now to see if we can see if the supply chain's back up and we can start ordering paint again. I thought that you said last year that it was going to be done this year which is why I'm back now asking when it's gonna be done. Yeah, that was the intent. Unfortunately, we couldn't get paint. That was the issue. But when I came back, I think I came back in September and you had said that it was in the budget for this year and that you had a contractor and it was gonna happen. I'm pretty sure that that was what you told me when I think I came at the end of September because originally you said it would be done by August and I waited and I came back and I believe that's what you told me. Yeah, and that's again, that was the issue. Like we had a contractor that did some of East Allen. We couldn't get him to do any more because of the paint supply issue. All right, well, I appreciate your help with that. I ask a question. I assume Mandarin, going back to Mandarin, I assume that was approved before I was on the council just double time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's have a last year. Yeah, so I know that one thing that came up this year is that we need people are going in the future gonna have people submit like a map of where they're going to put their tables and chairs. Could thinking about ADA accessibility be kind of part of that? So maybe even putting in the instructions, make sure there's at least three feet. Yeah, and just to follow. So that's one thing we on the public work side will review is making sure there is a three foot clear path through there. The challenge sometimes is for ensure it gets moved around and then we have to go enforce it, but it's a good point when these come to you all too. Like if there's a real pinch point, it's like maybe we block that whole space off. And we're like, you know what? We're not gonna enforce this area. You just have to keep it clear. So that's something we can look at as we do the permitting. Yeah, I think especially now that across the way we have grazers, which is also putting tables out, which wasn't the case last year too. And one thing of a bike pedestrian side of things. And you are Eric White, no, but I think I saw a call for comment from the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission, RPC, requesting comments on bike lane infrastructure. I can't pull up the link right now, but does that sound familiar? I saw something recently. Yeah. Yeah, so that's the active transportation plan. So that is a, they update that every five years. So I'm on that committee. I'm gonna have Paul do a push here to try to get some feedback from the public. Great, great. I did see that some folks had already posted markings on the map because they actually have a map where you can place arrows and add sections that need additional infrastructure improvements. So it'd be great to ensure that we advertise that for additional comment as well. Terry, is there anything else? That's all. Thank you. Appreciate it. Bruce, did you have public comment? Are you here for an item on the agenda? It's not basic. Okay, we'll wait till we get there. Yes. All right. So let's move on to our consent agenda. We have our minutes from May 9th. The council payable warrant for May 12th, subsequent to pay out for March and payroll warrant for April 17th, April 30th. And then there's also a sidewalk permit in here for hip nutrition. Are there any questions about these consent agenda items? I had a brief question with the hype nutrition. Is this retroactive? Jenny's on for that one, and it is not. Jenny, do you want to answer that? Jenny? Yes. Can you just, can you keep that? I was asking if the hype nutrition sidewalk permit is retroactive. No, they brought in that sidewalk application on Monday, last Monday. And I said it needed a policy and procedures that it needs to go before council because they wanted it for waking windows. And I said, I'm unable to get it on the agenda because you've already met. And I said on May 16th, I will bring this forward to have a seasonal sidewalk permit. If you approved it tonight, it will go into effect tomorrow. Okay, thank you. Any other questions on consent agenda? So I had that same question as Aurora, but I'm wondering in the future, if somebody puts in something that's more time sensitive like this, is there a way for us to be able to approve something before our next scheduled meeting? I would not call a special meeting for this kind of request, personally. I don't know if we have a process for a retroactive thing like that staff could approve first. I mean, an option would be when we do look at reconfiguring this permit is maybe some permits don't be a threshold and we can internally approve them. Like something that's a small sort of footage maybe it's a staff approval. Yeah, I would be a fan of a administrative process. Yeah, and I'm not saying we have to call a full meeting but if there's a way like, because it looked like it was just for waking windows on a small table, yeah, if there was a way that staff could do it and we could talk about it afterwards. Excellent. And since we were just talking about it, any ADA concerns? Seems like the sidewalk there is large enough that there shouldn't be any issues, but since we're talking, I might as well ask a question. We looked at this and looked at why not. Right. And follow up question on that. Have the lights on that side of the street been repaired? I hope so. Okay. We did have our electrical contractor go down recently and reviewed the lighting and some of the electrical lights specifically to the leading windows. Okay. So I'll go check. Okay, great. Any other questions about consent agenda items? Any questions for members of the public? Do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? So moved. Second. Motion by Bryn, second by Thomas. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Motion carries. Thank you. We are on to council reports. I'm gonna start at your end this week, Thomas. Thank you. So my committee did not meet. However, they did have waking windows and that was very successful. So thanks to all who took part in that and came out and also volunteered and helped. Heard from a few business owners who were just super thankful for all of the people that drove towards their business, even the ones that were further away from the circle. So that's all I have really. Thank you. So happy to report that the centennial tree is in the ground and it's still in the ground. So thank you to the reports, community services, counselors and other city staff and the Centennial Celebration Committee for making that happen. It was a great day, perfect weather for it and luckily the kids did a lot of the shoveling so they didn't go well covered a tree. And afterwards tree committee members did go to the Cassavand ash block where we've flagged many trees, many ash trees in that park that are at risk from emerald ash borer. And I encourage community members to go down between now and the end of the month to see what that forest would look like if most of those trees die. I think it's something that we should be thinking about as a community and being prepared for. So encourage folks to go out and check that out. And the only other thing I wanna say is welcome to Elaine. It's nice to see you here. Very excited to have you, Jim. And that's all I've got. Thank you. Oh, sorry, can I say one more thing? Yeah. The Housing Commission is having an off-cycle meeting on Thursday this week ahead of our policies and priorities sessions. That's, it's not usual timing for that commission but they will be meeting on Thursday at six for anyone who's interested. Thank you. In a similar vein, last week, Finance Commission and Planning Commission both met and Finance Commission reviewed master plan goals and priorities too for input for our session on Saturday. So Saturday, 9 30 AM at the senior center, I believe. We'll have our annual strategy strategy session. So the leadership team and city council meet, try to set priorities for the upcoming year. Open to the public. Anyone is welcome to attend. Planning Commission will be meeting again on May 26, having a public hearing to share draft updates in our zoning for incentivizing priority housing. Would invite members of the community to attend that as well. The Planning Commission would love to have more input from different members of the community on this topic. I wanna give thanks to our police department and also I believe the South Burlington department who helped in a months long investigation, if you saw the press release last week to get a lot of drugs off the street here in Manuski. I also last week met with some leadership from the Congolese community of Vermont, relatively new nonprofit organization that Congolese community members have formed to support one another. They are very interested in coordinating with us. So we'll be organizing some sort of future ongoing engagement with them. And last, we were reached out to by the, someone from the London School of Economics and Political Science doing a policy brief on how urban governance can address global emergencies. And so they were interested in our all resident voting initiative and any impact that may have had in the way that we have responded to COVID-19. So we shared information with them. I spoke with one of the policy writers last week and I believe when you see what we featured in that and so when that becomes made public, we'll share that out. That's it for me. Great. Sure. Also since the last council meeting, we had Greenup Day, it was the same day as the Centennial Tree planting. So I wanna thank everyone in the community that helped during that week as well as leading up to that date and after that date for collecting debris on the sides of the roads and just all of the great help with that. I believe some of the athletes from our new football club or local football club actually joined and saw them pull out quite a call from the railroad tracks. So it was nice to see their local participation as well. The Centennial Tree planting was a wonderful event. So many thanks to Councilor Duncan and to the Centennial Planning Commission for all their work on that. Our next infrastructure committee meeting is this Thursday. We will actually have it in person at the community room at the pool. So we're looking forward to being able to have a very first meeting since I've joined the council in person. We'll review strategies, priorities for prep for Saturday's council retreat and we will also have a guest speaker from Efficiency Vermont come and speak to us about their party communities efforts and supporting programs for that. And yeah, good to learn more about their programs and have a chance to ask questions. And I think that's it from my side of things. Let's see, so last week on May 10th, the Safe Healthy Connected People Commission met and similar to a lot of others, we're really looking at the priorities and strategies. So looking at the current draft and providing comments and feedback on that. There is also a beginning review of the equity audit and how that might inform the work of the commission going forward as well. So that was really great. Yaz came and spoke with the commission. Also wanted to say I went briefly to Waking Windows on Friday. I was really excited to see that it was completely sold out. There was just a really great sense that seemed like excitement and togetherness for being all back in person, but still seemed like a lot of great safety things were in place. So yeah, great work, everyone on that. Thank you to everyone working on that. Thank you all. So we'll move to city updates. Will you be delivering those Elaine or will John? We're gonna start with John. I have the list of your people, Elaine. Excellent. We are pretty excited about it. So we're happy to have her, obviously. Yeah, so from now on, you've got a new city updates person. But thank you for being here and yeah, we're excited to have her on board. Welcome Elaine Wong for your first city update. Thank you for pronouncing my name correctly. And thank you for the welcome. Thank you to John for putting on another hat interim city manager on top of the usual hat, which was more than a full-time job already. Appreciate that. So yes, my first ever city updates. Very excited to be doing this. So Waking Windows again echoing everyone on council, all staff who contributed yet to yet another successful Safe Waking Windows event. Thank you for that. Thanks also to St. Mike's Fire and Rescue. They helped out on both Friday evening and Saturday. It's definitely helpful to have that mutual aid support there. Apparently over 7,000, around 7,000 people visited Winooski over the weekend, which is very cool and glad to hear that there was some uptick in business activity as a result. The Centennial Birthday Party is Saturday, June 4th, 2022, from one to 4 p.m. at Rotary Park. It's free and open to everyone. Please do bring your families, friends, neighbors, for an all ages outdoor community, birthday party to celebrate Winooski's 100th municipal birthday. Food, drinks, music, kids activities, and more. And there's full details on the web at legacy.winooskivt.gov slash birthday. Community services updates. This week we welcome Robin Merritt as our new Recreation and Parks Manager. Very exciting. Robin brings a wealth of experience, positive energy, and knowledge of the Winooski community and we are thrilled to have her join our team. Welcome Robin. Community Services Director Ray Coffey donned another hat. He was appointed to a two year term on the Executive Board of the Vermont Recreation and Parks Association, which is great. There's great exchange of information at those associations. So happy to have him serving in that capacity, bringing his experience to it. Season passes for the pool are still for sale. Scholarships are still available. You can get yours today by going online or stopping by the Community Services Office at the O'Brien Center and get ready for another fantastic summer at the Myers Memorial Pool. Last Community Services update. We still have spaces available for Thrive summer camp running weekly from June 5th to August 19th. The program is free for all students in grades K through five in Winooski. But do sign up today because spots are filling up quickly. And finally, just to echo the public is welcome to the policies, priorities, strategies retreat, which is this Saturday. It's for the entire fiscal year of 2023. So July through June. And it is going to be at the senior center, which is on 123 Barlow Street, which is my lucky number. And it's from 930 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thank you. Thank you. So we'll move into our regular items. Item A is on for discussion or approval. Is the Chittin' and Solid Waste District FY23 budget? John, we have some guests from CSWD. Yes, Paul, could you pull over Sarah Reeves and Michelle Morris, please? Mila. And the person named Mila. Yeah, thank you. We... I got you covered, Sarah. Just give me one second. Yeah, thank you. Well, again, thank you for having me tonight. My name is Sarah Reeves. I'm being executive director for CSWD. And thank you very much. That's awesome. Since the chair here for me. So for those who may not be familiar with who we are, Chittin' and Solid Waste District is a municipality we were created in 1987 by our member communities to oversee and manage the waste generated in Chittin' County. And as mentioned, I'm here to present our fiscal 23 budget. And it is the requirement of our charter that our members approve our budget. So I often get the question, why are you here? I'd love to talk with you, but this is actually why I'm here. And I also like to remind folks who may not be familiar with CSWD, just how we are funded. So our revenue comes from three main sources. The first one is from user fees, which are the fees that we charge at our drop-off centers or at compost on material that is coming into our facilities that we manage. We also receive revenue from what's called a solid waste management fee. And that is a per ton fee that is charged on material that is sent to the landfill in Coventry. And that fee is paid by haulers. And then we receive revenue from material and product sales. So revenue from the sale of compost, the sale of paint and the sale of recycling. We are not funded by any income tax, sales tax, property taxes, or from any municipal assessment. You do not actually send your bill for our services. So I'm gonna start with the bottom line. And as a municipality, we also need to get to zero. So that's what you see here. We are anticipating revenues in the amount of just over $14 million. We subtract out our cost of goods, which are basically the paint buckets that we need to put our paint into. Some of the products that we put into compost to turn it into garden mitts. Subtracting that out, we are left with revenue of $13,859,528. We are budgeting expenses in the amount of $13,808,706. And that is the tightest margins that I've been here. And I've been here for about 60 years. I do believe we have some room on the revenue side and we'll explain that in a moment. After the capital contributions, the transfers to and from reserves, you can see that we do get down to zero, 13 minutes here. So start off with this always managed fee. We are not increasing the fee that we are charging to haulers for the trash being sent to Kevin Tree. It's been $27 a ton for about nine years. And we're anticipating a very, very modest increase in the amount of tons actually being sent to the landfill. And that's a good thing. So that means that some of the, I think the waste reduction and the habit changing has started probably around, I think the big contributing factor is when the final bid of Act 148 that organic spacecraft ban from the landfill kicked in July, 2020, we've seen a lot of people really embracing that, which is fantastic. And so we haven't seen the growth in trash being generated though. We have been seeing prior to that for this ban. So increasing a little bit, that's not surprising due to some population, small population growth into treatment can. Sorry again. On the materials recovery facility, again, we are holding the fee at $80 per ton. Our expenses are up significantly this year and that is due to two main factors. One is increase in the contract with our MRF operator and that contract expires in June and we are anticipating a fairly sizable increase in the processing cost per ton. And also we're experiencing increases in just the movement of materials. So pollen and trucking, just like everyone else has experienced and we are seeing that as well. So that is a significant increase in our expenses. We are looking at, again, strong materials, sales revenue. And this is where I think we can see some upward mobility. And we're budgeting $80 per ton for that commodity revenue, which is up significantly from previous years. And I do think we have room for growth there as well. So I would not be surprised if that average commodity revenue is in the $95 to $100 range, but we like to budget conservatively because we do not control the markets from where we control where we sell them, but not what they're charging with their willing to pay. So we are budgeting conservatively and anticipating an increase in that. Our organic storage and facility, our compost facility is the only facility that we are looking to increase these at. We're going up from $60 a ton to $65 per ton on inbound material. And so we're, you'll see that, are looking at anticipating a loss this year. We had not had losses for the past two years, but this year we are. And again, that is due to a decrease on the inbound material. So, which is directly related to opening their new de-packaging facility in Williston. They used to bring us about one-third of the total inbound food scraps. And then when they built that facility, they divided all those food scraps there. So we are slowly coming back from that initial loss and we are getting close to what we call our sweet spot, but we are about 25% below where we'd like to be. We'd like to be in the $5,000 to $6,000 range. And we do expect that we'll get there in the next two years, but that is leading into a little bit of a deficit, which will be covered by solid waste management revenue. Compost sales, which had boomed in 2020 and 2021 are expected to level back to pre-COVID levels. That is not an unexpected or unexpected. The drop-off centers, our revenue continues to be relatively flat. We are looking to again heavily subsidize this facility as well. And again, our expenses are up significantly mainly due to increases at the landfill. We're looking at about a 10 to 12% increase in our disposal fee of the transportation, as well as other materials movement and management fees going up. We are going to be looking at our fee structure for the drop-off centers. We have not done a total overhaul on the fee structure in many years, notwithstanding the COVID temporary pricing changes. So we'll be looking at this and analyzing this over the course of the next fiscal year. So there may be some structural changes in how we price items at the drop-off centers in fiscal 24. But for now, bag prices are remaining the same, actually all prices at the drop-off sectors are remaining as they were for fiscal 22. And this is just a quick review of subsidy amount by program. And you'll see that, for example, the environmental depot is the most heavily subsidized program and that is by design and that is the interest and treatment of our Board of Commissioners. They wanna make sure that people have every opportunity to dispose of their household hazardous waste at no cost to residents. So we do charge small fees for businesses, but we wanna keep those services at no cost to residents and that is why we have a subsidy for that program. The administrative programs, which is the administration, ONC stands for Outreach and Communication. That is a very large part of what we do. And so you can see that the drawdown or the requirement from the general fund is covered by the anticipated budget revenue from the salaries management fee. And the one thing that I really wanna point out here, this is just a quick comparison to fiscal 22, I actually wanna point you down to the very last bullet on the community cleanup fund. And that is money that we dedicate to each of our communities according to population for use every year. And we had implemented a basically a banking policy where you could bank up to five years of your community's contribution. Hey, if you want to kind of use it in one fell too. And our auditors said that we needed to actually be budgeting for that full liability, and if all of our member towns and cities were going to be using all of their funds, all of the three in there. So that's what we've done. And going forward, what we'd like to do is to just continue to fully fund that every single year as if it was five years in one fell swoop each year. So there'll be no more carrying over of that fund, but you'll be able to have access to the full, would be considered the full five year amount each year. So that means actually Winooski has $3,281.92 in your current fund right now, but on July 1, you'll have $5,000. So each year it's our intention that Winooski could have $5,000 to be able to four community cleanup fund projects. And we worked with RIN on those projects and we really wanna see more of that money out in the community doing good. So our capital plan, we've had a very heavy path couple of years and we're looking at another heavy three years and that went back to back. There will be a drawdown on reserves if the Merck project is not approved by voters in November and I'm gonna talk about that in one moment. Then we will need to dedicate about $2.5 million in building facility improvements and infrastructure improvements at the existing building. If the Merck is new project is approved, then that comes off that 3.9 million. But we are looking at major projects in the administrative building, milking drop-off center, site preparation for the new Merck and a complex square to help us with contamination issues that we're experiencing in our current project. So that's basically that in the project. So I mentioned a new Merck and I'm gonna talk at the council about this before. Our board of commissioners did approve the project to be presented to the voters of Chittenden County in November. And just as with the city, we do have to receive authorization from voters to enter into any long-term debt. So we are looking at a thoroughly modern facility, double the size of our current, I should say a size, not the class, I apologize, double the size of our current materials and current facilities still located in the town of Willifton. We work about 22 to $24 million project. And the key here that we definitely want voters to take away from and really feel good about is that we are not looking to assess our member municipalities for the debt service. We will be paying that debt service out of our revenue sources for the Merck, which again, our tip fees or user fees, we have commodity revenue. And if we have to do further in, we do have access to those dollars managed with the revenue to cover the operating costs, capital costs, and the debt service. We are also seeking funding from a variety of sources. So we are absolutely gonna go out to some of that federal infrastructure grant money. We are also going to be looking and applying for a zero interest for municipal loan and we're also going to be seeking non-profit grants. And then obviously funding. And I do like to remind our member communities that this is the debt. I'm wondering if you can ever forget, but I do remind you that we do require adoption. So I know sometimes we'll have a reading and then we'll vote on the next meeting, but we do require your adoption project. And I would love to answer any questions that you may have about the budget or about impressions you may have about CFWP. Thank you, Sarah. Brisa, anything you want to add? Sure. So I serve as the commissioner for Chidkins all these districts and have since 2017. And I just really want to emphasize the community cleanup fund. So it is something that I've been working on with Sarah and the staff. And I'm really very excited with the solution to come up with that allows us to receive our maximum amount of funding each year rather than just an additional thousand. So it will bring us up to the cap that we can, which will be 5,000 that we can use each year. And I think that is really nice to help cover agreed update costs as well as paid for contribution towards container grants that we've taken advantage of in the past and other special needs if there's any dumping that needs to be addressed or other special events, signage, things of that nature. So I'm very pleased that we've gotten to this point where we can have more flexibility with how we use those funds as well as a higher amount each year that we can draw from. I do want to mention the Murph, the material recovery facility. The Board of Commissioners has put in a great deal of work and hired outside consultants to help advise whether or not it's worth recommissioning the existing facility or to build new. And financially speaking, it really doesn't make sense to try and recommission any of the existing equipment. We've maximized and outgrown the space that we have so I do think that it will be in the best interest of a Chittin County and honestly the state since a greater portion of the state's not just Chittin County that uses this facility. And I certainly would love to see council advocate our legislators, both state and federal for funding. Unfortunately, the ARPA funds only are allotted to stormwater and wastewater projects and not to solve waste projects, which is really unfortunate. So I would advocate for council to write our legislators as well as the community, because that all contributes to public service as well. So I will leave it at that. Thank you. Well, kudos to you for your service reminding us about that community fund. And to CSWD for continuing to be self-sustaining. Sure, residents will be pleased that there's no increase in fees. And I feel like you guys have done pretty good about that over the years. Nothing too significant. Are there any questions from council? Any questions from members of the public? You can use the raise hand feature if you're attending virtually. Well, I'm not hearing any concerns. So we could approve this tonight. If someone wants to make a motion. I'll move that we approve the CSWD budget, wrap by 23. Second. Motion by Jim, second by Thomas. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Motion carries, budget approved. Thank you, Sarah. Thank you very much. I appreciate your time. And your team for joining as well. Thank you. Good night. Good night. Okay, next up on for approval item B. This is an event permit for the centennial birthday party. Beth is in the virtual wings. I don't see her there. But I can speak on her behalf. So yeah, so as discussed earlier, this is a bit of a cleanup item admittedly with Heather departing. We've had the event permit process which she had managed well through the cracks a bit. So this one was one that was discussed a while back and neglected against council. So we're here tonight seeking approval for the event on June 4th. And yeah, like Elaine's description earlier was pretty spot on in terms of what to expect. And I know a lot of counselors have been involved in the organizing. So hopefully not too, too many questions but happy to answer them if there are any. Thank you. Any questions council? Any questions from the public? Is it all set? So celebration for a hundred year, right? And I'm sorry, would you turn that voice up? Yep, yep. So it's a hundred year birthday party for the city. So the actual birthday was back in March but we figured getting together outside in March is not that fun. So we waited until June when it's a little warmer. So it's one to four on Saturday, June 4th. And all sorts of different things going on. We've got land acknowledgement with the Abnaki tribe, lots of celebrations, performances, speeches, et cetera, et cetera. So just a big, big ol' party and ready to park. So I was wondering, I mean is this two-day for like a one hour program? It is probably going to be a long one-day two-day. I think probably at this point because the Centennial Committee's been working on that agenda or that sort of plan for the day. So I'm thinking probably. I'll get you in touch with Amy after just to see but I'm guessing it's probably, I think the shift may have sailed at this point. Any other questions? Again raise hand and zoom if you're attending virtually. Okay, does anyone want to make a motion to approve the Centennial Birthday Party Event Permit? So moved. Second. Motion by Bryn, second by Aurora. All those in favor please say aye. Aye. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you. So we are on to item C. This is on for discussion approval. The Fight for Kids Foundation, a letter of support. So with us, we have King McMillan. Do you want to join us at the microphone? And then attending virtually. Paul, can you bring over Gita Seaton, please? And then if you want to come up to Bruce, you can join with another chair. And Bruce Wilson is here. Great, welcome Gita. Hi, I'm just going to keep myself muted if that's okay for the moment. So I'm going to loud tight. Okay, so Bruce Wilson, who we have worked with before, feel like everyone probably knows him already, connected me with King McMillan, a resident in Gita Seaton here, who are already working with Youth in Winooski and working on this Fight for Kids Foundation that aims to expand youth programming and build a new youth center. So they are seeking our approval to sign on to a letter of support, which they could use in applications for grant funding. And so I'll turn it over to you to introduce yourself and your foundation. Hi, my name is King McMillan and I'm the executive director for the Fight for Kids Foundation. Also I own King James Boxing and Fitness. But the Fight for Kids Foundation has been around since about 2009. Since that time, we've done like weekly classes for kids, empower them in a bunch of different fashions. We've done food programs where we give free breakfasts and stuff like that to kids all over Chittin' and County. But more recently we've been focusing on Winooski partly because I'm a resident of Winooski or have been for some time. And there's a lot of kids that come back in Winooski so small, so a lot of traffic comes by my place where we're training and there's so much, so many kids that they just, they gravitate toward what I'm doing. And the facility that we have right now is just limited with space. And when the Stephen Street location came up, I was like, oh man, this is perfect. So we locked on to that and now we're just seeking funding from other source like grants and we're doing fundraisers and such. And a lot of the grants are asking for community to seek with community support and we've done that through getting signatures from the residents in the area. And they also wanted something from the city itself. So that's basically where we're at right now. We also have, that's like the big, the grand pictures that get the youth center up and just the, it's not like the traditional youth center where the kids come in and there's like video games and like, you know, football or, you know, we're trying to get them away from devices. So we're doing things like, we're doing like martial arts and we're not just mean physically, it's like mentally, emotionally, we're trying to get them stronger mentally, emotionally and physically. Cause to help them be able to cope with daily stuff, you know. So there's some meditation going on. There's, you know, spaces there with like quiet spaces and there's spaces for them for them to do their, or will be spaces for them to do their work and stuff if they needed to do work. But it's just not like a place to where it's more about helping them find like the peace that's within themselves. Cause all of the, like chasing a new phone and a new clothes and that's, statistics show that that's not really what's going to make them happy. And we're trying to show them at an early age that the material things aren't the things that's going to make them happy. So if they have happiness within, then the other stuff is just like icing on the cake and give them the discipline to navigate the waters, to see the difference between, you know, as they say, like the real and what's real and what's fake. And so I was saying that the big project is the youth center. We have a smaller fundraising project that's going to be called Fit Fridays. We also need a letter of approval for this one as well. It's going to be a 45 minute fitness class open to the whole community, regardless of age, gender, whatever, disabilities. Like anybody could come as open to everybody. Like just as a caveat, like for example, I have clients that have like Alzheimer's. Like boxing is a great way to help people through Alzheimer's and stuff like that. But anyway, so this Fit Friday is going to be a 45 minute class and then afterwards we're going to do an outdoor movie event. Kind of like what they do, it been in Jerry's on Church Street, but we're going to do it here in Winooski and it's on private property, so we don't need permits. And we got permission from the landlord to use the space. It's a big green area. We're just going to be done before I need like the time for any sound ordinances or anything like that. And so it's going to be like movies like the karate, like karate kid, you know, Rocky, just stuff around fitness and or like the new, you know, you could do a bunch of karate kids, right? Cause they got the old one in the new one. But so it's stuff like that to bring the community together to bring the kids and have them doing something positive on a Friday evening. Thank you. Bruce or Gita, do you want to add anything? Oh yeah, something. So I've known about King Mac Miller for almost like 20 years, I guess, you know, and for all the years that I've known him, he's always been like this, you know, he's always been about the community, only about you, about fitness. And so finally I'm glad he's got to a point where he's doing what he's been doing, but he's looking grander. And I was asked on the board of directors, this one is just so you know that through the years, since 2003, I opened up every, I opened up youth centers to every mall, large mall in Vermont, called the Chill Out Center, the Living Room, Loft 89 in Fairhaven. And it had been very successful, you know, my programs are so wonderful and started to be incorporated as over 50 awards. So, you know, what he's doing, you know, and you know, we're gonna include some art music with what he's doing. And I think that what a win-win-win is gonna be for Newsy, could I let go of Newsy myself? And we just can't wait to get it going. And so I just hope he's already going. I'm just saying that we can't wait to, like, try that building now and build a new one, you know. So we just need your support on those letters, letters of support, and let us keep working. So we can continue to amend to the follow-up. So I think that's it, I've said it enough, yeah. Thank you. Hi, I also have something to add, if that's okay. I apologize, I have to read my car now. I just wanted to mention that we've actually been conditionally approved already for the Better Places and Fit Fridays. It's gonna be like a co-promotion of fundraising in conjunction with Better Places, Vermont. And part of the conditional approval is a letter signed by city council. So we just want you to know that we're like 90% of the way there already for that program. Awesome. Well- We don't want to forget that. We need to honor the mayor of some city chairs. Yeah. Right there, it says, I'm a new mayor. Well, I was really excited to, you know, to meet with you all and learn more about this and you know, hear about this like community ground-up effort to support youth in Manuski. I think now's a chance for if any counselors have questions and then we'll see if there's any questions from the community. We're gonna ask one more thing. Because you know, as you know, there is a lot of new Americans in like, like, in Manuski and who looks like us. And they trust us, you know what I mean? Because we look alike, you know, we look like them. And so we want them to be, everything that came in Manuski about fit, condition, a strong, we helped them, the statistics shows, but they helped them with school, learning so many different things in there. Plus, they feel like they are a part of something. A lot of the youth that look like us don't feel like they're a part of them. They don't go anywhere as a mistake. And so here it is, now they do, so I'm gonna sit. Thank you, Bruce. Any counsel for questions? No questions. I just, I really liked when you spoke about the youth center and you said that it wasn't gonna be a place of screens. I think when you think of a youth center, you think of like Old Nintendo 64, like in the corner. So it was really great to hear your vision of what a youth center is. I really appreciated you bringing that up and thank you for everything you're doing. Any questions? I'm truly just really excited to support this, so. Thank you for bringing the programming to Anoushi. I think my one question is actually more for Christine. I see we have a letter on here specifically for the Fit Fridays. Would there be additional letters for support for other grants? Yeah, could we maybe vote on a general approval for me to sign support letters for them for other specific grants? Yeah, good catch. Any, are there any questions from the public? If you wanna use the raise hand feature of the chat. Okay, so hearing no concerns, I am looking for a motion to authorize the mayor to sign this letter of support and future letters of support for the Fight for Kids Foundation. Someone. Second. Motion by Thomas. Second by Aurora. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Motion carries. Thank you very much. Thank you Vito, King, and Bruce. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. All right, feel free to slip out at your convenience or keep watching in the meeting. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. All right, so we are on to item D, Chittenden Regional Planning Commission Committee appointments. John. Great, thanks. So this is a request for three committee appointments. So two of them are staff reappointments, the Transportation Advisory Committee and the Clean Water Advisory Committee at down here at the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission. The board of representatives is typically a non-staff rep. So Michael Bryan and Abby Blything graciously agreed to be reappointed for two years. So they've done an excellent job advocating for us. And so this is an ask to reappoint all those positions. Thanks, yeah. And Michael Bryan and Abby Blything, our chair and vice chair of our planning commission as well. So any questions, concerns? Just grateful for their service. Any questions from members of the public? Okay, hearing no concerns, would someone like to approve the Chittenden Regional Planning Commission Committee appointments? I'll make that motion. Second. Motion by Jim, second by Brynn. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Motion carries. Thank you. So now we are on to item E. This is on for discussion. It is a Juneteenth holiday recognition. Oh, and we'll be welcoming our new HR director, Jesse Acree. I don't actually know if that's the right way to say your last name. Jesse. Oh, you know, it's Acree. Four letters, it's pretty simple. Welcome. Thank you. Thanks for having me. It's nice to see all the counselors and meet everyone. I want to keep it pretty simple, pretty brief, because I know we're kind of packed on the agenda, but Juneteenth, it honors the end of slavery in the United States and is considered the longest running African-American holiday. That being said, on June 17th of last year, it officially became a federal holiday. And in accordance with the federal government, we are proposing to include Juneteenth on our list of fatalities. Thank you. Do you or Angela, maybe you want to walk through the process of, because we're going to have to revisit this twice, right? Yeah, I can. Or John, thank you. Angela's here, she can chime in very much. I'm happy to. So any amendment to city policy at the council level does require you to have two meetings. So the first one's just discussion, you won't approve this until your next meeting. What other questions did you have? Should we approve this, we will then need to bump our June 20th council meeting because that is the city holiday then that day, which presumably we moved to Tuesday the 21st. That's usually what we do after the Monday holidays, but so yeah, let's open it up to questions. What will this look like navigating our union agreements? I can't speak 100% for them, but since the proposal is to add a holiday, not exchange a holiday, I don't think that we'll have any opposition from the unions. What do you think, Jesse? I really don't think we're gonna face what's opposition from FIP or from anybody like that. Okay. I have a question, it isn't stated or maybe I'm missing it. So will the holiday always be recognized on Monday or will it be like day of or the closest, the day closest? Like so this year it's falling on the weekend, so it'll be the Monday afterwards, but moving forward is, will it be recognized on the official day or will it be like a Monday holiday, I guess is what I'm trying to ask. So I believe that Juneteenth would be recognized the same way we recognize Veterans Day when it is a specific dated holiday, it would fall on the holiday. Should the holiday fall on the weekend, those staff that work weekends would recognize it on the day. But if it falls on a Saturday for Monday or Friday staff, it's recognized on Friday. If it falls on a Sunday, Monday or Friday staff, it's recognized on the Monday. Jesse and I have talked about updating the holiday section of our policy to be a little more flexible since the city staffing structure has changed. It isn't really a Monday to Friday non-union staff anymore, we have a lot of different types of schedules. And I believe the language we're proposing is that you take the day off either immediately proceeding or immediately following the holiday. That's correct. Okay, great, that was my question. Any other questions? All right, so we'll see this again on our next meeting, I imagine? Yes. Yeah, no real questions or concerns I'm hearing, so. That was more of an open to discussion right now if there was any other questions. And before we go to the unions, making sure that this was something council was okay with us approaching them with. Yes. Could this even be something for the consent agenda if there aren't any, I don't know? I think we have to vote. I'll talk to staff about it later, process. There's also potentially, in addition to this general policy change, MOUs to go with it from the unions which you haven't seen yet. Gotcha. So yeah, I think it sounds like we're generally on board. All right. Thank you. So we will move on to item F. This is on for discussion approval. The multilingual ARPA survey is Paul introducing this. Good evening, mayoring councillors. Thanks so much for considering this item tonight. Before you, it's outlining a potential schedule for the multilingual outreach portion of the ARPA survey. Our equity director, Yasmin Gordon is here. We can also help answer any questions you might have. We're basically just looking for general approval of the schedule and we're asking you all to pick a session to attend. I just want to take a quick moment and thank our library director, Nate Eddy for allowing us to potentially use the space at the library during their off hours on the weekends. It's going to be very helpful as outlined in the memo. And we're really looking forward to working with the multilingual liaisons. We're here to answer any questions you may have. Excited to work with our esteemed liaisons and have these conversations. I think before we start divvying updates, are there any process questions from council? Oh, questions from members of the public. I see, oh, yeah, I see just your head raised, sorry. Yeah, I just wanted to be clear to folks that while we are with the multilingual liaisons to get this off and running, should any of them not actually be able to attend or be able to participate, we're going to contract with AELD. So if there are any questions, we're both community partners to make sure that we have the availability for all the languages to be represented. Awesome, I'm glad there's a back-up point. Thank you. Yes. One question, sorry. Is there going to be somewhat of like a standard talking points that'll come out of this as well, but just looking at each of the counselors providing education to attendees about the ARPA program and to survey, I just want to make sure that since not all of us will be there at all meetings, we can have consistent communication. Yep. I don't know if that's planned already into this, but if not, it'd be great to have like even just bullets that we can refer to so that we're being consistent. I'd be very happy to help you put that together, no problem. Thanks, Paul. Any other questions? As far as timing is, will it, the memo just says after 2 p.m., what's the time? You know, we- Window. Yeah, what's the time window? And I guess is that kind of just pending being able to schedule the translation services? Yeah, that's a great question. I generally assume between an hour and two hours, but I think what's gonna really dictate that is participation, right? You know, as these things go, if conversations are really going well and people are very engaged, you may find yourself there for longer than intended, but I would assume, you know, no longer than two hours. Yeah, Jim and I did a round of similar sessions two years ago. They were about two hours on average. So we can assume two to four p.m., I guess? Yeah, that's what we're waiting for. But maybe like, you should be open one to five just in case if you're gonna volunteer for a day. Yeah. Any other questions? That's what, I'm not even sure. I know that with the online survey, there's this ability to be anonymous. And I'm, yes, I'm just wondering, it doesn't seem like that's necessarily possible with these meetings, but it sounds like with the hard copies being given out, that folks could still be anonymous. That's exactly right. Is that, oh, I'm sorry, go ahead. Oh no, I think we'll start talking about that. I mean, if folks show up, they can absolutely have to identify themselves and let folks know who they're names are and that names can be recorded in any data that's taken. So, you know, even though folks are in person, the data that's taken. That makes sense, thank you. You guys wanna start volunteering for dates? I know I can't do the 11th, so I can do the other. I can take the 11th and the 25th. I can only do the 11th or the 18th. I can't do the latter two dates. I can take the 25th. I can take the 18th. Is anyone available July 2nd? Yes. Excellent. And I could potentially take another day too, except for the 11th. Sounds like that's covered. Okay. I will follow up the email to walk that down, but I'm glad that we're able to, we've got at least one person for each of these. Yeah, it would be great if you are interested and have the time for you to attend more than one, even if there is more than one of you, or already one of you covering. Yeah, and one could take the lead, the other could listen as well. Yeah, I'm happy to do more than one. I just can't do July 2nd, but I could do the other three. Awesome. So, with that recommendation, it sounds like Paul should have worn it as a public meeting. It depends on if there's obviously three or more of you. I think you could. If you clip it to two, you wouldn't need to. Yeah. Well, we will coordinate on that. Okay. And then no surprise show-ups. What's a drop in? Is there any feedback that would be helpful for staff from us on this? I think you've provided this evening has been great. Thanks so much for your time of consideration, as always. Thank you for organizing. It's on for approval. So, does someone want to make a motion to approve the multilingual survey, ARPA survey? So moved. Second. Motion by Aurora, second by Jim. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Motion carries. Thank you. We now have item G on for discussion approval. Lee Winooski follows East Design. We have some guests. So I'll do some quick table setting. Paul, can you bring over Bill and the Cat and Doug, please? And then I'll hand it over to those two. So you all may remember, some of you may remember, back in June 2020, we went through this process where we brought forward the proposed design for the lot 7D improvements where we looked at some renderings and some landscape plans and site plans because under our unified land use development regs, city council approves design within the downtown core district. That district is covered by a downtown, Winooski downtown master plan, which I included, there's a link in the packet, which kind of covers the general guidelines for design in that district. It's also obviously it's covered under Act 250 permitting requirements and our local zoning permitting requirements. Since 2020, some things have changed. COVID has impacted some things. So this design has changed obviously as well. So as you know, the previous iteration included, VIC is potential tenant that has now changed. The design has changed a bit even with the hotel and I'd say improved. So we wanted to bring that back to you all to review for potential design approval. So with that, I think I'll hand it over to either Doug or Bill to kind of talk through the design. Sure, I can start and Bill can continue. First off, I just want to say we continue to be focused on bringing a hotel to downtown Winooski. Our team has been really working very hard and John's been, I have to say, it's been a great help over the last couple of months. So I want to thank John. And so what's driving our redesign of the hotel is just making our hotel more feasible in terms of this construction environment and also making it more feasible in terms of operations. And so I think we've accomplished that. And the other thing I'll bring your folks up to speed on, it's not part of the design, but we, as you might recall our last meeting, we gave you an update on a favorable market study that was done by Pinnacle and we went to the next phase with Pinnacle to do a financial analysis with them, which will be completed, I think, prior to your next meeting. So we continue to work on the hotel in terms of design and financing and market studies. And we continue to be excited about it and hope to launch it soon. That's exciting, Doug, thank you. Welcome. And welcome, Elaine, to the team. Thank you. John, I don't know if you can bring over, I think we have Richard Dean and a few others of our team here. I may call them in now and again, not sure if they're all signed in or not. Dean is here. So Richard and Dave Marshall and James Finlay-Sheris. James is here too. And CEA, BT is Dave Marshall. Okay. Great. So while you're doing that, and I appreciate it, I'm Bill McCat, I think most of you know by now. And as John indicated, this is kind of revisiting a design approval that was done as part of the Act 250 process and as part of the city process before. I know you have a busy agenda, so I won't repeat what's in our memo, but I was going to share my screen if I could and just walk you through very quickly the changes that are in this packet. And then we do have with us, Richard Dean, the architect and Truett Collins who has helped us revise this plan and that you're seeing tonight. James Finlay-Sheris is a landscape architect who prepared the both the original and the amended plan. And then of course, Dave Marshall, who you've seen many times, this head civil engineer for the project, Winozki Falls East, but also the original designer of all of the downtown improvements. So thank you all guys for joining us tonight. I'm gonna try to do this here, let's see if it works. You guys seeing my screen now? Yeah. Great. So I just, for the benefit of people who are not familiar with the site, this is a little overview of the area, the traffic circle on your left and the parking garage and the Champlain Mill here, River House and River Run at the bottom right. This site is basically everything between CCB and River Run on the east side of Abinaki Way. It's now a parking lot that is used for the benefit of primarily of CCB and their staff. And the original project that was approved and by Act 250 and the city's benefit involved filling in that particular parking lot with a new city parking garage, a new city street on the north called formerly called Efficiency Way. We're now taking nominations for a new name and an extension of Winozki Falls Way at the bottom of the project, which was originally part of the development that was revised as we went along. This became a private way. We're proposing to put it back into a public way. So I wonder if anyone has any questions about the existing approval or present it to the public who's interested in having me explain any more that before I waste anyone's time on it further. Yeah, I remember Thomas, have you seen these designs before for this project? Okay, I could remember. So with that silence being consent in my mind, I'm gonna move on to just reviewing very quickly what you approved the last time. So the project involved a parking garage at the north end of the site next to CCB and office building for the benefit of BEIC and at the south end of the site, the hotel. So what you're looking at now is the approved plan that we are not proposing to make any changes to. I'm just showing it for the benefit of the public hearing and the public who might be here. This is Abnaki Way on the left and efficiency way, the CCB building here at the top. And then the rendering from that same point, this is standing on Abnaki Way, that brick building to the left is the back of CCB. And this was the office building that was approved in which BEIC ultimately elected not to build three-story structure with parking, the public parking behind the screen to the north. And you can see here the original hotel design which was an eight or nine-story building depending how you count the stories. You can get a sense of the scale of that building from standing on top of Abnaki Way. So at this time, we have no, this particular meeting, we are not seeking to amend this office use. As you know, we do have contemplations of replacing this particular office use with residential use mixed income residential apartments, but that will happen at a later time. And after we obtain the approvals for the changes to the garage and the hotel that we're talking about tonight, any questions about that part of it? Not yet. Great. So let's focus on what we are looking to change which is the south side of the project. So here is the original approved project. The hotel was a rectangle that happened at the south end of the parking garage. There was an extension of Willisky Falls Way and a turnaround and then sort of a small little overlook area heading out in before you head out into the existing 100 acre open space. This was contemplated to be basically a way to maintain the old road that goes out there now to get emergency access out there or for different events. If you need public works, needs to be able to get buildings or vehicles out there, that sort of thing. And a little kind of an overlook. And the hotel itself was rendered this way. You see on the far end that office building is now, we're looking up Abnaki Way and out the Willisky Falls extension. This is River Run. So we're standing in the middle of the intersection of Willisky Falls Way and Abnaki. And basically a two or two and a half story focal point for the lobby and then a six story building above basically. The idea was that all of the only place the hotel really touched the ground was in this small glass area here in the corner which was a high volume. All of the sort of day to day amenities that would happen in your hotel. And this particular plan as it was approved were happening up here at the upper level of the building. And as you went out Willisky Falls Way this was really a service area for deliveries. There was an entrance to the parking garage there but really for as a practical matter kind of the dynamic part of the street ended kind of at the corner and at the Port Crusher for the hotel. So in the revised concept that we're bringing to you tonight, we're talking about two real changes. One being that the former roof level elevation of the building is removed and all of the full service hotel items are moved down to the ground floor. So now as you come out Willisky Falls Way there's no service area, no loading and unloading. There is instead at the southeast corner the restaurant with a large outdoor deck for seasonal use series of additional landscaping elements that are put in here. And we still maintain the access that goes out towards the park area. But the idea is to really bring the dynamic of the restaurant, people sitting outside, people coming and going from the building and really increase the first floor use of the hotel and then to bring the height of the overall structure down by extending the hotel a little bit further up Abonacky Way than it did previously. So if you look at the original drawing this is basically the hotel ends here and in the revision, the hotel extends one bay further up the hill. So that basically what we end up with is a functional six-story building rather than the eight or nine-story building we had before brings the scale of this a little more into the realm of let's say River Ron or River House. And it really I think as far as the design guidelines for the city are concerned by relocating this parking access onto the hill here and increasing the public use of the space we're really creating kind of a dynamic street extension that spans the entire block to the park rather than just the hotel lobby on the corner. And this is something that was done as Doug mentioned earlier for practical financial reasons the steel and concrete mid-rise structure we had before simply isn't feasible in the current construction environment but it also represents an affirmative choice of the hotel partners to sort of really focus on creating a more dynamic first floor. Our operators who were working with folks who felt that having those restaurants and services on the ground floor was really gonna help to make the hotel more successful. So that really is in summary what we're talking about in terms of the two differences. I have also got this is a more focused view it's the same view but just zoomed in of the old this is what's actually approved today. And then just by comparison the same view going forward the main difference being that the all of the elements of this corner remain but we've then got as we extend to the east the various elements of the hotel check-in and then a large open space and that area for the restaurant that happened there. And this just helps to sort of show that in closing. So here is the original view of this one more time. This is the turnaround and sort of the small area that you would sort of drive through to get out or walk through to get out to the park as opposed to the new plan which now has a large and much larger space here for the benefit of the hotel and restaurant, fire pit, these sorts of elements. There's new landscaping elements that are incorporated here to make this more pedestrian and the turnaround itself has pulled a little bit further to the west. So that effectively we have, you know, less space being dedicated to cars and more space that can be available for events and for the use of the restaurant, the hotel. The footprint of the building is the same. The uses that are approved remain the same. So the intent from here if we're fortunate enough to have your approval is that the staff and we will work together as we did the first time to prepare an active 50 amendment that incorporates these minor changes to the program and submit those for approval. And then the city will hold those approvals in accordance with our development agreement. So I appreciate your time and I hope that helps to explain what we're looking for this evening. Thanks, Bill, and thanks for, I appreciate the comparison of the old designs because they were not fresh in my mind. Great. Very counsel, do folks have any questions about the updated design? Just minor question. So where will the service area be? So if we look at the, if we look at the, let's grab this to you here. So there is an entrance to the parking deck. You can see the car coming out here. There's also an ADA pedestrian access that happens there. So the idea is that there'd be a space along Abinaki for loading and unloading and the restaurant service would happen through the ADA ramp here and there's a direct access into the back of the restaurant from within the garage. So the comparison I could make locally would be this is how the hotel Vermont is serviced in downtown Burlington. They don't have a dedicated service entry through the front. They bring all of their loading and unloading on hand carts through the garage to a service entry to avoid sort of having their main entrance clogged up with service vehicles. Okay, thanks for clarifying that. And then for your waste receptacles? Right. So the intent in the plan before and after is that we coordinate the screened waste receptacles with River House and River Run. And that is the standing concept now. Share that, ideally share that space. That's right. And if for some reason that's not able to be finalized we'll have to look at another screened alternative and bring that back for the staff to review and approve as part of that process. But that's the contemplation today. Okay, yeah, that would be ideal. So the city owns a little just to clarify that a little further the city owns a piece of land which is sort of immediately a jade. This is a property line between River Run and the city and the thought process is that we would coordinate something that happens in this area but it would be an improvement to the existing condition plus sufficient space for the hotel. And for the revised landscape slide, I think it's one of the next ones. Yep. It has a walkway kind of below the paddy areas that public walkway down to the park. Right, so you can see below just for reference purposes you can see kind of below this drawing the little dotted lines to show the topography that's the existing condition. So this little ridge right here represents the road as it exists today. Sort of it leaves the parking lot in this location and heads out to the east. So what happens here is the grade starts to drop from the top of the hill here working its way down and then there's actually going to be a bridge which connects from here out to a point on the original road that's off of this plan which that's consistent with how the existing approvals are created. And what that's gonna do is allow us to connect these two wetlands that have been isolated from each other by this road since the road was improved originally as a farm road in the early 1900s. So this would be a wetlands restoration. The net impact to the wetland here will actually be positive. So this grade will start to drop as you come down here there'll be a planting area. Some of these plantings are open to the ground and there's some trees coming out through them and some of it's a more organized planting area. And then this area outside the hotel would be at the same grade as the hotel lobby. Great. Thank you for elaborating on that. So in decommissioning the road is it gonna be fully decommissioned and regraded or are you still leaving it as is in kind of like a rich firm? No, it actually part of the restoration plan for the wetland which is a separate plan is actually just gonna bring this up here. So here's the garage. This wall that's sitting here is basically the top of the existing bank and the edge of the existing parking lot. The building is actually in the parking garage is actually built out over that slope which we will come in to restore basically remove all of the trash and things that were placed there during urban renewal but then restore the grade to where it was before and then plant that in accordance with a plan that we developed with the wetlands division. So you're gonna have basically this entire berm will be removed and the opportunity will be there's a stream that crosses underneath the there's a stream that crosses underneath the existing road to a culvert and that's kind of where the bridge would span from there coming all the way back and the wetland will be restored at its original height and then planted with wetland species. James, do I have that right? I shouldn't have you here and not ask you. That's absolutely correct to plant all native wetland species throughout. Are there any questions from folks attending in the public? If you wanna use a chat or raise hand. Sarah, we'll bring you over. Hi, hi, this is Sarah. So if somebody is walking along the south side of Winooski Falls way with their dog which there are a lot of people that do that. So where do you walk? Do you walk in a gray circle which you share with traffic? No, so the sidewalk is the crosswalk is here. So here's the south part of Winooski Falls way that tree is planted in the sort of berm here and the sidewalk continues here in front of Winooski Falls way around. This is all a grade separated area. So there's a flush mounted sort of concrete curb but this is intended to be an extension of the sidewalk using the same materials and details that were used throughout downtown originally. So just to kind of maintain that continuity and then you would come around here and have the opportunity to then head out on the bridge. And we're imagining some signage and some additional signage and kind of a welcome to the park type of activity that isn't shown on this plan yet. So two things. One is the render drawing doesn't show that sidewalk between River Run House and where the cars are parked. Okay. So that's why I was asking about it. Do you see that? How it doesn't show there? I don't but I'm about to put it up so we can look at it. Yeah, that's right. So that's a mistake. Okay, so that's a mistake there. And then the other question I had was the little sitting area outside near the lobby corner with a little orange tables. So there's no door that accesses into the hotel lobby from there. And what do you really propose that you're gonna do with that space? I mean, are you gonna leave chairs there outside all year? They're gonna be permanent benches. Right. So the idea is that the area that's within the brick here is basically a public street. So this is planted. This detail which James could describe better than I can is basically a bench. This is a bench. No, I mean, over on the other on that. Yeah, so I'm getting there. So this is all, these are all anticipated to be sort of public areas, right? As you transition across into this deck, this deck is really the functional equivalent of the space that Waterworks uses sort of 12 months a year. So this would be an area that is available to the public in the sense that it's available to you if you're staying at the hotel or eating at the restaurant. But the programming that's here would be think the thought processes, these are tables for the benefit of the restaurant. And then there's some soft seating and a fire pit and that sort of thing, which is an amenity at the hotel. And there's sort of an overlook here. So this area at the boardwalk and the bridge are sort of the public extension into the park. This is sort of the transitional area that we think could be used by, would be maintained as a public amenity. And then this is really a private amenity. So I think it is seasonal and I would imagine that in the winter time, there would be, you know, we haven't figured out the details to where these things would be stored, but there would be a winter storage detail for it. But I was actually asking about the other spot. So the opposite side, on Abneckiway. Okay. Right there. Yeah, right there. All right, so this is that grade with the lobby. There's a small curb here. And the thought is that this is a, it was here at a time when the front corner of the hotel was really the only, was serving the purpose of this larger deck over here. We've retained it because we think it's an interesting detail and it's been approved all the way through the process. But we don't have a specific use for it yet. Yeah, it would be too bad if it just became dead space. So. Right, I agree. So if we can't, if we don't have a program used for it as part of whatever happens with the end of the hotel, we could, you know, entertain the idea of either just widening the sidewalk or adding some additional landscape there. But I think the idea was to maintain this for now because there was some thought that went into developing it and then retain the opportunity to use it. So I regret not understanding your question before. That's okay. Thank you. And I'm really excited to have the hotel. I actually live on this street and the sooner the better. Thank you. Cool. Is there any more public comment? Daisy? Hi, this is Daisy, Rebecca. I realize this is probably way getting ahead of things, but often I think we begin to design space without thinking of a name. And given the land and the space where this is at is Abenaki land. I wonder if anybody, counselors included, have started thinking about being intentional in the naming of this space. And this is a rhetorical question. You don't necessarily have to answer it now, but I just implore us to think about how we integrate the name of where this is being placed when that time comes. So just kind of putting the thought in your head. You know, I know we already have some plans for conversations about naming in Memorial Park in conjunction with the Abenaki tribe. This could be a part of that conversation potentially. I actually had kind of a thought along those lines, especially when thinking about restoring the area too, and the land rights, just kind of thinking about that space and making sure that I guess that would obviously be included in a positive way. Oh yeah, like the access, yeah, yeah. I think that would count in the... It's covered by the resolution in the past, as far as I understand it. Yeah. As long as it's not called Glutel 7D, I'll be okay. I'll be okay. I'll be okay. Yeah, that falls under the category of leave them wanting more, I think. Bill Doug, is there any other like specific feedback you're looking for tonight? Some check. From my point of view, we just, it's necessary for us to have your approval of the staff in order to sort of have a parallel, it's just a box that needs to be checked before we can file the Act 250 amendment. So we wanna make sure everybody's, that being said, we wanna make sure everybody's comfortable with the direction we're going in, because we'll sort of take this approval as blessing to spend a lot of effort on sort of fine details we wouldn't want to pursue if they were concerned. So whatever folks wanna share, we're happy to hear. Yeah, the other question that I had was just to confirm. So I see have slope accessible park access. I wanna just be specific that that's ADA accessible. Yeah, on that plan. The access to the park is at 5% here, accessible. Awesome. And then it sounds, I think this has already been answered as you're saying you're going to plant the correct wetland plants, but I was actually wondering that too with the proposed trees and other plants around that they are not invasive or at the very least, but hopefully that they're native plants, but at least not invasive. None of the plants will be invasive. All of the plants in the wetland restoration area will definitely be native. We haven't picked the plants that are kind of further to the West there. I can guarantee that they will not be invasive. Okay, thank you. Anything else? Elaine? I'm sorry, I missed who was speaking. Just now from the- James, I think? James Lanscape architecture. Okay, sure. So I was just checking in on the facade at the first story or two on a Veneki way. Is it pretty blank? I'm seeing some trees there. So there are- If that's a level of detail that you would, could still work on, if there's an opportunity, if it's going to be a lot of blank space is my one question. And if it is, if you could work out details on that without needing council explicit approval on what you do with it. So the first answer to your question is that as you go up the hill, you've got a combination of some sort of solid spaces and then the extension of the lobby here. Once you transition going north, that is proposed as sort of a blank wall with landscaping. The rendering is a filler, that is to say, none of these plants are, have been redesigned from the original approval. They're just there to sort of serve as a placeholder. And then as you see this perperated area further to the north, that's basically a ventilated screening for the parking deck, the detail for which we haven't developed yet. So there'll be a planted layer and then the ventilation to the garage. So whether it's something similar to River Run where we've got sort of a ventilated wood slab detail or whether it's a perperated metal. I know that the architects are working on a number of different ideas that staff will review before it's submitted. And that's what I would call the greatest sort of placeholder component of this design because it hasn't been done yet. So absolutely needs some additional work and that's something that we're gonna be doing. Okay, thank you. Good enough. One last question, sorry. Given the amount of windows for the lobby, has there been any thought about the lighting and lighting intrusion into the building across the way from it? Only that there are a number of certifications we have to make in Act 250 to ensure that, excuse me, to ensure that we don't have fixtures that are unshielded and are basically creating either light pollution to the sky, which is one set of regulations or unnecessary direct light from one building into another. So in terms of specific strategies for that, I mean, Richard, I don't know if you have any thoughts yet and it's still, we would have to live with the restrictions of the permit, which says you can't do it. And then we would have to, that would sort of deal with the outside lighting inside. Certainly there's going to be more light than there was when it was a parking lot, obviously. But the intent is to not have direct glare through open bulbs, things of that nature. Thanks, Bill. I think our romantic view, but it's not really that romantic is that the glow from the inside really adds something to the street, especially at night. And that really becomes an attractive corner and that light that spills from that lobby at night is really a feature of the building that really makes it a kind of inviting and warm place for people to be and enhances the life of the street. So I think we need to worry to be concerned and pay attention to details about how that lighting is designed. But we certainly don't want to make this a dark corner. We want to really have this be a lively and engaging corner for the whole city. Absolutely, it's striking the right balance and just wanting to make sure that counselors don't hear complaints about it. Sure. So I have confidence that you will be meeting your primary requirements and then as far as the interior lighting from the lobby that will be taken into consideration. Thank you. All right, good stuff. One of the good questions tonight. Thank you for the update. I'll just say that generally I think this is an improvement and things are getting better and better. So pleased to see progress here and I'll concur with our resident there, Sarah, that we would love to see this as soon as possible. Me too. Thank you for your support for the time tonight. Yeah. Can I get a formal motion to approve the Winooski Falls East design? Second. Second. Motion by Jim, second by Brynn. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Motion carries. Thank you, team. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, everyone. Thank you. Okay. It is 744 p.m. I'm gonna call a six minute recess, reconvene at 750 p.m. Well, we are on item H. This is on for discussion. It is the update on master plan goals and objectives. Thank you very much. I'm here tonight to present the update of the goals and objectives for the 2019 master plan. This was last presented to you at your regular meeting on April 18th to provide an overview of information on status of where we are with implementing our master plan. At that meeting, I mentioned that we do a four year check-in with Regional Planning Commission. Since this plan was adopted in 2019, that won't happen until next year, but really the intent of this document was to start getting information to you all on the status of our progress with the master plan implementation as we prepare for the policy priority strategy meeting next, actually this Saturday. So at the meeting on the 18th, there was a few comments that were provided specifically. I think the probably the biggest comment was under safe, healthy connected people, item 21, which that has now been updated to I think better reflect the status of where we are with that particular goal. But otherwise, happy to try to address any questions you may have about the information that's included herein. So this isn't intended really to be a formal document that needs to be approved or anything. It's more just to give you a sense of where we are with the implementation. Thanks Eric. I have a piece of feedback actually from the Finance Commission. We have this goal number nine under economic vitality about pursuing an arts and cultural district. As described in the economic development plan. So we did not take the time to look at exactly what that says in the economic development plan, but that commission did feel that progress is being made there because of how much more activity is happening downtown, additions to public art that are occurring in the community. So they thought that one could be in process. However, potentially an arts cultural district is some sort of formal designation process. Yeah, I think that was the intent of that goal was that it was a more formal designation of an actual geographic area. But I think we can definitely update that and report that it is happening because of a commitment either through funding or just the presence of additional art that's popping up in the city. So I think we can definitely change that. Also, land use goal number five about preserving the scale, character, value, of established neighborhoods, et cetera. I see your note here about some specific amendments to come in the future. But I feel like that's been sort of in the discussion in general at Planning Commission as they've been going through form-based code review. So I kind of feel like that's in progress. Sure, we can update that as well. Is the, I'm not gonna be able to pull the number out of here. Is the designated downtown expansion included in these priorities? They should be. That or I know for sure the review of the neighborhood development areas is included in here. So I, but I think that is also included. The designated downtown, but I will double check that. Yeah, I believe I remember seeing it. Because I recall and I am saluting me where I saw, but recently it sounded, I saw something that was like, oh, that's been completed already. And I wanted to make sure like that we were, the expectation of expanding the designated downtown was to go out East, East Allen. Yeah, I think that's. That's still. I think that's still in. Yes, I think that's still the intent. Okay, great. I think it's land use number nine, expansion of the neighborhood development area designation to the entire city. Was there a separate downtown one? So we have two designated areas. We have designated downtown and the neighborhood development areas. And I know there's been talk about expanding both of them. I know for sure that the, obviously as you just mentioned, I heard that number nine is for expansion of the neighborhood development areas, but I believe there was also discussion and I believe a goal that did talk about expanding the designated downtown as well. Yeah, I thought so too. And I don't see it. I might have been the annual. So maybe number two downtown core. I'm not sure. I think to put it in. Yeah, I think Jim's right that it's in our, it was in our annual priorities, but it hasn't made this list. That might be right. That's what I recommend. It's still on the work plan for FY23. It was something our previous economic development officer was working on. Exactly what we were talking about, Councillor Oakley, extending the downtown into the gateways. Okay, so it wouldn't be on this one because it was separate topic. All right, just trying to keep up here. Don't mind me. I noticed municipal infrastructure 8 is listed as completed. Yeah, in this case, because the goal talks about connections to adjacent municipalities, the multi-use path going out into Colchester pretty much is completed at this point. So that's why, or it's the fun. It's impossible to be completed. So it is underway towards completeness. So in this case, and that's what I tried to explain in the notes about for that specific project. That's not to say that we can't also look at other connections to municipalities, but that was one of the primary ones that I think we were discussing for that goal. Yeah, and you have Main Street listed here. I feel like the bridge also connects to that if we get that grant to have that work. Absolutely. I had a couple on the Urban Forest and Parks ones. I think I've got all the numbers, so I apologize if I missed one. But I think it's on land use 12. You marked that as complete, being that we have the Parks and Open Space master plan. I think that does provide some direction, but the master plan was one of the things that recommended was developing an urban forest management plan, which I think is where a lot of, we're basically going to meet the bulk of a wildlife habitat, water quality, protection, flood attenuation, and carbon sequestration goals would be through that management planning. And I just don't want us to lose sight of that component of thinking about the ecological components over natural areas. And similarly, the urban forest goal, which is I think mix six, our municipal infrastructure six is maintaining the healthy and diverse urban forest. We have our tree ordinance, which does primarily address right-of-way street trees. And I think it'd be, I think we want to keep an eye on the other part, specifically with Emerald Ash Forest and the needs we'll have in our more natural settings for tree management that we don't lose sight of that either. So I don't want to say, I hate to bump things from complete to in process, but I think there's still more to do there. Sure, absolutely, absolutely. Those are two that came up for me. And then the third one that, actually, no, that's it. So thank you. Okay, thank you. And safe, healthy, connected people, 22. It's definitely still in process. However, I think it's the note, at least it's worth an update because the equity audit has been completed. Oh, yes. I think that's definitely, that was huge work and really valid work. So I think it should be kind of noted. It's a little status is in process, but maybe more in process than it was. Yes, thank you very much. And along those lines, it felt a bit hard to say that we've got encouraging development of affordable housing options as completely given the outcomes of that equity audit. And I think I recognize that the planning process is underway for, sorry, this is housing one. The planning process is underway for addressing these issues and we've lined out a number of ways that this is already being done. And I guess you say like, this is complete but an ongoing effort, but we haven't launched our housing trust fund fully. We have a couple of other kind of pieces that I'd like to see in place before we kind of mark this one complete. Okay. Personal perspective. Yeah, and we're in process of the priority housing incentives and the zoning discussions. So I feel like that's, I would agree. I have a question, a clarifying question. So you felt they had connected number 12. So ensure residents have access to high quality affordable childcare options. Do we have a map, like a roadmap for what that, what success looks like there? I think just expanding the options that are available in the city. I know, and Ray, I might look to you on this as well, but I know there has been some efforts to try to identify spaces where childcare can be accommodated in the city. And also there's been some work in the past, at least to try to support either grant funding or other other mechanisms to increase the number of childcare options in the city. I think certainly preschool childcare and school may be able to partner together. We're certainly staying in touch with childcare resource and a lot of the little players in the childcare field have pretty frequent communication with the, let's pair of kids. So as they're new or expanding childcare centers, we are very much on their radar as a partner in the job to look for citing options in the city, which, you know, Tara's point is a little challenging, but, you know, I don't know if they have two years of school-age care, because we've definitely grown around our school and summer options as well for us or so I think that, that's something that he's thinking about when childcare is like pre-K. Obviously that's a big deal that I think that school-age care outside of school is pretty important to kind of bear in mind as well. See, I think, I'm not here to say it's not free, or I'm scratching, I think there's work to do, but I think we are engaged in the kind of deal with the constitutional reason. Yeah, absolutely. And no criticism at all, just simply asking for clarification. And while the SITS under State Peltee Connected, I can't help but be curious if there's anything in the planning commission side of things that could alleviate any of the permitting requirements or? Well, so that was just gonna say, one of the amendments we made in a recent set of updates was to expand where childcare can be located in the land use table. So it was pretty limited previously, so we have expanded the options for where childcare can actually exist within the city. So the planning commission is looking at that as well. Okay, great. Thank you. All right, so for economic vitality, just to clarify and I'm wondering especially for anyone who's listening in with everything is marked as in process or not started, is the reason really the loss of staff and the pandemic or are there other issues that have been involved or are these just such big projects that they're gonna take a while to complete? I think it's probably that. There's just a lot of work that needs to be done and there's a lot of parts and pieces that most of these items aren't really something that just has a specific finite start and end point to them. So I think that's why a lot of them are, that's why they're all showing is in progress or in process. Also with economic vitality number five, I'm wondering just, and this is probably a bigger thing, thinking about kind of updating it, especially because it specifically is referring to like office offerings. I know we've just talked about the hotel but thinking about how we're prioritizing and how businesses are using offices now as well. Yeah, and that's a really good point and I think that's one of the challenges that we have with a document like this because the master plan is adopted every eight years. Some of these goals are a little dated now and that's just kind of how they will exist until the next update. So as reporting on those, however we can explain that definitely there's been industrial or industrial scale changes that have impacted how people function now and where they work and how they work. So some of these goals may no longer make any sense. That sounds good. Know that may or brought up that number nine might be more in progress but one thing I was thinking about that is concerns that have come up around gentrification. So definitely wanting to like keep in our minds like when we're thinking about an arts and cultural district making sure that it's still accessible for the whole community. An issue that came up in the equity audit was around the fact that downtown often isn't accessed by all the community. So I think if that's where we're seeing more art stuff kind of questioning making sure that the arts we are making and the people who are making it, it's accessible for everyone. Yeah, and I feel like the mainstream violation project is going to give us a lot more leeway to do that in the future. Yeah. It's a fair point. One thing with, a little list here, one thing with the municipal infrastructure number seven. I'm wondering if we want to specifically mention in the notes the land acknowledgement and land rights for Abenaki because I feel like that definitely will and hopefully continue more and more into as we're considering things such as access, especially the community connection to the environment portion. I think a lot of some of these might have been mentioned with safe, healthy, connected, with safe, healthy, connected people number 10. There's a lot, which I know, there's a lot of what the library has done to really meet this goal too, but I'm wondering keeping in mind like the space and resources needed for the library to provide some of the things that are in that goal might be something for a kind of more city level idea to like what additional support can be given to the library so they can meet this goal that's in there. Especially I think when we don't have as much of a community center right now, the library is filling a lot of needs in a very small space with a very small staff. So shout out to them, but also what can we do to support them better? They're doing amazing. Yeah, I think the conversations with like Champlain Housing Trust and other potential partners around the community center could be included here as part of that effort. Yeah, that's a really good idea. This is some, sorry, safe, healthy, connected people number 16. I think we actually kind of hit on this tonight with having elected officials having us spend time with the ARPA survey, but I noticed in here in the notes of the city has budgeted funds to allow elected officials, appointed officials and staff to participate in activities and trainings to expand awareness. So I'm wondering, is that still there? Do we want to use that more for like enabling interpretation services? How might, if that's still there, how might we use it to get to this goal? That refers to, we've always had this like $5,000 set aside for, not always. We started a couple of years ago for increasing access or something, I forget how we framed it. I don't know where it sits in the budget. We've talked about using it to fund some of the increased interpretation needs. But I think that's something we can look at closer to budgeting season. I also would add, you know, I mentioned this before that Jim and I drafted like an engagement plan for council review. I did share that with the school board chair. So I'm hoping to get some input from them and then bring that back to us. But I think that would make a big, that would connect directly to this too. Okay, great. Oh, and we have a professional, we have money for like PD and trainings too, I think, for council and public officials, elected officials. Okay. Can I ask a question of clarification about what we're accomplishing here? Are we trying to dive into where we could do more on these issues or are we focused primarily on like where we see these as updates sitting and like our progress along this spectrum? Because I feel like a couple of us and myself included Delton to more like, we could do this on this additional item. Just curious if we wanna kind of reset our expectations of what you need, Eric, from us in this master plan update. That's a great question. Yeah, so I mean, really I don't necessarily need anything more from you all on this. This is really more of a way to give you a sense of where we are with progress on the master plan as we start looking at the policies and priorities for this coming year. So if there's projects on here that you wanna see moving sooner or more of it moving along as we've been talking about, I think that's really the intent from my standpoint is to give you this information so you know where we are with the master plan implementation. As we go into Saturday. Correct, that's correct. I mean, these are all really good comments and we'll help build out this document for the next year and the year after that. And when we report on our progress with the Regional Planning Commission. But ultimately this is really intended for your use as you start thinking about what you wanna prioritize for the coming year. So with that in mind, if I can find it. Sorry, the font on this is too small for me. Infrastructure number five. So I just wanna give some context to counselors before Saturday that the goal is pursue and support renewable energy generation, efficiency and weatherization programs, electrification of the transportation fleet with community and in line with the state's comprehensive energy plan goals. So one, the comprehensive energy plan is just being updated now, actually. I believe that is going through its final adoption and Eric, you might be able to confirm her. I believe that's correct. Yeah, it's either in process or it was just recently adopted. So that's available. That's on the state's website. As it relates to the renewable energy generation that certainly is not something that the infrastructure committee commission is ready to look at in this coming year. It's not in the budget either. So there are a number of other conversations where the commission is having in laying the groundwork for energy goals and energy efficiency work, but we certainly are not at a space where we're talking about renewable energy projects at this time. So I just wanna say the other aspects are things that are in progress, but we're not at the point of getting to, getting to bringing a request to council to approve a consultant for that or additional like allocate capital funds for that or anything. So just wanna give some context for that. I wonder, sorry, but one final thing that might help with the notes, safe, healthy connected people 21 and the notes that no action expected. I'm wondering if you could specifically reference even that equity audit in there against thinking specifically about the discussion of segregation within the city. Sure, absolutely. Any more questions or items that are left off? Are there any, is there any public comment? Any questions? Okay. Thank you, Eric. Absolutely, thank you all very much. You can stay here. I am I. Oh yeah. Okay, so at our last meeting, we discussed appointing representative for Winooski to the Burlington Airport Board of Commissioners for a three year term. Our discussion at that meeting centered around recommending that we appoint our zoning administrator so that he is engaged with that body as they are rolling out the noise compatibility program. Eric, I heard that you're willing. I am, yes. So tonight, seeking a vote on that appointment, but I'll stop for any questions or clarification. I guess I do wanna just say thank you for being willing to take on that role and that the council is, you know, we're open to having that not be a permanent assignment. So I think for now it's just to ensure that we have the space filled in and that there's continuity. Absolutely, yes, yes. Happy to serve in that role. Yeah, I think once that program is like on the ground and we've weighed in and stuff, like maybe we reevaluate who we want to appoint in the body, but are there any questions from, oh, sorry, were you saying something? No, I just said thank you. Are there any questions from the public on the airport commission appointment? Okay, can I have a motion to approve the appointment of Eric Vorwald to the Burlington Airport Board of Commissioners? Salute. Second. Motion by Jim, second by Thomas. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Motion carries, thank you. Thank you. Okay, item J, this is our Arbor Day resolution. So May 6th was Arbor Day. We did do the centennial tree planting on Greenup Day and we sadly forgot to include this on the last meeting agenda, so it's on tonight. Do you want to add anything? Nope. Any questions about this? Any public comment? Can I have a motion to approve the Arbor Day resolution? Salute. Second. Motion by Jim, second by Aurora. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Motion carries. Oh, and thank you to the tree committee for their work on that. Okay, so our last item on the regular items is for discussion approval. It is a settlement agreement. I think we want to move to the executive session first. Yeah, and we'll come back and shall I bring you and Elaine, Angela? And Jesse, if he's still here. Oh, yes. I think we're all here in person, so we don't need Elaine. I'm still here. Okay, so I am seeking a motion to find that pursuant to one VSA section 313E pending or probable civil litigation or prosecution to which the public body is or may be a party, we should have this discussion in executive session. Second. Motion by Thomas, second by Brynn. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Motion carries. So now I'm seeking a motion to enter into executive session, inviting Jesse Acre, Elaine Wong, John Rauscher, and Angela Aldiari. So moved. Second. Motion by Aurora, second by Thomas. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Motion carries. So we are going to move into executive session to discuss this topic. No other content will be discussed. We will come out of the meeting to, if we take any action, there would be a public vote. Otherwise, we would adjourn. So Kate, let us know when. Item K, I am looking for a motion to approve the settlement agreement to ratify the settlement agreement. Motion by Thomas, second by Jim. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Motion carries. That brings us to the end of tonight's agenda. I'm seeking a motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. Motion by Bryn, second by Aurora. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Motion carries and meeting adjourned. Thank you everyone. Thank you.