 I would like to call to order the Winooski Liquor Control Board meeting. Please join us in the Pledge of Allegiance led by Deputy Mayor Thomas Frederick. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Jenny, please join us. We have one regular item, a sidewalk use application for morning light bakery. Yes, good evening. So this is a renewal application, he had one last year. It's been approved, I reviewed it with Eric, I submitted the dimensions, it's pretty explanatory. I don't recall any complaints about their setup last year. I do. Morning light? I don't think they set it up last year. Oh, they never got to it? Yeah. He did have some tables. Oh, yeah. What is your recollection, Brynne? I think there is a light post, or there is, and again, I think when we reviewed it last year, there was just similar concerns with ADA accessibility. If I remember, I think that was when it was, they first had it on like this side, and there was a light post, so I wonder if having it on the other side results. If the dimensions on here are correct, it looks like it should not be a problem. Okay. That's what he said, when I set it back to him. Perfect. Any other questions or concerns? Any questions for members of the public? You can use the raise hand or chat feature in Zoom. Okay. Hearing no additional concerns, would someone like to make a motion to approve this sidewalk use application? So moved. So moved. Motion by Charlie, second by Aurora. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Motion carries. Thank you. That is the end of the liquor control board meeting. Do I have a motion to adjourn? So moved. Second. Motion by Thomas, second by Charlie. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Motion carries. It is 6.03 p.m. I will call to order the Winooski City Council meeting. Any questions, concerns about the order of this evening's agenda? No. All right. It is, next up is public comment. Public comment is meant for members of the public to make comment on any items not included on tonight's agenda. If you are here for an agenda item on the agenda, I would ask you to hold for that item. Is there any public comment this evening? I see a hand. Mayor Lott, we have Terry Siegman with us tonight. Go ahead, Terry, when you're ready. Terry, can you hear us? If you're speaking, Terry, we can't hear you. Terry, you are in the participants list here, Terry, and we see your hand is raised. We can't hear anything you're saying. You may try hitting the mute button and then unmuting. Sometimes that helps. It doesn't seem like that worked. Terry, you can also try to call in if that's easier from your phone number. Did anyone else have public comment tonight? Paul, would you be able to share with Terry the dial-in via chat? I will, yes. Okay. I'm going to move to the consent agenda, but we will come back, which he's able to reconnect. Are there any questions on the consent agenda this evening? Okay. Any questions from members of the public? Okay. Do I have a motion to approve tonight's consent agenda? So moved. Second. Motion by Brent, second by Charlie. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Motion carries. It looks like Terry has been able to rejoin. Can you? Oh, maybe not. Oh, perhaps. Let's give it a shot. Terry, can you hear us? Yeah. Can you hear me now? Hi, Terry. Yes. Thank you. I'm so sorry. My computer doesn't seem to work. Hi. Thank you for taking the time to listen to my public comment. Actually, it's a question, and I just need to pull up the email. I had it all set here. I can do it from my phone. I'm calling with a public comment. I wanted to ask again about the sidewalks. I mean the bike lanes and the parking spaces being striped. I'm just curious when that is going to happen. Elaine, do you know her? I don't have a timeframe handy, Terry, but we can follow up after the meeting. Okay. This is something that I've come to council with for the past three years. Yes. There's always been an operational challenge getting the contractor to get here. So it isn't a matter of lack of priority. So I would just need to find an update on when we're expecting them here. Okay. That would be great. And I also wanted to ask the council about transportation impact fees. I sent an email on May 16th, which I believe was the day before you had your strategic planning meeting. I sent an email to city manager Elaine and also to Brynn, asking that that be prioritized this year. And I got an email back from Elaine. I guess I sent the email on maybe the 14th or the 13th. Sorry. I sent an email back from Elaine, saying that council agreed that not to keep this as a priority. And I'm just curious why this isn't a priority. It does say here in the email is that they are one time and unpredictable. And they limit the benefits they have. And I guess the bottom line I'm reading from this email is that the pushback for new developers would just be too much. It would be prohibitive to have these fees as a taxpayer. I voted yes for a fire truck with a larger ladder to reach the tall buildings that we're developing that we're having built in the city. I've been asking for bike lanes for three years. I understand that it's, you know, hard to get a contractor and to do that. The parking spaces have not been striped in over three years. I don't understand why having impact fees is not a priority. I also was able to find a transportation impact fee study that was done and submitted the final report, I believe, was submitted on December 2nd, 2020 to the city council, to the mayor, to the then city manager, Jesse Baker, have members of the council seen this report? Have members of the council, are they aware of it? And could anybody speak to why when you contracted with CCRPC to get this study done, why it's still not a priority? Hi, Terry. We did, council did receive that report. It was reviewed. Some commissions reviewed it as well, back at that time. After financial review and considerations, what Elaine shared via email is accurate. We didn't find that it was as financially productive as other strategies. Like it wouldn't, the return on investment would not be significant enough for managing the program and keeping exceptions in place for priority housing projects. It's never reached a stage where it's been under deep consideration. And so there has been no developer pushback because we haven't actually engaged developers on that. We had that discussion in our priority session and chosen not to prioritize transportation impact fees. We are instead asking staff to investigate public safety impact fees specifically related to the need to replace the fire truck for a larger ladder. So there is some discussion still occurring on impact fees, but not for the transportation program. Okay, well, I'm here tonight, not in person obviously, but I'm here again to ask that the council, not just you mayor lot, but the council who I believe represent me and you also represent me and other members of the public. I'm asking that we look at this again because every community around us, all of our neighbors have this, have impact fees. We do not. And taxpayers are the ones that are paying for new crosswalks, for the blinking beacons. We're paying for all of this stuff. We're paying for a new fire truck with a bigger ladder. It's not fair. It's not fair. And I understand the staffing issues. I get it. However, I don't get why we continue to develop without having impact fees. When I was on planning commission six or seven years ago, before you were even mayor, when Paul Dreyer was running planning commission, we had talked about impact fees. Perhaps that's where this study came from. I don't know the exact timeline, but really I'm astounded that the council doesn't see this as a priority and can't seem to find the motivation to do what every other community in Chittenden County is doing. Thank you for listening. And I appreciate the time to speak at the meeting. Thank you so much. Thank you, Terry. I just want to be clear. We are considering impact fees in the priorities that did make it to the priorities list public safety impact fees. Thank you. Are there any other public comments? Paul, I don't think we had anyone else signed up. No one else signed up for this evening. Okay. Let's move on to council reports. Charlie, would you like to kick us off? Sure. Councilor Hurdon, I met with the seniors who are residents at the courtyard residential facility. And they shared with us some of their reflections about their day-to-day, specifically related to infrastructure, the folks in the courtyard. I'm really excited about the Wadiski Farmers Market. They're glad that it's back this year. They'd like to see it be bigger and have more vendors. And on work like the negative side, many, many of the participants in the group have concerns about the state of the sidewalk, specifically around the railroad tracks. We were able to talk to them about how it's a relationship between us and the company that operates the railroad and owns the tracks themselves. And that was something that came up consistently throughout the meeting, even though there had already been talked on. So there were a lot of feelings around that. And yeah, just a lot of traffic stuff. They'd like to see more traffic calming, more sidewalks, and better condition of the cycle that already exists around the courtyard itself, because that's where they're traveling the most. And overall, it was pretty productive. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. Two items from downtown Wadiski, as Charlie kind of mentioned, the farmer's market did start last Sunday. So that will be going on every Sunday until October 23rd. And it starts at 10 a.m. and ends at about 2 p.m. And then also our first Wadiski Wednesday will be this Wednesday, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. So definitely make sure to check that out. The doors open at 4.30 p.m. So you can get yourself set up for a good place to sit. And then the mayor and I also met with seniors at Our Lady of Providence. And I met with some seniors at the residence at 65 Parlo. And a lot of similar conversations about sidewalk use, concerns with the safety and the difficulty for seniors to utilize our sidewalks. They spoke about a lot of other things. I think something like council has just, we've talked about for a while, making sure that all of our activities and events are accessible to seniors. And we let them know about Wadiski Wednesdays and the farmer's market. But it was really nice discussions. We had a really good time with them. I had a great time at the other meeting. All right. Thank you. Just want to give a public thanks to the VFW, RVA and all of our city staff for assisting in the return of the Memorial Day Parade and Community Barbecue. And thank you for volunteers who attended and helped out with that. As well to the, want to mention the Wadiski Gardening Group and the work those volunteers have been doing to update flower beds around town over the last two weeks. They're always seeking volunteers. They have a Facebook page. I want to share that I had a check-in with our school board president since our last meeting. And they are in the process of planning for their annual retreat. So we'll reconnect after they set their priorities. I did share our information with her. And also that we plan to resume regular check-ins once the superintendents officially starts on July 1st. And can also talk about other coordination after that. I also had a meeting with the Vermont International Guard Wing Commander to just check in about operation and community engagement updates. I'm told there are no significant operational changes planned this year with the exception that this month, I want to say they said half of the jets are going overseas again so it may be quieter for the month of June. We are going to reconnect as the noise map update from the airport starts to come together to talk about broad community engagement. The Planning Commission will be meeting this Thursday at 6.30 p.m. Those meetings are hybrid so you can join from Zoom, telephone, or here in council chambers. They are continuing to discuss a design review district as an additional layer of permitting review to address historic preservation concerns. Those discussions are pretty fluid exactly what the requirements would be or what the area of coverage is. They haven't reached that point yet. And then finally, I just want to share publicly that myself and members of staff have been engaging in discussions led by the Chittenden County Homeless Alliance and Agency of Human Services about the evolving response to the end of the state motel housing program. I don't have anything particularly tangible to share tonight but just want the public to know that we are paying attention to that and a part of the conversation as things change. That is it for me. Thanks. The Municipal Infrastructure Commission met in May and we reviewed the proposed, some of the initial concerns presented to the CCRPC during a public meeting earlier in May to review the La Fountain-Dion Street scoping study. It's in the very early stages. The Infrastructure Commission will serve as the advisory committee for that. The commissioners were very interested in ensuring there was additional clear ways that members of the community can provide additional comment and that wasn't just the commission that was being relied on for comment and perspective. So the CCRPC did say that they would provide some reassurance that there would be additional opportunities for the public, greater public and not just the advisory committee provide scoping for that because there is quite a bit of interest. I am anticipating that the Infrastructure Commission will meet again on June 15th. We will have some structural changes as the chair has announced that he will need to step down so likely to have a notice recruiting an additional commissioner and seeking somebody to step up into that role. So if you're interested, you need at the pool. I met with folks at the senior center during the coffee chat towards the end of May, similar concerns that have already been mentioned. There was additional topics came up about potholes being filled and a lot of questions about the DDI project actually. And just wanting to know how that's progressing as well as the Winooski Bridge of course, lots of interest on those capital projects and some other elements with the downtown circle area but a lot of what has already been shared so I won't repeat that too much. And also upcoming this Wednesday, the 7th is another airport commission meeting. We meet the first Wednesday of the month, 4 p.m. It's online as well as in person at the airport. There will be agenda items to cover noise complaints. That's a standard item on the agenda as well as progress on residential sound insulation phasing. So just hearing updates on that. There's no thing on this upcoming agenda about noise impact mapping and reassessment for this month. But I'll let you know as that progresses. That's all I have. The Inclusion and Belonging Commission is meeting this week. It's going to be Thursday at 6 p.m. That's a virtual meeting, so it's over Zoom. Folks want to attend. Please feel free. We also have two vacancies for regular members and two vacancies for alternates. So if you're interested in engaging with the city in this kind of work, please check those out. They're on the website. And also feel free to reach out to me as well. Thank you. All right. City updates. Yes, so Myers Memorial Pool season is started. We had an incredible opening weekend at the Myers Memorial Pool. Our first 50 past holders enjoyed a special pizza party on Saturday, and our big opening day on Sunday was a huge success. Big thanks to our Public Works team, pool supervisor and lifeguard team who helped get everything ready and operational. Past sales remained strong and were well staffed, so we look forward to greeting returning community members and new visitors. Community members should know we're offering a shorter schedule for now to accommodate lifeguard availability, but will be open for full hours on Saturday, June 17th. For hours, programs, pool passes, scholarship information, and notices, please visit winuski-vt.gov-slash-pool. The Vermont Agency of Transportation will be performing geotechnical investigation work on the Winuski River Bridge beginning Wednesday, June 7th and ending on Sunday, June 11th. Traffic impacts and lane closures are expected. Motorists and pedestrians are asked to use caution when traveling through the area. For details, please visit the news update section of our website at winuski-vt.gov. And speaking of vacancies, we're currently looking for an engaged and dedicated resident to serve on the Winuski Valley Parks District Board of Trustees. The WVPD's mission is to support the preservation of natural areas, establish parks, and provide resource-based education and recreation for the Winuski River Valley. We're also looking to onboard an alternate member of the Chunin-Sala Waste District Board of Commissioners, Winuski Representative. CSWD's mission is to reduce and manage the solid waste generated within Chittin County in an environmentally sound, efficient, effective, and economical manner. In addition, there are current vacancies for our local Winuski Commissions, as you heard inclusion and belonging, as well as finance. Applicants with related experience, skill sets, and interests are encouraged to apply. Council and staff welcome diverse voices. If you've never served, we will do our best to support you. To learn more and apply, please visit the news update section on our website at winuskivt.gov. Thank you. We will move on to regular items. We have the introduction of our new youth interventionist. Yeah, so very excited to be here tonight with our new youth interventionist. As folks know, Francine Bahati has, she's still, she's lingering with us to help transition our new member in, but it's headed off to grad school in the fall. So Nandasanga Vandam, who goes by Vandam, is joining our team as the youth interventionist moving forward about two to three weeks into it. Yeah. Already doing great work. We've transitioned a number of active cases over and starting to look at ways before the school year ends to get some connections with the school and kiddos leading into the summer. But really excited about having Vandam join the team. I want to give him the floor to say a few things about himself, but just really glowing reviews thus far. Thank you. Welcome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for the introduction. My name is Nandasanga Vandam. I go by Vandam. I was in that culture. We go by our last names. I was originally from Burundi, but I was born in Tanzania. So like Francine, I'm actually, she's from my country too, so our parents are really close. I went to Burlington High School. Right after I went to Custiton and I worked as a behavior interventionist at Baird School, a horror center. Prior to this, I also worked, I had many jobs, but I volunteered for Diverse Rocks. I don't know if you guys ever heard of Diverse Rocks, which was a group done in Burlington started in 2011, all the way to 2018. And yesterday we actually had a like a get-together party for it because a lot of the people were gone. But the whole point of that group was to basically share cultures. There was a bunch of people from Africa from Nepal and Bhutan and India, just Americans, and it was just a group where we shared cultures with traveled to different states and we performed or shared music and food and things in that nature. And if students who were the first ones to go to college, we tend to visit a lot of colleges to just get that exposure of hey, you could go here or if not, you might know somebody who might want to go here. But that was really interesting for me to get involved in that group, especially being the first one to go to college in my family. That was really cool. I also worked as a youth mentor for Building Blacks to Success, which was also in Burlington, but it ended, but the whole point was also to help students just basically help students to who are having a hard time in school or just to mentor them with their homeworks and things like that. And it all started with a friend of mine, Adin Hajji, who worked in Burlington for Pathways, I believe. That's what it's called, the company's called. But he started that because he saw his siblings struggling in school and he brought friends of us together to basically help change that, because we know that going to college for us was really huge success for our parents and also for ourselves because a lot of our parents really never thought about or just didn't have that education or just the experience of higher education and I also worked as a gardener used to for Burlington High School before all of this, before I started working with kids and youth and mentorship and things of that nature. So I've always had an eye for leadership groups and mentorship and youth and just give back basically because a lot of mentors who were really involved in the community so that kind of wrapped up on me to do the same. And now I'm here. I'm psyched about it. Thank you Van Nam. Thanks for sharing that. You sound very on track to be in this role. Thank you. Are there any questions from Kinsen? I look forward to hearing how your experience is. Thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you. Have a good night. Thank you. Or stick around as long as you want. Feel free to leave. Okay. We will move on to... What's that? Oh, I'm sorry. Okay. We will move on to item B. We have a public hearing worn tonight for consideration of chapter 28 fees ordinance update. Let me have Angela, do you want to give a brief overview before I open the hearing? Sure. This has been before council a couple of times now. This is an update to our fees chapter of our ordinance. Any fees charged to the public or services provided by the city either need to be in ordinance or ordinance needs to specify that the fee is set by resolution. We are adjusting the rental registry fee from the previous $100 a year to I believe it's now 115. Adding in some passport fees and cleaning up some language that's been confusing in terms of some fees and adding in a recreational vehicle permit that is within the ordinance to not have a fee specified. Thank you, Angela. At this time I would like to open the public hearing for comments. We do not have any members of the public in the room. If anyone via zoom wishes to ask a question or make a comment, please use the chat or raise hand feature. Hearing no comment. I would like to close the hearing of this public hearing and move us into any questions or comments from council. I have a couple of comments it looks like. Oh, you go first. I just want to reiterate that these are these fees are minor in nature and many of them haven't changed in quite a while. For example, the rental registry, Angela, I think that's been almost 10 years if not more. The fee has been the same for a number of years, but we did switch within that 10-year period from having it only build in the year that you're inspected to being built every year. So the fee itself that increases is not changed. The amount, the dollar amount has not changed. The frequency has. So just want to kind of note that these are these are minor and very incremental. So on the off chance that the city has told that we can actually change this within this public ordinance change cycle, I just want to alert the public that it's possible that we'll also be increasing the marriage license fee from the current $60 to $80. If we can't actually legally do that, we'll take it up at a future time. But in case we are just wanted to let folks know about that if there was public comment about that during this round. Right, so you're responding to the note in here that the state law increased the fee but because we haven't written in such a way that it doesn't refer to state law. Correct. We can only charge what's written in our ordinance currently. And unfortunately with the way the state has changed, we would be paying money to the state instead of being able to pay for our service of that if we don't change it. Would it be viable to for council to give direction to update that language and hold a second public hearing before we vote on these changes in order to allow that? I wouldn't want to hold up this set because the public building registry fees we're holding off billing those I see. Already? Yeah, otherwise I would have held back everything if it didn't matter too much. Okay. Thank you for that. Any other questions or comments? I just wonder how many marriage licenses do we issue generally a year because $20 could add up a lot if it is a decent amount. Right, Angela crunched some numbers for us. On average it's 55 to 60 licenses a year but they are concentrated in the summer and fall. We don't issue too too many over the winter. So this is the time where people are starting to come in. So there is if you're able to change it the cycle that we'd have a separate public hearing. Yes, it will it will probably be a little confusing to people while you're reopening the fees ordinance unfortunately but yeah to capture some of what otherwise would be a cost to the city we should open it up pretty soon. Okay. Open it back up. Any other questions or comments? Okay. Having closed the public hearing let's move to item C. This is on for discussion approval adopting this ordinance update given that we just had the discussion. Does someone want to make a motion to approve it? I'm sorry. Do I require a specific motion? Just a motion to approve adoption of the chapter 28 fees ordinance update. So. I'm sorry. Aurora did you move it? And then okay. Brinn. Motion by Brinn second by Thomas. Yeah. All those in favor please say aye. Motion carries. Thank you. Fees adopted. Next item. Eric up to the table. Good evening. I'm here tonight to introduce to you a slate of amendments to the city's unified land use and development regulations. The planning commission has been working diligently over the past many months to prepare these amendments. They held a public hearing on April 27th to take public comments and then additionally followed up on May 11th with a additional comment on the specific language in the parking section, section 412 for additional comments. Following that meeting they voted unanimously to forward the amendments on to city council for your consideration. So tonight this item is on the agenda more as a higher level overview just to introduce this information to you and then we will have a more detailed discussion at a future meeting with the potential for setting a public comment specifically. So to highlight some of the changes that have been proposed there's a lot of red line in here but some of it the bulk of the changes are in section 412 which is related to our parking standards. Many of these amendments are focused on article 4 including sections 411 through 412. We are not doing anything we're not proposing any changes to section 412 sorry 4.4 or section 4.8 right now. The planning commission is working on as the mayor mentioned under the council reports is working on the language in section 4.4 related to design review and section 4.8 is related to natural resources and open space and we didn't propose any changes in that section so those are not included in these amendments. There's also a new section section 5.15 which includes incentives for adaptive reuse. This is in reaction to this is the planning commission's way to start proposing some historic preservation standards while we work through the design review component to build in more specific historic preservation and other design considerations and also section 6.6 in site plan review a lot of the language from section 4.1 and 4.12 has been moved into section 6.6 that's why it's included well the parking section had a lot of standards on parking lots and the design of the parking lots which are more appropriate I think in the site plan review section because it doesn't apply necessarily in all cases it really is more site plan specific so we've moved that information into section 6.6 and then we're also including additional definitions and just cleaning up some of the definitions as well so a lot of the work for these amendments is mostly cleanup and clarification to provide some additional specificity to the sections the most changes and the biggest changes I think are in again as I mentioned in section 4.12 related to parking we've added additional categories of land use to include for the parking standards we've reduced the minimum number of parking spaces in some cases we've added a big section was the addition of requirements for bicycle parking we provided more detail on how to achieve parking reductions through shared use parking public parking transportation demand management strategies and offsite options we've included incentives to further reduce parking through the installation of electric vehicle charging stations that are publicly accessible as well as underground parking and just some other general cleanup for that section I think that's a general high level overview happy to take any questions or provide any additional detail if you all would like but as I mentioned the intent is to get into a more detailed discussion on the specifics at a future meeting. Thank you. When did I start? This is just kind of a reminder we've talked about parking minimums around the number of bedrooms previously is that correctly that was am I remembering correctly last year we reviewed some land use requirements around that? Yeah, that's right and we included incentives to allow for parking reductions for units that were affordable and or had three or more bedrooms in them so that is something that's already included in our regulations in section 5.14 That's what I thought but I wanted to double check. I received a public comment asking about the status of S100 the omnibus housing bill and how that will influence the proposed changes in here. Yeah, I'm glad you brought that up counselor I did want to mention S100 so I think it's it depends I think what we need to do is an analysis of what our minimum requirements look like versus the potential incentives to reduce the parking to see if it will be considered to be aligned with S100 or not with the provisions within there I believe the minimum parking that's allowed under S100 is one space per dwelling unit so right now we have one space per dwelling unit however for our multi-unit development we do however require two spaces per dwelling unit for for developments in our residential districts our residential A, B and C but we do also have some incentives and parking so it may the incentives I don't know how that's going to be looked at in any event we are as I mentioned the planning commission is working right now on the design review standards in section 4.4 and if we need to we can incorporate additional changes in reaction to S100 when we find out more details on that. So it sounds like we're waiting on interpretation I can't tell from the legislative website if that has been signed into law. It has not. Yes? Oh today. I heard this morning that it hasn't been so it's good to know. Thank you for the update. Okay so it sounds like we'll just get some additional interpretation. That's right. Thank you. Any other questions? No, I'll wait until more of Beth's session. And I would say if you have any questions outside of this meeting please feel free to reach out and I'll be happy to collect that information that you know. I think one thing I definitely want I want to suggest kind of as we're reviewing is bringing the equity assessment worksheet for this. Sure. Eric one thing that came up maybe February a couple months ago was as part of the incentives for parking reductions about shared shared lots and there were some outstanding questions I don't recall hearing how the calculations would work out for like mixed used structures where there's this is above commercial below and how shared use versus that multi-family parking requirements would calculations would play into each other. Yes, so we did actually the language that was originally reviewed by the Planning Commission was fairly heavily revised and so that is now included in section 412 D1 it's some additional clarification on how the sharing of uses on the same site would be addressed. There's a lot to review here especially if you haven't been looking at it over the course of several months and then one thing that I just wanted to suggest we keep in mind in addition where I'm glad you raised the equity impact worksheet because we need to think about that these land use regulations are super complex and it's a lot of effort to consider how will these changes potentially impact density or housing priorities and also with incentives are they viable? We spent quite a while revising our priority housing incentives because what was initially put in a bonus story wasn't actually an incentive or appealing to offset housing affordability so just some thoughts to keep in mind during review and I'm glad that we are going to have these for a while because that will give us more time to dig in and think about what sections do you want more clarity on I can imagine we'll need Eric to explain quite a bit. Sure and I'll be happy to do that. Like I mentioned section 412 the parking section is probably where the most changes are being proposed a lot of the other information is cleanup certification so there is some additional language in those sections but the bulk of the changes are coming from the parking living standards. I have a question about the minimum parking for ADUs is it the assumption that the ADU would really only have one dwelling unit? So by definition an ADU can only have one dwelling unit there's a statutory definition for what an ADU is and actually I believe statute outlines that you can only require one parking space. Did the commission discuss eliminating parking for ADUs? I don't know if we specifically discussed ADU parking elimination we did have some discussions on whether or not we should well we had several public comments on related to elimination of minimum parking standards all together based on what's happened in South Burlington and Burlington most recently the planning commission was not comfortable eliminating parking all together mostly because their concern and I don't want to speak for them specifically but the comments that were raised is that right now we don't have enough alternatives as far as other options to single occupancy vehicle or vehicle driving we have bicycle infrastructure we have busses but there's not enough frequency or enough connectivity to really allow people to give up a vehicle so they weren't there yet but I think as some of those other programs come along and get improved we may get closer to either further reducing or potentially eliminating parking for some uses. And since we've there's been I think more interest in conversation about density and encouraging ADUs is there any adjustments forgive me because I'm sure this is all here are there any adjustments to allow for reduced setbacks for ADUs? So right now an accessory dwelling unit we consider to be an accessory structure so the minimum setback is 5 feet right now for the side and rear as opposed to most of the other zoning districts require at least 15 feet for rear yard and I believe 10 feet for side yard great thank you we do have one attendee on zoom so I want to open up to public comment Jean if you have anything please use raise hand or chat any other questions? okay great thank you all very much okay let's move on to item E our strategic vision area goal updates yeah so we've got two updates in your packet one for all meaning that these are items that touch on several if not all the goal areas of economic vitality housing a municipal infrastructure and safe healthy connected people under all I'll just ask if council has any concerns about a sole source contract to the family room for the working community challenges contractor host there's a lot of nouns in a row right there is that a question you want now or yes yeah I'll just give a little context for anyone who's tuning in for the first time on this topic so the working communities challenge is a it's an initiative of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank and the goal is to foster cross-sectoral collaboration to resolve to address challenges that can't be solved by any one sector so in our case it is workforce development access for especially new Americans so this project has been challenging to keep going since our equity director resigned because she had and it was challenging even when she was here because it was basically three jobs that she was doing working communities challenge initiative director actual equity director work which is community late outreach liaison so with this current iteration we're attempting to carve out the working communities challenge initiative director role temporarily just to be served by a short-term contractor that would that would foster a new core team which would really be that cross-sectoral group of folks that would be informing what this money should be spent on even though the city is the lead on the grant it doesn't mean we should dictate what happens because there's a lot of other stakeholders here and their voices are just not enough heard so the strategy now is to hire a short-term contractor to to cultivate that new core team so after a lot of back and forth trying to recruit such core team members ourselves we found that it just it was we wouldn't have enough time to get that to happen so we're thinking of paying someone to do that and the family room is one of the is the only original core team member which still is part of the core team and has very strong relationships within our new American community so that was the logic behind justifying justifying a sole source contract and especially bringing it to council wanted to take this opportunity to ask if there are any concerns with that thank you any concerns I'm interested in knowing how the deliverables will be that we're obligated to will be fulfilled if that's a complete relaying of those responsibilities to the family room and the funds that are available will be sufficient to compensate them for those deliverables yeah that's a fair question I basically I guess that remains to be seen when we floated roughly what we were thinking about paying an initiative director based on what the other initiative directors in Vermont get it seemed like we should have enough room in the budget to produce some results so you asked me Gordon the equity director actually delivered on all of the deliverables that have been committed to already going forward it's like we figure out what the work plan is and then deliver on them there's plenty of room to scope it appropriately and we are including consideration of some overhead costs for the host if it was the family room that's certainly best practice that would come from the general fund I would cover in the working community challenge grant okay so there would be that essentially was what I was trying to frame is there are sufficient funds in the working community challenge grant to cover the cost anticipated costs or would there be additional allocation requests from the general fund I see our plan is certainly to scope it in the working community challenge great I'm not hearing concerns okay very good thank you and then economic volatility in terms of that update any comments generally about the all goal update for economic volatility I know you all are rightly concerned about the language access plan so I'll comment a bit on that so we are making progress on the request for proposals for contracts that the initial two phases that project Paul has been Paul Sarn the communications director has been taking the lead on scoping that and we're thinking of it in terms of a assessment and a policy phase for a contractor and then we would be doing a the the plan itself internally and probably procedures as well Paul is there anything I'm putting you on the spot here but is there anything you'd like to say about that I just sent back the comments to you today no I think you definitely covered most of those those points pretty well I'm liking the idea of doing it in a phased approach phase one all the community engagement putting a language needs assessment together and then phase two sort of looking at internal operational stuff policies procedures and then after having all those deliverables for us to put together the plan I think it's great so looking forward to more being able to report more tangible progress on that shortly do you have a sense for timing of those phases yeah so Paul and I haven't discussed my input on that yet he's drafted it as say August to get the RFP out and then September to get the RFP back or the bids back October through perhaps March to do the work we'll have to see you know this is our first time through so we'll see if that feels like not enough or too much or what is there is it anticipated or is there need let me rephrase what's the plan to coordinate with the school so the there's a couple pieces that Paul built in so the certainly that the school is a source of a lot of information about our multilingual needs in the community or language access teams in the community so that is that piece so we've built in like there needs to be stakeholder engagement at least of these groups and that's the school district is certainly one of them may all be of course the others and the two commissions that are most connected say probably connected inclusion and belonging thank you any other questions on the agenda appreciate the update questions from members of the public okay we'll move on from item E thank you Elaine all right on to item F finalizing our annual city council policy priorities and strategies so we have a bit of a three parter here oh sure okay before we start into item F let's take a five minute recess we will reconvene at the meeting okay it is 703 so I'll reconvene our meeting from great so what we have here tonight is the list of priorities that we aligned on at our May 13th priorities and strategies retreats with leadership team tonight the ask is to adopt this final list but there is space if anyone wants to have further discussion additionally we had a conversation at that meeting about both commission and community engagement I took those notes and created the two attached documents here and I also had a discussion with Elaine about getting some she shared some additional staff input on engagement areas so pending adoption of the final priorities then we can talk about bringing this to commissions and then community engagement stuff so with that let's first look at our priorities and strategies document I'll open the floor if there are any comments before we move to adopt this there definitely was interest from the commission and from the public on seeing what the next plan is and the priorities for the coming year are so looking forward to sharing this out with those groups are we feeling good about advancing what we came to on last month including the including the prioritizations well that's the one question I had are we like when we advance this document are we going to knock off the items that we didn't prioritize I believe yes just so it's cleaner if you need me to rephrase yeah oh yeah so for example like if it didn't garner enough stars no no sorry you agreed before I wanted to add the stuff from the this year's document misinterpretation our indications of where we put our highest priority so ideally everything in here gets moved forward worked on over the course of the year but if push comes to shove those stars tell staff like the one thing we care the most about and also to be clear must do and recommend are still categories on here so we aren't necessarily telling staff that everything in recommended must happen either so there's tears yeah and there's some things that will even though they're recommended they will be they will receive staff support when they're ready so for example the airport noise mitigation that will get staff to support even though it's listed as recommended it's just as that time approaches and as it's appropriate for us to engage with that so I also want to make sure that there's just a little bit of clarity around that yeah I guess one question slash clarification possibly just for the public too is in municipal infrastructure I think there's votes five votes on the city infrastructure financial needs but that's under recommended because it depends if we have the resources correct it's under recommended because it isn't a must do it sounds funny but that's what it is it's very awkward that it isn't a must do but there are resources so planning is really as we can any other questions or comments on this any questions from members of the public so I'll do this separately I would like to get a motion specifically to approve the strategies and priorities so second motion by Thomas second by Charlie all those in favor please say aye motion carries thank you thank you so let's move on to the commission engagement notes so again sort of a two part discussion what we discussed is here in this grid so all of the items from those priorities that we said wanted commission engagement I've represented that here you'll see an italic text recommendations from my conversation with Elaine and so a lot of these are invite for consultation which is sort of we're not exactly sure what that should look like yet but we should keep it on our radar my goal here would be that first if anyone wants to call out an additional like did we miss somewhere where we should be engaging a commission on one of these items and then second the goal would be that each of us take this document meet with our commission chair and staff liaison and have a discussion about that commission's work plan the timing on some of this isn't entirely clear yet and so that may have an impact on meeting schedules but I also think it would be good for the chair and then like we can show this as well with commissions when those work plans are put together like this is all the stuff that's on priority and here's where we see you fitting in they might have ideas about other areas of engagement which could be brought back for consideration I feel like the bike pad master plan should also be offered to the housing commission sorry I'm just looking for the line yeah it's like it's not numbered so it's four fourth window oh thank you yeah does that feel appropriate to you Charlie yeah I I don't see why not Brent is there something specific that you want housing to weigh in on or do you just feel like having our perspective or the perspective of the commission would be I think that being proactive and bringing that plan to the housing commission assuming that the residents are the ones that are most impacted by parking reductions yeah and the status of our roads and streets and the safety of them for use for bicycles and pedestrians that is appropriate to me that we proactively ask for their input so I would say in the sense of what are what are their concerns what's missing would be for me something that I would want to hear back from that great yeah I'm happy to bring that to the chair because I don't know that we will get that impact that input without proactively bringing it to the group I support that I wonder if the possible renovation of the existing fire station if self-healthy connected people should be engaged in that conversation under the guise of their safe portion of their commission work they would fall under safe health they connected but I don't know if it's like more operational if that should be an invite for consultation consider an invite for consultation depending on like ask staff to consider it yeah I'd appreciate that yeah it would be I support having at least one other commission look at it aside from the finance commission and I'm curious why the parks is not proposed to be shared with the municipal infrastructure second to last no one suggested it during the last meeting I think parks are part of the section of the master plan the infrastructure they kind of straddle that same with senior not at all if that's looking at brick and mortar exciting, join me in I mean they might not be as excited as I am about infrastructure but I'm pretty excited about infrastructure are there any other suggested additions or changes no okay I can add I just took notes by hand like a fool I will update this document and send it out I should be able to do this tomorrow so that we can start engaging with chairs I also want to just say thank you for putting this together super helpful alright and then the final piece is the community engagement notes this I just want to make clear so these are some notes from our discussion as well as my conversation with Elaine but I think this is something that is always evolving and that I wouldn't want us to feel like whatever we're suggesting tonight is all we're going to do but if there's anything else that you suggest gets documented right now based on what we know happy to update this as well and I think maybe it goes without saying on here as we're doing community outreach events we can be sharing updates on any of these priorities looks like a good document I don't have anything to add there are some operational things on here and they're called out so I just want to make sure like we're clear about that yeah well Elaine suggested those and wanted to show where there is some like specific outreach plan by staff okay so that we know that we don't have to go out and tell everyone about the new public building registry updates I don't know how many community members really care about the skills matrix I bet we could find one I would be one but I I don't have anything else to add at the moment yeah there's nothing that flagged for me but it's good to know that it's something of a working document yeah yeah and I think you know we have this Google doc with the community engagement this is where we can like put on there here's the topics we're trying to engage people on and sort of keep track of things there I like having this as a reference document there and then other things that are just not that are high public interest but not necessarily included on here the capital improvement projects and other things like that what's happening with the bridge like what's happening with the hotel so I actually perhaps this is this is still within the scope of community engagement discussion so on the Google sheet that we use to track like the groups I have I added a topics list there following the retreat discussion and so all the capital projects are on here and like just cause eviction and some other things that don't show up on here but this is you know we can continue to add items here as we see what people want to hear about are there any other sounds like there's sort of big things that we want to call out right now any questions from members of the public necessarily have to like approve these but I'll take a motion just for the whole item anyone like to make a motion to approve our strategies and priorities and engagement notes with the changes suggested changes second second by charlie all those in favor please say aye aye thank you very excited to have this move forward with alright we are on to item G our pride month resolution so we want to recognize June as pride month here in when you see again thank you councillors for bringing forward a resolution last year we have brought forward this resolution again with a small adjustment to recognize that some segments of society look to legislate and speak harmfully against the LGBTQIA plus community and so the need for education and awareness remains vital another reason why we are adopting this resolution tonight are there any questions concerns text amendments happy that we're doing it again I would like to make a motion to approve so moved second by aurora second by brinn all those in favor please say aye aye motion carries second by mason we'll share that out happy pride alright this brings us to the end of our regular agenda an executive session has been more pursuant to one vsa section 313 which exempts from the public inspections this discussion is regarding a contract I'm looking for a motion to find that we should hold this discussion in executive session to not put the city at risk as we discuss contract terms second motion by thomas second by charlie all those in favor please say aye motion carries now I'm looking for a motion to enter into executive session inviting city manager elaine won anyone else angela and ted although ted is not here yet because he really whipped through this agenda yeah okay and the city assessor ted nelson and angela all motion by charlie second second by aurora all those in favor please say aye motion carries we're going to move into executive session we will only discuss this topic no other business will be discussed we will now be taking any actions this evening and so at the end of executive session we will return solely to adjourn thank you