 to order. Yes, it's already been a long Monday, but we're going to make it through this meeting and the next ones. The first item on the agenda is the motion to adopt the agenda, which I believe has some changes. President Paul, can I come to you? Thank you so much. I'd like to make a motion that we approve and adopt the agenda on with the deletion of 4.06, which will be discussed later in Executive Session. Any comments? Great. All those in favor? Second. Thank you. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? And the motion carries. Is there anyone wishing to speak to public forum? Just going to check it. I'm sure I'm playing at last count. I did not see anyone. Okay, I don't see any of our online attendees or in person, so we will go ahead and close the public forum. The next item on the agenda is the consent agenda. I am going to note that the minutes for June 13 and June 27th were amended as indicated at the last meeting with some corrections from both President Paul as well as Councillor McGee, and then we do have the minutes from last Monday. Those are the only new minutes. Do I have a motion on the consent agenda? I will. Great. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? And the motion carries. And that brings us to item 4.01, a exciting Department of Corrections grant for safer communities. Come on up, Rachel. Why don't you tell us a little bit about that? Sure. So this is probably the oldest grant that the CJC has gotten from the Department of Corrections to take referrals both pre-charged, direct from our police department, as well as post-charge from the courts and from the PO's, essentially, Department of Corrections, probation for law officers, and also funds our reentry work with our Circles of Support and Accountability program and has been, I think, a continuous grant since 1998 or 1999. So this is just, it's renewal and they are offering a 7% pullout this year, which was really unexpected and very welcome. Great. Do we have a motion? I'm always happy to make motions to accept money. Yes. I'll make the motion and recommend it in board docs. Great. All those in favor, please say aye. Any opposed? And the motion carries. Thank you, Rachel. Congratulations to you and the rest of the CJC. And that brings us to item 4.02, the ground lease with beta technologies. We have a cast of thousands who would like to speak to that. All right. Nick, why don't you kick us off? Perfect. I am extremely excited to be here today with Jeff Glasberg, Jeremy Farkas, our team at the airport in the free and Shelby as well as beta representative, our clue to formally and officially present the beta ground lease before board finance and later tonight at City Council. One of the things that I'm reminded of when I actually look at this lease and all the work that has gone through this is the actual aircraft. When I look out my office window is flying today. I can speak on that a little bit more if there's any questions, but this is a 100% electric aircraft flying today at the Burlington International Airport. And this lease that is presented to you tonight is a representation of what the future of the Burlington Airport looks like with the help and support and of course the manufacturing by beta technologies of this 100% electric aircraft. An extensive amount of time has gone into just this ground lease alone with the truly expert help of Jeff Glasberg and Jeremy Farkas solidifying this deal. Beta has already invested over $15 million into the Burlington International Airport at their existing headquarters building. This is the next step to manufacture these new electric aircraft with over 350,000 square feet of new facility. In extensive capital investment of over $200 million both with the building as well as with salaries through 2024. I needless to say, I don't think I need to say it too much more, but this is such an extraordinary event for the Burlington Airport in so many various ways. Neither go into details too much on the terms of the lease, unless Jeff you want to add anything additional, but we did spell out in a memo those highlights the term items. And that's that's essentially it. We have more information that we're planning to share during deliberative session of the city council. Happy to answer any questions directly at this time. We do have our clue go here from beta to provide a very brief overview of beta technologies and he's prepared with us somewhat longer, although within five minutes, sorry, for a deliberative session this evening. So one point I want to make and then perhaps we could turn it over to Art to do that introduction. I think the fact that the city has an established contractual relationship with beta that beta came to the airport, made a series of agreements and has lived up to those agreement in terms of their investment in terms of job creation speaks to the nature of the relationship going forward. This is a party with whom the city now has the experience of doing business and beta has held up its end and more as in that transaction. So I think that's an important element as we look at a much more substantial and longer term relationship. We start from a place where there is now a track record of performance and fulfilling promises. So I think it's a really good basis on what should you perceive. Would it be appropriate to have Art come up at this point to a brief overview? Here, it's a big agenda. Real quick, Art Cludo, beta technology, thanks for having us here as Nick and Jess said. It's really exciting for us. I just rather than give a brief overview of beta, hopefully everybody's either been on our website, seen the social media posts or some of the many articles that have been written about the great work the team is doing, really just want to reiterate the partnership that this isn't all about. Not just the direct partnership and working through the transaction, but since 2018 when beta was created, it's been a fantastic opportunity to have some shared goals around sustainability, around job growth, about what it means to be a good neighbor and really work together to try to tackle this thing called climate change, which is really important. I know it's the city of Burlington, the state of Vermont, and certainly beta. In whatever small way, large way, we can tackle that. We're glad to be here tonight to see this transaction through and take the next steps. I'm happy to answer any questions. So one of the more popular treats that I got on the morning of July was the picture of beta flying over the waterfront. I'm definitely a proud pleaser and lots of people are fascinated by the work that you do. As a mind, I think the first tour that I had to beta was right at the very beginning. It was very small. Obviously, as we measure all our lives, so I think this is a wonderful day and we should invest with your success in the future. I'm happy to make the motion. That's recommended on board docs and all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Any motion carries. Thank you so much. And that brings us to item 4.03. Jeff had his favorite at Board of Finance. We were talking parking management software, key improvements coming. What's the way you got to do it? So this is a request to enter in a contract with BCD, DECD, Corporation of Rounds and Games parking management software. And what it basically is is a back-end software for managing parking services in general. So our old software was, I think, but this way it was brought up. It came with the Parking Enforcement Group, so it was a parking enforcement-centric software with parking permitting as sort of a sidecar to it. Whereas this is a more well-balanced parking permitting and enforcement software platform. So what it's allowed us to do is it really will support our gameless garage initiative much better than what we're doing now. I think I stated here some very significant cost savings. So this software will not increase, materially, increase the cost to 153, which is the parking services fund. It significantly reduces costs for parking operations and expands our technical capacity. And it's really the foundation of the future. The real art and all that stuff that this is software that's going to make that so that's short story. Excellent. We're ready to move to motion. Further questions? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. That brings us to item 4.04 of the Pump House Shed for Recreational Item Storage. And we have Team TPW joining us remotely this evening. Director Spencer would you like to kick us off with this exciting revenue-generating item? Sure. Thank you. I have with me Planner Elizabeth Ross and Public Information Manager Rob Goulding here. We heard from the public and we heard from some stakeholders there was interest to further activate the waterfront with recreational resource. And we do have a shed on the northern side of our pump building that is underutilized. And so working creatively with the water division and with our planning team, we put together this proposal and I'll have our team summarize the details if they would. Chapin introduced it pretty well, but we did issue a request for proposals a couple of months ago to use this space or the recreational renting of different materials potentially and increase those recreational opportunities on the waterfront. We did just receive one application, it was a joint application from North Star Sports and the ski rack to lease that space with the plan to kind of use it as like a remote waterfront leasing location for their bikes and different equipment that they have. And we had a review committee meet and found it to be a satisfactory proposal. There was one last-minute addition to the packet of information for tonight, which was to include the lease template that we referenced in the memo that didn't make it into the packet accidentally this evening. But other than that, it's a pretty straightforward memo. So I think the three of us are happy to answer any specific questions or other people can jump in for any thoughts that I might have missed. Great. Thank you. Are we ready to make a motion? Councilor Hightower. Yeah, just a question on the more specific terms, which is $200 or 5% whichever is greater, is that true? And then, yeah, just how we got to that. Thank you. So thanks for that question, Councilor Hightower. So the bitters did put forward a proposal that included a 10% revenue as what we would collect. So it was a little, I think, more favorable. And I believe we base the original terms on how parks has structured lease arrangements on the waterfront in the past. So we wanted to be in line with that. And my understanding is that the bitters had put forward a slightly modified proposal, which I think is more favorable. That's correct. I will say just to add a little bit to Rob's piece is that this is an unheated space that doesn't have activity. It doesn't have an office. It's not going to be the space from which a retail operation is operating. This is storage only. And so we were trying to find a way that we could estimate the value of that location. And then in the end, we did add the opportunity for them to vend outside adjacent to the waterfront green way as part of the proposal. So I think that reflected in the outdoor center's willingness to propose the 10%, which is included now in the contract. Got it. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? Anyone like to make a motion? I'll make a motion. And is there a second? Second. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? And the motion carries unanimously. That brings us to item 4.05, ratification of the tentative agreement and authorization to execute the collective bargaining agreement between the city of Burlington and AFSCME. Is it an exciting one? I'd like to call up Karen Durfey and Ron Jacobs, the AFSCME president. Now, for any, there are a few members of the public who'd like to watch Board of Finance who may not be former city counselors. Just to note that we are in an awkward period of time where because the city council has not officially ratified this contract, we cannot yet speak to all of the specifics of it, which is unfortunate, but we will soon be able to release those. In the meantime, are there any non-specific that you two would like to speak to us about? No, I think thank you, Attorney Pellerin, for informing us. We definitely are excited to bring this contract forward. I think I don't speak for Ron, but I can definitely speak for the city team that we're very excited and we're very excited to share the details after the vote. It's been a great experience working with AFSCME, and I will leave it at that. Yeah, and I would like to concur on what Karen said since we can't talk specifics. I just want to say that we were impressed and not exactly happy at the cooperative spirit that the negotiations to replace it, and on behalf of the Nibboshi 18 harassment, I do want to thank the Nibboshi 18 for city. Like I was just telling Joe before the meeting, this was one of those moments when our common interests were much greater than our differences, and it worked out to give you an indication of how popular the contract was among our members. We had over and around 60 percent of our eligible members vote, and less than, I would say less than 3 percent against them. So we're really happy. I'm looking forward to sharing the details once again. Excellent. Thank you both. As a member of the negotiating team, I just echo what you said. It was really an honor to be a part of it, and it's very collaborative. And I want to, among those who I want to thank is someone who is no longer an employee of City of Utah, Attorney Justin. Yes. He was very, he was very, very useful in this negotiation. Yes. Any questions? Yes. Are there any motions? Please. Excellent. Is there a second? Second. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? And the motion carries unanimously. Thank you so much. I'm thinking I want to look at that. Yeah, I'll look at that. We've done that again. We'll put that upstairs for you. All right. It's only 5.22, and we only have one more item left. Item 5.01. Let's bring Jeff back. Traffic signal modernization. Talk to us. This is actually very exciting. So this is a ... Riverside Avenue is under construction, I'm not sure if you can see them over there, but they're actively building them up. So we sort of jumped onto this kind of at the last minute, said, hey, why don't we try out ... Well, it was cameras instead of loops. And the state wants us to do this type of work. And this is sort of a pilot program. So I'm spending a little time on this. This is a preview of something you're going to see much more than this fall. The City of Burlington's traffic signals are stable and functional, but they're also about 25, 30 years old, technology-wise. The technology we're putting on Riverside Avenue is a ... It's a fish-eye lens single camera that sees all approaches at the same time and counts cars at the same time. We can watch traffic from 6-4-5 line streets at the same time. So if we see a zone's not working, we just make a little box on the screen bigger and zone less. So this is like taking us in this puncture century radically. And doing it through this project, getting some of the costs subsidized because they were already going to spend money on loops. We actually have a meeting tomorrow with Nicole to talk strategy or the grants. And Wednesday with the CCRPC, they're actually going to help us build out the master plan at no cost to us. So I'm explaining to us because this is a small project, but it's foreshadowing us. Pretty exciting things going to go that far. Yes, Nicole's work I've done. So question because I think I've experienced that a lot of these roads don't necessarily notice bicycle traffic and change for that. This will do a much better job at detecting bikes and pets. And then my second question is just because I feel like folks I was concerned with cameras, just to keep the talk a little bit more about like the back end data privacy protection. There's no images being stored. It's counting presence of a car or lack of presence of a car. So there's no license plate reading. There's no capturing images for anyone who's about to control the traffic itself. It's an actuation device just done. We have cameras all over the city, right? They're just there. They're looking at a single direction. Static. You'll get four cameras in the four direction. This will be one camera. Yes, Councilor McKay. Speaking with other cameras, can you just kind of explain those? Are they serving the same purpose just for cameras or are those actually for you? No, no. There's no camera, of course. And there's no touch. Yes, this is securely for signal control. Any other questions? Are we ready to make? Yes, Councilor, I don't. Yeah, happy to make the motion to authorize the Directorate of WPW to accept the change order as listed on the board. And is there a second? Thank you, Councilor McKay. All those in favor, please say aye. And handpost. And the classes unanimously. Thank you for bringing us into the 21st century again. And if there are no objections, we will adjourn at 526. And we have a little break, I think, before the executive session. Is that what you would like to do, President Paul? I think that's what we need to do. We'll have a break. Great. And there will be, I think, yes, it's a miracle for everyone to have a happy hour. And for those of you planning to join the executive session by Zoom, there either is another link or there will be soon from Chief of Staffordale. And are we starting at 526? Yes. We have to start upstairs. And then come back down here because