struction time exiting the building in case of an emergency in case or an emergency tonight please proceed out of one of these two doors to the outside and go to the south parking lot and gather there if these doors are blocked please go back out through the lobby through which came out the front door and back to the parking lot as well please go right away tom hubbard and i will be responsible for making sure the building is cleared ok so i am thank you i three is the agenda review any additions deletions or changes in order of agenda items and i think i assume everyone got the email from kevin that the valerie car's elo who ha thought she would be interested in the library board realized it was a conflict with her work hours and i'm assuming or life hours and so she has withdrawn to item eight we will not take up are there any other and was approached by a faculty member at the high school asking for help with the senior challenge of somebody the c d c so we made contact today and we're going to take it from there so what happens some fun to do something  nothing is decided between the curbs and williston road at all there are four options that have been recommended they're all equally discussable and there's no plans there that misinformation was that a number of business owners thought there was going to be something changing between the curves it's actually the sell side streets kate between the curve in the front of the buildings and and i think when it's almost two hours discussion was done the business owners felt much more comfortable with the city was tuned into their concerns and that i think i think they they saw a commitment by by you folks in planning to meet with each of ensure that each business owners concerns were met with individually as necessary as the streetscape which is walking and biking goes past their business and and assuring them that when all is said and done well as to what is going to much much more friendly environment for people and for bikes i thought it was a very positive meeting and i did i felt i felt good about it just out of curiosity or just for for information say i was in saratoga on saturday morning and from there curved to the front of their buildings on the north side of their main street thirty six feet and that's all pedestrian there was no bikes there are thirty six feet of pedestrian walkway i had up huge and i mean huge beautiful flower gardens around everywhere well it's benches for people to sit on the other side of the street might have been eighteen twenty feet middle narrower and just for informational purposes i got a picture of it city hall is right saratoga is assumed probably successful community from a residential perspective in a tourism perspective it's hard to beat it's just well done and so that's that's my announcement report  can catch the owners in their home also everybody here should have received an invitation to the october eleventh check your spam filter for the fire southward to firefighters awards recognition dinner so you should have received it and that's also just one state for the record if we've overlooked anybody it's not an open event it costs money to have this event but we want to invite people friends of the supper entire department so i would double check but i think i use your city e mail address everybody should receive an invitation that's on the budget well discuss that later but i had a wonderful time running around after a twenty month old who is a little stubborn but it was fun well you know what strikes me is how much they practice to learn i don't know we're we as as we grow older we lose that we don't practice enough to really pick up different skills we just maybe hear it once and try it once and children are very persistent it's pretty cool to watch them learn to speak and practice words and they just do it over and over again that's called just the odd thing to the times coming about these terrorists so i was approached by resident at the last night and they were concerned that there were more than four unrelated adults renting in a particular house there that is one of the single family houses that are that are owned by one person and there are many homes owned by one person the street there were six people that were suspect of living in that home in a device to give  view on this and i'm sorry to report that there's already been some issues this this year that police have been called a couple of times every year it's a new crop of students so but i will say there are two students on the terrace that used to be resident assistants and i know them so i'm asking them to extend their chain and county public safety authority meeting today board meeting today we will be selecting a consultant to move us through the process toward implementation of the combined dispatch am meeting with a lot and i are meeting with the board of the s b b a tomorrow just to go over update on city center and on the community center library city hall  senior center proposal i also went to the to the reception the other night which was great nice to have a brewery in town to have a reception like  h e groundbreaking will be on wednesday wednesday this wednesday at ten am helen will welcome for the community and the groundbreaking itself because they can't access their actual site is going to be on either one on one side or the other of market street right past market school's entrance so even though it's not technically on their site they're going to do with the groundbreaking their beyond the driveway it's all torn up so tom can report or if you want to talk about our new car you probably saw on the warrant our lease was up for c r v the city hall vehicle that we gets people around and we worked with the energy committee to come up with an alternative vehicle that we could use that was more efficient and a couple were identified to us and we selected the honda clarity and so we we've got the car plugged in over at the fire station in the little alleyway next to the station and it's about fifty department in the first floor community room when you're on vita to attend i wanted to let you know that i'm glad members of the vice investor and committee are here i attended part of their meeting last week but partly it was to introduce to them  actually has moved over and and has become the bike and pedestrian coordinator as we've as the public has supported the build out of the bike and pedestrian facilities with  with the one cent we thought it was time to move her into the role of taking on those projects and also taking on the open space fund projects so she's still a project manager but we're moving her into those projects specifically because they are funded and i think certainly i know the committee wants to get moving on them in the public does as well so actually moved into that spot safety committee met last week safety committee meets every other month this is an internal committee just to look at various safety issues we meet with our safety consultant  wilson road streetscape meeting last week if it was good and we're meet with anybody any time at all to talk about any of these things any questions yet  sober october first your first meeting in october took the canoe a six second meeting in october the fifty first meeting is the discussion about growth related issues that paul is leading and then the as the sustainability discussion we had intended to do it tonight but with polls kind of putting the other presentation together to be ready for the first your friend i don't know i could also see this not being a city council thing but then just fifty lisa bellenger has the cycles of the capacity to own this she did a great job during the rubble above the event after those elections just having an opportunity for community members to so the first one is in your safety committee that you have a right to the city employees get training in active shooter run hide fight they receive anything like that  the library got some training from the other team with the police did work did do a training at the airport with their security and they have are very active not the employees here  hide fight active shooter it's a really disturbing video he really brings home the reality of what people have experienced you know for many years so in it it's a shame to say that you have to be trained in that because you could happen we we do have a procedure you have to see you train or if we don't we have not done the whole run and hide fight i mean so i mean so i is the first time i've been reduced to it you know in as a corporate employee right where i was asked to watch this video and then try to learn what to do in response to something like that happening so i was just curious how many other organizations you know provide that kind of training to their to the people that work inside office buildings because  has every employee in this building sat down with somebody in a room and learned about it and watched a video and seen a example of how they should behave we haven't watched a video but we weren't trained by oakland those things a crisis crisis point the crisis p and i after we talked about that day i went and looked ok and you're right there really is only a small stretch on dorset street where we're here was a sphere and spear street work it's not wide enough on the sides and it is that that stretch on the east side of the road doesn't go very far but but the other side of the road has adequate space anyway i'd have to talk to you all to the members of the committee here who have their said there's one spot on the on the east side of spear street that runs maybe more of a mile maybe that doesn't have the the wide shoulder but everywhere else it has it on both and they suggested that we start the process for the bid the bid process for paving earlier this year they were surprised to hear this when they were given the contract in june or so so i don't know when we started it last year that was different than usual but if we could meet at it doesn't make sense i'd love to hear more expert print pinions about this than i on whether or not we could look at the paving process sooner time to secure more bids and get them started earlier in the season and the end if there's a certain time that you want that to come have him start our process so that he can be as ready as possible from the spring paving season i think i think he's heard that i think he's aware of that and will make sure that it's communicating  difference and i think your home like so he over the last couple years he's combined fiscal year so that we have more like a quarter million dollars worth of projects and he's been able to extend a few more roads into the paving plan to do with that way we might not be able to do it that way but things are getting done in a timely manner so there's pros and cons to it to both i think  i think he understands his or concerns about the way it's been done and if people would like to see a change so i think he's open to well would be good to know you're doing a leader really has any reason value pavement while paul has the acting zoning it ministre her officer acting code officer and acting telecommunications officer and finally to authorize kevin durant is the voting delegate and we're meeting again this is it tomorrow or wednesday and then again on friday but  the income with one of the ways that channel seventeen public access is funded is through the contract that comcast has to their license they're required to fund their subscriber subscription list is going down few more people are streaming other ways to get content and not utilizing them and therefore the contribution i guess or support for all of the access channels in the state has gone down which is left about a fifty thousand dollars hole in the budget for next year so we're looking at ways to fill that and one of the ways to his that we have to discuss it and i'm not asking for a vote tonight at all and they will come and explain the situation more fully but they're looking for an increase in our annual remember we'll be discussing that further but that's just a heads it's a conversation we'll have to have when we put budget together that i thought potentially earlier would be and i've asked them to come in early t into conversation for a long time so anyway so that's a little heads up and then the airport commission meeting i didn't have my notes the last time i told you i  email you but i didn't so i thought i would tell you they are reaping there's a replacement that the taking a paving project that the tang is paying for it is responsible for  e to when they they worked on the new end of the air port where they turn around they had to put new lines down in the f a is very demanding about as you can understand the lines have to be really clear and there and you can't just paint over the old ones because i guess visually with planes coming in they can see the new white or the new yellow they also can see this dark line and it's this safety issue so without changing the lines this summer and stuff when they  possibly i was supposed to start mid september but i don't know if it started yet and then the other update and just to you know this was really nice they had a small fire at heritage and chief brant they specifically wanted us to knew that he was really stellar because of all the safety planning and the course that they go to one of the things that all the businesses have to do is tell you tell the city exactly what kind of chemicals and stuff they have and this involves lithium batteries and so because of that parking garage it's that they've completed all of the technology that was space one face to they've completed the construction within the garage and  and then i think and to tell you about the sound mitigation meeting and and there's a meeting wednesday right the planning meeting  that was put off for change and i believe it's well it's on their website i don't know how they're reaching out there's a number of people who are invited you know just by virtue of their role that includes a lot of really quick and i just have to acknowledge that this is the first time i've given the g m t report with another g m t commissioner in the room our most experienced longest serving and one of the most institutionally knowledgeable board commissioner the chief and spencer so if i missed anything let me know but really quick in a nutshell a task force is meeting it's met twice so we're looking for that conversation we're working on implementing some of the g m t the next gen recommendations and tomorrow morning bright and early we're all down i'm up here we're all day for our annual board retreat so i have more to report at our burlington department of public works related to the would you like questions at the end of your presentation or we're flexible we are going to boil down fifty years of work into ten minutes so happy to  with city engineer norm baldwin we will give a very cursory overview this was thanks to a suggestion from director of public works just rabbit do that it was time for us to come and give  a update on the champlain parkway so thanks to justin for that we are at a pivotal moment in this project this project is scheduled to start construction in twenty one thousand we know that for many people they have long heard this projects two years away we have made some substantial improvements and progress as of late which we will go through so next this project as many recall has a purpose a need statement to connect the i want to the nine facility with the city center district of downtown burlington and as you may recall and design work started in the mid  sixty's we have worked through the mayor support and through staff support to bring a number of design detail enhanced mintz refinements to the project to improve pedestrian bicycle accommodation had the power point didn't quite bring all the colors ation and you'll see in the next few slides forward so we opted for the p d f so some of the benefits of the project we've talked about the connection from one hundred to downtown this project is slated to improve circulation largely in the south end of burlington levy capacity over burns on a number of our streets specifically residential  streets and that ties in with that next bullet about safety providing traffic relief in the southwestern quadrant of the city of burlington and eliminate disruption to local neighborhoods as you see there specifically there are many was some connection between how early in itself really to interface this project and where the city limits are and how this plays out with design and construction through the various phases so what we did was th intersection here is the twenty nine seven interchange and you can see here this this magenta color is the representation of the the two city limits and then the parkway itself been redesigned into a two lane road the majority of which is a twenty five mile an hour street this is one section that is reads more like a transition and this project has its permits and let's say that there are any substantive change such as this one which the city has discussed with the state would require  substantial redesign and refurbishing we have requested that the state oh allow us and once this project is constructed to advance many different  components to look at anything from adding to block crossings to on street parking in particular areas and exploring the connection here we understand that there is a community desire line here  we have been informed by the state and the feds that that the chain such as this would be such a substantial redesign that the project itself would likely not happen so there are connections that have been provided here for bikes and peds they are they are different than what exists currently but  have communicated and have been writing the state's willingness to explore with us changes once this project is constructed i continuous bike facilities from this point to proximity to miles into the sitter the center of burlington so while we are focusing certainly on this one connection here on fine street the shared use path that we pointed out earlier does continue along the parkway up to kilburn street where it meets bike lanes up to maple street so i understand that the connection may be different the route through but  as part of this parkway would be a shared use path off road now and with bike lanes into the city center so the route is slightly different but it is a continuous facility where one does not exist today it's the c two section which is adding a new twenty five mile an hour street between home avenue in lakeside avenue my guess is that that represents a little under a mile connectivity installed there also be significant storm water improvements such that the storm water management will be in excess of what exists today but this project will have  a good question this project will have expanded stormwater measurement over the current situation the issues that we've had this year it may plant are significant and we have a multi pronged approach to resolving it that includes a bond that the city council is going to be considering in the twenty fourth of this month exacerbated during what weather events storm water storm events and as such this process project to the champlain parkway will reduce the impact on the plant by reducing the storm water flows to the plant when it can least handle the inflow of storm water so this project will among other projects underway we have a redevelopment of st paul street right now that is creating still the cells and permeable pavement and so when we have a chance to redevelop redevelop our streets we make sure to bring improvements in the storm water system that will further benefit our combined collection system and this one will be pursuing putting this up bid in the hope is that the church will begin spring of two thousand and nineteen obviously there are legal challenges that go with this project that could completely change the schedule but as it stands today this is what our tentative schedule showing is indicating as we speak and we just need to work to be a two year project and we're mindful of how this project will tie into other projects in the region in terms of its timing particularly for the all around the belt that's being proposed to be built by the state for the river could potentially with these improvements be somewhat placed on two high street as with the improved sections and sections a road but we're not physically creating more demand by developing this road we're just simply i don't remember the exact percentage somewhere in the realm of ten percent and the project has gone through federal and state perming received it's actually fifty per minute the traffic projections along the corridor are very kind of neighborhood by neighborhood but this project will add to the street grid network in the south and of are only ten which will add to the resiliency of the system tom i just want to say traffic is all interconnected so anything we can do to distribute it d this will address a lot of concerns in the plains i hear from many residents so i'm really excited that this is moving forward a fifty year project my flaws you understand the competing interests that have been weighing on you in trying to get it to th stage version number six so i would hate for some burlington demand for a path over that stretch to pawpaws a fifty year project but i just would say that as much as i hear many residents complain about traffic i also have many red this community is very committed to bike below affordability bikeability walkability and so as you look to your plans and if things change again as things constantly do in this type of project i would just hope that you hear from me and i don't know about other members of this council the importance of bike good half step to what you originally conceived to be a better solution to get to the downtown core that that said we need as many uproots as possible to make it more palatable for that neighborhood for one we  and we're looking to make improvements to key intersections around the multics building for pet crossings and those sort of things so that a lot of little you want to design things that we were able to do threading a need and i will be happy to share my card with you at the end and talk about the really are better price project which inventions a connection between pine street and battery street so happy to chat about that budget  largely this is a ninety five three two split two percent is our local share but there are items that are largely project ineligible one of the things we're struggling with this project is soil management seven in south bronx and she is a commuter by bike into burlington and just some things that i think haven't been addressed yet but as given her experience she would know  this has already been stated i'll state this for her as well she said the new plan seems to leave out residents from the orchard to buy burlington be a prime street the way isn't biker friendly until home ave with the park we've built biking from my neighborhood i would have to take industrial ave past burton think get on to pine and home ave or travel down route through seven past one eighty nine interchange to home ave and then to pine and i really encourage our two cities to work together and finding a solution there this is something that hasn't been addressed tonight the perfect was that there was a one on the north on the south western for the opportunity to have us and yes well this project has been permitted in it is final from a design standpoint we are happy to discuss instruction traffic control plans requested some slight changes basically to make sure that this gets sent to the state of the cheney county senators along with our congressional delegation and our house representatives so that you know we could and then the other change was that we would be willing to reach out to other townships  discuss a regional citizen's commission to study the feasibility of doing some other things so i thank you for including them in this what i think is an improved and frankly stronger nurses before we actually get into that what i would like to state is that individuals from the medical center have contacted both kevin and me and i think you all got the same e mails and they would like to have the opportunity it was sort of a last minute that they learned about this the opportunity to comment on the resolution and they are available on the fifteenth of october to come and they can't come on october first so i would suggest we can hear from people tonight but i would suggest before we take action that we actually have a full conversation they feel that there's some in accuracies in the the resolution but that's i mean that's just my thoughts and the council can have other thoughts tom it's about nine different boards i'm a serial volunteer and what i say is on those boards i think it's common courtesy to if they want to be heard in they were only that made aware that on friday i'm happy to delay but i will say this to my nursing friends i stand with the nurses union and i support this resolution so when it comes before us if it does i would definitely vote for it but i hear that point and i think it makes sense to give the ubi m m c a little bit more time if they're asking for it just since they were only made aware of it on friday i have a different opinion i do too i feel that i believe that the city is a negotiation with some of our own unions right now so for the city council to take a position on this particular union process right might somehow reflect in prejudice on our own union process our own you know you go she so i may ask again city manager and if the city councillor is here your lawyer maybe he could do that so interest side if he's willing to come in and if you want to talk about it and i know if you want to put that's my concern is that i don't know if we're free to express a an opinion on this particular negotiation process when we have one of our own so if we were to say it could be in support of the nurses right but let's say we were having an impasse with their own public safety that might be perceived as some sort of ask me that the result is asking them basically to go to the table and negotiate and i think that would be in everybody's favor regardless of where that occurred he it perhaps just more general i think it's something that we have tonight i think that the second meeting october eighth late on with regard to negotiation and things going up just in time and i think it's provides some impetus to get people to the table and i see that it could be a benefit for everybody so that's where i see it is kind of a mix of what the two of you have said and tom how many of you folks out here are nurses i'm just curious just a few to i i support the nurses a thousand percent especially having been an inmate for six days back in back in may i couldn't have been treated better but i did hear about some of the challenges many of the challenges all of the challenges that you folks face and i was embarrassed six i was horrified at the infrastructure gro three page letter which i got a response assuring me they were working on it but but i don't think we can as a council take a position that favors one side or the other i think we can say that we encourage both entities to even eat no matter whether there's fault anywhere i don't think it's our position to cite preference i think we can say we we and so the resolution would need some minor w smithing and certainly the whereas is are tilted it makes us sound pro nurse which we may be but i don't think that's a job for us to get get involved in take position on i think i think what we can do is encourage both sides to solve this quickly and now so this doesn't go on forever and keep dragging on and it's been certainly a burden for the for the nursing community which isn't which isn't right but i don't think it's nothing to do with who's right who's wrong i don't think it's our job to influence a decision it's our job to encourage action be taken to resolve this quickly because been dragging on for way too long that's all interprete not to be a result but i get your point so that being resolved there's a couple of pieces in it that would need to be in order to make it a level playing field if g m t was a big labor negotiation i don't know how i feel that other boards weighing in on it so i get that i just i think we can each individual express or support however we so choose either now or at other times but i get those concerns and i don't know so what's your pleasure table it and not and get some other information from the medical center or system and that we really hope that both sides reach an agreement sooner rather than later and just kind of illegal like leave it at that and not get into this is what they shortsighted as well on the other hand if we do this it's fairly innocuous and it just says basically says everybody get your act together and finish this off can't imagine anyone would have a problem i mean they're there some of the concerns they shared with me i front porch forum and then i read in the city council website what the resolution was and i was really really taken aback that such a proposal which reads like union is the unions statements the unions positions from the very beginning of the conversations and that it's presented to the council and as a resolution in support of the nurses but what it really comes across is asking the city council to support the union's negotiating points without full information without knowing what has happened in the last months what the hospital's responses  this is a one sided story there is nothing from the hospital and it's really unbalanced and there's a big difference between supports and nurses in their union and devers and support nurses i personally don't see where it's the city council's position to take a position in a labor dispute like you know you mentioned before i just think this isn't an appropriate forum for this to play out in i don't think it's fair and it really i think support of this resolution would be really and justice without having full information available giving the hospital to an opportunity but even then is it the city council's position to weigh in on that but i think it isn't fair so i think that's what we said right we're not we're not arbitrary and we i think as helen said we could we could safely say nurses are incredibly important invaluable and and and  many lives depend on their services and we encourage the medical center and the nurses and the nurses organization to resolve this reach agreement quickly i mean we think we can do that that's totally  know and oculus i don't know if that helps what the nurses want but we can't get involved in negotiations at all or give the appearance of trying to favor one side or the other  and i just would like to say some things i want to thank you for saying that nurses are porton we are doctors they're orten doctors are just as important neither one can do without the other but they're leaving and nurses are leaving and we're so short stepped in nursing that is the safety issue with the patients that are there and they're not mr ation are the ones who are not doing anything to help us because they're the ones who will have to do it you know they just we've been negotiating with them since march twenty ninth and we're here for safe staffing we want safe staffing for for everyone which protects nurses and staff because we're having because we don't have enough staff support staff there are nurses are getting hurt by taking care of patients physically getting hurt and having to go out on disability because of it you know and the fight has been a long one and we've been without a contract since july ninth and we've sacrificed an awful lot since then in this process but we know we're fighting for everyone that includes every single one of you here could be a patient of ours and maybe something negative will happen to you because we don't have enough staff and we're not the ones who hire the people it's the administration that hires them  or that gives us the salaries that we need to generate we are the forty seventh lowest paying nurses state in this country that's how bad it is and people are leaving because they the salaries are horrible among other things but that's that's one of them but i know that you probably have heard that there's a last best and final offer that the hospital made we just want to clarify that we are not we have not reached an impasse and we are continuing to negotiate and we're doing that on wednesday again can you tell me why you're not wishing the members of the nurses to vote on that last offer that was my understanding what i learned today was the  offer is on the table and the union negotiators said to the ministration we will not allow our members to vote on this well we did that you're getting the wrong information where to get that from m p u that's those are all the people i represent and what we did was we did a verbal as to what what they all wanted and we all want to move forward with negotiating you don't want to we want to move forward with negotiating more that's what that's what that's what everybody's everybody wants so we have done a verbal vote we've all done that each one at the bargaining team which i said were forty some odd people representing each many departments and they go back to their department and they've gotten a verbal vote and this is what it is to move forward with negotiate a verbal vote is a vote and of course it is up of course it is do we tell you up numbers i tell it up so my numbers but if you know if you've got we've got the march majority if they want to continue to negotiate and so that's why we're meeting again on wednesday with them well i hope you continue to meet well we've been meeting with them  since may twenty eighth i understand that and i understand that negotiations sometimes are really tough and they take a long time i mean should they really but they do you know it but we're on the go shopping for every single one our entire community the town of south burlington everyone in this room we are negotiating for better things for our patients and for us also but our patients are always coming first that's what we're here for that's what we went to school for that's what where our jobs are and we want what's best for them and we don't have enough staff and they're not listening to us four biological kids have grown up here over a dozen of my foster kids have gone through our home and certainly everybody who every everyone in this town has had first hand experience with hospitals and quality care that nurses provide whether it's joyous occasions whether it's minor mishaps or whether it's acute critical life threatening diseases we've each seen what happens in a hospital and how critical nurses are to providing the care and safety great to see the doctor if you see him once a day maybe it's really the nurses who translate the information it's the nurses who provide the information that the doctor then comes in and says ok the nurse is right we're going to go with this task to really go with that task livable there are awards that are given out for livability one of the things that whether it's measured or not is the fact that you have quality health care that's assessable affordable and that when you go there you're safe and so from my standpoint i want to know that what makes south burlington a quality wonderful community for me is that i i don't have to go to plattsburg i don't have to go to dartmouth i don't have to go out of state to get quality service i can go to you via medical center and in numerous occasions whether it was my ninety one year old mother or whether  of my foster kids who has a life threatening terminal disease we can go to you via medical center which is three and a half miles down the road now when we go there i want to make sure that the nurses there who are happy who are working who are being paid a dignified wage for the hard work that they do i want to make sure that they don't have to stay there they can take the ferry and go across to plattsburgh but in an emergency i can't go across the ferry to plattsburg i have to come right to the hospital three miles down the road and i want to make sure there's quality care and the nurses are working adequate hours are not running to twenty five or thirty patients and as opposed to ten that we're getting the care that we need and i think most people in the community want to have when they need that critical care that they know that they can count on  medical center to provide that for them this resolution you know i was out there with a lot of the groups with rights and democracy two and a half months ago side the administration building with signs and honking the horn you know people coming by honking their horns showing us or support we tried to set up a meeting a community meeting with the hospital administration they're not interest they're not interested in meeting with the community members we were turned away what resources we have we go to our community leaders because while they won't listen to or can the community members maybe they'll start listening to leaders in our community burlington took a look at this resolution they've passed it other communities are taking a look at it it is essential is saying we want to make sure that one people are treated dignified and that this critical workforce are treated well and to we want you to take a look at the impact you have not just on the burlington community but on the south growing community that we knew ski community all in county all of the communities that feed into this major medical facility and so with that i can understand it's always good to hear all sides of a story there's been going on a long time i think both sides are pretty well heard this is not the first time anyone's heard about this resolutions already passed in burlington it's not a new piece of information  state again that i individually support this my name's right there on the top that but i was a city councilor i don't think i'm ready to move this because i am i don't know their support and b i definitely marshall your email in your comments convince me that we should hear from the other side before we as a board take action on this so i want to hear from you v m c before i as a city council or move this forward but again you have my name i support the nurses i stand with the nurses but that's where i personally am on this and ask one question will are you going to have us in the same you're talking about they said they want to meet with you people on october fifteenth am i correct in that date yes that's when and we're all going to be together to discuss it and hear both our si open meeting so yeah one thing october fifteenth they are saying something about october first she wanted to do it instead somebody made a comment about they weren't able to i would take a week we just double check but my question i it i just don't think the boats are there and i know i think i would rather not have the medical center come in because that's exactly the kind of yes situation that you don't want to get in the middle of right obviously the community has been watching this process for a long time has seen your two day strike understands that there are parag gives on both sides and in any labor negotiation process there are two truth out here and it's usually something that's right about the middle because that's what it's all about right and and i'm not saying that one side is right or wrong i'm just saying it's a labor negotiation process so i think that as a council that we might be able to say i think david's already said that we consider that the the medical center community resource is really important to our community and communities beyond a to the fix hospital network and home health care and hospice agency that is the regional level one trauma center for northern vermont and new york thereby playing an essential role in the people's health safety and well being of the family as police and fire services standards of patient care work to secure a healthy and safe working environment and establish little wages and benefits for frontline health care workers and the next whereas and where is the nurses union representing the two hundred nurses and other health professionals rather have this and have us do nothing at all and it's even more simplistic it says the road is the south burlington city council recognizes the incredible importance of quality medical services in care provided by doctors there i hope you can appreciate what we're trying to do but what obviously several of us feel we can't do either so i took the fifteenth is still going to occur but is that what you're saying or not  was going to screw up my medication i got so i had a grievance once about a year year and a half ago a nurse of ours worked for twenty four hours straight there is no way and that is a piece of paper tom thank you so much for signing the letter thank you for supporting the resolution we encourage you to come to our website rights and democracy vermont dot org under resources and look for you all owen so the draft went out on the friday to all of you along with the narratives from department managers which i think they went through pretty good detail on by be happy to respond any questions you have about that what i thought i might do is just maybe give you a general overview of some of the why eighteen budget kind of a review just for the public who doesn't see all the analysis that department managers do so total funds in f y a team were just over thirty eight million dollars twenty four million of that was general fund expenditures and about ten million of that general fund revenues in regard to the open space fund this was the first full year that we had use of that half cent allocation and as you saw in the budget we had originally intended to an expenditure line in a revenue line neither of which we used within the general fund we chose to pay those directly out of the special fund so the fact that our expenditures are at ninety two point nine the seven percent of what was budgeted in our revenues were ninety three point twenty two percent of what was budget it was mainly every function of not utilizing those other numbers that make sense because those were big numbers and anyway we finished the year on a positive note just over sixty one thousand dollars and as indicated to you in the memo but the fifth fiscal year eighteen budget also  was the first year that we made a payment of the communications equipment bond that was passed a year ago it was the final year of the airport settlement that impacted her budget it seems like a long time ago but as of june thirtieth we were still to your payment it was and that that really as you might recall negated the one point five percent growth in the graham list that we had for the year so paving projects a completed this fall those payments will be made still out of the eighteen budget so in the odd it will from reflect that those expenditures were all paid and any money that is left over will stay in the nineteen paving budget for further projects we do that every year as so that's why that number is what it is at this point insurance i just wanted to indicate that our property insurance our casualty insurance worker's comp insurance even though we've had some increases over the last couple years we're still over three hundred thousand dollars last payment right now than what we finished up two years ago paying the b l c t so it's still still a significant difference here for us our workers comp module still less than one and really the only penalty that we receive is because the amount of overtime that we pay out so when they do the workers comp audit that's kind of a you haven't necessarily worked a whole shift and now they get to extend it but they are not on that shift and they get pulled in because someone is sick and i'm not sure they go into that internet and that's the second highest ever no no i understand that but i just think some of the overtime for the fire is different but it's a full shift rather than an extra couple of hours at the end is what you're saying helen but it's still over time so if they ha but it's not a full shift immediately following a full shift so it would be my kid would very healthy lead to some safety things it's just you're working i mean how i can remember how many hours a week they drivers as you all know really well remain for us the pension the health care and the cost of living allowance and we're still in negotiation with all three bargaining units and as we look to put the budgets together for this next year we'll we'll do our best to to do projections on that the local options tax came in really good for us we were sixty six thousand above our projection last year we are the two thousand and below it  so that's always nice when you come come out on top generate a three point seven million dollars course so two point seven of that was sales tax the rest was the rooms and meals still  so that they are comprised not to give numbers but just a list of all the businesses that have that have some money that will include him or whatever you know just because they have to receive money from somewhere you know that accounting and i'll acknowledge andrew who resolution right now whereas the winter was a tough one for us so we had higher costs in first snow removal over time diesel feel sol that's all related to move to of the library was accommodated in and the general fund budget the cd center park construction market street reconstruction all is going to be one hundred percent to funded we're not going to have to hit the city center research funds information that you know but i want to make sure that that residents understood that we did some more upgrading to our network servers this past year we've created zoning files it's an extensive project that's going to carry into the school year nine hundred that's still going on and we hope to complete it this year but paul's already seeing some of the results of that with people coming in making good progress with it and then we had the block chain that donna celebrated here with with the governor just a couple weeks ago so kind of put us on the map for technology who knew the wrecked apartment so benig out has gone from losing us are costing a significant amount of money to us and the general fund budget to turning a profit this year so that was substantial we thank the sponsors the infrastructure upgrades that the council allowed us to do through the proceeds with money from the solar array at the land will help get that in a condition where we could actually turn that into a revenue generator and we look to expand that program next maybe even with some additional sponsorship so that was good news payroll services we've updated our payroll system we've been able to stream streamline our payroll system by going to a time in attendance module that cost a little bit of money but it's saving a significant amount of time from staff when the data entry side of things the enterprise funds are both healthy they remain in good financial shape as we enter f y nineteen we should have the july and august financials for you at the october first meeting and then the september financials at the october fifteenth meeting which would get us  line to do our monthly reports but we had to close this one out to be able to process the july august and september so hopefully found the narratives informative but i would be happy to respond to any specific questions you have and what infor the projection fire inspection revenue the same which terry francis wrote about fire air and electrical kind of going like this yes some of the some of the a lot of the inspections they do together and some of the the way that the fees are collected completely go into the fire inspection revenue right now rather than be broken now even though there are some things that jim is doing that's more electrical inspection oriented so terri is going to separate that list more completely so that there's a better of accounting of what exactly is under fire inspection according to the state and what is was is exactly under the electrical inspection so what's going to happen is that the fire inspection might come down a little bit revenue and the electrical inspection michael i think his point was that jim probably met this budget projection they just went into fire inspection revenue instead many of them and one question i have i'm bringing the department heads is are we losing ambulance revenue because we are ambulance services overtaxed in that we're sending it to neighboring municipalities i don't think you can answer that now but i saw that into that in the narrative yeah probably  terri would probably be better to handle that i would say it's not unlike any other year we've ever had tom you know we we are constantly relying on v m st michael's burlington a times you know to help in this with calls there's just no way you can properly staff for what the worst event could be and so fortunately for us we're not experiencing the events like the south has right now but for us a really bad event could be six e m s calls at one time and you can't staff to that you know twenty four hours a day three hundred sixty five days a year but you can make sure that there's a plan in place that if you can handle all the calls that somebody can i think the advantage of the regionalization of the dispatch will help be able to identify where the closest the ambulances are so that they can dispatch them immediately to that call because right now if our guys are busy and a call comes in they'll call south burlington our guys are out and they're on the phone to the shelbourne have somebody this will stand have somebody you know and we will be able to see it with the technology of the regional dispatch center is going to or so are there any other questions related to the draft financial thank you very much thank you and you'll somehow figure out how to the rest of us can get that right but the fact if yes i will maybe i'll