it's an opportunity for you to participate and give your feedback and see how all the people coming to speaking what you think about some of the issues that are coming up in burlington there is a door prize if you haven't entered yet there's a door prize over our utensils or don't take those back and we'll be out with a minute if you didn't get a chance to give us a little bit of a donation we appreciate that we've been running short the last three months and we're financing this on our own so if you can put a little extra in we appreciate that because it's a bunch of volunteers doing this and we want to make sure that we continue to offer good quality food so thank you so much for coming back again next month in state for the m b a and  my name is max tracy i'm one of the city council is nearly all northbound and on election day we try to pass out as many of these city council updates as we possibly could but we didn't get to everybody so if you didn't get one of the watching day and would like one be coming around circulating these so feel free to grab one that has a lot of good information about different things happening in the neighborhood and you know that we have your guys attention i feel like we might as well just kind of kick in and start so we do have a bit of a financial report which jim lockridge will come up and talk about is like this it's much better is the other one most people get up right now and leave some reason it just seems to be that history but don't don't don't because the dinner is supposed to get you here to the n b a meeting so you can be  participate in the meeting every every month and when you approaching the city council seeking some supports that will make those those items happen so thanks for standing by for the news on that issues people are having with the when you get out and we also firmed up what our goals are for as a community for those three and recently we just had a meeting where we've decided what our focus areas are on the street where we're going to spend the money on engineering basically and our next step of that process after we get the engineering studies done one just quickly i want to show you in if you have questions afterwards come to me or or less afterwards and ask questions we'd love to get you involved but i just and to that quickly show you what those those focus areas were so here's a cool heat map of these are these are the crashes that we and he crashes on when you see ads and you can see they're very much center downtown and then here  of strange transition from the downtown to the south and residential neighborhood so those are focus areas that you have more questions or comments or anything you want to get more involved come talk to us thank you so much coming up that i want everybody to know about the first tour is our international festival which we have every year out the fairgrounds is about twenty six here this is the choir about it we have a great website if you want to check it out we basically celebrate my international festival dot com on the other the second one is particularly interesting i think because it's here most of you probably know that that first night went out of business at the end of their last their last first night which was last year and the city of or linked in felt and many of the thing organizations that are supporting the arts in this community felt it was really important that we had something to replace  term development to having an event that is actually very representative of all the people in the community as well but for this first year we're just coming up with something that will be fun and good for burlington i guess and so all day long here on new year's eve from new they're going to be a balance in this building on these two flaws have a food court down here we're going to have children's activities and some smaller performances down on the stage especially from twelve to four that's the time where they'll be things specifically for kids there's going to be ongoing craft activities with the one art center  live band that's going to do music from the sixty's and early seventy's and there's a live light shout that's going to be projected behind that this is what it's like that like colors and things like that and that's actually mixed in i am lucy i live on blogging street has anybody heard that there was a really scary plane coming to the airport in the fall of next year it's called the f thirty five anybody more about the f thirty five no we don't want it we don't want it and we're not giving up there's actually groups working very hard against this plane we're going to keep working if you want to get involved talk to me look at the peace and justice center schedule for me and it's going to be a bit of a battle but we really want to push hard to keep this plane from coming it's designed to carry nuclear weapons and it's really bad for experience and the dogs and we don't want  everyone has a role in doing this is how's everybody doing and i am so i just want to stand up and say thank you my name is brian sheena i'm one of the state representatives for part of the old north an the it's an honor to represent part of the old north and to represent burlington and if anyone has any questions or concerns even if you're not in my district i'm happy to talk with you and i use time to thank you supposed to already be a skyscraper greenbank and cherry street doesn't look much better now i think it looks much better i'm hoping that he does sell it to somebody who's  or not because they're said but because we want to move the pass over a little because we have an idea and involves moving the paths a little period so on the may or may  own thank you is that he may say that he's going to do it anyway but i think we should show that he works for us basically they have to do something that represents what the people in the a building ali is a commercial building going next and so we talk about  next this is another view of that is the pedestrian connection and you can go from the sidewalk underneath the building to get to the inside of the site and there is a picture of how the goalie will look when it's completed a body year from now you can see the another view of that building looking back towards the north avenue and you can see him playing the housing trust building that's under construction now this is a view of that building if you're standing in the park you may remember some of the square feet where if you are a entrepreneur you have an idea for a new business and you need mentoring or sponsorship world financial support and some having guidance to turn your business into a reality much no more and most of the units are going to going to a pop station and there's going to be toll of a tree on the station that will allow the folks that made to control when that bomb station discharges into the system so that if there's in my opinion because i respect your opinion and as you could imagine i don't agree you know we think we go a long ways towards making our buildings as interesting some of them are in this newsletter so if you haven't seen it grab this newsletter on tables around the room tonight bryan five from word three i live one crawling street and the changes that are being considered for the city's ordinance that ensures this new development will include affordable housing the system changes that ordinance is passed and they see ninety being kind of updated is a process that started more than a year you'll see in the flyer this newsletter that i am putting together a proposal that will regulate short term rental that's just another word for air b n b so it's something that will continue to be available if it were  become in effect but it's basically trying to get a handle on your being as a potential threat to our housing stock and that is that every unit that goes to europe opine not someone renting out their room in their house two public safety committee of which i sit is looking at a homeless encampment policy i actually have we just got it licked this week so i have not had a chance to read it but will be meeting next week on the fifteenth matter how complicated it is i will be cheering you on to deal with this because i've also learned about communities like neighborhoods in new orleans for instance  n b you lose the neighborhood it's it's really bad thank you so much there humiliated but may not have money to actually take out or the transportation to get a car out of the neighborhood so that's something to keep in keepin on but that's a no an ad hoc thing on a seasonal basis we really need something a little bit more consistent and we're going to be working towards the other issue of that's getting a lot of press recently is that of the mall the lack of development that's taking place at the mall it's really frustrating for for me personally having you know raised a lot of questions about this project seeing a lot of those as well and he actually found out that they weren't bankrupt at all so that you know they still got some details of the permit you know and because they said that he was ready to go if we allowed for the permit for the foundation to be able to go and move forward with the project and then get the funding that he needed after that well that's what simply wasn't true because if that was the case he would already be seeing the foundation coming together right now it's been over two months since that permission was given by the city council and still nothing has happened he said and then in between that time the explanation is if there's still twice more we've heard the news doing more design more well  as i know he's not willing to do so at this point you so got to let me get in one of those things that happen down the line but i don't think we're at that point ye i don't know about that  about looking into the loophole that allows billboards in this way and see if you can close  would like better however there's also kind of the risk or the guarantee that that involves that slate remaining empty for longer and that seems like there's also a lot of concern about just the safety and so i'm wondering director overseeing parking and traffic we have the answers to your parking questions tonight and i'm going to go through very briefly seven slides i believe on the proposed overhaul changes to residential parking program there are some residential parking only streets in the in the old north end so anybody here live on one of those streets ok couple people do great next on the can you hit the next i place thank you as people may know the residential permit parking program was started in the one nine hundred ninety s it was started around centennial field in the hill section  due to impacts of parking with ball games there and the goal of the residential parking program is to balance the public need to be able to access the street with the need of adjacent neighbors to be able to access their homes in today about eight miles of the ninety five miles of streets have residential permit parking on the so the d p w commission asked us to do a study of the program studies but the program's been around for over two decades we did that study it was approved in two thousand and sixteen and it's on the website next so  have made a couple of adaptations to the program in in the interim since the plan was approved most notably on the second bullet there for new residential permit parking applications such as just happened on bradley street when an application comes in staff is recommending that there be some level of public parking allowed on the street so that the public has some access to that to the to that resource so that is one change we've made and then we will go into the other changes that are proposed one we're proposing to charge for permits currently permits for residents to park on our p p only streets few can go to the next slide and thank you for bringing that up currently permits are free we are proposing ten dollars per permit per year part of the goal here is to not have people get more permits and they actually need so that the streets aren't oversubscribed and that dovetails with number two capping the number of permits part welling in it currently there are many units many there are some units in burlington that have upwards of seven permits per unit we are proposing to limit to three to four we are clarifying the documentation to prove residency we're creating transferable permits so if somebody doesn't own a car but has someone coming to visit them they will be able to give the permit to that is a very quick summary next to talk about next steps go three more slides because this is the fast version one more no one more next steps here we go so we are taking these proposed changes out on a road show to the m p s we will be going to the d p w commission on november twenty eighth to get these changes ratified should the commission approve them and with that i'm going to turn over to patrick to talk about two quick updates and then happy to answer any questions next slide please a couple more if you haven't seen the news lately  we've taken about a year process where we brought in a new what we call park system and that's not going in for parking access revenue control system and that's where our marketplace garage our lakeview and college street garages there's a state of the art system that's a paid kiosk where you're going to now be have a pay cash or credit at the kiosk before you go back to your car once you pay you have a twenty minute grace period to get your car and drive out of the garage but if you have a ticket and you're less than two hours you go the next slide if you're less than two hours we still offer the two hours free in all of our garages we still offer sundays for free in our garages and we still offer cities  sponsor holidays as free parking but what the changes you're going to see is the gates are going to be down that's an exit kiosk that tells you how to hold your ticket against it's a barcoded ticket you hold it one inch away from the reader open shows you where to put a credit card in at the exit you can't pay cash at the exit anymore you have to pay cash at the paid kiosk ok but but again i want to stress with you even though the gates are down on sundays please you can still come in and park p it and then go directly to the exit kiosk the exit gate and scan your take it ill let you out of the system we want to collect data that we need to collect our data to find out how many people are actually utilizing our system on sundays and holidays and that's why the gates are going to stay down maintain the cleanliness of our garages to help our maintenance staff out ok so we have been terminated or people we've actually gave them a promotion of a step a couple steps in wage and added  training for them for customer service training and to be helpful to our our customers you are one of the great benefits next slide please one of the great benefits about this new system it's going to offer allow us to offer off peak rates for our residents meaning we're going to be able to offer you our residents who live close to the garages who not mind a five minute walk to be vip park at night without having to fight for o street space and make something at a reduced rate off peak hours in by say seven out by six something similar to that monday through friday so you're able to park you know so you're not coming home late at night from your second job or from your first and trying to find a space to park and being have to park three blocks from your house you know when it's dark out like it is now this is a picture of the marketplace garage we've removed a booth from each lane market street lakeview and college street again these are high speed lanes again allowing to scan your tickets out if you're under two hours just go right to your car drive up to the gate and scan if you're over two hours please go to the kiosk first pay with cash or credit it give it gives change maximum twenty dollar bill please and everything else is the same and thats it hi i live on money rose street and do have that issue with residential parking in the fact that i come home from work late sometimes and there's just nothing and one of those issues that contributes to that i believe is that there's no winds on the street so that people don't exactly know where to park and that creates spatial awareness issues and i think control like about two or more spaces could be added if there were lines ok yes sir and the other thing i have a question about is that there are i believe there's on my street there is two handicap signs one of them i'm almost certain the person doesn't live there anymore and it takes up about two spaces and that also is an issue and if that is if it's possible to remove those signs since nobody has ever used it since i've been living there for six months ok and what's true is that again on mon that's thank you you can either submit that through c quick fix or through a customer service i'm going to write this down but you just request that a handicapped parking sign be considered for removal will work with the adjacent property owners confirm that no one needs a day more and will bring it to the d p w commission for mobile anyone else in the ba just had a quick question about the paper waste at the parking garage with all the tickets for for my job i have like a plastic parking pass that i scan and that seems to make a lot of sense and i'm wondering if it made sense to do something like that instead of paper tickets and that way there would be the number of plastic passes for all the spaces and then that would be tracking like if the parking garage was full or not and then instead of people getting tickets they could just return the pass and it would get cycle back through for the next person or something and it just seems like there's constant paper waste the proximity card itself is actually a fairly expensive item it's actually about four dollars apiece and the paper ticket scanners work just like when you're doing self checkout at the grocery store if it's wrinkled a little bit ill still read and all get out we'll have wastebaskets that at the end of our islands for people who want to throw away the tickets we haven't seen that much of a significant waste and we actually get more tickets out of a roll of tickets a paper in this these machines and we did out of a whole box of the regular tickets but with the old ticket system but i understand yes correct to recycling yes but there will always container to recycle the ticke these are they just show the entrance they just show the exits on the parking garage will hurriedly love to put in a plug for getting rid of that egress because as a bicyclist some want to ski ave it's pretty deadly if it is a very as part of the quarter study so we need we need to take a look at that because there are some blind corners given the brick facing on the garage so point point noted and i just wanted to point out on city on parking garages so this is actually a pretty useful website there's parking in burlington there's an interactive parking map and this is where you got this from  park mobile which is patrick can talk a little bit about that sure if you're not familiar with park mobile park mobile another way to use an app sign up using a credit card collaborative agreement with champlain college at one ninety four st paul which is also a park mobile location what's really great about this app is you pay for a period of time if you are going to a meeting if to meet the meters don't start till nine but you have to be at your meeting or your doctor's appointment at eight thirty and you have to be at a meter you can load it and that vents will start ticking down at nine o'clock so prevent you from getting a ticket which is nice if you're delayed in your meeting it gives you a fifteen minute warning it's spot to expire and you can extend your time so it's basically a great tool to prevent you from getting a parking ticket with you while paying your the moderate amount of parking that you need and i have cards with park mobile where you can download the app and teaches you how to use it if you want any of these and i'll leave this with amanda as well information as a as a present itself see here he gives you directions on how to use the pay stations as well and then you want to talk about snow emergency parking we have snow here which i think is probably something that everybody both downtown and in the surrounding downtown kind of has an issue with i don't know if people have street parking but anyway do you want to talk about that there's two websites i guess free when city garages municipally owned garages have free parking on nights of snow bands we do ask that people get out early in the morning and you can call six five eight snow or check our website if you're unsure whether there's a snow band if you don't see the blinking lights correct we do ask that if you see the blinking lights the time to load into the garage is from the free time is from ten  until the morning at seven a lot of people tend to try to load into the garage at one o'clock in the afternoon and that prevents us from carrying on normal city business so i asked that if you see a snowbank coming out that's tried not to load into the garage until after six or seven o'clock at night when when everyone can have fair chance of getting in thanks and then with as we say with the new parking system you're supposed to be out of the garage by eight o'clock but that's when the free parking ends right right so if you don't leave till nine you only now pay for that one extra hour right it's programmed i'll go into the system is a preprogramed event which under snow that will  extension no other questions one quick so the public works that sleepy part of the cd that keeps everything moving don't get we don't get to see you often enough to have been can you give us maybe what's an exciting thing going on just one you know for those of us laymen who don't know anything about public work you know thank you it's not often that i get an opportunity to answer an open ended question we have we have a crew of one hundred twenty five employees that do often work tirelessly day and night that don't often get recognized our water plant is staffed twenty four seven are wastewater treatment plants folks come in during storm events to manage and i want to thank the public for the tremendous support at the bond vote just two days ago staff is already met this morning planning the improvements to the wastewater treatment plant to the storm water system the discharges from the so or that you all heard about inexperienced unacceptable to you they were unacceptable to us we have really much appreciate that support and we're going to work as fast as we can to bring our plants to the needed upgrade that they deserve thank you so if anybody wants a tour of the wastewater treatment plants we've had a great time offering a couple of tours feel free to reach out there's a lot that often doesn't go seen by the taxpayers of burlington but  there's a lot of technology in our plants that makes the lake a wonderful place to be so thank you i just had this mike handed to me but i i i had to comment at mayor's coffee today enthusiastically about the tour of the waste water plant our tour guide matt the just knew everything about it he was super knowledgeable and totally outgoing and really helped us understand the different ways that water comes into the plant and exits the plant and how they cope with situations like they had this summer and it gave me a lot of empathy for what they're engineering they're constantly it gave me an appreciation for the actual physical status of the machinery some of which has been repaired too many times and that becomes apparent as you're being given the tour i was really happy to have the opportunity to see firsthand some of the sort of the guts of the city and and if there's an opportunity to go on a tour it's it's it was just a pleasure from if you care if a curious person it's worth it know we had a couple of tours prior to the to the bond vote i think at this point we have talked about laying down while it's dark after work but once it lightens back up in the evening hours and the last agenda item we have is our door prize who would like to do the actual drawing you want would like to pick out do you have a volunteer you can just ask just you know you're not shy patrick before everyone gets up and leaves we do need a lot of help cleaning up don't be shy grab a table grab a chair grab a broom you'll have friends help in clean up