experimentation that what appears to go do so we're hoping to work with you guys in the future and just some discussion this and see if we can move forward on something like that because according to our twenty eighteen always and so i mean one of our causes so lower this percentage the exposure to kids and the other thing i wanted to do was plug or community dinners we just had one but our next one is coming up on february twentieth and then me to have one in march which we just secured and profit for so yeah i just wanted to let you know that i'm going to be a resource there as well  at setting up a presentation to go through what the partnership does for the new city council yeah and put those issues and things that you're interested in their way because it will certainly be an opportunity to get your message out but also  other there's there's a lot of expectations that when somebody comes into an elected position in terms of what they think they're going to accomplish and the things that they set up for themselves in schools and usually it's coming from a really good place it's come from a place where you feel positively like you can contribute and make a change and it as an individual is credible or trick or hopefully people take  dream and the things that you want to accomplish it's a bell it's about listening and trying to fulfill the dreams of other people and trying to support them in having the opportunity to live in a community that reflects what they want and what's so beautiful and so cool about this level of government is that we can actually do that in a lot of ways we can actually take what people want to see in their community and turn it into a reality in ways that federal policymakers state polls and makers quite frankly just can't and that's really empowering and we can do it without politics in a lot of cases and we do it without you know i think with a real sacrifice of personal agendas up here the second thing that becomes really clear those that you don't get anything done by yourself it takes the other four really passionate volunteers up here giving their time and effort and their willingness to again sacrifice their own personal agendas to make a functioning group that makes good decisions in a way that a community feels like they have confidence and within the day we don't do anything without it's you do all the work and you make all those things happen and you bring them to fruition i can't say enough for the professionalism and the soft touches you there is use with very only are hard things in challenging things to deal with but are things that personally affect you and hurt you and each turn you guys have handled them in a way that has helped their community not just get through the member through them but come back closer stronger and more together and you know i'm excited about the next chapter in life but i can say without a flinch that the last six years i've spent working with you all to try exciting for the potential partnership with that we do have a drive letter of intent with them and we'll be bringing that to you on a figure a second but if there's anything else you wanted to share i want to get that last week i shared with you that i guess peter consultant hired as part of the regional dispatch effort was here in the city and was meeting her here in the county and was meeting with dispatchers i'm disappointed to announce twelfth to go over the next steps so i think we have a good plan we heard from the chiefs are both there with me this morning and we heard from several disparate chairs across the county and across our communities heard some good feedback and some good suggestions on how lafayette for the to your school trustee term we received a petition from mcneil and prior to three years school trustee turner we've received a petition from margaret back so that's where we currently are and what  the public knowledge last week we also as a project for a few committee which is our internal staff group refuse building projects proposed for the gateway districts under parties code review to development proposed for work for a one main street which is the property right in front of the school district a former gas station so the project does conform with four of these codes but there are still just conditionally approved upon conditions of a complete traffic study there are as you can imagine with the door ministry and that location and the school exits there are some pretty significant concerns about traffic patterns there also proposing a drive through documents shop so it adds a be held on february fourteenth here it will be a joint meeting of the planning commission and the public works commission we have received three small business loan applications which is great our first three to come through so we're assigned to the government operations committee so some of the issues that may be coming from here to montpellier certainly be at the table and looking forward to that and looking forward to meet with jessie and her team to understand the resolutions i'm very fortunate thank you so there was a species of partnership program for prevention they held a great community dinner the other night where a number of community members and people interested in serving the community showed up some of which are the root so those are great opportunity and a great event for the community and to hear from people who are willing to step up and volunteer their time in the interest of serving our city in the downturn own we do skeet does still have the job position opening for hiring their executive director it's located on their website if you are interested or know any for the folks watching at home anybody who's interested burlington housing authority and hud fair market rents you'll see that we had seventy percent of reporting back so more a and the fair market rents that's reported which is great in just speaks to the fact that we are doing a pretty great job of supporting the housing needs that have been identified households and so there are the four currently permitted rental housing developments list shared custody and overlook which is primarily affordable which i know you're all familiar like to know is that these are currently permit and though i'm not sure that each of them will ultimately be built at least in their current iteration  overall and i think your concern nicole is that you know it seems to be some are very affordable or have a high percentage of affordability of affordable units and others have none we are hitting the target of twenty one percent overall or rather surpassing the target that we set a fifteen percent so this does come in at twenty one percent again of what is currently permitted so it's not perfect right sure the so just to i think address your point nicole the margins are slim and i think you know we've spent  a lot of time trying to bring in expert opinions and you know the people that we've certainly consulted with repeatedly are listed on the next page of the memo  many of which are a developer's has some of which focus exclusively on affordable housing such as michael montana champlin housing trusts and so the margins are slim and it certainly makes smaller projects less feasible them larger projects which is why which is what led us to the conclusion that a housing trust fund is probably the next best partial solution coupled with the inclusionary zoning and part of that parking waivers density bonuses and then  way to to fund the housing trust fund which would be a fee in lieu so more reasonable fees in lieu for smaller projects thoughts that the housing trust funds can remain it's listed in your package but that's currently three hundred forty thousand dollars in that account so i think that rather hard and fast requirement discouraging development that doesn't have an affordable component and i think that we're giving a pathway towards both being supportive of developers and also of low this first page you know the existing situation and some of the ferment it is there's a there's a sense that we're way behind me on housing which doesn't pay off when you're looking at the data we we want to be a head of a crisis or a problematic situation and we are and so we shouldn't be panicking leading really should be taking the time to work on getting housing trust on the inclusionary zoning and everything that we're working on right now that's what i would encourage people to take from from the data as it is we don't we don't want to have a crisis situation  to be interesting as we start to draw in those numbers to think about what that number would look like if we were to look back at these you know that period of developments that you list and the ones that don't include affordable units what that may have meant for payment into the house in trust fund and how that number compares to all the incentives provide important to me to get this part you know under way and i've said appreciate the due diligence i appreciate the interesting getting it right and i think at some point you have to put in is really valuable that they received from me for example on the ice he conversation is to a person if you ask anybody involved in affordable housing development what's the number one barrier it's always going to come back it's been money  it's always always always going to be money related to us just getting equity through something like tax credits it's also going to be barriers like infrastructure there's a huge huge deal in everything that we versus market redevelopment in there are certain cost reading factors historically it's come back as being lack of equity products too many funding sources associated with the transaction because they're increasing  in infrastructure expenses but it's always going to come back to a limited number of friendly actual tools available that's it's always going to come back there and i hope you know that that ins up being a real focus on how we do that because eventually at some point this is going to make a commitment we really want to fill those gaps with normal policies saying do this or go do this that we want in the instant that infusion of resources the thing that really changes the game and i just want to i totally respect that it's a complicated conversation but i hope that our community can preempt something like that being the reaction that we have with good policies affect your work to move forward just interesting i don't know to maybe pass on the thought for the future iteration of this body and for the workers out there i think you know we're absolutely on the right path right now of the creation of a pot to hold those resources by which we can incentivize the development that we're looking everyone needs the policies in place to find the resources and then beyond that i think to you know what to call this thing about cassava overwork i think that is in my mind tremendous configuration that i think makes so much sense for our community that true mixed income development and are there are ways by which we can utilize those resources to specifically incentivize those kinds of developments i don't know  and i don't think that's something obviously that's not the priority right now it's you're on the track to get in place the things that you need to to start diving into that question but i think it's worth thought in the  certainly be looking at a situation where the other ones and just to a portable we try to push something through that had a negative impact on that we could very well see none of the drop are working on another big subsidized project with champlain housing trust on a home and a permanently affordable home ownership problems at the front of the of rank me center space and just a quick update on that as you remember we signed a pre development agreement with them in december early december and they have continued to look for that invasion fun as well start conversations with funders for to bring new market tax credits to that project so they're looking to move that and right now the idea is to bring new market tax credits to that effort which is tax credits they're not solely directed for housing that can be directed for other uses as well but it seems to me it's really pushing the envelope to figure out how to use them for a fordable housing press next and because this will be a home ownership model that will be perpetually affordable day we think might want to think they applied to that and is putting a funding structure to place to do that so it allows us to kind of identify a new subsidy revenue stream that allows us to as a community hold the low income tax credit potential for another two or three years out for another project so that theory we can get in a cycle of doing  know a project every two or three years we would probably be competitive for that for a while right pretend he's not sitting  view so there were we are not being criteria for justification once again this year but a couple of while there's a primary set of criteria by which gentrification would be bitter determined and those are the median income home value increase of gross rent and there's also the secondary indicators and two did to meet the criteria set of secondary indicators for gentrification those are both in track twenty five was an increase in educational attainment and an increase in higher wage jobs versus low wage jobs both in track twenty five which is basically the over main street i'm sorry it is the east of main street all the way down and then the swaying and it was primarily in homeowners that this change once he so wanted to bring it to your attention and something that i will continue to watch like i said it could be you know a couple people moving across the street and so one property being developed and right one per one right business yeah yeah i could certainly you know i thought about it honestly when people look at gentrification is cities like seattle you're looking at one hundred thirty five census tracts whereas the state of vermont only has one hundred eighty four something like that so you know it may be that i need to realign how we're looking at it so we're not seeing you know the activity over the focus that we've had around sort of new housing development has been in those corridors in that it's that split between the two so it's kind of interesting it is but i think the you council a lot more but this is a great tool and it's really interesting to watch and i think as you start to stoop it out over a couple years that it's going to get really fascinating i agree and i think when we community now that may or may not be as a result of it in drastic changes in our census because that's something that i certainly haven't raised in nearby state people before is you might only get th possible so that there needs to be some kind of paul c response the i would say that the issue with a report like this is we have sort of the items that we think are going to address some of this already in ok the policy to try to change is one way or the other keep balance in the housing stock for building housing stock look at why you know wages are increasing so much between one group versus another that we have the debate about whether higher educational levels are good or bad and i guess that really depends on who it is we're talking about is that people increase their education or is it that other people who are more educated came in and just placed people so that's certain so i think globally will open that up in there are a lot we will probably move through this in the next few regular items pretty expeditiously not in the interest of the non transparency good think if the public's curious you know for the last month and a half we've got experience of public presentations on this material and in addition to that we're going to be doing a four roll out of the whole shock and awe information campaign negotiations around downtown things including legal matters other than a lot of times it's the business community down there in the works property owners and stakeholders in regards to what the what the plan is opportunity for oh well there's never been like there's never been a survey of the hotel as a lot of a number of public hearings on by and large you know at the risk of speaking for people i would just say that the business community and underline a few points from stopping perspective there was a lot of public engagement around the hotel as the mayor mentioned in its first round of permanent a lot of significant concern from the residents and the business community about its location at the bottom of the road goal we have presented to the downtown association the property owners in the fifth district and they're very supportive as well as well as a number of the businesses in the downtown and in this you know this is this  you know i think this we're talking about this is a joint redevelopment or a full redevelopment of flight seventy eight which is partially in a parking infrastructure and partially the relocation of the hotel  downtown master plan is the approval of the design so at the next council meeting they will be going through the full design review process for that permit application so certainly well before  the voters weigh in on this bond vote there will be several more attempts to with the other several more opportunities to weigh in on specifically the design of the project and quite frankly whether the city wants to be a co op in that act two fifty permit process and because it's a both a private development and a public development partnership it's it's kind of complicated how these million dollars bond market street want to work so just as a quick introduction to the next seven or eight agenda items in order to move forward with a ballot on town meeting day there's a number of steps the council needs to approve to determine the necessity of a bond vote and to pass different rate structures that go into the final passage of the complete budget and putting that budget before the voters so this first  a four in part about this necessity and reimbursement resolution and the next one is that it does include the reimbursement portion so between that if it is approved by the voters and the time we actually incur the  questions or concerns council new questions or concerns from the public thousand is just an engineering we're anticipating eight hundred thousand dollars of down payment on to the project so that is two grand opportunities that we've identified in and actually applied e collection of parking agreements to be fully executed by all the parties with a number of private users as well as allowing for public space since it is seems that to grant applications and make only additional future debt post build out and completion of the test so should one of those things not go perfectly there is potential for work to make capacity there for the future but it's  other questions comments concerns troian council questions comments concerns from the public moving forward by resolution of the council so we're bringing this resolution for a kid now because it has an impact on the budget if for whatever reason that workmen's doesn't make it through thirty day  half percent increase over the current thirty dollars sixty seven cents per one thousand cubic feet so that would increase it to thirty nine dollars and sixty four sons so what i have done is provided sort of just some quite just kind of touching back to the sewer we are also in this budget requesting a three percent increase so that's forty dollars and fifty seven cents currently up to fifty dollars and three cents comes out to be about four point five percent total so we're trying to do is make it a little bit more uniform and we're raising rates today to help with those capital costs in operational costs increases and not to the you know the shakuri crea capacity for the city long term that again we don't just do on a project by project basis it's being reasonable in where we get to the rates because again which you brought up to provide for us on water  lower end of the spectrum right in the middle for municipalities so that's that's saying that from elasticities standpoint you know if we're trying to be about average in what we're charging people you know we're we're general operations this is being reinvested directly back into infrastructure and i think that that's p and critical and again nichols point in the fact that there's a plan in place of where the investments need to be made i would again hope people feel really good about that that there's a strategy of what to update and how they get their stuff paid for  know so kind of looking at their rate impact revealed what we've done is we looked at you know what a typical household what would be the impacts for these two were increases so you know we're seeing nine gallons per day which is probably a little high for most households but based on that you know for comparing previous remey in the proposal for a twenty rate we're looking at you know top dollars an increase for annual on the water side and one thousand dollars and twenty seven cents on the street side so the total would be about thirty two dollars increase for the year for water and sewer are right next to this local options tax on sales and rooms meals and alcohol so as we have been talking over the last year about these free rental station project in the pool one of the things we've been talking city to be directed towards capital projects so upon attorney review of the charter where our ability to implement these of options taxes were once cast and printed the city detached resolution is required in the entire community but will also be supporting the business community and as such we're trying to share that financial or fiscal responsibility and caring for the city living these projects with business it is in the patron to come into the community use those that infrastructure in regular basis and enjoy its the benefits that it provides them with homeowners who are also covering the general fund portion of this too so it's a way of trying to make that equitable something the community support in the past and something that we've communicated very openly with the business community on and have to say there is again at the risk of speaking for people a collective shrug of the other makes sense we're  communities that have this so it's not seen as a competitive disadvantage to many of them and we also talk through them with the implications and the technical side and it's a very easy thing for them to do functionally so there was little concern about that and we had our largest restaurant in our largest retailer both come in and have face to face conversations about that both are very in the in support of in in large part because we're committing this pieces and just as a reminder to our state officials in the room of this one so we will see if this is approved by the voters of that one percent collected on both of those taxes seventy percent of that one percent comes to the city and thirty percent of fact goes to the pilot because you have a top answer any specific questions here i think we've tried to lay off very clearly in the no cover page as we discussed it represents a dollar a day increase during the school year and not a two dollar day  increase during the summer program saw how we feel like it's a pretty reasonable increase and we have not increased rates since two thousand and fifteen or sixteen account or an offhand but it's been a few years so i think it's a pretty pretty reasonable that is the hope so that it always is a little funky with the this program here and the budget slash council here so we were waiting saw the school to get back to us on scheduling details but we expect we'll have at least one week of programming in this current fiscal year so watch to discuss whether we have varying rates for those two weeks or how we were approached that we'll do that by the books but at least a week of programming in june  teachers we have been maintaining them at a simply minimum wage dish rate and so we want to break treat them as we treat entry level employees in the city and respect the very hard work they do but it did have a negative reason that there is such a little way of childcare available in the region and despite this being four feet pay families we don't know the economic realities of somebody's situation just by their income  threshold but that said i do know that africa really hard to take that revenue and put it into really quality programming so i am well you know i mean support and will vote to support this but don't want to be looking you know if i am at the table in the year i would find it really challenging to be looking at the potential increase questions comments concerns from the public entire f y twenty budget across funds as presented as well as the city's capital because when you have attached here the the budgets across so and so just just a reminder for you know usually we have a sort of build up narrative in regards to the budget about what is changing from a service delivery platform  what way either programs were changed added cuts altered what new investments were being made in terms of adding staff equipment etc this year we started the budget process with  message staff to essentially come back with what we call the little services budget we said and do all the same stuff generally less you think something needs to be shifted around to make it a dollar for dollar shift if you are and try to provide the same services that you provided with doing that in addition to that voters this year voted twice on special items one was main street revitalization twenty plus million dollar investment in the head in total review of main street that  upon for a new pool or place where miners memorial pool in this budget also covers the debt associated with that bonding so by voting for this budget not only approving all the stuff that we do as a city right the snow removal the police services the fire safety the community services you're also authorizing those two projects to move forward and in providing the funding to move those forward this is this is a pretty big budget and i'm really i'm really proud of the world that you all did to make this a reality because there's going to really long conversation in this community over really the last ten years to put a lot of thoughtful claiming together in place to decide on a direction of where we want to make our investments and how we want to works out really the church the future of the next five six years of our community i think these are taking that planning and turn them into real action and are going to become a cornerstone projects for work what comes next for the community you know before i came into office it was the completion of the fifth rate the completion of the downtown with downtown the development and the promise that that gave to the city in the opportunities that it created to create a vibrant community that was also financially sustainable these projects do that and they also intervene an option or opportunity for people to connect via the pool in a really critical community asked to promote health well being in connection amongst our work to get our salaries in the wind and the wage studies and all the work done to get the community the place where we're appropriately taking care of the people who take such good care of us  that that's that's a step that we're taking forward we're not done with that but a agrees that work on that piece as well so in the vote for this budget they're voting for all those things and this  is you don't get to vote on a program by program basis and you know from a council perspective this is this is the really important thing that we push for that really sets the direction of what work is going to get done this year and what we're rolling out to support the communities vision for a future i have a department heads in all staff members are really proud of the work you did to put this together and bring all these critical this is a complicated budget with a lot of moving pieces and parts in a complicated set of planning principles and goals that we set out that you have no hopes turned into action both things that are real and tangible people are a positive forward direction in our community and i think it's going to attract some of the other assets are working on this kind of make our community the best place to be so i think it's important bu so if there is a willing counselor if they can use that language in the project that i would entertain a motion for approval of the f y twenty budget in capital plan to present to the voters  questions comes concerns from the public entertain a motion for approval of the two thousand nine hundred coming days morning so check motion by eric second about how any further discussion soon hearing on the holes in favor please say i know suppose porch form as a result of resignations that we've we've talked quite a bit about here we decided to appoint a temporary counselor to ensure that there's a four person body in case of the sit in there is an  you could do a conditional motion for that ending confirmation of that individual can attend all the meetings right and then you get a response on that and then you have the right to bring somebody else back and swear at the beginning of the next meeting tremendous community member who has expressed really strong interest in being willing to step up and serve our community in this interim period which are incredibly appreciative of but it does there is that weird feeling that you know christine had to step out of do open up the charter next that we remember this conversation and you know the reason why christine had to step off is a charter required provision that could be amended to allow the council to fill a council seat if it was the critical juncture where we need to think make a decision we had a half dozen candidates one thing but it's maybe somewhat messy but i think i really willing to step into it at this needed time and i think we should seriously consider it i think and i think  coffee with the intention i was with another city council at that time i went into the meeting with the intention of asking him pushing the call to run for mare because i had seen her at a number of public meetings few things on there bring up from before and that's just an extreme appreciation and we did we did what is one of the most important things that a city council does tonight and we forward a budget the staff worked really hard to prepare the most important thing we do as a council and that's probably the most visual and most important thing we do as a council is is we select through the city manager of the c e o the executive of the city is going  and with our partners i can say the single greatest thing that i've been part of in this council's action is bringing in jesse baker as the city manager for the city when you see in one of these complement you on all of your tremendous work in one a great asset you are for this community and so isn't call comes in and i want to give really the knowledge and i've worked with three city managers out there in the crowd wheels on the track in keeps the vision moving forward and i can't say enough about what the partnership has been like working with you how effective you are in the how are really in tune with what it takes to have a happy humming organization here and to make the people who work here feel good so thinks so so much for all your work jesse and all the other city managers  a which has a very strong code of ethics and i'm a political and no good fault with the election to the city and so this is this is very non political statement what we're about to do is about to break a huge barrier in our community by appoint