side sent it around to you earlier today and i would ask you to add it to the consent agenda as an approval item and then secondly i notice that we also neglected to put down discussion or approval items for any of the regular i don't see listed on your ok so we will move to the consent agenda we have three items night approval of the city council minutes of may twenty first two thousand and eighteen approval of warrants warrant ending five thirty us she is our new assistant city clerk who joined us this winter after our restructuring that we did is print that one thousand but to process engine comes with about twenty years of customer service experience with fed ex and a number of other customer service roles and has hit the ground running it amazes us with already how much she knows every day so she's sitting in tonight to learn as she will be taking minutes in the future with carol as well couple of other updates  heard from me that very sadly the ridge the bridge real repair project that was scheduled for this summer our lowest bidder dropped out after the contract was officially awarded john rocher and the burlington public works crew have gone through a process to put that project back together and every issue that forbid we anticipate bids due back by the end of the week this week with the work to star in mid july so that's really good news that we can get them back on schedule and happen this summer garage washdown we do this every year we wash down the whole parking garage is taking place from sunday june tenth through june thirteenth that notice is currently up in the garage as well as set out all the grudge contracted users and on facebook and out through our communications channel it starts from the top down so for people who park regularly in the garage just pay attention to m discover the discover jazz festival is going on as we speak and through this weekend going on throughout the news in the downtown we encourage people to get out and go to that specifically building concerts in rotary park when say  repair the trails are in memorial park and will continue that on june seventeenth so people are interested in working helping work in the trails to improve them contact and then finally just put this on your radar screen i believe we are going to need a very quick special meeting at the end of june beginning of july to set the tax rate as you all know that's simply a mathematical equation but does need to be done before tax bills are printed so more to come on that but just time the one new thing included in here we spent a little more time with the cost model so we have raised and sharing historically is the full cost of the project implementing one year so we want to look at whether there is a pathway to implementing that allowed for more incremental increases so that would include carrying interest only debt for the first five years which is allowed through the  about a nine cent increase overall suppose to an eight cent increase but it would be a slow ramp up so we wanted to put that in front of you as an option as well obviously no decisions on any of that tonight but want but before you and just so work clear because leading to a decision point at the next meeting of one of these three options which would really put out to the community and because the fundraising effort is really getting under way i think it's also important to note that the bond and that's that's something i have to think about a little bit more in regards to financing but just the kind of give everybody the perspective of where i'm coming from and thinking through a half an ounce between you know and i think we've talked about this while i feel like safe health recreation spaces are really important fergie indeed ones that are open and available for all members of our community and i think that the pool has a lot of room for mining in working at the dinner and we also of course have a responsibility to taxpayers to to be sensitive to or you know be fiscally responsible to people who are paying taxes here and you ski and looking between the two proposals i think i struggle with the loss of a community room in the reduced tax proposal because i think again that's another space that could be utilized really well by community members for a number of different purposes and i think that  know between the two proposals it's about twenty six to twenty four dollars difference so for each tax bill it's about six dollars a bill and so just to kind of give everybody a heads up i will be i think the community has spoken really loudly and clearly that this is something that they want to weigh in on and the decision isn't up to us of whether or not we move forward with the project it's up to the community and i think we have a responsibility based on what we've heard from the community to allow  the majority of the messages i've been receiving are folks who you know don't feel that we're committed to moving forward with the pool in general which we are i think we really are and they can see from us but we seem to be on that track i think that we do have financial responsibilities to the community in addition to providing services and you know amenities that are useful and i think the decision is not happening in a bottle when we're talking yet what the actual budget for next year will be what kind of increase will see there certainly to some extent at least inflation cost of living increase and as you know as we discussed the last meeting looking at the financials here while some of these things will be great to add the pool itself is an amenity that we you know we choose to fund is not a revenue generator and never will be an addition of features that are very much needs to have well they could draw more participation or more visitors from out of town and there's no there's no data here michel was that the increase in attendance will even come close to paying for the cost of those items i think hearing through the community vision process what is really important they came out of that is this zero entry pool that we can have  marxist accessible facility i think some of these other features they just i don't feel the necessity there and i don't feel like putting that tax burden onto the entire community i certainly heard strong support for let's read you know let's get the poor real one that's very useful to the community but also concerns about continuously increasing tax rates looking at the two the options only help prevent accidents that we've witnessed in the recent past to our lovely river and i think we need to let the voters decide if this is what we want to do or not but for me it's a matter of life and death and i think the pool needs to be back on line he needs to be prepared for our growth in our community but is that impact is that timeline significantly impacted if we and the reason i'm asking this is because i think t we agree with your concerns and i've heard you know we've heard strongly from the community services commission that they support the original version of this isn't that was developed by the community and so i'm wondering and so i do believe that you should have an opportunity of the original vision and i'm wondering if that fails for some reason and is there an opportunity to come back in november kick me hard out of the table coming off i mean i think the november vote would potentially ron spend the final pieces into that construction season of twenty one and then really spring just if you think about you know if there's two winners talk a does instead of one there could be some finish to just pieces that fall all in summer but i think either way we're likely still open summer twenty one it just may be for a truncated season versus a full season but i don't think from an operational standpoint substantively that changes it's not directly related to the bonzo but it's something that i want to reiterate at any chance while while we're discussing the pool and something we talked about saturday is just ensuring that if this barn for does move forward how we engineering right now so we have to completely design and engineer the pool and then did it and then construct it so that could in theory be done in a month or two earlier if the risk ailing back but that would still only get us into like the end of august or something really important for us all to keep in mind as we go into the regular budget cycle i think historically you know a lot of communities not just ours oftentimes community services do end up first on the chopping block for cuts and i think right and all of his team run lots of amazing programs and services in a really really capacity and i personally you know as we look forward to i think that the last thing we need to do is sacrifice those who are moving this is something important to keep in mind they're already doing so much amazing work and could be doing a lot more with a similar resource and we need to look to drive believe we need to work to support that work moving forward and i view that presentation somewhat good evening so we are about to turn it over to public comment but i do want to give you the opportunity if you have any comments to make about which of the to yes so we've been going through the three options as presented in the attachment and want to and the council has each expressed their views and want to give you a chance to do the same before we open it up for public comment and i'll just say for the public and anyone who's watching he's actually calling driving back from another meetings he's in the car so there's some background noise ari do you want to comment that hear from it wasn't listed as an action item it was listed as a discussion item so we can hear it again input on the three items we could talk about the three options and give staff guidance about which option we want so that we can but on that formal language  we've worked with western and sampson over the course of this project to help us do first the conceptual design and work with the community feedback trying to get all the input from one of the community was interested in seeing his features and then moved with them into the next phase which was the preliminary engineering so that gets to about thirty percent design from there we have a pretty strong degree of confidence in terms of the cost estimates i know you're an architect and it works in this from wrong there's there's always  chances that you get into a project and things change and shift but i think my understanding is that if we're given a bond amount to play with and work with that's the amount we're going to have to play with and work with so that we would work that and at that point with  engineers and contractors over the course of the next phases of the project to stay within our means there you know i don't see us being able to blow a project budget way above what council approves as a bomb because there's there's just not funding available to do that so it would be an iterative process i think over the course of the effort but again i don't think that's going to mean significant changes to the project in terms of what it looks like when the door opens on day one versus what we've seen on paper to date i  surprised and in the right direction and have a smaller cost the one place where we were able to mitigate a lot of the concern and contingency dollars was in the environmental realm but there were some testing done during the preliminary engineering phase that kind of eliminated the likelihood of us getting into the ground and finding contaminated soil or you know that discusses things like that really jack up the cost of the project so there was a lot of work done to sort of deal with that early and kind of give us some assurances that that's not going to be part document from the engineer but i'll make sure tomorrow morning that that's up on the website as well but that's going to a lot of the final engineering or poor a lot of the history of the project up to the to this point so i definitely encourage there as a starting point but also if you have questions feel predicts the pool being able to open for the summer of twenty  so even though we're not going to take a formal vote tonight it does appear as though the sense of the council is to move forward with a bond vote for the amount in the original proposal so on june eighteenth council is prepared to vote on my resolution my name out of the original proposal which is three point nine one million dollars so operation all and and frankly policy financial advice x skill sets and expertise that we are very fortunate that we have had somebody that could  e with that background but as we looked at the organizational structure and roles and responsibilities i had some questions about why we would have policy and operations work occurring makes sense but also the sustainable terms of what we're asking for an individual to do for the amount we were paying which frankly was not very much so we've been very fortunate to have dr ticehurst who is here with us tonight staff just  all and i think it's really says something about this community that you're willing to have these kinds of conversations you know we see unfortunately in smaller communities across the state where you don't have those good checks and balances that at rhodes the trust in government and having having robust conversations like this and having strong positions in the manager and the treasurer ensure that we are being good stewards of the taxpayer dollars but we should so i just thank you for having the commerce that station and  regular duties very very helpful something ok so that's i think where we have it appears as though we have a green light to move forward and will be prepared to approve the job tonight we are providing you with the third monthly goal update on housing and what i've done with your memo this time is really focused in on the housing commission after it's that doesn't mean those are the only efforts that are going on at the city but i think most of the questions are about where we are and where we're going and what the timeline is so i've focused on that i will say that in terms of the chart which shows you the staff recommended strategies implementation of firehouse software is going very well they have completed the first section of the city implementing firehouse so they've done one full round of inspections with that and there will be data there is data available but we at the housing commission will be receiving a presentation of what the most frequent code violations are kind of a top ten list of what they're seeing so far it takes a four year cycle for them to get through the entire city so it's just one slice of the city but i think probably will provide us with a lot of information to go forward so that's going very well but i think we're going to focus on where the housing commission is for tonight so i brought two members of the housing commission with me so they can speak for themselves jessica bridge is the newest member of the house commission she's a property owner and when you used to be a resident she's a landlord and a realtor showed so she brings a great deal of expertise and it's kind of conversation and also robert in the lar who is a prior city councilor and has demonstrated his commitment to affordable housing throughout that time but is also a real city so brings that  the commission we have i would say a very well balanced commission of people who have a lot of expertise and a lot of different areas so we're very cautious about the way that we set that up we have representatives from the board of the one who's the housing authority the burlington housing authority housing coordinator for refugee resettlement program someone who works for a government housing finance agency so there are a lot of different people at the table kind of trying to give us a robust conversation i'm sorry also the superintendent of schools because that really plays into the whole conversation as well so i'm just going to give you of a quick overview of the purpose they kind of the background on the housing commission per their charter and  housing commission and it was asked to come in to in an advisory capacity to the planning commission to assess community housing needs to perform data gathering and analysis to establish citywide goals for housing and then to make recommendations for housing policies and identify tools to achieve those goals to the planning commission who then takes those and moves forward from there with your blessing of course so i'm going to turn it over to jessica who's going to walk you through the next few steps of the housing commission and so i will likely rely on her to fill in the blanks so i think the first thing that would be important to do is just read through the guiding principles  needs of different family compositions household types and multi generational needs three promote quality housing that is safe healthy and durable for preserve and sustain the scale character and settlement patterns of our neighborhoods five protect current residents from displacement six support sustainable growth density and creation of additional housing units and seven to be guided by data driven decision making so how there's presentation is pretty comprehensive so i think you know if you read through it you will probably just have more questions than anything problem with things that i wanted to point out if you flip over to the yellow chart or the the first chart that's provided if you look under household income where it says low income under eighty percent and am i so the per household count is soo point one person and i also wanted to point out the low income segment represents  zero to one thousand two hundred eighty three dollars per month as rent and affordable and that includes subsidize and the moderate income eighty to one hundred twenty percent and my represents twelve hundred eighty four dollars to one thousand one hundred twenty four dollars per month if you don't know that it's based on thirty percent  nt very helpful thing the reason why i thought that that should be put into doubt is because those are the two areas actually the two segments that we focused the most attention  where immersed in the us and i thought if i wasn't clear on that and that i should probably make you clear on it so are there any specific questions or do you would you like me to just go through i think if you go percentages and this is for new rental units constructed in the gateway districts so essentially it's a it's a fifteen seventy five tax increase so far and i would like to point out th actually a it is that a net gain for each income level so the low income the moderate income and upper middle to high income the smallest and obviously being in that category  the so the reason why we propose significant increases in the moderate income category is because that was where the housing gap based on the data that we collected in this is all from the twenty seventeen residential rental registry reporting so that in case you're wondering where these numbers are coming from and i'll point out that it's statistically significant with a one point five percent margin of error at a ninety five percent confidence level so it's real data q so the following chart provides five year projections and we recommend benchmarking these rental targets at three year intervals but this does represent a five year projection for the total number of units citywide that will be affordable to each income bracket as well as rental mix percentages that will reserve that will result if the target moment to make sure that we are able to meet our targets at each income level so again our guiding principle was to encourage the development of affordable housing options for a broad range and i would like to just point one other thing out and i found this also really helpful as kind of some background contextual information see when a ski provides five percent of the total housing units engine and county and fourteen percent of all affordable rental going to engine county which is significant in that we are the tiniest community so fifty one percent of our rental units are affordable unit so i think that the commission has is committed to not really well as i said there's a net gain so we are committed to increasing the number of units available at all levels but also being able to fill the gap there is that there is a much needed gap and i have a little bit more contextual information sorry i it's important i think to paint the whole picture so with growth household income between eighty and one hundred twenty percent of the area media and income adjusted for household size often includes teachers registered nurses and police officers this is also called workforce housing  i i think it's helpful to know you know who he's making that kind of money and renting in th  on you know if you look at those percentages and you see the decrease in the percentage that are affordable but it's a good reminder i think to see that that's still an increase overall in the amount of units in that area it's just as a as a percentage of the mix so i just wanted to make that point again things i think you mostly where personally i feel like it needs to be so thank you for that any questions or comment present area median income but i do think that if we i think there's a possibility for us to discuss things like in a replacement ordinance we might be talking about that very specifically and also i think some kind of as we go forward there all  great segue eric so the housing policies and tools for consideration if you flip over to another page where it starts off the strategic vision area the last two columns are split into the policies for further consideration and the strategies for further consideration so the and this will support what robert said you know we are looking to establish an affordable housing replacement ordinance and you know the ordinance is not something that the housing commission would be responsible for we make the recommendation you approve it and then we work with the planning commission because th so also update form based code to add inclusionary zoning so that is something that we are seriously considering but we also recommend i recognize that that's a very large conversation and probably underneath all of the tools that is you know we would need outside expertise to weigh in on it because there are there are repercussions certainly i think beyond the there could be gay has to be carefully crafted well put reducing the parking requirements for affordable housing so those would fall under the policies in the strategies and this one we've talked about a lot housing trust fund and prioritizing pursue public private partnerships and i think that speaks to the big affordable question that you had eric so these are what we are currently working with t yet it differs it varies depending on if you're talking about specifically big a subsidized housing or if you're talking about affordable smog that eighty percent was because the other ones that i was looking at in the area were all targeting within that same regional conversation so we're all kind of speaking the same language and also that eighty percent is low income that's the high definition of low income so i just divided it into three easy ca the landlord registry data that is it's city way of data we've looked at by block group different numbers and you know throughout the course of this so we've been kind of toggling back and forth between rental registry data in order to do it sure there are no we are not displacing residents if new development occurs you know i think a replacement policy would be particularly useful in that kind of a situation and i did have a landlord rental registry reports for main street and up on opperman street i only have about twenty five percent so that is not the same level of statistical significance that i have citywide in terms of the breakout so i wouldn't be able to say per unit is any reporting on what they're charging for rental rates is on a voluntary basis it's not required required and i think part of that is to keep from crossing lines where we're having code enforcement afghan yeah i think we really need to be cautious with that so we had such a good response rate last time and i think that i'm a follow up and see if i can get it eight years eight years now we're going to have to be revisiting us at least eight year intervals and i would expect it to be much more frequently and some one thing i would like to point out is that i think it's it's important to look at the percentages and also the actual new units because when you look at the percentages it seems like we're dealing with really big numbers but then when you look at how many units are represented by certain numbers it actually scales it back a bit so just to point that out because i got caught up in the at one point in the process and then i was like ok the difference between because we did there were four options and we did vote on one character which creates if there's an imbalance creates affordability concerns that exist beyond housing for me personally but i think it goes back to you know one of our other things is is focused on  is interest in a replacement ordinance but that can take another different forms and you know you don't have to replace it on the site that you  developed and so i think one value that i have is that you know if we're going to celebrate the diversity of this community then we include thing is to ensure socio economic integration and community and so i think that's where i get a little concerned about the lack of concrete policy measures being put into place for for more development and that's just sort of akin to red lining right except from the other break and and that is something that we that we discussed and agreed that you know that's not call i guess my question is how have you solicited input from the greater community in terms of some of these ideas and even going forward how might you consider that kind of i this is just based on the twenty seventeen rental registry reporting and i believe also and again and this is three months from a deep so but i think a lot of the values have come forth from the last time that the housing commission presented to counsel and there was there was feedback because ultimately the community is speaking to you as the city councillors and then we get that information has  you or conveyed by you and then it's our job to come up with the recommendations to then present to you for approval consistent with the communities values and then meet with the planning commission so that they can turn that into ordinance so i would say that most of our feedback from the community is honestly coming from that side of the room to us so you know the reason why we're here presenting to you is that you can say you know the people that i speak to are actually not as important because you know we will listen and we will take us to heart and then you'll see that reflected in our final recommendations which you ultimately get to say yesterday i also think this strategic vision guided a lot of guiding principles and that was a long process of seeking community involvement and gateman so we specifically pulled out words from the housing piece of the strategic vision and then develop them from there the other pieces the planning commission is in the process of doing a new municipal plan and so all of the commissioners are bringing recommendations to them and that process also sure i mean i do think it is important it's important that folks who sit on the commission have that broad range of perspective and experience and nothing can replace you know personal to people who will be affected by these policies and so i know that there's been outreach to the business community up and down main street and i don't know enough about the  landlord or rental community on along main street that that's a i would think you mean we don't have like a neighborhood planning commission type features here but a neighborhood discussion around  mentioned you know did they do some folks in like the mainstream herms that are pretty active in their community so getting some input that way through her other members of the commission that smart it would be a planning manager with the planning commission and you know we've certainly written ordinance there before and i think the thing that we are being cautious about as a commission and has been discussed pretty extensively i ensuring that if you establish requirements that you also established offsets so that they that developments that include affordable housing are financially viable and i think that's the complexity of really looking there are some that are successful programs and there are some that are unsuccessful for example inclusionary zoning it can increase affordable housing or it can decrease housing that's produced and how detrimental impacts so he's writing it well it's important i think is what you're hearing and i don't know that that's necessary i mean i think we'd have to have it reviewed certainly from a legal perspective but i think planning manager and planning commission can get to get very ordinance that would making and an artist you know my interest is in nailing down some of these policies maybe not you know how did it go through the formal ordinance process but the coun you see those these efforts sort of the feeling with the broader development work on main street i guess from a timing first yeah it's our intention to be present because we prioritized policies i it's our intention to diet deeply into those immediately so that we can make recommendations to the planning commission on this night so we'll have that conversation with them come back to you with the planning commission on august twentieth kind of to get your blessing on what you want to go forward and what you do not want to go forward and then the planning commission to examine there in terms of what he actually right an ordinance so for things like the housing trust fund that would be something that you can stack and take for i can take i would end up taking forward putting together some kind of finance package for creating a housing trust fund but something like enormous change would go through the planning commission at that point but i think that we could have by august makes up a very small fee change five percent it'll be one you know whatever the sort of just to kind of set of values statement i suppose and something i'm looking at a long term goal composition to be would like to see you there twenty or twenty the ability of him to learn that if we're not getting there and then raise the rates at that time if needed i also would reiterate the point you made earlier that when you see really is carrying their weight in this area and we can continue to that yeah going to happen organically and then we also don't really know what currently exists in the gateways in terms of the rental units and their low their specific level for ability so there is a risk of sort of letting the market do its work resulting in an elimination of probably affordable units if there's no clear replacement or so i think to me it's imperative that we you know i can live with these targets so long as we have very good protections in place or against us  tools is going to take a little bit more time because we have to be responsible about it and what you know we looked ok what are the pros and one of the potential cons and what we realize to your point like what's sort of more technical or expert support do we need i agree that needs to be at the the level of the planning commission because he for example you know yet is the fee in lieu of affordable housing high enough mike is there enough benefit to the city or utilizing city owned in these are just examples but you utilizing city owned property for affordable housing if we say yes that's absolutely how we're going to go but there's an another highest and best use that can bring income into the city  more positive and effective way like is that the right tool to help encourage affordable housing you know so and i think the egg again not to circle back to the inclusionary zoning i feel like i'm you know beating a dead horse a little bit but there are repercussions beyond what our level of expertise could be potentially which is why if we say yes this is the way to go but we don't know how it's going to act the rest of the city with the potential backlash is going to be in you know year four after we look at you know that three year benchmark you know we just don't want to get into situation we want to be moderate with our recommendations you know and again her situation where we're trying to seriously retool if i can just add a piece of context and i have not been intimately involved with housing commission so i'm not speaking of housing commission members but i think it's also important to know that this is you know these targets and tools dedicated to the new units in the gateway are incremental and are a part of a conversation that i believe we're going to have over eight years i think that you know thirty this is built off the assumption that we're going to have thirty new units constructed annually which is the average that we've seen in the last couple of years but that's a result of a pretty big development push to get new development happening that may not continue or it may continue not in a straight pattern so right now just for context i think we need to celebrate this not only focus on the negative what might happen if we don't do this side of this process right now of gateways we have to permit it housing developments in active developments neither of them are on main street we have no active permanent housing projects currently planned or thought of coming through now in just a minute that could change tomorrow or could be doing something we don't know about it could change tomorrow but right now we have no plan and the ones we have permitted and we believe are pretty the one we have them believe we believe will be under construction this year which will only be one is truly the integrated housing  we have on east now and that's highly subsidized with state income tax credits we're not going to continue to be able to do that you know you only the subsidy from the state another housing partners won't continue at that annual increment so we may have years where we see a significant boost in subsidized affordable unit development and then a year where we see no development where we don't and that's why i think it's really important to benchmark this to be checking in regularly on where about making the possibility of making specific changes the form is coming because the current that current warnings does not have adequate protections  for the preservation or was he incentive program does not want to and so that's that concerns really what kicked off the whole housing needs assessment three years ago while yes we have to have conversation and the housing commission does have a scope broader than just the ways i think for me the immediate interest is an  understanding what changes can and should be made to form a skoda in order to address concerns that have been expressed for several years now that the current forms does not magically insure the maintenance correct in saying that we've been focusing on rentals because of the concerns about the gateways there is where the in the document that i sent out it does say rental targets for new construction in the gateways so that ma be where this is coming from but i think you're right in saying that we intend to be setting targets for the city and something like a replacement ordinance could apply for the wife and i would say when i'm reading your period p any other questions or comments why do you all feel like you have enough clarity around even things around the time line and past we've been clear