that similarly we are working with them on good business practices that were experienced last summer but i believe that they understand the requirements and recommend three questions concerns any questions or concerns from the public opposed motion carriers who have approval first classical license for drafting craft look it up forty five main street heard we do previously so this is a little bit of a odd one see you previously approved their first year liquor license it was then one cent was sent to the state it was not issued in a timely manner so in those ryan until may first on so now they're back from a first for you won't even know they want to start serving and tell me so we're actually leaving the fee for this since they never actually were able to use their last year's permit as it was never approved by the student mendoza customer service page so it is technically a renewal even know our purpose is to group people together so that we can talk and once you know people that are you know closer to each other it's much more difficult to say just very good things when you do something and it's better to you know create a better periods from the twenty fifth of march the seventh of april we also have the city council liaison assignments we discussed in depth will call madrid see operations plan didn't sound like there's a whole lot of tweaks to be done here and then a resolution related to arbor units are one bedrooms the remaining are two bedrooms twelve are market rate the remaining are affordable to sixty percent am i and four of those units are reserved solely for those at risk of homelessness so it's really that exact kind of mixed use building we're looking for the developers are hitting the ground running they're meeting tomorrow to go over pre construction documents and attempt intend to break down ground in august so we'll see that coming this summer housing committees located throughout the county there as a result kind of a next step coming out of a community conversation they had on affordable housing a number of months ago was bringing all those bodies together so that will be a pro thirtieth's at six o'clock we believe it will be at the c c f e c offices here in the news but that's going to be confirmed so we'll share that you're more than welcome to attend that as well heather will be going in presenting a few slides on what we're currently working on want to give you a couple of quick staffing and programming ministration updates as you know we have a planning and zoning administrator vacancy that position is posted we are getting some pretty interesting applications that  mentioned briefly before but just to reiterate johnny has taken on the interim ca role in the in this transition and heather and i are heading out planning efforts i'll talk later in the presentation around the agenda an economic development update about the my master planning efforts and our plans to move that forward in the in the interim our new assistant city clerk into lane started today she is fantastic the next time you're in the city come and say hi to her she's working full time  she has over twenty years of experience in customer service and management at aix and really brings a lovely positive attitude and a lot of a lot of detail orientation which we're excited about just  because our next meeting will be the public hearing for the main street revitalization wanted to remind you that the community there will be a community dinner on that project on april twenty fourth at the o c c people are interesting coming out and hearing about that project six o'clock the o c c on april twenty fourth the public hearing will be at your next regular meeting and then me it's the citywide meeting in conjunction with main st we are also planning for the weaver bike lane pilot that will happen late spring so coronation is happening between public works and local motion of our community outreach program which is our partnership with our surrounding counties and howard center will be fully operational by april thirtieth the staff has been hired now for about a month and going through training both with our center and police departments has done a number of right along with our officers but they will be here in operational by the end of the month two other quick things  those who don't know is located in burlington just on the other side of the river reached out to ask because our membership in new ski is growing they reach out to the library to be a service delivery so starting in the first week of june watch next all traffic advisories are sure all that stuff will be available on the website as well as the weekend those folks in terms of impacts you might see the regular daily life and as always we very much appreciate people  accepting that the city does this for vibrancy in the we've for prove this for me year after year because of the festival promoters of the very good to work with from a logistics perspective and have tried to be very thoughtful about the impact residents and  certainly there will inevitably be a couple rows since the get into me and spend some portion of it but we appreciate everybody's patience and paying close attention to any works that are out in terms of what you can do to better navigate the city during that time and purchase services and obviously they provide a future level of service delivery to our residents we appoint a commission or in an alternate to sit on that board of directors each community in the region does as well it's  challenging seat to film because often the meetings are during or either early in the morning or during the day so the current alternate is robert miller who is here and i'm sure will be happy to give some perspective as well if you  and i met with candy we did a posting for the position we got three applicants actually got four applicants and one withdrew we interviewed the goals we set for the appointment process where we were really focused on trying to get somebody who uses public transportation to sit on the board per robert's guidance there isn't that voice at the table on the at the board right now and we feel like that's an important points to add as well as thinking about somebody who could really connect the dots between some of the big projects going on in the city like the master plan redevelopment gateway quarter development and the main street project to public transportation make sure those voices were  back and forth through municipal planning so having interviewed with those calls in mind robber and i are recommending the appointment of any new i need this here tonight and as an alternate ray coffey as community services i'll tell you of myself well for starters i've been here five weeks and i can tell you i'm having a phenomenal time we have learned so much already and the team doctors mentor like amazing so all about myself powerful quick update about this already this is communication we received at the end of last week from the attorney general's office indicating that the firm partial policing policy as previously approved is out of compliance with model policy and offering the city expectations that we sit with the attorney general's office and try and come to a solution that would meet everybody's needs so that what the chief and i thought it was important to bring it before you because it was a council policy the council had adopted to say this is where we are also we're hopeful to get some guidance from you about resource allocation here obviously have a lot going on with the police department through strategic  also entering into negotiation it's with f o p so our question for you in it no need to vote but just some guidance is how if you would like us to move forward with meeting with the attorney general's office how would you like us to do that from a staffing perspective an option would be to send myself a chief to meet with the attorney general's office perhaps with representatives from your board alternatively we could hire legal counsel to represent us in those discussions we will be meeting with a lawyer on the other side so we could go in that direction as well but primarily wanted to let you know that this is the feedback we had heard from the attorney general hearing them out and seeing if it's something that we leave people understand or if we need to consult with internally about before we spend nutritional resources that i think this is that's the check back here  perspective what solutions are you proposing to what those said issues are and again if it's not something that can be addressed here before any resources gets you know that i think the co polls you understood  that's but that the request be a little bit better than meaning you know we'd like to see written documentation of the specific areas of noncompliance and proposed remedy so that we may we're not going to bring an attorney to this meeting but we need to have something that we can then discussions can until and share with our l mean who knows i'll be interested to see what they say but absolutely agree something in writing i just think setting you on the position of having to translate that discussion with the attorney general's office is a difficult decisions to be and dangerous and th the other questions the question concerns been working on this project with us and he'll give us a presentation tonight of where it stands in draft form mike has worked with the steering committee of community members and has solicited public input through a range of engagement opportunities that he'll describe more fully in his presentation upon completion of the new brand and marketing strategy myself of the communications coordinator will take leading roles in implementation and funding for implementation is built into the f y nineteen budget an r p for an improved city website utilizing the new branding was issued on march twenty sixth of two thousand and eighteen and an award will be made in late may so the timing will be perfect for that jesse baker the city manager ra coffey director of community services paul sun communications were here and i all and i'm the communicate the community economic development officer and have all been playing a lead role in kind of going through the logo process so you'll see a draft of that this evening so i'm going to turn it over to mike and tell do you want to flip the slides or do you want to flips i know you can i can do that at all just say yeah feel free to take very well thank you for me the opportunity to do this work and thank you for having me back i'm going to walk through about twenty five slides pretty quickly but give you the high level of what we found and what we're recommending going forward and i i think you will i hope you will feel the sense of excitement that we feel about where this is all headed so it is heather said here ok the goal of this was to develop a brand platform and a strategy that would sustain and excel rate the economic revitalization of the city this year in great shape how do we keep things moving forward the steering committee heather mentioned great him put her on the process thoughtful smart creative folks who really gave us great input and i do want to say jess heather ray and paul were great partners in this process and worked we worked really well together they made this fun and a fascinating project so i'm grateful to them for that public  input we did a community dinner at the o'brien center that was very well attended to public input sessions at the senior center one with a group of nice seniors which was fascinating we tabled at the farmers market in july i did a little over twenty individual interviews and this dovetail with the economic development residents survey that happened last summer we both the economic development firm and us use that data so all of that is the inputs you know the overview of what we found eric at the community dinner you tweeted our brand is our people and  absolutely emerged in all of this work that is the truth of when to ski in everything that i do everyone i talk to there's this remarkable continuity of values and traditions and across very different cultures ethnic groups ages these threads emerge these common threads and i'll get to some of them what we heard and what is clearly part of the brand is there's a very high value placed here on building in sustaining community more than just economic development it's about community and a depth and richness to that that's really powerful there's a deep commitment to openness and inclusive of the and i've never seen anywhere else you folks don't just talk the talk you walk the walk in a way that doesn't happen in many other places and i i i really want to  that perspective it just doesn't happen in other places there is a city wide culture of humility which i don't really want to change but i wish you would knock it off a little bit  there's so many spectacular things about this community and at the city level of the schools level you are all very modest and matter of fact and i want to push you to tell the story of what happens here what the legacy of this community is and what you've accomplished so humility is of great value but occasionally you could step a little outside of it and even in the interviews and research where people had areas of concern about direction of what might be happening those were always tempered with up ms and there's this overall sense that the city's going in the right direction so how does that translate to a brand pieces of the brand of a brand story a tagline and then a visual image the brand story that we've developed is this for almost one hundred years we new scheme has welcomed strivers people looking to build a better life for selves and their families we're a small city where neighbors know each other we're city we're all of our kids learn together play together grow together we're community where everyone can participate in city government the neighborhood potlucks and our livelihood downtown we're always striving to improve our city and to welcome our next new neighbors that's the common threads that  emerged across all of these conversations that is unique and differentiating statement i don't know another place that can say that i'll stop a minute and see how those words strivers is this is a place that creates and you'll hear the word opportunity in a minute this is a place that has for a hundred years has created in providing opportunities for people and that's not it is really  hundred year legacy and that's a through line in your history and it's unique to you so wiling that down to a single statement the tagline we do ski is vermont's opportunity city and the proof points to that are this hundred year legacy of providing opportunity to successive waves of new americans really one hundred years of new americans and it's that means opportunity for individuals for families for businesses and for the city itself it's a city on the rise and that you have uniquely this culture of constant innovation grounded by the long held values even the dome which is certainly an innovative idea or you're known for when you go back and look at it the value behind that was that everybody would benefit it wasn't someone to get rich quick scheme it was someone's idea for how do we make of all of us better that exemplifies new skills so from this language then how do we capture that in an image and this is by and far away the hardest part of these projects is coming up with the image you already have strong organizational brands in the cities bray and downtown new skete the school district has a new logo there are fire wising what there wasn't was this broad umbrella logo of the captured everybody's story everybody's brain and if you think about it it's sort of like new york as for the i love new york campaign or michigan now they're economic development is michigan pure there needed to be a so this is the draft of the logo and let me tell you a little bit about the elements and the thinking to us so it's the river the bridge the mill it is uniquely scheme really we wanted to capture a sense of place because a place here is powerful it captures the mills suggest this hundred year legacy mill town is hundred year legacy of opportunity it's opportunity they were about community building that may not have been their purpose but people from different families and neighborhoods and churches came together in the mill and that formed community so this logo is about both economic future and a commitment to continuing to build communities here thoughts you can see things you know that heather and jesse and paula ray will agree it is the hardest part of this process we went down a few roads that we had to turn back it's hard to capture but when we got here in all different ways in different offices we were all like who this is the one this is the one let me show you how it begins to play out and where it goes and so the marketing strategy that then follows has four key points first leverage the tremendous strengths of this community to build community provide second is to create a platform to tell stories and i was really influenced by dan higgins work and some other efforts like that to capture and tell stories here to frankly address the challenges you have with facts there are some challenges and be to be continue to be straightforward about them but maybe i'll have to show you some ways to do a better job talking about some of those challenges and then build the tools to attract targeted businesses and residents so that happens one three pillars first the city and i'll talk about ways to strengthen the communications capacity the city the school district which wasn't technically part of this project but at the same time they were doing their own project with a consult that was funded on a grant we work together and it really dove tail nicely and came up with some joint recommendations because the schools are a big part of the reputation of the community and then the last piece i'll talk about is this legacy campaign and i'll come back to that so the city boiling it down internally to three key messages that this city provides residents with a broad range of my quality services the city operates on a deeply held values of transparency and openness and the government broad tradition of civic participation that's the messaging internally and now you're going to see a lot of other things but that gives you the framework to unify all of those other things externally as we look at purse outside of this community into the region into perspective residents and businesses you want to talk about what this is a vibrant small city offering an appealing environment for individuals families businesses and corporations the importance of affordable opportunities for locating a business running an apartment or buying a home that is one of your competitive edge is this on all three of those points business running or buying you are affordable where others aren't particularly in a vibrant small city environment and then the third differentiator is the streamlined and rational policies for zoning and permitting that balance protecting quality of life with encouraging investment you are the envy of some of your neighbors for that and that should be a strong part of your message externally delivering those messages you've got great relationships locally already with local and regional media continuing to build on those your social media for city this size your social media is as good as it gets you continuing to grow and deepen that one of the places that you could go deeper is around storytelling profiling local citizens to make the point about interconnectedness and the through in a couple examples here so i met a longtime resident a native at the senior center who now serves on the restored restored of justice panel that's an example of the longest president doing some of the newest most innovative work of the community in the same way and i gather he moved on fortunately because he was a great example in this power point but there was a new american citizen who serves as a volunteer firefighter you know one of the oldest institutions in town being staffed by new arrivals these pieces that drive a narrative of the inner gratian of these can of the community and that give you an opportunity to model behavior and draw people towards i'm going to talk in a minute and give you an example of in for graphics but there are some storytelling techniques that would help that as heather said your website is already in the rebuild process you guys jumped ahead quickly on this because it needed so but in for graphics there's a lot of numbers it's hard for people to grasp numbers and i'm going to give you an example one of the things that i heard consistently was concerns about crime and the comparison said this is the part of just this data and if you take the crimes per hundred people for put thousands of people and look at it vermont on the left we newsies numbers two from the south burlington or united states and then burlington you get a relative sense of what the crime issue is now twenty five crimes per thousand is too many you're working to combat that but it does give people a sense of where are we in comparison as opposed to where we incarcerate and grow up grew up so this is an example of in for graphics that can do a better job telling a story to give people a visual picture there's an opportunity to do more externally in terms of business media telling a good news story beyond burlington in the immediate area going to regional media in the northeast targeting the business media looking at trade publications conferences you have a huge success story here and getting it out will draw more success you haven't had to bend with and there's a staff bandwidth issue here in the best of all possible worlds you get to but business to business website business to business social media but there's a capacity issue so think of those as and in the future bucket but the future is not too off so that's telling the story from the city side from the schools and there is i said they've got an effort underway that needs to be supported and i'm sure will be by the city and integrated into communications efforts you're doing here so they're launching a new website they have a great content you have great social media there's an opportunity to use their college your social school's really it is a regionally respective respected innovative school system that's providing high quality twenty first century education to students of all beliefs and background i live in washington d c i can describe the city schools to high resource parents in a way that makes them think that must be the best charter school ever invented and how do i get my kids in there when you talk about student center project based learning farm to table cafeteria wellness program for teachers and for students and teachers they have cracked some nuts up there that american education hasn't figured out anywhere else they are incredibly humble and they focus all their time on teaching and learning not on telling their story outside they need some help with that because it's a great story data will show some of that and picking the data up parts of things like graduation rates don't look great when you take them as a whole but as you begin to desegregate that data there's really good stuff in there and they need some help doing that the other piece of this is an opportunity for them with their p you go on the school run sites like great schools the it's based on three or four year old data the numbers are good and the parent comments are three or four years outdated so without spamming those sites there's an opportunity to get engaged and increase give parents looking at moving here more up to date information about the strengths of the school system now the last piece of this is this legacy campaign normally in an economic development project like this what i be showing you now is some snappy ad that you would run in boston in manchester in portland in new york the come to a new city everything group when you see what we've done is actually flip that on its head and say extend running out there in the world to saying we're group should come here put energy focused energy into celebrating here what is great about this place and build this community in a way that and others will see it and be attracted to it so with the centennial coming in forty years that gives you a milestone would be broadly owned by the community with a steering committee driving it and what it is it becomes a platform then to celebrate the traditions and cultures of this city in a way that says everyone's story here matters which is important internally and the best message you could be putting out there in the world externally three tracks to where the first one is traditions and as i said between the historical examples in this that for to spark thinking and then let the community take this in its own direction but imagine if using if you know the n p r story corps they have a curriculum that they provide to schools imagine juniors and seniors of the high school interviewing retired mill workers in a story corps for men to capture their story it would be a chance for these young people to learn about the history of community to capture it and it would be a chance for seniors to meet the extraordinary young people who are in the school system so cross fertilize it both ways imagine the senior center hosting a luncheon fo talking about all the lost traditions a lot of traditions that the older folks grew up with and have sort of slipped away let's capture them let's talk about them and let's think of some of the ones that want they want to bring back the churches could play a big role sharing that information if that is in the traditions track cultural events you have great models already with french heritage day and that's a model to be replicated and invite watts of other communities to do the same thing not by having the city organize it but by creating a simple tool kit some easy pathways for people to say you were invited to do the same thing here's the process here's a little mentoring from these other groups to get you going so you could do that by cultural communities you could look at some themes that credit card across  cultures like sports and again everywhere especially in the history of talking to people sports are a big deal to go cricket baseball always have been unifying community building forces in the city so imagine if the boot me softball league could host an all time or the old timers game with former high school all stars and you begin to have that conversation happening that way or have a garden to work in one of the literally left scout conversation prabhu talking about his father and his father's garden the seed bank walked down the hill to meet with rita and rio was talking about how gardens were so important and like i just had the same conversation with two very different people how do we bring this together so imagine a garden to work and there's some sillier tactics that used to be a mustache one of the churches here so of the downtown businesses have mustache mondays and people with mustaches or facial hair and i clearly have a dog in this fight got a drink special for something like that you could make it fun the idea is to animate the city with events celebrating the culture and history of the city all sorts of them and then the third track or places and it was fascinating i heard about the heights in the flats of cork alley and fort pitt i heard all sorts of things about chicks market and what fascinates me about chicks is for fifty years teenagers maybe mostly boys have been hanging out outside of chicks and the teenagers hany out there fifty years ago are no different than the teenagers hanging out there now how do we begin to create that dialogue between them there are places in this community that have been important for a hundred years or for many years how do we commemorate them mark them tell those stories i don't know the places but of it you do of it folks here do there are rooming houses or apartment houses in the city that event the starting place t beachhead for successive waves of families how do you begin to tell those stories and these are all the point of all this is that these are stories that tie us together to connect people together and create that shared narrative that is true so how it all worse i've laid out a broad framework with the idea that local folks will know grab hold of it get creative and within these broad boundaries adaptive steering committee will provide overall guidance contents collective material and on line on the new city website you know the social media and on all of the partners so downtown the new ski the library school district they all have come share content and there's websites social media the brands how they work together now the institutional brand of the city's c e o will continue to strengthen the use of that there are places like the senior center where it's not clearly branded as being the city tighten up on some of that so what the city is doing is even clearer and then the new logo is promotional brand is owned by the city but is license without charge to all partners and it's used by the city and other partners to brand this legacy campaign and to project yourself out there to promote externally just a couple examples of this is how it would look on a facebook page this is an example of cold branding there's a terrific you know these things come together pretty nicely there's an event happening on teaching people to tell stories it's being sponsored by recreation parks department this is how that sponsorship would get branded under the campaign so the next steps were finalizing the report and delivery of developing an implementation matrix step by step short medium and long term activities they use it to guide for the logo standing up this steering committee and then continuing to work with the city team to support implementation these things so i'm going to stop and we can have a discussion i just i want to come back to the unique nature of this approach instead of the ads that say we're terrific come here this is about building this community and celebrating this community and we're arguing that is the strongest form of economic development marketing you can do i'll stop to think you know so  think you for your work it's clear that you actually learned about the community and with all due respect to you know a lot of contracts sometimes that's not the case sometimes people rolling  we were not going for a flag red white and blue t we struggled a lot with the brick red of the mill and went darker then the  you one of the first things that struck me in my mind that i felt that we weren't telling our story loud and that when i would hear negative things and then i would see the complete opposite as a fresh set of eyes it wouldn't bring true to me at all and so one thing that i was hoping through this was for us to start speaking with a common voice from when you see in a much more positive way about ourselves some of that being the humility that mike was mentioning you know at so when i heard stories about crime here i looked i would into the crime stats and realize you are safer standing in any single place and when you see then you aren't your street in burlington so i didn't understand why that concern about this community so i think this at least for me was very much about telling our story better both internally and externally it was in the early part of  we looked at the range of language descriptors and it was all over the map both from the city and what people in the community were using so one of the ones that particularly bugs me is and we saw this in real estate listings so when you ski is the brooklyn over mot yeah i've heard it's not you're not derivative you're not comparative you are who you are so this process was what is that are your school or these various organizations like work together on this further in the sense i think there's i mean it in this is another one of those things that from the outside i'm struck by how neat together you all are already and first of all everybody knows everybody but you know the last time i was up here sitting having my dinner at waterworks the owner who talked about what he was doing with sean having cultural programming going on in the restaurant these things are all there's both appetite for it and it's already happening said the most prominent brains that was freed was when we did a downtown d c like that that was a painful process but it was designed by a resident  i thought was a really positive you know one thing i've been really vocal first bringing up to come subs discussions i was and was around planning and i think where we've really failed is linking planning efforts together in a coherent way for people to understand that they're all feeding into a sink strategy and when you keep asking people the same questions with no or different questions with no  clear visual stamp that says we're heading in this direction towards this one thing you know criticize the process or whatever like plan b t v was extremely was skewed from a production standpoint little bit in terms of the c e o versus you know replacement here if you go back to you know michigan sure and i love new york and things like that there is there will always need to be the government logo and voice there are things you're going to speak about that are purely a function of the city government that are not in any way promotional but you need to have some platform and voice that is promotional and sell it with tori and that's where the difference comes in structures water new people just talk about that we actually did didn't process and with the logos and they went back to the drawing board i think a couple times and i was actually calling mike with feedback saying please don't fire us because it was a very long process to get to that this community because i as i said earlier i think that rings true for me and i haven't been here for much more than a decade but i you know that resonated with me and i think when i think about the potential development and changes number one the changes that we've been through but the changes that are on the horizon and in the absence of a common story and thread that sort of binds us as the changes occur  we can lose the things that we celebrate today so i you know whether you know how we use a logo that to me is less important than that  what their experience and has been to and similarly to you and i remember being at that community dinner as well hearing that what a lot of people celebrate is the composition of our community right now in the right now so absolutely celebrate our history to making sure also celebrate that we have the last in history as a meltdown and i like the connection of that the community thought bridging that to also those this community has added new language use but always with hooks at the bottom for the next set of languages and that's really special story telling to sort of bridge the gap amongst communities here because i think there are the people that really value all the differences here but then we still have some gaps there where people are not intersecting and those connections for them to be helpful i think this is great work and i think communicating it is going to be really important and i hope we can be creative and sensitive doing it in a way to communicate orally so others who don't speak english can experience what we're celebrating share in your tongue as well so time talking that way just said how do we use our branding and all the community events to make those connections between people so it's not just capturing a story and putting it somewhere it's telling a story to be connected to another story and i don't i think we're early in that i don't think we have the answers and i don't think we're going to have the answers i think that's where this becomes kind of a relinquishing control to the community to see what the community does with it conversations about the logo and lot of peter relations and kept coming back to the mail because to a great extent it is how people think of the city it is that that fundamental interest and we were talking we were presenting this kind haphazard way to the leadership team last week and the police chief looks down and says we already came up with this and the mill is on the public safety that just and you know we don't necessarily think of that connection and i think it is really fundamental to what others perceive as our community and what we as our community perceives like honey but do keep in mind both aspects of the millers both the with in terms of the short term interim and long term yeah similarly to the way that we did the economic development strategic plan that matrix is an unbelievably helpful tool in addition to that back not make development metrics what they did is find out by the department being some of those things are not within my purview and so that's also been broken down and given out to each individual department a large degree you know we've built money into that one thousand budget for a new website free brand we've invested and paul and having that position fully staffed now i know the schools have invested or are looking to invest some money in communications i think that a lot so while there will be tasks associated with all of that i think we have the kind of human and resource infrastructure at least for one thousand nine hundred ten to continue this and then you know i think i think we are pieces very quickly could start lining up with with not a whole lot of additional infrastructure need contacts mean streets people that i know and i'm going to provide that i think some of that exists in your existing permitting process some words so it's pulling together but if i can use that opportunity to also say i think it's who who's the you're yes so i think one of the voices that is critical to success success of that is that it's downtown new ski and i think part of the next step conversation is what role will we as the city play along role there is our promotional arm  and i and kelsey's been involved in this more was involved in this but i think that that's articulating that is really important because i think often people who want to do events go to downtown at the same rate they might come to us so how are we all how are we as the city putting into place clear communications about how you feel streets and how you protect services and actually i think also ensuring that our partner organizations who may hear of people interested in doing things first the communities it's very exciting and i really appreciate all the work and i want to say thanks we ought to do it this was sold feeding work which doesn't always have to know also turn to the public see if there's any together since paltry laughed about to accomplish the municipal play and overhaul before it expires in april two thousand nineteen so that's been a goal we're working towards so with the planning commission at the last meeting last week we went over the schedule with them and also committed as you know we applied for minas full planning grant to support the master plan work so with that those resources already identified will bring on a consultant to work with us throughout expert guidance and technical assistance in the transition but also as a new person comes on to support them and the work so pretty much what so what that looks like is about two months of onboarding consultant to help us with that work about five which is going to run in parallel of the work the commissions are currently doing to broaden our community aspirations five months of prior to zation public process crafting looking at the data and looking at the plans already written and how those plans will be integrated into the master plan and then there are there's about five months of public required public process through state statute so that's where we are i think the planning commission was pretty well received well this schedule and the concept of bringing on some additional support to the to work with the city staff and the planning commission on this process and we will be moving forward in that direction does anyone have any questions about that they do know that there was some concern especially with respect staffing change about staying on track with the master plan process it's it's aggressive and it's i think we're going to have to constantly monitor and weigh in and i think you know what we promised to do this time for the communities not slap something together just to pass a plan which is what we've done for the last plans which is why we have a plan we have today so i think we're you know  me it's a read on here i think if there's ever been a red item for our list this this one's it and i think we just need to be really honest with that because we're also asking a lot in terms of staff resources now to pull this back into range but with all of that said that sounds really negative there's been a lot of really great work done along the way so we have so many components that have been done so that it's really about pulling those together more than it is creating new material and writing something from scratch we don't have to sit and say hey what should transportation look like and we spent a significant amount of time resources and effort doing that same thing zoning so i had nothing but pure confidence in the staff capabilities and steering that forward with the shirt planning commission but it's i'm interested in how you see the shared parking as like fitting in to get those recommendations so all those things you mentioned solely on my desk so i take full responsibility for the progress or lack thereof made today that's my my responsibility so it is so i think they're interested and related in a couple of ways and we have not the progress we have gleaned has has been to allow some of those interrelated things to go for it for example we didn't want to resign the garage until we knew what our what we were going to do for branding and marketing we wanted to start with the parking out because it's something that people have been talking about on a lot and it is a way for us to integrate with our surrounding communities so moving to park mobile allows us to go on to the same form that burlington and you are both on so when we think about our current users of our system  that's a significant customer service win for them as we brought on that one of the things we learned was that it could be used for access control in the garage and so now the question is for the garage  that how they want to manage access control so basically what that means is when they draw i've been if they kind of clicked on here we could be tracking that at no cost as opposed to a traditional access control system where there is a gate and cost associated with that and then finally my frankly met the other big thing we've been working i've been working on about parking is trying to figure out how to build new municipal parking so as we figure that out having the new new access control system and for that building as well question concerning phones from the public so we wanted to kind of coming off the budget cycle and with john starting to give you a very high level summary of what work will be underway in the summer i know in the past there's been some concern about having a good understanding of what channels on the ground are planning efforts you might see over the course of the summer so john has put this together so you'll walk through this pretty quick presentation and then targeting about three thousand five hundred that will be coming out of the city coffers for that project so we're we're targeting starting work june fourth we've received bids tenth so we're i mean it's just the replacement means project but it will create some traffic issues so that's a big part of this project is is getting the information now that you know we've made have situations where we have to close a lan will will have signage on each side notify drivers will definitely be working with the downtown groups kind of get that message out even further have to time so that's probably the more difficult part of these project challenging parties making sure we notify those folks of tension when closures are two other quick points to make on this one because this is a fifty fifty project split with burlington we've had a lot of conversations with them and working close cooperation we are doing the administrative support for this project and so long they secured a grant and we secured a grand total of those two grants is what enables us to do the work they are  see that they may start their work well for the next couple weeks or so when i see it will be some traffic issues you know we we will have to communicate that well with the public last time in the circulators circles being reconfigured of talking to businesses and they responded really well to that they knew the work schedule they got updates when things are going to be closed and they help share and that was a really is trying to get road sign you know a fifteen year one thousand year cycle so we're knowing and filling out and being more strategic about how we resurface roadways and even building in maybe a meet and program to try to keep them alive a little bit longer with slurry mixes and crack sealing so that's kind of what we're also working on the background as well as we're looking at these potential road candidates and with  that plugging that information into to our asset management system and really trying to utilize that tool to help us better program road maintenance generator that's only feeding you know partially personally fear process system so if that generator were to go down there or if we had an electrical issue in the general head utilize and then the larger projects that that will actually be talking about next you know is our head works projects so this was this went to the bond vote group by the voters this is a much needed improvement for our primary treatment system so this will all updates are you know gregor pung remove all system to a more modern mechanical bar screen so are not you know we don't have guys manually hand scraping parse things i'm not not ideal so this is also going to use a two thousand square foot garage that will be tacked on to the to the design so we're going to be starting to design on that work you know this spring into the fall and then hopefully start construction by the end of this season this in december the garage is a little you know it's a it's a little easier design so we we we think we can start siding and construction you know this summer try to get that project wrapped up before the and then i want to read all these but this is kind of our typical to do lists for the summer i will highlight we are working to upgrade some of the downtown lighting and rotary parker now and some of the electrical service in every park  ground type work but we are starting to look at how do we address those papers shoes downtown area  the questions or concerns from the public basically this is for our tiff district we have have a great time procedures and we are quite probably every year to appropriately implement the administration of it we have been audited on how we meet those procedures by an independent body and then our obligation and your financial authority capacities to receive that audit so no action is needed but we need to present it to you thanks dan to his great work it is a clean out and with no unexpected findings tenders julian and angela over the last year have looked at that plan heard some feedback from our employees that it's itself hasn't challenges and so we've been exploring  retirement corporation's separate subsidiary and it provides retirement a retirement solution to over a million plays across the country it's the only one that's only provides two public sector employees there are four items that will need you to vote on if you decide to move forward with this recommendation at a future meeting and those are outlined in your memo and just to highlight a few goals we had in doing this and then julie can walk through kind of our process to date we were looking for a plan that had expertise in providing municipal retirement systems a plan that had a proven track record and a plan that really improved had better customer service we really feel like our current plan does not provide the best benefit to our employees because there isn't that face to face on say assistance in retirement planning and ensuring that our employees while they're here  understand are and are resting investing appropriately and specifically when they leave feel like their families are taking hero so those are our goals of the of the effort and i'll turn over to julie to talk about  know their fees vestments are much much lower so the money that they retire when they keep more of it versus paying administrative costs we presented that to the employees we had to all employee meetings where folks came they could ask lots of in the past is that they are very high touch for your employees they will call it the organization every three months visit meet with employees one on one provide presentations on you know it's just general topics on retirement so my experience with them and they will provide a lot of customer service to our employees are not getting there is one significant plan change that will be associated with this move that is want to make sure we call out currently under our current plan people are allowed to do draw downs against their retirement plan that is used sporadically but a bit i say maybe only does allow loans from plans but they have to be repeat so that is a change in what our employees currently have access to from benefits theory perspective we really believe that that's a positive change the point of these dollars in this benefit is to allow for those dollars to be infested for the future care of our employees and their families and with the drought the ability to draw down the funds we are not providing the intent behind that benefit to the same degree just want to make sure and  the questions concerns and proves to me it's been around since ninety seven two that's great we're not changing the contribution they're actually results in a net negative it's been that it was staff investment plans even if you stay the same i don't think there is language to change and there are some awful now you know ok any other questions concerns from council questions or concerns from the public  there are a number of uninsured concerns and questions that we've asked that have actually not been answered today either in regards to the basing its potential impact or community and such in the city has consistently said we think so i think that content speaks to itself any questions or concerns or thoughts or in places where i didn't before the interest of the council in terms of content  do that i think you could take action to pass it with that adjustment sign on the second page and we can clean up the first page noise sometimes for sick people and then they would be ten and a safer plane that it s thirty five so i just i can understand oh you don't want to take into consideration the people that they will be able to keep their homes and those school will be all right and their children will be safe and that all this noise in their ears i just i mean we're here doing since that time in asking the earth for about that question it was my understanding that there's very of course very specified specialized equipment that has to be used as one of our