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So before we start with the study session, I would like to ask, yes, if we could have roll call and then have the city clerk So, I have a request for your comments. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. here vice mayor dinan here council member abriga here council member Lincoln here council member Romero Present you have core mayor and then I'm gonna do the Spanish translation announcement so you stay this legacy as Guichadalista junta and espanyol but favor Thank you very much. Okay. I'm going to repeat them. Sorry, Mayor. So you still lose study. I've got this. I'm going to repeat them. Sorry, Mayor. So you still lose study. I've got this. I've got this. I've got this. I've got this. I've got this. I've got this. I've got this. I've got this. I've got this. I've got this. Okay, I'm going to repeat them. Sorry, Mayor. So you still want to hear this? Okay, I'm going to repeat, I'm sorry mayor. Si ustedes le gustaría escuchar esta junta en español, por favor, use el modo de interpretación, localizado debajo de su pantalla, presionando el ícono del globito y seleccionando español como su lenguaje preferido. Abraham, their protest is available in this Junta. Thank you. And I'll say it in English now. If you would like to listen to Spanish portions of this meeting, in English, please use an interpretation feature located at the bottom of your screen by selecting the globe icon and selecting English as the preferred language. There will be interpreters available. Thank you. Thank you, Lucetto. So we're gonna go ahead and we're going to have a little of the consent calendar. And we're gonna pull the proclamation honoring our Fire Marshall John Johnson. But I don't know if we have anybody else that would like to pull maybe something from the consent calendar. Do you have anybody that like to make a motion? I make a motion that we approve the consent calendar and pull the John Johnson proclamation. Second. Thank you. It's been properly second. Can we please have a vote? Should we do roll call or just all in favor say aye? I believe it all in favor say aye. I'm sorry. Madam Mayor, I don't am I not seeing it here. The resolution for the fire. the chair. Through the chair was continued from the last meeting and we. And. the fire. She threw the chair was continued from the last meeting and we. It's not on on that agenda that you have, but it's continued from the last meeting. Okay. So is there any reason to amend this agenda or just it's just the zoom that is continued. Okay. All right. Assume that it's continued. So we're going to go ahead and do the roll call for the... Did we do it already? You can just do the call. Oh sorry. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Okay. Thank you. Okay. So we're going to proceed by now. I don't know if we have Mr. Johnson-Johnston here today if he's present. Hi. If you would like to come up as we read this proclamation, that would be great. And before I go ahead and actually read it, I just wanted to say that I, I met Mr. Johnson on our, my first, I believe the first year that I was on council that I've been on council. And it was a delight to to him and we actually got to talk to him and my son was was with me and we we got a chance to to write on the fire engine trucks out that was really meaningful for me and that's the way that you know I I got to know mr. Johnson so I'm gonna go ahead I'm gonna read the proclamation whereas fire Marshall John Johnson began his distinguished career with the Medal of Park Fire Protection District in July 2000, bringing with him a bachelor's degree in biology from Pepper Dine University, experienced in firefighting community recreation and a deep commitment to public education and fire prevention. And whereas Mr. Johnson's early efforts included completing the district's bars on Windows Safety Program and expanding public education outreach as a fire, as fire protection specialist, later serving as a fire inspector, investigator, and rising to the role of fire marshal in 2014. And whereas during his 25 years of service, 20 of them as Fire Marshal, Mr. Johnston built a prevention-focused culture that prioritize community education, home-hardening and fire mitigation, always guided by the belief that predictable is preventable. And whereas Mr. Johnston's leadership directly contributed to reducing fire incidences in the Menlo Park Fire District to less than 2% annually. And he brought innovative tools like AUS, sorry, UAS, drones to assist with major fire, wildfire response and community recovery in disasters such as the Tubs, Carr and Camp fires. And whereas Mr. Johnson's partner partnered with the East Pole also, the police department to carry out the largest illegal firework seizure in city history resulting in a 50% reduction of fireworks related incidences and support its safety initiatives to protect that protected thousands of residents during the Woodland Park property abans amendment and whereas his commitment to the East Paul Lalt Alto community extended to supporting the city's water master plan, ensuring the successful completion of multiple housing projects, and the We Hope Shelter, and helping launch impactful fire prevention programming and emergency preparedness campaigns. And whereas as volunteerism has left a lasting mark, including over two decades, organizing the Menlo Park Fire Pancake Breakfast, which raised over $250,000 to benefit the Alisa and Byrne Foundation and his service with the Juana's Club as key club advisor at the city is the current state of the city. The state of the city is the current state of the city. The state of the city is the current state of the city. The state of the city is the current state of the city. The state of the city is the current state of the city. The state of the city to the fire prevention and on wavering commitment to community safety engagement and education. So let's give him a round of applause for his service and it's my honor to give this to you and as I go down I don't know if any council member would like to contribute to tonight's honoring of our march. And as I go down, I don't know if any council member would like to contribute to tonight's honoring of our Marshal. This is a moment to do so. Thank you. Sure. I just like to say thank you for all the work on emergency preparedness that you and your team have done in East Palo Alto. It's made a huge impact and we appreciate it. Thank you. Through through the chair, normally I don't speak at these, but for Marshall Johnson, I'd be. Fire Marshall John Johnson. I feel like it's appropriate. I've had the pleasure of working with Marshall Johnson in both my first time around in the city as well as this time. And the proclamation that was read mentions a lot of your accolades, but the biggest takeaway that I'll have from you, sir, is how you treat people. You've always taken your job seriously and professionally, but done so with empathy. You've had a level of concern for this community that I appreciate as a resident, as well as a city employee. And you've even taken that stance with how you treat our team. So you will be greatly missed, but you're the impact of what you've contributed to the city of East Palo Alto will be, they'll have a lasting impact. And I just wanted to thank you, sir. Yeah, through the chair. Oh, a lot for the city manager, too. Yeah, no, I just want to, you know, I want to thank you for your service in general. And in particular, I think, you know, your connection to East Palo Alto. I think as the city manager has said, I find that to be true also. And, you know, I know I've had a couple of ways in which I've interacted with you with other people. One has been with the S. Avalenteer with the Sincol Mario Committee. And it's grown to be such a big event. And you've always been very helpful in pointing out the things I needed to be done and all of that. And I think that it's gone very well. And I think it's been good to see people learn and appreciate the work that is done in many ways. It's not just responding to fires, but educating the community, connecting with them. And there is one thing that didn't make it into the resolution, and maybe is better than it not be. But I do want to say that in addition to helping to reduce the illegal fireworks, I'm sure you remember because you were the main person inspecting that when we celebrated the 30th anniversary of the city, I was mayor of that time and I felt that, you know, why don't we try doing legal fireworks show so that the people can enjoy them? And maybe the younger generations will enjoy that and feel that there is a safer way to do fireworks and don't be doing them yourself. Now, it might have been too much of an optimistic idea. I still believe in that. If you train the next generations, they will respect the rules and laws of the city. It's really the adults that we always mess up and make it harder for the whole community. But I want to say that and there are records and pictures and videos to show. It was a great success for two or three years. And at the time, the Cessna Chavez area, there was one area in the back that was big enough and I think that maybe it barely made it, but it's like you could do safe fireworks there, a show, you know, up to a certain distance or whatever, but it worked out. And that is one event that drew people, there were over 2,000 people that showed up at the field, by themselves. we didn't have to do any outreach. We just let people know that safe fireworks are taking place. And anyway, I just want to say that the fire district, along with the police, you know, were very helpful in making that happen for our 30th anniversary and then the following year. And you know And there was something very emotional about it for our community. There were people who came back, who had moved away from here, who always felt that for people in this part, they always said to go somewhere else, always said to go somewhere else to watch a firework display safe. But anyway, like I said, maybe it's better. It's not in the, well, you know, in the proclamation, but I'm very proud of that and I'm very proud that our community came out and felt safe. And you, you know, I think maybe you guys could have said, well, you just barely under that, so we don't want to do that, but you went ahead, and I think people have appreciated. And I know that, you know, we're such a small place that it's probably not feasible to do that anymore. But for those years, I will never forget the fact that there was music being played. There were teenagers, there were kids, there were adults, there were seniors. And like I said, we didn't even have to invite people. They just heard about it and they showed up. It was really a moment of unity for our 30th University. So I went on and on, but I'll never forget you because if you hadn't been for you, you might have said, no, you can't do this. And you said, well, let's see if we can do it. And you say yes, and it was safe, and it was beautiful, and people will never forget that. Thank you. There. Thank you. Do we have any more council members? I just want to say thanks, John, for all your service over all these years. Really appreciate it. Thank you. And I wanted to propose before you probably have some words to say as well and we'll give you the chance to do so right now. I would like if it's okay for us to take a picture before we give a farewell to Mr. Johnston. So if you would like to say a few words right now this is your moment and then we'll if it's okay we'll take pictures with you. Thank you. I just want to say it's for 25 years here. This has been my second home. I have absolutely loved serving with city Vs Palo Alto watching it grow. But this city for me has been a place where I've come and received more hugs, you know, from people I've watched children grow up and that's in, you know, just watching them from second and third grade and then going into mental-athlete in high school and saying, hey, do you remember me? Lots of fun. And just being able to have that and knowing that I've served at the city for more than half of its time being around is huge and just knowing the impacts of watching the city growth and being able to have those chances because the city can do. And the city has that ability and you know that is our job to find a way to make things happen so that the city can celebrate and enjoy you know the diversity, the uniqueness and And I believe we've been able to make that happen. I know there's a lot of exciting things happening here in the future. And I know that the fire district will continue to serve and aid in that. And with Melvin, she flew so many people here. I've worked this entire career. And I think I've grown more gray hairs than the rest of them. But it's been an absolute pleasure. And I just want to say thank you for allowing me to be part of the community. This will always be a home for me. So thank you. Thank you. I believe council member Lincoln wanted to say something as well. Yeah, I just want to say thank you for your service to the community to the public. Thank you. If it's okay, we're going to go ahead and take a picture. Yeah, let's put them in the middle. I'll bring one up. I'll go on. No. Can I do anything? One, two, three. One, two. Okay. One, two. Okay. Well, thank you so much. And good luck in your new endeavors. So we're going to go ahead and we're going to go on to public comment at this time. So I don't know if we have any public comment. We do mayor. We have one from Grace Puppel. Thank you. May I, Vice Mayor Council members? Is Palo Alto residents don't want any more government interference in their private lives than strictly necessary as they made very clear during the debates around OPA? Since your last meeting I've spoken with several neighbours who are shocked to learn that you plan to enforce all of Tier 3, including 400 pages of development code and 2,000 pages of building code. They'd expected enforcement to target trash and abandoned or oversized vehicles, not a full sweep of every long unused rule. This approach will punish improvements many residents made like installing gravel, bricks, pavers, wood chips or extra driveway space to reduce water use, use fire their yards or make room for more parking. Do we want them to bring in demolition crews? The children of a neighbour with a heart condition installed astroturf so you wouldn't have to risk mowing. That's not allowed under the code should you have to remove it and replant the lawn. Families park in their front yards to protect their vehicles and free up street parking. Do we You prefer they park all these cars on the streets. If you enforce every rule, you'll be hurting many well-intended residents or even pushing some out. More than half the homes on my street are visibly out of compliance. Enforcing every line item will lead to distress, disputes and maybe lawsuits. There's a better way. Keep tier 3 focused only on active harm like junk piles, abandoned vehicles and trailers on the street at night. Make the rest a low priority tier four. Please don't enforce a thick tone of rules when a thin pamphlet would do. Thank you. Thank you. Do we have any more public comment, Lucetto? That's it, Mayor. I think we have one more. Okay we have Osvaldo, Macias. Good evening, it's Paul Olsso City Council. My name is Valdo Macias and I'm the Environment Justice Fellow Nurse Acasa. I'm looking forward to seeing how you ensure the upcoming City policies, programs and investments are reflected to the comments made today and the engagement opportunities since council priorities should be grounded in what the community wants. My comments today are about the importance of building trust when it comes to our drinking water by adjusting water affordability and the issue of premise plumbing. From the staff report, I want to underscore the priority of improving city water infrastructure since I know that has been in a community concern, seen in Rosacasa's deeds assessment, and the results of the EG element. Improving it improving infrastructure is important and it's equally important for utilities to build trust with the community and include them routinely in decision-making from Rostra Casa's research with Stanford just in East Pole also water system 65% of the participants did not believe their water is safe because of the mistrust the Stanford data shows that even on the low end of $6 a week, a household was spending more than $1,200 a year on bottled water. With many households actually, you know, spending more than $20 a week on bottled water. So if you still need to want to translate victories and actually make people feel confident in drinking and using their water, there needs to be community education, inclusion and transparency. I'd like to highlight an example of this. Last year, a counter-check opened a source to the nurse like us and 20 youth from the youth climate collective to get a taller facility and tell the operate, highlighting improvements to their system and educating youth on how they treat and deliver their water. The youth reported a better understanding of their water with one youth recently entering with nurse likeasa and presenting water solutions to community leaders with the engine recommending the utilities of Pryphiliginking Water State Revolving Fund. Secondly, water affordability is a big issue in this poll also. And two thirds of the systems have raised their water rates this year. We had a number of community members visit our office for assistance in paying their water bills. So I am proud to city to explore and support opportunities for low income household water assistance programs like that proposed in California Senate Bill 350. Lastly, I also want to put you on the council's radar, going and improving infrastructure, consideration of work needs to be done with this as a premise plumbing to ensure that the community is actually seeing improvements to their water. This consideration should also be extended to renters. Thank you. Thank you, too. that was our last speaker mayor. Thank you, so we're moving on to item number five which is a study session item 5.1 study session on development of our strategic priorities for the years 25 through 27 Council work plan and I believe that mr. Good evening, Mayor. Our city manager has Yes, thank you, Mayor. I'll open it up just wanting to give a quick introduction to this item And and foremost, I just like to say welcome to members of the community members of the public for being here As well as for you and thank you all city council and members of the public as well as our staff team and consultant team for for working on this project to shape our strategic priorities for the next four years and a two-year work plan. This is our second study session. The first study session was a study session on March 8th that included a community workshop as well as the City Council retreat. Tonight we will focus on recapping the process this far, reviewing potential projects from the existing priority plan that might continue as well as discuss the new priorities that our team has been able to determine from community engagement and council engagement, as well as staff engagement. This process has been much more engaging of the community members through doing focus groups and pop-up workshops, as well as meeting what staff to talk about what staff's priorities were and as this council knows you had a retreat on March 8th that included a community workshop. I'd like to emphasize that this is a study session. Study sessions are for all intents and purposes public meetings that provide a detailed review and an opportunity for the city council to discuss policy but what it's not is an opportunity to really take formal action. So we're not looking today to have formal action taken. We won't be adopting a new project plan, but you all will be providing input on what the priority should be. But again, tonight's goal is not to have an adopted plan. The goal is to have projects that are prioritized where staff and a consultant team can go back and look at what resources are need and then come back to you all on June 3rd to propose a plan for adoption. I'd also like to acknowledge that this is a new process. This isn't something that the city has done this way in the past. And one last year out of that, we're where it's an iterative process. We are working through this and making adjustments as we learn. So I'd like to thank you all for going on this journey with us. I'm really hopeful that today is an opportunity for us to have a candid conversation about what the city's priority should be, but also to have a sobering conversation and kind of rooted in the reality that in order for our staff to deliver on these priorities, we have to have a realistic plan, a realistic number of projects that the city staff can actually deliver upon. So with that, we have our project team comprised of Ramean Associates as well as our Assistant to the City Manager, Orlea Amy, who I will pass the presentation on. Again, thank you all. Thank you. Good evening, Marin City Council members. Thank you for this opportunity to present this update on the city's strategic priorities and council work plan process. So as Mr. Gaines mentioned, I'm joined by the Rainian Associates team today and our presentation today is intended to offer a clear and comprehensive overview of where we stand on our current fiscal year 2023 to 2025 work plan cycle projects. And to help lay the groundwork for your deliberations on the next iteration of the council's procedure direction for 2025 to 2029. So tonight we are going to be requesting your support on three items, three recommendations. The first is to receive the informational staff report that summarizes the progress made on the current fiscal year 23 to 25 strategic priorities and council work plan. Second to provide your input on the proposed strategic priority areas and the full list of potential projects for fiscal year 2025 to 2027. And finally to direct staff to continue refining the preliminary list of strategic priorities through a final round of community engagement, which will begin this week following this meeting. With the goal of us returning in June for formal council adoption of the new 2025 to 2029 fiscal year strategic priorities plan and fiscal year 2025 to 2027 council work plan. And with that, I will pass it over to Mr. Matt Raimi. Thank you, Orley. Good evening, Madam Mayor, members of the council. I'm Matt Raimi with Raimi Dissociates. It's nice to see you all. Before I move a little further into the presentation, I wanted to introduce a few members of my team this evening. To my right is Tiffany In. Tiffany's gonna be helping with the presentation this evening. And then in the back of the room is Michelle Hernandez. Michelle Wave. She's gonna be helping with some of the tallying of the voting as we're doing this evening. So before we, I wanna make sure that this is visible to the, oh you are, it's on there, okay, good, great. Thank you. So I wanna start with an update on where we are with the work that we're doing. So I'm gonna actually, I'm gonna turn it back to Orlé, I thought we were gonna do a different, a slightly different order. I was just gonna ask if you could go over the agenda with the council. Sure, so this is, so the agenda essentially is we're going to do a presentation on where we are with the strategic the strategic priorities and talk about the process we've gone through. And then from there we're going to go into a council question and answer session about the projects and about the process. We're then going to move into the public comment period to hear from the public about the different priorities. We're then going to do a couple of different rounds of voting on the priorities. So we're going to modify it a little bit this afternoon from what this is. We're going to start with looking at the existing projects that are on the list and identify what the priorities are from the council to move those forward or move them off the list. From there, we're going to see if there's any additional projects that should be added to the list and then do a voting on to try and narrow down the list of projects that you see on the boards here and you have in the handouts in front of you. Once we do that voting, we're going to take a break so we can tally the results and give feedback on that. We'll then come back. We may do a second round if we need to narrow it down further, but then at the end we will do the second round, which is on the sort of the urgency ranking, which is of the projects that are you have focused on, which are the ones that really rise to the top for the first two-year period. Remember, there's two two-year periods with this. And then we'll end with sort of a closing in next steps and we'll discuss and present on the engagement process we're gonna be doing over the next few weeks. We're gonna get back into the agenda later. We can describe the voting process and the steps, but in the interim, I think we should or at least can give an update on the classes. All right. All right. So I just briefly went over the recommendations a few minutes ago. So we go to the next slide. So as a reminder, the current 2025, 2023 to 2025 fiscal year's work plan cycle was adopted by the council in able 2023 and then again updated in April 2024. So it is structured around seven strategic priorities each representing a major focus area of community and council concern. So, strategic planning continues to be our roadmap for aligning limited resources with Council and community priorities. Their structure that we use includes two key components. First, the strategic priorities component and this is comprised of the broad multi-year focus areas that are derived from community engagement and council direction. And second, we have the Council Work Plan component which defines the specific and time bound projects that the city will undertake in a given two year period. So this approach helps the city ensure we stay focused on doing the most important work above and beyond the day-to-day services our departments already provide. Over the past two years, the city has undertaken an ambitious set of projects to advance our strategic priorities. So across the fiscal year's 2023 to 24 and fiscal year's 2024 to 2025 work plans, the city has committed to a total of 94 projects, including two duplicates that we've noted. And all of these projects have been aimed at strengthening housing, mobility, public safety, organizational health, and community services. So as of April 2025, as of when we submitted the report on April 11th, 24 projects have been completed. 48 projects remain in progress. 12 projects have transitioned into ongoing operational activities and eight projects are currently on hold. So many of the continuing projects which are multi-year efforts require continued attention and funding. So in the staff report, attachment A provides the status update on all of the fiscal year 2023 to 2025 work plan projects, including a brief blurb about staff recommendations on why our project should be carried forward to the new work plan or might be carried forward to the new work plan. So as you see in the breakdown above roughly 40% of the fiscal year 2023 to 2025 cycle work plan projects have been either completed or operationalize. So that's a major success in our book, especially when you consider the city's limited staffing and physical constraints and how complex many of these initiatives are. and how complex many of these initiatives are. So, other remaining can complete projects that are recommended to carry forward to the fiscal year 2025 to 2027 work plan have 24 of those in total are expected to be closed out in the first two quarters of fiscal year 26. So, that's the end of calendar year 2025. So, that leaves 24 projects in that category that are either expected to still be in progress beyond December 2025 or have not yet begun. And the full timeline for completion for the continuing in progress progress projects are listed in attachment B. And since we did print the report, we have done a further refinement of those projects, which I'll get to in just a few slides. So as we assessed the progress that the city has made over the two years on our work plan, it's important to recognize that many of the projects in the current work plan were never intended to be short term efforts. So while we've completed 24 projects, a significant portion of our work, particularly in housing infrastructure and public safety, was originally designed as multi-year initiatives that require it depend on phase require depend on phase implementation, external coordination and long-term funding strategies. So that's why you might see some of the existing projects recommended for carryover. So strategic prioritization will be a key factor in ensuring that the most impactful projects continue to move forward, even as we navigate challenges such as funding constraints, processes and ever evolving community needs. Many of the projects that remain in progress are foundational efforts that will shape the city's future well beyond this two-year work plan. So with all that in mind your conversation today isn't just about looking back at what's completed but it will also guide staff about how we approach the next phase of this work. Some of the projects are going to require additional focus and resources to bring them to completion, while others might need to be re-evaluated based on shifting priorities. So this will be an opportunity for the Council to reflect on how the City can maintain momentum, while making sure that the City staff's efforts remain aligned with the Council's long-term vision and staff's capacity. So as we begin looking ahead to the fiscal year 2025 to 27 work cycle, a key decision point is identifying which projects from the current work plan should carry forward. Of the 48 projects currently in progress, staff conducted a thorough review, and after additional refinement, we recommend that 39 of that original 48 number that we recorded all continue into the new work plan. So this includes projects we anticipate will conclude by December 2025, as well as projects that will extend beyond that date due to their complexity or due to their scale. So in the staff report, we originally listed the 48 potential carry forward projects and the reasons we refined the lists to remove the other nine projects include that they were either expected to finish before the new work plan begins after further look at them. They've transitioned into operational status. They might have lacked the specificity to stand as standalone items in the work plan or they're folded into broader projects are used proposed. So attachment B has the list of all the recommended carry for projects including a breakdown of which are expected to close out in the first six months of fiscal year 2025 2026 and the corrections are noted on the boards that the council will be using this evening. Balancing priorities. So as we consider how to build a realistic and right-sized fiscal year 2025 to 2027 work plan, we're asking for a council's input tonight on how to balance these continuing efforts with new ideas. So your input will affect which of the in progress projects are formally retained in the new work plan, which new concepts are going to rise to the top and ultimately how many work plan initiatives. Sorry. Go back. Thanks. And how many work plan initiatives the city can meaningfully undertake over the next two years. So to simply put it, the more projects that the Council decides to carry forward, the fewer new initiatives we can launch, especially given all of the constraints that city is facing. Thanks. Next steps and continued momentum. So as we look ahead, it's important to recognize that while we've made significant progress, we also need to be intentional about where we focus our efforts next, managing expectations and aligning priorities and making sure that staff has the capacity to deliver the results that Council wants to see. So what's it keep in mind moving forward? We'll need to balance ambition with capacity, the city and our current work plan. We took on a large work plan and we did accomplish a lot, but we also need to be realistic about how much we can take on it once going forward. So to take on a breadth of new projects, existing projects might have to be reprioritized or deprioritized to allow for staffing and budget constraints. Some of our biggest projects are multi-year efforts as you see in the status updates. So all of the big infrastructure, housing, and public safety improvements, everyone wants to see they don't happen overnight. So while progress is continuing to be made, some major initiatives are going to take time to fully implement. And some of our planned construction projects don't even yet have funding commitments. Funding is going to continue to be a challenge. And we've secured critical funding for some of our key projects, but for others, there are still gaps. So this is true for larger projects like the library and other long term infrastructure upgrades. In terms of maintaining momentum on the end progress projects with the 39 projects to underway, it will be essential to find balance or with ensuring that the key milestones of these current ongoing projects are met and the addition of the significant new initiatives that y'all might consider adding tonight. So while we've accomplished a lot as a city, we're here today as staff and consultant team to support the Council on refining the city's priorities. We hope that today's discussion will be an opportunity to consider a few things. One, which project should remain the top priorities for completion? Two, are there any efforts that should be adjusted, accelerated or deprioritized based on staff's capacity and the city's resources? Three, how do we ensure that our strategic planning remains aligned with the city's long-term vision while being realistic about what we can accomplish meaningfully in the next two year planning cycle And along with that is the question of what new priority projects should be added. In the coming weeks, the consultant team and staff will conduct an additional round of public engagement following tonight to gather feedback on the emerging priorities and project lists. So this will include a citywide online survey, a virtual workshop, an in-person community workshop and up to two neighborhood pop-ups, which we're still refining the details on, but we're expecting at least a survey to kick off in a few days following this meeting after we're able to refine the what we discussed tonight. tonight and we will make sure to be to widely make available the dates for the continuing opportunities for folks to in the community to look at the list that council decides on tonight. And during that engagement we'll also have translation interpretation services to ensure that our participation that can be as inclusive as possible. All right, following the next phase of outreach we'll'll return in June with a refined plan for council consideration and adoption, and that plan is going to directly inform the fiscal year 2025 to 2026 budget and provide staff with a clarity we need to move forward with implementation of the plan. And with that, I'm going to pass it back to the Rainey and Associates team. Thank you, Orley. I'm just going to go through a little bit of the work that we've done to date and then we'll begin to open it up for discussion. So I want to again start with this question of why do we create a strategic priorities and work plan. This really, as Orley said, provides direction for the City Council and staff. It clearly communicates the vision to the community. It aligns everyone towards a common purpose and we will create opportunities to reevaluate the priorities in the project, similar to what we're doing today. This is our timeline for the project. Just as a reminder, this is actually a pretty quick project with a lot of work that's happening. So we started with data data review and community engagement in February and March, leading into the March 8th City Council study session. From there, we combined all of the information from the environmental scan, the city council meeting that we had on March 8th, and all of the community engagement, and we developed a sort of long list of draft strategic priorities and projects. That that list of just as was mentioned, we've made some modifications since the staff report went out. This is a fast moving and pretty iterative process to get all of these ideas into a single place. And so we are here today to kind of begin to refine that list and then we'll take that out to the community Get the community, and then we'll take that out to the community, get the community feedback, and then in June, we will come back for the discussion and adoption of the strategic priorities and projects. Just a reminder of the components, the strategic priorities are goals or areas of focus that will guide the city's direction for the next several years. The plan as put forward in the staff report includes seven strategic priorities. Projects are tangible activities, initiatives, or processes that are carried out to achieve the desired outcomes of each of the strategic priorities. The strategic plan will include a select number of projects under each strategic priority that can be accomplished within this two-year period. Again, the sort of the last vote we're doing in discussion this evening is on what of the projects you select, which one should be put in this first two-year work plan. And then metrics have not yet been developed, but we're going to be creating them to figure out how to implement and track the achievements of each of the strategic priorities. Just a reminder and sort of to hit on this mark, the city operations and what they're doing is you can think of it like an iceberg. The city has a lot of ongoing operations, which takes a lot of their time and a lot of energy. then there are strategic priorities which you can think of as sort of the area above the water. The which takes a lot of their time and a lot of energy. Then there are strategic priorities which you can think of as sort of the area above the water. The ongoing operations, the things that most people don't see on an everyday basis are really sort of under the water. They're just the things that keep the city going. And so what we're really speaking about this evening is what is above the water? What are the council's priorities and the strategic priorities there in addition to the things that staff is working on anyway? The process that we have gone through, just a reminder, we did complete an environmental scan of city documents, which included a lot of community engagement over the years to show and identify the different priorities from the community. We had a brainstorm meeting with CD Departments. We conducted 12 focus group meetings in February with community groups and other stakeholders. We conducted two pop-up workshops, one at the senior center, one at the supermarket. We had a community workshop in advance of the March 8th meeting on March 8th for that morning. And then after that, there was a lot of research that was done by staff on background on the different projects, the city capacity, budget and feasibility for all of the projects. I just want to reiterate that what we have is actually still a work in progress. What we're going to want tonight is feedback on that. We may have missed some projects. There may be some to add and some to take away. So we're going to keep this process this evening since it is a workshop and a study session. Keep it iterative. I'm going to turn it over to Tiffany who's going to go over the strategic priorities and projects. She seats's yeah. Okay. So I'm excited to go over this draft strategic priorities and projects list that was compiled through all these processes of community engagement and review by city staff and our team. So to give a recap, these parties and projects are compiled from a lot of community engagement. We know that community engagement is really central to this process. So in addition to what Matt said, we want to really ground that in this process that these priorities are from the people of East Palo Alto in addition to the priorities of the council. And in terms of what we've done since the March 8th meeting, we've made sure that we worked with the city staff, you have a great team, to align the previous years' priorities with this current list of draft priorities. We also worked to identify new or missing projects with the staff. We, the staff also clarified and organized strategic priorities and projects into what you are seeing today. And the added analysis around capacity, which includes staffing and budget considerations. So given all of these steps combined, we are here today to present this draftless of priorities. And again, a lot of feedback has gone into this. We also recognize it's an iterative process, but we'll also examine a couple of changes have happened since this process has been iterative. So in terms of the overarching strategic priorities or main topic areas, we worked with the staff to categorize them into seven different buckets. And so the first one is emergency and disaster preparedness. The second is public infrastructure facilities and utilities. The third is livability or community quality of life. The fourth is around land use, economic and workforce development. The fifth is this large bucket of housing. The sixth around governance, organizational strength, and fiscal sustainability. And the last are seven of these on civic engagement. So I know that's a lot, but we'll have more visuals for you to follow along with as we talk about this. So for our process today for this study session again our goal is really to narrow down and prioritize a select number projects that can be carried out giving our staffing and budget for the city. For this first round of review we have this list of about I believe 90 or so projects. The council will work together to share their priorities and then vote or sorry recommend prioritizing or deprioritizing any existing or carry projects from the last work plan. During the second round of council review to narrow down this project list of new and the project. The first round of the project. The first round of the project. The first round of the project. The first round of the project. The first round of the project. The first round of the project. The first round of the project. The first round of the project. The first round of the project. The first round of or a 2B round to further narrow and identify a shorter project list to make sure that we're really getting at what's most important and what's most feasible for the city. For the third round, we're going to look at the priority level of the projects or the urgency level based on that narrow down list of projects from that second round. So after today's April 22nd study session, we look forward to bringing this narrow down and prior to list of projects to the public and to the city staff for further input and feedback. We have a quick process I recognize is going to be about a month or less timeline to get the public engaged and also get a lot of meaningful feedback. But we look forward to coming back around June 3rd for the City Council meeting to vote to discuss and vote to approve the final four year. So to priorities plan and two year work plan. So that's kind of the overview of our plan for today and also our plan for moving forward. As I go into the list of projects, I just want to note that again there's going to be some changes. I'll note some changes during the mention of the projects. We also have a section for our questions at the end of this list of projects. So the Council's welcome to answer any questions that you have. And then after the Council questions session, we do have a chance for public comment so the public can also weigh in on what they heard today. So I'm going to jump into it. So the first priority party A is focused on emergency and disaster preparedness. There were two new projects mentioned in this section. There was actually building off of existing projects, which is launching the Emergency Preparedness Program and maintaining expanding senior vulnerability and emergency contact database. As you can see in the key below on the screen, the projects in white are projects for the council to review and prioritize today. The projects in light gray are carry over projects from the previous work plan that may be included in the next work plan if the Council chooses so. You notice a couple of strike-through items, that's because the projects are either near completion, so we know they're almost already done, or they're no longer gonna be considered for different reasons. The projects in this list that have three asterisks are carryover projects that will be completed by the end of this year and Then the care or the hat icon is a recommendations from the city manager in case that is helpful given his You know background the projects so please keep the key in mind as we go through the projects. And again, there'll be a question and answer in such at the end of the list to like answering the questions you have for about the process. So for priority B for public infrastructure facilities and utilities, these are the list of new projects. We have everything from developing a sewer master plan for the city to projects related to parks and trail beautification. There's a lot of public comment in city council member feedback around making sure we have an ability to do capital projects. There's a lot of feedback also around comprehensive evaluations of the senior center and service operation, which is as you know required per the contract. There's a there's a project around completing tenant improvements to city facilities, making sure that there's a new community hub, a new city hall, and other things related to infrastructure facilities improvements from lighting to other sidewalks and road repair projects. Again, for the projects that are crossed out, these are ones that either have already been, all they're almost at completion, are they being taken off? For the existing projects related to this bucket of infrastructure facilities and utilities, there was a project recommendations, a project recommendations around constructing university avenue, bicycle pedestrian over crossings, East Bay Shore sidewalk improvements, a lot of improvements related to traffic signal improvements on key streets to create pedestrian safety and better traffic flow, project in relationship to street lighting upgrades, road flood protection especially with the sfc jpa reach to improvements Things related to the the new will street bridge replacement and the oconnard pump station among others This is a very big bucket, so apologies. I have some questions on a number of these slides, but in particular on the public infrastructure slide. So there are projects that we have federal dollars for, that we have to perform on. Right? And to even include them here is ones that can be admitted. One would probably get some elected officials or former elected officials that very upset. Definitely. And the fact that we might actually be losing this money if we don't use it is another reason why I'm not sure why they're here. I mean, I don't understand why some of these things are just, if not crossed off asterisk and said, this is a priority, it has to get completed because we are obligated to do it based on on earmarks and the other funding. Yeah. Through the chair. So what does Express Desi City Manager recommendations aren't per se my recommendations? They're projects that I think are either statutorily required or we have a contract or a grant for. That's what I tried to, I can't promise that I didn't miss up, but that was my attempt was to specify which projects are kind of in progress already and would be hard to stop or that are statutorily required or that are we have grant funds for. So can we go back to the previous slide? So I am to understand that all of the great out ones are those that we Oops, worry that we Must complete. Oh, what this is new Yeah, so for this one this one talks about the existing projects there, right? So these grade ones or ones that we're saying must be completed because we have funding for them and we have, is that correct? The grade out ones are projects on the existing list. I believe the ones that are white are not on the existing list,. So the gray ones are ones that are on the existing list that also are almost at a point of completion or they're very crucial. I think based on your comments on funding. So those are ones that are highly recommended to be integrated into the next plan, the work plan. Yeah, I guess the question is highly recommended. The fact of the matter is they have to get done. So it's not a question of highly recommending. It's like, I think you should take an executive decision and say it should get done. That makes it a little easier because it reduces the number of projects. Like there's no way that we're not going to complete the university having you bicycle pedestrian over cross. So it's off, it's done. Don't worry about it. If you don't want to do it, it doesn't matter because the T.A. He'll come down on you as well as the the state. Councilmember If So it's off. It's done. Boom. Don't worry about it. If you don't want to do it, it doesn't matter because the T. A. will come down on you as well as the state. Council member, if I can just explain sort of our rationale here, I think the the you're right. Many of these are. There's very little discretion here because they're in the works and the example that you gave if there's a construction project that is mostly built. We're not going to stop mid-construction, particularly when we did get outside funding. I think part of what we're trying to highlight here is the existing workload on staff to show you and more relevant the public that there is an existing workload. And while they may, that may not be discretionary, certain projects may not be discretionary, they do occupy staff's time. So what we had hoped to portray is that, or to convey, is that we don't have sort of an empty slate to take on a lot of additional projects, particularly since some of the projects from the past, as you point out, are not, you know, we can't stop them. There are projects, however, carry forward projects that we can stop, right? And so I think to your point, that's where the decisions lie in terms of the carry forward projects. So I'll just end by saying, I agree with it what you just said, but this presentation in and of itself does not draw out that conundrum. It aggregates everything into one particular slide, as opposed to saying, no, city manager said, you have to complete the O'Connor Palm Station because we have an $800,000 grant from the feds that may go away, but more importantly, we also have that funding issue. So this presentation doesn't work to present that kind of dream. To the chair if I may just comment. You know, I think there is an advantage to having them here. One because, well, we know that these things have been in the work because previous councils have made it a priority. And, you know, now they're seeing their funding, or they already in some working condition that you really can't stop them in a way. However, I think there's some advantage of having them here. It won us a... that you really can't stop him in a way. However, I think there's some advantage in having him here. It's one is a reminder, second, it's a way also for the public if people have not, you know, it's a lot of things to keep track of. And sometimes people may forget that even the first one on emergency preparedness, you was in the works. But now, it's like incorporate that into some new approach or a different way. So it's not like nothing was being done is just that some are, can be combined, incorporated, and stuff. So as we move on, I think you'll have to keep reminding us of these little symbols. And I do appreciate what the city manager said that that little is not a delta but some symbol. It's like that is the city manager. In some ways, speaking for the staff, saying, hey, see this one here, I'm saying it's probably very important that we keep doing it. Or in fact, you really can't stop it. Now we might be the council that says do this and do that, but you know, we're not going to waste federal money, we're not going to lose money just because I don't like the project or something I mean well Councils can do that, but that would be very Likely or not a wise decision. So anyway, I just wanted it is a little overwhelming But you know, we're we're getting there in some ways through and they will have a little more time still The tonight is not the final one, because we need to plow through it more. So I just want to have that. Through the chair, I would reiterate what you just said. I did not want to say, listen, council, you must do that. I could have taken that approach, but ultimately, as you said, Mr. Abrica, the council decides that even if it's unwise, the council could decide that. So that's why it's a recommendation as opposed to don't do this council. I don't think I would get an equally or exaggerated kind of getting trouble for that as well. So. Thank you. Yeah. And again, thank you for these questions. They're really helpful as we go through the projects. I will try to remind folks of the code, and remind myself of the code, frankly, as we go through it. But the white projects are projects that the council can vote on later as we go through this day. The gray ones are projects that are existing projects that are most likely gonna be carried over into the next to your work plan because of their importance and because they're almost fully in progress. The three asterisks are projects that... I'm having a break for it. The three asterisks are projects that haven't been found. The three asterisks are projects that are gonna be completed by the end of this fiscal year but end this year. And the carrots are projects that were given input by the city manager's office. So hopefully that clears up a little bit of the context. One thing to note too is that after we list the projects, go through Q&A, go through public comments, the City Council will have a chance to go through the great projects, review them, and just double check that there are ones that we want to continue for the next work plan. Okay. So again, this is still under the bucket of public infrastructure facilities and utilities. These are existing projects from the current work plan. So again, projects that are crossed off are either projects that are almost at completion or the projects that were taken off the list. The projects are main on this page. Our projects around water storage, water infrastructure and management. There's also projects recommended around the libraries and making sure there's a good library construction process, acquisition of county owned beach-shoot property lands. There's also recommendations and a project around city hall to an improvement of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of among other things related to parks, facilities, public land, and streets and improvements. We're going to go on to Prattie C. This bucket is around livability and community quality of life. The new projects which you can see in the top portion of the slide are related to making sure that people have a good quality have a good quality life in their neighborhood and can get rid of things in their neighborhood that might be challenging for healthy living for everybody and making sure that things like equity and safety are prioritized in the process. So whether it's around complaint forms and making sure that people have a space to like send in complaints or make requests. There's also projects around parking enforcement and ways to do that. Traffic enforcement and create and dedicate traffic enforcement division. Installing smart street lights with surveillance capacity, solutions around deterring crime and making sure that there's also ways to create healthy rental homes and inspection programs. For the existing projects under the last work plan, you can see at the bottom of the slide, there's, you know, carry-over projects around a parking permit program, a program that allows parks and promotes public health and public safety similar to the FITZone program, completion of the updated environmental justice and health and equity element of the general plan, the safety element and other solutions for addressing illegal dumping. For priority D, this is around land use economic and workforce development. The new projects are related to developing an economic development strategy with a land use focus. Ischering an RFP for measure HH workforce development program. And continuing independent program evaluation for measure HH programs. For the existing programs, you can see there's a lot of things around supporting small business and micro businesses for the city. Making sure there's a way to distribute community resource fund grants, which is also related to other projects that you can see in this list, like for instance, new project E5 on the next page. ways in which measure HH, the pilot workforce development program can be evaluated and creating a pop-up and unlicensed business policy and program. Under housing, there's a number of new projects as well as ongoing or existing projects that are recommended in this section. So whether it's around providing funding for rental assistance and legal offense programs, making sure that people have, you know, tenant protections know about their rights when it comes to housing and there's good outreach to the public. There's programs recommended around home repairs, financial empowerment and foreclosure prevention for people of all ages including seniors, a first time home buyer assistance program, a foreclosure prevention fund program, launching the CalHum 2.0 ADU, JADU loan program, applying for state funding for supported employment program for unhoused residents. Things around can be outreach, developing guidelines for affordable housing development, and a BMR fee structure to support long-term sustainability and administering that program. So again, there's links between the programs, which you can see in the details of the slide. And again, these, because they are white, they are new projects that Council can vote on in this next section. For existing projects for housing, there's a number. And again, these are gray because they are projects that are in progress. So likely to be rolled over into or carried over into the next council work plan based on your feedback. Establish a rent registry for both stabilized and market rate rental units. Working with partners to complete construction of nine, six, five weeks, Calibri common, apologies for butchering that, updating the zoning code to address permanent support of housing, housekeeping units, residential care facilities, among other things, as well as objective design standards, and continuing to implement the cities affordable housing strategy, which we can share more about on this next slide. So for four affordable housing, as you know, this is a very large list of projects and priorities that are already underway. They could use additional feedback or prioritization if the council also chooses, but we want to really mention that again these are projects that are underway and And have a recommendation to continue So there's for a for instance is implement local preference policy for affordable housing managing monitoring affordable housing pipeline projects You know an update of inclusion in Lufi's I'm extremely any development fund and and launch the minor home repair program for seniors, which is linked to other projects on this list. As you can see, there's many other projects, there's about 12 projects that are recommended under this affordable housing strategy to be continued. For priority F around governance, organizational strength and fiscal sustainability, the new projects are focused on implementing a citywide process from a citywide process improvement program, developing a long-term fiscal strategy and structural deficit plan, implementing a CalPERS pre-funding strategy, dissolving the EPA successor agency and redirecting property tax revenue, exploring public private partnerships, exploring a council term limit policy, implementing a grants management system, management system, conducting a citywide classification and compensation study as well as an ergonomic equipment refresh. Under the existing project list and again the gray is projects that are going to be, that are ready in progress that are recommended possibly to continue into the next work plan. You're gonna, you see projects around exploring possibilities to expand the police departments data and analytics capacity, update the city's personal policies and procedures, and develop a citywide information systems master plan. Again if you see a striked out project it's either completed or it's taken off the list. Part E for civic engagement the new projects are around launching rebranding and communications campaign implementing a sister city and culture exchange initiative upgrading and launching a new city website, pilot Zen City platform for community engagement analytics, launch NOVA Works' Civic Communications Internship, and for the existing project under this list, establishing a youth commission and or youth appointees to city boards and commissions. And again, this was a great out because it's in progress already. So this actually concludes our list of projects to be discussed for later today and into the future. I just wanted to also leave some room for additional comments on the draft list of projects for any of the city staff and there's any additional comments. I have a comment for everyone's information for the council and for the public. So the full list of projects that are under consideration without right now any additions from the council are going to be an attachment D if you're following along in the staff report. So at this point, we know that was that was a lot. I think what we'd like to do is first turn it over to the council for questions. I know we already got some. Make sure that there clarity on what on what we're doing. Um, we'll talk about the process a little bit further. Maybe I'd like to propose Madam Chair that we start with with questions and then move to public comment and then go into the conversation and discussion. Yeah. Hi. Uh, thanks for the presentation. Boy, does the city have a lot going on right now? Um, exciting timesiting times. How would we add something to the list? One thing that's very popular with East Palo to Residence is funding institutions like the YMCA and funding epicenter. These are two kind of Ferrari-like buildings and we got to pay gas money. And so, you know, the YMCA is an outstanding institution, has lots to offer everything from child care to swim lessons to the workout space. It's the kind of thing that other cities offer. I mean, if you go to Memel Park, you have a variety of places you can go swimming, a variety of places you can go play basketball. We don't do that in the city. And, you know, one thing that I would like the city to consider is partnering with these organizations specifically up a center and the YMCA and consider funding them and providing the kind of service to our constituents that will advance our goals around health and culture and community and all these things. So how would we add those? So we do have a space in a time to add those projects or any other projects. What we'd like to do after the questions and then after the public comment is first talk about the high level priorities and make sure the council is comfortable with the seven priorities. From there, we'll look at the existing projects and continue on the conversation that the council member Romero started about making sure just sort of confirming that these are the right projects and that they should move forward. Again, we want to give the Council the opportunity from there, we're going to move into the new projects. And so that's the opportunity to add and any Council Member can add whatever number of projects we have space on the boards to write those and then we can go into the voting process. Okay. I mean, getting back to this list, is there any analysis of which projects would be affected by federal funding? Because obviously reach reach two for instance is going to be $120 million dollar project. There is not a written analysis that we have right now, but we can have staff speak to those. Yeah, because we're going to have to we may have to pivot quickly if funding is pulled. I think it's important that if we're going to be having a list of priorities, we should have a backup plan. The event that stuff comes to a screeching halt because of our administration in Washington. Yeah, to just add a point of clarification, there are no current projects on this list that receive federal funding that have funding at risk outside of one project. And that project is the Woodland Safety Improvements. We have a project, a priority project to do Woodland Safety Improvements on the existing work plan. And we had a congressional directed spending, a K and earmark included in the current years kind of proposed budget by our congressional representatives. However, it did not make it into the final budget. Therefore, the thing was $2 million that we were earmarked to receive, we did not receive. However, Congressman Molen has said that he is going to resubmit that for next year. So that project in particular, which was the design Woodland Avenue safety improvements, is going to be postponed because the potential funding is, it's pending. But other than that, all of the other projects that have federal funding, no federal funding has been clawed back. That's not to say that it won't be. Washington is in a turbulent time, but as of now, we have no information saying any of it will be. And just to quickly add to that, we haven't determined the total number of projects that should be on the list at this point. And so I think, you know, as is the case with many councils, you're likely to want more than there is capacity for. So if something goes off the list, I'm sure there is something that can move up on the list. Okay, thank you. That was my own question. Got through the chair. I had a. You're going to explain the process. And then we can ask questions after that for the process part. Is that correct? Yeah. So. This is a suggestion on the wording of one of the. Initial ones on emergency preparedness. I think the one that talked about the senior, I forget the exact wording on, yes. You know, I would add senior and disabled, because the fire police always reminds us. You know, obviously seniors already in a certain vulnerable situation because of their age, but we should not exclude disabled people who may not be seniors in case emergencies. So I would propose that amendment just to add that, I think it fits within the intention of that. And then, you know, related about adding things at the end, because I had that question too, I think. That was my, I didn't do my homework last time completely to add things that I was thinking about. So there'll be an opportunity to do that. And my question around that is in terms, or maybe it's in the process by Mothers Wask and now for adding things where it does. I mean, you're going to try to fit it into some category, I guess, because like I you know what. Vice mayor Dynand mentioned as examples that that we could establish the city could establish more partnerships, including some funding for them. But I feel like that's a category that fits somewhere, maybe under community services. And I wouldn't necessarily want to tonight decide on certain ones. I'm just saying that. Like, I definitely support, I think, the YMCA or, you know, other organizations, but there's a whole lot of organizations. I think of like the community legal services. They provide a lot of free services and A through Z legal services that people need. And so, but anyway, so I think, I don't know where that will fit, but I think those kinds of things are important for the Council to consider, I might be short term within the two-year cycle, but putting it in some kind of category, because I mean, I think of community services and, you know, I know community services are a little bit of everything. And historically there is a sort of structural and congruity that we have because there's so many, there's such a need for community services, recreation, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And we just haven't created a structure for it. But, you know, we may be moving in that direction. So anyway, just so at some point you'll help us sort of structure that whatever you come up with. Yeah, we'll help you structure that. And in terms of the priority buckets, it almost doesn't matter which priority bucket it goes in because your the discussion about projects is really about the projects themselves. But projects, sorry. Yeah, okay. Thank you. But we'll figure out where that goes. So I may be wrong, but I assume this is not a blue sky exercise. That this has to be resource constrained because we have resources that can strain this. However, it seems that the process of perhaps prioritization today falls into a blue sky exercise in which, I mean, even though I know the Vice Mayor's fund of saying that we have $150 million, $135 million in the bank to spend. We don't. What we know is that it may be somewhere between 35 million and maybe 40. Let's see when the end of the year comes. If we're lucky. So trying to constrain our appetite to have all of these new projects or even move on existing projects that have not totally been funded, I think it's critical to make sure that this is an effective plan. If what we sell to people today is that we're going to fund no offense to the YMCA who I love, the YMCA for a million dollars, and we don't have a million dollars, then or for that matter, the tradeoff that discussion doesn't happen because maybe you want to do some sort of youth academy and I'm going to just someone out in the audience. So I guess I want to understand how do we get to the exorcist, the mental exercise of resource constraining our abundant capacious appetites. Yeah, um, don't be answering want to jump in. I can, Sherry wants to. I can jump in Councilmember, it's a great question. This today is the process of just prioritization. When we come back in June, we will come back with the budgetary impacts and the impacts on staff. We will take your feedback today, overlay it on a schedule to make sure that we can, you know, so that we can promise something that is deliverable in terms of staff, staffing and or consulting. And we will also include the financial impacts of that into the budget proposal. And if you all decide actually, you know, project number 17, whatever that may be, is not something we want to fund. If it's too expensive or it's too time consuming or for whatever reason you all decide, that's not what we want to engage in. Engage our resources in, then that will be the time to remove it. What I don't want you all to have to make those kind of decisions today when you don't have the budgetary impact, I think that's your point, right? So, when we come back, we will take the top projects and give you the budgetary impact as well as the staffing impact and you will be able to make your final decision then you are not making a final decision tonight. And then if I could just add to that tonight there is an opportunity to add but more than that it is a a process tonight of removing. So I think we can add but it's not just adding to get a list, it's adding and then voting and figuring out which are the priorities to move forward with. And then there's the analysis that Cheri is talking about in terms of the fiscal constraints. So we're probably have a longer list coming out of tonight, then ultimately what will be in the plan to give some ability to for the analysis and to decide later. But we will be removing items from this list this evening. There are times that charm for good measure just reiterating what I opened with this is a study session. It's not a adoption of any plan. We're coming back with something that would be evaluated monetarily and staff capacity-wise to for you all to consider at adoption point on June 3rd. And also, I think this is just like prioritizing what we think we want to do. But I think we've heard in previous council meeting meeting the rubber doesn't hit the red until there's a budget for it. So I would say we should just all keep that in mind. Okay, so I think with that Madam Mayor to the chair should we move to public comment? I'm sure. Do we have any public comments? Um, Lucero? We have two online. Believe one in person. We'll start with Kenya. Nahar. Through the chair. Madam Mayor, are you? Do you have a set time limit you want or is it we have I think three total public comments? Hope or I think that if we if we have more comments If we hit about yeah, we have four we can do it two minutes. Yeah Good evening council. Can you hear me? Am I up? Yes, can hear you. Yes, can you? Thank you. Good evening, Council resident on Ford M Street. In case it hasn't been emphasized enough to you already or if it's not yet in your radar. Housing issues continue to deeply impact our community as you know. I'm here today to highlight some key priorities that I urge you to keep in front of mind as you make decisions tonight, either to remove or to add. Most importantly, the need to protect EastW to residents from displacement is very important to many community members. One way to do this is by addressing the relocation concerns that have been raised by residents living on the west side. This includes revisiting and updating the west side area plan to better reflect community needs. So I urge you to keep that in mind. Additionally, strengthening the tenant registry program that's already as part of our plan is essential, particularly improving communication with residents living in single-family homes. It is critical that the city invests in housing preservation efforts and then one way to do that this work is by partnering with local interest and considering the use of measure day-j funds, not that we have them to help make that possible. I want to remind you that you are here to represent this community and you should be listening to an addressing residence concerns, specifically if we want to keep folks housed in our community. Thank you so much. And next up is Jeff H. Hi, this is Jeff H. with the Ravenswood Shores Business District. I really appreciate to the degree in which the importance of public infrastructure facilities and utilities have been emphasized in this plan. I do want to, though, point out that long lead time items that involve infrastructure need to be started now in order for them to be implemented four or five years from now. And there's two areas, which are especially the concern. One is the storm drainage master plan. The area north of Bay Road, particularly with the construction of the, the imminent, hopefully construction, or soon to be constructed, say for Bay Project Project is very, very complicated. And without a coordinated stormwater master plan that's integrated while the say for Bay Project is being designed is certainly going to be problematic. The second issue, again, thinking of this as John Johnson was there today and tonight, kind of the sizing, how important water is for fire and life safety. We do not have in the Ravenswood sufficient water pressure to be developing some of the projects that are anticipated in this update to the specific plan. and looking at the turnout from Hatch, actually the additional turnout, the 15 inch water line up, Purdue and up Demeter is critically important to try and implement now, since this involves the SFPUC. And as we know, they are problematic and obstructionists in certain ways. So moving this along is important. Thank you very much for considering those. Next speaker, Francisco Guzman, followed by Gail Tixon. Hi, my name is Francisco. I've been living in the city for approximately 20 years. And for identification purposes only in my personal experience. I've served on the rent board for five years, three of those years as the chair. I'm newly on the board again. And from that experience and my work at a local nonprofit for about 16 years, I have a firsthand knowledge of the level of financial insecurity and Silicon Valley for most vulnerable populations. So as a city council mayor, I urge you, I urge you to deeply, deeply look into our core values, our core values of supporting communities are most vulnerable currently with a residential attack on our communities and kidnap being that is happening. I really urge you to create and help keep our community housed by supporting measure H and allocating funds for rental assistance to prevent displacement. This is my community. I'm a renter. I want us all to stay in this city. I know that as a city council, you have very difficult decisions. But as I went out and I collected signatures for measure HH, I talked to probably over 500 persons in this city. It was really hard work. but one of the things that I felt that I really connected with is that people wanted to tell their story. They were supportive of this why, because even if you're making $80,000 a year right now in Silicon Valley, even people like that are struggling. You can only imagine folks that are on the venges. So please I want you to urge protection for those vulnerable residents. Thank you. Next up is Kale Tixen. Good evening, Council. It is I. I can relate my fault. I didn't look at the time 530. Could you adjust the microphone please? Say what? You got it. Thank you. Oh, you wanted it in my mind. OK. And I was dismayed by the traffic. And then I stopped and had people cutting in line and et cetera, et cetera. And that bothers me. And it ticked me off. I came in here upset because my community, I used to be able to get across town in five minutes. Things change, I know, I'm a big girl, you know. I'll suck that up. But there's some things that I didn't hear of small businesses and we were lied to and I think you should search your moral compass, what did she say? You're conscious and remember that there are businesses here, minority businesses that were displaced and it's been over 20-something years and you haven't. Well, it took you 35 years to get rid of you, but that hasn't been brought up. You have money on the books, you have a loss that you don't adhere, you keep kicking a can down the road. I'm not a drug dealer or a substance abuser, but we have the cannabis and I see all the cities around us thriving off of that. And that's one legal way that you can bring in money if you're looking for money. But and people talk about displacement and I remember this stinkly every time I see his face, he says, you need to get your people to talk for you. And I say, well, I got a mouth and I know words. And so I'm speaking up for my people since you put it out there so blatantly. What happened to those minority businesses that were flushed out, blown up like Tulsa, Oklahoma, you haven't given them a place to come back to. The primary school has just been vacated. I heard it and that should be utilized for the small businesses since it's close to Ravens at 101 but I don't know about you. We're tired of being ignored, all right? And I do see three fresh, well, she's not as fresh up here. And this year we should change. 2025 should be a change, even despite a Donald Trump. Thank you. OK, next up we have Moana and Laura Rubio. Hello. Okay, sorry. Good. Hi, Council. My name is Moana. I am a community member here at East Palo Alto. I am here in support of the enhancement of the Renter Registry program, particularly concerned about absentee landlady of single-family homes. It's come to my attention that current rental registry have not been updating some time. I urge the council to prioritize revisiting and strengthening the program to ensure comprehensive data collection and accountability, additionally implementing annual health and safety inspections from rental properties would save gruey tenant while being an uphold housing standards. Furthermore, I propose the consideration of funding in land trust or housing preservation initiatives as proactive anti displacement strategies such as your would provide long term solutions to maintain housing afford and development and development and development and development and development and development and development and development and development and development and development and development and development and development and development and development and development and development and development and development and development and development you Thank you and now we'll have Laura Rubio. Hello, and I want to see my I'm going to listen to the next part of the speech. I'll give you a second to do the interpretation in English. Thank you. Okay. Okay. Laura, go ahead. Okay, Laura go ahead. Hello, good evening, gentlemen. I'm Céjales. Well, I dogen. Si, hola buenas noches, señoros con cejales. Ah, bueno, yo tengo algunos puntos, pero creo que eso lo voy a alcanzar a leer unos cuantos y se los voy a mandar por correo electrónico, perdón por la tarnanza. The first point that seems very important to me is to review the plan of the area or this to improve the protection of the inquiries especially during re-ubication because in The project Euclip we had many failures. I need to think about this point because I would not like to repeat that again. Since one of my finalities has always been the finalities of the community, has also been to protect the displacement of people. We also want to improve the program of the Registry. It includes the program of rental registry for the owners that do not live there. And absolutely single-family units so that the tenants could be protected. Another one of the things that I consider important to demand annual inspections, safety inspections, for the owners of rental units. Many units are in very bad condition. So, I would like to support a trust to preserve homes and avoid this placement of our residents. I think it's very important to have more land so we could build more homes and that we could work in building more homes of low cost units. I would also like to ask you 40% of the funds from the GD measure to establish a program for assistance for tenants. Another very important thing to find a way in which we could have workshops for people to be able to know their rights, to avoid the abuse of some that some tenants are suffering. Also, from those funds for measured JJ, we could include building homes for people that are homeless and to support a trust for land. Also invest in home solutions for people that are in transitions, and also support with the collaboration from critical programs for people that are homeless. I'm going to send them via email. Thank you so much for your attention. I hope you were able to hear my message. Okay, and our next speaker is almost out of why. Thank you. Thank you for the opportunity to address the council. I'm here representing Nairobi EPA advocates and the Nairobi summit. And there's one of the projects that we'd like you to expand on the language. There's a project where... And there's one of the projects that we'd like you to expand on the language. There's a project where you want to create a youth commission and or a point used to a board for a commission. And we would like you to expand the thinking and the language around that to in a way that you would imagine involving a broad and diverse cross-section of community youth in the affairs of the city. And so that's more than just a commission itself or voices on a commission. it really is a way to connect, inform, involve, engage our youth in the affairs of the city so that they are inspired by connected to support and are engaged in the city for the duration of their life in this community. And that can happen in many ways. From about 1983 to about 2000, my own organization created an implementative program called the Leadership Training Academy. And every year we trade it, chain 50 to 75 young people, middle schoolers and, trade it, trade it, trade it, trade it, trade it, trade it, trade it, trade it, trade it, trade it, trade it, trade it, trade it, trade it, trade it, trade it, trade it, trade it, trade it, trade it, trade it, trade it, trade it, trade it, trade it, trade it, trade it and a broader intent in terms of what the youth engagement process would be. Thank you. Next speaker is Edwin Magogna Lopez. Edwin, you can unmute yourself. Yeah. Hello. Thank you. Yeah, I just, I wanted to echo some of the things that some of our community members had mentioned. Mainly on allocating J.J. funds, 40% for emergency tenant rental assistance, 20% for the land trust support, and 20% for housing preservation work. I think it's imperative, especially during this time, we're still recovering from all the economic effects from the pandemic, and even then people are struggling. So I think it's still imperative to continue putting renters at the forefront of our efforts. And again, as somebody had also mentioned, enhancing the rental registration program for absentee landlords, especially for single family homes. And then again, just really wanted to emphasize the the land trust aspect of it. I think it can be a really effective way for the city to move forward and adjusting a lot of the issues towards housing. Thank you. Next up, I have Philly Saragosa. You can unmute yourself now. Can you hear me? Yes. Awesome. Good evening, city council. My name is Billy and I am a lifelong resident respelable. During my life here in EPA, I have been able to witness and experience all sorts of social and environmental and justicesunit justice days. Today, I want to affirm and push for certain priority. You are our representatives and the community looks to you to make the best and most beneficial decisions for us. I believe that we should be investing in traditional, sorry, transitional and supportive housing solutions for our unhoused population. I also wanna think towards our legacy residents and homeowners. I believe that we should also expand services and programs for senior homeowners, such as home repair programs. We want to make sure that we are able to support those who may not be able to come and speak for themselves, and it is your job to make sure that their needs are considered too. Finally, I want to highlight the need for a comprehensive emergency preparedness plan and want to make sure we establish effective ways to communicate to reach our residents during set emergencies. As the climate continues to deteriorate, we must make sure that environmental issues are being considered and prioritized. Thank you and have a great night. Next up we have Crystal Montes. Hello, can you guys hear me? Yes we can. Okay thank you. Yes good evening council. My name is Crystal. I am a Lifeline resident of these polls as well. And I am the Program Director, 18 and for Community Action. I am here to also emphasize Council revisiting the Westside area plan as somebody that lived in the Westside for majority of her life. I think it needs to be at the forefront. I also want to urge Council to establish an emergency rental assistance program with 40% of them. life, I think it needs to be at the forefront. I also want to urge council to establish an emergency rental assistance program with 40% of the measure JJ funds going to that and also investing in transitional and supportive housing solutions that collaborate with critical services and programs for non-house individuals and families. I don't I think that it's ridiculous that there's not like a youth center here in East Palato when we are a fairly young city as well. And I know a lot of you personally that struggle with a lot of that. So I think it's also important to emphasize that. And lastly, I just want to continue to remind council that you are also, you are all there to represent the city and the community members and not your own personal interest. So yeah, I hope that you're listening carefully to what the community members are here to say and now you take this all into consideration. Thank you so much. Next up we have Miriam Melendez, followed by Diane Moreno and lastly Nora Melendez. Hi, my name is Miriam Melendez. I am a resident here at B.S. Polo Alto. My parents have lived here for 30 plus years. They're homeowners. I'm here to just briefly speak about the Tier 3 code enforcement that was previously talked about today. I know that a lot of people might not know about it, but you know, they're trying to hollow away people's yards. And I think that's unfair. You know, a lot of working class people have lived here for so long. A lot of them are renting out rooms. And this is a housing issue. So I think it's very important. Parking is already limited as you guys know in our streets. So I think it's very important to not enforce the tier 3 code. We understand that there is a lot of violations in people's homes about maybe cars that have flat tires that have been there for like three months, four months, but maybe there's different ways that the city can go about it instead of putting a fear of people having to maybe hollow way their yards. You know a lot of us can't afford a house. We can't afford rent. So we have to have no choice but to live with other people. roommates, family like myself right now. So you know the parking is limited so I don't think we should be enforcing the tiered three code but maybe instead going to these people's houses and and maybe talking to them what violations they're violating. So definitely some... but maybe instead going to these people's houses and maybe talking to them what violations they're violating. So definitely something to think about and it is a housing issue because we all need that parking space in our homes. Okay next up I have Diane Moreno or Dem Moreno, sorry. Hello, City Council. My name is Donna Moreno and I have been a tenant of East Palo Alto for over 20 years. In those 20 years, I have spent a lot of time concerned about housing, whether that is for fear of not being able to pay for rent or getting evicted or a fear of not fully knowing my rights and I also have the privilege of working at Yuka as a housing campaign organizer. I am here to echo what a lot of my community members have already said and insist that City Council revisit the Westside area plan to improve tenant protection and address relocation concerns voiced by residents as when when the Euclid buildings got sold. It was really hard on those residents as they did not know what was happening. I would also like to bring up that there, if there is a way for the city to create a better system for renters to communicate when problems occur in their buildings as this way tenants can voice their concerns, as well as require annual health and safety inspections for these rental properties, as everyone deserves, not just a home, but a well taken care home. Thank you. And lastly, we have Nora Melendez. You can now unmute yourself. Yes, hi. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. This is Nora Melendez. Long time resident of East Palo Alto, you know, since 1983, and I've seen a lot of changes in this community and the majority of those changes are depending on who you are, right? Whether you're a renter or homeowner or just passing through, East Palo Alto is changing and my personal priority is housing. And with $80,000, I heard that mentioned, I can't do a whole lot with $80,000 a year and not in this area. So to have a chance to even own a home here is something that has year over year. It's gotten more impossible for some of us residents that want to stay and continue to be pushed out. Regardless of any of the plans that are outlined here in this meeting, the funding for these that were crossed out or stricken through, one question I had was, are we in danger of losing any of that money for any of these projects that are going to be let go? That's one question that I have on that issue. Thank you. That's it. What? And with that mayor, that's our last speaker. Okay. Thank you. The chair, if we can move on in the in the discussion here. The next topic we'd like to get into as part of the discussion is the seven topic areas. You see them here on the screen. This was our attempt to take all of the goals, all of the ideas, and the categories that came up through all of the engagement and put them into, essentially, to put the projects into different buckets. So what we'd like to hear from the council is do these categories generally work for you? You know, any if not, do you have any recommendations? You know, again, I think the important part this evening is getting to the projects themselves, but we want to make sure we're getting feedback on these priorities as well. To the chair. If you want to see feedback. Yes, we, anyone like to comment on the council? If they agree with the seven categories that are before us. Okay. If there are no. So I just had a question on the. So these large kind of areas are a way to organize all these different projects. Is that correct? And then the current ones that we have, sort of overlap, but that we're kind of replacing those. Correct. That we'd be replacing the existing priorities with these priorities. And then what what staff did is to move the projects from the existing plan that are either existing projects potentially moving forward into these different categories. If I may, I just wanted to clarify. So those existing projects, we mapped them to these new buckets in attachment E of the staff report. So you'll see how everything map. So you know, for example, I know we had one that had public safety. So I mean, I always saw these areas more as ways to organize things. But it did call out certain, if you want to call it priorities, but they really call that some like strategic. And to me public safety, and I know that over the years there have been several surveys, a couple of them that were done like having a representative sample of the community, which to me ultimately is really the best, that's the best input, although all the other systems are good. And I know that public safety and housing were always there at the top. So anyways, I mean, I think we're losing that as an area and I don't know if it can be incorporated in. Now, I think the C, the C one about community quality of life, maybe it's there. I mean, that is such a huge category quality of life. It's like, who doesn't want to improve their lives or who the city government is one way that we're set up to do exactly that. So anyway, I just said that question to think about the public safety part and then the governance, organizational strength and then fiscal sustainability. The one that really stands out for me in this is the whole fiscal sustainability. So that's financial because that is one of our jobs in the city government is make sure that we're managing the money of the city well and also trying to increase revenue, trying to avoid deficits. That's really the crux of it. The governance part, I don't, what is that about? Another council has like a code of ethics, or that one just struck me a little bit like, and the organizational strength. I know we had before one that talked about efficiency and stuff which in a way, it's assumed that the management is doing that the best they can. So it's kind of under the the bottom part of the iceberg. Anyway, that just very quickly, you know, we can go back and look and try and bring up public safety to make sure that stands out as a theme coming forward. And you know, we can go back and look at these. And you know, the governance is really just about how the government works. And while it is something that obviously a lot happens in the government, there are changes that can be made which do have impacts on finances and on staffing and staff resources. And I think that's what's in that category. Well, I don't understand that one. I mean, the government, are we going to change the structure of the government or the policies or I mean, no, again, this is a broad category of topics, just about how, you know, if you think about this, it's really about internal, This category is very much internal to how the city works to make sure that so that if it's all internal, you're saying this is like council member. For example, the class and comp study might fall under that. It's it's related to sort of how we interact, how the organization interacts with its employees and different improvements within the organization. Yeah. Again, I feel like that's primarily the management responsibility. We don't tell management how to structure their departments or what, and it's major fiscal implications. But definitely but definitely the fiscal financial part. I think that one is not only management, but it's our responsibility ultimately to keep track of the money. So, anyway, those are, yeah, couple comments on that part. Thank you. Okay. Well, I know that like there's a few priorities that weren't included on here. I think when you look at health and wellness and I think parks and recreation. I think Mr. Dynan was talking about the YMCA that would fall under parks and recreation. I think Mr. Dynan was talking about the YMCA that would fall under parks and recreation and might fall under health and wellness as well. So that might be a category that we might that should have be beyond here. Because that promotes community wellness and those wellness programs that can go into that. So that might just be one category or two categories that probably should have been included. But yeah, so, you know, we can still add things. Yeah, and there's a lot in the public infrastructure, facilities and utilities. And it doesn't pop, but that's where the parks and recreation is. But maybe it should be called out as a separate priority with projects underneath it. Yeah. Well, if I may just following up on that, the previous list, you know, head one, I think ahead, I create a, create a healthy and safe community, for example. So that did cover like anything related to wellness, recreation, health, as well as public safety. So that's why I was getting concerned about that. That's an important category that things fit under that. And yeah, the infrastructure and all that other stuff have fixed it, but I have some concerns about losing that part of that language. Yeah, I think my comment has to do with the public safety piece. We got your back chief. So I was surprised actually to see that emergency disaster and preparedness as they stand alone category. I mean, I actually think that it's probably a public safety related issue and that that's where, you know, the public safety piece comes in and perhaps, you know, that should get renamed. It's, to make it an overall priority and not including the public safety piece, I think is an omission. So, perhaps that's where the public safety piece goes in because as much as sometimes we wanna push back, there are a lot of folks who wanna talk about public safety Is goes in because I, you know, as much as sometimes we want to push back, there are a lot of folks who want to talk about public safety and there are different ways of doing it. Does that be within the carceral state, right? But I think it is important to point it out that it is there as a critical priority. Okay, great. Thank you. That's great feedback. We we can go back and look at these categories and move them around. So the next the next topic that we want to talk about is we're getting into sort of deciding on what the the priorities are for the two year work plan. Again, the goal is to narrow down and prioritize to a select number of projects that can easily be carried out through staffing and budget considerations. So that's ultimately what we're doing and we realize that before we take away we're going to add. But the first step that we'd like to do is to talk about whether with the existing projects the one that are carry over projects or the ones that are in gray, that we, staff believe should move forward. Are there any that the council feels should not be prioritized and should actually be moved off of that list? Again, I wanna reiterate that it staff's recommendation that these are projects that are already well underway or have funding that as part of them already, but we do wanna give the council the opportunity to see whether any should essentially be deprioritized and removed from the prioritization list. Because we will not be voting on those when we do our voting exercise. Well, can I can I just clarify with the city manager we had a conversation offline under the public infrastructure. The construct the East Bay Shore sidewalk improvement should be grayed out correct. That is correct, councilmember. That is a project on our existing work plan that is. Going to continue therefore it should have been grayed out. And it is essentially funded. I mean, it is funded. Yes, we have funding for it. And it's an active project. Thank you. Okay. So council is okay with the list as identified. So we do have granted this Congress zeroed out all earmarks. That's why we're not getting that when you're talking about. So it's not just us. It's everybody in the country. Thank you. The Republican administration. But the rehabilitate the O'Connor Palm Station. I mean, we have the money for that. And we actually have to perform on that. Is that another gray item? Yes, we have a humza's online. And if I recall correctly, we have money for that. Humza, could you chime in please the confirm for the Ocona pump station project? Is that the pump station of pumps? Good afternoon. Yes. So we do have funds for phase one of the Oconner pump station project. Phase one is the project that's going to replace one diesel pump and also retrofit the underground diesel tank and retrofit the existing piping. The phase two project for Oconner pump station is a much larger project that's going to essentially retrofit the entire facility to bring it up to standard. And that's a larger project. I think it's like around $18 million project. And so we have funding for Phase 1 but not for Phase 2. So just to clarify, then, is I don't remember 12 under public infrastructure facility and utilities priority. Is that item then that first phase of the pump station? Would anybody know? You know, I'm trying to see, yeah, I got a a login, I can't see it through my screen right now, but we can verify that and I'll hold on a second. Okay, thank you. Yeah, if I'm so more on the existing ones, right, the continuing ones. And I I know so some of them are maybe can be incorporated and combined with new ones, some can be scratched out. I was looking at Section E and housing for M. I think that could be scratched out. That one deals with the participating in regional housing policy coordination. I think that that was leading up to the adoption of the housing element. I don't know if that's probably a minor one, but if we're trying to eliminate some to make room. Yeah, I'm trying to keep up with everyone. I'm still checking out that from the arrows. Sorry. Section E4M under housing. So yeah, that's an existing project that's an existing project carried carried forward that staff is recommending should be carried forward. So there's still I just remember that one really being that lit up to the housing element. So I don't. So there is a through 21 elements well and with the assistance of MTC and APEG, personally for some of the funding, there is a process that's going through the county around inclusionary housing fees, et cetera, et cetera. So that is partially being coordinated through that 21 elements process. Through the chair, so in community, and economic development director Amy Chan is online, and I believe the housing manager is also online. But however, 4M is kind of general participation within the 21 Yeah, it's just a matter of time. It's not necessarily a project unless the community can talk about it. Yeah, that's what I was saying. So the grand reason that's they're like processing more operational. You've got to keep that with it. Operation dogma. Yeah, okay. And then I do agree, you know, under civic engagement, I think in the existing one, I do share the, you know, the idea and the sentiment of Dr. Sattavay because so far, you know, it's only focused on potentially a youth commission or a, you know, appointing youth to certain commissions. I do feel that rewarding that and that may be something we need to work on it, but I'm more in support of having the city sponsor or collaborate with almost kind of ongoing training of youth about city affairs, city governments, city projects. And I've recently been reminded by participated myself as a volunteer and with some organizations on doing know you're right, training, for example. And it's come up a lot because of the immigrant vulnerability. But as it turns out, constitutional rights that we review are applied to everybody. So it's not like, oh, people don't have papers. So they need to know their rights. It's like everybody needs to know their rights. And we had some young people also in them. And I think that might have been one of the first times they heard. So I really support that idea that the broader the work, the better it will be for not only for the youth across the board, but also for the future of the city, because you know not to sound, I don't know what the word is, but if we're talking about a democratic process, community-based, you know, government that the more the residents are informed about the rights, that's how I think that communities is served better. So it isn't just the few people who, it's okay to have a few people who are always interested in government, but the more the better, especially the young people. So I went on too long, but I definitely support that concept and at some point we get around to, it's an existing existing one but maybe incorporating it as a new one by having some new wording. Okay, great. Thank you. So were there any. Um, just just a I'm thinking this is a duplicate under housing. New we have number nine launch Cal home 2.0 ADU JDU loan program. But we that is actually an existing program. Am I correct under That would be item 4d under housing The affordable housing strategy monitor Cal home ADU JDU loan program and support grantee compliance I thought we were already doing it through our partners at EPA can do that correct. That is for all of the I believe there are 12 eight through M projects listed under item four in that section. Those are all considered existing projects. So then is this a duplicate would be then eliminate housing new number nine, which is launch Cal home 2.0 ADU? And is that a question for Amy? Maybe we could. I mean, one of the side and prioritize may or may not be helpful. Yeah, yeah. I think it's okay. Do we have our community and economic developer? Um, is she coming? Okay. All right. Thanks. Good evening, Mayor and City Council. Thank you. Come to remember a mar that clarification. This is the Mission Community and Economic Development Director. So you are correct. We do have an existing Cal Home program where we're working with EPA Candue. The 2.0 version is actually a grant that we recently applied for and we'll plan to actually come back to Council with an item in May explaining a little bit more about the program. We're hoping that we will be awarded and thus we'll be able to develop the second round, second version of the Cal Home program for implementation. So it was asked to be kept on the priority list because we'll be carrying out the existing program and then hopefully awarded the 2.0 version later this year. Okay, thank you. Okay, so moving on to the next piece, we made some changes to the boards based on the comments. Moving on to the next piece, it's to look at the new projects. And I think as a starting point, what we would like to do is to first figure out whether So's any projects that are missing from the draft list. And we know from the previous comments from the council that there may be something to add. So we're going to try and mark those up as you as you say them. And if you could, you know, identify what the priority, what the project is, that would be helpful. Not yet. So this is just the new projects themselves. Yeah, as I mentioned before, working with partner organizations, YMCA, up a center to fund them, to bring, you know, services to the community, whether it's cultural or exercise and the YMCA's case. Yeah, let's put that under quality of life for now. Council member, Diane, does that make sense? Quality of life. Okay. Vice mayor, are those two separate projects? Or is that one project? I think that's two separate projects. I think it's two separate projects. You know, with the YMCA, you'd be looking at subsidizing members of EPA's public. Primarily the lower income folks who are excluded or can't afford $150 for family membership. So, you know, talking with Rebecca Durant, who's in the audience tonight, today about this, we'd be focused on the low income. Members of East Palato, their number one membership is like $22 for people 23 and under. And then there's like this steep drop off because the YMCA is subsidizing those memberships, but they're not subsidizing above that, just because of fiscal restraints. And so we want to open it up and make anybody, especially kids have access to swimming lessons and access to a pool, just swimming lessons for everybody. But if you're getting up and going to work and you're not making enough that you can easily afford a membership of the Y, we want to have the city help out for that. With the epicenter, you know, culture events, whether it's movies, music, they have a wonderful facility. I know they're going to be trying to change their charter from serving exclusively kids to doing more adult focused activities and family activities, you know, not just kids under the age of 14. So the way I look at these are both kind of like, you know, for our rebuilding, so they need gas money to help us, you know, go places with them. And so look at levels of funding, what that is, would yet to be determined, but they're both outstanding institutions. We should support them, we should make sure that our residents here have access to services that other people take for granted in other communities. Great, thank you and I give Tiffany time to write down the ideas. Were there other suggestions for new projects to add? Well, go ahead. Under I think public infrastructure facilities. I think we wanted to add a prepare an infrastructure facilities bond for we're currently working on such as like the street vending that's on on here. It's not in our priorities list. And I think that goes under livability, community quality of life. Is it on there? Okay, maybe. Councilmember, that's under land use, economic and workforce development. There's develop a pop up in unlicensed business policy and program that refers to the sidewalk vendors. Okay. I think some community members are interested in traffic, suggesting traffic enforcement. I think that goes under livability and quality of life. I think that's there under establishing right the traffic department or a traffic beat. Well, that's a whole nother department. Are you talking about just an exploration of what can be done and that's not as expansive as creating the whole department? No, not creating the whole department, but exploring what can be done for traffic. Okay. Yeah. I think we did a mobility study, but implement, okay, exploring what we can do to implement some of those things to address traffic issues. Maybe councilmember under livability community quality of life, is a number three established dedicated traffic enforcement division I'm not sure if you would want that to say or Research other traffic enforcement options. Um, well, I know that exists But I wasn't in supportive establishing a whole division. I wanted to explore what can be done to address a lot of flow through traffic. So we should add Tiffany, we should add under under C in a new project to to explore what expanding traffic enforcement in the city. So separate from a department. I think under housing, I think we should review our inclusionary zoning ordinance and potentially update our inclusionary zoning ordinance and potentially update our inclusionary zoning ordinance. That should be on there with the grand nexus study. So both on both the commercial linkage fee as well as the inclusionary fee. The next study will verse two fees. I'm talking about update the ordinance. Well, they actually go hand in hand, right? Because if the fees are wrong, then they would be changed. But that goes under housing. That's a, so that is a different project council member Romero than the grand nexus study. I've been discussing with a couple of council members actually and recommended that we make any changes following the grand nexus study. but they've made it clear that their intent is separate from that. So I believe that's what Council Member Webster is. is following the Grand Nexus study, but they've made it clear that their intent is separate from that. So I believe that's what Council Member Webster is proposing. And so I think under housing, we should add review, update the inclusionary housing ordinance as a new project. on the housing side. There's a bunch of EMB reforms that I'd like to see the city go after. That includes reviewing and reforming inclusionary zoning, which they mentioned. Reforming zoning to a lot for more housing, of all types and residential neighborhoods. It's currently illegal for us to build apartment buildings and most residential neighborhoods in East Palo Alto and despite us having, you know, some, I'm upwards of 25 people living in single family homes. It's illegal to build an apartment in that same neighborhood neighborhood I think we should review permits and planning process to speed up housing production and I'm banging the strong single staircase reform That goes hand in hand with reforming zoning Because it makes for much more compact. Sorry. That's a state law. That's occupied completely by the state. No it's not. I'm sorry. It is. I'm discussing it with my Harvard colleagues. So yeah. Interesting, because there are cities discussing that and talking about it's a fire and safety issue. So we should figure out what we can do on a similar staircase reform. And I would like to get clarification on that because my impression is that it's a city issue. And the cities like San Francisco are looking at this issue. So are other issues, other cities. Tiffany, did you capture those? Yeah, I found some member vice-minister Dynan could you slowly a single staircase reform and I'm reiterating you know the review reform and perhaps elimination of our is policy reforming zoning to allow for more housing of all types and residential neighborhoods that's rezoning and then reviewing our permitting and planning process speed up housing production and Tiffany I have those down for after if you missed anything. So I know the last council meeting we were discussing code enforcement. Is that not on this list? I don't see it. it is not on this list. We at the last council meeting, the end of the direction was to enforce tier three code enforcement violations and our staffs intent as to come back with a plan to do that, whether it be through through the budget process, we frankly have not discussed whether or not that's like a council priority level project or something that we'd be able to address through increased staffing. It would be fine and appropriate if you'd like it to be elevated to add into the list. Maybe you should review our existing codes. I think someone during public comment had there was some concerns that RTA3 might be too broad. So maybe we should just review our existing code. I don't know if that falls under that. Yeah. Yeah. So reviewing the existing kind of municipal code and I'm going to focus that on kind of what we see is kind of code enforcement violations related to quality of life or livability, as you all have discussed. I believe that Miss Grace Poppill and another speaker tonight pointed out that if the city focuses on tier three violations, then there are a number of different violations that the city could potentially document and hold people to resolving the city's tiered prioritization. Tears one through three kind of de-prioritized those issues, but this council has kind of directed staff to address those And we're going to find ways to address those. The justification for the existing tears, one through three, is largely based off of kind of life safety issues. But when we get into what I'm going to call kind of the subjective quality of life that's not necessarily life safety, it would be difficult to say we're going to enforce having trash in your neighborhood, but not enforce you paving your driveway. I'm sorry, your lawn or parking on there. I mean, it's just a heart to pick and choose because those are more subjective. The council would have to provide a specific direction. So maybe we should work on bringing forward a modern cut enforcement framework. Okay. We'll capture that to have a project and we'll talk more about that and bring something forward a project idea for you all to consider. Yeah. Well, were you finished? Yeah, on that code enforcement part, one reason why I voted against the action that the council took last meeting was precisely for that reason that I think it's important to review the existing codes, review the tiers. And some people have suggested I tend to agree with them that even tier three could be split so that there's tier three and four. And then once we get a review of the code and also a you know last time we were brainstorming strategies all the different ways some are clearly health and safety violations and there's no the city has been pursuing those much more aggressively. And so I personally would like to have that come back and really review it in more detail but anyway, you know, because I'm not against code enforcement. I just felt that the last decision was a little rushed and was not very well thought out, at least in terms of, yeah, let's find out exactly what are the codes. Can we change any of them? Because that's at the root of the programs. There's the codes. And then second, what are all the different strategies we can use to keep working on enforcing the codes for health and safety and, yeah, you know, clean up the city in a way, but there's also a line which I think it's important not to cross when you deal with private property and what people have in their yards. So anyway, it is an area that I think needs to be addressed, but I rather start with the code, the codes themselves and then what's existing and then maybe set some priorities. So yeah, I mean, you know, tonight I think you're getting a little mixture of everything, but that's part of the thinking through what are we doing? What are we focusing on and where do we put our resources so. Okay, through the chair. If I may just address that earlier concern around parking and parking on empty services. Surfaces. Hopefully everyone can hear me. And also if the city clerk could elevate Donald's hour in terms of chief building official. We can hear you were promoting them now. Okay, great. So while he's coming over, I hear the concerns of some of the public comments and also the council members regarding in front of people's homes or parking on lawns. And so as we are taking in feedback from that last council session on co-enforcement and being proactive on tier three item. Of course, like the city manager said, we're going to need to look specifically at the code and the details of different scenarios, but I wanted to have Donald just add a clarifying statement in terms of parking on unpaid services. Good evening, council members and mayor. Yeah, the the paved surfaces, unpaid surfaces. Well, I guess we, we, we, we on code enforcement do need more information on how do you like to proceed with that. There's, there's a broad range of requirement for the unpaved side. We understand that the Munich code has provisions that talks about the unpaved surfaces, but at what level should we leave those alone, based on some feedbacks that we've gotten, or should we just continue to pursue those? I hope that just clarified that there's still a lot of interpretation when it comes to tier 3 code violations and parking on unpaid surfaces. I mean, I thought our direction was pretty clear that we want to focus on broken down cars, piles of garbage, things that are typically construed as blight. I mean, you could go through every house, probably including mine in East Palto, and find something that's enough to code. That's not our intention. Our intention is to address the blight in the community, which piles of garbage, piles of wood, broken down refrigerators, things that you walk back, walk by and think, what's that doing there? That looks horrible. We're not talking about getting out of tape measure or checking pavement or see whether it's turf or I'm sure there's lots of stuff in our code that's not really current with drought type. We're encouraging homeowners to put in drought resistant landscaping or hardscaping. But I mean, this is strictly about blithe. This is about broken-down vehicles. It's about piles of garbage. It's not that complicated. And I would hope we don't need to make this a city priority to do something as simple as enforce something that's already in the book. Any more than we would have to make it a priority to tell the police chief to enforce speeding cars on University Avenue if I may state or say light Is a subjective standard It's been used in communities of color throughout this country over the last many years that displays us Let's make that very clear So I I do find it a little unnerving that You can determine what light is. And in fact, it throws onto people's own private property, whether they are leasing it or owning it, this ability to, again, abuse, primarily, people of color in this community. Okay, I think I would like to redirect our focus. If we could please continue with this, that would be great. We still have quite a few things left. Yes, we do. So thank you. Yeah, we do. I have quite a few things left. So just a sort of final call for additional projects, if we use anything quickly. Yes, I add. Oh, go ahead and finish. So I just have just probably two more. I think we should revisit the RBD plan area. So. Go ahead and finish. So I just have this probably two more. I think we should revisit the RBD plan area. So our area plan that goes under land use and economic and workforce development. I think we should also start maybe this is not an urgent priority. Maybe it's a low priority, but we should start looking at our general plan and maybe potential update to our general plan. And I understand that within our general plan, it says that it should be reviewed every 10 years. So maybe we should review our general plan and see if it's necessarily to make any updates to that because things have changed over the last 10 years. So maybe we should just have a review, review our general plan and see if we need to make any necessary updates. Councilmember, are you, I'm sorry. I'm wondering, are you asking for a general review of everything in the general plan? Are you trying to focus a review toward a particular, something in specific? The entire plan. So through the chair, related to the general plan, the two things where one, we updated the housing element last year and we're currently reviewing the the safety element and environmental justice element. So those are chapters of the general plan that we're actively reviewing or have actively or recently updated. Is it the, are there other specific elements that you prioritize us reviewing or particulars about the general plan you'd want to revisit? I think just the entire plan and this priority setting covers over the next four years, right? Yes. Well, projects we're asking for you all to do projects within the next two years. It's a two year project plan, but the priorities are for four years. The overarching priorities, but the work that we want to undertake that we're asking the council to prioritize undertaking would be for the next two fiscal years. Okay, yeah. So nevertheless, I think that we should look at reviewing and potentially starting a process to update the general plan. Okay. And me asking isn't pushing back. It's really me trying to get ahead of what I'm going to do after this meeting, talking to the team and figuring out how well respond to if this is something that is prioritized by the council bringing it back, like what scale? Because the low hanging fruit is where actively updating the general plan with these two specific chapters right now. And so that's why I'm asking if there is another general plan element that you're interested in. Well, I think some people may be expressed interest in like the west side area plan as well as maybe reviewing the RBD plan, but I'm saying the general plan, if we're looking at all these separate elements and we're doing all these separate updates, maybe we should combine it into one sort of, I mean, you know, but that's just my thoughts of what things we should add. It's not, I guess, time to debate it. So if I could just, sorry, jump in here to kind of keep this going. So we have a revisit the RBD plan and then sort of very broadly look at the general plan, deficiencies in the West Side area plan as a second one. And I would just sort of chime in. There's been probably about 200 plus state laws that have been passed since the last general plan was adopted. So a lot of cities are revisiting. So maybe that's what the focus could be on. Yeah, I guess. The general plan. Yep. So that's one. There's multiple areas in there that we've had put together multiple documents. Maybe it's worth bringing all those things into one plan. But yeah, that's my thoughts. I think that's mostly it. I think that's, I think that's all my suggestion. Could you review the additions? This is clearly blue sky planning here. Let's make that really clear. Okay. This has nothing to do with resource constraint decisions. So if we're just tossing stuff out, but could you tell us that we probably added another 10, correct? About that. I haven't counted the number. And yes, we do need to go through a process of significantly winnowing this down, which is next. I would say that the things that I mentioned probably would go into a general plan update as well. So you could probably strike what I put up and put them under the all the EMB reforms, put them under a general plan update. One thing I'd like to add is study the creation of a Parks and Rec Department. We eliminated the Parks and Rec Department a bunch of years ago. And I think we should find out what it would take to bring it back in terms of staffing and overall funding, funding mechanisms. So I think that's a good project to have long term. We don't have a parks and Rec Department. We have community services, which is handling this a whole lot of stuff that wouldn't come under parks and Rec. Okay, so we can put that down and council member Dynand, can I specifically ask which ones you were talking about that could be part of the general plan update? Because some was about the YMCA, which I don't think was part of it. No, that's not. I'm talking about the EMB reforms, you know, the rezoning permit, all that, that entire bucket would be, I'm pretty sure under general plan update, but we could take them one at a time. Okay. So your councilman vice mayor, you're saying the single staircase reform, the zoning to allow all types of housing and residential zoning and the inclusionary housing ordinance can be rolled into. Am I am I getting that right? Well, I was reiterating the inclusionary zoning or inclusionary housing is separate from that. Okay, but I was just saying I agreed with that. But I think the other stuff would fall into our general plan. Yeah, there too. Thank you. So the inclusionary housing ordinance is indeed a implementation part of the general plan. You know, perhaps we could do a study session for the new council members that you can understand the key elements of the general plan and how they interact. But yeah, it's definitely part of the implementation of general plans that actually is part of general plan. Okay. Through the chair, Matt, do you recall the last general plan just dollar estimate on on a comprehensive general plan? I said, and I guess that was $20, $15, but I don't recall the amount. As a car. Yeah, it went over a million dollars. Yeah. Yeah. So, and it's, and it includes the zoning code. So, you know, it is, there are two books about this large. They're generally good for 15 to 20 years. Reviewed and you know, you're the expert, you've probably done about 100 of these over the state. I'll hire you again. How long did the RBD update take and how much did we spend on that? So, four-year project, $2 million, $2.3 million, a five-week call correctly? I'm sure I want to do it again. I mean, I'd like to encourage the council to, you know, we're diving into the weeds with some of these things. It's a study session, so I'm just going to say this. You know, there's opportunities if you can go back and look at some of these planning documents or other things without redoing the whole thing. And I'm hearing that that's what the discussion is about. Are there other projects so we can get our own time to our voting? Yeah, I haven't had my chance. Last time I showed change myself, but I did. So I want to start out with what I think it's an EC one and that's the kind of moving the existing one on the youth commissions as we as I mentioned. Make it a new one and reword it so that it fits more. More expensive. intensive youth training and city government, something like that. For now, the language is that. Then, as far as specific projects, I think dealing with the garbage, not the little things, but when you have major things that show up in different parts of the city. I think based on some research I've done too, that creating like a rapid response team to, I don't know what to call it, hazardous or large garbage in the city, in the reason for creating that, it's a across departments team. It isn't just maintenance or it isn't, it's everybody involved because I definitely have heard several people mention when they call, you know, they call one office to report it and they say, okay, we take note of that. Some people call another office and then they get shifted around. And so I think, anyway, so that's like a some kind of project maybe redoing what we're doing already, but so that there is no like, oh, let's wait. I'll get back to you. It's like it's taking notice and there's a response, a quick response. Council member, is that would you place that under public infrastructure facilities and utilities or under livability and community quality of life? If it's under my, our all category of creating a healthy and safe community, you don't want to have trash down on the streets. That's dangerous and is not safe. But you know, wherever it fits, for now, I think let's put it in quality of life. So maybe on the table, we could create a rapid response team for garbage and trash. And then call it another one it may You know may fit under this concept of the bond which I think we have talked about but Looking at creating a in the RBD area creating a financing district Which would involve both You know the government and the owners, creating that as a mechanism to speed up the infrastructure, the building of the infrastructure that's needed there. And then another one that this is not a new concept, This is not a new concept, but I think, and it may be a little premature. It's something that on this one, I'm going to work and I already started working on this. On my own, just trying to do some, you know, discussions and working. And that is in the site where the YMCA is in the senior center. And as you know, the YMCA is on City land. So that land belongs to the city. I just think that was a great partnership. And currently, Raywood City is doing a major project that combines the YMCA, the senior center, and kind of recreation center in the around the veterans park area. And so what I'm proposing is that at some point that there be a new building, a new senior center connected to the YMCA that allows for not only senior services, but also adaptive PE because that's one thing I've noticed even walking around our community. There are plenty of people that is seniors in some ways begin to experience more mobility problems of different types. They cannot use the regular machines for exercise as much. And then other people need some guidance as to what kind of exercises to do. So I know that personally, because I have a brother who suffers stroke, and I take him to a drug with city for adaptive PE. And so I think, you know, that's gonna involve a capital campaign. But I'm starting to talk to some people about that because it's a kind of service that many of our people in our community have to leave the community to try to get that or they just don't get it. They don't get it at all. So anyway I think it's the project would be a new senior center connected with the YMCA for purposes of providing senior services and adaptive PE, physical education and other kinds of trainings for people with mobility issues. And those are the ones that I so far have thought about. Okay, So Tiffany, I want to make sure we have this. So one is it's a senior center on the YMCA property and maybe it's studied the feasibility of it. No, it's not on the YMCA property. It's all city property on the one. It's all city property. So I wanted to make it seem like we're invading the YMCA. It's not. It's creating like a new building, a new center building, you know, two or three floors that connects to the YMCA for purposes of the kinds of services that I was mentioning. Okay. So apologies. So study the feasibility of the senior center in Jason. Yeah, maybe the feasibility of something like that. And then the other is to create a financing district in the RBD structure. And that should go under the infrastructure category. Infrastructure, yeah. Yeah, under the infrastructure category, it's to create a financing district in the RBD for infrastructure. Okay. So if I, if I may, so we've done the easy part now. Now we move into the harder part, which is trying to narrow down the list. And I stir a rameek and I just interrupt you one moment. Can we just review really quickly and make sure that we got all of them? I believe we got all of them, but may I read my list and can we just confirm that we didn't, I didn't, we didn't miss. Yeah, I think what we'd like to, maybe Tiffany can confirm as you go through. That would be perfect. OK, so I didn't get any additions to a emergency and disaster preparedness under B public infrastructure facilities and utilities. There was a new number 13, which is the infrastructure of facilities bond. Or maybe not new number 13, maybe new number. Correct. Okay. Under sea livability or community quality of life. I have three were missing one and it's to create financing district and R. B. D. area for infrastructure. I have that elsewhere. Okay. Okay. I had it under land use economic and workforce development. Okay. Um, C is the livability community quality of life I had a number. New number eight is the YMCA partnership. New number nine is the epicenter partnership. New number 10 is Explore Expanding Traffic Enforcement. New number 11, bring forth a modern code enforcement framework. New number 12 is a rapid, create a rapid response team for garbage. And new number 13 is a new senior center near adjacent to the YMCA, including an adaptive PE program and a capital campaign for that facility. And for Dlandiuse economic and workforce Development, had new number six, which is create the RBD financing district. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, new number four, which is visit the RBD plan. New number five, which was update the general plan and revisit the Westside area plan. And then new number six, which was create the RBD financing district. And then under housing, which is Section E, I had review the inclusionary housing ordinance, which was new number 13 and new number 14 is review the development process. And council members, if I'm not capturing your, if I'm mistating or not in the process, I didn't hear that what development process, I'm sorry. Who who said that? That was Mr. Dynan. I believe vice mayor Dynan to review the development process to expedite housing. Oh Okay, so so it's it's it's basically the expedition of of of processing. I Believe so I believe it was the permitting process. Is that correct, Vice Mayor? Yeah, well, okay. I would say for the inclusionary review and update, the inclusionary zoning ordinance, that's what it was supposed to be. Okay. Yes. And then for F governance organizational strength and fiscal sustainability, I have new number 10, which is study the creation of a parks and rec department. And then for G civic engagement, there's the existing youth commission item and I wrote in parentheses, expand it for sort of Dr. Olmos recommendations. Did I capture, first of all, Matt and Tiffany, do you, we have all, did I miss any? Did you did anything like that? And then council members, did we accurately capture? Did we miss anything? Did we miss state anything? I don't, this is sort of a want to make sure we didn't forget something and it's very possible I did. I would say for parking, I think we should have did our fee schedule. Okay, parking. That's a permanent parking, but the fee schedule itself for, again, under livability, quality of life. Is that right? parking regulations and the update the fee schedule. Okay. Yeah. So that's new number. I want to say 14. Update. Parking fee schedule. You know, on the youth., I guess we'll have to get to that. So what I was, what I was really saying is making it a new one in a way to replace what was there. I don't know somehow we're going to combine those two or, in other words, just sort of an ongoing training of youth in the community. Whether it's partnerships with organizations or doing something collaborative or something like that. I understand. Thank you. Are you also referring to perhaps having like some kind of internship embedded? Yeah, including all those things to learn about government. Yeah. Yes. OK. Yeah, just more expensive, more expensive. And it's civic training, correct? Or general involvement in governance or? Yeah, in city government. Got it. Well, and then I think it's been said in several ways. But I forgot one I had, which was two. And this is more of a goal, perhaps, is to increase recreational activities for all ages. And I think that's sort of embedded in different areas, but it's a goal that we're trying to, you know, in different ways doing that, whether there's community services or combined with grants or stuff like that. So you could almost say study the formation of the Parks and Rec Department. Well, you know, that what I'm saying even right now, yeah, you know, there's a lot of different ways to approach it. Even before when there was community services, whether you contract people to do that or whether the city does it or your partner, but just as a goal is just to increase, increase the recreational activities for all ages. Yeah, I agree with that. And Councilmember, I'd say that we could probably add that to the description of the priority, rather than make it a project. Yeah, yes. OK, I think we should cut off new projects. So there are, we're now moving into the, now that we've gone through that. So now we have to narrow down the list. We had come up with a process when we actually were thinking we were voting on, on all of them, including the existing projects of having a 30 high priority votes and then 15 lower priority votes. So that gives 45 votes. We were then probably going to have to do a second round of voting to narrow down that list. If we want to just throw out, so what we were proposing was again, giving each council member 30 red dots for high priority and 15 yellow dots for lower priority. That means that there's still going to be at least 45 projects if not more on the list. We would then do a second round. What I'd like to give as an option if we wanna try and make this more efficient is to cut down the number of votes in the first round. I know you all have done your homework and you've come in with 30 votes, but we've also added 20 plus projects. So I guess I'd like to turn it to the council to see if you want to do the two round process or try and do this more in a single round with fewer votes. I personally would like to do in a single vote if possible. I did come directly from work. So it's been like almost a 13 hour day for me. So I have last time that last time that I did that I did this. So I wanted to you're going to give us a certain number of thoughts. I guess, right? Okay. Correct. So, you know, I, I think we should be allowed to use the dots however we want. And that creates a similar pattern of what comes out higher. But if I have, you know, if I have 30 dots and I want to put five of them in one project because I feel it's really important, I feel like I should be able to do that. It's a way of ranking. And so we've done that in the past where, you know, I think we've got less dots before. See, you know, but if I want to put two dots on one thing and one in another, then that indicates a certain weight to it. We don't know exactly who doesn't, but I like to have that option. How I use my dots. Okay. So then anybody else wants to do that fine, if not, it's okay, but that's how I feel that. Because it's very hard to do the rankings always and, you know, it's an attempt to get some consensus, I guess, or majority. Let me, so what I was, what I was thinking was we, we do 24 dots per person. So narrow that down. And then I'd like to turn it to the council. We, our original thought was doing one, one each person gets one vote per, you know, per project. I'm hearing what council member Brika is saying. And so I'd like to turn over to the council to see if you all want to have allow more than one. Dot, I think we should have a choice. I don't want to. I mean, I think my recommendation is that the council agree on that process. Well I disagree with that with all due respect, Mr. Facilitator, because you know there are different ways of expressing what we feel is important to each of us. We're doing this for each of us here. And so, but you know I'm fine if you want to do I, because I've seen it done both ways and I've found that when you express your, have your interest for some projects, it should be allowed to do that. Yeah. And I've seen it done both ways as well. And I just, again, I want to make sure that there's agreement on the council about how to do this. And if the council's agreed with that, I, so Madam Mayor, turn it over to you for that. Yes, I don't know if we should do a vote on this. I think we should. Yeah, okay. So who would like to move on forward with how the facilitator has described the process? I do not have a problem with what council member Abbey because is proposing, it's fine with me. Okay. I guess all in favor of what our facilitator has proposed. I have a question. So what is it, what's proposed, what's being proposed? So the original process is one per, or we can do multiple per, and again, I want to leave it up to the council to decide that process. Okay, because I can put all 24 and one item in that. Okay. Side. If I may reiterate, I think the... I'll wait. Well, that's an extreme, but if I feel strongly about one, I want to put two dots. I mean, I don't see why we can't have that choice. Do you want to limit it to two dots or does it met and can you do 24? I'll say one dot. And then again, we'll have reoccurring votes. And I think it's probably easier for you to tally it as well. And I think the rent dots are the vote for the high priority projects. And like I said, it's five of us and we might get five on that one single project to begin with. Yeah. Again, you know, there are just, you know, in fairness, there are different ways of doing it. Neither is the right way. What we had proposed was one each. We're okay. You know, maybe there's a hybrid of, you know, up to two, up to three. So you're a lot doing 24. I'm trying to get through the process. I think if we want to get through this process, this is going to open up a thing where maybe I look at it where the dots are and I'm going to pull my dot from here and put it over there. I think it should be one dot and We can narrow it down and then move on to the next projects or maybe I look at where the dots are, and I'm gonna pull my dot from here and put it over there. I think it should just be one dot, and we can narrow it down and then move on to the next projects. I mean, you know, having up to two or three, I wasn't suggesting like, okay, I just gotta, I'm not trying to get away from doing my homework. I just feel that if I really feel strong about one, I might wanna put two dots. So if you want to limit us to no more than each person, no more than two or three, and find with that, I just feel kind of restricted process. It's not good. Ultimately, you still get a ranking of which projects or which areas for that. But, you know, whatever works, I just feel like. Yeah. I think we just need to move it a lot. So I'm going to just say I don't know if everyone wants to. Maybe the the compromises up to two dots per and that's it. And then we we can move through this faster. I think that's good. That's a good medium place. So it can be 24 dots per person. You will have your initials on it because we want to track who votes for which ones apologies. I have council member Rameras in their hand and this is the way that we can do this. I would council like to state publicly which ones they are going to vote for before voting or vote and then we can come back to it after. I think we can vote and then that way we can just tally it up. We can expedite the process. Thank you. Yeah one last question. Does that include all the great ones? So I didn't understand that. Yeah, that's what does it say? Yeah, but it's definitely like all the current ones and the new ones are... Sorry. Yeah. And everything. So this is that the story is this for only the new ones or this for everybody. Okay. See what I mean. So. I'm going to put it on the top right corner. I'm going to put it on the top right corner. I'm going to put it on the top right corner. I'm going to put it on the top right corner. I'm going to put it on the top right corner. I'm going to put it on the top right corner. I'm going to put it on the top right corner. I'm going to put it on the top right corner. I'm going to put it and continue so there's no need to vote on those. We can actually just cross those out so that you don't vote on them by accident. We put the new ones on there already. On our on our cubby, we don't have it. So I have to go check the new ones over there. Correct. You have to then you knew. So what we'd like the council to do is to take a minute, stand up, and Madam Mayor, what I'd like to propose is do the voting, and then we take a break so we can tally and come back and give you all the results and decide next steps. you I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. you you you you you Thank you. you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you You I'm going to play the game. Thank you. you you Thank you so much. Thank you Matt for staying with us. Thank you all. All right. So I'm going to just go through the results. I'm going to first do high level and then we can talk quickly about next steps. And I'm over here so I can read these off apologies. So overall, we had, there were two projects that received five votes, 12 that received four votes, and 13 that received three votes. So right there is 27, which is actually a good starting point for a prioritization. There were seven projects that received two votes, nine that received one vote, and 28 that received zero votes. So through it all, I think that there was a prioritization that really came forward with this. Let me go through some of the ones and apologies again for moving around. The two that received five votes, one, it's the first one is E5, which is launch home repair program. And the second one is over here at B1, which is to develop the citywide sewer master plan. Going through the ones with four votes, A1, launch emergency preparedness program, B7, plan for development of community hub, a new city hall, B8, implement quick win projects from the Park's master plan. And then one of the new ones, which was is B13, prepare an infrastructure facilities bond. Now, those all got four votes, others with four, designing construct road improvements on woodland avenue from university to to NUAL. The YMCA support for subsidized memberships, epicenter funding for expanded services and programs. Review and update the inclusionary housing ordinance. Creation of a parks and the study of the creation of a parks and rec department. Upgrade and launch the new city website and then expanding the youth commission and youth appointees to be youth training and city government. So this all received the four votes. The ones with the three develop a long term fiscal fiscal strategy, F2, develop a long-term fiscal strategy, and structural deficit plan, F6 conduct a council term limit policy research, F7 implement a grants management system, G2 implement sister city and cultural exchange initiative, E6, launch financial empowerment and foreclosure prevention, E7, first time home buyer assistance, C2, expand parking enforcement capacity, C6, implement shopping cart abatement program, C7, launch residential rental inspection program, B7, complete the street lighting upgrade project, 70 street lights and Clark Avenue over crossing, A2, maintain and expand senior and disabled individual vulnerability and emergency contact database. B5, conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the senior center and service operation. And then the last one is B9, implement parks, lighting and safety improvement program. So those are the 27. And I think that through the process, we've probably created a priority list with those 27. And so I'd like to maybe propose to the council that this is what staff moves forward to study. And then to look at the financial feasibility of those, and this is also the list that we take out to the public so that the public can give us feedback on the priorities and then the sort of the buckets as well as these projects. We also mentioned that we would do an exercise for any sort of the urgent projects. And I'd like to ask council, I guess two things. One, if Council has any comments or thoughts on the voting exercise or additional things to mention at this point, I would love to hear that. And then the other along with that is, is there anything from those 27 that we mentioned, which is not urgent? Right, and we all think everything is urgent, but is there anything that's not urgent that potentially could be considered for the second two-year list, rather than the first two-year list? And so I'd like to turn it over to other sort of both difficult questions, but first, this council wanna share any thoughts on what you saw here and the priorities, and then second, if there's anything that is, because I think everything kind of feels urgent, but is there anything that maybe could be moved to that second two-year list? And if there's nothing, then we can just keep exploring that. Yeah, I think it's a good list. My only question is, you know, some of the, I didn't see the San Francisco Cretacea PA and the Reach 2 project as well as the Levy getting any votes. I guess my presumption is that's something that's sort of out of our control because it's multi-gearstictional. And so in terms of like the city, even if we wanted to make it our number one priority, there's so many other things involved with this. But it is important, you know, if we get a lovely bill, those that's FEMA approved will get rid of the flood insurance requirement for a lot of folks and use Peralta. Yeah, maybe I'll turn it over to staff about that project. There's any feedback on that. Orally, isn't that on the carry forward list? Yes, that is on the carry forward list. Never mind that. Yes, we didn't show them as great out, but they should have been. So vice mayor, since it wasn't, since your council in the earlier exercise didn't take that off in any way, that's still. I figured it wasn't white though. In addition to these, it was up there. Yeah, it was in white and that should have, yeah. My apologies. Apparently, yes. Other comments? So I really wouldn't be able to, I don't think that I'm able to do the what is urgent, what is immediate, what is less immediate, until I actually saw all of them in front of me. It's really difficult for me to visualize that. I know you went through them, but so it be easier if I actually had them in front of me. Well maybe that's something that we can do at the June Council meeting with that list because I agree it's hard to hear it and then decide what's urgent. Yes that's a good suggestion. Yeah this was a good exercise. I mean, it is kind of an exercise. What I'm looking forward to is, you know, having the staff come back and give us their perspective on what I call, the rubber hits the road when we get feedback on the cost, the time so that we don't, yeah, so the staff is actually able to do them in some timeline. Because otherwise it creates a dynamic where it's easy for us to say, do this, do that, do the other, and not consider the budget, the money, the, et cetera. So I think once that comes back, I think that'll be a good exercise to be a little more concrete. But this has been good. And I think preserving all the things that came out because in a perfect world, if you have plenty of money and plenty of staff, we just do them all to do all the things that people would like to do. So I think that's gonna be a good exercise, a balancing act to see, yeah, to see. And also at that point, I think we might be reminded of some things that maybe we left out or somehow, you know, it'll be a different mix, but I think it's good. And then we also there'll be some opportunities for the public to jump in, right? So then we'll hear that part too and see where we live. And I think. Um, I think when it comes to urgency, I think what clearly stands out is the, um, sewer master plan. I think everyone voted on that. Um, clearly that one has the most votes. Because then that will determine like the. That's how fast you worked out for a development to move forward in the community. And. I would say. Yes, just from what I can see from here. So. think that one's pretty urgent. Just, you know. Okay. Well, just as a as a final, I mean, council member, Brica, you actually had a great segue to the next steps in the process. So maybe I could just go through those quickly and we can end for the evening, unless there's others. Okay. The next step. So, yes, staff will take this list. Staff will look at it, evaluate it for feasibility. And that will be part of what comes back in early June. The other things that may happening in the next few weeks is that we'll take this list of really of 27 out to the community to get to discuss and get feedback on that as well as the overall priorities. 27 is a somewhat manageable list but we really do want feedback from the community on what their higher level priorities are with this and then the projects within those. So that will be happening and that will come back to the council as well. So you all have some feedback from the community on this list of 27. And those are the next steps and I think it's June 3rd is the council meeting and there'll be some engagement over the next few weeks starting with a survey in the next couple of days, some pop-up workshops and an online meeting. So with that, I think staff, any, did I miss anything? Okay. Okay, well thank you. Do we have any more public comment? No, because we did at the beginning. Okay, so I just wanted to thank the team. Thank you for working so hard. And also Mr. Ramey, thank you for facilitating this. This was exciting, I wanted to continue putting little dots. But thank you so much also the audience that stayed with us, the constituents, thank you for your input. So the time is 927 and this session has ended, thank you.