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All right, all those say nay. The ayes have it, Councilman Gierri. Mr. Mayor, I move the City Council adopt the resolution regarding the closed executive session that was previously circulated to the council. I think there's been a motion by Councilman McGarry. It's been seconded by Councilmember Bagley to adopt the resolution, certifying the closed executive session. Any further discussion? Hearing none, it is a roll call, Madam Clerk. Please call the roll. Councilman McGarry. Councilmember Bagley. Mayor Wilson. Nice to meet Jackson. Hi. Councilman Chapman. Councilwoman Gaskins. Hi. Councilman McPike. Hi. Okay, the resolution is adopted unanimously. Good evening, everyone. Welcome. Thank you so much for joining us this evening. We're happy to have you here. We are going to begin with a moment of silence followed by the P of allegiance. So if you are able, please rise for a moment of silence, followed by the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. All right. Mental clerk number five. Presentation of a proclamation recognizing Hispanic heritage month. Okay. All right. Mental clerk number five. Presentation of a proclamation recognizing Hispanic Heritage Month. Okay. Councilman Geary is going to be presenting this proclamation. I know we have a number of folks here for that. Come on down please. Let's point us in the front. It's right now we have the openness. And I'm going to stop to say. Testing our new procedures. Hey. Hey. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, that's a good idea. Good to see you. Good to see you. Hey. Come on in and open it up. Hey, here we go. Good to see you, Ella. Just come on. Keep on moving. There we are. All right. Good evening everyone. Before I start reading the cropped placomation, I just wanted to note a couple things we're doing for Latino Heritage Month this year in the city of Alexandria. Out in Market Square, you'll notice that there's flags hanging all across Market Square. It is a majority, not all of the Latin American countries. And also at night we are lighting City Hall up with the colors of the different flags. You can actually see the schedule of the lighting on the webpage. If you go to the city webpage and then look for the other web page for the Latino Heritage Month, you'll find the schedule there. But I'll read the proclamation, then I'd like to pass the mic around, let everybody introduce themselves shortly. All right. So, whereas in 1968, Congress authorized President Lyndon B. Johnson to proclaim a week in September as National Hispanic Heritage Week. And whereas in 1988, the celebration was expanded to National Hispanic Heritage Month from September 15th, October 15th each year. And whereas during this time, America celebrates and recognizes the culture, traditions, and contributions of United States residents who trace our roots to Latin America. And whereas between 2010 and 2020, the Latino population in the United States grew by 23% from 50.5 million to 62.1 million. Latino persons accounted for 51% of the entire US population growth during that period. And whereas the Latino population in the United States is 65.2 million as of July 1st, 2023, making it the nation's largest racial or ethnic minority, in about 19.5% of the total population. The US Census Bureau expects this number to rise to 26.9% of the country's population by the year 2060. And we're asked, as of 2020, the Commonwealth of Virginia is home to over 900,000 Virginians of Latino descent, comprising close to 11% of the population of Virginia. And we're asked, Alexandria's own population of Latinos is close to 18% and whereas persons of Latino descent in rich our community by sharing their vibrant culture and heritage throughout our nation's history, they've made significant contributions to social and economic progress through their leadership and government, business, education, the arts, science, and military service. And whereas diversity is one of Alexandra's greatest strengths, and it is important to recognize and appreciate the many achievements of persons of Latino descent to our community. And whereas the City of Alexandria will join the rest of the country in celebrating the 56 National Hispanic Heritage Month by commemorating essential contributions, sacrifices, and accomplishments that Latino people have made to the United States throughout our nation's history. And whereas as we build an inclusive community that works for all, we encourage our citizens to participate in the celebrations of National Hispanic Heritage Month in Alexandria this month. Now therefore I, Connecticut, get here on behalf of Justin and Wilson Mayor of the City of Alexandria, Virginia. And on behalf of the Alexandria City Council, do hereby proclaim the time between September 15th through October 15th, 2024 as National Hispanic Heritage, Latino Heritage Month. The city of Alexandria and encourage all residents to celebrate the significant contributions of Latinos in our nation and city. In witness where I have here unto set my hand and cause the seal of the city of Alexandria to be affixed this 24th day of September 2024. And let folks introduce themselves. Philippe Hernandez, fire chief. Viler Garcia. Patricia Maya, Alexandria Library. Tros Alenderos, ACPS. Jorge Figuerero, executive director of Eduardo Futuro. Regina Benavida, ACPS in Alexandria City. Medea Ramirez in ACPS, Alexandria City. Julia Fernandez-Marcos, Office of Climate Action. David Ballad, Infernandez, ACPS. Ida Gararanda, with Meyer Foundation. Taniqa Tukan, ACPS. Daniela Perez, with ACPS. I'm going to be a little bit more patient. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank, I would move the proclamation. It's been a motion by Councilman McGarry, seconded by Vice Mayor Jackson. Let me just echo Councilman McGarry, first of all, it's great to hear all the events that are scheduled in so many city partners who are working to recognize this observance. And what's represented up here is a broad swath of Alexandria and the folks that provide such rich contributions to so many different aspects of Alexandria life and we certainly celebrate that during this one month period, uniquely covering two different months, which is unique of our month of services. And certainly recognizing the growth and the growing contributions in influence of our Latino population in the city of Alexandria. So thank you Councilman McGarry for presenting this. Hearing no further discussion, all those in favor of the proclamation, please signify by saying aye. Aye. All opposed, aye. The ayes have it. The proclamation is approved. Congratulations, everyone. Thank you very much. All right. Madam Clerk, number six. Presentation of a proclamation honoring the 60th anniversary of the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission. Okay. Councilmember Bagley is presenting this one. And I know we have some folks here as part of receiving this one as well. And so come on down. I'm going to read a proclamation and then let Ms.ys sort of speak a little bit about NVTC's 60th. Yeah, thank you for being here. Whereas the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission created by the General Assembly of Virginia in 1964, celebrated its 60th anniversary on September 5th, 2024. And whereas the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission and VTC began with five jurisdictions, including the counties of Arlington and Fairfax and the cities of Alexandria,weight commission serving jointly as commissioners. And NVTC membership has grown to include the county of Loudon and now has 21 commissioners, including six members of the General Assembly of Virginia and a designated Virginia Secretary of Transportation. And whereas the NVTC district now has a population of approximately 2 million people and the state's high-weight commission serving jointly as commissioners, and NVTC membership has grown to include the county of Loudon and now has a population of approximately 2 million people and a territory covering a thousand square miles, providing residents with 1.5 million transit trips each week. The public transit network serving the NVTC District is a vital component of the region's transportation system that supports its overall quality of life and economic competitiveness generating more than 1.5 billion in annual sales and income tax revenue for the Commonwealth of Virginia. And whereas NVTC played a pivotal role in creating the Washington metropolitan area transit authority, Womada, whereby the resulting interstate compact requires Womada's Virginia Board members to be appointed from among the NVTC commissioners, of which my colleague is a member, who now provide additional oversight and reporting responsibilities. And whereas NVTC began to plan for commuter rail service at its first business meeting in 1964, and persevered until VRE began operations in 1992, a system now co-owned with the Potomac and Rappah Hantic Transportation Commission that has carried more than 95 million riders. And whereas NVTC initiated the first transit service to run on dedicated bus lanes with the NVTC Shirley Highway Express bus on freeway demonstration project, serving as a model for future express and bus rapid transit or BRT corridors, including the regional Envision transit or BRT corridors, including the regional Envision Route 7 BRT. And whereas NVTC launched the innovation innovative commuter choice program in 2017, which has invested more than 154 million in toll revenues for projects that have moved more than 5 million people through the congested I-66 and I-395-95 corridors. And whereas NVTC manages financial resources from federal state regional and local partners exceeding $400 million annually while demonstrating sound fiscal management of public funds and establishing a set of its stringent internal controls to manage NVTC's complex financial role in the region. And whereas NVTC has managed numerous successful public transit marketing campaigns in coordination with regional partners to promote transit use throughout the region, NVTC provides ongoing and extensive data analysis from the Virginia public transit trends to better understand how our transit network serves our region. NVTC conducts policy and financial analysis to support funding and legislative actions, including evaluation of the impact of federal and state policy and funding actions on the public transit systems. And whereas, in 60 years of leadership in transit development, expansion, funding and research, each of the current and former board members and staff have played an integral role in building and operating the transit network required to sustain the regional economy. Now, therefore, I just and I'm Wilson Mayor of the City of Alexandria, Virginia. And on behalf of the Alexandria City Council, do hereby commend the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission on the occasion of its 60th anniversary in the City of Alexandria. And I call this observance to all the attention of all of our citizens. And Wind is where I have here and to set my hand and cause the seal of the city of Alexandria to be affixed this 24th day of September 2024. That's worth around, right? Okay. Well, thank you. And I have to say, Alex City of Alexandria has been at the heart of NVTC since it was founded 60 years ago, and really understanding how we can move people through our region. That's what NVTC helps the city look regionally and think regionally, whether it be with the VRE, with WOMADA, and also in the ways that we can help dash, and all the bus systems in our region work together. So there's lots of wonderful things. The staff did an amazing job and greatly appreciate the recognition. Sixty more years, there's a lot more exciting things to do and we greatly appreciate the support of the city in your council members as well as the staff who work with very closely on the number of these issues. So thank you very much. Thanks for the day. Sixty year anniversary, go to the website, who we work with very closely on a number of these issues. So thank you very much. Actually, did you want to say? Oh, 60-year anniversary, go to the website, check out the video. It is very, very awesome, very insightful, and a lot of fun. Absolutely. And so, let me say something. The other thing I'd point out, given that the other proclamation is that my colleague here was actually the first let's you know to chair of this commission. I think in its 58th year Yeah, so something very the frail is and to be proud of with that. I would move the proclamation There's a motion by councilmember Bagley seconded by councilman a Geary Let me first of all thank miss Matisse for for being here this evening. We're happy to have you Thanks for your 60 years of leadership At at the NVTC, we really appreciate the work that you've done during that period of time. It's really, really impressive. Now, we are so thrilled to obviously partner with NVTC on so many important mobility initiatives. This is vitally important work for our city for the region. And you help bring us together around these important mobility projects. And so we're proud to celebrate with you. We're proud to be a part of you. And we look forward to 60 more years of doing important work in the region. So we have a motion to second any further discussions. Hearing none, all those in favor, please come to my saying aye. Aye. All opposed say nay. The aye is having. Congratulations. Thank you very much. We appreciate it. All right. Madam Clerk number seven. Presentation of a proclamation honoring the fifth year anniversary of the commission for women. Okay, Vice Mayor Jackson is presenting this one for the second time in an hour. So I guess two hours, second time in two hours. So nice we're gonna do it twice. That's right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, well welcome. Like I said, we just celebrated the 50th downstairs in the Vololossian lobby here at City Hall of the Commission for Women and presented the proclamation there and we are going to do it again here on the floor of city hall itself here in the chambers. Okay, and then I'll pass the mic around. So please say something to let everybody know what we're doing with the commission for women, what we've done in the past, where we're going in the future, that would be great. Whereas on November 28th, 1972, City Council established an ad hoc committee on women to investigate and report on the extent to which women in Alexandria were discriminated against an employment, education, credit and lending, recreation, housing and health. And whereas under the leadership of Vola Lawson and school board member Lou Cook, the ad hoc committee issued their final report on March 1, 1974, documenting that one, women employed by the city were paid 36% less than their male counterparts. Two, many of the textbooks used in the city were paid 36% less than their male counterparts. Two, many of the textbooks used in the city elementary schools perpetuated sexual stereotypes. Three, in athletics, most of the city's available money and resources were directed to boys sports. Four, women because of their gender faced stiffer standards when applying for loans, credit and mortgages. And five, women's medical problems were given less emphasis than men's. And whereas, in light of these findings, the ad hoc committee urged City Council to establish a permanent 11-member commission on the status of women with the authority and funding to eliminate gender-based disparities in the city and ensure equal opportunity for Alexandria's women and girls in all aspects of their lives. And whereas on September 24th, 1974, City Council appointed the first members of the Alexandria Commission for Women, Susan Cain, Jane Flynn, and Glenin, Barbara Joseph, Charlotte Cunin, Virginia Maconche, Joanne Miller, Marie Brad B, Lillian Beach, Betty Prezy, and Florence Calloway. And whereas today, the Alexandria Commission for Women is comprised of 16 volunteer commissioners of all genders who serve as trusted advisors and consultants to city council through their advocacy on behalf of Alexandria's women and their families. And whereas despite significant progress, women and girls in Alexandria continue to face systemic barriers to full and equal participation in our economy and society. Today women grapple with the evolving landscape of reproductive rights, survivor support, affordable housing, domestic violence, sexual assault and gender discrimination. And whereas the city of Alexandria is committed to reducing and eliminating disparities in equities, experienced by all Alexandria residents of all races, religions, countries, of origin, sexual orientations, ages, genders, and abilities. Now therefore, I, Amy B. Jackson on behalf of Justin Emwellson, the mayor of the city of Alexandria, Virginia, and on behalf of the Alexandria City Council, do acknowledge the significant contributions of the Commission for Women and hereby proclaim September 24th, 2024 hand and cause the seal of the city of Alexandria to be affixed this 24th day of September 2024 Mayor Justin Emelson. Congratulations. I think that's a huge, huge thing. So I am going to hand it over to the chair right now, the current chair of our commission and let her introduce herself and pass the mic down and please say a few words. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Vice Mayor Jackson, we really appreciate it. Thank you to all of our commissioners. My name is Lexi Wei. I'm the current chair of the Alexandria Commission for Women and since I've joined, I've been active on their reproductive health rights and justice subcommittee. I'm PJ Palmer Johnson and I had the privilege of serving on the commission with our vice mirror Amy Jackson. I now serve as the liaison with the Alexandria Human Rights Commission. Hi, my name is Anishah Meiner and I had also had the pleasure of serving with Vice Mayor Jackson several years ago. So thank you for your leadership and this recognition today. Thank you. Good evening, Emily Eckert. I've been on the commission for three years and I participate on the reproductive health rights and justice subcommittee. Hi, I'm Kendra Greene. I've been on the commission for almost a year, so still getting started, I'm really excited to be hoping. Good evening. My name is Maxie Whitkin. I grew up in Alexandria, and I'm so thankful for the work that the commission for women has done over the last 50 years. Good evening. My city is a city that has been for the past 50 years. Good evening. My name is Kathy Joseph. I've been on the commission since March. I serve on the affordable housing and transportation subcommittee. I'm pleased to be a member and to serve the city. Hello, everyone. My name is Ivet. I'm currently the second vice chair of the Affordable Housing and Transportation Subcommittee. Excited to be here. My name is Nicole Hutchinson. I'm the first vice chair of the Alexandria Commission for Women and on the Affordable Housing Subcommittee. Well, hi, my name is Matthew Warner. Sorry, I probably could do this without the microphone because my voice carries without it. However, I'm proud to be a member of the Alexandria Commission for Women. I'm very proud to be a commissioner. I'm on the reproductive rights committee and I think it's really important for the commission in the city to have males who are allies in the area of reproductive rights. I know I think I probably have a unique voice in space in this area and I'm proud to be part of the commission. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all for your volunteerism, for your advocacy, for the commission, for women and for our great city. We look to you for, you know, we, when we were on it together, we had the next status report of women after it had been done, 30, 40 years before. So we don't wanna put that pressure on you, but anytime you wanna start the research on that, again, that'd be great. But no, I know we've mentioned a few of the subcommittees. We also have the Human Trafficking Awareness Initiative. We've had the take your daughters and sons to work day. We've had several outreach subcommittees and programs that the Commission for Women has done throughout the years and we're very thankful for that. And I'm glad to have been a little part of it back in the day and probably will be again. So Mr. Mayor, I'd like to move this proclamation for the 50th anniversary. Hey, there's a motion by Vice Mayor Jackson, seconded by Councilwoman Gaskin to approve the proclamation. Let me echo the Vice Mayor for faulting our current members. Thank you so much for your service and your willingness to give of your time in service particularly to our city, but specifically on the issues that affect women and girls in our community. We are so privileged to have you doing that and we certainly thank the long legacy of people who have served on the commission over the last half century. I my late mother-in-law served on the commission and in about 25 years that I was with her daughter while my mother and law was alive, I pissed my mother off at various points. Probably the most was when I voted for the term limit provision for boarding commissions because it meant that she had to leave the commission on women and And she did not talk to me for a good week and a half after I voted for that Because she thought it was ridiculous that she had to leave after 10 years so but For yes, thank you very much for all the great work that you do for our community We appreciate and look forward another 50 years of service. So thank you We have a motion to second any further discussion. Yes, one more thing. To your point, I just want to point out that was a good thing, though, because from that stemmed the friends of the commission for women, which were all the legacy members of the commissioners from the commission for women that is now, even though that's kind of defuncted, went into the Alexandria celebrates women, which Pat Miller is still very much aware of in charge of and associated with. So in all good things, things, things. That was my argument. There's there's that. It didn't get very far, but that was certainly my argument. It can't do one. You can do the other. All right. I'm going to question in a second any further discussion hearing. All those in favor is pleased to invite me saying aye. Aye. All opposed. Say nay. The ayes have it. Thank you all very much. We appreciate it. Congratulations. All right. Madam Clerk. We're reports from members of council on boards, commissions, and committees commission on agent councilman Aguirre. All right. So on board's commissions and committees commission on agent councilman a giri Oh, hey councilman a giri you'll start with the commission on aging and go into cog tpb and then continue into gang prevention and With council and gaskins and then a cap with councilmember backlink councilman good Commission on aging Basically just reports, but the the biggest thing that we spent the most time on was getting acclimated with the new rules around electronic participation. Qualifies, how they qualify, who's a caregiver, what will count towards Quorum, what won't. So thank you to the City Attorney's Office for having an attorney-learned year to be there to speak with us. It was a very, very informational and the commission took a lot away from it. TPP, it was amazing. We actually didn't have any action items. It was all informational, surprisingly. Two quick items to let my colleagues know about. One, there was a report on the Washington Baltimore Regional Air Passengers Survey, General Findings, and a wild guess. Convenience was the number one choice for the airport that they picked. Proximity, imagine that. In the other item, we were talking about the regional electric vehicle infrastructure implementation strategy. It's interesting because you know of course as we all know We have the equity emphasis areas through Cog and so what we're trying to do is work and we make sure that we are also placing some of these Electrochargers in some of the equity emphasis areas and also doing in a strategic way so that it is along heavily used corridors as well That is all for TPP. Gang prevention, there was something, but let my colleagues start off on that one. Thank you, Council Member, Gary. So, Jessica, and thank you, Mr. Mayor. It's all good. Very excited to talk. Yeah, it's okay. I'll be brief, because unfortunately, I was not able to stay for the full meeting. The Gang Prevention Task Force met on September 18th. We started with our round of partner and task force updates. I think two things to celebrate or to put on folks radar. One, we heard from Pastor Anthony Oliver. He talked about his work with the task force to create a new junior business academy, which is an opportunity to provide mentorship and apprenticeships for young men and women who are interested in becoming entrepreneurs, and also creating opportunities for after-school programming. We also heard an update from the police department. They spoke about some of their new units and the impact that they're already having in the community. Specifically, we had a deep dive on the Youth Resource Unit, in which we learned about their focus on partnering with ACPS, as well as other partners in the community to help keep young people in school. They are already working with 10 young people, working with their parents as well, to make sure that they're coming up with sustainable solutions to address truancy. And then we heard updates from their new neighborhood resource unit as well to make sure that they're coming up with sustainable solutions to address truancy. And then we heard updates from their new neighborhood resource unit and even met the new neighborhood I guess resource officer assigned to Charles Houston and the surrounding area. One of the big projects that the gang task force is going to be working on is starting to map specific crime data for juveniles, including the location where these crimes are committed, but also with an intentional focus on prevention, they're mapping what programs exist in those areas or do not exist, what community resources exist in those areas or do not exist, and then what are opportunities for the task force to better coordinate with other departments in the city in order to make sure that they are connecting young people in those areas to resources or creating new programs as part of their efforts to focus on prevention. Mr. Mayor Linger, I would just add, along those lines, Mr. Wettles was talking about the city services map. So this will be a resource and being able to find some of those items. And there's also discussion about engaging our recent Afghan community to make sure that they're feeling welcome. The resources provided and we are paying attention to what's going on. Okay. Councilman Geary, you want to move on to ACAP? Or Councilman Brackley? Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And our first ACAP meeting of the new school year was held on September 19th. One of the most exciting things about serving on this group is the role of the peer advocates and we met some new peer advocates at this meeting. We had six of them there, Christopher Camille, Luiz, Yasin, Zineath, and Zai. And it's really powerful sort of hearing there. I'm doing the educating of other students on this topic. And also having a role in helping them understand things like proper tools of order. And we went over sort of how to minutes work and how to, how to process work. So it was a really great first meeting. The other exciting piece was the announcement that we won our prep grant again, and that's essentially the grant that funds the work of this organization. We also won the largest amount. We've ever won $710,000 a year for the next three years. And that's what actually funds the peer advocates and other programming. So that was a huge win, and congratulations to everybody involved in writing that grant. We also got an update on the wrap it up program, the wrap up IELX program. We've now given out 85,000 condoms at the Dell Pepper Center. So if you are in need, please visit Dell Pepper Center. There are dispensaries there. Condoms are also available at the Teen Wellness Center. There was also an update given by the students about this summer's youth conference, and there were over 85 students that attended. There was more youth presenters this year, which got a lot of good feedback, and they really want to lean into that in the future. They played a Hispanic bingo game called Latira. Latiria. Latiria. But they also worked on presenting skills. They played a Hispanic bingo game called Latira. Lataria. Lataria. Lataria. Lataria. Lataria. Lataria. Lataria. Lataria. Lataria. Lataria. Lataria. Lataria. Lataria. Lataria. Lataria. Lataria. Lataria. Lataria. Lataria. Lataria. Lataria. Lataria. Lataria. and we will start moving towards our sex set for all month planning and other engagement. It's a great group and I would encourage anybody to follow the work that's being done at ACAP. Hey, customer Bagley, you want to continue on with VRE? So VRE held a very long board meeting this most recent Friday, which I actually chaired because our chair needed to be away. She was attending electronically. A couple of highlights that came out of that meeting are with regard to the consolidation of the Amtrak station and Alexandria is getting some significant improvements. Also our King and Commonwealth railroad bridges are being replaced. Those two projects will be two different projects run by two different organizations. They've now been brought together and VRE will essentially do both of those projects and the work will all be timed to be done at the same time, meaning one lay down area, one general contractor and hopefully much less impact to the community. But I do wanna give people a heads up. There will be some impacts to the community, some road closures, as we replace those king and commonwealth bridges. But the really huge upside is by replacing the bridges, we improve railway service, but we are also going to improve the experience under the bridges. So we are gonna be moving the abutments further away from each other, creating more space underneath those bridges, for better sidewalks, for possibly a bike lane under one of the bridges. And so while it's a bridge project, it's going to have some pretty significant bike, ped, and car improvements as well. The other thing we touched on that is pretty important news is VPRA completed its purchase of portions of the Norfolk Southern Manassas line. And what this means is it's a huge part of transforming rail in Virginia in that we are going to be separating freight and passenger rail. It'll be on different lines. So you won't be delayed anymore by big CSX or Norfolk Southern freight trains. And so also by V VPRA owning that track, VRE will have expansive opportunities in terms of service. We won't have to ask Norfolk Southern for slots. We will own that track, meaning as we move forward, we can get into Saturday service, we can get into bidirectional service. As we continue to rethink VRE is something more than simply a commuter rail service, but just a way to get people where they need to go comfortably. There's a bathroom on the train. It's really convenient. So it was a really productive, exciting meeting followed by legislative committee meeting. We're putting together our package for the fall. And that's my report. Thank you, Councilmember Bagley We're going to go now to our HOT redevelopment work group. My self and councilman, you want to start? All right. We'll kick it off. The HOT redevelopment committee met last Thursday. A couple of interesting things. First, we met our brand new CEO, who just started as the CEO of our hot Eric C. Johnson. Mr. Johnson is, oh, there he is, he's here. We will hear from him in a minute. But we did have an opportunity to meet Mr. Johnson and you'll hear some more about him in a minute. But we're excited to have him on board. We did also receive some updates on a couple of critical projects. We did receive an update on them, the two conduit bond issuances that ARHA is advancing for heritage and the Arlandria Housing and Alexandria Project. We did also get an update on the status on the Dre, as well as the latest status in timing on the Samuel Madden redevelopment and demolition plan, as well as we talked a little bit about relocation and how the timing of that will be managed. We did talk again about the upcoming process involving Cameron Valley and some of the upcoming community engagement that will ultimately occur as we get ready to talk about the future of the Cameron Valley site. Councilman Chapman, you on our head. All right. You want to kick off City Schools? Okay. All right. On City Schools, we met yesterday. You want to kick off city schools? Okay. All right. On city schools, we met yesterday. Right? Yeah, yesterday. Feels like a long time ago. A couple of important updates I want to highlight. So we did talk a little bit about the high school project and some of the remaining work obviously demolition of the old mini-houred is underway, which will be replaced by the fields, which are basically flipping with the old location of the fields. We did talk a little bit about some of the parking challenges we've heard about, particularly on North Early. And I know we've received a petition to look at an expansion of the parking district there, no surprise, and so staff is working on processing that through the process. Talked a little bit about upcoming CIP planning. There will be a work session. They're working to schedule with the school board to talk specifically on CIP. It looks like that's probably going to end up probably slipping to December, maybe, because November is going to get really, really hard. So I'll be looking out for some dates on when that will occur. We did talk a little bit about budget calendar in general. Some small updates on Amazon Virginia Tech, as well as safety and security. We did have another conversation around collective bargaining and just kind of how we coordinate. I know the manager in the superintendent gonna talk a little bit about that and we'll follow up on where we are on that. We did get an update, and I would certainly draw your attention to it if you haven't seen the deck. We did get an update from the police department and tests on the speed camera safety program evaluation. As my colleagues are aware, we have cameras set up Jason to Francis Hammond, John Adams and Ferdinand Day as well as George Washington Middle School. So far the data shows that at Francis Hammond and John Adams and Ferdinand Day, since we have put the cameras in place, it is significantly reduced. The number of folks who are exceeding the speed limit, which is ultimately the goal. Ironically enough, at George Washington, it hasn't had, well, it's had a decrease in the number of folks driving greater than 25 in the morning in the afternoon. It is actually gone up slightly, and the speed has gone up slightly during the entire day. I think that speaks probably more to situations right in front of GW and just the fact that you weren't able to move very fast to begin with there during the morning rush. We are given an average of 4,800 citations per month across all of the locations, which means about 0.4% of every car that goes past there is receiving a citation. And interesting enough, 82% of the citations were issued in non-Alexandria residents, 82%. And we do have some frequent flyers, 5% of the drivers have received three or more citations. So we certainly encourage those folks to slow down a little bit in our school zones. But ultimately, this was a safety initiative. And so good news, at least in most of the zones that we're seeing people slowing down in our school zones. And going forward, we'll be talking about, as we did during the budget process, expanding this program with additional sites. And so, staff will be coming back to the community and policy bodies to discuss next steps on that, as well as looking at crash data for both of those areas. So, Councilman, Chap, do you wanna add anything on all of that? Sure, we also talked about our after school programs and got some information from both ACPS and our PCA about the programs they have in the capacity and challenges to that capacity and what it may take in the future to kind of move forward there. That was the other kind of presentation that we had. Thank you, Councillor Chenett. Yes, I'm sorry I've left that one out. All right. We're going to now move to World Report from the Manager. Yes. Mayor and Council and community, I've got actually three things to talk about tonight. First one, Mayor, you almost come down to the first one. I'm going to ask you to come down to the first one. I'm going to ask you to come down to the first one. I'm going to ask you to come down to the first one. I'm going to ask you to come down to the first one. I'm going to ask you to come down to the first one. I'm going to ask you to come down to the first one. to end up leading our Alexandria redevelopment and housing authority as the chief executive officer. So, Eric's in the audience tonight. I'm gonna ask him to come down in a second as I start to read a little bit about his background. So, Eric comes to us from ARHA, or comes to us to ARHA with a deep background in planning and finance and development as well as economic development and significant experience both in the public and private sectors. He's a connect native and in recent years, Eric has held executive roles in various housing authorities in his home state, although he's worked in C's most along the East and West Coast over the course of his career. So we're getting a very highly experienced individual to join a really critical team. Please join me in welcoming Eric. He's eager to expand and amplify our ongoing collaboration between Arha and the city. And we look forward to working with him and his team to meet mutual goals to expand Arha's housing stock of empower its residents and ensure the authorities long-term sustainability. Eric did attend our hard work group meeting that Mary just referenced and we're really excited to have him here and he's really a testament to the community that someone with Eric's background in Calber decided to choose to live and work in Alexandria. So Eric, do you want to come up and say a few words? Yeah, thank you. Either go with one of these. Any of the microphones keep going. Yeah, there you go. Right there, perfect. Perfect. You can walk up here. There's no mic. No, it's not. Mind I need it. First, James, thank you. First of all, I want to thank the R-Haub Board for kind of finding me and giving me a new home here in Alexandria. I really appreciate the opportunity and appreciate the opportunity to sit in front of this board and also develop a working relationship with you. I've been doing community economic development and housing for now over 25 years, and I truly believe in the value and impact of public and private partnerships, particularly in this time when we know that there is not enough affordable and workforce housing, particularly in our urban communities and our rural communities, and then there are just people who need help. And so I look forward to working with this administration and this council and whoever succeeds it to make sure that Alexander residents can still have opportunities for safe, decent, high quality housing for themselves and their families. And I can say you will find not a more village and ally for that who's committed to making sure that there is equity and opportunity for everyone. So with that thank you very much for this opportunity. I look forward to working with the council James and your team and I'm happy to take any questions if If not, I will sit back now. Thank you, Mr. Johnson. We're excited to have you on board. And we were thrilled to host you not only for the work group meeting, but I know that morning you started out and had a great meeting with our senior staff. And I think kicking off the partnership right from the beginning. And so having the city and our hardworking together on these important issues is so critical and so we're excited to have you on board. I did fear and Councilman Chapman, I would appreciate this. I did fear that since he was coming from Connecticut, we might be bringing in a giants fan. And so I asked him. We were not. And we actually, I found out it was worse. We're bringing in a Patriots fan. So unfortunately, that's a little bit of a disappointment. But, Mayor, I know everybody's feeling good because you might have found a quarterback. Yeah. What we did, we were riding high right now. So don't mess with that. But again, my lowly Patriots beat the Bengals too, so... I said expectations the right one. Thank you, Mr. Johnson, we are happy to have you on board. Look forward to work with you. Thank you as well, Mr. Manager. So to keep with some good news on housing, just want to let the community know that community lodgings was recently notified that it's July application for state housing opportunity tax credits received a competitive award that will allow this pipeline project to move forward. That's incredibly good news. If you recall this was at your July meeting the council provided a loan of $3 million for the project now along with this grant and some other funding this project can move forward. So that's fantastic news. In additional good news, the Virginia housing is allocated 1.25 million in Amazon impact reach funds to the project, also the facility, deep affordability. The impact reach funds were committed by commonwealth as part of the HQ2 Inducing to create more affordability and workforce housing. Alexandria has received approximately 28 million of the 75 million total of the Virginia Commitment. of the Virginia commitment. So including Albert, the reach funds will produce and or preserve over 1,000 new affordable and workforce housing units in the city. So just want to point that out. That's really good news. Okay, can I just say, and Ms. McOveen will appreciate this, that when that deal was originally rolled out, we did have great concern about how that money would ultimately be distributed. I think we working with the previous administration worked very hard to make sure we had a set of criteria that we couldn't beat on. I remember we heard multiple times, don't worry. You guys have great projects. You have great applications. And you guys will do very well. And I think it speaks to the fact that we do have great projects. And we have a great staff who makes sure that we put forward our best foot and get the money. So I think now we just emphasized that our housing director, Helen McElvaney's in the audience, and she is literally one of the experts in this field, and it really matters when you're competing in these types of funding streams. So thank you. Now I have one more bit of good news. This is great news, I think, for the entire community, and it's a long-term good news. And I also want to recognize our finance director, Kendall Taylor, because when the news I'm about to give you is really fantastic. Under her leadership, it doesn't happen unless that leadership is pushed forward really heavily. So she's done a great job. I mentioned to you at the last council meeting that we had just recently returned from presenting the city's credit to the Raiden Agencies in advance of the upcoming bond sale that we're having. And I'm pleased to report to you tonight that we did receive from both Raiden Agencies affirmation that the city's general obligation rating of triple A and stable is the rating that we'll receive. Highest rating. The standard of pours noted that we have significant ongoing economic development, particularly in the housing conversion area, and we have a strong tax base and our revenue growth is steady. We have conservative budgeting practices which support positive operating trends. We have strong available reserves in excess of the city's fund balance policy, which provides additional flexibility. We do significant pays you go capital. We're well embedded robust policies that govern our budgeting and reporting practices. A culture of long-term planning, all which consistently produce positive operating results. We also noted our thorough budget and policy and strong experience fiscal management personnel. And they also highlighted that we are addressing community risks such as affordable housing, which we just talked about in addition to income and racial inequities. And our management has taken steps, strong steps, to protect against emerging risks such as cyber security threats. Moody's, which is the second-rate agency, I really spoke to the stable outlook and the reliable fiscal policies that stay in place and that our economy is a great economy to invest in. That doesn't mean that they haven't highlighted a few concerns that we wanna watch for, which we are already doing that. In the size of our capital program and the need to continue to grow our economic development, particularly in the commercial tax base. So it's really been very positive. Again, I just want to thank Kendall and her team. Mayor was part of that. Just a bit of a moment. the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of when we go to the bond rating agencies, the stable leadership at the council level, that really does matter. So, just want to highlight that. So, triple A, highest ratings that the two agencies can have, that has a significant effect in terms of cost savings for our taxpayers. So, just want to highlight that. So, those are the three announcements. Thank you, thank you, Mr. Manager. Let me echo your recognition, certainly for Ms. Taylor and our finance staff for all their work. But, you know, also getting this reaffirmation is really it's a cumulative sum total of a lot of efforts on the part of our staff, a lot of efforts on the part of the council in making prudent, reasonable budgeting decisions over a long period of time, a sustained period of time. The manager mentioned the word culture, which is part of what the rating agencies are recognizing. And I think it's important to note that what this enables, it enables us not only to bar with the cheapest possible rates which allows us to build schools which allows us to renovate buildings allows us to repay roads and deal with the basic infrastructure of our community but it's also a good housekeeping seal of approval. It's something that helps drive economic development and it's a statement about our community and how we manage our business. And so that's, that's vitally important. And then the manager didn't mention my favorite part every year of the S&P report specifically is they always note that our general obligation bonds are rated above the sovereign, which for those who know the sovereign is the reference to the United States government, which means the city can maintain better credit characteristics than the US government in a stress scenario. So some people say that's not saying much, but since they rarely pass a budget on time or ever, Councilmember Pike. But we sort of, yes, sort of exactly, but we certainly take our victory lap on that. So thank you, Mr. Manager. All right. That brings us to the action document. Madam Clerk. Action document, regular consent calendar 8 through 10. We'll put it in place. We'll put it in place. We'll put it in place. We'll put it in place. We'll put it in place. We'll put it in place. We'll put it in place. We'll put it in place. We'll put it in place. We'll put it in place. We'll put it in place. We'll put it in place. We'll put it in place. We'll put it in place. approved. Madam Clerk, number 11. You see in referral bids for a franchise to use certain public property to design and install on operate, maintain repair, upgrade, and remove electric vehicle supply equipment for the use and benefit of the public. Okay, we're going to have a presentation here from our staff and then we'll discuss this is an important step in this process and we'll discuss what we are doing this night and then we will take some action. I'm going to go to the committee. Good evening, and Council members. I'm Julian Gonzalez, Assistant City Manager for Public Prior partnerships. I'm glad to have Evie Planner, Amy Posner, and attorney, we have reached a milestone on this franchise solicitation and just have a few slides to go over. Thanks. So this franchise solicitation was released following the option of the associated ordinance on July 2nd. This franchise will, it's all publicly accessible electric vehicle chargers on city properties. So our parking garages, parks, libraries, rec centers, at no cost to the city. This would be at least a 10 year term with options for successive five year renewals. and the federal government, and the federal government, and the federal government, and the federal government, and the federal government, and the federal government, and the federal government, and the federal government, and the federal government, and the federal government, and the federal government, and the federal government, and the federal government, and the franchise from Blink, Green Spot, LQ contracting, OBE power and Shell. And so the recommendation front of you all is to receive the names of the bidding companies that submitted bids, under accordance with the franchise ordinance requests and receive any additional bids for many potential bidders at the meeting tonight. Refer the bids to City Manager for evaluation review and consideration and direct the City Manager to recommend to City Council as soon as feasible, a firm to be awarded the franchise. Are there any questions of our staff? All right, hearing no questions. As of September 13th, 2024, the city staff has received timely responses to ordinance number 5556 from Blink Green Spot, LQ Contracting, OBE Power, and Shell. Each of these bidders has submitted proposed public EV charging franchises for review and evaluation by city staff. Are there any other companies who at this time wish to submit a bid in response to the ordinance? All right so at this point I'll entertain a motion to receive the submitted proposals and refer those proposals to the city manager for evaluation review and consideration of the manner prescribed by law, including the selection of the negotiation of a franchise agreement or agreements with one or more of the responsive bitters. So moved. There's a motion by Vice Mayor Jackson seconded by. I'm going to get a council member Bagley. And at this time, assuming that a successful adoption of this motion, the bids are referred to the city manager to be reviewed and further evaluated by the staff. The city manager is then to return with a proposed recommended public EV charging franchise agreement for approval by the city council as soon as feasible. Are there any further questions before we vote? Council member batley. I have a process question. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'm just curious since we're sort of going over this process with the public, if there's any role in the process for the public to provide any feedback to the city manager on. I realize the bids themselves are not necessarily public, but I was just curious if there's any interest or a way for the public to comment on the companies that have bid or the things that they want the city manager to consider in his evaluation of the bids. I think because it's a bid process, I think at this stage it is with the staff. And certainly we look at background and those things, but it would really be a recommendation that we come technical recommendation that comes back to you. No, I appreciate that. This is the first time I think I've been through this kind of motion, so I was just curious. If the public contacted us, if they had a role to play, but this is a staff evaluation moving forward, thank you. This does not happen often. Any other questions? All right. Hearing no other questions? All right. Hearing no other questions, all those in favor of the motion. Please signify by saying aye. Aye. All opposed? Say nay. The ayes have it. The vids are received and sent to our staff for next steps. So when do we think we will be back with you on this. Yeah, I mean to try and come by December, but it surely depends on the evaluation, the negotiations with, we did have a sample agreement as a part of the RFP. So we have to kind of see how the negotiations go. I mean to try and come by the end of the year. All right. All right. Thank you very much. Madam clerk number 12. We need to try and come by the end of the year. All right. All right. Thank you very much. Madam clerk number 12. Acceptance of the Virginia General Assembly funding through the Department of Behavioral Development services for the use of an ongoing dollars for staff attraction training and development and for the creation of a peer support specialist position for the markets alert program. We have a short presentation on this as well. My name is Kate Garry. I'm the director of the department of community and human services and I'm joined by my partner. This is Phil Caldwell. I'm the center director for adult services and the executive director of the Alexander Community Services Board. We are here to talk about receipt of funding from the state for two purposes. A one for additional support related to retention attraction and development of staff, as well as continuing on with our Marcus alert initiative. I can talk us through it. And so the first part in terms, this is again an alignment with some of the efforts that you put in place in the last budget to focus on ways that we could address the concerns that we have related to vacancies particularly in the areas of behavioral health and so this funding will enable us to do funding related to payment for internships also to do attraction efforts where we would be supporting staff to draw others into the department as well as some payment related to the supervision of interns. And again, this is really a connection to the work that we've already been doing using the general funds. Others? Thank you. It's like, come in. We have it in front of us. Very good. Okay. And again, this is in across all of the commis services boards. They're all focusing on this issue and trying to address it. So as I said, it's pay for student interns, supporting educational training for our current staff and looking at one time referral incentives for staff or for our colleagues to address current vacancies. In the second area, you know, we came before you previously for fund that we received funding. Thanks. We can go to the second slide. For the Marcus alert, we were, again, the state asked us to implement earlier than the anticipated because we had really had a strong foundation and had progress through our ACorp and other efforts. And so we were doing an earlier implementation. This, the funding that we'd be receiving is for a peer support specialist. So that would finalize the team that we have. And that is having someone with lived experience working in partnership through sort of as individuals are entering the system, who can respond quite effectively in supporting individuals who are in a mental health crisis. And so that would be receiving funding in each area for the support for staff is within the amount of $213,060. And then for the Marcus Alert position, it's 121,715 in both cases. This is ongoing funding with no required match. I think that's it. There are questions from Ms. Garvey. All right. Is there a motion? Motion by Councillor Mabagli. Seconded by by Councilman Chapman to authorize the acceptance of the funding, both the 213,000, the 121,000 from Marcus Alert, 213,000 for the staff and training and development, as well as to approve the addition of one full time peer support specialist will be fully supported by the award and authorize the city manager to execute all necessary documents that may be required. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favour, please remain in the same eye. Aye. All opposed, aye. The aye is having it. All right. Madam Clerk, number 13, thank you very much. Appreciate it. Have a great night. All reports and all presentations from members of City Council. Okay. Council Member Pike, you want to go with the first one? Councilmember? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you to members of the Council for allowing me to bring this poorest night as was on the docket and you all received. Earlier from me, I'm bringing forward a resolution which commits Alexandria to protecting the constitutional rights of LGBTQ plus people in our city, people visiting our city. For years, there's been so much progress on LGBTQ quality in this country. And in Virginia, in 2020, our own state senator Adam Ebbin passed the Virginia Values Act, which enshrined civil rights protections for Virginia LGBTQ people into our state's laws. We're still trying to do that at the federal level with the Equality Act, which has passed the House twice, but has not yet passed the United States Senate. My boss in Congress is actually the sponsor of the Equality Act now, and we're going to work very hard if we get the Congress back in the presidency next year to pass that bill. In 2021, the Congress did pass the respect for marriage act, which protects same-sex marriages sex marriages from a potential court action that could undermine the Obergofel decision. But progress invites backlash, and that backlash has arrived. Across the country, in the last two years, more than 500 anti-LGBTQ plus bills have been filed in state legislatures. That's the most ever, the largest storm of anti-Gay anti-trans legislation America has ever seen. A large percentage of these bills target trans-Americans specifically. Many of them even target young people more specifically. Scared students trying to understand who they are and how they fit into this world deserve our support and our understanding. Instead, too many of them are being asked to bear the full weight of their community's fear and anger towards people whose lives are just a little different. There's too much weight to put on the shoulders of such young and vulnerable students. These are children we should be protecting, not persecuting. 84 of these bills have actually passed into law over the last two years. 12 anti-LGBTQ bills were filed in the Virginia General Assembly last year, plus 11 more this year. But thankfully none of them were passed into law. Project 2025, the blueprint for what a second Trump administration would look like, which was written by people who worked in the first one, and they went to work for the virulently homophobic and transphobic Heritage Foundation, wants to pull the full strength of the federal government into this attack on the LGBTQ plus community. Project 2025 intends to remove sexual orientation and gender identity from non-agrementation policies within the government to undermine the Supreme Court's Bostock decision, which I'll mention later, to eliminate transgender healthcare in Medicare and Medicaid and in the anti-discrimination rules in regarding gender identity in the Affordable Care Act, to expel transgender troops and people living with HIV, which is today a manageable health condition from our military. It's a nice student's the right to use their names or pronouns that don't match their birth certificate and to allow teachers to refer to students intentionally and hostily by the wrong name. And to remove all references and all discussion of LGBTQ people and our identities from our schools, a nationalized version of Florida's Don't Say Gay Law. In the face of this sort of backlash places like Alexandria need to stand up and push back. And that's what our city's been doing. We stood together with the school board against Youngkins anti-trans policies that were brought forward in 2022. We've added sexual orientation, gender identity and transgender status to our human rights ordinance. We've held a wonderful pride celebration every year, including in Marcus Square of the last two years. And we worked closely with our LGBT who blessed task force and members of whom are here tonight to advance these goals, which has kept us a perfect score on the HRC equality index, which is appropriate because this is Alexandria. The French Quarter Cafe was in Alexandria, the bar that ended Virginia's ban on gay bars, opened right here at 808 King Street in 1991. In May, a group of residents and allies came to me and asked the city to do more. Some of them were in the audience night, Lyra McMillan, Nora Dick, Joe Rojas, Jennifer and Anne Marie are here. They ask that we take a proactive step to prepare ourselves to respond and even to Virginia joins the ranks of states attacking the rights of its own residents or if another state passes laws that attempt to impose their policies on people visiting Virginia or if a new right-wing administration takes the assault on LGBTQ people national. They ask Alexandria join other cities around the nation, cities that share our liberal values, to do what we can within the limits of our power to ensure that Alexandria remains what it should be, a safe haven, a place of sanctuary and support for LGBTQ plus people. Dean Kine from the City's Attorney's Office is here this evening. Thank you very much Dean. Worked with me in response to the citizens and took feedback from members of the council to help draft the resolution that was attached to the docket. He did a great job. Our City Attorney's Office is amazing. Any residents who don't recognize the valuable work the City Attorney's Office does really need to take a look at the great product that they produce and Dean and our obvious R City Attorney's Sharan have been just wonderful throughout this process. The resolution is long, so I'm not gonna read through it all. But if you do, and I hope you all have, you'll see what is established. The history of Alexandria's support for the LGBTQ plus community and our cities desire to project, protect all of its residents, the medical consensus on the value of gender-affirming care and the alarming scaling back of access to such care in the wake of anti-trans laws and threats of violence against medical professionals. The growing wave of anti-LGBTQ bills being filed across the country, the LGBTQ policies like those being pushed by Governor Youngkin in 2022, and the alarming rising of violence against LGBTQ Americans, particularly trans people. And as a way of hope, a series of court decisions that have pushed back against the tide, including the grim decision, which established that discrimination on the basis of gender identity was unconstitutional, and the Bostock decision written by a conservative Supreme Court justice appointed by Donald Trump that argued that it was a rule that it was illegal to discriminate against individuals on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Yet despite these court rulings, those who want to undermine equality to put barriers around gender-referring care to blood out in acknowledgment of our existence in public spaces have persevered. And so we must persevere too. The actions this resolution calls for are to recommit to supporting LGBTQ people in opposition to discrimination against them. To instruct our city attorney to seek participation in litigation to protect the rights of LGBTQ Americans, and most importantly to instruct the city manager to ensure that our city adopts the understanding of constitutional rights embodied in the grim and bostock decisions as our own and that we approach our compliance with any law pass to understand any of constitutional rights embodied in the grim and botched decisions as our own and that we approach our compliance with any law passed at any level of government with an intent to protect those rights up to it including legal action. As the only openly gay member of the current council, and only the second openly gay member, openly gay, who knows, to ever serve on council, I can tell you that this is a fraught and frightening time. A decade of joy has given way to an era of dread. Our local LGBTQ plus community needs to know that our commitment to them doesn't stop and rainbows on streets that we're going to put our values into our laws and in this resolution. And the LGBTQ people who are not fortunate enough to live in Alexandria need to know that there's a place here. There's a safe haven. Some place they can come to if things get too dire where they are. This resolution addresses those fears in a substantial and constitutional way within the powers we have as a city. Thank you again to the residents who brought this forward, to the city attorney's office for their work and drafting it. And my colleagues who have expressed interest in this and the feedback you gave to me on the draft that I presented to you. There might be some more discussion, I don't know, but I would like to move approval and adoption of the resolution. Second. Okay, there is a motion by Councilman McPike seconded by Councilwoman Gaskins. Further discussion on the resolution. Councilman Gaskins. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And thank you, Council Member McPike, for bringing forth this important resolution. I also wanna thank so many members and the audience who came. Not just tonight, but I recognize many of you because you've come and approached each of us individually to share your story. To share stories about the discrimination you face, to share about the times that you have not felt welcomed and supported and what you needed from your council. I also want to thank the number of young people who have reached out over the past months talking about the fears that they have had going to school or even talking to some of folks in their classrooms. And so making sure that they could see a city council take action and let them know that this is a city, not just where we want them here now, but where we want them to grow here forever. I think my colleague, we received a number of emails with people saying, why do you have to do this now? Like why would you put this forward? And I think my colleague laid out a really good map and examples of just the increases we've seen in discrimination, the examples of violence and attacks that we have heard about, the Supreme Court decisions. So I won't replay those, but I think that I am proud to be a part of a council where we have your leadership and where we are taking action to make sure that we are affirming the dignity and the worth and the rights of everyone in our community. I know we have more work to do. There are other issues we need to address But I just want to say thank you and I'm proud to be your second in this resolution Thank you councilman Gaskins councilmember Bagley then vice-pranget Jackson Yes, thank you and again kudos to my colleague for putting in the work to draft the resolution to work with staff, to listen to the community and reflect back their needs and their concerns. It's interesting because you sort of got ahead of, I think, something that I was really emphasized to me as I read the resolution and as I read the letters from the community. There was a lot of comments about why highlight this community, why give special acknowledgment. And one phrase that struck me that I wanted to just respond to is this suggests that one segment of our population is more important than the rest. What I am, in my vote tonight is reflecting, that one segment of the population is more at risk than the rest. And that's why an affirmative statement is necessary. Simply to exist is more risky and in places people in dangerous situations if you are a member of the LGBTQ community. So that's why I'm supportive of the resolution and so appreciate you for the work you've done and want to thank you and our members of our community for being here tonight. Thank you. Councilmember We have quite a bit of citizens, residents here in the city that are very concerned that their voices aren't heard either. But I think Councilwoman Bagley just said it best that you, we are trying to do something for the benefit of those that are at risk, just like we do for those for the youth that are at risk in our city. For others that may see something that needs just extra support. And I know as a former teacher myself, I know our governor was brought up in Councilman Pikes from Marx. You see on the national stage right now, the Vice Presidential candidate, Waltz. And he was a former social studies teacher, but also a former football coach. But he was the one that the students in his school went to to say, would you sponsor our club, the LGBTQ club. And that is so important because from the emails that we've been seeing, from the residents that really just don't agree with this resolution, you should look toward him to see why it is him that needed to promote this particular club and the students that needed his support the most because it is generally those that can lift up those that need the support the most and have others kind of emulate and see that, oh, I can relate to him so I can support this other group that normally I'm just scared, I'm nervous. I have no idea how to relate to them. But he can, and maybe he can show me the way to relate. So I appreciate this resolution because that's what it speaks to. It speaks to our city that should always be inclusive. Usually is inclusive, but needs that extra support and communications to say, you know, we can't say by law, we're a sanctuary city for anyone, but that we are a city that supports you in your decisions. So thank you. and further comments. Hearing none, let me just thank Councilman McPike for his leadership and bring this forward and working with the advocates from the community who have pushed for this statement in this action. I certainly agree with my colleagues, I think Alexandria and the broad history of our city has worked over time in an incremental fashion to open the door wider and ensure that we are an inclusive community for LGBTQ residents and we have at each point attempted to push the envelope for inclusion. And that is not something that you rest on your laurels on. That is something that motivates you the future and must continue to do that. And so I think this is an important statement. It's also important actions that we're taking. And I thank Councilman McPike for his leadership and bringing this before the council. Hearing no further discussion, it is a rule called Madam Clerk, please call the rule. Councilman McPike. Aye. Councilwoman Gaskins. Aye. Mayor Wilson. Aye. Vice Mayor Jackson. Aye. Councilman McGuirey. Aye. Councilmember Bagley. Aye. Councilman Chapman. All right. Any other resolutions adopted unanimously? Thank you. Hey, Madame Clerk, number 14. Oh, actually, sorry, other oral reports. Sorry, that was wishful thinking on my part. So it was a good try though. I give it the call to stride. Um, other oral reports, anything else? Council member Bagley, Councilman McPike, Councilman Ekeer. Shit a move quicker. Shit a move quicker. I can keep this quick. I just wanted to call the community's attention to Thursday. There is a community meeting on the renovation of City Hall. We are starting that project. We're going to be moving out of this building for quite a while. And I just wanted to remind everybody that that event is happening. It is Thursday, September 26th, from 630 to 830. And that meeting is actually happening over at the new Mini-Howered Campus, which would allow you to also get a peek at the new features of the Mini-Howered Campus. I also had a related comment, I guess, not related, unrelated comment quickly for staff, maybe, or for the manager if I could. During our budget process, there was some discussion about an e-bike rebate program. We ultimately reallocated those funds that is now supporting our Del Pupper Shuttle. But there has been some developments around the state with other cities moving forward on programs. And I believe Arlington County recently received a grant to fund a similar program. So I wanted to ask if our staff could maybe revisit that issue either as we head into budget season or reviewing available grants. I thank my colleagues who at the time supported the concept and we're willing to put a little bit of money behind that and so I wanted to just move forward on the idea that there seems to be progress around that around the Commonwealth and hopefully we can revisit it for our city as well. Okay. Thank you, Councillor McVagley. Councillor McPike, then a Gary, then Vice President. This Saturday, September 28th, if you're interested in electrical vehicles, Alexandria is doing, I think this is our second or third EV, like test drive, come out, see an electric car, try an electric bike. If you want to drive an electric car, bring your driver's license. But electric vehicles you heard tonight were doing more to put in or more electric charging stations. This is the future of cars. Come out, check them out. I went last year. It was a great time. They had all sorts of vehicles. Come see what's on the market. It might be that your next car should be something carbon neutral. Thank you, Councilman Pike. Councilman Gehrer. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'm going to get a shout out to the Scholarship Fund of Alexandria for their Champions Breakfast. It's always a great event. Shout out to the Mayor and to his aide, Mark McHugh, for another successful constitution day. And they're also given some nice awards there. So thank you for continually helping with that Mr. Mayor. Also would like to say welcome back to the avenue I suppose to the Genesis and Hyundai dealers that reopened in their new buildings. Hopefully some of our staff got a chance to enjoy a field day at the working well at Nanny Lee on the 19th. It's always fun to go to field day, especially if you've got some friends and you can go through the obstacle course, although you can just throw a couple of footballs around as well, but always good time at field day. So hopefully lots of our staff were able to make it out there. Also big shout out to Dash. We just had a celebration last week for 5.3 million writers, which is a whole million more than last year. And hopefully a year from now will be saying 6.3 million. So we shall see. Also, I have the opportunity to stop by the Hilton Mark Center, Alexandria, along with my colleague, the vice mayor, Jackson for art on the Ave and the opening of a new art exhibit there at the hotel, which was very nice. I also have the opportunity to stop by the Northern Virginia AG Network Breakfast, which is an annual event. Very, very good to hear about the legislative agenda that they'll be pushing forward, which our own commission on aging also adopts many of those issues as well and will be bringing them forward to us for our legislative packet. On the 21st, if you didn't get a chance to go to Tons of Trucks, you missed out. Tons of trucks was awesome. And it was interesting because the two longest lines were the electric school bus and the fire truck. But there was a bunch of other really, really cool things. Even some of the lawnmowers. There was like long lawns for the lawnmowers. And it was really cute to see the kids. It's really small in the chairs Thinking they could drive the lawnmowers But that's a quote of things there so looking forward to another tons of truck next year and also It was a point of contention that this council made sure that this event was free to the entire public which Who does to the city for doing that? Wanted to give two more shout outs to the Seaport Foundation for another successful wine on the water. It was a very nice event, the weather held up. And also to attend some workers for one of their annual membership meetings. And lastly, would like to recognize the efforts of the city and the schools for welcoming the fastest man in the world, Noah Lyles, Gold Medalist in the 100 meter, and amazingly, he was still able to stand and run a race in the 200 meters at a world-class speed, and even though he didn't get gold, the fact that he was still able to medal while having COVID is pretty amazing. So we were able to welcome our Olympian Gold Medalist, Noel Alleyes here in Alexandria. And lastly, the Alexandria symphonic orchestra is starting their new season. So they had their opening reception. If you have not checked out the ASO here in Alexandria, please do so. It is an amazing, amazing time. Shows could be caught at Sleshinger, at the Masonic Temple, and a couple of other venues as well. And with that, Mr. Mayor, that is my report. Thank you, Councilman McGuirey, Vice-Parentrex. Thank you. I just wanted to give a shout out to those who did the fair at the, at the on-market square for emergency preparedness month. I know the mayor was there and gave a proclamation. So when you had volunteer Alexandria and others that were out there and very informative always. Also, I had the opportunity to attend tech on tap over at Innovation Campus headquarters last week and was able to see the blueprints of the floors and had a great discussion with the architect and they're ready to roll. It's going to be finishing touches by the end of this year and the students, the grad students, will be coming into the Innovation Campus for the first time in January 2025. Hopefully using that wonderful Potomac yard metro station that also has some hockey stone on it. But the limestone looks great. They were going over how they're sawing down the limestone. That is called hockey stone for Virginia Tech people that if you don't know Virginia Tech stone down in Blacksburg from the quarries, but they're sawing it down and it's gonna be smooth, so not exactly stone looking on this innovation campus, which is very innovative, that it will be more of an amber as the light hits it. So everyone is very excited for that opening as it comes along in the coming months. And then just to say a few words about art on the avenue is on October 5th, hopefully a beautiful day. They're going to have over 300 vendors down there in Del Rey on Mount Vernon Avenue. And we were able to do one of the exhibits at the Hilton Mark Center, which was the fifth installation that they've had artwork and partnership with the torpedo factory and now with art on the avenue. So Pat Miller was a curator that got four artists to come that day and have their art on display in the West End, but looking forward to having art on the avenue soon. Thank you very much. That's all. Any other oral updates? Great. Now this time for real. No. 14. Consideration of city council schedule. Are there any adjustments on the schedule? If not, is there a motion to approve the schedule? So moved. Motion to approve the schedule. I note the Potomacard North Park opening added for Saturday, October 19th morning, 8.30. 8.30, you hear that councilman again? It's 8.30 a.m. Taken Metro there. Metro will be run. Good night before he has. All right. There's an emotion in a second. I think I heard you. Okay. Motion by council and the gaskin. Seconded by council member Bagley. To approve this schedule. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All of his own favor. Please ignore his saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Aye. I want to ask a member Bagley to approve the schedule. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all of them favor, please ignore, saying aye. Aye. All opposed, say aye. The aye's have it. Is there a motion to adjourn? Aye. Motion by council member Bagley. Seconded by Councilman Chapman. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all of them favor, please ignore, saying aye. Aye. All opposed, say aye. Yes.