potentially some other things. So we are trying to work with them. If they're going to invest private dollars, we don't want to have them build a private tennis court. They put a public one right next to it. We'd rather have an arrangement where they put the capital to build their tennis court. And if we need to offer a tennis program, we would rent the court space from them. And obviously the revenues from the lessons or whatever would pay for that. So all of that is in a planning stage. And I think those questions were properly raised earlier to date. And that is the next challenge is to figure out how do we master plan that entire property? What can we get the best return for what we need there? Vicki mentioned that there's a lot of potential uses. And we'd like to thank you, Bill. I hope I'm not interrupting you. The access road to the site has been a known problem. Who will fix it? Has an engineer taken a look at it? Do we have an estimate on the costs? Who will pay for that? No, we don't have an estimate on costs. Obviously it would become city property. So our city crews would fix it. Or we'd have to contract to have it fixed. Expenses to run and manage the center, insurance, all of that stuff. Any estimates on that? Well, no, because we don't know what the center is. Other than we do incur all those costs now on our current center. So some of that would transfer to a new center. Obviously a new or bigger center might cost more. Likely would cost more. How are you answering the walkability question not close to downtown? Must have a car. How do you answer that question? Well, how do I answer it? It's an interesting way to ask that question. There's no question. I think when I gave the presentation, I said the one plus that the current center has is its location and its availability to people. That said, it still gets a lot of vehicle use. This site is along a bike path and along a transportation path. So it's not a short walk, but it is a bike ride in some seasons. And I'm not trying to make light of that. We obviously also have our Elm Street facility. Which is a distance out of town. And people are able to walk and ride and use cars. It's not, if we could build all of this in the center of town, that would be our preference. But thank you. Who are the, you mentioned the private group. Are you free to say who are the private and public players and stakeholders that we're working with? I am. They're a group called the hub. And actually there's a representative here. So at some point he may wish to speak on their behalf. They have presented publicly to the city council in the past. I don't want to, I defer to them to let give out their details just because I don't know them as well as they do. I may have asked this question before. Let me try to put it a different way. Does the else club pay taxes? And are we going to lose tax revenues by selling the property to the city? Well, I think we should also be clear. It actually is no longer owned by the Elks Club. We call it the Elks Club. It's privately owned by LLC. And they do pay taxes. And so we would presumably, depending on, well, yes. So the city owning it, it would not pay taxes. Depending on its development and what its uses were, if there were private uses on it, those private uses could pay taxes. But that is a calculation that we need to make. One more question. And Bill, thank you very much. What's your view on the city having that it's basic responsibilities on this bond issue to provide adequate and timely information about a bond proposal in advance of the public hearings? Do you think the city's done a great job on public information in advance of this public hearing? I think the city has provided the information that we have. I think there's a lot of unanswered questions that we don't have. And I think I'm trying to be as candid about that as we can be. We've been talking about this since fall. As I said, the hub didn't make a presentation, public presentation to the council. And there was, I think, publicity about that. We've been sort of labeling that it was coming. I know in my bridge article now that you helped me launch many years ago, I specifically focused on the bond so that the whole city could know that those were the things we were talking about. I wish we could answer every question. And we can't because that's not where the project is at a state of development. It's an opportunity. Real estate doesn't always come with timing. There's a market. There could be other buyers. Bill, thank you for your help. I appreciate it. Thanks, Nat. Maria, Vanie, are you here? My hand was still up, but I forgot to put it back. Okay, I've got you down, Vicki. So I won't forget about you. Maria, if you could hold off because you're not, you're still muted. There. No, I'm sorry. I deferred to Vicki. I forgot she had a question. Okay. Okay, go ahead, Vicki. Okay. My question is, I have two now, but one of my questions is what happens with the school budget if one town votes no and one town votes yes? I don't know. I'd suggest you direct that to the school. Okay. Because I mean, sometimes I think it means the whole thing doesn't go down. I'm not sure that they believe it's a total vote cast of the district. Oh, okay. All right. I was just curious. The other thing is I read something that said that to do, to upgrade the current rec center that we have to meet the basic requirements of what we can use it for would be the $6 million. Is that, did I misread that? That's correct. Yes. That was the cost of renovating the building and improving it. I think if we were, I think it's a lower number to just, you know, to put an elevator in and fix the HVAC and not change the insides. But at that point, that's a lot of money. But you can't get any additional parking. Right. And yeah, so the plan that was developed was between six and seven million. Okay. The other thing is that I think with the bond vote for the property to, without having decided or without owning the property, would it, it wouldn't make sense for us to spend all the time developing all kinds of estimates for all the various things we might want to do with the property and then lose the property. I mean, that would be wasted money, right? Does that understand, does that make sense? That was our logic. It's sort of like the parking garage. We disagree about that reasonably, but that was what our logic was. Yeah, it's kind of like the parking garage. We lost that and paid money. So anyway, that was what I had to say. Thanks, Vicki. Now, Maria. Back to this rec center issue. What are the plans for the existing rec center? Will that be sold? How much will be generated from the sale in profit? What will, what can we expect in tax revenues from that building not being city owned? Or do you plan to retain it? Again, a process that we need to engage in. I will say that we did look at least put out the building for sale a few years ago. And the liability, as is the liabilities on that building are so much that it really doesn't have much resale value because of the asbestos and the ADA compliance and all the other. So if anything, it doesn't, I don't think we should reasonably expect any revenues from sale, possibly if somebody bought it for a dollar and, you know, we did it. I would say the most likely candidates for that use would be for that location would either be to partner with somebody to create some housing, in which case, you know, it's close to downtown housing that would be taxable and also need a need and or use it to deliver some sort of homelessness services. So those are just my thoughts. Those, the council hasn't talked about any of that. So I don't know where we would go publicly, but obviously we would have to make some decisions about that. Okay. And what is the potential for selling off lots for housing from the property we're looking at buying to add to the city's housing stock, ease the housing crunch and add some taxpayers to the rules to ease the burden on the rest of us. There is potential for that. And would it be possible to work in a commitment to that to offset the cost of purchasing the property and developing some kind of municipal facility up there so that its impact on taxpayers be blunted? Because I agree with Tina. Property taxes, municipal taxes especially, are highly regressive when you compare them to income taxes. And if we want to maintain a middle class in Montpelier, we really need to look at this problem, especially as housing costs increase. It's the Vermont gentrification that you see in small towns where people move in from outside and want large amenities that are expensive and that burden their native Vermont neighbors. And you lose the longevity of community membership, you lose stability, you lose economic diversity and you end up with very wealthy people who move on when it becomes hard to pay the taxes and people who need subsidies from those people. And I'm not interested in that kind of bimodal economic distribution. I don't think it's a healthy community. So how can we avoid that? Well, that's a huge question. And I think that that is certainly probably the biggest substantive issue that our city council wrestles with in their strategic plan, really focused on the need to have a diverse community and housing opportunities. I don't think the purchase of the rec center is going to solve all of those social issues. I do believe that housing is a high priority and there is a desire to include housing in the project. But I don't know how much 100% commitment we can make because we haven't looked at all the options, but knowing the folks I'm sitting up here with who are my bosses, they're pretty strongly committed to housing. So I suspect we would include that in there. But how can I ask my neighbors to support this without a commitment to offsetting some of the costs? Because I know some of my neighbors are not very wealthy people and I don't want them to be priced out of the market. I think we're getting into an area where probably the city council should be answering because I can't answer for them. I don't know what they're prepared to do or not do in terms of commitment. I think I would say from a management perspective until we know what's... So I would think... This is my opinion now. I'm not speaking for the council or anybody else. So it's going to be clear that this is... I think housing would be highly desirable and would be a high priority. However, I don't know what's involved. I don't know whether that's a good place to build them. I think there are things that we need to evaluate before I could say 100% we can put housing there. That said, I would be surprised if we went forward without doing that. For all the reasons you mentioned, we need housing. We need to get some revenue back from the project and all those things. I'm just going to pose a over promise. I think Councillor Bate has a response she might like to make to you also. Well, I just wanted to bring up every time we've talked about this land, it's been very clear we're interested in housing that we can't promise, but we're interested in housing. Personally, I'm interested in dense housing. And really diversified. So I think it's there. It's in our awareness. It's in our discussions. That's all I can reassure you with. Until we own the land, we have no control over it. That's the issue. Somebody can come in and do all sorts of things with it. But we don't want done. At a meeting last week, someone who was in favour of housing said, well, we can't tell a developer what to build on this property. And in fact, the exact opposite is true. If the city owns the property and is in a position of looking at potential developers, we actually can tell them this is what we want to see developed in this property. And that's what we'll be looking for for a developer. But your point is taken. What we want to happen is not guaranteed as of this date. Oh, I just I think that there is a certain if you look at us as the bank, you're coming to to fund the project. This isn't a very clearly defined business plan. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Carolyn. I have various comments going, speaking directly to the land. I think one of the things that puts me off the most is to refer to it as a recreation center. We have plenty of recreation. So I think maybe changing the terminology to be more inclusive would make it more attractive. The next thing is that 20% of our population is over 65. And nowhere do we talk about anything to benefit them. And they have a van over the senior center that we drive on nice days because on rainy days, the rain comes in. So we can't use it. So that portion of the population tends to be ignored pretty totally. Finally, that's bathrooms. We need toilets downtown. This has been an ongoing discussion and no movement in that direction at all. So I want to urge you to somehow focus on that. And finally, nobody ever talks about just plain demolishing the existing rec center. They always talk about renovating it. And it seems to me that if you started over, that that might be a different conversation. And that's all I have to offer. Okay. Thank you. I'm going to look to the room. Now we have, see one hand up. Sir, would you like to stand up and start by identifying yourself? My name is Ethan Atkin. I'm the chair of the board of the hub, which is the entity that has been referred to as the organization that is planning to put up a social and recreation center up on the property that was formerly owned by the Elks. The hub is a nonprofit organization. So although it's being referred to as a private organization, it's only in the context of it's not a public organization, but we are a nonprofit organization. Our intention is to create a community social and recreation center that would service people of all ages, particularly welcome would be those over the age of 65 and those under the age of 65. Our intention is to create a social center. We feel that GMT transport could easily transport the people that may want to go there that can't ride on a bicycle or it's too cold to walk. And we feel that this is probably a once in a lifetime, probably once in a hundred year opportunity for the city of Montpelier to create a center of this sort. And having the recreation department of the city of Montpelier involved in this would make a whole variety of year round recreational and social facilities available. Our concept is that you should be able to come there and find either some social activity or some recreational activity that you would like to participate in. You can come with your family, you can come with your grandkids, you can come with your grandparents, you can come with your teenagers, and they would find something that they could do there. The intention is to have a restaurant so people can also eat before or after to also have a retail outlet that would sell clothing and materials that people who were involved in these recreational activities would be interested in. We are so delighted that when we approached the city just to inform them that we were planning to do this that they also saw this opportunity and are putting this bond on and the city council was very supportive of the idea. So I would think that anyone in the city who is either over the age of 65 or under the age of 65 who could vote would want to support this type of project because it will bring economic development to this community. Big companies, small companies would be very interested. You're past the two-minute mark now. Both big and small companies would be very interested in bringing their employees into a community that has this type of facility. So I think this is something that we should all support. Thank you. Seeking in the room, Steve Whitaker, I think you mentioned earlier you have some comments. I can't fit them in especially. I want to point out that it's almost 10 o'clock and this is supposed to be a public hearing. And so to take a half hour to not start a public hearing until nine o'clock at night and then get the first half hour to a repeat of last year's city manager, last week's city manager, it's disingenuous to pretend that we're going to impact this budget in the next few minutes before you vote it. You've got no capacity or room to change it in accordance with this testimony. So it's really kind of a farce. It's a fate of complete that you're going to vote this budget the way it is. And so you're just going through the motions to listen to folks. You're bundling the bonds is unfair to the voters. They can't say yes to one and no to another. So the pre-information that Peter brings or Nat brings up a great point. When you're voting bonds, the information that's out to the public is supposed to be a lot more thorough than what has been done here as is evidenced by all these questions and back and forth. So if you're setting up the city for another round of litigation over what shooter shouldn't have been funded, you've done a good job. I have a lot of details having gone through the budget that I want to say that and I'll just skim through them because the police, I believe embedded in the 420,000 deferred equipment is tens of thousands of dollars for police equipment that's not integrated into any technology plan at all. So the needs that were expressed two years ago, which were slipped into the budget without scrutiny, ended up, the scrutiny ended up catching up to them and then they don't fit or mesh with the technology plan that has been completed by Tel Aviv or another bidder. So the Tel Aviv needs assessment, the next phase was supposed to be a system design and that's where you would determine which radios accommodate and fit in with the regional plan. So I would, I'm saying that that's an area too. The consoles I've mentioned are not properly vetted. The walkways to connect the parking lots, that needs to be done. We have a problem of disappearing public records, public records, the axon proposal that was made. You were told last week that axon made a proposal to the council. That never happened. I searched all the minutes of city council for the last 13 years and there's no presentation by axon. So that was misrepresented. Axon did provide a proposal and somebody disappeared it. Just like somebody disappeared, the relationship, the agreement with city center over in the bathrooms. I want to point out that this is a public hearing on the proposed budget and bonds. And so the 425,000 for a housing hub which makes no sense. If you're going to continue to talk about instead of put shelter over people's heads, dignified shelter over people's heads with privacy and sanitation, we're going to have a hub so for all that talk, we need to get our thinking straight. We need to target better, not any more studies over this hub. That's a different hub than ours. With regards to the bond, that's two minutes. I want to see if there's anyone else who wants to be heard. I'll probably hear from you again, but I do want to make sure that everyone who wants to be heard is heard. Thank you. You've already taken two terms of two minutes from one of your, yes, your top bro. Okay. So I can go for? No. What I'm going to do is go to the next person and I think that's Peter Kellman. Am I unmuted? We're on now, yes. Okay. Bill, I just, just to lump together a number of the IT website communications. You've got some money here, some money there. I would just like to, I don't think you've got enough money there. This is a big problem. The website, I've written to you about this, the website is built on a platform that simply is like 30 years out of date. You need a new platform. You can't fix this one. Not only that, you need to have a web manager. You've got to have somebody looking over this. Every day, things go up on the web that are incorrect, that are mistakes that are made by people because the system isn't foolproof enough. You've got to have something where if you enter some data, like that it goes throughout the system, it can't be just partial. And you've got IT systems where the assessor and the tax department and the planning and zoning are all working off different maps. This is a big, big, big problem. I just hope that you'll look at them all together and that you'll really come back with, find the money to really do the job right. Don't try to fix this website. That's the least of the problem. Thank you. Thank you, Peter. Is there anyone else online who's looking to be recognized at this point? I'm not seeing anyone, but sometimes people are waving their hands and I wouldn't see them. Okay, back to Steve Whitaker. I'm sorry? Yes, we will. So I would cut the 45,000 on the Homelessness Task Force because they're self-dealing. The people vote money to themselves and they don't comply with transparency laws. For the 45,000 plus the 45 we gave them before, all we get is 12 hours of Don's time. Something's wrong there. The accountability is missing. Cut it until it's fixed. The website is good that he just mentioned that. We need to inboard both IT support and legal support. It's not okay for me to appeal to you as city council and tell you that your city manager is violating public records law and you do nothing about it. A lawyer on staff would do that. You don't have a process to not allow him to require the city manager to adhere to the law and that's just not okay. I shouldn't have to be your... So city IT staff should include website maintenance, as Peter just made. There's other uses for a city attorney than just keeping the city manager. So I have a lot of suggested cuts but in consideration of the hour and because I know the futility of y'all are just going to go and vote. Those are suggested cuts. We don't need an assistant city manager. We don't need a dysfunctional city manager. We should eliminate one of these positions. We should replace the city manager with the expiration of the current contract in March. Start a search immediately. Cap the salary at $100,000. There are candidates who will be more than willing to work on reforming and restoring this city to integrity for $100,000. That concludes my budget comments. I see no way realistically to convince this council to amend the budget. So I'm going to do two things. I'm going to recommend that the budget be turned down by the voters and I'm going to announce my candidacy for mayor, which has been filed. And I'm going to encourage the voters to turn it down this bloated irresponsible budget that you refuse to amend and make rational and to focus when the budget's turned down and we get a new city manager will focus on basic maintenance, lower taxes, accountable government, care for the low income and the homeless. We're not going to gentrify this community under my watch. We need toilets, not one toilet. And we need the seniors need a van. Thank you. Vicky Lane, not yet. Yeah, okay. Unmute. Okay. Am I, can you hear me? Yes. Okay. I now I lost track. I think that there is a great deal of integrity in this city in the council, the manager and other people that are that work for the city. I think that some of the personal accusations, the direct and indirect accusations are a little over the top. I don't always agree with everything that the manager does, the mayor does, or the council does.  But I do not believe that there's a single person on the council or in the manager's office or any of the other employees in there, even though I may feel that some of them may be paid a little more than necessary, that doesn't have the best interests of the city of Montpelier and all of the citizens, the ones that are like me, not so well off, and the ones that are well off. I just, I've been hearing a lot of this vitriol and yeah, I see it, Donna. And it is a little hard to take. And some of the points that are made may be good points, but they get lost in the vitriol. And I guess that's all I need to say. Thank you, Vicki. I am looking, I am not seeing any more members of the public wishing to be heard. So let's bring this back to the council. I guess I should first close the public hearing and then proceed to council discussion of the proposed budget and bond issues. Surely someone has something to say. If there's no discussion, the chair would entertain a motion. Jay. Jay, go ahead. I just wanted to kind of get things started a little bit if others had thoughts, but I do agree with the, I'm not sure how this plays out in the specific language, but I do agree with the concept that we approach the acquisition of the Alts Club and that property as a property acquisition, as opposed to a rec center development, because I do think that, as I've said, a number of times at other meetings, that ultimately this really is an opportunity that I feel the city should take advantage of to acquire the property and that there needs to be a robust public conversation around how we best utilize that land and not go into it with any presumptions. And I think that a lot of the conversation we heard tonight was rumble. What exactly is going to happen to it? And we haven't really talked about it yet. Timing is dictated that we need to take advantage of this opportunity, but we need to commit to our community that we will use, if the voters approve it, that we will engage in that process and that could very well be given the amount of space, include rec facilities, it could include public-private partnerships with, we know there are already interested parties, nonprofit and for-profit, both and potentially could include housing. So I think that that, from a messaging and conceptual standpoint, as we look to have conversations with voters about what this means is that it's not, hey, this is, that's more open-ended, because obviously, and we heard this, is we still have a building on Berry Street that we own that has required work and has potential for other things as well. So I just don't want the potential of the former Elks Club land to be lost in this notion that this is about a rec center. I think it's really about an opportunity for the city to acquire its really significant piece of land within our city limit. So thanks. Yeah, Donna. Well, I don't totally agree of just joining it. I think, indeed, within the narrative, I'm looking for it as one of those areas of connecting with the rec creation and that it's also, I mean, commuters can use it to job. I mean, it isn't just for, it's a shared use path and I think housing. I mean, so I guess I would like to have other things listed. I wouldn't want to just say land acquisition, because what does that tell voters? To me, I am looking for placing some recreational buildings there. I am looking to place housing there. How it looks in the end, I don't know and that may not be all that happens there, but those are the two big ones in my mind and I would feel neglectful if I didn't mention them. So maybe we can work on them wording. Yeah, I was just looking at, I mean, your next item after this is actually approving, first looking at the warning and then approving the wording of the warning, but maybe we could say something. I'm just looking at the way it's drafted right now. Shall the voters authorize city council to borrow some not to exceed $2 million for to purchase the property, formerly known as the Elks Club, we put the actual address in. Proceeds from bond funding with youth finance, land purchase for potential use for recreation, housing and other uses, something like that. That sounds great.  I'm not saying that it's like just, you know, totally open ended and you're right. I think those two ideas are, you know, how we would approach a management plan for the property. So yeah, I'm with you that we like, say this is what we intend to do, but you know, what we're hearing from folks is like, is, well, what exactly are we intending?  So yeah, I appreciate it. Thank you. Okay. Adam could take a word and see what time it is. Okay. Anyone, Lauren? Are you looking to say something? Sure. I think that's a great idea. Oh, that's weird. Thank you. I totally support that. I like Bill's proposed language, getting housing in there in particular as like a clear direction that it has the potential for that that we want to explore and the obvious recreation opportunities of the site. I mean, I think more broadly just briefly, you know, really appreciate the engagement. Obviously the budget is months and months and months of work and a lot of people have participated a lot of times throughout the process. So really grateful. I mean, I think that this budget for the city is really just going to get us back on track to delivering services that our residents need and expect. And the part that I'm really excited about with it is the ability to make investments in things like housing and some of these long time systemic issues that if we underfund now are just going to set us up for ongoing costs exacerbate a lot of the problems that we heard about tonight of people concerned about different kinds of people not being able to live in our community. And I think if we don't actually try to address root issues and make investments in things like all kinds of housing, which is what this budget is trying to do, then we're just we're going to get nowhere and actually make the problem worse. So I think this is a responsible budget that just actually is being responsive to a lot of the concerns that we've heard and that have just gotten really kind of on steroids during the during the pandemic with so many issues just becoming worse. And we've had to cut services and things due to budget cuts. So being able to restore and actually make some of those investments. So I will be supporting the budget. Thanks. No, we don't because I just consulted with the manager the actual vote. Well, go ahead. I thought you meant about the warning. So typically what's happened is the you do vote to to approve the budget and bonds. And then we just make sure the correct number is in whatever whatever your number ends up being. And then we make sure the correct number is in when we approve the warning. And then if we have any language change on any of the ballot items or want to put new items or take off items, then that's the time to do that. So we should have a motion on the budget. I'll make a motion to adopt the budget as presented tonight. A second. Any further discussion? All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? And then a motion on the bonds. Is that separate? So you would move to put the bonds on the ballot either in whatever form you want. Either as they're laid out now. Then you'll do the wording next. But just the amount of the bond and what how they're grouped. So I'll make a motion to put the bonds on the ballot. Yes. Do any. Whatever install or amount you want and however you want. Including with those your motion include the two million for the real estate purchase instead of those on bill slide. I don't have them here on a sheet of paper. So there's currently there's four proposed. There's one for seven. Let me just read them and then you can vote on them. So 7.2 million, four million from general fund, 3.2 from water and sewer funds for East State Street. Okay. Do you want to vote on them separately? Move separately and vote separately on each. Change it or do whatever you want. Let's do that. So the first motion is for the bond is is there a motion and a second for that? Okay. I have East State Street is the first one. East State Street. Yes. Could you repeat the motion please? We're we're developing the motion now. The motion is to place the bond for East State Street. 7.2 million on the ballot. On the ballot. Okay. Let's keep it simple. Is there a second for that? Second. Any further discussion? All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. I make a motion to put the ballot item for the purchase of land. Well you know so we're going to do the wording on the next ballot. That I don't just the purchase of land for the $2 million. For the $2 million. Okay. Second. Any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? If somebody else wants to do it. Okay. Okay. Okay I make a motion to put the infrastructure projects 1.815. I say it like that. On the ballot. Second. Any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed? Okay 16.4 for the water resource recover. And for the wastewater recovery facility 16.4 million. Second. Discussion? All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Okay. We have passed those four. I think I already closed the public hearing. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. Thank you. Next we are up to item number nine. Second public hearing for the annual meeting. And the draft warning is in the materials. I will open the public hearing. Do we need a presentation? Mr. Whitaker. I just think you're making a mockery out of good governance. That this you know to rubber stamp this stuff the way you have to not listen to any of the testimony of the people that showed up and not make a single change. And then to you know just ram this through onto the budget. You're demonstrating the problem which I've tried to illustrate is that you totally rely on the city manager. You don't hold him accountable. Then you rubber stamp the work. And it's just atrocious that this city's governance has devolved to that level. You know we have to reclaim this city from the mismanagers. And we have to make it livable for both the well to do and the people who are already here and the poor. And you're heading in the wrong direction. You're heading to you're selling us out and I resent it. Thank you. Is there any comment from any other member of the public? Seeing none I will close the public hearing. And now it's time for a motion and discussion about the language of the of the warning. So I would so one of the little sidebar we were having Kelly when we're doing the next agenda item can is it possible once we change this to come back with a final version so we can sign it tonight. Oh beautiful. There we go. It's much faster than that. Exactly. So I think obviously you should make sure that all the articles say what you'd like them to say. But the specific suggestion that we talked about for article 14 was and we'd have to probably find the address right. So shall the voters authorize the city council to borrow a sum of money not to exceed $2,000 for the property formally owned by the Elks club at and you met $2,000,000. What'd I say? $2,000,000.  I am a good negotiator. Okay. Yes. $2,000,000 for not to exceed $2,000,000 for property formally owned by the Elks club at what is it? 203 Country Club Road. Beautiful. Proceeds from bond funding will be used to finance purchase of land for potential use for recreation housing and other uses. And then the rest would be the same. I would add that the number off the top of my head may be wrong, but it's 143 acres. I had 138. 138. I was off by five. Approximately 140 acres. There's actually two lots. I think one is five acres or they are under 38, but I'm not sure. Oh, where the building is relative to the what's was is currently the golf course. So those together total 143. I do think I do think that that is worth acknowledging the size of the land as as opposed to just the street address to represent the potential of what's there. So I think that that we feel comfortable saying. Yeah. I don't want to misrefer to you, but Approximately 130. Well, it's definitely, I mean, I know it's at least 138. Okay. I would use the least number, not the highest number. Approximately 130. Yes. Let's say more or less. Yes. Yeah. Are there any proposed changes to the language of any of the other articles before we have a motion and vote on it? I didn't see any. So just I want to make sure we got that right. For article 14, then we would say, Shall the voters authorize the city council to borrow a sum of money not to exceed two million dollars for 138 for approximately 138 acres formally owned by the Elks club at 203 country club road. Not for the purchase of? For the purchase. Yes. Thank you. What is not to exceed two million? It's two million, yes. So you're saying that property will not be purchased for more than two million? No, the bond will not be even more than two million. Could we center or put the housing first? Sure. Please. And thank you. Yeah. So say for housing, recreation and other uses. I'm seeing nods around the table. So yeah. Okay. Jay, did you have a comment on another item on the ballot? Well, I just I know that there were some changes about a little bit of language happening this afternoon and I'm just trying to pull up the most current version. I'm not able to do that online right now. So I just says the page is unavailable from the agenda. So I just wanted to maybe I'm in the wrong place, but so we there were some changes to article 13 that we talked about this afternoon, right? By email. Yes. So I just was I have to. Oh, it was it says Confluence River Park and it's supposed to be River Confluence Park. Is that what you were talking about? Was there an unborn meeting this afternoon via email? No. One person noted a wording change and sent it to us and said, would you mind drafting a change for tonight? It's Confluence River Park. That's correct. Okay. And this one has river in it. Yeah. Yeah. So that's the corrected version. Okay. Lauren. One question for article 15. So this is the water resource recovery facility upgrades. I wonder about adding the phrase set improvements are planned to improve the facility solids processing system address odor issues. Yes. Comma and implement a combined heat and power generation system. No. And so we definitely not implement combined heat and power. That's an old language. So I think it would say improve facility solids processing system and eliminate the odor problem. I think I would definitely that's definitely correct. Great. So where it says yeah. So everything from implement to system take out and just say and correct an odor. How could you add the word that hazardous odor? This is not just smell bad. This is bad for your health hazardous. The people on State Street have said that to me. As Linda Berger tonight made the statement. Hazard is really important. It's not this stinky. Yeah. Actually he's got a good point. Eliminate would be even better to address. No. Okay. Kelly do you want to step up to the table so that you can you can you can read to people what you have and everyone can hear you. Yeah. That sounds awesome. Okay. So I just want to circle back to the other adjustments and the articles that we've gone over just to make sure I've got it all. So but starting with article 15 where we just work where what I've got here is show the voters authorized the city council to borrow a sum of money not to exceed 60 million four hundred thousand for various sewer treatment systems to upgrade the water resource recovery facility at Dog River Road. Set improvements are planned to improve the facilities solids processing systems and implement incorrect odor hazardous odors. I would I would say don't put implement just say and correct problems related to hazardous odors potentially hazardous odor or or to eliminate the I don't know we could just refer to the state's corrective order. So what to refer to the order bill. Lauren you have an idea one what about and correct and ongoing odor violation at the site or state odor violation somehow I mean part of what I want to convey is that like we're going to have to pay something to upgrade this no matter what because we're in violation right now so somehow make yeah that's what I was trying to get at was yeah that was some word salad there odor violation at and location at the site correct and ongoing odor violation at the site it's incorrect ongoing odor violation at the site soft but it's better than not I mean eliminate I mean we could put it and eliminate the ongoing order to eliminate the violation okay yeah correct and eliminate the other violation at the site okay so you want to do you want to read out loud through that the first couple of sentences of article 15 so everyone knows what it's going to say yeah okay so starting from the top here yeah shield of odors authorized the city council to borrow a some of money not to exceed 64 million for various sewer treatment systems to upgrade the water resource recovery facility at dog river road set improvements are planned to improve the facility's solid processing system correct and eliminate sorry the odor violation at the site if approved so then it just goes on one thing I just noticed on the third line where it says to improve the facility's solid processing system it should be shouldn't be facilities ies it should be singular facility apostrophe s okay everybody happy with the way 15 is phrased and and we're solid on article 14 I'm going to read that back to you too just to make sure okay thank you so a shield of odors authorized the city council to borrow a some of money not to exceed two million dollars for approximately 138 acres and then this is where at recreation property formerly the elks club at 203 country club road is that it's a little bit uh there's a lot going on there in that statement but we modified that we modified it we weren't going to go directly to the language of recreation property because it was a recreation property I'm confused and then it goes on to say you're taking recreation property out of that okay so I think it would be saying to borrow some of money not to exceed two million dollars for 138 acres of land formally owned by the elks club at 206 country club road for the yep got it I had that's where I was okay that's much okay you should be for the purchase of and then the hundred approximately 130 acres eight acres of land okay so shall the voters authorize the city council to borrow a sum of money not to exceed two million dollars for the purchase of 130 acres approximately 130 acres approximately 130 38 acres of land formally the elks club at 203 country club road okay and then and then it goes on to say a proceeds from bond funding will be used to finance the purchase the purchase of land for potential housing recreation and other uses okay this is the entire notice the entire ballot is there anything else that anyone wants to propose to change in the language before we adopt it you have a comment there yeah um we have a comment from member the public uh vicki lane um I'm I'm just concerned about the the stated acreage um in that it could get messy if you get more than the 138 I I'm just concerned about using the lower number when in reality it could be the higher number um I just think that maybe if we if we said approximately 143 to five acres maybe vicki I think I can answer that for you it worries me well so this I don't think it the city charter is very clear it actually authorizes the city council to purchase property the voters don't have to vote to purchase property what the voters over here are approving the financing that the bond okay so if it's more or less the council could vote could only you know could purchase more they could buy double it if they could get it for two million okay so maybe we should just leave the acreage out I think the idea behind and again I don't want to speak for the council members but I believe the idea was to make sure people understood this was a large parcel okay it was the approximately 138 acres because understood it wasn't just a little house lot or something okay I just I just got nervous because I I do think that we you know I don't want us to approve it and then have somebody come come back and challenge it because you know well I good point but I think if if the purchase goes through there will be an action taken by the council because I do believe this is a one in a lifetime chance that we should not blow so okay thanks thanks Ricky so is somebody prepared to move to adopt the warning as as we've amended here to adopt the warning as amended I second that well awarded motion is there any further discussion all those in favor signify by saying aye aye all those opposed and we've adopted the public warning for the annual meeting and Kelly I think you're running off to print it right now thank you thank you okay moving along to item nine on the agenda the strategic plan update I think we're turning it over to the assistant city manager for that yes hi I'm Cameron Neeter Meyer I'm the assistant city manager and I'm very excited to talk to you all about the strategic plan and where we are at so give me just a second I will pull up my presentation all right it's worked for me so or everyone else tonight so I certainly hope it works for me let's see give yourself permission to share your screen yeah that's why I brought this other computer up here to sit next to the disc computer so council thank you for allowing me to be here and for sticking through this this is a very exciting update for me I love being able to talk about the work that staff has been doing to implement the strategic plan goals that y'all have identified for us I think we have a very successful first quarter reporting session just to reiterate what is on your strategic plan and what your overall goals are there's improving community prosperity providing responsible and engaged government creating more housing practicing good environmental stewardship building and maintaining sustainable infrastructure and improving our public health and safety for our community overall our status is doing really well we have at least 72 percent of our projects on track right now some of the ones I was looking through the data the ones that have some disruption or major disruption are typically minor delays that have to do with the timeline of the projects because we changed the way we are doing our strategic plan in that it is along with the budget a lot of the some of the longer term projects that have delays right now are because they're contingent on budget passing so that they can get started so that's what you'll see in some of those or we're asking for some more clarity around what your needs are so I'm what I'm planning to do is walk us through high-level updates of each of your pertinent strategies and activities that support the goals I won't go into too much detail you were provided and the community was provided the full report which has all of the updates for each of these in totality so if you're interested in looking at that full report it is attached to this agenda so I'll start with goal one which is to improve community prosperity and one of the larger strategies there is economic development and outdoor economic development we've done a lot around Confluence Park that's been discussed and it is on the bond now and so I'd like to just sort of say where we are right now they have established and when I say we this case it is the parks department I do want to shout them out they've been a lot of work with this have established a contract with the Vermont River Conservancy to do project management right now they've done two rounds of boring on the sole at the site to check for ground stability and for contamination just so you know the impacts of both of those results may affect the final cost of this project and so the community knows Vermont River Conservancy will be hosting Confluence Park stakeholder meetings looking for import input on the final design of the project and we are still actively fundraising and applying for further grants for this project I know that it's important to y'all to have an expansion of city provided child care options and right now our daycare after school care is going really well and our program is being is still very successful even in the face of covid but we have been working with our plans for a new rec center to establish an infant's child care facility which is a higher standard of facility currently the elk's property has a school that is licensed to offer infant care and so if that is a facility that we're able to purchase it becomes more immediately available to us so that is a delay because we're just sort of waiting to see what happens when it comes to infant care when we're looking at economic development bill sort of talked on it earlier we have $50,000 included in the budget to update our existing economic development strategic plan as well as retaining professional support when needed one of the other projects under this that is delayed is our tax stabilization program review and the tiff district review and tiff is a tax increment financing program which is you know something that the council will need to have substantive discussions on so that we know which direction you would want to go in and I will take a moment to say please interrupt me at any point this is a pretty I'm going to get try to get very speedy through this pretty long presentation but if you have any questions just throw them at me please thank you one of the things that we'll need to do is determine levels of social service provision but one of the things that we've done to support work in that direction is expands the contracted peer support outreach work currently being provided by Good Samaritan Haven staff that is one of the activities that y'all highlighted was to expand or formalize the peer support outreach worker and we have extended that contract with them to help provide more peer support work specifically around those who are experiencing homelessness an exciting update that we have is our feast program growth our senior center is four months into a new design of our feast program which runs our meals on wheels and we have brought our own kitchen manager chef in house so we have really working to get them up to speed so that we have a whole new kitchen a whole new way to provide food and then we'll be able to expand those programs once we've hit a very sustainable baseline so moving into goal two providing responsible and engaged government on one of the main strategies and we've talked a lot about that tonight is communicating more effectively one of the updates is improving the functionality of the city's website one of the things that we do have in the budget is a way to sort of bid wow sorry bid out the website hosting and so we have an ability to sort of look from the ground up what we want our website to look like so that's very exciting one of the other activities that you identified was conducting more intergenerational community events i am happy to announce we have four currently scheduled events that are aiming at a whole different i will just say it again intergenerational involvement so look for advertisements for some upcoming events i will highlight one of them is our march for meals events all through the week of march 18th to 25th our senior center and community services are planning quite a few events to raise awareness for those who need food or help with food security in our community so one of the other things that we talked about about communicating more effectively is improving a recruitment for city committees and one of the things that we discussed was the implementation of committee stipends so as you know cjack our social and economic justice advisory committee has come to you and the thirty thousand dollars was included in the budget that passed tonight so we'll see how that goes but thank you for that our committee will has stated that they'll continue to design a pilot project implementation plan to recommend to y'all before the new fiscal year one of the other things we've done to increase coordination and our communication with the community is draft an mou for work with the sustainable montpellier coalition to run our capital area neighborhood groups that is still pending approval through our legal review but it's i anticipate that being done very soon so it's very exciting we're also you know very committed as this as staff can and the staff has the capacity to continue updating our website when we get feedback about it so you know i do encourage people to let us know if they have an issue if it's something we can fix we will we will add it to the list of things to get to so thank you for being patient with us and let us know if we can help you find anything sometimes it is just a familiarity issue so we can help the ADA transition plan was fully included in the 23 council budget so thank you for that another thing that we talked about was that was also part of the social and economic justice advisory committee work was language access improvement that's another one that is in yellow because we don't have any substantive updates one of the things that we did identify sort of in this conversation was the need for somebody who speaks Pashto or to help bring our afghani refugee families who are in our community now making sure that they are best served so that is something we are aware of and will be working on when we're looking at focusing on diversity equity and inclusion we talked a lot about the creative discourse equity report recommendations one of those was the stipends another one was to really look at how we're communicating the history of Montpelier so I want to thank a few folks Jess Robinson Paul Carnahan Michael Sherman the division for historic preservation the Vermont Historical Society and the C. Jack committee for helping us edit our history section on the Montpelier website is now a much larger history section really acknowledges indigenous ancestry of the Montpelier highlights that and talks about the city's history in a more holistic way and I just really appreciate the work that they put into that also moving on to increasing city staff and council capacity one of the things that you all have put on your list of strategic outcomes that you want was getting the planning department to come and do some skill growth exercises with y'all this hasn't been scheduled yet and we would like to turn that around and ask y'all what clarity for some clarity on what you would like the goals to be for a planning exercise would you like more information about the city plan would you like to talk about the zoning and the responsibilities of the city there this isn't a conversation we have to have tonight but if you could if I could ask that you think about what you would like to get out of that exercise and let us know so we can make sure that you get that also when we're talking about increasing capacity one of the things that we're really excited about is seeking accreditation for the senior center through the national council on aging they've been working very hard on that and are up to date on getting that rolled out the timeline has explained in more detail on the floor report so I know there's a lot I just really love bragging about what staff has done so thank you for bearing with me you just heard tonight that we have implement we have put in $110,000 fiscal year 23 budget for the housing trust fund which was one of your goals to support creating more housing another one of the goals for creating more housing was working with housing developers to accomplish successful housing projects our planning department has been engaging with a number of developers recently and they highlighted a few of the projects that they've been working on I want to call out the Good Samaritan Havens application to the housing trust fund was supported for the Berlin homeless shelter that's being built currently on Barry Montpelier road and there's a couple other projects that are upcoming you know about the central Vermont Habitat for Humanity project and some others so there are some exciting work being done when it comes to housing one of the other things that we've talked about a bit tonight is coordinating when we're talking about housing is coordinating about emergency housing or a service hub or some sort of support for those experiencing homelessness I know our homelessness task force is eager to bring a memo back to y'all about what they want to use the 15,000 you appropriated for them to conduct a study to get an actionable plan for housing needs or sheltering needs for folks in our community so goal four is practicing good environmental stewardship big strategy there is expanding our park land Hubbard Park was expanded this year by 78 acres through a grant and fundraising project and we've talked a lot tonight about the Elks Club property opportunity so goal five was to build and maintain sustainable infrastructure we've really been addressing newer improved infrastructure needs we I just sort of touched about the public restroom work I know the homelessness task forces asked that consultant like in their proposed consultancy project they've asked them to include a public restroom component you have set up a public restroom committee that hasn't met yet but it is it has been stated and city council and the city has let the state know that we would like more collaboration on bringing public restrooms online and moment failure one of the things that we've talked a lot about tonight and is considered yellow and on a minor delay is just the recreation the rec center development so we're obviously looking to see what plays out with the bond option and that plan to purchase otherwise we have some backup plans that we've identified to you and we would need to readdress that if when we know about the land purchase so I am excited to start talking about the opportunities we've done I'm going to soapbox here for a second but when we went through the rec center development or re or renovation option earlier I think it was already two years ago we did a lot of public hearings and got a lot of feedback from the community about what they would want to see in a rec center and so we do have a baseline understanding of what our community is looking for that we are able to turn around and bring back to the community for feedback so we are very excited about where we are when it comes to rec center and that land obviously would have more opportunities one of the other things that is in a slight delay is our creating a sustainable district heat management plan we did hold a user wide update meeting for district heat customers in October we will be bringing in an external partner to audit the new fiscal year then this heating season's capacity charge changes just to make sure that not only are we doing best practices when it comes to our capacity changes but that our customers feel comfortable and confident in our capacity charge changes so that is something we'll be doing and we will also because our DPW team has worked very hard with our users to increase their effectiveness and their the efficiency of their heating systems we will be doing another audit of the capacity for each user at the end of this heating season to make sure we got it right so if you have any questions Donna Barlow Casey has been put in place as the project manager for district heat all right last goal improving public health and safety so again we've talked a little bit about this and I think it's telling how much addressing homelessness in our community comes up in your strategic plan I do think that that's very important to call out and there are many ways that we are addressing that the homelessness task force presented to council both long and short term goals and is continuing to work towards getting a consultant to come in and give us an actionable plan to move forward I also wanted to highlight that one of the things you wanted to do is to expand our peer support outreach workers and our social worker programs within our police department funding for half a social worker has been included in the fiscal year 23 police budget again I mentioned before that we've expanded our contract with Good Samaritan Haven to support longer term investment in peer support outreach and also the police department really wanted to highlight that our social worker as she works with us now has been great and has responded to all requests for outreach from the MPD so we want to thank Susan also one of the things that was very important is the implementation of the police review committee recommendations so this work is ongoing I do encourage you to read the full report for details on this I cut this down quite a lot Brian was very thorough in his answers and I should say chief Pete I apologize the recommendations that the city and the council have already moved forward are a lot one of the things that is really important is bringing body worn cameras in place and we aim to have those in use by fiscal year 23 focusing our community resource officer on community engagement protocol after a major use of force we're looking at street outreach training training for crowd control we've already committed to demilitarization and scenario based training the recommendations that still need council discussions include the ordinance changes around sex work and public intoxication and then what requires future funding because it's not we're not able to do what is recommended right now is or alternatively the training just doesn't exist yet is training around youth and adolescent behavior hosting web hosting for increased data transparency and street outreach capacity and mental health capacity and that's a regional issue another thing that is important for you through the impede or through our police department is focusing on the technology side of the police that's a really big deal our body worn cameras are really the focus of that one and you know chief Pete has details in the full report but that is again going to be rolling out in fiscal year 23 as it is planned now so another really important strategy that we have for improving public health and safety is being disaster ready so our local hazard mitigation plan was accepted by FEMA and we continue to monitor that plan we're also meeting internally and with external partners such as the Red Cross to discuss emergency sheltering in our community as we recognize that the nearest Red Cross approved shelter right now is in Barrie so that is something we are working on addressing also our national flood insurance program community rating system we're aiming for improvements and our updates are due in February and we're we're on track for that and are currently preparing the required documentation so a couple other things we talked a lot today about CBPSA so I won't go into that in any sort of detail but we are talking about funding for consoles another sort of activity that chief Pete has really been working on is working on policies and procedures in the police department I will leave you to read that very long list of policies that he is reviewing but there have been quite a few policies that they've been working on to really work around transparency and being more equitable within the department so finally we're talking about our community justice center support and making sure that we're operating a full spectrum of their restorative justice programs all of our CJC programs are in full operation right now those include restorative justice programs are outreach services to people affected by crime and other offenses reentry services to those leaving the prison system we really we uh the CJC really helps people find housing and jobs and our conflict assistance program really does continue to serve our community so thank you to the CJC and the CJC correct director Carol Plant wrote quite a bit in the full report I recommend reading that for more information and so this that was a lot of talking I'm very sorry but what that also is important to note is that we sat down and looked at all of these updates of staff the other day and mapped out sort of when would be appropriate to come and talk to council and so we have a tentative presentation schedule for council updates on some of these topics outlined here this is obviously tentative and may change I just want you to know what is upcoming and when you can expect to hear information about these plans and that goes for the community too if there's something that you're interested in hearing further details on this is potentially when we'll be talking about it to council also I want to again sort of announce to the public that this the software that we use to track our strategic plan progress has a public dashboard my goal is to update it every time I bring a presentation to council so you can read all of these updates in a sort of interactive way so that is a there is a direct link on the city's home page to this dashboard and it will be updated within the next week with the information that was shared with council tonight so thank you that was my very exciting updates where we're at with our strategic plan my contact information is on this slide and is available in the agenda packet if anyone has any questions on this topic thank you thank you thanks Cameron that was it almost seems like you've actually been working I think we should give her an earlier slot sometime because you're always late at night and you're always rushing through and it deserves much more attention and you deserve much more credit so thank you thank you I thought this was just great one and so yeah big thumbs up I think this is a great thing to be able to inform all the residents what what their government's been working on one thing that occurred to me particularly and I don't know if this is even within the capacity of this system but in light of the conversation we had tonight and the action we took on the on the real estate acquisition bond it's clear that we're looking not just at recreation but also at housing is it possible to somehow make that come under both the both headings within the program I would need to look into that okay thanks yeah yeah no that was great Cameron sometimes it's good just to be reminded some of this stuff you know fresh in your mind but do you think is it possible in a week when the dashboards updated maybe a thrown on social media though just a yes yeah I feel like we can't get that out enough you know it's yeah I'm gonna see if there are any other council members okay see very briefly that it's it's telling that we're not going to talk about bathrooms till May and does that mean everybody's agreeing that no one needs a bathroom till May because that that's an example of how these bathrooms are owned by the people here and they need to be open and you've done nothing in years to make these bathrooms accessible around the clock and to just put it off till May is just an example of the mismanagement of this city secondly the environmental stewardship we keep bragging about it but nobody's cleaned up all the mess that's been out on the riverbank year after year after year and it's been really compounded in the last year with Gerton Park and so this is all just feel good pretty talk but it's it's hollow it's really hollow you really need to look at your own integrity and whether or not you're gonna live up to it your words thank you we can move to thanks camera next on the agenda item 11 review petitions for annual meeting there are none okay so that gets us to item 12 of camera we maybe we should have not have let you go back down the mask mandate extension are you part of that or I so basically you adopted your mask mandate shortly after the authorization was granted by the legislature it requires after the first 45 days which is just coming to a close sometime after this meeting for it to be extended and it has to be extended can it can't be extended for any more than 30 day period so ironically this will be on your next agenda on February 9 because 30 days falls between the 9th and 23rd so you'll be doing the next extension at the next meeting but our recommendation is if you wish to keep this in place simply extend it is in its current form okay I'll move that we extend the mask mandate ordinance as as written for for an additional 30 days motion in a second is there any other discussion I just say I think you know I've noticed people I think the behavior in town has been better the longer we've had it in place here you know even go to the shows probably maybe one person without a mask the other day but most people were doing it right and I think most people in the community would probably prefer a statewide mandate but I think it's working well as is so I would definitely support it definitely supporting it and just registering my ongoing displeasure that the governor is forcing us to have this conversation at 1102 instead of at a minimum letting the law just go into effect for a long period of time what a waste of every municipality's time but I'm glad we're passing it okay all those in favor signify by saying hi opposed okay that brings us up to other business not aware of any other business all right well I was going to do this in a managed report but I could do it under other business this is more of a report as much as anything else the lobbying committee sent out requests to all the my period based lobbying firms advocacy firms seeking to see if they would be interested in representing the city for this legislative season we received four proposals one of them was on budget and seemed to really understand you know it was really focused on advocacy we had two that significantly exceeded the budget but also included more I think so it's a kind of nice idea but it was the full package of public communications and PR and I don't think we're just did in sort of hiring a spin doctor and then one expressed interest but didn't really respond to all the questions so you don't really need to vote on this but I can do this but I would recommend that we hire Leonine associates who are right behind here they were the one that was on budget and really focused on advocacy and they they seem to address the concerns that we had they're obviously handy to us and two of the key principles are Montpelier residents so if there's no objection I'll go ahead and contact them sounds good I don't think we need a motion we've already decided to spend the money in yeah I have a separate issue when you're done oh yeah that was all I had okay I wanted to discuss remote meetings we were put off last meeting right I would prefer us to be remote in February then assess where we are in the data and everything else before we come back live what does anyone else think I would agree with that as you can see I am struggling tonight to breathe with two masks on because I have asthma and if I was at home on zoom or my office on zoom I wouldn't have to run out and use my inhaler and be in the rest anybody have a problem with doing that okay well members of the council first okay uh mr wicker do you have anything more to say other than you disagree with it uh well I just think that there are people who are not equipped uh who don't uh can't make out who's talking on a screen uh the audio quality the video quality uh is is insufficient we have invested in air cleaners uh I think that the maintaining of presence for those who find it difficult or to participate via lame technology is uh is important especially especially when we have the capacity to accommodate it I know it's more convenient for y'all to sit at home in your pajamas but it's not good for the public I just want to say it's really a health issue I don't like my pajamas that much uh it really is a health issue I just don't think us being smart for us to defy our very thing we're trying to do with our mask mandate and so I would do I need to make a motion why should I make a motion I make a motion that the council meets remotely for the meetings in February and that we reassess it at the end of February okay any further discussion all those in favor pretty signify by saying I opposed okay we'll have to weigh the j now I can touch you now okay anything else on the other business I don't think so but council reports and start with Donna this time well I want to start off thanking Cameron again she came out with that memo she sent out and I haven't even done it justice yet because I was feeling the need of not understanding all the what was going on with efforts towards helping people who are without a home as well as trying to understand their calls I got three calls just this week and two last week about the scrutin park structure and trying to balance out other people's need in the structure and it's so many gray areas but I do appreciate the memo I will read it and come back with questions the other thing I had my first meeting as representative on the community justice center advisory group and an initial meeting was very much into life philosophy it was really really enjoyable you can't have it back it's a totally different kind of meeting it was very refreshing thank you now I just want to thank all our staff who's been working so hard in the cold the last week here especially public works you know it's really going above and beyond so thanks very much quickly a little bit of a broken record but I guess it's been a while but I just I think it's important to publicly acknowledge all the work of the folks in our school system lately it's with this relentless pandemic and an ever-moving target of directives from the from the federal government and particularly from the state lately it has been it has been beyond challenging and and I just am so grateful that they have risen to meet the needs of our community um not just our kids but the you know yes our kids but also everybody who who you know parents and folks who work here and and the challenges have just been relentless but they've they've met that challenge day in and day out and so I just wanted to uh acknowledge um the administration the school district the teachers the staff and everything that that they're doing to support community um I kind of I'm just going to piggyback on what Jay said um I really am impressed with the school district and the teachers um all the supports my kids um are held really well at school and it makes me feel good knowing that um their questions are being answered the staff um are being supported as best they can and I just my love goes out to all of them and I just really want to thank them for everything they've been doing through this very long what three years two years since some change it's been incredible so thank you uh thanks would echo all of that like deep appreciation for school district and I think Cameron's strategic plan update underscored all the really hard and important work the city staff are doing too so thank you to everyone I can't believe we're approaching two years in this pandemic um the only thing just wanted to note I have gotten a few questions about the the parking policy and people asked some kind of basic questions like on the premise of you're making us do all this work and it doesn't seem like it's any better for the city I'm just thinking maybe like just some public information out of like because I think you know I was like well the comparison of like the number of cars towed and stuff and they were like oh okay if it's actually doing something then it feels it's worth my effort to move my car every day so I just was thinking like some kind of little reminder of why this is like helpful to the city to actually do it because I've gotten a few questions thanks thanks um I will say I echo everything about people have observed about how great our city workers and school workers are I don't have kids in the schools anymore but more but I have a granddaughter in the school who loves going to school loves her teachers and uh we're obviously doing something right um I also want to mention and give praise to the Montpelier police department I don't know if uh were you gonna do this I don't know if people are going to have I don't think this is something that people necessarily saw but the Montpelier police department has been selected to be a pilot site for the development of a national online model for tolerance diversity and anti-bias training and so I think that's a real credit to the work of chief Pete and and the rest of the police department so good job guys um mayors report well mayors still not here but I've talked to her the other day and she's uh doing great and uh we're in good shape or she's in good shape and that's it I guess see clerk's report I just remind folks that the uh candidate filing deadline uh for which you do not need a signature petition is Monday the 24th at 5 p.m the office will be open until then um I mentioned you can ask for an early ballot anytime but they I'm hoping they will be available around February 3rd so as soon as we get him we'll start mailing him out and uh city managers report I believe I will pass okay that uh covers all the business before the council without an objection we'll adjourn at 11 13 p.m thanks everybody


Hey, this is Brett. I'm here today to show you the 2020 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited X. This one is in red velvet pearl. It has the 3.6 liter Pentastar V6 motor with 295 horsepower. It's gonna get you 25 miles per gallon on the highway 18 city for an average of 21 miles per gallon We're gonna go walk around the vehicle and then get into the options that make the Limited X the Limited X that it is red velvet pearl coat paint coat PRV Really good looking color on these grand Cherokees first thing you'll notice is that it has the premium lighting group which comes standard with the Limited X package. It is an HID headlamp LED running lights. Those are by Xenon HIDs, and then you get the premium LED fog lamps as well If you want to check out all the photos on this Jeep in the upper right hand part of your screen Is a link to our website. You can click that and check us out there We do get the granite crystal grand Cherokee lettering the granite crystal painted 20 inch rims and this one comes with Pirelli Scorpion Verde 26550 R20 tires kind of a highway tread pattern to them But really a good look on the grand Cherokee. You also get the gloss black mirror moldings there as we come around to the front you'll notice more granite crystal trim on the lower bumper and bezels there as Well as on the grill borders and the Jeep logo there now the real main thing that you'll notice on the Limited X besides those headlights is the SRT Sport hood. This is an actual SRT hood and We'll check out underneath there, but the heat shields even says SRT on it So that's pretty cool as well I'm going to show you the original window sticker feel free to pause this I'm not going to go through everything But I'm just going to go through some of the main points, but feel free to pause this at any point You can see it is a 3.6 liter with the 8-speed automatic transmission You do get quadra track 2 which gives you flat towing capabilities And four-wheel drive low and then the interior features you get the nav with the 8.4 inch touch screen the Sirius XM For a year serious guardian for your serious traffic and traveling service for five years, and then serious XM traffic plus Apple CarPlay Android Auto comes standard as well And then it does come with the power Sunruth even though this one has been upgraded with the dual pane panoramic Sunruth Which is a $16.95 option. Anyways back to the Limited X package is a $5,095 option you get those 20-inch rims the special tires the gloss black accents and roof rails liquid titanium accents body color fashions with granite accents and then All the granite crystal stuff on there the premium LED fog lamps the steering wheel mounted shift controls the bi-Xenon HID headlamps the dark headlamp bezel finish And then the limited X badge as well, and then that sport hood of course total MSRP is $50,485 if you want to get your summit price with all the Rebates and incentives on this vehicle that's in the upper right hand part of your screen a link to our website to get that Summit price 25 highway 18 city 21 average and then the reason I love the grand Cherokees five and four stars up and down the board Very safe vehicle that you'd want to Transport your family in at any time Four-wheel disc brakes on the grand Cherokees as we come around to the back We'll notice it does have the LED tail lamps you get that granite crystal limited X Jeep and four by four logo on the back Rear bumper parking sensors this one does have the dual rear exhaust And then it has that cover there, so if you ever wanted to put a hitch on you could This is a power lift gate Just press the button and it'll come on up Those seats do fold down pretty flat Which we'll check out in a second and then they're power gate buttons right there You do get full-size spare with jack tools there as well Press that button it'll beep at you three times and then come on down Take note that it does have the LED license plate lights which are pretty cool You do get the capitalist fuel fill on this vehicle the enter-and-go system So if you have the keys in your pockets, you just put your hand in there It'll automatically unlock the doors and then you can just press the button when you get in so the protect one package is Included which gives you the blind spot and cross path detection system. This does have LED Directional signals and the mirrors are heated Inside the limited X package gives you the black leather interior Both of these front seats are heated Power driver seat lumbar of course you get the factory floor mats throughout Automatic headlamps tilt and telescopic steering wheel. There are those paddle shifters You get audio controls in the back of the steering wheel. I do like the dark woodgrain trim Throughout the vehicle power windows power locks and power mirrors, and then you do get memory driver seat With this vehicle as we hop inside you can see it does have the seven inch LCD display, which is a really nice Feature we're gonna start it up here You can see you do get the digital speedometer outside temp miles for your trip And you can change those corners to read pretty much whatever you like and you can change those with those buttons right here Bluetooth Strict abilities has the heated leather wrap steering wheel It's a really nice soft touch leather Cruise controls on the right and then of course you got those paddle shifters that we talked about Push button start and then you get the 8.4 touch screen radio. You get the factory navigation system on here This is also where your backup camera shows up And those dynamic those grid lines are dynamic meaning that they're gonna turn as you turn that steering wheel Which is pretty sweet and then that center line lines right up with the middle of the vehicle So if you were to put a hitch on this vehicle, it would line right up for with that I'm just gonna turn the car off for a little bit here since we're inside you get AM FM and serious XM radio capabilities You can do your heated seats and heated steering wheel there as well, and then you do get your apps so you get Projection manager, which is that Apple CarPlay and Android Auto that we talked about You can project your cell phone through one of those apps to the screen So if you have ways or Google Maps or some other navigation program that you prefer over the factory one You can project it to the screen and do it that way, which is pretty sweet We actually did a demo with Android Auto on an 8.4 if you want to check that out It's in the upper right hand part of the screen and then you got off-rope pages, which is pretty cool in my opinion They take a second to load Actually, we got to have the vehicle on for that to come on but while they load That's protection manager while they're loading Does have the quadra track to system snow sand auto mud and rock And then you do get a neutral setting for flat tone You also have downhill assist control and four-wheel drive law So there are those off-road pages. Those are pretty cool notice that you can Check out your steering angle and then the wheels up top actually turn as you turn the steering wheel You have your pitch and roll Which is nice to know that we're nice flat and level in our brand new photo studio You have your accessory gauges coolant temp oil temp battery voltage Trans temp and oil pressure then you have select terrain Which is really cool too and that has to do with the quadra track to system as you turn snow sand mud and rock It will actually change not here, but on the seven inch Instrument cluster vehicle does have to be on do that But you can see you got sand snow Mud and then to get to rock you got to put in four-wheel drive low, but pretty cool system there and Then you also get your key fob here with your remote start power rear gate You get two USBs and an aux jack and a 12-volt power point down there If you don't like doing your climate controls on the radio You can do your climate controls here and you do get to a climate control and you got volume and tune controls for the radio Parking sensors you can turn those off start stop capabilities eco mode Sport mode and your stability control all right there very similar to the all the other grand Cherokees from this Model design, I like how the dash wraps around the Passenger seat and the driver seat the dash just wraps in this car. It's really nice and It also has that panoramic sunroof so that front Glass is power and then the second one is fixed But um really brightens everything up in here You do get your homelink buttons for your garage door security systems and lane systems and your map lights up there also notice the nice gloss black Instrument cluster dash and then those titanium accents throughout the vehicle We're gonna take a quick look under the hood and the back seats So the back seats are bolstered just like the front seats are they got latch child safety system two USBs And then a hundred fifteen volt hundred fifty lot plug-in these seats Do fold down almost completely flat, which is really nice if you have to haul a bunch of extra stuff And then you do get child safety locks on those back doors We'll take a look under the hood at that SRT-8 heat shield Which is right there and that is a true Cowl hood there. So really cool stuff. It is the 3.6 liter Pentastar 295 horsepower It's been a great motor for Chrysler Jeep and Ram since it came out they put it in just about everything they make and I've been in the business and I've been around the Jeep Ram lineup since about 2013 and It's been a great motor really haven't heard a lot of complaints. I got the same motor in my minivan and it's been really good, but Grand Cherokees Definitely top of the line when it comes to Jeep and we'll do one more final walk around here And I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today And hopefully from this HD video you will have gotten a good look at the limited X package in Relative velvet pro coat and Learned a little bit about the options and just got to check it out And to see more pictures of this Jeep or one of our other 450 new and used cars trucks SCVs minivans wranglers you name it. We got it go to our website www.summitauto.com Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summit auto comm and if you'd like to check out More HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summit auto Remember to like subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there In fact in a second you will see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel on your left a link to more grand Cherokee videos Like this one on your right and if you have not been to our website on the bottom link to this vehicle on our website Click those check us out and we're super excited to be offering the 2020 Jeep grand Cherokee limited X and red velvet pro coat Thanks again for checking out the video remember to like subscribe and share


The co-marshal of the federal safety court, Mr. Oboye of AMMF, the speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, the writer and co-shariff, Oboye Worry, and other members of the Delta State House of Assembly, members of the Delta State Executive Council present, His Royal Majesty, the OP of the entire OWA Kingdom. I hope you heard it, because the entire, the entire OWA, I'm chairman of the Delta State. Tati Klorula's Council of the Delta Emmanuel, she's a, some more, the second JP, the OWA, and other Royal Fathers present, honored guests, ladies and gentlemen. It really is a great pleasure to be here at this hip-hop making event to inaugurate the federal road safety court, Inspector Training School, Delta State in the OWA Kingdom. A purpose-built, fully furnished, and equipped training school for the inspectorate cave-out of the poor or the non-commissioned officers. The federal road safety court, the FRC, is one of the federal agencies in the road safety ecosystem that has continued to deliver on its mandate to reduce car crashes and vehicle crashes through research and public education. Indeed, the choice of Nigeria as one of its centers of excellence for road safety in Africa by the Africa Development Bank is a clear acknowledgement of the considerable contributions of the FRC through the development of road safety in the Africa region. What of more significance for that being here today is the remarkable surprise that the federal road safety court has made in its quest for top quality, empire development through the building of its own training institutions. The court has, within its short span of existence, come up with four world-class institutions. The federal road safety court command at Spalve College, the FRC Academy, UD, the FRC Marshall Inspector Training School here in Owa Nero in Delta State, and the FRC Road Marshall Assistant Training School in JOS for the development of its personnel. The existence of these institutions reflects the laudable desire of the court to improve the capacity and competence of its personnel in road safety management. So the inauguration of the Marshall Inspector's Training School has been made possible by the Delta State Government, which as you have heard has constructed a modern and vastly improved replica of the FRC Academy University at this location. This farsighted and thoughtful contribution of the Delta State Government is worthy of all commendation. It is an excellent exemplar of the benefits of collaboration between states and federal government, and of course between the federal government and between the states and federal government agencies, and this is as it should be. The ultimate beneficiaries are the good people of Delta State and of course the country and large. I must encourage all levels of government to emulate what Delta State has done, and also a Nubu State, Plateau State, and Rio State which have exemplified this spirit of cooperation or development by their tremendous support of road safety institutions within their jurisdictions. Road safety is a collective responsibility and that is what the Government of Delta State has demonstrated today. I also note with delight the cordial relationship between the Commission and the CORE which has been entered into the establishment of two additional training institutions, the FCSC and Marshall Inspector's Training School in the last of one year. The CORE has continued to show appreciable determination to build staff capacity as a major requirement for the understanding of road-tracking traffic matters as well as tackling all its associated challenges. These laudable efforts of the CORE are in alignment with the policy thrust of the present administration in its economic recovery and growth plan, the ERGP, and the success of plans that are coming. Part of the critical focus of the ERGP is capacity building and skills acquisition interventions. It emphasizes investments in infrastructure with specific attention on building on ongoing projects and identifying new ones to be implemented in order to improve the national infrastructure model. The Federal Government will continue to support organizations that demonstrate commitment to their statutory duties such as the Air Force. Let me again appreciate the Government and people who have told us about the huge financial resources dedicated to this project. It is certainly an investment with long-term returns to the immediate community, state, and the country in general. I wish to challenge the personnel of the Federal Safety CORE to put this institution for the best use and to work hard with partners in the road-trafficking ecosystem to ensure the very best training and the very best capacity building initiatives for all its members and for all members of the ecosystem. So it is now my very special pleasure of privilege to perform and inaugurate the Federal Safety CORE Michelle in the Specter Ridge Training School in Oah and Leroy Delta State. God bless Delta State.