All right, so I've got 601 p.m. on Monday, June 21st. I'll call to order this meeting of the Winooski City Council. Please join us in the Pledge of Allegiance, led by Deputy Mayor Haliflosten. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. You're welcome. Next on the agenda is agenda review. And I actually wanted to propose a change to tonight's agenda. So I am B on here. This memo from me on master plan prior reports is part of the discussion that we want to have before our Saturday prioritization session. And so I think it would fall better at the end of the agenda after the goals update. If folks think that is a good idea, I have a motion to move item B to the end of the agenda. I move to move item B after item J on the agenda. Second. Motion by Bryn, second by Jim. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Motion carries. Thank you. We now have public comment. I don't see any attendees on here. Paul, do you have any or John? Is there anyone in person? Nobody has signed up for tonight, Mayor Christine. Thank you. And nobody in person. Great, thank you. So we'll move to our consent agenda. I'm going to pull out item A. This is approval of our liquor control board and city council minutes from June 7th, since Mike was not in attendance that evening. Are there any questions or concerns about those minutes? Do I have a motion to approve the minutes from our meetings on June 7th? So moved. Second. Motion by Bryn, second by Jim. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Those abstaining, we did might just disappear. Well, the motion carries. Let's hope that he joins us shortly, rejoins. The rest of the consent agenda includes the accounts payable warrant of June 17th and payroll warrant for May 30th to June 12th. Commission reappointments. So these are commission members who are, their terms have come up and they seek reappointment as well as one member on the planning commission who term is not changing, but she is moving from alternate to regular seats. And then the Champlain Housing Trust loan discharge, which we discussed at our last meeting, but unfortunately had not put that on for approval at that time. Are there any questions from council on any of the items here in the consent agenda? All right, do I have a motion to approve items B, C and D? So moved. Second. Motion by Hal, second by Jim. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Motion carries, thank you. So we are on to council reports. I really lost track of my orders here. So, Bryn, can I start with you? Sure, yep. The Music Poll Infrastructure Committee met on June 8th. That was the first time they've met since March. It was also the first time that I had joined since being elected. The majority of conversation focused on just city updates, honestly, John gave a great report out. And then also looking at priorities, recommendations for FY22 and a number of different directions we could go based off of the work to date, continuation of work underway, as well as beginning to incorporate some additional topics that are outlined as objectives and goals in the master plan, but have not yet been addressed. And I believe your update at the end of this agenda will go into that in further detail. So I'm happy to kind of defer that until later in the meeting. But we are looking at, as just approved in the consent agenda, we're looking at retaining all of the committee members into their next cycle. So happy to have everybody want to stay on. Very interested, engaged. So that's it for the infrastructure committee. Thanks, Bryn. Jim. Thank you, Mayor. So I have a couple of updates. One, I attended the airport commission meeting last week where they discussed a number of items, mostly kind of around the business operations of the airport and construction updates. But of note was that they mentioned they have ordered the noise monitoring equipment for Wenuski and South Burlington expect delivery within the next six weeks as of last week. So that is underway. They discussed noise monitoring or noise complaints that have come in. It seems like the numbers are about stable from the previous update they had. They looked at a map and were discussing whether they could overlay flight paths and the main flight paths in and out of the airport. They were gonna wait until the noise monitoring system is set up because it'll have a more robust integration between the complaints and monitoring system. And then at that point I had to leave. That's the parts of the airport commission that I was able to attend. My second update, I was fortunate to be able to peek in on the planning commission and the place of the mayor. Last week as well, the planning commission is discussing setbacks and what to allow within the form-based code how to allow a setbacks or certain types of uses or certain building configurations to enable the kind of connection between streetscape and buildingscape to flow a little bit better, provide some more flexibility to developers within the gateways. So a lot of discussion around how that should be constructed and constrained. Also some discussions around windows and how parking can appear or not appear from the front of the building when it's set underground. So just some pretty good robust discussion around those issues to try and bring us forward some more changes to form-based codes that'll get us what we want in those gateway districts. I should say get us what the community wants in the gateway districts. Finally, our second to last, I attended a training for select boards and municipal officials on the new tree warden law and tree statutes last Thursday. So this was put on by the Vermont League of Cities and Towns and Vermont Urban and Community Forestry Program and went over some of the nuances in the new law which for the first time defines a shade tree and how to have a shade tree preservation plan. And this is the way that municipalities can enable themselves to manage public trees without a shade preservation plan. The only trees that a city can manage are those that it has planted itself. So for a city like Buenos Aires that may not have records of who planted which trees, this is gonna be a pretty important step to managing our urban forests as we previously envisioned with our tree ordinance. So there's some substantive changes that would be needed there to kind of take advantage of this new law. It also explained the changes to the tree warden statutes and how those are administered. And then finally, this is still in the early development but we have been offered the opportunity for tree giveaways for private residents in the city, from Vermont Urban and Community Forestry. So up to, oh John, I'm gonna forget the number whether it was 70 or at least 70 trees to landowners within the city that can be landlords or owner occupants to try and increase urban canopy on private lands. This is early in development, but exciting opportunity that has been done in Brattleboro and Bennington, I believe a couple other municipalities in the state. So excited to see that program moving here this summer. I should say next, later this summer. So that's gonna be a good opportunity to kind of take advantage of our private lands for increasing urban forests in the city. And that's all I've got. Thanks, Jim. Hal? Yes. This is the veto session week that the general assembly will be going back into the legislative process. And for debate will be our charter change along with Montpelier which has a focus on all resident and non-citizen voting. So even though our charter change had a 99 to 44 vote margin in the house, we're doing all we can do to make sure that we can achieve that or see that. And I think that vote will come on this Thursday. We go back in Wednesday and finish up on Thursday. So stay tuned. Thanks, Hal. Mike. Yes, apologies for missing our last council meeting. I had a severe plumbing issue happen. So I had to take care of business. I was gonna report last week about the pool opening on June 4th, the soft opening that Ray and his team did an outstanding job for the pool committee and for the Myers pool foundation and for the Myers family. I wanted to thank him on behalf of my family and great job. Even though it poured a little bit but then the sun came out. So we got wet and then we got dry then we got wet again because we jumped in the pool. And I wanna thank John Rausner for being on site, getting the pool ready on that Friday which was probably an awesome feat on his behalf. I think he told me that he wish he had a week of preparation for the pool because as you know, I went down the slide and I told him to crank the slide up so we can get going on it. So I wanna thank John and his team on behalf of my family as well and the pool foundation. And that's all I have to report. Thanks, Mike. I'll give a quick pile on of Pudos to Ray as well. He has been leading the planning for our priority and strategy session this Saturday on the 26th. I had a meeting with him and staff last week in preparation that was really good. Really looking forward to getting together this weekend to hash out our new focuses for the upcoming year. Also wanna report that the resolution we approved last meeting on the noise compatibility program and noise mitigation for our houses in our community. I shared that last week with the consultant at the FAA and that's running that program for the airport as well as the aviation director and deputy director. And the city manager search committee has at their last meeting hashed out our 10, I think we had 10 applicants that met the requirements of the role and we've selected six that we'll be inviting to interview over the coming weeks. That is all for me. I will pass it to in a city update next. I think Phoebe will start. Hi everyone. So as everyone knows, the state of emergency was last week. So we are still requesting that anyone coming into city buildings who is unvaccinated still wear a mask. But otherwise that's a really exciting development and we're happy to be where we are in terms of the pandemic winding down at least for the monitors. And just an update, we are still working on hybrid and in-person commission and council meetings. So Paul has been working very hard to work with town meeting TV to get that set up. So hopefully we will have an update on that on our July 19th meeting. Just a quick update on American Rescue Plan Act funds. The Vermont League of Cities and Towns is lobbying the treasury to release county funds. And so we're still in the planning stages while we wait for confirmation on the total amount that Winooski is going to receive. The county, there are a number of funds, I think 121 million that were allocated to counties. And so for Vermont and a couple of other states, it's necessary to sort of fill in the treasury that there's not, there aren't a huge amount of services provided by county governments. So we're hoping to get those funds released back to municipalities. So more to come on that. We're still recruiting for commissions. So we have a number of seats open on our commissions. And so we're just asking everyone to just continue to spread the word in your circles. And the application for commission appointments is online on our website. And we have a Pride Flag raising event on June 28th. It will happen at 12 30 PM and involve a couple of speakers. We'll also be holding an event during Vermont's Pride Month in September that will be in collaboration with city partners. But I wanted to thank Councilor Oakleaf and our equity director, Yaz Borden for all of the coordination work on the flag raising. Great, thanks Phoebe, thanks everyone. So a few updates on my ends. As Phoebe mentioned, city hall is open for council meetings. So come on down. We have our conditioning. So maybe that'll get some folks in here, but right now it's empty. Other items, so just a reminder for the council calendar for July. So we've got this Saturday, our policy priority strategies retreat where we do the shared work plan with the council and leadership needs. That's a public meeting. So stay tuned for details on time and place for that. And then in July, we only have the one council meeting. So that's going to be July 19th. Some quick construction project updates. So Butternut Station, that's the proposed Champlain Housing District, Champlain Housing Trust Project at 32 Mallets Bay. That's at our O'Nata, or O'Nata, our O'Brien Community Center. So that is proposing to start construction on July 12th. We are looking to have a pre-construction meeting with the OCC tenants July 1st. So we're going to be continuing those meetings throughout the construction process. Our other big project that's still happening in town, the Hickok Street Reconstruction Project, that project's actually starting to wind down. So we're in the final phases of that work. So in the next few weeks, we're going to be doing repaving work. And we're going to be asking folks to keep vehicles off the street while that works happening Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. till 5 p.m. But we'll have plenty of signs and notices out to alert residents on the street. That project should be wrapping up about approximately mid-July. So we'll see that project finally come to a close. And then the only other update I have is just to give some gratitude for folks that help coordinate the first annual Juneteenth celebration that we had this past Saturday evening. So I especially want to give kudos to our own Yasmin Gordon who performed the opening speech for that. So just wanting to say thanks for everyone involved there. That's all I have. Thanks. Thank you. So this brings us to our regular items. First up is item A and that is a housing trust policy update from Heather Carrington, which this is on for approval. We saw some of this at a previous meeting. Mike, you have a question? Yeah, sorry. My raise hand feature isn't working.  Can I double back on what John said about the CHT construction? John, are we reaching out to the other like businesses that are on Mouse Bay right there, like J&J's corner market in the last stop? Are they going to have a loading area? Or is it going to interrupt their businesses at all down there? Have we reached out to them guys? We haven't directly reached out. We can most certainly do that. We can talk about that or a meeting July 1st with the team. So yeah, we're happy to reach out to folks and Heather and I can coordinate that. And Mike, the staging is going to be on the O'Brien community center site. So really it's a very aimed project with the exception of some disruption to the sidewalk area in front. So overall, I don't think it's going to impact their business. It's just going to be a matter of getting people safely around that sidewalk area. I do know that the last stop at night uses that parking lot for Overfill in case they have an event. Like they have trivia night and it's a pretty popular thing whether they're supposed to or not. I don't know. I don't want to get them in trouble either but they usually park on the railroad side of the parking lot there. So I didn't know what that's going to stop. And I think maybe the owner should know about that. So people don't get ticketed or towed. Yeah, I'm happy to talk with Shannon and Shayla but I don't think it's going to impact that area of the parking. So I think overall I'm happy to reach out and just let them know what's going on and keep them in the loop. Awesome, thank you. Heather, Housing Trust Fund update please. Yes, absolutely.  I am bringing forward the Housing Trust Fund policy for final approval, I hope. And the policy that you're seeing tonight has been substantially unchanged since the last time you see it with one exception. That is I ran it through our city attorney and he suggested a minor clarification to language about being eligible for the down payment assistance grant that's on page 11. And it specifically speaks to people who are Winooski residents having are being eligible for that down payment grant.  This is for people who were residents prior to home purchase. So whatever that looks like and I did not specify what that looks like that could be someone who's been renting in Winooski that could be someone who's grown up with their parents in Winooski, wide variety of options. But if you lived in Winooski prior to purchasing a home in Winooski and that's really an anti-displacement piece of language. So that's the only piece that has changed. And in addition, there was a request at our last meeting that we have the city equity director review the policy for any potential changes to the policy and she had no changes to the policy. She will be working with me directly in developing the application materials to ensure that those are equitable. And I think really it's more about the promotional materials and the application materials in terms of those are the ones that are gonna be community facing whereas this is more an internally guiding document. So she did not have a problem with any of the policies themselves. I'm happy to take any questions but I think we have seen this for quite some time and I would be really excited to start moving this forward. Thanks Heather. And I'll just say if anyone is watching this recording this is a fund available to folks in Winooski to support construction rehabilitation, housing improvements and down payment assistance. Sort of help support more housing options here. I don't personally have any questions. Counselors, any questions for Heather? Heather, I'm curious how you're defining duration of residency prior to loan application. We're not. It's about not displacing people who currently live in Winooski so we are not setting a time limit on that. Okay. Which is one of the master plan goals, I apologize. So we're really supporting one of the master plan goals in being anti-displacement in that. Great, thank you for the clarification. And then is there, you know, and just reading through it again before the meeting I didn't see if there was any built-in dates for reevaluating program goals or like success of attaining the objectives. That's part of the housing commission work plan. So we have that built into the housing commission work plan as opposed to this. So we intend to be evaluating how we're doing with meeting our goals at least annually and revising language as needed. Okay, great, that's all I got. There are other questions. Are there any members of the public who wish to ask a question, make a comment? You can use the raise hand feature in Zoom or the chat. All right, hearing no concerns, I would entertain a motion to approve the housing trust policy. I move. Second. Motion by Jim, second by Brynn. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Motion carries. Thank you. And then so next up is old item C, now item B, the opportunities credit union MOU that we also recently saw. Yeah, so this differs only in that it now has the attachments with it and also has the most specifically the attachment with the fees that OCU will be charging for servicing this. And there's one line item on those fees that specifically will not be going through the housing trust fund but instead through the community development budget. And that is the line item that is for training their staff on administering the three different programs. And that is going to come out of my professional services line. So that's how we've asked them to build that. So it's not the housing trust fund. Thank you. Any questions from council? Is there, does the budget incorporate like the is it really just the, what the allocated $348,000 are for budget amount? So there's like a built in cap so we won't exceed that. That's correct. Yes. Any other questions? Any public comment on this item? All right, we have been talking about this policy for two plus years, maybe more. Would anyone like to make a motion to approve the opportunities credit union MOU? Is drastically so moved. Second. Motion by Jim second by Hal. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Motion carries. Thank you. So our next item is the MOU with downtown Manuski and I can see that we have Meredith Betayak, the director here with us. She will be joining us. Okay, I'll introduce it. So as part of our downtown designation, we are required to have a professional Vermont downtown management organization and downtown Manuski is that organization for us. That is a requirement to maintain that designation and having that designation gives us access to a wide variety of grant programs and we have taken advantage of those over the years to the tune of millions of dollars. So it's really important to have this partner in place but there's so much more than just there to maintain the designation. So the document that I have brought forward for you is very, very similar to the prior memorandum of understanding that we had with downtown Manuski and it really just lays out the roles and responsibilities of the city and of downtown Manuski and for the funding that we provide to downtown Manuski which comes through two avenues. One of them is they receive the sidewalk fees from the city and I think there's a direct line to their work in the city helping to keep businesses afloat and vibrant and using that space. And then the second piece is they receive a portion of the on-street parking revenue as part of their income. So we have made this MOU to go for one year we're just bringing us ourselves back up to speed and there had been a little bit of a lapse in our MOU so we're making sure that we have this set for this next year. Nothing much has changed with a couple of exceptions. We have shifted on page two under events management we've shifted what some of the events are. So there are still a variety of events that they are committing to do in the community but the nature of those events is slightly different. They've recently taken over Manuski Wednesdays which used to be run in part by the city. So that's an event that's been tremendously successful and so we prioritize that event here. Juneteenth, the recent Juneteenth celebration we just had we've added to their list of events and I believe the holiday pop-up shop and I think the community is really familiar with the Manuski Farmers Market we certainly wanted to keep that one. So it's a lot of really well-recognized events in our community. And we added in little areas we tweak the language only to really reflect what they actually do in the community. And primarily the things that they are doing in the community are in support of our economic vitality goals in our municipal master plan. And I would say those all fall under goals one, two, three and four of the economic vitality plan. So I have those here if you wanna go into them but I don't think that we need to go into that in depth. So no major changes here just minor tweaks and Meredith, do you wanna add anything? You covered it. It's not that different than previous version. Thanks. It was actually nice to read through the scope of services here as a reminder that Heather is our Community Economic Development Officer, one person and we are able to work with downtown Manuski and support you as an organization to actually reach a lot of these goals around economic development in our city. And this is, it's just a good list to show that the value that you in downtown have been adding. So thank you very much. Any questions from council? Any public comments? All right. Would someone like to move to approve the downtown Manuski MOU? Don't move. Second. Motion by Mike. Second by Hal. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you, Meredith. All right. We are on to the item, now D, old E, the downtown to go space update. Yep. And I think we're gonna keep Meredith for this one as well because it's another example of how we do rely on downtown Manuski in outreach to businesses. So if you'll recall in December of 2020, downtown Manuski brought forward a request from downtown businesses asking city council to forego parking fees for several on street parking spaces in order to accommodate the businesses needs to have to go parking spaces for free for people to come and keep their businesses afloat during the pandemic. In addition to that, we did allocate one parking space to be used for outdoor dining for a business that needed more space for that. So that was a slate of parking spaces that we allotted until the end of June. So we said that we would reconsider it at this point in time. And I asked Meredith to go back to businesses and ask them what they felt should be done and what their preferences were. And when she heard back, the vast majority of businesses said, business owners said that they would prefer for those parking spaces to be returned to the regular inventory and felt that that would be the best use of those spaces at this time. So I think that was six or seven businesses that responded to her, the most directly affected businesses and only one of them had requested that those remain out of the regular parking inventory. So I bring this forward with a recommendation from downtown Winooski and the business community to return the specially designated downtown parking spaces to the paid on-street parking inventory. Thanks Heather. Are there questions from council? When would this become effective? Would it be July 1st? July 1st, yep. I see a comment. So we have a public comment from Maggie Barch businesses in the outside seating would like to use it through October. I can open this to public comment, Maggie if you would like to speak. I'm new to Zoom, so hopefully I can get this. Can you hear me? Welcome, we can hear you, yes. Okay, okay. Yeah, the one parking space to use for outside seating has been super helpful for the short time that we could make use of it before the construction kind of changed our plan. We'd love to make use of that through October. We have a limited storefront space so we really haven't got much room for outside tables too with COVID. Three, if we're able to put one out and this would certainly go a long way to help us regain some of that revenue we lost. Thank you. Are there any questions from council? Is that the only space in the city? Is that just one parking space or Heather as you were alluding to or how many others are parking spaces are used for seating at this point? Only one was used for seating, but it was part of that slate of seven or eight parking spaces that were put aside to assist business. So they were assisting other businesses by providing that to go parking. I see. Actually, if I might have a question about that I have to go back and look but in the sidewalk application form I wasn't very clear that that was only through a limited time. I thought that that was for the duration of the outside seating seasonal time. So that was a question I had as well as far as the liquor department goes and all that sort of thing. Hi, Maggie. This is Heather. That was determined at that liquor control board meeting where they put that timeline on it and had it aligned with the to go parking spaces. So the application you're right didn't specify that the liquor control board did. Okay. Thanks. So council, I think the question is here we have these to go spaces. Do we return those to the paid inventory? We have this one space being used by one business to expand their outdoor seating. Do we extend that one space? And I think there's some question there about what is fair to the overall business community downtown but also for residents and folks coming to use these businesses like what is best for all users? Mike. Excuse me. So the date of when we agreed on the to have them have that space for seating that has expired, Heather? It expires on the 30th of June. Of June, okay. Out to expire. So, and I've been by there and I think that space has been used really well for that business. And my question, I'm on a 50-50 here because do we open a door for other businesses to say well, if this business did it, can we do it too? But I think since we already approved it once maybe we let them go through the season and see how it works. And if it opens Pandora's box, we reevaluate that then in order to help their business. Because I have noticed that it does help them that they're allowed to have more seating out there. So I think, is there a way to write that up where we continue for the rest of the open season? Yeah, I mean, that's certainly a thing we could do is extend the end date on that use case. And then see how it works with the other businesses because has any other business asked for anything like this? Mike, we went to all of the businesses back in the very beginning of the pandemic and offered the all of the parking spaces in front of front row on Main Street, those protected parking spaces and were surprised that overwhelmingly that was not what was desired by those businesses. Since that time, there have been some businesses who have expressed interest in having access to the same thing. And I think what Meredith and I held, I think it was seven meetings with businesses and we were really looking for consensus just because it was such a desperate economic environment. So this was really our way of accommodating everyone as much as we possibly could. But I think that we can certainly have that discussion again in the future where we set up a situation which I think Eric Warwald is calling summer streets where we allow for more sidewalk permit space within those parking spaces. And it may be a different conversation, having seen that being used effectively at our house. So that may be something that people would be interested in in the future with the construction that is going on right now. That's why those spaces are going to be available and not available, available and not available depending on when that construction is going on. So there's a little bit of difficulty in expanding that to other businesses right now because of that construction disruption. I think the geography of the business too, the location has some, I don't think it would work in the middle like in front of sneakers, for example. I think because our house is on the corner right there and I think that has a natural protection of that bump out. So I don't know, I'm on the fence. I think we should allow them to go through the season if we can and then see how it works, make it a trial run. Obviously the businesses in the middle, I don't think it's gonna work out for safety reasons. Anyway, so that'd be a good beginning. Thanks, Mike, Meredith. Yeah, my question regardless of sort of how it moves forward would be to just have clarity, whatever decision is made on what then other businesses, if they're allowed to go through the season, what's the process for other businesses this year who do say, okay, well, I want that too? Is it, is the answer, I'm sorry, that's not on the table right now? We'll talk about it for 2022, or is there gonna be a process in place for any business to potentially have similar access? Thanks, Meredith. Hal? Yeah, I just wanna, you know, second what Meredith just shared, I think it's important to be clear about what's the process. So we're not kind of making up decisions on the fly, but it's got some thought and it's consistent and people can access it if they need to. So I just think it's important to have a process. I agree. And I think that since it hasn't been a problem for the other businesses, I think since this business has already been running it for the month, I'd say we continue it. And then I think we should figure out that process for next season in case other businesses say, well, hey, I wanna try that this year too. And then we'll have, we should get a process in place. We don't currently have a process to permit those spaces. It really was part of the emergency response for all businesses with that full slate of spaces. So there isn't a way to permit those parking spaces at present. Brynn? So I believe that I was the one that had requested reviewing again at the end of June in those previous meetings, approval meetings. And I kind of was basing it on the caveat of where we were with the state of emergency. And so given that that has been rescinded statewide, I do feel like I'm in support of returning all parking spaces to their prior use to be aligned with that state of emergency, which really was the basis for my recommendation previously. Thanks Brynn. Paul, can you bring Maggie back over? I see her hand is up again. Hi, thanks. So I have been following along and I just wanted to point out and just bring some attention to the sidewalk shared space. Because of our small storefront, we had always assumed that we could only permit for what was directly in front of our space. And our neighboring restaurants can share mule bar and it has their bump out in the monkey house and sneakers can share their seating. So all of those spaces have about twice the amount of sidewalk space that we can make use of, which from what I understand after the fact the city can share that more equitably, which we would request in the future that we would be able to have as much access to sidewalks dining space as our neighboring restaurants do, despite the fact that our actual storefront might be skinny and long. And that's why this parking space kind of really just makes it a much more equal opportunity for everybody along the strip. That way we aren't impeding on anybody else. They still get to have all that they can make use of and we have a nearly equal amount of tables outside. Thanks, Maggie. Do other counselors have feelings one way or the other? I've heard from Mike and Brune. I might buy senses to treat this as a non-emergency question. And I think I'm in kind of agreement with Brune on this that we should look at this as a non-emergency request and come up with something that works for the full set of businesses, but that's a summer streets thing or something expedited that we can try and examine for after the construction wraps up because we do still have some time before that happens. So this is not really an issue for the next month as I understand it, right? So I would be happy to try and review something this summer if that's something that we can try and make happen for all businesses that might be kind of tight, but that is something I consider or we can wait till next year. But I kind of agree that there was the emergency response and that has largely wrapping up and there's a lot of types of assistance and support that are ending. So I think this might be one we need to go back to a more normal pace of business on. Thanks, Jim. So I tend to think that there does need to be some evaluation here on how to do this the right way in the future and you know, meet a situation that works for the greater good and not be reactive, right? We should be looking at the bigger picture and I don't think that's likely something we want to ask staff to do right now as an urgent priority. So I would lean towards returning the spaces to go as we had previously planned and not making a change here without having a more thoughtful discussion about it. So there, I think there's two motions here. Someone could move to return the spaces to to go. Someone could move to, I'm sorry, return the to-go spaces to paid parking inventory or someone could move to return the to-go spaces to paid parking inventory and extend the deadline on the outdoor dining space. I'll make a motion to extend the outdoor space for that, for our house. I've heard a motion, is anyone wanting to second that? Is there another motion on the table? I'll move to, I meet the staff recommendation to return all parking spaces to their prior use. Second. Motion by Bryn, second by Hal. Those in favor, please say aye. Aye. All right. Those opposed? Nay. Motion carries. Thank you very much. We can add this to our parking, list of parking lot items for further review. We are moving now to item E. This was item F initially. This is financial policies control environment. An update from Angela on the policy work. This is the second round of policies that's coming before the board. This grouping of three policies is about the control environment in the city, the internal controls that we'll put in place to ensure that all of the reporting that we're doing is accurate and that we prevent as much fraud, theft or mismanagement or errors as possible. The three policies being presented tonight are the employee financial responsibility policy which governs the responsibilities of every individual employee regardless of their position in the organization. The information technology policy that sets some basic standards for how we will use technology. The IT policy has been updated to include some new things that were brought up in light of remote work, specifically surrounding the locking of computers when not attended and the logging out of your accounts on personal devices. And then the internal controls and risk management policy, which is mostly the same with the addition by the finance commission of a presentation of our annual fraud risk assessment to the council at one of the regularly scheduled meetings. This meeting is being recorded. Thanks, Angela. As the liaison to the finance commission, I will just share that these all went through review with that body. There were no controversies or big issues, mostly just minor changes for clarification that I recall. Are there questions from council on any of these policies? Any public comment? Would anyone like to move to approve the financial policies control? Oh, no, not on for approval, discussion only. We intend to bring them back at your next meeting on the consent agenda for approval. Great, thank you very much. We are moving on to item F, old item G. This is an update on the O'Brien Community Center from Ray Coffey. Hey, how's it going everybody? This will be a fairly quick one, but just wanted to make sure to touch base with council here and let you all know kind of where things stand down at the O'Brien Center in sort of the wake of North Institute's departure. So they are officially out of the space completely at this point and the locks in those spaces have been changed over. So we've kind of effectively taken control back of those spaces formerly leased to North End. And at present are looking at, I guess sort of two tracks. One is to sort of on a more escalated timeframe, look at getting the kitchen back online and trying to get a tenant into that space just cause that was a very vibrant area that was supporting a lot of local business, especially around our international meals. So our hope is to have at your next regular meeting, July 19th, a hopefully a draft lease to consider for that kitchen space. And then in a broader context, the mutual aid group, Muske Mutual Aid came and spoke at our last month's Safe Healthy Connected Commission and kind of coming out of that conversation we're going to work with them for early July to set up a public meeting to kind of further discuss the results of a survey they're conducting around potential interests and needs in the community that would be met by those spaces and try to use that as an opportunity to gather some more community feedback before we start to move into the process of seeking tenants or figuring out partnerships for those spaces in the O'Brien Center. So nothing official to report yet, but like I said, expect to see something back at the July meeting for the kitchen and then again, looking towards early July for a community meeting where we'll get some more info and use that to craft a strategy for the long term. Thanks, Ray. So you're seeking potentially to lease out the kitchen space but not the other spaces that Northern Studios was leasing. Not yet. I think we likely will move in a direction of leasing those spaces again, but I think wanted to take some time to just consider what those could be.  So there's some limitations to what that space can be and because we've really heard, frankly, the most interest from the community around getting that space up and running again, we're choosing to prioritize that space upfront and then take our time a little bit on those, frankly, more flexible spaces in the back of the building that could serve a lot of different needs potentially. Do we, probably for Angela, do we know the budgetary impact of lost revenue so far or projected out? So Northern Studios was paying monthly about $5,600 in rent. We have not received the April rent to my knowledge and have foregone the May and June rent. So we will have approximately $16,000 impact to this fiscal year. We had a gap starting next year where we're not receiving rent for the first couple months. And are we able to fill that hole for this fiscal year? We are projecting surplus right now, but that could change. That was as of the March quarter. Okay. I'm also curious if these, if you know yet, if this lost revenue qualifies for the ARPA funding or having a COVID related impacts. The ARPA funding for revenue replacement is pretty complicated. It's an aggregate over the entire city, all funds. So basically we have to show a loss overall. So if anything performed better than normal or better than budget, it actually offset those items where we saw shortfalls. The government finance officers association has put together a calculator that I'm gonna input our data into to determine whether or not we'll be eligible for any revenue replacement. Some of the things that we were looking at revenue replacement for, we're not likely to be able to take advantage of as you are also restricted for what you use the revenue replacement to pay for and cannot use it to replenish any reserves. Okay, thanks, Angela. Those are my questions for now. Are there questions from other members of council? Is there a sense for any interest in the space? Have there been calls or emails coming in about businesses that may want to utilize it? Yeah, that's a great question, Bryn. So we've definitely had a fairly high level of interest so far in the space and certainly relative to when we were trying to lease the space after the YMCA left. Interestingly, it's been a lot busier in terms of just feeling phone calls and interest. So I don't want to jinx us, but I'm feeling some optimism that we, once we get a sense from the community of what the needs really are, we are gonna have some partners at the table that will have an interest in space. And would the, sorry, just one more question. Would the, are you envisioning that it will be an RFP that will be drafted for review for July? That's a great question. We did not do an RFP process last time and I think that will be driven a little bit by what comes out of the meeting with mutual aid, I think, in terms of what that RFP might look like. Not having a great sense yet of how granular that feedback is gonna get in terms of potential uses or interests and uses, I think will help drive that a little bit in terms of what we look at there. Or is it, I don't have a great example off the top of my head but if it's a very specified need that is really only served by one identified organization in the area, an RFP may be sort of a move point versus being able to do a direct negotiation. So I think I wanna sort of see what happens in July before we at that meeting before we get into developing an RFP. Okay. I just wanna add that I appreciate taking some time to think about actual needs or community desires for that space. But I also want us to keep in mind that we have been challenged to fill those spaces for years and years and have had problems funding that building. Last I knew we still don't have much for reserves there or we were already pulling out of them, right? Yeah. So it's- We've drawn it down to reserves completely. Yeah, so there is like a financial hole here taking a couple of months to think about best use is I am okay with that. I don't think we can spend six months doing that. Totally agreed. Yeah, totally agreed. Are there any other questions? Any public comments? Oh, sorry, Bryn, I think I saw your hand. Yeah, I mean, I just wanna emphasize that I agree with the mayor on your last point. I think we could still build the bones and structure of an RFP in the meantime so that we're not, we don't lose time but between now and a public meeting. I think what we can do is incorporate the comments and outcome and discussions from that. From that, but I mean, ultimately it'll be the council's decision how to move forward. And I do think that having an RFP even just having for the most part an outline is within the best interest of the city. Yeah. And Bryn, one thing, and I didn't mention this before but we do have both through our public works bidding processes and most recently from the snack bar space that we're leasing out at the Myers pool, we have like templates that we can fairly easily mock up. So when I was saying about not drafting an RFP we sort of have those bones in existence. I think it's more of how we put the meat on those bones that I wanna wait until the July meeting for. So I apologize, that was not clear. No, that's helpful. Thank you, Ray. All right, hearing no other comments, we'll move on from this item. Thank you for the update, Ray. Sure. Angela, we'll be back with us for the state treasurer's reports. I'm actually gonna ask if Paul can bring over Alex. This is actually Alex's report. It's an annual requirement in state statute that this internal controls checklist be completed by the treasurer and reported to the council before June 30th. Alex, welcome. Oh, thank you, thank you. Yes, so we run this report once a year. There weren't any significant changes to report over last year. If anyone has any questions, but as far as that goes, operations are as expected. That's great, thank you. My only question was if there were changes from years past. Nope. I think if anything would be that this year we had changes to the signatories on the bank account, but less of a concern since you already knew about those. Questions from council? Just quick question. Do we anticipate any changes from recent legislation or upcoming legislation to this checklist or to municipal requirements? Not that I'm aware of. Angela, I don't know if you are as well. I haven't seen anything yet. I pull the checklist every year directly from the state auditor's website just to make sure we have the most up to date one. Mark, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Thank you. Are there any other questions or comments? Any public comment on this item? All right, well, Alex, thank you for continuing to review and keep our finances double checked. Yep, thank you, mayor and city council. I'm Angela. We will move to item H, the old item I. This is a legacy campaign update from Paul, our communications coordinator. Mayor Lott, I was just going to, if I may lay the groundwork for this just a little. Please do. Okay, thank you. So I just wanna remind everyone in the community that in 2018 the city completed a successful rebranding and marketing initiative, which included a revised city seal and a special 100 year logo for the 100th anniversary of the city in 2022, that's March 7th, 2022. The legacy campaign is the marketing strategy that came out of that and that marketing strategy is really both internally focused and externally focused, telling our own story through the people, places and traditions of Winooski that demonstrate that we are Vermont's opportunity city. So Paul has been good enough to take over the legacy campaign and has been project managing that and moving it forward. He's established the Centennial Celebration Committee and they're currently planning a series of events that will kick off on March 7th, 2022, celebrating that 100 year birthday. So what Paul is telling us tonight is really the framework and the bones of the features that will be emerging kind of as a community source set of stories, kind of story core format about the people, places and traditions of Winooski and with that, I will turn it over to Paul. Thank you Heather, it was a great overview and good evening everybody. As you've probably seen on social media, we have successfully launched the legacy campaign and our new page is live. I'm just gonna take you on a brief tour of that page. You can access it through the front of our website here on WinooskiVT.gov. It is in the about menu here, you can go about our legacy campaign or scroll through the graphic images here to the legacy campaign. So as you can see it launches a wonderful sort of dedicated page. The URL for this page is easy to remember. It's just legacy.winooskivt.gov. This separate platform is really great. It's really wonderful for sort of capturing multimedia content. The homepage here is basically the about section. As Heather mentioned, you can see our wonderful new tagline, the city of Winooski, Vermont's Opportunity City and sort of our brand story if you will here and then an invitation to basically join us in celebrating Winooski's 100 year legacy of welcoming and opportunity. Down here, we just have some social links too for connecting to that. It's all of our normal city accounts that we'll be sharing these features on so you can get connected there. There is a custom email address down here which is legacy.winooskivt.gov for people who have questions or just wanna get in touch. So the feature section has three categories highlighting our people, places and traditions. This is where you'll see everything you love about Winooski that exemplifies our legacy of welcoming and opportunity. So in the people section here, our first feature we did with David Klinker. David Klinker is a Winooski School District student and videographer. He did an absolute most excellent job with his feature. It was very well received when we shared it to social media. So if you haven't seen that yet, please give it a watch and share. Definitely check out David's other Winooski projects on his website. He's been an absolute just wonderful person to work with. He's been a great partner. So definitely contact David for your next video project for sure. Our first place feature here in this section is the Champlain Mill. As you can see, the mill is our custom legacy campaign logo. It's got really strong brand recognition and it's been wonderful to sort of see that. I don't know if you've seen the cut out of it yet that we've been using for some of these projects but there's a really great physical cut out of the logo that we've been using for photographs and stuff. It's really wonderful. I worked with the Heritage Mill Museum, Miriam Block who's also on our Centennial Celebration Committee to put this feature together in the Special Collections Office at UVM as well to create this content, all this content. Definitely get a chance to click around and see all the great multimedia resources available. Some of this stuff was really awesome to sort of look into and go backwards into our history and the history of that building. It's great YouTube video here, this place in history. This email is definitely worth a watch. Great feature, great all-around feature. Then in the tradition section, our first tradition to highlight was of course Waking Windows. I worked directly with their team to get all the content quotes put together. So if you're new to Waking Windows or a seasoned vet, there's definitely something in there for everybody. Definitely check out all the featured photos and all the great video recaps that they have. I got all this really great contextual experience stuff from their whole team here, which is pictured here. And then definitely check out the Build Board article as well, what's a really wonderful article that we included. Heather is featured in that article. So Heather's a little bit of a rockstar too here, featured on Build Board. So that was really great to see. We also have space for the Centennial Celebration on the section of the website. Currently we're planning on kicking that off on the week of March 7th, 2022. So there'll be more here when events start to come together, but for now, you could see everybody who's on the committee and it's sort of a holding space for that section. Meetings are off through a great start. You can definitely join us on the second Wednesday of every month at 6 p.m. It took a couple of meetings to iron out the regular schedule, but definitely feel free to join us. The conversations have been really great. We're definitely still aiming for that week-long series of events. There's some talk about maybe extending like a summer extension for outdoor activities. It's a great that our Centennial birthday is March 7th, but I think we all know about winter in Vermont. That's certainly some of the ideas were about having a parade and doing all this great multimedia stuff that's interactive outside. And so we're having those conversations, talking about lots of different opportunities there. So I guess lastly, I'll take the moment here to remind everybody that we have many, many features sort of planned to be highlighted this year and through 2022, but we are absolutely open to suggestions. So if there are people or places or traditions you'd like to see highlighted, you can fill out this really easy form that's right here and that will come to us directly and we'll work with you to create one of those amazing features. And with that, I'm happy to open it up for questions. Thanks, Paul. To be clear, we're pushing all of this out in like our regular social media and update channels. Yeah, actually, I'm glad you brought that up. In the planning process, it was sort of on the table to create unique avenues for the legacy campaign, but with our city's size and our reach, having been really exponentially grown in the time that we've really focused on growing them, it made sense to sort of own that through the regular channels and be able to celebrate through the audiences that we have and sort of envelope in that brand recognition and sort of use welcoming and opportunity as sort of the regular piece of our voice there. And then of course when other departments like Recreation and Parks of the Library get involved with some portion of it, we'll be able to sort of envelope on that and on next channels as well. Thank you. Yeah, because I think I already saw some of these updates going out or some of these features pushed out. Are there questions from Council? And then one more thing I wanted to say is you were showing how anyone could submit person-place tradition to be featured. I think that's something that we can share out broadly too, right? Absolutely, yeah. We included it in the initial announcement, but it's definitely gonna be in the plans to remind people that they can do that. Yeah, and it's a super easy form to fill out. And of course, like I presented in my initial presentation of this in December, just as a fresh reminder, we are working directly with other organizations, community organizations of all types to be able to work directly with them to highlight through their client bases and through their communities. So that's opportunity for them. Awesome, and so we'll be focused on this sort of with marketing style activity for now and then events when we get closer to the date. Yeah, that's definitely the plan. With the Centennial Celebration, we have been talking about sort of those legacy events that are already in Winooski. We have Wicking Windows and Winooski Wednesdays, Halloween and Winooski now and we have Juneteenth. Those will be added sort of in the schedule to the tradition section of the website. So we are able to celebrate that. And with only three to start, you land on each of the three, but as we start adding more, there will be individual links to each different box through these portals here. Cool, thank you. I think I saw Brin had a question. Yeah, I wanted to just compliment you and the team that's working on this, this really professional. It looks like it's had a lot of thought or some really great minds collaborating on it. So what I've seen coming out through social media channels already it is very exciting. And I can't wait to see what the calendar of events starts to look like and how that comes together and so I'm kind of happy to ideate with you all and to also see what comes, just how it all comes together. So that's pretty awesome. That's great. Thank you so much, Brin. It's been really exciting to put this together and be close to Mike Bento and the Engaged Strategies team who will help us put this marketing campaign together. When we launched it, Mike gave us a very nice comment on Instagram and I felt very good about the whole scenario after I saw his comment. So we are very excited and definitely keep an eye out for more. Yeah, great. There any questions or a public comment? All right, Paul and Heather, thank you for that update. Thank you so much. Thank you. So we are now on item I, the old item J. This is our ninth goals updates. Baby or John, wanna take it away? Sure. So we have prepared our final goals update for the council and there were a number of updates in red on the document that was attached to the agenda. And this is sort of the culmination of our year of pandemic operations and pandemic recovery. So a number of updates, but hopefully the document will prepare for some of our conversations that we have on Saturday and does the council have any questions about this update? Yeah, good point, Phoebe. We've seen these reports along the way, but I would urge each of you ahead of Saturday to spend some time with this and see what is still outstanding. Before the Saturday session, you will get sort of a recommendation of items that still are on the table, but this is a good place to start. And now is your chance to ask any questions about if there are any items on here you're curious about the status or what they are. This is a good chance to do that. Mayor, I had a question about the gateway utility ordinance. It looks like that hasn't been started, but is that still intended to be developed? Yeah, I can answer that one, Brynne. So that's one that is not proposed to move forward. The reason being is the intent of that ordinance was to really help the Main Street project and ultimately try to get some additional funding from private utility agencies to say you are forced to underground and we could identify corridors where undergrounding could occur. During some of our research, we found that through state regulations and some other court cases, it doesn't really work that way, unfortunately. So the only thing we can do is basically state that we can identify other corridors where if there's any new utilities, overhead utilities proposed where there aren't any, they have to go underground. We don't really have that in Winooski because we're already pretty built out. So the ordinance would be, it would not be very useful for the intent, unfortunately. I was going to ask a similar question about the stormwater ordinance, not moving forward. Yeah, no, that's actually one that's on the list. We have some draft language. There's been some regulation updates on the state side. Plus we want to tailor it more for the development we're seeing along the corridors, specifically to require additional stormwater best management practices for some of the corridor developments. So, yeah, that's one we'll definitely be bringing to you all for the discussion Saturday. And then the, could someone remind me what the phone system update entails? I feel like that's been not started a couple of years now. I'm happy to make a comment on that unless Phoebe has something. So the phone system that we currently have at City Hall, they don't make replacement equipment for anymore. So we're shoestring and duct taping along and it's going to need to be replaced at some point. We've got some vague information for voice over IP, which is an avenue that we were exploring before Jesse left. And maybe something that we're looking to in the future we've discussed with SimQuest RIT vendor doing a request for proposals for that type of service, but it's definitely going to take somebody's bandwidth to write that RFP and get it out. So it's been low priority, but it's going to quickly become a high priority as phones die. Thank you. I have a question to piggyback on from that. Do we know if or can we ask VLCT if there, if they know of any other cities that have already transitioned to voice over IP and if they'd be willing to share their RFP? I can also search the bid registry as well for any former proposals that have been posted publicly, but I will absolutely reach out to the league. Okay. And is there, I mean, would that be, has the city, is the city started using Teams? I'll look. No, okay. Because I was curious if it, if the city was using Teams, if there was like an integration option to integrate phones into Teams so that you can have access to that or through that as opposed to creating separate phone numbers or phone systems. And we will at least have to maintain a couple of lines at City Hall as copper lines. We currently have those with Fairpoint communications for 911. So those are not allowed to be fiber or voice over IP. So we will have at least a few different phone bills. Thank you. Thank you. And I'm sorry if I've missed this in prior meetings on timeline, but for the parking advisory committee, there's a plan to have a report coming to council. Do you have an idea of when that will come to council and let's go back out to another commission? Is that, am I reading that update? Right. I think that would be a question for Eric or John. Eric, what are you? Yeah, so if I understood the question correctly, you're asking about the report coming, the report from the advisory committee coming to council and then, sorry, I think I missed the last part of that. Yeah, so I was just, I was toggling back and forth screens and I've lost my place too. So it says that we'll have a draft policies modeling at a meeting in July, recommendations from the advisory committee presented to the council for referral to an appropriate municipal panel. I'm assuming that that means it'll go to either planning or useful infrastructure or some other combination. Right, yes. That's the coming to council and then going back out to commission. That's the intent is that the advisory committee from the UPWP study will make a recommendation on the priorities or the items that are discussed as far as either management or inventory or analysis and depending on what that is, it will then get referred. The council will be asked probably to refer that out to the appropriate panel for further discussion. So if it's zoning related, it would go to the planning commission. If it's more of a regulation or a management practice, that may be something that's just done with operations. Anything that will be coming to council in August or this is the one August meeting mode coming then or the September meeting, do you have an idea? At this point, no. I don't have a good sense of when that might be, but I would guess it's probably, we would be looking at August or September at the earliest for that information. We don't have the next advisory committee meeting scheduled yet. We're working through some of the modeling with the consultant and the regional planning commission at this point. So I think once we have that next advisory committee meeting, we'll have a better understanding of where we are in the process. And if we need to have additional advisory committee meetings or if we're ready to bring information to council. Okay, thank you. I wanted to ask about the way finding work. I thought we were intending to have the actual new signs in the garage by now. Am I mistaken about that timeline? You are absolutely correct. Yeah, that's unfortunately one that is a little bit on the back burner right now. We are trying to find fabricators for the signage. Our intent is to be installed now. So we're still targeting this summer to have that completed. Okay. And then we still have to seek more funding to go beyond. Okay. Any other items that folks are questioned about? Any public comments on this one? All right. Thanks for the continued progress reporting. Looking forward to creating a new one of these. And our next and last item on the regular agenda, the old item being now J, this is a memo I put together on the master plan progress report. So as you recall, last November or so, we asked our commissions to check in on their section of the master plan goals and think about what we should be looking, what we should be prioritizing in the near the next year or two. So we got that information from them back in January or February, but just wanted to double check and see if any priorities had shifted before we go into this discussion on Saturday. So this memo essentially outlines that for finance, adding the American rescue plans, that's the only new ad there, planning the other commission lilies to no changes from them in priority at this time. But I wonder if the rest of you, each of you would like to speak to any changes in priority for your commissions as well. Jim, can I start with you? So I don't think there was much change in the priorities, the top priorities for the housing commission remain funding of the housing trust fund and then implement or monitoring the implementation and success. And then the commission has spent time the last year on this question around how to incentivize families that are multi-bedroom units and continue just to incentivize different types of affordable housing that's I think reflected in the list of priorities that is shown here. So I don't think that there's any significant shift between those two time periods. Thanks, also that's actually really helpful to hear that the housing trust fund is sort of the number one priority is that funding and then the second piece is the affordable family size units. On that note, I would say in the finance discussions the focus on financial sustainability and affordability has been what I think the commission has been prioritizing. And then second is talking about planning for a TIF revenue. And I would imagine I was not there for that conversation but the ARPA funds kind of sit up there with the TIF planning as well. Ryn, can you share identity changes to the list from municipal infrastructure? So if you wanna elaborate there please. Yeah, I'd be too. So the first four are aligned with what was recommended in December. Changes are the numbers five, six, seven and eight. So supporting the city and selecting projects for ARPA funds and stimulus funds. I think that is kind of on an ad hoc basis. It's hard to know at this time how time consuming that will be or how much demand on the committee an ask will be. So it more or less is not anticipated to be a heavy lift with item number five. Item six, seven and eight are all on the master plan as priority items. There are I think a number of basically baseline assessments that can be done with energy efficiency and climate resiliency. So basically kind of taking a pulse or litmus on where we are with that. I think that there has been a lot of work that's been done but it hasn't necessarily been coordinated under one, one of the city's commissions or committees. So really just kind of seeing where we are and what work has been done and developing a plan of sorts of recommendations on directions we could go that council can review for future fiscal years. So again, not looking at doing significant project work but really just implementation work per se but really just starting to do an assessment or analysis in that realm. And for seven accessibility of city infrastructure, I think this past winter we've heard a number of comments from citizens about and it overlaps with sidewalks, sidewalk improvements but also looking at just accessibility components in addition to sidewalks. So how are our public spaces, how are we ensuring accessibility to our residents and to visitors as well. And the last piece, the historic preservation we recent council recently had a report out on that. So essentially looking at whether or not there'll be recommendations for moving forward with some of the items that were included in that report for next steps. So again, some items that are continuations, it's not mentioned but the committee intends to be the source for the tree ordinance and review there. So that's not mentioned but I think that's at this point the committee more or less considers the staff's quo component under their purview unless otherwise directed by the council. And then just four additional items but not all expected to have the same level of worker effort needed for each of them. Do you have a sense of which ones are the highest priority? I do think that there was a lot of interest around the energy efficiency and climate resiliency. I think further conversation was needed around direction on that. There was some interest in renewables and I think there was interest in conservation efforts. So again, bridging into the stormwater ordinance. So I think there would just need to be further direction and the meeting they're just the meeting we had on June 8th there really just wasn't enough time and 90 minutes to really hash that out. So it was the thought was that the committee was putting forward areas that they would like and see value in working on for this coming year and that they would get additional direction from the council on specific priorities within that. So sidewalk repair, definitely top priority of the existing items, the municipal street ordinance or the capital project and then ordinances related to that that come to us. Thanks, Fran. So for planning, I think it's kind of being clear here the item number one is their highest priority and then item two being secondary. Yeah. For safe healthy connected people, how do you wanna share where priority is at there? I don't think this has changed really much since the last report. Oh, you're on mute. Thank you. I think the newest item that is pushed through is the new policy review on use of force. Oh, okay. So we're gonna be adopting a statewide model and it all feels good according to the chief. So it's just a matter of kind of making it happen. I think three of their eight goals were paused or affected by COVID, but pretty much were on track or making all the goals happen. Thanks. I actually, I didn't list that use of force policy review on this document, but I know it's in the work plan that we'll be looking at on Saturday. So thanks for calling that out. Sure. So having seen this and heard from each other sort of what these commissions are saying a priority. Now's the time to ask any questions that you have. Any questions about any of these items or why something, why a commission feels something is being prioritized. Question for clarification. I'm not seeing the downtown Winooski listed on here. I'm just, I know it's not formally a city commission, but curious about our goals and strategies, priorities relating to that. Yeah, so that's not a policy commission. This is focused on the policy priorities. I think some of what is in these finance goals sits there, right? So in the finance commission, we had a conversation a while back about wanting to help attract employers for residents. I think that's something that we can share with downtown Winooski as a goal. I think the way that we interact with that because they're a separate organization, they're not like a direct policy commission of ours, they also have their own decision-making process, they're on board. So we have a liaison role there with Heather and with Mike to bring us into that discussion while they're doing their planning and prioritizing, but doesn't really fall under the purview of our specific policy strategies and priorities. And we do work very closely together and certainly they make a huge effort to align to city goals. So I certainly don't think that's a heavy lift, but as a separate nonprofit organization, their board makes the decisions for them, so. Yeah, and you'll see in this progress report, we have economic vitality called out, it'll be called out in our documents on Saturday. And that is also something that we can, it's public, right? That we can share out to say like, here's what we're prioritizing in that realm and see where that overlaps with the supports that they provide. Are there any other questions? So again, one of these last two items on here tonight is so you can have some time with them before we meet on Saturday. And staff will have some follow-up information for us. It's nine to one on Saturday, location, probably senior center, but we'll confirm. Yeah, senior center is the plan. It is, okay, great.  I'm assuming you are still unable to attend in person. Yeah, and I'm just gonna inquire offline with you about when is the cogent Movin and I should be involved versus do I need to be there for four hours or can I play around in New York City? Yeah, we can connect. And I think Ray and I also spoke about in touching base with you beforehand. So let me make a note to myself, so I do not forget to talk to you this week. And then I think Mike actually is no longer able to attend, is that right? So I talked to Mike earlier and asked that any comments you have in advance after we get the documents for the meeting, just share those in writing with me or via email or give me a call and I will bring those to the meeting as well. So yeah, Hal, I'll connect with you when we have the like final agenda ready to go. Super, thank you. All right, are there any other questions? All right, that brings us to the end of tonight's agenda. Do I have a motion to adjourn? I move. Second. Motion by Jim, second by Hal. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. All right. Motion carries, thank you everyone. Thanks, Hal. Good evening. Thanks, bye now.


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