May 13, 2025 Committee of the Whole Meeting

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CALLING THE MEETING OF COMMITTEE TO ORDER. AND WE ARE GOING TO START. WE DON'T DO WE DON'T DO

[1. Resolution recommending approval by the Michigan Liquor Control Commission of Social District Permit application pursuant to Public Act 124 of 2020 for Pickle and Pin, LLC located at 662 Leonard St NW]

GREAT. WHO DO WE HAVE TO DISCUSS THIS? SO? SO THIS IS A BUSINESS ON THE ON THE WEST SIDE ON LEONARD. A REHABILITATED BUILDING FOR PICKLE AND PIN UP AND OPERATING. AND THEY'RE ASKING TO HAVE A SO THEY'RE PART OF THE, I BELIEVE THE WEST GRAND SOCIAL DISTRICT. AND SO THIS WILL ALLOW THEM TO YOU CAN MOVE CONTAINERS WITHIN WITHIN THE SOCIAL DISTRICT AND ALLOW THEM TO BE PART OF THAT PROGRAM. SO IF I COULD ASK A QUESTION. DOES THAT ARE WE ESSENTIALLY STRETCHING A PREEXISTING SOCIAL DISTRICT THAT'S BY THE MITTEN. ANOTHER. NO, THE DISTRICT, THE DISTRICT IS ALREADY THIS IS JUST A PERMIT WITHIN THE DISTRICT. GOTCHA. OKAY. ANY DISCUSSION?

[2. Resolution approving Commissioner Ysasi’s request to attend the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Conference]

GREAT. ANY CONVERSATION ABOUT THIS SEEING NO FRAUGHT CONVERSATION I'LL ASK FOR A VOTE. ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. I. ALL OPPOSED MOTION CARRIES. GREAT. THAT BRINGS US TO OUR

[2. FY2026 Budget Review Workshop]

DOES IT LOOK LIKE THAT WAS THERE? THANK YOU. WE'LL PREVIEW SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE BUDGET.

LAST WEEK WE TALKED ABOUT MOBILITY, VITAL STREETS, OUR INFRASTRUCTURE AROUND HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT AND STORMWATER. AND WE DISCUSSED SOME ASPECTS OF SAFE COMMUNITY TO INCLUDE. YOU HEARD FROM POLICE AND FIRE TODAY. WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO IS CONTINUE OUR BUDGET CONVERSATION. WE'LL PICK UP A LITTLE BIT WITH SAFE COMMUNITY AND I'LL MENTION SOME HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE FIRE DEPARTMENT BUDGET. JUST A COUPLE OF DETAILS I WANTED TO CLARIFY AND THEN HEAR FROM OUR OFFICE OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY. I'LL ASK NOW IF WE COULD, TO HAVE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE PRESENTING ON ECONOMIC PROSPERITY AND AFFORDABILITY ALSO COME TO THE TABLE. MISS BARNES AND BERGMAN. MISS TIM KELLY, RATHER NOT MR. BERGMAN TO COME, BECAUSE WHAT WE'LL DO IS WE'LL GO STRAIGHT THROUGH SAFE COMMUNITY AND EPA. THEN WE'LL PAUSE AND SEE WHAT QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. AND THEN AFTER THAT WE'LL COME BACK AND DO THE BALANCE OF THE SECTIONS ON

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RIGHT. AND THAT'S THE WAY WE APPROACH DOING THE WORK OF INCREASING ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY, OUR LONG TERM GOAL OR VISION, IF YOU WILL, IS TO GET TO THAT SPACE OF RESPECTFUL RELATIONSHIPS. BUT WHAT WE REALLY SEE OUR WORK AT THIS STAGE IS BUILDING A FOUNDATION, CLEANING UP A FOUNDATION SO WE CAN BUILD TWO. TRUST YOU DON'T START AT TRUST. YOU START AT A FOUNDATION THAT CAN GET YOU THERE. SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT CHANGE, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT POLICY WORK. THAT'S WHERE OPA WORKS WITH COMMUNITY AND WITH CITY DEPARTMENTS TO LOOK AT POLICY, EVALUATE POLICY AND SAY, FIRST, IS THIS POLICY EQUITABLE? IS IT NECESSARY? DOES IT HELP

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WHEN WE TALK ABOUT RESTORATIVE JUSTICE, WE TALK ABOUT RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AS IT RELATES TO RESTORING THE JUSTICE SYSTEM. SO WE THINK ABOUT THE HARM THAT'S BEEN CAUSED BY THE JUSTICE SYSTEM HISTORICALLY. AND WE SAY, HOW CAN WE HELP MOVE THAT FORWARD? BECAUSE IN THE CITY'S STRATEGIC PLAN, IT SAYS THAT WE WANT TO DO WHAT'S IN OUR INSIDE, OUR SCOPE OF INFLUENCE TO HELP FIX THE HARM THAT'S BEEN CAUSED BY THE JUSTICE SYSTEM. THAT'S WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE WORK WE DO WITH OUR EXPUNGEMENT PROGRAM AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE, WHICH ACTUALLY JUST HAPPENED A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO. I'M EXCITED TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT THAT AS WELL. UNDER AN EMPOWERMENT AND ENGAGEMENT, WE WORK WITH COMMUNITY TO BUILD OUT THESE TERMS, AND WE WENT BACK AND FORTH ABOUT THE WORD EMPOWERMENT, BUT LANDED AT THE FACT THAT IT WAS NECESSARY TO INCLUDE BECAUSE WE WANT TO ENGAGE WITH COMMUNITY, BUT WE ALSO WANT THEM TO FEEL EMPOWERED TO STAND UP FOR THEIR OWN CIVIL RIGHTS. AND WE DO THAT BY HELPING PROVIDE EDUCATION AND FOR THEM TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEIR ROLE IS IN THE SYSTEM. OH, OKAY. SO WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR STAFFING HERE FOR OPA, WE HAVE MY POSITION, THE MANAGING DIRECTOR POSITION. AND THEN THERE'S THE EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT. THERE'S ALSO AN INVESTIGATIONS MANAGER AND THERE'S A JUSTICE ANALYST BUILT IN AS WELL. SO THIS IS WHAT REFLECTS FOR THIS CURRENT BUDGET. AND WHEN WE GET TO HORIZON TOPICS WE'LL TALK MORE ABOUT IT. BUT CURRENTLY AS OF THIS FISCAL YEAR WE ALSO HAVE ANOTHER JUSTICE ANALYST POSITION GRANT FUNDED. AND BECAUSE THAT GRANT IS RUNNING OUT, IT IS NOT REFLECTED ON THIS STAFFING CHART AT THIS TIME. WHEN WE LOOK AT OPA'S BUDGET, IT'S JUST UNDER $2.5 MILLION. THE BULK OF THAT MONEY, AROUND 1.54, IS FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT'S AXON BODY CAMERA CONTRACT. SO OPA HAS FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY AND MANAGEMENT OF THAT BODY CAMERA CONTRACT OR REALLY OF THE AXON CONTRACT. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S UNIQUE IN GRAND RAPIDS.

IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT WE SEE ACROSS THE NATION. THE GOOD PART OF THAT IS THAT WE'RE ABLE TO LOOK AT THAT PROCESS AND TO MAKE SURE THAT THE THINGS THAT WE'RE HEARING FROM COMMUNITY, THE THINGS THAT OUR COMMUNITY IS CONCERNED ABOUT, ARE CONSIDERED THROUGH THAT PROCESS OF DECIDING WHAT COMPANY WILL BE RESPONSIBLE OR THAT WE'LL BE PARTNERING WITH TO PROVIDE THOSE SERVICES. SO THAT'S THERE. THEN THE NEXT LARGEST PART OF OUR BUDGET IS FOR THOSE STAFF POSITIONS.

THERE'S ABOUT $269,000 IN PROGRAMING. AND THEN THERE'S OTHER CITY EXPENSES LIKE OUR IT CHARGES AND BUILDING EXPENSES THAT ARE ALSO INCLUDED. SO I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR KNOW YOUR RIGHTS PROGRAM. AND WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE EXPENSES FOR OPA PROGRAM, MOST OF THE EXPENSES ARE IN THE STAFF. WORK STAFF REALLY WORKS. AND I'M SO GRATEFUL FOR MY STAFF. THAT WORKS INCREDIBLY HARD TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR COMMUNITY HAS WHAT THEY'RE ASKING FOR, WHICH ARE PROGRAMS LIKE THIS AND OPPORTUNITIES LIKE THIS. SO OPA HAS A FIRST OF ITS KIND KNOW YOUR RIGHTS PROGRAM THAT SOME OF YOU HAVE HEARD US TALK ABOUT BEFORE. BUT IT'S REALLY WE APPROACH KNOW YOUR RIGHTS DIFFERENTLY THAN OTHER COMMUNITIES. HOW DO WE DO IT? WE HAVE THE TRADITIONAL RIGHTS PROGRAM THAT'S JUST DESIGNED TO SAY, HEY, COME IN, WE'LL TEACH YOU WHAT YOUR RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ARE. WE TAKE THE APPROACH OF WE'RE NOT TRYING TO TELL YOU WHAT TO DO. WE JUST WANT YOU TO HAVE THE INFORMATION NECESSARY SO THAT YOU CAN MAKE AN INFORMED DECISION. WHEN YOU'RE INTERACTING WITH POLICE OR IN ANY OTHER SPACE. SO WE SPEND TIME ON THAT. BUT WHAT REALLY MADE OUR PROGRAM UNIQUE WAS NOT THAT WE DID THE OPA OR, YOU KNOW, HOW TO NAVIGATE CIVILIAN OVERSIGHT. THAT WAS A GREAT PROCESS, BUT WE REALLY MADE IT UNIQUE AS THE WORK WE DID WITH OUR REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES. AND WHAT WE RECOGNIZE IS THAT WHEN IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES COME INTO THE CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS OR ANYWHERE COMING FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY, THE LAWS ARE DIFFERENT. AND WHEN YOU COME IN WITH A DIFFERENT UNDERSTANDING OF THE LAW, OFTENTIMES WE SAY, HERE ARE YOUR RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES. WITHOUT THE CONTEXT OF UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE COUNTRY OF ORIGIN AND WHAT THE LAWS ARE HERE IN THE CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS OR IN THE STATE OF MICHIGAN. SO WE SPEND TIME DEVELOPING, PROGRAMING WITH COMMUNITIES, SAYING, HEY, HELP US UNDERSTAND WHAT THE LAWS IN YOUR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN. AND WE COMPARE THAT TO WHAT HAPPENS HERE AND MOVE FORWARD IN THAT WAY. SO THAT'S OUR KNOW YOUR RIGHTS PROGRAM. WHAT'S EXCITING ABOUT THAT IS 93% OF PARTICIPANTS HAVE GIVEN GREAT FEEDBACK RELATED TO IT, AND 96% PARTICIPANTS RECOMMENDED TO OTHER PEOPLE. THE NEXT THING IS OUR OPA PROJECT CLEAN SLATE EXPUNGEMENT PROGRAM, WHICH I KNOW THE MAYOR IS VERY FAMILIAR WITH BECAUSE OF THE LEGISLATION THAT ALLOWED US TO DO THIS GREAT WORK HERE. BUT WHAT WE DID WAS WE TRANSITIONED FROM A SINGLE EVENT, WHICH WAS SO A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO ON MAY 3RD, WE HAD OUR EXPUNGEMENT FAIR FOR THIS YEAR. OUR EXPUNGEMENT FAIR GETS RAVE REVIEWS. AND, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, I GOT TO SHOUT OUT THE STAFF WHO WORKED SO HARD TO PUT THIS

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WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE CULTURE OF GANGS AND NOT JUST THE RESULT OF WHAT GANGS DO. SO WHAT WE DO IS WE SIT DOWN WITH THAT COMMUNITY MEMBER AND THEY ASSIST TO THE EXTENT THEY DESIRE. THEY CAN COME IN AND SAY, HEY, HERE'S MY IDEA. NOW YOU ALL BUILD IT OUT, OR THEY CAN COME IN AND SAY, HERE'S MY IDEA, AND I WANT TO BE A PART OF BUILDING OUT EVERY STAGE OF THIS AND A PART OF PRESENTING IT, AND WE HELP THEM DO THAT. SO HERE'S A LIST OF SOME OF THE TRAININGS THAT WERE OFFERED OVER THE LAST FISCAL YEAR. WE HAVE OUR I AM THE DREAM CIVIL RIGHTS YOUTH ACADEMY. THAT'S A $6,000 INVESTMENT. AND WE'VE BEEN OFFERING A COHORT ANNUALLY. WE ARE PREPPING FOR OUR 2026 FALL COHORT. AGAIN, THIS IS WHERE WE WORK WITH MIDDLE SCHOOLERS. WE CREATE A COHORT WHERE THEY ARE ABLE TO TALK ABOUT THEIR RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES, UNDERSTAND HOW GOVERNMENT WORKS, REALLY GET AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE WAY WE NAVIGATE SYSTEMS LIKE EVEN CITY COMMISSION. AND WE PARTNER UP. WE'VE PARTNERED BOTH WITH SCHOOLS AND ALSO WITH THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB, SO WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO WHAT THAT WILL LOOK LIKE IN THIS FALL. FOR OUR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ENGAGEMENT. IN ADDITION TO OUR KNOW YOUR RIGHTS PROGRAMING AND HOW WE ASSIST IN THAT SPACE, WE ALSO PARTNER AND CREATE RELATIONSHIPS WITH 30 IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE LED ORGANIZATIONS WHERE WE WORK TO REMOVE BARRIERS TO ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES, OR TO BY HELPING THEM CREATE PROGRAMS OR EXISTING PROGRAMS. WE SUPPORT THEM IN THOSE DIFFERENT SPACES, AND IT'S REALLY ONE OF THOSE SPACES WHERE WE SAY, HOW CAN WE HELP YOU? WHAT IS IT THAT YOU NEED IN ORDER TO FEEL A SENSE OF BELONGING IN THIS COMMUNITY, AND HOW CAN WE HELP YOU NAVIGATE THAT SPACE? SO THERE ARE UNIQUE WAYS THAT WE NAVIGATE THAT. FOR SOME PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN ON COMMISSION FOR A WHILE, YOU MAY REMEMBER THAT A FEW YEARS BACK WE WERE ABLE TO HELP FUND DRIVING INSTRUCTION FOR NEW IMMIGRANTS, AND I THOUGHT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO KIND OF GIVE AN UPDATE ON THAT. SINCE THAT TIME, WE WERE TOLD THAT OVER 300 INDIVIDUALS WERE HELPED GETTING THEIR LICENSE THROUGH THAT SIMULATOR SUPPORT THAT WE PROVIDED. ALL RIGHT. THAT BRINGS US TO ANOTHER SPACE IN THE OPA WORLD, WHICH IS THE CIVILIAN PORTION OF OUR VIOLENCE REDUCTION AND INTERRUPTION WORK. AND IT'S ALWAYS IMPORTANT THAT WE POINT OUT THE FACT THAT WE KNOW WE DON'T DO THIS WORK ALONE. RIGHT. THE GRAND RAPIDS POLICE DEPARTMENT AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS AND SO MANY PEOPLE BOTH INSIDE THE CITY AND OUTSIDE THE CITY DO WORK IN THIS SPACE, AND WE'RE GRATEFUL FOR IT. OPA IS EXCITED AND GRATEFUL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO HELP LEAD THE CIVILIAN PART OF THIS WORK. RECENTLY, WE RECEIVED A $2 MILLION GRANT FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. THIS IS A COMMUNITY BASED VIOLENCE INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION GRANT. IT'S A THREE YEAR GRANT, AND WE'RE CURRENTLY IN THE PROCESS OF RECRUITING A VIOLENCE REDUCTION MANAGER WHO WILL LEAD THIS PORTION OF THE WORK. AND THIS GRANT IS ALSO GOING TO BE USED TO SUPPORT CURE VIOLENCE. SO WE'LL BE ABLE TO SUPPORT OUR CURE VIOLENCE WORK THAT WE'RE ALREADY DOING, BUT ALSO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT SOME NEW PROGRAMING WITH THE GRANTS ALLOW US TO DO OR TO REALLY BUILD OUT SOME INDIVIDUAL PROGRAMS AT THE COMMUNITY AT THE AT THE MICRO COMMUNITY LEVEL. RIGHT. SO A NEIGHBORHOOD OF SAY, HEY, HERE'S WHAT WE WANT TO DO FOR VIOLENCE REDUCTION IN OUR COMMUNITY, HERE'S HOW WE THINK WE CAN DO IT. AND WE'LL HAVE STAFF THAT WILL BE ABLE TO SAY, ALL RIGHT,

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AGAIN, THAT'S BASED OFF OF SPECIFIC JURISDICTION IN CITY COMMISSION POLICY 800 OH TWO.

AND THERE WILL BE A REPORT REGARDING THAT. AND THAT REPORT WILL ALSO INCLUDE THE TOTAL NUMBER OF COMPLAINTS THAT HAVE COME IN AND BEEN PROCESSED BY OUR INTERNAL AFFAIRS DIVISION.

AND LASTLY, THE TRAFFIC STOP STUDY. SO WE KNOW THERE WAS INITIALLY A TRAFFIC. THERE WERE TRAFFIC STOP STUDIES THAT OCCURRED SOME TIME AGO, THE LAST TRAFFIC STOP STUDY BEING IN 2017, THAT TRAFFIC STUDY REALLY LOOKED AT THE MINORITY TRAFFIC COMPARED TO THE NUMBER OF MINORITY STOPS. OPA MADE A COMMITMENT TO UPDATE THAT TRAFFIC STOP STUDY. OUR PLAN WAS TO HAVE THAT UPDATE DONE THIS FISCAL YEAR. WE DID NOT HAVE THAT TRAFFIC STOP STUDY THIS FISCAL YEAR. HOWEVER, THE MAJOR REASON FOR THAT IS BECAUSE THERE ARE SOME CERTAIN DATA POINTS THAT WE ARE WORKING TO GET A CERTAIN DATA POINTS THAT WEREN'T REGULARLY COLLECTED BY POLICE, BUT I WAS ABLE TO CONNECT WITH THE POLICE CHIEF AND ALSO WITH HIS STAFF, AND WE'RE WORKING ON WAYS TO GET THAT. SO MY EXPECTATION IS THAT WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO HAVE THAT AGAIN BY THE END OF THIS CALENDAR YEAR. THAT'S BASED ON WHEN WE GET THE INFORMATION. SO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE MAY BE SOME SOME CHANGES IN DATES THERE, BUT THAT'S OUR GOAL. THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE THIS UPDATE. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT SO MOVING ON TO THE STRATEGIC PLAN OUTCOME AREA OF ECONOMIC PROSPERITY AND AFFORDABILITY. THE INVESTMENT THERE SHOWN ON YOUR SCREEN IS NOT INCLUDING THE NUMBER OF CORRIDOR IMPROVEMENT AUTHORITY AND BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS THAT YOU ARE GOING TO ALSO HEAR ABOUT AS PART OF TODAY'S PRESENTATION, THOSE BUDGETS ADD ANOTHER 35.2 MILLION TO THIS OUTCOME AREA, AND I WANT TO JUST FLAG THAT.

THAT REPRESENTS KIND OF THE LEADING EDGE OR THE MOST OBVIOUS WAY THAT WE THINK ABOUT OUR BUDGET WITH RESPECT TO SUPPORTING THE EFFORTS UNDER THIS STRATEGIC OUTCOME AREA. AS I STARTED SORT OF LISTING OUT THE DEPARTMENTS WHOSE WORK, WHETHER IT'S IN PLANNING OR FINANCING OR STAFF REVIEW OR EXPERTISE THAT ACTUALLY CONTRIBUTE TO THE PROGRAMS I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT, IT'S LITERALLY EVERY DEPARTMENT. SO I JUST WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU'RE SEEING A SNAPSHOT HERE, THE LEADING EDGE OF THAT WORK. BUT MANY, MANY DEPARTMENTS CONTRIBUTE AND MANY OTHER ORGANIZATIONS CANDIDLY CONTRIBUTE TO A CULTURE AND AN ETHIC IN GRAND RAPIDS TO CONTINUALLY BE LOOKING FOR WAYS TO ALLOW PEOPLE TO GROW AND THRIVE IN THIS COMMUNITY. I JUST WANTED TO PROVIDE A QUICK OVERVIEW OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN WITH RESPECT TO THIS OUTCOME AREA. SO WHAT YOU SEE HERE ARE THE FIVE OBJECTIVES THAT WERE IDENTIFIED BACK WHEN THE STRATEGIC PLAN WAS LAST UPDATED AS MAJOR AREAS OF FOCUS OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS IN TERMS OF, AGAIN, INVESTMENT AND STAFF WORK AND PARTNERSHIP WITH THOSE ACROSS THE COMMUNITY. AS THIS IS, GENERALLY SPEAKING, A CONTINUATION BUDGET. I JUST FLAGGED THERE A NUMBER OF PROGRAMS THAT WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THOSE DEPARTMENTS THAT I REFERENCED THAT WE AREN'T PARTICULARLY ZEROING IN ON TODAY, BUT JUST WANTED TO FLAG THAT WE ARE CONTINUING AT ESSENTIALLY CURRENT SERVICE LEVELS, A NUMBER OF THE PROGRAMS AND SUPPORTS THAT THOSE IN THE COMMUNITY HAVE COME TO RELY ON. NOW DIVING INTO THE COMMISSION'S FOCUS AREAS. SO IN ADDITION TO THOSE OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGIES THAT WE LAY OUT IN THE STRATEGIC PLAN EACH YEAR, THE COMMISSION HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE THE MANAGER WITH FEEDBACK ON YOUR PARTICULAR FOCUS AREAS. AND SO AS WE LOOK AT THE INVESTMENTS IN THIS BUDGET, REALLY WANT TO CONNECT THE DOTS BETWEEN THOSE INVESTMENTS AND THE COMMISSION FOCUS AREAS. SO FIRST IS COMMUNITY MASTER PLAN IMPLEMENTATION. SO AS YOU ARE AWARE, THE CITY HAS EMBARKED ON AN EXTENSIVE ENGAGEMENT PROCESS WITH OUR COMMUNITY. ABOUT THE VISION. THE 20 YEAR VISION

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ONE WAS REGULATORY. WE JUST TALKED ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT. ONE IS DIRECT INVESTMENTS OR INCENTIVES. SO THIS SLIDE TALKS TO TALKS TO THE DETAILS IN THE PRELIMINARY BUDGET ABOUT THOSE DIRECT INVESTMENTS AND INCENTIVES. THE MANAGER JUST NOTED THAT WE ARE AWAITING FINAL CONFIRMATION OF THE NUMBERS THAT YOU SEE HERE FOR THE HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS. YOU ALSO IMPLEMENTED THE EXPANDED PAYMENT IN LIEU OF TAXES OR PILOT PROGRAM EARLIER THIS YEAR, AND WE ARE PUTTING IN PLACE THE IMPLEMENTATION FRAMEWORK NECESSARY FOR FOLKS TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT FOR THE NEXT TAX YEAR. SO THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT STAFF IS WORKING FAST AND FURIOUS ON THAT. MORE TO COME AS WE IMPLEMENT MORE OF THAT WORK. WE ALSO CONTINUE INCENTIVES AND DIRECT INVESTMENTS THROUGH OUR BROWNFIELD AUTHORITY. THAT IS PARTICULARLY THE BROWNFIELD HOUSING TIFF THAT ALLOWS FOR SOME SUPPORT FOR HOUSING AFFORDABILITY THAT WAS EXPANDED IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS. AND FINALLY, THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, WORKING WITH THE BROWNFIELD AUTHORITY AND OTHERS, HAVE REALLY AMPED UP THE EMERGING DEVELOPER GRANT OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH THOSE FUNDS AND REALLY GIVING OUT SOME SIGNIFICANT SUPPORT. AGAIN, THAT'S NOT ONLY GETTING UNITS ONLINE, BUT IT IS ALSO CREATING MORE OF A PIPELINE OF PEOPLE WHO ARE ABLE TO PRODUCE UNITS. SO THAT IS PART OF THE EQUATION AS WELL, IS JUST HAVING PEOPLE IN THE BUILDING TRADES AND DEVELOPERS WHO ARE ABLE TO ACCESS CAPITAL AND ACTUALLY ABLE TO PRODUCE THOSE UNITS IN ADDITION TO THOSE DIRECT INVESTMENTS. AS WE TALKED ABOUT IN NOVEMBER, WE LEND EFFORT AND EXPERTISE ACROSS A NUMBER OF OTHER INITIATIVES THAT ARE DESIGNED TO BOTH ADDRESS HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS RESPONSE. SO HERE WE HAVE STAFF WHO ARE SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS, WHO PARTICIPATE WITH OUR GRAND RAPIDS AREA COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS, WHETHER IT'S ON THEIR COMMITTEES AROUND COORDINATED ENTRY OR STREET OUTREACH OR IN LEADERSHIP POSITIONS. IN ADDITION, WE SUPPORT HOUSING KENT, WHICH IS A BACKBONE ORGANIZATION, BRINGING TOGETHER, I THINK, LITERALLY HUNDREDS OF ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE SOMEHOW INVOLVED IN HELPING PEOPLE MOVE FROM HOUSING INSTABILITY TO HOUSED BY CHOICE. AND WE AGAIN PARTICIPATE IN THEIR COMMITTEES. THIS BUDGET CONTINUES TO CONTRACT WITH HOUSING KENT TO HELP THEM IMPLEMENT THEIR PRIORITY PROJECTS ACROSS THAT SPECTRUM. THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, INDIGENT DEFENSE WORK REALLY HAS LED TO SOME CREATIVE CROSS EFFORT. SO OUR COMMUNITY, INDIGENT DEFENSE FOLKS ARE PRESENT AT SPECIALTY COURTS, SOME OF WHICH ARE FOCUSED ON HELPING PEOPLE EITHER MAINTAIN

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WE BELIEVE AFTER TALKING TO MANY OF THE AUTHORITIES AND THEIR LEADERSHIP, THAT THERE COULD BE SOME SORT OF CITYWIDE INVESTMENT THROUGH A FEE THAT WOULD CROSS THE THEMES ACROSS MANY OF THOSE AUTHORITIES AND ALLOW THEM TO REDUCE THEIR RELIANCE ON CORRIDOR IMPROVEMENT AUTHORITY.

SO SORT OF A EFFICIENCY OF SCALE, IF YOU WILL, INVESTMENT. BUT WE WILL BE LOOKING FORWARD TO ENGAGING WITH THE AUTHORITIES IN MORE DETAIL ABOUT THAT IN THE COMING MONTHS. ALL RIGHT. MOVING ON TO ADDITIONAL BUDGETARY INVESTMENTS IN THIS OUTCOME AREA IS THE THIRD WARD EQUITY FUND.

SO THIS FISCAL YEAR 2026 BUDGET CONTINUES THE INVESTMENT AT THE $1 MILLION LEVEL, WHICH WAS CONSISTENT WITH FISCAL YEAR 2025. THE WHAT YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN THERE ARE THE INVESTMENT AREAS THAT HAVE BEEN THE FOCUS OF FISCAL YEAR 2025 AND THAT WE WOULD RECOMMEND CONTINUE TO BE AREAS OF FOCUS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2026. SO THE ARROW ACROSS THE BOTTOM OF THOSE FOUR AREAS SORT OF REPRESENTS THE LEVEL OF COMPLEXITY AND LEVEL OF EFFORT NECESSARY TO ADMINISTER THE FUNDS APPROPRIATELY. AND THAT LARGELY COMES FROM THE STATE CONSTITUTIONAL AND OTHER LEGAL LIMITATIONS ON THE PUBLIC FUNDS AND WHAT WE CAN USE THEM FOR. SO THERE IS, WHEN WE GET TO SMALL BUSINESS SUPPORT, LESS LATITUDE ON HOW TO USE THOSE FUNDS IN ORDER TO ENSURE THAT THEY ARE NOT PRIMARILY FOR PRIVATE BENEFIT. SO, FOR EXAMPLE, PROGRAMS THAT YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH, FACADE IMPROVEMENT TYPE PROGRAMS ARE SPECIFICALLY NOT AUTHORIZED FOR GENERAL TAXPAYER DOLLARS. NOW, THEY CAN BE DONE BY CORRIDOR IMPROVEMENT AUTHORITIES BECAUSE THEY HAVE SPECIFIC STATUTORY AUTHORITY GRANTED BY THE STATE LEGISLATURE. BUT GENERALLY SPEAKING, GENERAL TAXPAYER DOLLARS CAN'T BE USED FOR THOSE THINGS. SO THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WILL BE THE SMALL BUSINESS SUPPORT BUCKET IN PARTICULAR, IS SOMETHING THAT WILL BE SORT OF A CASE BY CASE ASSESSMENT OF WHAT IS AND IS NOT AUTHORIZED. GENERALLY SPEAKING, WE CAN USE

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ALWAYS STRAIGHTFORWARD IN TERMS OF CAN THE PUBLIC SPEND FUNDS ON THESE THINGS. AND IN FISCAL YEAR 25 THERE ARE A COUPLE RAPID FLASHING BEACONS BEING INSTALLED. CULTURAL ARTS IS ALWAYS IS ALSO A PRETTY TRADITIONAL AND STRAIGHTFORWARD AREA TO INVEST PUBLIC FUNDS.

FISCAL YEAR 25 IS FOCUSED ON THE THIRD WARD CULTURAL AND ARTS TOUR FOR FISCAL YEAR 26. WE DON'T ANTICIPATE A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF INVESTMENT TO CONTINUE THAT WORK. THERE MAY BE A MODEST INVESTMENT FOR CERTAIN PLATFORMS TO BE MAINTAINED OR TO ADD ADD A CERTAIN SITES, BUT NOT ANTICIPATING SIGNIFICANT ADDITIONAL INVESTMENT THERE. YOUTH PROGRAMING AGAIN, IN SOME OF THE AREAS WE'VE ALREADY TROD THAT GROUND. SO WE HAVE OUR COMMUNITY'S CHILDREN, WE HAVE SUMMER YOUTH PROGRAMING WITH OTHER PARTNERS IN THE COMMUNITY. WE HAVE CONTRACTS FOR THOSE WE KNOW HOW TO ADMINISTER THOSE CONTRACTS. SO AGAIN, SOMETHING THAT WE ARE INVESTING IN IN FISCAL YEAR 25 AND IF SUCCESSFUL, WOULD RECOMMEND CONTINUING IN FISCAL YEAR 26.

AND THEN THAT SMALL BUSINESS SUPPORT I SORT OF STARTED WITH THAT. AND WE ARE LOOKING AT FINALIZING THE WAYS THAT WE'RE GOING TO USE THE FISCAL YEAR 25 INVESTMENT. AND AGAIN, WOULD RECOMMEND TARGETED INVESTMENT THERE, MAYBE TO A SOMEWHAT LESSER EXTENT OVER THE INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT AND YOUTH PROGRAMING, DEPENDING ON HOW THIS YEAR GOES. SO I KNOW THAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR SOME FEEDBACK, BUT WE'LL CONTINUE TO USE OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROJECT TEAM AND OTHER VENUES TO KEEP THE COMMISSION APPRIZED OF WHERE THOSE INVESTMENTS ARE HEADED. ALL RIGHT. AND THEN THE LAST SORT OF FOCUS AREA FOR THE COMMISSION WITH RESPECT TO THIS PARTICULAR OUTCOME AREA IS AROUND PLACEMAKING AND TRANSFORMATIONAL PROJECTS AND DRIVING VISITORS. AND THAT DESTINATION ECONOMY. AND SO THERE'S A LOT GOING ON IN THIS PARTICULAR BUCKET AND HAS BEEN FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS. SO YOU SEE THIS BUDGET REALLY CONTINUING A LOT OF MAJOR PROJECTS THAT HAVE JUST STARTED COMING OUT OF THE GROUND IN PARTNERSHIP WITH DRI. THERE'S A LOT OF WORK NOW HAPPENING, AND YOU'RE SEEING THE BEGINNING OF THAT INVESTMENT IN THE GRAND RIVER GREENWAY. SO CONNECTING THAT TRAIL THROUGH SUBSTANTIAL PARTS OF KENT COUNTY, BUT ALL THROUGH DOWNTOWN AND OUT INTO ADA TOWNSHIP, AND SOME PARK PROJECTS BEING ENHANCED ALONG THE WAY, INCLUDING CANAL PARK, WHICH RECENTLY BROKE GROUND. WE HAVE OUR TRANSFORMATIONAL BROWNFIELD PROJECTS THAT ARE BOTH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INVESTMENTS. SO AGAIN, CONTINUING THAT WORK, WHETHER IT'S IN THE STAFF SUPPORT TO CONTINUE TO REVIEW DEVELOPMENT PLANS OR OUR CAPITAL INVESTMENTS THAT ALLOW FOR SOME OF THOSE GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES THERE IN TERMS OF WATER, SEWER MOBILITY, INVESTMENTS THAT SUPPORT THOSE MAJOR PROJECTS. WE ALSO PERSIST IN THE RESTORATION OF THE GRAND RIVER. SO WE ARE VERY, VERY CLOSE TO A FINAL PERMITTING ON THE LOWER REACH PORTION OF THE PROJECT, WHICH, GENERALLY SPEAKING, RUNS FROM BRIDGE STREET TO FULTON STREET AND WILL RESULT IN THE REMOVAL OF FOUR LOW HEAD DAMS AND THEN HABITAT ENHANCEMENTS AND REPLACEMENT OF THOSE DAMS WITH MORE NATURAL FEATURES THAT WILL LOOK AND FEEL AND BE RAPIDS. SO BRINGING RAPIDS BACK TO GRAND TO OUR CITY. AND HOPEFULLY IF WE AREN'T ABLE TO START WORK THIS YEAR, WE WILL BE ABLE TO START WORK NEXT YEAR. WE JUST ARE AWAITING THAT ONE FINAL FEDERAL ACTION THAT WILL GET US GOING, AND THEN WE HAVE ALREADY TURNED TO PLANNING FOR THE UPPER REACH. SO THIS IS THE UPPER REACH PORTION OF THIS PROJECT AGAIN REPRESENTS SIGNIFICANT OPPORTUNITY FOR HABITAT IMPROVEMENT AND INVESTMENT IN MORE NATURAL AND ACCESSIBLE RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR COMMUNITY.

MOST SIGNIFICANTLY, THIS BRINGS SOME FEDERAL AND INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES TO THE TABLE. GREAT LAKES FISHERIES COMMISSION IS THE ENTITY THAT HAS AUTHORITY OVER ENSURING THE ECOLOGICAL

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FOR MANY OF THOSE LOCATIONS, WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS THAT ARE USED TO USING THOSE SPACES FOR THEIR EVENTS TO FIND ALTERNATIVES. WE ALSO ARE EXCITED ABOUT THE REOPENING OF LYONS SQUARE, WHICH IS A SPACE THAT IS BEING PROGRAMED SLIGHTLY, SOMEWHAT DIFFERENTLY THAN THE REST OF OUR SPACES. WITH THE PARTNERS AT THE CAA TAKING THE LEAD IN CALENDARING AND PROGRAMING AND SUPPORTING EVENTS IN THAT IN THOSE IN THAT SPACE. BUT WE'RE EXCITED TO SEE WHAT THAT OFFERS FOR OUR COMMUNITY IN TERMS OF RIVERFRONT SPACE. AND THEN FINALLY, JUST A DATA SLIDE SHOWING THAT WE DO, MAYBE NOT UNSURPRISINGLY, SEE A LITTLE DIP DOWN IN THE NUMBER OF EVENTS AS THAT SPONSORSHIP ROLLED OFF. OUR BUDGET IS COMING MORE IN LINE IN TERMS OF EXPENSES WITH REVENUES, BUT WE WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR UTILIZATION AND EVENTS AND VISITOR SHIP NUMBER AS THAT CONTINUES TO BE AN IMPORTANT PIECE OF OUR OVERALL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY. SO WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO MISS ROMERO AND THEN MR. KELLY TO SPEAK ABOUT THE BUDGETS IN MORE DETAIL. THANK YOU. GOOD MORNING. SO THIS PRESENTATION IS BROKEN UP INTO TWO PARTS. I'M GOING TO TACKLE THE FIRST PART THAT THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OFFICE ADMINISTERS, WHICH INCLUDES THE BROWNFIELD REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, THE LOCAL BROWNFIELD REVOLVING FUND, THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, THE SMARTZONE, ALL SIX OF OUR CORRIDOR IMPROVEMENT AUTHORITIES, THE UPTOWN BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT, AND FINALLY THE LAND BANK AUTHORITY. ON THE SLIDE PACKET THAT YOU HAVE, YOU HAVE ARE SHOWING 14 DIFFERENT ROWS THERE. BUT ON THE SLIDE IN FRONT OF YOU IS 15. I WAS REMISS AT INCLUDING THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION'S $129,000 BUDGET. SO FOR AWARENESS. AND THEN MR. KELLY IS GOING TO TACKLE DGI. I'M GOING TO START WITH THE BROWNFIELD AND EDC STRATEGIC FOCUS AREAS. SO THE BROWNFIELD REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY COMPRISES 26.9 MILLION ROUGHLY IN APPROPRIATIONS. THIS WILL INCLUDE ONGOING ADMINISTRATION FOR ALMOST 100 DIFFERENT REDEVELOPMENT PROJECTS THROUGH THE LIFE OF THE PROGRAM, AS WELL AS OUR IMPLEMENTATION OF THE INCLUSION PLAN TO BUILD DEMAND FOR DIVERSE SUBCONTRACTORS. IT ALSO, AS MISS BEHRENS REFERENCED, HELPS CONTINUE TO LIFT UP OUR EMERGING DEVELOPER WORK WITH THOSE GRANTS, AS WELL AS OUR ENVIRONMENTAL SITE ASSESSMENT GRANTS AND FINALLY IMPLEMENTING OUR HOUSING TAX

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I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU AN OVERVIEW OF THE PROPOSED BUDGETS FOR THE DOWNTOWN GRAND RAPIDS INCORPORATED MANAGED BOARDS. BEFORE I GET INTO THE NUMBERS, I DID WANT TO JUST SPEND A QUICK MOMENT REMINDING YOU OF THE STRUCTURE OF DOWNTOWN GRAND RAPIDS, INC. SO DEGREE IS A 501, C THREE HAS A 16 MEMBER BOARD OF ADVISORS, WHICH INCLUDES CITY MANAGER AS WELL AS THE MAYOR.

AND THE ORGANIZATION HAS SERVICE AGREEMENTS IN PLACE WITH THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, THE DOWNTOWN IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT, AS WELL AS THE MONROE NORTH TAX INCREMENT FINANCE AUTHORITY TO SERVE AS THEIR PROFESSIONAL STAFF. SO THOSE THREE BOARDS ARE. MAYORAL APPOINTED. THE MAYOR ALSO SERVES ON BOTH THE DDA AND THE TIFA MONROE NORTH TIFA. I'M GOING TO DO MY BEST TO NOT OVER ACRONYM YOU IN THIS ONE, BUT SOMETIMES IT'S A FORCE OF HABIT. AS YOU PROBABLY KNOW, EACH OF THOSE BOARDS HAVE THEIR OWN DEFINED GEOGRAPHY. THEY CAN OPERATE

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THE CORE AREAS OF OUR WORK UNDER THE UMBRELLA, WHICH ARE IDENTIFIED IN OUR MASTER PLAN GR FORWARD, INCLUDE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, PLANNING AND DESIGN, PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT, ACTIVATION AND ENGAGEMENT, AND DOWNTOWN PUBLIC SPACES THAT WE DO A LOT OF PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY ON, AND THEN DAY TO DAY ENHANCED MAINTENANCE BEYOND WHAT IS ALREADY CARRIED OUT BY THE CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS TO CARRY OUT THAT WORK, THE BOARDS, BY WORKING WITH STAFF, DEVELOP FIVE YEAR PRIORITY PLANS AND ANNUAL BUDGETS. THOSE BUDGETS WERE REVIEWED AND RECOMMENDED BY EACH OF THE BOARD TO THE CITY COMMISSION AT THEIR MOST RECENT MEETINGS. AND YOU SEE THE ROLLED UP AMOUNTS HERE. I DID WANT TO EMPHASIZE ON THE POINT THAT THE FUNDING IS USED TO IMPLEMENT OVER 100 PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS THROUGHOUT DOWNTOWN, AND SO FOR THE YEAR AHEAD, A LOT OF THOSE INITIATIVES ARE THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN WORKED ON FOR MANY YEARS, BEGINNING WITH THE DDA. THAT WILL INCLUDE ONGOING PARTNERSHIPS WITH DISABILITY ADVOCATES OF KENT COUNTY, CONTINUED FUNDING FOR THE DOWNTOWN AMBASSADORS, FUNDING FOR EVENTS AND ACTIVATIONS LIKE WORLD OF WINTER, RETURN TO THE RIVER, AS WELL AS RELAX AT ROSA SMALL BUSINESS SUPPORT AND GRANTS TO ACTIVATE GROUND FLOOR COMMERCIAL SPACES, AS WELL AS SUPPORT FOR CAPITAL PROJECTS LIKE LIONS SQUARE, THE AMPHITHEATER, VAN ANDEL ARENA AND SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS NEAR JEFFERSON STATE. IN ADDITION, THE DDA IS PRIORITIZING FUNDING FOR THE DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY GARDEN OVER ON THE WEST SIDE HEART SIDE QUALITY OF LIFE INITIATIVES, INCLUDING HELPING TO IMPROVE THE INFRASTRUCTURE AND FOOD ACCESS IN THE HEARTSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESS ASSOCIATION. SUPPORT FOR OUR VARIOUS BUSINESS DISTRICTS THAT OVERLAP WITHIN OUR OUR DDA AND OTHER BOUNDARIES. FUNDING TO SUPPORT THE REDESIGN OF CALDER PLAZA AND MOVE THAT PROJECT INTO CONSTRUCTION, ALONG WITH THE CITY IMPROVEMENTS AT THE I-96 UNDERPASS THAT CONNECTS THE MONROE NORTH NEIGHBORHOOD TO THE MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY AND GRAND RAPIDS INNOVATION PARTNERS PROPERTY RIGHT THERE AT MONROE AND MICHIGAN, PROGRAMING OVER AT OUR LOSS CONSCIOUS FUTSAL COURTS, WHICH IS GETTING UNDERWAY HERE IN THE SPRING, AS WELL AS CONTINUED FUNDING TO SUPPORT THE DASH SERVICE IN AND AROUND DOWNTOWN. SWITCHING NOW TO THE MONROE NORTH TAX INCREMENT FINANCE AUTHORITY. THIS AREA, IF YOU'RE NOT FAMILIAR WITH IT, IS A RELATIVELY SMALL IN THE MONROE NORTH AREA, SO GENERALLY RUNNING BETWEEN COLD BROOK AND THE SIXTH STREET BRIDGE. THEY ARE A CONTRIBUTOR TO THE TO THE DASH.

GIVEN THAT THERE ARE SEVERAL STOPS WITHIN THE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, THEY'RE ALSO LOOKING TO COMPLETE IMPROVED CROSSINGS ON MONROE AVENUE, BUT THE BULK OF THEIR FUNDING IN THE YEAR AHEAD, JUST OVER 60% OF THEIR BUDGET IS DEVOTED TO THE CANAL STREET PARK CONSTRUCTION IMPROVEMENTS. THAT BOARD HAS BEEN ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN THAT WORK FOR SEVERAL YEARS, AND WE'RE EXCITED TO CELEBRATE THE GROUNDBREAKING WITH MANY OF YOU JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO. AND THEN FINALLY, THE DOWNTOWN IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT. AS A REMINDER, THIS IS AN ASSESSMENT PAID BY PROPERTY OWNERS WITHIN THE DOWNTOWN IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT AREA. THEY ARE MOVING INTO THE THIRD AND FINAL YEAR OF THEIR AUTHORIZATION PLAN AND AS IN YEARS PRIOR, FUNDING HAS BEEN PRIORITIZED TO FOR ENHANCED MAINTENANCE AND BEAUTIFICATION WITHIN THE DISTRICT. THIS IS DONE PRIMARILY THROUGH OUR WORK AND CONTRACT WITH THE AMBASSADOR AND CLEAN TEAMS, WHO HELPED TO KEEP SIDEWALKS CLEAR, PICK UP TRASH THROUGH THE SEASONAL PLANTINGS, AND GENERALLY JUST SERVE AS FRIENDLY FACES IN AND AROUND DOWNTOWN ON THE STREETS. TWO OTHER INITIATIVES I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT, ONE WHICH MISS BEHRENS TOUCHED ON, NOT NECESSARILY INCLUDED IN THE THREE FIDUCIARY BOARD BUDGETS, BUT VERY MUCH A PART OF THE WORK THAT DR. WILL BE DOING IN THE YEAR AHEAD TO CONTINUE TO PARTNER WITH THE CITY AND COUNTY TO CONSTRUCT THE GRAND RIVER GREENWAY. DGREE. THE 500 1C3 WAS AWARDED A $55 MILLION STATE GRANT THAT HAS TO BE SPENT BY THE END OF 2026. AND SO WE'RE WORKING WITH OUR PARTNERS VERY CLOSELY TO CONTINUE TO PUSH PROJECTS FORWARD, TO SEE THAT MOVE, MOVE ALONG. AND THEN FINALLY, WE WILL BE LAUNCHING AN UPDATE TO THE DOWNTOWN MASTER PLAN GR FORWARD THIS YEAR. THIS PLAN WAS ADOPTED BY THE CITY COMMISSION AS AN AMENDMENT TO THE CITY'S MASTER PLAN BACK IN DECEMBER OF 2015 HAD A TEN YEAR HORIZON ON IT. AND SO HERE WE ARE IN 2025. WE'LL BE INITIATING THAT WORK IN THE FISCAL YEAR AHEAD TO IDENTIFY PRIORITIES FOR DOWNTOWN IN THE DECADES AHEAD. AGAIN, YOU SEE A SUMMARY OF THE BUDGETS HERE. AND THEN I BELIEVE WE ARE HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS. YES. THANK YOU, MISS KELLY. AND JUST AS A REMINDER, NEXT WEEK WHEN WE VOTE ON THE BUDGET AND THE TAX RATES, WE'LL ALSO VOTE ON ALL THE AUTHORITY AND DISTRICT BUDGETS AS WELL. SO WITH THAT MAYOR, WE'LL SEE WHAT OTHER QUESTIONS COMMISSION MAY HAVE AT THIS POINT. GREAT. DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? WE

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YOU KNOW, MANY OF US WERE ABLE TO GO TO THE BAXTER SPRING LUNCHEON LAST WEEK AND JUST TALKED ABOUT THE SUCCESSFUL WORK THAT BAXTER HAS DONE IN TERMS OF LIKE, LIKE WE'RE TAKING BACK JOEL TAYLOR PARK. THIS IS GOING TO BE FOR OUR COMMUNITY. AND I THINK THAT WAS DONE WITH A LOT OF EFFORTS BY THEIR ORGANIZATION, BUT ALSO SOME INVESTMENTS WE'VE HAD THERE. SO I'D LIKE TO, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS THAT FUTURE HORIZON LOOK LIKE? AND THEN THANK YOU FOR THE UPDATE ABOUT THE TRAFFIC STOP STUDY. I WAS A MEMBER OF THE TRAFFIC STOP STUDY IN 2017, AND I STILL DECIDED TO RUN FOR CITY COMMISSION. BUT, YOU KNOW, THAT'S THAT'S BEEN A LONG TIME AGO NOW. AND SO I APPRECIATE THAT UPDATE, I THINK, I THINK I WANTED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS THE ORIGINAL DATE THAT WE HAD, BECAUSE I THINK THAT WAS A PUSHED DATE, TOO. AND I DON'T KNOW IF THAT WAS DUE TO COVID OR IF THAT WAS DUE TO SOME OTHER COMPETING PRIORITIES. BUT, YOU KNOW, I THINK THIS IS WITH THE TRIAL, THAT OF CHRISTOPHER SCHURR LAST WEEK AND HEARING OF A MISTRIAL. I'M NOT GOING TO MAKE ANY OTHER COMMENTS ON THAT. PLEASE DON'T WORRY, MISS HITCHCOCK, BUT I DO THINK THIS IS A QUESTION THAT COMMUNITY HAS ASKED US. I KNOW THE CHIEF, YOU KNOW, HAD SHARED SOME UPDATES BACK IN JULY OF 2022 ABOUT WHAT WERE THOSE EFFORTS. HE WAS, YOU KNOW, THREE WEEKS ON THE JOB AND THINGS GOT ACCELERATED. BUT THAT TRAFFIC STOP STUDY, I THINK, WAS ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE PIECES. SO I'M GLAD TO HEAR THAT. BUT I WOULD LIKE TO KIND OF UNDERSTAND WHAT WERE MAYBE SOME OF THE ORIGINAL DEADLINES, WHAT GOT PUSHED OUT, WHAT WERE THE PRIORITIES, AND HOW DO WE HOW CAN WE SUPPORT THAT, THAT PRIORITY PIECE? SO THOSE ARE MY QUESTIONS FOR THAT AREA. THANKS. SO I'LL LET MR. DAVIS ADDRESS THE PROGRAMMATIC ASPECTS OF TRAINING AND PARTICIPATION. I'M NOT SURE IF THE CITY ATTORNEY ALSO WANTS TO LEAN IN ON THE FOYER PART AS WELL, BUT WE'LL ALSO ADDRESS SOME OF THE OTHER QUESTIONS. MR. DAVIS, THANK YOU SIR. THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER, FOR THE QUESTIONS. I'LL START WITH THE KNOW YOUR RIGHTS PROGRAMING. I DON'T KNOW THE TOTAL NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE PARTICIPATED OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD. I'M SURE I CAN PULL THAT INFORMATION. I CAN SAY ANECDOTALLY IT IS INCREASED OVER THE LAST YEAR. WITHIN THE LAST YEAR, IT'S INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY. IN FACT, I DID A TRAINING EARLIER THIS YEAR AND THERE WAS OVER 100 PEOPLE IN THE ROOM, WHICH WAS THE LARGEST I'VE EVER SEEN AT ONE EVENT. SO WE CAN WE CAN PULL THOSE NUMBERS. BUT BUT THEY ARE GROWING IN THAT WAY. AND I'LL LEAVE THE FOYER QUESTION TO THE CITY ATTORNEY. BUT BUT ON THE IN-HOUSE TRAINING PART OF COMMISSIONER WHAT PROGRAM? MY QUESTION WAS ARE YOU LEADING THOSE TRAININGS, MR.

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SOMETIMES IT'S ME AND SOMETIMES IT'S OTHER PEOPLE IN COMMUNITY WHO VOLUNTEER TO DO IT. WE ALSO HAVE CONTRACTED WITH MIGRANT LEGAL AID TO PROVIDE SPECIFIC TRAINING RELATED TO THOSE COMMUNITIES, TO MAKE SURE THAT IT IS TAILORED AROUND THE NEEDS OF THOSE COMMUNITIES. OKAY, SO THEN SO WE'RE NOT ARE WE PAYING MIGRANT LEGAL AID? ARE WE PAYING JUST AGAIN, THINKING THROUGH, YOU KNOW, IT'S A PRETTY TACTICAL QUESTION, BUT THINKING THROUGH WHAT MAY OR MAY NOT BE IN OUR BUDGET, WHAT COMES OUT OF, YOU KNOW, FEDERAL OR STATE, AND WHAT ARE SOME OF THE THOUGHTS THAT WE HAVE AROUND THINGS THAT COULD BE ABSORBED OR CONTRACTS THAT MIGHT HAVE TO BE REEVALUATED? SO WE HAVE CONTRACTED WITH MIGRANT LEGAL AID TO. BUT WHAT WE CONTRACTED WITH THEM TO DO WAS TO CREATE THE TRAINING THAT WAS SPECIFIC TO THOSE COMMUNITIES. SO THAT'S NOT AN ONGOING CONTRACT THAT WE MAINTAIN. BUT WHEN THERE'S A NEED FOR UPDATE, WE GO TO THEM AGAIN AND THEY UPDATE THE INFORMATION. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. AND THEN RELATIVE TO THE FOIA BACKLOG, I KNOW THE BACKLOG HAS DECREASED QUITE A BIT. BUT I DO THINK IN CITY ATTORNEY CAN LEAN IN BUT DO MAKING IT MORE CLEARER TO THE PUBLIC ON WHAT INFORMATION IS ALREADY ACCESSIBLE THROUGH EXISTING PLATFORMS THAT DON'T REQUIRE FOIA. WE'VE ALSO TALKED ABOUT IF WE'RE GETTING CONSISTENT REQUESTS FOR SIMILAR TYPES OF INFORMATION, HOW MIGHT WE PUBLICLY SHARE THAT AND ANTICIPATE THAT WITHOUT REQUIRING PEOPLE TO GO THROUGH THE FOIA PROCESS? THAT'S BEEN PART OF DISCUSSIONS AS WELL. CITY ATTORNEY, YOU HAVE ANYTHING YOU'D LIKE TO ADD THAT SOUNDS LIKE A MOUTHFUL. SO BREAK THIS DOWN FOR ME. YEAH, IT'S MORE OF A QUESTION. NOT REALLY. I MEAN, IT'S MORE OF AN EXPLORATION IN TERMS OF WHAT ARE YOUR RIGHTS. AND SO WHEN I THINK ABOUT THE OFFICE OF ACCOUNT, I WASN'T HERE WHEN THE OFFICE WAS CREATED. AND SO OBVIOUSLY, LIKE YOU SAID, ACCOUNTABILITY. THERE'S A NUMBER OF THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING. THERE'S PROGRAMING. WE'RE TRYING TO CONNECT WITH YOUTH. WE'RE HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT COMMUNITY. I THINK THAT WAS GOING TO BE ONE OF MY QUESTIONS TO HOW MANY FOR THE INVESTIGATIONS? HOW MANY INVESTIGATIONS HAVE WE DONE IN THIS LAST FISCAL YEAR? AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT'S JUST ANOTHER NUMBER THAT I'M LOOKING FOR. BUT WE TALKED AT OUR LAST FOIA MEETING THAT SOMETIMES THERE'S A FRUSTRATION WHEN PEOPLE COME TO THE FOIA MEETING. AND I'M LOOKING AT MY TWO COLLEAGUES DOWN HERE OF I DIDN'T GET ALL THE INFORMATION THAT I WANTED, BUT THEN OBVIOUSLY THERE IS LEGISLATION ON FOIA. AND SO HOW DO WE YOU KNOW, I ALWAYS THINK, WHAT IS THAT FIRST EXPERIENCE THAT RESIDENTS, NEIGHBORS HAVE WITH THE CITY? IF IT'S A NEGATIVE ONE, IT'S HARD TO BUILD BACK. YOU TALKED A LOT ABOUT TRUST, RIGHT? SO IF WE CAN GIVE THEM SOMETHING MORE CERTAINTY, LIKE YOU MAY WANT THIS AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, THOSE IN THE RECORDS OFFICE DO A GOOD JOB OF THAT. BUT WHERE ELSE? I THINK SOMETIMES WHEN YOU NEED THE INFORMATION, IT'S HARDER TO SEE, LIKE THE FOREST THROUGH THE TREES. AND I THINK THIS WORK OF KNOW YOUR RIGHTS WAS THESE ARE ALL THE THINGS THAT YOU SHOULD BE AWARE OF. AND, YOU KNOW, FOIA MIGHT BE PART OF THAT. WE'VE SEEN PEOPLE COME FORWARD WITH, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY WAS INTERESTED IN TRYING TO EXONERATE THEIR BROTHER. AND WE'RE LIKE, WHY AREN'T YOU GOING TO THE DEFENSE ATTORNEY WHO WOULD HAVE LIKE A NON REDACTED CASE FILE. SO I CAN GO DEEPER INTO THAT. BUT IT'S JUST AN EMERGING ISSUE THAT WE'RE SEEING. WE'VE HAD MORE FOIA APPEALS IN THE LAST TWO YEARS THAN THE FIVE AND A HALF I'VE BEEN ON COMMISSION. THANKS. I THINK I'M CAPTURING CAPTURING WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, COMMISSIONER. I THINK IT'S A FAIR SUGGESTION AND POINT TO RAISE. IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN TALK TO THE LAW DEPARTMENT ABOUT. MAYBE IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE COULD ADD TO OUR KNOW YOUR RIGHTS TRAINING. JUST A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT FOIA IS FOR THE PUBLIC. BUT WE'LL TAKE THE SUGGESTION AND HAVE THE CONVERSATIONS AND PROVIDE AN UPDATE. AND THE OTHER COUPLE QUESTIONS ON ALL THE YOUTH PROGRAM. I THINK WE THERE WAS A REALLY GOOD COMPREHENSIVE BRIEFING AT PUBLIC SAFETY THE LAST MEETING, AND THERE'S A SLIDE I WISH I WOULD HAVE EMBEDDED IN THIS PROGRAM THAT ALL THE PROGRAMING THAT YOU TALKED ABOUT PREVIOUSLY THAT WE FUNDED WAS PRIMARILY I'LL SPEAK TO SOME OF THE VIOLENCE PREVENTION YOUTH PREVENTION PROGRAMING DURING THE SUMMER. GOOD STUFF. OPENING POOLS, YOUTH SUMMER EMPLOYMENT, DAYCARE, AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS LIKE AT BAXTER OR SUMMER CAMPS. THOSE ARE PRIMARILY DAYTIME DRIVEN. I THINK WHAT WE HAVE DONE LATELY, WITH THE HELP OF COMMUNITY PARTNERS AND SOME OF THE EVEN EFFORTS FROM SAFE IS FOCUS ON AFTER OUR PROGRAMING DURING THE SUMMER. AND SO THAT REALLY GIVES US A MORE HOLISTIC WAY TO ENGAGE YOUTH THROUGHOUT THE MAJORITY OF THE DAYTIME, AS WELL AS OFFERING SOME OPTIONS IN THE EVENING. AND I THINK THAT'S BEEN BEEN MORE

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I KNOW THIS IS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BUDGET, BUT YOU KNOW, IT KIND OF GOES HAND IN HAND. THANK YOU. UNDERSTOOD. THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER KNIGHT. YEAH. THANK YOU. SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT I HAD HAVE ALREADY BEEN ANSWERED, A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS THAT I JUST HAD WAS WITH THE OPA, THE STATE COMMUNITY FINANCIAL OVERVIEW, JUST KIND OF LOOKING AT THE 26,000 269,080 8000. JUST KIND OF WONDERING IF THAT NUMBER, HOW DOES THAT NUMBER BREAK OUT, IF YOU COULD GET THOSE NUMBERS WOULD BE INTERESTING. CAN YOU HEAR ME. KNOW WHAT SLIDE NUMBER. OH I'M SORRY. WELL IT'S ON PAGE I THINK 11. IT MIGHT BE SLIDE 11. RIGHT. AND BREAKING BREAKING THOSE NUMBERS OUT. AND THEN ALSO THINKING ABOUT THE SAFE COMMUNITIES I THINK SLIDE NUMBER 14 THINKING ABOUT THE COMMUNITY INFORMED TRAINING AND JUST LOOKING AT SOME OF THE POSTS THAT CAME OUT AFTER THE VERDICT IN THE TRIAL AND JUST WONDERING HOW MANY PEOPLE DO WE REACH OUT TO BE A PART OF THOSE TRAININGS? BECAUSE I KNOW THERE ARE A LOT OF, YOU KNOW, THE PASTORS ALLIANCE KIND OF PUT OUT THEIR OWN STATEMENT AND JUST BE REALLY INTERESTING. AND HOW MANY OF THEM HAD ATTENDED ANY TRAINING AS OF LATE AND HOW WE, YOU KNOW, HOW WE HOW WE'RE A LITTLE MORE INTENTIONAL ABOUT BEING PROACTIVE AS OPPOSED TO, YOU KNOW, MAYBE PUTTING OUT A POST OR SOMETHING ON OUR SOCIAL MEDIA THAT JUST SAYS, HEY, WE OFFER THESE TRAININGS AT THIS TIME, BUT HOW ARE WE BEING INTENTIONAL ABOUT REALLY BRINGING IN THESE COMMUNITY MEMBERS? YOU KNOW, NOT EVERY FIVE YEARS OR EVERY TIME SOMETHING HAPPENS IN OUR COMMUNITY, THEN WE'RE TRYING TO DO THIS. BUT REALLY, HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE REALLY ENGAGED IN THAT, ESPECIALLY IN LIGHT OF RECENT EVENTS THAT HAVE HAPPENED IN OUR COMMUNITY? AND THEN ALSO LOOKING AT, I THINK SLIDE 17 WITH THE SAFE COMMUNITY, THE CIVILIAN VIOLENCE REDUCTION AND INTERRUPTION. JUST WONDERING, LIKE YOU SAID, CITY MANAGER TALKED ABOUT A LOT OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING ARE DURING THE DAY. AND SO IN THE EVENING LEAVES OPPORTUNITY FOR PEOPLE TO GET INTO INTERESTING SITUATIONS, WONDERING, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE NUMBERS LOOK LIKE. AND THIS MAY BE SOMETHING THAT HAVE BEEN PRESENTED WITH PUBLIC SAFETY, BUT WHAT THE AGE IS OF THE VIOLENCE PERPETRATORS THAT ARE HAPPENING, WHAT IS THE GENERAL AGE RANGE. AND THEN IF IT IS IN THAT YOUNGER AGE RANGE IN DOING THAT, THAT SUMMER VIOLENCE, YOUTH VIOLENCE REDUCTION PROGRAMS IS WHAT IS THE WHAT IS

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WE'LL DEFINITELY GET YOU A BREAKDOWN ON THE BUDGET DETAIL FOR OPA, MORE DETAIL ON THAT, AS WELL AS GETTING THE PARTICIPATION ON THE COMMUNITY INFORMED TRAINING AND HOW MANY OF OUR OTHER PARTNERS PARTICIPATE IN THAT. ON THE SLIDE YOU CALL ON THE YOUTH PROGRAM. THAT'S NOT HOLISTIC. THAT'S NOT INDICATIVE OF THE SUMMER YOUTH EMPLOYMENT COSTS THAT WE ARE INCURRING AS A CITY, AS WELL AS THE TWO COLLEGE THROUGH COLLEGE AND OTHER INVESTMENTS. SO I AS I SAID EARLIER, I'LL GET THAT SLIDE THAT ROLLED OUR HOLISTIC YOUTH EFFORTS. THIS IS JUST REFLECTIVE OF OPA'S EFFORT TO GET A MORE COMPREHENSIVE VIEW OF OUR EFFORTS FOR YOUTH ENGAGEMENT AND GET THAT TO THE COMMISSION. AND, MR. DAVIS, YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE CURE, VIOLENCE, BORDERS? SURE. NOW, I HAVE TO SAY GEOGRAPHY IS MY WORST AREA, RIGHT? SO I'LL START WITH THAT. BUT SLIDE 20. SO I'M TRYING TO FIND THANK YOU. BUT IN SHORT, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE BORDERS FOR CURE VIOLENCE, THE BORDERS WERE DETERMINED BASED ON USING A HEAT MAPPING SYSTEM FOR THROUGH GRPD. SO WE PARTNERED WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, ASKED THEM TO HELP US IDENTIFY AREAS IN EACH WARD. WE OBVIOUSLY WHEN WE FIRST STARTED, WE WERE ONLY LOOKING AT THE THIRD WARD, BUT WE ASKED THEM TO IDENTIFY AREAS IN EACH WARD WHERE THERE WAS A HIGH CONCENTRATION OF VIOLENT CRIME. SO THAT'S HOW WE WERE ABLE TO DETERMINE THE AREAS. SO WE LOOKED AT THE WHAT THE HEAT MAP SHOWED AS A HIGH AREA IN THE THIRD WARD. SAME FOR THE FIRST AND SECOND WARDS. AND THIS IS HOW THESE BORDERS WERE DETERMINED. WE ALSO WORKED WITH CURE VIOLENCE GLOBAL, WHICH IS THAT PARENT COMPANY, TO MAKE SURE THAT THE TARGET AREA OR THE HEAT MAP AREA THAT WAS SELECTED FIT WITHIN THEIR METRICS FOR THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE AND THE SIZE OF SPACE THAT YOU WOULD BE WORKING IN TO BE EFFECTIVE. SO IT'S THE COMBINATION OF THOSE THINGS THAT GOT US TO THESE BORDERS FOR THE TARGET AREAS. OKAY. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. ANY OTHER COMMISSIONER PERDUE? THANK YOU. GOOD MORNING. THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION, MR. DAVIS. JUST WANT TO DOUBLE DOWN ON SOME OF THE QUESTIONS RELATED TO QUESTIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES RELATED TO FOIA. I WAS ON THE FOIA APPEALS BOARD LAST YEAR, AND IT REALLY BECAME CLEAR THAT THERE ARE SOME PROCESS AND CUSTOMER SERVICE IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE CAN MAKE TO LET PEOPLE KNOW KIND OF WHAT THEIR OPTIONS ARE, MAKE SURE THEY GET THE RIGHT INFORMATION, AND MAKE SURE THAT WE UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY'RE SEEKING BEFORE WE GO THROUGH THE WHOLE PROCESS OF APPEAL. SO I JUST WANT TO DOUBLE DOWN ON THAT AND GLAD THAT'S BEING CONSIDERED. I REALLY APPRECIATE THE OVERVIEW. MR. DAVIS OF THE HORIZON TOPICS, THE SOFTWARE, THE OVERSIGHT AND JURISDICTION AND ACCESS. I AM CURIOUS AND JUST, YOU KNOW, WANT TO SAY THAT PREVENTION IS WORKING. WE HAVE A VERY SAFE CITY IN SO MANY WAYS. AND BETWEEN THE PREVENTION WORK, WHICH IS HARDER TO MEASURE, WE KNOW. BUT WE BUT WE KNOW THAT IT TRULY IS EFFECTIVE. AND THE PAIRING THAT WITH EMERGENCY SERVICES, WE'RE JUST A REALLY SAFE CITY, PARTICULARLY PER CAPITA. AND SO I'M PROUD OF THAT. THAT BEING SAID, WE KNOW WE STILL HAVE VIOLENCE THAT HAPPENS IN OUR CITY AND WE HAVE VICTIMS OF CRIME. AND SO JUST APPRECIATE ALL THE ATTENTION ON KIND OF WHAT'S DESCRIBED IN 17

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THAT'S HELPFUL. THANK YOU FOR THAT. SO KIND OF IN RELATED IN RELATED TO HORIZON TOPICS AND THINKING ABOUT THE CONVERSATION ON ON YOUTH AND YOUTH INVESTMENT AND KIND OF OPA'S PIECE OF THE TOTAL INVESTMENT PACKAGE. I KNOW MANY YEARS AGO THERE WAS A JUVENILE CRIME REPORT. IS THAT SOMETHING? AND I KNOW THAT WAS SEVERAL YEARS AGO, PROBABLY THE LAST DECADE. AND THEN MORE RECENTLY, KIND OF 2020, 2021, JUVENILE CRIME WAS TRULY ON THE RISE IN THE CITY AND REALLY THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY. THAT HAS SINCE TAPERED DOWN. BUT I'M WONDERING WHAT ATTENTION WE ARE OUR ARE HAVING ON JUVENILES, ESPECIALLY BOTH FROM A PREVENTION AND ENRICHMENT STANDPOINT, AS OTHERS MENTIONED, BUT ALSO JUST MAYBE MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE UNDERSTANDING AND WE'RE TRACKING THE PATTERNS SO THAT WE CAN BETTER UNDERSTAND THE NEEDS AND INTERVENE. SO MY SPECIFIC QUESTION, HAS THERE BEEN ANY DISCUSSION, PARTICULARLY ABOUT RESURFACING A REPORT SPECIFICALLY AROUND HOW JUVENILES ARE FARING, PARTICULARLY RELATED TO CRIME, AND HAVE TO FOLLOW UP WITH BOTH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE COURTS AS WELL AS OPA, I'M NOT AWARE OF A SPECIFIC REPORT, BUT THAT THAT MAY NOT MEAN IT DOESN'T EXIST. I DON'T SEE ANYONE FROM POLICE DEPARTMENT RAISING THEIR HAND. COMMISSIONER AND MISS HARRIS IS IN THE BACK.

THIS WAS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DID. I BELIEVE THAT WAS A GRANT THAT WE HAD. THERE WAS SOME DOLLARS THAT WE DID WITH SAFE AND OUR COMMUNITY'S CHILDREN, I THINK WAS PART OF IT. SO THAT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST DELIVERABLES THAT WE HAD OUT OF THE SAFE BODY. BUT THERE WAS IF I'D HAVE TO GO BACK ON MY NOTES TO SEE WHERE WHERE THAT MONEY CAME FROM TO DO THAT WORK. I BELIEVE WE WORKED WITH JOHN TO WORK WITH JOHN BENDER OUT OF GVSU. I DON'T KNOW WHERE I'M PHONING A FRIEND, SHANNON, BUT THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS DONE QUITE A BIT AGO, AND I THINK THAT'S A REALLY GOOD IDEA. I THINK THERE'S SOME OPPORTUNITIES US FOR US TO CAPTURE SOME, SOME GRANT DOLLARS. I KNOW YOU AND I TALKED ABOUT THAT YESTERDAY, COMMISSIONER. YOU KNOW, HOPEFULLY THOSE WILL STILL BE THERE TO CONTINUE TO LOOK AT THOSE NUMBERS. I THINK I WAS ABLE TO GO TO SOMETHING WITH PASTOR GADDY AND THE PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE LAST MONTH.

AND, YOU KNOW, JUST THE AGE OF INDIVIDUALS AND PROBABLY THE CHIEF AND DC CAN SHARE ANECDOTALLY, I THINK WE KNOW THOSE NUMBERS ARE GETTING YOUNGER AND YOUNGER. SO BUT I CAN FIND THAT REPORT AND PULL IT OUT. AND YEAH, THANKS FOR CONNECTING. THE OC WAS A PART OF THAT. SO YEAH I THINK THAT'S INTERESTING. AND THEN TO YOUR POINT AROUND GRANTS, I MEAN, WE HAVE BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL AT BRINGING IN OUTSIDE DOLLARS, PARTICULARLY AROUND INFRASTRUCTURE, MOBILITY, GREEN SPACE AND HOPE THAT WE CAN ALSO PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION TO GETTING DOLLARS AND GRANTS SPECIFICALLY FOCUSED ON OUR YOUTH PREVENTION AND ENRICHMENT FOR THEM, BECAUSE

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THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION I PICKED UP. I WANT TO GO TO THE CONVERSATION AROUND FEES POTENTIALLY GOING TO A FEE FOR SERVICE MODEL, WHICH I UNDERSTAND MEANS A FEE FOR SERVICE MODEL TO GET ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FROM THE CITY. RIGHT FROM CITY STAFF. YEP. SO, YOU KNOW, I THINK, YOU KNOW, LATER IN THE SLIDE, MR. KELLY TALKED US THROUGH ALL THE GREAT THINGS HAPPENING DOWNTOWN IN OUR CORRIDORS. AND IT IS JUST SO EXCITING, ESPECIALLY SEEING THAT MAP ON PAGE 51 JUST GETS ME SO EXCITED OF ALL THE PROGRESS THAT HAS BEEN MADE, ALL THE PARTNERSHIPS, ALL THE INVESTMENTS IN ORDER FOR OUR NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESS DISTRICTS TO HAVE THE CHANCE OF GETTING CLOSE TO THIS, WE NEED SO MUCH TARGETED INVESTMENT AND RESOURCES AND ATTENTION, AND THE IDEA THAT PARTICULARLY KNOWING HOW DISPARATE OUR COMMUNITIES ARE AND OUR NEIGHBORHOOD BASED BUSINESS DISTRICTS ARE FROM ONE ANOTHER, LET ALONE FROM DOWNTOWN, I DON'T THINK IT'S APPROPRIATE FOR TO ASK THOSE BODIES WITH VERY, VERY LIMITED FUNDING TO PAY THE CITY FOR ADDITIONAL SUPPORT. I REALLY THAT SHOULD REALLY BE SEEN AS AN INVESTMENT IN OUR OVERALL CITY STRATEGY AND OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND PROSPERITY STRATEGY. SO I KNOW THAT I'M SIT ON THE CIA. I KNOW WE HAVEN'T BEEN OR I HAVEN'T BEEN

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SO THANK YOU. AND I DON'T WANT TO QUELL DISCUSSION HERE, BUT IF WE CAN FOCUS NOT ON FUTURE POLICY STUFF AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE IN OUR COMMENTS HERE, BUT LIKE ON THIS YEAR'S BUDGET, JUST BECAUSE WE'RE GETTING THROUGH TIME, LIKE I'M HAPPY TO TALK. I LOVE TALKING ABOUT THINGS FOREVER. BUT LET'S IF WE CAN FOCUS ON THE BUDGET AND SPECIFIC BUDGET ITEMS. COMMISSIONER ROBINSON, DID YOU HAVE A QUESTION OR A COMMENT? COMMISSIONER KNIGHT I'M SORRY. I JUST WANT TO ECHO WHAT COMMISSIONER PERDUE SAID ABOUT THAT, THAT PARTICULAR PIECE AND THE FEE FOR SERVICE, BECAUSE IT IS A STRUGGLE WITH OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS AND OUR KIDS AND ALL OF THAT, TO ADD AN EXTRA FEE FOR THEM TO HAVE THE SERVICE, FOR SOMEBODY TO SUPPORT THEM, TO DO THE WORK THAT THEY'RE DOING FOR THE CITY KIND OF SEEMS A LITTLE BACKWARDS TO ME. BUT THE OTHER THING THAT I HAD A QUESTION ABOUT, AND I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS 31, IS THIS IN THE RIGHT SPOT? DID I JUMP AHEAD? SLIDE 31. YEAH, I THINK I JUMPED AHEAD OKAY. NO, NO THAT'S IT. I JUST I JUST HAD ONE QUESTION. WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE ECONOMIC PROSPERITY AND AFFORDABILITY UNDER THE SMALL BUSINESS SUPPORT PIECE, WE HAVE A JOINT CONTRACT, I BELIEVE, WITH SOMEONE THAT ACTUALLY SUPPORTS OUR SMALL BUSINESSES AND REALLY HELPING THEM GET THROUGH A LOT OF THE LEGAL ISSUES THAT THEY'RE DEALING WITH AND HELP SUPPORTING THEM WITH THE THINGS THAT THEY NEED AS A BUSINESS IN THE COMMUNITY. AND IT WOULD BE INTERESTING, I DON'T KNOW IF WE'VE HAD A REPORT OUT FROM THAT SPACE AS OF RECENT TO JUST SEE WHERE WHERE WE ARE WITH THAT, RIGHT, WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE, WHAT BUSINESSES HAVE BEEN OPEN, WHICH ONES HAVE CLOSED, WHICH ONES ARE STILL KIND OF NEEDING SUPPORT, KIND OF LIKE WE GET THIS REPORT AT THE EVERY MONTH FROM 311 ABOUT C.F.R. THAT ARE OPEN IN OUR PARTICULAR WARDS. AND IF THEY'RE PENDING AND IF, IF THEY'RE. OPENED OR RESOLVED OR WHATEVER, YOU KNOW, HOW ARE WE WE'RE CONTINUING TO SUPPORT THAT POSITION. BUT I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW, LIKE, WHERE ARE WE WITH THAT? BECAUSE I DON'T THINK I'VE HEARD ANYTHING. SO YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE POSITION 5050 WITH THE CHAMBER AND US? YEAH. AND IT HELPS US PARTNER IN THAT. SO I'LL GO BACK TO THAT. SINCE I HEARD TWO COMMENTS ABOUT THE FEES FOR SERVICE AND JUST REAL BRIEFLY. SO THERE IS NO FEE PROPOSED FOR THIS YEAR'S BUDGET. AS MISS BEHRENS INDICATED, WE ARE TRYING TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION, BUT IN PART IT WAS MODELED THE WAY. DDR AND THE DDA, AND IT DID WORKS. THEY THE CITY DOES NOT PAY MR. KELLY'S SALARY. HE THERE IS A CHARGE FOR THE SERVICES TO THE DDA TO OTHER AUTHORITY BUDGETS FOR ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES. THE SAME IS OF THE SMART ZONE. MISS RENFRO AND SOME OF HER STAFF ALSO HAS A CHARGEBACK. SO IN LOOKING AT WHAT IS MISSING IN THE OTHER AUTHORITIES, THERE'S NOT A NONPROFIT AND SOME OF THEM DON'T HAVE OTHER STAFF RESOURCES. AND SO THAT WAS A CONVERSATION WE CERTAINLY CAN CAN EXPLORE AND SEE WHAT THE FEEDBACK OF SOME OF THE OTHER AUTHORITIES ARE AS WELL, RELATIVE TO OUR RETAIL RETENTION ATTRACTION SPECIALIST. I THINK THIS QUESTION, THE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THE CITY, THE CHAMBER AND. DRY, WE DO HAVE REPORTS THAT I THINK WE HAD. IT WAS A QUARTERLY CONVERSATION. I'M NOT SURE THE FREQUENCY NOW. I KNOW ANNUALLY AT LEAST WHEN WE COME BACK FOR CONTRACT RENEWAL. BUT PERHAPS MISS BEHRENS OR MR. KELLY WOULD LIKE TO COMMENT ON ON THAT. WE DO RECEIVE REPORTS PERIODICALLY FROM FROM THAT RETAIL RETENTION SPECIALIST. WE TYPICALLY HOLD THE INFORMATION FOR THE COMMISSION INTO THE MID-YEAR AND END OF YEAR PERFORMANCE REPORTS, BUT WE CAN PULL TOGETHER WHAT EXISTS AND SHARE. COMMISSIONER SASSY, THANK YOU. I WILL STAY ON THE THEME OF CAP ONE. I THINK THIS THIS IS I'M THINKING THIS IS SORT OF LIKE RESPONDING TO WHAT WE'VE

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SO I'M THINKING OF THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE HELD THIS ROLE. MANY OF THEM SORT OF MOVED UP IN THE ORGANIZATION, WHICH IS A POSITIVE. WHAT IS THAT? I THINK IT'S LIKE WHAT WHAT ANGELA HAS IN THREE ONE, ONE, YOU GET SOMEBODY THEY DO REALLY WELL AND THEN THEY GO TO ANOTHER PART OF THE CITY. I THINK YOU HAVE SOME OF THIS HERE. SO THIS IS A BIT OF WHAT IS A RESOURCE AND A TALENT. I WOULD SAY I'VE BEEN REALLY PLEASED WITH. I DON'T ALWAYS LIKE TO CALL IT PEOPLE'S NAMES, BUT I'M GOING TO CALL OUT VERA WITH HER SUPPORT DURING OUR SORT OF LACK OF A CORRIDOR MANAGER. AND SO FOR NORTH QUARTER, I CAN'T SAY THAT WE WOULD VOTE TO WANT TO HAVE THIS FEE FOR SERVICE. BUT I'VE ALSO HEARD FROM A THIRD WARD COMMISSIONER WHO'S A WHO'S A FRIEND WHO'S LIKE, OR A PAST THIRD WARD COMMISSIONER IS LIKE, WHY WOULD WE DO THIS? AND SORT OF LIKE, WHAT IS THE, YOU KNOW, HOW ARE WE GOING TO ABSORB THAT AND WHY MUCH, ALONG WITH COMMISSIONER PERDUE'S COMMENTS LIKE, HOW CAN WE ABSORB THIS AS A CORRIDOR IMPROVEMENT AUTHORITY? SO I'D LIKE US TO I'D LIKE TO THINK ABOUT IT'S A TALENT, BUT ALSO A NEED, BECAUSE I THINK WE HAVE SOME REALLY TALENTED PEOPLE INSIDE OF OUR CITY. AND SO IF WE CAN BRING UP WHAT THEIR SERVICES THAT THEY COULD PROVIDE, THAT MIGHT HELP TO THIS CONVERSATION, AND MAYBE IT DOESN'T, BECAUSE I DON'T THINK THIS IS A CONFLICT, BUT NOT A BAD LIKE IT'S NOT A BAD CONFLICT OF LIKE WHAT IS NEEDED, BUT WHAT IS THE REALITY OF OUR ORGANIZATIONS TO FUND? BECAUSE I THINK SOME OF OUR ORGANIZATIONS ARE LIKE, HEY, COULD WE DO WHAT WHAT WEST SIDE IS DOING? LIKE, WE DIDN'T KNOW THAT WAS POSSIBLE OR WE DIDN'T THINK ABOUT IT AS A STRATEGY. WE HAVE NEW BOARD MEMBERS. SO I ALSO WANT TO SAY THIS GOES BACK TO WHAT I JUST TALKED ABOUT AS IT RELATES TO SOME OF THE YOUTH PROGRAMING, IS WE HAVE A LOT OF WE'RE VERY MATRIXED ORGANIZATION. RIGHT? SO THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THINGS THAT ARE OVERLAPPING, AND THEN THEY'RE ALSO RESPONSIBLE TO A LOT OF PEOPLE, NOT EVEN JUST ALL OF US. BUT REALLY AT THE TOP OF THAT ORG CHART IS THE RESIDENTS, NEIGHBORS, BUSINESSES OF THE CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS. AND SO I THINK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT A OMBUDS PERSON IN DEVELOPMENT CENTER. WE'VE GOT THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ROLE, WHICH I WOULD, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT ROLE DOING LIKE MLB CERTIFICATION, THE ROLE THAT YOU MENTIONED, COMMISSIONER, YOU KNOW, MOBILE GR GETS VERY ENGAGED WITH A LOT OF BUSINESS NEEDS BECAUSE OF LIKE I THINK, YOU KNOW, MOBILE GR IS ENGAGED IN THAT WAY. AND SO I THINK SOME OF MY CONCERN OF LIKE WHY I WASN'T SUPPORTIVE OF ADDING SOME ADDITIONAL SUPPORT WAS BECAUSE I'D LIKE US TO SAY, ARE THERE CONNECTION POINTS OR THESE MATRIX PIECES WHERE WE CAN TIGHTEN UP A LITTLE BIT? I THINK NO DOUBT EVERYBODY YOU KNOW, IN THIS CITY, I THINK IS FOCUSED ON GETTING WORK DONE, BUT HOW CAN WE CONNECT AND COORDINATE. AND SO THAT'S WHERE I WOULD LIKE US TO EXPLORE MORE, BECAUSE I THINK AT THE END, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THAT CIA IS PROBABLY GOING TO CONNECT WITH ALL OF THOSE DEPARTMENTS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT, RIGHT? THEY'RE GOING TO COME TO THOSE MEETINGS, YOU KNOW, AND I'M SORRY, TIM FORGOT ENGINEERING. AND SO I JUST WANT US TO THINK, LIKE, I DON'T WANT THIS TO BE SUCH A BINARY DISCUSSION. I WOULD LIKE TO SAY, YOU KNOW, HOW DOES THIS LIKE SUPPORT AND CONNECT? SO BUT I RECOGNIZE THE NEED FOR CORRIDOR MANAGEMENT AND HAVING THE EBB AND FLOW OF PEOPLE WHO MIGHT BE WHO MIGHT BE INSIDE AND KIND OF UNDERSTAND, LIKE WHAT YOU NEED TO DO ON A BASELINE. SO I'LL SAY THAT. AND THEN I JUST WANTED TO SAY, YOU KNOW, IT'S OBVIOUSLY IN THE BUDGET AS WELL. I APPRECIATE THE UPDATES. I'LL LOOK FORWARD TO MORE UPDATES ABOUT THIRD WORLD EQUITY FUND. MY INTENTION I KNOW CITY MANAGER, YOU HAD SHARED, YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD BE A CHANGING VIEW OF THIS THIRD WARD EQUITY FUND. I'VE LET MY COLLEAGUES IN THE THIRD WARD KNOW I AM SUPPORTIVE OF FUNDING THE THIRD WARD IN THE WAY THAT IT WAS INTENDED TO BE, WHICH IS TO FUND PROJECTS SPECIFICALLY IN THE THIRD WARD. I THINK LIKE IT DOESN'T. AGAIN, WE HAVE DIFFERENT DISTRICTS AND DIFFERENT AREAS, BUT THAT IS MY INTENTION. I'M NOT INTERESTED IN EXPLORING SOMETHING FURTHER. THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER KILGORE.

YES. THANK YOU. I ECHO THE SENTIMENT OF COMMISSIONER SASSY. I'M VERY HAPPY OF HOW THIS WAS LAID OUT. I THINK WE'VE BEEN CALLING THEM BUCKETS OF SORT OF AREAS OF FOCUS FOR THE THIRD WARD EQUITY FUND. I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING WITH COMMUNITY AND MY COLLEAGUE, COMMISSIONER PERDUE, TO SEE HOW THIS WILL CONTINUE TO CHANGE AND EVOLVE AS SOME OF THE

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BUT YES, LOOKING FORWARD TO KEEPING THIS. I'M VERY HAPPY WITH THE PROPOSAL TO KEEP THE MILLION DOLLARS OF INVESTMENT AND HOPE THAT THAT WILL CONTINUE GOING FORWARD, AND THEN ALSO REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING IF THERE ARE FURTHER WORKAROUNDS FOR THE SMALL BUSINESS SUPPORT, AS THAT HAS BEEN A CONSTANT CONCERN AND REQUESTS FROM COMMUNITY THAT COMMISSIONER PERDUE HAS BEEN SPEARHEADING. SO JUST LOOKING FORWARD TO SUPPORTING THIS AS IT IS WITH THE MILLION DOLLAR INVESTMENT AND SEEING HOW WE CAN BE EVEN MORE TRANSFORMATIVE, TRANSFORMATIVE WITH THE FUNDS. YEAH. GOOD MORNING. STILL, FOR A MINUTE, I WOULD LIKE TO JUST ASK A COUPLE QUESTIONS WITH THE DOWNTOWN AUTHORITY. WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE OR IS IT A READILY AVAILABLE TO HAVE A MAP OF THE AREA THAT THE DOWNTOWN AUTHORITY COVERS? I DON'T SEE IT HERE IN THIS PRESENTATION. AND SOMETIMES THERE'S A CONFUSION. YOU KNOW, WHERE WHERE ONE BEGINS AND ANOTHER ENDS. PARTICULARLY WE HAVE THESE CORRIDOR IMPROVEMENT AUTHORITIES. AND I SEE YOU HAVE HEARTSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD LOCATED HERE, BUT HEARTSIDE BUSINESS DISTRICT IS, I BELIEVE, IN THE AREA. AND THEY THEY DON'T HAVE A CIA OTHER THAN THE GRI. SO SEEING A MAP I GUESS WOULD BE IMPORTANT. DO YOU KNOW, OR IF YOU'D LIKE TO COMMENT ABOUT HOW YOU'RE WORKING WITH HEARTSIDE BUSINESSES OR AUTHORITY? WE CAN DO BOTH. SO YEAH, HAPPY TO INCLUDE A MAP. WE HAD ONE IN HERE, BUT FOR THE SAKE OF BREVITY, WE CUT IT. SO APOLOGIES FOR THAT, BUT I'M HAPPY TO FOLLOW UP AND SEND THAT TO YOU. YEAH. AND THEN YEAH, WE WORK CLOSELY WITH BOTH THE HEARTSIDE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION AND THE NEIGHBORS IN THE DISTRICT. AS I MENTIONED, WE DO HAVE FUNDING THAT'S ALLOCATED ANNUALLY FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE STUDY THAT WAS COMPLETED A FEW YEARS BACK RECENTLY THAT HAS GONE TOWARD INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS. WE'RE ALSO CONTINUING TO LOOK AT FRESH FOOD ACCESS, BUT CONTINUING THAT CONVERSATION TO SEE WHAT'S A PRIORITY. YEAH, SO THAT'S FOR RESIDENTS. BUT I KNOW THAT THE DIVISION CORRIDOR AND CONNECTING IT TO DOWNTOWN, THERE'S A LOT OF ACTIVATION AND INTEREST THERE. SO HOW DO WE GET THOSE SMALL BUSINESSES TO THRIVE AND HAVE THOSE THE RETAIL THERE BEING ATTRACTIVE TO OTHERS TO COME? YEAH. AND A FEW FOLKS HAVE MENTIONED OUR WORK WITH THE CHAMBER IN THE CITY ON OUR RETAIL SPECIALIST IS HELPING WITH SOME OF THAT COMMUNICATION. IN ADDITION, WE HAVE A GRANT PROGRAM THAT IS BEEN VERY USEFUL ON DIVISION AVENUE IN TERMS OF GETTING BUSINESSES INTO THOSE VACANT STOREFRONTS. SO IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS, WE'VE ISSUED 16 GRANTS THAT HAVE GONE ON DIVISION TO BRING OPPORTUNITIES FOR SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS TO GO ON THAT CORRIDOR AND SEEN A LOT OF ACTIVATION. SO THOSE ARE THOSE ARE TWO THAT COME TO MIND. YEAH. WONDERFUL. AND THEN JUST OUT OF CURIOSITY, LIKE WHO? I KNOW THAT YOU CAN GO TO THE WEBSITE AND SEE WHO YOUR 16 BOARD MEMBERS ARE, BUT COULD YOU JUST DESCRIBE WHAT THE PROCESS IS TO BE INVOLVED OR TO BE ABLE TO BE AT MEETINGS, ETC? YEP. SO THE ORGANIZATION WAS FORMED BACK IN 2012. THE BYLAWS IDENTIFY CERTAIN COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND SEATS THAT WILL BE INCLUDED. THAT INCLUDES THE MAYOR, CITY MANAGER, COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR, MEMBERS OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND RIGHT PLACE. THE OTHER SEATS ARE AT LARGE, AND SO OUR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND BOARD VET POTENTIAL CANDIDATES AS FOLKS TERM OUT. AND THAT'S HOW THE NOMINATIONS OCCUR. AND WE THOSE MEETINGS ARE PUBLIC, RIGHT. WE CAN GO TO THOSE MEETINGS AND THEY ARE. YEP. YEAH. EVERYTHING THAT FLOWS THROUGH DRY FOLLOWS THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT. ALL OF OUR MINUTES AND MEETINGS ARE POSTED, AND WE WELCOME COMMUNITY TO PARTICIPATE AND BE INVOLVED. THANK YOU. SO I DO WANT TO HAVE A DISCUSSION BRIEFLY ABOUT THE ABOUT THE THIRD WARD EQUITY FUND. SO I REMEMBER THE INCEPTION OF THIS WAS COMMISSIONER DAVE ALLEN AT THAT POINT MAKING AN ARGUMENT THAT THE CITY WAS SPENDING LESS ON ROAD FUNDING AND INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING IN THE THIRD WARD, AND THAT THERE WAS A THERE WAS A AN IMBALANCE IN INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT BY THE CITY. I THINK THERE ARE TWO THINGS THAT WE HAVE TO KEEP ASKING OURSELVES IF WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A STANDALONE FUND FOR ONE PARTICULAR WARD. ONE IS ARE WE TRACKING PROGRESS AND IMPROVEMENT? IN OTHER WORDS, IF WE ARE CURRENTLY FUNDING ROADS ROUGHLY EQUALLY TO OUR SATISFACTION IN ALL THREE WARDS, THEN THAT NEED OR THAT ARGUMENT IS MAYBE A 15 YEAR OLD SITUATION, BUT IT'S NOT MAYBE

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COMMISSIONER ROBINSON YEAH, I'LL AGREE WITH THAT. THAT SENTIMENT TOO, I THINK, YOU KNOW, WE KNOW WHERE OUR NEIGHBORHOODS OF FOCUS ARE. THEY'RE NOT YOU KNOW, THEY'RE NOT DIVIDED BY BY WARD.

AND SO I THINK I AGREE IN THE, THE SENTIMENT THAT IF WE KNOW WHERE THE NEEDS ARE AT, IT MAKES MOST SENSE TO APPLY THOSE RESOURCES BASED ON, ON NEED AS WELL. SO TO YOUR POINT, I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO HAVE A WHOLE CONVERSATION ABOUT THIS TODAY, BUT ESPECIALLY IN LIGHT OF CDBG FUNDING POTENTIALLY NOT COMING THROUGH. THERE'S A LOT OF ORGANIZATIONS ACROSS ALL OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS OF FOCUS THAT THAT WOULD LOSE OUT ON, ON SOME SUBSTANTIAL DOLLARS. AND SO JUST TRYING TO THINK THROUGH A LONG TERM STRATEGY OF, YOU KNOW, WHY WAS THIS PUT IN PLACE? IS THAT NEED STILL THERE? OR HOW CAN HOW CAN IT BE REDIRECTED TO BEST MEET, BEST MEET THE NEEDS OF OUR COMMUNITY. SO OVERALL SUPPORT THAT SENTIMENT WOULD WELCOME THAT CONVERSATION. YEAH. AND I WILL SAY THAT I SUPPORT THIS AS PART OF THE BUDGET THIS YEAR. AND I THINK THAT ALL OF THIS MONEY WILL, I HOPE, GET SPENT WELL AND PROFITABLY ON THOSE AREAS OF FOCUS. BUT I DO THINK THOSE THOSE ARE AREAS OF FOCUS WHICH SHOULDN'T STOP OR START AT A, AT A WARD BOUNDARY. THOSE SHOULD BE AREAS OF FOCUS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT CITYWIDE. CITY MANAGER, IF WE WANT TO MOVE ON.

I DON'T SEE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS, FOR THAT VERY THOUGHTFUL DISCUSSION. WE WILL PROCEED WITH THE BALANCE OF THE PRESENTATION, WHICH SHOULD GO REALLY QUICKLY. WE HAVE TWO MORE SECTIONS GOVERNMENTAL ACTIONS AND ENGAGE AND CONNECTED. JUST SO A ROAD MAP FOR THE REST OF THE MORNING. WE'D LIKE TO GET THROUGH THIS BRIEFING, MAYBE SEE WHAT QUESTIONS YOU HAVE. THEN TAKE A IF IT'S IF IT'S ACCEPTABLE BOTH TO THE COMMISSION AND THE PRESENTERS. A BRIEF BREAK FOR LUNCH, 15 MINUTES OR SO WE'LL COME BACK AND DO THE WORKSHOP, OR WE CAN PRESS THROUGH AND HAVE A LATER LUNCH. SO HERE, ONE FOR LUNCH, ONE FOR LUNCH. OKAY. I THINK IT WAS A STRONG VOTE THOUGH. SO IT WAS A BREAK FOR LUNCH. AND I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY. AND MAYBE MISS BOHATSCH COULD COULD HELP BECAUSE I DON'T WANT THE IMPRESSION TO BE WE'RE NOT GETTING OUR FEDERAL FUNDING RENEWED, WE JUST NOT HAVE BEEN FORMALLY NOTICE OF THE AWARD YET. WE ANTICIPATED IT THIS WEEK, AND WE ARE GOING TO HOPE THAT WE WILL GET THAT FORMAL NOTIFICATION BY NEXT CITY COMMISSION MEETING. THANKS FOR THAT UPDATE. AND CITY MANAGER, I MEAN, THIS IS THIS IS ON TREND, RIGHT? WHERE THIS IS NOT THE

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AND THEN WE ALSO WANTED TO OUTLINE OUR CUSTOMER SERVICE FOCUSED INVESTMENTS, AS WELL AS THOSE THAT ARE FOCUSED ON WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. THAT'S EITHER DEVELOPING OUR LOCAL WORKFORCE TO STEP INTO JOBS OR CREATING PATHWAYS WHERE WE HAVE JOBS, WHERE INDIVIDUALS CAN THEN PROCEED UP INTO SOME OF THE CLASSIFICATIONS WHERE WE HAVE PARTICULAR DIFFICULTY HIRING AND RETAINING. SOME OF THE THINGS THAT I JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT. ONE IS THE WORK THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING AROUND INNOVATION AND CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT. THIS IS REALLY DESIGNED TO BE FACILITATIVE AND COLLABORATIVE. WE PULL TOGETHER MULTIPLE DEPARTMENTS WHEN WE HAVE THOSE THORNY ISSUES THAT REALLY SPAN ACROSS THE ORGANIZATION. SOME OF THE PROJECTS THAT THEY'RE WORKING ON PRESENTLY AND ANTICIPATE CONTINUING WORKING ON IN THE COMING YEAR INCLUDES THE MAJOR PROJECTS, ENGAGEMENT AND COMMUNICATION WORK THAT STARTED THIS YEAR. THAT WAS A START AND NOT A FINISH. THAT WAS A START. WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO LEARN FROM THAT AND ADAPT AS WE MOVE INTO FUTURE SEASONS, FACILITATING WORK INSIDE THE ORGANIZATION WITH WORK GROUPS ON THE MOVE IN FOR SCRIBNER, DOING SOME OF THE PLANNING, AS WELL AS THE CHANGE MANAGEMENT THAT'S INVOLVED WITH THAT. THEY'VE BEEN HELPING FACILITATE WORK AROUND THE CIRCULARITY WORK THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING FOR MATERIALS MANAGEMENT, AS WELL AS WORKING WITH THE COMMUNICATIONS TEAM ON THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FRAMEWORK FRAMEWORK, AS WELL AS THE ROLLOUT AND THE TRAINING THAT'S GOING TO BE HAPPENING IN FY 26. SO FOCUSING ON CUSTOMER SERVICE, OF COURSE, 311 CONTINUES TO BE THE ON THE FRONT END OF THAT WORK. WE'VE MADE ADJUSTMENTS TO THE ■STAFFING AND THE LEADERSHIP WITH THAT GROUP OVER TIME. ONE OF THE CHANGES THAT WE'VE MADE THIS YEAR IS HAVING SOMEONE THERE THAT'S REALLY FOCUSED ON SOME OF THE INQUIRIES THAT COME INTO THE COMMISSION OFFICES. THAT'S WORK THAT HAS STARTED. NOW. THE SECOND PART OF THAT WORK, WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT LATER, WHICH IS SOME OF THE CONTRACT ASSISTANCE AND COMMUNICATIONS AND ENGAGEMENT. SO WE LIKE TO SHOW THIS EVERY YEAR, JUST AS A REMINDER THAT OUR ABILITY TO RESPOND TO CALLS IS INVERSELY PROPORTIONAL WITH THE AVAILABILITY OF STAFF TO ANSWER THOSE CALLS, THAT THAT'S NOT A SURPRISE. BUT WHEN YOU SEE IT VISUALLY, IT'S PRETTY APPARENT.

AS I MENTIONED, WE'VE MADE STAFFING ADJUSTMENTS OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF BUDGETS, AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO TAKE A LOOK AT THAT AND HOW WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE BEING RESPONSIVE. OF COURSE, PART OF THAT AS WELL IS THE RELEASE OF AN RFQ ON HOW WE CAN EMPLOY AI CHAT BOTS AND RESPONSIVENESS AS PART OF THAT, SO THAT OUR HUMAN OPERATORS CAN FOCUS ON THE MORE DIFFICULT, CHALLENGING HUMAN QUESTIONS THAT COME THROUGH THE OFFICE. JUST A REMINDER ON GOVERNMENT AND LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS, THERE WAS A LITTLE REFERENCE TO THE LACK OF CERTAINTY ON WHAT MAY OR MAY NOT BE COMING FROM WASHINGTON THESE DAYS. THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE CONTINUING TO TRACK. BUT THAT HASN'T STOPPED SOME OF THE WORK THAT HAPPENS EVERY YEAR. SPECIFICALLY, WHEN WE LOOK AT FUNDING REQUESTS AND OPPORTUNITIES THAT COME FROM OUR LEGISLATIVE TEAM. AND WE'VE LISTED HERE SOME OF THE ITEMS THAT WE'VE ALREADY PUT IN THE QUEUE WITH OUR LEGISLATIVE DELEGATION, EITHER AT THE STATE OR THE FEDERAL LEVEL, TO HELP ADVANCE AND CONTINUE AND HOPEFULLY GET SOME FUNDING AROUND THOSE. SO JUST NOTING SOME OF THE EXTERNAL PRESSURES, SOME OF THE PRESSURES THAT WE'RE ON, IT'S WORTH A REMINDER. WE'VE HAD THREE GRANTS THAT HAVE IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY BEEN IMPACTED. FORTUNATELY, COMPARATIVELY, IT HASN'T BEEN A HUGE AMOUNT, BUT THERE'S STILL A LOT THAT'S UP IN THE AIR, A LOT OF THINGS THAT WE'RE STILL WAITING ON WORD FOR. WE'VE SEEN THE CLOSURE. WE'VE SEEN THE CANCELLATION OF PROGRAMS BEFORE.

WE'RE ABLE TO GET IN THE DOOR. WHEN I TALK ABOUT ONE OF THE ONES THAT'S STILL OUT THERE, WE'VE GOT ABOUT $3.2 MILLION IN SOLAR FOR ALL FUNDING THAT WE'RE STILL WAITING TO HEAR ON. WE'VE

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THE FACILITY STUDY. WE GAVE A PRIOR PRESENTATION ON THIS. WE HOPE TO BE ABLE TO CONTINUE THAT WORK IN FY 26. AS A REMINDER, THERE WERE THREE IDENTIFIED LOCATIONS THAT WERE PRIORITIZED THROUGH THAT STUDY. ONE WAS THIS BUILDING, AS WELL AS THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SITE, THE WHARF, AS WELL AS THE DEVELOPMENT CENTER. SO THE IDEA IS GOING INTO FY 26 TO HOPEFULLY BE ABLE TO FUND THE FOLLOW UP STUDIES ON THOSE SITES, THAT WE CAN DO SOME EFFECTIVELY, SOME SOME MASSING AND LOCATION STUDIES ON THE SITE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WE CAN FIT, WHERE WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO FIT IT, AND WHAT THE DOWNSTREAM IMPACTS OF THAT MIGHT BE. GREAT EXAMPLE WITH THE WHARF IS WE'VE GOT A GOOD SITE WHERE WE COULD PROBABLY CO-LOCATE WATER AND WASTEWATER. THE CHALLENGE IS WE'VE GOT A LOT OF IMPOUNDED CARS THAT ARE ON THAT SITE, AND THAT'S BEEN AN ONGOING CHALLENG. IS OKAY, WELL, IF WE USE THAT, WE'VE STILL NEED A PLACE TO BE ABLE TO PUT THE IMPOUNDED CARS. SO WE'VE GOT TO THINK ABOUT WHAT WE WANT ON THE SITE, BUT ALSO WHAT'S THE DOWNSTREAM IMPACT OF THAT. AND THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS WE WANT TO START DOING NEXT YEAR, THE ERP SYSTEM. I'M HAPPY TO SAY AS OF THIS WEEK, THE FINANCE MODULE IS LIVE AND OPERATIONAL. PAYROLL ENTRY WENT LIVE ON MAY 5TH AND IS BEING PHASED IN TO THE REST OF THE ORGANIZATION. AS SOMEBODY THAT'S FILLED IT OUT, IT'S BEEN PRETTY INTUITIVE, PRETTY SIMPLE THERE.

THERE WERE A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT NEEDED TO BE TWEAKED, BUT WE LEARNED THROUGH THAT. IF YOU LOOK AT OVERALL HOW THAT ROLLOUT WENT, WE HAD A FEW MINOR ISSUES THAT WE NEEDED TO WORK THROUGH, WHICH WAS EXPECTED AND REALLY LOOK FORWARD IN FY 26 TO BE ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF SOME OF THOSE EFFICIENCIES THAT WE'RE GOING TO GET SOME OF THE HORIZON TOPICS HERE. WE'VE TALKED ABOUT, I MENTIONED THE RFQ THAT'S GONE OUT FOR THREE, THREE, ONE ONE FOR AI CHAT SERVICES. WE ALSO HAD TALKED PREVIOUSLY ABOUT THE PHASED APPROACH THAT WE WANT TO TAKE WITH THE MICROSOFT PRODUCT.

WE HAD TO WAIT FOR THEM TO GET THEIR AI OR THEIR, I DON'T WANT TO SAY CHAT THEIR AI SERVICE ON THE GOVERNMENT CLOUD BEFORE WE WERE ABLE TO START PLANNING AND MOVE SOMETHING FORWARD, WE ANTICIPATE THAT THAT'S GOING TO BE ABOUT 125,000 WITH A LIMITED SUBSET THAT CAN TEST IT AND THEN START COMING UP WITH A ROAD PLAN FOR HOW IT MIGHT GET ROLLED OUT ACROSS A BROADER PART OF THE ORGANIZATION. IN THE FALL. THE INTENT IS TO BRING THE STRATEGIC PLAN BACK TO THIS BODY SO THAT WE CAN MAKE AN UPDATE THAT IS DUE, BUT KEEPING IN MIND, SINCE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BUDGET, WE ARE IN THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING PROCESS. THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE KEEP IN MIND. AND WE ARE ON THE END PHASES OF OUR CLASSIFICATION AND COMPENSATION STUDY. NOW, WHILE THOSE TWO THINGS ARE NOT CONJOINED, THE CLASSIFICATION AND COMPENSATION STUDY IS INTENDED FOR THE ORGANIZATION AND FOR MANAGEMENT TO MAKE SOME DETERMINATIONS. WE NEED TO MAKE CHANGES. COLLECTIVE BARGAINING HAPPENS SEPARATE FROM THAT, BUT THERE'S LIKELY GOING TO BE SOME IMPACTS ON BOTH SIDES THAT WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE KEEPING IN MIND ON ENGAGED AND CONNECTED. JUST A REMINDER HERE OF WHAT THE FOCUS AREAS WERE COMING OUT OF THE WORKSHOP THAT YOU ALL HAD EARLIER THIS YEAR, AND THEN RUNNING DOWN EACH ONE OF THOSE ITEMS, SOME OF THE FUNDS THAT WE'VE MADE AVAILABLE OR THAT WE'VE PUT IN THE BUDGET FOR THESE, SOME OF THESE ARE THINGS THAT ARE ONGOING, CARRIES CARRYOVERS FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR. SOME OF THESE ARE NEW, BUT CONTINUING TO INVEST IN EACH ONE OF THESE PRIORITY AREAS. ONE OF THE ONES THAT I DO WANT TO MAKE A PARTICULAR NOTE OF IS THE IMPROVEMENTS TO ENHANCED PROJECT COMMUNICATIONS. THAT $187,000.

WELL, A LOT OF THAT WORK IS GOING TO BE FOCUSED ON WHERE THE COMMUNICATIONS PRIORITIES ARE.

THAT'S NOT EXCLUSIVELY WHAT THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE GOING TO BE DOING. THESE ARE TWO INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE PRESENTLY DOING THIS WORK ON A PART TIME BASIS AND HAVE BEEN PART OF THE BUDGET, AS PROPOSED, TO MOVE TO FULL TIME SO THAT WE CAN CONTINUE THAT WORK AND CONTINUE TO EXPAND THAT WORK. I BELIEVE MR. DAVIS MENTIONED NEIGHBORHOOD SUMMIT. THIS IS A PHOTO FROM

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I MENTIONED THE COMMISSION SUPPORT PILOT. THAT'S $100,000 THAT WAS INITIATED THIS YEAR. IF WE ANNUALIZED THAT, WE PROJECT WOULD PROBABLY BE ABOUT $250,000 A YEAR. AND THEN THE OTHER THING, AND I KNOW THERE'S BEEN SOME INTEREST IN THIS, THE TEAM IS LOOKING AT OPTIONS FOR A FULL WEBSITE REDESIGN, TRANSITIONING TO MORE SUSTAINABLE PLATFORM FOR THE FUTURE THAT'S ALSO MORE ACCESSIBLE ACCORDING TO FEDERAL GUIDELINES. THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE DON'T HAVE IN THE BUDGET, BECAUSE WE FEEL LIKE THERE MAY BE SOME WAYS FOR US TO INITIATE THAT WORK WITHOUT HAVING TO MAKE A SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT ON THE FRONT END, BUT YOU'LL HAVE PROBABLY A FULLER UPDATE ON THAT WHEN WE HAVE THE STRATEGIC PLANNING CONVERSATION IN THE FALL. ARTS, CULTURAL ARTS, CULTURE AND HERITAGE YOU ALL KNOW OUR IMPACT STUDY. OUR ECONOMIC IMPACT STUDY WAS COMPLETED THIS YEAR. THAT WAS FOLLOWED UP BY THE DEVOS INSTITUTE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, WHO'S BEEN DOING CONSULTING WORK WITH A GROUP OF ARTS ORGANIZATIONS, AS WELL AS DOING AN ENVIRONMENTAL SCAN OF THE HEALTH OF THE OF THE INDUSTRY ACROSS GRAND RAPIDS AND KENT COUNTY. WE EXPECT TO HAVE THAT BEFORE THE END OF THIS FISCAL YEAR. WE'RE ALSO TALKING WITH KENT COUNTY ON STRATEGIES WHERE WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO FUND AN ARTS AND CULTURE STRATEGIC PLAN. I MENTIONED NEA, THAT WAS GOING TO BE ONE OF OUR FUNDING SOURCES, BUT WE'RE WE'RE LOSING CONFIDENCE THAT THAT WILL BE AN OPTION. SO WE'VE INITIATED A CONVERSATION WITH KENT COUNTY, AS WELL AS SOME OF THE NONPROFIT COMMUNITY PARTNERS AND FOUNDATIONS, TO SEE IF THERE'S ANOTHER WAY WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO PRIORITIZE AND GET THAT DONE IN FY 26, THE THIRD WORLD CULTURAL TOUR WORK CONTINUES. YOU SEE SOME OF THE NOTES HERE, AS WELL AS THE RIVER EDGE ARTS PLANNING.

THE UPDATES THAT WE'VE MADE TO ARTS ADVISORY TO GIVE THEM A MORE MEANINGFUL ROLE IN TERMS OF THE CITY'S ROLE IN INVESTMENT IN THE ARTS. ACTIVE DISCUSSIONS ON UPDATING THE MURAL ON THE HILL, IN FACT, JUST HAD A COUPLE EMAILS COME ACROSS TODAY ON THAT AND PARTNERSHIP WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND THEN INCLUDING THAT WORK IN OUR LEGISLATIVE AGENDA. WE'VE WE'VE ACTUALLY HAD SOME CONVERSATIONS WITH SOME LEGISLATORS ON HOW THEY MIGHT BE ABLE TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE WORK.

I'VE ALREADY MENTIONED A COUPLE OF TIMES THE IMPACTS THAT WE MAY SEE IN TERMS OF THE SUSPENSION OF ANY AND ANY WORK BY THE FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION, BUT THAT'S ONE THAT WE'VE JUST GOT TO KEEP AN EYE ON. LET'S CONTINUE TO GO THROUGH THIS, AND WE'LL WRAP UP REAL QUICKLY AND SEE WHAT OTHER QUESTIONS YOU HAVE. SO NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. SO AGAIN THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTIONS. WE CONTINUE TO MAKE SURE WE RESPOND TO ANY THAT ARE NOT DIRECTLY ADDRESSED DURING THE WORK SESSION. PLEASE SEND THOSE TO ME OR OUR CFO. AND WE'LL MAKE SURE THAT ALL THE QUESTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN ASKED ARE ANSWERED PRIOR TO YOUR VOTE, AND YOU'LL HAVE THOSE IN WRITING NEXT SLIDE. AND WE HAVE THE PUBLIC HEARING TONIGHT AND YOUR FINAL DELIBERATION, ADOPTION WILL BE THE FOLLOWING WEEK. JUST TO REMIND YOU OF A CONVERSATION AND ADJUSTMENTS THAT WE ARE

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THE COST OF THE GENERAL FUND. SO WITH THAT, WE'LL PAUSE AND SEE WHAT QUESTIONS YOU HAVE ABOUT ANYTHING THAT HAS BEEN PRESENTED REGARDING GOVERNMENTAL EXCELLENCE, CONNECTED AND ENGAGED, OR ANY OF THE ADJUSTMENTS THAT WE ARE RECOMMENDING. MR. KOGER YES, I AM LOOKING FOR THE PAGE HERE. SO THIS IS SLIDE. MR. MATTHEWS, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION ON. SLIDE 55. WHEN WE GO TO OPERATIONAL INVESTMENTS, I JUST WANT TO HIGHLIGHT I'M HOPING I'M REMEMBERING THIS CORRECTLY FOR THE TWO ADDITIONAL JOURNEYMEN. ELECTRIC ELECTRICIAN LINEWORKER POSITIONS TO ALIGN STREET LIGHTING STAFF CAPACITY WITH MAINTENANCE NEED AND REDUCE RELIANCE ON EMERGENCY CONTRACTUAL SERVICES. HOW I FEEL LIKE I REMEMBER THAT BEING A VERY SMALL TEAM, AND THEN A TEAM THAT ALSO SERVICES LOCAL AREAS OR FOLKS THAT ARE WITHIN THE REGION. AM I CORRECT IN REMEMBERING THAT FROM VITAL STREETS? WELL, THIS ISN'T SPECIFICALLY RELATED TO VITAL STREET. SO THIS IS OUR ELECTRICAL LIGHTING AND CONDUIT TEAM. AND WE WERE HAVING ISSUES LAST YEAR JUST FILLING THE TEAM. WE MADE SOME ADJUSTMENTS TO THE WHOLE LINE OF ELECTRICAL CLASSIFICATIONS. WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO FILL THOSE POSITIONS NOW, BUT THOSE POSITIONS DON'T COVER 100% OF THE TIME THAT'S REQUIRED, ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY'VE GOT TO RESPOND TO CARS VERSUS STREET LIGHTS, TRUCK TRUCK BUCKETS VERSUS POWER LINES AND THINGS LIKE THAT IN THEIR CALCULATION. NOW THAT WE'RE IN A BETTER POSITION TO FILL THOSE POSITIONS, WE CAN FILL THOSE POSITIONS AND REDUCE OR ELIMINATE OUR RELIANCE ON THIRD PARTY CONTRACTORS TO BE CALLED IN FOR THOSE EMERGENCY RESPONSES. GOOD. THANK YOU, MR. MATTHEWS. AND THAT TEAM DOESN'T SERVICE OTHER REGIONAL AREAS. OKAY. THANK YOU FOR THAT CLARIFICATION. AND THEN JUST WANT TO ECHO THE WHARF SITE OF WHEN COMMISSIONER BELICHICK AND I HAD A TOUR OF THAT THAT WAS REALLY INFORMATIVE. I DO THINK IT WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE A MORE CENTRAL LOCATION FOR RESIDENTS. I ALSO THINK, OF COURSE, THE SITE IS MAINTAINED SAFELY BY CITY STAFF, BUT I THINK IF SOMEONE WERE TO WANDER, IT'S JUST IT'S A LARGE AREA. I THINK THAT WOULD BE GREAT TO HAVE IN THE FUTURE. JUST A CENTRAL LOCATION FOR RESIDENTS TO GO FOR THEIR CARS. AND THEN IS THIS A TIME THIS IS THAT WAS IN NEXT STEPS. DO WE WANT TO ARE WE ALLOWED TO COMMENT ON THE PROPOSED TWO, $2 AND 50 CENT INCREASE? YES. I MADE IT CLEAR LAST TIME THAT I WAS A NO VOTE ON BOTH AN INCREASE TO THE METER INFRACTION NON CENTRAL AND THE SEASONAL PARKING ODD. EVEN SO I WAS NO ON BOTH IN RETAIN THAT POSITION. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS.

COMMENTS. COMMISSIONER BELICHICK THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. AND I JUST TO BEGIN WITH I'LL JUST CONCUR WITH MY FELLOW COMMISSIONER KILGORE THAT I HAD NOT BEEN IN FAVOR OF INCREASING THE ODD EVEN WINTER PARKING IN PARTICULAR. I UNDERSTAND WHERE THE STAFF MAY BE COMING FROM, BUT AGAIN, AT THIS TIME I JUST DON'T THINK IT'S NEEDED. SO THAT'S WHERE I'M AT ON THAT. I'M LOOKING AT OUR COMMUNITY COMMUNICATIONS AND THE DISCUSSION THAT WAS IN THIS BUDGET FOR THAT. I'M CURIOUS IF WE'VE GOT 10,517 SUBSCRIBERS TO COMMISSIONER OR COMMISSION CONNECT AND GR CONNECTED, DO YOU HAVE ANY OR CAN WE GET SOME STATISTICS ON THE OPEN RATES AND HOW THAT PEOPLE ARE READING IT, WHERE THEY MIGHT BE CLICKING? AND SAME THING WITH THE RAPID

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FIRST, I HOPE THAT IN YOUR ARTS THING, I KNOW THERE'S A POSSIBILITY AND A DREAM OF CONTINUING CONVERSATIONS ABOUT FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS CONTINUING. AND SO I HOPE THAT THAT CAN BE PART OF THE PRIORITIES WHEN WE LOOK AT ARTS THINGS. SECOND OF ALL, I KNOW IT'S ONLY $50,000 LINE ITEM FOR SISTER CITIES, BUT I DO THINK THAT JUST TO I WANT TO FLAG THIS AS A LATER CONVERSATION POINT. BUT TRADITIONALLY OUR SISTER CITIES HAVE BEEN ABOUT LIKE AND PERSON LEVEL AMBASSADOR AND LIKE, YOU KNOW, GOING OUT AND MEETING A NEW CULTURE AND THAT'S GREAT.

BUT I HAVE A LONG TERM INTEREST IN US LOOKING AT SIMILAR CITIES FOR BEST PRACTICES. AND I THINK THAT IF WE WERE TO REALLY LEVEL UP OUR SISTER CITIES MODEL, IT MIGHT INVOLVE DELEGATIONS OF THIS BODY GOING AND LOOKING AT CITIES AND SAYING, HEY, WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM HOUSTON ON HOW THEY DEAL WITH THE UNHOUSED? OR, YOU KNOW, LIKE, LET'S MAKE HOUSTON OUR SISTER CITY BECAUSE THEY'RE GREAT ON THIS. SO I THINK THAT IF WE LOOK AT WHAT OUR NEW SISTER CITIES OUGHT TO BE, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THAT BE CITIES THAT ARE SIMILAR TO US THAT MAYBE WE CAN LEARN FROM, AND MAYBE WE CAN ACTUALLY GET INTO A RHYTHM OF VISITING. I THINK THAT'S A IT'S A GREAT IDEA FOR US TO LOOK FOR BEST PRACTICES IN OTHER COMMUNITIES. AND HISTORICALLY, THAT'S NOT WHAT BEEN WHAT SISTER CITIES HAS BEEN ABOUT. BUT I THINK IF WE'RE GOING TO LEAN INTO FUNDING IT, WE CAN ALSO LEAN INTO A QUESTION OF LIKE, WHAT IS ITS MISSION? HOW CAN WE MAKE IT AN EFFECTIVE WAY FOR US TO BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF OUR CITY? AND I THINK THAT WE CAN GO BEYOND SIMPLE PERSON TO PERSON DIPLOMACY. THE FINAL THING I WILL JUST SAY, I'VE SAID BEFORE, I WILL FUNCTIONALLY, I'M GOING TO INSTINCTIVELY BE IN FAVOR OF MORE INVESTMENT AND MORE THOUGHT AROUND AI ENGAGEMENT. YOU KNOW, $125,000. THERE'S ABOUT THE COST OF ONE FULL TIME EMPLOYEE. I REMAIN CONVINCED THAT THERE ARE A WEALTH OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR US, EVEN FROM THINGS LIKE, YOU KNOW, HELPING PEOPLE SCREEN THEIR FOIA REQUESTS SO THAT THEY KNOW WHAT THEY'RE ASKING FOR.

AND THEY COULD NARROW DOWN THEIR REQUESTS. I MEAN, THERE'S LOTS OF WAYS WE COULD USE THIS TO BACK END WORK IN ENGINEERING DEPARTMENTS. SO I WOULD LOVE TO, OVER TIME, SEE US COME UP WITH A DEPARTMENT BY DEPARTMENT STRATEGY FOR ENGAGING DEPARTMENTS. AND I THINK EDUCATING OUR EMPLOYEES ON LIKE WHAT THE POSSIBILITIES ARE. I'M EDUCATING MYSELF, AND I'M CONSTANTLY SHOCKED BY HOW POWERFUL THESE TOOLS ARE. AND I THINK THAT IT'S I APPRECIATE THE CAUTION OF WAITING UNTIL, YOU KNOW, MICROSOFT HAS SOMETHING THAT'S SAFE FOR US TO USE. AND IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, DATA SECURITY AND ALL THAT STUFF IN THE CITY. BUT I ALSO THINK THAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A CULTURAL EDUCATIONAL PROCESS THAT WE COULD BE INVESTING IN IN TANDEM TO THAT RIGHT NOW. SO I'D LOVE TO HAVE FUTURE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT MORE INVESTMENT IN WALKING FORWARD INTO THE FUTURE, WHICH IS HERE AND NOT GOING AWAY. AND YOU KNOW, THE TOPIC OF LOTS OF CONVERSATIONS AND LOTS OF PLACES IN OUR COMMUNITY. SO THANK YOU.

I JUST WANTED TO FLAG THOSE THINGS. YEAH. COMMISSIONER, I FOUND MY QUESTION. AND IT IT MAY BE FOR ONGOING DISCUSSION, BUT THE I HAD FLAGGED HERE THE 1.7 MILLION THAT WE'RE CONTINUING TO SPEND ON THE ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING, THE ORACLE IMPLEMENTATION. I KNOW THAT CONGRATULATIONS TO THE TEAM FOR SOME OF THE BIG PROGRESS TO GO LIVE ON THE PAYROLL ASPECTS. BUT WE ARE EXPECTING MORE EFFICIENCIES OUT OF THAT INVESTMENT AND WHAT THAT SYSTEM COULD LOOK LIKE. I KNOW THERE'S BEEN SOME DISCUSSION ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHO, WHO DOES WHAT AND WHERE AND HOW THAT SYSTEM MIGHT BE USED TO STREAMLINE THINGS. I'M KIND OF CURIOUS TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THAT. WELL, I DON'T I DON'T WANT TO SPEAK OVER THE PROJECT TEAM, BUT WHAT I CAN SAY IS THAT THE NUMBER THIS YEAR IS LARGER THAN THE NUMBER. THE NUMBER WILL BE NEXT YEAR, BECAUSE WE'RE NOW IN THAT A TRANSITION PERIOD WHERE WE HAVE TWO SYSTEMS RUNNING. AND YOU ALL HAD APPROVED FUNDING TO CARRY FORWARD OUR PRESENT SYSTEM, CGI, WHILE WE MAKE THE FULL TRANSITION OVER TO ORACLE. SO THAT 1.7 NUMBER, I BELIEVE, GOES DOWN TO ABOUT 600 ANNUALLY AFTER

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WE'VE GONE TO A COUPLE OTHER CITIES, AND THOSE ARE DISCOVERY TRIPS AND INVITED COMMUNITIES TO COME TO US. AND I DO THINK THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL IN THE FUTURE. AND IF WE HAD AN ANNUAL TRIP ONCE A YEAR TO PICK OUT ANOTHER CITY WE WANT TO LEARN FROM, I THINK THAT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL TO THIS BODY. THANKS. THANK YOU ALL. I THINK THAT'S LUNCHTIME SEEING NO OTHER QUESTIONS. OH, COMMISSIONER KNIGHT, SORRY, I'M STANDING BETWEEN YOUR LUNCH, SO I'LL MAKE IT QUICK. JUST THROWING OUT AGAIN THE SUPPORT HEARD. MR. MATTHEWS, YOUR REPORT OUT. ESPECIALLY ABOUT THE ARTS.

BUT THAT ALSO JUST TIES BACK INTO WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ALL OF THE PROJECTS THAT ARE HAPPENING IN THE CITY AND BRINGING MORE VITALIZATION AND THEN ALSO THINKING ABOUT HOW PROGRAMING AND ACTIVATION HAD THOSE NUMBERS THAT WENT DOWN, AS MR. BEHRENS HAD PRESENTED EARLIER, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ABLE TO SUSTAIN THAT WORK. AND SO I YOU KNOW, I'M ALWAYS GOING TO GO FOR THE ARTS BECAUSE IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT IN OUR COMMUNITIES AND FOR OUR PEOPLE AND FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND EVERYTHING ELSE, THE VITALITY OF OUR COMMUNITY. SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE AND I DON'T KNOW HOW WE FOCUS ON THAT, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING I ALSO SAW THE $50,000 THAT WAS DEDICATED FOR COMMUNICATIONS, FOR ESPECIALLY ELECTION COMMUNICATIONS. SO I'M GLAD TO SEE THAT THAT IS A PART OF HELPING US CONTINUE TO KEEP OUR COMMUNITY CONNECTED AND UNDERSTANDING WHAT'S AVAILABLE FOR THEM, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES AROUND TIME FOR VOTING.

AND THEN JUST THROWING OUT AGAIN. WHAT COMMISSIONER SASSY HAD SPOKE ABOUT, AND REALLY KIND OF LOOKING AT HOW WHAT WE'RE DOING IN THE CITY AND HOW WE CAN REALLY UTILIZE MORE OF THE SKILLS AND TALENTS OF THE PEOPLE THAT WE HAVE HERE. BECAUSE I NOTICED IN HERE TWICE IS THE COMMISSION SUPPORT PILOT. AND SO WHEN YOU TELL ME THAT THE NUMBER IS 311, THE WAIT TIMES HAVE GONE DOWN, I'M JUST GOING TO THROW MY NON SUPPORT FOR THAT OUT THERE ONE MORE TIME. OKAY. THANK YOU COMMISSIONER. AND ON THAT THERE'S NO I WANT TO MAKE SURE I'M CLARIFYING THIS CORRECTLY SCOTT. WITHIN THE BUDGET ON THE PILOT WE'RE DOING A $40,000 AMENDMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR 25.

THEN THERE IS 60,000 IN THE BUDGET FOR THE PILOT TO DO AN ADDITIONAL AMENDMENT. NEXT YEAR.

WE'LL DO AN ADDITIONAL AMENDMENT, OKAY, FOR THE FOR FISCAL YEAR 26. I DO WANT TO JUST CLARIFY SOMETHING BECAUSE ON THE PARKING FEE CHANGE, AND THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT TO GET TO I MEAN, WE CAN WE CAN YOU YOU CAN GET TO THE POINT OF BUDGET AND YOU'RE TINKERING NUMBERS. BUT WE'LL BE HERE THE MAJORITY OF THE EVENING BECAUSE WE HAVE TO GET EVERYTHING RECONCILED IN THE SYSTEM. REPORTS REGENERATE. SO THE MORE CLARITY WE CAN HAVE TODAY WILL MAKE NEXT WEEK BETTER. AND THE MODIFIED RECOMMENDATION OF 250 AGAIN WAS BASED ON, WE HEARD TWO COMMISSIONERS SAY NO. TWO COMMISSIONERS WERE IN SUPPORT OF

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[1. Climate Action and Adaptation Plan Prioritization and Work Session]

SOMETIMES THOSE ONES GET LOST BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT STANDING. SO NO, THANK YOU. AND COMMISSIONER ROBINSON POINTED THAT OUT TOO. SO JUST SO EVERYONE KNOWS, WE'RE LIKE, WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE WE DON'T INTEND THIS CONVERSATION TO END IN AN HOUR ANYWAY OR IN FIVE HOURS, BUT WE ARE GOING TO STOP TALKING IN AN HOUR. SO TWO OF OUR COLLEAGUES CAN GO ON TO THEIR NEXT IMPORTANT MEETING.

SO. AND MR. MATTHEWS, IF YOU WANT TO TAKE THIS AWAY OR MISS WILKINSON. YES. LOOKS LIKE MR. MATTHEWS. APPRECIATE THE COMMENTS. I APPRECIATE THE COMMENTS THAT THIS IS KIND OF THE BEGINNING, AND WE DON'T HAVE ANY EXPECTATION THAT WE'RE GOING TO WALK OUT OF HERE WITH A SHINY LIST OF 20 THINGS, BUT THIS IS GOING TO HELP US REFINE, UNDERSTAND WHERE EACH ONE OF YOU ARE SO THAT WE CAN TAKE WHAT IT IS THAT YOU'VE PROVIDED SO FAR. IN FACT, MAYBE GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME IF YOU WANT TO UTILIZE THAT ONLINE TOOL. THAT'S A GOOD WAY FOR US TO AGGREGATE SENTIMENT AS WELL. AND THEN CONTINUE TO WORK WITH YOU ALL TO REFINE A LIST THAT WE CAN BRING BACK AS PART OF A RESOLUTION IN JULY THAT SAYS, YES, THIS IS THE PLAN. AND HERE ARE THE THINGS THAT AS A COMMISSION, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT STAFF IS FOCUSING ON, BECAUSE CLEARLY, 197, WE'RE NOT GOING TO MAKE A LIST AND HAVE SOMEBODY ASSIGNED TO ALL 197 IN IN YEAR ONE. SO I APPRECIATE YOU SETTING THE EXPECTATION. YOU ALSO SEE THAT WE'VE GOT A SPECIAL GUEST HERE.

THIS IS MISS ANDREA RILEY MARKOWITZ AND. DOCTOR I WAS JUST CORRECTED DOCTOR, DOCTOR RILEY MARKOWITZ. WE BROUGHT IN THE BIG GUNS TO FACILITATE THE CONVERSATION. BUT WE DID THINK THAT IT WOULD BE HELPFUL FOR HER TO BE INVOLVED. SHE'S A SKILLED AND EXPERIENCED FACILITATOR, BUT

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AND SO JUST TO GIVE AN OVERVIEW OF OUR WORKSHOP TODAY, I AM GOING TO TAKE US THROUGH AND ASK US WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT IN THIS CHAPTER. AND I'M GOING TO ASK YOU TO FOCUS ON THE ACTIONS AND NAME THOSE BY STRATEGIES. AND SO I HAVE SOME MATERIALS ALREADY THAT YOU'VE SUBMITTED.

AND I WILL BE GUIDING THAT CONVERSATION THAT WAY. WE ALREADY HAVE ABOUT 22 ACTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED. AND I WANT TO JUST NAME THAT ALREADY. AND ONCE THOSE ARE IDENTIFIED AT THE END OF THIS CONVERSATION TODAY, YOU WILL HAVE OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE FEEDBACK, PROVIDE CONTENT, QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION. I WILL ASK YOU TO SAVE YOUR EDITORIAL FEEDBACK AND PROVIDE THAT SEPARATELY. AGAIN, I WANT TO MAKE THE MOST USE OF OUR TIME. SO AS WE GO CHAPTER BY CHAPTER, IT'S GOING TO BE VERY RAPID FIRE. AND AGAIN, YOU MAY RESENT ME, BUT I WILL MOST LIKELY INTERRUPT YOU AND SAY KINDLY, MR. CITY MANAGER, JUST JOKING AROUND HERE. LET'S MOVE ON TO OUR ACTION. YOUR OBSERVATIONS ARE BRILLIANT. LET'S SAVE THEM TOWARDS THE END.

OKAY, SO JUST TO GIVE YOU A SENSE OF WHERE WE ARE TODAY. SO AS MR. MATTHEWS SAID, THERE HAS BEEN SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF WORK FROM 2022 TO 2025. AT THE PUBLIC HEARING ON APRIL 29TH. FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, THIS WAS A REQUEST FROM THE CITY COMMISSION TO SPEND THIS TIME TOGETHER TO PRIORITIZE THESE ACTIONS. SO THAT YELLOW STAR IS WHERE WE ARE TODAY. WE'RE GOING TO WORK TOWARDS 20 ACTIONS. AND ALSO I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THERE ARE 36 ACTIONS THAT ARE ALREADY IN PROGRESS FOR IMPLEMENTATION. FOLLOWING THIS, IN JUNE OF 2025. THIS IS WHERE THE CONVERSATIONS WITH FEEDBACK ARE GOING TO OCCUR. MINOR QUESTIONS CAN BE ANSWERED THERE OR DISCUSSED AS WELL AS PLANNING FOR MODIFICATIONS. SO AGAIN, AS WE START IDENTIFYING THESE ACTIONS, YOU MAY WANT TO DO A LITTLE BIT OF FINAGLING WITH LANGUAGE. AGAIN, YOU MAY RESENT ME, BUT I'M GOING TO MOVE YOU ALONG. AND THEN THAT IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS WILL OCCUR FROM 2025 TO 2030.

AND THAT IS OF COURSE, WHERE WE'RE GOING TO FOCUS ON ADOPTION CONSIDERATION, FISCAL, FISCAL PLANNING CONSIDERATION, AND REALLY THINKING ABOUT THOSE 2050 COMMUNITY WIDE SCIENCE BASED TARGETS. SO AS THE MAYOR SAID, YOU HAD HOMEWORK. I WAS A PROFESSOR FOR 17 YEARS. SO ALSO, IF YOU DID NOT SUBMIT YOUR HOMEWORK, THERE'S ALWAYS GOOD REASONS FOR THAT. AS WE KNOW, SOMETIMES TECHNOLOGY FAILS US OR WE GET BUSY. AND SO WHERE YOU MAY HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU SOME ACTIONS OR PRIORITIES THAT HAVE BEEN SHARED FROM COMMISSION, I ALSO HAVE ADDITIONAL ONES THAT I WILL NAME AS WELL. OKAY. SO JUST TO KIND OF TAKE YOU THROUGH THE SOME THAT HAVE BEEN PRE SHARED AND THEN I JUST WANT TO GO THROUGH THEM WITH YOU JUST TO KIND OF GIVE YOU A SENSE TO LOOK AT IT. WE HAVE ONE THAT WAS COLLECTIVELY SHARED AROUND ENERGY SYSTEMS, A FEW AROUND RESIDENTIAL HOMES, ONE AROUND TRANSPORTATION. AND THEN EXCUSE ME, 2 OR 3 MORE AROUND TRANSPORTATION, ONE AROUND NATURE BASED SOLUTIONS AND ONE AROUND FOOD SYSTEMS. AND SO I WILL BE CALLING THESE BACK OUT CHAPTER BY CHAPTER. SO DON'T FEEL LIKE YOU HAVE TO MEMORIZE THIS SLIDE. ARE WE READY. COMMISSION. GO AHEAD COMMISSIONER SASSY. YOU'RE WELCOME. LET ME GO BACK TO THAT SLIDE. YES, MA'AM. SO I'LL BE HONEST, I DIDN'T DO MY. CAN YOU PUT YOUR MICROPHONE ON, PLEASE? THANK YOU. I'LL BE HONEST. I DIDN'T DO MY HOMEWORK BECAUSE I THINK I. I, I JUST I DIDN'T I WANTED TO HAVE THIS CONVERSATION AND I ALSO WANTED TO LIKE, I WANTED US TO REVIEW THAT WHOLE CHART THAT WE HAVE. YES, BECAUSE IT WAS A LOT OF STUFF. BUT I WAS WAS TELLING A FEW PEOPLE BEFOREHAND, WE WERE ABLE TO SEE ALL OF THE VARIETY OF THINGS. SO IT KIND OF I'M THINKING BACK, THIS ALMOST REMINDS ME OF THE CONVERSATION WE HAD LAST WEEK ABOUT THE PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING. YOU KNOW, I THINK YOU BROUGHT THIS UP. WELL, I KNOW YOU BROUGHT THIS UP, COMMISSIONER, ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHY ARE WE FUNDING THIS? BUT, YOU KNOW, YES, IT WAS WHAT PEOPLE WANTED, BUT WE ALSO HAD THIS FUNDING SOURCE. SO WE HAVE

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AND SO WHAT I'D LIKE YOU TO DO IS FIRST GO TO THE ENERGY SYSTEM SECTION, AND I'M GOING TO LIST FOR YOU THE THREE ACTIONS THAT WERE IDENTIFIED. AND THEN I'M GOING TO ASK YOU, ARE THERE ADDITIONAL ONES THAT YOU'D LIKE TO PROVIDE. AND DO YOU SEE SHARED PRIORITIES OR VISIONS ON THE FIRST THREE? SO WHAT I HAVE IN FRONT OF ME HERE UNDER ENERGY SYSTEMS IS UNDER STRATEGY TWO IS ACTION ONE. SO THAT WAS ONE THAT WAS SHARED PARTNER WITH THE MPSC TO SHARE INFORMATION ON HOW INTERESTED PARTIES CAN ENGAGE IN MPSC DECISION MAKING PROCESS, ESPECIALLY ON NEW RULES BEING CREATED UNDER THE 2023 MICHIGAN ENERGY LAWS, INCLUDING THE EXPANSION OF THE MPSC AUTHORITY TO CONSIDER CLIMATE CHANGE, EQUITY AND HEALTH WHEN MAKING DECISIONS. ADDITIONALLY, UNDER STRATEGY THREE, THERE WERE TWO MORE ACTIONS THAT I WAS SHARED THAT WAS SHARED WITH ME. THE FIRST ACTION UNDER STRATEGY THREE IS ACTUALLY ACTION TWO. SUPPORT LOCAL PARTIES INTERESTED IN OBTAINING TAX CREDITS. EXAMPLES. DIRECT PAY, EV OR SOLAR TAX CREDITS. AND THEN THE OTHER ACTION THAT WAS SHARED WAS ACTION THREE. CREATE A SOLARIZE PROGRAM TO EDUCATE ON SOLAR OPTIONS. LEVERAGE SOLAR TAX CREDITS AND OFFER GROUP DISCOUNT GROUP BY GROUP BY DISCOUNTS TO REDUCE THE PRICE OF PURCHASING SOLAR. SO JUST TO REFRESH WHAT I HAVE HERE. OH, EXCUSE ME, I HAVE TO LEARN HOW TO ADVANCE MY OWN SLIDES. THANK YOU. I SAW YOU, COMMISSIONER SASSY. I KNOW IT'S ME. I AM THE PROBLEM. OKAY, SO JUST TO REFRESH, YOU DON'T HAVE THESE THREE IN FRONT OF YOU TOGETHER OR COMBINED. SO WE HAVE UNDER ENERGY SYSTEMS STRATEGY TWO, ACTION ONE. STRATEGY THREE, ACTION TWO. AND THEN STRATEGY THREE, ACTION THREE. AND SO I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU A MOMENT TO LOOK OVER. YOU'RE ALREADY LOST. CAN WE CAN WE GET AN ORIENTATION. THEY HAVE A LOT OF DOCUMENTS IN FRONT OF US OKAY. CAN I CAN YOU SHOW ME. SO I'LL SHOW YOU. SO THERE'S THE POWERPOINT PRESENTATION. EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE THAT. THERE IS A DOCUMENT THAT LOU PASSED OUT. YEAH. SUMMARY PRIORITIZATION MATRIX. AND THAT HAS EVERY ACTION IN THERE. YES.

SO IF YOU LOOK AT ME RIGHT HERE, THIS IS THE DOCUMENT I'M LOOKING AT RIGHT NOW. AND THEN SOME HAVE BOUGHT THE HOMEWORK THAT ANNABEL SENT OUT BEFORE ON THE SPREADSHEET MATRIX THAT SHOWS WHICH ONES WE'RE CURRENTLY DOING AND WHICH ONES ARE EASY FOR IMPLEMENTATION. AND THANK YOU.

SO LET'S LOOK AT COMMISSION CAP PRIORITIZATION MATRIX I LIKE THIS ONE BECAUSE THE WORDS ARE NICE AND BIG. THAT'S JUST ME AND MY PREFERENCE. AND THEN WHAT I'D LIKE YOU TO DO IS GO TO WHAT LOOKS LIKE THE SECOND PAGE. AND IF YOU TURN IT OVER. I'M JUST LETTING YOU TAKE A MOMENT TO

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SO WHAT I'D LIKE YOU TO DO IS FIRST, HELP ME UNDERSTAND IF THERE IS SHARED CONSENSUS OR VISION ON THESE THREE STRATEGIES, MY FOLLOW UP QUESTION WILL BE ARE THERE ADDITIONAL ACTIONS YOU'D LIKE TO INCLUDE FOR THIS CHAPTER? BUT FIRST I WANT TO GET A SENSE OF IF THERE'S A SHARED NESS OF THESE THREE. GO AHEAD SIR. OKAY, SO PLUS ONE TO. STRATEGY PLUS ONE TO ENERGY SYSTEM STRATEGY TO ACTION. ONE FOR ME AND THEN PLUS ONE TO ENERGY SYSTEM STRATEGY THREE ACTION ONE AS WELL. AND THEN IN ADDITION I HAVE FOR ENERGY SYSTEM STRATEGY FOUR I HAVE ACTION FOUR. OH COMMISSIONER WOULD YOU I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW CONSENSUS FIRST AND THEN TELL ME THE ACTIONS THAT YOU LIKE I LOVE THIS DO THAT LATER. YES, PLEASE. THANK YOU SO MUCH I APPRECIATE YOU. SO I SEE FROM WHAT I HEAR FROM YOU, THERE IS CONSENSUS ON FOR YOU. YOU HAVE SHARED AGREEMENT ON STRATEGY TWO, ACTION ONE. DO YOU HAVE ANY SHARED ALIGNMENT ON STRATEGY THREE. ACTION TWO OR ACTION THREE? THOSE ARE NOT MY TOP PRIORITIES. ALL GOOD. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. COMMISSIONER, DID YOU SAY STRATEGY TWO ACTION ONE OR STRATEGY THREE? ACTION ONE.

YOU SAID STRATEGY TWO, ACTION ONE, ACTION ONE AND THREE. OH, BUT YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW THAT I KNOW I'M I TOLD YOU, YOU WILL RESENT ME TODAY. I HAVE A METHODOLOGY OR JUST A PROCESS.

QUESTION ARE THESE ARE THE TEN PRIORITIZE HERE WHAT YOU'RE HIGHLIGHTING. THEY'RE NOT WHAT YOU'RE HIGHLIGHTING OR NOT. SO I'M HIGHLIGHTING AN AND MA'AM. SO WHAT HAPPENED WAS IS THAT BECAUSE OF HOW OUR PROCESS WORKS WITH PREPARING OUR POWERPOINTS FOR COMMISSION, WE RECEIVED SOME INFORMATION AFTER THAT DEADLINE. SO I WAS UNABLE TO GET THAT TO YOU AND PUT IT ON THE PRESENTATION. AND SO WHAT I'M DOING IS YOU HAVE SOME OF THEM IN FRONT OF YOU, AND THEN UNFORTUNATELY, I HAVE TO READ YOU THE REST. OKAY. AND YOU'RE NOT. AND THESE ARE ALL THE ONES THAT YOU'RE HIGHLIGHTING ARE JUST ALL THE ONES THAT WERE PRE-SUBMITTED AS PEOPLE'S PRIORITIES. YES. AND THEN WHAT I'M GOING TO DO IS I'M GOING TO ASK, WOULD YOU LIKE TO ADD ADDITIONAL FOR THIS CHAPTER? DID YOU ALL LIKE FOR SOME OF THE PRIORITIZED ACTIONS? I ASSUME SOME OF THEM WERE STAFF GENERATED, BUT THERE'S NO STAFF GENERATED? NO, MA'AM. NO, THESE ARE ALL WHAT YOU SHARED. OKAY, WELL, I HAVE THE MIC. NO CONSENSUS FOR STRATEGY TO ACTION ONE TO BE IN MY TOP. I DO STRATEGY THREE, ACTION TWO AND THREE WOULD BE SOME OF MY AGREEMENTS OF THE ONES THAT YOU JUST SHARED. THANK YOU. GO AHEAD, MR. MAYOR. YEAH. SO IF WE'RE ONLY GOING TO WIND UP WITH 2020 GOALS, WHICH IS, I THINK WHAT WE'RE WE SHOULD BE GOING. I WAS VERY CONSERVATIVE IN THIS WHOLE FIRST CHUNK. I ONLY IDENTIFIED ONE THING. AND I WANT TO POINT OUT THAT THOSE THINGS THAT WERE THE THINGS WE'RE DISCUSSING RIGHT NOW ARE IT SEEMS TO ME I'M NOT OPPOSED TO THEM, BUT THEY DON'T SEEM VERY ACTION LIKE, PARTNER WITH ME.

LIKE I'M NOT SURE THAT THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN DO. THE ONE THING I WANT TO DO IN THIS ENTIRE CHAPTER WAS WORK ON SYNERGIES WITH OUR STEAM PLANT OPERATIONS, AND POTENTIAL WAYS WE CAN ACTUALLY INCREASE EFFICIENCY AT THE WASTE ENERGY PLANT. SO FOR ME, NONE OF THESE

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AND COME TO US COME TO SOMETHING. BECAUSE THIS AS I WENT THROUGH THIS AGAIN, LIKE SO MUCH OF THIS IS DONE AND I THINK LIKE A LOT OF IT IS EDUCATIONAL, SOME OF IT IS EVEN LIKE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE COULD CONNECT WITH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. AND IT'S NOT REALLY UP TO US TO SAY, CAN WE CREATE THIS PRIVATE MARKET FOR WHATEVER, BUT MAYBE SOMEBODY ELSE WANTS TO CREATE IT. SO THAT'S I'M GOING TO OFFER THAT SUGGESTION. YEAH, I THINK AND COMMISSIONER PERDUE, IF YOU GIVE ME HALF A SECOND, I THINK ONE OF THE ONE OF THE PROBLEMS THAT I HAVE TOO IS LIKE, WE GOT A THREE AXIS PROBLEM HERE. LIKE SOME THINGS ARE VERY EASY, BUT NOT MIGHT NOT BE VERY USEFUL AT ALL. SOME THINGS ARE GOING TO BE HARDER AND TAKE RESOURCES AND SOME THINGS ARE GOING TO BE HARD, BUT DON'T TAKE RESOURCES. AND THEN THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS THAT AREN'T IN THE CITY'S PURVIEW AT ALL. AND SO LIKE MAYBE A FOUR AXIS PROBLEM. SO IT'S TOUGH TO PRIORITIZE. AND THAT'S ANYWAY. SO COMMISSIONER PERDUE, I THINK, YOU KNOW, I, I DID NOT SUPPORT US DOING A WORK SESSION ON THIS. I WANTED TO MOVE FORWARD WITH WITH VOTING ON THIS, ADOPTING IT, AND THEN DOING ALL OF THIS. BUT I'M, YOU KNOW, BEING A GOOD SPORT HERE.

BUT I DO THINK IN IN PARTICIPATING I DID MY HOMEWORK, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THAT GREAT STUFF. BUT I THINK KIND OF WHAT YOU BOTH BROUGHT UP IS PART OF THE POINT OF WHY THIS SORT OF GRANULARITY IS DIFFICULT AT THIS LEVEL, BECAUSE I THINK THE FRAMEWORK AND THE APPROACH OF HOW WE PRIORITIZE OR HOW STAFF GO AND PRIORITIZE WHAT HAPPENS FOR THE NEXT YEAR IS A BETTER CONVERSATION, A MORE PRODUCTIVE CONVERSATION THAN ACTION BY ACTION. FOR EXAMPLE, YOU JUST MENTIONED LIKE THREE PIECES OF INFORMATION THAT WE HAVE. WE HAVE WHAT WE WHAT WE THIS WAS PREPARED FOR US AND SHARED AS A FOLLOW UP TO OUR DISCUSSION LAST WEEK, A MATRIX WITH A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL BY STRATEGY AND ACTION THAT INCLUDES WHAT WE'RE ALREADY DOING. WHAT'S THE EASIER, WHAT'S EASIER TO IMPLEMENT, AND WHAT REQUIRES INVESTMENT OUTSIDE OF STAFF TIME, ALONG WITH CLARITY ON WHAT TYPE OF ACTION IT IS, PROCESS POLICY, SO ON AND SO FORTH. SO LIKE FOR ME, I THINK IN THE FIRST YEAR WE APPROACH IT A BALANCE OF WHAT IS FEASIBLE TO ACTUALLY GET DONE AND GET SOME WINS IN NEXT YEAR, ALONG WITH PLANTING THOSE SEEDS FOR LONGER TERM IMPACT. I DON'T THINK IT'S ONE OR THE OTHER. I THINK IT'S A BRAIDING OF BOTH. AND SO AND I HEAR YOU SAY LIKE, LET'S FOCUS ON, YOU KNOW, WHAT, CAN WE GET DONE NOW AND NOT TALK ABOUT WHAT WE'VE ALREADY OR WHAT IT MAYBE THAT'S NOT AN EXACT QUOTE. SO I DON'T WANT TO MISCHARACTERIZE, BUT I THINK MY POINT IS WE ALL ARE TAKING DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO HOW WE THINK THESE SHOULD BE PRIORITIZED. AND I THINK THAT'S THE CONVERSATION THAT SEEMS LIKE WILL BE PRODUCTIVE HERE FOR THE STAFF TO TAKE, AND THEN COME UP WITH THE RECOMMENDATION. AND I WILL GO BACK TO OUR CONVERSATION LAST WEEK OF, I THINK IT'S APPROPRIATE TO ADOPT THIS NOW AND STILL CONTINUE THIS PROCESS OF LET US PROVIDE A FRAMEWORK AND AN APPROACH, LET STAFF DO WHAT THEY DO BEST, LET THEM TAKE OUR FEEDBACK AND THEN COME BACK WITH SOMETHING FOR US TO RESPOND TO. THAT'S A THAT'S THAT'S MORE NARROW AND LESS GRANULAR. THIS FEELS A LITTLE BIT LIKE A OVERSTEP IN AN OVERREACH FOR OUR PARTICULAR SCOPE AND DUTIES RELATED TO THIS. THANK YOU AND I APPRECIATE MAY I SPEAK PLEASE? SURE. THANK YOU I APPRECIATE THAT. SO I APPRECIATE ALL OF THIS. AND ALSO I WANT TO NAME AND IDENTIFY HOW GRATEFUL I AM THAT YOU ALL ARE TAKING THIS SO SERIOUSLY AND BEING SO THOUGHTFUL. I'M GOING TO ASK YOU TO DO SOMETHING A LITTLE UNCOMFORTABLE, WHICH IS, CAN WE TRY FOR THIS JUST FOR JUST THIS CHAPTER TO JUST DO THIS. AND ALSO I'M HEARING SOMETHING WHICH IS THAT YOU ALL HAVE DIFFERENT CRITERIA, WHICH IS FANTASTIC. BUT THE QUESTION I'M ASKING YOU

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AND WE'LL JUST GO AND DO THAT. CAN WE DO THAT PLEASE? OKAY. LET'S DO IT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. SO THEN I'M ACTUALLY GOING TO GO BACK TO COMMISSIONER KILGORE BECAUSE HE WAS READY AND HE HAD ALL OF THEM AND I STOPPED HIM. SO COMMISSIONER KILGORE, WHAT ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT ACTIONS FOR CHAPTER ONE FOR YOU? YES. SO MY. MY CAT PRIORITIES WERE SHARED WITH MR. MATTHEWS IN THE OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY LAST YEAR. LAST YEAR, LAST WEEK AS REQUESTED, LIKE LAST YEAR, I HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THIS FOR YEARS. SO WHEN WE GO TO ENERGY SYSTEMS ACTION STRATEGY ONE, ACTION ONE, STRATEGY TWO, ACTION ONE, STRATEGY THREE ACTION ONE, STRATEGY FOR ACTION FOUR. THOSE ARE MY I HAD FOUR IN THAT SECTION. THANK YOU. AND THEN I SO ONE THING TOO THAT I JUST WANT TO INTERJECT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ACTIONS THAT WE'RE CURRENTLY DOING, I WOULDN'T WANT TO TAKE THOSE COMPLETELY OFF THE TABLE, BECAUSE A NUMBER OF THOSE ACTIONS THAT WE'RE ALREADY DOING WILL OR DO REQUIRE EITHER FUTURE OR ONGOING FUNDING. AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE WANT TO USE THIS FOR IS UNDERSTANDING WHERE THE BUDGET PRIORITIES MIGHT BE GOING INTO FY 27. THANK YOU.

OKAY. COMMISSIONER KNIGHT, HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT GOING SECOND? WELL, SINCE YOU CALLED ME OUT, I GUESS THAT'S WHAT I'M DOING. I TOLD YOU, 17 YEARS OF BEING A PROFESSOR, I GOT YOU SIX YEARS OF BEING A MAMA. SO. OKAY, WE CAN JUST KEEP THIS GOING. YES. LET'S GO. WHAT YOU GOT FOR ME? I HONESTLY, I GOT A LOT OF CONFUSION. I'M SORRY. THAT'S ALSO A PART OF BEING IN MY CLASSROOM. STRATEGY ONE I GOT ACTION TWO. UNDER STRATEGY TWO, I GOT TWO, UNDER THREE, I GOT FOUR AND UNDER FOUR, I HAVE FIVE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, COMMISSIONER. IS THERE ANYTHING I CAN CLARIFY FOR YOU BEFORE I MOVE ON TO COMMISSIONER ROBBINS? I'M JUST GOING TO KEEP SITTING HERE AND LISTENING TO WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. I APPRECIATE YOU. THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME BOSS YOU AROUND TODAY. ONLY TODAY. COMMISSIONER ROBBINS, ARE YOU READY? YES. THANK YOU. FROM THIS SECTION, I'M JUST GOING TO SAY STRATEGY SEVEN, ACTIONS TWO OR SORRY. STRATEGY SEVEN, ACTIONS THREE AND FOUR. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, COMMISSIONER. MR. MAYOR, IT'S YOUR TURN. ARE YOU READY? YES. STRATEGY SIX, ACTION THREE AND STRATEGY FOR ACTION FOUR. THANK YOU SIR. COMMISSIONER SASSY, HOW ARE YOU FEELING OVER THERE? I'M COMFORTABLE, BUT THAT'S OKAY. THANK YOU. I WOULD SAY I'M GOING TO GO BACK TO. ESPECIALLY WHEN I THINK ABOUT AN ENERGY SYSTEM. WHAT'S EASIER TO IMPLEMENT? I THINK I SAID THIS IN THE SESSION, WHAT WHAT DO WE HAVE TO DO TO PLANT THOSE SEEDS.

SO ENGAGING. SO STRATEGY TWO ACTION FOR ENGAGING WITH KENT COUNTY TO UNDERSTAND TO ME THERE'S A LEGISLATIVE THERE'S A LEGISLATIVE PIECE. AND SO IF WE ARE SAYING IT'S EASIER TO IMPLEMENT BUT WE HAVEN'T DONE IT, THAT WOULD BE A PRIORITY FOR ME. THANKS. THANK YOU SO MUCH, COMMISSIONER PERDUE. GO AHEAD PLEASE. SO IN ADDITION TO THINKING ABOUT LONG TERM AND SHORT TERM, I'VE ALSO TAKEN THE LENS OF WHAT HELPS RESIDENTS AND SMALL BUSINESSES SAVE MONEY, WHAT PROTECTS OUR NATURAL RESOURCES, AND WHAT SETS THE FOUNDATION FOR LONG TERM SUSTAINABILITY. SO WITH THAT, FOR THE ENERGY SYSTEM SECTION, I PRIORITIZE STRATEGY THREE ACTIONS TWO THROUGH FOUR I. I PRIORITIZE STRATEGY FOR ACTIONS ONE AND TWO, AND THEN I PRIORITIZE STRATEGY SEVEN. THANK YOU MA'AM OKAY. COMMISSIONER BOUCEK. I WILL JUST SHARE THAT THIS IS ALWAYS A CHALLENGING PROCESS BECAUSE SO MUCH OF THIS IS CROSS INTERDISCIPLINARY AND THESE THINGS OVERLAP. SO THE SUMMARY I PROVIDED KIND OF TOOK THAT VIEWPOINT. BUT I WILL SAY THAT I THINK THAT STRATEGY ONE, ACTION FOUR. STRATEGY THREE, ACTION FOUR, AND ACTION THREE, STRATEGY FOR ACTION ONE. AND. I THINK I THINK THAT WILL COVER IT FOR NOW. THANK YOU. SO NOW WHAT

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STRATEGY THREE ACTION ONE CREATING A WRAP AROUND WHOLE HOMES APPROACH TO STREAMLINING HOUSING SERVICES AND WEATHERIZATION WOULD BE A PART OF THAT. IT IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT WE NEED TO CREATE HUBS IN OUR COMMUNITY TOO, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHERE THAT FITS AND I DO HAVE LOTS OF MISSING THINGS. STILL, YOU'LL HAVE TIME AT THE END IF WE CAN GET THERE. THAT'S WHAT I'M GOING TO. I'M GOING TO START PUSHING. I'M GOING TO BE QUIET. MR. MATTHEWS IS ALREADY TELLING ME I'M PAST MY TIME. OKAY, COMMISSIONER PERDUE, IT'S YOUR TURN. I TOOK THE SAME APPROACH OF KIND OF THINKING THROUGH HOW TO PRIORITIZE. I. I JUST FEEL LIKE IT NEEDS TO BE SAID. IT'S ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM. I THINK ALL OF THESE STRATEGIES ARE IMPORTANT, AND IT'S REALLY HARD TO CHOOSE. AND JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE ONE DIDN'T COME UP ON MY TOP LIST DOESN'T MEAN THAT I WOULD DISAGREE WITH IT BEING BECOMING A PRIORITY. THANK YOU. SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, I THOUGHT IN STRATEGY ONE AROUND ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF HOUSING ACTIONS SEVEN THROUGH TEN, I THOUGHT STRATEGY TWO AROUND CLEAN ENERGY USE IN HOME ACTIONS THREE AND FOUR. AND THEN. I THINK THAT'S IT. THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER SASSY. THANK YOU. I'M TRYING TO FIND THE ONE. AND I DON'T KNOW IF THIS WAS THE SECTION WHERE IT TALKED ABOUT. IT WAS SOMETHING RELATED TO, YOU KNOW, LEAKS IN THE HOME AND THINGS LIKE THAT. AND I CAN'T FIND IT. IS THAT WHAT STRATEGY WAS IT FOR EIGHT. OKAY. OH, IT WAS LIKE RIGHT UNDERNEATH THE ONE I HIGHLIGHTED. THANK YOU.

AND SO EVEN THOUGH THIS ONE WAS COMMUNITY MASTER PLAN, I THINK AGAIN WE HAVE ANOTHER GREAT OPPORTUNITY OF GOVERNMENT EXCELLENCE TO CONNECT WITH OUR KENT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AND THE GREAT FOLKS IN THE WATER DEPARTMENT WHO WORK, YOU KNOW, TO ESSENTIALLY ADMINISTER OUR, OUR PROGRAMS. AND WE KNOW THAT WE DO A LOT OF EDUCATION, BUT IS LIKE, WHAT IS IT? AWARENESS PIECES? AND THEN IT TIES UP TO THE ONE ABOVE, BUT I'M GOING TO PICK EIGHT. THANK YOU. THANKS MR. MAYOR. YEP. SO A MACRO CONCERN FOR ME IS THAT WE HAVE AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN THE CITY.

AND IT'S A MACRO CONCERN FOR ME THAT IF WE DON'T HAVE AFFORDABLE HOUSING, WE'RE GOING TO MOVE PEOPLE OUT OF THE CITY OR STOP PEOPLE MOVING IN. AND I THINK CITY RESIDENTS IS PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION THAT SOMEONE CAN TAKE IS SIMPLY LIVING IN A CITY. SO MY TWO ARE IN STRATEGY NUMBER FIVE, ACTIONS TWO AND THREE, BOTH OF WHICH RELATE TO KEEPING THE COST OF HOUSING DOWN AND MINIMIZING DISPLACEMENT. THANK YOU SIR, I HAVE THAT ONE TOO. I DIDN'T TURN ENOUGH PAGES. WAS THAT STRATEGY FIVE? COMMISSIONER PERDUE, ACTION TWO AND THREE. THANK YOU

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SO WITH THAT FOR THIS SECTION, I'M GOING TO SAY STRATEGY FOR ACTIONS THREE AND FOUR. AND THEN ALSO STRATEGY FIVE ACTION TWO AS WELL. THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER KNIGHT. I'M GOING TO SAY STRATEGY FOUR. I HAD ONE FOR FIVE AND EIGHT. STRATEGY FIVE NUMBER TWO IS THE PRIORITY. BUT I THINK ALL THREE OF THEM KIND OF JUST COEXIST TOGETHER. SO I HAVE ALL OF THEM. BUT NUMBER TWO IS HIGHEST. THANK YOU, MADAM COMMISSIONER KILGORE, IN LINE WITH WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT REASONING WITH RESIDENTIAL HOMES, I'M LOOKING THROUGH THIS THROUGH AN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE LENS IN TERMS OF RESIDENTS WITHIN THE THIRD WARD NOT HAVING ACCESS TO CAPITAL TO DO SOME OF THESE IMPROVEMENT, ENERGY EFFICIENCY THINGS THAT I'M SURE WE WOULD ALL LOVE TO DO, BUT WE SIMPLY DON'T HAVE THE ACCESS TO CAPITAL. SO WITH ALL OF MY DECISIONS ON THE PRIORITIES, THEY ALSO ALL OF THEM THROUGHOUT EACH SECTION ARE FOCUSED ON MODELING THE BEHAVIOR THAT WE'D LIKE TO SEE LEADING BY EXAMPLE AS THE CITY. SO I HAVE STRATEGY ONE, ACTION TWO, STRATEGY TWO, ACTION ONE, STRATEGY THREE, ACTION THREE, AND STRATEGY FIVE. ACTION TWO. THANK YOU SO MUCH I APPRECIATE THAT OKAY. WE ARE NOW MOVING ON TO BUILDINGS AND INDUSTRY. AND SO I THINK I LIKE THAT FORMAT. IT WAS REALLY NICE HEARING YOUR PERSPECTIVES AS WELL AS I THOUGHT WE GOT THROUGH THAT PRETTY QUICKLY. SO LET'S TRY THAT AGAIN. WELL MAY I ASK MAYOR. WE SAID WE WOULD TRY TRY THIS. ARE WE ARE WE THINKING THIS IS PRODUCTIVE? WE WANT TO KEEP GOING. I'M FINDING IT PRODUCTIVE. OTHERS I LIKE HEARING OTHER PEOPLE'S PRIORITIES. YEAH. I'D LIKE TO KEEP GOING. THANK YOU. OKAY, SO LET'S GO TO CHAPTER THREE BUILDINGS AND INDUSTRY. AND COMMISSIONER PERDUE, ARE YOU GOOD WITH LEADING US OFF? NO. PLEASE COME BACK TO ME. I WILL ABSOLUTELY COME BACK TO YOU. I'M READY. OKAY. OH, GO AHEAD, COMMISSIONER KILGORE. ONCE AGAIN, LEADING BY EXAMPLE AND DOING THINGS, THINKING OF, YOU KNOW, REDUCING CARBON EMISSIONS.

YOU CAN SPLIT INTO THREE RESIDENTIAL INDUSTRY BUILDING AND TRANSPORTATION. SO THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT PART. STRATEGY ONE ACTION ONE STRATEGY TWO ACTION FOUR. STRATEGY FOR ACTION THREE. THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER KNIGHT. DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOU CAN GO NEXT? COMMISSIONER ROBINS, CAN YOU GO NEXT? SURE CAN. THANK YOU. I'M JUST GOING TO SAY STRATEGY ONE, ACTION EIGHT AND THEN STRATEGY FOR ACTION SIX. THANK YOU. AND I ACTUALLY YOU KNOW WHAT I THINK, COMMISSIONER, YOU SAID THAT YOU WERE ALSO READY AND YOU ALMOST BATTLED COMMISSIONER KILGORE TO GO FIRST. RIGHT? I'M NOT BATTLING CLIMATE COALITION KILGORE OKAY. BUT DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOU CAN LEAD US OUT OF THE CORNER? THERE'S ALWAYS ONE. THANK YOU. I WILL SAY I, I'M I'M FINDING THIS BETTER THAN HOW I FELT TEN MINUTES AGO. SO THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU FOR TRUSTING ME.

I AM GOING TO SAY STRATEGY ONE, ACTION ONE. I'M ONLY SAYING ONE BECAUSE PRIORITIES WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE PLURAL. SO I'M GOING TO STICK TO ONE OUT OF EACH. BUT IN PARTICULAR I THINK THIS AREA IS REALLY KEY. WHAT WE SAW IS IRA DOLLARS OR THE GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION DOLLARS. THEY WERE PLANNED. THEY WERE GOING TO LIKE WE'VE ALREADY WE'RE SUPPOSED TO GO TO COMMUNITIES. IT WAS GOING TO GO TO SUPPORT SOME OF THIS. AND THAT IS NOT HAPPENING. SO I THINK THAT'S LIKE A FEDERAL WHOLE. I'D LIKE TO US TO UNDERSTAND MORE AND WORK WITH ORGANIZATIONS LIKE MICHIGAN SAVES AND OTHER GREEN BANKS. SO THANKS. THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER PERDUE, WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO STRATEGY ONE, ACTION ONE, ACTION FOUR AND ACTION FIVE, AND THEN THAT'S IT. THANK YOU.

COMMISSIONER BOUCEK. DID YOU GET A CHANCE TO GO? I CAN'T REMEMBER NOW. I HAVE NOT OKAY, THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT. LINE UP ALL MY NOTES WITH THIS PARTICULAR. YOU SEE MY TABLE RIGHT HERE. LOOK AT THIS. SO WHEN I WAS LOOKING, WHEN I'M, WHEN I READ THROUGH THIS CHAPTER AND ALL THE THINKING THAT I'M DOING ON IT, IT IS REALLY COMES DOWN TO MY THINKING IS ONE TO SKIP A FEW.

AND WHAT IS THE WHAT IS THE CITY OF THE FUTURE GOING TO LOOK LIKE? WHICH MEANS WE NEED TO BE INVESTING NOW FOR BUILDINGS THAT WILL BE, YOU KNOW, HERE FOR THE NEXT 50 TO 100 YEARS. SO I'M REALLY PRIORITIZING THE INFRASTRUCTURE. SO STRATEGY ONE PRIOR ACTION FIVE PRIORITIZING THE HEALTH, WELLNESS AND SUSTAINABLE DESIGN ELEMENTS IN OUR BUILDING CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS. I'M NOT SURE IF THAT'S THE ONLY ONE THAT ADDRESSES THAT, BUT THAT'S THE GENERAL GIST THERE. STRATEGY TWO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE. ACTION THREE I GUESS SUPPORT AND

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ACTION THREE. EMBEDDING HIGH PERFORMING LOW EMISSION DESIGN AND SOLAR READY AND. NUMBER.

STRATEGY FOR ACTION FOUR. THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOU MIGHT BE READY? SURE. OKAY.

I JUST HAVE ONE HERE. STRATEGY FOR ACTION THREE. THANK YOU SIR. AND I BELIEVE COMMISSIONER KNIGHT, I HAVE STRATEGY ONE, ONE AND FOUR. STRATEGY TWO, TWO AND THREE. STRATEGY THREE, TWO AND THREE. AND STRATEGY FOUR ONE. THANK YOU. I'M SO PROUD OF YOU ALL. WE'RE AT CHAPTER FOUR. I'M SO PROUD OF YOU. YOU'RE DOING SO WELL. COMMISSIONER PERDUE, DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOU MIGHT WANT TO KICK THIS OFF? I'M READY. OKAY, SO THE TRANSPORTATION I THINK A LOT OF THIS IS VERY DUPLICATIVE OF THE WORK THAT IS IN OUR OTHER PLANS, WORK THAT WE'VE ALREADY STARTED. SO I DIDN'T REALLY WANT TO MAKE THESE A FOCUS OF THIS PARTICULAR PLAN AS WE GET ROLLING. SO FOR THIS ONE, I ONLY PRIORITIZE STRATEGY FOR ACTION 1 OR 1 AND TWO, I THINK YOU HAD ONE AND TWO WHEN I LAST READ YOUR NOTES LAST TIME. COOL. AWESOME. THANK YOU SO MUCH, COMMISSIONER SASSY. YES, I KNOW I MADE SOME JOKES LAST TIME ABOUT RIDING A BIKE, MAYOR, BUT I WORE A DRESS IN SOLIDARITY.

WHAT'D YOU SAY? NO. YEAH. GOTTA LOOK GOOD FIRST. BUT NO, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, IN ALL SERIOUSNESS, PROTECTED BIKE LANES IS LIKE, BEEN A CONSTANT CALL, PARTICULARLY IN THE SECOND WARD.

I HAVE A SECOND WARD RESIDENT WHO CONSTANTLY ASKS ME THAT, WHO LIVES IN MY HOME ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO MORE ABOUT THIS? AND JUST, YOU KNOW, I THINK A LOT OF TIMES WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE ANN STREET BIKE LANES AND THE OPPORTUNITIES THERE. SO I AGREE WITH WHAT COMMISSIONER PERDUE SAID. I THINK THIS IS WHERE ALL THESE THINGS FIT TOGETHER. I WOULD SAY IF YOU ASKED ME TO APPROVE THIS TODAY, I WOULD SAY, YES. I'M JUST GOING TO PUT THAT OUT THERE TOO. BUT THAT WOULD BE A PRIORITY. THANK YOU SO MUCH, MR. MAYOR. I HEAR YOU HAVE FEELINGS ABOUT TRANSPORTATION. YEAH. SO THIS IS ACTUALLY, FOR ME, A BIG ONE. AND MOSTLY IT'S PRIMARILY IT'S A BIG ONE BECAUSE I ALWAYS WANT TO KNOW, LIKE, WHAT CAN WE DO? SO THE CITY STREETS, WE DON'T THERE'S LOTS OF OTHER STUFF WE DON'T DO. BUT THIS IS LIKE CORE FUNCTION FOR US. SO I HAD A WHOLE BUNCH OF YESES IN HERE. SO IN BLAST IT, I'M GOING TO. SORRY. I STARTED TICKING THEM OFF. SO IT'S OKAY. LET'S SEE. STRATEGY ONE, ACTION THREE, STRATEGY TWO, ACTION ONE AND TWO. STRATEGY THREE, ACTION ONE, TWO AND FOUR, AND STRATEGY FOR ACTION THREE. SO I THINK WE CAN, YOU KNOW, IF I, IF I HAD AN EXTRA PILE OF MONEY, I WOULD BUILD A THOUSAND PEDESTRIAN FLASHERS, PROBABLY MID-BLOCK. I WOULD LINE THE CITY WITH SAFE BIKE LANES BECAUSE I'M REALLY, REALLY SICK OF FEELING LIKE I'M GOING TO GET KILLED. THANK YOU SIR. COMMISSIONER ROBBINS. YEAH, I'M GOING TO SAY, ECHOING A LOT OF WHAT WAS JUST SAID. BUT STRATEGY TWO, ACTION TWO, STRATEGY THREE, ACTION TWO, STRATEGY FIVE, ACTION THREE. AND I THINK THERE WAS A COUPLE THAT PERTAINED TO PEDESTRIAN SAFETY, PROTECTED BIKE LANES THAT THOSE SORT OF INFRASTRUCTURE PIECES.

SO ALL OF THOSE I GUESS WHICHEVER ACTIONS ENCOMPASS ALL. THANK YOU. DO YOU HAVE THE LAST ONE SECOND. THANK YOU. OKAY, COMMISSIONER KNIGHT, GO AHEAD. I HAVE A STRATEGY THREE, ACTION TWO AND THREE STRATEGY FIVE. ACTION FIVE. THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER KILGORE. YEAH.

TRANSPORTATION. I THINK IN LINE WITH MODELING BEST BEHAVIOR, LEADING BY EXAMPLE FOR ALL OF THESE GOALS IN DIFFERENT BUCKETS. I ALSO FEEL LIKE THINGS THAT ARE ACTIONABLE THINGS THAT FOLKS CAN I'VE BEEN SEEING TOUCH, FEEL AND TASTE, SO TO SPEAK, AND I FOR SURE THINK TRANSPORTATION IS ONE OF THEM. WE ALSO HAD FOLKS LIKE FRIENDS OF SLOW STREETS ORGANIZE HUNDREDS OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS TO TALK ABOUT THINGS LIKE THIS. I WAS ON A WALK A FEW DAYS AGO AND NOTICED THAT EAST GRAND RAPIDS ON MLK HAS THE ARMADILLOS OR THE BOLLARDS, IS SEPARATED BIKE LANES, AND I'M EXCITED TO TALK TO THEIR LEADERSHIP ON HOW WE CAN DO THAT. THAT SPECIFICALLY SPEAKS TO STRATEGY THREE, ACTION TWO I ALSO HAVE STRATEGY SIX, ACTION FOUR, STRATEGY SEVEN,

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OKAY, THEN, COMMISSIONER SASSY, BECAUSE HE WAS FIGHTING. OKAY. I'M GOING TO SAY STRATEGY ONE ACTION, ONE STRATEGY ONE ACTION FOR STRATEGY THREE. ACTION SIX. THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER SASSY.

YES I THINK AGAIN GOING TO LONG TERM, SHORT TERM LOW HANGING FRUIT PRIORITIES. AND ALSO WHAT AM I HEARING FROM CONSTITUENTS IS AND YOU KNOW WE'RE LIVING LONGER IS THE STRATEGY. ONE ACTION ITEM NINE. EVEN THOUGH IT DOES SAY COMMUNITY MASTER PLAN FOR THE WHOLE STRATEGY. SO I WAS LIKE, OKAY, WELL, BUT I THINK WE CONSISTENTLY HEAR THAT, YOU KNOW, TREES, DEBRIS, I'M TRYING TO HELP A NEIGHBOR. SO I'D LOVE US TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE COULD SOME SOMETHING SIMILAR TO LIKE THE COMMUNITY CORRIDOR CLEANUPS, SOMETHING COOL. THANK YOU I LOVE THAT, COMMISSIONER BOUCEK. OH, SORRY. I CAN SAY, COMMISSIONER PERDUE, I JUST DIDN'T. I WAS TRYING TO DO, LIKE, THIS THING.

OKAY, SO MY TOP PRIORITIES IN THE NATURE BASED HAVE TO DO WITH TWO THINGS. TREES. MORE OF THEM AND OUR FOR THE COOLING AND ALSO THE CARE OF THEM. BECAUSE WE HAVE A LOT OF AGING TREE INFRASTRUCTURE, SO TO SPEAK, AND NEIGHBORHOOD COMPLAINTS, BUT ALSO WHAT ARE WE DOING WITH GREEN ROOFS AND COOLING ROOFS AND UNUSUAL PLACES WHERE A GREEN PLANTS CAN GROW? SO I DON'T I'M SORRY YOU CALLED ON ME BEFORE I WAS READY TO PUT THOSE THINGS. DO WANT TO COME BACK TO YOU? SURE. I'M HAPPY TO DO THAT. COMMISSIONER PERDUE, DO YOU FEEL READY TO TALK ABOUT NATURE BASED SOLUTIONS? SO I TOOK THE SAME APPROACH HERE AS I DID WITH TRANSPORTATION. WE HAVE A LOT OF THIS ALREADY MOVING, A LOT OF THIS ALREADY PRIORITIZED IN PARTICULAR TREES AND GREEN SPACE. SO I FOCUS FOR THE PURPOSES OF PRIORITIZATION, PRIORITIZATION FOR THIS PLAN, THOSE THAT KIND OF HAVE A DIFFERENT APPROACH OR INTERSECT WITH EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS AND EXPANDING NATURE BASED SOLUTIONS THAT ARE NOT AS POPULAR, HEAVILY INVESTED IN. SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, STRATEGY ONE, ACTION EIGHT AND NINE, WHICH IS AROUND TREES AND EXTREME WEATHER, AND THEN STRATEGY THREE AROUND. NOPE, NOT THAT ONE. STRATEGY FOR ACTION ONE THANK YOU MA'AM, THANK YOU.

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STRATEGY THREE FIVE AND STRATEGY FOUR NUMBER TWO. THANK YOU MA'AM. COMMISSIONER KILGORE YEAH. SO A LOT OF THESE STRATEGIES, I THINK, YOU KNOW, WE'RE SORT OF WALKING AND CHEWING GUM AT THE SAME TIME. SO WE'RE ALREADY DOING OUR TREE CANOPY GOALS. SO STRATEGY ONE ACTION ONE TO CONTINUE TO FOCUS ON AREAS WORKING WITH OUR PARTNERS LIKE FRIENDS OF GRAND RAPIDS PARKS WHO HAVE, YOU KNOW, TARGETED MANY AREAS WITHIN THE THIRD WARD THAT HAD A LOW TREE EQUITY SCORE. SO CONTINUE TO DO THAT WORK. STRATEGY TWO ACTION ONE, WHICH IS HUGE FOR ME. SO IDENTIFYING IDENTIFYING OPPORTUNITIES TO ACQUIRE ADDITIONAL PARKLAND, PRIORITIZING THE CITY'S NEIGHBORHOODS OF FOCUS. SO THE THIRD WARD HAS ABOUT A DOZEN LESS PARKS AND GREEN SPACES THAN THE FIRST AND SECOND WARD. I THINK THAT IS SUPER IMPORTANT FOR THE JUST OVERALL WELL-BEING OF OUR RESIDENTS IN THE THIRD WARD. STRATEGY FOR ACTION ONE. I THINK THIS IS WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOW HANGING FRUIT. I WISH WE COULD PASS THIS TODAY OF MAKING SURE THAT FOLKS CAN PLANT NATIVES, AND YOU'RE ALSO FEEDING TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE. YOU'RE PLANTING NATIVES, HELPING THE ECOSYSTEM. BUT YOU ALSO ARE USING THESE PLANTS OFTEN SORT OF TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES ONCE THEY'RE PLANTED. SO YOU'RE NOT HAVING THESE SORT OF LANDSCAPERS OUT FREQUENTLY AS MUCH AS YOU YOU DO WITH JUST PLAIN GRASS. SO THOSE ARE I'M VERY HAPPY FOR THE NATURE SOLUTIONS. THANK YOU. NOW YOU READY? OKAY. LET'S DO THIS. SO IN THE SIMILAR VEIN, STRATEGY ONE PRIORITIZING NEIGHBORHOODS WITH LOW TREE EQUITY. SO SECTION ONE AND ACTION FOUR AND FIVE HAVE TO DO WITH HEALTH AND PLANTINGS OF THOSE TREES. STRATEGY THREE. ACTION THREE MOVING AWAY FROM CONVENTIONAL LANDSCAPING AND ACTION NINE DEVELOPING STANDARDS FOR WATERSHED RESILIENCE AND STRATEGY FOR ACTION ONE UPDATING THE ZONING ON NATIVE PLANTING AND ACTION TO CREATE A POLLINATOR AWARE YARD CARE. OKAY. THANK YOU. I JUST WANT TO TIME CHECK WE HAVE ABOUT FIVE MORE MINUTES BEFORE WE HAVE TO TURN OVER THE ROOM FOR THE MEETING THAT'S SCHEDULED. IN THIS ROOM. WE ARE SO CLOSE. WE HAVE ONE CHAPTER LEFT AND MAYBE CONVERSATION. YEP, WE CAN DO IT. DO WE FEEL LIKE WE CAN GET THROUGH THIS? YES, I THINK SO.

MR. MAYOR. YOU WERE SO EXCITED ABOUT CHAPTER SIX. YEAH. AND I'LL SAY IN MY NATURE BASED STRATEGY TWO, TWO AND FOUR AND EVERYONE AGREES WE SHOULD HAVE POLLINATORS. SO YEAH. FOOD SYSTEMS. I THINK THE LOW HANGING FRUIT THERE FOR ME IS STRATEGY ONE, ACTION ONE, STRATEGY THREE, ACTION ONE. AND THAT'S REALLY LOW HANGING FRUIT. AGAIN, ONE OF THOSE THINGS WE SHOULD HAVE DONE 20 YEARS AGO. THANK YOU COMMISSIONER SASSY. DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOU'RE READY TO GO? THANK YOU. SO LAST WEEK I HAD THE. SO I'M GOING TO SAY STRATEGY TWO, ACTION NINE. AGAIN I WOULD GO BACK TO WHAT THE MAYOR SAID. LIKE WHAT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY? WHAT IS OUR INFRASTRUCTURE. AND THEN HOW DO WE ENABLE OTHER PIECES. SO I THINK FOOD SCRAPS AND FOOD WASTE IS A IS A REALLY BIG ISSUE AND WAS ABLE TO GO TO THE GROUNDBREAKING FOR WOODCHUCK I THAT MR. MATTHEWS AND MR. GORNEY WERE AT AND GOT TO LEARN ALL ABOUT BIOCHAR. I DID NOT KNOW THAT MUCH ABOUT BIOCHAR BEFORE THEN, MR. MATTHEWS, SO I THINK THAT'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY. IT'S ALSO LIKE ANOTHER IT'S, YOU KNOW, ENHANCING OUR CITY SERVICES AND JUST LIKE INFRASTRUCTURE PIECES.

THANKS. THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER PERDUE. WE HAVE FOUR MINUTES. WE CAN DO THIS SYSTEM. STRATEGY ON.

ACTION ONE THREE. FOUR SEVEN. STRATEGY TWO, ACTION ONE AND NINE. STRATEGY THREE. ACTION ONE AND THREE. STRATEGY FOUR. ACTION ONE. I ALSO WANT TO SAY THAT I DO THINK IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO KNOW WHAT STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS WOULD BE, AS THE ONES WHO ARE DOING THIS AND WHO ARE MORE IN THE WEEDS AND CAN LOOK AT THIS AND CROSS-REFERENCE SOME OF THE OTHER INFORMATION THAT WE HAVE AROUND ADDITIONAL INVESTMENT ON THE READY. WHAT'S MOVING? SO I DO I WOULD LIKE THAT WHEN YOU ALL COME BACK AND DO YOUR MAGIC WITH ALL OF OUR INPUT. I WOULD LOVE TO ALSO HAVE STAFF INPUT AS PART OF THAT PROCESS, JUST TO KIND OF PUT THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE OR TO UNDERSTAND THE PERSPECTIVE AND CROSS-REFERENCE IT WITH OURS. THANK YOU, I APPRECIATE THAT.

AND IF I CAN ACTUALLY BREAK THE RULES A LITTLE BIT HERE. OKAY. THANK YOU. I THINK THIS HAS BEEN VERY HELPFUL. I ALSO THINK THAT THE IDEA OF COMING UP WITH 20 DOESN'T MEAN WE HAVE TO STAY AT 20. SO I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY REASON WE NEED TO RAIN ON ANYBODY'S PARADE. SO WE'RE GOING

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ACTION FOUR. STRATEGY FOR ACTION ONE. THANK YOU. OH, YEAH. COMMISSIONER KNIGHT. STRATEGY ONE ONE THREE AND FOUR. STRATEGY TWO TWO, NINE AND TEN. STRATEGY THREE AND STRATEGY FOUR. THANK YOU MA'AM. COMMISSIONER KILGORE. YES. STRATEGY ONE, ACTION ONE, STRATEGY TWO, ACTION ONE.

STRATEGY THREE. ACTION FOUR. I'D REALLY LIKE TO SEE US DO A CITYWIDE COMPOSTING. THERE'S THIS CONSTANT CONVERSATION. COUNTY OR US? COUNTY OR US. I'D LIKE TO SEE US LEAD AND TAKE THE INITIATIVE. THANK YOU. SO THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS WITH ME. I, I APPRECIATE YOU ALL. SO JUST TALKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR NEXT STEPS. SO CITY COMMISSION WE'RE GOING TO SEND ANY SUGGESTED EDITS. THAT'S HAPPENED NOW BY THE END OF MAY JUNE 2025 WE'RE GOING TO REVIEW AND COMPILE THOSE FINAL PRIORITIZED RANKINGS. THERE WILL BE EDITING AND REVIEWING FOR POTENTIAL ADJUSTMENTS TO PLAN AND SCHEDULE ANY ADDITIONAL MEETINGS WITH COMMISSIONERS. AND THEN IN JULY, POTENTIAL ADOPTION CONSIDERATION WITH 2026. PRIORITIZE ACTION RECOMMENDATIONS. MR. MATTHEWS, ANYTHING YOU'D LIKE TO SAY? NO. THIS IS HELPFUL, AND THIS IS THE FIRST STEP IN THE PROCESS. WE'VE CERTAINLY GOT MORE THAN THE 20. BUT WHAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO DO IS START TO SEE WHERE THERE'S CONSENSUS. ALSO GETTING SOME PERSPECTIVE ON WHAT'S IMPORTANT HELPS US GET A SENSE OF IF WE'VE GOT A LEAN IN A PARTICULAR AREA, WHAT THAT'S GOING TO BE. SO THANK YOU. THANKS EVERYBODY.

THANK YOU MAYOR. SO TO COMMISSIONER PERDUE'S POINT, JUST TO MAKE SURE WE'RE CLEAR.

SO I AGREE I THINK WE'VE ALREADY THE COMMUNITIES ARE ALREADY WAITING. WE HAD THE PUBLIC HEARING. WE KNOW THEY WANT TO ADOPT A PLAN. SO WE'LL DO THE WORK. WE'LL COME BACK AND WE'LL SCHEDULE ANOTHER CAO UPDATE TO UPDATE YOU ON WHERE WE ARE. AND THEN ONCE WE GET CONFIRMATION, THEN I THINK WE CAN SHARE SOMETHING MORE PUBLICLY WITH THE COMMUNITY FOR THEM TO REACT TO.

AND IF THE COMMISSION'S FINE WITH IT, WE'LL PUT IT ON THE AGENDA. I THINK THE WAY WE'RE ENVISIONING THIS, IT WOULD BE A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING WHATEVER THE PLAN LOOKS LIKE AT THAT POINT AND THEN ACKNOWLEDGING THE PRIORITIZATION, AND THEN THE COMMUNITY WILL BE COULD BE ABLE TO COMMENT ON THAT. GREAT. THANK YOU EVERYBODY. COMMISSIONER I'M SORRY. I'M SORRY, COMMISSIONER, I DON'T KNOW HOW TO FOLLOW RULES HERE. NO. GREAT JOB. YOU REALLY DID A FANTASTIC JOB. SO THANK YOU. I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY OR JUST MAKE SURE. IS THAT THE INTENTION STILL FOR THIS FINAL LIST, WHATEVER FORM IT IS, IS TO REALLY FOCUS ON THE FIRST YEAR OF IMPLEMENTATION. IS THAT STILL THE THOUGHT? I DON'T KNOW, WHAT'S THE FOCUS ON WORK PLAN FOR THE FIRST YEAR? THAT WAS THAT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING COMING INTO TODAY. FIRST FOCUSES, I MEAN, WHETHER IT'S FIRST YEAR OR

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WHAT WE DID TODAY HAD TO DO WITH THE EXISTING 197 ITEMS. AND THE PRIORITIZATION. HOWEVER SOME THOUGHTS AND FEEDBACK. MY QUESTION HAS TO DO WITH WHAT DO WE DO WITH THINGS THAT WE FEEL ARE MISSING OR OMITTED AND JUST NOT A PART OF THE CURRENT EXISTING DRAFT OF THE CAP? YOU WERE ASKED TO SEND YOUR FEEDBACK TO THE STAFF, AND SO IF THERE WERE NO ADDITIONAL ACTION ITEMS, THEY DIDN'T MAKE THIS LIST. SO MUCH OF FEEDBACK WE GOT WAS AROUND EDITING, CORRECT? I DON'T, BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE I WAS AT. THE NEW THOUGHT, AFTER DOING THIS PROCESS AND GOING DEEPER INTO IT AND TRYING TO PRIORITIZE THINGS ENDED UP WITH ME REALIZING, I THINK THERE'S CHUNKS OF THINGS THAT COULD HAVE FACILITATED THIS THAT ARE MISSING. YEP, I HAD THE SAME THOUGHT. SO I THINK WE CAN GIVE THAT FEEDBACK TO STAFF AFTER THIS MEETING. THAT MAY ALSO BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO TALK ABOUT DURING THE STRATEGIC PLANNING CONVERSATION AS WELL IN THE FALL. OKAY. THANK YOU EVERYONE, AND THANKS FOR FACILITATING.

* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.