Jul 21, 2026 Committee of the Whole Meeting

[1. Presentation of the Dr. Schnoor Scholarship Award]

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OF THE CITY COMMISSION TO ORDER. AND OUR FIRST ITEM OF BUSINESS IS PRESENTATION OF A SCHOLARSHIP, WHICH WE GIVE OUT, WHICH IS GIVEN OUT EVERY YEAR. TO A FAMILY MEMBER OF ONE OF OUR CITY EMPLOYEES. AND THIS IS THE. IT'S NAMED AFTER DOCTOR SCHNURR, AND IT'S MR. JAMES HERE TO GIVE US THE PRESENTATION. NAME THE WINNER ENVELOPE, PLEASE. DRUM ROLL DRUM ROLL. GOOD MORNING EVERYONE. GOOD MORNING. MY NAME. EXCUSE ME. MY NAME IS JAMES AND I AM THE TRAINING AND ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT MANAGER FOR THE CITY. THIS MORNING I AM HONORED TO PRESENT THE DOCTOR SKINNER SCHOLARSHIP AWARD. THIS SCHOLARSHIP AWARD WAS ESTABLISHED BY DOCTOR ELMER SKINNER, FORMER CITY PHYSICIAN, IN 1954, TO MAKE SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE TO CITY EMPLOYEE DEPENDENTS OR HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS. THE AWARD IS IN THE AMOUNT OF $1,000 THE SCHOLARSHIP IS AWARDED TO A STUDENT WITH A GOOD RECORD OF ACHIEVEMENT IN HIGH SCHOOL. THE SCHOLARSHIP IS DESIGNATED TO APPLY TOWARD THE FIRST YEAR TUITION AT ANY COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY RECOGNIZED BY THE NORTH CENTRAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES, OR THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF EDUCATION. DOCTOR SCHOLARSHIP IS AWARDED TO A STUDENT WHO DEMONSTRATES A STRONG ACADEMIC RECORD, MEANINGFUL INVOLVEMENT IN SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES, AND CLEARLY DEFINED PERSONAL GOALS AND ASPIRATIONS. THE RECIPIENT IS INDEPENDENTLY SELECTED BY A COMMITTEE FROM GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

FOLLOWING A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF EACH OF THE APPLICANTS QUALIFICATIONS THIS YEAR, THE SCHOLARSHIP HAS BEEN AWARDED TO GRACE SCHAAFSMA. GRACE IS THE DAUGHTER OF CITY EMPLOYEE PHIL SCHAAFSMA. GRACE STOOD OUT THROUGH HER OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS, DEDICATION TO COMMUNITY SERVICE AND SIGNIFICANT VOLUNTEER HOURS, WHICH TRULY SET HER APART FROM THE OTHER CANDIDATES. SO WITH THAT, I ASK ALL OF YOU TO PLEASE JOIN ME IN CONGRATULATING GRACE ON RECEIVING THE DOCTOR SKINNER SCHOLARSHIP AWARD.

BEFORE WE BEFORE WE TAKE PICTURES IN THE. ASK THE COMMISSION TO GO DOWN AND JOIN. I JUST LIKE TO HAVE A FEW REMARKS ABOUT MISS SCHAAFSMA AND HER PARENTS.

FIRST OF ALL, I WANT. TO THANK MR. SCHAAFSMA FOR HIS MANY, MANY YEARS OF WORK HERE AT THE CITY. ONE OF THE MOST DEDICATED EMPLOYEES THAT WE HAVE AND VERY, VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE. AND THANK YOU FOR FOR YOUR WORK AND TO CONGRATULATE GRACE ON AN UNBELIEVABLE ACHIEVEMENT.

GRADUATING FROM THE MUSEUM SCHOOL AND HAS INFORMED ME EARLY. THAT'S WHY WHEN YOU GAVELED TALKING TO HIM, SHE PLANS TO ATTEND LOYOLA LOYOLA UNIVERSITY. SO CONGRATULATIONS TO HER AND TO BOTH OF HER PARENTS FOR THIS OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT. ALL RIGHT, SO IF WE COULD GET EVERYBODY ON THE DAIS TO COME ON DOWN AND TAKE A PHOTO WITH GRACE AND HER FAMILY.

OKAY. OKAY. I UNDERSTAND, THAT'S FINE. TWO ROWS. YEAH. THAT'S RIGHT. PERFECT. THANK YOU. BECAUSE I THINK OUR FIRST SESSION IS. SO I'M GOING TO STAY DOWN HERE FOR THE NEXT

[2. Proclamation Recognizing Disability Pride Month]

BUT SOME OF YOU KNOW THAT MY DAUGHTER IS BLIND AND VERY ACTIVE IN THE DISABILITY COMMUNITY. SO I ACTUALLY WORKSHOPPED THIS PRESENTATION, THIS, THIS PROCLAMATION WITH HER AND ANOTHER NATIONAL ADVOCATE TO MAKE SURE I GOT THE LANGUAGE RIGHT. BUT I WANT TO

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I'M BRANDON TODAY. I'M SARAH HATFIELD, THE EQUITY SYSTEMS MANAGER. I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER, CITY MANAGER, STAFF AND COMMUNITY HERE TODAY. AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, THE MISSION OF THE OFFICE OF EQUITY AND ENGAGEMENT IS TO FOSTER LIBERATION AND BELONGING AMONG ALL GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITIES, AND THAT IS A BIG REASON OF WHY WE DO WHY WE SUPPORT THESE PROCLAMATIONS, WHY WE INVITE THESE COMMUNITY MEMBERS IN. WE REALLY HOPE THAT THIS MONTH WILL BE A TIME TO REFLECT ON THE UNIQUE CHALLENGES FACED BY THOSE LIVING WITH DISABILITIES IN OUR COMMUNITY. WE HOPE THAT THIS WILL INSPIRE US TO THINK HOW WE SHOW UP IN THE PRACTICE OF ACCESSIBILITY AND THE PRACTICE OF INCLUSION FOR ALL, AND WE ALSO JUST HOPE THAT WE CAN HONOR AND UPLIFT THOSE STORIES AND THOSE PERSPECTIVES AS WE MOVE FORWARD AS PUBLIC SERVANTS. I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO TAKE JUST A SECOND TO RECOGNIZE A NEW EMPLOYEE RESOURCE GROUP RELATED TO THIS MONTH, THE DAN ERG, OR DIVERSE ABILITIES NETWORK, WAS FOUNDED BY AN ALUM OF THE 2025 COHORT OF EQUITY CHAMPIONS. THIS IS OUR NEWEST EMPLOYEE RESOURCE GROUP. IT SUPPORTS EMPLOYEES WITH DISABILITIES, ALSO THEIR CAREGIVERS, ALLIES, AND ADVOCATES. AND THE MISSION IS TO ADVANCE ACCESSIBILITY AWARENESS, EDUCATION AND BELONGING. AND WE ARE SO GRATEFUL TO THOSE STAFF THAT HAVE STEPPED UP TO LEAD THIS IMPORTANT WORK AND TO CREATE THAT SPACE OF INCLUSION FOR THOSE STAFF. AT THIS TIME. WE DID INVITE THE DISABILITY ADVOCATES OF KENT COUNTY. WOULD YOU LIKE TO COME SAY SOME WORDS? OH, SURPRISE! HI EVERYONE. MY NAME IS NICOLETTE DRIGGS. I'M WITH DISABILITY ADVOCATES OF KENT COUNTY. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HAVING US BE A PART OF THIS AND FOR RECOGNIZING THE WORK THAT WE ARE DOING TO ADVANCE ACCESSIBILITY WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY AND THE WORK THAT STILL NEEDS TO BE DONE. SO THANK YOU AND PICTURE. ALL RIGHT. CAN I GET DAN? CAN I GET.

THAT JUST LOOKS SO COLORFUL TODAY, YOU KNOW. YES. I LOVED IT. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK

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INVITING THOSE PEOPLE INTO OPPORTUNITIES REALLY INVOLVES IMAGINATION. SO I'LL GIVE YOU A VERY PERSONAL EXAMPLE. I'M NOT GOING TO NAME NAMES HERE, BUT I HAD A AN EMPLOYEE ONCE WHO WAS FACING COMPLETE LOSS OF SIGHT. AND SINCE MY DAUGHTER IS BLIND, MY FIRST REACTION WAS, WELL, OKAY, THERE'S ALL THESE TECHNOLOGIES WE CAN USE. AND A LOT OF THE WORK INVOLVES ANSWERING THE PHONE. AND IT'S NOT THAT HARD TO GET COMPUTERS THAT CAN HELP PEOPLE WHO ARE COMPLETELY BLIND. AND I HAD ALL THE STUFF WORKED OUT, AND I WENT TO MY PARTNER AT THE TIME AND TALKED ABOUT THE DIAGNOSIS OF THE EMPLOYEE. AND THE FIRST WORDS OUT OF THEIR MOUTH WERE, WELL, THEY CAN'T WORK HERE THEN. SO IT'S A LOVELY PERSON, BUT THAT WAS THEIR FIRST REACTION.

SO IT'S REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT TO BE IMAGINATIVE AND FIGURE OUT AND TAKE THE TAKE THE IMAGINATIVE LEAP TO ENGAGE WITH PEOPLE WHO HAVE BARRIERS TO EMPLOYMENT. THE SECOND THING IS DON'T ASSUME THAT PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES WANT YOUR HELP. SO BE SENSITIVE AND BE AWARE AND DON'T BE SCARED, BUT ALSO DON'T OVERHELP. AND THAT'S A MESSAGE FROM MY DAUGHTER WHO I THINK WHO MAYBE THAT'S HER NUMBER ONE PET PEEVE IS PEOPLE HELPING HER WHEN SHE DOESN'T WANT HELP OR NEED HELP. SO, SO THERE'S MY DISABILITY PRIDE MONTH MESSAGE. BUT CITY MANAGER, YOU WANT TO SAY SOMETHING? YEAH. THANK YOU MAYOR. WELL SAID. I JUST WANTED TO ON THE EARLIER PROCLAMATION, A DOCTOR SCHOONER SCHOLARSHIP AWARD, ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR SUPPORT OF THIS. AND ALSO MR. MCMURPHY MCMURRAY IS HERE TODAY AND I DIDN'T ACKNOWLEDGE HIM EARLIER. SO THANK YOU FOR

[3. Resolution scheduling special meeting of the City Commission on November 12, 2026]

GREAT. ANY DISCUSSION? ALL RIGHT. ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. AYE. MOVING ON TO THE NEXT ITEM.

[4. Resolution approving Commissioner Knight's request to travel to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Annual Legislative Conference 2026]

RECUSE MYSELF. YEAH. I DON'T THINK YOU HAVE TO LEAVE THE ROOM. SUPPORT. ALL IN FAVOR?

[5. Resolution approving Commissioner travel to the Michigan Municipal League's Annual Convention 2026]

[6. Resolution recommending approval by the Michigan Liquor Control Commission of Social District Permit application pursuant to Public Act 124 of 2020 for FirebirdGR, LLC located at 526 Stocking Ave NW.]

CAN I HAVE A MOTION? SO MOVED, MR. CLARK? YEAH. SO THIS IS THE LOCATION OF THE OLD TURNSTILES RIGHT THERE AT STOCKING. AND IN 196. I HAVEN'T BEEN OVER THERE YET. I KIND OF MISSED TURNSTILES. I THOUGHT THAT WAS A GREAT, GREAT FACILITY. BUT WE'LL SEE. WE'LL SEE WHAT IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN AT FIREBIRD. I THINK THEY'RE GOING TO KEEP THE STAGE IN SOME OF THE OPEN MIC NIGHTS STUFF I THINK I'VE SEEN ON THEIR SOCIAL MEDIA. SO JUST ANOTHER THING TO BE PART OF THAT SOCIAL DISTRICT PERMIT, BECAUSE THEY'RE IN THAT STOCKBRIDGE KIND OF DISTRICT.

GREAT. ANY DISCUSSION? COLLEAGUES? ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. THAT BRINGS US TO

[7. Resolution recommending approval by the Michigan Liquor Control Commission of Social District Permit application pursuant to Public Act 124 of 2020 for The Apartment Lounge II, LLC dba Apartment Lounge located at 33 Sheldon Ave NE.]

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ANY DISCUSSION COLLEAGUES? MAYOR. YES, JUST A COOL, FUN FACT. THE APARTMENT LOUNGE IS THE OLDEST GAY BAR IN MICHIGAN, AND YOU COULD ALMOST ARGUE IN OUR REGION, IN THE MIDWEST REGION. SO GREAT HISTORY. OKAY, ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE, AYE AYE. MOTION CARRIES RESOLUTION. THE

[8. Resolution approving a Brownfield Plan Amendment for the Indiana Ave NW Redevelopment Project located at 335 and 343 Indiana Ave NW]

JUST TO JOG THE MEMORY, THIS IS ROSS BACON, A NEW INFILL OVER ADJACENT TO BRIDGE STREET WITH 29 NEW RESIDENTIAL UNITS AND SIX OF THOSE BEING DEDICATED TO. 80% AREA MEDIAN INCOME. THIS IS A $1.38 MILLION IN ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES THAT MAINLY COMPRISE OF THE RENT LOSS ASSOCIATED TO THE HOUSING. THE OTHER THING THAT I WOULD JUST WANT TO CALL ATTENTION TO IS THE NEIGHBORHOOD ENTERPRISE ZONE QUALIFYING FOR THE TOTAL 15 YEARS BECAUSE OF THE INVESTMENT CRITERIA RELATED TO HOUSING, AND THEY HOPE TO START THIS SUMMER. I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. I KNOW YOU GUYS HAVE SEEN THIS. GREAT. AND ONE QUESTION. ONE QUICK QUESTION.

WHAT'S THERE? NOW THIS THERE IS A OLD BUILDING, A BLIGHTED BUILDING THAT THEY'RE INTENDING TO TEAR DOWN. YES. OKAY, GREAT. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, COLLEAGUES? ALL RIGHT. I HAVE ONE QUESTION IS WOULD WITH THE ASSUMING IT'S APPROVED TODAY, HOW QUICKLY WOULD THEY BE ADDRESSING THAT.

BECAUSE IT HAS BECOME A SAFETY ISSUE WITH BRICKS FALLING OUT. THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. I MEAN, WHAT WE'RE AWARE IS CONSTRUCTION STARTS SUMMER 26. SO BUT WE CAN GET MORE SPECIFICS ON THE DEMO. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. OKAY. ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. AYE. I'M NOT

[9. Resolution establishing a Neighborhood Enterprise Zone for the Indiana Ave, LLC project located at 335 and 343 Indiana Ave NW]

[10. Resolution approving the submission of a Neighborhood Enterprise Zone Exemption Certificate application for the Indiana Ave, LLC project located at 335 and 343 Indiana Ave NW]

[11. Resolution establishing an Industrial Development District for Honeycrisp Ventures at 2210 Northridge Drive NW in the Walkerview Industrial Park]

[12. Resolution approving a Speculative Building Designation requested by Honeycrisp Ventures for a $7.5 Million project located at 2210 Northridge Drive NW in the Walkerview Industrial Park]

[13. Resolution to award a 24-month contract to T.Y. Lin International Great Lakes, Inc. for consulting services to develop the Grand Rapids Mobility Blueprint]

COMMISSIONERS JESSICA SMITH, THE MOBILE GR DIRECTOR, AND I HAVE WITH ME MY MOBILE GR STRATEGIC INITIATIVES MANAGER, MAX GILLIS AND MAX WILL BE MANAGING THIS PROJECT. SO HE'S GOING TO HELP ME GIVE YOU A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF WHAT'S IN FRONT OF YOU TODAY. THERE'S A CLICKER IN THE DRAWER. THANK YOU. OKAY, GREAT. HERE. SO FIRST OF ALL, WHAT IS THE CITY'S MOBILITY BLUEPRINT? A MOBILITY BLUEPRINT IS A COMPREHENSIVE LONG RANGE

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BUT I JUST WANT TO HIGHLIGHT A FEW THINGS HERE. ONE, WE'VE BEEN TALKING FOR OVER A YEAR INTERNALLY WITH OTHER DEPARTMENTS AND A FEW EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDERS, INCLUDING DR. I AND THE GRAND VALLEY METRO COUNCIL, WHICH IS OUR REGIONAL KIND OF TRANSPORTATION LEAD TO COORDINATE NOT JUST ON ON MANY EFFORTS RELATED TO THIS, BUT ALSO TO KIND OF BRING US IN ALIGNMENT ON WHAT THIS WOULD LOOK LIKE IN THIS VISION. BEFORE WE WENT TO, EXCUSE ME, THE RFP STAGE, SO THAT WE COULD MAKE SURE THAT WE HAD SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, IN OUR MINDS BEFORE WE DID THAT, THAT RECRUITMENT PROCESS. THEN IN CONJUNCTION WITH THAT, WE HAD MULTIPLE ENGAGEMENTS WITH OUR MOBILE GR COMMISSION ON THIS TOPIC. THOSE STARTED IN 2025, SEPTEMBER. AND WE SINCE THEN, WE'VE HAD MOBILE GR COMMISSION WORKSHOPS SPECIFICALLY WITH. THIS IS ONE OF THE MAJOR TOPICS. IN NOVEMBER 2025. THERE WAS ALSO DISCUSSION AROUND THIS AT THE CITY COMMISSION WORKSHOP IN NOVEMBER OF 2025. THERE WAS A PRESENTATION BY DEPUTY CITY MANAGER KATE BEHRENS ON THIS. IN FEBRUARY 10TH OF 2026. OVERVIEWING THIS THIS PROJECT.

AND THEN WE ALSO HAD SOME FURTHER CONVERSATION AROUND ALL THE FEEDBACK THAT WE HAD SEEN THROUGHOUT THOSE CONVERSATIONS TO KIND OF REALLY HELP US FINALIZE AND PREPARE FOR THE RFP PROCESS. SO THE NEXT KIND OF IT GOES A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL INTO THAT. SO WE DID A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS IN MARCH OF 26. IT WAS DISTRIBUTED TO 666 VENDORS, WITH NINE PROPOSALS RECEIVED FOR THE DEPARTMENT TO REVIEW. WE WORKED WITH OUR PURCHASING DEPARTMENT, OF COURSE, AND OUR INTERNAL TEAMS TO EVALUATE THOSE PROPOSALS, AND THEN WE INCORPORATED OUR OWN DEPARTMENT PURCHASING, PLANNING DEPARTMENT, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, DOWNTOWN GRAND RAPIDS, INC. THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, AND TWO MOBILE COMMISSIONERS, AS WELL AS A REPRESENTATIVE FROM GRAND VALLEY METRO COUNCIL IN THE INTERVIEW PROCESS FOR THE TOP THREE RANKED PROPOSAL TEAMS. SO FEEL VERY COMFORTABLE IN SAYING THAT. WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE HAD A LOT OF INPUT GOING INTO THIS SELECTION PROCESS BASED ON THAT, AS WELL AS THE WRITTEN PROPOSALS AND RANKING THE INTERVIEWS AND AND THE FINAL PROPOSALS FROM THE CONSULTANTS, WE SELECTED TI LIN INTERNATIONAL, GREAT LAKES INCORPORATED, AND WE FELT THAT THEY PROVIDE THE BEST OVERALL VALUABLE, EXCUSE ME, THE BEST OVERALL VALUE BASED ON EXPERIENCE, PROJECT APPROACH, WORK PLAN, SCHEDULE AND COST. SO IT TOOK A LOT TO GET HERE TODAY. AND SO I JUST WANT TO RUN OVER WHAT THAT PROJECT SCOPE LOOKS LIKE TODAY. SO FIRST OF ALL, ONE OF THE HUGE THINGS THAT WE HEARD WAS ALIGNMENT WITH EXISTING PLANS.

THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF TRANSPORTATION AND MOBILITY WORK DONE BY THE CITY AND OUR REGIONAL PARTNERS OVER MANY YEARS, AND WE DON'T WANT TO LEAVE THAT WORK BEHIND. AND SO THE CITY GOAL ALIGNMENT WITH EXISTING PLANS, BOTH HERE AT THE CITY, SPECIFICALLY WITH OUR COMMUNITY MASTER PLAN, THE BRIDGE TO OUR FUTURE AND THE EQUITABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND MOBILITY STRATEGIC PLAN. THOSE TWO PLANS ARE REALLY SOME FOUNDATIONAL WORK DONE HERE AT THE CITY THAT WE WANT TO MAKE SURE ARE INCLUDED AND BUILT ON DURING THIS PROCESS. WE'RE ALSO COORDINATING WITH CURRENT PLANNING EFFORTS, TWO BIG PLANNING EFFORTS GOING ON IN THE CITY RIGHT NOW ARE THIS THE GR FORWARD PLAN, AND THEN ALSO THE PARKS AND REC MASTER PLAN UPDATE. THOSE ARE TWO REALLY IMPORTANT CONNECTION PLANS THAT ARE TIED TO MOBILITY. AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE IN ALIGNMENT AND WE ARE ALL WORKING TOGETHER. THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PORTION MOBILE GR HAS PARTNERED WITH THE OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE LEADING THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FOR THIS PLAN, WITH SIGNIFICANT SUPPORT FROM THE CONSULTANT TEAM, WITH THE CITY STAFF BEING FIRST AND BEING THAT FIRST FACE THAT YOU SEE IN ANY ENGAGEMENTS THAT WE HAVE WITH THE COMMUNITY. AND THEN FINALLY, I REALLY WANT TO POINT OUT THAT A BIG OUTCOME, A KEY OUTCOME OF THIS PLAN, IS TO HAVE A PROJECT PRIORITIZATION

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AND ALSO THAT GOING DOWN INTO THOSE PROJECT PRIORITIES AND INITIATIVES, THOSE ARE YOUR TWO REALLY HUGE PIECES OF THE BUDGET, TRYING TO PUT THAT THAT RESOURCE WHERE IT IT NEEDS THE MOST WORK. ALL RIGHT. AND THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE FOR YOU ALL TODAY. AND I WELCOME ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE FOR US, MAYOR. CITY MANAGER. YEAH, LET ME THANK YOU FOR THAT BRIEFING.

AND THANK YOU, COMMISSIONERS, FOR YOUR YOUR WORK. AND I THINK THIS IS INTENDED TO BE REALLY THOUGHTFUL ABOUT HOW WE WANT TO MAKE INVESTMENTS REGARDING MOBILITY AND PARTICULARLY PEDESTRIAN INFRASTRUCTURE, BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE, MAKING SURE THERE'S INTENTIONALITY AROUND PROJECTS, NOT DISCONNECTION. I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS WE TALKED ABOUT WHEN WE DO PLANNING THIS WAS TO BE INTENTIONAL AND PAUSE ON SOME OF THE TRANSFORMATIONAL PROJECTS THAT ARE NOT WELL CONNECTED TO THE CORRIDORS, AND BE REAL INTENTIONAL ABOUT WHERE AND HOW WE PUT INFRASTRUCTURE IN, IN THE FUTURE. AND SO THERE MAY BE SOME EXCEPTIONS, BUT I WAS VISITING WITH MISS BEHRENS THIS MORNING, BUT FOR THE MOST PART, WE WILL, UNLESS THERE'S SOME RISK OF LOSING FEDERAL OR STATE FUNDING, IF THEY'RE PROJECTS THAT WERE PLANNED. BUT AGAIN, WHERE IT WAS A SHORT TERM PLAN, BUT THERE WAS NOT REAL CLEAR LONG TERM OUTCOMES REGARDING THAT PORTION OF THE PROJECT. WE'RE GOING TO PAUSE AND HOPEFULLY WE'LL HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF OUR PRIORITIES AND STRATEGY MOVING FORWARD AFTER THE STUDY HERE.

GREAT. SO SINCE I'M ON MOBILE GR, I HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING THIS WITH SOME ANTICIPATION. AND I THINK IT'S GREAT, I THINK, AND I'M GOING TO JUST PARAPHRASE SOMETHING MISS SMITH SAID EARLIER ON, WHICH IS THIS IS, I HOPE, AN EVOLUTION FROM SAYING, LET'S HAVE A BIKE PLAN TO LET'S TALK ABOUT MOBILITY BROADLY, BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT MORE GOING ON IN TRANSPORTATION AND GETTING FROM POINT A TO POINT B THAN BICYCLES. I THINK I POINTED OUT THE OTHER DAY, LIKE EVERYONE WANTS TO GET OUT OF THEIR CAR AS A PEDESTRIAN FOR A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME. AND SO I REALLY, I'M GLAD, I HOPE WE'RE GOING TO REALLY EMPHASIZE PEDESTRIAN DYNAMICS. HOWEVER THEY FIT INTO PEOPLE'S MOBILITY. BUT THE OTHER, THE OTHER THING THAT I, AGAIN, I JUST TO ECHO YOUR. AND THANKS FOR THE ASSURANCE, CITY MANAGER. I'M GLAD THE DEPARTMENT'S ALREADY TALKING ABOUT NOT HAVING THINGS GO FORWARD, WHICH WILL GET IN THE WAY OF THINGS THAT WE MIGHT DECIDE TO DO. SO FOR ME, FOR EXAMPLE, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I'M I OFTEN QUESTION IS WHEN WE HAVE A BIG BULB OUT THAT POTENTIALLY EATS INTO STREET SPACE, AND IF WE'RE GOING TO HAVE LONGER TERM COMPETING USES FOR STREET SPACE OR BETTER WAYS TO DO THINGS, TAKING BULBS OUT COSTS MONEY. AND IF THAT'S IF THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO, WE CERTAINLY DON'T WANT TO BE BUILDING ANY MORE. THAT'LL GET IN THE WAY OF FUTURE PLANS. SO I THINK IT'S REALLY GREAT THAT WE GOT THE PLAN. I KNOW ALSO, SINCE I SAID ON BOARD THAT DRI IS WORKING ON ITS PLAN. AND SO I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE REALLY KEY, PARTICULARLY I'VE SEEN IN OTHER CITIES AND TALK TO, YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE IN THIS SPACE THAT THEY OFTEN THINK, WELL, YOU, YOU START WITH REALLY MAKING SENSE IN THE CORE AND YOU WORK OUTWARDS. AND SO GETTING INVOLVED IN SOME OF THESE DECISIONS IS GOING TO BE REALLY KEY. I THINK FINAL THING I'LL SAY IS WE ALL KNOW WE GOT MORE ROAD FUNDING. SO THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BE TALKING ABOUT HOW WE'RE GOING TO SPEND THAT MONEY. AND I'M GLAD TO SEE THE EMPHASIS ON GRANULAR COMMUNICATION, BECAUSE EVERYONE LIVING IN NEIGHBORHOODS KNOWS NEEDS IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS BETTER THAN PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIVE IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS. AND SO GETTING GRANULAR INFORMATION NEIGHBORHOOD BY NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT EVEN BLOCK BY BLOCK, I MEAN, I'VE HAD SO MANY CONSTITUENTS WHO TELL ME THEY WANT A SPECIFIC THING DONE IN THIS SPECIFIC CORNER. AND YOU LOOK AT IT AND YOU'RE LIKE, YEAH, THAT MAKES SENSE. BUT COORDINATING THOSE EFFORTS AND MANAGING THE BUDGET SO THAT WE CAN REALLY TRY TO PURSUE MAXIMUM THE BEST INVESTMENT AND THE BEST PLANNING. SO I COULD NOT BE HAPPIER THAT WE'RE ENGAGING IN THIS PROCESS. BUT I ALSO THINK I'M A LET'S DO IT YESTERDAY KIND OF GUY, INSTINCTIVELY SOMETIMES, BUT I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT. CITY MANAGER. LIKE AT THIS POINT, PARADOXICALLY, PAUSING SOME STUFF IS PROBABLY THE FASTEST WAY TO GET US TO WHERE WE WANT TO GO IN THE BEST WAY TO GET US THERE. YEAH. AND MAYBE MISS

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AND I WOULD LEAN ON OUR TECHNICAL EXPERTS IN, IN, IN OUR TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING TO, TO TALK THROUGH THOSE INDIVIDUALLY WHERE IT MAKES SENSE. OKAY. SO I MEAN, PART OF THE REASON WE'RE DOING THE STUDY IS THERE'S A LOT OF DISAGREEMENT ABOUT WHAT THE CITY IS DOING IN SOME AREAS, BUT SPECIFICALLY WITH BALL, IS THERE A MORATORIUM THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE DURING THIS PROCESS, OR HOW HOW ARE WE PROCEEDING WITH THAT? I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND MAKING A MORATORIUM ON INDIVIDUAL SAFETY TECHNIQUES, BUT INSTEAD TO HAVE BROADER CONVERSATIONS AS WE'RE GOING THROUGH THOSE PROJECTS ABOUT WHY THEY'RE THERE. WHAT THE MAYOR AND I DO AGREE ON WHEN WE TALK ABOUT BULB OUTS, IS THAT WE COULD BE DESIGNING THEM A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENTLY TO HELP MEET SOME OF THE CHALLENGES THAT BULB OUTS HAVE IN MANY, MANY TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS, SPECIFICALLY ABOUT HOW A BICYCLE CAN CAN TRAVERSE THOSE SO THAT YOU'RE SERVING ALL USERS, NOT JUST PEDESTRIANS, NOT JUST THE, THE BICYCLE. SO THAT'S KIND OF A NUANCED DISCUSSION THAT I THINK I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND MAKING AT THIS JUNCTURE. LIKE, YOU KNOW, PUTTING SOME SORT OF MORATORIUM ON A SPECIFIC TOOL OR STRATEGY, BUT INSTEAD LOOKING PROJECT BY PROJECT, LIKE YOU MENTIONED, WHAT, WHAT IS AT RISK FOR LOSING GRANT FUNDING? WHAT CAN WE PAUSE AND WHAT CAN WE CONTINUE WITH IN A BROADER WAY THAT MAKES SENSE FROM A TECHNICAL STANDPOINT AND JUST CONTINUE TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO ALL? AND I'LL I'LL, I GUESS. I'M NOT SURE IF WE AGREE OR DISAGREE. I CERTAINLY SEE I MEAN, THERE ARE BAD THERE ARE BULB OUTS. AND I THINK THAT YOU CAN SOMETIMES GET FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, YOU CAN HAVE BE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH TOO MANY THINGS AT THE SAME TIME. SO THERE ARE BULB OUTS THAT, FOR EXAMPLE, HAVE A BUNCH OF PLANTINGS IN THEM. THEY'RE NOT HELPING A PEDESTRIAN CROSS THE STREET. THEY'RE JUST THERE TO NARROW THE ROAD. BUT IF YOU NARROW THE ROAD AND YOU'RE SERIOUS ABOUT CYCLISTS, THAT'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR A CYCLIST TO REALLY INTERACT INTIMATELY WITH THE CAR. AND IF YOU ACTUALLY WANT PEOPLE TO BIKE ON SPECIFIC CORRIDORS, THAT'S WHERE I THINK THAT WE'VE GOT TO BE VERY, VERY CAREFUL. AND I HAVE YET TO SEE DONE IN GRAND RAPIDS WHAT ARE DONE IN CITIES ALL AROUND THE CONTINENT, WHICH IS HAVING BIKE LANE CONTINUITY BEHIND A WALL ABOUT. AND SO THOSE ARE THE KINDS OF CONVERSATIONS. BUT IF WE BUILD IF WE BUILD THE WRONG KIND OF BULB OUT AND WILLY NILLY, NOW WE'RE JUST GOING TO BE IMPOSING COSTS ON OURSELVES LATER. SO I THINK THAT BEING CAREFUL, WE DON'T KEEP MOVING ON OLD 90S PLANS IS IS IMPORTANT. I SAW COMMISSIONER BELCHER FIRST, BUT THEN COMMISSIONER PURDUE. WELL, FIRST, I WOULD LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT COMMISSIONER KILLGORE HAD HIS HAND UP BEFORE I FORGOT. SO I WOULD DO THAT IF I WOULD RECOMMEND HIM FIRST. WE ARE SO POLITE TODAY. YEAH. THANK YOU ALL. THANK YOU MAYOR.

THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER BELCHER. AND I HAVE SOME SOME JUST SOME GOOD FEEDBACK HERE JUST TO CONCUR WITH A PART OF WHAT THE MAYOR SAID IN TERMS OF COMMUNICATING THIS WITH THE PUBLIC. I JUST WANT TO THANK MISS SMITH AND HER OFFICE, HER TEAM. YOU ALL HAVE HAD QUITE THE GO AROUND WITH COMMUNICATING EFFECTIVELY WITH COMMUNITY THIS YEAR, FROM THE PARKING, WITH THE MAJOR PROJECTS, WITH THE AMPHITHEATER TO NOW THIS PLAN. AND I'M VERY HAPPY TO SEE THIS. AND THE THIRD WARD. WE HAVE NEIGHBORS WHO ARE EXCITED. THEY ARE REALLY WANTING TO SEE CHANGE. AND I BELIEVE THAT THE CITY IS ON THE SAME PAGE WITH THEM. AND I THINK WE CONSTITUENTS AND OUR NEIGHBORS IN THE CITY HAVE THE SAME GOAL, WHICH IS TRANSPORTATION SHOULD BE SAFE AND EFFICIENT. AND I'M REALLY HAPPY TO SEE THAT WE ARE BEING INTENTIONAL ABOUT INVESTING IN HOW WE COMMUNICATE WITH FOLKS. THE LANDSCAPE IS DIFFERENT, AND IT'S SORT OF EVER CHANGING. AS A GRAD STUDENT, I JUST LEARNED FROM THE BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL.

YOU KNOW, THERE'S DIFFERENT REQUIREMENTS FOR YOUR CREDIT HOURS. SO THESE THINGS ARE CHANGING WEEKLY FOR FOLKS FOR YOUR FEDERAL FUNDING. SO IF ANY CHECK INTO THAT, IF YOU'RE IN CLASSES 12 FOR UNDERGRAD, NINE FOR GRAD. BUT I DIGRESS. I THINK THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT AND I'M HOPEFUL. I KNOW THAT YOU ALL HAVE MET WITH SOME OF THE ADVOCATES IN THE THIRD WARD RECENTLY. THANK YOU FOR THAT AS WELL. TRYING TO GET US AS A CLICHE, BUT IT REALLY IS A TRUTH. THIS COMMUNICATION IS KEY. SO I'M PROUD TO SUPPORT THIS AND I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING THE UPDATES AS IT GOES ON. THANK YOU AGAIN. OKAY. NOW, COMMISSIONER. ALL RIGHT. THANK

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SO I'LL HAND IT OVER. SO THE ANSWER IS YES. ALL OF THOSE THINGS ARE BEING CONSIDERED AS PART OF THIS PLAN. ONE OF THE THINGS I WANT TO POINT OUT IS THIS PLAN IS FOCUSED ON INFRASTRUCTURE SPECIFICALLY. SO MOBILITY INFRASTRUCTURE. AND THEN THE THE OTHER THE OTHER PIECE IS WITH A WITH A MOBILITY PLAN. OFTEN WHAT YOU LOOK AT IS, ARE THERE GAPS IN OUR CURRENT POLICIES THAT WE CAN CONTROL? SO AT THE CITY LEVEL, ARE THERE GAPS IN OUR POLICY THAT WE NEED TO ADDRESS TO HELP MAKE THE INFRASTRUCTURE POSSIBLE? RIGHT. SO IF WE HAVE A CHALLENGE, FOR EXAMPLE, RIGHT NOW, WE DO NOT HAVE A COMMON STANDARD FOR A TRANSIT STOP. WE KIND OF DESIGN IT BASED ON EVERY INDIVIDUAL CORRIDOR OR PROJECT THAT'S COMING THROUGH, AND WE GET TOGETHER AND WE SORT OF INVENT IT EVERY TIME. SO ONE OF THE THINGS A TRANSPORTATION PLAN MIGHT SUGGEST IS, HEY, IT WOULD BE MORE EFFICIENT IF YOU HAD A TRANSIT STANDARD THAT HAS FOUR DIFFERENT, I'M GOING TO CALL THEM TYPOLOGIES, FOUR DIFFERENT STYLES, YOU KNOW, DEPENDING ON WHERE IT'S APPROPRIATE. AND YOU POP THOSE IN SO THAT THE ENGINEERING TEAM HAS SOMETHING TO REFERENCE RIGHT AWAY. AND THEY DON'T HAVE TO REDESIGN. EVERY TIME WE COME INTO, WE RUN INTO TRANSIT. THE WAY WE DEAL WITH THINGS LIKE TRANSIT INFRASTRUCTURE IS WE WORK WITH THE RAPID AND WE SAY, HEY, WHAT WORKS FOR YOU? WHERE ARE YOUR STOPS LOCATED? WHAT'S YOUR LONG TERM PLAN? AND FOR THIS PLAN, SPECIFICALLY AROUND TRANSIT, IS WE WORK CLOSELY WITH THE RAPID TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE IN LINE. THEY SIT ON OUR MOBILE GR COMMISSION AND WE HAVE A REALLY A REALLY EXCELLENT PARTNERSHIP WITH THE RAPIDS LEADERSHIP. AND FOR EXAMPLE, THE CITY MANAGER AND I MEET WITH THEM ONCE A MONTH. SO THOSE TYPES OF THINGS WILL BE COORDINATED IN WITH THE GREATER. I HAVEN'T DECIDED WHAT WE'RE CALLING IT, STEERING COMMITTEE OR, YOU KNOW, THE COMMITTEE THAT WILL WORK THROUGH THIS PLANNING PROCESS TOGETHER. AND THE RAPID IS DEFINITELY A PART OF THAT. GREAT QUESTIONS. I THINK THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE SOME OF THE FEEDBACK I GET, AND I'M ALWAYS CURIOUS, HOW DO I GET MORE FEEDBACK INTO THE RAPID.

SO KNOWING THE VENUES, THE AVENUES TO DO THAT, WE. I HEAR A LOT ABOUT THE COMMUNITY, ABOUT WANTING TO USE BUSSES, BUT THEY'RE, THEY'RE NOT ABLE TO THEY'RE NOT CONVENIENTLY LOCATED. THEY DON'T RUN OFTEN ENOUGH OR LATE ENOUGH OR DIFFERENT SCENARIOS. AND I KNOW THERE'S ALWAYS FUNDING ISSUES, BUT IT WOULD BE HELPFUL FOR US TO BE ABLE TO KNOW HOW TO DIRECT THOSE THAT FEEDBACK AS WELL AS WE'RE BUILDING THIS PLAN. BUT IF MAYOR, IF I COULD JUST TO CLARIFY. SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A GREAT BLUEPRINT SIMILAR TO LIKE WE HAVE WITH A LOT OF OTHER PLANS AS PART OF OUR MASTER PLAN. AND BUT WHAT IT WILL EVOLVE INTO IS RECOMMENDATIONS. AND SOME OF THEM WILL BE SPECIFICALLY WITHIN THE AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS. BUT OTHER MAY OTHERS MAY BE INTERAGENCY AND PARTNERSHIP AND WILL REQUIRE US TO HAVE POLICY DISCUSSION AND DIALOG. SO JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING IS IDENTIFIED AS A POTENTIAL SYSTEMS IMPROVEMENT IN THE RAPID DOESN'T MEAN WE'RE GOING TO HAVE AN ORDINANCE TO DIRECT THAT WORK TO BE DONE. SO I JUST WANTED TO TO HIGHLIGHT THAT IN

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GOOD MORNING. THANK YOU BOTH FOR THE PRESENTATION AND FOR YOUR WORK TO DATE. MAX, DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING YOU WANTED TO ADD? I SAW YOU TRYING TO LEAD OVER TO THE MIC. SORRY. I THINK JUST TO ADD TO ONE OF THE QUESTIONS YOU HAD, BECAUSE I DO, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A LOT OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES AND WE UNDERSTAND THAT. I JUST WANT TO ADD TO A LOT OF THE WORK DONE HERE THAT'S GOING TO BE ASSESSING EXISTING CONDITIONS AND ANALYZING OUR TRANSPORTATION NETWORK AND ALL THE DIFFERENT MODES THAT GO INTO IT. THIS IS FOCUSED AS, AS DIRECTOR SMITH MENTIONED, THIS IS FOCUSED HEAVILY ON INFRASTRUCTURE. HOWEVER, THAT INFORMATION IS GOING TO BE SO VALUABLE TO OUR WHOLE DEPARTMENT AND ALL THE WORK THAT WE DO IN OUR OWN ASSESSMENTS OF MOBILITY PROGRAMS, PARKING ANALYSIS, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. SO JUST BECAUSE THE KIND OF THE RESULT SPACE FOR THIS PROJECT IS FOCUSING MORE ON INFRASTRUCTURE DOESN'T MEAN ALL THAT DATA AND ANALYSIS THAT'S GOING TO BE DONE INITIALLY CAN'T BE VERY HELPFUL WITH WHEN WE TALK WITH THE RAPID, WHEN WE LOOK AT MICROMOBILITY, SHARED MICROMOBILITY. SO JUST WANT TO SAY ALL THAT DATA IS NOT JUST GOING TO BE USED JUST FOR THAT ONE ELEMENT. IT'S GOING TO BE REALLY HELPFUL FOR ALMOST EVERYTHING THAT WE DO AT MOBILE GR. SO I THINK THAT'S A LOT MORE EXPANSIVE IN THAT SENSE.

THANK YOU FOR ADDING THAT. AGAIN. THANK YOU FOR GETTING US TO TODAY. I THINK THIS REPRESENTS, YOU KNOW, MORE THAN JUST A CONTRACT. IT REALLY REPRESENTS YOUR RESPONSIVENESS TO COMMUNITY CONCERNS, NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERNS, EVEN CONCERNS FROM THE DAYS OF SOME OF THE DECISIONS RELATED TO MOBILITY, PARTICULARLY BIKE LANES AND OTHER PARTS OF OUR NETWORK. BUT I, I GIVE THE EXAMPLE OF BIKE LANES BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE OFTEN COMPETING PRIORITIES. WHEN WE TALK ABOUT DESIGN AND INFRASTRUCTURE, THERE IS SAFETY, THERE'S ACCESSIBILITY, THERE'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, SO ON AND SO FORTH. AND SO THE THING THAT I HAVE BEEN MOST LOOKING FORWARD TO IN GETTING TO THIS POINT IS HAVING A WAY OF HOW THOSE COMPETING GOALS WILL BE WEIGHED AS WE MAKE DECISIONS THROUGHOUT THE CITY AND THROUGH AND EVEN WITHIN OUR BUSINESS CORRIDORS. THAT BEING SAID, I DO SHARE SOME OF THE CONCERNS THAT WERE BROUGHT UP, PARTICULARLY AROUND, YOU KNOW, THE HALF $1 MILLION INVESTMENT AND JUST WANTING TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT'S MONEY WELL SPENT. RIGHT. AND SO GIVEN THAT, I DID SEE THAT IN THE PROPOSAL, THERE'S A HUGE EMPHASIS ON NOT REINVENTING THE WHEEL OR NOT OVERLAPPING WITH COMPETING WORK OR DOING REPEATED ENGAGEMENT AND WORK. BUT WHEN I LOOK AT THIS BUDGET ON SLIDE. SIX, THERE'S, YOU KNOW, EVEN THOUGH THERE'S AN EFFORT TO AVOID ENGAGEMENT, OVERLAP AND REPETITION, I SEE OVER 500 HOURS DEDICATED TO COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND REALLY A QUARTER OF THIS BUDGET BEING RELATED TO VISIONING AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. SO THAT THAT GIVES ME PAUSE BECAUSE I EXPECTED THAT THIS WOULD BE. WELL, I WOULD SAY THAT I KNOW THAT WE'VE DONE A LOT OF VALUABLE ENGAGEMENT OVER THE YEARS. SO MANY OF THE PLANS THAT YOU MENTIONED, AND IN RECENT MONTHS, AS WE'VE KIND OF COME INTO THESE CONFLICTS WITH DIFFERENT STAKEHOLDERS ON SOME OF OUR INFRASTRUCTURE DECISIONS. SO SO THAT THAT'S A BIT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I, I NOTICED THE OTHER THING IS, YOU KNOW, THIS PLAN AND IN YOUR OPENING SLIDE, YOU TALK ABOUT THE GOAL OF OUR TRANSPORTATION NETWORK REALLY BEING SAFE, RELIABLE AND AFFORDABLE. I THINK ONE THING THAT'S BEEN MISSING FROM OUR CONVERSATIONS AND THAT I WANT TO SEE BETTER REPRESENTED, IS ALSO MEETING THE TRANSPORTATION NEEDS OF RESIDENTS. SO MOBILITY IS MORE THAN JUST GETTING FROM PLACE A TO PLACE B. IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT CONNECTIVITY, BUT WHERE ARE FOLKS? WHAT DO FOLKS WANT TO BE CONNECTED TO? IS IT WORK? IS IT BIKE LANES FOR RECREATION PURPOSES? IS IT CONNECTING OUR DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOODS? SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO USE A CAR TO GO FROM ALGER TO BAXTER TO, TO MLK? IS IT CONNECTING KIDS TO THEIR LOCAL SCHOOLS? AND SO I THINK THAT EMPHASIS HAS BEEN MISSING FROM A LOT OF OUR CONVERSATIONS. I THINK I'VE SAID IT IN A WAY BEFORE THAT I DON'T AGREE WITH THE APPROACH OF BIKE LANES OR BUS, RIGHT? LIKE WE NEED TO BALANCE COMPETING PRIORITIES AND WE NEED TO BE REALLY CLEAR ON WHO OUR USERS AND WHAT ARE THEIR WHAT, WHAT PURPOSES, WHAT'S THEIR NEEDED NEEDED, THEIR NEED AND THEIR NEED FOR THIS INFRASTRUCTURE. SO LET ME LOOK AT MY NOTES. SO YEAH, SO, SO THOSE ARE MY CONCERNS WITH THIS EXISTING WITH THIS AS PROPOSED TODAY, COLLEAGUES, JUST THE, THE, THE, THE PRICE TAG AND THEN MISSING SOME OF WHAT I THINK ARE THOSE KEY ELEMENTS THAT WE WANT TO SEE. I THINK THAT THE REPEATED CONCERN IS HOW DO WE HOW DO WE WEIGH COMPETING PRIORITIES? HOW DO WE NOT REINVENT THE WHEEL? AND I

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ONE OF MY PERSONAL GRIPES IS I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, WE DO NEED TO SLOW DOWN TRAFFIC IN THE CITY, BUT I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO STOP IT. AND SHOULD IT TAKE SIX, SIX LIGHTS TO GET THROUGH AN INTERSECTION IN THE MIDDLE OF THE AFTERNOON? SO IN THAT WAY, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THIS SCOPED A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENTLY. I'M NOT READY TO SUPPORT THIS TODAY AS IS WITHOUT SOME OF THOSE THINGS THAT I MENTIONED REALLY CLEARLY AND EXPLICITLY BEING CAUGHT OUT.

AND SO I'LL OPEN FOR YOU ALL TO, TO MAYBE RESPOND TO ANY OF THOSE CONCERNS THAT I'VE RAISED.

I'LL START WITH THE COST. AND THIS WAS COMPETITIVELY BID. AND WE CERTAINLY CAN LOOK AT AREAS WHERE THERE MAY BE FLEXIBILITY, BUT I JUST ASK MISS BARNES TO CHECK RELATIVE PRICING TO WHAT WE'VE PAID FOR THE COMMUNITY MASTER PLAN. AND MY RECOLLECTION IS THAT WAS IT WAS SIGNIFICANTLY MORE THAN WHAT WE'RE PAYING HERE WHILE YOU'RE WAITING ON THAT. SO I'VE BEEN DOING LONG RANGE TRANSPORTATION PLAN FOR PLANS FOR 20 YEARS. AND THE LAST ONE I DID ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO WAS AT THIS PRICE POINT. SO I UNDERSTAND THE, THE, THE POSITIVE. I THINK IT'S A GREAT QUESTION. AND I THINK THAT WHERE YOUR SPECIFIC CONCERNS ARE, I'D LIKE TO TALK ABOUT THOSE SPECIFICALLY. SO WE'VE GOT 199 HOURS OF VISIONING AND 507 HOURS OF COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT, WITH THE GOAL OF NOT REINVENTING THE WHEEL AND KNOWING THAT WE HAVE HEARD A LOT FROM THE COMMUNITY IN THE PAST. SO I'D LIKE TO SPEAK TO THOSE TWO SPECIFIC THINGS BEFORE THAT. KATE, DID YOU HAVE A NUMBER FROM KRISTEN? OH, WE DON'T. LET ME BE CLEAR. IT'S NOT JUST THE PRICE TAG ALONE. IT'S THIS PRICE TAG WITHOUT KIND OF HAVING SOME OF THOSE CORE COMPONENTS AND CONCERNS THAT WE HAVE REALLY BEEN TALKING AT LENGTH ABOUT UP UNTIL THIS POINT. YES. AND SO I WANT TO, IF YOU DON'T MIND, I WOULD LOVE TO JUST GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT MORE CONTEXT. I KNOW THAT THIS IS THESE ARE BIG TITLES. AND SO I'LL GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT MORE CONTEXT IN WHAT THOSE ARE. SO MAX IS MANAGING THIS PROJECT AND HAS REALLY IN-DEPTH KNOWLEDGE AND WORKED WITH ME ON THE SCOPE. SO I'D LIKE TO ASK MAX TO TALK ABOUT THOSE TWO SPECIFICALLY, BECAUSE I THINK THAT YOUR QUESTIONS ARE WELL FOUNDED AND WE DO HAVE SOME CONTEXT WE WANT TO SHARE. GREAT. SO YEAH, SPECIFICALLY THE VISIONING AND COMMUNITY AND STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT. SO A FEW ELEMENTS AND, YOU KNOW, NOT JUST FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE, BUILDING ON EXISTING ENGAGEMENT AND COMMUNICATIONS DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN THAT IT'S GOING TO RESULT IN NO ENGAGEMENT. IT'S GOING TO BE HOPEFULLY LESS. SO THERE'S A FEW ELEMENTS TO THAT. ONE. THIS IS GOING TO BE A CITY STAFF LED ENGAGEMENT SESSION. WE FELT THAT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT. SO THIS NUMBER IS ACTUALLY A LOT LOWER THAN INITIALLY BECAUSE WE SAID WE'RE GOING TO HAVE OUR STAFF THAT'S GOING TO BE DOING THE IN-PERSON ENGAGEMENT. WE FELT THAT WAS IMPORTANT BECAUSE OF HOW IMPORTANT THIS IS TO COMMUNITY, THAT WE WANTED TO SAY, HEY, WE'RE HERE FOR THE LONG HAUL. YOU KNOW, THIS IS CITY STAFF, BUT TWO, AND WE'VE TALKED WITH COMMUNITY NOT JUST ABOUT MOBILITY BLUEPRINT, BUT IN GENERAL THAT THEY HAVE THEY FEEL THIS FATIGUE AROUND DOING ENGAGEMENT. SO THIS THESE THIS IS GOING TO BE A VERY DIFFERENT TYPE OF ENGAGEMENT THAN I THINK, THAN A LOT OF PEOPLE MAY BE USED TO WHEN IT COMES TO THINGS LIKE LONG RANGE PLANS, BECAUSE THIS IS US SAYING, AND THIS IS WHY THE VISIONING ELEMENT IS IMPORTANT. IT'S US SAYING, ALL RIGHT, WE HAVE HEARD FROM THE RAPIDS LONG RANGE PLAN, THE GRAND VALLEY METRO COUNCIL, THE, THE, THE REGIONAL PLAN, THE COMMUNITY MASTER PLAN, AREA SPECIFIC PLANS. I CAN GO TO CRESTON AND THEY'LL SAY, WE TELL YOU EXACTLY HOW WE WANT TO SEE OUR TRANSPORTATION NETWORK. SO TAKING THAT AND THEN SAYING, ALL RIGHT, THIS IS OUR INTERPRETATION OF HOW WE'RE GOING TO PRIORITIZE THAT BASED ON THE TECHNICAL ANALYSIS AND THE WORK AND THE COMMUNITY FEEDBACK WE ALREADY HAVE. AND THEN SAYING TO COMMUNITY, ARE WE ALIGNED THROUGHOUT THAT PROCESS? SO IT IS A BIT MORE OF A, IF YOU WILL, IN THE WEEDS KIND OF ENGAGEMENT PROCESS WHERE WE'RE NOT ASKING FOR HIGH LEVEL VISION ANYMORE, WE FEEL LIKE THERE'S A VERY CLEAR MESSAGE ACROSS ALL OF THESE PLANS THAT WHAT COMMUNITY IS LOOKING FOR. BUT THEN, AS WE HEARD FROM THE MAYOR AND JESSICA AND ALL COMMUNITY MEMBERS WILL SAY, WELL, IN MY MIND, SAFE AND EVEN YOU, YOU'RE SAYING, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, THE LEVEL OF TRAVEL IS IMPORTANT. YOU KNOW, THE HOW MUCH CONGESTION, WHAT'S THE WAIT TIME? SO GOING TO COMMUNITY AND SAYING, ALL RIGHT, WHAT'S YOUR PRIORITY? AND THEN TALKING ABOUT VERY SPECIFIC THINGS LIKE, I'LL USE BICYCLE LANES AS AN EXAMPLE. PEOPLE IN SOME PLANS, THEY'LL SAY, WE WANT BICYCLE LANES. BUT WHEN YOU GO AND TALK TO COMMUNITY, THEY SAY, WELL, I DIDN'T MEAN THAT IN A BUSINESS DISTRICT OR I DIDN'T MEAN THAT IN MY SMALLER NEIGHBORHOOD. AND SO HAVING THOSE SORT OF CONVERSATIONS MAKES THIS AN EFFORT THAT ISN'T, AND I DON'T MEAN TO MEAN THE OTHER ONES ARE EASY. THEY'RE NOT THEY'RE DIFFICULT TO, BUT IT'S NOT SOMETHING LIKE WE CAN JUST GO AND SAY, HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THIS? WE HAVE TO BE REALLY INTENTIONAL AND SPECIFIC ABOUT VERY SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE CITY, VERY, YOU KNOW, LIKE NEIGHBORHOODS AND CORRIDORS AND SAY, HEY, WE'RE INTERESTED IN PRIORITIZING WHAT SORT OF INFRASTRUCTURE GOES HERE. AND WE WOULD LIKE SOME MORE DEPTH AND INTERPRETATION OF WHAT YOU HAVE GIVEN US IN THESE OTHER PLANS, AND MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE

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YEAH, THANK YOU FOR THAT. THE IDEA OF BOTH COMPETING PRIORITIES, I THINK IT WAS THE PURPOSE IS TO YEAH, BE REALLY SPECIFIC ABOUT THAT. YEAH. SO I THINK THE COMPETING PRIORITIES IS, IS TO ME IS AND I KNOW WHEN DIRECTOR SMITH JOINED, SHE, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A LOT OF INTENTION FOR A LOT OF DESIRE FOR THIS PROJECT. FOR ME, THAT'S THE NUMBER ONE REASON TO DO THIS. PRIORITIZATION METHODOLOGY IS KEY. WHEN WE HAVE LIMITED RESOURCES, WE HAVE LIMITED STREET SPACE, RIGHT? WE HAVE LIMITED SPACE IN OUR RIGHT OF WAY, AND WE HAVE LIMITED STAFF TIME. SO ALL OF THOSE THINGS ARE GOING TO REQUIRE US TO HAVE SOME SORT OF PRIORITIZATION. AND HOW WE'VE BEEN DOING IT IN THE PAST HAS NOT BEEN ONE THAT WE'VE HAD THIS COLLABORATIVE DECISION WITH COMMUNITY ON. SO TO ME, A PRIORITIZATION METHODOLOGY IS, IS THE MAIN GOAL OF THIS FROM A LOT OF PERSPECTIVES. AND AGAIN, THAT'S JUST MY PERSONAL, ONE OF THE THINGS I THINK THAT'S SO IMPORTANT HERE. SO YES, ADDRESSING COMPETING INTERESTS IS A VERY INTENTIONAL PRIORITY FOR US IN THIS GOAL TO HAVE A VERY SPECIFIC AND ONE THAT WE FEEL LIKE COMMUNITIES ALIGNED WITH PRIORITIZATION, METHODOLOGY FOR OUR INVESTMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE GOING FORWARD. OKAY. GLAD TO HEAR THAT. AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE, BECAUSE YOU SAID YOUR PERSONAL, YOUR, YOUR PERSONAL, NOT NOT PERSONALLY, BUT LIKE THIS, THAT OBJECTIVELY THAT YEAH, SORRY, I JUST DON'T WANT TO SPEAK FOR THE WHOLE TEAM AND OTHER FOLKS. THAT'S WHAT I'VE HEARD THROUGHOUT THAT. THAT'S I WANT YOU TO SPEAK FOR THE TEAM BECAUSE THIS IS THIS IS DOCUMENTING WHAT WE WANT TO GET OUT OF IT. SO ABSOLUTELY. I'M SORRY I'M BEING A LITTLE PERSNICKETY WITH. NO, THAT'S TOTALLY FAIR. I, I JUST SOMETIMES A LITTLE TOO CAREFUL WITH MY WORDS. THIS IS THE GOAL OF THE TEAM. THIS WAS THE GOAL OF THE RFP. THIS IS WHAT WE'VE BEEN CLEAR WITH THE CONSULTANT IN OUR INTERVIEW PROCESS, IN OUR IN OUR REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS THAT OUR PRIORITIZATION METHODOLOGY IS AN ABSOLUTE MUST AND TOP PRIORITY FOR THE RESULTS OF THIS. AND THAT'S FOR EVERYONE ON THE TEAM. OKAY. THANK YOU. AND THEN THE LAST THE LAST ITEM I SPOKE TO WAS JUST AROUND ADDING OR ADDRESSING THE DIFFERENT, THE DIFFERENT NEEDS AND USES OF TRANSPORTATION, THAT CONNECTIVITY FOR CONNECTIVITY SAKE, AND WHO ARE THOSE USERS? WHAT DO THEY NEED? SO ON AND SO FORTH. IF YOU WANT TO SPEAK TO THAT. YEAH. SO I'LL JUST SPEAK QUICKLY TO IT. SO MY BACKGROUND, AS YOU MAY KNOW, IS IN BEHAVIORAL STUDIES AND IN PSYCHOLOGY, IT'S IN STUDYING HUMANS AND WHAT MOTIVATES THEM. SO THAT'S A HUGE ELEMENT THAT I'M HOPEFULLY BRINGING TO THIS TEAM, BUT ALSO SOMETHING THAT WE'VE TALKED A LOT WITH THE CONSULTANTS AND THROUGH THE INTERVIEW PROCESS, AND ONE THAT WE REALLY FELT WAS REALLY STRONG WITH T SPECIFICALLY, YOU KNOW, THERE IS, OF COURSE, A LOT OF TECHNICAL ELEMENTS TO THIS. BUT ULTIMATELY, THE REASON FOR ALL OF THIS IS, IS HUMAN BEINGS AS OUR RESIDENTS, OUR VISITORS, OUR COMMUTERS, SO UNDERSTANDING WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT. AND THAT REALLY GETS TO PART OF THAT, BREAKING DOWN FROM THAT HIGH LEVEL VISION TO IMPLEMENTATION, BECAUSE SOMETIMES THERE'S A DISCONNECT THERE BECAUSE OF HOW IT'S USING. SO SAYING WE WANT SAFE STREETS, BUT THEN TALKING ABOUT, WELL, WHAT ARE WE TRYING TO YOUR EXACT POINT, ARE WE GOING TO THE GROCERY STORE? ARE WE JUST GOING FOR A RIDE FOR FUN? ARE WE GOING FOR A WALK FOR FUN? SO ALL THOSE THINGS MEAN THAT THE INFRASTRUCTURE IS HAS DIFFERENT ELEMENTS TO IT. SO STUDYING THAT AND UNDERSTANDING THAT IS AN ENORMOUS PART OF THIS PLAN. THE THE OTHER PIECE IS THERE'S A TECHNOLOGY THAT EXISTS WITH YOUR, YOUR GIS OR YOUR GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM. SO ALL THAT MAPPING LAYER, WE HAVE A LOT OF DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION AND ALSO WHAT WE CALL. TRIP, TRIP GENERATION AND TRIP NEED AND REASON AND THOSE SORTS OF THINGS. A LOT OF THAT DATA ALREADY EXISTS. PUTTING IT ALL IN ONE PLACE IS, IS LOOKING AT WHAT THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS LOOK LIKE. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE IN HERE IS A, A FOCUS AREA, RIGHT? SO WE'LL LOOK AT LIKE CORRIDOR SPECIFICALLY. AND WHAT IS IN THOSE CORRIDORS? YOU LOOK AT LAND USE, YOU LOOK AT WHO LIVES THERE AND THOSE DIFFERENT TYPES OF THINGS. SOMETHING THAT GIS HAS EMBEDDED IN IT RIGHT NOW IS SOMETHING CALLED TAPESTRY DATA. THIS WAS A SPECIFIC TECHNOLOGY THAT WE ASKED FOR WITH THIS PROPOSAL. AND THAT TAPESTRY DATA DOES EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. IT SAYS, THESE ARE THE FOLKS THAT LIVE IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD AND IT'S BASED ON DATA. AND SO USING THAT AND LAYERING IT OVER THAT DEMOGRAPHIC DATA. YEAH. ALSO EMPLOYMENT. YEAH. OKAY. IT'S, IT IS ALL IT IS THE SO I WOULD CALL IT DEMOGRAPHIC AND SOCIOECONOMIC DATA IS KIND OF THE, THE LARGE CATEGORY AND HOW THOSE FOLKS TEND TO MOVE BASED ON WHAT WE KNOW IN, IN, IN KIND OF TRANSPORTATION PATTERNS AND NETWORK AND SYSTEM DESIGN. AND SO THAT WILL BE A BIG PIECE OF

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THANK YOU BOTH FOR THIS PRESENTATION. AND IT WAS KIND OF A THROWBACK BECAUSE I WAS THINKING BACK TO THE EQUITABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND MOBILE PLAN. THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT I SERVED ON INITIALLY AS A NEIGHBOR. AND THAT WAS A REALLY BIG GROUP OF PEOPLE. AND I THINK THIS YEAR WE'RE SEEING SOME OF THOSE THINGS THAT WERE IN THAT PLAN, WHICH, AGAIN, I THINK A REMINDER TO US IS THAT WE MAY NOT BE ALWAYS THE PEOPLE WHO DO IT. YOU SAID THAT A LITTLE BIT, CITY MANAGER, WHEN YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT THE RAPID. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE, YOU KNOW, A NEW GOVERNOR THAT'S GOING TO, YOU KNOW, BE IN PLACE. SO THERE'LL BE, YOU KNOW, SOME THINKING ABOUT THIS. WE'LL VITAL STREETS WILL HAVE TO RENEW IN 2030. LOOKING AT YOU PAST VICE CHAIR, YOU TELL ME THE DATE. AM I RIGHT ON THAT CORRECTION, CHAIR. OH, SORRY, MR. CHAIR. WE SAID WE WERE BEING NICE TODAY. NO, I'M JUST KIDDING. AND SO. RIGHT. SO WE START THINKING ABOUT THESE THINGS. YOU KNOW, WE TALKED ABOUT THE MASTER PLAN, BUT THEN TRUE. YOU KNOW, ALL JOKES ASIDE, YOU KNOW, BUT THE VITAL STREETS AND THEN THINKING ABOUT THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME NEW INVESTMENT. YOU KNOW, MAYOR HAS A LOT OF EXPERIENCE IN THAT LEGISLATIVE PIECE. AND SO TO ME, THIS IS SORT OF HOW DO YOU IF YOU IF YOU STAY READY, YOU NEVER HAVE TO BE READY. AM I SAYING THAT CORRECT PEOPLE? OKAY. ALL RIGHT. WELL, YOU HAVE TO GET. OKAY.

SORRY. THIRD WARD. BUT BUT IT IT'S AGAIN, JOKING ASIDE, BUT THAT'S REALLY AS I'M SITTING HERE AND LISTENING TO THIS. AND QUITE HONESTLY, IF YOU ALL CAN PUT IN THE BUDGET A CLONE FOR, FOR MAX, THAT'D BE GREAT TOO, YOU KNOW, BUT I THINK WE ARE ENTERING THIS PERIOD OF A LOT OF ENGAGEMENT IS LIKE THESE VERY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS. AND IF I DO A SEARCH IN MY EMAIL THAT HAS MAX INCLUDED, YOU SHOW UP A LOT, MAX. RIGHT? BECAUSE YOU ALL HAVE MADE THAT INTENTIONAL EFFORT TO SAY, HERE'S GOING TO BE THE PERSON. HOW ARE WE DRIVING COMMUNICATIONS? LIKE I SEE STUFF THE OTHER DAY I WAS ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND SOMEBODY WAS LIKE, WHY DON'T WE HAVE THIS IN THE CITY? AND I'M LIKE, WE DO HAVE THIS IN THE CITY. I COULDN'T REMEMBER THE SPECIFIC DETAILS. SHOUT OUT TO MISS CLAYPOOL FOR GIVING ME THE DEETS SO THAT I COULD THEN SHARE IT. BUT WE ARE WE'RE LIVING IN THIS PERIOD WHERE PEOPLE REALLY WANT THIS 1 TO 1 CONNECTION. AND SO I'M GLAD THAT, YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT HAD BEEN TALKED ABOUT A LITTLE BIT, BUT I WAS GLAD TO SEE THAT THERE'S SOMETHING IN THIS, THE LEAN METHODOLOGY OF GO AND SEE.

IT'S ONE THING TO HIRE A CONSULTANT WHO'S GOING TO GO BACK TO THE HOTEL ROOM, WHO'S GOING TO GO BACK TO THEIR SPOT IN THE NEXT CITY. IT'S VERY MUCH ANOTHER THING TO SAY. OUR INTERNAL STAFF WILL BE GUIDED BY THE INDIVIDUAL STORIES, THE THINGS THAT THEY'RE THINKING. I ALSO THINK IN IN THE REALITY IS COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IS NOT WHAT YOU ASK FOR, IS WHAT YOU GET. AND I THINK WE HAVE TO CONSISTENTLY REMIND OURSELVES OF WHAT ARE THOSE EXPECTATIONS, WHETHER THEY'RE COST EXPECTATIONS. I AM NOT THE SAFETY PERSON AS IT RELATES TO TRAFFIC, BUT WE ARE USERS. SO I'M KIND OF SITTING HERE AND I, AND I GET IT. IT SAYS, YOU KNOW, LARGE DOLLAR AMOUNT OBVIOUSLY WENT THROUGH THE BUDGETING PROCESS. WE KNEW, YOU KNOW, BUT SEEING IT ON PAPER, I THINK, YOU KNOW, WITH WITH EVERYTHING ELSE THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IS, IS ALWAYS THAT PIECE. BUT THEN I START THINKING ABOUT HOW DO WE CONNECT TO THESE OTHER ACTIVITIES THAT ARE GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE FIVE YEARS? AND WE CERTAINLY WANT TO BE THE MOST PREPARED THAT WE COULD BE ON THIS. AND THEN SPECIFICALLY SAYING, SO I KIND OF HAVE A QUESTION, BUT I HAVE ONE QUESTION AT THE END. BUT I DO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT, AGAIN, THE DOLLAR AMOUNT, WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. BUT, YOU KNOW, JUST THIS YEAR, WE'RE SEEING THIS TRANSPORTATION UP HERE, RIGHT WITH UPTOWN. AND THEN I SAW MIDTOWN SHARE THAT THEY'RE GOING TO DO THAT. AND THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT CAME OUT OF THAT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND MOBILE GR PLAN, RIGHT. BUT IT NOT NECESSARILY IS GOING TO BE THE CITY BUDGET, BUT HOW DO WE CREATE THE FACTORS TO UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, HOW THIS ALL ENGAGES. AND NOW WE SEE PEOPLE IN GOLF CARTS, RIGHT? AND THEN PHIL'S GOT TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO MANAGE THAT. BUT SO, SO THIS WILL CONTINUE. SO I WANTED TO PUT THAT AS THE FRAME FOR US OF HOW DO WE THINK ABOUT THIS WORK. AND THEN I ALWAYS FEEL LIKE RESETTING. WHAT ARE THOSE? WHAT, WHAT ARE THE REALITIES OF A COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT? AND WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? IT'S TO ME, IT'S LIKE

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YEAH. SO WE USE A LOT OF DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGY, BUT WE DON'T READ LICENSE PLATES. IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE ASKING? OKAY. LPR'S LICENSE PLATE READERS, FLAT CAMERAS AS THE LIKE THE KLEENEX OF LPR IS. AM I SAYING THAT RIGHT? LIKE DC BAKER IN THE BACK, AM I? HE'S GIVING ME A HEAD NOD. YEAH. THAT'S IT. THAT'S A DIFFERENT THAT'S A DIFFERENT THING. BUT FOR PARKING ENFORCEMENT, WE WE DO USE LICENSE PLATE READERS. THAT'S HOW WE, WE DRIVE BY AND WE, WE KNOW WHETHER, YOU KNOW, WE'RE KIND OF CHECKING THINGS LIKE THAT. SO, SO IT DEPENDS ON THE SPECIFIC INSTANCE ACTIVITY. CAN YOU HELP ME UNDERSTAND? YEAH, WE'RE GOING WITH THIS.

YEAH. MY QUESTION IS AGAIN, BECAUSE THIS IS THE TOPIC THAT IS OUT THERE, RIGHT? THERE'S I MEAN, IN SOME COMMUNITIES, PEOPLE ARE GOING AND TAKING THINGS DOWN. WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, WORK TO EXPLAIN HOW THIS FITS INTO THE LARGER PUBLIC SAFETY PIECE. BUT ALSO I THINK, I THINK MAYBE VERY INITIALLY MOBILE GR HAD PURCHASED THOSE AND THEN MAYBE WE WEREN'T USING THEM IN SPECIFIC WAYS. BUT I DON'T KNOW, I'M, I'M TRYING TO REMEMBER THINGS FROM 2014 AND 2015. CITY MANAGER. I THINK IF WHAT YOU'RE ASKING IS, DOES TECHNOLOGY HELP US TO BECOME SAFER IN THE MAYOR? AND I WAS JUST HAVING A CONVERSATION ABOUT TRAFFIC SAFETY ISSUE AND HAD WE HAD MORE TECHNOLOGY, WE WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO MAYBE ENSURE MORE SAFETY IN THE AREA.

AND I THINK THAT'S A QUESTION WE CAN ASK THE CONSULTANTS, HOW ARE THE COMMUNITIES ARE USING TECHNOLOGY TO HELP WITH MOBILITY, PLANNING AND SAFETY? YEAH. YOU KNOW, AGAIN, AS WE HAVE THESE GENERAL STATEMENTS ABOUT GRAND RAPIDS DOES THIS, OR THEY GO TO FISCAL AND THEY SAY YOU HAVE A AGENDA ITEM THAT'S TO APPROVE THIS. I JUST WANT US TO BE REALLY CLEAR ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WE THINK ABOUT OUR SURVEILLANCE POLICY AS IT RELATES WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND OTHER PUBLIC SAFETY EFFORTS. BUT HOW DOES THAT TIE INTO THIS? BECAUSE I THINK THAT IS ONE OF THESE IS THE RIGHT WORD, SEMINAL, SEMINAL ISSUES THAT ARE COMING OUT AS IT RELATES TO THIS WORK, WHERE OBVIOUSLY TECHNOLOGY CAN HELP GUIDE US TO, YOU KNOW, RECEIVE, YOU KNOW, IMPROVE OUR EFFICIENCY, IMPROVE LIKE, AGAIN, NOT HAVING TO SPEND THESE DIFFERENT PIECES, BUT PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW WHAT IT IS, AT WHAT COST, WHERE DOES IT LIVE? WHO OWNS IT? SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR THAT CONTEXT. I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE ASKING NOW. SO TYPICALLY WITH TRANSPORTATION PLANNING. SO REMEMBER THAT SYSTEM WIDE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING IS A POLICY LEVEL DOCUMENT. AND SO WHAT WE DO IS WHEN THERE ARE BIGGER PICTURE QUESTIONS THAT ARE NOT RELATING SPECIFICALLY TO DEVELOPING AN INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN, BUT IMPACT HOW YOU MAKE POLICY DECISIONS. IT'S REALLY HELPFUL WITH TECHNOLOGY TO HAVE A WHOLE SECTION CALLED EMERGENCE TECHNOLOGY. THIS IS THIS IS A REALLY COMMON THING THAT TO DO IN THESE TYPES OF PLANS. SO WITH THIS PLAN, WE HAVE BEGUN TO FRAME OUT WHAT THOSE SECTIONS LOOK LIKE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE COVERING THINGS LIKE YOUR QUESTION, BECAUSE THESE THINGS WILL INEVITABLY, LIKE YOU POINTED OUT, AS COMMISSIONER PURDUE AND COMMISSIONER BELICHICK WERE ALL YOU WERE ALL KIND OF DRIVING AT THE SAME THING. WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO WHEN THESE QUESTIONS COME UP FROM COMMUNITY? WE IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO HAVE THAT EMERGING TECHNOLOGY POLICY GAPS, THOSE TYPES OF PIECES TO YOUR PLAN.

SO IT'S NOT SO MUCH OF A PARKING LOT IN THE PLAN, BUT TO SHOW THAT THESE THINGS DO IMPACT YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE DECISIONS. BUT THEY NEED PERHAPS A DIFFERENT APPROACH AND A STRATEGY TO GET TO A POLICY DECISION OR A POLICY CONSENSUS, WHICH COMES FROM THIS FROM THIS BODY. SO I APPRECIATE THAT QUESTION AND THANK YOU FOR GUIDING ME TO IT.

IT TOOK ME A MINUTE THERE. I WAS LIKE, I DON'T DO THE FLOCK CAMERAS. SO THIS ANY SORT OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGY OR CURRENT TECHNOLOGY THAT WE DON'T HAVE CLEAR POLICY AROUND, OR MAYBE WE DO HAVE CLEAR POLICY AROUND, BUT IT HASN'T BEEN CONNECTED BACK TO WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR MOBILITY? IT WILL HAVE A PLACE HERE TO BE REFERENCED, IF THAT MAKES SENSE. CITY MANAGER, MAYOR, MAYOR, I'M ABLE TO RESPOND EARLIER TO THE THE COST QUESTION, AT LEAST THE RELATIVE COST THAT I WAS TRYING TO SHARE. SO EVEN AT 500 000, THIS COMMISSION AUTHORIZED US TO SPEND ABOUT 1.2 MILLION ON THE CONSULTANT WORK FOR THE COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING. AND

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GREAT. COMMISSIONER KNIGHT. YEAH, THANK YOU FOR ALL THE ROBUST CONVERSATION AROUND THIS.

IT SEEMS LIKE THIS IS A TOPIC THAT HAS BEEN AT THE TOP OF PEOPLE'S MINDS FOR A FEW MONTHS NOW, ESPECIALLY JUST HAVING A MEETING WITH THE RIVER NORTH BUSINESS DISTRICT AND THINKING ABOUT THE DASH RIGHT IMPACTS AND HOW WE'RE GETTING PEOPLE INTO NEIGHBORHOODS AND HOW THEY'RE BEING ABLE TO COME IN AND SUPPORT BUSINESS, BUT THEN STILL BE ABLE TO ACCESS DOWNTOWN. I ALSO HAD SOME QUESTIONS, AND I'M JUST GOING TO THROW THIS OUT THERE. YOU CAN ANSWER IT, MULL IT OVER, WHATEVER, FROM THE FOOD TRUCK VENDORS ABOUT ACCESSING SOME OF THESE SPACES AS WELL, AND JUST WONDERING IF THEIR CONCERNS ARE WEAVED INTO THIS CONVERSATION TOO, RIGHT? WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND GETTING PEOPLE FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT THE SPACE, EVEN AROUND THE AMPHITHEATER, I KNOW THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF CHATTER ABOUT THAT AND JUST REALLY SEEING HOW WE CAN CONTINUE TO SUPPORT OUR SMALL BUSINESSES, RIGHT? BECAUSE THAT'S, THAT'S HOW OUR COMMUNITY GROWS AND THRIVES IN.

AND THEN ALSO THINKING ABOUT WHEN WE DO COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, THERE ALWAYS SEEMS LIKE THERE'S THESE SMALL POCKETS IN OUR COMMUNITY THAT JUST AREN'T TOUCHED. LIKE WE'RE NOT REALLY GETTING ALL OF THE INFORMATION THAT'S NEEDED IN THOSE SPACES AND JUST WONDERING HOW DEEP, YOU KNOW, I KNOW Y'ALL SAID YOU'RE GOING A LITTLE BIT DEEPER THAN NORMAL, BUT JUST REALLY GETTING INTO THOSE SPECIFIC COMMUNITIES. I KNOW, ESPECIALLY ON THE ON THE SOUTHEAST SIDE AND THE THIRD WARD, THERE'S, THERE'S AREAS AND POCKETS OF PEOPLE THAT JUST WE DON'T GET THEIR INFORMATION, WE DON'T TOUCH THEM. AND THEY SEEM LIKE THEY'RE THE ONES THAT ARE MISSING IN THIS LARGER CONVERSATION. AND I'M REMINDED OF A COMMENT, A POST THAT A FRIEND MADE THE OTHER DAY OF A YOUNG MAN WHO WAS TRYING TO GET TO WORK USING A SCOOTER. HE HAD NO OTHER TRANSPORTATION. HE GOT HIT BY A CAR, HE GOT HIT BY THE CAR AND WOULD NOT GO TO THE HOSPITAL BECAUSE HE HAD TO GET TO WORK. HE WAS SCARED OF LOSING HIS JOB. RIGHT? SO WHEN WE THINK ABOUT HOW PEOPLE ARE GETTING BACK AND FORTH TO WORK, THE SAFETY OF THOSE SPACES, I WATCHED ON SATURDAY A BUNCH OF YOUNG MEN ON MOTORBIKES, THE SMALLER BIKES DOWN ON MONROE, RIDING UP AND DOWN THE SIDEWALKS AND IN THE STREET. RIGHT. AND SO HOW WE'RE THINKING ABOUT HOW WE'RE LOOKING AT OUR POLICIES AND STUFF AROUND THAT, AND WHO'S SUPPOSED TO BE ON THE SIDEWALK AND WHERE THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE ON THE SIDEWALK. AND JUST THAT BROADER CONTEXT OF, OF CONVERSATION. THERE'S A LOT OF PIECES I KNOW TO THIS, AND YOU GUYS ARE TRYING TO PULL IT ALL TOGETHER. I'M GRATEFUL THAT THE CONVERSATION WAS RAISED. YOU GUYS ANSWERED THE QUESTION, ESPECIALLY AROUND THE FUNDING PIECE, BECAUSE I WAS LIKE, OH, THAT THAT'S A HEFTY PRICE TAG. AND WHERE IS IT COMING FROM? THAT'S ALL MY QUESTION. SO JUST, JUST HOPING THAT WE CAN GET A LITTLE BIT DEEPER ON THE INFORMATION, WHO WE'RE GETTING INFORMATION FROM AND THAT WE'RE TOUCHING EVERYBODY. AND I KNOW THAT MAY SEEM IMPOSSIBLE WITH THE LIMITED STAFF TIME, BUT I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT BECAUSE IF THOSE VOICES ARE NOT COUNTED, THEN WE'RE REALLY KIND OF STILL DOING THE SAME THING THAT WE'VE ALWAYS DONE AND NOT REALLY CREATING ANY CHANGE. THAT'S KIND OF. THANK YOU. I'M, I'M GOING TO LEAVE THE ENGAGEMENT AND THE STRATEGIES AND HOW WE KEEP THAT WITHIN A CERTAIN BUDGET FRAMEWORK TO MATCH TO, TO I KNOW HE'S HE REALLY WANTS TO TALK ABOUT THAT HERE IN A SECOND. BUT ONE OF THE THINGS I WANTED TO POINT OUT IS WHAT I AM HEARING. AND A LOT OF THESE QUESTIONS ARE AROUND LARGER POLICIES, AROUND OPERATIONS AND EVEN MAINTENANCE. SOME OF THAT HAS COME UP BEFORE OPERATIONS, MAINTENANCE, ENGAGEMENT, ENFORCEMENT, AND THESE TYPES OF THINGS ARE ONGOING FOR YOUR MOBILITY POLICY CONVERSATIONS. AND JUST BECAUSE WE'RE WORKING ON A FOUNDATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE DRIVEN PLAN FOR DECISION MAKING IN SPECIFICALLY IN HOW WE BUILD OUT A, A PHYSICAL TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM, THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THERE AREN'T THESE ONGOING CONVERSATIONS ABOUT HOW TO SOLVE THINGS, ESPECIALLY SOME OF THE THINGS THAT YOU ALL HAVE BROUGHT UP. THOSE ARE THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN POPPED INTO OUR WORK PLANS AND OUR ARE ACTIVELY BEING WORKED ON. FOR THE MOST PART. I HAVEN'T HEARD SOMETHING YET TODAY THAT WE AREN'T ALREADY TOUCHING ON. SPECIFICALLY, I WAS THINKING ABOUT THE FOOD TRUCKS. THAT'S ONE THAT HAD A NUMBER OF CHALLENGES AROUND IT, NOT JUST WITH MOBILITY OR INFRASTRUCTURE SPACE, BUT AROUND IT. AND WE ENGAGED WITH OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT, WITH OUR FIRE MARSHAL, AND WE ENGAGED WITH THE CLERK'S OFFICE ON BUSINESS LICENSES AND AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. ALL OF THOSE PIECES ARE COMING TOGETHER. AND I THINK THE CITY MANAGER AND DEPUTY CITY MANAGER WORK REALLY HARD TO MAKE SURE THAT THE DIRECTORS ARE WORKING ACROSS

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AND THEN ALSO HERE'S A FUNDING PLAN. HERE'S HOW YOU CAN LOOK INTO WHAT TO DO NEXT BASED ON BOTH HISTORICAL FUNDING PATTERNS, BUT ALSO WHAT'S COMING DOWN THE PIPE. AS ONE OF YOU HAD POINTED OUT, THE FEDERAL FUNDING PICTURE CONTINUES TO CHANGE, IT SEEMS, ON A DAILY BASIS. SO THAT'S SOMETHING ALSO TO JUST CONSIDER THAT THERE IS A LITTLE BIT OF VARIATION IN THAT RIGHT NOW, BUT FOR THE MOST PART, IT CONTINUES TO KIND OF OPERATE THE WAY IT'S IT'S GENERALLY BEEN OPERATING OVER THE LAST DOZENS OF YEARS. SO, SO IT'S NOTHING QUITE NEW THERE. AND JUST TO CONTINUE TO, TO KEEP, TO KEEP OUR, OUR FOLKS WHO FOCUS ON THOSE THINGS AT MOBILE, OUR FOCUS ON POLICY AND FUNDING, FOCUS ON TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS, FOCUS ON SAFETY AND HOW TO BALANCE ALL OF THOSE THINGS. SO THAT'S, THAT'S MY SMALL, MY SMALL SPEECH ABOUT THIS IS A FOUNDATIONAL PLAN. AND IT WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DO EVERYTHING THAT THAT WE HAVE POLICY CONCERNS ABOUT. BUT IT IS THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE A CLEAR AND TRANSPARENT PROCESS TO COME UP WITH CONNECTED, CONSISTENT AND SAFE TRANSPORTATION NETWORK. MAX, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO THE ENGAGEMENT PIECE? MAYOR? MAYOR, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE ON TIMING, WE GOT A SHORT DAY.

DOES THE COMMISSION HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? YOU DID A GOOD JOB. I'M SENSING WE'RE READY TO VOTE ON THIS. EVERYONE OKAY WITH THAT? ALL RIGHT. ALL IN FAVOR OF THE RESOLUTION TO AWARD THE CONTRACT, SAY AYE. AYE. ALL OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU. THANK YOU BOTH. GREAT JOB. SO A COUPLE THINGS I WANT TO FLAG HERE. FIRST IS JUST VERY BRIEFLY IN WAS IT. ONE OF OUR OTHER COMMITTEES MIGHT HAVE BEEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. WE TALKED ABOUT THE. THE AGREEMENT WITH THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. YEAH. WITH THE, OUR JOINT OUR JOINT AGREEMENT WITH THE SCHOOLS. AND THE UPDATE ON THAT, WHICH I ASSUME PASSED. I WASN'T THERE, PASSED OUT UNANIMOUSLY, DID NOT RESPOND. OKAY, GREAT. WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO SHARE MORE ON THAT? YES. BUT LET ME FLAG ALSO THAT I THINK THAT THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR OUR CONVERSATION ABOUT LIKE, WHETHER AND HOW WE ENGAGE IN DEVELOPMENT THE CITY GENERALLY.

AND SO I'D LOVE TO HAVE A PRESENTATION FROM STAFF ON POTENTIAL ENGAGEMENT LONG TERM, BECAUSE THIS IS WE KNOW THAT THE SCHOOLS HAVE ANNOUNCED THEY'RE GOING TO BE DISPOSING OF A NUMBER OF PROPERTIES. SO I'D LIKE TO MAYBE HAVE SOME STAFF PRESENTATION ON POTENTIAL ENGAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT ON THOSE PROPERTIES. BUT IF YOU CAN SPEAK TO THE POST MOMENT.

YEAH. SO THE COMMITTEE HAD NOT SEEN THE UPDATED LANGUAGE THAT WAS IN THE CONTRACT OR WHAT WAS NEGOTIATED. SO WE DIDN'T FEEL COMFORTABLE VOTING ON IT. SO WE POSTPONED IT. SO IT WOULD COME IN FRONT OF ALL OF US AT 2:00 WITH THE EXPECTATION THAT WE WOULD RECEIVE THE LANGUAGE AND OR SOME SORT OF BRIEFING BETWEEN NOW AND THEN. GREAT. OKAY. AND, AND MAYOR, JUST THE LANGUAGE WAS POSTED AT GPS IN A PUBLIC DOCUMENT. SO WE CAN HAPPY TO BRING THAT FORWARD IN THE LANGUAGE THAT THEY POSTED IN THERE. SO, SO IF WE'RE GOING TO HAVE WE'LL HAVE IT ON THE AGENDA AT 2:00. NOT A PROBLEM. IT WASN'T IN THE MEETING PACKET. CITY MANAGER. YEP. OKAY. THANKS.

[14. Motion to go into closed session.]

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SORRY, COMMISSIONER KILGORE. YES. COMMISSIONER. KNIGHT. YES. COMMISSIONER. SACHS. YES.

COMMISSIONER. PURDUE. YES. COMMISSIONER. YES. MAYOR. LEGRAND. YES. AND THAT WILL BE IN. WILL BE IN 601 AFTER THIS MEETING. IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT WE MAY MIGHT NOT GET TO ALL THE ITEMS. SO THERE ARE EMPLOYEE REVIEWS THAT MAY HAVE TO COME AT THE END OF THE 2:00 MEETING. WE'LL SEE HOW IT GOES. OKAY. OKAY. BECAUSE WE DO HAVE PUBLIC SAFETY AT 1215. SO

[1. Fire Department Presentation on Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Program]

ALL RIGHT, I'LL START OVER. CHIEF JOHNSON. CHIEF BROWN'S ON VACATION THIS WEEK AND JOIN SOME TIME WITH HIS FAMILY. I'M HERE TO PRESENT OEM OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT WITH EMERGENCY MANAGER AND INGRID SCHEER TO TALK ABOUT THE COMMUNITY EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM. SO TAKE IT AWAY, BEN. AWESOME. THANKS. IS EVERYBODY DOING GOOD? THANKS FOR HAVING US TODAY, BENJAMIN. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ADMINISTRATOR WE'RE JUST GOING TO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT THAT WE'RE DOING. I APPRECIATE ALL THE DISCUSSION ON COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, WHERE WE'RE TRYING TO MEET PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE AND PROVIDE SERVICES AND KIND OF UNIQUE AND DIFFERENT WAY. INNOVATION IS ONE OF OUR GOALS, YOU KNOW, HERE IN THE OFFICE.

SO WE'RE GOING TO GO THROUGH, WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE COMMUNITY EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM, GIVE AN UPDATE ON THAT. WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT GENERAL COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, WHAT SOME OF OUR SUCCESSES HAVE BEEN, WHAT OUR STRATEGY IS MOVING FORWARD, AND HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT ANYBODY HAS. SO I'LL TURN IT OVER TO INGRID SCHAEFER TO START. HELLO, I'M INGRID SCHEER, EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST, AND ALSO OUR CERT PROGRAM MANAGER FOR THE CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS. JUST A REMINDER. SO CERT STANDS FOR COMMUNITY EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM. HOPEFULLY THIS ISN'T THE FIRST TIME YOU'VE HEARD OF IT, BUT IT IS A TRAINING THAT THE CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS OFFERS. WE WERE ESTABLISHED IN FALL OF 2023. IT IS A NATIONWIDE FEMA PROGRAM, SO THERE ARE CERT TEAMS IN ALL 50 STATES THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES AND EVEN ACROSS THE OCEAN AS WELL. THIS SLIDE JUST SHOWS A LITTLE BIT OF THE SUMMARY OF WHAT WE'VE ACCOMPLISHED SINCE WE'VE ESTABLISHED IN 2023. ONE BIG THING TO POINT OUT IS IT'S TYPICALLY THE CERT PROGRAM IS A BASIC ACADEMY, LIKE I MENTIONED THROUGH FEMA, AND IT'S A SEVEN WEEK PROGRAM WHERE YOU KIND OF TALK ABOUT DISASTER PREPAREDNESS AND NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS IN AN EMERGENCY. OUR PROGRAM, WE, WE, WE, WE STRUCTURED IT A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT JUST SO THAT WE COULD HAVE THAT ACCESSIBILITY TO EVERYBODY. SO WE HAVE A LEVEL ONE COURSE, WHICH IS JUST A THREE HOUR TRAINING THAT REALLY TOUCHES ON THE BIG THREE, MAKE A KIT, BUILD A PLAN AND BE INFORMED. SO AGAIN, WE'RE OFFERING THIS TO ANYBODY. IT'S A FREE TRAINING. THEN THEY MOVE ON TO LEVEL TWO IF THEY'RE INTERESTED. AND THAT'S WHERE THEY CAN BECOME A CERT VOLUNTEER. SO A CERT VOLUNTEER FOR THE CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS MEANS THAT THEY COULD BE CALLED UPON IF AN INCIDENT ARISES, AND WE'LL GET TO OUR ACTIVATIONS IN JUST A BIT. BUT FOR THIS YEAR, ALREADY IN SPRING OF 2026, WE'VE OFFERED THREE CERT CLASSES. OUR GOAL WITH ALL THESE LEVEL ONE CLASSES IS TO GO OUT IN THE COMMUNITY, SO WE DON'T HOLD THEM ALL IN ONE LOCATION. WE GO IN EACH WARD AND OFFER A CLASS AND ONE ESPECIALLY. THIS IN THE SPRING WAS SPANISH ONLY, SO THE WHOLE CLASS WAS TAUGHT IN SPANISH BY BEN, WHICH IS THE FIRST TIME WE WERE ABLE TO OFFER THAT SINCE HE IS BILINGUAL. SO THAT WAS AWESOME. WE DID FEEL FILL ALL SEATS FOR ALL OUR LEVEL ONE CLASSES. SO THERE IS A HIGH DEMAND AND WE DO HAVE A WAITING LIST FOR THIS CLASS AS WELL.

FOR SPRING OF 26, THE LEVEL TWO CLASS. SO THAT'S THE SIX WEEK. IT'S A LARGER COMMITMENT. BUT THAT'S WHEN PEOPLE ACTUALLY BECOME A CERT VOLUNTEER. AND WE DID GRADUATE 18 ADDITIONAL VOLUNTEERS THIS SPRING. SO WE ARE UP TO ABOUT 95 ACTIVE VOLUNTEERS SINCE FALL OF 2023.

NEXT ON THE SLIDE JUST SHOWS OUR LEVEL ONE TRAININGS TO DATE. SO AS I MENTIONED, WE TRY TO HOLD MULTIPLE LEVEL ONE CLASSES ALL ACROSS DIFFERENT WARDS. WE HELD 12 CLASSES TOTAL AND OVER 200 PEOPLE. WE'VE TRAINED IN THAT GENERAL PREPAREDNESS FOR LEVEL TWO TRAININGS. WE'VE DONE SIX CLASSES TO DATE. AND LIKE I MENTIONED, WE HAVE OVER 90 GRADUATES THAT ARE CERT VOLUNTEERS AND READY TO HELP. IF WE WERE TO HAVE AN INCIDENT, AS I MENTIONED, FOR ACTIVATIONS, WE HAVE ACTIVATED OUR CERT TEAM ONE TIME SO FAR IN MARCH OF 2024 FOR A WATER DISTRIBUTION EVENT. THERE WAS A WATER MAIN BREAK ON THE NORTHEAST SIDE, AND OUR CERT VOLUNTEERS ASSISTED WITH THAT. ASIDE FROM OUR ACTIVATIONS, WHICH ARE THE MORE FORMAL INCIDENT EMERGENCY RESPONSES, WE DO ENGAGE WITH COMMUNITY EVENTS. SO IN 2025, OUR CERT VOLUNTEERS

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WE HAD ONE IN JANUARY PARTNERING WITH THE GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS, AND THEN WE HAD ONE IN MARCH, PARTNERING WITH OUR GRAND RAPIDS VOLLEYBALL TEAM AS WELL. SO EXCITED TO GET OUT THERE HANDING OUT INFORMATION, SUPPLIES, EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS BACKPACKS. WE ALSO MEET THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS IN DIFFERENT AREAS. SO IN THE TOP RIGHT, YOU KNOW, WE GIVE A PRESENTATION TO TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. IT WAS AT BASICALLY AT AN AGING WORKSHOP, RIGHT? SO WE'RE TRYING TO ENGAGE WITH OUR COMMUNITY GROUPS. I WILL SAY, WE RARELY SAY NO TO ANY OF THESE REQUESTS, ONLY IF THERE'S A SCHEDULING CONFLICT OR AN EMERGENCY HAPPENING. BUT WE'RE ALWAYS WILLING TO SAY YES AND MEET PEOPLE OUT THERE. SO IN THE BOTTOM CENTER PICTURE, YOU CAN SEE WE HAVE STORYTIME IN THE PARK. THAT'S IN GARFIELD PARK IN THE LOWER RIGHT. WE GIVE A QUICK PRESENTATION FOR A CLEAN AIR DAY THAT'S ACTUALLY AT THE NEW MLK COMMUNITY CENTER FACILITY, BEAUTIFUL FACILITY.

SO IT WAS GREAT TO SEE INDIVIDUALS OUT THERE AS WELL AND JUST KIND OF PARTICIPATE IN THOSE. SO ALWAYS TRYING TO GET OUT, SHARE INFORMATION. YOU CAN SEE OUR PICTURE FROM THE TABLING EVENT THAT WE DO SOME OF THE TYPICAL INFORMATION THAT WE PROVIDE, SOME ABOUT CERT, AND THEN ALSO JUST ABOUT GENERAL EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND THEN TALKING ABOUT EMERGENCY ALERTS. YOU KNOW, WE HAVE ALMOST 16,000 TOTAL REGISTRATIONS FOR OUR EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM. IT'S AN OPTIONAL ENROLLMENT SYSTEM THAT PEOPLE CAN SIGN UP FOR, AND WE CAN PUSH OUT EMERGENCY ALERTS, WHETHER IT'S FOR SEVERE WEATHER OR ANY OTHER INCIDENT THAT MIGHT HAPPEN WITHIN THE CITY. JUST SINCE JANUARY 1ST, WHEN WE'VE REALLY LEANED INTO THESE EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS NIGHTS AND TRYING TO GET PEOPLE ENROLLED, WE'VE HAD OVER 1500 REGISTRATIONS, WHICH IS PRETTY IMPRESSIVE. SO WE'RE ALWAYS OUT THERE TRYING TO KIND OF GROW OUR NUMBERS AND JUST HELP PEOPLE REALIZE THAT BEING AWARE IS ONE OF THE FIRST STEPS THAT PEOPLE CAN TAKE TOWARD PREPARING FOR AN EMERGENCY. WE'VE ALSO DONE A NUMBER OF OUTREACH CAMPAIGNS. WE'RE ALWAYS POSTING ON SOCIAL MEDIA. I SHOULDN'T SAY WE BECAUSE I REALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND IT. SO INGRID IS OUR SOCIAL MEDIA GURU FOR OUR OFFICE PRODUCING VIDEOS.

WE COMMUNICATE AND WE COLLABORATE WITH OUR COMMUNICATIONS TEAM ON THOSE CONTINUING BUS ADS THAT YOU'LL SEE ON THE RAPID. SO REALLY JUST TRYING TO HAVE A WIDE AREA WHERE WE ARE IMPACTING INDIVIDUALS AND WHERE WE'RE OUT THERE, YOU KNOW, LETTING PEOPLE KNOW THAT REGISTERING FOR ALERTS IS PRETTY SIMPLE TO DO. WE'VE ALSO GONE THROUGH A LITTLE TRANSITION. WE'VE FOR OUR ALERT AND WARNING SYSTEM, WE'VE ACTUALLY TRANSITIONED OVER TO EVERBRIDGE. SO THAT JUST ALLOWS USERS WHO SIGN UP FOR THIS TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE CUSTOMIZATION, CUSTOMIZATION, AND I GUESS APPLICABILITY FOR WHAT THEY CAN SIGN UP FOR, RIGHT? SO THEY CAN PICK WHICH ALERTS THEY WANT TO RECEIVE, THEY CAN PICK WHEN THEY WANT TO RECEIVE THEM. SO IT'S JUST ALLOWS US TO KIND OF BETTER MESSAGE THE FOLKS IN OUR RESIDENTS AND OUR VISITORS WHO ARE IN THE CITY. SO HERE'S SOME EXAMPLES OF THE THINGS WE PUT OUT. WE PROVIDE REMINDERS FOR OUTDOOR WARNING SIRENS. OBVIOUSLY, WITH THE EXTREME HEAT WE'VE HAD THIS SUMMER, WE ALWAYS PUT THOSE OUT AS WELL. WE'VE HAD SOME FLOODING EVENTS IN THE SPRING, SO MAKING SURE WE PROVIDE THAT INFORMATION. AND THEN ALSO WE'RE CONNECTING INDIVIDUALS WITH EXTERNAL RESOURCES. YOU KNOW, WE WORK REALLY CLOSELY WITH TWO, ONE, ONE AND THE RED CROSS. SO MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE DIRECTING PEOPLE TO THOSE RESOURCES IN THE EVENT THAT THEY NEED THEM. AND AS WE KIND OF LOOK BACK AT WHAT WE DID, WE WANT TO, YOU KNOW, FOCUS ON WHERE WE'RE GOING IN THE FUTURE. AND WE'RE ALWAYS TRYING TO

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THEY'RE REALLY, YOU KNOW, FOCUSING ON EQUITY. I THINK THE SPANISH CERT LEVEL ONE COURSE IS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF THAT, SOMETHING THAT HADN'T BEEN PROVIDED BEFORE PARTNERING WITH A LOCAL CHURCH, YOU KNOW, PROVIDING IT ENTIRELY IN SPANISH, I THINK JUST HELPS US HAVE MORE INDIVIDUALS IN THE CITY WHO ARE RESILIENT AND READY AND PREPARED. WE ALSO LOOK AT OUR THE DIFFERENT SAFE COMMUNITY OBJECTIVES. YOU KNOW, WHAT WE'RE DOING ALIGNS WITH THREE OF THEM, RIGHT? MAKING SURE WE'RE GETTING PEOPLE ENROLLED IN OUR EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM AND CONTINUING OUR OEM ENGAGEMENTS, AND THEN ALSO CONTINUING TO PROMOTE OUR CERT PROGRAM, BOTH LEVEL ONE AND LEVEL TWO, KIND OF CONTINUING TO PROMOTE DIFFERENT WAYS TO REGISTER FOR OUR EMERGENCY ALERTS, CONTINUING TO MEET THE COMMUNITY WHERE THEY ARE, AND THEN JUST OUR SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN, RIGHT? WE HAVE A COUPLE POSTS EVERY WEEK, AND WE TYPICALLY TRY TO TAILOR THOSE TO WHAT IS HAPPENING EITHER WEATHER WISE OR JUST WITHIN THE COMMUNITY. SO REALLY EXCITED ABOUT WHAT WE'VE DONE SO FAR AND HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT ANYBODY MIGHT HAVE. THANKS A COUPLE THINGS QUICKLY. ONE, AN IDEA. I TALKED WITH ANOTHER CITY AND THEY HAVE A VOLUNTARY REGISTRATION PROGRAM FOR PEOPLE WHO SAY, PLEASE CONTACT ME IF THERE'S AN EMERGENCY BECAUSE I MIGHT NEED HELP. SO IT'S ONE THING TO TELL TO HAVE A, YOU KNOW, HEY, GET A WARNING SYSTEM THAT SAYS, THIS IS A THUNDERSTORM COMING. BUT IT'S NOT SAYING, DO YOU NEED HELP? AND SO THEY HAVE HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE, PARTICULARLY PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ON THAT LIST. BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S A POWER OUTAGE AND THEY CAN'T GET GROCERIES OR THE ELEVATOR STOPS WORKING IN THEIR BUILDING BECAUSE OF POWER OUTAGE, AND THEY NEED LIKE, SO THEY, THEY CAN, IT'S ALL VOLUNTARILY DRIVEN, BUT PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY CAN SIGN UP. IF YOU'VE ALREADY GOT THE CERT VOLUNTEERS, YOU'VE GOT A GROUP OF COMMUNITY MINDED PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD SOME TRAINING ON THIS. BUT IF YOU COULD START BUILDING NOT JUST A AS AN ALERT MODEL, BUT A, THESE PEOPLE WANT TO BE CHECKED IN ON A CHECK IN ON THESE PEOPLE LIKE, HEY, HOW ARE YOU DOING? I KNOW YOU'RE 85. THE POWER JUST WENT OUT. DO WE HAVE A HEAT PROBLEM IN YOUR APARTMENT? DO WE NEED TO GET YOU SOMEWHERE LIKE SOMEONE WHO CAN BE ASKING THOSE QUESTIONS? AND I KNOW ACTUALLY EAST HILLS, I THINK BASICALLY SORT OF DID A QUASI PROTOTYPE OF THIS ON SNOW SHOVELING. THEY JUST FOUND PEOPLE IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD WHO NEEDED THEIR SIDEWALK SHOVELED. SO THAT'S THE FIRST THING I'D LOVE TO SEE THAT DEVELOPED. I DON'T THINK I THINK IT'S TOTALLY DOABLE. AND IT WOULD BE IT WOULD SORT OF SHIFT THE PARADIGM ON THIS. THE SECOND THING IS KIND OF I MEAN, LIKE, IT'S GREAT THAT WE GET THIS PRESENTATION AND IT'S TIMELY, BUT NOTHING IN HERE ABOUT SMOKE. SO THE FIRST TIME WE HAD A SMOKE EMERGENCY, I REMEMBER GOING OUTSIDE AND THINKING IT'S FOGGY AND THEN THINKING, I WONDER WHO'S BARBECUING? AND THEN REALIZING, OH, IT'S THE ENTIRE STATE IS BARBECUING. SO THIS LAST. AND WHEN YOU HAVE IT HAPPEN, ONCE YOU'RE LIKE, THAT'S NEVER HAPPENED IN MY LIFE. WELL, THEN A COUPLE YEARS LATER IT HAPPENS AGAIN AND IT'S WORSE. YOU'RE LIKE, ALL RIGHT, IF THIS IS THE NEW NORMAL, THIS PROBABLY ISN'T GOING TO BE THE LAST FOREST FIRE IN NORTHERN CANADA THAT'S GOING TO IMPACT GRAND RAPIDS. YOU KNOW, I SPENT THE LAST FOUR DAYS LOOKING AT ALL THESE STUDIES AND LIKE, OH, TODAY IN GRAND RAPIDS, IT'S LIKE EVERYBODY'S SMOKING A PACK OF CIGARETTES. WELL, IT'S I MEAN, THERE'S LAYERS TO THIS, RIGHT? FIRST OF ALL, KIDS ARE WAY, WAY MORE VULNERABLE. SO MY SON WAS FREAKING OUT ABOUT MY GRANDKIDS.

SO FIGURING OUT HOW WE CAN ACTUALLY GET MESSAGING OUT ON KEEP YOUR KIDS INSIDE. BUT ALSO THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE IT INSIDE. PEOPLE WHO ARE LEAVING WHO ARE, YOU KNOW, HAVE TO LEAVE A SHELTER. AND SO ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, I'VE HAD PEOPLE ASKING ME, WHAT ARE WE DOING FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN'T AFFORD THE $2 FOR AN N95? I HAD AN N95. I WROTE IT YESTERDAY. I MEAN, I USED IT OUTSIDE YESTERDAY, BUT IF YOU CAN'T AFFORD THEM, I THINK WE REALLY THIS IS THE NEW FRONTIER. AND WE MAY JUST MAY AS WELL ADMIT LIKE, LET'S LEARN FROM THIS ONE AND START BUILDING SOME REAL. I MEAN, I THINK ACTUALLY A SMOKE A SMOKE THING AFFECTS ME A WHOLE LOT MORE THAN POTENTIAL FLOODING BECAUSE I LIVE IN HERITAGE HILL. IT'S GOT THE WORD HILL IN IT. YOU KNOW, I'M NOT GOING TO GET MAJOR FLOODS, BUT I AM AN ASTHMATIC AND LIKE, I DON'T WANT TO LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE WE DON'T HAVE. AND I START WONDERING, LIKE, DO WE HAVE HEPA FILTERS ON ALL THE ALL THE STUFF IN THIS BUILDING? SO I THINK THERE'S A LOT WE BETTER, WE BETTER REALLY, REALLY START THINKING, HOW DO WE LET PEOPLE KNOW WHERE MASKS ARE AVAILABLE? HOW DO WE GET WARNINGS OUT TO PEOPLE? BUT THEN THINGS LIKE, OKAY, WHAT IF YOU'RE A SINGLE MOM AND YOU GOT KIDS AT HOME AND YOU GOT TO GO GROCERY SHOPPING, YOU DON'T TAKE YOUR KIDS OUT IN THAT SMOKE. SO DO WE HAVE LIKE, THERE'S, THERE'S A WHOLE LOT TO TALK ABOUT HERE. AND I'M NOT, I JUST THINK THAT THIS IS MAYBE THE BIGGEST THING IN THIS AFFECTED MY LIFE IN EMERGENCIES. AND IT'S NOT EVEN ON OUR LIST. YEAH. IT IS. IT IS IMPORTANT.

AND I DID LIKE TO YOUR POINT, A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN EXPRESSING SOME OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH CONCERNS OVER THE PAST WEEK. AND IF BACK ON SLIDE FOUR, I DO BELIEVE WE DID HIGHLIGHT

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YEAH, I THINK THAT'S A GREAT COMMENT. AND, YOU KNOW, LIKE YOU SAID, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WAS UNPRECEDENTED. YOU KNOW, JUST WORKING WITH OUR OUR COLLEAGUES OVER AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AND AT EAGLE WITH THE STATE, YOU KNOW, OUR PREVIOUS RECORD FOR, YOU KNOW, AIR QUALITY WAS AROUND 340 OR 350. AND WE HAD, I THINK, 616. SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE HADN'T REALLY SEEN BEFORE. AND SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I WILL SPEAK, YOU KNOW, TO WHAT THE CITY MANAGER SAID, WE WERE ALREADY IN COMMUNICATIONS WITH COMMUNITY, WITH THE COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT. WE HAD POSTS READY TO GO. WE ADAPTED THOSE REALLY QUICKLY TO FOCUS ON AIR QUALITY. ONE OF THE THINGS IS, YOU KNOW, WE HAD TWO INCIDENTS HAPPENING AT THE SAME TIME, AND THIS IS WHAT WE EXPRESSED WHEN WE WERE ASKED TO DO SOME INTERVIEWS AS WELL. WE HAD AN EXTREME HEAT EVENT AND AN AIR QUALITY EVENT. AND I THINK PEOPLE WERE FOCUSED ON THE AIR QUALITY, BUT THE EXTREME HEAT WAS STILL PRESENT. SO PROVIDING INFORMATION ON LIKE THOSE COOLING CENTERS THAT WE HAVE CAN PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR BOTH OF THOSE. BUT I MEAN, YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IS GOING TO BE INCORPORATED INTO OUR PLANS MOVING FORWARD, BECAUSE IT IS LIKELY TO BE MORE FREQUENT. AND I HAVE THE SLIDE UP, YOU KNOW, PARTICIPATING IN THE CLEAR THE AIR AIR QUALITY AWARENESS EVENT OVER AT MLK COMMUNITY CENTER IS SOMETHING THAT KIND OF GOES RIGHT ALONG WITH WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. I DO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO LOOK AT IN THE FUTURE. WHAT RESOURCES ARE WE PROVIDING? IS THIS SOMETHING WHERE WE WOULD HAVE N95 MASKS TO PROVIDE FOR CERTAIN VULNERABLE POPULATIONS OR AS CERTAIN LOCATIONS? THAT IS SOMETHING THAT MAYBE NEEDS A LITTLE BIT MORE PLANNING, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE THIS IS GOING TO HAPPEN AGAIN. WE JUST DON'T KNOW WHEN. SO I THINK THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD LOOK INTO, RIGHT? I MEAN, I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS IF EVEN IF WE COULD JUST SAY TO OUR TO OUR CONSTITUENTS, HEY, EVERY FIRE STATION HAS N95 MASKS AVAILABLE FOR THE PUBLIC. WELL, EVERYBODY KNOWS WHERE THEIR LOCAL FIRE STATION IS. AND IF YOU CAN GET THEM ON AMAZON, GREAT. I JUST ORDERED ANOTHER 100 MYSELF. BUT IF YOU DON'T HAVE, YOU KNOW, IF YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO BUY 100 OF THEM ON, ON AMAZON, THEN KNOWING, OH MY GOSH, I DON'T HAVE ANY IN THE HOUSE. LIKE I GAVE AWAY MY LAST 100 TO THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT BECAUSE I DIDN'T THINK WE WERE GOING TO HAVE A HEALTH AND ANY MORE NEED FOR AN 85 AFTER COVID. AND, YOU KNOW, SO ALL OF A SUDDEN, HERE WE ARE AGAIN NEEDING N95. SO BASICALLY, AS IF WE CAN ALL KNOW, LIKE, ALL RIGHT, WHEREVER ELSE YOU CAN GO, YOU CAN GO TO A FIRE STATION THAT WOULD, FOR EXAMPLE, I'M NOT COMMITTING YOU CITY MANAGER, BUT LIKE THAT WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, THE NICE THING ABOUT FIRE STATIONS IS THEY'RE FULL OF NICE FIREFIGHTERS AND PEOPLE KNOW WHERE THEY ARE. EVERYBODY LOVES THE FIREFIGHTERS. I CAN ANSWER ANY OTHER OTHER QUESTIONS OR ANY OTHER THOUGHTS THAT PEOPLE HAD, I THINK. COMMISSIONER, THANK YOU. GREAT TO MEET YOU BOTH IN PERSON. THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK. AMAZING REACH, AMAZING WORK. I, I'M VERY INTERESTED IN JOINING ONE OF THESE WORKSHOPS BECAUSE I DON'T FEEL READY WHEN SOMETHING HAPPENS, BUT I'VE, I'VE JUST JUST ZONING IN OR AND ECHOING THE POINTS AROUND THE EMERGENCY ALERTS. I ACTUALLY SIGNED UP FOR THAT WHEN I BECAME A COMMISSIONER. AND IT'S BEEN SUCH A GREAT RESOURCE. AND SO, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE 200,000 RESIDENTS IN THE CITY, A MILLION IN OUR METRO AREA, AND 16,000 IN THE TEXT SIGN UP. SO I WOULD LOVE TO GET THAT NUMBER UP. AND I THINK THERE'S SOME REALLY CREATIVE WAYS THAT THAT WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO DO THAT.

AND I JUST WANT TO ECHO THE MAYOR'S SENTIMENT AROUND ALERTS, BUT ALSO ESPECIALLY BECAUSE YOU MENTIONED THIS NEW EVERBRIDGE SUITE. YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S AN ALERT AROUND EXTREME HEAT, DO YOU NEED RESOURCES TO WIRE IN? YES. ALL RIGHT. HERE'S HERE'S THE LINK TO THE LIST. I THINK THERE'S SOME REALLY COOL THINGS TO, TO MOVE FROM ALERT TO, TO KIND OF MORE INFORMATIONAL KIND OF ACTIONABLE THINGS AS WE MOVE FORWARD. SO JUST KUDOS FOR THE WORK. THANK YOU. I JUST WANT TO ALSO DO A PLUG FOR, AND AGAIN, THINKING COLLABORATIVELY ABOUT WHAT ORGANIZATIONS ARE DOING COMPLIMENTARY WORK. I'M THINKING ABOUT FRIENDS OF GRAND RAPIDS PARKS AND THEIR FOCUS ON GROWING OUR TREE CANOPY AND TAKING CARE OF OUR TREES. AND SO AGAIN, THINKING CREATIVELY,

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SO JUST KUDOS. THANK YOU. OH, AND THEN THERE'S ONE OTHER THING I WANTED TO MENTION. YOU KNOW, AS THE OFFICE OF OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, YOU KNOW, PART OF YOUR WORK OBVIOUSLY IS HOW YOU RESPOND AND HOW YOU RECOVER FROM EMERGENCIES. AND SO WE'VE BEEN TALKING HERE ABOUT THE MENTAL, EMOTIONAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL RECOVERY THAT COMES AFTER THESE EVENTS. I MEAN, I KNOW YOU BOTH ARE WELL VERSED AT AFTER AN EXTREME EVENT, WHETHER TORNADO FLOODING, LIKE THERE IS SOME PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS THAT CAN REALLY STAY WITH RESIDENTS, WHETHER IT'S ENVIRONMENTAL WEATHER OR EVEN KIND OF MAN MADE, YOU KNOW, EVENTS LIKE COMMUNITY VIOLENCE. AND SO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE US BEGIN TO MOVE IN THAT DIRECTION OF A REALLY HOLISTIC APPROACH TO EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND RECOVERY THAT INCLUDES NOT JUST THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT, BUT THE CARE OF THE PEOPLE TO MAKE SURE THEY HAVE THE RESOURCES TO MOVE FORWARD AND RECOVER. AND THERE'S SOME REALLY INTERESTING RESOURCES LIKE PSYCHOLOGICAL FIRST AID AND THINGS LIKE THAT THAT MIGHT BE ABLE TO COMPLEMENT SOMETHING LIKE A CERT PROGRAM WITH VOLUNTEERS. BUT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THAT. WE PUT SOME MONEY ASIDE IN THIS BUDGET PROCESS. AND SO HOPEFULLY YOU ALL ARE CUED INTO THAT CONVERSATION AND HOW WE MIGHT IMPLEMENT THAT. YEAH, WE'D BE HAPPY TO LEAN INTO THAT. AND I, IT, IT'S REALLY A GREAT POINT THAT YOU BRING UP. YOU KNOW, PART OF THE CERT PROGRAMING IS THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DISASTERS. THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS WE TALK ABOUT IN OUR LEVEL TWO COURSE. AND SO ACKNOWLEDGING THAT IT'S NOT JUST A PHYSICAL, STRUCTURAL DAMAGE, THERE'S A HUGE EMOTIONAL TOLL LEFT ON, YOU KNOW, DISASTER SURVIVORS. AND SO WE DEFINITELY LEANING INTO IT. AND I LOVE THE IDEA OF SAYING, OKAY, NOW WHAT? YOU HAVE THE INFORMATION WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, THE GUIDANCE, RIGHT? THE AWARENESS. SO WHAT ARE THE RESOURCES THAT WE'RE BRINGING TO BEAR? AND I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, YOU KNOW, EVENTUALLY AS WE MOVE DOWN THE ROAD, THINGS LIKE COMMUNITY RESOURCE HUBS WOULD BE GREAT OR RESILIENCE HUBS, RIGHT? HAVING THOSE WITH RESOURCES AND, YOU KNOW, KIND OF SUPPORT THAT WE COULD PROVIDE IN THOSE DIFFERENT LOCATIONS, OBVIOUSLY, WE NEED TO SEE WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE, BUT THOSE ARE JUST KIND OF THINGS THAT ARE KIND OF DOWN THAT PATH. BEFORE WE'VE BEEN HERE ABOUT A YEAR, A YEAR, A YEAR. YEAH. WELL, GOOD. THANK YOU. HE'S DOING A GREAT JOB. HIS SPECIALTY HAS BEEN RECOVERY PREVIOUSLY, BUT I JUST WANTED TO REMIND THE COMMISSION, AS COMMISSIONER PERDUE SAID, WE TALKED ABOUT THESE TRAUMA INFORMED RESOURCES AND IT EXPANDS MORE THAN ONE INCIDENT, MORE THAN ONE DEPARTMENT. AND SO NOW THAT WE HAVE MORE CERTAINTY AROUND THE STATE FUNDING, WE'RE STARTING TO ROLL THAT OUT ALONG WITH THE COMMUNITY ENGAGED PROCESS FOR SOME OF THOSE RESOURCES. AND SO HOPEFULLY WE WILL BE ABLE TO COME BACK FOR AND WITH AN UPDATE IN A MONTH OR SO. I JUST WANT TO GIVE YOU THE OPPORTUNITY, SINCE YOU HAVE THE MOMENT, WHAT IS THE WEBSITE? HOW DO YOU SIGN UP FOR THESE ALERTS? DO YOUR LITTLE PROMO, LITTLE PROMO. ALL RIGHT, LET ME PUT MY PROMO HAT. DO YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE CITY OF GRAND? YOU KNOW, SORRY, I DIDN'T KNOW IF YOU WANTED THE VOICE OR NOT, BUT ON OUR ON THE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT WEBSITE, WE HAVE WHERE YOU CAN SIGN UP AND REGISTER FOR EMERGENCY. I KNOW WAYNE LOVE THAT ONE. YOU CAN SIGN UP AND REGISTER FOR EMERGENCY ALERTS. YOU CAN ALSO TEXT GRAND RAPIDS TO 888777. IT'LL PROMPT YOU TO CREATE YOUR PROFILE ON THE EVERBRIDGE SUITE, SO REALLY APPRECIATE IT. WE HAVE QR CODES AND LITTLE KIND OF QUARTER SHEET CARDS THAT WE HAND OUT WITH MAGNETS. PEOPLE CAN PUT ON THEIR REFRIGERATORS AT ALL OF OUR DIFFERENT ENGAGEMENT EVENTS. SO REALLY JUST HAVING MULTIPLE WAYS FOR PEOPLE TO SIGN UP. GREAT. THANKS. THANKS FOR THE PRESENTATION. ALL RIGHT, ON TO CLOSED SESSION. WE'RE ADJOURNED.

* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.