Revised Council Work Session Meeting

0:00Mr. Chair, we're adjourned from this limited CRA meetings. The time is over to you, sir. We are convening as the council now. So change those hats again. So thank you, everyone, for joining us today for the work session for March 24, 2026. It's 2.19 right now, that are earlier, which is great because we have a lot of items to discuss.

0:27The first item of the agenda is an informational item for the community and environmental impact studies for the Inland Port Authority. We're going to have Austin Kimmall, a council policy analyst, joining us at the table, David Lyons, Director of Sustainability, Stephen Smith, UEPA, Associate Vice President of Regional Project Area Development, and Nicole McDermard, WSB, USA Vice President.

1:01And Austin, it's your time to give us a short introduction. Thank you. Great, thanks. I just have a brief introduction before turning it over to the others at the table. This is a briefing on a study examining the current development trends and potential outcomes for the future of the Inland Port within Salt Lake City.

1:21The study has two parts. First is a baseline study, which provides an understanding of the current development trends under the area's existing conditions, and a preferred scenario study, which builds upon the baseline, and identifies investment in policy considerations to achieve the best outcomes in the area. Policy questions are found on page two of the staff memo, and with that, I will turn it over to Debbie Lyons from Sustainability.

1:47Hi, it's good to be here with you. Debbie Lyons, Director of Sustainability. Just to explain a little bit of why I'm at the table with these folks, the Mayor's Office asked me to work with them. I'm on the Northwest Quadrant Review Committee with several stakeholders, and I was asked to work with them on this study, and I had the privilege of meeting with them almost biweekly for the past year.

2:12So, I appreciate the open and honest conversations that we've had in those meetings, as well as the ability to just insert the perspectives and the feedback that I've gotten through working on the climate plan. We've done a lot of community engagement through the climate plan work that we've done, and being able to elevate some of those thoughts and feedback that I've gotten from community, as well as connecting them with stakeholders, both internally with our city departments, they met with several department and division directors, discovering plans, ordinances, rules, and things that the city has adopted, as well as other resources that are out there.

2:58So, they combined both the written policy documents, as well as that community perspective and gathering information for their baseline study. I also connected them with external partners that we've worked with, with the Salt Lake County Health Department and the State University, our Environmental Justice Resident Committee that has been helping us with the climate plan.

3:21And so, just pointing them in the directions of those community groups have been very active in the space. And then just advising on community engagement and where and how and when events are happening in the community that they could plug into. So, that was kind of my role. And then also just serving as the conduit to get the information back to all of you and to our Northwest Quadrant Committee.

3:48So, with that, I will turn the time over to Steven. Thank you. Thanks, Debbie. I really appreciate it. And then I want to say thank you so much for all of your help with us and really helping us engage with the community in a very meaningful way. So, thank you for your time today, council members. My name's Steven Smith.

4:07I'm the regional lead for the Northwest Quadrant Project Area for the Utah-Inland Port Authority. This has been a very gratifying process over the last year for us to be a part of. Me personally as a Salt Lake City resident and also overseeing the Northwest Quadrant being able to engage with my Westside neighbors and being able to help drive, I think, great outcomes for this project area has been extremely fulfilling for me.

4:35We already went through just a quick history here, but just as a reminder, this was outlined in our previous amendment, number one to the inter-local agreement, outlined the need to do these studies. And so, we engaged WSP. Last year, we actually signed the agreement to start the studies a year ago today to the very day.

4:56So, it's been a year-long process to move through this.

5:03With that, before I kind of turn it over to Nicole, the initial baseline study again really looked at those initial conditions in the Northwest Quadrant and those surrounding neighborhoods. The preferred scenarios really took those findings and helped us identify what are the ways that we want to see tax increment being utilized was the best investments there.

5:26And also come up with some policy recommendations, both for the Port, both for the city or elsewhere, that really kind of help ensure that those things were maximizing those opportunities and capitalizing on those opportunities. So, with that, I do want to turn the time over to Nicole McDermott, who will provide a little bit of background and context on both of the studies.

5:46Thanks, Steven. Thanks, Debbie. Members Council, thanks for having me here today. So, as Steven said, I'm Nicole McDermott. I'm with WSP, so I was the consultant project manager on this project. And I want to provide a little bit of context and overview just of the process that we went through with this study. So, we can go to the next slide.

6:04The UIPA jurisdictional land covers approximately 16,000 acres in northwest Salt Lake City. It also includes parts of northern West Valley City and Magna City, but for this study, in particular, we were focused on the portion of the jurisdictional land that is within Salt Lake City limits. So, that's about 12,000 acres.

6:23Next slide. I really want to start with an overview of the community engagement process, because that was really integral to the entire plan, understanding the community priorities, the needs and existing conditions really began with our community engagement process. And so, an initial step in that engagement was an online survey to gain an understanding of the community's familiarity with UIPA, just have a baseline of what they understood about UIPA, key concerns, and then priorities for future development in the northwest quadrant as well.

6:56So, the survey ran from June through October of 2025, and UIPA and city staff were instrumental in getting the word out about that survey, attending community events, and also just promoting the project in general and collecting community input through those events. We also participated in meetings with the Northwest Quadrant Review Group and hosted technical workshops specific to health and transportation.

7:19So, we engaged local health and transportation experts to understand existing conditions related to transportation and health within the Northwest Quadrant. And then at the end of the baseline study, we hosted two community open houses, where we presented findings from the baseline and asked participants to weigh in on recommendations for the preferred scenario.

7:42So, next slide, I'll go over a few key kind of takeaways from the community engagement as well. So, through this process, we heard a lot about environmental concerns, the need to preserve wetlands, address air pollution, improved water quality. We also heard concerns related to public health disparities that exist in Westside neighborhoods, the need for improved public safety and additional trans-adoptions, and the need for additional workforce development in the area.

8:07So, you'll see a connection to all of those items in the recommendations that Stephen will present in a moment. So, next slide. In addition to the community engagement, the baseline study, as Stephen said it, it was really about existing conditions. So, we compiled existing reports and data to synthesize various data points into a comprehensive view of existing conditions in the Northwest Quadrant.

8:31So, we looked at existing plans from the city, from UIPA, environmental data from the Department of Environmental Quality and Fish and Wildlife. We also looked at census data to inform demographics and jobs information, and then transportation information from U.UTA Salt Lake and Wasatch for Regital Count. Next slide.

8:52So, again, for this process, just to give a visual to the process, you know, we took the baseline findings, provided that provided our key findings and opportunities, and then that helped us establish those preferred scenario recommendations, which is really what Stephen will focus on in a moment. Next slide. And so, to wrap up this process overview, I've got a couple of slides here that really show similar materials to what we presented at the community hope at house last November.

9:19So, these slides show sample findings and opportunities that further demonstrate kind of how the baseline results, including that community engagement, resulted in opportunities for future investments. So, for example, the community clearly stated, again, the importance of protecting wetlands. The data showed need for water quality improvements, both of which result in opportunities for UIPA and the city and others to partner on future recommendations for use of the tax differential.

9:49Next slide. And then an example related to transportation for the additional transit service that, again, was identified as an opportunity through community engagement and through the data that we found, there's opportunities for partnerships with UTA and van pool, for van pool or other on-demand transit services. So, those are just a couple of examples.

10:11Stephen will run through more details of all the records. All right. Thanks, Nicole. And on the next few slides, if we want to advance forward, we'll review high level overview of these recommendations for you, but within your council materials and in the final study, we have a much more detailed matrix that outlines all of the recommendations here.

10:36For immediate priorities, though, I want to call out that we've chosen really to focus on things that have a clear line of implementation. I think that's really important. These are things that there's existing programs. There's already existing organizations that we could tie into already momentum that maybe needs some additional funding help where we can see some immediate benefit from that.

11:01I think a great example of that is the train flow program. And we appreciate council member Puyi cluing us in on that because that was a really a great opportunity for us to get involved. And we've kept that as a recommendation on here, by the way, for the future, but those are the kind of programs that we want to see where we can help impact immediately.

11:23To help formulate those recommendations, we've spent the last several months meeting with a number of groups. Again, thanks to Debbie for a lot of the introductions here, but that included Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City School District, University Neighborhood Partners, Salt Lake County Health Department, UTA, various city departments, and many others, really to help us hone in on what these recommendations should look like.

11:46So for the preferred scenario investments, we have a couple here that we've already talked about with the city and we wanted to make sure included, and that's partnering with DNR to support great Salt Lake wetland conservation, as well as the funding for public safety. So those are included. We've had a number of discussions around that already.

12:07But in addition to that, working with Salt Lake City's water usage assessment program, obviously very critical right now that we have some ties into water conservation, working with community organizations to help address health-related disparities on the West Side, providing a perfect portion of tax differential to support educational opportunities and workforce training opportunities.

12:31And there's a lot of great programs out there that would be extremely beneficial to our West Side residents to get tied into, ultimately, to help ensure the wonderful jobs that we're trying to create out in the Northwest Quadrant, and they have access to those. Following that same kind of thinking, providing a portion of tax differential to either van pool or on-demand transit, something along those lines to really help fill in that gap right now that we have between the West Side neighborhoods, the Northwest Quadrant from a transit perspective.

13:03So those are really a good outline of the priority investments. And then if we move to the next slide, we will talk a little bit about the priority policy actions. And I'll say at a high level, you'll notice that a lot of these really center around UIPA property tax rebate incentives and how we evolve those and advance those to make sure that they follow along with kind of the similar things that we're looking at from the investment side.

13:33So that would be looking at providing maybe an additional incentive to those companies that are newer, expanding for water efficiency, both interior and for their landscaping. And we recognize there's a lot of opportunity for that. Truck parking has been a longstanding issue. In fact, I was hired on to tackle this five years ago and it is an extremely challenging problem, mainly in terms of land availability for these kind of things.

14:01But we wanna continue to work through those. But we also have policy recommendations that potentially would help alleviate some of those situations, things like ensuring as development happens that adequate parking, it comes along with that. Pretty simple things, but also maybe parking enforcement down the line when we can get some more parking areas available.

14:22Looking at sustainable building practices, things like dark skyliding, we think those are important as part of those incentives. We also wanna continue to work with the International Airport on cargo efficiency and some of you may have seen the report that came out about a year ago. Salt Lake City International is very underutilized from a cargo perspective and a lot of that cargo that could go on air, goes out of this market on trucks.

14:47And then it flies out from LA or Denver where it could go out of this airport and save all that truck traffic. So those are the kind of policy actions that we're looking at. And then if you go to the next slide, we have some long-term recommendations as well. We wanna continue to provide support for rail crossing improvements.

15:03Again, things like train fell, continue to support that. We recognize that that's a step in the right direction is probably not the whole solve for that. Still a major problem. And then we also wanna keep some for the North Temple Landfill remediation and making sure that we've got some funding available if we go beyond what we have built in for the contingency of that.

15:26We think that's a really important environmental component and the cleanup out there really needs a lot of support. So we wanna keep that there, but there's no immediate need for that right now. So with that, that really kind of wraps up those recommendations, but I do wanna talk about next steps if we go to the next slide and how we look at this.

15:44So obviously we expect to implement these as much as possible later this year. And again, it kind of comes down to the outcome of the next amendment, how that's laid out. And then ultimately what we decide collectively is are the priorities. But aside from determining the funding, we wanna continue to engage with the Westside community.

16:09We had, as Nicole outlined, a really busy summer last year being at community events, doing workshops, having those open houses. Those were really great opportunities for us. We wanna continue that rhythm as we go forward. So working with councils, local councils, getting out to those events to table, continue to provide updates on an annual basis of how these recommendations are getting implemented and how they're benefiting Westside communities.

16:42So we do intend to do that as we continue through this process. So with that, I wanna thank you for your time and we'll take any questions. Council members, that's what we're doing.

16:57Thank you very much, appreciate that presentation. And the work on this, I know it's been a long time in coming, probably six years since when we first had this discussion about this, but it's appreciated. And I really love the in-depth study and the baseline. And I'm glad we're at this point now. And a lot of recommendations are, I really appreciate.

17:21I have two areas, transportation and the water. On the transportation side of the house, you got a lot of great recommendations. I don't see any dollars there. So, and I realize that that's not the focus of the study, which is not tell you how much money, but how we get that money. Because the Westside is, we always concern ourselves about transportation, but part of that's because of the air quality.

17:45And we didn't need a study to tell us that we need more public transportation out there, but it's nice that we have a study that tells us we need that. And it would be nice to have more than just the rideshare and vans, because that doesn't really do the full breadth of it. And so, how does this plan take us to the point where we're lobbying our state and our feds to get more buses and increase the frequencies of the tracks and make that connection from the Westside to the Eastside across the great divide?

18:17So, it's a great question. And I'm glad you brought that up because this seeks to say, okay, how do we close the existing gap that's there? We actually are running in the process of running another study that's a transportation study for this area. And we are looking at that in depth, and that has state level partners, that has WFRC included in it.

18:40City is part of that, UTA is part of that conversation. So, we are looking at that from a larger level to say, okay, what are the long term needs for transit? How do we build out that system? What does that look like? And then, hopefully finding the funding through that, right? But we have to really paint that picture of the gaps through this entire process.

19:03So, this one seeks to kind of address, I think, the more immediate and community focusing issue, that study will look at the whole, the big picture. I appreciate it, because I also, I like to study, and again, you have to have a boundary and you have your jurisdictional boundary on the rail crossings. But then the rail crossings continue on, there's eight more crossings as you go through Salt Lake City, and that 35% increase in freight is gonna impact, not just your jurisdictional area, but the entire city.

19:33So, again, really need to promote and drive that it's not just a jurisdictional issue, it's a city wide issue on that transportation. Yeah. The second, and I appreciate that, because we can't afford it, Salt Lake City. It's gotta be a state or federal funding on that side. But this is also a state project. It's not just a Salt Lake City thing.

20:00Second thing is on the water. Again, I love that we have these incentives. How can we make the incentives a little bit more forceful? And I'm just gonna be blunt. How do you just turn off all outdoor sprinklers in the area? You know, I know it's not, it's private property, but boy, without the Great Salt Lake, the private property's not gonna be worth much.

20:20So, how do we incentivize that side of the house? And I'm looking at the sustainability director, and she's got her finger on the mic.

20:29This is a conversation that we've had with Laura Brieper for an over again, and how do we use our regulatory tools in the city to get what we want? And with this study, we looked at sort of that incentive side, as you mentioned. And there's a lot of opportunity there with existing programs and outreach that we can do with businesses, just to educate them on what their piece of the pie is, to help save water, but definitely we can look at, with Laura, some of that regulatory side of things, and what the city has ability to do.

21:01All right, I appreciate that. Again, how do we incentivize it to much more of the fact that it actually gets done? Just like, I remember six years ago, everyone said that there are roofs for solar power ready, and I said, every roof is solar power ready. It's flat, but I don't see many solar panels out there. Again, it's great to have a word.

21:23I'd like to have some meat behind that word so we can actually get something done there. So appreciate the effort and appreciate the study. I'm preaching the choir as far as I know the director is here, so and so. But thank you very much. Thank you, Council Member. Council Member Pietro. Hi, I want to make sure everyone knows, the port is like the missing community council on the west side now.

21:51No matter what we do, they are there. If it's a community festival, if it's anything that we're doing. So I really want to thank you for taking seriously your responsibility to be responsive to our neighbors and to protect them, and I'm very appreciative. Ben knows and already has texted me about it. I have been asking since I got there for some sort of truck parking that does not, number one, require truck cabs to idle, pushing PM 2.5 into my neighborhoods because truckers deserve climate control and my neighbors deserve clean air.

22:26There are technologies available to help us accomplish both of those in this fall squarely in a logistics mandate. So I'm super excited for us to get creative around that, but I think there's other things. For years I've been talking, as Council Member Dugan said, that not just doing rooftop solar, but the possibility that we could innovate.

22:44Rocky Mountain Power is gonna hate me saying this, because we've already pushed them too far this year. Like a municipal energy district with the excess being created, Amazon is already creating surplus energy at one warehouse. We know it's a possibility. And with the water issues that we're seeing, there are need to be wise in all other ways is going to become to the forefront.

23:03And I really want us to push on this. And then the last thing I'm always asking for, and I'm so thankful that you're responsive, but it's just clearly a place where I want us to grow into, is the way we protect my neighbors economically. We are passing out tax incentives in this state like candy. And we are not a desperate girl with no prom date.

23:25We do not have to act like there are social norms against us. We are now a place that people want to do business. Thank you, thanks in a small part to your work. So as we're doing this, I would like to see economic incentives reserved for businesses that don't just come and make one-time capital investments and increase property tax, but commit to over a period of time protecting the workers who are hired from this local economy and make sure that our neighbors will be able to afford a starter home after 10 years of working someplace.

24:00No matter what we do, $450,000 for a starter home is still unattainable to people who are maxing out at $20 an hour in these fields. And we are offering great things to these multinational corporations who are coming in to do business here. We're offering them an beautiful place to do business. We're offering them affordable rates, tax rebates.

24:21We're offering them a skilled workforce and infrastructure that is improving every day. They owe us a workforce that isn't stuck renting and isn't stuck not being able to have the economic mobility that previous generations did. So as we move forward, those are the other things that I'm looking for. I'm so thankful, this is, I always joke that I think I have more influence on this board without a vote than I do on some of the boards where I do have a vote.

24:46And I'm so thankful that you all let me say these things repeatedly to you on the public record and private, I use more colorful language. But I'm very thankful to you all. And Debbie, thank you for always advocating for the city and being the consummate to sustainability professional that you are no matter where you show up.

25:04Cause remember Carlson. I wanna say thank you to all who participated in putting together a very thorough study, reading through that study. I think if anybody hadn't been aware of the stark realities of what's going on on the West Side and systemic disinvestment and the real challenge there, it was very clear and laid out.

25:23And so I appreciate the documented approach that you took in that regard. I think my question is really talking about the sample opportunities that came up and that you're thinking of. And really would be interested to hear what might be incentives or ideas that you're thinking about to attract not only those low barrier entry jobs, but also those higher wage jobs to promote that economic mobility that Council Mayor Pietro was mentioning.

25:54Yeah, I'll take a minute to address that. So in our current project area plan and the way that we've laid it out, we only incentivize advanced manufacturing, aerospace and defense life sciences, green energy, things like that. So no warehouse and distribution is incentivized in our current project area plan. So we try and focus on those industries that kind of naturally have that higher wage capability.

26:22Now there are barriers to entry potentially in those. And so through this recommendation around especially the workforce training, that's what we're trying to help address is how do we get to that next level? Because a lot of times with these industries that come in, we do see opportunities that you don't need a PhD to be able to get into them.

26:43You need some skills based training. We look at the model like Stobler Rail has out there where they start apprenticeships with juniors and in high school, but they also have opportunities with Salt Lake Community College to bring people in and skill them up to be welders or electrical engineers or do things like that.

27:01We want to see that model be more accessible broadly. So that's really what we're trying to address there, I think, to the question. You're welcome.

27:12Thank you. I was excited to read the study and the conclusions that came from it. So only I had a quick question and I appreciate the Indian Port support for a training fall. It's been, hopefully we can see more of that soon from your commitment with the city to keep expanding on that. I'm hoping it is one of my personal goals that we see every crossing with one of those on multiple screens so people can actually plan better and the impacts of the trains are minimized.

27:51So you put that in the long-term considerations. Explain to me a little bit what the differences between the immediate, why wouldn't that be an immediate sense that is a program that is sort of already sort of happening? And this may be where my misunderstanding is with Train Foe the last time I engaged with them, they had kind of a plan in where they were going with that.

28:14And my understanding is there weren't immediate plans to expand beyond that at this point. And so that's just a respect of saying, hey, when that comes to be, when there are other opportunities for that, we would like to have that be a priority. So it's really just dependent on how quickly they move forward with that, that we wanted to leave this in here, but we didn't have an immediate ask like we did last time to say, hey, we need $150,000 to make this happen.

28:41There isn't one today as I know, but if I'm mistaken on that, we will certainly respond to it. Oh yeah, well, thank you for saying that. You know, certainly we'll find out what's going on there because my understanding is that if we have more money, the network can be expanded, right? But let me check on absolutely. I do appreciate it.

29:03One of the things that I will love to direct neighbors into a place where they can find out how this differential is spent. Do you have a place where people can learn about this information? So we'll publish these studies on our website, inlinportauthority.utah.gov, and we'll continue to keep that updated there. And then my intention is to initially reach out to the community councils and offer our availability to provide updates on a regular basis, West Side Coalition, I think being the top of my list.

29:39Haven't had that conversation yet, so they, but we will be knocking on their door to say, hey, we're here and we would love opportunities to communicate as one. And then again, continuing to keep our website updated as well. I'm very thankful to see the inlinportauthority and this relationship that we have now with us as a city and with the community.

30:04It has been a process. And I'm excited that we are at this moment right now, with Ben behind you and the leadership of your team fully, the true commitment to make good on something that started strangely, to say the least. But I appreciate your willingness to hear the community and to make a difference on the West Side, especially.

30:32So thank you. Thank you, Council Member. I think this is the first time we've ever presented at the council and it's an exciting moment. Yeah, well, invite us over to present and yours, we're all happy to come anytime. Any time. Thank you for coming in here. I appreciate you, all of you. Thank you. Mr. Chair, do you mind if we pause the meeting for about five minutes so that we can switch YouTube links?

30:59There's a technical switching that needs to happen to make sure that our meeting is streamed live. Let's take a five minute break. Let's convene back again at two 55, yes.

31:22We are back. Are we ready? Yes. We are back. Thank you for allowing us that quick break. We're back into a council session, a work session. We're going to be discussing those students to the right. So item number two, fiscal year 2026, 2027 funding allocation for federal housing and community development grants and city funding for our future housing programs.

32:01We're going to be welcoming at the table right now, Alice and Roland, Council Policy Analyst, Tyler, Dorphy, Community Development Policy and Program Manager, Dennis, Radlitch, Community Development Grants and Professor, Jack Markman, Community Development Grants Specialist, Alice and will you help us? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

32:26And yes, sorry about the long title. It was hard to figure out what to cut in that title. So just as a review for everyone, offering an introduction for new people, each year the council allocates millions of dollars and pass through grants from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development or HUD among organizations that serve Salt Lake City residents.

32:48These community providers, which are mostly local non-profits, compete for HUD grants to help fund their services. Many of them support the city's most economically vulnerable residents. Beginning this year, the city's annual funding of our future housing allocation also forms part of this process. Both the resident advisory board of the city's CDCIP, which stands for Community Development and Capital Improvement Program and the mayor, have reviewed and ranked each of the applications to assist the council's decisions.

33:18You have hard copies of all this information. So over the next few weeks, the council will review these recommendations and make final funding decisions for HUD and funding our future, excuse me, allocations.

33:33This year, sorry about that, this year that a total of about $11.3 million will be allocated through this process. The for HUD programs will provide an estimated $8.9 million to community service providers selected by the council. I can, I'll run through them quickly. It's by their acronyms, CBDG, CDBG, yes, I got it in correct order, ESG, home and HOPWA.

34:04An additional 2.4 million of funding our future housing funding was approved by the council in the FY26 budget. And this is available to local service providers through the same process. The council opted to concentrate these funding our future funds on two categories, tenant-based housing assistance and equity and homeownership assistance.

34:23The public hearing for this item will be held during tonight's formal meeting. The second briefing will be on April 7th. And if needed, there's a third briefing schedule for April 14th. And council action finally is scheduled on April 21st. So I will leave it to the good people from housing stability who are going to review a couple of other things for you.

34:49And then it will be all in your hands, I believe.

34:54Thank you. We don't typically, or in years past, we have not done a presentation on this, but we wanted to give a brief presentation for those council members who are returning and also for the new council members. I'm Tyler Derphi, I'm a policy and program manager with the Housing Stability Division. This is Dennis Rutledge.

35:13He's our HUD team supervisor who oversees the HUD grants. And this is Jack Markman. He oversees the funding our future housing programs. You'll notice on the screen that the fiscal years are different. This is because of the way the HUD timeline works. And council has already allocated these funding our future funds. Some of you may recall that council approved bringing funding our future into this annual application process.

35:40And so that is new this year. You can go to the next slide. These are the goals that you guys have voted on and are in our five year HUD consolidated plan. We are in year two of the consolidated plan. It runs from 2025 to 2029. These goals, as you can see on the screen, are housing priorities, homeless services, transportation, community service, business and workforce development and environmental remediation.

36:09And again, these are just for CDBG, ESG, home and HOPWA. Next slide. To bring funding our future along with the federal programming, we align it with the Housing SLC plan, which is a plan that the HUD programs are also dependent on, but we don't have the con plan that we use as well. We are just dependent on the Housing SLC plan.

36:38Specifically, the funding our future applicants have to align their programming with at least one of the two goals in that plan, which is increasing housing stability with a focus on low income services, particularly those for renters and increasing homeownership and equity building with a particular focus for those who are low income.

37:04Next slide, please. So we're at in the timeline. This is the first funding briefing with council. We have a second funding briefing scheduled for April 7th and the option for a third funding briefing, if needed, on April 14th. Right now on the calendar, we have a council final vote and adaptation scheduled for April 21st.

37:28And please be aware, we have a hard deadline set by HUD for May 15th when we need to submit these programs and we do need a little bit of lead time in order to prepare those submissions. And with that being said, we'll turn it back over to you for any questions you have. Any questions council members? All right, let's get started.

37:57I am going to share my screen so that we'll have something we can work on live, which is terribly exciting because you get to see all my stumbling. But here it is. And yeah, I don't know how you'd like to organize it, Mr. Chair, but I will leave it in all of your hands. Alison, maybe you could orient us.

38:27It looks like the first page of this printout is different than what we're looking at on the screen. So maybe we can go to, oh, there. Yes, sorry. This version of the spreadsheet does not have the descriptions of each of the programs, but it does have space for council funding allocations and then contingency allocations.

38:49And just as a reminder, the contingency allocations, the council essentially passes the contingencies each year along with all the other funding. And so if there are special contingencies that the council wants to make for a particular item, you can do that there. You can also, I also should mention there was a slight change in the contingencies from last year to this year that has to do with whether the funding amount would be equal to or less than or greater than, and now it is less than or greater than, did I characterize that, right?

39:22Okay, so it's a little more generous in terms of funding the applicants who receive funding from the council, if that makes sense. So typically what the council would do at this point is go through kind of either page by page or line by line and identify any questions because this is the first discussion. I don't know that you need to necessarily make decisions today about what allocations you want, but maybe we can go page by page and flag any questions that staff can follow up on.

39:58Yes, if you'd like, I can just read through the titles as we go. Let's go start from the top. Okay, so we're starting with. Yes, go ahead. I just have just one quick question on all of it right now. On the project descriptions on a number of them you have Unspent Funding Line. And so I'm just using YMCA, because it's the first one that has an Unspent Money Line from fiscal year, 22 to 25 of 155K.

40:23That's 41% of the awarded funds. So how is that incorporated in the current request and what's the timeline for them to spend that money? And when is that fall back into, well, go back to the HUD, I guess, in this case? Yeah, so this was a request that the board had, that the CDCIP board is that they wanted to know if any of these programs had Unspent Frontons funds from previous years.

40:48And so we just wanted to narrow it down a little bit in years. The funding that is on the, for like YWCA for the CDBG is all HUD funding that YWCA has received through those years. A lot of these programs are actually been recaptured already and respent. We just wanted to let the board know and to let you guys know that maybe they didn't quite make it through all of their funding.

41:10A lot of it has already been recaptured and already been reallocated through these processes. But it was just something that the board had asked for. So we just want to give you the same improvement. So maybe it's more, is it fair to say it's more for contextual information? Exactly. It's not like there's $155,000 sitting somewhere.

41:26Exactly, yeah, most of it, I would say almost all of it has been recaptured. I don't know what the exact number is, but yeah. Okay, that helps me out. Cause I was just kind of like, where was that money? And why has it been recaptured? And, but that kind of gives me a context of, hey, the requesting 215, but over the last three years, they didn't spend, you know, $155,000.

41:44That's 45%. So they were, they asking for more than they needed. And could that extra money been allocated to somewhere else? That's where I'm looking at, it's like, hey, we have a lot of these things that were over offered. And then they didn't spend it. Now we don't have that funding. And we lost it. So, thank you. Okay.

42:04Okay, so for the CDBG first section is neighborhoods housing and infrastructure? Are there any questions or proposals to make? If not, I'll move on to the next one, which is public services. I'll try to move on to the next one. And public services starts on the third page. If you want us to go back to any of the ones on the second page that are in that infrastructure category, just let us know.

42:42So on the first section, on the neighborhood and housing infrastructure, it seems like all the applicants, but one got some level of funding, correct? Which is like number 11, didn't get any funding.

43:01Okay. That's, well, it's correct from the information we have. Yes. The experts are nodding. So, so I'm going to go with yes. Upwards care. Mr. Chair? Yes. On the Fix the Bricks program. Can you tell us what number that is? That's number nine. NIS team, I'm always curious on how many of these, how many houses we are fixing each year with that funding, because I know there's been a big backlog on, because it's not easy project, but how many are actually working?

43:41One day. That's a good question. I don't have that number in front of me, but we can get that for you. Do you want it just for last year or like previous? Last couple years. How long was, right? Yeah, we can do that, yeah. It's an interesting question to me, because it's a program I care a lot about. I mean, I think there's other consumers they do, but also on the unspent funds.

44:00That's an interesting piece of information right there. Right. You know, last year they, they were awarded some 128,000, and they had 633,000. So what happened through the whole year with this program? It will be a good question that,

44:16I'm sure that's something, they were working on something, but it seems just for this program seems, I have questions on what happened. Certainly I don't have any interest on cutting their funding, because that's an important program for me, but every time I have those unspent funds, I'm curious. So thank you.

44:40And I'll just mention because we have the public services section up, there are two entries in red, number 14 and number 20. Those mark the only two items in which the CDCIP

44:58advisory board and the mayor disagreed slightly on their recommendations. So where the CDCIP board recommended to 207,412 for Wasatch Homeless Health Care Inc,

45:12in other words, the Fourth Street Clinic, the mayor recommends shifting $50,000 of that amount to number 20, which is called Fit to Recover. Are we asking questions? Yes, please go ahead. Can I get more information on number 17? Can I understand how many salt Lakers are receiving services through South Valley services?

45:44And on number 18, since it's site-based mentoring, I'm assuming this is a salt lake based site that our investment would go towards? Yeah, all of the HUD fundings for CDBG are only for Salt Lake City residents. So the South Valley service and the big brothers and sisters programs will be based or only for Salt Lake City residents, but I can get the number of individuals up there.

46:08Yeah, I would like to confirm, I know that the YWCA is the largest provider in the state and disproportionately handles our cases. And so I'm feeling a big impulse when people can go to other municipalities to ask them to do so so we can protect our hometown right now while things are a little tighter. Others, or should we move along?

46:37Before we move on, I just wanna signal that I imagine every year, always more applications rather than money and funds to be awarded, but I was really pleased to see fit to recover included as one of the potential recipients of these fundings. I feel like they provide such a critical community building resource, particularly in District 5 and in the ballpark neighborhood, and have seen the real benefit and boon it is to have them in the neighborhood.

47:11So before we move on to different categories, help me remember, is this the category that has the, is it a 15% cap in terms of the total of CDBG award? So whereas a lot of the other categories, you can kind of move money around to find ways to fund programs. With this one, you would have to move the money around within the category.

47:32Mr. Yes, go ahead. I just wanna kind of read your point earlier, Mr. Chair, is that all those unspent funding, I would really like to understand

47:43why they weren't spent because we have a lot of programs that want money and that don't have it because they were overspent and there are areas, because that for us it was actually spent because we allocated it. So I would really like to dig into a lot of those, especially the bigger ones. We can do that. A bigger percentage wise, thank you.

48:02Would you like to set a threshold for them, you know, so 5% of the award each. Yeah, like there's one that's less than 1%, and there's one that's, you know, 3%. Too worried about that. Right. Yeah. So 35% and $300,000? Yeah, we'll get at that one. Thank you. I would like to flag some organizations here that are not recommended for funding, both from the board or the administration, the mayor, which is IRC for like this is, you know, some organizations that are doing keep work on the community right now, especially in the times that we live in.

48:41And then, it's not like American, which is an organization that it works heavily in my district. I'm just seconding everything he says. So, you know, even the Asian Association of Utah, I, these organizations in the past, some of them have never received money, some of them have received some funding. So we're talking about 33, 35, and then 22.

49:10And they're not huge requests in many cases, but if I can, you know, with working with you,

49:22if we can find some funding to support some of the work that they do, it would be useful. Now, one of the questions in the past was, was there a minimum of support, if I remember right? Yes. Last year, the minimum was $30,000, this year it's $50,000. Okay. And so I want to just like highlight that because at the times I feel like merit some support for communities, organizations that are doing that kind of work.

49:59Just wish we had money for all of them. Okay. Moving on. Okay, let's, if there aren't any other

50:10questions or suggestions, I'll move down to ESG, which is the emergency solutions grant, doing it the slowest way possible there it is. Can I just ask, if we were to look to reallocate anything, which I don't think there's any wiggle room, it would have to be within each part. ESG, there's totals not. That's correct. Okay.

50:37ESG part one and ESG part two are separate. So you can move within those parts, but not across parts. Thank you. Okay, we're looking at ESG part one, any questions?

51:02If not, I'll move to the home investment partnerships program. Any questions on ESG part two? Oh, whoops, I was ahead of you. Sorry, Mr. Chair. Okay, move on to the next one. Now we're on home. And again, the CHDO projects listed here can't, well, not every nonprofit is eligible to be able to get grants for CHDO. And I believe that CDCU is the only qualified person at this state at this time.

51:49Qualified organization, I should say. Because members, if you have some creative ideas or funding ideas or shaving here, moving it to there, please send it to Alison in the next little while. So it will be useful to start collecting all those as soon as we can. Can you remember, Bittra? It would be kind of. Number two, under all applications, the road home, the description here in our thing so that UCA will provide holistic case management.

52:24Is that a typo that another agency is? Or is that a subcontract that will go to UCA from the road home? That's probably my fault. I think that's probably a typo. It's probably the wrong description. We can send you the correct description. That's probably my fault. Just perfect, thank you. I'm gonna move on to HAPA. This is housing opportunities for persons with AIDS.

53:02Is this the last year for this? The state HAPA funding funds are ending, but ours continue.

53:14And so we will be the sole provider of HAPA funds in the state. Going to all applications? Yeah, here are the funding, our future. I'm in our future. I'm purple. Because this is the first time we're allocating funding your future, at least the housing stability programs this way, just confirming that these funds are flexible, they're not, are they regulated by any of the other kind of federal grant guidelines that guide some of the other CDBG funds?

54:11No, these are not regulated by the same requirements as HUD. But the dollar amount, we allocated that, or we approved that last budget. So we've already approved the maximum amount of funding we have here. We can't adjust that funding level because it was done, it was last year's budget. Before the funding, our future, are we treating this the same way we treat the HUD funding as when we're trying to keep funds allocated as they're banded currently?

54:56As they're currently organized on the recommendations? Yeah, like under the equity and homeownership assistance, keep that together, keep the tenant-based housing assistance together. Yes, when you set aside this funding for the budget, these were separate budget categories. So you would have to make a budget amendment, but you wouldn't be able to move funding.

55:14If you radically, we could, but it would be a pain in the body. It would be a lot, yeah. All right, cool. Thank you. Can you talk about the number four, the in-between and the housing SLC alignment, no asterisk? Sorry, so we're looking at number four, yes. And what was the other one?

55:52In-between. Just that one, and why on the compliance with the housing SLC, if there's an asterisk by the no, it's the story. Yes, thank you. So, one of the questions that was asked in the application is to provide explicit and clear how your project was aligned with these specific goals. And if they weren't clear enough in their description of connecting it to those goals, we marked it as, no, it's not aligned.

56:22The asterisk is essentially saying the services fall under alignment with these plans. They just weren't explicitly clear on their alignment with those plans. Can I reiterate my request for information about number 12 as well? No shade to South Valley services. I'm sure they do great stuff, but if at all possible, I want our city money to go to our city entities.

56:51Yes, I will make a note that we have those, how many people from Salt Lake City are being served by them as well. Thank you. So, funding our future of dollars are we can move them anywhere. You can, I think to Jonman's point, he was clarifying that when you guys approved the fiscal year 20 budget, it included, you know, the subtotal for tenant-based assistance and the subtotal for rental assistance and things like that.

57:28So, you could move them, you're very much legally allowed to, we would probably need to follow up with a budget amendment to make sure that those line items were clarified. I think if you, not that you wanna do this, but if you wanted to just overall reduce the amount of funding for these programs and not allocate them for whatever reason, not money would otherwise fall upon balance.

57:49Let's get to know, thank you. You're awfully quiet. Chris, do you have thoughts? I, always, but I don't have any that I'm flagging.

58:14Okay. I'm thinking about responses to that and about ways that we can make what the comments that have already been made, how do we address those? You didn't have to indulge me with that response, but I figured it out. Oh, he's thinking about piece better. I know, sorry. You asked me a question, the mic is on, I'm gonna answer.

58:37Mr. Chair? Yes. Also, similar to Council Member Dugan's question about unspent funds, I'd be curious to hear a little bit more about Asian Association of Utah and funding our future and the unspent funds, because I imagine that might have a little bit more flexibility than the federal dollars. So I would like to know, you know, some of the reasons why those funds were unspent.

59:02Should we use the same cut off of anything over 5%? Would that be? Sure. Great, we'll do that. And in this case, line 15 and 17 had the same exact dollar figure down to the penny on the unspent funding, so it's kind of the juicy net.

59:2115 and 17, you said, oh, so those were not specific to programs, they're specific to providers. So if they're the same provider, they'll have the same amount of funding. Okay, okay. So they didn't get 289 and 299, they just got one. No, that's just saying over the last two years, how much funding they've been awarded in total from us that they have left unspent or that it's lapsed in that period?

59:50Okay, this is helpful. Do you know, on just number 21, just a question for Stip Howson on, how many people that they go through their program, but also stay out of the homeless cycle after they graduate from the program? Their success rate, and I know it's a difficult number because multiple people have multiple times to go through addiction programs, but how many people do they successfully graduate that stays out for over a year or so?

1:00:24Yeah, we can provide that for you. Yeah, but thank you. Okay, I think we are exhausting all the questions for the moment, and Alice and Bob, we'll send you some more. So in the next time that we discuss, we can start going through some of the suggestions.

1:00:51Is that good? Okay, thank you. And I will work with these gentlemen to make sure we get the responses that they didn't have off the top of their heads back to you. We are moving ahead quite fast.

1:01:16Yes. Yes. Let me see, where am I?

1:01:22But welcome everyone, we're going to go, jump back on the agenda, a few minutes later. We should have, we needed a quick break, we're gonna go into item number four. This is an informational item for the state legislative briefing follow up. We're going to welcome Angela Price, the first division's director, to take a moment and tell us what lovely things happen during the legislative session this year.

1:01:50Thank you, it's a pleasure to be back here. I always love coming home after the legislative session. Just checking in, because I know you've adjusted the time, how much would you like me to take this evening on this update? I mean, the agenda talks about about 20 minutes, but... 20 minutes, okay, great. Well, I've passed out a copy of our legislative synopsis, so you guys should all have that in front of you, and then I sent it to you via email about a week and a half ago.

1:02:27I first want to start with just offering gratitude to my team, the Legislative Affairs Division, Michelle Hoon, my deputy director, Melanie Hall, who's behind me, Dave Quayley, the attorney, that gets the privilege of running around the capital with us. The work that we do would not remotely be possible without our small, but very mighty team, so I'm super grateful for the work that they do.

1:02:54I also just want to offer gratitude to our 16 city departments who tirelessly read bills, answer our frantic messages, and are just the brightest and best in the state. Our attorney team, who also, in addition to their regular client load, is reviewing bills and providing legal guidance, writing red lines and drafting legislation for us.

1:03:18And then our lobby team, who absolutely crushed it for us this session, and then last but not least, our elected officials, both the city council and the mayor. I know you guys also all have day jobs and have been so incredibly responsive and supportive of the work that we do, and it truly means a lot that I have the trust of this body, so I appreciate that.

1:03:44With the gratitude out of the way, I'd like to just kind of go over a few of the quick hits on the synopsis, talk through a few of our successes, and then give you an update on a couple of key bills that I think will be of interest, and then I'll leave some time for you guys if you have any questions for me. So, this session, we tracked 351 bills, with 126 being high priority.

1:04:11That means that there were 53 bills and 73 subs. So, we saw the highest number of bills introduced this session, and the highest number of, this was the highest number of bills passed as well. 53 high priority bills means that we are working, actively working those bills. That means they're changing pretty dramatic things for the city, either in a positive or negative way.

1:04:38We had 70 bills that were medium priority, and we also are working those bills. And those often are bills that we are working with our partners, like the Utah League of Cities and Towns, Wausage Front Regional Council, Equality Utah, the school district, other partners that we work with throughout the legislative session.

1:05:00As I mentioned, the session synopsis can be found on the Legislative Affairs website. I slaughter this URL every time I try to say it to you, Chair Pooey.

1:05:14It is slc.gov backslash attorney, backslash legislative-affairs, and never quite comes out, right? So, my apologies on that. But all of the bills that we tracked are on the website. You do have a shorter one, which is slc.gov slash legislative-affairs. It redirects to the alumni. Okay. Well, that's what I was asking before.

1:05:40SLC.gov slash legislative-affairs. The link that I got, so thank you. The session synopsis is on there, and then also all of the bills that we tracked.

1:05:51One of the questions that I've gotten quite a bit throughout the session, and even after the session is, wow, it looks like things were very different for Salt Lake this year, and they were, which is wonderful. And I really attest that to a couple of things. I think it's been the strong partnerships and relationships that the city's built with the state over the last few years.

1:06:14That's credit to the Council and the Mayor. I think you guys have done a really great job of sitting at the table and having those really hard conversations. And so oftentimes the session, we were pulled into meetings that had a much different tone and tenor than they have in previous years, which was really refreshing.

1:06:33We also saw a lot of bills that were held this year, and that's not something that we've seen consistently happen the past few years. What I mean by that is they were either held in rules committees, so it's kind of the first step in moving through the legislative process as you go through rules. They were held in their respective committees, or they were held in one chamber or the other.

1:06:56So a bill would maybe move through the house, and then the Senate would hold it, or the Senate would hold something that didn't move through the house. So this year, for I think kind of the theme is a lot of what didn't pass. And so those are some of the successes that I want to talk with you guys about here. As we were going into the session, we heard a lot about our flags, and the legislation from the 2025 session.

1:07:23Well, before the session started, that there was going to be a bill that would potentially impact our flags, and that bill made it through the house but did not make it through the Senate. So we are still able to fly our flags. If Representative McPherson's bill would have passed, it still would have allowed us to fly the flags that the city adopted last year, but there would have been some changes there.

1:07:51We also heard quite a bit about the renaming of 900 South, one of our main commercial corridors and active transportation corridors in the city from Harvey Milk Boulevard to Charlie Kirk Boulevard. That bill was held in rules and was never heard in either of the chambers. There were several court cases that Salt Lake City has prevailed in that were different components of bills, the Sierra legislation, and all of those cases were upheld, and these weren't necessarily things that were targeting Salt Lake City per se, but just rulings that the city had prevailed in that we were watching really closely that would have had a really profound impact on our residents, and those bills did not move forward.

1:08:37I'll talk a little bit more about taxes here in a few minutes, but taxes were kind of the theme of the legislative session, and so we made some great strides there in what was initially proposed to where we are now. One of our exciting bills that we got passed this year was our library notice evaluation and allowing the property tax or the library levy to be listed as its own item on the property tax valuation. That sounds like a minor thing, but that was something that we worked really hard on. Additionally, another one of our proactive bills was getting some changes to the lost and found at the airport and how they process lost and found, and so we were very excited to see that that bill move forward. There was some legislation targeted at I-15 billboard relocation, and due to

1:09:28the work that the city has done with the billboard industry, that bill was dropped by the sponsor. There was a legislation that would have required gun storage at the Delta Center, and that bill was held as well. And then one of our really exciting bills that we worked on, and Council Member Dugan was there that day with me, and he was joking that he was like he was at work with mom, which is pretty fun, but there was an energy bill that would have impacted the Utah community renewable program, and we were very excited that we were able to get that amendment changed as an end of the Senate and preserve the opportunity for that program to move forward.

1:10:15So we had a lot of really great successes, and those aren't all things that the city did in and of itself, but that we did with our partners and with our lobby team and the relationships that we have. Any questions on successes as I move forward to the next section?

1:10:34Can you talk about the stewardship Utah bill? Yes, stewardship Utah bill, so this was a bill that would have had a small registration fee for heavy trucks that were 2010 or older, and I want to say it was like 14,000 gross weight, and that bill unfortunately died on the boards on the last night. But just because it ran out of time. Yeah, they ran out of time, but it didn't pass the house, and they were able to recall the vote on that and get it back into the house and it passed the house, but it didn't make it through the Senate in time. So I knowing those guys, I'm hopeful that they'll bring that back again next year. Thank you. So as I mentioned, there were several key themes of the session. The biggest was tax reform, economic development, transportation, public safety and

1:11:33homelessness, energy, water and immigration, and I'll kind of go through these fairly quickly, but if there's anything you guys want me to or follow up questions that you have, please feel free to interrupt me. As I mentioned, this was the year of tax reform, where we started to where we ended is a really big bill. The truth and taxation bill is still going to be a lot of work for the city council and for the administration, but where we started was potentially having a 5% cap on property tax, having changes to how new growth was calculated, having changes to what you guys are allowed to have and your fund balance and how you can use that. Having any property tax increase go to and so where we ended was Senator McCays bill SB 97 didn't make it out of the Senate. So those

1:12:28things of having the property tax cap, having new growth, having fund balance changes, none of that passed. Representative Oxir's bill that would have required us to bring any property tax increase to the voters also was held in rules and didn't pass. What did pass is Representative Karen Peterson's bill. What this bill does is it really provides more transparency in the truth and taxation process and this is a really tricky policy because there are dates that are set in state statute that are out of control that are not of control of the city and how the city goes through the truth and taxation process. And so what the legislature was trying to do is have more transparency in the truth and taxation process by providing additional hearings and if you guys are going to do a property

1:13:19tax increase, there's some additional steps that you need to do. Specifically you have to highlight what changes you would make if the property tax happens. So for example if you have a $1 million budget and you are going to have a $2 million budget with a $1 million property tax increase and that extra $1 million is going to go to the legislative affairs division because we're awesome.

1:13:44You would have to tell us why you would have to have public documents and reasoning why you would be asking for that additional increase. There's more to that legislation. I know the attorney's office and the recorder's office is working on unpacking that. There's also a safe harbor for this first year which I think will be helpful because in previous years we've had some truth and taxation legislation passed that I want to say it was like 36 taxing entities didn't get their property tax increase approved this year because they'd missed steps. So lots to come there but I know this is going to be challenging from a budgeting perspective if there's a proposed property tax increase but it really is a much better place than where we could have landed.

1:14:31On economic development HB 4.9 and sorry I should have stated that bill number it's HB 236 truth and taxation amendments. HB 492 transportation funding and housing amendments by representative Roberts. This was another bill that we worked on parts of it since last May. There's a lot that's in this bill. One of the things that I want to highlight for you is $100 million for regionally significant infrastructure projects and that is going to be able to unlock affordable housing think things like water towers and major road structures and things like that. So we're very excited about the opportunity to potentially use some of that funding to unlock housing whether in Salt Lake City or throughout the state. Our big bill that we worked this year was SB 242

1:15:24transportation amendments by Senator Harper and representative Kristofferson. This was the second iteration of SB 195 from the 2025 session and this was something that we had been working on really the implementation of SB 195 the transportation division and the community and neighborhood started working on that before the legislation before the legislature even adjourned last year and then we started working on what provisions we wanted that we were going to change and I'm really happy to report a couple of things with this bill. I know there was a lot of public concern about this bill during the session. We saw our residents come out pretty heavily during the committee hearings and testifying in concern that bike lanes would be closed and that we would be tearing out infrastructure.

1:16:15This bill does not require us to pull infrastructure out. It does not require us to not have bike infrastructure and it also does not require us to roll back any of those standards. So we're still allowed to look at what modes make sense on different roads within the city. What it does require us to do is enter into an agreement with UDOT. It does require us to adopt a critical capacity routes map in a tearing system of our roads. We agreed to that in SB 195 in the presentation that UDOT gave to the transportation interim committee in October and then the subsequent response that the mayor provided to the transportation interim committee in November.

1:17:02What that map will do and that will eventually come before this body. It requires us to adopt a tearing structure for the study area. The study area did expand in this legislation. So the study area is 600 north to Foothill to the southern city boundary to Redwood Road before it only went to 2100 south and I-15. What we will need to do is establish a tearing structure for those roads.

1:17:30We have not established that yet. Tier one roads would be state roads. We're not allowed to do any highway reduction strategies on those roads but we are allowed to make safety improvements. Tier two roads think like a main street would be an example would have to have a UDOT approval if we wanted to do a highway reduction strategy. It doesn't mean that we can't do them. It means that we work with UDOT on being able to do them. Tier three and tier four roads would be local roads and we would be able to do highway reduction strategies on those two types of roads. So I think it's really important for us to know that A, those roads have not been identified yet. This is not saying that we can't

1:18:11do highway reduction strategies. It's just saying on those tier two roads we will need to go through a UDOT process. Council Member Pietro. Did they ever clarify why the expansion to Redwood Road? I mean it made as frustrating as it was their logic the year before was that the central commercial core was a concern to them and fine but why are we going all the way to Redwood now?

1:18:44Yeah that's a great question. I don't know that we ever, what I do know is the initial western boundaries started at Banganer and got walked back to Redwood and so you know I think part of it is probably looking at the power district and the work that's going to be happening in that area but I think we never, to be, to answer honestly we didn't get a really great reason why that was being expanded to there. I think if I were to like bet on it it would be probably just to ensure that the power district and the development around there is being looked at cohesively. The other thing that I think is important to note on this legislation is that it will require the city to adopt and codify the map into the city's transportation plan and

1:19:38ordinances so again you guys will be seeing a legislative action coming before you from Can. One of the other things that I think was a little bit of a

1:19:51sticking point for the community and for the city was Road with so we are allowed to maintain Road with it's at 11 feet on tier 1 and 2 and they must be at least 10 feet on tier 3. Those did start at 12 and 11 and so we got them down to what's like best practices and then the last thing that I'll say is that we also need to do engagement around parking reductions on tier 1 and tier 2 roads if we're removing more than three spaces on a block face and this was really to address concerns that we've heard from the business community on us removing parking in certain areas for bike facilities or bus facilities. So any questions on the road bill I know that's a lot.

1:20:45Okay is there a deadline for the council to adopt that map or the city to complete that? Yeah thank you. So we need to have the agreement executed by January so I think you know can't I know the transportation division has already started having conversations with you on what the agreement parameters would look like so I imagine I would probably think sometime in the fall. Okay public safety and homelessness so I think kind of the main talking the main point with public safety and homelessness this year is that we didn't see an insurgent funding for the campus. I think that was one of the things that was very much on the table as we were going into the session is what were they going to do with the campus and were they going to fund it and

1:21:39so we didn't see you know a chunk of money put aside for the campus. There was some funding set aside through the nicotine tax and some other some other appropriations to help with homelessness but that's more kind of broader system things. HB 572 the behavioral health mental health and social services amendments by representative Elyssen make some changes to mental and behavioral health services and the jail diversion programs and civil commitment and then HB 308 was another one of the big bills that we were working homeless services amendments by representative ocherland and this makes changes to the office of homeless services. It changes the mitigation funding one time and with the intention that the cities the shelter cities will convene a working group over the

1:22:35interim to look at the broader mitigation funding formula. This helps keep beds online moving forward through through July and helps fund the west valley shelter that hasn't actually received adequate funding. So this is kind of a stop gap while that mitigation formula amendment and knowing that Tyler Clancy just took the position of director. And then let's see here I'll just start wrapping up here on I already talked about the HB 238 Utah energy generation and transmission planning that preserved our community renewable program. We were really nervous about water going into the legislative session and we were happy that we maintained our water rights and there was no we were worried about water fees and increases to our water users. Those bills did not pass or they didn't

1:23:36pass in the way that we were concerned about. We had a really exciting bill pass HB 296 water commitments amendments by representative when Laura brief for our director of public utilities had been working on this legislation for two years and this is something that went through the water task force and essentially it would allow for water conservation to be considered in the conservation plans of water sorry I'm muddling this here. Water being conserved going into the Great Salt Lake to be considered in the water conservation plans. Thank you. And then the last thing I just want to touch on which I know is kind of the the main topic here in Salt Lake City right now is immigration.

1:24:20HB 386 immigration amendments by representative shepherd. If you want to watch an interesting floor debate and procedural debate this would be a good one to go back and watch.

1:24:32This bill would have removed protections from the guest worker program and on the third reading in the house. HB 88 public assistance amendments by representative Lee was subbed into this legislation and so it was a pretty feisty floor debate. This bill made it through the house but did not make it through the Senate. Representative Lee's bill HB 88 took on multiple iterations I think it had seven or eight subs before it went into HB 386 and where it started was it would have created a a penalty for for example somebody working in a shelter that serves food to somebody that just didn't have an ID not even necessarily an undocumented individual.

1:25:19It would have provided it would have required our firefighters or police officers if you don't have an ID on you and you provide medical services you could have been fined. So where it started to where it went was much different. With that I again just want to extend my gratitude. I know our legislative subcommittee worked really hard during the session and I'm so grateful for your guidance and your trust and your patience. I'm happy to answer any questions that you guys might have.

1:25:52That's when we're young. Yes thank you. So what many people do not know is aside from the fact that you are representing the voice of Salt Lake City. You are also representing the various expertise of all the different departments and individuals who are important in terms of engaging as a part of the process. So you're coordinating across all of those entities as well as trying to coordinate across the seven of us in terms of making sure that you're keeping us updated that we have the opportunity to give you feedback related to questions and concerns we're getting from residents.

1:26:35So by the end of it it is like quite the circus that you oversee Angela and you do it with such grace and professionalism and a degree of calm that I have to say I just find so wonderful in what otherwise feels often like a very hectic conversation and time period for the city. So just wanted to express my gratitude for the way that you and your team make sure that you keep all of us in the loop at any given time about any given bill topic which you can see there was over a thousand. You really do run such an incredible process and opportunity to know that Salt Lake City voices are being represented in those conversations. So thank you. Thank you so much for the kind words.

1:27:28Council Member Dougan. Council Member Young said it all. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I think that there is no many words I can express. You know that I we're very lucky to have you and your team working supporting us and the city's interest in our legislature. So hopefully more sessions are like this one. We can only hope. So thank you so much.

1:28:00I appreciate the update and looking forward to implementing some of the changes that came to us to implement. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it.

1:28:14Council Members, we are going to go into close meeting right now. So I will need a motion.

1:28:23Vice-advisit council, please. Mr. Chair, I move that we go into a close session for the purpose of receiving advice of council. Second. Who was the second? Okay. Sorry. I heard it.

1:28:42Okay. I see. Council Member, that makes sense. Council Member Buren for the motion and Dugan for the second. Council Member Pietro. Aye. Council Member Young. Council Member Dugan. Yes. Council Member Warden. Yes. Council Member Lopez-Chavas. Aye. Council Member Carlson. Aye. And I'm an aye so that is unanimous vote to close meeting. We'll be back.

1:29:07Welcome everyone. We're back again onto our agenda. We are going to move a few things around. We're going to move on to the Board appointment. Business Advisory Board, Kim Stowey.

1:29:23Will Kim come here and introduce yourself? You have a few minutes to tell us why you're interested in here. Council Chair, I'm not sure. IMS is ready for us. So just one second. Oh, we're going to please go ahead. We might have to do that range of the introduction to the item. No, no, no quite. I will tell you. Sorry. We're good now. Okay.

1:29:51We're going into item number six. We're moving a few items since you're here. We want to make sure that you're not waiting for too long. This is the Board appointment to the Business Advisory Board. Kim, welcome. Will you like to introduce yourself and why and tell us why you're interested on this board? Hi. My name is Kim Stow. I'm with Visitsault Lake. And I'm interested in being on the board because I'm very passionate about the role our business community plays in shaping the visitor economy. Visitsault Lake, I'm the managing director of our partnership department. So I work very closely with all of our partners that fall into the hospitality, tourism, and business community. My job is to help them connect with each other, collaborate, take advantage

1:30:40of our marketing opportunities so that when we do bring in all of these visitors into our county, they're able to take advantage of the dollars that are spent here. We really are

1:30:53we're passionate about pushing business to our local restaurants, our visitors are dining there, visiting our attractions, buying tickets to our sporting events, visiting our local retailers. So I just feel like it's kind of a natural extension for me to be a part of this that I can bring some insight on what's going on in our visitor economy and learn how we can help our residents and our visitors have a great experience with that. Thank you for your willingness to serve.

1:31:23You know, this this board is very important as you know, so we're excited to have you. Any any thoughts? Thank you for for for volunteering for the city and to bring your expertise to us. The process works this way. We're going to put you on the consent agenda on the meeting that starts at 7 p.m. today in the form of when the form of meeting across the hall. You don't have to be here at all for that meeting. It's it's the procedural item at the end of the agenda. The administration will contact you soon enough after that to onboard you and ensure that you have what you need.

1:32:04Great. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We are going to jump back to to the item number five, ordinance zoning map amendment at approximately 1073 South Navajo Street. We're going to welcome to the table as Kimmle Council Policy Analyst and Olivia Kedko principal planner. Aston is your time to give us a short introduction.

1:32:30Okay. Thanks, council members. This is a briefing on a proposal to amend the zoning map amendment for a parcel at 1073 South Navajo Street from R-1502 to R-Mf-30. The the applicant states they plan to retain the existing two-bedroom single-family home and build additional four-cell family-sized homes on the property. The proposed ordinance requires the petitioner to enter a development agreement with Salt Lake City with two specific conditions. The first is that the existing home on the site be retained and the second that any additional dwelling units over four units must be four-cell. The planning commission voted six one to forward a positive recommendation during its January 14th meeting. Policy questions can be found on pages one and two of the council staff

1:33:33report and I will turn it over to Olivia from the planning division who has more details about the proposed rezone. Thanks. Thank you. Good evening. Like Austin said, this is a petition for a zoning map amendment at 1073 South Navajo Street. Next slide please. Oh, and I'm sorry if I can interrupt too. We also have Kelsey Linquist at the table I forgot to introduce.

1:34:07Okay, so this property is currently zoned R-1505,000. The petition is to amend the zoning to R-Mf-30. A couple of facts about this property. It's roughly half an acre, just shy of half an acre at 0.49. 21,000 square feet. Like we mentioned, it's got one single family home on the property now.

1:34:33And the applicant is proposing to keep the existing home on site and split up some lots in the rear for additional for sale housing. Next slide please. And I guess one more slide. Thanks. Okay, so as far as the West Side Plan goes in 2014, you can see the subject property highlighted on the map. It's kind of in between some neighborhood, oh, lost a minute, neighborhood and community nodes.

1:35:11The West Side Plan calls for reinvestment and redevelopment in the West Side community through changes in land use, improved infrastructure and community investment, and to protect and encourage ongoing investment in existing low-density residential neighborhoods, providing attractive, compatible and high-density residential development where needed, appropriate or desired. Next slide please. So some of the things in some of the properties around this area, there is a elementary school directly to the north that you can see on this map. There are a handful of lots nearby that already have a little bit higher density housing, such as duplexes. There's a few lots that are already a little smaller than the required 5,000 square feet in the RMF 5,000.

1:36:15And there are some condos going up to the south. Next slide please.

1:36:23This is, I wanted to pull this street view and aerial in for you guys to take a look at. One of the

1:36:34conditions of this map amendment is that home that's already on the site stay on site. So what I think that this does really well is preserve the feel of the street and keep kind of a consistent lock face. So I've got those street views here for you to see. I also have the aerial pulled in. As you can see, there's quite a lot of space behind where that existing home is, including a pretty large detached garage and a couple other small structures. Next slide.

1:37:12The community benefit proposed for this is for sale housing, which is outlined in our community benefit ordinance. Something that the city would like to see more of. I pulled in just some quick census data to show owner occupied versus renter occupied in the Glendale community versus Salt Lake City as a whole. Salt Lake City as a whole has pretty close to 50-50 owner and renter occupancy.

1:37:44In the Glendale community, there are only about 30% of resident or only about 30% of housing units that are owner occupied with 70% renter occupied. So this is a community benefit that I believe would be a great addition to the neighborhood. Next slide. Okay, so the main difference, the main reason for this request is to allow a little bit more flexibility in what could be developed on this site compared to say using a plan development or our affordable housing incentives. The R15 district is limited to single family dwellings with 5,000 square feet per lot. The RMF 30 district allows more flexibility with single family homes with only 2,000 square feet per unit, two family dwellings, cottage style development, row homes and multifamily residential.

1:38:51Most of these uses require 2,000 square feet per unit. And I mentioned earlier, the site is

1:39:00roughly 21,000 square feet. So by the numbers, this slot would be restricted to about 10 units per acre.

1:39:11With the existing home being kept on the site and required parking and open space, we've been looking at seems like that may be closer to like six to eight units would realistically fit on this lot. Next slide please. As Austin mentioned, the Planning Commission did vote to forward a positive recommendation to City Council for the Zoning Map Amendment with the identified community benefit and details stipulated in a development agreement. And next slide, though I think that may be my last.

1:39:48I'm just going to offer a point of clarification. The RMF 30 on this specific lot would allow about 10 units per half acre. So a total of 20 per acre. That's why we're sending questions because what we're doing. So the house sits in the front and as it looks like it has large front yard, so that takes up a good chunk. So you said six additional units included with the house, the house plus six additional units. Is that what you're estimating the most at it?

1:40:25Well, most likely. Yeah. The applicant hasn't developed a site plan yet to kind of see how that realistically could fit in. Okay. And then the second question is that the development agreement would stipulate that they have to be for sale. And is there a, no, I buy it. Can I buy it? And what's the requirement for me to live in that house that I've after I buy it?

1:40:49Is that, can that be part of development agreement? How does that work on the development agreement?

1:40:56The applicant is here and can speak to some of those specific questions if that would be helpful. Which is from our planning side of the house or Zoning or requirements of the development agreement. They sell it to five different individuals who says that they have to live in there for a certain amount of time. Is that part of the development agreement? Is that how?

1:41:14Yeah, I believe you could stipulate that it be owner occupied in the development agreement. Okay. Yeah. Personally, I'm supportive of this. These lots on Nala House streets, the numbers are so, so long and empty in the back. It's actually quite unique in the area. And it's under the land. So any chances that we can allow some of these neighbors for opportunities to expand housing.

1:41:48It's, I think, as a win for the community. So, generally supportive of it. I'm excited to see more of those hopefully in the area as well. Yeah. Thank you. It seems like we are ready to move on to the next side. I appreciate it. Briefing. Thank you. Now we are getting caught up a little on time. We are jumping into item number seven. This is an ordinance, an amendment for daily water consumption and enacting temporary zoning regulations.

1:42:20We're going to welcome Mark Trel, city attorney to the to the table. Catherine. Catherine Paskerson, city attorney, Laura briefer director of public utilities for short introduction. I think Mr. Chair, I can probably handle an introduction and then we can rely on them if the council has additional questions. Even better.

1:42:40So this is there's actually two pieces to what you guys are considering tonight. One would be an amendment to section 17 of the city code, which regulates public utilities. And then the companion piece would be temporarily a news regulation relating to water as it's referenced in the planning section of the code. So the temporary land use regulation would affect the part of the proposal that is section 21. And the ordinance, the ordinance relating to section 17, if the council adopted it would go into effect immediately. It would cap, it would remove the exemption of cap on for institutional high water users. And if you guys want to add anything else, sorry, we surprised you.

1:43:32No, thank you for that, Jen. I know with respect to the city attorney's office, Catherine Paskerson here can likely provide some more information about the language. She's the one who helped draft it. And of course, Laura briefer is here to sort of talk about how it affects the water supply and Department of Public Utilities.

1:43:56So I know, Jen, you said you've set us up with an intro about what the ordinances are in the TLUR. I'm not sure if there are any questions right now or if there's any additional information the body would like to hear or see. And just to clarify, it is on the council's formal meeting for action tonight. Member Carlson. A director briefer, you've been before us a lot recently talking about just the historically warm winter that we've had. And I'm wondering if you could just share a little bit about what the current water outlook situation is looking like for us.

1:44:39Yes, thank you, Council Member Carlson. So the water outlook has changed slightly since we were here last a couple of weeks ago and not in the right direction. Because of our warming temperatures, we are seeing a greater decrease in our snow water equivalent and our snowpack in the Jordan River Provo Utah watersheds where we receive most of our water. So that snow water equivalent is now at 49%. And it really isn't expected to grow. The other issue is that runoff of that snowpack appears to be happening much earlier than normal. And so those two things combined caused us to declare a stage two under our drought and water shortage contingency plan.

1:45:37And really we're asking everyone to conserve. And I think the changes to these ordinances sort of reflect equity across the system in terms of conservation and just being really good stewards of our water resources. Not only this year, but we have droughts. We've historically had long-range droughts. And the city has always planned ahead for those in our 40-year water supply and demand plans, our water conservation plans that we regularly update. So we're constantly monitoring and constantly updating all of our water management tools. Council Member Bicha.

1:46:22I just want to say thank you for being so proactively prepared for this. I mean, there's no way to actually be prepared for what we're likely to face over the summer. But thank you. I feel capable. And my neighbors were just posting, talking about when you made the declaration, they were frustrated saying, why are we being asked to conserve but the institutional use isn't being addressed yet. So thank you. This is something that my neighbors are actually asking for and does safeguard us. So thank you. Thank you.

1:46:54Yeah. You know, the announcements and your briefing about the state of our water and snow capped, it's very concerning. And we have been moving legislation over the years here in our city to make an impact and to make a difference. We need everybody to make a difference on their own too. So thank you for bringing up this, this ordinance change for us to discuss.

1:47:24Any other conversation? Okay. Thank you so much for the briefing.

1:47:33We are going back, going forward. So to discuss item number eight, this is an informational discussion of Cesar Chavez, Boulevard Honorary Street Name Change.

1:47:47And Jennifer Bruno is going to help us with again with our council director, with a short briefing. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Several council members requested what options there were to consider changing the name of Cesar Chavez Boulevard, which is an honorary street name in the city. And based on recent news and investigations, and so we pulled up what the process is just to redo an honorary name essentially. What we kind of summarized is the process that we used for our last honorary street name, which was for Pastor Franz Davis. The administration proposed the name, I think both administrative and legislative branches had been reached out to by that community.

1:48:41And so that was just the formal path. So the council then submits the proposed honorary name to the public for feedback. And it's just for feedback, it's not a vote. Then notification is required to be mailed to all abutting property owners, abutting the street that would be affected, and welcome any comments via email, phone, written letters, et cetera. Then the council held a public hearing where that specific name was discussed, and then the council voted to approve denied the request. I think there are several names that have been floated around in terms of options for renaming. And so there is a list of considerations that is in city code as it applies to naming city assets, which technically this is not a city

1:49:34asset, but the council has sort of informally used this as guidance when you have decided on honorary names. So the list, I'll just kind of quickly read it. No name shall be chosen that causes confusion due to duplication or similarity of an existing named location with Salt Lake City, or is the name of an entity associated with alcohol, tobacco, firearms, or sexually oriented businesses, or is the name of a religious or political organization, or is a religious leader unless such leader is being honored solely for their civic contribution. May have an inappropriate, a name may not have an inappropriate acronym, short form, or modification, be discriminatory or derogatory, a name may not relate to or create a controversial situation within the city,

1:50:25or recognize a single individual for contributions similar or identical to a contribution made by others within a particular group associated with that individual. So that's the guidance for naming city assets. Like I said, you can, I think the council in discussions with the mayor can be flexible about that. The mayor has indicated support for changing the honorary name, so

1:50:51maybe we can just open up the floor. Yes, Council Member, some initial thoughts about this and some names or ideas. Maybe you have received some emails or that you want to share. As my word, I would really love for us to be a little bit deliberative and not knee-jerk about this with the unabashed intention set that Cesar Chavez represented the reason he was chosen was because of the assumption that he represented something wonderful from the Latino contribution.

1:51:32And since the pioneers fled religious persecution to Mexico, that Latin

1:51:40heritage here is really strong. And so that's the only marker I would like to leave is that this has been a perennial marker of the contribution of the Latinos to the improvement of Assault Laker's life. And that is the overarching place mark that I would like, the bookmark that I'd like to leave here. But I would like to actually create a more deliberative process that allows us to understand what the community actually is. I've heard several people going, can we stop naming things after people who are going to disappoint us? I've heard people say the movement is what is important. I've heard people say that there are ideas. So I could be open. I would like it to be community-centered. Any other thoughts?

1:52:24Council Member Carlson? I echo Council Member Picro's comments about a deliberative process. And just want to say, you know, from my perspective as a Council Member and also a Latina, just how disappointing this news was. And yeah, just disappointing and heartbreaking, honestly. And I think that's true for many members of the Latino community to have heard about

1:53:02about this investigation and what occurred. And so I think a deliberative process makes sense. And also echo an opportunity to really acknowledge the contributions of Latinos to

1:53:17not only state, but also Salt Lake City as a whole and hope that in that deliberative process we do that.

1:53:25I will echo the sentiment here. I, you know, painful, horrid, disappointing. It was just all the feelings together. But in so many ways, the fight, focusing on the community and the achievements of this movement that was accomplished by this movement effort is what gave me hope to continue highlighting

1:53:58the movement and the accomplishments. And I agree that creating a process to allow for some feedback from the community. I certainly have a personal preference with all this work that is in the city of Santa Ana, fighting these fights alongside the farm workers and highlighting her work

1:54:25as a leader in the community as a Latina. And to me it's important for visibility

1:54:35to make sure that we are not throwing the baby with the water as well. There was incredible accomplishments by our community. Well, big fights for our rights. And I want to make sure that we don't just ignore that because of this horrible news by Cesar Chavez. So I will open more thoughts. I can't remember Dugan. Thank you. And I appreciate that because I agree with everything you've said, council members, I think a deliberate process and acknowledging the work of the farmers and putting food on our table and the hard work of the Latinos in that work. And what we do need a deliberate process and let it involve the whole community in this process. And it's not something that we need to rush into

1:55:38at this moment. But let's look at how we've done it in the past. But take it take a time to do it carefully and very deliberately and thoughtfully. I would like to add that I feel like his name has to come down. His name has to come down from the streets. He must come down. Certainly we want to make sure that we do it correctly, cost-wise, for respect to our taxpayers.

1:56:09But his name must come down. So, council member Wharton. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just also want to say that without influencing the results, because I do want to also hear from the community that

1:56:31we have an opportunity to, well, we have a tradition of having streets named after civil rights leaders icons in Salt Lake City, which is something I'm really proud of, that and jazz players. But while this is a really sad situation and a really difficult situation, I think we have an opportunity here. We only have one honorary name of a civil rights leader that is a woman. And I think that we have a great opportunity to add to that, whether that's with Dolores Huerta or

1:57:19someone else that can represent more than one thing. So I hope that for me, I hope residents will speak to that issue and will come to us with their thoughts and suggestions on that issue. But that's the opportunity that I would like to see come out of this really sad situation.

1:57:45The only addendum is I want it to be deliberative, but I do want it to have a timeline. I don't want us to lose this in the middle of everything. So I do want us to hold ourselves accountable to a timeline and to make sure that the community, especially those represented, get a chance to express in I agree. I think that the question that I came to me when we were all talking about the delivery processes, what is the delivery process look like for us? Because this is an honorary street naming. We basically get to decide what that is. I was going to say that all of the processes in the past, the city has had a proposal that the public then reacts to. So we might just need to think together about what a process where there's not a specific proposal or specific

1:58:34name looks like. I love a good task force. Please, no. Please for the love of the conversation. I would love if if there was a community effort that came to us similar to how Harvey Milk Boulevard came to be, where you had a lot of leaders and community members who kind of came together,

1:59:02coalesced around a request and provided, did the work of researching that request and where it should be, what was most appropriate, all of that for the city to kind of consider as the main option. So I hope that anyone that's listening to this will follow. I think that process went really well. I know there were some bumps in the road, but I think overall went really well in terms of it being a community led, but that you had multiple groups that within the LGBTQ community that came together for that request. So I hope we see something like that from the public.

1:59:46So do you, just sorry, just clarification. Do you, would you want Council staff to convene that group, or is it more just that we maybe reach out to key community leaders that maybe you guys know to request that they think about it and come back in a couple weeks with the recommendation? Yeah, I, maybe this is overly optimistic, but I feel like this is still very new.

2:00:15News, I feel pretty confident that I think community members will start organizing around this and that I feel confident that my colleagues and myself on the Council will help provide feedback in that effort, but I think it will come organically. And I just hope that

2:00:42I think we can do something organically that without putting a specific timeline on it, but recognizing that we want to move relatively quickly. We don't want to make this decision two years from now. And so I think that, you know, for anyone that's listening, I know there are leaders out there that are, that they'll start work organizing around this.

2:01:04Conson, I think we wait for them. Conson, remember, yeah. I just would like to add, I mean, I know that the conversations have already begun. And so to me, I think it makes more sense for Council members to just actively share those communications as they come in amongst the seven as opposed to like convening an outside kind of organization or something like that. To me, that makes a lot of sense because then wherever the point of contact is, we can just agree to share it amongst ourselves to be able to kind of coalesce around the solution.

2:01:43That's great. And if you could share that also with staff, I think then we can begin to track it and maybe figure out how soon, you know, because if we're getting most requests about one name, you know, I think that can expedite our Council process, right? So thank you.

2:02:03So it's like important to also acknowledge the administration's response to this too. Interest in replacing the signs as soon as, you know, you know, we go through our process or and also acknowledging that we want to make sure that we do it. If you're physically conservative, you know, doing it right. And so thank you to the administration for being part of that. So I think that gives us quite a quick direction. And I think it allows, I know Council member Lopez Chavez also had strong feelings about this. And for sure, she's not online at the moment, but I wanted to highlight that she did mention this into into our conversations quite a bit lately. We have two written briefings items.

2:02:56If Council members have any questions, feel free to raise those now or by email and staff will get back to you. So that's item number nine, resolution, share house street card extension interlocal agreement between the Utah transit authority and select city. I imagine that's what is just there. And then item number 10, resolution for second amendment to the interlocal agreement between Utah inland port authority and select city. And as this is the other part that we discussed this morning, this morning, you know, this early afternoon, it felt like a long time ago.

2:03:35From the RDA. So that finishes the items on this work session. There's reports from the by share on the chair reports. There are announcements from the executive director. Thank you, Mr. Chair. There is now a vacancy on the Metro Water Board. That's one of the Council's five slots in the chroma who many of you know and love has recently resigned from the board.

2:04:06So we now need to go through a process that's outlined in state law. But if you know anyone who might be interested in that board where they can apply as slc.gov forward slash boards also just forward names to us and we're happy as Council staff to reach out to them and see if they're interested. The other question is does the Council want to form kind of an interview group that that worked last time. We're a couple of you interviewed the candidates that did come to us. I know it's not always you don't always have a plethora of free time but any volunteers. I see Councilman were a dougan volunteering with both hands right now.

2:04:51I hate you. I am okay doing it. We did it last time. We do it again. Unless Councilman Wryan wants to do it. No. Okay. We can do it. Okay. Thank you everyone. I now I think this concludes the meeting for the work session. We reconvene at 7pm for the formal meeting. Thank you everyone. Bye.