July 16, 2024 — Downtown Management Commission Regular Meeting

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Captions from City of Boulder YouTube recording.

[0:00] If they are all right, we are recording. It is Tuesday, July 16, th 2,024. Welcome to the downtown Management Commission meeting, I will call Roll. Oh, Stephanie, Trees is not here trusting Kelvin, Eric, Adol here, Andy, Nathan, and Susan. Nathan. I will now hand the meeting over to the chair for procedural items. So welcome to our new people. I'm so excited to see you. We have roll call. So first, st we have, procedural items and approval of the minutes from last time. How'd you right here a second? You can't second, so I can second second So they are done bye, Susan. but

[1:08] so what I came with you. We have lunch that doesn't so much to me, and just your leadership, and how to do this board is really tech like sometimes I could like. and you really, temporarily, you become kind of in the middle of the road, and kind of a solid answer for what we should do, and I know you're here long before I was. So maybe you need to even tell us what you did before, but I really do appreciate just everything you've done for us and for me 6 months great guidance each other. So I appreciate seeing you be a bummer to see it less. But we do not on vacation. So maybe with Eric, and

[2:01] I know America. But do you have any words of wisdom of what it takes to do this well, or what what you bring to the table like. They've never done this before. I don't know how much you've been briefed on. I'm yeah awesome. We'd get dinner. I mean, I feel like when I I was on the board for year and a half, 2 years whatever. And then Covid happened, and that sort of upset all sorts of parts. so I don't think mine is a normal experience. I don't think yours has been a normal experience. So I think what you all need to work on now is the post covid portal of this board. and particularly, how can the visibility and the effectiveness of this board be in way that I don't feel like we've been able to have

[3:10] getting an ear into city council. I think we talked about this, I think, would be really important. I mean, I know Staff really. represents our views to council, but I think would also be nice to take a little pressure off them, to to have to do that. So for instance, the say, Julian, the public use building, of course, be really involved in that. And as of now, so there are opportunities. And you guys can really think. help, Staff, help them get your point of view across. Help them determine policy. So I guess I'd like to say that Staff has been wonderful. It's been great working with all of you people. And Tina. You guys are so dedicated to your jobs and you can tell your care. You're good at your jobs. That's super super important. So we're really lucky that we have such dedicated staff here.

[4:16] So good job people and I'd say, just go figure the post Covid world out. I was planning on saying that I have a dog that has to keep quiet a 6 year old retriever keeping quiet. That's gonna have to sit on her. So so I'm I'm not gonna hang out, but good luck, you guys. So we need to touch on. You're good. Thanks. Yes, I I would like to say a few things, Susan, you are my longest time, Commissioner, since I returned to city and community vitality just started in the department. So

[5:06] you spoke well to the apple carts being turned. We've been through quite a bit together, but it's been an absolute delight working through. I think I might be the only person. It was. Well Ellie was there that he left, and then he came back. of course. we only require you to be off of commission, or for one year before you're welcome to return. So I know that by the time we really excited we do have a lot of work to do. Got a lot coming up with the anniversary mall so it's going on right now with the civic area. A lot of decisions to be made, and a lot is going to be involved in that

[6:01] next 5 years. So and I will to still speak to them elevator. I'm glad that's getting out. Yeah, it's been an absolute pleasure. I'm sorry, Eric. We do not have cookies at every commission unless there wants to be a motion of the but happy to offer truth for this meeting up to go we've asked for folks to sign the back of this, and we've seen it. But as a token of our appreciation, we do have some commemorative. We can send you home with this now, unless there's somebody who's itching to sign back. That's not have the opportunity to make sure we get this to you later. I know I signed it so early that they didn't even know what I was talking.

[7:18] Did that? So I'm relying on you guys. If anything interesting happens here, let me know it does. Where any fun opportunities when you get bored. Oh, I could come from public participants. Alright, I'm gonna take my cookie. Thank you, everybody. Thank you. So set it here. Please pass it on the cookies.

[8:04] so welcome, Erica and Andy. I really appreciate all. It's great to know that you've got some experience that's handy, but absolutely. But maybe if you would like to entertain, maybe introduction for folks to talk about, why they're board, but it's up to you to know each other. Before we do the official operate, at least for you guys. But Andy knows Andy is on the street. He's also on 15 street people, productions of our market downtown right across the street from where the current used to be. All of that and I also own the property, and anyone needs a tenant is not renewing downstairs. Should you need 3,500 beautiful square feet with 10 parking spots?

[9:07] I have. I'm all set for you. but so my wife also. And so it's been interesting getting to know per view of how this works. So I decided that I wanted to step up and I interview for another board. But, this one is fitting for what is interest me from growing virtual aspect of downtown and visitation, and all the things about. So when I heard about the whole thing. But, Justin, what brings you here? I manage these announcements and walk downtown, but downtown every day. Almost so. Figures I should be involved if I'm trying to do something positive in that light. So that's what kind of inspired me to

[10:01] try out for this thing, and in a unique position where a lot of the owners of businesses downtown. But so I feel like I can be nice bridge between those 2 fields. citizens at large. And business. Yeah, one of the things I really appreciate you is, I'm here during the day, and you're generally going into the evening all times. But yeah, I I see the dark side of. So I really appreciate your opinion if you will. Lesser seen usually. Okay. So you're my neighbor. So I am Saudi on Pearl and 1,100 block. And I've had about 17 years. And I am a boulder native.

[11:06] including. See you. So yeah, I feel like. and I'm also on the marketing committee with Terry so similar. Yeah, I feel like this is where I live. Everything and I like. I have a vested interest financially, but also emotionally cause. I feel like I love Boulder so much, and I want to make sure it stays. The wonderful place it is, and your downtown is the heart of Boulder, and you have to make sure that the heart is so. Yeah, I'm really excited. So I feel like, I have a lot of opinions. Now, people will listen. Yeah. And I ended up opening store in Santa Barbara, so I have to move. I had to like leave

[12:02] I think I did 3 years, but it was. Probably it must have been 2,000, maybe 8 to 2,011. I served. So I'm yeah, I'm excited. So there's yeah. There's always like. yeah, please see, like, get the other perspective of other people, too, because I feel like I know my story. You don't know everybody. All sits books. Yeah. And Nathan I'm the founder and CEO at Agency here in town called Fortnite Collective work on 15th Street. This Don said. I guess we're about 8 years old. I'm also the owner of the not the building, but we own 2 of the 3 suites in the building as well. So I guess we've been in the building for about 7 years. So but moved here. And I wanna say, in 2,007 from New York City and actually

[13:09] did a little bit of a Niwas curse. And I was cursed, for we actually didn't move back to New York and then realized within weeks that get back. So yeah. So I think we're probably back in New York about a year and a half. But yeah, and just really passionate about boulder and you know, my kids grew up here, and you know my son is gonna be a senior boulder on my daughter's gonna be a freshman. You know, really passionate about, you know. See, you see, you sports, and just here to, you know, just want to make anything I do to contribute to older being a thriving community so glad to be here fantastic. Thank alright. With that we can go through our formal oath of office. If you don't mind, we'll do it for the camera. Andy. You can repeat after me, or read the words on the page a combination of the 2, so I state your name. You certainly swear or affirm.

[14:05] I do so, that I will support the Constitution of the United States of America, support the Constitution of the United States of America, and of the State of Colorado, and of the State of Colorado, and the charter and ordinances of the City of Boulder, and the charter and ordinance of the city of Boulder, and faithfully perform the duties of the office of a member of the Downtown Management Commission. faithfully perform the duties of the office. Remember the Downtimes Management Commission, which I forgot about. All right. Congratulations. And, Eric, you got all that. You can just state it totally fine. You can go for it. I, Eric, it's all do solemnly swear what to say for parentheses exactly parentheses.

[15:04] but I also support the Constitution of the United States of America and the State of Colorado, in the charter and ordinances the City of Boulder, and faithfully perform the duties of the office of a member of the Downtown Management Commission, of which which I am about great job. Congratulations. Yep. all right with that. their official numbers. So do you have any members of the public. We have any numbers in public. We have no members of the public for any members here. So consent. Agenda this for the Erica. This is all bigger room. You kind of know how this all works.

[16:02] You know this point. We often do discuss little topics here. So the expectation is, you've read this pack before you come, and if you have any specific questions, I'll read through everything. But does anyone have any questions? Issues. hearing none fund financials again. This will not be discussed unless we have questions. And caveat. With that we do have a full budget presentation. So if there's a question you have about our our budget so far this year versus fun financials over time. Then Elliot is here to that whole budget presentation. So should we hold the question on financial still that it might be just friendly suggestion. See how well I read, you guys. Mind.

[17:03] I do have questions. to do that. and apologies for patina want to acknowledge we have a Chief Redfern here. You do not have on the agenda of Public Safety update, which we sometimes do but just want to acknowledge and appreciate your presence. Not sure. You're not expected to make a presentation or anything at this time, but in the news. It's come out that there's less property damage, more black, less especially with something I saw where today or yesterday, or something like that, you know. yeah, thanks. I appreciate it. And then, honestly, that's why I didn't. That's gone by today. we've had actually the last 2 weeks have just been absolutely chaotic around here. So really concerning crime. And so I figured that might be on people's minds just wanted to step in. And once, if there were any questions. I will just very briefly say that. I'm not going to throw the credit, but briefly say that we are really actually doing well on property crime, including on the Mall downtown, furthering down from auto down double digits

[18:28] where we are struggling right now is crimes that we're having a little bit harder time predicting. We're using technology and data to erupt. And most of those crimes that we have last weeks of violence. 3 3 stabbings, couple of shootings. Couple of random attacks of women on paths and in Central Park. Are probably involved in house. and we are struggling to figure out why, all of a sudden, other than typically summer is busier. I'll be seeing this uptick. Sadly gonna hear about another crime that I can't talk about at the moment in the next couple of days about another concern. So

[19:08] mainly here to say that we're trying to. We're trying to get ahead of this. One thing I will say is that every single critical incident we've had in the last 2 weeks. We had the perpetrator in custody very quickly, including stabbing from yesterday. With the exception of the random attack on the woman on Baseline Demo, we're struggling with that only because she didn't really see the guy. It's not an area covered with cameras. And so what we can control, I feel we're doing a great job. I hope you've seen the difference with our bike controls, our E bikes. Our proactive contacts in the downtown area are over 100 year to date. So our officers are getting out of foot, doing the work, making contacts. We are just struggling to be everywhere. We need to be at every moment when we're seeing people experience email

[20:03] induce violence prices. so fully acknowledging that we we are still trying to figure out what's what it was in the water for lack of a better term last couple of weeks every day. We're hoping that further than seems like probably so working closely with the da on having breakfast with you in the morning to strategize having, you know, just continually to struggle. Got a guy last Friday week to go Friday. Point a gun in another person's face on the hill to jail without the Pr government. So there are multiple prongs of this system. We are one of those continuing to try to work to do everything we can to keep being safe. That's that's my overview of what's been going on up until week and a half ago. This would been a very overly positive conversation. For instance, 26% on the hill.

[21:01] focusing more now on North Boulder with your biggest shelter, but also to address increased salts and other things downtown. Say it especially the Pearl Street corridor. I'm I'm down here all the time. To me it looks drastically better than it's a year ago, even 6 months ago. So don't want to get too excited because I could change some seasonal overall. I'm hearing a lot of positive feedback is not always the case. Just encourage everyone to keep, you know, telling us what they're seeing, what they're hearing, pulling things in, even if you think it's not a priority contact. And just as I've committed to everyone else, anywhere, at any time, for any meeting questions, any assessment on your property for procreation purposes. Want everyone to feel safe and want to this board continuing to monitor.

[22:02] That's it. So I know that I, different between our freedom. Next to high school and stuff like that, there is maybe an occasional thing, but it does like Reddit. So people like starting before the boulder boulder people are like looks better here. And they're like, Yeah, it's boulder boulder. But now it's continued. Since then it's really maintained. Well, since then, that being said. Susan was here, and she always had a perception crying. And, Stephanie, that's another thing, Stephanie, who's not here right? It's the perception. This may be better, because fuels that you know all that it was kind of weird. But now it's actually feels more dangerous. Because, like, now, it's random, weird stuff versus the the mess weird stuff. Yeah, I will say that the mature majority of our current violence are people that are known to one another. Typically, the the guy that jumped out of the bushes and

[23:07] scared the pregnant woman. Last weekend. She fell completely random guys out of his mind on drugs bypassing random, but the majority of the stabbings, all of the shooting 2 shootings for the same suspect. Absolutely everyone knew each other. We're still seeing very few randoms where it's just a random time there, and and not not victim blaming or shaming at all. But there are many times where what we see with the overlap between suspect the victim is. they may all be engaged to things that they're not supposed to be doing, and things happen. And so it's really, I mean, not even relatively, the perception is one thing that we need. Look at our prime versus life size. We are incredibly safe. But it is there less. You can have 2 weeks. So how's your staffing doing better? So we hired 12 users last week.

[24:01] We are doing our best to really slow the departures to trickle and not see the mass exodus seen. And so we're close to 180. Progress is 1 91 as we get closer. I hope to still be in the position here in the next couple of months going to council to ask for the additional officers like the rooms about 10 to 15 more. That will help us supplement teams like Mall Hill traffic team. You know the concerns and polys and traffic. So we're we're doing much better, and we have a few exciting events. We've got a women's security expo coming up in August. We're really trying to. We have a new recruiting plan with the sergeant in charge. Recruiting and recruiting team. Are we traveling to Hsbc. Use different places to really try to recruit. to continue to recruit diverse people. It's absolutely getting close to what's happening. And that helps. And that's been able to help us get out more on foot. It's not just chasing on the one policy.

[25:01] Make it very inconvenient for people they're dating issue. Are these? Especially as of late? Are they known to you guys. the majority of our violence we've seen, and I'll say the last couple of weeks are almost all people there. I mean, I feel like I've asked so many times. But is it? If it's it's because it's public knowledge, once they've been charged right. Is it ever possible to get like profiles with them? To know would have avoided. Would it not avoid the unlawful? So we we can't. We can only release factual information. Now. Anyone can go to the police department to our record section online. If it's a case to open in the investig, it's not accessible. There's a couple of people in community that us 1015 reports a day and put things on social media. All 4 proceedings are open record. So if you hear about something that's happened.

[26:04] go on the county's website. You could go look at the jail logs. He's been arrested, that's all public information we can't release for per se. You know, profile. In fact, we've got a high utilization list. We refer those folks by a number we do deal with 80 20 principle prime sciences. That's true. so yeah, it's it is. But I will say this, we do see new arrivals frequently here coming to town for different reasons. So is the data center made the difference. How's that too soon to tell. It's only been a couple of weeks. Our calls for service have a lot of drastically.

[27:01] but I'm hopeful in the problem is the people that are the most probably they're going to be banned because they can't act properly. So my hope is the people who really want to help them to get to help go there, get the services. We'll see. When winter comes up they test and share that we had. We experienced vandalism in this building in basement, and the detective who investigated was amazing, identified the 3 individuals and they were trial set or court date set for 20 min. Awesome. I think a few weeks ago we did that on our block there was like less than 3 rocks, 3 different windows. I say it's the same people, but there is a correlation. People in the drug use crisis that love to break them. I don't understand.

[28:02] Oh, God! If you don't have my contact info at any time. Big shout out. There was lots of investors, the Rangers. our city park rangers. Osp, like it's not just Bp, I can't say take credit. Thank you. Alright. New exercise. Thank you. Alright, Maya. Great! Well, that's a tough act to follow. I will also say that we've seen just the difference of having foot patrol officers has really made a difference. And things have changed a lot since I've been here now 7 months. So I think I know everything here that I already have relationship. I do have a slide presentation that'd be some very nice.

[29:04] And, Chris, I know you have a big budget presentation, so I'll try to do it. Thanks. So we're May and June. You can go to the next slide. We have seen a considerable uptick in our pedestrian counts. So we have pedestrian cameras that count the number of visitors that come in downtown and those of you who are at the Town hall that we hosted in May at the town. Got to hear Chris's amazing presentation on place and over the coming months. We're gonna be looking to collaborate with you. If you might tell me to see how our pedestrian counts interact and overlay with the place or AI data, it'll be really interesting to see how

[30:03] that's gonna play out. But, as you can see in May, they have the boulder boulders. So that was a lot of fun. A ton of people downtown. You can see our year over year uptick we were up 30 versus May 2023. So that sounds like downtown pretty well, despite some of the worrisome trends we see in our office vacancy. We do know that people are indeed coming downtown. Down a little bit in June, but still about 19.3 over last year. So the trend in general is that things are going pretty well Obama's good deal. I'm sorry I gave these wrong directions. Wait, hold on! Well, I'll just if there's an interest in the next slide so you've really been focusing on trying to cultivate our office tenants. Particularly because of this office vacancy trend that we see which is hovering at about 30, probably a little bit higher, due to some of the quote ghost tenancies looking for just in leases that haven't expired yet. And so we have a program every year that we do call Member appreciation week and record

[31:17] since. Our membership manager has really just been going all out with that. So we even have the Department Planning Development City. So that was really fun. And if you've never seen slide that comes up, we we started featuring some employees as well. And not just just focusing on the employers, but really trying to highlight the people who are workers downtown. We had a 1,070 people participate. They stop by the business center to pick up their little employee appreciation sticker. And then they got various things around town benefits, and half that happy hour, etc, etc. So summertime in boulder is really all about the fun, and it started with the boulder boulder, and it's gonna keep going through the end of the summer. We go to the next page.

[32:10] So there's just some some photos of some fun. People, you know. Is it really downtown boulder? If there's attitude too involved. Go to the next slide. I'll talk a little bit about our bands on the bricks program. We have had 5 weeks. We have 3 more weeks. This is a fantastic summer concert series. We have had great success with having different nights showcase. So the 1st night was unite, and we had a wonderful event at the Boulder Theater with Chancellor Stephano way party for him. Then we had a Juneteenth celebration. New came out and then we had pride night with NASA Miller and out Boulder County. Now, Rocky Mount. thank you. Thank you. And then we're gonna have the older Chamber professionals for tomorrow night with my guest regular concert. So please come and check it out. Great midwick, midweek activity. You can go to the next slide.

[33:09] some of the advocacy and the connections that we've been doing in the community. We're delighted that these review policy got changed by city Council at the end of May. This is breaking it. It's making it easier for businesses to open and expand downtown. Continue to work on that. We hosted a homeless policy framework round table with the chamber and our preference at this boulder and the boulder shelter is now operating a couple of weeks ago. So we think that is having an impact. There's also been a really fun event called the Sundays on West Pearl started. And there's live music as 1st confections. There are 3 art classes for kiddos on the lawn, and we're really hearing a lot from businesses on the West End that they're benefiting from that kind of promotion. We'll be working with the East End in the coming months to try to do some more business promotions for them. You can go to the next slide.

[34:05] we with our volunteer business community. We planted a hundred 48 lots of flowers. So that's why all of the planters look so beautiful. And we also planted planters. In the east end and up on hill. That was great. The tipotr train runs every day 9 to 11 am. That is the most fun thing to see. Wonderful program that people from all over on the next slide. I'm going to talk a little bit about our Ambassador statistics, and one of the things we've been working behind the scenes on is more rigorous reporting for our ambassador team. So our ambassadors are on the ground providing services to that supplement the city's great work. and we're gonna be starting to issue these quarterly reports looks like so that you can see the impact. Not just month over month, but quarter of a quarter in year over year. So some things that note from this report, we have almost a thousand maintenance requests that were responded to by our ambassadors. And so that means that the police department. So, taking those kinds of calls. They can respond to services that they really need it for a lot of graffiti removal.

[35:18] You can see we had 1,000 pieces of graffiti that also includes stickers, sandbox. So I like to just think that the ambassadors work is largely invisible because you don't see it. So. Imagine if we had 1,000 pieces of graffiti in downtown. That would be a very different picture. These before and after photos speak for themselves, and I look forward to sharing future reports with you. At upcoming meetings. This is just for q. 1. We're wrapping up Q. 2 now, and we'll also be issuing a annual or annual report of all our activities to all of the rate pairs. And this is for the district, so that you can see what your fees are paid for on the next slide

[36:01] our so bolder marketing campaign went live. And we got to show you that commercial hopefully, you've been seeing an error on our commercial. But our television stations. There are buses, buttern wire around town. You'll see this. So Boulder campaign. It's been received really? Really. Well, loving it. It's got some really cute taglines. And that's been a great update for our center. So our happy place on the next slide, I can just show some of our headlines of our social media. Again, this is super packet. So I won't go into great detail here. But just our digital summary for this, this campaign has been really robust. We have robust remarketing in the Denver Metro area and visit Boulder. Does the advertising work of pushing out to state and rest of the country. But we're really proud of this work. We think that it's getting good visibility and people are interacting. If you can go to the next slide. We had a business meetup with our East End. Who? The place for AI data shows that we are ski

[37:06] little bit less visitation to the East End people tend to gravitate toward the Mall and to the West End and so we had a meeting with these folks to say, Hey, how can we help support your businesses? What do you want to do to move forward? We launch just a quick postcard campaign. We'll be having another meeting in a couple of weeks to talk about future ideas for promotions, because we know that downtown is not just about the Mall, but it's about starts on the next slide. This is just our social media. We've had some really good performers, and I want to give them feature. Shout out to every time I turn around, for, like my favorite older event ever but to to work day on Friday, when it was my 1st time, and that was just such a good. We had that reel that really did well on Facebook and Instagram. So and I'm going to do it next year. So I think maybe the National Management Commission will collaborate.

[38:00] Chris, what do you think sounds like a public meeting that needs to be? between 2, we're pretty impressive. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. Yeah, we're excited. And we do. You know, we do such a good job with our email marketing as well. And with our, with our office vacancy and some of our commercial listings. We're also seeing a lot of click through on that and a lot of forwards, which is good, because it means that people are saying, Hey, there's this property available, but I can check it out. So I'm hoping on the next slide we hosted, and all boards retreat on June 13.th And so, just as a reminder, our organization is made up of our business improvement district. which is a quasi municipal government agency, and then we have our downtown border partnership, which is a 501 6. That's where we run our membership and our advocacy, and then we have downtown over community initiatives free. So that means that I get to report to not one, not to but 3 different directors. And since I got here in November, one of my

[39:11] challenges and opportunities is really to align that work a little bit more, so that it isn't so that's not 3 separate organizations, but rather 3 different funding entities that are funneling up and supporting the mission of creating a absolutely vibrant downtown. So we had a great Board retreat, and he worked with Mit, which is the consultant that worked on with us on the Vision plan that was adopted in 2022 so they did a visual recording of the session. It would be held it in a vacant office space. On the 1,400 block of pearl sort of to strike the court, that this is something that we really need to pay attention to. And that took quite a bit of work, but we're excited about where that's gonna go. and then next slide and just share a little bit about some of our upcoming events. So this weekend is the Full Street art stuff super excited about that. Here is the program. But we've got 105 different artists who will be on the Full Street Mall. These are artists that are coming from all over the country, and this year we also issued an invitational to bipoc artists because we know that.

[40:20] So those are artists that have been historically not included in these types of experiences. This is our 44th annual test, and we're estimating it over between 60 to 70,000 weekend, and I really thought it didn't happen last weekend. It was 100 degrees, so the weather will be great. Looking forward to that again. 3 more weeks of advance on the bricks, and then our fall press will be coming up. Anything more question about this? I edit while they're talking. So I didn't. But in general the January stats were like.

[41:01] but people. the February March. Yeah. So that's 1 of the problems that we've been trying to deal with with our reporting system. There's a system called the Smart System, which sometimes, when every time the ambassadors complete a task, they log in on their phone and so we've had some inquiries in the reporting system that we're trying to look into. But we also have some staffing. Go down and February march simply because it was older. And we're trying to to save us bank hours that we had for staffing up in the spring and the summer. So some of it is arbitrary. And some of it might just be. Maybe somebody had a really like. They went to town graffiti. And then the next week that person didn't do as much for feed, because they realized all of their work got removed. So it's it's a little hard to tell what we're analyzing hopefully with these reports coming in regularly?

[42:04] Any other questions. Okay, I think I did it perfect. Alright, thank you very much point of privilege. Joe is a commission. So, Joe, thank you. Joe. Bench over chair of the Boulder Economic Council. And so we've been wanting to give him an opportunity to introduce, introduce himself to you all. Share a little bit about the work that's going on more on that macro level where you hear regularly from patina work that's happening here in Boulder in our downtown, trying to make a change for the more small local independent business that we serve for Joe works more on this macro level at the chamber in his role. And support of yes, all the work that we do at these levels, but also on that higher level, primary employers and attracting retaining industries on multiple levels. So with that, maybe I don't sell any of thunder. Over to Joe. Alright, I have a presentation.

[43:24] Why don't I can pull it up. You have it on it, and greatness that's gonna go in my direction. Make my way into and it's pretty exciting. I can hear about 6 months in my background. I have an economic developer down in South Florida for 10 years. Miami. 7 years for miles for 3 years. And I'm gonna give you the economic vitality Update which is coming soon. So I'm gonna put up my half just in case you're still. And I could talk to this

[44:13] sorry, Joe. Older economic indicators looks like this. I was not which I was. I was somewhere. Yes, 12, hey, wake. So I'm gonna give you a story about economic by value update. So 1st of all, let's talk about our aerospator clusters. Right? What are the biggest industries that are growing, the most amount of economic growth? Here we have aerospace bioscience clean tech it. Natural products, outdoor recreation and research. So those are the top 7 and aerospace really is taking lead. It's got a

[45:00] 16 times highest concentration in boulder, and that's probably the largest across the country. So we think about what's growing here aerospaces at the top. But most recently we have a new contender, and I don't have people have heard about quantum elevate quantum. We just got this incredible brand. What's amazing, there was a hundred cities across the Us. I competed for this brand. They got down to Boulder and Chicago, and then people under branches the other week, right? Which is phenomenal. It opened up for 127 million dollars coming into our community. That's going to be more higher paying jobs. And the nice thing about content. It's not just Phds, but it's also new college put things together. So it's gonna change the lives here to come downtown more by bigger houses. Very exciting. And then the other thing is this 127 million dollars opens up the door for us to get another 1 billion dollars in the next 10 years, and Boulder will have the 1st opportunity to get money to help grow the companies here.

[46:05] and what we've seen in our radar is we've already gotten a couple of calls from companies saying we want to move to Boulder, and one company from England reached out to us last week, saying, Hey, we saw this. We're coming here, 5 people firm, and they'll probably be in a co-working space, but they're like we're coming right. So we haven't even tried to improve yet. So very exciting times are coming down the road with boulder with quantum unemployment. So right now, if we look at year over year from March 2023 to March 2024, in March 2023 we had 207,000. We're at 212,000, so employment is up in Boulder. This is according to the Bureau of labor statistics. The other thing that's up, though, unfortunately, is unemployment. So we were at 2.7 last year at this time. We're at 3.5. However. however, that is lower than Denver. That was lower than Colorado, that is lower than the nation. They said 4%. So we're actually, even though it's not higher. We're lower than everyone else, which is a good economic indicator for us.

[47:09] Job trends, jobs increase through 2023 jobs increase by 4.7 versus national growth rate at 3.9. So we are doing better in that range again, positive form what we're going here. These are all nice economic indicators. So as we're recruiting companies, talking companies see what's happening. There's growth all the way around this. Let's talk office vacancy, right? This is something that is affected of all of us. I know it's more heavy here in downtown. It's also something that Chamber has identified as one of our top priorities. So partnering with patina, we're partnering with everyone, and we're really trying to figure out, what do we do next in order to help bolster and fill those office vacancies, kicking out some ideas, and we do a proactive marketing campaign after we analyze what does look like and who companies can be tracked who would be able to afford to copy. And so that's something that's being play right now. For Boulder County. It looks like there's toll vacancy at 2222

[48:10] and according to the calendar report, they project lease rates, and they still remain similar, or trend down for 20 the rest of 2024. So that's that's a positive sign. what's next? That's hot is the ecosystem. Right boulder is renowned for our entrepreneurs right back in the eighties and nineties, Fred Val and tech stars, those good things. But it's evolving now, right? So tech stars move out and boundaries posing. And you know what's happening to the ecosystem. Nothing. It's evolved. You're seeing new things come in. We are getting more accelerated. Our start toward diversify. Right? We have marketing it. Aerospace life sciences. We're seeing an influx in technology influx of AI. And now we're seeing quantum, right? So you're seeing different types of individuals coming here. And again, they're moving to boulder. I was just talking with a company Life Science Company.

[49:10] He's about 20,000 square feet in Europe. He's like, I'm going to scale. And he goes. And I'm going to stay in Boulder because I'm gonna I gotta need help find that property. I'm like, why are you staying? 1st of all, I want to make my 1st right. This guy's fantastic. He goes. I have classic United States. They love coming to Boulder so my clients will come here. My employees like coming in here, and he goes. So we're boulder proud. We're gonna stay, I'm like, well, that's fantastic. The other thing we're seeing in the entrepreneurial ecosystem is it's just a new way of entering a new way of entrepreneurial energy. Right? So we're still having companies being founded here. Companies are growing here. And one of the things that the bullet chambers doing is again in addition, vacancy. We've made entrepreneurship one of the lanes with the folks on, so we're convening some of the together and within the new bar. And we're having conversations with regards to where do you need help? What do we look like? One of the things we're hearing is that there's no longer

[50:09] consistent convening every month to bring all the entrepreneurs together. So we're looking at. How do we take this existing build that out. And so more to come on that one next time I come in. Vc funding by industry, Colorado is up, which is fantastic following in the areas of aerospace and manufacturing life size technology. And one of the things in the Boulder Chamber has is, we do have an economic council right. This Council. It has 16 different industries represented. There's about 57 major executives on this, and what we do is each month we go to a different location for a different industry. We're at social seasoning, talking about natural products, right? We're a big corporal, which is a light or is aerospace company back there, really cool. They now here's a local company in boulder boulder bred they are. They built a way to well in space.

[51:03] So on May 6.th They're with me last month last rocket. They shut up their device and they welded in space, and they came back down and it worked. So their goal is, how do they create these robotic arms that's actually go build out places in space. And they just got a big brand of funding. So happy, super exciting. Let's see. So these. the other thing that the boulder chamber does in regards to how do we convene and really help bring together the community and help the businesses grow is we have something called sector partnerships. Right? We've launched 5 manufacturing Fb, professional services, technology and healthcare. So what does that mean? So we have a quarterly meeting, and we invite all these companies as the companies come together and talk about manufacture. I look at about 34 of them. What's fascinating is that your CEO sitting around the table, who are competitors? But in these meetings you're talking about what are our common challenges, what we share, how we help each other so organically, you're having this growth, and they're making connections. Some are even now. So it's pretty pretty cool, and we do that quarterly.

[52:18] the next thing I'll share with you quickly is workforce development. So we also have a workforce development are within the boulder chamber, and we're focused on adult apprenticeships. And how do we move the need on change lives with different people today we supported 67 apprenticeships with the 73 completion rate. We currently have 14 active in healthcare, finance and manufacturing fields, and we'll have another 10 more across the end of this year. Our demographic 71 Hispanic 22 Hispanic and 6% chose not to identify. Last thing I'm going to leave you mark your calendars. October 8th is going to be our annual impact summit. and it's we're gonna be announcing it soon.

[53:02] It's gonna be both. We're gonna be a location now. But we're gonna open up with an interactive exhibit area. So very experiential. So you're gonna come in open about 40 or 50 vendors have to leave your way around. Want to get the copies. You're gonna get to see everybody talk to everybody. Once we're done with our networking, we're gonna opening remarks. most likely will be the new Chancellor. We'll be talking about. Cease impact on economic vitality. We're gonna follow up by Colorado ecosystem and boulders contribution be somebody from the governor's office. We're gonna explore the post, the Us. Economy. Then next slide. He's the Vp from Kansas City, Colorado. So the Kansas City fair will be coming. And then we're gonna have a really wonderful panel discussion. It's gonna be on driving an inclusive economy that means empowering people, diverse industry and embracing diversity. So that's just coming up. Last thing I'll leave you with is. See these business competence index. This is a quarterly index that gauges Colorado's businesses. They go out. They talk to hundreds of business leaders every quarter. Tell me what you're thinking. How are we doing? For the 1st time in 8 quarters? It is quarter to 2024 is above neutral deposit. So that's a positive sign and sees

[54:17] protecting the same thing for 2024. We're happy if we can get it, we can send it out to everybody. I'm curious to both Tina and Joseph like that? Obviously probably revenues. But sundance curious! There's any what the timetable for some of that decision is. Is it a while from that, or is that

[55:01] it's coming fast? So they are. They're anticipating January, February of next year to make a decision on whether they stay or go to a new location, and and then, if they were to move to boulder we would get it in 2,027. I don't think you have anything else you have. I'm just that. I'm great pro. David. I've noticed that Boulder doesn't allow air to be eats right. We do. But there's A. We can't have a home that's only in Airbnb. So there's limited amount of time that you're allowed to. But you know. when I just thought about, I've been talking with some people about it. One of the thoughts we had around sundance is like the type of people to come in. Hotels may not be what they want. They might want houses and stuff like that. But the mix of Airbnb may not fit. Well. you're talking about 30, 40, 50,000 people. So it's either they're going to go farther out to Broomfield in Denver for hotel or questions for me.

[56:14] Good, wonderful! Thank you for including me. I appreciate it. And can I stop the instrument? They're getting news that they're also confusing for Sunday. Okay? Awesome matters from staff with draft questions about right? You know, we did the most other dynamic topics, for the 1st elliot is here to present and his team's work in partnership with all the works of victims of community vitality. We've been working to prepare the 2025 budget for the general process which will go over our timeline but wanting to present our draft budget to Dmc. For the entire department, but also specifically the Cajun Fund.

[57:12] So with that, at least, I'm working really hard. And I got to take a 2 week vacation, which is really fantastic. It was. It's been nice to come back, and we can well worked on, and it's ready to share with you where we're at. Thanks. Chris. So yeah, to to Chris's point. We're gonna go over the budget. We will detach on financials actually included the draft recommendations in them. So we can questions about fund financials. We can certainly answer. There is a section at the end of this for questions and comments and feedback, and then at the very end, we'll have a motion language to to figure out the support from Dmc. We can go from there. Are you wanting to share your slides right now? We have a basis. Well, the problem is, you're sharing on a Powerpoint. We're sharing of the Pdf. Would you? I can certainly hop in and share off of a Powerpoint that might be better might need to pivot a couple of things.

[58:12] I've kind of preemptively put everything in for the next commission of being proactive. so I'm just gonna kind of talk as we're going through it and I'll get the presentation pull up here in just a second. But I I wanna 1st thing I wanna do is I want to talk a little bit about the formation of downtown and the roles and responsibilities for downtown. and then also a little bit about the cycle of our budgeting process. So little bit unique. Here. But city border probably not super unique to government.

[59:03] But we can go through that. So let me see here, I apologize. Join in the zoom real quick. And if Lauren, if you could promote me to co-host, is that correct? Yeah, just stay in a little bit. At least. that's looking pretty good. Okay, let's let's put that alright. So if you could go to the next one again, this is just the the 1st thing I was talking about here is the agenda for today. It's very small on purpose. I don't want you know what's coming up. So yeah, the formation rules and responsibilities will get over some key accomplishments which I'm gonna kind of put a PIN in because Christine is here today to talk a lot about what we have been getting done. I'm gonna focus more on what to get done into the future. So we'll talk a little bit about the work in progress. She'll cover more key accomplishments. I'll highlight a few things that might not be included in her capital improvement

[60:06] presentation. And then, of course, we're gonna talk a lot about what we're gonna do going forward. Then the budget process, the big Cv budget, the capital improvement program which is gonna have a lot of impacts for Dmc and residents and business area and it says, Youtube revenues. I promise it would be paging revenues and expenses, nothing like pivoting the last minute. so we can go to the next slide. So the formation of Pager was the day before my birthday in 1970. I was not born 1970. But the the main intent of paging was to provide parking and related improvements. That's clearly how it is written in ordnance. It's not super defined. So it gives us a little bit of flexibility, and how we use the funds that we collect from product revenues as well as property tax.

[61:00] But the bulk of what we're tasked with is is managing that parking and all street parking facilities. So our garages, our surface lots, etc. The on street program, all the meters that you will see. That's kind of a city wide program. It's not necessarily cagent specific. So it's how it kind of differs. A little bit. And then any, of course, acquisition or lease of the necessary lanes or interest to be able to buy that the option of sites, sites, future development so on and so forth. So these are all kind of the things that we're tasked with as staff, but also as commissioners for what we do here in Kager. It's good, excellent! So the budget process. I think. Skip one slide. Yeah. it is key accomplishment. So again, a little bit more from Christine later on, this later today, but we've been doing a lot of work in our garages. Of course we have the freeze event. Which was a little bit of pivot, but kind of on the non asset side of things, more of like the cultural vibrancy district vitality side of things. You know, reopening the West End was big for us. Just recently and getting that back to traffic and kind of getting businesses back to having the foot traffic there as well.

[62:18] Older social streets is another big program that we implemented and that's here. Please have some questions as well as we get a lane. Then the East East End River walk, the painting of the crosswalk over here on the East End with another big thing we got done. And then, of course, of course, our community program, which really helps incentivize people taking non single occupancy vehicles to work. And it helps kind of create a financial incentive. But then that we partner with businesses. you don't know about it is business owners. We'd be happy to talk to you a little bit about it. Support that. We've got work in progress. So we are and have expanding the Ego pass program to part time employees.

[63:02] Yeah, it's a great way for us to again really reduce our single occupancy count. It's it's a we wanna do really good in the city. We need to also have revenue more on the garages. Make sure we're utilizing our garages to the best extent. So we're trying to to accomplish a lot of things with a lot of different programs that we're providing trying to meet the demand, though, for all things with the maintenance of our assets, but also impact to the area from parking standpoint. People. We want to park these projects with people that support the business right and also the employees as well. We have an art installation going in at 1,100 roofs which is currently in progress. We are restriving all of the on street parking lots parking spaces. Excuse me, that are diag so not the parallel parking. We found that if we strike that in a very specific way that we actually reduce the amount of spaces that people can park in so we we've kind of pivoted a little bit there, but with the diagonal parking or perpendicular parking to the curves, we've been going through and restricted lot of that. So you'll see some of that was done most recently in front of the product.

[64:12] We are currently working on special events, programmatic changes. So we really looking deep into our special events program. I'm gonna talk a little bit about a cage budget recommendation. That's it's partially funded by cages. But a big Cb ask and how we can extend that program and other kind of activations. We want to do downtown kind of leads into the cultural plan updates with the New Arts Culture and Heritage sales tax that we're collecting at the beginning of next year. More formalization of the outdoor dining program. So we're seeing more and more utilization of that. And we're trying to expand that a little bit more. Also in 2,025. And then, with the legislation about digital accessibility. Constantly working on getting that. And our vendors, as well as you know, metropolis. And we have park locals making sure that they also need all those digital accessibility requirements

[65:10] budget process. Where are we? So we're in between that department budget development and citywide budget development. Kind of transitioning into the Council Review and adoption. So we're not obviously at the Council Review adoption. The 1st time Council will actually see the entire city's budget is in September during a study session. So we'll we'll be presenting that as a citywide budget and then we will have a couple of meetings, and thereafter, where we can have public participation. So don't really have public participation in study sessions. But the public is always welcome to join those. So that's kind of where we are in the budget process. The study session is in September. I wanna say it is early September now. It's like September 5th or the 12.th It's 1 of those Thursdays early Thursday, and I think it's September 5th this year, the day after my birthday, 2 days. That would be the formation of Cajun.

[66:15] September was a busy year for busy month. So these are different funding sources. So you know, we talked a lot about pages, central area, general Improvement District, which. again has the formation of it. The intent of it was to pledge property taxes to eventually purchase these assets to produce. It's enough revenue to maintain these assets by those other improvements. Uj is very similar in that nature. Bj. Parking and Td have a little bit different. Feel to them. And then, of course, we also have general fund support. So sales tax revenue from that goes into the general fund as well as property tax revenue that goes into general fund. We get a portion of that help fund some of our citywide initiatives, so things that maybe have a greater reach. We try to fund that out of the general fund.

[67:04] and then next year we have the Arts Culture and Heritage Ta sales tax. That's of course, that's dedicated specifically to that program. And then we have some other funding through our, which is, see, it's end of life coming soon. And then. Ccs. Ccrs, we have. Excuse me some fucking there. and there is actually some funding for the Pearl Street Mall refresh, I mean, out of that as well, can you explain? That's not all clear. So Harpa is the American Rescue Plan Act? So that was 5 people called Covid funding. It's a little bit different than the cares funding, which was the 1st tranche of funding from the Federal Government for covid. So this is a little bit longer term and helped honestly. Municipalities were allowed to detect figure out what they want to do with the funding so it could have been a revenue replacement. It could have been expansion of programs. There was no really.

[68:00] there wasn't a lot of definition in terms of how we use our phone and the city of boulder. We use it to stand up more programs and really to help economic support for businesses. And it's been helped by, for instance, the outdoor dining program had some market funding as well, in addition to some art programs that has some additional funding to really bolster back up the economy after Covid and then Ccs and Ccrs Ccs is the original acronym, for when it passed the community culture and safety sales tax that was produced back in 2,017, I think, was the very 1st time they got passed and that was to help expand some capital programs specific to safety. And some of the community led programs. And then Ccrs has gone through 2 iterations. So we've kind of extended that tax, I guess. 3 times. Now, 1st passage, then an extension, then another extension, I guess twice. And that's the community culture and resiliency and safety tax. So we added resiliency in there.

[69:04] So that's what that is. Thank you, Chris, for for saying that Bjad is Boulder Junction Access District and Tdm is our transportation and management. portion of that district. Eugen is the Eugid is the university. I will, I promise I will turn arts, culture heritage into Ach, so we can have fun. We just wanna confuse Aaron. So all of those funding sources have different forms of revenue and and support different expenses. So the revenue that we have the majority of the revenue that comes in for candidate is actually through our parking products. The property tax that Kjet collects as well as you did. Is not a drop of insignificant drop in. Okay, but it is small in comparison to the product revenue that we have so things long. Term permits parking permits transient parking in our garages those types of things

[70:03] when we say transient short term visitor party short term announcement transient. So I'm trying to think. And then we have transient. It just needs to be an acronym, and now looks good. So then we have leases, rents, and royalties. So Katie is very fortunate to own some commercial spaces into our garages as well as to kiosks on the Pro Street Mall. So we do collect some rent there, and it gives us a lot of flexibility to in terms of some of the programs that we can do to support local businesses, how we can conceptualize the use of these facilities in terms for the commercial, for instance, which we'll talk a little bit about in our budget requests. Then we have the specific ownership tax, which is a little bit like the property tax. We have some other revenues, which is my favorite, just other so we have some miscellaneous maintenance agreements with some of our kind of owners associations where we collect some revenues. It's just more support for managing our assets, and then we do have some transfers in from the general fund, so Cajun does directly fund some of the maintenance of our on street meters. But since how the On street meters provide general fund revenue. That's where that transfer kind of kicks in to help.

[71:16] We establish some of those expenses out of Kager directly, and then our newest one will be sales stats. hey? Relaxing. So some of the highlights here. The last couple of years really started kind of in 23, but really big in 24 has been this, we need to start realigning the unspent dollars to programs that have been overspent. So it's really been this realignment project, I guess, across the entire city to think about, where could we take some money that we haven't really been spending traditionally and put it into areas where we have been spending, maybe spending more than we said. So that's really been the key emphasis this year 2025, and in last year less the what additional funds do you need on top of what you already have? Right? So that's kind of the concept. This year, of course, we have the new dedicated sales tax. We have a heavy expansion

[72:13] capital programs. And you, eyes may have gotten really big when you looked at the fund financials because you see them start to actually drop. So pages had a very big fund balance, and by big, proportionally compared to the size of the district. It's been carrying a lot of cash. And we're seeing that in our capital program we have a lot of unmet needs. And we're really trying hard to hit the ground. No pun intended to to really build up these assets really get into the level that they need to be. So you'll see a big expansion in our capital programs. We do have some enhancements that we've requested. That are focused really on business and employee support within our districts as well as kind of citywide and then I did mention the property tax. There's a little bit of a headwind coming from the State. That initiative 50. If it does get passed will reduce some of the property tax revenue projections. Probably actuals as well for all the districts that have property taxes. So so that's appropriate. Cap.

[73:19] Summary of the changes that we made in 2025. So what is a little bit different this year than for the sorry for 2025 than it is from this year. So we have traditionally not spent as much money out of the Eco Pass program as we thought you would have, and that has a big part to do with how Rtd bills us now, because it's based on ridership, or it used to be based on number of passes. So we're just not seeing that ridership as much. So knowing we're expanding it to part time employees, we said, Okay, how much can we realign so we did realign all of the unspent money. We wanted to preserve some of that for the part time employees as well, but we did find that we could realign a lot of it and put it into our maintenance operations, which is really where we've said. Seen a lot of spending

[74:07] the other thing that we did is we're decreasing the general fund transfer to Kjid. So another thing, the general fund transfer pays to Cajun. So Kjet can make the direct payment is part of our credit card processing fees. So as business owners, you know that processing fees and how visa and right it's kind of anyways. So some of that is actually decreasing on Cajun side, because we're going to a vendor who will actually reduce our revenue that we get as way of paying the credit card fees on what they pick directly. So we saw some cost savings there and doing some of that analysis. So that's 1 of the things that we were able to realign. The big enhancements that we're asking for this year is continuation of the investment program. Continuation of the outdoor dining program the Eco task expansion. We were able to actually cover that existing budget, if you will, for 2025. The expansion request is more for Uj and virtual rejunction.

[75:10] And then the big one here is really that Arts and Culture Bridge here. Sorry did not Update slide. So getting away from Gap year to really bridge that year between the end of our cultural plan, which technically has a sunset of end of this year 2024. So we're left with this year. Of how do we get from end of cultural plan to new cultural plan? The bridge here? So we wanted to make sure that we had enough funding in there to meet any of the unmet needs for 2025. As we're developing that plan which is in progress right now. But we just we couldn't get to a point where we felt comfortable enough to make a solid budget request. That was well defined, based on the cultural plan in time for budget entry and budget development. So we're thinking more like, we'll have much better clear understanding in 26, and how to define that, but we knew that there was still some that needs

[76:07] capital highlights. So your neighbors to the north or south excuse me. He'll focus streetscape renovations and revitalizations. We're really trying to put a lot of money into the hill right now with the Moxie Hotel opening with the conference that are coming soon. We're striking while the iron top. We're getting more and more people there. So we wanna make sure that it's a very inviting district. And Cajun. Same concept, but more focused in our garages. So Cmg construction manager, general contractor. It's where we you can kind of think of it as like a design bill. So instead of having somebody come into the buildings and say, Oh, this needs to be done here, here's the drawings for. And then we hand that over to the general contractor. General contractor says I don't know what they were trying to draw on this, but this is what it's gonna cost you. We're trying to connect those 2 right out of the pace so that they have a better relationship, and that we have a better understanding from a cost perspective projections perspective. And then also what actually needs to be prioritized from both those groups. So that's gonna be a big one starting in 2025 specifically with spruce.

[77:14] Something else we really want to do is security enhancements are garages. So think more lighting. Better cell phone connectivity in the basements. Better repeaters for police and fire in our basements. And then also some potential cameras that we can place in strategic areas to help kind of ensure that we're always able to monitor those areas that have, I think, stairwells and elevators things and then 1% for public art on capital projects continues to expand. Has its own funding from Ccrs, but also other. This is our proposed budget for 2025 it's growing a lot. A big portion of this, though not an insignificant portion, is the arts culture and heritage expansion.

[78:00] So it's a 33% increase. From 2024 approved, which is a little bit different than 2024 revised. So the approved budget is the budget that we develop as we're developing now on our 2025 budget. So we're developing in 2024 thinking ahead. This is what we're going to need in 2025. The revised budget is all of those things that we didn't spend on, or things that we have encumbered or put under contract that didn't actually get done. that feeds into the 2024 revised Budget. So on the fun financials. You'll see those revisions. Some of the other things that goes into the Revised budget is any kind of offshoot requests that we have for an adjustment to base Atb and those are done usually twice a year. We actually don't have any atb requests that were approved for Kjet. In 2024. So far, you know, we can keep it that way. But that's 1 of the main reasons why the big visions are so big from 24 approved and 24.

[79:02] So our 25 pose is not too much different from our 24 revised, if you will. Some big changes that we're kind of out of our control, so to speak. Where the internal services and transfers you can see those both through pretty big. That is our computer replacement fund contributions. So think all the software that we have the cell phones that we pay for the the laptops that we use, we're constantly putting into a It managed fund that they pay directly so similar, like the general fund transferring to Kagg. This is kjet and other funds, transferring into it for them to pay direct costs for the replacement of our laptops, replacement of printers, lease printers, those types of things. So they did a thorough analysis calculation, and it sounds like we're paying enough. And now we're starting to pay that amount. So that's where that and it. And it's a lot more than that, it includes up. So our for our contribution. Correct? Yes. So the transfers. So the transfers kind of go. Yes, the internal services more for that

[80:14] computer replacement. Also, our Admin. So think like Hr is funded by the General Fund Central Finance City attorney's office. All those are funded by the general fund. But of course we benefit a lot from those services. we being pages over junction. So we kind of have to pay our share of those services. So that's also why we saw this go up as well. What's the asterisk mean? And what? How is that? 72.8%. So the asterisk on capital there is. Oh, a large portion of this is actually gonna come from the facilities repair and renovation fund, so that internal services part of that is, we pay into

[81:03] a savings account, if you will, for facilities, repair renovations, Kate, it funds this savings account, and we're actually requesting for some of that money like, Hey, we use that now. So that's like, when you build a fountain. You also have to put money into, maintain it for the future. So it's more so. We have kind of like 3 components. We buy the fountain, and then we have to budget to maintain a fountain, but we also have to buddy for the future to someday replace that. So that's what this is. So that balance has gotten up to an amount that is high enough that we feel confident to draw from that savings account while still preserving enough in there for future needs. And it's 1.5 million is what we're asking for out of that quarter, both savings account in 2,025. So that's what that means. how is it? 72%. So that's good. 72, 8% increase from 2024 to 2025,

[82:08] 10 would be 500,000. So 7 times 5 is 3.5 million. It's a big increase. Someone could check my math on me. I hope I'm right. So great question. So personnel. The big increase on personnel, because we have 2 fte requests for next year. So we have a request to because of the expansion of the Arts Culture and Heritage program. We're asking for an additional grants specialist. So more like an administrative position that it helps push the paper, so to speak. Cause we're gonna we're anticipating a lot more grants and we really wanna take the Grants program manager who is currently doing that paper process and putting them more on the grants. Evaluation grants. Scoring. How do we put down the documents for the Arts Commission? More of the correct Yup, and then the other contribution to that. 8 report, 8.4, and personnel is the special events

[83:21] specialist. That would also be more. Think of the administrative support. So more of like the pushing of the paper, so to speak. How do we get more people into approval to actually fill out the documentation? How do we collaborate against the departments because it's Pd, it's planning. It's open space. Sometimes it's parks and Rec, how does that person really help administer that program? And then the special events program manager leaves title can then kind of similar to the Grants manager is, how do we get more of these large events into the city of Boulder to bolster up our economy. How do we attract and retain? You know we don't want to get Sundance film festival then, and say one year, and like, Hey, that was fun. Even we really wanna make sure that we put in our best foot forward so that we continue to retain this. We're recognizing that in order to do that, we really need the staff support to kind of do the paper side of things.

[84:15] we created our own intake. But now we have to cut it. So that's kind of where that comes from should well, a living wage for existing staff. Yeah, there, there is a little living wage adjustment in there as well. No, that's in the operating budget. Yeah, that's the 1924. That's because we're starting with Cookies Council had a study session. They weren't interested in doing a huge funded continued program, but they were really approved processes. So I'm making easier for folks who do want to go through the effort to put on special events. And so that's so, that's really where we've been

[85:04] looking to, at least. But that said, for we are wanting more events. That is more burden on our office of special events, which is an army of one person. So we're hopeful that there will be some agreement that part of the process improvement includes making sure that we've got enough folks to help with that process. So let's see how it goes. So this is our 6 year capital improvement program that we've put forward. So I mentioned the hill streets gave renovation. So that's partially funded by you, just partially from the general fund. Course, that's not super specific to paging, but it does have an impact. especially because of the wayfinding work that we're doing up there and trying to really connect all of our districts. But really we have a great opportunity for 2 commercial districts, general improvement districts that are so close to one another, and that can attract

[86:03] kind of different demographics, and how we can cross, bring some of the people from each district. So that's kind of an impact there. The big ones, though, are our garages, our 5 garages starting in 2,025. We're looking at doing this garage renovation. The Asterisks are all is example anywhere where we're asking for some of that money. Out of that quote unquote savings account. I will say that ending in 2,028 so I guess real quick on the numbers for spruce. We're asking for 1.5 million out of that savings account. The 2027. We're asking for 1,000,02028. We're also asking for 1 million, which will still leave a pretty healthy balance of about 1.9 million left in that savings account that we still have, in case of emergencies or things go more anticipated or or cost well, more than anticipated. So we have flexibility. and then, of course, in 2025, a big one. That you all be very much aware of. Especially those with businesses on Pearl Street. Specific model is the Pearl Street model. Refresh? So that will happen in 2,026 Kj. Is funding a pretty significant portion of that, as well as Ccrs

[87:19] that sales tax that's dedicated to capital projects. Right? And so then, is that based on the plan that we've seen from the Pearl Street model form. you know, revitalizing the Allies and all those kinds of things. So that's that will be an input downtown vision plan is certainly input to planning process that will be led by parks and recreation. So parks and recreation is a steward of the 4 blocks of the downtown Urban Park. Knows the 1st street mall, so they'll be leading a process that we will be at the table, that you all will also have an opportunity to participate in, that is, in next year's.

[88:02] So let me unpack. Is that under parks budget. And or is this the work plan? Item operating is in parks. Budget. The capital part of the capital component of the implementation is Cajun, part of the capital. Ccrs. so I'm sure all 3 come together. And this is what we're seeing. One. Not necessarily. 1 3rd of the dollars will be more than 2 million dollars the portion that community vitality through our funds today. Could we make sure that the new members have the downtown vision plan email to them if they don't have it in the airplanes. Yes, Presence, I'm excited. We've had a lot of change in this.

[89:04] Well, it's it's a it's a refresh hopefully. Not a well, so it's what we're. You know what we're planning right? Not doing a 16th Street, Denver, 16th Street, Mall for the 50th anniversary. It's like there's some. There's some parts for them all show music, so we want to get it back to a state of river pair with maybe some nice touches. for instance, possibility could be replacing the people whole covers. Formerly most manhole covers with a commemorative 50th anniversary for a street ball or maybe some lighting upgrades and other elements, and also taking a look at some of the problem areas like the restrooms 13th Street and a recommendation in the downtown vision plan that says we need to do something on the 1,400 block which could be another cages on commercial kiosk, with principal spaces and public restrooms. So that it kind of relieves that pressure on the one set of other press rooms. Those are in the realm of possibility. Not a, you know.

[90:11] Exactly like, exactly. You're not gonna see a complete situation when I was young they just were little block things that hung. That's what people are looking for. And now they did an improvement. And it's like no confusion. So I'm just like, I wanna make sure people will just like make suggestions that they really think about like. And that's, of course, product of our bear or wildlife soup. We know that's a challenge that people don't tend to understand. But so it is which I know they paid a lot of rights to as well. But there, yeah, so certainly should be on the list, and that's why we want.

[91:01] There's a reason to be difficult. When I tell customers it's gonna be embarrass. People are like, that's cool. I know some more to come, and then, so we'll be having. There'll be conversations and touch points with you all and other voice missions in the city. Cause. Everybody in the city looks I see affordable commercial stops after next year. and that's been the evening of the Dmc. Yes, more about that 100. Not that it stops that we've consolidated. So we have traditionally asked for $100,000 every year without a great definition of what that $100,000 would be for. So my task for this team they kind of know it is identify that. So what is it? So goals and roi and analytics and stuff. And we're going to take the 500,000 that we're asking for in 2,025, plus the 500. I think it's 500 or 600,000, I should know how much we have.

[92:20] Oh, yeah, we have our button. And this is just cage specific. Anyhow, we're trying to pull all the funds together. In short, we're putting a proposal out on the street and hops to identify private partner. Kind of the hard thing we talked about last time. That doesn't that help them? We're gonna get a place where it's kind of a rework of stores exactly. We're trying not to put too many partnership that we are. And so we're using the bucket, putting on the bucket of money together instead of streaming it out. See what comes out of what works, in hopes that we do identify a really great partnership that will lead to funding, you know, proposal for possibly for the future

[93:04] jumpstart fund. Maybe there may be more if it starts work right? So my intent here is to really define capitalist capital. So capital is typically like a large investment into like an asset. So what the intent is hopefully that this becomes a very well defined program. And then we just have those ongoing operating dollars that support it. So that's kind of where we're trying to do is really consolidate that budget and really signify a central finance like, Hey, we were gonna be spending a chunk change on this program, and then we can do the operating requests in subsequent years. Maybe one big picture, 1, 2. I don't know how you want to say the gas service to electrification process for restaurants and stuff like that is that that sounds like a capital project. But is that all? Just excel, and it doesn't have anything to do with this budget or so. Is this removing gas appliances to electric appliances?

[94:06] Yes, I would say, that's probably in excel. But I just wouldn't lose of that. I didn't know if that was hitting any of our budgets. No, not currently. No, I will say we're trying to get the power lines that are above ground underground. That's in addition, with excel. But that's not the extent that we put that so some there certainly could be grants that become available, probably not through Kager. But maybe there are other budgets funding sources of the city and outside the city that would hopefully be available to local businesses to make that conversion. to pursue those goals? Exactly great questions. Thank you. So now, this is Kages specific portion of the budget for 2025

[95:02] you can see there's a couple of significant changes in the revenues. 1st and foremost is what we have budgeted and thought we were going to produce in in our investment earnings is significantly higher, in part because of the large cash balance that Kjet has right now. So the more cash you have that's sitting in the big account, more interested to cruise so you'll see that reflected in the fund financials as well as we start to spend down our cash balance. Our investment earnings go down with it. Something else. You see, a big, significant change on. There is the transfers in. So that's the general fund transfer. So we we decreased that, due to the credit card processing piece. But I will say on the expenses side, we also decrease that expense and cages. So it's a 1 for one. So cages really didn't see an impact because the expenses are going down. the revenue can go down as well, so we decrease the expenses by the same amount as revenue that would be coming in. So those are 2 big, significant changes.

[96:02] Parking the other revenues parking category that is projected as of today. Now this Commission will more than likely hear a presentation sometime in the near future about some good things and creative things. We're thinking about how how we better utilize our assets that are under utilize big Rtd. and how do we possibly increase revenue so that numbers today? So any changes that we may come to the commission with is there what we think about the partner products and how we can better utilize our assets does not take this into account. So this is a very conservative approach. So I feel very comfortable with this number here. Worst case scenario is that it comes in more. Well, I guess worst case scenario is, I get hit by a bus. Worst case scenarios. It does come in more. I think that's the anticipation here. So we always want to be on a conservative side from a revenue perspective. But we're also conservative from I guess. Good role. If you would from an expense side network, we're thinking we're going to spend more hopefully spend less. And we think we're going to make less. And we actually make. So that's kind of the

[97:08] balance those 2. We don't want to be so far off. We don't want to see 121 change year over year with what we think we're going to bring in on a regular basis. 2 to 3 is comfortable. So it's it's it's okay that we haven't project or increased our projections for investment brains, because it's not the biggest driver of revenue for digit, but it's still something we need to be better at. So this is a reflection on the expenses side that transfers. There's those large increases. So Kj. And Eugid and all of our districts did have a pretty big significant increase from that admin allocation. So thank again those services for Cao, for Hr. For central finance for it, all of those people digitized to help pay for so that's really what's driving those transfers. Is that what they call the admin allocation?

[98:16] The internal services is that the majority of that is the increase to the computer replacement funds, so that I think they're calling it now, the technology fund. So it's mapping to the print. Release cell phones. Software, like all of our licenses for office or smart sheets, etc, etc. Those are all baked into there. So, and then, of course, we also increase. It's my math right? So overall not an insignificant increase if you include capital of 7.1 of course, just from an operating standpoint, though it's 3.9, so little bit higher than inflation. But we're also expanding a few things in terms of our programs. And of course we have central finance telling us that we owe all those acronym, the alphabet.

[99:12] all right. questions and feedback. Besides some of the questions and feedback he's talking. It's just one question was, what was the percent difference between the 2023 approved and 2024 approved. Not, is it not as significant? No, it wasn't. It wasn't that big of a increase, partially because we didn't expand. We're not getting. We weren't as aggressive in 2024 with our capital plan as we were from 2023 this year. It's it's kind of one of those. Let's really look at our fund financials. Can we actually afford to be this aggressive and really do these large Cmg projects that we need to do? Can we actually fund it? And the answer was, Yes, we feel confident that we can fund it. So

[100:01] the increase from 23 over 24 was not as big. And actually our online budget book. super nerd. Here I've got a bookmark. Let's see what cages overall increased was. so cv wise increase from 23 to 24. This is again community vitality across the board. Let's see here. All of them are staying forward loading, so I can PIN that until the next to the next person. But I will certainly get it to you. Any other questions I was going back to slide. Well, okay, which is overall, the more like the kingdom of England. which is not one you have, and that's those are the overall architecture.

[101:04] And my note. Australians in 2024 for lighting economic vitality and district management. Now, looking at that, I don't see what I meant. I can answer that question. Do you know what I'm I do know what you're talking about? So you're talking about? Well, there's been 23. Our actual 1.4 million in our budget was 2.3,000,024. So yeah, that's the one that is so. There's a million dollar difference there. That is not all entirely, but a large portion, the Ecopas program. So that's why, in 25, we're like, we're just not spending money looking at our actuals. 23 in previous years in that ecopress program. So we're realigning it. So you'll see from 24 adopted of 2.3 million. It's going down, even though there's other expenses that have gone up. It's actually going down 2.4 5 exactly. Yeah. So we we realign more than $300,000

[102:08] out of that. But there's some expansions of after planning the investor program. Some of those things. 1.4 you budgeted 2. But we're waiting to see what it is. Well, yeah, because we're not done right, but based on what we've actually, we paid for the Ecos program already downtown. We know the expenses for this year. And we? Just. It's just not. There's expenses. So I can do why don't I take a note down and next commission me? I will give you a year to date actuals with where we are at 24. I didn't do it this year. This presentation because of a little bit of a 25 budget. I know. Yes, I can talk. That's a lot. So next Commission meeting I will give you year to date, 24 actuals and year to date projections for how we think within 24. Yep. And then just at the bottom, I just said license reserves. But that's going to be the capital stuff. Exactly. Got it. So yeah, our reserves.

[103:11] yeah. The cash balances. I mean, we're going from the beginning of 2023. We have 28 ish 20.7 million in cash. At the end of 23, we actually have more, 2020 back, almost 21 million dollars. At the end of 2,030. We're gonna take that down to 4.2 million. We're spending a lot of money next year. Really focus on these garages. I'm sure you see it right here from your customers. If you walk these garages you'll see some rough spots. You'll see some like the next page. All of our labels don't come through like

[104:02] there's 2, 2020. So some of the labels weren't clear. So let me the fun financials, and then that the one that you had for aye. which was proposed. Kjet Covid didn't have the years on it that you had here, but mine didn't I think that might be a hmm! So it's just like. Do you have some kind of a problem? There you get it? Which slide. So I'm on Slide 3. Oh, you got it. Yeah. it was actually specifically directed at your computer. I was like, you know what? Really? Until that be safe?

[105:00] well, I can say that if something doesn't feel right. You're always what making out, I can get you the right copy to like, look, what are we looking at? Sometimes some of the labels do. Yeah, that's interesting. I got an update today that I'm sharing with you. But I was on a meeting with customer service going over the 2025 contracts, and how to change the language, to be more inclusive of our time. And oh, yeah, she admitted that it had made a mistake on our boardings on the report last year, and they've been charging us not only for 1st boardings, but for subsequence. We're getting a 70,008 on our 2025 contract more savings. Yeah, so it's but it's a blessing and a curse, right? Like we have more money. Well, we really want more simply utilizing. Well, that's that's just coming here. That's still, that's

[106:03] yeah. So. But the new policy is, once you get on board, transfers are free. They were essentially charging us for transfers in addition to initial warnings, and I thought earlier, so that will be once I get it in writing, I'll share it with you early women like mine. I did a number of times. Oh, amazing! So do I read the suggestion and look for the yes, I hope I got something. The division recommends approval of the 2025 community vitality proposed budget, including the 2025 to 30 capital improvement Plan. Do I hear someone is that hearing that second. It's like. save that emotion. I mean, I'm sure.

[107:00] Can you go from the Lord? Yes, second. aye. that's aye right unanimous. We will reflect that in our report to counsel contingent, and we will bring any changes that we learn through the city wide budget process to you all. By the next meeting, probably through. Let's see, this is July. Yes, by September's Dmc. Meeting we'll have a good understanding of anything that was not approved due to funding problems, and that will bring it back to commission before the study session. Actually, our Commission meeting will not happen for the study session. No. So I'd say. Then probably our feedback will be Dmc unanimously approved the budget as draft budget as presented here are we need to figure out how to be accurate. Does that represent anything that changed from time to? So we'll work on that. That's been the challenge with our budget process over the past number of years is this type.

[108:14] So every commission is having that same sort of consideration. Great. Thank you. All. I really appreciate your explanation. That's really great. I'd love to do that. Add and the District outlook project update sounds good. You can ask me, and I'm running short on time, as you saw very briefly. So. Just one size reminders that the District Outlook Analysis Project is about taking a look at the current state of our general improvement districts vision for the future state. And if we have the right tools on governance taxation in order to achieve the vision.

[109:07] and as the project is gonna take about 18 months and all to some community engagement. So wanted to give you a brief update that we're on the council schedule for September 19, th and so we're with. Given that opportunity, we're realigning schedule a little bit in order to sequence this right. That'll be about start of community engagement, and what will be talking with or since from our districts, in order to start that process? But the rest of what we discussed in the past few meetings is going to be largely the same. There will tweaks scope as we move forward with finding a consultant, but wanted to make you aware that we're really on that council meeting, because 50% of us I've heard this, and I'm kind of

[110:01] trying to keep up talking about. We have 2 people who know nothing, so I don't need the half hour version. But can you give us a reminder? Maybe we can just probably so. Yes, I hear you there. We will want to use this commission as a guinea pig for our presentation for September 19, th so where you got a lot of time with Elliot today, I'd say that our next meeting is when we can do the deep dive. You will. You'll get a preview of how we're presenting to council study session. And during our orientation. Yeah. But bottom line, we're gonna look. So we have recommendations for features. You guys have been for trying to epics and all that kind of stuff. Yeah. it'll be good thanks and apologies. Christine, the capital improvement projects in downtown. This is the history.

[111:06] Yeah. So when you've seen the numbers going into capital, this is kind of an example of what we've been up to and where we're going. So capital improvement downtown, we have a lot of assets that we're managing, so I don't know if you guys recognize got the same Julie Garage, the Randall garage that you were referencing. Rt. 1,500 pearl where we are right now, Spruce Street, so 11th and spruce, and this 1st lot is very popular. The Trinity Garage. Not everybody recognizes, but that is also a Cajun asset. We only sell premise there as well as new, so you will ask it represented here. But eventually it will also be to our attention. But we are focusing on that. We also operate the 14th street lots. And like the civic area, you guys recognize this, the library lots, a number of lots. We manage them to make sure that the parking meters are taken care of, and the stripe beam is done, the snow is removed, but we don't own them, so you guys may or may not see them often on your presentations, but just know that that's what and the general fund pays for the improvements.

[112:19] Get something. So one thing that was very exciting. I don't know if you guys have been in the library a lot. I'm sorry I didn't have a better photo. I didn't get up there the day it was done. The library lot striking was almost you could not. It was really rough in there. So we finally got that striped people know where to park as well. Very exciting. So that is happening. Our team will be going back through and filling in some of the potholes that exist. But we're not planning to remill that because that's going to be part of civic area re envisioning plans. We don't want to put a ton of money into knowing those that lot, we want that to be a part of a recent plan. So right now we have triage this one. So, as Elliot mentioned, we're going to be doing the diagonal striping next downtown, because really wanting to do is invest in what we have. We know we just heard from Jeff. People are coming here. They want to be here our term. It's our time to like shine

[113:17] of what we have, and take care of those assets that we have. So next, restriving the diagonal wise and trying to make it easier for people to identify where they're supposed to work, because I don't know if you've been on the East End. That's good. We also build and paid. This is before the before the scribing was installed in that spruce lot across the screws garage as well. Again. That is very exciting. This is probably one of our one of our highest utilized assets at all times. It's full people see it? So it was really exciting. We had so many complaints of people falling into those homes, or, you know, so it's really important that taken care of. So just the highest revenue. So

[114:09] we have that building in the back room that is also our. So that's the 1st Raj so 1,101, st it is the highest utilized garage in in our fleet. I'll follow our fleet, for now is built in 1989. So I put the years up here so everybody can understand. Like we're dealing with aging assets. Which is why it was important. We have that 20 million dollars. But if it's just sitting in a bank, it's not doing what it's supposed to be doing. So it has 390 spaces. We have elevators anytime. You have something that moves is bound to break. So it makes it extra complicated. And then it also has easy chargers. So that's a huge benefit community. You see more and more usage all the time. What we did this year. We did a ton of concrete repairs. We did a bunch of there was a big column in the basement. I don't know if anybody went creepy basement, but there's column that needed some love

[115:06] facade replacements. Water is not our friend in any of these garages. It is one of our one of our biggest enemies, very important to boulder. We need to keep everything all of our water sources well fed, but in the garages it comes headaches. So we have to spend a lot of our time managing water and getting away from concrete, because concrete is worse, and it just sucks it up and breaks so we jetted the drains. We were moving drains to make sure that walkways don't become slippery, and then tree rates all over the city is there all over downtown. We're really focusing on the urban camp. So as we talk about East Pearl and making it pleasant to walk down there when there are trees it's cooler. It's nice. So we worked on a lot of tree rates. and then next we're gonna be tackling solar panel gutters. As it turns out, the solar panels are routing the water to the side of the building that we just fixed. Gotta keep that not happening. This. And we're gonna do a facility assessment. So as we're talking about the Cmgc process.

[116:08] we want to take a global view of every facility and then prioritize the work that needs to be done and then allocate the dollars to the most critical. That's the idea. It's been pretty scattershot lately, and we just need to fix this thing, and we want it to be more cohesive because I don't know. Last year we had to shut down garages left, right, and center. Nobody to do wanted a time. do it cohesively, and then move on to the next one, so it doesn't cost much of a headache for businesses to increase. Well, so the issue with concrete is, it has to be 50 degrees, and what I think whatever is before, so it always has to happen in summer 7, say June, and so in 2026 we will do that in like January through April. But you can see that the software on the left that was looking pretty rough and off right we were able to fix it. So it's like that second stair platform. It's just the right that you can barely see that if you zoom in you can write your crowd, and that's where you can see that. But again

[117:13] and the regutters are now pouring large. So another example. October, I think. Yes, there's a few hurdles. Yeah. So the exciting thing is and the way that it's been it's been expressed to me. And I'm sharing a few faces. So Agent is responsible for the infrastructure. We really try to make things look nice and feel nice. The Tina's team is really great at activating the space providing the programming and that sort of work. Matt's team is making things pretty, and then making sure that there's the infrastructure for the event, so that we are all working closely together. And that's why community vitality has such drastically different departments working together. So we're feeding

[118:16] And, for example, one of the things that is not nice is walking down the street twisting your ankle because the bricks are where they're supposed to be, or the irrigation to the trees are isn't turned on. And so working really closely with Parks, and that is responsible for the irrigation and forestry. Who's responsible trees, and us who's responsible for turning on the water and pain. There's lots of coordination that happens across all the different departments to make these sorts of things work. Do you guys see? There's so many trees that went in along the north side. It was so exciting. And those used to be hand watered trees because nobody knew where the irrigation was. So we're trying to like will down the amount of staff time that is required to maintain all of these things.

[119:01] So 1,500 pearl. The freeze mitigation was a humdinger in our plan, and it's shocking how little time we've lost or we've lost on our other projects, considering how much time this took. Because the domestic water types froze the the wet fire suppression suppression system froze the heat. A number of the heating units went out like it wasn't. It was really hard. The tenants are now back in operating spaces. Yes, we did so again, Matt's teams working really closely. Yeah. We offered tenants the opportunity to request my production to to yeah. so, vandalism. I mentioned it earlier. We do. We are insured. We do have a hundred $1,000 premium but the total cost of the event was 252 estimated 250,000, and it was 243,000. So we and we are getting answers for that difference. It's not a wasn't awesome. But we all those expenses from, you know, working with our attendance.

[120:19] Also end of life things. This is why we have those replicas. Right? So the Hvac system is old. We were built in 1,999. It's outlived this useful life. So, Hvac, the drive by our suppression system is ready for another or ready for you to be done. The facility assessment. We're doing the same thing here, right? We wanna make sure that we're thinking through how we approach this. The doors along the ground level of this building. I'm sure you guys noticed when you walked in? There's a rusty patina we're trying to get rid of those doors. Make it look nice.

[121:03] So we're also assessing we are on top of quarter, which causes buildings to shift and move. You guys notice you own property down there? So making sure that all of the walls are continuing to stay sturdy, all of that stuff, and then the vandalism prosecution. maybe restorative justice. But again managed elevators the space. This is one of our largest garages office, our largest largest garage. But it's 1 of our least util or under utilized. So as we were talking as I was talking about. The next next steps for our team is to look at. How could we be using these spaces? Better to make the change. and one caveat for everybody to know. In the forming ordinance our charge is accommodating, parking, and other access for the needs for complete build out downtown, so our garages, when they might not be fully utilized right now downtown, is also not fully built out, and so, thinking about the civic use, padded St. Julie. As that. Hopefully happens.

[122:16] The demand for that parking lot will go up. And so the modeling that went into the size of our garages. Was based on, not what we have right now, but what the potential buildup of the downtown would be over time. And so, when if you hear from folks of like oh, those empty parking garages, it's it's important to remind them that we weren't building for just what the demand is right. Now, this model for what demand was rejected today. in addition to the lack of people returning to office as well. So these are just some of the sign or some of the pictures from the freeze. I don't know if you guys ever saw what was going on. So if you've never seen what happens with these emergency.

[123:00] these sprinklers go off. Do you see the black stuff on the left hand side? So they just pressurize these water pipes, and it hangs out there. So it's really hard to clean up after it's it's not like, you see, the day the picture in the center is the day up the freeze, and there was water cascading down the side of the building. Do you see that little lake right in front? It was just happy. And then you can see on the right hand side. That's 1 of the sprinkler heads that basically broke and exploded off the building like it was. It was bit of a mess. But you can see like left and right. Just you guys passed this stuff on your on your way in. You can kind of see the water splatter on the left from where some of them water exploded, and we've changed things on the right hand side. So what you can't see left is carpet. The right hand side is like a lacquer. Yeah, and then same thing. You can kind of. See that we get this certain ceiling thing going on the top. There had to be heaters brought in on the left hand side and on the right.

[124:04] We've added in lighting. You've made it much more palatable with, of course, step in there, so we've been able to make lemonade, which is nice I wasn't able to get downstairs to take pictures of those spaces, but everybody's working this so Rtd big opportunity to to use like it's our lowest utilized garage was built 19 to 81. But there was there were 2 more floors added 1989. We have one. What's 302 spaces. The only time it really builds up is during Water Creek fest, and not even the farmer's market. It's like, yeah, parents, we get like the really big events that have you like? I expected you to let you know. Yes, so we have one elevator. There are ev chargers. But we did a ton of repairs, concrete repairs. We installed a traffic boat on top of our concrete repairs, so we don't continue to chase this issue, so you will see it.

[125:11] Here is the ramp. You guys see that? That's the underside of the ramp. There was concrete failing, so we had to dig out a hole on the ramp to get rid of the gross concrete. And this is how you drive it. It was it was in needed some tlc, and then we were able to so we were able to get rid of the old traffic code, install, install new traffic codes upstairs on ramps, anywhere that we've been doing concrete work. We're trying to protect it. And then we'll do a more comprehensive. So if you go up there, it's not going to look that bright and shining freeware because this is expensive, we still know what to do. So you'll see a specific area, and then we'll come into that sort of work later, how does it work with our TV? Do we up 100% of it? Or does our TV sit from us after we they park there? Because we made a place

[126:00] so Rtd owns the parcel city owns the airspace above the 1st floor, so it's fully separated. So they pay for the 1st floor, and we pay for everything above the 1st floor. Yup, so it's all ours. However, they own the however, the weed mitigation. We just found out. This is going way back into some contracts. We've gotten some comments. There were lots of needs around. The bus station in the bus depot was like we've never done the landscaping around it. It turns out the agreement says that they own the space, and as long as they turn on the irrigation they will landscape the space, and only if the irrigation hadn't been running for a long time. So it has been landscape. So we got that figured out, and it should be planted in the next couple of weeks. I'll save one to meet a lot to me very long. Oh, the humdinger! This is our oldest garage. Oh, it's so old, and it's the resource. It's the smallest garage and most likely to fill up, because it's right next to everything. 260 spaces there is an elevator in it. We do not manage it. The phone

[127:19] So we've done a cut a ton of concrete repairs like anytime. You see pooling water, a parking garage. It's not great. So we had to dig out all of the failing concrete and replace it. Same thing. I don't know if you guys saw this Sandra, we had to get rid of all of that failing concrete replaces. It's impossible to find that. yes, that I think the word that aggregate that was placed in the seventies. So we just have open. So maybe we'll put some hardware or something. We'll try to figure out what to do next. But yeah, there's that, and then say, Julian, sorry he is not the highest utilized garage

[128:02] that was in October, but it was built in 2,003, 556 spaces, tons of concrete repairs added there, and we have jetted the drains, and then we're going to be working on traffic coping. So I don't know if you guys were down there. But it was a ton. Oh, it's 100 concrete issues, and specifically under ballet, because ballet just like brings them in and out. Yep. So essentially, and paste with space underneath the ballet we pay for the space that's not underneath the ballet. So and we split it up by who's responsible, or who's responsible in our square footage. But the way that they pump this concrete, so they have to apply it from the bottom. And so they build these scaffold. You kind of see those holes they have to put tubes up there and then it just fills in Maya. Fill in the light fixture, but it's very exciting.

[129:00] but it still has a lot more work to do. You can imagine this is going to be the hardest place to do work because concrete left concrete work is loud and obnoxious and takes a long time and guess what a hotel is. Not. So yeah, we've repaired the the worst concrete. We don't want concrete people's cars there. But we not prepared all of the concrete so it's going to be process, although we're trying to do this. Cmg, maybe have a window of time to to get as much of it like if they say Julian does do their own construction. Can we feed back our work in conjunction with their work, and just try to be a supportive to the downtown. So next steps continue with our existing capital projects, so kind of crank through those we're doing. The we're preparing for the Cmgc strategy. So we're going to start with this 1st grush or the facility assessment is due to us 6 of this month, and we can prioritize those items and and then go out and see what happens. So

[130:19] and then we're gonna start evaluating our facility utilization like we talked about to figure out, how can we better use these facilities that are under utilized? So on our 1st garage. I did notice that those science week, but it this 1st garage is in the digital sign, the digital sign. yep. that's been prepared as yet. But I do want that. That was a big budget item that we we talked about. So that's something that that's already.

[131:00] Yeah. For a couple of weeks they keep telling us like it should be working. Now, is it not working? Now, what's happening now? So yeah, we're aware. And it's frustrating for sure. And I'm sure this is part of the assessment as well that the elevator in there the top floor glass is all broken down. I'm assuming that's part of that. Yes, okay. and there will be capital improvement projects in maintenance. Those are 2 entire different choices. So that sort of blast stuff would likely fall under a maintenance budget. We could get to it faster than the other parts of the garage. It's been broken up for a while, but there's there are structural issues in that whole area. So we have a lot of work to do

[132:05] in that area. So and I know that we've been working through a prioritization list. So we have this really long list of items that come. So if you see things feel free to send it over to me, I will add it to the list. But they get prioritized, based on what's going to have the biggest impact on the community and like safety issues. So we do. We have been down to maintenance staff members. We have the free. We got a number of things that distracted the team that really put the team out of at least this year trying to finish up paging parking sign project. So there were lots of things for our 2 maintenance needs on Thursday, Thursday, and then after that we should be able to move.

[133:04] Well, thanks for leading all these projects tediously. My dog guys work. So I really appreciate it. the unremarkable, remarkable jobs. Nobody notices it. I will touch real quick increase in personnel. We converted one of our maintenance technicians to the maintenance leave position so that we could have 2 leads on that team. just overnight coverage day coverage. To have one lead is really hard because you don't have that kind of high level maintenance technician in the evening and the morning shifts. So that's something we did. So that's a little bit of why, that 8 by 4 also went up. It's because we converted a position that was traditionally kind of an entry level position to a higher paid, more qualified, skilled position so that we have it both in day and night. So we get that coverage. 6 Am. To 9 pm. Every single.

[134:16] And I think people yeah, people forget that we're 24 7 bridge. And so, even though there's not a certain maintenance person presence 3 o'clock in the morning, there is a maintenance person available if you'd be on call to address virtually, since the gates of That's been a lot less stressful. Also, we're so far over that. Cut that off and appreciate it. And matters from commissioners. We did have one quick, brief update the last item under matters. No, it's okay. It's going to be super brief. Speaking of remarkable work, I'm gonna share my screen. But essentially, Wayne's really taking the lead on this. But we will be installing

[135:03] creative murals underneath some of the bike racks in the downtown area to enhance the look and feel of the district. And so we receive these proposals or this design proposal from a local mural artist. I think we're going to be moving forward 9, 20 per earl or 1020 per earl, and across the street that goes about pay for the 2 locations parking right now. So, oh, yeah, this is by parking that's in the road. So these are what are called bike corrals, and we've got, I think, 5 inverted use. They're sectioned off with bumper guards on each side from particular traffic. but they've been around for a long time. This was just great, again said, this was a proposal that started with the University Hill area. And we love this work and decided well, we can share them up. So

[136:07] currently, Aluca, are you intern myself, or working with streets baker and streets and markings? You'll get it out to a proposal from a local company called Connecto, makes these out of vine. Also they're heat applied. So got a lifespan of 3 to 5 years. It's not with street wise, correct. Yes, it's a stripe, right? We'll do the install and Quebec which produced the actual final they make. It's really cool to make them in 2 by 2 squares that way. If any part of it gets damaged, you can just reprint just like the carpet you're sitting on right here. We're actually doing that right now with the the decree block, because snow files took on us above our impression this last year. So we're in process replacement.

[137:04] 17th and Pearl 18th and Pearl 18th and pro all 4 legs. We're just now still working with the artist and the arts and Culture Department to get on these designs aligned. Well, and this was we talked about the fact that this is not Rose City. That's more of a Portland thing. So trying it. And with some different tellers also, these were made for a scale that was wrong. What we're using them down here. So we have to have the artist compress it to a 7 by 17 versus 8 by 38. So there's still that process. And then I love that state flower, and it's not. But I don't know if we want to go back to the process of having the artist redo it and then pay their stipend. So timeline wise. It's gotta go. So I'm not doing it in 2 weeks, like Ellie. It is, I'd say, 2 months.

[138:22] Thank you. Thank you. Cool thanks for good. And now it's managed from trans. So I have. I said, one question from last time we had the process consulting thing that I volunteered for is that anything happen should I? Further, no need 12 like or something be concerned. I'll move to here.

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