Good afternoon, everybody.

I'm calling to order viral matters committee meeting for July 9th.

And you're gonna do roll call, Alderman Holly, present.

And Alderwoman Conte is not yet here.

Um, but we're gonna get started.

So do have an approval motion to approve the agenda.

So moved.

I'll second all those in favor.

Aye.

Motion carries.

And approval of a minutes to have a motion to approve the minutes from June 11th.

So moved.

Second.

All those in favor, please say aye.

I aye.

Motion carries, thank you.

ID 5 26 planning zoning development update.

Mr.

Meekins, please join us.

Thank you, Alderman Savage.

Good afternoon.

How's everybody doing?

Doing great, fine.

Good.

I trust that you received a copy of the uh spreadsheet that uh you typically get.

Yes, thank you.

So uh Mike Meekins, senior planner for current planning.

This is uh more or less the quarterly update that I present to the environmental matters committee with uh current projects, major projects that are happening in the city.

Um, and just to give you rundown once again, um everything in blue.

There's pretty much no change from the last report.

Uh everything in white with red text is the updated um, or is the uh are the updates for that specific project.

Oh yeah.

All right, so I'll uh as usual go down the list and uh please stop me if you have questions.

Um so the uh the first one is actually Bay Village uh two Bay Village Suites, which is uh a 105 unit uh independent living facility uh in the Bay Village, I'll call it campus, uh uh adjacent to Bay Ridge Road and uh at the intersection of Edgewood Road.

Um this application was seen or heard excuse me before um the planning commission uh back in 2020-ish.

And unfortunately, the applicant um the application uh expired uh the approval expired from the planning commission.

So they had to basically do a reboot of that application, and that recently happened uh last Thursday night.

It was heard before the planning commission in a virtual hearing and it was approved.

Um the opinion is being drafted uh and is will be available once it's finished.

Did anything change as far as the either from the planning commission or from the applicant?

It was pretty much a ditto of the exact same uh the exact same approval.

The one thing I might add uh is I think that there was a grease interceptor that was moved, so uh pretty minor, but um uh they just had to go through the process again, okay.

Yeah, I really don't have any concerns about it.

I did get some I did get contacted by some folks in the county, uh down on the neck.

Um, but I tried to explain that nothing's changed.

I personally had no interest in relitigating anything that's already been decided.

I'm glad that the large trees protected it.

It might be worthwhile if Brian Adams hasn't looked at it in a while just to assess the health of that tree, but um otherwise it I don't have any concerns.

So they had a uh they had a arborist actually recertify um with the new documents that they submitted, recertify the tree's health, and it's in good condition.

Okay.

So that's a positive.

Yeah, that was one of the big ass we had last time is just to have them work around that tree, and they they did incorporate it into their whole um, you know, um, I think the whole direction they're going with that senior center.

Yeah, I so they did do a refresh on with a couple of the documents.

One being the uh assessment of the tree, the other um was the uh reassessment of the uh traffic uh traffic study by the same traffic group that did the original.

Basically everything was the same.

So um they are in for uh both building and grading permits and they are like at the finish line for those.

So unfortunately they kind of stumbled here uh prior to getting their approval, so they had to go through this process, and I think uh, you know, development as what I what I understood was they're hoping to get started in the fall.

So, only thing I wanted to add, I guess, because I did notice this time around that they had an excess of parking.

If there's any leverage we may have to get them to remove a couple of those excess spots to put in, I don't know, tree or vegetation of some kind might be nice.

Yeah, a table even.

I don't know.

I that you know uh the uh meeting was virtual, and I did uh you had reached out to me regarding that and I did forward that to the applicants.

Um I did not hear back uh so whether or not that's possible or not.

Mo the majority of the parking is uh structured on the first floor under the building.

Um and I think the periphery, it's probably like a dozen spaces maybe at that.

So I don't know, I don't know the likelihood or the feasibility rather of um creating you know uh a space for street tree or whatever, but that's out there, and uh the uh the commissioners are aware of that too.

So we'll uh I might I might basically just remind them if they want to put that in, but it didn't come up as an additional condition in the uh this past approval.

It works, thank you.

Any other questions on this one?

Alrighty.

All right, so moving down the line, uh the loss at Eastport Landing.

Um this is uh a redevelopment in the Esports Shopping Center, uh at the uh the end of the shopping center nearest to the post office, uh it's basically a vacant lot deals produce is uh there seasonally.

Um it's part of part of the part of that existing shopping center, which is the old Esports Cinemas, is being demolished to uh make way for this um multi-story uh residential with uh commercial on the bottom.

Um that uh right at the end of the month of June came in for both grading and building permit uh applications.

Any questions on that?

Um, go on.

Go ahead.

All right, hold on.

Thorpe.

Uh so yeah, just uh process question of what that means for the future.

So how long does that process the that permit process roughly take?

No commitment.

So that's an excellent question.

Um if there's not an answer, that's okay too.

Yeah, I mean, I obviously it depends on the completeness of this mission um and uh review comments.

So I'll just answer it this way.

Uh the building permit review is due uh at July 30th.

Excuse me, July 20th, the grading permit review is due July 30th.

Typically grading permits take much longer than building permits uh to review and generally something of this size takes longer, but uh a typical I'll say single-family house, even though this is an apples to apples can take up to six six months for a grading permit.

Um they have uh an expiration date on their uh SDP, and I think I have it noted on here.

Um they need to have permits in hand uh by the 16th of October.

Okay, thank you.

Um, so it's a big push in our office to get that reviewed and get it out the door um I'm almost 100% certain there will be another iteration I don't think it's going to be approved uh on the first go uh something of this size generally never is um so it'll be back in their court uh and uh basically the architects and engineers will have to address the questions uh and uh modify the plans if necessary I have started my review actually I'm assigned to it in current planning uh and uh for uh from a current planning standpoint it's really a check between what was approved for the site design review versus what is uh you know uh the the building and grading plans so knock on wood it's not gonna be a huge review for me but this is a this is uh a review that the architectural reviews uh and all the uh utility interior electric plumbing so on and so forth fire uh it's a it's it's it's gonna be it's it's quite a bit of work I we have two we've asked for paper plans and we have two uh sets of plans uh one I'll say mechanical and one grading and building and they're both an inch thick 24 by 36 so I it's it's quite a it's quite a review process.

Thank you.

Yeah thank you I was gonna ask basically the same thing as Otterman Thorpe but just trying to get at when do we expect this to be done it sounds like what I'm hearing from you is there's a ton of variability and it probably doesn't make sense to answer that.

Yeah I would estimate from when you say done like a finished a finished product.

Yeah occupancy certification I would say uh easily a year and a half maybe oh okay that's that's a little bit better than what I thought maybe maybe two years gotcha but uh that's I'm just I'm just winging that one.

Yeah yeah yeah just giving us a sense that two years from when they get all their permits or two years from roughly now uh two years from when they get their permits and ideally that would be in October so two years from you know mid-October.

Thanks Mike.

All right yeah and just to transparent on I made a note I'm gonna look into it's not a question for you so much but I want to look up the stormwater management plan and just uh I'm curious what they're proposing for the outfall I know there were some questions about the alpha improvements last time.

Yeah and so I'm coming into the tail end of this obviously just because it's it's had so much history and I've only been here about three years.

I don't know off the top of my head uh and those the conceptual obviously was improved but those boxes will be verified and checked by um the stormwater folks in DPW.

Reach out to Mike about that.

Yeah that probably would be good.

Anything else on this all right thanks all right so flip the page um I do have one edit here uh for the Rocky Gorge uh Athens um project or saga as you might refer to it as um there is a appeal of the um director's decision uh to uh expire the project and that was penciled in or slated for the Board of Appeals meeting which was Tuesday night but it got pushed uh I don't know the all the ins and outs of why but it's tentatively right now on the Board of Appeals uh agenda for September because they don't meet generally they don't meet in August.

So that is on the radar, I'll say.

So for building board or a board of appeals board of appeals.

Board of appeals okay yeah.

All right.

Any questions on that one?

Um moving moving on.

Uh West Village uh which is one sixty one West Street, three-story mixed-use structure, one floor, first floor restaurant uh and then uh dwelling units on the second and third floors.

That one similar to similar to the uh Bay Village suites uh the SDP approval expired.

Um, and they had to go through the uh same process advertising and be and to be heard before the uh planning commission.

Um and that was uh so I was uh let me just say that I should have updated that this list months ago because that actually was heard and approved on the fourth uh uh December 4th of last year.

So it was again a reboot.

Uh uh coincidentally, I think the only change was the sewer connection.

Uh they changed the sewer connection, but everything else is the same as the original approval.

All right.

No questions about that.

Nothing for me.

That's what I'm glad to hear it's moving forward.

Actually, on the just because I'm curious, on the sewer connection, how did they change it?

Do you know?

So uh so that project sits on the corner of West Street, and then I can't remember the it's right behind.

It's colonial, right?

Right.

Right next to the garage, right next to the lemongrass and that section.

Um I think they moved it either from connecting to Colonial to or to uh to West Street.

So it was basically like a 90 degree flip one way or the other.

Gotcha.

Yeah, I figured that would be what it was.

Okay, thanks.

It's had to have the shaved ice truck uh, we'll put them down on we'll put them down at 245 West Street at least until that gets going.

Oh, there you go.

Because I know that's been popular.

Yeah, uh, hoping if it doesn't thunderstorm to go there later today.

Okay, so uh moving on the last one in the current part project list is the uh some Thomas Somerville property.

Um and that's a uh basically a plumbing warehouse warehouse and showroom.

Um that sits uh in parole uh off of Somerville uh and um old uh Solomon's Island Road adjacent to or across the street from Chick-fil-A.

And that um that property by is bisected by the city county line.

And I I talked about this before, but they're moving, they're gonna they're uh the final is they're demoing the large building.

It's a large green, looks like a warehouse, and moving their whole operation into the city.

Um with uh, so they'll have a uh new uh building with showroom warehouse.

It's gonna be probably half the size of what you see today, but it will be entirely in the city, and uh it is um, it has also supporting features like access parking um and that is uh that is in currently in uh minor site design review.

They are we just issued comments I'd say in the past two weeks uh for the second iteration of that review.

They've posted everything.

We had no public comments.

Um there are uh again knock on wood, minor comments from DPW that need to be addressed.

Uh and hopefully they actually I reached out to the applicant.

They have a meeting next week with DPW to try to iron everything out.

So this will be the last iteration of that review.

Um, hopefully uh they get that resolved, resubmit, and they'll get their approval.

Um from current planning standpoint, uh again, a project that I'm involved in.

I've looked at it and it checks all the boxes.

It looks like a uh looks like an attractive building and attractive project.

Um they actually did also, they also have their building and grading permits in for review.

They kind of jumped the gun on that uh prior to getting their SDP approval.

Um so they've already we're they're kind of the building or grading are kind of on pause right now but they're already in so once they get their approval then those will go full steam ahead and um hopefully uh that'll be uh a project that they might break around before the end of the year possibly in the fall.

Yeah I'm certainly positive on the redevelopment um the only thing I still I wish we could have I think I think we need to be a little more aggressive with our annexation powers to just annex right up to route two because instead because the buildings split right now right just go ahead and because I think we're allowed to do it in cases where it makes I forget the exact wording but geographic sense to annex in this case you couldn't get a better situation.

Yeah well sure I mean uh the uh along that same line you look at the uh you look at where the division line is that runs up to West Street and you have you have the you know the same situation bisecting a building and in fact that's where the uh uh dispensary is that sits right uh outside of the city line or city uh property yeah so we have the headquarters in the city yeah so we get any of the downside so that are the tax revenue I love it sorry that's my finance committee coming up so yeah so obviously you know that that whole that building that happened what five six years ago maybe more uh and given the different jurisdictional laws that's why that happened so okay thank you any other questions on that one all right here nothing uh appreciate the updates and I appreciate you worked in here wasn't there one more I have I have one one more the work sessions right the work sessions asked me to add the work sessions just as a uh something uh you see that's in the pipeline um and I I don't have specifics on those because um there's no formal application but there have been work sessions and so um there are actually four um the first one is two forty five West Street and that's the old uh gas station that's been sitting vacant for a very long time um and so the applicant has come in and they've had a work work session and uh those are proposed residential uh town homes oh that's the one in your yeah it's uh they had a community meeting I think they've gone to a work session they're looking to put nine townhomes in very similar to the ones that are to the left of it but a little bit similar design a little bit different architecture and I I would love to see them right now their plan is four in the back and five in the front and I'd love to see them swap that uh so that there is a little bit more of that the green space is a little bit more facing western right they want to have the the space between them is supposed to be a little bit of a community space.

I think it would be very beneficial to have that facing out in more of a U shape rather than facing in the way that the one sitting next door kind of have like people only really congregate in between the buildings as opposed to the it's not great access to the streetscape is what I'm saying.

Well and I think maybe think of something Mr.

Meek is just to kind of plant a seed in your head um if you do it in any of these especially the ones that are you see in the pipeline um where they encounter various barriers in our code um please this is not necessarily this committee unless it's environmental related but in general I think please keep the council in mind, because I know the number of us would like to see the development be the best it can.

Um, so you know, if they're running into some obscure, I don't know, parking requirement or some even some obscure environmental restriction um that gets in the way of just common sense.

Please happy to work with you and try to get something passed.

It's just I feel like most of the time we're just not often told until it's too late too far along in the process, but we really do want to get common sense back in this code when we can.

Yeah, no, I I agree with you.

I understand, and we can certainly do that.

Um communication is obviously in my mind, um, one of the biggest issues uh that I face in working and in general in life is you know, the more we communicate, the better off the end product seems to turn out.

So moving on, uh Robin Wood redevelopment, that is uh ongoing.

They've had uh one um one work session.

Uh that's the redevelopment of the whole uh the whole tract of Robinwood.

Um actually they're I believe they're gonna retain some of the existing structures, but they're proposing some uh uh residential, new residential town houses and um uh multi-story building.

So that's that's also in the works.

Um Bay Ridge Road is uh I forgive me for not having a street address, but I'll say the old CNC liquor site.

Um and that's also residential towns.

Um I believe I believe actually um this one might be going back to planning commission for a work session this month.

But I I have not I have not looked at the agenda yet.

Um and then lastly, right across from Robin Wood, the old Annapolis seafood site.

This has been to, I believe, two work sessions, um, and it's a redevelopment of that site, uh commercial, um, it's a new concept for royal farms, it's a fresh market.

Um also uh they are incorporating um some uh gas pumps uh but um but uh through the the work session and that process that um the fuel station has been scaled down and the fuel scale station would sit more or less behind or it uh behind the building.

So you would have Forest Drive, uh the building itself, and then the fuel stations and canopy behind that.

Um they are all they're also proposing EV charging stations.

So but uh again, the owner of Royal Farms was was in and very receptive, and he's excited about a new concept, not just uh what you would see at a typical royal farms, but maybe uh higher end and like I said, like a fresh concept, fresh fresh food concept.

Yeah, personally I'd still have concerns about adding uh another gas station contaminated site there, but um, yeah, I don't know that it's going to be relevant to this one, but I think this adds additional uh an additional data point for why we should have something that says we really don't need any more gas stations in the city.

We got enough, we're good.

And they're gonna all be stranded infrastructure in 20 years anyway, uh, or 25 or 30 or whatever you want to call it.

Uh so recognizing, like I said, we're not we're not necessarily going to change this project, but it's a good argument for you know, I like the the phrase, best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, second best time is today, right?

Sure.

Um, and just one last thing on my end on the Bay Ridge Road.

Um I can't remember if I I may have brought this up last time, I can't remember, but I was glad to see that Planzonium was pushing the idea of the the Dutch style pedestrian streets.

I always forget the term.

But um my understanding, and again, connecting it with my comment about common sense in the code, is my understanding is that because of some nuances in the fire code, they're making that they would they might need to make that very wide, or at least they're getting pushed by not your department, I don't think, but either fire or public works to make that road wider because of fire concerns, even though it's I'm not sure if it's gonna be a private road or public road, um, but again, I just feel like it's we're getting in the way of ourselves um from having really good innovative infrastructure that emulates what we have downtown.

Um, and I really I've been trying to push back on that trying to figure out why exactly that's popped up if it's a requirement or if it's just a preference from a department to see if we need to change anything.

So uh I can generalize um DPW uh typically um moving forward would like to have those public roads so they would uh they would be responsible for maintenance of you know some sort.

Um fire department does definitely have um requirements for turning radiuses and the ability to extend um their support system for their vehicles, uh uh if you know they're raising ladders or or what have you.

So um I don't I don't believe at this point either DPW or the uh farm marshal's office has really weighed in on that, but it's a concept and it's it's a notion that obviously in our code we have standard road widths uh and turning turning requirements, so the applicant's engineer design team typically would take that into account when they're doing the design.

Um, but just to add to um like uh the connectivity and infrastructure, they're definitely uh sidewalks or path paved paths along Forest Drive, and actually, this proposal similar to what was proposed, I think with Lydle, who's the property owner, that it's gonna be connected from uh Bay Village Drive and then to the signalized intersection there at uh Bay Ridge Road and Georgetown.

So it kind of it kind of creates uh uh a more flowing, a more you know, um I don't know, um yeah.

Yeah, no, yeah, absolutely.

And my point is though, just if if we have roads that have to be taken by the city, city ownership, then they have to follow our stand adhere to our standards.

Problem is our road standards are one size fits all, but in reality it doesn't fit all because it makes no sense to have a highway in the middle of a residential neighborhood.

I'm exaggerating, but uh we need to really adopt standards that are have a pedestrian street standard, throw it in there.

City ownership, that's fine, city maintenance, but right now we don't, so it gets defaulted to these way over wide roads, which does not it's not constructive towards community building, right?

What you all are doing in your department.

So I'm trying to get my head around what to do about that, but yeah, so I'm more or less overkill, like maybe more that's that's really necessary.

Yeah, precisely understood.

Um, I'm gonna cut it there unless there's something else, because we need to get to Jackie's update.

Super briefly, I'll just agree with you and say that we should have the fire trucks fit the streets rather than the streets fit the fire trucks.

Yeah, exactly.

Thank you.

All right, thank you, Mr.

Meekins.

Thank you.

Uh Deputy City Manager Giled.

You're up.

All right, and we do have a hard stop at 415 for the studio.

That works.

Um good afternoon, Jackie Guile, deputy city manager.

Um, so I oh, here you go.

I have updates for July.

I sent them out late when I did send them to you.

Um I didn't spend a lot of.

Sure, thank you.

Um I didn't spend a lot of time on updating on my part due to other priorities this week, but our environmental program managers did provide updates.

So everywhere that again, just as Mike does, I put update or new in red for those things that haven't had a change in the last month or have been added.

Um before I get started, I was I do provide this document not only to this group, and this is the main group, it's supposed to be the recipient of it.

I also provide to the Annapolis Environmental Commission, that would be the secondary group, and last administration I was asked to send it to all council members, which I started doing, and then I provide it to various people in the mayor's administration just as something to refer to, including the community ombudsman.

But I had a comment from the administration that this is too long and too in depth, and I had to remind them this is not intended for them.

This is intended for this commission committee and the commission, and I do this as just an informational service, but um and I was asked if I could provide something shorter.

So I will work on something shorter for the general council and the mayor's office in my copious spare time.

So I'll look do that probably next starting, well, not next month because you don't meet next month, but in September.

So I have a break.

All right.

So on the new issues, I'm gonna go through what are what is new and updated and then leave time for you to ask me questions.

Um we are focusing heavily on both transportation initiatives and clean energy, reliable energy, energy savings, and into that regard, we're working quite a bit on solar initiatives.

So on the first page, we have the solar three, um, the third paragraph, the solar inventory and strategy coordination with Anne Rundle County and the Resilience Authority.

So the resilience and sustainability team is working through resilience authority through their subcontractor council fire.

We're looking at opportunities to create a city solar strategy in any ways that we can do work also with the county and piggy piggyback on the county's work.

So, as part of that, we're looking at three city sites with a consultant for solar, either most likely roof solar, and so we're we're just beginning that process, but we're trying to save money and partner with the county in whatever way we can.

On the second page near the bottom, I have an update there.

We just really started this last month.

We were working with um Empower Maryland BG BGE's program, Empower Maryland, and LED lighting upgrades.

So we're trying to work with central services on a project with BGE and Empower to have LED lighting retrofits at no cost and upgrades for businesses and municipal buildings.

Um there's a Empower Maryland works with a company called Matrix Solutions, and so as the city's first pilot, we have picked the Forest Drive fire station, and that work was completed on May 13th.

And now we're looking at um other buildings in the cities for lighting upgrades at no cost again to the city.

So we're looking at Department of Transportation Stand Center and the Eastport Fire Station to begin with, um, and as well as ballparks and parking garages.

So there'll be more information coming on that.

The program within power ends in September, the end of September of this year.

So we're trying to take as much um advantage of that as possible.

No cost to the city again.

So Ashley Diaz, our environmental program, one of our environmental program managers provided on the next page on page three, um, kind of a breakdown of which facilities we're looking at, the value of the upgrades, what the energy savings are in kilowatts, and the estimated annual utility savings.

Again, we're doing this at no cost of the city, but we can save quite a bit on utility savings, and she's showing us what we're saving by not paying for it ourselves and doing it through BGEs and power program.

So I found that rather useful for her from her.

And then at the bottom of page three, I have our greenhouse gas emissions inventory and climate action plan update.

Um we are entering the final round of edits and the way it will look.

I am worked on some graphics because I think that's really important.

Um, people some people just look at the the graphics to interpret it and understand it, and they're very easily used when you're explaining it to other people.

Um, it will have it's mostly based on recommendations.

Um, it's not based on this based on our greenhouse gas inventories that we updated this year, and then we've made recommendations based on that, and it covers almost every department in the city.

So when we look at these recommendations, we are making them based making them realistic to Annapolis.

You know, a lot of them are very similar to things that the state is encouraging, but we have we're our own unique municipality.

And although we strive to meet the goals that the state set and the Maryland Solutions Now Act, we've modified, you'll see they've modified a little bit to meet up with what Annapolis can do.

And so they're a little bit more specific to Annapolis.

You'll see that in the final version that we hope to get to you.

I don't think there's any problem at all getting it to you by September after the recess.

That recess provided us a little bit more time.

And then also as an appendix to the climate action plan, we have a document that compares what the former climate action plan did that Alderman Savage did work on about 10 years ago.

There were recommendations in that plan, and we are in the appendix are showing what we did do from that plan, what we didn't do, and why there could have been a technological change, preference to electric versus natural gas, which was preferred before, and how far along we are in meeting the old plan, and then some of those recommendations were put in the new plan as well that we didn't meet.

I think that will be useful to say, you know, it's one of those things where people say, You've done the study, but what did you do with it?

We can show what we actually did with the old cap and and how why we're doing things differently with the new one.

I wish it was only 10 years ago, but it's more of a 20.

It was way overdue to do a new cap.

So on page four, um, at halfway down, we have again residential solar here.

As I mentioned, we're trying to, it's the city trying to find ways where we can make a difference for the community.

We don't have control over utility rates, but we can try to explore ways to help the community, make the community more aware of what is offered through BGE.

And we have some other suggestions in the climate action plan too, but may or may not have need help from city council.

But this is um a program that the city's partnering with Solar United Neighbors, and they have this annual switch together effort.

Um that other counties and municipalities engage in this.

Um, and this is an opportunity that provides people interested residents and businesses actually with an opportunity to have solar installed in their homes as part at a cooperative and competitive price.

So the city, we've just had to sign up for it and say that we would make it open to residents to look at, and they can either apply to it individually or as a community or a cluster of homes or other um apartments, etc.

So, and that'd be nice to get something like that installed on like Robinwood when it gets redeveloped.

Just put it up on the rooftops.

Because don't put it up at no cost because it gets paid for over time.

You don't like that.

No, I mean, you've talked, I believe, on all of the housing developments we have, particularly public housing.

We need to require or encourage the developers or the management of the company, whatever manages that to do that.

So, what we're working on with with planning and zoning and resilient staff are looking at that for all of our community housing projects.

Um, it's part of the CNI project.

We actually, the city actually received a technical assistance grant for a microgrid there, so a solar backed by battery storage, um, so which was good that we didn't think we're going to get that, but they're doing a technical analysis to see if it would make sense there.

You may recall Durban Savage um probably about six years ago.

BGE and the city and one of their partners, CPA, Smart Energy Power Alliance, I think it's called, um, did a technical analysis for Eastport Harbor House, whether it made sense to put a microgrid there, and that was at no cost to the city as well, that analysis.

But they determined that it would make more sense in an area that would serve a larger group of people, and the the expense of installing the microgrid would um be better spread across more homes.

Um it's not to say it wouldn't make sense there, but it wouldn't be just for that those two of lower income communities.

They thought it would be good to explore spreading that microgrid, the power you would get from that into the adjoining communities in Eastport.

Scott, the lightning round, three minutes left.

So I cut off.

Okay, um, so looking at everything solar everywhere, especially for low income redevelopment.

Um, and then on page five, uh, a little update on the electric streetcar um project.

We had put to established June 12th as our deadline for uh proposals for a technical feasibility study to explore electric streetcar system for Annapolis.

The resilience authority was leading this effort for the city and the county, and we received about six proposals from very well qualified, experienced companies, and we were reviewing those now and hope to make a selection um in the next couple of months for the company that will do our feasibility study.

And then um, with electro transit, and underneath of that is our city ferry pilot project.

Um a revised RFP was drafted last year based on a hybrid electric diesel system, and that was because of Trump administration requirements that um would not no longer fund all electric.

So we modified that.

There's been a landing um RFP that's been drafted but has not been released yet.

And we're looking at other landing sites that are potential sites, Hawkins Cove, Cars Beach, etc.

Um, and also the funding sources that we have in hand and can be added to meet our local match of $525,000.

We're about halfway there with one fee that was paid to play planning and zoning by um a marina owner in Esport for certain permit concessions.

They had to pay us $250,000.

So and we're looking at other sources that where we could meet our local match.

Um we're putting together right now, I don't think it's in this um update, also an RFI request for qualifications and information for an operator, and we should have that ready to hit the streets in just a couple of weeks.

So Central Services is partnering with the Harbor Master's Office to put that together.

And I'm gonna leave it at that.

All right, thank you with a minute.

All right, um, just in time to have um anything else would go to the order before we readjourn.

I had a bunch of questions, but they're gonna get done in a minute.

So if you have questions, do you always reach out to me?

You know, happy to get together with you at any time.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Do apologize if the studio needs time to transition.

So, can I get a motion to adjourn?

I make a motion, I was already saying, all right.

All those in favor of adjourney, please say aye.