Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Dr.

Ignacio Nunez, and I serve as Chair of the Planning Zoning Commission.

But the first thing we're going to be doing tonight is the CPAC.

Gotta find the right.

There we go.

Find the right place.

So tonight I'm acting as chair of the Planning and Zoning Commission for the City of Arlington, and I hereby call this Capital Improvements Program Advisory Committee meeting for December the 4th, 2024 into session.

Commissioner Greer, we're going to go ahead and say the Pledge of Allegiance at this point.

Would you please lead us in that United States of America?

Thank you.

The first item of business for the CPAC or for this committee is a copy of the minutes of our April the 17th, 2024 CPAC session meeting were sent to all commissioners in advance.

Were there any changes or corrections that were needed to the minutes?

And if I don't hear, yes, sir, Commissioner Semterum.

I saw one on the regular session meeting minutes.

I don't think you can do that.

Oh, thank you.

So this is from the April 20, April 17th minutes.

Is that what you're referring to?

The regular session meeting.

Well, we're not there yet.

Yeah, we're we're we're sitting as a CPAC committee at this particular point in time.

But we'll please bring that up again when we get to the regular meeting.

And while we're doing that, and somebody try and remember who made the second.

Okay.

And I'll all right.

Uh let's see.

So I need a motion to approve the minutes of the CPAC session from April 17th.

I have uh a motion from Commissioner Finley and a second from Commissioner Ware to approve the minutes.

Please cast your votes.

Tonight we have a July 2024 semi-annual report from this uh committee.

Uh this time I'll call on Mr.

Richard Gertzon to present uh its report on the Capital Improvements Program Advisory Committee for July 2024.

It's a semi-annual report.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman, members of the CPAC.

Richard Gertsen, Assistant Director of Planning and Development Services.

You do have before you tonight the semi-annual report of the Capital Improvements Advisory Committee for the Impact Fee program covering the period from January 1st of this year until June the 30th of this year.

We produce these reports two times a year for those six-month periods.

Specifically, you have before you tonight a resolution on your agenda for action.

Upon approval of the resolution, what it does is to transmit to the city council for their information this semi-annual report.

For those in attendance, and as a reminder to the members of the commission, the central concept behind impact fees is that new development should pay for a proportionate share of the cost of new public infrastructure that's required to service that development.

Impact fees in Arlington finance public infrastructure for water, sanitary, sewer, and roadways.

And finally, impact fees can be used to increase facility capacity.

The impact fee fund cannot be used for operations and maintenance of any of the facilities.

Roadway projects are assigned to one of ten service areas and fees are collected in those districts and go to fund specifically projects that are on the CIP within those districts.

In contrast to that, water and sanitary sewer is not confined to a particular district, but rather is a citywide funding mechanism.

In the report that you have in hand tonight for the six-month period that I've referenced, one million twenty-six thousand five hundred and eighty-seven dollars were collected in impact fees.

That's broken down into roadway fees of $378,000, water of $457,000, and finally sanitary sewer of approximately 192,000.

During the first six months of this year, construction started on one new roadway project, that being the Debbie Lane widening, and then work continued on three other roadway and two other water projects.

This is a graph showing the collections for each of the six month periods for the life of the 2017 program, the current uh period that's being reported tonight, period 24A representing the first half of this year.

It is the lowest six-month collection period during the life of the 2017 program.

Again, that is primarily a factor of development activity, or in this case, I believe the lack of development activity, because this is not only reflected in our impact fees, but certainly in the other permit collections that we have in our department.

During the work session, one of the commission members did ask a question about when was the highest uh year collection for impact fees.

And while I don't have the specific year, I will point this out.

I just did some quick calculations.

If you look at our 2017 program, over its seven-year life to date, collections have amounted to $3.642 million per year on average, $3.642 million per year.

In the 2003, that is the 2003 program, which was in existence for 14 years.

The average was $2.82 million.

Of course, that period included the very significant recession of 2008, uh, 2009, 2010, so that was impacting that time period.

Prior to that, the 1999 program, which was in existence for four years, the average collections in that four years, and this indicates that things were really blowing and going here in Arlington.