We'll begin with the Pledge of Allegiance.

Tracy, did I hear you were going to kick it off first?

Yes, good afternoon.

Thank you.

Um Tracy Coleman, Director of Public Works.

Can you all hear me okay?

It echoes a little bit here, but um we good.

Um I'm joined by um David Price, um, who is executive director of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Lily Leonard, um, with Black Dog philanthrop she's a consultant.

Um and we are here today to discuss two separate items um, but both about the Civil War Museum.

One uh to discuss the lease amendment renewal um with the museum for the property at forty-eight East Patrick Street, and then also to discuss entering into an MOU with them to manage and oversee projects um that we identified in our CIP um program for some of the rehabilitation of the building.

Um I'm gonna go over a little bit and then I'm gonna turn it over to David and Lily.

Um they've prepared a presentation um about the museum and some of the history, so I'm not really gonna touch on that as much yet, um, unless you have questions.

Um let me see.

The um the museum, as far as the lease goes, the museum um has been leasing the building since um nineteen ninety-six.

That's the updated, yeah.

We there's a there's a section or as a date in the MOU that we need to correct before we go for approval.

Um in nineteen ninety-six, um, establishing the permanent home downtown.

Um, the term of the lease was for ten years and included two additional optional periods.

It was um the museum executed both renewal options and the lease expired in August of twenty twenty-five.

Um since that time, they've been on a month-to-month basis following the the terms of the original lease.

Um in that original lease, um, there was a shared intent um for the property to be transferred um to the museum, um, recognizing the museum's stewardship investment and role not only in the community, um, the renovation um and utilization of the building.

Um the draft amendment that we've put before you um provides an updated path towards the transfer of that property as well as some modifications to the terms to simplify some of the management of the property.

Um, the draft MOU.

It designates the museum as the project manager to oversee planning, bidding, execution of items of the city's capital improvement program along with projects that the museum has planned as well.

The MOU allows the museum to contribute additional funds, which they'll talk about that in the presentation.

To expand the scope of some of the projects that have been identified and to accelerate the timeline if at all.

The work would be coordinated through the museum as the project manager, but the city will also be partnering with that effort.

And definitely, you know, we are the ones that would approve the use of any city funds for any of the projects.

So part of the reason, like part of the justification for this MOU.

The reason that I support this is because of the museum's um long stewardship of the building.

Um they've fund they've been a major fundraiser.

Um they can ensure grant compliance.

There's a couple of grants.

I think I've listed them in the executive summary.

Um they can coordinate the scope, the sequencing and execution of improvements.

Um again, obviously all in close coordination with um cities, the city um project manager, which will likely be me or one of my direct staff.

Um see.

Just a couple of other quick points.

Um I did not include this in the fiscal impact, but I will in the future um executive summary um when this comes before the full council is um just as an FYI, the city paid um 1.887 million for the overall property.

The property was purchased in order to build the Carroll Creek parking deck.

Um so the building itself is kind of a leftover.

Um the maintenance costs have been just under $500,000 for the past at least 14 years, and we do the math in my head.

And I say $14.

You're saying the math doesn't add up from 1996.

Um that's as far back as our um our purchasing records go for this type of a maintenance.

So let me see.

I think that's what I wanted to present.

Um would you like the museum to present first?

Do you have questions for me?

You have questions for Tracy?

All right.

Yep, go ahead.

Okay.

David?

Lily?

Council members, thank you.

My name is Lily Leonard.

I am the founder and principal of Black Dog Philanthropic.

Uh, I've had the great pleasure of working alongside the National Museum of Civil War Medicine for the last year or so.

I think so.

Super.

Um and when I was engaged, uh, we were focused on internal renovations of our exhibits, which we will share with you in just a few minutes.

Um thereafter, uh, it became uh pretty apparent that uh there were some external needs as well, um, some deferred maintenance on that building.

Um you can see here um some historical photos.

We had a pretty good time going into the archives, uh, and you can see David.

Is that actually your office?

Yes.

It does fortunately does not look like that anymore.

Um but these photos were circa 1999.

You can get a sense, you know, as Ms.

Coleman said, the Cardi Building was effectively per uh seen as excess um for um the acquisition by the city in in the late 80s.

Um so the museum had entered into an agreement.

Um there were a couple of initial leases.

The the lease that is going to be memorialized in the MOU, that date was 1998.

Um, and that's really when uh the partnership began.

So those are some historical photos.

You can see actually, and this is a really neat photo.

Um this picture was taken on the left uh in the late 1800s, and um to the right you see what you probably see when you walk down East Patrick Street.

Um that's the museum as it stands today.

And I will kick it over to Mr.

Price.

So, David Price, executive director.

I just figured out uh this will be my fifteenth year at the museum, the longest job I've ever had.

Uh but it it's an exciting one.

Uh I'm thrilled to do it.

We are the number one tourist attraction in downtown Frederick.

Depending on the day on Yelp, we could be the top three because we're part of the historic district and we're part of the Carroll Creek project.

So I like to say we are the top three in in the in the city.

Um 30,000 visitors a year.

Our number one audience is medical, believe it or not.

And the second is, and that includes civilian and military.

Um our second biggest group are the is the Heritage Traveler, which spends more money and stays longer.

Um we have a great partnership with Visit Frederick.

I'm on that board.

Um quite frankly, half my staff, former staff is on that uh staff over there.

So we have a great partnership in that they'll share information with us in instinctually and intuitively, including their great software system now that could tell me if Joe Adkins went to Lowe's and spent 30 minutes in aisle twelve and then came to our museum.

It's an incredible tracking system.

I bring that up because we had been saying we generated hundreds of night overnight stays in the county, and reality um that software has told us we produce thousands.

Most of our folks come from 50 miles to 250 miles away, which means they're likely to spend the night.

So we're my background is owning my own business.

So I'm proud to be an economic engine downtown.

And the only way that we were able to do that is because of this project.

Uh the city recognizing something like us should come down into a dilapidated building.

We spent the money to fix it up, and now we're ready to fly and own that and take that off your books.

I think we're truly an example for not only the county, the state, but really the country.

It's a it's a great system.

Uh we also get school groups from all over the country, from Florida, California, Virginia.

Um our current exhibits, okay.

So I know one has never been there.

Who's been to the museum?

Yay!

Okay.

So I I can reference the fact that you know we're partially immersive.

Um part of our uh initial concept for the upgrade was to expand that further to make us a fully immersive um uh uh destination and also to upgrade the interpretive panels.

They're a little wordy right now, and also uh the world is so much more visual.

And and while we have images in there, um the upgrade is gonna really take us to the next level.

It also will allow us to um show a lot more of our collection.

Right now, we only have about 875 objects.

We anticipate we can't double that, but we'll we should get over about 1,200 of them.

Um right now our storyline uh really focuses around one gentleman, Peleg Bradford.

Um he is a soldier from Maine who experiences everything we do, and part of our thing is uh this project is to expand that to more diverse populations.

Slide.

So you'll notice these are renderings of what's coming up.

A lot more visuals.

There's seven podiums there that you can kind of make out.

They will cover uh an African-American surgeon, a uh nurse, um, even down to a dog who went through the entire Civil War Medical um process.

He does survive.

I don't want to do an old yeller thing here and make people sad, but that will expand um our story and our audience to a younger audience than the eighth graders that we get the majority of, because that's when they study civil war.

Um and everybody can relate to a dog.

The um gallery uh is a great example of why this project uh that now includes the exterior and this and the systems along with an interior upgrade.

It it really is an example of why the timing is great for this.

I didn't go into it thinking we we were gonna worry about the outside of the building or the shell.

Um but now that we are, the last area is the room that will tear down uh walls.

The rest of the museum we're trying to keep kind of a similar footprint to save money.

This area is where we get the most leaks.

We had to deal with leaks this past week.

It's always been a patching operation.

We're not sure what's behind these walls because we're liable to find some of those before situations, like in the before pictures.

So we're gonna start here and see what we got.

But in order to do that, we'll need different sources of funding.

Um and we'll make sure that the building ends up, you know, in in the best shape that it possibly can.

Uh and we're calling this area the impact room because it's the impact of civil war on everything that we go through in a society these days, whether it's civilian medical care, uh, it impacted the way we view death, it impacts the way we deal with an aging population.

Um get me started.

So I appreciate the time you guys did today, uh, took today.

And um, if you guys have any questions, please come over to the museum and I can show you kind of firsthand um, you know, the stuff that's in store and kind of the work that that we've already got planned.

I actually got a phone call from Hartman Roofing right before this, and they're actually coming tomorrow uh to do some of the minor uh projects that we were already able to get started.

With that, I'll turn it over to Lily.

Thank you.

And I will just wrap up um and share a little bit of context around the Capitol campaign.

So as I mentioned earlier, uh when I was engaged, we were really looking at the exhibits themselves.

Um, and that was between 1.82 million dollars, something in that neighborhood.

Things get more expensive as time passes for for various for various reasons, cost increases.

Um what at the same time, um the lease came up for renewal, and uh we got a call from Richard Griffin, uh, met with Richard, and we partnered together, and the museum wrote and and was successful in a 150,000 dollar uh grant from the Department of Housing and Community Development.

So through that, and I I happen to be close with that agency uh and pick up the phone and call them and I said, Hey, you know, we have these internal exhibits and we also have some external uh deferred maintenance needs.

Do you prefer that we separate this application and only have the exterior brick repointing and windows and things like that, or are you comfortable with us combining efforts?

Because when you combine those things, you can utilize those funds a little bit more flexibly than if you're restricted to only exterior improvements.

They advised us to combine the project, um, which is where our uh it's about $3.2 million.

We've built in a little bit of uh redundancy and and uh anticipating some increased cost.

Um the museum has already put forth a million dollars um from its own endowment.

Um above and beyond that, we've raised just over $600,000.

Um this does not include the $350,000 CIP um budget item that was approved in FY26.

Uh and that's really what the MOU is for.

Um, and also the DHCD grant is you know who is gonna be managing these improvements.

There are an abundance of them.

Um we have a hydraulic elevator.

Uh the things that you learn about hydraulic elevators that you never thought you'd need to know.

Um brick repointing roof, as David mentioned, um windows.

Of course, it's very important to maintain the historical um aspect of the work.

Um sometimes that can be a little bit more expensive.

Um what the expansion of the campaign allows us to do is focus on the internal uh elements as well.

Um HVAC, ADA compliance, and restrooms.

Um it makes a lot more sense from a logistical and from a cost effectiveness standpoint to be doing these things in tandem with the improvement of the exhibits.

So um, in a lot of ways, it's it was a fortuitous sort of occasion to combine the efforts into one overall capital campaign.

Uh and I'll be candid with you, as somebody that works with private philanthropy often, um, it's very uh intriguing and attractive to those funders to know that there's a public-private partnership that works well.

Uh and it's been working well, uh, and we look forward to continuing the partnership.

It's been wonderful to work with Ms.

Colman and Mr.

Waxer and others.

Um with that, I will uh yield the floor to any questions you may have.

Questions I guess more for David than the other two, but I would like to find a question for Scott just to get them up there.

But um how many items are in your collection about uh we're we're guesstimating about 5,000 now.

Okay.

And we get more during the spring and fall when people clean their attics out.

Right.

And uh is part of your uh mission to have exhibits in other places, like I think at one time you had one at the newcomer house and in Antietam and other places around the area.

So you yeah, the so right now the museum is three locations.

It's us here in Frederick, and then we operate the Clara Barton down in D.C., and then we operate the Pry House Field Hospital Museum on Antietam.

Um which neither party really was happy about, but it's put us in that spot.

So the the majority of uh vast majority, like 99 percent is here in Frederick and is displayed in Frederick.

So part of the upgrade is again, we're trying not to mess with the footprints too much for cost, but that last area is really it's almost like a little little maze.

We're gonna blow that out.

We should really be able to put a lot of new artifacts in there and then be smart about placing them in the current dioramas, we'll call them exhibit spaces to put more things in for people to see.

Yeah, and I guess the point of my question was or the questions were is that really your uh reach is much farther than the city of Frederick.

I mean, you go down to DC, you go out to Antiethelm.

I mean, so you're drawing people in from a larger pool.

You know, you stop at the fry house and you know, hey, I want to go see the the main museum or vice versa.

Yeah.

So I think your reach is really much farther than what you're giving yourself credit for.

Yeah, you're you're right, because uh when we first went into DC, we estimated a million tour buses came a year, and we just wanted to get.001 percent of that.

Right.

Um we do have great partnerships with those institutions.

It's definitely given us a lot of exposure.

And quite frankly, COVID was good for us because our digital presence is huge.

Um our videos now sometimes get half a million views.

Um we've monetized that.

We have outreach panels and programs that are out all the time.

So yeah, our our reach, I'm proud to say through the through hard work of the staff, is that we've truly earned that national name uh recognition.

I agree.

Thank you.

Thanks.

We talked about it before, but uh in the uh get the document right, the first amendment of lease document.

Um I understand that we're renewing for until 2030 with an option to renew for another five-year period after that.

Um, and that the museum has at its option uh to elect the purchase of the premises for 100 dollars.

And I I just for my comfort, I'm wondering if we could add a phrase saying that that's the museum's intent at some time during that period.

We're planning on exercising that option, just to make it clear that it's not a we might, we may not, we're we're gonna.

So that would that would be my only request.

Councilmember, we have no issue with uh acquiring in fact I will put the 100 dollars up myself.

Um but yes, we'll certainly um we'll certainly make that.

And and just uh to clarify for the the remaining council members, we had talked about this before we um convened.

The we would we would love to and intend on taking ownership of this building and transferring ownership far before 2030.

Um we're looking at a couple of years here, ideally in a in a in a best case scenario.

Um so that language was ambiguous to provide that flexibility to acquire sooner.

Uh but we can certainly make that distinction.

Thank you.

Great, thank you.

Anything else?

Public comments.

Right.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Um just so our next step, we are scheduled for the April 2nd meeting.

Um I think as long as we get together the language, add it to the uh first amendment to lease, um, we'll be ready and we'll have that back up into the clerk.

Thank you all very much.

Okay.

We have in front of us next a compilation, and thank you, Clara, for the work to put all this together.

Uh I think I started with bullets and she finished with actually getting it done and the links.

Um and so what you have in front of you, we've as a city, there is a long history of doing studies.

Uh we have many, many studies.

And from best I can tell, when we need to go back and find those recommendations, at least for me, I'm always going back and trying to find the study.

Um so I wanted we wanted to sort of put this forward and get ideas about how we can best move forward.

I have some thoughts, but wanted to get some collaboration going.

Uh you can tell what what Clara did, and I think this was really well done, is she broke it up by department.

And so any query that we put in, we can put it, you know, by department and or uh certainly for budget time, this is also available.

But before I went any further, Clara, I wanted to give you a chance.

If there was anything you wanted to add, if not, that's cool too.

But I just it was your work.

Do you have anything you wanted to add to the work?

It's okay, you could just say no.

I wanted to just no, you're good.

Um and kind of looking for next steps.

One thought could be, and this will take, and I will not, this will be my work, not Clara's work, is sort of taking the recommendations that are within each of these studies and extrapolating them to figure out where we are uh for a lot of these things.

I know some are actively reported on, but most are not.

So I'll pick on uh the planning department.

The planning department does give within their context of their update, they provide uh an update on the comprehensive plan.

They started a comprehensive planning monitoring program.

Um so that probably will be a little bit easier to to kind of pull pull out quickly and and connect that.

But wanted to get some initial thoughts from you all before we kind of went down that road, if there was anything that would be specifically helpful or format that would be helpful, or if you just this isn't something that's of interest at all, but I just wanted to toss it up there and get thoughts.

Um I think this is a great idea.

Thank you so so much.

I knew that there would be a lot out there, but this is more than I anticipated.

Um same, I looked at this, I'm like, I don't know where to start.

Um but yeah, going through them, pulling out the recommendations, and then determining where they are at or if they're useful, but it's still a lot.

So I don't have ideas of how we want to break it up and let I mean, but I don't want to put all of that on you either.

So I'm okay with um, you know, taking a chunk or a section of like economic development for me and you police department, you know, like breaking it up that way so we can do a deeper dive.

But whatever you want, we all think.

And I don't need to take economic development, just but just for an example.

I I would echo council member Taylor's comment.

This is terrific.

Thank you very much, Clara, for your work in putting this together.

Um I I'm I'm channeling the word intern as I say this, as opposed to uh President uh Nash or or Claire doing this, but I wonder if it would be helpful if we could get a summary of what why that project was initiated.

Was it mandated by the state or the federal government, or did we want to learn more about fill in the blank or but the three sentences of of the background for it, including including whether or not it was initiated by the city or forced uh a request by somebody else.

But that this list alone is worth its weight in gold.

So that this is just extra credit stuff as far as helping people understand the background for why we undertook that study.

Can I jump in real quick?

So on just under the office of mayor, it has affordable housing task force.

So that just started.

So are there any other ones that oh wait, yeah.

Oh, sorry, I did see an ETA on the next page.

I was wondering if there are any other ones that are ongoing and if that's clearly written in here.

Yeah, there's the complete streets.

That's in engineering, thank you, dear.

Okay, but it says it on here.

Yeah.

Okay.

Sorry, I didn't just I didn't look at the next slide.

Yeah, we we tried to identify if we've been talking about them, we wanted to include them kind of thing, if that very scientific uh but but if they've been sort of mentioned and we know that they're on their way, we included them.

That's great.

Yeah.

Chair Nash, are are do these studies get sprung on council, or in other words, is the the do departments formulate, oh, we need to do a study on fill in the blank, and then all of a sudden somebody shows up with them.

I I think there's a I think your original point about why did they start in the first place.

Um, and and I know Joe can speak to this.

There are some that are mandated by state law.

There are some that were specific to achieving grant dollars.

There are some that were I think like I'm looking at the climate action plan that came about.

I'm not sure that was sort of a chicken and egg thing.

I know we had the commission, the in the sustainability commission with the county, and you know, they the mobilize Frederick folks were sort of working towards a report, and then we did a resolution to adopt the report.

Um so I definitely don't think it's a it's a one explanation for all.

Um to the what I will say, what I've noticed is that we will get a presentation on a report or excuse me, a study, and then we don't hear from it again about it again until it comes up in the context of oh right, we did this thing, or oh right.

Um, and I'm gonna, you know, let's take the comprehensive line out of that, right?

Of the small area plans.

But I mean so let's just pick the mobility fee white paper.

Um I know we we put the mobility fee into place.

I don't think unless somebody asked the question, how is it working, how has it been working, should it should it continue to be in place, should we repeal it?

Um to my knowledge, that's never happened.

So it's sort of like that kind of that kind of thought.

But like, you know, the West Side Regional Park Study, the the West Side Feasibility Study, maybe as a group, we're like, you know what, that's a little outdated.

It's good to have it here, it's good to know about it, but we're you know, we we don't need to take additional action on that, right?

So um I just didn't know if a section of uh I'm making this up, but on deck reports, stuff that hasn't come to us yet, but which is being worked on.

It it would help me with a what's coming.

That's all.

And when you were talking about the dates of them, um I see some for um June 2005, September 2006, March 2003.

So I'm not sure what the the time frame was, maybe 20 years we were looking back.

Or a little more than 20 years.

I'm just pulling up.

So the question is like how far back did you go?

And it if I'm gonna, it's really just what we could find easily, kind of, right?

That's more of a mostly generally like the department say that they're purposes.

Um top of my head.

Um there's some studies that go back to the early 2000s, but most that were operating actively under now, probably from 2010 till now-ish.

Okay.

Just thinking would it be useful for us to look at those?

But maybe with Airport Master Plan from 2006, possibly, because that might take a long time, but then with the downtown Frederick needs assessment from 2003, I don't think that'd be as useful.

I think um I appreciate that feedback.

And I think that might be a separate ask.

I was really when I asked departments, it was more about what what are you currently using now, but I think asking for those historic studies just for context purposes, I think that's a valuable thing, and I'm happy to do that.

No, it's okay.

They were in here.

So you reached out to the departments to ask relevant oh okay.

So they gave it to you for a reason.

Okay.

If it wasn't posted online.

Okay, thank you.

Yeah.

I can suggest if we're gonna either farm this out or you know, to the four of us, or if we're gonna get an intern, I think the format of what we want it to look like.

Are we going to go by, you know, short-term, medium, and long term, or are we going by categories?

You know, is this a green thing?

Is this a downtown thing?

Is this a parks thing?

I think that way, at least when we're all working on it, if we do, we're coming up with the same format and we don't have to, you know, try to figure out mash them up together.

Although the list in itself, I mean, it's priceless.

I mean I'll sure I'll be using it.

Yeah, I have no interest in revisiting the total compensation study report.

If you take a look at that, it's not it.

Um but I guess what we know, so this is kind of being sprang on you.

This is the first time this has been presented.

Um we can create a format for next steps if you would like.

Um I'm wondering.

You know, as I look at the budget and administration, I'm thinking to myself, you know, maybe maybe the best way is to see I don't want to I don't want to take anything off the table arbitrarily either.

That's where I'm struggling because I know what I'm interested in.

Uh so I want to I want to make sure that we're we're being fair here.

Um maybe for the maybe if we just go through the departments and we maybe if we agree like this is something that we'd like to prioritize, maybe we could start there as a and then I will, Peter.

I haven't lost your idea about getting additional information about, you know, essentially the origin story of of each of these and what we're what we were hoping to accomplish.

Um I I appreciate that.

I think that's that's good information to have.

And it may be in the introduction of each report as well.

I don't know.

Yes.

That's that's probably right.

That's probably right.

So how does everybody feel about going through each department and just sort of if you want to work on it, maybe you um so let me back up.

So I'll I'll follow Joe's idea to put together um, you know, this is if there's an if there's a history stated within the introduction, you know, just basically copy and paste it and narrow it down.

And then what were the recommendations and we just leave it there and I'll just I'll create a document for the four of us to present at you know some future meeting.

Does that sound like a somewhat good plan?

Just so we're all on the same page.

So you'll create the template.

Yeah.

Great.

Thank you.

Yeah.

And this isn't hard and fast.

Like if there's something that you see later that you're like, man, I really want to follow up on that or I want to work on that.

But maybe just to get us started, and I'm thinking maybe from like a month from now, you know, we'll be we'll be in budget.

I'll make sure that and I know Clara will do this as well.

We'll make sure that the full council has this if they want this for budget purposes, if they want to look at anything or ask any questions or anything, that certainly doesn't stop any work.

I'm I'm actually really interested in my whole purpose in all of this is to kind of this low-hanging fruit that was recommended at some point, if there's something that we can do to move the needle.

That's really what I'm what my motivation is.

So and I just know that that I just didn't in the previous term, I just didn't have the time to to do that kind of work.

So now that we have this committee and it's sort of I I look at us as like the worker beast to like make sure that you know we're doing the things that can be done.

I just um that's that's really the genesis of the why.

So I guess for budget administration, does anybody have anything specific with respect to budget administration that speaks out or gets you real excited?

That really just poor Katie.

Katie, Mark Dahl, you do an amazing job, and it's just I think it's boring, but the strategic plan, human resources strategic plan.

Okay, you want to take that one?

Um I'm gonna take the water and sewer rate study if that's okay, because Katie had, and I dropped the ball on this in the previous term, Katie and team were looking at ways to end um water rate cutoffs for folks that couldn't pay.

And I think it was really a it was a structural, like we just didn't have the resources.

So um I'll take I'll take the water and sewer rate study.

Claire, are you writing this down?

I got it.

Okay, awesome.

You got it, Claire, and then I won't I won't duplicate yeah.

Okay.

And what what does disparity refer to in disparity study?

So this was the um this is a case study disparity study that um let me back up.

So when we were setting up the local preference program, there's case law that suggests, and Rachel's the expert on this since we did this in 2021, but there's case law that suggests that before you can set a local preference program up that's based on race, you have to display through a study that there is actually um a racial uh a gap essentially, um a need uh to be able to document that you've done the work and you've displayed the need, and so you have to do a disparity study.

The best example is what the state does.

The state has this massive disparity study that they do for their for the state uh local preference, but um we did that study to essentially create the legal rationale to create the local preference program.

And that's for procurement.

Correct.

Uh Department of Public Works.

I will say there's about 50 of these things listed in it, just a real quick count.

Um maybe the best course, again, I don't know, um, is maybe pick one or two for each of us, see how much work's involved, and then I think that's fair.

You know, come back after we get the template, you know.

If it's easy, which I doubt, um, you know, we could take on more, but um 50 is just a lot.

Yeah, and the interplay of the not to jump around, but the interplay of the the the climate and energy action plan with the sustainability plan, that's not what it's called.

The climate action plan, excuse me.

Like I haven't done the work to match those up.

Um I would imagine there's duplication, but yet, you know, I I I don't know.

So we don't the the council really hasn't created a list of environmental priorities, to my knowledge, right?

Like we haven't, but we have these plans that are in effect that Jenny has already presented on or recently presented on.

So um I'm just tossing that out there too.

I mean, if we're only taking one or two, I'll take Green Streets, the master plan for that in engineering.

And then just looking down.

Uh and a lot of these, like um the housing human health and services, they're talking about the CDPG program, the action plan, and the action plan doesn't have and the block grant plan, the two things are together, don't have a lot of goals.

It's more how funding is allocated using the CDBG money, which is only like I think like 400,000.

Um and that's done yearly.

So I I don't know if there'd be a lot, I mean, in that as well, but uh about it.

I would take uh out of the office of the mayor, uh the City of Frederick uh housing gap and future demand projections.

Don't know what it is, but it sounds fun.

Yeah, I didn't know that one even existed.

Uh I think that's the one that we just were presented.

So still a good project.

No, no, no.

Okay.

I mean, yeah.

I didn't realize it was called that.

Thank you, Peter.

Yeah, back up in DPW, I can do uh the uh tree canopy.

Peter, do you want the downtown circulator?

I know that came back up during the campaign, but I don't know.

That would be a good one.

You want to should we look at that one?

It it is come up since then as well.

So thank you.

Yeah.

I didn't know there was a plan.

I should I should have known there was a plan.

I did not know there was a or at least I forgot there was a study.

I don't know why that failed.

So for baby steps, those those will be my two.

Okay.

That's a good plan.

Or that's sorry, that's a good idea.

Okay, let me find more.

What about the mobility and parking recommendations?

Okay, I'll do the police department strategic plan.

Okay.

Oh, and the ad hoc charter review committee.

Sorry, not charter review, the NAC committee.

That's kind of a joke, but it is good.

That's a good idea.

I think the strategic plan, the community plan 2030, we can probably leave alone.

I'll take the uh I'll take the emergency operations plan as well.

And then let's I'll add the parks and master parks and rec master plan just because that keeps coming up.

And then probably.

Oh, and okay, one more and then I'll be done.

The sites of enslavement.

I know we I think we got I think we got grant dollars to do that.

And I don't know, this might be an easy e inquiry.

I don't know if the the cert the study was a predecessor to additional work or not.

I or if we just got the grant for the study.

So I think it might have been that we just got the grant for the study.

But we can but there are recommendations in that in that.

So what we'll do is we'll take this list and we'll put it on the agenda for you know like a month from now if that sounds good and we'll come back and just trade notes about what we found.

Does that sound good?

Okay.

And then we have just kind of forecasting upcoming meetings, and and I'm looking, I'm just looking at my phone so I remember the dates.

Uh we do not have a meeting next week because next week is the fifth Monday, so we have we're off next week.

Then the following week, the 6th, we're gonna have uh a presentation on elections, another presentation on elections.

We're gonna have uh we're gonna revisit the charter amendment.

So I'm gonna bring we'll put together a list of all the charter amendments that we talked about.

We're starting to get together um the concept of like on the concept of redistricting.

We want to invite folks to come in and talk to us about that.

Uh people that aren't in office right now to give presentations.

Um the county might be a little busy.

That's a little on the nose, sorry.

But the county elections folks might be busy, so we're gonna be looking for potentially other experts to come in and just give us a presentation on what redistricting could look like.

Um Clara, am I missing anything critical?

That's so that's coming up.

Oh, performance-based budgeting.

And we'll get together a presentation for performance-based budgeting as well.

Um so that is coming up.

Are there any comments or questions for the group?

Just one more that I wanted to add, Clara.

Inventory atlas on our parks and rec.

Thank you.

And uh should I pursue a speaker on open primaries?

Yes.

All right, and then this as part of that, because as you know, things get complicated quickly.

Um we probably will need our city elections people to come and comment on this stuff as well.

I will we'll make that request.

Okay, I'll start looking for uh somebody to update us on open primaries.

So by city elections people we mean Ms.

Phyllis.

Now we have the um we also have the uh commission, so see if they'll they're available.

Yeah.

It might be a good idea to talk with them anyway because feedback I had about the last election was that we should consider maybe handling the in-person voting a little bit differently and just have those discussions as well.

Yeah, you're right.

So you're right about that.

Maybe like I mean I'm I'll ask this.

Has anybody heard anything about a recap from the 2025 election?

Has that occurred?

I didn't Okay.

I don't I thought we the So I thought we did this in 2021.

Wasn't there a re like a sort of a this is what went well, this is what lessons learned.

Right, thank you.

That's the right way to say that.

The election.

So almost like an after action, like this is what we learned.

So if you we can add that to the, yeah.

I'm wondering if the elections commission might have done that, and then they can just re bring their report to us.

But okay.

All right.

Anything else?

We got budget coming up, super exciting.

Okay.

Any public comment?

Please don't rush the table.

All right.

Well, if there's nothing else, we will be adjourned.

Thank you very much.