The meeting began with a Hillsborough 101 presentation providing an in-depth overview of city utilities, followed by the formal city council meeting which included a sheriff's office report, public comments, and several action items. The council approved an amended street name change, adopted a fee methodology for natural resource mitigation, approved a community development code amendment, and selected a developer for the Willow Creek affordable housing project.
Being recorded. Session. And our continuing series of Hillsborough 101. Thanks so much for being here. And thanks to the staff for being here as well. I'll turn it over to Robbie. Thank you, Mayor. Good evening, everyone. As Mayor mentioned, uh, this is uh actually we're winding down the 101s, so we just have one or two more after this. This is the last really big one that uh spans the council meeting, right? So um there's a lot to it as we talk about all the different city utilities. So we have lots of staff presenting tonight. We'll see how far we get before the meeting and then how obviously after the meeting we have reserved as well uh to cover the rest. So with that, um, I think I'm gonna turn it over to Raheem first. Yeah. Thanks, Robbie. Uh good evening, everybody. Um, we have quite a bit of stuff to cover today, um, and we have quite a few presenters. One is missing, but she'll be here shortly. Um, so I'll get us started. Uh so like Robbie mentioned, we're here to uh do one of the one-on-one series on utilities. Um, as we go through this, um do you have a quicker I can borrow? Yes. Um the staff we're presenting will introduce themselves along the way. Um but I just want to acknowledge there's a lot of people who help put this stuff together, and there's even more people who do this work, and you obviously won't see them today because they've got other things to do. Um, but there's just a whole team who does this work. So our agenda is going to start off with a general overview of our city utilities. Um, and um just highlight some work we've done over the past few years to better align uh some of our work, and then um we'll go over some utility specific information and then close with an overview of things we've done to continuously improve the way we deliver utilities within our city. Um the presentation's split up into these sections. So if it's okay, I would just ask if you don't mind holding your question until we get to the end of that section, just in case we've addressed um your question. So to kick us off, um, I'll do a quick overview of our utilities, and Michelle, uh, our assistant finance director will also touch on some uh stuff in here too. So I'll just keep going. So we wanted to make sure that we just kind of set the stage a little bit on the utilities within the city of Hillsborough based on the perspective of a resident within our community. So our residents usually get some version of these utilities that you see on the screen. The city directly provides water service, sanitary sewer service, surface water management services or stormwater services. Um, those two are in conjunction with clean water services. And then we have a transportation utility fee that helps with things like our pavement and other things like that. Um, in South Hillsborough, we have a community service fee, which um is specifically for South Hillsborough to help pay for some of the capital infrastructure around our parks and some other uh things related to our parks. And then we have Highlight, uh, which is available in certain areas within our community that provides broadband and digital voice services. Um directly, and Andrew will talk a little bit this uh about this in his portion. Uh, we provide solid waste services, so the cash pickup and disposal. Um, and uh council got a little bit of an overview, a couple of meetings back when we were doing the rate study. And then we have private utilities, but the city does not provide any services uh related to like broadband with the exception of highlight. We do provide broadband services, but things like Comcast or Ziply provided through private utility providers. Same thing with cable, same thing with electricity, which is provided by PGE, natural gas, um, and telecommunication services. We don't provide those. Uh next slide. So the intent of this slide is to just give you a quick um overview of of how utilities are run and funded, and how do we set rates? And when I speak of rates for the purpose of this presentation, um, these are rates specific to the specifically to the utility bill, not things like system development charges or fees or other things, which we won't cover in this presentation. This is specifically more focused on what you see on your utility bill.