Good evening, uh we're still too short, but I understand two short counselors, two counselors short, but I understand they might be here soon.

Um, but we can, I think, get going here.

Uh good even before we begin tonight's work session.

I want to thank everyone for taking the time uh to attend tonight, whether you're here in person or joining us virtually or in the auditorium next door.

Meeting is being broadcast into the auditorium also with overflow seating on TV C T V Channel 30 on Zoom and on the city's YouTube channel.

A recording of the meeting will be available tomorrow morning on YouTube.

We recognize tonight's topic has generated significant interest and we appreciate the large turnout.

I want to take a moment to outline a few expectations so that this meeting can run smoothly for everyone, and we can have plenty of time for discussion among council.

Uh, to assure the attendees both in the room and watching remote, they can clearly uh follow discussion.

We ask that you please refrain from clapping, calling out or making verbal outbursts.

This is a work session.

These disruptions interrupt the flow of the meeting and interfere with the audio for those who are participating virtually.

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I've seen it.

Um this is a work session, like I said.

There's no public comment in work sessions.

Uh, the next opportunity for public comment, though, if you'd like to, is during the next regular 7 p.m.

City Council meeting on June 16th.

So show up there at 7 p.m.

You can fill out the yellow card.

You can go in there and you can make your public comment for three minutes.

We know many of you are looking for clarity uh and information related to data centers and the enterprise zone here in Hillsborough.

We hope uh our hope is that tonight's work session will provide a clear understanding of the issues before us, and importantly, we'll provide time for council discuss policy options and provide staff with direction before the end of the night.

I'll turn the time over to the city manager, Robbie Hyman, to begin the work session.

Thank you, uh Councilor Harris.

Uh so uh I know last week we we started this work session.

We got about a about a third of the way through.

So there's uh quite a bit of information still that we wanted to get through tonight.

And really, this presentation is based on a lot of feedback and questions and concerns that the staff has received from both city council and the public over the past several weeks.

So our hope tonight is to be able to share as much information as we can with you all.

Uh council obviously will then await uh any kind of direction on policy that you all want us to undertake uh moving forward.

So uh with that, I think Dan is going to cue this up to the slide where you all left off last week.

Um, we do have four kind of primary um sections.

This first one is kind of the background section.

We're almost done with that section.

There's a couple more slides to go on that.

The second section is on land use, the third is on the enterprise zone, and the fourth is kind of a catch-all.

And that's also where we've tried to kind of group the different proposals that we've received from council in certain categories that are that are similar.

Um, and our goal after each of those sections is to pause to have any kind of questions that the council has, any kind of clarifications or discussion of those points.

Uh so with that, uh I will turn it over to Dan.

I just have a quick question.

Um you receive our materials and answering our questions.

Is that information on our website that's focused on the data centers?

Uh so we have both our website, uh FAQs and website that are is dedicated to data centers.

All of the information as well tonight is included in the packet as well, both online, and I think we've put out a printed copies as well of everything that we have also.

So then I just appointed clarification that uh information that um questions that council have asked, though that information has been answered and is available on the website for data centers or no.

I think the questions the council has asked is what we're trying to address this evening.

I think our FAQs get to a lot of it, but I think most of the questions are going to be addressed in tonight's presentation.

Okay.

And one more thing.

Like, how long do you think this presentation is going to be?

And so that I just want to know because I'd be willing to withhold my questions so that council has more time to answer questions, and we don't run out of time.

Yeah, we have approximately 45 minutes remaining in the presentation.

So I would say 15 minutes or so for each remaining section.

Um that excludes any questions, though.

So we'll that's why we'll try to pause between each section so that the council can have any kind of question discussion on those specific sections.

We didn't want to have you all wait till the end because there's just so much material.

We thought it'd be make more sense to pause in between each section so the council could have any discussion they want at that point.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you, Robbie.