The meeting included a work session on the transportation utility fee (TUF) and a regular city council meeting covering proclamations, public comment, multiple resolutions, and a work session on data center code amendments. The council adopted resolutions on road vacation, park rules, leaded fuel transition, and a 180-day pause on data center strategic investment program agreements.
Good evening and welcome to the July 21st work session. Just so you all know, uh, Councillor Ambry and uh Councillor Silgato are unable to attend, and they are excused. Uh there are and there have been several disruptions during uh city work sessions, and so want to begin by setting the expectation for everyone uh that we do not tolerate disruptions that preclude the council from being able to conduct its business. Disruptions do have an impact on everyone in room and online. Those who cause disruptions will be asked to watch the work session from the auditorium or to leave the meeting and the building altogether. This is deemed this statement now is the first warning for all attendees in the meeting. Any person who disrupts the meeting will be provided with an individualized warning. Any further disruptions will then result in that individual being asked again to watch the work session from the auditorium or being removed from the building altogether. I'll now turn the time over to staff to begin the work session. Thank you. I have a question. Um, I'm wondering if you could review all of those rules when we're in the auditorium. Beginning so that people are not finding out on the spot that they're breaking a rule. For example, I was unaware that you couldn't have food in the auditorium. So if you could explain those roles, that would be really helpful. And then I think that people wouldn't be put on the spot when they have no idea that they're breaking the rule. Uh thank you, Counselor Alcair. Uh, at the last meeting, I did uh read those rules, and I'm happy to read them again. And I was intending to read them again for the meeting. Thank you very much. I'll turn it over to the staff. Uh Simone. Thank you, Mayor. Good evening, council. Um, I'm actually going to hand it right on off to Tina Bailey and Teresa Gallon to talk about our transportation detail. Did I just cut you off? Um good evening, Council. Um, for the record, Tina Bailey, the assistant director for the public works department. And with me tonight is Teresa Galvin, our business operation manager for public works. Um I'm going to try to breeze through this quickly, which unfortunately for you, I also speak quickly. So if I am speaking too rapidly, that's an interruption, but I would really appreciate so I can try to slow it down. Otherwise, if I could get you to hold questions to the very end of the presentation, we might be covering your questions as we go through in the interest of trying to save some time. So I can get the slide to advance. Um you've seen this slide before. This is just a kind of a little bit of a reminder that we do not assess all the utilities that people are billed for on a monthly basis. Um, the ones that we have direct control over management and billing. Um we indirect the bill for waste management, but we are not responsible for any of the management or billing for some of the other utilities, broadband cable, etc. You will also have seen, I think this slide before in a prior presentation, which is just some reminder that like all the other utilities, we conduct master plans, we do asset management, we put together a five-year utility plan, and we come to you on a every other year basis to look at raising fees if necessary to accommodate the needs to build uh to build the programs that we have. What is unique about transportation over other utilities is that originally transportation was funded entirely by gas tax and vehicle registration fees. So that's um an unique thing that we still receive revenue for that other utilities do not have, but also that we do not have direct control over. And really, about the 1990s, um, we saw the buying power of that money deteriorate. Originally, that money was meant for building not only maintenance but also building capital projects. And that deteriorated so much that early about the 1990s, the county did the transportation impact fee, which is now the transportation development tax, which is assessed with buildings to help build capital projects. Um, and yet another fee that we don't have direct control over, but we directly benefit from. Early in the 2000s, we created the transportation utility fee because the gas tax and the registration fees were no longer even covering our maintenance costs. And uh pavement management program, which is the biggest ticket item in our maintenance budget, was becoming the balancing figure, and we were quickly going behind in the program. Um so TOF was created really to stabilize the pavement management program. The story you're gonna hear tonight is that things have gotten a little bit more higher. So, just to kind of cover what we maintain in transportation infrastructure. Again, we TUF was really to deal with the roadway surface structure maintenance, but there's a lot of things that we're responsible for in the pavement or in the transportation world.