On substitut bond measures.

Afterwards, we'll discuss board, commission, and committee program updates, term limits, and things like that.

And then finally, if there are any new ideas, we will we will conclude with that.

So as staff gets set up, the first item on tonight's agenda is capital bond measure exploration, public engagement all over the work.

When staff is ready, we can get started.

Okay, just one moment.

And I'll get us kicked off here.

Okay.

Thank you, Mayor and City Council.

We're happy to be here this evening to talk to you a little bit about the capital bond exploration engagement and polling that we have been undertaking for about the last three months.

So I'm going to be here tonight presenting with Alex Nelson and Debbie Wilmot, and then we have Ryan Winger here with Magellan Strategies to talk about polling, and we do also have some additional folks here tonight.

We will have Maddie Perdonovich who and Jason Simmons with Hilltop Securities who have been here providing some financial assistance and support for the city.

They were running a little late with some traffic tonight.

And then we have Dalton Kelly here from Butler Snow and Butler Snow is our newly approved at last week's council meeting legal counsel for bonding and ballot language.

So just depending on how things go this evening and how and if we move forward, these will be some resources that we have been utilizing and we'll need to utilize moving forward.

So to start this evening, our agenda, we're going to do a little bit of background on discussions so far, and then we will talk a little bit about the polling results, the engagement activities that we've been undertaking, and the report out on those activities, our next steps, and then we'll have some time for discussions and questions.

So by way of background, as you know, we had some discussions with city council, and we gave you an overview of some of the facilities assessments and feasibility studies that we have been conducting and looking at over the past several years.

We have a lot of deferred maintenance and we have a lot of facilities needs here at the city.

And so we really needed to take a close look at prioritizing what our capital needs are moving forward.

So through these discussions, we worked with you to identify three of our major capital project needs moving forward, and they include the Bob Elberger Recreation Center, and that would be for a renovation of part of the building and an expansion of the facility, which would include enhancing and expanding expanding the aquatic center, expanding the fitness facilities, and then providing some additional community spaces and amenities.

The second would be a civic center, which would be a new space for City Hall and a civic center-focused facility that would provide a more accessible and welcoming public space.

It would be an inclusive community space that would include our municipal services, our staff and council chambers, and we would also be able to have our municipal court there as well.

And then the third one is our service center, and that would be for our public works services, our kind of transportation and parks, and some of those operational services that we have.

And that's a kind of an upgrade of that facility to make it more right-sized to better accommodate the services we have out of that facility.

So those are the three projects that we've been talking about.

And as I mentioned, we've worked with external partners to complete assessments of the facilities.

Council reviewed the cost of estimates and the potential financing tools earlier this year, and then requested that staff conduct professional polling and community engagement to understand the voters' interests.

So we engaged with Magellan Strategies, who's here with us this evening to do uh statistically valid poll so that we could find out more about how the community feels about the projects and the potential for a ballot measure.

We also have been undertaking a community engagement process over the past couple of months for the purpose of informing the community.

We wanted them to understand what the projects are and what the need is for these projects.

We did that through Lafayette Listens, through project brochures, signage, project information stations at several of our public facing facilities.

We also engage through the polling through public input meetings, board and commission meetings, and through a survey or questionnaire.

And then tonight we're going to report out on the polling results, the survey results, and the engagement feedback.

Through this process, and we'll talk a little bit more about this, and we talked about this in the memo.

If you had a chance to read the memo for tonight's um for tonight's uh the packet, um, we kind of framed these with three different guiding principles, which is investment in quality services and service delivery with fiscal responsibility and sustainability and environmental stewardship.

And now I'm going to kick it off to Ryan Wiener.

He's going to go through the polling results.

Great.

Thanks, Megan, and thank you all for your time tonight.

Happy to be here and uh look forward to jumping into these results.

So just for those who aren't familiar with how the survey was conducted, you see on the left side of the screen there just an example of a text message that went out to registered voters within the city of Lafayette, and we completed 788 responses.

So pretty strong group, very strong response rate, which gives us a margin of error of about 3.43%.

I will point out that as we look at kind of smaller population subgroups, they are gonna have a higher margin of error.

But what's most important to note is that this data is weighted to represent what we expect odd year turnout to look like this November.

And so that's why we always include a slide like this, even though that may be difficult to for you to see if you don't have it right in front of you.

Uh, the the key place to look here is 2023.

That's the last comparable election we have to go off of.

And so we have the red box there around that.

And really the main uh difference in a year like an odd year compared to a midterm or presidential year, if you look, is in the age ranges, right?

So when you look at a residential year like last year, it was under or just right at 40%.

We're over the age of 55, whereas in a year and an odd year like this year, it's gonna be closer to 50 or probably over 50 percent.

So that's kind of the main difference.

But you see really a difference in about 8,000 voters.

So it is a little bit different electorate that we're looking at for an odd year compared to an even year.

And these slides will just show again where possible, these are weighted to reflect what we expect turn out to look like this year on things like gender party affiliation, age range.

Again, you see the larger stage range of there is that 65 plus.

They're the most regular voters in an odd year.

Also, you see their tenure in Lafayette.

We got a pretty good spread of newer versus long-term residents, which is good.

Uh we also have things uh like race ethnicity, rent or owner home, four-year college degree, and income, and again, where possible, these are weighted to reflect what we expect turnout to look like.