Uh work session for September Sulk of our screen.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, so this goal, uh, once of our goals, you know, have one or two staff liaisons.

This one, you get the full meal deal.

You get uh public works director Peter Pasarelli, assistant city manager Joseph Relio, and finance director Michael Osborne.

Um Byrd, um, our development project manager also provides a ton of support um on the housing related items here.

Um Michael is out celebrating, I believe it's 20th anniversary.

Um, so he's in better places than we are.

But uh we are here to give kind of an update.

You've now been through several of these, so you'll you'll remember we usually start with the staff uh recap.

So what has we have we accomplished over the past quarter, and then a look ahead, and then we will turn it over to the goal, um, the council goal lead who is counselor closer abody, and he will talk about on the council side accomplishments in the last quarter and the path forward.

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So looking back um at our accomplishments, we're gonna actually cover a couple quarters here because then this is our third goal.

We're kind of at the end of a quarter.

Looking at Q2, uh, what did we accomplish?

So on the utility side, and I'll kind of speak to utility action.

Note that we'll speak to housing action.

Peter will correct everything I say working correctly on the utility side.

How does that sound?

Um so on the utility side, just kind of refreshing your memory.

Um, we talked about solid waste rates and uh updated those um in June.

Uh, there is another solid waste um discussion coming up this fall.

That's going to be more about the future of the franchise agreement.

Remember, we have to start a 10-year clock if we want to end that, and we need to do before the end of the year, so that's coming up soon.

It's on the forecaster.

We also um reviewed and updated our fee schedule a couple times now as part of our financial stability strategy, and we will continue to do that um based on the rate study work that um that Peter can share more about and that you've heard about at previous budget committee meetings.

Um and that's kind of the last one you see up there, Peter.

Uh, under the leadership of Peter, we've begun work with a consultant on utility cost of service rate design for water and wastewater.

That's in process.

That's a very iterative process of sharing data, um, sharing sometimes expected as unexpected things that come up on the capital side, um, but they can kind of help us forecast that and also uh taking into account the feedback you all gave about affordability at our budget committee, which we'll we'll summarize later in the presentation.

Peter, anything you want to say there?

Well, I I would I would say one of the things that has the word delay, like the recommendations is related to capital on the water side specifically.

And you know, as we've gone through the evaluation, uh the assumptions that the rate consultant may didn't incorporate some of the some of the funding scenarios that we might be able to use for our sort of two buckets of funding available um the state that we're looking at right now.

I think I mentioned it to the safe drinking water revolving loan, which is uh a low interest loan and has opponent, and there's two sort of buckets of that loan.

One is safe drinking water, and then one is related to urgent community for the completed feasibility study.

My understanding we had a call weeks ago with them uh visiting uh business maybe the work in business business working uh who managed that program for OHA and they said we're eligible for the plain the vanilla one.

I'll call it the Crick and War of the Bowl and Fund.

Six million dollars with about three million of it being for doable, and then uh and we'll be eligible for a low interest rate.

So maybe the zone work can be more and then the other piece we have to wait to complete our feasibility study before working on the console.

And it looks like there's about six million dollars there available.

Uh that can only be used for like the very narrow treatment focused work.

Um that I believe comes from the community that's was like all of the principal can be forgiven.

Um interest rate.

So we've got to work with the consultant now to put that sort of pitch into the rate, the rates and the booking.

And this is work that we're gonna be doing over the next three to four years.

So that's sort of what's complicated that that piece there.

Um they say um, you know, a bunch of it can be forgiven.

Uh is that once it's built and they see that you've done what you're saying you were gonna do, then they decide to forgive it.

Or you don't well, I think once the application is approved.

But we're gonna we're in the application in the first one.

We're gonna have this, we're gonna work on submit the principal that's forgiven once and done.

You don't pay until you're done with the work.

Um you just pay the interest piece on the principal.

And so the funding is it is it general fund that's allocated by the governor under business organ?