I think they're asking us to just let him get through all the information because there may be a lot of data that you know, and then we can ask the questions, knowing how detail-oriented and eager all of us are.

Um with that, uh I will uh hand it over to Mr.

Kimbrell.

Good morning.

Yes, uh, it is a pleasure to have your first item back.

Uh you know, a lot of history here, of course, uh as mentioned.

Um I can say with some level of confidence.

I hope the rest of your agenda items uh get better from here from this one.

Uh just kind of set the stage with assessments program in Raleigh, it dates back to the 50s.

Um and yes, a tremendous amount of history to unpack, and I just do ask for uh a little bit of grace as uh we we did our best to focus on the key details.

Um to give you some indication of that, one of the projects that'll show up uh has is origin uh originally uh authorized when I was in high school.

Um just a couple years ago, to be clear.

Uh so as we go through this, uh we'll start with kind of high level what is an assessment, what are project types uh that have been hit assessed historically, uh the options for pending projects.

So, and and you'll hear me say this a couple of times.

When we say pending, these are not new projects.

These are not projects that are uh still early in design.

These are really pending in the sense that uh they have not been adopted for assessments to be applied to those properties.

And we'll cover this a couple of times, but just really wanted to to emphasize that pending doesn't mean new.

Um in that spec.

So um and then the last thing uh uh if uh time permits uh is a consideration for the future of these programs.

So uh what is an assessment?

Assessment is a mechanism for cost recovery.

Uh recovery for construction of street infrastructure to be more specific.

Uh these are applied to the property, not the property owner, and they show up as a lien.

Uh the value of the assessments are based around a linear foot of the frontage along the scope of the project.

And they are calculated with rates that were last updated over 20 years ago.

Uh and you'll see this on the next slide, but ultimately these get applied to the properties through adoption of an assessment role.

Um that is the last step before it's uh while it's pending.

So here's our our lovely timeline.

Thank you to comms for the help on this slide.

Um as you as you might have noticed, uh, a lot of the similarities to a normal project, uh, authorization, design, construction.

Uh what makes an assessment project unique is that the very beginning, council would authorize that these would be eligible for assessments, uh collection of the assessments.

Uh and then around uh preliminary design, uh staff would generate a an estimate of costs for each property.

And then around uh preliminary design, uh staff would generate a an estimate of costs for each property, uh and those properties then would be notified that uh based off of your frontage, based off of the rates, this is what you'd be looking as uh as your assessment on your property.

Um at that point, we would consider this uh that pending state, and then therefore uh property owners may start to send in payments to the city, advanced payments.

Um there's more information that we'll talk about uh in a later slide on that.

Uh obviously construction, um, but then after construction and adoption, then at that point, staff would bring back to council through public hearing the final uh calculations of assessments uh for for you to review and ultimately decide to confirm the resolution, which again is that term assessment role.

Okay.

So here is an example of a capital improvement project that was done uh through an assessment means.

Uh picture on the left shows the before conditions, uh unimproved, and then after, uh, where uh median was put in, bike lane, sidewalk, um, and again uh recoup the cost through assessments of properties.

So just an example.

So to be fair, there are a number of accessible project types.

Um the rest of this presentation is really focused on these three here.

And so I'll I'll dive a little deeper on those three.

Uh petition sidewalks, and uh that is where someone from the public requests the city to build sidewalks.

Um that's a city initiated city, um, I'm sorry, a public initiated public requested project type.

Uh around 20 uh in 2011, council ultimately decided to no longer take assessments on petition sidewalk projects.

So after 2011, no new projects would be eligible for assessments for petition sidewalks.

Similarly, in 2018, capital improvement projects, which are city initiated, uh, those no new projects beyond 2018 would be an assessment projects.

So that brings us to petition street improvements.

Again, petition would suggest that that's a that's a public requested, public initiated.

Um in 2022, the requests for projects ultimately exceeded the available funding, which led us to pause and suspend that program and no longer accept new request at that time.

Uh and what you'll get, what you'll see here in the next slide, we have 17 projects in that pending state, and staff is requesting direction on what to do with these 17 pending projects.

And just to reiterate that point about uh petition street since 2022, which is uh when council directed staff to go and evaluate the assessments and and petition program.

We have not collected, we have not uh added any more petition projects to the list at this time.

So okay.

So again, I'll I'll just pause and just acknowledge there's a ton of information on this slide.

And not all the colors show up, so apologies for that.

Um but on the left are our capital improvement projects, on the right is are the petition projects.

One one thing I will just note quickly, so in the backup memo, there's even more information about each one of these projects.