Alright, thank you.

We're gonna do a lot more listening than talking today, and um I think hopefully some validation, but one, I just want to let you know we are not uh at RPU because we have moved here and are transitioning through our construction schedule.

This is really because we're meeting on a Tuesday, the county has the chambers on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so when that happens, just as a note, we have to find somewhere else to meet.

But thank you for being here tonight.

Um we just really want to wrap around on two of your previous conversations to city council strategic priorities as well as um some of the rules conversation you have.

So just look at the guidance as we bring these forward to you that meets your expectations.

So, first and foremost, um, I think the city vision uh and all the strategic priorities, as well as the foundational principles.

I thought the last time you all talked about this, there was a fairly strong amount of alignment.

I'm just gonna have to go to the strategic priority slide, Jess.

Um, there's a fairly strong amount of alignment uh within that space, and maybe the one open question uh was really in this environmental stewardship area, and so we have the original language as well as some alternate language.

The original language really just focuses on our role in environmental stewardship as an organization.

Um, the alternate language kind of tries to pick up that conversation that the council had in terms of whether that extends into the community.

So maybe two things.

One, uh, if there's alignment and agreement on the part of the council that all those other items, the vision of foundational principles and these strategic priorities, uh meet your expectations, and then which uh environmental stewardship option you prefer.

So I turn the conversation over to you for that.

Why don't we start with um uh the all of the other uh strategic priorities uh besides uh responsible environmental stewardship?

Anything that folks want to add to those.

Uh council member.

I just have a question.

In the report, there is an additional strategic priority of robust public safety that's not in the slides.

Can you yeah, so we uh see if you go back to the foundational principles slide, Jess?

Um we really left robust public safety in the foundational principles.

Yes.

Any other uh uh administrators?

I just want to point out on the other slide.

I'm pretty sure it's reversed that the original language is the alternate language, so just if that's case.

Okay, sorry.

So it's fine.

I mean they're both in there.

It's just option A or option B.

Councilmember uh Palmer.

Yeah, the housing access to me is is just a general statement that we like housing.

Um before we had that, we wanted to have um home ownership, and this is basically the I like housing, which I think everybody agrees that that's important.

The Maxwell study says we're doing well with with um um apartments.

We are way, way behind in home ownership, and I think that that kind of waters that down.

So I can maybe offer one piece of perspective here, and I should have maybe uh provided this context going into it.

We're trying to get your broader priorities, and previously you had affordable living, and within affordable living, you've made your topic goal, owner-occupied housing, right?

Um we did that year to year to try to put definition and emphasis and in those areas.

Um what we're working toward, and then we'll talk more about this in a moment, is let's identify what those strategic priorities are, and if housing access captures it or doesn't capture it, I think that's what we're here to understand.

Then we're gonna talk about what is housing access look like and mean to you, and as the staff goes forward and develops an action plan, um, if you want to anchor that in owner-occupied affordable housing, I think that's the direction we're looking for, and then we would try to bring you back an action plan that had goals that and actions that tried to accomplish that.

Other thoughts on that one.

I I like range of housing types there.

I think it keeps it open, and um uh council member Palmer, uh I don't know that the rest of us has seen the revised uh Maxfield study, so I'm not sure if that goal is still as strong as it was in the first uh first uh iteration of the study.

Well, it is in that I don't know why you haven't seen it, sure they're sent to you.

Um but to me, you talked about all types of housing for all to meet the needs of all residents.

I don't know how you achieve that.

Other thoughts?

Um council member Miller.

I'll just add when I think about housing access, I think about our residents who are not necessarily permanent residents when they arrive and access to housing as an important piece.

People who might be in situations where they're not ready to buy a house and maybe don't even have a job offer that's long enough to consider home ownership.

And as we grow as a community, as we have plenty grows, I don't want us to lose focus on the variety of residents and types of people in our community and what their goals are.

And so I like I like that housing access is broader.

I think that within our action steps, I would wonder how we're focusing on home ownership as a component of housing access.

But I would not be in favor of limiting the entire strategic priority to only home ownership.

Just offer some another going back into back machine in February.

Recognizing that you're gonna have to get to some more specific steps and prioritize those steps based on resources and other things.

So definitely point we'll take in from Palmer about like how do you achieve that.

Um is it achievable maybe is another way of considering it, and I think the framing for the strategic priorities, like the high level was intended to be aspirational for a future state recognizing there's going to be steps within that.

So just maybe another also way of thinking about the strategic priorities doesn't mean it shouldn't change, but just council member keen.

So my comments we went from three strategic priorities to five, um, and that's reasonable.