Good afternoon, everyone.

Thank you for joining us for the March meeting of the infrastructure committee.

Today is March twenty second, twenty seventeen.

Let the record reflect that we are joined by Vice Chair Chris Ward and Councilmember Gomez.

Councilmember Zap will not be joining us today.

And our mayor representative Alejandra Galvadon, as well as of course our committee consultant Lee Friedman.

Uh I've been with the mayor's office now for about three years, but we uh have uh a restructuring of responsibility.

So I'm now the mayor's director of infrastructure and water policy, so I'll have the opportunity to be be joining here at committee.

And of course, we have a new addition to the team uh who you also know, Pat, who is now heading our government affairs in the office.

It's too soon, Alejandro.

It's too soon.

Um thank you and welcome to both of you.

Uh we uh we look forward to uh your participation in these meetings uh throughout the rest of the year.

So now uh we will turn, of course, a non-agenda public comment.

And we do have one, and it is uh Martha Welch.

Come forward, you have two minutes.

All right, that concludes non-agenda public comment.

Uh now we'll turn to committee comment.

Any members of the committee want to say anything?

No.

How about city attorney IBA or mayor of stovcom?

I kind of jumped the gun a little bit before, so uh appreciate your introductions and look forward to your participation.

Uh let's see here.

We have our adoption agenda.

Our meeting minutes from our February 1st, 2017 meeting will stand approved as distributed unless there are any objections.

Seeing none, those are approved.

Uh staff has actually requested that we return item five and postpone its hearing until a future committee hearing.

So we have uh uh honored that request.

We will now turn to our consent agenda, items number one through four.

I'd be willing to entertain a motion.

Um I'll move.

I just have one quick item of comment.

I don't need to pull it for item number four.

Um this is a uh change order which is um likely to result in a six-month delay in a water sewer project in the normal heights community.

That community is actually speaking very loud to me about how frustrated they are and how the delays have already added to an eighteen to twenty four-month project as it is.

So I'm not sure if this is the exact same um project number, but there's a lot of frustration in that community going on, and I'm just hoping that we are engaging with people in the community and making sure that they know the additional six months time frame and why this is necessary.

But thank you for the work.

Happy to move it.

Is there any staff here that'd like to address those uh concerns?

Yes, we certainly do that before we move.

Okay, thank you.

We do have a motion by Councilmember Ward Vice Chair uh Ward to uh approve the consent agenda.

Do we have a second?

And we have a second by uh Councilmember Gomez.

All in favor, please say aye.

Aye, and that carries unanimously.

Oh, with yes, with Councilmember Zap absent.

Thank you, Lee.

Uh turning to our action items, item number six.

We have an informational report from our economic development department regarding the FY18 annual allocation and reprogrammed community development block grant funds for city capital improvement projects.

Uh while they're getting set up, I'll just uh briefly introduce it by saying that you know the city has enjoyed a lot of success with our CDBG uh program over the years.

Uh my colleagues uh uh might know, although we do have a couple of new members uh with us uh on on this committee this year.

A couple of years ago, we re uh prioritize the way that we allocate CDBG funding and uh really place an emphasis on appropriating that money to infrastructure projects throughout our our neighborhoods and the C D BG areas, and that is something that uh was not without its uh uh growing pains, but I think uh produced lasting impact for our neighborhoods, and um that is something I was actually uh at the White House last week for National League of Cities, and I conveyed to them that rather than just cutting CDBG funds all together, that they should actually, if they want to do something with it, that they should uh uh reprogram it as part of whatever the federal national uh infrastructure program winds up looking like.

And uh so we'll see if that gets conveyed or not.

But in any event, uh we've got some uh good projects here to talk about, so why don't you uh introduce yourselves and how much time do you need for your presentation today?

Hi, good afternoon, Chairman Kercy and members of the infrastructure committee approximately three minutes.

Approximately three minutes is yours, please proceed.

Uh good afternoon.

My name is Chrissy Mayer.

I'm community development coordinator with the economic development department.