But we'll just get started.

Councilmember Tordillos here.

Combos?

Present.

Ortiz.

President.

Cohen.

Here and fully.

Thank you.

You have a corner.

All right.

Thank you.

We are skipping right ahead to our committee reports and start with our annual or semi-annual city infrastructure status report and turn it over to Manuel for the report.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Good afternoon.

Let me apologize in advance a little under the weather this weekend.

So if my voice sounds a little choppy, that's why.

So a pleasure to be here this afternoon to talk to you about the city infrastructure strategy semi-annual status report.

I do want to note that we are switching from a quarterly report.

Semi-annual report concentrates on a number of efforts that are significant or require a lot of partnership with the city departments or outside city departments.

In addition to what we present to you here, of course, the city departments each have their own workload and priorities they work through, and many of those items come back to council as well.

This type of projects are very complex and necessitate a closer look and happy to be here to present that.

I do want to note that as part of this report, we have updated uh the strategy, just some uh minor updates that reflect kind of the work that we're working on as an example.

Um the municipal electric utility work stream was removed as this effort was passed while the city pivoted to a closer collaboration with uh PGE.

Uh and that's actually one of the items we're gonna highlight this afternoon is that closer collaboration with PGE.

The way we do this work is that the staff actually meets uh quarterly, but we'll be presenting to you biannually.

Uh and we evaluate how the work streams are doing for each one, and then you'll see the colors uh next to them.

Uh green means, of course, that it's solely on track.

Uh yellow means that the work stream is largely on track.

You know, there might be some some delays on some minor items.

And if we have red, that means that there's uh something that's off track.

Then we have to look at kind of how to get it back on track or what the reasons might be for it.

Uh presenting to you today, we have seven work streams that finished in green.

We have eight that were yellow, and zero that were red.

Uh, so very positive numbers for this uh semi-annual report.

Of our three highlights, one of them is partnering with PGE, and that's that's something that I am uh working on very closely.

Uh, very happy to say that uh as highlights, we completed the agreement with PGE and we had a public release associated with that agreement.

Um a lot of press associated with it.

Uh, we have a database that was developed to attract large load customers and monitors uh the obligations we have a meeting with coming up with PGE either this week or next week, this week.

Actually, Erica's letting me know it was this this week.

We have a new data center development team that's gonna coordinate work across city departments, and that's all within the city.

And I do want to note, even though it's not part of your uh not part of the report, that we also recently advertised for a new position in the city, which is a data data center permit coordinator, and that's going to be working very close with Erica and the rest of the team to help us facilitate those projects.

And lastly, uh the RFQ process for the 159 acres in the RWF property.

We're going to that selection process to select the uh the uh the developer for that property, and we expect that that will be to uh in front of council for consideration on November 18th, so in in a few weeks.

We also have the Dirida on station modernization projects.

Uh a couple of key highlights uh the acceptance of the configuration of the station as well as the major related projects associated with that station.

In addition to that, you know, as you know, environmental review is key for any project that you do.

Uh we have hired the consultants to begin that state and federal review for the environmental documents, and one key item is that the project director role for the dear and station program, which is going to help lead that program.

That was actually advertised, and it's been closed.

And the hope is that we will have somebody in that role by the end of the calendar year.

So that's uh accelerating and progressing.

And lastly, uh we have a public electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

We also have a separate item that's related to fleet electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

So on that one, we finalize the site selection, and we have 60% programs on the uh on the contract.

We have six sites that were selected, Marcus Street Garage, Rancho del Pueblo Golf course, Evergreen Library, Tully Library, Seven Trees Community Center, and Library and Kirk Community Center.

We also reach uh out to all the awardees of the uh CEC Reach 3.0 grant.

Uh we have three uh awardees on that process.

And lastly, uh communication has started with industry groups to uh talk about future charging programs and what the options might be for that.

So that concludes uh my presentation, and of course, uh we're available to it for any questions related to the three program projects we highlighted today as well as anything else within the strategy.