Tempe approves property tax policy revision accelerating $1.95 billion capital improvements plan

good afternoon everyone welcome to the Tempe city council work study session item number one is called to order Council meetings can be watched in real time via Cox Cable channel 11 and at tempe.gov temp1 members of the public may also attend the meeting virtually through Microsoft teams guidelines for conduct at City Council meetings are on the table near the entrance for those in attendance at tonight's meeting we will now play a video with the proper protocol for ensuring the appropriate conduct at City Council meetings the City of Tempe welcomes public comment at this time disruptive behavior will not be allowed continued disruptive behavior will lead to removal from the council chambers we need to be able to hear everyone in the room behavior that disrupts disturbs or otherwise impedes the orderly conduct of any city council meeting is not helpful and is not permitted this includes Behavior both inside and outside of the council chambers should individuals inside the council chambers become disruptive so that City business is not able to be conducted the mayor will first ask that the individuals allow City business to be completed there will be time for public comment during the call to the audience portion of the meeting if no cooperation the mayor will issue a verbal warning and let them know that the continued disruptive behavior will lead to removal from the council chambers if there is still no cooperation the mayor will issue a second verbal warning and let them know that the continued disruptive behavior will lead to removal from the council chambers if there is no cooperation after asking and two verbal warnings then the mayor will ask security officers to remove remove only those individuals who are causing the disruption security Personnel should not engage in any way but only escort them from the council chambers if individuals refuse to leave security Personnel shall warn them that they are trespassing and that the next step will be arrest by a tempy police officer tempy officers may have to arrest if individuals refuse to leave charges for trespass and disorderly conduct May apply as well as other charges should anyone be asked to be removed the mayor will recess the meeting thank you very much item number two is call to the audience the city council welcomes public comment at this time for this issue review session and Committee of the whole items on this work study session agenda there is a three minute time limit per speaker Madame clerk do we have any cards this evening none receiv received thank you thank you so much is there anyone in the audience wishing to speak all right seeing none I'll close that portion of the meeting and move on to item number three which is the issue review session uh the only item on this evening's agenda is item 3A initial recommended fiveyear Capital Improvements program and acceleration strategies and I see LTE kamacho and let's see and Julie Haider coming to the podium good afternoon good afternoon mayor members of the council this presentation is the first look at the recommended Capital Improvements program for the next five years with me today is Julie Haider our interm Municipal budget director wdel Holmes is also going to be joining us later in the presentation she's our interim not not inter terum she's the Strategic Management and Innovation director I apologize and she'll discuss the acceleration models with you all our our city Charter requires we present the city manager's recommended 5year CIP at least 90 days before the start of the fiscal year this presentation meets that requirement there are no funding decisions being made tonight just as an overall highlight the total 5year CIP increased by about f05 or half a percent that equates to about $9 million um that's expected because as you all know when we developed the current adopted CIP we used that as the basis for the amounts in the general bond election General Obligations bond election last November so there were very little changes in the first four years of the capital Improvement program and also we added a new fiscal year so that's fiscal year 2030 year five for that fiscal year we did provide the Departments targets for their cash funded and general obligation Bond funded projects we do have Department directors here to answer any Project Specific questions um before I turn over the presentation to Julie I'd like to thank the Departments for submitting their projects on time and also meeting their targets also wanted to thank the budget staff osakowski Scott Gruber Dominico Carrie Taylor and benia Benson for all their work in preparing the capital Improvement program with that I'll turn over to presentation to miss Haider thank you LTE at this point in the budget process we continue to be aligned with the council's Strategic priority strong Community connections and the performance measure uh transparency in government uh development of the city's operating and capital budget is a public process and shown here are the public meeting dates which began in February we're now at March 20th with the presentation of the initial recommended CIP for the next 5 years the remainder of the calendar includes budget review sessions in April and May followed by tenative and final adoption in May June and July our public Outreach included several presentations social media press releases and a survey through Tempe forum for the community and another one specific for members of the mayor's youth advisory commission the community survey was open from mid January to the end of February and I'd like to briefly review a summary of their results we had 592 responses for the question how should the city invest in advancing its strategic priorities the responses ranked in order of importance were quality of life followed by safe and secure communities sustainable growth financial stability and strong Community connections interestingly the survey from the mayak members had the exact same ranking the survey also asked residents to allocate $100 among programs and services the top 10 from the community are shown here there were six that overlapped with the top 10 in myx list and these are denoted by the asterisks uh these six included homelessness and affordable housing City infrastructure Public Safety and crime prevention and multimodal Transportation uh these are the Maya results the same five uh in order as the community survey and here are the top 10 uh programs and services from mayak in addition to the six that were in common with the community survey mayak also included in their top 10 conservation prek and economic development survey results including all of the open-ended comments are included in your packet uh now I'd like to just briefly review the steps taken over the past few months to develop the CIP departments have established comprehensive asset management programs that project their Capital needs to maintain City infrastructure and replace at the appropriate time uh their proposed projects were included in your February 24th work study session packet the budget office determines funding capacity from all available sources including pay as you go cash and bond funding the budget office also met with each department to review their projects these meetings also included other stakeholders to ensure a holistic look at the projects the stakeholders were strategic management and Innovation facilities maintenance it diversity equity and inclusion office and Engineering um as LTE mentioned the proposed 5year CIP program totals 1.95 billion which is consistent with the current adopted 5-year program this chart shows the different sources of funding with the primary sources as general obligation and Enterprise funding bonds as shown in the tan and dark blue and this slide is the 5-year CIP by program category I'll spend just a little bit of time here providing some examples of the types of projects in each category uh so starting with Parks and Recreation at the top uh this category replaces amenities such as playgrounds and ratas in our neighborhood parks it contains the urban Forest program and also takes care of our swimming pools next public safety includes projects for a new police substation the rebuild of Fire Station 2 renovation of Fire Station 3 and construction of new fire station 8 arts and culture includes asset restoration at Tempe Center for the Arts the edav vial Center and the history museum the transportation program includes the large project for pqi ex acceleration uh maintaining City parking lots and maintaining the inventory of street lights and traffic signals the transit category has projects for multi-use paths and streetscape storm drains has projects based on the Tempe drainage Master Study the large Enterprise category has projects that replace water and sewer lines as well as upgrades our treatment plants and finally the general government Al category is a broad category that covers um Asset Management in our existing buildings the affordable housing enhancement program historic preservation it and sustainability and conservation and now I will turn it over to LTE when determining the CIP funding sources we have three categories that we look at the first one is the Enterprise funds as you saw in the previous slide this is the largest component this includes water solid waste and the ambulance services revenues collected in this fund are from user fees the next category is special Revenue fund These funds are restricted Revenue sources and can only be used for their purpose so for example you wouldn't be able to use Transit funds for non-transit expenditures so this fund would include your arts and culture trans Transit and Highway user Revenue fund the next category is the general General governmental this is where you'll see projects from Public Safety streets parks and general Municipal infrastructure for all these three categories you can utilize cash funding to fund projects and all three categories can also issue a variety of debt so that includes Revenue obligations excise tax and also our main source of um funding is the general obligation Bond funding we also consider other funding Alternatives and that can include Federal grants and developer contributions these funding sources you'll see in the transit program Street frog program and then we also can utilize cash when we have sufficient fund balance to use for um projects um with the cash component you save an interest expense but you will it will compete with the operating budgets because we typically use cash as the primary source for our operating funds we are recommending to suspend cash funding of the capital Improvement projects for the general fund and also the transit fund and the arts and culture fund that's du due to the loss of the residential rental sales tax revenue then the last funding alternative here on this slide is is bonds bonds are subject to debt limitations and for the general obligation bonds we do require voter authorization to issue those debt um we also for General obligation bonds we use the secondary property tax levy the secondary property tax levy is the revenue that we collect from secondary property taxes so we know what that amount is in an annual basis so on an on an annual basis we know the amount of debt that we can issue Revenue obligations typically occur when we issue debt from the water Wastewater um solid way so typically the Enterprise funds those funds will pay those obligations uh typically the debt structure is very similar we issue an amount and we pay off for in 20 years we've talked a little bit about the November 2024 bond election um the voters did approve about 582 million in voter authorization to issue bonds to fund projects to enhance Community safety through Public Safety and roadway improvements also projects to improve the quality of life in Tempe neighborhoods and projects to increase the supply of affordable housing in Tempe I'm going to spend a little bit of time on this Slide the City of Tempe has a property tax stabilization policy and this policy is a self-imposed policy some jurisdictions will not have a policy similar to this or to have a policy that's different from what we have this policy was adopted in June 2011 so and it hasn't been updated since then um as I mentioned earlier we use secondary property tax levy to pay off the general obligation bonds um the debt that we've issued to fund our capital projects um the November election uh we did have two new programs in there and that is to accelerate the paving of all the streets in Tempe within four years and we also added a new program to increase the affordable housing in in temp so those two programs when we went to the voters were above and beyond our property tax stabilization policy and we are recommending to revise that policy currently the policy allows for an increase in the total property tax levy of um the CPI up to a maximum of 3.3% we are recommending to update that policy to remove the reference to the CPI and allow for an increase up to 5% that would allow us to accelerate um the the various projects that we talked about in the bond election so again primarily accelerating Street pain behaving in temp in the next four years and also um adding the affordable housing enhance enhancement programs there's other things in that bond election historic preservation and also other projects for our Public Safety as well as Parks improvements and Municipal infrastructure if we um receive consensus from mayor and Council to to revise the policy we would be taking a resolution for your approval on the April 10th regular council meeting so I'll pause here for to see if there are any questions on this and um and if we have consensus to move forward with the revision sounds good thank you just one quick comment to council BR Adams uh I I'm totally in favor of revising the policy I was on Council when that policy was first created many many years back actually during my first term and the fact of the matter is the revision of the policy as you described very accurately is to ensure that we can pay for the things that our residents have told us in overwhelming numbers that they actually want and policies are always made to be advised if you do something 15 years ago uh a something could look very different in 2010 than it looks in 2025 so so from my perspective it's always that's why you have City councils it's to frankly update policies uh as they actually need updating uh but frankly all of these things from the uh approval numbers that we saw I mean one of the questions we got 77% approval the other one I think got about 72 or 73 and the other one got darn near 70 I mean so I think that's a very strong mandate from voters that they want these things done and if you're asking me to Simply approve lifting up that cap a little bit to allow you to get all these projects done I think that's very much what our residents would want so I'm fully in support Council Brams yes thank you Mr Mayor um I too am in total support of all of these uh recommendations the Geo bonds are are are going to be funded every year which is great that's what we need um and I like that we are improving our our broken down streets uh and and uh that that that passed and that affordable housing still included in this so great job um as usual to both of you thank you very much thank you anyone else all right can I take that been as consensus that we're okay with that policy change okay wonderful you've got consensus on that one LTE thank you I'll turn over to presentation to miss tier um over the past several years we've seen significant inflationary increases as departments put together their cips they've had to be cogn of the impact of inflation on their project costs in order to cover these increases we have maximized our geobond funding to capacity and in some cases departments have had to prioritize their projects and scale back or defer other projects to Future years the CIP that you have before you represent projects that are primarily focused on addressing public health and safety maintaining City assets and projects that align with or accelerate Council performance measures these criteria are the first lens that CIP projects are evaluated we also have a second level of prioritization uh shown in the uh the dark blue um chart such as whether there is a legal or contractual obligation uh or whether there's outside funding such as grants uh please note that this year we did not actually score the projects because we had given the Departments their financial targets based on the bond election um this is our bubble chart it's a visual depiction of the projects that are funded by geob bonds the xaxis the horizontal line uh shows the range of projects from system expansion to asset preservation the Y AIS or the vertical line uh shows the range from efficiency and Effectiveness to uh public health and safety and what you'll notice is that the majority of our projects are clustered in the upper right quadrant which means that they scored high on asset preservation and health and safety which is where we want to have our Focus uh some examples of projects in this quadrant are pqi acceleration Fire Station 3 and replacement of Public Safety Communications equipment in the online packet Council and the public can hover over the bubbles to see exactly what projects make up each category and the dollar amounts um and then this slide is just a summary of some select project highlights many of which we've already uh mentioned today this list demonstrates the breadth and depth of the city's Capital program ranging from public health to Quality of Life sustainability and conservation to preserving our past it really is a CIP that touches all facets of the city and now I will turn it over to wiell homes to review acceleration models good afternoon wiell good afternoon uh widell Holmes director of strategic management Innovation office I believe and um good afternoon mayor and councel so farless I missed a memo uh anyway good afternoon on it I guess uh Happy this afternoon to share with you our 2526 acceleration models and just as a reminder these uh performance measures and I'm going to move forward here on the slide these performance measures were identified um through your start tool exercise last fall and then were prioritized based on the top five U we like to narrow our Focus to have super focus on um our achievements um these priorities are also in alignment with our 2024 Community survey and then also of note with our tempy Forum survey as well as with our mayak survey so I'm not surprised that quality of life safe and secure communities as well as um sustainable growth and development all R to the top um the performance measures for acceleration were also through the start tool an early opportunity for staff to have a early direction from city council and so we thank you for that that helped us both in our CIP development as well as in our soon to be operating budget um but most importantly over the last seven months um our performance measure teams have worked on strategies to help achieve these targets um or move the needle in the next fiscal year and so I'd like to share those with you tonight um also thanking our performance measure teams their strategy Department strategy partner partners that come from multiple departments and also include some of our Community Partners we don't limit ourselves to just our city organization to achieve these goals and then also um one of our newest team members in strategic management and Innovation office Stephanie Martinez she's our strategic in initiatives manager and she helped facilitate um these planning sessions and going forward I'll tell you a little bit more about some of the work to actually um create that culture around achievement so the first uh performance measure that i' like to share with you is our ending homelessness and the focus of the strategies I'll just highlight a few for you is to reduce our encampment response time from five days to two all of our strategies we look for measurables from X to Y by when um so those are the formats that um the details will be on our dashboard we also would like to um one of the goals is to increase the case management engage engagement those are our community members who are already engaged in case management but have not probably fulfilled or moved through our whole Continuum of Care to permanent housing and so by really focusing on that we're we're kind of moving where we also have great opportunity for greater and sustained resolution and then also just an example is increasing our annual graduates from our tempy works program that we have in partnership with the Chamber of Commerce so thank you Council when weting uh one item that I'd also like to focus on is the integration of prevention strategies and one of the uh Innovations for our organization is to work with some of our research partners and try to determine what are some predictive indicators so that we are actually being able to have strategies before someone becomes homeless or before a family experiences that so that is a little bit of a of a shift in regards to um trying to escalate that a little bit more and also that would be some leading work um in in regards to innovation in this in this Arena so excited to come back at a later date to share that with you uh the CIP reflects uh What uh coun or what Julie Haider I also promoted her to council member by the way so Julie Haider and L kamacho you're welcome uh shared with you earlier in regards to our investment in non- congregate shelter and um those details again are in your packet and just want to also say that in regards to our housing inventory uh tempy continues to lead the way um like to also highlight that this approach to maintaining our housing inventory especially in our affordable housing category is really supported through the interner collaboration work with three specific departments that's Community Health and Human Services Community Development and economic development and I highlight that because we know that all these performance measures are achieved through multiple Department approaches and it's not just one singular Department um obviously we have leadership departments that take this on but their collaboration and having those tough conversations on what else can we do in a way that maybe we haven't already experienced or provided from another department and how can we all pitch in and um provide strategies for this so for our housing inventory ratio looking to expand the Redevelopment area fee waiver that's already in place for Apache um engaging with uh Ida for additional funding and support and then providing litp Gap financing for our grants and Loans program through Hometown for all so those are some of the strategies I just wanted to highlight for that um you already have in your packet the initial recommendation of over 34 million for the affordable housing measure the next performance measure is the feeling of safety in our neighborhoods again very much aligned with our community survey and the surveys that we Dy forum and with our mayak with our youth commission the strategies around this do not relate to any CIP so this is where we go back to we shift resources we try to partner we think of different things that we can do and Implement and the focus is on some a suppression operations we found a lot of success with that last year as well as moving and increasing the community responders calls for service from 5% of total uh calls to Police Department to 5.2% remember this is an alternative response that we can provide to our community instead of our traditional law enforcement and so that is again a Leading Edge provided by our police department and then expanding um some of our investigative tools such as our access to our cameras and expanding those from about 2,000 to 3500 the next performance measure relates to our again safe and secure communities and I'd like to highlight on our Police Services satisfaction that while you will see the current value of 73.8% in red I would like to also remind you and our community that tempy doesn't settle for just average we are in red because we choose to be one of the top 10% cities and so you if you recall from our community survey we are exceedingly at least 20 points above the national and midsize cities for this particular measurement and so while we say we're in red we would be very much in dark dark green in other communities this is also evident in regards to a three-year positive trend in regards to satisfaction with police services so just wanted to highlight that and some of the um strategies is really based around training um the police department recently adopted a core values and I would like to share them because I really think they speak to the heart and the values of timb uh professionalism compassion and excellence and so a lot of the training will be focused around that also proactive policing a lot of this is building relationships not when there's to call for service but before and so that we have those Community interactions and relationships already established and then bringing back our police Citizen Academy and guiding at least 25 residents through that Academy this year so again about relationships looking at this from the from a whole human perspective is a a different way of approaching satisfaction with police services and then as mentioned prior we've talked a lot about payement quality index and with the trust and confidence of our community the the vote in November has provided us a new Target of 82 um that is 12 points above just the 70 industry standard so again temp be achieving more having more ambition around our performance measures and part of the strategies are about our response time for when we get calls into 311 to uh payment maintenance as well as re Rehabilitation plans for our program and then essentially with timy's growth and development coordinating with our utility compan companies because we're impacted both positively and some challenges sometimes with our growth so looking at this from a whole picture not just how many miles of Roads can we repay there's a lot that goes into this and I know for my career learning this from our team has just been fascinating at how important this is in regards to safe and security as well as to um our traffic flow in temp B but to do this we have to have what we call an operational system so very similar to to your computer we have Behavior systems and organizations and so our timy accelerates performance team is going to be working on evidence-based practices and what this really means is having a Cadence of report out having a Cadence of achievement this develops a leadership culture around looking at goals and targets and how do we support each other through collaboration and also accountability and this will also be led by the Strategic Management and Innovation office but primarily we will also be reporting out on a accordly basis to our city manager team at our director's meetings and what's important about that is we all know that what gets measured gets done but also what gets highlighted you can maintain that momentum and that Cadence for achievement and so excited to continue the second year of this program in regards to kind of a new operating system for the City of Tempe organization and with that I will conclude and um turn it back over to L son and Julie or if you have any questions about Performance Management and the acceleration model thank you what council B thank you mayor sure you know what I want to talk about I think 18 annual completions for Tempe Works would be an outstanding achievement that just be momentous compared to as where it started so you guys all did that and my kudos to you and your team um if you're able to hit that goal I'd never sto talking about it so I will be starting to pass along to our community health and human services team I I just get the privilege of presenting their great work thank you for that thank you thank you Council Brams yes uh for six and a half years I've uh preached about pqi and improving it and you are all doing it so it makes me really happy um I'm so glad the bond passed so we can continuing to increase I think when when I first started it was like at 50 shell you might be able to help me 53% or when I first started 26 27 18 59 yeah oh okay 59 thank you so we all we're up to 60 but we're going to 82 so we're really moving in the right direction right and reducing that time from 12 Years to 4 is really incredible so yeah yeah it is because it's a it's a hard thing to measure so anyway I really I really appreciate it and um I keep up the good work thank you thank you and I just would like to take the opportunity remind because uh payment Quality Index relates to all of our roads and Street ways here in our neighborhoods that we do have a map to share when projects are planned when they are completed um start at performance.

tempe.gov and we can walk you through it from there so did uh vice mayor garet and Council BR um on your um ending homelessness um slide I I like when you were talking about the number six acceleration strategy for the prevention research because I think right now after the time that we just spent in DC and all the meetings that we attended to talk about what this current um presidential Administration is doing what things that we need to be thinking about and looking at um that is a really big concern for me about what's going to happen to the people who are um are are on the border of not being able to keep themselves in their home with their family so that one is really really important to me and I'm so so glad that you're doing that so thank you so much I think it's wonderful to have it on here I share that excitement too thank you sounds good thank you Council BR um you you took the words right out of my mouth I was going to talk about but I also had one other thing I was going to asked um when it comes to the RO pavement is there any way we can get this out to our neighborhoods like their HOAs so they can know ahead of time to actually start preparing the neighborhoods for it right um one thing that I fail to mention is that the pqi is part of our Tempe refresh program and so along with several departments including uh the municipal budget office we're looking at different ways to communicate not only did we hear you we're working on it and we're now completing it and here's our progress on these so PQ would definitely be part of that so thank you you're welcome thank you sounds good Council M I'm sorry if you covered this already uh when when does work on the roads when is that supposed to start this year this year it's already we already work on it now so M man mayor council member keing uh next week you have the contracts coming forward to the mayor and Council for approval and then starting at the beginning of April oh that's great we just had a conversation we will have signs on every project uh thanking our residents for trusting us for with the bond and that this is happening now appreciate that I think that's fantastic thank you thank you Council BR um is there can be like a like a database that we can actually have the process progress showing throughout in our on our online and you know so everybody can actually see it and we can talk to it and have it out there uh yes in fact I spent part of yesterday working with our Communications team talking about our completed stamp on our digital uh communications platform through our Hub site with information technology and Dr Stephanie Dietrich so again we've highlighted specific projects as part of our signature tempy refresh there's a lot going on so we still want to be able to communicate in a very easy way so there are some projects that align to not only whatever their Community priority priorities are but how we can present that for people to know the the status of those projects can we also get like a one page for us mic sorry can we also get like a one pager for us so when we're out in the community and we're talking about our wonderful City that we can have that information with us at all times sure maybe we'll even include some tempy refresh stickers right we'll do that great great thank you all anyone else from Council comment questions all right great all right thank you have a good evening oh got sure you I was aate never mind you sure sure okay thank you quick quick thing too um thank you w um anything else um with Julie or LTE mayor members of the council that concludes our presentation okay wonderful thank you so much all right no I I I was going to say as well I really appreciate the not I can't think of the right word for whatever reason but obviously the sort of advertisement for lack of a better term of a lot of the work being done because sometimes it's interesting you'll you'll vote for a bond uh you know with a 77% approval to fix the streets and then two months after the work starts we'll start getting emails of people going why are the roads torn up or why are you doing this it's like you voted for this and we appreciate the fact that you voted to improve and upgrade your city but you voted for it so Council uh to that point and I I don't know if it's already too late for this because the ship may have sailed but I don't know if you remember during the um the American Recovery Act of 2009 said this project is funded by the American Recovery Act this road is being repay by the V approved bonds Whatever by the city TP that's exactly the the wording that Chris Baxter and the team is working on way ahead of me fantastic here we go thank you love it yes Council Brams so I have a story to tell you on Warner people complain about Warner um All the Time Warner Road and uh because it was a mess and so then we finally we know were working on repaving it and then people were like complaining that the that they had construction and I said well you have to have construction to have smooth roads so I would just encourage everyone out there that when we are repaving the roads um that it is for a good reason it's been determined as a big problem and you will no longer have your gauge go off that uh you're going to get a flight flat tire or whatever that is there's a warning a road warning on some cars so it will be okay thank you very much thank you Council Brams um Chris bter ging are you online and did you have a comment as well I am thank you and I just wanted to make mention that we do have signs we also have in the works a plan to make sure that every single neighborhood that is getting Paving done uh has some street signs as well as in our Tempe today Tempe this week we will be including information about which streets are up next to give people advanced notice and we will have some larger signs that Rosa mentioned um in some of the neighborhoods this is being funded by your bond election and here's the percentage of work that is done thank you Chris I think it's wonderful too that you mentioned neighborhoods I think that's going to be the thing that will go over so exceptionally well with members of our community because I remember talking about the bond election at the time that it was going on and people were saying well are you going to be just simply fixing the arterial streets and The Collector streets and what we talked about no we're talking about fixing every Street in the city including those in your neighborhood that got such a resounding kind of Applause from anyone I talk to northsouth East West here in the City of Tempe so I'm excited about those contracts being on the agenda next week and excited about the work getting started Council R um also Chris is it any way possible that this information can go out to the schools because that's another way of bringing um Community together because people read their kids information and when they bring it home so is it if we can distribute it to the school so they'll know ahead of time that this neighborhood is going to be worked on also council member hjj thank you we have a peach jar um flyer that goes out monthly and I will see if we can have that added as a component of that campaign thank you thank you Council chin thank you mayor um I feel like it's worth repeating the positive uh feelings about the communication I think you've heard me over the years say and talk about we need to commun communicate we need to tell people when we're tearing something up what's going on because then people just I I'm looking at Jeff tamulevich he's heard me say it also when we communicate people have a better understanding and will more easily perhaps understand and agree and put up with any forgive and put up with any minor inconvenience minor temporary inconen venience and it's a followup I think we owe the community that communication so thank you thank you to all of the staff that are working on this sound thank you council member chin council member Adams yeah just a quick uh um update on it's the P pqi had 56 in my head for a reason and it was because it was in 2015 that is as low as 56.2 so we have made a lot of progress over the last few years and I just want to clarify that point so it wasn't 59 it was 56 in 2015 so thank you and we're going the right direction we most we most certainly are thank you thank you all right anyone else from the council any further comments or questions on that item all right hearing n I'll move to item number four called to the audience the city council welcomes public comment at this time for the committee of the whole items on this work study session agenda there is a three minute time limit per speaker um Madame clerk any other cards none received thank you sounds good thank you so much uh let me just look to see is there anyone in the audience still though who wishes to address the council at this time if so please get my attention all right seeing then I'll close item number four and move on to item number five Committee of the whole first up item 5A proposed Council subcommittees Pur city council rule 7 subsection 2B any two members of the council May propose the formation of a subcommittee at a work study session of the council by identifying the purpose of the proposed subcommittee and the proposed members of the subcommittee and obtaining approval of the majority of the council so are there any proposals this evening from the council for a new Council subcommittee no okay sounds good then I will move on to item 5B Council subcommittee status updates as needed or recommendations for Council Direction uh let's see uh item 5 B1 are there any updates for the heat safety for Tempe and contract workers Council subcommittee Council keting thanks very much mayor yes I have a a small update we had our first um subcommittee meeting yesterday uh a lot of work went in ahead of time before this meeting and uh you know Keaton met with every relevant Department in that time met with stakeholders uh him and myself kind of made the rounds of everybody to try to get the feedback for so we would move forward kind of deliberately knowing you know what we're kind of biting off here and I'm very proud to say that we have come to to a consensus in our subcommittee to draft an ordinance for consideration uh which we'll introduce to the public at our next subcommittee meeting which will be sometime in April whenever staff is ready but this is a this is a unique thing in that it will be the most robust heat um safety ordinance in the state and will be Revenue neutral to the City of Tempe so once again temp is kind of leading on these issues that that are important to our workers and our contracted workers so I'm very pleased with it thank you council member Hodge council member Amberg for being a part of that committee had 41 people in it yesterday which has to be some kind of record so thank you mayor wonderful thank you so much appreciate it and let me just ask a quick question for City attorney we don't need any kind of council Direction on that it's just sort of a status update just saying they're preparing to bring It Forward correct uh Mary that's correct yeah it's just an update so there's no Direction tonight just just wanted to make sure thank you so much appreciate that next up item 5b2 increased advocacy for Tempe youth with disabilities Council subcommittee Council M hodj any updates on that I have no updates at this time just to let you know that our next uh meeting will be March 28th at 1M at City Hall okay wonderful thank the and the mayor is on the committee with me yes I am most definitely thank you council member next up item 5 B3 nuisance ordinance Council subcommittee vice mayor garl with any updates yes we had a um a meeting today thank you mayor um and we um have consensus to move our ordinance forward to a work study session so it will be coming to council wonderful thank you so much appreciate it and next up 5v4 revitalization of Tippy Town Lake Council subcommittee uh council member Amberg any updates no updates we have our second meeting next month so and a watch out in a future work study session wonderful thank you so much that brings me to item number six future agenda items members of the city council May request that an agenda item be added to a future issue review session but in accordance with the open meeting law there should be no discussion on the item other than to clarify the request would any council members like to add an agenda item to a future issue review session all right seeing none that brings me to item number seven announcements from the mayor and or city manager I've got a couple of announcements this evening uh first one is that Ron Pi will be honored by the Cactus League Hall of Fame for his outstanding contributions to spring training in Arizona both on and off the field so on behalf of the Tres it's my honor to congratulate former City of Tempe administrator Ron pies on his induction into the Cactus League Hall of Fame Ron has been a longtime advocate of the spring training industry in the state of Arizona he served as president of the Cactus League Baseball Association and was a strong advocate for spring training facility funding at a time when poor facilities threatened the existence of the Cactus League Ron retired back in 1998 as Tempe director of community services after 30 years with the city so I wanted the congratulate Mr pies on getting inducted into the Cactus League Hall of Fame and item number two um you know on myself whatever and I know the entire Council feels the same way I know we are all deeply saddened by the passing of former council member Joseph P brali who was a dedicated public servant educator and lifelong Advocate to this community Joe's impact on Tempe really did span decades he shaped Generations as a teacher and as a principal he served on the city council and he tirelessly supported education through the Tempe impacts Education Foundation his leadership kindness and unwavering commitment to service earned him numerous honors including the Don Carlos humanitarian of the Year award as we all know Joe's passion his kindness and his leadership will never be forgotten his work uplifted our city and his legacy will continue to inspire future Generations so on behalf of the City of Tempe I wanted to extend my heartfelt condolences to his family friends and everyone who was who actually had the opportunity to know him and I know that uh goes on behalf of the entire city of council Joe as we all know was a true tempy legend and someone who contributed that much to the city their legacy is going to literally live on not for Generations but forever so uh Joe we miss you and obviously we uh wish the best in all the condolences to his family during what we know was a very difficult time next up um Madam city manager any announcements this evening no announcements this evening thanks thank you very much the next regular work study session is going to be on a August April 3rd not not August yeah okay you know we're going to go with actually April 3rd 2025 for the next work study session and that means this meeting is a yes say there's oh oh hold on here uh you know what can I can I give a little uh point of personal privilege Mr City attorney for an announcement from vice mayor Garland certainly all right yes vice mayor Garland I was just going to say I know there are thousands and thousands of people watching this work study session one of them happens to be my husband who always watches the work study sessions and council meeting so I just want to say um my husband we're celebrating 32 years um our anniversary is today so um I just want to say Scott Garland I love you tons thank you for being my partner for 32 years thank you thank you vice mayor and happy anniversary annary thank you and with that is and that is a perfect way to end this meeting we are aured at 4:49 p.m.

thank you so much everyone