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From YouTube: Burlington Board of Finance - 9/5/2023
Description
Agenda - 0:00
Public Forum - 0:53
Consent Agenda - 5:30
Nationwide Settlement Opioid Money - 6:32
Champlain Street Park Renovations Construction - 18:04
Lakeview Cemetery Exterior Restoration - 28:32
North Winooski Avenue Project and CHC Parking - 31:22
VTrans Town Highway Class 2 Roadway Program Grant #P02156 - 38:16
79 Pine Street Sales Tax Reallocation Funds - 40:32
Grant (CA0811) for Church Street Side Street - 45:21
Construction Contract for East Avenue Traffic Calming - 51:05
Adjourn - 56:02
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C
Thank
you
so
much
for
giving
me
the
opportunity
to
speak
and
I
wanted
to
thank
the
counselors
that
have
come
forward
with
the
agenda
item
that
is
offering
I.
Think
fifteen
thousand
dollars
of
council
Council
initiative
funds
for
the
community
health
center
to
study
a
facility
that
will
deal
with
the
parking
that
they
now
have
a
parking
crisis.
C
They
now
face
with
the
elimination
of
some
of
the
parking
around
their
neighborhood,
and
so
that
leads
me
to
my
general
comment,
and
this
is
to
you
Mr,
Mayor
and
I,
say
this
in
all
sincerity:
I,
truly
respect
and
admire
your
housing
agenda
and
applaud
you
for
the
prioritization
of
this,
and
one
thing,
I
think
could
be
a
little
bit
better
is
trying
to
figure
out
how
to
make
those
housing
units
more
affordable.
A
lot
that
I
have
seen
going
up.
C
So
that's
still
a
problem
for
us,
but
I
wanted
to
ask
you
if
you
would
dedicate
some
some
energy
and
time
to
look
at
how
we
balance
the
business
Community
with
the
need
for
housing,
I'm
very
worried
that,
as
we
take
parking
away
to
create
what
some
find
are
very
good
initiatives
I'm
going
to
leave
it
that
way,
I
feel
that
we
leave
like
the
great
streets
initiative.
A
lot
of
comments
came
from
the
ski
rack
and
other
businesses
about
how
it
would
impact
them.
C
These
are
long-standing
businesses
that
provide
Great,
Value
and
I
would
hate
to
lose
them
or
I'd
hate
to
diminish
their
ability
to
thrive,
and
so
with
the
community
health
center.
It's
it's
a
health
facility,
but
it's
a
business
also
and
it's
located
in
the
section
of
the
city
where
people
can
walk
and
get
to
it.
C
So
if
we
don't
balance
the
needs
of
business,
I
don't
feel
where
we
have
someone
dedicated
looking
at
that
balance
carefully,
so
that
I
feel
that
we
are
at
risk
of
losing
businesses
or
also
at
risk
of
not
really
encouraging
businesses
to
come.
So
I'm
asking
you
to
really
listen
to
what
I
have
to
say.
I,
say
it
out
of
respect
for
your
agenda,
but
out
of
concern
for
what
I
feel
is
something
we're
creating
a
vulnerability
that
really
concern
to
me.
So
thank
you
very
much
for
listening.
A
Later
in
the
agenda
more
about
the
department
situation
related
to
your
comment,
so
is
there
anyone
else
online?
So,
okay,
there's
no
one
I'm,
not
seeing
anyone
in
the
room
interested
in
offering
public
comment
to
the
board
of
Finance,
so
I'm
going
to
close
the
public
forum,
and
we
do
now
have
a
five
item:
consent
agenda
and
a
given
and
attempted
to
Focus
give
us
time
to
have
discussions
on
the
more
deliberative
items
and.
D
A
Right
and
emotion
varies
unanimously
and
welcome
councilor
Jang
I
hope
you
had
a
great
great
trip
looking
forward
to
hearing
more
about
it.
With
that,
we
will
go
to
the
delivery
agenda.
The
first
item
is
at
4.1
an
update
on
the
initial
receipt
and
obligation
of
Nationwide
settlement
opioid
money
to
adjust.
A
A
A
It's
going
to
segregate
that
money,
ensure
that
it
kind
of
give
us
additional
level
of
Assurance
kind
of
like
we
do
with
the
tip
districts
to
make
sure
this
money
is
dedicated
and
reserved
for
the
specific
uses
of
addressing
the
overdose
crisis,
the
drug
crisis
and
then,
secondly,
the
we're
asking
forces
over
to
commit
75
000
of
those
funds.
First,
we'll
see
in
here
that
you
know
how
we've
committed
a
kind
of
summary
of
how
we've
committed
this
fund
so
far.
Hopefully,
that's
not
new
information
for
any
counselors.
A
A
From
my
perspective,
bcjr
is
a
bright
spot
and
a
very
dark
place
right
now,
with
respect
to
the
overdose
crisis,
that
vcjr
has
succeeded
in
getting
more
than
100
monitors
into
treatment
for
the
last
year
since
they
were
set
up.
Councilors
may
recall
we
gave
them
some
additional
funding.
Initial
funding
from
I
believe
funds.
A
A
I
think
10
of
that
was
ever
spent
and
they
don't
seem
to
be
making
any
further
commitment
out
of
that
fund.
So,
basically,
until
we
get
that
corrected
at
the
state
level,
I
think
the
city
my
perspective,
the
city
is
going
to
need
to
continue
to
be
able
to
be
funder
to
keep
this
program
going.
We
are
not
the
only
ones
that
really
value
this
effort.
A
A
G
Just
had
a
question
so
we're
we're
creating
basically
a
restricted
fund
that
will
be
used
specifically
to
address
the
opioid
crisis
could
be
used
for
other
drug
related
crises
like
the
methamphetamine
crisis,
or
would
it
be
their
narrowly
used
these
things
in?
Secondly,
I
I
support
the
you
know
the
commitment
to
bcjr,
but
would
we
be
able
to
use
that
money
operationally
in
the
city
for
some
of
that,
for
instance
like
with
carriers,
because.
A
In
and
be
taking
the
drug
crisis,
which
continues
to
evolve
and
change
between
responses
for
and
learning
that,
and
you
know
a
great
many
of
the
acting
make
me
right
now-
are
combining
that
and
opioid
use
they're
often
found
together
that
will
always
cut
into
them
and
we
need
a
bombing
treatment
methods
get
given
that
so
I
I.
It's
certainly
my
opinion.
A
H
A
A
I
think
it
is,
and
there's
quite
a
bit
more
and
there's
more
coming
so
I
think
it's
an
interesting
question.
You're
asking
whether
possibility
you
might
want
to
think
about
this
is
a
future
source
for
btg
cares
and
current
year
budget.
You
know
I,
guess
I.
Take
your
point,
I
think
it's
an
interesting
point,
one
that
I
think
further
about
in
the
current
year
budget
we've
you
know
for
years
allocated
funds
for
the
city
share,
BTV
cares
and
we
have
a
certain
urgent
need
for.
Could
you
explain?
A
Not
my
goal
that
this
would
continue
firmly
and
then
I
think
this
should
be
part
of
the
state.
Is
the
primary
social
service
funder
in
Vermont
and
the
legislative
sense
to
me
that
they're
not
getting
State
support,
so
I
hope
that
there
can
be
support
for
this
request
and
before
making
further
commitments.
We'll
give
further
done
to.
A
A
G
A
Thank
you,
that's
what
we
need
for
the
support
on
the
ecjr
investment
as
you'll
see
like
with
this
commitment.
We
will
I
think
we're
doing
a
reasonably
good
job
of
like
I,
think
we're
in
a
hot
crisis,
with
what's
going
on
with
trucks
right
now.
I
am
heartbroken
by
the
reversals
of
the
gains
that
we
made
in
2018
and
2019
and
I
am
very
concerned
that
this
problem
is
out
of
control
and
continuing
to
grow,
and
it
should
be
treated
as
as
a
crisis.
A
We've
been
trying
to
take
that
approach
with
these
new
resources
as
they
come
in
and
to
get
them
deployed,
and
so
with
this
commitment,
essentially
all
the
money
and
then
a
little
more
that
we
currently
have
in
hand
will
be
committed.
There
is
more
coming
soon
and
I
would
like
to
come
back
to
you
soon
so
that,
as
soon
as
we
have
those
funds,
you
know
so
that
we
can
continue
to
deploy
this
money
rapidly.
I
think
there's
urgency
to
do
it.
So
it's
a
little
bit,
it
has
been
a
little
bit
I.
A
I
would
support
us
doing
having
that
conversation
instead
of
it
has
you
know
one
thing
that
we
have
been
trying
to
kind
of
calibrate
our
investments
a
little
bit
to
be
high
impact
and
be
investing
in
areas
that
are
not
being
covered
by
state
Investments.
The
state,
of
course,
has
counselors
may
remember
about
70
of
the
settlement.
Funds
are
blowing
to
the
state,
and
that
is
now
it
is
adding
up
what
the
state
has
and
we.
A
So
I
think
when
we
come
back
and
talk
about
it
further
I
think
it's
a
frame.
What
we're
going
to
try
to
do
in
relation
to
that
state,
money,
I,
would
say
and
I'll
have
more.
You
know
I
won't
go
too
far
down
in
a
chance
of
here.
We
got
a
lot
of
other
items,
but
the
I
am
concerned
that
the
state
money
is
not
being
treated
with
urgency
and
has
not
been
not
getting
out
there
and
I.
Don't
think
we're
welcome
working
with
counselors
on
that
as
well.
D
A
I
Unfortunately,
due
to
the
pandemic
and
some
budgeting
shifts,
we
unfortunately
had
to
sort
of
re-prioritize
things
and
weren't
able
to
return
to
this
project
until
2020
2021,
and
we
kind
of
had
to
pick
back
up
with
our
Outreach
after
a
pretty
comprehensive
initial
Outreach
process,
including
some
additional
meetings
stabling
in
the
park.
Having
a
number
of
surveys
put
out
hiring
translators
to
translate
surveys
and
hear
from
some
other
communities
from
around
the
park.
I
We
went
into
a
period
of
design
over
the
winter
and
came
back
with
some
additional
surveys
and
public
meetings
in
the
spring
and
essentially
heard
from
our
community
that
they
wanted
to
see.
This
park
remain
kind
of
as
an
open,
Green
Space
in
our
cities,
downtown
with
a
simple
playground
and
mostly
just
get
a
lot
of
TLC
cleaning
up
a
lot
of
the
brush
around.
B
I
I
So
this
area
here
we
kind
of
have
to
periodically
ask
and
negotiate
for
that
landowner
to
let
us
go
in
and
clear
out
all
of
the
brush
to
keep
the
sight
lines
kind
of
visible
into
the
park
and
sort
of
moving
on
I
can
kind
of
give
you
a
little
bit
of
some
renderings.
We
came
up
with
a
while
back.
The
kind
of
show
we're
picturing
is
the
sort
of
a
long-term
Vision
here,
so
this
is
kind
of
looking
from
the
street
into
the
park.
I
With
that,
walkway
would
look
like
adding
some
Landscaping
on
either
side
ignore
the
playground
here.
We'll
get
some
actual
options
that
have
been
presented
to
us
by
the
vendor.
We're
hoping
to
work
with,
you
might
just
be
looking
from
the
playground
kind
of
back
into
the
park,
leaving
sort
of
an
open,
Green
Space
here
for
people
to
kind
of
use
for
those
informal
uses
and
otherwise
just
kind
of
keeping
things
open.
I
So
this
is
I'll
go
through
these
pretty
quickly,
because
we
really
need
to
discuss
this
a
little
bit
more
with
the
vendor.
It's
going
to
be
a
sort
of
a
design,
build
process
for
the
playground,
but
these
are
two
kind
of
options
that
have
been
presented
to
us
out
of
our
bid
process
so
skipping
into
it.
Here
is
sort
of
like
a
swing
set.
I
And
they'll
go
through
these
pretty
quickly,
so
this
was
the
first
option
that
was
presented
to
us
and
then
this
is
the
second
option:
sort
of
the
climbing
structure,
another
sort
of
small
playground,
structure
and
again,
having
sort
of
an
inclusive
element
with
the
swings
here
and
also
prioritizing
something
we
hear
from
the
community,
which
is
that
they
very
much
missed
the
swings
that
were
removed
from
this
park.
I
think
about
a
decade
ago.
I
And
this
is
just
a
given
a
last
brief
overview
of
the
Outreach
we
did.
This
was
everything
we
sort
of
went
through
and
we
collected
a
total
of
89
surveys
through
that
process,
and
these
are
kind
of
like
the
counts
of
different
things
that
we
heard
from
the
community
that
they
wanted
to
see
as
well
as
some
of
the
sort
of
open-ended
ended
feedback.
A
Thank
you,
Max
I
would
just
like
to
acknowledge
at
the
beginning
of
the
discussion
on
this,
that,
of
course,
this
part
which
Max
just
described
once
you've
been
in
the
process
of
attempting
to
renovating
for
some
time
and
see
some
philanthropic
support
for
that
we
announced
early
in
the
summer
later
in
the
summer.
This
part,
of
course,
was
to
say
that
we
believe
to
be
to
say
that
this
vertical
brutal
murder
of
Kelly
krusson
that
took
place
to.
G
H
So
we
have
with
Penny
car
Parks,
we've
allocated
out
a
certain
amount
of
money
in
a
bit
expenditure
and
we
have
about
30
I,
think
there's
like
39
000
or
something
that
we
had
not
allocated
yet
so
that
so
the
sex
was
when
we
were
looking
for.
It's
we're
working
through
with
the
Clark
Treasurer's
Office,
the
history,
the
penny
for
works,
and
it
took
them
a
while
to
work
through
what
how
much
we
had
in
each
of
the
accounts.
H
So
once
we
got
to
the
resolving
what
that
was
there's
about
30,
some
thousand
and
change
left
in
there.
After
what
we're
already
planning
to
spend
with
current
projects
and
the
projects
are
fy24,
and
so
that's
what
we're
using
a
portion
of
that
when
we
realized
that
we
needed
a
value
engineer
things
as
part
of
this
project,
which
you
know
it
feels
like
it's
already
a
pretty
tight
project.
It
felt
like
that
was
supported,
use
it's
happening.
G
A
H
Very
long
years
so
athlete
you
Cemetery.
There
is
a
historic
home
on
the
site
which
is
currently
being
used
for
a
lot
of
purposes,
to
include
City,
employee
office
meeting
area
for
the
public
to
come
in
and
do
business
as
a
cemetery,
and
it
also
acts
as
a
secondary
building
to
the
Louisa
power
Chapel,
which
is
right
next
to
it,
for
back
coach
things
like
restrooms
and
meeting
room
and
teaching
and
things
like
that
in
there.
H
H
H
A
D
A
A
A
J
So
a
number
of
initiatives
have
been
undertaken.
There
was
a
fifteen
thousand
dollar
grant
program
offered
to
business
system
on
the
board
or
DPW
worked
with
area
businesses
to
try
to
open
up
their
off
street
parking
for
more
public
parking,
while
that
was
not
as
a
impactful
as
as
I
would
have
liked.
We
did
get
one
property
owner
of
Vermont
legal
aid
to
continue
the
use
of
their
private
parking
for
public
use
after
hours,
and
there
were
some
modest
efforts
to
secure
additional
offscreen
spaces
for
the
community
health
center.
J
We
reduced
the
parking
fines
for
time
limited
violations
city-wide
in
response
to
concerns
on
this
Corridor
and
we've
been
working
with
Community
Health
Center
of
Berlin
Tennessee
more
of
street
parking
with
them.
As
the
memo
lays
out,
they've
spent
around
13
thousand
dollars
with
a
design
engineering
firm
to
explore
whether
off
street
parking
could
be
developed
on
adjacent
Parcels
next
to
theirs,
and
they
have
asked
us
the
city
whether
we
would
consider
after
we
showed
some
options
to
them.
That
we
believe
would
be
lower
cost
and
lower
impact.
J
Whether
we
would
consider
funding
a
portion
of
this
next
phase
of
design
work
that
they
will
need
to
undertake.
I
may
have
asked
the
city
council's
transportation
energy
utilities
committee
for
a
recommendation
to
the
council,
which
the
two
provided-
it's
August,
22nd
meeting
and
I
think
we
have
looked
in
good
faith
with
the
Community
Health
Center
on
other
Grant
sources
for
such
downstreet
parking.
It
is
a
challenge
to
find
Federal
sources
for
private
off-street
parking.
To
date.
We
haven't
found
any
promising
leads,
but
we'll
continue
to
look.
G
Customer
I
just
want
to
also
thank
director
Spencer
for
for
all
the
movies
down
in
the
corridor.
I
know
it's
a
really
sort
of
a
challenging
problem.
We
have
there.
We
also
know
that
the
community
health
center
is
puts
major
pressure
on
that
first,
two
boss,
just
beyond
that
Riverside
Avenue.
So
if
we
could
find
off
screen
environment,
we
would
go
a
long
way
toward
addressing
some
of
the
short-term
parking
needs
of
other
organizations,
residents
businesses.
So
the
team
said
earlier,
it's
been.
A
J
Six
spaces
that
the
BHA
had
offered
for
Osprey
parking
for
staff
of
Community
Health
Center
for
the
last
I
understood
from
the
health
center
is
that
they
were
finalizing
those
kind
of
agreement
details
to
unlock
those
spaces,
and
my
understanding
is
that
has
been
done.
But
I
have
not
confirmed
this.
A
A
D
F
The
first
one
is
to
basically
amend
the
budget
to
accept
grant
funding
in
it's
a
common
theme
for
us
tonight,
which
is
a
good
problem
to
have,
and
essentially
sudo
pursued
this,
in
collaboration
with
the
city
and
approval
of
the
city
council
back
in
2021.
It's
a
sales
tax,
reallocation
for
just
large
development
projects
to
use
a
percent
of
their
sales
tax
to
come
and
Beyond
a
certain
amount.
So
this
is
coming
from
the
state
of
Vermont
as
an
opportunity
to
reinvest
in
public
improvements
in
front
of
these
development
projects.
F
So
that
is
the
summation
of
the
sales
tax
reallocation
item.
It
does
go
very
closely
with
the
next
item,
as
it
relates
to
the
acceptance
of
the
Congressional
directive.
Spending
for
the
kind
of
the
overall
budget
is
what's
going
to
be
called
the
BTC
public
improvements
project.
So
this
is
one
component
of
it.
It's
the
public
improvements,
that's
being
done
by
CityPlace
partners
and
I
will
speak
to
you
about
the
other
item.
F
G
And
the
total
block
is
how
I
talked
about
you
know.
The
sentence
was
stood
out
to
me
was
for
for
the
three
hundred
thousand
dollars
of
the
Geo
23
bond
funds
for
the
local
management
under
Apple,
ID
24
and
originally
allocated
to
the
annual
sidewalk
contract
for
the
Department
Master
practice
sort
of
stuck
with
me.
So
we're
not
we're
not
just
about
the
item,
but
yes,.
G
F
F
So
as
we
pursued
the
congressionally
directed
spending,
there
is
one
block
of
Cherry
Street.
We
also
have
our
multi
under
project
manager,
Julia
ursaki,
here
with
me,
who
was
the
primary
crafter
of
the
memo,
but
we
can
talk
about
the
budget.
There
is
one
block
that
is
not
eligible
for
Waterfront
Tiff
as
our
own
fashion,
so
we
have
to
use
other
City
funds
to
be
able
to
accept
the
fullness
of
this
12
million
dollar
Grant.
F
We
have
to
come
up
with
three
million
ourselves:
the
one
blocked
one-fifth
of
the
three
million
six
hundred
thousand
things
to
come
from
something
else.
The
sidewalks
on
Cherry
Street
are
not
in
the
best
condition.
They
were
already
on
our
list
of
sidewalks
that
needed
to
be
replaced,
and
so
the
value
of
the
sidewalks
to
replace
them
on
the
whole
of
Cherry
Street
is
six
hundred
thousand
dollars.
F
G
A
A
A
G
F
F
Happy
to
answer
any
questions,
but
just
do
want
to
highlight
that
this
is
a
part
two
and
what
will
be
part
of
three
is
the
upcoming
acceptance
for
the
raise
Grant.
We
are
working
with
Federal
Highway
on
that
agreement
and
anticipate
that
October
November
time
frame
to
be
able
to
bring
in
front
of
the
city
council,
which
will
complete
the
picture
of
funding
for
the
entirety
of
Bank,
Street,
Cherry,
Street
and
Institute.
A
A
That
said,
I
think
we
have
with
these
two
remarkable
grants
and
the
progress
of
the
project.
Today
we
have
a
very
good
chance
that
we
will
be
able
to
complete
from
at
least
see
blocks
that
were
initially
talked
about
real
voters
back
in
2016
of
the
new
public
infrastructure
and
a
real
possibility
that
we
might
actually
be
able
to
expand
that
into
10
blocks,
went
all
the
way
to
reduce
the
Avenue
you
think
about
you
know
if
you
kind
of
count
up
all
the
different
blocks
in
our
downtown.
D
Thank
you
and
thank
you
all
for
the
work
on
this.
I
only
have
one
question:
it's
related
to
the
City's
paying
for
these
improvements,
at
least
with
this
grant
up
front.
12
million
dollars
up
front
seems
like
a
lot
so
I'm
just
curious.
You
know,
as
we
look
at
pretty
tight
budget
lines
where
that
money
is
going
to
come
from
and
how
we're
going
to
make
that
work.
It's
a
pretty
technical
question.
So
if
there's
not
an
answer
for
it
tonight,
I'd
be
happy
to
discuss
it
over
email.
F
For
apartment,
and
also
other
departments
that
receive
these
grants,
that
stay
mostly
have
the
opportunity
to
seek
reimbursement
on
a
monthly
basis.
So
after
we've
include
an
expense,
we're
able
to
build
our
funding
source
so
that
they
can
get
reimbursed.
The
city
is
really
only
out
of
the
cash
usually
about
an
average
about
three
months
between
the
time
that
we
pay
the
expense
and
speaker
reimbursement
and
convey
pay
us
back.
F
B
F
A
J
A
All
those
in
favor
of
the
motion,
please
say:
aye
aye
any
opposed
Wilson
carries
unanimously,
and
this
brings
us
to
the
final
end
of
the
night.
4.8
authorization
to
amend
project
budget
executed,
construction
contracts,
the
East
Avenue
traffic
Commons,
another
DPW
item,
one
of
those
counselors
Council
partner,
still
foreign.
B
J
J
The
Inside
Out
is
that
we
have
a
number
of
tools
in
our
toolbox
and
each
street
is
different
and
the
challenge
of
this
stream
was
that,
given
the
number
of
attributes
along
the
street,
it
really
didn't
fit
some
of
the
other
methodologies.
So
given
its
proximity
in
a
predominant
emergency
response
route
to
the
hospital,
given
the
average
traffic
on
the
route.