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A
A
Good
evening
today
is
January.
9Th
2023
feels
a
little
odd
to
be
saying
that
it's
our
first
meeting
of
the
new
year,
happy
New
Year
to
my
Council
colleagues
and
from
all
of
us
to
our
community
a
happy
healthy
and
warm
New
Year.
Thank
you
for
joining
us
in
person
in
Contours,
Auditorium
and
online
for
the
Burlington
City
council
meeting.
The
time
is:
5
50.
A
we're
running
a
little
bit
behind
already
we'll
begin
our
agenda
this
evening
with
a
motion
to
adopt
the
agenda,
and
there
is
an
amendment
to
the
agenda
that
was
brought
to
us
at
the
board
of
Finance
meeting
councilor
Zhang.
Would
you
be
willing
to
move
the
motion
to
adopt
the
agenda
then
make
the
amendment
please.
B
A
A
C
A
Aye
any
opposed,
please
say
no,
we
have
an
agenda.
So
that
brings
us
to
item
number
two
on
our
agenda,
which
is
a
work
session
on
financial
literacy
for
Burlington,
City,
councilors,
understanding,
the
audit
and
the
annual
comprehensive
fiscal
report,
and
for
this
work
session
we
have
CAO
Catherine
Shad,
who
will
take
us
through
a
PowerPoint
and
then
respond
to
questions.
A
Just
by
way
of
background.
This
presentation
is
the
results
of
a
request
and
a
resolution
done
a
number
of
years
ago
to
increase
financial
literacy
for
the
council
and
transparency
for
the
community
and
readers
of
our
audit
and
financial
statement.
The
the
intent
of
the
work
session
was
to
run
to
about
6
15.
Obviously
we
that's
a
it's.
Probably
it'll
go
a
little
bit
longer
than
that.
Maybe
we
can
make
it
by
6
30..
D
Thank
you
so
much.
President
Paul
I
was
a
little
bit
intimidated
when
I
first
got
this
assignment,
realizing
that
it
had
been
on
and
a
to-do
list
for
10
years.
I
wondered
why
no
one
else
had
taken
this
fantastic
task
on,
but
we
have
now.
I
have
now
conquered
it,
and
hopefully
we
will
get
through
it
without
boring.
You
too
much
rather
than
waiting
until
questions
at
the
end,
I
encourage.
If
you
have
questions
throughout.
Please
stop
me.
D
The
beginning
I
just
wanted
to
make
you
laugh.
If
you
don't
know
what
any
of
these
things
are,
there
are
no
dumb
questions,
don't
be
afraid
to
ask
foreign
I
am
going
to
go
kind
of
quickly
through
some
of
these
very
beginning
setup
slides,
but
for
those
of
you
who
did
not
want
to
spend
time
in
your
early
20s
getting
an
MBA
or
studying
Finance,
you
may
not
be
as
familiar
with
gap,
but
these
are
the
generally
accepted
accounting
principles
that
your
friendly
accountants
go
by.
D
We
often
talk
about
gasby,
the
governmental,
Accounting
Standards
Board,
as
a
piece
of
that,
because
they
help
governments
figure
out
what
the
standards
for
accounting
are,
and
these
principles
are
continually
evolving
and
changing
as
we
learn
things
and
so
that
we
can
keep
paying
our
auditors
I
before
I
got.
This
job
had
spent
a
lot
of
time
in
the
private
sector
and
non-profit
sector,
and
one
thing
I've
learned
is
that
there
are
a
lot
of
differences
with
government
accounting
and
you
can
see
here.
These
are
just
some
of
the
distinguishing
characteristics
of
government.
D
Obviously
we're
not
creating
profit,
we
don't
have
any
kind
of
ownership
stake,
the
taxpayers
are
providing
our
resources,
even
though
they
don't
have
a
lot
of
choice
about
them
and
we
don't
operate
in
a
competitive.
Marketplace
I
talked
about
gasby
a
little
bit
at
the
beginning,
but
this
independent
agency
really
sets
out
all
the
rules
about
how
we
need
to
provide
our
annual
audit
and
the
statements
in
that
audit
I've
listed
here.
Some
of
the
newer
gasby
bulletins
that
have
come
out
most
recently.
D
And
now
we
get
to
the
fun
part,
you
will
see
that
at
least
every
other
one
of
you,
so
you
might
have
to
share,
has
our
annual
fiscal
report
from
last
year.
The
FY
22
report
usually
get
these
in
about
March,
so
we
won't
have
the
new
one
for
a
little
while
next
week
at
the
board
of
Finance
Alina.
Our
lead
auditor
will
be
here
and
will
give
us
probably
like
a
10
slide
PowerPoint
about
how
we
finished
at
FY
22..
D
D
D
The
independent
Auditor's
report
starts
on
page
15,
which
Lori
helpfully
tabbed
for
you
here,
and
this
is
really
the
standard
letter
that
explains
what
the
audit
is.
What
the
auditor's
responsibility
is,
there's
not
that
much
exciting
in
it,
if
I'm
honest,
because
it
stays
the
same
kind
of
year
after
year,.
D
However,
if
you
go
just
a
couple
of
pages
over
to
21,
.
I
have
labeled
this,
my
Pro
tip.
If
you
have
time
to
read
only
one
section
of
the
report,
this
is
the
section
that
you
should
read,
because
this
section
is
about
usually
10
pages,
and
this
will
give
you
the
overview
all
of
the
financial
highlights,
and
you
can
get
a
lot
of
what
you
need
from
this
statement
from
this
summary
and
we'll
go
through
that
in
a
little
bit
more
detail.
D
Now,
as
you
go
through
this
management
discussion
and
Analysis,
some
of
the
interesting
things
that
you
can
find.
If
you
go
to
page
23
and
you
look
at
the
financial
highlights,
a
highlight
that
we
are
always
interested
in,
it
is
the
second
to
last
bullet.
It
tells
you
what
the
unassigned
fund
balance
was
and
how
much
it
increased
or
decreased
from
the
last
year.
D
D
D
D
Beyond
this
summary
we
start
going
on
to
sort
of
the
meat
of
the
report
and
you
can
see
in
my
slide.
Our
financial
systems
are
really
broken
down
into
kind
of
three
buckets
and
the
first
one
are
our
governmental
funds
and
that's
where
we'll
focus
our
time.
First,
we
mostly
think
of
this
as
the
general
fund
second
areas,
proprietary
funds,
we
think
call
of
these
Enterprise
funds
and
it's
electric
airport
and
water
Wastewater,
and
then
our
fiduciary
funds,
which
is
largely
our
pension
fund,.
D
D
This
is
very
similar
to
a
balance
sheet
or
what
might
be
called
a
statement
of
financial
position
in
the
for-profit
world.
One
of
the
things
that
helps
us
do
is
to
assess
our
near-term
operating
needs.
It's
less
of
a
look
for
the
long
term
and
we'll
get
to
that
in
a
minute,
but
it
gives
us
a
good
snapshot
now.
D
D
We
often
talk
about
the
unassigned
fund
balance
and
that's
at
the
bottom,
but
in
reality
we
have
lots
of
other
kinds
of
fund
balances.
President
Paul
helped
me
remember
the
different
kinds
by
the
acronym
new
car,
non-spendable,
unassigned,
committed
assigned
and
restricted.
You
don't
have
to
remember
all
those
I
do
you
can
just
ask
me
about
them.
D
The
ones
that
are
most
important
for
this
body
are
frankly
assigned
and
unassigned
unassigned
we've
started,
calling
the
rainy
day
fund
and
that's
the
money
that
at
this
point,
is
really
just
sitting
in
a
pot
for
any
future
activities
that
this
body
deems
they
want
to
spend
them
on,
assigned
came
from
unassigned
and
some
past
Council.
Maybe
yourselves,
maybe
people
before
you
decided.
D
We
wanted
to
take
that
money
and
put
it
into
a
pot
and,
for
instance,
this
year
we
said
we
wanted
to
put
five
hundred
thousand
dollars
to
help
subsidize
everyone
to
get
a
new
toter
from
DPW
for
recycling,
and
so
that
move
that
money
went
from
unassigned
to
assigned
it's
all
still
part
of
our
fund
balance.
But
we
assigned
that
money
to
a
purpose,
and
so
next
year
you'll
see
the
unassigned
go
down
and
the
assigned
go
up
accordingly
and,
as
you
might
guess,
restricted
and
non-spendable
we
can't
spend.
D
D
D
D
This
is
not
a
table
or
information
frankly
that
I'm
using
I'm
using
the
balance
sheet
and
I,
expect
that
you
will
too
and
I
share
that
with
you,
not
because
I
don't
want
you
to
look
at
it,
but
because
I'm
trying
to
be
honest
about
where
you
might
want
to
focus
your
attention
and
things
that
are
the
most
useful
for
you
as
you're,
going
through
these
and
I'm
simply
pointing
out.
This
is
a
different
way
to
look
at
the
same
information.
That's
on
page
37.,.
D
D
You
will
see
in
the
First
Column.
This
is
the
original
budget
that
in
June
of
20
gosh,
it
feels
like
so
long
ago
in
June
of
2021
that
you
approved
the
final
budget
is
the
budget
with
all
the
budget
amendments
as
it
was
approved
and
then
you'll
see
the
actual
and
you'll
see
how
far
off
we
are.
You
can
see
how
far
off
each
department
was
and
that's
a
conversation
that
is
often
worth
having
there's,
usually
there's
always
good
answers,
and
it's
usually
worth
asking
why?
If
you
have
questions
about,
why
things?
E
F
D
Moving
on
to
proprietary
funds,
these
are
our
Enterprise
funds
and
we
can
go
pretty
quickly
because
these
have
many
of
the
same
Financial
reports
as
the
governmental
funds
had
you
will
notice
that
there
is
a
statement
of
net
position.
It
holds
the
same
purpose
as
the
government-wide
one.
This
is
just
for
our
business
activity.
Again,
electric
airport
and
other
and
again
is
similar
to
a
balance
sheet
and
helps
us
with
our
near-term
operating
needs.
D
D
And
then,
lastly,
the
statement
of
cash
flows-
you
can
see
this
on
page
45
and
this
shows
net
cash
flows
provided
by
operating
activities,
and
you
can
also
see
how
that's
related
to
operating
Finance
capital
and
various
adjustments.
If
you
want
to
dig
into
those
details
and
then
lastly,
we
go
through
fiduciary
funds
and
I
mentioned
this
is
largely
our
pension.
We
do
have
a
separate
reporting
that
comes
out
on
our
pension,
so
I
will
go
through
this
rather
quickly.
We.
D
of
this
everything
after
page
49,
which
is
literally
two-thirds
of
this.
These
are
all
the
notes
to
the
financial
financial
statements,
and
so
there's
a
lot
there.
So
really
only
page
1
to
48
are
what
we
call
our
core
financial
statements
and
then
we
go
up
to
page
160
with
the
notes,
so
there's
lots
of
stuff
to
dig
into.
D
A
Thank
you,
Catherine.
Are
there
counselors
who
have
some
questions
or
comments
as
well
the
power
the
idea
behind
the
PowerPoint
was
to
try
to
bring
this
forward
in
putting
it
on
the
city
website.
If
anyone
has
any
suggestions
about
that
so
as
to
carry
this
forward
not
only
from
the
council
but
to
help
our
community
be
able
to
read
to
read
these
financial
statements,
so
if
there's
any
comments,
we'd
welcome
them.
G
Thank
you
and
thank
you
for
this.
I
I
had
a
question
about
the
unassigned
fund
balance
in
what
my
work
when
I
was
on
the
school
board,
we
weren't
allowed
to
carry
one
so
we
had
to.
We
had
to
basically
spend
it
every
year,
but
this
you
referred
to
as
a
rainy
day
fund
and
we
have
a
policy
that
targets
that
we
keep
this
at
between
10
and
15
percent
of
the
current
Year's
budget.
D
Yes,
we
have
a
fund
balance
policy
which
I'm
happy
to
send
you
there's
a
link
to
the
website
and
we
do
say
in
there.
It
was
created
before
I
got
here,
but
we
do
say:
10
is
our
ideal
and
it
is
10
not
just
of
the
budget,
but
of
it's
that
very
particular
wording
of
our
total
operating
expenditures,
because
some
of
our
budget
isn't
just
the
transfer
of
money
back
and
forth.
D
So
it's
once
you
take
out
that
transfer
it's
ten
percent
of
the
operating
budget
and
it
does
allow
for
us
to
keep
anywhere
between
five
and
fifteen
percent
and
you'll
see
in
this
FY
21
or
FY
22.
We
were
well
above
10.
We
tried
to
get
down
closer
to
10
last
year
and
that's
why
we
assigned
some
of
that
unassigned
fund
balance.
G
And,
and
so
with
this
unassigned
fund
balance,
it's
actually
like
it's
basically
like
it's
slop
in
the
system,
so
that
you
can
sort
of
handle
any
unforeseen
over
budgeting.
So
you
don't
run
a
deficit,
but
has
that
ever
occurred
in
recent
years?
Have
we
run
if
we
run
over
our
annual
budget
had
to
dip
into
unassigned
fund
balance,
or
has
the
unassigned
fund
balance
been
fairly
stable
and
is
it
something
that
has
continued
to
grow,
as
you
suggested
and
a
couple
years
ago,
when
it
was
too
high?
D
As
a
result,
we
have
an
interesting
slide
and
I'll
ask
Alina
to
share
it
next
week
that
it
was
only
10
years
ago
that
we
had
no
unassigned
fund
balance.
So
when
the
mayor
was
first
elected,
there
was
no
fund
balance
and
that's
slowly
been
able
to
build
up
over
time,
but
certainly
over
at
least
the
past
four
or
five
years.
We
have
not
needed
to
dip
into
it
for
regular
operating
expenses.
A
D
But
it's
also
really
nice
to
know
that
there
is
a
cushion.
Should
we
need
it
beyond
that?
It
has
been
a
key
factor
in
raising
our
credit
score.
It
is
something
that
Moody's
looks
at
and
they
don't
just
look
at
the
unassigned
fund
balance.
They
look
at
the
unassigned
and
the
assigned
together
and
us
having
such
a
solid
amount
and
the
fact
that
we
haven't
had
to
dip
into
it
and
it's
been
able
to
grow.
H
B
B
D
D
B
D
A
Thank
you,
counselor
Zhang
was
there
anyone
else
who
had
any
questions
or
comments
on
this
on
this
presentation,
excellent
presentation
by
the
way,
if
there
aren't
we
will
be
so,
we
will
be
doing
the
the
audit.
The
first
go
around
on
the
audit
will
be
at
the
next.
Is
that
correct
next
count,
and
is
that
just
at
the
board
of
Finance
or.
D
A
So
if
maybe,
we
could
make
sure
that
we,
we
let
the
entire
Council
know
when
the
start
of
the
board
of
Finance
meeting
is
a
little
bit
in
advance,
so
if
others
do
want
to
attend,
this
is
a
great
opportunity
to
hear
all
about
it
before
get
the
sneak
preview.
Before
seeing
no
other
comments
on
this
presentation,
we
will
thank
CAO
Shad
for
the
presentation
and
for
your
own
personal
commitment
to
financial
literacy
and
transparency.
A
And,
yes,
you
are
the
first
CAO
that
has
taken
on
this
resolution
and
I
for
one
am
grateful
before
we
get
to
our
consent
and
deliberative
agendas.
We'll
move
on
to
item
three
and
item
four,
which
are
Communications
that
will
require
expected
executive
sessions.
The
first
is
an
update
on
the
state,
otter
audit
of
the
Waterfront
Tiff
district,
and
the
second
is
a
Personnel
matter.
D
A
I
Thank
you.
I
would
like
to
move
that
the
council
find
that
premature
general
public
knowledge
of
a
discussion
involving
confidential
information
from
exempt
records
and
attorney-client
Communications
concerning
the
status
and
the
state
Auditors
Burlington
Waterfront
Tiff
District
audit
would
clearly
place
the
city
at
a
substantial
disadvantage
because
it
risks
disclosing
its
legal
status
strategy.
If
disgusting
public.
A
Thank
you,
councilor
Carpenter,
for
that
motion.
Is
there
a
second
to
that
motion?
Councilor
McGee.
Thank
you.
Any
discussion
on
the
motion,
seeing
none
all
those
in
favor
of
the
motion
as
detailed
by
councilor
Carpenter,
please
say:
aye
aye
any
opposed.
Please
say
no!
That
motion
passes
and
with
that
we'll
go
to
the
first
motion
of
the
second
executive
session,
councilor
Carpenter.
Thank.
I
You
I
would
like
to
move
that
the
council
find
that
premature
public
knowledge
of
information
concerning
a
Personnel
matter
would
clearly
place
the
city
at
a
substantial
disadvantage,
because
the
discussion
will
involve
sensitive
personnel
and
our
confidential
information
and
the
council
must
receive
confidential
attorney-client
Communications.
Regarding
the
matter.
A
Thank
you,
councilor
Carpenter
seconded
by
councilor
McGee.
There's
no
discussion
we'll
go
to
a
vote.
All
those
in
favor
of
the
motion.
Please
say:
aye
aye
any
opposed.
Please
say
no,
so
that
motion
passes
and
then
we
go
to
the
last
of
the
Motions
which
we've
combined
into
one
motion.
Thank
you.
Councilor
Carpenter.
A
D
A
A
K
A
L
A
So
we
anticipate
that
the
executive
session
will
last
about
one
hour
and
we're
going
to
need
to
clear
the
room
in
conchoice
and
we
will
be
back
in
about
one
hour.
Thank
you
for
your
patients,
as
it
is
now
well
past
the
7
30
hour.
It's
now
801.
we'll
move
on
to
item
5.01,
which
is
the
public
forum
before
we
begin
public
forum
just
a
few,
a
few
pieces
of
information
for
those
who
may
not
be
familiar
with
our
process.
A
It
also
means
that
we
can
keep
the
public
forum
moving
along.
We
have
a
hybrid
system
for
the
public
forum.
So
if
you
wish
to
speak
in
person
as
as
many
of
you
do,
you
can
go
to
the
table
that
is
to
my
right
in
the
corner,
sign
a
form
that
looks
like
this
and
give
that
to
the
clerk,
and
she
will
give
them
to
me.
A
If
you
want
to
speak
online,
you
can
go
to
burlingtonvt.gov
backslash
public
forum,
and
when
you
do
that
there
will
be
a
form
that
will
come
out
come
up.
Please
fill
out
the
form
and
the
answers
that
you
give
will
be
populated
into
a
spreadsheet
that
I
have
in
front
of
me
and
I
will
be
able
to
then
call
on
you.
A
As
has
been
our
practice.
Burlington
residents
will
have
first
priority,
we'll
go
to
Burlington
residents
that
are
present
in
person
in
contoi's
first,
who
have
submitted
a
form,
and
then
we
will
go
to
Burlington's
residence
online
back
to
non-burlington
Residence
in
person
and
then
back
to
online
Burlington
residents,
a
non-residence
on
a
non-burlington
residence
during
public
forum,
and
this
is
very
important.
We
ask
that
you
please
use
respectful
language.
Please
direct
your
comments
to
me
as
the
chair
and
not
to
anyone
else
at
this
table.
Please
do
not
personalize
your
comments
again.
A
We
want
to
hear
what
you
have
to
say
and
it
is.
It
is
easier
for
us
to
listen
more
intently
if
you
speak
respectfully
and
with
decorum
as
well.
There
are
many
families
in
Burlington
who
use
Council
meetings
as
a
way
to
engage
with
their
children
in
Civic
engagement,
and
it
is
not
fair
to
them
for
those
of
us
adults
in
the
room
not
to
use
respectful
language.
A
A
A
A
O
O
O
A
P
A
C
Q
Okay,
so
this
is
going
to
be
about
RCV,
again
big,
surprise
in
Alameda
County
California
they're
having
a
big
problem,
because
they
are
doing
things
wrong
again
and
they
ended
up
electing
somebody,
and
now
they
have
to
decertify
the
election
lawsuits
flying
all
over
the
place.
You
don't
want
to
go
there
now
we're
not
doing
that.
We're
not
there
yet
at
least
but
I
have
noticed
a
little
bit
of
a
problem.
I
called
up
talked
to
Sarah
Montgomery
about
it.
It
sounds
good
from
her
from
her
point.
Q
So
I'm
not
complaining,
but
I
just
want
to
illustrate
this
on
the
city
web
page
on
the
ring
Choice
voting
page,
it
actually
had
a
falsehood
and
the
falsehood
says
that
this
process
continues
until
some
candidate
gets
50
percent
of
the
vote,
but
that
sometimes
doesn't
happen.
The
50
percent
is
not
guaranteed
and
again.
Burlington
2009
is
a
good
example.
Q
50
of
the
vote
would
have
been
forty
four
hundred
and
eighty
eight
votes
in
2009
and
Bob
kiss
got
4313..
That's
not
50,
it
turns
out
to
be
about
48,
but
we
have
to
be
very,
very
careful
that
we
just
don't
reverberate
whatever
Fair
vote
tells
us
or
whatever
vperk
tells
us
or
whatever
RCV
RC.
The
RCV
Resource
Center
tells
us
because
they
have
a
product
to
sell
and
they
are
in
marketing
mode.
They
are
not
in
product
development
mode
anymore.
They
don't
care
about
fixing
their
product.
Q
E
E
My
concern
is
of
the
greater
Scourge
that
faces
Humanity,
which
is
nuclear
weapons
and
that
I
think
everyone's
become
more
aware
of
nuclear
weapons
when
Russian
President,
Putin
kind
of
threatened
them
and
got
people
thinking
about
the
fact
that
the
United,
States
and
Russia
have
90
percent
of
the
nuclear
weapons
in
the
world,
and
there
are
one
thousand:
no,
there
are
13
000
nuclear
weapons.
So
this
is
a
very
dangerous
situation.
E
But
the
point
is
that
there
is
a
bit
of
good
news,
and
that
is
that
the
United
Nations
has
passed
a
binding
treaty
prohibiting
nuclear
weapons.
Can
you
believe
it?
In
other
words
68
countries
in
the
world?
And
if
there
are
50
countries
in
the
world
that
that
turns
it
into
a
binding
treaty?
68
countries
have
said
we
we
have
to
prohibit
nuclear
weapons
and
that
event
is
coming
up.
E
L
Hi
I
came
to
talk
about
public
transportation
and
the
buses
I
just
started
riding
the
bus
about
a
year
ago
and
my
only
regret
is
I
didn't
write
them
sooner
and
I
own
a
car
and
I
think
most
people
that
own
cars
don't
ride.
The
bus
but
I
like
I,
hope
that
we
get
funding.
It's
been
a
real
perk
having
them
free
and
as
we
can
get
the
cars
off
we're
too
busy
too
many
cars
in
Burlington.
L
Read
I,
go
I,
use
the
bus
to
go
to
work
as
much
as
possible
and
I
read
on
the
bus,
and
it
doesn't
really
take
that
much
time
more
time
than
driving
your
car,
so
I'm,
hoping
that
you
we
get
the
buses
funded
and
they
remain
free
and
even
like
some
of
them
run
45
minutes
or
every
30
minutes.
If
we
could
get
them
to
run
a
little
more
frequently
so
that
people
that
have
to
transfer
it's
more
doable,
thank
you.
A
R
But
I
think
that
there
should
be
drama
at
our
school
because
because
acting
is
important
and
my
friends
who
are
in
the
fourth
third
second,
first
and
kindergarten
we'll
have
to
like
basically
go
to
a
school
for
like
five
or
six
gears
that
has
no
drama
class
and
I.
Think
that
would
be
kind
of
awful
I.
Don't
know,
but
anyways
I
I
kind
of
think
that
there
should
be
drama
in
our
school.
A
Carlos
Esquivel,
please
correct
me
if
I'm
mispronouncing,
your
name
to
be
followed
by
Josie,
Burnell
and
and
the
same
as
applies
as
well,
if
you've,
if
you've,
if
if
you
are
here
to
speak
to
the
parking
ordinance,
you
have
the
option
of
speaking
now
or
speaking
during
the
public
hearing.
So
if
you
wish
to
speak
during
the
public
hearing,
just
let
us
know-
and
we
can
put
you
back
in
the
queue
for
that
we'd
prefer
that
you
not
speak
twice
Carlos,
please
go
ahead.
S
Ahead
hi,
my
name
is
Carlos
I'm,
a
Burlington
resident
and
I
work
as
a
rapid
rehousing
coordinator
for
a
non-profit
organization.
Through
my
job
I've
been
able
to
talk
with
many
folks
who
are
house
insecure
or
sleeping
on
the
streets.
Some
of
them
I
will
even
call
my
friends,
and
some
of
them
are
born
and
raised
were
monitors
now,
I'm
telling
you
all
of
these,
because
right
where
I
live
in
norwinoski
Avenue
there's
a
parking
lot.
S
S
The
opportunity
cost
is
a
loss
of
potential
gain
from
other
Alternatives
when
one
alternative
is
chosen,
what
if
there
could
be
a
convenience
store,
a
couple
of
art
studios,
a
Peruvian
restaurant
with
a
delicious
food,
or
maybe
how
many
of
my
housing
secure
friends
can
stay
in
that
area.
If
we
choose
to
House
people
instead
of
cars.
I
know
this
is
not
a
perfect
ordinance,
but
it's
definitely
pointing
in
the
right
direction.
We
need
to
eliminate
minimum
parking
requirements
and
start
thinking
what's
important
for
us
as
a
city
or
cars
or
our
neighbors.
A
T
A
T
Name
is
Josie
I'm
an
educator
artist
and
a
resident
of
Ward
2
in
Burlington
and
I
also
want
to
encourage
the
council
to
vote
in
favor
of
removing
parking
minimums,
establishing
parking,
maximums
and
implementing
Transportation
demand
management
tonight,
as
outlined
in
the
proposed
ordinance.
We
all
know
that
Burlington
is
experiencing
a
housing
crisis
in
any
space
in
the
city
is
Coveted
and
valuable
by
removing
parking
minimums.
Some
of
this
space
can
be
open
to
people-friendly
services
such
as
housing,
businesses
or
Studios
instead
of
dedicated
to
car
storage
with
each
new
development.
T
T
A
lack
of
parking
minimums
will
also
create
a
city
that
can
support
more
new
local
businesses
within
walking
distances,
as
it
will
eliminate
the
burden
of
constructing
and
paying
for
asphalt,
Lots
again
fostering
a
more
diverse
and
livable
City
I'm
excited
that
the
City
of
Burlington
has
the
chance
to
remove
these
parking
minimums
with
the
passing
of
this
ordinance
and
I
hope,
you
too
see
the
advantages
of
this.
Thank
you.
A
U
U
My
name
is
Ryan
Thornton
I
want
to
express
my
full
support
for
the
proposed
ordinance,
removing
Park
and
minimums,
as
well
as
the
resolution
urging
the
city
to
identify
a
dedicated
funding
source
for
public
transit
in
August
1929.
Thousands
gathered
in
Burlington
for
the
ceremonial
burning
of
the
city's
electric
trolleys
to
make
way
for
the
new
motor
age
in
the
century.
U
The
need
to
ensure
livability
for
residents
of
all
abilities
and
incomes,
and
certainly
the
need
to
make
our
community
sustainable
in
resilient
against
the
present
climate
crisis.
Due
to
the
city's
own
policies,
the
cost
of
off-street
parking
has
been
well
hidden,
but
it
has
never
been
free
or
even
cheaper
for
residents.
A
recent
report
showed
that
one
required
parking
space
per
unit
typically
increases
moderate
priced
housing
costs
by
12
percent
and
two
parking
spaces
per
unit
increases
lower
price
housing
costs
by
25.
U
This
impacts
all
renters,
regardless
of
whether
or
not
they
have
a
car
to
park
in
those
spaces.
It's
time
to
wake
up
to
the
consequences
of
our
own
Municipal
policies
and
recognize
that
the
city
cannot
become
the
Equitable,
affordable
and
sustainable
City.
It
aims
to
be
while
continuing
to
prioritize
the
convenient
movement
and
storage
of
cars
over
the
needs
of
its
residents.
Let's
get
rid
of
parking
minimums
tonight
and
get
serious
about
identifying
how
we're
going
to
fund
public
transit
and
give
back
to
where
we
started
a
century
ago.
Thank
you.
A
V
Thank
you
hi.
My
name
is
Lena
glad
to
be
here
tonight.
I
live
in
the
king,
Maple
neighborhood,
I
love
where
I
live,
but
you
know
it's
going
to
change
a
lot
in
the
next
few
years
and
I
would
love
to
see
all
of
the
development
both
on
Pine
Street
and
in
the
surrounding
blocks
to
be
really
people-centric.
V
This
is
an
incredible
place
to
live
and
I
want
to
live
here
for
the
rest
of
my
life
and
I
want
to
see
Burlington
build
for
people
instead
of
for
cars
and
for
safety
and
affordability
Allowed
by
removing
parking
minimums,
freeing
up
all
that
space
for
people
to
do
things
like
walk
and
bike
and
garden
and
live.
Instead
of
just
continuing
to
build
buildings
that
hold
cars
that
don't
protect
us,
they,
you
know,
don't
affirm,
Our
Lives,
they
don't
protect
our
lungs.
V
A
W
X
Good
evening
counselors,
my
name
is
Evan
calves
and
I'm,
a
resident
of
Ward
one
I
want
to
speak
in
support
of
the
ordinance
on
parking,
minimums
and
transportation
demand
management
when
I
think
about
climate
change
and
Community
sustainability.
I
do
so
through
the
lens
of
how
things
will
be
15
years
from
now.
X
These
things
are
unavoidable,
but
what
is
avoidable,
however,
is
the
development
of
our
city
into
a
patchwork
of
parking
lots
from
observing
how
other
cities
have
managed
growth.
We
know
that
parking
minimums,
put
Antiquated
limitations
on
developers
by
eliminating
minimums,
sustainable
development
that
prioritizes
people
and
not
cars,
can
happen
organically
and
will
be
better
for
our
community
and
environment.
So
please
I
strongly
encourage
you
to
pass
the
ordinance.
X
M
Good
evening
my
name
is
Alyssa
Faber
I'm,
a
resident
of
Ward,
2
and
I
also
work
in
Ward
2,
as
the
art
teacher
at
integrate
Arts
Academy
I'm
here
to
speak
about
the
proposed
Burlington
school
budget
that
you'll
see
later
in
the
agenda
and
specifically
about
the
the
proposed
cuts
to
the
Drama
teacher
at
our
school.
The
drama
program
is
a
critical
position
and
it
is
integral
to
our
mission
as
a
magnet
school.
M
Our
school
is
housed
at
H.O
wheeler,
a
school
that
has
been
part
of
the
heart
of
the
old
North
End
for
years,
but
the
school's
failing
and
the
City
of
Burlington
and
the
district
made
a
radical
change
14
years
ago,
and
we
became
the
integrated
arts
academy.
Our
mission
revolves
around
teaching
and
learning
through
the
Arts.
We
serve
a
diverse
population
and
we
believe
the
Arts
allow
all
students
a
chance
to
access,
rigorous
academic
content
and
build
important
social
emotional
skills.
Eliminate
an
entire
art
form
prevents
a
comprehensive
Arts
education
for
students.
M
Every
art
form
represents
a
new
opportunity
for
students
to
learn
and
to
show
their
understanding.
A
drama
program.
Experiences
have
helped
many
of
our
students.
Some
of
you've
heard
tonight,
learn
self-expression,
creative
problem,
solving
collaboration
and
confidence
to
become
leaders
in
our
Burlington
middle
schools
and
High
School
drama
at
IA
looks
and
sounds
like
fifth
graders
building
collaboration
skills,
while
writing
and
Performing
skits
that
show
their
understanding
of
story,
elements
or
second
graders,
making
bugs
with
their
bodies
to
show
the
understanding
of
the
research
they
have
done
on
bugs
and
ecosystems.
M
M
A
C
I've
spoken
to
a
number
of
you
and
we
all
seem
to
mostly
agree
about
the
many
positives
that
this
ordinance
will
bring
around
freeing
up
land
for
much
needed
housing,
legalizing
car,
free
residences,
to
the
extent
that
the
market
demands
it
and
allowing
the
city
to
more
dynamically
plan
for
its
own
needs.
But
I
wanted
to
bring
a
personal
note,
I've
been
happily
living
car,
free
and
renting
in
Burlington
for
10
years
and
all
but
one
of
the
rentals
I've
lived
in
came
with
free
parking
that
I
didn't
use.
C
Coincidentally,
the
apartment
that
separated
the
parking
costs
was
the
cheapest
rent
that
I've
paid
in
all
the
other
cases,
the
cost
of
Paving
plowing
and
maintaining
that
parking
lot
was
still
passed
on
to
me.
Those
things
aren't
free
and
landlords,
don't
run
Charities,
so
it
was
bundled
into
my
rent.
But
the
thing
that
really
strikes
me
now
is
that,
in
almost
all
of
these
scenarios,
the
parking
lots
had
bigger
Footprints
than
the
building
I
was
living
in.
C
This
takes
on
more
significance
in
the
housing
crisis
we
lived
through
today,
I
ask
that
we
move
forward
with
the
parking
minimum
with
removing
parking
minimum
so
that
housing
for
those
of
us
that
live
car
free
can
be
legal.
We
are
not
the
majority
and
it
will
not
make
driving
illegal,
but
by
not
allowing
people
like
me
to
have
access
to
housing
that
fits
our
lifestyle.
We
miss
out
on
many
benefits
as
a
city,
please
legalize
car,
free
housing
in
Burlington
tonight.
Thank
you.
Y
Hello,
my
name
is
Colin
Larson
and
I
live
in
Ward
four
I'm
here
tonight
to
emphatically
voice
my
support
for
the
ordinance
abolishing
parking
minimums,
establishing
parking,
maximums
and
expanding
TDM
requirements.
This
is
a
necessary
step.
The
city
must
take
to
help
reduce
car
dependence,
reduce
pollution
and
carbon
emissions
and
build
a
more
sustainable
future,
while
climate
and
environment
is
a
key
component
of
this
issue,
I
would
like
to
speak
on
cost.
Y
Consider
two,
the
cost
of
commercial
properties
rents
for
businesses
are
also
higher
in
areas
where
more
parking
is
required.
This
burden
is
most
acutely
felt
by
small
businesses
who
have
fewer
resources
for
increased
costs
and
maintenance
associated
with
parking
over
time.
This
prices
out
local
entrepreneurs
in
favor
of
large
chains
with
the
necessary
resources
to
compensate
for
expensive
parking
lots.
It
helps
create
the
ugly
homogeneous
strip
malls
that
many
of
you
have
seen
across
the
United
States
entire
towns
have
obliterated
their
historic
main
streets
to
make
space
for
cars
and
parking.
Y
Z
This
is
a
necessary
step
to
reduce
car
dependency,
to
slash
emissions
and
to
make
a
people-centric
and
better
Burlington
I,
also
support
the
resolution
brought
forth
tonight
to
find
a
sustainable
source
of
funding
for
GMT.
We
must
rapidly
build
out
public
transit
as
a
climate
solution
as
a
way
and
as
a
way
to
promote
equity
in
Burlington.
Z
I
know
that
there's
also
an
agenda
item
on
the
climate
emergency.
That's
what
I
care
about
the
most
and
I
know.
Many
of
you
know
that,
but
these
two
things
abolishing
parking,
minimums
and
implementing
a
robust
public
transit
system
are
arguably
two
of
the
best
things
we
could
do
in
Burlington.
We
know
that
transportation
is
the
biggest
source
of
climate
pollution
and
we
have
to
get
cars
off
of
the
road
that
is
integral
to
slashing
emissions
in
Burlington.
Z
A
AA
Thank
you.
I
want
to
respond
to
some
of
the
statements
made
in
the
media
by
the
mayor,
as
well
as
supporters
about
the
ballot
question
in
the
upcoming
town
meeting
regarding
the
people's
power
to
put
to
petition
for
binding
ballot
questions
I
believe
the
mayor's
staunchly
post
to
the
question,
because
this
will
supposedly
replace
the
representative
democracy
that
we
currently
have.
That
is
not
true
and
there's
been
also
concerns
about
any
group
who
could
be
organized
and
to
put
any
questions
on
the
ballot.
AA
In
fact,
when
people
make
the
comparison
with
California
or
Oregon
or
brexit,
even
we
should
look
at
Vermont,
because
every
other
municipality
has
this
powers
enshrined
in
their
Municipal
Charter
and
Burlington
is
the
only
one
who
who
doesn't
let
people
petition
for
ballot
question
so
I
urge
you
to
please
educate
yourself
and
educate
your
constituents
and
just
take
a
look
at
our
neighbors
Winooski
Colchester
South
Burlington.
They
all
have
this
in
their
Municipal
Charter,
the
sky
hasn't
fallen
there
and
the
world
hasn't
ended.
Thank
you.
A
AB
AB
There
are
many
financial
and
environmental
benefits
that
will
come
from
passing
this
ordinance,
some
of
which
have
already
been
mentioned
tonight,
but
I
want
to
focus
specifically
on
the
social
aspect.
Community
is
an
essential
part
of
life
in
Vermont
and
that's
most
evident
at
the
heart
of
Burlington
on
Church
Street
from
streeteries
that
exist,
because
restaurants
can
use
space
for
seating
instead
of
parking
to
thriving
small
businesses
which
are
the
lifeblood
of
our
economy
and
suffer
the
most
from
increased
costs
associated
with
parking
requirements.
Church
Street
exemplifies
the
best
of
Burlington.
AB
By
passing
this
ordinance,
we
open
ourselves
up
to
the
opportunity
for
more
community-centric
areas
in
Burlington,
like
Church
Street,
and
we're
one
step
closer
to
building
a
city
where
the
focus
is
people,
not
cars,
and
the
safety
and
comfort
of
those
who
walk
around
our
city
and
bike
around
our
city
every
day
is
prioritized
over
vehicles
that
pollute
and
pose
a
danger
to
our
friends.
Children
and
the
community
at
Large.
AB
A
AC
However,
I'm
concerned
with
the
language
of
the
resolution,
as
drafted
I've
addressed
my
concerns
at
length
and
writing
and
I'll
just
just
address
now
a
couple
of
key
points.
I'm
concerned
that
voters
are
not
going
to
understand
the
question
because
it
doesn't
Define
what
renewable
energy
is
it
proposes
to
impose.
It
proposes
to
impose
a
fee
on
fossil
fuel-powered
systems,
but
not
on
renewable
systems.
AC
It
doesn't
tell
you
what
renewable
means.
If
you
dig
in
the
city's
ordinances,
you
see
that
there
are
a
number
of
things
the
city
considers
to
be
a
renewable,
and
some
of
them
generate
more
carbon
emissions
and
fossil
fuels,
in
particular,
burning
wood
and
so
I
think
that
the
fee
should
also
be
imposed
on
cheddarani
heat
through
burning
wood,
whether
it's
done
in
someone's
house
or
at
the
McNeil
Generating,
Station
and
I
agree
with
the
recommendation
of
the
biomass
task
group
of
the
climate
Council
that
we
need
to
consider
phasing
out
McNeil.
AC
A
AD
A
C
AD
No
worries
in
my
research
I
could
not
find
a
single
town
that
has
regretted
its
decision
to
remove
parking
minimums.
There
is
Stuart
Florida,
Greenville,
South,
Carolina,
Eugene,
Oregon
and
Spokane
Washington
they've,
all
enacted
ordinances
similar
to
the
one
you'll
be
voting
on
today,
and
each
of
them
has
a
success
story
to
tell
from
it
and
a
particularly
striking
case.
Stuart
Florida
saw
a
number
of
downtown
businesses
Rise
by
348
percent.
Four
years
after
the
removal
to
me,
the
removal
of
parking
minimums
is
ultimately
about
choice.
AD
This
ordinance
does
not
remove
parking
for
anyone
that
wants
it.
It
merely
gives
people
the
option
to
avoid
it
if
they
so
choose
with
automobiles,
negative
impact
on
the
environment
of
our
world
and
the
character
of
our
cities
being
not
undeniable.
At
this
point,
it's
my
belief
that
the
city
not
mandating
their
existence
is
the
least
we
can
do.
Thank
you
for
your
time.
A
A
AF
Good
evening,
Ashley
Adams
I'm
in
ward
6.
they're
here
to
speak
about
the
agenda
item
809
regarding
the
carbon
fee
resolution
and
I
fully
support
imposing
an
impact
fee
on
carbon
pollution.
However,
by
excluding
wood
from
the
sea,
you're
incentivizing,
a
highly
polluting
source
of
heat
and
electricity,
Burlington
electric
and
this
Council
continue
to
mislead
the
public.
AF
According
to
Burlington's
war
of
logic,
McNeil
is
allowed
to
pump
453
000
tons
of
CO2
into
the
atmosphere
every
year,
which
is
not
counted
in
the
net.
Zero
road
map
and
Burlington.
Electric
is
not
required
to
provide
evidence
that
the
CO2
is
somehow
captured,
which
is
good,
because
no
amount
of
Fuzzy
Math
will
make
the
case
for
them.
By
the
same
logic,
a
business
owner
should
be
able
to
avoid
the
carbon
tax
by
simply
pointing
to
the
sustainable
methods
by
which
they
are
cutting
down.
AF
Trees
on
their
property,
forest
ecologists
and
climate
scientists
around
the
world
have
been
urging
governments
to
put
a
halt
to
biomass.
Some
governments
are
already
doing
so
Australia
and
Massachusetts
among
them
incentivizing.
The
burning
of
anything
consigns
us
to
the
highway
to
climate
hell
that
U.N
Secretary
General
Antonio
Gutierrez
spoke
of
a
couple
of
months
ago.
This
Council,
the
mayor
in
Burlington
electric,
are
the
ones
with
your
foot
on
the
accelerator.
When
will
you
let
up?
Thank
you
and
have
a
good
evening.
A
AG
Good
evening
Denise
they
live
in
Ward
three
I'm,
a
college
student
and
I'm
speaking
about
agenda
item
8.09.
The
carbon
pollution
impact
fee
I
noticed
that
the
Net
Zero
Energy
roadmap
suggests
that
Burlington
emits
210
000
tons
of
CO2
annually.
However,
we
know
that
the
McNeil
Generating
Station
alone
produces
453
000
tons
of
CO2.
AG
A
K
I
live
in
ward,
two
and
I
had
the
frustration
of
of
developing
a
four
family
house
here
in
Ward
2
on
North
Michigan,
Avenue
I,
with
four
Apartments
I
live
in
one
of
them
and
I
had
to
supply
I
would
not
have
gotten
my
permit
to
rent.
If
I
had
not
provided
four
off-street
parking
spaces
10
feet
by
22
each
and
at
22
feet
we
were
obviously
just
accommodating
the
largest
vehicle
I
guess
one
can
imagine
instead
of
doing
the
opposite.
K
So
I
did
a
study
of
this
legislative
district,
which
is
the
old
North
End
in
downtown
and
in
that
study,
I
found
something
that
I
must
say,
surprised
me,
but
it
was
very,
very
interesting
and
says
a
lot.
It
says
a
lot
about
this
District
in
this
city.
32
percent
of
the
households
in
this
District
are
car
free,
I'm,
car
free.
Many
people
are
car
free.
K
Here
we
used,
we
might
be
a
minority,
but
it's
a
quite
a
large
minority
give
an
idea
how
how
large
that
is,
the
only
city
in
the
U.S
that
Rivals
a
European
city
in
this
regard
to
being
car
free,
is
New
York
and
there
and
there's
New,
York,
City
and
they're
56
percent.
So
there's
a
lot
of
good
things
said
and
I
I
I'm,
calling
to
to
give
my
support
to
to
this
ordinance
change
and
also
to
the
TDM
I
think
we
will
find
some
funding
for
TDM.
K
A
AH
Hi
good
evening,
thank
you.
My
name
is
Felipe
Hoyas
and
I
am
speaking
up
to
support
the
removal
of
minimum
parking
requirements
in
the
City
of
Burlington.
Minimum
parking
requirements
have
been
shown
to
result
in
an
oversupply
of
parking
and
increase
development
costs,
which
is
in
turn
passed
down
to
Residents.
Minimum
parking
requirements
encourage
casual
car
ownership
and
taxes
residents
that
do
not
own
a
car.
AH
AH
A
AI
Fine
thank
you,
madam
chair,
and
thank
you,
the
counselors
and
the
mayor.
My
name
is,
and
I'm
a
state
rep
in
New
Hampshire.
Listening
to
all
the
public
comments,
I
see
why
I
lost
both
my
son
and
daughter
to
Burlington
and
I
tried
very
hard
to
lure
them
back
to
New
Hampshire,
but
I
lost
my
bet,
and
now
my
son
is
married
and
he
married
the
girl
from
Burlington
and
we
have
our
first
grandchild.
AI
You
see
my
address
as
117
North
Champlain,
that
is
my
son
as
place
and
my
daughter
lives
now,
and
my
son
goes
back
and
forth
and
I
get
to
sleep
on
the
day
bed
when
I
come
up
here.
So
the
reason
I'm
here
is
I
have
fell
in
love
with
Burlington
in
Vermont
you're,
doing
a
lot
of
things
the
right
way
and
I
applaud.
AI
A
AJ
AJ
Seventy,
when
I
owned
I
was
partial
owner
of
a
business
on
Church
Street
when
Church
Street
had
cars,
I've
been
here
a
lot
over
the
years
and
as
a
congressman,
I
shared
a
border
with
your
current
United
States
senators
and
had
the
privilege
of
working
with
both
of
them
on
cross
border
issues.
I've
always
appreciated
the
robust
Civic
engagement
of
Burlington,
it's
Community
spirit
and
its
Spirit
of
innovation.
AJ
Those
are
critical
issues
and
when
the
council
considers
what
will
happen
with
the
memorial
building,
if
the
council
decides
of
that
residential
re-adapt,
active
adaptive,
reuse
is
the
way
the
council
wants
to
go.
I
want
to
assure
you
that
our
process
would
be
open,
inclusive
people
friendly
and
sensitive
to
the
Community
Values
and
the
care
that
the
community
has
for
the
memorial
building.
Thanks
very
much.
Thank.
A
You
thank
you
very
much
and
thank
you
to
all
who
offered
their
comments
during
public
forum
with
that
we
will
close
the
public
forum
at
8
53
and
before
we
continue
with
the
remainder
of
our
council
meeting
agenda.
We
do
have
one
other
meeting
this
evening
that
we
need
to
attend
to
that
being
the
local
Control
Commission
meeting.
So
with
that
I
will
recess
the
city
council
meeting
at
8
53
and
call
to
order
the
local
Control
Commission
meeting
at
the
same
time.
A
A
Is
there
any
discussion
on
the
motion
seeing
none
all
those
in
favor
of
the
motion
to
adopt
our
agenda?
Please
say
aye
aye
any
opposed.
Please
say
no.
We
have
our
agenda
there
are.
There
are
three
items
on
our
agenda:
our
deliberative
agenda.
The
first
is
2.01,
which
is
a
first
and
third
class
liquor,
license
application
for
despacito
counselor.
Commissioner
Shannon.
A
Thank
you,
commissioner,
Shannon
seconded
by
commissioner
Traverse.
Is
there
any
discussion
on
the
motion
seeing
none
all
those
in
favor
of
the
motion
as
made
by
commissioner
Shannon?
Please
say:
aye
aye
any
opposed.
Please
say
no.
That
motion
passes,
which
brings
us
to
item
2.02
a
first
and
third
class
liquor,
license
application
for
the
126
commissioner
Shannon.
A
A
A
Seeing
none
all
those
in
favor
of
the
motion
is
made
by
commissioner
Shannon,
please
say:
I
I
any
opposed.
Please
say
no!
That
motion
passes,
which
brings
us
to
the
last
item
on
our
deliberative
agenda,
which
is
2.03
and
outside
consumption,
permit
application
for
the
126
and
I'll
return
to
commissioner
Shannon.
Please
move.
A
S
A
Opposed,
please
say
no
that
motion
passes
and
with
no
one
other
business
on
our
local,
our
local
Control
Commission
agenda
and
seeing
no
objection
will
adjourn
that
meeting
at
8,
58
and
return
to
our
recessed
council
meeting,
which
will
move
us
to
item
number
six,
which
is
climate
emergency
reports.
Is
there
councilor
Bergman
so.
AM
There
have
been
funding
studies
sitting
on
the
on
the
shelf
for
years
and
years,
and
we
have
one
now
that
is
current
and
this
resolution
seeks
to
have
us
be
engaged,
so
it
does
not
sit
on
the
Shelf
does
not
do
us
any
good
to
be
studying
stuff
and
then
ignoring
it.
If
we
believe
in
experts,
then
we
should
try
to.
You
know
like
do
some.
Some
work
on
that.
AM
Resolution
isn't
worth
anything
if
we
do
not
act
in
the
legislative
session,
and
we
need
to
have
this
as
part
of
our
legislative
agenda
and
by
our
action
tonight.
We
are
saying
please
do
that
so
I
want
to.
Thank
you
all
for
this.
The
other
thing
I
just
want
to
point
out
in
this
regard
is
that
GMT
is
going
to
be
coming
back
to
us
with
a
pretty
hefty
assessment
increase
like
11.6
percent.
That's
not
small
change
and
people,
and
this
is
as
much
for
the
public.
AM
If
you
know
you
cannot
improve
public
transit
by
cutting
head
Times
by
cutting
Roots,
so
we
have
got
to
engage
in
this.
We
got
to
engage
in
you
know
in
their
public
process,
we've
got
to
engage
in
the
legislative
process.
If
we
are
going
to
do
the
work
that
needs
to
be
done
on
transportation,
to
meet
the
climate
change
and
to
do
the
best
job,
we
can
to
stop
this
planet
burning
for
our
babies
and
their
babies.
Thanks
for
listening.
A
J
Do
you
think
the
deliberative
agenda
is
going
to
give
us
the
opportunity
to
engage
a
couple,
really
important
actions
that
the
Administration
has
been
working
on
and
is
bringing
forward
or
partnering,
in
one
case,
with
Council,
to
take
action
on
with
respect
to
the
climate
emergency,
both
with
the
new
the
ballot
item
that
we
are
proposing?
That
would
give
the
voters
a
chance
to
endorse
the
city
using
its
brand
new
Charter
authority
to
regulate
heating
systems
to
create
really
a
very
Innovative
carbon
pollution
fee,
and
we
also
have
on
the
deliverer
of
this.
J
This
item.
That's
come
up
a
lot
tonight
regarding
the
elimination
of
parking
minimums
and
and
other
steps,
and
so
I'll
save.
Most
of
my
comments
for
later.
I
do
just
want
to
say
it
is
really
refreshing.
You
know
the
first
time
that
I
brought
forward
an
attempt
to
eliminate
parking
minimums
was
I
believe
in
the
first
year.
I
was
in
office
in
2012,
and
there
was
virtually
no
public
support
for
that
step
at
that
time
and
to
have
this
coming
back
for
a
third
time
tonight
to
have
a
substant
vote
with
elimination.
J
Mark
parking
minimums
to
have
such
a
really
impressive
Grassroots
support
from
individuals
linking
action
on
the
climate
emergency
to
changing
our
land,
use
policies,
getting
rid
of
parking
minimums,
making
housing
that
is
denser
and
that
will
expand
our
housing
Supply
and
do
in
a
way
that
has
a
dramatically
lesser
impact
on
on
the
climate
than
other
than
other
housing
in
Vermont
is
really
refreshing
and
welcome
you
all
to
be
here
tonight
and
hope.
You'll
stay
engaged
for
us.
J
A
A
Seeing
none
will
close
that
item
and
we'll
move
on
to
item
number
seven,
which
is
our
consent
agenda?
Is
there
a
motion
to
move
our
consent
agenda
and
take
the
actions
as
indicated?
Thank
you,
councilor
Bergman
seconded
by
councilor
Travers.
Is
there
any
discussion
on
that
motion,
seeing
none
all
those
in
favor,
please
say
aye
aye
any
opposed.
Please
say
no.
We've
approved
our
consent
agenda,
which
brings
us
to
our
deliberative
agenda.
We
added
an
and
deliberative
agenda
item
at
the
end
8.10.
A
In
addition
to
that,
we
have
nine
items
on
our
deliberative
agenda
and
there
are
time
limits
on
each
item
which
we've
agreed
to
by
approving
our
agenda,
and
we
will
do
our
best
to
keep
to
those
time
limits
to
move
the
agenda
along.
The
first
item
on
our
deliberative
agenda
is
item
8.01,
which
is
an
indoor
entertainment
permit
application
for
despacito
and
for
this
item,
I
will
turn
to
counselor
Shannon
for
a
motion.
A
A
Seeing
non-emotion
has
been
made
to
approve
the
indoor
entertainment
permit
application
for
despacito
all
those
in
favor
of
the
motion,
please
say
aye
any
opposed.
Please
say
no.
That
motion
passes
unanimously,
which
brings
us
to
our
other
indoor
outdoor,
our
our
other
indoor
entertainment
permit
application
item
8.02,
which
is
the
an
application
for
the
126.
councilor
Shannon
move.
A
Conditions,
thank
you
counselor
Shannon,
as
our
second
to
that
motion
seconded
by
councilor
Travers.
Thank
you.
Motion
has
been
made
to
approve
the
indoor
entertainment
permit
for
the
126.,
all
those
in
favor
of
the
motion.
Please,
or
is
there
any
discussion
on
that
item,
seeing
none
all
those
in
favor
of
the
motion,
please
say:
aye.
AN
L
A
AO
Thank
you,
president
Paul
and
City
councilors
and
mayor
Weinberger.
My
name
is
Jason
Van
dreysh
I
live
in
Ward,
5
and
I'm
here
tonight
to
ask
you
to
vote
in
support
of
the
proposed
ordinance
regarding
minimum
parking
requirements
and
Mr
Mayor.
Just
a
correction
I
believe
I
was
at
that
meeting
in
2012
and
supported
it.
AO
So
as
a
city,
planner
I'm
painfully
aware
that
zoning
has
a
long
history
of
being
used
as
a
tool
of
exclusion,
the
most
egregious
examples,
redlining
restrictive,
covenants
and
the
like
are
behind
us,
but
there
are
still
many
ways
that
zoning
is
used
to
protect
privilege
and
parking.
Minimums
are
such
a
tool
from
the
perspective
of
individual
development
projects.
You
could
make
an
argument
that
parking
minimums
make
a
sort
of
sense.
I
mean
shouldn't
each
development
project
carry
its
own
weight,
but
I
think.
AO
As
a
result,
parking
minimum
minimums
are
playing
a
not
insignificant
role
in
the
hollowing
out
of
our
city.
This
change
will
no
doubt
have
downsides
and
unintended
consequences,
but
they'll
pale
in
comparison
with
the
to
the
huge,
ongoing
negative
impacts
of
our
current
parking
policies.
Please
vote
in
favor
of
this
ordinance
vote
for
an
inclusive
Burlington.
Thank
you.
A
A
AE
AE
I
did
go
talk
to
Bill
Ward
about
this
too.
So,
as
you
all
know,
when
you
build
housing,
there's
a
certain
percentage
that
have
to
be
ADA
Compliant
and
when
you
have
that
when
parking
is
provided
at
the
site,
there's
a
certain
number
of
parking
spaces
that
are
associated
that
need
to
be
created
that
are
ADA
Compliant.
My
concern
is:
if
you're,
successful
and
I
want
this
to
be
successful.
If
you
build
housing,
downtown
and
I'm
speaking
to
the
mayor
too,
who
knows
this
and
you
don't
have
any
parking?
AE
Let's
say
you
have
a
site
that
you
can
build
for
housing
and
you
take
up
the
entire
site
and
there's
no
parking,
because
you
can
lease
parking
elsewhere
in
the
city.
That
would
be
a
win-win.
That
would
work
really
well.
But
what
happens
then
is
that
the
ADA
Compliant
units
get
created,
but
because
there's
no
parking
associated
with
the
project,
there's
no
ADA
Compliant
parking,
and
so
people
that
need
that
parking
are
left
with
options
that
don't
work
for
them.
AE
If,
if
you
have
satellite
parking,
I
think
it's
unreasonable
and
unsafe
to
expect
someone
to
go
with
in
a
wheelchair,
from
a
satellite
site
to
where
they
live.
So
as
you
move
forward,
this
will
get
established,
but
I
would
like
people
to
Circle
back
and
think
about
this
issue.
We
talk
about
inclusion
but
I'm
I'm,
watching
carefully
the
the
steps
we're
taking
with
elimination
of
parking
on
street,
and
now
this
this
proposal
and
I'm
worried
who
we
are
excluding
everyone
who
is
able
physically
able
to
get
around.
Who
is
youthful.
AE
A
A
So
we
will
close
the
public
hearing
at
9,
15
and
move
on
to
our
next
item,
which
is
8.04
an
ordinance,
comprehensive
development,
ordinance,
parking,
minimum
and
maximum
parking
requirements
and
transportation
demand
management,
which
is
Za
22-07
I'll,
note
that
we
have
with
us
director
of
planning
Megan
Tuttle
if
there
are
questions
that
come
up
or
counselors,
just
simply
just
simply
want
to
get
some
input
from
director
Tuttle.
In
the
meantime,
we'll
for
this
item,
I
will
go
to
the
chair
of
the
ordinance
committee,
councilor
Traverse,
for
a
motion.
A
AL
AL
Sure
go
ahead,
so
thank
you,
president
Paul.
As
you
can
see
on
the
agenda,
this
is
our
our
fifth
reading
of
this
ordinance
over
over
many
months
here
dating
back
to
well
before
I
joined
the
council.
This
has
been
through
multiple
meetings
of
not
only
the
ordinance
committee.
It's
been
before
this
fall
Council.
It's
also
been
before
multiple
meetings
of
the
Planning
Commission
and
and
before
diving
into
the
substance
of
it
all
I
think
that
there's
a
number
of
thanks
that
are
warranted
here.
AL
Certainly
thanks
are
owed
to
our
former
colleague
on
the
council.
Councilor
Hanson
who's
been
instrumental
in
in
moving
this
matter
forward.
I'd
also
like
to
thank
my
ward,
5
predecessor
on
the
ordinance
committee,
councilor
Mason,
counselors,
Hightower
and
Paul,
most
recently
on
the
ordinance
committee.
We've
also
had
contributions
from
a
number
of
other
colleagues
here,
including
counselors
Bergman
and
Carpenter
I'd,
also
like
to
thank
former
councilor
butcher
as
well
among
a
number
of
others.
AL
Also,
of
course,
we
have
director
Tuttle
here
assistant,
City
attorney
Sturdivant
has
been
instrumental
in
putting
this
together
and
they're,
really
fantastic,
dedicated
staffs,
as
always,
have
been
essential
towards
our
moving.
This
forward,
as
I
just
mentioned
to
you,
president
Paul-
this
is
a
nearly
30
page
ordinance.
I
seem
to
have
a
knack
here
of
inheriting
in
my
role
as
the
ordinance
committee,
some
some
Hefty
lifts
here
and
as
a
nearly
30
page
ordinance,
there's
continued
to
be
some
adjustments
and
some
clerical
edits.
AL
Some
of
those
final
minor
clerical
edits
are
reflected
in
a
version.
That's
posted
to
board
docs
with
the
title
of
final
with
Amendment
ordinance
and
at
this
point
in
time,
I
would
move
to
amend
the
ordinance
to
adopt
that
version.
The
version
on
board
dogs,
so
the
parentheses
final
with
amendment
in
its
entirety.
A
A
AM
AL
Well,
I
can
speak
to
the
Amendments
if,
if
it
would
be
an
order
for
us
to
vote
on
the
amended
version
for
us
and
then
return
to
debate
on
the
on
the
overall
bill,
right
I
think
that
that
would
be
an
order.
But
but
by
means
a
brief
explanation
here,
there
were
some
edits
necessary
to
some
of
the
numbering,
particularly
in
the
in
the
TDM
section.
AL
There
was
some
necessity
to
align
the
parking
maximums
table
with
some
changes
that
have
been
made
to
our
use
table,
particularly
with
respect
to
our
condensing
lodging
into
one
category.
This
amendment
also
adds
some
clarity
in
the
TDM
strategies
around
the
availability
of
car
share
spaces.
There's
another
section
of
the
ordinance
that
demands
car
share
spaces
in
larger
developments,
and
this
amendment
is
designed
to
bring
some
further
Clarity
around
that
redundancy
to
a
certain
extent.
Okay,.
A
So
don't
know
that
anyone
really
needs
to
debate
that
we
can
just
simply
take
that
motion
and
vote
on
the
on
the
motion.
So
if
we
could
vote
on
that
motion
first
and
then
we'll
go
to
the
underlying
the
underlying
ordinance
Amendment,
all
those
in
favor
of
the
motion
is
made
by
councilor,
Traverse
and
seconded
by
councilor
Bergman.
Please
say
aye
aye
any
opposed.
Please
say
no,
so
we
were
that
that
motion
passes.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
A
AL
Yeah,
thank
you,
president
Paul.
So,
a
couple
years
ago,
prior
to
my
joining
the
council,
the
city
acted
to
eliminate
minimum
parking
requirements
downtown
you
don't
have
to
look
far
from
City
Hall
to
see
cranes
now
rising
over
new
housing
projects
along
Pine,
Street
and
South
Champlain,
among
other
proposed
development,
and
these
are
projects
that
have
taken
advantage
of
our
removing
parking
requirements.
AL
The
Proposal
now
before
the
council
will
extend
the
elimination
of
minimum
parking
requirements
city-wide
and
for
those
who
I've
heard
Express
concern
about
what
I
view
to
be
an
extreme
possibility
of
projects
now
being
developed
with
zero
parking.
I
say
that
the
elimination
of
parking
requirements
does
not
mean
we
are
eliminating
parking.
Instead,
this
forward-thinking
move
will
allow
projects
more
flexibility
to
build
the
parking
their
residents
or
their
employees
actually
need,
as
opposed
to
as
opposed
to
uniform
minimum
standards
established
by
this
Council.
AL
As
stated
in
the
language
of
the
proposed
ordinance
requirements
for
a
minimum
number
of
off-street
parking
spaces
have
been
recognized
as
an
impediment
to
building
housing
and
other
desired
uses,
inhibit.
The
expansion
of
alternative
transportation
and
transportation
demand
management
and
act
as
an
instrument
to
overbuild
parking
and
incentivize
single
occupancy
automobile
use,
as
you've
heard
from
many
of
the
members
of
the
public.
AL
This
amended
version
also
addresses
concerns,
we've
heard
from
the
city's
affordable
housing
partners
and
provides
a
different
TDM
path
for
them
better
suited
to
their
projects
and
funding
models.
This
will
support
their
future
growth,
it'll
support,
future,
affordable
housing
and
I'm
thrilled.
We
recently
received
a
joint
letter
from
ever
North
cots
Cathedral
Square
and
Champlain
Housing
Trust,
voicing
their
approval
of
this
measure.
AL
Of
course,
as
with
many
of
our
ordinances,
there's
always
and
will
still
be
after
we
act
tonight,
room
for
improvement.
We
have
director
Tuttle
here
and
I
know
she
can
speak
to
the
city's
efforts
on,
for
example,
conducting
a
study
that
will
offer
additional
suggestions
for
our
TDM
plans.
I,
look
forward
to
the
results
of
that
study
and
then
committed
to
our
continuing
to
make
progress
on
TDM
even
after
we
take
initial
steps
tonight
for
tonight.
I'm
excited
about
where
we
are
I
enthusiastically
support.
AL
You
know
we
will
still
have
the
part
we
will
still
have
parking
in
this
city.
It's
just
that.
We'll
have
the
parking
we
need
and
we'll
be
meeting
that
goal
and
we'll
be
meeting
that
need
in
a
way
that
better
addresses
our
climate
and
sustainability
goals
and
our
ongoing
housing
crisis
and
hope
to
have
the
support
of
my
colleagues
this
evening.
Thank
you,
president
Paul
thank.
F
I
can't
resist
picking
on
this
issue
and
so
happy
to
have
so
many
folks,
both
in
the
room
and
online
come
to
support.
This
issue
wasn't
expecting
such
an
outpouring
but
I'm,
so
so
grateful
that
you're
here,
because
advocacy
matters
so
much
and
I
won't
reiterate
all
of
the
reasons,
and
it
was
especially
important,
I
think
to
kind
of
hear
all
the
reasons
again
why
we
even
put
this
on
the
table
to
talk
about
to
begin
with,
and
so
we
heard
those
from
you
all.
F
I
won't
reiterate
them,
but
as
someone
who
also
does
not
own
a
car
and
when
I
thought
about
buying
one
recently
found
out,
I
couldn't
afford
it.
I
empathize
with
all
of
those
Reasons
I'm,
also
grateful
that
we
as
a
council,
voted
this
back
into
ordinance
a
couple
weeks
ago,
when
we
had
a
version
at
the
end
of
last
year
that
we
thought
may
not
pass
or
would
remove
the
TDM
requirements
from
this
ordinance,
which
I
think
would
have
been
a
mistake.
F
F
This
ordinance
I
know
there's
still
some
work
that
we
need
to
do
around
some
of
the
institutional
Transportation
demand
management
and
some
accountability
around
that
I
know.
We
had
lots
of
comments
around
that,
especially
from
Barbara
Barbara
Hedrick,
appreciate
all
of
those
and
I
think
we
made
a
few
of
those
but
didn't
really
get
into
it,
but
just
really
hope
that
this
passes
today
and
looking
forward
to
the
changes
that
it
will
slowly,
it
will
be
too
slow,
we
know,
but
that
it'll
slowly
start
to
make
in
the
city.
Thank
you
thank.
AM
Well,
I
I
want
to
thank
this,
this
Council
for
not
killing
the
TDM
Provisions
last
time
and
referring
this
back
to
allow
us
to
to
make
this
more
flexible
and
responsive,
particularly
to
the
the
affordable
housing
people.
The
results
are
before
us
in
the
letter
from
those
housing
developers
today
and
I.
Think
it's
a
a
tribute
to
the
work
that
many
of
us
did.
AM
This
is
not
a
perfect
program.
This
is
far
from
it
and
many
of
the
things
that
I
proposed
did
not
make
it
into
this,
but
I
wholeheartedly
support
taking
this
second
step
to
expand
this
from
the
multimodal
to
the
rest
of
the
city
parking
areas,
because
it's
going
to
help
us
begin
to
build
the
infrastructure,
human
and
resource
infrastructure
to
be
able
to
move
people
around
in
a
clear
and
system
systematic
way,
as
opposed
to
the
chaos
that
exists
right
now.
AM
So
we've
got
a
lot
that
needs
to
be
done
and
I
look
forward
to
working
with
any
of
you
and
every
one
of
you
to
build
on
what
we've
done
to
make
this
thing
work
I've
been
working
with
the
UVM
Transportation
Research
Center,
so
work
on
surveys
and
how
we
actually
begin
to
use
information
is
something
that
we've
got
to
do.
I
I
think
we've
got
to
do
it
before
we
get
to
getting
that
report
back.
AM
I
I
think
the
time
to
be
doing
work
on
transportation
across
the
board,
including
Transportation
demand
management,
is
now
and
I
look
forward
to
the
opportunity
to
to
work
with
any
and
all
of
you
in
building
this.
This
system
and
I
sure
hope
that
we
can
pass
this
as
close
to
unanimously
as
we
can.
Thank
you
thank.
AK
Thank
you,
president
Paul.
As
some
of
you
are
aware,
I
posted
recently
I'm
from
porch
Forum
to
ask
for
constituent
input
about
this
proposal
because,
as
I
viewed
it
there
are
positives.
Our
parking
ordinance
desperately
needs
revision
and
I
was
not
convinced
that
this
is
the
revision
that
we
need.
It
addresses
some
of
the
problems
it
creates
other
problems
and
I
genuinely
wanted
input
from
constituents.
I
tried
to
assure
that
what
I
put
out
there
was
not.
AK
It
was
not
intended
to
sway
opinion,
but
to
make
people
aware
of
some
key
aspects
of
the
of
The
Proposal
and
also
I
noted
that
the
purpose
of
this
was
to
increase
the
increased
building
of
housing
in
Burlington,
which
I
think
we
broadly
agree
is
needed
in
a
process.
Constituents
raised
many
concerns
and
I
wonder
if
you
would
allow
me
to
ask
some
questions
and
I
I'm,
not
sure
who
should
answer
them.
The
first
question:
I,
don't
know
if
counselor
Travis
would
feel
comfortable,
Traverse.
AK
Sorry
answering
with
respect
to
what
you
reported
about
other
communities
that
have
done
this
I
supported,
eliminating
the
parking
minimums
downtown,
and
that
is
because
there
was
a
lot
of
process
around
that.
A
lot
of
analysis
about
the
parking
needs
about
a
lot
of
strategy
about
how
to
better
utilize
our
existing
parking.
AK
Other
communities
that
have
really
robust
public
transportation
have
really
robust.
Alternatives
already
makes
a
lot
of
sense
to
me
that
they
would
they
would
successfully
eliminate
parking
requirements,
but
I'm
wondering
if
there
is
any
comparison
among
our
what
I'll
call
our
sister
cities
college
towns
of
similar
size
that
have
eliminated
parking
in
their
in
their
college
districts.
You
know
where
a
lot
of
college
students
live.
AK
What
I
see
in
our
community
is
is
many
places
not
providing
the
needed
parking,
which
is,
unfortunately,
it
is
not
limiting
the
number
of
vehicles,
but
rather
it's
causing
a
lot
of
stress
in
the
neighborhoods,
as
people
create
parking
spaces
both
on
and
off
street
that
were
not
intended
as
such.
So
I
don't
know.
If
any
of
the
lists
that
you
have
references,
similar
college
towns.
AL
Thank
you
for
the
question.
Counselor
Shannon,
I
I.
Think
that,
as
you
look
at
the
list
of
other
communities
and
by
no
means
was
at
least
exhaustive,
you
find
communities
of
of
different
size.
You
find
large
municipalities,
you
find
smaller
municipalities.
You
do
find
a
number
of
other
college
towns
in
there.
I
mean
just
looking
back
at
my
list
here.
AL
Ann
Arbor,
Michigan,
home
of
the
University
of
Michigan,
is
one
of
those
communities
that
has
eliminated
parking
minimums,
South,
Bend
Indiana
of
Notre
Dame
is
one
of
those
communities
that
have
eliminated
parking
minimums.
Raleigh,
North
Carolina
has
a
number
of
colleges
there
as
well,
who
have
eliminated
parking
minimums,
Dr
Tuttle,
not
to
put
you
on
the
spot
with
respect
to
this
necessarily
one
way
or
another.
AP
Yeah,
thank
you.
I
did
look
into
this
question
after
councilor.
Shannon
shared
it
with
me
this
afternoon,
both
in
terms
of
looking
for
just
what
I
would
call
peer
communities
in
terms
of
approaches
that
they've
taken
to
their
parking
policies,
as
well
as
other
communities
that
I
would
describe
as
being
more
rural
in
nature
and
so
I
think
it
sounds
like
many
of
the
communities
that
counselor
Traverse
mentioned
are
ones
that
have
been
on
our
radar.
AP
Maximums
I
can't
speak
to
their
experience
with
Transit
and
Dover,
but
even
smaller
communities
that
are
sometimes
termed
as
destination
communities
like
Hudson,
New
York
and
the
Catskills
and
Saranac
Lake
and
the
Adirondacks.
Both
are
communities
of
only
about
6
000
people
that
see
a
lot
of
Tourism
and
visitors
to
their
communities
that
have
eliminated
minimum
requirements
and
I
even
found
a
community
Calumet
Michigan
in
the
upper
peninsula.
AP
600
people
they
have
replaced
their
minimums
with
maximum,
so
I
think
we're
seeing
that
this
approach
is
being
embraced
by
communities
of
all
sizes
and
all
kinds
of
contexts
and
I
I
would
add
to
the
couple
College
communities
that
counselor
Traverse
mentioned.
Cambridge
Mass,
Cambridge
Massachusetts
just
made
the
news
in
the
last
six
months
for
eliminating
minimum
requirements.
Citywide
that's
a
little
closer
to
home
for
us.
AP
I
found
a
number
of
examples
of
communities
where
they
may
not
have
eliminated
minimum
city-wide,
but
did
eliminate
parking
requirements
in
significant
ways
in
some
parts
of
their
community.
So
both
Champlain
Champaign
Illinois,
which
is
the
home
of
the
University
of
Illinois
and
Eugene
Oregon
home
of
U
of
Oregon,
have
eliminated
minimums
both
in
their
downtowns,
as
well
as
in
the
districts
surrounding
their
campuses.
They've
also
lowered
the
max
the
minimum
parking
limits
in
the
rest
of
their
cities
as
well
and
I
also
found
an
example.
AP
Norman
Oklahoma,
a
pretty
small,
otherwise
rural
community
about
a
third
of
their
population,
has
is
college
students
and
they
have
removed
minimums
for
everything,
except
for
single-family
homes
and
fraternities.
So
the
type
of
multi-family
scale
and
Commercial
developments
that
we
are
often
talking
about
when
we
talk
about
the
benefits
of
parking
eliminating
minimums
is
the
policy
change
that
they've
made
as
well.
Okay,.
AK
Thank
you.
That's
helpful,
but
I
wish
that
we
had
done
a
comparison
to
better
understand
the
granularity
of
these
decisions,
and
that
is
something
that
we
did
prior
to
eliminating
our
parking
requirements.
Downtown.
We
did
an
excellent
analysis
of
We
did
an
inventory
of
the
parking
that
we
had
and
we
came
up
with
strategies
to
better
utilize,
the
the
parking
that
we
had.
We
have
not
done
that
yet,
as
we
extend
this
Beyond,
our
multi
are
multimodal
Transit
District.
AK
My
concerns
after
hearing
from
I've
posted
twice
actually
I'm
from
porch
forum
and
her
from
well
over
100
constituents
who
are
who
are
the
vast
majority
are
are
opposed
to
this.
At
this
time
we
have
several
counselors
at
the
table
met
with
immigrant
parents
at
King
Street
and
their
number
one
complaint
was
their
lack
of
parking
and
the
impact
that
that
had
on
their
lives.
AK
AK
I
have
heard
concerns
from
developers
about
this,
as
we
all
have,
the
non-profit
developers
who
will
build.
Affordable
housing
in
our
community
did
send
a
letter,
but
it
was
not
in
support
of
this
ordinance.
The
letter
that
they
sent
was
in
support
of
the
change
to
the
ordinance
that
Exempted
them
from
these
requirements.
AK
I
have
heard
concerns
from
a
bike
transportation
expert
who
is
concerned
that
if
we
eliminate
all
of
the
parking,
it's
a
big
challenge
to
get
bike.
Lanes
in
this
community
there's
a
lot
of
pushback
around
that,
and
while
this
person
was
supportive
of
eliminating
parking
in
some
cases,
they
did
not
feel
that
the
blanket
policy
was
going
to
be
the
best
policy,
because
in
areas
where
you're
trying
to
put
in
bike
Lanes,
especially
there,
you
need
off-street
parking
so
that
you
can
take
away
the
on-street
parking
and
still
offer
people
alternatives.
AK
AK
AK
Whichever
is
greater,
they
could
get
an
additional
additional
story
in
the
Waterfront
public
trust
District.
That
is
an
area
that
I
don't
know
that
we
particularly
we've
been
very
concerned
about
the
height
in
that
area.
Now,
if
we
want
to
just
increase
the
height
in
the
Waterfront
public
trust
District,
then
we
should
have
that
conversation.
But
right
now,
with
the
change
in
this
ordinance,
we'll
be
allowing
an
extra
story
for
a
developer
to
do
virtually
nothing.
AK
AK
Parking
maximums
have
both
increased
meaningfully
and
decreased
meaningfully,
because
there
was
a
decision
to
round
the
base
number,
which
is
the
parking
rate
like
one
space
per
unit
when
that
got
rounded
when
that
is
Multiplied.
In
some
cases
that
will
result
in
a
parking
maximum
that's
equivalent
to
what
the
parking
minimum
used
to
be.
In
other
cases,
it
will
be
expanded
beyond
what
the
previous
maximums
were.
AK
AK
I
really
would
have
liked
to
I
know
that
has
been
a
lot
of
time
and
there
has
been
a
lot
of
meetings
and
there
has
been
a
lot
of
effort,
but
there
still
has
not
been
the
rigorous
process
that
that
should
precede
a
decision
like
this
and
I
realize
I'm.
Probably
the
only
person
at
this
table
who's
going
to
vote
against
this
ordinance,
but
I
think
at
the
very
least,
having
heard
from
a
vast
majority
of
my
constituents,
their
opposition
to
this
I
think
that
they
at
least
deserve
a
voice.
Here.
AK
AK
We've
heard
a
lot
of
concerns,
in
fact
that
this
will
be
this
isn't
going
to
really
expand.
Alternatives
developers
will
be
able
to
to
choose
the
cheapest
alternative.
That's
not
necessarily
very
meaningful
I've
heard
from
over
100
residents
on
this
issue.
Listening,
listen
to
their
reasoning
and
their
arguments
on
all
sides.
AK
AK
We're
just
at
the
brink
of
starting
our
transportation
demand
management
study.
We
should
revisit
this
when
that
is
complete
and
we
learn
more
about
how
to
effectively
offer
Alternatives
that
address
the
transportation
needs
of
our
community
I
and
many
others
could
be
persuaded
to
eliminate
parking
minimums,
but
we
should
not
be
eliminating
parking
minimums
both
past
and
present.
Without
a
plan.
We
need
to
reform
our
parking
ordinance.
AK
We
need
to
have
a
plan
for
where
people
Park
cars,
analyze
the
costs
or
come
up
with
plan
to
get
them
out
of
their
cars,
which
we
do
not
have
no
parking
and
diminished
public
transit,
which
we
heard
tonight
is
not
a
plan
for
getting
people
to
work,
to
doctors,
offices
and
to
daycare.
Low-Income
families
and
workers
will
be
the
most
negatively
impacted
by
this
policy.
Thank
you.
I
I
The
answer
to
that
is
the
issues
Council,
Hightower
and
Bergman
brought
up,
which
is
we
need
more
specialized
transportation.
That
is
absolutely
a
gap
in
this
community
I
work,
as
you
know,
for
many
years
advocating
for
this
most
and
many
of
the
folks.
I
know
that
are
not
as
able
do
take
the
bus
and
they
need
better
transportation.
They
don't
own
vehicles
and,
unfortunately,
won't
ever
own
a
vehicle.
So
a
parking
space
is
not
the
benefit
that
they're
going
to
get.
There
are
other
answers
and
we
need.
I
We
need
to
work
on
that,
and
that
should
not
be
an
issue
not
to
not
to
support
this
I.
Just
as
a
side
comment,
I
am
someone
who
remembers
Council
gear.
He
was
the
attorney
for
us
at
heinenberg
housing
and
he
helped
us
fight
to
get
at
the
time
Chittenden
County
transportation
to
be
willing
to
swing
down
two
blocks.
I
To
heineberg
housing
and
run
the
bus
through
it,
I
mean
there's
a
ton
of
answers
that
we
can
do,
and
this
is
not
going
to
harm
that
the
other
thing
I
want
to
weigh
in
a
little
bit.
Isn't
I
am
no
longer
an
affordable
housing
developer,
but
the
letter
that
you
receive
from
my
former
colleagues
was
speaking
specifically
to
some
administrative
issues
around
administering
the
TDM
and
I'm
very
happy
that
we
were
able
to
accommodate
them.
I
Most
of
their
clientele
have
free
bus
passes,
have
supports,
they
do
do
tenant
education
and
that
they
were
asking
for
relief
from
that
and
I'm
glad
we
were
able
to
accommodate
them
in
my
development
years.
We
never
wanted
to
add
more
spaces
than
we
needed
to.
They
cost
a
lot
of
money
and
in
this
day
and
age,
with
planning
as
it
should
be,
we
have
to
do
structured
parking.
I
mean
that's
a
twenty
five
thousand
dollar
or
more
probably
these
days.
I
haven't
done
it
ad.
I
So
you
never
want
to
add
more
than
you
need,
especially
in
a
city
like
Burlington,
where
you
don't
have
gravel
Lots.
You
don't
have
an
inexpensive
way
to
do
it,
so
you
know
I
I
recognize
that
some
of
the
developers,
perhaps
on
the
market
side,
have
more
issue
with
maximums,
but
I've
never
heard
that
on
the
minimum
side.
A
G
Thank
you,
president
Paul
I'll
be
brief.
I'll
be
supporting
this
tonight.
I
would
have
rather
that
we
decoupled
the
parking
question
from
the
TDM
question
and
take
the
TDM
issue
up
after
the
city-wide
TDM
study
is
completed
about
a
year
from
now,
but
I
realized
that
a
lot
of
work's
gone
into
this.
We
said
we're
on
our
fifth
reading
and
it's
not
realistic
to
decouple
these
things
tonight.
G
G
They're
satisfied
with
these
and
lastly
I'll
just
say:
I
understand
and
I
do
share
the
concern
about
eliminating
parking
minimums,
because
you
know
I,
we
all
are
by
Nature
multimodal
many
of
us
are
anyways
and
when
we
aren't
using
our
car
we
need
a
place
to
park
it.
But
I
do
see
this
as
a
way
to
it's
a
tool
by
eliminating
the
parking
minimums.
G
A
Q
B
B
It
is
important
to
make
it
accurate
that
those
women
what
they
were
talking
about
is
more
available
parking
when
they're
picking
up
or
dropping
up
their
kids
I
think
to
make
it
vertically,
and
they
talked
about
many
other
different
issues
that
are
not
related,
also
wanted
to
say
rest
in
peace,
Bruce
Cypher,
and
thank
you
to
his
contribution
to
the
greatness
of
the
city.
This
is
a
public
hearing.
B
I
heard
from
my
Constitution
is
no
longer
enough.
I
think
we
need
to
Rally
them
and
bring
them
here
and
speak
to
the
council
in
order
for
us
to
make
an
informative
vote
and
their
thoughts
and
perspective
are
taking
into
account.
I
want
to
also
thank
everyone
for
showing
up,
especially
the
young
people
of
this
city,
and
speaking
of
in
support
of
this
I
will
be
supporting
this
tonight.
Thank
you,
president.
Thank
you.
Mr
Mayor.
A
J
Think
this
one
of
the
things
we
talked
about
back
then,
was
that
unnecessary
parking
can
easily
raise
the
cost
of
housing,
20
or
30
percent,
and
that's
a
that's
a
huge
number
when
we
are
in
a
community
there's
so
housing
pressured
and
which
has
such
affordability
challenges
as
we
do.
I
think
this
is
a
very
significant
action
that
we're
doing
tonight.
I
appreciate
counselors
traverse's
point
that
we
are
starting
to
see
the
benefits.
J
Now,
as
we
speak,
we've
now
I've
never
seen
so
many
cranes
in
the
city,
as
you
can
see
right
now,
and
some
of
that
is
definitely
tied
to
the
changes
we've
made
in
the
downtown
and
I
hope.
This
leads
to
a
similar
support
for
infill
development,
City
Wide,
not
in
the
downtown
or
Transportation
corridors,
but
city-wide
there
I,
don't
think
the
concerns
have
been
raised,
I
think
councilor.
The
concerns
are
raised
that
this
may,
in
some
places
in
the
city
result
over
time.
J
Incrementally
eventually
in
Greater
Parker
parking
challenges
in
certain
parts
of
the
city
is
is
true.
There
will
be
greater
greater
challenges
and
that
will
potentially
that
won't,
but
what
I'm
I
guess?
What
I'm
confident
of
is
that
we
have
the
tools
as
individual
households
as
neighborhoods
as
a
city,
to
respond
to
those
site-specific
challenges
as
they
as
they
come
up.
We
have
the
ability
to
put
in.
We
have
a
residential
parking
regime,
quite
robust
regime,
that,
as
new
neighborhoods
face
additional
parking
challenges
can
be
used
to
it
to
address
elements
of
that.
J
When
really,
we
must
have
more
permanent
parking,
we
can
look
at
off-street,
Solutions
private
structures.
Hopefully
we
are
headed
towards
a
period
where
that's
going
to
be
needed
less
and
less.
But
my
point
is:
there:
are
lots
of
options
available
to
households
and
communities
if
and
when
parking
pressures
evolve?
So
I
think
this
is
really
significant.
I'll
be
enthusiastically
signing
this.
J
Similarly,
no
one
should
think
that
by
the
this
passage
tonight,
the
TDM
all
the
demand
management
is
getting
a
a
major
boost.
With
this
this
alone,
we
are
going
to
have
to
work
a
lot
more
on
Transportation
demand
management,
but
we
will
do
that.
The
right
way
going
forward,
grounded
in
this
Innovative
Cutting
Edge
area,
with
the
best
thinking
best
practices
from
around
the
country
and
looking
broader
than
simply
imposing
a
new
burden
on
new
construction
that
can
have
a
project
killing
impact.
A
Thank
you,
mayor
Weinberger.
It
appears
that
we
may
be
ready
for
a
vote.
The
motion
on
the
floor
is
to
waive
the
reading
and
adopt
the
ordinance
as
amended
all
those
in
favor
of
the
motion.
Please
say:
aye
aye
any
opposed.
Please
say
no,
let
the
record
reflect
that
counselor
Shannon
has
voted
no
on
this
ordinance.
The
motion
passes
ten
to
one.
A
A
AL
Thank
you,
president
Paul
very
briefly
here.
This
is
a
much
shorter
ordinance
than
what
we
just
discussed
there,
and
it's
for
the
purpose
of
clarifying
that
public
art
installed
on
private
property
does
not
require
a
zoning
permit.
It
sets
forth
some
pretty
basic
standards
here
that
folks
can
can
go
forth
and
and
display
their
public
art
as
long
as
it's
safe,
as
long
as
it
does
doesn't
obstruct
paths
as
long
as
it's
not
discriminatory
or
hateful
or
damage
historic
materials.
A
A
N
A
Opposed,
please
say
no
that
motion
passes
unanimously,
which
brings
us
to
item
8.06,
the
Burlington
School
District.
Regarding
the
update
to
the
city
council
on
their
annual
school
budget,
and
for
this
presentation
we
have
a
finance
director,
Nathan
Lavery,
chair
of
the
school
commission,
Claire
wool
and
superintendent
Tom
Flanagan.
We've
allotted
30
minutes
from
this
item
does
not
mean
that
you
need
to
take
it,
but
we
have
allotted
that
and
I
hope
that
you'll
be
able
to
take
us
through
your
presentation
in
the
first
10
to
15
minutes
and
then
allow
questions
for
the
council.
A
One
thing
I
did
want
to
mention
for
the
benefit
of
the
public
that
the
school
Department's
budget
is
approved
and
goes
to
the
voters
from
the
school
commission
who
has
the
authority
to
bring
their
budget
directly
to
the
voters.
We
have
this
annual
present
rotation
to
inform
the
council,
but
it
is
for
our
informational
purposes,
as
we
do
not
vote
to
approve
the
school
budget.
Just
wanted
to
make
that
clear.
So
people
don't
think
that
we
are
voting
on
your
budget.
They,
the
voters,
get
to
vote
on
your
budget.
AQ
L
AQ
AQ
A
AQ
Okay,
all
right
so
tonight
what
we'll
what
we'll
do
is.
As
president
Paul
mentioned,
we
will
present
to
you
the
budget
we'll
spend
about
10
minutes.
Maybe
12
minutes
talking
through
I,
don't
know
if
you
want
to
set
the
timer
for
me
Nate
and
we'll
then
open
it
up
for
for
questions.
I'll
I'll
be
leading
the
presentation
executive,
our
executive
director
of
operations
and
finance
Nathan
Lavery
is
here
to
add
any
to
take
a
few
slides
and
to
be
able
to
be
your
dance
answer.
AQ
As
well
as
our
chair,
Claire
wool,
so
here
we
are
we're.
Gonna
start
off
the
budgetary
with
budgetary
assumptions
talk
about
enrollment
the
way
enrollment
plays
into
the
to
the
budget.
Talk
about
our
Equitable
budgeting
process
and
the
Baseline
Staffing
allocations
talk
about
the
rise
funding,
which
is
a
part
of
our
annual
funding
process
that
I'll
get
into
in
more
detail.
The
fund
balance
the
tax
variables
and
the
timelines
for
next
steps.
AQ
health
insurance
premiums
are
estimated
to
increase
by
12
percent,
so
significant
increases
to
wages
to
benefits,
and
then
it's
important
to
know
that
our
American
Rescue
plan
funds,
which
we've
called
Esser
funds
or
recovery
funds
here,
we're
calling
them
Esser
funds,
those
funding
that
funding
stream
goes
away
after
next
after
next
school
year,
so
that
we
still
have
the
funding
for
next
school
year.
Beyond
that
it
goes
away.
AQ
We've
been
careful
not
to
add
very
many
positions
in
there
because,
as
you
know,
it's
very
hard
to
pull
back
positions
once
they've
been
since
they've
been
given,
and
we
want
to
be.
We've
always
wanted
to
be
careful
about
that.
But
there
are
some
positions
in
there,
specifically
our
restorative
Specialists,
and
so
those
three
things
are
are
playing
into
our
decision.
Making
here,
there's
a
slide
that
goes
through
our
enrollment
history.
AQ
It's
just
important
to
know
what
our
enrollment
looks
like
and
over
time
and
we've
been
seeing
a
kind
of
a
steady
decline
in
enrollment,
not
huge
declines
in
enrollment.
Our
enrollment
is
still
robust.
Generally,
our
schools
are
still
full.
We've
been
backfilling
what
you're
not
seeing
here
with
Pre-K
classrooms,
so
we've
been
able
to
balance
some
enrollment
decline
at
the
elementary
school
K5
with
Pre-K.
AQ
AQ
If
we
go
to
the
next
slide,
we
began
the
process
of
building
an
equitable
budgeting
model
that
ensured
that
schools
got
a
a
robust
base
allocation
of
Staffing,
and
then
on
top
of
that
that
they
received
an
allocation
that
Inc
incorporated
our
weighted
pupil
funding,
which
was
not
approved
by
the
state
at
that
point,
but
now
is
approved
by
the
state.
So
we
use
the
specific
weighting.
We're
excited
about
that
too.
AQ
A
specific
waiting
for
that
rise
allocation,
which
stands
for
recognizing,
Injustice
and
seeking
equity,
and
we'll
talk
a
little
bit
more
about
that
in
a
few
minutes.
When
we
developed
that
model,
we
did
it
with
significant
input
from
our
community.
We
heard
from
for
over
450
students,
family
member
staff
and
Community.
You
can
kind
of
see
who
we
heard
from
under
the
Community
survey
slide
there.
We
got
a.
T
AQ
Were
really
really
very
pleased
by
the
feedback
we
got
and
and
the
amount
of
feedback
and
and
the
feedback
that
represented
really
represented
our
city.
So
we're
very
excited
about
that
back
when
we
did
this
in
2020
2021
and
the
community
survey
told
us
a
number
of
things.
The
thing
that
really
stands
out
to
us
on
the
next
slide.
AQ
There
is
that
72
percent
of
all
respondents,
including
79
of
BSD
staff,
strongly
agree
or
agree
that
resources
should
be
allocated
in
a
way
that
supports
the
students
who
need
them
most,
even
if
it
means
reducing
the
resources
at
their
schools.
So
it
shows
that
our
community,
similar
to
the
the
percentage
that
that
voted
for
bhsbtc
in
the
70s
in
the
mid
70s
mid
to
high
70s,
is
saying
that
resources
should
go
where
the
where
the
need
is,
and
so
that's
the
been
a
part
of
our
process
in
our
budgeting.
AQ
The
next
slide
shows
what
they
prioritize.
You
can
see
what
what
people
prioritize
again.
This
is
back
in
2020,
2021
and
we'll
skip
ahead
to
the
proposed
model,
which
I
mentioned
earlier,
and
that
proposed
model
has
those
three
things
that
I
mentioned
earlier,
which
is
a
solid
Baseline
Staffing
model
that
provides
each
school
with
its
Core
Staffing
and
using
a
staff
to
staff
to
student
ratios,
and
so
those
staff
to
student
ratios
are
about
17
or
18
to
1,
which
is
a
really
robust,
Staffing
model
and,
and
we
and
also
a
staffing
model.
AQ
AQ
It
also
our
staffing
Model
includes
psychologists
at
all
of
our
schools,
School
psychologists
at
all
of
our
schools,
school
counselors
social
workers
at
all
of
our
schools,
school
counselors
at
all
of
our
schools
and
inner
pensionists
special
Educators
El
teachers
of
the
full
kind
of
component
of
of
Staffing
that
you
would
expect
in
the
school.
That
is
really
a
robust
Staffing
model,
based
on
other
models
that
we've
looked
at
in
National
and
state
standards
for
for
Staffing.
So
we
feel
good
about
the
staff
Baseline
Staffing
model
on
top
of
that
there's
non-personnel
funds.
AQ
AQ
That
is
what
I
mentioned
earlier,
that
this
is
the
rise
allocation
and
it
is
based
on
the
weighted
student
formula
and
schools
have
discretion
over
how
they
spend
and
and
budget
and
spend
those
funds,
and
each
school
has
a
school
Advisory
Group
that
meets
to
determine
how
to
best
utilize
those
funds.
Those
funds
range
from
about
a
hundred
thousand
dollars
per
at
some
schools.
AQ
That's
sort
of
taking
you
back
a
few
years,
we're
in
our
second
year
of
implementing
the
Equitable
budgeting
model
and
it's
a
process
because
we
want
to
make
sure
that
we're
not
kind
of
sending
shock
waves
through
the
system
as
we
get
the
Baseline
to
a
consistent
in
a
consistent
place
and
that
we
are
yeah.
So
that
really
is
a
is
a
process
and
we're
also
learning
from
that
process
as
we
go
this
school
year.
AQ
What's
that
we're
running
long
executive
directory
Lavery
tells
me
we're
running
long
I'm
going
to
move
fast,
the
board
guidance
this
year.
You
can
see
up
there.
It's
really
recognizing
our
staffing
levels
need
to
be
responsive
to
enrollment
changes,
limit
budget
growth
to
because
of
the
increases
in
wages
and
benefits,
and
pending
BHS
BTC
costs
to
ensure
funding
for
our
strategic
plan
objectives.
We
do
have
a
strategic
plan
that
we
co-created
with
our
community
that
we've
set
aside
funding
over
the
past
two
years
to
meet
and
to
continue
to
offer
robust
programmatic
offerings.
AQ
Our
community
has
told
us
clearly
that
that
they
want
to
make
sure
that
there
are
the
that
the
programming
is
robust,
whether
it
be
in
the
Arts
or
in
World
languages
and
or
in
intervention
in
in
sort
of
all
ranges
of
the
of
the
model
and
to
consider
multi-year
impacts
of
changes.
So
we're
not
just
looking
at
enrollment
one
year
to
the
next,
we're
not
thinking
about
this
from
one
year
to
the
next
we're
thinking
about
this
over
for
the
long
term,
the
next
one
is
Staffing
Staffing
allocations
and
I.
AQ
So
that
is
what
you'll
see
here.
The
addition
of
4.2
ftes,
total
reductions
of
10
individual
ftes,
so
the
net
reduction
of
full-time
employees
is
5.8
percent,
5.8
full-time
employees
with
natural
attrition,
and
we
know
very
specifically
in
a
couple
of
our
schools
already
that
there
are.
There
are
natural
places
for
individual
staff
to
land,
even
within
the
the
school
building
and
in
some
places
within
the
grade
level,
and
that's
partially.
AQ
Why
we
take
the
staged
approach,
so
we're
not
negatively
impacting
individual
humans
as
we
as
we
make
these
changes,
so
natural
attrition
will
will
help
kind
of
ease
that
at
our
school
levels,
so
we
we
are
going
through.
We
do
go
through
each
of
the
schools.
I'll
move
through
those
really
quickly.
We
have
kind
of
simple
enrollment
based
changes
at
two
schools.
Those
are
Champlain
and
Smith,
where
you
may
have
a
class
that
has
22
students
in
a
certain
grade
level
and
they
currently
have
three
teachers
in
that
grade
level.
AQ
AQ
We're
still
in
conversation
about
about
that
in
the
coaching
model,
the
the
next
page,
you
can
see
IAA
and
Flynn.
These
are
two
situations
that
are
are
carryovers
from
unique
budgeting
decisions
that
were
made
by
previous
principals
under
previous
administrations
and
have
sort
of
carried
forward
in
that
transition.
As
we
also
work
to
get
our
staffing
levels
organized
and
coherent
at
IA
we
are
per,
we
are.
We
are
planning
to
reduce
one
FTE,
which
is
a
unified
Arts
position.
AQ
Iaa
has
1.0,
it
has
a
full-time
Arts
integration
coach
and
they
have
a
0.5
instructional
coach,
similar
to
sustainability
Academy,
which
is
the
other
magnet
school.
That
school
has
one
sustainability,
coach
and
iaea
has
one
Arts
coach
at
a
certain
point.
Back
a
number
of
years
ago,
IAA
was
with
what
part
had
found
funding
grant
funding
and
had
raised
funds
to
bring
on
a
Drama
teacher
part-time.
AQ
That
position
in
in
the
last
year
of
the
previous
administration
was
created
as
a
a
full-time
position,
but
it
was
a
limited
term
contract
because
this
was
never
intended
to
be,
but
from
the
district's
perspective,
a
long-term
position
we're
proposing
that
that
position
no
longer
be
funded
through
the
through
the
Baseline,
but
funding
allocation,
but
could
be
funded
through
rise
allocation
funding.
If
the
school
chooses
that
that's
a
position
that
they
should
School
Community
chooses
that's
the
thing
they
should
continue
to
keep
similar.
AR
Quick
update
on
so
our
audit
is
actually
just
about
at
the
finish
line,
which
is
exciting
and
also
there's
information
there
that
contributes
to
the
city's
audit.
So
it's
good,
there's
a
certain
amount
of
value
in
us
being
completed,
but
part
of
what
our
audit
shows
also
is
the
money
that
we
have
left
over
to.
H
AR
Thank
you,
the
the
budget
that
we're
building
right
now,
so
that's
money
that
we
don't
need
to
raise
from
taxpayers
by
virtue
of
having
some
of
that
money
left
over,
and
we
continue
to
use
some
of
that.
It's
one-time
money,
but
it
helps
support
the
budget
as
well
as
also
some
of
that
money
goes
toward
the
the
new
High
School,
so
I'll
skip
ahead,
there's
a
slide
that
defines
the
the
tax
variables
but
I'm
going
to
go
right
to
the
number
slide
and
what
they
show.
AR
There's
four
key
variables:
those
who
have
seen
these
presentations
before
know
that,
in
terms
of
District
management,
we
really
only
control
one
of
those.
That's
the
spending
variable
the
first
one
on
the
list
there
equalize
pupil
count.
That
number
is
going
down
about
three
and
a
half
percent
that
has
the
effect
of
putting
upward
pressure
on
tax
rates.
The
homestead
dollar
yield
increase
has
the
effect
of
putting
downward
pressure
on
tax
rates
and
the
common
level
of
appraisal
change,
puts
upward
pressure
on
tax
rates.
AR
So
you
can
see
these
variables
can
move
in
different
directions
and
they
can
have
different
pressure
on
on
tax
rates.
The
next
slide
shows
the
estimated
impact
of
calculating
all
those
variables
for
a
hypothetical
property
pair
and
hypothetical
income
pair
that
the
current
estimate
we
have
is
that
the
property
tax
rate
would
increase
about
4.9
percent.
AR
That
again,
these
numbers
are
not
final.
We
expect
to
go
back
and
and
kind
of
look
for
other
opportunities
to
mitigate
some
of
that
increase,
but
you
can
see
that
that
would
produce
an
estimated
annual
impact
on
this
hypothetical
pair
of
on
252
dollars
a
year,
and
we
do
a
similar
calculation
for
for
the
income
payer
below
and
the
next
slide.
AR
So
another
way
to
think
about
the
budget
increase
is
that
less
than
half
of
that
increase
is
actually
associated
with
the
impact
of
the
spending
decisions
that
we're
making
on
all
the
other
variables,
as
well
as
all
the
other
variables
that
are.
You
know
that
impact
that
we
don't
control.
But
the
point
is
the
high
school
coming
online.
That's
driving
a
little
more
than
half
of
the
projected
tax
rate
increase
that
we
expect
to
put
on
the
ballot.
AQ
AQ
We
look
to
benefit
significantly
from
the
new
weights
and,
as
we
discussed
in
the
process
of
the
school
bond
or
BHS
BTC
2025
Bond,
we
discussed
utilizing
some
of
that
for
the
bond
and
also
some
of
that
to
improve
services,
and
so
we're
anticipating
that
there's
also
another
another
variable
in
play,
which
is
the
special
education
block
grant.
So
the
state
is
changing
the
way.
They're
funding
special
education
at
this
time
as
well-
and
we
are-
we
are
in
in
many
ways
we
can
do.
We
can
do
some
projecting
here,
but
we're
there's
a.
AQ
There
are
a
lot
of
unknowns
as
we
head
into
next
fiscal
year,
and
so
we
are
really
working
to
be
as
conservative
as
we
can
this
year,
not
adding
any
major
new
initiatives
in
in
this
budget
and
working
to
make
reductions
where
we
think
it's
it's
feasible,
and
so
that's
the
that's.
That's
the
strategy
and
next
steps.
We've
got
the
city
council.
Obviously
we're
with
you
tonight
school
board,
meeting
on
the
17th
and
town
meeting
day
on
the
7th.
A
F
Sorry,
if
I
just
missed
it,
but
what
we
think
is
driving
that
K-5
enrollment
and
then
just
wanted
to
double
check
because
for
the
high
school
middle
school
the
2019
numbers
weren't
actually
lower
than
the
20,
whatever
the
first
year
was
2015,
and
so,
if
again,
I
don't
understand,
what's
doing
the
K
through
five.
If
we
think
that
reduction
is
permanent
or
just
due
to
coven,
we
expect
it
to
bounce
back.
So.
AQ
Yeah
there's
there
are
a
couple
things
happening
at
the
same
time,
so
I
appreciate
you
asking
asking
that
question
and
you're
right
it's
a
hard.
It
is
a.
It
is
a
challenging
process
and
we're
really
trying
to
take
that
make
it
happen
over
a
number
of
years.
There
are
two
things
happening:
one
you
can
see
that
the
K5
enrollment
has
gone
down
and
and
then
you
can
see
that
the
the
secondary
enrollment
is
staying
relatively
flat.
Ups
and
downs
we
in
and
so
we're
we're
both
we're
both
Staffing.
AQ
The
Staffing
at
the
elementary
levels
has
been
a
lot
clearer
over
the
past
number
of
years,
because
you
staff
a
certain
number
one
school,
counselor
one
principal
right
and
then
the
number
of
teachers
you
need
for
the
number
of
students
at
that
class
at
that
at
that
class,
the
secondary
Staffing
is
much
more
complicated
and
so
and
it
has
to
do
with
the
the
efficiencies
you
can
create
in
scheduling
it
has
to
do
with
just
a
lot.
They
have
to
do
with
a
lot
of
variables.
AQ
So
one
of
the
things
we're
doing
here
is
working
to
make
sure
that
there's
consistency
across
schools
in
the
Baseline
allocation
and
in
some
places
they're
over
the
past.
There
isn't
consistency
where
there's
an
additional
position
at
sa.
There's
an
at
iaea
there's
an
additional
position
at
Flynn.
There
are,
you
know
some
sort
of
extra
positions
that
have
been
added
here
and
there
over
the
years
and
then
they
just
carry
forward,
and
so
what
we're
trying
to
do
is
get
that
copper
get
that
so
that
it's
consistent
across
in
the
Baseline.
AQ
That's
a
big
chunk
at
the
bottom
and
then
the
rise
allocation
allows
schools
to
make
decisions
about
what
they
feel
like
their
school.
Community
needs
needs
the
most
to
best
serve
their
their
students.
So
those
those
are
the
two
things
that
are
happening.
The
Elementary
decline
is,
we
are
seeing
in
a
couple
in
a
couple
of
places,
but
we
are
still
seeing
really
robust
levels
of
enrollment
in
in
a
number
of
our
schools.
We
don't
have
lots
of
empty
classrooms
in
our
schools.
We
have.
AQ
We
have
kind
of
decent
size
classrooms
we've
been
able
to
add
the
the
Pre-K
classrooms,
so
our
schools
are
are
still
very
healthy.
The
elementary
schools
and
I
I
hope
that
you
know
once
people
I
think
there
are
a
number
of
factors
that
are
that
are
leading
to
sort
of
that
decline,
General
decline
in
enrollment
over
the
past
10
years
that
we
should
be.
We
should
be
thinking
about
pretty
seriously
as
a
district
and
as
a
city,
but
that's
the
trend,
great.
F
AQ
So
I
think
we
we
do
have
students
coming
and
going
throughout
the
the
school
year
and
I
think
that
it
it.
It
shows
that
there's
some
level
of
desire
to
be
in
the
the
middle
schools
and
in
the
in
the
high
school
over
the
years
that
has
kept.
We
they're
a
school
choice.
That's
a
kind
of
a
small
number
that
plays
into
these
numbers,
but
yeah
I'm,
not
exactly
sure
why
we
see
that
level
of
decline
at
the
elementary
school
yet
and
and
why
we're
not
seeing
it
at
the.
F
AQ
AQ
That
that
there's
a
way
to
do
it
in
that
sort
of
reduces
the
anxiety
that
comes
that
natural
when
there
are
reductions.
But
we
do
have
you
know
a
couple
of
cases
last
year
where
we
had
we
reduced
a
classroom
at
a
school
and
a
couple
of
teachers
who
were
did
not
end
up
staying
at
that
school,
moved
to
other
schools
in
the
district
and
are
doing
really
well
in
those
in
those
schools.
So
that
can
and
does
happen.
We
do
have
really
great
staff.
AQ
We
have
amazing
Educators
in
our
district,
better
than
I've
seen
in
in
other
districts
that
I've
been
in,
and
while
we
have
worked
to
improve
you
know
always
each
of
us.
We
have
really
great
Educators.
This
is
not
about
individual
people
right,
but
it
does
impact
individual
people,
and
so
we
want
to
do
everything
we
can
to
keep
all
of
the
into
all
the
great
Educators
that
we
have
so
I.
Think
it's
a
hard
question
to
answer.
I
know
you
said
you
don't
necessarily
need
an
answer,
but
it's
it
causes.
AQ
AM
Well,
well,
you,
you
missed
a
very
compelling
couple
of
presentations
by
some
kids
from
my
neighborhood
school
I'm,
going
to
keep
calling
it
Asia
wheeler,
but
just
to
show
my
age
but
the
Arts
Academy,
and
you
know
it
it's
striking
when
I
look
at
the
community
survey
and
I
see
up
there.
Very
you
know
significant
number
of
people
talking
about
providing
high
quality
special
programs
such
as
art,
music
and
World
languages
as
being
a
high
priority.
AM
AQ
It
was
funded
through
Grant
funds,
originally
part-time
became
full-time
and
currently
is
a
limited
term
contract,
which
means
it's
a
it's,
not
a
full-time
educator
position
in
our
district
and
the
the
idea
of
integrated
arts
is
in
is
that
the
Arts
are
integrated
into
day-to-day
instruction.
There's
an
Arts
coach
there
to
be
able
to
provide
that,
and
there
are
skilled
Educators
there,
who
can
also
provide
that
level
of
support
and
integrate
art
drama
into
into
their
day-to-day
work.
That
is,
takes
skill.
R
AQ
Is
not
easy
and
IA
would
like
to
keep
this
position
or
many
of
the
people
that
we
are
hearing
from
from
integrated
arts
academy,
but
that's
part
of
the
of
the
of
the
of
the
process
here
because
and
and
we've
built
in
for
that
right
with
the
rise
allocation,
we've
allowed
School
communities
to
make
decisions
about
the
level
of
programming
that
they
feel
they
most
need.
So
they
may
say.
Actually
we
can
make
do
with
with
the
drama
piece
of
our
program
with
our
within
another
way
through
through
Partnerships.
AQ
AM
So
I
I
appreciate
that
I
think
that
the
message
that
I
take
from
those
presentations
is
that
they
need
to
understand
parents,
kids
and
those
school
administrators
and
teachers
need
to
understand
that
there
is
a
path
forward
that
they
can
make.
It
happen
that
the
department,
the
district,
is
going
to
support
them,
that
the
board
is
going
to
support
them
in
that
it's
not
just
throwing
them
to
the
wolves
and
say
good
luck
out
there.
AM
AQ
AQ
My
kids
are
at
a
different
school
and
that's
a
great
school
too,
but
you
know
we
have.
We
have
six
great
elementary
schools,
honestly
and
I.
Think
it's
important
to
note
that
the
our
school
communities
look
a
lot
more
alike
than
they
did
years
ago,
and
so
a
lot
of
a
lot
of
times.
People
will
go
back
to
that
thinking.
That
IAA
is
the
school
that
has
the
highest
level
of
need,
and
that's
not
necessarily
the
case
anymore,
and
so,
but
that's
neither
here
nor
there.
AQ
A
N
Superintendent
I
just
wanted
to
say
that
you're
outstanding
leadership
during
the
pandemic
made
a
huge
difference
for
so
many
families,
and
so
many
children
and
I
I
think
it
really
helped
so
many
faculty
members
too,
staff
burnout
is
a
real
problem
and
your
leadership
was
just
amazing
and
I
witnessed
it
firsthand
and
chairwoman
wool
as
well.
You
know
on
the
school
board,
so
so
much
has
been
going
on
with
the
high
school
as
well,
but
having
that
kind
of
stable
leadership
was
enormously
positive
for
the
entire
Community
I.
N
G
G
Okay,
thank
you,
the
you
you
had.
You
answered
one
of
my
questions,
which
was
around
the
percentage
of
the
increase
that
was
actually
part
of
the
increased
Debt
Service
that
will
come
as
part
of
the
high
school
project
and
then
that's
in
line
with
what
was
projected
when
you
did
the
you
had
the
impact
statements
that
you
circulated
prior
to
the
bond
boat.
AR
G
Right
no
I
know
I,
understand
that,
but
I
just
wanted
to
make
sure
we're
still
on
track
with
the
right.
You
know
the
right
amount
of
debt
Services.
It
comes
online
as
as
it
was
modeled
when
it
was
discussed
with
voters
prior
to
the
bond,
and
the
other
question
related
to
that
is.
Are
the
borrowing
costs
still
within
the
estimates
you
use
to
create
the
tax
impacts
back
during
the
bond
vote.
AR
AR
Now,
and
and
we'll
have
that
discussion
again
when
we
get
to
the
point
of
of
doing
that,
the
first
kind
of
tier
of
borrowing,
we
won't
actually
be
borrowing
making
that
kind
of
long-term
commitment,
we'll
probably
be
making
a
one-year
commitment
and
then
a
year
later,
converting
it.
But
in
any
event,
so
there
are
other
opportunities
as
well
in
terms
of
how
the
bonds
are
priced,
to
potentially
reduce
the
amount
of
borrowing
that
we
need
to
do
as
say.
AR
I
I
It
would
be
really
interesting
and
helpful
if
you
could
maybe
work
with
cedo
and
provide
us
some
down
at
the
school
level.
Demographic
information
who
who
goes
to
the
schools.
Where
do
they
come
from?
You
know
what
do
you
know
about
them,
just
to
sort
of
understand
who's
in
our
neighborhood
schools
and
and
where
the,
where
they're
coming
from
so
I?
Just
that's
sort
of
that's
an
ask
if
you
could
yeah
do
that.
The
other
ask
is-
and
I
mentioned
this
after
reappraisal
and
I'll,
give
it
to
the
CEO
chat
as
well.
I
I
AQ
B
You
president,
and
thank
you
for
the
presentation
for
being
here:
I
noticed
that
the
Burlington
School
District
budget
presentations
used
to
be
very
detailed
and
I
noticed
over
the
past
two
three
years.
Things
have
just
been
very
general
and
no
enough
information
for
any
of
us
and
I.
Don't
know
why
maybe
Nate
Dr
Nathan,
you
can
explain
sure.
AR
Yeah,
so
we've
continued
to
publish
a
lot
of
that
same
detailed
information
and
you
can
find,
for
example,
the
stuff
that's
completed
for
last
year.
All
in
our
on
our
budget
website.
We
have
tried
to
kind
of
streamline
and
focus
our
some
of
our
presentations
here
and
and
the
ones
that
we've
given
at
our
at
our
board
meetings
and
so
forth,
and
part
of
that
is
to
kind
of
you
know.
Some
of
the
feedback
we
heard
was
like
there's
so
much
here.
AR
We
can't
kind
of
separate
the
wheat
from
the
chaff,
and
so
we've
tried
to
really
call
out
the
significant
changes
so
that
they
can
be
well
understood
and
debated,
and
the
other
thing
that
I
think
is
is
helping
in
a
sense
in
in
that
respect,
is
when
we
publish
some
of
that
information
about
our
our
budget
model.
So
we
don't
kind
of
publish
that
in
every
single
presentation,
it's
kind
of
foundational
and
it's
out
there
kind
of
separate.
AR
So
we
have,
we
have
been
changing
some
of
the
way
we
document
some
of
that
information
and
also
something
else.
That's
continuing
to
evolve
is
moving
more
of
it
into
our
our
annual
report.
We
used
to
produce
a
big
Standalone
budget
document
and,
while
I
like
to
think
that
people
really
enjoyed
it,
I
think
most
people
didn't
even
know
what
existed
didn't
even
realize
it
existed
and
really
looked
more
to
the
annual
report
for
that
type
of
information.
AR
B
Q
B
AR
B
Don't
put
that
thing
I
just
used
to
know
I,
don't
know
anymore.
I
have
no
idea
what's
going
on,
but
can
you
also
explain
a
little
bit
if
there
is
a
mechanism
of
funding
the
schools
or
funding
the
school?
Basically
we're
talking
about
the
school
budget
in
general,
but
of
this
budget.
Which
percentage
is
going
to
IAA
to
hunt
to
somewhere
else
and
also
are
there
correlation
with
funding
a
school
and
also
the
academic
performance
of
the
students.
AR
Good
question:
we
can
do
that
math
I,
think
the
important
thing
I
would
say
about
the
way
we
built
our
budget
model
is
we
had,
as
as
the
superintendent
mentioned,
the
kind
of
foundational
Staffing
levels.
Those
are
built
more
on
ratios,
so
one
principle
per
Elementary
School
is
an
example
right
in
practice.
Of
course,
you
can
have
the
same
number
of
Staff
who,
for
reasons
of
longevity
or
perhaps
the
benefits
packages
they
pick,
they
actually
have
very
different
costs
for
the
same
number
of
staff.
AR
So
there
are
budget
models
in
this
country,
some
particularly
in
larger,
used
by
much
much
larger
communities
where
they
allocate
just
the
dollars
to
their
school
and
they
have
to
go
and
figure
out
how
many
people
they
can
afford
in
each
position
and
so
forth.
We
don't
do
that.
We
kind
of
use
a
hybrid
approach
where
the
foundational
level
just
provides
a
number
of
bodies.
So
we
can
you
know
we
we
do
have
the
total
of
what
those
costs
and
we
can
produce,
are
kind
of
like
here's.
AR
How
much
we
spend
at
each
school
but
I
would
say
we're
not
trying
to
make
that
number.
The
same
we're
trying
to
offer
each
School
a
foundational
level
of
Staffing
that
we
know
is
well
more
than
adequate,
but
you
know
kind
of
preserves
the
the
basics
that
we
commit
to
providing
each
school
and
then
offer
that
rise
allocation
on
top
of
it.
B
AR
Yeah
that
was
their
that
that
the
balance
from
the
prior
fiscal
year
that
we
can
bring
forward.
You
know
it's,
that's
always
tempting
to
attribute
to
one
specific
thing
or
not.
It's
always,
and
you
know
we
have
a
100
million
dollar
budget
It's
a
combination
of
all
those
little
things
that
go
on,
some
of
which
inevitably
is
the
ability
to
use
other
dollars
and
kind
of
preserve
our
own
dollars,
where
that's
appropriate
and
available
to
us.
AR
We
try
to
do
that,
but
it's
also
simple
things
like
Staffing
shortages
mean
that
we
can't
fill
all
the
positions
that
maybe
we
had
intended
to
fill
right,
and
so,
at
the
end
of
the
day,
there's
there's
things
like
that,
as
well
as
just
the
general
frugality
of.
If
we
don't
need
to
spend
money
on
something,
that's
in
someone's
budget
and
it
doesn't
get
spent,
you
know
whether
that's
a
decision
made
by
a
department
or
a
school
or
it
could
be
anyone.
B
B
A
AR
A
A
Our
emotion
has
been
made
to
suspend
our
rules
to
continue
with
item
6.,
8.07,
0809
and
8.10.
Is
there
a
second
to
that
seconded
by
count
counselor
Shannon
any
discussion
on
the
motion
seeing
none
all
those
in
favor
of
the
motion
to
suspend
our
rules
to
complete
our
deliberative
agenda?
Please
say:
aye.
AC
A
AN
You,
president
Paul
I,
would
move
that
we
approved
the
acceptance
of
Grant
funds
in
the
amount
of
638
147
dollars
from
the
state
of
Vermont
housing
and
opportunities
program
for
the
operations
of
the
Elmwood
emergency,
shelter,
community
and
authorize.
The
director
of
the
community
in
Economic
Development
Office,
to
execute
all
documents
necessary
to
accept
the
funding
for
the
period
through
June
30
2023,
including
retroactive
approval
for
the
period
from
October
1st
2022
to
present,
subject
to
the
final
review
and
approval
of
the
city
attorney's
office.
AN
AS
AS
The
state
of
Maine
has
extremely
strict
rules
about
when
these
extra
wide
loads
can
travel,
you're
not
allowed
to
travel
on
Mondays
or
Fridays,
or
when
there's
precipitation
or
on
either
side
of
a
holiday.
So
we're
not
in
a
great
season
for
those.
If
you
put
all
those
variables
on
the
table,
they
got
stuck
last
week
and
couldn't
couldn't
make
the
Hall
so,
fortunately
the
what
we
call
the
common
building,
which
is
the
building
that
houses
service
providers.
AS
It's
where
folks
will
meet
with
therapists
and
and
counselors
and
housing
Navigators
food
will
be
provided
there.
It's
a
it's,
a
really
good
sized
structure,
it's
think
of
it
as
like,
a
double
wide
home,
really
the
size
of
it.
However,
the
bathrooms
are
in
a
separate
building
that
has
yet
to
arrive.
The
common
building
has
been
a
double
wide
has
been
essentially
what
they
call
married
together.
T
AS
AS
The
Staffing
levels-
Champlain
Housing
Trust,
has
hired
all
the
staff,
our
Parks
and
Recreation
Waterfront
Department
hired
an
on-site
person
who
will
manage
it
somewhat,
like
the
staff
person
who
manages
City
Hall
Park
in
terms
of
all
the
issues
you
need
to
to
maintain
a
public
space
like
that
and
it'll
be
exciting.
There
will
be,
the
solar
will
be
installed,
of
course,
after
the
building
has
arrived.
AS
That
doesn't
do
well
if
you
travel
with
it
on
the
highway,
so
those
panels
have
not
been
installed,
but
that's
where
the
the
timing
is
again
I
think
there
were
some
folks
in
the
community
who
felt
like
the
city
was
somehow
cavalierly
saying
it's
going
to
be
delayed
until
January.
Believe
me,
this
is
something
our
staff
has
been
working
diligently
and
feels
horrible
that
it
has
taken
this
long,
so
people
are
struggling
and
some
are
really
suffering
as
a
result,
and-
and
we
hope
that
the
end
is
is
close.
A
A
AC
A
Opposed,
please
say
no
that
motion
passes
unanimously
and
thank
you
to
all
your
your
staff
and
many
other
City
departments
who
have
worked
tirelessly
on
this
important
project
that
will
bring
us
to
our
next
item,
which
is
item
8.08.
A
resolution
Burlington
Police
commissions,
appreciation
of
the
Burlington
Police
Department's
efforts
on
gun
related
events.
We
have
a
number
of
co-sponsors
for
this
resolution.
Many
thanks
to
all
for
a
motion
on
this
resolution.
I'll
turn
to
councilor
Shannon.
AK
A
AK
Thank
you,
president
Paul,
and
thank
you
for
your
work
in
bringing
this
forward
and
I
also
specifically
note
the
addition
of
counselors
Travers,
Barlow,
Bergman,
Carpenter,
McGee
and
Brandt
as
co-sponsors.
Thank
you
to
all
of
you
in
2022.
Burlington,
sadly
lost
a
record-breaking
five
community
members
to
murder,
but
proudly
due
to
the
exemplary
work
of
the
fine
men
and
women
of
the
Burlington
Police
Department,
working
both
on
the
scene
of
the
crimes
and
through
their
investigative
efforts
afterwards
and
with
Innovative
Partnerships
we're
able
to
apprehend
the
alleged
perpetrators
in
all
five
of
these
crimes.
AK
AK
AK
The
department
initiated
coordinated
and
deployed
a
creative
and
effective
new
multi-party
collaboration
that
expanded
its
resources
and
responsiveness
during
a
spare
time
for
the
Department.
These
successful
operations
involved
the
coordinated
expertise
and
resources
of
the
newly
formed
Chittenden
County
gun
violence
task
force.
This
team
includes
eight
local
departments,
six
Federal
partners
and
four
state
agencies,
while
the
increase
in
gun,
related
crime
and
results
in
deaths
are
mirrored
by
the
rise
in
illegal
gun
used
nationally.
AK
The
diligent
work
of
the
Burlington
Police
Department
is
an
important
step
toward
decreasing
gun
violence
and
making
Burlington
safer
for
its
community
members
and
police
and
be
a
further
resolved
that
the
Burlington
Police
commission
sincerely
thanks
all
the
Burlington
Police
Department
for
their
efforts
and
excellent
work
be
resolved,
and
this
is
our
our
Council.
Now
speaking
in
this
resolution
be
resolved.
A
A
B
B
B
B
B
B
A
A
T
A
Opposed,
please
say
no,
the
emotion
passes
unanimously.
Thank
you.
Thank
you
very
much
to
all
that
will
get
us
to
the
next
item
on
our
deliberative
agenda,
which
is
item
8.09,
a
resolution,
implementation
of
a
carbon
pollution
impact
fee
for
new
construction
and
large
existing
commercial
and
industrial
buildings,
50
000
square
feet
or
larger.
This
resolution
is
sponsored
by
the
transportation,
energy
and
utilities
committee
and
for
emotional
turn
to
the
chair,
counselor
Barlow.
Thank.
A
G
G
Excuse
me,
our
Net
Zero
Energy
roadmap
has
identified
emissions
from
buildings
as
the
second
largest
source
of
greenhouse
gas
emissions
in
the
city,
and
the
council
asked
bed
to
research
and
recommend
a
policy
to
address
that
this
impact
fee
proposal
is
the
work
product
of
the
recommendation.
The
proposed
impact
fee
is
somewhat
narrow
in
scope.
G
It
would
apply
to
new
construction
and
future
permitting
for
existing
large
commercial
and
industrial
buildings,
larger
than
50
000
square
feet,
of
which
there
are
about
80
in
the
city,
I'm
told,
and
the
impact
fee
would
not
apply
to
existing
residential
buildings
or
smaller
commercial
or
industrial
industrial
buildings.
It
is
worth
noting
that
existing
commercial
buildings
subject
to
this
impact
fee
could
opt
to
use
the
fee
for
efficiency
in
greenhouse
gas.
Reducing
projects
in
their
building.
G
A
draft
of
this
resolution
was
referred
to
tuke
by
the
council
for
review,
and
we
recommended
two
changes
that
have
been
incorporated
into
the
resolution
you
have
before
you.
The
first
change
sets
a
maximum
starting
price
rather
than
a
fixed
starting
price
for
carbon.
This
will
allow
us
to
set
our
pricing
consistent
with
other
neighboring
municipalities
like
South
Burlington,
who
have
recently
implemented
Renewable,
Energy
Systems
policy
and
consistent
with
any
resulting
State
policy
that
comes
out
of
the
affordable
heat
standard
being
considered
again
this
session.
G
The
second
change
tube
recommended
was
for
more
clearly
articulating
in
the
ballot
language
who
would
be
affected
by
the
proposed
fee
bed.
General
manager,
Darren
Springer,
has
been
patiently
waiting
for
us
to
come
to
this
item
and
he's
here
to
answer
questions
and
I'd
welcome
any
additional
comments
he
would
like
to
make
before
opening
it
up
to
other
counselors.
AT
Thank
you,
councilor
Barlow
good
evening.
Counselors
I
just
wanted
to
note
that
my
colleagues
Jen
green
Chris
Burns,
are
on
the
zoom
as
well
as
my
colleagues
at
the
Department
of
Permitting
and
inspections,
Bill,
Ward
and
Patty
Wayman.
We
were
pleased
to
work
with
two
to
adopt
those
changes
and
Advance
the
resolution
back
and
be
glad
to
answer
any
questions
if
if
there
are
any,
and
otherwise
we
very
much
appreciate
council's
work
on
this.
A
AM
That
is
not
a
reason
to
not
go
forward
today,
and
my
colleagues
in
the
from
the
floor
may
be
disappointed
when
I
say
that,
because
I
do
believe
not
only
that,
we
should
put
this
before
the
voters,
but
we
should
pass
it,
but
I
do
think
that
we
should
be
re-looking
at
the
definition
and
either
through
the
talk
of
which
I
personally
think
would
be
a
good
place
for
us
to
do
that,
or-
and
maybe
in
collaboration
with
ordinance
committee
to
to
do
that.
We
cannot
avoid
this
question.
A
AL
I
just
have
a
question
and
Darren.
You
may
have
answered
it
when
we
last
got
together
on
this,
but
I
I
do
have
a
question
about
sort
of
the
definition
of
a
renewable
fuel
and
you
know
I
know
Vermont
Gas
For
example
already
Blends
some
renewable
fuel
into
their
supply
and
that
there's
other
options
by
which,
through
the
purchase
of
I,
may
not
be
using
the
right
term.
AL
AT
Absolutely
so
I
think
we
have
a
couple
of
of
reference
points.
One
is
the
renewable
heating
ordinance
that
the
council
adopted
last
year,
which
does
include
a
variety
of
resources.
Electricity,
geothermal
heat
pump,
type
sources
includes
Wood
heating
includes
renewable
fuels,
including
biodiesel
and
renewable
natural
gas.
AT
In
our
memo,
we
recommended
a
few
changes
to
the
renewable
fuels
piece
in
terms
of
how
the
compliance
would
work,
but
I
think
that
we
have
confidence
in
Renewable
Fuel
if
it's
being
regulated
by
the
Public
Utility
Commission
and
I've
I've
looked
councilor
Barlow
referenced
the
clean
heat
standard
I
think
it's
called
the
affordable
heating
act.
Now
the
new
legislation
that
was
introduced
in
the
Senate
at
the
state
level
and
our
definitions
in
Burlington
are
pretty
consistent
with
the
definitions
that
are
being
considered
Statewide.
AT
They
include
all
the
different
electric
options:
they
include
Advanced
wood
Heating
and
they
include
renewable
natural
gas
as
well,
provided
that
the
attributes,
the
credits
that
you
just
mentioned,
are
being
retained
by
the
customer.
So
I
think
there
are
a
variety
of
Pathways
to
ensure
that
we're
getting
a
renewable
fuel.
Our
recommendation
is
to
be
as
flexible
within
those
Pathways
as
possible,
so
we're
not
overly
prescriptive
in
terms
of
which
building
is
using,
which
technology
as
long
as
it's
renewable
and
we
can
account
for
it.
J
This
is
a
really
exciting,
I
think
an
important
action
that
we're
on
the
cusp
of
making
here
it's
coming
at
the
end
of
a
long
night
where
we've
talked
about
a
lot
of
different
things
and
we've
talked
about
this
item
before
and
and
I
you
know,
I
just
think
it's
a
possibility.
That
kind
of
the
significance
about
what
we're
about
to
do
here
could
get
lost,
and
you
know,
and
then
the
conversation
so
far
has
really
been
focused
on
this
one
important
but
small.
J
You
know
small
component
of
what
we're
trying
to
do
here
and
I
just
want
to
make
sure
that
the
members
of
the
public
that
are
watching
the
media-
that's
watching
it.
It
fully
understand
that
if
this
Council
passes
this
item
tonight
and
that
it
goes
to
the
voters
and
the
voters
endorse
us
taking
this
step,
we
will
be
taking
environmental
leadership
actions
here
at
the
local
level
in
Burlington
that
very
few
other
cities
in
in
the
country
are
are
attempting
to
do.
This
will
have.
J
The
passage
of
this
is
another
major
step
towards
this
vision
of
a
Net,
Zero
Energy
City,
that
essentially
we
are
trying
to
get
as
close
as
we
can
and
entirely,
if
possible,
take
ourselves
off
of
the
burning
of
fossil
fuels
by
the
end
of
this
decade.
This
is
a
critical
step
in
getting
us
there,
and
then
it's
even
more
than
that,
because
you
know
what
almost
every
economist
serious
scientist
will
tell
you
is
that
we
are
to
meet
our
climate
goals.
We
need
carbon
pricing.
J
J
So,
but
we
always
hear
about
carbon
pricing-
is
that
it
can't
be
done,
can't
be
done
in
America,
can't
be
done
it
it's
too
politically
challenging,
and
thus
you
know
many
people
have
really
turned
away
from
the
possibility
of
of
properly
pricing
carbon
we're
making
a
serious
and
significant
attempt
to
do
that
here.
I
hope
the
council
will
pass
it
tonight
and
when
we
do
it,
it's
the
fact
that
we
can
make
it
work
here
in
Burlington
will
be
noticed
and
we'll
have
an
impact
far
beyond
just
our
borders.
H
Oh
I
just
wanted
to
add
quickly
and
I.
Think
I've
spoke
spoken
to
this
before,
but
I
just
felt
like
it
was
being
glossed
over
a
bit
is
that
I
am
supporting
this
item,
but
by
all
means
carbon
pricing
is
like
extremely
controversial.
It's
controversial
on
the
left.
There
are
just
people
who
it's.
This
is
not
I,
wouldn't
say
that
this
issue
is
like
my
extensive
wheelhouse,
but
like
I,
know
enough
of
the
of
the
debate
in
the
conversation
to
say
that
to
to
make
a
generalization
that,
like
every
Economist
is
supporting.
H
This
is
just
fundamentally
not
true,
and
we
can
I
think
we
can
debate
it
and
and
talk
about
the
pros
and
cons
in
a
healthy
way
and
and
knock
less
over
the
fact
that
there
may
be
many
people
at
this
table
who
support
it.
There
may
be
many
people
who
feel
like
it
is
economically
soundered
as
the
next.
It
is
a
very
important
step
in
climate
policy,
but
it's
simply
just
not
so
black
and
white
there
and
I
think
the
main
critique
that
is
often
Leverage
is
that
it.
H
It
creates
a
sort
of
individualistic
context
for
the
way
that
we
solve
climate
issues
as
opposed
to
looking
at
larger
systems
and
larger
scales.
I'm,
not
speaking
to
this
specifically
but
I,
think
carbon
pricing
in
general
and
that
is
I
think
a
legit,
legitimate
critique
and
I.
Just
don't
want
to
gloss
over
it
completely
in
the
conversation,
because
it's
worthwhile
to
have
those
conversations,
but
I
will
be
supporting
this.
So
just
adding
that.
A
G
A
Opposed,
please
say:
no.
The
motion
passes
unanimously.
Thank
you
and
thank
you,
general
manager,
Springer
for
being
here,
particularly
at
this
late
hour.
Thank
you
and
for
all
your
work
and
to
all
of
the
others
that
are
joining
us,
be
a
zoom,
the
last
item
on
our
deliberative
agenda
and
with
it
the
last
item
for
this
meeting.
It
was
item
7.08.
It
is
now
8.10
Human
Resources,
director
Market
Factor
adjustment.
A
F
B
Thank
you,
president
Paul
I
mean
I
do
think
it
is
important
to
do
the
studies
before
we
make
this
adjustment
and
I
think
that's
what
the
administration
have
done.
They
commissioned
a
study
and
the
study
itself
and
the
memo
they
do
not
go
together.
They
do
not.
There
is
no
match
and,
from
my
perspective,
I
am
not
against
compensating
greatly
see
the
staff
that
are
doing
amazing,
job
and
I.
B
Think
the
memo
really
stated
that,
with
this
reasoning,
the
reasoning
behind
this
specific
one
was
because
of
the
bargainings
participation
in
bargaining,
and,
if
you
think
about
it,
we
use
a
consultant
that
will
lead
our
bargaining
efforts.
That's
one
and
those
bargainings
do
not
take
place
on
a
yearly
basis.
It's
almost
four
years,
depending
on
which
which
one
we're
talking
about.
B
Also,
it
is
very
important
for
us
to
commission
this,
but
also
to
put
it
into
perspective
and
into
into
a
timeline.
This
specific
one
is
concerning
to
me
because
we're
talking
about
retroactive
pay
of
October
to
now
soon
soon
we
will
be
talking
about
the
city
budget
again
and
we
are
expecting
in
each
one
of
those
again
to
provide
a
salary
increase
for
the
city
staff
because
of
three
percent
or
six
percent
or
seven
whatever.
B
It
is
I
think
we
need
to
be
very
diligent
and
proactive
and
put
things
into
timeline
and
try
to
put
them
into
the
perspective
of
our
city
budget.
We
are
in
2022
and
soon
we
will
be
talking
about
the
2024
budget.
Let's
make
these
studies
and
then
put
them
in
that,
so
that
the
console
can
vote
convert
and
then
we
try
to
move
forward.
I
will
not
be
supporting
this,
and
especially
other
ones
that
have
been
coming
soon
will
not
be
supporting
them
as
well.
Thank
you
thank.
H
You,
president
of
all
I,
was
on
the
fence
on
this
I
think
that
I've
spoken
of
I
don't
know
how
long
ago
I
was
in
a
it
was.
It
must
have
been
a
while
ago
about
executive
pay
and
my
concerns
about
it.
I
understand
that
we're
looking
at
several
positions
across
the
city
I
just
there's
something
that
just
really
doesn't
sit
right
with
me
about
it
and
I
I
think
I've
spoken
about
it
before
I.
The
minimum
wage
is
still
way
too
low
for
city
workers.
H
It
should
be
probably
at
least
22
an
hour,
if
not
25.
At
this
point,
it's
it's
still
extremely
low
and
I
think
we
continue
to
prioritize
expanding
budgets
or
sorry
salary
for
people
who
are
at
the
middle
or
at
the
top
in
the
city,
and
are
really
leaving
out
people
who
are
at
the
bottom
of
the
pay
hierarchy
and
tend
to
do
a
lot
of
the
grunt
work
for
the
city,
and
it
just
doesn't
feel
right
for
me.
I
know
that
it's
a
it's
more
complicated
and
I,
wouldn't
I.
H
H
AM
I
have
traditionally
voted
against
increasing
executive
pay.
I've
said
that
pretty
clearly
I'm
gonna
I
I
am
making
an
exception
tonight
and
I
do
that
for
two
basic
reasons:
I
look
at
the
amount
of
change
that
we're
proposing
and
it
is
actually
pretty
minimal
and
that's
important
to
me.
It's
not
a
a
huge
increase
that
we're
trying
to
do,
and
the
second
thing
relates
to
the
expansion
of
the
the
responsibilities
that
the
HR
Director
has
got,
and
it's
not
just
around
the
union
negotiations
and
management.
AM
Although,
although
negotiations
happen
every
three
years,
the
the
administration
of
a
contract
happens
every
day.
So
that
happens
yes
much
more
significantly
than
every
three
years.
You've
got
a
new
payroll
division.
That's
under
the
HR
Director
that
that's
not
insignificant
and
I
can
tell
you
as
a
a
former
employee
a
long
time,
employee
of
the
City
of
Burlington.
The
importance
of
payroll
in
doing
its
job
and
running
effectively
and
efficiently
is
really
important.
AM
I
So
I
think
it's
just
really
important
to
understand
how
that
department
is
crafted
and
I
think
it's
really
important
that
we
set
our
compensation
competitive
with
other
governmental
salaries,
that
they're
not
doing
a
private
sector
review
as
other
governmental
salaries,
and
these
are
tough
positions
to
fill.
Having
had
to
do
it
myself
and
we
want
to
keep
good
staff
within
the
governmental
pay
range,
and
we
can
you
know
I
I.
Think
Council
Freeman
has
a
valid
point
about.
B
B
Is
it
federal
government
because
the
report,
if
you
have
read
it,
you
will
know
that
even
the
report
is
not
recommending
to
make
this.
It
is
just
he
made
a
market
factor,
and
it
just
it
now
depends
to
the
city
council,
I.
Think
reading
these
interviews
are
we
talking
about
city
government,
we're
talking
about
federal
government
or
state
government
I
think
there
there
is
a
level
of
unclarity
into
into
the
memo
and
also
into
the
study
here
and
I.
Just
call
everyone
here
to
pay
a
particular
attention.
B
J
J
I
I
do
I,
as
were
as
the
memo
States,
and
this
is
not
the
last
time
we're
going
to
have
this
conversation
in
that
it
has
been
13
years
approaching
14
years
since
the
last
time
a
department
head
compensation
study
was
completed,
it
was
completed
in
2009.
It
was
implemented
between
2010
and
2012
for
all
positions.
J
The
since
then,
for
a
variety
of
reasons,
a
whole
host
of
reasons,
more
than
half
of
the
department
head
positions
have
there's
been
some
further
adjustment
to
to
the
compensation.
I
think
it
has
gotten
to
the
point
where,
for
the
department
heads
where
there
has
been
no
review
since
2009,
we
are
are
increasingly
in
an
inequitable
situation
and
we
are
putting
ourselves
at
a
disadvantage
when
those
positions
become
vacant
slowing
down
the
time
in
which
we'll
be
able
to
fill
those
positions.
J
As
we've
experienced
together
multiple
times
in
in
recent
years,
so
we
will
be
conducting
a
review
for
the
remaining
positions
that
have
not
been
reviewed
since
2009,
and
this
this
issue
will
be
coming
back
to
you
and
and
given
that
I
feel
need
to
respond
to
this
notion.
I
I
have
a
challenge
with
the
term
executive
pay
being
used
to
describe
what
our
department
heads
the
salaries
that
they
make.
J
Executive
pay
rightly
has
become
a
major
Challenge
and
Flashpoint
serious
controversy
in
this
country
because
of
the
outrageous
levels
of
compensation
that
many
private
sector
CEOs
are
earning
and
are
earning
You
know,
despite
all
sorts
of
analysis,
suggesting
that
it's
it's
not
good
for
the
company
God,
not
good
for
the
economies.
Just
it's
not.
These
are
unjust
salaries.
J
Two
these
are
individuals
who
are
making
hundreds
of
times
of
multiples
of
other
people
in
in
their
company
to
take
that
issue
and
map
it
on
to
the
city
situation,
where
we
go
through
great
strides
to
make
sure
that
we
do
uplift,
our
lowest
paid
workers,
no
one
gets
paid.
No
one
gets
paid
a
minimum
wage
here
in,
and
that
is
an
employee
of
this,
the
City
of
Burlington.
We
pay
a
livable
wage,
which
is
way
above
the
minimum
wage.
We've
put
great
attention
on
the
the
whole
organization
and
getting
compensation
right.
J
We've
just
come
through
a
period
of
making
major
adjustments
with
Union
salaries.
We
need
to
make
proper
attention
to
department
head
level
salaries
as
well.
If
we
want
to
continue
to
attract
High
skill,
effective
people
in
in
these
positions
and
to
suggest
that
they
are
getting
grossly
disproportionate
salaries,
just
doesn't
conform
with
the
pay
scale
that
we
have
here
in
the
City
of
Burlington.
So
thank
you
for
the
opportunity
to
weigh
in
on
that
President
Paul.
A
Thank
you
thanks
mayor
Weinberger,
seeing
no
other
counselors
in
the
queue
we'll
go
to
a
vote
on
this.
The
motion
before
us
is
to
authorize
and
approve
the
reclassification
of
the
position
of
HR
Director
consistent
with
the
market
Factor
compensation,
all
those
in
favor
of
the
motion,
please
say
aye
all
those
opposed.
Please
say
no,
no!
A
Thank
you.
The
the
let
the
record
reflect
that
there
are
two
no
votes,
those
coming
from
counselors
Freeman
and
counselor
Zhang.
The
motion
passes
nine
to
two.
Thank
you.
This
completes
our
deliberative
agenda
and
per
the
motion
to
suspend
our
rules.
I
would
entertain
a
motion
to
adjourn
our
meeting
made
by
councilor,
McGee
and
seconded
by
anybody
want
to
Second
it
seconded
by
councilor
Travers,
all
those
in
favor
any
discussion,
they're,
none,
not
not
seeing
any
we'll
make
go
to
a
vote.