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From YouTube: Winooski City Council - 4/3/2023
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00:00:00 Call to Order/Liquor Control Board
00:02:00 Agenda Review
00:02:06 Public Comment
00:02:28 Consent Agenda
00:03:37 Council Reports
00:09:19 City Updates
00:12:13 CSWDFY '23-'24 Budget Presentation
00:31:38 Discussion: Operational Overviews
00:49:38 FY23 Policy Priorities & Strategy Update
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A
A
Five
licenses
on
for
approval,
onion,
City,
Chicken
and
oyster
in
Missouri
loves
meal
bar
grazers
and
our
house
any
comments
from
staff
good
evening.
No
okay,
these
are
all
existing
existing
places.
No
concerns.
Does
anyone
have
a
question
or
concern
about
any
of
these?
C
A
A
A
E
A
A
Great
is
anyone
here
for
public
comments.
A
A
Okay,
on
tonight's
consent
agenda
we
have
our
Council
minutes
from
March
20th
paper
warrant
for
March
5th
and
accounts
payroll
warrant,
March
29th.
We
have
event
permit
applications
for
waking,
Windows,
Winooski
Wednesdays
and
a
new
one
U.S
strongman
competition.
A
F
E
For
updates,
I
don't
have
anything
for
the
community
support
infrastructure.
Commission
the
finance
commission
met
on
the
March
28th
and
just
went
over
priorities
and
strategies
for
our
Council
Retreat
on
May
13th
lots
of
discussion
about
current
Tiff
and
arpa
funding
commitments,
opportunities
for
incentivizing
housing
density
increases
be
in
addition
to
what
the
Planning
Commission
is
already
working
on.
E
There's
you
know
I'm
sure
you'll
get
into
the
meetings
next
week,
but
the
chair,
commission
chairs
will
be
meeting
on
Monday.
The
10th
I
know
there'll
be
further
discussion
about
prayers
and
strategies
from
the
commissions
various
commissions
there.
The
municipal
infrastructure
commission
has
their
next
meeting
on
April
20th
that'll
be
a
joint
meeting
with
safe,
healthy
and
connected
and
that'll
be
likely
at
the
pool.
If
there's
space.
D
E
All
of
us
to
fit
and
there's
to
my
excitement,
a
pickleball
tournament,
hosted
at
the
school
this
weekend,
that
I
will
be
participating
in
so
love
to
see
some
of
our
other
counselors
there
we'll
see,
so
those
are
updates
for
for
me.
Thank
you.
A
I
want
to
let
you
all
know
that
the
Planning
Commission
set
of
public
hearing
for
April
27th,
to
take
input
on
changes.
They've
been
working
on
for
some
months
now
to
create
incentives
to
retain
historic
building
facades,
historic
preservation,
incentives
which
include
exempting
mixed
use
and
non-residential
projects
in
business
districts
from
minimum
parking
requirements
and
an
increase
in
lot
coverage
for
projects
in
residential
districts
updates
to.
D
A
They
also
want
to
start
a
discussion
of
Reviving,
a
design
review
board
for
additional
historic
preservation.
So
that's
April,
27th
I
also
was
able
to
participate
in
a
focus
group
with
the
Chittenden
County
homeless,
Alliance
to
inform
their
strategic
planning
and
we'll
be
attending
their
monthly
meeting.
A
This
Thursday
with
the
wellness
coordinator
from
Winooski
school
districts
to
start
sharing
what
our
School
District
staff
is
seeing
with
housing
issues
in
the
community
in
in
a
broader
setting
and
work
across
the
river
with
other
partners,
and
then
Charlie
and
I
were
able
to
join
Winooski
High
School
class
on
Friday
for
Q
a
time
with
students
concerns
included
housing
that
is
old
and
expensive
desire
for
teen
space
and
more
capacity
at
the
school
for
tutors
and
counselors
scholarship,
navigation
and
parent
education,
and
the
support
for
continuing
to
have
free,
Green,
Mountain
Transit.
A
And
you
may
have
more
details
to
add.
On
Charlie,
that
is
it
Thomas.
C
Awesome
I
just
wanted
to
check
in
because
I
saw
that
all
of
our
mics
may
not
be
working
so.
C
Thank
you,
and
as
far
as
updates
I've
spoken
a
couple
times
about
downtown
Wednesday,
hiring
a
new
executive
director,
the
current
executive
director
will
be
at
our
next
meeting
to
announce
who
they
have
hired.
It's
a
very
exciting
candidate.
So
we're
all
sad
to
see
my
let's
go
but
excited
for
this
new
person
to
be
coming
on
board.
Also,
the
Farmers
Market
is
still
accepting
vendor
applications.
C
So
if
you
are
interested
in
being
our
Farmers
Market
this
summer,
please
do
submit
an
application
and
as
well
we're
starting
to
plan
our
events
already
so
Juneteenth
Winooski
Wednesdays
Pride
French
heritage
day.
We
need
volunteers
for
all
of
those
events,
so
you
go
to
the
downtown
Winooski
website.
You
can
see
what
we're
looking
for
in
terms
of
volunteers
and
that's
all
I
have
for
updates.
Thank
you.
G
D
G
And
the
meeting
was
moved
from
last
week
to
this
coming
week:
it'll
be
on
Thursday
at
six.
Those
are
my
updates.
A
Excellent
all
right,
thank
you.
We'll
move
to
city
city
updates
that
John
Rapture.
H
Will
present
so
filling
in
for
the
city
manager
tonight
she's
she'll
be
back
later
this
week,
so
three
just
three
brief
updates.
So
first
one
is
just
a
reminder
that
the
city
clerk's
office
is
currently
experiencing
experiencing
a
staff
shortage
and
has
changed
their
regular
hours,
typically
8
A.M
to
4
P.M
and
that's
gonna,
be
on
Monday
Wednesday,
Thursday
and
Friday
closed
on.
H
Tuesdays
second
update
is
regarding
the
exit,
16
DDI
v-trans
project,
so
technically
in
Colchester,
but
right
on
our
northern
border,
so
they
will
be
conducting
some
Drilling
and
Blasting
activities
along
us,
two
and
seven
so
Main
Street,
just
north
of
the
school
between
South
Drive
and
Mountain
View
Drive
in
just
a
few
notes
on
that.
So
all
users
should
expect
some
delays
through
that
area.
Blasting
is
anticipated
to
begin
this
week
and
continue
for
approximately
two
months.
Blasting
work
will
be
weather,
dependent,
so
obviously
rain.
H
There
won't
be
any
blasting
and
up
to
two
blasting
events
will
take
place
a
a
day
and
will
be
restricted
to
weekdays,
Monday
through
Friday
and
excluding
holidays,
and
that's
going
to
be
between
the
times
of
9,
A.M
and
2
P.M.
It's
not
that
exciting,
there's
not
going
to
be
like
visible
explosions
and
things
like
that.
You've
probably
seen
the
mats
that
are
out
there.
So
you
know
it's,
it's
not
going
to
be
as
intense
as
it
might
sound.
It's
not
going
to
be
loud
and
there
shouldn't
be
any
impacts
to
buildings.
H
Things
like
that.
So
and
then
you
can.
You
can
also
follow
any
updates
through
the
exit,
16ddi.v
transprojects
dot
vermont.gov.
They
have
a
pretty
robust
website,
with
updates
on
on
how
the
project
Project's
doing
and
then
the
last
update
is
hot
off
the
presses.
So
this
is
to
give
some
recognition
and
Nate
Eddie
so
Nate.
H
Is
there
a
librarian
down
on
the
malletts
bay
OCC
lot,
so
I
believe
it
was
today
he
was
awarded
the
Sarah
C
Hagar
award,
which
is
awarded
to
Librarians
that
show
outstanding
service
or
significant
contribution
to
the
field
of
librarianship
in
Vermont.
So
this
is
through
the
Vermont
Library
Association
during
their
conference
awards
today.
So
I
want
to
give
some
recognition
to
Nate
for
just
continuing
outstanding
work
down
there
in
our
little
Library
called,
and
that's
all
the
updates
on
the
city.
Side.
A
I
In
New,
York
City
is
a
challenge.
Foreign.
F
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
E
A
I
I
It's
less
less
active
care,
it's
more
monitoring,
but
we
need
to
do
some,
some
minor
repairs,
and
we
need
to
make
sure
that
we
have
enough
money
if
there
is,
for
example,
if
we
need
to
do
any
treatment
of
our
our
leaching,
which
is
the
liquid
that
kind
of
filters
through
the
landfill
and
collects
in
the
tank
and
it
gets
pumped
off.
If
we
need
to
treat
that
for
the
forever
chemicals.
I
So
we
don't
think
we
have
enough
in
reserve
to
manage
both
the
necessary
repairs
and
upgrades
to
the
current
closed
landfills
and
to
treat
significantly
for
peoples
before
so
that
is
a
bit
of
an
unknown
and
I
also
like
to
remind
myself,
of
course,
and
my
student
councils,
that
our
Charter
does
require
us
to
ask
for
your
adoption
of
our
budget
and
with
that
I
will
establishing
and
take
any
questions.
You
may
have
I
hope
we
can
donations.
E
So
I
do
serve
as
the
city
liaison
or
the
commissioner
for
the
for
Winooski.
The
kid
in
solving
district
and
I
believe
I've
been
in
held
at
role
since
2017.,
so
six
years
or
so
coming
up
on
it
and
I
think
you
know
going
back
to
one
of
the
first
few
slides
just
highlighting
that
she
didn't
Solid,
Waste
District
actually
has
doubled
the
diversion
rate
or
close
to
it,
of
what
the
state's
diversion
rate
is.
E
So
cswe
has
received
a
number
of
awards
for
just
really
excelling
in
their
education,
Outreach
programs,
their
messaging
and
and
all
of
the
support
services
that
they
provide
so
really
significant,
kudos
to
Sarah
and
everyone
at
cswd
for
all
the
hard
work
that
they
do
so
just
want
to
extend
extended.
Thank
you
and
acknowledgment
for
that.
Thank
you.
Thank
you
very
much.
A
Thanks
for
calling
that
out,
I
also
I
just
want
to
recognize
that
it's
a
fiscally
sound
budget
and
it
seems
more
on
I,
shouldn't,
say
more
on
track.
I
know
like
in
the
past
years,
there's
been
like
issues
with
recycling,
materials
and
stuff,
and-
and
you
were
you
have
come
here
before
talking
about
we're
going
to
figure
that
out
and
that
you
are
doing
that
now.
So.
E
A
D
A
A
G
A
J
I
am
kicking
you
off
I'm,
just
gonna
start
the
PowerPoint
that
was
included
in
your
packet,
so
the
last
three
sections
of
the
administrative
team
are
up
for
present
presenting
tonight
and
that's
myself
in
the
finance
department,
the
Human
Resources
Director,
Jesse
ackery,
and
our
communications
director
Paul
sarn,
we're
just
reusing
the
same
template
that
Elaine
started
with
last
week,
identifying
where,
in
the
organizational
structure
our
Department's
fall.
All
three
of
us
report
directly
to
the
city,
manager
and
I
am
the
only
person
of
those
three
who
has
a
staff.
J
In
addition
to
being
a
director,
I
have
one
accounting
clerk
who
provides
support
for
our
segregation
of
duties
and
again
we
are
the
last
three
administrative
team
members
to
present
that
are
currently
active
departments.
The
equity
director
is
currently
on
pause
and
our
housing
position
is
about
to
start
in
April,
but
is
not
yet
ready
to
present
on
what
they
do
on
a
day-to-day
basis.
J
So
the
finance
team
is
myself
and
one
other
full-time
person.
We
handle
every
single
Dollar
in
and
out
of
the
city
that
includes
billing,
which
is
the
calculation
of
our
tax
rate
about
2200
tax
bills,
1780
utility
bills
on
a
quarterly
basis,
all
the
rental
registry
billing
and
about
a
thousand
other
miscellaneous
bills
that
we
send
out
on
an
annual
basis.
J
J
We
are
responsible
for
the
audit
of
the
city
of
Winooski.
This
starts
actually
about
May
and
runs
right
through
the
end
of
December,
so
it
does
take
a
significant
amount
of
time.
This
is
a
very
important
document
as
showing
that
we
are
financially
healthy.
Sets
us
up
to
receive,
grant
funding
and
be
able
to
borrow
significant
sums
of
money
without
having
our
financial
stability
called
into
question.
J
We
are
on
our
10th
year
of
clean
audits,
so
we're
doing
great
there.
This
office
also
does
all
of
the
internal
controls
and
risk
assessments
for
the
city.
We
do
an
annual
conference
with
individual
departments
to
identify
risks
and
attempt
to
either
mitigate
them
or
put
controls
in
place
or
accept
them
as
accepted
risk.
J
For
the
current
fiscal
year,
I
did
make
a
note
here
that
my
office
does
do
a
lot
of
the
financial
support
and
Analysis
for
every
strategic
policy
and
priority,
but
the
ones
that
I've
been
focusing
primarily
on
are
the
planning
for
the
Tiff
expiration,
the
arpa
funding
discussions,
helping
onboard
the
new
city
manager,
orienting
our
new
Treasurer
Jonathan
fenney
working
on
updating
our
financial
procedures,
which
are
severely
out
of
date
and
don't
even
reference.
My
current
position.
J
You
may
not
be
aware
that
Raul's
Vios
are
a
previous
accounting
clerk
had
resigned
at
the
beginning
of
the
month.
We
are
currently
seeking
his
replacement
and
so
we'll
need
to
be
onboarding
a
new
accounting
clerk
soon,
and
this
year's
risk
assessment
will
be
conducted
with
the
administrative
team,
including
the
clerk's
city
manager,
HR
Communications
and
all
the
Departments
that
you're
hearing
from
last
week
last
meeting
in
this
meeting
and
then
obviously
also
working
towards
that
Redevelopment
of
17
Abernathy
way
with
the
hotel
and
garage
project
for
next
year.
J
J
We
will
also
be
coordinating
for
the
expiration
of
the
Tiff
District,
including
our
final
audit,
five-state
auditor's
office
and
Jesse
and
I
are
going
to
be
working
on
implementing
full
compensation
statements
that
we
can
use
internally
for
recruitment
of
staff
and
retention
of
staff.
J
I
will
also
be
taking
a
look
at
the
reappraisal
valuations
that
are
going
to
be
coming
out
from
our
contracted
assessor
and
performing
a
quantitative
analysis
on
it
to
make
sure
that
all
of
the
assessments
that
are
coming
in
are
within
us,
the
same
average
of
what
we
anticipate
and
there
are
no
outliers
that
are
not
able
to
be
explained
just
to
make
sure
that
there's
no
bias
on
ownership,
leaning
assessments,
one
way
or
the
other.
We
also
have
received
a
significant
amount
of
opioid
settlement
funding.
J
I
am
working
to
explore
a
purchase
card
program
with
TD
Bank,
which
could
address
some
timely
payment
issues
with
some
of
our
vendors,
where
we
are
seeing
things
like
our
fuel
Parks
be
shut
off
due
to
the
timing
of
when
our
warrants
fall
and
when
their
due
dates
are.
This
could
also
be
a
potential
Revenue
source
for
the
city
in
the
future,
and
then
next
year's
risk
assessment
will
be
with
the
public
safety
team
Jesse.
K
I'm
going
to
take
you
through
just
some
of
the
function
daily
operations
that
I
do
day
to
day.
First,
a
lot
of
I
focus.
A
lot
of
my
time
is
with
recruiting,
with
all
the
vacancies
we've
been
having
lately
so
I'm
responsible
for
the
attracting
and
recruiting
interviewing,
hiring
and
onboarding
for
all
the
vacancies,
creating
the
job
descriptions
for
them,
scoring
the
positions
along
with
Angela
and
then
pitching
to
you
lovely
folks
to
make
sure
that
big
purpose
and
title
can
be
approved
for
it.
I.
J
K
J
K
Having
them
for
another
month
when
we
don't
have
them
as
an
employee
I,
do
the
record
management
for
the
employees
manage
their
records,
including
that
whatever
their
status
may
be,
whether
it's
full-time
part-time,
seasonal
help
like
we
have
for
the
pool?
I
maintain
the
online
databases
for
the
employee
portals
and
get
grant
them
access
to
the
portals.
The
logins
passwords
together
setting
up
their
emails
that
way
they
can
access
their.
K
Tax
information
and
make
any
adjustments
there
I
support
the
internal
relations,
Performance
Management
compensation
management
and
also
work
on
relationship,
Building,
Maintenance
and
growth,
and
work
to
stabilize
and
improve
our
City's
work.
Culture.
We've
come
a
long
way
from
where
I
first
started
here
and
we're
heading
in
the
right
direction.
It's
just
a
day-to-day
thing
that
we
need
to
work
on
and
Workforce
every
day
training
I
manage
the
preliminary
training
for
new
employees.
K
And
then
I
also
work
on
doing
research
for
specific
resources
for
City
things
like
a
move,
trauma
management,
Stress,
Management
and
things
like
that
kind
of
on
a
case-by-case
basis
is
needed.
I
also
manage
our
cyber
security
training
to
reduce
online
attacks
to
the
city
and
make
sure
there's
enough
appropriate
follow-up.
So
we're
not
clicking
spam
emails
and
things
like
that
Angel.
You
want
to
go
to
the
next
slide.
Yep
right.
K
K
Policy
I
track
changes
needed
for
the
Personnel
policy
manual
and
manage
any
of
the
updates
I'm,
also
the
go-to.
If
there's
any
questions
around
how
to
interpret
something
I'm
working
on
updating
hours,
it's
taking
a
bit
of
a
longer
time
than
I
had
it
originally
anticipated,
but
I'm
hoping
to
get
something
out
for
that
pretty
soon,
as
it
hasn't
been
updated
since
I
believe
about
2014,
there's
been
a
few
addendums,
but
it'd
be
nice
to
have
everything
in
one
specific
document.
K
I
make
sure
that
we
are
compliant
for
any
kind
of
audits,
including
OSHA
violations,
and
making
sure
that
all
those
are
reported.
I-9S
workers,
comp
and
a
Personnel
record
retention
and
a
member
of
the
IT
team,
as
well
as
Angela
and
Paul,
and
we
focus
on
better
technological
literacy
and
safety.
We're
also
working
to
improve
efficiency.
Certain
IP
problems
that
people
are
having
can
be
resolved
in-house
through
one
of
us,
as
opposed
to
having
to
log
a
ticket
for
Sim
Quest
and
having
to
wait
for
a
response
and
not
call
time
and
all
those
things.
K
So,
if
we're
looking
at
the
progress
of
what
we've
done
so
far
for
the
Strategic
Vision
areas,
the
city
manager
has
been
onboarding,
which
has
been
great,
we're
still
up,
I'm,
still
updating
the
Personnel
policy
manual,
as
well
as
the
conducting
the
Staffing
audit,
so
I've
been
recruited
or
I've
recruited.
Excuse
me
for
21
different
positions
through
last
fiscal
year
that
was
227
applications,
113
interviews
and
66
people.
Now
that's
66
people
may
seem
like
a
big
inflated
number,
but
it's
there
was
a
good
amount
of
seasonal
positions
in
there.
K
K
I've
reduced
some
of
the
obsolete
plans
when
it
came
to
some
of
the
health
care
for
last
year
or
last
fiscal
year,
because
there
were
just
a
lot
of
plans
that
nobody
was
using.
So,
instead
of
increasing
confusion
and
trying
to
help
people
decide
what
kind
of
Health
Care
they
needed
that
we
were
able
to
reduce
plans
that
weren't
utilized
making
that
a
much
smoother
process
cleaned
out
a
lot
of
the
unnecessary
files
for
compliance
and
organization.
K
I
recently
did
an
entire
I-9
audit
because
we
had
I-90
dating
back
for
years
that
need
to
be
terminated
as
per
federal
policy
and
that's
now
updated.
K
Last
couple
things
here:
continuing
to
integrate
Equity
considerations
in
all
aspects
of
stamping
and
operations,
Community
engagement,
effort
to
tackle
Equity
audit
findings.
This
is
all
for
next
year,
in
kind
of
the
big
overlaying
goals
and
development,
Implement
inclusive
community
engagement
plan
for
the
staff
I'm
continuing
to
onboard
the
Housing
Initiative
director.
K
We've
made
that
higher
recently
and
they'll,
be
starting
at
the
end
of
April
and
I
want
to
make
sure
that
we
have
a
very,
very
smooth
and
solid
onboarding,
as
well
as
enough
support
for
Jasmine
to
make
sure
that
they
stay
here
and
they're
successful
in
their
role
and
as
we
are
coming
on
with
more
police
stuff,
we're
looking
to
recruit
on
board
and
support
the
new
police
chief,
which
is
going
to
be
in
the
works
towards
the
end
of
fiscal
year.
24.
B
Okay,
sorry
go
ahead,
hi
everybody
good
evening,
thanks
so
much
everybody
hear
me:
okay,
sorry
for
the
audio
technical
difficulties
this
evening,
so
I've
gone
ahead
and
split
up
a
sample
of
the
communications
daily
operations
into
four
lovely
little
sections
here.
Those
are
section
one
policy,
so
as
a
member
of
the
leadership
team
work
on
the
city's
internal
and
external
Communications
related
to
strategies,
policies
and
procedures,
section
two
Communications:
this
includes
developing
press
releases.
B
These
updates
emergency
alerts,
managing
the
city's
website
and
social
media
platforms,
providing
things
like
copy
edit,
editing,
graphic
design,
photography,
content
creation,
certainly
our
marketing
and
branding
functions
and
project
management,
Section
3
Community
engagement.
So
this
includes
posting
all
of
our
public
meetings
in
minutes,
coordinating
or
town
meeting
TV
coverage,
managing
public
surveys
and
feedback
opportunities,
responding
to
inquiries
from
our
residents,
businesses
and
visitors,
and
providing
direct
support
for
events
and
meetings.
B
Section
four,
of
course,
is
internal
support
that
includes
daily
administrative
assistance
to
all
of
the
other
departments.
This
can
range
anywhere
from
help
with
forms
and
creating
different
documents.
Software
support,
creating
templates
and,
of
course,
as
as
Jesse
and
Angela
have
mentioned.
Also,
a
member
of
the
IT
team
and
offers
support
there,
we're
certainly
a
great
resource
for
the
staff
to
have
as
an
intermediary
between
the
staff
and
Sim
Quest
and
it's
nice
to
have
people
there
on
a
day-to-day
basis
to
be
able
to
answer
stuff,
as
it
comes
up.
B
Moving
on
to
some
FY
23
accomplishments
worth
calling
out.
These
are
organized
by
strategic
Vision
area.
I've
included
the
community-wide
American
Rescue
plan
act,
survey
process,
which
was
really
great,
supporting
Communications
on
the
exit,
16,
diverging
diamond
interchange,
project,
which
is
currently
ongoing,
launching
the
Winooski
Housing
Trust
Fund,
completing
the
Legacy
campaign
and
Centennial
Celebration
initiative
and,
of
course,
work
with
our
state
and
local
Partners
on
covid-19
messaging.
B
So,
looking
ahead
to
some
proposed
FY
24
goals
and
initiatives,
this
includes
work
on
language
access,
creating
an
I.T,
an
internal
I.T
procedure.
Ms
Angela
was
discussing
implementing
communication
solutions
for
the
Main
Street
revitalization
project,
as
well
as
the
winuski
bridge
replacement
project,
which
is
certainly
farther
out
to
terrify
anybody
coordinating
with
the
leadership
team
about
wayfinding
next
steps
and
developing
an
equity
audit
event.
B
If
you
will,
with
the
Winooski
School
District
about
covers
it
for
me,
obviously
not
the
easiest
thing
for
any
of
us
to
do
to
distill
our
positions
into
presentation,
slides
but
happy
to
answer
any
questions
you
may
have
for
either
now
or
later
foreign.
A
Thanks
Paul
and
in
the
context
of
strategic
prioritization
right,
so
they're
sharing
likely
what
are
going
to
be
the
recommended.
Fy24
focuses,
but
all
that
content
beforehand.
That's
all
the
day-to-day
work
that
staff
are
doing
in
addition
to
whatever
initiatives
we
prioritize
so
that'll
be
something
to
keep
in
mind
when
we
get
to
those
discussions.
A
H
Thank
you.
So
this
is
our
third
installment
of
the
municipal
infrastructure
policy.
Priorities
update
I
won't
go
through
each
of
these,
but
I
will
focus
on,
for
example,
the
Main
Street
project,
that's
kind
of
where
our
main
focus
is
right
now,
so
we
are,
our
Target
is
to
bid
the
project
out
next
month
in
May.
H
What
we're
wrapping
up
right
now
is
sort
of
the
last
financing
piece.
So
in
order
to
bid
the
project,
our
main
financing
partner
USDA
has
to
give
us
a
green
light
to
do
that,
and
in
order
to
get
that
okay,
we
need
to
procure
interim
financing
through
a
lender.
So
Angela
and
I
are
working
with
a
couple
of
potential
Banks,
I
I
think
actually
a
bond
Underwriters,
the
actual
term,
so
we're
working
with
the
same
Bond
underwriter
right
now
that
did
the
the
Winooski
School
District
Capital
project.
H
H
In
the
meantime,
we
have
been
talking
with
some
of
the
big
contractors
around
town
just
to
get
some
interest,
so
we
do
think
that
the
the
usual
larger
contractors
that
we
see
around
town
are
are
going
to
be
providing
some
bids
on
this
project.
So
that's
that's
pretty
exciting.
H
So
that's
where
the
majority
of
our
focus
is
right
now,
I
do
want
to
call
out
in
the
in
the
memo
that
I
provided
One
financing
piece-
that's
that's
not
great
news
is
that
we've
been
working
pretty
closely
with
v-trans
on
two
of
the
existing
grants
that
we
have
I
think
one
we
procured
like
2019.
These
are
some
pretty
old
grants.
H
One
was
for
a
it's
called
a
tap
Grant
and
the
other
one
is
called
the
bike.
Ped
Grant,
so
I
think,
all
together.
Those
two
grants
were
on
the
order
of
like
545
600
that
we
are
putting
towards
the
transportation
portion
of
the
project,
mainly
sidewalks,
some
of
the
the
curb
bump
outs.
You
see
so,
unfortunately,
what
we've
learned
in
the
last
month,
as
we've
been
coordinating
with
them,
is
some
of
the
federal
Provisions
that
have
been
enacted.
Specifically,
this
build
America
buy
America
provision
is.
H
So
we,
you
know
in
conclusion,
we've
sort
of
working
with
the
main
Federal
Highway
folks
that
that
admits-
or
this
Grant
and
v-trans
sort
of
came
to
the
conclusion
that
it's
not
feasible
to
use
this
funding.
H
Unfortunately,
so
it
doesn't
impact
the
project,
scope
and
it
you
know
we're
still
below
the
threshold
for
the
bond
amount,
but
it's
it's
never
great
to
have
to
you
know,
give
money
back.
We
are
currently
working
with
them
to
see
if
we
can
pivot
that
funding
to
a
standalone
project
where
you
know,
if
it's
just
a
sidewalk
project,
you
know,
there's
there's
not
the
impact
of
having
those
Federal
provisions
on
it.
It's
it's
concrete.
You
know.
H
So
it's
not
like
we
would
have
to
disperse
that
onto
like
the
duckling
iron
pipes
that
we
have
to
buy
for
the
water
main.
So
it's
unfortunate,
but
in
the
in
the
long
run
it
will
unfortunately
save
us
money
not
taking
a
grant.
You
know
we
are
not
alone
in
this.
There
are
a
couple
other
misspellies
I've
heard
of
that
are
having
the
same
issue
with
some
of
the
new
federal
Provisions.
So
we're
also
trying
to
make
that
known
with
Federal
highways
and
be
trans.
D
H
Not
have
that
provision,
so
our
estimates
that
we,
you
know,
did
back
in
2019
2020
and
have
consistently
updated
or
still
are
still
okay.
So
we
still
think
we're.
If
bids
come
back
the
way
they
should
come
back
and
nobody
throws
in
some
really
high
numbers
at
us,
we'll
still
be
below
our
bonding
threshold.
H
So
that's
kind
of
the
big
one
on
Main
Street,
but
I
will
open
up.
If,
if
you
all
have
any
questions
on
some
of
these
infrastructure
items,.
E
E
Because
it
does
seem
like
it,
it
could
have
some
significant
Equity
impacts
to
our
municipality,
actually
by
not
being
able
to
utilize
funding
that
has
previously
been
awarded
and
that
have
new
conditions
applied.
It
seems
like
something
our
elected
officials
would
be
interested
to
know
about
yeah.
H
D
E
Such
a
small
state,
those
federal
funds,
are
have,
as
you
know,
it's
a
huge
impact
on
what
capital
projects
are
able
to
move
forward,
so
it
does
seem
like
the
well.
The
intent
is
there
that
the
impact
may
be
misguided
from
from
what
they're
hoping
to
achieve
for
a
community
like
ours,
yeah.
H
C
C
C
John
I
don't
know
if-
and
maybe
this
is
something
that
you
passed
away
in
as
well.
There
are
waivers
that
are
available
for
Bill
and
whatever
I
forget.
The
full
micro
book
called
The,
build
by
America,
build
America,
buy
America,
there's
a
waiver
process
if
your
project
is
going
to
crew
significant
expenses
due
to
having
to
comply
to
that
program.
So
that's
something
that
possibly
we
could
look
into
yeah.
H
I
will
I'll
run
that
through
the
city
manager,
we
did
try
a
couple
different
Avenues
with
Federal
highways
and
be
trans
to
retain
that
funding
so
going
as
far
as
like
breaking
out
this
scope
into
its
own
little
projects,
and
you
know,
there's
a
lot
there's
a
couple
other
like
smaller
items
like
you,
have
to
hire
different
inspectors
to
do
the
work
and
it
became
logistically
like
it
just
wasn't
feasible,
but
we
did.
H
We
did
try
to
pursue
that,
but
maybe,
with
the
help
of
Elaine
and
getting
some
of
our
state
folks
involved,
they
can
they
can
push
that
and
actually
so
counselor
judge
I
should
mention
too.
H
I
am
more
than
happy
to
meet
separately
to
go
over
any
of
these
items
too,
because
these
are
probably
new.
So
if,
if
you're
interested
door
is
always
open,
thanks.
F
I
have
a
question
about
just
just
a
couple:
little
questions
about
some
of
the
other
items.
The
first
one
excited
to
see
it
the
kind
of
having
a
more
set
process
around
Ada
complaints.
F
H
So
the
the
Ada
so
that
any
complaints
related
to
Ada
foreign,
whether
it
be
communication
like
not
being
able
to
access
the
website
properly
or,
as
you
mentioned,
like
any
sort
of
hiring
issues,
so
that
can
all
go
through
this
process
and
then
I
I
am
the
Public
Works
director
myself.
I
am
the
Ada
coordinator,
because.
D
H
F
Awesome,
that's
good
to
know
just
wanted
to
know
those
details
too,
especially
thinking
if
there
are
quickly
here
resident
complaint.
You
know
in
order
to
direct
them,
I
was
wondering
with
the
release
of
the
Winooski
Senior
Center,
and
it
might
not
be
had
you
note
that
it
runs
through
2043.
F
H
Was
a
collaboration?
Some
of
these
items
obviously
fall
into
Ray
shops.
Some
of
them
fall
into
even
our
planning
directors,
shop,
so
I
think
I,
think
Ray
and
maybe
Elaine
may
have
added
this
language
in
on
the
memo.
L
Yeah
yeah
and
Christine
you're
you're
a
spot
on
that.
You
know
if
there
were
to
be
a
renegotiated
renegotiation
of
that
lease.
That
would
come
back
through
Council
for
approval.
So
you
all
would
see
that
before
anything
changed,
but
the
my
understanding
and
and
I
would
want
to
kind
of
vet
this
through
legal.
L
If
we
got
to
this
point,
but
my
understanding
is
that
that
lease
will
transfer
with
the
property
to
the
new
owner
and
so
there's
no
there's
no
impetus
impetus
for
us
to
change
anything
necessarily
if
the
Property
Transfers,
but
it
might
be
an
opportunity
for
us
to
revisit
that
lease
with
a
new
owner
and
decide
from
there.
What
we
want
to
do.
A
H
So
the
transition
plan
is
a
living
document
that
will
outline
to
start
because
we
can
have
the
tuning
County
Regional
planning
folks,
do
it
at
no
cost
mainly
on
the
transportation
assets.
So
what
it
will
do
is
there's
a
couple
components.
One
is
inventory
all
of
the
applicable
components
so,
for
example,
curb
ramps.
H
They
have
an
ADA
sort
of
component
to
it
like
what
the
slope
is,
so
they
will
inventory
it
see
if
it
is
with
meets
ADA
compliance
or
not,
and
if
it
does
not,
we
will
inventory
it
and
say:
okay,
this
needs
to
be
repaired.
H
Basically,
identifying
like
okay,
these
things
need
fixed
and
when
are
you
going
to
do
it?
How
much
is
it
going
to
cost
and
ultimately
it
will
include
all
City
88
Associated
assets,
so
our
facilities,
for
example,
is,
is
the
door
push
button
working?
Is
it
in
compliance?
Is
the
height
correct,
so
it
that's
why
it's?
It
will
change
quite
a
bit
over
the
next
few
years
because,
hopefully,
we'll
be
continuing
to
add,
as
we
sort
of
build
it
out.
A
H
Yeah
and
I
think
councilor
Oakleaf
can
probably
help
me
with
this,
so
we
have
begun
talking
about
it
at
the
commission
level
and
there's
a
few
little
projects
here
and
there
that
actually,
commissioner
Oakley,
has
been
helpful
with
partnering
with
Vic
I
think
there's
still
work
to
be
done
in
sort
of
an
overall
it's
goal
and
plans
and
what
our
priorities
are,
but
we're
at
this
stage
we're
we're
looking
for
opportunities
that
come
up
and
then
just
trying
to
tackle
them.
H
So,
for
example,
councilor
Oakleaf
helped
us
with
procuring
a
grant
to
switch
out
some
LED
light
bulbs
up
at
the
Public
Works
garage.
We
are
currently
looking
at
some
potential
Grant
opportunities
for
electric
car
charging,
replacing
the
car
charging
stations
in
the
garage.
We
are
looking
at
right
now.
Our.
H
Signing
up
for
a
program
that
lets
them
look
into
our
electrical
system
and
when
there's
those
peak
days
they
can
coordinate
with
us
to
say:
okay.
Well,
your
your
blower
is
on
the
plan
that
you
know
take
up
a
ton
of
electricity.
Can
you
just
turn
them
down
for
an
hour
while
we
ride
out
this
peak
so.
J
H
Little
things
here
and
there,
but
I
think
the
policy
side
is
maybe
where
you
know
we'll
be
looking
to
do
some
work
in
the
future.
Awesome.
C
E
I'd
say
from
the
infrastructure
commission
side
of
things
we're
so
the
master
plan
just
kind
of
Dives
right
into
solar
and
I
think
as
a
starting
place.
We
want
to
see
just
a
better
assessment
of
where
we
are
now
where
we
can
save
energy.
E
E
You
know
we
adopted
Energy
Efficiency
day
resolution
for
October
last
year,
so
hopefully
we
can
have
more
Communications
and
Outreach
around
that
for
just
the
General
Public
this
coming
year,
but
the
group
is
really
focused
on
because
there's
so
much
to
talk
about
really
just
looking
at,
like
okay,
as
as
City
operations
go
and
City
functions,
go.
What
can
we
do?
That's
tangible
Improvement?
What
questions
do
we
need
to
ask?
First?
E
What
is
our
Base
Line
demand
energy
Demand
right
now,
and
so
you
know,
John
completed
a
an
equity
assessment
tool
last
year.
That
kind
of
gives
a
road
map
for
step-by-step
improvements
that
can
be
made
and
and
I
I.
Think
that
kind
of
just
touches
on
the
wide
array
of
conversations
that
we've
had
at
the
infrastructure
level
and
obviously
the
city
staff,
are
pretty
overwhelmed
with
capital
projects,
as
it
is
so
I
think
we're
really
focused
on
these
incremental
improvements
as
much
as
we
can
great.
H
Yeah
one
other
thing
that
I
just
remember
too
is:
it,
is
interesting,
we're
starting
to
see
some
more
State
funding
come
through
related
to
energy
projects,
so
there's
also
facilities.
H
H
So
we've
done
sort
of
the
walk
through
like
what's
the
low
hanging
fruit
like
can
we
change
light
bulbs
that
sort
of
thing
but
I,
think
I
think
it's
either
later
this
month
or
next
month,
they're
going
to
be
rolling
out
this
like
audit
of
facilities
program
it
also
it
ties
back
to
earlier
conversation.
H
They
will
be
looking
at
Ada
upgrades
as
well
as
part
of
that,
because
we
Elaine
and
I
were
on
a
call
with
our
PC
and
we
identified
like
we
can
look
at
some
of
these
electrical
issues,
but
there
may
also
be
Ada
issues
that
kind
of
also
go
hand
in
hand
with
that.
So
that's
going
to
be
another
I.
Think
they'll
be
smaller
grants,
but
I
think
they'll
they'll
be
worth
it.
You
know
we'll
get
some
pretty
good
data
out
of
it.
Anyways.
That's.