City of Boise, Idaho City Council Meetings, 29 Sep 2021

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September 29, 2021

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I'm going to call the meeting to order. This is the city council meeting of september 28th uh 2021. clerk? Would you please call the roll agent.

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Clay here, holly burton here sanchez here thompson winnings here by present one absent thank.

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You number two on our agenda is request for approval of the city council minutes from august or september 21st.

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Madam mayor, yes, I move that the minutes of the work session and regular meeting of the city council on september 21st to be approved.

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Moved in seconded any discussion clerk, would you call the.

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Role: woodens! Yes, agent; yes, clay! Yes, halliburton, yes, sanchez! Yes, all in favor motion carries.

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Item three is the consent agenda. All items with an asterisk are considered to be routine by the council and will be enacted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion on these items unless a city, council, member or citizen so requests, in which case the item will be removed from the general order of business and considered in its normal sequence.

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Yes, I move approval of the consent agenda.

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Second, moved and seconded any discussion. Madam mayor.

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I just wanted to call out um resolution 457-21, it's approving our agreement for our new kiosko that will be going into the east end. It's been an ongoing project for the arts and history commission um and I went through that resolution and there's an impressive number of architects and artists from the hispanic community that will be part of that project. So it's going to be a really exciting thing that will be the gateway to the east end.

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Any other comments, hearing none would the clerk. Please call the role warnings.

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Yes, agent, yes,.

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Plague, yes, halliburton, yes sanchez! Yes, all in favor motion carries thank.

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You uh next order of businesses is ordinances. There are no ordinances on the first reading calendar that takes us to the second reading calendar.

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Madam mayor, yes, I ask unanimous consent that all ordinances and second reading be read by number and title only and filed for the third reading calendar without objection.

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Ord-43-21 an ordinance amending boise city code, title iii, chapter 3, section 9 retailer's license to amend the expiration date amending boise city code, title 3, chapter 4, section 9, expiration of permit to mend the expiration date amending boise city code, title 4, chapter 3, section 2, license fee requires transferability to amend the issuance date and provide an effective date.

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You that takes us to the third reading calendar. Madam mayor.

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Yes, I move that further reading of ordinance 42-21 be dispensed with and the record reflect it has been read the third time in full.

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Do I have a second.

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Moved and seconded any discussion clerk will you read the ordinance.

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Would you like me to do the voting order? First.

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That was to read it right.

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Yeah, thank you woodings. Yes, agent. Yes, clay! Yes, halliburton, yes, sanchez! Yes, all in favor of motion carries ord-42-21 an ordinance amending boise city code, title vi, chapter 10b, section 6 to add juneteenth june 19th to the city of boise city's list of holidays, for which city parking meter spaces are free and provide an effective date.

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Madam mayor, yes.

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Move that ordinance 42-21 be approved.

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In second, at any discussion clerk, would you please call the roll ordings.

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Yes, agent, yes,.

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Plague? Yes, halliburton, yes, sanchez! Yes,.

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All in favor of motion carries.

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All right, thank you. That brings us to number five special business. We have an inner budget change on the agenda, eric.

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Thank you very much. uh Council president uh members of the council can.

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You speak up just a little. Thank you.

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Hopefully, that's better. Thank you very much council president and members of the council. We have uh six interim budget changes uh for your consideration uh today. The first item is within the airport. It is a reallocation of funding, increasing the snow removal equipment building project.

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That project would be funded via a reallocation of funds from the gate, b-22 extension project, which, upon further analysis, has been deemed not feasible.

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The second adjustment recommended is for increased security at both city hall, as well as a number of other city facilities, namely our libraries and idaho ice world.

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It also establishes a re-establishes, a city hall, ambassador program that the funding associated with with both of those needs would come from the fiscal year. 21 operating contingency staff continues to evaluate the possibility of funding both of those through american recovery. American rescue plan act, funds.

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Eric one quick question on this one: I think we are making the assumption that the the hard costs obviously are one time and that um we will reevaluate next year whether or need we, whether or not we need the ongoing costs of uh ambassador and other personnel. Is that correct.

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That would be correct council member thank.

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Yes, the the third item recommended is an increased transfer from the general fund to the capital fund. We have numerous capital projects which are projected to go over the current budgeted amount. This issue was highlighted as part of the june budget workshop we've seen some pretty significant cost escalation.

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The increase uh totaling five million dollars would be funded from two funding sources. The first would be a reallocation of funds from the covet 19 contingency, which was established as part of the fiscal year 21 adopted budget process.

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Those funds are recommended to be reallocated, uh for, I guess for two reasons. First, is we have not uh tapped into those funds as as anticipated during fiscal year 21, but secondly, through the availability of funding through the american rescue plan? Should there be coveted related expenses? We can look to that to support those costs.

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The second funding source for this transfer would be increased development fees when we built the fiscal year 21 budget, the revenue figures that we assumed for development, fiat fee activity were quite low um and you think back when we developed those estimates uh spring of 2020.

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We've seen development uh development levels maintain really at pre-pandemic levels, so recommending using those funds to support those transfers. There are no specific capital transfers, adjustment, capital capital adjustments recommended as part of this. Any individual projects which may need to be amended would go through the interim budget change and come before the council at a later date.

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The fourth item is funding for the establishment of a human and civil rights, education and immersion program.

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That program would be funded in fiscal year, 21 through the operating contingency with those funds rebudgeted into fiscal year 22 and similar to the security and city hall ambassador program. Any ongoing funds would then be built into the fiscal year 23 budget for city council consideration.

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The fifth item is an increase to our revenue estimate within the geothermal fund. The city once again received through republic services, approximately two hundred thousand dollars as a rebate um for uh as a cng rebate the city in fiscal year, 20 allocated those funds towards the geothermal fund and is again recommending uh allocating those funds to the geothermal fund in fiscal year, 21 in recognition of some pretty significant major repairs and maintenance projects which are going to need to be be done in the next couple of years.

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The final item is within our water renewal fund. It is a transfer of funding. It's really an accounting adjustment, moving funding from our sewer pipe rehabilitation project to the sewer pipe extensions project, we've seen an increase in requested sewer extensions in fiscal year. 21, therefore, that funding reallocation is recommended. I'd be happy to stand for any questions at this point.

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Any questions for eric madame.

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Yes, um thank you eric. I have a question around number four, and maybe this is a chiefly question as well um is so I guess my first question is: why was the mayor's office chosen as the home for this program rather than the boise police department,.

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I might hand it over to the chief at this point.

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Or courtney: oh.

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Here comes the chief.

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Madam mayor members of council, um it was because we didn't want this program to detract from bpd's budget process, so we didn't want to give them a program and then make them figure out how to pay for it. And that's why the money is coming in the mayor's office. But it is to support the program at bpd.

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And follow follow-up question to that. So this is for the development um of the program and then will the boise police department be um responsible for the administration of the training to its officers.

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um Yes and madam mayor council member, they will both bring in trainers um to enhance the program, but the administration of the program is within the department. Great. Thank you, madam.

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Mayor, yes, thank you, um so I guess I have questions about this too. As you know, we are working on a strategic plan for diversity, equity, inclusion for the entire organization, and I'm wondering how this will fit in with that larger plan.

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Madam mayor councilmember sanchez, it is our intention that all these pieces make something um greater than the parts, so I think, as we develop our next steps on diversity, equity, inclusion and further build out this program within bpd. They will complement each other nicely.

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Just follow up, madam mayor, you bet, um that's been something that I was observed. Having joined the council four years ago is, is that there have been departments and bpd is one of has been one of the leading departments to embrace that work.

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Arts and history was another one, and there has been this- these lurches of some departments really making this work a priority and moving forward, but not the organization in totality, and so I think, that's part of the issue is that we haven't moved forward as an organization in lockstep when it comes to this work, so I certainly hope that we will be changing that and that there will be more consistency throughout the organization, so nevertheless, I wish this program great success.

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Thank you other questions. Chief. I actually have a question of you. If you don't mind um since we're stopped here,.

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Thank you appreciate you being here. um My question is I, um after this program is developed handed to you uh to conduct, and it looks like there's an ongoing effort to make sure that everyone is kept up to date and moves through it in stages as as they're ready. Do you have any estimate yet of the ongoing costs that we'll be asked to look at next year in the budget.

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I think any of those costs would be we would be projecting and assuming what those costs would be. We're trying to minimize the impact by importing as much information as we can from outside sources. But we also need very much to develop the curriculum so that it has an idaho and boise-centric connection. It has much more meaning to people when they can see it in terms of their neighbor or people in their community.

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With that said, any estimate on what the ongoing cost would be preliminary, but it is tied in very much to the development of our leadership programs for the entire police department, both our sworn and professional staff, and we would be able to plan out what those costs would be as part of our ongoing training efforts.

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Okay, thank you. So this will be part of the expanded training effort already underway and you'll build it into it. Is that what I'm hearing you say.

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Okay, thank you any other questions.

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Vladimir I've got a comment, but it's about item number two. So if there's more about it number four, I certainly welcome that.

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We have a motion to approve these, and then you wanted to make a comment during that. Just oh.

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Just a just a comment, I guess in the discussion for.

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Motion on the floor.

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First, madame, I move approval of the interim budget changes as presented by staff.

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Moved in second discussion go ahead: councilmember, halliburton,.

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And mayor, thank you um just a comment on number two. I'm certainly happy to approve these funds for this increased security and happy to approve that, I think for the staff members who are really unfairly having to deal with this type of negative experience.

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Our staff members are not the ones who make these policy decisions, but yet they're the ones who are sort of forced to suffer the repercussions of people who disagree with them and that just simply isn't fair and it's unfortunate that these funds that could be used for something so much more important and so much better are being used because people are simply being unkind to each other and that doesn't reflect well on our community and and again certainly, shouldn't have to be something that our staff have to deal with on a regular basis.

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And so again, I'm happy to approve these funds for our staff. But I'm not happy that this is what we're using these types of funds for.

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Other comments or.

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Discussion would the clerk please call the roll.

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Waddings, yes,.

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Plague, yes, halliburton. Yes,.

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Yes, all in favor motion carries thank.

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You there is no other business on our agenda. Madam mayor, yes, I move that we adjourn second moved and seconded all those in favor aye. We are adjourned.