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Good afternoon. Welcome to the City Port Joint Committee meeting. I'm calling this meeting to order. The time is now 3:30 PM. 00:00:02
Madam Clerk will please take roll call. 00:00:09
OK, CEO and Port Director Kristen Decis. 00:00:11
City Manager James Vega. 00:00:14
Here, Mayor Pro Tem McQueen. La Shawn here. President Zacharias here, Mayor Perez here. And let the record reflect that Vice 00:00:16
President Ramirez is absent. Thank you. We'll now move on to public comments. Public comments are limited to three minutes. Madam 00:00:23
Clerk, do we have any public comments for tonight? No public comments. Thank you. 00:00:30
We might now move on to discussion minutes for approval. May I have a motion and a second to approve the July 24th, 2024 minutes? 00:00:38
2nd Thank you, Madam Clerk. 00:00:49
All in favor, aye. All opposed. 00:00:52
Motion passes with President Ramirez absent. 00:00:55
Thank you. The item on the agenda tonight is the Community Benefit Fund projects. The recommendation is to discuss and provide 00:00:58
recommendations if desired. 00:01:02
I will start with Mr. City Manager. 00:01:09
Yeah. And only I'm only going to pull up the slide that shows the projects that we had previously discussed and since this meeting 00:01:12
is going very quickly. 00:01:17
We'll be done in 5 minutes. But you may recall that we met at our last meeting. We kind of finalized this list, which totals 00:01:24
$113,000. We estimated that we have $143,000 in this year's fund. And so we. 00:01:33
Each went back to our respective boards to get feedback on what the remaining $30,000 could be used for. I know the city went back 00:01:42
to the City Council and focused on the mental health and public safety categories. And then my understanding, and I'll turn it 00:01:50
over to Kristen, is the port also went back and they focused on some categories. So maybe we start there and, and go from there. 00:01:57
Sure, I'll kick it off and then I'll I'll kick it over to the president of our board. But we had a discussion of using. 00:02:05
Funds to 1 and I think it came up in this body to look at how we could support the economic development plan the city rolled out 00:02:12
as partners in in economic development. That might be a nice way to put some seed money towards getting your economic development 00:02:18
strategy off the ground. And then the other that came back through our five members was looking at maybe either that or augmenting 00:02:25
the grant writing. 00:02:31
So those were the two that came back. I don't know if you want to elaborate, Commissioner. Yes, those were the two that came back 00:02:38
was the economic development plan and, and I know I did attend. 00:02:44
What they believe is your City Council meeting where you talked about that and I realized that it's not, it's only 36,000 or 30 00:02:51
three $33,000, but maybe chipping away at a certain part of the economic development plan. And the other one was the economic 00:02:59
development and the grant or taking that additional money, the 33,000 and adding it to the grant writing. 00:03:07
So we, as you know, we had a brief discussion about it. We didn't know about the other options. So the only thing we really 00:03:17
touched on was the economic development part of that. 00:03:21
I think we would obviously have to take the grant writing back to our board for approval on that since they didn't hear that 00:03:26
portion of it. 00:03:29
Yeah. And I think I would suggest at this point I think the two boards kind of that one of those ideas and and then we can take 00:03:35
that each back to our full boards for for consideration again. But I think we've had a few categories talked about. So I think we 00:03:42
can use this meeting to maybe narrow in on, on what category we're looking at so. 00:03:49
Member Tim, do you have any comments on it? 00:03:57
So I know. 00:04:02
You mentioned Public Safety City Manager specifically we were talking about AK 9 and so that had come up before in this forum. So 00:04:04
I guess my question now is. 00:04:10
It seemed like I guess maybe two or three meetings ago that we talked about that as a group. Are we not there anymore? 00:04:17
I know we just, we did discuss it and we went back to the port and the port, the commissioners, the last our last board meeting we 00:04:24
had was OK, if we don't do the economic development plan portion of it, then why don't we roll the 33,000 into next year? And then 00:04:30
perhaps if the 33,000 and you didn't feel was enough to make an impact on the economic development plan is useful, $133,000 00:04:37
towards the economic development plan. 00:04:43
What we want to see is a bigger impact on helping the city move forward on what you all. 00:04:51
I looked at on your economic development plan so that that's where we came back at our last board meeting. 00:04:58
So your board's proposal is? 00:05:06
To put the. 00:05:10
Full of next year's into helping our economic development plan is what you would like to see out of that. That's to to reiterate 00:05:13
with the commissioner saying we could either seat it this year with a 33 and get things going or maybe we look at getting some 00:05:18
proposals from some consultant that could look at how we were rolling out our strategic plan as well. And so how we work together 00:05:24
on economic development and bring some leadership in to help guide us through that process in support of your economic development 00:05:29
strategy and our strategic plan. 00:05:35
I do have a follow up question for City manager SO. 00:05:41
So we've received. 00:05:46
The information on the. 00:05:50
And develop economic develop. 00:05:52
But there has been no conversation. I don't remember, I can't remember there being any conversation with the council as to whether 00:05:54
we're ready to pull the trigger on the economic development plan. And so for me it seems a little premature because we haven't 00:06:01
even had a discussion yet about it to try to move to that. So I think the current status of the economic development plan was we 00:06:09
brought it to council and the council adopted the. 00:06:16
Plan, but the next step was going to be bringing back an implementation plan or or and I only say or because our budget is very 00:06:23
tight this year and so it might be sort of in phases. So or you know a plan of what are the first things we can implement with 00:06:31
available funding. And so that's sort of where we're at now I think. 00:06:38
And I talked to Kristen a little bit about this in the in the recently and. 00:06:47
I think that the idea of some seed funding to implement the economic development plan could be beneficial 'cause we that's, that's 00:06:53
really the first big obstacle we're going to have is figuring out how to fund some of the things we want to do. I think for me, my 00:06:59
big thing with my biggest recommendation now would be if we're going to do that, keep it pretty general, you know, funding for the 00:07:05
economic development plan, which we can then, you know, come back and have a plan for. I wouldn't put it towards a specific 00:07:11
project because we don't know. 00:07:17
Project is priority one yet so so it's it's something potentially useful. 00:07:23
In that we we need to start implementing that plan. I think I've been pretty. 00:07:31
Vocal about I see, I see concerns with our cannabis market and I think we're going to see those start picking up in the next few 00:07:39
months. And so we're really trying to get in in front of that, although we're already working from behind to try to get some 00:07:44
economic development to start, you know, be ready when that starts kind of falling off. 00:07:49
So. 00:07:55
There's several projects in that plan that we could look at and come back and recommend. 00:07:57
Implementing with $30,000, potentially paying for some of the things like appraisals of properties and things like that. Yeah, I 00:08:03
think one of the things James and I talked about is getting some consensus here today around using the funding for the economic 00:08:08
development plan. And then James and I could do a deeper dive and look at some of those seed projects and then bring them back to 00:08:13
this body and make sure you're comfortable with that. We're meeting once a month and then we could go back to our mutual boards 00:08:18
and. 00:08:23
And get full consensus. So that would be our recommendation. But of course it's it's the will of the board here. 00:08:29
So that I'm clear, just we're only talking about. 00:08:36
Balance of the third. 00:08:39
30,000 for now and we're looking at on our side, the council side, what we've approved, we're waiting to see. 00:08:40
What you all plan to do with this list? 00:08:47
So our board has approved this list. So we have full consensus I think on both of our boards for the 113. So it's this 33 today 00:08:52
where suggest we went back to our board. 00:08:58
Thought economic development, heard it from genes in this forum. So maybe that's a good next step. We'll define it better for you 00:09:04
at a future meeting. But perhaps for the vote, the official vote, we could get consensus around using it for economic development. 00:09:11
And what that could look like is essentially having the council. 00:09:18
Since the ports already approved this list, we can have the council approved this list formally and then identify. 00:09:23
Using the remaining 30,000 for economic development or whatever category the board and the council agree to. So I like the idea of 00:09:29
that because I know like Mayor Pro Tem said, we haven't even had a chance to look at what that means yet. And but I knew there was 00:09:36
going to be some issues of actually implementing some of those things so. 00:09:42
I mean, I, I think that's a good idea, actually. I think that's a smart way of using this. Yeah, yeah. 00:09:50
So we did it. Do we need a motion? Yeah, I was going to say let's keep the quick, quick meeting going. Can I have a motion to 00:10:00
approve the use of the 33,000? 00:10:04
Is that the 33,000? It's 30, there's 143 total. OK, so the well actually there, there may be one, but there may be one thing we 00:10:09
need to clarify. I think that. 00:10:15
That recreation program scholarship, I think we had talked about that at one point, but I'm not sure that that was on the ports 00:10:21
final list, that $3000. 00:10:25
Because if that's not on the list, then it would be 30. We're OK with that. 00:10:30
I believe it was, it was the port that was the recommendation. Yeah, I think it was the 3000 and then there. So it's 30. I want to 00:10:35
say it's 30. Yeah. OK. Then can I have a motion to approve the. 00:10:40
Remainder of the Community fund to go towards. 00:10:46
Mutually agreed upon economic development. Economic development projects. There we go. 00:10:51
Motion to approve. 00:10:55
Do I have a second? 00:10:57
I don't know that I can't do emotion. 00:11:04
Well, I'm so used to not doing it at council meetings. 00:11:11
OK, all in favor. Yes, aye. All opposed. Hearing none. Motion passes with Vice President Ramirez absent. 00:11:15
Thank you. OK. So if we have nothing further from this board? 00:11:22
Nothing further. OK. 00:11:29
That I'm going to adjourn this meeting, the time being 341. 00:11:30
I think that's a good idea. It's women. I know this. 00:11:36
Just. 00:11:40
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Transcript

Good afternoon. Welcome to the City Port Joint Committee meeting. I'm calling this meeting to order. The time is now 3:30 PM. 00:00:02
Madam Clerk will please take roll call. 00:00:09
OK, CEO and Port Director Kristen Decis. 00:00:11
City Manager James Vega. 00:00:14
Here, Mayor Pro Tem McQueen. La Shawn here. President Zacharias here, Mayor Perez here. And let the record reflect that Vice 00:00:16
President Ramirez is absent. Thank you. We'll now move on to public comments. Public comments are limited to three minutes. Madam 00:00:23
Clerk, do we have any public comments for tonight? No public comments. Thank you. 00:00:30
We might now move on to discussion minutes for approval. May I have a motion and a second to approve the July 24th, 2024 minutes? 00:00:38
2nd Thank you, Madam Clerk. 00:00:49
All in favor, aye. All opposed. 00:00:52
Motion passes with President Ramirez absent. 00:00:55
Thank you. The item on the agenda tonight is the Community Benefit Fund projects. The recommendation is to discuss and provide 00:00:58
recommendations if desired. 00:01:02
I will start with Mr. City Manager. 00:01:09
Yeah. And only I'm only going to pull up the slide that shows the projects that we had previously discussed and since this meeting 00:01:12
is going very quickly. 00:01:17
We'll be done in 5 minutes. But you may recall that we met at our last meeting. We kind of finalized this list, which totals 00:01:24
$113,000. We estimated that we have $143,000 in this year's fund. And so we. 00:01:33
Each went back to our respective boards to get feedback on what the remaining $30,000 could be used for. I know the city went back 00:01:42
to the City Council and focused on the mental health and public safety categories. And then my understanding, and I'll turn it 00:01:50
over to Kristen, is the port also went back and they focused on some categories. So maybe we start there and, and go from there. 00:01:57
Sure, I'll kick it off and then I'll I'll kick it over to the president of our board. But we had a discussion of using. 00:02:05
Funds to 1 and I think it came up in this body to look at how we could support the economic development plan the city rolled out 00:02:12
as partners in in economic development. That might be a nice way to put some seed money towards getting your economic development 00:02:18
strategy off the ground. And then the other that came back through our five members was looking at maybe either that or augmenting 00:02:25
the grant writing. 00:02:31
So those were the two that came back. I don't know if you want to elaborate, Commissioner. Yes, those were the two that came back 00:02:38
was the economic development plan and, and I know I did attend. 00:02:44
What they believe is your City Council meeting where you talked about that and I realized that it's not, it's only 36,000 or 30 00:02:51
three $33,000, but maybe chipping away at a certain part of the economic development plan. And the other one was the economic 00:02:59
development and the grant or taking that additional money, the 33,000 and adding it to the grant writing. 00:03:07
So we, as you know, we had a brief discussion about it. We didn't know about the other options. So the only thing we really 00:03:17
touched on was the economic development part of that. 00:03:21
I think we would obviously have to take the grant writing back to our board for approval on that since they didn't hear that 00:03:26
portion of it. 00:03:29
Yeah. And I think I would suggest at this point I think the two boards kind of that one of those ideas and and then we can take 00:03:35
that each back to our full boards for for consideration again. But I think we've had a few categories talked about. So I think we 00:03:42
can use this meeting to maybe narrow in on, on what category we're looking at so. 00:03:49
Member Tim, do you have any comments on it? 00:03:57
So I know. 00:04:02
You mentioned Public Safety City Manager specifically we were talking about AK 9 and so that had come up before in this forum. So 00:04:04
I guess my question now is. 00:04:10
It seemed like I guess maybe two or three meetings ago that we talked about that as a group. Are we not there anymore? 00:04:17
I know we just, we did discuss it and we went back to the port and the port, the commissioners, the last our last board meeting we 00:04:24
had was OK, if we don't do the economic development plan portion of it, then why don't we roll the 33,000 into next year? And then 00:04:30
perhaps if the 33,000 and you didn't feel was enough to make an impact on the economic development plan is useful, $133,000 00:04:37
towards the economic development plan. 00:04:43
What we want to see is a bigger impact on helping the city move forward on what you all. 00:04:51
I looked at on your economic development plan so that that's where we came back at our last board meeting. 00:04:58
So your board's proposal is? 00:05:06
To put the. 00:05:10
Full of next year's into helping our economic development plan is what you would like to see out of that. That's to to reiterate 00:05:13
with the commissioner saying we could either seat it this year with a 33 and get things going or maybe we look at getting some 00:05:18
proposals from some consultant that could look at how we were rolling out our strategic plan as well. And so how we work together 00:05:24
on economic development and bring some leadership in to help guide us through that process in support of your economic development 00:05:29
strategy and our strategic plan. 00:05:35
I do have a follow up question for City manager SO. 00:05:41
So we've received. 00:05:46
The information on the. 00:05:50
And develop economic develop. 00:05:52
But there has been no conversation. I don't remember, I can't remember there being any conversation with the council as to whether 00:05:54
we're ready to pull the trigger on the economic development plan. And so for me it seems a little premature because we haven't 00:06:01
even had a discussion yet about it to try to move to that. So I think the current status of the economic development plan was we 00:06:09
brought it to council and the council adopted the. 00:06:16
Plan, but the next step was going to be bringing back an implementation plan or or and I only say or because our budget is very 00:06:23
tight this year and so it might be sort of in phases. So or you know a plan of what are the first things we can implement with 00:06:31
available funding. And so that's sort of where we're at now I think. 00:06:38
And I talked to Kristen a little bit about this in the in the recently and. 00:06:47
I think that the idea of some seed funding to implement the economic development plan could be beneficial 'cause we that's, that's 00:06:53
really the first big obstacle we're going to have is figuring out how to fund some of the things we want to do. I think for me, my 00:06:59
big thing with my biggest recommendation now would be if we're going to do that, keep it pretty general, you know, funding for the 00:07:05
economic development plan, which we can then, you know, come back and have a plan for. I wouldn't put it towards a specific 00:07:11
project because we don't know. 00:07:17
Project is priority one yet so so it's it's something potentially useful. 00:07:23
In that we we need to start implementing that plan. I think I've been pretty. 00:07:31
Vocal about I see, I see concerns with our cannabis market and I think we're going to see those start picking up in the next few 00:07:39
months. And so we're really trying to get in in front of that, although we're already working from behind to try to get some 00:07:44
economic development to start, you know, be ready when that starts kind of falling off. 00:07:49
So. 00:07:55
There's several projects in that plan that we could look at and come back and recommend. 00:07:57
Implementing with $30,000, potentially paying for some of the things like appraisals of properties and things like that. Yeah, I 00:08:03
think one of the things James and I talked about is getting some consensus here today around using the funding for the economic 00:08:08
development plan. And then James and I could do a deeper dive and look at some of those seed projects and then bring them back to 00:08:13
this body and make sure you're comfortable with that. We're meeting once a month and then we could go back to our mutual boards 00:08:18
and. 00:08:23
And get full consensus. So that would be our recommendation. But of course it's it's the will of the board here. 00:08:29
So that I'm clear, just we're only talking about. 00:08:36
Balance of the third. 00:08:39
30,000 for now and we're looking at on our side, the council side, what we've approved, we're waiting to see. 00:08:40
What you all plan to do with this list? 00:08:47
So our board has approved this list. So we have full consensus I think on both of our boards for the 113. So it's this 33 today 00:08:52
where suggest we went back to our board. 00:08:58
Thought economic development, heard it from genes in this forum. So maybe that's a good next step. We'll define it better for you 00:09:04
at a future meeting. But perhaps for the vote, the official vote, we could get consensus around using it for economic development. 00:09:11
And what that could look like is essentially having the council. 00:09:18
Since the ports already approved this list, we can have the council approved this list formally and then identify. 00:09:23
Using the remaining 30,000 for economic development or whatever category the board and the council agree to. So I like the idea of 00:09:29
that because I know like Mayor Pro Tem said, we haven't even had a chance to look at what that means yet. And but I knew there was 00:09:36
going to be some issues of actually implementing some of those things so. 00:09:42
I mean, I, I think that's a good idea, actually. I think that's a smart way of using this. Yeah, yeah. 00:09:50
So we did it. Do we need a motion? Yeah, I was going to say let's keep the quick, quick meeting going. Can I have a motion to 00:10:00
approve the use of the 33,000? 00:10:04
Is that the 33,000? It's 30, there's 143 total. OK, so the well actually there, there may be one, but there may be one thing we 00:10:09
need to clarify. I think that. 00:10:15
That recreation program scholarship, I think we had talked about that at one point, but I'm not sure that that was on the ports 00:10:21
final list, that $3000. 00:10:25
Because if that's not on the list, then it would be 30. We're OK with that. 00:10:30
I believe it was, it was the port that was the recommendation. Yeah, I think it was the 3000 and then there. So it's 30. I want to 00:10:35
say it's 30. Yeah. OK. Then can I have a motion to approve the. 00:10:40
Remainder of the Community fund to go towards. 00:10:46
Mutually agreed upon economic development. Economic development projects. There we go. 00:10:51
Motion to approve. 00:10:55
Do I have a second? 00:10:57
I don't know that I can't do emotion. 00:11:04
Well, I'm so used to not doing it at council meetings. 00:11:11
OK, all in favor. Yes, aye. All opposed. Hearing none. Motion passes with Vice President Ramirez absent. 00:11:15
Thank you. OK. So if we have nothing further from this board? 00:11:22
Nothing further. OK. 00:11:29
That I'm going to adjourn this meeting, the time being 341. 00:11:30
I think that's a good idea. It's women. I know this. 00:11:36
Just. 00:11:40