City Council on 2024-04-09 5:00 PM - REGULAR MEETING

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What agenda items and roll call are covered at the beginning of the meeting?

Pat Showalter 6:00

Good evening everyone. I'd like to call this um study session of the Mountain View City Council of April 9th, 2024 to order. May we have a roll call?

Councilmember Abe Koga 6:12

Councilmember Abe Koga? Here. Councilmember Hicks? Here. Councilmember Ramirez? Here. Councilmember Ramos? Here. Vice Mayor Matichek. Here. Council Mayor Shalter? Here. You have a quorum with Councilmember Kamei absent.

Pat Showalter 6:24

Great, thank you. Okay, well, next is item three, which is a study session 3.1, is the fiscal year 2024 25 Capital Improvement Program. The purpose of this study session memo is to provide the City Council an overview of the Capital Improvement Program and obtain City Council input to guide staff in the preparation of the recommended fiscal year. Twenty twenty four, twenty five capital improvement program. Twenty five. And tonight joining us at the DIS we have Civ um principal civil engineer Robert Gonzalez. Welcome Robert and Acting Public Works Director Ed Arango. And they will present the item. Thank you.

Rob Brick Gonzalez 7:06

Good evening. Uh my name is Rob Brick Gonzalez, Principal Civil Engineer, and join me joining me tonight is Zedder Lorengo, Acting Public Works Director. And we've got the screen up there. Great. The goal tonight is to provide an overview and to obtain councils input to guide staff in the preparation of the twenty twenty four twenty five capital improvement program, typically referred to as the CIP. The C IP is a critical planning tool to maintain and improve the city's capital infrastructure. Fiscal year twenty twenty four twenty five is the second of the biennial capital improvement planning cycle. During the during the second year of the cycle, review is focused on the following types of projects projects that are scheduled to roll forward for funding in the fiscal year, modifications to some roll forward projects, amendments to existing projects, and a limited number of new new projects.

Rob Brick Gonzalez 7:58

CIP projects are divided into two categories. Nondiscretionary projects are primarily annual and periodic infrastructure maintenance projects, and to preserve the city's significant investment in its infrastructure and facilities, discretionary projects are those projects that do not fit in the nondiscretionary category. There are currently three hundred and thirty six active projects in the CIP. Notably forty two of the active CIPs involve pedestrian and bicycle improvements and fourteen involve park projects. As a brief overview, the City CIP is funded from various sources, which are broken into five funding categories summarized here, each with specific parameters specifying how they may be used.

Rob Brick Gonzalez 8:42

The most flexible funds are generally that generally can be used for any type of capital project are the unrestricted fund. funds, making them extremely valuable. As a summary The unrestricted uh funds, uh the available funds balance is twenty five percent less than the previous year. For enterprise funds, the water fund b fund balance is reduced due to inflation and cost increase coupled with the reduced water consumption. Transportation funding has declined from last year and staff expects funding to remain at the current levels. Gas tax gas tax specifically has been impacted by the new hybrid work trends. The fund balance for the shoreline regional park community is higher than uh this year due to staff not programming high levels of funding of spending from pre pr from the previous year.

Rob Brick Gonzalez 9:47

The intent was to w set aside a majority of the twenty three, twenty four balanced for several future CIP projects in the North Bay Shore area. Development activity is substantially reduced due to the economic downturn. One factor that affects CIP funding is a reduction in the community and public benefits. Which have historically provided significant funding for transportation improvements.

How does the staff presentation on the 2024‑25 Capital Improvement Program and its funding questions unfold?

Rob Brick Gonzalez 10:19

Given the current funding situation, the staff recommends an approach of maximizing the availability of the unrestricted CIP reserves and CC tax funds for projects with no dedicated funding sources, funding the non-discretionary payment projects off the top.