03.04.26 Downtown Community Task Force Meeting - Mar 04, 2026

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What topics are covered in the opening call‑to‑order and roll‑call?

Adam (Unknown) 0:06

Good evening, everyone. Now call to order the Downtown Community Task Force meeting of Wednesday, March 4th, 2026. Leslie, please call roll.

Leslie (Unknown) 0:16

Thank you, Chair. Member Thompson?

Adam (Unknown) 0:19

Here.

Leslie (Unknown) 0:20

Member Ondersack?

Rob Mayer 0:21

Here.

Leslie (Unknown) 0:22

Member Mayer?

Rob Mayer 0:22

Here.

Leslie (Unknown) 0:23

Member Van Huynh? Here. Member Vargas-Smith? Here. Member Reid? Here. Member Coyne?

Suds Jain 0:30

Here.

Leslie (Unknown) 0:30

Member Collins? Here. And Member Varginha did let me know that she's going to be 30 minutes late. She's on her way coming from far away. So she should be here about 6.30. Okay.

Adam (Unknown) 0:43

Do we need to excuse that or?

Leslie (Unknown) 0:45

You don't. If she doesn't show up, we can excuse her at the end of the meeting.

0:50

Okay.

Adam (Unknown) 0:51

yeah. I would like to request that we get the staff reports pulled up to the beginning of the meeting just because I think we should have that information on what the. updated status of the downtown infrastructure fee and rps so when we review the financial we can have that understanding.

Leslie (Unknown) 1:09

Sure,

Adam (Unknown) 1:10

please

Leslie (Unknown) 1:11

um can I read the procedures first. So declaration of procedures. Meetings are conducted by the chair in accordance with the following procedures. The chair of the DCTF directs all activity during the meeting. Any item on this agenda may be continued to a subsequent meeting. Special procedures time limits may be applied to any items as prescribed by the chair. Copies of the current agenda and staff reports for each of the items on the agenda are available online on the Downtown Precise Plan website, as well as the city clerk's website. Then you want me to move to staff report?

Adam (Unknown) 1:48

No. Yeah, we'll now move to the consent calendar. We can do the consent

Leslie (Unknown) 1:52

calendar first.

Adam (Unknown) 1:52

Yeah, please. Thank you.

Leslie (Unknown) 1:57

The procedure for consent calendar items is as follows. The consent calendar may be enacted or approved by one motion, unless requested to be removed by anyone for discussion or explanation. We have one item on the consent calendar for this evening, and that is the Downtown Community Task Force meeting minutes of the October 16th, 2025 meeting.

Adam (Unknown) 2:18

Is there a motion to move to approve the consent item, consent calendar?

Rob Mayer 2:23

Second.

Adam (Unknown) 2:24

All in favor? Aye. All opposed? And passes.

Leslie (Unknown) 2:42

So now we'll move on to staff report. I have two update items for the task force this evening. The first one under staff report is an update on the status of the downtown infrastructure fee. Our public works department is the lead on this project and they've been working on it for quite a while. And the update they provided me was that they have hired the fee consultant to prepare the analysis of the public infrastructure costs necessary to build out the downtown precise plan. Included in this scope of analysis is an option to create a proposed developer infrastructure impact fee to fund the public infrastructure costs. So such as the new streets and any utility infrastructure. Two of these goals are to provide an indication of the infrastructure cost responsibilities for project sites, as well as equitability to share the infrastructure costs among the project sites.

Leslie (Unknown) 3:39

The city's consultant has completed a draft of the fee analysis. Staff is currently reviewing that draft. It identifies approximately $42 million in required public infrastructure improvements. So again, including new streets, utilities, pavement, traffic signal modifications. And let's see, the city is also looking at additional options to fund downtown precise plan public infrastructure in addition to the option of this developer fee. And so that's the update they've provided for me this evening. Do you have any questions or comments on that?

Adam (Unknown) 4:15

Do we know when we'd have the report back from the consultant?

Leslie (Unknown) 4:18

They did not provide me a timeline with this update.

Dan Ondersack 4:22

Any details on where else you're looking for those?

Leslie (Unknown) 4:27

And where else you're looking for?

Dan Ondersack 4:29

Other

Leslie (Unknown) 4:32

than assigning them to the properties? No, they just said a developer fee. That's all they told me.