City Council Agenda and Packet 2018 11 05

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City Council Meeting Minutes October 12, 2108 Page 8 of 10 with the broker community and retailers to see what they are looking for but the spaces that are vacant are challenging to fill. Councilmember Keany agreed we would like to see more results, but funding may not be the key to that. Members generally agreed. The Council can discuss other options for retail recruitment next year. Councilmember Stolzmann asked about the large increases in Cultural Arts, do we want to have such large increases. Deputy City Manager Davis stated $25K is for public art, $5000 for grants and $10,000 for programming for the Arts Center. Councilmember Stolzmann was concerned the increases were for larger events; she prefers the lower key, smaller events than the larger ones for which she gets complaints. Mayor Pro Tem Lipton confirmed the increases are for smaller events. 2019-2024 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PLAN Councilmember Loo asked about the funding for Museum design in 2020. She does not support keeping it in until we have a citizen survey where that museum ranks on a larger list of what citizens want. Leaving it in creates an expectation we will fund it. City Manager Balser stated polling on this will be done in 2019. Councilmember Keany would leave it in for 2020; it can be changed based on the polling results. Mayor Muckle agreed. Councilmember Leh feels leaving it in does not cost us anything at this point and the Museum has inherent benefit to the community. Mayor Pro Tem Lipton stated one reason for leaving it in might be if there is a citizen's initiative. It might be in our interest to do some design so we know how much it will cost and what numbers to use. Councilmember Maloney stated if we do that it will need to include an understanding of the operating costs as well. Members agreed to leave it in for now knowing it might be changed. Members reviewed the CIP projects. Councilmember Stolzmann stated the 2020-2024 DRCOG TIP subregional funding process is still not determined. One theme has been that people need to come to the table with a 50% match for projects. If we want to be competitive for funding we need to have at least 50% of the project funds budgeted. She stated citizens are clear they want an underpass at South Boulder Road. That project is different from the other projects in the Transportation Master Plan (TMP). She would like to put at least $3.5M in our budget and ask for $3.5 from subregional funding. She would like to split the City's $3.5 with the LRC.