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Steve:
Welcome to a Redding City Council Update. For full. Details on each of the items covered or to watch meeting online. Visit the city of Redding dot org or find the links in the episode show notes for any questions, suggestions or comments. Please Email podcast at City of Redding dot org.
Barry Tippin, City Manager:
Hello and welcome to the podcast. My name is Barry Tippin. I'm the city manager for the City of Redding. I'm going to provide you an update and an overview of what happened at the September six, 2022 City Council meeting. The meeting was a good one. Started off with a presentation from the tourism marketing director for Visit Redding. Danny Orloff. Danny told us a lot about the activities that he's undertaken over the last year to market our city and to bring more visitors to our area. As everybody knows, tourism is an important economic driver for the city of Redding and Shasta County. Following that, we had the consent calendar. The consent calendar is really routine business. Not a lot of discussion happens on the items on consent and a number of items get approved in one fell swoop. There's a lot of work that goes into the consent calendar and there's a lot of good items that were approved. We had a submission of a grant for $300,000, which establishes a fund that lets us build a report after which we can be able to access between $5,000,030 million for improvements of our road system. We also had a project that was approved to continue to work at the Redding Airport. This would continue to work out on the terminal loop that runs through there and some improvements on Flight Avenue.
Barry Tippin, City Manager:
You see that work happening now and you'll see that work continue down Flight Avenue and great improvements for our airport, which continues to grow. We also had an item to apply for some about 33,000 for the Redding Police Department, and this would fund gang probation and patrol overtime operations. Really good things for our police department to work on and it's a good way to use overtime for our officers. Moving on, we had a really awesome item. We call it item nine A. It is a item that was approved by the city council, which is going to allow us to put signs at key entrances to our city below the city limits, signs that will recognize the win to people who, as everybody knows, are the original residents of Shasta County and the surrounding area. B signs will say wind to country. It's an opportunity to remind people that before the city, Redding, before Shasta County, there were people that lived here and took advantage of the beauty and the resources that exist here. I provide an opportunity for the City Council to hear what activities a city Redding has done related to homelessness. There's a lengthy list and I won't go into all of them. There was roughly 18 items on that list, and if you want to hear about those, I recommend that you listen to the meeting from our website, or you could read the staff report, which has a description of those.
Barry Tippin, City Manager:
We also are working to put up a website, a specific page, that will allow you to look at the activities that the city is undergoing. Some of the important items, though, we declared a shelter crisis, which allows us to utilize some of the new elements of the California Building Code to create emergency housing sites and micro shelters. None of those have been built yet, but we're pretty close on maybe three of those areas, which could bring up to 20 to 25 low barrier shelters online to help the homeless community. We also talked about our crisis intervention response team, which is a team consisting of two of our officers and a health professional that goes out into the encampments and finds ways to help those individuals. To date, about 233 individuals have been helped, either referred to mental health providers, entered into addiction or actually into transitional housing, which is which is a really great thing. We also talked about our shopping cart abatement program. I hope everybody has recognized over the last four years is a lot less of those errant shopping carts in our community. Lastly, I'll mention that the City Council has approved a hotel room lease program where we are leasing an additional 32 units for supportive housing for those in our community who remain unknown.
Barry Tippin, City Manager:
Following that, we moved into the area in planning nine for A, which is development services was an approval of the request for proposals. This is a request that will go out asking for consultants to actually propose to us on how they would approach the development of the update to the riverfront specific plan. This item is a really important item and it has been ongoing and we had some additional public meetings over the last month to prepare this RFP that should go out and hopefully we'll be able to award it to a consultant in December or perhaps January. Really great thing to be working on and hopeful for future developments of that area of our city along Park Marina Drive and in the Civic Auditorium area. Also, the council approved a formation of a tree management ordinance update committee. This committee will look at our existing ordinance for tree management and will help define changes that are necessary. They'll look at things like Should we start considering an impact fee for the removal of certain types of trees? That project will probably kick up here at about 4 to 6 weeks or so. It'll probably take 4 to 6 months actually to really get something put together that's tangible.
Barry Tippin, City Manager:
So look forward to that next spring. The electric utility gave an update on a life cycle workforce management software program that they are looking to purchase. This is to help with the overall maintenance and capital improvements for the Redding Electric Utility and to help them continue to improve and get better. Even though they're an excellent utility, they're always looking for ways to get better and to perform better. And I think we could all recognize during this current hot time that we're experiencing a major heat wave across California and energy alerts that are going out that we are lucky to have Redding electric utility provider utility at really reasonable rates, great reliability and keeping those lights on and maybe more importantly, those air conditioners running. That wraps up the meeting. And the last thing I'll mention is that we had a closed session and we reported out and the council has directed city staff to work to take back the property from Shasta Land Holdings, who is an agreement for the southern end of the Shelly, where we had sold it to Shasta Land Holdings and was the subject of a recent lawsuit you may have heard about. So we are working to reverse that sale at the direction of the city council. That wraps it up entirely. Thank you for listening. Until next time.
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