Public Works and Utilities Committee Mon, Apr 20, 2026 · Public Works and Utilities Committee https://santafeminutes.space/meeting/965 == Executive Summary == The Public Works and Utilities meeting covered a range of topics including employee recognition, water management strategies, and extensive discussions on the city's roadway and sidewalk improvement programs. The Water Department presented its 2025 Annual Plan and confirmed no water emergency is currently needed. The Complete Streets Division detailed its data-driven approach to road rehabilitation, emphasizing the need for recurring funding for maintenance. Significant attention was given to the city's plan to implement a citywide Pavement Condition Index (PCI) assessment to better manage road and sidewalk infrastructure. Councilors expressed positive feedback on recent road improvements, particularly on Airport Road and Jaguar Drive, but also raised concerns about the financial burden on residents for sidewalk repairs. Staff committed to improving public communication regarding maintenance schedules and exploring options to assist residents with sidewalk costs. The meeting concluded with several action items aimed at enhancing data capabilities, securing funding, and improving transparency. == Key Decisions == - Approval of Agenda (unanimous) - Approval of Consent Agenda (unanimous) == Motions & Votes == - Approval of Agenda — Passed unanimously (Chairperson Chavez, Councilor Barrett, Councilor Bamonte, Councilor Faulkner, Councilor Fagali voted Yes) - Approval of Consent Agenda — Passed unanimously (Chairperson Chavez, Councilor Barrett, Councilor Bamonte, Councilor Faulkner, Councilor Fagali voted Yes) == Public Comment == No public comments were made during the designated public comment periods. However, councilors relayed public feedback, including positive comments on Airport Road and Jaguar Drive improvements, and concerns from community members regarding the financial burden of sidewalk repairs. == Topics == - Employee Recognition - Road Rehabilitation Program - Water Management & Supply - Sidewalk Maintenance & Policy - Budget Hearings & Finance - Agua Fria South Meadows Intersection - Siler Yard Improvements - City-Owned Land Sale - Agenda Approval - Consent Agenda Approval - Public Comment Procedures - Earth Day Event - Meeting Logistics == Full Transcript == We are live. Thank you. I call to order the Public Works and Utilities meeting. It is 5:01 and it is Monday, April 20th. Could I get a roll call, please? Absolutely. Chairperson Chavez. Here. Councilor Barrett. Here. Councilor Bamonte. Here. Councilor Fagali. Here. And Councilor Faulkner. All right, we have a quorum. Next is approval of the agenda. Are there any changes from staff? No changes from staff. Moved over. I have a motion. I have a motion. I have a second. Could I get a roll call vote, please? Yes. Chairperson Chavez. Yes. Councilor Barrett. Yes. Councilor Bamonte. Yes. Councilor Faulkner. Yes. And Councilor Fagali. Yes. Motion passes. Next is approval of the consent agenda. Last I heard there was nothing pulled. Has anything changed? If not, could I get a motion, please? Motion to approve. Second. I have a motion. I have a second. Could I get a roll call vote? Yes. Chairperson Chavez. Yes. Councilor Barrett. Yes. Councilor Bamonte. Yes. Councilor Faulkner. Yes. Councilor Fagali. Yes. Motion passes. Next is public comment. Anyone that is present in chambers can come up to speak to members today. If you want to just form a line if there's anyone that wants to speak, if you can do that now. Everyone will have two minutes to speak and I can't see who's in chambers, so if I could get some guidance from you, Director, that would be helpful. Chairperson, we have nobody at the podium. Great. All right, last chance. Nobody. All right, we will move on then. Oh, no, we won't. We only do in-person for committee. But thank you, Councilor. Next would be presentations. Our first presentation is going to be from Public Utilities and it is Employee of the Month for March 2026. And I have Bernardino Alvarado, Water Division, and Jonathan Montoya in Water Division. Director will be presenting. Thank you. Thank you, Chair Chavez, members of the committee. Yeah, I wanted to take this opportunity to, you know, do a little employee appreciation. Bernardino Alvarado, he works for the Source of Supply section in the Water Division. He came to us in 2007, so he's a 19-year veteran of the Water Division. One of the hardest working individuals that I've been around, period. You know, oftentimes when I get to work early in the morning, and I tend to get there pretty early, Bernie is already there. There's a pot of coffee on in the shop. And, you know, it's kind of, it's funny. We all think when we get to work, if we don't see his truck there, it's like, man, something, something's up because Bernie, you know, we're like, we know, you know, it's like an odd thing for us when you're not there because, you know, you do a lot. So, I just want to say thank you and, you know, thank you for all your hard work. I, I, you do a really, really good job and I appreciate it. And Bernie, if you want to approach the dais so everyone could shake your hand and thank you for the work you do, we'd appreciate it. We're always appreciative of those members that make our city run and you're one of them. So, thank you. And I'm sorry I can't be there. Yeah, I, I just wanted to mention, you know, Bernie, he, you know, he's, he's a utility operator up at the, at the water treatment plant. Really appreciate your hard work and in light of this appreciation, we're, we've filled out some documents that are going to allow for an extra day off on administrative leave. So, just wanted to make sure you knew that. Awesome work. Is there any discussion or comments from committee members? Thank you. Yeah, thank you. No comments. Thank you. Thank you for bringing that. It's always great to celebrate our staff. And then we have another celebration this time from Public Works. We have Employee of the Month, March 2026, Karen Gross, PMP Project Manager Level 3, Facilities Management Division. And Sam, I'll be turning it over to you. Thank you, Chair. So I am really happy to be able to show some love to Karen Gross. She's been with the Facilities Division since 2018. She was with the Public Utilities Division for a number of years before that, but really just an exceptional team member. She's done a bunch of really notable projects for the city. Our $15 million solar project. She just is wrapping up a $550,000 development of the Balanced Resource Information Acquisition Network or BRAIN platform that the Facilities Division will be using. Obviously, a ton of things beyond that. One of the things she's probably best known for inside of the Facilities Division and beyond is if you have a birthday or a special moment in your life, she knows what your favorite baked good is and she will actually make it for you and bring it to you to celebrate everybody on the team. She's really just a real lovely human, great professional. We're super fortunate to have the opportunity to work with her and so Karen, thanks so much. Our interim division director's here too and might want to say, there we go. Can you turn on your mic? Oh, on top of a skilled project manager, a skilled jeweler and baker, of course. Thank you. Thank you, Karen, for everything you do. And if you want to come up, I think the committee members would want to thank you in person. I wish I was there to do so. Thank you for everything you've done for the city. And thank you to our leadership for bringing the team members that matter to us so that we could celebrate them and thank them in person. I appreciate it so much. Our next presentation is going to be City of Santa Fe Water 2025 Annual Plan, 2025, sorry, newsletter and 2026 Water Management Memo. Jesse Roach, Interim Public Utilities Department Director, is who I have here to present. But I will turn it over for this presentation. Thank you, Madam Chair. Members of the committee, I have put in front of you our annual report for the Water Division. And this is something that we do every year and it does ultimately go back to requirements and code that we are looking at the supply and the demand and making our plans accordingly. And so I, I hope that you get a chance to leaf through that. I also wanted to let you know, as you will see, that we actually have now an annual report and a newsletter. And the idea here actually is that we have Levi Newell, who's actually in the audience, is a new Water Resources Coordinator for us. And one of the sort of rights of passage you get at Water is when you show up, you get to write the, when, when we think you're ready, you get to, you are put in charge of the annual report. And he looked at it and he looked back for several years and he said, this thing's just getting longer and longer and a lot of the information doesn't change a whole bunch. And meanwhile, we had seen a few sort of smaller, shorter annual reports that really sort of capture our attention. So we are trying a new format here where we have an eight-page year-in-review newsletter, which is really targeted at showing the highlights. It'll really change a lot from year to year. And then we have the annual report, which, which meets all of our code requirements and is super interesting. Don't get me wrong. We still want you to read through that, but it won't change as much year to year. It's, it's full of information, but a lot of that is largely the same, although the numbers will change a little bit just because we have another year of data to add. So that's the idea here. We do write this really for councilors and probably for Public Works and Utilities Committee members. You are our audience. So, if you take a look at it and there's something missing that you're interested in, please let us know and we hope that this is a valuable resource. Certainly something that we have to do, but it was something that we also would like to do and we want to make sure it's as, as helpful a tool for you all as possible. The other piece I want to mention is that there's also a code requirement that we evaluate the supply and demand and we send a memo to the city manager by the middle of April each year, essentially recommending what sort of a water management plan we need to be in that year and specifically whether we need to declare any sort of water emergency. So I've also included that memo in your packet, but the executive summary of that is that we evaluated supply and demand according to administrative procedures, which are a little bit outdated. And according to that metric, we are, we, we have almost 150% supply compared to demand. We also for the last several years have been developing a database indicator of our water supply health, which we call the Water Resources Indicator. We've presented it to this group previously, but it is based on, it's a weighted score of which 40% goes to the groundwater health, 30% goes to the surface water availability and health, and then 30% is determined by the drought monitor score for Santa Fe County. Currently, well, to, to begin this year and into April, we are at about seven on that scale. And so from both of those approaches, we are not recommending any sort of a water emergency be declared. And so just want to make sure that the, the reasons for that are understood because there are a lot of headlines associated with the dry winter and the warm spring that we've had. That brings me to sort of the third thing I wanted to touch on, which is this is the time of year that we begin quite a bit of outreach. I'm going to limit my comments here today because you're going to see me again next week at Governing Body. And so that will be an opportunity for everybody to get the same information as well. And then after that, on April 30th, we, we do two webinars, which we call What's Up With Water. And so there'll be one at 9:00 AM and one at 6:00 PM in the hopes that anybody can join one of those. They're the same material covered twice where we talk about, and that's a much longer format. So that's 30 to 45 minutes of, of talk of sort of information and then 30 to 45 more minutes of question of Q&A session. So with that, I will wrap up and stand for any questions. Thank you, Director. Are there any questions from committee? No questions. All right, Director, we look forward to reviewing those documents and that work and we will keep in touch for more info. Thank you. Thank you. Next, we have City of Santa Fe Complete Streets Division Update, and I am going to turn it over to Director Burnett. Thank you, Chairperson. With us tonight is our Interim Streets Division Director, Marcos Escobel. He's prepared a presentation for you all, and so we'll let him run through that and then take questions at the end. And, thank you all very much. Good evening, council members and chair. That's a little better. Thank you for having me. I was asked to present on our Complete Streets Division and how we, excuse me, get this back to the beginning. How we work our road rehabilitation program. For some of you, I know for Councilwoman Begali, she saw some of this last week at BPAC, but thank you for having me and I'll just go ahead and get started on the presentation. This presentation explains our approach to road rehabilitation, including how we assess roadway conditions, how we prioritize projects, and how available funding shapes our annual program. The goal is to give a clear understanding of our current road rehab process. Our goal is to maintain a multimodal roadway network that is safe and efficient for all users. We rely on data from our day-to-day operations and public input via our CRM system to evaluate pavement performance and determine the best treatments. Annual funding availability is a key factor in determining how many miles of roadway we can improve. So, balancing preventative maintenance and reconstruction is critical. We are anticipating integrating a data-driven pavement management system into our program. It's a PCI analysis and software. These ProAG improvements ensure that all pedestrians and bicycle facilities meet current federal accessibility standards. ProAG provides clear design requirements for accessible routes, curb ramps, and crossings. Improvements help reduce barriers for people with disabilities, seniors, and all users. Bicycle and pedestrian enhancements support multimodal goals and complete streets policies and goals. The City of Santa Fe Streets Design Guide, NATO, ASHTTO, and the national, etcetera. Compliance also reduces long-term liability on alliance projects with ADA expectations. These upgrades improve safety, comfort, and usability across the corridor. Airport Road is a good example of the improvements we're currently making. The typical section you're looking at now was the current, well, no longer current, but was the former condition of Airport Road. They had 11 to 12-foot wide travel lanes and 4-foot bike lanes. Through striping, we've expanded the bike lane to 5-foot wide with the 2-foot buffer and narrowed the driving lanes to approximately 10 feet, which can provide traffic calming effects by visually constraining the driving space. This is one of multiple aspects of striping we're applying to Airport Road to help benefit bicyclists and pedestrians in the area. Our road condition assessment process: Condition assessment is the foundation of our rehabilitation program. By using resources based on observable criteria, we ensure consistent and objective evaluations. We combine field inspections, staff reports, work orders, and resident complaints to create the inventory of roadway health across the network. Our evaluations include asphalt distress types, ride quality, and drainage, structural issues, traffic volume, and road classifications. We are working to modernize our condition assessment through the city's OpenGov assessment management system and the future addition of a PCI pavement condition index, the road assessment service, which can grade road conditions and provide asset management data for sound financial optimization modeling of roadway maintenance needs. Our prioritization methodology: This model helps ensure consistency and fairness. After generating a preliminary list, our staff validates the list in the field. This ensures no important issues are overlooked and makes our program more accurate and predictable. The condition categories and treatment types we utilize: Matching the treatment to the roadway condition is essential. Preventative maintenance preserves good roads at a low cost. Roads in fair condition need surface-level improvements, while severely deteriorated roads require major investments. This approach greatly reduces life cycle costs. For example, on Jaguar, we use a combination of mill and fill with structural repair and full depth for full-depth cracking, where Picacho, for example, will use a full-depth reconstruction. So we apply different methods based on the condition of the roadways. Our prioritization criteria: While we would ideally use a PCI score, we wouldn't use it alone. Safety factors, traffic patterns, and equity considerations all influence prioritization. We also coordinate closely with utilities to avoid cutting into new pavement later, which protects public investments. Our funding sources can come from a variety of sources, each with its own restrictions and timelines. Grants often require matching funds, like the Transportation Project Fund, which requires a 5% match. The LGRF, the Local Government Road Fund, requires a 25% match. While CIP dollars support planned long-term investments, utility coordination is especially valuable for high-cost reconstruction work. Currently, our $25 million GO bond is our primary source of funding for our road rehab over the next few years. However, it does not include all of our citywide road rehab projects. Our 2025 Road Improvement GO Bond: Our planned annual expenditures for fiscal year 26 are $9 million. Fiscal year 27, $8 million, and fiscal year 28, excuse me, $8 million. Our year-to-date expenditures on Airport Road from end to end have been approximately $5.5 million. And Jaguar Drive from Alanido Aanida Elido to Pel Soul West has been approximately $1.5 million. Funding is a major driver of how many projects we can deliver each year. Sometimes it's more cost-effective to treat large numbers of good roads preventatively. Other times, reconstruction becomes unavoidable. Our multi-year plan helps smooth these fluctuations and our rehabilitation program workflow. This workflow ensures accuracy, transparency, and collaboration. Each step builds on the previous one to create a final project list that is realistic, justifiable, and cost-effective. Using a data-driven approach ensures fairness and allows us to justify our decisions to the public and elected officials. It also ensures we are spending taxpayer funds in the most responsible way possible. In our next steps going forward, we want to expand our data capabilities. We want to secure more funding and better communicate our program to residents. These improvements will help us continue raising the quality of our roadway network. As you can see here, I have our GO bond plan timeline for fiscal year 26. These segments of roads are what we have planned to get done this year, and it'll flow into fiscal year 27 as well. But the plan is to have these POs issued and the money encumbered for these roadways this year. Right now, we're done with phase one of Airport Road construction. They're moving into striping. I believe we did some long-line striping last week and then this week and next week they'll continue striping. We've begun construction on Jaguar. We've already done all the ADA ramps, the curb and gutter work that needed to be done on that portion of Jaguar. We're starting milling and filling this week. So I stand for questions and thank you all for having me. Thank you for being here. I will open it up to committee members. Are there any questions? Pat: I have a question. This is Pat. Marcos, thank you. Director Escuel, it's very similar to what we saw at BPAC. I was wondering if there was any update on the Airport Road striping. I was on it yesterday, and it looked like, as you had said, the dotted lines were there and the part that had been restriped, or at least the approximation of them. But are you still working on the bike lane sizing? I know you had sort of just gotten that plan when we had the BPAC meeting. Yes, thank you, Madam Chair. Councilor Fagali, thank you for the question. Yes, we met last week, as a matter of fact, the day after BPAC. We met with WSP, who's doing our striping plan for Airport Road, and myself, Eric Anie from Mo, Mr. Schiffmiller, is that how you say his name, from BPAC, and our project manager all met with WSP to start going over the extensive bike adjustments we're doing to the striping. What we were able to do is we get the long-line stuff done right, the solid yellows, the dashed white lines, the traffic lane stuff done first while we work through all the details of the other bike improvements we're making. Really, what we're trying to work through is what we're going to do now versus what we're going to do, for example, on Country Club. It doesn't do us any good to stripe Country Club when we're going to come in and mill it hopefully within the next few months also. So we're trying to work out those details on what part of the striping plan to go ahead and complete now and then what to wait until we finish construction in the area. Thank you. Can I get the presentation taken down just so I can see you all? Thank you. Are there any other questions? I just have a comment, Chair. Yes, Councilor Faulkner. I would just say people in my district are so incredibly excited about Airport Road and Jaguar. So thank you so much for the work that you guys have been doing. We got a lot of hate emails, and now we're getting a lot of love emails. So it's like heaven right now in our district. So thank you so much. Thank you, Councilor Faulkner. Any other questions? And Director Escuel, I've been in contact with some community members, so I'm just going to run through some questions I've had in those discussions. There are some comments. Some of the questions I know I have answers to, like a lot of our public-facing info in regards to streets and its lack of availability, but us working on it. But I just want you to dig into your expertise and hear a response from you and your team. So the first question is, what progress has Complete Streets made on their stated goals and KPIs? What is at risk of missing its stated timeline, and what has already been missed? That has a second part. BPAC and Bike Santa Fe believe many of these KPIs have missed their stated timelines. What are updated timelines for KPIs? Thank you, Chair. So our department goals, we are having a little bit of difficulty on some of them just because they are budget-oriented, but for the most part, on the goals, we are on track. For a couple of examples, or I can just go through them with you. That would be great. Okay. So our department goals concerning civic infrastructure. Our objective one was to implement an annual roadway preservation treatment program, which is fog sealing, crack sealing, etcetera. We wanted to complete 15% lane miles to reduce the life cycle costs and improve roadway conditions. The key performance indicators we had for that was a percentage of lane miles paved in the past seven years that are treated. Our fiscal year 26 target was to be at around 15%. The update on that is this is one of the ones that is funding critical. Typically, we rely on one-time funding to do any kind of maintenance and in the past, rehab projects. So this one is a critical matter. The budget has been proposed for upwards of $3 million to help us start to actually prepare an actual road maintenance program. It sounds kind of funny, but the road maintenance division doesn't have a recurring budget line item for road maintenance. So that's what we're trying to establish. Typically, we're working, like we say, onetime Mondays that are available. Objective 1B was our goal was to reduce constituent requests and increase transparency by sharing preventative maintenance schedules online. Our teams have worked pretty well toward getting that near completion. The sections have created and they're developing their maintenance schedules, including mapping ideas and relevant data for forward-facing public access. So what this is, is for example, in the past, we've had our snow removal priority map on the city website. What we're trying to do is something similar for our road grading, for our street sweeping, and for our drainage maintenance. Especially drainage maintenance is really critical and complicated to actually figure out how to get that schedule where it's forward-facing where the public can understand it. But the crews have done a pretty remarkable job of getting us close. The graders pretty much have their schedules completed. The Street Sweeping Division has theirs completed, and we're working with Drainage. Once we're done with those, we'll work with IT to get them on the website so the public can have access to those. Awesome. And Marcos, can you just go back because I know you said your goal for the previous item was 15%. Where exactly did you say that is now? That is zero right now this fiscal year. Yes. Great. Thank you. Sorry to interrupt. One of our objectives was to complete 30% of the bond issue paving projects by December 2026, and that could extend into fiscal year 2027. The KPI for that was the scheduled work completed that was measured by the bond proceeds that were expended in fiscal year 2026. Right now, we're at approximately $7 million of the $9 million anticipated bond funding encumbrance. That's what we've utilized to date, almost $7 million. Our next objective was to investigate a citywide pavement condition index assessment to create a baseline for street conditions by the end of fiscal year 2026. So this was the PCI index. What the PCI index does is it allows a service where they can come in and scan the roadways. Not only when they scan the roadways can they actually get us an inventory of our assets. As you're aware, the city has the OpenGov Cartograph asset management system that we've been working in. It's key that we have a strong foundation and start to correct data for that asset management system to work well for us. Right now, we literally have some guys, for example, our Traffic Control Division, Traffic Operations Division, they're literally manually entering in assets for, let's say, a street sign. They have to enter the post as an asset, they have to enter the sign, the four-way, each street name, for example. So it's a complicated and a long process. What the pavement condition index does is not only does it help us to inventory all of our assets within the right-of-way and within the roadway, but more importantly, what it'll do is it'll help us to optimize financially and productively the utilization of our road rehab program. It actually grades the roadways and it'll help us to apply the right treatment at the right time, digitally and technology-driven, rather than us using our own eyes. Another great advantage to that is it actually allows us to be able to map for you and for the public the actual conditions of the roads. We'll be able to actually visually see what's graded, how, and then we can, it just helps us to more adequately and appropriately plan our work and utilize our funds in a much more efficient manner. And when are we expecting that index to, or us to start processing that to identify the priority or the conditions of the road? Madam Chair, thank you for the question. That is another one that's funding critical. The estimates have been received. The budget has been proposed, approximately $300,000 to $350,000 to implement the program. And we would be working with an outside company, right? So it would be a contract. Yes, ma'am. The vendor we'll be using, RA, is also well-known throughout the state. I think the City of Las Cruces has used them. Albuquerque, I think, as a matter of fact, they're getting into contract with Santa Fe County right now as we speak. But they are a well-known, and they do a really good job with their system, and then they provide really good support and follow-up. And will that be in a budget proposal for this year or for this coming fiscal year? Yes, ma'am. It has been proposed already. Great. Okay. Let's see here. Another objective we had was the completion of the Agua Fria South Meadows intersection, projected by the end of fiscal year 2026. That is on schedule to be operational by the end of April. I think we're still on schedule, right, Sam? Great. So that's one we're glad to have completed. Also, we have our compliance goals. We had a compliance goal to complete 100% of design for implementation of the Siler Yard improvements for stormwater permit compliance and to reduce tort claim risk. This was going to be, or this was a joint goal with Parks by the end of fiscal year 2026. The update was the design coordination was in process in cooperation with ESD to incorporate plans with their new proposed building. ESD decided that it would be best for them to keep the process separate. The good news is we did find funding that will allow us to enter in a requisition this week so we can start the design of the project. The project had a previous design from, I believe, 2021 or 2023 that was at 60% completion, and then it kind of just faded out, but we are bringing it back in and we'll be working with Wilson to help us through the design phase for that project. Marcos, could we, as counselors, just get a summary of what you just went over and any others you didn't get to by email? Just a table just seeing where we are with all of those goals that you just summarized. Is that possible? Yes, sir. Thank you so much. Another question had to do with just the public view in regards to preventative maintenance and schedules online. You kind of already went over that. It sounds like your team is in the process of that. I think the index being fully completed would be helpful in that being a thing, right? So we need that to be in place, but it sounds like we're moving in the right direction. Another question: where can the public view the identified high-priority sidewalks? There is not a public view. That's something we're working on. I know the answer, but I am curious. We do talk a lot about roads. We are talking about our age-friendly initiative, which is going to include sidewalk priority because it's about accessibility for all. In the work that you have coming forward, can you include information to us on sidewalks? And when we're talking about the index in regards to roads, are we going to look at sidewalks as well? So we're also keeping in mind pedestrian safety. Thank you, Madam Chair. The answer is yes and yes. The current sidewalk supervisor, our concrete construction supervisor, actually has a spreadsheet that he does maintain, and that's going to be another one of the things we're going to try and put forward-facing on the internet page once we're ready to go. That spreadsheet is actually pretty simple. But what happens is when we get a complaint or when we see a sidewalk that needs to be addressed, the inspector, I'm sorry, the concrete supervisor, will go inspect and make a determination first of all if it belongs to the city or if it belongs to the public or the private, I'm sorry, the public or the private resident or commercial property owner. City code does actually require that the private resident or the property owner who's contiguous to the sidewalk, they are responsible for the maintenance of their sidewalk. What we do have in place is once he makes that decision, he'll rank the safety issue pertinent to the complaint. So if it's a trip hazard or maybe someone's already tripped and fallen, depending on the height of the trip hazard or the condition of the sidewalk, once that's ranked, he'll rank it in his spreadsheet. Once it's determined that it's a public issue, if it belongs to us, he'll get it scheduled on his maintenance schedule for repair. If it's private, we actually have our sidewalk program that was established last year that we utilize WSP and their inspectors to go inspect the sidewalk. Once that inspection is complete, if we find that an NOV, a notice of violation, is necessary, then we begin the NOV process, which informs the resident or the responsible party of the condition and the need to improve it. They have a choice from that point. They have 15 days to either, I'm trying to think of the name of the, to oppose, I guess we can't think of the proper term right now, but to oppose the NOV. Appeal. Thank you. And then they have 30 days to at least explain to us that they're in the process of improving it, and we'll work with them to do that. If they can't, then the city has a means of going in, and we utilize city contractors to do the work, and then a lien can be placed on the property. Madam Chair, can I just make a comment? Yes. So it used to be that the City of Santa Fe would cover the easements that were in public use. I believe Joseph Mestas, who was a counselor at the time, passed an ordinance that the public would become responsible for the easements on their property. But one thing I found in my district, and this is just, let's put a pin on this. We can talk about this later, but I do want to raise a red flag on this. A lot of the people in my district cannot repair the sidewalks, cannot take care of the easement properties because it can be quite costly. And so maybe we can talk offline about the fairness in what's being, this process where, like, the person who owns the property but there's a forced easement, like how we can mitigate some of the costs for the community members who have to pay those costs. It can be unbearable in my district. So I just want to put a pin on that, and we'll take it up offline. And I appreciate that, Counselor Faulkner, because I was just going to ask if we do have a program for funds for those who may qualify one way or another where they know they don't have to take responsibility of that cost, because I was concerned about the same thing. I would think a lot of our community members, especially on the south side of town, would not, that that would put some burden on community members. But yeah, we could talk further about that. Something we could brainstorm. And I'm taking a lot of time, and I don't want to. So I did email both you and Sam some questions which you just answered. For those that we didn't get to, if you guys can respond to those so I could get them to the community members. Most, I think, that were most pressing were answered. Us getting some information about progress towards the goals that had been set would be huge, just so that we're in the know and can communicate with community members like in real time. Even if you can do like a monthly report until we have some information live, would be really helpful to us. Thank you, Madam Chair. Yes, ma'am. We sure can. Okay, great. Thank you. And thank you for your time, Marcos, and your work on this. I appreciate it. Thank you, Director Burnett. Are there any other questions before we move on? Okay. All right. So nothing was pulled off of consent. What we do have in front of us right now is public comment on bills. So this is going to be the first public comment. This is only public comment, no action. It's consideration of Bill Number 2026-10, adoption of Ordinance Number 2026- to be determined, a bill approving the sale of seven city-owned parcels located in Los Reales in the northwest quadrant within the City and County of Santa Fe, New Mexico, to Santa Fe Housing Trust for a total of $4,490,000. Terry Lisa's staff on here, but we do not take a presentation at this time. What we do welcome, though, is any members that are in chambers that would like to come and comment on the item. We would be happy to hear from you right now, and the eyes in chambers, if you can just let me know if we do have anyone here for comment. Chair, nobody is lined up for comment. All right. So next we have matters from staff. Turn it over to you, Director. Madam Chair, no matters from staff tonight. Matters from the committee. I just have one quick thing. Anyone who's interested, I know that we're coming up against the budget hearings, not against, but the budget hearings are coming up. During my next Finance Committee hearing, we will have a discussion on how the Finance Committee is going to handle the budget as it comes through the Finance Committee. So I invite any City Councilors, even if you're not on the committee, if you want to be a part of that discussion, please come. I will give everyone ample opportunity to speak and question and voice concerns, and that's it. Thank you, Councilor Faulter. Any other matters from the committee? Yes, there is an Earth Day event at the Railyard Park this Saturday, and Councilor Fagali and I, along with Bike Santa Fe, are going to lead a family-friendly bike ride at 10:00 a.m. leaving from the Railyard Park. Then, of course, there's an amazing Earth Day event that you can come hang out after. So hope to see everybody there. That sounds fun. Thank you for sharing. Anybody else? Right. Matters from Chair. Our next meeting is Monday, May 4th.