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27 WEST ALLEN STREET WINOOSKI, VERMONT 05404 (802) 655-6410 CITY OF WINOOSKI (802) 655-6414 (fax) JESSIE BAKER CITY MANAGER MAYOR SETH LEONARD COUNCILOR ERIC COVEY sleonard@winooskivt.org DEPUTY MAYOR BRIAN CORRIGAN CITY COUNCIL COUNCILOR NICOLE MACE COUNCILOR BRIAN SWEENEY bcorrigan@winooskivt.org Agenda Monday, December 4, 2017 6:00 P.M. CLAIRE BURKE COUNCIL CHAMBER I. Call to Order II. Pledge of Allegiance III. Agenda Review IV. Public Comment V. Consent Agenda a. Approval: City Council Minutes of November 15, 2017 b. Approval: Warrants for Payroll 10/22-11/4/17, 11/5-11/18/17, Accounts Payable as of 11/16 & 11/30/17 VI. City Update VII. Council Reports VIII. Regular Items a. Approval: Appoint Patty Niquette to Public Safety Commission – R. Hebert b. Approval: Event Permit: Waking Windows – H. Carrington c. Approval: Transportation Alternative Grant: Main Street Revitalization – J. Baker d. Discussion: Master Plan Roadmap – P. Dreher IX. Public Hearing 6:45pm - Animal Bite X. Regular Items e. Discussion: FY19 Budget: City Manager’s FY19 Budget Presentation – J. Baker f. Discussion: Volunteer Handbook – R. Coffey g. Approval: Community Services Fee Schedule Resolution – R. Coffey h. Approval: CCRPC Brownfields Grant Award – R. Coffey i. Discussion: Opportunities Credit Union – J. Ticehurst j. Approval: Marathon Health Personal Property Assessment – J. Baker k. Approval: Main Street Revitalization: Appointment of Alternative Authorized Representatives - J. Baker l. Approval: Headworks Project: Appointment of Alternative Authorized Representatives – J. Baker XI. Executive Session a. Pending Litigation – UMB Bank N.A. v. City of Winooski XII. Adjourn MINUTES The Mayor called the meeting to order at 6:00 p.m. The meeting began with the Pledge of Allegiance led by Deputy Mayor Brian Corrigan. Members Present: Mayor Seth Leonard Councilors: Brian Corrigan, Brian Sweeney, Nicole Mace, Eric Covey December 4, 2017 Winooski City Council  Officers Present: Jessie Baker, City Manager; Carol Barrett, City Clerk; Angela Aldieri, Staff Accountant; Heather Carrington, Community and Economic Development Director; Ray Coffey, Community Services Director; Paul Dreher, Zoning Administrator; John Audy, Fire Chief; Richard Hebert, Police Chief. Others Present: Patty Niquette, Stephanie Gingras, Dog Control Officer; Christine Sordiff, Anthony Spine, Cheryl Fatnassi, Opportunity’s Credit Union; Maura O’Neill, Ali Nagle. III. Agenda Review The Mayor said the public hearing starts at 6:45 p.m. We may continue regular items before if time allows. IV. Public Comment: None V. Consent Agenda MOTION by Councilor Mace seconded by Councilor Covey to approve the City Council minutes of November 15, 2017 as presented. Voted and passed 3-0-1. Councilor Sweeney abstained. MOTION by Councilor Sweeney seconded by Councilor Corrigan to approve the warrants for Payroll 10/22 – 11/4/17, 11/5-11/18/17 and Accounts Payable as of 11/16 & 11/30/17 as presented. Voted and passed 4-0. VI. City Update The City Manager gave the following updates: * We received a fully funded 2018 Municipal Planning Grant for assistance with the City’s Master Plan. Thanks to Heather for not only putting together this application but having such a great track record with the State for receiving and implementing these planning grants. * I was interviewed last week to join the CHT Board. Winooski has not had a municipal representative for several years. Positive thing for the City as we fine-tune our affordability goals and housing goals. *Airport- Next Noise Compliance Meeting - Technical Advisory Committee for the FAA grant is tomorrow night at 5pm at the Airport. *Pool committee meeting last week – Reviewed the Council meeting and engineering plan. The Committee is starting to talk about fundraising plans. Kick-off with the Engineer is this Wednesday at 6:30 here if anyone is interested. *Regional Dispatch – Union Municipal District Agreement has been reviewed and signed by the Attorney General. Discuss at your next meeting. Before then I will be having additional meetings with our team to communicate on these next steps. *Hiring – DPW Director – 2nd round interviews with finalists this Wednesday and Thursday VII. Council Reports Councilor Covey stated the only thing they discussed at Public Safety was Regional Dispatch Councilor Sweeney – None Mayor Leonard said he attended a meeting with the So Burlington select board Chair and the Burlington Mayor concerning the airport item, the meeting was on the political side. The Mayor wants to give a shout out to staff and public regarding Main Street Revitalization. We will have meeting engagements, stay involved give feedback as the process moves forward. He said the Housing Committee met and we are beginning policy discussion with items to come in January. December 4, 2017 Winooski City Council  Councilor Corrigan was not at the PW meeting so Ms. Baker who attended said they had reviewed the Pool and the Main St. Plan. Councilor Mace said they worked on the treasurer’s job description, and will meet with staff before next meeting. VIII. Regular Items a. Approval: Appoint Patty Niquette to Public Safety Commission Mrs. Niquette gave an introduction of herself and is motivated to join the commission. The Mayor said we are lucky to have her step in given former staff role and bringing valuable information. MOTION by Councilor Corrigan seconded by Councilor Covey to appoint Patty Niquette to the Public Safety Commission as presented. Voted and passed 4-0. b. Approval: Event Permit: Waking Windows Ms. Carrington reviewed the application and said this is the 8th year. This will be a 3-day event with outdoor stages on Winooski Falls Way and Rotary Park. There will be closure on Winooski Falls Way and possible closure of the first Block on West Canal St. She said staff recommends approval; this is the same footprint as last year and primarily may add Skate Park; also may events will be held within businesses. Ms. O’Neill said the Winooski Downtown Association is supportive of the event. MOTION by Councilor Mace seconded by Councilor Sweeney to approve the Event permit for Waking Windows to be held on May4th – 6th as presented. Voted and passed 4-0. See attached. c. Approval: Transportation Alternative Grant: Main Street Revitalization The City Manager said we are requesting for approval of a grant application. The application is already submitted for Stormwater work; and we are working aggressively to find alternate funding; no new dollars required for this application; previous TAC award for pedestrian crossing will be allowed for Main St. prioritization. The Mayor recused himself due to Federal funding source. MOTION by Councilor Mace seconded by Councilor Sweeney to approve the Transportation Alternatives Grant for Stormwater work as part of the Main Street Revitalization Project as presented. Voted and passed 3-0. Councilor Corrigan presided and did not vote. See attached. d. Discussion Master Plan Roadmap Mr. Dreher gave an overview and the next steps that will be taken. He said the Planning Commission is hard at work on the Master Plan update. They are preparing to go to Commission to discuss the Commissions’ roles in developing the Master Plan. We will see what they have to offer and assign task and measure where we are. We are also doing a lot of public outreach and we plan to finish by January 2019. Mayor Leonard acknowledged that this allows us to other plans to use those reference and starting points. The whole thing is outdated and this is a smart way of going about it. Great job of framing it up and scheduling. Councilor Mace is interested in how we insure that the public is going to hear more about voices and perspectives. Has this been accomplished? Mr. Dreher said public outreach, we can always do more? All the meetings will be filmed. We will reach out to the community through Ray and Heather. Our goal with the commissions is to reach out to the people they communicate with. Also, reaching out with the school district to get young people involved. He said we also have verbal commitment with AARP. The Mayor said we have been building up to this; we have failed where things are being tied together. He also said the councilors need to be proactive. Mr. Dreher said he feels confident we are hitting the notes. See attached. f. Discussion: Volunteer Handbook December 4, 2017 Winooski City Council  Mr. Coffey would like to thank Paul Sarne, Aphaia Lambert-Harper and to Julie with cross referencing with the Personnel manual to come up with a Volunteer handbook The adoption of a City-wide Volunteer Handbook will provide consistency and clarity as we recruit, orient, and manage to improve program quality, ensure client safety, minimize liability, and enhance volunteer satisfaction. Mr. Coffey said legal counsel reviewed this document. See attached. This item will be on the December 18, 2017 Council agenda. g. Approval: Community Services Fee Schedule Resolution Mr. Coffey gave some background information on the Community Services Fees. Pursuant to Section §19- 401 of the City Charter, Chapter 28 of the City Ordinance serves to (1) provide for a fine or other penalty for violation of City ordinance; (2) regulate the rate charged for municipal water, sewer and utility services; and (3) establish other fees. Chapter 28 of the City Ordinance, as approved on August 7, 2017, states: “Fees for Community Services and Recreation Programs not otherwise codified in this Chapter shall be determined from time to time by resolution of the City Council.” This resolution serves to establish fees for anticipated programs within the Community Services Department, which are not already established in Chapter 28 Ordinance. Mr. Coffey is requesting approval of the Resolution establishing Community Services fees. MOTION by Councilor Sweeney seconded by Councilor Covey to approve the Resolution on Community Services Fees as presented. Voted and passed 4-0. IX. Public Hearing 6:45 pm - Animal Bite Mr. Audy said we received a request for a hearing for possible action as allowed in Chapter 3, Section 3.007 (c) of City Municipal Ordinance pertaining to a dog bite. He said the hearing tonight is to hear testimony and consider action within provisions within Section 3.07 (c). Stephanie Gingras, Dog Control Officer said she received an email from Winooski Dispatch regarding a dog bite that occurred on 11/19/17 at 14:30. The email stated date, time and location of the incident as well as the victim’s name and telephone number and said the victim was looking for a call back regarding the status. She said she spoke with the victim and the victim described the situation. She also went to visit the owner of the dog and he informed her that Thor has a problem with strangers but takes full responsibility for what occurred. He adopted Thor in July 2016 from Passion 4 Paws. He said he is a rescue dog and is working with a trainer on his behavioral issues. Mr. Spine said he thought the rabies was good for three years. Ms. Gingras said when adopting a dog it is typically good for one year. Ms. Gingras also asked about previous incidents that happened with Thor and he informed me that they occurred in Colchester at the softball field. I’m also the Animal Control Warden for Colchester and was aware of this incident. Ms. Gingras explained the quarantine procedures to Anthony and informed him that he would need to get an appointment to have Thor vaccinated as soon as the quarantine was over and he understood. Mr. Spine called Ms. Gingras and said he had an appointment scheduled for November 29, 2017. Ms. Gingras also called the vet to confirm appointment was made. He also came in to license the dog. Ms. Gingras went to visit the dog, he was muzzled, and Anthony took the muzzle off and his tail was wagging and was licking my face. She preceded to go visit the victim and explained that the dog was in good health and has now been vaccinated. The victim felt that her concerns would not be brought to the Select Board. Mrs. Gingras said she would check in to it, she confirmed that the city was working on it. Ms. Sordiff said her main concern is her grandchildren and that she is afraid to walk by there. I want to have the dog to be muzzled and leashed. The dog was off his property. Mr. Spine described what the dog did when he let him out. He is a rescue dog, is working with a trainer, and stated that he has had multiply sessions prior to the incident. The Mayor stated that there are repercussions if things are not done correctly and with pet ownership that is the responsibility that people sign up for and from a public safety stand point were then responsible for ensuring that people are doing a good job with that and following the rules that exist. I want to make that really clear. The cited Chapter 3 Section 3.07 (c) See attached. Councilor Mace asked that leashes are already required. We do not need to take action requiring a leash or do we if it is on their property. Mr. Audy said he recommends that you reaffirm it and that they follow the current ordinance and it December 4, 2017 Winooski City Council  be leashed. Mr. Audy said he has had conversation with Anthony, and the recommendation is that the dog be confined to his space, the owner’s space and that they have access to, and or muzzled, leashed outside of that area. Councilor Covey said this is the recommendation of staff professional and has been reached by both the victim and the owner. All three of the basis have been covered by potential outcome. The Mayor said that this has been represented tonight. Mr. Audy said after talking to the victim and dog owner that is a fair statement. MOTION by Councilor Mace seconded by Councilor Sweeney to accept the recommendation from staff that the dog be muzzled outside of the home and in an uncontrolled area also be leashed and not be allowed to be free on the streets. Voted and passed 4-0. VIII. Regular Items e. Discussion: FY19 Budget: City Manager’s FY19 Budget Presentation The City Manager said the FY19 Proposed budget presents a comprehensive picture of the municipal finances. As a change from previous years, we are presenting the General Fund, Enterprise Funds and Special Revenue Funds at the same time. This allows the council to see how decisions made regarding funds that effect the other funds. She said she is going to run through the presentation and the goal tonight is to hear the City Manager’s proposed budget presentation and over the upcoming weeks, you will hear individual presentations from all the departments. If you have questions or comments tonight that you would like answers tonight or more information as we go through this process. Just for tonight, we will be talking about the process to date and the goals established. I am going to give you an overview of the budget recommendations that are before you. At the request of the City Council, we are presenting two budgets for your consideration. 1. The first is a “Level Tax Rate” budget. This budget reflects expenditures that do not require any increase in the current tax rate. 2. The second budget is a “Leadership Proposal” budget that meets the Council’s goals of strategically investing in growth and ensuring that the tax rate does not increase beyond the cost of living. The City Manager went through the Process, Budget Goals, Strategic Vision- FY18 Accomplishments, Strategic Vision – FY19 Goals and Priorities, Assumptions and Challenges, What is included in this proposal?, Proposed Budgets, General Fund: Projections to Achieve the Level Tax Rate and Leadership Proposed budgets, What is not funded with this budget?, What’s the bigger revenue picture?, What’s the bigger expenditure picture?, What’s the bigger tax bill picture?, Highlights of other funds etc., What is next?, You will hear from all of these folks over the next month-in-a-half. The final vote required by you is as you know is to approve the General Fund budget and the money to be raised by property taxes, approve the Enterprise Funds and if you so choose approve placement of a bond vote for the Headwork Project on the Town meeting Day warning. Just a note in the next couple of meetings you will also hear conversation about Regional dispatch that could end up on the ballot as well. I’m happy to hear and answer any questions and or feedback on more information you would like to hear about the budget. Thank You. See attached. The Mayor said he is very concerned at the process that we are asking staff to go through now that there is not enough fat to cut out of this budget any longer, that it is a realistic lift. As I look at what the net-zero impact looks like, this is not a feasible budget to me. This is not a budget we can operate with. It doesn’t begin to reflect what I think the values of this body’s been and what we’ve been asking people to do. I just want to put that out there. I was really a hard driver this year to use the same process, it served us well. I do wonder if we have taken all the soft funds out this budget, all the wiggle that was there to the point, there is no more blood to bleed out of that rock. I don’t know how else to say that because it is quite an exercise and it’s a difficult one to ask folks to go through when it’s that tight. I want us to open our minds as we go through this process and how we might be able to tweak a little bit more next year and come up with a different system for council setting some benchmark for percentage increases in light of what the initial numbers tart to look like. This budget is not like years past where there was $40,000.00 on something that you know. What we can sacrifice this and cut this off. We’re back to talking about potential human reduction December 4, 2017 Winooski City Council  and I don’t know why we ask for things to keep going at the rate their going with fewer humans. I do not know how we do that. I am just going to put that emotional plea out there. The Mayor thanked the staff for going through this; it is a lot of work. The City Manager said that she gave this presentation to staff this afternoon and we have had individual conversation with all those who are potentially affected by any of these scenarios. I hope that we are managing those hard conversations on our end. The Mayor said you couldn’t soften that, that’s what we do every year. We are going to see this a number of times and a lot to digest. This is a great time to get these initial questions out. I think it is effective to have the Enterprise Fund and Special Fund balances mixed in this conversation. Councilor Mace is interested in the funding of operational cost. There are a couple of points in the presentation, it looks like were funding operational cost using one time annual reserves. If we can have a clear picture of this budget which relies on an x amount of one time money to fund operation expenses, that’s really important to us. The City Manager said there are three key areas of that where we are recommending that; O’Brien Community Center, Community Services Enterprise Fund budget and Community Development fund. We will give you a memo on that outlining those. The Mayor said the Community & Economic Development position contributed an incredible amount to the City and has been invaluable. One of the things we talked about with that position, that I think looking back is that they start to do some parcel analysis around potential future tax growth and really working that pipeline. The Mayor asked the City Manager how well do you feel, we have our arms wrapped around the future potential growth rate if at all. It’s hard when you see construction happening and the see grand list growth at what it is. How do you feel about the way we arrived at potential growth? The City Manager said, she and the assessor went back and forth a number of times on grandlist projections. I think we do have a good handle on specifically what’s included in our projections and where that growth is coming from. For FY19 that is built solely on what we know not what we’re assuming is going to happen in the future because to have FY19 grandlist impact it’s got to be online in April so that is not a far out window. I feel confident about that number. I think to your larger question do we have a sense of that over time yes, I think we do have a very good sense of that. I think what we don’t have a good sense of is how market factors are going to impact that. We have seen the Hotel Project and the Strand Project and other projects along Main St be there but lurking and having work done on the because of outside factors aren’t moving as quickly as we want. I think I’m a little concerned how changes at the federal level are also going to impact how we project out over the next five and ten years. I do think we do have a good handle on parcel-by-parcel basis on where we’re investing our time strategically. Specifically Heather and Paul’s time is where we could maximize development, honestly that is a lot of what the Main St project is about, how we strategically invest to get that full build out, In building this one of the important things to keep in mind is a million dollars of new development gets us $10,000 of property tax growth. When we start thinking about why don’t we have more as we see the City growing we see things happening why we don’t have more natural growth coming into the City. Ex. To add one police officer we need 1- 10 million dollar project and we are not seeing that, we are seeing 2, 3 or 4 million dollar projects and that’s incrementally creeping up but it is not a big 3, 4 or 5% growth in one year. The Mayor said the only other item that would be helpful for us is to circle back to fund balance conversations in regards to any potential one time money in this budget, especially with large expenditures that being proposed. What happened to cause the fund balance from last years? The City Manager said they are two main drivers there was an incredible increase due to staff diligence in collection of delinquent taxes. Over $100,000.00 in new revenues, old revenues in our delinquent tax is about $10,000.00 outstanding. We are not going to see that new revenue again. The second was vacancy and except for the Public Works Director and 1-E01, we are fully staffed. Councilor Covey said there is a lot to process Seth I appreciate your bluntness at the beginning. Having not been through this budget process last year with you all looking at that December 4, 2017 Winooski City Council  thought of; What does a level tax rate budget look like? Our charge is to make fiscally responsible decisions around taxpayer money while ensuring that we are funding services that our community needs. I’m with you 100% that I don’t see that in the level of tax rate proposal. The questions that I have is if we are looking at the leadership proposal are there any areas there that just make your hair standup a little bit or make you nervous looking ahead to FY20. I wish we hadn’t been in the position where we had to do that. I’m feeling like it might put us in a tricky position with leadership. The City Manager said she is much more comfortable and our leadership team as a whole is much more comfortable with the leadership budget believing that strategically fits us better. I’m worried about our level of capital investment I think we need to be investing a lot more in capital on an ongoing basis to do that we also need a public works director. About the level tax rate budget is the lack of a public works director. I think the leadership proposed budget would allow to keep doing what we are doing now and to strategically invest in the vision that’s been set by the Council and set us up well going into FY20. The City Manager said this line “TIF” to me is something that is important to and that we should pay attention to. We need to see progress in the TIF District. If we do not build out the TIF district, soon we are going to have a problem in the TIF budget and what we have been able to accomplish going into FY19 with this deferred payment to ourselves is not going to work for another year. Councilor Sweeney’s concern is we ask for and get a couple more % from taxpayers and then we end with a ½ million dollar surplus then we talk about cutting $350,000.00 and we’re projecting $500,000.00 in reserves. Does th is mean were too conservative with our numbers or are there so many other factors or do we need that reserve for capital. The Mayor said for the last 2 years we ran and for the last year we ran $379,000.00 on fund balance and prior to that we had 5 years between $79,000.00 and $150,000.00 kind of a steady run and that was under consistent budget management at that point and time. I think the fund balance changes, frankly is reflected in some shifts we had in leadership and in staffing. You have a good point. I guess it’s how much value you place in the explanation about where the fund balance is coming from and how much that is truly one time. The City Manager said I certainly would welcome the opportunity to talk with anybody or if you have request for additional information that you would like to see over the course of these meeting feel free to send those in our direction and any members of the public have questions as well that they would like us to unpack, now is a great time to send those in and let us do some homework. The Mayor said this is the first of what is going to be two months of conversation. Great job, thank you all. h. Approval: CCRPC Brownfields Grant Award Mr. Coffey said we are looking for approval to accept $15,500 in grant funds from the CCRPC Brownfields Grant Program in support of the Myers Pool Preliminary Engineering Project. Mr. Coffey said with the approval, by the City Council on November 6, 2017 to allocate “up to $92,500” in support of Preliminary Engineering for the Myers Pool replacement, we worked with Weston and Sampson (the selected vendor) to submit a grant application to the CCRPC Brownfields Grant program. We requested funds to cover the full cost of the environmental/hazardous material portion of the contract ($15,500). Ray Coffey attended the CCRPC Brownfields Advisory Committee meeting on November 20, 2017 in support of the proposal, and the group decided to fully fund our request. As was clearly established in Weston and Sampson’s original proposal for this project, an additional $3,000 fee will be added to the contract due to additional documentation, procedural, and reporting requirements that come along with this funding source. This will bring the total for the contract with Weston and Sampson to $95,500; however, the grant will serve to reduce the total cost of this phase of the project to $80,000. MOTION by Councilor Corrigan seconded by Councilor Covey to approve the CCRPC Brownfields Grant Award for $15,500.00 for the Myers Pool Environmental Work as presented. Voted and passed. 4-0. December 4, 2017 Winooski City Council  i. Discussion: Opportunities Credit Union Mr. Ticehurst stated that one of the items on the Management letter from Sullivan Powers for the FY16 audit was a notation of the lack of collateralization of City funds currently deposited at the Opportunities Credit Union. These funds specifically fund the current home loan program and small business loan program money market accounts. After many discussions with Opportunity Credit Union, they have yet to develop or obtain an acceptable collateralization agreement to protect excess funds that is acceptable to the City. I have attempted on numerous occasions over the last 10 months to encourage OCU to draft a collateral agreement to protect our deposits and one in which the city funds are secured. This has not materialized and it does not appear to me that it will happen quickly, therefor I am recommending that the council consider the following recommendation until OCU can successfully develop a mutually agreeable document for collateralizing all city funds it has on deposit. Until that happens my recommendation is as follows: Mr. Ticehurst recommendation is to have the City withdraw all funds from Opportunity’s Credit Union over and above those limits necessary to maintain our money market accounts with them and deposit the withdrawn funds into investment instruments at another financial institution where collateralization is present and where we can earn a reasonable interest return. A stipulation would be that the funds be totally liquid and available on a short notice for use in loan application approvals. This will afford the City with both protections of its funds and the ability to earn interest on these funds, which is not being currently present. The current agreements with OCU maintains no-interest earning accounts. Councilor Sweeney asked if we were to pull the money from Opportunity’s Credit Union where would we put it. Mr. Ticehurst said for the interim is to offset this issue, is to move the monies from OCU and put it in a financial institution where it will be collateralized and will be protected. It can be easily transferred in whatever denominations. Based on the amount of loans that are given out and can be easily transferred back to Opportunities Credit Union the best possible measure is for Opportunities to collateralize it with something that is acceptable to the City. The Mayor said we have two different loan programs set up at Opportunities Credit Union where pools of money are specific. We have to use the money for housing fund, which has $300,000 and $250,000 in small business loans. Both those funds were set up and deposited. Opportunities does specialized programs for folks for secured loans that offset risk. Ms. Fatnassi said when the problem started we had two different funds and the fund that was originally used for housing, because about $175,000.00 to $200,000.00 was lent out back in 2012. The total amount of money, the rest of it fell with the quarter million dollars that was insured. Either it was loaned out or it was in the quarter million that was insured under the Credit Union insurance fund, it really did not present a problem. Then the money came in for the business-lending program. I think that is when it went over the cap. Ms. Fatnassi gave a history on the Credit Union. She said it started in 1989 and the City of Winooski made the first deposit in 1999, which was the housing fund, and we are specifically chartered to work with low income, unbanked, under serve population. Our original field of partnership was Burlington/Winooski and then expanded to the State of Vermont. 10% of our members about 800 come from the City of Winooski. What I hope to do with Jim even though it seems like an easy thing to do is to try to find a way to do a letter of credit or something that would satisfy the City. We are not TDBank, we do not have the types of assets to pledge, we do not have securities and we don’t invest in securities. All of our monies goes into loans. We don’t have types of investments you are looking for. I do not know if a letter of credit is allowed. My understanding is that could serve to mitigate some of the risk. That is something we could do with the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston that could take about 60 days. This might satisfy and close that risk. Mr. Ticehurst said that a letter of credit from a third party would be fine. The Mayor asked if both parties agreed and they said yes. December 4, 2017 Winooski City Council  j. Approval: Marathon Health Personal Property Assessment The City Manager said at the November 6, 2017 City Council meeting, the Council heard testimony from the City and Marathon Health concerning a personal property tax form and voted to receive and updated form from the business. That form is attached for our consideration. MOTION by Councilor Sweeney seconded by Councilor Corrigan to accept Marathon Health Personal Property Tax Submittal as presented. Voted and passed 4-0. k. Approval: Main Street Revitalization: Appointment of Alternative Authorized Representation The City Manager is recommending a motion to approve Ryan Lambert, Paul Dreher and John Choate as authorized representatives for RF!-212-1.0 (the Wastewater and Stormwater) and WPL-284-1.0 (drinking water) loan applications related to the Main Street Revitalization Project. MOTION by Councilor Mace seconded by Councilor Covey to authorize Ryan Lambert, Paul Dreher and Joan Choate as authorized representatives as presented. Voted and passed 4-0. See attached. l. Approval: Headworks Project: Appointment of Alternative Authorized Representative The City Manager is recommending a motion to approve Ryan Lambert and John Choate as authorized representatives for RF1-213-1.0 the clean water loan application related to the Headworks Project MOTION by Councilor Corrigan seconded by Councilor Mace to authorize Ryan Lambert and John Choate as authorized representatives as presented. Voted and passed 4-0. See attached. XI. Executive Session a. Pending Litigation – UMB Bank N.A. v. City of Winooski MOTION by Councilor Corrigan seconded by Councilor Sweeney to go into Executive Session at 8:20 p.m. to discuss a pending litigation and to invite the City Manager Jessie Baker and Catherine Dingle, Attorney as presented. Voted and passed 4-0. MOTION by Councilor Corrigan seconded by Councilor Mace to adjourn City Council meeting at 9:01 p.m. Voted and passed 4-0. ATTEST:___________________________ City Clerk December 4, 2017 Winooski City Council