Recommendation to receive and file an update from the City Manager on the status of the restoration of Fire Engine 17 including funding, staffing, and equipment.
Thank you very much. Price my readers and any public comment on this? Seeing none, please cast your vote. Motion carries. Thank you. Item 39. Communication from Councilwoman Price. Chair Public Safety Committee Recommendation Receive and file an update from the City Manager on the status of the restoration of Fire Engine 17. Thank you. Did you want me to go to the staff report first? Councilman. Okay, let's go and get the staff report. Mr. West. Mayor. Councilmembers. We were asked in this year's budget to try to find funding for fire station 17 and also six police officer positions. We promised that we come back this fiscal year with during the fiscal year and identify the structural funds necessary to bring those restorations into impact. We're very positive right now that we're what we're going to be bringing something shortly to the city council for some type of structural funding. We haven't identified it yet, but one of the most promising things that we're looking at right now is a safer grant. These are grants provided by the federal government. We'll be applying shortly in the next several weeks for a federal safer grant that, if successful, will provide structural dollars for the equipment and also a certain amount of the employees. And as we go forward with that, it'll last. It's not structural in the sense that it'll it'll last forever, but it'll certain carries forward for a year or two until we can help find other structural dollars for it. So that's what we're looking at. And in addition to that, we're looking at other avenues in the budget and where things are dealing with sales tax, property tax, other things where we could come to you with a structural plan to add this. Thank you. Next up is a customer supernova that the entire report was. Okay. Let me go to first concert supernova. Thank you. I'd just like to ask the city manager if if we have any dates in mind or anything you can share with us in terms of restoration dates. No, I don't. If we're lucky enough to get something from the safer ground. Like I said, we're applying this month. The deadline is this month. We should know. I would hope within a month or two, maybe 60 days, whether or not we've been successful in the ground. Okay. Thank you. And I just wanted to give a little bit of background on this item. This came from the Public Safety Committee. Hopefully all of you received the summary of our Public Safety Committee meeting that we had. We're trying to, while we always give you guys the summary report afterwards so that you know what's going on at public safety . But we are also recommending that certain actions, issues that we take up at public safety then be referred to the city council because we think they're of such import that they are relevant to the entire council. And this was one of them. Another item that you'll be seeing come back soon to the full council at the recommendation of the Public Safety Committee is the report on Tiger Connect and what the findings were and what some of the recommendations are moving forward. And so we will make recommendations out of Public Safety Committee and ask that you consider supporting our recommendations as further direction to staff. So this is one of those items. It's obviously very, very important to councilman super or not, and he's been consistent advocate for this restoration. And I think we could not support him more if we tried. So I'm glad that it's here and I look forward to seeing the staff's recommendation of how we can make this restoration a reality in the very near future. Thank you. Thank you. Any public comment on this item? Seeing no public comment. Members, please cast your vote.