A RESOLUTION establishing a Watch List of large, complex, discrete capital projects that will require enhanced quarterly monitoring reports for the 2019 calendar year.
Opposed the bill passes and the chair will sign it. Please read the next letter to the record. Pagina 913 Resolution 318 66 Establishing a watch list of large, complex, discrete capital projects that will require enhanced quarterly monitor reports for the 2018 calendar year. The committee recommends the resolution be adopted. Great. Excellent. Thank you. With much. Thanks to Council member Lisa Herbold at its other end, did you want to bring forward an amendment at this point? I do, actually. So we have a proposed amendment to the resolution as as discussed in committee that creates an expectation for where the. Quarterly reports. On the projects that are included on the watch list will be heard. Part of this enhanced reporting and oversight of large capital projects not only includes having some shared expectations with the executive, but it also requires, I think, a change in focus on the council that we actually agree to find a time and a place at our committee meetings to hear what the what the reports coming out of these specific projects say. And and with the idea that if we hear those reports in committee and we identify problems with projects on the the watch list, we will be able to better hold ourselves accountable for addressing those problems with scope or budget as they are identified. So it's important, I think, to actually embrace the role that the council has by affirmatively stating that we will hear these reports in a council committee. And so that's what this amendment does. Should I read it? Okay. So Amendment one two, Resolution 31866. Basically, like I said, memorializes the city's intent at the Finance and Neighborhoods Committee, review the enhanced quarterly reports, and it states the city Council anticipates that the Finance and Neighborhoods Committee or Successor Committee will review the intent enhanced quarterly reports. Any other comments? Oh, okay. So it's been. So are we moving? It was moving. She's moving it. I'm seconding it. It's been moved and seconded and the amendment will be adopted. Any comments? No more comments. Those in favor of the amendment vote. I think those opposed the motion carries and the amendment is adopted. Great. And I'll just speak to the underlying bill then as amended. So this resolution establishes a watch list of complex capital projects, something that Councilmember Herbold brought up during budget. And page three of the resolution establishes the initial watch list of the complex projects. Quarterly The mayor will provide us an enhanced list, and the oversight will primarily be focused on scope, schedule and budget of the individual projects. And as noted by this amendment, it will come to the Finance Committee. We will get this started in the next quarter and will invite all who are have any specific projects from their committee. As I mentioned this morning, if it's transportation, we will invite Councilmember O'Brien, give you plenty of notice to know when it's coming up and then if you've got any issues around it, we'll get more information before the vote. So with that, I would like to propose that we adopt this resolution as amendment. So all right, then we're done with that. So those in favor but lightweight to adopt resolution 31866 as amended. I think there's a second already. Yeah, yes. Yes. Okay. And there's any other comments. Oh, Councilor Johnson. Thanks. Just sorry about that. That's okay. I understand. I just want to thank Councilmember Herbold for continuing this conversation. I think the a lot of this germinated when we all many of us started on the council in early 2016. And we're faced with the prospect of several major capital projects that were at 100% of their budget, but maybe only 80 or 90% through their scope. And folks were coming to us and asking for forgiveness rather than permission. And and what were we going to do? We were we had left with no choice but to approve additional resources, because the thing that was going to get built or the thing that we were buying was the thing that we needed. And I think that the intention here is to create opportunities for the council to have better communication with these individual departments and individual project managers as the projects move forward so that we have a chance to choose maybe some changes in scope or changes in timeline of deliverable delivery without having to necessarily be the recipients of bad news at the end of a projects budget when the project wasn't still yet complete. So I'm looking forward to seeing how this plays out over the next several years. Councilmember O'Brien I wish you luck because 11 of these 18 projects are transportation related. So it seems like you're going to be spending a lot of time and councilmember back sales committee, though you are not necessarily a member of it. And, you know, I just think that this is at a base level a lot of what we should be doing as as government, working closely with those project managers to make sure that they are delivering their projects on time and on budget and making hard policy decisions early in the process as opposed to late. So I'm looking forward to voting yes on this. Well, well done. Okay. So let's move to a vote. Those in favor of adopting the resolution as amended. Vote. I was opposed. You know, who knows? The motion carries the resolution as adopted as amendment and the chair will sign it. So before we do that, we have to go on to other business. So is there any other business to come before a council councilmember skater. Thank you, Madam President. It was an exciting to watch you lead us through today's full council. Thank you for your leadership on that. I'd like to move to be excused next Monday as I will be in Washington DC for the National League of Cities Housing Task Force and convening. Okay motion and it's been seconded those all in favor of letting Councilor Mosquito go to Washington DC say I was opposed. No, the ayes have it. Go forward, do good. Thank you very much. Okay, so with that, I think we are adjourned. Good job. Thank God.