We are basically concerned with active transportation. Moving to them after becoming our city engineers major focus. We are pretty well completed on that. We need bike trails, walking trails, running trails. Part of the city moving toward higher densities. The traditional part of our city, horse trails and are expanding those as well as we go along and do that. The 3rd role is Economic Development, critical to develop because we are so dependent upon salestax and franchise tax. When the process right now hopefully it we will bring 400 million of construction into commercial construction into our area. Area. Retail development, regional Retail Development office space hotel big boxes as well. During my administration with the opportunity of seeing big boxes move in. Two walmarts in our city. Home depot laws before that we had pieces market and the rich and drug. Development comes from the north and east. So i learned easily and quickly that we have to wait your turn. My time was spent a lot on Infrastructure Improvements. Infrastructure improvements over the next couple of years in that way. Economic development is important. The southwest part of southwest part of salt lake we sit in the valley surrounded by mountains, very narrow im not sure how i we are. I would guess about 15 miles wide in that regard. And so we have this corridor right now what i need is one road out of riverton. The sensitivity that we all have for the land around the environment not interfere with that very much. We now have two roads out of riverton one is a row that carries about 45000 people a day. And so we widen our other road so that we have roads handling 30000 people a day we have a highway which goes north and south and east and west in circles because we are against the foothills where you cannot go directly out. We have had those kinds of things and mobility growing going forth between we will talk about later. It is important for us to include all aspects of transportation. Public transportation and important part rail, a very important part which we will talk about a little later. Los angeles california grew up in a smart error you could not see the beautiful mountains because they were hidden by what we call smart. Route to salt lake big blue skies and the fountains but have seen that deteriorate as population has been cut. A major goal i have is air quality. We dont we have some pollution but we let between the mountains and the wind was out of our city a lot. Even even though the bad pollution of the Salt Lake Valley is not my direct responsibility geographically it is my direct responsibility. That is another critical reason as we develop in our area. Thank you for letting me be here. Nine years ago when i got involved my natural interest would have been to be involved with homeless shelters and social programs where i would normally move toward. We dont have any homeless and riverton. I still take part on boards homeless shelters. The important thing i got involved with was growth. I was i was a teacher. What did i know about building roads and all that. Thirteen years ago a a council member, what did i know about the political ways. I ways. I soon found that i looked at grants coming away development coming away as far as roads and so forth. I started asking what i needed to do and what i need to be involved with. This may not mean anything. He was gracious enough to go out to lunch with me. I could pick his brains. He said get involved in the transportation community. So i have learned the language. Ive learned the politics. I have the passion and it is critical to our city the mobility part is a very, very critical issue and that is why i have gotten involved. Thank you you for letting me be here. [applause] thank you. Very much appreciate that. Just a little bit about the transportation initiative. You have the city of light rail under construction right now. One right on the cusp almost there. And then the mayor talks about future development and planning interfering with future transportation investment. Not the Transit Service and alternatives will will the Community Benefits for three like that and they did that go to be paraded round commitment to the expectation. Right now it comes to the edge of my community the end of the line. This fall probably in the summer we we will open 3 miles from the edge of our city. Heart of the downtown. That as indicated earlier has been a use blessing. We are a fair amount of seniors arizona the east Valley Retirement Community a hundred Million Dollars performing arts center. Its certainly popular a large senior population. Statistically its a younger than average community. The millennials obviously we are in our culture has changed in ways we did not anticipate want to 30 years ago. Folks now dont want to sit in cars. If they can find any way to park the car and get on transit that works with their lifestyle, they will do it more often than not which has certainly been the case. So we have several large park and rides at the edge of our community where the system currently terminates, a huge parking lot and part of the challenge we will have is once we move the terminus further and further east we will go back and redevelop these parking lots that are not quite as big a deal as they need to be. And that is a great opportunity for us as well. Apply more supply more Economic Development opportunity. So it is tremendously popular. As it goes further east it will continue to add thousands and thousands more people as we reach ultimately for five years from now a very residential neighborhood. Hop on the light rail. When that happens it will impact not just the millennials and the seniors and people from a lifestyle. Of view were trying to avoid getting in the cars. But the average shows like myself Healthy Communities a blue zone initiative. Designated. Transit can do that. Why can stand and visit at all levels. Allowed to get around the small families. But getting that system expanded adds to the value of the vibrancy of your community. The 1st commuters sign in now 1st new line in the southwest. And it has been set people used it. We realized we have to get rail and. Our friends in dallas have seen it houston, austin. Focused on our project. Vibrant communities that engaged me. All our budgets went to cmg. We have done deterioration of the year in fort worth a brown haze. But we will start out with the goal of ultimately networking across the upper City Networking across the citys. The cities. The airport is jointly owned by the city of fort worth, dallas the 3rd Busiest Airport in the world. And dallas they have had dogs at the airport. Come out of your terminal hop on a people mover people mover and go to the dart. If the traveling public coming in on business were a convention or with your family you get a rental rent car or a 70 right to fort worth. Fantastic. It is. Not only will it give us that Competitive Edge that we need to continue to grow and develop convictions but it also allows we have so many people who live in for work and live in fort worth and work in dallas. If they can hop on takes rail tax rail go to the airport and hop onto the orange line and be in dallas, everyone has an ipad or iphone. You are not driving what can what can you do . Work read the morning paper as my daughter would say she can put on her makeup and do her homework. Partnering with us. We have a request in for low funding grants. The good news is it allows us to leverage our sales tax dollars. We are excited about what it offers. 54 miles of trails. Anyone who wants to take the train to the airport can get on and shuttle back to fort worth. And where you can get runners we will hop on a bus, go a bus, go to the center port and going to dallas for dinner. It is interesting concept that people are beginning to think creatively and innovatively outside the box it is economic mobility mobility. Great. Road and transit. That in our city or state. We also have i came from a background of writing transit. As we work downtown. Rather than drive i drove over to sandy to get the track light. I had a natural feel. Can answer my emails. Its not locally finance in our area. I was sitting in a meeting talking about transit and so forth and some of the knew minds and things happening in the projects going forward, and there was nothing coming my way at all nothing coming. Close. Close. So if i sat theyre it irritated me. When i was there i knew that we would have to do something. I placed the hundred thousand dollars for the study keep in mind general budget. We were a tight budget. You have to be kidding me. Me. We jumped into the study. A 2 million study finishing it up in the next few months. The city councils. For the city council through the preferred court or to do it. It up being a 2 million study. We pledged 500,000 and went knocking on doors to the other three cities with developers to get other money. And so it really is that kind of local issue. Where we where we are now in addition to funding the study which is only the start, we have had to work on preservation. Our planning director, and i asked them so many times when knew development was coming in he got sick of me. The setbacks far enough so that a transit corridor can go through this commercial area. The last thing we want to do is buy a building at a time or house at a time. We had some various things we had to protect. A couple of ways we can go anyway. Developers to fill his lands for roads. Given us farmland. Right now the transit project go through the city without tearing down one valley. That is in the is meant of corridor preservation and i and i am proud of what our people have been able to do with that. Part of it is our area of study to educate our people the foundation of our city is farmland. Farmland and transit do not necessarily makes but we have an urban ranking, so we are trying to bring both groups together, and we will do that so that we have the people support. The last thing that uta needs if we we will approval bill the line to the city is for political pressure to come against that line and protesters writing Board Members not wanting it. And we will talk about this later. Get involved with transportation funding. I dont believe i should ask the same legislatures and the county council that our congressional area could find any kind of transportation mode of transit that i am not going to stand out in the front to parade. I asked them and im willing to support them. Well talk about that later. You raised an interesting issue. For 50 years particularly highgrowth urban areas. Probably 20 years ago we started out from our Regional Transportation Coalition made up of dollars in fort worth. And it had been a major tool large areas you have to reach leverage your regional dollars. For the delay in the corridors to try to get that. A joint City Council Meeting that is going to make a stronger. Now we have weekly dialogues because it does not make sense for us to run a line that stops here and you have to get often jump on another in open segue to the next session. Saying that it resonates and my experiences there is no better issue for regionalism the transportation. When you have one mayor that has an exciting transit projects going on in the middle of it downtown you become everyone else is new best friend. My mayor says both sides are clamoring we need to go out to lunch because i needed to i need a partner with me on studies to get what you got going in my community. From a personal popularity perspective it has been an equitable thing for me and makes it makes a tremendous amount of sense regionally if it can be brought together in ways other issues dont have the same. A whole lot of competition. We get motivated as they transit operator when cities step up and decide to invest. What can we do to partner this enthusiasm and commitment at the local level. Referendum passed 75, 80 percent around the nation served passing referendum for Public Transportation, local government transportation, local government stepping up and extending budgets to the nth degree. So important. Along the lines. We have to do this. Share with them how important it is to view the committee we passed a bond election. A 294 million bond election 220 million dedicated to transportation. Streets and roads. Almost overwhelming. The state of texas past constitution one several met billion dollars. Part of what we did was got out and talked did down halls, advertised, farmed coalitions on prop one to pass the state guarantee to get out of talk. Billy done the same thing with washington. The come up often. People tend to think they just want me to give a funny. Transit members catch them when they are home and here. Given the statistics. The statistics on what is happening. Taken for a ride. Wherever you are. Education is killing us in austin. The do it you have got to advocate with your system. The waiting for their people also. In order to afford this we have to regional funding. As an appetite out there. All of theyre. All of us share the frustration about getting in our car and trying to get from. A to. B. That is a common denominator throughout the electric. There is that angst to draw upon. If we can rally regionally with our neighbors. You can get it. The amount of money. The likely success stories, love to be able to come. If you can paint a positive scenario in the Committee Regional funding used in the likelihood of attracting better money. It has to be original priority. In our community in order to expedite things happening we take the ftp money and structure in a way we can prioritize it. Ill let others put into place. Soviets have unified with our dissertation so i our legislature is to finish the session this thursday. Sold a there their hand in hand with their staff and city the legal overhaul oxidases there also the business communities in the chamber of commerce is there with us. We realized if we were not united in what we wanted with with their rows and we would not get it to say the least utah is not a liberal legislature. [laughter] as long as it is not a tax increase. Sova there is two types of financing that theyre looking at for this. When is a gas tax one is a sales tax. Theyre all a part of the pie that Work Together. It is finishing a project of 45 million road project. You do what you want. So the state needs money. So we made more money so the county needs more money. And Public Transportation needs more money. And moral encompassing as a sales tax increase and a point for the local rose are 0. Five for the countys. If you dont have the transition aides then the 1. One close to the county. Why does the county need roads . We have three rows of birds in salt lake city. Because that is all there are. We also have a gas tax. One is a straight increase of 0. 10. The 70 est. Rose. The other part is to take the gas tax 0. 5 per gallon to change into a sales tax but it is that uniting together so the fight in the legislature right now it isnt about the need for more transportation money but a very conservative state needs the money. It is about gas tax or sales tax or both . Is in that mom and dad fighting over how to give them more money . I dont care if it is the left pocket or the right pocket. But the way we achieve that is with the legislature and the sales tax. We dont want you to raise sales tax. We are willing to stand with you to champion the cause. With the authorization to go to bed county commission to have it on the ballot with the county board and it would be distributed to that amount. So theyre willing to stand up and of lock arms. Twostage religious nature give leave monday then i just sit back and let them take the key to. That is my role. The other way to get a their attention is they tend of two forget how many jobs are involved in the transportation project then when you Start Construction you have additional jobs and that is the big deal for any official to talk about jobs. Rebate moving to the audience but to summarize you have to have four major ingredients. Good character and good values added to your community to engender the trust. To show the commitment and then to underscore the of there. There are 85 cities in every other Decision Making by a. Were just in the weeds talking about how to split pay for. And we dont want to forget a lot of this investment we talk about in utah is to think about a conservative state that isnt about bills and whistles and running buses . More buses. The number one goal because that is the story we can share. And that is the message we take. If you have any questions to see if you can provoke them. I know you are not shy. It to help Carry Forward al love to stand up for transportation and how critical this is a of the committee continued to build its infrastructure could to attract people because it helps us in every level from air quality, a contraction want congestion to help pass that along. Select the best lesson you can learn from our community is flexibility but trying to figure out how to focus all the resources you do have on the most important project skyhigh so with the federal and or regional mondays money we have a variety of projects on them but if those projects you have funding for this duty to figure out how to be a problem anymore. From my perspective and do what you do best and that is build and operate Public Transportation in. Wish i could tell you they dont have to worry about funding but you do but to less how we can help you with the funding. I have no idea how to build it and i need your help to tell me what i need to do or what buttons to push because my job is to get the funding for you that i cannot do it on my own. To your funding question in talking about sales tax in the view had use tax anchorman store special assessment districts or can you give us a little flavor had to get the businesses that will be taxed on board with those funding streams . With tritium real express trinity rail express we have very little Downtown Living in it a tax increment financing so to help renovate to build a residential losses in the soldout is less than a year. It helps with landscaping and upkeep there is another area space that that i believe is the incredible tool for us so it is where rail comes in. That has not been part of our formula honestly. Over the past several ye