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going to go ahead and start I'm sorry I
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you um hi everyone welcome back to our
work session for Monday July 22nd we
today we will start with jobs of the
week Sarah come on
down good afternoon everyone my name is
Sarah Rainey I am the One-Stop
coordinator for the southwest region of
the work New Mexico workforce connection
and we
have all right for jobs of the week we
have a stem instruction
for the city of Los cruus that position
starts at $20 an hour and the posting
closes on the 19th of August we also
have a Mills delivery driver um the
position starts at 1502 and the posting
closes on the 5th of August for Whit s's
Missile Range we have a library
technician um the position starts at
63,000 we have a plumber helper laborer
for Delta plumbing and heating that
position starts at 17 an hour and the
posting closes on the 15th of August
August we have commodity quotation
specialist for crescent electrical
supply um starting at $12 an hour and
the posting closes on August 16th whoops
we have an accountant senior at NMSU um
the position closes on the 17th and the
pay is depending on
experience as always feel free to reach
out to us we have an extend our extended
hours here in Los cruus only in our
region um right now um till 6: p.m. for
any anybody's convenience to come down
for a career consult anything any type
of career exploration help with anything
that you're
needing all right thank you thank you
Sarah yes
ma'am and special guest doing our pets
of the week today councelor
Corin thank you um I'm not a Game of
Thrones fan but I will
uh I did get some contact before the
meeting like I always do uh thank you
for having me uh mayor proem and councel
uh let me introduce the cat of the week
his name is drogon after uh The Last
Dragon in existence I understand um he's
also black and red that that dragon in
particular very fancy um I'm not really
sure what his special skills are this is
drogon the little dragon with a big
heart he may not breathe fire but he
sure knows how to ignite a spark of joy
in anyone he meets his perfect home
would be one where he can spread his
wings and pause embracing his Wild Side
his favorite activity is exploring his
kingdom and melting hearts come meet
this fiery kitten but beware he may cast
his Spell on You So any I hope some Game
of Thrones fan is out there just needing
a kitten today the dog of the week this
week is Buddy um life here in the
shelter is okay but I dream of a home
where I can be my water-loving self
nothing gets my tail wagging like a good
spray from the garden hose chasing and
chomping on the water stream brings me
uncontainable joy why adopt me because
everyone needs a buddy like me someone
to greet you with pure joy make each day
a little brighter and have so much water
fun the lake is calling us my future
human and and I understand that he's an
extremely soft spoken and and sweet big
guy so I hope everyone will consider
buddy um the ascmv also has a few
adoption events coming up um at the
plaza deas Cruses uh this coming
Saturday from 800 to 11: the Girl Scouts
are partnering with AOC for that
adoption event um and we're still in the
red white and cute adoption event that's
sponsored by Don County Humane Society
all adoptions are $50 they already went
through all the free adoptions but the
rest of the adoptions for the rest of
the month that's through next Tuesday I
think are just $50 so hopefully you'll
consider it and the pets of the week
their adoption is always
free uh here are some links you can
check out uh the ascmv on they have a
new website at ascmv
toorgle Corin that was great you did
great by Amy D Felix's beautiful
bios she she does a wonderful job you
did too all right um on the agenda today
we have two items and first up is item
3.1 update from Spaceport America and we
will have um Mr mclin um space for
executive director come on
up thank you mayor protim and counselor
so I'm very happy to be here so thanks
for uh letting me have a little bit of
time I'm going to try and give you a
quick but kind of comprehensive update
on what's going on and uh hopefully
you'll have some good questions and um
just a quick little bit about me um U
born in Albuquerque raised in Los cruus
grew uh grew up here graduated from
Mayfield went to Mexico State um got an
engineering degree and met my wife in
The Pride band but like a lot of people
I left town um you know after I worked
at Whit sand for a while but I came back
about six years ago and got a job at the
Spaceport five years ago and I've been
the executive director for about almost
four years now so um so Los cruus is
near dear to my heart and the project
that is Spaceport America is also near
and dear to my heart so um but very
happy to answer some questions I do have
a little bit of our staff here so
Cecilia uh V Vegas is here and she's our
uh um coordinator for business
development and Dr Francisco Polaris who
is our director of Business Development
and then our um our uh public
information officer Charlie Hurley so if
you have any other questions they're
here to help answer and uh and working
really hard on building a Spaceport so
sir sir we we know your staff we know so
it's just I know you
know so uh real quick here's just a
couple pictures we have um we do have
various things that happened so we had
this a C5 I think that was here not too
long ago and to the right is a space uh
a Virgin Galactic flight um but here's
what I'm going to cover real quick so
I'm going to review I I don't think I've
come in front of the council and um ever
had the opportunity to speak so I'm glad
this finally happened but I'm going to
review just real quick a little bit
about the Spaceport I'm going to talk
about our our most recent activities I'm
going to talk about the broader
implications of the Spaceport with space
Valley and where the space economy is
headed in this country and in the world
um I'm going to return back to Virgin
Galactic so you kind of know where they
are their status and then again go back
to the future of the Spaceport and last
thing is going to be some economic
impact information um so let me review
the the background so um before 1984 you
couldn't build a Spaceport you couldn't
even have a private rocket company so
everything that the government did
everything was a federal project it was
either defense or it was civil for like
weather satellites in 1984 though
um there was a Act passed that's been
amended a few times that finally allowed
for a space boort a commercial space
boort to exist and for private rocket
companies to exist so very quickly after
that people started thinking about what
that means for Private Industry to be
able to build their own rocket or for
people to have their own Spaceport um so
not that long after in the 90s physical
sciences laboratory and other people in
New Mexico started looking about where
you could build a Spaceport in this in
in the state of New Mexico um there were
several reports written um and a lot of
work was done over the 90s believe it or
not that um where where the site hadn't
been picked yet but the benefits um
could be seen in terms of economic
growth and why we would have competitive
advantages um so what happened though in
in the early 2000s was something called
oneri xprize which was a a private
contest to see if someone could build a
spaceship that would go to space twice
in two weeks and then come back down
again and U Paul Allen from Microsoft
and and a company called scale composits
in Mojave had put together a team and of
course they won that prize and very
quickly our governor governor Richardson
um worked with Richard Branson Sir
Richard Branson who immediately went to
this company and wanted to to create a
Spaceport so New Mexico was primed and
ready at that point we had already had a
site picked but we didn't have uh we
didn't have a customer we didn't have a
market place for it but we were in the
right place at the right time and other
states competed to have that company um
Virgin Galactic come to um come to their
uh area so things worked out very
quickly um and but of course some
legislation was passed uh the two
counties Three Counties actually voted
but Sierra County and doniana County
voted to tax themselves and uh so
construction began in I think 2004 2005
and in 2006 we actually had our first
vertical launch um so here's our
statutory Mission just to review to to
create a Spaceport um to attract
industry is you know we're basically a
business development project um you know
we're a Spaceport but really our job is
to bring in jobs and and new money into
the economy um we also uh if another
space port was to be built in New Mexico
we we'd probably be in charge of it as a
state agency and of course we're here to
work on stem and and Workforce
Development and and in Las cruus that
might have meant for example that I
would have stayed in Las cruus instead
of eventually leaving because really
Whit Sands Missile Range is one of the
few places an engineer can work in this
town so um building up that economy as
part of this so here are some of the
other space ports so um this is an FAA
map uh that gets updated from time to
time and the color coding basically has
to do with what are considered private
space ports what are considered Federal
space ports and what are commercial
space ports so if you look in the orange
those are the traditional sites that the
federal government have built and
operated over the last 60 years um I
think one of the early launches in Cape
Kennedy was um back then was Cape
canabal was um uh in the late 50s um of
course we New Mexico had verer Von Brown
here at White Sans and in the late 40s
and and 50s but he moved to he got moved
to Huntsville so we had an opportunity
then to be what Rocket City what
Huntsville is now but they have a
re-entry site right now um just south of
us a couple hours two and a half hours
south is where blue origin launches the
the new Shepherd system so everybody's
probably watched that on TV or you know
that's has the capsule and then Bach
chica Way South of us is another what's
called a private launch site and that's
where SpaceX built their own little area
um and did it rather quickly and there
was a recent article in the San Antonio
I think Express a very interesting
article about how uh SpaceX essentially
built this facility very quickly maybe
avoided a lot of environmental concerns
but that's not the way we did it that's
not the way New Mexico did it um we went
through quite a bit to get our Spaceport
built but the point in the showing this
is that
this is all there is right now there are
other space ports in the work Michigan
have been trying has been trying to
build one I don't think that's going to
happen Maine has been trying to work on
one I don't think that will happen um
there's probably half a dozen or more
other states working on their own
spaceports but when you look at those
locations and you look at our location
we actually have some important
competitive advantages um and so here's
a slide to explain that so uh let see if
the cursor works so you're probably
familiar with the outline here of Whit
Sands Missile Range which is the largest
testing range uh in the in the United
States you know and it's been there
since the 40s if you look at the blue
here that's the air space that Whit
Sands Missile Range controls and the
little bit down here is our 18,000 Acres
of State trust land that um own is owned
by the state of New Mexico and that's
part of what makes us so unique that
when they look for a place to put the
Spaceport they were able to find this
land that belonged to the state and it's
underneath this airspace and so that
gives us a huge advantage and being able
to support some of our customers and
launch of course our other other
competitive advantages are actually the
high elevation the no salt air um this
remote location with a low population
density and uh and we're able to use
Whit Sand's assets so we have an MOA
with Whit Sands Missile Range so if a
customer one of our customers wants to
use radar or Telemetry or weather we can
work with Whit sand so unlike a lot of
those other spaceports on here we're
being right next to a military range
actually is a benefit for us most most
of the
time um here's what the 18,000 Acres
looks like um I think some of you have
been out there but if anybody hasn't
been out there we're always happy to
schedule a tour um so uh I won't go over
this in depth but just to say that our
18,000 acres are divided into the uh the
horizontal launch area where Virgin
Galactic operates a vertical launch area
uh where we host the vertical launches
and an advanced technology area where
we're trying to put customers that kind
of don't fit either of the above but
we're also looking at how to expand some
of the lands out there a lot of most of
this land is BLM land but there's also
state land and long term we need to
expand a little bit to be able to host
some of the customers we want to
host so let me go over some of the
activities uh we right now we have seven
tenants three of them are what are
called high altitude platform system so
a high altitude platform system is a
very large uh UAV that can fly 60,000
fet and above and we've turned into a
location where we have three of those
major developers one of them we're
talking to pretty intensely about
Manufacturing in the area which which
would be a really long good long-term
benefit for uh for all of us us
Thunderbirds have been now doing their
winter training there for uh the last
three years uh we do lots of other small
UAV tests we've done some rocket engine
tests just an example of a small
customer the US military uh Academy West
Point has comes out here and flies
Rockets every year and of course Virgin
Galactic flew seven times uh
commercially in the last year so that's
um ultimately that was you know the big
part of where we were headed and uh that
finally happened with Virgin Galactic
we're also talking to um a data center
developer a satellite ground station and
a single stage to orbit providers which
will be kind of a next phase of of
getting to orbit and I'll talk about
that a little bit in a second um here's
just a few more um let's see if there's
any new on there uh one important thing
we do as part of our mission is a lot of
stem Outreach and giving sight tours and
trying to encourage Workforce and and
folks to stay in in New Mexico uh we've
done some electric car testing out there
as well so here's here's a quick look at
what that looks like um down here in the
lower left is this 300t wingspan uh hap
system the High Altitude platform system
so it's covered in solar panels has 10
electric motors and and can fly 60,000
ft to 880,000 Ft and is designed to do
that for six months at a time and we
have three of those developers so
another one over here is Prismatic and I
think the one above it is Swift um and
then we have spin launch uh vertical
launches uh and then Virgin Galactic and
the Spaceport America cup is on the
left uh here's a quick look at air of
ironment again again this H this picture
was taken a few years ago we have a
newer picture but uh this is what this
thing looks like there's no tail Rudder
there's no fuselage it's just one giant
Wing um they're trying to get this FAA
certified and then their plans are to
have hundreds and hundreds of these that
can fill in around the globe for
surveillance for telecommunication cell
phone tower in the sky uh so this is a
really cool thing they built their own
facility out there they spent about 8
million
about 3 years ago and when they're
flying this thing they have somewhere
between 40 and 60 people in town uh and
again we're hoping for a long-term
presence from them uh Prismatic is
similar it's kind of hard to see what
we're looking at but the camera is at
the very end of the wing and it's
looking down at the fuselage and so it's
also flying I think about 65,000 ft so
there's another um high altitude
platform
system so getting back to Virgin
Galactic they had seven space flights
between junee uh
last year and and this year so those
were commercial flights so what they
proved for a little while you might
remember that you saw in the paper for
about three or four months in in a row
that they flew once a month and those
were commercial flights so they had
gotten all their everything improved by
the FAA they had passengers pain
passengers and they had uh payloads on
there so um what they are going to do
though is they've decided that they are
not going to fly for about uh 14 months
they're going to work on what's what
they're calling the Delta class of
spaceships so this spaceship the vsss
Imagine right here um they're going to
retire that although they may fly it
again but they're going to put all their
resources into the new spaceships and
the new spaceships you can go on their
website to look I put that down here but
the new spaceships are going to be a
little bit lighter they're going to use
some Advanced Construction techniques
and they're going to hold six passengers
at a time and when they come back with
two new spaceships their intent is to
fly 100 flights a year so that's going
to be very big for Las cruus to finally
have that regular Cadence uh one thing
we signed with them recently was a
letter of intent for what they're
calling a launch hanger so this will be
a facility they build out at the
Spaceport with their own money um it's a
lease of about 85 acres and the idea is
that they'll be able to keep that
Cadence up by using a launch hanger
rather than fueling out in the runways
which they currently
do um another activity out the site
here's here's about uh almost 2,000
students and participants of the
Spaceport America cup so I I don't know
how many of you know about the Spaceport
America cup so it's the world's largest
now uh inter cgic U Aerospace contest so
we have about 2,000 people that come to
the city of Los cruus this is in the
convention center um parking lot which
by the way uh the convention center is
not big enough for the expansion that
that our partner here the experimental
sounding rocket Association would like
to have um so we're we're kind of
crammed in there but you can see all the
different flags we have about uh 30
different countries I think we have 35
States and again 2,000 people that are
in Los cruus for a week a lot of them
come a few days early and they go around
the Southwest or they stay late um and
all of them are getting to know what Los
cruus is what New Mexico is what the
space port is so this is you know
probably one of our largest business
development efforts we actually have uh
a lot of these students have come back
and done testing at the Spaceport so
it's a huge benefit to Los cruus and the
Spaceport and it fills a big part of our
uh stem and Workforce Mission so and we
encourage UTEP uh New Mexico state New
Mexico Tech and un all participated and
we have a special prize for them called
the the chili cup and UNM won the chili
Cup this year they were the top local
school and our intent is to get other
schools involved like Navajo Tech or
Eastern University so we're working on
that this year um and here if you look
on the right you can see the sponsors
and I'm sorry that was 22 countries but
you can see the sponsors and a lot of
these you may not realize it but they're
name brand sponsors these are the folks
who are doing big things in the industry
and they're all getting to know what Los
cruus is and what space boort America
America
is um and here's a little tidbit our
4.84 million of of earn media on on this
so again if you were to go and in
Spaceport America cup and Google and
just see what comes up you will get
stories if you click on the news or the
YouTube you will get stories all across
the world of students who came here
because their local news stations report
on their big trip uh one of them was
Philippines um and their big win this
year was that they simply qualified that
the rocket passed follow their safety
inspections and that was big news back
in the Philippines um
so uh see and then we do a tremendous
amount of stem and Workforce uh Charlie
especially and some of our other staff
are constantly they go to the middle
schools or they bring students out again
trying to beat into them that you know
they can stay in New Mexico that stem is
a good career and it's not just stem
it's anything about having to do with
business you know um you need you need
business majors you need marketing
people you need HR people
all right so let me move ahead just a
little bit so uh space Valley is a term
that um some of us have invented and uh
and we started this by working on uh a
couple of Grants a grant was almost four
years ago now three and a half years ago
was a build back better grant that that
President Biden put in action so a bunch
of us on this list formed a a little
Coalition and we worked on that Grant we
didn't win the first prize but we won
the second prize which helped keep space
Valley up and running but you can see
the list of of folks involved and and
the reason I point this out and the
reason so many of us in Albuquerque are
pointing this out is because if you
really sit down and you look at our
region and you look at the resources we
have and the ability to support
Aerospace and space there's very few
places in the country like this there
just aren't you can't go to Kansas and
find this you're not going to find it
Nebraska Colorado does great um Texas is
doing great but really our region from
Albuquerque Del Paso is unique but we're
not pulled together and that's been the
problem and so uh giving it a name
calling it space Valley and starting to
focus on how to fill out the ecosystem
that we need to build that ecosystem is
a big part of it um and this is a big
opportunity for us um if what makes it
really unique is the fact that we have
an active licens Spaceport if if you
look at the other regions that have a
lot of components of this economic uh
engine you know this economic cluster
they don't have a space board they can
go to space eventually and one of the
things we're working on is to go to
orbit we're looking for that next um
customer that next client probably in 10
or 15 years that's going to be able to
come to New Mexico and go to orbit from
New Mexico and that's transformational
for the region you can't go to orbit
unless you can do payload processing you
can do rocket processing you can create
Commodities that you have a Workforce um
a lot has to happen between now and then
and the reason I call it the opportunity
for space Valley is it really requires
us to work together it requires Los
crusis and Albuquerque and Al Paso to
really start pulling together to figure
out what's missing in the ecosystem uh
we need investors we need the workforce
um we need everything to try and pull
that together and we have that
possibility um Spaceport is part of what
makes it a realizable thing because
again we can go to
space um so uh with Francisco's help
we've done a lot more in our side trying
to cooperate with other local edos
economic development organizations so uh
when they go to a show we provide
um uh literature for them and we educate
them on how to talk about it when we go
to a show we do the same thing so a lot
more of us are working together on how
we can build up this region for
Aerospace and
space
um and the reason this makes sense is
part of the reason this makes sense is
the global space economy we're in the
beginning stages of what the internet
was like 25 years ago or so the uh
growth in Aerospace and space is uh hard
to explain I don't know if any of you
have HBO Max but there's a new series on
called the wild wild space have anybody
seen that or heard about that if you if
you have uh HBO Max I suggest you watch
it they discuss what the Space Race
we're in and this is a space race for
the economy for um how people are going
to get to space everything we do is
related to space now you know whether
it's farming um whether it's all our our
our our um monetary transactions um all
of our Communications of course but
something has been happening in the last
15 years that is exploding the space
market and we're in the middle of that
Spaceport America and our region can be
in the middle of that so I put these up
there and invite you to to go look at um
you know do your own Google searches and
find out um here's some other we get all
us in the Spaceport get various
newsletters um space news is a great one
if you look around you just find uh case
after case after case of needing more
room at spaceports of companies uh
trying to go um and govern AB Abbott you
may not realize they voted on a $350
million package for what they're calling
the Texas space commission um a big
chunk of that is going to Texas A&M but
the rest of it is going to build either
other space ports or to improve
infrastructure and they're realizing
that economic gains of being involved in
space are huge um so uh again I invite
you to kind of do your own looking
around on Google and news and and just
look for space growth or commercial
space and and here's another good
example so this is the number of orbital
space launches worldwide so way down
here at the bottom 1957 I think it's
October 10th um is when Sputnik launched
um and I have I placed these incorrectly
but the last you see where the Cold War
was um so a lot of space to orbit
launches took place and then we went
down over time and I can barely read
this but here's 2006 um very much at the
at the bottom is about when the space
port started and then to the right of
that again I placed these in the wrong
place uh SpaceX which is now dominating
the market with about 90% of the
launches in the world uhu had their
first launch and then just after that we
had the end of the Space Shuttle project
but if you look at the number of orbital
launches I had to add the little orange
bar here for 20 2023 and if you look
where it's going to go for 2024 it's
it's kind of going crazy again this is
this is just like the beginning of the
dotcom or the beginning of the internet
and we're just in that new era and
luckily New Mexico is a place where we
can take advantage of
that um over here on the right I have
some other rocket launch providers who
you're going to hear about over the next
few years blue origin of course is owned
by Jeff Bezos Amazon founder rocket lab
has had I think 50 or 60 successful
launches a whole bunch of them from New
Zealand believe it or not but they're
building a big facility in wups Island
Virginia and then these other smaller
ones are going to compete uh what we're
trying to do is find out which one of
these or what new competitor can come to
New Mexico and launch from New Mexico
and that's going to be a hard cell for a
while because their rocket system is
going to have to be safer than when you
launch over the ocean to launch over
people you have to have a rocket system
that's going to be able to abort and uh
maybe have a parachute or just some
different things those are technologies
that we're capable of but nobody has
developed them yet we're working with
our federal delegation to help develop
something with a space force or somebody
else that would create that Marketplace
because all of these sites I showed you
before Vandenburg and and the Florida
sites are vulnerable to earthquake um
hurricane or an adversary coming in and
wiping out the Spaceport so believe it
or not DOD interest and being able to
conduct Inland launches is a very high
priority and we're really the number one
Spaceport to help that
happen um very quickly going back to
Virgin Galactic I mentioned that they're
going to have two new spaceships
somewhere around a 100 launches a year
we expect in the next 18 months or so um
these are passenger flights um some will
have payload um that means there'll be
about 600 new space flight participants
which is what the FAA calls them space
flight participants um and or astronauts
that would mean about 12,000 visitors to
Los cruus maybe 60,000 room nights so I
think that's a pretty big number it's
something we should be excited about I
don't know whether we have that much
Hotel space um and uh if they were to go
to four to five spaceships which is in
their plan 3 to 400 flights a year using
just a simple multiplier we're talking
about 180,000 room nights in in my
estimate that's back of the envelope
calculation now we all know that it's
taken quite a while um for Virgin to get
this far but they're still at it they're
still with us we're still partnered um
so um we're going to keep supporting
them and I think they're going to make
it there um the the way I come up with
those numbers is uh each space flight
participant has what we found and virgin
has told us there about 20 friends and
family on average come with whoever is
going to fly in the in the in the
spaceship so these are big things now
Virgin Galactic is focused on something
that is called space tourism and believe
it or not there's a whole society
dedicated to that the space tourism
society and what that looks like um in
this simple representation is going to
space is at the very top um watching a
movie or doing an earth-based simulation
is at the bottom and that that pyramid
means the number of people who are
participate so at the bottom you have a
lot of people participating at the top
you don't have very many and to be more
detailed about it using the into the
same pyramid here's all the activities
that this Society the space tourism
Society likes to talk about in terms of
space tourism and the reason I bring
that up is because when you bring as
many people to town as we're talking
about for Virgin Galactic those people
need something to do and that means
there's opportunities for business
people in Los cruus to come up with
other activities so when those people
spend a week here in town they're also
doing other things in town and I think
Las cruus has been behind in thinking
about this um El Pas of course is is
where the people stay to go fly in the
on the blue origin uh capsule in Van
Horn Texas but both of us should be
thinking in terms of what happens when
those people who are interested in space
come to town and have that one person
actually go to space so uh this is just
something to think about um there
actually is something called a space
tourism uh convention or um conference U
that we've participated in the past
we'll probably go again but as we learn
more about how to promote this we'll
bring it back to you and I'll give you
one example would be um an immersion
tank and that's a a tank kind of about
the size of this room where they project
on the sides of the tank space they put
you in a suit and then you go down and
you float and that's a profitable
undertaking in other parts of the world
but I'm not saying that that's right for
Las cruus but that's the sort of things
that space tourism um Can Happen and
that's the sort of thing where Las cruus
could start looking at how do you work
together with Virgin Galactic and all
those other people coming to town
uh conferences and media and I bring
that up because the Spaceport America
brand is pretty well known uh throughout
the throughout the world now and we have
people who want to come to the Spaceport
we're building a new building soon that
will be able to support some meetings
and things out there um but people like
coming where the space activities occur
they like to go watch a launch and we
built a viewing lot out at our site for
Virgin Galactic launches mostly and also
anybody who wants to see things and we
get about 20 to 40 cars every time
there's been a launch from Virgin
Galactic and a lot of those people were
out of town I went and talked to those
folks and a lot of them came out of town
just to watch a
launch um so let me uh I'm almost at the
UN here sorry a future Spaceport America
in the region so again space tourism as
a hub we need to think about what that
means um orbital launches and re-entry
so we have a a capability for vertical
and horizontal launch as part of our
launch license that's not just
suborbital if we get a customer who
wants to go to orbit they can do that it
just means that the FAA has to okay it
as part of their uh application FAA but
we're also working on a re-entry license
so an orbital re-entry license I don't
know how many of you are aware you've
probably heard about the Boeing capsule
kind of a debacle a little bit um of
course it's already landed twice at wh
Sand's Missile Range and sometime in the
next few weeks it's going to fly over
Los cruus again and land and Whit Sand's
Missile Range just one more part of what
we're trying to call space Valley um I
went out the very first time it came out
and I could hear the the sonic boom and
that flew over us um so watch for when
it comes in and make sure you're
outdoors and you might be able to hear
it as well um but we are working on
orbal to re-entry there's other vehicles
I'll talk about one in a minute and the
bottom here a port city so that sounds
very out there but if you think about
what's happening in space if you think
about the amount of Commodities that are
going to have to go to space in the next
20 years we're talking solar panels
people food um right now there are
people being born who are going to work
in a hotel in space they're going to fly
up in space they're going to work in the
hotel for a week or two and then they're
going to come home again um this is
what's happening up there and happening
around us we can have a part of that and
when I say a port city I really mean
that the idea that that countries and
regions built ports um usually a
government expense for the sole purpose
of bringing in Commerce and Industry and
we are a port especially if you combine
that what's going on in Santa Teresa and
and other parts South it's something
unique again that no other region really
has an ability to
support so here here's our re-entry
vehicle we signed anou with Sierra space
a couple years ago they may launch this
year it's get starting to get a little
bit doubtful but um this would fly up on
a rocket vertically and then it comes
down horizontally and what's interesting
about Sierra space is this this first
vehicle which this is not an accurate
representation but I I put it there
because they're landing on a Runway that
looks like ours um the first vehicle is
just going to be a cargo vehicle the the
next Vehicles will be human rated and
then further vehicles will be factories
in space so one of the big things that's
happening in space is the ability to
manufacture in space and the first
capsule that ever did that was launched
by a company called vaa last year and it
came down recently safely um and that
when it went up it was able to do things
in space in terms of manufacturing
mixing uh things together that can't be
done in in gravity so that is going to
be a new whole new business model where
uh something like this vehicle and other
vehicles get launched they manufacture
up in space and they have have to land
we're trying to become a prime landing
area for that activity and again that
makes us part of that that thinking of
us as a
port um so uh really in the long term
what we're looking for is customers and
growth um we're continuing to uh expand
fac uh facilities not faculties but
facilities um you know one of the things
about the companies we deal with is they
they put all their energy into the
technology all their money all their
resources and the technology they're
developing they don't really really have
money to go build a hanger or to go put
in a water line and S very similar to
the industrial park that I know Las
cruus has been working very hard on for
a long time you have to put stuff in the
ground to attract people to come they
don't have time and money to put it in
the ground themselves so we are building
a new hanger um according to Francisco
we'll probably have that leased out
almost full-time very quickly um and
then we'll probably try and put in
another hanger and we're also putting in
some roads but uh getting the facilities
and getting ready for customers to come
in is a big part of it again Virgin
Galactic is putting in a launch hanger
um that will at their own expense and
that's 85 Acres that they're going to uh
rent uh from us leas from us that we
leas from the state land office that
will increase our revenue and um less
Reliance on our state funds um we're
working very hard with our federal level
partners and uh there is a lot to that
in in look again looking at Inland space
as a as a an inland Spaceport as a place
to launch uh uh going forward and then
working with all across with the city of
Las cruus and all of our partners in
Albuquerque and El Paso and the region
to keep promoting the area as a place
where entrepreneurs can locate and where
companies can locate and that's the hard
thing as we all know there was an
article this morning in uh the business
first in the Albuquerque Journal um not
business vers but Alber K Journal
business page and I think there was one
last week it's going to be a series
about why New Mexico has been hard it's
hard for businesses to stay or locate in
New Mexico and that problem of of why
new mexic Mexico has had stagnant
population growth and is not considered
business friendly is again something we
all have to work on um it doesn't do any
good to try and build up the Spaceport
if only Albuquerque or only Las cus is
helping or the state does we a few
things we all have to work together on
that um and then uh just two more slides
I think we did do an economic impact in
2022 and uh so here are some stats on on
getting that done that was done by the
MSU border Economic Development CED who
also did one for the border so this was
independent we helped them gather the
data but they did all the analysis
themselves um and of course we we're
looking at new money direct and indirect
and induced jobs so what we found was we
had in 2022 we had 811 jobs that are
associated with the Spaceport and we
like to look at value added the new
money we had $60 million of new money
that was brought into the economy so
that's $60 million that would not have
come into the region into the state if
not but for the Spaceport we also tried
to calculate the visitor today
um nights that was 9,000 and the overall
construction at the Spaceport was 12
million and that's that's averaged about
10 million a year 2023 we're working on
that report now um I think this will go
up for 2024 or probably go down a little
bit because the Virgin Galactic taking a
break but we're going to try and put
this out every year we also gave you a
copy of the annual report we're trying
to put an annual report every year so
hopefully you can review that at when
you have some few minutes and then
lastly um we we are we haven't had an
open house in a while so we're going to
have an open house September 8th um very
welcome to come out we're going to have
two different times that we try and get
people out and kind of run two different
programs it will be a stem event we're
allowing be a fly in Virgin Galactic our
partner will have the hanger open you'll
be able to see the spaceship and they'll
teach you a little bit about their
future um but you get to stand out on
the apron and and you get to see the big
um gateway to space building uh behind
us so I think that's it there's uh be
happy to have any and I didn't get
Cecilia's name on there CU I forgot she
was going to come but um but very happy
to take any questions uh mayor protim
and counselor so thank you very much
thank you Mr mclin am I saying that
correct yes thank you um I can't Council
Floris is your yes go ahead uh thank you
Madame chair and thank you Mr
mlin what is this in your yeah I
couldn't tell your light was on ah
better them okay so um what I would like
to have seen uh since the city of lasas
and the county of Dona Ana have
contributed um I would have liked to
have seen a breakdown as to the benefits
for our city um you you talked a lot
about you presented a lot of information
of what's to come if we do this this
will happen if we do
that what to date has been the benefit
for our people uh you showed uh the
employment of of I think whatever it is
800 whatever um but it doesn't break it
down to how many are from Las guses from
the New Mexico area are they from the El
Paso area um and with all due respect to
Texans um I you know our my interest is
to see how much benefit our city has
received our county has received you
didn't present that information and you
um so that was
um that was very disconcerting for me um
and then you you um you had all these
other data and whatever but um it it
really didn't pinpoint you're talking
about how many people come in when the
the youth come in and there's so many
beds that are going to be needed and
this that and the other um but we don't
have a breakdown of how much money that
really brought in presumably it brought
in a few bucks relatively speaking um
but I think part of your pitch today
with all due respect pitch uh your
presentation is to uh probably ask the
city for more money and so I just I just
want to know what the Tit for Tat is I
mean just bottom line and I I don't know
if you have it I don't know if Dr pattis
would have it um it'd be good to know
thank you yeah counselor so we also
handed out the full economic impact
report and so the statistics for Onana
County and Sierra County are actually in
there um the way the the way the
economic impact report calculates where
those jobs are we think is is not as
accurate as it could be because uh the
people work in Sierra County so those
are counted as Sierra County jobs but we
all know from those of us who work at
the Spaceport most of the people who
work at the Spaceport right now live in
the city of Las Cruses so those numbers
are in there um we're going to do a
better job of improving um the uh the
Fidelity of those numbers but that table
I showed you this table there's a
similar table in in the report for
doniana County and for Sierra County and
some other statistics about what what
exactly uh we're trying to get out and
um and I realize that you know this is
the um the first really kind of detailed
economic impact that's been done by the
Spaceport you know and so we're going to
do this every year so your questions Dr
PL heard them and um we're again we're
adding Fidelity to the 2023 economic
impact report
and uh we'll make sure those questions
are answered in
there anyone else any other
questions any members of the
public all right thank you so much all
right thank you thank you for your time
question go ahead counc notice so you
say you said Mr that there is that we
have um Federal Partners where we who
are the federal Partners go ahead no no
who are they and um how do they play in
terms of uh you the revenue sharing so C
Council Flores of the space ports um the
commercial space ports the um the the
the traditional Federal space ports are
still receiving and have to receive
federal funds for um decades and they're
continuing and um of the commercial
spaceports there's almost no federal
money that has gone to any Spaceport any
commercial Spaceport so when I'm talking
about our federal Partners I'm talking
about our our delegation um our Senators
and our Representatives who I'm working
with and others are working in to make
sure that we are starting to get
infrastructure funds to build out the
Spaceport so we can support things like
the US space force launches and also
just to help the United States compete
worldwide because the graph I showed you
with orbital launches and some of the
other things that are happening is not
just the United States that included the
rest of the world which is also moving
very quickly toward space so trying to
get our support on the federal side is
is a big part of what we're working on
right
now and have you presented to the county
to the County Commission yes great yes
ma'am thank you very much thank you
Madame chair thank you all right thank
you for your time mayor proam if I oh I
just thought of a question sure go
ahead um you know it's very difficult
your presentation because a lot of it is
the future and when we developed the
referendum for the space port back in
2004 was it was quite a hard Hard Sell
because you know Richard Branson the
Spaceport and but our Council I think
had that vision and I think u a lot of
the impact that that you're going to
have in the Spaceport is is futuristic
but it it's actually where we're going
in other words when you see the
spaceports in other cities and how many
have developed we realize that space
tourism and maybe Chris could put
something together that would be very um
easy to read when The Lodges tax you
when people are staying in hotels and
you're looking at, to 1500 people
staying in our hotels that's quite a
benefit to the city of Los cruus from
the lares tax and what we support our
convention center and other things visit
Los crues so I think there's a lot of
things that are that are very good but
it's very hard to see because it's a
space and so thank you for your
presentation and and I I think you'll
see you know you're young enough you're
going you're going you're going to see
the the the futuristic benefits of the
Spaceport probably and at least uh I I
think it'll be very dramatic once
Richard Brans they take their break and
they develop the new spaceship I think
you'll see the tourism quite increase
quite a lot in 14 to 18 months so thank
you for the presentation all right thank
you councelor thank you thank you
certainly hope you're right councelor
matis is
uh maybe more of skeptical on this
Vision uh person but certainly hope you
are right because it was a large
investment thank you thank you mayor Pro
item 3.2 City strategic plan and Vio
public
dashboard and we have Mark Miller and
Shan Shanna I spaced your last name
completely just now B thank
you good afternoon Madam uh mayor perm
and city council I am Shri Janna bunet
the city Innovation and strategy
administrator or so they call
me so today uh we're here to present the
invisio strategic planning um platform
for you all and very briefly the
presentation is going to be divided into
these three um topics so I'm going to
give you a little bit of background on
the city's Strat plan um or strategic
plan and then hand over to Mr Mark
Miller um to go in depth on the actual
invisio platform and the public
dashboard so so of course uh most if not
all of you are familiar with the city of
Las Cruses strategic plan this is our
short to midterm plan um and we update
it every two to five years uh depending
on um council's
wishes and right now our strategic plan
has a planning Horizon of five years
it's roughly divided into six themes uh
with the addition of some very specific
Council goals um and most of the goals
in the Strategic plan come directly from
Elevate Las Cruis which is our
comprehensive
plan so the one thing I want to um do
today is take this opportunity to give
you all a little bit of background and
context on the why and how we're here
today um for especially for the new
counselors and and then for those of you
who are familiar with this uh strategic
plan and our comprehensive plan this
will serve as a little bit of a
refresher as we prep for the city
strategic Plan
update so Las cruus is an inclusive
community uh that is the one thing I'm
going to kind of Point your attention to
today and stress on because what we are
trying to do with this platform speaks
to that specific um directive in our
vision statement this vision statement
of course was crafted
through years of public engagement um we
do uh have a comprehensive plan that had
um engaged thousands of members of our
community uh focus groups
stakeholders and then
in uh at that time the mayor and City
council's judgment they wanted to honor
that input and that engagement and so
most of what you see in our current city
strategic plan um was direct ly uh
brought in from the Elevate
comprehensive
plan so this is the rough overview of uh
the planning framework for last cruus uh
we we have our regional plans um and uh
they inform us uh we as a municipality
engage in the creation of those re
Regional plans as well so that they take
our input into consideration and so we
have these uh more Regional uh focused
planning documents that guide us and uh
tie the more uh WID spanning issues in
our region we then have our City's
comprehensive plan that's our longrange
plan um and it is comprehensive for a
reason uh we do tend to um if we don't
carefully weigh all of the policies
together uh with different perspectives
and lenses working together there is a
potential to miss out uh and have gaps
in our policy framework and there can be
unintended consequences of specific
policy um adoption even with the best
intentions so it's all about the leg
work the data that went into that the
information that was gathered and then
how it directs the city and guides Us in
terms of growth management and the
future for the next 25
years so the policy plans um there are
several of them in the city and all of
them are adopted by the city council uh
there are a few technical plans that the
departments use uh for specific um
internal
um work um but really when we refer to
technical plans we are referring to the
ones that are actually adopted by city
council uh for example the parks and
recm plan would be one of those and then
we have our implementation tools so we
do the planning we do all the community
engagement we have a plan that you all
adopt and then it is directed by the
city manager to staff to go ahead and
Implement that plan so we have the
budget the municipal code that gives us
regulations and we have the CIP that
will actually Implement uh or the
capital Improvement plan that will
implement the comprehensive plan's
physical framework but we also have our
strategic plans so the city's strategic
plan is both a planning tool and
uniquely also an implementation tool
because it will take that long range
plan and it will put it in focus for
staff and for the community to know what
our priorities
are so a little bit of
the
how part of the frustration in planning
for
years for people who come to our
meetings who provide input is that they
don't necessarily see and we don't as
staff necessarily see the implementation
happening quickly and effectively why
because something gets Lost in
Translation between the plan and the
actions
so planning and implementation is a line
of business that was newly created just
a couple years ago to
meet that transition Gap so how do we
take these goals and these far-reaching
visions and translate them into
day-to-day action items so part of what
the invidual platform does is help us
manage our
plans and report on and see the progress
so we're able to prioritize to course
correct and to let you all and the
general public really track and monitor
what is happening with the goals that
you all have set for
us part of this um and I won't go too
much into detail on this because Mark
has a full presentation for you but part
of the prioritization really helps City
staff see the value in operationalizing
these goals so when do we start an
action item what what are the resources
available to us how do I as a department
director plan and program my
Staffing uh my priorities within the
department to meet these lofty goals so
everybody has to be working together but
also
know what are the issues and be able to
bring that to the attention of City
management so in order for any plan to
be successful you need both external and
internal buyin external buyin hard
fought we did the Outreach we did the
let work and the community embraced the
city comprehensive and strategic
plans internal buyin is about the
bureaucracy the technocrats the staff
really embracing these policies and
saying we are here to make this happen
so how do we go about doing it because
we have to get the work
done this is one way we make all of that
work transparent and
rewarding and hold people accountable so
it's not to blame or punish is to really
track what is successful and what is not
so
hopefully when you see the public
dashboard you will recognize it for its
value and also helping the policy makers
in order for you all to be a little bit
more strategic you can hone in on
certain things what is the topic that
you are making a policy on are there
related actions have we progressed on
that are there things that you need to
add as
resources is management asking for that
so there's so many strategic
conversations that can happen once we
have something like this in
place so with that I'm going to thank
you all for your support so far I want
to thank the city manager who is our
executive sponsor for envisio um and all
of the department staff who have worked
so hard um in in helping make this a
success and hopefully it will be Mark
Miller lead
planner uh good afternoon everyone uh
Mark Miller for the record uh interim
lead planner with planning and
implementation
okay okay so I'm going to talk a little
bit more specifically about nisu walk
you through what the platform is what it
does what it's capable of um and then
specifically get into the public
dashboard uh the city strategic plan
public dashboard and actually bring it
up on screen and walk you through it um
some of you may remember we did do a
little kind of sneak peek at the CIP
Retreat this past year um so some of
that will be a little bit of um repeat
information but at that time it wasn't
live to the public public um and it
wasn't all filled out with the the true
information
right so first off what is invisio um
it's a plan management Tool uh but when
I say plan management um it's everything
from actually displaying the plan
storing those recommendations in in one
single spot for staff to access
internally um and where we can compile
gather um progress information update
from City staff and then subsequently
report it out in in a a few different
ways um in terms of features uh we can
actually put unlimited plans into there
we have automated reporting internally
uh that we can leverage it does have
analytics meaning we can we can
visualize performance measures um show
you know different
uh specific Targets on those
visualizations uh we can do dashboards
obviously we're talking about one of the
plan dashboards today but it also has
analytic dashboard
capabilities um that we can use both
internally and
externally um it overall it's intended
to um manage plans more efficiently
increase transparency and accountability
and and be a reporting tool but but
bottom line it's to help us improve our
implementation of the
plans um I I think one key thing that I
want to highlight is that decentralized
approach um that invisio gives us
uh staff are able to actually get into
the platform and be assigned as as an
owner of specific recommendations within
our plan so any given action within the
Elevate Los crues comprehensive plan
which is 500 plus actions there's a
specific staff member who actually owns
each one of those actions now and is
responsible for proving the updates of
course they're not solely responsible
they have to work within their
departments interdepartmentally with
their Department
leadership um but at the end of the day
we have owners and contributors
identified and so we're used to it's
kind of difficult for some staff to
understand where um their day-to-day
operations kind of fit in the overall
planning framework now it's it's far
more accessible to say oh this is where
my XYZ the day-to-day activities
contributes to these big picture
overarching goals and our plans I think
it's a really really key strength of
this platform that we've gotten good
feedback on so
far um this graphic just kind of gives
an overall picture of the process um
capabilities that that invisio
has um we're able to Define collect
visualize those analytics um we're able
to display the plan link and show that
Cascade of theme goal action at the
bottom level um I will say about this
graphic it puts analytics just a bit
before plan but but in reality these are
kind of working in concert with each
other once we have those set up we can
report on it regularly we can push out a
lot of internal reports um to City
management to Department leadership and
then ultimately to the public
dashboard um one key thing throughout
this this process that's listed there is
that the platform and each of these
steps is intended to
um facilitate those strategic decision
making conversations um or thought
processes uh this is kind of just a a
bird's eye view of our implementation of
the software um I won't go into uh each
one in a lot of detail um uh but suffice
to say uh these these items began you
know a little over a year ago at this
point um we have 179 users as of the
18th of this month um which is is a huge
amount of of users in this platform it
was a multi- multimon process to get the
software set up get everyone trained up
on it um build our build out our actual
plans in the platform in a way that that
works for us um then subsequently
operationalize uh all of those actions
all 500 of those actions so defining
priorities owners contributors to it
start and end
dates um uh checklist items more discret
things that we can tackle to try to chip
away at a at a complex
action um all of Staff did a first round
of updates to all 500 actions um we
built out the public Dash board it's now
public um it's launched and then also
building out a reporting framework
internally so me mentioning all of these
things is really just to to give staff
um of course p& staff um uh credit but
the organization as a whole and City
management is a huge amount of work um
how we're approaching what invisio
allows us to do is is different it's a
different way of interacting with our
plans it's a different way of thinking
about um our plans and and that's
difficult to do such an effort
organization wide but uh We've really
just been met with support and it's it's
been great so
far okay so getting into the the actual
dashboard
right um real quick I do want to show
you uh this kind of basic pyramid of
invisio reporting um just to show you
that the the public dashboard there at
the top um is kind of like the tip of
the iceberg for a reporting um staff
review their updates quarterly and if
there does need to be an update to that
you know or Vision to those updates um
they'll put that in we have monthly
reports that are automated to go out to
staff we have quarterly reports um that
are automated to go out to City
management as well as Department
leadership but all of those steps all of
them stack on top of each other to get
us to that public dashboard that the
community and city council is able to
see um so what is the the public
dashboard it's transparency and
accountability Tool uh it displays the
plan in a way that's that's accessible
and and easy to navigate through and I
think is more intuitive than a uh you
know PDF or or a couple hundred page
document that you're flipping through it
presents it in a way where it's not
really linear you don't have to read
page 1 2 3 4 Etc and you can kind of
just Choose Your Own Adventure which
which when I show it here in a minute
we'll
see um it provides progress updates
narrative status updates progress
percentages colorcoded
statuses we can include performance
measures in it and you can embed
anything that's embeddable on um public
websites images videos Etc
um I we did send out an email to city
council um notifying and providing
access to the public dashboard if you
remember it's housed um on our
transparency and accountability page on
the public website um so it has been
kind of soft launched for the last I
want to say close to a month now um but
a press release is going out to kind of
hard launch it
today um so I'm going to go ahead and
hop into the actual dashboard now
can you
see okay so here is the the homepage of
the dashboard um of course we have um
you know beautiful mountains in the
background um obligatory for last cruus
we have to um here at the
top you have the full plan readout so
this little wheel here on the left gives
you the percentages of the overall plan
status you have them listed here and
then defined here so you know what's the
difference between a major disruption or
some disruption it's defined here so
that so that we're clear on what each of
these
means um and actually before I continue
I do want to mention one thing um that
as I'm going through this I'm really
just more going to talk about the
functionality of the dashboard and walk
you through how it works and not so much
the specific percentages the specific
action updates it's just not really the
intent of today's um agenda
item um so here on the right uh you have
the the overall progress of the plan
this progress percentage is about
completion so it's saying that there is
x amount percentage progress completed
of the
plan we scroll down a bit we can see uh
you know basic introductory text of what
the city strategic plan is we have the
vision statement um that Shan was
mentioning earlier
here a little bit uh discussing that
connection over to the comprehensive
plan and then we have our themes so the
comprehensive plan or sorry the
Strategic plan plan has uh six themes we
have Community Prosperity education
Community Services environmental
sustainability Capital Improvement and
infrastructure communication involvement
and followup and Public
Safety on each of these if you hover
over you can actually see the progress
so here it just pops up this little blue
bar for each one you can see the
progress of each
theme and then here similar to that kind
of overall at the top um you can see the
status percentages for each theme again
um so the way invisio works is that you
click and you drill down further and
further into the plan with more and more
detail so if we click there on community
Prosperity it has a quick description
here of what topics are included within
Community
prosperity and we have our progress
percentage and the statuses
the the kind of status distribution you
could call
it and then below we have a list of all
of our goals that are nested under that
theme and similarly we have the progress
percentages
listed and then the status distributions
for each of those um so just so that
everyone understands kind of how these
numbers are coming about um let's just
say hypothetically that you only had two
goals right here and one of them was
100% and one of them was0 Z then your
theme percentage would be
50% if there was four of them three of
them were at 100% one was Zero then it'd
be at 75% for the overall theme so it's
rolling up they're all equally weighted
and it's just calculating it that way
and it is the same thing for these
statuses here on the
right um so if we go ahead and uh drill
a little bit further down um and
this
one we go a little bit further down into
the goal level now we can see all of the
actions that are
contributing to this
goal and same format if there's a
progress percentage it's listed here and
then statuses are listed here on the
right and then we can drill down one
more
level and this is where we actually see
the updates from City staff um so we
have progress highlights
um this is the section where um staff
can highlight uh successes of of City
staff of the organization or of the work
that we're doing with Community
Partners um and really give a good
overview of where we are on this action
for the community for city council right
we also have this little uh section here
that says issue this is where we can
transparently and and clearly write out
and have everyone to see uh what issues
we're facing uh in order to implement
that
action uh you also have a section for
next steps uh you have a section that
says date one uh key thing that's when
the the update was put in just because
the date is a little older doesn't mean
that it's out of date these are reviewed
quarterly by staff um if it hasn't been
updated in a while then that's that's
because the staff members deemed that
there's not further updates at this
time um and then finally you'll have
little checklist items here sometimes
this is just showing key items that have
been completed that contributed to this
action um you see the status up here and
if there was a progress percentage for
this particular action it would just be
listed right here in the same way that
it has been in in the rest of the
platform um so that is the the basic
functionality of going up and down
drilling down into the plan um and where
you find the information this here is
the only place that you'll find uh
details defined by City staff the rest
of it is calculated percentages and
Status
percentages um but it's not the only way
that you can navigate through here um so
if a community uh member or or
yourselves comes in here it's also
searchable so let's just say that
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you're uh interested in Economic
Development overall then it's going to
shoot out anywhere where economic
development is is mentioned in the the
dashboard or if you want to do something
more spec specific um like mobile
Integrated
Health you can see where it's
specifically called out but an important
piece of this I think is that um it's
not just uh searching the actual action
language the plan it's also searching
the status um updates from staff so I
just searched Road Runner and you see
that the action doesn't actually have
Road Runner written in it but that's
because it's down here so it does
actually search the full status updates
from staff so that's that's a really
neat feature built into
there um I I think kind of parting
thoughts on on this um I think the
the the more intuitive way of
interacting with the plan that drill
down um is a really important bit but I
I think what I want to leave you with on
on this um is is that this demonstrates
how we can get into this nitty-gritty
details of specific projects and then we
can really clearly see how one action
chipping away at all of these actions
contributes up to the goal that
contributes up to an entire theme and
ultimately the overall plan and moving
towards the overall Community Vision um
I think making that connect ction and
seeing that in real time like this is is
really valuable um community members are
basically able to to come in and choose
their own adventure and whatever topic
they're interested in whatever is
Meaningful to them they can come in here
search around click around and get
information quickly and essentially
directly from staff so yeah um with that
I'm going to hop back
over uh so future improvements uh
internally we'll be doing a lot more
staff training um improving or
increasing utilization um improvements
to our internal reporting which of
course would result in improvements to
our public
dashboard uh the inter integration of
analytic visualizations so just
performance measures um onto the public
dashboard we'll be uh trying to tackle
that soon um and I do want to actually
show a quick example of
that uh qualifier on this one uh I get
data for this is just we had a dashboard
internally that's been built um with
quality of life data but we want to show
you uh what it could look
like so this is just a a basic dashboard
that was put together
um you can put whatever design colors
you want on it um we can build out quite
a few other types of visualizations in
here but you can see that it's
interactive and same way the rest of
invisio is you can come in open up make
them big so you can actually read
them uh you can Define targets like for
example here say you see a a threshold
built into it um for whatever measure
that we're looking at um and this type
of dashboard or these
individual visualizations will embed
directly onto here so you could have
them you know listed here for
pertinent measures that we want to show
um and we tentatively have which ones we
likely will be showing but we'll be
rolling that out kind of
iteratively um and then finally uh I do
want to mention that in August uh the
26th um we'll be having actually the
first
ever report out on the city strategic
plan so of course we're going to be
utilizing invisio reports reporting
internally build that out for you all um
and use the public dashboard to kind of
facilitate that report out to you all um
and and as sh mentioned that's in
preparation for the city strategic Plan
update um with that um I'll stand for
questions thank you all thank you Mark I
appreciate your presentation both of you
any questions from yes go ahead uh
councelor M thank you um do you have
plans I mean it's a great program do you
have plans to um coordinate and with the
the Educational Systems with elementary
schools Junior High and high schools to
actually make this available and educate
them onpl because the reason I say that
um I I may not spend as much time only
because you know the the older group
doesn't have a lot of time and they want
to spend in computers but I think this
would be an exciting feature for to to
educate in all the schools because I I
think my grandson would just love to go
through this and the
transparency you know the planning and
the an the analytics and you know
artificial intelligence what you could
put into this plan would be fantastic
and I I don't know if you plan that but
I think it'd be a great thing to to
bring to the principles the education
department and and make it make it part
of the part of their curriculum it's
it's great great plan thank you uh mayor
pretend councelor matis that's that's
not something I thought about but that
is a really great idea and we'll give
that some
thought thank you I love that for all
the municipal government nerds out there
they do exist yeah yes councelor Corin
and another municipal government nerd I
am I am all about the graphs thank you
again Mark I am all super excited for
these um I have one sort of question or
hope or thing that I hope can be sort of
integrated in some way um and I I know
that this is a lot for staff to be
inputting this information but this
thank you for this presentation first of
all this is great I am full on municipal
government numbers nerd and I I love any
cool tools that make things transparent
and accessible to folks I'm wondering I
know that staff put in I was reading
some of the preliminary things that
folks have put in sort of about the
progress and their assessments I'm
hoping that when um and again I know
this would be a whole another level of
sort of integration but I'm hoping that
if we have information related to the
budget for each of these items um that
that could be potentially part of the
drilled down information that's included
that is like if we were to fully
implement this it would cost this and
and I know that that's a lot of
information we don't have that
information in a lot of cases but if
that could be a part of it I think that
would also really be helpful for us when
we consider saying oh I think we should
do this or I think we should do that and
having if there is a place where we can
say oh that would cost x amount of
dollars it would be really helpful I
think for our conversations about how we
move things forward like what what does
this mean in dollars um in and and I
know that that's not always known that's
often an unknown quantity but I think
that that would be a helpful data point
if there's any way to integrate it if if
I realized that would be a huge separate
project but I just think it's it's
helpful where that information exists it
would be great if it could be included
in those narrative Parts um and then the
this part is not related to the
dashboards necessarily but it is related
to planning and I'm just doing this
because we don't have counselor comments
on work session days but I do want to
point out Regional plans there's a
regional water planning session here on
on Wednesday from 3: to 7 on the second
floor not related to any of these things
I'm just giving a quick public reminder
that it's happening here and there will
be a plan document someday created
related to water um and the city is is
collaborating with the interstate stream
commission to help create that so just
as a note if you care about that um this
Wednesday from 3:00 to 7: on the second
floor so um if you care about planning
and being a nerd I hope you'll come so
that's it thank you thank you I love the
plug councelor Corin and I do love the
idea of adding a budget um it item yes
councelor Flores oh thank you madam
chair and thank you uh Mark Mr Miller um
I have a question for you Choose Your
Own Adventure did you read those
books mayor Pro councilor Flores I did
quite a bit yes I I think the Goosebumps
Choose Your Own Adventure was was one of
my Choose Your Own Adventure was like
wow um so thank you very much for
presenting this adventure thank
you thank you any other questions um
I'll I'll take an opportunity then just
to um this what you showed us today um
that that is all that's what's going to
be um shown to the public right that's
what's going to be accessible to the
public uh mayor prot it is currently
accessible to the public it's on the
public website um the only thing that
I'll add is we did not we wanted to make
sure everything was working correctly
and and we were totally ready we did a
soft lunch so it was on the public
website for anyone who's on there
already on the transparency
accountability page but we didn't do a
hard press release social media that's
uh we're beginning that now now um we I
think the press release I don't think
it's gone out quite yet I think it'll go
out maybe today um and then that'll be
followed by social media and also this
unveiling to city council um but it is
currently available to the public okay
thank you that's really exciting um I'm
also mostly excited to see items like um
our energy transition plan at the
utilities is that in those kinds of
items are included on
there uh mayor proam there I think some
staff have made reference to other plans
okay um but currently the only plan
actually in the platform and live would
be the city strategic plan okay well I
think this was part of the Strategic
plan so if it was it would be
included the May pretend there's there's
Associated goals okay um but that plan
itself would be separate though okay got
it for the August work session will you
send us with good enough time any um
materials that we can come prepared for
uh not quite ready to say exactly just
how much we'll be sending out prior to
the intent is to provide information um
prior but just not sure how much at this
point okay thank you okay any other
questions members of the
public mayor poim if I may oh yes
sorry bar and Como for the record I just
wanted to go back to the comment that
councel matis made with respect to
involving and educating the youth and um
you know Wonderful a wonderful platform
uh like this one in the fall we will be
having the developing youth leaders um
uh program that's associated with our
neighborhood Leadership Academy but it's
targeted to high schoolers primarily and
middle schoolers but I think that um
understanding this tool and how we use
it and clicking through it would be a
great addition to the curriculums I know
Katrina will be putting that curriculum
together and that's for the two-e fall
break um that's when it happen happens
for our students so appreciate the the
suggestion that could be one way we
could incorporate that idea thanks
thanks
Barbara any last words U mayor pan no
I'm that's all for us thank you okay
wait hold on we have one more from Sonia
sorry Sonia I didn't see you no no it's
okay thank you mayor protm members of
council Sonia Delgado assistant city
manager I just wanted to say thank you
to the p&i team for doing an exceptional
job um you I know you spent a lot of
time and effort and many many hours
hours so this is great and we're really
looking forward to it I'd also like to
send out a shout out to all the
directors and their teams who assisted
in gain all that information in on a
timely manner to make this happen so
thanks again thank you thank you Sonia
that was beautiful okay thank you and
that is it entertain a motion to adour
so move by
florus seconded by Corin thank
you this is on the motion to the work
session councelor McClure yes councelor
matis yes councelor Graham yes councelor
cran yes councelor
flus yes mayor proam yes and the mayor
is
absent
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