 All right, let's go ahead and get started our clocks are gone. So That'll make things a lot easier Instead of watching that all night. All right, so welcome welcome We are getting started a little late city council has been going actually since 530 an executive session actually five They've been going since 530. I showed up at 535 ish so but anyway So we have been going so sorry that we're making y'all wait. We have been working believe it or not So, let's go ahead and start with roll call Mayor Bagley here council members Christensen Doggo firing Martin Peck Rodriguez waters. You have a quorum. Let's say the pledge. I find it amazing that we can chant air ball Like sent like at the same time no problem, but the pledge sometimes we're all out of sync. But anyway Let's go ahead and chair of mind of the public anyone wishing to add their name If you want to speak at public invited to be heard youth council, you're gonna rock it tonight. It looks like so but if you want to speak you need to get your name on the list before it starts and If you don't get on the list, we'll just go ahead and push at the back of the meeting or at the end of the meeting You'll still get a chance everyone will get three minutes at the end of three minutes I'll have to cut you off. So let's go ahead and move on to approval of minutes I have a motion to approve the minutes of January 14th, 2020. It looks like we might have an issue With the agenda Yeah, the minutes It's a correction to page 10 just capturing the public the results of the public vote. Did I not read it out? You read it out. Yeah in the minutes that were in the packet It did not have those two lines that showed Highlighted that show how council voted on those appointments. Well, thank you very much. You ever caught that do we have a motion to approve the minutes with the adding the exception of council members Christensen, Edoge O'Farring, Martin, Peck, Rodriguez and Waters voting for Alice Davis and Mayor Bagley voting for Matthew Spencer Is corrected? All right, we have a motion to approve the minutes as modified. It's been moved by council member Edoge O'Farring It's been seconded by council member Martin Let us vote Okay, that passes unanimously. Thank you. Thank you. All right Let's move on to agenda revisions and submissions of documents. Councilor Peck Thank you, Mary Bagley. Actually, I just got an announcement that I would like to make rather than Have any additions to the agenda. I was just told that at the RTD meeting. They selected the interim Director and he's going to be Paul Ballard as RTD's new GM and CEO So that was just recently a couple of hours ago. They did that Well, we we wish mr. Ballard luck and success and May he give us everything we want All right, let's go ahead city manager. Do you have a report? Mayor, I do have a quick report as we're Continuing to get ready for the census. We're going to be giving you some updates and we have a quick 30 second video Cool. We had been together for 25 years We had so many more things that we wanted to do in life a young son that we wanted to do them with That's awesome. My attention is grabbed. Let us continue. We will show you that we will show you the Census video at the next meeting. Okay. All right. Great. Well, good job on that manager report nice and short All right next special reports and presentations A proclamation designate in January 2020 is national radon action month in Longmont, Colorado. Is that the video we will be watching? I'm thinking so okay Yes, that is the video you will be watching what let me go ahead and read this yes make this proclamation official Then you can say your words. We'll watch the video. We'll take a picture. Okay. Thank you All right, this is a proclamation designate in January 2020 is national radon action month in Longmont, Colorado Whereas radon is an invisible orderless radioactive gas that threatens the health of our citizens and their families And whereas radon is a leading environmental cause of cancer mortality in the US and the 8th leading cause of cancer mortality overall And whereas the Colorado Rocky Mountain region has been ranked zone 1 an area with the highest radon potential possible by the US Environmental Protection Agency and whereas Colorado residential radon data has shown 50 percent of Colorado homes tested as being at or above the US Environmental Protection Agency radon action level of 4.0 Pico curies per liter of air and Richard Jude right now probably if he's watching this I don't know that pico curies today. Yes, okay All right, whereas Colorado residential radon data data has shown 50 percent of Colorado I'm sorry just read that Whereas any home in Longmont, Colorado may have elevated levels of radon even if homes in the same neighborhood do not and Whereas supporting supporting recommended radon practices and policies to reduce radon exposure is important to protect our community's health and welfare And whereas Boulder County Public Health the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment the US Environmental Protection Agency and the American Lung Association are supporting efforts to encourage Americans to test their homes for radon have elevated levels of radon reduced and have new Homes built with radon resistant features now therefore I Brian J. Bagley mayor by virtue of the authority vested in me in the city council The city of Longmont do hereby proclaim January 1st through 31st 2020 is national radon action month in Longmont encourage all residents to complete a simple and inexpensive test for radon and to mitigate radon if Found sign the mayor so thank you for being here. Thank you for bringing this to our attention Please say what you're gonna say, but also if you could please help us understand as residents Where to complete a simple and inexpensive test that'd be great. Yes, I'll introduce myself. I'm Susan Martino I'm an environmental health specialist with Boulder County Public Health and People can purchase an inexpensive test kit from the CSU Extension office That's located at the fairgrounds and they sell them at cost for $15 and that includes the test kit the analysis by the laboratory and the postage So it's it's a very simple process to do and anyone can do it themselves And so in honor of national radon action month, I'm going to play a very quick informational video on radon We had been together for 25 years We had so many more things that we wanted to do in life a young son that we wanted to do them with Colorado happens to be one of the worst states in the nation for radon levels My exposure for the 10 years that I worked in a home office That's what resulted in my Cancer radon is an odorless naturally occurring gas That's a derivative of uranium which occurs in the crust of the earth. It's in our ground and it seeps up Just by breathing radon At the average house in Colorado You are getting radiation damage equivalent to 200 chest x-rays a year The EPA estimates that in homes, there will be about 22,000 lung cancer deaths a year caused by radon the more you breathe radon or the higher The radon value the more chance you have of one of those DNA being hit and the cell mutated It is the leading cause of lung cancer aside from smoking The thing with lung cancer is you don't feel anything until you're into maybe stage three or stage four Weasing shortness of breath. There are many many things that can cause those kinds of symptoms and So people don't necessarily go to the doctor There are other states where there's legislation that radon has to be measured in any new home built or in a home that changes hands He was only 58 years old When he passed away And we had a 13 year old son I'm hoping that we will progress in our legislation to make it a requirement, especially for new builds And in real estate transactions that it is a requirement to test for radon How often do you how often is it suggested that homes be tested for radon? If someone's tested and it's less than four pico curies We recommend that they test every five years and what if it's nothing? If it's nothing that's fine, but you should still test because different conditions can cause radon to increase Okay, just curious and if if you have a radon system yet should be checked every two years Would you like to make a statement or was the video your statement? Well, the video was my statement, but I also want to say thank you very much for Supporting us and every year issuing the proclamation in support of national radon action month Boulder County Public Health appreciates it very much as we try to get people to Learn more about radon and take care of their health Do we have any currently do we have an ordinance or any type of legislation here locally that would require Radon to be tested for upon the exchange or Building of a new home No, we don't there is nothing in colorado that says that you have to test or you have to mitigate Now it's good in the city of longmont that they do have building code that says All new single-family homes have to be built radon resistant But we are pushing because of health equity That all new multi-family homes also be built radon resistant Which would entail amending the code that you now have Thank you councilmember christensen Thank you for drawing this to our attention It is really important However, as I said last year Most of us can test for this and it's fairly inexpensive But mitigating it costs Approximately a couple thousand dollars per household And on the website There There are plenty of people who will test for it. There are very few people That will actually do the mitigation So it would be very helpful to put a sort put sources of actual people actually do the mitigation If you go to their websites They only test for it. Well, we actually do have a Link on the boulder county website to both mitigators and testers And I would like to say the state health department has a low income radon mitigation program And if you qualify for the program They can install a radon system. They will have their own mitigators Install a radon mitigation system in the home of people who qualify That's very helpful. Thank you And it might be very good for us to examine the possibility of Having a Regulation in this city that requires any real estate transaction to Disclose whether there is radon And they do have that in fort collins and they also in fort collins require multifamily homes be built radon resistant Thank you. That's great. Thank you We hear about four columns a lot All right. Thank you. Let's go ahead and make a picture if you don't mind. I would love to all right Let's go ahead and There's another thing you're supposed to do. Uh, the quarterly updated activities the long economic development partnership Is oh, there you are. I was like we're just you go You're hard to miss right now When do you do next month? Early march All right. Well, you can go ahead and have a seat and use there you go Bagley and council. May Can you hear me? Okay I'm Jessica Erickson president and ceo of long lawn economic development partnership here to present my quarterly report Of activities of the partnership and really what we're going to be looking at this evening as much as possible is overall 2019 results. Um, we would typically Present these in early february. So we're still Kind of gathering data As it trickles in throughout the month, which is the reason you also have in front of you I believe now version three Of our metrics report and there may be some minor changes To that between now and when we actually publish our full annual report in february, which we will of course share with you When it's ready Do you want to remind you that this report is based on our 2019 contract Which was structured around our four core service areas Of the overall advanced long lawn economic development strategy As well as primary industry local business and startup community development This is different from what has now been approved the 2020 contract, which is structured around what we'll talk about momentarily the Now focus areas of the advanced long want 2.0 strategy Speaking of the advanced long want 2.0 strategy Our primary goal within our 2019 contract with the city Relative to the strategic plan was a complete overhaul and update of that strategic plan that was originally adopted in 2013 and began implementation in 2014 And so just a reminder that the advanced long want 2.0 strategy is structured under a collective impact framework And that's intended to bring the entire community together in a structured way to achieve social and economic change our economic development goals as a community the process that we undertook to To do the update and to Develop the advanced long want 2.0 strategy was what we call analyzing the landscape Which was the overall market assessment of conditions and long want as they exist today Especially in comparison to as they existed when the original Advanced long want strategy was adopted just about five years prior Um initiate dialogue, which were the conversations that we had not only with our partners, but members of the community in developing the strategy Creating the common agenda that we'll talk about In a moment and then where we're at today, which is implementation and learning from both our wins and Challenges that we face as we implement this strategy Did want to remind you too that one of the things that we did differently with advanced long want 2.0 Then with with the original advanced long want strategy is rather than just looking at our economy and economic conditions here in long want From the kind of standard economic development lens of growth Which is what most people think of when they think of economic development. We also took a look at how that growth Had spread itself across our entire community from the perspective of both prosperity and inclusion Ultimately advanced long want 2.0 gives us a couple of things It gives us an update of our targeted industry clusters These are industry clusters that we focus our resources on in terms of attraction and expansion because these clusters have High concentrations already within the city of long want as well as the high highest potential for growth in coming years Based on the data assessment that we did And so our new targeted industry clusters are smart manufacturing business catalysts, which are B2B service provider type businesses Food and beverage and knowledge creation and deployment, which is really research and development as an industry Then most importantly advanced long want 2.0 gives us our common agenda Which is focused on the areas of talent Developing a pipeline as well as attracting new talent to our community Place creating a place in long want that's appealing not only for new needed talent to relocate here But also for business investment and growth Industry is really our focus on growing the targeted industries. I mentioned before Connectivity is the important work of A transportation connectivity locally regionally and nationally for our community And then impact is really the overall strategy And includes things like policy and bringing together Leadership around the rest of the focus areas We have specific to the fourth quarter. We have convened working groups around all of these focus areas And so our collective impact structure is really that What was our existing advanced long want partners group now becomes the steering committee for all of the work that's being done Long want economic development partnership the backbone organization And then our working groups as well as our total community networks Being really where the work is getting done to implement this strategy Again, the working groups have been formed and have been meeting on a monthly basis and have completed or are close to completing Action plans for 2020 so action plans of all the work that they intend to accomplish through 2020 and in some cases beyond anyone who is interested in Reading the full strategy as well as following the progress of those action plans We do have a website that includes a data dashboard and all of the action plans and progress reports And that is advance.longmott.org You can also get to it from our website, which is just longmott.org Okay, so the next area of focus for us in 2019 was primary industry development We had a stated target in the contract to attract Relocate or expand 10 primary industry businesses that would create 500 new well-paying jobs and invest 50 million in new capital investment The number that the numbers that appear in our metrics report and I'll explain a little bit because they Are a lot higher than what we were projecting of 74 businesses 1135 new jobs and nearly 130 million dollars in capital investment As a result of the work of longmott edp in 2019 This does include businesses that expanded through use of our enterprise zone program So if we take those out and look at just prospect activity or what we traditionally consider economic development Those results would have been 14 businesses 990 jobs and a hundred million dollars in capital investment So still well exceeding our target and we'll be looking at how we separate those out They realized as I was putting this together. It might be a little bit misleading when we're combining both We of course annually work to retain a hundred percent of our primary employers and jobs Um a hundred percent is not possible because there are market forces well beyond our control that are impacting weather companies Stay open and stay located here in longmott But of course our goal is always to keep all of the companies and the jobs here within our primary industry base So our results and these are estimates based on primary data collected by our organization through a year end survey of our primary industry businesses That at the end of 20 or at the start of 2019 There were 236 primary industry businesses and that should say at the end of 2019 2019 that 18 There were 240 businesses the movement within Um that year were that we retained 221 existing primary industry businesses or 93.6 of what we started with 15 businesses closed or moved out of longmott and 19 were new or added to longmott They weren't located in longmott prior to the start of 19 Then when we look at it from the perspective of jobs We started the year with 11 130 primary jobs And ended the year with 11 191 Again the movement throughout the year within um those primary industry jobs was that we retained 10 685 or 96 of all those that we started the year with Experience a loss of 433 an addition of 506 so net increase of 73 jobs Just under 0.7 percent, which is aligned with overall job growth within the community relative to local business development So our local businesses are those businesses that are serving The local area so most of their business is coming from residents and other businesses within the community Our goal there was to attract relocator expand 10 local businesses That would create 50 new jobs and invest 5 million in new capital investment You'll note that we did fall short of achieving that goal with six businesses Creating 15 new jobs and just over 300 000 in investment. Um, this is primarily a timing issue We do have a strong pipeline of local businesses Including a number of those which we are working with the dda With retail conversion grants as well as a couple that we're working with the city larger local businesses That we're working with the city on that have the potential Would have had the potential to get us there had they Completed their project or announced their project before the end of 2019 So activity there is still strong though. We didn't meet our target specifically for 2019 Um relative to startup community development again Our target was to support the launch of 10 new ventures that would create 20 new jobs Um, we almost got there with the creation or the launch of seven new ventures through Work with long-run economic development partnership and 17 new jobs We have since then spun out our innovate longmont program. Um, so that it is its own, um, Five own one c three organization With its own executive director its own goals Funded by longmont edp currently but with a long term goal to be a self funded self sustaining accelerator organization for the community They are already in 2020 working with seven Startup businesses as part of that program with a goal again this year to Um, uh to have at least 10 new businesses participate and in and launch out of um that accelerator program And so when we look at overall Job growth year over year job growth 2018 to 2019 401 net new jobs added. This is across all industries And across primary local and startup Which is 0.7 percent overall job growth leaving us with a total of 56,134 total jobs in the longmont area as of the end of 2019 When we look at that longer term from a five-year job growth perspective Nearly 4,000 net new jobs added over the last five years Equating to seven and a half percent job growth Just over the national average of 7.3 percent overall job growth Then when we narrow that down to our targeted industries again, these are industries where we expect to see Higher job growth. That's why we focus our resources on Working to attract and expand these industries in particular. Um, we see positive significantly positive job growth Across all four of those targeted industries with a total of 2.1 percent job growth Compared to 0.7 percent overall job growth and when we look at all jobs in the community with that I will answer any questions Just the thing that comes to mind. Nobody's in the queue right now But I think it's kind of cool to see food and beverage down compared to the others You know, I mean, I mean that that's usually the heavy hitter and you're like, eh, it's good to see that That the other three are are more promising councilmember peck Thank you, mayor back Lee. Thank you for this report Jessica, but Um, we have had several businesses closed in the past. It seems like two weeks or three weeks Do you have is there a common thread that is running through as to why they are closing? in long month Um, it would depend on I know there have been a number of restaurants that have announced closures and those have ranged anywhere from personal reasons illness of the ownership to To down business. So there are a variety of different reasons There's not a trend that we can point to that says this is happening and is causing those types of businesses to close down in our community I can tell you from a restaurant perspective We are probably as a community based on what's happened over the course of the last few years over-restauranted if I might coin a term and potentially over-retailed as well in some cases and so we'll watch that closely, but I think that's Both individual business issues as well as market forces that there wouldn't be anything that A city government or an economic development organization could really do anything about There's the unique very unique situation. I've been reading about in detail with luckies they just I mean Simply over leveraged. Um, if you understand the financials of that they I mean they were acquired by or not acquired but invested heavily by Kroger and ultimately ended up owing Kroger over 300 million dollars with 15 million dollars in the bank. So Whatever you want to take from that and so that again is not an indicator of anything that's happening In the economy or in the community We do have our economic summit coming up at the end of february We'll where we'll have a regional economic forecast, but all of the forecasts that I've seen from will be kind and others Suggest a slower 2020, but still a strong 2020 in particular for the boulder county and northern colorado regions Okay, and I assume that if you did see a trend that was happening You would be the first to know. Yes, absolutely like waters Thanks, mayor bagley Jessica, I think the first my first meeting is a council member several years ago You were on the agenda doing a quarterly report. Do you remember that? I absolutely remember that Is it me? Is it just me or? Have you come that far with maybe just that I'm looking at it differently, but the data There's there is there is serious meeting in the data that you shared tonight And I just you you shared a lot of information I might remember my observation was it was a Sea of information, but not necessarily a whole lot of meaning at least for me in those moments But this is it seems to me this is a quarterly report where you've knocked a bunch out of home runs here I mean you set a stretch goal of 100 percent, which is simply unattainable and And hit a 94 success rate, which I think anybody's book would be an a right Um, so is it just the the the the sophistication of the data Where you've come Longmont strategy 2.0 What's different than what I saw a couple years ago from your perspective? I think it's a combination. So a couple of years ago. We were just a couple of years into the original advanced Longmont strategy um, also when I I started with Longmont economic development partnership in in 2015 with an organization that Was kind of a shell it had been without an executive director for almost two years And then a variety of other challenges Fiscally and otherwise that it was facing so we were probably just coming out of rebuilding at that time and Since then we've been able to focus on Evolving growing as an organization from the talent that we've added to our team from the significant Improvement and increase in private sector investment in our organization has allowed us to Invest significantly more in a variety of data Sources to give us the opportunity to be more accurate And have a better understanding of Where our resources are needed and where our time is best spent To just with advanced Longmont to point over the last Year engaging more people in the work of of economic development So it's just a variety of things that have happened over the course of the last couple of years Not the least of which is a council that is fully engaged So I will say I appreciate that but a council that's fully engaged city staff leadership That's fully engaged in participating in the work that that we're doing. I want to say thanks and good on you. I You've done a great job. You also know how to identify talent. You've surrounded yourself with a great team So it's fun been it's been fun to see the development. Thank you great talent and morgan I'm just kidding morgan sauce. Yes. We just lock him in a basement. Yes. Yes. Yes. All right councilmember christensen I um I do think that you probably analyzed it right that we are losing a lot of restaurants. I I don't I don't I'm not aware of the um companies that we're losing that are not Food related but that's because I I'm just not that aware I eat more than I Do anything else However, I I am concerned that part of this seems to me has to do with the rising commercial rents and also with the dropping discretionary income and I I think we really need to Think about what we can do or consider how much of a problem this is with both of those things for a long month and uh Think about that in terms of our concept of building mixed-use neighborhoods and walkable neighborhoods if there's nothing to walk to and We're not able to have mixed-use developments because there isn't enough Retail or office space needed. So I do think we need to be having discussions about that in the future Thanks, and I appreciate that comment That's a part of why we took the approach with advanced long month 2.0 of looking not just at growth Which is the standard historic measure of economic development, but also looking at prosperity and inclusion um, I will say that um, and I'll go back and check this but I don't believe the data shows that Overall as a city, um, we're seeing uh lower discretionary income. There are certainly subsets of Our community of our population that are experiencing that lowered but overall as a community the data wouldn't suggest that we're experiencing general lessening of discretionary income or lowering of wages or median household incomes Over in recent years. I will double check that because I don't have the data in front of me If that proves to be different than what i'm saying, I will let you know But my recollection of the data is that overall again Also, why we look at prosperity and inclusion is because we want to think about more than just the overall And think about every citizen in the community and how they're experiencing The growth that we're experiencing overall Well on behalf of council. Thank you very much. You're approaching month nine. You're going strong and it's just Yeah, you won't see me up here again for a little while. Yeah, you're superwoman. Thank you. Thank you All right All right, let's move on to The rest of our agenda if you're doing okay, there's no clock. It's currently Eight o'clock. So we've been going about an hour. Let's push through first call public invited to be heard We have some special guests So let's start with Olga Bermudez Are we batching it? No, you're doing great Good evening. Mayor Bagley and city council members. My name is Olga Bermudez And I work for the city of Longland at Children Youth and Families And i'm here tonight because I would like to introduce Longway Youth Council They will like to share with you some of the projects that they are working on on this year I would like to welcome Longway Youth Council Good evening. Mayor Bagley and city council members. I am Brianna Jimenez and I am a senior at Twin Peaks Charter Academy I am president of the Longland Youth Council Good evening Mayor Bagley and council members I'm Ming Liu. Um I'm a senior at Long now at high school and I'm a vice president of youth council Good evening. Mayor Bagley and council members. I am Olga Rakhienka. I'm a freshman at Niowatt High School and I am the secretary of youth council Uh, good evening. My name is Ishmael Dominguez and I'm a junior at Niowatt High School And I'm the treasurer for Longmont Youth Council. Good evening. My name is Sammy Lensky I'm a 10th grader at Silver Creek High School and I'm the social media director for youth council Good evening everyone. I'm Sydney Walker. I'm a junior at Silver Creek High School And I'm a member of the Longmont Youth Council Good evening Mayor Bagley and council members. My name is Julia Harper and I'm a freshman at Niowatt High School Good evening. My name is Emma Milchuk and I'm a freshman at Silver Creek High School And I'm also a member of the youth council Good evening all council members and attendees. Thank you for can you lift that right up and get it right up there Thank you for inviting us to speak tonight Over the last few months We have built our passionate empowered and creative group of student leaders to be on Longmont Youth Council We have brainstormed and chosen issues that we want to spend our year in our efforts working on developing solutions for inside of our community We are proud to announce our projects for 2020 hunger voting awareness sustainability and mental health and kindness First Sammy Lansky will discuss our Halloween for the hungry project In Longmont there is large Undernourishment and hungry population being beneath hiding beneath the surface To help address this issue the Longmont Youth Council did a two-week can food drive called Halloween for the hungry hungry We collected cans from prospect neighborhood local high schools and the Longmont Public Library Additionally, this eventually became a collaboration with CSU students who used to live in Longmont that gave us cans In the end we collected 253 pounds of non-perishable items That we donated to the local Safe shelter and we actually kept some of the cans at the children use and family center in Longmont for those who needed it Furthermore voting rights and legislation are another topic we like to focus on this year In the project the focus on pre-registration on High schoolers through registration drives educating them on voting and what the ballot means And touching the importance of their votes Through working with the League of Woman Voters, we were able to use their valuable resources To propel our point further We want to empower the youth to not Assume that people are gonna be representing them. They should uh It's represent and speak for themselves The topic of sustainability is highly important to us It affects not only the faraway oceans, but us locally as well with the same brain valley basin being clogged by plastic Each day that we continue to use plastics and release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere if we are taking a day away from our future We want to reduce single use plastics in Longmont And create a an everyday and more environmentally friendly environment here This will be a two-year project called step which stands for save the earth project We want to educate the public youth adults and businesses in order to create a better Everyday environment here We hope to inherit a clean world once we grow older That is not 110 degrees on average We hope to create solutions through personal community and legislative action Another project we have chosen to create is a project focusing on youth mental health And positivity to begin we will launch a kindness campaign from being more polite to giving compliments To just giving a smile small gestures can mean a lot to a person in a dark place A few ideas we have include promoting mental health month And national kindness day. We are also looking into creating stickers with positive quotes All of that said the 2020 Longmont youth council hopes to make progress to improve our community We hope to continue to make Longmont a welcoming eco-friendly representational and positive environment. Thank you so much for your time And just that's it All right, we usually don't respond but anything you guys so Just because you're the youth council So anything you need from us by way of mayoral proclamation or resolutions on those matters Make sure you talk to us because we can help you're there to advise us. So Don't forget we can help. Thank you. Mayor bagley. All right Cool. Good job guys All right You guys can clap. That's all right. We love clapping for kids All right, uh, cody leblanc Good evening My name is cody leblanc and i'm the area representative for congressman ken buck for weld adams rapaho in boulder counties So I just wanted to drop by and do a quick congressional update But before I get started, I also wanted to tell you that I also run the app challenge Which is a high school program our office runs And this year our winning team is actually from longmont. So I just wanted to let you know Sinjin green and cullen zeal submitted an app called flyer Which allowed high school students to search for jobs that are pertinent to their grade level and their skill set So that's something that we're very excited. They're from silver creek high school. So Congratulations to them Okay, sorry our printer was acting up. So I didn't get a chance to actually print my update today So as you may know congressman buck has been assigned to the house judiciary committee and the house foreign affairs committee um Those two committees keep him very busy as we've all seen the past few months with all of the impeachment hearings and everything else going on um, so I'll go ahead and first talk about uh congressman buck supporting the full protection of american citizens As such he voted against hcr 83 a concurrent resolution that would terminate the you the use of us armed forces Engaging in hostilities in or against iran Following the passage in the house congressman buck issued the following statement I voted against the democrats show vote on a war powers concurrent resolution The resolution manipulates the original intent of the resolution while putting the american lives in jeopardy As a founding member of the war powers caucus. I wholeheartedly believe our Constitution establishes a separation of powers for a reason and that includes the authorization for declaring war President trump took defensive measures to protect american men and women with the takedown of solomani If the president intends to maintain a long-term aggressive posture towards iran, he needs to Sorry moved it too quickly um Maintain a long-term aggressive posture towards iran. He needs to come to congress for authorization Tensions in iran are de-escalating But we need to continue to apply economic pressure and the president still needs the option to take necessary action If iran retaliates again In december congressman buck voted in support of the united states mexico-canada agreement the usmca A mutually beneficial trade deal that will grow our economy and ensure american workers and the businesses are not being left behind Following passage in the house congressman buck issued the following statement The usmca is crucial for the future of american prosperity as well as our farmers manufacturers innovators and those who continue to stimulate future economic growth After months of delay, i'm glad to see it passed the house and hope my senate colleagues act quickly Congressman buck voted against house resolution 755 house democrats articles of impeachment against donald j trump president of the united states congressman buck spoke on the house floor during the debate of the articles of impeachment stating Thank you madame speaker today democrats lower the bar for impeachment i'm gonna have to catch up only because we give everybody three minutes That's perfect, but let the congressman know that if you want this but if you want to come and spend time with this He's he's more than welcome. Well, we appreciate that if there's ever anything feel free to reach out to our office I'll leave cards with dawn. Thanks mr. Leblanc. We appreciate that All right margaret halsey Oh, sorry Good evening. I'm here to speak against the housing and human services advisory board funding recommendation three the longmont family apartments To prevent confusion I want you to know that this proposed development has also been called 15th and ash 15th and alta 833 15th street and on a petition presented to city council on august 27th 2019 i described it by partial number And address zero 15th avenue This is the top of the petition where I put a picture so everyone would know when they signed The petition was signed by more than 80 neighbors and it asked that the Property be changed from mixed neighborhood to single-family zoning because the density of The project proposed by prospect is not right for the neighborhood And we were hoping to reduce the number of units I made a map. It's too small, but it shows current and proposed development current The yellow highlights affordable housing and multi-unit housing that already exist Like mobile homes apartments and townhomes. It's a nice mix between the Not colored part, which is all single family The aqua shows proposed development Territory townhomes Okay, never mind. It's To the east of the prospect proposal Is for 15 townhomes cinnamon park Senior housing will add 25 units But the longmont family apartments will be 88 units. This is too dense for a neighborhood where there are a few shops No bike paths. No parks. No community gathering centers The nearest hospital is reducing services and urgent care has moved to main street north main The development will burden our neighborhood with additional traffic and population and add nothing In summary Okay I also have a few pictures showing how this doesn't fit Here we're looking east on 15th toward The development from the corner of brass. That's the south side of the street Here's the north side of 15th Here are the houses on the west side of 15th and ash And here are the houses on the east side of 15th and hash All right. I'm gonna have to cut you off miss halson. But thank you very much for bringing this to our attention Mr. Strider benston Thank you. Uh, I appreciate and thank you margaret I my neighborhood will be destroyed if they build that street and that many houses also um I um This is great seeing the youth council here tonight. I have always believed in democracy I've been active uh since joining the civil rights movement 56 years ago But when I was a kid I believed in it, but I had no idea what it was We never had a city council meeting that let people come and speak or I never knew of it I never heard of it my whole time in school or anything So that's really terrific and two days ago. We had a uh senate forum filled the Auditory on the museum in the overflow room about 700 seats and nine candidates spoke. It was really really well done um What we have right now um as gretta turn burger uh Uh told us last week The earth is on fire And right now the number one arsonist in the world is on trial In the united states senate um Which used to be considered the greatest deliberative body in the world But they're sitting there Trying to figure out how to make certain that there are no witnesses and no evidence presented um For the person on trial who's the arsonist of democracy the arsonist of decency the arsonist of truth The arsonist of justice And they say the greatest deliberative body in the world um Until the grim reaper took over uh mcconnell And there used to be real debates in real legislation in the united states senate But it's hard to remember. There were any since Mr. Smith went to washington Thank you You've seen the movie out. I'm sure all right That concludes uh first calling uh first call public invited to be heard. Um, should we go ahead and take a short break? You guys doing okay? All right, let's go ahead and take a five minute break if that's okay, all right All right, let's go ahead and get going again Could we please have our esteemed city clerk? We will give her back her chair and could you please read off our consent agenda So we can introduce and read these by title on the first reading Mayor item eight a is ordinance two 2020-08 a bill for an ordinance authorizing the city of longmont to execute a lease extension of real property Known as 1140 boston avenue to longmont win-air company public hearing and second reading scheduled for february 11th 8b is resolution 2011 a resolution of the longmont city council conditionally approving the sale or donation of property for the development Of 2000 suns at way lot two as an affordable housing development 8c is resolution 2012 A resolution of the longmont city council approving a voluntary alternative agreement for the sugar mill paradomes Development as satisfaction of the city's inclusionary housing requirements 8d is review and approve the city of longmont's private activity bond allocation procedures and guidelines 8 e is approve longmont youth council appointments And 8 f is designate the bulletin boards outside the council chambers in the west entrance of the civic center as the official city council agenda posting locations for 2020 Dr. Waters I'd like to pull Agenda item 8c from the consent agenda. Okay councilmember christensen Um, I'd like to pull in addition to c a and b All right councilmember peck All right, they're pulled. All right. Do I have a motion? I moved that we passed the consent agenda Less a b and c All right, it's been moved by myself and it was seconded by councilmember martin. It appears So let's go ahead and vote Councilmember. Okay, that passes unanimously Let's move on to ordinances on second reading and public hearings on these matters So 9a ordinance 2020-02 a bill for an ordinance amending chapter 14.05 the longmont municipal code regarding raw water requirement policy Um, is there there's nothing on any of these by staff, right? So are there any questions from council or for staff? All right, seeing none. Let's go ahead and open up the public hearing on ordinance 2020-02 All right, seeing no one. Let's go ahead and close public hearing. Can I have a motion, please? councilmember martin Go ahead Um, I move ordinance 2020 2020-2 All right, it's been moved by councilmember martin and seconded by councilmember christensen and also by dr. Waters take your pick Um, let's go ahead and vote All right, that passes unanimously nine b ordinance 2020-03 a bill for an ordinance proving land use amendments to the envision longmont multimodal and comprehensive plan for housekeeping amendments Um, are there any questions from staff from council for staff? Seeing none, let's go ahead and open up the public hearing on ordinance 2020-03 All right, seeing no one wanting to speak. Let's go ahead and close the public hearing Do we have a motion for ordinance 2020-03? I'll second that it's been moved by dr. Waters ordinance 2020-03 and seconded by myself. Let's vote That passes unanimously ordinance 9c or item 9c ordinance 2020-04 bill for an ordinance designating barger nickle home located at 719 atwood street is a local historic landmark Anyone on council have questions for staff? All right, seeing none. Let's go ahead and open the public hearing on this ordinance All right, seeing no one wants to speak let's go ahead and close the public hearing Do we have a motion councilmember peck? All right councilmember peck moved Ordinance 2020-04 it's been seconded by dr. Waters. Let's go ahead and vote That passes unanimously. All right item 9d ordinance 2020-05 a bill for an ordinance conditionally improving the vacation with 20 foot wide drainage Outfall easement located on lot 2 of block 1 the jm smucker llc plant subdivision Generally located north of highway 119 and west of pinnacle street. Are there any questions from council for staff? All right, seeing none. Let's go ahead and open the public hearing on ordinance 2020-05 anyone All right, seeing no one. Let's go ahead and close the public hearing. Can we have a motion, please? I move ordinance 2020-05 to have a second All right, so it was moved by myself and seconded by councilmember e doggle faring. Let's vote All right, that passes unanimously an item 9e ordinance 2020-06 a bill for an ordinance authorizing the city of longmont to lease the real property known as Vance brand municipal airport hangar parcel h 61 to james f duke the tenant Do we have any questions from council for staff? All right, seeing none. Let's go ahead and open up the public hearing on ordinance 2020-06 Would anyone like to speak? Seeing no seeing none. Let's go ahead and close the public hearing Do we have a motion? councilmember peck I move ordinance 2020-06 all second that let's go ahead and vote councilmember martin push harder All right, that that passes unanimously All right, let's return to items removed from the consent agenda. Let's go ahead and take it in order of Alphabet 8a ordinance 2020-08 a bill for an ordinance authorizing the city of longmont to execute a lease extension of real property known as 1140 boston avenue to longmont win-air company councilmember christensen okay, I brought this up because in reading over The ledp thing and in view of businesses that have gone out of business in the last month in long month This company has been there since 2004 because of the And and they've built a successful business And I don't believe people who Been successful should be punished for being successful. We purchased this In order to uh, the city purchased this land in order to work on our Uh repair of the river corridor, which we certainly do need to do and that was not our fault And that was certainly not this company's fault either. It's something that was necessary um as part of that Half of the the building that they were in but was occupied by creative learning Had to be demolished so that we could expand the river corridor and dig it deeper and wider um Once again, that isn't their fault. So they do want to expand but it may take them a couple of years Meanwhile, what we are proposing is that um If they have been good tenants, I don't see why we would be Charging them an extra three percent this year and an extra three percent next year This lease is up for renewal, but they also are intending Apparently to relocate. I don't know why we would make that more difficult for them by uh Charging them an extra six percent over the next two years. I would propose that we Not charge them anything since they have been good tenants and um If we want to help them, I don't see why we're charging them extra money We could let them Have the same lease for two years. Have we done anything to improve the property? No, we're actually making it more difficult for them by kind of You know So I I object to us charging them an extra six percent over the next two years all right Thank you. Okay councilman back Thank you. I have a question about what was written just actually a clarification We did move the creative learning center and it said according to you this Communication that the city followed the federal uniform relocation act procedures Uh, which requires that all applicable moving expenses in any increase in rent for the next two years Be paid to the party being relocated So is the excess in this rent the increase going to the creative learning center? No, that's a separate issue. Can you explain that? I didn't understand that So what's meant by that? Uh, dale rattamaker deputy city manager, um, council member peck the Reference in our communication with with regards to creative learning was to just demonstrate that the city followed the the uniform Relocation act which is a HUD requirement when you're using HUD funding for projects and is to ensure that when people are being moved In a way that they didn't come up with wanting to do in other words That that the that there are all their costs of moving and relocating are done As well as covering any increase in their rents. And so we're doing that separate with creative learning so this this action tonight is really only dealing with the Second half of the building That's currently occupied by wind And that was what I needed to explain that the increase in rate to wind air was not going to Uh, according to this act to creative learning Correct. That is they're separate and what I would say with regards to the the lease rate certainly You know staff will defer to council on what you think is appropriate I believe these three percent increases were what we felt Was happening basically in the Longmont market and if anything is lower than what's happening In a more competitive environment and so and and I fully understand what you're referring to council member christians and I certainly support whatever the council wants to do but Staff really values wind air. We think they are a very good tenant Um, we believe they very well may want to stay there even though they want to enlarge Um, uh, their their footprint in a way that may or may not be able to be accomplished, you know, accomplished I think the biggest benefit we are doing for them though is Removing that building from the floodplain and protecting it with the project that we're doing So there's a there's an indirect benefit back to them. Um Hopefully be able to stay in business if we Are impacted by another flood But again, we'll defer to council on what you want to do with the The lease rate But they've agreed to this, right? Yes. Okay, so all right Uh council member rodriguez. I'm sorry. Mayor person rodriguez Thank you, mayor bagley. What would you um Say, I don't know if you could ballpark what generally commercial, uh, lease rates have increased by over the last few years I don't know if anybody has a It's too bad jessica's not here. Um, I don't know. Errol, do you do you have a sense? I I It's a very tight market in long way right now Is what I do know from being on the ledp and I would not be surprised if they're not increasing the in the 5 to 10 percent rate And so then my other question would be as this has already been as you I think just answered Negotiated lease terms Um, why would they have not asked for a longer lease term than two years? So the two years is one that, um, we are requesting because that is the time it's going to take us to really clear this area of the rsvp the resilient same frame project After that two-year time frame the city We would then come back to the council and ask you all the question. Do you want to sell this property now? And so worse what staff is saying is that over the next two years City you should maintain ownership of it Because we are impacting it with the project. There is no denying that There's a lot of work going on in that area After two years The question will likely be posed to the council Do you want to sell? So we're not certain that we'll even own this property after two years necessarily Correct you you guys are going to have the decision to make on whether you continue to own it or you sell it And I think they're trying to figure out what they want to do to to your question in terms of Space availability. I think what we can say Is it generally if you look at the inventory that's quoted in some of the ledp reports? Um, once you take out the max store and you look at the amount of available space I think it's less than five percent When you then call out space that they need for that high base storage It's even lower and and so I think that's part of the What's what's churning in the market? Okay Well seeing is that these are already essentially agreed upon lease terms that seem amenable to win air I would move approval of ordinance 2020-08 All right, it's been moved and moved by mayor pro tem and seconded by councilor peck Councilor martin. All right, uh, seeing no one else in the queue. Let's go ahead and vote. However, but the motion is Passage of eight a ordinance 2020-08 a bill for an ordinance authorizing the city of loma to execute a lease extension of real property Known as 1140 boston avidu to loma win-air company. Let's vote All right, that passes six You want to change your vote? I've not I've not okay. That passes six to one Um with councilmember christensen, uh against And councilmember christensen eight b And i'll just it's resolution 2020-11 resolution the longmont city council conditionally approving the sale or donation of property for the development of 2000 sunset way lot two is an affordable housing development Uh, I think this is a wonderful project It is exactly what we need um, I would like to Reiterate the fact that we are the majority partners with the longmont housing authority. We own 59 percent We are contributing 700 000 of taxpayer money Uh that went into this agreement and we are possibly contributing an extra million dollars into this so We definitely have the majority interest in this isn't that correct? Possibly I think it's a hundred thousand I'll take your word for it Anyway, that's a considerable amount which is a loan that they'll repay That's right. It is Okay anyway, um And um, I I really value the work done by our real redevelopment director toni shacon in finding His partner elements who does this for a living This is a good example of what can happen when we have a good developer who's eager to build what the city needs Which in this case is transitional housing the um the former director of Of the hour center adu in a Salazar has said for years both publicly and privately to me that They can help people But they have to have transitional housing and we have no transitional housing And we are now starting to build it because of the affordable housing act and this is an excellent example However, because I am on the longmont housing I'm a long one housing liaison um I would like to see the agreement and I I am all for this this agreement um which merely transfers our share over two um Elements so that they can apply for chaffa, but I do not agree with the Agreement with longmont housing authority, which last time I saw it Wanted them to be receiving I believe this is true and you can confirm this Kathy $100,000 yearly payment for longmont housing authority to administer for administrative fees I don't think this is tenable for an affordable development or for any development and furthermore They are not the local experts in transitional housing the local experts are the hour center hope Agape and the churches who've been providing this particularly the Congregational church that built the mica homes But the hour center and hope are our local Experts in providing housing assistance and transitional housing and resources So I I do not want us to sign off on any agreement that um Puts the long and I'm not putting down the longmont housing authority at all that's simply not in their Skill set don't we say I See how they think it would be helpful for them to administer both the sweets And this but it's really a very different population and I Do not think that it would be useful for them to be administering this Furthermore, they're burdened with many federal state federal and state compliance issues and funding issues In addition to having several different groups of case management at the sweets, which is very problematic in terms of HIPAA rules So I I do want us to be sure that we are not signing on to something If we vote in favor of this That sets up the longmont housing authority as a liaison. I mean as the Administrator and the manager of these of this New development Elements came to us because they were very skilled at this and I would like them to have the freedom to do that so There in council Kathy fedler housing and community investment manager. So this project came to us In a different location and we suggested the sweets as a better location because of a number of different things It's permanent supportive housing really as opposed to transitional housing So people can go in there and and stay They don't necessarily move out although with support services and some Counseling sometimes they are able to move up and out So this first phase is really permanent supportive housing That is like the sweets So what this does is it gives us the ability to negotiate With element and with the housing authority In the city as partners in what is this going to look at so all Look like so all this does is really give It gives Element something to go to chaff with for their application that says yes We're all willing to sit down and talk about this and we're going to reach an agreement if we reach an agreement We are moving forward. So everything is still to be negotiated. What we've talked about With the housing authority that you alluded to Is that there are some economies of scale in management of the two properties Since they'll be close together as well as support services for the two properties that would be close together and that LHA is more In their wheelhouse to do property management and not so much support services Where boulder shelter for the homeless is doing support services in a number of different locations throughout the county And could do it in for this project as well And if they took over this the sweet support services, so you're realigning to get people Doing things that are more within their wheelhouse Which is is really what we want all the way around The fees are to be negotiated around that still I know, you know There's some talk about what people would like to see but until we sit down and really hash it through We we don't have that established yet. So really it's about aligning skills With where they are best Able to support both projects and again, we're only talking about this one phase that's at the top Northwest corner of the property eventually there may be more phases throughout the property But right now it's just the one and I even talked to the the developer about Can we just pull off this one property because they have to put each one in a separate corporation for tax credits So we might be able to just talk about This one piece of property Pull it off from the rest of the lot Subdivide it in essence So that each phase stands on its own because if the other phases have a little bit higher incomes that they're serving Maybe they could pay something for the land as well as doing the the property management and the support services So so it's still pretty up in the air In something that we're going to be working through in the next month to get them finalized But we do have to sign over the land so that chaffa can Can agree to element to loan or to Give money to not until we reach a full agreement and it comes back to council for approval This is just an interim step This gets them in the door through the application process and is acceptable for chaffa To consider the application But we're going to have to reach a formal agreement that's approved by lha board and by the city council sometime before they will actually issue the tax credits They have to submit their application by February 3rd, but this This um resolution and the letter from the city attorney is sufficient for the application Okay, that's good. That's better. That gives us a lot more time Dr. Waters Thanks, mayor vaguely. I'll just disclose. I'm going to Try to figure out which hat I'm wearing here As an lha board member sitting in here as a council member I just need to ask a council member christensen I'm trying to understand what you just said About lha as the property manager Were you suggesting lha? We would not want lha to be the manager of affordable housing council member christensen That's right. I'll just keep clear. I thought our agreement was with elements to do that But I mean, I just don't want us to sign off on something without discussing this at some kind of link To have it seemed to me that we were Going to be signing off On whatever lha agreed to without actually come having it come before us and discuss and that isn't as As kathy said that isn't the case So I've misunderstood what we were signing off on tonight Okay, do you want to make a motion? I'm sorry councilman peck I'm sorry I just because we just had some comments about lha People ought to know lha is managing eight properties right in the city And and managing those I think successfully By the way when I was I was going to come in on this last item where we're talking about Rent rates and or lease rates We are seeing a slight I think a four percent increase in lha rates Going into the as as as leases come due So what we just did in the last item is consistent with that But lha is managing our affordable units now Not transitional permanent For most of the residents eat both in the suites and as um as seniors The lha board is very excited about this project elements is a developer They're not the property manager that they're not the developer and I and I'd have to I'd raise serious questions If we thought that at the hour center or hope or anybody else was going to manage These properties on the site because Those aren't property managers for certain So, um, I think this I think this comes together. This is a terrific opportunity It's absolutely consistent with I think with the vision that we had as a public private partnership When we bought that land from lha so they could close on the construction loan Actually, they could close on fall river and convert the construction loan at the suites I mean we did a We stepped up in a big way, but it is the best and highest use of the money that we budgeted for affordable housing So, uh, I think this is absolutely consistent. I'm it's fun to see it come back A vision with the right kind of partners and um and to help move them along to get access to those tax credits Councilor peck Thank you, mayor bagley. Um, I just have one question Uh And probably karen can answer this. Why is the boulder shelter providing the services? Um, and Are they going to have a local office in order to do that? The wraparound services so, um, like I said, they are doing that under several different grants with the state and, um Um with the veterans, um Affairs commission I don't I don't department administration. Thank you. Um, so they are doing that Throughout the county actually they have properties. Well the lee hill property in boulder They've got properties that they're doing that here in longmont already and scattered site areas and, um, Throughout the the county I think it's over 90 different units that they've got. Um, that they're currently providing those support services So they have moved into that arena in a pretty big way and are actually quite successful at it Are they working out of the hub on cough? Um Or do the my concern is, um These residents having to travel to boulder. No, no, no, no the case managers come to them They have case managers that are assigned to the different, um projects and developments that answered it and then also as a as a point of reference when this, um Came to kathy's attention and she brought it to my attention. I actually asked a schedule a meeting Um with everyone we've mentioned in addition to our center in between hope Who else? vcp And and said everyone Let's come together. This is a really good opportunity and how do we work as a collective? To support this and bring it forward and how do we use it to start supporting the other things that we're doing And so when we talk about this there is other conversations going To have a more robust impact and specifically How do you look at the transitional housing? For example that vcp is working on and we're needing potentially more permanent supportive Which when you start doing that you start creating more capacity So this is really a product of multiple conversations and looking at a much bigger picture This is one piece. The other thing I think that when we use terms and and So when we talk facility management and we talk support services, I think Those are two different concepts and And it's like I often say if we're good at managing buildings and maintaining those buildings and that's what we're good at But we may not necessarily be the best at the programming and the support services is really that programming piece And that's why we're trying to get everyone in the lanes that they excel at Thank you for that explanation All right, would someone like to make a motion councilman peck Let's see which one was it um b 9b resolution 20 2011 I move resolution 20 2011 All right, it's been moved by councilor peck seconded by councilman martin Seeing no further discussion. Let's vote Oops, I would Mayor bagley push harder. All right now it passes unanimously. All right 8c Resolution 2020-12 a resolution along with city council approving a voluntary alternative agreement for the sugar mill paired homes development Satisfaction for the city's inclusionary housing requirements Dr. Waters Thanks, mayor bagley just a couple of questions. I This is this is an interesting project from several different perspectives from my standpoint And I I spoke to david a bit at the break and it would be helpful for me If if he could talk about how what's the approach that habitat takes to make certain that if this gets approved that those 12 lots that that he's confident in the development of those lots and What what's the method for keeping? mortgage or the total cost right of of home ownership Afford of permanently affordable for the residents whether or not Uh, the developer gets a metro district approved Sure David emerson i'm the executive director for habitat for humanity st. Brain valley councilmember waters So we control the financing The long and short of that is so we factor in any hoa fees Any metro district fees property taxes and insurance We make sure that that amount does not amount to more than 27 percent Of a person's income, which is actually well below other guidelines Most guidelines are well, you know at least 30 percent So right from the beginning we know what You know what that mortgage is going to be for the homeowner And because we control the financing It really shouldn't matter whether that metro district is in place or not We did look at uh mountain brook for example And just did a little bit of uh, you know, we're not in the metro district for mountain brook, but at a 50 mil Rate if you will our houses will probably be around 200 000 dollars That's around 68 dollars a month if it was applied that full metro district So again, we would back that out and our principal payments would Add up to um not more than 27 percent So regardless, uh, you you could do the same thing with an hoa But we would have to yeah, yeah I just think it's it's instructive for me at least to understand Metro district to not h o day or not that is unrelated When habitats involved to whether or not homes are permanently Affordable, right? Yeah, which is part of the the beauty of what you bring into the equation um So given the fact that we've had this discussion about metro districts. I just think it's important to understand That's separate from what we're doing with our affordable housing initiative and then i'll be quiet I'm gonna be i'm supportive of this of this proposal and i'll listen to the concerns or questions of others Harold what wins uh, when's the metro district discussion? On the fourth right you wanted it at the next study session, so that'll be fair All right, so we're popping into the queue here and we uh, we we got the battle coming up. So All right councillor christensen I would like Eugene to explain the legal definition of dedication of this land does that mean that That habitat for humanity For instance Owns the land Outright they have a title to it. They can sell it Or does that mean it is leased for a dollar a year or something like that? So med Dedication means it is donated and put in there Control in their name And then we enter into an agreement with habitat separately The developer enters into agreement with habitat about what happens And if anything would happen to habitat the land it's going to go in the agreement the land comes back to the city So there will be full control. There will be covenants on the property And it'll be deed restricted But it's in habitat's name At the point of donation they own it and they can sell it. Yes. Okay. That's what I wanted to know I I am curious as to how this qualifies for A voluntary alternative agreement We this was supposed to be something very very rare And we've had about three applications for this now in the last six months Yes, so this one is falls under the um alternative agreement because of the land donation The code right now says the land is dedicated to the city So to allow it to be dedicated directly to habitat That's why we have to have the voluntary alternative agreement. We are going to be bringing back Some tweaks and changes to the code probably yet this quarter And this that would be one of them to to change that so we don't have to keep bringing this back But what would keep a developer from setting up their own A Charity or making an agreement with the charity I mean to me I I see the um Efficacy and just transferring it directly to habitat and habitat of course is a wonderful organization But uh This undermines our inclusionary housing in that Right now it is the land is given to the city and the city gives it to A genuine charity such as habitat for humanity What would prevent this if we if we start doing this and just transferring it directly To a charity from the developer to the charity. What is to prevent the chair the developer from creating their own charity? That they donate their own land to So there was discussion about this during the inclusionary housing Code writing And I think there was a couple of different things that were were mentioned that was a concern By some council, which I think is why we ended up with it going to the city And the previous inclusionary housing ordinance We got around that by saying that the nonprofit or the Charity whatever you want to call it had to be approved by the city and there were certain We set up ramifications or certain criteria of how that could be met It's a little bit burdensome to put it in the code, but it could go in guidelines or something like that Or you could just limit it to A number of specific long month based organizations nonprofits that Would be acceptable Yes, we could or we could just follow the ordinance And that's what you have here. So we can keep bringing them back too. So yeah Yeah, I think if I'm remembering the conversation, that's the very reason it has to come back in the voluntary Alternative agreement is because you did want that open ended component where it could be any charity and council wanted to review that Which is why it's coming back in this form Councilor peck I guess I'm still a little bit confused because In the ordinance, it would just be land in lieu You know instead of providing the the 12 affordable housing Once the city owns it they can have Anyone develop it This this feels convoluted to me Because we're bringing in A lot of different aspects You know in the metro district thing to me isn't even worth considering at this point Because we don't have a service plan. We don't have anything for that metro district. So This whole paragraph doesn't To me doesn't relate I don't I still don't understand and I didn't when we created the ordinance as to why We can't just follow the ordinance. It's either land in lieu or cash in lieu And if it's land in lieu then the city Can choose the developer In this you know the the writing in the in the uh Proposed development says this will make the transaction easier and cleaner than dedicating the parcels to the city And we in turn dedicate them to habitat I don't I don't understand why it would be Cleaner to do it this way And primarily because the developer Had the conversations and everything with habitat directly So the developer wants to donate directly to habitat versus going through the city And this is kind of what we're finding is with mountain brook was the same thing They wanted to go directly to habitat into veterans community project as opposed to going to the city For the city actually looking for getting in the developer Where the the land they wanted to donate I understand that part of it Yeah, so if they've already reached that agreement it is easier To have them donate directly to them versus going to the city and the city turning around and And donating it if it was a more open process then absolutely We would be saying donate it to the city and we'll make it, you know, we'll do what needs to be done to have it happen I guess I guess going forward. I I don't want every development To come back to us with a different Model I would say for what they want to do Then what our inclusionary zoning ordinance actually says so I'll I'll agree to this But not with the metro district Consideration in it It is not it was only meant the metro district has only mentioned That if it would happen to go forward There's a mechanism with habitat to Keep the units affordable. It's not going to impact that so it isn't a consideration at all and it's not a vote at all about the metro district Okay, great. It was just an explanation and and I just want to make This statement because I do understand habitat for humanity and how they built What they are doing they do regardless this is this is their model with the financing with Interviewing the families and working with them for a year before they even get into the homes to make sure they can afford them So it doesn't you know, this isn't anything that the developer is Constructing that finance plan has been habitats model for years So um that part of it. I totally agree with thank you Mayor pro tem Thank you, mayor baddie. I was just wondering in our ordinance Do we say that when the land donation occurs that it's strictly a 12 land donation is sufficient to to Accomplish the the requirements by ordinance that the developer has Or is it non-descript in our ordinance as far as I think that's a gist Mayor and council Eugene may city attorney The ordinance provides the land must be able to support at least the quantity of affordable housing as would it be required on site Without the need for varying so essentially 12 percent would satisfy as long as it can contain 12 percent of the units, right? okay Well, that's helpful to know and you know, I do consider this in the sense that developers and builders are two different things and that uh whether the The builder of the other units builds the affordable units is not really the point the point is getting The units built regardless of who the builder happens to be So I don't really have a problem and of course, you know the reputation that habitat has is great I do have a quick question as for habitat. Do you commonly construct interior roadways? Yes, we not commonly but we have had to do that in order to make projects work. So Um, it just depends obviously ideally We would rather have um all the infrastructure in place um, but when I started to work with the The developer we really worked in good faith with what the code says that the infrastructure needed to be up to that That edge of the land donation You know and if I may take a minute here one of the things that you may consider I'm hearing you know It may be better to have the city it donated to the city and then find the builder There's a lot of back and forth that is going on between engineering architecture the market rate builder the developer the investors and so In this case the developer really needed to understand who the builder of that affordable was going to be And so to to push that to the end I think would be problematic To getting some of this affordable done So when this my understanding Is when this land gets Dedicated to habitat or any affordable if it wasn't habitat there would be a deed put on that land immediately One and second the market rate builder would not be able to pull Or receive co's unless The developer has done their duty so that it's really Based on the term she A lot of the the mechanics have been thought out to ensure that the affordable is done Well, so Thank you, I would move resolution 2012 councilmember councilmember martin All right, let's go ahead and vote You're voting on there's a motion for resolution 2020-12 Councilmember christensen All right, that passes unanimously All right, that gets us through the consent agenda as well as ordinances on second reading Harold when just out of curiosity When are we going to be out of here? When's our first meeting in the library? Next week, right? Okay. All right, so Huh No, I know that's why I figured which is why I was like if it's gonna be two weeks I was like get us a clock, but all right, so It is nine o'clock So we'll take a five minute break again Are you doing okay? No. All right. Let's go to general business first quarter 2020 affordable housing funding recommendations for consideration and approval Okay, good evening mayor and council. So tonight we are looking at The recommendations from the housing and human services advisory board Via recommendations of the technical review group on funding for several different projects affordable housing projects from the affordable housing fund as well as from the cdbg fund Even though you're really going to be looking at and acting on the cdbg program Next month and on the 20th february 25th meeting No, this is going to be hard to sorry Pull this together quickly. So this is attachment to In your packet and it summarizes the different projects That we received applications for so the first one is the boulder county housing authority for the kaufman street project if you remember that one Has received tax credit funding from chaffa It is to do 73 total units With a good portion of them 12 15 23 of the units At 50 percent AMI or below 12 of the units at 30 percent AMI and 50 units at 60 percent and below Um, it does have some three bedroom units, but mostly ones and twos They are also receiving other city funding to help with the parking garage that Is a joint project with the ldda They requested funding For the housing portion of it and the housing advisory board is recommending that the 2021 home funds that the city is eligible to receive would be Given to this project as a grant They would also be eligible for about 200 000 and fee offsets from the affordable housing fund The element property project the suite permanent supportive housing project Requested a hundred thousand dollars for pre development costs. So to help them with their engineering with their Um, due diligence to soil surveys and those kinds of things that they have to do in order to know That they've got a good land in order to move forward with It's being recommended that that be in a loan for those costs zero percent interest with a two-year Payment in two years whether or not the project goes forward and is funded by chaffa or not So we would get the hundred thousand dollars back This would be a nine percent low-income housing tax credit project and as councilmember christensen Indicated that application is due to chaffa by february 3rd The first phase would be 50 to 60 probably closer to 50 permanent supportive housing units. Mostly one bedroom With a lower income mix At the 30 additional phases may be moving forward as well The next project that was considered is the in-between They requested funding to be able to go out and Look for and then ultimately purchase an existing Property that they would then convert to affordable Because we didn't know what property they were talking about the technical review group and the housing advisory board Are recommending Some funding not the full amount that they requested A hundred thousand dollars from the affordable housing fund as a loan Was zero percent interest and they would match their financing term for their Mortgage because they're going to have to get a mortgage in order to do this And then up to 160,000 additional from the 2020 cdbg funds as a grant There's some caveats on it The funding needs to be spent within 12 months of the city council approval The building to be purchased can have no fewer than six units. So the technical review group was very interested in making sure that it was a Significant project for them. So at least six they're really trying to look at eight to 15 And that had at least one fully accessible unit or a unit that's able to be made fully accessible And they would have to show that they do have permanent financing Or a line of credit or some kind of bridge loan before we would release our funds to move forward with the purchase The longmont family apartments is another project that we received. This is a new developer to the city Constructing 88 units of affordable housing 18 of the units would be affordable Actually 22 of the units would be affordable at a below 50 percent, which is about 25 percent of the total units And the rest at 60 percent This would have a lot of three bedrooms and four bedrooms. So truly family housing 27 three bedrooms 16 four bedroom and 30 accessible units so more than the minimum required there It would be a $500,000 loan from the affordable housing fund with zero percent interest during construction and then at the rate set at When they close on the To their permanent financing with a 15 year term but amortized over 38 years So it would be refinanced when the tax credits would come up Uh, we this is when we did read we did negotiate further with the developer in order to get lower income units So I think that worked out. Well, they would also be eligible for we're estimating around 215,000 in fee waiver offsets to be paid from the affordable housing fund This project has received approval from chaffa for tax credits as well as private activity bonds The Longmont housing authority made a request To for aspen meadows apartment senior apartments that project is up for Recyndication the tax credits have expired on that one. So they're looking to Recredit it and do a significant rehab On that building. Um, they've been approved for 175,000 in 2019 city of longmont cdbg funds already They also received um our Some of our private activity bond in 2019 and council did approve all of the 2020 Private activity bond to go to this project as well Um, we are suggesting or recommending a $300,000 grant from the 2020 cdbg fund Um to go with that 175. So give them a total of 475,000 in grant funds um The configuration stays the same with 47 one bedroom and three two bedroom But um, it does get to some lower income units with five would be dedicated to 30 a.m I am below Most of them at 50 and then five at 60. So it spreads it out a little bit more and allows for some of those lower income units And then finally senior housing options which owns the cinnamon park Assisted living facility has got a little bit of land that they want to build a independent living 25 units for independent seniors They are going to be also submitting for tax credits in the february round We are recommending a $250,000 affordable housing fund loan Which would be at zero percent interest for a 40 year term It would be contingent on them being approved for the tax credits in this round So if they don't get approved, then we don't give them the funding obviously They would also be eligible for um about 60,000 in offsets. We're estimating at this time Um, the 25 units would all be accessible Um, 21 one of them would be one bedroom and four studios Three of the units at 30 a.m I and nine at 40 and the rest at 50 so i'll Excuse me below 50 a.m I So I was hoping this would be a little bit easier to read but again, it's in your packet So it just really lays out The funding that's being recommended and what funding source It is being recommended to come from as well as giving you information on The fund sources so what we have available so We are looking at allocating 1.4 25 million including holding out some of those fee offsets From the uh the 2020 affordable housing fund We have about 2.25 million available to us right now with carryover into from 2019 into 2020 the new funds anticipated in 2020 So that's going to leave us with about 800 000 available for the rest of 2020 Um, we don't think we need to do we definitely don't need to do a funding application in this first quarter We may not need to do it in the next quarter depending on what we hear from chaffa for um the different projects So probably not looking to doing um applications again until june july time frame Um, if you have any questions, I'd be more than happy to Take a shot at giving some answers Let's go with councilman redargo faring Thank you So in looking at um, and primarily and I don't know how how many on council are familiar with the longmont family apartments The 15th street avenue how how much background so the last few months and through my campaign I was Kind of walking the area talking to neighbors. So I had been aware of this Um, you know the concerns and primarily around the density and the parking um, some big concerns that came to light was looking at the public right of way And so in in discussing with herald we talked about that this particular project wouldn't impact Um, but you are working with Um Engineers as the redevelopment in that area happens to redesign reconfigure so no homes are in jeopardy It so this goes to the conversation we had with the lady that came to council last week regarding 16th street And we and we talked about the fact that in terms and joney if I misspeak jump in At this time 16th street wasn't going to be required But we also have the engineers looking at alternate designs in order to accommodate that And not negatively impact the Mobile home part So yes, okay, and so they're working on it. So they haven't come up with a design or A solution yet They may have I know jim and del and I were talking about it and joney's talking about it So I know that del asked jim to have his folks work on that and look at it Um, I haven't had a chance to circle back on that one That's on our list to keep up with to keep up with so So yeah, so in looking at this and so what we're approving tonight is not necessarily approval for any of these projects to move forward It is for Go ahead for funding and It is for funding. So that project would move forward. It's actually um, submitted for development review Okay, so the develop has to go through all that first so the development review and the Appropriation of funds for this are two separate Things Okay And so the other thing If for some reason in this for the 88 units if the developer decides to To roll back the number of units drop it down to 50 or Or something more comparable to the the area Would they still qualify for the funding? So it would be negotiable for our funding but because they have received their approvals from chaffa Um, and it's a significant amount of money. I doubt if they could go back and renegotiate that at this point I don't know Or not, but um That I highly doubt that chaffa would approve it a drop from 88 to 50 Okay, okay, or even 60 or or yeah, so just because they have to underwrite the entire thing It would delay the whole thing and um, and I guess my concern because I had been walking around that area I dragged my husband who's a contractor and it was like come with me and we're gonna scope the neighborhood and I was hoping I wouldn't get arrested For scoping around but it is really it is a dense property um project and it will alter permanently alter The area Um, and then I looked the nearest park. So I was looking that up too Spangler park would be the closest public park to where they're From this Development. Yeah, I looked it up on my phone. It was car park Spangler Is that I thought I thought alto was closer, but maybe I'm looking the wrong Maybe I didn't show up on mine So ninth I think yeah, so So but it's on the other side of the cemetery. So it's south of the cemetery So yeah, so then the nearest one then would be from this vicinity um spangler park um, so just kind of looking at You know what our envision plan is we're looking at creating more walkability more paths bike paths accessibility Parks, I just I I'm having a hard time Accepting this particular Project or approval for this particular project to move forward Until there are other it seems like there are other things including Look talking with engineers around the public right of way To ensure that people aren't displaced Um looking at how we can build up the infrastructure in that area in regards to park and walkability bike path There just seems to be like there needs to be other things that happened first before we move through with this So The funding will not be provided until they're ready to construct, which means they have gone through the development approval process Which takes all of those things that you had talked about into consideration I know they've done a significant amount of work to reconfigure the buildings to have less of a An impact on the neighborhood So that's some significant work they've done, but the developer needs to get their financing aligned in order to Have some assurity of going through with the cost of the development process And all that entails as well So it's kind of it. It's a little bit of a chicken and egg thing Yeah, it comes first from their standpoint. They have to have their financing Aligned or set up or have some assurance around that in order to proceed into the development process but then Most funding well no funding is going to happen unless they get their plans approved so There's some I guess confidence there on that end that if it if they don't make it through the development review to approval So it's going to give them any funding So but if there is funding for this project to go through Is there guarantee that there will be Money put in place or they would be able to help us work with park Pathways, I mean this is kind of like my well, that's all part of the development process So they talk about what greenways might be needed or pocket parks that are needed on site Detention, I mean that whole realm of things is all part of the development review process And I think what we'll have to do is we have a parks and greenway master plan That's really looking at what we have in terms of existing parks where we have gaps within our system And in times all of that out in terms of how we make The public investment into to that piece I'm trying to pull that map up but that may be something Separate that we need to go over with you in terms of that piece because that is a different question That's guided by that planning document in terms of what we do and when we do those things councilmember christensen I would I would support all of these Programs I all of this funding. I think it's all a very good idea I do I know we're getting a little far off when in discussing the 15th and ash project, but I would I I do have a suggestion that I was thinking about the last few days Having to do with what you just said councilman Hidalgo farang You know, we don't the Envision Longmont plan is a guiding document It is not a binding document And but it also suggests we create walkable neighborhoods not drivable neighborhoods walkable neighborhoods And with that in mind a path Creates a much lower impact on a community and also a much more enjoyable A minute Part of a civic Amenity than a street And we don't really we've gone for 150 years without a street that runs all the way through from 16th to main Why not create a walking path along there along that edge of the properties that everyone could enjoy there's already one on the edge of their Bagley's property and That's that's pleasant people can hang around there and have lunch It's not very wide, but it's pleasant and it wouldn't have the nearly the effect of Um Everything and it could be rolled into the landscaping Requirements that everybody already has instead of Working on a road that goes through to main street. How about a walking bike path that goes through to main street? Just a suggestion customer peck I move that we approve the project's proposed for the 2020 affordable housing funding. I'll second that So moved by councilman peck second by myself. I just want to throw in there. I do have I don't know what walking path You're referring to councilman peck or christian said, but yeah, I yeah, yeah So so I actually office there and I am extremely sensitive to this area I look at it all the time literally um the uh 15th and I mean I would love 15th to stay just like it is But there is no traffic on 15th I walk every day with drago to uh get To get chipotle's to get five guys You can walk to the there's there's the there's the grocery store right across the street There's a gas state. I mean there's it is I mean, it's only two blocks. So I mean, it's literally they could walk to my office in probably 90 seconds And then walk the walk I do for lunch Which is you know five to ten minutes to get pretty much anywhere. So I know what this is coming up But um, and I don't I'm not saying that I haven't I have not I have no idea what they're planning. I I know that there's affordable housing requirements I know there's concern about the roadway going to main street Um, I know that there's some density concerns I use that field to play fetch with my dog if we could keep it empty forever I'm all in but the reality is I mean It's it's it's gonna get developed and if it's gonna get developed. I want to make sure that we we use these We we we use these monies wisely Councilmember e-doggle fairing you can have the last word on whatever you're gonna say. That's all right So, um, yeah, I can't let this go. So, um well And I look at I don't have a problem with the affordable housing. I don't have the problem with the idea I think it's just my My piece is where it's at um and you know Can I make a motion that we Do the we approve the rest extract the number three the longmont family apartments for now You could you could you could make a motion. I make because you're new. I'll be nice. Thank you You can make a you could make a notion There is but you could make it. I know you can make a motion to amend Yes, uh, the current motion to remove The 15th 15th avenue family apartment project You would have to be seconded and then it would have to vote be be voted on by a majority to get it to I am yeah, no, I understand that piece. I'm gonna make the amendment. Um That we approve the to make an amendment to Was it jone that you um, so councilmember um peck um to Extract the longmont family apartments for now For now and approve continue with the rest Um until we can I can collect further information Okay, it dies for lack of second, but that is but we have a little trust me who we're gonna talk a lot about this property Yes, all right. So let's go ahead and vote. All right. That passes six to one with a very defiant but caring councilmember You'd all go faring That's that's that's that's why we have war. That's why we have words That's why we have words. You're you're doing you're doing what you need to do for your peoples. Yeah, that's great Good for you fairing is caring. There you go That's right. They're gonna love you. All right Um, let's move on to 2020 legislative update I'm sorry. Kathy. Do you have something else? I was just gonna thank the housing advisory board and the technical review group for all of their work during this and I think you'll notice in the The information we put in the packet there was a lot more detailed review of the financials and the project variables so We tried to step it up a little bit and thanks to you and the staff my head hurts reading this I had the I had the thought. Oh my gosh. I mean I helped You know, I was involved in the ordinance ordinances and keeping this all straight And figuring out how much money we have left and what's coming in and what's not coming in and where our goals are And what we what's gonna make us mad and not mad? Good job That that was a feat impressive All right, let's go on to the legislative update sandy cedar assistant city manager in the flesh Mayor bagley members of council sandy cedar assistant city manager And i'm bringing you your first stack of bills to take a look at today There are 10 bills on this list But I should mention to you that house bill 20 dash want 10 70 Concerning the requirement that local governments interface with oil and gas operations Compensate persons damaged by that interference was pied in committee yesterday So that one is already gone. Don't you don't need to take a position on that one We can do this a couple ways I can go through them and explain the different bills or if you'd like to approve them as a batch based on the recommendations from Staff that would work. Well also Councilor peck Thank you. Sandy, could you read the titles of them for the people of watching at home at least? Yes, I don't know what we're voting on. Yes, you bet And the recommendations you got it Okay, so the first one this is really the biggest batch of them because this is the first month of the legislature And we just kind of get going at this time But house bill 2010 06 concerning a creation of a statewide program of early childhood mental health consultation Because this is a council work plan priority the staff recommends that the council supports 20 dash 10 06 House bill 20 dash 10 11 considering the creation of the helping others manage early childhood act similarly does Funds a public awareness campaign for early childhood education and particularly home care Because this again is something that the that supports the council work plan for early care and education We recommend that the city council support 10 11 House bill 2010 45 considering the stabilization of state funding for energy efficiency improvement programs What this bill basically does is it? It Refunds a lot of the different programs that the state cut over the last few years Including weatherization programs and such because this that supports the city's sustainability programs and goals We recommend that the that the city council support 10 45 10 70 is the one that was um PI'd Forget what that stands for again But killed in committee essentially postponed indefinitely. There we go um house bill 20 dash 10 97 concerning the ability to use water that has been adjudicated for municipal use in interconnected treated municipal water supply systems even if the historical consumptive use of the water Right has been quantified in previous change of water, right? This would basically protect some of the water rights that we have today and allow us not to have to go to court every single time So because this is supportive of our current water rights that we are we are recommending that the city council supports 10 97 House bill 2011 51 considering the expansion of authority of regional transportation improvements. This basically authorizes training plans Transportation planning organizations to exercise the powers of a regional transportation authority sort of unclear what this might mean in the long run but Essentially because it would give some more powers in some more places and transportation is a as a Prior to the city council. We recommend that you support 11 51 Senate bill 20 dash 10 concerning the repeal of prohibition of local government regulation on plastics This is a bill we thought we would see last year But essentially right now if you wanted to regulate plastics in long might you cannot there's a state preemption Against that this would remove that preemption so that you have more local control So supports local control supports environmental policies so the city so the staff recommends city council support senate bill 10 Senate bill 20-44 Concerning the allocation of sales and use tax revenue to provide additional funding for state county and municipal roads and ridge projects So what this does is this basically pulls from other areas yet unknown and unidentified and is able to put that into transportation projects So we would support that because cities would certainly get a portion of that But it's sort of unclear where that money would come from because there's no additional revenue source And the last way we certainly understand the priority of transportation to the city council and staff recommends that we support 44 Senate bill 20-55 concerning the expansion of market mechanisms for further development of recycling As you all know, there's been issues with marketing recycling And being able to actually get payback and make that economically viable So this would really do some additional this would provide for additional research on market studies for recycling markets To see if there's other places that we could Hopefully sell our recycle products too because it Supports the sustainability goals for waste reduction into version The staff recommends that council supports senate bill 55 and last but not least Senate bill 20-94 Concerning the imposition of additional plug-in electric motor vehicle registration fees This bill would basically say that there would be an additional registration fee for electric vehicles Since that's not the direction that we think The electric vehicle should go and might be a disincentive to people actually getting electric vehicles Staff is recommending that city council oppose senate bill 94 There are a couple more that hit over the last week that you'll be seeing next week Including a brand new one that we just saw today on the original transportation district And some additional regulations around their operation including auditing and some other things So you'll be seeing that one next week council member martin Thank you, mayor bagley. I move that the council support the recommendations of the staff on all the bills presented It's been moved and seconded nobody's in the queue. Let's vote All right, that passes unanimously. Thank you. Let's move on to final call public invited to be heard Anyone want to say anything? I see some staff members You never hear from staff anybody want to just launch into us Be cool something new dale. Sure All right. All right seeing no one. Let's go ahead and move on to Mayor and council comments Dr. Waters Thanks, mayor bagley Everyone is I hope aware of the fact that We have we are we are in the phase of a library feasibility study where we're There is now a survey To which residents can respond If they have if they'd like the boat, there's both opportunities for responses questions and short answer responses in and Sandy what would be the best if anybody's listening the best way? I can I can give the url Or the it's http the bitly Slash library future would be the url So if anybody's listening or could they can they get there to engage long month? Or they could just go to engage long month and click on the library survey and have a chance to respond There are also three community meetings that are For community meetings that are scheduled February 10th 11th 12th and 13th And I know the library staff and the and the consultants would Would love to have big turnouts for those So we all that information is available again on engage long month So hopefully people would take advantage of that opportunity to weigh in on what you would like to see In your library in the future Councilor peck Thank you. I just want to remind the public that we are going to have the showing Of the film no small matter Thursday at the museum um From six to nine You can come at 5 30 if you want to hang out and network This supports our early childhood Work plan early childhood preschool and it also supports our the hb 20 10 11 which we just voted on to support as our house bill So we hope to see all of you there to support our work plan to support our governor's Birth to three-year-old support And hope to see there councilman christensen I've been trying to clean out my house a little bit and um, I came across my sisters and I My the book that my sister and I used uh when we were girl scouts And I would like to read the girl scout promise and the girl scout laws because I think it is um Along with the boy scouts and the blue birds and uh poor age all these things that we seem to Understand more clearly as children and they are indeed easier to do as children But there's still good principles for civic engagement and for community To do the girl scout promises is on my honor I will try to do my duty to god and my country to help other people at all times and to obey the girl scout laws Here are the girl scout laws A girl scouts honor is to be trusted a girl scout is loyal a girl scouts duty is to be useful and to help others A girl scout is a friend to all and a sister to every other girl scout A girl scout is courteous a girl scout is a friend to animals A girl scout obeys orders a girl scout is cheerful a girl scout is thrifty A girl scout is clean in thought word and deed Those are good things for us all to aspire to thank you. I hope everyone has a good week That's cool. I didn't know that uh councilman radiological fairing top that I can't okay. Should we just adjourn now? You know what I had I attended three board meetings since the last time we met el comete the museum and today the youth council And so it was I was thoroughly impressed. I was thoroughly impressed with the museum They're working on their master development plan. It's very extensive very thorough and they're hoping to Get that going launching it in Or I'm sorry the idea so in the part of their master plan the idea the inclusivity diversity equity and accessibility initiative That's they're hoping to launch that in february So I've been able to kind of offer some input and and work with them So I hope to continue that that dialogue In how to to kind of meet the diverse needs of our community Through the museum They recently had an opening for the terry maker because the world is round exhibit I think it starts tomorrow their opening was this past friday and they did qualify for the sc fd The scientific and cultural facilities district tier two qualifications The tier one is you know, it pretty much encompasses Denver museum art the botanical garden so the huge entities so for us to gain that tier two that's very exciting as far as Funding goes so so check them out check out their exhibits. They're doing great work El comete will be having their fundraiser on march 21st, I believe was the date that they gave saturday We were playing around with looking at a friday in april So we might go that route as well, but they are collecting donations for baskets Council so anyone wants to contribute to a basket To assist with their funding and the youth council we got to hear them today and they were talking about projects that they were That they're promoting this this year And looking at and so something that they had asked of me just really finding ways to connect with initiatives and task force that we're doing In the city so i'm thinking the climate action task force in regards to their environmental sustainability In looking at mental health and positivity What are their sams supporting action for mental health so there's ways that we can work and And put put them to work in our community and give them opportunities to come speak and And practice their leadership skills. So that that's all I have to say have a great week Councilor martin Thank you. I'd just like to say that although I have nothing against the girl scouts in particular that I think once Uh one attains a certain age if you're not in the military Obeying orders is something one should think twice about thanks Not me. I always do what I'm told That was a joke by the way All right, um anybody else Okay, herald. Do you have anything actually I do so I was correct on the road piece just so everyone knows They are That has to be submitted and they're working in the design review The piece I did want to address is david bell is that is the an area of need that was in the plan and david is working With some other property owners To figure out a way to do a park. It's actually going to be really expensive So they're trying to work through the issue. So he is engaged in that conversation for the broader neighborhood So I just wanted to pass that around and then I will get with the council member bearing on the parks and rec and trails master plan Eugene No comments mayor. All right, anybody opposed to uh an adjournment It's been moved. I'll second it all in favor say aye. We're adjourned