 there you have a quorum great you'll be called out according to the last three digits your phone number so all right let's move on to approval of minutes we have a motion to approve the July 14 2020 regular session minutes so moved also it's been moved and sent is moved by Councilman Martin seconded by Councilman Peck all in favor say aye aye aye all opposed say nay all right the motion passes unanimously all right it looks like do we have any agenda revisions sorry I see that I see that there's a revised ordinance for item 10a regarding the dismount zones very good thank you guys I see that but right now just there are there agenda revisions or submission emotions direct city manager and and staff to bring back future agenda items that's where I'm asking for a while back I requested a the police department to report on their use of force that was mainly to educate the public on whether we should defund or divert police funding by 10 percent to housing and human services I know that the city manager and the police department is working on that use of force statement I would like to amend it to include whether they whether our police department ever uses medical injections such as was used on Elijah McCain thank you I agree with a councilwoman Christensen but I would like to have this in this report not not only do the police use into any type of injections to calm a an arrestee or does do the EMT people use any injections questions okay all right that's sad let's move on to city manager's report and update on COVID-19 Carol mayor council so one thing that I want to touch on is not technically not COVID related but it is this year so I did want to report to you all that based on our mosquito trapping we are going to be spraying on Thursday evening we are following our policy and notifying this folks that are requesting the shutoffs again you can see it decreasing this is really echoing what the governor talked about today in his press conference and when you see the chart associated with Boulder County you're going to see a significant difference in terms of the age range of people that are testing positive again higher in the 20 to 29 year old population and statewide you can see this general decline this this diagram is the one that the governor was referencing today on his on his press conference and what you really see is what's happening in in other communities when we were at the peak in April for us you could see a 25 percent positive rate that's really what they're seeing in some of the locations in the in the states that are considered the hotspots today and in Colorado four point five six so we've really been hovering around this five percent recently even with the the increased number of positive cases in Colorado again you can see the high points in Boulder County and you can see again as we watch trends you're seeing the graphs move in a very similar fashion the difference in this as I am going to get all attention to the y-axis on this one when you see many places talking about generating hundreds of cases you know our high point in Boulder has still been 45 but you can see the movement in the graph that mimics what we're seeing at the state level the last few days have been pretty good we're still probably a few days to a week out of seeing what the impact is of the new masking order and the closures of establishments after 10 p.m. but hopefully the data will continue trending in this direction this is the graph that I wanted to show you when when you looked at the state graph in terms of where the positive test are being generated you know the state had more of this gradual incline like this what we're really seeing in Boulder County it is again in this 20 to 29 year old population and that's where you're seeing a lot of the the work being done in terms of communicating with with the public information that they're putting out especially as the university is getting ready to go in session the county has worked they are creating situation where they work or a program where they work with individuals from the community and I know they're really focused on trying to get some college-age students on that group so they can you know increase the communication in this age range but when you look at the actual number of cases Boulder is now at 707 where it's 626 again that is really directly you can really start seeing those age demographics starting to play in the community numbers and the number of people protesting positive and then this is the demographics in terms of white non-Hispanic Hispanic Latinx in the different communities if you remember last week I talked to you I think it was 36 I can't remember fills with counselor with the city wide web acts at one point it was 36.8 another point 36.2 now 35.9% so you're actually seeing this number start to drop which then is starting to correspond with where you're seeing the age demographics in terms of who who is testing positive this is where we stand in terms of hospital services in Boulder County again I put the caveat that that we are still doing elected procedures and other normal hospital work so so that will adjust this but in terms of ICU beds available non-critical vans and critical vans were still in really good shape in terms of the hospital system so again really important for us to you know manage three things wear a mask socially distance and wash our hands I may have mentioned it to this group there was a really interesting medical study out that said if we do those three things it has a potential to be almost as impactful as a vaccine mayor we have eight guests that I've let in. All right perfect I'm sorry let's go ahead and start. I'm here tonight to address some serious concerns with the Prairie Dog extermination permitting process. I'm calling tonight to speak about the bike dismount ordinance as it's currently written. I do think that there's some merit in the overall idea however I vehemently disagree with the fine structure that will ultimately either go unenforced or dis-proportionately affect our lower income residents. I want to tackle the fracking issue which is coming up a little bit later and just make a couple of comments on which I'm extremely concerned. First I want to request that Dr. Helmings contract be renewed when it comes up for renewal last month. I use that debt almost every day. I have asthma COPD so knowing the air quality is vital to understand whether I dare spend extensive time outdoors. All right it's been moved by Council over Christensen that we pass the consensus agenda except for F and I'll second that. I lip read it. All right I'm seeing no discussion. Let's go ahead and vote. All in favor say aye. All opposed say nay. All right the consent agenda minus F has passed. Let's move on to ordinances on second reading specifically 10A ordinance. So we would encourage the public to call in now. And so we've only got one. Well since the first reading the ordinance city staff and the LVDA worked with bicycle armor and a couple of changes to the ordinance or to make it a little more bicycle friendly. Specifically there are two changes that are being requested and the first is the change is to actually change the dismount zone. So instead of the dismount zone being from 1st to Longs Peak it would be different depending upon which side of the Main Street you're on. For the west side of Main Street the dismount zone would be from 3rd to Longs Peak and on the east side of Main Street it would be from 2nd to Longs Peak and this change was requested because there's no alternate route between 1st and 2nd on the east side of Main and on the west side of Main Street the bicycle is likely to be able to ride between 2nd and 3rd. Tax is the regional bus stop just south of Fertility. I move approval of ordinance 2020-28 as presented in the agenda tonight. All right. I'll second that. All right. Seeing no further discussions go ahead and vote. All in favor of approving ordinance 2020-28 on 2nd reading say aye. Aye. Opposed say nay. All right. The motion passes unanimously. Thank you very much. All right. Let's go on to the regional air quality monitoring presentation oil and gas update please. Shall I take it away? Good evening Mayor Bagley and members of City Council. My name's Jane Turner and I'm the city's oil and gas and air quality coordinator. I'm new. This is a new position. I just started in April and I'm really excited to have the opportunity to present to Council. I've spoken with a few of you over email but it's nice to be able to have this opportunity to introduce myself to you as well as to long months residents. I'm a certified professional engineer and I have a PhD in air quality engineering from CU Boulder and I'm really grateful to have this opportunity to work with a city that's being so proactive about environmental monitoring and showing such an interest in air quality research. So you can bring up slides now. And I think I've introduced myself so we can go to slide two. I'm going to be providing a brief update on some oil and gas activities and that'll be followed by a presentation on the city's regional air quality monitoring by Dr. Detlev Helmig of Boulder Atmospheric Innovation Research. The first update is regarding production activities at the Stamp Well. The Stamp Well is an oil and gas well that's located on the northwest side of Union Reservoir and some residents have expressed concerns about some of the production activities that have occurred particularly between July 2019 and March 2020. During that time period a workover read was observed at the site and the residents have expressed some concerns about whether any of these activities have been in violation of the city's agreement with Cub Creek Energy. Staff's reviewed the activities that occurred during this time frame. We've reached out to our contacts at the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, the COGCC, because they regulate the activities at this site. And we've also spoken with our Special Oil and Gas Legal Council, Phil Barber. Based on these reviews, it's the current understanding and belief of the city staff that the activities were in accordance with state regulations and that none of these activities have specifically violated the city's agreement with Cub Creek. The next update is also on the stamp well and it's regarding ongoing remediation activities there. This remediation is a separate topic and not related to the production activities I was discussing on the last slide. The remediation is happening because there was a spill, a leak of some fluids at the site, and that was identified on May 14th of this year. Workers at the site found that the source of the leak was a crack in a fiberglass tank. This was a large holding tank, 100 barrels. It was stored above ground and it was holding produced water. So that's water that has come back up out of the well. There is right now no ongoing leak at the site. The tank that was cracked has been removed. There's no threat to residents that we're aware of. And regarding the Cub Creek agreement, the accidental spill at the site is also not in violation of that agreement. The last update I have for you is not about the stamp well. It's about the night wells. And these are oil and gas wells which are planned to be drill in 2020 outside the city properties to the north. The night well pad is located directly north of Union Reservoir, but south of Highway 66. Now the night wells are still in the planning stages, but what is happening is that we have received construction plans for an access road that will allow the operators to get to that well pad. Those plans are currently being reviewed by city staff in the development and review group. And it's our understanding that Cub Creek intends to begin construction of that road as soon as those plans are approved in order to keep them on their planned timeline of beginning drilling the night wells in September of this year. So now for the main event, we'll be hearing a presentation by Dr. Helmig on the city's air quality monitoring study. Good evening, everybody. Thanks for having me on the call. Okay, so Dr. Turner already nicely summarized this. There's several objectives covered by this program. The first one is to monitor greenhouse gases released from the footprint of the city with a goal to assist the city's path towards sustainability. The second point was to monitor primary oil and gas emissions. And then to provide these data and interpretations to the public and as well to the research community, industry partners and so forth. And we are monitoring quite an array of different atmospheric variables. Most of these are atmospheric gases and I've listed them here again. So these include carbon dioxide, methane, a whole series of volatile organic compounds so abbreviated as VOCs and we'll see several of those further down. Then we monitoring nitrogen oxides, we're monitoring ozone, also particulate matter or aerosols and then meteorological variables and then the sites also have webcams. And all of these measurements are conducted automated, continuous and here around at very high time resolutions. So minutes to one hour time resolutions. Okay, so those two sites here with a double red circle, those are the two long month sites and what I'd like to point out is that there's actually no part of a regional network and what makes this really valuable and what adds high value is that we have these comparison opportunities since we're doing simultaneous monitoring now in two sites in Broomfield as well as the Boda Res Awards in the upper left corner and we've learned a lot about what's happening in Longmont by comparing these observations. So we are currently managing websites from these three different monitoring programs in Longmont, in Broomfield and at Boda County and they're all shown here just with some screenshots and what I'm listing here also are the visits and the site visits where we have counters, visit counters on these sites and what I find remarkable is that actually right now Longmont has taken the first place and then we just generated this this site which is a data analysis tool. It is just a screenshot to give you an idea of what you can do here. You can select in the left panel the sites that you want to investigate and then on the right side you can select the the variable that you want to plot then you have a time window. You can select the start date and the end date and then just click go and then it will generate graphs with these data all plotted together. You can see that Ozone at all of these sites exceeded the standard and you see how similar Ozone behaves at these different sites. So Ozone it's a regional pollutant. It takes a while for it to build up. It moves around during the time so it's not like you know you have a certain neighborhood or a street corner where there's much more Ozone than a block away. It's a regional pollutant and we all experience very similar levels here. However, on average the highest level we've seen so far at the Boda Reservoir and at Longmont Airport. You can see that here as well. That's where the the Ozone peaked on the 21st. Okay, so Ozone summary what have you learned about Ozone. So Ozone is monitored at both the airport and the reservoir. So far this season we had had four days with exceedance of the national ambient Ozone air quality standard. The exceedances at the airport have been slightly higher than at the rest at the Union Reservoir and most times there's higher Ozone in easterly winds than in westerly transport. So in the region here where we are it appears that you know oil and gas is really the dominant sources, dominant source contributing source from methane. At the bottom now you see the graph of the methane data and it shows methane for the reservoir for the airport also in Boulder and then later the spring Ozone came on light in Broomfield and that's the green data. So you can see it goes up and down up and down up and down lots lots of spikes and you see a lot a lot of purple and purple is purple spikes are higher than what the spikes we see at the airport and what we see at the reservoir and if you go to the next slide I think I have that blown up there yeah yeah so there you see now maybe some 20 days or so and you see you know it's the bottom of the data is always the same even because there's a background in methane that's very uniform across the globe but then on top of that background you see these spikes and they're very short you know they're just a few minutes half an hour or something and you can see most of the spikes are in purple so at the Union Reservoir we see a far higher frequency and higher resulting concentrations in methane than at any of the other sites so all these dots and they're on the map oil and gas wells and you can see the Union Reservoir is the closest the airport possibly the second closest and the Boda Reservoir is about the furthest away and that nicely correlates with the distribution in the methane data we are seeing so the VOCs we started monitoring at the reservoir in mid-February so this this graph here it shows in blue the data from the Boda Reservoir that had been ongoing for two three years and then we turned our instruments down at the reservoir and said wow what's going on here we were really surprised because the levels we were seeing in February-March at the reservoir were as you can tell here significantly higher than what we've ever seen at the Boda Reservoir before and so the compound we're looking at here ethane is our favorite oil and gas tracer because there's really no other significant sources for ethane so let's go to the next slide that again compares you know this this whole window and I've now added the very very latest data and it actually makes you almost suggest that maybe after a period of two three months where it was quite moderate the levels are picking up again possibly so this shows the benzene from the Union Reservoir and you know it looks similar to ethane in February and March there was a lot happening there was a lot going on benzene spikes many of them in the one two three four five six seven eight PPP range and then come April-May it slowed down a lot and you know towards the later part now it looks very similar to what we observe at the Boda Reservoir and in Broomfield so where is this benzene coming from where's the benzene coming from where was it coming from in the earlier part of the record so the four graphs here on the left they show the benzene measurements these are four hours of data it shows actually three measurements we have these we're taking every two hours these these blue the green dots so first it was low then it jumped up to that's the highest value 8.5 or something and then two hours later it came down to 2 and on the next graph to the right shows the methane plotted together with it which we can measure at my high much higher time resolution and you can see the benzene peak coincided right when there was a spike in methane so right together on the same and then we did again what I showed earlier we looked at the wind direction and the wind speed and then the map on the right side shows where that spike roughly originated from in terms of wind direction you know so this came from the northwestern sector so the union reservoir serves two purposes you know as I showed in the map that had all the well locations the union reservoir is on the upwind side of the city from where we expect the strongest influence from oil and gas industries which are mostly equated to the S to the east of the side so that was an early preference to have a site somewhere in that general area and then the western location as you can see it's on the other side of the city and the argument here is that we want to watch how air changes as it travels either east to west or west to east across the city footprint and easterly and westerly winds are about the most the two most prominent transport regimes we have here so this is largely driven by the motivation to monitor and watch over time the amount of emissions that's added to the air as the air travels to the city with the objective to watch the change in emissions and here in particular in greenhouse gas emissions from the city footprint so this is driven motivated by sustainability arguments the city has set itself the goal to drive greenhouse gas emissions down so how do you monitor if and how the city is moving towards this goal so this is actually really difficult to do but one of the things you can do is this map here this cartoon by watching how much is added as the air moves over the city so we're doing exactly the same measurements in both locations using the same instruments the same techniques the same protocol for the primary greenhouse gases which are CO2 which I didn't talk about at all really in the presentation then methane and also ozone so in between those three gases we have about 75-80% of the climate forcing of gases that are you know contributed by human activities to global climate forcing so we're watching all those and you know if the the city achieves its sustainability goal and cuts all this greenhouse gas emissions down to zero then we should see you know the same behavior and very very similar levels in air as it travels across the city and these are the two reference points that that would be used for that comparison and we already have I didn't show it but we've pulled data and compared data from the tooth sides and we nicely see you know how all levels change as the air gets transported over the city footprint I thought the information was really good Dr. or Dr. Helmick thank you any other final questions or comments right Dr. Helmick as always your information and knowledge is more than welcome here in Longmont and we look forward to future updates reports and work from you thanks for looking me to share this with you tonight great thank you sir I move to adjourn I'll second that all in favor say aye aye aye aye opposed all right motion carries unanimously see you next time see you tomorrow Harold you