 So kind of to start out with this this thing is so it's a public health led incident and anything that's kind of a epidemic pandemic I guess any kind of Demek is really kind of a public health led response because they are the city's public health entity to their countywide we're gonna take a lot of our lead from them this is what they do and we have all the cities all the municipalities and the county have come together and decided to respond to this thing as a county Harold's on and there's a lot of systems that are already in place and a lot of systems that we're building to respond to this if it gets any bigger probably the biggest one that's gonna have the most impact right away is what's called a joint information system it's kind of a fancy name for all of the public information teams from all over the county municipalities the sheriff's office commissioners office school district hospital systems anybody that we can kind of think of that's related to this event in any way are coming together with public health to try to create a consistent messaging platform because I think we also have a group that started meeting on Monday of all the agency administrators all the city managers the elected officials to talk about policy level issues so we're gonna do that weekly we have the emergency management offices Longmont Boulder are meeting every day with public health the emergency plans from public health to talk about tactical level things what do we need to have a group that's getting together with the hospital systems we're expanding that out to the clinics in the in the next coming weeks to try to support what they're seeing we're starting to think about what members of our community are gonna need a little additional support and how we can start communicating with with them whether it's homeless the assisted living facilities all of those kinds of places we're starting to lean forward into that planning process to that's the overview of what we're currently doing to to think about this this issue as a city but I think the big message that that I want to leave you with is this is a county level incident and we're gonna respond to this thing as as a unified county we municipality by municipality if it if we're gonna municipality it is now it is now so generally the way this will work is they'll make so assume somebody test positive they're then going to do their work from an epidemiological standpoint to go what's the risk and they'll go here's what we think we need to do in terms of managing that risk that then goes to the director of their group and then they provide advice to us as administrators in terms of what they're going to recommend doing and and specifically to that question as we've talked through some of this whether it's a school district or it's a city we're all going to be looking to them for guidance because they're also in working in conjunction with the CDC in terms of the protocols they're issuing they then make a decision because they're the only ones that can really for lack of a better word say we need to do a quarantine or here's what we're going to do and so then we will all start responding appropriately based on the advice that we get for them I do also want to state that in statute public health does have the authority to implement actions to control the spread of disease so ultimately the legal authority lies on public health and and and that is there but but we do want to do this in conjunction with our partners we don't want to make these decisions in a vacuum at some point not right now but at some point in time it'll be helpful to be more specific than public health right give us here's the person they make the call it is has the force of law or whatever there's an emergency declared yeah and there's no question there's no it's a director of public health if we have our our public health director is Jeff Zeak but then we also have the state health department and and the head of the state health department and there's also I don't know what the acronym is but it's the GERC which is the governor's kind of emergency communicable disease group and and they also have levels of authority within this process thank you okay Mayor Bagley members of council and Lisa Knoblock sustainability program manager and I'm here tonight to give you an update on the climate action task force and climate action in general and if I get to climate action task force you all saw a variation of this slide at the retreat a couple weeks ago the climate action task force has now held five of their eight meetings they have drafted recommendations on the three topic areas on the left hand side and I will go through pretty high level review of those recommendations with you tonight and they have now moved into developing recommendations for the education outreach adaptation resilience and land use and one change from when you saw the slide last is the they did decide to include waste management in the land use topic area so you'll see recommendations around that and included in land use when that comes through as I mentioned before equity is incorporated throughout all the recommendations and there will be a section also on governance plan evolution and adaptation so looking at what do we do once the report is completed so as I mentioned at the retreat we're also going through a community engagement process concurrently to inform the public of the work that we're doing and to gain feedback on draft recommendations to understand how we might strengthen the recommendations what are potential impacts or negative consequences that we might not be thinking about and then what are we missing and so where we're at in that process we've developed and distributed flyers throughout town that are driving folks to the engaged Longmont website we started tabling at a number of different community events we're launching a questionnaire in the next couple of days we'll be doing presentations with a number of different community groups setting up educational kiosks at key community locations and working with volunteers to do what's called kitchen table conversations with friends families neighbors co-workers things like that and then bringing that information back to the climate action task force so the next steps again they'll be drafting the recommendations for the new subgroups that we talked about they have a joint meeting with the just transition plan committee on this Thursday the 5th and that's a three and a half hour meeting where each of the subgroups that's completed recommendations to date will have an opportunity to go do a deep dive into one or two of the recommendations with the just transition plan committee who will do an essentially an equity analysis on those recommendations and talk through possible equity impacts and look at opportunities for increasing the equitability of those recommendations again they'll be able to incorporate all of that feedback and from the feedback from the community engagement efforts to refine and finalize the recommendations the report is due 8th and then that'll be presented to council on April 14th and then in addition to what's happening with the climate action task force we wanted to mention that the city also is really taking a number of steps to accelerate our work also in context of and in alignment with the climate emergency resolution and the resolution to transition to a hundred percent renewable energy so we've been working a lot with with staff to identify what we're already doing and some additional strategies that we can take to help accelerate those efforts I'm not going to go through every single one of these I'm just going to pull out some highlights but again if you have questions on any of these please feel free to holler as I've mentioned we're in the process of updating the greenhouse gas inventory that's well underway we have a lot of that data collected and our consultants right now are in the process of modeling all of that information and we'll bring those results back to you all when we have them in the next couple of months we've talked to you about we're doing some energy efficiency assessments at a number of our city facilities we've just recently worked with the contractor on that to include an electrification component to that so looking at opportunities for fully electrifying those facilities as well we recently received a grant to transition some of our city land to low water turf and to do some demonstration and research on opportunities around not only reducing our water use on city property but also utilizing plant materials that reduce the need for mowing which will reduce our greenhouse gas emissions associated with fuel use from those types of operations and then as Dave Thornbacher has talked to you about he's working with Platt River Power Authority on a distributed energy resource plan and again as I mentioned that's a focus from the renewables energy group as well that'll have the recommendations from the climate action task force around distributed energy resources really what we're looking for tonight is we believe in order to stay on track in particular with the Nelson Flanders treatment plant expansion it is really necessary that we would seek voter approval this fall at the 2020 general election to issue additional water bonds for that particular project you're not we're not asking for a formal vote tonight to place it on the ballot but rather whether you want us to continue to pursue the effort and do the necessary work such that we would bring that to you thank you there's a motion on the floor all in favor say the motion is to direct staff to move forward on the preparations to put this on the 2020 ballot all in favor say aye aye opposed say nay all right the motion passes unanimously with councilmember Peck absent healthy beverages for children's meals good evening mayor Bagley and city council members I'm on government moves with children youth and families so I want to talk today a little bit about the process so you know there has been like a long process I want to say three years working with the community so the healthy and long one is a coalition between that was conformed between parents it was also community members children youth and families local businesses public health the state and national health organizations that came together really just to look into see how you're gonna be able to support our children how you're going to make sure that what health our children are really healthy so this I want to talk a little bit about the the ordinance so the ordinance is not a really punitive ordinance pretty much what we are trying to accomplish here is the restaurants will be offering you know when they have the children's meal they're going to be offering a healthy beverage and a healthy beverage the definition will be water with no other natural or artificial sweetness milk with no dairy susitos with no added natural or artificial sweetener so pretty much will be water sparkling water or milk without any sugar and the restaurants is still they can sell another type of beverages if parents request that or the children request that they can also they will be able to provide that beverage here is just so you can have you know a real sense of the impact on local restaurants when we're talking about restaurants here we're talking about we're not talking about food trucks or grocery stores or convenience stores we're talking about places that serve meals that they could be sit down restaurants they could be fast food restaurants there are a total of 218 according to public health way we classify these things in Longmont right now 80 are serving children's meals or I'm sorry so it's 37 percent serving children's meals 92% of those are currently offering sugary drinks so there are 74 restaurants that would be impacted by this policy so really tonight we're looking for some direction and from Council some some input in particularly around the compliance issue too is that and Eugene may our city attorney can help me with this but what we would what we would look at or what we propose would be is that Boulder County Public Health would be responsible for you know for compliance I could move or I move that we adopt this do we direct staff to move forward thanks all right it's been moved by Councilor Christensen and seconded by Dr. Waters Councilman Martin the motion on the table all in favor say aye opposed say no all right that passes unanimously with those of us present and Councilor Peck is not present oh thank you all right last but not least let's talk about House bill 2011-64 concerning the exemption of a housing authority from certain fees imposed by a water conservancy district I assume everybody has read this if not take two seconds while I make a motion I move that we direct staff to oppose House bill 2011-64 second all right so that was moved by me and seconded by everyone will say we'll say Mayor Pro Tem Rodriguez get them on that get them on the agenda for tonight all right and then anybody have any further comments debate etc all right of customer Martin yeah thank you I just I just wanted to say you know from the water board they were pretty serious about opposing this and they had very good reasons so I won't go into them at length but trust us it's not a good plan all right so that said all in favor say aye I opposed say nay all right that passes unanimously with Councilor Peck absent Mayor Bagley one right do we have a motion to adjourn in the spirit of we move to adjourn all right has been the motion has been made by a rare show of partner solidarity with council members Christian Center Martin I shall second that all in favor say aye opposed all right we're adjourned according to six of us and ironically Councilor Peck is absent