 You begin all right. I would like to go ahead and call this city council meeting. It's a regular session to order We start with a roll call, please Absolutely mayor Bagley you're here councilmember Christensen here councilmember doggo fairing Here councilmember Martin Here councilmember Peck here councilmember Rodriguez here councilmember waters here mayor you've got a quorum Great Harold member that that week about three weeks ago where you didn't say the pledge and you decided to go on mute Would you please lead us with the pledge tonight? I was not on mute last time. I know but I I remember Remember go ahead and lead it off for us. I pledge allegiance to the flag flag flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands and one nation under God God Justice for all All right. Good job Harold. Thanks. All right quick reminder to the public if you want to call in Call in when you see the sign on your screen. Just follow the instructions that one right there So now the the number and then I just wait for him to call your your the last three numbers of your phone number and You'll be limited to three minutes and I'll have to cut you off. Unfortunately if you go longer than that and That that's pretty much it we'll get there shortly. All right. Can we have a motion to approve the September 8th 2020 regular session minutes, please? I'll move. I'll move second. All right. It's been moved. I think by Councilmember doggo fairing it was second by dr. Waters. Let's have a vote if there's no changes discussion or input All right on paper say aye Say opposed say nay All right, the motion to approve the September 8th 2020 minutes passes unanimously All right agenda revisions and submission of documents and or motions to direct the city manager to add agenda items to future agendas You don't have anything at this time Sweet minor miracle. All right update on COVID-19 Harold. We still alive You're on me Harold No, Harold now now Harold. No, go ahead. Sorry having computer. Okay. There we go Yes, mayor council. I do actually have A couple of things to to go over regarding COVID and I actually have a few things to go over tonight I'm going to start off with The Here we go I'm going to start off with the the dial that the That the state has put up so I'm going to share my screen on this one at first Uh, and then from there we'll go to information that the county has provided us so if you Look at the dial. I'll click on boulder county Um, and then it'll it'll bring up where we are A couple of things that I want to point out on this is so if you see Um, in terms of the two-week cumulative increase in cases you can see that we've all we've gone into the Um pink category which is equivalent to this one. But if you look at the Average positivity and declining or stable stable hospitalizations in boulder county You can see that we're actually in in the green category here. And so those are two important things Um to to keep in mind as we're going over the data They look at a number of components when they talk about where you fit on the dial It's really not just the number of cases that you have in play um That is also very important in working Um talking to jeff zayak today. We've had a number of questions regarding what's happening with the university of colorado Um, and what that means for longmont council has Um, also talked about um questions about what does that mean in terms of where we're moving? um in terms of safer at home and so Um, jeff and I had a chance to talk today Um, he he would love to have been here today, but he has he's not able to Based on conversations that they're having regarding this very topic Um, I want to make sure that you all can see the slideshow that says school district covet 19 indicator framework um jeff provided me with this Slideshow and we went over a couple of things that i'm going to speak to I'm then going to transition into their website Um to go over the data and also show the community where they can go to get some of these graphs The first graph that I want to talk about and and you're going to see this twice tonight is um They have actually been collecting the data In terms of what's happening within boulder county as it relates to Um the cu students and staff versus all other cases Um within boulder county um and talking to jeff One of the things that when you see the dark blue, which is all of their cases you see 28 20 18 23 When you really look at the life of covet 19 in boulder county Um, that is still within the range that they're comfortable with and consistent in terms of what we've seen over time in this What isn't consistent is obviously the increased cases that we've seen within the student population The student and staff population at the university of colorado one of the things that he did want me to talk about Is um really when you look at what's occurring in the numbers they're treating this actually as an outbreak um and the reason they're treating it as an outbreak is that it's um geographically a very narrow area um and when they see it they're seeing it at the university on the hill And most importantly what they're what they're seeing when they look at the data is that they're not seeing the number of cases from the student population spreading into the general population of boulder county and and that's a critical point to remember when When we're talking about their their data and what they're trying to do If you look at this graph, this is really um showing us something that's really important Really important as I was discussing it with Jeff. So when you look at the 30 plus category relatively flat in terms of what we've been seeing 23 to 29 you can see the blue line and it's remaining relatively stable 0 to 9 and 10 to 17 You're seeing a similar move in terms of what's been happening recently You look at 18 and 19 to 19 and 18 to 22 and you're seeing those very steep curves that we talked about before In terms of where those cases are growing and so that that obviously is again, you know Pointing to what they're they're dealing with at the university This slide Has broken it down into People who are associated with cu and people who are not associated with cu So if you look at the 18 to 19 not associated with cu and 18 to 22 not associated with cu Again, their their curve is pretty flat. There is a slight increase But not in terms of what we're seeing in the data When you look at those associated with cu you're seeing that same steep curve that that we saw on the previous slide So once again as you're as they're working through the data and really understanding what the impact is What the potential impact is to to the county? They're not seeing that community spread if it's not associated with the university This slide you will see again And this is really the positivity Rate that you can see you can see at this point where we were at 1.7 Right now. I think we're At a previous version we were at 4.1. It may be a little bit higher as the slides updated But again, we're watching that as it moves through it What's important to see when we're looking at what's happening in bolder county If you remember me talking about they look at the number of cases, but they also look at the number of hospitalizations All of these variables come in to determine where we are Older county, we're at a 62.5 percent hospitalization rate the state average is 100 or 129.3 and the national is at 170 70.4 So we're really in in good shape when it comes to hospitalizations a lot of times I also get the question How many people do we have hospitalized in long mark right now with covet? Based on what I heard this morning from dan eamon. We we had zero patients in our local hospitals With covet so again, that's all Information that we have to take into account This graph really shows the hospitalizations Starting in april In where we are today so again You saw a peak in august Went down relatively level And so that's continuing to move in a positive way And then also what's really important that jeff and i talked about when we look at What's happening within the university and what that really means to Our community And this is really goes out to the residents of our community in terms of The effort that they're doing in terms of wearing mask if you look at long mark. They surveyed eight locations 522 individuals and 98 of the people were observed wearing masks If you can see we're only second to eerie and we're a much larger community So all of that comes into play as they're evaluating where we are and in terms of Safer at home and in is removing through the process I'm going to stop sharing this screen Then i'm going to get out of this one And i'm going to open up The website to once again just show you all what's happening On the website in terms of the data So we have 3963 positive cases Um You can see The increase in the cases that were associated with the university Once again, you're seeing this slide to that really represents that information And and then when we get into the testing what's What I really wanted to cover with this is again, you see that 4.1 And where that really starts moving through is on this chart Um, so one of the questions that I had today was what we're seeing a lot of cases we are But what you really have to watch is also the positivity rate because if you look here when you see the positive cases On the last couple of days and the data on Jeff's slides was from yesterday This data has been updated, but you can see in the date. This is from Um 17th or 18th somewhere in that range When you see that growth in cases, what's also important Is they almost um conducted 1200 tests So when you conduct 1200 tests, you're obviously going to see more cases But in terms of the positivity rate, we're still below five percent So that's an important piece as folks ask questions The positivity rate is as is probably more important to watch than just the number of cases And I know we talked about 500 being the magic number in terms of tested That you wanted that they wanted to perform you can obviously see that we exceeded 600 tests per day On a number of occasions when you're starting to look in in this world They opened up two locations in boulder One was on the hill and that's a walk-up testing location And in talking to jeff jeff is working both with The governor's office and cdphg as they're having this conversation They wanted a testing location close to the student population where they could walk up and get tested um In the other one the other testing location. I for got the name of that location Stasio filled so that's the other one where they can um Where they can go and get tested So they're really putting a concerted effort to test the student population so they can see what's happening When we when we look at transmission source You're Wanted to go in the numbers a little bit so You can see here again what we're seeing within the community This chart hasn't been updated again, you saw the increase in the five-day average um But this is where you're seeing it again 852 in longmont 1,930 in boulder um, and then when you look at it based on where they Based it on 100,000 population so you can see how we're doing You know once again, we're pretty close again had a question about how are we compared to lewisville and lafayette? You know, we're still in in that range with those other communities So as we continue to move through one of the things that we're also seeing you remember this was getting higher We're now at 31.2 in the latin x population Again, that doesn't surprise me when you look at the student population generating the majority of cases and um In terms of long-term care, you can see some Occasional hits, but for the most part it really doesn't look Like it did at the beginning and that's really good because that's what tends to stress the medical system out The hospital status on this web page is something happened but earlier everything was in yellow and When you look at med surge beds, you know, it had been in the red Earlier it was in the yellow at this point, which really makes sense when you when you hear how many people were hospitalized That we didn't have any in long lot and you can definitely see that improving so As we talk about this again, um, I want to reiterate reiterate a couple of points Um, I know I've had questions about do am I hearing about any change in our status at safer at home? What I can say is i'm not hearing about that That's related to the fact that they are treating this as a very specific and focused outbreak That's occurring within a narrow geographic area within a narrow population band They are not seeing at this point And and everything i'm saying is preference with as of today and at this point But they are not seeing, um, the spread of cases really outside of that environment um And again, jeff wanted me to reiterate that um, he wished he could be here today But um, he is working with the university and the state and others in terms of evaluating the situation Um, are there any questions regarding the data that I can answer? Uh, council member dog affairing I was going to let council member pet go first, but you know, I had a question around the um reporting So when people report so a couple of questions actually one was around Um, when people see, you know, we we saw that percentage of mass usage on the There was a slide. I don't think you shared it tonight, but I've seen it before we're in the parks Or outside you see, um lower compliance or lower work people utilizing masks And I think there's kind of a misunderstanding that we had a conversation around this as well around people You know, what happens? What constitute a person to have to wear a mask in a public open space? As opposed to not does that make sense? Yeah, so there's actually there's actually two masking orders that's in play one is the governor's order on masking which says that if you're inside You have to wear a mask at all times Um, the the governor's order doesn't really relate doesn't touch on masking outside outside So in that case we have the boulder county masking order in play which states that If you are unable to socially distance from others Six feet then you need to wear a mask. Um, but the example that I gave you Is that if I'm out with my son Because we're in the same household we can be within six feet because we're in that in that household you'll also hear pods or Quarantine buddies there and play and things like that. So that's a different situation So there are different regulations related to masking The other thing that comes into play is you know, a question I I often get is so If one of my kids were playing if they were playing softball Do I have to wear a mask? Well, if I'm sitting with my family Um, I don't have to wear a mask because we're again in that cohort As long as I'm Six feet away from another family or another cohort that's in that process And and so that's a lot of times the differences that you see in this Um, I think the thing that we also have to be really cautious of Is is really understanding the broader definition of family in many cases You've heard us talk about this throughout covid that early on we were seeing A number of cases in multi-generational households. So households also look different and The example I would give you it could be a possibility that let's say if my mom and aunt lived here Um, you know on the surface it wouldn't look like we're from the same household But the reality is that we are and so that's something else that we have to keep in mind And then the next question I had was around when people are reporting Um, of instances where there's non-compliancy I guess just kind of walk us through the process. What does that look like? Um comments that I've heard from constituent colleagues Is that they felt like there was no follow-up and I'm wondering and I'm wondering if some of it has to do with maybe if people are are um filing a complaint anonymously You can't you know, they won't be able to find that person to follow up with them But I was just wondering what what the process is So so I'll speak to the process in terms of the follow-up. I think you are correct And it depends on how that complaint comes in Whether and someone wants to wishes to remain anonymous, but generally what happens Those complaints go into boulder county health. Um, now I can say, um We've even had calls on Things that we have within our system And um, so they've called us and they said here's a complaint. Here's what we're looking at We have to respond. We have to tell them um What the situation was with and and so they dive into it to see what was going on and then they monitor it I was actually um one of the locations was one of our golf courses Um, and I was actually out there when they were doing a follow-up call So I know as a manager of a facility, we've received those calls And again, that's one of those interesting dilemmas because Um, the golf course has to operate in one person per cart unless you're in the same household And so a lot of times Or that family structure a lot of times it can look like they shouldn't be but they are And and so we do ask people If what category they fall into as we're moving through that Um on the other side of it. We know that they do You all were made aware of the situation with magic fairy candles, and I see Eugene getting ready to jump on They notified us about they received the complaint. They began interacting with that business And they eventually had to take legal action to deal with that. So I know that they're also having those conversations with the private businesses in our community The one thing that I can't speak to is whether or not people leave their information I think the other thing people Uh, I think we all need to be cognizant of this is when you look at this and you look at the number of People that it takes to do the contact tracing the number of people that it takes to process these claims Um, you know, they're constantly coming in so I don't know what their availability is to even respond back to the group But that's probably a question that I can push that to Jeff and see what their processes are councillor peck Thank you, mayor bagley. I have two questions for you harold one of them is similar to what uh councilwoman hidal go faring was Saying and I was one just curious if you have had any complaints about uh little leagues and soccer players who are Are they wearing masks on benches when they're in the dugouts and and I've had some questions about that from residents So I was wondering if those are some of the types of complaints that you're getting as well Um, I have not had any of those come to my attention Um, I will tell you when the leagues have their operational plans Um, they the leagues and jeff's on tonight for another item But the leagues have to get their they work with the bolter county health department in terms of getting their plans approved Okay, um what I can tell you the only thing that I have heard With regard to youth sports and playing Is actually the opposite side of it and it's been from the players where They have gone to other counties and have participated in youth sports and they have not been required to wear masks But they are required to required to wear a mask here in bolter county Um, and the questions I've received have actually been regarding that Why why do they have to wear them here when they don't have to wear them when they're playing in county x or city x But again, um, I I do know that they're following up on that So I would encourage if someone has concerns they need to let them know um, I can say that um We have had situations with leagues that haven't necessarily Operated appropriately in other communities and so when they come here That is in our mind in terms of how we move forward With those situations. So we're being mindful of it And we are working collectively as municipalities in terms of what our experience is with various groups Okay, thank you. My second question is we got an update from governor polis's conference this afternoon about the american indian population being over overly Being more infected or I I didn't see on your charts That we had any kind of a measurement for The american indians. I didn't see the category, but I didn't see a measurement. So Could you kind of let us know what you know about? The state population Of american indians. Are they being overly affected? Um, so the native populations are being disproportionately affected by the virus And the state is working with those organizations to address it. Um, so They're really working in that arena cdphg with with the with the various organizations. I think where they're seeing it Maybe on more on You know, we saw this in in arizona early on in Nor the northwest new mexico In the in the reservation setting. I know they were seeing it. So I think Um, I can't speak to that in detail, but based on what I was briefed on earlier today I think that's where they're really focusing because that's where they're seeing The growth, but we don't have anything measurable in our county for american indians. Um No, it's like 0.3 percent. Um, i'm trying to see Um, covid cases is It's less than a percent in boulder county. Perfect. Okay. Thank you for that Okay, the next thing I would like to go over with you. I'm going to introduce peter Givens. Um, this is what I talked to you all about last week in that we were putting together Um, and and trying to take guidance in terms of carers funding and cdb gcv funding Um, we're going to go over that with you all today Um, wouldn't uh and then um When we get to the end of the presentation Um We're going to open it up for questions But we're at the point now where we need to move with some pace because it's the spending deadlines on some of it So susan if you will go ahead and start bringing peter's Presentation up you will um peter will start it. You will see me jump in on a couple of points within the presentation peter All right, thanks held. Can everyone hear me? Yeah, okay. Thanks. Herald. Uh, good evening, mayor and members of council I am peter gibbons. I'm the recovery manager and emergency management coordinator for the city The purpose of my presentation tonight is to brief you on our recovery funding budget from two funding sources Uh, the the coronavirus relief fund or cvrf for short and hud's cdb g and cdb g cv funding All of which were provided by the cares act I will cover amounts available some of the rules for spending And how we aim to spend this fund toward Our recovery needs in our community. Next slide, please And next slide please Cvrf is funding provided to the states from the cares act in our case the department of local affairs Or dola is the primary administrator Boulder county is our local primary recipient and longmont is a sub recipient for this funding Next slide, please So longmont received two allocations of cvrf totaling 4.3 million dollars This was determined on a per capita basis and boulder county provided One allocation and weld county provided the under the other allocation Due to longmont residents living within the weld county jurisdiction Next slide, please The coronavirus relief fund rules are flexible but require careful navigation to ensure long term funding retention Through the eventual audit by the office of inspector general or oig There are three primary rules for spending in a web of eligibility language That we are navigating to spend this funding completely and safely Next slide, please So the three primary rules include all expenses being necessary and directly due to the cobit 19 pandemic They cannot have been budgeted for in the adopted 2020 budget and all expenses must have been incurred between March 1st and december 30th of this year Next slide, please Cvrf's additional rules for spending include cost incurred to comply with public health orders Supporting vulnerable populations provision of economic support to local businesses any activities related to protection of public health In public facilities some payroll expenses related to response and recovery are eligible And other activities that support the functioning of local governments through this event Next slide, please Unfortunately, the coronavirus relief fund cannot be used to fund Cannot be used to fund revenue shortfalls or replacements for local governments As in we cannot use it to fill budget caps in bulk Next slide, please As is common to see in disaster recoveries we've established four primary categories to serve in the recovery from this event The first is individual assistance or i a as I will show in future slides business assistance partner assistance and the city organization recovery in this framework is just a simple diagram of that information Next slide, please So moving into the coronavirus fund recovery spending plan section We're applying a basic theory of spending to expend this fund safely and completely We aim to spend to apply the funding To clearly eligible activities. So we ensure the funding stays in longmont Additionally, we aim to provide as much of it as possible to support the community as we balance the spending budget across all recovery categories We aim to remove barriers to access and create adaptations whenever possible And we aim to spend all funding by the deadline, which is the end of this year Next slide Looking at a mid-level view of recovery spending the table shown includes actual amounts already spent on response and recovery activities items we know exist in the organization and community And unmet needs across all recovery categories In breaking the list of expenses and needs in the categories harold and I noticed that the split across recovery categories happened to land Very evenly across all Next slide So if we can back up real quick peter Um A couple of things you obviously see telework in this That's a big piece I want to I do want to go over the numbers. Um, so you can see that we put 170 thousand there Our our cost associated with the event Digital divide, I think what's important is the 1.1 million for the business assistance grant Um, I do want to point out the restaurant voucher program. So there's 20,000 there 10 to to refund what council used for the first program, but another 10 000 to create another round in the restaurant voucher program The ldda bigger heart stronger streets initiative. That's really the work that we did downtown and the cost associated with that We did talk about Last week child care being an important component of that We have 705 000 The utility billing assistance So that's really what we know in terms of what people need at this point in terms of managing their utility bills And then you can see housing services support Of 126 000 and then 254 000 moving into our health and human service agency funding to help support those organizations Um, what I want to say is this is just the CVRF piece Um, we also have another piece coming in that I will talk about So what we were trying to do is balance both funding sources To have as wide an impact as we could have in our community and really hit all of those needs Um, and we were really going at what are the rules? And what we can spend What are the needs? And what was interesting is when you see the next slide Um, so when you approach it from rules and needs, this is where we ended up And so we were actually pretty close from a percentage basis across all four of the categories Um, the top three you can obviously see the partner assistance is lower. Sorry go ahead peter Oh, no, you're good. So, um, I think what that leads us to is Um, basically just to summarize we're You know, we Put these categories together so that we can make sure that we were bolstering each of those recovery categories throughout our community I think i'm ready for the next slide There you go. All right. This is this is my slide now So as you will remember we came in on the front end of this and we repurp we repurposed cdbg funds We then had the cv funding come into the organization and then we had another round A cv funding hit us and so as peter was working on the cares piece We were then trying to understand what we needed to do with the cv funding now One of the key components of the cv funding is that you actually have more time to spend it Than you do on the cares funding. So we're going to have to balance that piece out But when you look at the cdbg world, um, they do give you 20 percent Administration costs that is because the requirements associated with this program There are a lot of requirements in the cares funding program But the requirements associated with the cdbg piece. They're they're more stringent And so it takes more work to get that done We have then also Put in out of that cdbg cv funding 657,000 for individual housing assistance. And so that individual housing assistance is actually rent assistance mortgage assistance We also then have to look at the 400,000 that we have for utility assistance in play So I know we talked about some other items regarding rent and mortgages We weren't really sure what we could how we could pull these fundings, but we actually have A funding source that is dedicated for that within our community You'll see a common The coronavirus recovery center. That's a common component with between this and the cares funding I think we had 30 000 cares 70 000 in this level There is a chance based on some other funding that this may free up And so we'll have to figure that out as well And then you also see the aspen meadow rehab relocation piece. So that is obviously a housing authority project But one of the things that happened based on the timing of that rehab project is because of coven There were more restrictions in play in terms of how we had to go in and actually Move through the construction process and those restrictions accounted for in an additional 150 000 in cost for that project So we're also recommending that out of the cdbg cv funding it goes to it goes to supplement The rehab of aspen meadows in total we're bringing in 1,096,000 in this area Next slide. Sorry, peter So um, when you combine the Or when you look at the cdbg cv allocation, you can see 60 of that funding Is going into individual assistance 20 in the partner. That's actually with the housing authority and then 20 going into the city organization and that's the administrative cost associated Under HUD rules Next slide. I think this one's yours, peter Yep, that can be mine So when we combine these funding sources and across and sort across the different funding Recovery categories, you can see similar distributions of funding across each of the categories of recovery So it retained that integrity of how we distributed The funding across each each of those Across each of those funds Next slide, please So the next steps in our recovery include continuing to evaluate unmet needs in the community and the organization And to ensure eligibility by following all funding guidelines Since these funding sources are tied directly to the COVID-19 pandemic All recovery expenses need to also be tied to the pandemic response and recovery We will prepare documentation for the eventual office of inspector general audit And we will continue working with the city's partners on business and individual assistance options Finally, we will continue seeking funding options for the 2021 Year and our long-term recovery goals Next slide, please Please And I believe that concludes our presentation. My name is peter gibbons. Please let me know if you have any questions Thank you for the opportunity to present tonight Thanks, peter Yes, tough waters Uh, do we get to ask questions now or we would you would Peter or Harold prefer we follow up? I'm good Go go ask the question now, doc So I get this has to be spent by the end of the year. I also sell the $705,000 for childcare Give me give me what share with us. Would you what you how you thought? That money would be best spent by the end of the year And by the way, I'm curious are any of our childcare providers Aware of the fact that there's going to be $705,000 available So there were there were conversations trying to establish what So we did a survey to understand what the needs were within the childcare providers And we were moving through it So so we were basing our decision on that on different data sources um, I think there's there's two things that we're looking at first and foremost is um, a scholarship fund for families who need childcare who can't afford to pay childcare where they would come into our system That is a very clear use of the funds under under the process And and peter ranked it five to one and that's like four or five I think the other component will be to balance that versus what we need within the The childcare centers. We've obviously been providing them support as we're moving through the process so First and foremost scholarships and then the next level is are there needs that we can fold into this amount So, um families could basically bank Time for a child in a childcare center by receiving a Skype under a grant They could then move over to the to a center would that would be one approach Correct and ideally the way we would want to do that And this is going to be a little bit different in two categories So in terms of childcare because of the rules and because of the clawback provisions that are associated with With all of these rules We're going to be very We're going to be managing these programs because the clawback comes to us So we're working on this is why we wanted to have this conversation today so we can finish up That process so we can immediately get the funds out on the street Something that's a little bit different when you look at business assistance grants because of the restrictions on the funds and again clawback Versus us going to another organization we're going to manage that as our organization because of We need to have peter lock step with that program that really working through what we do That makes sense. I just I know there's going to be a keen interest on the part of lots of people on being able to Make the highest and best use of that amount of money between now and the new year to provide as much We can't into 2021 Some of which I assume might include Helping to cover expenses where providers are up against it in terms of being able to maintain space acquire ppe the kinds of the kind kinds of materials That they had not otherwise budgeted for this year and are going to be pushed to budget for in 2021 With those those are the examples of things that they might be thinking about Could be and I know we've put some money into ppe for child care already And so it would be that the other thing that's in play that We also need to touch on because of the deadline If we see things that are all of a sudden falling into an ineligible criteria or they can't be spent They can't be spent then we're going to have to sweep them into categories that can be spent very quickly And and this may be one of those categories or health and human service funding Maybe one of those categories in terms of the sweeping process Yeah, well, I hope you get a bunch of questions after tonight from our child care providers and and parents Desperately need this kind of support for a Seriously underfunded enterprise. It's fundamental to our economic recovery. So good on you for making that a high priority I'm glad you were listening To lots of input. So thanks All right councilor martin Mayor bagley, um It wasn't clear to me whether the distribution plans for these funds and as dr. Waters has been saying especially the child care um Whether the distribution plans are mostly in place and some new distribution plans have to be made Or whether this is money that doesn't have an avenue out of the city's funds yet So they've been working and looking at what that distribution plan will look like We've had to work within the rules to understand what it what it can be used for and how we can use it We wanted to take the numbers and the recommendations we're making to council tonight And if council says we like where you're going then we will begin that implementation process So there's some fine tuning. They have they have to work more on it to get those funds out on the street And is this what we have to go on that you've just finished presenting or are is there going to be subsequent information later tonight that that Breaks down some of these funds a little farther in terms of what goes where This is the presentation based on what we have today if you have specific questions About where they go. I can we can pull that that presentation up and go into it. So in terms of The the city funds what you're going to see there is telework. You're going to see Pandemic response funds so related to where we had People that we had to send home And weren't working but we were paying um Trying to think what else we had our direct expenses associated with plexiglass ppe Those types of things that's in the city's that's in the city component I don't know if there's a specific question I can answer Or what we can bring back to you all I was thinking more in terms of the child care and also the utilities and rental assistance So the utility plan is in place. So we are working with our center And we have a plan in place that as that is being implemented as we speak Because the our center received a hundred thousand dollars from the state for utility assistance And so our plan would be on utility assistance to just piggyback on that program And continue working our residents through that program On the child care piece that's going to take some more work and we can update council in terms of where we are So in the um utility assistance that means that they've already got a distribution path Yes, which is funnel more money into it and it goes out their path Correct and then on the rental assistance mortgage assistance path We have that built within our system in terms of how we work with people in that world In in kathy fedler and karen's world in terms of our cdbg program So so that's a no and things that are we're still working on Embedded in the city's cost is our digital divide program Um, and there's some nuances. We have to pull together on that piece Um, and then the child care piece obviously is going to take a little bit more work Um, we didn't want to get too far down the road and and get a different direction on the business assistant side council directed um business assistance dollars out of the cdbg fund early on in that process and so Molly O'Donnell and erin fosdeck had built something based on the cdbg funds Because we got the the amount of money we did in cares. We're just going to Uh Adapt their process because it had a lot more requirements in it. So we're going to reframe their worksheet And then put that money out. Um, so that process is further along in terms of development Thank you So, uh, councilman was called sister bank now councilman back No idea what that one came from neither. Um, so thank you, mayor bagley going back to the child care funding piece I also want to thank you for um All the work you're doing on this herald and karen and kathy but Is that funding also available to license daycare? Homes homes that are licensed through boulder county or is this only for daycare centers So my thought is is if somebody needed to go to daycare, um with Licensed daycare in that in that world They would have to demonstrate why they need the funding and then who they're going to utilize and then We would take that approach there One of the challenge actually that we're seeing in home daycare right now that we saw based on the survey and the conversations Is that if we're losing spots in one location? That's kind of where we're losing spots Um, because because of covet people aren't necessarily wanting people in their homes So, um, that world is changing pretty quickly in terms of what we but my idea is if it's a licensed provider And a home or a building they let us know and then you know, we work with with that group because The reason we want them to come to us and then we fund to the group is So that we can ensure the chain of the money and that it's paying for the spot so that we don't get caught in a clawback provision And that clawback provision is 15 years. It's a 15 year window Oh, okay With oig and and so that's why you're seeing this being really careful in terms of the categories we're identifying The one thing I also need to add is on the cdbg portion. We're going to have to come back with a program amendment To where we moved the funds that were designated for businesses We moved those into the housing rentalist and mortgage assistance and utility assistance world Because we have funding available and business assistance on the other side So we're going to have to come back with the program amendment. They did change the rules So it's a five-day posting as we can move through that We didn't want to bring that until I presented this to you all Okay, so is the marketing piece that this funding will be available also being marketed To boulder county licensing daycare licensing people Um, we will work on that Um, again, we want to work with the residents of our community because where we got for So a piece in this The other thing we need to work on is working for our residents Because every community in boulder county received funding And so we're actually going to be marketing to the community In this and that's the other piece that we have to now very quickly spend on and move They have been working on that as well. Okay, that makes sense. Thank you Let's remember christiansen Thank you, mayor bagley. Um herald. I know that um The city has been giving daycare providers. Uh, some of our masks and things like that. Um Which is wonderful because they have such a need for cleaning things and um It was good that we could help them out. Is that part of this funding or is that a separate thing? Peter, I think that's part of this funding, correct So the wonderful thing is that it can be part of this funding. We're we're actually Working with some other potential funding sources to port into that as well. So The the amount that's written into this particular line for things like PPE and cleaning supplies Is really more of a backup plan And to just guarantee that we that we will be able to provide those kinds of materials to daycare providers going forward Yeah, that's wonderful that we can be so flexible because I can't imagine doing daycare or having to deal with it right now Anyway, thank you for all you're doing both of you and so in the in the well, it's a huge team So I'll pass that on to him what I will point out and peter touched on this This is cares and this is cv cv's and kathy's world cares is in the southern world Peter's also aggressively working other grant opportunities Um and connecting people with different grant opportunities associated with covet covet And you will see some of those moving through the system. And so he's also supporting Our organization, but then our partners through this process with coming up with these additional funding sources that he's finding um at this point, um I really want to is council okay moving with this process And the dollars we have allocated and then we will keep you updated on The processes that we're developing in our public information Yes All right, let's go ahead and move on to first call public I've got one more Harold no, no, no, we moved on you didn't say it. No, no, no. This is a different item One of the things and this actually is related. We wanted to give you all an update I have tyler stammy here. I know you all have been having a lot of questions regarding the pike road project and um south often street And um, so I've asked tyler to come in and give you all a brief presentation So you all we've sent you some information via email We wanted to give it to you really quick because we know you all are having Questions about what's going on So just just that that's right down the street from me. The light is in There's zero. There's zero percent chance that light's come out And so let's let's spend two minutes on this All right, I'll do my best Mayor and council tyler stammy transportation engineering administrator Thank you for the opportunity to provide information on south copman tonight um next slide please First and foremost, I want to touch on south copman itself. It is a local street. It's not a collector There's no plans and no discussion to change it from a local to a collector Designation of the street is really determined by the city's comprehensive plan Which to make a change to that requires an amendment and that council action to do so It's great classifications that we have we have locals collectors and a couple different versions of arterials Our tier classification is really a determination of function. What does it do access first mobility local streets really provide more access Our tier arterials are really focused more on providing mobility So when we look at south copman street in the southmore park neighborhood, it's a built out neighborhood It has access for each of the houses That's built along the street. It doesn't have a lot of connectivity It has connectivity from pike up to Missouri street and then down to plateau And and it appears to really be functioning as a local street as it was intended next slide, please I pulled some historical data we had On the section of roadway the oldest data I could find was from 1995 back in 1995 We had about a little more than 450 cars a day on the section of roadway We have some additional data points since 1995 and until now 2012 2018 2019 You'll see that is relatively stayed the same. It hasn't really grown hasn't gone down Stayed the same which is really indicative that it is really functioning as a local street. It's not a collector It's not providing access to new destinations Despite growth that's happened around it into the south of it. It really hasn't Had much of an impact on south copman street Next slide Up here. Why are we talking about this the pike road project was really the impetus for change and why we're doing this Back in early 2019. We sent letters to each of the households in the highlighted areas. We'll see several different colors On the map here. Those were just For identifying the neighborhoods and each each household got a letter they got them They were invited to one of two open houses We had quite a bit of turnout to those open houses and we heard quite a bit of feedback from what we initially proposed at that open house meeting Based on that open house. We made up we went to the drawing board We made a lot of changes to our proposed project and we sent a follow-up letter after that to the same properties again and Notified of the changes that we were going to make based on the feedback We heard primarily one of the big things is the addition of the traffic signal at pike and south copman We also sent a letter in february of 2020 to these same properties again So they provide information that the project is kicking off this this year It also does include the traffic signal at the intersection of pike and south copman next slide so the traffic signal Again was really impetus from what we heard from the public feedback at our open houses We needed we heard very loudly and clearly that we needed to do more pike and south copman really this is Start the impetus for this is a safety project. It's it's a Tied to a safety project at pike in main which has and continues to be a high crash location And as that ties in that project there is adding a second northbound left turn lane to get that large volume of northbound left traffic through the intersection And when we look at this intersection This will provide the safest The safest improvement for this intersection based on the information we have We checked it against warrants in the manual on uniform traffic control devices. It did meet warrants And I also want to talk about signal spacing so our in a in a vacuum if we were dividing or designing a new city with Perfectly designed arterials optimized for traffic flow. We'd be looking at spacing of our traffic signals on a grid half mile spacing That's really where you get your best progression on a on an arterial system When we look at the interaction of these two particular intersections and why we're comfortable with the location of this signal Is really the traffic patterns we see here the northbound left from pike and main is the big movement in the morning And so that can be progressed with the westbound through at pike and copman Alternately in the p.m. We see the big movement is the eastbound traffic coming the other way back to main street And that's primarily eastbound right turns at main street So those two those two movements really aren't aren't going to be conflicting with each and they don't really need to be progressed So when we talk about the signal spacing the half mile being Preferred for arterial design when we look at this particular system the interaction of these two intersections We're comfortable that this is the best solution for these two intersections and how they'll work together Next slide please We've we've met with I've talked with several the residents on south copman in the past one of the things that we've I've directed them to as we have a neighborhood traffic mitigation program for dealing with traffic on neighborhood streets one of the criteria in that program says In order for physical devices, which would be your speed tables permanent radar signs We're looking for a minimum daily traffic volume of 750 cars a day If you remember that slide from earlier, we're seeing about 500 so we're below that threshold. So historically this street has not been eligible for that type of physical mitigation I also met with a handful of neighbors on south copman street at one of their homes on It was june 10th this summer. We met and talked about History of south copman street discussions we'd had in the past and how they how we can work with them to move forward One of the options is they need to submit an application We have it's a relatively straightforward application require five signatures quick description of the problem They turn it in and we can move forward We also said one of the things that they can ask for is an exception to that 750 vehicle threshold. Hey look we've got We understand that there's some changes here. There's a signal going in a large project That could be justification to support that potentially The person that are the position that has for the policy The person that can make that decision on the waiver is the director of engineering services has the ability to to make that decision To waive the 750 requirement And to date we've not received that application. We provided it both physical copies to many of the residents that were in attendance and we've also emailed PDF versions and and asked for them to decide those turn them back in and we can get moving And that's all I have for tonight I'm trying to keep it as quick as I could for you and All right Thanks, Tyler. You're awesome. Appreciate it All right Let's go ahead now take a two minute break actually three or four minute break to Get people in line for public invited to be heard So just call that number right there on your screen and wait patiently and we'll call you into the room You got three minutes. Thank you back soon Hi folks, welcome to all the callers that we have tonight Please make sure that you have muted the live stream And that you're listening through your telephone for directions We will be unmuting you one at a time when we Come back into the meeting We will call on you based on the last three digits of your phone number So again, please mute the live stream so that you can hear who we're calling on Thank you Hi folks, welcome. I've led a bunch of folks in To join the meeting as we return We will be calling on you one at a time Please make sure you've muted the live stream so that you can hear the instructions and you can hear when I call on you When we do we will ask you to unmute and we'll call out the last three digits of your phone number Hi folks once again for the callers that have just joined us. We will be getting Started here shortly Please make sure that you've muted the live stream that you were watching previously And listen to the messages and instructions through the phone We will call on you one at a time And ask you to unmute by calling out the last three digits of your phone number Councilmember can I have the uh screen back so I can see who's here Two of us the rest of us there they are An error there we are all right. Let's go ahead and start calling me. How many are on the list? Uh, we have quite a few mayor. Okay. How many? Uh, last I counted was over 10 maybe 15 something on that. I can count. Well, let's start it All right Our first caller your phone number ends in nine eight four Nine eight four. I'm going to ask you to unmute Would you please state your name and address for the record and you have three minutes nine eight four I'm going to move on to the next caller caller one two five I'm going to ask you to unmute one two five There you are Yes, can you hear me? We can you may begin Okay, great Hey, mayor bagley council and staff. This is shannon fender director of public affairs with native roots cannabis And I am also permitted to speak tonight on behalf of sarah woodson Who is the executive director for the color of cannabis? And the they ran the social equity legislation at the state this spring The color of cannabis and other organizations are advocating for opportunities to diversify the cannabis industry ownership through marijuana delivery in jurisdictions across the state native roots have served the longmont community since 2014 And we serve both patients and adult customers at 19 south sunset street, which is one of the boulder county enclaves in longmont And I just want to say thank you. We really do appreciate council's desire to move delivery forward this evening We do recommend the current draft be amended to reflect the written comments that we submit to council and staff by email And that includes amending the definition of marijuana delivery business to be a state regulated business And that will allow for native roots to serve the community and for all businesses conducting delivery to use state regulated transporter services as well And these recommendations also include removing the body camera requirement, which is excessive and unnecessary for deliveries The state has provided robust rules governing marijuana delivery including mandatory ID checking GPS tracking of vehicles and video monitoring of products in the vehicle Currently, you can have food alcohol and even prescription pain meds delivered to your house By mail or courier with these requirements and marijuana delivery is the most secure product to be delivered in the state Um, and with that I would encourage you to adopt these amendments on first reading and move the forward Move the ordinance forward tonight. I do appreciate your time and am available to answer any questions Oh, sorry next caller One minute mayor All right. The next caller is five six three I'm going to ask you to unmute five six three There you are. Can you hear us? Hello, yes, can you hear me? We can please state your name and address for the record. Thanks Um, thank you. Uh, my name is lia wilson valentine. I actually live in firestone Um, but I am here to speak in support Of the resolution to name swim beach at union reservoir after my father fred wilson I'd like to take a few moments to talk about what union reservoir meant to my dad and why I think we should name the beach in his honor When I think of the beach at union I think of my dad sitting on a picnic bench with his ragged old shorts and sandals waiting for the wind We talk about happy places a lot these days and I can tell you with absolute certainty that the beach at union was my dad's happy place Another thing I can say with absolute certainty is that my dad was the driving force behind what union reservoir is today My family first started going to union reservoir in the late 80s when it required a membership Dad had learned to windsurf on some other lakes in the area and he was quite possibly the first person to windsurf at union When he became mayor He was passionate about making union a wakeless lake so that he and other windsurfers would have a safe place to pursue their sport In the years since union became a part of the city of longmont He spent a huge amount of time out there windsurfing sailing kayaking swimming and more He built himself a rowing shell sometime ago and rode that thing around the lake at least a hundred times Right around the time he got tired of rowing. He heard about the crazy new fad in california stand-up paddling He repurposed one of his old windsurfers built himself a stand-up paddle And set out on the lake becoming quite possibly the first person ever to stand up paddle on union People thought he was crazy I'm sure that if dementia hadn't got it told on my dad He'd still be out at union these days pioneering some new sport Reviving an old one playing with his grandkids or just having a good time waiting for the wind Please approve the resolution tonight in honor of my father's service to the city of longmont and his love for union reservoir Thank you All right. Thank you. All right next caller Next caller mayor is seven two two the last three digits is Of your phone number are seven two two. I'm going to ask you to unmute Seven two two Can you unmute yourself? There you are. Okay Hi, my name is Lynette McLean and I am a resident in longmont The air quality in longmont is poor primarily due to fracking notwithstanding the recent fires But this is the fracking is causing our air quality to be poor and a consistent basis The american lung association has given the area an F rating for ozone harmful chemicals produced by fracking such as benzene toluene Carbon dioxide and efe and often spike late at night when the oil companies are illegally flaring But these chemicals have also been measured at high levels during the day And then reminder that there's no known safe levels of children for pollutants such as benzene, which is a known carcinogen While this knowledge could hinder longmont's reputation And economic both growth and development might be tarnished with this publicity Residents should know what is in their air Hiding the truth about long lines air quality is an irresponsible stance to take Longmont residents need to know the truth about long lines air quality so that they can protect their children their medically fragile family members We need a daily emergency response system Warning our residents when the air quality is at dangerous levels Such a warning system could be done with the current air monitoring and union reservoir and is already in place in boomfield The city only has to ask dr. Helmick to provide us the same warning emails that are being provided in boomfield We also need our city leaders to take a more proactive stance to improve our air quality by engaging in hearings at the air quality control commission and the color rather oil and gas conservation commission Also, mayor bagley and david homebocker Hornbocker who are both Directors of the plat valley power authority need to support the city's climate resolution by voting not to use carbon fuel to electrify longmont this week In addition, we need to offer a contract to dr. At that lab that allows him to speak to the residents About our dangerous air without having to wait for 48 hours. Thank you All right Next caller I'm going to go back to caller nine eight four. I'm going to ask you to unmute nine eight four Hello, can you hear us? Hello? Yes, can you hear me? We can please state your name and address for the record. You have three minutes Yes, ma'am. Uh, my name is brian rotega. I am My address is nine eight uh three zero. I live in uh, sorry. I wasn't I didn't think I was gonna get called again I live in uh, center colorado Thank you for holding this meeting and thank you for allowing me to speak Let me get to the point. My name is brian rotega. I am uh, apparently the director of logistics for sharp solutions We are courier service here in colorado focusing in business and business delivery Um, we're trying to transition in business to consumer god willing trying to get patients on medicine I'm also the former director of veterans for natural rights Um, but today today I'm speaking as a as a patient um 100% medically retired combat veteran um Also a productive member of the state of colorado and above all else i'm a father Um, what I want to speak on is there's a mental health crisis facing our nation? um for christ sometime It's been uh, the suicide and opioid epidemic of mostly facing our veterans I believe delivery will provide desperately needed access for a struggling community I'm 100% medically retired combat veteran and a cannabis refugee from the state of texas Like a majority of our veterans. Um, I came back from war with a lot of issues that I didn't lead with mental health issues chronic pain. I had multiple brain injuries Um degenerative and flip disc in my lower lumbar and upper spine Um, I was given a cocktail of prescriptions um They just caused more problems was given lithium I had to have my blood checked once a week so that they could make sure the government can make sure my levels weren't toxic They maxed me out on psychotropic medications pain meds Um, and all the plethora that comes with trying to fix what ailments those cause Um, cannabis saved my life the great state of colorado afforded me access to this medicine That replaced over 10 prescriptions for me Cannabis opened me up to receiving help. I became more active enrolled in therapy Uh, both physical and mental then I I went to college. I got into engineering at sinew boulder The government told me I had a 40 percent Uh global function rating out of 100 that I was going to be on the couch for the rest of my life I was using a walker for the better point of a 2009 When I got here, luckily I had a spouse that was able to go get me my meds Um, majority of the veterans that I've met in my advocacy and activism don't have that luxury A lot of us have mobility barriers A number of us have reasons To include mental health to keep us from access Even though they live here in colorado I believe opening up home delivery will not only improve The quality of life for so many but save the lives of so many more I like to end here with a couple of the statistics from the disabled american veteran website That the FDA notes considerable interest as well as clinical resources supports that interest in treating medical conditions to include but not limited to glaucoma multiple sclerosis chemotherapy induced nausea Oh, I'm sorry. I mean that's to cut you off because because we're we're well over three minutes But I do appreciate your comments and coming in today. Okay. Thank you All right next caller Mayor the next caller your phone number ends in 949. I'm going to ask you to Unmute 949 There you are Hi, this is ruby bowman 1512 love 10 drive Mayor bagley and council members Why does the city of longmont need to hire an environmental planner? A couple of good reasons are one the planner will ensure that developers who are looking to build in longmont Have a good understanding of what is required for code compliance and two the planner will also Ensure that developers are aware of the city's important wildlife and natural resources that need protection We are blessed to have habitat in the city. That is of state significance We have the st. Brain Creek a one-of-a-kind transition stream running through our town A cpw biologist stated in a letter to the city that the city reach of the st. Brain Has immense aquatic conservation value to the state of colorado because of the rare native fish inhabiting The stream boulder county reiterated this fact in its scoping comments for rsvp We have eagle habitat in our riparian areas including an important winter loose and we also have union reservoir Audubon has stated in the past that the wetlands the riparian woodlands and the grasslands Surrounding union reservoir comprised one of the most productive habitats for nesting and migratory birds in eastern colorado In 2003 107 or more eagles were recorded at the at the reservoir when there was a shad die-off Some reported the number as high as 150 This siding was documented in the old wildlife management plan An Audubon representative reported that people from all over this over this From all over the state came to longmont to catch a glimpse of this amazing occurrence We need a planner with an educational background and experience to focus on wildlife And sustainability issues during the development process Especially during these times of dire environmental changes due to climate change The environmental planner position was approved by council in the 2020 budget It is in the proposed 2021 budget It is important for our community and native species that the city releases and fills this position As soon as possible We also need more park rangers in 2021 to patrol our greenways parks and open space. Thank you All right. The next caller is caller that ends in three two three Three two three i'm going to ask you to unmute and then next up is zero six zero Thank you mayor bagley and council members jamey seamo 525 east 16th avenue On september 8 city council approved several revisions to the municipal code chapters dealing with the protection of streams and creeks Wetlands riparian areas and habitat and species protection based on comments brought up by longmont resident ruby bowman In reading through their version of the code presented to council tonight. I don't see those revisions reflected Will these revisions be added prior to publication? Again, I'd also like to reiterate the need for longmont to fill the environmental planner position that was approved in the budget for this year In addition longmont should allocate funds to hire additional park rangers to enforce regulations regarding our parks and open spaces I also strongly consider strongly suggest You consider hiring a full-time volunteer coordinator. Thank you All right. The next caller is zero six zero. I'm going to ask you to unmute and the caller after this one is zero six five Hi, I see you've unmuted zero. Yes. Yes, ma'am Mayor bagley and council. My name is a j. Ramirez and i was 23 19 billy's lane in longmont And I am calling about the canvas delivery. I have been a patient Since 2014 after misdiagnosis in a botched spinal surgery with a defective implant Caused me from living the life of a professional athlete to that of a physically handicapped and disabled individual I am here to advocate for patients that are physically handicapped and disabled of all kinds Regardless of how handicapped accessible a dispensary might be it does not atone for the amount of traffic It could be there at the time that a disabled person shows up Delivery would heavily mitigate these Issues and also help negate COVID transferences So what I would like to do is also speak up for native roots and ask that you allow them to deliver to longmont Through trial and error. I have realized that they are the most patient friendly dispensary in the city of longmont This is coming from someone who's done patient advocacy in multiple states and I Pour you guys to please think of the patients during this decision making process Thank you All right next caller The next caller is zero six five Zero six five. I'm going to ask you to unmute and the next caller is one one nine after this caller zero six five There you are Can you hear us Good evening. Yep. Hi. My name is Abby Driscoll. I live at 13 or four the fine court I'm here tonight as chair of the board for sustainable resilient longmont I wanted to let you all know tonight that this week is national drive electric week Sustainable resilient longmont is celebrating with two events that I wanted to make sure you know about First we'll have we're having a live webinar this thursday at the 24th from 6 to 8 p.m We're excited to have christine berg from the state of colorado Elise jones from boulder county and francy jaffe from the city of longmont to present about the steps They are taking to transition to electric vehicles This event will also feature a virtual tour of three different types of electric vehicles a fiat tesla and even an electric motorcycle And and an ev owner's panel to answer all of your questions about what's involved with owning and driving an ev Then on saturday, we'll be hosting an ev motorcade down main street Starting at 5 p.m at rosevelt park. We'll head south on main and take a u-turn at third app Special thanks to the longmont police department for assisting us with this In addition, we have sent council a copy of a draft resolution declaring longmont a go ev city This is a critical step forward for our community to combat climate change Since carbon emissions from transportation represent one third of total greenhouse gas emissions statewide And in 2020 it outpaced electric power as the number one contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in colorado We must be bold about our approach to mitigating climate change and electrification of transportation is the key part of how we get there The goal of this resolution is a vision statement with a set of goals to support longmont moving as rapidly as possible To electrify our transportation Other localities have already taken action including the city and county of dunderex boulder county the city of boulder And resolutions are underway in summits and ego counties You can find out more at go ev city Dot org and of course on our website at sr longmont dot org I urge city council to adopt the go ev city's resolution commit to a hundred percent electric and zero emission vehicles And make longmont a go ev city Thank you, and I hope to see some of you later this week at longmont electric vehicle week All right next caller. Thanks avi All right. The next caller is one one nine. I'm going to ask you to unmute one one nine Next after this call is three seven three, so I'm calling on one one nine. Please unmute There you are Hi Hi, this is Karen Dyke 708 Hayden cork Mr. Mayor and council members There's a lot in the news the last few weeks or the last week about whether there is hypocrisy When federal judges are named and confirmed I think we can bring this discussion front and center here in longmont This week prpa will be discussing whether to sanction a plan that includes building a gas plant for electricity generation This will commit us to practice gas over the next 40 years or we will be left with stranded assets in early 2017 The longmont city council passed a resolution that says they are committed to 100 percent renewable energy Back in 2016 candidates for the city council Including many currently on the council stated support for a hundred percent renewable energy Now there seems to be waffling by prpa because it won't be easy It is okay not to be easy. It isn't easy to fight the forest fires either It is time for this council to state that they met what they said in 2017 And ask longmont prpa directors mayor bagley and david hartbacher to vote against committing to a fresh gas plant They can tell prpa to go back to the drawing board and submit a plan that will meet the commitment Of 100 renewable energy for longmont and the other cities involved We have to say no hypocrisy is allowed. Thank you very much Thank you. Karen. All right. Actually, I've got I've got somebody online They couldn't get through so i'm going to call them now. They're on my phone So hold on one second The uh, I don't know this person she got somebody's Hold on one second. Are you there ma'am? I'm still here. Yes. Thank you. All right. Hold on. You've got three minutes If you can go ahead and say your name and your your address for the record go ahead Thank you. Mr. Mayor. My name is jerry shempert. I'm an attorney from really my office address Is 7 10 11th avenue sweet 203 d really 806 31 I am also a long time member of the normal legal committee and on the board director should call her out of normal Thank you to ashley wepper for connecting the assets connecting with all of you I'm actually calling about the proposed cannabis delivery Bill and I am encouraging you all to adopt it. I mean it would certainly be helpful for patients especially people who can't get out or concerned about coven It would also facilitate the socially distant deliveries Um, I would I would ask to omit the portion that talks about some sort of camera thing It sounds more like an invasion of privacy and civil liberties Um, I give mad props to the along line city council For trying to facilitate People being able to use cannabis as appropriate And I would ask that you continue with that trend I've opened for questions, but thank you very much for your time. All right. Thank you very much All right next caller Next caller in our list your phone number ends in three seven three Three seven three. I'm going to ask you to unmute There you are Can you hear us? Hi. Yes. Hi. Good evening. This is amy sharp CEO of sharp solutions career In today's environment patients find it necessary to have safe Discrete and reliable home delivery. It is extremely necessary that you allow this service to your constituents Sharp solutions was founded to provide this type of service to patients As a member of rulemaking to the household 19-1234 I have a thorough understanding of the compliance and regulation Required to safely implement these services in your jurisdiction I respectfully request that you opt into the service for the benefit of your constituents Thank you for your time and consideration All right next caller How many we got left about what six seven? Let me count Study curiosity. We have five left. All right next caller The next caller I'm going to unmute is four one eight caller four one eight Can you hear us? There you are Yes, all right, this is on speakerphone. So I don't know how well I sound um Am I fairly clear? Yes, sir. We can hear you Can you stitch your your name and your address for the record please? Okay, uh, I'm stan toll. Uh, I live in kind of the northern area of lawnmower And the reason I'm calling is kind of like what Mark twain said, you know, uh, the law treats everybody equally uh, both the rich and poor are Prohibited from sleeping under bridges um, one of the Issues I'm talking Calling about is that there's a certain number of residents that really aren't being uh, uh allowed to participate And putting input their needs into the community um, one of the things That happened with this pandemic Is there's a certain number of our community lost the access to bathrooms showers and places where they could Get sheltered during the day And one of the things I did is I worked on tried to Get some of the restrooms opened During this time and sometimes I go around relatively late and try to make sure that there are some sort of restrooms accessible late at night um, and of course like earlier this week I found Uh, a couple of young women and a guy basically camping in one of our our restrooms and this is because The city really hasn't been Looking to make sure the people have something Even so small as like a restroom area that they could probably uh Get sheltered Now, you know, we say well they have a shelter here Well, maybe there's a considerable number of people who are not being allowed to use the shelter and Then there's the problem is the shelter is not necessarily a good place to Uh, congregate, you know for a covid situation so my Suggestion is to allow People input into city policies that are tend to be Presently excluded because a lot of this is city policies because Small places like that used to be available when I first moved Into town reasonably cheap like 10 12 dollars a night you could get Uh a simple hotel room These same places are 80 to 100 dollars a night and this is causing people Even though they could probably get some money together They can't get a place that they can afford and this is my thinking policy because the shutting down of all sorts of restrooms and showers and other stuff it actually appears to me being directly Directed at these people Stan I'm gonna have to cut you I'm gonna have to cut you off. That's almost three and a half minutes, but we appreciate your input Thanks, Stan. Thank you very much. All right. We have another caller that got dropped off and I'm going to go ahead and call them at this time Hold on a second All right, Ashley Weber are you there? All right, if you go ahead and state your name and address for the record you've got three minutes All right. Good evening Mayor Bagley and council members of Longmont My name is Ashley Weber and I live on Father Reed Avenue in Longmont I'm executive director for the non-profit organization Colorado Normal Our mission is to move public opinions by working with government officials to progress the growing cannabis community To want to assure cannabis consumers have access to high quality cannabis that is safe convenient and affordable We've helped draft Longmont's hunger ordinance and want to thank the council So much for our input in this cannabis delivery discussion Our organization supports the proposed marijuana delivery code And it would respectfully suggest minimal changes which have a significant impact on both dispensaries and consumers House bill 1234 signed into law in 2019 treated framework and the regulatory system for cannabis home delivery Harmful mitigation by establishing marijuana delivery is significant Medical patients who cannot access their medicine, especially those People who are homebound are most harmed by not providing what's appropriate delivery Without saying COVID-19 It's impact extends to the needs for delivery of cannabis so much as it extended for many other essential businesses as you're aware cannabis The sensors were deemed essential and we see our population specifically those whose life experience has improved with their proper medications This language should include courier or transporter services Who partner with dispensaries for safe deliveries to consumers in Unincorporated areas or other counties this helps both dispensaries consumers and will create revenue residents of colorado And a resident of Longmont can currently receive food alcohol prescriptions narcotics directly to their front doors without videotaped interactions ID checks or signatures Requiring this for cannabis delivery seems a bit intrusive We would ask body cameras be removed from code as state regulations already mandate gps tracking cameras both inside and outside with the 360 view around the delivery vehicle In constructing this language, let's be thoughtful beginning 2021 recreational cannabis delivery will begin and it would be helpful to have in place guardrails and guidance to start january 1st 2021 As called upon colorado normal will continue to contribute services drop the language provide Support including education reliable information and valuable support to help Longmont cannabis delivery be a success colorado normal offers It's full support for the proposed code changes to allow the marijuana delivery Thank you for your time and consideration All right, thank you as well All right next caller May or the next caller That i'm going to unmute your call your number ends in 956 956 i'm going to ask you to unmute There you are Hello My name is Courtney styles and I live on independent street in Longmont I'm just calling to advocate for medical delivery I'm hearing Longmont Let's see. I feel that it's an important step to aid in proper care for the medical patients I've seen the result that native roots dandelion has done in boulder regarding the medical delivery I've seen nothing but the best results come from them Reviews on how medical patients have the ease of not having to drive to location is essential Since most of them have serious medical conditions that make small tasks become very large and painful ones Um, I've been a patient at native roots long lot for over five years and to have any sense through start doing medical delivery I think native roots would be the best um, they're extremely compliant with all their laws as well have A lot of care and knowledge for their patients um, and yeah, that's uh, thank you for your time and It's all All right. Thank you next call The next caller your phone number ends in zero zero two. I'm going to ask you to unmute zero zero two And the last caller after that will be nine seven five and you can get ready zero zero two Yeah Great. Thanks. Hi Hi. Hey, thanks for allowing me to comment. Um, Mayor Bagley and distinguished city council members My name is Michael song and I think I have a unique perspective Um in this area my background is as follows. I'm a graduate of west point I was a federal prosecutor in washington dc and pretty much All we did was fight the war on drugs. I was the chief deputy da in denver But most notably I was the first marijuana attorney for colorado at the attorney general's office As such my job in 2014 was to train all law enforcement officers on the new laws of cannabis I also served as the liaison to shareholders which included the governor's office legislature the marijuana enforcement division and town and city officials Now I'm in private practice and service a lot of kent's clients As the city manager noted in these times public safety is of the utmost importance And this holds true for the cannabis industry. Thus, I strongly support cannabis home delivery Bottom line This is a safe way for consumers to receive cannabis products at their homes when they cannot or do not want to leave their home Agree with it or not medical and adult use cannabis has been deemed critical And essential across the state Thus, it is of the utmost importance that cities offer this type of service I know there may be concerns regarding the safety of the service But I can assure you from my dealings with law enforcement officers And the marijuana enforcement division the industry has not only vetted the individuals working in the industry But also has ensured the security of the process proper record keeping You're thank you so much for your comments. You have no idea you're obviously very very uh What is your three minutes is up, but we really appreciate your insight and your input we do we do All right next caller Mayor the last caller is nine seven five. I'm going to ask you to unmute nine seven five Are you there? Hi, can you hear me? We sure can you may begin Great, thank you. I just wanted to call in and and uh voice my support for homeowners in the area being able to utilize airbnb as a as a means of alternative income The young homeowner in longmont, uh You know It's it's hard to afford things and it's nice to know that if times get really hard We can make a little extra money And I know that there is some talk about some problem airbnb properties in the area and I would say that's probably the minority of what's going on I just am a big supporter of property rights. That's all Thank you a lot for your time. I've heard sir. Could you state your name for the record? I apologize My name is Steven Last name's altman, and I live in southmore park. Thank you All right, thank you. All right, that concludes first call public invited to be heard Let's move on to the consent consent agenda. Can you go ahead and read that for us now? Yes, I can mayor item 9a is ordinance 2020-39 a bill for an ordinance amending chapter 6.7 0 of the longmont municipal code to permit medical marijuana delivery public hearing and second reading scheduled for october 13th 2020 9b is ordinance 2020-40 a bill for an ordinance amending chapters 2.68 on local licensing authority 6.70 on marijuana stores and chapter 9.60 on medical and recreational marijuana public hearing and second reading scheduled for october 13th 2020 9c is ordinance 2020-41 a bill for an ordinance authorizing the city of longmont To lease the real property known as vance brand municipal airport hangar parcel h 74 to best deal llc public hearing and second reading scheduled for october 13th 2020 9d is ordinance 2020-42 a bill for an ordinance authorizing the city of longmont to lease the real property known as vance brand municipal airport hangar parcel h 32 to george neville and grell public hearing and second reading scheduled for october 13th 2020 90 is ordinance 2020-43 a bill for an ordinance conditionally approving the vacation of access utility and drain adjustments associated with the highlands subdivision Generally located north of highway 119 and west of countyline road public hearing and second reading scheduled for october 13th 2020 9f is resolution 2020-93 a resolution of the longmont city council approving the intergovernmental agreement Between the city and the university of colorado for socio technical design for a middleware information exchange hub 9g is resolution 2020-94 a resolution of the longmont city council authorizing agreements Between the city of longmont and riverset llc for the purchase of real property for the resilient saint brain project 9h is resolution 2020-95 a resolution of the longmont city council approving the intergovernmental agreement Between the city and the colorado department of transportation for grant funding to support the main street revitalization project 9i is resolution 2020-96 a resolution of the longmont city council approving the intergovernmental agreement Between the city and the 20th judicial district for a victim assistance and law enforcement grant 9j is resolution 2020-97 a resolution of the longmont city council approving the grant application For an intergovernmental agreement between the city and the colorado department of public safety division of criminal justice office for victims grant programs for grant funding for victim services 9k is resolution 2020-98 a resolution of the longmont city council approving the intergovernmental agreement Between the city and the regional air quality council for grant funding for electric vehicle charging stations 9l is resolution 2020-99 a resolution of the longmont city council approving the city To apply for a grant from the colorado department of local affairs for grant funding for the peace officer mental health grant program 9m is resolution 2020-100 a resolution of the longmont city council naming the union reservoir swim beach in honor of former longmont mayor fred wilson 9n approved $25,000 grant from the temple hewing buell foundation to support the longmont early childhood bright eyes initiative 9o is approved amendment to boulder air contract addendum and 9p is approved one capital improvement program amendment All right, um before i do i'd like to pull uh In the ray or letter a for councilmember marvin I would also like to pull letter f All right, i'm gonna actually move the consent of john oh councilmember christensen um I would also like to pull items g k and h G k and h now Now i'm just god i don't have a pen i'm gonna move the Pardon me. Sorry staff also in your script staff would like to pull 9m for a very brief presentation All right, so i'm gonna move the consent agenda less a f Polly help me please g g k k h h And i believe don wants to pull m All right, and mine are most such as comments not all right Councilmember apache. Do you want to second that? Yes, but first of all, I don't have that uh list up in front of me So I just want to uh ask is the air quality monitoring one being pulled and is the mayor want a one being pulled Yes, I pulled that one. I think marcia martin pulled the pull the other so thank you then i will second that All right, I apologize. Uh councilmember peck is asking about item 9o the boulder air contract. Sorry. Let's go ahead and pull it Yeah, we'll pull out one too All right, all in favor of not passing the consent agenda No, just just kidding all in favor of passing the consent agenda might as those letters and we'll go through them one at a time Um say hi. Hi. Hi. I oppose saying hey All right, we'll get that. We'll we'll figure that out in a second. All right 10 a ordinance 2025 or sorry ordinance 2020-35 and ordinance authorizing the issuance the city of longmont, colorado Open space sales and use tax revenue refunding and improvement bond series 2020 Is there a staff report or is not correct? All right, that's correct. Any questions for council? All right seeing none. Um, let's go ahead and open it for public hearing Um, we're going to go ahead and take a two to three minute break And if you're going to comment on any of the public hearings on ordinances on second reading you need to call in Now and then wait online as we as we hit them back in three Hi for the caller that we just let in, uh, we will get uh started again shortly and when we're ready I will ask you to unmute by calling out the last three digits of your phone number Make sure that you've muted the live stream and that you're listening to your Your telephone for directions. Thanks Okay, so let's go ahead and open the public hearing for ordinance 2020-35. Is there anybody in here? Mayor we do have one caller. I'm not sure which item that they want to Can you ask can you ask can we have them see what uh, what's what they're talking on? Yes, we can mayor caller 198 I'm going to ask you to unmute if you could please tell us which item hearing item under The agenda that you would like to speak on Hello, this is yeah Sir what item are you going to speak on I'm guessing I was going to Yeah, I was going to speak about the um the smart meters issue and the um, uh the renewable energy Uh, so no specific ordinance on second second. No, no No, uh second ordinance tonight I'm not sure which which ordinance it would be I understand that the uh longmont is is wanting um to have a sustainable energy grid For the future and and part of that So so yeah, right. So can we have so right? So we had first call public invited to be heard and it's a regular session meeting We're gonna we're gonna have public invited to be heard at the end Right now we're we're asking for input regarding Reading ordinances on second reading meaning specific issues And uh, I'm going to ask and and uh, I'm going to ask the call back at the end of the meeting regarding just for the Public invited to be heard and we can hear your comments for three minutes. Is that okay, sir? Yeah, of course. Yeah, that'd be fine All right. Thank you, sir. Thank you All right, um seeing nobody else. Let's go ahead and close the public hearing on ordinance 2020-35 All right any discussion from council seeing none can have a motion Councilman waters. I'm I move approval of Ordinance 2020-35 I'll second that all right. It's been moved and seconded all in favor say aye Aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed say may All right ordinance 2020-35 passes unanimously All right ordinance 2020-36 the bill for an ordinance making additional appropriations for expenses and liabilities the city of Longmont the fiscal year beginning january 1 2020 Any questions from council? Dr. Waters Sir you're muted Now I'm unmuted. I think Am I unmuted? Thank you. You're you're unmuted. Thank you for coming on me, Mayor Bagley And my apologies for continuing to mute myself. I guess Um, Teresa, I know you're on the call and you're probably ready to answer questions about this But this I asked a question last week when we were you were doing budget presentation And this is a perfect example of where I just need more information. So Um, when you with your coded with the way you've coded the expenditures Those with the two asterisks Are the are new funding or or allocate or appropriation of new funding It can I assume that that was money? That was budgeted for something in 2019 but not this You know, it's budget balance from 2019 that we're now appropriating for expenditure on these items in 2020 So mayor and city council terry similoy budget manager councilman waters So so fund balance could be um Like you said funds that were budgeted in 19 and not used for that or not spent And not and not needed. They could have been budgetary savings They could also have come from Really any year prior to to 2019 as well It could also have been Revenue that came in Greater than what our Our budget was set at So so yes, it was it's it's fund balance from operations from prior years Is compared to carry over which was budgeted for a purpose carried over for the same purpose As part of appropriation, correct. Yeah. All right. Thank you. Teresa. I that was just that was just my question I just wanted to clarify. That's what I thought I heard last week. I apologize for you know being such a knucklehead on this but Um, I just I want to be clear. Um, but what we're doing. Thanks all right, um Let's go ahead and open the public hearing but nobody's online. So we'll go ahead and close the public hearing Um, can we have a motion dr. Dr. Waters want to unmute yourself and I will I will um move approval of ordinance 20 20 36 Councilor christensen you almost did it All right, it's been moved in second moved by dr. Water saying it by councilor christensen So, you know for the discussion all in favor say aye. Aye I'll post a nay All right. Or does 2020-36 passes unanimously Or does 2020-37 a bill for normans repealing and re-enacting chapter 15.05.0 2 0 the longmont municipal code on protection of streams and creeks wetlands Repair in areas and 15.05.0 3 0 on habitat and species protection and amending chapters 15.08.0 7 0 On non-conforming structures and 15.10-0 2 0 on all other terms defined council member christensen that's this uh A few weeks ago. Um, I thought that we voted to include in this rare native fish and rare wetland songbirds Uh wetland and songbirds and I don't see that anywhere in the uh in the revised ordinance Can somebody is david here? Can somebody point that out to me? Or did we not approve that? I believe I don't remember. I thought it was redundant No, no not really No, no, no, no. I'm not saying everything. I just yeah. Anyway, I don't I don't recall Joanie your face popped up. Are you gonna address that? Joanie marsh Mayor bagley members of council So I um have just discovered uh, Eugene and I that the ordinance revisions that were made Pour your comments on the eighth in fact are not the ordinance that are in your packet that ordinance was published We believe and I've sent don a message to check on that But that is not the correct ordinance in your packet tonight. It is missing council member christensen's wording so Real quick then so does anyone have a problem waiting two weeks so we can get the the the actual I mean the actual ordinance into the the packet so we can vote on what's there Right, right. Okay, so I'm actually gonna suggest I'm just gonna let's go ahead and pull it and then we're gonna wait, okay All right, great. Thank you. Yeah, because let's let's get him in there. All right Okay, let's move on to ordinance 2020-38 38 Item 10d a billford and ordinance organizing the LFM business improvement district providing for an election of the board of directors of the district And approving the 2020-2021 operating plan and budget for the district Um, is there are there any questions from council? All right, seeing none. Let's go ahead and open it for the public hearing although. There's nobody on the line So we'll go ahead and close it. Um, let's have a motion if we could please joan. You're unmuted. Why don't you but you make a motion Ordinance 2020-38 Okay, I move uh ordinance 2020-38. I'll second it All right. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed say may All right, great. Now. Let's go ahead and go through the consent agenda Starting with a the only um, I pulled that one. I guess the only question I have is Eugene when I talked with you, um, is Eugene here? Hey Eugene, where's the winner? Hey, so when we were going over the agenda, I had asked you to prepare some language first of all um, are you ready to uh, is there draft language available in order to include body to remove the requirement for body counts? Uh, yes, there is and actually I'm gonna, uh, invite Tim Holt to join in on this conversation. He has, uh, language drafted and and looked at some of the other suggested amendments Perfect. I'm gonna move that we actually adopt that language and remove the requirement that we have body cams All right, I've been moved and seconded. Any other anybody disagree with that? All right. All in favor say, sorry Wait just a second. We'll just get the hand up dog waters. Come on. It's like, I mean, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, come on We got business to conduct. Go ahead dr. Waters. Thank you mayor vaguely um The language you may reference the language that we haven't seen I don't I think I think I support the idea but Yeah, so I guess what I'm saying is I'm not saying the language itself I told Eugene to be ready So it's already done and so I'm just we're just directing him to come up with language To remove the body to exclude the body cams. So on second reading it'll come back and there won't be a headache councilmember christensen Won't that just entail removing that bullet the entire bullet? Well, no, I'm just making sure Eugene said he was going to draft the language. So okay, so it's not it's going to be It's technically easy. So it's I don't know if it's easy, but it's already done it councilmember martin Thank you mayor vaguely um thinking about the comments that we have received over the past several weeks It seems like with this uh with this ordinance, we're going right down the middle and and adopting what nobody wants That is we've had a strong push for native roots and normal to um include Out of city services to be allowed to deliver And I believe that's not in the ordinance unless it changed So martin so marsha time out. So we're right now. Let's take the comments on this one motion Because I think we're going to get to what you're talking about in just a sec. Oh, I'm sorry. That's right So all in favor May step in really quick Oh, there you are tim. Yes Go ahead badly in members of council tim hall assistant city council city attorney I I drafted the language the mayor requested um In preparation for this hearing for the body camera subject It would just be deleting the entire uh sub paragraphs. So that would be 672 30 I for would just be deleted in its entirety And then I'm going to withdraw the motion and actually move that we just delete that section All right. All in favor say aye I Sorry, councilmember martin give a comment It's my eye. Okay. All opposed say may All right, the motion passes unanimously I'm also going to move that we allow sorry councilor peck Actually, I would excuse me. I would like to thank you for removing that And just to address that transporter question. That's what I was going to do next but go ahead Okay after reading the uh after reading the legislation on it I was going to ask for it to be deleted as well because it looks like the state does not require Body cameras for transporters. They have to have to be licensed and permitted through the state And the reason I wanted it removed was that It would if we had body cameras, it would probably hemstring Any transporter that any marijuana uh Dispensary that wanted to use home delivery Would be able to use Because they are ready. They're ready licensed through the state. They're already available, but they don't require cameras. So if longmont Requires cameras that limits the transporters that any dispensatory can use So that was my reasoning for wanting it out. All right, great. Thanks councilmember peck All right, I'm actually going to move that we instruct the city attorney's office to prepare draft language I think they've already prepared um that would enable uh Dispensaries to actually contract with uh state regulated Uh delivery services Is that a motion? Yes, that's a motion. All right. It's been moved and seconded anybody opposed to that idea that want to talk All right, uh all in favor say aye Aye Opposed say may All right, that motion passes unanimously and then last but not least I was going to actually move that we instruct the city attorney's office to prepare draft language, which I think they've already Done in order to permit those dispensaries in the enclaves of boulder county within our city Or adjacent to our city and within our city to be permitted and included in the delivery service Second All right, it's been moved and seconded the reason why I'm making that motion is a there's only one native roots And then the second thing is we'll get the sales tax. So On anybody opposed to that? All right, all in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. All right They may All right, that passes unanimously. I'd actually move passage May I ask a question sure go ahead? Was that motion to just allow county enclaves to deliver in the city or any any licensed marijuana center It's the it's the motion was specifically for those boulder county stores within the city That was the specific motion Um, you want to provide we we'd feel more than more more than happy to hear your suggestion on why we might enable other In talking with the city attorney and herald their concern was that Um, we wouldn't be able to regulate it. We wouldn't be I mean we wouldn't be able to collect sales tax, etc but I mean I only made the motion because there was only one one dispensary that really was concerned They were being left out. What what are your thoughts tim? If I might mayor real quick before tim go ahead to his wisdom That is how I captured that motion that you how did you capture it? That it to permit dispensaries in enclaves adjacent to the city to be permitted to provide delivery in city limits Yeah, that was it councilmember christensen But that means that everyone can deliver not just the enclaves, correct No, it was just the enclaves. I was focusing on native routes But if somebody wants to make a motion and expand it, I mean do we want denver dispensaries delivering in longmont? No, I mean, I thought that This motion period the the ordinance would allow any licensed Anyone licensed within Uh, the city well Yeah, long longmont and boulder county. So basically the little enclaves we the ordinance originally was just For the city and then native routes called said well wait. What about us? We're not in the city. We're in the county I know enclave So it was it was to to get them To be able to deliver as well Yeah But it doesn't mean that we're not pitting them against each other. They can all deliver. Okay. Yes. Yes. Go ahead tim This decision might need a little bit more Research by the city attorney's office. It's not entirely clear whether the statutory authority allows us to Um pick and choose outside of the jurisdiction. It's clear that we can say either inside of our jurisdiction or not inside of our jurisdiction Got it. And then in the event that you determine that we cannot limit it and discriminate Um, I move that we actually include all Dispensaries and permit them to deliver inside the city Second All right. All in favor say aye aye Aye Opposed say nay All right, that motion carries unanimously. Does that clarify your job tim? I sure do. Thank you. Awesome. All right, perfect Um, then I that I believe uh, I moved ordinance. Did we already go to an ordinance 2020-39? I don't think we did right Mayor could you pause one second? Yeah, sure go ahead I just need to catch up. I can't keep I can't go that quickly A lot of motions. Wait if we're gonna work done tonight Okay, now if you want to go ahead and do you know Whatever we're gonna do or I move ordinance 2020-39 Second All right. It's uh, I think it was uh, was that moved by councilman christianson. Sorry seconded by councilman christianson Okay, well, I saw a hand. I don't know who it was but we'll take pauli. All right. All in favor say aye. Aye Opposed say nay All right, great. Okay. Now I'm gonna need some help. Uh, we um see here To be pulled with the x someone was f Right, if we could go to m. Oh, yeah, I'm sorry. Let's do that. That's true. Let's do m next because we have a guest So let's go ahead to resolution 2020-100 a resolution renaming or just naming the swim beach after fred wilson. I believe uh, Mayor lang is here Hold on one second. Let's Mayor vaguely um council members David bell, um director parks natural resources. Um staff pulled this tonight Basically, so we should could share. Um, I think we heard from the former mayor's daughter some of the happy stories that we heard a little bit through this process of moving this forward in the naming of this one beach after former mayor wilson So, um, I don't have the pleasure of meeting the mayor But I did have the opportunity to talk to friends and family and c staff members that shared lots of their stories So really instead of me trying to retell those stories. We did ask Former mayor roger lang to come on and talk about some of his memories and why he thinks it's important to move this forward So if we can bring former mayor roger lang on he can share some of his stories with us I think he's here Can you hear me? We sure can. All right, so Mayor vaguely and city council members, uh As you packet tell you this is a resolution to uh Name the union reservoir swim beach in the honor of former mayor fred wilson As you heard earlier, his daughter did a pretty good job of describing his passion involved in this and uh He spent many many hours Trying to do the right thing for union reservoir and I think his family is very uh Very eager to see something done in his honor and this would be something that we thought would be appropriate to Present some signings down there that people would recognize that uh fred wilson has done an awful lot to make this happen and as he said The union reservoir was not the same union reservoir when he started this endeavor and now it's uh widely popular and uh So he's he's done a great deal and we're just trying to recognize him somehow and i'm gonna keep this Fairly short, but I think you've heard it. Your packet has a lot of information that supports this also I just uh I just wanted to have a side note about fred and I don't know how many people know fred, but he uh Probably appeared to people to be a rather serious person, but he really inside he He was quite a prankster And I'll just give you an example and then uh, then we can move on but when I uh Was foreign in as mayor fred and I were on city council together and uh He came to me and he said, you know, roger, uh You gotta understand the transition between being a council member and a mayor is a big step And uh, you might be struggling with a little bit if you're just like anybody else and uh He said I've got two tips for you and you gotta do both of them if you're gonna have the transition Really make uh make it's full rod and he said first of all You gotta act like a mayor I said well All right fred that that's good information. Um, what's the second one? He said you got to look like a mayor And I said well, that's that's interesting too. And he said, uh I might not be able to help you much on how you act like a late I am mayor, but he says I think I can help you Look like a mayor and but with that he pulled out of his sack And he gave me his hat He says if you can't look or act like a mayor at least you're gonna look like a mayor And so I wish you the best going forward and that's a little bit of fred wilson The maybe I knew and maybe you didn't know but I I would hope you'd look favorably on this resolution because You put a lot of work in the union reservoir and I would uh, I would hope this would move forward. So that's That's basically the story I've got All right, that's right, brian I need one and a monocle, please All right with that I'd like to I'd actually like to move resolution 2020-100 I move that we Um name the union reservoirs from beach and honor former lawnmower fred wilson I can't all right, it's been moved in second to customer christianson And wilson was I didn't know fred wilson personally, but I certainly we all Heard a lot from fred and he walked this town every Single block of his town many many times. He knew this town went up and down and he was a really interesting man with many many different, um interests and uh He's one of my favorite layers. Um, so when I look around I see Everybody's smiling and it's nice to have something that we all feel really good about This is a terrific idea and I was really touched that uh, uh, Mr. Lang mayor lang and, um Fred's daughter valentine miss valentine called up Thanks All right, let's go ahead and vote all in favor say I I Opposed say nay All right, um Swim beach and honor to former mayor fred wilson. Um the resolution is passed. It's done. So enjoy fred's beach And thank you. Thank you mayor lang All right, let's go back up to the top. I believe that we were gonna somebody pulled f poly. Was that you? Yep, that was me. Let me see why I Oh, that's the middle where no marsha pulled that all right marsha middleware. Yes middleware middleware So, um I I feel like the the requirements for the outcome of this project are uh A little bit thin in that it's hard To tell except for maybe from one report to the other Uh, what the scope the actual scope of work really is I mean I uh And for the general concept and I think that I have I have respect for uh, the principles of arcathot and Think that they're probably a good candidate Um, but I sure wish that that a little bit more Was known about what was going to happen um You know, I've I feel burned before in terms of asking for for, um It enhancements And I I bitterly remember being told Well, we don't really do our own software development And and now, you know, here we are contracting for essentially a custom Middleware project. So, uh, is there any chance? Is there is there are there more requirements extant? uh for this than um Than what we've been presented with because I don't think it's enough to make a judgment about Whether this is going well. First of all, there is no statement of purpose other than um, you know general integration of Different things that the city has And You know The requirements could start with a list of of where the barriers are And if the barriers if enumerating them is is the Is the job of the first report Then Let's say that And then we can make another appropriation decision after we've seen the first report And know what the concrete requirements are But but right now it's really hard to Hard to know what we're buying for this hundred and seventy five thousand dollars All right So are you making a motion that we don't approve it marsha? No, I am asking I am asking the question of the people who have brought this forward Uh or information available to us that we can learn to judge this. I'm not ready to move, you know, to upvote it or downvote it yet Karen Karen Is that you? Yeah, mayor bagley and councilmember martin. Um, I'm going to uh Also invite we have elever domendoza and um and also our city manager has been heavily involved in this so Um and they're going to speak more to the technical aspects, but this particular project So we have been working on this project since um, it's it's probably been about two years So your question about What is the nature of the the problem? Where are the barriers? We do have um all of that information in already Prepared in in a report. So we have been gathering that information Over the last couple of years. It is not in your packet. We certainly can bring that back with more um detail but we have um, we have identified we've had a group of probably over 75 stakeholders that have met um for uh, at least Five or six meetings. We've had focus groups. So we have collected all of the um the challenges and the barriers of for For the the various providers that are are serving some of the same individuals And um, and and that has really helped us to identify The the next level of this which is really to um to develop the software the middle order software That will allow for the exchange of information without integrating the databases. And so we do have all of that data captured Um, and we certainly can bring that back and then I would invite um, elli berto or herald to um, you know Talk more about what this particular phase is going to provide what we're going to get for our 175 thousand Um, thank you. Ms. Roney. Uh, that that is helpful. Um, I I understand that the contractors have been fairly very long suffering in this but so I have um I feel a little regretful about um, you know asking to see the requirements and then wait Bring it back on first reading in again in two more weeks um It I think this is probably a question for the mayor if we receive the requirements And we pass this on first reading with the understanding that The um requirements would be incorporated um to the work statement as an attachment um Could we take it as an amended second reading or do we really really have to this is this is a resolution? Yeah, that means it it passes. No, it's also an so and it's also an agreement. So Uh, we either pass it or take it back, but Eugene, okay What you said mayor or we could continue and give us a two-week block to come back with revisions I'm gonna actually move that we we Mark, I'll be well the thing is well first of all you need to make a motion one way or another if you want to If you want to do something marcia, you know, okay, then I I move that we continue the resolution But but but for what what do you want to do if we continue? That's great But we have we all have to agree well you interrupted me before I said it mayor Bagley Go ahead to continue it to give us the opportunity to uh read the document that miss roney, uh has Referred to And make a determination as to whether it it adequately specifies um The statement of work, which what we have before us does not and then have the have the have the um Like the document that she refers to uh Incorporated into the resolution as an attachment. I I guess I would second that I guess my thing is that We've done that already, but what what specific change do we need to make in order to make it qualify? This is this you don't know until we see the document because this document doesn't really tell us very much Right, but so so mayor, can I sure? Um, so what would be helpful is that um, because I mean there is a statement of work that's attached to um It's attached to this document So I read that one so so Not the scope of work, but the statement of work that follows So Okay, so that is not adequate from your perspective. Okay. No, just clarify All right, and so I guess what I'm saying is marcia that we have yet to if we continue it We need four votes to instruct them to do something So what I'm saying is by saying the motion to read about I mean to restate it is the motion is to continue it in order to make a Determination whether it's adequate, but if you feel it's inadequate, what can they do? To make it adequate Well, well Karen suggested that there is a much more detailed document already in existence That addresses the things that I was asking for which is specific enumerations of of the applications that need to communicate and specific I don't know how to say this without waxing ridiculously technical Data interchange formats to be supported Etc. Etc. That's what middleware is middleware has a definition, but Without without an enumeration of that sort It could be almost anything and you could you know integrate applications and say you were done so So is your motion to include that detail Yes, the doc so the might to take your motion to To be that your your the motion is to continue the resolution two weeks so that city staff can can Replace the current information with a more detailed document that you know Karen says Karen says the document already exists. I just wanted to be provided to us and then we can review it and And if it is if there are questions about that document then We can discuss whether to pass the resolution at that time. Perfect. I'll second that. All right Tim dr. Waters, you had a you had your hand up first Well, I would just curious there in the background we see that this been this project has been submitted twice for funding once in sf Is it is it likely that The There are tasks in that proposal that are responsive to the concerns that councilmember martin has raised I think maybe just could be attached I don't think you I don't think you're going to get a proposal even reviewed by nsf without the kind of detail That that she's asking for So even if we if you attach the the core of the nsf proposal Cut out all the other extraneous stuff that you would have to submit um, that might suffice Um, but I do have a kind of a related question and I I asked this of herald earlier today and I since since it was pulled off I wouldn't have pulled up for this, but um Just in terms of the scope The protocol talking about a prototyping here and I'm I'm going to assume that The prototype represents a five to ten percent Of the that investment of 175,000 probably five to ten percent of the total cost of development And then if we have proof of concept as a result of prototyping Um, then we would do one of two things that we'd either see a A proposal to to invest for us to invest With what I hope the intent that they would we would license use of this to other municipalities to recover some of our development costs Or we would then have an opportunity to invite Other municipalities that were part of the proposal to to invest with us To develop the mid-wear that multiple municipalities in both county could use Are there are those are there are those intentions part of this? Yeah, so i'll jump in yes the intention is to fully integrate the multiple systems that we have within The city the county and then eventually the statewide structure and so Part of what I was going to ask councilmember martin is we also have a diagram in terms of the different systems that it needs to connect um It And I want to briefly kind of talk about what's happening The problem is that we do not have a system that connects Our social service systems to our public safety systems to our utility billing systems And so what we rely on is human intelligence many cases that doesn't catch things until we're Weeks if not months down the road with an individual So what this has to be able to do in a HIPAA related environment because HIPAA becomes involved Is to connect these systems where at its most basic level If we have somebody that has a client that is taken to the hospital There is at least a ping that will connect The social service person to the emergency system to the hospital so they know what's going on The the example of the problem that we're having is we were working with someone on a tenant landlord issue We had negotiated an agreement the person was supposed to get Back into the unit on day x The hospital released them early And it created an issue with the tenant, but no one told Our social workers That this was happening. And so what we're trying to do Is essentially create A technical component To bridge the gaps where we know we're not catching things On the human intelligence side And so we have a map of the different systems That we have within the organization And how this will connect it internally that's the beta test Because we know we're not doing it internal We then want to go to the hospitals and the other social services agencies within the community So that they can see them proof of concept so we can start integrating and we're working more closely to ensure The health of of the individuals in our community When you see the national science foundation Application this even goes beyond that to say people can opt into it So I can opt into it if my mom lived in this community. So now not only Are the agencies communicating with each other? They're also communicating with the caregivers of those individuals. And so they're made aware of these issues So we have a diagram that lays all of that out if if that's what you're looking for in the technical basis Well, that's one component of A requirement specification that's a context diagram, right? And uh, yeah, that would be very helpful um there are I mean, uh, the arc between each system has a lot of different interfaces on it because there are data interfaces. There are event interfaces and Some of them have standard specifications and some of them don't I am expecting although I haven't looked at this particular problem for something like a decade But um, you know, just the picture by itself depending on how decorated it is May or may not be enough um, but I think Mayor Bagley suggested that the Uh, technical specification of the NSF application would be a good addition and Then whatever the stakeholder comments that Karen has put together would be a good addition It may be more than any of us wants to read but we should at least have a shot at it Especially if this is 10 of what the city intends to engage in over the next several years All right. I'm going to call on councilor peck just a quick reminder. It's 9 45 and we have a lot to go through still So councilor peck Um, you know, I'm very confused as to why we're doing this Our job really is just to make policy and it sounds like we're Trying to micromanage staff from what I've heard from Karen and herald. They've got this under control And we'll be bringing it back to us so, um Sorry, john go ahead So I would like to move this uh without the The amendments and the request There's a motion already. I agree. I got it. I got it. So yeah, there's a motion on the table right now to continue it Two weeks to allow Karen and staff in order to bring it back and allow councilor martin and others who so wish to review the information Casper martin I would just like to say that I don't think this is in any wise micromanaging the staff um, every other expenditure that The council is asked to approve comes with the justification for why it should be made and You know in the case of something that you can buy off the shelf That expenditure is pretty easy to justify But when you're talking about a project that as far as we have seen here is very open-ended I think we need a little more boundaries than that or we don't know what we're spending our money on All right with that let's go ahead and vote on this come back in two weeks is the motion with this issue All right all in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye Opposed say nay nay All right, raise your hand if you're a nays All right, the motion passes four to three with councilmember redogliff bearing councilor peck and councilor christensen Against and the four of us four so we'll see it in two weeks All right, let's go ahead and who pulled g somebody pulled g councilor christensen I just had a question. I About what where this is, um my Live meeting doesn't work very well, and I was able to look at the map A few days ago and now I cannot find it. But anyway, um I do have a pretty good visual memory. So I'm wondering if it is the little blue triangle To the south of the river if if it's just that Section of the river set. It's not the whole river set. It's just that little section that we need access to Is that correct? councilmember Christensen and mayor vaguely I'm looking at the vicinity map that's attached to your packet Yeah, the parcel of land is immediately north of boston avenue and it is A total of 19,000 square feet. So Answer your question. No, it is not the entire river set area. Okay, but rather just that small Blue triangle Okay, thank you. That's all I wanted to know. Yes Oh, I was turned around about Yeah, okay. Thank you very much deal. Thanks Um, I would move Uh I would move resolution 2020 94 second Seeing no further debate Raise your hand and cut me off if I say that and you really really want to say something All right, we have a motion on the floor by councilmember christensen. I second it resolution 2020-94 all in favor say I I I Oh say nay All right resolution 2020-94 passes unanimously Um, Colleen did you also pull h? Okay, nobody pulled h All right. Did somebody pull i H was pulled Yes, mayor H was pulled. Who pulled it? Um, I I thought staff was going to do a presentation All right. I'm gonna put that's all right. I move resolution 2020-95 Second all right. All in favor say I I I say nay All right resolution 2020-95 passes unanimously Um, I was not on the list, correct? Jay was not on the list k someone pulled k Who pulled k councilmember christensen? Oh okay, um I'm in favor of electric vehicles, of course because Everyone knows that this is this is what we're going to have in the future. We had electric vehicles in 1910 in fact Uh, but we got rid of them. Um, so let's bring them back. Um, I do Have a problem. I have two problems if we pass this without any amendment. We've just spent a great deal of time. Um converting a lot of our fleet to the powered by Powered by poo or powered by you system And which I think is is a very good use of otherwise wasted Gas Um, I don't want that to be interfered with um and the second problem I have is that um I have a problem with subsidizing the infrastructure Um for electric vehicles. Um Why is it not why are these charging stations not being created? by private enterprise the infrastructure for gas vehicles was entirely created by the oil and gas companies And I would rather see us put the money into to um subsidizing electric vehicle stations Into helping more people actually get electric vehicles because right now they're very unaffordable So what we're doing essentially is subsidizing upper middle class people with taxpayer money and What we need is to get more people to be able to buy an electric vehicle So that the price will come down as we get more and more people into it You know, that's just how capitalism works. So, um I do have a problem with that. I would pass this anyway But I'm just stating my opinion that I I don't think that the cities should be providing The infrastructure for electric vehicles I think we should be providing subsidies to increase the number of electric vehicles available that people are able to buy All right, do you want to make a motion actually customer martin? Uh, if if pot wants to make her motion first we can discuss it under the auspices of the motion. I don't care which um I'm gonna actually move resolution 2020-98 So you want to second it? We're not going to second the resolution. All right, councilman christians the second of the resolution councilman martin Okay, so two things. Um, the first thing is that I have Gone through a fairly extensive dialogue with the sustainability staff and the fleet staff and there is a they they have um The intention of doing uh I can't remember what this motion this motion calls it right now, but anyway the plan that is called for being developed um in The the resolution um They have have um Plans for doing that right after budget and The other thing is that some of the um Recommendations that we have already voted I'm not sure what's going on there. Um already voted to incorporate Into the city's work plan Does involve things to help people Get electric vehicles such as group buy programs of either um used or Down-level model year vehicles That are not used but that are not the current year. Um So, uh, we don't necessarily need that in the plan. Um There we were displacing horses when we did the oil and gas infrastructure. So it was pretty easy to do it Slowly, we're looking at a much faster replacement. And that's part of the reason why um We need to subsidize the infrastructure, which is what the governor's study from two years ago uh concluded So, uh, what the only reason this motion is before us now Is because it's drive electric week And the staff was unanimous in um In saying we're not ready to do this Uh, one of the what just one of the of the problems that they Brought up was that while we are happy to commit to not buying any more internal engine cars We are not sure that we can Uh commit to retiring them on a schedule And that's kind of a an important point So I don't think we should pass a policy that says you have to retire them on a schedule When we're as in as precarious a position as we are now So my motion would be that we reconsider this resolution or amendments to this resolution um, uh on the timing of this of the Uh fleet and sustainability staff, which is probably four to six weeks Because it doesn't have to be done because it's drive electric week So do you have a problem with the resolution though? Well, I don't know because I didn't have time to um Compare what the the the staff's rather lengthy comments with this resolution Which just in and isn't the one that we got from srl recently Or maybe this is the one from srl recently Um, but we did get a new one today dale are you Hold on time out time out. Let's go with councilmember peck. Then we're going to go with dale. Then we're going to go with harrell councilmember peck Thank you, mayor backley. This resolution is basically to get grant funding It is not to make any kind of a resolution about what we are going to do with the week or it's just to Join it's an iga to get grant funding for these charging stations and I will look for that all right dale Mayor bagley and uh council um, I believe uh councilmember peck has that correct The item before you tonight is really to accept a grant that we have been awarded by the regional air quality council to install a A single additional charging station What I believe councilmember martin is referring to Is the equitable carbon-free transportation map that we intend to bring forward to the council Uh for your discussion and consideration Um, it'll probably be after the election now either late october or in november And that is the item that tied toward of your callers that called in this evening from sustainable resilient longmont Encouraging us to Sign on to be an eb city so Those are two different issues though. I think tonight is this this particular item Is simply to accept a grant Um for a single charging station. Okay, okay I was confused because we did have the speakers about go e.v. And then we also got an alternative go e.v um Emailed to the council today So yeah, I am being muddled. I withdraw my motion. I'll let um somebody move to all right There's a current motion on the floor to pass resolution 2020-98 I made it it was seconded by councilmember christensen seeing no further debate or discussion All in favor say aye Opposed say nay All right, the motion passes unanimously Um did someone pull l no right? All right, did somebody pull n bright eyes? Nope, right? And then oh the proof amendment to boulder air contract addendum councilmember peck Thank you. I just pulled this actually for some clarification and I talked to dale earlier this morning so he uh, he knows some of the questions i'm going to ask we had asked uh by majority to have the Paragraph that basically stated that air boulder air had to Give staff seven days notice before any presentation etc etc And it's been replaced with the uh two sentences that are that are in our packet and in the resolution Stating that staff would like 48 hours before a presentation is made So I and a couple of a few of the residents had contacted me that they didn't understand what this meant. So um I have some questions For dale if you can if you can clarify this for us and as well as for the public Um When we ask boulder air to give us 48 hours before a presentation is made Tell us why staff wants that Thank you, uh councilmember peck and and mayor bagley um So briefly what you have in front of you tonight is An amendment to the amendment of the of the contract and it's shown on the first attachment And it it's it's striking out the entire portion of that task three That dealt with the city review and potential denial Of of uh dr. Helm it being able to make a presentation and is instead Changing that to simply say provide the city with written notice Of publications and or public presentations Where in the city's data will be analyzed or interpreted? At least 48 hours prior to the release of the information Or at the earliest possible time And so that is is really in there in order for us to be alerted to a presentation So that we can alert the council and the broad community that A presentation is going to be made with the city's information Council you may want to listen to the presentation Um, it's really just a heads up um, it's happening and Um, so that there's no surprise so that a constituent doesn't call you and say well, what was that about or Um, you know the press usually gets involved and so We really just didn't want to be caught sort of flat footed Um, and so again, it's it's looking for the the 48 hours Or however much time he can provide us. Um, if it's less than that, it's less than that But that's what we were wanting to accomplish So dale, thank you for that explanation. But when you say to analyze the data, um what Let me see if I can frame this the way I the way i'm thinking about it Which is it is not to deny regardless of what the data says It is not to deny boulder air giving the presentation Correct from the public Correct council member peck the staff is neither denying nor are we analyzing We're simply wanting to have notice that a presentation is going to be made. We do not intend to analyze it. We don't intend to Uh, um proof it. Um, it really is simply Dr. Helmick sends us an email saying I have a presentation coming up on on thursday And wanted to let you know so here's your here's your heads up We would then subsequently take that inform the council And the community to the extent that we can because we think it's important information that Needs to be shared as broadly as we can but the staff is doing no analyzing. Um, we're simply Asking that we be notified That it's happening. So No action of the staff no action of the council Okay prior to the presentations being made so in this, uh Notification from boulder air You do not even need The interpretation of the data Correct from dr. Helmick Correct that we're not asking for that The date the time and the organization that it's going to be presented to As much information as you can share right to say Time and location So that we can again Let the council know let the community know Okay, thank you very much and with that I move. Uh, oh I'll second that Seeing no further discussion. All right councilor martin go ahead. Um, I'd like clarification as to whether Councilmember peck saying the date the time and who we're giving the presentation to is the Is intended to be the whole of what dr. Helmick has to Uh has to notify about because it seems to me that the original intention Um, which just had a promise that we weren't going to stop it um was uh So that the staff would have a chance to understand the policy framing that was intended because That the city Should have a say about So, I mean before hold on one second. I'm not going to call anybody Uh as a point of order, but we have a motion on the floor The motion is to approve the amendment to boulder air contract addendum Everything else in law we call dicta meaning it's all opinion. There's a there's an approved amendment There's an amendment in our in our packet And we are there's currently a motion to approve that amendment There have been no changes suggested no machin motions to alter it It's as if the consent agenda is going to pass. I believe we had some questions. They were concerned concerns. They were addressed The the discussion that we could have right now is not going to matter Thank you, mayor bagley. That was the question. I wanted clarified. Okay, so there's a motion in a second So all in favor say aye Hi. Hi Opposed say nay All right, that passes unanimously now I'm not sure but just to cover you gene. I move all the consent agenda catch all if we miss something It's all passed a through p Do you have a second mayor? You're good. You've got them all. Okay. All right. Good. Okay. Thank you Thanks, don doing your job. All right. So dare I ask Moving on to item 12 Jim, please tell me you've decided to just bail and now you're there is How long is this going to be? Mayor, I think this could be done in a half hour or less great Then let's go ahead and take a just a brief break hit the restroom grab a coke And let's come back and and let's see how good we're all Let's hope that you're as good as you say you are jim. Well, it's terry sir. So i'm putting the pressure on her Okay, good. Good. All right. So we'll be back in three minutes four minutes. All right, Susan Can we have our first presentation next slide? Okay, mayor and city council terry smolloy budget manager So these are the topics we're going to cover for you this evening Jeff freezer will be joining us Uh for that second topic next slide, please Each year is part of our um budget process staff reviews and and updates our financial policies In your council packet. It was attachment l And that is the complete policies and all of the revisions that we are proposing We do have uh a few of them that we want to um Bring to your attention this evening that go beyond really just minor clarification Next slide, please susan The first one a new policy is a policy around affordable housing So this policy essentially Lays out the different types of revenue That will be put into the affordable housing fund for affordable housing purposes Including the transfers from the general fund and the marijuana tax fund It also talks about the city accepting cash land and property donations For affordable housing Next slide, please Two more new policies One around the special marijuana sales tax, which will Essentially Say that half of that will go to the affordable housing fund and the other half will be allocated As council directs during the angel annual budget process The final new policy we wanted to add Is reserve policy for the open space fund When we were going through our coven projections and such we realized this is One of the funds that we don't have Currently a reserve policy for and so we're proposing to set a six percent Reserve policy for this fund Next slide, please Uh, we do have a few policies that as I mentioned are beyond just a minor Clarification and the first one is in the oil and gas revenue policy To add that last sentence in blue so that we can begin to establish a A reserve in the general fund for oil and gas Purposes next slide, please And the living wage requirement this one, uh, we are adding again what's in blue To better align with the actual contract languages that will be um part of the procurement contracts Next slide, please And the investment vehicle adding again that section in blue That one of the vehicles that the city can invest in is general or revenue municipal bonds Next slide, please And finally the last one to bring to your attention is the electric utility reserve Uh, it the policy itself is not changing just a note on the implementation statement that the, um Projections for 2021 are that that electric utility will not meet this minimum reserve requirement Due to the broadband build out That will be paid back by the electric. Oh, I'm sorry by the Broadband utility to the electric utility over a four to five year period As well as the advanced metering cip project I also wanted to note that it is staff's intention LPC staff's intention to review this policy and look at best practices and uh likely we'll be updating this policy During our budget process for 2022 So those are the um policies I wanted to bring to your attention Certainly, if you guys have any questions on any of the policies that were in Uh attachment L we'd be happy to answer those Uh, jeff freesner is going to be up next unless you have any questions on policies for me Nope, let's go ahead jeff All right. Thank you mayor members of council jeff freesner recreation and golf manager here to talk a little bit about the proposed reductions for uh recreation If uh susan if you could put up presentation number two, please Thank you Uh, Teresa just talked about uh financial policies There is a financial policy for recreation fees and it requires that we Generate 80 self sufficiency through the fees that we charge for programs and services that policy excludes capital Items over $5,000. So if we buy A treadmill that costs $4,900 for example, we do have to cost recover it if it costs $5,000 we don't Free community events are excluded. Those are events like rhythm on the river and uh longmont lights Uh Yeah, as come as to compares being compared to events like the triathlon lawn and Longmont turkey trot those events we can charge for and and those events are required to be under the the policy sports field maintenance is marking the fields maintaining The recreation part of those fields being ready to play The athletic sports The visitor center and then our youth enrichment programs. That's much like our Middle school use soccer program that we do in the spring and the fall next slide so We have found that There's been two major areas that have impacted recreation based on the the virus and Uh people coming to the rec center The first one is the the guidelines that have been Put on our facilities by the state and county public health agencies Those requirements include A far fewer number of people that can use our facilities at any one time The requirement that we do not allow drop in use right now that it's all Done through the reservation system. You have to have a reservation to Use the facilities and then also the requirement to have face coverings The second item is uh, probably even bigger is that many people are not Feeling comfortable coming indoors. I had a number of emails that Requested that we try to keep sunset pool open longer this year We kept it open two out two weeks longer than We normally did but as the weather gets colder, you know, fewer people come to that facility And uh, and so we we did choose to close that this past sunday Just to give you an example in a in normal times The recreation center has 1200 people that Come through the doors and use the facility each day Right now we're averaging about 250 people each day Next slide, please So with that recreation is anticipating that our revenues are going to be down 25% last year or next year Just over a little over 1.1 million dollars We believe that the beginning of the year will start slow But as the the vaccine becomes available our numbers will start growing again next slide this slide gives you an example of How our revenue and attendance has been over the last Several years revenue and expense and attendance for this year Is down about 33% As compared to last year Next slide, please So what the budget includes is a 25% reduction in all areas of the budget excluding regular In part-time benefited employees and the benefits that match that We also proposed 30% reduction in the number of hours that temporary employees would work Those hours would be backfilled by the regular and part-time benefit employees We didn't make any specific proposed cuts As far as program budgets What we will do next slide, please Staff will start looking at How we can meet our budget and what programs we can offer Based on the budget we would have available As programs Can come back We would come back to you and try and ask you to Appropriate the additional revenues and start adding those programs and activities Based on those that can generate the most revenue And would in turn also serve the the most number of people Next slide So I know that was really quick, especially for $1.1 million reduction, but Wanted I can answer any questions you might have All right. We're good. Let's keep going Thank you, Jeff Okay, Susan if you wouldn't mind putting Presentation number three up for me, please So in our general fund we have one point almost three million dollars of one-time funding Of that there is 186,810 that is funded through the tree mitigation reserve Those are for the eab expenses And we also have a 63,000 of of one-time expenses that's offset by one-time revenue So that is 60,000 for oil and gas And 3,000 from boulder county, which is Half of the cost of that armored vehicle windshield replacement And all of our One-time general fund one-time can be found in the attachment M And we categorize them by the categories that you see on the screen here So our net one-time expenses in the general fund is a million and a million forty thousand Next slide, please And in the public safety fund we have a total of 775,000 of one-time again, we categorize them in the same Categories as you see on the screen And the attachment in that was included in your packet is the Complete list of all one-time expenses in the public safety fund Next slide, please One of our financial policies that I didn't cover with you this evening But it is in the packet in our financial policy packet is the incremental development funding and There is 756,756 building permits for new dwelling units in our proposed budget Our financial policy states that anything above a base of 200 new dwelling units is considered incremental development revenue And so that total amount of incremental development revenue in our proposed budget is 861,098 And that comes from essentially two revenue sources Building permits and plan review revenue Next slide, please And this slide shows you What is covered under those incremental development revenue? It is all ongoing expenses at this point So Not no one-time items are being used Are being covered by incremental development revenue And it is Important to note that since they are ongoing expenses They are subject to reduction at the point that our incremental development revenue Will drop off Otherwise we would have to find another revenue source to cover them So I know Joni is is here this evening if you have any questions on any of the incremental development revenue items so or or in any Question on any one time. We also have other staff here that can help answer Questions should you have them on any other one-time items? All right, let's keep going. Okay. So uh, the last topic that we have for you this evening then is our is our public hearing So Susan next slide the The the announcement was advertised in the times call per our city charter And this is this the evening for our first public hearing on our budget We're going to go ahead and listen to dr. Waters. Sorry, it's It's late. I'm looking at the computer my eyes are water at dr. Waters Well, what do we I should have had my hand up when when trees asked if we had any questions About one-time expenditure and I trees. I don't have questions about what's listed. I do have a question I don't think um, I don't think we're we we're not finishing all the all the proposals or are we Finishing all of what I'm sorry all the budget proposals for 2021 We do still have one more presentation next week for you. Yeah, it's so um Whatever we would see next week Uh, we've with this list we will have spent all of our one-time money one-time funding in 2021 So so this list is all of the items that are one time in nature in the general fund and the public safety fund So so may change the question just a little bit if we if we saw proposals next week where we said Uh, we'd like to see more funding for x or y as a one-time fund Those dollars are all Spent or allocated. I got you so so I think what as gem had mentioned previously We do still have potentially some property tax That could be used from a one-time perspective Okay May a bag if I could jump in here as well it Also the amount of dollars that we Recommended go into the stability reserve You could direct us to lower that And use part of that for one-time expenses Interesting you say that because I I made that note whether or not that's even an option But I appreciate you offering that up as a As at least something well not just as something to think about or as as an alternative So thanks you answered my question and I'm satisfied. Thank you All right, let's keep going. Um, let's go ahead and uh, take a two-minute break and open it up for a public hearing And we'll come right back Don are you on? Of course So we got an email from somebody that couldn't Um Stay for the public hearing Do we need to read it or can we just provide it to you and the council as part of the public hearing? We could do either whatever Whatever you prefer whatever mayor bagley prefers We can read it or we can email it to council I think jim is that the one about the ute creek? Yeah So jim did send that to council. Just fyi. Yeah, okay. Yeah, but that's that's good And we don't we don't we're not we're not going to start reading things into the record because if people want to attend the public hearing They can wait and attend the public hearing, but I don't want to start the precedent of Right having you know nor did I want to start the precedent of having people Short circuit the final public invited to be heard by starting to call in during our public hearing so So don't I'll just forward this to you I've already got it herald. Oh you do. Okay. I just admitted you into the meeting. Um, this uh particular call-in opportunity is for the public hearing on Our budget so if that's what you're calling about You can stay on if you're expecting the last public invited to be heard that is still going to happen shortly after So Susan I'm just wondering if we could find out. I believe this is the same caller. That's what I'm thinking from final call We can just um verify that I think and maybe let him stay Stay there because final call will come right up next. Okay. Thank you. How many how many people are or How many are we we have just one? Um, I was just checking on this guest to see if they're Calling for the hearing on the budget or calling in for the final public invited to be heard portion Well, let's go ahead and that's fine. Well, let's go ahead and let's go ahead and get all the council back And then if somebody calls in by the time this gentleman is done talking we will We will uh, we will wrap it up But um, he can stay on for a few minutes because we're even if he's not calling in for the budget we're Yes, close to the final call public invited to be heard. So Very good. All right. We're just waiting on dr. Waters, then we'll go My apologies. I diminished my screen and could not find a way back into this meeting You know tim you're always you're you're always late. You're just I'm just Just kidding. All right, so let's go ahead and open the the public hearing on the 2021 budget We have one person If you'd like to go ahead and state your name and number for the name and address for the record, you've got three minutes Yes, this is scott coming in. I apologize. I'm I'm actually for the public hearing at the end Okay, then we'll we'll go ahead then and just hold on tight for just a second um uh That's the only caller we have mayor for all right Then we're going to go ahead and close the public invited to be heard and jim If you don't have anything else you want to thank you and your staff for for a wonderful job as always. Thank you We're done. Thanks. All right, perfect. All right, let's move on to final call public invited to be heard um, the gentleman uh on the line you've got three minutes go ahead Okay, hi, um My name is scott cunningham. My address is 37 71 south narcissus way, uh denver 80237 So i'd like to thank you mayor bagley and city council members for the opportunity to provide uh input That i hope will be helpful with regard to the use of ami Proposed ami smart meters. Can you guys hear me? Okay? Yes, sir Okay, thanks My my comments concern long months stated desire to develop a state of the art sustainable and renewable energy grid To meet the ongoing energy requirements of the members of your community I urge the council to be extremely cautious In recommending deployment of the advanced metering infrastructure wireless smart meters also known as ami smart meters for several reasons first The wireless ami smart meters are currently felt by leaders of the sustainable energy field to be much less effective In reflecting minute to minute much less second to second fluctuations in energy supply and demand Compared with the newer wired smart meters Which are inherently orders of magnitude More responsive in addition these wireless ami smart meters are actually guaranteed to require costly ongoing maintenance and replacement eventually as uh as compared with the wired smart meters my last comments concern the demonstrated risk of Of um these wireless smart meters actually catching fire Uh, which you've seen in multiple municipalities across our nation over the past over years And again, I would suggest extreme caution Certainly studying this further, but at at minimum requiring the supplier to provide proof of insurance against fires caused by these devices and or certificates of safety certainly The city does not relish the thought of being liable for fire damages brought about what Many authorities would say is inferior and even inherently unsafe equipment. Thank you very much All right. Thank you, sir. See I'm assuming nobody else is in the queue. That is correct mayor. All right, great And let's go on to mayor and council comments councilmember christensen You're muted councilmember and marsham arton you're next so I want you to Get off like pumped out on that arm Sorry, I need to get a lamp in here Um, so this is about things to do in long month. Um, this weekend or last weekend on either friday or saturday I went over to the museum which was uh helping tony, um or tega um paint five murals that are that are going to be installed and um Tony or tega is a wonderful artist. You cannot look at his work and not feel Delighted by life. It's even when it's a sad subject. It's they're they're beautiful He's done paintings and murals and Children's book illustrations and many things. He's been He's won a color on his best artists. Um, so I painted some blue bones, which are going to be over painted This was just an under painting. This is a group project for a mural and It was really interesting and really a lot of fun. A lot of nice people And it's just one of the many many things that the museum does and uh, I I also would urge everybody to go to the opening ceremony of the the October 1st at the museum It's always a wonderful time to remember reflect on life. This is a particularly good year to reflect on life and death and All the people who have died that you love this year including some who are well known like john lewis and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but we've also all lost our own Our own family and friends um, the other thing that the museum is doing is uh at 7 30 on thursday They are having a talk by cleo parker robinson Cleoparker robinson has been um This is a 50 year celebration of her work. She's been uh One of the leading dancers. I mean dance Companies in colorado and she has promoted dance particularly african-american uh Culture for the last 50 years. She's an incredible person. She's a delightful human being so I would suggest you tune into that Anyway, that's all I got All right, um, who else? Cal the councilman morning. Sorry. It's late. Go ahead Thank you, mayor bagley. Um, somewhat aligned with something Paul said I think we would be remiss not to acknowledge that today the united states officially passed the total of 200,000 deaths from covet 19 And uh, I guess on a virtual meeting a moment of silence is not all that meaningful So let's just all Acknowledge that this has happened And acknowledge the people that are fighting against it, especially our local heroes including our city service staff and our medical workers Uh here in longmont So it's a sad day All right, um, I don't see any other hands I'll before I get to you dr water. So I was uh, it's too late, but and I don't think anybody you guys know what rick rolling is I think erin's Anyway, I was gonna rick roll you guys tonight because he rick asked and died today So I was gonna like throw it up in the middle of the meeting, but I figured that most of you guys would be like, what are you doing? So anyway, erin it would have been funny to you And maybe you would have been funny All right, but anyway, all right, uh anybody else dr. Waters, let's give you the last word Thanks. Um, so with apologies to council members. I'm gonna I'm gonna my last comments are going to be a little sharper. Um, and point pointed Then then the council member martin's uh, very thoughtful Reflection on the number of americans who we've lost due to this pandemic But I do want to start my my comments by asking is sandy cedar still on the call I count some member waters. I sure am Sandy you shared an email with us this last week um reporting to us A recommendation from boulder county the boulder county democratic party relative to uh relative to The ballot question that will be on the ballot 3d To change or amend the longmont city charter Um, and i'm just curious because what I saw Was the boulder county democrats encouraging people to vote against Our local charter Proposed charter amendment change. Is that correct? Yes, that's true. That is what they publicized in an e-news letter last week and uh, did you receive any inquiries from from them about our thinking the rationale Um, or or an invitation to make any kind of presentation to anybody I did not receive any, um Questions or opportunities to speak and I did check in with our presentation team and neither did they So a position, um They took without any input from us other than what they've heard or read in the paper or heard from other boulder county democrats Is that fair? I would say that's a fair assessment um so I want to say to boulder county democrats That your arrogance and disrespect of longmont its and elected officials is insulting At least to this councilmember boulder county boulder county democrats Clearly believe based on what I read That longmont city council members and the city manager are not smart enough to design public private partnerships that serve the interests of longmont residents taxpayers and investors I guess longmont residents Based on the thinking of longmont or uh, or boulder county democrats not longmont democrats Should be grateful that boulder county democrats want to save us from ourselves Boulder county democrats not elected officials are not elected of folks that they are And unaccountable to longmont voters Obviously believe their fear The council members lack the intelligence and responsibility to negotiate agreements with investors that do not award unnecessary subsidies to developers while undervaluing city of longmont owned property Are compelling reasons for partisan opposition To a non-partisan ballot question to change the city charter boulder county democrats apparently also believe Ballot questions voted down by longmont voters in one election cycle should not again appear on a subsequent ballot If this thinking was sound next light would not exist since it was not supported by the voters of longmont when initially placed on a ballot And applying the boulder county democrats rationale for voting no on the charter change Would they would recommend that longmont's voters vote against the development of what is now acknowledged as one of longmont's great assets And the envy of municipalities Virtually everywhere including the city of boulder So boulder county democrats in the interest of an informed balanced respectful and non-partisan local election Reconsider your position Thank you all right, then let's go ahead and Say herald. Do you have anything to say? Um real quick. I just I missed this earlier I know sandi sent out an email talking about council coffee with council in october in a virtual format What we heard from council is you all would rather wait and consider that for january Then try to stick that in in the in the last Coffee with council in october just wanted to confirm that with you on let you know that We will evaluate for january depending on where we are Um in this situation All right, uh you jane No comments, ma'am All right with that can I have a motion to adjourn? I moved that we adjourn. Thank you council. Okay. I'll I was gonna second it All right, it's been moved by councilmember peck Seconded by councilmember martin getting out of here at 1040. It's great 411 All in favor say aye I'll oppose say nay And that motion passes unanimously and I will see you guys at the latest next tuesday. All right later guys Thanks for your help. Bye