 Um I'd like to uh call the meeting to order and do roll call signify please by saying I or here um Jack is here uh Sarah is not here yet Susan here it's here uh art yeah Michelle yes here Sheila I'm here at Prudence yeah all right uh and I believe we have a guest today Julian Houser who will be speaking to us Julie I'm sorry I don't have you on my we just see okay got to yeah Jeanine I'm not speaking I'm just here you're just here too okay thank you um Julie you are invited to be heard if there is anything that you would like to say so I'm good just here to hear to hear listen in on and see what's going on okay great all right welcome we're glad you're here uh do we need to review any of the protocols or every art is everyone comfortable with passing on from that yes Marsha I'm just for the record Sarah did join us now oh okay Sarah are you here I am here okay unfortunately I had trouble finding how to get into the meeting so that was my my bad has everyone had the opportunity to review the minutes from last month's meeting I have a couple of corrections all right Michelle let me let me go find them in the meantime I have one correction um in the paragraph about the august minutes I should read that jack seconded Michelle's motion okay thank you and under um new business number two it should be only rooms D and E and the gym not the GYN I thought that people would get a um check out of that and then um and then also down in the AAC continues it's a way to we're down in the um under reports I had state has developed a roadmap for the goals I think it's probably I'm guessing that should be like climate change goals just so we kind of orient the reader and then it should be global warming but I would advocate for climate change as opposed to global war as opposed to global warming so those are my two three comments and I have a question in where it says members present etc prudence were you here last month your names doesn't appear no prudence wasn't was not I was not here okay and this is Michelle and I just want to make one um also edit to the minutes under reports um Michelle has applied on behalf of the friends for $27,000 not to the friends I asked them for a lot of things but not this one and to where did you make that application if um I applied to boulder county AAA Sarah thank you yeah nice minutes though thank you Sarah I appreciate it well if I had written them up sooner after the meeting they would not perhaps not have had so many mistakes I hear a motion to accept the minutes of September 2020 meeting with the changes with the changes who's motion I saw moves second no who said that we shall thank you the shell moved and Susan seconded Susan seconded okay uh old business comments regarding sustainability handouts does anyone have any comments for that new business is there any other new business to report or discuss I have a question will we be looking at uh empty seats at the end of the year to be filled great great question um Susan I did send out some information to an interested board member applications are being taken now um I need to shrink my screen and go to my email to give you when they're due by um they're being taken now and uh let's see the deadline is going to be 5 p.m on November 6th I can send out information um about this I can forward an email from the city clerk's office to board members and then the terms that are going to be up are I'm going there pardon my delay here um the terms that are going to be up are hang on just second I'm going um Sarah Berry your term is up at the end of this year but I do and Jack Belchinsky your term is up at the end of the year and Michelle Krieger your term is up at the end of the year of this year those three what I don't know is if you're on your first or second term so Sarah Jack and Michelle and then Sheila you are the alternate and if you want to apply for a regular position you need to do that so Sarah Jack and Michelle your terms are up December 31st of this year do you know if you're eligible for um reapplying? this is Sarah yeah first I'd like to ask for some help from the the zoom manager somehow I am out of the meeting visual um and I don't know how to get back in so what do you mean your view is wrong like what you're seeing on your screen Sarah on the screen all I'm seeing is the word zoom in big letters that is really interesting um do you want to let me see here because I can I suggest there's a blue I at least on mine there's a blue icon down in the in the bottom it's so the zoom is usually the the the page on the what do I want to say the internet but there is a blue icon down below that has a camera on it and I don't know if you can see that Sarah but if you open that that should be the visual it's not on the bottom but I see it and I'm clicking it and it's nothing is changing I think I probably have to go out and come back in you can try that Sarah if that's the easiest way for you okay um before I leave though I would just say that I will not be applying for I don't know whether I'm knowledgeable I don't remember but I'm not applying for a new term because I expect that during that next year I'm going to be leaving Longmont moving to another facility or another location okay hey not my best day let's say Julie Sarah before you go are you open in your web browser because generally what will happen is that if your web browser is open this screen that we can all see each other on will pop up behind it so if you minimize your web browser you might find that this panel that we can all see each other on is behind that well let me see wish I knew more about computers now I I now have the screen with a view of everybody good deal thank you Julie don't worry about that Sheila yes to get back to the um renewing them the membership in there on the board um in fact I have it on I got a renewal and I have it in front of me I was just filling it out so I'm going to fill it out to have another year if acceptable so Sheila you're applying uh just in general and then it'll go from there so great yes it's asked me to do do the whole application again and there also is the question about being willing to carry on as an alternate so super my understanding and Marsha can correct me if I'm wrong but I think interviews are going to be the first week of December and appointments the second week of December of course had a council meeting but that's my understanding today so Sheila I was the alternate for a year and then I came on the board and it's just a way to get an extra year out of you so I'm glad you're applying thank you so much tell on that night note um I would also like people to be thinking about who might be interested and I know there will be many in uh being president of our board so just a thought just put it in the back of your minds and thank you yes Art what is the age that they in order to qualify to be on the board four out of seven people have to be over 55 thank you you're back good question is there any other business that we need to discuss at this time yes Susan comment so many losses can't go to the senior center everything's restricted but the latest loss was the beginning of last month we lost centura health integrative medicine they're closed the doors which served a lot of seniors that's jack jack did you have a question yes can you hear me now okay um if you use their services and you use the credit card and you do not use all the monies on your credit card you can call uh Longmont United and speak to their finance person and they will send you a rebate in the form of a check for what you did not use that's fine but the services are missing for so many people that depended on them yeah I do that part as well yeah I do know that their massage uh therapists have moved into a private practice um on 14th and uh Francis if and and I can get information about at least the massage therapy uh and cranial sacral uh therapy uh practitioners if anyone thinks that would be helpful please send it to me I'm interested I will do that okay I'd like to uh move on to reports um Michelle do you have anything to share with us this morning Michelle way okay good morning everyone um so we're we're headed in terms of reopening is hopefully uh December first it will be in conjunction with our winter go please don't hold me to that um obviously it is dependent on boulder county public health and how our statistics here in boulder county continue to go um but that's kind of what the staff are looking at and it will be minimal opening it won't be everything opening um and it will be very uh structured scheduled controlled kind of openings so that's kind of what the staff are looking at right now and um I will I will know more uh hopefully by the November board meeting uh with regard to longmont united hospital we have had an agreement with longmont united hospital for almost 20 years um when the then prestige plus which was their age well program uh was formed and they have been on site and so with kind of a perfect storm of things happening um centura making corporate decisions relative to the services from the center for health uh integrated medicine cancelling closing doors uh letting staff go that was one piece and then certainly the pandemic and the closing of the senior center was the other piece and so ranita has continued to participate with staff on behalf of longmont united hospital planning programs and doing them virtually uh right now uh longmont united health uh centura staff have indicated they're going to pick up those pieces which ranita can be committed to um and not all of them are being um able to be committed to so right now longmont united hospital says they want to continue the arrangement we have here at the senior center um as you all know we were going to rethink the foot care clinic uh service um and it may be time to rethink our arrangement with a health care professional in terms of our health education and health services i'm not sure it's you know the pandemic has created obviously some absolute uh situations that none of us anticipated but right now i do not have a single point person at longmont united to work with and that um that's my goal for this week and next week is to try and figure out that communication partnership link uh ranita's last day was friday last friday um and so between the changes at lu h and the pandemic we just kind of need to rethink where we're headed and so that is definitely on my horizon and as i move that forward the foot clinic will probably be a part of that conversation so that's kind of what's happening with that um we recently um brandy queen and myself have been a part of a countywide group called the elder justice coalition uh longmont senior services started some work back in the late 1990s around elder abuse and education regarding elder abuse um and then the county in 2006 got a grant through the office of the um violence uh against women prevention grant and in 2006 seven and eight and we actually the county and the elder justice coalition just got another grant it's several hundred thousand dollars it's a three-year grant um to look at education of police um throughout the criminal justice system actually judges uh uh district attorneys involved our safe shelter and safe house progressive uh alliance for non-violence is involved mesa moving to and sexual assault is involved adult protection longmont senior services and i'm really thrilled to say chris murkel one of our longmont police detectives is on the national training team and he will be helping um locally with training police judge fire other professionals um so it's really exciting that we're going to be able to refresh that training reach out to new officers new firefighters new folks who are in the aging world and really beef up our training so very excited about that grant and really glad to be a part of that and brandy and i will both be involved in um moving that grant forward so that's pretty exciting um we've been getting really great feedback on some of the virtual programs so we're all still kind of learning we are still monitoring all those virtual programs with staff um the senior computer tech programs are also going very well and we are working on a county ride effort along with city staff who have cares funding and the digital divide funding to get devices and education and wi-fi connectivity to older adults in longmont so those pieces are slowly but surely uh coming together and so we're excited about that um still have lots of staff helping support longmont housing authority work i think i've mentioned in the past uh dn and monica have taken on the file room at the lha admin building and are feeling quite proud of the very invisible impact they've been able to make and helping organize some of that paper um at lha brandy continues to supervise the supportive services staff person at the suites um i continue to be involved in the property management end of things and my learning curve is straight up and i am way behind on many things because that has uh sort of taken precedence but um we're doing some hiring we're trying to negotiate some challenge emergency situations and then we just started the process for the construction at aspen meadows apartments and so some of those folks are going to have to move out for a period of time while that construction occurs and i'm really thrilled to say uh tressa schulte said yes to being uh what i am calling her is the relocation queen so she is uh she's working with the folks the tenants at aspen meadows apartments and helping negotiate the apartments the packing the moving the hotel um all those kinds of logistics so um tressa is doing that work for us um martin and griffin are still spending the majority of their time cleaning at recreation facilities at the memorial building centennial pool and the rec center and they will come home when we reopen um and we are all doing our best to stay in touch in this virtual world and celebrate birthdays and celebrate length of employment milestones and you know personal uh celebrations as well and i cannot tell you how phenomenal i have always respected this group of people whom i'm very fortunate to work with and they have they have just been amazing so uh that's been that's been a real highlight um i can't think uh i think that's probably it unless you have a question for me about anything so no i don't have a question but i know that i are go ahead okay i was going to now i want to get clarification you're talking about uh again limited uh or minimal opening in uh on december first now last month we talked about opening the gym and some of these other things now did that happen or not no it has not happened yet art i have to submit a reopening plan to boulder candy public health and i have not done that yet um as the cases were rising over the last two to three weeks especially in boulder uh we were not getting a a green light to go ahead and submit anything so we kind of slowed down our our approach and now things seem to be going in in a better direction so we'll get back on board with that so no it did not happen okay and then one more question someone uh that i was talking in fact it was ubaldo valdez and i were talking the other day and we got into the discussion about elderly abused and is that you know i know with with juveniles or children those have to be they have to be reported by law through law if law enforcement or anybody else's it's brought to their attention is this is that whole true with uh uh adults as well it does are in 2016 colorado passed the mandatory reporting law of elder abuse they define an elder as somebody over the age of 70 that was what the state committee recommended um so the age is 70 you mandatory report to your police department and then local police law enforcement work with adult protection to um investigate and respond to those situations recently the state of colorado did an a research analysis and found that um i think don't quote me um 18 percent of cases should have been further investigated and were not so please don't quote me on that i'm probably not saying that correctly so we know that we have work to do um we have people who are mandatory reporters who don't know that they're mandatory reporters so we have work to do on that um and so there is uh there is definitely room for more education throughout the entire system and um i'm really looking forward to this grant helping us do that thank you you bet great questions thank you susan do you have any kind of estimated time frame where you'll be hiring somebody to take over the housing authority so we've started doing interviews now for some key positions susan and so um we have two community manager positions a maintenance tech position a um some accounting i'm not exactly sure what those job titles are but some accounting positions and then um i believe we are soon going to advertise for a portfolio manager and that person is responsible for all nine properties um and the staff who work there so it's it's been a gradual um process i i think that those there are folks marcia included and the city manager who will be looking at other decisions related to the housing authority that that i'm really not a part of um so there could still be more things to come but right now we're trying to fill those key positions so then you will be easing out in the foreseeable future of that role um you know it has been um yes i will be easing out and i am really glad i had this opportunity to jump in it's been uh overwhelming in terms of knowledge um and overwhelming in some cases in terms of emotion we've had some tough situations but i feel like myself and my staff are in a fabulous position to do good work on behalf of older people in longmont amy melissa and veronica are now spending time at each of the senior buildings making really good connections with tenants uh there teresa is doing great work at aspen meadows in a very difficult situation so i'm really glad we've had this opportunity um and i'm also super excited to get the senior center back open and get back on track thank you marcia sorry go ahead that's okay i just like to add um at the one question that that michelle didn't answer which is the the um uh chairman or president of the organization that i think herald's current thinking is that it needs to the final organization needs to be settled and it and the organization needs to operate in its new configuration so that they can decide what the skills are for the leader before before herald replaces himself in that role and i just have to say um i have not worked super closely with herald and a lot of projects and um my respect for him and my appreciation for all he does has grown immensely through this process um not that it was ever bad but i just had opportunity and um i am i am very very respectful of all he knows and all he does and he jumped in full on in a couple of the emergencies and i really am super appreciative of that i have to second that he is an amazing person who is uh conversant with every aspect of running the city um it's it's truly amazing how anyone could have that breadth of understanding and that depth of dedication that he has yeah janine i think you had a question i'm sorry back so i don't i've just been thinking about your health services um issues right now and i want to let you know that i just renewed both my rn and nurse practitioner license and in the interim if you have any needs any acute needs i'd like to volunteer for the senior center to be a support system for you in any way that i could be that is great thanks janine i do i do know for sure as this unfolds if we end up opening another rfp or looking at doing this differently it is really going to be the advisory board who helps craft that and your knowledge and expertise and others especially around health care will be really important i'm sorry that i can't see everyone on my screen so is there anyone else who has um any questions or comments for michelle no okay um um city council marcia are their contributions muted marcia marcia you're you're muted sorry about that sometimes the spacebar works to unmute me and sometimes it doesn't i was holding down a spacebar but not looking at my little red microphone sorry the um the city council has been focusing on the budget um and on the parking ordinances for rvs and that's pretty much used everything up so we are due for another report soon on the long want housing authority um and michelle do you um have any good questions or concerns about the funding for the senior center because i didn't notice any but i am not the most acute person when it comes to money so 2021 marcia is that yes yeah i think we are we are good um the one piece that i wanted was that one quarter of the marketing person would actually get funded by the general fund because she is doing so much on behalf of the whole city um and that is in the budget and i feel very good about that so excellent excellent i i feel like that the the essential services are coming out pretty well so far um so um the other thing that i have to report is is that i've had some extended conversations with uh chief spend low who i have to say uh is is doing an excellent job with with a a difficult role entering it is at a difficult time um a few of you are are um going to be participating with me in a conversation that by the way i've um checked with legal and and there is no conflict with being on this board and participating in that um public initiative so uh he doesn't have a problem with that eugene doesn't have a problem with that um but i've been talking to him on a variety of of uh issues right up to um contingency plans for if there's violence around um um around the election and uh i would have to say that they are um on top of the issue as much as they can be uh in case anybody's been worrying about that and you know if you've driven down north main um on a saturday afternoon or jack if you've been standing there you know that that things are fairly edgy right now um so they are planning for it and uh it's it depends on on what's needed whether there'll be sufficient resources or not but they are working out cooperative agreements resource agreements with other cities which is about the only option that we have so uh any questions about that yes you will i'm going to be at the long month hub on election day it's her serving in a new position and i think it's called i'm a tracker anyway i and i assume i'm going to be supplied with a stopwatch or something similar the idea is to determine how long people wait in line how long it takes them to fill out a ballot um how long it takes them to use the fairly new electronic voting systems so i'm looking forward to it and i have a little apprehension that um i hope that i will be well designated as an official election worker and i won't come across anybody who thinks i am not what i say i am so i hope so too i will report back thank you very much thank you for doing that as a as a former election judge uh i would say that um boulder county elections has always done a really effective job yeah i've worked with them before and i'm always impressed excellent yes jack can you hear me yes what's doing with our post office services are they safe um i didn't hear the question jack asked with our postal services if they're safe thank you i i don't think there's any question about safety and there was a colorado report that said that there have not been significant delays except in a few isolated cases now one of the isolated cases was my last medicine order um you know uh but i but i think they have realized that that some of those early um efficiency measures were misguided and backed off at the local level so um i mean i wouldn't ever consider mailing my ballot in um you know i especially since we have a pretty uh accessible group of drop-off locations um but and you can also walk into the hub and drop off your ballot if you don't like the outdoor drop boxes and i may even do that this year um but uh nevertheless there is a study that says that that our mail is okay thank you buddy else i voted by mail for the last 20 years i've lived in larimer county uh because i live in rural larimer county so it was hard for me to understand what the big deal was well i don't think it ever was a big deal before um but uh yeah this year and the other thing is i don't know whether it's true in larimer county michelle you're probably not the probably the only non boulder county resident here right but um boulder county elections has a really good ballot tracker service where you can get texts or emails or both uh when your ballot is received processed and and that's a really good thing because you know if they have questions about your signature or something you want to get in there and remedy that before the election gets called um so that's my other big election advice is sign up for ballot tracker okay thanks you're muted janine sarah do you have anything to report on the area agency on aging yes briefly we had a meeting last friday um it was primarily reports from various persons about activities going on outside the area aging council the first one was a report from erica colson on the long-term care ombudsman program and just mentioned a couple things that i learned from that discussion um that program the staff of that program have to comply with myriad regulations from federal state local government um as well as the program's own um internal rules of operation so it's pretty complicated cms on the federal level regulates um visitation to long-term care facilities the state through the department of health and public something i can't remember that exact term but the department of controls medicaid that may have conflicting rules in place the state has executive orders older county public health has county specific orders particularly regarding covid um and then the state ombudsman sends out directives to them as well as the direction that comes from county commissioners and management so it's a pretty complicated problem or context in which to work they have not been able to visit the facilities indoors since march um mainly been doing virtual visits which i can understand would be very difficult with somebody that was in a facility because of lack of abilities but as of september first they've started doing outdoor visits so if the patient is able to come outside and they can meet with them there um oh and one more thing about the regulations under which they operate if the facility is part of a corporate structure then they have to deal with whatever rules that business has set up for access to patients so i have a much greater appreciation for the complexity of what that person does um and they gave us the contact information which is relatively easy anybody wants the phone number for that ombudsman position or the email address i'll be happy to send it to you um hearing anything i'll move ahead we had the third and last uh session on the education program on reforming uh aging um and michelle you ask if i wanted that outline to be sent out to the board members i went ahead and sent it sarah so everybody did get it okay um i just say that that's a sample of what the training included and the purpose of it and if you review that oh we'll apparently be making a decision sometime in the future about whether we would like a presentation to our board on that subject i just make one summary comment i think the goal of that is that we develop a sensitivity for how the language that's used about elders the aging process et cetera how that sort of without our realizing that has an effect on how we frame issues and make decisions about programs for for older people and i i think for that reason it's sort of like having training on institutional racism and how you don't recognize that how you frame an issue in the language that you use in describing it affects how you proceed to try to develop solutions to problem i i probably would be a voice in favor of our sometime down the road um having that training and the last training exercise was um on guardianship and conservatorship we had a elder law attorney who sat on that and the outline is available uh if anybody's particularly interested in that subject matter um let me know and i can get to that outline sara i would be very interested in that outline okay we um in the first round of our elder abuse training back in 060708 we involved Judge Roxanne Baylin and spent quite a bit of time with her talking about guardianships and the local court being more invested in how they selected a guardian and also how they monitored guardians um so it definitely can play into the whole arena of elder abuse and so i would be very interested in that information okay me too sara susan her presentation probably did not go into that same level of detail but it's a good general outline about how the system works and i'll get that to you um you and to me sara excuse me susan yeah send it to me too i'll just send it to everybody um the final thing that they did we did on friday was to hear from the resource specialists from various locations including veronica about what's been happening with the requests for resources during covet and veronica reported that there's been an increase in the long met cases since april both phone inquiries and email and many of them she says have involved financial problems because of loss of job or inability to pay rent and this is a reflection of the fact that we serve many seniors who are still employed would have been employed were not for coven so the new people seeking help the number continues to grow lafayette did an interesting thing that they had a system of proactive outreach outreach their resource specialist contacted affirmatively contacted some 300 people that they had in their files as having been served in the past and as a smaller community and smaller senior program it's been hard for them to handle the complexity of of services when they can't make home visits um and um they do not have full access to um language translation um neil mentioned a interesting thing that i never would have thought of he said that he manages the call in people requesting resources for triple a and he said that most callers rarely know what they need they'll call just look you know i've got this i can't pay my rent or you know some general problem like that and so one of their jobs is to investigate try to figure out exactly what it is that that person is looking for um i think well another problem they mentioned which i would never have thought of is that for mountain residents transportation is a big problem and they mentioned that people often would hitchhike into town to get groceries well during covid people are not picking up hitchhikers so they've had to figure out a different um method of getting food to people oh the final thing on that i think um was something that also surprised me and they reported that it's rare for caregivers family caregivers specifically to all seeking help and this sort of confirms a an observation that i made among my friends and acquaintances is that it's really hard to convince a family caregiver that they need or should or that it's okay to take advantage of services available from senior services or triple a or elsewhere and that often they'll try everything to try to solve the problem themselves uh before they'll ask for assistance so that's my report janine you're muted again sorry now you're muted but before we couldn't hear you either you hear me now yes okay i was sneezing with the allergies so i wanted to go off um susan do you have anything to report on friends yep still meeting regularly still have healthy funds available to the senior center um so some of that is being diverted and tracked as covid funding whether it's people needing rents or hearing aids or whatever they need help with and then increased monies going to help fund the technology program which is benefiting people who are willing to learn and uh the last big thing that well they've got people working on don't updating our donor book and the plaques that are available in the lobby when people do give a large donation and i guess within the next month or so you should be seeing the annual brochure asking people to see if they would be willing to donate to the friends especially this year with all the extra needs and requirements and um if i can susan the friends is doing some um kind of cleanup reorganizing and rethinking their board manual but also their fiscal policies so if you are ever interested in that um please know the friends do have some fairly strict guidelines around their investment philosophy their spending philosophy and guidelines around financial policies around that and so they are uh kind of gathering all of those things in one place and are really looking at having a whole sort of fiscal approach um which i think is really great because sometimes they would pass a motion in a meeting and it would end up in the minutes and it might have been related to financial issues so really trying to capture all of that into an overall fiscal approach and so um i feel really good about what they're they're doing with that and they have several retired and active CPAs now and um i think they're giving good good advice for uh you know the long term so that's i'm very thrilled about that is there anything else to add to that no michelle do you have anything to report on trg nothing to report on trg art do you have anything to report on uh boulder county latino coalition sara so art and sara you're both muted so art we didn't hear what you had to say about the latino coalition okay one of the things that uh probably most of us know is that uh there's both some remodeling at the county buildings and one of the things that uh rovin valdez report on is that uh if anybody's going to go down there if you know people that are going there to make sure to call and make sure they don't need an appointment an appointment to go in and see someone there the other thing is dealing with driver's license if you know of anybody that's trying to get the driver's license renewed it's to encourage them to make an appointment uh i personally went up there a couple weeks ago and i realized then that my license were due and uh and and i waited for about an hour hour and a half and never were able to get in because they're taking the people with the appointments and if there's a break in between they'll take i'll take someone in the hour and a half that i was there no one got in so again call in for an appointment if you need that uh one of us percy one of the people that reported last time was louis locas with the alternatives for youth and he gave a real good report about you know doing what they can with kids uh again no uh in-person meeting but uh you know they're doing some feeding and and and again encouraging kids to do what needs to be done but he says there's a lot more kids out obviously due to school the way it is so if you see a lot of if you see some youngsters around your area uh there's nothing wrong with keeping an eye on them because he says vandalism has gone on gone up a little bit kids will be kids and uh so just keep an eye and and if if there's any concern there's no hesitation in calling the police if you if there if you need you feel you need to be done uh bob norris made a report again about the uh the new safety chief or the director of public safety and uh he said that uh if anybody has any any comments or whatever that herald has extended uh an invitation to have people call him leave a message or whatever about individuals that or or or qualifications that the individual should uh we should be looking at with a new uh safety chief uh i was we were also it was also mentioned that martin moreno recently retired i don't know how long ago that was but i guess that she's been about 40 years in the community been an advocate for for community members and uh that was a thing that was brought up and then the other thing was again uh they didn't get specific but there was a report about undocumented workers still uh uh having issues with with different things and they're just saying that there's any organizations that uh and i primarily hear i would say with us we don't ask people if they're documented when they come to the center or things like that and i told them i didn't think we did but that that question did come up not only for us but i mean anybody so uh you know aria is a great point um that is not the first question we ask there are certainly resources that are not available to individuals who don't have their documentation but baronica and amy and melissa know what is available as well as uh what what might not be available but but they will visit with anyone uh who who gives them a call absolutely okay and i that's what i told them to continue to go in there and see baronica and if they'll they'll help them and take care of them that's my report uh michelle t r g i already said that there's nothing to report oh i'm sorry that's okay uh long mon economic development partnership um i have nothing to report at this time although i know that uh we participate orderly but i haven't had any feedback or heard anything from them for about the last six months so i plan to contact them and find out when our orderly participation uh will take place um jack do you have anything to report on sustainability yeah can you hear me yes okay just a quick review of 10 areas the sustainability plan addresses just a quick review air quality buildings and infrastructure community cohesion and resilience economic vitality energy food system natural environment transportation waste and water now the next meet the last meeting they talked about uh the climate action task force which includes uh adaptation and resiliency building and emergency use and energy use excuse me education and outreach land use and waste management renewable energy and transportation during the meeting they talked about uh a climate action task force recommendation for the city namely increasing charging stations for EV vehicles they talked about bus stops and maybe revamping some of the way passengers are picked up they talked about something about pay for parking recommendation not quite sure how that went over for with the community members and uh local businesses but they're planning on thinking about and i think they're bringing it to the city council if they haven't already marsha can address that um and there's something about the sustainability tax boulder county in 2016 had a sustainability tax on sales and use tax revenues and long month received 125 thousand dollars and they're using some of that money thinking about a three quarter time grant coordinator residential program coordinator and trying to do work on carbon free transportation roadmap working with the farmers market program here in long month and a neighborhood impact grant program to help local communities do things for sustainability whether it's waste management air quality etc etc and there was something else that came up and i think i talked about it quickly last time the plat river power authority had two public uh programs for the public to participate in because they're planning on closing down another coal plant and which really bothered me is to want to go to gas or natural energy and i must say most of the participants and public uh announcements on how they felt about it gas of course comes from the fracking and uh as we all know fracking poses a problem to our health and certainly our environment and they certainly got an overabundance of negative feelings about having the gas run our new power plant and hopefully they'll use natural energy but that's up to them and it's under consideration now and there's something else i'd like to mention and we've had fires locally and uh one in larimer county certainly and i just want the folks pleasant to know that these fires impact our health and janine will certainly agree with that that it's bad for your lungs and seniors especially should be careful in probably wearing mask and limiting their outdoor activity there's 11 states that have fires there's 4.2 million acres that are burning now and many of the big fires the camp in colorado the camera and peak fire fire is only 42 contained it's 127,393 acres the williams fork fire is 13,785 is only 25 percent contained so i think seniors or maybe something could be put into the magazine we put out that seniors should be more aware of their time outside because it's very very harmful to their lungs not only of the carcinogenicity but the irritation that it causes especially if the older folks have asthma or any respiratory problems i think it's something we should consider and be careful about that's it thank you next meeting by the way is october the 28th and it's going to be virtual and probably if i have the minutes of the meeting i can report on it in november or early december thank you can any can anyone else hear me can we now there is if we do do an article on there in in the go addressing that there is a daily website that long mon does publish that tells us about air quality and whether it's safe to go outdoors i mean right now for high risk populations no day is safe to go out really except for very limited exposure and just because you don't smell the smoke in the air it doesn't mean that the particulates are not there so and the anticipation is because there's not a lot of funding for fighting those fires are that we will probably be looking at for air quality for at least another six weeks unless we get some miracle snow so just to include that yeah i can i add something please yes the weather.com weather.com also has a part of their weather on on the web that'll tell you about your air quality for this general area it'll tell you about ozone and tell you about particulate matter within the air that one breeds and if anyone's interested there's something called a national inter a national interagency fire center dot or or n i f c dot or tell you about what's going on in western fires what their containment is and a lot of other good information if someone cares to partake and those fires are a serious problem by the way. Sarah do you have anything to report on census complete count? Well the county committee has closed down operations what was my understanding that the national census bureau had extended the period for one month to report so that instead of september 30th as the ending date october 31st would be but i have no further information on that okay i'd like to move on to closing statements julie is there anything you would like to ask contribute or uh any statement she would like to make nope okay any other business that anyone has to contribute at this time janine it looks like marsha has her hand up thank you marsha yeah i just wanted to respond there were two things in jack's report that uh he asked me to respond to and that i can the first one is that the way the recommendations of the climate action task force are being handled by the city staff is that the recommendations are being parceled out to the various operational departments that can handle them such as waste management water and long mount power and communications and those recommendations are being evaluated to go on to the city work plan and the capital improvement plan so that's that's a good thing some of them you may not see them for several years but in most cases the plan for a plan is going to be in the 2021 schedule so so that's a really good thing um i monitor the platt river power authority pretty closely and there are uh some serious problems with their process and i believe with their expertise they've been a coal plant being a coal plant for a real long time and the state of colorado has now uh said there will be no more coal by 2030 and no more natural gas by 2040 used to generate electricity and they are not really i in my opinion accepting the reality of that they're they're planning on building natural gas plants way late in the year 20 year planning cycle um i have a an article in yesterday's times call and a good friend of mine has an article in fridays times call last fridays times call uh both of them um opinion columns not letters that uh i think everybody should take look at you know one exposes the problems in the process that they're following and one exposes the wasteful spending that would happen if prpa followed the plan so i do encourage everybody to take a look arsha i did not catch part of that sources the times call both of them i think you're can you unmute does anyone have anything else to contribute at this time did you hear that are i'm gonna unmute oh okay does anyone else have anything else to contribute at this time may i have a motion then to uh adjourn the meeting so i want to adjourn and do i hear a second i second michelle i thank you all for participating today and uh goodbye and have a good week take care everybody thank you bye