 Um, recording. Great. Well, uh, I'd like to call to order today, Thursday, January 13th, Long Mountain Housing and Human Service advisory board meeting. Um, and is there any public invited to be heard? None? Okay. Thank you, Erica. Um, then welcome to new members, Robert and Stacy. Do you want to each introduce yourselves and maybe tell us a little bit about you? My last name is pronounced puttum. Uh, it, it's since I told him and all kinds of things puttum. I was a three time member of the Long City of Longmont Parks and Recreation advisory board. And I ended that this year. I'm also a volunteer for the last three years once a week for meals on wheels, which I understand you're going to visit at some point in May. And, uh, I'll probably recuse myself from that because I'm involved with it, right? To keep my kind of impartiality in place. I'm an editorial cartoonist and I still do editorial cartoonist for a bunch of newspapers in the West. And I've become very acquainted with problems of housing and human relations, especially among the, uh, low wage earners, retired senior citizens. I've watched other cities tried to come to grasp, come to terms with some of these major problems, including the homeless. So that's one reason why I thought I'd get involved because I quite frankly I didn't know what Longmont was really doing. And one way to learn it, of course, is to be on the board. I'm also a volunteer for a wildlands restoration volunteers. I've done over 250 projects, uh, and they're located here in Longmont. I'm also a back country ranger with, uh, Indian peaks, James Peak wilderness, wilderness areas, uh, all onions. Um, I'm also, uh, on the board for my homeowner's group, that kind of stuff. Um, I, uh, have a college education, of course, in biochemistry and, uh, currently make my, a good part of my living as a cartoonist. So to show you that scientists can do a lot of things out of them and be confusing. But we're glad to have you. And Stacey, uh, welcome to you as well. My name is Stacey Duncan. I'm, um, extremely pleased to be here. I'm, uh, was so excited to learn that I was accepted to the board. I, um, have lived in Longmont since 2001, which is stunning, because I don't think I ever lived any place before this for longer than three years at a time. So, um, uh, so that's pretty neat. It probably has a function of raising kids and, um, families and things like that. We have, um, we have three children and, um, we are all in the area and our youngest is 18 and graduating from Niowat High School right now. We live in Northeast Longmont. And, um, I have been for the past, gosh, probably 12 years, uh, working, uh, extensively and for long periods of time as a full-time volunteer with the single mom's community in Longmont. So I've gotten to know, um, a lot of, um, know more than maybe I care to even about a lot of social issues here in Longmont. I, um, I have a real passion for, um, for making things work, not just having programs to have programs. So, um, so I think that I'm excited to, um, to use some of those experiences here on the board. Um, trying to think what else. I've, um, just recently ended this, but up until now had been doing one weekend a month on a domestic violence call line, which is, um, gosh, that population is, um, oh, they need help, you know, so many volunteers and, um, it's, it's so touching. Um, so, um, ended that recently, um, also because I'm back to work on a part-time basis. I, my, Robert, my undergrad is in microbiology, too, so funny you should all have picked two scientists this time around. But, um, I haven't actually worked in microbiology in quite some time, but, um, you know, auxiliary industries and things like that. Right now I do, um, marketing part-time for an instrumentation company in Boulder. And, um, uh, so my ability to volunteer full-time is not there, so this, um, kind of came at a perfect time and just, um, really excited to be here. We're glad to have you, Stacey. And Kailin, you made it. Sweet, I'm gonna hand it back off to, to you, our, our chair. All right. We made it, we made it through item three on the agenda. Welcome to the new, new members. Thank you. Uh, it has been one of those days, so, um, on top of one of those weeks. So, hi. Welcome, everyone. Uh, let's see. Oh, I just had the agenda up. There you go. Um, so the next item is, um, approving the minutes from our December 1st and December 9th meetings. Uh, yes, Karen. Uh, maybe the new members would like to hear about us too. Yes, I would. Okay. Um, do you want to go first then, Karen? Okay. I've been on the board for two years and, uh, let me see. I'm a board member for RHOA and I have a disabled son who I take care of. Um, I, years ago, probably about 10 years ago, I went through the process of trying to get affordable housing, but we ended up doing, not doing that, but it's a background to what people have to go through to, to do that. Um, I also a volunteer for CASA card appointed special advocate and, uh, I volunteered HOPE once a week and, uh, I joined the board just because I'm interested in, you know, especially middle income people trying to get affordable housing, not just people that need affordable housing, but, you know, regular people that have jobs and everything to get, you know, so it's, it involves a lot more than just that too. So that's, that's my, and I've been in Longmont, let's see, I was in Longmont from 1981 to the 93 and then I moved, then I left and then moved back in 2012 and been here since. So, you've seen a lot of changes in Longmont for sure. And welcome, Stacy and Robert. I've been in Boulder, I've been in, uh, Colorado since 1964 and mostly in Boulder. I just, I came to Longmont in 2006, something like that. Bought a house here because I couldn't afford to live in Boulder. Right, um, Ram or? Albuquerque Balloon Festival behind you. Yes. Actually, I'm not sure if it's Albuquerque. I think it's, uh, somewhere in Europe, but. Oh, is it? But I'm not a hundred percent sure, so. Well, I'm Graham, it's my fourth, yeah, fourth year on the, on the board, um, I got a degree in philosophy, so I'm not a scientist at all. I have a degree in philosophy from CU. There you go. And, um, I'm a contractor and, um, yeah, I love serving on this board. There's a lot of great people in the community doing a lot of good stuff and, um, I feel, you know, honored to be able to support that in some small way. Great, uh, Kimberly, do you want to go? Sure. Welcome, Stacey and Robert. My name's Kim Stringa. Um, I'm also a scientist. At least I majored in biology, but now I'm a public health nurse and have been for almost 20 years, which led me to, um, being a part of this group and just seeing the impact of instable housing on, um, communities, especially vulnerable communities. And I've really enjoyed being a part of this group. Um, so welcome. I've been, uh, I've worked at, uh, as in the laboratory at Boulder Community Hospital and also Longmont United Hospital for many 18 years or so. Um, and I am Caitlin. This is my third year on the board. Um, I've lived in Longmont for about five years. Stacey, I can relate to your, uh, comment about, uh, this being longer than I've really lived anywhere, um, as a kid. Uh, I remember I changed schools every year until, like, ninth or tenth grade, I think, and, and three years was about the longest that we ever, ever really lived anywhere. So, um, five years in, in one city and getting connected to the board has been, um, one of the, the better ways to, to be connected to the community. So, um, I, I was a political science major, not a, uh, not philosophy, um, maybe a little science in there, but, um, I worked as an attorney for a few years, um, I no longer practice and I now work in tech, um, at least for another week or so. I don't know what I'm doing after that. I, I, I, I resigned last week, so, um, we'll see what's next. Um, but, um, anyway, um, so that's, that's me, um, I think that's it for introductions. Well, Chiquita, Chiquita's like a person who liaison slash former board member. And Erica and Elberto too. Yeah, so, um, thank you Stacey and Robert. Um, I will say that this board did not choose you. I chose you to be on this, this board, your interview was with City Council and I was on City Council, so, um, it's my fault that you are on this board. Um, so the rest of the board members can blame me or reward me and say yay or either or, but, um, I will say this, these, they are wonderful people on this board. That's why I chose to be the liaison. Um, it's just so much to learn. Um, and each of you bring different perspectives that you will come, that will come up in the processes of what we do. Um, I will say that our meetings sometimes can be very long. It's a lot of information, so, uh, when we get into it, you know, we have to like chop, chop, chop, get on it because we could be here to 10, 11 o'clock at night and none of us want that, especially not me, especially my City Council meeting was to midnight on Tuesday night. So, I'm just saying that, and I work full-time. I work for a nonprofit called YWCA. I'm Director of Community Engagement and Equity, so I do have a full-time job. I also have a consulting business as well. Caitlin, you who, uh, I mean, great job. I guess I can say congratulations for quitting. Um, I think great things are coming for you and, you know, so just look at it as wonderful opportunities. Um, yeah, so anyway, you all can always email me if you have any other questions about the board or, or anything else. Um, please do email me if you have any questions. So, so happy to see you here and welcome. So Erica, why don't you go and then I'll, then I'll go. All right, so my name is Erica Mars, like Stacy, um, knows, uh, earlier from our board, um, meeting, but, uh, I am the Administrative Coordinator for Community Services, so you will be getting packets from me, uh, for the board meetings as well as, um, links, any sort of communication that you need to, uh, rely over to Ellie Beritung or Karen or anybody, um, from staff, um, go through me and I can definitely get you there. Thank you. Uh, so Stacy, uh, I, I, I told Stacy this, Robert, but, um, so I am Ellie Beritung and also I've been here since 2007 actually, um, and, uh, I am a Project Coordinator for the Community Services Department. I work with Karen on a lot of the initiatives that this board, uh, has insight or, uh, provides, uh, does their work around advising on. Um, a lot of times I will be the main presenter to this board because I do a lot of the work for this board, for example, as we get closer to the funding process, I, I do a lot of the, the creating the, the content for our conversations, for example, I set up all of the allocation formulas and, um, and, uh, things like that. So you'll be seeing, seeing a lot of me in these board meetings, uh, of course along with Karen who is not here, she is our Community Services Director, um, but yeah, my role is to support this board and do the work of the Community Services Department in the city, um, and I really, really value, uh, your time and your work here. So, uh, I, I am very appreciative of all that this board does, um, so, so with that, I think we've done, I think everybody's been introduced. I'll turn it back to Caitlin to lead us forward. Fantastic, um, the next item on our agenda is approving the minutes from December 1st and 9th. Do I have a motion to approve those minutes as presented in the packet? Motion to approve. Okay, in a second. I can second. Okay, Karen, seconded all those in favor of approving those minutes. Please raise your hand. All right, so moved. So approved. Um, the next item is official posting location for, um, this board's agendas. Eliberto. I think that's Erika. I was like, might be Erika, might be Eliberto. Yeah, I know, I don't, I don't know where this, where this is posted. This is Erika's room. Okay, um, so the official posting for the Housing and Human Services Advisory Board is outside of the Civic Center. The agendas are always posted right there, um, as well as on the, um, City of Longmont's website. They are posted, uh, on their virtually as well for access. So either of the two places. So I think, I think that Caitlin, that we do need a motion for this. Okay. So, so Erika, so, so I think we need a more specific, so is it on the west side, north side, where, where are they posted? On the west doors? On the west doors. Yes, on the west doors. Okay, so I think, yeah, because I think we need a specific motion of where the the designation is. Um, so do we have a motion to maintain doing them on the west doors of the Civic Center, as well as online? Or does anyone have any questions before we do that? So that is where we have been posting them. I think when Civic Center was under construction, we did it on the north doors. But since it is now complete, we can do it on the west doors again. Motion to keep the posting on the western doors. Okay. And a second, please. All right, Robert has seconded. All those in favor, please raise your hand. All right, so approved. And draft work plan for 2022. So now this is me and I'm gonna, I'm gonna share my screen just so for Robert and Stacy every year this this board adopts a work plan for the year. It is a guideline of what the things that we want to accomplish. Of course, throughout the year there are things that come up. And so that this is not set in stone, but it does help us keep on task because there is a lot of work for this board to do. So I'm gonna share my screen. Everyone see the Longmont housing? Can everyone see the Longmont housing advisory work plan? Yeah, good. So what we're gonna try to accomplish tonight, of course, we've done that we've done a new member orientation. And we're gonna select officers for the next coming year. And we're gonna discuss our site business schedule when we're gonna talk about that in February. Here's some of the things that we're gonna do. It wasn't the thing to really think about is there was funding that was not allocated. There was one project that the board was very interested in funding, but it was dependent on state funding. And we have not yet heard because of, I'm assuming, because of the pandemic and staff out over there as well. We have not been given final word. So we're gonna bring that back in February to hopefully finish that out because we need to bring it back before the council. We're also gonna discuss, we're gonna continue working on our 2023 funding process. I sent something to the board. I think at a December meeting, a model from Mile Hayden way that we wanna explore. And if there's other ideas, then we can do that as well. And then I always put this, I think is important. I was talking to Stacy earlier how valuable the human services needs assessment is. So I think it's important that we take a little bit of time and go back and look at it and think about whether things have changed. Do we wanna do an update, etc. And then we're gonna look at CBTG in March. We started doing our site visits, get them all reported out on. Hopefully this is what we start having for those that are interested in housing. I think this is Kathy and Molly put these on the work plan for March to bring back the application for housing. Just so you'll be aware there have been time where they needed to do the applications a little more timely. So we've added them last knit to agenda to make sure we get to the information, but just be aware that that may happen. So I'm not gonna go into everything, but unless someone has a question, just wanna make sure that we review it. I think we have it to finalize it on February, but just want to provide it to the board and answer questions or take ideas. I don't know if we have a lot of, we need to do training. So there might be some training that the board may want. This would be a great time to offer ideas for training that the board would appreciate that I could look into and bring back. So I guess I'll open it up for, we'll stop sharing and open up the discussion and for taking ideas. Are there any questions or ideas that folks have that you wanna bring up for the work plan? Excuse me. Ellie Berthow, it looks like, and correct me if I'm wrong, that we're trying to move up the submission date maybe a little bit into August so that we can maybe spread out some of those long meetings because I see reviewing funding applications and then hearings and collaborations in September and October. Is that correct? Yeah, and like I told the board before, the only consideration to that is that we do this as a collaborative partnership with Boulder County and the city of Boulder. And it'll be, we just wanna make sure that they are you know, aligned with our timing. So I think that is the plan, Katelyn, to start earlier so that we can spread out because that is really the bulk of the work of this Housing and Improvement Services advisory board. It is reviewing and having those hearings. May I have a question? Just on these site visits, are they done on the second Thursday of the month or is it? Great question. No, the site visit. So we'll talk about that that's in the agenda, but we'll talk about that. But typically they are done in when we try Erica usually handles the coordination of the site visit. They can be done in person. They can be done virtually depending on the comfort level of everybody involved. And they happen whenever people I think we did. Well, I think we did one on us. I think I did one with Karen on a Saturday morning. So it's really it's much more, it's more flexible than that. It's not, it doesn't happen like our meetings. Okay. I just thought there may be one scheduled day of the month you know that you could write down in your little calendar. No, Erica will coordinate those because she has to coordinate with board members and of course the agency needs her very well. And typically one or two board members do an individual site visit. We have enough of those happening that it doesn't make sense for every member of the board to do those site visits. So we break them up usually based on availability as well as what agencies folks may be interested in or haven't don't know much about. It's a really great opportunity to learn more about the agencies that we are funding and see how they're doing and the impact they're making in the community. So again, we're not going to finalize the work plan until next month. If there's no ideas now but if somebody gets an idea between you and there, please in particular around trainings if there's something that we, it's been allowed as we do an evaluation training we can do that or data training we can bring that. Still also we do a best practice training so that you know so if anybody has anything they want to know more about the process or then just yeah just you can email me or email Erica any ideas and we will finalize this plan until February. Awesome. Thanks, Eliberto. Oh Karen Phillips, sorry I apologize I didn't see your hand. I just think that it's always good to have training on the evaluation process. You know even the review but I still think it's really important that we get trained how to do the best we can when we have to evaluate these different agencies. Okay. Like to see training. I'll find time. Thanks. Okay. Yeah. I would echo that and I also think that one of the things that we that sort of came through some of our conversations last year some of it comes out in conversations but you know we ended up waiting some things in the evaluation process is talking through those earlier than later so that we so that we know what those some of those priorities are. I was also thinking for new and existing board members it could be helpful to see that needs assessment earlier it's it is a big chunk of information and can be a little difficult to wade through and I think the sooner we do it in the year to have like some review of what those needs are giving access to folks particularly if they have not seen it before could be really helpful. Councilwoman Yarbrough I think that is wonderful. I know that's going to be like a lot but if we can coordinate that in enough time you know I think it is important I think when I came on I don't think I had a training so because we do update these evaluations as we go we look and see what worked what didn't work and I think it is important for our new members to see what we've done in the past and how we evaluated those organizations and their needs and everything like that and then moving forward because then they can give their perspectives or have a clear understanding when those needs assessment comes around and they can look and say they are not looking this is not in that bucket or that bucket I think it would be more beneficial if we could do that and maybe just have one training and everybody would come to that training I think that would be beneficial and if you need anything from me just let me know. I'm not training coffee or whatever but just for my own clarity what I'm hearing is a couple of things one is a training looking at how we evaluate these applications but then also a review of our human services needs assessment thinking of another look at that is that what I'm hearing what those two things combined or each merit their own session I was thinking of those as separate but just because they impact each other but they don't act they don't have to be done together so I would say if we did something on the human service needs assessment even February, March early enough so that when we are talking about what the process is and how to do the evaluations we're all sort of a little fresher back on that needs assessment and the new folks have seen it and are not like trying to figure out what we mean by buckets and how this fit in with all of that because I think that that can be it's a lot. Okay that's great I was just wondering okay awesome we'll take a look at these minutes and we'll see if we can add that to it and I can work with Karen on developing something for the February meeting yeah for the March at the latest all right any other questions or comments on the work plan okay we will come back to it next month to do the approval site visit schedule Erica is that you so Erica put it together but I either one of us to do this okay so essentially we're 16 agencies that need to have a site visit this year so what I was thinking is just the easiest thing to do is start them next month and do two per month so that we could get through the 16th and be done by September okay question sort of comments I think this is the last page in our packet if anyone wants to see the schedule that was put together and share it if maybe two Erica is this based on the three year cycle through site visits yeah that's correct cool well well the three year cycle and we have a tradition of doing a site visit with any newly funded agency that we've not funded in the past so when I'm looking at this list we haven't funded focus reentry and sent through Amistad medicine horse we have funded mother house but it's been quite some time since they applied we've not funded the queer asterisk and Saint Benedict or the reentry so there's quite a bit of new agencies actually that we funded this year that we've not funded or either not funded in the past or it's been quite some time since we funded awesome and Erica is the is your thought that folks would let you know which site visits they'd like to to attend and then you'll coordinate with them as the dates get closer for that that's correct so I was kind of hoping that you guys would decide what which agencies you would like to visit and then that way I can coordinate with the site contacts and yourselves to see what what your schedules availability is and then I can set them up for you guys for your purposes is do you want I know let's see I think we've got six of us here Diana's not here I think we're missing one I'm Catherine is out Catherine so I'm not sure about Brian is out too but you're not here so I don't know if we need to if it's easier because I think last time we had everyone on the call the first call of the year and so we kind of went through and raised our hands but given that we're missing several folks do we want do you want to do something have folks email you with their preferences or do you want to get preferences from folks on the call and then have the folks who aren't here send you information what's the what is the easiest way to do this so what I would suggest is because you guys are here the folks that are here tonight it's basically first come you get to pick you're very interested in and then yes the rest can you know they they get to choose what's left Kim um Ali Berger do you mind just bringing it up so we can all see it yes I will share it right now all right can everybody see it right there so that's um I don't see anything I forgot to hit the share button there we go Kim did you want to add something or have a question I was just going to indicate which ones I'm open to visiting if we're ready for that um medicine horse program queer asterisk and mother house um let's let's do it um maybe from the top Erica what's easiest for you in terms of going through this do you want us to go through the top and have people raise their hands if they want to go to one do you want individual people to go through yeah that would probably be the easiest just go down the list and if you want to volunteer for that yeah okay let's start with attention homes okay so we've got Robert um and Karen all right um anyone else for that one okay great um Boulder County AIDS project I'll do Robert and I we'll go on that one yeah it's okay then just just to be safe we should have no more than two of you at any one place at any one time yes and it's okay if we don't fill in two people because we've got three we're not here yeah we don't have to have every place visited tonight uh it's just I would I would I've done I've been on your side before and I would say choose the ones that you are most interested in visiting and um and if we get closer to it and something happens where folks can't make it because of schedules and so forth um I know that the staff will come back and ask if there's um other availability so um community food share so we've got Stacy and Karen um Elco Comite Kim and Stacy El Centro Amistad Kim and Graham um focus reentry that's me um I had what's that what is that one would I want to know what that one is that's I have a dream dream oh hi I have a dream foundation apologies I should have known that Robert okay uh Longmont Meals on Wheels Stacy Medicine Horse Program Graham and Katelyn Mile High United Way okay we've got no one for tonight uh Mother House Graham Katelyn and Robert and that doesn't necessarily mean all three of us will go but as we get closer and scheduling um we can figure out who will be there um St. Benedict's Health Ministry okay um you can put me down for that one Erica Queer Asterisk Graham Safe Shelter Robert Karen and Stacy the reentry initiative Karen and via mobility okay no one for that one so we've got a few that are open we I think we've got plenty of options for folks who are not here and then if um if we have any that are still um that don't get sort of first round um folks going Erica obviously we can bring those back and make sure we get um board members all right any other anything else you need for that Erica right now no really um I was just more worried about the February site visits just because you know to schedule um but that works perfect for me awesome okay and let's see the next item is officers um for this year 20 so we typically elect a chair and a vice chair Eliberto do you want to speak to that at all or yeah so basically the um the chair position is the person who facilitates and leads the meetings and begins the meetings and ask for a motion to end the meeting uh we Karen and I tried to send this person and I emphasize the word try because it doesn't always happen um we try and send this person uh the agenda ahead of time to get their perspective on it uh if they have other ideas or think of other priorities um and of course the vice chair stands in if that person is unavailable uh I think that's basically the duties of the chair and and then the chair usually attends the um council meeting when we present funding recommendations um however um you know I attended the last one and Eliberto and Karen um stole the show and did amazing presenting the recommendations and so uh there were no questions or anything from council so I was there uh just to wave um um do we have any nominations or do we have any questions about what these roles are um before we we dive in okay in that case do we have any nominations including self nominations for chair well nominated Caitlin for chair um Eliberto can can someone serve as chair two years in a row I remember there being some something but I don't remember I am looking at the bylaws right now because I I think so but I am looking at the bylaws I believe you can't but I thought Brian was for two years yeah I believe so I don't think it's I can't remember for some reason I thought there was a reason Brian couldn't do it again but I don't remember like maybe I might just be making something up completely oh okay okay here it is the term for office of the chair and right chair will be filled for one year officer to be reelected but may not serve more than two consecutive full terms just done one got it so yes you are you you have one more that you can serve as chair okay well thank you Graham any other nominations for chair okay I think I think then we have to we actually have to vote on that even if it's one so all those in favor of Caitlin being chair again okay um all opposed it's new as I can tell reading the bylaws which I have in front of you here uh there's nothing that says you can't do a chair can't do successive terms that's correct okay and I'm abstaining from the vote so I think so that was a four to zero two Robert were you abstaining from the vote or did you want to vote okay Karen did you have something you wanted to add okay thank you all um so we will also need a vice chair do we have any nominations for vice chair Karen yeah I uh nominate Graham vice chair again he did a great job and he's been here long too so that's why nominate okay any other nominations okay all those in favor of Graham as our vice chair for 2022 right we've got five opposed and abstaining you're abstaining from your own vote Graham all right we will do this again Graham and then we will hand over the reins because we will not be able to do it again okay thank you everyone um the last item we have is announcements or other business do we have Karen yeah is there anything we can do with the Marshall fire thing you know on the board I mean I don't know is there anything I can let Chiquita speak to this but I think City Council is addressing and they've asked for um I was at the City Council meeting on Tuesday and City Council member Susan Yadavarferin brought this up and so I think City Council is addressing how they can support the Marshall fire with their contingency so I know that our legal and our city manager is looking into that Karen thanks you said it that's right so Councilwoman Susie Yadavarferin she brought it up because there are a lot of teachers who were also affected by those fires and she's also a teacher herself and we have a contingency fund and so she made a motion to for us to give 20,000 out of our contingency fund to those victims so we have to get that approved and so we have our city attorney who's working through that to make sure that we can do that so yeah it has been brought up and just so you're aware I used to be on the board of the Community Foundation in Boulder County so I get a lot of communications from the community foundation I'm also serving with Madeline on the board of the Longmont Community Foundation and Boulder County has done a really good job of gathering support last I heard they had over 50,000 donors and over $5 million for victims of the marshal fire so there is a lot of community support going to these folks Ellie Berto I had one question and I don't know if you're the right person to ask or if it's something that can take that I know that there have been a few organizations that specifically provide low provide rentals for low income folks in our communities and a few of them have announced waivers of the income requirements and I'm curious about whether and how that impacts their sort of like whether Longmont Housing Authority is going to be doing that or not and for those other organizations that are waiving those requirements I think my concern is that obviously there's a huge amount of support for folks who have been affected by the fire and I'm concerned that some of the most affordable options for the lowest income in our community may sort of be shifted in a way that means that those are not accessible to the folks who can least afford it so I don't know whether anyone in the city or at the county level even is looking at that and sort of the responses and equity around that so I'm kind of wondering I'm just wondering more about that from the perspective of affordable housing grants and those types of things that some of these organizations may have um that's a great question that I can't answer at this point I've heard of that as well I thought I heard that it was the counties that was doing it through their Boulder County Housing Authority I have not heard anything but Karen would probably be the person to ask about LHA I don't think we're doing that in LHA so yeah Longma Housing Authority is also I believe it's like three or four units of different properties that are also leasing those and I know that they're only leasing it for one year so it doesn't matter but they will be able to lease it for one year Erica knows more about what's going on at LHA than I do but I will say that Boulder County also they are doing a month to month leasing throughout Boulder County so it's not a year lease but it is month to month and this is just some of the concerns I've heard and I don't know if passing them along to Karen is that waving for example some of the documentation because people may have lost all of their paperwork waving lease ending fees and that sort of thing makes a lot of sense the income requirement I've heard some concerns from community members that in some areas in Boulder County people have been waiting years sometimes to get into affordable housing and obviously losing your home is not something that I wanted to feel like people are pitted against each other we have a massive tragedy in our community with the fire and we also have a massive concern around affordable housing more broadly and so wanting to make sure that folks who because I've seen comments and people talking about hey I've been waiting for four years to get into affordable housing having gotten there and now I'm going to get pushed down the list I don't know that that's what's happening but you know some of our most vulnerable communities that are being pitted against each other for this affordable housing and that's really concerning to me because obviously none of those folks are at fault for where we are in housing prices right now I appreciate those concerns Karen is the one who's really more involved on affordable the regional housing collaborative she's a part of that group so I will definitely relay that to her and of course Shakita can as a council person can have her influence as well you know BCPH or the Boulder County Housing Authority is led by the ultimately is led by the commissioners right so I hear that and I will definitely let Karen know the concerns you're hearing and your concerns about this issue thank you thanks for bringing that up that's a really good point and I mean I know there's been talk of rebuilding those you know people from from the Marshall fires may come and you know may not want to live there anymore I want to live in Longline and what happens then you know we have such a shortage of inventory as it is so yeah it's a lot of talks going on but I didn't really think about it but it's a really good point and definitely I will address that for sure thank you appreciate it yeah it's it's it's hard I mean we we've also heard people who are like my insurance company never like encouraged me to increase my coverage and so like my coverage is what my house was worth 10 years ago and there's no way I can rebuild with what they're going to give good outcomes there and so whatever we can do to try to make things more equitable along the way Shikita I got some information from a community member who I guess like there's someone at CU who has studied responses to like fires and floods and so forth particularly like there was a lot of research post Katrina in a lot of the communities affected there and how some of the immediate responses actually increased inequity but that some things helped improve it and so I'd be happy to send that your way is something that might the council might be interested in taking a look at that would be awesome absolutely of course thank you and then thinking about these with the needs assessment to moving forward you know last time we were just talking about people who didn't who needed internet access right during the pandemic stay at home all day you know here we are with some other issues that we really have to take into effect think about that when you're doing these evaluations and these assessments so think about that too alright other announcements or business that we need to go over I would be remiss if I did not say that I am certain that Boulder County's MLK Day events are coming up on Monday and I am fairly certain that Madeleine would love and appreciate seeing the faces of board members and staff members there I don't know the specifics of that event I do know that they were doing something and have events so check out the city and the county web pages for what those official sponsored events are for MLK Day well I know Lafayette is doing a car drive event for MLK because usually they walk and have a speaker and things so they're doing like the youth usually put that on Lafayette Sunday the NAACP kicks off at the dairy center they have someone from withers the one who took all the pictures of the civil rights movement the marches and everything so his daughter created a foundation and so that would be kicked off at the dairy center on Sunday at 1 o'clock 1.30 there you go I just looked it up and then Monday is at Silver Creek High School in Longmont where they do all of their MLK events and of course they are having COVID precautions and everything everyone has to have a mask and I think when you walk in you do have to show that you've been vaccinated and I think that's the case so yeah it looks like they're going to offer those options through zoom as well for folks who either can't or are uncomfortable attending in person okay if there are no other announcements or other business I will entertain a motion to adjourn I make a motion to adjourn for a meeting y'all yes they will be longer yes yep alright thank you welcome everyone see you all next month thank you all have a good evening bye