 Let's go ahead with five a revisions to electrical regulations a good evening mayor Bagley and members of city council I'm David Hornbacher the executive director of Longmont power communications and with me tonight is Kerry spots and Kerry is our leader supervisor, and she's going to provide a Short presentation and a brief overview of the proposed Changes to the regulations governing electric service these regulations these proposed changes will be for city council at the next regular council session and Thank You mayor Bagley city council members as Dave stated. I'm Kerry spots with the Longmont power and communications meter shop supervisor and Here to present the revisions to the city's regulations governing electric services here Some of the items we'd like to discuss our metering clearance connections to service facilities and definitions on the electric metering and clearance We are Now offering a lever bypass Tight meter housing in this tight meter housing. Oh, I thought I was going to have an arrow so the top Lugs inside that meter housing are the connections from the city facilities and You can see on the slide the lever with the red handle That is the actual lever bypass and This is a win-win for safety of electric personnel and it also gives the convenience of No power outage for the customer during any type of meter maintenance So we would be able to engage the the bypass lever Take the meter out of the socket and do any maintenance checking, you know for any issues that may be happening there Plug the meter back in re-engage the lever bypass and button it up all while the customer Isn't inconvenienced with a power outage New phenolic badging makes it easier to read the address where We're standing This really helps it make it easier for nighttime outages A lot of times our personnel are called out to respond to an outage We want to make sure that we're at the right location and looking at the right installation The older brass badging was very difficult to read and as you know apartment buildings are maintenance they get painted A lot of times the the painting personnel Wouldn't acknowledge the brass badge and they would paint over it which made it twice as difficult to try and read Where are we? Where are we? So the phenolic badging is a really great thing helps us really identify where we're at Locating the equipment on the exterior of the building helps us To to ensure access to the equipment that we're called out to also helps us with future Excuse me troubleshooting for for outages and Streamlining and basically making making it to industry standard many utilities are Requiring this so that they have the access and it's very easy to maintain and troubleshoot the equipment for the customer new metering options for 400 amp services Now have an installation like this a lot of customers Now have electric vehicles the standard years ago used to just be a 200 amp service This type of convenience takes up less real estate on a customer's home or even on a business And the equipment's very accessible in this instance as well Master metering considerations for multi dwelling units We like having the contact with our individual customers being able to reach out to them Talk with them in the public on some instances though Such as a memory care facility or an assisted living facility It makes it harder for those individuals to maybe remember to pay their utility bill So master metering is an option for for those that get approval from our executive director of electric services Electric metering and clearances clarifying the physical clearance requirements from the electrical equipment Sometimes landscaping who gets in the way and this time of year it makes it kind of difficult when it's under snow or frozen under ice To be able to actually access the door for the utility pedestal Whether it's plants venting or other obstructions Who was teasing that sweet little German he scared me to death I Was called out for a tripped breaker and a cut seal the customer had tried to Flip their own breaker, which is located in that electric pedestal there to the left and I noticed that the fence is blocking the face of the pedestal So I couldn't get the door off and then when I tried to enter the yard and knock on the door to let This customer know what I was there for the dog came from around the back Good boy. So, you know, we're just showing that you know landscaping can still be beautiful and still giving access to the electric equipment Because our customers depend on us for that reliability of their electric service Connections to service facilities This is an electric transformer. So this is owned by LPC and you can see they're kind of on the left where the paddles are with the four holes in the In the paddles, there's limited connections that can be made in this type of cabinet So for apartment buildings, they would need to a lot of times Maybe purchase four or five of these transformers for just one of their buildings. So one of the options is To allow them to install own and maintain a secondary cabinet like this The picture is a little dark, but you can see there's lots of room for a lot of the wires and conductors then coming from the transformer into the secondary cabinet and Then definitions we've updated you'll notice your red-lined copies that you all received It takes a village to make these types of changes update things and really bring things into utility standards So some of the definitions that we changed were from general manager to executive director of electric services We used a lot of terminology like a CT Because we were familiar with the term But maybe the regular public wasn't so a CT is a current transformer or a pt is a potential transformer In a lot of the code we talked about the developer or the owner or the customer and really Streamlining that because a lot of these facilities, you know from electric from apartments go from a developer during the Construction stage then they go into the owner of the apartment complex Then they go into the customer tenant who lives there, but they're all our customer So really just streamlining all of that Thank you for your time and consideration Mayor Pro Tem Rodriguez Well, thank you, Mayor Bagley So I guess to a certain extent just to reiterate outside of some upgrades to say the construction issues as far as The bypass as well as for folks that are desiring upgrades to their their their boxes This will have no material Significant this will have no material change to rates for our electric payers currently It would be a one-time kind of deal if they did decide to get an upgrade to their box for say electric vehicle charging you are correct that this would not have an effect on rates and several of the things that we showed tonight actually are a Direct cost savings to the customer installing those new services, and they would realize that cost savings directly To the first day on your report on inclusionary housing Canadian Mayor and Council Kathy Fetler housing and community investment manager Division manager for the city and I will try and be succinct, but there's a lot of information here, so I'll go as quickly. I won't yell at you. I get it. Okay. All right. Thank you. I appreciate that So first I'll start with the inclusionary housing program snapshot over the past year There's about 20 projects under Development that were our fall under the ordinance So if you remember the ordinance became effective at the very end of last year And so the projects that just started did not have their final plaid approvals prior to or their preliminary Preliminary plat approvals prior to The effective date of the ordinance fall under the ordinance so as you look at construction around the community There's many developments that are not under the ordinance and right now there's 20 in the development review process Nine of those have already committed that they're providing their affordable housing units on site five are making Fee and Lou they've already decided that and eight are undecided and the nine the five and the eight add up to more than 20 Because some of the developments are doing both fee and Lou and units or doing multiple types of units So of the Ten total developments that are providing homes on site five of them are rental projects and five of them are for sale Projects of the rental projects. There's a total of seven hundred and eighty nine units within the rental Developments 230 will have there will be 230 affordable homes and the majority of those affordable Rental homes will be provided within the market rate rental development of the for sale Projects there's a total of 1400 total for sale units within those projects 52 affordable homes will be provided on site and the majority of those affordable homes will be provided in partnership with nonprofits For the fee and Lou projects that are saying that they would like to make the fee and Lou There's five total developments on that as well three rentals and two For sale developments at this point in time with 48,000 is the estimated amount We will not know finals on these until we actually Start seeing building permits and certificates of occupancy issued And then about 1.4 million is estimated under the two for sale developments Those are anticipated to come in over a period of time We're anticipating about maybe just under 400,000 coming in in 2020 again Those are paid at their fee and are at their certificate of occupancy. So they usually come in at the end Of a project and then about I just kind of evenly split the the rest of it Between 2021 and 2022 looking at the developments and where they're at in the process and when they're likely to come in There has been some interest in middle-tier building And I have to stress that again these developments are still in the review process and have not yet Committed to or signed an agreement committing to providing the middle-tier homes to know what tier They want to follow under or if they're even going to do it But the two projects that are in process and have said that they're looking at doing that one is at 1901 South over and they Indicated to Planning and Zoning Commission when they went before them that they'd provide about 209 units in the hundred and 1% to 110% middle or tier and 27 in the 111 to 120% tier and then if you remember Mountain Brook satisfied some of their affordable units with the Veterans community project and the habitat projects and they that covered some of their units, but not all of them So there's still about 49 unsatisfied units that we're working through What that's going to look like so at some point those 49 units will either be provided under one of the tiers Or they'll make the fee in lieu So we'll know as we learn more we'll we'll let you know about that So looking at the current market market housing snapshot This indicates the changes in median sales prices over time and what you'll notice in 2019 is that prices are starting to level off at least in the median area and it actually is Reflected in the average sales prices as well so there was a 1.3% increase in detached homes from 2018 to 2019 and a point 7.4% decrease in attached homes Some of this leveling may be due to more homes being available to purchase there was a 5% increase in the number of units available From 2018 to 2019 in the detached home product and an 11% increase in the attached product New homes first thing versus existing home sales so again looking at past years as well as The most recent current year New homes are becoming a greater part of home sales increasing from a low of 4% in 2010 to a high of almost 29% in 2018 and then it dropped a little bit in 2019 with new homes making up 22% of all home sales The income needed to purchase or rent in Longmont is shown on this chart And you can see in 20 about 2012 is when a family at Making 80% of the area median income and at our city median income can no longer afford to purchase a detached home And then 2015 was when both the 80% area median income in our city median Income wage earners could no longer afford The median cost of an attached home And then the rent is the purple line the income needed to afford Rents and the dashed purple line is the 50% HUD median income for a two-person household so that shows that it's been as well quite a while since Household two-person households one in two-person households could afford our median rents So this is new information. We just got it. So it was not included in in your packet This is from the draft consolidated plan which is being put together right now and they're still pulling a lot of information together But this shows that our greatest rental housing need is for households and families at That make at or less than 40% of the area median income Inclusionary housing rental projects are providing on it says renal sorry instead of rental Projects are providing primarily 60% area median income units where if you look at the That area gap, which is about the 50,000 to 75 no it's probably the 35 to $50,000 range. There isn't really a need Or there isn't a gap showing So we have a gap of 2,300 units right now We're looking at providing 230 units through inclusionary housing with again the bulk of them at 60% area median income So there's a little bit of a disconnect there and quite frankly for market rate development to be able to reach 40% and below without Some greater subsidies than what we're currently providing just under the Our affordable housing incentives is difficult So trying to get some of those units through the affordable housing fund application process or CDBG funds Etc. Is where we really need to focus efforts to get those reach the those units So 2019 sales this shows new and existing home sales There were a total of 1440 total home sales in 2019 I want to say that we do need to still do a lot of scrubbing of this underlying data this came from the Boulder County assessors website and My staff and I tried to do some of this and didn't get too far into it because it does take a lot of back and forth with looking at addresses and going to the website and looking at a lot of different information but What we found was that some in the area that's below 80% AMI and we assume also in that 81 to 100% are related to investment buys and flips Some of the lower sales prices turned out to be a deed or a trust transfer So actually just paying a little bit in order to do that transfer of the deed from one person to another and not actual sales so We scrubbed quite a bit out of it But not totally of the seven new sales that are below 80% that are showing there on the chart For those are the blue Vista homes that are affordable So starting to see some of that under the inclusionary housing program and three are town homes that are in non inclusionary housing developments And then 2019 sales by type of home This shows that the majority are still single family Single family homes in this case includes town homes, but not condos So it's a little bit different than how we normally talk about detached and attached The assessor's office just does it differently, which is another area why where if we have more time to scrub the data We could pull those that information out So this just shows that all homes are at the very top the lightest blue Single family homes are the the next line down and then the the bottom line or the darkest color are our condo units So for single family homes 2019 sales This just shows the difference by the area meeting income prices sales prices So about 93 homes were available in single family or town homes At 80% of the area meeting income and you can see the different Calculations there. So it's just trying to give you a breakdown of those sales prices affordable at the differing AMI levels and Then this just shows new home sales versus all Exists all home sales for single family In town homes new homes new build the new builds are yes are the blue Yeah, the interesting thing here is that Single family new homes are trending to higher priced units unlike the existing market Which still shows the majority of homes in the 81 to 100% AMI tier Which is that 300,000 to 430,000 dollar price range and also since single family in the single family Category includes town homes that may be that may be why that's skewing high in that particular AMI category Just just a quick question the I know the definition of AMI, but are we this 81 to 100 on the previous that one the 81 to 100 a hundred and 120 and greater than 120 is that Is that based on their income or is that based on the house price? It's the house price that equates to that AMI range and so we're not comparing that to the actual home buyer We're just saying that home has that price It should generally be affordable to people in that income range. Okay, okay Can we just just on that and what is it 30 or 30 percent of? Their income at that AMI for housing costs. We use the 33 percent that we use for sale So it's all 33 across the board. Okay Okay, then this just shows the breakdown of sales by condos for the condos for 2019 sales 13 homes were available at 80 percent and below and then the bulk of them at 81 to 100 percent. No, sorry. This one's the 101 to 120 percent AMI and Then again showing New home sales versus all home sales for condos and it's interesting that there aren't there were no Condo sales that were affordable at or below the 80 percent figure Okay, so looking at our affordable housing goal. How are we doing in our progress towards that? We need to create about 200 new affordable homes annually while maintaining and preserving all existing Affordable homes to meet the goal and right now we're about 3,000 units short Which kind of ties right in with that 2,300 rental unit gap as well Although we know we do need for sale housing as well as rental housing Currently we're at 6.06 percent towards our goal or of our total housing stock is affordable Little while ago. We were at 6.2 percent, but we didn't have a very large gain in 2019 19 of units created that got their certificates of occupancy versus the number of new total new home That were added to the city On our pipeline of affordable inclusionary homes that are coming up This shows What we're anticipating so 2018 we had a 313 units that were produced six units in 2019 with a little bit of issue with getting certificates of occupancy and then projecting forward using estimated permits from planning and development and then our Estimated affordable housing units coming in through inclusionary housing So since none of these estimates get us to our 200 per year We also need to be looking at acquisition of market rate housing and converting it to affordable with subsidies or other New construction alternatives So metrics this doesn't look too good should have broken this slide up a little bit So what we're going to be looking at and tracking is changes in building permits and how those changes in our permits Compared to state and or our surrounding communities changes in median home sale prices and rent prices and Their impacts of that on the inclusionary housing goal. Does it need to change stay the same? Impacts on our AMI targets. Do we need to raise or lower those or? adjust those at all and then Providing information on what the market is providing How the units are being provided? So are we seeing a shift towards all on-site? I'll be in lieu that kind of thing to report back on that And whether or not when we start getting fee in lieu is that sufficient to replace units? Or what are we getting for the funding that? is coming in We'll also be tracking obviously our 12% goal attainment And then who is being served with the the program once we get things up and running around demographics and AMI levels, etc So as noted in the council communication some of the trends that we're noticing In a number of projects both for sale and rental are choosing about the same proportion of making the fee in lieu to providing units We'll keep tracking that obviously and see if that the eight units that are eight projects that haven't decided yet how that works The rental affordable housing units are primarily being provided within the the development In the greatest area of rental units needed below 50% and really below 40% area median income are well below what is actually being provided with 68% of the Inclusionary housing rental units at 60% of the area median income So for future Upcoming council sessions some of the things we're looking around code cleanup and code Changes are looking at if somebody's doing renovations to existing housing And are creating new dwelling opportunities within that Renovation does the inclusionary housing apply to that? other residential Dwellings if they are changing the type of dwelling unit that they're providing Does that? Have inclusionary housing provided change all of these these things that are here in within this these four bullets Insert bullets Are things that have come up because they need a site plan modification or something that triggers Otherwise would trigger inclusionary housing, but some of them just don't seem to make a lot of sense Property line adjustments is another one And then changes to type of units So if a development was planning on doing single family detached and wants to switch to town homes And they're going to provide more units does that trigger something? And then again, we've talked a little bit about Whether or not we should amend the code to allow direct donation of land to nonprofits as opposed to going through the city or Alternatively coming back with a voluntary alternative agreement to allow them to do that directly Let's go ahead and ask the city staff to present the safe lot research presentation This is really a team effort, and I have my team nearby Chief sadder Joseph Joanie and myself are what make up the the The research piece of this of the task force, and I'll go this is this is a progress report. It is not a final report We are still researching and looking into different models This is happening here in Longmont and other places and this this the background is this really started and came out of our console conversations on homelessness We've had three we had three in 2019 where we presented some data around what we know around who is Experiencing homelessness and in our September console conversations and Joseph brought up the idea of a safe lot and Council then mandated our task Staff to create a task force to do some research into the safe lot model or safe parking I will also it's also known as safe parking if you ever just want to Google it Is there there is more and more stuff being written about it? So this is the the whole task force Joanie Marsh Jeff sadder Joseph Sadovich myself Amy Scriver Mike Butler Jared and telling him Karen Roney and and Harold Dominguez is on the task force We quickly met and decided that we were going to try and divide and conquer some of the questions that council had around What is the most viable model who's experiencing it? And there's a question of a return investment So what do we know about what type of systems capacity housing system kind of we have that? Investing in this model what what kind of return on investment we get versus investing in more housing or Bridge housing so we broke up those three into those three teams of the task force and We very quickly decided to decide we need a purpose and our purpose as a task force really to understand What are the current gaps in the county-wide systems to move people out of homelessness and into stable housing and to explore? What are some temporary options that we have to address those gaps while? HSBC works on bringing new housing resources as you know Council approved some new housing resources in the 2020 budget Which we're very grateful for and we are working on getting those online however in the meantime there are still gaps and how can we address those gaps and Really the safe lot option is one of many options that we can look at that may serve as bridge housing To try and get people to that final goal of being housed So again, these are the three teams that we created the research team the data team and the capacity team the system capacity team This the research team be a lot of work on best practice research and there is quite a Spectrum when it comes to safe parking models throughout the country primarily there in the West Northwest in California But they're even though there is a quite the spectrum of different models of how they work some are bigger some are smaller Some serve RV some surf cars There are some general best practices that are found in all of them for them for the most part one is Most if not all have case management that leads to a stable housing situation So the idea is how do we get people housed? All of them provide overnight parking and some provide more very few provide more than that Most programs at this point don't allow RVs and we'll go into that question in a second It's primarily a cost issue and they all provide some kind of access to restroom facilities and They most of them provide some kind of security and that can be done in a spectrum of ways as well I've seen everything from you know private security guards firms to volunteer security and that of course affects cost But those are kind of the the What you see in the models throughout the the country those are the things that they tend to have This essential elements piece I added because I read this very interesting study Done by the University of Seattle's law school and they were looking at I'm gonna catch up I need to go. Okay, so I've got it might I've got a family member that just went to the hospital that I need to go So mayor pro tem's in charge. So I apologize. I'll call you after to get Yeah, okay. Yes, and I hope your family member is doing well so this study looked at what are the essential elements of Successful programs throughout the country and they really came down to three key things and being very intentional about them I'm going to quickly cover the first two, but then I'm going to focus a lot on the third one One is funding sources, you know, the the study looked at three case studies and each of those case studies The they were funded in different ways. Some were funded by primarily private donors Some were funded by government and funding and connections to funding can also lead to Different limitations on how the program works. So for example, when you get government funding There's a lot of government strings attached to it. Whereas when you get private donor funding, it may not be as Stable as government funding, but it may open up different avenues of how you deliver the services Then the second one is key relationships Each of those successful models had developed key relationship with both Municipal staff and in particular with the police department. The most successful ones had very strong relationships with local police departments The final one reputational capital I Thought was very important that one focuses on Wherever a model is held Needs to have that reputational capital with the the neighborhoods where they are located there needs to be strong community engagement and Strong community voice in how that model is delivered Those three things together Really are is the fundamental basics of making successful models. We know that that's what that study showed so And Joseph is here so you can talk more about his book hopes part of our research team was also to get Information from hope on their safe lot pilot now as a reminder, this pilot is being done by hope Without any formal city resources or vetting by the HSBC system at this point and I want to correct because Joseph Graciously corrected me on my report and it was also in the paper In the report it talks about Joseph or the safe lot pilot using navigation as kind of his basis for intake Because this is not funded by the city or the county Joseph's let us know that hope will be using its own Intake process and again, this is a working process We're still trying to figure out what that's going to mean for how do we help people access some of the resources? That is within the HPC system. Okay, but I just wanted to point out that correction But the safe lot provides temporary parking waiting for housing you'll provide case management and it will add background checks something That doesn't happen right now People living in vehicles not RVs primary like I said cost is an issue And who are not accessing the shelter and it seek and hope is seeking to implement two lots one for adult individuals And then families a separate lot for families with children and with a total of five to seven vehicles per lot I think the idea is to be manageable at first to learn from it and then decide how to move forward So here's some of the costs that we that that we researched and Joanie was joining Marsh was extremely helpful in Finding these costs. This is what it would cost if we were to provide our own RV safe lot So we would need connections and a dump station that we'd have to create and that would be From 38,000 to 76,000. We would need of course development We would need street improvements to make sure that it's a feasible Place to park those RVs and those are the ranges and these are estimates These are ranges that Joanie Research and then if we were to provide a restroom facility, this is the estimated cost So it's quite an investment to make Of course vehicles and these are these are the estimates provided by Joseph are much lower Primarily it's focused on security and What they would provide There is a one-time If we go if hope decides to go with a shower restroom trailer There is a one-time fee of 30,000 But we're not exactly sure what it would the maintenance would be on that option or to save some costs hope could choose to do portable restrooms and According to Joseph, it's around four thousand dollars a year to rent and maintain those restrooms So that is the research team's work what we're doing the safe lot data team that team Is working on trying to find more and more what is the need and so with the help of Amy Scriber and our GIS folks We created a survey That is primarily being used by public safety right now and this is just a snapshot So this data has not been completely analyzed yet, but I did want to show council Here's the progress that we're making on collecting better data So this is a survey that public safety has on their phones that is helping us capture Data around those who are experiencing homelessness that are living in cars and RV as you can see the number of folks in Cars is much less than what people that are living in RVs and you can see the number between Operating RVs and non-operating RVs and car We're operating and not operating That those are the numbers that are that are are coming and we hope to have a much better picture By the end of March that that right now is our goal to to finish data collection So that we can come back and present some information to counsel But I just wanted to give you a snap talk to snapshot so you can see what we're doing And but it does more than just capture that also looks at You know, what is their family makeup and these are all voluntary questions and contacts They don't have to answer. We have the unknown You can see that the majority tend to be single I mean though there are some couples and there is there was one at least at this point There was one family with children And you can also see You know the vehicle if when once you click vehicle it breaks down from vehicle to art to that other picture of RV Non-operating and operating and and car operating and not operating but the majority of the of the contacts 72 so far Have been in vehicles either cars or RVs So we are collecting this data to try and Frame a better picture of who's experiencing it and what we're seeing out there And I think this is being very helpful to us to to give us a better understanding of Of the people that are experiencing homelessness living in RVs and cars So what is our next steps? Well, as I mentioned, we continue to gather data via survey until the end of March We are working on assistance capacity analysis So the housing exits team that's part of HSBC is doing a pet portfolio Of available housing and that was in the report You can see part of the work that they've done so far and hopefully we'll have more and then As such we'll move along with to the 2020 legislative bills recommended for city council Position with Sandy Cedar assistant city manager Sandy Cedar. Thank you Thank you mayor pro temp Sandy Cedar assistant city manager, and I have four bills for your consideration today Two of them regarding mobile home parts. So Part of the conversation. So the first one is house bill 20-10 17 Concerning treatment of individuals with substance use disorders who come into contact with the criminal justice system So this bill is well-meaning it provides safe spaces for people to be able to bring Drugs and be able to get help but it mandates it in a way that is contrary to the way that we are doing it with Our angel and network today this also creates an unfunded mandate And so even though we appreciate what they're trying to do with this bill and staff is working with the Bill sponsors they the wording has not yet changed and so at this point the staff recommends that city council opposes house bill 20-10 17 House bill 20-11 96 concerning updates to the laws governing mobile home parks So this bill defines new terms for the purpose of the mobile home park And the dispute resolution basically it strengthens the rights of residents in mobile home parks and because this is important this Issue of housing and their rights are important to the city council staff recommends the city council supports 1196 House bill 20-20 12-01 is another mobile home park bill and basically provides the Homeowners in a mobile park the opportunity to purchase the park under specified circumstances It lays out when notice needs to be given to those residents and how that might be conducted Again, this strengthens the rights of the mobile home park owners And so city staff Recommends that city council supports 12-01. I should note that both 12-01 and 11-96 are up in committee tomorrow So if the if the council does decide that they would like to support these bills I have some contact information with Boulder County if you're interested in going down and being part of the Conversation and the bill and you know signing peace so Both committee the last one house bill 20-12 94 concerning replacing the term illegal alien with undocumented immigrant As it relates to public contracts for services This does exactly what you have already done and removes the requirement for a legal alien Certification but instead replaces it with undocumented Immigrants of course we would rather have a full repeal, but this is way better than nothing So we would suggest that you support house bill 20-12 94 This is a study session So I might remind the council that if you'd like to take positions on these bills Your first motion needs to be to suspend the rules of procedure to do so and then to take your positions Councilmember Martin Councilmember Martin. Oh, I move to suspend the rules And then I move that the count. Okay. Well, we'll take we'll take that vote for I was just looking to see if anybody had any objections We'll take the vote any The vote on the motion all in favor say aye All opposed The motion carries unanimously six to zero And then I move that we the council accept Miss Cedars recommendations as written Second for all four. Yeah, thank you any debate Seeing no debate all in favor say aye aye all opposed the motion carries six to zero with mayor Bagley absent I move adjournment All in favor all opposed we adjourned