 And a motion to approve the minutes of August 25th, 2020. Council Member Peck. No moved. Second. All right, it's been moved and seconded. Assuming there's no further debate, all in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. All opposed, say nay. All right, the motion passes unanimously. Any agenda revision, submission of documents or motions direct the city manager to add agenda items to future agendas. Council Member Peck. Thank you, Mayor Bagley. Actually, it's a question and if it's, there may not be a motion. So at a previous meeting, Harold, we directed staff to put on a future agenda, the amended air quality contract. And I'm wondering if that has been assigned to an agenda yet. I know we were working on the amendment and we'll be working on that. I know we were working on the amendment and we're looking at either the second meeting in September or first meeting in October. This is the number of Boulder County residents newly reporting as tested positive as of September 8th. And part of the reason why I wanted to show you this is that we have two fairly significant. Well, not fairly significant spikes related to the number of cases in Boulder County. This is an interesting chart. I mean, so again, what you're seeing is that growth in the 20 to 29 year old category. The good news that we're starting to see is if you look at this, all of them tend to be in green. The ICU beds is still in yellow. I remember the available med surge beds. And again, this is related to elected procedures and that have been going on and things beyond COVID and we had been a little further in the red were right on the line. Earlier today before the change in numbers it was actually in the in the yellow. I do assume those spikes that we see that we attribute to the university because it's in Boulder County would would be a factor in keeping or preventing the count of the county from from qualifying among or meeting the seven standards. That's one of the conversations that I want to have with have with the county health department is to understand that because what's different about this is because of the testing is a bit of a nexus in terms of then they're testing, I guess, dormitories and other areas. So the difference in this is it's not like they're just seeing widespread in the community and so they are understanding where it's coming from. So what I was like, it's okay. So, as we watch this nationwide and look at this fight, a lot of them nationally are coming from universities in the opening of colleges. I also heard the discussion that sending these grat these students home is also going to add to a problem that they are carrying this back. So my question is, has the university or the county thought about doing a quarantine dorm. So I have every Wednesday I have a conversation with the other managers within Boulder County and James on that conversation. So that was going to be one of my questions. You know, multiple schools are doing different things. Exactly. Some are canceling some are quarantining and one of my amazing teammates just said see you does have dorms set up for quarantine. And isolation. So, Marika just so you all know Marika is the one that just sent me this Marika is on the just team. And so she's interacting with with them on a much regular regular basis. Councilor Christensen. I would like to point out that see you also has its own hospital where I spent my winter break one year. So they are well equipped to take care of it. I hope they do a good job. Let's go ahead and move on to first call public invited to be heard. Let's go ahead and take. And thanks for your time tonight. I'm calling to ask council to reconsider their recent motion vote on short term rentals. Specifically, the one that eliminates the ability for Longmont residents to rent out one investment property. In 2018 I came before the council twice to plead my case regarding owning a second home and being able to rent on a short term basis. As soon as your ruling became law, we immediately went to the city. We paid and were issued the third str permit and then applied and were granted a sales tax license. Since then we have paid the city over $3,500 in sales and lodging taxes. And it was coming to my attention that you would like to revisit this ruling and a possible make amends to it potentially eliminating the opportunity. The second home by a resident for short term rental income. I'm calling in to speak to item nine C updating the development code to include protections of riparian area areas habitat and species. Two years ago, council approved the first set of major updates to Longmont's LDC in 17 years. At that time, council directed staff to include several riparian protection amendments and to develop a sustainability evaluation tool. As a result, this section of the updates was delayed. The wildlife management plan was completed last fall and hasn't formed the LDC. This ordinance is ready to go and will help protect riparian areas, wetlands, streams, creeks, open space and the wildlife that depends on all these. Desperately needed our resources for education, advocacy and enforcement to protect these places now. Several of us spoke to you in person at the council meeting in February on the dangers of microwave radiation, the same radiation that smart meters emanate 24 seven. At that time, to my recall, we brought each of you a copy of a white paper from 2012, authored by Dr Timothy shackley in collaboration with the National Institute for Science, Law and Public Policy called getting smarter about the smart grid. In fact, he is uniquely qualified to have formulated this exceptional and game changing critical analysis, getting smarter about the smart grid. I'm calling into voice or concerns on the amount of traffic and unsafe speed of traffic coming to our neighborhood on South Kauffman Street. We have gotten accustomed accustomed to the slight increase in traffic. The project was developed, but now it has become like a speedway to our neighbor neighborhood, because it is wide and it is downhill with the light and the collector street designation. It has become unsafe. And I have actually experienced where we have motion motion with our hands to slow drivers down because of the kids in the neighborhood and drivers have actually sped up. As residents of sophomore park are asking that there is some consideration and how our neighborhood and our lives are now being impacted. Mayor Bagley and council members, I hope you got a chance to read my comments I sent you about the updated riparian code and the 2021 budget. Please implement my recommendations and address specific issues I brought up in my comments. I would also like to reiterate the importance of filling the environmental sustainability planner position. Please hire the environmental planner as soon as possible and approve the position for 2021. And finally, Longmont needs more park rangers. Let's not go through another year where we have to where we don't have enough rangers to protect the city's natural resources and to handle the large influx of people into our parks greenways and open space. Thank you so much. Bye. As I'm starting the application process for my short term rental I was appalled to learn that this council is considering taking away the rights of property owners by limiting and preventing short term rentals. This so called policy consideration seems like such a knee jerk poorly thought out whimsical reaction that I can't believe it's even being given the time of day. We were having a hard time to find our Airbnb to spend the time in Colorado so we found a beautiful place in Longmont, beautiful house. And that gave us the opportunity for my family and I to get to know the area we fall in love with Longmont. I gotta say that you guys have a great community. And this is the main reason of my call. So just to let you know the important important how important is for us as a family is that you guys provide this kind of service. There is no way that living in a hotel will enjoy as much as we did in an Airbnb. I would like to pull nine C for discussion and nine H just for a comment. All right. Can we have a motion. I'm going to actually move the consent agenda less C and H. Second. All right it's been moved and seconded all in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed say nay. All right. The motion cast passes unanimously. All right, let's go ahead with item 10 a ordinance 2020-34 a bill for an ordinance many section 4.16.010 of the Longmont Municipal Code and allowable investments. Are there any questions from Council. Yeah, I I'm a little uncomfortable with that we are taking we are adding as good investments municipal bonds and mortgage backed securities which were two of the things that you know which under good circumstances would be fine. However, you know they have proven to be very both of them have proven to be very problematic in times of financial meltdowns. I'm pretty confident we are invested in triple a type investments when it comes to these securities that are mortgage backed through federal instrumentalities. As far as the municipal bonds go. Again, we would only be looking at the highly rated municipal bonds. We don't have those built into that investment policy that we have those limits on on how high those need to be graded. So we don't get into any junk type bonds or junk documents that that would be more of a high risk to the city. Okay, thanks Jim. We have a motion regarding ordinance 2020-34. I'll move. I guess not. We just when you put bring that screen up. I can't thank you. I'll move approval of ordinance 2020-34. It's been moved by Dr. Waters and seconded by Council member redog actually a dog a fairing was that you. Okay, seconded by Council member dog a fairing. So you know for the comment or discussion let's go ahead and vote. All in favor say aye. All right, ordinance 2020-34 passes unanimous. Can we have a motion. Council member Christensen. I move. Zero 2020 34 B. I think I think I okay I'll second that I'll read I'll take the motion as a motion to approve the amended council rules and procedures specifically rule 27 regarding boards. So item 10 B. Second. All right. Okay. It's been moved by Councilor Christensen. It's been seconded by Dr. Waters. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed say nay. All right. The motion carries unanimous. I would move resolution 2020-92. Second. All right. Council member Christensen made a motion was seconded by Council member Martin all in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed say nay. All right resolution 2020-92 passes unanimously. All right. Polly let's go ahead and address ordinance 2020-37. Plus ordinance 2020-37 as previously amended and was seconded by Councilor Martin on. Favor say aye. Aye Aye Aye, oppose say nay. All right, ordinance 2020-37 passes unanimously. Let's go ahead and move on to general business items public caring regarding long prior grounds marketplace business improvement gets. Long Fairgrounds Marketplace Business Improvement District, specifically ordinance 2020-38. It's a bill for an ordinance organizing the LFM Business Improvement District providing for an election of the board of directors of the district and approving the 2020-2021 operating plan and budget for the district, public hearing and second reading scheduled for September 22, 2020. The term extraordinary, that there's an extraordinary expense to do what has to be done. And I read in the enclosure about the infrastructure work that has to be done, the connector road, etc. But in this application, I raised the same question when we approved the Metro District, the only one we've approved. What's the standard or criteria for extraordinary expense? I could ask Carolyn White to weigh in as to her understanding of what would constitute some of the requirements of the operating plan because again they operate. So the question isn't whether you think it's extraordinary or not, it's whether you think it's met the criteria in the state statute and I can go through some of what those are if you would like or you could ask the applicant to explain what they met by extraordinary. That's not a legal criterion. Okay, I'll ask the applicant. I didn't use the term, I didn't go back and maybe it was a counter communication in their actual application. All right, do we have a motion pertaining to ordinance 2020-38? All right, I would move ordinance 2020-38. I'll second. All right, all in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed say nay. All right, the ordinance carries six to one with council member Christensen opposed. Jim, go ahead and start this movie. All right, mayor and faculty members of the council, Jim Golden, chief financial officer. So this is the first of our 2021 budget presentations this evening. Council, Joanne Zeus, chief human resources officer. I would like to take a few minutes tonight just to speak to you about employee compensation and our budget recommendations in light of the current labor market outlaw. So the data that you're looking at there for Colorado is July data. The data that you're looking at there for June is the counties. Compensation is no different in this environment. It is an uncertain environment. We do typically create compensation plans from projections. Those turnover, I wanted to give a little bit of information. Even though the market has a pretty high unemployment rate, we do have a relatively low turnover rate within the city. So this is our projection for retirement eligibility. It's a little bit small, but what it's showing is that we have over the next two years, we will have about 264 of our employees or about a quarter of our employees who are eligible to retire. Many of you have probably seen this slide before. This is our compensation philosophy. And so this is what we're working towards. And what we always say is that we want to provide prevailing market rates. So essentially for 2021 to start, we are not making any market adjustment for employees. We're just looking to keep those salary ranges where they are. We have made some space in the budget to move employees who are under their market salary towards that market salary. So if they're below that rate, they can move towards it. Just a little bit of notes in terms of the future compensation direction. What we're hoping is that as we have the ability that we will go ahead and start to move towards that pay target. I don't know that that's going to happen in the near future, but we do want to keep that on there as a goal. It's been something that has been a goal. The mayor and the mayor pro tem are both on the old hire pension boards. Those are defined benefit plans. And they have an annual actuarial review performed on them each year and talk about the general employees retirement plan. And it's also a defined benefit plan. The GERP plan has been has had a history traditionally of being fully funded. In 2016, the GERP board made a change to our funding policy to amortize the liability over a closed 30 year period. So it was previously over an open period which continued to revolve. So under a closed period, we have a target. We move towards that target to reach fully funded over that. So that period will be 26 years from January 1st, 2019. So another 25 years or so to go. So in the budget message, we, we've laid out all the detail on the history of the contributions to this plan and how it's grown over time. We are recommending that in this budget that the contribution, well, actually the actuarial recommendation here is that the contribution requirement is going from 13.9% to 14.2% of compensation. So the contributions for 2021 are proposed as 8.4% city and add that to the 5.4% employee. It's below the total required contribution of 14.2%. And so now the health benefit funds. So the council communication does have some information on it that is explaining how we budget for employee benefits each year for the health benefit fund. So in the 2021 proposed budget, our health benefits are based on negotiated cost with Kaiser 7.11% increase for 21. So the CIP, it's a planning document that shows all the infrastructure needs of the city over the next five years. So our 21 to 25 proposed CIP is a total of 200 and almost 244 million dollars over five years. Only the first year 2021 will actually be appropriated, although the council does act to adopt the whole CIP. The other thing this here is show on the amount of the funded CIP projects by year. So this is the breakdown of 2021, the first year of the CIP. And this is also by project category. I'm going to turn this next over to Jeff Friesner to pick it up from the next slide forward. First project is improvements at the Callahan house. If next project is the firehouse arts center facility improvements. As you're aware, this is a city owned facility on fourth that the firehouse arts center uses. The next project is the museum entry concrete replacement. The next project is replacement of the concrete at the Roosevelt pavilion. So you can see with the 2021 overview, it's approximately 11.2 million. So one of the activities is the electric system up the electric substation upgrades. I grouped these together because realistically, these are a trio of projects that work together. And they're very interval to part of our goal or this decade's goal of 100% renewable energy. And so advanced metering. So this is a multi year project council actually last year approved the rate changes to support this project. Another one that we have in there is electric vehicle charging stations. We have several charging stations available out there to the public. We recently completed one at the library. We have another one out at the museum and serving sort of the museum and the facilities out there and then also another one at the service center. Okay, I think it is my turn. So good evening Mayor Bagley and members of council Valerie Dodd the executive director of next slide. I have one slide and one slide only. So if someone will please jump to it. I'll skip through that and then I'm hoping to come back in the next few weeks so that I can provide a more thorough and broad overview of the operations. So I think there have been some questions. Good evening Mayor Bagley and members of council. My name is Cherise Montgomery and it's my pleasure to be joining you tonight as staff. We've got four bond projects underway. Phase one of the civic center rehabilitation project was the stabilization of the finance parking garage and that work is complete. The garage with recreation actually has five bond projects. First the U Creek golf course maintenance facility project. So I'm back on again. Carrie Sheehan senior project manager of facilities and maintenance services. I am working with assistant chief Scott Snyder on the two fire station replacements. So of the approximate $9.3 million in bond funds we've got $7.6 million allocated to the design build services. So wrapping up rest of the presentation we want to go over some public works and natural resources. We've broken them out into basically five main categories starting with drainage, parks and open space and trails, our sewer waste water transportation and water projects. We bring into the table about $63 million worth of capital improvement projects for next year. The first item real quick is just to go over kind of the drainage project summary. So shifting over to our parks, open space and trail projects. We have about $4 million programmed with not over nine projects. So one of the projects that we'll be working on actually currently working on with some design this year into construction next year is the next section of the St. Brain Greenway. Following under our asset management component in parks and natural resources is the park infrastructure rehabilitation replacement. We're focusing on Lumillar park next year. Shifting over to sewer about four and a half million under six projects. The key project I want to focus on tonight is our wastewater treatment plant Reg 85 improvements. So over at the sewer plant one of the challenges and across the board for a lot of our areas that are regulated by the state is when they impose new state regulations. So in our transportation we have some key projects that overlap into other areas. We're bringing about $16 million in next year. CRP 11 our transportation system management CIP covers a multitude of areas our safety multimodal and some minor capacity. We usually see an intersection improvement section. This is tied in with our quiet zone project as we're trying to get a crossing over BNSF railroad tracks. That brings us to railroad quiet zones. We have been working on design as per direction from city council. We were anticipating going to construction by the end of this year. That has gotten pushed into next year in major part because we did receive an FRA grant. So one of the projects that's tied pretty closely with our resilient saint for rain project is the boston avenue bridge over saint for rain TRP 118. We have been working on design with construction in 2021. So in closing out we want to go over some of the water projects which is probably the biggest investment we have $37 million next year. So underwater supply we are going to be working on our supply pipelines up around lions. So price park tank replacement original open water storage reservoirs in the black and white photo on the right. You can see real quick giving overview of the Nelson Flanders water treatment plan expansion. That is also funding proposed through the bond election design. We're doing a design build on it and it's currently designed as underway. All right let's move on to council comments. Anybody? That's awesome. Good. Here I move to adjourn. I'll second that. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? All right. Have a good night guys.