 with liberty and justice to all. At this time we'll now move on to motions direct the city manager to add agenda items to future agendas. Do we have anybody? Okay, public invited to be heard. We'll take a couple minute break here to allow people to call in. The screen will be put up with the number. I believe we have two guests. The Chamber supports City Council submitting to voters this fall an amendment to the Home Rule Charter to allow for the lease of city property up to 30 years. The Chamber is interested in furthering conversations on this and is happy to help with communications on this important tool for future city projects. Thank you. Calling in to voice my support for Longmont Public Media, of which I'm a member. I don't personally view myself as creative in the way that people who are into making podcasts and videos are, but I'm interested in lots of community-focused things like local politics and community organizations. What I love about Longmont Public Media is that it takes the mission of public access seriously. Next up we have special reports and presentations, so I think I'll throw this over to Harold. This is what's happening on a daily basis in terms of the number of cases. Again, this is by state. That really we're moving through cumulative numbers and at this point we're really watching what's happening on a day-by-day basis. This is again the movement that we've seen in the number of deaths related to COVID-19. Again, an important slide. I'm going to show you this in Boulder County when again you look at where the number of cases are in terms of the state and you can see that it's in a 20 to 29 year old group where it's over 8,000 cases. And then you're starting to see that they've had 11 deaths, 368 hospitalized in terms of this age demographic. And then if you remember what this looked like the other day, there's been looks like some growth in this category as well from a 10 to 19. This is the PCR percentage on a weekly basis and you can see that when they look at it from on a weekly basis it's somewhere around 4%. This is the five-day rolling average on the percentage of COVID-19 PCR tests with positive results. So you can see that you know, we've stayed below that 4% as Boulder County. Saw that peak where we got close and then we moved and then you see a rise. When you looked at the state numbers it was sort of this general trend that moved like this. In case of Boulder County you see a high peak in the age groups of 20 to 29 drops and 30 to 39 goes up and then you can see the move back. And so we look different in Boulder County in terms of where those cases are coming from. And you're really seeing the growth in this area based on what that charts look like. As a system you can see that we're still tending to move in the green. When you look at the state numbers it's very similar to that. Kind of wanted to touch on a couple of points. So many of the questions that you all talked about came up. We closed the west side of the Civic Center today based on the very issue that you talked about in terms of testing. So the finance side in that area, we had to make the decision to close it and go through our protocols. It's not the first time we've had to do it. It won't be the last time we've had to do it. But we just went through and followed our processes in terms of how we needed to approach it. And I was actually going to bring it up to answer many of the questions you asked. So thanks for doing that. So when we look at Safer at Home and we look at Protector and Neighbor, the governor has delayed the consideration of any request to move into the Protector and Neighbor phase. Which for a couple of weeks, which we know that's now going to put us into the month of August, we know the case growth numbers that we have to look at in all the parameters. And so we know the month of August is probably highly unlikely based on what we're seeing that we'll move into Protector and Neighbor, which means we're still in Safer at Home. And so at this point, at least as I've talked about it with my staff, we really think we probably would be best in August to stay in this Zoom environment based on everything that we're seeing and what we're doing. So that would be my recommendation. I just wanted to get council's feedback on that or answer any questions I could on it. Councilmember Peck? Thank you Mayor Prottam. I agree that we should stay virtual and I have to hand it to Susan and your staff that I think we've got a pretty good handle on how to work this now. And I think it would be the wrong message if we're at a safe at home, stay at home through the governor, but we don't do that. So I'm all for doing the virtual until the governor lifts that protocol. After much ado, I would like to introduce Scott Converse from Longmont Public Media. Scott, go ahead. Hi guys, can you hear me okay? All right. General Manager, Longmont Public Media. And what we're going to do tonight is a six month update on where we're at with Longmont Public Media and where we're headed. So these are some numbers. We started from zero. As you know, the LongmontChannel.org was the old contract holders website that they'd run for 20 years and they would not forward that to us or give us any access to it whatsoever. By what we can tell it's effectively shut down, which is a shame because people knew it was there. So we started from zero with LongmontPublicMedia.org. We broadcast 24 hours a day, seven days a week on Channel 888, as well as on our website, as well as on YouTube, and as well as on what's called T-Vision, T-Mobile's Comcast competitor. So we actually send it out to four channels 24-7 currently. We do, as we've talked about, do separate live streams, like to YouTube and to Facebook, things like the summer concert series, a bunch of other stuff in the works. So challenges and risks. As you know, COVID-19 has kind of stopped everything in its tracks. Maker spaces are and co-working spaces have pretty much had their business model ripped out from under them. People don't want to congregate in spaces. So I'll give you an example. Tinker Mill had 800 members at one point. It's down to about 600 now. That's not all COVID related, but a big chunk of it was COVID related that has since leveled out and is starting to climb back up again, but it really was a hit. And we'd never had that luxury of having a large user base in place already. We started at zero and we had just started to take off from COVID hit and it just knocked us dead. We have less community content than we planned on because we don't have a maker space. The maker space, the plan was to have the maker space and all those people with all their great ideas and all of their energy and enthusiasm to create these shows isn't there. So we haven't been able to make as many long specific Longmont focused shows as we would like to. We will again, but right now it's really hard to do without the maker space, without the members in the community, in the space. I mean it's just an amazing amount of variety that you have done and added to this city. And I'm very grateful to you because this modernization is exactly what we needed and much as I'm fond of the cable guys, and I am, they're nice guys, but we really needed to take a fresh look at everything. Sandy, I was just wondering this would be stuff that would generally come up when the contract is up for renewal, is that correct? Actually Mayor Pro Tem, I believe that Scott is asking for that advisory board member anytime, not necessarily as part of the contract. And we are not planning to bring you back that decision about the contract tonight. Tonight was really a presentation from Scott. I did send you all survey results from our public engagement that Council Member Peck asked for when we did sign the contract and so our intention is to bring it back in a month or so. But if you had some specific direction you'd like for us to pursue tonight that would be that would be great to hear otherwise we'll work with Lamont Public Media and bring you back a contract later in the year. Item 6B, Sales and Use Tax Simplification Code Changes. Alright Mayor Pro Tem, I'm Jim Golden and the City's Chief Financial Officer and I'll be making this presentation tonight but I'm also had a couple of staff members who will also be here to help assist our answer questions. Richard East is our Sales Tax Administrator and Jamie Roth is the Assistant City Attorney for the City and they've been working hands on on this project. So a few years ago the state decided to put together a task force to address the sales tax simplification to move the state of Colorado towards a position to make it easier for businesses to do business with cities in Colorado. So this task force did work and put together some standardized definitions and Lamont was involved in that and we did implement those standardized definitions about three years ago. So part of what we're bringing forward in a couple of weeks are amendments to the code that will address our licensing requirements. So we currently are we require any business doing any business doing business in the city of Lamont to have the retail sales tax license. So we have contractors who have been required to file an application for a license with us and they do most of their business their building contractors and so when the only sales tax collections or payments if they make they are making when they are pulling building permits. So they're really not remitting any sales tax to us in our sales tax system. They're also licensed elsewhere under the code as contractors excuse me. So what we're proposing to do is to exempt them from the business license requirement because part of the cost for our new software system is driven based on the number of licenses we have in tax from this that will probably generate more sales tax and certainly from a staff efficiency perspective we believe once we get this new system in place it's going to help us with our processing of returns. Certainly going to help the tax filers as well and they'll be able to easily make electronic payments and file their returns online. And so I believe that we'll be now moving on to item 6c the discussion to resubmit the ballot item concerning 30 year leases as a charter amendment for the november 3rd 2020 ballot. Essentially what we did is we just took the item that we presented to you all during last year when you put this forward so you could start the discussion and advise staff in terms of what you would like us to do with this item in the future. You know I will support it if I think it needs to be on the ballot people need to vote for it one way or the other. I don't think it's wise for us to put it on the next ballot but you know if that's what everybody else thinks then I will support that. We're going to have a recovery to manage and we're going to need partners in that recovery and like other cities who engage in public-private partnerships which really weren't a thing in the 1960s as far as I can tell. We're going to need those 30 year leases and I think that we are able we need to be able to communicate to the public that this is important to the recovery this is important to the quality of life in Longmont in enriching the city and and attracting people who are willing to invest in the city. Our private investors need a 30-year mortgage too they need a 30-year lease to get it done. Councilmember Waters. Thanks Mayor Frutian. Yeah I don't think among the council there's it would be disagreement about the value of changing the charter because we agreed to put it on the ballot for for the very reasons that councilmember Waters described and I want to I think councilmember Christiansen's concerns I share about how how soon you would go back to the ballot and not having it appear as though we're going to keep coming back you know over and over again. I do remember that Nexlite failed the first time and came back successfully subsequently and was one of the great decisions that this community made to support the creation of our own bandwidth and as a utility. So I think even with minimal organization behind it it's a no-brainer to help the community understand the value doesn't cost anybody anything positions Longmont to compete at least equally with municipalities around us that have already done this to attract investment to Longmont so I hope that we would as a council give our community a chance to support it get behind it and give us a chance to put us in the same kind of competitive position that we see other Boulder County municipalities. Councilmember Beck. Thank you Mayor Frutian. I also agree we we already voted unanimously to put this on the ballot before so I don't think there's going to be any real discussion about should we or should we not put it on the ballot Okay just from my perspective I guess I do share the same concerns as far as putting something back on the ballot so quickly after it lost real quick question I don't know if anybody has the numbers but what was the spread on the votes for when it lost? 16,000 votes against versus 13,000 votes for so it was really pretty close only a margin of 3,000 votes with no messaging whatsoever. Thanks councilmember Martin that's 45.47 percent for and 54.53 percent against. Do you have the direction from council to then bring that back to you all place it on the ballot yep. Yep I definitely see the head nods all right councilmember Beck. I feel like I've talked a lot tonight but thank you Mayor Frutian and so I didn't know at what point in the agenda to bring this up because there really wasn't any I asked Don to Don Quintana to forward to you a an email that I got with a petition from 350.org Colorado and basically it is from about 50 30 individuals and 20 some organizations that would like us to sign on these organizations these 30 organizations are not coming to elected officials and city council and commissioners to see if we will sign on a petition to ban fracking in Boulder County and the reason I think this has come up is because Erie is being overrun with with all kinds of gas and oil sites that are just outrageously large and if you don't want to do it as a council I will do it individually so that's what I would like to know this is this has to be done by Thursday which is why I'm bringing it up very late here according to council rules of procedure the city should not be taking a final position or official action at study sessions I would recommend that you suspend the rules of procedure and if it's representing the city I I do think a motion and vote would be needed okay I move to suspend the rules of procedure so as to be able to make a motion on this second back okay thank you we have a a motion on the floor by council member peck to suspend the rules of procedure in a second but I think council member you don't go faring I heard a couple then the people and the organizations uh about which council member peck is referring you know to cooperating with one another not one of them uh approached us to ask how did we feel about being sued to enforce what the court had already told us we couldn't force and to spend more tax dollars I mean I don't want to get too wrapped up in it but I I still honestly have a little bit of an edge on about being sued by our friends to cover the cost for other people who would like to see tracking bans imposed in vulgar county um so that doesn't feel like in the spirit of of cooperating with one another that's the way it should be approached but that's the way it was approached and now on short notice the question is would you sign a petition to do exactly what people didn't do for us so um I have an issue with that but I'm I'm more concerned about the legal status as defendants in a lawsuit in which we've chosen to take a written position um so I guess seeing no other discussion on the motion on the table all those in favor of suspending rules of procedure to allow for a motion in vote during a study session say aye aye all opposed say nay the motion passes five to one with councilmember waters dissenting and mayor bagley absent councilmember peck okay I moved that as a uh as a council we sign on to the 350 350 dot org colorado petition to ban fracking in vulgar county second uh motion by councilmember peck to sign on to the petition as referenced to ban fracking in vulgar county or be in support of banning fracking in vulgar county in a second by councilmember christensen councilmember martin I have a number of concerns the the first one is I'm hesitant to vote for anything I haven't read and I don't think that even if we took a moment for us to all read what's in our mailboxes now um game under the pressure I'm not sure I would consider that a a thorough reading at least not the way my my mind so I will not be voting to endorse this motion as a body sometimes think longer than things take longer than uh we thought and so maybe there will be an opportunity for us to do that when we're prepared to do it but I'm not going to vote for it tonight vote all those in favor of signing out as a body to the 350 dot org petition to ban fracking in vulgar county say aye aye all those opposed say nay nay motion passes four to two with councilmember's water councilmember martin dissenting with count with mayor bagley absent all right I move adjournment second all in favor of adjournments say aye aye all opposed motion passes unanimously we are adjourned thank you everybody