 Good evening, everyone. Thank you. We're a little late. We're waiting for a couple of legislators, but I think that we'll start without them, and they'll come. I would like everybody around the table to introduce themselves in case there's somebody in the, I guess I'd call you the audience. In case we don't know each other, so I'll start. I'm Joan Kettner, in long mode. Erin Rodriguez, city council. Chiquita Yabbaro, city council. Marcia Martin, city council. Shawn McCoy, city council. Valerie Dodd, next slide. Christina Tseko, director of human services. Becky Doyle, director of strategic integration, representing utilities today. Jamie Roth, deputy city attorney. Joni Marsh, assistant city manager for external services. And Sandy Cedar, assistant city manager for internal services. Susie Zalgo-Baring, city council. And Representative Karen McCormick, house district 11, which is the bulk of Longmont. Representative Jennifer Prenti, house district 19, which is the rest of Longmont. He's the pace. So we're waiting for Senator Hockes-Lewis and Kyle Carter. Senator Hockes-Lewis, assistant city manager. Which we don't get to say about Senator Hockes-Lewis. That is true. That's good. There's your land. I love it. Nice to see you. So we're going to start with, first of all, thank you, everybody who came to witness this. And if you have comments, there will be hopefully at the end of time for comments from you. So let's start with our agenda. Says we are going to have the 2023 legislative up initiatives from our representatives. So unfortunately, you're eating. I'm sorry about that. Don't talk to me. Would you like to start? What exactly do we want to hear? What I'm working on? Absolutely. It's easier for me to talk about what I'm working on versus what everybody else is working on. And I happen to be chair of the House Agricultural Water and Natural Resources Committee, which, as you can imagine, the scope of the things that come to us. We are focused on water, the future of water in our state, how we deal with a hotter, drier climate. We are engaged with the agricultural industry in our state, which is a big part in Boulder County that some of us are not aware of, and how we work with our other upper basin states in partnership with our lower basin states on the crisis of the Colorado River. So there's a lot of discussion happening in that space. I'm also working on some areas of potential innovation in the use of biochar, which is a carbon solid that is produced under high pressure and high temperature of biomass, particularly pine beetle kill, but it can be many other sorts of biomass. And its structure is closer to a diamond than it is to charcoal, but it looks like charcoal. So many of you may be familiar with biochar, many of you may not. But the excitement is to look at the possibility of the use of biochar and building that up as a new economic driver for our state, a new area of industry development. We have a few biochar producers in our state. One is just north of us here in Weld County. I recommend everybody go visit. It's called Biochar Now. But what we're looking at is the possibility of using biochar as a permanent carbon sink, permanently taking carbon out of the carbon cycle, which over the last century and a half, we put a lot more carbon in the carbon cycle that the natural cycle has been able to continue to remove. And so finding a way to permanently sink carbon in the plugging of abandoned oil and gas wells, which are happening throughout our state. And as they are exhausted, they need to be plugged. And currently, they're using different products that are concrete type products. But then there's a concrete plug at the top and the bottom. And then there's a spacer in between that typically is filled with a type of slurry that will have bentonite clay and other things in it. It just has to reduce pressure within that well to meet federal standards. So we are conducting or starting a study, directing a study to be done to find out if biochar has the capacity to be used in this area. It doesn't have the bio-mechanical properties and geochemical properties, the longevity, all the things that people waste, Marvin, they need to figure out. And so we're partnering with CSU to do that first part of the study. Pretty exciting. It did get a lot of national attention in the last couple of weeks, because we would be the first state in the nation to look at that possibility. And if it turns out that that's a real thing that has scientific backing, then the next step would be to take it out in the field to do a field pilot study, because you don't want to just do it without incremental steps. And then that field study would be under the Colorado Oil and Gas Commission to house that study, again, with guardrails there, to find out is this going to work in the field. And those abandoned wells will be chosen not in all one area because our geological makeup of Colorado is different so many other places we would want to. So that's one of the exciting things. It just got through the Energy and Environment Committee. And it's waiting for a price tag to be put on it. And then after that, of course, that's good appropriations. And then we decided if we have any discretionary money to spend this year on the budget, because you all know we have to balance the budget every year and some things get through and some things don't. I am on the water space. We are looking with the Department of Natural Resources and all the people in the water arena. That's all water users, water rights, ag, municipal, recreational users, conservation people. To as we all know in Colorado, our snow bank is our water reservoir. We cannot go to a large reservoir like Lake Mead or Lake Powell and say, hey, we need some more water. Turn on the spigot, like the lower basin states can do. We depend on Mother Nature. It gives us snow. And then we live within our means. Lower basin states have a checking account and a savings account. And they have been over drawing their checking account and over drawing their savings account and potentially looking at us. And we have been living within our means. And so we want to look at ways where we can actually potentially shore up a second snow bank in a way where we can restore rivers and streams. It's called stream restoration to back to their natural historic footprint, help these riparian areas that have been able to be a sponge for that melt-off and have it delivered slower into the system so that we have our backup and our storage in a, because most of our storage is natural storage. That's an exciting thing that's still being in the works and coming forward. And there's a lot more, but I think I'll stop there because there's a lot of people that need to talk, and then we can circle back. So thank you very much. So thank you. So good evening, everybody. My name is Jennifer Parenti. I represent Austin 19, which is we said it covers the eastern portion of Longlots, everything east of Pace, but then I have everything to the east and the south of you. So Erie, Frederick, Firestone, DeCono, unincorporated Boulder County to 95th Avenue. This is my first year in the legislature. I'm also on the Agriculture, Water, Natural Resources Committee. But it's the best committee. It is the best committee. With Representative Cormick, I'm also on the Transportation Housing and Local Government Committee, which I'm really excited about because housing is such an important issue for our district. And I'm also on the Joint Technology Committee. So I've got oversight over the major IT programs of the state. I'm a software engineer by trade, so I was excited to get that appointment. Things that we've been working on, a lot of my early part of the legislation was actually tied up in Joint Technology Committee. Looking at those information technology projects, making sure that we are really working hard to get broadband better deployed in our state to open up the possibility for municipalities, as Longlots has done, to tap into local broadband as a utility. There are lots of federal dollars coming down in that space that municipalities can tap into. And so I would really encourage you to look into that and where you have eligibility. That's going to be exciting to see over the next couple of years, but particularly for our rural areas, where we really need it, particularly on the reservations. Other things that I've been working on, like the rest of the legislature, very focused on housing, affordable housing. There are a number of bills going through the legislature in this space. I partnered on two bills that are sort of ancillary related to this area with other members of the legislature. I am working on an HOA and Metro District Task Force with a representative to tone this if it passes through both chambers. And the governor's office will establish a task force to meet later this year to look really deeply into HOAs, how they're working in our state, Metro Districts, how they're working in our state, and look for opportunities to ensure that we are, of course, creating a safe and friendly business climate, but also focusing on consumer protections. So some of those things that we're looking at are disclosure, notifications, conflicts of interest of board members, and making sure that ultimately when someone enters into a home contract, which is what we do when we buy our homes, that they really understand exactly what all of those mechanisms are before they sign the dotted line. I'm also very interested in ethical and accountable transparent government. So I've got a couple of bills I'm working on in that space. I am working on a bill with representatives of story from Jefferson County on getting our school districts and our special districts accountable under our ethical behavior loss in the state. By law, right now, they are supposed to follow the law, but there exists no enforcement body for them. It's kind of a loophole of how long the law was written. So we're going to try to bring special districts and school districts under the oversight of Colorado's independent ethics commission. So we're happy to do that. Just to give members of the public another opportunity if they feel like there's conflicts of interest or are there inappropriate behavior happening. I'm also really interested in public safety. We're going to be working on some bills in that space. I'm going to let Senator Hockus Lewis talk about her flagship bill in that area, but I'm very happy to be cosponsoring that with her. So I'm going to stop there and just leave it mostly to Q&A. But again, I'm very happy to be here and thank you for being concerned and engaged to this. Senator Hockus Lewis. Yes. Hi, everyone. I will stand also, I think, so everybody can hear me. Does this need to be recording or is it recording? OK. Do I need to come up this way then? Oh, there we go. OK, great. I'm in the dual vision then. Hi, everyone. Sonia Hockus Lewis. I live just south of Longmont, and I am your state senator. I represent Longmont, Erie, and Lafayette. It encompasses Eastern Boulder County, Western Wells County, and a little sliver of Broomfield, where not too many people live. I took the list that Sandy sent out of all the issues that you were interested in us talking about and what we were doing. And so I came up with a list of the bills that match that area, and it just so happens that I have many on that list. I think that may mean that I'm representing the city council in a way that you would like. But let me try to go over some of those. So your city council sent me a list of issues. Law enforcement reforms was one of the areas. We have several bills going on there. Probably the biggest one is motor vehicle theft at Senate Bill 97. That is a bill to increase the penalties if you steal a car. I think it's very important. Colorado leads the country in car thefts right now, so that we have put that as a very important bill. There is a DNA testing bill. There's bills around indecent exposure. So there are definitely some law enforcement reforms. I don't have anything in that area. I'm a pharmacist by training not a lawyer, so I leave some of those up to the lawyers in the Senate and in the House. The other area that you were interested in is housing. That is huge this year. I am the Senate chair of housing and local government. We have over 30 bills that we are going to be working on. And you heard a little bit about that. Affordable housing is probably in the top three issues for our session. I am working with the majority leader of the Senate on a land zoning bill. It has several sections to it. It's a very large bill. The entire section on ADUs is actually lifted from Longmont because Longmont leads the state in assessable dwelling units. Your policy is better than some of the policies that we've looked at from around the country. So we hope that we can take the best practices from Longmont and spread them to the rest of the state. There will be tenant rights issues. I am doing a bill that will allow someone before they're evicted. When they have the hearing, they'll be able to do it remotely. We know a lot of people can't just get up and leave their jobs during the day. So we are going to be making remote testimony accessible. There is a first right of refusal bill that I think that the city council would be very interested in. It's House Bill 1190. It's a good decision. That's the report. I really think that. Yes. Yes. For those that don't already know what that bill is, it allows a local municipality or a local governmental agency to have the first right on a property to purchase it for affordable housing. There are bills around looking at rent stabilization. There are bills around Louisville. There are 72 areas in the Marshall fire zone, 72 units, where the families have decided not to come back. They don't want to come back. And those blocks are sitting vacant in the middle of those subdivisions. So we are looking at, are there creative ways to do more multifamily, more affordable housing in those areas? I will keep going on preschool. That was one of the areas that you had listed. Because free preschool started now in January, there's probably not too many bills coming around preschool. This will be the first time in the history of Colorado that you have basically free preschool for kids to sign up. So the sign up will start in January, and I believe some of that has been extended. Climate change was one of the areas that you sent to me. Senate Bill 16 is a huge bill by Senator. Yes, there you go. Senator Chris Hansen, he already spoke on it, so I won't. I did not. Oh, OK. It's in my opinion, it's one of the most important bills that we're going to be looking at. It is stuff right now, right? In approach for Senate finance. Yeah, Senate finance. Yeah, that's right, Senate finance, and then approach. Maybe I should let you talk about, I'll keep going. That's OK. You're doing great. The reason why I think it's one of the most important bills is that Senator Hansen and Brett McCormick have divided climate change areas into various sections that we can tackle. And I think that that was a sort of approach to doing it. And I think I will let you do the guts of it. But do you want to do it now? Yeah, well, I'll add a little bit more. You know, of course, any bill, I'm just freezing. So I'm probably wrapped in my blanket. Any bill that starts in one house, one side, chamber, or the other, can change quite significantly before it actually gets over to our side or your side. And so this bill was constructed last year and did not get through in the last day of session for a variety of reasons, not because of the bill. And so it's basically the same bill as last year. And it does put interim targets that the Colorado Energy Office had set in their last greenhouse gas reduction roadmap. But in order to hit those larger 10-year targets, it puts interim targets in there. So we have better stepping stones, I guess, to get to where we're going and addresses the area of incentivizing small gas power engines like lawn mowers for retailers to be able to have a tax credit applied to their back to them if they sell a product to an individual. That individual will get the discount. The owner of the shop will get the tax credit. And so they projected that will say those small engines actually produce quite a bit of some of the gases that we don't want in the air and the electric forms are coming out more and more, and often the price is a lot less. So we're trying to just drive that in a market-based approach to get people to transition to those. It also has some guidelines for our public employees retirement fund to be doing what many funds across the nation are doing, looking at the name of the national insurance kind of action where a lot of the study people are. But to look at the risk value of where you're putting your money, for instance, if you're buying a lot of seed beachside property, what is the long-term value of that beachside property? And what will it do to your portfolio? So that's kind of an extreme example. But to look at those sorts of things so that people's money that's getting invested really has the homework behind it to make sure their long-term investment is solid with the things that are changing those investments. I know I'm forgetting some things. There's a part in there that will help facilitate the energy, the electric lines that we have, the transmission lines to be able to utilize what we have in a way so when they get upgraded, they're upgraded in a way that we're able to be more resilient for our grid. So there's language in there for that. I think it has like 13 sections. So it's a good one to follow or to go read up on. It's Senate Bill 16. And I look forward to it coming over and see what's still in there when it gets over to the House. And that record brings up a really good point. The fiscal note on that bill, we don't have the revenue that we've had in the past. Last year, we had really hundreds of millions of dollars that we were able to put into homelessness, mental health, education, community safety, so many different areas. Health care, we don't have that money anymore. That was coming from federal dollars. So now, many bills are excellent ideas, but we don't know how we're going to find them yet. And so they're sitting waiting until we can figure that out. And Senate Bill 16 is one of those. There's other ones on climate crisis. I have one. It's an expansion to the SeaPace program. That is for Colorado commercial and industrial efficiencies program. So if you have a commercial building that is not very energy efficient, we can do a private public partnership to help get those efficiencies. So when they expand, we can help improve so that we're using less energy, more sustainable. It's a very successful program. It's in over 40 counties in this state. The most recent was El Paso County, where they did an improvement to the US Olympic training area. So we were able to do an expansion on that. And we have, oh gosh, forest fire detection ozone, looking at ozone flexibility. Local governments can identify their high peak ozone area. And we can do things around increasing public transportation. I have oil and gas bill. We have two oil and gas bills. One is the one that you heard Matt McCormick talk about with Biochar. Very important. The one I have is a property rights for mineral resources bill. Right now, if you, Boulder County has the mineral rights on a large open space, this will give them the flexibility to have more say so. Right now, they can be lumped in with a few other owners, and they will have no control over the mineral rights. So that's something that is going to be interviewed soon. You had asked about workers' comp. It's not a big issue. Possession. We do have a workers' comp expansion from 12 weeks to 36 weeks, if you're categorized in a certain mental impairment because of whatever the accident was. So that's the only one I could find on workers' comp. We have a huge bill around forest fire destruction and property insurance. Yeah, property insurance. Yes. And that is Senator Femberg and Rob Laveley. Recycling, we have a couple of really interesting bills coming out. We have Senate Bill Biddy, which is around things that should be more labeled better so that they're not thrown in the right place. I'm working on a composting bill. We just learned this week that the largest composting company in Colorado is now going to refuse many of the items in composting. And Senator Cutter and myself have put in a late bill request to try to address that, to stop that from happening, try to give them some of the resources, some things we can do. We don't know if we're going to get that request. But it set the shockwaves across the Senate and the House because so many people are composting now and we need to encourage them. HOAs, one of our favorite topics at the Capitol, you asked about HOAs. I happen to have an HOA bill that Director Cormac is helping me with. We think it's a very smart HOA bill because it's around saving water. If you live in an HOA and you want to pull up your front yard and change that to more zero scape plants, this will give you the flexibility to do that. We've had bills in the past that allow for some of that. But what's happening is designs and HOA requirements are a little bit complex in getting in the way. And we think we have found an excellent way to streamline. We've met a lot of stakeholders in the HOA association. It is happy with where we have the bill. We believe we're going to save a lot of water with this because a lot of the grasses that people have planted use up a lot of water. So we're doing great on that. You didn't ask about health care. And as a pharmacist, I think it's pretty high up there. So we have some very impressive bills. The first one is set up bill 93. It's about medical debt. So if you are getting ready to have a procedure, an elective surgery, or you're in an emergency, you're in a car accident, or you've been diagnosed with cancer, those are just absolutely, it's the largest bankruptcy reason in the state of Colorado is medical debt. What this bill does is if you will get instantly, or if it's an emergency situation, your family member will get an estimated cost of what your treatment is going to be. And that helps you plan for it. It lets you know what your costs are going to be. And if you're a self-pay person, meaning you don't have insurance through either the Colorado Exchange or through your employer, they have to give even more details, because you're going to be on foot for that money. And in Colorado, it can be thousands and thousands of dollars. If you know anyone as a pharmacist, I know unfortunately way too many people that have been diagnosed with cancer. And they are, many people have had to sell their homes to afford the treatment to survive that kind of diagnosis. Now, what we've designed is if you go in to medical debt and you're getting debt collectors coming to you, there's a new standard of conduct so that you are not harassed so much with the phone calls. There is a new procedure on what you will be given, the information that you will be given, because it's very confusing. You can have a doctor, you can have a radiologist, you can have a surgeon. You can have so many different bills coming at you. And we're capping the medical debt interest rate at 3% so that you can actually make a plan to pay back the money for the services that you are going to receive. We feel like this is huge for allowing people to hang on to their homes. So it's a very, very big bill. We have, the only people that are really opposed to it are the debt collectors. We'll see, we'll see if we can overcome those hurdles. Prescription drugs still are out of control. Prescription drug prices, America pays the most of any country in the world for prescription drugs. So we are expanding. Colorado did a very historic thing two years ago and I'm proud to say I was the lead legislator on that. We now have an affordability review board that will look at the affordability of the price of that drug and see if we can afford it. And if we can't afford it, then we issue an upper payment limit. Now, you can imagine the pharmaceutical manufacturers were not happy with that bill. We are, again, first in the country to do this. So they got some amendments on it to limit us to 12 drugs. So this year, we are going to lift that limit. And we are going to try to get control of some of the cost of these drugs by putting affordability, upper payment limits on them. The last one I'll talk about is very big. It's a mental health bill. I'm lucky to be working on it with Senator Marchman, who is the newly elected senator for Boulder County and Marlin. And this bill does a cost-percent dime. She has identified as a teacher that there are mental health therapists that are licensed in Colorado by Dora, but they're not allowed to practice in the schools because they don't have a piece of paper from the Department of Education. And this allows them to register very quickly to be able to be qualified to go into the schools. And we anticipate that we will be able to get more mental health therapists for kids in prices as quick as we can. And it's not going to cost a state of time. So I think Senator Marchman, for coming up with this idea, and I'm glad to be on it. And I could probably go on and on about health care. So I'm going to stop. But I'm happy to, I don't know what the format is, but I'm happy to take questions. I think that's the last one. Yeah. I was going to say your list. I'm like, oh, I can do pesticide. Oh, you can do pesticide. We can do pesticide. And also just to follow up on health care, I'm also on the Health and Insurance Committee in the House. And there was a really interesting bill that went through this week, which I learned something about. And it's about a pharmacy dispensing machine. You think, what? That sounds really not good. But there are nationwide other states are utilizing these in conjunction. And I know, Senator Hawkins, this is a pharmacist with a live pharmacist for people to be able to get their prescriptions when the actual pharmacy is closed. But perhaps the store is still open, where they're incredibly secure. Like they're more secure than ATMs, apparently, these things. And then you have to, there's a 24-hour pharmacist available online. They're the whole company that does that. What was so fascinating was learning about the bill and its ability for people to get their medications on a Saturday or at 6.15 when the pharmacy closes. Or at 3 o'clock in the morning when you just look at the ER. Things like that. And so we're sitting there as a committee. The first step is you get the bill presented. Well, of course, you have it ahead of time to read and to ask questions. But there were no people testifying for or against this bill. I thought, this is really fascinating that it's apparently that bland idea that nobody showed up. There was discussion on the House floor. But that got unanimous support in our bipartisan committee. I'll be heading over to the Senate. Fascinating idea, very innovative and exciting. And again, increases access to care, which is what we're all trying to do. Pesticides is on this list, which is fascinating. I spent an hour and a half on a Zoom call this afternoon. And I also spent a whole entire day last summer and I called the pesticide tour. I was on the pesticide tour. Because this year, the Pesticide Applicators Act is up for renewal, which under the Department of Regulatory Agencies, they reviewed professions every 10 or 11 years. Veterinary Practice Act was just done last year, which was very near and dear to my heart because I'm a veterinarian. And so this year, the Pesticide Applicators Act, which has to do with the licensing of being able to achieve your applicators act. So it really doesn't have to do with the pesticides themselves, but it's about the procedures that folks have to go through, the continuing education they have to do, the record keeping that they have to do to be an applicator. It's getting a lot of attention though because it has the word pesticides in it. But it's really a regulatory thing that has to be done. Otherwise, we will not have legal pesticide applicators. Believe me, we want them to be trained for public safety. And the utilization of these products in open space, in parks, I've heard a lot of great things about long run. By the way, I went out on that tour. For our nurseries, like if you go to the tree farm, we went there on the tour, as well as just your lawn, your lawn people, there was way more education and training that they have to go through than I even realized. So that is getting some discussion right now. It's in the Senate, and they're looking at some potential changes to that that have to do with people that might be on the sensitivity list, so that if you have a medical doctor's diagnosis of having a pesticide sensitivity, there's apparently there's only 90 people registered in our state that fall into that category. But if you're one of the 90, that's pretty important. So they're looking at ways for those people to potentially not only register where they live, so where they go to school, and where they work because it's that critical to their health. So that's being discussed, as well as the proximity to where that person may be is also up for review. So I don't know if that's what you want to know about pesticides, but it's kind of big in the discussion and the capital about the Applicators Act coming up for renewal, so. Great, you got that covered. Okay. So thank you to our representatives, the Senators. That was great. I do want to bring attention to the people at this table. I did, are they out in the, everybody got these? Everybody at the, all elected officials. Okay. Especially on the city website as well. Right, what this is is the city council statement on legislation affecting public safety. It's pretty lengthy, so I don't know if I'm going to read it right now, but it is on our website, under all of Colorado.gov, go to departments, go to the city council and city council members, and you'll find the statement. So I'm going to open it up right now to the officials and staff sitting around this table. So our officials can answer all these questions. Oh yeah? I'm sure it's smart questions. Okay. And Mayor, I should note for the city council that SNL 16 is being reviewed by 64CA right now, that's by the way you bring that to the city council. So if you haven't seen it yet, you can be like, why haven't we seen it? Like, we're doing it right now. It's been approved. Sorry. Yeah. That's the point, okay. The climate care. The big greenhouse gas reduction. Right. They're taking a look at it right now as we get some information back from them. That's the collaborative that we are part of around climate change. So I'll open it up to CalFlips. Do you have questions or comments for all representatives? Are we just understanding all of that whole life? I take what you're saying very seriously. You got out for a minute and we get to it. No, but I, well, yes. But next week we've been in planning for, we have to save bills. We got our plan back. That's why you got out early tonight. If you're staying out, next week's going to be very good. That's cool. Yeah. It'll be a good one. I'll have a question. Okay, great. Representative McCormick, you talked about water. So within our community, we are a growing community as most of the Cota County is. What would you say would be the number one issue with making sure that we have enough water for the amount of people coming in and moving into Cota County, especially into Longmont? Well, from what I know about Longmont's fantastic planning from the past is that Longmont had the foresight to project outgrowth to what 2050 or beyond and got all of the storage rides in place for quite a bit more growth. So good for Longmont, but we're the whole state. And I represent Longmont, but with us, we have the name on our name tag is state representative. So very proud of what Longmont has done for planning for future growth. But even the reservoirs that we depend upon if the Western slope water that comes our way over here to the Eastern slope that helps us all out is diminished, we still need to have the ability to plan for that future that does not fit the past projections. And we just came out statewide water plan, updated water plan just came out about three weeks ago, which has a tremendous amount, I would encourage everyone to get a copy of it. Maybe I'll bring you a copy of that. It's not very big that has many of the different innovative ideas, not just for storage, but for conservation, for efficiency projects. And that plan of course needs a tremendous amount of resources statewide to fund and to distribute to the counties and municipalities that kind of get on the list of needs of projects that needs to be done. So if Longmont has a list of water projects that have some kind of prioritization, it's important to kind of look at it. It already came out this year, but to look forward on, yeah, we have a water project that we want some funding for because the other important thing is to know that the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure and Jobs Act from the federal government has set aside quite a bit just for drought resiliency, contingency planning and storage, specifically for the western states because they see, if you look at a map of from the national weather folks, we are smack dab in the middle of the hottest, like right where we are in the western slope is like red orange of the entire nation. Like we are getting the hottest, the driest fastest. And so the water plan is a good place to look to see how can Longmont specifically look at some of those ideas and then move to get some of those matching dollars. And this could be, you know, five to 10 year plan, but the first water plan came out with Governor Hickenlooper in 2015 and has not been updated since until just now. And they spent over a year going statewide to communities and counties to get input from everybody on the updated water plan. So hopefully I answered your question, but I am proud of Longmont because Longmont, somehow years ago had the foresight to plan ahead and that was incredibly smart. So for those of you who want to look at that plan, you can go to cwcb.colorado.gov forward slash Colorado dash water dash and look at that water plan. But on a follow-up question that I am reducing, I read recently in the New York Times that there was a plan to control or take over the Colorado River water rights. And what has done with those? Is it the water rights? Does your plan, does that increase the water rights? The Colorado River, but not the rights. So the fight right now is the head of the CWCV, which is the Colorado Water Conservation Board, which is under the Department of Natural Resources, Becky Mitchell is our commissioner. And she is the watchdog, the bulldog, the fighter in the ring for our state with this whole discussion with the Bureau of Land Management and what the upper basin states, which are Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming, the lower basin states are Nevada, Arizona, and California. And a hundred years ago there was an arrangement, a compact made that the upper basin states will get 7.5 million acre feet a year to share and so did the lower basin states because California was growing faster than anybody else a hundred years ago, surprise, surprise. So what's happened is, as I said at the beginning, the lower basin states had that checking account and they had that savings account and they have continually year upon year upon year used more than their 7.5 million acre feet. Colorado and the upper basin states have never used our allocated 7.5 million acre feet. So for the, and so this little bit of a fight between the lower basin states and the upper basin states saying, you know, you've gotta help us now and we're saying we have lived within our means all of this time, we can show you how to do it but you all have to get your house in order and you all have to figure this out and it's not gonna be easy, it's not gonna be easy and so just the other day I went to another big water discussion and Becky Mitchell was there and so was somebody from the federal government and she was saying that we should maybe even be encouraging the federal government to send a lot of that, some of those resources to the lower basin states so they can fix the problem because we, we don't have any more to give. We're tapped out and we do need to protect our cities, our municipalities and our agricultural industry is pushing $45 billion a year. It's like one of the biggest economic drivers of our state and agriculture needs 80 to 85% of the water of our state so we have got to be compassionate but we've got to hang on to our water because we have given more than we, because we weren't using it so we let it go down the street. That's totally up to my perspective. But they are deep in the middle of it. I do understand. And just two weeks ago, so what did I say there were, there's seven states, six of the seven states came to an agreement. I guess it was not. California, yeah, so six of the seven states came to some kind of collaborative agreement to appease the Bureau of Land Management in California did not. So that's where we stand right now and yeah. Okay, great, thank you Todd. Great explanation. It's not a personal idea. That was actually the question that I was going to ask so I'll ask a remaining one, which is. So you're representing the criteria. I don't know, I don't know who's going to answer that question. But as part of all of these apportionment discussions it's my understanding that on the West Slope we have some reservations for Native Americans that have never had a voice in the water allocations. And so how are we doing in terms of the water we keep? Are we making progress on allocating that more fairly? I got it. So if you had listened to Opening Day at the state legislature, you would have heard for the very first time ever, the Ute Mountain Ute and the Southern Ute tribes leaders were invited to Opening Day at the General Assembly and they shouldn't need to be thankful but they were very grateful because they are and recently have been always included and will continue to be included in our state government in this huge water discussion. So it is incredibly collaborative and I'm not sure when it stopped but it is very much ongoing and involved and anything that we do, they're always a part of not just listening and being in the room but being part of the decision-making process because the water of our state does not belong to us. The use of the water belongs to us. It's a very critical difference. The water in our state by law has to be put to beneficial use and there are certain definitions for that. And so we don't own the water. People do own the right to use the water for certain uses and the tribal nations absolutely, the voice is just as equal as the rest of us in that discussion. And there's a large reservoir down in Southwest. They might just, it's a backwards reservoir and that's almost exclusively for their use. I think it does get used by Durango and a couple of others in municipalities but that's the whole point. That's their part of that conversation for sure. So any other questions or comments for anybody at this table? Well, I did, you know, I teach at a modern gas school in Louisville and so I have a lot of colleagues and students that, former students that lost their homes in the fire and then I heard an NPR story and that's why I brought this up about forest fire and insurance coverage and that really concerns me because, you know, there's also many people out here that have mental property and things like that and they've done all they can to mitigate and over my family, I have 200 trees on their property just to make sure that we were doing the right thing and put the barrel around just to make sure that we had it done right there. But when you start to hear that some of the insurance companies are thinking about pulling out, you know, that just, and we hear about it from the point of view of Florida and now we're all supposed to be, you know, the state's supposed to be the backstop now and I look at places like San Francisco where they have these huge, you know, skyscrapers that is really, they store the money and, you know, end to property because, and so in the end here, why is it that they get to continue to do normal course of business with doing cars and life insurance and everything else like that? But they can choose what they want, you know, and I think that's really got to stop. Do you mind if I, oh, I was just gonna tell, I was just gonna talk a little bit about these though. Is that what you're gonna do? Well, I want to first answer, you know, Charlotte's question about how, why are companies get to do that? So the exact same situation is going on with health insurance companies. That's why we've had to do our basically re-insurance plan that we did a couple of years ago. Health insurance companies were picking the counties that they wanted to insure Colorado's in and they would pick the ones where they could make the most money. And they were leaving these rural counties out of being covered. That's what the insurance home owners insurance companies are doing. And I don't know what it's gonna take other than, and Jennifer can go over part of Senator Fenberg's and Rebel Mobley's idea about helping homeowners. I will tell you that we put, because of martial fire, we put a lot of thought into more money and programs into mitigation of health property owners. I'm running Senate Bill 5, which I think is coming over to you. We have a desperate shortage of fire fighters. We have one of the weakest workforce numbers for fire fighters. And so Senator Cutter and myself are running Senate Bill 5 so that we can get folks trained, identify young people that are interested in going into this, get them the training quickly, establish programs in the South of the state and up here, Front Range Community College right here in Longmont has one of the best programs around fire fighting. And so how do we take that again, that best practice and spread it to other areas of the state? And then we of course have detection. We're putting money into detecting fires faster. And that I think is going to help a lot too. So we're kind of looking at this bigger and then of course what I talked about with Halsey is we've got to obviously do more for the folks that lost their homes. So just to let you know, two of the Boulder County Deload delegation, I didn't know about Senator Fenberg, but for sure representative Rebel is running a bill related to under insurance of homes and refusal to renew or cancel insurance, particularly kind of focused on those areas in the Rui as they say. You just learned that term. I just learned that term. That stands for Wildland Urban Interface. Yeah, so these homes that are on the edge of where we see a lot of wildfires. Or not. Or I'm not. Yeah. That is House Bill 23-1174. It is currently scheduled. We've heard this week in business affairs and labor. So I would encourage you to read it and comment on it if you support or want to. Yeah, this has a little bit to do with the water negotiations and a little bit to do with the climate crisis. And that is that our reservoirs are low. Not just needed power, but some of the ones higher up on the runoff, which puts our ability to generate hydroelectric power at risk. Is there anything going on that's gonna help with regulating discharge flow so that we can keep? Not a thing. Not that ever. That's the whole, because it's a holistic system. And so even the power generated at Lake powder counts to tri-state. And it's at, what is the number, 35.35. But it is at 35.30. Like it is so critical right now that, and even the fact that the water pressure that typically is above that is causing a 25% reduction in the ability for hydro power is not pushing hard enough. And so the things that are happening upstream, there are releases being made, the kind of emergency releases from, I talked about the checking account and the checking savings or the credit card up here. And so we're having to release certain amounts of water from our reservoirs to go downstream to protect Lake Powell. Because if that fails, we're all in a world of hurt. So, and we're very thankful and hopeful that the snowpack this year is giving us a little bump, but this is a long-term problem. They're not calling this a 20-year drought anymore. They're calling us in a period of drying and aridification. Like we're just getting hotter and drier. And so we cannot plan for drought and then wet years. We have to plan for the reality of what we're in. And so that is happening there. And that federal government, people are looking at this minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day, and turning faucets on where they can. And then one of the things I was gonna add to Karen's fantastic description about what's happening with water is it was the crisis of generating the energy that triggered the federal government to jump in and say, okay, that's it. We're not waiting for you to get these, to get together and come up with a plan anymore. And they actually said, if it gets to the, there's like a, there's color zoning. Yeah. Where the energy is. And if it gets to a certain level, they're just gonna, they're not, they're not gonna wait in California. They're not gonna wait for ours. They're just gonna step in and say, this is what is going to happen. Because we have to rely on this for our energy. Yeah. And so we're trying to say, we want to make, we do want local control decisions. And we want to be in charge of our decisions. We don't want federal government and BLM to come in and say, here's the plan, take it or leave it, but you have to take it. So that's why we were trying to get together with the other states and say, we've got to come up with a plan or we're not gonna like what we're told to do. And there won't be any negotiating. So we're still in that phase. Well, I'm glad that you're so well informed on it, at least. I've learned a lot. Yeah. Whether it's a general, simple, expert on how to water. I'm not, I'm not. Like it's two years, but it's like a bag. I mean, first grade of water, water, you know. I was in kindergarten last year, first grade, when you were running in CD4, where there is no water ever. Yeah, that's true. You started on water a lot then. I remember that. So, it's gonna work. It's fascinating. It really is fascinating. If I can say one more thing about knowledge and expertise, our Boulder County delegation is superb. You've got people that are stepping up and looking at water. You know, I do a lot for housing and health care. Jennifer is doing a lot for all kinds of air insurance effects and keeping kids safe at school. Just for editing, you've got the president of the Senate. We've got Judy Nobile working on mental health. I mean, it's just, it's an amazing, diverse delegation. And I feel really lucky that I'm part of a team that is representing Boulder County. Because we're, I don't know, I think we're all right. So, great. Thank you. All of you. I feel more secure. I know. I'm sorry. So, we are at the public might be heard or the public comment section. So, let's get started with that. And the first person we have pre-med is just like normal, normal council line. George Tristons, the first one on our list. And we don't have a microphone, George. So, we have speaker labs. Yeah. I can do that. I know you can. Where should I do that? Wherever you want. Any other side, then we can, you know, over on this side and then everybody can hear and see you. Sounds good. My name is George Tristan under the 1703 White Hell Drive. America was built on the backs of people who aspire to do great things. This nation, after all, is known the world over as a land of opportunity. Where anyone who sets forth to work hard, invest in their future, make difficult sacrifices and dream big, could one day realize the heralded American dream. Before COVID, there was hope in our country. Unemployment was at record lows for nearly every working age demographic. Wages were rising dramatically after decades of stagnation. Personal retirement investment plans were seeing dramatic gains and the key economic indicator referred to as the gross domestic product was steadily indicating that the sound fiscal policies of the free market were paying off in handsome dividends. Today, sadly, many people are experiencing real economic hardship. The current levels of credit card debt can be compared to the catastrophic 2008 housing collapse. Families are spending on average $8,500 more on everyday living experiences than prior to COVID. To understand the root cause, we can merely apply Economics 101. The Biden administration has mismanaged the bank account, writing checks that future generations will be burdened to reconcile. The generation of mass amounts of debt simply has had the natural effect of lowering the value of the dollar, undermining our purchasing power. The trillions of dollars that are being spent by this administration were propagandized to the American public as infrastructure projects around the guise of inflation reduction. However, the truth is that we have been sold a bill of goods. Most of the money allocated in these bills have gone towards the funding of political ideologies that are transforming life in America. The most mysterious of these dogmas is social justice, which has instituted judicial reforms that have resulted in increased crime in our communities. Equity-based legislation has purposely elevated segments of our population perceived as underrepresented or disadvantaged. Legislators like Representative McCormick have sponsored or supported bills underpinned by this woke ideology we call equity. Supporters believe that Americans who have achieved generational economic prosperity have done so due to privilege. That those who have achieved the American dream should feel shame for having achieved success. Essentially, meritocracy is being replaced with equity, meaning that reward is no longer earned through hard work and sacrifice, rather it is given to those who possess immutable characteristics rooted in their racial or gender identity. Is this the landscape we want to leave our children and grandchildren? Will we no longer pass on the sage advice of get a good education, make sacrifices, work hard, have respect for the law and you will achieve success? I suggest that victimization and identity politics are lowering the standard of living for the true dreamers who sadly someday may never dream again. Thank you, George. Thank you. You're a good man. Thank you. You're welcome. Let's do it. Law enforcement and children. Okay, great. Because that's one of the things that I stand up for in our communities and our nation. And there's something in our flag that has a statement, liberty and justice for all. And our children is standing under transgender transgender in the school systems. Not to judge transgender people because I can't do that because of what I work for. But I can't fight for what they're doing in the school systems by brainwashing the children. I have heard a story just last week in another statement where a six-year-old was raped by the transgender on a school bus. Where are we at? Where are the children hurt? Children need to be hurt. They have rights too. And we adults are fighting each other and not listening to children. Where are we at in this? Thank you. The other topic is about our police officers are out there fighting for their lives because you have dumb people out there not just breaking into cars. They got fentanyl and now we got the zombie drug out there. What are we gonna do about that in our communities? You know, our kids, the youth are being destroyed by all this because of the borders are open. What are we gonna do about Colorado? You know, these things are eating up our youth and I'm standing up for that. Nobody is listening to the young people at all. The adults are fighting each other pointing fingers at each other and not listening to the youth. Not listening to the young people at all. And all these crimes out there police officers can go out there and make an arrest and have to let that person go. Because why? Because that police officer went and touched the person trying to make an arrest and that person makes a complaint and they get released. So how are we gonna fight these laws? That's the question that I have in this community. So we don't usually answer or interact with public comment but we do have and I don't think that our public safety chief, Zach Artis, there is one statement that you made about people being arrested and being released. It isn't necessarily because they touched someone. It is. It is. Not always. I mean, I've seen it out there because that person calls out an officer. Racism when it's not racism. The person is calling out, oh, I can't breathe. In some cases, it is that. In other cases, it is not. Thank you so much for your comments. What's your name? Yes, you are. What's your name? Because you did say your name. Oh, very good, very good. Okay, thank you. It's good that I'm happy to talk to you after this. Yes. But our laws need to be changed. And Zach is definitely one to talk to. They need to be enforced and changed. Again, in Tuesday night. That's what I came to ask you. Oh, no. You made the right decision about where to get into politics. Good evening. This is my voice. I'm Antoinette Kemper. Observing the legislation being proposed and passed by our state government, it's clear the trend is to regulate more and more aspects of our daily life while stripping authority from our local governments. Take, for example, House Bill 23-1057, amenities for all genders in public buildings, which establishes requirements for non-gendered restaurants in public buildings, as you know. The bill cites international plumbing code, or IPC requirements, that prohibit single-stall restaurants from being designated for use by any specific gender, and direct multi-stall restaurants you provide it produced by any gender if certain IPC facility features are met. While there's a small percentage of the population who legitimately need single-stall non-gendered restaurants, the numbers do not justify prohibiting gender-specific single-stall restaurants. And I don't know anyone who would be comfortable using non-gendered multi-stall restaurants. But more importantly, I question why a plumbing code would address how bathrooms are gendered. In the case of non-gendered restaurants, the IPC isn't setting a plumbing standard, but a social standard. House Bill 23-1057 uses the terminology the IPC requires. But the IPC is a model code intended to be adopted and amended to reflect local practices and laws. These standards are a guide, not a requirement. Colorado is one of 37 states that adopted the IPC. The IPC is under the International Code Council, or ICC. The ICC is not a regulatory agency, and it has no regulatory authority. It's a nonprofit organization with corporate sponsors. The question is, why are we surrendering our authority to this unelected entity? Our city staff is perfectly capable of planning construction projects to meet the needs of long-run. And as we all know, every construction code has a price to have attached to it, which is paid by the people. According to the ICC website, the International Code and ICC standards are developed through a world trade organization compliant consensus-based process that is supported and embraced by the US government. The ICC's so-called family of solutions of which the IPC is part of support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as laid out in agenda 2030. So, our state and federal governments have aligned themselves with the globalists to the detriment of the people they serve. We do not consent. Thank you. Thank you, Internet. Well done. Well done. Well done. Well done. Well done. Mark Milliman. Who is this? Good to know. Hi, I'm Mark Milliman. I'm going to be speaking extemporaneously tonight and I was going to talk about our misguided and failed energy policy and how it's hurting the people of this community, driving investment away. I actually made an investment decision based upon some new legislation being proposed to move it out of state because it'll be unaffordable to do it here or to talk about why municipalities in the state should not be getting into the broadband business based on my 30-some-odd years experience. So instead, I'm going to be talking about the mental health crisis that you people have created for our children. I speak from the heart on this one that I personally experienced it. Our parental rights have been eroded continuously over the last sessions and the new HB23-1000-free, I believe, on the school mental health assistance assessments. If that bill was in place a couple of years ago, I would not have gotten it today because I would have been not, excuse me. Thank you, Mark. It's a little bit hard. Thank you, buddy. Because I'm exposing something in public. I've been keeping fairly private for quite a while, but I feel it must be said because our mental health system in this county and in places are broken. And I know all of the resources I've been deeply involved in this for the last three, four years of my life, okay? I was denied access to my daughter's health records and even denied access to her for a while. She was assaulted sexually and physically in mental health facilities in this county, Centennial Beach, okay? Dora does nothing about it. There's other facilities she's been assaulted by males that she was housed with and that were covered up and we could not prosecute in another jurisdiction because of these bills. As a parent, I took complete 100% control of my daughter's mental health because I found out that not only are these places that we supposedly trust are dangerous, they're incompetent as well. About a third of mental health professionals are harmful to children. The other third are incompetent. We have maybe a third that are decent at it, okay? And if our rights are continuously eroded through 1003 and other things that are coming up that we've just been told about tonight by a senator that could not increase us with her presence tonight. I know Rob would have been here, but that's not the story. What senator? Huh? What senator? Oh, sure. For SD15? I don't think she was invited. Oh, she was? Oh, I'm sorry. My apologies. Okay, sorry. Like I said, we as parents need to have the rights to access our children's medical records. We need to know what's happening at schools. I would have lost my daughter at a public school, okay? And wasn't for, at that point in time, I had to fight through the courts. She was under the control of other people as well as somebody who's potentially trafficking her and who was DoorDash for drugs in Boulder County. He only sold to children and he was allowed out on low bail and through the system. And fortunately, through the great work of our poorly underfunded Longmont Police Department, did an awesome job. And with the DA who stacked up up to 59 charges against this individual and has a $2 million cash bail on his head, as well as the other Coke conspirators, hopefully he will never see the light of day again. But we all know he's already been replaced, okay? So I know my time is probably about up here. So what I want to say is that you guys continue to take our rights away and make it more difficult for us to raise our children. These are our children, not yours, not the schools, not the state's ours. Thank you. Thank you, Mark. Steve Hall School. Her name? No, it's not her. It's David. Good evening. My name is Steve Alkshuler. I live at 1555 Taylor Drive. I want to quote from a bestseller book. It's been a bestseller for years and years. This might just ring a bell. Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man how to fish and he eats for a lifetime. Giving to the needy only enables them to do nothing. Making them work helps their self-esteem and it helps the whole community. A lot of the bills that I'm hearing you talk about tonight are just helping people that you think need help. You're not, you're enabling them. Kick them in the butt and tell them to start working for themselves. I spent 35 years working 60 hours a week. I live on Social Security and a little bit of income from a couple of rentals. And last couple of years during the COVID, the state was saying, oh, you don't have to pay your rent because of COVID. Well, I got lucky, my renters did pay me. If they hadn't, I could have lost my house. So where is all your care for the people that are working for a lifetime, rather than the people that are just trying to get by on freebies? I want to talk about landlord's rights. I have, I had a rental in Westminster and about three years ago, there was a lady that was not paying her rent. I told her she had to leave. So the day they left, she didn't fight me on leaving, but the day they left, they left the shower on. They put a towel in this strainer. So the shower overflowed. I had about $4,500 of damage in my unit. The lady downstairs had over $100,000. An 85 year old lady had to live in a hotel for six or eight weeks while the insurance company redid her entire unit. Stop thinking that renters are this poor, mishandled, abused people that landlords are mean. There's a lot of renters that are disgusting. I just had one person leave. He's been there for 14 years. It was fantastic. It's not always that way. In the same unit, I'm talking about a moment ago with the other lady. After I cleaned my unit all up, I had someone else move in there. This lady convinced me to let her son stay there who was a little bit mentally handicapped, but she convinced me that he was stable and responsible and working and she would be there every day to make sure things went well. The first thing he did was let six illegal Mexicans live in there with him through his work. And when I went through, he kicked them out. The police came and said, you can't do that. I said, it says on the lease, he's not allowed to have anybody else in here. And they said, that's a civil matter. Legally, you can't kick them out. So I had to take them to court. It took three or four months to get them out. They had written with ink on every wall. They had burnt wax into the carpeting. They tore some doors off the cabinetry. And that cost me $5,500 to live there. So my point is quit thinking that the needy people have to be supplemented, let them work and support people that are working and providing for our community. And by the way, when I sold that minute, I moved up to Rental County instead of Longmont because I didn't want to be in Socialist Boulder County with a rental property. Thank you. Mike Sandoval. Hello, Mike Sandoval. I'm a 242-East Mountain View. I've been a resident in Longmont for 46 years. I've had a property for 30 years. I've had a property tax for 30 years. I had a rental property. I rented it to a gay woman. She moved in. She was a manager at some of these restaurants, carry out restaurants. And then I think during COVID, she looked up at her girlfriend and then she relapsed. And then there was some, I have a writer on top. She was living in the basement. The writer on top had five kids, two autistic. One of them had feeding two. Anyway, their kids were complaining that they were having headaches and feeling nauseous. So they're calling cops. The cops went downstairs. They knocked on the door. The tenant didn't open the door. So the cops came back up and said, there's nothing we can do. They did that 30 times, okay? So eventually the mom, we got a warrant. The person got arrested. She had possession of three grams of meth. And basically she was the judge. Basically put her in jail for like three weeks and $300 bond. She was released during COVID. I cannot evict her. So she went back into the property and she had some other homeless people there. But when I did evict her, I tested the property and it was positive for meth. And I tested the basement. There was a person in the basement that was bringing air up to the upstairs. Support the basement and the upstairs were positive for meth. They had about 10 and upstairs the same with them and five kids. He had the codes that get rid of him. So I did. And he was kind of homeless. The city did find a place for him to live. But he was homeless. Basically I went through the testing part of it. And then I did the mitigation. I had followed the rules exactly. And it cost me like $53,000 out of my pocket. The tenant who was smoking, she basically just got her hand slot. She's probably in jail right now, but she pays nothing. I went to the insurance company and said, can you help me with rent? Can you help me mitigate this property? They canceled me. So basically it was all on me. So I'm gonna go through, there was a former mayor at San Jose. He said, jail should not punish people for just for using drugs. Lengthy incarceration won't help. Rather we must use the criminal justice system strategically to promote behavioral change for people who use drug use and threaten public safety. These people do have metahal. My tenant, her dad was an alcoholic. He died when she was young. Her mom was like 30 years old. Couldn't take care of her kid, gave up on her kids. So she, the tenant, I don't know, she went to a homeless people and she got hooked on drugs. So yes, she had mental health problems and I was trying to help her. So basically what I'm saying right now, the legal action is to help people using drugs. People who have residences, that's wrong here. I need a plan to protect the residential property of users. I'll say I'm back on a pharmacy too. Methamphetamine, amphetamine, it's close to amphetamine. It's Adderall. It helps narcolepsy, ADHD, and obesity. Meth, I think you just add carbon and three hydrogens to it. But it's more of a different chemical matter, okay? Amphetamine is prescribed to three to five year old kids and it does 2.5 milligrams to 40 milligrams today. My meth, the people who personally tested my properties and all of them had a hotbed for meth, okay? So people are coming here. My, can you just wrap it up? Okay, wrap it up. The laws that I would like to see right now, meth is, the laws are saying that the labs, the labs are contaminated. They do, it will kill people. But someone smoking meth is just amphetamine, okay? So I'm saying that's not as talkative as it should be. So let's separate labs for people who smoke. So let's separate that, okay? And I'm also saying can insurance companies help residential users, okay? And I'm also looking at the, I'm following the rules. So testing and mitigating, I paid property taxes for 30 years and my practice are being used for other purposes. Why can't I use my property taxes to me to help test and mitigate my property? And it ain't only me, everybody who owns property in Longmont, they say they had a party, a Christmas party, a birthday party, and their friends, friends or husband or wife or someone's friend come in to smoke meth when they want to sell their property, they just ruined their property. And I know a person who was a senior citizen, it cost, she was a former president of a bank. My, I see Senator Huck has lose there making tens of notes. So I'm gonna give you a bill that is getting ready to be passed that will help you with the meth situation. So I'll give you my card. Thank you very much. Mary Ann Nehouse. My name's Mary Ann Nehouse and I live at 760 Trich Stone Bridge. I'd like to read a little something. Dear globalists, we the people review your proposal for the great reset. And we regret to inform you that we will have to decline at this time. Although we did not, we did find the free trial of the NWO very interesting. We have decided instead to go with the great American waking. Sincerely, the human race. I don't know about you guys but there's a lot going on here and we have the people, we have the power. Can I ask a quick question? No? You can ask but we're not gonna respond. Okay. Does anyone have an opinion here? Okay. On anything. We all do have opinions. That's what we're here. We're sharing our opinions. And does anybody have a choice? We have a choice here. Okay. So my question is how many of you are familiar with the Constitution? Okay. So we know that we the people of the United States of America have rights. And what's happening is we choose you. We choose the politicians, right? We're supposed to have legal voting. We're supposed to have machines that don't cheat. And that is our right. That's what we are here for is the Constitution. And so what I wanna say is, I don't want non-gender bathrooms. I don't. How many of you have sat in a stall with a man next to you doing his business? I don't care how many fancy clothes you're wearing, you're still a man. Transgender restaurants is ridiculous. We have family restaurants. Why don't we have a family restaurant then you can be a transgender and go in there and do your business privately. But I don't want my four-year-old standing in a bathroom next to a little boy with his penis hanging out going to the bathroom. I'm sorry. I just won't stand for that. And you know what? I don't have to because I'm a citizen of the, I am, we the people of the United States of America and we have a Constitution. And these laws that are being shoved down my throats, these gun laws, these gender laws, I'm here to tell you right now my opinion, this stupid crisis stuff is a bunch of BS. If you guys flipped open the page, you would see that these globalists are creating all these crisis with water and our air and our soils and our farmers. They're creating the crisis and then they're trying to convince you that you have to support their crisis through the WEF. So my opinion is that we're all citizens of the United States of America. I have a Constitution. I have a passport. That's what gives me the right to stand up here and tell you that we're putting everybody on notice here. These poor people that are here that are talking about these crisis and health and just like this gentleman. You know, the health crisis of our children is being created by this globalist atmosphere that you have to decide at three years old if you're a boy or a girl. What the heck? I saw a guy go into you. Marianne, I'm so good at this. Oh, am I already? Gosh, why? I said everything I wanted to say. We did hear you. Perhaps you could get cards or email them exactly what you would like our legislators and senators to do. Okay. I think that would be good. All right, thank you. And I'm sure they heard you. Thank you. Uh, Terebin. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Why are we allowing these clauses? Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm Terebin. That's 2235 Parkview Drive. Every day in Longmont, people are affected by crime. They get their car, catalytic converters and bikes stolen. They are too afraid to go out of their house after dark because it's the revolving door criminals and rampant crime in their neighborhoods. Longmont Public Safety's hands are tied by all the social justice legislative reforms that have been passed these last couple of years. Longmont is suffering and our elected representatives who claim to listen to us and represent us are too busy pushing an extreme liberal agenda instead of helping keep Longmont safe. The utmost basic aspect of good governance is safety. Yet in 2021, Representative McCormick, you co-sponsored the misdemeanor reform bill, a bill that has coddled criminals, allowed deadly drugs such as fentanyl to flow through our community and has left victims vulnerable as you've heard. This bill ties the hands of the judicial branch by changing sentencing guidelines and lowering penalties for crimes allowing up to one gram of fentanyl and four grams of other hard drugs to be just a misdemeanor. This soft on crime liberal agenda is hurting Longmont and Colorado. Representative McCormick, through your own website, you wanna focus on addressing climate change, lowering healthcare, education, possible being systemic racism, inequities, LGBTQ rights, reproductive rights, housing, and then you mentioned safety. These priorities are rooted in an agenda that results in putting people's lives in your own community at risk versus increasing much needed public safety. As one of your constituents, I find it appalling that you're busy sponsoring legislation that takes away a legal gun owner's right to shoot a gun on their own property in unincorporated Boulder County and sponsoring legislation that will cap the rent in Longmont, which will effectively reduce the rental property inventory and sponsoring legislation that will ensure boys and girls together can use a multi-self bathroom and any public building instead of helping to reduce crime right here in Longmont. We need an ultra tough on crime, we need ultra tough on crime bills to slow the progression of crime-related events in our community and state. I am offended that you choose to focus on sexuality and gender instead of protecting our children and families from crime, violence, and drugs. In December of 2022, the very dangerous person who ties to the Sinaloa cartel was out of jail on bond and detained in Longmont in charge of unlawful possession and distribution of fentanyl. That criminal's bond was set at a mere $500,000. The amount of fentanyl and cocaine who's peddling weighed nearly 45 pounds and enough to kill over a million people. This is the direct result of your bill. Additionally, one of the unintended consequences of your misdemeanor reform bill was that it decriminalized gun ownership for tens of thousands of felons, including those convicted of drug dealing, organized crime, burglary, arson, car theft, I couldn't go on. As a team leader for the League of Women Voters Gun Safety Team, I think this was a great mistake. I hear you now sponsor bills to fix the bad bills you created. With Democrats in full control of the governor's mansion and the state capital for the last 10 years, what impact have they had in improving our quality of life? Well, Colorado ranks highest in the nation in many distinguishable categories, such as auto effect, federal overdoses, and teen suicide. I respectfully submit, this is the result of years of failed policies coming out of the capital that have irreparably harmed Coloradans across our state when it's enough, enough. I'd like to represent it at the table. You can stop the insanity. I implore you to repeal the misdemeanor reform bill as a first step to bringing safety back to our communities and start sponsoring more tough on crime bills that will protect Long Island. Thank you to your audience. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Oh, Marley's Levich. I know. Oh, Marley's Levich? I hope I can understand, right? You're kind of a little close-knit in my soul, because I cannot speak that loud. But I'm going to talk about some of you completely different. Okay. I'm talking, oh, I'm getting goosebumps even starting to talk about it. I'm talking about some causes and how we can change everything that has been going on. And it's because we took God and the divine out of our schools, out of our education, out of all of the decision making. If we all learn, because I've been practicing with a global healing group all around this world, that doesn't matter what skin color, what ethnic group, what belief system, they're Muslims, they're Christians, they're from all over and they love each other and we are praying and actually asking and asking God, all of us, because we know it's the same creator for everyone because we are children of God and we are not just bodies, we are spirit and spirit is within each of us. So what do we do? We can just learn and I want to comment you because I would never be able or would want to take a job like you do because I applaud you for that really and I admire that and I know you have good intentions but we have to look at the cause and if we come together what our founding fathers have done, that's what I left about, the one nation and the God. I mean, if we take God out of him, what do we have? We no longer, we have not had a nation but for a long, long time. How can we call it a nation? And all we do is wage war all over the world and we are paying for it as citizens, right? Or just working here. So I really, I would implore you and ask you, learn to answer practice at home and also coming together in meetings where you pray but sincerely, not just words but feel it and ask God sincerely and ask the divine or allow whatever you want to call our creator but it's the same. And when we start going within instead of looking all the problems that's why we have all these problems. These children don't even know that they are scared that this is not just their body. That is only part of it. God has given us this body as a gift. So we want to take good care of it and we also made stewards of our earth. So what have we done? We have created just toxins and poison everywhere. Why do we have a flow rate in this water? That's another way to save money instead of killing people with the water. Why do we all have to make all of it? No, this doesn't look very nice but that shall protect you against all the radiation. I'm very very sensitive all the radiation, the E and F and now you even want to call out our, you know, the 5G and the smart media program that's killing more people because I know how to protect myself. 90% of the people don't. So I've been passionate about holistic health natural healing. Why don't you support that? I'm turning 80 this year, right? So I'm happy. I don't lose my money, I'm like a what? If it helps me, if it helps me I'm great for power that I could adopt this in those because I thought you were asking for money. Okay, thank you. No, thank you very much for this advice. Thank you. Thank you very much for this advice. Thank you very much for this advice. You rock, Rattenberg. You're gonna hold us long. You're gonna hold us for 9,000 years. Been here 33 years. Sorry, that was like that piece of it that we're in here. Grandpa's for 24 years now. Next month, I'll be around for 29 years. I bought it from a cop. So, public safety's for again, I think it's against what I'm talking about here. So I'll share a few stories with you. Marlene Akin, during our co-edition on film, she couldn't break into our front door so she decided to bust out a bunch of windows. It cost me $2,000. But because we couldn't get the plexiglass, couldn't get the glass, I failed to submit these receipts on time so that was too grand of my pocket. Marlene Akin, older caller, I was assaulted to the people in her home. When the cop showed up, punched out both cops. Real sweet person. Revolving door-to-door. Another individual I can't remember, his name right now, we had a $700 mountain bike stolen from our school. We're over here all night now. Used bull cutters to cut the cable. Broad daylight, $700 mountain bike. 20 minutes after he stole that one, stole one from me, he's at $500. This SOB is 40 years old, and it's been behind bars for 21 years. I caught it by the steal of my car. So he can swing it in a pair of bull cutters. Got five felony assault charges on him. They were all gone. He had stolen 60 cars in long months. It was a given year and a half. So let's tell you what, if you don't get a top on crime, crime will get a top on you. And I feel sorry for these cops. They need to be supported more. And our prosecutors need to start having these damn mandatory prosecutors. Last one I'm gonna share with you, Roxanna Edgillard August 5th, 2020. Stole a $80,000 pickup in West Michigan. Came up here, tried to break into right, five storms at 4.30 in the morning. Couldn't get in, came to our place at 5.30. Couldn't get in for an hour and a half. Broke some windows as they left, stole bunch of tools that they could reach in a row. She then traveled over to the post, the chicken restaurant there in town. Used an axe to break into the building. Used an axe to break into the office. And this big goon that was with her, carried out a 300 or 400 pound safety. Throwed them back to the stolen pickup. They came back over our place. They rammed through my west wall. And some of you know, it's a cinder block building. Reinforced with rebar, and concrete, it's not easy to get in. And this stolen $80,000 pickup, broke into our place, stole broke guns. She was charged with over 40 felonies at our place. Now she also broke into her dogs four days before. So she broke into four businesses and four guns. She broke into seven gun stores in August 2020. Approximately December 2021. I'm sorry, we're trying this up, but I think that we get it. For Roxanne, I only stole 50 cards in one month, and over 200 on the front range. I'll tell you what, a $200 misdemeanor ticket is BS. When I grew up, most of you guys, Grand Theft Auto was a ticket to the pentatexure. And it ain't even a misdemeanor anymore. Is it $200, which you think? Yeah, I have a couple more people that want to talk. Thank you. Thank you. I went six days a week. I welcome you to stop by. I didn't get to talk about the rate difference. So we still get to see you. You're good. I thought we were signing in. Oh. I thought we were going to be here in a minute. Oh, okay. Oh, and you're Jennifer. We'll tie everybody else up in the room. You won't lose something. Thank you. I'll save your time. No, I won't. No, I don't think it's a good idea. I said, no, you've had your three minutes and three minutes and two more. Hopefully, Martin. Thank you. They're clapping at us. Thank you. You can hire back your fire department people. You know, the ones that we're letting go out in the back scenes. So thank you everybody for coming and your remarks were heard. Your comments were heard. Our police department representatives are working on the laws that you mentioned. And we're very aware and have been with our staff and the police department talking about these laws and how we can get them. We're aware. I'm sorry that our city is going through this. Well, there's a lot of things there. There are a lot. I get it. But thank you very much. It's going to get better. It is going to get better. It is going to get better.