 call the meeting to order. And then hopefully Jack will join us when he joins us. I'd like to start out with Lowell Hall. I currently have Susan, Marsha, Sarah, Sheila, Julie, Art, Prudence and Michelle Crescent. Is that correct? Okay. Prudence, did you have a question? No, I was just waving. Just, okay. It's my understanding that we do not have any guests this morning. And because I am unable to see everybody. Julie's our guest. Is Julie our guest? Yes. And as I can't view everybody at one time on my screen, and we have some business that's going to require voting this morning, I would like, I'm sorry, excuse me, I would like to have the eyes say the eyes say eyes and if there are any nays in the voting, then I will ask the mayor to identify themselves. So we don't need to invite the public to be heard as everyone had the opportunity to review minutes from last week or last month. Yes, good job, Sarah. I move that we accept the minutes as written. Okay. Did anyone see anything that they needed to correct? I second the motion to accept the minutes. So did Art. I didn't hear him. I didn't. Okay. Okay. Old business, board membership. I do have some notes from Michelle. So I'm going to kind of be reading them as we go along. She wanted a paid on applications. We currently have at least three applications. She didn't know if there were any more that were received after the deadline and asked if perhaps Marsha could speak to the interview date and process. I can. Julie, are you one of the applicants? Is that your reason for monitoring us? Well, good for you. The interviews are this Saturday. They are by Zoom. And we are once again, going to try to be more uniform in asking everybody the same questions. So I got a list of questions from everybody from the city clerk's office. And I am kind of feeling like, honestly, that this is one of those applications where Zoom works better than real life. So I'm looking forward to getting it done in an expedient way. And, you know, this is my favorite board. So I hope it's going to go well. Look as like Sarah has her hand up. Well, Marsha, how much time will be allocated for the interviews? Oh, it's only three minutes because there are so many boards and commissions and so many people to get through. Marsha, the message I got was that it was six minutes this time. Oh, is it? Well, that's the information I was getting. That's what I, I wasn't sure. And maybe because there are fewer applicants because we always complain, you know, that there's not enough time to do justice to people. And I know we have extended the commission interviews to 10 minutes. But so you're probably right, Sheila, because I tend to do short shrift to those messages until right up on. I think it's good that the people who will be interviewed know in advance the length of the interview because that gives them a chance to prioritize what they want to say and their answers. Well, just a minute. And I won't hang up, obviously, but I'll go and look and Janine, when I get back, I'll raise my hand and confirm whether it's three or six. I'll still be listening. Okay. Alrighty. The positions for 2020 that we need to address today are for President, Secretary, AAC, and TRG after 321, Sustainability Friends and the Latino Coalition. It's my understanding that we need to do a formal vote. And then Michelle will write a letter to BCAA on who you recommend. I offered to represent the board last time, but if there are any other people that would like to be considered, please let us know now so that we can do some voting on that. Art has also offered to continue on the Latino Coalition and Susan has offered to continue with friends. Michelle said that Sheila was considering backup, but she wanted me to verify that, who it's offering to be the representative and who it's offering to be the backup. Susan or Sheila, did you know that? I'll still be the representative for the friends. Okay. And I will be the backup if that's acceptable. Okay. Hey, Janine, who are not waiting till January till you've got the new members on and be part of this? You know, because I was actually just reading Michelle's agenda. Okay. And if it's normally done in January, we can actually do this next month. And I think that's actually a great idea. Yeah, I would think you'd wanna wait till you had a full, all your people. Absolutely. Sarah? I mean, I would suggest with, my tongue is not awake. Now you're muted. Push something by mistake. Oh, okay. I'm suggesting that for the AAC representative that we do take a vote today because they will meet, present to the commissioners I think this month or in January, who the commissioners want to appoint. So they will need to have that recommendation from your board as soon as possible. So in the competition here, I would suggest that we do vote on the AAC rep. So I move that we nominate Janine to represent us. I'll second that. So we have a nomination and a second for Janine, myself, to be the representative on the AAC board. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposition, please feel free to say nay. Okay, then that passes. And Janine, just quickly, I did look at the schedule and if anybody needs a copy of it, I can email them, but there are six minutes in between interview times, whether that means a five minute limit or a six minute limit with no interval at all, I'm not sure, but anyway, it is longer than three minutes. So Sheila, thank you for the correction. So you said you wanted to send the list of questions to Julie so she can be ready? No, I'm not going to do that, but I am hoping absolutely when we introduce her, I'll be asking the questions and I will make it clear that she has been attending the meetings regularly. And Jack has joined us. So Jack, I wanted to let you know that Michelle Chet, Dan, Lisa, Noblash, I believe her name is has indicated that you can continue with sustainability as a citizen. Thank you. Do we have any other old business? Janine, do you know if Michelle mentioned anything, if she received any individual entrusts for the friends board? Yes, she said that Susan had offered to continue with Sheila's the backup, but she didn't mention any other people that were interested in the house. The friends have seven vacancies. What's that? The friends has seven vacancies to fill. Right, that's what I was checking on. Uh-oh, okay. And I think that that was the one thing that she suggested that was actually gonna be in new business but we can discuss that right now that there were three vacancies on the board and that she was encouraging anyone who knew anyone in the community or business members that may be interested to please let her know. I was just wondering if anybody, if she gave a number of people that had an interest on that because I recommended a few people and I was just wondering if anybody did show interest. Not that I know of at this time. She hasn't had anyone express interest. Okay, thank you. All right. Janine? Yes. This is Julie. I just wanted to ask a quick question. In terms of the friends board, do the folks who are applying for that board, do they need to be Longmont residents? And how long do they have, if they do need to be Longmont residents, how long do they need to be living in Longmont? So like a year or six months. Does anyone know? Listen, do you know that? I don't know for sure. I think they, I could only say, I think that they have to be Longmont residents but I don't think that there is a timeframe associated with that. I can ask Michelle, Julie, and get back to you about that. Okay. Yeah, I have a couple of people that I think would be good. But I can also check the website. Janine? Thank you. Yes, Sue. It's me, Sarah. Yeah, Sarah. I, this is sort of going back to the positions but as the retiring secretary, I would just like to say that for those of you who are eagerly waiting to be elected secretary of this board, I think I would like to point out that I have tried to include narrative that's not necessary for formal recording of the business we do, but that I hope will be reminders for board members about what's going on. So if anybody would like to talk with me about taking minutes and particularly doing it with when you're in a Zoom meeting, which is somewhat different, well, I'd be very happy to do that before you leave with the opportunity to be secretary. Thank you very much, Sarah. I'm sure that your input is really going to be needed and appreciated. And, you know, it might or might not be a time for us to acknowledge the incredible work that you have done. I read with tears what Michelle had to express to you and Jack and Michelle. And I know I speak for myself as well as everyone on the board. And again, thank you for all of your contributions. I think of the times that you and I have shared at the table of numerous events, representing the senior center and how much I enjoyed that. And Jack, I'm gonna miss your quiet and elegant wisdom and support more than you will ever know. And Michelle, what can I say? You're irreplaceable in my heart and I'm feeling some emotional aspects of your departures. So thank you all very much for me personally. Thanks, everyone. And Sarah, I do just wanna say to you and to the future secretary that I really appreciate the narrative style in minutes. It is so much more useful than just this happened, this happened, this happened. So thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. You're welcome. I'd like it better too, but it's been helpful to me. And as we bring new people on and give them an opportunity to participate, you know, I wanna encourage everyone that's here today to consider these positions very strongly. I am looking forward to stepping aside and letting someone else resume the president position. And so I encourage all of you to really think about how you might want to take on some of these positions over the next month and then hopefully we'll also have new board members that may also be interested. Does anyone else have any other issues in terms of old business? If not, I'm gonna move on to new business, okay? Under new business, we have done the Friends Board, Elder Justice Coalition grant. The Elder Justice Coalition has given almost $400,000 to Boulder County area or an agency in aging. And Brandy and Michelle will be on the 14 for that grant. The focus is gonna be on training for re-spired judges and community members. Also, well, let's move on actually to reports. And I will list Michelle's report first before we go on. She said the winter go will be available online later this week and it will be in print in a few weeks. The housing authority work continues to be the focus for a few of the staff at the senior center, including Michelle and she is thanking all for understanding their movement to the housing authority temporarily. The senior center is not expected to be open until 2021. And they're saying possibly February and March. February or March. She wants you all, I'm sorry. Oh, it doesn't need to be, at the end would be plenty. I just wanted to clarify with the pickup sites mostly closed, how is the go, the paper go being distributed? The only way that I know of is that I don't know if it's going to be available online but I know of is that the last couple of times an issue came out, they put a big box of the copies out in front of the senior center with a big sign, help yourself and notified people in the newsletter that they could pick them up physically there. I've seen the box and it does empty out on a regular basis and I think that the online go, it'll make a note that they can pick up the hard copy at the entrance to the senior center. And Marsha, I would think that they are continuing to drop off like at the senior center, like it's assisted living facilities, housing authorities, stuff like that because they've always done that and not drop off at the lobby make arrangements. I think they're still doing that. Michelle also says, please stay safe and well and thank you so much to our outgoing board members, Sarah, Jack and Michelle, I'll miss you all. And I also was thinking that and wondering if when we do have any in-house meetings again, maybe in the spring, if the three of you might consider coming back for our delayed farewell party and flowers, if you would be interested in doing that, we'd still love to have that happen. I know I will. I'll miss every time with food and flowers. Sarah, when are you planning on moving? It's uncertain because the building is under construction, but it probably will be early fall. Oh, well, then you are still going to be around for a while. Well, yeah, I plan to be around as long as I can get here. Okay, that's great. All right, I'd like to go on with reports. Marcia, do you have reports from City Council? Well, the City Council has been pretty focused on the Costco project, which is approved by the vast majority of people, although there are a few affected neighbors that are pretty vociferous about it. And we have a new annexation that fills a hole in the business development area by, oh, you know, Outwear Left Hand. And that's a really good thing because it's been an unincorporated county and it's always better to be in control and be able to enforce the codes and everything. So I think that that will sort of be a boost to public safety as well as knowing who the property owner is, I think that it's going to be, it's going to be an environmental upgrade to the part of the city, you know, that we're going to have a business park, most likely, with grass and, you know, landscaping. And they are conscious of their duty to preserve, to respect the greenway, which is an important thing for this, for many of the residents of the city. And there was a calmer, kinder, gentler resolution that we're going to try to get other cities on board with urging the counties that are resisting compliance with the governor's social distancing and safety orders to be compliant, you know, and not to endanger the public by encouraging, you know, indoor dining and not wearing masks inside stores and stuff. So, you know, I think we sort of, I think we sort of calmed things down in terms of people being upset with the mayor, upset with Weld County, upset, no matter which side of the subject you were on, everybody was upset, which may have been the mayor's point because he certainly knew that you can't turn people away from a hospital no matter how badly behaved they've been. So, you know, that was the thing. And then we had an extensive report on waste diversion and, you know, really the only thing about that was just that we can expect our city services to increase and they're very conscious of not increasing the price for burden on individual residents. So, you know, nothing really direct, yes, Prudence. Is the city tracking the occupancy, bed occupancy of the two hospitals? The city doesn't, the health department does, and for a long time, we had very detailed occupancy for our two hospitals. Now, because things are so intense, we only get the county-wide statistics from the Boulder County Health Department. But the good news is that we're in reasonably good shape. We're okay on equipment, okay on staffing, and right at the edge between red and yellow on ICU beds and medical surgical beds, but they're moving in the right direction. So we've had five days of fewer hospitalizations. Yeah, so we are, this is no reason to not be careful, but people appear to be taking this current spike very seriously and all of our numbers are still too high but moving in the right direction continuing to go up. I will say that the one exception is our demographic. For some reason, as far as test cases go, the 60 to 72 or whatever the age bracket is, is that the county health measures is the only one that hasn't taken a downward turn. So be careful. But the assisted living demographic is getting better, although there are lagging illnesses still to be endured. Yes, Michelle? Thank you. I have been personally going and using the being in the pool and I'm curious every time I'm there at Centennial, I feel pretty safe, but I don't know if there's any scouts about how the city is doing in terms of employees who are, you know, kind of present at sites that are open to the public and how if you guys have like a read on how, how, how we're doing. Well, what you would notice is that they don't present staff statistics, although they do tell us when a facility has had to close. They're still following the protocol that says if there is a positive test among the staff, they close the facility, disinfect it and leave it closed long enough to get that process done as well as quarantining the infected and exposed employees. So that will tell you, Michelle, that there have not been any cases at Centennial. Oh, I thought that was probably the case. I thought about the city overall and how, you know, exposures to the public and how we're doing. Yeah, we did have to close the permitting center across the street from Civic Center was closed for a few days. But I think that's the only one. Okay, great. Marcia. Yeah, Susan. You were talking about waste diversion and just something I've noticed even pre-pandemic and now with the pandemic, cardboard going out, I notice it in my area, it doesn't go out and recycling as it should because it doesn't go out. So I think that's a good question. I think that's a good question. I think that's a good question. I think that's a good question. I think that's a good question. Yeah. So much to just keep tossing it in the dumpster. Yeah. And I actually asked that question last night because I don't know whether I'm the only person that this ever happens to. Maybe somebody doesn't like me, but, but, you know, in the lag between the time that the, the garbage dumps, The garbage dumps are, they're not really accurate. They're not really accurate. They're not really accurate containers. They're not really accurate containers back to the garage. If I had been really, really prompt. And the time when I actually do it. A lot of times people put things in my containers. And they're not terribly accurate about which container they use. And so I mentioned that to Charlie kind of meetings. And, and he mentioned, he said that they would find data. what the cost to the city is for inappropriate sorting, you know, and we even talked about whether it was possible to have an ordinance, you know, it's illegal to put things in somebody's mailbox. Why isn't it illegal to put things in somebody's dumpster? It obviously shouldn't be a federal crime, but it should be an infraction. So anyway, we don't have an answer on that, but the question has been asked and of course they are emphasizing and the sustainability group too, you may have heard about this, Jack, separately. The outreach in terms of making people understand how important proper sorting is continues. Okay. Yes, Sarah. I have a question about just informational about the annexation that you described. Is that area now completely surrounded by Beaumont City proper? Yes. Yes. It's an enclave. Yeah, Jack. Thank you. What's the prospects of obtaining that Costco on the southwest part of down, I think? Essentially certain. I mean, we just passed the necessary ordinances that allow us to execute the contracts with all concerned on second reading. So, yeah, I don't think that there is anything that could really go wrong at this point. There are people who brought, there are two residents of Quicksilver Road, which is not really related to the Costco per se, but there's a deal that they moved the gravel mining east. So there are gravel resources under the area where the Costco would be, and those are not gonna be mine, those are gonna be left in place, but some gravel deposits that are further east are going to be used by the mineral rights owner whose name I can't recollect right this second. They're gonna be accessed sooner than they would have because they're not doing the part where the Costco is. So there's a county road, Quicksilver Road, that is gonna be used to haul the gravel out and that again, would always have happened, but there are two, you know, ranchette owners on that stretch of road that brought their lawyer with them, even though we, the mineral rights owning company has agreed to pay them $180,000 each in compensation for the inconvenience that they'll suffer, but there could be a lawsuit about that, but it might delay the mining, but I don't think it would impact the Costco. Great, thank you. Yes, Prudence. You know, there's a nationwide issue with cardboard and the ability to, one, we find recyclers and I don't know whether Longmont is facing that or whether we recycle our own stuff into something or where we sell it. Because remember, India and China are no longer taking plastics. Yes, and I did not ask that question. We did, they did assure us that they are not having, they're not having problems with not being able to sell it. They may have lost, you know, the price may be going down, but, and we didn't get too far into that in your prudence. So I think you were saying something back and I didn't hear it. Well, the price will go down. I mean, that's, of course. Right. And I have a question. As you said, you know, there are people who are putting garbage in your dumpster. However, if they sorted correctly, is that another issue? Well, I suppose it would be less of an issue if they sorted it correctly. Right. You know, I have found, well, I actually had to have my trash dumpster removed and cleaned by the city because apparently some vehicle dweller had actually dumped a bag of human waste into my trash and it was adhered to the site of the can. Gross. I know. I called up the service center and I said, you're not gonna believe this, but I can't clean this myself. You know, it would go down the storm sewer or something. Yeah. So, you know, mostly I'd get stuff like supermarket bags full of stuff and I'm not gonna, you know, not gonna open them and sort them because who knows where they've been, you know, so I just moved them into the trash can. But yeah, for me, it's a problem. I don't, I may be the only person in the city that has this problem, but I think we should at least have a campaign that says, you know, don't do this. You could be fined if you're caught. Nobody's ever gonna be caught, but yeah, Jeanine. I have people contribute doggie doodoo bags in my trash all the time. So, you know, I guess it's a common thing. I think it is. Anybody else? Well, I'm just pleased they're putting it in your trash container instead of just throwing it on the street. Well, that's true. Yeah, that's also true. Except for the human waste. Yeah, the human waste is a- It's going too far. You know, I fought to get something done about the people who live in RVs for a long time because I know a couple of them, you know, and they're decent people who have fairly good reasons for not living like everybody else. And I didn't want them run out of town. But eventually you have to say, you know, people you're dumping human waste in the right of ways, we can't have that. And so that's finally why I changed my vote. Very sad about that. I think that's all I- Okay, you know, I was just thinking perhaps if we had a site that we could offer people less and alternative to putting it down in the sewers or in other people's garbage cans that that might be one thing to take a look at. Well, you know, people can, anybody can go clean out their RVs at the fairgrounds already. Again, I didn't hear that. Yeah, anybody can. And I'm pretty sure you can get a voucher from Hope. If you say, I have no money, but I have full tanks. But yeah, it's not like there's no place. It's like that people won't patronize the place that there is. Any other comments or Marsha or questions? Sarah, do you have anything to report on area agent, I'm sorry, area agent one, area agency on agent one? You're muted. Sarah, you- I'm not gonna pop a message telling the silly person. Anyway, there was no meeting in November. So I have nothing to report at this time. Our next meeting will be Friday. It's always the first Friday of the day. And so if anything is of importance immediately, I will try to see that Michelle sends out an email message with that information to you. I also wanted to tell you that I have indicated to the AAA that I would like to continue as a member at large. And I haven't formally applied yet, but I intend to do that. So if I am appointed as a member, I would be happy to serve sort of as an informal backup to your board representative anytime that you're not in. Able to attend and not I am there, I'll try to keep you informed about what's happening. Thank you, Sarah. Susan, do you have anything to report on friends? Yeah, the technology program update, the friends has budgeted $5,000 and the area agency on aging has secured some funds. So together, apparently Chromebooks and Kindle fire tablets have been purchased. They will be given to people depending on income and need to fill in the digital gap that people are facing. The big thing for the friends is filling seven vacancies on their board, a couple of names have come up. Michelle was pursuing and other people on the board were pursuing to see if they could get people interested in helping out. And the other issue that they have to work on logistics because January 26th is their annual meeting, typically 30 to 50 people attend. Of course, it's all virtual. So they're tossing around ideas as the best way to handle that meeting. Okay. Michelle, anything to report on TRT? There was an application that came in for a relatively small amount of money for a refurb or rehab of a bathroom and for a group home. So we had reviewed that and it's before the health and human HHRB, I guess, health and housing, whatever, board for approval. And I think there's one last pass. So it was nothing specifically senior related. Boulder County Latino Coalition, anything to report, Art? No, we did have a meeting, but there works very brief meeting and nothing to report at this time. And Longmont Economic Development Partnership, I do not have anything to report. Marcia, I am one who is on the quarterly list. Do you have anything that I know that do you go on a regular basis to that meeting? Yes, I do. And right now, I think there's nothing particularly of interest to this board that's going on. They are reorganizing their leadership and their staff because they lost both staff members and they've now rehired both staff into both staff positions with two young women that I am very impressed with both of them. And they are rebooting the Advanced Longmont 2.0 projects and I've attended two Advanced Longmont meetings since then. So I'm very happy to see those getting back together and I've jumped ship from the one that's focused on places to the one that's focused on transportation, which will I think be of interest to this board. Although I was not very happy with the focus of that because my personal interest is that we need to push for the reorganization of our bus services to first of all electric buses that are not going to fill the town with diesel and that are smaller so that they can run more frequently and in finer grained routes, our buses, you'd have to walk four or five blocks to get to the buses and to get to the bus services and they don't run very often and all of that. So and the answer I got to that was that, well, that's what RTD is for. Yeah, well, so anyway, there's not a lot of progress there but at least that those focus areas are restarting and with more, I think, engaged facilitators than what we had last year. So that's the good news. Jack, do you have anything to report on sustainability? Yeah, the next meeting is February the 10th and last time I mentioned some things about what took place in the last meeting, there's a four page document from the meeting, chock full of information. I'll see that Michelle has it. So for your January meeting, it should be available. I don't know how people are going to get it but I'm sure someday soon, hopefully that will happen but she will have a copy of that and made available to all the future board members. It's about it. And I would like to please encourage the board to let me know or contact Michelle if you are interested in positions for 2021 and would really, really, really like to encourage people to consider that. I guess, Julie, you are invited to be heard do you have anything that you would like to say before we conclude the meeting? No, I'm good. Thank you. You're good. As always, thank you for allowing me to participate. Appreciate it. Well, thank you very much for your interest in your participation. Jack? Yeah, I have something on health issue that the board should be aware of. A lot of folks are using various types of alcohol but there are some that are imported that are injurious to one's health and the problem is some of them have methanol which is toxic to your body. So make sure when you buy your alcohol for your hands or whatever that it does not contain methanol and just be careful of those that are imported. I don't want to mention the country. I don't want to sound biased but one has to be careful because methanol can be pretty toxic and it should have at least 60% alcohol, 70 is good as well. Thanks, Jack. That's an important one. Thank you. Sarah, is the census over and done with? As far as I know, there's been no local activity now for so many months. Okay. I can add that the census is being reviewed by the courts at the federal level because the Trump administration wants to exclude from the counts people who are undocumented. I'm not sure exactly how they're gonna do that since there was no question but anyway, it's going to go to the Supreme Court having been rejected by a district court and we don't know what this court is going to do although speculation is that they won't allow it but we don't know yet. Quick question. Do we know what our local, are there stats about what our local participation was or response rate? I don't have those, Sarah. I'm up, we never know that. I didn't hear the question. I said, is there a way to know what our local response rate was? Just I know we kind of put out, tried to get people motivated and so I just don't know how successful we were. There is and I can try to find out that information and give you a report in January, I'll see what I can do. Okay. I don't have the statistics here right now. Yeah. Since this is my last meeting, I'd like to say it was a pleasure serving on the board all those couple of years and I wish the board continued success and I'll miss you all every first Wednesday of the month and it's been a sincere pleasure and I thank you. Oh. Thank you. Jack and all of you. And I will say that just Googled it and as of September 1st, Colorado's overall participation rate was 85%. Okay. So that's pretty good. I agree. I did owe what Jack said. It's been great and it's just I love this board and I love what everybody's doing and the focus and I'll miss you all as well. Thank you, Michelle. So we'll see you out there in the community. Yes. Of course. And at our post pandemic reunion. Right. Totally. Our PPP, our post pandemic party. Yes. Okay. Bye everybody. Bye bye. Any other business to adjourn? I do. Is there any other business or anything else that before we take a motion to adjourn? Question for Susan. Susan, in reference to these Chromebooks and things that were purchased, are they for loans or are they something that is going to be given to individuals? Given. Given. Given and would they contact, who would they contact intake folks? I think that Brandy and her team are probably working to decide income and how to, you know, allocate the devices purchased. That's correct. That was my understanding as well, Susan. Okay. Thank you. Susan, a suggestion. If you, if they would appeal to the city clerk's office, it might, and I don't know because there may be privacy concerns, but the city does have a list of people who are eligible for the city rebate program, which is, you know, food tax and several other aid programs that are now it consolidated and issued into a single year and check for people. And so, you know, they might just, if you give- And Michelle said, I guess they had solicited names of people interested in actually using something and then they check out whatever, and I'm sure they're aware of, you know, where to check with the city and all that stuff. If their income qualified. Right. Right. Okay. Can I hear a motion to adjourn our meeting for this one? I'll move. And second. Second. It's been moved and seconded to adjourn the meeting. And I will see you all next month. Bye-bye. Bye everybody. Bye. I am officially outgoing members, bigger bye. Yeah. Bye you guys. Happy holiday. You as well. All. Everyone. Safe one. Keep safe.