 2022 long route city council regular session to order. Can we have a roll call, please Don? Mayor Peck. Here. Council member dog-o-faring. Here. Council member Martin. Oh, she isn't here. There she is. I didn't hear her. I didn't either. Can you make her a co-host? It's tested, I thought. Marcia, you're on here. Yeah, council member Martin, do you have any issues unmuting? You should. Yeah, you do have co-host permissions. You should be able to. Yeah, and I'm asking her test. It worked okay. There she is. Yeah, I thought I was unmuting, but apparently not. I am here. Thank you. Thank you. That was a good test. Council member Waters. Here. Council member Yarbrough. Here. Mayor Pro Tem Rodriguez. Here. Mayor Yivakorn. Thank you. Let's stand for the pledge. Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the republic for which it stands, one nation, one God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. So just as a reminder to the public, this meeting can be viewed at the live stream at www.longlandcolorado.gov and also on our YouTube channel. Anyone wishing to speak at first call and public invited to be heard will need to add his or her name to the list in the council chambers. Only those on the list will be invited to speak at the first public invited to be heard. Speakers who do not place their names on the list will have the opportunity to speak during public hearing items this evening or at the final call public invited to be heard on any item at the end of the meeting. Can I have a motion to approve the June 28th minutes? So it's been moved. My Mayor Pro Tem Rodriguez, seconded by Councillor Yarbrough. Let's vote. Great. So that carries unanimously. Thank you. Are there any agenda revisions, Dawn? There are not, Mayor. Thank you. Are there any motions from the city councilors to direct city manager to add agenda items to future agendas? Councillor Hedockelfairing. Thank you, Mayor. You know this is more just maybe this could be something that's added to our city manager update. I'm just curious to know you know after the 4th of July you know I'm still getting emails from people who were saying that there were a lot of illegal fireworks. I know we do have some everything that's housed in the in those tents. Those are all legal. They don't sell fireworks that are illegal in our in our state or in our vicinity. So you know I don't know if these were ones that were just noisy coming from the tent or ones that they picked up from Wyoming or out of state and brought them in but I would just you know in the future or if you have the information now just to get an update on what you know how did the the call center work? How did you know was it did it run well? Are there any changes that we need to be looking at? Sandy can uh can you all hear me? Sandy can talk through some of the numbers and I know Zach's in the back as well and I would also say that as part of what they do so what's sold in the tents are supposed to be legal fireworks. They did run into a situation this year the state was doing inspections and they did deal with a tent that did not have legal fireworks and those fireworks were confiscated and so public safety chief artists informed me of that and uh sent me a picture of one of our assistant chiefs with the back of his truck full of those and and the state will be dealing with those issues and I've asked Zach to make sure in terms of permitting for next year. So I wanted to say that because there are multiple things that people are looking at in that process but Sandy you can talk about the numbers and I don't know where Zach is yeah in case you need it. Thanks Mayor Peck, Councilmember Hedaga-Ferring. I sent a little bit of this information out this last week but essentially in comparison to last year we had a few more calls than we did last year during that same period of time. So last year we had 470 calls to 9-1-1. This year however with the hotline and the online reporting although we had more contact from folks we only had 193 calls to 9-1-1. So certainly the hotline and the online reporting did exactly what we were hoping it would do which is to take those off of 9-1-1 priority calls so that's really good news. As far as changes that might be made you know my understanding from the volunteers and thank you for Mayor Peck and those of you who volunteered at the hotline that was really helpful and kind of you know certainly appreciated by all the volunteers that were there. But I think the suggestion is that Friday night there was only five calls so maybe shortening the period of the hotline that really the big night was 4th of July and maybe the night before. So the suggestion that I heard from from Robin who helped to run the call center was maybe shorten the hotline time but certainly the online reporting tool helped public safety staff a bunch is what I understood. There were 259 reports on the online report on the on the fireworks line and then 271 calls to the hotline most of those on July 4th. So there were a few priority one calls there was a lot of priority one calls actually so this did did help for folks to be able to get to those and there were a few fires in addition and then plus the 400 pounds of fireworks that Harold was just talking about. You want to add anything Chief Artist? Just cut it off. There we go. Mayor Peck counseled Zach Artist Public Safety Chief for Lagmont. I will tell you I did come out this year this is my first year being here for 4th of July. I did come out and had the opportunity to work both Saturday night, Sunday night and Monday. I did answer a lot of the calls that came through in our call center picking up those calls getting through the neighborhoods trying to identify folks that were discharging fireworks and then determining whether or not those fireworks were legal or illegal. So there were several warnings that were issued quite a few of those. I don't have those numbers in front of me. I think the call center went very well. One of the goals was to get the get the calls off of our dispatch center which we were able to do but then also get the information out pretty much real time on the heat map. So what we're doing right now is we're going through that information. ETS is helping us with the back of the house stuff with addresses beginning to look to see if we can identify what we call hotspots meaning did we get a majority of calls in certain areas of the city and if we did what can we do moving forward leading up to next year before July 4th as far as trying to educate or at least getting some more educational material or information out to those communities or those HOAs to try to help with that. Educating folks and then again looking at what our alternatives are of what we can do to try to address just ordinance wise or whether or not enforcement wise what we can do a little bit better this year as far as how we address the illegal fireworks. To your comment councilmember Hidalgo technically yes the tents are not supposed to sell illegal fireworks but again we did have one up on main at almost at highway 66 near the Walmart and the state came in they regulate those they come in they did a spot check and again determine is our city manager Dominguez said about 400 pounds we had to take those out and dispose of those properly at an area that we deal with our bomb disposal and so we were able to to deal with that but again we're looking at right now we're just in the gathering stage of all the intel that we've got in and seeing what worked well what we need to change we do know that there were heat map was used after we closed the call center and so again trying to figure out how we can extend those hours or look at those things this was a unique year where the 4th of July fell on a Monday so you really had Friday Saturday Sunday and a Monday we weren't sure what to expect next year it should shift to a Tuesday so we're only hoping that Mondays and Tuesday we would have potential a bigger issue for fireworks but again just a little bit of time I think we'll have something for you probably within the next 30 days or so um as we work through this data and information and bring back our ideas and suggestions that council on how we can address this better thank you thank you so um okay councilor Yarbrough thank you for that information I just have a question because we have been receiving emails about it um I guess the question I have is how early are they setting up for those legal fireworks because I know a week prior to the 4th I was I was hearing it myself in my neighborhood so I know some of the complaints that I was getting um you know it's a whole week of hearing that and the 4th and so is there any way we can restrict how long uh how early or how soon they can start selling those legal fireworks I mean like you know a few days prior or you know I mean that's the number one complaint that I've been receiving and I know I've I've heard of myself like a whole week before the 4th do your answer I don't that's not my area of expertise I don't issue those licenses I would suspect that we can do anything that we want to as far as limiting the number of days or how long that you can sell fireworks within the city limits of of Longmont but just be aware that again as we discussed through issues a lot of the illegal fireworks are actually coming from out of state um to where they're sold but again you can limit those I believe and we'd have to look in whether or not legally we could do that but I think we can limit when they're sold how far out whether it's 30 days or or two weeks or whatever that may be that council chooses to look into um but again just be aware that other jurisdictions around us may not follow that also so those fireworks coming into our community can still come up as soon as the first tent comes in but it may not necessarily address the issue but Longmont certainly can look at that and and try to curve that as much as possible within the city limits of Longmont okay thank you yes ma'am thank you if I can you know one of the things I did want to say is um and and Zach probably won't talk about this but Zach and a lot of most of his leadership actually during those nights are actually out on patrol with the officers and and as as much to see what was going on and try to think about what we can do in the future based on you know when they were seeing and getting these calls and what it was really like when they get there what they see so um he and I've already had some conversations based on his experience and looking at some things for next year as well the only question I have is did this answer your question or do we need to provide more information no I think just having it public okay great thank you mayor yes I could Eugene may city attorney I was just looking at our ordinance uh for the permit to sell fireworks permissible fireworks it specified in the ordinance June 19th to July 4th so if we were to change those dates we need an ordinance change okay good information thank you so city manager report yes mayor council um I actually I'm glad I was here sandy um I have Kevin Ismail with our office of emergency management and Greg Manson with the national weather service and Greg's here Kevin will come up and talk a little bit about what they're going to discuss but Greg's also here to give the city a designation from the national weather service good evening mayor and members of city council presenting Greg Hanson who is the the warning coordination meteorologist with the national weather service here in boulder over the last couple months we've been working together with the national weather service to get long month storm ready certification and we were able to accomplish that and today Greg is here to give us our certification and just kind of say a few words about what all that's about I'm a tall guy mayor peck and council thanks good evening for having me here again my name is Greg Hanson with the national weather service in boulder we serve 22 counties in north central northeast colorado providing weather forecasts and warnings to help keep the public safe so we're here tonight to award long month your storm ready recognition the storm ready program is a way for the national weather service to recognize communities counties other organizations for their good emergency management practices with respect to weather so things like do you have a plan do you have a 24-hour warning point do you have a way to receive warnings do you have a way to send warnings out I know I'm on Kevin's email list and you guys probably are too for for weather alerts so things like that and there's there's a lot of checkboxes that we had to go through and and you know check off that things were done but the important thing about this program is is the relationship that it builds um you know we Kevin knows our office we know Kevin when he called during an exercise they were doing hey can you do a forecast for us and we know who he is and yeah we can do that for you so it really enhances that relationship between us and the emergency management community and then in turn long month so we can provide good information to have a good back and forth so I'm really happy to do this this is a great part of my job we've got a one road sign that will give you it says that we are storm ready and then I've got a plaque here that says the National Weather Service and the Northern Colorado Storm Ready Advisory Board recognize Longmont Colorado as a storm ready community for enhancing public safety by promoting the principles and values of storm ready program and demonstrating your readiness and ability to respond to weather hazards so congratulations Kevin and Longmont and we're happy to be here thank you Greg all right congratulations this is great would it be possible is it appropriate can we get a photograph with all of this okay so we have a special report tonight from Jessica Erickson for the LADP quarterly presentation welcome Jessica I think we're ready okay great good evening mayor peck and council members I am Jessica Erickson president and CEO of Longmont Economic Development Partnership here to give our second quarter impact report we'll start by reminding you of the services that we provide through the contract between Longmott EDP and the city of Longmott which includes strengthening Longmott's competitive position marketing Longmott nationally and globally supporting the creation and retention of quality jobs advancing opportunities for entrepreneurship and innovation and advocating on behalf of all Longmott businesses our strategy our economic development strategy is advanced Longmott 2.0 with goals related to talent industry place making transportation connectivity and impact specific to the contract between Longmott EDP and the city of Longmott the areas of focus our talent industry and impact so I'll start by providing an update on our talent related objectives the first of those is being the marketing to and recruitment of new talent into our community to meet the needs of our existing primary industry base we do that primarily through national marketing campaigns as well as a recently launched website that has a focus on the attraction of talent and connecting talent to career opportunities here in the city of Longmott through q2 of 2022 we've had about ad campaign impressions through a national marketing campaign with over 3 000 clicks on that ad campaign top five user locations so the top five places across the country that people are clicking on our ads from include Los Angeles Denver Phoenix Longmott and Catonsville Maryland which we're looking into as I mentioned we did launch our new website in late April of this year and we've so far had over 4400 unique users to that site with the most visited pages being the homepage as well as our work style or career opportunity page site selection services so the place where people who are looking to relocate businesses or to identify expansion opportunities for businesses are going and then our team page interestingly and I think an indication of what we're doing working is that the top three search keywords that are getting people from the internet to our website or from their search engine to our website are jobs in Colorado Colorado jobs and then more specifically engineering jobs and maintenance jobs our second objective our second talent objective is to conduct the annual workforce perception study which will will launch on July 18th so Monday of next week that will go out talent intelligence data is another objective of ours so that's gathering information and data and analyzing it to understand the talent needs of our primary industry base and of those industries that we've targeted for growth and expansion in our community as part of our new website we did launch a career pathways platform that gives individual job seekers the opportunity to take a career pathway assessment and connect directly to local jobs and we have over a hundred job seekers that have participated in that career pathways assessment just since late April when we launched the site as part of our annual elevate long want survey which is our business retention expansion survey we included 27 talent needs assessment questions that survey has closed we have a little bit of data here but we'll have a more comprehensive reporting of that data but from from that survey we heard from our employers that finding talent with the right skills attracting talent to their companies and retaining that talent were the top three employer challenges we also have an objective to support our existing talent systems we're fortunate here in long want to have strong workforce development services through workforce boulder county as well as front-range community college and saint brane valley school district so we try to support and connect users to those systems as frequently as possible and we do that throughout the year in two ways both through direct referrals of existing companies to those resources as well as including information about those resources in responses and rfp proposals for potential new companies coming into long want so based on all that of the objectives that we are looking at we anticipate and are on track to meet all of those objectives in 2022 our industry objectives the first being primary industry growth with one of the ways that we do that through the use of both local and state incentives as we've talked about before we do have a goal to update the city's incentive policy to better align with our values as a community and attract the type of businesses that are creating the opportunities for our residents in our workforce that we desire that work started in 2020 and was delayed as a result of all things 2020 and and things that haven't since then we continue to be challenged with bandwidth on both sides of the organization so both the city side and the economic development side but we do still have a goal to get that updated in 2022 we have no new state or local incentives approved so far this year however we do have a couple that we anticipate coming forward in the next 60 to 90 days part of our primary industry growth objective is lead generation so creating those opportunities or identifying and leveraging those opportunities for new business investment in our community so far this year or through Q2 of this year we've had 21 total primary industry prospect leads that have come through our office 13 of those came in new in the second quarter of this year 15 of them continue to be active as of June 30th of 2022 with just over 2500 potential net new jobs in that pipeline with an average average annual wage of nearly $85,000 and a potential of nearly $280,000,000 in capital investment in our community a half of those primary industry prospects are in our smart manufacturing industry clusters so we continue to see a lot of activity in the industrial and manufacturing space and 90% of all of our prospects are within those advancement 2.0 target industry clusters our next industry objective is business retention so our ability to retain the primary industry base that we have here we assess that through our annual Elevate Longmont Survey or business retention expansion survey that survey was sent to 217 Longmont based primary employers between January and April of this year closed on April 30th we did receive 61 survey responses with a response rate of 28 percent our goal this year was 25 percent we hosted three executive roundtables to add a little bit more color and qualitative data to what will turn into our annual state of industry report at the end of this year we did see a strong representation across all four of our primary industry sectors we also have an objective an industry objective to deploy $60,000 of city-funded grants to startups initially that was intended to go to startups participating in the Innovate Longmont accelerator we did through feedback from our startup and entrepreneurial community dissolve the Innovate Longmont accelerator as of the end of April and are refocusing our efforts on realizing the manufacturing incubator that we've talked to you about before we're in the process of convening the advisory board for that and have four individuals already committed to that we also have physical space for that facility thanks to our partners at H2 manufacturing so we do actually have people that are actively using that resource as we're getting it built up and up and running and so we have issued one startup grant for a ramp participant amplified space of $14,000 they are a long want based aerospace technology company so based on all that we are on track to meet all of our industry objectives within the contract finally our impact objectives the first being to serve as the collective impact backbone support for Advanced Longmont 2.0 we do that through coordination of our steering committee and all of the working groups around the strategic initiatives of Advanced Longmont 2.0 so for one of those we hosted a strategy alignment retreat earlier this year and so far this year I've hosted 48 initiative support meetings we also have unfortunate to get funding to host diversity equity and inclusion workshops for each of our initiative working groups as well as our steering committee we've hosted two of those so far we with the assistance of the esteemed council member Martin have developed a new initiative proposal portal with a community ready readiness guide that will be posted on our website very soon and we've added four new Advanced Longmont 2.0 steering committee partners from partner organizations across the community our current collective impact initiatives include accessible and affordable child care prosper longmont which is focused on attainable housing and river district in the pipeline we have intercity transportation system which we're very close to we have a mission and vision for that initiative and so we'll be proposing that very soon and that will move over to the other side and we also anticipate leveraging collective impact to move the ramp project forward as well as potentially a much more comprehensive innovation district surrounding that and then finally our no wrong door for ecosystem for entrepreneurs will be reconvening all of our entrepreneurial support organizations in august we had turnover in almost every single leadership role in our entrepreneurial support organizations over the last year or so and so now that everybody's in place and leadership in those organizations will be reconvening that conversation here very soon our next objective was the collective data dashboard which we did complete and was launched in march of this year and can be viewed at advance.longmont.org advance.longmont.org I will mention that we've had a recent conversation with city staff about how we can do a better job of collaborating and being consistent across both organizations as well as all of our partner organizations and the data that we're using and how we serve that to you so that it can be a good tool for your use as well as one of our partners and then our final impact objective is our leadership council so this is really about engaging the private sector in the work both the work and the funding of economic development for the city of long want we currently have 31 members as of oh sorry that should say june 30th of 2022 with new members in the second quarter of this year including simmer on hospitality who is the owner of the hilton garden in as well as bank of colorado front-range community college and agc biologics that group has funded two projects in 2022 so far including the ongoing funding of prosper long lot through june of 2022 as well as providing as i mentioned before the funding for the diversity equity and inclusion workshops for our advanced long want 2.0 working groups i'll remind you that the funding through the aspire leadership council is entirely private sector funding contributed by the members of that leadership council and so none of those are dollars city dollars that are being used for that work and so again with all of that we anticipate meeting all of our objectives for 2022 are on track to do so so far this year and then i'll just give you some highlights of our overall economic position as a community the city of long want in 2021 had about a six point eight billion dollar local economy the region so the immediate long want region so the city of long want and immediately surrounding areas had just over or just under 56 000 jobs and had experienced a 3.8 percent employment growth rate over the previous five years that includes the losses that were a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and our response to it as of now we're projecting that will end 2022 with nearly 57 000 jobs which would represent 2.3 percent year over year job growth so 3.8 percent in five years 2.3 percent in one year and we are back at a 2.8 percent unemployment rate as of april of this year we are also are paying close attention to economic indicators related to residential real estate and thanks to our partners at bolo boulder long want realtors we know that the median sales price and long want in may was 628 000 which as i think i mentioned last time still makes us the most affordable city in boulder county from a residential home price perspective we also continue to be the most active from a sales perspective although the city of boulder has a more significant inventory had a more significant inventory as of may of this year in terms of homes available for sale or listed this last slide or commercial real estate indicators you'll see it notes that it's q1 2022 we're doing this report much earlier in the month this month than we normally would so we don't have access to q2 2022 commercial real estate data yet so this remains the same we'll be happy to share that q2 information with you as soon as we have it later this month and with that i will answer any questions that you have for me council waters thank you mayor pat thanks jessica uh just a couple of quick questions um remind us of what your total budget for for an operating year for ledp mayor pat councilmember waters uh our budget this year is just shy of 800 000 it's 780 000 and of that how much there's you have a contract with the city we do what's the what's the amount in that contract 362 000 of the 780 correct 40 40 ish percent so you've leveraged that 383 uh into almost 800 thousand dollars 362 to yes which and um where were you prior to the pandemic is if you recovered fully from the pandemic because i know there was a a big impact yes we were we are projecting to recover more than recover we've already in 2022 through june 30th from the private from private sector funding we've already raised more than we had raised in all of 2019 pre-pandemic so so we've yes we've definitely more than recovered um and just as we are in the process of building our own budget to your process of building yours obviously everything it's a very it's a very positive report um and you've identified at least one of the headwinds right that you're looking at and that's housing uh what are the what are the others that we ought to be aware of that you're facing and that likely others and other the city and other businesses may face number one and are there tailwinds that we ought to be taking advantage of uh so to answer the first question councilmember waters in addition to housing certainly the talent piece as a whole housing isn't the only component of talent um our yeah child care um our inability to manufacture people at this point in time um all affect um that was a joke by the way um all affect our primary industry bases ability to continue to um operate here grow here invest here expand here so it's all interconnected transportation included because as we don't have the talent that's needed here in long want the ability to get them from other parts of the region into our community also becomes an issue so all of the things that go into our ability to maintain a talent pipeline that that meets the needs of not just our existing primary industry base but as they grow and as new entrants come into the market we are fortunate to have with st green valley school district and front range community college a couple of institutions that are absolutely contributing to future talent pipeline development but it's just not enough um based on where we're at today from an industry perspective um also the our lack of available land I shouldn't say lack but our dwindling availability of land for commercial real estate development uh I think that there is going to come a time in the very near future where redevelopment of uh existing the existing built environment for industrial and manufacturing type businesses is going to have to be uh consideration and hopefully we'll be able to attract some investment to that you've probably seen at the max door facility the former max door facility the max that there's some speculative investment going into improvements to that facility we need to see a lot more of that in order for those facilities and in kind of that old portfolio uh to be viable options for the companies that we're talking today as we don't have a lot of land to develop new facilities for for new companies and for growing companies it is uh incredibly challenging to have to tell a company that was founded here has grown here has invested in our community has created jobs in our community since the day that they were founded that we have no longer any place for them to grow into uh so those are the challenges I think that we face um we you know we actually just talked to a developer today every investor developer uh site selection consultant C-suite individual that we talk to is uh Gung Ho on Longmont so there's two sides of that coin right we're very very popular right now um in terms of people's interest in being part of and investing in our community and being part of the future growth of our community and so I think as long as we can continue to work together to address some of the challenges that we face that we have a long um uh many years of being able to continue to support our community through growth of our primary industry base thanks council uh mayor pro team Rodriguez thank you mayor peck so I just kind of spurred a question when I saw your breakdown on the commercially available property uh office versus industry right and uh so as we know in a lot of major metropolitan areas we're seeing a lot of office buildings stay somewhat vacant due to remote work and how popular that is nowadays um and I remember when I first came on the council there was a lot of conversation about how we didn't have enough class a office space are we starting to see that desire for class a office space as potential development decrease considering remote work and and kind of the changing uh environment around how folks are doing their jobs these days sure thank you mayor peck uh mayor pro tem Rodriguez uh so I was probably one of those people that was many years ago saying that uh we needed some class a office space in time but it's actually been of benefit to us under current circumstances uh because we didn't have a lot to lose uh we didn't have a lot to lose so uh and we certainly have not seen that as I mentioned over half of the activity in our pipeline is in that smart manufacturing space another 20 25 of that is in our knowledge creation and deployment space which lends itself to that's really kind of rnd which lends itself to more flex what I would consider flex office or industrial space so not multi-story class a type of office environment and so we're really not seeing that demand for traditional or what I think most people outside of longmont would consider class a office space and in fact we're seeing our neighboring communities that have that product uh struggling to backfill those spaces and also having concerns about as those leases run up what's going to happen to them as companies start to uh shrink their footprint as a result of work from home policies so I guess you know that's kind of what I was expecting to hear uh says there have been conversations about the adaptive reuse of our current office space uh you know that's available within the city as far as you know looking forward to the possible shrinking of the footprints as you just mentioned because it provides us opportunities to do some different things with those those buildings or those sites uh that you know would not have been the topic of conversation just a few years ago so when we're talking about thank you uh mayor pro temerard we guess uh when we're talking about office space so uh the data source that we use and most real estate data sources are looking at kind of the more traditional office space and flex office space generally falls into that industrial category and I don't have the exact numbers in front of me I will provide them to you if you're interested but a significant portion of what is classified as office space in the city of longmont is medical office space so that space is full that space is being used as you know you see health built a whole additional medical office space building so our uh not just class a office space but our inventory of what would be considered pure office space as it relates to this numbers these numbers is almost negligible um where we would like to see that kind of adaptive reuse redevelopment is in uh again that kind of old prep portfolio stuff which would actually be counted in the industrial numbers because it's considered as flex industrial space and so would not be considered in this in in these office numbers but yes we would absolutely like to see redevelopment adaptive reuse of many of those spaces that sit vacant and will continue to sit vacant because regardless of pandemic or work from home or anything else they they just don't meet the needs of industry today all right thank you very much thank you thank you Jessica it's a really good report thank you have a good evening you too so now we're at public invited to be heard um so the first person on the list is poly christensen you have three minutes please state your name and address hello mayor peck council members and beloved former colleagues um i came to talk about um item 12 b which what oh okay okay um by the way 410 Judson street i came to talk about item 12 b which is under general business and it's the campaign the um amendments to the long mod fair campaign practice act um so what i looked for in the um print out to the description of the amendment was the word transparency and i didn't really see it but the entire point of the long month campaign act was to make long month's elections more fair and less corrupt through transparency all of these three suggestions uh do that and i would urge you to pass them they're simple and they are um uh they're very well thought out um suggestions the first one is simply a clarification of the fact that uh address is uh i could i could an email address tells people nothing i could register as mini mini mini mouse uh at gmail.com and it would tell people nothing about who i am um so these are problems that that are addressed in these issues um and they uh they've been going on for a number of years it's not really a recent problem um those who want their political donors to be secret and preserve privacy are really in the wrong business um these three suggestions also bring the city of long into alignment with the state campaign practices rules and in the case of Fort Collins LLC rules they've also been tested in court so i urge you to pass these thank you very much thank you poly oh strider benston i do uh strider benston 951 17th avenue i didn't realize poly was going to bring up the election long month i was on the election commission in 09 and it's very interesting what we were finding the people who took office uh under illegal out-of-state money then first time they had a session they abolished the election committee and disappeared so we never made a final report so all of that is still going on uh are currently illegally constituted supreme court is now making its own laws irrespective of precedent authority or constitutionality abolishing women's rights trying to abolish the right to vote and empowering guns over people and um the former guy who calls himself mr president um called up to threaten a witness for the investigation next week we'll see what comes out with that the supreme court already passed a judgment empowering rapists and incest people over women or or girl children and what i've mentioned before one time you have a massacre you create fear you sell guns two times you have a massacre you get more feel you sell more guns three times you sell more guns and then you have a supreme court that abolishes any right to restrict guns and um you create basically a civil war that is what almost happened when the when the mob attacked the capital in washington they most most of them didn't have their rifles with them why because washington dc had a policy you cannot carry machine guns in the city and they were going to confiscate them so i didn't bring their guns they had them stowed right across the river to bring them in once they took over the capital that would have created a civil war a race war with possibly my now millions dead that is the policy of the people who are pushing that line let us not fall asleep and um one new law that the supreme court is passing let's cripple the environmental protection association which was started by richard nixon um and now they would call him a communist because we want to save the planet and they're saying no you cannot have any consideration give it all to the corporations thank you thank you strider and now brian johnston hi i'm brian johnston in 926 coffman street and um you know issues are often brought before the council to which council has no authority to do anything about um at least as a legislative body um you know it's kind of due to doctrine of preemption as part of the supremacy cause clause where state preempts local and federal preempt state sometimes you'll issue statements or send a letter in support of something to someone and this is one such request i'm asking that city council stand with the women of our community whose privacy and health rights were just taken and i'm asked that you send an official letter to the colorado bar association asking them to address that their current member justice nil gorsuch who is a resident of boulder colorado and licensed under by licensed by the colorado bar and asked them to address the fact that he lied under oath during his confirmation hearing now i'm asking that you ask them that you request that they stand up for the ethics that they report to in their code of conduct it won't change the decision it um but it might get out of municipalities on board it won't it then ultimately it might at least at some level hold him accountable for his perjury any council member that doesn't want to sign on to it fine but um i just think it would be supportive of the women in our community and um and i think it would be the right thing to do to stand up for the ethics and values that that we should be standing up for and that it's not okay even if you're a supreme court judge to lie under oath and so i'll hope you guys will consider this and i appreciate your time thank you thank you brian so uh before we have the consent agenda we the counselors have been here since 5 30 i would like to take a five minute break if you wouldn't mind i think we're ready for the uh consent agenda so don't would you mind reading uh the consent agenda into the record absolutely mayor item 9a is resolution 2022 110 a resolution of the longmont city council approving the bolter county hazard mitigation plan for 2022 through 2027 9b is resolution 2022-111 a resolution of the longmont city council approving the intergovernmental agreement between the city and the colorado department of transportation for grant funding for high visibility impaired driving enforcement 9c is resolution 2022-112 a resolution of the longmont city council approving the amendment of the amended and restated special council contract between the city and kaplan kershin rockwell llp to expand the scope of work to include environmental and regulatory compliance special council services and item 90 is approved to capital improvement program amendments thank you do any counselors went to pull items off of the agenda seeing no uh no one that was to pull anything off of the agenda can i have a motion to move this agenda thank you and i'll second that so the consent agenda has been moved by council waters and seconded by myself let's vote all those in favor let's vote councillor martin are you there there she is so we just having a few technical difficulties hang on okay we can just uh we voted for on the consent agenda if you just want to tell us your verbal vote she did well that passes unanimously thank you so we're down to the ordinances on second reading and public hearings on any matter the first one is 2022-25 a bill for an ordinance making additional appropriations for expenses and liabilities of the city of longmont for the fiscal year beginning january 1st 2022 we have a staff report okay great good evening mayor city council i'm terry similloy budget manager and census appropriation is um quite large we thought we'd take just a few minutes and give you um some details on it um so the city's chart the city's charter requires that in that annual unspent appropriations lapse at the end of the year for all funds except our public improvement fund in addition the city's purchasing code requires that projects are fully appropriated prior to awarding a contract or a bid so what that means to us operationally is that any appropriation that was included in a prior year's budget that was budgeted for a very specific purpose or a project but not yet completed in that year will need to be carried over so um the 2021 capital improvement program included 84.7 million dollars in budgeted funding for a variety of projects that combined combined with 212.6 million in carryover from 2020 resulted in a rather large unspent balance remaining from 2021 that needs to be carried over for the specific purposes for which it was budgeted so this appropriation is um has really two components one 184.9 million dollars of carryover funding most of this is for cip projects that are continuing into 2022 and possibly beyond there are some um two very significant projects that I wanted to bring to your attention so WTR 189 which is the nelson-flanders water treatment plant expansion in this carryover appropriation there is 43.4 million dollars in the water fund and 12.1 million in the water construction fund and then the second um pretty significant project is WTR 183 which is the price park water tank price park tank replacement and that one is 24.3 million dollars in the water fund and 6.3 million in the water construction fund so those are the two most significant projects that make up the bulk of the carryover however we do have other funds that have pretty significant carryover projects and they include the electric utility for advanced metering the sewer fund for wastewater treatment plant master plan improvements the storm drainage fund for resilient st. vrain project the street fund for boston avenue bridge over the st. vrain river the open space fund for open space acquisitions the fleet fund for vehicles that were budgeted in 21 but due to supply issues were not received and there could therefore could not have been booked as an expense in 21 and then finally the utility billing cis fund for the replacement of the ongoing utility billing software system so the second type of appropriation included in this ordinance this evening is what what we typically bring to you outside of this big carryover so it's the typical things that you see from us pretty much every month and that is 34.3 point four million dollars so things like grants additional revenues that that were received but not budgeted and so with that I do have a few staff members behind me this evening in case you have any projects on anything specific I don't see anyone with questions on this I do I do have one Teresa and it's probably this is this is a this is a good report I'm thankful that you did it but I'm curious is there a place on the website that we can look at all of the projects and the dollars amount that were asked for in the budgeting process and where they are on that project oh and where they are on that project I guess I'm curious is to uh if if the budget and I ran this past Becky Doyle just this thought process if we if they asked for let's say two million dollars to for a specific project and the timeline would be two years three years that it would be provided but it's gone into four and five years how do we know where they are in that I'm curious it's where are they in that project whether it's street whether it's maintenance building I can jump in on that okay that was actually part of our conversations during budget reviews and one of the things that we're looking at is so we don't have a unified project management approach until people are managing the projects in different ways you know some use Microsoft projects some are using smart sheet depending on the scope of it and so what we're actually talking about right now and you may see this in the budget is how do we we really take a more unified approach and project management specifically project management software that can create dashboards and in terms of what we're doing some places do have dashboards but we need to bring it together as a city and in part of the reason why I want to see the dashboard is so I can look at where are we on this project here's what the you know you budget it you're supposed to start it at this point in time right are we on pace with what we're supposed to be and Becky and I are actually we had those conversations today about what is that going to look like but you will definitely see that in the budget process because we need to be able to move from a dashboard for the you know the project manager to the director to the ACMs to myself and then how we can share that with you to say here is the status of the projects and here's what we're doing oh that would be great Harold um I understand that this is operations right and we really don't have anything authority over that um but it would be nice to know when asked well even just for my own sake we see this project going on and it's been in process for five years when are we going to see uh what's the hold up is it going to be finished is it and part of it is uh the same brain bikeway you know I've had a lot of questions about that and I don't really know where we are in that process is that I do know that a lot of it had to do with RSVP correct yeah and that's part of what I mean you all budget the you approve the budget and expenditure of these funds and that's kind of why I want to look at this concept and where we're moving because I think it is important for you all to see it and and see where we are um on these projects um just to answer you know where we are on the same brain is we're moving into the Boston Avenue street project I'm kind of looking back at Becky so that's going to start in is it this year or next year so we hope to start this year Jim's there the other piece of that project is the work that's going to be done by the Army Corps of Engineers on the Isaac Walton piece that's coming into this and so you know those are the pieces that are now coming forward in that did I miss anything Jim and the other thing that's going to be important in completing RSVP is is the the bond election that we're looking at this year okay and being able to complete that once the recovery pieces the RSVP pieces of the same brain greenway are completed we have future phases of the phase 12 and phase 13 one going east and one going west and I keep losing track of which one goes which direction um and those are the sort of the next up pieces uh related to the greenway okay thank you for that that was a question I had you're good Jim okay good I can give you an update thank you very much I appreciate it so are there any other questions there any other questions by council no uh is there any thank you Teresa is there anybody from the public that would like to speak on on this ordinance seeing none can I have a motion to move ordinance okay move by move adoption Rodriguez I can't hear so we were wondering if do you have any I asked if there was any comments from council or from the public on ordinance 2022 25 and then ask for a motion to move this ordinance so the ordinance motion we did it was moved by mayor pro tim Rodriguez seconded by uh councilor um it was it was a Hedoggle fairing and now we're going to vote on it so that motion carried unanimously the second ordinance on second reading is 2022-26 a bill for an ordinance amending section 3.04.885 of the Longmont municipal code adopting an amended and restated city of Longmont general employees retirement plan do we have a staff report on this uh no mayor but Jim is here to answer questions okay do we have any uh do we have any comments from public would the public like to speak on this ordinance seeing none are there any questions or comments from council seeing none uh we need to admit um would someone like to move this ordinance all right it's been moved by councilor water seconded by council council yabra let's vote and that passes unanimously so we didn't have any items moved from the consent agenda so we'll move on to general business uh we need to recess as the Longmont city council and convene as the board of directors of the Longmont general improvement district number one we have a motion all right it's been moved by councilor waters to uh convene as the board of directors of the Longmont general improvement district number one and seconded by councilor yabra let's vote and that passes unanimously so um we have a resolution of RLGID 2022-02 it's a resolution of the board of directors of the Longmont general improvement district number one in acting a supplemental budget and making an additional appropriations for the expenses and liabilities of the district for the fiscal year beginning January 1st 2022 do we have any uh presentation on this or anyone want to speak to this resolution seeing none do we have any questions or comments from the council so I will move our RLGID 2022-02 I'll move this resolution it's been seconded by councilor waters let's vote and that passes unanimously can I have a motion to adjourn so it's been moved by Mayor Pro Tim Rodriguez to adjourn as the board of directors of the Longmont general improvement district number one and reconvene as the the Longmont city council it's been seconded by councilor uh a doggal fairing let's vote that carries unanimously the second thing under general business is an amendment to the Longmont fair campaign practices act do we have a presentation on this there's dawn good evening mayor and council I did not uh prepare a power point presentation but before you tonight is uh some possible amendments to the Longmont fair campaign practices act you all directed us to add the word street in and section 204 207 a we have provided a red line showing where that wording would be added that would clarify that in contribution and expenditure reports street address would absolutely be required without a doubt so that is one suggested amendment the other two were um the direction you all gave us was for my office to bring back any suggestions we had we had two uh one was to add ballot measures in under electioneering um and independent expenditure reporting requirements and you can see those changes in the red line as we proposed and the other was to um just amend slightly how the violations work instead of first requiring um our office to issue a notice of violation to allow us to have the conversation give someone the chance to cure it if they don't or can't then proceed with a notice of violation so just reversing that um it actually makes the flow better and the vast vast majority of complaints that we've seen are fixed within seven days so by and large the largest issue is someone forgot to file a report and they get them in with seven within seven days and then lastly um we were approached by uh some residents suggesting changes around LLC reporting requirements we did not draft those in the red line for you because that was we don't have that direction from council necessarily but while we had the hood open so to speak on this part of our municipal code engine uh we wanted to toss that question to you and ask if you while we are making changes in this section of code is that something council would like to see moving forward so tim whole assistant city attorney was kind enough to do a little bit of research around um the LLCs uh how the statute regulates LLCs and found that the we kind of concurred that the wording that fort collins has it accomplishes the same thing as the statute but it's just a lot easier to read than statute so that's why we provided that wording in the council communication so you could see what that might look like so we're really looking for direction about which um of these items you would like us to bring back for changes in the code so we'd bring back an ordinance for first and second reading okay do we have any communication on this uh questions concerns from counselors do we counselor waters thanks mayor pack um should i assume i'm going to assume based on the earlier conversation that the reason for adding the address and i assume somebody could provide sufficient guidance to candidates to make certain a PayPal account is opened in a way or or created a way that they could get to an address because i've had the experience of having very difficult time doing that but the interest the purpose of that is really accountability and transparency is that fair i i think i agree so and i and i'm down with that that's fine but but it does raise a question for me when we get to a paragraph that talks about a small group of residents i asked on for the names of residents she had one i don't know how many there are it strikes me as ironic that one provision in the interest of accountability that we add and and then another section where a small group of residents unnamed and we're going to spend time on on a potential legislation that we didn't ask for that a unnamed a group of residents came to somebody and got on a council agenda it's in my four and a half or so years on the council i don't recall that ever happening before can i just interrupt for a minute don did call and ask if uh if i thought it would be a good idea if i wanted to throw this in on then i'll direct my comments to you i don't recall this ever happening before and if a group of so here's a question for you if a group of developers rewrote our code or or wanted to see the code rewritten on land use or building codes or a group of gun enthusiasts wanted to rewrite our legislation on or or propose legislation on gun regulations or deregulation or prosper longmont who we do have names of would that just show up on the council agenda without any conversation ahead of time without direction from the council it possibly could if it's a subject that we're going to be discussing anyway this is just a discussion uh whether whether we wanted it on to be part of the codes we wanted to rewrite the codes or not it's it's kind of up to us so we can just throw it out and say let's bring this back on another agenda so this is an invitation to groups to to without request groups to rewrite or propose language or bring in the ordinances of other communities to longmont for our consideration without any con discussion at this level that's a good point let me just ask the question since that's inconsistent with our charter I wonder how we get here because the charter stipulates under ordinances section 4.8 we're not following it anyway that the council shall establish a committee on ordinance revision consisting of the city attorney the municipal judge and other and other member appointed by the council goes on from there I mean we that this sound seems to be consistent with the charter what we're doing right now okay good point so are we gonna are we gonna take this seriously and the way this came to us so um it's a good point can I hear from the other counselors as well as what what do you think about should we take this out would you what is it you would you would like to do continue with this discussion or take this out of our discussion tonight the mayor I have a question are you referring to the LLC or the street no I address or the whole it's not the whole thing no what he what it we're referring to is the amendment proposed by residents to regulate contributions by LLCs so um I mean I'm not ready to to adopt any language I approve of the three items that were listed on there and redlined um so my question is our councilor Hedoggle faring is do you want us to just take this out of this discussion tonight the amendments proposed by the LLCs well I wanted to hear a discussion first kind of and you had spoke to it a little bit um but the question is according to councilors waters it is not in the charter and I did not follow the charter so with that in mind do you want us to leave it in or take it out of tonight's discussion so well let's go ahead and take I I mean I would move to take it out okay of today's discussion and then let's look per our charter to to have a further to discuss that later but then does that mean that we remove all three items no I'm not even speaking to the substance at this point no I might because I don't understand some of it but my concern was just the process it's okay I took it I took your remarks seriously uh councilor Yarbrough thank you mayor peck um I if this is not what we're used to if this is not consistent with you know adding in uh a subject matter to discuss I think that we probably should bring it back to discuss it um that's my opinion but of course you know if this is the first time um that this is unusual for council then I think we should okay thank you and and I do um you know staff brought it to me so I think both of us kind of jumped and decided we needed to discuss this so it wasn't just it wasn't just my it was brought to me by staff um do you have any thoughts on this mayor protein thank you I think you know things that are on top of mind for a lot of folks in the way our governance works right now is not upending precedent um and so setting a new precedent tonight that could be open up a slippery slope uh as councilmember waters named some examples of how this could come back and bite us I think we should follow our standard rules and procedures and how we introduce items to the agenda and Tim I guess you have no no reason for for to be here because of that LLC I mean I did drop the parts I love the way you drafted it by the way so okay thank you we will remove that third part and then we will be taking discussion on the first three items that we brought up thank you mayor so do we have any um council mayor pro Tim uh thank you mayor peck um I have no problem with the addition of street address to it um is it a consideration that candidates will have to take into account in the coming elections yes but I think it does help provide that transparency that we heard spoken about by a member of the public as well as you know not so much and maybe the the most recent elections but there has been occasions in the fairly recent past where there was a lot of out of state money that was coming into city elections specifically during the oil and gas kind of issues that came up during the fracking ban so I don't have a problem with that red line change nor do I think that the suggestions from the city clerk's office I think they stand up to scrutiny so I would move that we approve all of those changes as written in the red line version do we have any other comments okay do I have a motion then do you accept those you move to second it's been moved by mayor pro Tim uh to accept the three options that were laid out to us by council to amend the fair campaign practice act and it has been seconded by councillor Hidalgo faring uh let's vote if you don't mind voting oh I'm sorry uh council waters just because we are working considering this then a first reading tonight no we would bring it back for first reading okay so this is the two direction to bring it back correct correct are you good with that okay great if you could vote by hand since I'm here and not there please thank you I thought you were magic all those in favor please raise your hand opposed so that passes unanimously uh with councillor martin and council member martin was in favor correct yes okay councillor martin I'm sorry I I should have spoke closer to the microphone did you hear all of that discussion I heard very little of the discussion as the meeting has gone on everybody's been getting farther away from their mics oh I'm so sorry that's okay well maybe I can call you tomorrow thank you okay very good mayor and council so we will put those into ordinance format get them on the next agenda for first reading okay thank you thank you very much so now we have a final call public being invited to be heard uh paul tiger uh where am I 350 kimbark anywhere that isn't my house um I actually wanted to thank you for adding a street to address I'd like to say that the the this is really kind of to tim the there are 10 people on this committee there are two former council members a city manager you've received emails from people you've talked to them this piece of the wording here for LLC limitation comes from state law it isn't something that was invented by a developer or someone in their basement it is followed state law the wording for fort collins was easier to understand and no you didn't bring it forward but I was thankful that it was proposed I hope that at some point in the future people here on the council will take a look at this code it's very simple to understand we've had many problems in the 10 years that I've been involved with it with LLCs and 501c4s which is you know state PACs funding you know opposition I think that in a few years we'll probably look to that larger code because we are a large city now and we have a lot of interesting problems like that thank you very much thank you paul mayor and council comments do we have any comments from counselors council waters um once upon a time in the last year we gave direction to staff that any residential any residential project that had we were a developer and applied or within the entitlement process it was in the queue for up to a year that would come to the council for reviewed we we haven't reviewed any in that in that time frame that have been in the queue for year I'm just curious have we have there been or there are none that have been the queue for a year or more that would have been subject to that direction mayor peck council member waters um currently glenn is pulling the data and I believe is going to send an info item to council with that update and there may be one that has been back and forth in the queue a few times so we're hoping to get that too in the by the end of this I'd be helpful I just that's where you know we had that conversation and we've never come back to it and I just for the interest of accountability you know just to make certain we were closing that loop kind of a related question I I read a paragraph from the charter tonight I don't even know if it's we're not doing it all right we're not we haven't appointed it and I'm not being critical of that we just haven't done it I'm sorry what well the creation the appointment of a of an ordinance revision committee oh okay that includes the city attorney the municipal judge which would be a curiosity and then one other person uh it's like we've just as we haven't had things like came we haven't followed that one in the whole four years I've been on the council either and it just begs the question have we ever the council was or the charter was adopted in 1961 it's been amended a dozen times since then has there ever been a citizen review of the charter any of those amendments are a result of a citizen review or they're the kind of one-off things that one of us or or or you know when things become a problem in so I'm going to interrupt just for a minute because this is a conversation that we had early on is that we need to look at this charter so I'm on board with it I just think I think it'd be good if we had a citizen review that so that that's the comment or at least I'm sorry at least a citizen on the review committee citizens not totally yeah I think when we when we looked at some of the charter amendments we were more focused on when we looked at the charter on the adjustments regarding the election obviously we have a lot of things that even we see in there that you know we kind of scratch our head and and similar to your point I've been here for 10 when I got here 10 years ago I don't think there was a ordinance revision committee I don't know if we've ever had one and and so it probably would be good to look at some of these issues especially as you know we see issues that are in our charter that aren't necessary necessarily in conformance with with state law and other things and so we've tossed that around I know we were really pushing aggressively in terms of the election component simply because we saw what that did and we didn't want that to occur but yeah so I don't think any of us are aware of one counselor Martin I see your hand up counselor Martin um yeah uh I am the person who introduced the motion that I think was the subject of Dr. Waters first question which is at since that motion was adopted have there been any development projects that included housing that have been have have elapsed longer than one year from application to approval that are that are still awaiting approval Dr. Waters I can't hear a word you say so would you please nod if that was if that was your uh the gist of your question so counselor Martin can I just jump in here I can't understand you either at this point bear back well I don't know what to tell you go ahead counselor Martin get in that microphone tell her what she knows to know counselor Waters can you hear me now and uh sort of I did raise yes I raised that question I I'm swallowing this microphone now and and Marcia no one here wants to hear what I had to say I don't think so just get in line for that I still I don't know the answer yes or no was that the subject of yes yes and are there any because we're going to get a report what you're you're going to get a report when it's in the process now Glenn Van Nemo again is putting it together now assistant city manager Joanie March said that she thinks there is one that we will be brought to us okay thank you that's all I needed to know because I couldn't hear it I think they could have heard me at the Dickens mayor and council Eugene may city attorney I've been here since 2009 there has been no uh ordinance uh committee we have done recodification which you know it's a charter adopted in 61 I'm not sure what the difference is between the recodification and the ordinance review committee um and we actually have recodification going on right now and so I I do think a lot of those provisions age I think with in terms of recodification we were I've been in conversation with the city clerk's office you know we hire a service muni code to update our code and it's online and is almost uh current on newly passed ordinances and so you know is that charter provision antiquated or outdated perhaps um and the ordinance review committee doesn't have that 10-year you know kind of hard timing it's periodically um and so we are in between periods apparently thank you I don't know what we do with that except for maybe get a committee together and review but we can we can discuss that and perhaps make a think about it make a motion at the next meeting to direct staff on the way we want to go I have actually seen this done in the community that I worked in prior to this and um there is different ways to approach it so if you all want to do that then we can as staff look into it and give you some options that would be great thank you Harold so back to you city manager do you have any remarks no comments mayor council city attorney Eugene no comments mayor great can I have a motion to adjourn so it's been moved by council water seconded by uh councilor hidalgo fairing to adjourn all those in favor say aye all right we are adjourned