 Christian sin. Thank you. Council member dog a fairing. Here. Council member Martin. Here. Council member pack. Here. Council member Rodriguez. Here. Council member waters. Here. Mayor, you have a quorum. Great. Tim, have you led the pledge yet? No, I haven't. All right. Back to the school days, my friend. Could you lead us? All right. I pledge allegiance to the flag. Of the United States of America. And to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God. Indivisible with liberty and justice for all. All right, great. Thanks, Dr. Waters. All right, just a quick reminder. Thank you. Anyone wishing to provide public comment during first call public invited to be heard. We'll need to watch the live stream of the meeting. And when the call in information is displayed on the screen, like you're seeing right now, please call that number. And then we'll call on you. After, after, after, after it's your turn. Calls will be. Callers will hear confirmation. They have entered the meeting. And you'll be told how many people already participating in the meeting. Callers are then placed on hold and muted until then. Until it's your turn. And you'll be called out according to the last three digits of your phone number. So, um, all right. Let's move on to approval of minutes. We have a motion to approve the July 14th, 2020 regular session minutes. So moved. Also. It's been moved. It's moved by councilor Martin seconded by councilor Peck. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. All opposed say nay. Yeah. Okay. Motion passes unanimously. All right. Looks like. Do you have any agenda revisions? Anybody else? Oh, sorry. I see that. I see that there's a revised ordinance for item 10 a. Regarding the dismount zones. Very good. Thank you guys. I see that, but right now just, there, are there agenda revisions or submission? The motion's direct city manager and. In staff to bring back future agenda items. for? Paulie? Okay. Um, a while back, um, I requested a, um, the police department to report on their use of force. That was mainly to educate the public. But, uh, in the meantime, the Housing and Human Services Advisory Board, uh, began a discussion that went over, well, we had many meetings on it, um, on whether we should defund or divert police funding by 10% to Housing and Human Services. I just wanted you to be aware that this was happening, but they decided not to go forward with it. However, it is a concern. Um, but I would like to amend, I know that, um, the city manager and, uh, the police department is working on that, um, use of force statement. I would like to amend it to include, um, whether they, whether our police department ever uses medical injections such as was used on Elijah McCain, who was given an injection, uh, that was twice as large as his body weight could handle, which resulted in a heart attack for a 23-year-old. And I think our community needs to know whether we give injections to people or not. So I would like to amend or add on to that, um, that the statement of whether what kind of medical, um, whether we use medical injections to calm, uh, arrestees. Do I have a second? All right. Uh, there is no second, but, um, Harold, when are you, um, when is that, when is the use of force policy coming back? Um, we said we hope to, hope to have in a couple of weeks. Rob is getting me the data this week to review as part of that, and we'll have that put together as well as an update on the PSU. And Councilmember Christensen, you are still free to ask that question when they're presenting. I will. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. Mayor Beck? Councilmember Peck? Yep. Thank you. Um, I, I agree with Councilwoman Christensen, but, um, I would like to have this in this report, not, not only do the police use into any type of injections to calm a, an arrestee or do the EMT, uh, people use any injections. So just how has that worked? Do we use it at all? Include that in the report. Thank you. We don't need to take a vote. Do we, Harold, you can just include something there? Just let him know. Yeah, I can, I can answer part of it. We do use Narcan for, um, um, individuals that are, um, overdosing on opiates. Opiates. Um, in terms of fire and police, we have paramedics, and so depending on the health condition, we have pro protocols that we follow by physicians in terms of what we use, but that's driven by a different set of medical protocols. But we'll have that in there. All right. Are there any other questions? Okay. All right. That said, let's move on to City Manager's report and update on COVID-19. Harold? Uh, Mayor and Council. Um, so one thing that I want to touch on is not, technically not COVID related, but it is this year. So I did want to report to you all, um, that based on our mosquito trapping, um, we are going to be spraying. Um, um, on Thursday evening, we are following our policy and notifying those folks that are requesting the shutoffs, uh, for the spraying. Um, we do have our, um, our city's mosquito control contractor is Vector Disease Control International. Um, they have some informational dashboards. Um, folks can request shutoff service in front of their house. Um, we also, um, have a willingness to investigate potential larva sites. Um, and we provide email notifications adjacent to the applications on that. Um, we've been trapping mosquitoes since June 15th, um, in 12 different locations to determine the trends and actual numbers. Um, and we've been looking at our wet and standing water areas for mosquito larva production. Um, um, they had the, um, first West, now positive mosquito identified in the three county reading region, which is Boulder, Weld and Larimer. Um, we had individual neighborhood traps exceed 150 adult female mosquitoes. Um, we're going to, the spraying will generally take place in neighborhoods after 9pm. Um, the reason we wanted to bring this out to council tonight is because we have been in conversation with Boulder County Health. Um, obviously they are encouraging the spraying of mosquitoes based on the fact that we are continuing to be in the COVID situation. Um, they want to reduce the likelihood that we add, um, people who develop West, now disease on top of it. And so this is a twofold, um, situation that we're getting into, but, um, wanted to let you all know that we're doing that. The press release will be going out as soon as I update council on this so people can request the shutoffs, but this is related to the broader issues that, that we're seeing in terms of managing other diseases at this time. So that's what we're going to be doing. I wanted to take this opportunity to remind everyone about the four D's that we stress, um, dust to dawn, limit your outdoor outdoor activity. If you're out there utilizing insect repellent with DEET, um, dress in the appropriate clothing to avoid being bitten. And if you have any areas around your property that retain water, make sure that you don't, um, you do something to alleviate that problem. So that's where we are. Um, just another piece, uh, in the puzzle, not directly related to it, but wanted to reiterate based on our conversations with Boulder County health, they are encouraging us to do this, uh, to limit, um, you know, um, potential of someone contracting westbound. Any questions on that? Look like it. Thank you, Harold. Appreciate it. Anything else? Yeah, I'm just going to go really quickly over the numbers. Um, if you all want to see the graphs, I can show you the graphs. Let me call that up. Um, generally, again, you're seeing the three-day average in Colorado. Um, I'm going to show you the counts. If my computer responds, I've been having issues here. Okay. Again, you can see it decreasing. This is really echoing what the governor talked about today in his press conference. Um, we're trying to get those slides, but, um, if you look at it, one of the, I think the important, um, components on that is, um, they sort of, they had a red, orange, um, in green diagram. Boulder County was actually one of the few counties in the front range that was in the orange. Um, as soon as we get that, we will, um, provide that to council. Um, again, I'm pointing this out because this is really where a lot of the targeting of the conversation is coming in. And when you see the chart associated with Boulder County, you're going to see a significant difference in terms of the age range of people that are, um, testing positive again, um, higher in the 20 to 29-year-old population. And statewide, you can see this general decline. Um, this, this diagram is the one that the governor was referencing today on his, um, on his press conference. And what you really see is what's happening in, in other communities when we were at the, the peak in April for us, you could see a 25% positive rate. That's really what they're seeing in some of the, um, locations in the, in the states that are considered the hotspots today and in Colorado. Um, 4.56. Um, so we've really been hovering around this 5% recently, even with the, the increased number of positive cases in Colorado. Um, Boulder County, again, as I said earlier, is doing, um, fairly well, um, as we look at the rest, many of the counties within the state. Uh, again, you can see the high points in Boulder County. Um, and you can see, again, as we watch trends, you're seeing the graphs move in a very similar fashion. The difference in this is I am going to, again, call attention to the Y axis on this one. When you see many places talking about generating hundreds of cases, um, you know, our high point in Boulder has still been 45. Um, but you can see the movement in the graph that mimics what we're seeing at the state level. Um, the last few days have been pretty good. We're still, um, probably a few days to week out of seeing what the impact is of the new masking order and, um, the closures of, uh, establishments after 10 p.m. Um, but hopefully the data will continue trending in this direction. Um, this is the 5-day rolling average of percentage COVID-19 positive PCR tests. Again, you can see the difference. We've really been trending in Boulder County below 4% um, in those tests. And then when you look at the number of tests that are being done, again, you're seeing, I remember the 500 number, which was the, um, I think the Harvard study that indicated what we needed to try to do on a daily basis, um, to get a look at what's going on in our community. And you're really seeing here, uh, that they're, they're moving above that number. We're not hearing of any issues with testing. Um, I know driving today at one of the drive-through sites, uh, on Main Street, there were a number of cars there with folks getting tested. Uh, but again, um, large number of tests, um, few positives below the 45 range is what we're seeing. Um, this is the graph that I wanted to show you when, when you looked at the state graph in terms of where, um, the positive tests are being generated. Um, you know, the state had more of this gradual incline like this. What we're really seeing, um, in Boulder County is again in this 20 to 29 year old population. And that's where you're seeing a lot of the, um, the work being done in terms of communicating, um, with, with the, um, public information that they're putting out, especially as the university's getting ready to go in session, the county has, um, worked to, they are creating, um, situation where they work or a program where they work with individuals from the community. And I know they're really focused on, um, trying to get some college-age students on that group so they can, um, you know, increase the communication in this age range. Uh, once again, a five-day average of number of new cases, um, again, you can see the movement, the high peak down, up, and then you can see it starting to vacillate. And we hope we can continue on this trend. Um, residents, this is per 100,000. Uh, again, I want to point out what you're seeing is Lafayette moving up in the per 100,000, even though they don't have 100,000. Same for Lewisville, but when you look at the actual number of cases, uh, Boulder is now at 707, where it's 626. Um, again, that is really directly, you can really start seeing those age demographics starting to play in the community numbers and the number of people protesting positive. And then this is the demographics in terms of white, non-Hispanic, Hispanic, Latin X in the different communities. Um, if you remember last week I talked to you, I think it was 36, I can't remember if it was with Council or with the City Wide Web Acts. At one point it was 36.8, another point 36.2, now 35.9%. So you're actually seeing this number start to drop, which then is starting to correspond with where you're seeing the age demographics in terms of, um, who, who is testing positive. Um, this is a good one. Uh, again, this talks about what we're seeing in long-term care facilities versus not associated with it. I think the good news for us as we continue working in this, you saw we were really hit hard in long-term care facilities early on in this. Not necessarily seeing that at this point. Um, and then this is where we stand in terms of hospital services in Boulder County. Again, I do have access to some other data sets that gets more detailed in terms of what's available, but we're still in, in pretty good shape. A lot of people will, will draw attention to this available med surge beds. Again, I put the caveat that that we are still doing elective procedures and other normal hospital work. So, so that will adjust this, but in terms of ICU beds available, non-critical vans and critical vans, we're still in really good shape in terms of the hospital system. As of yet, I haven't heard of anything locally in terms of us being at capacity. Um, I have had that question recently based on what people are seeing in areas and other states. Stop sharing. So we're still in, in, in pretty good shape in terms of hospital capacity. And I haven't heard anything where, where individuals are getting concerned now. I think the big thing that if you look at the takeaway from what the governor said today, this really is about, as you've heard me say before, keeping our numbers down so that we can continue moving forward in terms of supporting everyone in our community, but especially our business owners and the people that are employed by these businesses because they are making decisions based on the numbers. What the governor did indicate today in his press conference is that if they see surges in counties where there are variances, they will reach out and contact them. And they have to have a pretty aggressive plan to minimize those surges. They will watch it. If they're not able to do that, they'll actually remove some of the variances that the counties have already have that they have in play. So again, really important for us to, um, you know, manage three things, wear our masks, socially distance and wash our hands. I may have mentioned it to this group. There was a really interesting medical study out that said if we do those three things, it has the potential to be almost as impactful as a vaccine. So those are the things we need to do. We obviously, now internally within the organization, we have opened up the library, which is good. Most of our facilities are now opened up to a certain extent where they're not fully open. And I know it's frustrating to some of our residents where we have to register for things we're not normally used to registering for. I know there was an email regarding swimming pool use at sunset. And you know, we do that on a 14 day period. We know people are almost waiting for that next 14 day cycle to come open to register. But we're watching that pretty close to make sure that everyone has an opportunity to use it, but it is a registration format. And that's how we're going to work on a number. That's how many of our programs are working. You may hear another question about the library because we are requiring masks within our library and you go, well, what about the health exemptions? The difference in that is because we're providing alternate options for individuals like curbside pickup and some of the other things. It actually does allow us to have a slightly stronger stance on that. And that's also part of what we have to do in terms of the requirements that we have in terms of sanitizing the number of things people touch and so on and so forth. So we're continuing to move forward. You know, we are continuing to really watch our staff in terms of people who get sick. You know, before I was saying we have no more than 15 people in our staff have a positive. Actually, the number was seven that I got last week. So as we've started this, I believe we've only had seven of our staff members test positive for this. Again, really important that, you know, I think that's a credit to them and what they're doing. You know, we've had at least 400 people working through this, working with people who we know are positive here, our public safety. And it's a matter of really following those protocols and really wearing the mask and socially distancing when you can and moving through those systems. So, you know, that's far where, you know, again, we're continuing to move through it, continuing to monitor what's going on, staying in contact with our colleagues. The big piece that's associated with this now is really the work that we're doing on our budget, also managing our 2020 numbers. So we're doing a couple of things. We're managing 2020 and really looking at what the revenue streams look like for this year's budget. And we're watching the same revenue streams to develop next year's budget. And so a fair amount of work right now coming in on the financial side. You all will be hearing more about that in the next few weeks. But again, continuing to move through it. And thus far, I haven't really seen anything in the last week or so that is a significant change or anything that is concerning me. If you all have any questions, I'll be happy to answer those. Susie? Yeah, a couple of questions. So early on, but I didn't want to interrupt you. You were talking about the positivity rate in Colorado and Boulder County. So at one period, I thought we were at 7%. I mean, it changed, it fluctuates so much. But where are we at currently? For Boulder County or for the state? Both? Yes. The state positivity rate is, as of July 27, 2020, was 4.56%. 4.56, uh-huh. And the county percentage was, I've got it on a different slide. Let me pull that up. I should have just interrupted you. 3.3%. Let me show you this screen. Okay. And if you all can see this. Is a 5% or less? Is that correct? Pardon? Opening, you know, opening businesses, schools. I don't know if the state's really used a percentage point. I know early on, we were talking about that as being a threshold. Well, if you remember, beginning of this, we were talking about dipping below 10% positivity rate. Then we said, we want to move below a 5% positivity rate. And as the governor was talking about it today, when you're about at 1% or 2% positivity rate, that is where you ideally want to be. And Boulder County, I just received this from Jeff today. I haven't had a chance to really look at it in depth. But if you can see the current five-day average percent positive, it's 3%. On July 1st, we are at 3.3%. Okay. All right. Thanks, Harold. What else? Oh, one more thing. Okay, Susie. Sorry. It was a two-fold question. He was going too fast. The sunset, the pools, typically on Labor Day. But given that we are limiting the amount of opportunities for people to get out there, is there talk of extending the closure date for the season? I know that Jeff is looking at a number of these things. I think it changes a little bit with the way schools are opening as well. Because normally, we close about that time because it actually costs you more because it's pretty much dead for a few days. But Jeff is looking at that, and I will follow up with him and see where he is in terms of what he's evaluating. Here comes Karen. Do you have an answer to that? Yes. Karen Roni, Community Services Director. So the answer is yes. Jeff and Recreation staff are indeed able to do that. So yes. Okay. Thank you. All right. Anything else, Dr. Waters? Yeah. Harold, I keep kind of rolling the data on testing around from week to week. The 500 number that you mentioned tonight, and that Jeff talked about, from an epidemiological standpoint, given the size of our population, is a sufficiently large N number of participants to determine whether or not there's community spread. That's lower than 5 percent. If it tells us whether or not we're getting community spread. It doesn't really tell anybody. It tells us anything about a specific population. No. So if some subset of the population in Longmont wanted to get tested, a church group, an athletic team, to make certain that none of them were infected. Is it stated this way? Is there anybody in Longmont who wanted to be tested, not able to get a test, or on the positive, everybody who wants one can get one? First of all, the question. Second, if he answers yes, what's the turnaround time in terms of results? So hard question. So yes, there are the public testing sites here in Longmont. I believe Salud is one that does that. I know that the hospitals are also doing that and working with, and what I mean, hospitals, and UC Health, I believe, and LU8 are working with Boulder County Health. There are also private labs that are doing the testing that you can pay for. And so to answer the question, there are multiple venues for people to be tested. In terms of our case with our staff, what we do is we run them through our insurance provider to ensure that they can get tested. We are in daily contact with them. And so what I would say to anybody that has a business or has insurance, that's also what they need to do to ensure that. And Joanne knows generally the turnaround time. So it could be anywhere from 24 hours, 24, 48 hour period to three to five days, depending on where they go. And so it varies by location. So it's kind of hard to say, here's the number. So if groups of people in the community, whether it's a church or a youth sports team, or an adult sports team, wanted to go to adopt a protocol, not unlike we're seeing with professional sports, right, that we want to make certain we're tested on a regular basis to make certain that no one in this mix is infected. Can they go through the drive-in clinic or site? Those that are through the state that are free that you hear the governor talking about, I believe they can do that. And do you know what that turnaround time is? I don't know off the top of my head what that one is. Okay, so that, I'll let it go. That raises two questions for me about, you know, about other decisions that get made based on testing availability and kind of the rigor of testing regimes. What do we know about tracing? So right now, I know Boulder County has probably the most capacity in terms of tracing as those positives are coming into the system. So early on, we were talking to the Jeff about providing staff, if necessary, they haven't had to request that from us. So they've done really well in terms of bringing that tracing capacity forward. I know that they also have IGAs with all of our surrounding counties where if any one of us got hit excessively hard, that the other county health departments could come in and support on that tracing. But, you know, based on what I've heard, they're doing really, they're doing well in terms of tracing capacity right now. So we're in Boulder County, we're tracing every, every positive result. That's what I'm aware of when they come in, when they're made aware of those, they're working on the tracing component. And to give you an example, we actually had a situation where that occurred on one of our adult sports teams. So when it occurs and something we're doing, we're also simultaneously, we're also reaching out to the county and talking to them about this and then they're advising us in terms of what we need to do in the broader sense of that, that event, whatever that event is. And so we work closely with them on the tracing. And my last question, I'll shut up. It's the, I know that the testing center in North Maine's a drive-through, right? Yep. Is that also true at Salud? I don't know how Salud's doing it. I can find out and get that information to you. Well, yeah, just because, because that would, if it is, then you'd have to have a car to get tested. And we have a bunch of residents without cars and, and they're kind of left out of the testing opportunity if they need one. So it just would be helpful to know. Yeah. And what I can do is I'll get Joanne to put all the testing information together because she's really the one that does it for all, all of us. I learned today on something else that she said, well, if we can't do it here, I want to send this person to here or here. And this is a turnaround time. So I'll have Joanne aggregate all of that and send that to Council. Very good. Thank you. That would be helpful. Thanks. All right. What else, Harold? That's all I have for today. All right. Great. Let's go ahead and let's move on to, there's no special reports, right? All right. Let's go ahead and move on to first call public, everybody to be heard then. So if you are listening to this, please call 1-669-968-33 and when prompted enter the meeting ID 817-9591-5872. So we're going to go ahead and take a five minute break and we'll be right back. All right. Mayor, we will give our guests just another few seconds to get logged in. Looks like we're holding at eight. Mayor, we're ready when you are. Those guests that we've just let in give us just a minute. I will be identifying you individually by the last three digits of your phone number. I will call out that phone number and let you know I'm unmuting you. And if you can please state your name and address for the record, you will have three minutes. Let me know, Mayor, when you're ready. All right. We're ready. All right. The first caller I'm going to unmute. Your phone number ends in 274. I've unmuted you. Do you hear me? How many total do we have? Yes, I can. One moment. Mayor, we have eight guests that I've let in. All right. Perfect. I'm sorry. Let's go ahead and start. Thank you. So caller, please state your name and address. You have three minutes. My name is Susan Summers. My address is 1418 Galilee Lane. I'm here tonight to address some serious concerns with the Prairie Dog extermination permitting process. Recently, a landowner was caught red-handed violating our Prairie Dog ordinance. Exterminators were on site ready to exterminate without a permit when thankfully Prairie Dog advocate Jeremy Gregory witnessed the violation and was able to stop it. Discussions then kind of ensued a little bit with a suggestion from advocates to amend our ordinance to allow for a 12-month hold on applying for a permit when someone has so very clearly violated this ordinance. Obviously, that has not happened, and so this landowner has now applied for a permit, applied for an issue of permit, a Prairie Dog extermination permit. The application for this permit shows a very obvious attempt to stay below the 1.5-acre threshold for a major permit. I emailed each council member with, I apologize, a council member had to all go. I did not have your email address. I did email an image that shows a ridiculous 68-sided polygon encompassing 1.34 acres of a 2.85-acre parcel. There are very clearly open burrows just outside many of the edges of this absurd polygon, and that has been verified today by Jeremy Gregory, who will also provide more information later. Does anyone actually believe that when the exterminator arrives on this parcel that they will follow the boundaries of this 68-sided polygon? I certainly don't think so. The exterminator will hit every burrow on the 2.85 acres. Advocates are requesting, as allowed, in the ordinance language to have city staff review this property. We are asking tonight for council to direct staff to place a hold on this permit. These dogs are scheduled for extermination this Thursday, the 30th. As advocates, we have all of the burden in finding relocation sites. We should not also be required to verify information submitted with an extermination application. It is very easy to see the issues with this 68-sided polygon within what is really a 1.77-acre active prairie dog site. This permit should never have been issued. Thank you very much. We're well over the three minutes, but thank you. All right, next. Mayor, the next caller. Your number is 328. I'm going to unmute you. If you could please state your name and address for the record. Yes, my name is Chris Vosnick. I live at 1609 19th Avenue here in Longmont. I'm calling tonight to speak about the bike dismount ordinance, as it's currently written. I do think that there's some merit in the overall idea. However, I vehemently disagree with the fine structure that will ultimately either go unenforced or disproportionately affect our lower income residents, all in the middle of a global pandemic. Tragically, there was no real discussion on the last reading by council members or city attorney that instead of the murky assumption that, quote, the courts will figure it out, the fine should have been spelled out in a structure within the ordinance. Something more akin to a $25 first offense with increases for repeat offenders makes far more sense than a $300 maximum fine on first offense that could potentially be more than violent offenses and could very well mean the difference between contempt of court and food, medicine, or housing expenses for our poorest residents. In addition to this, the way this ordinance is being implemented is only serving to say that bikes are unwelcome in the downtown area at a time when we desperately need all of the visitors we can possibly get. While the restaurants may be doing better on the weekends due to the street closers, the restail establishments are generally bemoaning the lack of street parking during the week for less foot traffic. Please do not harm them further with a disproportionate fine that will potentially scare away the bike riders as well. If council would like to enact something far more imperative, please pass a face mask ordinance and direct LPD to actually enforce it. We seem to be currently sitting around 60 to 70 percent compliance, but we can and need to do better. Longmont could very well be the beacon for Colorado and enforcement from public health orders and the example for other cities as we try to beat COVID. Thank you for your time. All right. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next. Mayor, the next guest. Your phone number ends in 470. You are now unmuted. Can you hear me? I can. Can you hear me? Yes, we can. You may begin. Good. This is high greetings, folks. Michael Belmont, 841 Sinacity Drive. Here at Longmont. I want to tackle the fracking issue, which is coming up a little bit later and just make a couple of comments on which I'm extremely concerned. In February of 2018, a fracked well, it was kind of an inconsequential well or not a huge one, and Ohio had a casing failure, blew out gushing methane for almost three weeks, resulting in one of the biggest leaks in U.S. history, greater than many countries' entire years leakage by the entire industry. Casing failures are on the rise in this industry for a number of reasons, including operators cutting more corners because of acute financial distress that's just now pervasive in the industry. But more importantly, wells are much longer now requiring far greater pressure, and whereas four or five fractures was common in the past as recently pointed out in the Journal of Petroleum Technology, they now sometimes do 150 to 200 fractures closely spaced together, which puts far more stress on casings than ever before. So longer wells require greater pressure to blast the fracking fluids greater distances. And since the shale industry has consistently lost money on the shorter wells, they now bet on much longer ones, which is clearly a dangerous gamble given the recent history of failures. And I needn't elaborate on the dangers of failed casings to groundwater and even leakage of methane in the air as happened in the Ohio incident, thus monitoring, which can be a tool pointing to these dangerous leaks, whether below or above ground, is more important than ever. And accordingly, I would strongly urge the city to retain that live helmet to monitor our air quality based on his vast experience knowledge and expertise in this critical health arena. And I just kind of want to emphasize or express my fears. And as have been a fears of many citizens involved in the fracking issues, that who's going to play pay the cleanup costs of these spills and leaks, they can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not way more. Whether it's from operators leaving incomplete work, failures of nonplugged, improperly plugged or very old plugged wells, operator carelessness, errors, cutting costs, inevitable accidents, technical failures, abandoned wells, passage of time failures. I mean, we as taxpayers will be left holding the bag and that $7,600 we are paying caracan to police top and cubs cleanup of the recent stamp well leak is a pittance compared to what may be coming. All right, Mr. Bell, we're over three minutes, but thank you very much. Very good. Thank you. All right. All right, next. Our next caller is your phone number ends in 630. I have unmuted you. Can you see and hear us? I mean, can you hear us? Yeah, I can hear you. Can you hear me? Yes, you may begin. My name is Anna Rivas, and I live at 4501 Nelson Road in Longmont. And I am calling with regards to that furry dog colony that slated to be poisoned on Thursday. As Susan mentioned, when she was speaking, the polygon that was drawn around in order to take the acreage count is just a crazy gerrymandered polygon. I mean, who does that? It looks like it was drawn by a drunk having a really hard time walking around while playing ring around the prairie dog colony. It's absurd. And it's obvious what what the intentions were. So I am calling to request that the permit be pulled immediately until the property can be reviewed. And also I wanted to mention that the signs need to be changed to make it to include the location. I had seen a sign that somebody had posted to Facebook and it turns out it was that sign, but I couldn't tell where it was. And I wasn't sure who had posted it. So I didn't have a way of find easily finding out where it was. I just knew it was somewhere in Longmont. So it took a little time. I gave the information to Susan who was able to figure it out, but that information should be readily available. It shouldn't have to be something that we have to hunt down. It should be very simple to see the sign regardless of if there's an image taken of it or posted somewhere, where it is, what the parcel pertains to it. Thank you. Thank you. All right, next. Our next call are your phone number ends in 882. I've just unmuted you. Can you hear us? Yes. Can you hear me? Yes, you may begin. Mayor, I'm sorry, Scott Conlon, 1014 Fifth Avenue, Biskill Longmont. Mayor, City Council and staff, Monday, Biskill Longmont board members, including myself, met with City Traffic Cleaner Phil Greenwald and LDDA Executive Director Kimberly McKee to discuss the proposed mandatory dismount ordinance that's on tonight's agenda for second meeting. We discussed the Biskill Committee's concerns with having a safe reasonable place to ride to and from downtown since we're down to one lane on Main Street and obviously we don't want bikes on the sidewalks. In the end, we've listened to the concerns that the LDDA had as well as the city has for safety for people in town. As we said before, Biskill Longmont and our riders are for the dismount zone as long as it's one enforced correctly and two, that there is a safe and reasonable place for people to ride in and out of downtown. So in the end, we came up with a compromise on the ordinance, which is in your agenda tonight, proposed as 10a1. And we outlined some several work orders, which I emailed you earlier this week that I'll go over as well. First, in the ordinance change, it reflects that there is no alley on the east side of Main Street south of second, where the apartments are. As well on the west side of Main, south of third, there's a bus stop and there's a detour that exists between second and first now, which doesn't make sense to have a dismount. So we're proposing that the dismount zone is from third to Long's Peak on the west side and second to Long's Peak on the east side. Second, with enforcement, we love the new signs to be up as soon as possible, but due to the lack of Rangers not starting until 2021, see that enforcement, direct that enforcement will start later in 2021. This will give us space and time to educate the public and to intervene with those who are riding on the sidewalk now, which comes to the third point. So let's direct if we could have City Council direct staff in LVDA to develop educational materials in terms of handouts, posters, bus advertising, and that sort of thing about the new bike route that we went over as well as the mandatory dismount zones, we would be all for that. And fourth, we ask that City Council direct staff in LVDA to develop positive signage to direct riders to the bike lanes using the alleyways and support safe crossing of the avenues mid-block with proper signage. So thanks a lot for all your time and effort. And I know this has been a long time coming. We've been working on this for five years as well. So thank you. Take care. Thank you. All right. How many more do we got to go? Two more? Three more, sir. Caller your phone number ends in 119. I'm going to unmute you and then the next caller after that is 332 and you can be ready. Caller 119, you're unmuted. Hi, this is Karen Dyke. I'm at 708 Hayden Court, Mr. Mayor and Council members. First, I want to request that Dr. Helmings' contract be renewed when it comes up for renewal less next month. I use that debt almost every day. I have asthma, COPD, so knowing the air quality is vital to understand whether I dare spend extensive time outdoors. The ACEs when benzene and toluene are high mean that I can't spend much time outside. The data from long knot monitoring is much more reliable than waiting for the ozone alert from regional data which comes in at 4 p.m. Between the ozone and air pollution from fracking, I spend much of my day cowering in my air conditioned home. I do worry about asthmatic children who might not have air condition. I urge you to study the information Dr. Helmings gives tonight and consider how we might make sure residents, especially those at risk of health concern, utilize this data. Second, I note that there's a brief update on the cleanup at the stamp well site to be given later. I urge council to follow the spill cleanup closely. Form 27 filed with the COGCC on July 10th reveals a lot about this site. It's 700 feet from Union Reservoir. They're domestic water wells within a quarter mile. This spill was produced water, which is a toxic byproduct of fracking and extraction operations. Top operating states that they will install monitoring wells into additional sampling of water and soil. Soil samples taken at the site exceed the BTECS limits listed on table 910-1 in the COGCC regs. One water sample was taken. It is also listed as exceeding those limits. As an FYI, BTECS is benzene, toluene, ethyl benzene, and xylene. Surface water was not tested. So my question is whether Union Reservoir is contaminated. We need to make sure that adequate testing is completed. My request is that you carefully consider whether this company that potentially contaminated this wonderful water source should be allowed to drill at another site so close to the reservoir before a total cleanup of soil, groundwater, and surface water is completed. They need to clean up the mess that they currently made first. Thank you very much. Thank you. Our next guest, your number ends in 332. You've been unmuted. Do you hear me? Guest 332. I've unmuted you. Hello. You may begin. Hello. My name is Missy Nicoletti. I live at 1261 Button Rock Drive, Longmont, Colorado, 80504. And I wanted to express how I'd like Dr. Hemlick's testing to continue through the quality monitoring sites in Longmont. They've been extremely helpful. I have a history of bronchitis, so I do check them every day. And I'm very concerned about the air quality in our city. I'm on Union Reservoir probably four to five times a day, excuse me, a week. And then I also live maybe five minutes from Union. I've been monitoring the Stamp Well site every since February. And I've noticed recently, if I'm going past it on my boat, that there's some type of chemical smell coming off of it, which concerns me, and I know mitigation is going on. I did witness three weeks ago when I was on my paddle board that smoke and something was burning out of that site. And several people on the water were really concerned what was really happening. I noticed yesterday there's still a lot of activity out there. So my major concern, of course, as always, has been to protect that area. A lot of families use that area. People fish and need to finish out of there. There's children swimming and just expressing overall concern of air quality and also the contamination of water. Thank you for your time. Thank you. All right. Our last guest, your phone number ends in 972. Ivan muted you. Could you please state your name and address for the record? You may begin. That is Jeremy Gregory here, 238 Sweet Valley Court, Longwood, Colorado. Hope everyone's doing well and staying safe and committing to madness. And obviously, speaking of madness, as Susan and Anna has shared, we have a situation going on here in the village where we have an individual that has already been in violation of the ordinance once before. I caught them in the act of actually poisoning. And this explanation needs to be stopped come Thursday. You guys, I would even go as far to say that this individual now needs to be given a one-year sanction due to his history. Not a developer. He's coming in. He's now falsifying information to cut corners. When you look at the credit and it goes to show that this guy will have to do whatever he can to save me and just get these credit. I think he has anything slated to be built there. So by the rush, what rid of a colony, he doesn't have my knowledge set to be built. But last but not least, we need to have an amendment that is going to give this ordinance teeth. This is, I think, now the fourth time where an entity or an individual has come in and arrogantly and flippantly broken this ordinance and there's no enforcement. This is ridiculous. This is like spitting on the effort and energy that you all put into drafting this ordinance. And for me, especially living in this community, it's disgusting and insulting. So I'm really hoping that you guys will stop this extermination from happening on Thursday because we have concrete events that this guy's coming in and willing to have no announcement for citizen advocates. And we already have a crazy loss with this pandemic. I implore you to consider putting the sanction on this guy, at least stopping this thing on Thursday so that we can get a handle on some enforcement support that we've all put so much time and effort and energy into. So thanks for considering. And yeah, that's where I'm at. Thank you so much, guys. I appreciate it. Thank you. That's exactly three minutes, Jeremy. Thank you. All right. Let's move on to the consent agenda, an introduction reading by Tyler, first reading the ordinances. Mayor, Item 9A is ordinance 2020-29, a bill for an ordinance amending Chapter 14.52, Section 14.52.030 of the Longmont Municipal Code on compensation for disposition of open space property, public hearing and second reading scheduled for August 11, 2020. 9B is resolution 2020-65, a resolution of the Longmont City Council authorizing the transfer of a portion of the unencumbered appropriation balance of the employee benefit fund to 24 individual operating funds. 9C is resolution 2020-66, a resolution of the Longmont City Council to approve the Colorado Communities for Climate Action 2020 policy statement. 8D is resolution 2020-67, a resolution of the Longmont City Council approving the Intergovernmental Agreement between the City of Longmont and the U.S. Forest Service, Boulder County and other entities for Forestry Health and Community Protection Collaboration. 9E is resolution 2020-68, a resolution of the Longmont City Council approving the second restated and amended Intergovernmental Agreement between the City of Boulder County and the City of Boulder for cost sharing for the COVID-19 Recovery Center. And 9F has approved amended Council Rules of Procedure Rule 27 regarding boards. And Mayor, the only one I'm aware that staff would like to pull is F for a couple clarification questions. All right, Council Member Christensen. Okay, we'll pull F. Would you like to make a motion, Council Member Christensen? All right, it's been moved by Council Member Christensen that we pass the consensus agenda except for F. And I'll second that. I lip read it. All right, I'm seeing no discussion. Let's go ahead and vote. All in favor, say aye. Aye. I'll oppose, say nay. All right, the consent agenda minus F has passed. Let's move on to ordinances on second reading, specifically 10A ordinance. So we would encourage the public to call in now. And so we've only got one item. So if you can go ahead and there we go. So go ahead and call in public. If you have comment for this issue, go ahead and call in for the public hearing. So 10A, ordinance 2020-28, the bill for an ordinance emitting Title 10, Chapter 10.2, creating, I'm sorry, 10.20, creating a new section, 065, the long-awaited code, creating dismount zones. So is there a staff report, I presume, no? Mayor, this is better, T.C. Wanmar. Evan. Hi. Well, since the first reading of the ordinance, city staff and the LDDA worked with Bicycle Wanmar on a couple of changes to the ordinance to make it a little more bicycle friendly. Hey, Susan, would you be willing to pull up the slide highlighting the changes? One minute. Thank you. So specifically there are two changes that are being requested. And the first is to change, is to actually change the dismount zone. So instead of the dismount zone being from first to long street, it would be different depending upon which side of the main street you're on. For the west side of main street, the dismount zone would be from third to long street. And on the east side of main street, it would be from second to long street. And this change was requested because there's no alternate route between first and second on the east side of main. And on the west side of main street, the bicycle is likely to be able to ride between second and third. Facts is the regional bus stop just south of Third Avenue. We also added an effective date of January 1st, 2021. And this will give staff time to install bicycle routing signage and pavement markings to help bicyclists navigate around the dismount zone. Also, since the community rangers won't be available until 2021, we can delay enforcement until then. And then the January effective date will also give staff the opportunity to do an educational campaign in advance of the dismount ordinance going into effect. And that concludes my presentation. If you have any questions, I'd be happy to try to answer them. All right. Do you have any questions on this particular ordinance? All right. Thank you very much, Mr. Ortiz. Can we have a motion from council? Mayor, I think we need to do a public hearing. I guess we could. Let's go ahead now. Is everybody in the queue? No, mayor. There is none. All right. So we'll go ahead and open and then close the public ordinance. We'll go ahead and open the public hearing on ordinance 2020-28 and go ahead and close the public hearing. So do we have any motion from council please? Anybody want to make a motion? I will move ordinance 2020-28. All right. So moved and seconded. All in favor say aye. I'm sorry. Councilor Christensen? I'm glad that Scott Conlon called in and that they had the opportunity to talk to Mr. Ortiz and Mr. Greenwald. I do think that there are a couple of things that I wouldn't personally like to see changed. I think that it's we are conflating this with the restriction of 287 right now. It's not the same thing. And I think that the dismounting zone should be the same for both sides of the street or it'll be confusing to people. So I would just make it from second to Long's Peak all the way. Otherwise I think it's very confusing. So that's number one. Number two, I do think that the fines I think that should be codified a little bit more because when it's up to $300 I just think it would be good if we would put in there the first time somebody violates it. It's a warning the second time they get a $25 fine and they maybe find up to $300. Otherwise it's we're going to get a lot of angry people thinking we're going to find them $300 for not dismounting on the sidewalk. So I would offer friendly amendments to those two friendly amendments. You can't do a friendly amendment on a second. You got to make a motion or not. Okay. Well I just think this is very confusing to have a different dismounting zone on one side of the street than the other. So Paulie what you could do is you just need to say I move that we amend ordinance 2020 as written as follows. Okay. I amend this amendment or I amend this ordinance to make the dismount zone consistent of going from second to Long's Peak on both sides of the street. All right the chair the chair is going to take that as a motion to amend ordinance 2020-28 and which will basically state that both sides of the street from second to Long's Peak will be dismount zones. Ben Ortiz there's a motion but do we have a second? I'll second Pat. All right it's been moved by councilor Christensen and seconded by councilor Pegg. Ben Ortiz. Mayor and members of council when Bill and Scott Carlin had met with Kimberly McKee of the LVDA is my understanding that they were the LVDA was pretty adamant that the dismount zone could be maintained or be maintained in front of LHEPA's so from second to third avenue but I think Bill could possibly shed a little light on that as he was actually in that meeting unfortunately I was able to attend. I don't know if Bill is participating in or listening in I don't know if you have an opportunity to shed a little light on that as well. Mayor and members of council this is Phil Greenwald transportation planning manager with the city. I was in that meeting I think what council member Christensen is stating is that we should extend the dismount zone down to second on both sides of the street so I think that covers HEPA's and it also I think meets the intent of the LVDA it does go against a little bit of what the Bicycle Longmont folks were asking for but I think we've come up with other options that can make that work using them using the alley basically behind Santiago's is what we call it so that can be used and then also just being able to get from Kauffman over to third main on the sidewalks that way so I think there are options. Right so let's go ahead and vote on the ordinance so you know for Dr. Waters. Or set up the ordinance the amendment. Dr. Waters. I'm trying to go back and look at the original the first version the version we approved on first reading and I can't because we've got that screen up that is going to be court of vote so Susan or Don it's a little frustrating because I think what council member Christensen is moved thank you is that we adopt the same ordinance that we adopted on first reading with the exception of the enforcement delay till January 1st. So for me what we got from staff reflects the those who are bicycling the bicycle our bicycle bicycling community I guess if they were if they were confused about how this would work they wouldn't have recommended this they're the ones that are the users and to help with clarity are the are the what the agreements that I think we heard from Phil or from Ben about delayed enforcement sign engine in an education effort which is all consistent with what we got from Scott Conlon. So I guess you know we approved on a first reading we can approve I guess on second reading but but it flies in the face or it's basically a message to the bicycle community that we know more about what makes sense to them than they do and and I don't so I'm not going to vote for the motion or the amendment because what we've heard from is the community who are using this you know I think we ought to listen to. Castor Christensen. What we've heard from is members who are organized who are bicyclists everybody I mean most of us ride bicycles too and we're not part of Mr. Conlon's group which I have a lot of respect for but I don't care whether it's second or third as long as it's I thought we were originally going to just have third to sixth now it's been extended by Longmont downtown development authority to Longs Peak and now it was extended one block south on one side of the street and I to me that's not very good policy I I would much prefer to have it just be third to Longs Peak I think we are making policy based around one business and I don't think that's good policy but you know I I'm just talking about the public at large is not part of the bicycle community they just ride bicycles and when they see a sign that says you can ride it on this side of the street but not the other side of the street to me that's confusing but you know it's fine. All right so the motion was from second to Longs Peak correct all right so let's go ahead and vote all in favor the motion again on the table is making it a bike bicycle dismount zone both sides of the street from second to Longs Peak all right all in favor of that motion say aye opposed say nay nay all right the motion fails two to five with councilmember christensen and councilmember peck four and the other five against they get that right I said yay all right so I chair would I just couldn't tell so the motion still fails but fails three to four with councilmember martin count mayor pro tem Rodriguez uh councilmember waters and mayor bagley uh voting against the measure or the motion all right great thank you very much all right someone I can make want to make a motion for the ordinance I'm of approval of ordinance 2020-28 as presented in in the agenda tonight all right I'll second that all right see no further discussions go ahead and vote on favor of uh proving ordinance 2020-28 on second reading say aye aye opposed say nay all right the motion passes unanimously thank you very much all right let's hold on one second let me just fix this real quick all right let's go ahead and go on to item f of the consent agenda did it oh yes hey i'm made it's different what the heck it says you're crying bagley get out of the chair all right I was gonna have him actually do f but that might be inappropriate so well he's taking care of Drago this weekend so he came over to go over to meet him if he didn't recognize former mayor combs he's a great guy all right so let's go on to nine f staff you've got you've got a you've actually got a presentation right no mayor I do not have a presentation um we put pretty much everything in the council com we just needed two points of clarification uh one being um did you want to do the pre uh interview screening process by to not interview applicants by a super majority or just a majority vote and our other question was regarding um item l in the draft as it um shows the motion was to um not interview those who had more than three absences we just needed clarification is that three absences over a year a calendar year over their term um we just wanted clarification on those two things so I believe I wanted a majority vote but it was a super majority vote not to not to interview somebody am I right on that one guys right so we already voted on that one and then as far and as far as clarity on missing three I believe it was during their term was it not it was your it was your motion councillor christensen what was it no it wasn't it was councilman pex all right councillor peck uh thank you mayor bagley it was during a uh during a year one year three absences within a year and would that be within the previous 12 months here or the or the current calendar year just to be exactly clear uh I think from when their term started because they don't always start uh at the same time their so the time that they're apart so basically the previous 12 months starting previous start previous 12 months does everyone else does anyone object everyone remember that correctly okay I'm going to take that as a consensus vote just in case it's not so do you have your clarification don I do but it looks like councilmember christensen has a question for christensen go ahead yeah that is um that's why I pulled it can you hear me I think yep okay um that's why I pulled it I wanted to clarify that because it wasn't clarified and it could have been used as a term which you know sometimes it's four years so you know three unexcused absences in uh four years it's not really terrible but you know you should be able to make at least three fourths of the meetings in a year if you're serious so agreed all right thank you do you want to make a motion councilmember christensen since you pulled it um I move that we amend that to clarify that it is three unexcused absences within a the previous year the previous year yes second all right all in favor say I I post in a all right motion carries unanimously want to make another motion councilmember christensen mayor if I could interject go ahead Eugene uh mayor and council Eugene may city attorney uh my concern with the supermajority vote on whether or not to interview a candidate is that the charter provides that council shall act only by ordinance resolution or motion and for resolutions and motions the charter provides it shall require the affirmative vote of a majority of the members present and so a supermajority would appear to conflict with the charter direction that council votes by affirmative majority okay so uh I'd actually move that we amend it to say the majority councilmember waters second I've been moved and seconded council waters so just explain to me how how it plays out um we would we would have a vote I guess after reviewing applicants applications uh we would we would cast a vote in a meeting to not invite someone for an interview for whatever reasons are articulated at the time is that is that how this would work I would I would imagine I would imagine so like for example let's suppose that we've got Catherine Frank Johnson who's done an outstanding job you know and we want to appoint her uh maybe we don't want to interview her um maybe there's um just wait just wait for a moment yeah in that case it would seem to me we would vote not to interview all the other applicants for that board correct mayor if I could just interject quickly go ahead um the way we would envision that working mayor and councilmember waters would be the way that we did that this last time via the pre interview screening process whereby we sent you all a sheet and then you indicated which ones which applicants you did not want to interview when there was four or more than we did not call that person in we would not call that person in for interview if you went with a majority vote well that's that's pretty easy it seems to me when you have more candidate you have more openings than you have candidates right in in that case on that four and that spreadsheet my personally I indicated I didn't need to interview these people because it's a no-brainer you had more openings or the same number of openings as applicants just appoint them uh but when you have more applicants than openings um it feels it's it's I'm not comfortable frankly with uh with expressing ourselves the way we did prior to this interview that feels like a black ball uh you know without being public about it yet I'm not gonna I'm not gonna do that frankly I'm not gonna participate in that process I'll just remain silent if that's what the way it's gonna work because I'm not gonna blackball or prohibit somebody from being interviewed when we have more candidates than openings in the way that we went about this last this last process frankly I guess I guess in my I guess in my mind there's just so many times when uh I mean half the interviews we do we don't need to have them um just because we either know them or they've served on the board before um it's just it's a five to six minute interview most of the information we're glaning is off their written application and uh I wouldn't mind I just want to wait it just you know if we choose not to interview somebody in my mind it's been because why do we need to interview this person we're gonna appoint him or her so why why uh mess around with it so councilmember christensen poly you're you're muted poly okay um I agree with dr waters I I really do think that we should be interviewing any everyone and I except for people who have been serving but see this time um for instance we have susie she's new she doesn't necessarily know people I just I think it's disrespectful and I think it leads to kind of a favoritism thing going on and the only reason I would not want to interview someone is if they have a clear conflict of interest and they've even stated it and that's the only reason I would not want to interview anybody and I also disagree with the idea of just if we've only got two candidates and two openings we just automatically appoint them without even talking to them that's not a very good idea either in my point of view because you can get some really bad people that way just because nobody else applied so um I I I don't see why we would not interview anybody except if they have already served and all of us have already met them but that's rarely the case all right let's go ahead and vote okay sorry councilmember thank you mayor bagley um my reasoning is that not every board or commission meets every month some of them are uh uh every two months every six weeks um and if they if they're not if they're not meeting every month and they have three and she's absences and don't bother to tell anybody why then are they really going to the meetings I mean are they really a good applicant to be on this board um right and that was my reasoning is that um it doesn't really matter to me whether they're there or not unless they're uh unless they really have an excuse it would be like one of us just not showing up two or three times without telling anybody why these boards to me are very important and um that was my reasoning but if but if a majority of us don't want it that's fine all right but we're talking about we're at this point we're doing customer learning well I was just going to agree with Joan I think that if a person has unexcused absences and that's on the report then we could say we're not going to interview this person what I definitely don't want to do is what we almost did with Catherine Frank Johnson which was not interview her because we all knew her but she wouldn't have gotten a chance to defend her seat against more applicants than there were seats so that we definitely cannot do um but and the other thing is about the same number of applicants or fewer than we have seats it matters in some cases and not the others you know if it's master board of appeals we have to talk to them no matter what I'm going to go ahead and withdraw my motion therefore there's no more motion on the table does anyone else want to make a motion that would uh dr waters thanks mayor bagley uh I just want to point out my concern isn't with uh councilmember peck with uh the absentee issue I agree with that if uh I mean but that's a clear criteria for somebody not being eligible I'm talking more about the motion uh in the list it's the motion made by councilmember rodriguez seconded by councilmember martin uh to to prohibit to choose not to interview somebody without a specified criteria um uh and that was the one relative to a super majority I voted I voted against that when we were talking about it and if that stays in here I'm going to vote against that so I'm going to move that we delete that section entirely from this list of criteria so I move that we delete from this set of uh procedures or guidelines whatever this is um the agreement that was made during our saturday discussion uh about choosing not to interview whether it's a majority vote or a super majority people who have applied for a border commission when we have more candidates than we have seats all right all in favor sorry all in favor say aye I'm sorry man who seconded that I apologize the councilor christianson okay thank you is that a yes vote from your dog yeah that yeah pete says that that's the way it's going to be so all in favor say aye hi hi I'll post a nay all right the motion carries unanimously now oh now I'm happy to move the rest of the guidelines all right I'll second all right all in favor say aye hi hi I'll post a nay all right great okay let's move on to we all doing okay we want to rock through these last things only at 30 I'll take five are you guys okay all right let's go on to the regional air quality monitoring presentation oil and gas update please shall I take it away good evening mayor bagley and members of city council my name is jane turner and I'm the city's oil and gas and air quality coordinator I'm new this is a new position I just started in April and I'm really excited to have the opportunity to present to council I've spoken with a few of you over email but it's nice to be able to have this opportunity to introduce myself to you as well as to long month residents I'm a certified professional engineer and I have a phd in air quality engineering from CU Boulder and I'm really grateful to have this opportunity to work with a city that's being so proactive about environmental monitoring and showing such an interest in air quality research so you can bring up the slides now and I think I've introduced myself so we can go to slide two I'm going to be providing a brief update on some oil and gas activities and that'll be followed by a presentation on the city's regional air quality monitoring by Dr. Detlev Helmig of Boulder atmospheric innovation research slide three the first update is regarding production activities at the stamp well the stamp well is an oil and gas well that's located on the northwest side of union reservoir and some residents have expressed concerns about some of the production activities that have occurred particularly between July 2019 and March 2020 during that time period a workover rig was observed at the site and the residents have expressed some concerns about whether any of these activities have been in violation of the city's agreement with cub creek energy as you're aware the city has entered into an agreement with cub creek energy it covers a number of oil and gas wells including the stamp well and it prohibits certain activities including hydraulic fracturing staffs reviewed the activities that occurred during this time frame we've reached out to our contacts at the colorado oil and gas conservation commission the co gcc because they regulate the activities at this site and we've also spoken with our special oil and gas legal counsel phil barber based on these reviews it's the current understanding and belief of the city staff that the activities were in accordance with state regulations and that none of these activities have specifically violated the city's agreement with cub creek next slide the next update is also on the stamp well and it's regarding ongoing remediation activities there this remediation is a separate topic and not related to the production activities i was discussing on the last slide the remediation is happening because there was a spill a leak of some fluids at the site and that was identified on may 14th of this year workers at the site found that the source of the leak was a crack in a fiberglass tank this was a large holding tank 100 barrels it was stored above ground and it was holding produced water so that's water that has come back up out of the well in response to this co gcc has directed them to do a site investigation and that means that they take soil samples to determine where any impacts from the leak are and then they dig that soil out remove it from the site take it to be properly disposed the pit that's left behind is then filled in with clean soil and that backfilling process started on july 1st and my understanding is that it's complete the next step in the process is that co gcc will require a follow-up report that's going to be due on august 7th the report will be posted on the co gcc website it'll be publicly available and it'll include more information about the total soil removed from the site the samples as well as plans for a groundwater monitoring system so right now there are three groundwater monitoring wells out at the site as part of the city's program we test those monitoring wells every year co gcc is going to ask them to put in additional monitoring wells to make sure that if there are groundwater impacts those are well understood and remediated if needed there is right now no ongoing leak at the site the tank that was cracked has been removed there's no threat to residents that we're aware of and regarding the cub creek agreement the accidental spill at the site is also not in violation of that agreement the last update i have for you is not about the stamp well it's about the night wells and these are oil and gas wells which are planned to be drill in 2020 outside the city properties to the north the night well pad is located directly north of union reservoir but south of highway 66 now the night wells are still in the planning stages but what is happening is that we have received construction plans for an access road that will allow the operators to get to that well pad those plans are currently being reviewed by city staff in the development and review group and it's our understanding that cub creek intends to begin construction of that road as soon as those plans are approved in order to keep them on their planned timeline of beginning drilling the night wells in september of this year so if we unless we have questions i'll turn it over to our main event council member peck thank you jane can you tell me uh how much soil um it was excavated that had been leaked with the ground I don't have the number right now the engineers are working on those getting the estimate to be accurate I did reach out to cub creek and they prefer to um include that information in the upcoming report to co gcc and didn't want to provide something that was inaccurate because they're not quite done with the calculations okay thank you is there going to be any surface uh water testing to see if any that ground water has actually leaked into our union reservoir well as you know uh the city of longmont has a union reservoir baseline monitoring study that we do and we just collected a sample there the last week of june and there were no oil and gas compounds detected in our three union reservoir surface water samples so that's certainly a good sign and what do you sample for are they for bocs bocs b tax um let's see diesel range organics a number of different oil and gas related compounds okay thank you and the tank that has been removed was the uh water still in the tank when it was removed or did you was the water taken out of that tank I believe the first thing they did was to drain the tank and to take that water off site before they removed the tank okay so it was drained into a tank or it's and driven out away it wasn't put in a pool or I can't say exactly how that water was removed but there are certainly our regulations that cover how the they certainly can't put into the ground they have additional tanks that can be used at the site as well okay I would be curious as to what they did with that water okay I'll be happy to follow up on that that would be great thank you I think uh Dr Waters was next we do that so much more politely than the mayor does am I even supposed to be calling on you I don't think so but that's really what the mayor does but he's going nuts Dr Turner go nuts you got a phd you're smarter than me go you know when council members do the council members do that to him it's I find that you were in that as well so anyway Jane you may or may not be able to answer this but I I do recall that on the stamp well with the agreement we signed one of the contingencies was that the the gathering line or flow line that went from the stamp well you know south and then east again would be uh would be severed purged um uh and sealed once the night site was product and that got accelerated right cub creek or whoever I guess it was cub creek I did that a year ago which for which were grateful and um was a win I think for all of us but I don't recall when the night well becomes productive are there other implications for the stamp well because I have in my mind that the stamp well would then be shut down abandoned but I don't maybe I just made that up do you remember Dale I'm certain would know yeah that's my understanding but I think Dale would be a better person to answer this one and a council member waters could you uh repeat that for me I have a cat in front of me here got you napping uh a cat now um Dale I the um is my recollection that in the agreement we signed that once that I'm in this kind of is the connection between the the night property access road in the stamp well that when then when the night property starts producing that the stamp well is abandoned or plugged is is that I would call that properly that is it's uh council member waters it's within a certain number of days of production of a well at the night site that then the well is to be affirmatively plugged and abandoned so you're you're correct but it's tied to production yeah yeah commencing well at the night site all right thanks that was just I appreciate council member waters it's 90 days within commencement of production to abandon the stamp well all right good thank you Eugene council member martin thank you mayor bagley um I'm uh uh wondering what the point is of the commencement of the road construction being mentioned is this uh something new that was not uh in the original agreement about the night well or um we have easements in place and everything it is uh council member water um martin it is um yep uh oh he's frozen dr turner back up and god has smitten him for not following procedure so they call staff as plans oh are you back dale we missed you dale you froze let me try to answer it again council member martin the construction of the access road to the night site was a condition included in the top cubcrete city agreement from 2018 all staff is wanting to do is to keep council informed of additional work uh as as uh cubcrete progresses towards um the drilling of wells at the night site so it's nothing new uh it's going through the process as we anticipated it would and um I I believe the staff is doing the right thing to appropriately review the design of the road to ensure that it's uh done appropriately thank you very much that's comforting councilor back thank you just you're muted john okay thanks um so dale uh the access road to the stamp well does it is it also in line to the night well I mean I'm wondering um it is not a total different location okay no very different locations correct okay thanks all right doctor why don't we go on with whatever's next okay uh just one more slide an introduction slide that's slide five of my one moment okay thank you so now for the main event we'll be hearing a presentation by dr helmig on the city's air quality monitoring study you'll recall that in 2019 the city contracted boulder air to conduct a study of long months air quality and the study includes two monitoring sites and each has a special focus in the photo on the left you see the airport monitoring site on the west side of town and that was designed to gather data to help the city meet the greenhouse gas emission goals outlined in the city's sustainability plan in the photo on the right you see the union reservoir monitoring site which is located nearer to oil and gas activities which are predominantly located in willed county the union reservoir site includes specialized air monitors with the goal of identifying oil and gas air impacts to the local air quality so mayor baglan city council we've asked dr helmig to prepare a 30 minute presentation summarizing his findings so far and that presentation will be followed by time for questions so with that i will hand it over to dr helmig now yes hi good evening everybody thanks for having me here on the call um so i think i need susan's help now with pulling that presentation up okay there we are good so um those are the points i want to walk you through today you'll quick objectives of the study again then the station developments the websites that were created and then most of the time will be dedicated towards showing you some of the data that we've been gathering um next slide please okay so um dr turn already nicely summarized this there's several objectives covered by this programs the first one is to monitor greenhouse gases released from the footprint of the city with a goal to assess the city's path towards sustainability um the second point was to monitor primary oil and gas emissions and then to provide these data and interpretations to the public and as well to the research community industry partners and so forth um the next slide please and we are monitoring quite an array of different atmospheric variables most of these are atmospheric gases and i've listed them here again so these include carbon dioxide methane a whole series of volatile organic compounds so abbreviated as vocs and we'll see several of those further down then we're monitoring nitrogen oxides we're monitoring ozone also particulate matter or aerosols and then meteorological variables and then the sites also have webcams and all of these measurements are conducted automated continuous and here around at um very high time resolutions so manage to one hour time resolutions next slide please it says overview of the timetable of the progress we've made and the first phase was identifying sites designing the website identifying the type of buildings and structures we needed it took quite a while for the buildings to go into place and then be provided with power and internet um then the first location the at the the airport became available for us to move in in september and we pretty much got everything up and running within a few weeks and ever since the systems have been producing data the second site um at the union reservoir um the building became available in december took us about six weeks to get all systems up and running and ever since both sites have been reporting data and continuously next slide please again this is um where the sites are located and i need to familiarize you with the abbreviations we're using here lma stands for longmont municipal airport you'll see that's down in the presentations a lot and that site is located on the the southeast corner of the airport where there's asterix there is oh yeah thank you for pointing this out so it's been the fenced area of the airport and it turned out to be really nice nice location like that it's it's it's nicely protected and guarded and the next slide then i think shows again the the the infrastructure it's it's a trailer and a measurement tower right next to that you saw that already the tower accommodates the meteorological sensors inlets for the gas measurements and then on the left you see the instrumentations inside the shelter which in this case monitors for ozone methane carbon dioxide and then computers communication systems data logging and so forth next slide please i'm moving on to the union reservoir so we're right there where there's that star is put on the map it's within the park area and again what's nice it's a gated area so um the the park staff are keeping an eye on it so it's in the southwest corner of the union reservoir and here the abbreviation we're using is l u r for longmont union reservoir next slide please and again that shows the the building itself so this is a hard permanent structure put in place again with a tower right next to it and on the right side you can see the reservoir in the background this gives you an idea about the distance to the water edge which is about 20 30 meters or something like that next slide there's a much higher number of instruments in this facility since we're doing the farmer measurements here aerosols are being sampled from the left side that shows the aerosol equipment that's a sampling stack that goes straight through the roof of the building and then again a tower with meteorological sensors gas inlets and then the the center picture shows the instrumentation and here we're monitoring ozone nitrogen oxides vocs methane co2 and again equipment for communication data logging and so forth next slide please okay so um those two sites um here with a double red circle um those are the two longmont sites and what i'd like to point out is that there's actually no part of a regional network and what makes this this really valuable and what adds high value is that we have these comparison opportunities since we're doing simultaneous monitoring now in two sites in broomfield as well as the border reservoirs in the upper left corner and we've learned a lot about what's happening in longmont by comparing these observations and i'll show you a lot of these type of comparisons and it's also of course nice this is all now under one roof so this this allows us to build these with very consistent measurements for these comparisons next slide please and then we designed websites and some of you may have seen this by now this is the site dedicated for the longmont air quality observations and it has seven tabs that you can see at the top there the the webcam images from the two sites they're updated every 30 minutes then there are tables that show the metallurgical data the current data the past eight hours the the maximum of the last over the last 24 hours then there are tables that report the chemical measurements and then at the bottom is the same for the union reservoir next slide please besides that site we also just over the last month generated a sister site so to speak that then provides these observations from all these other sites that are just showed on the map side by side in one set of graphs so this shows the methane the ozone and nitric oxide data there's there's ways more of these plots on the same website but you can see with the color traces then how the data from the long one side so that's lma and lur compared to the observations being made at the same time in these other locations which you know gives you an idea how you experience high levels low levels average levels and so forth next slide please um so we are currently managing websites from these three different monitoring programs in longmont in broomfield and at boulder county and they're all shown here just with some screenshots and what i'm listing here also are the visits on the site visits where we have counters visit counters on these sites and what i find remarkable is that actually right now longmont has taken the first place um it's the busiest site gets the most visits of all these other sites i mean they're all pretty busy and being being well recognized um but just over the last two months we've gotten two thousand visits in the long one sites about a thousand thousand a month thirty a day roughly like that on average the next one please and then we just generated this this site um which is a data analysis tool um this just a screenshot give you an idea what you can do here you can select in the left panel the sites that you want to um investigate and then on the right side you can select the the variable that you want to plot then you have a time window um you can select the start date and the end date and then just click go and then it will generate graphs with these data um all plotted together and in the following i will now show you many many graphs that were generated with this this tool so let's move forward to the next slide okay so let me walk you now through some of the data examples um data we've gathered so far and i'll want to start out with ozone again ozone um is of quite some concern in this regions and we are since we're in a non-mattainment um area for for the ambient ozone standard and it's a secondary pollutant so again it's not emitted directly but it's formed in the atmosphere during the day um and you need sunlight for that it's a photochemical reaction um with atmospheric precursors of nitrogen oxides and vocs and given the dependence on lights you get more of that in the summer when you have more light and longer days and ozone is a strong oxidant and it impacts your respiratory system so elderly children people with respiratory illnesses are even more so affected than the average person in the bottom you can see the data from February through just a few days ago um ozone from the two monitoring sites here in Longmont and you can see we've exceeded the um this ambient national air quality standard on quite a number of occasions and i will explain that a little bit more so let's move on to the next slide please um this is now zooming into one of these um records this is three days of ozone data and again what you see here are the data from the four sites that currently report ozone and you can see it goes up and down up and down every day the lows are at night the highs are in the early afternoon and again the dotted line is the standard and just a few days ago on the 21st you can see that ozone at all of these sites exceeded the standard and you see how similar ozone behaves at these different sites so ozone it's a regional pollutant it takes a while for it to build up it moves around during the time so it's not like you know you have a certain neighborhood or a street corner where there's much more ozone than a block away it's a regional pro pollutant and we we all um experience very similar levels here however on average um um the highest level we've seen so far at the Boda Reservoir and at the Longmont Airport you can see that here as well that's where the the ozone peaked on the on the 21st so let's keep going to the next slide um what's important to understand is that the health standard is defined as the eight hour moving average so when you get ozone readings that pop above the 70 ppb threshold it doesn't mean that you violate the standard because this this event may be rather short so in the top graph you see the spikes that go over the the dotted line which is the standard um and then the the smoother line and it's enlarged in the bottom graph that's the eight hour average standard it's the eight hour moving standard and you can see that during this time window in June there were two days where the standard was actually exceeded so this is a real exceedance of the standard um whereas you know you may have short term um spikes over the line that would not be um considered an exceedance of the standard but still we put this line in the graphs to give you an anchor point where the standard is in relation to the current ozone level the next slide please I want to also um show you very interesting interesting situation we had to to help you understand what's driving ozone in this region um so this was in um not just a couple weeks ago early July um three days of data and you see ozone goes up goes down goes up but why what's happening on the 10th what happened on the 10th ozone goes up as usual during the morning and then why it took a non-stifle right around noon bottomed out you know and it was heading ways high to exceed the standard that day but then it collapsed so um let's take the next slide and that shows you nicely the value of just the metrological observations but I have here now in the second and third graph are the wind speed and the wind direction measurement from that same period and that blue line then shows you what happened during this episode when ozone um dropped you can see what happened wow it got really windy the winds you know there was pretty mild moderate one two meters per second that's the second graph and then whoa right around noon winds got really really strong and now look at the bottom graph the winds shifted they shifted from in the morning so it was easterly winds and very abruptly they shifted to the west and then they flipped back to the east right yes thanks for the cursor help perfect yes so you know this this is actually really interesting because you know we sometimes hear opinions out there stating that you know ozone is due to background or high ozone background and ozone moving in from outside of the state you know is but you can see here as the winds move west um transport comes straight over the mountain um you know ozone drops down to 50 55 you know we're in a much cleaner ozone environment and then ozone shift back to the east you get flow from east of the city and bang it goes ways up again and it exceeds the standard on that day that shows you how sensitive our ozone conditions are to the transport conditions at any particular time of day next slide please okay so ozone summary what have you learned about ozone so ozone is monitored at both the airport and the reservoir so far this season we had had four days with exceedance of the national ambient ozone air quality standard um the exceedances at the airport have been slightly higher than at the rest at the union reservoir and most times there's higher ozone in easterly winds than in westerly transport so let's move on to the next species and that's um methane this shows the methane results and so again methane what's the deal with methane so methane is a very strong climate gas it's the second strongest um warming force um causing global warming and it has quite a variety of sources um they're they're indicated in these pictures up there so in the region here where we are it appears that you know oil and gas is really the the dominant sources dominant source contributing source from methane at the bottom now you see the graph of the methane data and it shows methane for the reservoir for the airport also in boulder and then later the spring ozone came on light in room field and that's the green data so you can see it goes up and down up and down up and down lots lots of spikes and you see a lot a lot of purple and purple is purple spikes are higher than what the spikes we see at the airport and what we see at the reservoir and if you go to the next slide i think i have that blown up there yeah yeah so there you see now maybe some 20 days or so and you see you know it's it's the bottom of the data is always the same even because there's a background in methane that's very uniform across the globe but then on top of that background you see these spikes and they're very short you know they're just a few minutes um half an hour or something and you can see most of the spikes are in purple so at the union reservoir we see a far higher frequency and higher resulting concentrations in methane than at any of the other sites um next slide please um this is a comparison of six months of data between the border reservoir the airport and the union reservoir and you can see the green box whisker plots where the middle line is the median the box is from 25 to 75 percentile and the the top of that that whisker that's the 95 percentile so you can see every month of that period union reservoir had the highest methane both in the media and both in the extreme values um the long one airport towards in between and the border reservoir the blue data had the lowest methane overall and then the next slide you know shows the the likely explanation for that which is the proximity to the oil and gas development so all these dots and they're on the map oil and gas wells and you can see the union reservoir is the closest um the airport possibly the second closest and the border reservoir is about the furthest away and that nicely correlates with these distribution in the methane data we are seeing so next slide please and to show you how dynamic this can be it's a really interesting event and this actually has been the highest methane spike if we've ever seen both in three years at the border reservoir um three months in roomfield so far and this occurred on march 26th and within just a few minutes methane went up from the about two ppm background values all the way to 32 ppm so 15 times as high and you can see this just lasted 15 minutes and then it came down a gun and it was pretty much normal so the spike where it went up just like like crazy um very short short event so what happened um let's look at some other variables that were measured thank you um so the bottom two graphs now show the wind direction and the wind speed during that same time window and you see these these dotted lines um show this this time window so the wind direction from that the average across that 15 minutes was 33 5 degrees wind speed two meters per second which is you know it's it's moderate but you can really find a pretty well pretty well of wind direction and a transport so um so wind direction 3 35 degrees let's look at the next slide um that puts that now on the map so the the star shows where the the measurement station is the monitron station and the fat arrow in the middle is the 335 degree window and then I'll put like 15 degrees uncertainty windows on both sides so that's roughly you know where this the sector from which this methane plume was transported to the union reservoir and then the circle gives you you know how far the transport approximately is within a five minutes transport period given the two meters per second wind speed we had okay the next slide please okay then we have these data analyzed um as wind sectors on the left this shows um the wind roses and on top of the wind roses the colors show you know how the methane is depending on if the wind comes from one directions versus the other we can also do these heat maps on the right side so let's just look at the one on the top for the union reservoir so imagine yourself the station is right in the center of that cross and you can see that most of the methane the the redder colors um occur from winds to the north slightly to the northwest and a lot from the northeast sector but there's much lower methane when air comes over the city to the southwest and further away or at higher winds from the south um from the northwest sector as well so let's go to the next slide so that's the summary on methane so we're collecting very fast data five seconds high resolution data at both sides we're seeing a high abundance of spikes they're often very shortened durations the mean the median and variability are highest at the reservoir and the elevated concentrations are mostly associated when winds are from the north and from with easterly winds so that's the methane summary and let's move on to the vocs um so the vocs we started monitoring at the reservoir in mid-february so this this graph here it shows in blue the data from the put a reservoir that had been ongoing for two three years and then we turned our instruments down at the reservoir and said well what's going on here we were really surprised um because the levels we were seeing in february march at the reservoir were as you can tell here significantly higher than what we'd ever seen at the border reservoir before and so the component we're looking at here ethane is um our favorite oil and gas tracer because there's really no other significant sources for ethane um so you can see you know ethane was was was really high lots of spikes much much higher than what we see at the border reservoir and i think the next slide um enlarges this yeah so again the time frame for this very interesting observation i would say you know it's one of the most beautiful data sets i've ever collected in my career because there's such a stark change such a stark difference in in february and march we see these spikes with 200 300 400 500 parts per billion of ethane and then as you can see as the season progressed it became less and less and less and the last part of this record it's really low it's about you know as much as at the other side so what's happened well several things happened during this window um we um we started slowing down with lots of our activities right around march 12 and the covid restriction came in place on march 20th we started putting this data on the website and everybody out there could see look you know here's here's methane and other vocs being monitored at the union reservoir um on april 13th there were articles in the local paper um reporting about this air monitoring and then in april 20th um you know the the oil prices took a nose dive actually into the negatives which slowed down production activities so let's go to the next slide um that again compares you know this this this whole window and i've now added the very very latest data um and it actually makes you almost suggest that maybe after a period of two three months where it was quite moderate um the levels are picking up again possibly so that was ethane let's go to the next slide okay so another voc i want to bring up is benzene benzene receives a lot of attention because it's one of the vocs that's recognized as a as a toxic compound and as a carcinogen and i'm listing here for reference health thresholds that are set by different agencies so there's nine ppb standard for 24 hour exposure one ppb for long term um the world health organization claims there's no really safe limit for benzene so let's um keep those values in mind when we look at some data that be on the next slide but before that i also want to remind you there was a lot of yeah the next slide please there was a lot of attention out of interest paid to benzene um just a few months ago because there you know been observations of elevated benzene in the region um just a little bit northeast from flanmont these measurements done by cdph e um where one 45 minute measurement of 10.2 ppb was reported later that was revised to um 14.7 ppb so that's kind of the scale now to compare our data from the reservoir so let's go to the next slide so this shows the benzene from the union reservoir and you know it looks similar to ethane in february in march there was a lot happening there was a lot going on um benzene spikes many of them in the one two three four five six seven eight ppb range and then come april may it slowed down a lot and you know towards the later part now um it looks very similar to what we observe at the budda reservoir and in broomfield so let's go to the next slide um i think that compares that again on top and these are zoomed to the same scale top the benzene data from the reservoir union reservoir in purple in in february and the bottom in may again compared to budda reservoir and broomfield side um the next slide please and this is the very latest just the last few days weeks and you can see you know it's leveled down where now the benzene is very similar to what we see at the other locations um the next slide please um so where is this basin coming from where's the benzene coming from where where was it coming from um in the earlier part of the record so the four graphs here on the left they show the benzene measurements these are four hours of data it shows actually three measurements we have these we're taking every two hours these these blue the green dots so first it was low then it jumped up to that's the highest value 8.5 or something and then two hours later it came down to two and on the next graph to the right shows the methane plotted together with it which we can measure at my high much higher time resolution and you can see the benzene peak coincided right when there was a spike in methane so right together in the same and then we did again what i showed earlier we um looked at the wind direction and the wind speed and then the the map on the right side shows where that spike roughly originated from in terms of wind direction um you know so this came from the the northwestern sector so let's go to the next slide and that now does the same exercise for the 10 highest benzene peaks we observed so far um so you know you can see all these arrows are northwest north and northeast very consistent very um very consistent story here that very obviously these these elevated benzene spikes have some sort of origin that i would put in the northwest to northeast sector okay and the next slide um so this is the summary on the vocs and the benzene so we measure vocs and benzene now hourly we actually increase the sampling frequencies since these um spikes are so short and so frequent to hourly measurements at the union reservoir we saw very high abundance of elevated vocs and benzene during february through march we saw quite a number of benzene observations between one and ten ppb um benzene at the union reservoir was much higher than at all other comparison sites except the single measurements at room wield a couple three weeks ago um these elevated levels were mostly associated with northwest to um easterly winds and there's a strong correlation of benzene with methane that indicates this um this methane that the benzene has likely an oil and gas source and then levels dropped very steeply in april may june and maybe just about to pick up again right now and then i think i have one more slide is that correct oh well two more slides so you know in 30 minutes i only could give you some snapshots there are other things we measure other variables um that i didn't even touch in this presentation but they're up and running there's some interesting um interpretation in those as well so what i didn't touch today were the nitrogen oxides the co2 as well as the particulates which we measure in two different particle sizes um so personally now do this sometimes later how you can call me and we can discuss it offline and then the next slide the last slide is a summary that just summarizes everything we went through and i just leave this up and um that's the last slide i have so i'd be happy to entertain any questions you may have all right do you have any questions dr waters well what a just really quick simple question um is the criteria for where the two sampling stations are located just to get on on either side of the city and monitor flows from the edges of the city to the edge of the city is that why it's union and the airport yes so um susan could you please pull up slide 51 it's a few ones down question give me just a minute did you want 53 um 51 it should be 51 two two up please yes back one yes yes yes um so why do we measure it in two places um so the union reservoir serves two purposes you know as i showed in in the map that had all the well locations the union reservoir is on the upwind side of the city from where we expect the strongest influence from oil and gas industries which are mostly equated to the s to the to the east of the site um so that was an early preference to have a site somewhere in that general area and then the the western location um as you can see it's on the other side of the city and the the argument here is that we want to watch um how air changes as it travels either east to west or west to east across the city footprint and easterly and westerly winds are about the most the two most prominent um transport regimes we have here so this is largely driven by the motivation to monitor and watch over time the amount of emissions that's added to the air as the air travels to the city with the objective to watch the change in emissions and here in particular in greenhouse gas emissions from the city footprint so this is driven motivated by sustainability um arguments um the city has set itself the goal to drive greenhouse gas emissions down so how do you monitor if and how the city is moving towards this goal so this is actually really difficult to do but one of the things you can do is is this this map here this this this cartoon by watching how much is added as the um air moves over the city so we're doing exactly the same measurements in both locations using the same instruments the same techniques the same protocol for the primary greenhouse gases which are co2 which i didn't talk about at all really in the presentation then methane and also ozone so in between those three gases we have about 75 80 percent of the climate forcing um of gases that are um you know contributed by by human activities to um to global um climate forcing um so we're watching all those um and you know if if the the city achieves its sustainability goal and cuts all this um greenhouse gas emissions down to zero then we should see you know the same behavior and very very similar similar levels in air as it travels across the city and these are the poor two reference points that would be used for for that comparison and we already have i didn't show it but we've we've pulled data and compared um data from the tooth sides and we nicely see um you know how all levels change as as the air gets transported over the city footprint all right i thought the information was really good doctor doctor how much thank you um any other final questions or comments right dr helmick um as always your information and knowledge is more than welcome here in lawn moth and look forward to future updates reports and work from you no thanks you're looking me to share this with you tonight all right great thank you sir mayor bagley if i could just add one one quick comment as we end um as we mentioned in the council's communication staff is also uh working with dr helmick to look at an extension of his contract and we will be bringing that contract extension to you for your direction and action over the next couple of months and so we wanted to also let you know that is in the works as well right thanks dale all right let's uh if you guys don't mind um i was gonna go ahead do you have a when you're saying goodbye paulie do you have a question okay so um the next on the agenda is actually 9 20 let's go ahead take five minutes but when we come back um i plan on just taking the list that we talked about and i'll just make motions as we go along uh based on just kind of the feeling that i heard from people on saturday if somebody has a problem speak up and we'll just get through the board appointments but let's take five okay see in five all right well back one two three four five six seven looks like we're all back all right let's go ahead i might just like council no i know some council members follow along and i have been using the voting tool because we'll move so quickly i will not use that i'm going to take notes just want you to know what i'm up to over here all right see that's great that's a show of confidence there all right so let's go ahead and start with art and public places commission i'm gonna move that we appoint erin helzer and randy long to two of the five regular member terms ending june 30th 2023 second all right all in favor say aye hi hi say nay all right so that the motion carries unanimously just tell me when you're ready don i'm ready mayor sorry go ahead all right then on the board of adjustment and appeals um see here um i move that we appoint matthew mescal and linda whitco to the two regular member terms ending june 30th 2023 second all right all in favor say aye hi i oppose say nay okay then uh i'm gonna move so then there's laura howe this was the woman that also applied for the transportation commission as well um but that was one where we talked about there were two regular member terms ending june 30th so i'm going to move that we appoint laura howe is one unexpired alternate member term ending june 30th 2022 second all right it's been moved and seconded is there any discussion or debate on this one june june you're muted june is this still for the board of adjustment and appeals yes okay thanks okay all in favor say aye oppose say nay all right um the motion passes unanimously just let me know when you're ready don good to go mayor all right library advisory board i move that we appoint catherine fink johnson to the to the one regular member term ending june 30th 2025 second i'll oppose say aye aye oh opposed here in favor oh sorry it's already late i'm eating peanut butter and graham crackers we've run out lab no it's i move do we point catherine fink johnson to one regular member term ending june 30th 2025 all in favor say aye aye all right oppose say nay nay who was that council member i'd rather have carl ellip so who is nay did councilor peck yes okay so the motion carries six to one with council member what peck opposed um london housing authority i move that we appoint arlene zortman to one regular member term ending june 30th 2023 second second and so i appoint but we ratify so i'm gonna appoint arlene but i move that we ratify so second um let's go ahead and uh vote all in favor say aye aye aye okay all right the motion for application passes unanimously um i move that we appoint jonathan elden edelman edelman and andrew olmer to two to both of those to the two alternate member terms ending december 31st 2023 for the master board of appeals second isn't map you edelman it's jonathan edelman map you mess call we appointed the board of adjustment of appeals this is the master board of appeals all in favor say aye aye opposed say nay all right let's move on to the museum advisory board i move that we appoint meghan arnold and thomas curts to two of the three regular member terms ending june 30th 2023 second all right all in favor say aye aye opposed say nay all right motion carries unanimously sustainability advisory board um let's go back let's go back to that one in just a second uh so let's go on to transportation advisory board i move that we appoint joseph long and elizabeth r osborne to the to the two regular member terms ending june 30th 2023 for the transportation advisory board second all right it's been moved in second in all in favor say aye aye opposed say nay all right the motion carries passes unanimously um what uh and then i was going to uh does somebody want to make a motion for waterboard allison gould and scott holwick i think yeah i move go ahead councilman martin i move allison gould got your waterboard okay it's been moved and seconded by councilman martin and then seconded by councilmember peck um all in favor of appointing allison gould to the one regular member term ending june 30th 2025 for the waterboard say aye aye opposed say nay all right the motion carries unanimously all right does somebody want to make a motion for the sustainability advisory board um that looks like charles musgrave or adam reid councilmember peck i move that we appoint charles musgrave to the sustainability advisory board second it's been moved and seconded um just which term there go ahead we there are two openings one for an unexpected unfulfilled term and one for a full term so which of these so the chair is going to take the motion is being a motion for one regular member term ending june 30th 2023 the full term correct okay all in favor say aye aye opposed say nay all right the motion carries unanimously i move that we appoint adam reid to one unexpired regular member term ending june 30th 2022 second all right it's been moved by me and was seconded by councilmember waters all in favor say aye aye opposed say nay all right the motion carries unanimously i think that's it right don that is it may or the only uh we do have a couple new resignations and as you can see there's still a few vacancies our plan is to hold those advertised for everything in the fall again perfect bring those back at once well we appreciate it good job guys that was a all in all that was a pretty easy vote thank you very much thanks all right then finally we've got last but not least we need to appoint a council liaison to the long long public media advisory board who wants to do it councilmember pat start with you no i don't want to i move that we appoint uh councilwoman christensen to the um advisory board all second all right it's been moved and seconded anybody else want to do it by any chance i don't all right all in favor say aye aye opposed say nay all right the motion passes unanimously councilmember christensen represent us well i didn't ask if you're interested but you're doing it all right see all right let's go ahead and do final call publicly invited to be heard let's take just a two to three minute break and see if people call in i got all kinds of texts tonight from our fellow colleagues in surrounding cities they were tuning in during their own meetings to watch the good doctor give us presentation what were the comments just that they were watching oh okay it's a lot of interest yeah anybody in yet mayor we do have one so far we're at one minute all right let's go ahead and close it off it's been three minutes let's go ahead and put the uh put the person on so mayor we actually have two guests it looks like the first caller is your number uh with the number ending 470 you've been unmuted go ahead and please state your name and address for the record you have three minutes hi hi mayor councilmembers once again michael bellarmade 841 finacity drive thank you uh first i want to complete a thought i could not because i went beyond my three minute limit before but given the massive financial difficulties so many operators or the gas operators are experiencing now my concern is about who will pay the costs of cleanups for accidents and spills in the event an operator goes out of business presumably all of them must carry pollution liability limits but my questions surrounding this are one do we know cub creeks limits and how long of a tail it contemplates two do we have some authority and or control us as to the amount of insurance requirements uh and tail coverage and length of tail coverage and three if so given the industry trends with operator financial difficulties so widespread today shouldn't we require very high limits and long tail coverage next i want to reiterate my urging to retain debt live for our air monitoring which is so critical moving forward and of course thank him for an amazing presentation uh such uh incredible detail we get from his very high tech uh evaluation it's would seem from his presentation that when oil and gas and activity increases there are spikes in VOC's and methane i.e greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere and it's very good important to know what is happening in that regard because we depend on that for our health and indeed our very lives but we see consistently growing if if we see growing and continuous severe spikes of dangerous compounds like benzene and methane methane other than documenting our own demise what options do we have to mitigate such a threatening trend like compelling an operator to shut down or at least temporarily but then the final question is which is presumed by all of that is can we differentiate between such emissions from wells subject to our contracts at union reservoir and weld county wells at large so i think those are important questions i would like the council to investigate because we're a lot is at stake here thank you so much y'all go rest well i trust thanks michael all right next our next caller your phone number ends in 882 i've just unmuted you can you hear us yes um scott connor in 1014 fifth avenue again bicycle line line uh mayor city council i understand you passed the revised ordinance for 2020-28 um thank you for that um as presented by ben orteez tonight um i would just like to reiterate um we're also asking that council direct staff and other da help with development of educational materials um for the dismount zone as well as direct uh staff and ldda to develop positive signage uh to direct riders to the bike lanes where the alleyways are part of that discussion that bicycle lawnmont the ldda and city had was designating the alleyways as a an active bicycle friendly zone um this is different than just saying you know bicycles are also allowed we're trying to make it so it's a positive experience uh we want downtown to be bike friendly and we're trying to um encourage that so i really i would like to encourage the council to direct staff and ldda to to work on this to work on how to cross uh the avenue's mid block um one of the issues we have is that we have these crosswalks on each side of 4th and 5th avenue that may not be specifically legal but we need some way to uh so we're gonna have pedestrians and cyclists in the alleyways going in both directions some way to warn uh motorists that um there's traffic moving both ways and so people feel safe so i'd like it for you to consider those things um and if you could uh direct staff and ldda for those thank you all right thank you anybody else no merit that was the last one all right great let's move on to council and mayor comments anybody council member christensen um well several things were brought up tonight that i think um we should follow up on um mr belmont's comments about uh weld county and you know all the things that he just mentioned right now i think worth following up on i also think mr conlon's comments are very worth commenting on we don't want to redirect bicycles to the alley and have them competing with trucks and getting run over so i think we're gonna have to spend a little more time with that and um uh talking to mr conlon and the bike community um i am also concerned i know we don't want to hear this but the prairie dogs you know we just got this notice today about this issue and if the prairie dogs are set to be exterminated in two days that gives us really no time unless we can put a hold on that um um i i looked at that map it is not it it's crazy and it's obviously a way to wiggle around the ordinance that i find that disturbing if somebody else would like to make a motion that we um put a hold on that uh moving forward i would uh i would support it thank you council member martin i would have to ask whether we have the authority to put a hold on the permit since that is an operational um task of the city staff however um i will reassure council member christensen that um the the area which lies in in ward two in my ward um i have plans um to inspect the area to see whether um that very complicated polygon excludes any live holes because uh it seems like in the the letter of the law um they may be within their rights if there are no active burrows um outside the polygon um but uh we can look tomorrow so just to let council know um while that was going on i was um bringing i was asking staff questions um here's where it hinges section 7.06.020 and the definitions says an active prairie dog habitat means the smallest possible area of a polygon encompassing all active prairie dog burrows on a property um that's an important definition um i then went and looked at maryon webster and oxford about the definitions of polygons and so the reality is i've asked don to the big issue is um encompassing all active burrows and so to what council member martin said i've asked don to um work with code enforcement and um natural resources staff to evaluate the active area that's what we have to really look at dr waters you know on the same thing i i'm sympathetic as well poly the concern here i just uh what's the right way to get at it for me and um herald i'm assuming you're following up with don and others on the enforcement options don gene and charisa yeah um one of the comments that was made tonight is this is a this is a repeat offender if you will or someone has had prior with whom we'd have we've had prior issues relative to prairie dog extermination um i don't you know i i don't know that you know that's true but but if that is true what are our options for dealing with developers or anyone else who simply ignores or or looks for ways to work around the ordinance that's what i have to talk to you gene about because i think the ordinance is silent to that and so i need to work with legal to see what what are the options and do we need to look at bringing something like that back and do we have an is there an option to the we is there are there means for us to to to prohibit or or delay what is apparently scheduled for thursday do you know that gene you're gonna have to jump in and help me on that one sure uh you gene may uh city attorney you know i was discussing with herald offline that uh we could contact the applicant we could do a compliance check um and you know verify the information and the application i think uh i haven't reviewed the application i heard about this issue uh during this council meeting perhaps one thing you already have so you know it's hard for me to say without having the basics information like having reviewed the application i don't know anything about the site um so you know i i saw the pictures too i don't know where those pictures are so i'm not going to give any opinion until i can determine what the facts are and then compare them to the ordinance but certainly i think it's within our authority to do a compliance check if we have a complaint that's the way code works that seems according to normal city processes and um we'll look at the issue of repeat offenders um i looked at the prairie dog ordinance as this meeting was ongoing uh doesn't address that issue um and i'm not aware of anywhere in the code that does i think you just bring a violation and then they have a another incident uh and we're in municipal court we would you know argue that's a aggravating factor for the penalty phase is it fair to us to assume that the kind of follow-up you described Eugene will happen or do we need to give direction on that is that what you think will happen we're going to examine the site um if you know that's the key we're going to examine the site if if they're active boroughs outside of the boundaries that they've defined then that's a different issue and we have to act appropriately unrelated to that but related to the bicycle ordinance i thought i heard ben um acknowledged that the things that we heard from mr conlon when you call that again in terms of signage in education and delayed enforcement that those things are all going to happen and that yes we really need to give direction yes the staff has already acknowledged this is what they're following up on is that fair it's correct yeah thanks councilmember peck thank you mayor back lee on a different issue i want to give kudos to ldda and the city of longmont and our transportation planner phil greenwald um on the downtown lane closures and extension for the restaurants phil gave a uh an update presentation at the nata meeting last week and it went over very well and there were a lot of uh questions from the the other elected officials they thought this was a great thing that longmont did and they were very impressed with how we got uh not me the city and phil to work with c dot and actually make that happen so this is a very positive thing and it the other cities and elected officials um expressed uh kudos and appreciation for longmont and are probably going to see how they can make that work in their cities so i just wanted to uh put that out there it's a good thing that they did and we should be proud councilmember et al faring thank you mayor so um last friday i went for a ride with a police officer um for just to kind of just a ride along and i did it friday night and you know we had some really good conversation i think i was there for i like maybe three or four between three and four hours with it and we just kind of scoped around and um i had the opportunity to witness um our officers interact with the public under stressful situations and just casual conversation um just you know seeing residents wave and um you know it was so i've had family members i've had loved ones who've had run in with loss so nothing in there surprised me nothing was unusual and everything that you know my own assumptions or my own thoughts it was like yeah that's that it was pretty much accurate and i think that's just from from my own personal experience um but in looking at and you know i want to get into my perspective of you know the whole notion of defunding the police and what does that mean um oftentimes when i and you know and i'll be honest what i'm hearing is you know morale first for some it's it's very it's difficult and i think being an educator for now 26 years it's difficult for teachers who to hear all the time you're terrible you need this you need that we're going to take funding away and it's it's degrading and it's demoralizing and it's it's it's it's a strain on the on the psyche and the soul um and i see that happening with with our officers um and you know so you know i've been doing the work of social justice for the last 30 years in southern california i marked marched with the chicano movement i've dedicated my last 30 years my entire adult life in equity institutional racism looking at systems of oppression and dismantling those systems and oftentimes when i hear people on both sides um to either call for defund the police or you know or bashing that notion of funding the police defunding the police you know i asked them what do you think that means and oftentimes it's it's not an accurate portrayal so you know really when we look at defunding the police and i've asked our i've asked our state representatives uh leslie harrod i asked uh representative harrod i asked you know what define that for me what does defund the police mean and it's really looking at how we allocate our funding is it more towards a criminal system or more towards uh a rehabilitation where we have diversion we have um and we see i see it in our departments in this public safety department the core team leads the angel initiative all these institutions or all these programs that we have in place that is what we had been striving for since i first started you know back in the late eighties early nineties i mean that's what we want we want to move away from this idea of just criminalizing people and throwing them all into jail starting with in the schools the school to prison pipeline moving away from that and providing opportunities for people to rehabilitate um and then i'm going to throw in my own personal experience and i share that with the officer i rode with um and what i have seen as a resident and a parent who's had to call the police on their children um my daughter when she was overcoming um just suicide suicidal ideation there was a time we had to call the police and this was back in 2013 and i tell you they weren't even in the house for a minute before i realized i made a big mistake in calling um they had her pinned down it was it was frightening to see and it was traumatic and it took also years of therapy for us to reconcile that um then we fast forward to about a year and a half ago when my son was having he was having um meltdown he was having a really hard time my daughter and her roommate helped intervene they took him to the apartment and and you know and he was he was getting really agitated and just very angry and so they ended up calling the police and i went by the time i went out there because he was really mad at me and so you know i went out there after the police were there and they had somebody i believe from the core team and they spent almost an hour with him and they talked to him and they talked him down they de-escalated the situation and the time and commitment where i was really mad and i'm like what are you doing just you know i was so frustrated but they took the time so you know what i see this department doing this is on the right track and i don't want to dismantle a system that's working and i think we have to be supportive of that and that is what um you know the community is about when i've had a chance i had a chance to meet with um our interim police chief rob spenlo and you know and he's acknowledged we're we have ways to go and that's always what we strive for as an organization is how we reflect we look for ways to grow and we make the appropriate changes so you know i think i think we are on the right track and i you know when i when i even use the term you know defunding the police what does that mean what i i look at what my context of it means and it's really just advocating for opportunities for people to rehabilitate and and find other avenues for you know rather than going through the court system or criminal or the jail system so that's um then that kind of brings me into the next thing i don't know some of you received an email from bob norris about um you know bringing up the language language language barriers um and this is something back when we had our retreat we talked about um you know i hadn't talked we talked about equity one of the things that i really wanted to see was this um some type of commission or council around equity and human relations and i want to bring it up again um and this is something that i saw that he included in the mail that are in the email about recommending some kind of board or commission to address issues of inequity and really looking at it at the policy level rather than just the just a diverse the diversity level because those are two different aspects i think what the l mac is doing it addresses that diversity inclusion that's its own set and that's a huge task to have one that really delves into policy of equity and how we as an organization and institution can um bridge those gaps of inequity that's what i think this um there's so i'm pushing that again but and i'm going to keep pushing it but that's that's what i have to say thanks anybody else erin i just want to chastise you for talking too much tonight i don't have anything to say so c manager no comments mayor council eugen he's got no comments all right no comments mayor yeah i already assumed buddy get off the screen although that thing with uh mayor tombs that was freaky when he just well he was supposed to he just started giggling he was supposed to actually just start naturally saying all right let's move on to item f of the consent agenda but he just started that was a crazy flashback he would just start giggling like you move balls i was like get going denise say something but anyway welcome you had another hand race or so oh who me oh councilmember beck i move to adjourn oh i'll second that all in favor say aye aye aye aye opposed all right motion carries unanimously see you next time see you tomorrow harrell 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