 I got my Christmas lights all on I'm going to go ahead and call this meeting to order right any motions to direct the city manager to add agenda items. Thank you, Mayor Bagley for remembering that has for a moment. This is not a motion to direct staff tomorrow is the 80th birthday of one of our senior elder leaders in Longmont. John Shetter, who came arrived in Longmont 1971 with his bride, his bride, Bev. He's a friend of the senior center. He's a, he's a storyteller volunteer in the school district. He is the epitome of a servant leader. And so for John's 80th birthday tomorrow, I want to offer a birthday limerick. John, John Shetter, we all know is real smart. For a long month, he assured on his part. So on this birthday, we just want to say, we love him for the size of his heart. Thank you, Mayor Bagley. Thank you. Councilor Christensen. Thanks for that limerick. I think that was very nice way to greet him for his birthday. It has occurred to me we had the, the Arapaho northern Arapaho came down. And only two members of city council were able to actually be there and the rest of us really couldn't hear what was going on, given how, how devastating COVID has been particularly to First Nations people. I think it would be appropriate if our staff reached out to the northern Arapaho to ask them if it would be helpful to them to have say a $5,000 donation to their hospital, or some other thing that would be helpful for them in this time. I love that idea. Okay. Is that a motion. Yeah, I guess it's a motion to direct staff to do that. I have staff reach out to the leaders, I presume, Lee Spoonhunter of the northern Arapaho tribe and discuss with them their, their needs such as maybe a monetary donation to their hospital. In favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed say nay. All right. The motion carries unanimously. All right. Let's go ahead and move on to the update on COVID-19. Mayor, Council actually have Jeff Zayac from Boulder County Health here tonight to present. Thanks Harold. Thanks council members. It's a pleasure to be back. So this is the current incidence rate on the state public health dial. And this is our positivity rate. And our current positivity rate in Boulder County is 6.7%. We have a large amount of testing that's occurring. I'll show you that on a slide as we move forward. The current number of days of decreasing or stable hospitalizations. Currently we are in the yellow and this is declining in a positive trend as I'll show you when we look at our specific data. This is the graph that we typically share with you it's the Metro Denny Denver County. COVID-19 new case rates and it's a seven day moving average. We have the second lowest number of new cases across the Metro. This is the total number of positives and then the total number of positives associated with long term care facilities. The biggest challenges with deaths and they still are to this day have been in long term care facilities and that's because long term care facilities are congregate care facilities. And we know that once the disease is in the facility it's difficult to control the spread of the disease and this just shows our five day average new case rate. We're very happy to see it continue to go down. This just shows the relative contribution from each of our municipalities that have positive tests. This shows the breakdown of residents testing positive, or who are considered probable by race and ethnicity by week. We see that one of our biggest challenges here is the disparity and equity that we have in the number of Hispanic Latinx population that currently is positive. And we know that this is an area that we need to continue to focus on. I want to give a thank you to Longmont for working in partnership with us to think about how we can best engage this community and decision making and help us think about the best way to make a difference within that population. So thank you again to Longmont here. This is the total number of tests and the total number of tests that are positive. This is our five day positivity rate and this is different than the one that you saw in the dial. The reason we check that we track five days because we can see changes more quickly. This is our hospitalizations. This is a very good trend to see obviously and I want to give a shout out here to anybody who's listening to say that please take time to thank healthcare workers. They put their selves out there every single day to treat these folks who show up in the hospital that are coming in from our community and do the best they can to care for them. We're not approaching surge crisis, especially for our medical beds. What we are challenged with is our ability again to make sure that hospitals have the staffing they need to be able to take care of the beds that they do need to be able to treat patients. This is the state hospitalization and as you can see, we've got a decline there. This is the number of deaths. Unfortunately, what we've had is we've had 35 deaths in November and 14 deaths already in December. This is just a graph of flu versus COVID versus hospitalizations. This is the social distancing that you've heard me talk about before and Boulder County right now is at 54% social distancing. This shows lapses in control. This is statewide current transmission control, which is what the TC is. So just to summarize, we still have an estimated one in 40 people statewide this was this prediction was as of this Saturday they'll update this prediction began at the end of this week, but we still have one in 40 people statewide who are infectious over 19. And finally, there is definitely light at the end of the tunnel. We do have some hope for the vaccine. The vaccine has a high effectiveness, which is very, which is very encouraging. Next, let's go ahead with the front range passenger rail presentation. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you members of council Phil Greenwell transportation planning manager with the City of Longmont. Just wanted to quickly get to the front range passenger rail presentation here by Randy Grahberger. And I appreciated Phil inviting me quite a while back and told him we're always anxious to get the word out about front range passenger rail. So thank you for this opportunity. Okay, Southwest chief and front range passenger rail commission. I'm the I'm Randy Grahberger and I am the project director for the commission. These are the 11 voting members. And we have three nine voting members. These are the commission's purposes for existing basically again that legislation in 2017 preserve Southwest chief service in the southern part of the state. The facilitation of the development of front range passenger rail, the legislation called for front range passenger rail to exist between Pueblo and Fort Collins. There have been studies done for many, many years up and down the front range and across the state for passenger rail. But the real reason that it really makes sense now is the incredible population changes. Here's some of the reasons that the commission was charged with implementing front range passenger rail. We're pretty concerned about the average travel time. We did an online public meeting, a survey that was up 24 seven for the entire month of July this past July 10,000 people responded to the overall survey. Where would you most want the alignment of front range rail to go and it would be your most primary purpose for using the front range passenger rail. Where do you most want to go. And again there's no surprises it's the predominant destinations and and attractions Denver and the airport Colorado Springs Fort Collins Boulder and and on down the line. The modeling that we've been doing projects that will be a very notable demand for for this service is the the ridership numbers for one of three alignments that we still having contention and one of those happens to run right down in the middle of Longmont, the BNSF line. These are the alignments that are still in contention as we're wrapping up this first consultant contract. We've got two lines, the blue line is the BNSF line that I mentioned that goes through Longmont. The blue line is actually the line that we evaluated back in 2014. The purple line is the I 25 corridor alignment that one does not penetrate downtown Denver but instead when it hits the north suburban and and south suburban areas. It heads east out to the airport in the eye for the E470 corridor. We think that front range passenger rail has an incredible amount of momentum been developed over the past 15 months. But as a council we draft that staff draft a letter in letters to our senators and representatives and also to our state representatives in support of this in support of this program. We should also add on their RTD. Yes, along with our RTD do you think and I'm not sure do you think we should add our lobbyists on there as well. I think what's best is Phil can just come up with a list and get the letter to them. So basically the motion is to write our our elected representatives at all levels expressing our support of the Southwest chief slash front range rail. All in favor say aye. I opposed say nay. All right, the motion carries unanimously update on the 219 greenhouse gas inventory and climate action House force recommendations. I'm Lisa Nabok, sustainability program manager with public works and natural resources. The 2019 greenhouse gas inventory, and then we'll be discussing the evaluation and prioritization of the climate action task force recommendations. And then finally the solar feasibility study, and then we'll be discussing the evaluation and prioritization of the climate action task force recommendations. And then finally the solar feasibility study, which was first conceived by wastewater treatment staff to offset peak loading and then was expanded to look at all properties and long months. I really just want to acknowledge those folks at the wastewater treatment plant for taking that initiative. So I'm Francie Jaffe water conservation and sustainability specialist. So I'm going to start off my presentation with the update to the 2019 greenhouse gas inventory. Next, as a reminder the sustainability plan direct city staff to update the inventory. We've been working every three years from a 2016 baseline on the city uses the internationally recognized GPC protocol to determine our greenhouse gas emissions. The GPC protocol uses the unit metric tons carbon dioxide equivalent. This combines carbon dioxide methane and nitrous oxides, three greenhouse gas emissions into one unit for contacts, one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent is about 113 gallons of carbon dioxide. So this is a overview of the 2019 emissions by sector, our largest sector is residential commercial electricity followed by commercial and residential natural gas. So this is the same pie chart but we're bringing in additional equity share emissions that additional equity share emissions represents the percentage that the city of Longmont owns of what platform of power authority is selling on the market. So comparing 2016 to 2019 we saw a 8% decrease in total emissions and a 12% increase in per capita. When looking at waste, it's important to look at the full life cycle of a product from a raw material to manufacturing to the transportation it goes through to whether it's recycled composted or put in the landfill. What we found was that in 2019 we avoided just under 56,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. So we wanted to see the impact of what if we increased our waste diversion. I'm not going to highlight strategies to increase our waste diversion and too much depth as that was a main effort of Bob Allen's Waste Services Update presentation last week. When doing this analysis we found that the city of Longmont only hauls about 33% of the total waste for the entire city. So if we want to work toward these waste diversion goals. So with all hollers not just the city to achieve those greenhouse gas emission reductions. The next presentation will be the evaluation of the Climate Action Task Force recommendations, which was requested by City Council on August 25. There's a lot of texts and I'm not expecting you to read all of this but the reason I'm bringing this all up is because I wanted to remind City Council of the breadth and scope of the 27 climate action Task Force recommendations. To evaluate the recommendations, staff looked at seven different criteria ranging from cost to community impact and board feedback. I want to walk through how we use the waiting scenario process. I do want to note that this ranking doesn't mean you need to do recommendations ranked one first and then recommendations ranked second next and then down the list. This was just a tool combined with staff modifications to help staff determine when the recommendations should be implemented. So this is for the water conservation recommendation. This recommendation was consistently ranked last across the different waiting scenarios. In the proposed staff modification that's detailed in the packet. Staff is instead recommending that we continue with current water conservation and drought management efforts, which includes a recent effort to better integrate water efficiency and land use planning until 2024 for the next water efficiency master plan update. I wanted to next highlight the 12 proposed near term recommendations, the ones that are highlighted in yellow at the top are already budgeted for 2021. So our request to City Council this evening is to approve staff's recommendations of proposed near term midterm and monitor over time actions, including the proposed modifications to the recommendations and direct staff to continue working on these efforts, as well as integrate this work into the next sustainability plan in the vision Walmart. I am going to move that the Council adopts the plans, the staff's implementation plan for the Climate Action Task Force recommendations as it stands. Second. I would just like to say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed say nay. All right, the motion carries unanimously. Congratulations, Councilmember Martin. I know that was important to you. Councilmember Peck. I would just like to thank the whole task force for all the work they've done on this. I know as we go through each segment of all these recommendations, we're going to be hitting on the body of work. So everybody that was involved with that. I thank you. Thank you so much for the solar feasibility study. Yes, I am. My name is Tim Ellis. I'm the renewable energy strategy manager in the energy strategies and solutions group at LPC. I'm here tonight with Dan Shippey, who's a control systems electrician in public works and natural resources. We're going to present the results of a solar feasibility study that was completed a few months ago. So here's our agenda for the presentation. First, we're going to review the purpose and methodology of the study. The Longmont sustainability plan provides a roadmap for social environmental and economic progress for the city. The solar feasibility study addresses the plan's actions to expand the use of renewable energy technologies to improve environmental quality. So here are the selection parameters that we use to evaluate the 31 sites and pair down the list to the top eight. We'll list the final eight sites ranked by the sustainability and lifecycle cost tools as they relate to each other. And next, Dan's going to present a few slides that are overviews of each of the eight sites that we selected. As Tim mentioned, there are eight sites that I'll discuss in more detail. They consist of a wide variety of system types as well. Site one is the newly constructed renewable natural gas waste services building on South Martin Street. Site two is the newly constructed maintenance office building at the wastewater treatment plant. Site three is the pavilion at Roosevelt Park and is sized at 87 kilowatts. Site five is a rooftop mount system on building seven of Public Works O&M vehicle storage on Airport Road. And here we have sites four and six. Both are located at Centennial Pool. Site seven is the Nelson Planners Water Treatment Plant. Site eight is a 138 kilowatt design installed over the wastewater treatment plants. Primary clarifier covers. And in 2018, the city of Lonemont committed to reach 100% renewable energy by 2030. Next year, the city declared a climate emergency with the intent to take actions to address the climate crisis. There are also plans and studies underway by our wholesale provider, Plant River Power Authority, that together with this study will help us determine ways to reach 100% renewable. My question is simply, theoretically, by being part of the PRPA co-op, aren't they doing it anyway? Well, Plant River Power Authority is aware that to reach the goals that they are honestly struggling with, that we have set them, that distributed energy resources are necessary by the cities. They have a distributed energy resource task force. Our own David Hornbacker is the chair of the distributed energy resource task force, I do believe. The immediate good of solarization in Lonemont is peak shaving. I really don't agree that honestly that this project goes against PRPA's goals in any way at all. They're happy to have us doing this. All right, let's go on. Building energy benchmark benchmarking update. Welcome Debbie. Good evening. I'm Mayor Bagley and members of city council. I'm Debbie Seidman, and I work for Lonemont Power Communications. I'm an engineer and project manager by background. I currently work in the energy strategies and solutions group. I am here to provide an update on what we have accomplished in 2030. For the agenda today is I will provide a reintroduce benchmarking. I'll give you information about a demonstration project that we held in 2020 and provide information about a larger voluntary program that we plan to move to in 2021. We use an EPA software and receive an energy star score. The intent is to make building owners aware of their energy use and then to take additional action to improve their score. And nationally there are 34 cities that currently have a building energy benchmarking ordinance. Ordinance there are also three states that have a requirement. We did recruit 10 commercial buildings to participate and a subset of those are shown here. The school district participated with two buildings. I'm Hannah North America data center participated. Circle graphics. A large manufacturing company participated as well as the first bank building on North Maine. I received a score again here's an example of a building receiving a score of 60 and this is again on a scale of 1 to 100. We also as I mentioned had some formal and informal customer feedback. So here's the results of the 10 commercial buildings that participated. The building has a score of 75 or greater. They are eligible to become an energy star certified building. So we also benchmark 10 municipal buildings I worked on those. And I worked with facilities management in the city and I worked with many department managers located at various buildings throughout the city to obtain the information I needed to input into the software. Here's results from the municipal buildings. As an example we have a score of 60 for the development services center. I was surprised considering that's an older building that it had such a good score I assumed it just wouldn't have. I just in general the newer buildings tend to score higher. With these initial programs. We can provide a lot of really good education and support with our customers. And now as I mentioned in 2021 we'd like to expand this program to all commercial buildings of the same size 20,000 square feet and greater. We have approximately 280 buildings in Longman of the size current actions and near term actions again we had a demonstration project in 2020 we're still consolidating feedback. We will move to this voluntary program in 2021, then we do plan to come back to city council and report our findings from 2021. All right. Thank you very much. We appreciate you. We have mayor and council comments anybody. No comments for you there. All right, great. Do we have a motion to adjourn? So move. See you guys next week. We're adjourned.