[0:03] All right, commissioners, are you ready? Yes, thanks. And we

[0:09] are recording. Good morning. Still, today is December 14, 2023.

[0:16] This is a meeting of the board of county. Commissioners

[0:19] of Boulder county. We have all three commissioners present, and

[0:22] we are here this morning for our monthly update from.

[0:26] Our head start division. We're joined. By the head start

[0:33] leadership. Modeling, a co leadership model. Demonstrating a co leadership

[0:39] model. Let's say that better. So thank you for joining

[0:43] us. This morning. We have 30 minutes set aside for

[0:46] this and please take it away. Perfect. Thank you. Good

[0:50] morning. Alex Linder, family services manager with Boulder county head

[0:54] start. We'll start off with policy council updates. We have

[0:57] ten members, which we're so excited about. We voted in

[1:01] our policy. Council chair, co chair, secretary and. Treasurer. We

[1:06] went over Robert's rules of order, of how to conduct

[1:08] a meeting we reviewed with them the timeline for approving

[1:12] our Boulder county head starts policies and procedures. We've also

[1:16] reviewed the deficiency non compliance and under enrollment notices that

[1:21] we've reviewed. With you ladies as well. And our upcoming

[1:25] FA two monitoring review. Let's pause and see if there

[1:29] are any questions on this before we move forward. No.

[1:34] Questions. No questions. Thank you. And just maybe one from

[1:40] me here. On the review of the deficiency non compliance

[1:45] and under enrollment notices. With the policy council. Just kind

[1:49] of wondering what kind of feedback you got from them

[1:52] on that. If any. There was. They had a lot

[1:56] of feelings about it. Understandably. They want to drop off

[2:00] their children. They want to make sure that their children

[2:02] are safe. Our policy council chair wrote. A very powerful

[2:09] letter to our teachers that we went ahead and shared

[2:12] with all of our staff. At head start. Okay, great.

[2:16] Anything else you'd want to elaborate on that, the nature

[2:19] of the comments? What I loved about. The process is

[2:25] that they really want to be a voice for parents,

[2:29] and they really want to connect not just with leadership,

[2:32] but with teachers as well. So they're looking at different

[2:34] ways. To integrate into the program, to be able to

[2:37] do that, to bring that parent lens in the day

[2:41] to day activities for head start. Great. That's exactly what

[2:45] we would want the policy council to do. So I'm

[2:47] glad to hear that. Thank you. The notices are very

[2:56] important to us. They're very serious. And the other part

[2:59] of the letter was that we want to do this

[3:02] together, that teamwork. Is very important to them as a

[3:06] counsel. And they were very supportive of the team at

[3:11] the same time. As just saying how important the program

[3:15] is to them as a family and community. It was

[3:20] very well written letter that both supportive and very serious.

[3:23] Great. Thanks. Okay, then I think we can move on

[3:29] to the meal service report. All right. Stacey. Fuchietta. Education

[3:34] services manager. So for November. Okay. October. That's right. So

[3:40] our total meals delivered was 6257. Served was 3886. And

[3:47] our invoice for October was $16,970. And our CACFP reimbursement

[3:56] was $12,468.38 and our cost for meals was $4,501.67.

[4:06] The student meals are covered by CACFP with any difference

[4:09] in reimbursement due to student absences from the classroom, and

[4:14] I just kind of also wanted to add that. I

[4:17] am still trying to work with different people with pig

[4:20] farms or their own personal pigs to see if we

[4:23] can try to do something with all the leftover food

[4:25] that we're accumulating. And seeing if we can just donate

[4:30] it that way so we don't have to just. Be

[4:31] throwing it all away. Our food waste. Yeah. Great. Thanks.

[4:36] Do you need any contacts in that? Space. There are

[4:38] a couple of farms we work with often. Yes. Okay.

[4:42] The ones I found a little bit. Are kind of

[4:45] around boulder a little bit more picky about the food

[4:47] that they're giving their pegs. But yeah, they are. All

[4:52] of them that we work with actually do work really

[4:54] hard to make sure that they have certain standards for

[4:57] the food that the pigs are getting, so let's connect

[5:00] off. Definitely. There might be another option. Perfect. Thank you.

[5:05] Yeah. Composting or. There are a couple of other options.

[5:09] Thank you. That was my question when I saw the

[5:12] numbers there. So I appreciate that update on a question

[5:14] that I've been asking for a few years. I'd also

[5:16] met with ecocycle. Natima. A couple of folks from their

[5:21] board earlier this year who were interested in looking at

[5:25] this particular issue with us in partnership. So if there

[5:28] hasn't been a connection made there, I'd. Be happy to

[5:32] try and bring that conversation together and see if they

[5:34] could be a partner. That could. Move us forward in

[5:38] this space. Thank you. I'm also doing number three. So

[5:42] we're talking about enrollment and attendance. We had 19 school

[5:45] days in October. The overall program attendance was 87%. Dagney

[5:51] had 86% Woodland 89 Sunflower 86 and via Latar new

[5:57] site at 87%. So we did pretty well in October.

[6:02] Any questions on the enrollment and attendance? No questions. None

[6:07] here either. Thank you. As elites have heard in the

[6:12] past, we did open our new school here in Boulder.

[6:15] Avioleta. Site, and that has increased our numbers. We're currently

[6:18] at 112, with about four enrollments that are pending, most

[6:22] likely. Won't start this year, but we'll start in January

[6:27] when we come back from winter break, so 116. We

[6:31] haven't been at that number for a few years, so

[6:34] we're very excited to continue to find children and to

[6:38] enroll them in our program. There's the graphic that goes

[6:41] with that. That's just the graphic that goes around. Along

[6:44] with those numbers. Enrollment numbers. And then the monthly budget.

[6:56] That our fiscal officer projects through to the end of

[6:59] our fiscal year, which is the June 2024. And these

[7:06] numbers are constantly moving. They're sort of working numbers. As

[7:12] we bring in more funding from CCAP applications. And my

[7:18] understanding we have about eight applications pending from CCAP. So

[7:23] these numbers will shift and change again. And a lot

[7:26] of those numbers. Are pending. Applications are from the Violeta

[7:30] school that we opened. We were waiting for a license.

[7:32] Number. Now that we have the license number, we can

[7:35] submit applications. Along attached to that license number. And so

[7:41] the children that are enrolled there. Those are the pending

[7:44] applications, and so we'll see these numbers shift again. I'm

[7:49] sorry to interrupt. You remind me where the violet. Violeta

[7:56] program is sure it's close to here. The property line

[7:59] is attached. To the flat irons elementary school. Up behind

[8:06] Uni Hill. There's Uni Hill in Flatirons elementary School. It's

[8:09] back there on the hill. Okay. You're welcome to come

[8:17] and visit if you would like. Okay. And then the

[8:21] last section here that I would just like to update

[8:24] you all on is. The ongoing monitoring and partnership that

[8:28] we have. And monthly meetings we have not only with

[8:32] you, but the policy council, and then weekly meetings with

[8:35] the regional office. The regional office team. They came to

[8:40] observe and provided feedback to our teaching teams. On November

[8:44] 1. And our staff are busy implementing that feedback. Into

[8:48] their classroom practices. And then they will actually come back

[8:54] next week on December 19, we'll have a meeting. I

[8:58] think it's with Commissioner Saltzman in attendance as well to

[9:03] meet with that regional. Team. And this is more related

[9:06] to the discipline deficiency. I'll scroll down just so that

[9:11] I make sure that I'm giving you all. The information.

[9:15] So that discipline deficiency had a 120 day correction, corrective

[9:19] action period. We came to the close. Of that period

[9:21] on December 11, and I submitted the quality improvement plan

[9:26] along with its supporting documents. The visit next week. Is

[9:31] standard where they come and do interviews. They interview staff,

[9:35] they come and meet with you. To talk about. The

[9:40] strategies that we used and get feedback from our staff

[9:43] on how things are going so that will happen next

[9:47] week. The second notice is the active supervision corrective action

[9:52] plan. We requested an extension for that. Corrective? Action period,

[9:57] which was granted. And so now we have an extension

[10:00] through April 16. In part from their November 1 feedback

[10:07] report. They just advised us to take a little bit

[10:11] more time. Working with those strategies to show correction, and

[10:16] so we did that. And then as part of. Their

[10:23] recommendation for a strategy on the active supervision. They've suggested

[10:28] we visit. Do some visits. Site visits on exemplar programs

[10:32] that have kind of come through the same challenges that

[10:35] we are facing as a program, but also transitional leadership

[10:39] at the same time. So they've identified three programs. In

[10:43] Montana and Colorado and South Dakota that had notices themselves,

[10:49] had new leadership and successfully came through. Those challenges and

[10:54] are actually seen as exemplar programs now. So we had

[10:58] a first initial meeting yesterday with our leadership team to

[11:01] discuss the possibility of sending some teams out. And just

[11:05] throwing it out to who in our team might. Be.

[11:12] Great representatives of our program from all different component areas

[11:15] of our program to go and conduct those observations. Anywhere.

[11:22] We're in the beginning stages of discussing that. I'll pause

[11:26] there because that's more related to. The two specific notices,

[11:30] discipline and active supervision and CPO questions. There. I don't

[11:35] have questions, thank you. No, I don't either, but I'm.

[11:38] Very pleased I was out of town that Commissioner Stolman

[11:42] is going to be attending that. Meeting. On Monday as

[11:46] our representative. Alex is just reminding me that during our

[11:50] policy council meeting on Monday, There were some parents who

[11:54] were on the council that were also interested in participating

[11:56] in those site. Observations. So to have that kind of

[11:59] interest in engagement. Was really. Positive part of the meeting.

[12:05] And consideration were you trying to fix? Okay. Great opportunity.

[12:09] Yeah. So then the third notice we received is the

[12:13] full enrollment enrollment initiative, and that has a one. Year

[12:18] corrective action period. And so they check in with us,

[12:22] the office of head start after six months, so we

[12:25] do have a meeting scheduled for. January. Which. Our staff

[12:31] will attend, and we'll just be talking about those strategies.

[12:35] I know, commissioner, you've asked before about what are our

[12:38] new strategies. That we've implemented in that ongoing conversation is

[12:43] happening as well. With the office of head start. That

[12:47] meeting. Check in meeting is January 16. We are feeling

[12:51] positive about the slow but uptick. In enrollments. We need

[12:59] to get to 129 by the end of the corrective

[13:02] action period, and so. We are hopeful and working very

[13:07] hard. Alex's team working really hard to meet that number.

[13:12] Really quick on that piece. Sure. So that's 17 additional

[13:15] thoughts. Is that the right. We have 112 now and

[13:19] we need to be at 129. Yes, that's correct. And

[13:25] that would be during the first. Quarter. I mean the

[13:30] spring semester. Do you all feel like that's before feasible?

[13:35] I was thinking. That April 16. Deadline or date I

[13:38] can't scroll on your screen? I want to clarify. We

[13:44] need to meet that number. That's our 97% of 134

[13:49] slots that we are allotted, but they don't. Actually start

[13:54] the clock on that until September. 2024. So even though.

[14:00] We have to meet that number. They're not officially going

[14:03] to start counting that number until September 2024, so we're

[14:07] working towards that, okay? And that begs a different question,

[14:11] because at the end of a school year, then you're

[14:13] going to have attrition no matter. Either way. Yes, I

[14:16] know it's not. A clean count. We do have that.

[14:21] Four year olds moving on to kindergarten. We lose those

[14:24] four year olds, we have to recover those numbers. And

[14:27] then bring in new students, okay? I'll be interested just

[14:33] to hear. And I'm sure you'll bring that. To us.

[14:36] And I know we talked about previously, and I know

[14:38] you were working on some different strategies about outreach and

[14:42] bringing folks in. So I think the piece is going

[14:47] to be that for all of the facilities, right? It's.

[14:51] Easy to focus on. One that has the number. Just

[14:54] because of the way that all your facilities are working,

[14:57] it's going to be really important to be putting all

[14:59] that work for each of them. Yeah. One of the

[15:04] strategies, just to be more specific. Was. They were asking

[15:07] us to survey parents and have conversations with parents around

[15:11] transportation and what are the transportation barriers. Is it a

[15:16] transportation, a barrier to enroll? Or is it that families

[15:20] are disenrolling? Because of transportation? Is it between cities? A

[15:27] transportation issue between Lafaya and Boulder, or is it a

[15:31] family that lives in Boulder? And is having difficulty getting

[15:34] to a boulder site or vice versa. So that's one

[15:38] strategy. To understand more our population. And to have those

[15:42] conversations with families. About. A specific transportation issue. That's one

[15:49] strategy that we are incorporating into the plan. Great. Thank

[15:52] you. I think I had maybe two follow ups or

[15:57] questions or comments about that specific issue. One is. I

[16:02] think we've talked about this before. But. Do you work

[16:07] closely with our housing authority, Boulder County Housing Authority and

[16:11] BHP. And. Very closely with Boulder housing partners. With county

[16:18] Boulder County Housing Authority as well. We work very closely

[16:22] with Sister Carmen. We also work closely with early intervention

[16:28] team. Child protective services. What we do in January is

[16:34] really ramp up our outreach as far as doing community

[16:37] presentations to different community partners, and we also attend different

[16:41] events that come up, and we're invited to. We were

[16:46] out there in the community, definitely talking about the program.

[16:49] Great. Thanks for that. And then the other. The second

[16:51] question is whether that target enrollment number is that an

[16:55] average. Of throughout the year. Because people do come in

[17:00] and out of the program. How do they measure whether

[17:03] you're actually meeting that minimum requirement. Number. With the public

[17:09] k through twelve School Finance act count. There is. A

[17:14] day. When they do the count. We do get drops

[17:19] throughout the year, but those slots don't become. A vacancy

[17:26] until 30 days after they've dropped, so we have some

[17:29] time to fill. They won't look at cumulative numbers, unfortunately.

[17:36] They will definitely look at a point in time. And.

[17:40] What they want to see for those six months is

[17:42] that we are at 129. Yes, average in theory. But

[17:48] we can't really count those that are leaving after 30

[17:51] days. And we submit those officially through their HSes system.

[17:56] So there's a tab there about. Enrollments, and we have

[17:59] to submit monthly numbers. And those are the numbers they're

[18:03] looking at and they'll look over a period of time.

[18:05] Okay, so it sounds like. They do sort of average

[18:10] it over a period. Okay, thanks. I also wanted to

[18:14] just bring in the policy council again in our last

[18:17] meeting where the parents voiced, how they came to our

[18:20] program, how they found it, and then. An interesting. Piece

[18:30] of data that one family mentioned was that. They assumed

[18:34] that they didn't qualify. And it wasn't until they actually

[18:38] met with actually, Alex, to learn that there are. Different

[18:43] categories of eligibility, and then they found that they were

[18:47] eligible and are now enrolled in our program but. That

[18:50] was good information for us. To learn the parent perception

[18:55] prior to them actually coming to talk to us. That

[19:00] we can work with. In our strategies. Okay. Are we

[19:05] running over now? Okay. On December 6, I'm going to

[19:14] move on to the policies and procedures. December 6, there

[19:18] was a pmi meeting. Where? We brought. Our plan. Of

[19:26] having our new policies and procedures approved. And I believe

[19:30] that was brought before the business meeting on the twelveth.

[19:33] And that plan was approved, which I also submitted to

[19:37] the office of Head start, so thank you for approval

[19:39] on that. And we will continue. To draft and get

[19:46] approval on the policies through July 2024 for our program.

[19:51] So we will be in touch monthly on that with

[19:53] all of you. And then we still have not received

[19:57] our federal monitoring review notice. However, if it is received

[20:03] this week. We can anticipate. The team to be here

[20:08] on January 29. We are on a weekly wait and

[20:12] see sort of schedule, so we will just keep you

[20:14] all updated. As part of. The FA two process. There

[20:20] is also a companion process that is happening, and that's

[20:23] called the class reviews. And that is an assessment tool

[20:28] for high quality programs. And so the office of head

[20:32] start will be conducting virtual. Video gathering of 1 hour

[20:39] observation videos for each of our classrooms and assessing each

[20:42] of our classrooms. For quality. And that period of time

[20:46] is January and February. Is that correct? Stacy? January and

[20:49] February. We have to submit seven 1 hour videos to

[20:52] the office of head start, and then we'll receive. The

[20:55] reports back after their review. So that's everything that's happening

[21:01] for our program right now. Great. Thank you. I just

[21:03] have a quick question on the class reviews. Is that

[21:08] an additional practice? That's just. Part of nation head start

[21:13] or is that connected? To. The disciplinary deficiency or anything

[21:19] like that? No, that's standard. That's standard for all. Programs,

[21:22] all head start programs. They do that? Is it annually?

[21:26] Is it annual? No, I don't know. Actually. I don't

[21:29] think we've gone through a federal one in a few

[21:33] years. We usually just do them ourselves, but this is

[21:36] the first time. That I've been here, that we've had

[21:38] a federal one. Okay. Yeah, I don't remember hearing about

[21:41] the federal class review, so I just wanted to make

[21:43] sure that understanding of reason why it was being requested.

[21:47] Yes. It's not tied to that. And just for awareness,

[21:51] the class tool is something that the boulder Valley school

[21:53] District uses as well. It's something that we've used in

[21:56] the past, like Stacy was saying, internally, as a measure

[21:59] of quality. And now this is something. That. I think

[22:04] it is tied to the FA two review, which is

[22:07] why we haven't had one in five years. It's a

[22:10] five year cycle. Okay. Thank you. I don't think we

[22:14] have any other questions. Is there anything else you want

[22:17] to share? With us before we adjourn the meeting extravaganza.

[22:24] You are all welcome to come and join us for

[22:27] gift wrapping. On Saturday at our winter extravaganza. It'll be

[22:31] from nine to three at our Dagney site in Lafayette,

[22:34] and I am bringing 300 tamales. Extravaganza is the purpose.

[22:40] You're the one that created it. So winter extravaganza is

[22:46] our yearly gift giving event. I won't go into the

[22:51] whole history of it, but what we do is we

[22:54] kind of create a shop so parents can come and

[22:56] actually pick out presents for their children. We have a

[22:59] gift wrapping area. We have snacks. Claire came last year.

[23:02] I think she was one of my. Greeters at the

[23:04] door. So it's just a fun event. We ask that

[23:07] parents kind of leave their children at home so that

[23:10] they can also talk. To each other and build community.

[23:13] It's a fun time. But one day we will talk

[23:16] about the history of it and why we created it,

[23:19] the racial equity piece on that. That's tied to the

[23:22] equity piece that we didn't have. In the report this

[23:26] month. I apologize. Well, it was a fun time. It

[23:31] was really fun as a greeter. I wasn't back where

[23:34] the parents were. Selecting the gifts, but I saw. Their

[23:40] excitement as they were walking out with what they had

[23:43] were able to find. For their kids. It was a

[23:47] good time. And I think some of them did bring

[23:50] their kids, but they left that. Well, they left them.

[23:52] In the cookie room. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thanks

[23:56] for the invitation to the event, and thanks for the

[23:59] update. Yeah. Okay, well, then we will be in recess

[24:03] until 01:00. Where when we will reconvene. To hear the

[24:08] parks and open space, Capitol and stewardship projects.

[24:22] And we are recording. Good afternoon. Today is December 14,

[24:27] 2023. This is a meeting of the board of county

[24:29] commissioners of Boulder county. We do have all three commissioners

[24:32] present, and we are here. For a presentation. On the

[24:39] parks and open Space 2024 capital and stewardship projects list.

[24:44] Tina Nielsen is going to lead this off. I understand.

[24:47] And you'll allow other people to introduce themselves? As they

[24:51] speak. So, Tina, go ahead. Thank you. Good afternoon. Gina

[24:57] Nielsen, special projects coordinator with parks and open space. And

[25:01] we are here, as you said. To. Give you a

[25:05] quick presentation of our proposed 2024 capital and stewardship projects.

[25:11] These projects were included in a line item in our

[25:13] budget request. And we're here today to give you the

[25:18] details about that. And answer any questions you haven't asked

[25:23] for your approval of these specific projects. And as you

[25:27] said, I will kick us off with some introductory slides,

[25:31] and then I'll. Be handing it over to my colleagues

[25:33] here whose staff do the actual work. We're going. To

[25:36] be going through about 45 slides, so we'll try to

[25:39] keep it moving pretty quickly. And we would appreciate it

[25:42] if you have any questions, if you hold them till

[25:44] the end, so. That we can just get through the

[25:46] material and so on. Okay. I wanted to start off

[25:50] with some. Just some terminology, because our terminology has evolved

[25:54] over the. Years. We used to call it our CIP,

[25:56] or our capital improvements budget. And a couple few years

[26:02] ago. We started looking at it in a little bit

[26:05] of a broader way because we have an awful lot.

[26:08] Of maintenance backlog that is expensive and. Doesn't lend itself

[26:14] to our operating budgets. The operating budgets can't cover it,

[26:17] so. We wanted to be more explicit about how we

[26:19] use these funds. So capital projects are kind of large,

[26:23] discrete projects that have a beginning and an end. Over

[26:26] $10,000 examples are trail construction, ecological restoration projects. Stewardship projects.

[26:33] Are sort of that maintenance backlog. Or it can be

[26:37] programmatic. Sometimes we have programmatic things. We want to do

[26:40] that again. Fall outside the parameters of our ability to

[26:43] do it with our operating budgets. Again, over $10,000 examples.

[26:48] Would be replacing roofs or parking upgrades. Here is a

[26:53] chart that just shows a summary. Of the projects by

[26:59] division, so we have four divisions. Whose staff really do

[27:03] the heavy lifts on all this, and I do want

[27:05] to say that this is such a fun thing for

[27:08] me to do every year, to come before you and

[27:10] talk about the things that we do because we do

[27:13] so much. And it's really fun to see it all

[27:15] in one package like this. And I really just want

[27:19] to give kudos to all the staff out there who

[27:21] are on the ground doing the hard work that we

[27:24] do. So, as you can see, there are 34 projects

[27:27] divided among four divisions, the AG Resources Division, the recreation

[27:31] facilities division, resource management and then resource planning. And the

[27:37] budget line item was about $3.3 million. As you can

[27:43] see. We have been able to leverage that with over

[27:47] $7 million in grants and partnerships. So we have one

[27:51] staff person who's dedicated to looking for grants and finding

[27:54] those and obviously, she's worth her weight and gold and

[27:58] doing a great job and helping us find that so?

[28:01] The total value of this work is over $10 million.

[28:05] When we select the projects, one of the things that

[28:07] we do is we look through our strategic planning lenses,

[28:11] and we have four focus areas, as you can see

[28:13] here, cultural responsiveness, resilience maintenance, backlog and safety. And so

[28:21] when the projects are being proposed and being evaluated, We

[28:26] look at those lenses and this is how they've fallen

[28:29] out for the 2024. Project list. This slide is the

[28:35] same information, but it shows how these projects are distributed

[28:39] across the four divisions. That do those projects. And I

[28:44] do want to say one note about, you can see

[28:47] that maintenance backlog is pretty evenly distributed across all four

[28:51] divisions. Resilience and safety are also distributed across. All four

[28:56] divisions. Cultural responsiveness. We have projects in both resource management

[29:01] and resource planning. I just want to make a note

[29:04] that a lot of the work we do, that is.

[29:08] Cultural that hits that box. Is programmatic. And would fall

[29:12] under operating budgets and not under capital and stewardship budgets

[29:15] quite as much, but we do have four that fall

[29:18] in this, and we'll be highlighting those as we go.

[29:20] Through the presentation. So this is my final slide, and

[29:23] this just shows the distribution of these projects across. The

[29:29] county, so you can see it's impressive. It's a lot

[29:32] of work. The color of the dots and the number

[29:34] of the dots correlate to the divisions and the number

[29:37] in the spreadsheet that's in your materials, so if you

[29:39] wanted to go. Back. You could see that. And now

[29:42] I'm going to turn it over to Mike Foster. To

[29:45] talk about the ad projects. Good afternoon, commissioners. Mike Foster,

[29:48] Agriculture Resources Division. Manager. And next slide, please. A couple

[29:53] of the key themes that I just want to highlight.

[29:57] Is closer. A couple of the key themes that I

[29:59] want to highlight. For our capital and stewardship projects, primarily

[30:03] in 2023 and 2024, is around water efficiency. That is

[30:07] a really big emphasis for us. The operating budget that

[30:10] the commissioners approved last month is where we get into

[30:13] a lot of our soil health efforts and maintenance backlog.

[30:17] So what you're going to be seeing today from a

[30:19] stewardship or capital project side is really big. Water efficiency

[30:24] projects. And with that theme, In 2023, with our cast

[30:29] funding, we installed three center pivots out at our Henry

[30:32] Eastleck property complex, and that's to replace flood irrigation. Center

[30:37] pivots are significantly more efficient use of water than flood

[30:41] irrigated, and our tenants usually see a higher yield associated

[30:45] with center pivots rather than flood irrigation. So this is

[30:48] a really big emphasis for us moving into the next

[30:50] few years to replace flood irrigation with center pivot. So

[30:53] you'll see many, many more of these requests over the

[30:55] next five. Years or so. Next slide, please. For our

[31:00] 2024 projects. This is where we are headed with the

[31:04] items. And again, big theme. Is center pivots again, replacing

[31:08] flood irrigation with more efficient use of our water. Next

[31:12] slide. Here's the map of where those item projects will

[31:16] occur, primarily on the east side in our irrigated agricultural

[31:20] lands. Next slide. Our hygiene dairy pipeline. This is really

[31:25] about making more efficient use of water coming out of

[31:28] our ditches right now, this particular. Property is receiving about

[31:33] a 50% water loss because of leaky ditches. And so,

[31:37] in the spirit of, again, making more efficient use of

[31:40] our water, making sure that we fully utilize our water

[31:43] rights. We want to make sure that this is piped

[31:46] so that the tenant gets the water and it winds

[31:49] back up in the stream after that tenant is done

[31:51] with it. Next slide. Please. We are going to be

[31:54] revegeting our Deberi property for. The last dozen years or

[32:00] so, it has been overgrazed and overrun with prairie dogs.

[32:05] This year, that property sat fallow, and we were able

[32:08] to get the prairie dogs off of that. Property, and

[32:11] we have seen a significant improvement in the vegetation coming

[32:15] back. The light green areas on this map are going

[32:18] to be our focus areas for vegetative work. We're also

[32:21] going to be installing a bridge. Across the ish ditch

[32:25] so that we can more easily get from the south

[32:27] end of the property to the north end of the

[32:29] property. Next slide, please. And our big center pivot project.

[32:33] We've got four. Properties where we're collaborating with NRCs and

[32:40] our tenants to access outside dollars to leverage money that

[32:44] the county is kicking in. The county typically covers the

[32:48] underground infrastructure, such as the pipes. And electrical and NRCs

[32:52] and the tenant cover the above ground infrastructure, such as

[32:55] the pivot itself and. Any overhead power lines. So this

[32:59] is going to be a big work for us next

[33:01] year, and then our last project is reconstruction. Reconstruction of

[33:05] the good hue ditch. This particular concrete structure is well.

[33:09] Past its useful life, it is falling apart and in

[33:12] the spirit of delivering water efficiently to our properties. We

[33:15] need to rehabilitate this infrastruct. Infrastructure. Turn it over to

[33:20] Jarrett. Good afternoon, commissioners. Jarrett Roberts, recreation and facilities division

[33:24] manager. And I'll be walking you through our divisions, projects

[33:27] from this year and this coming year. So first I

[33:33] want to talk about some accomplishments this past year, and

[33:35] this is just a small sampling. As Tina mentioned, there's

[33:37] a ton of other work that happens, but this will

[33:39] get us an idea of what we've been up to.

[33:42] A couple of big highlights at the Annuite trailhead, we

[33:45] were able to put in a retaining wall, which is

[33:46] a big step towards us being able to put the

[33:48] restroom in, which is a project, you'll see. In the

[33:50] upcoming year. We made a major. Connection along the 104th

[33:54] street connection, which was a partnership with a couple of

[33:57] our local municipalities. We had kind of an emergent project

[34:01] with a replacement of the Nywat trail culvert. Or we

[34:04] had a culvert that was rusting out and were able

[34:06] to repair. That so we could keep that regional trail

[34:08] open. And then, of course, I think you've all heard

[34:11] about the opening of the Tolland Range Trail, which has

[34:14] been a multi year project that we were able to

[34:16] actually do a soft opening this year, and are excited

[34:18] to open all the way next year. Looking at a

[34:21] couple more projects, you can kind of see these. There's

[34:23] some really great before and afters from our building and

[34:26] historic preservation team of some painting projects on the strode

[34:29] dickens, as well as major restoration project on the Macintosh

[34:33] barn. It's hard to see, but. Most of the work

[34:35] actually happened underneath that barn on the foundation, which was

[34:39] a historic foundation. And I had never actually been through

[34:42] this process, but it's quite a process to remove every

[34:45] piece of rock and then put that all back in

[34:48] in a structurally sound way that can support such a

[34:51] large building. While also keeping the historic integrity of the

[34:54] building intact. So very cool. And then the Raimi roofing

[34:58] project that's on the bottom left. There was a replacement

[35:00] of one of our oldest buildings in the county. The

[35:04] roof on that project, on that building. Looking forward at

[35:08] this coming year. In 2024, we have nine projects that

[35:10] I'll talk about totaling three quarters of a million dollars,

[35:13] roughly. You'll notice there's not a lot of grant funding

[35:16] here. A lot of this is maintenance work, and we

[35:18] are looking for grants. And then ways to leverage funding,

[35:21] but it's sometimes a little bit harder to find than

[35:23] some of the new shiny stuff. Locations. There's just a

[35:27] quick overview. You also notice there are two of the

[35:29] projects that aren't listed on the map, and that's because

[35:32] they kind of go across the entire system and that

[35:34] we'll talk about later. Our sign standards and our ADa

[35:37] upgrades. So our first set of projects I want to

[35:42] talk about. Is in, I guess, three projects, the first

[35:46] one being in the Niwat trail legend Ridge area. And

[35:50] that's a major resurfacing project. So we have this trail.

[35:54] That the surface has been washed out over the coming

[35:56] years, and so we're going to reserve, almost a 1.5

[35:58] miles loop. And we're going to replace this with a

[36:01] recycled asphalt, which tends to hold up better in some

[36:04] of the steeper grades that we see. In this area.

[36:06] There's the Boulder Canyon trail retaining structure. This is a

[36:10] small but very critical piece of trail. It's actually only

[36:13] 40ft long. But should this wash out, we would have

[36:15] to close the entire Boulder Canyon trail. So we're. Working

[36:18] on a retaining wall that would allow this small section

[36:20] to trail from washing out into the creek. And then

[36:24] the last project here is the annuite restrooms. We talked

[36:26] about the retaining. Wall. And there's been a lot of

[36:27] prep work this year to prepare the trailhead. We're planning

[36:30] on putting in. The specific type of restroom. It doesn't

[36:35] match exactly with our other restrooms, but because the limited

[36:38] space we have with the floodplain. This is the restroom

[36:40] we felt would fit. Best here and be most resilient.

[36:44] Our next project is our assigned standards. So we went

[36:46] through a big process to overhaul our sign. Manual and

[36:50] come up with standards that we can apply system wide.

[36:53] As part of this process, we focused on making these

[36:55] signs universal, so we used a lot of graphics. So

[37:00] language became less of an issue. And then we also

[37:02] introduced bilingual signage in many cases. To help support our

[37:07] entire community to be able to understand and use our

[37:09] trailheads and trails. So. We plan to have this be

[37:14] a four to five year process to replace pretty much

[37:16] every sign in the parks and open space. In our

[37:19] whole system. We plan on doing about a quarter of

[37:22] that work in this coming year. And that'll include work

[37:24] at the Carolyn Homebrew Preserve, Walker Ranch, Twin Lakes, Bald

[37:27] Mountain, grassy tops, Kerr gardens, Dodd Lake, Cardinal mill and

[37:31] ag Heritage center. So a lot of signs that we

[37:34] have to replace in a very short period of time,

[37:35] but in four or five years. It'll be amazing to

[37:37] see signage across. The entire system changed. Harney Listoka is

[37:43] located between Lewisville and La Fayette. The property includes an

[37:47] active farm, a farm stand, a trail and the Kirk

[37:50] community garden. This is an old garage that's. Used by

[37:53] the tenant. It's also a historic structure. It's a cedar

[37:56] roofing. Cedar roof. And so we replace. These on a

[38:01] fairly regular basis to maintain the historic integrity while also

[38:04] making them functional. So this project will look to replace

[38:07] that roof. And then the last leader projects I want

[38:10] to tell you about. Or. No, sorry, there's one more

[38:12] after this, but the last big group of projects is

[38:15] in the hall ranch area. We have a number of

[38:17] projects in this area, including replacing the decking on one

[38:19] of the bridges. This decking is old and weathered and

[38:23] beyond its life cycle, and so we're expecting to replace

[38:25] the entire decking. There's a major upgrade to. The access

[38:30] road that allows our staff and emergency vehicles to access

[38:33] the area. And lastly, we're going to do some major

[38:36] trailhead upgrades to bring that trailer up. To our current

[38:40] standards and help improve some major drainage issues that we've

[38:43] been seeing. The last project I did want to talk

[38:45] about is the trailhead and facilities ADA compliance updates. The

[38:50] county did a countywide look at Ada compliance in many

[38:54] of the areas and buildings. Parks and open space was

[38:58] a piece of that. And they looked at our trailheads

[38:59] and found almost. 1000 violations. Some of these are very

[39:03] small, moving the height of a handle or something like

[39:05] that. And others are very big, making sure that the

[39:08] surfacing in a parking area. Is compliant. So we've taken

[39:12] these and we've started to devote funds and times. To

[39:15] working away at that list of about 1000 items, and

[39:17] we plan to get through about 25%. Of them next

[39:19] year, which is a pretty big accomplishment, we think. And

[39:23] with that, I'll pass it off to resource management. All

[39:26] right. Greetings, commissioners. Stefan Reinford. I'm the resource management division

[39:30] manager, and we'll go through our resource management. Slide. All

[39:37] right. So 2023 accomplishments. So we have, one of the

[39:42] big projects we worked on was the St. Frane Forest

[39:45] Health Partnership project, phase one, which was a joint project

[39:50] where work was completed on private lands, open space, and

[39:54] then also the city along Monmont's button rock. Preserve. And

[39:57] so we were able to get that project completed just

[40:00] about a week and a half ago. So that's pretty

[40:02] good news. One of the neat projects we did was.

[40:07] A museum master interpretive plan. And the point of our

[40:12] interpretive plan was. To provide get some guidance in providing

[40:17] a more inclusive human history. When we interpret our ag

[40:20] Heritage center, the Ned Mining museum, and we also looked

[40:24] at the assay. Office. And so a lot of that

[40:27] has to do with some of the programming we do,

[40:29] but they also looked at accessibility and how to change

[40:32] the sites of these locations. And then the third project

[40:37] we worked on was. Biomass storage for the parks. So

[40:43] we have a location where. We store log material that

[40:48] we can then utilize and burn in our biomass facilities

[40:51] and again ones at our open space complex and ones

[40:54] at the Boulder county jail. Thanks a lot. And here

[40:58] is our list of the projects. You can see that.

[41:03] We also try to get a lot of grants and

[41:06] take advantage and leverage the money that we use. Next

[41:10] slide. And again, the geographic reference for where all these

[41:14] projects are located within the county. Next slide. So the

[41:19] first project on here is our wheeler ranch russian olive

[41:23] removal. This property has over 3000 russian olive trees that

[41:28] are choking out the creek. And keeping the natives out

[41:33] of the location. And so our goal is to remove

[41:38] the russian olive over we did portion of this project.

[41:42] This year in 2023, and then we're looking to continue

[41:45] that project next year. One of the goals is also

[41:50] to follow this up. With planting that our plant ecology

[41:53] staff can do to plant some native tree species along

[41:57] the creek. Next slide. So our Prescott wetland restoration. This

[42:04] property. Is off the peak to peak off Bun School

[42:08] Road. This is. A fen that the previous landowners want

[42:16] to drain so that they could actually have not have

[42:19] a wet meadow in that location, and so you can

[42:21] kind of see that wishbone. Structure that was there, and

[42:25] that was done by ditching by the previous landowner. And

[42:29] so our goal is to actually rehab this fen and

[42:34] this wetland. We had the designs completed last year, and

[42:38] then we're hoping to do this with some in house.

[42:41] Funding. Next year. Really good for carbon sequestration this wetland.

[42:46] And so we're really hoping that we can kind of

[42:48] fix this up. Next slide. So the next spot is

[42:54] Sherwood Creek restoration at the conger mine. If you're not

[42:57] familiar with Sherwood Creek is it's near Caribou Ranch. The

[43:02] Sherwood property was acquired a little bit later. There's a

[43:06] section of the creek that actually goes underground and is

[43:10] kind of covered up. By some of the mine tailings.

[43:13] And so our goal plan, ecology has had this goal

[43:16] on their books for a long time to daylight this

[43:19] creek and so that we can actually get a truly

[43:22] functioning. Ecosystem in there. And so that's what they're working

[43:26] on here. We're partnering with the Colorado Division of Reclamation

[43:31] and Mine Safety. They're putting a lot of dollars towards

[43:34] this project, and we also are applying for a CWCB

[43:39] grant to assist. Next slide. In our Carolyn homeburg Preserve

[43:45] at Rock Creek. Farm management plan. There is an area

[43:49] that was identified that we wanted to restore to native

[43:53] perennials. And it's an 80 acre section that we're looking

[43:56] at, this area. Has had lots of prairie dog damage

[44:00] and has also had a lot of overgrazing in the

[44:03] past, and we're really just trying to bring back a

[44:05] stronger ecosystem that can then be managed appropriately. Next slide.

[44:11] And then going back to that museum master interpretive plan

[44:15] while. We are going to be implementing some of the

[44:19] programming. On the other properties. The assay office. Is only

[44:25] open one weekend per year during a short time frame.

[44:30] And it was recommended for an accessibility standpoint to actually.

[44:34] Do a little bit more interpretation on the outside of

[44:37] the museum. Provide in the parking lot area, provide some

[44:41] picnic tables and some areas for people to sit and

[44:44] just make it a little bit more inviting for those

[44:47] that are riding their bikes up or driving up and

[44:49] it's closed. And they're like, what is this place? And

[44:53] so we're hoping to do that with this project. Next

[44:56] slide. And then we talked about the St. Vane Forest

[45:01] Health Partnership briefly. This is kind of beginning to implement

[45:05] phase two here on our riverside property. And if you

[45:09] look on the map there, North of the project area.

[45:13] You can see that the Button Rock Reserve, a Ralph

[45:15] Price reservoir. And so a lot of this area, if

[45:20] there were to be a fire, drains down. Into button

[45:24] rock preserve and into the waterway. Longmont lines drinking water.

[45:30] So we're trying to do this with the big partnership

[45:33] there. We're looking at 250 acres of work. And we

[45:37] have a matching grant that will pay for the other

[45:40] half of this project. And now to resource planning. Heidi.

[45:44] All right, great. Thanks, Stefan. Good afternoon. Heidi Wagner, resource

[45:49] planning division. Manager here to present our work. Some of

[45:54] the highlights of our 23 accomplishments include the stabilization of

[45:59] the banks out at Twin Lakes hopefully you've had a

[46:02] chance to see it. It is open and operational and

[46:05] people are really enjoying the improvements. Other things of note

[46:10] were improvements. At the indian mountain area that is used

[46:15] by our indigenous native vet community, and we wanted to

[46:18] do a little work out there to support them in

[46:21] their activities, including a kiosk improvements. To the road and

[46:25] parking area, which are complete. Additionally, we are at 80%

[46:31] design for the South St. Rain restoration project. There by

[46:35] the quarry in hill, too, so we're delighted to see

[46:39] it as far as long as it is. Next slide.

[46:44] Resource planning has 13 projects for 2024, so a significant

[46:50] number and amount because you can see. We have three

[46:54] projects that have grant matches. That really brings the total

[46:59] up for resource planning to a little over 8 million.

[47:03] And like my colleagues, our work is spread throughout the

[47:06] county. So our project management and design group is handling

[47:15] five projects this year, in addition to supporting many of

[47:18] the projects that you've already heard from our other divisions.

[47:22] Some of the highlights I won't go through each one

[47:24] of these. Is we are going to be starting work

[47:29] on our stearns Lake Trailhead. We were able to come

[47:33] up with. A design. That met the needs out there

[47:38] and supported our partnership. So. We will be starting those

[47:44] improvements. And additionally, we are going to be continuing. To

[47:49] adaptively manage some of our recent stream restorations, including the

[47:54] one. Done on St. Rain, just north of the parks

[47:58] building, actually. Next slide. Our planning group has two main

[48:04] projects that they're leading this year. First, our planning group

[48:07] leads the indigenous ways and land commitment team, which is

[48:12] moving towards a new faith in the work. That they

[48:14] have been doing, and we are dedicating some funds. To

[48:19] build a web page out for education as well as

[48:23] hiring a consultant. To. Give us an educator series for

[48:29] our staff. Additionally, I already mentioned the South St. Rain

[48:33] Creek restoration at hall two, but we will be needing

[48:37] a few additional funds to get that designed to 100%

[48:40] in the hopes that we can get grant money to

[48:44] start construction in 25. Our cultural resource group has. Two

[48:52] projects there at the Tucker cabin. As well as. At

[48:57] cardinal mill. They're going to be installing a lightning strike

[49:01] prevention system, and Cardinal Mill is there shown the picture

[49:04] on the top of your screen, and I bet you

[49:06] can figure out why we might. Need a lightning protection

[49:09] system on that wonderful historic building. One of our larger.

[49:17] Requests is $500,000 to start implementation on prairie run open

[49:23] space, provided that management plan is approved early next year.

[49:26] We want to do some design, engineering and restoration improvements

[49:31] out there. And so we have requested that $500,000 to

[49:35] begin that work. The Howell Ditch diversion and Boulder Creek

[49:39] restoration project will kick off. The amount from us is

[49:44] only 61,000, which is fantastic. But you can see the

[49:47] partnership that we have been building to get that project

[49:50] done. So originally it came about for the needs to

[49:56] improve the howled ditch diversion. But in doing so, we

[50:00] also will be restoring another section of Boulder Creek that

[50:04] helps continue the restoration that we've been doing. Upstream of

[50:10] the, we call that the Lower Boulder Creek restoration project.

[50:13] So we will be doing additional work out there and

[50:16] starting. Early in 24. And then the Prince Lake Dam

[50:21] rehabilitation project will also kick off next year, and that's

[50:25] a great project to ensure that our agricultural water can

[50:28] continue to be stored as well as provide additional flood

[50:33] control for the nearby community. I think that might be

[50:39] my last one. Thank you. All right, so now. It's

[50:47] our turn. For questions. And just again. To recap. We

[50:54] did approve in our budget the overall amount. You are

[50:58] asking for approval of this list of capital improvement and

[51:02] stewardship projects here, that is. Correct? Yes. Good. The way

[51:08] we've been doing it for many years. So a little

[51:11] bit backwards. Well, we just want to make sure we

[51:13] know why we're here. So. Thanks. Questions? Sure. Yeah, I

[51:18] do have some questions. Thanks, everybody, for being here. Being

[51:21] here in person. I have a couple. One logistical question,

[51:25] because in the packet there are some public comment in

[51:29] regards to item number eleven. The prairie run. Looks like.

[51:36] Well, it's page, I think, 13 of the packet that

[51:40] I have that was for all of our hearings today.

[51:43] And so I just want to know what that I

[51:45] think the request maybe was to condition approval. Because there's

[51:50] a POSAC meeting tonight, coincidentally, but as somebody indicated, that

[51:55] that item. Won't come to the commissioners until late January.

[51:59] So that's just a logistical question for me about approving

[52:03] something potentially here, where we don't have an approval yet

[52:06] on the project, so that one I would like to

[52:08] just. Get some guidance. There might be a staff question

[52:10] of how we might want to address that. Other than

[52:13] that, questions. On the very first slide, I was curious

[52:16] what critters. In that photo. I'm guessing it's some type

[52:20] of owl. But you said wait for questions. I've been

[52:25] waiting. The other questions that I have is in regards

[52:29] to. A question that I've brought up over the last

[52:35] few years. We're looking at. This is tremendous. The work

[52:38] that parks at open space that you all do your

[52:40] teams. All of this programming shows a breadth of a

[52:43] whole lot of different community needs. Interest program goals, I'm

[52:48] sure work plans that have been in the works and

[52:50] relationships that have been being built for many, many years

[52:53] around Boulder County. And my question continues to be, and

[52:56] I don't see it here, just, I didn't, see it

[52:58] here in the packet. And didn't hear it yet in

[53:01] the presentation, so just want to give folks an opportunity.

[53:04] How are we addressing policy 1.6? In this work, there's

[53:09] a $3.3 million and plus budget leveraging of $7 million,

[53:13] which is tremendous. To total spend of about $10.6 million

[53:18] for this particular. Capital and stewardship project. Section of all

[53:22] of the budget that we spend and all of the

[53:24] projects in focus. What I didn't see, I saw in

[53:28] the presentation, a slide that showed, I think, It's described

[53:33] as cultural responsiveness. But when I looked to the packet,

[53:36] I didn't. See that. So I'm curious, and we'll continue

[53:42] to ask, how are we transforming lives? How? Are we

[53:44] addressing the needs of communities of color? How might we

[53:48] be creating more access to folks with disabilities or folks

[53:52] with lower incomes and folks who just have not gotten

[53:55] out to see all these beautiful places when I hear

[53:57] we all know where this particular property is. Or we

[54:01] all know where this piece is. I'm still going to

[54:04] just remind us and. Encourage us to think about. There

[54:06] are 330,000 residents here. We get way more than that.

[54:09] In visitors, but there are still folks in our community

[54:11] who have not had the opportunity. For a lot of

[54:14] different reasons. To appreciate these different projects and different properties.

[54:21] And learn about even access to it. So I don't

[54:24] know if you each want to talk about it individually

[54:26] or somebody wants. To talk about it. Overall, I am

[54:29] aware there is a crisp plan, so I don't need

[54:31] to hear about that, but I am interested. In. I

[54:35] don't see it yet. And I'm concerned. Sure. Thank you

[54:39] for the question, and we appreciate that. It's definitely something

[54:44] that we're very much aware of. And. Is being more

[54:48] and more woven throughout all the work that we do

[54:51] and. As I did show you, there are those four

[54:54] lenses of focus areas that we look at. One of

[54:56] them being the cultural responsiveness. So examples in the cast.

[55:01] Are. The sign work that we're doing with, including bilingual

[55:05] signage to help people feel more welcome. When they visit.

[55:10] Our properties. The indian mountain infrastructure to support the work

[55:16] that the native american vets are doing with their sweats

[55:20] and healing ceremonies there so they have a more comfortable

[55:24] experience. The wetland, or, sorry, the grassland restoration at Rock

[55:29] Creek Farm. Restoring it to native conditions gives us an

[55:32] opportunity in the future to do some interpretive work there.

[55:39] That would speak to the native uses that were there,

[55:43] and I'm sorry, I'm. Not remembering what the fourth project

[55:45] was, but maybe one. I'm guessing it's your number six

[55:48] joint. Pigeon on that, Tina. Sure. So the last project

[55:51] was the indigenous ways and land. Commitment funds that we

[55:54] were requesting. That group was, of course, originally formed for

[55:58] the land. Commitment statement, and they are concluding that work

[56:02] right now. But. In their journey, they have recognized that

[56:06] there's so much more to be done, so that $50,000

[56:10] is seed money for them to pursue. The two paths

[56:15] that together, along with their consultant, has deemed like the

[56:19] next best step to support staff. On their educational journey

[56:25] so we can, in turn. Infuse that into our external

[56:29] work with the community. So that is the fourth project.

[56:33] And I think maybe the other thing to point out

[56:35] in response to this is this is just what goes

[56:38] through cast a lot of our operational money that we

[56:41] use regularly in our divisions also. Support different components of

[56:46] implementing policy 1.6 and so that would be our crisp

[56:51] team and the work that we're doing. There as well.

[56:55] As I think we have shared information on indigenous communities

[56:59] as well, that we're trying. To also advance. And I

[57:04] also wanted to address the prairie run briefly, if I

[57:07] could. I do not know the owl. I will have

[57:10] to ask others. But Prairie run. We did discuss that

[57:14] and recognize that that. Item is not coming to you

[57:17] until early next year. January 25 is the hearing date,

[57:21] and so. I think that it is appropriate to condition

[57:24] approval. For those funds based on approval of that management

[57:29] plan. Thank you. Thank you. I'll add just a quick

[57:34] little bit. So as a part of that museum master

[57:39] plan, There's a lot that our education and outreach group

[57:42] will be implementing and trying to kind of change. Some

[57:46] of the storylines. Traditionally, you walk into our ag heritage

[57:51] center and it's white history, and it doesn't. Center around

[57:54] some of the other stories that can be told. I

[57:57] would love to send you a link of that master

[57:59] plan because there's some really neat storylines that. The consultant

[58:04] identified. And so those are some things that our education

[58:07] and outreach group will be working on. Stefan. I heard

[58:11] just the Ag center, but I also heard you present

[58:13] on that assay office just. To clarify. The plan that

[58:18] was completed last year had the ag heritage center, the

[58:21] Ned mining museum and the assay office. Okay. And so

[58:24] there should be a little bit more in the assay

[58:26] office. But in terms of. How that's going to be

[58:32] more focused on the outside. To make it more accessible.

[58:36] So they kind of looked at both. From telling more

[58:41] inclusive stories, but then also making. These properties a little

[58:44] bit more accessible and usable. So it's kind of a

[58:48] dual report. Thank you. I just wanted to add the

[58:52] other one other project that I think Tina was going

[58:53] to refer. To as the Ada access. So that would

[58:56] be a big piece. And then I would also say,

[58:59] looking at the sign manuals as a pretty good example.

[59:02] Part of this is working with the community. And I

[59:05] think through that project, we did a lot of focus

[59:06] groups, and we brought people in to look at the

[59:08] signs and interact with them and really. Got feedback from

[59:12] the community, which made that project, I think, very successful.

[59:15] And so I think, through all of this process, the

[59:17] more we can engage and interact with our community, the

[59:19] more we can get a product that actually benefits the

[59:21] community. Thank you. And then from an agricultural perspective, we

[59:26] have overhauled our RFP bid scoring criteria this year, and

[59:30] we have two properties. That we will be sending out

[59:32] to bid using that new scoring criteria. So our hope

[59:36] is that we can attract. New tenants, younger tenants. To

[59:41] become part of the Boulder county parks and open space

[59:43] family. And partnerships, so we're really excited about that. We're

[59:49] also continuing to work. With young farmers and looking for

[59:53] opportunities to reach out to more diverse communities to engage

[59:56] them in these conversations to make sure that they have

[59:58] opportunities and are aware that these opportunities are available. We're

[1:00:02] also looking at some acquisitions that could potentially create some

[1:00:07] space. For next generation of farmers to start off on

[1:00:12] a smaller piece of property rather than starting off with

[1:00:15] 400, 500 acres, which as a new business might not

[1:00:18] be viable for them. But in the ten to 20

[1:00:21] acres. That might be their sweet spot as a beginning

[1:00:23] farmer. Great. Thank you. And I appreciate everybody's conversation updates.

[1:00:33] And I also am still concerned about it. And so

[1:00:35] I just want to figure out. Commissioner Levy was here

[1:00:39] with me last year, and my ask was I need

[1:00:42] to see something different. In a budget because I just

[1:00:45] feel really strongly that. Our opportunity as local government is

[1:00:49] to respond with funding. It's funding and its policies. There's

[1:00:55] all these other ways, but those are the big ones.

[1:00:58] As you all are asking your questions, I can do

[1:01:00] some math on what you've told. Me, but for me,

[1:01:03] signage is something that we started working on a couple

[1:01:05] of years ago, so. For me. It's just not innovative.

[1:01:09] It's not something new. It doesn't. Show me that parks

[1:01:10] and open space. With this $10 million. Is looking at

[1:01:16] new ways to. Address. The gaps in racial equity. In

[1:01:23] Boulder county with parks and open space. The indian mountain

[1:01:25] is the same for me because. It's a project with

[1:01:28] history. All we're doing is updating infrastructure, and I. Know

[1:01:32] it's work, but it doesn't feel. And if it doesn't

[1:01:34] feel, like we're reaching out to another sector of. The

[1:01:38] other tribes who have history here in the state of

[1:01:41] Colorado and certainly our region specifically. And the grass restoration.

[1:01:45] I think that's great. We need to get to a

[1:01:49] place where. Native perennials is just part of the way

[1:01:53] that parks and Opa space works. We can't say. For

[1:01:56] this project, we're going to do native perennials. And so

[1:01:58] now we're addressing Native Americans or American Indian, and I'm

[1:02:01] just sharing that because that's how I'm receiving it. So

[1:02:04] we just need to be aware that other folks in

[1:02:06] the community might also receive. What we're as an organization

[1:02:10] thinking as great work as this is, the expectation from

[1:02:13] folks. And the hopes for folks in all of our

[1:02:17] work, besides saying this is an equity project, because of

[1:02:20] native grasses. I just want to share that. In encouragement

[1:02:25] and also. The same concern. That. I've been hearing, and

[1:02:30] I also want to share with this group some conversation

[1:02:33] that I had yesterday with our historic preservation advisory board

[1:02:37] that I feel like there's an opportunity here. When I

[1:02:40] hear that parks and open space properties. Either it's museums

[1:02:44] or some of the facilities where we're recreating white settler.

[1:02:49] Activities and events and things like that that you were

[1:02:51] talking about. Stefan, yesterday was old time baseball. Games and

[1:02:55] some of these old practices. And in that narrative, and

[1:02:59] I think what's missing in some of this narrative and

[1:03:01] presentation or preparation and packets, et cetera, is that historical

[1:03:05] narrative of people whose land this was and when. We

[1:03:09] talk about land acknowledgment, which is my understanding of the

[1:03:13] indigenous ways. Commitment committee. That they started with land acknowledgement.

[1:03:20] And what I heard you say as they started, they're.

[1:03:22] Working on land commitment, which they are now. But I

[1:03:24] also think we need to acknowledge where we've been and

[1:03:27] state what the work has been so that we can

[1:03:29] see where we're developing or not. And the other piece

[1:03:32] that you all know is as the lead from the

[1:03:34] county commissioner's office working on how we are going to,

[1:03:37] as an organization, move from land acknowledgment. To meaningful action.

[1:03:43] I'm concerned about. If we're going to be tapping into

[1:03:46] potentially. The same folks for conversation. My understanding of number

[1:03:51] six here with that commitment group or committee? Is to

[1:03:56] focus internally, which I'm 100% about. You all have heard

[1:04:00] me say we need to get our own house in

[1:04:02] order before we go out and tell our folks how

[1:04:03] to do their work. In all of. These different. Sectors

[1:04:09] that you're talking about here and presenting on. And if

[1:04:13] we're talking about potentially tribal consultation, That would potentially be

[1:04:17] part of that. It's talking about, how do we do

[1:04:20] restorative? Practices. How do we look at native plants? For

[1:04:25] commissioners and we can have a little bit of conversation

[1:04:27] about. It's just something that's. Concerning me about how do

[1:04:30] we. I don't want us to get ahead in one

[1:04:32] area similar to what we did with office of Racial

[1:04:34] Equity and have racial equity managers start in a different

[1:04:38] department somewhere else, or we have folks doing different frameworks

[1:04:41] or building different frameworks. To do that work. But I

[1:04:46] appreciate all the responses and the conversation. This is really

[1:04:48] helpful to have a good idea. Of where you all

[1:04:50] are working on. Commission, of course, follow up to that.

[1:04:55] One thing that doesn't yet show up in our budget

[1:04:57] because we're not quite there yet is the work that

[1:04:58] we're doing with the Shannon and Narapahob tribes. We're having

[1:05:01] ongoing conversations with them about trying to identify where in

[1:05:05] parks and open space properties might be a great place

[1:05:08] for them to come. Back and reintroduce bison into the

[1:05:10] landscape. We are doing a lot of work. Behind the

[1:05:13] scenes. That just hasn't come up to a point where

[1:05:16] we need to ask. For budget yet. So there's a

[1:05:19] potential that we could progress those conversations in 2024. And

[1:05:22] as part of our 2025 budget requests. We have a

[1:05:25] specific asks ask, but right now, we're not quite there,

[1:05:29] but we are having ongoing, active dialogue with those groups.

[1:05:33] Thank you, and I appreciate that and. I haven't had

[1:05:36] a chance. To update the board yet on some of

[1:05:40] that work. And then the meeting I had on Friday.

[1:05:43] Again. That's part of the reason why I'm a little

[1:05:45] concerned about the timing. Because I still have recommendations to

[1:05:48] present to the board in regards to this topic of

[1:05:50] Native American Indian and indigenous work here at the county,

[1:05:53] so. Thanks, Mike. Thanks, Mr. Stolesman. Thank you. I appreciate

[1:06:00] the comments and questions on how do we continue to

[1:06:02] improve and how do we continue to get better and

[1:06:05] how do these projects connect to the programs and things

[1:06:07] like that? So thank you for the comments and questions.

[1:06:12] I did want to say I thought each of you

[1:06:14] had just such great presentation skills. It was kind of

[1:06:17] amazing to sit and watch like each of you is

[1:06:19] quite a good presenter. So that was of note. I

[1:06:24] had a couple of. I'm sure what you'll find to

[1:06:26] be very simple. Questions. I just wondered. On the ag

[1:06:30] project, there was one where you're adding a bridge. And

[1:06:34] I wondered if you considered an alternative of piping that

[1:06:37] ditch rather than building a bridge. Over it. The county

[1:06:41] does not own the ditch. It's owned by the Ish

[1:06:45] Ditch company. And at this point in time, they do

[1:06:49] not have the resources or the interest in piping. That

[1:06:52] ditch. It transports a large volume of water. And so.

[1:06:59] In the essence of time and lower cost of putting

[1:07:03] a bridge over that 20 foot span is going to

[1:07:05] be a lot faster and a lot less expensive than

[1:07:08] piping. I think it's. A mile and a half a

[1:07:11] ditch, and they will grant us an easement. Crossing easement.

[1:07:15] Great. And then on the same ditch, I'm sort of

[1:07:18] in the ditch space. There are some other opportunities that

[1:07:23] community members have brought forward around. Like in Lewisville. There's

[1:07:28] the ditch that provides water. To the Mayhoffer farm, the

[1:07:33] more newly acquired area. That's no longer unceded. And the

[1:07:36] water conveys a different way of terminating that easement because

[1:07:40] it creates fire. HaZaRD and there's no water in it

[1:07:42] and things like that. So how do community members submit

[1:07:44] suggestions formally or how does the project like that make

[1:07:48] its way onto a list like this? In a future

[1:07:50] year. It's a great question. A lot of those types

[1:07:53] of requests, community members. Or local elected officials, reach out

[1:07:58] directly to Terese, myself, or Darren Beck, who's our water

[1:08:02] supervisor and say, hey, is this something that you can

[1:08:04] take a look at? And then we add that to

[1:08:06] our list of requests that come in, and then we

[1:08:09] try to figure out where on the level of importance

[1:08:12] that falls. Given some of the other maintenance backlog issues

[1:08:16] that we're trying to address. Or. We have one of

[1:08:19] our ditches has an 80% water loss, and to me

[1:08:23] that's. Near the top of the list of trying to

[1:08:25] fix. So it's weighing those types of community requests versus

[1:08:30] what we know we need to get. Fixed. In the

[1:08:33] near term, but if there's a community member that has

[1:08:37] a particular request, have them reach out to me. Great.

[1:08:40] Thank you very much. And then the Harney Listoka Historic

[1:08:44] Preservation project was on the list, and I just wanted

[1:08:46] to make sure everybody on staff was aware the city

[1:08:49] of Lewisville has a dedicated tax for historic preservation projects

[1:08:53] and a few years ago expanded where the tax was

[1:08:56] applicable to outside the city. Limits with a couple of

[1:08:59] properties in mind, because originally the. Tax was limited to

[1:09:03] projects that were within the city limits. And the red

[1:09:08] barn. Came to mind as something we might want to

[1:09:11] help with in the Harney Listoka property. And then also

[1:09:15] some other properties that are historic, that are right there

[1:09:18] on the city limits. But in the County. So that

[1:09:21] was changed. So I just wanted to make sure you

[1:09:23] are aware that. There's dedicated funding for historic preservation projects.

[1:09:28] It would be like a grant you'd have to apply.

[1:09:31] I just want to fYi, this group, I was not

[1:09:33] aware, so I very much appreciate that. Thank you. And

[1:09:37] on the russian olive trees. I've noticed the county working

[1:09:41] through trying to eradicate the russian olives over a number

[1:09:43] of years, and I wondered if you could kind of

[1:09:46] go. Into. So what do you do in the following

[1:09:48] year? Just because they are so tricky. Right. And so

[1:09:51] you go in, and then. Is there a year? Two

[1:09:54] year? Three? Plan to make sure your hard work doesn't

[1:09:57] just so there are a couple of things. When we

[1:10:00] remove the brush and olive, they do a stump treatment

[1:10:03] on those individuals to try to prevent sprouting. But we

[1:10:07] do follow up our properties. With. We pay attention to

[1:10:11] what's going on and we look at hand felling before

[1:10:14] the russian olives become. A piece that has to be

[1:10:18] removed with machinery or cut and chipped. So we try

[1:10:21] to take care of it in an easier fashion. But

[1:10:24] then, like I had mentioned, the goal is to. Plant

[1:10:29] other species in there that can kind of crowd out.

[1:10:33] And kind of take back over. So is it helpful

[1:10:37] if there are areas that you've treated and there's still

[1:10:40] an opportunity before they get huge to go back in

[1:10:42] and retreat. Is that helpful? If community members or county

[1:10:45] commissioners let you know of those areas or not? Yes.

[1:10:49] I mean, I think. We're trying to look at, obviously,

[1:10:53] parks and open space lands that have the issue. And

[1:10:56] then kind of prioritize and address that. But yes, if

[1:10:59] there's areas that you know, that you'd like us to

[1:11:01] look at, then we can get out there and. Take

[1:11:03] a look. Yeah. There are some places where you've treated,

[1:11:05] and then maybe it's. Like two, three, four years after,

[1:11:08] and it's like, oh, we should go back. Before. It

[1:11:10] looks like the picture you showed us. If you know

[1:11:12] them, let us know. That sounds. Great. And just the

[1:11:16] last one I have is just on the stearns parking

[1:11:18] lot. Was there a needs analysis to show that that

[1:11:21] many spaces is needed there. I use that facility quite

[1:11:24] often. I just didn't know we needed all those spaces.

[1:11:28] Yes. So there was at the time of the original

[1:11:33] proposal for that expansion, which was, I want to say,

[1:11:36] 2018. So that's been a bit of a slower moving

[1:11:40] project because there were issues with the initial design, so.

[1:11:44] They're only actually adding now. I want to say ten

[1:11:47] extra stalls. And. It was and is still needed, according

[1:11:53] to Rangers. That help our eyes on the ground, and

[1:11:58] so we are planning to move ahead with that work.

[1:12:02] Okay, and so ten more spaces is, like, close to

[1:12:04] doubling, right? I think it's 13. Right now. Okay. I

[1:12:10] suppose if it was deemed, like, necessary. And I'm not

[1:12:16] out there like the Rangers are twenty four seven. And

[1:12:18] maybe I go at the perfect time when no one

[1:12:20] else is there. But I haven't seen people using the

[1:12:23] spaces. It was an outcome of the Carolyn Homeburg management

[1:12:28] plan that was done, I think was it 2018 or

[1:12:31] 2019? It was right before my arrival and then that.

[1:12:35] Was identified as a need at that time. And then

[1:12:39] especially so during the pandemic. And I think probably what

[1:12:42] you're observing is more of that moderation and use, but

[1:12:46] we do want to get ten more spots out. There

[1:12:48] because with the growing community around it, we anticipate that

[1:12:52] they will be needed. Okay? Thank you for that. I

[1:12:55] think, actually the biggest change is the trail connectivity. Like,

[1:12:58] since the trail. Has been better connected in. I think

[1:13:01] people are biking or walking instead of driving. Wonderful. That's.

[1:13:04] What we want. Yes. Thank you very much. Great. And

[1:13:08] I just want to start by saying that I do

[1:13:12] agree with the comments that my fellow commissioners have raised.

[1:13:18] And especially commissioner Lo Chime's comments. This has been an

[1:13:23] ongoing concern of how are we really actually actively acknowledging

[1:13:28] the role of nation? And indigenous peoples on our lands.

[1:13:34] And so. It's something, although Commissioner Lohamin is working very

[1:13:39] actively on that. It's something. I remain very interested in

[1:13:43] as well. So I'm just going to go down minor,

[1:13:47] kind of scatter shot, like I wrote. Them down as

[1:13:49] you were presenting. On the center pivots. Mike, I totally

[1:13:54] understand. The water efficiency, water conservation issues there. And support

[1:14:01] water conservation efforts. I guess what I've been thinking about.

[1:14:05] That we've been hearing, or I've been hearing anyway, in

[1:14:08] the three years that I've been on this board is

[1:14:11] so we have these very large tracks of land and.

[1:14:15] It's impractical to make them available. In smaller parcels. To

[1:14:20] farmers. That may not be ready, as you said, to

[1:14:24] farm 500 acres. And it occurs to me that that

[1:14:29] center pivot improvement, all the money invested. Really kind of

[1:14:34] seals the fate of that property. Makes it very hard

[1:14:38] to cut it up then for smaller uses and I

[1:14:42] don't know. Whether any of these parcels, under any circumstances

[1:14:47] we may want to. Make available. In smaller plots, but

[1:14:52] I guess it's just something to be thinking about. That's

[1:14:56] a huge investment that supports current farming practices. And. It

[1:15:04] kind of locks in continuing to do what we're doing

[1:15:07] as opposed to. Maybe. Leaving the door open. It's a

[1:15:12] balance. And I realize that we don't want to be

[1:15:14] wasting water. So long as it's used for what it's

[1:15:17] currently used for, but it just. Was something. That I've

[1:15:22] been thinking about here, so you don't need to respond

[1:15:25] to that. It's just a thought. Further. On the ditch

[1:15:32] improvements, the ditch work, as you know. The issue of

[1:15:37] the debris removal comes up. When the ditches remove the

[1:15:42] debris to improve water flow, and it's a fire mitigation.

[1:15:46] Issue that folks are looking at. The one a money

[1:15:50] for. You're doing ditch improvements. And having. I think the

[1:15:57] community would feel really good. If we could all get

[1:16:00] on the same page. On whether, at least for the

[1:16:05] dishes that the county owns, I guess we don't have

[1:16:09] a majority share, but we're on the board of many

[1:16:11] of these. Whether we can support that debris removal. The

[1:16:15] debris removal is something that we're collaborating with our CPMP

[1:16:19] department on with a lot of the one a funding

[1:16:22] wildfire mitigation dollars. There's some new programs that are going

[1:16:26] to be available in 2024 with this funding. And to

[1:16:31] go out and chip a lot of that Woody debris

[1:16:34] that gets taken out and put on the bank or

[1:16:37] broadcast into an ag field. So our tenants are actually

[1:16:41] really excited about having that material come out and chipped

[1:16:44] because then they could just use the wood chips on

[1:16:46] the property. Yeah. These would be the reaches of the

[1:16:49] ditches that go through. The residential areas, maybe more so,

[1:16:54] although they're all conduits in some way, I can add

[1:16:58] a little bit more to that. Stefan Rhino, research management

[1:17:01] division manager one of the. Things that we did. Look

[1:17:04] at our current Wheeler Ranch contract to see if there

[1:17:08] was any way we could have tagged something on this

[1:17:10] year to start addressing. Some of the ditches that have

[1:17:14] invasive species in some of the piles, and the language

[1:17:17] that was written. In. It didn't allow us to kind

[1:17:20] of update it and allow them to go on. Other

[1:17:23] locations. And so we will actually be having a meeting

[1:17:26] early in the year to discuss. Putting out. Another bid

[1:17:31] and see if we can take care of some of

[1:17:33] the ditches and kind of. Progress through them. So there

[1:17:36] is something that we're working on. We just weren't. Able

[1:17:38] to piggyback on this most recent contract. Okay, thanks. I'm

[1:17:43] going to be a little abbreviated here, just to keep

[1:17:46] us on time. Just an observation on Harney Listoka roof

[1:17:52] project, and I think. Who was that? Is that yours,

[1:17:57] Jared? Yeah, that. Replacing it with Cedar, which. Is historically

[1:18:02] appropriate. But it's a fire hazard. I guess. I wonder.

[1:18:09] What you can do to mitigate the fire hazard from

[1:18:12] continuing to have cedar shakes on the roof. We're running

[1:18:15] to that with a lot of our reroofing projects, and

[1:18:18] we're looking at alternatives and how we might be able

[1:18:21] to maintain the historic aspect of that. While looking at

[1:18:25] newer materials or something that looks like cedar but is

[1:18:27] not cedar. So that is on our radar, and cedar

[1:18:30] is becoming harder and harder to find because of that.

[1:18:32] Yeah, exactly. We typically can't find it around here at

[1:18:35] all, to be honest. Okay, well, just a thing. To

[1:18:38] keep in mind. On the, I guess a couple of

[1:18:41] the indigenous ways. And I think. I don't know if

[1:18:48] it was you, Tina, in your overview that was just

[1:18:51] mentioning that. When we do the interpretive signage on our

[1:18:56] properties that we do want to have more accurate representations

[1:19:00] of the history of the land. And I was wondering.

[1:19:07] What your sources are. Your reference sources. What open spaces

[1:19:12] reference sources will be for. That. And again, I don't

[1:19:17] need an answer here today. But. History. There are a

[1:19:23] lot of interpretations of history and a lot of resources

[1:19:26] for history. And there is no one definitive story that

[1:19:31] is the accurate story. So it's just something to keep

[1:19:33] in mind. Of the nature of the references, the resources

[1:19:37] that you might use, and then how you take that.

[1:19:41] And put it onto signage. Where you're. Trying to, in

[1:19:46] many ways, simplify things. So that it can fit on

[1:19:49] a sign and communicate quickly. And in the process. May

[1:19:55] be simplified to the point that. It makes it a

[1:19:58] simple, happy story, which we like to do in our

[1:20:02] signage that isn't. Necessarily an accurate story. So that was

[1:20:07] something in my mind. Just a couple more. Again, also

[1:20:13] on the Stearns Lake parking area, I do recall the

[1:20:16] presentation on the need for that. And how careful you

[1:20:20] are trying to be. And I think I expressed this

[1:20:23] at the time. There may not be any way to

[1:20:25] solve for it without losing spaces, but it is really

[1:20:30] nice. To be able to go in and out, have

[1:20:33] the ingress egress, and I just. See so many conflicts

[1:20:36] in parking lots where you get to the dead end

[1:20:39] and you have to back up. To get out, and

[1:20:42] it's tight and people are in there. With their trucks

[1:20:46] and things. And just maybe you can look at having

[1:20:50] some sort of turnaround. Or preserving the two points, the

[1:20:54] ingress egress. So, just to respond to that briefly, this

[1:20:59] parking lot has probably been redesigned. I'm not kidding. Twelve

[1:21:02] to 15 times. And the conceptual that you saw up

[1:21:06] on the screen was really like the last best attempt

[1:21:10] to expand that parking lot as we committed to, while

[1:21:14] still honoring the wildlife buffer. And not encroaching. Too far

[1:21:19] into the wet area on one side, and so. We

[1:21:23] did choose. To eliminate that access point. But what we

[1:21:28] are doing is providing that 25 foot standard width between

[1:21:33] the parking stalls, which some of our older, more tighter

[1:21:36] lots didn't necessarily do. And so that's the width that

[1:21:40] you're going to get. In all modern parking lots because

[1:21:43] that will accommodate your big trucks backing out and turning.

[1:21:48] But. We did eliminate the trailer parking in order to

[1:21:52] even do what we're proposing out there. So it will

[1:21:57] just be for cars only, hopefully. And that'll help as

[1:22:01] well. All right. Thanks. And we've got 1 minute left.

[1:22:05] And I don't need to ask the rest of my

[1:22:07] questions. I did have one and it's really important question.

[1:22:13] You have combined your capital improvements in stewardship, and you

[1:22:17] said you're renaming it your. Cast and I do not

[1:22:21] know where the t comes from. I have wrecked. Stewardship.

[1:22:27] Stewardship. Well, why don't you just call it casp and

[1:22:30] it's your. Projects? I don't know. This is what I

[1:22:34] think about when I read these things, all right? Can

[1:22:38] we go back to the parking lot? Everyone's been working

[1:22:42] on this. Dozens of plants and all of these things.

[1:22:53] I understand what you're saying, and I'm asking. I don't

[1:22:56] want everyone to be worried with this question, so just

[1:23:00] stay calm over there. In the room for a minute.

[1:23:03] But just leaving it as is with the entries, is

[1:23:07] that a good solution? I would say I was out

[1:23:10] there during the pandemic, which was like the peak of

[1:23:14] use. I always got a parking spot. I wasn't there

[1:23:21] on weekends because I was very fortunate that. I could

[1:23:26] go during the week, so I can't speak to that.

[1:23:30] So. I think I'm going to leave this one. Okay.

[1:23:34] I just wondered with your question about. The turnaround and

[1:23:36] everything. Yeah. Heidi addressed it. There's a lot more width

[1:23:43] between parking stalls. And there's standard nine by 18 stalls

[1:23:51] themselves, which was also not something that we always did

[1:23:54] in the past. So, again, modern dimensions. So you have

[1:23:57] room on both sides as well, yeah. Not like this

[1:24:02] parking lot out here. Or most of the. Ones. Okay.

[1:24:08] Yeah. Commissioners, I think if there are no further questions.

[1:24:12] We are taking action today by way of a motion.

[1:24:17] Public comment. Oh, my gosh. Thank you. I didn't realize

[1:24:20] we were doing that. Thank you for reminding me there's

[1:24:24] no one in the hearing room. Well, and I didn't.

[1:24:26] Announce. How to sign up to speak because I didn't

[1:24:31] see that on the agenda. I just. Saw that. We

[1:24:34] were making a decision, but there is no one in

[1:24:36] the hearing room. Who is present to speak, and it

[1:24:40] looks like no one has signed up to speak virtually.

[1:24:44] I was not able to find my link for this.

[1:24:46] I usually try to watch and see who's joined us

[1:24:49] remotely. Brianna. Were you working with anyone that wanted to

[1:24:55] be promoted? Thank you, chair Levy. This is Brianna Barber,

[1:25:00] assistant clerk to the board. At this time. There is

[1:25:02] no one in zoom that is registering to speak. Thanks

[1:25:05] for checking. Okay, thank you. So with that then. We

[1:25:10] do not have any public comment on this plan. And

[1:25:14] so now we are ready for a motion. I just

[1:25:17] wanted to check in. Were there any changes proposed in

[1:25:20] the motion that's being made like, we all had a

[1:25:22] lot of questions, and I just wasn't clear if there

[1:25:24] were any. Well, and just as a reminder, the suggestion

[1:25:27] was because of the open question on the prairie run

[1:25:30] parking location. To approve that. Contingent on resolution of the

[1:25:40] location of the parking area. Or resolution of the whole

[1:25:43] plan is what I heard, because we haven't approved the

[1:25:45] whole plan. Yeah. I agree. That was my suggestion of

[1:25:50] the condition of approval, and I believe it was number

[1:25:54] eleven. Of the item. I definitely would want to have

[1:25:58] that condition added. Each section has its own numbering. Now

[1:26:02] that I'm looking at that. Okay, so staff can help

[1:26:05] us with that. But the other one I am. I

[1:26:12] would like to get some input on in regards to.

[1:26:16] Item. Let's see here. Where is item six? But it's

[1:26:19] in the resource planning. Division. Maybe, if that's why I'm

[1:26:23] reading it. A sways line commitment. Indigenous landways, land commitment.

[1:26:30] And I don't know what the best way to do

[1:26:31] that is, but I think what my concern. Is. That

[1:26:38] I want to make sure this goes hand in hand

[1:26:40] with the work that we're doing? In the bigger county

[1:26:44] scope. And I haven't. As I've shared, I haven't. Had

[1:26:47] a chance to meet with the board yet to give

[1:26:49] recommend. Recommendations with all of these different pieces and the

[1:26:54] work that Mike shared about a little bit. Too. So

[1:26:56] that's the only piece that I would like. To. Ask

[1:27:01] the board. To remove for now. Or the other option.

[1:27:06] If we're going to condition, the other item would be

[1:27:08] the condition. That item until. We have approved list of

[1:27:13] recommendations by the board of county commissioners about how we'll

[1:27:16] move from land acknowledgment to meaningful action. I'll make a

[1:27:19] try at a motion, and then we can. Well, I'd

[1:27:23] like to ask a question about that, though. I guess

[1:27:26] what my concern would be is if we remove it.

[1:27:28] This is a question maybe for Tina. If we remove

[1:27:32] it, then that defers the whole project. You're going to

[1:27:37] love my motion. Okay. All right. It's taken care of.

[1:27:40] Never. Mind, all right? I would move to approve the

[1:27:45] 2024 capital and stewardship project conditionally. The first condition? Would

[1:27:49] just be a condition on the approval of the Prairie

[1:27:51] Run management plan for that particular project. And then give

[1:27:55] direction to staff that the indigenous ways land commitment project

[1:27:58] would go back through to Commissioner Lo. Jamins. She's the

[1:28:04] team lead on indigenous work and would work through that

[1:28:08] process to realize the full project before implementation. I'm fine

[1:28:13] with that. Works for me. Does that mean. Second well.

[1:28:19] I was going to maybe ask staff. If that's okay.

[1:28:23] Chair for ask staff deliberation. So yes to both. I

[1:28:29] would be very eager to bring the result of the

[1:28:33] land commitment work to you in a PMI, perhaps, or

[1:28:37] whatever the appropriate forum is. I sent an email before

[1:28:40] this meeting trying to figure out who the best contact

[1:28:44] is to set up a meeting with that group. Right.

[1:28:48] That would be me. And I'll connect with the lead

[1:28:51] of that group, and I would love to come and.

[1:28:53] Present what they have been doing, and then. Why they

[1:28:57] are thinking this is the next best step, because I

[1:29:00] think you're really going to appreciate. That they left the

[1:29:04] commitment behind pretty early and moved. To or. I'm sorry.

[1:29:09] I left the acknowledgment behind early and. Moved to commitment,

[1:29:12] and they have made it a focus of every presentation

[1:29:14] that they have given us. Internally to really emphasize that

[1:29:18] word commitment. We can't just have words. So I'm very

[1:29:21] excited to bring it to you. Yeah. That's great. I

[1:29:24] just want to clarify something because my understanding is there

[1:29:28] is not an RFP out yet, but I heard somebody

[1:29:30] in the presentation talk about the consultant. They have prepared

[1:29:35] it, but they would not release it until next year

[1:29:38] if it's funded. So just want to make sure it's

[1:29:40] not going to interfere with something that's. Already in the

[1:29:41] process, so that's great. So, yes, I would take your

[1:29:45] motion, and I second that motion. Okay, so we do

[1:29:48] have a motion. And a second, I think the relevant

[1:29:52] parties indicate that the conditions are clear to them. So

[1:29:56] all in favor. Aye. So we have approved that. Thank

[1:29:59] you very much for your presentation. Your dialogue. We appreciate

[1:30:04] it. And I'll be waiting to hear what type of

[1:30:06] baby owl. That northern pygmy owl. You're so good, Stefan.

[1:30:11] Thank you. With that. I would encourage. All right. Congratulations

[1:30:17] on completing your hearings for the year. Well, thank you

[1:30:21] for being the last. Doing such a great job. No,

[1:30:28] really appreciate it. Thanks. We are now adjourned.

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