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All right, commissioners, are you ready? Yes, thanks. And we

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are recording. Good morning. Still, today is December 14, 2023.

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This is a meeting of the board of county. Commissioners

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of Boulder county. We have all three commissioners present, and

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we are here this morning for our monthly update from.

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Our head start division. We're joined. By the head start

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leadership. Modeling, a co leadership model. Demonstrating a co leadership

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model. Let's say that better. So thank you for joining

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us. This morning. We have 30 minutes set aside for

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this and please take it away. Perfect. Thank you. Good

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morning. Alex Linder, family services manager with Boulder county head

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start. We'll start off with policy council updates. We have

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ten members, which we're so excited about. We voted in

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our policy. Council chair, co chair, secretary and. Treasurer. We

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went over Robert's rules of order, of how to conduct

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a meeting we reviewed with them the timeline for approving

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our Boulder county head starts policies and procedures. We've also

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reviewed the deficiency non compliance and under enrollment notices that

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we've reviewed. With you ladies as well. And our upcoming

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FA two monitoring review. Let's pause and see if there

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are any questions on this before we move forward. No.

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Questions. No questions. Thank you. And just maybe one from

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me here. On the review of the deficiency non compliance

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and under enrollment notices. With the policy council. Just kind

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of wondering what kind of feedback you got from them

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on that. If any. There was. They had a lot

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of feelings about it. Understandably. They want to drop off

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their children. They want to make sure that their children

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are safe. Our policy council chair wrote. A very powerful

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letter to our teachers that we went ahead and shared

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with all of our staff. At head start. Okay, great.

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Anything else you'd want to elaborate on that, the nature

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of the comments? What I loved about. The process is

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that they really want to be a voice for parents,

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and they really want to connect not just with leadership,

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but with teachers as well. So they're looking at different

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ways. To integrate into the program, to be able to

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do that, to bring that parent lens in the day

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to day activities for head start. Great. That's exactly what

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we would want the policy council to do. So I'm

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glad to hear that. Thank you. The notices are very

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important to us. They're very serious. And the other part

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of the letter was that we want to do this

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together, that teamwork. Is very important to them as a

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counsel. And they were very supportive of the team at

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the same time. As just saying how important the program

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is to them as a family and community. It was

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very well written letter that both supportive and very serious.

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Great. Thanks. Okay, then I think we can move on

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to the meal service report. All right. Stacey. Fuchietta. Education

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services manager. So for November. Okay. October. That's right. So

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our total meals delivered was 6257. Served was 3886. And

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our invoice for October was $16,970. And our CACFP reimbursement

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was $12,468.38 and our cost for meals was $4,501.67.

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The student meals are covered by CACFP with any difference

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in reimbursement due to student absences from the classroom, and

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I just kind of also wanted to add that. I

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am still trying to work with different people with pig

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farms or their own personal pigs to see if we

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can try to do something with all the leftover food

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that we're accumulating. And seeing if we can just donate

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it that way so we don't have to just. Be

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throwing it all away. Our food waste. Yeah. Great. Thanks.

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Do you need any contacts in that? Space. There are

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a couple of farms we work with often. Yes. Okay.

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The ones I found a little bit. Are kind of

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around boulder a little bit more picky about the food

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that they're giving their pegs. But yeah, they are. All

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of them that we work with actually do work really

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hard to make sure that they have certain standards for

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the food that the pigs are getting, so let's connect

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off. Definitely. There might be another option. Perfect. Thank you.

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Yeah. Composting or. There are a couple of other options.

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Thank you. That was my question when I saw the

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numbers there. So I appreciate that update on a question

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that I've been asking for a few years. I'd also

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met with ecocycle. Natima. A couple of folks from their

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board earlier this year who were interested in looking at

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this particular issue with us in partnership. So if there

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hasn't been a connection made there, I'd. Be happy to

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try and bring that conversation together and see if they

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could be a partner. That could. Move us forward in

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this space. Thank you. I'm also doing number three. So

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we're talking about enrollment and attendance. We had 19 school

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days in October. The overall program attendance was 87%. Dagney

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had 86% Woodland 89 Sunflower 86 and via Latar new

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site at 87%. So we did pretty well in October.

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Any questions on the enrollment and attendance? No questions. None

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here either. Thank you. As elites have heard in the

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past, we did open our new school here in Boulder.

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Avioleta. Site, and that has increased our numbers. We're currently

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at 112, with about four enrollments that are pending, most

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likely. Won't start this year, but we'll start in January

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when we come back from winter break, so 116. We

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haven't been at that number for a few years, so

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we're very excited to continue to find children and to

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enroll them in our program. There's the graphic that goes

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with that. That's just the graphic that goes around. Along

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with those numbers. Enrollment numbers. And then the monthly budget.

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That our fiscal officer projects through to the end of

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our fiscal year, which is the June 2024. And these

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numbers are constantly moving. They're sort of working numbers. As

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we bring in more funding from CCAP applications. And my

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understanding we have about eight applications pending from CCAP. So

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these numbers will shift and change again. And a lot

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of those numbers. Are pending. Applications are from the Violeta

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school that we opened. We were waiting for a license.

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Number. Now that we have the license number, we can

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submit applications. Along attached to that license number. And so

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the children that are enrolled there. Those are the pending

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applications, and so we'll see these numbers shift again. I'm

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sorry to interrupt. You remind me where the violet. Violeta

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program is sure it's close to here. The property line

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is attached. To the flat irons elementary school. Up behind

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Uni Hill. There's Uni Hill in Flatirons elementary School. It's

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back there on the hill. Okay. You're welcome to come

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and visit if you would like. Okay. And then the

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last section here that I would just like to update

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you all on is. The ongoing monitoring and partnership that

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we have. And monthly meetings we have not only with

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you, but the policy council, and then weekly meetings with

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the regional office. The regional office team. They came to

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observe and provided feedback to our teaching teams. On November

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1. And our staff are busy implementing that feedback. Into

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their classroom practices. And then they will actually come back

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next week on December 19, we'll have a meeting. I

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think it's with Commissioner Saltzman in attendance as well to

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meet with that regional. Team. And this is more related

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to the discipline deficiency. I'll scroll down just so that

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I make sure that I'm giving you all. The information.

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So that discipline deficiency had a 120 day correction, corrective

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action period. We came to the close. Of that period

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on December 11, and I submitted the quality improvement plan

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along with its supporting documents. The visit next week. Is

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standard where they come and do interviews. They interview staff,

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they come and meet with you. To talk about. The

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strategies that we used and get feedback from our staff

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on how things are going so that will happen next

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week. The second notice is the active supervision corrective action

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plan. We requested an extension for that. Corrective? Action period,

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which was granted. And so now we have an extension

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through April 16. In part from their November 1 feedback

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report. They just advised us to take a little bit

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more time. Working with those strategies to show correction, and

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so we did that. And then as part of. Their

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recommendation for a strategy on the active supervision. They've suggested

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we visit. Do some visits. Site visits on exemplar programs

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that have kind of come through the same challenges that

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we are facing as a program, but also transitional leadership

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at the same time. So they've identified three programs. In

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Montana and Colorado and South Dakota that had notices themselves,

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had new leadership and successfully came through. Those challenges and

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are actually seen as exemplar programs now. So we had

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a first initial meeting yesterday with our leadership team to

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discuss the possibility of sending some teams out. And just

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throwing it out to who in our team might. Be.

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Great representatives of our program from all different component areas

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of our program to go and conduct those observations. Anywhere.

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We're in the beginning stages of discussing that. I'll pause

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there because that's more related to. The two specific notices,

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discipline and active supervision and CPO questions. There. I don't

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have questions, thank you. No, I don't either, but I'm.

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Very pleased I was out of town that Commissioner Stolman

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is going to be attending that. Meeting. On Monday as

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our representative. Alex is just reminding me that during our

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policy council meeting on Monday, There were some parents who

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were on the council that were also interested in participating

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in those site. Observations. So to have that kind of

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interest in engagement. Was really. Positive part of the meeting.

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And consideration were you trying to fix? Okay. Great opportunity.

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Yeah. So then the third notice we received is the

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full enrollment enrollment initiative, and that has a one. Year

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corrective action period. And so they check in with us,

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the office of head start after six months, so we

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do have a meeting scheduled for. January. Which. Our staff

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will attend, and we'll just be talking about those strategies.

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I know, commissioner, you've asked before about what are our

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new strategies. That we've implemented in that ongoing conversation is

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happening as well. With the office of head start. That

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meeting. Check in meeting is January 16. We are feeling

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positive about the slow but uptick. In enrollments. We need

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to get to 129 by the end of the corrective

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action period, and so. We are hopeful and working very

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hard. Alex's team working really hard to meet that number.

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Really quick on that piece. Sure. So that's 17 additional

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thoughts. Is that the right. We have 112 now and

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we need to be at 129. Yes, that's correct. And

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that would be during the first. Quarter. I mean the

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spring semester. Do you all feel like that's before feasible?

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I was thinking. That April 16. Deadline or date I

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can't scroll on your screen? I want to clarify. We

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need to meet that number. That's our 97% of 134

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slots that we are allotted, but they don't. Actually start

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the clock on that until September. 2024. So even though.

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We have to meet that number. They're not officially going

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to start counting that number until September 2024, so we're

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working towards that, okay? And that begs a different question,

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because at the end of a school year, then you're

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going to have attrition no matter. Either way. Yes, I

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know it's not. A clean count. We do have that.

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Four year olds moving on to kindergarten. We lose those

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four year olds, we have to recover those numbers. And

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then bring in new students, okay? I'll be interested just

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to hear. And I'm sure you'll bring that. To us.

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And I know we talked about previously, and I know

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you were working on some different strategies about outreach and

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bringing folks in. So I think the piece is going

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to be that for all of the facilities, right? It's.

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Easy to focus on. One that has the number. Just

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because of the way that all your facilities are working,

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it's going to be really important to be putting all

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that work for each of them. Yeah. One of the

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strategies, just to be more specific. Was. They were asking

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us to survey parents and have conversations with parents around

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transportation and what are the transportation barriers. Is it a

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transportation, a barrier to enroll? Or is it that families

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are disenrolling? Because of transportation? Is it between cities? A

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transportation issue between Lafaya and Boulder, or is it a

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family that lives in Boulder? And is having difficulty getting

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to a boulder site or vice versa. So that's one

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strategy. To understand more our population. And to have those

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conversations with families. About. A specific transportation issue. That's one

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strategy that we are incorporating into the plan. Great. Thank

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you. I think I had maybe two follow ups or

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questions or comments about that specific issue. One is. I

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think we've talked about this before. But. Do you work

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closely with our housing authority, Boulder County Housing Authority and

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BHP. And. Very closely with Boulder housing partners. With county

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Boulder County Housing Authority as well. We work very closely

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with Sister Carmen. We also work closely with early intervention

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team. Child protective services. What we do in January is

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really ramp up our outreach as far as doing community

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presentations to different community partners, and we also attend different

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events that come up, and we're invited to. We were

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out there in the community, definitely talking about the program.

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Great. Thanks for that. And then the other. The second

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question is whether that target enrollment number is that an

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average. Of throughout the year. Because people do come in

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and out of the program. How do they measure whether

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you're actually meeting that minimum requirement. Number. With the public

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k through twelve School Finance act count. There is. A

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day. When they do the count. We do get drops

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throughout the year, but those slots don't become. A vacancy

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until 30 days after they've dropped, so we have some

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time to fill. They won't look at cumulative numbers, unfortunately.

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They will definitely look at a point in time. And.

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What they want to see for those six months is

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that we are at 129. Yes, average in theory. But

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we can't really count those that are leaving after 30

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days. And we submit those officially through their HSes system.

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So there's a tab there about. Enrollments, and we have

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to submit monthly numbers. And those are the numbers they're

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looking at and they'll look over a period of time.

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Okay, so it sounds like. They do sort of average

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it over a period. Okay, thanks. I also wanted to

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just bring in the policy council again in our last

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meeting where the parents voiced, how they came to our

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program, how they found it, and then. An interesting. Piece

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of data that one family mentioned was that. They assumed

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that they didn't qualify. And it wasn't until they actually

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met with actually, Alex, to learn that there are. Different

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categories of eligibility, and then they found that they were

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eligible and are now enrolled in our program but. That

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was good information for us. To learn the parent perception

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prior to them actually coming to talk to us. That

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we can work with. In our strategies. Okay. Are we

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running over now? Okay. On December 6, I'm going to

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move on to the policies and procedures. December 6, there

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was a pmi meeting. Where? We brought. Our plan. Of

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having our new policies and procedures approved. And I believe

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that was brought before the business meeting on the twelveth.

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And that plan was approved, which I also submitted to

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the office of Head start, so thank you for approval

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on that. And we will continue. To draft and get

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approval on the policies through July 2024 for our program.

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So we will be in touch monthly on that with

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all of you. And then we still have not received

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our federal monitoring review notice. However, if it is received

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this week. We can anticipate. The team to be here

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on January 29. We are on a weekly wait and

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see sort of schedule, so we will just keep you

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all updated. As part of. The FA two process. There

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is also a companion process that is happening, and that's

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called the class reviews. And that is an assessment tool

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for high quality programs. And so the office of head

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start will be conducting virtual. Video gathering of 1 hour

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observation videos for each of our classrooms and assessing each

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of our classrooms. For quality. And that period of time

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is January and February. Is that correct? Stacy? January and

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February. We have to submit seven 1 hour videos to

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the office of head start, and then we'll receive. The

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reports back after their review. So that's everything that's happening

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for our program right now. Great. Thank you. I just

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have a quick question on the class reviews. Is that

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an additional practice? That's just. Part of nation head start

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or is that connected? To. The disciplinary deficiency or anything

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like that? No, that's standard. That's standard for all. Programs,

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all head start programs. They do that? Is it annually?

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Is it annual? No, I don't know. Actually. I don't

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think we've gone through a federal one in a few

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years. We usually just do them ourselves, but this is

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the first time. That I've been here, that we've had

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a federal one. Okay. Yeah, I don't remember hearing about

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the federal class review, so I just wanted to make

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sure that understanding of reason why it was being requested.

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Yes. It's not tied to that. And just for awareness,

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the class tool is something that the boulder Valley school

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District uses as well. It's something that we've used in

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the past, like Stacy was saying, internally, as a measure

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of quality. And now this is something. That. I think

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it is tied to the FA two review, which is

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why we haven't had one in five years. It's a

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five year cycle. Okay. Thank you. I don't think we

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have any other questions. Is there anything else you want

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to share? With us before we adjourn the meeting extravaganza.

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You are all welcome to come and join us for

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gift wrapping. On Saturday at our winter extravaganza. It'll be

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from nine to three at our Dagney site in Lafayette,

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and I am bringing 300 tamales. Extravaganza is the purpose.

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You're the one that created it. So winter extravaganza is

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our yearly gift giving event. I won't go into the

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whole history of it, but what we do is we

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kind of create a shop so parents can come and

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actually pick out presents for their children. We have a

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gift wrapping area. We have snacks. Claire came last year.

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I think she was one of my. Greeters at the

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door. So it's just a fun event. We ask that

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parents kind of leave their children at home so that

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they can also talk. To each other and build community.

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It's a fun time. But one day we will talk

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about the history of it and why we created it,

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the racial equity piece on that. That's tied to the

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equity piece that we didn't have. In the report this

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month. I apologize. Well, it was a fun time. It

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was really fun as a greeter. I wasn't back where

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the parents were. Selecting the gifts, but I saw. Their

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excitement as they were walking out with what they had

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were able to find. For their kids. It was a

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good time. And I think some of them did bring

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their kids, but they left that. Well, they left them.

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In the cookie room. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thanks

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for the invitation to the event, and thanks for the

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update. Yeah. Okay, well, then we will be in recess

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until 01:00. Where when we will reconvene. To hear the

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parks and open space, Capitol and stewardship projects.

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And we are recording. Good afternoon. Today is December 14,

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2023. This is a meeting of the board of county

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commissioners of Boulder county. We do have all three commissioners

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present, and we are here. For a presentation. On the

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parks and open Space 2024 capital and stewardship projects list.

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Tina Nielsen is going to lead this off. I understand.

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And you'll allow other people to introduce themselves? As they

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speak. So, Tina, go ahead. Thank you. Good afternoon. Gina

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Nielsen, special projects coordinator with parks and open space. And

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we are here, as you said. To. Give you a

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quick presentation of our proposed 2024 capital and stewardship projects.

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These projects were included in a line item in our

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budget request. And we're here today to give you the

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details about that. And answer any questions you haven't asked

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for your approval of these specific projects. And as you

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said, I will kick us off with some introductory slides,

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and then I'll. Be handing it over to my colleagues

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here whose staff do the actual work. We're going. To

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be going through about 45 slides, so we'll try to

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keep it moving pretty quickly. And we would appreciate it

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if you have any questions, if you hold them till

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the end, so. That we can just get through the

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material and so on. Okay. I wanted to start off

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with some. Just some terminology, because our terminology has evolved

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over the. Years. We used to call it our CIP,

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or our capital improvements budget. And a couple few years

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ago. We started looking at it in a little bit

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of a broader way because we have an awful lot.

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Of maintenance backlog that is expensive and. Doesn't lend itself

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to our operating budgets. The operating budgets can't cover it,

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so. We wanted to be more explicit about how we

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use these funds. So capital projects are kind of large,

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discrete projects that have a beginning and an end. Over

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$10,000 examples are trail construction, ecological restoration projects. Stewardship projects.

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Are sort of that maintenance backlog. Or it can be

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programmatic. Sometimes we have programmatic things. We want to do

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that again. Fall outside the parameters of our ability to

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do it with our operating budgets. Again, over $10,000 examples.

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Would be replacing roofs or parking upgrades. Here is a

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chart that just shows a summary. Of the projects by

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division, so we have four divisions. Whose staff really do

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the heavy lifts on all this, and I do want

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to say that this is such a fun thing for

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me to do every year, to come before you and

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talk about the things that we do because we do

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so much. And it's really fun to see it all

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in one package like this. And I really just want

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to give kudos to all the staff out there who

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are on the ground doing the hard work that we

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do. So, as you can see, there are 34 projects

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divided among four divisions, the AG Resources Division, the recreation

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facilities division, resource management and then resource planning. And the

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budget line item was about $3.3 million. As you can

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see. We have been able to leverage that with over

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$7 million in grants and partnerships. So we have one

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staff person who's dedicated to looking for grants and finding

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those and obviously, she's worth her weight and gold and

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doing a great job and helping us find that so?

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The total value of this work is over $10 million.

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When we select the projects, one of the things that

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we do is we look through our strategic planning lenses,

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and we have four focus areas, as you can see

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here, cultural responsiveness, resilience maintenance, backlog and safety. And so

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when the projects are being proposed and being evaluated, We

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look at those lenses and this is how they've fallen

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out for the 2024. Project list. This slide is the

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same information, but it shows how these projects are distributed

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across the four divisions. That do those projects. And I

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do want to say one note about, you can see

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that maintenance backlog is pretty evenly distributed across all four

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divisions. Resilience and safety are also distributed across. All four

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divisions. Cultural responsiveness. We have projects in both resource management

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and resource planning. I just want to make a note

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that a lot of the work we do, that is.

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Cultural that hits that box. Is programmatic. And would fall

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under operating budgets and not under capital and stewardship budgets

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quite as much, but we do have four that fall

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in this, and we'll be highlighting those as we go.

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Through the presentation. So this is my final slide, and

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this just shows the distribution of these projects across. The

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county, so you can see it's impressive. It's a lot

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of work. The color of the dots and the number

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of the dots correlate to the divisions and the number

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in the spreadsheet that's in your materials, so if you

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wanted to go. Back. You could see that. And now

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I'm going to turn it over to Mike Foster. To

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talk about the ad projects. Good afternoon, commissioners. Mike Foster,

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Agriculture Resources Division. Manager. And next slide, please. A couple

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of the key themes that I just want to highlight.

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Is closer. A couple of the key themes that I

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want to highlight. For our capital and stewardship projects, primarily

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in 2023 and 2024, is around water efficiency. That is

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a really big emphasis for us. The operating budget that

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the commissioners approved last month is where we get into

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a lot of our soil health efforts and maintenance backlog.

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So what you're going to be seeing today from a

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stewardship or capital project side is really big. Water efficiency

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projects. And with that theme, In 2023, with our cast

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funding, we installed three center pivots out at our Henry

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Eastleck property complex, and that's to replace flood irrigation. Center

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pivots are significantly more efficient use of water than flood

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irrigated, and our tenants usually see a higher yield associated

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with center pivots rather than flood irrigation. So this is

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a really big emphasis for us moving into the next

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few years to replace flood irrigation with center pivot. So

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you'll see many, many more of these requests over the

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next five. Years or so. Next slide, please. For our

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2024 projects. This is where we are headed with the

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items. And again, big theme. Is center pivots again, replacing

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flood irrigation with more efficient use of our water. Next

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slide. Here's the map of where those item projects will

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occur, primarily on the east side in our irrigated agricultural

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lands. Next slide. Our hygiene dairy pipeline. This is really

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about making more efficient use of water coming out of

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our ditches right now, this particular. Property is receiving about

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a 50% water loss because of leaky ditches. And so,

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in the spirit of, again, making more efficient use of

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our water, making sure that we fully utilize our water

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rights. We want to make sure that this is piped

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so that the tenant gets the water and it winds

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back up in the stream after that tenant is done

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with it. Next slide. Please. We are going to be

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revegeting our Deberi property for. The last dozen years or

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so, it has been overgrazed and overrun with prairie dogs.

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This year, that property sat fallow, and we were able

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to get the prairie dogs off of that. Property, and

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we have seen a significant improvement in the vegetation coming

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00:32:15,419 --> 00:32:18,078
back. The light green areas on this map are going

474
00:32:18,323 --> 00:32:21,438
to be our focus areas for vegetative work. We're also

475
00:32:21,483 --> 00:32:25,398
going to be installing a bridge. Across the ish ditch

476
00:32:25,483 --> 00:32:27,198
so that we can more easily get from the south

477
00:32:27,243 --> 00:32:28,958
end of the property to the north end of the

478
00:32:29,003 --> 00:32:33,156
property. Next slide, please. And our big center pivot project.

479
00:32:33,841 --> 00:32:40,222
We've got four. Properties where we're collaborating with NRCs and

480
00:32:40,267 --> 00:32:44,342
our tenants to access outside dollars to leverage money that

481
00:32:44,627 --> 00:32:47,862
the county is kicking in. The county typically covers the

482
00:32:48,187 --> 00:32:52,302
underground infrastructure, such as the pipes. And electrical and NRCs

483
00:32:52,867 --> 00:32:55,342
and the tenant cover the above ground infrastructure, such as

484
00:32:55,627 --> 00:32:59,695
the pivot itself and. Any overhead power lines. So this

485
00:32:59,700 --> 00:33:01,215
is going to be a big work for us next

486
00:33:01,580 --> 00:33:05,415
year, and then our last project is reconstruction. Reconstruction of

487
00:33:05,420 --> 00:33:08,935
the good hue ditch. This particular concrete structure is well.

488
00:33:09,020 --> 00:33:12,095
Past its useful life, it is falling apart and in

489
00:33:12,100 --> 00:33:15,535
the spirit of delivering water efficiently to our properties. We

490
00:33:15,580 --> 00:33:19,736
need to rehabilitate this infrastruct. Infrastructure. Turn it over to

491
00:33:20,101 --> 00:33:24,496
Jarrett. Good afternoon, commissioners. Jarrett Roberts, recreation and facilities division

492
00:33:24,581 --> 00:33:27,296
manager. And I'll be walking you through our divisions, projects

493
00:33:27,541 --> 00:33:33,380
from this year and this coming year. So first I

494
00:33:33,425 --> 00:33:35,540
want to talk about some accomplishments this past year, and

495
00:33:35,865 --> 00:33:37,500
this is just a small sampling. As Tina mentioned, there's

496
00:33:37,745 --> 00:33:39,460
a ton of other work that happens, but this will

497
00:33:39,505 --> 00:33:41,460
get us an idea of what we've been up to.

498
00:33:42,185 --> 00:33:44,900
A couple of big highlights at the Annuite trailhead, we

499
00:33:45,145 --> 00:33:46,900
were able to put in a retaining wall, which is

500
00:33:46,945 --> 00:33:48,380
a big step towards us being able to put the

501
00:33:48,385 --> 00:33:50,580
restroom in, which is a project, you'll see. In the

502
00:33:50,945 --> 00:33:54,714
upcoming year. We made a major. Connection along the 104th

503
00:33:54,759 --> 00:33:57,074
street connection, which was a partnership with a couple of

504
00:33:57,319 --> 00:34:00,769
our local municipalities. We had kind of an emergent project

505
00:34:01,374 --> 00:34:04,129
with a replacement of the Nywat trail culvert. Or we

506
00:34:04,174 --> 00:34:06,409
had a culvert that was rusting out and were able

507
00:34:06,414 --> 00:34:08,609
to repair. That so we could keep that regional trail

508
00:34:08,654 --> 00:34:11,101
open. And then, of course, I think you've all heard

509
00:34:11,386 --> 00:34:14,541
about the opening of the Tolland Range Trail, which has

510
00:34:14,546 --> 00:34:16,621
been a multi year project that we were able to

511
00:34:16,626 --> 00:34:18,781
actually do a soft opening this year, and are excited

512
00:34:18,826 --> 00:34:21,331
to open all the way next year. Looking at a

513
00:34:21,376 --> 00:34:23,611
couple more projects, you can kind of see these. There's

514
00:34:23,616 --> 00:34:25,691
some really great before and afters from our building and

515
00:34:26,016 --> 00:34:28,891
historic preservation team of some painting projects on the strode

516
00:34:29,216 --> 00:34:32,891
dickens, as well as major restoration project on the Macintosh

517
00:34:33,216 --> 00:34:35,571
barn. It's hard to see, but. Most of the work

518
00:34:35,856 --> 00:34:38,971
actually happened underneath that barn on the foundation, which was

519
00:34:39,256 --> 00:34:42,008
a historic foundation. And I had never actually been through

520
00:34:42,373 --> 00:34:45,048
this process, but it's quite a process to remove every

521
00:34:45,453 --> 00:34:48,128
piece of rock and then put that all back in

522
00:34:48,693 --> 00:34:50,688
in a structurally sound way that can support such a

523
00:34:51,053 --> 00:34:54,481
large building. While also keeping the historic integrity of the

524
00:34:54,526 --> 00:34:57,761
building intact. So very cool. And then the Raimi roofing

525
00:34:58,046 --> 00:35:00,721
project that's on the bottom left. There was a replacement

526
00:35:00,766 --> 00:35:04,631
of one of our oldest buildings in the county. The

527
00:35:04,676 --> 00:35:08,095
roof on that project, on that building. Looking forward at

528
00:35:08,100 --> 00:35:10,495
this coming year. In 2024, we have nine projects that

529
00:35:10,820 --> 00:35:13,495
I'll talk about totaling three quarters of a million dollars,

530
00:35:13,620 --> 00:35:15,855
roughly. You'll notice there's not a lot of grant funding

531
00:35:16,180 --> 00:35:18,415
here. A lot of this is maintenance work, and we

532
00:35:18,460 --> 00:35:21,055
are looking for grants. And then ways to leverage funding,

533
00:35:21,420 --> 00:35:22,815
but it's sometimes a little bit harder to find than

534
00:35:23,060 --> 00:35:27,130
some of the new shiny stuff. Locations. There's just a

535
00:35:27,375 --> 00:35:29,250
quick overview. You also notice there are two of the

536
00:35:29,255 --> 00:35:31,970
projects that aren't listed on the map, and that's because

537
00:35:32,615 --> 00:35:34,450
they kind of go across the entire system and that

538
00:35:34,735 --> 00:35:36,770
we'll talk about later. Our sign standards and our ADa

539
00:35:37,135 --> 00:35:42,460
upgrades. So our first set of projects I want to

540
00:35:42,465 --> 00:35:46,585
talk about. Is in, I guess, three projects, the first

541
00:35:46,630 --> 00:35:50,145
one being in the Niwat trail legend Ridge area. And

542
00:35:50,150 --> 00:35:52,905
that's a major resurfacing project. So we have this trail.

543
00:35:54,411 --> 00:35:56,286
That the surface has been washed out over the coming

544
00:35:56,331 --> 00:35:58,926
years, and so we're going to reserve, almost a 1.5

545
00:35:58,971 --> 00:36:01,486
miles loop. And we're going to replace this with a

546
00:36:01,491 --> 00:36:04,086
recycled asphalt, which tends to hold up better in some

547
00:36:04,091 --> 00:36:05,646
of the steeper grades that we see. In this area.

548
00:36:06,709 --> 00:36:10,732
There's the Boulder Canyon trail retaining structure. This is a

549
00:36:10,777 --> 00:36:12,732
small but very critical piece of trail. It's actually only

550
00:36:13,057 --> 00:36:15,692
40ft long. But should this wash out, we would have

551
00:36:15,697 --> 00:36:18,372
to close the entire Boulder Canyon trail. So we're. Working

552
00:36:18,657 --> 00:36:20,612
on a retaining wall that would allow this small section

553
00:36:20,857 --> 00:36:23,692
to trail from washing out into the creek. And then

554
00:36:24,097 --> 00:36:26,052
the last project here is the annuite restrooms. We talked

555
00:36:26,337 --> 00:36:27,692
about the retaining. Wall. And there's been a lot of

556
00:36:27,697 --> 00:36:30,772
prep work this year to prepare the trailhead. We're planning

557
00:36:30,817 --> 00:36:35,143
on putting in. The specific type of restroom. It doesn't

558
00:36:35,508 --> 00:36:38,183
match exactly with our other restrooms, but because the limited

559
00:36:38,268 --> 00:36:40,383
space we have with the floodplain. This is the restroom

560
00:36:40,668 --> 00:36:42,703
we felt would fit. Best here and be most resilient.

561
00:36:44,251 --> 00:36:46,686
Our next project is our assigned standards. So we went

562
00:36:46,971 --> 00:36:50,166
through a big process to overhaul our sign. Manual and

563
00:36:50,211 --> 00:36:52,846
come up with standards that we can apply system wide.

564
00:36:53,531 --> 00:36:55,526
As part of this process, we focused on making these

565
00:36:55,851 --> 00:37:00,143
signs universal, so we used a lot of graphics. So

566
00:37:00,228 --> 00:37:01,983
language became less of an issue. And then we also

567
00:37:02,068 --> 00:37:06,967
introduced bilingual signage in many cases. To help support our

568
00:37:07,292 --> 00:37:09,927
entire community to be able to understand and use our

569
00:37:09,972 --> 00:37:14,262
trailheads and trails. So. We plan to have this be

570
00:37:14,307 --> 00:37:16,262
a four to five year process to replace pretty much

571
00:37:16,547 --> 00:37:19,701
every sign in the parks and open space. In our

572
00:37:19,746 --> 00:37:22,301
whole system. We plan on doing about a quarter of

573
00:37:22,346 --> 00:37:24,101
that work in this coming year. And that'll include work

574
00:37:24,146 --> 00:37:27,261
at the Carolyn Homebrew Preserve, Walker Ranch, Twin Lakes, Bald

575
00:37:27,546 --> 00:37:31,021
Mountain, grassy tops, Kerr gardens, Dodd Lake, Cardinal mill and

576
00:37:31,426 --> 00:37:34,101
ag Heritage center. So a lot of signs that we

577
00:37:34,186 --> 00:37:35,621
have to replace in a very short period of time,

578
00:37:35,866 --> 00:37:37,741
but in four or five years. It'll be amazing to

579
00:37:37,746 --> 00:37:43,476
see signage across. The entire system changed. Harney Listoka is

580
00:37:43,561 --> 00:37:46,996
located between Lewisville and La Fayette. The property includes an

581
00:37:47,001 --> 00:37:50,156
active farm, a farm stand, a trail and the Kirk

582
00:37:50,441 --> 00:37:52,876
community garden. This is an old garage that's. Used by

583
00:37:53,201 --> 00:37:56,356
the tenant. It's also a historic structure. It's a cedar

584
00:37:56,641 --> 00:38:01,031
roofing. Cedar roof. And so we replace. These on a

585
00:38:01,076 --> 00:38:04,631
fairly regular basis to maintain the historic integrity while also

586
00:38:04,716 --> 00:38:07,831
making them functional. So this project will look to replace

587
00:38:07,876 --> 00:38:10,941
that roof. And then the last leader projects I want

588
00:38:10,946 --> 00:38:12,621
to tell you about. Or. No, sorry, there's one more

589
00:38:12,666 --> 00:38:14,941
after this, but the last big group of projects is

590
00:38:15,186 --> 00:38:17,061
in the hall ranch area. We have a number of

591
00:38:17,106 --> 00:38:19,741
projects in this area, including replacing the decking on one

592
00:38:19,746 --> 00:38:22,741
of the bridges. This decking is old and weathered and

593
00:38:23,066 --> 00:38:25,101
beyond its life cycle, and so we're expecting to replace

594
00:38:25,426 --> 00:38:30,262
the entire decking. There's a major upgrade to. The access

595
00:38:30,387 --> 00:38:33,422
road that allows our staff and emergency vehicles to access

596
00:38:33,907 --> 00:38:36,127
the area. And lastly, we're going to do some major

597
00:38:36,452 --> 00:38:39,967
trailhead upgrades to bring that trailer up. To our current

598
00:38:40,332 --> 00:38:43,087
standards and help improve some major drainage issues that we've

599
00:38:43,092 --> 00:38:45,853
been seeing. The last project I did want to talk

600
00:38:45,858 --> 00:38:50,613
about is the trailhead and facilities ADA compliance updates. The

601
00:38:50,658 --> 00:38:54,133
county did a countywide look at Ada compliance in many

602
00:38:54,178 --> 00:38:58,096
of the areas and buildings. Parks and open space was

603
00:38:58,141 --> 00:38:59,616
a piece of that. And they looked at our trailheads

604
00:38:59,861 --> 00:39:03,043
and found almost. 1000 violations. Some of these are very

605
00:39:03,728 --> 00:39:05,643
small, moving the height of a handle or something like

606
00:39:05,648 --> 00:39:08,523
that. And others are very big, making sure that the

607
00:39:08,568 --> 00:39:12,345
surfacing in a parking area. Is compliant. So we've taken

608
00:39:12,710 --> 00:39:15,265
these and we've started to devote funds and times. To

609
00:39:15,430 --> 00:39:17,665
working away at that list of about 1000 items, and

610
00:39:17,870 --> 00:39:19,465
we plan to get through about 25%. Of them next

611
00:39:19,830 --> 00:39:22,905
year, which is a pretty big accomplishment, we think. And

612
00:39:23,150 --> 00:39:26,250
with that, I'll pass it off to resource management. All

613
00:39:26,255 --> 00:39:29,970
right. Greetings, commissioners. Stefan Reinford. I'm the resource management division

614
00:39:30,335 --> 00:39:37,247
manager, and we'll go through our resource management. Slide. All

615
00:39:37,572 --> 00:39:42,047
right. So 2023 accomplishments. So we have, one of the

616
00:39:42,052 --> 00:39:45,087
big projects we worked on was the St. Frane Forest

617
00:39:45,412 --> 00:39:50,007
Health Partnership project, phase one, which was a joint project

618
00:39:50,732 --> 00:39:54,247
where work was completed on private lands, open space, and

619
00:39:54,292 --> 00:39:57,650
then also the city along Monmont's button rock. Preserve. And

620
00:39:57,695 --> 00:40:00,010
so we were able to get that project completed just

621
00:40:00,055 --> 00:40:02,650
about a week and a half ago. So that's pretty

622
00:40:02,695 --> 00:40:06,208
good news. One of the neat projects we did was.

623
00:40:07,253 --> 00:40:11,768
A museum master interpretive plan. And the point of our

624
00:40:12,173 --> 00:40:17,063
interpretive plan was. To provide get some guidance in providing

625
00:40:17,388 --> 00:40:20,574
a more inclusive human history. When we interpret our ag

626
00:40:20,939 --> 00:40:24,134
Heritage center, the Ned Mining museum, and we also looked

627
00:40:24,419 --> 00:40:27,460
at the assay. Office. And so a lot of that

628
00:40:27,505 --> 00:40:29,340
has to do with some of the programming we do,

629
00:40:29,705 --> 00:40:32,700
but they also looked at accessibility and how to change

630
00:40:32,785 --> 00:40:37,354
the sites of these locations. And then the third project

631
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:43,361
we worked on was. Biomass storage for the parks. So

632
00:40:43,726 --> 00:40:47,695
we have a location where. We store log material that

633
00:40:48,020 --> 00:40:51,175
we can then utilize and burn in our biomass facilities

634
00:40:51,500 --> 00:40:54,255
and again ones at our open space complex and ones

635
00:40:54,500 --> 00:40:58,535
at the Boulder county jail. Thanks a lot. And here

636
00:40:58,620 --> 00:41:02,095
is our list of the projects. You can see that.

637
00:41:03,222 --> 00:41:05,937
We also try to get a lot of grants and

638
00:41:06,382 --> 00:41:09,916
take advantage and leverage the money that we use. Next

639
00:41:10,321 --> 00:41:14,563
slide. And again, the geographic reference for where all these

640
00:41:14,608 --> 00:41:19,270
projects are located within the county. Next slide. So the

641
00:41:19,275 --> 00:41:23,350
first project on here is our wheeler ranch russian olive

642
00:41:23,715 --> 00:41:28,649
removal. This property has over 3000 russian olive trees that

643
00:41:28,694 --> 00:41:33,461
are choking out the creek. And keeping the natives out

644
00:41:33,506 --> 00:41:38,334
of the location. And so our goal is to remove

645
00:41:38,659 --> 00:41:41,814
the russian olive over we did portion of this project.

646
00:41:42,259 --> 00:41:45,254
This year in 2023, and then we're looking to continue

647
00:41:45,699 --> 00:41:49,908
that project next year. One of the goals is also

648
00:41:50,233 --> 00:41:53,860
to follow this up. With planting that our plant ecology

649
00:41:53,905 --> 00:41:57,420
staff can do to plant some native tree species along

650
00:41:57,825 --> 00:42:04,388
the creek. Next slide. So our Prescott wetland restoration. This

651
00:42:04,953 --> 00:42:08,177
property. Is off the peak to peak off Bun School

652
00:42:08,622 --> 00:42:16,871
Road. This is. A fen that the previous landowners want

653
00:42:16,916 --> 00:42:19,671
to drain so that they could actually have not have

654
00:42:19,916 --> 00:42:21,831
a wet meadow in that location, and so you can

655
00:42:21,876 --> 00:42:25,167
kind of see that wishbone. Structure that was there, and

656
00:42:25,212 --> 00:42:29,527
that was done by ditching by the previous landowner. And

657
00:42:29,572 --> 00:42:33,967
so our goal is to actually rehab this fen and

658
00:42:34,372 --> 00:42:38,543
this wetland. We had the designs completed last year, and

659
00:42:38,788 --> 00:42:40,343
then we're hoping to do this with some in house.

660
00:42:41,457 --> 00:42:46,904
Funding. Next year. Really good for carbon sequestration this wetland.

661
00:42:46,989 --> 00:42:48,664
And so we're really hoping that we can kind of

662
00:42:48,749 --> 00:42:54,582
fix this up. Next slide. So the next spot is

663
00:42:54,947 --> 00:42:57,302
Sherwood Creek restoration at the conger mine. If you're not

664
00:42:57,547 --> 00:43:02,759
familiar with Sherwood Creek is it's near Caribou Ranch. The

665
00:43:02,804 --> 00:43:06,403
Sherwood property was acquired a little bit later. There's a

666
00:43:06,448 --> 00:43:10,283
section of the creek that actually goes underground and is

667
00:43:10,368 --> 00:43:13,523
kind of covered up. By some of the mine tailings.

668
00:43:13,808 --> 00:43:16,603
And so our goal plan, ecology has had this goal

669
00:43:16,968 --> 00:43:19,243
on their books for a long time to daylight this

670
00:43:19,608 --> 00:43:21,883
creek and so that we can actually get a truly

671
00:43:22,288 --> 00:43:26,308
functioning. Ecosystem in there. And so that's what they're working

672
00:43:26,393 --> 00:43:30,805
on here. We're partnering with the Colorado Division of Reclamation

673
00:43:31,090 --> 00:43:34,299
and Mine Safety. They're putting a lot of dollars towards

674
00:43:34,984 --> 00:43:39,019
this project, and we also are applying for a CWCB

675
00:43:39,424 --> 00:43:45,540
grant to assist. Next slide. In our Carolyn homeburg Preserve

676
00:43:45,785 --> 00:43:49,609
at Rock Creek. Farm management plan. There is an area

677
00:43:49,974 --> 00:43:53,089
that was identified that we wanted to restore to native

678
00:43:53,174 --> 00:43:56,783
perennials. And it's an 80 acre section that we're looking

679
00:43:56,788 --> 00:44:00,275
at, this area. Has had lots of prairie dog damage

680
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:02,955
and has also had a lot of overgrazing in the

681
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:05,635
past, and we're really just trying to bring back a

682
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:10,515
stronger ecosystem that can then be managed appropriately. Next slide.

683
00:44:11,746 --> 00:44:15,021
And then going back to that museum master interpretive plan

684
00:44:15,906 --> 00:44:19,333
while. We are going to be implementing some of the

685
00:44:19,898 --> 00:44:25,654
programming. On the other properties. The assay office. Is only

686
00:44:25,739 --> 00:44:29,014
open one weekend per year during a short time frame.

687
00:44:30,947 --> 00:44:33,822
And it was recommended for an accessibility standpoint to actually.

688
00:44:34,831 --> 00:44:37,106
Do a little bit more interpretation on the outside of

689
00:44:37,391 --> 00:44:41,604
the museum. Provide in the parking lot area, provide some

690
00:44:41,889 --> 00:44:44,884
picnic tables and some areas for people to sit and

691
00:44:44,929 --> 00:44:46,844
just make it a little bit more inviting for those

692
00:44:47,129 --> 00:44:49,404
that are riding their bikes up or driving up and

693
00:44:49,449 --> 00:44:53,351
it's closed. And they're like, what is this place? And

694
00:44:53,356 --> 00:44:56,895
so we're hoping to do that with this project. Next

695
00:44:56,980 --> 00:45:01,387
slide. And then we talked about the St. Vane Forest

696
00:45:01,712 --> 00:45:05,467
Health Partnership briefly. This is kind of beginning to implement

697
00:45:05,832 --> 00:45:09,387
phase two here on our riverside property. And if you

698
00:45:09,392 --> 00:45:12,940
look on the map there, North of the project area.

699
00:45:13,305 --> 00:45:15,940
You can see that the Button Rock Reserve, a Ralph

700
00:45:15,985 --> 00:45:20,028
Price reservoir. And so a lot of this area, if

701
00:45:20,313 --> 00:45:23,984
there were to be a fire, drains down. Into button

702
00:45:24,069 --> 00:45:29,233
rock preserve and into the waterway. Longmont lines drinking water.

703
00:45:30,038 --> 00:45:33,633
So we're trying to do this with the big partnership

704
00:45:33,678 --> 00:45:37,948
there. We're looking at 250 acres of work. And we

705
00:45:37,993 --> 00:45:40,268
have a matching grant that will pay for the other

706
00:45:40,313 --> 00:45:44,626
half of this project. And now to resource planning. Heidi.

707
00:45:44,711 --> 00:45:49,026
All right, great. Thanks, Stefan. Good afternoon. Heidi Wagner, resource

708
00:45:49,111 --> 00:45:54,764
planning division. Manager here to present our work. Some of

709
00:45:54,809 --> 00:45:59,284
the highlights of our 23 accomplishments include the stabilization of

710
00:45:59,289 --> 00:46:02,284
the banks out at Twin Lakes hopefully you've had a

711
00:46:02,289 --> 00:46:05,004
chance to see it. It is open and operational and

712
00:46:05,009 --> 00:46:09,844
people are really enjoying the improvements. Other things of note

713
00:46:10,209 --> 00:46:14,788
were improvements. At the indian mountain area that is used

714
00:46:15,113 --> 00:46:18,788
by our indigenous native vet community, and we wanted to

715
00:46:18,793 --> 00:46:21,428
do a little work out there to support them in

716
00:46:21,753 --> 00:46:25,748
their activities, including a kiosk improvements. To the road and

717
00:46:25,833 --> 00:46:31,309
parking area, which are complete. Additionally, we are at 80%

718
00:46:31,714 --> 00:46:35,547
design for the South St. Rain restoration project. There by

719
00:46:35,912 --> 00:46:39,387
the quarry in hill, too, so we're delighted to see

720
00:46:39,432 --> 00:46:43,409
it as far as long as it is. Next slide.

721
00:46:44,653 --> 00:46:50,048
Resource planning has 13 projects for 2024, so a significant

722
00:46:50,413 --> 00:46:53,707
number and amount because you can see. We have three

723
00:46:54,072 --> 00:46:58,618
projects that have grant matches. That really brings the total

724
00:46:59,023 --> 00:47:02,578
up for resource planning to a little over 8 million.

725
00:47:03,648 --> 00:47:06,443
And like my colleagues, our work is spread throughout the

726
00:47:06,488 --> 00:47:14,647
county. So our project management and design group is handling

727
00:47:15,132 --> 00:47:18,567
five projects this year, in addition to supporting many of

728
00:47:18,572 --> 00:47:21,407
the projects that you've already heard from our other divisions.

729
00:47:22,092 --> 00:47:24,887
Some of the highlights I won't go through each one

730
00:47:24,892 --> 00:47:29,083
of these. Is we are going to be starting work

731
00:47:29,448 --> 00:47:33,810
on our stearns Lake Trailhead. We were able to come

732
00:47:33,815 --> 00:47:38,317
up with. A design. That met the needs out there

733
00:47:38,682 --> 00:47:43,761
and supported our partnership. So. We will be starting those

734
00:47:44,166 --> 00:47:48,830
improvements. And additionally, we are going to be continuing. To

735
00:47:49,275 --> 00:47:54,150
adaptively manage some of our recent stream restorations, including the

736
00:47:54,195 --> 00:47:58,234
one. Done on St. Rain, just north of the parks

737
00:47:58,599 --> 00:48:03,915
building, actually. Next slide. Our planning group has two main

738
00:48:04,240 --> 00:48:07,355
projects that they're leading this year. First, our planning group

739
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:11,995
leads the indigenous ways and land commitment team, which is

740
00:48:12,040 --> 00:48:13,995
moving towards a new faith in the work. That they

741
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:19,255
have been doing, and we are dedicating some funds. To

742
00:48:19,660 --> 00:48:22,775
build a web page out for education as well as

743
00:48:23,180 --> 00:48:29,296
hiring a consultant. To. Give us an educator series for

744
00:48:29,661 --> 00:48:32,922
our staff. Additionally, I already mentioned the South St. Rain

745
00:48:33,247 --> 00:48:37,362
Creek restoration at hall two, but we will be needing

746
00:48:37,687 --> 00:48:40,082
a few additional funds to get that designed to 100%

747
00:48:40,807 --> 00:48:43,922
in the hopes that we can get grant money to

748
00:48:44,287 --> 00:48:51,958
start construction in 25. Our cultural resource group has. Two

749
00:48:52,363 --> 00:48:56,450
projects there at the Tucker cabin. As well as. At

750
00:48:57,095 --> 00:49:00,756
cardinal mill. They're going to be installing a lightning strike

751
00:49:01,401 --> 00:49:04,156
prevention system, and Cardinal Mill is there shown the picture

752
00:49:04,201 --> 00:49:06,356
on the top of your screen, and I bet you

753
00:49:06,401 --> 00:49:09,476
can figure out why we might. Need a lightning protection

754
00:49:09,521 --> 00:49:14,271
system on that wonderful historic building. One of our larger.

755
00:49:17,703 --> 00:49:22,658
Requests is $500,000 to start implementation on prairie run open

756
00:49:23,023 --> 00:49:26,258
space, provided that management plan is approved early next year.

757
00:49:26,943 --> 00:49:31,458
We want to do some design, engineering and restoration improvements

758
00:49:31,503 --> 00:49:35,606
out there. And so we have requested that $500,000 to

759
00:49:35,931 --> 00:49:39,900
begin that work. The Howell Ditch diversion and Boulder Creek

760
00:49:39,985 --> 00:49:44,580
restoration project will kick off. The amount from us is

761
00:49:44,625 --> 00:49:47,460
only 61,000, which is fantastic. But you can see the

762
00:49:47,785 --> 00:49:50,100
partnership that we have been building to get that project

763
00:49:50,585 --> 00:49:56,222
done. So originally it came about for the needs to

764
00:49:56,267 --> 00:50:00,142
improve the howled ditch diversion. But in doing so, we

765
00:50:00,187 --> 00:50:04,582
also will be restoring another section of Boulder Creek that

766
00:50:04,947 --> 00:50:09,973
helps continue the restoration that we've been doing. Upstream of

767
00:50:10,018 --> 00:50:12,853
the, we call that the Lower Boulder Creek restoration project.

768
00:50:13,698 --> 00:50:16,373
So we will be doing additional work out there and

769
00:50:16,778 --> 00:50:21,229
starting. Early in 24. And then the Prince Lake Dam

770
00:50:21,554 --> 00:50:24,989
rehabilitation project will also kick off next year, and that's

771
00:50:25,034 --> 00:50:28,589
a great project to ensure that our agricultural water can

772
00:50:28,634 --> 00:50:32,989
continue to be stored as well as provide additional flood

773
00:50:33,034 --> 00:50:38,844
control for the nearby community. I think that might be

774
00:50:39,249 --> 00:50:47,781
my last one. Thank you. All right, so now. It's

775
00:50:47,866 --> 00:50:54,377
our turn. For questions. And just again. To recap. We

776
00:50:54,422 --> 00:50:57,767
did approve in our budget the overall amount. You are

777
00:50:58,132 --> 00:51:02,487
asking for approval of this list of capital improvement and

778
00:51:02,612 --> 00:51:08,637
stewardship projects here, that is. Correct? Yes. Good. The way

779
00:51:08,682 --> 00:51:11,238
we've been doing it for many years. So a little

780
00:51:11,282 --> 00:51:13,517
bit backwards. Well, we just want to make sure we

781
00:51:13,562 --> 00:51:18,431
know why we're here. So. Thanks. Questions? Sure. Yeah, I

782
00:51:18,436 --> 00:51:20,991
do have some questions. Thanks, everybody, for being here. Being

783
00:51:21,076 --> 00:51:24,863
here in person. I have a couple. One logistical question,

784
00:51:25,588 --> 00:51:29,023
because in the packet there are some public comment in

785
00:51:29,068 --> 00:51:36,595
regards to item number eleven. The prairie run. Looks like.

786
00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:40,195
Well, it's page, I think, 13 of the packet that

787
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:42,395
I have that was for all of our hearings today.

788
00:51:43,548 --> 00:51:45,383
And so I just want to know what that I

789
00:51:45,388 --> 00:51:50,143
think the request maybe was to condition approval. Because there's

790
00:51:50,188 --> 00:51:54,983
a POSAC meeting tonight, coincidentally, but as somebody indicated, that

791
00:51:55,388 --> 00:51:57,903
that item. Won't come to the commissioners until late January.

792
00:51:59,882 --> 00:52:03,277
So that's just a logistical question for me about approving

793
00:52:03,642 --> 00:52:06,277
something potentially here, where we don't have an approval yet

794
00:52:06,602 --> 00:52:08,837
on the project, so that one I would like to

795
00:52:08,882 --> 00:52:10,677
just. Get some guidance. There might be a staff question

796
00:52:10,962 --> 00:52:13,507
of how we might want to address that. Other than

797
00:52:13,552 --> 00:52:15,827
that, questions. On the very first slide, I was curious

798
00:52:16,472 --> 00:52:20,946
what critters. In that photo. I'm guessing it's some type

799
00:52:20,991 --> 00:52:24,865
of owl. But you said wait for questions. I've been

800
00:52:25,190 --> 00:52:29,337
waiting. The other questions that I have is in regards

801
00:52:29,742 --> 00:52:35,163
to. A question that I've brought up over the last

802
00:52:35,248 --> 00:52:38,608
few years. We're looking at. This is tremendous. The work

803
00:52:38,613 --> 00:52:40,728
that parks at open space that you all do your

804
00:52:40,813 --> 00:52:43,768
teams. All of this programming shows a breadth of a

805
00:52:43,773 --> 00:52:48,168
whole lot of different community needs. Interest program goals, I'm

806
00:52:48,173 --> 00:52:50,048
sure work plans that have been in the works and

807
00:52:50,333 --> 00:52:52,728
relationships that have been being built for many, many years

808
00:52:53,053 --> 00:52:56,643
around Boulder County. And my question continues to be, and

809
00:52:56,968 --> 00:52:58,843
I don't see it here, just, I didn't, see it

810
00:52:58,848 --> 00:53:01,841
here in the packet. And didn't hear it yet in

811
00:53:01,846 --> 00:53:04,081
the presentation, so just want to give folks an opportunity.

812
00:53:04,966 --> 00:53:08,961
How are we addressing policy 1.6? In this work, there's

813
00:53:09,286 --> 00:53:13,481
a $3.3 million and plus budget leveraging of $7 million,

814
00:53:13,806 --> 00:53:17,682
which is tremendous. To total spend of about $10.6 million

815
00:53:18,087 --> 00:53:22,683
for this particular. Capital and stewardship project. Section of all

816
00:53:22,968 --> 00:53:24,763
of the budget that we spend and all of the

817
00:53:24,808 --> 00:53:28,214
projects in focus. What I didn't see, I saw in

818
00:53:28,259 --> 00:53:33,184
the presentation, a slide that showed, I think, It's described

819
00:53:33,229 --> 00:53:36,344
as cultural responsiveness. But when I looked to the packet,

820
00:53:36,709 --> 00:53:42,011
I didn't. See that. So I'm curious, and we'll continue

821
00:53:42,096 --> 00:53:44,731
to ask, how are we transforming lives? How? Are we

822
00:53:44,776 --> 00:53:48,331
addressing the needs of communities of color? How might we

823
00:53:48,656 --> 00:53:52,611
be creating more access to folks with disabilities or folks

824
00:53:52,656 --> 00:53:54,971
with lower incomes and folks who just have not gotten

825
00:53:55,256 --> 00:53:57,571
out to see all these beautiful places when I hear

826
00:53:57,896 --> 00:54:00,989
we all know where this particular property is. Or we

827
00:54:01,034 --> 00:54:04,029
all know where this piece is. I'm still going to

828
00:54:04,074 --> 00:54:06,189
just remind us and. Encourage us to think about. There

829
00:54:06,194 --> 00:54:08,989
are 330,000 residents here. We get way more than that.

830
00:54:09,354 --> 00:54:11,229
In visitors, but there are still folks in our community

831
00:54:11,594 --> 00:54:14,603
who have not had the opportunity. For a lot of

832
00:54:14,648 --> 00:54:19,526
different reasons. To appreciate these different projects and different properties.

833
00:54:21,272 --> 00:54:24,068
And learn about even access to it. So I don't

834
00:54:24,313 --> 00:54:26,148
know if you each want to talk about it individually

835
00:54:26,233 --> 00:54:29,188
or somebody wants. To talk about it. Overall, I am

836
00:54:29,273 --> 00:54:31,428
aware there is a crisp plan, so I don't need

837
00:54:31,473 --> 00:54:35,063
to hear about that, but I am interested. In. I

838
00:54:35,348 --> 00:54:39,759
don't see it yet. And I'm concerned. Sure. Thank you

839
00:54:39,844 --> 00:54:43,934
for the question, and we appreciate that. It's definitely something

840
00:54:44,019 --> 00:54:48,365
that we're very much aware of. And. Is being more

841
00:54:48,410 --> 00:54:50,365
and more woven throughout all the work that we do

842
00:54:51,130 --> 00:54:54,468
and. As I did show you, there are those four

843
00:54:54,833 --> 00:54:56,348
lenses of focus areas that we look at. One of

844
00:54:56,353 --> 00:55:00,749
them being the cultural responsiveness. So examples in the cast.

845
00:55:01,955 --> 00:55:05,586
Are. The sign work that we're doing with, including bilingual

846
00:55:05,631 --> 00:55:09,226
signage to help people feel more welcome. When they visit.

847
00:55:10,417 --> 00:55:16,375
Our properties. The indian mountain infrastructure to support the work

848
00:55:16,740 --> 00:55:20,415
that the native american vets are doing with their sweats

849
00:55:20,740 --> 00:55:24,295
and healing ceremonies there so they have a more comfortable

850
00:55:24,380 --> 00:55:29,092
experience. The wetland, or, sorry, the grassland restoration at Rock

851
00:55:29,137 --> 00:55:32,212
Creek Farm. Restoring it to native conditions gives us an

852
00:55:32,257 --> 00:55:34,612
opportunity in the future to do some interpretive work there.

853
00:55:39,444 --> 00:55:42,399
That would speak to the native uses that were there,

854
00:55:43,124 --> 00:55:45,359
and I'm sorry, I'm. Not remembering what the fourth project

855
00:55:45,444 --> 00:55:47,639
was, but maybe one. I'm guessing it's your number six

856
00:55:48,284 --> 00:55:51,479
joint. Pigeon on that, Tina. Sure. So the last project

857
00:55:51,804 --> 00:55:54,599
was the indigenous ways and land. Commitment funds that we

858
00:55:54,644 --> 00:55:58,159
were requesting. That group was, of course, originally formed for

859
00:55:58,404 --> 00:56:01,864
the land. Commitment statement, and they are concluding that work

860
00:56:02,269 --> 00:56:06,133
right now. But. In their journey, they have recognized that

861
00:56:06,418 --> 00:56:09,293
there's so much more to be done, so that $50,000

862
00:56:10,058 --> 00:56:14,556
is seed money for them to pursue. The two paths

863
00:56:15,321 --> 00:56:19,836
that together, along with their consultant, has deemed like the

864
00:56:19,841 --> 00:56:25,207
next best step to support staff. On their educational journey

865
00:56:25,572 --> 00:56:29,067
so we can, in turn. Infuse that into our external

866
00:56:29,112 --> 00:56:31,787
work with the community. So that is the fourth project.

867
00:56:33,081 --> 00:56:34,676
And I think maybe the other thing to point out

868
00:56:35,281 --> 00:56:38,156
in response to this is this is just what goes

869
00:56:38,561 --> 00:56:41,636
through cast a lot of our operational money that we

870
00:56:41,681 --> 00:56:46,396
use regularly in our divisions also. Support different components of

871
00:56:46,441 --> 00:56:51,756
implementing policy 1.6 and so that would be our crisp

872
00:56:51,761 --> 00:56:54,150
team and the work that we're doing. There as well.

873
00:56:55,545 --> 00:56:58,860
As I think we have shared information on indigenous communities

874
00:56:59,265 --> 00:57:04,657
as well, that we're trying. To also advance. And I

875
00:57:04,662 --> 00:57:07,497
also wanted to address the prairie run briefly, if I

876
00:57:07,502 --> 00:57:09,977
could. I do not know the owl. I will have

877
00:57:10,022 --> 00:57:13,697
to ask others. But Prairie run. We did discuss that

878
00:57:14,022 --> 00:57:16,737
and recognize that that. Item is not coming to you

879
00:57:17,102 --> 00:57:20,617
until early next year. January 25 is the hearing date,

880
00:57:21,062 --> 00:57:24,797
and so. I think that it is appropriate to condition

881
00:57:24,922 --> 00:57:29,534
approval. For those funds based on approval of that management

882
00:57:29,579 --> 00:57:34,223
plan. Thank you. Thank you. I'll add just a quick

883
00:57:34,548 --> 00:57:39,362
little bit. So as a part of that museum master

884
00:57:39,407 --> 00:57:42,387
plan, There's a lot that our education and outreach group

885
00:57:42,752 --> 00:57:46,227
will be implementing and trying to kind of change. Some

886
00:57:46,232 --> 00:57:51,184
of the storylines. Traditionally, you walk into our ag heritage

887
00:57:51,229 --> 00:57:54,624
center and it's white history, and it doesn't. Center around

888
00:57:54,749 --> 00:57:57,700
some of the other stories that can be told. I

889
00:57:57,745 --> 00:57:59,660
would love to send you a link of that master

890
00:57:59,985 --> 00:58:04,209
plan because there's some really neat storylines that. The consultant

891
00:58:04,574 --> 00:58:06,849
identified. And so those are some things that our education

892
00:58:07,174 --> 00:58:11,544
and outreach group will be working on. Stefan. I heard

893
00:58:11,829 --> 00:58:13,744
just the Ag center, but I also heard you present

894
00:58:13,829 --> 00:58:18,241
on that assay office just. To clarify. The plan that

895
00:58:18,526 --> 00:58:21,161
was completed last year had the ag heritage center, the

896
00:58:21,206 --> 00:58:23,961
Ned mining museum and the assay office. Okay. And so

897
00:58:24,686 --> 00:58:26,081
there should be a little bit more in the assay

898
00:58:26,166 --> 00:58:32,848
office. But in terms of. How that's going to be

899
00:58:32,893 --> 00:58:35,871
more focused on the outside. To make it more accessible.

900
00:58:36,156 --> 00:58:40,650
So they kind of looked at both. From telling more

901
00:58:41,015 --> 00:58:44,879
inclusive stories, but then also making. These properties a little

902
00:58:44,884 --> 00:58:48,239
bit more accessible and usable. So it's kind of a

903
00:58:48,284 --> 00:58:52,149
dual report. Thank you. I just wanted to add the

904
00:58:52,154 --> 00:58:53,909
other one other project that I think Tina was going

905
00:58:53,914 --> 00:58:56,269
to refer. To as the Ada access. So that would

906
00:58:56,274 --> 00:58:58,429
be a big piece. And then I would also say,

907
00:58:59,274 --> 00:59:02,309
looking at the sign manuals as a pretty good example.

908
00:59:02,794 --> 00:59:05,069
Part of this is working with the community. And I

909
00:59:05,314 --> 00:59:06,749
think through that project, we did a lot of focus

910
00:59:06,834 --> 00:59:08,509
groups, and we brought people in to look at the

911
00:59:08,514 --> 00:59:11,868
signs and interact with them and really. Got feedback from

912
00:59:12,473 --> 00:59:14,948
the community, which made that project, I think, very successful.

913
00:59:15,513 --> 00:59:16,988
And so I think, through all of this process, the

914
00:59:17,033 --> 00:59:19,428
more we can engage and interact with our community, the

915
00:59:19,473 --> 00:59:21,468
more we can get a product that actually benefits the

916
00:59:21,793 --> 00:59:26,148
community. Thank you. And then from an agricultural perspective, we

917
00:59:26,233 --> 00:59:30,588
have overhauled our RFP bid scoring criteria this year, and

918
00:59:30,633 --> 00:59:32,664
we have two properties. That we will be sending out

919
00:59:32,949 --> 00:59:35,704
to bid using that new scoring criteria. So our hope

920
00:59:36,029 --> 00:59:41,514
is that we can attract. New tenants, younger tenants. To

921
00:59:41,639 --> 00:59:43,714
become part of the Boulder county parks and open space

922
00:59:43,879 --> 00:59:49,053
family. And partnerships, so we're really excited about that. We're

923
00:59:49,098 --> 00:59:53,177
also continuing to work. With young farmers and looking for

924
00:59:53,502 --> 00:59:56,217
opportunities to reach out to more diverse communities to engage

925
00:59:56,502 --> 00:59:58,417
them in these conversations to make sure that they have

926
00:59:58,742 --> 01:00:02,734
opportunities and are aware that these opportunities are available. We're

927
01:00:02,739 --> 01:00:07,254
also looking at some acquisitions that could potentially create some

928
01:00:07,619 --> 01:00:12,462
space. For next generation of farmers to start off on

929
01:00:12,707 --> 01:00:15,102
a smaller piece of property rather than starting off with

930
01:00:15,387 --> 01:00:17,862
400, 500 acres, which as a new business might not

931
01:00:18,587 --> 01:00:21,142
be viable for them. But in the ten to 20

932
01:00:21,187 --> 01:00:23,502
acres. That might be their sweet spot as a beginning

933
01:00:23,907 --> 01:00:29,929
farmer. Great. Thank you. And I appreciate everybody's conversation updates.

934
01:00:33,148 --> 01:00:35,543
And I also am still concerned about it. And so

935
01:00:35,868 --> 01:00:39,545
I just want to figure out. Commissioner Levy was here

936
01:00:39,590 --> 01:00:42,585
with me last year, and my ask was I need

937
01:00:42,630 --> 01:00:45,185
to see something different. In a budget because I just

938
01:00:45,270 --> 01:00:49,727
feel really strongly that. Our opportunity as local government is

939
01:00:49,772 --> 01:00:55,413
to respond with funding. It's funding and its policies. There's

940
01:00:55,698 --> 01:00:57,253
all these other ways, but those are the big ones.

941
01:00:58,816 --> 01:01:00,731
As you all are asking your questions, I can do

942
01:01:00,776 --> 01:01:02,611
some math on what you've told. Me, but for me,

943
01:01:03,056 --> 01:01:05,731
signage is something that we started working on a couple

944
01:01:05,976 --> 01:01:08,691
of years ago, so. For me. It's just not innovative.

945
01:01:09,016 --> 01:01:10,531
It's not something new. It doesn't. Show me that parks

946
01:01:10,856 --> 01:01:16,763
and open space. With this $10 million. Is looking at

947
01:01:16,848 --> 01:01:23,213
new ways to. Address. The gaps in racial equity. In

948
01:01:23,258 --> 01:01:25,893
Boulder county with parks and open space. The indian mountain

949
01:01:25,938 --> 01:01:28,666
is the same for me because. It's a project with

950
01:01:28,991 --> 01:01:32,066
history. All we're doing is updating infrastructure, and I. Know

951
01:01:32,391 --> 01:01:34,346
it's work, but it doesn't feel. And if it doesn't

952
01:01:34,351 --> 01:01:38,744
feel, like we're reaching out to another sector of. The

953
01:01:38,749 --> 01:01:41,224
other tribes who have history here in the state of

954
01:01:41,469 --> 01:01:45,498
Colorado and certainly our region specifically. And the grass restoration.

955
01:01:45,863 --> 01:01:49,645
I think that's great. We need to get to a

956
01:01:49,650 --> 01:01:53,890
place where. Native perennials is just part of the way

957
01:01:53,895 --> 01:01:56,490
that parks and Opa space works. We can't say. For

958
01:01:56,775 --> 01:01:58,650
this project, we're going to do native perennials. And so

959
01:01:58,695 --> 01:02:01,690
now we're addressing Native Americans or American Indian, and I'm

960
01:02:01,695 --> 01:02:04,410
just sharing that because that's how I'm receiving it. So

961
01:02:04,655 --> 01:02:06,090
we just need to be aware that other folks in

962
01:02:06,095 --> 01:02:09,407
the community might also receive. What we're as an organization

963
01:02:10,172 --> 01:02:12,927
thinking as great work as this is, the expectation from

964
01:02:13,652 --> 01:02:17,757
folks. And the hopes for folks in all of our

965
01:02:17,802 --> 01:02:20,797
work, besides saying this is an equity project, because of

966
01:02:20,882 --> 01:02:24,826
native grasses. I just want to share that. In encouragement

967
01:02:25,231 --> 01:02:30,754
and also. The same concern. That. I've been hearing, and

968
01:02:30,999 --> 01:02:33,434
I also want to share with this group some conversation

969
01:02:33,719 --> 01:02:36,914
that I had yesterday with our historic preservation advisory board

970
01:02:37,639 --> 01:02:39,914
that I feel like there's an opportunity here. When I

971
01:02:40,199 --> 01:02:44,697
hear that parks and open space properties. Either it's museums

972
01:02:44,702 --> 01:02:47,497
or some of the facilities where we're recreating white settler.

973
01:02:49,475 --> 01:02:51,390
Activities and events and things like that that you were

974
01:02:51,675 --> 01:02:55,710
talking about. Stefan, yesterday was old time baseball. Games and

975
01:02:55,715 --> 01:02:58,910
some of these old practices. And in that narrative, and

976
01:02:59,155 --> 01:03:01,030
I think what's missing in some of this narrative and

977
01:03:01,355 --> 01:03:05,430
presentation or preparation and packets, et cetera, is that historical

978
01:03:05,795 --> 01:03:09,670
narrative of people whose land this was and when. We

979
01:03:09,715 --> 01:03:13,510
talk about land acknowledgment, which is my understanding of the

980
01:03:13,675 --> 01:03:20,104
indigenous ways. Commitment committee. That they started with land acknowledgement.

981
01:03:20,909 --> 01:03:22,624
And what I heard you say as they started, they're.

982
01:03:22,629 --> 01:03:24,504
Working on land commitment, which they are now. But I

983
01:03:24,509 --> 01:03:26,984
also think we need to acknowledge where we've been and

984
01:03:27,109 --> 01:03:29,304
state what the work has been so that we can

985
01:03:29,349 --> 01:03:32,048
see where we're developing or not. And the other piece

986
01:03:32,413 --> 01:03:34,088
that you all know is as the lead from the

987
01:03:34,133 --> 01:03:37,288
county commissioner's office working on how we are going to,

988
01:03:37,613 --> 01:03:40,808
as an organization, move from land acknowledgment. To meaningful action.

989
01:03:43,291 --> 01:03:46,309
I'm concerned about. If we're going to be tapping into

990
01:03:46,674 --> 01:03:51,768
potentially. The same folks for conversation. My understanding of number

991
01:03:51,853 --> 01:03:56,520
six here with that commitment group or committee? Is to

992
01:03:56,605 --> 01:04:00,120
focus internally, which I'm 100% about. You all have heard

993
01:04:00,205 --> 01:04:02,240
me say we need to get our own house in

994
01:04:02,285 --> 01:04:03,680
order before we go out and tell our folks how

995
01:04:03,685 --> 01:04:09,452
to do their work. In all of. These different. Sectors

996
01:04:09,537 --> 01:04:12,896
that you're talking about here and presenting on. And if

997
01:04:13,221 --> 01:04:17,888
we're talking about potentially tribal consultation, That would potentially be

998
01:04:17,933 --> 01:04:20,048
part of that. It's talking about, how do we do

999
01:04:20,333 --> 01:04:25,896
restorative? Practices. How do we look at native plants? For

1000
01:04:25,941 --> 01:04:27,496
commissioners and we can have a little bit of conversation

1001
01:04:27,781 --> 01:04:30,056
about. It's just something that's. Concerning me about how do

1002
01:04:30,101 --> 01:04:32,216
we. I don't want us to get ahead in one

1003
01:04:32,301 --> 01:04:34,496
area similar to what we did with office of Racial

1004
01:04:34,821 --> 01:04:38,296
Equity and have racial equity managers start in a different

1005
01:04:38,381 --> 01:04:41,136
department somewhere else, or we have folks doing different frameworks

1006
01:04:41,381 --> 01:04:46,203
or building different frameworks. To do that work. But I

1007
01:04:46,208 --> 01:04:48,403
appreciate all the responses and the conversation. This is really

1008
01:04:48,448 --> 01:04:50,083
helpful to have a good idea. Of where you all

1009
01:04:50,128 --> 01:04:54,658
are working on. Commission, of course, follow up to that.

1010
01:04:55,023 --> 01:04:57,178
One thing that doesn't yet show up in our budget

1011
01:04:57,263 --> 01:04:58,978
because we're not quite there yet is the work that

1012
01:04:58,983 --> 01:05:01,618
we're doing with the Shannon and Narapahob tribes. We're having

1013
01:05:01,983 --> 01:05:05,778
ongoing conversations with them about trying to identify where in

1014
01:05:05,823 --> 01:05:07,818
parks and open space properties might be a great place

1015
01:05:08,143 --> 01:05:10,338
for them to come. Back and reintroduce bison into the

1016
01:05:10,383 --> 01:05:13,347
landscape. We are doing a lot of work. Behind the

1017
01:05:13,352 --> 01:05:15,707
scenes. That just hasn't come up to a point where

1018
01:05:16,032 --> 01:05:19,281
we need to ask. For budget yet. So there's a

1019
01:05:19,286 --> 01:05:22,761
potential that we could progress those conversations in 2024. And

1020
01:05:22,806 --> 01:05:25,841
as part of our 2025 budget requests. We have a

1021
01:05:25,886 --> 01:05:29,081
specific asks ask, but right now, we're not quite there,

1022
01:05:29,446 --> 01:05:33,521
but we are having ongoing, active dialogue with those groups.

1023
01:05:33,886 --> 01:05:36,501
Thank you, and I appreciate that and. I haven't had

1024
01:05:36,866 --> 01:05:40,599
a chance. To update the board yet on some of

1025
01:05:40,884 --> 01:05:42,839
that work. And then the meeting I had on Friday.

1026
01:05:43,897 --> 01:05:45,572
Again. That's part of the reason why I'm a little

1027
01:05:45,617 --> 01:05:48,172
concerned about the timing. Because I still have recommendations to

1028
01:05:48,217 --> 01:05:50,092
present to the board in regards to this topic of

1029
01:05:50,377 --> 01:05:53,172
Native American Indian and indigenous work here at the county,

1030
01:05:53,497 --> 01:05:59,948
so. Thanks, Mike. Thanks, Mr. Stolesman. Thank you. I appreciate

1031
01:06:00,233 --> 01:06:02,868
the comments and questions on how do we continue to

1032
01:06:02,953 --> 01:06:05,468
improve and how do we continue to get better and

1033
01:06:05,793 --> 01:06:07,788
how do these projects connect to the programs and things

1034
01:06:07,833 --> 01:06:10,028
like that? So thank you for the comments and questions.

1035
01:06:12,592 --> 01:06:13,787
I did want to say I thought each of you

1036
01:06:14,152 --> 01:06:17,628
had just such great presentation skills. It was kind of

1037
01:06:17,753 --> 01:06:19,868
amazing to sit and watch like each of you is

1038
01:06:19,913 --> 01:06:24,047
quite a good presenter. So that was of note. I

1039
01:06:24,772 --> 01:06:26,367
had a couple of. I'm sure what you'll find to

1040
01:06:26,652 --> 01:06:30,792
be very simple. Questions. I just wondered. On the ag

1041
01:06:30,917 --> 01:06:34,347
project, there was one where you're adding a bridge. And

1042
01:06:34,672 --> 01:06:37,507
I wondered if you considered an alternative of piping that

1043
01:06:37,792 --> 01:06:41,260
ditch rather than building a bridge. Over it. The county

1044
01:06:41,585 --> 01:06:45,140
does not own the ditch. It's owned by the Ish

1045
01:06:45,465 --> 01:06:49,418
Ditch company. And at this point in time, they do

1046
01:06:49,743 --> 01:06:52,458
not have the resources or the interest in piping. That

1047
01:06:52,783 --> 01:06:58,177
ditch. It transports a large volume of water. And so.

1048
01:06:59,888 --> 01:07:03,083
In the essence of time and lower cost of putting

1049
01:07:03,168 --> 01:07:05,323
a bridge over that 20 foot span is going to

1050
01:07:05,328 --> 01:07:08,043
be a lot faster and a lot less expensive than

1051
01:07:08,768 --> 01:07:11,003
piping. I think it's. A mile and a half a

1052
01:07:11,008 --> 01:07:14,243
ditch, and they will grant us an easement. Crossing easement.

1053
01:07:15,008 --> 01:07:18,479
Great. And then on the same ditch, I'm sort of

1054
01:07:18,804 --> 01:07:23,232
in the ditch space. There are some other opportunities that

1055
01:07:23,597 --> 01:07:28,698
community members have brought forward around. Like in Lewisville. There's

1056
01:07:28,743 --> 01:07:33,910
the ditch that provides water. To the Mayhoffer farm, the

1057
01:07:33,995 --> 01:07:36,670
more newly acquired area. That's no longer unceded. And the

1058
01:07:36,675 --> 01:07:40,110
water conveys a different way of terminating that easement because

1059
01:07:40,155 --> 01:07:42,030
it creates fire. HaZaRD and there's no water in it

1060
01:07:42,275 --> 01:07:44,590
and things like that. So how do community members submit

1061
01:07:44,955 --> 01:07:48,070
suggestions formally or how does the project like that make

1062
01:07:48,115 --> 01:07:50,270
its way onto a list like this? In a future

1063
01:07:50,635 --> 01:07:53,735
year. It's a great question. A lot of those types

1064
01:07:53,740 --> 01:07:58,333
of requests, community members. Or local elected officials, reach out

1065
01:07:58,378 --> 01:08:01,893
directly to Terese, myself, or Darren Beck, who's our water

1066
01:08:02,218 --> 01:08:04,013
supervisor and say, hey, is this something that you can

1067
01:08:04,058 --> 01:08:06,293
take a look at? And then we add that to

1068
01:08:06,658 --> 01:08:09,653
our list of requests that come in, and then we

1069
01:08:09,698 --> 01:08:12,093
try to figure out where on the level of importance

1070
01:08:12,458 --> 01:08:15,936
that falls. Given some of the other maintenance backlog issues

1071
01:08:16,261 --> 01:08:19,970
that we're trying to address. Or. We have one of

1072
01:08:19,975 --> 01:08:23,210
our ditches has an 80% water loss, and to me

1073
01:08:23,895 --> 01:08:25,850
that's. Near the top of the list of trying to

1074
01:08:25,895 --> 01:08:30,173
fix. So it's weighing those types of community requests versus

1075
01:08:30,538 --> 01:08:33,551
what we know we need to get. Fixed. In the

1076
01:08:33,596 --> 01:08:36,671
near term, but if there's a community member that has

1077
01:08:37,356 --> 01:08:39,831
a particular request, have them reach out to me. Great.

1078
01:08:40,236 --> 01:08:43,688
Thank you very much. And then the Harney Listoka Historic

1079
01:08:44,013 --> 01:08:46,288
Preservation project was on the list, and I just wanted

1080
01:08:46,613 --> 01:08:49,208
to make sure everybody on staff was aware the city

1081
01:08:49,253 --> 01:08:52,568
of Lewisville has a dedicated tax for historic preservation projects

1082
01:08:53,173 --> 01:08:55,968
and a few years ago expanded where the tax was

1083
01:08:56,373 --> 01:08:59,568
applicable to outside the city. Limits with a couple of

1084
01:08:59,893 --> 01:09:03,664
properties in mind, because originally the. Tax was limited to

1085
01:09:03,989 --> 01:09:08,018
projects that were within the city limits. And the red

1086
01:09:08,463 --> 01:09:11,928
barn. Came to mind as something we might want to

1087
01:09:11,973 --> 01:09:15,008
help with in the Harney Listoka property. And then also

1088
01:09:15,453 --> 01:09:17,328
some other properties that are historic, that are right there

1089
01:09:18,133 --> 01:09:21,410
on the city limits. But in the County. So that

1090
01:09:21,455 --> 01:09:23,250
was changed. So I just wanted to make sure you

1091
01:09:23,295 --> 01:09:28,030
are aware that. There's dedicated funding for historic preservation projects.

1092
01:09:28,275 --> 01:09:30,070
It would be like a grant you'd have to apply.

1093
01:09:31,271 --> 01:09:33,226
I just want to fYi, this group, I was not

1094
01:09:33,271 --> 01:09:37,491
aware, so I very much appreciate that. Thank you. And

1095
01:09:37,576 --> 01:09:40,771
on the russian olive trees. I've noticed the county working

1096
01:09:41,136 --> 01:09:43,731
through trying to eradicate the russian olives over a number

1097
01:09:43,816 --> 01:09:45,971
of years, and I wondered if you could kind of

1098
01:09:46,016 --> 01:09:47,451
go. Into. So what do you do in the following

1099
01:09:48,216 --> 01:09:51,171
year? Just because they are so tricky. Right. And so

1100
01:09:51,216 --> 01:09:53,950
you go in, and then. Is there a year? Two

1101
01:09:54,035 --> 01:09:57,070
year? Three? Plan to make sure your hard work doesn't

1102
01:09:57,075 --> 01:10:00,083
just so there are a couple of things. When we

1103
01:10:00,168 --> 01:10:02,883
remove the brush and olive, they do a stump treatment

1104
01:10:03,208 --> 01:10:07,083
on those individuals to try to prevent sprouting. But we

1105
01:10:07,128 --> 01:10:10,911
do follow up our properties. With. We pay attention to

1106
01:10:11,196 --> 01:10:14,711
what's going on and we look at hand felling before

1107
01:10:14,796 --> 01:10:17,784
the russian olives become. A piece that has to be

1108
01:10:18,029 --> 01:10:21,624
removed with machinery or cut and chipped. So we try

1109
01:10:21,669 --> 01:10:24,777
to take care of it in an easier fashion. But

1110
01:10:24,862 --> 01:10:28,945
then, like I had mentioned, the goal is to. Plant

1111
01:10:29,350 --> 01:10:32,065
other species in there that can kind of crowd out.

1112
01:10:33,167 --> 01:10:36,914
And kind of take back over. So is it helpful

1113
01:10:37,719 --> 01:10:40,434
if there are areas that you've treated and there's still

1114
01:10:40,759 --> 01:10:42,634
an opportunity before they get huge to go back in

1115
01:10:42,679 --> 01:10:45,314
and retreat. Is that helpful? If community members or county

1116
01:10:45,359 --> 01:10:48,474
commissioners let you know of those areas or not? Yes.

1117
01:10:49,039 --> 01:10:52,468
I mean, I think. We're trying to look at, obviously,

1118
01:10:53,313 --> 01:10:56,621
parks and open space lands that have the issue. And

1119
01:10:56,706 --> 01:10:58,981
then kind of prioritize and address that. But yes, if

1120
01:10:59,026 --> 01:11:01,301
there's areas that you know, that you'd like us to

1121
01:11:01,306 --> 01:11:02,981
look at, then we can get out there and. Take

1122
01:11:03,026 --> 01:11:05,221
a look. Yeah. There are some places where you've treated,

1123
01:11:05,506 --> 01:11:07,821
and then maybe it's. Like two, three, four years after,

1124
01:11:08,146 --> 01:11:10,830
and it's like, oh, we should go back. Before. It

1125
01:11:10,955 --> 01:11:12,670
looks like the picture you showed us. If you know

1126
01:11:12,955 --> 01:11:16,190
them, let us know. That sounds. Great. And just the

1127
01:11:16,195 --> 01:11:18,070
last one I have is just on the stearns parking

1128
01:11:18,395 --> 01:11:21,070
lot. Was there a needs analysis to show that that

1129
01:11:21,115 --> 01:11:24,230
many spaces is needed there. I use that facility quite

1130
01:11:24,595 --> 01:11:27,597
often. I just didn't know we needed all those spaces.

1131
01:11:28,002 --> 01:11:32,175
Yes. So there was at the time of the original

1132
01:11:33,020 --> 01:11:35,735
proposal for that expansion, which was, I want to say,

1133
01:11:36,060 --> 01:11:39,655
2018. So that's been a bit of a slower moving

1134
01:11:40,100 --> 01:11:43,615
project because there were issues with the initial design, so.

1135
01:11:44,631 --> 01:11:46,746
They're only actually adding now. I want to say ten

1136
01:11:47,111 --> 01:11:52,910
extra stalls. And. It was and is still needed, according

1137
01:11:53,235 --> 01:11:58,441
to Rangers. That help our eyes on the ground, and

1138
01:11:58,446 --> 01:12:01,921
so we are planning to move ahead with that work.

1139
01:12:02,406 --> 01:12:04,921
Okay, and so ten more spaces is, like, close to

1140
01:12:04,966 --> 01:12:10,847
doubling, right? I think it's 13. Right now. Okay. I

1141
01:12:10,892 --> 01:12:15,863
suppose if it was deemed, like, necessary. And I'm not

1142
01:12:16,148 --> 01:12:18,303
out there like the Rangers are twenty four seven. And

1143
01:12:18,348 --> 01:12:19,823
maybe I go at the perfect time when no one

1144
01:12:20,108 --> 01:12:23,263
else is there. But I haven't seen people using the

1145
01:12:23,268 --> 01:12:28,583
spaces. It was an outcome of the Carolyn Homeburg management

1146
01:12:28,628 --> 01:12:31,623
plan that was done, I think was it 2018 or

1147
01:12:31,668 --> 01:12:35,543
2019? It was right before my arrival and then that.

1148
01:12:35,986 --> 01:12:39,195
Was identified as a need at that time. And then

1149
01:12:39,560 --> 01:12:41,875
especially so during the pandemic. And I think probably what

1150
01:12:42,160 --> 01:12:46,235
you're observing is more of that moderation and use, but

1151
01:12:46,280 --> 01:12:48,555
we do want to get ten more spots out. There

1152
01:12:48,920 --> 01:12:52,435
because with the growing community around it, we anticipate that

1153
01:12:52,720 --> 01:12:55,315
they will be needed. Okay? Thank you for that. I

1154
01:12:55,360 --> 01:12:58,515
think, actually the biggest change is the trail connectivity. Like,

1155
01:12:58,600 --> 01:13:00,674
since the trail. Has been better connected in. I think

1156
01:13:01,359 --> 01:13:04,674
people are biking or walking instead of driving. Wonderful. That's.

1157
01:13:04,959 --> 01:13:08,597
What we want. Yes. Thank you very much. Great. And

1158
01:13:08,922 --> 01:13:12,157
I just want to start by saying that I do

1159
01:13:12,202 --> 01:13:16,637
agree with the comments that my fellow commissioners have raised.

1160
01:13:18,274 --> 01:13:23,001
And especially commissioner Lo Chime's comments. This has been an

1161
01:13:23,046 --> 01:13:28,441
ongoing concern of how are we really actually actively acknowledging

1162
01:13:28,806 --> 01:13:32,881
the role of nation? And indigenous peoples on our lands.

1163
01:13:34,231 --> 01:13:39,558
And so. It's something, although Commissioner Lohamin is working very

1164
01:13:39,603 --> 01:13:42,960
actively on that. It's something. I remain very interested in

1165
01:13:43,365 --> 01:13:46,749
as well. So I'm just going to go down minor,

1166
01:13:47,114 --> 01:13:49,109
kind of scatter shot, like I wrote. Them down as

1167
01:13:49,434 --> 01:13:54,549
you were presenting. On the center pivots. Mike, I totally

1168
01:13:54,634 --> 01:14:00,559
understand. The water efficiency, water conservation issues there. And support

1169
01:14:01,284 --> 01:14:04,636
water conservation efforts. I guess what I've been thinking about.

1170
01:14:05,721 --> 01:14:08,796
That we've been hearing, or I've been hearing anyway, in

1171
01:14:08,841 --> 01:14:11,036
the three years that I've been on this board is

1172
01:14:11,121 --> 01:14:13,476
so we have these very large tracks of land and.

1173
01:14:15,783 --> 01:14:20,380
It's impractical to make them available. In smaller parcels. To

1174
01:14:20,545 --> 01:14:24,389
farmers. That may not be ready, as you said, to

1175
01:14:24,554 --> 01:14:28,829
farm 500 acres. And it occurs to me that that

1176
01:14:29,234 --> 01:14:34,462
center pivot improvement, all the money invested. Really kind of

1177
01:14:34,787 --> 01:14:38,519
seals the fate of that property. Makes it very hard

1178
01:14:38,804 --> 01:14:42,079
to cut it up then for smaller uses and I

1179
01:14:42,364 --> 01:14:46,519
don't know. Whether any of these parcels, under any circumstances

1180
01:14:47,164 --> 01:14:51,851
we may want to. Make available. In smaller plots, but

1181
01:14:52,176 --> 01:14:56,614
I guess it's just something to be thinking about. That's

1182
01:14:56,899 --> 01:15:04,201
a huge investment that supports current farming practices. And. It

1183
01:15:04,286 --> 01:15:07,121
kind of locks in continuing to do what we're doing

1184
01:15:07,486 --> 01:15:12,580
as opposed to. Maybe. Leaving the door open. It's a

1185
01:15:12,865 --> 01:15:14,420
balance. And I realize that we don't want to be

1186
01:15:14,745 --> 01:15:17,820
wasting water. So long as it's used for what it's

1187
01:15:17,865 --> 01:15:22,352
currently used for, but it just. Was something. That I've

1188
01:15:22,397 --> 01:15:25,192
been thinking about here, so you don't need to respond

1189
01:15:25,517 --> 01:15:32,172
to that. It's just a thought. Further. On the ditch

1190
01:15:32,537 --> 01:15:36,969
improvements, the ditch work, as you know. The issue of

1191
01:15:37,254 --> 01:15:42,366
the debris removal comes up. When the ditches remove the

1192
01:15:42,611 --> 01:15:46,326
debris to improve water flow, and it's a fire mitigation.

1193
01:15:46,691 --> 01:15:49,806
Issue that folks are looking at. The one a money

1194
01:15:50,251 --> 01:15:57,287
for. You're doing ditch improvements. And having. I think the

1195
01:15:57,332 --> 01:16:00,490
community would feel really good. If we could all get

1196
01:16:00,855 --> 01:16:04,635
on the same page. On whether, at least for the

1197
01:16:05,120 --> 01:16:08,675
dishes that the county owns, I guess we don't have

1198
01:16:09,320 --> 01:16:11,275
a majority share, but we're on the board of many

1199
01:16:11,320 --> 01:16:15,883
of these. Whether we can support that debris removal. The

1200
01:16:15,928 --> 01:16:19,043
debris removal is something that we're collaborating with our CPMP

1201
01:16:19,488 --> 01:16:21,723
department on with a lot of the one a funding

1202
01:16:22,008 --> 01:16:25,895
wildfire mitigation dollars. There's some new programs that are going

1203
01:16:26,180 --> 01:16:30,803
to be available in 2024 with this funding. And to

1204
01:16:31,288 --> 01:16:33,683
go out and chip a lot of that Woody debris

1205
01:16:34,368 --> 01:16:37,083
that gets taken out and put on the bank or

1206
01:16:37,408 --> 01:16:41,023
broadcast into an ag field. So our tenants are actually

1207
01:16:41,348 --> 01:16:44,383
really excited about having that material come out and chipped

1208
01:16:44,468 --> 01:16:46,143
because then they could just use the wood chips on

1209
01:16:46,188 --> 01:16:49,467
the property. Yeah. These would be the reaches of the

1210
01:16:49,792 --> 01:16:54,362
ditches that go through. The residential areas, maybe more so,

1211
01:16:54,727 --> 01:16:58,362
although they're all conduits in some way, I can add

1212
01:16:58,687 --> 01:17:01,002
a little bit more to that. Stefan Rhino, research management

1213
01:17:01,247 --> 01:17:04,604
division manager one of the. Things that we did. Look

1214
01:17:04,929 --> 01:17:08,004
at our current Wheeler Ranch contract to see if there

1215
01:17:08,049 --> 01:17:10,244
was any way we could have tagged something on this

1216
01:17:10,249 --> 01:17:13,915
year to start addressing. Some of the ditches that have

1217
01:17:14,320 --> 01:17:17,155
invasive species in some of the piles, and the language

1218
01:17:17,480 --> 01:17:20,810
that was written. In. It didn't allow us to kind

1219
01:17:20,815 --> 01:17:22,970
of update it and allow them to go on. Other

1220
01:17:23,095 --> 01:17:26,130
locations. And so we will actually be having a meeting

1221
01:17:26,175 --> 01:17:31,177
early in the year to discuss. Putting out. Another bid

1222
01:17:31,742 --> 01:17:33,337
and see if we can take care of some of

1223
01:17:33,622 --> 01:17:36,657
the ditches and kind of. Progress through them. So there

1224
01:17:36,702 --> 01:17:38,937
is something that we're working on. We just weren't. Able

1225
01:17:38,982 --> 01:17:43,636
to piggyback on this most recent contract. Okay, thanks. I'm

1226
01:17:43,681 --> 01:17:46,396
going to be a little abbreviated here, just to keep

1227
01:17:46,481 --> 01:17:52,220
us on time. Just an observation on Harney Listoka roof

1228
01:17:52,665 --> 01:17:56,878
project, and I think. Who was that? Is that yours,

1229
01:17:57,203 --> 01:18:02,107
Jared? Yeah, that. Replacing it with Cedar, which. Is historically

1230
01:18:02,512 --> 01:18:08,176
appropriate. But it's a fire hazard. I guess. I wonder.

1231
01:18:09,494 --> 01:18:11,729
What you can do to mitigate the fire hazard from

1232
01:18:12,094 --> 01:18:15,774
continuing to have cedar shakes on the roof. We're running

1233
01:18:15,819 --> 01:18:18,254
to that with a lot of our reroofing projects, and

1234
01:18:18,299 --> 01:18:21,054
we're looking at alternatives and how we might be able

1235
01:18:21,419 --> 01:18:25,425
to maintain the historic aspect of that. While looking at

1236
01:18:25,510 --> 01:18:27,705
newer materials or something that looks like cedar but is

1237
01:18:27,710 --> 01:18:30,305
not cedar. So that is on our radar, and cedar

1238
01:18:30,350 --> 01:18:32,505
is becoming harder and harder to find because of that.

1239
01:18:32,870 --> 01:18:35,065
Yeah, exactly. We typically can't find it around here at

1240
01:18:35,070 --> 01:18:38,145
all, to be honest. Okay, well, just a thing. To

1241
01:18:38,630 --> 01:18:41,438
keep in mind. On the, I guess a couple of

1242
01:18:41,483 --> 01:18:48,493
the indigenous ways. And I think. I don't know if

1243
01:18:48,778 --> 01:18:51,213
it was you, Tina, in your overview that was just

1244
01:18:51,578 --> 01:18:55,973
mentioning that. When we do the interpretive signage on our

1245
01:18:56,338 --> 01:19:00,413
properties that we do want to have more accurate representations

1246
01:19:00,778 --> 01:19:04,941
of the history of the land. And I was wondering.

1247
01:19:07,227 --> 01:19:12,640
What your sources are. Your reference sources. What open spaces

1248
01:19:12,725 --> 01:19:17,034
reference sources will be for. That. And again, I don't

1249
01:19:17,079 --> 01:19:23,688
need an answer here today. But. History. There are a

1250
01:19:23,654 --> 01:19:26,008
lot of interpretations of history and a lot of resources

1251
01:19:26,413 --> 01:19:31,139
for history. And there is no one definitive story that

1252
01:19:31,184 --> 01:19:33,419
is the accurate story. So it's just something to keep

1253
01:19:33,464 --> 01:19:37,299
in mind. Of the nature of the references, the resources

1254
01:19:37,624 --> 01:19:39,979
that you might use, and then how you take that.

1255
01:19:41,769 --> 01:19:46,754
And put it onto signage. Where you're. Trying to, in

1256
01:19:46,759 --> 01:19:49,803
many ways, simplify things. So that it can fit on

1257
01:19:49,808 --> 01:19:55,193
a sign and communicate quickly. And in the process. May

1258
01:19:55,198 --> 01:19:58,987
be simplified to the point that. It makes it a

1259
01:19:58,992 --> 01:20:02,147
simple, happy story, which we like to do in our

1260
01:20:02,472 --> 01:20:06,875
signage that isn't. Necessarily an accurate story. So that was

1261
01:20:07,240 --> 01:20:13,005
something in my mind. Just a couple more. Again, also

1262
01:20:13,370 --> 01:20:16,805
on the Stearns Lake parking area, I do recall the

1263
01:20:16,850 --> 01:20:20,199
presentation on the need for that. And how careful you

1264
01:20:20,244 --> 01:20:23,252
are trying to be. And I think I expressed this

1265
01:20:23,617 --> 01:20:25,824
at the time. There may not be any way to

1266
01:20:25,909 --> 01:20:30,664
solve for it without losing spaces, but it is really

1267
01:20:30,709 --> 01:20:33,264
nice. To be able to go in and out, have

1268
01:20:33,309 --> 01:20:36,424
the ingress egress, and I just. See so many conflicts

1269
01:20:36,749 --> 01:20:39,144
in parking lots where you get to the dead end

1270
01:20:39,549 --> 01:20:42,879
and you have to back up. To get out, and

1271
01:20:42,884 --> 01:20:46,274
it's tight and people are in there. With their trucks

1272
01:20:46,639 --> 01:20:49,728
and things. And just maybe you can look at having

1273
01:20:50,133 --> 01:20:54,706
some sort of turnaround. Or preserving the two points, the

1274
01:20:54,751 --> 01:20:58,953
ingress egress. So, just to respond to that briefly, this

1275
01:20:59,318 --> 01:21:01,993
parking lot has probably been redesigned. I'm not kidding. Twelve

1276
01:21:02,358 --> 01:21:05,735
to 15 times. And the conceptual that you saw up

1277
01:21:06,100 --> 01:21:10,095
on the screen was really like the last best attempt

1278
01:21:10,540 --> 01:21:13,935
to expand that parking lot as we committed to, while

1279
01:21:14,020 --> 01:21:19,354
still honoring the wildlife buffer. And not encroaching. Too far

1280
01:21:19,679 --> 01:21:23,700
into the wet area on one side, and so. We

1281
01:21:23,745 --> 01:21:28,217
did choose. To eliminate that access point. But what we

1282
01:21:28,542 --> 01:21:32,697
are doing is providing that 25 foot standard width between

1283
01:21:33,062 --> 01:21:36,657
the parking stalls, which some of our older, more tighter

1284
01:21:36,942 --> 01:21:40,057
lots didn't necessarily do. And so that's the width that

1285
01:21:40,382 --> 01:21:43,283
you're going to get. In all modern parking lots because

1286
01:21:43,648 --> 01:21:47,883
that will accommodate your big trucks backing out and turning.

1287
01:21:48,648 --> 01:21:52,477
But. We did eliminate the trailer parking in order to

1288
01:21:52,842 --> 01:21:57,516
even do what we're proposing out there. So it will

1289
01:21:57,561 --> 01:22:01,516
just be for cars only, hopefully. And that'll help as

1290
01:22:01,521 --> 01:22:04,156
well. All right. Thanks. And we've got 1 minute left.

1291
01:22:05,592 --> 01:22:07,227
And I don't need to ask the rest of my

1292
01:22:07,552 --> 01:22:13,040
questions. I did have one and it's really important question.

1293
01:22:13,987 --> 01:22:17,702
You have combined your capital improvements in stewardship, and you

1294
01:22:17,987 --> 01:22:20,862
said you're renaming it your. Cast and I do not

1295
01:22:21,187 --> 01:22:25,708
know where the t comes from. I have wrecked. Stewardship.

1296
01:22:27,679 --> 01:22:30,754
Stewardship. Well, why don't you just call it casp and

1297
01:22:30,799 --> 01:22:34,270
it's your. Projects? I don't know. This is what I

1298
01:22:34,275 --> 01:22:38,863
think about when I read these things, all right? Can

1299
01:22:38,908 --> 01:22:41,951
we go back to the parking lot? Everyone's been working

1300
01:22:42,236 --> 01:22:43,751
on this. Dozens of plants and all of these things.

1301
01:22:53,788 --> 01:22:56,668
I understand what you're saying, and I'm asking. I don't

1302
01:22:56,673 --> 01:22:59,828
want everyone to be worried with this question, so just

1303
01:23:00,153 --> 01:23:02,028
stay calm over there. In the room for a minute.

1304
01:23:03,923 --> 01:23:07,158
But just leaving it as is with the entries, is

1305
01:23:07,203 --> 01:23:10,953
that a good solution? I would say I was out

1306
01:23:10,958 --> 01:23:14,513
there during the pandemic, which was like the peak of

1307
01:23:14,918 --> 01:23:21,053
use. I always got a parking spot. I wasn't there

1308
01:23:21,418 --> 01:23:26,159
on weekends because I was very fortunate that. I could

1309
01:23:26,284 --> 01:23:29,439
go during the week, so I can't speak to that.

1310
01:23:30,614 --> 01:23:34,451
So. I think I'm going to leave this one. Okay.

1311
01:23:34,696 --> 01:23:36,891
I just wondered with your question about. The turnaround and

1312
01:23:36,936 --> 01:23:42,705
everything. Yeah. Heidi addressed it. There's a lot more width

1313
01:23:43,510 --> 01:23:51,121
between parking stalls. And there's standard nine by 18 stalls

1314
01:23:51,166 --> 01:23:54,241
themselves, which was also not something that we always did

1315
01:23:54,566 --> 01:23:57,361
in the past. So, again, modern dimensions. So you have

1316
01:23:57,646 --> 01:24:01,942
room on both sides as well, yeah. Not like this

1317
01:24:02,027 --> 01:24:08,074
parking lot out here. Or most of the. Ones. Okay.

1318
01:24:08,479 --> 01:24:11,594
Yeah. Commissioners, I think if there are no further questions.

1319
01:24:12,629 --> 01:24:15,984
We are taking action today by way of a motion.

1320
01:24:17,453 --> 01:24:20,368
Public comment. Oh, my gosh. Thank you. I didn't realize

1321
01:24:20,733 --> 01:24:24,288
we were doing that. Thank you for reminding me there's

1322
01:24:24,533 --> 01:24:26,808
no one in the hearing room. Well, and I didn't.

1323
01:24:26,853 --> 01:24:30,945
Announce. How to sign up to speak because I didn't

1324
01:24:31,310 --> 01:24:34,737
see that on the agenda. I just. Saw that. We

1325
01:24:34,742 --> 01:24:36,697
were making a decision, but there is no one in

1326
01:24:36,982 --> 01:24:40,591
the hearing room. Who is present to speak, and it

1327
01:24:40,636 --> 01:24:43,751
looks like no one has signed up to speak virtually.

1328
01:24:44,866 --> 01:24:46,501
I was not able to find my link for this.

1329
01:24:46,826 --> 01:24:49,101
I usually try to watch and see who's joined us

1330
01:24:49,506 --> 01:24:55,423
remotely. Brianna. Were you working with anyone that wanted to

1331
01:24:55,428 --> 01:24:59,966
be promoted? Thank you, chair Levy. This is Brianna Barber,

1332
01:25:00,331 --> 01:25:02,246
assistant clerk to the board. At this time. There is

1333
01:25:02,571 --> 01:25:05,286
no one in zoom that is registering to speak. Thanks

1334
01:25:05,331 --> 01:25:10,641
for checking. Okay, thank you. So with that then. We

1335
01:25:10,726 --> 01:25:14,081
do not have any public comment on this plan. And

1336
01:25:14,126 --> 01:25:17,827
so now we are ready for a motion. I just

1337
01:25:17,872 --> 01:25:20,227
wanted to check in. Were there any changes proposed in

1338
01:25:20,232 --> 01:25:22,467
the motion that's being made like, we all had a

1339
01:25:22,472 --> 01:25:24,907
lot of questions, and I just wasn't clear if there

1340
01:25:24,912 --> 01:25:27,267
were any. Well, and just as a reminder, the suggestion

1341
01:25:27,312 --> 01:25:29,947
was because of the open question on the prairie run

1342
01:25:30,712 --> 01:25:39,998
parking location. To approve that. Contingent on resolution of the

1343
01:25:40,043 --> 01:25:43,264
location of the parking area. Or resolution of the whole

1344
01:25:43,349 --> 01:25:45,944
plan is what I heard, because we haven't approved the

1345
01:25:45,949 --> 01:25:50,963
whole plan. Yeah. I agree. That was my suggestion of

1346
01:25:50,968 --> 01:25:53,723
the condition of approval, and I believe it was number

1347
01:25:54,088 --> 01:25:58,326
eleven. Of the item. I definitely would want to have

1348
01:25:58,371 --> 01:26:02,881
that condition added. Each section has its own numbering. Now

1349
01:26:02,886 --> 01:26:05,481
that I'm looking at that. Okay, so staff can help

1350
01:26:05,526 --> 01:26:12,526
us with that. But the other one I am. I

1351
01:26:12,571 --> 01:26:15,046
would like to get some input on in regards to.

1352
01:26:16,058 --> 01:26:18,933
Item. Let's see here. Where is item six? But it's

1353
01:26:19,138 --> 01:26:23,620
in the resource planning. Division. Maybe, if that's why I'm

1354
01:26:23,665 --> 01:26:29,178
reading it. A sways line commitment. Indigenous landways, land commitment.

1355
01:26:30,215 --> 01:26:31,970
And I don't know what the best way to do

1356
01:26:31,975 --> 01:26:38,332
that is, but I think what my concern. Is. That

1357
01:26:38,377 --> 01:26:40,172
I want to make sure this goes hand in hand

1358
01:26:40,577 --> 01:26:44,150
with the work that we're doing? In the bigger county

1359
01:26:44,235 --> 01:26:46,830
scope. And I haven't. As I've shared, I haven't. Had

1360
01:26:47,035 --> 01:26:49,350
a chance to meet with the board yet to give

1361
01:26:49,475 --> 01:26:54,011
recommend. Recommendations with all of these different pieces and the

1362
01:26:54,056 --> 01:26:56,363
work that Mike shared about a little bit. Too. So

1363
01:26:56,888 --> 01:27:01,297
that's the only piece that I would like. To. Ask

1364
01:27:01,382 --> 01:27:05,779
the board. To remove for now. Or the other option.

1365
01:27:06,144 --> 01:27:07,979
If we're going to condition, the other item would be

1366
01:27:08,344 --> 01:27:13,839
the condition. That item until. We have approved list of

1367
01:27:13,884 --> 01:27:16,479
recommendations by the board of county commissioners about how we'll

1368
01:27:16,484 --> 01:27:19,876
move from land acknowledgment to meaningful action. I'll make a

1369
01:27:19,881 --> 01:27:23,157
try at a motion, and then we can. Well, I'd

1370
01:27:23,162 --> 01:27:26,315
like to ask a question about that, though. I guess

1371
01:27:26,680 --> 01:27:28,355
what my concern would be is if we remove it.

1372
01:27:28,680 --> 01:27:32,418
This is a question maybe for Tina. If we remove

1373
01:27:32,823 --> 01:27:37,589
it, then that defers the whole project. You're going to

1374
01:27:37,594 --> 01:27:40,349
love my motion. Okay. All right. It's taken care of.

1375
01:27:40,754 --> 01:27:44,912
Never. Mind, all right? I would move to approve the

1376
01:27:45,237 --> 01:27:49,672
2024 capital and stewardship project conditionally. The first condition? Would

1377
01:27:49,717 --> 01:27:51,592
just be a condition on the approval of the Prairie

1378
01:27:51,877 --> 01:27:54,952
Run management plan for that particular project. And then give

1379
01:27:55,357 --> 01:27:58,512
direction to staff that the indigenous ways land commitment project

1380
01:27:58,597 --> 01:28:04,178
would go back through to Commissioner Lo. Jamins. She's the

1381
01:28:04,223 --> 01:28:07,778
team lead on indigenous work and would work through that

1382
01:28:08,143 --> 01:28:12,644
process to realize the full project before implementation. I'm fine

1383
01:28:13,049 --> 01:28:16,484
with that. Works for me. Does that mean. Second well.

1384
01:28:19,004 --> 01:28:22,727
I was going to maybe ask staff. If that's okay.

1385
01:28:23,492 --> 01:28:29,710
Chair for ask staff deliberation. So yes to both. I

1386
01:28:29,795 --> 01:28:33,310
would be very eager to bring the result of the

1387
01:28:33,675 --> 01:28:36,950
land commitment work to you in a PMI, perhaps, or

1388
01:28:37,275 --> 01:28:40,510
whatever the appropriate forum is. I sent an email before

1389
01:28:40,875 --> 01:28:43,910
this meeting trying to figure out who the best contact

1390
01:28:44,275 --> 01:28:46,987
is to set up a meeting with that group. Right.

1391
01:28:48,299 --> 01:28:50,959
That would be me. And I'll connect with the lead

1392
01:28:51,364 --> 01:28:53,279
of that group, and I would love to come and.

1393
01:28:53,604 --> 01:28:57,324
Present what they have been doing, and then. Why they

1394
01:28:57,409 --> 01:29:00,404
are thinking this is the next best step, because I

1395
01:29:00,409 --> 01:29:03,887
think you're really going to appreciate. That they left the

1396
01:29:04,252 --> 01:29:08,830
commitment behind pretty early and moved. To or. I'm sorry.

1397
01:29:09,115 --> 01:29:11,630
I left the acknowledgment behind early and. Moved to commitment,

1398
01:29:12,355 --> 01:29:14,550
and they have made it a focus of every presentation

1399
01:29:14,595 --> 01:29:17,750
that they have given us. Internally to really emphasize that

1400
01:29:18,075 --> 01:29:21,105
word commitment. We can't just have words. So I'm very

1401
01:29:21,150 --> 01:29:24,851
excited to bring it to you. Yeah. That's great. I

1402
01:29:24,856 --> 01:29:27,971
just want to clarify something because my understanding is there

1403
01:29:28,056 --> 01:29:30,251
is not an RFP out yet, but I heard somebody

1404
01:29:30,656 --> 01:29:35,316
in the presentation talk about the consultant. They have prepared

1405
01:29:35,361 --> 01:29:38,036
it, but they would not release it until next year

1406
01:29:38,401 --> 01:29:40,116
if it's funded. So just want to make sure it's

1407
01:29:40,121 --> 01:29:41,876
not going to interfere with something that's. Already in the

1408
01:29:41,921 --> 01:29:44,636
process, so that's great. So, yes, I would take your

1409
01:29:45,361 --> 01:29:48,337
motion, and I second that motion. Okay, so we do

1410
01:29:48,702 --> 01:29:52,855
have a motion. And a second, I think the relevant

1411
01:29:52,900 --> 01:29:56,415
parties indicate that the conditions are clear to them. So

1412
01:29:56,500 --> 01:29:59,975
all in favor. Aye. So we have approved that. Thank

1413
01:29:59,980 --> 01:30:04,386
you very much for your presentation. Your dialogue. We appreciate

1414
01:30:04,631 --> 01:30:06,586
it. And I'll be waiting to hear what type of

1415
01:30:06,871 --> 01:30:10,546
baby owl. That northern pygmy owl. You're so good, Stefan.

1416
01:30:11,351 --> 01:30:16,962
Thank you. With that. I would encourage. All right. Congratulations

1417
01:30:17,047 --> 01:30:21,967
on completing your hearings for the year. Well, thank you

1418
01:30:21,972 --> 01:30:28,687
for being the last. Doing such a great job. No,

1419
01:30:28,772 --> 01:30:31,607
really appreciate it. Thanks. We are now adjourned.