[0:03] All right, commissioners, are you ready? Yes, thanks. And we
[0:09] are recording. Good morning. Still, today is December 14, 2023.
[0:16] This is a meeting of the board of county. Commissioners
[0:19] of Boulder county. We have all three commissioners present, and
[0:22] we are here this morning for our monthly update from.
[0:26] Our head start division. We're joined. By the head start
[0:33] leadership. Modeling, a co leadership model. Demonstrating a co leadership
[0:39] model. Let's say that better. So thank you for joining
[0:43] us. This morning. We have 30 minutes set aside for
[0:46] this and please take it away. Perfect. Thank you. Good
[0:50] morning. Alex Linder, family services manager with Boulder county head
[0:54] start. We'll start off with policy council updates. We have
[0:57] ten members, which we're so excited about. We voted in
[1:01] our policy. Council chair, co chair, secretary and. Treasurer. We
[1:06] went over Robert's rules of order, of how to conduct
[1:08] a meeting we reviewed with them the timeline for approving
[1:12] our Boulder county head starts policies and procedures. We've also
[1:16] reviewed the deficiency non compliance and under enrollment notices that
[1:21] we've reviewed. With you ladies as well. And our upcoming
[1:25] FA two monitoring review. Let's pause and see if there
[1:29] are any questions on this before we move forward. No.
[1:34] Questions. No questions. Thank you. And just maybe one from
[1:40] me here. On the review of the deficiency non compliance
[1:45] and under enrollment notices. With the policy council. Just kind
[1:49] of wondering what kind of feedback you got from them
[1:52] on that. If any. There was. They had a lot
[1:56] of feelings about it. Understandably. They want to drop off
[2:00] their children. They want to make sure that their children
[2:02] are safe. Our policy council chair wrote. A very powerful
[2:09] letter to our teachers that we went ahead and shared
[2:12] with all of our staff. At head start. Okay, great.
[2:16] Anything else you'd want to elaborate on that, the nature
[2:19] of the comments? What I loved about. The process is
[2:25] that they really want to be a voice for parents,
[2:29] and they really want to connect not just with leadership,
[2:32] but with teachers as well. So they're looking at different
[2:34] ways. To integrate into the program, to be able to
[2:37] do that, to bring that parent lens in the day
[2:41] to day activities for head start. Great. That's exactly what
[2:45] we would want the policy council to do. So I'm
[2:47] glad to hear that. Thank you. The notices are very
[2:56] important to us. They're very serious. And the other part
[2:59] of the letter was that we want to do this
[3:02] together, that teamwork. Is very important to them as a
[3:06] counsel. And they were very supportive of the team at
[3:11] the same time. As just saying how important the program
[3:15] is to them as a family and community. It was
[3:20] very well written letter that both supportive and very serious.
[3:23] Great. Thanks. Okay, then I think we can move on
[3:29] to the meal service report. All right. Stacey. Fuchietta. Education
[3:34] services manager. So for November. Okay. October. That's right. So
[3:40] our total meals delivered was 6257. Served was 3886. And
[3:47] our invoice for October was $16,970. And our CACFP reimbursement
[3:56] was $12,468.38 and our cost for meals was $4,501.67.
[4:06] The student meals are covered by CACFP with any difference
[4:09] in reimbursement due to student absences from the classroom, and
[4:14] I just kind of also wanted to add that. I
[4:17] am still trying to work with different people with pig
[4:20] farms or their own personal pigs to see if we
[4:23] can try to do something with all the leftover food
[4:25] that we're accumulating. And seeing if we can just donate
[4:30] it that way so we don't have to just. Be
[4:31] throwing it all away. Our food waste. Yeah. Great. Thanks.
[4:36] Do you need any contacts in that? Space. There are
[4:38] a couple of farms we work with often. Yes. Okay.
[4:42] The ones I found a little bit. Are kind of
[4:45] around boulder a little bit more picky about the food
[4:47] that they're giving their pegs. But yeah, they are. All
[4:52] of them that we work with actually do work really
[4:54] hard to make sure that they have certain standards for
[4:57] the food that the pigs are getting, so let's connect
[5:00] off. Definitely. There might be another option. Perfect. Thank you.
[5:05] Yeah. Composting or. There are a couple of other options.
[5:09] Thank you. That was my question when I saw the
[5:12] numbers there. So I appreciate that update on a question
[5:14] that I've been asking for a few years. I'd also
[5:16] met with ecocycle. Natima. A couple of folks from their
[5:21] board earlier this year who were interested in looking at
[5:25] this particular issue with us in partnership. So if there
[5:28] hasn't been a connection made there, I'd. Be happy to
[5:32] try and bring that conversation together and see if they
[5:34] could be a partner. That could. Move us forward in
[5:38] this space. Thank you. I'm also doing number three. So
[5:42] we're talking about enrollment and attendance. We had 19 school
[5:45] days in October. The overall program attendance was 87%. Dagney
[5:51] had 86% Woodland 89 Sunflower 86 and via Latar new
[5:57] site at 87%. So we did pretty well in October.
[6:02] Any questions on the enrollment and attendance? No questions. None
[6:07] here either. Thank you. As elites have heard in the
[6:12] past, we did open our new school here in Boulder.
[6:15] Avioleta. Site, and that has increased our numbers. We're currently
[6:18] at 112, with about four enrollments that are pending, most
[6:22] likely. Won't start this year, but we'll start in January
[6:27] when we come back from winter break, so 116. We
[6:31] haven't been at that number for a few years, so
[6:34] we're very excited to continue to find children and to
[6:38] enroll them in our program. There's the graphic that goes
[6:41] with that. That's just the graphic that goes around. Along
[6:44] with those numbers. Enrollment numbers. And then the monthly budget.
[6:56] That our fiscal officer projects through to the end of
[6:59] our fiscal year, which is the June 2024. And these
[7:06] numbers are constantly moving. They're sort of working numbers. As
[7:12] we bring in more funding from CCAP applications. And my
[7:18] understanding we have about eight applications pending from CCAP. So
[7:23] these numbers will shift and change again. And a lot
[7:26] of those numbers. Are pending. Applications are from the Violeta
[7:30] school that we opened. We were waiting for a license.
[7:32] Number. Now that we have the license number, we can
[7:35] submit applications. Along attached to that license number. And so
[7:41] the children that are enrolled there. Those are the pending
[7:44] applications, and so we'll see these numbers shift again. I'm
[7:49] sorry to interrupt. You remind me where the violet. Violeta
[7:56] program is sure it's close to here. The property line
[7:59] is attached. To the flat irons elementary school. Up behind
[8:06] Uni Hill. There's Uni Hill in Flatirons elementary School. It's
[8:09] back there on the hill. Okay. You're welcome to come
[8:17] and visit if you would like. Okay. And then the
[8:21] last section here that I would just like to update
[8:24] you all on is. The ongoing monitoring and partnership that
[8:28] we have. And monthly meetings we have not only with
[8:32] you, but the policy council, and then weekly meetings with
[8:35] the regional office. The regional office team. They came to
[8:40] observe and provided feedback to our teaching teams. On November
[8:44] 1. And our staff are busy implementing that feedback. Into
[8:48] their classroom practices. And then they will actually come back
[8:54] next week on December 19, we'll have a meeting. I
[8:58] think it's with Commissioner Saltzman in attendance as well to
[9:03] meet with that regional. Team. And this is more related
[9:06] to the discipline deficiency. I'll scroll down just so that
[9:11] I make sure that I'm giving you all. The information.
[9:15] So that discipline deficiency had a 120 day correction, corrective
[9:19] action period. We came to the close. Of that period
[9:21] on December 11, and I submitted the quality improvement plan
[9:26] along with its supporting documents. The visit next week. Is
[9:31] standard where they come and do interviews. They interview staff,
[9:35] they come and meet with you. To talk about. The
[9:40] strategies that we used and get feedback from our staff
[9:43] on how things are going so that will happen next
[9:47] week. The second notice is the active supervision corrective action
[9:52] plan. We requested an extension for that. Corrective? Action period,
[9:57] which was granted. And so now we have an extension
[10:00] through April 16. In part from their November 1 feedback
[10:07] report. They just advised us to take a little bit
[10:11] more time. Working with those strategies to show correction, and
[10:16] so we did that. And then as part of. Their
[10:23] recommendation for a strategy on the active supervision. They've suggested
[10:28] we visit. Do some visits. Site visits on exemplar programs
[10:32] that have kind of come through the same challenges that
[10:35] we are facing as a program, but also transitional leadership
[10:39] at the same time. So they've identified three programs. In
[10:43] Montana and Colorado and South Dakota that had notices themselves,
[10:49] had new leadership and successfully came through. Those challenges and
[10:54] are actually seen as exemplar programs now. So we had
[10:58] a first initial meeting yesterday with our leadership team to
[11:01] discuss the possibility of sending some teams out. And just
[11:05] throwing it out to who in our team might. Be.
[11:12] Great representatives of our program from all different component areas
[11:15] of our program to go and conduct those observations. Anywhere.
[11:22] We're in the beginning stages of discussing that. I'll pause
[11:26] there because that's more related to. The two specific notices,
[11:30] discipline and active supervision and CPO questions. There. I don't
[11:35] have questions, thank you. No, I don't either, but I'm.
[11:38] Very pleased I was out of town that Commissioner Stolman
[11:42] is going to be attending that. Meeting. On Monday as
[11:46] our representative. Alex is just reminding me that during our
[11:50] policy council meeting on Monday, There were some parents who
[11:54] were on the council that were also interested in participating
[11:56] in those site. Observations. So to have that kind of
[11:59] interest in engagement. Was really. Positive part of the meeting.
[12:05] And consideration were you trying to fix? Okay. Great opportunity.
[12:09] Yeah. So then the third notice we received is the
[12:13] full enrollment enrollment initiative, and that has a one. Year
[12:18] corrective action period. And so they check in with us,
[12:22] the office of head start after six months, so we
[12:25] do have a meeting scheduled for. January. Which. Our staff
[12:31] will attend, and we'll just be talking about those strategies.
[12:35] I know, commissioner, you've asked before about what are our
[12:38] new strategies. That we've implemented in that ongoing conversation is
[12:43] happening as well. With the office of head start. That
[12:47] meeting. Check in meeting is January 16. We are feeling
[12:51] positive about the slow but uptick. In enrollments. We need
[12:59] to get to 129 by the end of the corrective
[13:02] action period, and so. We are hopeful and working very
[13:07] hard. Alex's team working really hard to meet that number.
[13:12] Really quick on that piece. Sure. So that's 17 additional
[13:15] thoughts. Is that the right. We have 112 now and
[13:19] we need to be at 129. Yes, that's correct. And
[13:25] that would be during the first. Quarter. I mean the
[13:30] spring semester. Do you all feel like that's before feasible?
[13:35] I was thinking. That April 16. Deadline or date I
[13:38] can't scroll on your screen? I want to clarify. We
[13:44] need to meet that number. That's our 97% of 134
[13:49] slots that we are allotted, but they don't. Actually start
[13:54] the clock on that until September. 2024. So even though.
[14:00] We have to meet that number. They're not officially going
[14:03] to start counting that number until September 2024, so we're
[14:07] working towards that, okay? And that begs a different question,
[14:11] because at the end of a school year, then you're
[14:13] going to have attrition no matter. Either way. Yes, I
[14:16] know it's not. A clean count. We do have that.
[14:21] Four year olds moving on to kindergarten. We lose those
[14:24] four year olds, we have to recover those numbers. And
[14:27] then bring in new students, okay? I'll be interested just
[14:33] to hear. And I'm sure you'll bring that. To us.
[14:36] And I know we talked about previously, and I know
[14:38] you were working on some different strategies about outreach and
[14:42] bringing folks in. So I think the piece is going
[14:47] to be that for all of the facilities, right? It's.
[14:51] Easy to focus on. One that has the number. Just
[14:54] because of the way that all your facilities are working,
[14:57] it's going to be really important to be putting all
[14:59] that work for each of them. Yeah. One of the
[15:04] strategies, just to be more specific. Was. They were asking
[15:07] us to survey parents and have conversations with parents around
[15:11] transportation and what are the transportation barriers. Is it a
[15:16] transportation, a barrier to enroll? Or is it that families
[15:20] are disenrolling? Because of transportation? Is it between cities? A
[15:27] transportation issue between Lafaya and Boulder, or is it a
[15:31] family that lives in Boulder? And is having difficulty getting
[15:34] to a boulder site or vice versa. So that's one
[15:38] strategy. To understand more our population. And to have those
[15:42] conversations with families. About. A specific transportation issue. That's one
[15:49] strategy that we are incorporating into the plan. Great. Thank
[15:52] you. I think I had maybe two follow ups or
[15:57] questions or comments about that specific issue. One is. I
[16:02] think we've talked about this before. But. Do you work
[16:07] closely with our housing authority, Boulder County Housing Authority and
[16:11] BHP. And. Very closely with Boulder housing partners. With county
[16:18] Boulder County Housing Authority as well. We work very closely
[16:22] with Sister Carmen. We also work closely with early intervention
[16:28] team. Child protective services. What we do in January is
[16:34] really ramp up our outreach as far as doing community
[16:37] presentations to different community partners, and we also attend different
[16:41] events that come up, and we're invited to. We were
[16:46] out there in the community, definitely talking about the program.
[16:49] Great. Thanks for that. And then the other. The second
[16:51] question is whether that target enrollment number is that an
[16:55] average. Of throughout the year. Because people do come in
[17:00] and out of the program. How do they measure whether
[17:03] you're actually meeting that minimum requirement. Number. With the public
[17:09] k through twelve School Finance act count. There is. A
[17:14] day. When they do the count. We do get drops
[17:19] throughout the year, but those slots don't become. A vacancy
[17:26] until 30 days after they've dropped, so we have some
[17:29] time to fill. They won't look at cumulative numbers, unfortunately.
[17:36] They will definitely look at a point in time. And.
[17:40] What they want to see for those six months is
[17:42] that we are at 129. Yes, average in theory. But
[17:48] we can't really count those that are leaving after 30
[17:51] days. And we submit those officially through their HSes system.
[17:56] So there's a tab there about. Enrollments, and we have
[17:59] to submit monthly numbers. And those are the numbers they're
[18:03] looking at and they'll look over a period of time.
[18:05] Okay, so it sounds like. They do sort of average
[18:10] it over a period. Okay, thanks. I also wanted to
[18:14] just bring in the policy council again in our last
[18:17] meeting where the parents voiced, how they came to our
[18:20] program, how they found it, and then. An interesting. Piece
[18:30] of data that one family mentioned was that. They assumed
[18:34] that they didn't qualify. And it wasn't until they actually
[18:38] met with actually, Alex, to learn that there are. Different
[18:43] categories of eligibility, and then they found that they were
[18:47] eligible and are now enrolled in our program but. That
[18:50] was good information for us. To learn the parent perception
[18:55] prior to them actually coming to talk to us. That
[19:00] we can work with. In our strategies. Okay. Are we
[19:05] running over now? Okay. On December 6, I'm going to
[19:14] move on to the policies and procedures. December 6, there
[19:18] was a pmi meeting. Where? We brought. Our plan. Of
[19:26] having our new policies and procedures approved. And I believe
[19:30] that was brought before the business meeting on the twelveth.
[19:33] And that plan was approved, which I also submitted to
[19:37] the office of Head start, so thank you for approval
[19:39] on that. And we will continue. To draft and get
[19:46] approval on the policies through July 2024 for our program.
[19:51] So we will be in touch monthly on that with
[19:53] all of you. And then we still have not received
[19:57] our federal monitoring review notice. However, if it is received
[20:03] this week. We can anticipate. The team to be here
[20:08] on January 29. We are on a weekly wait and
[20:12] see sort of schedule, so we will just keep you
[20:14] all updated. As part of. The FA two process. There
[20:20] is also a companion process that is happening, and that's
[20:23] called the class reviews. And that is an assessment tool
[20:28] for high quality programs. And so the office of head
[20:32] start will be conducting virtual. Video gathering of 1 hour
[20:39] observation videos for each of our classrooms and assessing each
[20:42] of our classrooms. For quality. And that period of time
[20:46] is January and February. Is that correct? Stacy? January and
[20:49] February. We have to submit seven 1 hour videos to
[20:52] the office of head start, and then we'll receive. The
[20:55] reports back after their review. So that's everything that's happening
[21:01] for our program right now. Great. Thank you. I just
[21:03] have a quick question on the class reviews. Is that
[21:08] an additional practice? That's just. Part of nation head start
[21:13] or is that connected? To. The disciplinary deficiency or anything
[21:19] like that? No, that's standard. That's standard for all. Programs,
[21:22] all head start programs. They do that? Is it annually?
[21:26] Is it annual? No, I don't know. Actually. I don't
[21:29] think we've gone through a federal one in a few
[21:33] years. We usually just do them ourselves, but this is
[21:36] the first time. That I've been here, that we've had
[21:38] a federal one. Okay. Yeah, I don't remember hearing about
[21:41] the federal class review, so I just wanted to make
[21:43] sure that understanding of reason why it was being requested.
[21:47] Yes. It's not tied to that. And just for awareness,
[21:51] the class tool is something that the boulder Valley school
[21:53] District uses as well. It's something that we've used in
[21:56] the past, like Stacy was saying, internally, as a measure
[21:59] of quality. And now this is something. That. I think
[22:04] it is tied to the FA two review, which is
[22:07] why we haven't had one in five years. It's a
[22:10] five year cycle. Okay. Thank you. I don't think we
[22:14] have any other questions. Is there anything else you want
[22:17] to share? With us before we adjourn the meeting extravaganza.
[22:24] You are all welcome to come and join us for
[22:27] gift wrapping. On Saturday at our winter extravaganza. It'll be
[22:31] from nine to three at our Dagney site in Lafayette,
[22:34] and I am bringing 300 tamales. Extravaganza is the purpose.
[22:40] You're the one that created it. So winter extravaganza is
[22:46] our yearly gift giving event. I won't go into the
[22:51] whole history of it, but what we do is we
[22:54] kind of create a shop so parents can come and
[22:56] actually pick out presents for their children. We have a
[22:59] gift wrapping area. We have snacks. Claire came last year.
[23:02] I think she was one of my. Greeters at the
[23:04] door. So it's just a fun event. We ask that
[23:07] parents kind of leave their children at home so that
[23:10] they can also talk. To each other and build community.
[23:13] It's a fun time. But one day we will talk
[23:16] about the history of it and why we created it,
[23:19] the racial equity piece on that. That's tied to the
[23:22] equity piece that we didn't have. In the report this
[23:26] month. I apologize. Well, it was a fun time. It
[23:31] was really fun as a greeter. I wasn't back where
[23:34] the parents were. Selecting the gifts, but I saw. Their
[23:40] excitement as they were walking out with what they had
[23:43] were able to find. For their kids. It was a
[23:47] good time. And I think some of them did bring
[23:50] their kids, but they left that. Well, they left them.
[23:52] In the cookie room. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thanks
[23:56] for the invitation to the event, and thanks for the
[23:59] update. Yeah. Okay, well, then we will be in recess
[24:03] until 01:00. Where when we will reconvene. To hear the
[24:08] parks and open space, Capitol and stewardship projects.
[24:22] And we are recording. Good afternoon. Today is December 14,
[24:27] 2023. This is a meeting of the board of county
[24:29] commissioners of Boulder county. We do have all three commissioners
[24:32] present, and we are here. For a presentation. On the
[24:39] parks and open Space 2024 capital and stewardship projects list.
[24:44] Tina Nielsen is going to lead this off. I understand.
[24:47] And you'll allow other people to introduce themselves? As they
[24:51] speak. So, Tina, go ahead. Thank you. Good afternoon. Gina
[24:57] Nielsen, special projects coordinator with parks and open space. And
[25:01] we are here, as you said. To. Give you a
[25:05] quick presentation of our proposed 2024 capital and stewardship projects.
[25:11] These projects were included in a line item in our
[25:13] budget request. And we're here today to give you the
[25:18] details about that. And answer any questions you haven't asked
[25:23] for your approval of these specific projects. And as you
[25:27] said, I will kick us off with some introductory slides,
[25:31] and then I'll. Be handing it over to my colleagues
[25:33] here whose staff do the actual work. We're going. To
[25:36] be going through about 45 slides, so we'll try to
[25:39] keep it moving pretty quickly. And we would appreciate it
[25:42] if you have any questions, if you hold them till
[25:44] the end, so. That we can just get through the
[25:46] material and so on. Okay. I wanted to start off
[25:50] with some. Just some terminology, because our terminology has evolved
[25:54] over the. Years. We used to call it our CIP,
[25:56] or our capital improvements budget. And a couple few years
[26:02] ago. We started looking at it in a little bit
[26:05] of a broader way because we have an awful lot.
[26:08] Of maintenance backlog that is expensive and. Doesn't lend itself
[26:14] to our operating budgets. The operating budgets can't cover it,
[26:17] so. We wanted to be more explicit about how we
[26:19] use these funds. So capital projects are kind of large,
[26:23] discrete projects that have a beginning and an end. Over
[26:26] $10,000 examples are trail construction, ecological restoration projects. Stewardship projects.
[26:33] Are sort of that maintenance backlog. Or it can be
[26:37] programmatic. Sometimes we have programmatic things. We want to do
[26:40] that again. Fall outside the parameters of our ability to
[26:43] do it with our operating budgets. Again, over $10,000 examples.
[26:48] Would be replacing roofs or parking upgrades. Here is a
[26:53] chart that just shows a summary. Of the projects by
[26:59] division, so we have four divisions. Whose staff really do
[27:03] the heavy lifts on all this, and I do want
[27:05] to say that this is such a fun thing for
[27:08] me to do every year, to come before you and
[27:10] talk about the things that we do because we do
[27:13] so much. And it's really fun to see it all
[27:15] in one package like this. And I really just want
[27:19] to give kudos to all the staff out there who
[27:21] are on the ground doing the hard work that we
[27:24] do. So, as you can see, there are 34 projects
[27:27] divided among four divisions, the AG Resources Division, the recreation
[27:31] facilities division, resource management and then resource planning. And the
[27:37] budget line item was about $3.3 million. As you can
[27:43] see. We have been able to leverage that with over
[27:47] $7 million in grants and partnerships. So we have one
[27:51] staff person who's dedicated to looking for grants and finding
[27:54] those and obviously, she's worth her weight and gold and
[27:58] doing a great job and helping us find that so?
[28:01] The total value of this work is over $10 million.
[28:05] When we select the projects, one of the things that
[28:07] we do is we look through our strategic planning lenses,
[28:11] and we have four focus areas, as you can see
[28:13] here, cultural responsiveness, resilience maintenance, backlog and safety. And so
[28:21] when the projects are being proposed and being evaluated, We
[28:26] look at those lenses and this is how they've fallen
[28:29] out for the 2024. Project list. This slide is the
[28:35] same information, but it shows how these projects are distributed
[28:39] across the four divisions. That do those projects. And I
[28:44] do want to say one note about, you can see
[28:47] that maintenance backlog is pretty evenly distributed across all four
[28:51] divisions. Resilience and safety are also distributed across. All four
[28:56] divisions. Cultural responsiveness. We have projects in both resource management
[29:01] and resource planning. I just want to make a note
[29:04] that a lot of the work we do, that is.
[29:08] Cultural that hits that box. Is programmatic. And would fall
[29:12] under operating budgets and not under capital and stewardship budgets
[29:15] quite as much, but we do have four that fall
[29:18] in this, and we'll be highlighting those as we go.
[29:20] Through the presentation. So this is my final slide, and
[29:23] this just shows the distribution of these projects across. The
[29:29] county, so you can see it's impressive. It's a lot
[29:32] of work. The color of the dots and the number
[29:34] of the dots correlate to the divisions and the number
[29:37] in the spreadsheet that's in your materials, so if you
[29:39] wanted to go. Back. You could see that. And now
[29:42] I'm going to turn it over to Mike Foster. To
[29:45] talk about the ad projects. Good afternoon, commissioners. Mike Foster,
[29:48] Agriculture Resources Division. Manager. And next slide, please. A couple
[29:53] of the key themes that I just want to highlight.
[29:57] Is closer. A couple of the key themes that I
[29:59] want to highlight. For our capital and stewardship projects, primarily
[30:03] in 2023 and 2024, is around water efficiency. That is
[30:07] a really big emphasis for us. The operating budget that
[30:10] the commissioners approved last month is where we get into
[30:13] a lot of our soil health efforts and maintenance backlog.
[30:17] So what you're going to be seeing today from a
[30:19] stewardship or capital project side is really big. Water efficiency
[30:24] projects. And with that theme, In 2023, with our cast
[30:29] funding, we installed three center pivots out at our Henry
[30:32] Eastleck property complex, and that's to replace flood irrigation. Center
[30:37] pivots are significantly more efficient use of water than flood
[30:41] irrigated, and our tenants usually see a higher yield associated
[30:45] with center pivots rather than flood irrigation. So this is
[30:48] a really big emphasis for us moving into the next
[30:50] few years to replace flood irrigation with center pivot. So
[30:53] you'll see many, many more of these requests over the
[30:55] next five. Years or so. Next slide, please. For our
[31:00] 2024 projects. This is where we are headed with the
[31:04] items. And again, big theme. Is center pivots again, replacing
[31:08] flood irrigation with more efficient use of our water. Next
[31:12] slide. Here's the map of where those item projects will
[31:16] occur, primarily on the east side in our irrigated agricultural
[31:20] lands. Next slide. Our hygiene dairy pipeline. This is really
[31:25] about making more efficient use of water coming out of
[31:28] our ditches right now, this particular. Property is receiving about
[31:33] a 50% water loss because of leaky ditches. And so,
[31:37] in the spirit of, again, making more efficient use of
[31:40] our water, making sure that we fully utilize our water
[31:43] rights. We want to make sure that this is piped
[31:46] so that the tenant gets the water and it winds
[31:49] back up in the stream after that tenant is done
[31:51] with it. Next slide. Please. We are going to be
[31:54] revegeting our Deberi property for. The last dozen years or
[32:00] so, it has been overgrazed and overrun with prairie dogs.
[32:05] This year, that property sat fallow, and we were able
[32:08] to get the prairie dogs off of that. Property, and
[32:11] we have seen a significant improvement in the vegetation coming
[32:15] back. The light green areas on this map are going
[32:18] to be our focus areas for vegetative work. We're also
[32:21] going to be installing a bridge. Across the ish ditch
[32:25] so that we can more easily get from the south
[32:27] end of the property to the north end of the
[32:29] property. Next slide, please. And our big center pivot project.
[32:33] We've got four. Properties where we're collaborating with NRCs and
[32:40] our tenants to access outside dollars to leverage money that
[32:44] the county is kicking in. The county typically covers the
[32:48] underground infrastructure, such as the pipes. And electrical and NRCs
[32:52] and the tenant cover the above ground infrastructure, such as
[32:55] the pivot itself and. Any overhead power lines. So this
[32:59] is going to be a big work for us next
[33:01] year, and then our last project is reconstruction. Reconstruction of
[33:05] the good hue ditch. This particular concrete structure is well.
[33:09] Past its useful life, it is falling apart and in
[33:12] the spirit of delivering water efficiently to our properties. We
[33:15] need to rehabilitate this infrastruct. Infrastructure. Turn it over to
[33:20] Jarrett. Good afternoon, commissioners. Jarrett Roberts, recreation and facilities division
[33:24] manager. And I'll be walking you through our divisions, projects
[33:27] from this year and this coming year. So first I
[33:33] want to talk about some accomplishments this past year, and
[33:35] this is just a small sampling. As Tina mentioned, there's
[33:37] a ton of other work that happens, but this will
[33:39] get us an idea of what we've been up to.
[33:42] A couple of big highlights at the Annuite trailhead, we
[33:45] were able to put in a retaining wall, which is
[33:46] a big step towards us being able to put the
[33:48] restroom in, which is a project, you'll see. In the
[33:50] upcoming year. We made a major. Connection along the 104th
[33:54] street connection, which was a partnership with a couple of
[33:57] our local municipalities. We had kind of an emergent project
[34:01] with a replacement of the Nywat trail culvert. Or we
[34:04] had a culvert that was rusting out and were able
[34:06] to repair. That so we could keep that regional trail
[34:08] open. And then, of course, I think you've all heard
[34:11] about the opening of the Tolland Range Trail, which has
[34:14] been a multi year project that we were able to
[34:16] actually do a soft opening this year, and are excited
[34:18] to open all the way next year. Looking at a
[34:21] couple more projects, you can kind of see these. There's
[34:23] some really great before and afters from our building and
[34:26] historic preservation team of some painting projects on the strode
[34:29] dickens, as well as major restoration project on the Macintosh
[34:33] barn. It's hard to see, but. Most of the work
[34:35] actually happened underneath that barn on the foundation, which was
[34:39] a historic foundation. And I had never actually been through
[34:42] this process, but it's quite a process to remove every
[34:45] piece of rock and then put that all back in
[34:48] in a structurally sound way that can support such a
[34:51] large building. While also keeping the historic integrity of the
[34:54] building intact. So very cool. And then the Raimi roofing
[34:58] project that's on the bottom left. There was a replacement
[35:00] of one of our oldest buildings in the county. The
[35:04] roof on that project, on that building. Looking forward at
[35:08] this coming year. In 2024, we have nine projects that
[35:10] I'll talk about totaling three quarters of a million dollars,
[35:13] roughly. You'll notice there's not a lot of grant funding
[35:16] here. A lot of this is maintenance work, and we
[35:18] are looking for grants. And then ways to leverage funding,
[35:21] but it's sometimes a little bit harder to find than
[35:23] some of the new shiny stuff. Locations. There's just a
[35:27] quick overview. You also notice there are two of the
[35:29] projects that aren't listed on the map, and that's because
[35:32] they kind of go across the entire system and that
[35:34] we'll talk about later. Our sign standards and our ADa
[35:37] upgrades. So our first set of projects I want to
[35:42] talk about. Is in, I guess, three projects, the first
[35:46] one being in the Niwat trail legend Ridge area. And
[35:50] that's a major resurfacing project. So we have this trail.
[35:54] That the surface has been washed out over the coming
[35:56] years, and so we're going to reserve, almost a 1.5
[35:58] miles loop. And we're going to replace this with a
[36:01] recycled asphalt, which tends to hold up better in some
[36:04] of the steeper grades that we see. In this area.
[36:06] There's the Boulder Canyon trail retaining structure. This is a
[36:10] small but very critical piece of trail. It's actually only
[36:13] 40ft long. But should this wash out, we would have
[36:15] to close the entire Boulder Canyon trail. So we're. Working
[36:18] on a retaining wall that would allow this small section
[36:20] to trail from washing out into the creek. And then
[36:24] the last project here is the annuite restrooms. We talked
[36:26] about the retaining. Wall. And there's been a lot of
[36:27] prep work this year to prepare the trailhead. We're planning
[36:30] on putting in. The specific type of restroom. It doesn't
[36:35] match exactly with our other restrooms, but because the limited
[36:38] space we have with the floodplain. This is the restroom
[36:40] we felt would fit. Best here and be most resilient.
[36:44] Our next project is our assigned standards. So we went
[36:46] through a big process to overhaul our sign. Manual and
[36:50] come up with standards that we can apply system wide.
[36:53] As part of this process, we focused on making these
[36:55] signs universal, so we used a lot of graphics. So
[37:00] language became less of an issue. And then we also
[37:02] introduced bilingual signage in many cases. To help support our
[37:07] entire community to be able to understand and use our
[37:09] trailheads and trails. So. We plan to have this be
[37:14] a four to five year process to replace pretty much
[37:16] every sign in the parks and open space. In our
[37:19] whole system. We plan on doing about a quarter of
[37:22] that work in this coming year. And that'll include work
[37:24] at the Carolyn Homebrew Preserve, Walker Ranch, Twin Lakes, Bald
[37:27] Mountain, grassy tops, Kerr gardens, Dodd Lake, Cardinal mill and
[37:31] ag Heritage center. So a lot of signs that we
[37:34] have to replace in a very short period of time,
[37:35] but in four or five years. It'll be amazing to
[37:37] see signage across. The entire system changed. Harney Listoka is
[37:43] located between Lewisville and La Fayette. The property includes an
[37:47] active farm, a farm stand, a trail and the Kirk
[37:50] community garden. This is an old garage that's. Used by
[37:53] the tenant. It's also a historic structure. It's a cedar
[37:56] roofing. Cedar roof. And so we replace. These on a
[38:01] fairly regular basis to maintain the historic integrity while also
[38:04] making them functional. So this project will look to replace
[38:07] that roof. And then the last leader projects I want
[38:10] to tell you about. Or. No, sorry, there's one more
[38:12] after this, but the last big group of projects is
[38:15] in the hall ranch area. We have a number of
[38:17] projects in this area, including replacing the decking on one
[38:19] of the bridges. This decking is old and weathered and
[38:23] beyond its life cycle, and so we're expecting to replace
[38:25] the entire decking. There's a major upgrade to. The access
[38:30] road that allows our staff and emergency vehicles to access
[38:33] the area. And lastly, we're going to do some major
[38:36] trailhead upgrades to bring that trailer up. To our current
[38:40] standards and help improve some major drainage issues that we've
[38:43] been seeing. The last project I did want to talk
[38:45] about is the trailhead and facilities ADA compliance updates. The
[38:50] county did a countywide look at Ada compliance in many
[38:54] of the areas and buildings. Parks and open space was
[38:58] a piece of that. And they looked at our trailheads
[38:59] and found almost. 1000 violations. Some of these are very
[39:03] small, moving the height of a handle or something like
[39:05] that. And others are very big, making sure that the
[39:08] surfacing in a parking area. Is compliant. So we've taken
[39:12] these and we've started to devote funds and times. To
[39:15] working away at that list of about 1000 items, and
[39:17] we plan to get through about 25%. Of them next
[39:19] year, which is a pretty big accomplishment, we think. And
[39:23] with that, I'll pass it off to resource management. All
[39:26] right. Greetings, commissioners. Stefan Reinford. I'm the resource management division
[39:30] manager, and we'll go through our resource management. Slide. All
[39:37] right. So 2023 accomplishments. So we have, one of the
[39:42] big projects we worked on was the St. Frane Forest
[39:45] Health Partnership project, phase one, which was a joint project
[39:50] where work was completed on private lands, open space, and
[39:54] then also the city along Monmont's button rock. Preserve. And
[39:57] so we were able to get that project completed just
[40:00] about a week and a half ago. So that's pretty
[40:02] good news. One of the neat projects we did was.
[40:07] A museum master interpretive plan. And the point of our
[40:12] interpretive plan was. To provide get some guidance in providing
[40:17] a more inclusive human history. When we interpret our ag
[40:20] Heritage center, the Ned Mining museum, and we also looked
[40:24] at the assay. Office. And so a lot of that
[40:27] has to do with some of the programming we do,
[40:29] but they also looked at accessibility and how to change
[40:32] the sites of these locations. And then the third project
[40:37] we worked on was. Biomass storage for the parks. So
[40:43] we have a location where. We store log material that
[40:48] we can then utilize and burn in our biomass facilities
[40:51] and again ones at our open space complex and ones
[40:54] at the Boulder county jail. Thanks a lot. And here
[40:58] is our list of the projects. You can see that.
[41:03] We also try to get a lot of grants and
[41:06] take advantage and leverage the money that we use. Next
[41:10] slide. And again, the geographic reference for where all these
[41:14] projects are located within the county. Next slide. So the
[41:19] first project on here is our wheeler ranch russian olive
[41:23] removal. This property has over 3000 russian olive trees that
[41:28] are choking out the creek. And keeping the natives out
[41:33] of the location. And so our goal is to remove
[41:38] the russian olive over we did portion of this project.
[41:42] This year in 2023, and then we're looking to continue
[41:45] that project next year. One of the goals is also
[41:50] to follow this up. With planting that our plant ecology
[41:53] staff can do to plant some native tree species along
[41:57] the creek. Next slide. So our Prescott wetland restoration. This
[42:04] property. Is off the peak to peak off Bun School
[42:08] Road. This is. A fen that the previous landowners want
[42:16] to drain so that they could actually have not have
[42:19] a wet meadow in that location, and so you can
[42:21] kind of see that wishbone. Structure that was there, and
[42:25] that was done by ditching by the previous landowner. And
[42:29] so our goal is to actually rehab this fen and
[42:34] this wetland. We had the designs completed last year, and
[42:38] then we're hoping to do this with some in house.
[42:41] Funding. Next year. Really good for carbon sequestration this wetland.
[42:46] And so we're really hoping that we can kind of
[42:48] fix this up. Next slide. So the next spot is
[42:54] Sherwood Creek restoration at the conger mine. If you're not
[42:57] familiar with Sherwood Creek is it's near Caribou Ranch. The
[43:02] Sherwood property was acquired a little bit later. There's a
[43:06] section of the creek that actually goes underground and is
[43:10] kind of covered up. By some of the mine tailings.
[43:13] And so our goal plan, ecology has had this goal
[43:16] on their books for a long time to daylight this
[43:19] creek and so that we can actually get a truly
[43:22] functioning. Ecosystem in there. And so that's what they're working
[43:26] on here. We're partnering with the Colorado Division of Reclamation
[43:31] and Mine Safety. They're putting a lot of dollars towards
[43:34] this project, and we also are applying for a CWCB
[43:39] grant to assist. Next slide. In our Carolyn homeburg Preserve
[43:45] at Rock Creek. Farm management plan. There is an area
[43:49] that was identified that we wanted to restore to native
[43:53] perennials. And it's an 80 acre section that we're looking
[43:56] at, this area. Has had lots of prairie dog damage
[44:00] and has also had a lot of overgrazing in the
[44:03] past, and we're really just trying to bring back a
[44:05] stronger ecosystem that can then be managed appropriately. Next slide.
[44:11] And then going back to that museum master interpretive plan
[44:15] while. We are going to be implementing some of the
[44:19] programming. On the other properties. The assay office. Is only
[44:25] open one weekend per year during a short time frame.
[44:30] And it was recommended for an accessibility standpoint to actually.
[44:34] Do a little bit more interpretation on the outside of
[44:37] the museum. Provide in the parking lot area, provide some
[44:41] picnic tables and some areas for people to sit and
[44:44] just make it a little bit more inviting for those
[44:47] that are riding their bikes up or driving up and
[44:49] it's closed. And they're like, what is this place? And
[44:53] so we're hoping to do that with this project. Next
[44:56] slide. And then we talked about the St. Vane Forest
[45:01] Health Partnership briefly. This is kind of beginning to implement
[45:05] phase two here on our riverside property. And if you
[45:09] look on the map there, North of the project area.
[45:13] You can see that the Button Rock Reserve, a Ralph
[45:15] Price reservoir. And so a lot of this area, if
[45:20] there were to be a fire, drains down. Into button
[45:24] rock preserve and into the waterway. Longmont lines drinking water.
[45:30] So we're trying to do this with the big partnership
[45:33] there. We're looking at 250 acres of work. And we
[45:37] have a matching grant that will pay for the other
[45:40] half of this project. And now to resource planning. Heidi.
[45:44] All right, great. Thanks, Stefan. Good afternoon. Heidi Wagner, resource
[45:49] planning division. Manager here to present our work. Some of
[45:54] the highlights of our 23 accomplishments include the stabilization of
[45:59] the banks out at Twin Lakes hopefully you've had a
[46:02] chance to see it. It is open and operational and
[46:05] people are really enjoying the improvements. Other things of note
[46:10] were improvements. At the indian mountain area that is used
[46:15] by our indigenous native vet community, and we wanted to
[46:18] do a little work out there to support them in
[46:21] their activities, including a kiosk improvements. To the road and
[46:25] parking area, which are complete. Additionally, we are at 80%
[46:31] design for the South St. Rain restoration project. There by
[46:35] the quarry in hill, too, so we're delighted to see
[46:39] it as far as long as it is. Next slide.
[46:44] Resource planning has 13 projects for 2024, so a significant
[46:50] number and amount because you can see. We have three
[46:54] projects that have grant matches. That really brings the total
[46:59] up for resource planning to a little over 8 million.
[47:03] And like my colleagues, our work is spread throughout the
[47:06] county. So our project management and design group is handling
[47:15] five projects this year, in addition to supporting many of
[47:18] the projects that you've already heard from our other divisions.
[47:22] Some of the highlights I won't go through each one
[47:24] of these. Is we are going to be starting work
[47:29] on our stearns Lake Trailhead. We were able to come
[47:33] up with. A design. That met the needs out there
[47:38] and supported our partnership. So. We will be starting those
[47:44] improvements. And additionally, we are going to be continuing. To
[47:49] adaptively manage some of our recent stream restorations, including the
[47:54] one. Done on St. Rain, just north of the parks
[47:58] building, actually. Next slide. Our planning group has two main
[48:04] projects that they're leading this year. First, our planning group
[48:07] leads the indigenous ways and land commitment team, which is
[48:12] moving towards a new faith in the work. That they
[48:14] have been doing, and we are dedicating some funds. To
[48:19] build a web page out for education as well as
[48:23] hiring a consultant. To. Give us an educator series for
[48:29] our staff. Additionally, I already mentioned the South St. Rain
[48:33] Creek restoration at hall two, but we will be needing
[48:37] a few additional funds to get that designed to 100%
[48:40] in the hopes that we can get grant money to
[48:44] start construction in 25. Our cultural resource group has. Two
[48:52] projects there at the Tucker cabin. As well as. At
[48:57] cardinal mill. They're going to be installing a lightning strike
[49:01] prevention system, and Cardinal Mill is there shown the picture
[49:04] on the top of your screen, and I bet you
[49:06] can figure out why we might. Need a lightning protection
[49:09] system on that wonderful historic building. One of our larger.
[49:17] Requests is $500,000 to start implementation on prairie run open
[49:23] space, provided that management plan is approved early next year.
[49:26] We want to do some design, engineering and restoration improvements
[49:31] out there. And so we have requested that $500,000 to
[49:35] begin that work. The Howell Ditch diversion and Boulder Creek
[49:39] restoration project will kick off. The amount from us is
[49:44] only 61,000, which is fantastic. But you can see the
[49:47] partnership that we have been building to get that project
[49:50] done. So originally it came about for the needs to
[49:56] improve the howled ditch diversion. But in doing so, we
[50:00] also will be restoring another section of Boulder Creek that
[50:04] helps continue the restoration that we've been doing. Upstream of
[50:10] the, we call that the Lower Boulder Creek restoration project.
[50:13] So we will be doing additional work out there and
[50:16] starting. Early in 24. And then the Prince Lake Dam
[50:21] rehabilitation project will also kick off next year, and that's
[50:25] a great project to ensure that our agricultural water can
[50:28] continue to be stored as well as provide additional flood
[50:33] control for the nearby community. I think that might be
[50:39] my last one. Thank you. All right, so now. It's
[50:47] our turn. For questions. And just again. To recap. We
[50:54] did approve in our budget the overall amount. You are
[50:58] asking for approval of this list of capital improvement and
[51:02] stewardship projects here, that is. Correct? Yes. Good. The way
[51:08] we've been doing it for many years. So a little
[51:11] bit backwards. Well, we just want to make sure we
[51:13] know why we're here. So. Thanks. Questions? Sure. Yeah, I
[51:18] do have some questions. Thanks, everybody, for being here. Being
[51:21] here in person. I have a couple. One logistical question,
[51:25] because in the packet there are some public comment in
[51:29] regards to item number eleven. The prairie run. Looks like.
[51:36] Well, it's page, I think, 13 of the packet that
[51:40] I have that was for all of our hearings today.
[51:43] And so I just want to know what that I
[51:45] think the request maybe was to condition approval. Because there's
[51:50] a POSAC meeting tonight, coincidentally, but as somebody indicated, that
[51:55] that item. Won't come to the commissioners until late January.
[51:59] So that's just a logistical question for me about approving
[52:03] something potentially here, where we don't have an approval yet
[52:06] on the project, so that one I would like to
[52:08] just. Get some guidance. There might be a staff question
[52:10] of how we might want to address that. Other than
[52:13] that, questions. On the very first slide, I was curious
[52:16] what critters. In that photo. I'm guessing it's some type
[52:20] of owl. But you said wait for questions. I've been
[52:25] waiting. The other questions that I have is in regards
[52:29] to. A question that I've brought up over the last
[52:35] few years. We're looking at. This is tremendous. The work
[52:38] that parks at open space that you all do your
[52:40] teams. All of this programming shows a breadth of a
[52:43] whole lot of different community needs. Interest program goals, I'm
[52:48] sure work plans that have been in the works and
[52:50] relationships that have been being built for many, many years
[52:53] around Boulder County. And my question continues to be, and
[52:56] I don't see it here, just, I didn't, see it
[52:58] here in the packet. And didn't hear it yet in
[53:01] the presentation, so just want to give folks an opportunity.
[53:04] How are we addressing policy 1.6? In this work, there's
[53:09] a $3.3 million and plus budget leveraging of $7 million,
[53:13] which is tremendous. To total spend of about $10.6 million
[53:18] for this particular. Capital and stewardship project. Section of all
[53:22] of the budget that we spend and all of the
[53:24] projects in focus. What I didn't see, I saw in
[53:28] the presentation, a slide that showed, I think, It's described
[53:33] as cultural responsiveness. But when I looked to the packet,
[53:36] I didn't. See that. So I'm curious, and we'll continue
[53:42] to ask, how are we transforming lives? How? Are we
[53:44] addressing the needs of communities of color? How might we
[53:48] be creating more access to folks with disabilities or folks
[53:52] with lower incomes and folks who just have not gotten
[53:55] out to see all these beautiful places when I hear
[53:57] we all know where this particular property is. Or we
[54:01] all know where this piece is. I'm still going to
[54:04] just remind us and. Encourage us to think about. There
[54:06] are 330,000 residents here. We get way more than that.
[54:09] In visitors, but there are still folks in our community
[54:11] who have not had the opportunity. For a lot of
[54:14] different reasons. To appreciate these different projects and different properties.
[54:21] And learn about even access to it. So I don't
[54:24] know if you each want to talk about it individually
[54:26] or somebody wants. To talk about it. Overall, I am
[54:29] aware there is a crisp plan, so I don't need
[54:31] to hear about that, but I am interested. In. I
[54:35] don't see it yet. And I'm concerned. Sure. Thank you
[54:39] for the question, and we appreciate that. It's definitely something
[54:44] that we're very much aware of. And. Is being more
[54:48] and more woven throughout all the work that we do
[54:51] and. As I did show you, there are those four
[54:54] lenses of focus areas that we look at. One of
[54:56] them being the cultural responsiveness. So examples in the cast.
[55:01] Are. The sign work that we're doing with, including bilingual
[55:05] signage to help people feel more welcome. When they visit.
[55:10] Our properties. The indian mountain infrastructure to support the work
[55:16] that the native american vets are doing with their sweats
[55:20] and healing ceremonies there so they have a more comfortable
[55:24] experience. The wetland, or, sorry, the grassland restoration at Rock
[55:29] Creek Farm. Restoring it to native conditions gives us an
[55:32] opportunity in the future to do some interpretive work there.
[55:39] That would speak to the native uses that were there,
[55:43] and I'm sorry, I'm. Not remembering what the fourth project
[55:45] was, but maybe one. I'm guessing it's your number six
[55:48] joint. Pigeon on that, Tina. Sure. So the last project
[55:51] was the indigenous ways and land. Commitment funds that we
[55:54] were requesting. That group was, of course, originally formed for
[55:58] the land. Commitment statement, and they are concluding that work
[56:02] right now. But. In their journey, they have recognized that
[56:06] there's so much more to be done, so that $50,000
[56:10] is seed money for them to pursue. The two paths
[56:15] that together, along with their consultant, has deemed like the
[56:19] next best step to support staff. On their educational journey
[56:25] so we can, in turn. Infuse that into our external
[56:29] work with the community. So that is the fourth project.
[56:33] And I think maybe the other thing to point out
[56:35] in response to this is this is just what goes
[56:38] through cast a lot of our operational money that we
[56:41] use regularly in our divisions also. Support different components of
[56:46] implementing policy 1.6 and so that would be our crisp
[56:51] team and the work that we're doing. There as well.
[56:55] As I think we have shared information on indigenous communities
[56:59] as well, that we're trying. To also advance. And I
[57:04] also wanted to address the prairie run briefly, if I
[57:07] could. I do not know the owl. I will have
[57:10] to ask others. But Prairie run. We did discuss that
[57:14] and recognize that that. Item is not coming to you
[57:17] until early next year. January 25 is the hearing date,
[57:21] and so. I think that it is appropriate to condition
[57:24] approval. For those funds based on approval of that management
[57:29] plan. Thank you. Thank you. I'll add just a quick
[57:34] little bit. So as a part of that museum master
[57:39] plan, There's a lot that our education and outreach group
[57:42] will be implementing and trying to kind of change. Some
[57:46] of the storylines. Traditionally, you walk into our ag heritage
[57:51] center and it's white history, and it doesn't. Center around
[57:54] some of the other stories that can be told. I
[57:57] would love to send you a link of that master
[57:59] plan because there's some really neat storylines that. The consultant
[58:04] identified. And so those are some things that our education
[58:07] and outreach group will be working on. Stefan. I heard
[58:11] just the Ag center, but I also heard you present
[58:13] on that assay office just. To clarify. The plan that
[58:18] was completed last year had the ag heritage center, the
[58:21] Ned mining museum and the assay office. Okay. And so
[58:24] there should be a little bit more in the assay
[58:26] office. But in terms of. How that's going to be
[58:32] more focused on the outside. To make it more accessible.
[58:36] So they kind of looked at both. From telling more
[58:41] inclusive stories, but then also making. These properties a little
[58:44] bit more accessible and usable. So it's kind of a
[58:48] dual report. Thank you. I just wanted to add the
[58:52] other one other project that I think Tina was going
[58:53] to refer. To as the Ada access. So that would
[58:56] be a big piece. And then I would also say,
[58:59] looking at the sign manuals as a pretty good example.
[59:02] Part of this is working with the community. And I
[59:05] think through that project, we did a lot of focus
[59:06] groups, and we brought people in to look at the
[59:08] signs and interact with them and really. Got feedback from
[59:12] the community, which made that project, I think, very successful.
[59:15] And so I think, through all of this process, the
[59:17] more we can engage and interact with our community, the
[59:19] more we can get a product that actually benefits the
[59:21] community. Thank you. And then from an agricultural perspective, we
[59:26] have overhauled our RFP bid scoring criteria this year, and
[59:30] we have two properties. That we will be sending out
[59:32] to bid using that new scoring criteria. So our hope
[59:36] is that we can attract. New tenants, younger tenants. To
[59:41] become part of the Boulder county parks and open space
[59:43] family. And partnerships, so we're really excited about that. We're
[59:49] also continuing to work. With young farmers and looking for
[59:53] opportunities to reach out to more diverse communities to engage
[59:56] them in these conversations to make sure that they have
[59:58] opportunities and are aware that these opportunities are available. We're
[1:00:02] also looking at some acquisitions that could potentially create some
[1:00:07] space. For next generation of farmers to start off on
[1:00:12] a smaller piece of property rather than starting off with
[1:00:15] 400, 500 acres, which as a new business might not
[1:00:18] be viable for them. But in the ten to 20
[1:00:21] acres. That might be their sweet spot as a beginning
[1:00:23] farmer. Great. Thank you. And I appreciate everybody's conversation updates.
[1:00:33] And I also am still concerned about it. And so
[1:00:35] I just want to figure out. Commissioner Levy was here
[1:00:39] with me last year, and my ask was I need
[1:00:42] to see something different. In a budget because I just
[1:00:45] feel really strongly that. Our opportunity as local government is
[1:00:49] to respond with funding. It's funding and its policies. There's
[1:00:55] all these other ways, but those are the big ones.
[1:00:58] As you all are asking your questions, I can do
[1:01:00] some math on what you've told. Me, but for me,
[1:01:03] signage is something that we started working on a couple
[1:01:05] of years ago, so. For me. It's just not innovative.
[1:01:09] It's not something new. It doesn't. Show me that parks
[1:01:10] and open space. With this $10 million. Is looking at
[1:01:16] new ways to. Address. The gaps in racial equity. In
[1:01:23] Boulder county with parks and open space. The indian mountain
[1:01:25] is the same for me because. It's a project with
[1:01:28] history. All we're doing is updating infrastructure, and I. Know
[1:01:32] it's work, but it doesn't feel. And if it doesn't
[1:01:34] feel, like we're reaching out to another sector of. The
[1:01:38] other tribes who have history here in the state of
[1:01:41] Colorado and certainly our region specifically. And the grass restoration.
[1:01:45] I think that's great. We need to get to a
[1:01:49] place where. Native perennials is just part of the way
[1:01:53] that parks and Opa space works. We can't say. For
[1:01:56] this project, we're going to do native perennials. And so
[1:01:58] now we're addressing Native Americans or American Indian, and I'm
[1:02:01] just sharing that because that's how I'm receiving it. So
[1:02:04] we just need to be aware that other folks in
[1:02:06] the community might also receive. What we're as an organization
[1:02:10] thinking as great work as this is, the expectation from
[1:02:13] folks. And the hopes for folks in all of our
[1:02:17] work, besides saying this is an equity project, because of
[1:02:20] native grasses. I just want to share that. In encouragement
[1:02:25] and also. The same concern. That. I've been hearing, and
[1:02:30] I also want to share with this group some conversation
[1:02:33] that I had yesterday with our historic preservation advisory board
[1:02:37] that I feel like there's an opportunity here. When I
[1:02:40] hear that parks and open space properties. Either it's museums
[1:02:44] or some of the facilities where we're recreating white settler.
[1:02:49] Activities and events and things like that that you were
[1:02:51] talking about. Stefan, yesterday was old time baseball. Games and
[1:02:55] some of these old practices. And in that narrative, and
[1:02:59] I think what's missing in some of this narrative and
[1:03:01] presentation or preparation and packets, et cetera, is that historical
[1:03:05] narrative of people whose land this was and when. We
[1:03:09] talk about land acknowledgment, which is my understanding of the
[1:03:13] indigenous ways. Commitment committee. That they started with land acknowledgement.
[1:03:20] And what I heard you say as they started, they're.
[1:03:22] Working on land commitment, which they are now. But I
[1:03:24] also think we need to acknowledge where we've been and
[1:03:27] state what the work has been so that we can
[1:03:29] see where we're developing or not. And the other piece
[1:03:32] that you all know is as the lead from the
[1:03:34] county commissioner's office working on how we are going to,
[1:03:37] as an organization, move from land acknowledgment. To meaningful action.
[1:03:43] I'm concerned about. If we're going to be tapping into
[1:03:46] potentially. The same folks for conversation. My understanding of number
[1:03:51] six here with that commitment group or committee? Is to
[1:03:56] focus internally, which I'm 100% about. You all have heard
[1:04:00] me say we need to get our own house in
[1:04:02] order before we go out and tell our folks how
[1:04:03] to do their work. In all of. These different. Sectors
[1:04:09] that you're talking about here and presenting on. And if
[1:04:13] we're talking about potentially tribal consultation, That would potentially be
[1:04:17] part of that. It's talking about, how do we do
[1:04:20] restorative? Practices. How do we look at native plants? For
[1:04:25] commissioners and we can have a little bit of conversation
[1:04:27] about. It's just something that's. Concerning me about how do
[1:04:30] we. I don't want us to get ahead in one
[1:04:32] area similar to what we did with office of Racial
[1:04:34] Equity and have racial equity managers start in a different
[1:04:38] department somewhere else, or we have folks doing different frameworks
[1:04:41] or building different frameworks. To do that work. But I
[1:04:46] appreciate all the responses and the conversation. This is really
[1:04:48] helpful to have a good idea. Of where you all
[1:04:50] are working on. Commission, of course, follow up to that.
[1:04:55] One thing that doesn't yet show up in our budget
[1:04:57] because we're not quite there yet is the work that
[1:04:58] we're doing with the Shannon and Narapahob tribes. We're having
[1:05:01] ongoing conversations with them about trying to identify where in
[1:05:05] parks and open space properties might be a great place
[1:05:08] for them to come. Back and reintroduce bison into the
[1:05:10] landscape. We are doing a lot of work. Behind the
[1:05:13] scenes. That just hasn't come up to a point where
[1:05:16] we need to ask. For budget yet. So there's a
[1:05:19] potential that we could progress those conversations in 2024. And
[1:05:22] as part of our 2025 budget requests. We have a
[1:05:25] specific asks ask, but right now, we're not quite there,
[1:05:29] but we are having ongoing, active dialogue with those groups.
[1:05:33] Thank you, and I appreciate that and. I haven't had
[1:05:36] a chance. To update the board yet on some of
[1:05:40] that work. And then the meeting I had on Friday.
[1:05:43] Again. That's part of the reason why I'm a little
[1:05:45] concerned about the timing. Because I still have recommendations to
[1:05:48] present to the board in regards to this topic of
[1:05:50] Native American Indian and indigenous work here at the county,
[1:05:53] so. Thanks, Mike. Thanks, Mr. Stolesman. Thank you. I appreciate
[1:06:00] the comments and questions on how do we continue to
[1:06:02] improve and how do we continue to get better and
[1:06:05] how do these projects connect to the programs and things
[1:06:07] like that? So thank you for the comments and questions.
[1:06:12] I did want to say I thought each of you
[1:06:14] had just such great presentation skills. It was kind of
[1:06:17] amazing to sit and watch like each of you is
[1:06:19] quite a good presenter. So that was of note. I
[1:06:24] had a couple of. I'm sure what you'll find to
[1:06:26] be very simple. Questions. I just wondered. On the ag
[1:06:30] project, there was one where you're adding a bridge. And
[1:06:34] I wondered if you considered an alternative of piping that
[1:06:37] ditch rather than building a bridge. Over it. The county
[1:06:41] does not own the ditch. It's owned by the Ish
[1:06:45] Ditch company. And at this point in time, they do
[1:06:49] not have the resources or the interest in piping. That
[1:06:52] ditch. It transports a large volume of water. And so.
[1:06:59] In the essence of time and lower cost of putting
[1:07:03] a bridge over that 20 foot span is going to
[1:07:05] be a lot faster and a lot less expensive than
[1:07:08] piping. I think it's. A mile and a half a
[1:07:11] ditch, and they will grant us an easement. Crossing easement.
[1:07:15] Great. And then on the same ditch, I'm sort of
[1:07:18] in the ditch space. There are some other opportunities that
[1:07:23] community members have brought forward around. Like in Lewisville. There's
[1:07:28] the ditch that provides water. To the Mayhoffer farm, the
[1:07:33] more newly acquired area. That's no longer unceded. And the
[1:07:36] water conveys a different way of terminating that easement because
[1:07:40] it creates fire. HaZaRD and there's no water in it
[1:07:42] and things like that. So how do community members submit
[1:07:44] suggestions formally or how does the project like that make
[1:07:48] its way onto a list like this? In a future
[1:07:50] year. It's a great question. A lot of those types
[1:07:53] of requests, community members. Or local elected officials, reach out
[1:07:58] directly to Terese, myself, or Darren Beck, who's our water
[1:08:02] supervisor and say, hey, is this something that you can
[1:08:04] take a look at? And then we add that to
[1:08:06] our list of requests that come in, and then we
[1:08:09] try to figure out where on the level of importance
[1:08:12] that falls. Given some of the other maintenance backlog issues
[1:08:16] that we're trying to address. Or. We have one of
[1:08:19] our ditches has an 80% water loss, and to me
[1:08:23] that's. Near the top of the list of trying to
[1:08:25] fix. So it's weighing those types of community requests versus
[1:08:30] what we know we need to get. Fixed. In the
[1:08:33] near term, but if there's a community member that has
[1:08:37] a particular request, have them reach out to me. Great.
[1:08:40] Thank you very much. And then the Harney Listoka Historic
[1:08:44] Preservation project was on the list, and I just wanted
[1:08:46] to make sure everybody on staff was aware the city
[1:08:49] of Lewisville has a dedicated tax for historic preservation projects
[1:08:53] and a few years ago expanded where the tax was
[1:08:56] applicable to outside the city. Limits with a couple of
[1:08:59] properties in mind, because originally the. Tax was limited to
[1:09:03] projects that were within the city limits. And the red
[1:09:08] barn. Came to mind as something we might want to
[1:09:11] help with in the Harney Listoka property. And then also
[1:09:15] some other properties that are historic, that are right there
[1:09:18] on the city limits. But in the County. So that
[1:09:21] was changed. So I just wanted to make sure you
[1:09:23] are aware that. There's dedicated funding for historic preservation projects.
[1:09:28] It would be like a grant you'd have to apply.
[1:09:31] I just want to fYi, this group, I was not
[1:09:33] aware, so I very much appreciate that. Thank you. And
[1:09:37] on the russian olive trees. I've noticed the county working
[1:09:41] through trying to eradicate the russian olives over a number
[1:09:43] of years, and I wondered if you could kind of
[1:09:46] go. Into. So what do you do in the following
[1:09:48] year? Just because they are so tricky. Right. And so
[1:09:51] you go in, and then. Is there a year? Two
[1:09:54] year? Three? Plan to make sure your hard work doesn't
[1:09:57] just so there are a couple of things. When we
[1:10:00] remove the brush and olive, they do a stump treatment
[1:10:03] on those individuals to try to prevent sprouting. But we
[1:10:07] do follow up our properties. With. We pay attention to
[1:10:11] what's going on and we look at hand felling before
[1:10:14] the russian olives become. A piece that has to be
[1:10:18] removed with machinery or cut and chipped. So we try
[1:10:21] to take care of it in an easier fashion. But
[1:10:24] then, like I had mentioned, the goal is to. Plant
[1:10:29] other species in there that can kind of crowd out.
[1:10:33] And kind of take back over. So is it helpful
[1:10:37] if there are areas that you've treated and there's still
[1:10:40] an opportunity before they get huge to go back in
[1:10:42] and retreat. Is that helpful? If community members or county
[1:10:45] commissioners let you know of those areas or not? Yes.
[1:10:49] I mean, I think. We're trying to look at, obviously,
[1:10:53] parks and open space lands that have the issue. And
[1:10:56] then kind of prioritize and address that. But yes, if
[1:10:59] there's areas that you know, that you'd like us to
[1:11:01] look at, then we can get out there and. Take
[1:11:03] a look. Yeah. There are some places where you've treated,
[1:11:05] and then maybe it's. Like two, three, four years after,
[1:11:08] and it's like, oh, we should go back. Before. It
[1:11:10] looks like the picture you showed us. If you know
[1:11:12] them, let us know. That sounds. Great. And just the
[1:11:16] last one I have is just on the stearns parking
[1:11:18] lot. Was there a needs analysis to show that that
[1:11:21] many spaces is needed there. I use that facility quite
[1:11:24] often. I just didn't know we needed all those spaces.
[1:11:28] Yes. So there was at the time of the original
[1:11:33] proposal for that expansion, which was, I want to say,
[1:11:36] 2018. So that's been a bit of a slower moving
[1:11:40] project because there were issues with the initial design, so.
[1:11:44] They're only actually adding now. I want to say ten
[1:11:47] extra stalls. And. It was and is still needed, according
[1:11:53] to Rangers. That help our eyes on the ground, and
[1:11:58] so we are planning to move ahead with that work.
[1:12:02] Okay, and so ten more spaces is, like, close to
[1:12:04] doubling, right? I think it's 13. Right now. Okay. I
[1:12:10] suppose if it was deemed, like, necessary. And I'm not
[1:12:16] out there like the Rangers are twenty four seven. And
[1:12:18] maybe I go at the perfect time when no one
[1:12:20] else is there. But I haven't seen people using the
[1:12:23] spaces. It was an outcome of the Carolyn Homeburg management
[1:12:28] plan that was done, I think was it 2018 or
[1:12:31] 2019? It was right before my arrival and then that.
[1:12:35] Was identified as a need at that time. And then
[1:12:39] especially so during the pandemic. And I think probably what
[1:12:42] you're observing is more of that moderation and use, but
[1:12:46] we do want to get ten more spots out. There
[1:12:48] because with the growing community around it, we anticipate that
[1:12:52] they will be needed. Okay? Thank you for that. I
[1:12:55] think, actually the biggest change is the trail connectivity. Like,
[1:12:58] since the trail. Has been better connected in. I think
[1:13:01] people are biking or walking instead of driving. Wonderful. That's.
[1:13:04] What we want. Yes. Thank you very much. Great. And
[1:13:08] I just want to start by saying that I do
[1:13:12] agree with the comments that my fellow commissioners have raised.
[1:13:18] And especially commissioner Lo Chime's comments. This has been an
[1:13:23] ongoing concern of how are we really actually actively acknowledging
[1:13:28] the role of nation? And indigenous peoples on our lands.
[1:13:34] And so. It's something, although Commissioner Lohamin is working very
[1:13:39] actively on that. It's something. I remain very interested in
[1:13:43] as well. So I'm just going to go down minor,
[1:13:47] kind of scatter shot, like I wrote. Them down as
[1:13:49] you were presenting. On the center pivots. Mike, I totally
[1:13:54] understand. The water efficiency, water conservation issues there. And support
[1:14:01] water conservation efforts. I guess what I've been thinking about.
[1:14:05] That we've been hearing, or I've been hearing anyway, in
[1:14:08] the three years that I've been on this board is
[1:14:11] so we have these very large tracks of land and.
[1:14:15] It's impractical to make them available. In smaller parcels. To
[1:14:20] farmers. That may not be ready, as you said, to
[1:14:24] farm 500 acres. And it occurs to me that that
[1:14:29] center pivot improvement, all the money invested. Really kind of
[1:14:34] seals the fate of that property. Makes it very hard
[1:14:38] to cut it up then for smaller uses and I
[1:14:42] don't know. Whether any of these parcels, under any circumstances
[1:14:47] we may want to. Make available. In smaller plots, but
[1:14:52] I guess it's just something to be thinking about. That's
[1:14:56] a huge investment that supports current farming practices. And. It
[1:15:04] kind of locks in continuing to do what we're doing
[1:15:07] as opposed to. Maybe. Leaving the door open. It's a
[1:15:12] balance. And I realize that we don't want to be
[1:15:14] wasting water. So long as it's used for what it's
[1:15:17] currently used for, but it just. Was something. That I've
[1:15:22] been thinking about here, so you don't need to respond
[1:15:25] to that. It's just a thought. Further. On the ditch
[1:15:32] improvements, the ditch work, as you know. The issue of
[1:15:37] the debris removal comes up. When the ditches remove the
[1:15:42] debris to improve water flow, and it's a fire mitigation.
[1:15:46] Issue that folks are looking at. The one a money
[1:15:50] for. You're doing ditch improvements. And having. I think the
[1:15:57] community would feel really good. If we could all get
[1:16:00] on the same page. On whether, at least for the
[1:16:05] dishes that the county owns, I guess we don't have
[1:16:09] a majority share, but we're on the board of many
[1:16:11] of these. Whether we can support that debris removal. The
[1:16:15] debris removal is something that we're collaborating with our CPMP
[1:16:19] department on with a lot of the one a funding
[1:16:22] wildfire mitigation dollars. There's some new programs that are going
[1:16:26] to be available in 2024 with this funding. And to
[1:16:31] go out and chip a lot of that Woody debris
[1:16:34] that gets taken out and put on the bank or
[1:16:37] broadcast into an ag field. So our tenants are actually
[1:16:41] really excited about having that material come out and chipped
[1:16:44] because then they could just use the wood chips on
[1:16:46] the property. Yeah. These would be the reaches of the
[1:16:49] ditches that go through. The residential areas, maybe more so,
[1:16:54] although they're all conduits in some way, I can add
[1:16:58] a little bit more to that. Stefan Rhino, research management
[1:17:01] division manager one of the. Things that we did. Look
[1:17:04] at our current Wheeler Ranch contract to see if there
[1:17:08] was any way we could have tagged something on this
[1:17:10] year to start addressing. Some of the ditches that have
[1:17:14] invasive species in some of the piles, and the language
[1:17:17] that was written. In. It didn't allow us to kind
[1:17:20] of update it and allow them to go on. Other
[1:17:23] locations. And so we will actually be having a meeting
[1:17:26] early in the year to discuss. Putting out. Another bid
[1:17:31] and see if we can take care of some of
[1:17:33] the ditches and kind of. Progress through them. So there
[1:17:36] is something that we're working on. We just weren't. Able
[1:17:38] to piggyback on this most recent contract. Okay, thanks. I'm
[1:17:43] going to be a little abbreviated here, just to keep
[1:17:46] us on time. Just an observation on Harney Listoka roof
[1:17:52] project, and I think. Who was that? Is that yours,
[1:17:57] Jared? Yeah, that. Replacing it with Cedar, which. Is historically
[1:18:02] appropriate. But it's a fire hazard. I guess. I wonder.
[1:18:09] What you can do to mitigate the fire hazard from
[1:18:12] continuing to have cedar shakes on the roof. We're running
[1:18:15] to that with a lot of our reroofing projects, and
[1:18:18] we're looking at alternatives and how we might be able
[1:18:21] to maintain the historic aspect of that. While looking at
[1:18:25] newer materials or something that looks like cedar but is
[1:18:27] not cedar. So that is on our radar, and cedar
[1:18:30] is becoming harder and harder to find because of that.
[1:18:32] Yeah, exactly. We typically can't find it around here at
[1:18:35] all, to be honest. Okay, well, just a thing. To
[1:18:38] keep in mind. On the, I guess a couple of
[1:18:41] the indigenous ways. And I think. I don't know if
[1:18:48] it was you, Tina, in your overview that was just
[1:18:51] mentioning that. When we do the interpretive signage on our
[1:18:56] properties that we do want to have more accurate representations
[1:19:00] of the history of the land. And I was wondering.
[1:19:07] What your sources are. Your reference sources. What open spaces
[1:19:12] reference sources will be for. That. And again, I don't
[1:19:17] need an answer here today. But. History. There are a
[1:19:23] lot of interpretations of history and a lot of resources
[1:19:26] for history. And there is no one definitive story that
[1:19:31] is the accurate story. So it's just something to keep
[1:19:33] in mind. Of the nature of the references, the resources
[1:19:37] that you might use, and then how you take that.
[1:19:41] And put it onto signage. Where you're. Trying to, in
[1:19:46] many ways, simplify things. So that it can fit on
[1:19:49] a sign and communicate quickly. And in the process. May
[1:19:55] be simplified to the point that. It makes it a
[1:19:58] simple, happy story, which we like to do in our
[1:20:02] signage that isn't. Necessarily an accurate story. So that was
[1:20:07] something in my mind. Just a couple more. Again, also
[1:20:13] on the Stearns Lake parking area, I do recall the
[1:20:16] presentation on the need for that. And how careful you
[1:20:20] are trying to be. And I think I expressed this
[1:20:23] at the time. There may not be any way to
[1:20:25] solve for it without losing spaces, but it is really
[1:20:30] nice. To be able to go in and out, have
[1:20:33] the ingress egress, and I just. See so many conflicts
[1:20:36] in parking lots where you get to the dead end
[1:20:39] and you have to back up. To get out, and
[1:20:42] it's tight and people are in there. With their trucks
[1:20:46] and things. And just maybe you can look at having
[1:20:50] some sort of turnaround. Or preserving the two points, the
[1:20:54] ingress egress. So, just to respond to that briefly, this
[1:20:59] parking lot has probably been redesigned. I'm not kidding. Twelve
[1:21:02] to 15 times. And the conceptual that you saw up
[1:21:06] on the screen was really like the last best attempt
[1:21:10] to expand that parking lot as we committed to, while
[1:21:14] still honoring the wildlife buffer. And not encroaching. Too far
[1:21:19] into the wet area on one side, and so. We
[1:21:23] did choose. To eliminate that access point. But what we
[1:21:28] are doing is providing that 25 foot standard width between
[1:21:33] the parking stalls, which some of our older, more tighter
[1:21:36] lots didn't necessarily do. And so that's the width that
[1:21:40] you're going to get. In all modern parking lots because
[1:21:43] that will accommodate your big trucks backing out and turning.
[1:21:48] But. We did eliminate the trailer parking in order to
[1:21:52] even do what we're proposing out there. So it will
[1:21:57] just be for cars only, hopefully. And that'll help as
[1:22:01] well. All right. Thanks. And we've got 1 minute left.
[1:22:05] And I don't need to ask the rest of my
[1:22:07] questions. I did have one and it's really important question.
[1:22:13] You have combined your capital improvements in stewardship, and you
[1:22:17] said you're renaming it your. Cast and I do not
[1:22:21] know where the t comes from. I have wrecked. Stewardship.
[1:22:27] Stewardship. Well, why don't you just call it casp and
[1:22:30] it's your. Projects? I don't know. This is what I
[1:22:34] think about when I read these things, all right? Can
[1:22:38] we go back to the parking lot? Everyone's been working
[1:22:42] on this. Dozens of plants and all of these things.
[1:22:53] I understand what you're saying, and I'm asking. I don't
[1:22:56] want everyone to be worried with this question, so just
[1:23:00] stay calm over there. In the room for a minute.
[1:23:03] But just leaving it as is with the entries, is
[1:23:07] that a good solution? I would say I was out
[1:23:10] there during the pandemic, which was like the peak of
[1:23:14] use. I always got a parking spot. I wasn't there
[1:23:21] on weekends because I was very fortunate that. I could
[1:23:26] go during the week, so I can't speak to that.
[1:23:30] So. I think I'm going to leave this one. Okay.
[1:23:34] I just wondered with your question about. The turnaround and
[1:23:36] everything. Yeah. Heidi addressed it. There's a lot more width
[1:23:43] between parking stalls. And there's standard nine by 18 stalls
[1:23:51] themselves, which was also not something that we always did
[1:23:54] in the past. So, again, modern dimensions. So you have
[1:23:57] room on both sides as well, yeah. Not like this
[1:24:02] parking lot out here. Or most of the. Ones. Okay.
[1:24:08] Yeah. Commissioners, I think if there are no further questions.
[1:24:12] We are taking action today by way of a motion.
[1:24:17] Public comment. Oh, my gosh. Thank you. I didn't realize
[1:24:20] we were doing that. Thank you for reminding me there's
[1:24:24] no one in the hearing room. Well, and I didn't.
[1:24:26] Announce. How to sign up to speak because I didn't
[1:24:31] see that on the agenda. I just. Saw that. We
[1:24:34] were making a decision, but there is no one in
[1:24:36] the hearing room. Who is present to speak, and it
[1:24:40] looks like no one has signed up to speak virtually.
[1:24:44] I was not able to find my link for this.
[1:24:46] I usually try to watch and see who's joined us
[1:24:49] remotely. Brianna. Were you working with anyone that wanted to
[1:24:55] be promoted? Thank you, chair Levy. This is Brianna Barber,
[1:25:00] assistant clerk to the board. At this time. There is
[1:25:02] no one in zoom that is registering to speak. Thanks
[1:25:05] for checking. Okay, thank you. So with that then. We
[1:25:10] do not have any public comment on this plan. And
[1:25:14] so now we are ready for a motion. I just
[1:25:17] wanted to check in. Were there any changes proposed in
[1:25:20] the motion that's being made like, we all had a
[1:25:22] lot of questions, and I just wasn't clear if there
[1:25:24] were any. Well, and just as a reminder, the suggestion
[1:25:27] was because of the open question on the prairie run
[1:25:30] parking location. To approve that. Contingent on resolution of the
[1:25:40] location of the parking area. Or resolution of the whole
[1:25:43] plan is what I heard, because we haven't approved the
[1:25:45] whole plan. Yeah. I agree. That was my suggestion of
[1:25:50] the condition of approval, and I believe it was number
[1:25:54] eleven. Of the item. I definitely would want to have
[1:25:58] that condition added. Each section has its own numbering. Now
[1:26:02] that I'm looking at that. Okay, so staff can help
[1:26:05] us with that. But the other one I am. I
[1:26:12] would like to get some input on in regards to.
[1:26:16] Item. Let's see here. Where is item six? But it's
[1:26:19] in the resource planning. Division. Maybe, if that's why I'm
[1:26:23] reading it. A sways line commitment. Indigenous landways, land commitment.
[1:26:30] And I don't know what the best way to do
[1:26:31] that is, but I think what my concern. Is. That
[1:26:38] I want to make sure this goes hand in hand
[1:26:40] with the work that we're doing? In the bigger county
[1:26:44] scope. And I haven't. As I've shared, I haven't. Had
[1:26:47] a chance to meet with the board yet to give
[1:26:49] recommend. Recommendations with all of these different pieces and the
[1:26:54] work that Mike shared about a little bit. Too. So
[1:26:56] that's the only piece that I would like. To. Ask
[1:27:01] the board. To remove for now. Or the other option.
[1:27:06] If we're going to condition, the other item would be
[1:27:08] the condition. That item until. We have approved list of
[1:27:13] recommendations by the board of county commissioners about how we'll
[1:27:16] move from land acknowledgment to meaningful action. I'll make a
[1:27:19] try at a motion, and then we can. Well, I'd
[1:27:23] like to ask a question about that, though. I guess
[1:27:26] what my concern would be is if we remove it.
[1:27:28] This is a question maybe for Tina. If we remove
[1:27:32] it, then that defers the whole project. You're going to
[1:27:37] love my motion. Okay. All right. It's taken care of.
[1:27:40] Never. Mind, all right? I would move to approve the
[1:27:45] 2024 capital and stewardship project conditionally. The first condition? Would
[1:27:49] just be a condition on the approval of the Prairie
[1:27:51] Run management plan for that particular project. And then give
[1:27:55] direction to staff that the indigenous ways land commitment project
[1:27:58] would go back through to Commissioner Lo. Jamins. She's the
[1:28:04] team lead on indigenous work and would work through that
[1:28:08] process to realize the full project before implementation. I'm fine
[1:28:13] with that. Works for me. Does that mean. Second well.
[1:28:19] I was going to maybe ask staff. If that's okay.
[1:28:23] Chair for ask staff deliberation. So yes to both. I
[1:28:29] would be very eager to bring the result of the
[1:28:33] land commitment work to you in a PMI, perhaps, or
[1:28:37] whatever the appropriate forum is. I sent an email before
[1:28:40] this meeting trying to figure out who the best contact
[1:28:44] is to set up a meeting with that group. Right.
[1:28:48] That would be me. And I'll connect with the lead
[1:28:51] of that group, and I would love to come and.
[1:28:53] Present what they have been doing, and then. Why they
[1:28:57] are thinking this is the next best step, because I
[1:29:00] think you're really going to appreciate. That they left the
[1:29:04] commitment behind pretty early and moved. To or. I'm sorry.
[1:29:09] I left the acknowledgment behind early and. Moved to commitment,
[1:29:12] and they have made it a focus of every presentation
[1:29:14] that they have given us. Internally to really emphasize that
[1:29:18] word commitment. We can't just have words. So I'm very
[1:29:21] excited to bring it to you. Yeah. That's great. I
[1:29:24] just want to clarify something because my understanding is there
[1:29:28] is not an RFP out yet, but I heard somebody
[1:29:30] in the presentation talk about the consultant. They have prepared
[1:29:35] it, but they would not release it until next year
[1:29:38] if it's funded. So just want to make sure it's
[1:29:40] not going to interfere with something that's. Already in the
[1:29:41] process, so that's great. So, yes, I would take your
[1:29:45] motion, and I second that motion. Okay, so we do
[1:29:48] have a motion. And a second, I think the relevant
[1:29:52] parties indicate that the conditions are clear to them. So
[1:29:56] all in favor. Aye. So we have approved that. Thank
[1:29:59] you very much for your presentation. Your dialogue. We appreciate
[1:30:04] it. And I'll be waiting to hear what type of
[1:30:06] baby owl. That northern pygmy owl. You're so good, Stefan.
[1:30:11] Thank you. With that. I would encourage. All right. Congratulations
[1:30:17] on completing your hearings for the year. Well, thank you
[1:30:21] for being the last. Doing such a great job. No,
[1:30:28] really appreciate it. Thanks. We are now adjourned.