[1:10] Good evening.

[1:10] I

[1:11] d like to call to order our

[1:12] City Council meeting for

[1:16] Tuesday, AUGUST 4th, 2026. I

[1:16] m

[1:17] going to ask Council member

[1:18] Fiedler to lead us in the

[1:27] Pledge of Allegiance.

[1:31] To the Republic for six one

[1:33] nation under GOD, indivisible,

[1:43] with liberty and justice.

[1:45] Thank you, MADAM City Clerk,

[1:48] please call the roll. Mayor,

[1:49] here.

[1:51] Mayor Pro Tem Padilla here.

[1:52] Council member Carbajal.

[1:53] She

[1:54] s traveling.

[1:56] Council member. Collins here.

[1:57] Council member.

[1:58] Fiedler here.

[2:01] Council member. Green. Key.

[2:03] Council member. Snyder here.

[2:05] Council member. Taddeo.

[2:06] Present.

[2:08] Council member. Wirth. Here.

[2:09] You have a quorum, Your Honor.

[2:11] Thank you. Next. The approval

[2:13] of. Oh, no, not the approval.

[2:15] Hold on, MADAM City clerk,

[2:17] please read the consent agenda

[2:18] to the record.

[2:20] Item two a approval of the JULY

[2:23] 7th, 2026 City Council minutes.

[2:25] Item two be a resolution of the

[2:26] City Council of the City of

[2:28] Brighton, Colorado. Appointing

[2:29] members to the City of Brighton

[2:31] Youth Commission for terms

[2:33] ending in JUNE of 2028.

[2:34] Thank you. What is the pleasure

[2:36] Council? Council member green.

[2:37] Thank you. Mayor. I approve of

[2:39] the AUGUST 4th consent agenda.

[2:40] Can I make a motion to approve

[2:42] it.?

[2:43] And then Council member

[2:44] Fiedler.

[2:45] Thank you. Mayor. I

[2:45] ll second.

[2:47] We have a first and second to

[2:49] approve the consent agenda as

[2:57] presented. Roll call. Vote.

[3:00] Motion passes 8 to 0 and one

[3:03] absent. Next is the approval of

[3:06] the regular agenda. When our

[3:06] screens clear. Who

[3:07] d like to

[3:10] make that motion? Council

[3:12] member Snyder.

[3:13] I move to approve the regular

[3:15] agenda as presented.

[3:17] Council member Taddeo.

[3:17] Thank you. I

[3:18] ll second that.

[3:20] We have a first and second to

[3:23] approve the regular agenda.

[3:31] Roll call. Vote. Motion passes

[3:34] 8 to 0 with one absent. Moving

[3:36] on to ceremonies. Why?

[3:36] Everybody

[3:38] s here. Right. Item

[3:41] for a swear in Brighton Youth

[3:42] Commission and Brighton Youth

[3:44] Impact members. Uh, we

[3:45] d like

[3:47] to welcome back City Manager

[3:48] Martinez.

[3:49] I forgot how to turn on my

[3:50] microphone.

[3:51] Yes.

[3:51] It

[3:52] s good to be back. Thank you

[3:54] all. I appreciate that if you

[3:55] are here this evening to be

[3:57] sworn in, please join us at the

[3:59] podium. And our city clerk will

[4:00] meet you there.

[4:00] That

[4:35] s a lot of you.

[4:36] Raise your right hand. Repeat

[4:39] after me. I state your name.

[4:40] I. Great.

[4:42] Do solemnly declare..

[4:44] Solemnly declare.

[4:46] And affirm. Affirm that I will

[4:47] support.

[4:47] And this is.

[4:50] The Constitution of the United.

[4:52] States of the United States.

[4:53] The Constitution.

[4:55] The Constitution.

[4:56] Of the State of Colorado.

[4:57] Of the State of Colorado.

[5:00] The Brighton Municipal Charter.

[5:00] Municipal.

[5:02] And the office.

[5:04] Of the Office of.

[5:04] Youth Commission.

[5:06] Member unit. Commission member.

[5:08] I will faithfully perform.

[5:11] Faithfully for. The office the

[5:14] duties of the office, not

[5:14] death.

[5:15] Thank you all so.

[5:16] Much.

[5:22] Who.

[5:24] Is this the introduction part?

[5:25] Now, Tanya. All right, that

[5:25] s

[5:27] for b. Go for it.

[5:28] Good evening. Mayor. City

[5:30] council members, city staff,

[5:32] families and guests. My name is

[5:33] Isaac. And this summer, I had

[5:35] the privilege of serving as a

[5:36] growing grads intern. Tonight,

[5:36] I

[5:38] m also honored to be inducted

[5:38] as a member of the Brighton

[5:40] Youth Commission. One of the

[5:41] things that I

[5:41] ve learned this

[5:42] summer is that Brighton just

[5:43] doesn

[5:44] t ask young people to be

[5:45] the future. It gives us

[5:46] opportunities to contribute.

[5:48] Today. Tonight, you

[5:48] re

[5:50] welcoming new members into two

[5:52] of these opportunities. The

[5:53] Brand Youth Commission gives

[5:54] young people meaningful

[5:56] opportunities to engage with

[5:58] local government, develop as

[5:59] leaders, and make a positive

[5:59] impact in the Brighton

[6:01] community. Brian Impact

[6:03] provides hands on opportunities

[6:04] to develop leadership through

[6:06] service, teamwork and community

[6:07] involvement. These programs

[6:09] remind us that leadership isn

[6:09] t

[6:10] about a title. It

[6:10] s about

[6:12] listening, taking initiative,

[6:13] serving others, and being

[6:14] willing to make a difference.

[6:16] They help us build confidence,

[6:17] develop new skills, and

[6:18] discover that our voices

[6:19] matter. As someone who

[6:19] s

[6:20] experienced one city youth

[6:22] leadership program and is now

[6:23] beginning another, I can say

[6:24] these opportunities have a real

[6:25] impact. They don

[6:26] t just prepare

[6:27] for someday. They allow us to

[6:29] make a difference. Today, on

[6:30] behalf of everyone being

[6:31] inducted tonight. Thank you for

[6:32] believing in young people

[6:34] enough to invest in us. Your

[6:35] support creates opportunities

[6:36] that help us grow into leaders

[6:38] who care deeply about brain and

[6:39] want to make a positive

[6:41] difference. Thank you for this

[6:42] opportunity. I

[6:43] m excited to

[6:44] begin serving alongside my

[6:45] fellow commissioners. Now I

[6:45] m

[6:46] going to have each new member

[6:48] introduce themselves. Please

[6:49] say your name. Great. And

[6:59] school.

[7:02] Hello, my name is Elias and I

[7:02] m

[7:04] entering the ninth grade at,

[7:14] um, Eagle Ridge Academy.

[7:17] My name is Lorenzo Freitas and

[7:17] I

[7:19] m going into seventh grade at

[7:25] Beacon Middle School.

[7:27] My name is Izzy. I

[7:28] m going into

[7:29] ninth grade at Brighton High

[7:32] School.

[7:34] Um, my name is Estrella, and

[7:34] I

[7:36] m going to sixth grade. And

[7:39] Foundation Academy.

[7:40] My name is Eddie Adobe. I

[7:40] m

[7:41] going into eighth grade at

[7:45] Beacon Middle School.

[7:48] My name is Derek, and I

[7:48] m going

[7:50] to Quest Middle School. And I

[7:50] m

[7:54] going to sixth grade.

[7:56] My name is Sofia Chavez, and I

[7:57] am going into ninth grade at

[8:00] Riverdale Ridge High School.

[8:02] My name is Adeline Christensen,

[8:03] and I

[8:04] m going into seventh

[8:06] grade at Century Middle School.

[8:09] My name is Julie McKinney, and

[8:09] I

[8:11] m going to seventh grade to

[8:13] to Chris Smith School.

[8:14] My name is Xavier and I

[8:15] m going

[8:17] into seventh grade at

[8:19] Foundations Academy.

[8:19] I

[8:20] m Elizabeth Holbrook.

[8:21] I

[8:22] m going into ninth grade at

[8:24] Frederick High School.

[8:25] My name is Margaret Amaya. I

[8:25] m

[8:27] going into the seventh grade at

[8:29] Foundations Academy.

[8:30] My name is Malia. I

[8:31] m going to

[8:32] the ninth grade at Riverdale

[8:35] Ridge High School. My name is

[8:36] Dallas, and I

[8:37] m going to the

[8:39] eighth grade at Quest Middle

[8:44] School. My name is Joseph, and

[8:44] i

[8:46] m going to initiate a Quest

[8:50] Middle school.

[8:52] My name is Addison Sanchez. I

[8:52] m

[8:53] going to eighth grade at

[8:58] Foundations Academy.

[9:00] My name is Nancy Sanchez. I

[9:00] m

[9:01] entering 12th grade at Eagle

[9:08] Ridge Academy.

[9:09] Good afternoon.

[9:10] I

[9:11] m Valentina, and I

[9:11] m entering

[9:17] 12th grade at Eagle. Richard.

[9:19] Good evening. My name is Kim,

[9:19] and I

[9:20] m going into my junior

[9:25] year at Bryan High School.

[9:26] My name is Isaac, and I

[9:27] m going

[9:29] into my sophomore year at

[9:33] Brighton High School.

[9:34] My name is Ari, and I

[9:34] m

[9:37] entering, uh, 11th grade in the

[9:41] state school.

[9:42] I didn

[9:43] t clarify mostly the

[9:44] teal poles, our youth

[9:46] commission and the black t

[9:48] shirts are impact members. And

[9:48] we

[9:49] re so excited to have them

[9:51] all join us. Thank you so much

[9:56] for your time tonight.

[9:58] So we have them circle around

[9:59] and we do one big picture

[10:00] together. Is that going to be

[10:01] too crowded.

[10:04] To try? Can we maybe just go

[10:05] this way.

[10:07] Like go have them come around?

[10:09] Yes.

[10:12] Isaac, stay right. In that

[10:37] circle.

[10:39] You could stand. Just have the

[10:41] taller kids.

[10:43] Taller. Comes this way back

[10:47] then all friends you are more

[10:57] and more. They can squeeze in.

[11:06] You guys squeeze in here.

[11:06] I stand.

[11:07] In the front row.

[11:08] Just stand in between.

[11:09] Them.

[11:11] Yeah. Just make sure you

[11:11] re

[11:12] not.

[11:13] Blocking the person behind. You

[11:13] can see somebody

[11:14] s head.

[11:15] Then you got to kind of, like,

[11:16] look around a little bit, you

[11:18] know, find a window.

[11:19] Wow.

[11:19] You

[11:20] re welcome to take

[11:21] pictures.

[11:23] Too. All right, let me move.

[11:53] Okay.

[11:53] While you

[11:55] re dispersing, just

[11:56] just want to thank all the

[11:58] youth for volunteering and

[12:00] being a part of this group.

[12:00] You

[12:00] re going to you

[12:01] re going to

[12:03] be well filled this year. So

[12:05] thank you for being a part of

[12:06] the Youth Commission and the

[12:15] Youth Impact Group. We

[12:15] ll let

[12:17] people disperse if they choose.

[12:17] But everybody

[12:18] s welcome to

[12:20] stay. So nobody

[12:21] s being kicked

[12:38] out. Now we got a lot of

[12:41] capacity here. All right. Um,

[12:44] next on the agenda is the, uh,

[12:45] item five. Public invited to be

[12:46] heard on matters that are not

[12:49] on the agenda. I have two

[12:51] people signed up to speak. I

[12:52] also have three other signed up

[12:54] for another item coming up on

[12:55] the agenda, but these two are

[12:57] for the ones that are speaking

[12:58] on items that are not on the

[12:59] agenda. So first I have Tom

[13:02] Lambo come on over, Tom. You

[13:03] know how it goes. State your

[13:05] name for the record. You got

[13:09] three minutes.

[13:11] All right. Thank you very much.

[13:13] Hello to Brighton. Hello to you

[13:14] all in front of me. It

[13:14] s good

[13:16] to be here. Hope all is well.

[13:16] I

[13:17] m Tom Lambo. I

[13:17] m here to lift

[13:19] up right into the Lord in

[13:20] prayer. So please join me in

[13:22] prayer. Heavenly father, in

[13:23] Jesus name, we ask you to be

[13:24] with us here tonight and every

[13:26] day in Brighton. You are GOD,

[13:27] the creator of all things, and

[13:28] there is nothing greater than

[13:32] you. Deuteronomy 435 states to

[13:34] you it was shown that you might

[13:36] know that the Lord is GOD.

[13:37] There is no other besides him.

[13:39] Let us find comfort in you, and

[13:41] help us not to fear the

[13:42] situations around us.

[13:44] Everything is changing. What

[13:46] can cause us to feel unstable?

[13:47] We can rest in knowing there is

[13:49] nothing greater than you, and

[13:50] you have all situations under

[13:53] control. The summer is moving

[13:54] quickly, the county fair is

[13:55] over, and summer trips are

[13:57] coming to an end. Our teachers

[13:58] will have reported back to

[14:00] school before we meet again.

[14:02] Students will start reporting

[14:03] back to school shortly after

[14:05] that. Families will go through

[14:07] another adjustment. Children.

[14:08] Children will face new

[14:10] situations. For some, it will

[14:12] be their very first day of

[14:13] school, while others will start

[14:15] counting down their last year.

[14:16] A lot of change, a lot of

[14:18] adjustments. So we lift up to

[14:19] you all those who will be

[14:21] affected by this new beginning.

[14:22] The unknown is before them and

[14:24] you have a word to cover them.

[14:27] Isaiah 4318 through 19 states,

[14:29] forget the former things. Do

[14:31] not dwell on the past. See, I

[14:31] m

[14:33] doing a new thing now. It

[14:33] s now

[14:35] it springs up. Do you not

[14:37] perceive it? I am making a way

[14:39] in the wilderness and streams

[14:41] in the west, in the wastelands.

[14:43] You are GOD, and nothing is

[14:45] beyond your control. Be with

[14:47] those that are making these

[14:48] adjustments. Help them to find

[14:50] peace in you. Watch over

[14:51] everyone and make a path for

[14:53] them to travel on as they begin

[14:56] this new journey. We lift up

[14:57] all those that are serving in

[14:59] our military. All who serve

[15:01] need your protection. Guide the

[15:02] individuals who are making

[15:04] decisions that impact their

[15:05] lives. Give them clear

[15:07] understanding of the dangers

[15:09] they are asking our military to

[15:11] enter into. Some who are

[15:12] serving will be sent on

[15:13] missions to free those that

[15:16] cannot help themselves. They

[15:18] have a special purpose. Remind

[15:19] them of their purpose with

[15:21] Psalm 824, which states, rescue

[15:23] the weak and the needy. Deliver

[15:24] them from the hand of the

[15:26] wicked. Keep them safe and

[15:27] mentally sharp. Guide their

[15:29] actions, and bring everyone

[15:31] home safely. You are our GOD

[15:33] and we are your people. In

[15:35] Jesus name we pray. Amen. Thank

[15:37] you guys. Have a nice night.

[15:39] Thank you. Tom. Next is Todd

[15:42] Crumbly. Come on over. Todd,

[15:44] state your name. For the

[15:47] record. You got three minutes.

[15:49] Hi. My name is Todd Quimby. I

[15:51] own two businesses here in

[15:52] Brighton. Uh, Brighton crossing

[15:54] Liquors on 50th and Bridge and

[15:56] Brighton Highway seven that I

[15:58] bought about two years ago. Um,

[15:58] I

[16:00] ve been having some. My water

[16:03] bill is, like, extremely high.

[16:03] And I

[16:04] ve talked to the water

[16:05] people here in Brighton, and

[16:07] nobody seems to want to be able

[16:08] to do anything like my water

[16:14] bill for this month is $652. I

[16:15] have an ice maker. I have a

[16:17] toilet and a mop, sink and a

[16:18] sink. There

[16:18] s no grass or

[16:20] anything. Uh, what I understand

[16:21] is the building was built in

[16:23] 1961, roughly, and it was

[16:25] laundromat. Then years later,

[16:27] it went half laundromat, half

[16:28] liquor store. And it

[16:28] s been the

[16:30] liquor store for the last 35

[16:33] rough years. Um, I

[16:34] ve asked

[16:36] this, this city water person,

[16:36] if there

[16:38] s some way I can get a

[16:39] variance to choke the line

[16:40] down, because I would

[16:41] understand is when it was the

[16:42] laundromat, they have a two

[16:44] inch line coming from the

[16:46] street. And he said, the only

[16:47] way I can do that. So if I turn

[16:49] my parking lot up and put a

[16:51] whole new line in, tear the

[16:52] meter or tear the stuff out of

[16:53] the street, and that

[16:54] s going to

[16:57] be 10 to $15,000. So I

[16:58] m I

[16:58] ve

[17:00] been paying a minimum of $450 a

[17:02] month in water. So i

[17:02] m

[17:03] wondering, is there any way I

[17:05] can get a variance or who can I

[17:07] talk to to maybe rectify this?

[17:08] Because I honestly, I feel like

[17:08] I

[17:13] m getting ripped off. That

[17:13] s

[17:15] my speech.

[17:18] All right. Todd. Thank you. Um,

[17:19] you know, this is something

[17:22] that the obviously staff will

[17:23] have to address. I know you

[17:23] ve

[17:25] come up to me about this in the

[17:27] past, and, um, you know, I

[17:27] don

[17:29] t have the right answer for

[17:30] you right now.

[17:30] I don

[17:31] t expect an answer right

[17:32] now, but if we could look into

[17:34] that, I would really appreciate

[17:35] it. Okay.

[17:36] Thank you for bringing that

[17:40] back up. Thank you. That is all

[17:42] I have signed up to speak on

[17:43] items, none on the agenda. And

[17:45] like I said, those that have

[17:46] signed up to speak on an item

[17:48] coming up on the agenda will

[17:49] call you up when that time

[17:54] allows. All right. Next. Hold

[17:58] on. Item 6aa resolution of the

[17:59] City Council of the City of

[18:01] Brighton, Colorado, approving

[18:03] the Second Amendment to service

[18:05] plan for a Prairie Center

[18:06] Metropolitan district number

[18:08] seven and setting forth other

[18:11] details related to. So this is

[18:14] a public hearing. I

[18:14] m first

[18:15] going to open up the public

[18:19] hearing and ask that the city

[18:21] clerk verify all the postings

[18:23] and publications were complete.

[18:24] Yes, your Honor, the notice of

[18:26] Public hearing was published on

[18:28] the City of Brighton website on

[18:30] July 20th, 2026.

[18:32] Thanks for verifying. And next

[18:34] I ask members of City Council

[18:35] if they have any conflicts of

[18:37] interest or ex-parte

[18:39] communications related to this

[18:42] item. Seeing none, City Manager

[18:44] Martinez, please introduce our

[18:45] presenting staff.

[18:46] Thank you. Mayor. Presenting

[18:47] this item this evening on

[18:49] behalf of the city as Associate

[18:50] Planner Stephanie Adams.

[18:52] Welcome, Stephanie.

[18:53] Good evening. Good evening.

[18:54] Mayor, mayor pro tem and

[18:56] members of council. My name is

[18:57] Stephanie Ames, associate

[18:58] planner with the city. And I

[18:59] m

[19:00] here to present the Prairie

[19:01] Center Metropolitan District

[19:03] number seven service plan

[19:06] amendment. The subject property

[19:07] outlined on the map is

[19:08] generally located to the north

[19:10] of Eagle Boulevard, south of

[19:12] Kite Street and South 35th

[19:14] Avenue, east of South 27th

[19:15] Avenue, and west of Prairie

[19:17] Center Parkway. Comprised of

[19:18] all property within Prairie

[19:21] Center Village, one subdivision.

[19:25] To provide some background, the

[19:26] original service plan for the

[19:29] district was approved in 2006.

[19:31] In 2008, there was an amendment

[19:32] to the service plan increasing

[19:33] the cost of public

[19:34] improvements. Currently, the

[19:36] district has two outstanding

[19:38] general obligation bonds with a

[19:40] final maturity of 2045 and

[19:43] 2046, and in accordance with

[19:44] the approved Service plan, any

[19:45] modifications to the service

[19:47] plan require approval from the

[19:51] City Council. With this Second

[19:52] Amendment to the service plan,

[19:53] the district is seeking to

[19:56] refund the existing bonds,

[19:58] change the bond maturity limits

[20:00] from 25 years to 30 years to

[20:01] align with the city

[20:01] s model

[20:03] service plan and lower annual

[20:05] debt service. Mill levies

[20:07] remove the restriction

[20:08] prohibiting issuance of new

[20:10] money debt after DECEMBER 1st,

[20:13] 2025, and replace that

[20:14] restriction with the rule

[20:15] limiting the debt service mill

[20:17] levy to no more than 40 years.

[20:18] We

[20:19] ll also preserve flexibility

[20:21] for future financing by

[20:22] allowing additional new money

[20:23] debt with approval from the

[20:27] district board. By extending

[20:28] the repair the repayment

[20:29] period, this would reduce the

[20:34] debt service mill levy from

[20:39] 63.495 to 39.617 starting in

[20:42] 2027. Collections. At this

[20:43] time, the options for

[20:44] consideration are before you on

[20:46] the screen. Thank you all for

[20:46] your time and attention this

[20:47] evening. The city

[20:48] s Metro

[20:49] District Council and financial

[20:50] consultants are available for

[20:51] any questions that you MAY

[20:53] have. After a brief

[20:54] presentation from our applicant

[20:55] team.

[20:55] The applicant, I

[20:56] d like to

[20:58] queue up the presentation. Time

[20:59] is yours.

[21:05] Okay.

[21:07] Great. Thank you. My name is

[21:09] Dave Burke. I am the PRESIDENT

[21:12] Of the Board of directors for

[21:14] Metro District seven. I

[21:14] m

[21:16] honored to represent the 370

[21:20] home owners in this community.

[21:21] And our effort tonight to try

[21:23] to modify the bond debt for

[21:24] this community to offer

[21:26] significant annual property tax

[21:29] relief for its residents. I

[21:29] m

[21:31] joined by other members of our

[21:33] 100% Resident Control Board

[21:35] here tonight are including our

[21:36] treasurer, Ron Johnson, and

[21:38] members Alan Greenfield,

[21:40] Jeffrey Hunter and Megan Smith,

[21:41] as well as the members of our

[21:42] community. I

[21:43] m not an expert in

[21:45] this field by any means. I

[21:45] m

[21:46] just a volunteer and I

[21:47] m a

[21:48] homeowner. But we

[21:49] re fortunate

[21:50] to have experts here with us,

[21:52] uh, including Kathy Conda,

[21:52] who

[21:54] s with McGeady, Beacher,

[21:56] Cortez and Williams, our

[21:58] general counsel for the

[21:59] district, and Matt Chalk, who

[22:00] s

[22:02] a director with D.A. Davidson.

[22:04] This amendment will give us the

[22:08] option to extend our refi to 30

[22:09] years so we can explore as many

[22:12] possibilities as possible to

[22:14] maximize the property tax

[22:20] reduction for the residents. As

[22:24] I said, just a very brief, um,

[22:27] set of slides here where a 100%

[22:30] district board comprised of

[22:31] residents, uh, we have five

[22:33] board members. Currently, the

[22:35] metro district portion of the

[22:37] resident property taxes is

[22:39] approximately 40% of our total

[22:41] tax bill. Um, due to our

[22:43] maximum mill levy that we have

[22:45] to pay based on how the bonds

[22:48] are structured currently, in

[22:52] addition to taking care of of

[22:54] the statutory compliances, we

[22:56] also performed the hoa

[22:57] functions, including operations

[22:58] of maintenance of the public,

[22:59] improvements including the

[23:01] common area, landscaping. If

[23:01] you

[23:02] ve been by the community,

[23:03] you know we have a tremendous

[23:05] amount of landscaping there and

[23:06] snow removal, the entry

[23:08] monuments, the lighting, the

[23:10] under drainage system, as well

[23:11] as the design review and

[23:13] covenant Enforcement district

[23:14] board takes care of all of

[23:16] that. So here

[23:17] s the opportunity

[23:19] to try to decrease the

[23:19] district

[23:21] s property taxes,

[23:22] where we can refund the

[23:24] existing bonds from the series

[23:27] 20 and the series 21 bonds. Uh,

[23:29] and take those to market. We

[23:29] re

[23:31] not adding any additional debt.

[23:33] Uh, no additional debt is being

[23:35] added or contemplated. Any

[23:36] additional debt to this

[23:38] community would require a vote

[23:40] of the residents. So there

[23:40] s

[23:41] nothing we can do on our own

[23:43] anyway. Um, we

[23:44] ll propose the

[23:46] refunding plan based on present

[23:47] market conditions. We

[23:47] ll go to

[23:48] the market, take a look, see

[23:50] what makes the most sense. Um,

[23:52] and if we can do it this year,

[23:53] the debt service mill levy can

[23:56] be reduced from its current

[23:58] maximum levels. Uh, for the

[24:01] next tax year, reducing the

[24:03] property taxes significantly

[24:06] for our homeowners. We can

[24:08] substantially reduce the debt

[24:12] service by approximately 750 to

[24:15] $950 per home per year. If we

[24:17] take this to market the way

[24:18] that we think we can, it can

[24:19] work. It

[24:20] ll also minimize the

[24:21] quarterly operations and

[24:23] maintenance fee increases. In

[24:25] addition to the to the the

[24:26] property tax amount that we

[24:28] pay, we also pay quarterly

[24:33] operations fees of $828 a year

[24:34] per home. And they

[24:34] re billed

[24:37] quarterly. And so hopefully

[24:41] this refi restructure will

[24:43] allow us to minimize any of

[24:45] those increases as well and

[24:48] give us some financial

[24:50] flexibility to maintain and

[24:51] enhance the public interest

[24:52] infrastructure in the community

[24:54] amenities that we have, should

[24:57] we need additional monies for

[24:58] something. This gives us a

[24:59] little bit more flexibility in

[25:02] how to raise those monies. So

[25:02] that

[25:03] s it. That

[25:04] s what, uh,

[25:04] what we

[25:07] re asking. Um, on

[25:09] behalf of the 370 residents

[25:11] there, we thank you to consider

[25:12] this amendment.

[25:13] Thank you. And you said you

[25:14] re

[25:15] David Burke, right? I am. So

[25:16] you also signed up to speak

[25:17] separately.

[25:17] I know I wasn

[25:18] t sure what they

[25:21] asked me. I said, okay, okay.

[25:23] So yeah. One. Yeah. Since

[25:23] you

[25:24] re already a presenter.

[25:25] Yeah. We

[25:26] ll just go ahead and

[25:27] put that aside. Yeah. Is that

[25:29] the same with, uh, Ronald

[25:31] Johnson? Okay. Are you trying

[25:35] to sign up to speak to. Okay,

[25:35] so we

[25:37] ll put that aside. How

[25:42] about a Tom? Um, MARCH so that

[25:42] you

[25:43] re signing up? Okay, so

[25:43] we

[25:44] ll get to you in a moment.

[25:44] Okay. So there

[25:46] s one person

[25:47] signed up to speak, so. Okay,

[25:49] this is the time for public

[25:50] comment. Uh, for those that

[25:51] have signed up to speak, I

[25:51] ll

[25:53] just call you up one by one.

[25:57] Um, if anybody is here that

[25:58] have interest to speak, there

[26:00] are sign up sheets in the back

[26:01] bringing to the city clerk. But

[26:04] for now, I will call upon Tom

[26:06] ganache to come on up. And when

[26:08] you get to the mic, state your

[26:09] name for the record or correct.

[26:11] Any ways I pronounced it, and

[26:11] you

[26:13] ll have three minutes.

[26:16] Tom. Uh, I live in, uh, Prairie

[26:20] Center. Uh, mayor Council. Uh,

[26:20] I

[26:22] ve lived there. Uh, original

[26:24] homeowner been there since, uh,

[26:26] phase one. And I support my

[26:29] board in this, uh, resolution

[26:31] that they had before you and I

[26:34] would, uh, ask you to please

[26:36] support it. So thank you very

[26:37] much.

[26:38] All right. That

[26:39] s all I have

[26:43] signed up to speak, MADAM City

[26:44] clerk, is there anybody signed

[26:46] up to speak on or. Well, is

[26:46] there anybody that

[26:47] s, uh,

[26:49] submitted any digital public

[26:49] comment?

[26:50] Yes. Your honor.

[26:51] You

[27:10] ll pass that down. Give us

[27:12] a moment while we skim through

[27:14] this real quick. Everyone

[27:18] short, grab one more.

[27:46] That down.

[27:48] So it appears there are a few

[27:52] folks that submitted their

[27:55] opposition. Um, and then those

[27:57] that showed up in person has

[27:59] submitted their, um, support

[28:05] for this. So, um, with the

[28:07] staff or the presenter want to

[28:10] add to the based on the public

[28:12] comment that was presented

[28:14] earlier?

[28:18] So we certainly appreciate Tom

[28:19] coming down and and other

[28:20] members who MAY be here,

[28:23] residents that MAY be here. Um,

[28:26] I believe we submitted, um, a

[28:28] response to some of the. Okay,

[28:31] um, objections that were

[28:33] submitted digitally. Okay. So

[28:35] you MAY have that as well. Um,

[28:38] our answer to that, but, um,

[28:40] no, we just asked for your

[28:42] support for this so that we can

[28:43] take a look and try to save

[28:44] some people some money.

[28:45] Okay.

[28:47] And just for the record, all

[28:48] this will be in the minutes of

[28:49] the meeting. When that comes

[28:53] out later down the road. Um,

[28:54] questions and comments from the

[28:55] council. We

[28:55] ll go to council

[28:57] Member Green.

[28:59] Uh, thank you. Mayor. Yeah. And

[29:03] this was new to us. So, uh. You

[29:05] know, I, I am in support of

[29:06] anything that would lower the

[29:08] mill levy to residents. I

[29:09] d

[29:11] like to hear that, but, uh, one

[29:13] of my questions is, is how much

[29:15] of the debt has been paid under

[29:16] the maximum mill levy that

[29:16] you

[29:21] ve been collecting? Any.

[29:23] Question.

[29:25] Good evening. Mayor, Council

[29:27] members Matt Gorski with D.A.

[29:30] Davidson. Um, the current debt

[29:36] outstanding. Uh, is about $9

[29:38] million in the original

[30:00] principal amount.

[30:00] I suppose.

[30:06] That.

[30:06] Was paid.

[30:07] Off about.

[30:09] Yeah. So, as Dave mentioned,

[30:09] there

[30:11] s two series of bonds, a

[30:14] series 2020 and a series 2021,

[30:16] the and the 2020 bond that was

[30:18] issued with two term bonds. The

[30:20] first term bond was paid off or

[30:21] will be paid off this year.

[30:21] There

[30:23] s 30,000 left on that

[30:25] debt and all the debt on the

[30:27] series 2021 bonds is currently

[30:29] outstanding. None of that has

[30:30] been paid. In fact, there

[30:30] s

[30:39] about one point. 1.3 million of

[30:40] accrued and unpaid interest,

[30:42] which will continue to accrue

[30:44] and compound if that debt is

[30:46] not retired. So they made I

[30:47] mean, they

[30:47] ve paid off a

[30:49] significant amount of the debt,

[30:49] but they

[30:51] re still going to be

[30:55] outstanding. $9 million.

[30:57] Okay, but what was the total?

[31:00] Um, the original issuance

[31:01] versus what? Yes.

[31:02] Over 16.

[31:04] Little over 60 million. Okay.

[31:05] That that was that was the

[31:05] question I

[31:06] m getting at here.

[31:08] So thank you.

[31:08] I didn

[31:09] t want to dance around

[31:11] it. Uh, the other part of it

[31:13] is, uh, you

[31:14] re asking for a 30

[31:16] year bond term, but a 40 years

[31:20] of mill levy. So that that was

[31:22] the language in the slide

[31:24] there. Maybe you could explain

[31:26] what what that reference.

[31:28] Is hoping maybe.

[31:29] The city.

[31:31] Hi, my name is Kathy Conda. I

[31:31] m

[31:32] general counsel for the

[31:35] district. And so when we.

[31:36] Were you can bring the mic

[31:36] closer to you.

[31:38] There you go. Is that better?

[31:40] Yes. Okay. Kathy Conda, general

[31:42] counsel for the district. Thank

[31:44] you for hearing this matter.

[31:47] When we, um, the impetus of

[31:49] this was to to look at

[31:52] opportunities to lower the debt

[31:54] service mill levy because when

[31:55] the bonds were originally

[31:57] issued, their cash flow bonds.

[31:58] So until they

[31:59] re paid off,

[31:59] there

[32:02] s no opportunity to

[32:04] reduce the, you know, the debt

[32:07] service mill levy versus

[32:09] structured bonds that have an

[32:13] annual amortization, where if

[32:13] you

[32:14] re producing more, then you

[32:16] need to make an annual payment.

[32:17] You know, that mill levy could

[32:19] actually go down. So that was

[32:21] that was the beginning point,

[32:24] right. The board um, talked to

[32:27] two different underwriters and

[32:29] looked at more than one

[32:32] refunding scenario, including a

[32:35] 25 year term bond, which is

[32:37] what their current service plan

[32:40] allows. And realize that with a

[32:42] 30 year term, they could

[32:44] actually realize a bigger

[32:46] reduction in their mill levy.

[32:48] And I think the analogy for

[32:52] those of us who are not met ski

[32:54] is think about a home mortgage,

[32:57] right? The longer your term,

[32:59] the lower your monthly payment.

[33:01] If you finance with a shorter

[33:04] term, the payment is bigger.

[33:04] That

[33:05] s the way that somebody

[33:07] like me, who is not really good

[33:09] with numbers, sort of

[33:11] understood this. Under your

[33:14] current model service plan, it

[33:16] allows districts to issue bonds

[33:20] for terms of 40 years. So our

[33:22] request to increase the term

[33:25] from 25 to 30 is actually less

[33:26] than what

[33:27] s currently allowed

[33:30] in the model service plan.

[33:30] There

[33:32] s also a provision in our

[33:33] service plan, because it was

[33:35] one of the first ones that was

[33:37] approved by Brighton way back

[33:40] in 2006. There was there was

[33:44] um, the expectation or the

[33:47] desire that the entire 2400

[33:50] acre. Um, yeah. Prairie Center

[33:51] development would be fully

[33:54] developed by 2025. And so there

[33:57] was a provision in the service

[33:59] plan that said districts

[33:59] couldn

[34:01] t issue any additional

[34:04] debt after 2025. Well, that

[34:06] ship has sailed. There is an

[34:08] exception for refunding, which

[34:11] is what we have here. And in

[34:12] some of the discussions we

[34:14] talked about maybe issuing even

[34:17] a little more debt, um, either

[34:19] to pay off past developer

[34:21] advances or build up a capital

[34:22] reserve for additional

[34:24] community amenities and that

[34:26] sort of thing. And when we

[34:29] spoke with, um, city, the

[34:29] city

[34:30] s consultants, outside

[34:33] legal counsel at Butler Snow,

[34:35] rather than, you know, we

[34:37] started out with, well, do we

[34:41] extend from 2025 to 20 20, 30,

[34:42] 2035, you know, what are we

[34:44] going to do here? What makes

[34:46] sense? And what we mutually

[34:49] agreed upon is in the current

[34:51] model service plan, there

[34:51] s a

[34:54] limitation that says a district

[34:57] cannot impose a debt service

[34:58] mill levy for more than 40

[35:00] years after the first issuance

[35:05] of debt without, um, a decision

[35:08] to extend that term by a

[35:11] resident controlled board of

[35:13] directors. Because what we

[35:13] re

[35:16] proposing, if we issue this

[35:20] year, which is 20, 26, 30

[35:24] years, takes us out to 2056, I

[35:24] can

[35:25] t do math in my head. I

[35:26] m

[35:28] so sorry. And if you go back to

[35:29] when they initially issued in

[35:32] 2020, we fall within that 40

[35:36] year, um, frame. And again, um,

[35:40] it, it brings the this district

[35:44] service plan in alignment with

[35:45] the provisions of the current

[35:47] model service plan that was

[35:50] adopted, um, in when was that

[35:56] adopted in 2021. Did I make

[35:57] sense?

[35:59] Not exactly. Um.

[35:59] I

[36:00] m sorry.

[36:03] Because it was, uh, structural

[36:05] adjust restrictions on new debt

[36:06] issuance. But now I

[36:06] m hearing

[36:08] that you MAY issue new debt and

[36:10] then remove the prohibition on

[36:12] issuing new money debt after

[36:14] DECEMBER 2025, replaced it with

[36:15] a rule of limiting the debt

[36:17] service mill levy to no more

[36:18] than 40 years. So that means

[36:20] that if we do this 30 year

[36:20] term, you

[36:21] d still have another

[36:23] ten years, uh, to think about

[36:25] issuing new debt, right?

[36:26] Just like all the other

[36:27] metropolitan districts in the

[36:28] city of Brighton right now that

[36:30] have been organized since the

[36:33] model service plan was put into

[36:36] place. So and we have a 100%

[36:39] resident control board. And the

[36:40] other thing that I want to

[36:42] emphasize is no new money debt

[36:46] is contemplated. Now. But

[36:48] because this district does have

[36:51] significant public improvement,

[36:52] operation and maintenance

[36:54] responsibility, we don

[36:54] t

[36:57] foresee any need in the

[36:59] foreseeable future for any new

[37:00] money debt. We just don

[37:01] t see

[37:04] it at all. But in terms of

[37:05] coming into compliance with

[37:07] your current model and being

[37:09] able to do what they need to do

[37:12] now, we agreed that that would

[37:15] be a logical thing to do.

[37:17] Okay, like I said, there

[37:17] s that

[37:19] now is acting a lot. Yeah,

[37:19] there

[37:21] s nothing now. But, um.

[37:23] Well, I mean, but you saw some

[37:24] of the comments from residents,

[37:24] right.

[37:25] Well, I understand that.

[37:26] That

[37:29] s right. Amenities. Um, as

[37:31] was mentioned, the district

[37:33] functions like an hoa. So

[37:36] rather than turning over things

[37:39] like the under drain system,

[37:40] which I think is the sort of

[37:42] the largest piece of public

[37:43] infrastructure that the

[37:47] district itself maintains. If

[37:48] if you had an earthquake and

[37:49] that whole underground system

[37:50] went under, you know, they

[37:52] might need to go out and get a

[37:53] little bank loan, which would

[37:54] be debt if they

[37:55] re using debt

[37:56] service levy to pay for it. But

[37:56] we

[37:57] re not seeing, you know,

[37:57] we

[37:59] re not anticipating that

[38:01] now. It was just that when we

[38:04] had the conversation about

[38:06] making sure that this district,

[38:08] which is controlled by

[38:09] residents, had the most

[38:11] flexibility to do what they

[38:13] need to do now and what they

[38:15] MAY need to do in the future,

[38:16] coming into compliance with the

[38:18] current model service plan seem

[38:21] like the most efficient and

[38:22] easy way to go.

[38:24] Okay, I understand that, but my

[38:25] other concern is that it took

[38:27] you six years to pay off a

[38:29] third of the debt, but now you

[38:30] want to extend it to 30 years

[38:33] to pay off the remainder. So,

[38:35] and I understand that it

[38:35] s

[38:36] going to lower the taxes and

[38:36] everything else.

[38:39] But okay, so the, the, the

[38:42] bonds that were issued in 2020,

[38:43] the interest rate environment

[38:45] was very good. And for those of

[38:46] you who are around when these,

[38:48] uh, Prairie Center districts

[38:51] were organized, um, there

[38:51] s an

[38:52] agreement with the city that

[38:55] returned to the districts, a

[38:57] portion of the use taxes that

[38:59] are paid at building permit. So

[39:01] the reason the district was

[39:03] able to issue bonds early in

[39:06] the development cycle for this

[39:10] district was because when they

[39:14] were marketed, there was a big

[39:18] bubble of, um, basically use

[39:19] taxes that came to the

[39:21] district. And because their

[39:22] cash flow and then as the

[39:24] district built out, it built

[39:26] out more quickly than anybody

[39:29] anticipated. Um, the property

[39:31] taxes and those use taxes

[39:33] enabled the district to sort of

[39:36] pay off those. The first series

[39:40] of 2020 bonds, the 2021 bonds,

[39:42] however, are carrying interest

[39:47] at 6.3 6.4%. And so what

[39:47] s

[39:48] happening? Because they

[39:49] re cash

[39:51] flow bonds and the 2020 ones

[39:53] are subordinate. Every penny is

[39:55] going into those senior bonds

[39:56] that were issued in 2020.

[39:58] Nothing is going toward the

[40:01] principal on those 2021 bonds

[40:03] that are accruing interest at

[40:06] 6.4%, and will continue to do

[40:08] so until they get paid off. So

[40:13] the payoff on the 2021 bonds is

[40:16] going to be a more protracted

[40:18] period. And it because they

[40:20] pledge their maximum debt

[40:21] service mill levy, there

[40:22] s no

[40:23] opportunity for that debt

[40:25] service mill levy to come down.

[40:28] And so again sort of based

[40:31] preliminary estimates at this

[40:33] point is that there could be a

[40:36] significant, um, property tax

[40:38] reduction and it is going to be

[40:39] a policy decision that the

[40:41] board will make in conjunction

[40:42] with the input they receive

[40:44] from the residents, whether

[40:46] they want to extend, you know,

[40:47] go a little bit longer on the

[40:50] debt to realize bigger property

[40:53] tax savings today, or maybe,

[40:54] you know, do something in

[40:58] between, do nothing and just

[41:01] pay off the 2021 bonds as are

[41:02] currently structured or

[41:04] something in between. Right.

[41:06] And the opportunity does

[41:07] present itself to get a lower

[41:08] interest rate. That

[41:08] s

[41:09] something.

[41:09] That yes.

[41:10] Yes, I

[41:10] m trying to I

[41:10] m trying

[41:11] to help.

[41:11] You out. I

[41:13] m sorry. Okay. Yes.

[41:14] And the interest.

[41:15] Rate on the debt will go down

[41:16] as well. That

[41:17] s the idea.

[41:17] That

[41:17] s that

[41:18] s the goal here.

[41:20] And if you know, and if the

[41:21] market goes nuts and they can

[41:22] t

[41:22] do it, we

[41:23] re not making a

[41:24] decision today to issue whether

[41:26] or not to issue bonds. We

[41:26] re

[41:28] just saying please give us the

[41:30] same amount of flexibility, the

[41:32] same parameters that other

[41:34] metro districts have to

[41:37] consider options.

[41:40] All right. Next, Council member

[41:43] Snyder.

[41:44] Thank you for the presentation.

[41:46] I, uh, don

[41:47] t want to go against

[41:48] the residents in the community.

[41:49] I think residents should be

[41:51] able to decide for themselves.

[41:52] However, you mentioned

[41:53] mortgages. I

[41:53] m glad you

[41:54] mentioned that because that

[41:54] ll

[41:56] keep this conversation in my

[41:58] comments real simple. There

[41:58] s

[42:00] two reasons to refi a mortgage.

[42:02] One is to get a lower interest

[42:03] rate, in which case you might

[42:05] actually save some money. Two

[42:05] is you don

[42:06] t want to make the

[42:07] monthly payment. You want to

[42:10] reduce your monthly debt by

[42:11] extending it. The problem with

[42:12] that one is, is it

[42:13] s smoke and

[42:14] mirrors because you pay less

[42:16] this month, but in the end you

[42:17] end up paying a lot more money

[42:19] than you would have paid if you

[42:21] just left the debt alone. So

[42:21] that

[42:23] s my concern. Are we

[42:26] burdening the residents with

[42:28] more out of pocket debt over

[42:31] the period of this thing? Um,

[42:34] because last time I checked,

[42:35] interest rates weren

[42:35] t

[42:36] extremely favorable. Right now,

[42:37] they

[42:38] re better than they were a

[42:38] year ago, but they

[42:39] re not

[42:40] great. And so I

[42:41] m wondering if

[42:41] we

[42:42] re going to burden the

[42:44] residents with more debt

[42:45] overall. The other thing is,

[42:46] Americans typically live in a

[42:49] home 20 years. Extending this

[42:51] 30 is kicking the can down the

[42:52] road to the next people that

[42:52] buy in. I

[42:53] m not sure I like

[42:55] that either. So those are my

[42:59] concerns about it is have you

[43:02] calculated the final out of

[43:03] pocket costs? Are the residents

[43:05] paying more for this? Are they

[43:06] paying? I mean, I know they

[43:07] re

[43:08] paying less monthly. I don

[43:08] t

[43:08] care about that. I

[43:09] m talking

[43:11] about the total cost of the

[43:12] debt. Are they going to end up

[43:13] paying more than they

[43:14] re paying

[43:20] now?

[43:21] Yeah. Thank you for your

[43:22] question. Obviously, that

[43:22] s

[43:24] exactly how that works. When

[43:26] you extend the amortization on

[43:27] a debt, you are going to pay

[43:29] more debt over the long run.

[43:31] Based on our numbers. And just

[43:34] a point, Council Member Greene,

[43:35] if we leave the debt

[43:38] outstanding, those bonds don

[43:38] t

[43:40] get paid off until 2043. So

[43:40] really what we

[43:41] re talking about

[43:45] is a 30 year extension to 2056.

[43:46] And the additional debt that

[43:46] s

[43:47] going to accrue on those bonds

[43:51] is about $3.4 million of

[43:53] accrued and unpaid interest,

[43:55] which to me is a waste of money

[43:57] for these residents. The total

[43:59] debt, if you compare the

[44:00] existing debt structure, it

[44:00] s

[44:03] about seven 17.3 million.

[44:04] Assuming we don

[44:04] t do anything

[44:06] with the existing debt under a

[44:09] 30 year amortization, yes, the

[44:10] debt increases to about 20

[44:12] million. So about a roughly a

[44:14] $3 million delta, slightly

[44:18] under. And if we stick to a 25

[44:19] year arm, which is currently in

[44:21] the district service plan,

[44:23] about 17.8. So it

[44:24] s kind of a

[44:25] wash between the current

[44:27] existing debt structure in a 25

[44:30] year Am. But again, the goal of

[44:32] these taxpayers is to lower

[44:34] their taxes. And just a point

[44:39] on the the actual the average

[44:40] homeowner stays in a house

[44:43] about 7 to 8 years. So, you

[44:43] know, it

[44:44] s not 20 and we

[44:44] re not

[44:46] kicking the can. Um, this will

[44:48] be obviously a burden, tax

[44:50] burden for the next property

[44:52] owner. But depending on when

[44:53] they move into that house, it

[44:53] s

[44:55] not going to be a 30 year

[44:57] obligation. So I just wanted to

[45:00] make that point.

[45:01] Thanks for clarifying. Is that

[45:04] all Council member.

[45:05] Yeah, I

[45:07] ve okay.

[45:09] Next. Council member Fiedler.

[45:11] Thank you. Mayor. I appreciate

[45:12] the presentation and the

[45:15] efforts to reduce the tax rate

[45:16] put in dollars and cents for

[45:16] me. I

[45:17] ve done my back of the

[45:19] napkin guess up here. Let

[45:19] s say

[45:21] the average home there is

[45:24] $600,000. And your assessment

[45:25] rates about 7%. And it

[45:26] s a 24

[45:27] mill reduction. I get about

[45:29] $1,000 a year in tax savings.

[45:30] That sound right to you all

[45:31] okay.

[45:31] And on the assessed.

[45:32] Value.

[45:34] On the assessed value. But give

[45:35] or take $1,000 a year in tax

[45:37] savings. I commend you for

[45:39] being an all resident board,

[45:40] because that

[45:40] s not always the

[45:42] case of the metro districts.

[45:43] And for being proactive enough

[45:44] to come in here and present to

[45:45] us. I think this is an

[45:46] administrative function in

[45:47] terms of what you

[45:48] re asking of

[45:49] us. I don

[45:50] t think it

[45:50] s for me

[45:53] or anybody else to tell you how

[45:54] soon you should pay your debt

[45:55] off or not. I appreciate Jim

[45:56] s

[45:58] comments, but, uh, it

[45:58] s just

[45:59] the nature. I

[45:59] ve never seen a

[46:00] metro district close out all

[46:02] there in my lifetime. Close out

[46:04] all their debt, and suddenly

[46:04] there

[46:05] s not any more debt. So,

[46:06] um, I

[46:08] m supportive of this.

[46:08] That

[46:09] s the right thing to do. I

[46:09] understand why you

[46:10] re doing it.

[46:11] And I want to put the dollars

[46:13] and cents to it, because not

[46:13] everyone will do the back of

[46:14] the napkin math or know how to

[46:15] do it right. It

[46:16] s $1,000 a year

[46:18] in savings. And kudos to you

[46:19] all for finding a way to lower

[46:21] your tax bill..

[46:24] Next, mayor Pro Tem, hi.

[46:25] Thank you very much for the

[46:26] presentation. Thank you very

[46:28] much for coming in. I want to

[46:29] make sure that I understand

[46:30] what the question in front of

[46:33] us actually is, because you are

[46:35] the board, you want to make the

[46:37] decision, you want to work with

[46:38] your residents and make a

[46:39] decision on how you might

[46:41] handle it. The question really

[46:43] in front of us is, can we amend

[46:45] the service plan to give you

[46:49] the flexibility to do so? Uh,

[46:52] your service plan predates our

[46:53] model service plan, if I

[46:55] understand that as well. Are

[46:58] there other changes or other

[46:59] differences between your

[47:01] current service plan and the

[47:03] model service plan that we

[47:04] ought to be contemplating to

[47:05] bring you in line with that

[47:12] current model service plan?

[47:14] Mayor Pro Tem, yes, there are

[47:15] differences between the older

[47:18] service plan and the current

[47:19] model service plan that the the

[47:21] council has adopted. The

[47:24] applicant proposed these minor

[47:26] changes to handle the fully

[47:28] resident controlled board. Um,

[47:31] desire to refinance the

[47:32] outstanding debt. When we

[47:33] discussed with the applicant

[47:35] early on, because this is one

[47:37] of the metro districts in

[47:39] connection with an aggregate

[47:41] group of Prairie Center metro

[47:43] districts that have maximum met

[47:46] or maximum debt cap limits for

[47:48] all of the districts, and for

[47:49] them to try and bring that

[47:51] service plan fully in

[47:54] compliance with the model. Um,

[47:56] would require all of the other

[47:58] districts to also then come

[48:00] back and submit all of their

[48:02] service plans to come into

[48:03] compliance with the model.

[48:05] Otherwise, we have

[48:06] inconsistencies with

[48:08] enforcement of the model of the

[48:11] service plans and how they all

[48:13] intertwine and work together.

[48:14] And so what

[48:15] s in front of you

[48:18] today are really minor changes

[48:19] to their service plan, while

[48:22] keeping everything in place as

[48:26] is currently. So yes, there are

[48:27] differences between the model,

[48:30] which includes some reporting

[48:32] requirements, some, um,

[48:34] different, you know, their

[48:35] initial one didn

[48:35] t have this

[48:38] mill levy imposition term, but

[48:40] the thrust of the changes that

[48:41] they

[48:42] re asking for have all

[48:44] been contemplated in the model

[48:46] where as soon as it

[48:46] s a

[48:48] resident control board, if the

[48:50] board approves extending that

[48:51] debt limit or extending the

[48:53] imposition term, or extending a

[48:56] longer debt term, your model in

[48:57] the in the policy decision

[48:57] that

[48:59] s surrounds that model,

[49:02] um, provision supports this

[49:03] amendment.

[49:04] Okay.

[49:06] That makes sense because I

[49:06] we

[49:07] re not being asked to make

[49:10] the decision refi and extend,

[49:12] uh, lower the monthly payments

[49:14] in trade for a longer debt

[49:15] cycle. Uh, that

[49:16] s really the

[49:18] residents who get to make that

[49:19] that decision. And if they

[49:20] don

[49:20] t like it, I suppose they

[49:22] can, uh, vote in a new board

[49:25] and go for something else. But,

[49:27] that that really is the attempt

[49:28] to put it back in your hands. I

[49:31] think you answered the question

[49:33] that I had around. Uh, is it

[49:35] worth trying to uplift the

[49:36] whole thing? But really, we

[49:37] ve

[49:39] got such a patchwork or

[49:41] interconnected set of, uh,

[49:42] districts that that

[49:43] s perhaps

[49:45] more complicated than it is

[49:47] worthwhile to consider. Uh,

[49:48] this one specifically. My other

[49:51] question is, is this metro

[49:53] district built out or does it

[49:55] have a new enough time, uh,

[49:56] projection of timeline to build

[49:59] out that that 40 years now

[50:02] gives you enough runway.?

[50:04] This particular our community

[50:07] is fully built out, 370 homes.

[50:08] So. So we don

[50:10] t have a problem

[50:11] of you still need to develop

[50:14] another 120 homes and we create

[50:15] that problem farther down the

[50:15] road.

[50:16] Yeah.

[50:21] Okay. Um, my other question is

[50:23] entirely curiosity. And so I

[50:24] will say it, but the answer is

[50:26] not really important. I the

[50:27] metro district having to

[50:29] function as the hoa as well,

[50:31] creates a different challenge.

[50:33] Uh, it seems like forming an

[50:35] hoa and separating that from

[50:37] the metro district would be a

[50:38] simplifying factor and would

[50:40] potentially eliminate your

[50:42] problem of assessments,

[50:44] potentially down the road. But,

[50:45] uh, again, that

[50:45] s up to you to

[50:46] figure out how you need to

[50:48] organize all of that. Uh, it

[50:50] just causes me a little bit of,

[50:52] of angst, but I don

[50:52] t live in

[50:55] that neighborhood. Okay? I can

[51:01] see no reason not to. Give

[51:03] flexibility and power to the

[51:05] the metro district, uh, in

[51:07] accordance with how things are

[51:09] structured and recognizing, uh,

[51:10] the challenges you

[51:11] ve seen. So

[51:12] thank you very much for the

[51:14] answers.

[51:16] Next, Council member Wirth.

[51:18] Thank you, Mayor. Um.

[51:19] I mean, I

[51:19] m I

[51:20] m also generally

[51:21] not in favor of kicking the can

[51:23] down the road to use the same

[51:25] term somebody else did earlier.

[51:26] Uh, but I

[51:27] m definitely in favor

[51:30] of lowering tax. Um, but I got

[51:31] a couple of questions here.

[51:33] Your board is currently all

[51:36] residents that are homeowners

[51:38] in, uh, in the development

[51:41] right now. How are how was that

[51:45] board selected?

[51:47] Volunteers. Pardon me.

[51:48] Volunteer.

[51:49] Volunteer. So just did the word

[51:51] go out to everybody and.

[51:53] Yes, in fact, um, at our at the

[51:53] board

[51:56] s last meeting, um, the

[51:58] board was able to fill two

[52:02] vacancies because, um, they

[52:03] posted in a newsletter that

[52:06] went out with their o&m fee,

[52:09] uh, invoices and invitation for

[52:10] people to volunteer for the

[52:13] board. Um, we they have all

[52:15] been appointed because under

[52:17] statute, if you have fewer

[52:19] candidates than there are

[52:21] vacancies, then you don

[52:21] t go

[52:23] through the expense of having

[52:23] an election.

[52:24] Sure.

[52:25] No, I get that. I was just

[52:25] curious.

[52:26] More than anything.

[52:27] Yeah, they will all be standing

[52:30] for re-election next, next

[52:30] cycle.

[52:32] Okay. So everybody has an

[52:33] opportunity to serve on this

[52:34] board. This isn

[52:36] t a handpicked

[52:37] board or anything like that.

[52:38] No, no.

[52:39] Like that includes a bunch of

[52:41] developers that actually live

[52:42] in the in the neighborhood.

[52:43] No.

[52:43] That

[52:44] s all I got. I also don

[52:44] t

[52:46] see a good reason to keep you

[52:47] guys from doing what you have

[52:48] to do with your.

[52:49] Own.

[52:52] Um, with your own, uh, metro

[52:53] district. So thank.

[52:54] You.

[52:55] Thank you. That

[52:55] s all the

[52:57] comments I have from council.

[52:57] I

[52:58] ll just add in real quick.

[52:59] Um, I

[53:00] m not against what you

[53:01] want to do as residents. This

[53:03] is your board. This is your. I

[53:05] mean, you are the, uh, property

[53:07] owners and the property

[53:09] taxpayers of this area. Um,

[53:11] just to describe this

[53:12] situation, this requires two

[53:14] readings. So if those were to

[53:15] pass tonight, it

[53:15] s going to

[53:17] require second reading coming

[53:18] up in the future to pass in

[53:19] order to get. Oh, it

[53:20] s a

[53:22] resolution. Oh thank you.

[53:24] Thanks for clarifying that. Yes

[53:24] I

[53:26] m a lot of these are a lot of

[53:28] the public hearings are to

[53:30] reads okay. Never mind. So if

[53:31] this sort of passed tonight

[53:33] then it passes okay. Yes.

[53:35] Thanks for finding that Council

[53:36] member green, you got a

[53:37] comment?

[53:38] Just a follow up question. What

[53:40] was the vote on this from the

[53:42] board? Was unanimous.

[53:43] Was that.

[53:45] Was unanimous. And how many

[53:47] members are on that board?

[53:50] Five. Thank you.

[53:52] Okay. Thanks for clarifying. No

[53:55] other questions. I will close

[53:56] the public hearing. This is

[53:57] before council for

[53:58] consideration. Mayor Pro Tem.

[54:00] Thank you. I would move item

[54:02] six a.

[54:03] And then council member

[54:04] Fiedler.

[54:05] Thank you mayor. I

[54:06] ll second.

[54:07] This is the first and second to

[54:15] move item six a roll call vote.

[54:18] Motion passes eight zero with

[54:21] one absent. All right. Thank

[54:27] you all.

[54:28] Right.

[54:30] You guys are all welcome to

[54:31] stay for the rest of the

[54:31] meeting, but I

[54:32] ll give you a

[54:33] moment to clear the room. If

[54:33] you

[54:36] d like.

[55:04] Yes.

[55:11] All right. Moving ahead. We

[55:16] will continue. Item seven a an

[55:18] ordinance of the City Council.

[55:19] The city of Brighton, Colorado.

[55:22] Amending sections of article

[55:24] two, dash four and article

[55:25] three four of the Brighton

[55:27] Municipal Code relating to

[55:30] elections, council procedures

[55:32] and appropriations. And this

[55:35] will go to Deputy City Attorney

[55:36] Jasmina Gibbons.

[55:37] Thank you. Mayor.

[55:38] Good evening, mayor and members

[55:40] of Council. I am here this

[55:41] evening to present amendments

[55:42] to articles two and three of

[55:46] the Brighton Municipal Code.

[55:48] These amendments relate to

[55:49] elections and city council

[55:51] procedures. Budget carry over

[55:53] for non lapsing capital

[55:55] appropriations. Advertisement

[55:56] procedures for procurement of

[55:58] construction services and

[55:59] procurement solicitation.

[56:05] Protest procedures. The table

[56:07] on the screen before you

[56:08] outlines the amendment. Staff

[56:10] is proposing to article two.

[56:12] First, staff proposes to align

[56:13] the deadline to cure defects

[56:15] and petitions of nomination and

[56:16] affidavits, with the deadline

[56:18] set forth in title one of the

[56:20] Colorado Revised Statutes.

[56:21] Changing the deadline from 18

[56:23] days before the election to 64

[56:25] days before the election. This

[56:27] change is necessary to provide

[56:28] deadline cohesion and

[56:29] Elections coordinated with the

[56:32] county. Staff seeks to provide

[56:34] cohesion by clarifying the

[56:36] applicable computation of time

[56:38] based on whether the election

[56:39] is coordinated with the county

[56:41] or not. Finally, a staff is

[56:43] proposing the addition of a new

[56:44] section to article two

[56:46] prohibiting the same or similar

[56:47] ordinances which have been

[56:49] previously denied from being

[56:50] brought back before Council for

[56:51] consideration for a period of

[56:56] one year. Returning to article

[56:58] three amendments, the first

[56:59] proposed change clarifies the

[57:01] process that staff conducts to

[57:02] formally bring continuing funds

[57:04] into the next fiscal year.

[57:05] Because final amounts to be

[57:07] carried forward cannot be

[57:08] determined until after the

[57:09] original budget is adopted for

[57:11] that fiscal year. The amounts

[57:13] included at the time of budget

[57:14] adoption will only include new

[57:16] appropriation amounts for that

[57:18] year. In the case of carried

[57:19] forward budget, this will be

[57:21] administratively added after

[57:22] close out of the previous

[57:23] fiscal year. In the first

[57:26] quarter of the year. Next,

[57:27] staff proposes to remove the

[57:28] requirement that construction

[57:30] solicitations be published in

[57:32] an area newspaper. Instead,

[57:33] solicitations will only be

[57:36] published online. And finally,

[57:37] staff proposes amending the

[57:39] deadline to file a solicitation

[57:41] protest, changing the deadline

[57:42] from five days after the

[57:44] opening of a solicitation to

[57:45] five days following the award

[57:50] of a contract. The options

[57:51] before you this evening are on

[57:54] the screen, and I am available

[57:54] for any questions that you MAY

[57:57] have.

[57:59] Any other questions other than

[58:03] what was asked last week? With

[58:03] that, we

[58:06] ll go to approvals or

[58:08] motions. Council member green.

[58:09] Thank you mayor. I move to

[58:12] approve item seven, a.

[58:14] Council member Wirth.

[58:14] Thank you mayor. I

[58:15] ll second

[58:16] that.

[58:18] We have a first and second to

[58:20] approve. Item seven. A roll

[58:28] call vote. Motion passes 8 to 0

[58:30] with one absent. Thank you. We

[58:31] didn

[58:31] t give you a hard time

[58:33] with that.

[58:34] I appreciate.

[58:37] It.

[58:41] Moving on. Item 9aa resolution

[58:42] of the City Council of the City

[58:44] of Brighton, Colorado.

[58:47] Accepting the proposal of Mid

[58:49] City Corporation and approving

[58:50] the procurement of the

[58:53] construction of the North 40th

[58:55] Avenue roadway segment for the

[59:03] contract amount of $2,794,259,

[59:04] and authorizing the City

[59:06] Manager or designee, to execute

[59:08] the contract on behalf of the

[59:10] city. City Manager. Martinez.

[59:11] Thank you. Mayor. It looks like

[59:12] we have about half of the

[59:13] public works team here to

[59:15] present this tonight. Uh.

[59:16] Yeah, that half is online.

[59:16] That

[59:17] s right. The other half is

[59:17] waiting. Uh, I

[59:18] ll turn it over

[59:19] to Armando to present this.

[59:21] Thank you. Mike. Good evening.

[59:23] Mayor. Good evening. Uh, city

[59:24] council members. I

[59:25] m sorry.

[59:25] Right in.

[59:27] The mic.

[59:28] One more time. Good evening.

[59:29] Mayor. Good evening. City

[59:32] council members. My name is

[59:33] Armando Garza, and I

[59:33] m here to

[59:36] present the North 40th Avenue

[59:38] construction project. Today,

[59:39] um, I

[59:40] ll keep the. I

[59:40] m sorry.

[59:40] I

[59:42] ll keep this brief. Since my

[59:44] public works colleagues did an

[59:46] awesome job last time. Give a

[59:49] very detailed presentation. You

[59:51] know, during the last week

[59:55] study session. Um, this project

[1:00:01] will construct the sorry. This

[1:00:02] project will construct the

[1:00:04] missing section from of North

[1:00:07] 40th Avenue between Bridge

[1:00:09] Street and Garcia Avenue,

[1:00:12] creating an important north and

[1:00:13] south connection for the city

[1:00:17] of Brighton. Uh, the project.

[1:00:19] So I have to get used of this.

[1:00:21] Sorry, guys. Uh, the project

[1:00:23] includes the building of a new

[1:00:26] roadway, sidewalks. Uh, carbon

[1:00:29] gutter. Adams. Uh, waterline

[1:00:31] improvement, storm drainage,

[1:00:34] and a new detention pond north

[1:00:37] of 27 j property. The pond

[1:00:40] improvements are part of the

[1:00:42] iga that will have with the 27

[1:00:45] j. Uh, that will be discussed

[1:00:48] shortly after this. Uh, this

[1:00:51] project has involved, uh, a

[1:00:54] closer coordination with 27

[1:00:57] districts. United Power and,

[1:01:00] uh, nearby, uh, property. Uh,

[1:01:03] owners, uh, tonight we are

[1:01:04] recommending that the city

[1:01:06] council ward the construction

[1:01:10] contract for to the lowest

[1:01:12] responsive, uh, responsive and

[1:01:14] responsible bidder. MidCity

[1:01:17] Corporation in the amount of

[1:01:23] 2,000,700 794,000 and $259. The

[1:01:24] option.

[1:01:26] Sorry, I have to get this.

[1:01:27] Sorry, guys.

[1:01:29] Um, the option for the council

[1:01:31] to consider our approve the

[1:01:34] resolution as presented. Reject

[1:01:36] the resolution as presented and

[1:01:38] require new bids to be

[1:01:40] solicited. Let me know if you

[1:01:42] have any questions. And thank

[1:01:44] you for your time.

[1:01:45] Thank you. Let

[1:01:46] s go on to

[1:01:47] questions. Council member

[1:01:47] green.

[1:01:47] I don

[1:01:48] t have any questions,

[1:01:49] Armando, thank you for your

[1:01:50] presentation. Can we go back a

[1:01:51] few so that if people are

[1:01:53] watching, they can see what it

[1:01:53] is we

[1:01:54] re talking about, rather

[1:01:56] than just the roadway itself,

[1:01:58] location and the like? Things

[1:01:59] like this and this.

[1:02:00] Okay.

[1:02:01] And then the other one was the

[1:02:03] map right before this.

[1:02:06] So this was pretty much as it,

[1:02:07] as it is right now. So it

[1:02:07] s

[1:02:10] just a pavement and some uh,

[1:02:13] uh, road base, you know, all

[1:02:15] the way to the bus barn and the

[1:02:16] rest is just dirt and shrubs

[1:02:18] and stuff like that. So we

[1:02:18] re

[1:02:20] planning to construct the

[1:02:22] project. Uh, scope is to

[1:02:24] construct it with 11in. I

[1:02:25] m

[1:02:27] sorry, 11 foot, uh, driving

[1:02:28] lanes. And, you know, curved

[1:02:30] gutter. Sorry.

[1:02:31] Next slide.

[1:02:31] I

[1:02:32] m sorry.

[1:02:32] I

[1:02:34] m focusing..

[1:02:36] And I want to make sure they

[1:02:37] they can see that it

[1:02:37] s

[1:02:39] currently going by where the 27

[1:02:41] uh, admin building. And their

[1:02:43] building is. And then the next

[1:02:43] one.

[1:02:45] Is pretty much the pond in the

[1:02:46] end on the north side.

[1:02:46] Over.

[1:02:47] There to Garcia.

[1:02:48] To the Garcia, and we

[1:02:49] re

[1:02:50] putting a stop sign on.

[1:02:51] There will take you into

[1:02:52] Brighton East Farm. Yeah. Okay,

[1:02:54] so this is the whole impetus

[1:02:56] for this. This roadway is, uh,

[1:02:58] allow another, uh, faster way

[1:02:59] to get into Brighton East

[1:02:59] Farms.

[1:03:00] Perfect.

[1:03:00] Thank you.

[1:03:01] I apologize, guys.

[1:03:02] It

[1:03:03] s my first time. Okay.

[1:03:03] We

[1:03:04] re here to make you.

[1:03:05] Better. You did great.

[1:03:07] This also highlights another

[1:03:09] entry into the preserve who

[1:03:09] s

[1:03:10] been cut off for a while on the

[1:03:12] west side of their

[1:03:12] neighborhood.

[1:03:13] True.

[1:03:13] But that

[1:03:15] ll be addressed again,

[1:03:17] so thank you. Any other

[1:03:19] questions or comments? If. Oh,

[1:03:21] Council member Fiddler.

[1:03:24] Thank you. Mayor. Assuming we

[1:03:25] approve the contract, which i

[1:03:26] think we will. What

[1:03:26] s the

[1:03:27] timeline look like for

[1:03:29] construction?

[1:03:33] What do. Yeah. Uh, so if the.

[1:03:34] Way things or projects are

[1:03:36] going. So we get, once we get

[1:03:37] their approval from the board,

[1:03:39] it takes a at least a week or

[1:03:42] two to award the contract. And

[1:03:43] then with that, uh, after the

[1:03:44] word of contract, as I say,

[1:03:46] mid-AUGUST, uh, where we award

[1:03:48] the contract, then permits have

[1:03:50] to be pulled and, and to get

[1:03:51] the contractor on board and

[1:03:53] ready to go. So either

[1:03:53] realistically, we

[1:03:54] re talking

[1:03:54] maybe we

[1:03:55] re we

[1:03:55] ll be ready to

[1:03:59] roll in of AUGUST, uh, early

[1:04:01] SEPTEMBER timeframe, depending

[1:04:02] on how those things move. Uh,

[1:04:04] at a, at a in a, in a guess

[1:04:06] efficient manner. Sometimes you

[1:04:08] get hang up with the contract

[1:04:09] negotiations, things like that.

[1:04:11] So but SEPTEMBER timeframe is

[1:04:12] when we should actually start

[1:04:14] construction. And, then go from

[1:04:15] there. And we will work with

[1:04:17] the contractor. As I mentioned

[1:04:18] last week. Uh, we

[1:04:18] re going to

[1:04:20] be looking at the forecast, if

[1:04:22] you will. Uh, what makes the

[1:04:23] most sense? We MAY go in and

[1:04:25] start the pond work and get

[1:04:27] that stuff first, and then

[1:04:28] maybe come back and do

[1:04:30] pavement. If the weather starts

[1:04:32] proving to be worse than what

[1:04:33] we, you know, then where we can

[1:04:35] pay, and we MAY come back in

[1:04:36] early spring to do, do the

[1:04:38] actual road construction, but

[1:04:38] we

[1:04:39] ll work with the contractor,

[1:04:40] look at forecast and see what

[1:04:42] makes the most sense in terms

[1:04:42] of that.

[1:04:43] Thank you Greg.

[1:04:45] Yeah.

[1:04:47] All right. Any other questions?

[1:04:48] If not, there

[1:04:49] s some motions to

[1:04:51] be made. Council member green.

[1:04:52] Thank you. Mayor Ward one is

[1:04:54] really happy about this. And so

[1:04:56] therefore I move to approve

[1:04:57] item nine a.

[1:04:58] So is Ward two because it

[1:04:58] s

[1:05:03] technically in Ward two. Yes.

[1:05:04] All right. There

[1:05:05] s one motion

[1:05:10] then Councilmember Fiedler.

[1:05:10] I won

[1:05:11] t mention Ward

[1:05:11] s, but

[1:05:12] there is a former mayor who

[1:05:13] s

[1:05:14] really happy about this. This

[1:05:17] is moving forward. So at least

[1:05:17] second.

[1:05:19] All right.

[1:05:19] There

[1:05:20] s a first and second to

[1:05:23] approve. Item nine a roll call

[1:05:31] vote. Motion passes 8 to 0 with

[1:05:33] one absent. All right. We might

[1:05:34] be batting a thousand with

[1:05:35] green tonight. We

[1:05:36] ll see what

[1:05:38] happens on this other item.

[1:05:40] Thank you very much, ladies and

[1:05:42] gentlemen. I appreciate it.

[1:05:43] Now, this is the way to

[1:05:45] pressure him, because this is a

[1:05:47] resolution of the city council

[1:05:48] city. Brighton, Colorado,

[1:05:50] approving an intergovernmental

[1:05:52] agreement between the city of

[1:05:56] Brighton and School. 27 j.

[1:05:59] Pressures on. Yes. City Manager

[1:06:00] Martinez, is this our speaker,

[1:06:01] MR.. LaBrie?

[1:06:02] So the bridge is your speaker.

[1:06:03] All right.

[1:06:05] All right. Thank you. All

[1:06:06] right. Good evening. Mayor.

[1:06:08] Mayor pro tem and members of

[1:06:10] city Council. Today, I will

[1:06:12] provide an overview of the

[1:06:13] proposed iga with School

[1:06:16] District 27 j for North 40th

[1:06:18] Avenue improvements and the

[1:06:20] construction of a regional

[1:06:23] detention pond. Uh, this

[1:06:25] proposed agreement defines

[1:06:27] roles, easements, right of way,

[1:06:28] needs, construction

[1:06:31] coordination, and long term

[1:06:35] maintenance responsibilities.

[1:06:37] District owns the property at

[1:06:39] 88 North 40th Avenue. The city

[1:06:42] will build roadway in a pond

[1:06:44] while maintaining bus access

[1:06:48] throughout construction. Uh

[1:06:50] project components. Stormwater

[1:06:52] conveyance to new detention

[1:06:54] pond. Pond construction and

[1:06:56] site grading. Removal of dirt

[1:06:58] and concrete debris.

[1:07:01] Acquisition of right of way and

[1:07:03] easements shown in exhibits. On

[1:07:05] my next slide. And this is the

[1:07:07] exhibit of the actually right

[1:07:07] of way. There

[1:07:08] s going to be a

[1:07:10] requiring the easements as well

[1:07:11] as temporary easements that

[1:07:11] we

[1:07:12] re going to need during

[1:07:14] construction, and then a

[1:07:15] drainage easement over the

[1:07:16] pond. So those are the

[1:07:18] different colors. Red is pretty

[1:07:20] much right away. Green is

[1:07:22] utility easement. Uh, the the

[1:07:24] yellow is the drainage

[1:07:25] easement. And then the kind of

[1:07:26] I guess doesn

[1:07:26] t look too

[1:07:28] orange, but the, uh, off

[1:07:30] yellow, it would be, um, um,

[1:07:32] the temporary easement we would

[1:07:38] need to clean that area up. Uh,

[1:07:40] the district will convey right

[1:07:42] of way and easements to us. Uh,

[1:07:44] the city will manage the

[1:07:49] construction. The city

[1:07:50] maintains the ponds. For the

[1:07:52] first five years, the district

[1:07:53] will handle mowing. Uh, the

[1:07:55] city will maintain stormwater

[1:07:56] inlet structures for the long

[1:08:00] term. Uh, there are no no new

[1:08:03] long term city obligations that

[1:08:05] the future dredging costs will

[1:08:09] be a cost share with 86%, uh,

[1:08:11] paid by the district, 14%, uh,

[1:08:12] subject to pay by the city,

[1:08:15] subject to annual appropriation.

[1:08:17] Uh, staff is seeking approval

[1:08:19] to secure right of way.

[1:08:21] Formalized responsibilities and

[1:08:23] keep North 40th Avenue project

[1:08:25] on schedule. And I

[1:08:26] m open for

[1:08:27] any questions.

[1:08:28] Did you say you

[1:08:28] re hoping for

[1:08:29] questions?

[1:08:29] I

[1:08:30] m open. Open.

[1:08:31] Open.

[1:08:33] No. Not open. I

[1:08:34] m open to

[1:08:35] answer any questions.

[1:08:36] Questions for MR. LaBrie.

[1:08:38] Council member Fiedler.

[1:08:39] Thank you. Mayor. No question.

[1:08:40] Just a comment. I mentioned

[1:08:42] former former mayor and current

[1:08:43] chief operations officer Terry

[1:08:46] Lucero by name, but I just did,

[1:08:47] uh, he wanted me to extend his

[1:08:49] thanks to you and staff for

[1:08:50] working through this iga with

[1:08:51] him. Uh, I spoke with him today

[1:08:52] because I knew it was on the

[1:08:54] agenda. Made sure he was

[1:08:55] comfortable, which you probably

[1:08:56] already knew before me that he

[1:08:58] that he is. So I just wanted to

[1:09:01] extend my his thanks to you.

[1:09:02] It was a great. You know, it

[1:09:03] was an eight month effort, but

[1:09:05] it was a I think we all had to

[1:09:06] get an understanding of what we

[1:09:08] needed. And it was a very, I

[1:09:10] think, well received on both

[1:09:11] sides. So we were happy to work

[1:09:14] with them as well. Yeah.

[1:09:14] Too bad there

[1:09:15] s not a

[1:09:17] representative from 27 j right

[1:09:18] here tonight to go to bat for

[1:09:22] this.

[1:09:22] Yeah.

[1:09:25] All right. Um, no other

[1:09:28] questions. Motion to approve.

[1:09:29] Anybody. Council member.

[1:09:30] Fiedler.

[1:09:32] Uh, motion to approve. Item.

[1:09:34] Help me. Mayor.

[1:09:34] Nine b.

[1:09:36] Nine b. Thank you.

[1:09:38] Council member Wirth.

[1:09:38] I

[1:09:39] ll second that.

[1:09:40] We have a first and second to

[1:09:43] approve. Nine b as presented.

[1:10:03] Roll call. Vote. Motion passes

[1:10:05] 8 to 0 with one absent.

[1:10:06] Thank you. Thank you.

[1:10:07] Appreciate it. Thank you, thank

[1:10:10] you.

[1:10:11] All right. There

[1:10:12] s no general

[1:10:13] reports, no utility. So we

[1:10:14] ll

[1:10:16] go on to reports by everybody.

[1:10:16] I

[1:10:17] ll start with the reports by

[1:10:20] the mayor. Two weeks ago was

[1:10:22] our, um, a quarterly ad hoc

[1:10:25] dinner. It was in Arvada. It

[1:10:26] was at a restaurant on the

[1:10:28] Adams County side in Arvada. I

[1:10:29] was the only Brighton

[1:10:30] representative there, but it

[1:10:32] was good to hear updates from

[1:10:35] our peer peer municipalities in

[1:10:38] the area. Um, and just so you

[1:10:39] know, MR. Green, they actually

[1:10:40] had Pepsi products, so you

[1:10:41] would have got a mountain dew

[1:10:44] over there. So you missed out.

[1:10:48] So, um, and we dodged a

[1:10:50] thunderstorm, but, uh, it was

[1:10:52] good. Uh, I also attended,

[1:10:54] obviously, the city barbecue,

[1:10:56] like many of us here. It was

[1:10:57] great to have everybody out,

[1:10:59] despite a little bit of a

[1:11:00] threatening of rain. And then,

[1:11:02] of course, rain kind of started

[1:11:04] towards the end, but it was

[1:11:06] great to interact with a lot of

[1:11:08] the youth that were out there

[1:11:10] selling a lot of the a lot of

[1:11:12] the goods that they had either

[1:11:14] made or put together or

[1:11:15] whatever they did, and it

[1:11:18] teaches them how to create, um,

[1:11:20] you know, that entrepreneurial

[1:11:21] spirit. And it was it was just

[1:11:23] a fabulous, uh, showing from

[1:11:26] the youth. So good job for them

[1:11:29] that the, uh, police swearing

[1:11:31] in ceremony, they do those a

[1:11:32] couple times a year with new

[1:11:33] officers coming in or

[1:11:36] promotions or staff coming in,

[1:11:36] and it

[1:11:37] s good to honor those

[1:11:40] that are serving in, uh, you

[1:11:41] know, serving as our first

[1:11:44] responder. Uh, last week we had

[1:11:46] the ribbon cutting to the a470

[1:11:49] and Sable interchange. It was

[1:11:51] good to get that open. Uh, last

[1:11:52] time I drove by, I think the

[1:11:53] lights were flashing, so I

[1:11:55] think those will be going solid

[1:11:56] really soon, if they haven

[1:11:56] t

[1:11:59] already, then, uh, I was at

[1:12:01] the, uh, metro Denver State of

[1:12:03] the cities address. Um, what

[1:12:05] was interesting about that is,

[1:12:07] uh, the the mayor of Denver was

[1:12:09] not there, but they had a panel

[1:12:10] of other mayors throughout the

[1:12:12] area talking about, uh, you

[1:12:14] know, the collaboration of

[1:12:16] cities in the, in the region.

[1:12:17] And it was good to be a part of

[1:12:19] that. I was, uh, they they get

[1:12:21] people to do a host table. And

[1:12:23] so I encourage you all the next

[1:12:25] opportunity to, to do that if,

[1:12:26] uh, if becoming a host table

[1:12:29] opens up again next year, it

[1:12:29] s

[1:12:33] also at the chambers Cinerama

[1:12:36] event. Uh, Cinerama for like,

[1:12:38] probably several years in a

[1:12:40] row, puts on a great networking

[1:12:41] event. They involve four of the

[1:12:43] area chambers, and it was good

[1:12:45] to interact with so many of

[1:12:47] our, even a lot of our friends

[1:12:49] from the surrounding chambers.

[1:12:51] And so good job on them. I

[1:12:52] think it was their 20th

[1:12:53] anniversary, if I remember

[1:12:55] right. And then, uh,

[1:12:56] unofficially, I took my family

[1:12:57] to the county fair. That just

[1:12:58] happened over the weekend. It

[1:13:00] was good to see what

[1:13:01] s at the

[1:13:03] fair and and partake of the fun

[1:13:04] activities they have at the

[1:13:07] fair on Friday. Tomorrow I

[1:13:07] ll

[1:13:10] be at my, uh, Metro mayor

[1:13:10] s

[1:13:12] caucus. We have our, uh,

[1:13:14] meeting tomorrow morning. Um,

[1:13:16] and, uh, supposedly there will

[1:13:17] be a member of the media there

[1:13:18] that will be interviewing some

[1:13:20] of us and talking about the

[1:13:22] importance of a regional

[1:13:24] collaboration. So look out for

[1:13:24] that. I think it

[1:13:25] ll be like

[1:13:28] nine news or something. So

[1:13:29] next, uh, let

[1:13:29] s go on to

[1:13:31] reports by any department

[1:13:32] directors. And by the way, when

[1:13:33] Marv is in that seat, he got

[1:13:35] like a lot of department

[1:13:37] directors to speak. So how are

[1:13:39] you going to one up that one?

[1:13:40] Apparently I can

[1:13:40] t even get

[1:13:41] department of directors to show

[1:13:44] up for my meetings. So MISTER

[1:13:46] Falkenburg is much. Well, I

[1:13:47] have four, okay. I have four.

[1:13:49] Well, one, two, three, four, I

[1:13:51] have four, we have 14.

[1:13:52] We could just call them up and

[1:13:54] probably and see what.

[1:13:56] Happens. I think we need

[1:13:57] Armando to come back up and

[1:14:00] give a mazdoor. Please, if you

[1:14:02] have anything. We we have

[1:14:04] nothing tonight. Thanks. Oh,

[1:14:05] man.

[1:14:08] Okay. Next reports by our city

[1:14:08] attorney

[1:14:10] s office.

[1:14:11] Nothing from the city attorney.

[1:14:13] Oh, okay.

[1:14:14] I was looking forward to you

[1:14:17] having more, you know. Okay.

[1:14:18] Next reports by our city

[1:14:20] manager, including any board

[1:14:23] and vacancy updates.

[1:14:24] Thank you. Mayor, we have a few

[1:14:25] of those. Uh, I

[1:14:25] ll start with

[1:14:26] the Brighton Urban Renewal

[1:14:27] Authority. We do have three

[1:14:29] vacancies, which, if you

[1:14:29] re

[1:14:31] interested, please fill those.

[1:14:31] If you

[1:14:33] re listening. We have

[1:14:34] three members of our Historic

[1:14:36] Preservation Commission and one

[1:14:38] alternate member. We have two

[1:14:40] members and two alternates of

[1:14:41] the housing authority. But I do

[1:14:42] know that there are some

[1:14:44] applications in there as well.

[1:14:46] We do have one member for the

[1:14:48] district Plan Commission, and

[1:14:50] we still have our two youth

[1:14:52] members to be filled for the

[1:14:53] Sustainability Advisory Board.

[1:14:53] But I know that there

[1:14:54] s some

[1:14:56] interest there as well, and we

[1:14:58] will be looking at potentially

[1:14:59] changing some of the criteria

[1:15:01] for those youth members coming

[1:15:02] up very soon, which hopefully

[1:15:03] opens the door for more

[1:15:04] applicants there. If you

[1:15:05] re

[1:15:07] interested in any of our board

[1:15:08] openings, please visit our

[1:15:10] website and you will find out

[1:15:12] about how you can apply for

[1:15:14] these and perform your civic

[1:15:15] duties. Uh, I don

[1:15:16] t have much

[1:15:17] of an update. I know that there

[1:15:18] was a question last week as to

[1:15:21] when the temporary light would

[1:15:24] be removed on Sable, and I know

[1:15:25] the answer that was given at

[1:15:26] the meeting was soon. It was a

[1:15:27] technical answer. Literally

[1:15:29] soon, uh, soon actually means

[1:15:31] today. I was just informed that

[1:15:33] it is it has been removed. So

[1:15:35] that portion of the project has

[1:15:37] been complete. However, we

[1:15:38] still have a long way to go

[1:15:40] with the two intersections, so

[1:15:41] more to come there, but at

[1:15:41] least we

[1:15:42] ve removed one of the

[1:15:44] barriers and moving on to other

[1:15:46] projects. Uh, finally, I just

[1:15:47] want to give some thanks. I

[1:15:49] want to thank Marvin, Karen for

[1:15:50] all they

[1:15:50] ve done for me the

[1:15:52] last three weeks and keeping

[1:15:53] the ship afloat. I certainly

[1:15:55] appreciate it. I know Marv was

[1:15:56] marvelous. I watched all the

[1:15:57] meetings here, so he did a

[1:15:59] fantastic job in my stead. And

[1:16:00] I want to thank you all for

[1:16:01] your support during my time

[1:16:02] off. It really meant a lot to

[1:16:04] me. So thank you all.

[1:16:05] Great. Thank you. It

[1:16:06] s good to

[1:16:08] have you back again. Next call

[1:16:10] on reports by our esteemed

[1:16:12] members of council. We

[1:16:13] ll start

[1:16:14] over here with Council member

[1:16:16] Collins.

[1:16:17] Thanks, mayor. Uh, I don

[1:16:18] t have

[1:16:20] anything tonight. Um, just

[1:16:22] wanted to say thanks also to

[1:16:23] Marv and Karen and Michael.

[1:16:24] We

[1:16:25] re so glad to have you back.

[1:16:25] So that

[1:16:26] s all for me.

[1:16:29] All right. Council member

[1:16:29] Snyder.

[1:16:31] Thank you. Mayor. I too

[1:16:33] attended the barbecue and the

[1:16:35] youth entrepreneurs were kind

[1:16:36] enough to lighten my wallet and

[1:16:37] make it easier for me to get to

[1:16:39] carry myself home. They had a

[1:16:41] lot of interesting products.

[1:16:42] They did a great job, and that

[1:16:44] was a good time. The music was

[1:16:45] good too, by the way. I don

[1:16:45] t

[1:16:46] know if Gary got the band or

[1:16:47] not, but they were. They were

[1:16:50] pretty good. So anyway, um, as

[1:16:53] you know, the dd was formed.

[1:16:56] 100% of the board is filled.

[1:16:56] We

[1:16:57] re having our first meeting

[1:16:59] on Wednesday and two days, two

[1:17:01] days, one day, one day

[1:17:02] tomorrow. And we

[1:17:02] ll be

[1:17:05] introducing the bylaws and

[1:17:06] getting to know all the other

[1:17:07] members. So I

[1:17:08] m really excited

[1:17:11] to see how that develops. And

[1:17:13] moves us along downtown.

[1:17:16] All right. Next, Council member

[1:17:16] Fiedler.

[1:17:17] Uh, thank you, mayor. Nothing

[1:17:19] to report other than again,

[1:17:20] thanks to Marvin, Karen and

[1:17:20] Michael. We

[1:17:20] re glad you

[1:17:22] re back.

[1:17:23] .

[1:17:26] Next. Mayor pro tem.

[1:17:27] I know it will shock many, many

[1:17:29] people. I have no report to

[1:17:30] share this evening.

[1:17:31] Oh, wow.

[1:17:32] Okay.

[1:17:34] I have anything.

[1:17:37] Council member today. Wow.

[1:17:37] Um.

[1:17:38] I was also.

[1:17:39] At the city barbecue.

[1:17:40] It was.

[1:17:41] Very well attended. The the

[1:17:43] band was great, food was

[1:17:45] awesome. I also lightened my

[1:17:47] purse a little bit. Um, I

[1:17:47] d

[1:17:49] like to say that I, you know,

[1:17:50] left my money at home, but I

[1:17:50] didn

[1:17:53] t. I left it there on

[1:17:54] purpose.

[1:17:54] I would.

[1:17:56] Also like to talk a little bit

[1:17:58] about, um, I was getting.

[1:17:59] Uh, outreach.

[1:18:00] From the community and also for

[1:18:03] personal reasons, um, wanting

[1:18:06] to, uh, looked into went to the

[1:18:07] adult rec center, and I can

[1:18:07] t

[1:18:09] say it all like you can. I

[1:18:09] m

[1:18:12] not even going to try the Eagle

[1:18:13] Corbett suit. Yes. Thank you.

[1:18:15] We all know. Anyway, I went to

[1:18:17] the the adult rec center home,

[1:18:20] and I asked them about a group

[1:18:21] for an Alzheimer

[1:18:22] s support

[1:18:23] group, and they didn

[1:18:24] t have

[1:18:25] anything. So they reached out

[1:18:26] to the Alzheimer

[1:18:27] s Association.

[1:18:29] And lo and behold, they are

[1:18:32] going to start a group.

[1:18:34] Yay!

[1:18:35] Um, there

[1:18:36] s going to be. Thank

[1:18:37] you. There

[1:18:38] s going to be first,

[1:18:40] an informative talk that

[1:18:40] s

[1:18:43] going to be on Friday,

[1:18:46] SEPTEMBER 4th. Uh, tentatively

[1:18:47] at the at this point, it

[1:18:47] s

[1:18:49] going to be 1 P.M. And then

[1:18:50] afterwards, starting in

[1:18:52] OCTOBER, there will be a

[1:18:53] monthly support group. And

[1:18:56] these are all free. So get the

[1:18:57] word out. Tell everybody you

[1:18:58] know that there

[1:18:58] s anybody that

[1:19:01] could benefit from any type of

[1:19:03] support in this, in this world,

[1:19:05] in this situation. Um, we have

[1:19:07] it now in Brighton. So I wanted

[1:19:08] to put that out there and just

[1:19:10] help, help me get the word out.

[1:19:13] Thank you.

[1:19:15] Thank you for, uh, you know,

[1:19:17] sharing that. I know at least

[1:19:19] ten years ago there were there

[1:19:21] was a support group that was

[1:19:22] kind of informal that met over

[1:19:22] there.

[1:19:23] Right? They said that they

[1:19:23] didn

[1:19:24] t have really a lot of

[1:19:25] interest back then, and that

[1:19:26] they hadn

[1:19:27] t been approached for

[1:19:28] a while. So they were very

[1:19:29] happy that I approached them.

[1:19:30] I could see that need be

[1:19:31] needing filled for sure in our

[1:19:32] community.

[1:19:34] And I need to know how many

[1:19:37] funnel cakes Tom green ate.

[1:19:40] With that council member. Green.

[1:19:43] Uh, you know, I would I was

[1:19:45] going to write down that

[1:19:45] Alzheimer

[1:19:46] s date, but I forgot

[1:19:48] to write it down. So I need to

[1:19:51] remember when that is. Um, you

[1:19:52] know, I, uh, single handedly

[1:19:55] keep the fair vendors in

[1:19:58] business. Um, I, I feel it

[1:19:58] s my

[1:19:58] duty. It

[1:19:59] s my obligation to

[1:20:00] sample them all, to tell you

[1:20:02] which ones were the best. And I

[1:20:04] did had several that I enjoyed.

[1:20:04] Uh, but let

[1:20:05] s not get into that

[1:20:07] because, you know, there is a

[1:20:09] chamber mixer tomorrow night at

[1:20:10] Wolf and Honey that I think is

[1:20:12] really exciting to get out

[1:20:13] there and support our chamber

[1:20:14] and support local business.

[1:20:15] And, you know, always a big

[1:20:17] splash is adult Night at the

[1:20:19] Oasis, which is this Friday

[1:20:21] night. Uh, another big thing.

[1:20:23] And Lord, give me downtown

[1:20:23] because I

[1:20:24] m looking for some

[1:20:26] tush, and that is z top cover

[1:20:29] band, a local fandango playing

[1:20:32] at the Armory, the 7th of

[1:20:32] AUGUST. I

[1:20:33] m telling you, these

[1:20:35] guys have the beards, they have

[1:20:37] the guitars, they have the the

[1:20:38] wardrobe. There every. These

[1:20:39] are sharp dressed men. And

[1:20:39] they

[1:20:40] re going to be playing

[1:20:42] some stop and rockin that place

[1:20:44] at the Armory this Saturday

[1:20:45] night or this Friday night.

[1:20:48] Come on down and see a local

[1:20:50] fandango. Uh, and then, uh, on

[1:20:52] the 14th, uh, Brighton on

[1:20:53] Broadway will be at the armory,

[1:20:54] too. So, you know, hey, if you

[1:20:55] didn

[1:20:56] t get out to the fair and

[1:20:58] had enough funnel cakes as I

[1:21:00] did, I think total tally was

[1:21:02] about six. Uh, please get on

[1:21:05] down and see a local fandango

[1:21:07] at the Armory. Cc top cover

[1:21:09] band, sharp dressed man. That

[1:21:09] s

[1:21:10] all.

[1:21:12] Very good. Council member

[1:21:12] Wirth.

[1:21:14] Thank you, mayor. Just a couple

[1:21:15] things. One, I was also able to

[1:21:17] enjoy the ribbon cutting at,

[1:21:20] uh, a470. Uh, I

[1:21:20] ve got

[1:21:21] thinking, probably another

[1:21:22] month or so and we

[1:21:23] ll feel like

[1:21:23] it

[1:21:24] s been open the whole time,

[1:21:26] so hopefully the that

[1:21:26] ll help

[1:21:29] us progress in the, um, in the

[1:21:32] building of that corridor. Um,

[1:21:34] had a meeting with, with Jean

[1:21:35] Shreve. Um, she

[1:21:36] s a consultant

[1:21:38] that, uh, works with the city.

[1:21:40] Uh, we were talking about the,

[1:21:42] uh, Colorado seven coalition

[1:21:44] meeting coming up, and, uh, one

[1:21:46] of the things there is we

[1:21:46] re

[1:21:47] going to really be pushing for

[1:21:49] a complete plan for the

[1:21:50] corridor right now, that

[1:21:52] coalition seems to work in

[1:21:53] silos. Everybody

[1:21:53] s just

[1:21:54] concerned about their own

[1:21:57] little piece of highway seven,

[1:21:59] which is, uh, really, that

[1:21:59] s a

[1:22:02] lot of silos. But we really

[1:22:03] want to get them to really

[1:22:05] start focusing on the long

[1:22:07] range, um, importance of that

[1:22:10] corridor. And so will be, uh,

[1:22:12] uh, bringing up and and

[1:22:15] reinforcing a couple ideas, uh,

[1:22:16] involving Brighton and the bus

[1:22:18] centers and things like that.

[1:22:19] Um, so we

[1:22:20] ll be, uh, that

[1:22:20] ll be

[1:22:23] this coming Friday, I believe.

[1:22:27] Um, and then, uh, probably the

[1:22:29] biggest thing did all week, uh,

[1:22:29] I

[1:22:30] m surprised nobody mentioned

[1:22:31] it, or if they did, I was

[1:22:36] sleeping. Um, got to, um, got

[1:22:37] to enjoy Cheryl

[1:22:39] s retirement

[1:22:41] celebration. Uh, Cheryl

[1:22:42] s been

[1:22:43] a long time employee here, and

[1:22:44] I know she

[1:22:44] s had a lot to do

[1:22:47] with city council. And I, for

[1:22:49] one, really appreciate her.

[1:22:49] Apparently, there

[1:22:50] s been a lot

[1:22:51] of people that that appreciate,

[1:22:53] Cheryl, because that was a full

[1:22:55] house. So, uh, it was nice to,

[1:22:57] to give her a proper sendoff.

[1:22:58] So I know you

[1:22:58] re out there

[1:23:00] listening, Cheryl. So thank you

[1:23:01] again. That

[1:23:02] s all I

[1:23:02] ve got.

[1:23:03] Thanks.

[1:23:05] Very fitting way to end the

[1:23:07] program tonight. Um, thank you

[1:23:09] all for serving Brighton. We

[1:23:10] will meet again during our

[1:23:12] study session time slot next

City Council on 2026-08-04 6:00 PM

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