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[2:05] and a quorum is present uh will everyone

[2:08] please ryan

[2:09] and join me in the pledge of allegiance

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[2:18] the united states of america

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[3:06] before doing so

[3:08] we will plan on a 10-minute break at

[3:09] approximately 8 p.m

[3:11] and i do want to know and welcome nancy

[3:14] rogers whose first meeting is tonight

[3:16] uh as our is our city attorney uh

[3:20] we will begin with council's review and

[3:21] approval of this evening's agenda

[3:23] council may add or remove items from the

[3:25] consent agenda or council may revise the

[3:28] order of business for the meeting

[3:29] does any member of the council have any

[3:31] additional comments or questions

[3:33] regarding this evening's events

[3:37] council member shaft thank you mayor

[3:40] i propose to move items 11c and item

[3:43] 11d to the consent agenda for tonight's

[3:46] uh meeting

[3:48] okay is there any objection now i'll

[3:50] note law evans uh has

[3:51] is attended she needs to be moved to the

[3:53] uh to the panelists

[3:54] um is there any objections to moving 11c

[3:57] and 11d to the uh to the consent agenda

[4:02] accounts member grown

[4:05] yes i would like to leave them both on

[4:12] so i'm not exactly sure what the rule is

[4:15] when there's objection to do we then

[4:16] leave them on

[4:17] uh yeah we leave them on we leave them

[4:19] on okay we will leave 11c

[4:21] and 11d uh where they're at and

[4:24] uh and act accordingly uh this evening

[4:27] we have uh

[4:28] two items that are petitioned in

[4:30] communications uh before council's

[4:32] review of the first item

[4:33] i did want to take a few moments in

[4:35] honor of martin luther king jr day this

[4:37] coming monday

[4:38] january 18th and on behalf of the city

[4:40] council i wanted to take a moment

[4:42] to recognize the significance of this

[4:43] day especially during a year of

[4:45] extraordinary and

[4:46] overdue conversations about around

[4:49] social justice

[4:50] it is important that we acknowledge uh

[4:52] dr king and his unparalleled impact on

[4:54] our trajectory as a nation

[4:56] and as a people among dr king's greatest

[4:59] contributions was his ability to embark

[5:01] on hit this journey on this mountain

[5:04] in steps with compassion and

[5:05] understanding how can we seek change in

[5:08] our world through non-violent methods

[5:10] and to do so in a way with compassion

[5:12] and understanding broomfield is a city

[5:14] county

[5:15] and community has advanced evidence

[5:17] neighbors helping neighbors

[5:18] and a spirit of engaged cooperation and

[5:20] we look forward to our journey

[5:22] ahead together uh we're not going to

[5:25] continue with this evening's agenda i

[5:26] will be reading a proclamation

[5:28] uh after we meet with the coroner um

[5:31] i want to make that comment to me to

[5:33] make another couple comments about

[5:34] what's going on in

[5:35] the country right now so however we're

[5:38] going to start out with uh

[5:39] a follow up discussion to the corner

[5:41] intergovernmental agreement

[5:42] which was approved by council at the uh

[5:44] december 10th

[5:46] 2020 council meeting on december

[5:49] 16 2020. monica brancusia jordan and

[5:52] former council that although council had

[5:54] approved the agreement

[5:55] with her office uh for 2020 when her

[5:58] office was elected not to renew the 2021

[6:01] agreement

[6:02] uh after the 2020 manches agreement

[6:04] expired on january first

[6:06] twenty twenty one i reached out uh to

[6:08] miss

[6:09] bronchusia jordan as mayor on december

[6:12] 17th and i apologized

[6:14] for the timeline as it did not provide

[6:16] adequate time for council to review the

[6:18] contract and ask questions

[6:19] nor adequate time for her office to

[6:21] respond

[6:22] broomfield the police department the

[6:24] district attorney

[6:26] mrs marcusia jordan and her office have

[6:28] had a successful and positive

[6:30] relationship for many years

[6:31] due to the challenge with the process

[6:33] and in the end of your timeline

[6:35] uh we invited miss bronkusha jordan

[6:38] to join council this evening to provide

[6:40] an opportunity for her

[6:42] council and the public to provide any

[6:44] additional comments questions and

[6:45] response responses

[6:47] we will start with the coroner's uh

[6:48] making her comments following

[6:50] all of my public comments and council

[6:52] member comments and questions

[6:53] items on this agenda are typically five

[6:56] minutes i'm requesting

[6:57] additional time under petitions and

[6:59] communications from council this evening

[7:01] to ensure

[7:02] a productive discussion and i'm looking

[7:05] up to see if there's any objections

[7:07] if we remove the five-minute time limit

[7:09] uh i'm not seeing any

[7:11] so uh so seeing no concerns with the

[7:14] quest for additional time

[7:15] uh miss marcus jordan please introduce

[7:17] yourself myself and share your comments

[7:21] good evening mayor clinton council

[7:22] members i'm monica brancucci jordan i'm

[7:25] the current coroner for adams and

[7:27] broomfield counties

[7:29] i am here tonight to further discuss the

[7:31] iga

[7:33] i think that it is important to recap

[7:35] for the public

[7:36] what has transpired and why i am here

[7:39] as you are aware despite your council's

[7:41] unanimous decision to approve the 2021

[7:43] iga for coroner services

[7:46] on december 10th i initially elected not

[7:49] to renew the 2021 iga

[7:51] following the council's concerns

[7:53] expressed at the december 10th council

[7:54] meeting

[7:56] toward the end of december it became

[7:57] apparent that it would be unlikely for

[7:59] broomfield council to replace my

[8:01] services

[8:02] by january 1st 2021 so following contact

[8:06] by numerous stakeholders urging me to

[8:08] reconsider

[8:09] along with a lengthy conversation and an

[8:11] apology for mayor quinn

[8:14] as an act of goodwill i agreed to sign

[8:16] the 2021 iga

[8:18] with the assurance that i would have

[8:19] this opportunity to address springfield

[8:21] council in a public forum

[8:23] as you are aware the executed iga has a

[8:26] 120-day termination notice available to

[8:29] both parties

[8:30] while i have signed the iga and have

[8:32] agreed to further discussions with your

[8:34] council

[8:34] my previous assertions have not changed

[8:37] if the broomfield council members lack

[8:39] confidence in the services that my

[8:41] office provides

[8:42] then you need to find a new coroner for

[8:44] your community

[8:45] the adams county coroner's office serves

[8:47] eight cities in addition to the city and

[8:49] county of broomfield

[8:50] along with all of the unincorporated

[8:52] areas covering a geographic area of

[8:54] approximately 1200 square miles

[8:58] my first priority is and always will be

[9:00] serving the citizens of adams county

[9:02] serving such a large population

[9:04] generates approximately five thousand

[9:06] reported deaths per year

[9:08] of which broomfield comprises less than

[9:10] 400.

[9:12] the adams county coroner's office has

[9:14] provided coroner services to broomfield

[9:16] for 20 years 10 of which have been under

[9:19] my leadership

[9:21] there appears to be a significant

[9:22] misunderstanding by members of this

[9:24] council about who derives benefit from

[9:27] this arrangement

[9:28] i am not here to earn the business of

[9:30] your community i

[9:31] my staff in my office benefit in no way

[9:34] from this agreement

[9:36] i have maintained this agreement merely

[9:38] as a good neighbor and to support the

[9:39] 17th judicial district

[9:41] which the two counties comprise this

[9:45] agreement was never intended to be a

[9:46] revenue generating arrangement

[9:48] i have always been extremely fair in

[9:50] what i have charged broomfield for

[9:52] coroner services

[9:53] the revenue generated by this agreement

[9:55] for adams county is insignificant

[9:58] this agreement not only provides your

[10:01] community with a vital public service

[10:02] and supports broomfield's judicial

[10:04] district

[10:05] but it also saves your county the

[10:07] millions of dollars it would cost for

[10:08] the infrastructure and ongoing budget to

[10:11] support your own coroner's office

[10:13] now obviously i'm not the only coroner

[10:15] that you can contract with

[10:17] there are 63 other coroners in the state

[10:19] of colorado that you can try to do

[10:20] business with

[10:22] however if you have confidence in the

[10:24] services my office provides

[10:26] and wish to continue to utilize these

[10:28] services then i think it is important

[10:30] for the council to understand what this

[10:32] arrangement will look like going forward

[10:36] mr elijah mcclain's death is tragic in

[10:38] every way

[10:39] and i certainly understand the questions

[10:41] surrounding his death

[10:42] having questions is not the issue at

[10:45] this

[10:46] at the december 10th council meeting

[10:48] broomfield council member devin schaff

[10:50] voiced concerns that i had committed

[10:52] official misconduct related to the

[10:54] mclean death investigation

[10:57] he then directed a litany of questions

[10:58] to me at a meeting that i was clearly

[11:01] not at

[11:02] the broom the majority of broomfield

[11:04] council present then followed in suit

[11:06] expressing similar sentiments

[11:08] then despite such serious concerns and

[11:11] having no answer to these questions

[11:13] the broomfield council unanimously

[11:15] approved contracting with my office for

[11:17] yet another year

[11:19] i find approving a new contract on the

[11:22] heels of expressing

[11:23] such serious concerns illogical it gives

[11:26] the appearance

[11:28] that these concerns were disingenuous

[11:30] and nothing more than devin's shaft

[11:32] and council members public pandering

[11:35] virtue signaling

[11:36] and utilizing this extremely tragic

[11:39] death

[11:39] for their own political aggrandizement

[11:42] mr mcclain's death occurred nearly 17

[11:46] months ago

[11:47] in those 17 months not a single one of

[11:49] you has contacted me to ask questions

[11:52] or express concerns about his case or to

[11:55] merely learn

[11:56] the general standards of practice my

[11:57] office uses to investigate police

[11:59] involved deaths

[12:01] instead you chose to use this tragedy as

[12:03] an opportunity to grandstand

[12:06] in the ten years that i have served your

[12:08] community i have never witnessed or

[12:10] experienced

[12:11] the lack of professionalism lack of

[12:14] communication

[12:15] and dysfunction that i have seen over

[12:16] the past few weeks

[12:18] so if this is indicative of what it will

[12:20] continue to be like to serve your

[12:22] community

[12:23] then it is important for you to know

[12:25] that i will terminate our agreement

[12:28] going forward if you have questions or

[12:30] concerns

[12:31] like any other stakeholder i expect you

[12:34] to communicate them to me

[12:36] you also need to understand that there

[12:37] are limitations surrounding what i can

[12:39] discuss

[12:41] so i'm here tonight to address this

[12:42] council and i am open to having dialogue

[12:45] so how would you like to proceed

[12:48] oh monica we're going to follow our uh

[12:51] our normal process on this and so what

[12:53] uh what we do is we allow public

[12:55] comments so there are there are two

[12:57] comments

[12:57] from the public um and i and then i'm

[13:00] gonna turn it over to city council

[13:02] uh you know have a discussion on how

[13:04] they would like to proceed

[13:06] their comments and you know and uh and

[13:08] so uh

[13:09] we're gonna follow a normal process

[13:10] which which i'll let you know so let me

[13:12] go ahead and go to

[13:13] is that finished the comments you want

[13:14] to make right now monica yes

[13:17] okay so let me let me go into the public

[13:19] we do have two

[13:20] members of the public that want to speak

[13:22] uh they each get to speak for three

[13:23] minutes

[13:24] uh and we will start with with with rick

[13:27] identify yourself uh your your full name

[13:30] and your neighborhood

[13:31] and you have three minutes to speak

[13:36] thank you mayor quinn my name is rick

[13:38] fernandez i'm in the broomfield heights

[13:41] division here in broomfield and i would

[13:43] like to thank you and the city council

[13:46] for the opportunity to speak with you

[13:47] this evening

[13:49] i'm here to offer up some comments on

[13:51] the events

[13:52] related to the renewal of the iga

[13:54] between the city and county of

[13:56] broomfield

[13:57] and the adams county coroner's office

[13:58] and to make three requests

[14:00] of the city council and the city staff

[14:03] i would like to say that while i have

[14:06] expected i would have expected this

[14:07] agreement

[14:08] when it came up for renewal to really as

[14:12] it provides a city

[14:13] service to our community would have been

[14:15] renewed without any concern from the

[14:16] city council

[14:18] what occurred in december was disturbing

[14:20] and it was concerning

[14:22] it was disturbing to hear that rather

[14:24] than acting in a civil

[14:25] civically and physically responsible

[14:28] manner

[14:29] the tenor and discussion by the city

[14:30] council led by council member shaft

[14:32] was to isolate the conversation around a

[14:36] contrived assertion regarding the adams

[14:38] county coroner's office role in the

[14:39] tragic death of elijah

[14:41] mclean why was the race at that time

[14:45] to the public it appears that there is

[14:47] more interest in grinding in acts

[14:48] and opening wounds in the name of social

[14:50] justice

[14:52] on top of that the questions were raised

[14:55] and were done

[14:55] in a setting where the very office that

[14:57] council member shaft questioned

[14:59] was not available to discuss or respond

[15:02] it's concerning that based on the tact

[15:04] taken by the city council on this topic

[15:06] turned

[15:07] into from being irresponsible to being negligent when

[15:11] the adams county coroner's office

[15:13] declined to renew the agreement

[15:15] shortly after the comments were made the

[15:17] negligence caused the city and county

[15:18] and broomfield to be at risk

[15:20] for not having a corner for the

[15:22] community and was a significant mistake

[15:25] that mayor quinn acknowledged when he

[15:27] said

[15:27] that the agreement was quote not handled

[15:29] properly

[15:31] and was followed by an apology by the

[15:32] mayor now mayor quinn

[15:34] i want to give you credit for being the

[15:36] adult in the room

[15:38] and working to ultimately get the

[15:39] agreement with the adams county coroner

[15:41] in place

[15:41] in spite of this major misstep and

[15:44] embarrassment

[15:45] to our city and community so as i

[15:47] mentioned i have three

[15:48] requests number one i would like to

[15:52] understand if the renewed agreement

[15:54] with the adams county coroner's office

[15:55] is coming at an increased cost to the

[15:57] city and county of broomfield

[15:59] as compared to the original agreement

[16:00] that was to be renewed

[16:02] number two i'd like to hear from the

[16:05] city manager's office

[16:06] and their perspective as to the state of

[16:08] the relationship

[16:10] between the city and county of

[16:11] broomfield and the adam county coroner

[16:13] office

[16:14] i'm concerned that the city is now in a

[16:16] tenuous relationship with them with

[16:18] adams county

[16:19] and i hope that this is not the case

[16:22] thank you i number three i would ask the

[16:24] council member shaft

[16:25] provide a public apology for causing the

[16:28] city and county and broomfield to be in

[16:30] a position that it finds itself in

[16:32] mayor quinn you demonstrate a huge

[16:34] amount of responsibility by apology

[16:36] different situations

[16:37] i appreciate that yeah thank rick your

[16:40] time's up thank you

[16:41] um let's go to elizabeth elizabeth

[16:45] state your full name in your

[16:46] neighborhood for the record and you have

[16:47] three minutes

[16:51] good evening thank you all so much

[16:53] elizabeth mora north moore estates

[16:55] and i'm just calling in to actually

[16:57] thank council member staff

[16:59] for having the courage to ask these

[17:01] questions and especially now that this

[17:03] case is going to a grand jury

[17:05] it is more important than ever that we

[17:07] know who we're

[17:08] working with and that everything was

[17:11] handled correctly in this case

[17:13] i think it takes a lot of courage to

[17:15] bring these questions up and i commend

[17:18] consul members shaft and it's quite

[17:21] obvious that the coroner's office

[17:22] doesn't want to work with broomfield

[17:24] so i would actually like to recommend

[17:27] that

[17:28] we find a different county to work with

[17:31] but thank you so much council member

[17:33] staff for doing what it takes and

[17:35] for standing up um and asking the tough

[17:38] questions i appreciate it

[17:39] have a great night

[17:43] hey i don't know i know any other

[17:45] questions or comments

[17:46] um i will uh

[17:49] from the public i will go to uh

[17:53] you know i will go oh i do have i do

[17:55] have one more called

[17:56] james um state your full name for the

[18:00] record uh

[18:00] in your neighborhood and you have three

[18:02] minutes

[18:06] uh thank you mayor um thank you mayor

[18:08] and council

[18:09] james marsh holston i live in brandywine

[18:12] i'm also calling in to

[18:13] express my gratitude for council member

[18:15] shaft and the other council members for

[18:17] having the courage to raise this issue

[18:20] um

[18:21] the tragic death of this young man

[18:25] has been obviously they've been in the

[18:27] news a lot and

[18:28] anybody who's paying attention knows

[18:30] this was mishandled

[18:32] on all levels um this man's death was a

[18:35] murder

[18:36] and it should have been treated as such

[18:39] furthermore if these questions are

[18:41] perfectly appropriate for council member

[18:42] staff to be answered

[18:43] asking and they should be treated with

[18:48] dignity and courteous response

[18:52] rather than also if anybody's

[18:55] politically grandstanding it would be

[18:56] the um

[18:57] coroner's office in my opinion and i

[19:00] believe that this

[19:01] these questions should be asked and

[19:02] should be answered and broomfield should

[19:04] move on

[19:05] and should do what we need to do to move

[19:08] our community forward and to keep our

[19:09] citizens safe

[19:10] thank you

[19:17] um i i don't think there's any there's

[19:21] nobody else in the queue if they're

[19:22] going

[19:23] there's somebody being screened again

[19:25] right now mayor

[19:36] okay

[19:51] it appears the screen call dropped mayor

[19:53] so if you want to move on

[19:54] so i i will go ahead and move on and uh

[19:57] we go to council comments um

[19:58] i'm going to uh um

[20:02] well he raised his hand i was going to

[20:03] let the council member shaft go first

[20:05] and uh and i'm going to give him just so

[20:08] everybody knows a little bit of latitude

[20:09] with time tonight

[20:10] so uh um so councilmember chef

[20:15] great thank you mr mayor um and uh thank

[20:18] you miss uh

[20:19] bronco jordan for being here with us

[20:21] tonight

[20:22] um you know my first question is what

[20:24] was your involvement

[20:26] in the top in the autopsy regarding

[20:28] elijah mclean

[20:41] i'm sorry did you ask what was my

[20:43] involvement in the autopsy of the elijah

[20:45] mclean

[20:45] correct so i believe that's an autopsy

[20:48] that i assisted on

[20:49] that was that would be on the autopsy

[20:51] report if it was

[20:58] um and you know we learned recently

[21:00] there is going to be a grand jury

[21:02] investigation

[21:03] into the death of elijah mclean along

[21:05] with this there's

[21:06] other investigations um so i i just

[21:09] wanted to ask in general

[21:10] are you able to comment or answer

[21:12] questions related to the death of elijah

[21:14] mclean at this point

[21:20] due to the multiple entities

[21:21] investigating this case and the

[21:24] initiation of the grand jury it's not

[21:26] appropriate for me to discuss this case

[21:28] at this time i look forward to having the opportunity to

[21:32] answer questions and discuss it in the

[21:34] future

[21:36] my hope is also that many of these

[21:37] questions will be answered at the

[21:39] conclusion of these investigations

[21:41] but no it is not appropriate for me to

[21:42] discuss this case further

[21:45] great thank you i'll keep my questions

[21:46] in general then

[21:48] if you or someone else in your office is

[21:50] in a situation that presents itself as a

[21:52] possible conflict to interest

[21:54] how is that handled in your office

[21:58] i and my staff would recuse ourselves

[22:00] from the case

[22:07] uh when there is a case uh how is

[22:09] yourself as a coroner interact with a

[22:11] forensic pathologist before

[22:13] during and after the autopsy report is

[22:15] completed

[22:19] um i interact closely with the forensic

[22:21] pathologist

[22:22] it really depends on the nature of the

[22:24] case as to how

[22:26] involved that interaction is but there

[22:28] are frequent conversations about the

[22:30] case

[22:31] and questions

[22:37] great um when there is a death case

[22:39] involving a police officer or a police

[22:41] department

[22:42] uh what interaction exists before and

[22:44] during the autopsy and before the

[22:46] autopsy report is completed

[22:50] interaction with who the police

[22:54] when there is a death involving a police

[22:56] and

[22:57] when there is a a non-police officer

[23:01] death

[23:02] uh that involves uh that there is a

[23:04] possible connection to a death by a

[23:06] police officer or involving a police

[23:08] department what is the interaction

[23:11] what is the further interaction with

[23:12] that police officer or that police

[23:14] department

[23:15] in the investigation of that death

[23:20] i think i understand what you're asking

[23:23] so

[23:24] the investigating agency might be the

[23:27] police department that was involved

[23:29] or it might be another investigating

[23:32] agency

[23:33] that is not something that eyes the

[23:34] coroner get to decide i don't get to

[23:36] pick

[23:37] which agency is investigating the

[23:40] criminal aspect of a case

[23:43] but whatever agency is investigating the

[23:46] criminal aspect of the case

[23:47] i am required by law to interact with

[23:58] great is it common practice to have the

[24:01] police department around while

[24:03] conducting the autopsy

[24:04] of someone potentially killed at the

[24:06] hands of a said police

[24:08] department like i said

[24:11] i am required by law to interact with

[24:13] whatever agency is investigating the

[24:16] criminal aspects of the case

[24:18] if that happens to be the same agency

[24:21] that was involved in the case

[24:23] then i am required to interact with them

[24:25] and they routinely come to autopsies as

[24:28] does

[24:28] the public defender if they're involved

[24:30] in the case or the d.a if they're

[24:31] involved in the case

[24:35] uh when a when the death is reported as

[24:37] a as undetermined

[24:39] or maybe undetermined what is the policy

[24:41] and practice in your office for seeking

[24:43] a second opinion

[24:46] it is not common practice or policy in

[24:48] my office to seek a second opinion

[24:50] nor is that standard of practice in the

[24:52] united states

[24:53] however all cases can be reviewed at any

[24:56] point in time

[24:57] by any other professional

[25:02] what what would be the uh the factor

[25:05] that you would need

[25:06] in order to seek a second opinion on a

[25:08] deaf case where it's undetermined

[25:12] um that is too vague to answer it really

[25:15] is case specific

[25:21] you don't have any metrics for when that second opinion would be seeked

[25:26] no if there were questions about the

[25:28] interpretation of the medical findings

[25:31] and that is an instance where i would

[25:32] seek a second opinion

[25:34] um if the medical findings seem clear

[25:36] and are easily interpretable

[25:38] then that is not a case that i would

[25:40] commonly seek a second opinion on

[25:42] but it's really case specific right i

[25:45] appreciate that

[25:46] at what point in the autopsy process are

[25:48] witness statements police reports and

[25:50] video of the incident gathered in order

[25:52] to complete the autopsy report

[25:56] those are gathered throughout the

[25:57] process so it just depends on

[26:01] how quickly we can get the information

[26:03] what it is we're attempting to gather

[26:05] but they are gathered throughout the

[26:06] entire process so some of those may come

[26:08] in before the autopsy

[26:10] some of them may come in after the

[26:11] autopsy is done

[26:13] but they would all theoretically come in

[26:15] before the autopsy report was completed

[26:18] not necessarily the autopsy report draft

[26:20] is done immediately after the autopsy

[26:22] and then the final report

[26:24] is put out after all the information is

[26:27] obtained

[26:30] mayor can i interrupt and call uh the

[26:32] meeting to order for a second

[26:34] i've got a i've got a question

[26:37] the intent of this i i believe is um

[26:42] maybe not appropriate where it's going

[26:44] for for online

[26:45] stream of questioning it's more

[26:47] informational and i think devin can

[26:49] or council member shop give a call

[26:52] to um miss bruce jordan

[26:56] i i think we've already put her through

[26:58] enough she's a professional

[27:01] and i would i would want to make sure

[27:03] that she's welcome to

[27:05] continue with it but i i do think that

[27:07] the intent of this

[27:09] was to give her a chance to talk to us

[27:11] publicly

[27:12] but not to be grilled again in public

[27:16] so um i'd like the council to consider

[27:19] not uh taking this line of questioning

[27:22] and

[27:22] maybe council member chef you can take

[27:25] that offline

[27:31] i appreciate that you know council

[27:33] member shop obviously

[27:34] um hold on hold on mayor uh so i believe

[27:37] that the the motion was a point of order

[27:40] uh she said that she would like to call

[27:41] the meeting to order which is which is

[27:43] not correct

[27:44] it is a point of order so could you rule

[27:46] on that point of order mayor

[27:49] what i'm going to say is first of all

[27:52] i'm going to go ahead and recognize uh

[27:54] you know

[27:54] the because monica and i and jennifer

[27:57] had a lot of discussions about tonight

[27:59] and part of the point about tonight was

[28:00] to give to give miss barakushia jordan

[28:03] the chance to to respond in public to

[28:05] the questions

[28:05] that had been made in public you know in

[28:07] public and so

[28:08] my point is that was the point of

[28:10] tonight's meeting but monica if you want

[28:12] to add

[28:13] if you want to make a comment on on

[28:15] because

[28:17] this isn't in our book anywhere meaning

[28:20] that we we're you know

[28:21] we're trying to give you uh a chance to

[28:23] respond back to things that concerned you uh that were said on december

[28:29] i appreciate that i think that it's

[28:31] pretty clear about um how i feel about

[28:33] devin schaff and his comments

[28:35] um educating the council on the office

[28:37] of the coroner specifically the

[28:39] standards of practice for police

[28:40] involved deaths is

[28:42] far too lengthy of a discussion for this

[28:43] evening if there is a genuine interest i

[28:46] am happy to host the council at my

[28:48] facility

[28:49] and arrange and arrange a presentation

[28:51] on this topic

[28:52] i also teach every year at the 17th

[28:54] judicial

[28:55] district citizens academy and one and

[28:58] would encourage you all to attend

[29:00] um this academy for a better

[29:01] understanding of the coroner's role as

[29:02] well as the entire judicial system

[29:05] um mr schaff i think needs a an

[29:07] understanding a basic rudimentary

[29:08] understanding of the system

[29:10] before um asking these types of

[29:12] questions

[29:15] not having a uh not having a script for

[29:19] tonight

[29:19] i think you're offered to invite those

[29:22] who are interested

[29:23] to participate as a very genuine offer

[29:26] uh that that perhaps several of the

[29:28] council members should take advantage of um and uh

[29:38] it

[29:41] so i want to god's offer i want us to

[29:44] consider taking up that offer before you

[29:46] know

[29:46] we we do anything tonight so devin how

[29:49] many more questions

[29:50] you want to i mean if you do want to get

[29:51] into the details or office and what she

[29:52] does

[29:53] i do think it might be appropriate to uh

[29:57] to go ahead and meet with her directly

[30:00] in her office and understand the

[30:01] procedures that she has

[30:03] otherwise tonight's gonna be cursory and uh

[30:07] and probably not as meaningful as it

[30:08] could be if we if we could have a

[30:10] detailed meeting with her uh say

[30:12] sometime in the next

[30:14] few weeks

[30:18] thanks mayor um so my understanding

[30:20] tonight was that uh i would have a

[30:22] chance to

[30:22] ask the questions uh that i brought up

[30:25] uh regarding the

[30:26] continuant uh the agreement for the iga

[30:29] um

[30:29] and uh i understood from my first

[30:32] actually my second question uh to miss

[30:35] bronco

[30:36] jordan that uh she could not comment or

[30:39] answer questions regarding

[30:40] elijah mclean i have made these more

[30:42] general uh to uh

[30:44] find out more about her office and the

[30:46] practices her office

[30:47] and those have been my questions tonight

[30:49] um i do still have uh concerns

[30:52] um but uh you know perhaps i'm not going

[30:54] to be able to answer

[30:56] ask the rest of my questions tonight and

[30:57] won't be able to get the answers that i

[30:59] need so

[31:00] uh i'll leave it at that and those are

[31:01] my questions for tonight thank you yeah

[31:02] councilmember chef i think what's being

[31:04] offered here though is

[31:05] something that uh what's being offered

[31:07] here is the opportunity to uh to meet in our office you know and

[31:11] have an in-depth discussion where we're

[31:12] not limited by you know

[31:13] we do have a pretty big big big agenda

[31:16] tonight uh

[31:17] would you be willing to participate in

[31:19] that meeting

[31:22] of course mayor if the invites is there

[31:24] i i definitely will

[31:25] attend that meeting okay so i'm gonna go

[31:27] ahead and call on some of the members of

[31:28] the uh

[31:29] of the because i frankly i really do

[31:33] appreciate the opportunity to go meet in

[31:35] your office and uh

[31:36] not that my comment should be said at

[31:37] the beginning but i did

[31:39] so let me go ahead and go to

[31:41] councilmember tessier

[31:45] thank you mr mayor um i just wanted

[31:48] i'm really grateful for this opportunity

[31:51] thank you

[31:51] um miss bronconcia jordan for

[31:55] um for being here um

[31:58] and and i uh i want to add my apology

[32:02] and i want to let you know that i do

[32:04] have the utmost respect for you and all that you do um for our community you

[32:09] apparently um work endlessly and

[32:12] tirelessly

[32:14] and on on the other hand i do also think

[32:16] that council member shafts questions

[32:19] um are um in this day and age i think

[32:22] times have changed and we need to ask

[32:24] some tough questions and

[32:26] um recognizing that this case is um in you know litigation or going to

[32:34] the supreme court we we need to

[32:36] um back off on that um so i do

[32:39] appreciate your invite and i and i

[32:42] accept i look forward

[32:43] to it and um just wanted to put it

[32:46] put that out there that like and and

[32:49] with regard to the community as well

[32:51] this is this is not about

[32:53] hitting one against the other this is

[32:55] about us as a council

[32:57] learning and learning together and

[33:00] trying to understand

[33:01] um everything so i don't i don't want to

[33:05] make this a political thing

[33:06] um i do want to make this a an opportunity where we learn and that

[33:13] we can

[33:14] apologize and and grow from from

[33:18] miscommunications and mistakes and

[33:21] i hope that we can move forward and

[33:25] create a better relationship and

[33:29] just wanted to put that out there so i

[33:31] appreciate your time thank you

[33:34] mayor tim thank you mayor

[33:38] well um i just want to say that i i i

[33:41] think that council member staff should

[33:42] have the opportunity

[33:44] to ask the questions as that's what i

[33:46] understood this evening was about

[33:48] and i do object to council member grooms

[33:51] misuse of robert's rules of order

[33:54] and the chair not correcting it it's

[33:56] called a point of order

[33:58] and if you want to make it you say point

[34:00] of order

[34:01] not call the meeting to order um

[34:05] and i do believe that this was the

[34:06] purpose of this night

[34:09] um so to cut him off is

[34:12] something i don't agree with but i do

[34:14] appreciate the offer to have a meeting

[34:16] i don't think we've ever had a meeting

[34:18] with the coroner in the many

[34:20] years we've had this contract so i

[34:22] welcome the opportunity to have

[34:24] regular meetings dialogue and to build

[34:27] that relationship

[34:28] thank you councilmember law evans

[34:35] thank you mr mayor and i apologize first

[34:37] of all can you hear me

[34:38] i can okay very good my computer's

[34:41] having some

[34:41] issues tonight but um i uh

[34:45] i appreciate this opportunity

[34:49] to try and clear the air a little bit

[34:52] i don't know if air has been cleared at

[34:54] all but i appreciate the effort

[34:56] that's gone behind it to set this up i

[34:59] do

[35:00] think that in the seven years that i've

[35:02] been on council

[35:03] um we have never gone through and looked

[35:07] at the contract from a financial point

[35:09] of view

[35:11] and i am happy to do that however i do

[35:13] feel that it is

[35:14] inappropriate for this body to

[35:18] um try and try and analyze the situation

[35:22] this tragic

[35:23] event that happened uh and and try and

[35:26] investigate it and that was what um what i objected to

[35:30] earlier

[35:32] when we had the meeting some some weeks

[35:33] ago where we approved this is

[35:36] the process i want to make this point

[35:38] that the process

[35:40] investigating mr mclean's death

[35:43] is working the attorney general has

[35:46] called for a grand jury

[35:48] and that's the way the process is

[35:50] supposed to work

[35:51] for us as a body who has

[35:56] no formal responsibility in this case

[35:59] for us to insinuate ourselves in that

[36:01] process

[36:02] is is quite frankly inappropriate and i understand

[36:06] we're all concerned about the tragic

[36:10] aspect of this case but

[36:13] it seems to me that my responsibility to

[36:15] the community

[36:17] is to follow the process if if we

[36:19] disregard the process

[36:21] then suddenly we we are only a few short

[36:25] steps from

[36:26] um some sort of mob rule the likes of

[36:30] which the country has seen

[36:32] far too much of in the last uh year on

[36:35] both

[36:36] the extreme political right and the

[36:38] extreme political left so so i feel that

[36:41] um i would i would like to get more

[36:44] information on this and i think

[36:45] council member shafts procedural

[36:47] questions in general understanding the

[36:49] role of the coroner

[36:50] and the procedures of the coroner's

[36:52] office are appropriate

[36:54] um ms bronkucci-jordan has to my

[36:57] recollection has appeared before council

[36:59] every single year when we have renewed

[37:02] this contract

[37:03] and i recall that she made the

[37:05] invitation to us

[37:06] every single year i do not know how many

[37:09] council members have taken her up on it

[37:11] to my regret i have not but i shall uh

[37:14] now in the future

[37:15] and i appreciate her making that that

[37:18] gracious invitation so

[37:21] um at this point i i am pleased that we

[37:24] are moving forward

[37:26] with um trying to understand this

[37:29] the the big picture situation as regards

[37:32] to

[37:32] the responsibilities of the coroner

[37:36] in broomfield and i hope that we can

[37:38] strengthen this relationship going

[37:40] forward

[37:41] because again in my time on council ms

[37:43] bronkucci jordan

[37:44] and her office have done uh a stellar

[37:47] job

[37:48] there have never i there has never been

[37:51] any complaint

[37:52] that i recall about a case in broomfield

[37:55] that that office has handled so

[37:57] on that basis i appreciate the

[38:00] opportunity to move forward and i very

[38:02] much appreciate

[38:05] the invitation from ms brancusha jordan

[38:07] to

[38:08] get more information on the process so

[38:11] thank you mr mayor i appreciate the

[38:12] opportunity to speak

[38:14] councilmember grow

[38:18] yes i would um like to take the

[38:21] opportunity to publicly apologize to

[38:23] council member shop

[38:24] if i had upset him and the rest of

[38:25] councils with using the wrong

[38:27] terminology um at the beginning of the

[38:30] meeting

[38:31] it was said that um it was the

[38:34] opportunity for miss bronkusha jordan to

[38:37] come back

[38:38] based on the terms of her accepting the

[38:40] contract

[38:41] so my bad interpretation but i do think

[38:44] it is

[38:45] a line of questioning that um we could

[38:47] definitely take up

[38:48] uh with additional training i too have

[38:51] been here

[38:51] um what three years now going on my

[38:54] fourth

[38:54] and always felt very comfortable with um

[38:57] reaching out to the coroner's office if

[38:59] needed

[39:00] and i haven't needed to um and i really

[39:02] respect you professionally

[39:04] and i thank you for accepting the

[39:06] contract and

[39:08] please keep an open communication line

[39:11] of communication with us so we can

[39:13] all learn and move forward i i

[39:14] appreciate it thank you very much

[39:17] councilmember lim as

[39:20] a new member of council i was actually

[39:22] surprised

[39:23] that we didn't have the opportunity to

[39:25] ask questions about this important

[39:27] contract

[39:28] with the coroner especially given the

[39:34] recent national events concerning racial

[39:38] justice

[39:39] i in general no matter what the

[39:43] particulars of what the coroner was

[39:46] involved in i would have expected to be

[39:48] able to ask questions um about how

[39:51] the coroner would investigate

[39:54] deaths that were um a high profile

[39:59] in the public um the agenda item was

[40:03] uh about the coroner's contract was

[40:07] at the end of the year we were

[40:10] backed into a corner at a time when we

[40:13] could hardly spend any time asking

[40:15] questions

[40:16] anymore so i feel like we were put in a

[40:19] situation

[40:20] which was very different from the

[40:22] situation

[40:23] um where the police department responded

[40:26] after we

[40:27] were asked

[40:30] the public was asking questions about

[40:32] how the police department handled racial

[40:34] justice issues

[40:35] the whole council was allowed to spend

[40:38] an extensive amount of time

[40:40] interacting with the police department

[40:42] and how

[40:43] they handle different situations so i

[40:46] appreciated

[40:47] that effort uh by the police department

[40:50] to engage counsel in in their activities

[40:53] so we could understand them better

[40:55] and i also appreciate now that offer

[40:57] from the coroner

[40:59] um to have us

[41:02] meet with her to understand her

[41:05] efforts better but you know i was in the

[41:08] situation where

[41:10] i thought we would have been able to ask

[41:13] questions of the coroner

[41:15] um since it does seem to me to be an

[41:17] important contract for the city

[41:19] thank you i'm sorry i have a question um

[41:21] council member

[41:25] lim can you hear me yes yeah

[41:28] you're saying that you didn't have an

[41:29] opportunity i i just don't understand

[41:31] that when you can pick up the phone and

[41:33] call my office

[41:34] if you have a question can i clarify

[41:37] that comment because it was all part of

[41:38] my letter my letter comment that uh

[41:41] it it was the way it got put on the the

[41:43] agenda

[41:44] and and i think the mayor pro tem will

[41:46] admit when we talked about the agenda

[41:47] item before it went up

[41:48] we didn't think there would be anything

[41:50] controversial and so so

[41:52] it just didn't get put on the agenda

[41:54] when it should have it should have been

[41:55] put on at a time in a way that there could have been questions and

[41:58] i don't think that was the coroner's

[42:00] fault i think it was uh

[42:01] as i said in my letter there were a

[42:03] whole bunch of things that happened but

[42:04] now we have an opportunity to ask

[42:06] questions

[42:06] and go in depth

[42:11] i think it's also important to

[42:13] understand that um

[42:15] you know i am not one of your staffers

[42:17] so while i'm happy to have you out to my

[42:19] facility to answer

[42:20] questions i'm not going to come to every

[42:22] council meeting

[42:23] where there is a high profile case or um

[42:26] something that you want to ask questions

[42:27] about that's not

[42:28] an arrangement i'm interested in and

[42:30] maybe you need to explore options of

[42:32] having a different coroner or your own

[42:33] coroner's office

[42:35] if that's something that you're looking

[42:36] for

[42:40] councilmember zazerski thank

[42:47] yes i just re i appreciate um the

[42:50] coroner's

[42:50] efforts now to invite us ask questions

[42:54] okay okay yeah i do want to thank um

[42:57] miss brown cuccio jordan um

[43:00] uh being here tonight and answering the

[43:02] questions and also inviting us to her facility um to to discuss this

[43:08] more i think that

[43:09] i do appreciate that but i do want to

[43:12] express that i was very disappointed um

[43:14] earlier today um with the statements uh

[43:17] that that was made

[43:18] where you were really implying they're

[43:20] doing broomfield a favor and

[43:22] with these services and that really put

[43:23] me off a bit um

[43:25] so it's leaving a bad taste in my mouth

[43:27] i could say that uh

[43:29] just for some background the the

[43:31] questions by devin that were raised here tonight

[43:34] really aren't unusual for for this matter or any matter before

[43:37] council i mean

[43:39] he typically has questions on everything

[43:40] that that we uh

[43:42] um that that would be for us and we all

[43:44] do i mean that's sort of our duty as council members is to ask

[43:47] questions um when we have contracts that are you know

[43:51] that we're supposed to approve so you

[43:54] know

[43:54] that shouldn't have been something that

[43:55] was offensive to your office

[43:58] um and yeah ultimately you know as you

[44:01] mentioned we did unanimously

[44:02] approve the the contract so um

[44:05] there really um wasn't any distrust

[44:08] there so i'm a little

[44:09] concerned with uh the sort of

[44:11] antagonistic position that

[44:13] i'm sort of hearing here tonight and um

[44:15] you know if this level of animosity does

[44:17] continue i think it's gonna be

[44:18] troublesome for the parties to move forward and we

[44:22] may have to explore

[44:23] um other options so i'd be open to that

[44:27] you know if it has to go to that level

[44:32] so you know

[44:35] so there's no other comment so i'm going

[44:37] to try to summarize where i think we're

[44:38] at

[44:38] and see if i can get work councils

[44:40] headed um

[44:41] the uh and councilmember shaft you know

[44:44] and as i've said

[44:45] and i and i said to uh miss broncia

[44:47] jordan

[44:48] that you have the right to ask the

[44:50] questions and i'm not trying to stop you

[44:51] from asking the questions tonight she

[44:53] offered a forum uh that i thought might be more

[44:57] you know more meaningful if we would

[44:59] meet with her and you know in her

[45:01] corner's office to talk about

[45:02] talk talk about that that doesn't change

[45:05] the fact

[45:06] of the the fact that we as a council

[45:09] should discuss continue with 120 days

[45:13] the continuation i mean i'm not taking

[45:15] that off the table what i think we need

[45:16] to understand what she does and how she

[45:17] doesn't

[45:18] does she want to continue as

[45:20] councilmember jasersky brought up

[45:22] uh you know i don't think we're gonna

[45:23] get all those answers tonight but i

[45:24] think the really good way to start

[45:26] would be for council to to do a site

[45:28] visit

[45:29] to the coroner's office and understand i think

[45:33] frankly all of us well maybe i

[45:36] understood

[45:37] uh from my previous bill but i i think

[45:40] quite a few of us didn't fully

[45:40] understand how important these services

[45:42] are

[45:42] and how important they need to be done

[45:44] and and i'm going to repeat what i said

[45:47] in my my letter and that in my six years

[45:49] as mayor and since then i'm not aware of

[45:51] any complaints there's ever been

[45:53] made against the coroner's office i

[45:55] guess i don't think we understood the

[45:56] fragile

[45:57] relationship we had and i think it's a

[45:59] fair way to state that right now

[46:01] i would you know if the offer you know

[46:04] i'd like to you know

[46:05] i see enough heads nodding uh uh miss

[46:07] brancusi jordan if you could work with staff uh

[46:11] specifically jennifer to try to set up a

[46:13] time

[46:13] that that's convenient you know two

[46:16] three weeks out so we can't have a a you

[46:19] know a more meaningful dialogue

[46:22] understand a little bit more about what

[46:23] services you provide and how important

[46:24] they are you know are you wanting to continue you

[46:28] know can we develop a relationship on

[46:30] which both sides are willing to continue

[46:32] uh you know and then have council

[46:33] discuss what is its obligations uh i

[46:36] know you're not an employee

[46:37] uh but but when we you know when we do

[46:40] approve contracts with

[46:41] you know with contractors council does

[46:43] have a has an obligation to uh

[46:45] to ask questions and do due diligence

[46:48] and so uh

[46:49] and i'll repeat my issue was never that

[46:50] it was we just didn't set it up in a way

[46:52] that it could be meaningful

[46:54] uh we meaning uh uh staff and and

[46:57] in in the mayor and we're but we learn

[47:00] every day and so

[47:02] i'm gonna trip so miss jordan would you

[47:04] be willing to set up that meeting uh or

[47:05] that uh

[47:06] that time so we could meet with you at

[47:08] your offices in the near future

[47:11] of course that is a invitation that i've

[47:14] extended

[47:14] every year to this council for the last

[47:16] 10 years

[47:18] i'm happy to set that up um and

[47:20] obviously i signed the iga i'm willing

[47:23] to continue this arrangement

[47:25] but i think there needs to be an

[47:26] understanding about what i'm willing to

[47:28] um do and what i'm not and um

[47:32] if you would like to go with a different

[47:33] coroner's office that is

[47:35] you know that is fine with me also

[47:37] you've made that point very clear

[47:39] several times tonight and which is why i

[47:41] use the word the fragility of our

[47:42] relationship

[47:43] uh to be quite candid the uh uh

[47:46] so i mean i don't want our relationship

[47:48] to be fragile i want us to come to an

[47:49] agreement

[47:50] on where you understand what we want

[47:52] from you and and we understand what

[47:54] you're going to provide and and i think

[47:56] meeting your offer is something the

[47:58] council will not take up i categorically say in

[48:02] the six years i was mayor before

[48:03] i never took you up in the offer uh well

[48:06] for some of those years you were at the

[48:07] corner

[48:08] and uh and uh but you work for a couple

[48:10] of them and uh and so i appreciate the

[48:12] offer

[48:12] and i'm gonna leave it there uh

[48:15] and uh and and move on that we will have

[48:18] a meeting and council will have

[48:20] discussions

[48:21] uh about you know you know about the

[48:23] coroner's office what what the coroner

[48:24] does for us

[48:25] what uh what we need and what and are

[48:27] there options and hopefully you know

[48:29] come to terms uh

[48:30] but but uh um so i'm gonna leave it

[48:34] there

[48:35] and uh we're gonna move on to

[48:40] my proclamation thank you uh

[48:43] she's gone so thank you thank you very

[48:45] much so

[48:48] um so

[48:52] let's move on to proclamations my

[48:55] proclamation

[48:56] uh the second item under under petitions

[48:59] to communications this evening is a

[49:00] proclamation condemning the riots on

[49:03] january 6th at the u.s capitol

[49:04] and a moment of silence to honor the

[49:06] fallen u.s capitol of police officers

[49:08] i will first read the proclamation and

[49:11] then i'm going to ask for

[49:12] a moment of silence on january 6

[49:15] 2021 congress was scheduled to certify

[49:18] the presidential election after the

[49:19] process of talitaline

[49:21] the electoral college votes a mob stored

[49:24] the

[49:24] u.s capital in a chaotic riot disrupting

[49:28] the final electoral account in a

[49:29] shocking display of violence

[49:31] that shook the core of amer american

[49:33] democracy whereas within minutes of

[49:35] breaching the capital complex

[49:37] ahmad was pounding on the doors of the

[49:39] house gallery where a group of lawmakers

[49:41] were trapped including colored

[49:42] representative jason crowe

[49:44] for over 15 minutes those lawmakers were

[49:46] seeking shelter

[49:48] in the upper gallery in fear for their

[49:49] safety before being moved to a secure

[49:51] shelter

[49:52] whereas the riots led to deaths of two

[49:54] capitol police officers brian siknik

[49:57] and howard liebengood and multiple

[49:59] reported engine

[50:00] injuries to other courageous police

[50:02] officers whereas we condemned the acts

[50:04] of the writers breaching the most

[50:06] sacrosanct institution in the united

[50:07] states

[50:08] and the violence that ensued whereas one

[50:11] of the most polarizing moments in our

[50:12] nation's history should compel

[50:14] republicans and democrats to lock arms

[50:17] in solidarity to denounce the violence

[50:19] and express their determination to carry

[50:21] out

[50:22] the will of the people the acts of these

[50:24] rioters

[50:25] compromise their safety as well as the

[50:28] safety of many others

[50:29] whereas is it is incumbent on all

[50:31] elected officials to promote a calm

[50:33] and thoughtful dialogue for disagreement

[50:35] to be aired whereas there is no place

[50:37] for divisive

[50:38] rhetoric in a public forum as a city

[50:41] council body and as individuals we must

[50:43] promote healing

[50:44] and stop utilizing social media

[50:46] platforms to incite

[50:48] and promote further attacks on personal

[50:49] beliefs

[50:51] and whereas the city and county of

[50:52] brookville joins communities

[50:54] across the nation and condemning the

[50:56] deadly violence

[50:57] honoring the fallen us capital of police

[50:59] officers

[51:00] and demanding those responsible are

[51:02] brought to justice for their actions now

[51:04] therefore i

[51:05] patrick quinn mayor of the city and

[51:06] county of bromfield do hereby declare

[51:09] and proclaim condemning of the riots on

[51:12] january 6

[51:13] 2021 at the u.s capitol and a moment

[51:16] of silence to honor the fallen capital

[51:19] police officers

[51:20] let's have a moment of silence

[51:46] we will now proceed with public comments

[51:47] if there's any public comments uh on you

[51:50] know

[51:50] on my proclamation uh you will have

[51:53] three minutes

[51:54] recognize yours will recognize you for

[51:55] the record

[51:58] i'm not seeing any public comments uh

[52:00] guilin

[52:01] or mayor pro tem uh and uh again castle

[52:05] remember does any member council

[52:06] remember wanna offer any comments or

[52:08] questions uh now would be the time to do it

[52:13] councilmember law evans thank you mr

[52:15] mayor

[52:16] i uh i was pleased to see your

[52:18] proclamation come across

[52:20] email uh earlier and i completely agree that that uh the

[52:26] actions by just a really a handful of

[52:32] well i can't really say what i think of

[52:34] them so i'll just call them jerks

[52:36] um is despicable and and i completely agree that um that should

[52:42] be condemned

[52:43] there is no place as we talked about as

[52:46] i talked about a few moments ago with

[52:48] regards to

[52:49] the process regarding the the

[52:51] investigation of the death of elijah

[52:52] mclean

[52:54] that's what our our

[52:57] laws and and civilization is built on

[53:00] is is the process and in this case

[53:04] um for whatever reason there's a lot of

[53:06] process processes that have failed

[53:09] and that's happened um all across the

[53:12] political spectrum recently and

[53:14] i condemn all all use of violence

[53:17] as a tool to achieve one's ends so

[53:21] uh thank you for this proclamation i

[53:22] appreciate it thank you councilmember

[53:24] ankle

[53:27] thank you mayor i prepared something

[53:29] that's about three minutes may i speak

[53:30] to that

[53:32] yes thank you let me close out

[53:37] and this has just been on my heart um

[53:40] just want to add some thoughts to our

[53:41] proclamation based on the violence at

[53:43] our capital last week

[53:45] the feelings that we're all feeling

[53:46] despair confusion

[53:48] hurt being overwhelmed frustrated

[53:51] trapped anxious dissatisfied protective

[53:55] uncertain of our future these are just

[53:57] what the tip of the iceberg and

[53:59] what we're all feeling but pain is

[54:00] something that we're all feeling too

[54:02] and we can't move this through this pain

[54:04] without naming it

[54:06] so i will say and i walk aside alongside

[54:08] my other council members and our

[54:09] proclamation against the violence we all

[54:11] witnessed

[54:12] the police killings and the attack in

[54:14] our democracy on sacred ground

[54:16] perhaps broomfield can coalesce around a

[54:18] deep-seated wound

[54:19] we could all see with our own eyes

[54:21] through the eyes of what it must feel

[54:22] like to not be white

[54:24] because our whiteness has been a numbing

[54:25] agent from feeling what our bipod

[54:28] population

[54:29] feels every day a good friend of mine

[54:31] who wanted to speak at the solidarity

[54:33] march

[54:34] last year told me that her 15 year old

[54:35] black son saw what was happening last

[54:37] week on tv and

[54:39] he said he was too afraid to leave the

[54:40] house for fear he may be killed by

[54:42] someone who felt emboldened by

[54:44] the insurrection but this isn't the

[54:46] first time he's felt this

[54:48] so we have to think about what this

[54:49] means for our broomfield bi-pop

[54:51] neighbors

[54:52] and this isn't blame and shame but i do

[54:53] think it's important to name

[54:55] exactly what we witnessed as a christian

[54:58] it broke me to see a cross

[54:59] being erected alongside a noose a white

[55:02] supremacist that wore a shirt that says

[55:04] jesus saves

[55:05] it broke me further to see anti-semitic

[55:07] t-shirts that read camp auschwitz

[55:10] and on the back staff another one that

[55:12] said six nwe

[55:13] which means that when hitler and the

[55:14] nazis killed millions of jews

[55:17] six million wasn't enough they flew an

[55:19] enemy flag at the capitol

[55:20] they desecrated monuments and urinated

[55:22] on carpets

[55:24] there were bombs at both the dnc and rnc

[55:26] police officers were killed

[55:28] so it's apparent this tack isn't

[55:29] political um and me and my husband both

[55:32] voted for bush

[55:33] and has broken his conservative heart to

[55:35] hear

[55:36] our one leader of the united states

[55:38] called the charlotteville nazis very

[55:39] fine people

[55:40] the proud boys stand by these

[55:42] insurrectionists and bombers we love you

[55:45] mexican immigrants rapists and muslims

[55:48] terrorists

[55:49] i'm thankful to hear that our colorado

[55:50] republican chapter condemned the attack

[55:53] but this isn't republican versus

[55:54] democrat issue this is deeper

[55:56] and we have to wonder what we are

[55:58] letting a political

[56:00] how we are letting political party be

[56:01] ensnared by our biggest demons

[56:03] that we need to address which is racism

[56:05] and bigotry

[56:07] thankfully we can land on the

[56:08] gratefulness of the unsung heroes

[56:10] quick thinking aides who protected the

[56:12] electoral college votes and boxes that

[56:13] contain the songs of the will of the

[56:15] american people

[56:16] and our protected democracy the black

[56:19] police officer eugene goodman who lured

[56:21] the mob away from the unprotected

[56:23] senate floor and even our known

[56:25] congressman jason crowe who helped

[56:27] others as his only weapon was a pen i

[56:30] can even see bright stars among some of

[56:32] my voting

[56:32] family and friends who are on the other

[56:34] side who openly denounce

[56:36] the president's leadership of this

[56:37] attack and on the attackers themselves

[56:39] so i stand unified against racism and

[56:41] bigotry the violence on our capital

[56:44] and i stand for our democracy she is our

[56:46] ultimate hero

[56:47] and she's going to need all of us

[56:49] republicans democrats

[56:50] and more to see that her great nation

[56:52] can heal as we all stand together

[56:54] against our greatest demons

[56:56] to let our bipark neighbors feel safer

[56:57] and broomfield thank you um i'm not noting any other comments so i'm going to move

[57:09] on to

[57:10] councilmember groan

[57:14] sorry about that i thought my hand was

[57:15] raised um

[57:17] yeah i i really just wanted to comment

[57:19] on this

[57:20] and it's very disheartening it's very

[57:22] upsetting to see what's happening

[57:24] in our country and the fact that we're

[57:27] letting

[57:27] you know five percent or not one percent

[57:30] of

[57:31] the people um divide us and make this a

[57:34] republican versus democrat we all um i

[57:38] have not met

[57:38] anyone anyone in my life or or anyone

[57:41] has commented

[57:42] that they support violence in any means

[57:45] any way shape or form um no matter no

[57:48] matter what the cost

[57:50] um is so i i just want to

[57:54] say to everyone on this council i am

[57:58] thankful that we as republicans

[58:01] democrats unaffiliated as independents

[58:04] can still move forward and talk and have

[58:08] open dialogue

[58:09] and have empathy and listen to both

[58:11] sides because

[58:13] that's what's going to move us together

[58:14] as a country and

[58:16] that's what they need to learn from us

[58:19] at the very top

[58:20] levels so thank you

[58:26] i'm gonna move on to uh public comments

[58:29] for items not on the agenda next

[58:32] um we will move to public comments next

[58:34] this is an opportunity for the public

[58:36] to comment on matters other than the

[58:38] items already listed on this evening's

[58:40] agenda

[58:40] to be placed in the queue for comment

[58:42] please call 855-6953-744

[58:46] and press star 3 public comments will be

[58:49] limited to three minutes

[58:52] i'm not seeing anybody uh mayor for them

[58:56] um so council's community and event updates are next does any member

[59:01] of council have an update this evening

[59:03] please raise your hand

[59:06] councilwoman tessier

[59:10] thank you mr mayor um so

[59:13] i was at the housing advisory committee

[59:15] meeting on monday

[59:17] and i just wanted to

[59:20] they asked me to kind of let you know to

[59:23] that they're coming uh they're gonna be

[59:26] speaking in front of council

[59:27] and um so call front and nancy rogers

[59:31] are in discussion

[59:32] on looking at attorneys um as we

[59:35] transition to be an

[59:37] independent housing authority um and

[59:39] they're also

[59:40] looking specifically to look at

[59:42] relations with council

[59:45] and how the the independent housing

[59:48] authority

[59:49] would relate to the city and county of

[59:51] broomfield and the community at large

[59:53] so if you have questions or want to

[59:55] contact them now

[59:57] please feel free to reach out to them

[59:59] the communications subcommittee

[1:00:01] is looking at new ways to access the

[1:00:04] silent majority

[1:00:06] and our most vulnerable so if any of you

[1:00:10] have any ideas on how to do that we're

[1:00:12] welcoming

[1:00:13] that um also the

[1:00:16] council when we approved the matrix for

[1:00:19] the inclusionary housing

[1:00:21] uh zoning

[1:00:24] believe it or not that was in march of

[1:00:28] uh 2019 so we are taking a look

[1:00:31] at that um again

[1:00:35] this march to review whether or not it

[1:00:38] is

[1:00:38] um you know to determine the cash in

[1:00:42] lieu and wondering if we need to either up the cash in lieu

[1:00:46] um

[1:00:46] so it's not um because we want we want

[1:00:49] bricks and mortar

[1:00:50] more than the cash in lieu um so i want

[1:00:53] you to start thinking about that

[1:00:55] and then um be hack

[1:00:58] is also getting ready to look at the

[1:01:00] program finance formula

[1:01:02] um so just wanted to throw that out

[1:01:05] there

[1:01:05] and they are excited to come before you

[1:01:09] all and

[1:01:10] if you had questions around anything

[1:01:12] that i said please

[1:01:13] don't hesitate to reach out to the the

[1:01:16] housing author

[1:01:17] advisory committee thank you mayor i just wanted to let

[1:01:29] everybody know that we

[1:01:30] are accepting applications for our

[1:01:33] boards and commissions

[1:01:35] until january 24th i don't have the

[1:01:38] website

[1:01:39] at the top of my mind but if somebody

[1:01:40] from staff wants to chime in

[1:01:42] and i think it's broomfield.org b and c

[1:01:46] to get more information but please

[1:01:48] correct me if

[1:01:50] i'm wrong

[1:01:53] city manager give us

[1:01:57] eight seconds i didn't mean to stump

[1:02:00] y'all i'm so sorry

[1:02:02] oh no you're fine i'm sure it's all

[1:02:04] there and uh we would love to have as

[1:02:06] many people as we can apply

[1:02:08] we have over 30 openings

[1:02:13] broomfield.org boards and commissions

[1:02:17] thank you spelled out boards and

[1:02:19] commissions

[1:02:21] right okay all right

[1:02:25] and i'll also point out americorps tim

[1:02:26] that uh it's something i guess

[1:02:28] i think i knew it but i'd forgotten that

[1:02:32] the plan planning and zoning and the

[1:02:35] plan for bifurcating planting and zoning

[1:02:37] into two different commissions so we're

[1:02:38] not going to be filling those positions

[1:02:40] right now

[1:02:41] um we had we had some members of the

[1:02:42] community that had questions on it and

[1:02:44] so

[1:02:44] uh so i just wanted to point that out

[1:02:47] that that we weren't

[1:02:48] we will be asking for uh people to apply

[1:02:51] and 11 members to reapply

[1:02:52] for planning and zoning and miss hoffman

[1:02:55] what do you think that will be

[1:03:02] um bifurcating it is coming back to

[1:03:04] council for a second reading because we

[1:03:06] need to

[1:03:06] modify that ordinance so we're unable to

[1:03:09] recruit until that occurs so we believe

[1:03:12] that recruit

[1:03:13] not we believe recruitment begins um

[1:03:16] for boards i'm i'm looking over at um

[1:03:20] for social distancing so abby's way at

[1:03:22] the other end of the diocese so

[1:03:24] the tentative schedule i believe is

[1:03:26] february 24th

[1:03:28] that the applications will open with a

[1:03:29] closure date of march 12th that's the

[1:03:31] tentative schedule right

[1:03:33] february 24th to march 14th

[1:03:37] okay make the comment mirror program

[1:03:40] and see that board administration okay

[1:03:44] any other uh comments

[1:03:47] from council or you know announcements

[1:03:50] we will move on to the consent agenda

[1:03:53] uh council's consideration of the

[1:03:55] consent agenda is next

[1:03:56] before the clerk reads the consented jet

[1:03:58] items by title

[1:04:00] items 7 i and 15

[1:04:03] b includes both an intergovernment

[1:04:05] agreement as well as a resolution

[1:04:06] needing review and approval

[1:04:08] by the broomfield urban renewal

[1:04:09] authority intergovernmental

[1:04:11] agreements require affirmative votes of

[1:04:13] two-thirds of the entire council

[1:04:15] so for the purpose of the coordination

[1:04:16] and in the interest of time

[1:04:18] i will convene the broomfield urban

[1:04:20] renewal authority so that we may review

[1:04:21] this item

[1:04:22] as part of the consent agenda the

[1:04:24] meeting of the broomfield urban revival

[1:04:26] authority is called to order

[1:04:27] and i will ask the clerk to call the

[1:04:29] role

[1:04:33] anderson here

[1:04:36] castriata here

[1:04:53] la foreign here

[1:04:56] glenn here glenn set

[1:05:00] here chef

[1:05:04] yeah kevin

[1:05:07] here uh a quorum is present uh

[1:05:12] nexus council considerations of items

[1:05:14] seven a

[1:05:15] through seven j uh and the broomfield

[1:05:18] urban renewal authorities consideration

[1:05:20] of item 15b

[1:05:22] uh following the crux reading of these

[1:05:23] congenita consent

[1:05:25] agenda items we will ask for public

[1:05:27] comments will the clerk please read

[1:05:29] agenda items 7a

[1:05:30] through 7j and 15b

[1:05:34] my title

[1:05:37] 7a approval administ regular meeting of

[1:05:40] december 8 2020

[1:05:42] special meeting of december 10 2020 and

[1:05:44] special meeting of january 5

[1:05:46] 2021 7b resolution number 2021-1

[1:05:52] designating the public place for posting

[1:05:54] notices of public meetings as required

[1:05:56] by colorado's open meetings law

[1:05:59] 7c certifying the meal levees of tax

[1:06:02] authorities loving

[1:06:04] mills for tax property tax in the city

[1:06:06] and county of brazil

[1:06:09] 7b resolution number 2021-02

[1:06:14] authorizing the cancellation of the bad

[1:06:16] debt submitted by the revenue manager as

[1:06:19] uncollectible

[1:06:21] 7e resolution number 2021-12

[1:06:25] authorizing a sole source procurement

[1:06:29] with product line system llc

[1:06:32] and approving an agreement for the

[1:06:34] repair of the community ditch culverts

[1:06:36] at saint andrews drive aston street and

[1:06:39] east

[1:06:40] 16th avenue 7f resolution number 2021-4

[1:06:46] authorizing and approving an agreement

[1:06:48] by and between the city and county of

[1:06:49] broomfield and box tuttle

[1:06:51] transportation group for professional

[1:06:54] services related to the midway boulevard

[1:06:56] multi-modal

[1:06:58] corridor action corridor action plan

[1:07:01] 7g resolution number 2021-11

[1:07:06] authorizing and approving an agreement

[1:07:07] by and between the city and county of

[1:07:09] broomfield and otac

[1:07:11] inc for the design of the us-36

[1:07:14] right and ride shelters

[1:07:18] 7h resolution number 2021-5

[1:07:21] authorizing improvement agreement with

[1:07:24] abby

[1:07:25] and associates llc for consulting

[1:07:27] services regarding the development of a

[1:07:29] zero waste action plan

[1:07:33] 7i resolution number 2021-6

[1:07:36] authorizing an agreement between the

[1:07:38] city and county of brookfield

[1:07:40] and the colorado department of

[1:07:42] transportation

[1:07:43] of course sorry you cut off on me i

[1:07:46] apologize let me

[1:07:47] pull this up on this

[1:08:00] resolution number 2021-6 authorized

[1:08:03] mentors between the city and county of

[1:08:04] greenville

[1:08:05] and the colorado department of

[1:08:07] transportation for state highway 7

[1:08:09] widening from i-25 to sheridan parkway

[1:08:12] resolution number 2021-19 authorizing

[1:08:16] and approving a cooperation agreement

[1:08:17] between the city and county of

[1:08:18] broomfield and the greenville

[1:08:20] urban renewal authority north park west

[1:08:23] urban renewal project state highway 7

[1:08:25] improvements

[1:08:27] 7j request for letter of support for

[1:08:30] grant to study air and noise impacts of

[1:08:32] oil and gas

[1:08:34] development 15b

[1:08:38] resolution number 2021-20-ur

[1:08:41] authorizing and approving a cooperation

[1:08:43] agreement by and between the city and

[1:08:45] county of broomfield

[1:08:46] and the broomfield urban renewal

[1:08:48] authority

[1:08:49] north park west urban renewal project

[1:08:52] state highway veteran improvement

[1:08:56] thank you samantha monroe from our city

[1:08:58] clerk's office much appreciated

[1:09:00] we will now proceed with public comments

[1:09:05] does any member of the public have

[1:09:06] comments on these agenda items please

[1:09:08] press star three and state your first

[1:09:11] and last name and neighborhood for the

[1:09:13] record

[1:09:16] i'm not noting anybody uh in the queue

[1:09:19] and mayor protem agrees so we'll move on

[1:09:21] to

[1:09:22] council members does any member council

[1:09:24] have any comments on these agenda items

[1:09:26] or questions if so

[1:09:27] raise your hand

[1:09:32] is there a motion that the

[1:09:34] recommendations contained in the staff

[1:09:36] reports

[1:09:37] for gender items 7a through 7j and 15b

[1:09:41] be approved

[1:09:55] uh well is there any further disguise or

[1:09:57] is there any discussion on these items

[1:10:02] will the clerk please call the role

[1:10:06] anderson yes

[1:10:11] castriata yes

[1:10:15] graham

[1:10:18] yes yes glenn yes chef yes

[1:10:41] it uh passes unanimously and so we'll

[1:10:44] move on to

[1:10:45] uh well there is no business before the

[1:10:48] board of social services this evening

[1:10:51] um we will convene as the board of

[1:10:53] health that we have one item for the

[1:10:54] board of health

[1:10:55] uh which is staff will provide an update

[1:10:58] on cobia 19.

[1:10:59] uh yesterday public health staff hosted

[1:11:01] a q a

[1:11:02] with city council to provide additional

[1:11:04] time for council to ask questions

[1:11:06] pertaining to copa 19 and the impact on broomfield i'll also point out there

[1:11:10] was a fair amount of discussion on vast

[1:11:12] vaccinations uh the recording of the

[1:11:14] live stream as well as the presentation

[1:11:16] slides

[1:11:16] are available on this evening's agenda

[1:11:19] items linked under item 9a

[1:11:21] staff will continue to offer these q a

[1:11:24] sessions with council weekly from

[1:11:27] it says 3 30 to 4 30 p.m aren't we doing

[1:11:30] it at four o'clock

[1:11:30] are we did we change it

[1:11:42] jason that bar clock is my understanding

[1:11:45] mayor okay so the you know so a florida from from

[1:11:48] four to five uh p.m on mondays unless otherwise

[1:11:52] directed by council the media of the

[1:11:53] board of health is called to order

[1:11:55] i'll ask the clerk to call the role

[1:11:59] anderson here castriata

[1:12:03] here grimm

[1:12:07] here bengal here evan here a quorum is present uh

[1:12:32] we have a copy the board members have a

[1:12:33] copy of the agenda memorandum

[1:12:35] which staff will summarize

[1:12:38] thank you mayor and council good evening

[1:12:40] jason balling director of public health

[1:12:43] will walk us through this slide and he

[1:12:45] and deb fetterspiel will be available

[1:12:47] for questions jason

[1:12:50] uh yeah thank you uh mayor mayor pretend

[1:12:53] and council members as was mentioned we

[1:12:55] did we provided an

[1:12:57] in-depth uh presentation yesterday so

[1:13:00] i'm gonna

[1:13:01] hit some of the key highlights

[1:13:04] and then save time for questions

[1:13:08] one thing is specifically what's

[1:13:09] happening around epi trends

[1:13:12] and we're still monitoring the effect of

[1:13:15] the holidays

[1:13:17] we're seeing uh we're moving past

[1:13:20] the um christmas holidays to stop

[1:13:24] now start to understand the impact of

[1:13:26] the

[1:13:27] new year's holidays right now we're just

[1:13:29] seeing slight increases

[1:13:31] built in colorado and broomfield

[1:13:34] we'll have to see if that's a trend that

[1:13:37] continues or plateaus

[1:13:39] and moves down so we'll continue to

[1:13:42] monitor that

[1:13:44] other good news is that uh

[1:13:46] hospitalizations continue to decline

[1:13:49] um in the states uh region

[1:13:52] uh and in broomfield um although the

[1:13:56] pace of the decrease slowed uh

[1:13:59] specifically over the

[1:14:01] uh holiday season so we'll see if that

[1:14:04] decrease um begins to

[1:14:08] uh pick up again everybody has heard

[1:14:11] about

[1:14:11] the variant that is out there

[1:14:15] the state lab continues to

[1:14:19] test for that variant they've identified

[1:14:22] type cases in colorado

[1:14:27] at this point uh those cases were not

[1:14:29] traveling

[1:14:30] so we suspect that there may be

[1:14:33] additional cases that could be

[1:14:35] identified

[1:14:36] um in colorado um so we'll continue to

[1:14:39] monitor that the reason the variant is

[1:14:43] important is because its

[1:14:45] transmissibility is much more

[1:14:47] higher than the the current some of the

[1:14:50] current strains of covid19

[1:14:53] and if it starts to become one of the

[1:14:56] dominant

[1:14:56] variants we could see transmissibility

[1:14:59] increase

[1:15:00] in the state and in the region we spent

[1:15:03] a

[1:15:03] fair amount of our time discussing

[1:15:06] vaccine

[1:15:07] distribution yesterday and

[1:15:11] really walking through with the recent

[1:15:14] changes

[1:15:15] from the um federal government and

[1:15:18] the state government the impact

[1:15:22] to broomfield one thing that we did

[1:15:25] clarify is how the vaccine is actually

[1:15:29] allocated and distributed so each week

[1:15:33] the colorado department of public health

[1:15:35] and environment

[1:15:37] is alerted to what their vaccine

[1:15:40] allocation

[1:15:41] will be and just to provide some context

[1:15:45] is

[1:15:47] in order for us to vaccinate everybody

[1:15:50] in

[1:15:50] phase 1a and phase 1b we're looking at

[1:15:55] a total of 1 million 219 people that

[1:16:00] need to be vaccinated

[1:16:02] and currently the state as of january

[1:16:06] 7th had received 282

[1:16:10] 000 uh doses um and 217 000 of those had

[1:16:14] been

[1:16:15] um administered to get shots in people's

[1:16:18] arms

[1:16:20] the other thing is over 50 percent of

[1:16:23] vaccines are being distributed to

[1:16:27] hospitals to vaccinate the 70 plus

[1:16:30] population

[1:16:33] 10 percent is being um delivered to

[1:16:36] retail pharmacies to vaccinate the 70

[1:16:39] plus population

[1:16:41] uh another 20 going to federally

[1:16:44] qualified health centers

[1:16:45] and then 20 coming to local public

[1:16:48] health agencies

[1:16:49] and our community partners

[1:16:53] and the other thing i think that is

[1:16:55] important for us to realize is

[1:16:58] broomfield has moved fairly quickly

[1:17:01] through

[1:17:02] uh vaccinating uh our phase one

[1:17:05] providers those

[1:17:06] in the hospital system and also our

[1:17:09] first responders

[1:17:11] um broomfield public health is now

[1:17:13] focusing our energy and efforts on

[1:17:15] vaccinating those

[1:17:16] other health care providers that

[1:17:20] have interactions with those that

[1:17:23] may have covid and so

[1:17:27] we're going through that process of

[1:17:30] making sure those individuals are

[1:17:32] getting vaccinated

[1:17:34] another thing that is a success for

[1:17:36] broomfield is

[1:17:38] about 10 of our brimfield residents 70

[1:17:41] plus

[1:17:42] have received at least one dose of the

[1:17:45] vaccine

[1:17:46] um and we're one of the counties that

[1:17:48] have moved quickly into that 70 plus

[1:17:51] age group and then lastly

[1:17:55] we have two long-term care facilities

[1:17:58] that have started been vaccinated

[1:18:00] started that started on monday and we

[1:18:03] have a third scheduled

[1:18:04] for january 23rd

[1:18:07] um another thing i just want to

[1:18:09] emphasize is we fully acknowledge

[1:18:12] the challenges with

[1:18:15] the 70 plus population and receiving the

[1:18:19] vaccine

[1:18:21] part of this is that the hospital

[1:18:23] systems are

[1:18:24] developing their systems for

[1:18:28] people to receive the vaccine

[1:18:32] that means that somebody that has had a

[1:18:34] touch with a hospital system

[1:18:38] potentially they should receive um

[1:18:41] information from that hospital system of

[1:18:44] how to

[1:18:45] um get an appointment the second thing

[1:18:48] is they're setting up online portals

[1:18:52] with all of that we know that our 70

[1:18:54] plus uh

[1:18:55] population will not be vaccinated in the

[1:18:57] next week or the next

[1:18:59] two weeks so we just ask for patients as

[1:19:01] we go through this process

[1:19:03] and then finally ending with some of the

[1:19:05] policy updates

[1:19:06] we continue to partner with atoms12

[1:19:10] on their plans for potentially returning

[1:19:14] to

[1:19:14] in-person learning they plan to make a

[1:19:17] decision by

[1:19:18] january 25th right now they're

[1:19:22] considering

[1:19:23] elementary school in person and

[1:19:25] potentially hybrid for middle school and

[1:19:27] high school

[1:19:29] boulder valley school district has

[1:19:31] started in person learning for

[1:19:32] elementary

[1:19:34] and middle school and high school have

[1:19:36] started hybrid

[1:19:37] uh we've been in uh conversations with

[1:19:40] the local districts that are making

[1:19:42] decisions regarding

[1:19:44] the season b chassis sports

[1:19:47] obviously there's some concerns about

[1:19:49] specific sporting activities such as

[1:19:51] wrestling

[1:19:52] where you can't wear a mask so we're

[1:19:54] trying to problem solve with those

[1:19:56] districts since it's ultimately their

[1:19:58] decisions on some of the ways they can

[1:20:00] mitigate that

[1:20:01] such as testing wrestlers potentially

[1:20:05] holding wrestlers out

[1:20:08] from school from a period of time after

[1:20:11] meets

[1:20:13] or even the possibility of looking to

[1:20:16] delay

[1:20:17] the season until we get more vaccines

[1:20:21] out there but ultimately it's the

[1:20:23] decision

[1:20:23] of the districts uh the governor's

[1:20:26] office

[1:20:27] and chasseum and then lastly

[1:20:30] great success with our back to business

[1:20:32] certification program

[1:20:34] 22 businesses have been certified by our

[1:20:37] administrative committee

[1:20:38] as of uh january 11th

[1:20:42] and with that that concludes my

[1:20:44] presentation and i'd be happy to answer

[1:20:46] any questions we didn't answer yesterday

[1:20:52] okay we'll go to uh we'll go to public

[1:20:55] comments next

[1:20:58] um if there's anybody here that wants to

[1:21:06] comment uh um

[1:21:11] so we have somebody wants to come on 11

[1:21:13] a um i'm just saying this is item nine

[1:21:16] um i don't see anybody who who wants to

[1:21:18] comment on uh

[1:21:20] our ask questions on this uh so i'll go

[1:21:22] to council uh and start with

[1:21:23] councilmember tessier

[1:21:26] thank you mr mayor um thanks for that

[1:21:28] presentation jason

[1:21:30] um i'm sorry i couldn't make it uh

[1:21:33] to the to the presentation you gave yes

[1:21:36] uh on monday

[1:21:37] i uh i can't i can't make those

[1:21:40] typically due to work but i just had one quick question i know you guys are

[1:21:46] doing everything you can to get the

[1:21:47] seniors

[1:21:48] um their vaccinations and i wasn't sure

[1:21:52] if um like a mobile

[1:21:55] vaccination is there any

[1:21:58] discussion if a mobile vaccination kind

[1:22:01] of

[1:22:02] process would would work i think our

[1:22:05] seniors are

[1:22:06] a little confused they have to kind of

[1:22:09] you know go to their provider's website

[1:22:11] you know check hour by hour sometimes i

[1:22:13] got a letter from a particular senior

[1:22:16] and then some of the seniors are calling

[1:22:18] fish and

[1:22:20] you know they're just there's a there's

[1:22:22] a lot of confusion if they're not

[1:22:23] technologically

[1:22:24] savvy um there's there's that too

[1:22:28] so i don't know um maybe you could talk

[1:22:31] a little bit about that or like how you plan on

[1:22:36] maybe the process to vaccinate the

[1:22:39] remaining seniors

[1:22:41] that would be most helpful thank you

[1:22:45] councilmember tessier and i i appreciate

[1:22:47] the uh that question

[1:22:49] um a couple things to keep in mind as

[1:22:53] far as the specific allocations that are

[1:22:56] coming to brimfield public health um you

[1:22:59] know we

[1:23:00] right now have a very limited supply so

[1:23:02] as we start to think about

[1:23:04] mobile vaccination clinics we want to be

[1:23:07] very

[1:23:08] thoughtful and targeted in the approach

[1:23:11] not to create a

[1:23:13] expectation out in the community and

[1:23:15] you're seeing some of this in other

[1:23:17] states where they're doing

[1:23:19] large or even mid-sized

[1:23:22] drive-through clinics and people waiting

[1:23:24] in line for

[1:23:26] a full day and then ultimately not being

[1:23:28] able to get their vaccine

[1:23:30] so what we've been doing with my

[1:23:34] leadership team is

[1:23:35] really focusing our energy and efforts

[1:23:38] now that we understand fully the state's

[1:23:42] plan

[1:23:43] of how do we equitably get the vaccine

[1:23:46] out

[1:23:47] to brimfield residents that are 70 plus

[1:23:51] and what that involves is

[1:23:54] the partnership that we have with the

[1:23:57] hospital system so we've spent the

[1:23:59] day today on the phone with all of our

[1:24:02] hospital systems to figure out

[1:24:04] specifically what are they doing to

[1:24:05] reach our broomfield residents as part

[1:24:07] of their catchment areas

[1:24:09] uh the second thing that we're doing is

[1:24:12] um

[1:24:12] reaching out to our culturally qualified

[1:24:14] health centers

[1:24:15] and better understanding their plans and

[1:24:18] then the third thing we are doing

[1:24:20] is we're specifically identifying those

[1:24:22] areas where

[1:24:23] we do believe there could potentially be

[1:24:25] gaps um

[1:24:27] and not being able to get the vaccine

[1:24:29] and how can we

[1:24:31] directly administer that and get the

[1:24:34] vaccine out to those individuals and

[1:24:36] groups and we've started that outreach

[1:24:38] already our team identifying specific

[1:24:42] neighborhoods and some of the

[1:24:46] ambassadors within those neighborhoods

[1:24:48] to make sure it can happen

[1:24:50] as we get that flushed out we plan

[1:24:54] to execute on it

[1:24:57] um and then the next step of that

[1:25:00] is we're already doing two things one is

[1:25:04] planning for this immediate 70 plus but

[1:25:07] also planning for

[1:25:08] where do we need to go in the future so

[1:25:10] as we talk about

[1:25:12] uh moving further on down the list we're

[1:25:14] going to get to 65

[1:25:16] and and then we're going to get down to

[1:25:18] our phase 2 group

[1:25:20] and we want to be really well positioned

[1:25:22] to be able to execute on all of that

[1:25:24] and i shared yesterday our strategy

[1:25:28] is to make sure as many of our providers

[1:25:31] in broomfield are

[1:25:32] enrolled as providers because that's the

[1:25:35] natural network for people to go and get

[1:25:37] vaccines either their pharmacy

[1:25:39] or their provider if they can't do that

[1:25:42] that's the gap-filling role that public

[1:25:44] health will step in

[1:25:45] and fulfill some more information to

[1:25:48] come on that as our plans get flushed

[1:25:50] out but the outreach is happening right

[1:25:51] now

[1:25:53] thank you so much and just again

[1:25:55] gratitude much gratitude to you and your

[1:25:57] team

[1:25:58] you have been working just phenomenal

[1:26:02] amounts

[1:26:02] and um we appreciate you and i just want

[1:26:05] to make sure that you have all the team

[1:26:07] members that you need in order to make this successful and to not

[1:26:12] uh wear yourselves too thin or out

[1:26:16] completely

[1:26:17] burnout is so real right now and

[1:26:21] you know i care deeply about the health

[1:26:24] and and wellness of of you all as much

[1:26:27] you know and just really want to make

[1:26:30] that clear

[1:26:31] i'm going to start crying but like i

[1:26:32] know how much you guys do so

[1:26:35] um it's much appreciated and i just want

[1:26:38] to

[1:26:38] just make sure you're taking care of

[1:26:40] yourselves and uh in this in this process too thank

[1:26:44] you so much

[1:26:45] thank you matt councilmember tessier i

[1:26:47] appreciate that and i can tell you we

[1:26:49] have the full support when we go to

[1:26:51] the city and county manager's office on

[1:26:55] additional resources that we need in the

[1:26:57] timing of that to have those

[1:26:58] conversations

[1:27:00] and so if that ever gets to the point

[1:27:02] where we know that we need to

[1:27:04] make that ask we're ready to go and our

[1:27:07] county

[1:27:08] city and county manager is always

[1:27:10] willing to hear

[1:27:12] what we need any other questions or

[1:27:16] comments

[1:27:19] uh you know i already repeat something i

[1:27:21] said yesterday

[1:27:22] uh you know there are a couple of things

[1:27:24] uh jason on your staff

[1:27:26] i'd ask questions about some of you know

[1:27:28] some of the numbers you know to be more

[1:27:30] clear

[1:27:30] so you can see the weekly totals and i

[1:27:32] was i mean

[1:27:34] i'm unbelievably impressed on how those

[1:27:36] numbers popped out and i just want to

[1:27:37] thank everybody for that

[1:27:38] and i also want to just say that it and

[1:27:41] it's kind of a strange night to say the

[1:27:42] least so i'm going to be careful of my

[1:27:44] wording here but it's almost at times

[1:27:45] embarrassing how

[1:27:46] nimble brookfield is uh we were so quick

[1:27:49] out of the gate to get the business

[1:27:51] you know it became clear that you know

[1:27:53] it became pretty clear over christmas

[1:27:55] and i think jennifer and i first talked

[1:27:56] about it the tuesday before christmas

[1:27:59] that you know it's pretty clear that

[1:28:00] that's what the city wanted and that's

[1:28:02] what the council wanted

[1:28:03] and we moved with lightning speed you

[1:28:05] know you guys

[1:28:06] 23 inspections and i guess i haven't

[1:28:09] asked you what happened to the 23rd one

[1:28:10] but we approved 22 last week

[1:28:13] you know that uh i just i just want to

[1:28:15] say

[1:28:16] for the record and i said you know i was

[1:28:18] interviewed a few times this week

[1:28:19] you know just because that's i guess

[1:28:20] that's what mayors get to do and uh

[1:28:22] but uh but how the staff moved you know

[1:28:24] from jennifer on down to

[1:28:26] chief krieger because i know i think

[1:28:28] what makes it so impressive was how

[1:28:30] multi-discipline

[1:28:31] you know the the response was and the

[1:28:33] businesses obviously responded

[1:28:35] i mean i think i read today was it's 45

[1:28:38] applications now

[1:28:41] so and so for everybody to know you know

[1:28:43] on the business you know we will uh

[1:28:45] we have an administrative committee and it's it's required by you know

[1:28:49] by ever how we got enabled by cdphe

[1:28:52] that we'll meet every friday morning at

[1:28:54] 10 a.m

[1:28:55] uh you know just so so so there's no

[1:28:57] disruptions and i want to give jennifer and you credit

[1:29:00] for that making that a standing meeting

[1:29:02] so you don't have to worry about

[1:29:03] scheduling each time

[1:29:04] so i suspect there'll be a more

[1:29:06] approvals on friday is that correct

[1:29:08] jason that's my understanding and

[1:29:12] jen you you agree but i i mean i i mean

[1:29:14] it's

[1:29:15] you know once again when you're sitting

[1:29:16] and talking to other mayors

[1:29:18] you know like you take the mayor went

[1:29:19] smithson he's in jefferson and he's in

[1:29:21] adams county

[1:29:22] and then if you add adams county then

[1:29:23] you have the tri-county's health and uh

[1:29:26] they feel so far removed uh and you know

[1:29:29] and and they care as much as we do to have

[1:29:31] their businesses up and operating that

[1:29:32] uh

[1:29:33] it's a just it's a little it's

[1:29:35] embarrassing because we're just we're

[1:29:36] able to leap out ahead about everybody

[1:29:38] else but i'm glad we can do that for our

[1:29:40] businesses so

[1:29:41] thank you jason and uh and we will move

[1:29:43] on uh

[1:29:45] to uh well i'll start with there's no

[1:29:47] business before the broomfield housing

[1:29:48] authority this evening

[1:29:50] um um

[1:29:58] so we'll move on to council business at

[1:30:00] 7 30

[1:30:02] so our first item under council business

[1:30:04] evening is the public hearing

[1:30:05] and council's consideration of proposed

[1:30:07] ordinance number 2146

[1:30:09] ex stating the prohibition of mayor

[1:30:11] certain marijuana establishments

[1:30:13] in brookfield i will declare the public

[1:30:15] carrying open

[1:30:16] we will follow the city's standard

[1:30:17] public hearing procedures first staff

[1:30:19] will present a summary of the proposal

[1:30:21] next we will have the applicant's

[1:30:23] presentation if applicable

[1:30:25] then we will ask for public comments and

[1:30:27] final comments

[1:30:29] uh you know there's no applicant here

[1:30:31] and uh

[1:30:32] and finally questions the comments from

[1:30:33] the city council so council

[1:30:35] has a copy of the agenda memorandum

[1:30:37] which staff will summarize

[1:30:41] thank you mayor and council christine

[1:30:43] francis connie

[1:30:44] will walk us through this second reading

[1:30:47] you will

[1:30:48] notice that the date has been extended

[1:30:50] from

[1:30:51] april to may 1st that is a buffer

[1:30:55] we will talk more about that staff is

[1:30:57] intending to meet

[1:30:58] that april 1st guideline but it's really

[1:31:01] dependent on

[1:31:04] how well staff captured the first

[1:31:06] go-around

[1:31:07] from council and resident comments we

[1:31:10] just want to be sure that staff had

[1:31:12] enough time that if there's fundamental

[1:31:14] changes

[1:31:15] after the second round that we have time

[1:31:16] to incorporate them

[1:31:18] to ensure that the final product is

[1:31:21] exactly what

[1:31:22] council and and the community wants and is expecting

[1:31:26] uh christine good evening

[1:31:30] this is the second reading of ordinance

[1:31:32] number 2146.

[1:31:34] uh the moratorium on marijuana

[1:31:36] establishments in broomfield currently

[1:31:38] expires on january 30th

[1:31:41] 2021. uh next slide please

[1:31:46] as currently drafted the ordinance will

[1:31:48] allow the prohibition

[1:31:50] on retail marijuana sales to expire on

[1:31:52] april 1

[1:31:53] 2021 while the prohibition on

[1:31:55] cultivation and manufacturing

[1:31:57] will stay in place through april 1st

[1:31:59] 2025

[1:32:01] on december 8th 2020 council approved

[1:32:03] the ordinance on first reading

[1:32:05] which was followed by a study session to

[1:32:08] discuss marijuana regulation on december

[1:32:10] 15

[1:32:10] 2020. next slide please

[1:32:14] while staff does remain confident that

[1:32:16] the april first date remains achievable

[1:32:19] staff wants to ensure that if at the

[1:32:21] next council meeting

[1:32:22] which is the first reading of the

[1:32:24] marijuana regulation ordinance

[1:32:26] and is set for february 23 2021

[1:32:30] council identifies additional

[1:32:32] fundamental modifications that require

[1:32:33] significant changes

[1:32:35] staff has the time to go back and update

[1:32:37] the regulations

[1:32:39] staff would thus like to build in the

[1:32:41] buffer

[1:32:42] that miss hoffman referenced

[1:32:46] and is requesting and recommending that

[1:32:47] the ordinance be amended at this second

[1:32:49] reading

[1:32:50] to extend the moratorium an additional

[1:32:53] month until may third twenty twenty one

[1:32:56] if council approves the amendment to the

[1:32:58] ordinance to change april first

[1:33:00] to may third which is the only change

[1:33:02] proposed it will need to

[1:33:04] adopt the ordinance as amended if the

[1:33:06] ordinance is adopted

[1:33:08] it will go into effect on february 1st

[1:33:10] 2021

[1:33:12] that ends my presentation thank you

[1:33:18] we will not proceed with public comments

[1:33:19] and we've got a couple uh so we'll

[1:33:22] start with jan jan please state your uh

[1:33:24] your full name for the record and your

[1:33:25] neighborhood

[1:33:26] and uh keep your comments the three

[1:33:28] minutes please

[1:33:32] hello this is jan bill sparrow i'm a

[1:33:36] resident

[1:33:36] in the red leaf neighborhood thank you

[1:33:39] mayor quinn

[1:33:40] and members of the council for your

[1:33:43] interest in developing

[1:33:44] thoughtful regulations regarding

[1:33:47] marijuana retail sales

[1:33:49] i appreciate the staff recommendation

[1:33:52] to extend the moratorium to may 3rd

[1:33:56] and the work that the staff is doing

[1:33:59] finalizing regulations with only one

[1:34:02] additional

[1:34:02] study session and two council agenda

[1:34:05] items

[1:34:06] is not providing enough time to consider

[1:34:09] all the

[1:34:10] issues related to regulating this

[1:34:12] industry

[1:34:13] in our community you have committed to

[1:34:16] ensuring the health

[1:34:18] safety and welfare of the community the

[1:34:21] council

[1:34:22] needs to devote the same amount of time

[1:34:24] and energy

[1:34:25] to marijuana regulations as you did in

[1:34:28] addressing oil and gas regulations

[1:34:31] those regulations have been called a

[1:34:32] gold standard

[1:34:34] and the best regulations in the country

[1:34:37] the citizens

[1:34:38] and youth of our community deserve no

[1:34:41] less

[1:34:42] we need to develop regulations that are

[1:34:44] better than the state

[1:34:46] which are just a basis for municipal

[1:34:48] decision making

[1:34:50] at the december study session it was

[1:34:52] mentioned that marijuana

[1:34:54] is very regulated because of the number

[1:34:56] of pages of regulations

[1:34:59] the quantity of pages does not indicate

[1:35:02] the level of

[1:35:03] quality of the regulations just

[1:35:06] one example is that the state limits

[1:35:09] three shapes

[1:35:10] of marijuana edibles but there are many

[1:35:13] other shapes that appear

[1:35:15] like candy to children also the science

[1:35:19] related to the effect of increased thc

[1:35:23] concentrations has not kept up with

[1:35:26] the regulations

[1:35:29] i should say the regulations have not

[1:35:32] tipped up with the science

[1:35:34] the substance abuse and mental health

[1:35:36] services

[1:35:37] administration in a december

[1:35:39] presentation

[1:35:40] indicated that a key issue downplayed by

[1:35:43] the industry and ignored by the states

[1:35:46] is the risk of adverse outcomes to our

[1:35:48] children and young adults

[1:35:50] it included the fact that marijuana's

[1:35:53] mental health

[1:35:54] and related outcomes in colorado are

[1:35:56] worse

[1:35:57] than the nation it shows that colorado

[1:36:01] marijuana use has increased

[1:36:03] for all age groups from 2016 to 2019

[1:36:07] and marijuana youth disorder

[1:36:10] in colorado 12 to 17 year olds

[1:36:14] is twice the national average

[1:36:18] please do not rush develop the best

[1:36:22] possible regulations protecting children

[1:36:25] and young adults and straightened the

[1:36:28] community health improvement plan

[1:36:30] to address the significant mental health

[1:36:33] issues

[1:36:33] resulting from increased access to

[1:36:36] marijuana

[1:36:37] these steps need to occur before the

[1:36:40] moratorium

[1:36:41] ends thank you for your consideration

[1:36:46] uh and we'll move on then to james uh

[1:36:48] james state your uh your full name and

[1:36:50] uh

[1:36:51] in neighborhood and you have three

[1:36:53] minutes

[1:36:56] thank you marion uh city council this is

[1:36:58] james marsh holston uh living

[1:37:00] brandywine i want to thank council for

[1:37:03] their leadership on this issue and the

[1:37:06] i'm very excited to see this issue go

[1:37:08] forward

[1:37:09] the tax revenues that we will be able to

[1:37:11] realize from this industry

[1:37:13] um that are currently going to other

[1:37:15] localities

[1:37:17] will help this community pay for

[1:37:20] everything that we need to especially

[1:37:21] given the kovid restrict uh the

[1:37:23] you know downturns that we're currently

[1:37:24] in um i am curious on the

[1:37:27] decision to extend the moratorium on

[1:37:31] production another four years um i'd be

[1:37:34] i understand the desire to go slow and

[1:37:37] to

[1:37:38] take this in steps um but i would be

[1:37:40] curious to know how much revenue we were

[1:37:42] giving up in

[1:37:43] that issue and what the regulations

[1:37:45] would have looked like if we had decided

[1:37:47] to go forward with that

[1:37:49] i appreciate the previous caller and the

[1:37:51] need to

[1:37:52] regulate thoughtfully and to do it well

[1:37:56] however i do believe that we have many

[1:37:58] examples from other communities

[1:38:00] surrounding us of how they have

[1:38:04] worked with this industry to protect our

[1:38:06] children and protect the health and

[1:38:07] safety of the community

[1:38:08] i do not believe that it is a danger

[1:38:10] like it is put forth

[1:38:12] at times to the two children um having

[1:38:15] gone to a marijuana shop once or twice

[1:38:16] um i can tell you that the

[1:38:18] level of security and um

[1:38:22] difficulty in getting in is much higher

[1:38:24] than that of a liquor store and

[1:38:26] the dangerous aspects of alcohol are

[1:38:29] significantly more than that of

[1:38:30] marijuana so

[1:38:32] i do believe that that it is worth going

[1:38:34] forward with this and i'm i'm looking

[1:38:35] forward to

[1:38:36] it to seeing this these small businesses

[1:38:38] in our community

[1:38:40] um and i appreciate what council's doing

[1:38:42] thank you good night

[1:38:44] thank you james uh i'm not knowing

[1:38:46] anybody else in the queue

[1:38:48] um so we will move to uh

[1:38:53] city council comments or questions city

[1:38:56] council

[1:39:03] councilmember lindstedt

[1:39:06] thank you mayor um i'll keep it very brief um

[1:39:09] i'll just say that you know i'm i'm very

[1:39:12] grateful to staff for working so hard on

[1:39:14] these regulations and i look forward to

[1:39:15] having

[1:39:16] um a thoughtful discussion next week um

[1:39:19] and until then you know i know there was

[1:39:21] one resident who emailed in

[1:39:22] about these about the moratorium um just

[1:39:25] to

[1:39:26] inform um the community you know this

[1:39:28] moratorium um

[1:39:29] is meant to exist while we craft these

[1:39:32] regulations so that we can

[1:39:33] um you know create a a thriving you know

[1:39:36] industry that we can benefit from with

[1:39:38] new jobs and tax revenue um

[1:39:40] while keeping our community safe so um

[1:39:43] that's our intent

[1:39:44] and i look forward to having a a strong

[1:39:46] discussion

[1:39:47] uh next week councilmember girl

[1:39:51] uh yeah thank you very much i just

[1:39:53] wanted to

[1:39:55] make sure there's a couple things one um

[1:39:58] our discussion on the mental health plan

[1:40:00] that

[1:40:02] should go along with these ordinances

[1:40:04] i'm hoping to see that

[1:40:06] also with with the dates on this

[1:40:08] moratorium

[1:40:09] um extension

[1:40:12] what are what i would be asking for i

[1:40:14] guess i'm not

[1:40:15] formulating my words very well right now

[1:40:17] is what are the dates for that mental

[1:40:19] health plan that

[1:40:20] um couple and in in parallel we approve

[1:40:25] for release on april 1st or or in may

[1:40:28] whenever um this is approved and then secondly um

[1:40:35] the the date of may

[1:40:39] what what was that based on again just

[1:40:41] to give us elbow room

[1:40:44] or was there any

[1:40:47] we're still shooting for may first but

[1:40:49] we're extending it to

[1:40:52] may yes council

[1:40:55] member groom we're shooting for april

[1:40:57] 1st which was the date that we initially

[1:40:59] proposed

[1:41:00] but in order to give the staff some

[1:41:02] breathing room if it ends up being

[1:41:04] necessary in particular

[1:41:06] after we see what happens at the meeting

[1:41:08] next week

[1:41:09] that's why we're requesting the

[1:41:10] amendment to may 3rd

[1:41:12] i just find it odd because i would think

[1:41:14] that we would wait um

[1:41:16] to to extend it once we understood the

[1:41:19] level of comments that were given

[1:41:21] because it could be may it could be june

[1:41:24] so i'm trying to understand why we're

[1:41:26] doing this now and not

[1:41:28] when we get the comments i think it's

[1:41:31] the two readings part

[1:41:33] that it's not like you know so the breathing room was requested by

[1:41:39] staff

[1:41:40] uh and didn't want to go through two

[1:41:41] separate readings if we had to extend it

[1:41:43] for a month

[1:41:45] got it thank you very much that's all i

[1:41:47] have

[1:41:48] okay uh councilmember i mean uh city

[1:41:50] manager often do you want to address the question of the mental health plan

[1:41:56] jennifer oh yes thank you mayor

[1:42:00] um and council so like it like anything

[1:42:04] else that we're doing right now it is in conjunction there aren't any um

[1:42:09] stand-alone discussions with regards to

[1:42:11] the marijuana

[1:42:13] rules and regulations public health is

[1:42:15] an intimate part

[1:42:16] of that so our chip

[1:42:19] program we've been sending some

[1:42:21] information out

[1:42:24] to council that process will pick up as

[1:42:27] we begin to integrate

[1:42:29] what that support system looks like so

[1:42:31] again it's it's an

[1:42:32] it's a very integrated model council

[1:42:35] member groom

[1:42:36] that um we'll we'll continue as we move

[1:42:39] through on these regulations to

[1:42:41] ensure a strong communication with

[1:42:45] our mental health partners and

[1:42:48] the state capabilities that they have

[1:42:51] found

[1:42:52] from that support network um again

[1:42:56] there's a lot of comprehensive

[1:43:00] deeper dives with regards to mental

[1:43:01] health that

[1:43:03] covid has uh has really provided and

[1:43:06] prompted

[1:43:07] so when we're when we're looking at the

[1:43:09] impact of

[1:43:11] covid and increased substance abuse

[1:43:14] and the suicides all of those components

[1:43:17] are really

[1:43:18] reducing that stigma which overall is a

[1:43:21] really wonderful thing with regards to

[1:43:23] mental health

[1:43:24] but it's also a wonderful thing because

[1:43:26] with timing of our marijuana regulations

[1:43:28] those support capabilities are are are

[1:43:31] even more established than they were

[1:43:33] before

[1:43:33] so it's more or less kind of threading

[1:43:35] that needle

[1:43:36] to ensure that there really isn't any

[1:43:38] stone unturned

[1:43:39] as we move forward

[1:43:44] thank you i'm looking for more though i understand our programs and we've got

[1:43:48] great ones but

[1:43:49] with with the marijuana i'm looking at a

[1:43:53] significant

[1:43:54] uh increase in our health our mental

[1:43:57] health services

[1:43:59] not just existing programs thank you for

[1:44:02] your

[1:44:02] life yeah councilmember law evans

[1:44:06] thank you mr mayor so i would like to

[1:44:09] echo

[1:44:10] uh council member groom's comments

[1:44:12] concerning

[1:44:13] um we absolutely need to

[1:44:16] provide more mental health support uh

[1:44:20] and as uh

[1:44:20] our study manager noted uh the mental

[1:44:23] health toll the last year on

[1:44:25] from the pandemic has been terrible

[1:44:28] really terrible but um

[1:44:32] i i anyone who thinks that there will

[1:44:35] not be

[1:44:36] mental health fallout from having

[1:44:40] more marijuana available in our city

[1:44:43] i believe is kidding themselves this is

[1:44:45] not

[1:44:47] the comparison that's always made is

[1:44:49] well it's not as bad as alcohol

[1:44:51] um and that's a terrible comparison

[1:44:53] simply because

[1:44:55] um it it doesn't matter if it's as bad

[1:44:59] as alcohol it's bad enough on its own

[1:45:01] and this

[1:45:02] does it will have mental health

[1:45:05] repercussions

[1:45:06] uh and the repercussions can be i have family members who have been

[1:45:15] addicted

[1:45:16] to marijuana for many years

[1:45:19] i don't want to go into that right now

[1:45:21] but don't kid yourself there are

[1:45:23] long-term

[1:45:24] mental health effects from this and i

[1:45:26] want to make sure that

[1:45:28] as much mental health support as we can

[1:45:31] put in place

[1:45:32] um as councilmember groom has said we

[1:45:35] need

[1:45:35] all we'll need all of it all of it so i agree with councilmember groom

[1:45:41] um i'm looking for a significant uptick

[1:45:44] in mental health services offered and

[1:45:47] provided

[1:45:48] with this thank you mayor councilmember

[1:45:50] lim

[1:45:51] um i had a question for staff um

[1:45:54] the study session next week

[1:45:59] what will we see come forward are we

[1:46:01] going to see revised regulations

[1:46:04] based on public comments and then

[1:46:07] some of us perhaps i know i did submit

[1:46:11] follow-up um written see uh questions

[1:46:14] suggestions

[1:46:16] uh will we s what are we going to see at

[1:46:18] the study session next tuesday are we

[1:46:20] going to see

[1:46:21] a response yes we already

[1:46:24] um revise this regula these regulations

[1:46:27] reflect this

[1:46:29] we haven't thought about this yet or see

[1:46:32] we haven't you know no we're not going

[1:46:34] to include this at all

[1:46:35] what what kind of feedback are we going

[1:46:37] to get to our comments that already occurred

[1:46:42] there has been

[1:46:43] a great deal of revision to the

[1:46:45] regulations

[1:46:46] and we are still doing some work to that will absolutely continue um there

[1:46:53] are questions

[1:46:54] that we are aware of from the past study

[1:46:57] session

[1:46:58] that we have not been able to uh

[1:47:01] get answered yet but a great number of

[1:47:04] the questions

[1:47:05] um are in the draft council memo

[1:47:08] right now with uh answers to them

[1:47:12] okay thanks uh mayor potem

[1:47:18] thank you mayor um i'll support the one

[1:47:20] month extension

[1:47:22] of the moratorium as padding i really

[1:47:24] don't want to

[1:47:25] kick it down the road as it has been

[1:47:27] mentioned that this is

[1:47:29] every month we wait that's one last

[1:47:31] month we get the revenue and the

[1:47:32] benefits

[1:47:33] i also want to address the the mental

[1:47:36] health uh concerns that have been

[1:47:37] brought up

[1:47:38] uh it has been proven that medicinal

[1:47:42] marijuana

[1:47:42] has helped people with trauma to get off

[1:47:45] of opioids

[1:47:46] it helps with pain inflammation

[1:47:50] all sorts of medical uses children use

[1:47:53] it

[1:47:54] but with their parents because it stops

[1:47:56] seizures i have a constituent whose

[1:47:58] family

[1:47:59] would would have to drive very far to

[1:48:02] get this medicine for their child and it

[1:48:03] is life-saving

[1:48:05] so we need to balance some of the myths

[1:48:07] and the facts

[1:48:08] and back up these these allegations with

[1:48:11] actual medical research

[1:48:13] before going off the deep end um but

[1:48:16] thank you

[1:48:19] any other questions or comments from

[1:48:20] city council

[1:48:25] there being no further comment oh

[1:48:27] councilmember link lindstadt oh i was just going to

[1:48:31] make a motion mayor so continue oh okay

[1:48:33] i'm sorry

[1:48:34] we will let you make the motion there be

[1:48:36] no further comments the public hearing

[1:48:37] before the city council is closed

[1:48:39] next is council's consideration of

[1:48:41] proposed ordinance number 2146

[1:48:43] will the clerk please read propose

[1:48:46] ordinance number two one for six

[1:48:47] by title

[1:48:50] barbara december 2146 extending the

[1:48:53] prohibition

[1:48:54] on operation of certain marijuana

[1:48:56] establishments

[1:48:57] within the city and county of broomfield

[1:48:59] second and final reading

[1:49:01] okay councilman said thank you mayor i

[1:49:04] move that ordinance number 2146 as

[1:49:06] amended be adopted on second and final

[1:49:08] reading and order published in full

[1:49:11] council over heckle okay

[1:49:14] is there any discussion or further

[1:49:16] discussion

[1:49:18] will the clerk please call the role

[1:49:24] yes from

[1:49:28] yes anderson

[1:49:54] yes so it passes unanimously

[1:49:59] um so uh city manager hoffman

[1:50:03] it is uh 7 50. uh you know

[1:50:06] i get the impression 11b might take a

[1:50:07] few minutes and so what you want to go

[1:50:09] and take the break

[1:50:10] right now yes that's fine

[1:50:13] okay so let's go and take the break and

[1:50:14] we'll be back at eight o'clock uh so

[1:50:16] we'll take a ten minute break until

[1:50:17] eight o'clock

[1:50:18] uh and i'll see you then

[1:50:23] the access live event is in music hold

[1:59:28] uh

[1:59:44] dug you about ready yes mayor i was

[1:59:47] about to catch you down

[1:59:50] ready i am five

[1:59:54] four three two

[1:59:57] one music hold ended um

[2:00:01] welcome everybody back uh our next uh

[2:00:04] item uh we're moving on to 11b which which is

[2:00:08] 15a

[2:00:09] uh under urban renewal this is the

[2:00:12] public hearing and council consideration

[2:00:13] of proposed regulation number 20

[2:00:16] 21-13 approving the site development

[2:00:19] plan

[2:00:19] an improvement agreement for a gallery

[2:00:21] park a 1.99 acre

[2:00:23] public park within broomfield urban

[2:00:25] transit village

[2:00:27] this item also includes proposed

[2:00:28] resolution number 20 21-14-ur

[2:00:32] for the broomfield urban renewal

[2:00:34] authorities review

[2:00:36] we previously convened the broomfield

[2:00:38] urban renewal authority and will review

[2:00:40] both

[2:00:41] resolutions concur concurrently

[2:00:45] i will now declare the public hearing

[2:00:46] open we will follow the city standard

[2:00:48] public hearing procedures

[2:00:49] as previously outlined uh council has a

[2:00:52] copy of the agenda

[2:00:53] memorandum which i'll ask stuff staff to

[2:00:56] summarize

[2:00:58] thank you mayor and council anna burton

[2:01:00] zetty will walk us through this item and

[2:01:02] of course the applicants are here to

[2:01:04] field

[2:01:04] any additional questions after their

[2:01:06] presentation anna

[2:01:10] thank you miss hoffman mayor city

[2:01:13] council

[2:01:14] anna burton's eddie planning director we

[2:01:16] could have the next slide please

[2:01:18] the applicant this evening is requesting

[2:01:20] consideration of a development proposal

[2:01:22] for a park that's just under two acres

[2:01:25] in size

[2:01:26] within the arista neighborhood the

[2:01:27] property is located south of arista

[2:01:29] place

[2:01:30] west of destination drive north of the

[2:01:32] future extension of parkland street

[2:01:34] and adjacent to and east of a recently

[2:01:37] approved multi-family project called the

[2:01:39] steadfast development

[2:01:40] next slide please the land use

[2:01:43] designation on our comprehensive plan

[2:01:46] is open lands which is consistent with a

[2:01:48] public park

[2:01:50] next slide please the

[2:01:53] original 2006 site development plan for

[2:01:56] this property

[2:01:57] was designed to be of a passive style

[2:01:59] park space

[2:02:00] with very few amenities and dense

[2:02:02] landscaping

[2:02:03] in addition there were also easements

[2:02:05] across the site that limited the layout

[2:02:07] of the park design

[2:02:08] those easements have since been removed

[2:02:10] and are no longer necessary

[2:02:12] uh based on the development to the west

[2:02:14] and surrounding properties

[2:02:16] next slide please the revised park site

[2:02:20] is laid out with a circular gathering

[2:02:22] area that they're calling the council

[2:02:24] ring

[2:02:24] as a common term used for a circular

[2:02:26] seating area

[2:02:27] separating the primary play lawn on the

[2:02:30] southern side of the site from the dog

[2:02:31] park

[2:02:32] amenity that's on the northern end of

[2:02:34] the site landscaping beds are used to

[2:02:36] shape the park site and separate the

[2:02:38] various amenities

[2:02:40] areas from the public streets there are

[2:02:42] shades trees located throughout

[2:02:44] and the plans incorporate three

[2:02:46] locations the northeast corner the

[2:02:48] southeast corner

[2:02:49] and the center of the council ring for

[2:02:51] public art displays in the future

[2:02:53] if the city desires two public parks

[2:02:57] uh excuse me two public dog parks are

[2:02:59] incorporated

[2:03:01] to separate the larger dogs from smaller

[2:03:04] dogs

[2:03:04] and the dog parks feature overhead

[2:03:06] lighting that's placed on a timer

[2:03:08] to go off in the late evening to ensure

[2:03:11] or due to the proximity of residential

[2:03:13] in the area

[2:03:15] there are 30 angled parking spaces

[2:03:17] incorporated along the western edge of

[2:03:18] destination drive

[2:03:20] and there's sidewalks leading from the

[2:03:21] parkside to the adjacent properties

[2:03:24] there are no play structures proposed

[2:03:26] since

[2:03:27] two additional parks within the arista

[2:03:29] neighborhood both sensory and chefs

[2:03:30] field

[2:03:31] have play structures in the immediate

[2:03:33] area

[2:03:34] next slide please all of the parks

[2:03:37] within the arista neighborhood are

[2:03:39] uniquely designed by the developer to

[2:03:41] provide different amenities

[2:03:42] gallery park is the last public park to

[2:03:44] be constructed within the arista

[2:03:46] neighborhood

[2:03:47] under the existing pud plan next slide

[2:03:51] a concept review was initially held for

[2:03:54] a public park

[2:03:55] along with the steadfast development in

[2:03:57] 2019.

[2:03:59] with based on that concept review there

[2:04:01] were concerns expressed regarding a

[2:04:03] potential relocation of the park

[2:04:06] and their potential noise air quality

[2:04:09] concerns

[2:04:10] with that relocation therefore the

[2:04:12] applicant has

[2:04:14] made the location of the park consistent

[2:04:17] adjacent to destination drive as

[2:04:18] proposed this evening

[2:04:20] in 2019 the applicant also held a

[2:04:22] neighborhood meeting

[2:04:23] with the homeowners associations for

[2:04:26] both the kb home and century communities

[2:04:28] projects they discussed the park

[2:04:30] placement traffic parking and concerns

[2:04:33] with increasing number of dogs in the

[2:04:34] community

[2:04:36] the public hearing notification

[2:04:38] requirements were met

[2:04:39] for this property and there is an

[2:04:41] improvement agreement along with the

[2:04:43] site development plan

[2:04:45] urban renewal site plan this evening the

[2:04:47] improvement agreement outlines the

[2:04:48] developers obligations and triggers for

[2:04:51] completing the improvements associated

[2:04:52] with this particular park

[2:04:54] the improvement agreement requires

[2:04:56] completion of this park

[2:04:58] excuse me concurrent with the adjacent

[2:05:00] residential development which is the

[2:05:02] steadfast development to the west

[2:05:04] the developer has completed one part per

[2:05:06] year for the last few years as

[2:05:08] previously mentioned this is

[2:05:09] the last park to be developed and

[2:05:11] steadfast is

[2:05:12] scheduled to begin construction

[2:05:14] hopefully this year

[2:05:15] which would ensure uh compliance with

[2:05:18] again the developer's intent to complete

[2:05:21] all of the parks by the end of this year

[2:05:23] next slide please

[2:05:26] staff has identified no key issues with

[2:05:28] this proposal

[2:05:30] on november 23rd of 2020 the planning

[2:05:32] and zoning commission did consider

[2:05:34] the site development plan urban renewal

[2:05:37] site plan

[2:05:38] during the meeting there were some

[2:05:39] concerns expressed by the commissioners

[2:05:41] including the inclusion of a dog park

[2:05:43] since there are is another dog park

[2:05:44] available within arista

[2:05:46] the use of crusher fines pathways the

[2:05:48] lack of shade areas to sit

[2:05:50] and how the plane whether the play lawns

[2:05:53] could be usable with the trails

[2:05:54] bisecting

[2:05:55] the trail or the the play lawn a motion

[2:05:58] for approval was made by

[2:06:00] one of the commissioners but failed by a

[2:06:02] vote of three to three

[2:06:03] and the commission ultimately voted six

[2:06:05] to zero to recommend denial of the

[2:06:07] proposal with the findings listed on the

[2:06:09] screen

[2:06:12] the applicant has provided a response

[2:06:14] included as attachment one to the staff

[2:06:16] memorandum

[2:06:18] the applicant removed all crusher fines

[2:06:20] pathways that bisected the site

[2:06:22] changed the remaining crusher fines to

[2:06:24] pathways to concrete

[2:06:26] they added three locations for the

[2:06:28] public art displays expanded the turf

[2:06:30] lawn

[2:06:31] added shade trees and evergreen trees

[2:06:34] and shifted the walkways within the park

[2:06:36] to maximize the uninterrupted

[2:06:38] area for the the turf play lawn the one

[2:06:41] item that the applicant did not address

[2:06:43] was the dog amenity the dog park is

[2:06:46] still

[2:06:47] included in the plans since the

[2:06:48] applicant felt that this

[2:06:50] amenity had been requested by residents

[2:06:53] in the previous home

[2:06:54] homeowners association meeting and felt

[2:06:57] that it was appropriate to keep this

[2:06:58] amenity

[2:06:59] moving forward to the city council for

[2:07:01] consideration

[2:07:03] and thank you mayor and members of the

[2:07:04] council that concludes my staff

[2:07:06] presentation

[2:07:07] and as mentioned the applicant is here

[2:07:08] this evening for a brief presentation

[2:07:10] and to answer any questions

[2:07:12] okay so we'll go to the presentation by

[2:07:15] the applicant uh just as we encourage

[2:07:17] staff to keep their presentations brief

[2:07:19] i asked the applicant to be concise in

[2:07:21] the presentation as well

[2:07:23] will the applicant's representative

[2:07:24] please identify themselves for the

[2:07:26] record

[2:07:26] prior to beginning their brief

[2:07:28] presentation this evening

[2:07:31] yes good evening uh mr mayor council and

[2:07:34] staff

[2:07:35] my name is joe zapped i'm representing

[2:07:37] the arrest of development this evening

[2:07:38] my address is 555 el dorado boulevard

[2:07:41] and broomfield 80021.

[2:07:44] as uh previously mentioned a moment ago

[2:07:47] tonight we're present

[2:07:48] presenting to you what will be the final

[2:07:52] part to be constructed at the aristo

[2:07:54] development

[2:07:55] and also as just mentioned the past

[2:07:58] three years we've completed a park

[2:07:59] each year starting with uptown park in

[2:08:02] 2018

[2:08:04] in shefsville park in 2019 and this past

[2:08:08] year in 2020 terrace ponds park

[2:08:12] uh there are just a couple of site

[2:08:14] amenities at terrace ponds

[2:08:17] uh such as benches and tables that have

[2:08:19] to be installed those are on delayed

[2:08:22] delivery due to covet but essentially

[2:08:25] the park is complete if you've not

[2:08:26] driven by that park lately

[2:08:29] i would encourage you to do so and take

[2:08:31] a look at it

[2:08:32] i think you will be impressed on how

[2:08:34] well it came out

[2:08:36] so with the completion of terrace ponds

[2:08:38] park that we just

[2:08:39] did last year that brings the total

[2:08:41] number

[2:08:42] of parks at the arista development

[2:08:46] uh for a total of seven seven parks

[2:08:49] are now complete and so when we complete

[2:08:53] gallery park which we're discussing this

[2:08:56] evening

[2:08:57] that will conclude the park commitment

[2:08:59] and that will total a total of

[2:09:01] eight parks at the arista development

[2:09:05] so here tonight to supplement the staff

[2:09:07] report is our consultant leanne blair

[2:09:10] with norris design thank you

[2:09:15] good evening um mayor can hear me okay

[2:09:18] yes great thank you so much um my name

[2:09:21] is leanne valliere with norris design at

[2:09:23] 1101 bannock street

[2:09:25] denver colorado thank you anna for your

[2:09:28] thorough presentation

[2:09:30] mayor council members and staff for your

[2:09:32] evening tonight for your time excuse me

[2:09:34] this evening tonight

[2:09:35] we're very excited to be here to talk

[2:09:38] about the um

[2:09:39] last piece of the open lands puzzle at

[2:09:41] um arista

[2:09:43] next slide please

[2:09:47] in an effort to avoid repeating um or at

[2:09:50] least minimizing the

[2:09:52] repetition with anna's presentation

[2:09:55] i do want to mention that in gallery

[2:09:58] park

[2:09:58] as a rinder was approved back in 2006

[2:10:02] and it was originally designed as a

[2:10:04] passive collection of outdoor rooms and

[2:10:06] that was inspired by

[2:10:08] the prairie style of the late 19th

[2:10:10] century

[2:10:12] in early early 20th century um

[2:10:15] and the opportunity to take a fresh look

[2:10:17] at the park's design

[2:10:19] has provided the opportunity to update

[2:10:22] it not only to respond to

[2:10:24] um the needs of the residents but then

[2:10:26] also to

[2:10:28] make sure we're being mindful of the

[2:10:30] maintenance

[2:10:32] capabilities and desires of the parks

[2:10:35] department

[2:10:37] the overall design of gallery park

[2:10:39] remains intact

[2:10:41] but has been greatly updated in terms of

[2:10:44] function

[2:10:45] for all the tour fairies have been

[2:10:48] expanded to meet the edge of the park

[2:10:50] creating easy access from all directions

[2:10:53] and the variety of turf sizes provide

[2:10:55] flexibility

[2:10:56] and opportunity for both small intimate

[2:10:59] gatherings as well as larger

[2:11:00] more active activities

[2:11:04] as was mentioned we've added three

[2:11:06] locations for

[2:11:08] potential future art those are the blue

[2:11:11] stars

[2:11:12] on your screen

[2:11:16] next slide please

[2:11:20] the park features the central council

[2:11:22] ring

[2:11:24] which is our gathering plaza with

[2:11:26] seating lighted bollards

[2:11:28] and the future art location

[2:11:31] this council ring is an element commonly

[2:11:33] found in the prairie style parks

[2:11:35] and the prairie style influenced the

[2:11:37] overall arista landscape

[2:11:40] and circular elements of the council

[2:11:42] ring can be seen in design elements both

[2:11:44] at arista park and

[2:11:46] its entry park next slide please

[2:11:51] um anna did a great job summarizing the

[2:11:53] concept hearing that we had back in

[2:11:55] march of 2019

[2:11:57] the only thing that i'll expand on is

[2:11:59] that um

[2:12:01] in converting the on-street

[2:12:05] parking the parallel parking along

[2:12:07] destination way to angled parking

[2:12:09] that's resulted in a net increase

[2:12:12] of approximately 10 spaces

[2:12:16] a planning and zoning commission hearing

[2:12:18] on november 23rd

[2:12:20] commissioners had concerns over a few

[2:12:22] design elements within the park

[2:12:24] their first concern was that the dog

[2:12:26] park was unnecessary given the proximity

[2:12:29] to sheps field

[2:12:31] as mentioned there was a meeting last

[2:12:33] year with

[2:12:34] community members and the neighbors

[2:12:37] raised concerns about the existing dog

[2:12:40] waste problem

[2:12:41] and the impacts of the addition of

[2:12:43] steadfast residents

[2:12:45] and how that would impact the current

[2:12:48] dog park

[2:12:50] you know arista is a very dog-friendly

[2:12:52] community and so we anticipate that the

[2:12:54] number of dog owners will continue to

[2:12:56] increase

[2:12:57] not only with the addition of steadfast

[2:13:00] departments but as future developments

[2:13:02] within arista

[2:13:04] begin to fill in as well and we believe

[2:13:07] that this

[2:13:07] additional dog area will not only be an

[2:13:10] asset to the existing

[2:13:12] residents but future residents as well

[2:13:14] and

[2:13:15] will hope hopefully help to reduce any

[2:13:18] um

[2:13:19] future dog related complaints

[2:13:22] and for that reason we thought it was

[2:13:25] important to keep it

[2:13:26] in the overall design next slide please

[2:13:31] in addition the second concerns um

[2:13:34] from the uh planning and zoning

[2:13:37] commission was centered around the

[2:13:38] usefulness and maintenance of the

[2:13:40] internal crusher fines trail

[2:13:42] what's in front of you right now is a

[2:13:44] comparison between

[2:13:46] the um design that we brought in front

[2:13:48] of the p and z

[2:13:50] um and then the updated design

[2:13:53] in front of you tonight um

[2:13:57] they the commissioners um you know felt

[2:13:59] that the walkway through the middle of

[2:14:01] the turf limited the usefulness

[2:14:03] of the grass area and so in response to

[2:14:05] that and those

[2:14:06] concerns we've removed the portion of

[2:14:08] trail along the south of the council

[2:14:11] ring

[2:14:11] to provide that un interrupted turf area

[2:14:15] and the turf also has been expanded to

[2:14:17] the sidewalks to

[2:14:18] greater create access to the park and

[2:14:21] eliminate the need for the trail

[2:14:24] finally all remaining trails were

[2:14:26] converted to concrete

[2:14:28] for ease of maintenance and usability um

[2:14:31] all year long

[2:14:33] lastly the commissioners felt that the

[2:14:35] park lacked shade trees

[2:14:37] and greenery so the park design has been

[2:14:39] revised to address this concern with

[2:14:41] addition

[2:14:42] of more deciduous shade trees and

[2:14:45] evergreen trees the shade trees have

[2:14:47] also been located

[2:14:49] around the edge of the turf providing

[2:14:51] opportunity for

[2:14:52] shade while providing or excuse me while

[2:14:55] maintaining

[2:14:56] the open turf for flexible use and ease

[2:14:59] of maintenance

[2:15:00] some of the ornamental trees were

[2:15:02] switched to

[2:15:03] evergreen trees to provide that

[2:15:05] year-round color

[2:15:06] and greenery and the expanded tarf area

[2:15:10] has re resulted in less native seed

[2:15:13] areas

[2:15:13] and strategically placed planting beds

[2:15:18] the planning and zoning commission chose

[2:15:21] to make a recommendation of

[2:15:22] denial rather than approval with

[2:15:25] conditions

[2:15:26] because they wanted to put teeth

[2:15:30] as they stated it behind their

[2:15:31] conditions they asked that we work with

[2:15:33] staff to address their concerns prior to

[2:15:35] coming before you tonight

[2:15:37] which we were happy to do so our team is

[2:15:40] here and available to answer any

[2:15:42] questions thank you very much

[2:15:50] so that concludes the applicant's

[2:15:51] presentation it does

[2:15:53] okay um so we'll go to public comments

[2:15:57] next um

[2:15:58] uh we do uh you know anybody who's on

[2:16:01] the line uh please press start three to go into

[2:16:04] the queue

[2:16:05] we do have jake uh uh

[2:16:08] on the line jake i need you to state

[2:16:10] both your first and last name for the

[2:16:12] record

[2:16:13] uh and then the neighborhood that you

[2:16:15] live in and then you have three minutes

[2:16:19] uh my name is jake cool hi my name is

[2:16:22] jake s

[2:16:23] i live in the arista apartments uh

[2:16:25] actually within directline a site

[2:16:27] of what is i guess currently the dirt

[2:16:29] pile and will be that

[2:16:30] nice looking park that we received in

[2:16:33] the envelope i was

[2:16:34] just wondering uh this park and um the

[2:16:37] surrounding ones there's been

[2:16:39] a lot of geese around and they poop

[2:16:42] everywhere

[2:16:42] and you step in it and sometimes you're

[2:16:45] just like playing hopscotch with his

[2:16:46] poop and i i'm just wondering if there

[2:16:48] are

[2:16:48] plans to to clean this poop up or or deal with the geese in general i mean

[2:16:53] they're lovely but you know come on the

[2:16:55] poop

[2:16:55] all right well thank you so much

[2:16:57] appreciate it

[2:17:00] uh i don't

[2:17:03] you know i i guess normally i do allow

[2:17:04] the applicant uh i don't see any other

[2:17:06] questions from the public uh so i guess i'll give

[2:17:09] the applicant the chance to uh

[2:17:11] to respond to that is there anybody from

[2:17:13] the applicant that wants to respond

[2:17:14] on the issue of uh waste from geese

[2:17:19] mr joseph this is josephina

[2:17:23] okay i'll just respond to that

[2:17:26] you know there's a couple of elements

[2:17:28] within a rest of one is the public parks

[2:17:30] that are

[2:17:31] maintained by the city and county so if

[2:17:33] there's poop

[2:17:34] in those parks then this responsibility

[2:17:36] of the cities is part of that

[2:17:37] maintenance

[2:17:38] to do that secondly within the the

[2:17:41] individual

[2:17:42] communities uh itself uh

[2:17:45] they're you know they should be

[2:17:46] self-policing on how they handle that

[2:17:51] yeah you know fair enough we do have one

[2:17:53] other comment uh

[2:17:54] you know person that wants to uh give

[2:17:56] public comments sheila

[2:17:58] uh please state your full name and your

[2:18:00] neighborhood for the record and then you

[2:18:02] have three minutes

[2:18:05] hello my name is sheila higgins and i

[2:18:08] live in the kb home

[2:18:10] community in arista i'm also the vice

[2:18:12] president of the hoa board

[2:18:14] for the arista community and i would

[2:18:17] just like to state my support for the

[2:18:19] park and the proposal as presented

[2:18:23] as noted uh wayne's capital and the

[2:18:27] aristo urban development has worked

[2:18:29] closely with the hoa for both the two

[2:18:31] communities here

[2:18:33] in the arista development and the park

[2:18:36] design reflects the

[2:18:37] key items we wanted additional parking

[2:18:40] and the dog park the dog park is

[2:18:42] extremely important and i will echo what

[2:18:44] joe

[2:18:44] said there are a lot of dogs in the dog

[2:18:47] park is extremely important

[2:18:50] i guess that's all i wanted to say as i

[2:18:52] support the park plan

[2:18:53] as is and would really like to see the

[2:18:55] park built as soon as possible thank you sheila um and so then uh i'll you know one last chance for the

[2:19:04] applicant if there's any responses they

[2:19:05] want to make

[2:19:06] i think you commented we'll have the

[2:19:08] city maybe address the geese

[2:19:09] issue maybe city-wide but uh they may

[2:19:12] want to wait until they have a chance to

[2:19:14] respond to that

[2:19:15] gather their response um if there's if

[2:19:18] they're

[2:19:19] i think uh i think the applicant has

[2:19:21] indicated they've responded so we'll

[2:19:22] move on to city council and authority

[2:19:24] members

[2:19:25] uh any questions or comments from the

[2:19:27] city council or the uh

[2:19:29] profile urban renewal authority members

[2:19:31] uh please raise your hand and you'll be

[2:19:33] uh

[2:19:34] called on

[2:19:37] council over tessier thanks mr mayor i

[2:19:41] just um

[2:19:41] it's a long time coming joe yay it's uh looks really good i'm excited

[2:19:48] and

[2:19:49] just looking forward to arista residents

[2:19:51] getting

[2:19:53] what they wanted it was nice to hear and

[2:19:56] i don't know

[2:19:56] if if there's any sort of communication

[2:20:00] between um

[2:20:03] the the management at um

[2:20:07] arista and between the city and county

[2:20:10] of broomfield

[2:20:11] because i'm sure there's you know it's

[2:20:13] easy to point fingers it belongs to this

[2:20:15] person belongs to that person and i

[2:20:17] didn't know if there's an

[2:20:18] opportunity here to work with

[2:20:22] um different either hoas or

[2:20:26] metro districts to to figure out ways in

[2:20:28] which we can clear

[2:20:30] like health hazards out like if if

[2:20:33] there's a group of people that are

[2:20:35] can can do it at the par at arista

[2:20:38] to clear the poop at their um at arista

[2:20:41] is there a way that or can can

[2:20:44] arista if they get complaints call the

[2:20:47] city and county of broomfield in a

[2:20:48] timely manner

[2:20:50] um i i don't know how this would work

[2:20:52] but it seems to me that there's an opportunity here that could

[2:20:56] help a lot of residents

[2:20:58] out because i'm sure arista is not the

[2:21:00] only place that has a lot of

[2:21:02] uh geese uh poop and um i know by

[2:21:05] the the library and stuff it's cleared

[2:21:09] off

[2:21:09] regularly and and i and it's wonderful

[2:21:12] um so i i can i can hear

[2:21:16] i feel for the the caller's uh plea

[2:21:19] to to remove that um so hopefully we get

[2:21:23] a good response from our staff and and

[2:21:26] we can figure out a way to clear that up

[2:21:30] hey councilmember law evans thank you mr

[2:21:34] mayor so

[2:21:35] uh council member tessier if you figure

[2:21:37] out a way to deal with goose poop that's

[2:21:39] easy and cost effective you can make

[2:21:43] so much money doing that my friend

[2:21:45] because i agree down by the library

[2:21:47] especially

[2:21:48] it's um it's insane but um i also agree with the the caller and i

[2:21:54] don't know what to do with it um

[2:21:56] uh miss hoffman who do this is a strange

[2:21:59] question

[2:22:00] to to talk about goose poop at a city

[2:22:02] council meeting but whatever

[2:22:04] do we still have well okay so it's what

[2:22:07] we do thank you mr mayor for that

[2:22:08] validation i appreciate that

[2:22:10] do we still have a contract with the guy

[2:22:13] who had the sheepdog

[2:22:15] converted to a goose dog to chase them

[2:22:20] off

[2:22:24] council member law evans um so so we're

[2:22:27] all

[2:22:28] um reminiscing about the number

[2:22:32] of options we have exhausted

[2:22:35] over the years um one of the excite and

[2:22:39] that is that's the 64 thousand dollar

[2:22:41] question i can tell you though that some

[2:22:44] of our young folks

[2:22:46] who come up with the the best ideas

[2:22:51] over at the stem school

[2:22:54] that is one that's one of the problems

[2:22:57] that they are solving

[2:22:59] uh sixth seventh and eighth graders have

[2:23:02] taken it under advisement

[2:23:04] what to do how to do it from a

[2:23:07] preventative perspective

[2:23:09] once it happens perspective a cleanup

[2:23:11] perspective and then

[2:23:13] a composting perspective so i venture to

[2:23:16] guess

[2:23:16] those though that mindset will will come

[2:23:19] up with

[2:23:20] something pretty exciting well i uh i

[2:23:23] wish them all the best

[2:23:24] um we'll keep you posted yeah yeah um

[2:23:28] joking aside this this it is a a you

[2:23:31] know a public health

[2:23:32] issue it is an issue and i do recall not

[2:23:36] to

[2:23:36] switch topics on everyone but um there

[2:23:39] have been concerns

[2:23:40] with the um the new civic center the

[2:23:43] town town center project

[2:23:45] with as much lawn as we're going to have

[2:23:47] there and somebody

[2:23:48] somewhere years ago said that there was

[2:23:50] actually a type of grass you could plant

[2:23:53] that the geese were not in favor of or

[2:23:55] didn't like or

[2:23:57] i i don't know um so i i would i think that maybe we can maybe the

[2:24:03] developer can look into that and go talk

[2:24:05] to the sixth seventh and eighth graders

[2:24:06] so

[2:24:07] joe we'll put that on your plate you can

[2:24:10] go talk to the sixth seventh and eighth

[2:24:11] graders

[2:24:13] and see see what they have coming along

[2:24:15] but

[2:24:16] um it is it is an issue so i i

[2:24:18] appreciate that and

[2:24:19] let's keep working on it um also uh

[2:24:22] i i would echo council member tessier's

[2:24:24] comments in another

[2:24:26] way in that this has been a long time

[2:24:28] coming for those of you who've been

[2:24:29] around a while

[2:24:30] um there was i won't say a problem

[2:24:33] getting the parks done that's a little

[2:24:34] too strong

[2:24:35] but it did seem like the timeline became

[2:24:39] clutchy how's that for a phrase and so

[2:24:43] it's it's very exciting to see this uh

[2:24:46] to see this last park and arista come to

[2:24:49] fruition so

[2:24:50] i support this i i appreciate the

[2:24:52] developers thoughtful changes to the

[2:24:54] plan

[2:24:55] and in response to planning and zoning's

[2:24:58] comments so um i think that's all i have

[2:25:02] just go sixth seventh and eighth graders

[2:25:05] thank you

[2:25:09] council member councilman i'll ask you

[2:25:11] is my daughter coordinates a lot of this

[2:25:13] stuff leslie have you been to one of

[2:25:14] those uh stem deals

[2:25:15] where they tackle the projects no i have

[2:25:19] not

[2:25:19] i didn't know such a thing existed my

[2:25:21] daughter's been doing this for 10 years

[2:25:23] those kids are pretty darn amazing i

[2:25:25] i'll just make a um

[2:25:27] a peach for problem-based learning and

[2:25:29] middle middle-aged students on behalf of

[2:25:31] my

[2:25:31] daughter leslie so councilmember they're

[2:25:33] certainly tackling a real world problem

[2:25:36] with this one

[2:25:37] yep councilmember groom

[2:25:42] certainly give me one second i'm i was

[2:25:46] off doing uh

[2:25:47] a few emails here i gotta get to my

[2:25:49] notes sorry

[2:25:52] you'd like to go to somebody else um

[2:25:54] i'll go with councilmember

[2:25:56] thanks uh thanks mayor

[2:25:59] um so uh you know getting back to the

[2:26:02] development at hand you know i'm glad to

[2:26:04] see the park has moved away from

[2:26:06] wattsworth boulevard

[2:26:08] and to the east along destination drive

[2:26:10] and parkland street

[2:26:11] this is a much better location for this

[2:26:13] park and i'm and i'm

[2:26:15] appreciative for the thoughtful design

[2:26:17] by the applicant

[2:26:18] i do appreciate the work by the uh uh by

[2:26:22] the applicant following the planning and

[2:26:23] zoning hearing

[2:26:24] i think these changes were necessary for

[2:26:27] my consideration

[2:26:28] for approval tonight so i'm glad to see

[2:26:30] the applicant worked

[2:26:31] uh with those suggestions uh by the

[2:26:33] planning and zoning and made those

[2:26:35] updates

[2:26:36] um the one concern i have on this

[2:26:39] uh and and i'm hoping that we'll be um

[2:26:42] answered by our our staff is on those

[2:26:45] turf areas

[2:26:46] uh will parks and recreation be

[2:26:47] utilizing these large turf areas that

[2:26:50] are on this park

[2:26:55] thank you council member shaft um i

[2:26:57] don't believe

[2:26:59] um that this is going to be used for

[2:27:01] programming and

[2:27:02] uh planner joshua olhava has just

[2:27:04] confirmed that for me that

[2:27:05] um yes our our parks department does not

[2:27:08] intend to use this for programming

[2:27:10] okay so i'll ask the developers do you

[2:27:12] have any uh planned programming for

[2:27:14] these large

[2:27:15] turf areas on this park

[2:27:18] no so uh they're just they're just

[2:27:22] passive turf areas

[2:27:23] is the primary purpose yes okay

[2:27:27] all right well i i sorry i could add one

[2:27:30] thing

[2:27:30] they are available if um the neighboring

[2:27:34] communities

[2:27:34] you know want to organize something or

[2:27:37] um

[2:27:38] you know they're they're available for

[2:27:40] all to use and to program as as to their individual

[2:27:45] needs i guess on the unofficially

[2:27:47] program

[2:27:48] okay all right well i i i hope they're

[2:27:51] utilized i hope that turf doesn't just

[2:27:53] sit there and collect uh

[2:27:54] irrigation water um i hope they are

[2:27:57] utilized um

[2:27:58] and i guess we'll see as as the uh park

[2:28:01] um

[2:28:01] is built and and is utilized in the

[2:28:03] future so thank you

[2:28:05] yeah uh mr mayor can i respond to that

[2:28:09] yes you may yeah i hope so too uh

[2:28:12] council member shout because uh this was

[2:28:14] a change

[2:28:15] that was requested plenty of zoning they

[2:28:17] wanted to

[2:28:18] see the large turf we felt like

[2:28:21] the trail going through would be a

[2:28:23] better use

[2:28:25] but they wanted to see it so i'm in

[2:28:27] agreement i hope it gets used as well

[2:28:29] because i wasn't in favor of this change

[2:28:31] well and and and i don't know if our

[2:28:33] staff can answer that um

[2:28:35] but usually the reason that we don't

[2:28:37] have trails go through the middle of a

[2:28:38] large turf area is because

[2:28:40] of fields and the ability for our

[2:28:41] recreation staff to utilize those fields

[2:28:43] so

[2:28:44] it's it's surprising to me that planning

[2:28:45] and zoning our staff would request

[2:28:47] uh trails not to intersect that large

[2:28:49] turf area and then not be able to

[2:28:51] program those areas

[2:29:00] i think that was a comment so i'll go to

[2:29:02] councilmember groom

[2:29:04] thank you i'm sorry for the delay mayor

[2:29:06] um i just had a couple comments

[2:29:08] a compliment on the design i really like

[2:29:11] it

[2:29:12] i have spent a significant amount of

[2:29:15] time in that area walking my dogs with

[2:29:16] my son

[2:29:17] um since he lived up there for a while

[2:29:20] and an extra dog park is definitely

[2:29:23] needed

[2:29:23] uh there's there's a lot of um

[2:29:26] pet friendly residents and a high

[2:29:29] population high density in that area so

[2:29:32] i am very excited to see even the two

[2:29:34] separate dog parks

[2:29:36] between the small dog and and the larger

[2:29:38] dog

[2:29:39] um and the only upgrade or comment i

[2:29:42] would like to see

[2:29:43] is some more seating um one of the

[2:29:45] things i find

[2:29:46] when i go to um a lot of the parks even

[2:29:49] in the rest of broomfield and i know

[2:29:51] um city manager hoffman and i have

[2:29:53] talked about it before

[2:29:54] is is really just enhancing seating area

[2:29:58] all across broomfield

[2:29:59] um and and not just little uh park

[2:30:02] benches but those

[2:30:04] face-to-face kind of chairs that that

[2:30:06] sit next to each other or even

[2:30:08] incorporating

[2:30:09] um art or arc or design

[2:30:13] into that that seating to enhance the

[2:30:15] area

[2:30:16] so um love the design that's the only

[2:30:18] comment i have thank you very much

[2:30:24] okay um so um you know i was just thinking about the

[2:30:29] grass area you know the uh

[2:30:31] i guess what i envisioned because

[2:30:32] they're the people there don't have

[2:30:33] yards

[2:30:35] and i you know i don't have a yard you

[2:30:37] know and and so i pictured

[2:30:40] you know moms and daughters and dads and

[2:30:42] sons out there

[2:30:43] throwing the ball unprogrammed stuff on

[2:30:45] you know park type land and then

[2:30:46] wiffle ball does p do people play wiffle

[2:30:48] ball anymore

[2:30:50] my kids and i used to play wiffle ball a

[2:30:51] lot and it seems having a grass so i kind of like the unprogrammed grass

[2:30:56] area for uh particularly because the the

[2:30:59] people don't have don't have yards so

[2:31:00] we'll move into uh we will move into

[2:31:06] uh we'll close out the public hearing uh

[2:31:08] there be no further comments the public

[2:31:10] hearing

[2:31:11] the four

[2:31:14] make sure i'm at the right place here i

[2:31:16] was there be no further comments the

[2:31:18] public hearing before the city council

[2:31:20] here with renewable authority is closed

[2:31:22] first is council's consideration of

[2:31:23] proposed resolution number 20 21-13

[2:31:26] will the clerk please read proposed

[2:31:28] resolution number 2020-13 by title

[2:31:35] resolution number 2021-13

[2:31:38] approving the broomfield urban transit

[2:31:41] village

[2:31:42] filing number four re-flat b lot two

[2:31:45] site development plan and improvement

[2:31:47] agreement

[2:31:48] council ever grown

[2:31:52] i mean number 2021-13 be adopted

[2:31:56] councilmember tessier

[2:31:59] second uh is there any further

[2:32:02] discussion

[2:32:06] will the clerk please call the role

[2:32:21] yes thank you well yes chef yes anderson

[2:32:36] yes it uh passes unanimously

[2:32:43] uh next is the authorities consideration

[2:32:46] of proposal resolution number 20 dash

[2:32:49] 2020-14-ur uh will the curt please read

[2:32:52] proposed resolution number 20 21-14 dish

[2:32:56] you are by title

[2:32:59] resolution number 2021-14-ur approving

[2:33:03] the proposed

[2:33:04] brute-filled urban transit village

[2:33:06] filing number four

[2:33:08] reflecting lot two urban renewal site

[2:33:11] plan

[2:33:13] is there a motion

[2:33:17] council member groom i mean that

[2:33:20] resolution number

[2:33:22] 2021-14 dash you are be adopted

[2:33:25] councilmember tessier second is there

[2:33:28] any further discussion

[2:33:32] will the clerk please call the role

[2:33:38] yes yes

[2:33:46] bless i'm sorry lynn yes

[2:33:50] lenses yes chad

[2:33:54] yes pepe yes

[2:33:58] anderson yes yes

[2:34:08] it passes unanimously so we'll now move

[2:34:10] on to uh thank you joe and the applicant

[2:34:15] uh so good luck with the your eighth

[2:34:18] parka i heard it was the eighth park

[2:34:20] so that's correct thank you very much

[2:34:23] good night thank you very much our next

[2:34:26] item under

[2:34:27] council business this evening is

[2:34:28] castle's consideration of proposed

[2:34:30] resolution

[2:34:31] number 2021-3 approving an

[2:34:34] intergovernmental agreement between

[2:34:35] broomfield and the colorado energy

[2:34:37] office

[2:34:38] for the energy performance contract

[2:34:40] program council has a copy

[2:34:42] of the agenda memorandum which staff

[2:34:44] will summarize

[2:34:46] thank you mayor and council dan casey uh

[2:34:50] director of health and human services

[2:34:52] will walk us through this item dan

[2:34:57] oh it's tammy oh my gosh

[2:35:01] my apologies i'm i'm out of order um

[2:35:06] out of logistical order tammy please

[2:35:09] walk us through

[2:35:10] thank you good evening uh andrew valdez

[2:35:13] from our

[2:35:14] department is going to present this item

[2:35:16] andrew are you

[2:35:18] i am and thank you i thought i was off

[2:35:20] the hook for a second there

[2:35:24] good evening mayor and council so i want

[2:35:26] to speak briefly

[2:35:27] on the energy performance contracting or

[2:35:30] epc

[2:35:31] program and clarify any remaining

[2:35:32] questions on how the program works

[2:35:35] and why this was a priority for the ac

[2:35:37] sustainability committee

[2:35:39] uh next slice please

[2:35:42] so the ultimate purpose of the program

[2:35:44] is to reduce

[2:35:45] broomfield's overall municipal energy

[2:35:47] load

[2:35:48] and by by extension our utility bills

[2:35:51] right

[2:35:52] so by auditing and upgrading systems

[2:35:55] and uh boom field buildings

[2:35:59] the investment grade audit will reveal

[2:36:02] upgrades and retrofits

[2:36:03] that will have impact on our energy

[2:36:05] loads so at this point

[2:36:07] we have looked at broomfield buildings

[2:36:10] with public works and our facility staff

[2:36:12] and identified 10 potential candidates

[2:36:15] that are ripe for this for this audit

[2:36:19] this is based on age and energy use

[2:36:22] intensity as a function of how big the

[2:36:24] buildings actually are

[2:36:26] so why did we choose epc

[2:36:29] first because brimfield has committed to

[2:36:31] lead by example

[2:36:32] in the sustainability space and what

[2:36:35] better way to showcase

[2:36:36] leadership than doing high visibility

[2:36:37] projects in public buildings

[2:36:39] second the program will make substantial

[2:36:41] progress towards our adopted greenhouse

[2:36:43] gas reduction goals

[2:36:45] as a municipal government just to remind

[2:36:48] everyone our first goal year our first

[2:36:50] benchmark is 2025

[2:36:51] we have committed to a 30 reduction from

[2:36:54] our 2017 baseline

[2:36:57] and third long term the program is

[2:36:59] revenue positive

[2:37:01] so the graphic on this slide uh

[2:37:03] illustrates this point on the left we have

[2:37:07] broomfield's full energy load and

[2:37:10] associated costs

[2:37:12] the audit then helps identify projects

[2:37:14] that will lead to savings

[2:37:16] those savings are then used to finance

[2:37:18] the debt

[2:37:20] once the finance period is over we are

[2:37:22] actually able to keep the savings right

[2:37:25] so i do want to point out that we are

[2:37:27] under no obligation to use the finance

[2:37:29] mechanism

[2:37:30] we can simply procure the audit and fund

[2:37:32] the upgrades to regular

[2:37:33] through our regular capital improvement

[2:37:35] programs

[2:37:36] uh we can go as fast as slow as we want

[2:37:38] with this with the recommended upgrades

[2:37:40] obviously the higher impact uh upgrades

[2:37:43] will be prioritized

[2:37:44] and all of this is a council's

[2:37:46] discretion and then finally the cost of

[2:37:48] the audit can be rolled into the finance

[2:37:50] package

[2:37:51] so the upfront outlay that we're

[2:37:52] committing to tonight

[2:37:55] can also be offset

[2:37:58] uh next slide please so

[2:38:01] uh this is just a timeline slide uh

[2:38:04] currently we're at step one

[2:38:05] where we would make the client

[2:38:07] commitment through the iga proposed in

[2:38:09] front of you with the state

[2:38:11] then we procure a qualified esco

[2:38:14] or energy services company through a

[2:38:16] competitive rfp process

[2:38:20] and they help us through the audit

[2:38:23] identify projects and savings

[2:38:25] and then there's the implementation

[2:38:28] phase

[2:38:29] again these are all account council's

[2:38:32] discretion

[2:38:33] so ongoing throughout the lifetime of

[2:38:35] the project is measurement

[2:38:36] and verification of the savings this is

[2:38:38] actually key to the success of the

[2:38:40] program

[2:38:41] since the esco has to guarantee us the

[2:38:43] savings for at least three years

[2:38:45] they are bound to ensure the projects

[2:38:47] accomplish their intended savings

[2:38:49] this also helps with reporting and

[2:38:51] tracking our municipal goals

[2:38:53] so staff's recommendation and conclusion

[2:38:55] is that we proceed with this program and

[2:38:57] sign the iga with the state

[2:38:59] to begin the process we're also

[2:39:02] available for any questions and i

[2:39:03] believe some members of aces are also

[2:39:06] on the line to answer some questions

[2:39:11] okay we'll go to uh public comments next

[2:39:15] um i lost that screen uh if there's uh

[2:39:20] if there's anybody that wants to make

[2:39:21] public comments uh please press star three and state

[2:39:26] your name first last name and

[2:39:28] neighborhood for the record

[2:39:29] um i'm not seeing anybody that's uh

[2:39:32] that's on the queue so we will uh

[2:39:35] we'll move then to questions from

[2:39:37] council members are there comments or

[2:39:39] questions from city council

[2:39:41] please raise your hand and you'll be

[2:39:43] identified

[2:39:47] councilmember groom hi thank you

[2:39:51] um great presentation i'll make it super

[2:39:53] quick

[2:39:54] um one of the things that i wanted to do

[2:39:57] is ask a question and make a statement

[2:39:59] about this

[2:40:00] um i know the state has

[2:40:04] i believe it's called ee3

[2:40:07] or e3 eee they hired

[2:40:11] to do a lot of the road mapping is that

[2:40:14] something that we should

[2:40:15] also tap into as would we be looking at

[2:40:19] them

[2:40:19] as our road mapping consultant or is

[2:40:22] this something completely different than

[2:40:23] what that e3 consulting does for the

[2:40:25] state

[2:40:27] that's that's a good question uh so

[2:40:31] this is in relationship to the the state

[2:40:34] road map

[2:40:35] document right so we want to

[2:40:39] develop internally uh

[2:40:43] unless you guys want to give us more

[2:40:44] money uh

[2:40:46] a greenhouse gas uh road map

[2:40:49] with specific uh recommendations

[2:40:52] specific policy recommendations

[2:40:54] with the return on environment and

[2:40:55] return on investment

[2:40:57] vetted uh in that in that document and

[2:41:00] that was something that we had uh

[2:41:02] envisioned

[2:41:02] as developing internally with our new

[2:41:05] sustainability manager camille pollan

[2:41:07] um this is a

[2:41:10] uh so this energy performance

[2:41:13] contracting

[2:41:14] proposal uh and and resolution

[2:41:17] is sort of the lowest of the low hanging

[2:41:19] fruit uh

[2:41:20] it's the easiest win that we can get

[2:41:23] it offsets our greenhouse gas uh

[2:41:27] footprint and it's also revenue positive

[2:41:29] in the long term

[2:41:30] so this is kind of the no-brainer in the full

[2:41:34] spectrum of the menu of options we do

[2:41:37] have

[2:41:38] um the idea going forward with our

[2:41:41] greenhouse gas

[2:41:42] roadmap and plan is that we would have a

[2:41:44] document

[2:41:45] um prioritizing short-term and long-term

[2:41:48] goals

[2:41:49] for uh city and county of broomfield to

[2:41:52] pursue

[2:41:53] um and again i think this was something

[2:41:56] that we had intended to do

[2:41:58] internally uh but but again like i said

[2:42:01] if you want

[2:42:02] uh to fund to fund a consultant we would

[2:42:06] not turn down the money

[2:42:08] there's two more no i was i was hoping

[2:42:11] to get synergy and pay less

[2:42:14] but um no that was just a question thank

[2:42:17] you mr valdez

[2:42:19] for the answer and um just a comment i

[2:42:21] would have to say back in

[2:42:24] 2016 i believe we paid for a similar

[2:42:28] study for

[2:42:29] housing and i'm not quite sure if we got

[2:42:32] the full

[2:42:33] we implemented the full value of that

[2:42:36] housing

[2:42:37] um the gap study that we did and i and i

[2:42:39] want to make sure

[2:42:41] that when we pay this 95 000 for this

[2:42:44] program that it is for

[2:42:46] like you were saying those multiple

[2:42:47] years that strategic

[2:42:49] plan um that will guide us all the way

[2:42:52] through because i believe what happened and i'm sure

[2:42:54] council member tessier can correct me

[2:42:56] but

[2:42:56] things move so quickly after we got done

[2:42:59] with that

[2:43:00] um study that it i wouldn't say it

[2:43:02] became obsolete but we just didn't get

[2:43:04] the meat for it that we paid

[2:43:06] so i want to make sure that this one we

[2:43:08] do have that strategic plan coming out

[2:43:11] of it

[2:43:12] that multi-year strategic plan so that's

[2:43:14] just a comment and something i'll be watching out for

[2:43:17] thank you mr valdez for the question or

[2:43:19] the answer and

[2:43:20] that's all i had mayor councilmember law

[2:43:23] evans

[2:43:24] yes staff can you put the graphic of the timeline back up that lovely diagram

[2:43:31] those flight two uh i don't know

[2:43:35] maybe no it was i was telling i see

[2:43:37] sorry oh okay all right fair enough

[2:43:39] yes wow

[2:43:42] uh if we can get that back up i um

[2:43:48] okay here it comes uh no next one i

[2:43:51] think it was

[2:43:53] yes that's the one the energy

[2:43:54] performance contracting timeline yes

[2:43:57] that's the one and i and i have to say i

[2:44:00] um i

[2:44:01] really appreciate this process the way

[2:44:04] it's

[2:44:04] outlined because it is it there are

[2:44:07] discrete

[2:44:08] ete not eet discrete

[2:44:11] steps separate steps um and at each

[2:44:15] step the public has hasn't will have i

[2:44:18] assume

[2:44:18] an opportunity to comment on the

[2:44:22] uh the the implementation or the next step basically how what comes

[2:44:29] out of it and how we move along

[2:44:31] one of the one of my very large

[2:44:35] fears with this entire program

[2:44:39] has always been that we have never

[2:44:42] done we've never gotten an estimate of

[2:44:44] how much this is

[2:44:45] ultimately going to cost taxpayers

[2:44:48] um and i uh i

[2:44:51] am of the opinion that um

[2:44:53] [Music]

[2:44:56] i i'm i'm unwilling to commit

[2:44:59] a lot of taxpayer money any taxpayer

[2:45:01] money without an idea of how much it is

[2:45:05] along along the way and i think that

[2:45:06] this step-by-step framework

[2:45:08] this timeline that you all have laid out

[2:45:10] is very very helpful

[2:45:12] in in going going through that so um

[2:45:16] even though i did not receive what i

[2:45:18] asked for when we originally adopted the

[2:45:19] goals some time ago

[2:45:21] or a year ago or whatever it was uh i

[2:45:23] didn't i never did receive any kind of a financial estimate

[2:45:29] a ballpark of are we talking millions

[2:45:32] are we talking tens of millions

[2:45:34] are we talking hundreds of millions um

[2:45:37] that

[2:45:38] answer or maybe plural those

[2:45:42] answers are built into this timeline and

[2:45:45] this framework that you put together

[2:45:47] so i very much appreciate that um and i do want to make sure that as as we go

[2:45:53] through this

[2:45:54] that the public has an op we'll have an

[2:45:56] opportunity to comment

[2:45:58] on what could be some very large ticket

[2:46:02] items especially once we once we grab

[2:46:05] that low hanging fruit so

[2:46:07] um i guess i guess that's that's a

[2:46:10] question

[2:46:11] where at what steps

[2:46:15] will decisions be required by city

[2:46:17] council that will come

[2:46:19] um and be available for public comment

[2:46:21] where

[2:46:23] thank you for that so so the audit is

[2:46:25] sort of

[2:46:26] the first step as you can see so we

[2:46:29] would do this

[2:46:30] uh solicitation for the uh energy

[2:46:33] service company

[2:46:34] and then the the audit is really where

[2:46:38] we get to the nuts and bolts

[2:46:40] of what are the recommendations how much

[2:46:42] do they cost

[2:46:43] and what does the financial package look

[2:46:45] like

[2:46:46] um and you know again i'll

[2:46:50] reiterate all the projects uh

[2:46:53] i mean we are not bound by by any

[2:46:56] agreement

[2:46:57] uh to use to do any of the projects to

[2:47:01] use a financing mechanism to do anything

[2:47:04] beyond the audit at this point the audit

[2:47:07] just identifies

[2:47:09] where we where the savings could be

[2:47:11] right and then it's council's

[2:47:12] prerogative and we can also integrate i

[2:47:15] think a public engagement component here

[2:47:17] uh to um look at where those targeted

[2:47:21] investments could be

[2:47:23] and then what the liabilities would look

[2:47:26] like

[2:47:26] for the taxpayer yes i would i would

[2:47:30] appreciate that

[2:47:31] um yes i vote for

[2:47:34] public engagement and public comment as

[2:47:37] we move through this process so

[2:47:39] uh thank you very much for bringing this

[2:47:41] framework forward i appreciate it very

[2:47:43] much

[2:47:44] i think that's all i've got mr mayor

[2:47:53] um aaron did you want to respond back to

[2:47:57] a comment or

[2:47:58] question yeah i was just hoping to have

[2:48:01] the opportunity to

[2:48:02] uh to reply to councilmember law evans

[2:48:05] real quick

[2:48:06] that's okay it's okay go ahead

[2:48:10] yeah um so first of all i'm glad you're

[2:48:12] happy with this process

[2:48:13] i'm happy with this process and i know

[2:48:15] you are not uh

[2:48:16] able to attend the meeting when we when

[2:48:19] we pass the goals

[2:48:21] and i just kind of wanted to let you

[2:48:23] know that your your concerns were were

[2:48:25] not ignored we chose to pass

[2:48:27] aspirational goals and bring each

[2:48:30] individual project

[2:48:31] before council so that we we have the

[2:48:34] opportunity to get council feedback

[2:48:36] before

[2:48:37] we spend any money um and and we pass

[2:48:40] those goals as aspirational goals

[2:48:43] so i just kind of wanted wanted to

[2:48:44] reassure you that you know we we are

[2:48:46] taking those concerns

[2:48:48] uh to heart on on the committee and i'm

[2:48:51] glad that the process that we're

[2:48:52] bringing before you

[2:48:54] uh is is sufficient and that you like it

[2:48:57] i hope this is a good opportunity to

[2:48:59] continue to work together

[2:49:02] i appreciate that thank you very much

[2:49:05] councilmember lim um i just wanted to

[2:49:07] take a second to thank

[2:49:09] our aces staff for their research

[2:49:13] on the epc program and also the aces

[2:49:17] committee

[2:49:18] having been in most of those meetings

[2:49:21] where we have discussed the epc process

[2:49:25] the the committee and staff have done a

[2:49:28] significant amount of background

[2:49:30] research

[2:49:31] talking to communities who have

[2:49:33] implemented this

[2:49:34] talking to previous state officials who

[2:49:37] have worked with this program

[2:49:39] so we really have vetted this epc

[2:49:42] program

[2:49:43] quite a bit before it was brought to

[2:49:46] council and there was also

[2:49:48] interfacing with other staff in other

[2:49:51] departments

[2:49:52] to make sure that the 10 buildings that

[2:49:54] were being identified

[2:49:56] as most likely to re be you know

[2:50:00] to benefit from the um the program

[2:50:04] were identified clearly so there was a

[2:50:06] lot a lot of background work and i wanted to thank everyone for that

[2:50:11] thank you councilmember tessier

[2:50:15] thanks um ditto on what councilmember

[2:50:18] lim just shared and just wanted to

[2:50:21] reiterate that this is also an

[2:50:23] investment in our community this is

[2:50:25] something that we've been talking about

[2:50:27] for decades and it's really nice to see

[2:50:30] this come to fruition

[2:50:32] we had the the aces team the right

[2:50:35] people at the right

[2:50:36] place at the right time and so grateful

[2:50:38] for their hard work i also wanted to

[2:50:42] mention that you know there's

[2:50:44] opportunities for a lot of grants

[2:50:46] and that andrew

[2:50:50] and tammy are go-getters and they're looking for all the grant

[2:50:54] opportunities that they can get

[2:50:56] and also looking at um

[2:50:59] you know just how quickly technology

[2:51:01] changes

[2:51:03] and so having it this way we

[2:51:06] you know the aces team and staff were

[2:51:09] are very aware of

[2:51:10] you know what we put in place today may

[2:51:12] not you know necessarily work in five

[2:51:14] years and to have that flexibility with

[2:51:16] the technology is is super

[2:51:19] important so

[2:51:21] um kudos and way to go

[2:51:26] councilmember anderson thank you yeah i

[2:51:29] assure that appreciation for

[2:51:30] aces and um this was brought forward

[2:51:33] over a year ago

[2:51:34] so um i i was not involved in all steps

[2:51:37] that councilmember lim

[2:51:38] was referring to but i very much

[2:51:40] appreciate those efforts and i'm also

[2:51:41] wondering

[2:51:42] if um aaron or you could speak a little

[2:51:45] bit to

[2:51:46] this program as i understood it um at

[2:51:49] the first meeting back in 2019 i think

[2:51:52] it was like

[2:51:53] february 2019 it's actually a

[2:51:56] revenue neutral program or can be a

[2:51:58] revenue neutral program

[2:52:00] where you um some of the changes are

[2:52:02] going to

[2:52:03] the energy offsets are going to uh

[2:52:05] create

[2:52:06] more revenue or additional savings more

[2:52:08] um that can be then used for

[2:52:11] some of the more expensive changes like

[2:52:12] a boiler or something is that

[2:52:16] perhaps andrew could address that yeah

[2:52:18] so could we go to slide two

[2:52:26] uh

[2:52:30] perfect okay so um

[2:52:32] [Music]

[2:52:33] the the so you see the chart on the left

[2:52:37] that bar chart represents essentially

[2:52:39] our total energy load or our total

[2:52:41] energy cost

[2:52:42] the the audit helps identify that kind

[2:52:45] of first

[2:52:46] box on the top there so unidentified

[2:52:48] savings potential

[2:52:51] so so again the audit is the first step

[2:52:54] then we do

[2:52:55] then we agree upon a ultimately this

[2:52:58] program

[2:52:59] uh councilmember anderson is a it's a

[2:53:01] finance

[2:53:02] mechanism and the debt is serviced

[2:53:06] through the savings that are identified

[2:53:09] in the audit so we we determine

[2:53:12] how long that finance period actually is

[2:53:16] some communities do 10 years we can make

[2:53:18] it all the way out to 25 years if we

[2:53:20] want

[2:53:21] and throughout that that finance

[2:53:23] increment those savings

[2:53:25] actually go to service the debt so

[2:53:26] there's no money there's no

[2:53:28] extra money that broomfield spending

[2:53:31] during that finance increment

[2:53:33] at the end when our finance increment

[2:53:36] ends our debt services

[2:53:38] is totally satisfied whatever savings

[2:53:41] that we have those those

[2:53:45] just accrue to broomfield so we just

[2:53:47] keep

[2:53:48] what whatever efficiencies and reduced

[2:53:51] liability that we have

[2:53:53] for our for our uh utility bills

[2:53:57] and and again i'll reiterate the the

[2:54:00] upfront costs

[2:54:01] of uh paying for the audit

[2:54:05] and also actually be rolled into the

[2:54:08] finance

[2:54:09] vehicle for this entire thing and

[2:54:12] you know i i i hope that's clear but

[2:54:15] what we're going to do as we continue to

[2:54:17] engage with the state energy office on

[2:54:19] this program

[2:54:20] so we'll do constant updates and checks

[2:54:23] about

[2:54:24] how this actually impacts broomfield but

[2:54:27] for now for the short term the only

[2:54:29] budgetary impact is the outlay for

[2:54:31] the uh for the audit

[2:54:35] does that uh does that answer your

[2:54:37] question councilmember

[2:54:38] uh anderson yes thank you and i just

[2:54:40] want to i

[2:54:41] also want to make sure that um everyone

[2:54:43] console understands that this isn't going to the way that

[2:54:48] this

[2:54:49] program is laid out it's not going to

[2:54:51] cost us all that money and while we're doing this financing

[2:54:55] mechanism as you described it and making

[2:54:57] all these energy improvements we're

[2:54:58] reducing our greenhouse gas emissions

[2:55:00] and making

[2:55:01] improvements that you know come they're

[2:55:03] kind of coming for free alongside this

[2:55:05] program

[2:55:06] so i i very much support this and i am

[2:55:09] so happy that it's moving forward thank

[2:55:11] you for everyone's efforts

[2:55:17] and i think aaron wants to come out

[2:55:19] again

[2:55:21] yeah um i also just kind of want to

[2:55:24] reiterate something and also extend my

[2:55:26] thank you to tammy and andrew and

[2:55:29] camille and eileen and all the staff

[2:55:31] help on this

[2:55:32] one of the other things that's really

[2:55:34] important is that we're only going to

[2:55:37] lose the 95 000

[2:55:40] in the event that they

[2:55:43] identify 95 000 worth of savings and we

[2:55:47] choose not to take it

[2:55:49] um so the initial outlay is the cost of

[2:55:52] the audit

[2:55:53] but the cost of the audit actually gets

[2:55:55] rolled into the cost it gets deducted

[2:55:57] from the costs of the upgrades

[2:55:59] as long as we choose to go forward with

[2:56:02] economic upgrades

[2:56:03] so i think it's important to recognize

[2:56:06] that this

[2:56:07] is is revenue neutral even

[2:56:10] including the 95 000 that we're asking

[2:56:13] for

[2:56:14] today

[2:56:18] thank you for that clarification uh

[2:56:21] um is there any other questions or

[2:56:24] comments from uh

[2:56:26] council otherwise we'll go to our

[2:56:28] consideration of proposed resolution

[2:56:30] number 20 21-3

[2:56:32] intergovernmental agreements require

[2:56:34] affirmative votes of two-thirds of the

[2:56:36] entire council

[2:56:37] will the kirk please read proposed

[2:56:39] resolution number 2021-3

[2:56:43] by title resolution number 2021-3

[2:56:49] authorizing and approving an

[2:56:50] intergovernmental agreement by and

[2:56:52] between the city and county of

[2:56:53] broomfield

[2:56:54] and the colorado energy office for the

[2:56:57] energy performance contract

[2:56:58] program is there a motion

[2:57:04] councilmember lamb i move that

[2:57:07] resolution

[2:57:08] number 2021-3 be adopted

[2:57:11] counselor anderson second

[2:57:15] any uh any further discussion

[2:57:18] uh will the clerk please call the role

[2:57:23] get thursday

[2:57:26] yes law evan

[2:57:30] yes lem yes graham yes

[2:57:52] pinkle yes

[2:57:57] it uh passes unanimously so

[2:57:59] congratulations thank you aces group and tammy and andrew appreciate the

[2:58:04] presentation and good luck

[2:58:05] we're all looking forward to seeing you

[2:58:07] come back you know we all look forward

[2:58:08] to seeing come back and hear the results

[2:58:10] so thank you very much

[2:58:11] thank you so our final line item under

[2:58:13] council business this evening is

[2:58:15] council's consideration

[2:58:16] uh three proposed resolutions regarding

[2:58:19] agreements with three non-profit

[2:58:20] partners

[2:58:21] imagine mental health partners and

[2:58:23] broomfield fish

[2:58:25] council has a copy of the agenda

[2:58:27] memorandum which i will ask staff to summarize thank you mayor and

[2:58:32] council

[2:58:33] now we are on to dan casey

[2:58:36] director of human services dan

[2:58:40] um thanks manager hoffman and good

[2:58:42] evening mayor mayor pro tem and members

[2:58:44] of council i'm dan casey director of

[2:58:46] human services

[2:58:47] and i'm here before you today to quickly

[2:58:49] present to you

[2:58:50] uh three resolutions for the agreements

[2:58:52] with imagine mental health partners

[2:58:54] and phil fish as you may

[2:58:58] know or you may not know we'll talk

[2:59:00] about that tonight local non-profit

[2:59:01] agencies that wish to receive grant from

[2:59:03] grant funds from the city and county for

[2:59:06] public purchase

[2:59:07] public purposes of supporting the health

[2:59:09] welfare

[2:59:12] and human services of broomfield

[2:59:14] residents must apply through the health

[2:59:15] and human services department

[2:59:17] uh city council for the 2021 budget

[2:59:20] approved our grant in the amount of

[2:59:22] 1.5 million dollars we had 33 non-profit

[2:59:26] agencies submit grant applications

[2:59:28] requesting a total of just

[2:59:29] over 2.2 million dollars for this year

[2:59:32] that includes imagine's request of 948

[2:59:35] 000

[2:59:36] and i'll reference that here in a second

[2:59:39] uh

[2:59:39] it's recommended that imagine be awarded

[2:59:41] five hundred and forty one thousand

[2:59:42] three hundred and fifty eight dollars

[2:59:44] and twenty cents

[2:59:45] mental health partners be awarded two

[2:59:47] hundred and ten thousand dollars

[2:59:49] and broomfield fish be awarded one

[2:59:51] hundred and thirteen thousand four

[2:59:52] hundred dollars for twenty twenty one

[2:59:55] uh just so you know the the process

[2:59:58] uh once we received the applications

[3:00:00] those were submitted in september

[3:00:02] they were received by our department in

[3:00:04] the middle of october

[3:00:05] and then we have a review committee that

[3:00:07] scores all 32 of those miscellaneous

[3:00:10] grant applications the reason that

[3:00:12] imagine

[3:00:13] is called out separately on this

[3:00:15] particular presentation is that

[3:00:17] they are not subject to the same

[3:00:19] application process as our other

[3:00:20] non-profits

[3:00:22] and that's because imagine serves as

[3:00:23] broomfield's community center board

[3:00:26] and they serve they're contracted by the

[3:00:28] state to provide that service and they

[3:00:29] serve

[3:00:30] uh individuals with intellectual and

[3:00:32] disavow mental disabilities

[3:00:34] i'm sorry developmental disabilities

[3:00:36] it's easier to say before 9 pm i think

[3:00:40] so they're not subject to this

[3:00:41] application review their request and their dollar amount is

[3:00:47] to be reviewed by council so

[3:00:49] that concludes my quick presentation and

[3:00:52] i'm happy to answer any questions

[3:00:56] we'll go to public comments

[3:00:59] um if there's anybody for the public uh

[3:01:02] i would like to be heard

[3:01:04] please press three uh and state your

[3:01:08] full name and uh and uh neighborhood uh

[3:01:11] for the record

[3:01:12] i'm not seeing anybody in the queue

[3:01:15] there is someone mayor being screened

[3:01:17] right now sam taylor okay

[3:01:21] well tell him to hurry i'm kidding

[3:01:24] sam's a friend sam without sam we don't

[3:01:28] need to wait for him

[3:01:30] he'll be okay training

[3:01:39] uh sam uh please state your full name

[3:01:43] and your neighborhood for the record and

[3:01:45] you have three minutes

[3:01:48] i i apologize i was listening to it on

[3:01:50] the computer

[3:01:51] uh this is sam taylor with first filing

[3:01:54] i was listening to

[3:01:55] 11d and i want to thank um

[3:01:58] mr casey for the presentation these

[3:02:01] three organizations

[3:02:03] imagine mental health partners and fish

[3:02:06] had

[3:02:06] impacted our family in many ways

[3:02:09] everybody in my immediate family has

[3:02:11] either been an employee

[3:02:12] a volunteer um or

[3:02:17] even a client of one of these

[3:02:18] organizations they're all fantastic

[3:02:21] organizations

[3:02:22] and i really appreciate you supporting

[3:02:24] them tonight thank you very much

[3:02:29] thank you sam um

[3:02:32] i'm not noting anybody else uh uh you

[3:02:35] know

[3:02:35] not knowing anybody else in the queue so

[3:02:37] i will go to council uh uh comments or

[3:02:39] questions are any questions or comments

[3:02:40] from council um

[3:02:44] i'll go with councilmember tessier and

[3:02:46] then councilmember grown councilmember

[3:02:48] tessier

[3:02:50] um do i need to recuse myself at all

[3:02:53] you do um you know i it just crossed my

[3:02:56] mind when i saw that fish is one of them

[3:02:57] so

[3:02:58] whatever the resolution is for fish uh

[3:03:01] well let's go and do which one is a

[3:03:03] resolution for fish so uh

[3:03:04] we can have uh because i presume you can

[3:03:06] vote on the other two uh

[3:03:08] mayor that's resolution 20-21-10

[3:03:12] 10. so so when it comes to 20 21-10

[3:03:16] uh sharon will ask you to recuse

[3:03:18] yourself

[3:03:20] the mayor that's the third one so we can

[3:03:22] go through the first two

[3:03:23] no i get it i get it i get it i'm i'm on

[3:03:27] the same page with you uh

[3:03:28] so i'm we'll just we'll have her vote on

[3:03:30] nine on eight nine

[3:03:32] and then uh and then uh and then we'll

[3:03:34] ask her to recuse herself on ten

[3:03:36] so so casper ever grown

[3:03:40] certainly thank you thank you mr casey

[3:03:42] for a great presentation

[3:03:44] i really wanted to focus in on the uh

[3:03:47] deficit for imagine so with that kind of

[3:03:50] money

[3:03:51] um well all of them are taking a cut

[3:03:54] in the funding request but with that

[3:03:56] kind of budget

[3:03:57] um fund request what kind of services

[3:04:01] um will be reduced and and why why was it and i know you said it

[3:04:10] was a cover

[3:04:11] related thing but a half million dollars

[3:04:14] i'm really concerned about that yeah so

[3:04:17] and thank you for the question

[3:04:19] councilmember groom uh

[3:04:20] the the request for funds that we

[3:04:23] received from imagine included a lot of

[3:04:25] things that

[3:04:26] were covet related things like

[3:04:28] individual counseling sessions and

[3:04:30] zoom counseling sessions and kind of

[3:04:32] telehealth work and

[3:04:34] setting up um you know ppe for their

[3:04:38] staff and

[3:04:39] um there were a number of different

[3:04:41] things in there that weren't necessarily

[3:04:43] all service related also uh we had to

[3:04:46] make some tough decisions we had 32

[3:04:48] applications that were also requesting

[3:04:51] funds

[3:04:52] and right now imagine

[3:04:56] actually our budget for last year and

[3:04:59] our budget for this year

[3:05:00] increased by about thousand dollars

[3:05:05] about fifty six of that seventy three

[3:05:07] thousand dollars to imagine this year

[3:05:09] and

[3:05:10] uh that represented about an eleven and

[3:05:12] a half percent increase for them

[3:05:14] um it just it really came down to how

[3:05:17] much money we had

[3:05:18] in the pot for all of the services that

[3:05:20] we had applications for

[3:05:22] and also um their their request for

[3:05:25] funds from the year prior doubled

[3:05:27] there was no way that we could increase

[3:05:30] their funds by twice the amount that

[3:05:32] they had asked for that previous year

[3:05:34] um and i would i would have to go back

[3:05:36] to their actual

[3:05:38] um document that that breaks down

[3:05:40] exactly what they're requesting but i

[3:05:42] think

[3:05:42] every service line that they had

[3:05:44] increased

[3:05:46] we we asked them to re um kind of

[3:05:48] resubmit some of their numbers

[3:05:50] there were a couple of discrepancies and

[3:05:52] some of the numbers about number of

[3:05:54] clients that they would be serving

[3:05:55] but when those came back it wasn't too

[3:05:57] far below their original request and so

[3:06:00] you know that's uh the amount of money

[3:06:03] that we give imagine

[3:06:04] in this grant application is is pretty

[3:06:08] small in comparison to what they receive

[3:06:10] from other communities and also from

[3:06:12] their ability to draw down on medicaid

[3:06:14] and those type of things so

[3:06:16] i don't i don't have really a better

[3:06:18] answer for you than

[3:06:20] we really had to figure out and make

[3:06:21] some critical decisions on how we were

[3:06:23] going to divide the 1.5 million between

[3:06:25] 32 agencies

[3:06:27] sure and then another question with

[3:06:29] imagine

[3:06:30] um since they serve a lot of different

[3:06:32] communities

[3:06:33] is it prorated um by a percentage of

[3:06:37] clients or

[3:06:38] is it just um kind of a how do they know how much to ask for by

[3:06:43] for each community

[3:06:46] year after year yes and has our

[3:06:48] percentage grown

[3:06:51] um our percentage has increased slightly

[3:06:53] it hasn't grown tremendously with them

[3:06:56] it's based on the number of clients that

[3:06:58] they serve from those communities so

[3:06:59] obviously boulder county is a lot larger than we

[3:07:02] are so a lot more folks from boulder

[3:07:04] county are being served by that

[3:07:07] i would say that it really comes down to

[3:07:09] that kind of per capita right how many

[3:07:11] clients they have for each community um

[3:07:14] and then the different services that

[3:07:15] they offer

[3:07:16] so thank you

[3:07:19] and then um oh sorry i didn't mean to

[3:07:21] cut you off i just need to hurry i know

[3:07:24] my minutes are counting down

[3:07:26] i'm moving to the mental health partners

[3:07:28] um

[3:07:29] do they serve 100 100 of their services

[3:07:32] are here in broomfield right it's not

[3:07:34] like imagine

[3:07:35] uh no they actually serve multiple

[3:07:37] counties but our dollars only go

[3:07:39] towards broomfield residents okay but

[3:07:42] they're located here in broomfield

[3:07:44] uh they do have a location in broomfield

[3:07:46] yes and they have a oh okay

[3:07:48] they're they're located in all and not

[3:07:50] just broomfield okay because i know

[3:07:51] their location but i just didn't know

[3:07:54] makes sense and same question for them

[3:07:57] have they indicated

[3:07:58] any kind of service reduction

[3:08:02] um based on the the funding reduction

[3:08:05] for the broomfield facility um

[3:08:09] no so actually mental health partners

[3:08:12] received an increase over what they

[3:08:13] received last year

[3:08:16] by about 10 but a decreased to their

[3:08:20] request a decrease to their request yes

[3:08:23] and the name

[3:08:24] to what they uh asked for last year but

[3:08:26] yeah we again we gave them an increase

[3:08:28] over

[3:08:28] their 2020 funding but we could not

[3:08:31] match the

[3:08:32] total amount of requests that they had

[3:08:33] for 21.

[3:08:35] okay perfect thank you that's all i had

[3:08:38] i appreciate your presentation mr casey

[3:08:41] candy council over testing

[3:08:45] i just wanted to uh thank mandy walke

[3:08:48] and her incredible amount of time that she

[3:08:52] spent um

[3:08:53] you know reviewing and along with hsac

[3:08:56] as well

[3:08:57] dan you have a phenomenal team and um

[3:09:01] just wanted to say thank you to everyone who participated and um

[3:09:07] i didn't get a chance to say that before

[3:09:08] so i just want to make sure i said that

[3:09:10] today

[3:09:11] thank you very much okay so we will uh

[3:09:17] we will proceed with uh resolution

[3:09:20] number 2021-8

[3:09:22] uh will the kirk please read propose

[3:09:25] resolution number 20

[3:09:26] 21-8 my title

[3:09:30] number 2021-8 authorizing and approving

[3:09:33] an agreement by and between the city and

[3:09:35] county of broomfield

[3:09:36] and imagine for developmental disability

[3:09:39] services

[3:09:42] councilmember girl i move the resolution

[3:09:46] number 2021-8 be adopted

[3:09:49] counselor or mayor pro tem second

[3:09:54] is there any discussion

[3:09:57] will the clerk please call the roll

[3:10:00] well evan yes

[3:10:05] glenn yes anderson

[3:10:20] yes castriata

[3:10:24] yes grim yes

[3:10:28] ankle yes

[3:10:32] 230 yes

[3:10:36] uh it passes unanimously so let's go to

[3:10:38] uh

[3:10:39] council's consideration to propose

[3:10:41] resolution number 20 20

[3:10:43] 1-9 clerk please read proposed

[3:10:46] resolution 2020-9

[3:10:48] by title resolution number 2021-9

[3:10:53] authorizing and approving an agreement

[3:10:55] by and between the city and county of

[3:10:57] broomfield

[3:10:58] and mental health partners for mental

[3:11:00] health services

[3:11:03] mayor potem thank you mayor i moved that

[3:11:06] resolution number 2021-9 be adopted

[3:11:10] council overgrown second

[3:11:14] any further discussion

[3:11:17] will the clerk please call the role

[3:11:34] yes astrianna

[3:11:38] yes broom

[3:11:42] yes ankle

[3:11:46] yes desserty yes it passes unanimously and i think

[3:11:56] i did need to ask i think uh uh and you

[3:11:59] know for for the record for everybody

[3:12:01] councilmember tessier uh

[3:12:03] you know is uh is an employee of a fish

[3:12:07] and therefore she has recused herself

[3:12:09] and so she is not on this call at this

[3:12:11] point in time

[3:12:12] i'll let her know when it's time for her

[3:12:13] to come back so let's go ahead

[3:12:15] and have council's consideration

[3:12:17] proposed resolution number 2021-10

[3:12:25] will the clerk please read proposed

[3:12:27] resolution number 2021-10 by title

[3:12:31] resolution number 2021-10

[3:12:34] authorizing and approving an agreement

[3:12:36] by and between the city and county of

[3:12:38] brookville

[3:12:39] and broomfield fish for basic needs and

[3:12:42] self-sufficiency services

[3:12:44] mayor pro tem thank you mayor i move

[3:12:47] that resolution number 2021-10 be

[3:12:50] adopted

[3:12:52] councilmember henkel

[3:12:56] is there any further discussion uh

[3:13:00] will the clerk please call the role

[3:13:04] yes yes

[3:13:10] anderson yes castriata

[3:13:16] yes groom

[3:13:20] yes tango

[3:13:23] yes yes

[3:13:34] and it passes unanimously and we'll go

[3:13:37] ahead and

[3:13:39] invite sharon back um

[3:13:42] and i appreciate sharon for identifying

[3:13:44] that it hit me

[3:13:46] um when the name fish came up so i

[3:13:48] appreciate everybody uh doing stuff right so

[3:13:53] the uh we'll move on to the attorney's

[3:13:55] report i'm going to give sharon

[3:13:57] let's give her a few seconds so who uh

[3:14:01] jake keep an eye on sharon so she can

[3:14:03] get back in the second she uh

[3:14:05] she logs on we're watching for

[3:14:09] okay and it's all going i'll introduce

[3:14:12] and i

[3:14:12] already welcomed uh ms rogers to

[3:14:16] broomfield's new city county attorneys

[3:14:17] and so her very first city and county

[3:14:20] attorney report

[3:14:21] is next uh

[3:14:24] miss rogers do you have a report once

[3:14:26] again i'm

[3:14:29] is sharon got back on

[3:14:33] not yet

[3:14:45] i'm gonna just pause for for a few

[3:14:50] seconds

[3:14:52] she's coming right now okay she's on now

[3:14:54] okay so uh

[3:14:55] ms rogers your very first city in county

[3:14:59] attorneys report

[3:15:02] thank you it's good to see everyone

[3:15:05] this evening it's good to be on the

[3:15:06] meeting and it's great to be part of

[3:15:08] this

[3:15:08] uh city and county of broomfield my only

[3:15:10] report is to say

[3:15:12] everybody has been very welcoming staff

[3:15:14] and council like

[3:15:15] um i i know i still have a couple more

[3:15:17] one-on-ones with council to do but i

[3:15:19] look forward to those and

[3:15:21] again thank you thank you for the

[3:15:22] welcome

[3:15:24] yeah well well you hope all your reports

[3:15:25] are that brief

[3:15:28] he's trying to be funny just trying to

[3:15:30] be funny the city accounting industry

[3:15:32] report is next

[3:15:34] ms hoffman do you have a report

[3:15:41] uh mayor i do but i'm going to advocate

[3:15:44] it to

[3:15:44] uh david allen we have a technical

[3:15:51] um statement that we need to read

[3:15:53] regarding the freiko

[3:15:54] ditch update uh david do you want to

[3:15:57] walk us through this real quick

[3:15:59] sir thank you miss hoffman uh good

[3:16:01] evening mayor city council david allen

[3:16:02] director of public works

[3:16:05] i just wanted to give you an update real

[3:16:06] quickly and as a follow-up to the email

[3:16:09] i sent to city council right at the end

[3:16:12] of the year that we had

[3:16:13] filed a water rights change application

[3:16:16] to the water court

[3:16:17] this this effort is in line with

[3:16:20] promoting

[3:16:21] council's priority related to water and

[3:16:24] specifically or just briefly what we did

[3:16:27] is we filed a change of use application

[3:16:29] for the 150

[3:16:31] franco marshall shares that we own and

[3:16:34] we've acquired those shares over the

[3:16:35] course of about 25 years and most would be familiar with the

[3:16:40] water that's associated with a community

[3:16:42] ditch

[3:16:42] and historically we have used that water

[3:16:46] to maintain pond levels throughout the

[3:16:48] community and

[3:16:49] recent changes in state law have

[3:16:51] precluded us from being able to continue

[3:16:53] to do that

[3:16:54] so that prompted us to go ahead and file

[3:16:56] for

[3:16:57] a change of use because these water

[3:16:59] shares were historically used for

[3:17:01] primarily for irrigation purposes

[3:17:04] as i indicated in that email i listed

[3:17:06] all the uses

[3:17:08] some of those include commercial

[3:17:10] industrial residential domestic

[3:17:12] as well as the pond level maintenance

[3:17:14] that we've historically been using

[3:17:15] but since we were going through the

[3:17:17] process we just wanted to make sure that

[3:17:18] we included

[3:17:20] all of those types of uses in the change

[3:17:23] of use application

[3:17:26] the the proceedings themselves will

[3:17:28] probably take about

[3:17:30] upwards of several years to complete i

[3:17:32] think on the outside

[3:17:33] um time frame probably up to upwards of

[3:17:35] two years

[3:17:36] and because of the nature of that that

[3:17:39] process

[3:17:40] a lot of it will just depend on the

[3:17:41] number of opposers that we get

[3:17:43] so i just wanted to you know formally

[3:17:47] update council on that action

[3:17:50] and we will continue to keep council

[3:17:52] apprised of any significant developments

[3:17:54] as we move through this process

[3:17:56] thank you

[3:18:00] uh mayor and then just the last piece um

[3:18:04] for for council's uh information which

[3:18:08] leads to

[3:18:08] number 14 which is the legislative

[3:18:10] update which we don't have one tonight

[3:18:12] but

[3:18:13] um they are coming back into session the

[3:18:17] lobbying groups are rallying the troops

[3:18:20] there has been a movement already on

[3:18:23] many fronts so denay will continue to be

[3:18:27] the point of contact as we move through

[3:18:30] for lobbying we have posted the

[3:18:34] city county clerk position danae

[3:18:37] has thoughtfully

[3:18:40] agreed to continue in the acting

[3:18:42] capacity until that position has been

[3:18:45] filled so she continues to work

[3:18:48] uh with the staff and we feel confident

[3:18:52] that by shoring up some other support

[3:18:55] services

[3:18:56] she will continue to be council's point

[3:18:58] person for legislation

[3:18:59] continuing to be out of the cmo and we

[3:19:02] look forward to hiring that position so

[3:19:04] we can get her back up in the cmo

[3:19:07] with that mayor that concludes the

[3:19:08] manager's report and look forward to um

[3:19:11] additional legislative updates moving

[3:19:12] forward okay and i'll just

[3:19:14] give a chance for council members if

[3:19:16] they have any questions or comments uh you know on now would be the time to

[3:19:21] raise your hand and ask

[3:19:24] i don't see any so uh as jennifer just

[3:19:26] mentioned or

[3:19:27] mrs hoffman uh there are no uh

[3:19:30] legislative update right now

[3:19:32] uh so um we'll close out uh

[3:19:35] the urban renewal authority the

[3:19:37] bromfield

[3:19:39] urban renewal authority was previously

[3:19:40] convened in items 15a and 15b

[3:19:43] where were reviewed currently with item

[3:19:45] 7

[3:19:47] 7i and 11b under the consent agenda

[3:19:49] council business there

[3:19:50] be no further business before the urban

[3:19:52] renewal authority the meeting is

[3:19:54] adjourned

[3:19:55] there is no business before the aristo

[3:19:56] local improvement district board of

[3:19:58] directors

[3:19:59] or special reports this evening and we

[3:20:01] actually have

[3:20:02] two requests from city council members

[3:20:06] under sections 18. the first request is

[3:20:09] for council's consideration

[3:20:10] relating to western leaders network 30

[3:20:13] times 30 pledge

[3:20:14] council member anderson would you like

[3:20:15] to begin tonight's discussion

[3:20:19] uh yes thank you um

[3:20:22] this is my first section 18 request so

[3:20:24] hopefully i do this right

[3:20:25] um i would like to request that council

[3:20:27] consider a resolution supporting the 30

[3:20:29] by 30 campaign to protect 30 percent of

[3:20:32] lands

[3:20:32] and oceans by 2030 i'll just give you a

[3:20:36] take about two or three minutes to go

[3:20:37] through um

[3:20:38] a few notes i have here the 35 30

[3:20:40] campaign is a worldwide science-based

[3:20:42] initiative to conserve at least

[3:20:44] 30 percent of earth's lands and oceans

[3:20:47] by the year 2030

[3:20:48] and was launched to address our climate

[3:20:50] crisis and reverse the destruction of

[3:20:52] our wildlife

[3:20:52] waters and natural places in our region

[3:20:55] western leaders network is sponsoring

[3:20:57] the 30 by 30 pledge which

[3:20:59] asks local and tribal governments to

[3:21:01] pledge to preserve 30 percent of our

[3:21:02] lands and waters by 2030.

[3:21:05] this pledge is in line with the and

[3:21:07] supports the efforts by congress to

[3:21:09] champion this goal

[3:21:10] such as the 30 by 30 resolution led by

[3:21:12] senators udall

[3:21:13] and bennett and several representatives

[3:21:15] including our own representative joe

[3:21:17] nagoose

[3:21:19] this uh this um pledge seemed quite

[3:21:22] fitting because broomfield as we all

[3:21:24] know has already established a goal of

[3:21:26] maintaining 40

[3:21:27] open space um and we are already uh

[3:21:34] kristin prince shared some numbers with

[3:21:35] me that we're currently at 34.9

[3:21:38] percent and on our way to that 40 so

[3:21:41] we're above the 30 percent there

[3:21:42] and we received um

[3:21:45] also an update from david allen that

[3:21:48] regarding the water that one of the main

[3:21:49] components of broomfield's

[3:21:51] 2020 water efficiency plan includes the

[3:21:53] continued use and expansion of the

[3:21:54] non-public irrigation water system along

[3:21:57] with the gave some other

[3:21:58] areas where broomfield is striving for

[3:22:01] water conservation

[3:22:02] and that is uh in places where we don't

[3:22:06] have large amounts of water it's just

[3:22:07] that support and that um commitment to

[3:22:10] what we can do is all um all that is

[3:22:13] really required

[3:22:15] um and the um uh

[3:22:19] councilmember lim did we talk to the

[3:22:20] aces committee

[3:22:22] and i think it may have been tammy um

[3:22:24] they did not make a formal

[3:22:25] recommendation but several the members

[3:22:27] were generally supportive

[3:22:29] um and if there is a council agreement

[3:22:31] on the campaign we could model this

[3:22:33] approach similar to boulder county who

[3:22:35] adopted a

[3:22:36] proclamation in support of the

[3:22:37] congressional resolutions um

[3:22:39] just a couple months ago and i'm

[3:22:42] happy to try to answer questions but

[3:22:45] that is um

[3:22:46] i guess the overview thank you good job

[3:22:49] thank you councilmember anderson uh

[3:22:51] we'll proceed with public comments if

[3:22:53] there's anyone who'd like to be heard

[3:22:55] please press star 3 state your first and

[3:22:57] last name and neighborhood for the

[3:22:58] record

[3:22:59] um i'm not seeing anybody in the queue

[3:23:04] mayor pro temp um

[3:23:08] so we will go to council comments or

[3:23:10] next uh anybody from council would like

[3:23:12] to address this

[3:23:13] issue or uh or raise your hand or we can just kind of indicate that

[3:23:19] we're all in agreement to move forward

[3:23:21] mayor pro tem agreement to move forward

[3:23:24] and thank you council member anderson

[3:23:26] for bringing this forward

[3:23:27] thanks i see most people nodding their

[3:23:31] heads so we i don't think we need to

[3:23:32] have in fact i see everybody not there

[3:23:34] except maybe councilmember law evans but

[3:23:36] uh but uh

[3:23:37] but she's she i'm trying to be funny

[3:23:41] tonight

[3:23:42] so the uh the uh so i

[3:23:45] it looks to me like the consensus is the

[3:23:47] move forward uh jennifer and uh

[3:23:49] councilmember anderson and uh and this

[3:23:51] certainly got vetted so

[3:23:53] customer shaft did you want to say

[3:23:54] something yeah thank you i just wanted

[3:23:56] to clarify the next step so the

[3:23:57] suggestion by uh councilmember anderson

[3:24:00] was to

[3:24:00] put forth a proclamation to officially

[3:24:03] have council weigh in on this

[3:24:05] uh this goal of the 30 by 30. is that

[3:24:08] the intent is that

[3:24:09] council member anderson will work with

[3:24:11] staff to put forward a proclamation for

[3:24:12] council to see in the coming

[3:24:14] weeks to months council members anderson

[3:24:18] i believe that's a yes right

[3:24:20] oh if that was a question for me um yes

[3:24:22] i can work with um staff

[3:24:23] too uh on that proclamation so okay

[3:24:26] thank you yes the answer is yes thank

[3:24:29] you

[3:24:30] okay and i think that we can close that

[3:24:32] out i mean i think uh

[3:24:33] i mean i i think you have your direction

[3:24:35] and thank you for bringing it up and it was seemed to be well received by

[3:24:38] um both kristin and i think david allen

[3:24:41] so thank you councilmember anderson um

[3:24:44] so we will move to

[3:24:46] uh the second request which is from

[3:24:47] councilmember lim

[3:24:49] um would you like to begin tonight's

[3:24:51] discussion on your 18a

[3:24:53] item i'm requesting that council begin

[3:24:56] to consider an ordinance

[3:24:58] to extend reverse setbacks reverse

[3:25:02] setbacks regulate the distance with

[3:25:04] which

[3:25:04] a residential developer may construct a

[3:25:08] new home

[3:25:09] near an existing oil and gas facility

[3:25:12] we have had recent development projects

[3:25:16] where reverse setbacks have been

[3:25:18] pertinent to the discussion and we will

[3:25:21] continue

[3:25:22] to encounter these development

[3:25:23] situations

[3:25:25] in the coming months it will be more efficient i would think

[3:25:30] to have the reverse

[3:25:31] setback regulations in place and not

[3:25:35] continue to handle them on an ad hoc

[3:25:38] basis

[3:25:40] i suggest that staff draft an ordinance

[3:25:43] that

[3:25:44] would include a scientific basis for

[3:25:47] reverse setbacks

[3:25:48] similar to what was already set forth in

[3:25:51] ordinance number 2123

[3:25:54] revising the broomfield municipal code

[3:25:56] regarding zoning for oil and gas

[3:25:58] development

[3:26:00] background currently regarding reverse

[3:26:02] setbacks broomfield regulations state

[3:26:04] in title 16 that no residential lots

[3:26:08] in any subdivision shall be platted any

[3:26:11] closer than 200 feet

[3:26:13] from an oil and gas facility

[3:26:16] and no public or private school building

[3:26:19] and any subdivisions shall be located

[3:26:21] any closer than

[3:26:22] 500 feet so as

[3:26:25] we probably recall in may of 20

[3:26:28] when we passed ordinance number 21 2123

[3:26:34] in the use by special review it we said

[3:26:36] that no oil and gas location containing

[3:26:39] an oil and gas well

[3:26:41] uh shall be located any closer than 2000

[3:26:43] feet from the nearest parcel lot line

[3:26:46] under certain uses so

[3:26:49] um i'm asking for staff

[3:26:53] to bring cons right draft the ordinance

[3:26:58] with hopefully these the scientific

[3:27:00] basis

[3:27:01] um in our original ordinance for the

[3:27:03] setbacks we cited the cdphe study

[3:27:06] we cited our own health impacts um

[3:27:09] and then i would also propose that we

[3:27:11] might want to

[3:27:13] excuse me discuss the reverse setback

[3:27:15] regulations in a tiered approach

[3:27:18] so we might have tiers for a large scale

[3:27:21] site under development in production a

[3:27:24] different tier

[3:27:25] for a single producing well and a

[3:27:27] different tier

[3:27:28] for plug and abandoned wells with

[3:27:30] reverse setbacks

[3:27:32] so that's some um basic ideas that i

[3:27:36] wanted to put forward

[3:27:37] and if there's any questions please let

[3:27:39] me know

[3:27:42] we'll not proceed with public comments

[3:27:45] if there's anyone from the public that

[3:27:46] would like to speak on this

[3:27:48] issue please state your full name and

[3:27:51] your neighborhood and you you'd have

[3:27:53] three minutes to make your comments

[3:27:54] i don't see anybody in the queue so i'll

[3:27:57] go to council member comments next

[3:27:59] council members

[3:28:03] councilman anderson thank you um

[3:28:06] you know as someone living in anthem

[3:28:08] highlands and in ward 4

[3:28:10] um as part of my constituents with the

[3:28:12] davis sport three six well

[3:28:14] um we've definitely seen that need for

[3:28:16] reverse setbacks and also

[3:28:18] with the um and in the beginning it was

[3:28:21] a concern about you know

[3:28:22] wells are under development but when you

[3:28:23] see these large-scale facilities

[3:28:25] you realize that um those emissions

[3:28:27] we're realizing those emissions continue

[3:28:29] we can continue to see uh spikes with b

[3:28:32] techs and other chemicals and that becomes a very serious concern

[3:28:36] um then we must consider when

[3:28:38] thinking we're going to build next to

[3:28:39] them so i definitely support um

[3:28:41] councilmember lim's

[3:28:42] request for uh ordinance regarding

[3:28:45] reaper setbacks thank you

[3:28:48] catherine reliance thank you mr mayor i

[3:28:51] appreciate the opportunity

[3:28:53] um it it seems to me

[3:28:56] that we have discussed this before

[3:29:01] and sort of where we landed several

[3:29:04] years ago

[3:29:04] if i recall correctly was on

[3:29:09] that there's a fundamental difference

[3:29:11] between

[3:29:13] owning a home living in a home and

[3:29:15] having

[3:29:16] oil and gas development come to you

[3:29:19] versus

[3:29:21] having an oil and gas facility

[3:29:24] um plug and abandon plugged in abandoned

[3:29:27] well

[3:29:28] operated well what have you

[3:29:31] and having uh

[3:29:35] a a home built nearby where the home

[3:29:38] buyer has the opportunity to

[3:29:42] understand the proximity of the facility

[3:29:46] under do their own um investigation and

[3:29:49] education with regard to risks and make

[3:29:51] their own

[3:29:52] edge hopefully educated decision

[3:29:55] and i've actually shown homes as a real

[3:29:59] estate broker not many because i don't

[3:30:00] do much residential

[3:30:03] where where it was part of the

[3:30:05] disclosure documents

[3:30:06] that hey this is within a certain

[3:30:09] distance of

[3:30:11] whatever facility um and and that

[3:30:14] became the basis for starting a

[3:30:16] conversation

[3:30:18] so i um i think that the

[3:30:25] i'm willing to discuss this more i'm not

[3:30:28] willing

[3:30:29] to go straight from

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[3:30:32] a section 18 request to an ordinance but

[3:30:34] i am willing to have

[3:30:37] conversations on this issue and and see

[3:30:40] if there are better ways to

[3:30:43] um to work on this because frankly the

[3:30:44] other thing is if we were to put in

[3:30:47] if we were to make identical setbacks

[3:30:50] where the setback

[3:30:51] was 2000 feet for new construction new

[3:30:54] residential construction from

[3:30:56] a um a an existing

[3:30:59] facility or plugged in abandoned well or

[3:31:01] whatever i would think among other

[3:31:03] things

[3:31:03] that up in the northern part of

[3:31:05] broomfield at in the baseline

[3:31:06] development

[3:31:07] i would think that those people would be

[3:31:09] just completely shut down

[3:31:11] and then in in terms of what they what

[3:31:13] their current plans are

[3:31:15] and then we get into a sticky situation

[3:31:19] again this is all conjecture on my part

[3:31:21] having done this now for seven years

[3:31:24] um i would think that we'd get into a

[3:31:25] situation of a discussion

[3:31:27] as to whether or not this becomes a

[3:31:29] taking with some of the entitlements at

[3:31:33] baseline and i'm just using baseline

[3:31:35] as a as an example some of the

[3:31:37] entitlements in place some of them not

[3:31:38] and here we come and we change it at

[3:31:41] this point

[3:31:42] so i think this could get i appreciate

[3:31:46] the intent

[3:31:46] which is to protect health and safety

[3:31:49] absolutely

[3:31:50] appreciate the intent but i think this

[3:31:52] has the potential to blow up and be

[3:31:54] a much stickier situation than

[3:31:58] um anything relatively

[3:32:01] straightforward as to as to what's been discussed so

[3:32:05] i'm absolutely willing to discuss it

[3:32:07] more but i'm

[3:32:08] very much unwilling to go straight to

[3:32:11] ordinance um from here so

[3:32:15] i'd like to honestly what i'd like to do

[3:32:17] is have discussions with all the

[3:32:20] stakeholders in broomfield

[3:32:22] as well as the health and safety people

[3:32:24] gather the scientific rationale for

[3:32:27] a specific setback and see if we can um

[3:32:31] a reverse setback see what sort of a discussion falls out to

[3:32:36] where

[3:32:37] people feel heard people feel valued in

[3:32:40] their current entitlements their current

[3:32:42] situation

[3:32:43] and yet we do our due diligence and our

[3:32:47] complete our responsibility to

[3:32:48] protecting human health and safety i'd

[3:32:50] like to see this be an extended process

[3:32:52] i guess is what i'm saying so

[3:32:53] i hope that makes sense i do appreciate

[3:32:55] council member lim

[3:32:56] bringing this forward um it is a

[3:32:59] discussion that's

[3:33:00] certainly timely so those are my

[3:33:02] comments mr mayor thank you

[3:33:04] councilmember groom

[3:33:07] uh yes thanks mayor um i i do agree

[3:33:10] i'm okay moving this forward into a

[3:33:12] discussion i have a lot of concerns

[3:33:15] associated around the impacts and

[3:33:18] intents i do recall that even since

[3:33:22] we had the concept of reverse setbacks

[3:33:24] we've approved developments

[3:33:27] that have been next to an oil and gas

[3:33:31] facility and an active and expected to

[3:33:35] be abandoned

[3:33:36] so i do think that there is we need to

[3:33:39] really understand and what i would like

[3:33:41] to know in the discussion

[3:33:42] is where we are technically with

[3:33:44] abandoning them plugging

[3:33:46] and i know that we've had the one issue

[3:33:48] in broomfield

[3:33:49] um it was old old

[3:33:53] plug-in and abandoned technology but

[3:33:54] what can we do to enhance that so we can

[3:33:57] still

[3:33:58] develop our lands and then also one

[3:34:01] thing i would be looking at

[3:34:03] from a legal standpoint is

[3:34:06] there's a lot of people that's put a lot

[3:34:08] of money in developing broomfield

[3:34:10] and what would be those implications for

[3:34:13] us if

[3:34:14] we now deem their land undevelopable um anyway and i would also um suggest this be

[3:34:23] more of an executive session discussion

[3:34:26] um

[3:34:26] and then and then move out into a study

[3:34:29] session if we could

[3:34:34] yeah and i'll make a comment on that if

[3:34:35] mayor pro tem does it because there has

[3:34:37] been some discussion on the mayor for

[3:34:40] them

[3:34:42] thank you mayor i'll let you talk about

[3:34:44] that but um

[3:34:46] i just wanted to to say it kind of goes

[3:34:48] in the category of when

[3:34:50] you know we know better we do better and

[3:34:53] the 200-foot setback that is currently

[3:34:56] on the books the hard setback was not

[3:34:58] based on any

[3:34:59] science or health and safety data

[3:35:02] and with regards to developers not being

[3:35:05] able to develop well the

[3:35:07] methane leak in anthem in the anthem

[3:35:10] area

[3:35:11] is preventing a developer from moving

[3:35:13] forward

[3:35:14] because um of its proximity to this

[3:35:18] old plugged and abandoned well that

[3:35:20] keeps leaking

[3:35:22] there's the carlson well that's next to

[3:35:24] the school

[3:35:25] where where you live mayor i mean these

[3:35:28] things inevitably leak

[3:35:30] with time and every time they go to do a

[3:35:33] pna it

[3:35:34] seems like there's remediation needed so

[3:35:36] those volatile vulnerable

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[3:36:04] i support moving forward with this uh in

[3:36:08] a study session or

[3:36:09] um other venues executive session but i

[3:36:12] definitely support

[3:36:13] re revisiting this topic yeah let me

[3:36:16] make a couple comments

[3:36:17] in a specific on the executive session

[3:36:19] about what both

[3:36:20] councilmember law evans groom said i'll

[3:36:22] just say from my perspective

[3:36:24] i've been attending the wednesday

[3:36:25] afternoon meetings which i found

[3:36:26] productive

[3:36:27] and the uh the davis 43.6 which as methane lakes is in the middle

[3:36:32] of a development

[3:36:33] and we've been holding up permits uh

[3:36:36] there was a discussion about reverse

[3:36:37] setbacks at one of those meetings

[3:36:39] and i guess i was really pleased to see

[3:36:41] that gene put this forward

[3:36:43] because it because there's an issue

[3:36:45] there uh that needs to be addressed by

[3:36:47] council

[3:36:48] uh and i think it was taken seriously

[3:36:50] enough by um by

[3:36:51] the city staff when uh when gene raised

[3:36:53] it that they're looking into it and they

[3:36:55] want to add this

[3:36:56] to the uh the 26th uh uh executive

[3:37:00] session we're set right now to have a

[3:37:01] five o'clock

[3:37:02] executive session on oil and gas matters

[3:37:04] my understanding is that this can be

[3:37:06] added to that session

[3:37:07] because it is about oil and gas

[3:37:08] regulations and so an answer

[3:37:10] you know so we will have an executive

[3:37:12] session i think out of that executive

[3:37:14] session

[3:37:15] we'll probably have a study session come

[3:37:16] out of that as you know come out of that

[3:37:18] as well that's you know

[3:37:19] that's that's public and so so so my

[3:37:22] comment is

[3:37:23] uh i think it's absolutely necessary to

[3:37:25] move forward

[3:37:26] for all the reasons everybody said

[3:37:28] tonight and the legal implications

[3:37:30] are very significant and uh and so so uh so we'll address that on the 26th and

[3:37:36] once again i'm seeing everybody so once again staff and and i think

[3:37:40] nancy had chimed in as well

[3:37:42] you know that uh they're they're

[3:37:44] prepared to address this issue

[3:37:46] in our study session on the 26th um you

[3:37:49] know

[3:37:49] i will i pointed out today when we were

[3:37:51] talking about it

[3:37:52] or maybe it was last wednesday the uh we

[3:37:55] do have the the dylan point on the 26th

[3:37:58] so we can't go much past six o'clock so

[3:38:00] we'll need to keep it

[3:38:02] fairly concise uh because i think we're

[3:38:04] all anticipating i think

[3:38:05] council set aside or excuse me denae and

[3:38:08] others have set aside uh

[3:38:09] a few hours for the dillon point so uh so

[3:38:13] anyway uh councilmember lim thanks for

[3:38:15] bringing it forward and uh

[3:38:17] it's a discussion we just have to have

[3:38:19] and so uh i am going to

[3:38:21] uh move towards uh i'm not aware of any

[3:38:25] other business

[3:38:27] uh is there any other business to come

[3:38:28] before council

[3:38:32] yeah and thank you council once again a

[3:38:34] really good meeting

[3:38:36] very thoughtful uh and uh and uh

[3:38:40] thank you and the meeting is adjourned

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