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[1:56] okay and laura evans has told us that
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[2:05] and a quorum is present uh will everyone
[2:08] please ryan
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[2:18] the united states of america
[2:27] indivisible with liberty and justice for
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[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