Good evening everyone and welcome to the November 7th, regular city council meeting for the city of Santaneo, Colorado, missettano, please call the roll.
It's not a black list of 10 million states in America, and it's either a Greek public, or
a racist, or a nation, or a radical, and a liberal, or a liberal, or a liberal, or
a liberal, or a liberal.
Thank you.
We'll go ahead and go into the public comment portion of our evening, the public comment section.
Now, if there's an opportunity for any citizen to express opinions or ask questions regarding
city services, policies, or other matters of community concern, and any agenda items that
are not part of a scheduled public hearing.
Citizens will have three minutes for comments if they are speaking as an individual or
five minutes if they are speaking on behalf of an organization or group.
These time limits were established to provide efficiency in the conduct of our meeting, and
to allow equal opportunity for everyone wishing to speak.
An immediate response should not be expected as issues are typically referred to city staff
for follow-up or research and then are reported back to council or the individual who
initiated the comment or inquiry.
We do have an individual signed up for public comment and we do have one public comment
that is online.
So with that, I'll ask Mr. Bennett Rutledge to come up and address this?
Good evening.
I'm Bennett Rutledge, 4264 East Maplewood Way.
And I'm here this evening to mark a year
since you last returned to the chair,
which you sit, the election that returned you.
And I have been doing what I can.
I've been getting some feedback that some people are listening and I will be continuing
to serve as the loyal opposition, as best I can.
As for the rest of the topics tonight, I would simply like to ask the question, yes,
this is a wonderful thing to do, but as it wonderful enough to justify sending people with
guns around to ensure that it is fully funded.
And don't kid yourselves just because the county officials are the ones doing the heavy lifting
with the tax gathering.
The governments do not have to take into account any protections
provided by bankruptcy proceedings or any other. Ultimately, it is people with guns throwing
people out of their homes into the street for, for example, not getting their property taxes in.
So please consider that when you go spending money from the public coffers. Thank you.
Thank you very much. And with that, we will switch over to, well, actually I'll ask
you to send a mail from the audience who wishes to address this at this time. And public comment,
right. So then we'll go ahead and move on to our audio file.
Game of Tickets, 695-8 South Nose Way,
Will the Housing Study identify areas of reasonably priced housing areas that could be vulnerable to gentrification?
University Boulevard is lined with townholds and condos, a scarce commodity in Centennial.
Gwen Oaks, South Gwen Commons, you know, chair-rich condos, are all selling in the $300,000
range this summer. Those are those are condos. There's also a lot of town homes. The town
homes in my area were selling for about $450,000 this summer. So a university quarter and
only provides a diversity of housing types but also economic diversity. What happens when
Southland redevelopes? They say that prices in the surrounding area usually go up. The city's
Southland website says that, and I believe this means that housing prices will increase beyond
inflation. Inflated housing prices are great if you're an investor but if you live on a fixed income
or have a lower-paying job, it's not good at all. Property values go up, property taxes and homeowners insurance all goes up.
And I know that the median income in Centennial is quite high at around $120,000 a year.
But I very much doubt that most of the people living on the University Boulevard make anything near that.
We thought we had a corridor with some of the most reasonably priced housing in the city.
Probably a total of over a thousand condos and town homes, many selling for less than $500,000,
and a good number selling for less than $400,000.
I know the city is not setting policy right now, but depending on the policy that set in the future,
It seems like we can end up with a corridor of extensive housing.
Depending on what you allow to be built,
we can move more lower cost housing than we can.
Shouldn't the housing study identify areas
existing areas of lower cost or reasonably priced housing?
It seems like you need to know this in order to be in order to go forward
and develop good policy.
it just seems like this is something to be very mindful of. Thank you for your consideration.
With that, we'll close the public comment portion of our evening. We do not have scheduled presentations
or any promotions appointments, so we'll go on to the consent agenda, Ms. Salem. Take a deep breath.
Are you ready?
Thank you.
Please.
Exitration of ordinances on 1st reading ordinance number 2022-O-26 in ordinance of the City Council.
The City of Centennial Colorado, adding new article 2 to chapter 4 of the Centennial
Municipal Code, condition upon voter approval to adopt provisions imposing and governing
allaging tax and imposing penalties for violations thereof.
Ordnance number 2022-O-27, in ordinance of the City Council, the City of Centennial
Colorado approving a franchise agreement between the city of Centennial Colorado and public service company of Colorado to provide gas and electrical services within the city of Centennial and amending article 5 of chapter 5 of the Centennial Municipal Code.
In December 2022-O-30, an ordinance of the City Council of the City of Centennial, Colorado,
a proven in annexation and development agreement with Doug Dally, LN, LLC for the
Doug Dally land property within the Doug Dally Regional Park Cherry Creek Innovation Campus annexation.
In December 2022-O-31, an ordinance of the City Council of the City of Centennial,
Colorado, and many in chapter 12 of a municipal code land development code,
concerning the Urban Center's own district and declaring an emergency.
Consideration of Resolutions is resolution number 2022-R-151,
a resolution of the City Council of the City of Centennial, Colorado,
approving the inner governmental agreement with the Arab County
for the development and hiring of a centennial homeless outreach liaison position
and authorizing the city manager to execute documents relating there too.
consideration of other items are the minutes of the regular meeting of October 17, 2022.
Mayor Perchum, she can. Mayor, I move approval of the consent agenda as red into the record.
Second. Ons member seven and seconds, please vote.
That the record shows seven eyes,
the motion carries. Here again. Thank you very much. All right. When we've onto the discussion
agenda, we do have a number of public hearings this evening. I'll start out with
consideration of ordinances, and we have a public hearing for ordinance number 222-odash-25.
Ms. Settled, let me please read it into the record.
For instance, number 222-odash-25 in ordinance of the City Council,
the City of Centennial Colorado, a many in Article 8 of chapter 11 of the Centennial
Municipal Code, and adopting by reference to 2022 version of the
City of Centennial Roadway Design and Construction Standards Manual.
Mr. Dividut with us again this evening,
Disgusting roadway designing construction. We've had these presentations in the past, so it would be a nice review. Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mayor. Good evening. Good evening, council. Again, my name is Anthony or Antevita. I'm your public works program manager with us tonight.
His director, Mr. Jeff Tankingbring.
And we bring to you, ordinance 222025,
I'm mending the municipal code and adapting by reference the 2022 version of the city's roadway design and
Construction standards manual moving forward. I'll just be referencing it as the manual
We last met on September 6th. There was a Tuesday night study session
And I'll give you a brief overview of what we talked about that night
The manual was adapted in 2016 after Centennial utilized Rapo County's
Standards
Our manual has three written parts, policy design, construction and inspection, with a final
appendix of standard details, which are those technical drawings, technical engineering
drawings.
The purpose of this manual is it's really a tool for staff to discuss with developers, contractors,
engineers and really formalized and tenial principles in a horizontal site construction
passion
and the main purpose of this evening is discussing the updates that staff
is recommending for the manual. As discussed on September 6th, we brought forward
many editorial changes. Some were also identified through Council Council Member
Sweetland had identified the change between the word accident and crash and thanks
to Mr. Price, we understood slightly better.
The implication behind that change and what that really means.
Additionally, Council Member Mower, who's not here tonight,
also identified some updates and changes, some editorial,
one that we spoke about on September 6th,
was better strategizing how to implement handrails
and the importance of that for our Centennial community.
just to identify driveway widths and sort of the maybe narrow width that's defined in the land development code.
Public work staff plans on discussing with planning staff that update for the LDC,
or rather how those documents both coordinate with each other.
In our manual update, we've also recommended administrative authority for the public work director
to update those technical standard details, and again, the main purpose of that is to update
and have the director as our PE engineer provide any updates as needed engineering wise.
But if there were any revisions that needed to come forth the council and the financial
applications from updating these standards, staff plans on addressing those and
bring them up with Council prior to implementing.
Additionally, and again, we
went over some of these on September 6th, there were some best practices that
we've added into the manual, one being the allowance of micro-trenching, another
being the use of those 3M utility underground marker balls, and replacing
the those fiber poles that no one likes. So what's next? As discussed on September 6th,
staff has a lot of future standard considerations. Many technical in nature, some aesthetic in
nature. So some we do plan on bringing back in front of council. But there's many on the document that
the directors have in conversations with staff about implementing one being roundabout standards.
We also understand Council in about a month is having a discussion about speed limits, and if Council chooses to adopt that change for residential speed limits, the manual would be updated in coordinates with that discussion.
And finally, staff is here, I'm here, representing staff, to request council approve ordinance
2022-025.
But very briefly, I just want to say thanks to all the names on this screen, make this update
possible.
It was a long effort and we worked really hard on this.
But I brought this one.
I brought this one.
before we move on to the recommended approval motion if anybody have any questions as was mentioned
we had a quite a detailed conversation of this in September and so everybody has had an opportunity
to review it and have their questions answered so if there are no questions from council I will
go ahead and open up the public comment portion of the public area real quickly and so we do have
a public comment for this. Is there anyone in the audience who wishes to address this
regarding this matter? Seeing none, I'll close the public comment portion of the public
hearing. Any other questions or comments from Council?
With that, I'll put this under
TANIMotion.
Mayor, I move to approve the ordinance 2022-0-25, an ordinance of the City Council
the city of Centennial, Colorado, amending Article 8 of chapter 11 of the Centennial Municipal
Code and adopting the reference.
Members of the 2022 version of the City of Centennial Roadway Design and Construction Standards Manual.
I want to remember a hold of seconds, please vote.
At the record show, seven eyes, the motion carries.
All right. Thank you, Mr. Divido.
We appreciate all your time energy on this as well.
So thank you.
And congratulations again.
Thank you very much.
All right. Moving on to our next public hearing.
We do have a public hearing regarding ordinance.
ordinance number 222-O-28.
Mr. Lennon, will you please read it into the record for an
incident number 222-O-28 in order to answer the
City Council of the City of Centennial Colorado
Amendment Section 4-8-20 of the Municipal Code and
Title Special Funds by deleting the Lyon News Fund and
amending the language concerning the open space and
capital improvement funds.
All right, Mr. Cadiz, with us this evening to
one through this. Oh, Mr. Ed, Mr. Ed is going to be
joining him as well.
I'll go ahead and let you guys get started.
All right, good evening.
Mayor P. Go and members of the City Council.
I'm Jeff Gives, Finance Director.
Also here joined with Mr. Eric Addy, the Assistant City Manager.
Tonight we're here to present ordinance 2022 028
for Council's consideration.
And the ordinance would amend section 4820
of this entire municipal code related to special funds.
So, the home rural charter requires that the city council establish funds other than the general fund by ordinance.
So, the city council had previously established the conservation trust, open space, capital improvement, land use, fiber and street funds.
And all these funds were signed for various purposes which are set forth in that section for eight, 20 of the code.
There are three changes within this ordinance that would amend the sections of the code.
The first change in the ordinance would be to eliminate the land use fund.
And staff has discussed this change with council and with the budget committee during this year's budget process.
The revenues and expenditures that have historically been represented in the land use fund would now be accounted for and budgeted in the general fund.
And the change would increase transparency and clarity on the cost to provide services for land use in that land use process.
The other two amendments are really just some clean-ups in the code of the defined purposes of the funds.
The open space fund had some outdated language from prior county resolutions.
They're now outdated when the voters currently reauthorize the open space tax in 2021.
In addition, there are some changes to the use of the funds that will now point to the intergovernmental agreement with the county.
And by referring to the intergovernmental agreement, we don't have to come back and change this code if there's any changes to the U.S.
of the funds. So it will make it easier for future agreements to be changed without having to update
this section of the code. The last amendment is within the Kaplan Improvement Fund. That's also
clean up to references that are no longer relevant. Since the city created the street fund many of
the identified purposes in the Kaplan Improvement Fund are now captured and met within the street fund.
So, these changes would eliminate those duplicated references and clarify the capital assets that are going to be captured in the capital improvement fund.
So, staff is recommending that council approve ordinance 22208 and we are happy to answer any questions that council may have.
All right, as stated in the presentation, we've already viewed these number of cages, as we've done budget workshops, and the budget committee has also approved all these so any questions in the comments.
Well, without any comments or questions from Council, I'll go ahead and open up the public comment portion of this public hearing.
Is there anyone from the audience who wishes to address this regarding this matter?
Do you know not?
Close the public comment question of this public hearing and offer a council any other opportunity
to comment or question anything?
Seeing none, I'll let her take a motion.
There I move to approve ordinance 2022-0-28 and ordinance of the City Council of the City
of Centennial, a Mending Section 4-8-220 of the Municipal Code entitled Special Funds, by
leading the land use fund and a men in the language concerning the open space and capital improvement funds.
Second.
On some member, Karen, second, please vote.
At the record show, seven eyes, the motion carries.
That's neat with that.
Thank you.
And so for anyone who didn't quite understand what we just did, it will understand it as we go
to approve the budget in the next public hearing.
So we move on to resolutions and we do have a public hearing for resolution number 222-R-507.
57 miss that only please read it into the record resolution number 2022 to Shardash 57 a resolution
in the city council of the city of Centennial Colorado adopting the city of Centennial 2023 proposed
budget and appropriating sums of money.
All right, so have the same characters in front of us, Mr. is in Mr. Eddie.
All right, good evening again.
Presenting again members of council, Chuck this finance director, again I'm still joined by
And we are here to present resolution 2020-22R-57, which would adopt the 2023 budget and
appropriate sums of money.
And in your packet of material tonight, there are several attachments that detailed
the changes from the budget, from what was presented to Council in September and October.
And the resolution for Council's consideration, behind the resolution is Exhibit A, which
is attached, which actually appropriates the sums of money, and that shows the total sources
which are revenues and transfers into a fund, and uses which are expenditures and transfers
out.
And we'll go over all the attachments in your packet in detail that I wanted to make sure that
was kind of laid out here. So the budget process is an ongoing year-round effort and
in council as well, well aware, you've been participating all year in the budget process,
and it culminates with the adoption of the proposed budget tonight. During this year's budget
cycle, the city developed its first by annual budget. The biennial budget being a tool to support
long-term financial planning and to develop the two-year budget, and this year's budget
process really began in the first quarter of 2022 when Council had strategic planning
conversations. During the summer months, the Department developed their budget request for
both 2023 and 2024, and then throughout the whole budget year, this entire budget committee
met several times. I believe five or six times throughout the year to review the city's finances,
revenue projections, departmental budgets, decision packages and budget highlights for both
2023 and 2024. On September 19th, the city manager presented council with the proposed
city manager's budget in accordance with the home real charter, and then council had spent three
nights with staff discussing all the details of the budgets by each fund across September
and October, ultimately in us to tonight, which Council will consider the adoption of
the budget.
Although the city did develop a biennial budget, the home-eral charter requires the adoption
of individual budgets by fiscal year, so tonight Council is only going to be adopting and
appropriate in sums of money for 2023. As required by state law and the
homeworld charter all funds in the 2023 proposed budget are balanced.
So there
are a few changes from what was presented and discussed with Council and that's
been historic practice and mentioned during the budget workshop. So there may be
some slight changes because the budget was really developed in the summertime and
some of the projects were our best guests at the time. So I'll go over all those
changes from what was presented and discussed to the numbers that are included in tonight.
The changes generally stem from receiving actual costs in various situations, and then
also some re-budgeted of projects.
And re-budget again for Council really just means that we had it in the 2022 budget.
In most of these cases, we expected those to be completed in 2022.
For various reasons, supply chains or delays in other items, those projects aren't going to get done in 2022, which is why we are re-budgeting and admin into the 2023 budget.
So I'll start off with the details of the changes and go through them by funds.
In the general fund, there was a handful of changes. The first one being update across all departments for benefits.
So during the budget process, we didn't have actual benefit costs, we're still working with our broker and our benefit providers to receive costs.
Those came back lower than initially estimated. So across all departments, there's a decrease of a little over 67,000 benefit costs.
Within the communication departments, professional services line item, there is a re-budget of 25,000 for previously budgeted ADA digital accessibility services.
The Office of Information Technology had a couple changes since we discussed during the budget workshop.
There was an increase to actual costs in the IT services that is for costs.
We received from our Ford and Net Services.
Then there's a re-budget of 25,000 for replacement of a key security and fuel system upgrades.
And those were delayed due to supply chain issues.
The last change is within the law enforcement public safety contract.
That increased potential was discussed at the September 12th budget workshop.
That's an increased estimate for vehicle replacement costs of about 207,000.
So across the general fund, there's changes totaling 200, 303 dollars.
In the street fund, there were two changes.
both rebudged it. The under professional services line item, there's a rebudged of 42,000
for the traffic signal box art wraps. Within the traffic signal line, there's a rebudged
it for the project work that would be done at Carable Barton Links Parkway for that improvement.
The total of the street fund changes is 242,000.
Then they capital improvement fund, two changes there.
There's a re-budget of 150,000 under IT systems line item.
That's a re-budget for the digital accessibility for closed captioning and recorded digital
audio and video.
Under the building improvements, we have a re-budget of 80,000 and then also additional increase
of 30,000.
And that's for the Eagle Street electronic electric vehicle charging station.
So the increase is due to potentially needing to replace or redo the transformer out there
for the charging station.
The total in the cabin improvement fund is 260,000.
Within the open space fund, there were changes across three line items.
All re-budgeted items. The first one was under the Park's line item.
That's for the previously budgeted centennial park project.
Those are for some of those costs that will be incurred in real into 2023.
The low entry trade trade re-budget of the low entry trade trade phase 2 design costs.
And then our regional partnerships, those are four projects that include the
Highline Canal and Tree Planting, the Arapo Park's Recreation District,
Trail Rest Station, and the South Suburban Park and Rector's District, Trail
Signage and Wayfinding. The total of that is $1,143 and $550.
So here's just a summary of all the changes and what that does to the total expenditures across the funds.
Again, we just went into those details, but each of those four funds increased based on those amounts we just discussed.
The beginning fund balances and ending fund balances do change, and since most of them were rebudgeted, it impacts the ending fund balance at the end of the year slightly.
But the increase, there's an increase in the game fund balance for each of those funds for those
re-budgeted items.
So on the screen now and in your packet was exhibit A and the resolution
and this document is the documents that really provide the legal authority to appropriate and
Expend funds in 2023.
This exhibit details the beginning fund balance for each fund, again the sources and uses
of each fund, the sources, again being the revenues and transfers in and these.
U.S. is being the expenditures and transfers out, and then the ending fund balance for each fund.
Then I know I mentioned that tonight was the culmination of the budget, but really it's not a trick you on that.
There are some more items we have. I didn't want to tell you it was a year long process without going in December.
So we do have a couple items remaining on December 12th, staff will come back and bring the council for consideration, the adoption of the 2022
property tax mill levy certification for collection in 2023 and also the city managers authorization, which is generally
includes those list of routine contracts and agreements and then last
staff will be finalizing remain sections of the budget book and also be
developing the budget in brief which will both be on the city's website by
the end of the year and then hard copies available for council and
citizens at the city building.
So that is all I have for council tonight. Are there
Any questions that Mayor Mr. Eddy can help answer for council?
Any questions?
I guess I'll start out and thank you guys for all the work.
Of course, that you've done, especially with the lift of taking us to a biennial budget
at the Giddle.
Under the long run, we'll be very productive for us as a municipality and how we can manage
and our expectations and services going forward.
So it'll be worth the efforts once we get through the initial phase of that.
So is anybody have any questions or comments?
You want to be quiet because we've all looked at this for so long already that we feel like we're all
pros.
So since there's no current questions from Council, I'll go ahead and open the public comment
portion of the public hearing.
Is there anyone from the audience who wishes to address this in this matter?
Good.
Andrew, because it's been a slow night.
But all these public hearings, I know why they say in the name.
I just think you're gonna need somebody to comment at some of the Congress of August.
It's at Six-Four South All-Star Circle.
I did listen to all of the budget meetings and I just really impressed with how smooth this process
is going into a two year, a Bianne, a bite,
and you all, boy. And I want to thank you, gentlemen here, especially for all the work
it must have taken to actually do this. Thank you very much. This has been impressive.
Thank you. Let's say something else.
I don't know.
Is there anyone else from the audience who wishes to speak?
All right.
So you know, I'll go ahead and close the public comment portion of the public hearing.
Any other additional comments or questions from Council?
All right.
Seeing none.
I'll entertain a motion.
Mayor, I move to approve Resolution 2022-R-57, a resolution of the City Council of the City
of Centennial Colorado adopting the city of Centennial 2023 budget and appropriating sums of money.
On some members, Sutherland, second, please vote.
Let the record show seven eyes the motion carries.
All right.
Yay!
Thank you.
Thank you, too.
Everyone in the City of Manor's Office for helping get this along and thank you to our
committee citizens that part of that process as well. We put in a lot of time and it pays off.
So thank you very much. So moving on everyone got in there. I should have had at their table when I sat down.
We are a discussion about the 2023 meeting schedule. You have a calendar in front of you that illustrates what the
meeting schedule would look like if we may obtain meeting on Mondays and then there's one for what it would
like if we entertain meeting on Tuesdays in 2023 and where there may be holiday conflicts or
where there may not be times that we have to change. Again, none of these meetings, these
are not set in stone. If there's any kind of emergency or any kind of, we don't have business,
there's no reason to have a meeting. We can always cancel a meeting or move a meeting if need be
to accommodate some other type of issue.
I would, my comment when I saw the calendar for the first time.
The Tuesday meetings look much more vertical.
The columns just are a little bit cleaner.
With them being on Tuesdays.
Not so much shift shift.
My understanding from most of council was that
nobody had any kind of,
Thanks, I'm about changing the date to Tuesday, so I want to re-assure to anybody listening at home and to our citizens that we will not be changing the backside of the meeting postings, and so we'll still have our stuff ready to go Friday mornings, we'll set her on the correct, that will be right, your dates will still be Council.
we receive your pack of sensors, day afternoons,
and we publish to the website on Friday mornings.
So I think one of the large advantages to that,
to being on Tuesday is just that we do have
council members at work, real job.
As opposed to some of us are a little bit more flexible,
we're from home kind of thing.
But when you're doing a nine to five or you've got
only the weekend to get through your packet, it puts pressure on council members to ask their
questions either over the weekend to staff or there's pressure on Monday to get an answer
back before five o'clock deadline and if there is a mistake or something that we need to catch,
it does put us in a tighter little time crunch to get some of that resolve before the choose before
meeting on a Monday evening versus at least a Tuesday evening we have an extra day and I would
express the same thing to our citizens that they have more time to review our packets before
the meeting on a Monday night and have the opportunity again to ask questions of our staff
on Monday after they've had that opportunity over the weekend to review packets so it does give
everybody, you know, one more day of time, which kind of rare to come by these days, so anybody else have any, was set around did I miss anything?
Thank you covered it.
So I think the goal would be to get consensus from everybody tonight, and so that we would have a resolution for the schedule.
And as of looking for consensus to move forward with this change,
if we received that tonight, we'll be back on the consent agenda.
With the update to your rules of order, which is your city council policy 2010-CCP-01,
to kind of put in those dates.
I included that in the staff report.
We would make that a little bit more flexible so that you can
choose your dates of the week based on which council is city.
And I did appreciate Ms. Settles notes in the packet about how the city council used to meet every Thursday.
When they first started, so thank you guys for all that work that you did back then, but
Yeah, it was.
It kind of gave you back.
I mean, it hasn't been that long, but at the same time, you know, it's, you know, a lot of things have changed over one of the years.
those things we've gotten more concise.
So thumbs up, thumbs down, Tuesday, Tuesday,
Tuesday. All right. Thank you. All right. Thank you very much. I appreciate you putting this together for us so that we will have a very nice visual. Thank you.
And we'll look for that resolution. All right. Any other matters to come for council? I don't think anybody.
No, certainly.
Thank you.
I don't need anything.
So we'll go ahead and go with reports.
We'll start with City Manager.
Thank you, Mayor Council.
A few things this evening.
First, on October 24th,
I had the pleasure of attending
Sencon with Council Member Sweetland and
Maurer.
Sencon invited me to come.
Talk about the biennial budget.
And what was included in the 2023-24 budget.
And how Council was prioritizing projects and how they were thinking strategically about the future of the city.
Very good presentation.
I really enjoyed the time with, with Sen. Con.
Really good questions, Q&A.
And I appreciate the opportunity to be there.
So thank you.
It was a good evening.
I'll let Council Member Sweenland give some other information, but I enjoyed it.
Just an update on the park you'll be getting additional information in your city manager
report.
It's getting late in the year, so there's going to be some landscaping that can't be
programmed this year.
They'll be coming back in the spring to finish up planting.
It's just, we've reached a time in the season where it's not optimal conditions to be putting
in plant materials, so the contract will be kept on to come back and do that.
Most of the hard improvements that should be completed were told by around Thanksgiving
now.
Again, that's subject to weather and how the asphalt plant stays open and things like that.
They're getting late in the year.
We want to make sure we get a quality outcome, that's the most important thing.
We know what our budget is, so we're working with the contractor to make sure that we
can do that, but there could be things lingering into spring of next year.
And staff has made the appropriate determination, again, that eating a quality product is more
important and asking the contractor to do something that may fail in the future.
So that's the space we're working from.
I also wanted to give Council an update on a Rapao County's ordinance 2022-01.
That's regarding the commercial marijuana stores, you know,
Incorporated a Rapao County.
The county appreciated the comments sent by City Council.
They did incorporate those comments into their ordinance.
So the ordinance that will be in front of the Board of County Commissioners
tomorrow does exclude those areas adjacent to the
centennial between Parker Road and I-25, so they took
that polygon that was shown to you and actually that's
included as an exhibit part of an exhibit that's associated
with that ordinance. So again, they appreciated Council
taking the time to submit formal comments and those
were considered and incorporated into what they're going to take action on tomorrow.
Everyone is aware that Proposition 123 is on the ballot and we will be following that
for council.
Once we have the election data in and we're able to go to the county clerk, we're going to
trying to get that in the response to that particular question by
precinct so that Council can see how the voters at Centennial considered
that question as you think about your housing policies. It will be maybe
some useful information as you deliberate going into next year how your
citizens considered that particular topic. So look for that to come back to
from staff here in the coming weeks.
Lastly, I wanted to show you a quick video, Mr. Denkin,
bring provided from the contractor.
It's a good area.
I'll show you what's going on down at the project,
on the Dry Creek Bridge on a Rapoho Road.
The projects moving around nicely since this was taken
around mid-October.
They have poured the decking.
They're hoping to transition the lanes over to the new bread section sometime between thanksgiving and Christmas
So the traveling public will move over to the south so they can add the second portion of the decking to the project as we move into the new year
I'm excited again Easter. It's a little bit. I know
But as if it does remain closed, to do the stormwater work and some other things that
they're doing on the south side of the Arapaho right away, that should be opened for by
Thanksgiving.
And they're nearing completion on that work, so we appreciate all of the patients of that
neighborhood as we've had to do that work over there.
And then just for Council, I will be traveling to National League of Cities next week.
I will be out, beginning Tuesday afternoon and returning Saturday, and that's in Kansas City.
I've been in a few years, I'm looking forward to getting that conference and seeing what's going on in our municipalities around the country.
Thank you.
And I said, London, anything else?
If you haven't heard tomorrow's election game,
I know.
But I want to do, and the public, to know that
the best place to get the results for the city's ballot question
and any other local races is through the county
at arapahoboats.com.
I'll be updating that soon after the polls close at 7 o'clock and then throughout the night in the next few days.
All right, I have three in.
I'll start at, let's see, first week, so we'll go to district one.
I'm ready.
But it's been a long time since we last met.
Good morning.
Wow, it's way back in October.
Yeah, I'll keep it very brief.
The whiskey warmer, huge hit, we also had a great district one meeting, really good turnout.
We also had youth council that met, there were new officer elections, the big topic
of discussion is team court.
As you can see, all of them were sitting behind the dios and getting to be in the shoes
of how it would actually proceed.
so fascinating experience. It was even more fascinating for me to go home and tell my kids if you
violate these rules, you might be in team court. So don't sneak out, just kidding. So really,
really great program. I also thought a chance to attend a little to and stride, which is benefiting
little to public schools. There's a picture here. And I just wanted to share the upper left hand
quarter is Andrew Graham. He's a new LPS board member that was just selected. And he had such positive
comments to share about Centennial's Council and just the city at large. What a great partnership
it was and I always like to say, you know, health and relationships between the cities and
school schools equal healthy communities. So it's very, very positive. How did chance to attend
the community grant award in District 1 at the point, which should be the next pictures. They actually
had a cake made, Ryan Thompson, when I had a chance to attend, and in the snow, they probably
had 20 people show up. They were so proud of their new sign received at the Grants Award,
it looked really, really good. And then had a wonderful time during the Centennial Airport with
the number of council members, and I'll just, they'll share this as well, but my favorite part
was learning that the undeveloped land is used for bees.
They put bees on the wind.
It was kind of cool.
I just really need it.
So yeah, there's some fun picks.
Thank you.
Thank you for sharing.
How's my name?
Yeah.
So I didn't make it to the whisky warmer, but I went to the city sponsored event at the
Coven Park on October 22nd for the Turkish retreat trail and it's a 5K run walk there.
as well, and it was very well-attended city should be very proud to be able to work with South
Swerve and the Kuthan on. I also did something a little different. I have volunteered with
the safer streets advisory committee orientation and we reviewed grants submitted by other
cities for safer streets in regards to criminal justice matters. It's an environment of trying
to encourage cities to put in for grants,
to improve their areas, their built areas,
to have other relations in the community.
I also attended Dr. Mack meeting,
and RTD has begun their new fair.
So there are several cities around us who are participating
with Dr. Mack and have done some amazing programs
to encourage seniors to ride and use the RTD services such as Flex Ride.
I had airport noise roundtable meeting last Wednesday.
The airport noise roundtable is dealing a lot with communities who have been impacted
by noise as a result of the mid-air collision earlier this spring since the FAA changed the rules
for landing and expanding the pattern and entering into the runway, the FAA has not responded
to invitations from the Centennial Airport to come and address some of the citizens' concerns,
but the airport themselves are still continuing to work with FAA and representative Jason
across office to get some resolution on those issues.
And that's all I have.
Thank you very much.
And come work with me.
Thank you.
So I visited the Lockheed Martin facilities
that the Aurora Chamber of Commerce,
which was really fun for me because I grew up here
and have never been inside the building.
So it was neat to see what they do.
And when somebody asked a question and they said,
I can't answer that in this room right here with these people.
But we could talk maybe later, depending, so that was interesting.
Then the Centennial Airport tour truly was fascinating.
I really appreciate staff putting that together for us.
They are such a huge revenue generator for the area.
So that was really a great tour.
We went to the long creek trail ribbon cutting and what was great about that was that
actual people using the trail while we were there talking about it so you know it's
going to get a lot of use and it's just nice to see our open space dollars that work and
benefiting members in the community.
I went to the Sancom meeting with Council Member Mower and I'm not sure what I'm going to talk about, but since I was told that I was going to talk about it, I just think that for I think it's really important that we as city council members that we do take our turn and go on a monthly basis and really update the Sancom folks as to what's happening in the city and give them an opportunity to ask questions.
But they were really interested in hearing about the budget
and our city manager did a wonderful job
answering a lot of questions.
And it's fascinating.
These are the people that talk to their neighbors
and what they're interested in and how important
Sankhan is for our city.
So they're, I talked about it.
And then we did one of our community improvement grants at Homestead Village, too.
We did not take a picture, but they were so appreciative.
They were so appreciative of the work that Ryan Thompson does.
They did a sign at their community and then they did some landscaping work on a medium
and we're right by the community pool,
we're a lot of people gather that used to just be empty
and so it was nice and lush.
So they really did appreciate that.
And then today was our final housing study work, working group.
So we're looking forward to talking to all of you
about what we've talked through.
But we really do appreciate,
we had citizens that came that participated every month for the last year so that we will
have a really good report for you guys to go forward with so we really appreciate their commitment
to the city and being a part of that on a monthly basis. So that is it. Again, thank you.
And
October 18th, I attended the Salsa Bourbon Parks and Rec District meeting with Council Member
Holt and Mr. Sturgeon. This is the group where the liaison group with the Salsa Bourbon
Parks and Rec District. They're moving along with several big capital improvement projects
and they're experiencing increases in the cost of building materials like everyone else in the world these days.
So they have a new deputy executive director for IT and administration and operations that was a new hire.
They're also working on plans for the new Pickleball Courts complex.
It's going to be built at the corner of Broadway and County Line, the Southwest corner.
Pickleball is all the rage these days, and so they're responding to the public interest in Pickleball.
And they did give us a little glimpse of what might be coming in the way of a possible bond issue
coming up in either 2025 or 2026.
So this is a ways out, but they really need some additional funding to redo goods in
center, which is old and needs work. And they're also looking at, at that time, in that
same bond issue, funds to repurpose the old South suburban Isorina, which is basically to
the west sort of southwest of goods and if you go across the little bridge there.
And they're also looking at a new rec center to be built in loan tree east of I-25.
So that's a long way from Centennial kind of, but there's a lot of development going
on their planned development for the city of Laundry.
It's ended the Faith Council meeting on October 25th.
That was after the great whiskey warmer on October 22nd,
in which the Sutherland celebrated their wedding anniversary
on that day as well.
So we had essentially shots for our wedding.
And we're not, we're not talking COVID-19 vaccine shots, so it was a great event and thanks
to everyone at the city for doing all that part work on it.
And let's see, did the airport tour and lunch on November the 4th?
I learned a lot.
There's a lot of land out there, and it was fascinating to see the additional hangar facilities that have been added to the south end of the airport property, particularly the place where the new Broncos ownership will have their planes,
their ownership will have facilities for their planes.
So that's pretty much it, and thank you very much.
Awesome.
That's very helpful.
Thank you, Mayor.
So being towards the end of the line, a lot of it's going to be a repeat.
So I won't drone on about it, but whiskey, warmer, fantastic.
So many people came up to me and thank me for thanking the city for putting this on.
I think it's great for the community, it's great for the businesses, the businesses absolutely
love being there.
So I think this is just a really good program here, a long-treat, a long-treat ribbon cutting.
Let's see, also it's like the Centennial Airport Tour, interesting fact, it believe
or not.
It is the 17th busiest airport in the United States of America, and I thought that was
absolutely amazing that we have such a busy, busy airport literally right in our back
here. Attended at Waters Impact on Business, which was, which is very interesting, also along
with the Council on Sutherland, the House of Urban Parks and Rec, breakfast. And if I heard
right and correct me here, the dog park will be open within weeks. So I'm planning on myself
but Wilson, too well, Wilson's underburner doodled to Chris.
We'll go ribbon cutting on that one.
And finally, Fiber, met with the Fiber Commission, the Fiber Works Commission,
and look for a presentation from the citizen members to the Addendum to the Fiber Master Plan.
possibly next next session may be in December.
But there you have it.
Thank you very much.
Mayor Pertum, she can.
Thank you, Mayor.
Many of the typical or usual standing meetings that I have.
Senior Commission, Arapo Park, Recreation,
SEM SWAT, did go to a defense council,
social up at the launch pad brewery with many of the troops from Buckley Space Force base
where they're including Colonel Jackson.
On the 20th it was a Thursday, I went over as an
observer to Eagle Street to watch the, they did an active shooter drill, a Nate Fog, who plays
a great crazy man from a sheriff's office of emergency management had a semi-nition gun.
I mean, they literally blanks and came in and unbeknownst to the folks at Eagle Street.
They knew it was coming, but they didn't know what he was going to do.
It was a great exercise.
Everybody over there took it very seriously.
They'd been through some training and some drills beforehand, but took it very seriously.
And then they had a debrief afterwards and there was a lot of good, constructive talk about what went right for the employees, what went wrong and so on.
So my applied to the effort that the input...
Employees over at Eagle Street put into this. It was a very interesting day. Whiskey warmer, I had a couple
shots in honor of your anniversary, I guess. Yeah, it was my pleasure. I don't know how Allison pulls off
the weather, but a beautiful day. Let's see, the award chamber board of directors meeting. I also
went out to Lockheed Martin for the Defense Council meeting there. On the first November, the sheriff's
Department sponsored a seminar on human trafficking.
It had an investigator from Homeland Security.
And it was interesting.
I mean, you don't think of labor trafficking and sex trafficking, maybe being something
that we have in this area and certainly in Centennial, but we do.
And it is a very serious issue, and we fortunately have Homeland Security that does the
investigations and arresting people at some point.
Also did the Lone Tree Creek ribbon cutting, beautiful trail, the Centennial Airport to
were Saturday, I went down to Colorado Springs to interview prospects or candidates for
the service academies in the U.S. for Air Force Academy, West Point, Naval Academy
at anapolis and the merchant marine. I did it last year and I'm going to do it again on this
coming Saturday with Council Member Sweetland and maybe I don't know anybody else is going to go.
But it's, I don't know, we get to do a lot of fun things as Council Members, but this is one of the
times that you really get a good sense of what the future of our country might be when you've got.
In my case, we had about 15 different high school age people that are willing to, in exchange
for a very good education, but are willing to give back to their country at an early
age like that.
So it's very inspiring and in my mind, and I look forward to it.
It was a lot of fun.
If anybody has any interest in doing that on Sunday, I think they're still looking for people
to help interview candidates.
I think Saturday is full, but Sunday is available, so you have an interest talk to me and we'll
log it, so I hooked up.
And then finally, this morning, health one and HCA had an orientation meeting for the Community
Advisory Board that we, of all hospitals that are part of the health one network, specifically
though, Centennial Hospital is part of that network and I sit on that board and had a nice
conversation about what their expectations are and what they plan to do going forward.
So, that was it for a couple of weeks.
There you are again.
So, I try to breeze through everything that's been kind of said, but I do want to give again a shout out
to staff for everything for whiskey warmer.
Great attendance sold out.
So, a lot of tickets in advance.
There were some available day oven.
We probably could have sold even more day.
they were definitely popular and I heard many people say they had been to every single one
like it's their thing so it's kind of fun that we've got something that's been going on long enough
now that everybody we have repeat you know performance is going on so I just want to give
a shout out to council everyone here is what you guys all do and how well represented we are at
so many different things in numbers and I too was at like Lockheed Martin and there were three
of us there right for Lockie Martin. I would say we had three of us at the Waters Impact,
presentation by Denver Water, and I think really only elected officials in the room,
if I'm not mistaken. There was a full room. It was mostly business people from downtown Denver
was put on by the Denver Chamber or hosted there. So you know, I just, it's just, we all think
that it's our responsibility to be there and no one make, you know, I don't ask you guys
to go much sometimes, but not always, and everyone just comes, so I really appreciate
the fact that we're, and it is notice. I will say people, people do recognize that. I also
wanted to say that, and hopefully this Thomas can help me, but we had the homeless coordinating
committee meeting for the county wide. Oh, we could go Friday. Mr. Flamingwant, Ms. Thomas
and I myself and we and I can't remember what the piece, the pillars were. They had, I
saw, I don't have my notes with me from it and we went through and had identified.
Yeah, it was like four peas that we were using.
These were present, the like strategy areas, the values.
Yeah, then we only came up with a fifth one too.
So we sat in groups, but basically the groups that we were in broke those down and we took a couple of them and looked at what were the things that we thought were the areas of biggest need within the community and what we could, you know, do what we needed to be done more urgently than other things.
So more to come on that it is definitely an ongoing group and really starting to gel together
I think a little bit better than it has been in the past.
So, and then let's see, my other one.
Oh, Friday.
I was in the Cherry Creek School District this week is celebrating Veterans Week.
They do it.
They entire week of Veterans Day and so they had they kicked it off last Friday with a parade
from Ask and Aspen crossings down to Skye Bista middle school has we had all the kids
March the Eagle Cross high school band came out and did the March they had floats that
they put together and everything was a lot of fun and then they had a very nice ceremony
inside Skye Bista with both the choirs performing and for orchestra performing and they
of seated in the front for all the veterans that were in attendance, and then they were also
recognized as a very first school district in the State of Colorado to be designated a purple
heart district for all the efforts the Cherokee School District does to honor veterans and to work with
that and explain make sure we're passing that information onto our young kids. So it was very nice
ceremony. They did a great job and we'll definitely be working closely in the future because that's
kick off one and then they have one this Friday that is further east out by more Cherokee
Trail high school and do another set of parades out there so that that's a very nice
tribute that they do and as I've noticed with all the Cherokee schools I have all the flags
in front of all their schools this whole week too so it's very nice to see that done and I just
of this and add to that at the Faith Council meeting, some at church, I had a meeting with them,
welcome them. They're kind of reorganizing but they joined the Faith Council. I know the church
are hosted the Faith and Blue for their off-road for somebody. So, and what they said they've been
40 years? Yeah. So, they're one of those. Well, yeah, a long time, but they've been
than around there. So with that, and then I think
I pretty much bring this up to date. So we do
have a, just want to, you know, to like on Thursday, post election, obviously, we are for already
having a meeting with in Denver South as meeting with the left of the officials that will be
elected, that will be working in that Denver South reason, region in order to try to do kind of
and trying to help identify some of the issues that we wish the legislature would take up and that
would assist with some other things. So trying to get that meeting in early as possible, we scheduled
it with everyone, every candidate, so that they all know, depending on what happens to them.
And I bought Powerball tickets. So I'm just saying I never do that because I just, just not my thing,
But someone suggested it yesterday, and I was just in front of them.
And the store is like, oh, what the heck?
So, um, but my husband says if we want, he won't be there when I go, I'm not sure.
I didn't get any kind of text message or anything like this.
And it's good, but hopefully it'd be nice if somebody had sent any of those part of it.
So, all right, uh, does anybody have anything else?
No, all right, did anybody looking at the agenda today?
I think we would be out of here at 80.
Man, I'm just saying it.
Thank you very much.
You guys, I'll have a great evening.
We are adjourned.