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[0:55] You can hear everyone. How would like to call the August 24th meeting of the governing body to order? Madam Clerk, would you please take the roll?
[1:04] Dr. Aldrich, present. Mayor Collins.
[1:07] Dr. Evans. Present. Mr. Escobel.
[1:10] Here.
[1:10] Mr. Leborn. Mr. Moody.
[1:14] Dr. Rene.
[1:15] Mr. C. Grape.
[1:16] Present. Mr. White.
[1:17] Present. Mr. Wolfe.
[1:18] Present.
[1:19] All members are present. We do have a quorum.
[1:21] Would y'all join me please in the pledge of allegiance?
[1:23] I
[1:28] pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and it's you, the Republic, for which it stands, one nation, kind or odd, indivisible with liberty and justice for them.
[1:49] Number four, consent agenda, all agenda items listed with the designation of CA are considered to be routine items by the governing body and will be enacted by one motion.
[1:58] There will be no separate discussion on these items unless a member of the governing body so requests and support by two other members is received.
[2:04] And he had him remove from the consent agenda will be considered in its normal sequence on the agenda.
[2:09] All right, are there any items?
[2:11] I remember this governing body would like to remove from the consent agenda. Mr. Mayor, yes, Mr. Leibmore.
[2:16] Number 10.
[2:17] Mr. Mayor, 9A.
[2:21] Concern.
[2:25] Okay.
[2:26] We've removed 9A and 10.
[2:29] I think both he left is a minutes.
[2:33] All right, I'll entertain emotions.
[2:34] we can prove the middle moves. Second. And that was Dr. Aldrich. All those in favor of the
[2:41] consent agenda with an item's 9A and 10 removed. We signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. No,
[2:47] opposed. All right. The consent agenda is approved. We will consider 9A and 10 in their normal
[2:52] sequence on the agenda. Number six, a public hearing transfer of location and ownership of
[2:59] technical license application. I'll let the city clerk's office for capital city hospitality.
[3:04] LLC doing business as Wyoming discount liquor. 35.01 East Lincoln Way,
[3:08] Cheyenne Lyoming. License currently held by 1734 partners. LLC 1734 metal and drive Cheyenne
[3:15] Lyoming. All right. This time, we'll open a public hearing and give folks here in the
[3:19] audience an opportunity to comment on this transfer of location for a retail liquor license and
[3:25] Mr. Johnson, I do not know if you wanted to come up and start us off as it your application.
[3:33] Good evening, Mayor Collins and members of the Cheyenne City Council.
[3:37] I'm John Johnson.
[3:39] I'm here to represent capital city hospitality.
[3:42] I have one item that I'd like to hand out if that's possible.
[3:47] So
[3:55] capital city hospitality.
[3:57] We just purchased the building that used to be the big lots building down there at 35.01.
[4:04] East Lincoln Way down there in the Cheyenne Plaza shopping center.
[4:07] And our intentions for this property are to put in a retail liquor store, a restaurant, and a potential third tenant of an OTB.
[4:21] When we're done with that project, well the first let me just talk about, we're going to do it in phases.
[4:27] The first phase will be the retail liquor store.
[4:30] And our intentions are to start on construction right after the first year and be open by the end of the first quarter.
[4:36] Well, the second phase will probably be, like I said, we're still in negotiations on this,
[4:42] would be Valley's OTV, and then the third phase will be our restaurant, Wyoming L works.
[4:51] The, you're probably wondering why the delay on the restaurant, well, we're in the middle
[4:53] of a big project up in buildings with the restaurant right now, and that one's going to open in the,
[4:59] They were end of it.
[5:00] First quarter, second quarter of next year and you know, just our company's not that big where we can do two and one year. So that's the purpose for that.
[5:10] I feel like this is the highest invest use for a retail liquor license. We're going to have a retail liquor store. We're going to have a full service sit down restaurant.
[5:20] When we have when the restaurants completed we'll be able to do off-premise catering from that facility as well.
[5:25] And then, of course, the OTP would be an entertainment component.
[5:30] The other half of our building, as you know, is the frontier trampoline park.
[5:34] So, that's the building that we bought, just for reference for everybody.
[5:40] If we didn't have all three components of this project,
[5:45] we would not be able to make a project of this size work,
[5:47] not in China, not anywhere in the world, so, you know, not for us anyway.
[5:52] So, I would hope that you would support the transfer of this license for us.
[5:56] Thank you, Mr. Johnson.
[5:57] Is there anybody on the governing body that like the ask question of the applicant?
[6:00] Dr. Aldrich, I know you're going to have a question.
[6:02] You always do.
[6:03] I do.
[6:04] Marry through you.
[6:07] As I'm looking at this floor plan, it appears that there is a meeting room, if you will.
[6:16] And then it actually looks like there's two with it.
[6:18] part of the Wyoming L Works restaurant or that have entrances off of the restaurant. Is that accurate?
[6:27] Mr. Johnson? Yes. Mayor, through you. Yes. Dr. Aldrich, that is correct. There is a 60 person meeting room
[6:36] and another 20 person meeting room. All up, Dr. Aldrich? I guess the only other question I had was the
[6:45] The restaurant looks like it opens the entrance to that is on the west end of that building.
[6:54] Is that correct?
[6:54] That is correct.
[6:56] So the liquor store entrance, which is the current, you know, the entrance to the former big lots still exists and will exist.
[7:05] And that is the entrance to the liquor store.
[7:07] On the west side, we're going to put two new store friends.
[7:10] And one will be the one to the restaurant, and then the other one would be to the third tenant, the potential OTP.
[7:18] Thank
[7:21] you.
[7:22] Dr. Rimmeth.
[7:23] Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
[7:24] So when we're looking at this as far as orientation, are we looking this way?
[7:33] Or are we looking this way?
[7:35] This way.
[7:37] So we're both looking at it.
[7:39] If the arrows to my right would be, this is East Lincoln way here, and this is Ridge Road,
[7:48] the top of the map,
[7:52] yes, the top of the map, no, sorry, the entrance, I'm sorry, you guys.
[7:56] The bottom of the map, the top of the map, we have floor plan on the bottom is Ridge Road.
[8:05] Thank you. Thank you.
[8:08] welcome.
[8:13] All right.
[8:14] There's nothing.
[8:20] You're light on on.
[8:22] Mr. Secret.
[8:24] Thank you, sir.
[8:24] Looks like a great project.
[8:26] Tell us a little bit if you can about Wyoming ill works.
[8:30] What's going to be your restaurant?
[8:32] What's it going to be?
[8:33] Well, so Wyoming ill works.
[8:35] I should say the Cheyenne version of Wyoming ill works is going to be a blended
[8:40] concept of our Wyoming ill works that we have in Casper.
[8:43] So it's not just beer where we have a full bar with liquor, wine beer, 40 taps of beer.
[8:51] And then we're going to blend it with the best menu items from Wyoming Elwurst Casper and the best menu items of Jay's Pub Casper.
[8:58] We feel like there's the best of both.
[9:00] We've worked really hard in Casper, not to have our restaurants compete with themselves.
[9:04] But here we think that we can blend those two and have an awesome concept.
[9:09] It'll operate under the brand name of Wyoming Elwurst.
[9:14] Thank you, Sam's great.
[9:15] Mr. Escobel.
[9:17] Thank you Mr. Mayor, through you.
[9:20] Sir, I think it'd be a great addition to my word.
[9:24] Right.
[10:00] And does redesign yet? As you know that, that west side of that, of that parking line is in this repair. So we have not had the civil engineers work on that yet. I mean, we're obviously going to try to get as many as possible. But truthfully, our main parking field is still going to be out in front of the building.
[10:19] Thank you.
[10:20] Okay, welcome.
[10:22] Thank you.
[10:23] Mr. Johnson, maybe just tell us a little bit of what your plans are for the actual building itself from the outside and in the parking area out in front and all that type of stuff.
[10:30] and what your plans are, maybe not specifically,
[10:34] but overall what you hope to accomplish?
[10:37] Well, when we get, when we get completely finished,
[10:39] Mr. Mayor, we're gonna want it to look like a multi-tenant building.
[10:43] And so we're gonna work really hard on this storefront
[10:46] on that west side so that people don't miss
[10:50] what's really going on over there.
[10:52] We don't want, you know, obviously the restaurant's gonna need
[10:55] a lot of traffic, so we're gonna work.
[10:58] The front, the in general, I mean,
[11:00] repainted, we haven't gotten into the complete design phase on this yet. We're in the still in the very, very early conceptual part, but I just, you know, from the talks that we've had with our architects, you know, and what we're, you know, what our vision is is to have it where when you drive down Lincoln way, you can tell or redrode that you can tell that there are tenants on that west side as well, you know, our businesses, I don't want to call them tenants, but businesses on that west side.
[11:28] And in addition, and you don't just think that when you look at the front of it, it's just a big liquor store.
[11:36] Okay.
[11:37] Mr. Wolf.
[11:39] Mr. Mayor, thank you.
[11:40] Through you.
[11:41] Thank you, Mr. Johnson.
[11:43] Really appreciate you coming for us and for this information.
[11:48] Well, did I understand you correctly that you own this space now where the frontier trampoline is located in there a ten hundred years?
[11:57] That is correct. So that that entire building if you remember from or I should I should be the one that probably needs to remember
[12:03] But anyway, I believe back in the day that used to be the hobby lobby and it was a 60,000 square foot building and then it got subdivided in the trampoline park has 25,000 square feet of that. So yes, they are a tenet. So
[12:18] the building consists of everything from the
[12:21] rent a center to the west. And all the parking lot that goes all the way out to Lincoln
[12:28] Way, you can kind of tell what some of the new seal code looks like out there from the
[12:33] previous owner. And then it just curves out those two other buildings, the Aaron's
[12:39] rent on and what used to be one of the dollar stores up there in the corner.
[12:45] Mr. Mayor, follow us, sir. Thank you, sir, through you.
[12:50] So who owns the parking lot?
[12:53] We own the lot that's in ours.
[12:57] I mean, it's a parcel.
[12:59] And of course, you have the cross parking and easement agreements for the entire Cheyenne Plaza.
[13:08] So we share with, I mean, you share cross access with what the old Sherry's building,
[13:12] the, you know, ace heart, you know, all of that, ace hardware, rent to center and on down.
[13:18] I mean, everybody shares everything.
[13:21] This is a, uh, it's wolf.
[13:25] There's the, the derbars Indian restaurant.
[13:29] And then there's a new restaurant going in next to it is, is, uh, is that related at all to what you're doing?
[13:38] No, you're not at all.
[13:40] I mean, it's all different, and it sounds like I did not know about that other restaurant, but
[13:45] That's exciting because I think as we all know, you know, being Donald's and Burger King and Wendy's, they all build across the street from each other because it's great for business. So I think the more restaurants we can attract into that area will be awesome.
[13:58] Thank you. Thank you.
[14:01] Dr. Alder.
[14:02] Mayor Collins, who I just want to remind my colleagues that when a few years ago when we were
[14:08] looking for a restaurant to have a council, a straw poll vote dinner at, we had a really tough time
[14:16] and more three finding a sit-down restaurant that was not ethnic cuisine that would have suited
[14:22] everybody's taste and, you know, food allergens and things like that. And we limited, there is really
[14:31] limited space in our community for restaurants that have meeting rooms where there can be meetings
[14:37] and and meals occurring at the same time. So I appreciate that you're looking at ward 3 for
[14:44] this project and I think it will be a great addition to ward 3. We definitely have a lot of
[14:49] quick serve restaurants, but I will be nice to have some more options for sit down restaurants.
[14:55] Thank you.
[15:00] I'd like to say thank you for, I know we've been talking for a number of years about you coming to this community and for being a Wyoming company, investing in the capital city.
[15:09] I really appreciate that. We're looking forward to sitting down at your restaurant and seeing what you do.
[15:15] Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Councillors. I appreciate you. Look forward to your support.
[15:20] Thank you. Anybody else in the audience want to speak under this public hearing on this opportunity?
[15:25] I got it.
[15:29] Anybody?
[15:30] All right, Jennifer, who do you have?
[15:33] Mr. Miller, you can go ahead.
[15:37] Can you hear me?
[15:38] Yes, we can hear you.
[15:44] Mr. Miller, are you there?
[15:46] I guess I am.
[15:47] Mayor Collins members of the City Council, Charles Miller, for the permanent administrative record.
[15:52] My comments tonight are strictly germane to item number 6A, the public hearing regarding the retail liquor license transfer of location and ownership to capital city hospitality.
[16:04] LLC doing business as Wyoming discount liquor at 3501 in East Linkway.
[16:14] As citizen auditors, our role is not to simply watch you govern it is to ensure the paper
[16:19] trail you sign is lawful, complete, and free of defects.
[16:22] I mean, a simple ordinance or administrative action is only as strong as its foundation.
[16:26] When we audit the public records uploaded to night first night's meeting, we find a glaring
[16:31] resolve to defect on the face of the supporting documents for this license transfer.
[16:36] The applications submitted under WS-124-104 and 124-201 contains a temporal collapse.
[16:47] The official forms attached to tonight's agenda pack list the
[16:53] list the filing data as July 30 of 2024 and the statutory public advertisement
[16:58] dates as August 13th, 2024. Yet we are standing here on August 24th, 26th. Being asked to approve this transaction tonight.
[17:10] While this administration may dismiss this as a mere clerical error or a harmless artifact of form recycling the law does not operate on close enough.
[17:18] The Wyoming Supreme Court has made it clear that strict compliance with notice publication administrative timelines is a jurisdictional prerequisite.
[17:25] You can not lawfully execute a binding municipal action based on an active applicant, application packet, carrying two year old dates.
[17:33] It leaves this license transfer structurally vulnerable to future administrative challenges.
[17:37] If the city can routinely demand that small private property owners that year to the absolute letter of our unified development code under the threat of misdemeanor prosecution,
[17:47] then this governing body must hold itself and major corporate applicants to the same exact to the exact same standard.
[17:54] I demand that the City Clerk explained the discrepancy in the filing and advertised
[17:57] as we'd dates on the records tonight if the application forms are indeed outdated
[18:00] the public hearing must be continued and the applicant must submit a corrected packet that
[18:04] reflects the actual current timeline under Wyoming statute 124104D.
[18:09] Let's clean up our own paperwork before we vote to approve covering yourselves accordingly.
[18:13] Thank you.
[18:15] There anybody else that would like to speak under this public hearing?
[18:19] Hearing none, the purpose of the public hearing has been met will assign this item to the
[18:26] Next item is 9A on page 2, Memorandum of Understanding Between the City of Shyam, Shyam
[18:34] Police Department and Laramie County School District Number 1 for the School Resort
[18:37] Officers Program.
[18:40] All right.
[18:40] Is there anybody here in the audience today that would like to speak to this item?
[18:47] Okay.
[18:48] Let Mr. Miller in.
[18:53] Mr. Miller, you can unmute yourself.
[19:01] Mr. Miller, are you there?
[19:02] Can you hear me?
[19:04] Yes.
[19:11] excuse me it's familiar do you have a comment? I do.
[19:20] Mayor Collins members of the
[19:21] sea council Charles Miller for the record. Tonight right now I'm trying to
[19:27] discuss item 90 ADSRO member and I'm of understanding extending through August 31st
[19:32] 2027. Well this contract reads clean on paper we must view it through the lens of
[19:37] hands actual history with school-based policing. As our own local SROs have pointed out on the
[19:42] record specifically, Officer Fedella, the school resource officer at South High and President
[19:48] of the Wyoming SRO Association back in 2011 and 2012, National Reports ranked Wyoming as the
[19:55] number one state for funneling juveniles through the court system. Our SROs are trained.
[20:00] The statutory citation noticed duty under Wyoming statute 146206C is actively utilized to keep
[20:07] kids out of municipal court and direct it instead toward pre-court, diversion, and rehabilitation,
[20:12] rehabilitative programs. True community policing means looking at the why behind student
[20:18] behavior not simply writing a ticket when our youth alternatives program is already managing
[20:22] high case volumes for juvenile crisis shelter and probation services. We must guarantee that
[20:29] our SROs are using graduated restorative sanctions.
[20:34] I urge this Council to approve this demo.
[20:36] You tonight, though, with a firm directive to the chief of police.
[20:38] We expect an annual public reporting of all school-based citations, searches, and diversion
[20:42] referrals.
[20:43] Let us ensure that our SRO program is serving as a protective shield for student rights
[20:47] not as a conduit to the juvenile justice system.
[20:51] Thank you.
[20:53] Anybody else in the audience would speak to this SRO contract, which is our school resource
[20:58] office or contract.
[21:00] Hearing none, Mr. Escobo, may we have a motion please. Mr. Mayor, the recommendation of the Finance Committee is to approve and I so move.
[21:09] Second, seconded by Mr. White, Mr. Escobo. Mr. Mayor, I move to amend by substitute dated August 18th, 2026.
[21:18] Seconded by Mr. C. Grave, no one think I think that this substitute does clarifies that the school dasir will pay 75% of the salaries of the police officers,
[21:29] That which basically is the school year and then the city will pay the 25% of the summer when the school's not in session anybody want to speak to that substitute before us
[21:39] Hearing not how about from the governing body
[21:42] All those in favor please signify by saying aye. Aye. Those opposed the substitute is adopted and we're back on the main motion
[21:52] comments
[21:53] Yes, ma'am
[21:56] I want to ask about 4D on the contract.
[22:02] The city will provide cellular phones for use in official communications with district employees.
[22:07] Are these cellular phones in addition to the equipment that we already provide to the police officers or the SROs?
[22:17] Captain James.
[22:21] Mr. Mayor, Captain David James, shine and please Department.
[22:24] Historically, the school district has provided the cell phone, the actual cell phone.
[22:28] But recently, we wanted to start using our dispatch integration with the phone.
[22:35] In order to do that and follow NCIC rules, it has to be a department-owned device.
[22:41] So they still are issued a phone. It's just owned by the police department and the school district reimburse us for the phone.
[22:48] So that's the big difference.
[22:51] Dr. Carl, does that answer your question?
[22:52] It does, Mayor Collins.
[22:54] I just had one follow-up comment, and that is that having worked in a school where we had a very strong SRO presence for all 15 years that I was there.
[23:06] The SROs are quite honestly a vital part of our educational system and our student safety.
[23:13] And I would highly encourage my colleagues to support this contract and understand that a lot of the prevention
[23:20] of what happens in our community or could happen in our community as criminal activity is prevented
[23:27] through the SRO relationship with our students. So I would highly support this.
[23:34] Heather Cummins, Dr. Emmons.
[23:37] Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I would like to echo what Councilwoman Aldrich just said.
[23:44] As a member of the Juvenile Justice Joint Powers Board, every month we hear the reports,
[23:50] of juvenile justice issues in the community and I want to make sure that everybody
[23:56] doesn't understand that we do have a very strong diversion program with in conjunction with
[24:04] the SROs and every month we hear about the successes that the SROs are able to achieve and
[24:13] up with our kids who may just be teeter and on that line. So I think it's incredibly important
[24:21] and I would also encourage all of my colleagues to approve this.
[24:27] Keep it also in the governing body. All right, hearing none. All those in favor, please signify
[24:31] by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Those opposed. This MOU is approved as amended. Next, I name as number
[24:37] Our 9B professional services agreement between the city of Cheyenne and our Dura group Inc
[24:42] for Operation Modification at the Pershing Converse and 193 round about.
[24:47] All right.
[24:48] Glad to the audience, is there anybody here in the audience today that would like to speak to this
[24:51] contract?
[24:52] How about online?
[24:54] Hearing none, Mr. Escobel, may we have a motion please.
[24:58] Mr. Mayor.
[25:00] Mr. Mayor,
[25:03] the motion to approve failed in the finance committee. Therefore, there is no recommendation. However, for the sake of discussion, I moved to approve and the amount not to exceed 186,500.
[25:15] Second, second, by Mr. Seagriff.
[25:19] I'd like to comment for members of the governing body.
[25:25] I want to just make sure we got the amount right.
[25:27] Is it 1-85-600 or is it 1-86-500?
[25:32] I have 1-86-5.
[25:34] And I wrote down 1-85-6.
[25:35] I just want to make sure I did write it down Ron.
[25:37] It's probably me, Mr. Askebel.
[25:42] 1-86-5.
[25:44] Okay. Thank you, sir.
[25:47] All right.
[25:48] comments from the company body.
[25:52] I already did very little. Mr.
[25:55] Clayborne.
[25:56] Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
[25:58] I wasn't able to attend the finance committee.
[26:01] And so I'm very curious as why that recommendation didn't occur.
[26:07] And now what exactly is going to be covered by this contract?
[26:11] Well, we had one vote. Yes, one vote. No, so it was split.
[26:15] And Mr. Cobb, if you could maybe just outline for Mr.
[26:18] and for the committee and the audience, what you hope to accomplish with this contract.
[26:23] Mayor, I'd love to. Through you to the council as a whole and Mr. Leiborn specifically.
[26:28] So, I think there was some confusion. I actually did a different item and Aaron did present,
[26:33] but she did her very best to try to explain this, but I'll put it in a little bit simpler terms.
[26:38] This really, the purpose of the agreement is to build on the previous study that was done
[26:43] by MTJ, we did that in 2019, when I first came into my position, the former city traffic engineer
[26:53] had found that we were having an extensive amount of PDO accidents, so property damage
[26:59] accidents, injury accidents were way down, but we still had an extraordinary number of these
[27:10] basically three recommendations to us.
[27:13] We never implemented anything.
[27:16] We had other priorities that were on the top of my list.
[27:20] And now I've been waiting to do this for quite some time.
[27:23] So I want to make sure that we did this.
[27:26] Now, as the purpose of the agreement itself is really,
[27:29] it's an update, as I said, we want to build on previous work.
[27:33] And we want to look and to make sure that we've
[27:36] approved or included the latest RAB technologies because things changed, right?
[27:42] In my world, we have new ways of implementing different things.
[27:46] The MTAJ still is at still valid and what they looked at.
[27:50] So the purpose of this really is look update what was done previously.
[27:54] And I guess update the traffic counts because those have changed.
[27:58] We're going to observe the current performance.
[28:01] We're going to do a perform an operational analysis.
[28:04] And then we're going to compare the findings of that 2019 report.
[28:09] I've got, I've got a slide to show you what those worse.
[28:11] You can kind of see.
[28:13] And then develop really the final improvements and the construction documents
[28:17] for implementation in the summer of 2027.
[28:21] That's the primary purpose is obviously getting this out in the street
[28:24] and making these improvements.
[28:26] So one of the additional things that we're looking at that it,
[28:29] it was should have been done when I first got into my position.
[28:32] and could you go back for a second, Jennifer?
[28:34] I'm sorry.
[28:43] Sure.
[28:44] On the right side of the screen,
[28:45] the entry end of the roundabout,
[28:47] this is coming going westbound.
[28:50] When Blue Federal Credit Union came in,
[28:54] we may or at a separate agreement,
[28:56] we were on hook to do some,
[28:59] I guess, medians and some extensions,
[29:02] those medians, we've been having wands out there,
[29:04] as you approach that westbound entry in
[29:07] from the east side, snow plows, then hit all those, we've been trying to get that done for a
[29:12] long time. So that's one of the improvements that's going to come automatic without any any debate.
[29:17] We have to get that in. And as you can see on the left, I just wanted to show you that crash history
[29:23] in 2014 through 2019. So the red numbers are those PDO accents I talk about. And then the blue are
[29:30] the injury accents. Now those are just ones obviously, it depends on the reporting at the time,
[29:36] but their minor injuries, there was no significant injuries.
[29:41] And you can see the highest was in 2015
[29:44] with 84, 63, 30, you can see it's various.
[29:48] And then as it's been in the last few years,
[30:00] Numbers from the MPO, because they track that for me. I don't have the specifics, but off the top of my head. I would tell you there in the hundreds now. So it's getting worse. So I knew we had to do something. And that's why I wanted to put this contract forward. And again, this is for implementation. We're not going to restart a study. We're simply going to ensure that what we have is the correct way to go and implement anything that we need to do with a modern roundabout now.
[30:25] Let's see. I'll go to the next slide.
[30:30] Oops.
[30:31] Yeah. So there were three options that MT TJ came up within 2019.
[30:37] And so they went from a very simple and call it, I saw it.
[30:41] I say option A was to do some screening on the north side.
[30:45] And all of you have talked about this in several work sessions.
[30:48] But the issue is when you come down the hill going southbound and the roundabout,
[30:53] you have a clear vision of everything.
[30:55] And so what happens is drivers like to skip the gaps, they don't want to yield, even if there's traffic there,
[31:01] if they feel like there's a gap and they can build up speed, they sort of work their way around the roundabout,
[31:06] not the way the roundabout should operate. So all three of the options A, B, and C included that screening on the north side.
[31:14] Now the screening is not a big wall, right? We can't do that because I would have snow drifting.
[31:18] So in this particular case, what I envision this would be is sort of at driver eye height and above, okay, just a small screen wall that a decorative art element that would go in.
[31:32] That would block the vision of you being able to see everything through the round about now the bottom side would be wide open because I would allow then snow to go underneath the screening area that was I think I picture it as a piece of artwork.
[31:46] haven't really determined yet where we go with it, but an option for that to be art and then
[31:51] again, snow could go underneath, no issues. Now, the other part of this, which we've already
[31:56] implemented some of this, is at the time that we did this study, the markings on the roundabout
[32:01] were in horrible shapes. So we've since now Rick, A, and my current city traffic engineer is updated
[32:06] those markings. We have done some of that work already. So A, I can say we've done part of it,
[32:12] haven't done all of it. So B was sort of a what they would consider a moderate
[32:17] language modification. So you can see on Persian going westbound again, you have to
[32:23] extend that median. You know, we have a parking lot that was out of that that's
[32:27] using being used as business now on an or side. We want to make sure that median
[32:31] extends out so somebody can't make a left out of there going south to east. So
[32:36] that should have been done before. And then some of the simple things that when I
[32:40] this to you guys before was to, we're not going to change that from a two-lane to a one-way all the way around.
[32:47] What we want to do is make it practical and easier for people to use. So in this particular model,
[32:53] we were looking at, as you, if you look on the right side of the round about, as you're going around
[32:58] and going north on converse, it converted basically the northbound lane of converse into either
[33:04] to go right or going straight. So it just simplifies what's being done. You're not really changing
[33:11] the operational characteristics, meaning the two lane is still a large roundabout, but the markings
[33:17] are going to show it smaller and again simplifying the entries is what really converting that
[33:22] roundabout does. And then the third option sort of I didn't go through everything but more than one
[33:27] we were looking at and I'm going to go into detail on that. But that one had quite a few modifications
[33:32] is both on 19th Converse and some of the others that I just talked about, I'll show you this
[33:37] in a little bit better scale.
[33:41] Run, you get a nice mouse, it should help. Okay. So in this particular
[33:45] one that we had looked at trying to do, and this is the one we're going to build off of, it includes
[33:50] changes to the southbound. We're going to do southbound screening as I talked about, that's number one.
[33:55] We're going to recondition all the payment markings. We're going to extend the splitter islands
[33:59] of those protection islands on both eastbound purging and reduce the eastbound 19th to that single
[34:06] lane. And what that means is you can see that it doesn't convert the whole thing. It's just the
[34:11] single lane as I talked about going northbound on purging on the right side of the roundabout. And again,
[34:18] as you enter the roundabout from southbound to northbound, you either have to go right or straight.
[34:23] You don't have that second option on the outside. Everything else remains the same 19th street.
[34:29] Again, gets converted to a one way because all that does is just build up two lanes that way right now and what happens is visually you can't see when you're looking to your left because you have two cars on that side of the round about you're not changing it again from a two lane round about to a single lane round about you're modifying entries to make it simple for the drivers to actually navigate.
[34:52] So the road diet for the West and South Legs, we talked about we're not sure that's what we're going to go because we want to make sure from a volume stand.
[35:00] Thank you. Anybody have any questions for Mr. Cobb? Dr. Aldridge.
[35:08] I'm wondering if we have any data that is more recent than 2019, as far as accidents go. I think
[35:15] it was 2014 to 2019 and then we had COVID. And so I'm just kind of wondering if people have
[35:22] lost their collective driving ability through COVID or what has happened that weren't you said
[35:26] we're now up to 100 property accidents?
[35:31] I don't have the numbers in front of me right now, Dr. Aldrich, but I remember it's well into the hundreds now for the PDO accident.
[35:39] That's off the top of my head.
[35:40] I can get that exact data for you if you'd like.
[35:43] And we do have that data, the MPO does that every year, so we have that information to not with us tonight.
[35:49] Anyone else?
[35:52] Thank you, Ms. Cove.
[35:53] Anybody else in the governing body?
[35:57] Mr. Mayor.
[35:58] Yes, sir.
[35:59] Thank you, Ms. Mayor.
[36:00] Through you.
[36:01] Thank you, Director Cove.
[36:03] What are you seeing in the way of changes in your traffic counts here as this street has become both the blue headquarters and all of it's affiliated businesses?
[36:21] And then, is there any more north south traffic, particularly construction traffic that's affecting this round of that?
[36:30] Mr. Cobb.
[36:31] Mayor, through you to Councilman Wolf.
[36:34] Sir, I actually, the council are actually going to go down because before when they did this originally,
[36:39] it was a grocery store.
[36:41] So that generates a lot more volume than what blue does now.
[36:45] It's certainly quite a bit different.
[36:47] now as far as construction traffic concern that that varies year to year. And right now we're going to
[36:54] do an overlay project just to the south of this and I didn't mention this before but obviously it's
[37:00] going to shut her down for a little bit so I got to make sure we counted the right time. Mr.
[37:04] Klaun is going to extend that south island. You don't see it on this but we've already going to
[37:10] implement that as well. We don't want to make people to make those turns out of blue federal credit
[37:14] into the left, there are ones there now, but Mr. Claw is going to take care of that for me.
[37:20] So I'm sorry I didn't mention that, but no, I don't see any major changes. I think the volume
[37:24] might be what we expected it to be at about the time that is now based on the original study.
[37:32] Other comments? All right, here you know, we have a motion in a second for this professional
[37:37] services agreement. All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Those opposed.
[37:42] Mr. Moody and Dr. Rainier knows the professional services agreement is approved.
[37:50] Next item is number 10A on page three.
[37:55] Contract modification number one contract number 8374 between the city of Shayan and the Shayan downtown development authority.
[38:02] For the fiscal year beginning July 1st, 2026 and ending June 30th, 2027.
[38:08] All right, we have any comments from members of the public.
[38:13] Jennifer. Mr. Miller, you can go ahead.
[38:23] Mr. Miller. Can you hear me? We can hear you.
[38:29] All right. Could I ask you guys to describe this a little bit better than just the title of it?
[38:40] Mr. Miller, you have all that background information. All we're changing is going from the planning department to CRE.
[38:45] I'm sorry Charles Miller for the record. I apologize, but that yeah, it was just mainly for the sake of others who are
[38:55] You know, not aware already.
[39:01] Do you have a comment, Mr. Miller?
[39:05] I'm sorry. Do you have a comment?
[39:09] Yes, I was just wondering if it would be possible for you to explain this a little bit.
[39:14] I did already,
[39:22] Mr. Miller. Do you have a comment?
[40:00] The amendment before you move the downtown development authority staff out of planning and development and onto community recreation and events.
[40:06] On the recommendation of something called the cost benefit task force acting at a special board meeting on August 7th.
[40:14] Before you approve it, some history of the body should have in front of it the DDA's contract run 1991, number 2891, then 223, number 7704.
[40:24] Then, 2025, number eight, one, eight, eight, and now the fiscal year, 27 men,
[40:29] men, Miranda, number eight, three, seven, four, which tonight's number one,
[40:35] men, four instruments and 35 years, three of them in the last three years.
[40:38] And an entity that restructures itself, this often is either solving a problem
[40:42] or hiding one.
[40:43] Here's what we know from the City Zone, January 20, 25, audits session,
[40:47] the downtown development authorities, financial statements, direct qualified opinion,
[40:50] and I quote the record, the auditors weren't able to get adequate documentation and information
[40:55] from the previous board.
[40:56] The city itself passed clean the DDA could not produce its paperwork that is not my characterization
[41:01] that is the auditors.
[41:04] I demand that you produce contract 8374 itself, the underlying fiscal year 27 memorandum,
[41:12] this amendment modifies before you vote on its amendment.
[41:15] You're being asked to amend an instrument that is not in your packet.
[41:18] Also, it also produced the cost benefit task force roster and its report.
[41:22] A recommendation that reorganizes a board arrived from a body that this public cannot name.
[41:27] Thank you, Mr. Miller.
[41:29] Anybody else?
[41:33] All right, you're in the Mr. Escobel.
[41:35] Mr. Mayor of the recommendation of the Finance Committee is to approve and I saw a move.
[41:39] Second.
[41:39] The second bite with that, Mr. Moody.
[41:43] Comments from members of the governing body on the contract modification between the city and the downtown development authority.
[41:48] It's just labor.
[41:51] Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
[41:53] I speak in favor of this contract modification in this arrangement that is going to really bring together a variety of elements of downtown that really can benefit from a coordinated approach.
[42:09] And it really is something that is going to have some meaningful results and I make that
[42:17] common in regard to what Plein and Safe crew and CRRE is accomplished already and knowing
[42:25] what we have coming to the future, particularly on the Reed Avenue corridor.
[42:31] And if I may, I'd like to share a personal experience I had recently, I have a downtown apartment building, and it is really pleasant to be able to see how people want to live downtown more than they used to.
[42:51] And so I recently had a rental agreement with the fellow.
[42:57] It was coming in as a contract manager for a data center project.
[43:03] It actually is a tall grass out there.
[43:06] And so he came up from Texas with a very little knowledge
[43:11] of Cheyenne Wyoming or Murray was going, but he sure liked that job.
[43:15] Nice enough person and he was very impressed and pleased with downtown that he saw and that opened my eyes a bit to all that we've accomplished over the past 10 years they.
[43:30] And certainly there have been some stumbles, but it was really interesting to hear him discuss the vibrancy, the different elements of lights, the sculptures.
[43:43] And how he really was pleased to be living downtown in a community that measured up in his opinion,
[43:52] to other downtowns that he was familiar with. So that was a really a good experience.
[43:58] And I think it's speaks to many of the things that have been accomplished.
[44:04] I look forward to more knowing that the team at CR-E things together and makes it happen.
[44:15] And so I think that this is a big step away from some of the problems of the past.
[44:21] Thank you.
[44:23] Dr. Alderj.
[44:24] We're calling for you.
[45:00] I'm cautiously optimistic that this may be an improvement. I think if there is any one, and I think this was expressed in an email that we received today that is capable in our city government of taking this on and rebuilding relationships and turning this situation around that we've had developed over the last couple of years between our DDA and our downtown business merchants. It is Director Sanchez.
[45:28] So, I am cautiously optimistic. I'm going to support this tonight and look forward to seeing it really become the powerhouse that it could be to help our downtown merchants as we basically spend the money that they vote on and tax themselves for on their behalf.
[45:52] Thank you, Mr. Mayor, through you.
[45:57] I have echo the support of Councilman Labor and Councilwoman Aldridge.
[46:04] I've lived in Cheyenne for 52 years and seen the downtown developed in lots of positive ways.
[46:17] I've tried to attend almost all the DDA board meetings in the time I've been on the council.
[46:24] And I think this is a very positive step.
[46:29] I applaud the efforts of soon to be Deputy Director Mays.
[46:35] And of course, Director Sanchez, who have contributed mightily and the fact that this is Penny.
[46:44] the money in that ballot was approved by the voters and to indicate their support.
[46:54] And so I think with a lot of hope and encouragement that this is a good step forward and
[47:04] look forward to supporting it. Thank you. Any last comments?
[47:10] All right, hearing none. We have a contract modification between the city and the DDA.
[47:14] all those in favor, signify by saying aye.
[47:16] Aye.
[47:17] And those opposed.
[47:19] The contract modification is proved.
[47:22] Next item is 11.8 consideration of bid number s-22-26 for contract between the city of
[47:29] Cheyenne and legacy construction group for the Christian's and road detention erosion mitigation
[47:33] project.
[47:34] Close phone from August 10th, 2026.
[47:37] Our city and generous informed us that the railroad,
[47:40] And the specific road road is added a considerable amount of conditions and would ask that this contract be voted down this evening so that they can go back to the drawing board and try to figure out how to do this in a, you know,
[47:57] physically responsible manner and so we'll go out to the audience.
[48:01] But I think the motion is this is going to fail tonight.
[48:05] Hearing none about from the governing by our mistrust.
[48:07] welcome we have a motion please. Mr. Mayor, the item died due to a lack of a motion at the finance committee, therefore there is no recommendation. However, for the sake of discussion, I moved to accept the bid and amount not to exceed 314,000, $95,000 and 0 cents.
[48:26] And moved in second by Mr. Secret comments from members of the governing body.
[48:32] Are there any in favor of this motion?
[48:36] If not how about those opposed?
[48:40] All right.
[48:41] This consideration of bid fails.
[48:44] And we are into the next item, please.
[48:46] Next item is 12A voucher report.
[48:50] Is there anybody in the governing body or an online that would like to speak to the vouchers?
[48:55] Seeing none, how about for the revenue?
[49:00] Seeing none next item, please.
[49:01] announcement of a public hearing to be held September 14, 2026 at 6 o'clock PM in city council chambers 2101 O'Neal Avenue,
[49:08] Shayan Wyoming and via electronic conference meeting to determine whether compliance of annexation
[49:13] conditions required by Wyoming Statue 15-1-402 exists for about 162.42 acres of land located west of South
[49:22] really highway, south of West College Drive and south west of of an adjacent to the intersection
[49:27] of Apple Street and York Avenue.
[49:29] Announcement of a public hearing to be held September 14,
[49:32] 2026 at 6 o'clock PM and city council chambers,
[49:35] 2101, O'Neal Avenue, Cheyenne Wyoming,
[49:38] and via electronic conference meeting,
[49:39] to determine whether compliance of annexation conditions
[49:42] required by Wyoming Statue 15-1-402 exists for about 652.67 acres of land,
[49:51] located south of Interstate 80,
[49:53] southeast of auto road and west of Interstate 25.
[49:56] announcement that a Calcutta benefiting children's western wish.
[50:01] A announcement that due to the city offices being closed for the Labor Day holiday on Monday, September 7, 2026, regularly scheduled city council committee meetings, will instead be held in city council chambers 2101, only allow new shy and Wyoming and the electronic conference meeting is follows public services committee will be held Tuesday, September 8, 2026, at noon and finance committee will meet Wednesday, September 9, 2026 at noon.
[50:25] Announcements of the following ordinances that were postponed in April 2026 will return to the public services committee on Tuesday, September 8, 2026 for consideration.
[50:35] Organ second reading annexing to the city of Cheyenne Wyoming land west of Round Top Road in adjacent to Happy Jack Road.
[50:42] Ordnance second reading amending the official zoning map of the city of Cheyenne establishing the zoning classification of AG agricultural MP public.
[50:50] For land annex to the city of Cheyenne located west of Round Top Road in adjacent to Happy Jack Road.
[50:55] Oregon's second reading, amending the official zoning
[50:58] map of the city of Cheyenne, changing the zoning
[51:00] classification for land located west of Round Top Road,
[51:03] and adjacent to Happy Jack Road from AG, Agre cultural to BP,
[51:06] business park, following committee review.
[51:08] The ordinances will be on the September 14,
[51:11] 2026 City Council agenda.
[51:13] Other business.
[51:14] All right, is there anybody here in the audience?
[51:16] Say that would like to speak to us under other business,
[51:20] Jennifer.
[51:22] Mr. Miller, you can go ahead.
[51:31] Mr. Miller, are you there?
[51:37] Certainly, Mr. Miller's not there.
[51:38] Is there anybody else in the audience?
[51:42] OK, how about from the company body, anybody
[51:43] under other business?
[51:47] This will.
[51:48] Mr. Mayor, thank you just briefly.
[51:52] I've been going for about two weeks.
[51:55] And for so long to congratulate you in the rest of the council
[51:59] for the results in the six penny election.
[52:05] Overall, if you look at what happened, it's
[52:09] a terrific affirmation of efforts that this council has made and under under your leadership
[52:18] mayor and under presence leadership.
[52:22] And I wanted to just ask you, I understand you were on the radio this morning, Mr. Mayor,
[52:29] and discussing the municipal building renovation.
[52:33] And if you could just share with us your thoughts on that.
[52:40] Well, I think that, well, I love this building.
[52:42] This building isn't over 50 years old in the heating and air conditioning system,
[52:48] the plumbing and electrical are reaching the end of their useful life.
[52:52] And I think we owe it to our employees and really to feature governing bodies
[52:57] to make sure that we improve the efficiency of this building
[53:02] for our employees, but also to improve it
[53:05] for the way we do business with the public.
[53:08] And so, the my intention over the next six months or so
[53:11] to see if we can find a way to figure out
[53:14] how to do this project without having to wait till the next six
[53:17] penny.
[53:21] Anybody else under the business on the governing body?
[53:23] Mr. Labord.
[53:24] Thank you, Mr. Mayor, I just have to express my personal opinion
[53:30] that I was influenced by some of the negativity
[53:34] that we've been having here at the meetings and throughout social media and really some questions
[53:43] that are growth and changes that concern me that maybe perhaps that public was not fully
[53:52] understanding and continuing our long history of improvement with the sixth penny. And I was wrong.
[53:59] I am really delighted that we could see that really strong belief out there in regard to those
[54:09] specific projects as they were chosen and that was something that obviously that sorting through
[54:17] and all that worked that went into that paid off.
[54:21] And I also want to point out that we're in a really unique position here with our reserves
[54:27] Looking back, I can't imagine that anything remotely approaches this.
[54:35] I mean, we are having an opportunity here with the support of the public to really move
[54:42] shine forward and I recognize that certainly as we can see in our upcoming agenda items here,
[55:00] In the data center question and how those business parks are going to operate, but I'm really, really delighted that the public had the confidence in us in the elected officials of those small towns were once again going to benefit from people investing in their own community and their own county.
[55:27] So this is an exciting time and I'm certainly glad to be here and I'm particularly glad that my concern was unwarranted and that the public is very much aware of what we're doing in support since so I'm sure we're going to have an opportunity here that past councils probably didn't.
[55:52] to have that kind of money and reserve. I think we need to do a real thorough analysis of what
[56:00] we need to do with it because there's a quite a number of needs and capital needs that are out there
[56:06] that we haven't been able to deal with yet as well as this building here. But when you have the
[56:14] support of the public and you have those funds in the bank, good things can happen and I'm certainly
[56:22] We'll have to be part of that and out of what was accomplished. Thank you.
[56:28] Mr. Labron, to follow up on that, I can tell you that we are the MBA. I think of the state
[56:32] for the support at the voters and the residents of Lairmy County give to all the communities
[56:39] Alvin, Pine Bluffs, Burns, Unacorporated Lairmy County in the city. Last time we asked for
[56:46] was at 130 million and we got 128 of it. And you know, it's made a difference in our downtown.
[56:51] it's made a difference in our roads.
[56:53] Public safety is greatly improved with the new fire stations and in this one,
[56:57] 148 out of 170 million dollars was approved. And again, those dollars are going to go to downtown.
[57:03] They're going to go to the to the roads. They're going to replace the the swimming pool downtown
[57:08] that we had to close after all for 70 years of continued service because the bank didn't
[57:13] want to hold water anymore. And we're going to build another fire station and the greenway
[57:19] going to continue to expand and we're going to be able to maintain what we built in over 30 years
[57:24] ago now, or 35 years ago now. And so I just want to say thank you to the voters for their
[57:29] leadership and their vision. When I talk to mayors from other communities, they are so jealous of
[57:36] the support that we get from our residents. And I think part of that is we bring good projects forward,
[57:42] but also the voters, they just understand that this is so critical
[57:47] to our ability to grow our community and do the things that need to be done.
[57:52] I mean, I look at the expansion and the rip air of the jail.
[57:58] We just couldn't do those kinds of projects without the voters coming.