I wanted to read a statement from the town of Firestone,
as there's been quite a bit of social media
put out in the last few days.
And so I want to read the comment
And this comment is as follows.
The town of Firestone believes that it is not
productive to conduct the central Weld County Water
District building conversation on social media with videos
or letters to the editor We believe
the importance of this issue to both agencies
requires a serious and thoughtful approach The town
of Firestone is remitting payment to the central Weld
County Water district, consistent with the terms of the
current 1974 water agreement.
That is the end of that statement moving forward,
Becky Duckworth thank you Thank you.
You Mr. Thank you, Jack.
And Colorado.
My first question to you tonight is one that I've been
asking since April, the 16th.
It is in regard to option B, the sample transparent water bill
that was contained in Julie's presentation that evening I just
provided you with a copy Why do we residents pay the town?
$99.97 for 18,680 gallons of water?
That is provided by Central Weld according to the sample bill We
also pay the town another $66, which
is shown in the in these amounts here circled in red.
We pay them another $66, which is shown as central
wells cost for providing those 18,680
gallons of water to the town.
Mayor Cognac.
You approached me after that meeting
and stated you would try to get me that answer.
The answer has never appeared.
The town is double dipping.
The residents, according to the option B information.
Do you understand why that is ?
Earlier today I emailed each of you
the guest opinion in the town's call.
If you recall, it is in regard to the situation,
the town manager has created by not paying the town's water bill
to Central Weld I find it interesting that the town
manager had instructed staff to pay a lesser
amount than was billed.
Best Inter Weld for two billing cycles.
but did not notify or self the board until the April 16th
Special Border Trustee meeting.
I am under the impression that the town manager is
not allowed to spend more than $50,000
without the board approval.
So my question for you is how could he have authorized
approximately $100,000 of debt for those
two buildings cycles without the board's knowledge
and/or approval?
What penalties would be assessed to a resident if the resident
decided to pay only 50% of the water
bill for three billing cycles ?
My last comment is in regard to another question
I have asked the mayor, which is where is Sean from?
P three.
There have been no updates on Central Park since January 15th,
at which time it was stated he would be giving us monthly
updates on tonight's agenda resolution 2564 is asking
for approval for another for $52,490,
with Port Points Consulting for real estate feasibility services
pertaining to central park.
The feasibility study for Sean's p three company is $380,000.
To my knowledge, it has never been
seen by the board, much less the public So what
is going on with Central Park?
Is this the board's idea of transparency with the residents?
Any information that any of you would
be willing to share regarding these things
would be appreciated Thank you.
Thank you for your comments Amber
Kaufman Amber Kaufman 4319.
Falcon Point Court loveland, Colorado I'm Amber kaufman,
district manager of Little Thompson Water District.
I appreciate the opportunity to talk to you today
I'm here on behalf of little Thompson Water District
and my board of directors to clarify
the recent misunderstandings about little Thompson's
current and future water service for Barefoot Lakes
My goal is to ensure a solid future for the community.
We both serve and to reiterate our desire
for a transparency with the residents of Barefoot lakes.
First and most importantly I want to make it clear that there
is no risk to the current water service
provided to Barefoot lakes as a Title 32 special district.
It does not only our legal obligation but also our passion
and privilege to provide water service to all our customers
within our boundaries, including the Barefoot Lakes community,
suggesting otherwise by any legal body
is not only inaccurate, it creates unnecessary concern
for both our residents.
It is irresponsible for firestone representatives,
either elected or employed, to suggest or make
misstatements or assumptions in public venues about water
service by another provider whose details Firestone is not
privy to It only creates more distrust for governmental bodies
who are tasked with transparency and service to their residents.
Little Thompson's goal is to provide
clear direct communication to ensure our customers understand
that their dollars are spent wisely
and our water resource is are used responsibly.
For a water secure future, we are committed
to working with our partners to find solutions to issues
on a mutually beneficial way Barefoot Lakes did dedicate
an adequate water supply for service to the development
that water supply, as the town mentioned,
included Wendy Gap water, which is available
for re-use That re-use was part of the original planning
by Little Thompson and the developer of Barefoot Lakes.
The proposed reuse relied on little Thompson's exchange
decree along the St Vrain River to support irrigation
and the development and to supply water to a small water
treatment plant in Barefoot The plan for Reuse
was the impetus for Little Thompson to join Firestone.
Frederick Dickey Snowe and Central Weld County
water District in 2015 to jointly participate
in a study for water rights and water quality for a future water
plant. it was because of that same planning,
that little Thompson worked with Firestone to create
the safe rainwater authority.
We have served Barefoot Lakes reliably since the First tap was
issued in 2016 using water right Static added by Barefoot Lakes
and treated at Carter Lake Filter Plant.
We will continue to work to ensure that the reuse portion
of the water supply dedicated for the benefit
of Barefoot Lakes is made available to our barefoot lakes
customers.
Now and in the future Once again, there
is no immediate threat to water service
but Little Thompson must make decisions about infrastructure
and treatment capacity now to ensure future demand
can be supplied at a reasonable price.
Thank you for your time.
Little Thompson Water District hopes
to find cost effective solutions for additional treatment
capacity for the benefit of all Barefoot Lakes residents
Thank you for your comments and for so Stan Linker i.
Stan linker 721 Howard Street Brush, Colorado.
I am the district manager for central What County Water
District And I just want to start
with a little bit of history.
In 1965, our district was formed by a very brave group of farmers
out by courtesy Colorado In 1968, the town of Firestone
approached the same group to ask if they
would be willing to serve them.
We welcome the opportunity to partner with our neighbors,
and our agreement was signed.
For 57 years, we've been a dependable partner,
delivering high quality water a very affordable rates.
Our partnership is smooth up until around 2018,
when things changed.
The town became confrontational, adversarial and incredibly
difficult to work with.
Which brings me here today Despite paying your bill
the same way for the past 15 years,
there's been a recent misunderstanding from the town
about how billing is calculated Your account
is now three months past due with a balance of $155,341.34.
We have responded to Mr. Krieger's questions
and provided appropriate documentation in numerous times
without resolution to clarify.
We calculate billing based on the monthly minimum charge
plus the monthly volume charge for water use this structure was
adopted by our board in September of 2009,
and you were properly notified via a letter
explaining it would take effect in January of 2010.
This marked a formal shift in billing practices
and was within the scope of our existing contract Our 1974
agreement, along with a special district law,
allows for rates to be adjusted.
It states.
And I quote, The district will treat and deliver water
to the town for the prices established
by the water rate schedule.
In effect, as established from time to time by the district.
Therefore, there is no need for an amendment
or addendum then or now.
Let me repeat therefore there is no need for an amendment
or addendum then or now Since January 2010,
the town has been making payments, showing
clear acceptance of the structure
by your conduct and performance Why is
the town questioning this now?
Why have you deliberately decided not
to pay a portion of your bill?
Are you continuing to build your community And for why not paying
the district water is a utility with set
rates determined annually through third party
rate studies.
We evaluate current and future needs to ensure our rates are
fair and aligned with costs.
Delivering a reliable service in a letter to Mr.
Krieger on April 29th, 2025, we reiterated that your rates are
among the lowest in northern Colorado In fact,
your base rate alone is 60% of our retail rate.
Our policy for all customers is that payment
are due in full and on time to maintain service Partial
payments or negotiating establish rates Especially
after water is delivered is not acceptable To say
this has been disruptive for the district is an understatement.
We are disappointed that our long standing partnership has
drastically changed I'm asking you to bring your account
current immediately to avoid disruption of service
to the residents of Firestone and our relationship
And in reference to the opening statement,
the district had decided that if we can't get board
and management to listen to us, maybe
you will listen to the public.
Thank you Thank you for your comments Yes, sir.
Anybody else in the room that would like to opine ?
All right.
Moving on Moving on to consent agenda We have item
approval of May 14th, 2025.
Board of Trustees regular meeting minutes
item B resolution 25 dash six three, A resolution of the Board
of Trustees of the Town of firestone,
Colorado, approving a change order.
Number one, to the 20 2025 agreement
for professional services sES with RV planning for the town
of Firestone downtown development Authority
formation project Do I have a motion for approval?
Motion Approve Second roll call, please Mayor Pro Tem minutes.
Yes Trustee Morton.
Yes.
Trustee doherty.
Yes.
Trustee.
Hold them.
Yes All right.
Motion passes Moving on to presentation 2024.
Audit presentation Good evening, Mayor Board
of Trustees Jessica Clayton here finance director
and I'm going to let Abby take over Abby Irvine from Haney
and Associates is here.
They're the ones that conducted the audit.
Once she's finished, Chris and I are also in the audience.
If you guys have any questions Thank you You got up here?
Yeah.
Thank you Good evening Mayor.
Board of Trustees and thanks for having me.
My name's Abby Irvine with Haining Company CPAs.
I'm here to go over the annual financial audit.
Presentation and happy to answer any questions regarding that.
At the end So just a quick agenda.
We'll go over, I'll introduce myself
and then the audit partner who unfortunately, wasn't
able to make it tonight, go through just standard audit
procedures that we performed to be able to do
the audit, the financial audit for the town this year,
go through some highlights Let's go
through our standard communications.
I'll go through a couple of the audit adjustments.
And then some new accounting standards
that are coming on board.
And then Q&A at the end.
Just a quick introduction.
I'm abby Irvine.
I was the audit manager this year for the audit.
I've been the audit manager for the last Three years
for the town's audit.
Christine MacLeod is the audit partner There's our contact
information that is made available,
and we're engaged by the town.
We're independent auditors and engaged by the board
And so you always have access to us.
If there's ever any questions Just a quick overview
of audit procedures.
So the audit process is there's quite a few steps for us
to be able to get here today.
So it starts with our audit planning, which really starts
back in November or December when we start
getting ready to be able to to get here today
with a final results.
And we do.
Come on site for a couple of days in that time frame.
And then we also perform the audit on site this year in April
So that was wrapped up as about the middle of April And we were.
And we gave a presentation to the Finance
Committee or discussion with the Finance Committee last week.
And here to just go over the results with the board today
part of the audit process as we go through our process
of understanding policies procedures,
kind of processes of the town to help us
plan our audit procedures that we're going to perform.
We take a risk based approach when it comes
to a financial statement audit.
So what that means is we identify higher risk areas
from our perspective as auditors to determine
what audit procedures that we're going to do.
And we're looking at risk from a purview of misstatement
to the financial statements.
So areas that we feel like could be subject to error
or miscalculation And we're going
to dig into those a little bit deeper from our
for our processes as we don't test everything,
we use a sampling approach.
And so we look at a sample of transactions across all
the various funds and areas of the town from that,
once we're completed with our audit procedures
and we then go and review the report, which
you have a copy of today and then we issue our audit opinion
So ultimately, all this work that we do
comes down to issuing the audit opinion which
is in the first couple of pages in the report
As far as status of the audit goes.
So we have issued a clean or an unmodified opinion
on the financial statements as the 2024
financial statements that audit opinion was dated may 23rd.
Just overview of what that covers.
So we do look at all the funds of the town
So those are broken into various Kattegat areas.
The governmental activities the business type activities
or your enterprise funds Each major fund non-major funds,
and then the St Brain Water Authority,
even though that's a separate entity
it is included in the audit of the town's financial statements
So we're required we have to follow audit standards
and accounting standards So our audit
is, is performed in accordance with generally
accepted auditing standards.
So we're required to be independent of the town
in order to be able to perform the audit
and provide an opinion on the financial statements
and the objective of a financial statement audit
is to provide reasonable or not absolute assurance
about whether financial statements are presented, are
free from material misstatement by obtaining
appropriate and sufficient audit evidence to provide
a basis for our opinions So again, we're looking for just
make sure financial statements and the note disclosures are
materially correct from our perspective
So I'll just go over a couple financial statement highlights.
And so this is just graphically demonstrating what
the various financial statements that are included in the
in the financials, in the in the report show and so first,
we start with the statement of net position.
So essentially, this covers all of the towns funds
both governmental funds and enterprise
funds, all of the assets, liabilities and net position.
And so you can see from the graph
here that the total assets, which
is the large half of the circle on the left
totaled around 313 million for everything.
So that's a large component of the statement of net position.
Up top is total liabilities And so that's going
to include long term debt.
And then any sort of other liabilities, standard accruals.
And then the difference or the residual between those two
is going to be the net position which was approximate.
And these are all round numbers rounded approximately 231,000.
And so the graph on the right just breaks down,
not position a little bit further There's
various components of that, the net investment
and capital assets essentially represents
how much of the town's net position
is tied up in capital assets, less the related debt
There's a portion of net position
that's restricted either legally or contractually
leave for various reasons or various commitments
that the town has And then there's
a portion that's unrestricted So that's that purple kind
of pie slice that's out.
Let's cut off.
So that was around of the total 231 million, 4048 million
was considered unrestricted on unrestricted
essentially is is available resources
for future future obligations or future projects.
There's a next is the government wide statement
of revenue expenditures as in change in net position.
So again, this is just a highlight of the revenue
So revenues broken out into various categories.
There's general, which includes taxes charges for services
A lot of that's going to be what your enterprise funds are
collecting water charges, things like that grants,
and contributions, which is a smaller
piece and then the offsetting program expenses.
So the residual of those for 2024 was 21 million.
So that did increase.
And this is, again rounded but that
did increase your net position, which I showed
on the previous graphs graph.
So revenues exceeded expenditures by that amount
There's another set of financial statements
in the report that covers just the government funds.
And so I guess going back to these sets
of financial statements, the government why those are again,
including all the funds, but those have
a different accounting focus.
So those are on full accrual basis
similar to how the private sector is going to report
their financial results So it includes all your long term
assets and liabilities, whereas governmental funds are
a little bit different They don't include long term
assets and liabilities.
And so that's why there's different sets of statements
included in your report because they have
different focuses and then, of course report
on different types of funds.
And so the governmental funds.
This is just graphically showing the trend in your balance sheet.
So assets, liabilities, fees.
And then fund balances The residual of those two over time
So from 22 to 24, you can see generally
assets which is the bar on the left is increasing.
And then fund balance is also increasing.
That's the black bar.
So not a whole lot of activity and liabilities
And that's and that's pretty standard.
I mean, those are covering just your standard day
to day expenses and accruals and then assets are primarily
going to include cash investments Those are
the main amounts that are going to be
shown on governmental governmental funds.
And next is the statement of revenues expenditures
and changes in fund balance related
to the governmental funds.
And so this is this is showing the change over time
of both revenue expenditures.
So you can see in each year presented
the gray bar, which is revenues was higher than expenditures.
And then the difference is the change in fund balance.
So again, that that contributes to fund balance on the balance
sheet When fund balance grows, that just provides
more resources to the town.
Again, for all available future projects future spending
So then there's yet another set of financials financial
statements in the report and that covers business type
activities So your business type activities, what's
going to be your enterprise funds
So that's primarily going to include the water storm water
and then also the Saint Brain Water Authority falls
under that category as well So these funds,
the accounting basis is similar to the government way
that I showed in the first set of slides.
So it's full accrual.
You've got all your assets and liabilities, long term assets
and liabilities and these sets of statements
And so you can see the trends over time
with regard to the business type funds for assets liabilities
and the net position, not a whole lot of change
really over the last couple of years.
It's been pretty steady.
There's not been a lot of activity in liability
So you can see that those are going down
as you make your standard recurring debt payments, which
then control leads to net position,
increasing for those funds and then
finally, the revenue expense and change in that position
related to the business type activities
or your enterprise funds.
So these are just for accounting purposes,
have a few more categories when it comes to how it's
presented its operating revenues on the left,
operating expenses next.
And then capital contributions and transfer hours
and then non-operating expenses which is fairly small,
and then change in that position would be
the very the bar on the right.
So there was a big increase in revenue
last year that was primarily related to some native water
credit that was received and that's
going to fluctuate every single year So I wouldn't expect that.
You know, that was a large year, there was also some this year
not as significant And so that's why you see
the large increase last year.
And then a dip this year Finally,
just like to point out some of the key areas
as you're going through the report
and so I didn't listed on here.
But I always like to mention the M&A, which is the management
discussion and analysis that's written,
the whole reports prepared by your staff
But that is written as a summary from staff
on what happened during the year It's a really good.
Just a high level summary of what's
included in the financial statements.
Basically what happened and why the accounting
policies start in No.
One.
So accounting policies essentially just go over
and a little bit more detail the why from an accounting
standpoint behind the numbers that you're
going to see in those financial statements
that I just talked about, the capital asset footnote, there's
a lot of activity in this area.
It's also an area of audit focus for us
just because there is a lot of activity.
So that is detailed in one of the notes,
long term debt, even though there hasn't
been a lot of detail or a lot of activity in that area,
there's a lot of disclosure when it comes to debt
and what you're required to repay.
There's also a lot of disclosure here.
I didn't include it in here because it's not
really fun to read, but there is a lot of required disclosure
on the pensions The town is a participant in two pensions that
are PPA and pair of pension.
So that is actually a big chunk of the report
And then throughout the report.
There's budgets, actual schedules for every fund that
has a budget It summarizes what the budget was original
and if there is any amendments to that.
And then where the town ended up in the difference as far
as required audit communiques And so there
was a new accounting standard.
This year.
It was related to compensated absences
So compensated absences is essentially
where you accrue liability related to employee time
off that's taken and previously what
what was accounted for was vacation time.
So that's earned by employees and is paid out when they
leave under the new standard.
What's changed really is that other types of earned
employee time off is now eligible for accrual
in the financial statements.
And so it doesn't change what the town pays.
It doesn't change the obligation of ultimately what the town's
going to owe, which is accelerates the recognition
of that liability once additional time off
is recognized in the financial statements.
So for this year, it was i believe it was
Peter yau is included in that.
And so previously that wasn't there that it did increase
the liability for compensated absences
by about $200,000 this year.
So that's a one time jump.
And then this, of course standard isn't, is
in place going forward.
So that will get adjusted as each year
that will get looked at again.
And then just it'll always be factored
in Part of the accounting and auditing process is that we
look at accounting estimates.
Again, those are a little bit more
subject to scrutiny just because they aren't as cut
and dry as some of the other as receiving
cash and recording in into your financial statements.
So we look at things like depreciation
We look at the pension and Opeb.
Opeb stands for other post-employment benefit
liabilities and so there is a portion
of the pay for a plan that includes that So
those those liabilities are required to be reported
in the financial statements.
Because you're a member of those two plans.
So you report your portion of the liabilities
as in your financial statements, because you're
a member of those two plans.
There are certain estimates that require You to estimate
what your discount rate is.
And so last year, there was a new accounting standard
where you it required governments to start
capitalizing subscription.
I t arrange ments if long term.
I arrangements where you're making payments under a contract
that relates to basically software
or other intangible type agreements over the long term.
Well, you have to add up those payments.
And then apply a discount rate to them.
So you have to estimate that.
And then the employee time off that I just mentioned for PTO.
So essentially what went into into calculating
that was looking back at historical employee time
off trends and just coming up with a determination of what
would be reasonable to accrue for that liability
The audit went really well.
Again, we're reissuing we're issuing
a clean, unmodified opinion on the financial statements
Everyone was very timely in responding to our requests
So in order to issue the final opinion,
we did ask for a management representation letter
to be signed last week, which was signed.
You have a final copy of the audit report The audit is
required to be filed with the state of Colorado by statute,
by July 31st.
So it's completed with plenty of time to do so.
The town also does participate in the giveaway certificate
program It's an award for financial reporting.
If you meet extra criteria that's set out
by the government, finance officers associate
And so that's required to be submitted to them,
I believe, by June 30th.
So both, you know, both deadlines were well in early
for both of those deadlines With regard to the audit opinion,
just want to touch on a couple of things that it doesn't cover.
So the management discussion analysis portion.
And then the pension and Opeb schedules
that are for Para and for FCPA.
So our audit opinion doesn't cover that.
We did as we do.
So look at it, make sure it makes sense
that it's consistent with other numbers
within the financial statements.
And then there's a couple of other schedules
included in there.
So budgets, schedules, budgets, actual schedules, and then
the local highway finance report.
So we issue.
And in relation to opinion regarding that.
So what that means is that in relation
to the financial statements, those look,
those are material correct?
So we again reconcile those numbers
and make sure everything looks consistent And then
just a couple of items to note, because these were new
and different one time events.
And again, it goes back to your pensions If PPA did
have a plan merger this year.
So what that means is just add the FCPA level.
They merged a couple of their plans into one.
And so you had a larger adjustment.
This year as you recognize your portion of the liability
because of that.
And then para had a disaffiliation
with a large member.
And so there was some accounting adjustments that were required
on there side for that.
And so again, there's a little bit more of an impact
as you record your liability related to that.
On your financial statements not significant,
but because it was mentioned in their reports,
we just want to make sure that we point that out Then
regarding audit adjustments.
And so last year we had a comment in the first year
that the town transfer worked with Ukg for their payroll,
that there was certain employee benefit
accruals that were not included in their year
end accrual adjustment.
So that was corrected this year it was included.
And we just wanted to point out that that was a comment
last year and was corrected when we were looking
at the calculation for compensated absences
The standard does require certain salary.
We call them salary related payments, basically
like payroll taxes and other employer related amounts
be included in that accrual.
But it specifically says to not include
defined benefit plan match So the town did include that.
It was a little confusing reading the standard.
And then trying to understand it.
So the match was included and so we talked about it,
decided we'll leave it in there.
It doesn't materially misstate the financial statements
to have it in there.
It's increasing the liability So next year
that was that will be excluded.
But again, we don't feel like that that materially misstated
the financial statements.
And so we were comfortable all by not removing it.
It was it had an impact of less than 1%
when it comes to overall liable parties
And then these this comment, neither one of these items I
guess the other one that one was from last year.
But on no material misstatements We do look and any time
we have any kind of audit adjustment
we assess those whether or not there should
be any sort of material weakness or a significant deficiency
over internal control.
We do not audit internal control but we do look at controls
on a high level None.
There was nothing that came to our attention
that would cause us to have either one
of those in our reports.
So i just want to point that out as well.
So there's a couple other So uncorrected misstatements
means we found something and it didn't it didn't get changed.
And we were comfortable leaving it in there.
And then corrected means we've there was something found.
And then it did get adjusted So there was a property tax
receivable and then related deferred revenue item
for 172,000, truing it up to your 2024 assessed ment's that
are collected at in 2025.
This essentially just goes on your balance sheet It doesn't
affect any sort of net income.
So it was less than 1% of total assets
and a small percentage of liabilities
And then there was a billing error
that the town actually identified through its control
process in the water funds.
It was corrected.
It was discovered on January 25.
It was corrected.
It just it pertained to 2024.
So we recommended that it get adjusted in 2024 rather
than 2025, just to make sure it was reported in the right period
And then finally, so this was the last year that the Arpa
funds were required.
Well, they're required to all be spent by the end of 2026.
So the remain Arpa funds were spent by the town.
So those are federal dollars.
When you have federal dollars that exceed $750,000.
And it's federal expenditures that exceed $750,000,
you're required to either have a single audit which is a special
type of audit or Treasury came out with this alternative
compliance examination And when you have arpa funds that are
raising you over that threshold of $750,000,
so that's essentially what brought the town over.
So this is the last year.
We'll be doing the alternative compliance exam for the Arpa
funds that there's no was no findings from that
that all looked clean and good.
I just want to that's not included in the in the audit
report But just want to mention that we did do those procedures
and we'll be issuing a separate examination report related
to those dollars It's basically like
a watered down single audit.
So it's oh, it's less work less cost to the town.
And allowed by Treasury only with regard to those funds.
So in the future, if there were federal expenditures
over the threshold, which the threshold is increasing
to $1 million next year unless the government comes out
with some other alternative then the town would be
required to get a single audit.
And a single audit essentially is just a more detailed audit
into your federal spending or your federal grant
expenditures Controls compliance over the grants,
things like that.
Finally, we just always want to talk about upcoming
King Gadsby pronouncements.
So the town is a government entity.
You're required you're required to follow government accounting
standard is the ones that are coming up
aren't super significant So there's statement number 1 or 2,
which will be in effect next year.
It's goes into more detail on certain risk disclosures
And so if there's a certain concentration or constraint
related to a government or reporting unit,
then those would be required to be disclosed in more detail.
They are making some changes to the financial reporting model
They call it improvements.
It's just meant to be more transparent.
So this will affect more of the Mdna
Some of the presentation on the statements as well
as the budgets schedules will have additional commentary
regarding the budget.
The original budget amount.
And then any sort of variance as to the budget.
So there will be additional commentary.
So that's coming down in a couple of years
and then expand a disclosures over certain capital assets.
So you're already required to provide information on capital
assets And so they're just going to expand and a little bit more
on those.
And that mostly affects disclosure
not necessarily reporting all of these affect disclosure.
So what that means is that they'll just be more notes
than the financial statements.
You don't have to change your accounting.
All right.
Well, with that I definitely want to thank everyone and thank
the staff for having us here.
And happy to answer any questions.
Thank you Trustees, any questions Dougherty
Thanks very much for that.
That was that was great Just one question on the 500 550,000 ish
adjustment the water billing issue What
was the nature of that issue?
Do you remember ?
OK.
I and staff will give you a little bit more detail
on that Mayor trustees Chris Morrison,
Accounting Division Manager That was an over billing.
There was a read error on it.
And it was caught and corrected and we just didn't adjust it
in the right time frame and over billing to the read that came
in was incorrect when they went out and rechecked the read,
they found out it was a lower than what it should have been.
So they put it in correctly.
So that they were billed properly.
OK.
And so who was the so so people got
bills bigger than they should have is it did not go out.
We caught it.
We went out.
We have processes where we look at bills that
are over certain threshold.
And if they follow within that category, we look at them
and make sure that it's correct before we send it out.
So we make sure billing is proper It's great.
Thank you.
Good It just proves that the process works Thanks, Chris.
The other questions.
I and it was just one customer, just One customer
doesn't do Thank you very much.
Awesome.
All right.
Well, that was easy.
Appreciate it.
All right.
Yeah Yeah.
All right.
We'll move on to discussion action items item Resolute
and 20 5-5 to a resolution to the board of trustees
of the town of Firestone, Colorado,
approving construction contract between the town of Firestone
and A-1 Chip seal pertaining to street
resurfacing Nathan George takeaway or A.J.
do you want to start.
Do you want to make a motion?
Oh, yes, yes.
Motion to approve this.
Thank you.
So moved.
So Second, the mayor.
Good evening, Trustees I'm Nate Hays, this town engineer
along with George Hubert, the operations manager with town
Again, this is a construction contract between the town
of Firestone A-1 Chip Seal pertaining to the street
maintenance resurfacing project Road resurfacing projects
are essential for maintaining road infrastructure They restore
the structural integrity and the service
quality of the road over time.
Traffic, whether other environmental factors will
deteriorate the road and the entire content
of these resurfacing projects are
to extend the lifespan of the roadway as far into the future
as we can most economical way possible The resurfacing project
and this one specific to Chip Seal
is a preventative maintenance cheap and effective.
Again, there's some overlap with our next item
as well, so I'll combine some of the details,
and then speak more on the next item.
But for every $1 of chip seal, it
covers about 5x to ten x in an overlay, which is our next item.
So again, it's it's a very effective tool that again,
stretches the town's dollars in a very effective way
This project scope, again, it's chip sealing
of arterial and collector streets including
the preparation of road surfacing
patching service treatment, fog, seal striping
and restoration as needed.
There are five locations for the chip seal on Sable Avenue
essentially from the frontage road to frontier street,
Birch Avenue various locations, Frontier Avenue,
Colorado Boulevard and Pine Cone Avenue
The contract is for a not to exceed amount of $977,277.15.
It's staff recommends approval of this contract,
and we're happy to answer any questions.
OK Any questions from trustees comments.
Roll call, please Trustee Holcomb Yes.
Trustee.
Doughty.
Yes Mayor Pro Tem Minutes.
Yes.
Trustee Morton.
Yes.
Motion passes.
Moving on to item B resolution 25.
DoorDash 53A resolu of the Board of trustees of the town
of Firestone, Colorado approving a construction contract between
the town of firestone and A-1 Gypsy, or pertaining
to street mill and overlay.
Do I have a motion Some of our motion to approve Second.
All right.
I did.
Mayor Excuse again.
This is another resurfacing project
like we just talked about.
It is construction contract with the town
and A-1 Gypsy seal again pertaining
to the street maintenance mill.
Not really project again known overlays kind of next iteration
after Gypsy all again addresses deeper damage than Gypsy or will
And again, this project location there's
two locations on Oak Metals Oak Meadows
Boulevard between Colorado Boulevard and Colorado.
26 from Colorado Boulevard about 625ft east of that,
again the way, they'll simply mill down about two inches.
The asphalt and then fill in all the cracks,
anything subsurface, and then repave over the top of it.
So is for a not to exceed amount of $84,854.25
and staff recommends approval of this resolution.
And we're happy to answer your questions.
Okay.
Any questions on this contract Roll
call, please Mayor pro Tem Minutes.
Yes.
Trustee Holcomb.
Yes.
Trustee Downey.
Yes.
Trustee.
Martin Yes.
All right.
Motion passes Moving on to Resolution 25 dash five nine.
The resolution of the board of trustees
of the town of Firestone in Colorado
approving an agreement between the town of Firestone
and mC Green Water Engineering LLC pertaining
to the town of Firestone own alluvial well
number Two project.
Do I have a motion?
A motion to approve Second, I do.
Good evening, Mayor.
Trustees Dave Linsey.
Color of civil Group, a civil engineering consultant
for the town I think the name pretty well
explains everything we've got over this one.
Several times.
But this is the exploration project
that we would like to engage in up
on the north side of the same grade sanitation district site.
We don't actually have permission from the landowner
yet.
We're still working on that.
But I've got all these other contracts from McGrane
and so we want to go out and get this one in front of you
and get that one approved as well.
But it's effectively the same program that we've been talking
about for quite a while.
We did actually sit down with the groundwater engineer
and the du hydrologist and sharpen the analytical pencil
a little bit.
We're able to pull.
We had a couple of other wells test holes and monitoring wells
that we wanted to drill on the south end of their property,
but we were able to determine that we could move those north
up into the permanent easement area
that we had identified with the sanitation district
So we won't have to do anything there
on that South property line.
So that's really the only modification
to what we had proposed before.
But this is an update with the approval of this.
This is just the design portion.
One of the first things that they would do once we get going
would be to put together bidding documents
for the drilling contractor.
So I'd come back to you with that drilling contract
after we get done bidding that But that's
kind of where we stand.
But right now, we still need to get approval
to get on the property.
So we're still working on that.
But like i said, I wanted to get the contractor for you,
get that approved.
Any questions or comments from the trustees?
Christie So i just might think it didn't
maybe not process that we do.
We don't yet have permission.
We anticipate permission, and then we will
we have we can't go out there until we have permission.
So, yeah, but we're improving the design
contract before the permission.
Do we think permissions forthcoming?
I mean, is that.
I'm always hopeful.
Yes A qualified yes Yeah.
That's just that my concerns right
But obviously, we would move forward
until we did have the approval.
But like I said, given the meeting spacing,
I just wanted to get this box checked.
Okay.
Trustee Dougherty, anybody else?
Trustee Morton.
I do.
On, on page three of the document that was provided it
it indicates that for monitoring if not allowed to access
to monitoring of the well locations located on the north
side of the river Then you would request that the town seek
permission the land or to install
temporary sand points instead of monitoring the wells.
And I'm assuming the answer is the same as what you gave me
at that, that until all of this has been approved,
nothing would happen.
Right?
That's a different landowner That's on the north
side of the river But yes, we would need to reach out to them
and seek permission.
Ideally we would like to be able to go there and drill,
test wells.
If they don't want us to get on there, that our next request
of them, there's a way for us to go over there and basically
hand dig what we need to do.
We wouldn't actually have to bring a drill rig back there
And so we would ask them for that.
If we can't get permission to get over there,
it's not the end of the world.
But it just it improves the data.
If we can see what the transmissivity
is across the river.
So it does help us.
But no, same thing.
We would have to get their permission OK.
But if we don't and we get permission for the other part
of the project.
You can still move.
Absolutely.
Yes.
It's not contingent on those two spots.
OK, great Thank you.
You or so.
So will we be spending any design money before permission
or will we wait till we get permission?
No, we're going to We're going to wait.
Yeah I do want to wait until we get any of that stuff.
And there's no sense of putting together a bidding document.
So I can this stuff until we move
forward, until we get that permission So, no, we
have not yet.
And we will OK.
OK Anybody else woke up with christie Morton?
Yes.
Trustee Doherty?
Yes.
Trustee Holcombe.
Yes.
Mayor Pro Tem.
Yes.
All right Motion passes.
Moving on to resolution 25, dash six zero.
A resolution to the board of trustees
of the town of Firestone Colorado,
approving an agreement between the town of Firestone and McRae
water Engineering, LLC pertaining
to the development of a gas tool I have a motion to approve.
So second All right.
Thank you.
So this contra act is a little bit different
We have a number of potential alluvial well locations
that we've been looking at along the same river between 25
and Highway 66 as potential sources of groundwater
to feed the water treatment plants with We have a water
court case that is pending right now that identified several
of these location as we may need more in the future,
depending on you know, we've got a pretty good estimate of what
we think these wells will deliver,
but we really don't know until we get there, and build them.
So the the groundwater team that we've been working with
developed a system where they can take gIs data that's
available from various state agencies that have in this case,
what we're looking at these there's seven different criteria
that we look at.
But it has to do with a lot of data that's
already available based on wells that have
been drilled over the years.
So it gives you an estimate of what depths to the bedrock
and how deep the groundwater is and some other parameters
they're able to compile all of that
and score them based on its applicability
to what we want to be able to do to go out and develop
these alluvial wells and then they can present
this information graphically.
This is one of the nice tools with guys.
They can present it graphically.
It's almost like a heat map where you can see the areas
along the river that tend to lend
themselves better to being a good productive alluvial well
location.
So this is just a tool to help us identify locations.
And in this particular case, to help us confirm some
of the locations that we've already identified But again,
depending on how productive those facilities,
those locations that we are going to develop,
do we may need to develop more This will be a tool to help us
do that.
So that's really what this is for.
It's in support of the water court case
that we're that we're working through right now.
But like I said, this is a tool to help
us be able identify properties.
If we start to see something that's going to come in and be
developed, there's a gravel operation or some sort
of a land development project.
It might this tool will help us make a decision about whether we
want to start talking to that landowner
about perhaps acquiring some sort of an easement or something
like that to be able to get on the property in the future,
to do some more testing like the contractor just
approved Any questions first?
OK.
So we just we just did the design for alluvial wells
and in in the sanitation districts
This is outside that along along the river between 66, correct?
Yeah So it's that whole stretch of the river.
So this would be inclusive in that it's
essentially like theoretical drilling, essentially Yeah.
This is like i said, this is taking data that's
already available so that.
But, you know, that's why all of that data
is spread out quite a bit.
But it's USGS information.
There's other information that the state keeps with regard
to wells and things like that.
So it's it's an evaluation tool.
We would still, if we did identify something
as being a good location, like the ones that we have now, we
still need to go out and do what we are going
to do on these other sites where we need to go out
and actually drill holes and see on those sites.
So this is not anything that we would
use to make final decision.
It seems to just jump right into a final design
It's just a tool to help us identify it.
Or more importantly weed out sites that would not necessarily
lend themselves based on that existing
if we get in the block or the neighborhood
that we exactly what might work both just as an example
if you look at on the north side of the river
where the Barefoot Lakes development that even
though it's very close to the river,
it really wouldn't lend itself to being a very good alluvial.
Well supplied the bluff that sticks out
there is there for a reason It's really hard rock
and it's that kind of information
that is available through some of these government
agencies in this format.
Now that they're able to compile all an overlay and like i said,
we could rank all of these different things
What are the ranking criteria that we have as well?
The properties already developed,
not the geologic information, may
say that it would work really, really well,
but if it's already developed or has been mined out,
then it really wouldn't make a good site.
And so that's what this tool is, is able to help us identify
any other questions, comments you
have real quick on that, Dave.
I believe the biggest portion of this
would just be identify showing geological formations that are
known to hold water Like I said, it's a relative Lee speaking
inexpensive tool to help us stay focused on the properties
that would be most beneficial to us Rock our place
mayor Pro tem minutes yes.
Trustee Holcomb Yes Trustee Morton Yes.
Trust Garrity.
Yes.
Motion passes We have the resolution 20 5-61.
A resolution of the Board of Trustees
of the town of Firestone Colorado,
approving an agreement between the town of Firestone
and Mike Green Water Engineering LLC pertaining to the town
of Firestone on BFR.
Vogel steiner, Alluvial well Project to have
motion to approve something.
So I can take my interest is at your June retreat You're going
to be getting a lot of information from the water team
about the update of the water action plan
that we've been working on and obviously, as the town continues
to grow, there will be a need for both more treatment and more
raw water rights to be able to augment with
But we'll also need additional alluvial well
sources to continue to feed water to the treatment plants.
So as part of that, that was why the town
had filed this water change case to try and secure water Right.
Conditional water rights at some of these locations.
One of the ones that we have identified
as being a very enticing candidate
is a piece of property.
There's an exhibit that's in your in your packet.
So that you can see it a little bit better.
But it's due south of Barefoot lakes They actually
own a small piece of property that little triangle that's
on the South side of the river.
It's owned by the metro district.
Number one.
That's part of that project over there.
The rest of the property that we're interested in
is owned by a family.
It's the local Steiner family We've had some dealings
with them, very positive dealings with them
over the past few years on some other things as well.
But again, this is all property that's up in the flood plains
and they don't actually even farm
it Most of what we would be in there is a little bit of it that
had been irrigated pasture for a long time,
but they don't even run livestock up there right now
So it's not really property that they're utilizing
And like I said, even with the Barefoot
Lakes, the little triangle, it's nothing that they could
really ever reasonably utilize.
And so we started a conversation with them about doing something
similar there that we would like to be able to do up
on the sanitation district site This again, is just investigated
Three because with the growth projections
that the town has got, growth can happen very, very rapidly.
And so with the fast alluvial well
site with alluvial well, number two,
those will take us out just so many years.
And then we're going to have to be moving on the next ones.
And this one is similar to the sanitation district.
So it is a very enticing one because
of its proximity to the river.
This one is further away from the water treatment plant
It's much further upstream.
A lot of pipe that I got to build to get
it back over to the plant.
But the site itself tends to appear to lend itself
very well to a site like this.
Or to a development like this with the alluvial well systems
we've been talking to both of the landowners
the Metropark district.
I was on a conference call with them a week
or so ago They need to take it to their board, their board,
their next board meeting is not until July
But they did not throw up any issues.
And the Vogelstein family has already given us the okay.
So there are still think a couple of hoops.
I asked them if they wanted us to execute
some sort of a trespass agreement or anything like that.
And they kind of shrugged and I said
Well, what you think about we'll get this contract approved.
And then i'll circle back with them.
But similarly, because it takes so long to develop
these facilities, I'd like to get this one to be a little bit
more of a known quantity.
So that down the road, several years when we need to,
we already know that we've got a site organized and ready to go.
So all this is exploration.
That's all that this.
That's all that this is going to be.
We'll come back with some recommendations
as to a potential wellfield configurations
but we really wouldn't take it any further than that.
This will just help us identify by what the potential product
tivity of a of a wellfield on that site
would be so that like i said, as we start to exhaust once,
this would be a logical one to move to, then.
So any questions or comments ?
Roll call, please Trustee Holcomb.
Yes.
Trustee dougherty.
Yes.
Mayor Proton women.
Yes.
Trustee.
Martin yes.
All right.
Moving on to Resolution 25, DoorDash 62, a resolution
of the board of trustees of the town of Firestone Colorado,
approving an agreement between the town of Firestone and McWane
Water Engineering, LLC pertaining to the development
or another just to yes or a motion to approve
a motion to approve So, again.
Okay.
Thank you.
So this gIs tool is actually our second endeavor.
I we did this once before up on the Rouge property.
We took a look at alluvial or that potential
managed aquifer recharge sites that
would be able to make return flows
back to the south Platte River.
So very quickly with the water rights
that the town gets that we use for augmentation those water
rights a component of that has to be returned back
to the river at certain locations, at certain times
We are set up to be able to do that on most
of the stretch of the state brain river
with the reservoir and future reservoirs
that we've got because there aren't
any intervening water rights along those stretches
of the river.
However, as we look at more growth
further down the road in the town,
we are going to need to be looking
Get some water rights that are a little bit further away.
And in this particular case, these would
be primarily water rights.
Over on the other side of the interstate that would have
return flow obligations to Idaho Creek and/or boulder Creek
We don't have any infrastructure over there right now to make
return flow obligate liens.
There are reservoirs over there.
There would be the potential to buy something like that.
But we may not need to because the number of water rights that
are over there that might be available to us
are a little bit more limited.
So we might not need to go to the major expense of a reservoir
pump stations ditch diversions, all that kind of thing So what
we'd be able to do is develop these,
manage talk over recharge facilities.
What are the things that our water brokers,
they negotiate with these landowners about these water
rights and sometimes they want to sell the water in the land.
A lot of times that land doesn't have any value to us,
but if it's in the right location
and it could be developed as a managed aquifer recharge,
then that might make that a little bit more appealing to us
So that's one of the potential uses for a tool like this.
But then like I said, even without that,
just us being in flow, identify locations over there.
If we're going to acquire more of those water rights
where we might be able to go secure a piece of property
to develop a managed aquifer, recharge facility and just very
simple terms, what that is, is just it's a pond that we would
build that you bring water into and you
let it soak into the ground It doesn't go any place.
There are some evaporative losses
that we have to deal with.
But the rest of it goes into the ground
just like it did when it was a cultivated field.
And so that's how those returns are
made at the proper time in the creeks that it's supposed to.
So again, this is just a tool to help us identify
potential locations There would still need to be testing
that would need to be done.
But again it's a tool to help us identify those locations.
And when we do have landowners that
want to sell the water right with land,
it helps us make that decision.
If that land does have a secondary value for us I guess,
any questions We'll go may your time.
You minutes.
Yes.
Trustee holcomb.
Yes.
Trustee Morton Yes.
Trustee Diary.
Yes.
OK.
Thank you Thank you, Dave.
Moving on to ordinance 1064, an ordinance of the Board
of Trustees of the town of Firestone, Colorado,
enacting Section 9.20.090 of the Firestone municipal Code
regarding the regulation of unmanned aircraft systems
I have motion motion approved.
Second it evening, Mayor okay.
I'll be presenting tonight.
Good to see everyone again The ace for the ordinance
has a pretty good job of summarizing
the ordinance Very high level.
The two goals that accomplish so I won't regurgitate that.
I also won't go through every line of the ordinance,
but it's broken down into four sections.
We have definitions as subset action B of the new section
is prohibited acts so I won't go over each one,
but I'll highlight a couple.
The first one is the ordinance prohibited?
It's prohibited.
Excuse me, operating drones recklessly or carelessly
in a way that endangers people or property.
It also prohibits operating the drone equipped with a firearm
or deadly weapon.
Stop.
There Does anybody have any questions about that section?
And in the acts that are prohibited and then subsection
C imposes operational restrictions on drones again,
just highlighting a couple you're restricted from flying
over specific town facilities.
For example town hall the PD building,
municipal court building town hall,
Town maintenance Facility is our water treatment plant.
Anything that's critical infrastructure
without the prior written authorization from the town
manager or his designee.
The other major highlight of that section
is that it restricts the operating landing or hovering
a drone over private property without the property
owners consent.
So another way this is codifying drone trespass
is is anybody have any questions about that section?
And then the final subsection D importantly,
it exempt or excepts out from the prohibited acts,
the drone operational restrictions
town employees is law enforcement and emergency
services personnel that are using drones lawfully
in the course of their duties.
And then we have kind of a final catch
all to avoid any sort of preempted federal preemption
problems.
We set out lawful drone operations that are authorized
under FAA regulations.
And I'm happy to answer any other questions you all
might have about the ordinance.
Any questions on that Just important.
So keep on the, I think, Section three, restore acted operations.
I okay, So we've had this happen where
and it's been in the evening and so but it's like what do you do?
I mean, by the time that I mean you don't really
want to call police or you know I mean,
by the time you would report it, they
would be gone So yeah, oddly there there probably
will be some potential enforcement issues given
the nature of how you can operate a drone from large just
from pretty far distances.
But in the event that you happen to identify
the operator of the drone or the owner of the drone, the pilot
you have a mechanism and enforcement mechanism.
Okay.
OK, great Thanks.
Any other questions?
So there's no differentiation between say, a commercial drone
operator or a there is there This only
regulates recreational drones.
The town cannot regulate commercial drone tracks
And I'm thinking like kids versus somebody on a commercial
was what I was thinking.
So i'm not going to drill drone.
So much familiar.
So if somebody wanted to say i see there was a they navigated
around a property on a street and doesn't the drone have like
an automatic return function?
You it can.
And it would if it's turned on, they can it can remember,
it's path there.
But like if it returned home.
It might not be under operation of anyone,
it would just be returning home.
Is that is that an accurate way?
I don't understand technology or is
it does it always under the influence of an operator?
It has to be.
If you want to if you want to fly recreational drone
in compliance with federal law you
have to abide by the FAA regs on Molokai craft
recreational drones, which is always operating
control an operator a pilot.
But again, we the town.
I mean, we the town can't regulate
things with respect to drones like the actual aircraft
excel itself.
We can't regulate design safety standards weight limits,
all that.
But we have some areas of the subject matter
that we can regulate.
This ordinance is a proper reflection of that area
that you can't regulate Yeah.
Yeah.
Interesting I know that drones have the capability of following
the path that they flew and flight back,
so i guess the operator being the operator,
you can just say fly, fly, return
and you still have to do visually look at it,
but it can fly.
So interesting Yeah.
Contradiction there still has to be within visual line
sight per FAA regs.
OK So that's what they're saying.
Visual line of sight.
Got it.
All right You have the questions.
Look up, please Trustee Morten.
Yes Trustee Dougherty.
Yes Trustee.
Welcome.
Yes.
Mayor Pro Tem Minutes.
Yes that's it.
All right.
Motion passes Moving on to resolution 25, DoorDash six
for he resolution of the board of trustees
of the town of Firestone, Colorado
approving an agreement between the town of Firestone
and Points Consulting LLC for real estate feasibility services
pertaining to Central Park.
Do I have motion to approve some second?
Good evening Mayor.
Board of Trustees Raymond fryer, Assistant Town Manager.
The agreement before you is to enter into a consulting
agreement with points consulting for them to perform, to perform
a feasible study that feasibility study will include
a market impact submarine along with an economic impact
and an implementation plan, all of which
will be performed over the next Six months
and a deliverable of the final report
will be due to staff in November of this year.
Staff sent out an RFQ in May, received three sealed response
hours after review points Consulting was selected based
on their response available for questions
any comments or questions on that trustee during Ringling?
What's the difference between this engagement
and past feasibility studies that we've done?
I would say this is much more specific
and delve into some topics.
You'll see the terms economics in there.
You'll see if you remember the past feasibility study.
I believe sEC presented last summer
was specific to athletic fields.
This is a broader approach approach.
And this has more of an economic outlook.
Can i quickly add to that?
As the board knows we've started to engage
a couple of specific users and have learned more about it
Some specific type of development, such
that we can study that a little more with a little more
specificity.
I think as Ray Allen mentioned, and I agree, the SEC and there
was nothing wrong with that study and it's been useful
and I think they did a good job with what they were tasked with.
They were mostly tasked with looking
at something in an abstract.
And in this case, we anticipate seeking some more specific work
on a project specific and more use specific data to eventually
guide, not only our decisions but the future development,
whether in Central Park I think the comments will
accomplish Trustee Holcomb yes.
Trustee Morton Yes.
Trustee.
Darity Yes.
Mayor Pro Tem Minutes yes.
Motion passes.
Moving on to item.
I appointment of the members we need to appoint to parks trails,
recreation and open space committee members.
Tonight And we received four applicant
surnames were Paul Long, Elizabeth Fox,
Kevin Arnold and Molly Rushing.
I've looked at the applicants and I
would like to nominate paul Long and Molly Rushing
to the board Would you?
I will do this one at a time.
If anybody has any comments or whatever.
But regarding Paul Long, can we get a roll
call vote on Paul Long please ?
Roll call is okay.
Or is this just a voice vote?
It's good enough, Keith I would go a little.
OK, good Mayor Pro tem minutes.
Yes Trustee Doherty.
Yes.
Trustee.
Martin.
Yes.
Trustee Holcomb Yes.
All right.
And then regarding Molly Rushing roll call, please Thank you.
Trustee Martin Yes.
Mayor Pro Tem Minutes Yes.
Trustee Holcomb Trustee Doherty.
Yes.
All right.
Well, congratulations to paul Long and Molly Rushing for
and thank you for being willing to do that.
All right.
Now we're moving along to our second public comment.
We do have somebody and it's Chris Good evening, Chris kim.
Good evening, Mayor.
Trustees, Mayor Pro Tem timers good.
OK Good evening.
As you guys know, I am Chris Campion, your district manager
for the State Green Sanitation District
I'm here respectfully to address the town's current approach
to its water portfolio development, an approach that
imposes significant operational environmental risks
upon existing critical regional infrastructure,
especially in light of decisions made earlier this evening.
And to urge the board to lead us towards a more
collaborative and responsible path forward.
Our core mission is to protect public health
and the environment by providing high quality rec water
reclamation, collect through collection and treatment We
fulfill this mission daily by serving 50,000 citizens and over
15,000 connections regionally across our 208 service area,
which includes Firestone and the multiple
neighboring communities.
This significant regional responsibility
frames our perspective.
The town's ongoing efforts since 2019
to secure conditional water rights
and augment its water portfolio directly
proposed to encumber property essential
to our district's only wastewater treatment plant.
The heart of the critical wastewater
infrastructure for the region This is a long standing issue.
Recently underscored by a Colorado Supreme Court ruling
that formed the previous water courts ruling, which
agreed with the district's objections
and consequently rejected the key elements of the town's
original 2019 water court application we understand
the town's the town has refiled a related water rate application
in December of 2020 for the Supreme Court ruling
on the initial initial case validates
the fundamental concerns about the location
that the District has raised.
Our specific site with this planned service life
of decades, an irreplaceable part
of the critical regional infrastructure
vital for our collective ability to maintain a safe, clean town
As stated in the Board of Trustees.
Goals number Five Attempting to co-locate new water
infrastructure as proposed poses foreseeable and unacceptable
risks, undermining not only our operation, but also
your primary objective to maintain town
infrastructure and facilities.
Goal number one in a responsible and sustainable manner.
A key tenant of your public works objectives
Build sustainable water storage and infrastructure.
The town's continued pursuit of this location
and despite years of conflict and a clear statement
from the Supreme Court in the original application
directly contradicts Firestone's own published
goals of fiscal integrity and civic partnerships.
Is already led to a significant expenditure of public funds
by both of our entities We note with concern that the board
earlier this evening approved the design contract
of 175,000 for this very alluvial very
well alluvial well project.
My apologies.
Committing significant further taxpayer funds in design
to a project on a site with such resolved questions
as trustees The path to litigation over this approach
has proven costly on its initial merits.
Flawed.
While we acknowledge Firestone's objective to diversify its water
portfolio method repeatedly chosen
is untenable and jeopardizes existing critical infrastructure
we urge you to lead.
Instead of pursuing a course already fraught with
legal and operational problems.
Thank you.
Thank you, sir.
Appreciate your comments.
Moving on to reports staff other than financials,
we have none tonight OK, everybody get out of financials.
The only question is on the financials Okay, Mary,
report met with the numerous residents over the last few
weeks regarding several issues Other than that,
that's about it for right now All right,
then trustees all right Then we will move on to an executive
session Item 20, an executive session pursuant to CRC 20
4-6-424B for a conference with special counsel for the purpose
of receiving legal advice on specific legal
questions regarding Central Weld County Water district Services.
Is there a motion to go into executive session?
Some of the second?
All right Motion carries time is now 720
and the board will adjourn into executive session
Oh, we didn't vote.
Got a vote Sorry, but the county.
All those in favor I all those opposed
Okay, thanks Minor thing, Keith Minor things I