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Thank you for the assistance.

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I'm in the position of the council.

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Please, please, please, please, please.

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Clerk, back, can we please get a work call?

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Mayor Topia Vega.

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Mayor, Pro Tem Barnes.

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Councillor Bullier.

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Councillor Freedland.

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Councillor Gallegos.

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Good evening.

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Councillor Giannola.

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Here.

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Councillor Gentson.

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Mayor, we have a quorum.

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Thank you so much.

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Mayor Pro Tem Barnes did let me know he's a few minutes out.

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I did not hear from Councillor Fredland however, so there's any member of Council that would wish to excuse him at this moment.

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Second.

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We have a motion and a second to excuse Councillor Fredland from this meeting.

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Any discussion?

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All of them is favor say aye.

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Aye.

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Anyone opposed say no?

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None opposed.

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That passes unanimously.

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Usually at this point we jump right into public info, but we're doing something a little special

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tonight and for that I'm going to turn it over to Councillor Giannola.

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Thank you, Mayor.

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I'm happy to welcome you to a cold, great little lead baseball team to Council tonight.

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We're thrilled to recognize them for incredible unforgettable season this year.

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May 1, the State of Middle East Championship.

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Such a huge accomplishment.

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They worked hard.

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You know, had teamwork, spent hours on the field and practice.

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And it was an incredibly hot summer.

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I know you have to pass there in the side, working really hard, taking coal creek, you know,

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our beloved coal creek, the day to the state championship of winning, what an honor for all

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of us cheering for you back here in Las Vegas. And then going on to represent Las Vegas and actually

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all of Colorado at the regional tournament, I guess some of the best teams in the West, was also

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an extraordinary achievement. You all play with your heart and should sportsmanship along

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the way and did your best to represent Colorado. And for that we thank you for your passion,

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your dedication, and for putting off a hat on the map this year. We're so proud of every single one

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of you. Congratulations, Champs.

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And before we bring the team up for a picture, is there any other

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with it would like to. Councillor Gentson. So I'm a former baseball mom of many years and I can't tell you

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I almost want to cry. I'm so excited for y'all. It's just so beautiful and thank you for being here.

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That's a good one. I'm not going to top that. I'm a former baseball player and I'm just so overjoyed

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to see the success and glory that you guys have earned for yourselves. So proud of the coaches to

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Council of Genesis Point, no, it's also tremendous amount of work for families, for your siblings,

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for your parents, for your guardians, to do all the travel to make all the practices.

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And know that coaches work your tails off to get the team forward, but just so proud of you.

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And so jealous that I didn't have your skills or acumen when I was your age, so well done.

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That's where you're going to go.

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It makes me so happy to see so many young people in these chambers, in these chairs, and I'm so proud of all of you.

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Thank you so much for all of your hard work and congratulations.

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And I will echo the sentiments of my fellow councillors.

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I would say I was also a former baseball player, but I was so bad that that would be

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offensive to you all.

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Thank you so much.

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Thanks for what you do.

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Thank you for making Lafayette proud.

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It's such an incredible achievement.

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And we would love the team word come up and we could take a picture with them.

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Okay, count it three. One two three, cool.

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Ready, one, two, three, cool.

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You should do your chant.

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You should give me something.

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They don't have Holy Boat.

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Oh, how to do your chair.

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Would you like to do it, baby?

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Write it down.

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They don't have a word.

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Do you know what they're doing?

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Do you know what they're doing?

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Do you know what they're doing?

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Break it down.

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Okay, alright, alright, alright.

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Okay, alright, alright, alright.

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Okay, alright, alright.

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Tell me she's ready for this, she'll be here at the show.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, congratulations.

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I'm so excited.

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that was really fun. I heard a counselor say which is our every meeting that way and I I

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Now back to the regular agenda, which is well public input. If you wish to speak

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And I fill up one of these speaker requests forms.

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They're in the back of the glass store.

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Hand it over to our city clerk.

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And you will have five minutes to speak.

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When you come up to the podium,

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just please your state your name and address for the record.

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And again, you will have five minutes to speak.

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If you don't know what five minutes feels like,

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or you don't know exactly when to stop speaking,

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I promise it's going to be easy.

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There's a little clock on that podium.

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If you look down into your left,

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it'll tell you exactly how much time is left.

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And even if you go for the entire five minutes,

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I will make sure to remind you at the end of the five minutes

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that your time is up.

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At the five minutes, I will ask you to stop speaking just for the sake of equity and making sure everybody gets the exact same amount of time.

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Those aren't here today, but still wish to address Council can do so through our, through the phone you can call in that phone number is posted on our website.

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And with that, we'll begin tonight with Frank Archolette.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor of Council members.

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First and foremost, I gave you all a letter from the Humorite Commission.

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Basically, it's important that it was about part.

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I'm asking you to read it after I do my presentation or take it all.

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We must not run from history in the power of education.

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It is very important essential that you name the small part as a real barbarerist.

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As we, Latinas and Latinas, strive to reach poverty, departing, and equivalent.

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Council, the Latinas struggle is real.

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You must put the power of the occlusion, diversity, equity, and interaction if you truly want to build a healthy community.

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Where humidity is honored, you must stand for social justice, social change, and respect all human rights here.

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City policies, basically, are naming facilities.

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names should reflect geographical and prosperous significance, names shall reflect diversity,

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equity, and inclusion. It advances the fostering and civic community, it hides awareness

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of city history, it causes attention to the points of pride in our community, and specific

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commitment to memorials here. We submit Roosevelt as a simply.

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Beautiful name and especially fitting forward part. We further believe the recommendations is within the scope of the human rights advisory board, as well as a new scope, wording in the new language, founded in your orders, 14, series 236, and naming the name and scope of the board which passed, first reading at your August 4, 2020.

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In the last member, in myself, has spoke to the granddaughter and great grandson of Roosevelt,

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and they were advised that the very, very pleased, if a park would be named after Roosevelt.

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Castle staff, can you imagine the psychological third trauma and deep pain that Roosevelt was going through

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at the time, after the intimidation from the crew cooks fan in the days of their mother, Rose,

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And to have to testify that you age a 13, that's a board of district court.

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Roosevelt was a very raised strong 13 year old girl.

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This is one reason why the parks should be named as the Roosevelt.

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I have promoted the truth, and I have counseled with my passively

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to name the park Roosevelt over there.

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And to have a plaque put up also.

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As you represent the citizens of Austria, counsel, it is essential

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that you truly want to build a healthy inclusive community named the park

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after Roosevelt Lawyers.

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this is history.

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Once again here, and take this deep folks,

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what happened here?

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I know Tony, last time here,

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talking about Alma White,

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but if you don't know about Alma White,

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here it is, beginning of racism.

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Alma White, 1862, 1946.

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In the center, 1894 in this thing also,

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we've got the services, we're having them off yet.

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But in this room, this is Alma White.

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And I'm a wife, public alliance with a women's Prishant-Chepers Union, also the Clube Cooks

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Plan.

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And I'm a believe him, provisional, white supremacy, segregation, racial discrimination,

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and opposed the Catholic Church.

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She was the first women bishop in the United States.

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She founded the Pheilfire Church, and that was for racial hands on this, by the way.

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She also had coalitions across the United States.

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Ammo White wrote several books praising the truth of Scram.

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The clansmen, the body of our devotee, here is our theory of the cross, the truth

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of Scram, the prophecy.

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Very no or no, quite well in the end days.

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And basically, with the city did, they continued.

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The same theories for many, many, many, many years, always pass this week, that's why the

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racist discrimination against the Latinos and Catholics took place in this town.

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That's why the KKK came in and marched and burned the process throughout the entire city.

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That's why racist and discrimination continue and continue and continue.

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This is true history folks, all facts, everything I speak is factual, I just want to

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you know that part right here and maybe perhaps I can go to a five-hour

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circuity case on history in special meetings but yet the production also be aware

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it's all education folks nothing more education this part must be named after

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Roosevelt for those simple reasons basically is all this required

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career of everything you do is all true believe in inclusiveness diversity for

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you.

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Next we'll hear from Angela McLean.

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Good evening.

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It's Angela McLean and I am with the older adults advisory board here for the city council.

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And I want to start tonight by saying we're just not just a kind of a topic of aga and all of our councilors.

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As a member of the city council, older adults advisory board, I am here.

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This evening to express gratitude to everyone for the proclamation on Fall Prevention, for Fall Prevention Awareness Month, which is September of 2020-6.

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We know that older adults are a vital and growing segment of our society.

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They possess wisdom, experience, and energy that enrich our community.

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The City of Lafayette is committed to supporting strategies and promote healthy aging, maximize independence,

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and ensure a safe environment for all residents,

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laws are the leading cause of fatal and non-fatal injuries for older Americans.

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It's significantly impacts their independence, their quality of life, and their health care costs.

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Balls are not inevitable, a inevitable, a inevitable part of aging and evidence-based program.

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Members home modifications, and regular medication reviews and vision checks can dramatically reduce fall risk.

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Raising awareness about fall prevention and powers, older adults, caregivers, health care professionals, to take proactive steps to reduce fall prevention and injuries, advancements and technology like our little watches now allow for fall detection and prevention through smartphones, wearable devices and home monitoring posts.

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The Lafayette Seniors Center celebrates Fall Prevention activities.

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One is called Minding Your Balanced Class is September 10th from 2 to 4 PM and I think

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first Fall Prevention workshop on September 24th from 2 to 4 PM at the Iowa Center.

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And there is more every Tuesday, Silver Seekers has a stability class right there at the

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center and that's at 10 o'clock every Tuesday.

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So, there's plenty of available right here for people to practice so they don't fall down.

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Now, I have to leave you this evening.

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Listen, advice on longevity.

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From a very well-known CU-Buff Super Fam.

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Her name is Miss Peggy Coppen.

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She's 101 and 34 years old.

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And she's a woman of great healthy age.

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Here's what she says you must do if you want to have longevity.

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Number one, have a strong faith.

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Number two, enjoy life without excesses.

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Get good sleep, keep a positive attitude,

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and last of all, don't ever fall down.

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And so we will celebrate Miss Peggy's 100 Second

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and first three of years of age, and no member.

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And thank you all for supporting everything you do

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for the older adults here in the world.

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Thank you.

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Next we will hear from Charles Silva.

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Yes, sir.

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Ladies and gentlemen, I'm here to actually just sell the park.

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You have to sell the park that everyone in this room has been to want to collect.

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Not more than me.

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I go a lot.

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I might go after this, but I live on there by the way, but so we don't have to defend the

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it all, but it would should be an honor for Roosevelt to have her name on something that

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have to face in such tough circumstances, like the Ku Kluxka and burning the cross in

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in front of the house.

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I think she was, I believe she was 13 years old, you know, I'm sure she can imagine her

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asking her death.

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That virus that meant making a fire in our front yard.

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So there's a lot to be said about her and her bravery

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and she'd be honored for a partly named after her.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Next we'll hear from Tony Muñoz.

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Hello, Council.

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My name's Tony Muñoz, and I live at 214 North Michigan Avenue.

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Michigan has a lot of history with Lafayette Miller.

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So, my address was once known as 500 East baseline, again, the KKK used to march in front

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of my grandmother's home, and I could tell you so many stories I'm not supposed to

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share.

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But I do now as an adult.

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I strongly believe that our new pocket part should be named Roosevelt Park.

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At the last city council meeting, I shared some history with the council in our community.

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That we all represent.

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Today, I'd like to introduce you to some more history, which you may or may not already

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know. The original Columbine Massacre that happened in Surin, Colorado. The Massacre occurred

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because we as Americans voted that American would start providing and allowing sixth grade

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education to our American children. However, children worked at night shift at the coal mine.

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Well, the men, certain men, worked during the day. When the compulsory sixth grade education

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and met these children's would no longer be available to work at night.

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The owner of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company, John Roach, became angry.

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The Roach family and his possees and the local police then assaulted shot the children

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and their families.

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This became known as the very first column by massacre.

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It is documented right across the street from King Supers in Eri, Colorado, on Highway

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Bye.

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Bye.

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37. My daddy always told me he's the 40th parallel. The column buying mine and the town serene Colorado was shut down. Many of the families moved to eerie Colorado and Lafayette, Colorado. Not only did the families moved to Lafayette, so did the owner of Rocky Mountain fuel company. The owner was again John Roach.

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At that time, my father was one of those children living in serene Colorado with his family. Although he was too young to work at the coal mine, but thanks be to God.

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he did get a sixth grade education and boy did he love to read.

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I'm like D'Alicard's family, father who never learned to read.

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Let's move forward to 2012 when Josephine Commons's retirement community was built and it was

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named Josephine as been, it was named Josephine Commons named after Josephine as well

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Roach John Roach's daughter.

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Let's name this part after a family that did something good for our

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community. Rosa Ballas family donated the most concrete to build the Lafayette swimming pool.

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This is a good wholesome part of history. Please, let's never stop learning. If we don't

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encourage our younger generation to keep learning and gaining knowledge about our past,

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what good are we? We need to name this pocket part with pocket part, excuse me, pocket

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part with something intellect and heart. I highly recommend that we name it Rosa Balla

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of Lafayette. Thank you. I need to disclose that I am a real estate agent and my company's name

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Serene Colorado. I love history, my daddy loved to read, and the one thing I would also like

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to comment on is I just met the communication person I didn't get her name. I didn't realize I

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had thought that the survey to name the park was over. Apparently it's not, so I need to get on

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the Lafayette website and help our elders make their vote too.

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They haven't been able to vote, we didn't know this.

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I'm not even that old yet, and I didn't know this.

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So again, I think there's some work to be done, but we're all encouraged to be positive

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and not ruin that Lafayette vibe. We're moving forward.

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Thank you. Oh, and I did bring supportive documentation in case if anybody needs to know

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about the Rocky Mountain Field Company and the just

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in comments.

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It's under Mr. and Mrs. Google's site.

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So just so that there's a supportive documentation.

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Anyone make up for everyone, I don't know if we can go back.

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Thank you so much, Councilor.

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Thank you.

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Next we'll hear from Rosario Rusey.

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Thank you.

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Rosario Rusey, 721, Pascal Drive.

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And I'm going to speak about the REC Center

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renovation project.

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Thank you to the Council for its attention to this matter.

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I also appreciate the City of La Payette and the Davis-Dame team for listening to community

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feedback, incorporating some of it into the revised plan and scheduling additional meetings.

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This efforts are welcome, but more options are needed for residents who can not attend

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on weekends.

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I spoke directly with one of Davis's architects and appreciate his willingness to listen and

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notes. I stress the need for more community outreach, online and printed in English and in Spanish.

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So residents who are not comfortable online or proficient in English can also participate.

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An unused interpreter in the corner is not enough. Everyone's opinion and tax dollars count.

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When residents feel hard, trust grows, when they feel this mayst, trust becomes fragile and hard to restore.

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From my experience working for government, rebuilding that trust can take significant time and effort.

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Although on signed out the city alerts, I have not received notice of a new survey.

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The link in the Lafayette Lissons portal is hard to find and appears to be in English only.

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This doesn't seem like a captive outreach.

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As a senior myself, I strongly support making sure our needs are met.

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I also recognize the populations are aging, not only here, but in many parts of the world.

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The ballot issue did not include senior center renovations or improvements though.

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I voted against the proposition because of how it was presented,

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But I do understand the project must move forward as approved.

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The majority's intent should be respected.

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The proposition focused on the red center, the service center and city hall,

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not in a new or large senior center.

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Press in 65 and all there. Make up.

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About 16% of the population, while those 64-in-younger make about 84%. Yet, the new plan appears to direct roughly

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one-third of the 34 million bond to the senior edition. That seems disproportionate and may

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discourage younger families. I say this, both as a senior and as a grandparent. The senior

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central wing has quadrupled, and now appears to take up about one-third of the project. What

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fitness areas remain too small. The community voted for more fitness

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face and adequate and inadequate lab swimming pool. The

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racket both courts are not suitable for group exercise. Each one is only

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800 square feet, first smaller than the original bond

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claims. Adding floors will leave low ceilings when structural steel

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and dots are included, making the space cramped and the current plan

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peers to let Windows. The first floor group exercise room will shrink to create

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passage to new senior center. It is already too small and demand exceeds capacity.

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Users are often turned away from both group exercise and cycling classes.

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A dedicated cycling room in this space could fit more bikes and help end the

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frustrating sign-up system that limit access to 14 people that are able to plan

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workouts three days ahead of time. The Bondroins show a larger poor area, but the current

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planet ears close to the existing size. After seeing them, one senior that loves left swimming,

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said that she will probably continue going to Louisville. That doesn't seem like a meaning for

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improvement for a 34 million project. Removing one party room was positive, but the remaining room

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interrupt the thinness areas and maybe better place elsewhere. Even if it generates revenue,

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you shouldn't take priority over fitness space. The survey and bond drawings describe the

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locker rooms as remodel, moving them closer to the front entrance with certainly improved circulation,

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but revealed in the locker rooms is expensive because they need special mechanical plumbing

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and architectural systems for moisture and heavy use. Also I haven't seen any plans to resurface

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the track that is heavily used, especially in colder months, and the track serves the entire

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community. I would encourage everyone to continue building a community grounded in trust

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as we all work to preserve the spirit of our love small town of Lafayette. Thank you so much.

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Thank you. Next week we'll hear from Roy Johnson.

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Good evening Mayor, Mayor for Tim Castle.

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I'm Roy Jackson, 25, 47-speed water circle.

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I've learned to talk fast because my name.

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I'm a member of the IDEA advisory board.

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But I'm here as speaking solely as an individual.

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The selection with new city pocket part name was soon

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come before you.

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That's a just name, Roosevelt Park or simply Roosevelt.

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The IDEA board has voted unanimously to recommend this account.

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To this, that name, Pudania Council.

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Ross, but you've heard some of this before, I'm sorry, it can be duplicitous in some ways.

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I'm sure most of you are aware that they have been put briefly in summation.

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In 1933, city plan to build a soy pool over the wreck center is now

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and ask for donations this month.

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The host of Lewis and family and others made donations.

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The pool was completed in 1934.

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Ross, about her mother tried entering the pool in third day of the opening

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and were denied entry for use.

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As the poll was placed in control, the city far departed, which restricted the poll to white zoning.

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As soon as it was a new phase with Rosell and others with Rosell, the lead scientist.

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Shortly thereafter, there was racial violence in the Ku Klux clan.

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You can too much publicity tonight.

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Turned across on the Arlan at 304 East Chester, which is just several blocks away from the park.

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The family lived in California in 1935.

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Roosevelt witnessed her mother rose killed in auto pedestrian accident.

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Roosevelt, just 13 years old, he just 23 days after the accident.

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Testified in the civil trial.

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I found accounts of her testimony hard-tugging.

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And that's included in it.

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And it's the civil handouts you have now, apparently.

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So please review that when you get a chance,

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I know you're currently included 200 pages tonight, so when you get a chance.

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Just to include a copy of the State Policy of naming facilities and information.

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I provided, and I believe the suggestion is consistent with the policy as follows.

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Name should reflect geographic historical cultural significance to the city.

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Name shall reflect diversity, equity, and inclusion of the lofty community.

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It advances a fostering sense of community and hometown character.

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It heightens the awareness of city history.

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Because a tenured points of pride in our community, including people of

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there was shape of city and it's a special tribute to the memorabil.

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The Terrible Acts, a grateful discrimination guest here, and the courageous testimony of 13-year-old

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Roosevelt, are deeply rooted in a part of Lafayette history.

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Some people may say that her mothers are re-recognized by the name of the Recreation Center

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Pool, and that is enough.

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13-year-old Roosevelt was subject to terrible treatment at the pool, and then in that

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It courageously after the death of a mother and independent of that, when she'd greatly

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testified.

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Perhaps some may think this is not a big deal, but imagine how Rose would have felt if she

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knew how her 30-year-old daughter, bravely testified, have to be, initially, discriminated.

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And imagine how you would feel if it was your daughter.

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Recognizing the courage with 13-year-old would also acknowledge the importance of young people

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community and such a great example for them, and for all of us to stand at the

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speaker to truth and try to make things better. The city just advised that you have

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selected four finalist names and suggestions. Mayor Postpart, each of the

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part, the Queen of Park and in Roseville Park. I suggest to you that the name of

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Roseville Park is clearly the one that most meets the criteria in the city

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naming facilities policy.

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So you part two survey is for making notes that Roosevelt

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lived multiple life outside of Lafayette for left

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in Denver and right thing.

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I don't know why this was thought to be relevant unless

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where she resided in after was thought to be a valid deciding

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factor.

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Roosevelt was a Lafayette resident when she was

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to die use to the state port each 13.

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Roosevelt is a resident of Lafayette now.

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She's buried in a Lafayette cemetery.

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A spoke with Roosevelt's granddaughter and great grandson who would be a great main

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favoriteist naming. I suggest to you, you would be at honor for Lafayette to honor

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Roosevelt. And thanks to those who did us research years ago, including Frank,

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Marisa, and Doug, and others. And,

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good for her residence in Lafayette.

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And

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10 seconds left.

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I'm getting better.

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All right.

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Thank you.

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Thank you so much.

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Next we'll hear from a PC client.

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Hi, Council.

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My name is Casey Klein.

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I get 387 now.

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I'm driving.

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I'm with Embery.

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I came to you guys.

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Well, first of all, I got a lot of city councils.

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The baseball thing was really cool.

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That was more people.

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That's cool.

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You have a good team here.

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And that's amazing.

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But last week I was here in May talking about the purchase of a property on the northwest corner of E470 and Highway 287 and we were working through a development agreement and I just, I'm here today for two reasons one, I'd like to thank the staff, you've been wonderful.

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I know you don't sometimes, it's a thankless job and the way Emory works, I told you this from the first time when we met you guys in May, work grateful for the opportunity to partner.

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And so when we were here, I think one of you asked me about the capital markets in the world and like, how can you close?

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And it was like, I don't know, we're going to try.

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I can tell you unbelievably tough, but my promise to you that night was I would come back and

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stand before you when we closed. And so we closed in middle of August. And so we are the official

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owners of the property. If you drive by it now you will see tractors out there, we are going

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just as promised. So I just wanted to thank you all. I wanted to thank the staff. I know there

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was a lot that goes into this and transferring and doing things. And again, I know it's thank

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with sometimes, and so that's it.

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I just wanted to say thank you and we're excited

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to be part of the city and go build.

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So we're going as fast as we can.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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My apologies if I say this incorrectly,

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we will next hear from Liz Plotchew.

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I am going to see you, though.

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OK.

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Thank you.

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Next, we'll hear from Peter Salas.

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We're very happy to announce the members. Thank you for the opportunity. I appreciate all the good work you do,

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and especially the time that you take to listen to the concerns of the community.

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I'm here. Really a supporter of Roy Johnson and Frank Archiletta and they're offered to have the small park on the Main Street, or public road, called Rosa Bellaparte.

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You've heard all the history. I'm not going to go through any of that. I just wanted to

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say that I think it's important. And when I mentioned that there are people who feel like

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the new adult family has already been honored. And why should we do this? From my perspective,

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I'm a 40-year resident of Lafayette. I love on 1710 Street Drive. And from my perspective,

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I think it's extremely important that we continue to recognize and honor those people who

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have lived in Lafayette, who's passed us up, make Lafayette what it is.

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They're not even people who aren't the big members and shakers and builders, but people who live their lives here,

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and who especially during Roosevelt's early life, who had to put up with a lot of stuff.

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And I think that doing this will honor her who I consider to be extremely brave young person in the face of really insurmountable difficulties.

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difficulties during those times and so I'm saying that it's a small thing to do but it carries

461
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a lot of weight. We have to continue to honor our citizens and the other thing that

462
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does, I think, aside from informing current and future residents, I think it helps us all

463
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deal at some level. And that's important. When I moved here, I wasn't aware of any of this

464
00:42:14,670 --> 00:42:20,710
history. I'm aware of history. These types of activities that have occurred elsewhere.

465
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And I know that a lot of communities have suffered and are trying to heal from this.

466
00:42:27,770 --> 00:42:33,150
And I think this is a long way to helping our community, whether people know it or not,

467
00:42:33,150 --> 00:42:37,050
heal from the pains of the past and the things that happen.

468
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So I would encourage you and I know it hasn't come before you yet.

469
00:42:41,230 --> 00:42:44,630
But I would encourage you when it comes before you

470
00:42:44,630 --> 00:42:46,570
seriously consider this.

471
00:42:46,570 --> 00:42:50,210
It's a small thing, but it has a big impact.

472
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So I appreciate it. Thank you.

473
00:42:53,430 --> 00:42:56,110
Thank you. Next we'll hear from Michael Watson.

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00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:07,760
Michael Watson, seven, eight, South Carolina,

475
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:12,900
Yeah, I'm going to second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, whatever it is.

476
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:15,220
Whatever the count is at this point, we're Roosevelt Park.

477
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:24,220
I got to caveat to that, not just name it after her, but make it a park that's worthy of her name.

478
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:27,260
And not just the park, but the city.

479
00:43:27,500 --> 00:43:30,380
Make the city worthy of the sacrifice of Rose.

480
00:43:30,380 --> 00:43:37,140
It's like, I know it's kind of easy when you hear the story on paper.

481
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:39,500
She's courageous.

482
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:40,840
She's brave.

483
00:43:41,220 --> 00:43:44,840
Daddy, daddy, daddy, but you didn't ask where any of that.

484
00:43:45,100 --> 00:43:48,760
Like that's not how history chooses it's heroes.

485
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:50,620
Nobody comes.

486
00:43:50,740 --> 00:43:54,140
Nobody walked up to her and said, hey, would you like to be a hero for future generations

487
00:43:54,140 --> 00:43:55,120
of Lafayette residents?

488
00:43:56,160 --> 00:44:00,260
She watched her mother get mugged, run down in the streets, and then she came back.

489
00:44:00,260 --> 00:44:03,340
She testified against the people who refused to family.

490
00:44:04,420 --> 00:44:05,860
And then she did the hardest thing of all.

491
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:07,680
I lost my mother when I was eight years old.

492
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:12,980
She lived. She kept living and kept putting one foot ahead in front of the other.

493
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:15,520
She raised a family. She has grandkids.

494
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And she's laid to rest in our cemetery.

495
00:44:18,100 --> 00:44:22,100
That is an individual. A lot of all the things out of all the tragedies that has occurred

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00:44:22,100 --> 00:44:26,580
in this city, in this state, in this country, in this world.

497
00:44:27,220 --> 00:44:28,300
That is something we can celebrate.

498
00:44:28,300 --> 00:44:30,260
And that is something that I hope that we celebrate.

499
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:36,060
And I'm going to follow that up with an ask for a park that deserves her name.

500
00:44:36,700 --> 00:44:41,540
A park that has for story, told on it, that has bushes, rose bushes.

501
00:44:41,700 --> 00:44:44,240
Whatever a paper flower was, planted there.

502
00:44:44,900 --> 00:44:48,120
Like put bird feeders and bird baths, attract wildlife.

503
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:49,580
Like let it be a shrine.

504
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:53,320
Not only the history of Lafayette, but the future of Lafayette.

505
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:55,060
What we could be if we tried.

506
00:44:56,200 --> 00:44:59,860
And I know number three is supposed to be positive and not hold out on it.

507
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:05,380
All that cross that is hard in the world just keeps picking you on the face again and again and again.

508
00:45:05,620 --> 00:45:11,420
Like life is unbearably tragic and hard and there's all sorts of hate and discontent in the world.

509
00:45:11,900 --> 00:45:15,840
And if we could make one little tiny pocket of Lafayette, beautiful.

510
00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:19,380
Let's do it. Thank you very much.

511
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:24,280
Thank you. Next we'll hear from Chelsea Pennington-Hong.

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00:45:29,720 --> 00:45:35,240
Good evening. My name is Chelsea Pennington Han. I am the director of the Lafayette History Museum.

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00:45:35,780 --> 00:45:41,100
Little bit later in the meeting, there's going to be a population made acknowledging our 50th anniversary of the museum.

514
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:46,240
And so with that in mind, I just wanted to come share a little bit about how we are celebrating this milestone.

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00:45:47,420 --> 00:45:53,580
So on Saturday, September 12th, we are having a very special 50th birthday party that everyone is invited to.

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00:45:53,580 --> 00:45:56,640
from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. that day, hope your join us will have.

517
00:45:56,880 --> 00:46:00,080
First, they can face painting and also with the fun activities to celebrate.

518
00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:03,840
And that is also the official opening of our new permanent exhibits.

519
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:05,640
So we have been working.

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00:46:06,220 --> 00:46:09,880
The exhibit covers the front two rooms and also the kitchen of the historic Lewis house.

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00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,840
And it has been an making for over three years.

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00:46:13,220 --> 00:46:18,260
It was research and written and developed by a committee of community members.

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00:46:19,260 --> 00:46:22,720
And so we're very grateful for their generosity and donating their time and expertise.

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00:46:22,720 --> 00:46:25,620
and are really excited to share what we've created.

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00:46:26,300 --> 00:46:28,400
The exhibit will share a variety of stories and people

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00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:31,400
from throughout Lafayette's history, including the Yoshihara family

527
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:33,280
who found this Lafayette for us.

528
00:46:33,940 --> 00:46:38,440
The last year, the coal miners fight for better working conditions.

529
00:46:39,980 --> 00:46:42,100
The, in where we created the kitchen of Adelaide Amunos,

530
00:46:42,240 --> 00:46:44,900
who immigrated here from the area to this area from Mexico

531
00:46:44,900 --> 00:46:46,420
in the 1920s.

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00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:55,760
So, for a great full and also relevant to a lot of the comments tonight, we tell the story

533
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:57,740
of the, you know, darker times of a history.

534
00:46:57,900 --> 00:47:03,080
The presence of the KKK rose and rose of all the wares is courage in their story as well.

535
00:47:03,700 --> 00:47:08,460
So, the, and the exhibit will be printed fully English and Spanish for the first time in our history,

536
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:12,560
we're very excited, and there are also interactive elements for kids of all ages.

537
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:18,400
So bring the whole family, both that day and anytime we'll have things for everyone to enjoy.

538
00:47:19,180 --> 00:47:23,540
The team behind the exhibit will be there on September 12th, so you can hear it from them.

539
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:28,620
But again, if you can't make it on the 12th, I hope that you'll come visit the Lafayhista Museum soon.

540
00:47:28,900 --> 00:47:32,460
See everything we've been working on and uncover some new stories from my city's history.

541
00:47:33,100 --> 00:47:33,880
Thank you so much.

542
00:47:34,140 --> 00:47:34,680
Thank you.

543
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:37,680
Next we'll hear from Gale Elias.

544
00:47:45,540 --> 00:47:45,880
Thank you.

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00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:53,320
marble court. Since 2021, I've been part of a group of non-profits that were called

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00:47:53,320 --> 00:48:00,360
together by CDOT to develop a plan for the World War I memorial that sits at the intersection

547
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:09,520
of 27 in a Rappahode Road. It was built to honor the service and the sacrifice of 1,523 men

548
00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:14,340
and women from Boulder County who served in the Great War.

549
00:48:15,020 --> 00:48:20,740
80 of them called Lafayette Home and 25 of them are entered in the cemetery.

550
00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:27,440
When our grandfathers and great-grandfathers built in the memorial in 1928,

551
00:48:28,300 --> 00:48:35,960
they envisioned a road of remembrance all the way from the gateway to the city of Boulder

552
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:46,440
with trees and parks and more all along the way that didn't happen so only 98 years later

553
00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:52,000
by working with our local state legislatures we were able to get a joint resolution

554
00:48:52,780 --> 00:48:58,400
through the legislature designating a rap a home road as the road of remembrance.

555
00:48:59,100 --> 00:49:05,640
Now I know that you've received email in from invitations and I want to thank everyone who

556
00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:14,280
responded to that. But I want to extend a personal invitation to each and every one of you to

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00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:21,300
come and join with us at the official dedication of the road of remembrance on September 15,

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00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:28,960
10 in the morning at the Lafayette Y. Well, the YMCA of Northern Colorado, 2800,

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00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:37,300
in Lafayette. We are going to be able to celebrate this with descendants of our world who are

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00:49:37,300 --> 00:49:45,520
one veterans, our state legislatures, and representatives of all of the non-profits who have been

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00:49:45,520 --> 00:49:54,660
involved in this process. We hope as we continue to work toward preservation of this memorial

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00:49:54,660 --> 00:49:59,960
that we can tap into the creativity that lives in local government.

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And and strong communities. This is not an easy process. But we hope that by working together, we can find a way forward, so that we don't leave this to our grandchildren's generations, 98 years down the road.

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00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:26,220
Thank you for your time, your interest, and I hope to see you in September.

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00:50:28,260 --> 00:50:29,140
Thank you.

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00:50:29,420 --> 00:50:32,100
Next we'll hear from Manuel Robertson.

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00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:40,800
Hit anything here, is it?

568
00:50:40,820 --> 00:50:41,180
What's up?

569
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:42,000
Do I hit a button on you?

570
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:42,680
No, no, you're good.

571
00:50:43,700 --> 00:50:46,240
So I'm here to talk to everybody today.

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00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:47,320
First quick introduction.

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00:50:47,620 --> 00:50:49,220
My name's Emmanuel Robertson.

574
00:50:49,700 --> 00:50:51,480
I grew up here at Whistborn.

575
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:52,520
Whether it was an example.

576
00:50:52,640 --> 00:50:54,420
You have so in a long mind.

577
00:50:55,100 --> 00:50:57,040
But here since 99.

578
00:50:58,200 --> 00:51:01,360
And I want to just thank all of you for your time today for being here.

579
00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:11,240
I'm mostly wanted to talk about a bigger issue going on across the country that's starting to become something that people are concerned about in our community.

580
00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:16,120
The ALPR fought contracted cameras with the police department.

581
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:26,680
Largely can be an effective tool and of course our police officers were day in day night to keep us safe to have all my life and keep this community what it is.

582
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:31,840
However, we can see that as it's been done in parts of the country, people taking advantage

583
00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:37,720
of this technology, it falling to misuse, it being used in ways that can marginalize people

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00:51:37,720 --> 00:51:41,840
that are already marginalized communities, minority populations.

585
00:51:43,260 --> 00:51:49,700
It seems more indicative to a little picture in a bigger picture of things to see that we're

586
00:51:49,700 --> 00:51:55,960
getting closer and closer to that of McCarthyism 2.0, if you will, in America, where one day

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00:51:55,960 --> 00:52:02,560
be able to persecute people based off of political beliefs, what they look like, and that technology

588
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:10,020
could be used for such a thing. Not to knock, of course, that it's been used in a number of

589
00:52:10,020 --> 00:52:15,260
cases to go ahead and reduce how many card jackings have happened. We can see from 2020 of course

590
00:52:15,260 --> 00:52:22,120
to 2022 that that was almost cut in half from a 64% increase. However, there's a lot of changes

591
00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:27,560
that we're happening across the nation, and we can't quite directly say that it is all attributed

592
00:52:27,560 --> 00:52:31,120
to that technology alone, not necessarily a positive correlation.

593
00:52:31,660 --> 00:52:36,120
Some other things that we're taking place locally across the nation, in terms of legislation

594
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:41,380
changing overall, largely may have had more to do with that than the help or aid of the

595
00:52:41,380 --> 00:52:41,940
technology.

596
00:52:42,420 --> 00:52:46,540
Not to mention that our police officers are...it's a little insulting to even them.

597
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:51,760
Their skills, their prowess, you guys work so hard to have kept us safe as it is, and we

598
00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:57,300
We can keep building a community that builds public trust amongst each other as then we

599
00:52:57,300 --> 00:53:00,020
veiled as it is amongst our public institutions.

600
00:53:00,780 --> 00:53:06,940
We don't have to go forward with what everything else is turning to in the country.

601
00:53:08,520 --> 00:53:13,700
I want to say and bring up to attention, the only other thing that we could maybe do now

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00:53:13,700 --> 00:53:20,340
as we consider our time with that contract, as it's known I was hearing that correct me if

603
00:53:20,340 --> 00:53:26,420
wrong, but the retention of said data is upwards of, like, 30 days. Even the company itself

604
00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:34,580
Palantir has said to reduce it down to seven days for set instances of the misuse and abuse

605
00:53:34,580 --> 00:53:40,980
across the country. So maybe considering if nothing else we could change, something as small as that

606
00:53:40,980 --> 00:53:45,920
going forward. But yeah, thank you. Thank you for your time, data.

607
00:53:46,820 --> 00:53:51,420
Thank you so much. That was my last speaker request form. I was just asked, is there any

608
00:53:51,420 --> 00:53:55,140
one that hasn't had a chance to address council? I'd like to speak please come up.

609
00:53:58,830 --> 00:54:00,950
And if you could just state your name for the record.

610
00:54:01,530 --> 00:54:07,510
Um, had to go outside of New England, South Carolina. All I wanted to say was Roosevelt,

611
00:54:12,470 --> 00:54:12,670
um,

612
00:54:12,670 --> 00:54:24,210
She had to see a lot and go through a lot of hardships and that's just so incredibly brave of her and I just want to say that it would be an honor to name that park

613
00:54:24,750 --> 00:54:26,670
After her, thank you very much

614
00:54:27,610 --> 00:54:31,710
Thank you so much. Is there anyone else that hasn't had the chance to speak that like to address council tonight?

615
00:54:32,770 --> 00:54:35,670
Not seeing anyone. I will turn it to our city clerk to see if we have any calls

616
00:54:36,250 --> 00:54:40,110
No calls. Okay, with that we'll close public input for tonight

617
00:54:40,910 --> 00:54:45,970
I believe we have four items under our concept agenda, including item A, which is a resolution

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00:54:45,970 --> 00:54:50,870
number 2026-22 appointing published now L.P. is a special legal counsel to provide legal

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00:54:50,870 --> 00:54:54,650
representation that invites this city with respect to public finance matters and setting

620
00:54:54,650 --> 00:54:59,690
the rate of compensation therefore item B resolution number 2026-23.

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00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:05,980
Pointing Director for Sola, metropolitan district, institutional and director for Sola, metropolitan district, commercial.

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00:55:06,540 --> 00:55:27,240
Item C, contract, day four services, U.S. LLC for payroll, and human resources system, licensing, renewal, and finally, item D, a motion, approval, and intergovernmental agreement between Colorado Department of Transportation and the city of Lafayette, regarding the operation and maintenance of the portion of state highway 7, corridor improvements on the 95th Street intersection projects.

623
00:55:27,240 --> 00:55:30,880
are there any items Council would like to pull?

624
00:55:31,300 --> 00:55:32,720
Seeing none, I will take a motion.

625
00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:35,820
I move to approve the consent agenda.

626
00:55:36,940 --> 00:55:37,760
This is the second.

627
00:55:38,860 --> 00:55:41,860
Resolution and a second to approve the consent agenda.

628
00:55:42,300 --> 00:55:43,980
Any discussion on this?

629
00:55:45,870 --> 00:55:47,730
Seeing none, all those in favor say aye.

630
00:55:48,790 --> 00:55:50,030
Anyone opposed saying no?

631
00:55:50,370 --> 00:55:52,410
None opposed that passes unanimous.

632
00:55:53,450 --> 00:55:57,010
Moving on tonight to our proclamations of which we have three will begin

633
00:55:57,010 --> 00:55:58,290
on the first with Councillor Gallagher.

634
00:55:59,910 --> 00:56:05,590
So, a proclamation for the 50th anniversary of the Lafayette History Museum, September 1st,

635
00:56:05,750 --> 00:56:12,570
2020-6, whereas the Lafayette History Museum was founded in 1976 with the mission of preserving

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00:56:12,570 --> 00:56:17,490
interpreting and sharing the rich history of Lafayette and its surrounding communities,

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00:56:18,030 --> 00:56:23,450
and whereas over the past 50 years, the museum has served as a vital cultural and educational

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00:56:23,450 --> 00:56:29,270
resource, collecting artifacts, recording oral histories, and presenting exhibits that

639
00:56:29,270 --> 00:56:34,870
highlight the diverse stories, people, and events that have shaped Lafayette. And whereas

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00:56:34,870 --> 00:56:39,930
the Lafayette history museum has played a significant role in fostering community identity

641
00:56:39,930 --> 00:56:41,710
and civic pride that

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00:56:55,660 --> 00:56:59,900
exhibits exploring the city's history, and other projects, and

643
00:56:59,900 --> 00:57:05,320
the museum continues to expand its impact and relevance for current and future generations.

644
00:57:05,320 --> 00:57:11,760
and whereas the dedication of staff volunteers, community partners, and supporters has sustained

645
00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:16,980
the museum's mission and ensure the preservation of Lafayette's history for 50 years and

646
00:57:16,980 --> 00:57:17,420
beyond.

647
00:57:18,060 --> 00:57:22,360
Now therefore the mayor and city council of the city of Lafayette Colorado, two hereby

648
00:57:22,360 --> 00:57:29,340
declare September 1st, 2026 as the 50th anniversary of the Lafayette History Museum day,

649
00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:34,820
and encourage all residents to celebrate this milestone visit the museum, participate

650
00:57:34,820 --> 00:57:42,140
in its programs and support the ongoing preservation of Lafayette's unique history, so moved.

651
00:57:43,560 --> 00:57:47,880
We have some motion and we have a second for the 58th anniversary of Lafayette history,

652
00:57:47,900 --> 00:57:51,060
museum proclamation. I need discussion on this.

653
00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:57,040
Councillor Boyer. Thank you, Mayor, just very briefly. I think the this proclamation is

654
00:57:57,040 --> 00:58:00,400
so fitting, particularly considering the living history that we've heard this evening from

655
00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:04,220
some of the current community members reflecting on our challenging past

656
00:58:04,220 --> 00:58:05,280
so very timely.

657
00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:07,640
Thank you, any further discussion?

658
00:58:09,810 --> 00:58:10,890
All those in favor say aye.

659
00:58:11,250 --> 00:58:11,590
Aye.

660
00:58:11,750 --> 00:58:13,010
Anyone opposed saying no?

661
00:58:13,230 --> 00:58:14,530
None opposed that passes unanimously.

662
00:58:15,910 --> 00:58:17,490
Moving on to our second proclamation tonight,

663
00:58:17,970 --> 00:58:18,690
Councillor Jensen?

664
00:58:19,470 --> 00:58:21,230
Crystal, you have such a beautiful reading

665
00:58:21,230 --> 00:58:23,290
voice, I feel like I should give it to you.

666
00:58:26,630 --> 00:58:31,210
I have the honor of reading the proclamation for fall

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00:58:31,210 --> 00:58:39,710
prevention month, mostly I think because I'm an older adult, whereas older adults are a

668
00:58:39,710 --> 00:58:45,970
vital and growing segment of our society, possessing wisdom, experience, and energy

669
00:58:45,970 --> 00:58:51,330
that enrich our community. And whereas the City of Lafayette is committed to supporting

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00:58:51,330 --> 00:58:58,210
strategies that promote healthy aging, maximize independence, and ensure a safe environment for

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00:58:58,210 --> 00:59:05,110
residents and whereas falls of the leading cause of fatal and non-fatal injuries for older

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00:59:05,110 --> 00:59:12,030
Americans significantly impacting their independence, quality of life, and healthcare costs.

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00:59:12,490 --> 00:59:19,750
And whereas falls are not an inevitable part of aging and evidence-based programs, home modifications,

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00:59:20,350 --> 00:59:27,690
regular medication reviews, and vision checks can dramatically reduce fall risks. And whereas

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00:59:27,690 --> 00:59:34,330
raising awareness about fall prevention in powers, older adults, caregivers, and health care professionals

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00:59:34,330 --> 00:59:41,590
to take proactive steps to reduce injuries and save lives, and whereas advancements in technology

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00:59:41,590 --> 00:59:50,490
now allow for fall detection and prevention through smartphones, wearable devices, and homemonitoring

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00:59:50,490 --> 00:59:58,050
tools, and whereas Lafayette Senior Center located at 103 South Iowa Avenue, celebrates

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00:59:58,050 --> 00:59:59,870
and hosts fall prevention.

680
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:07,920
Inactivities such as minding your balance class on September 10th from 2 to 4, and I think first fall prevention

681
01:00:07,920 --> 01:00:15,320
workshops September 24th from 2 to 4. Now, therefore, the mayor and city council of the city of

682
01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:24,100
Lafayette, Colorado, do hereby declare the month of September 2026 as fall prevention month and encourage

683
01:00:24,100 --> 01:00:31,280
all residents to support fall prevention efforts by participating in local workshops, helping

684
01:00:31,280 --> 01:00:38,100
older adults with basic home safety checks, and promoting fall prevention resources within the

685
01:00:38,100 --> 01:00:46,560
community. Some moved. Second, we have a motion and a second for the fall prevention awareness

686
01:00:47,380 --> 01:00:48,700
any discussion on this

687
01:00:50,020 --> 01:00:50,540
proclamation?

688
01:00:51,840 --> 01:00:53,380
Seeing none, all those in favor say aye.

689
01:00:53,520 --> 01:00:53,860
Aye.

690
01:00:54,100 --> 01:00:54,520
Anyone opposed?

691
01:00:54,680 --> 01:00:54,840
No.

692
01:00:55,800 --> 01:00:57,300
None opposed that passes unanimously.

693
01:00:57,980 --> 01:00:59,680
On to our final proclamation tonight.

694
01:00:59,900 --> 01:01:01,000
I will turn it to Councillor Giannola.

695
01:01:01,580 --> 01:01:02,100
Thank you, Mayor.

696
01:01:02,240 --> 01:01:05,560
I have a proclamation for national prepared this month.

697
01:01:06,020 --> 01:01:08,800
September 1 through September 30th, 2026.

698
01:01:09,840 --> 01:01:14,200
Whereas the city of Lafayette's climate action plan identifies community resilience

699
01:01:14,200 --> 01:01:20,140
as a core strategy to protect residents, infrastructure, and ecosystems from increasing climate-related

700
01:01:20,140 --> 01:01:26,220
hazards, including extreme heat, wildfires flooding, severe weather, and power disruptions.

701
01:01:26,780 --> 01:01:31,400
And whereas preparedness and resilience are essential to protecting public safety, maintaining

702
01:01:31,400 --> 01:01:35,940
critical services, and supporting the well-being of all residents, particularly those

703
01:01:35,940 --> 01:01:38,800
most vulnerable to the impacts of emergencies.

704
01:01:39,500 --> 01:01:45,440
And where as emergency preparedness in Lafayette is a coordinated cross-departmental effort involving

705
01:01:45,440 --> 01:01:50,920
the fire, police, public works, sustainability, city manager's office, and open space

706
01:01:50,920 --> 01:01:56,320
teams in partnership with regional agencies including the Boulder County Office of Disaster Management

707
01:01:56,320 --> 01:02:01,400
to strengthen readiness, response, and recovery. And residents are encouraged to stay informed

708
01:02:01,400 --> 01:02:07,360
by registering for Boulder County emergency alerts and notifications. And where as individuals,

709
01:02:07,360 --> 01:02:12,280
families and neighborhoods who understand local hazards, maintain emergency plans, and supply

710
01:02:12,280 --> 01:02:17,160
kits, and are prepared to be self-sufficient during the first 72 hours following an emergency,

711
01:02:17,720 --> 01:02:21,680
play a vital role in reducing impacts and strengthening community resilience.

712
01:02:23,480 --> 01:02:28,460
And whereas the City of Lafayette is committed to empowering residents through education

713
01:02:28,460 --> 01:02:34,580
engagement, including a community resilience workshop series led by the Fire Department in collaboration

714
01:02:34,580 --> 01:02:40,920
with the sustainability and open space teams which provide practical tools and resources to prepare

715
01:02:40,920 --> 01:02:46,760
for climate related and other emergencies. Now therefore the mayor and city council of the city

716
01:02:46,760 --> 01:02:52,960
of Lafayette, Colorado, do hereby declare the month of September 2026 as National Preparedness Month

717
01:02:52,960 --> 01:02:58,920
and call upon all residents, businesses, schools, and community organizations to take action

718
01:02:58,920 --> 01:03:04,460
to prepare for emergencies, participate in resilience building efforts, stay informed through local

719
01:03:04,460 --> 01:03:09,720
solar systems and support building a strong and more resilient Lafayette so moved.

720
01:03:13,110 --> 01:03:13,270
Great.

721
01:03:13,430 --> 01:03:13,790
Thank you.

722
01:03:13,890 --> 01:03:16,030
We have motionless like a for national preparedness month,

723
01:03:16,330 --> 01:03:18,070
Proclamation and any discussion on this.

724
01:03:18,410 --> 01:03:18,910
Proclamation.

725
01:03:19,490 --> 01:03:20,030
Council, you know.

726
01:03:20,570 --> 01:03:21,130
Thank you.

727
01:03:21,850 --> 01:03:25,130
Just want to remind the community that we have it.

728
01:03:25,270 --> 01:03:30,490
Emergency preparedness workshop coming up on Tuesday, September 8th at 530 p.m.

729
01:03:30,710 --> 01:03:33,870
Over in the Starkey building in Old Town, Lafayette.

730
01:03:34,630 --> 01:03:35,030
Thank you.

731
01:03:35,030 --> 01:03:36,390
Any further discussion?

732
01:03:37,410 --> 01:03:37,950
Seeing that.

733
01:03:37,950 --> 01:03:39,050
All those in favor say aye.

734
01:03:39,170 --> 01:03:39,650
Aye.

735
01:03:40,430 --> 01:03:41,830
Anyone opposed to say no?

736
01:03:42,070 --> 01:03:43,550
That opposed to that pass to unanimous.

737
01:03:44,330 --> 01:03:46,550
That concludes our proclamations for tonight.

738
01:03:46,830 --> 01:03:48,950
And we'll move on to our presentations.

739
01:03:49,350 --> 01:03:53,030
Only once for tonight, then new online service portal.

740
01:04:00,660 --> 01:04:01,240
Okay.

741
01:04:01,800 --> 01:04:04,640
I'll turn

742
01:04:07,450 --> 01:04:08,490
it over to our CIO.

743
01:04:08,710 --> 01:04:09,330
Next to jealous.

744
01:04:10,150 --> 01:04:11,090
Good evening, Mayor.

745
01:04:11,090 --> 01:04:15,810
and council members next to the Chavez to achieve information officer and I have the pleasure

746
01:04:15,810 --> 01:04:20,110
from out of showcasing our new online service portal.

747
01:04:21,470 --> 01:04:27,210
A few things we're just going to go over what our objectives are to modernize our end-and-end

748
01:04:27,210 --> 01:04:33,130
application, our current systems are largely based on spreadsheets and email communications,

749
01:04:34,530 --> 01:04:39,250
and it was very clear, it's very clear that we need some better tools to support that.

750
01:04:39,250 --> 01:04:49,010
We're talking about the background, some objectives, and some of the new features, and I do want to highlight that we've been taking extra care to make sure that we roll this out as best as possible.

751
01:04:49,590 --> 01:04:55,630
Not only for our staff, there'd be learning a new system, but also for the community members that will be engaging with us.

752
01:04:56,270 --> 01:04:59,930
So looking back, 2023, we started.

753
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:11,460
Really re-evaluating primarily the development review process. We hired a consultant to help us map that out and quite literally the chart of the process chart was about 15 feet long.

754
01:05:12,400 --> 01:05:21,720
And through that we were able to identify several areas to make some pretty good improvements. However, it was really clear that the technology that we had at that time was not sufficient.

755
01:05:21,720 --> 01:05:26,720
And so we shifted from that to then really focus on finding the new technology.

756
01:05:27,860 --> 01:05:33,860
We started with a pretty broad market research effort and we evaluated 11 solutions.

757
01:05:34,860 --> 01:05:40,260
As we got into 2024, we narrowed it down to just a couple of viable solutions and gov.

758
01:05:41,040 --> 01:05:45,800
The product build made by MCCI was selected as that product.

759
01:05:45,800 --> 01:05:51,800
We brought that forward to Council that year and the initial contract was about $150,000.

760
01:05:52,700 --> 01:05:57,660
We later brought an amendment to that contract and increased that by another $30,000.

761
01:05:58,900 --> 01:06:04,260
Our annual subscription for that product is about $45,000 a year, which is about the same

762
01:06:04,260 --> 01:06:06,000
bubble we're paying for our current technology.

763
01:06:06,360 --> 01:06:11,420
So if you felt like it's a really good product and the price point was working within our budgets.

764
01:06:12,440 --> 01:06:24,560
Early 2025 we kicked off this project, we brought on a project manager to help us do that and we have a project team as well as the change management team that's been working pretty hard to bring the system together.

765
01:06:25,160 --> 01:06:31,520
The majority of the time that we've been spending is really, again, looking at our processes trying to find ways of how we can do this better.

766
01:06:31,520 --> 01:06:43,160
And also identifying areas where we can streamline things and also collect information earlier on in the process instead of having to ongoing dialogue and peace milling some of the information.

767
01:06:45,760 --> 01:06:48,140
The project really had three main objectives.

768
01:06:49,100 --> 01:06:51,000
Number one, make it better for our community.

769
01:06:52,120 --> 01:06:59,900
Through transparency and consistency, making sure that the forms that we have to be filled out are dynamic and they're pretty easy and straightforward.

770
01:06:59,900 --> 01:07:12,860
And there's fairly intuitive making sure that the applicants have a central location to not only see the status of their applications, but also to communicate with staff across the entire across the city.

771
01:07:14,240 --> 01:07:17,340
And also make sure to accurate the status is what it is.

772
01:07:17,380 --> 01:07:20,680
And so I think we've been able to accomplish that so far.

773
01:07:21,560 --> 01:07:28,980
Internally, automating our processes looking for ways that we can reduce that administrative burden of taking individual action,

774
01:07:28,980 --> 01:07:37,880
Which not only saves us time, but also makes things much more consistent as we work through several different processes through this system.

775
01:07:40,500 --> 01:07:44,660
And the last piece, there's really two integrator work between city departments.

776
01:07:46,300 --> 01:07:49,820
As you may know, we have like 16 different departments.

777
01:07:50,300 --> 01:07:55,460
A lot of information has to be coordinated and shared amongst many of them many of the times.

778
01:07:55,460 --> 01:08:02,080
And so having a system that automates that also provides a consistent way for everybody to communicate internally and they're in turn

779
01:08:02,080 --> 01:08:10,400
Consolidating communicate with the applicants is very important. I do want to highlight on the graphic on the right. Those are our project

780
01:08:10,400 --> 01:08:15,280
I guess priorities and so as we're making decisions and we're evaluating options

781
01:08:15,280 --> 01:08:19,660
Really took these to heart the first one is just being collaborative making sure that you know

782
01:08:19,660 --> 01:08:25,440
What we have a way of doing things that we're able to do this with with all the departments like it was gonna work for everybody

783
01:08:26,240 --> 01:08:31,600
transfer, clearly, making sure that having one system and having visibility of the cases

784
01:08:31,600 --> 01:08:35,680
and applications across that system is really going to bring to light a lot of opportunities

785
01:08:35,680 --> 01:08:41,060
for us to continue to improve, and I do want to highlight foundational, and this one is

786
01:08:41,060 --> 01:08:48,000
really important because we're really going from a largely disconnected and nearly paper processes

787
01:08:48,000 --> 01:08:53,980
into a modern system, and it's very difficult transition from a staff, from everybody involved

788
01:08:53,980 --> 01:08:56,660
from that type of environment into a modern system.

789
01:08:57,360 --> 01:09:01,160
And so we really wanted to make sure that this was something that we could continue to grow, continue to

790
01:09:01,160 --> 01:09:05,660
evaluate, continue to mature, and I think that we're right on track with that.

791
01:09:06,000 --> 01:09:09,040
Not only through the project, but as we go live, and we continue to look forward,

792
01:09:09,080 --> 01:09:15,140
we really want that feedback, and we have the ability to continue to make our applications and our processes behind it better.

793
01:09:17,160 --> 01:09:18,360
So what are the key functions?

794
01:09:18,660 --> 01:09:20,100
One is dynamic web forms.

795
01:09:20,840 --> 01:09:29,100
You know, I think that's that's an expectation with any to think web these days, but you know, there's still a lot of systems that don't necessarily provide that.

796
01:09:29,760 --> 01:09:37,220
Integrated payment processing so that we're able to actually transition from collecting payment through other systems directly as you apply.

797
01:09:37,460 --> 01:09:39,360
So you can submit your payments for its appropriate.

798
01:09:40,480 --> 01:09:47,160
There's a mobile app that's primarily for our inspectors, but what that does is it gives them the offline capability to be on site to pull up their inspections.

799
01:09:47,160 --> 01:09:59,340
Do you ever think that you need to take pictures prior feedback and on-site provide those comments, sends, and it's automatically into the system for the contractor's bill to review and to keep up with what's going on?

800
01:10:01,060 --> 01:10:16,120
Automated Workflows, Workflows are essentially automation, right? Like it goes from point A to point B to point C, that brings consistency and also allows the city to really evaluate how do we want things to move through a process.

801
01:10:16,600 --> 01:10:28,500
And so there's been a lot of conversations around that. Centralized case management, every application turns into a case or license, turns into a case and we're able to have a consistent view of how to engage with applicants.

802
01:10:28,500 --> 01:10:37,020
And also the share-owned internal notes as well as all the coordinate permit issuance and key track of everything that's happening within a single application.

803
01:10:38,560 --> 01:10:40,800
The system does have some fairly tuned reporting.

804
01:10:41,440 --> 01:10:47,940
We're just starting to look at this as we're starting to evaluate the full capabilities of the system.

805
01:10:48,100 --> 01:10:54,520
However, so far it's pretty easy to be able to associate different elements within the system and produce reports.

806
01:10:54,520 --> 01:10:57,360
So we're, I think that that's going to really lend itself

807
01:10:57,360 --> 01:10:59,740
so that we can look internally and look at timing items

808
01:10:59,740 --> 01:11:02,340
and see where we can continue to improve on the system.

809
01:11:03,300 --> 01:11:06,960
What I'm mostly excited about is it's a low code,

810
01:11:06,960 --> 01:11:10,860
configurable system, and alternative to that is really something

811
01:11:10,860 --> 01:11:12,780
that you need to software engineer to program.

812
01:11:13,420 --> 01:11:16,080
And so moving from a programmable technology

813
01:11:16,080 --> 01:11:19,240
to a configurable technology really means

814
01:11:19,240 --> 01:11:20,960
that I don't have to pay software engineers

815
01:11:20,960 --> 01:11:23,240
to make a change every time we find a change.

816
01:11:23,240 --> 01:11:28,500
And that is not the case for many of these types of systems on the market right now.

817
01:11:28,720 --> 01:11:32,500
And so we're really happy to find that Gubbelt was able to bring that to us.

818
01:11:32,760 --> 01:11:35,360
And what that really means, it goes to that foundational goal,

819
01:11:35,800 --> 01:11:41,820
is that when, as we start to continue to review and evaluate the applications and the processes,

820
01:11:42,060 --> 01:11:44,120
we can make the changes on as we go.

821
01:11:44,460 --> 01:11:49,000
And we don't need to necessarily hire the consultant or MCCI to do a lot of those changes.

822
01:11:49,740 --> 01:11:54,460
On the right a couple pictures, so that's the main landing page, I'm going to talk about that a little bit more.

823
01:11:55,240 --> 01:12:00,780
We're probably not going to direct applicants directly to that page, because we already have a city web page,

824
01:12:00,820 --> 01:12:02,500
and we can link directly to these applications.

825
01:12:03,100 --> 01:12:09,360
However, the top illustration is really just a light example of what the applicant will see,

826
01:12:09,460 --> 01:12:18,980
so they'll see what their permit is, what it's related to, and what status it's in,

827
01:12:18,980 --> 01:12:21,100
those of the statuses that it could have.

828
01:12:21,600 --> 01:12:23,300
And so that if it's in some bit of status,

829
01:12:23,460 --> 01:12:25,540
they know that the next stage is going to be under review

830
01:12:25,540 --> 01:12:27,420
and is that progress through, they can obviously,

831
01:12:28,220 --> 01:12:30,860
where they are and what's next with them processes.

832
01:12:31,740 --> 01:12:33,420
And that changes for each application type.

833
01:12:34,920 --> 01:12:38,680
So this is a list of many of the applications that we have.

834
01:12:38,680 --> 01:12:40,500
There's a few more that are internal facing

835
01:12:41,300 --> 01:12:44,580
that will not be public facing, most of the time,

836
01:12:44,760 --> 01:12:46,040
and I'm not going to go over all of these,

837
01:12:46,060 --> 01:12:47,860
but this is the fairly comprehensive list

838
01:12:47,860 --> 01:12:50,220
of what we're going live with.

839
01:12:50,480 --> 01:12:52,260
I do want to highlight report a concern.

840
01:12:52,800 --> 01:12:56,000
So right now we use multiple civic plus forms

841
01:12:56,000 --> 01:12:57,740
to collect those and route those.

842
01:12:58,180 --> 01:13:00,480
What we're able to do with this new system

843
01:13:00,480 --> 01:13:01,760
is have a single form.

844
01:13:01,760 --> 01:13:03,820
So it's very consistent and sustain.

845
01:13:04,380 --> 01:13:07,180
And then use dynamic routing, so depending on the type of request

846
01:13:07,180 --> 01:13:10,140
that's being reported on, we can dynamically route that

847
01:13:10,140 --> 01:13:12,060
directly to the department that's responsible.

848
01:13:12,720 --> 01:13:15,060
And what that's going to do for us is not only make a consistent

849
01:13:15,060 --> 01:13:22,060
but also allow us to share that information right people immediately and hopefully improve our

850
01:13:22,060 --> 01:13:25,120
ability to be responsive to those types of concerns.

851
01:13:27,120 --> 01:13:33,720
I would say another one that I'd like to highlight is our liquor licenses.

852
01:13:34,760 --> 01:13:39,500
Those are interesting if you haven't had an opportunity to read the law around those.

853
01:13:39,920 --> 01:13:43,560
We're able to really say make sure that we're meeting all the state requirements.

854
01:13:44,140 --> 01:13:48,020
But as those liquor licenses get reviewed, they go through the process.

855
01:13:48,480 --> 01:13:52,200
Licenses issue when it's appropriate, and that's available online.

856
01:13:52,680 --> 01:13:57,300
And then what's really nice is that when it comes down to being due again for renewal,

857
01:13:58,060 --> 01:14:00,800
there's a 30 day and a 15 day notification that goes out.

858
01:14:00,880 --> 01:14:05,500
And it's a very similar process, but it's a separate, you know, it pulls in all the information

859
01:14:05,500 --> 01:14:07,600
from the last application and brings that forward.

860
01:14:08,060 --> 01:14:12,800
And so I think that that's really going to help us make sure that a lot of our licenses are current

861
01:14:12,800 --> 01:14:16,160
with help our applicants they current with their licenses.

862
01:14:17,120 --> 01:14:21,500
The last slide is one of the integrations I mentioned last week that we do have a really

863
01:14:21,500 --> 01:14:24,380
good integration with our GIS or a geospatial system.

864
01:14:25,020 --> 01:14:28,340
And so a lot of the applications actually, that's the first thing that you do is you pick

865
01:14:28,340 --> 01:14:34,940
what parcel, which address what location that you are submitting about.

866
01:14:35,740 --> 01:14:39,880
And so what that does is that not only does it make it consistent, but it actually pulls in

867
01:14:39,880 --> 01:14:44,620
additional details that we have as source of truth for that parcel or that address, like

868
01:14:44,620 --> 01:14:47,540
like owner, and bring that forward into that application.

869
01:14:47,840 --> 01:14:50,760
So we're able to start to automate a lot of that information.

870
01:14:51,780 --> 01:14:54,540
Laser feces are as our permanent document management solution.

871
01:14:55,020 --> 01:14:59,640
What happens with most of these is that at the end of its closure, period it will be automatically

872
01:15:01,100 --> 01:15:13,240
And so that really helps us so that then we can have retention policies on our permanent archive record. And if we ever have to change systems in the future, we don't have to move as much stuff around.

873
01:15:13,980 --> 01:15:28,240
And the last one that I want to highlight is our blue beam plan review. Blue beam is a separate software that allows you to do markups on cyclans. So schematics of buildings or other plans out there.

874
01:15:28,240 --> 01:15:35,140
And the integration allows multiple people to edit or to provide comments at the same time on a single plan.

875
01:15:35,740 --> 01:15:40,440
And then as that is finalized, those consolidate comments can then be shared back with the applicant.

876
01:15:41,320 --> 01:15:50,340
Whereas right now a lot of times we have to pass along one set and people make comments and then attach them where we attach separate document and it becomes very confusing.

877
01:15:50,600 --> 01:15:52,740
So we're really excited about those integrations.

878
01:15:54,000 --> 01:15:59,980
All right, so what does this look like as we transition to the system being live?

879
01:16:00,620 --> 01:16:06,360
We have a practice in the city of having this time that we call hypercare, and what we end

880
01:16:06,360 --> 01:16:11,640
of doing is it's kind of like taking a communications plan, but then like adding support

881
01:16:11,640 --> 01:16:19,340
and figuring out how we position people and processes and all the mechanics to make sure that

882
01:16:19,340 --> 01:16:20,560
individuals are filled supported.

883
01:16:20,560 --> 01:16:23,800
We have a high-prepared support plan for our internal staff.

884
01:16:24,280 --> 01:16:27,880
I'm not going to really highlight that here tonight, but I'm going to have it answer questions about it.

885
01:16:28,020 --> 01:16:30,760
But really, this is what we're trying to do to support our community members.

886
01:16:31,420 --> 01:16:34,920
And so, there's a definition there, so it's temporary, meaning we can't do this forever.

887
01:16:35,360 --> 01:16:39,440
But it's kind of like putting extra resources for a period of time,

888
01:16:39,540 --> 01:16:42,040
so that we can make sure that we're as responsive as possible.

889
01:16:42,560 --> 01:16:45,780
And the really important piece of this, in my opinion, from a technology standpoint,

890
01:16:45,960 --> 01:16:49,480
is anytime you're dealing with new technology, it's unknown, people are learning,

891
01:16:49,480 --> 01:16:54,120
And if you can't answer a phone and you can't answer a question is probably very simple.

892
01:16:54,580 --> 01:16:56,560
People get frustrated and they lose interest.

893
01:16:57,100 --> 01:17:02,160
So we're doing our best to be positioned to really get on top of that as much as we can.

894
01:17:02,840 --> 01:17:05,440
We already have about 2000 accounts created.

895
01:17:05,760 --> 01:17:10,760
So we looked at all of the systems that we currently have that are in some state.

896
01:17:11,960 --> 01:17:17,640
And we created accounts for anything that was active or in process of being applied.

897
01:17:17,640 --> 01:17:24,900
And so we've already created 2000 accounts, we moved in a lot of active cases and a lot of

898
01:17:24,900 --> 01:17:30,020
archive cases that we wanted to have in the system and that was about 40,000 records.

899
01:17:30,620 --> 01:17:33,660
And so we have a lot of information that we've been crunching through and bringing in from

900
01:17:33,660 --> 01:17:38,240
disparate systems, some some spreadsheets, and we still have more work to do with that.

901
01:17:38,360 --> 01:17:44,200
So as we go live, there's going to be a few more groupings of applicants that will be working

902
01:17:44,200 --> 01:17:47,040
through, and then a little bit more manually, however,

903
01:17:47,340 --> 01:17:50,400
we'll make sure that they get taken care of as well.

904
01:17:51,160 --> 01:17:53,920
As I mentioned, there is a landing page for this system.

905
01:17:54,540 --> 01:17:56,460
We're not really necessarily promoting it,

906
01:17:56,660 --> 01:17:58,340
it's functional, it's helpful.

907
01:17:59,020 --> 01:18:01,660
However, we really wanted to reduce the learning curve

908
01:18:01,660 --> 01:18:02,820
for our community members.

909
01:18:03,360 --> 01:18:05,320
Right now, if you go to planning site,

910
01:18:05,380 --> 01:18:07,020
there's a bunch of links to different applications.

911
01:18:07,380 --> 01:18:10,000
If you go to our applications site,

912
01:18:10,060 --> 01:18:12,520
there's probably about 30 different types of applications

913
01:18:12,520 --> 01:18:17,400
you can apply for. What our goal is is really just to update those links and point them directly

914
01:18:17,400 --> 01:18:22,740
to the application right off the bat. If they have not ever, if they have not used the system,

915
01:18:22,760 --> 01:18:29,040
they will have to create an account in most cases. However, that's the only, like, they lift or

916
01:18:29,040 --> 01:18:35,200
they change. Once they have their account, they can apply very easily for the different services

917
01:18:35,200 --> 01:18:41,840
that we're providing. Directly on the page, so there's a how do I link directly on the login page

918
01:18:41,840 --> 01:18:51,200
And right now there's two main things is how do I create an account because that's really important and then how do I schedule inspections because that's probably like it's different than what we do right now

919
01:18:51,200 --> 01:18:58,860
We do we are creating additional content and I think as we start getting feedback will make sure that we publish more more information under the how do I

920
01:18:58,860 --> 01:19:04,840
And having in one place is also very helpful because right now a lot of the how do I's are spread out across our

921
01:19:05,440 --> 01:19:10,020
our city web pages so we can ask some consistency we can make sure that they're

922
01:19:10,020 --> 01:19:16,020
deconstructed and that is easily findable in the future. Last piece is that we've

923
01:19:16,020 --> 01:19:21,080
been working to establish a dedicated support team. And so that looks like is

924
01:19:21,080 --> 01:19:25,840
extending some of our interns that have been very helpful with us this summer and

925
01:19:26,500 --> 01:19:34,820
and then bringing them in line with a few individuals who are currently doing a lot of

926
01:19:34,820 --> 01:19:40,120
So we have a specific phone number and an email that we're creating that's brand new just to support this a

927
01:19:40,120 --> 01:19:47,620
Hipertare time and we've already started meeting on how we're going to coordinate calls and how we're going to coordinate messages that come in asking for support

928
01:19:48,680 --> 01:19:50,960
Internally we have a centralized FAQ

929
01:19:50,960 --> 01:19:52,240
Fry has about

930
01:19:52,640 --> 01:19:59,860
50 items so far and I expect that to continue to grow as we get closer to closer go live and afterwards, but that's really

931
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:11,560
So that not everybody gets opportunities to sit next to each other and doing support. So as we find new things that we can add them there, and that information is readily available to the members of the hybrid care support team.

932
01:20:12,480 --> 01:20:19,880
And lastly, these individuals, they get priority services from IT. So we call to whatever we drop what we're doing and we help them.

933
01:20:19,960 --> 01:20:27,360
And I think that's make sure they have the back end support to have responses is really important because we're going to find things that we need to anticipate.

934
01:20:27,360 --> 01:20:31,940
and there's going to be questions that we have to discover through and so make sure that

935
01:20:31,940 --> 01:20:33,520
they're fully supported is really important.

936
01:20:35,820 --> 01:20:40,000
So what's happening next? So September 15th,

937
01:20:40,120 --> 01:20:46,000
we're planning to soft launch the program and maybe what that really means is that it's there

938
01:20:47,000 --> 01:20:54,380
and our goal is to really begin working with those 2000 account holders and we'll be sending

939
01:20:54,380 --> 01:20:58,560
out some direct communications to them asking them, giving them some instruction to go and

940
01:20:58,560 --> 01:21:01,240
cover their account and to set up their new password.

941
01:21:02,640 --> 01:21:06,300
We've looked at a lot of options out of this, sending a message to 2,000 people is not

942
01:21:06,300 --> 01:21:07,440
the easiest thing.

943
01:21:08,280 --> 01:21:13,200
And so we do anticipate that there's, it'll get flagged to spam for many people.

944
01:21:13,520 --> 01:21:17,720
So we'll also be working with our communications team to get some more information out and

945
01:21:17,720 --> 01:21:21,820
hopefully work with that, with that population as early as possible.

946
01:21:22,780 --> 01:21:27,580
A week later, we do plan to go full live and really what that looks like for the most

947
01:21:27,580 --> 01:21:32,000
part is all the links in our city web website will be published to the new applications.

948
01:21:32,600 --> 01:21:36,780
And any new application at that point for the areas that we have into this system will

949
01:21:37,880 --> 01:21:41,860
be, you know, completely new into the system and we'll be going through that.

950
01:21:42,440 --> 01:21:45,660
There's a lot of other, like, tons of list items in between those.

951
01:21:45,840 --> 01:21:47,180
So, I mean, though, I have, like, two bullets.

952
01:21:48,040 --> 01:21:50,700
There's a lot that we're planning for that.

953
01:21:51,320 --> 01:21:54,660
And I do want to highlight that we anticipate new enhancements.

954
01:21:56,120 --> 01:22:04,080
We've just finished our user acceptance testing period and already have probably about 15 requests to make some adjustments.

955
01:22:04,700 --> 01:22:12,940
Most of them minor, but they do take time and so we're going to continue to evolve and refine how we do things and how our community engages with us.

956
01:22:13,040 --> 01:22:17,560
So I think that that's fitting on our foundational goal for this project.

957
01:22:17,560 --> 01:22:23,980
And the last bullet there is really how to get support, so that's the first time to be published publicly.

958
01:22:24,720 --> 01:22:37,400
And so the full number and the email address is live right now and they'll be ready for individuals who do have some questions to be able to turn each out to us.

959
01:22:38,000 --> 01:22:44,100
What is also within this is a communications plan, some working with a communications team, there's some plans, social media posts.

960
01:22:44,100 --> 01:22:47,760
There are already some communications that has been going out.

961
01:22:48,040 --> 01:22:50,900
So on some of our web pages, we do have kind of like a,

962
01:22:51,020 --> 01:22:51,660
hey, things are changing.

963
01:22:51,900 --> 01:22:53,240
He read, he is coming soon.

964
01:22:53,800 --> 01:22:57,120
We've sent some information now, a similar content

965
01:22:57,120 --> 01:23:00,840
on our utility billing inserts.

966
01:23:01,620 --> 01:23:05,020
And we have plans to provide some more additional details

967
01:23:05,020 --> 01:23:09,420
as the next economic development memo that goes out.

968
01:23:09,780 --> 01:23:12,480
And so we're trying to cover all our bases.

969
01:23:12,480 --> 01:23:17,220
we have a team that literally spends an hour every week just kind of brainstorming at how

970
01:23:17,220 --> 01:23:20,960
can we make sure that this works, not only for our staff, but for our community members

971
01:23:20,960 --> 01:23:26,920
and so we've had a lot of good feedback and a comprehensive look at how we can move forward.

972
01:23:28,540 --> 01:23:34,140
And with that, I'm happy to answer any questions. Any questions from Kelts? Mayor Proton?

973
01:23:35,400 --> 01:23:39,920
Thank you, Mayor. I have three questions. Start with hard one.

974
01:23:39,920 --> 01:23:41,840
Okay, so there's a continuity of operations

975
01:23:41,840 --> 01:23:43,020
or work on the Q-plent.

976
01:23:43,300 --> 01:23:46,260
How weird is this fall within that?

977
01:23:46,260 --> 01:23:49,200
Is it the backbone of our Q-plent or is it something

978
01:23:49,200 --> 01:23:51,400
that supports the plan?

979
01:23:51,740 --> 01:23:52,060
You bet.

980
01:23:52,360 --> 01:23:55,000
Right now, I would say that there's no direct relationship

981
01:23:55,000 --> 01:23:59,540
to it, although I'll say because this is a cloud-based system.

982
01:24:00,180 --> 01:24:02,280
If we did have a localized event here,

983
01:24:02,440 --> 01:24:05,100
it should still be available, which then we could,

984
01:24:05,280 --> 01:24:08,580
if we needed to collect information or to use the portal

985
01:24:08,580 --> 01:24:11,560
as an alternative to for send information to community,

986
01:24:11,780 --> 01:24:12,940
we could leverage it that way.

987
01:24:13,960 --> 01:24:14,320
Thank you.

988
01:24:14,540 --> 01:24:15,400
Number two,

989
01:24:18,100 --> 01:24:21,080
you're building profiles with what you have.

990
01:24:21,560 --> 01:24:26,420
I imagine there are some interactions that have happened

991
01:24:26,420 --> 01:24:29,140
with a minimal amount of information, correct?

992
01:24:29,660 --> 01:24:34,720
And people may not think it's important to create their own profile.

993
01:24:35,280 --> 01:24:47,460
If you were to ask people to build out their profile, is there in the FAQ like why we need this information, kind of think is that going to be included?

994
01:24:48,060 --> 01:24:55,200
Not necessarily from their profile, and the profile lift is pretty light, we're asking for username and email address and a phone number.

995
01:24:55,900 --> 01:24:59,940
And for the most part, that's what it is, depending on the application, like some of our...

996
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:04,680
Another more sensitive application going to ask for a date of birth, so we can verify some

997
01:25:04,680 --> 01:25:10,180
age things that are part of state or local mandates. But the profile piece is pretty light.

998
01:25:10,300 --> 01:25:15,480
And that's just your entry into the system. What we do have is on many of our applications,

999
01:25:16,280 --> 01:25:20,820
is an ask for a lot more information that we do right now. And that's really intended so

1000
01:25:20,820 --> 01:25:26,680
that we don't have this back and forth that seems to happen today, where we ask for a little bit

1001
01:25:26,680 --> 01:25:35,320
like, oh, that's interesting. We need this information too, and so there is a, I think the challenge is a greater lift of the initial application.

1002
01:25:35,320 --> 01:25:41,460
We're asking for a lot of information. In many cases, we're putting references of work where that's coming from or why.

1003
01:25:42,100 --> 01:25:47,380
But a lot of it is really, like, helpful, like, hey, you know, to do this, this is what you need on by the way.

1004
01:25:47,760 --> 01:25:53,140
If you check this box, you're also going to need a fire code review, and here's what's going to happen after that.

1005
01:25:53,140 --> 01:25:59,400
And so I want to say honestly that the profile is a significant lift, but more of the details

1006
01:25:59,400 --> 01:26:06,760
of the ask is and we can always take it more feedback and add more, you know, helper tools

1007
01:26:06,760 --> 01:26:08,860
and information if it's not clear.

1008
01:26:09,740 --> 01:26:13,760
But you're not really canvassing for information you're not going to.

1009
01:26:13,800 --> 01:26:21,680
Not from a profile, from individual applications, absolutely, like if you submit a special

1010
01:26:21,680 --> 01:26:26,120
events request. There are several pages of information so that we can make sure we get all the

1011
01:26:26,120 --> 01:26:33,440
right people involved up front. I've seen it in 14. I think it's in it. I know. It's less than that,

1012
01:26:33,500 --> 01:26:36,080
but there are several. Last question.

1013
01:26:38,600 --> 01:26:41,240
So I know we didn't talk about internal internet, like you

1014
01:26:41,240 --> 01:26:46,500
created an internet and an external thing at the same time, which is correct. That's amazing. I came

1015
01:26:46,500 --> 01:26:49,800
like at the smother head, did that, took a while.

1016
01:26:50,820 --> 01:26:52,320
So I don't need to know details,

1017
01:26:52,540 --> 01:26:57,260
but is there anyone who is what you call first users

1018
01:26:57,260 --> 01:26:59,680
within internally, is there anyone

1019
01:26:59,680 --> 01:27:01,240
who's awfully on this yet?

1020
01:27:02,740 --> 01:27:05,520
There's been probably about 20 staff members

1021
01:27:05,520 --> 01:27:09,240
that have been actively testing, engaging, learning,

1022
01:27:10,200 --> 01:27:11,260
and providing a lot of feedback.

1023
01:27:11,960 --> 01:27:14,280
And so I would say about 20 staff members have been using it

1024
01:27:14,280 --> 01:27:22,380
So far, not nearly enough for us to be fully like fully at our best, it's going to take

1025
01:27:22,380 --> 01:27:26,240
probably a month before we find our stride, I would say, with the rest, but we do have

1026
01:27:26,240 --> 01:27:32,020
resources internally, and also kind of a support system similar for the public for internal

1027
01:27:32,020 --> 01:27:36,180
to have the health food catcher, capture those requests and support our team members.

1028
01:27:37,140 --> 01:27:37,680
Thank you.

1029
01:27:37,820 --> 01:27:38,440
That's all I have here.

1030
01:27:38,840 --> 01:27:38,880
Okay.

1031
01:27:38,880 --> 01:27:39,420
Any other questions?

1032
01:27:40,040 --> 01:27:40,520
Councillor Bullard.

1033
01:27:42,500 --> 01:27:48,660
Thank you so much for the presentation. I know this has been a long time coming. I had a question regarding

1034
01:27:48,660 --> 01:27:55,440
ease of use for business owners versus contractors. So let's say someone was submitting a building permit.

1035
01:27:56,020 --> 01:28:01,020
Could the business owner go in and respond or is this process solely for contractors?

1036
01:28:01,780 --> 01:28:05,240
So it's whoever the applicant is, the primary communication vehicle.

1037
01:28:05,240 --> 01:28:08,120
And the way that largely with contractors,

1038
01:28:08,360 --> 01:28:11,200
the contractors generally have to have a separate license with us.

1039
01:28:11,300 --> 01:28:16,900
And so they'll have a, I guess, a viewpoint into this system that is for their contractor license.

1040
01:28:16,960 --> 01:28:20,000
So if we have any questions or concerns, we can definitely communicate in that way.

1041
01:28:20,520 --> 01:28:24,140
An applicant can be a contractor, it can be a homeowner, it can be a business owner.

1042
01:28:24,840 --> 01:28:26,940
There's no restriction who the applicant is.

1043
01:28:27,160 --> 01:28:30,580
And they can, from there, on many of the applications,

1044
01:28:30,880 --> 01:28:34,960
actually pick who their contractors that they're using to support their project with.

1045
01:28:34,960 --> 01:28:41,620
And so there's a relationship dynamic that we're leveraging and not all of our applications but many of them weren't appropriate.

1046
01:28:42,560 --> 01:28:47,540
And so as far as ease of use, I would say it's pretty easy. It's a lot.

1047
01:28:49,240 --> 01:28:54,260
And some things like reporter concern, I'm asking three questions and it's a drop down as one of them, right?

1048
01:28:54,420 --> 01:28:56,120
We're trying to make that super simple.

1049
01:28:56,860 --> 01:29:04,100
But if you're asking for a building permit, like there's a lot of details that go into that so we can make sure that we're getting off to a good start.

1050
01:29:05,320 --> 01:29:16,260
So I think it's going to take a little bit of time for people to be able to understand and that's also why we have like the support so that we can like you know someone calls I need help filling this out like no problem.

1051
01:29:16,480 --> 01:29:33,220
Let's walk through it together is the goal at least early on and then once things separate temper down I know that our staff currently do that with our current applications anyway so it just becomes like it just shifts from how we do things today to then they understand how it works now or after we change it.

1052
01:29:33,220 --> 01:29:35,240
level's out. Great, thank you.

1053
01:29:36,280 --> 01:29:39,420
Councillor Bullard. Thank you, Mayor. I love this. It's somewhat a

1054
01:29:39,420 --> 01:29:42,580
counselor. I go, I'm so excited about this. So I have three

1055
01:29:42,580 --> 01:29:46,860
quick questions. One was as folks transition to using the new

1056
01:29:46,860 --> 01:29:50,820
workflow online system. Are there ways to kind of track

1057
01:29:50,820 --> 01:29:54,440
about the saved X amount of time both on our size, the city,

1058
01:29:54,600 --> 01:29:55,980
and then also on the applicant side.

1059
01:29:55,980 --> 01:29:59,920
You bet. I think, uh, not. Not. Not.

1060
01:30:00,680 --> 01:30:05,700
I think in a general sense, we'll build a fussy and fill that. In the challenges, we really

1061
01:30:05,700 --> 01:30:13,420
don't have an ability to measure things now. And I think like there's this unless we did like had like

1062
01:30:13,420 --> 01:30:18,020
time studies or something which take a lot of time to measure. I don't know if the value would be there.

1063
01:30:18,180 --> 01:30:22,080
However, as we start going through what I really think and what I really want to start looking at is

1064
01:30:22,080 --> 01:30:27,980
as we start and then how being continued to get faster and faster once we get comfortable with the system.

1065
01:30:27,980 --> 01:30:30,800
I think that will be indicative of,

1066
01:30:30,800 --> 01:30:32,120
because we should be able to put some metrics

1067
01:30:32,120 --> 01:30:34,340
about the length of time of applications

1068
01:30:34,340 --> 01:30:35,680
and how they're coming in.

1069
01:30:36,080 --> 01:30:37,480
So I think as we look forward,

1070
01:30:37,560 --> 01:30:40,300
we'll have some details around that relative to today

1071
01:30:40,300 --> 01:30:42,760
or like last year, you know,

1072
01:30:42,820 --> 01:30:45,180
why not specific, but in general,

1073
01:30:45,380 --> 01:30:46,660
we should be able to see some benefits.

1074
01:30:46,980 --> 01:30:47,500
How's the thing?

1075
01:30:47,920 --> 01:30:48,360
That's thrilling.

1076
01:30:48,740 --> 01:30:49,980
That leads into my second question,

1077
01:30:49,980 --> 01:30:52,600
which is, again, as this comes online,

1078
01:30:53,240 --> 01:30:55,980
if I heard you correctly, we're essentially turning off

1079
01:30:55,980 --> 01:30:57,580
some services systems.

1080
01:30:57,580 --> 01:31:00,020
So it's not like we're just adding another barnacle to the ship.

1081
01:31:01,180 --> 01:31:04,240
How are we thinking about communicating that to both the folks

1082
01:31:04,240 --> 01:31:06,600
where daily contact with and then also the folks maybe

1083
01:31:06,600 --> 01:31:08,580
to shop once or twice a year to remain not be tracking?

1084
01:31:08,920 --> 01:31:09,160
You bet.

1085
01:31:09,500 --> 01:31:12,120
So the first push is that that first week

1086
01:31:12,120 --> 01:31:14,480
to the 1900 account, so I'm going to be setting out and noticing.

1087
01:31:14,980 --> 01:31:17,240
Doing our best, it's a little challenging

1088
01:31:17,240 --> 01:31:20,420
because we found even having people's correct information

1089
01:31:20,420 --> 01:31:21,400
as a little bit challenging.

1090
01:31:21,820 --> 01:31:22,980
So we'll start there.

1091
01:31:23,440 --> 01:31:26,380
We'll define other mediums to show that information

1092
01:31:26,380 --> 01:31:34,500
to continue to refine that. I think that for new applicants, I think if they ever come to our

1093
01:31:34,500 --> 01:31:37,600
website, they're going to search a website first and click on that link and it's going to take

1094
01:31:37,600 --> 01:31:42,860
them directly to the new application. For those that are expecting one of our other systems,

1095
01:31:43,120 --> 01:31:48,440
it's like, oh wait, what happened? And then we'll go from there, right? We'll work through that problem,

1096
01:31:49,060 --> 01:31:53,160
if they're fairly newer and frequent, they'll see, oh, look, I have this application and it wants

1097
01:31:53,160 --> 01:31:54,140
need to create an account.

1098
01:31:54,640 --> 01:31:57,760
There's going to put in their email, it's going to say, I don't have an account, okay, create

1099
01:31:57,760 --> 01:31:58,220
an account.

1100
01:31:59,140 --> 01:32:01,000
So, very, like, you know, it's fairly intuitive.

1101
01:32:01,480 --> 01:32:05,340
If they already have an account, so say your accounts are even used and I do anticipate

1102
01:32:05,340 --> 01:32:09,280
we're getting a lot of questions like that, because no matter how much communication we have,

1103
01:32:09,520 --> 01:32:14,180
but it's real simple, like it's an easy call to take and say, no problem.

1104
01:32:14,340 --> 01:32:17,260
Just click on forgot password and let's work through fixing that.

1105
01:32:17,860 --> 01:32:23,140
And then once they're in, there is potential that some of the cases we brought in,

1106
01:32:23,780 --> 01:32:28,660
you know, like we have a contractor versus the owner and trying to make sure that we get all of

1107
01:32:28,660 --> 01:32:33,500
all of those connections accurate could be that, but it's simple to go into the system update things

1108
01:32:33,500 --> 01:32:39,000
and these are all less than 30 second type of activities that anticipate that we'll be facing initially.

1109
01:32:39,500 --> 01:32:40,000
How's it going to take?

1110
01:32:40,540 --> 01:32:45,620
My final question is, obviously the priority is getting this right now, but as you think ahead,

1111
01:32:46,040 --> 01:32:51,480
and as AI tools continue to evolve and iterate and maybe destroy us all,

1112
01:32:51,480 --> 01:32:59,780
How will this new system kind of be open to the potential for AI tools in the future or would we have to build a new system down the line?

1113
01:32:59,960 --> 01:33:08,900
You know, so it does have an AI utility currently. It's internal facing only and that's I think that's good because I don't know how accurate it is.

1114
01:33:09,160 --> 01:33:13,480
But it's kind of like an internal alpha like how do I do X and so far it's been pretty good.

1115
01:33:14,220 --> 01:33:21,300
We'll test that out. I do believe that all systems will eventually continue to evolve within AI type of enhancements

1116
01:33:21,300 --> 01:33:26,880
tools, what I really like to see in the future and some of my peers in the state are certain

1117
01:33:26,880 --> 01:33:31,860
look at this is finding some AI tools that just fill out your applications for you. And

1118
01:33:31,860 --> 01:33:38,440
I mean most of our as a web forms are pretty open to you know add on type of tools like this.

1119
01:33:38,580 --> 01:33:43,500
I think that's what I'm looking for is something that will help me fill out applications.

1120
01:33:44,340 --> 01:33:47,240
Thank you, Director. Thank you, Mayor. Councillor Jets?

1121
01:33:48,800 --> 01:33:59,280
The reporter concern, would you give an example of a kind of things that people would use that for?

1122
01:34:00,540 --> 01:34:02,520
So it's something we currently have.

1123
01:34:03,200 --> 01:34:09,900
And now, I want to say we have about 15 or 16 separate labeled concerns.

1124
01:34:09,900 --> 01:34:16,880
And they all open up a PDF or a web form on civic class and those go through so it's for the most part the same

1125
01:34:16,880 --> 01:34:24,720
So we're not necessarily going to get too creative on the types of concerns, but for example, could be like a park car that's not supposed to be there

1126
01:34:24,720 --> 01:34:29,600
Or does that go to be, you know, trash in the street, and we get those routed automatically

1127
01:34:30,240 --> 01:34:31,800
another one is

1128
01:34:31,800 --> 01:34:34,020
like a

1129
01:34:34,020 --> 01:34:39,040
Concern a concern with someone's pet like so we're trying to provide and and guide

1130
01:34:39,040 --> 01:34:44,580
the conversation about being too restricted so even though it is a drop-down there's an open

1131
01:34:44,580 --> 01:34:50,500
text which you can type you know a good summary of what you're looking for. Even on the location

1132
01:34:50,500 --> 01:34:54,980
one of the like midstream in hand since we had is like hey you know it's always good to have a

1133
01:34:54,980 --> 01:34:59,560
location right you always want a location and then as we start to really evaluating that as like well

1134
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:17,380
What if it's not a specific location and it's just in general? And so we're able to change the the tools so that you can skip the location. And even if it is the location, like once we start engaging with whatever the concern is, we have the ability to go and add a specific location if we need it to, so.

1135
01:35:18,000 --> 01:35:22,180
It does a person have to create an account to report a concern.

1136
01:35:22,180 --> 01:35:25,280
So that's one of the exceptions to requiring counts.

1137
01:35:25,380 --> 01:35:26,780
So that does not.

1138
01:35:27,780 --> 01:35:29,880
We do make it clear, though, as you say,

1139
01:35:30,060 --> 01:35:31,400
I don't want to provide my information

1140
01:35:31,400 --> 01:35:34,780
that it makes it very difficult for us to follow up with you.

1141
01:35:35,220 --> 01:35:38,600
And so we do have, so there's some conditional items

1142
01:35:38,600 --> 01:35:39,200
on that form.

1143
01:35:39,340 --> 01:35:42,460
It's like, I don't want to give my information or create an account.

1144
01:35:43,020 --> 01:35:45,540
And it basically says, that's fine.

1145
01:35:46,060 --> 01:35:47,220
I don't remember what exact verb is.

1146
01:35:47,360 --> 01:35:48,960
And it's very nice, because we have health

1147
01:35:48,960 --> 01:35:49,960
from our communications team.

1148
01:35:49,960 --> 01:35:52,400
But essentially says, this is allowed,

1149
01:35:52,420 --> 01:35:55,640
however, just keep note that we can't follow up with you.

1150
01:35:57,760 --> 01:36:01,580
And I guess I'm thinking about someone who might have a concern

1151
01:36:01,580 --> 01:36:04,060
that has someone undocumented in their home,

1152
01:36:04,160 --> 01:36:08,240
who might be reluctant to give you information in order

1153
01:36:08,240 --> 01:36:10,320
to get that concern addressed.

1154
01:36:10,920 --> 01:36:15,860
And do you feel it adequately bypasses those things

1155
01:36:15,860 --> 01:36:18,080
so that that person can get service?

1156
01:36:18,280 --> 01:36:19,400
I would say yes.

1157
01:36:19,400 --> 01:36:26,060
I mean, like if they don't give an address and if they don't give us a contact, it depends

1158
01:36:26,060 --> 01:36:29,280
on how much information they give us to be able to provide service.

1159
01:36:30,400 --> 01:36:36,660
We'll do our best as we always do, however, we at least need some way to either follow up

1160
01:36:36,660 --> 01:36:43,960
and ask more questions or we just keep an eye out for additional information that's related.

1161
01:36:43,960 --> 01:36:54,960
And is there, for example, my concern is that I'm driving down the road and there's a car that is not working in the middle of the street.

1162
01:36:56,740 --> 01:36:59,220
Normally you would call 911 for that.

1163
01:36:59,800 --> 01:37:01,720
Or maybe that's a little extreme.

1164
01:37:02,060 --> 01:37:07,180
But how does it interface with 911 and connect all the systems?

1165
01:37:07,360 --> 01:37:09,940
Sure, so there's no direct connection with 911.

1166
01:37:09,940 --> 01:37:15,920
It is clear that if there's like we start out with it, this is a emergency, please contact 911.

1167
01:37:16,720 --> 01:37:21,820
But second, really kind of like information on there is that we monitor this system during business hours.

1168
01:37:22,380 --> 01:37:25,160
So if this is after business hours, just know that we won't get to it.

1169
01:37:25,160 --> 01:37:29,740
But if it is an emergency again, you know, and here's the phone number to dispatch, right?

1170
01:37:29,740 --> 01:37:30,860
So we give us some information.

1171
01:37:31,800 --> 01:37:37,980
Some other interesting, some nice things that features that we can leverage is we often get calls about the lighter, the streetlights.

1172
01:37:37,980 --> 01:37:40,080
And that's really needs to go to Excel.

1173
01:37:41,720 --> 01:37:44,560
So the next question is, is this related to a street light?

1174
01:37:45,120 --> 01:37:47,900
And they click, yes, then a little pop-up comes up.

1175
01:37:47,940 --> 01:37:51,360
A banner says that Excel handles all street lights and hears a link.

1176
01:37:51,540 --> 01:37:55,700
So they can click directly there and get into Excel's concern reporting system.

1177
01:37:55,720 --> 01:38:05,620
And we do that for Excel as well as I think the CDOT for street related issues on the state highways.

1178
01:38:07,360 --> 01:38:10,640
And presumably also with waste.

1179
01:38:11,140 --> 01:38:15,840
So there's someone who wants to say no one picked up my trash today, that would go to a

1180
01:38:15,840 --> 01:38:16,320
Republic.

1181
01:38:17,060 --> 01:38:17,660
It could or it could.

1182
01:38:18,380 --> 01:38:20,200
I would say that we could.

1183
01:38:20,360 --> 01:38:22,920
So one of the features that was not automated right now.

1184
01:38:23,700 --> 01:38:24,720
However, we can.

1185
01:38:25,120 --> 01:38:26,220
And it's a great idea.

1186
01:38:26,720 --> 01:38:29,340
How what we can do is any anything that we get in.

1187
01:38:29,460 --> 01:38:31,600
We can basically download the whole case.

1188
01:38:32,080 --> 01:38:34,480
And once it's download, we can email that to whoever needs it.

1189
01:38:34,480 --> 01:38:38,180
So they get all the information that they would normally get within the application.

1190
01:38:39,220 --> 01:38:44,660
External and fees can engage within the system, but we can easily share that content with

1191
01:38:44,660 --> 01:38:46,320
whoever you do that.

1192
01:38:46,780 --> 01:38:53,400
This looks very exciting and I can see how much work has gone into it and I can almost feel

1193
01:38:53,400 --> 01:38:58,100
the weight of it on your shoulders and how much work you've been into it.

1194
01:38:58,100 --> 01:39:02,740
It has the potential for really moving us forward, so thank you so much.

1195
01:39:03,820 --> 01:39:06,480
Council of General. Just a couple of quick questions for me.

1196
01:39:06,840 --> 01:39:10,280
You said there's about 2,000 accounts that you're sort of migrating over.

1197
01:39:11,100 --> 01:39:18,840
If you could put an order of magnitude on the number of like applications or processes that are being migrated to the new system,

1198
01:39:19,400 --> 01:39:20,260
and sort of active.

1199
01:39:20,880 --> 01:39:22,620
So active.

1200
01:39:24,240 --> 01:39:25,180
It's tough.

1201
01:39:26,320 --> 01:39:26,920
Order of magic.

1202
01:39:27,320 --> 01:39:29,600
Yeah, in total it's 43,000.

1203
01:39:29,600 --> 01:39:34,020
the vast majority of those are archived right because looking back last seven years, I believe.

1204
01:39:35,660 --> 01:39:40,000
So I would say maybe ten percent of that, so maybe four to five thousand active applications.

1205
01:39:40,600 --> 01:39:43,040
Yeah, so it's even that's a substantial question.

1206
01:39:43,500 --> 01:39:47,820
To get those into the new system and ready to go.

1207
01:39:48,120 --> 01:39:48,600
Thanks.

1208
01:39:50,660 --> 01:39:52,900
Not saying any more questions. Thank you so much.

1209
01:39:52,960 --> 01:39:53,940
Thank you so much.

1210
01:39:57,160 --> 01:39:59,280
We'll move on to regular business tonight, two items.

1211
01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:05,080
We begin with the first one, which is authorizing the issuance of City of Lafayette, Colorado General

1212
01:40:05,080 --> 01:40:12,820
Obligation Bonds. And give her a second and turn it over to our Deputy City Manager.

1213
01:40:20,370 --> 01:40:26,170
Good evening, Mayor and City Council. Like a day was Deputy City Manager, and I'm joined by

1214
01:40:26,170 --> 01:40:31,350
Heather Balser, Chief Financial Officer, as well as Maddie Perdonovich, who is our with-held hot

1215
01:40:31,350 --> 01:40:36,150
securities and she's our municipal financial advisor, as well as Kim Crawford with Butler Snow.

1216
01:40:36,150 --> 01:40:48,750
bill. They'll be here speaking on this matter as well. We're going to be talking about the authorization of an issuance of the city of Lafayette General obligation bonds and this will be ordinance number 16 2026.

1217
01:40:50,210 --> 01:41:01,330
The objective of this is to consider approval of the ordinance of what authorized the issuance of one or more series of general obligation bonds in an amount not to exceed 74 million dollars

1218
01:41:01,330 --> 01:41:05,890
as authorized by voters at the November election in 2025.

1219
01:41:06,870 --> 01:41:09,830
We'll do a little background and then an ordinance overview,

1220
01:41:10,250 --> 01:41:13,610
a market update, have some next steps and question and discussions,

1221
01:41:13,930 --> 01:41:16,190
and then we have proposed motion language for you.

1222
01:41:18,030 --> 01:41:19,970
So a little bit of background for you this evening.

1223
01:41:20,890 --> 01:41:24,830
You may recall that we've been talking about city facilities here

1224
01:41:24,830 --> 01:41:27,110
at the city of Lafayette for several years.

1225
01:41:27,110 --> 01:41:32,810
Well beyond 2025 and looking at sort of the age of our facilities and

1226
01:41:32,810 --> 01:41:36,730
in addition of our facilities and in the last couple of years we've

1227
01:41:36,730 --> 01:41:41,910
identified some of our most critical need facilities starting with this

1228
01:41:41,910 --> 01:41:47,770
service center which is the 1973 so this facility being older than 55 years is

1229
01:41:47,770 --> 01:41:53,230
really our oldest facility in which our critical operations operate out of.

1230
01:41:53,230 --> 01:42:00,230
The city hall was built in 1985 and then the recreation center was built in 1999 and even

1231
01:42:00,230 --> 01:42:05,590
at 36 years old it's it's a little young but for an aquatic facility that's quite old

1232
01:42:05,590 --> 01:42:14,210
and we felt it's aged over the past couple years with some pretty serious impact on our infrastructure

1233
01:42:14,210 --> 01:42:20,430
there with the pool. We've also seen a lot of growth here in the city over the years over

1234
01:42:20,430 --> 01:42:25,750
those years and increase services along with that in the types of services that we can provide

1235
01:42:25,750 --> 01:42:30,550
to the community, and you can see some of those services that have expanded over the years.

1236
01:42:32,990 --> 01:42:38,930
So at the election in November 2025, a majority of city voters approved a ballot measure,

1237
01:42:39,270 --> 01:42:44,050
a ballot measure to see that authorized the city to issue up to $74 million of general

1238
01:42:44,050 --> 01:42:49,150
obligation bonds to pay for these three projects as described in the ballot question.

1239
01:42:49,870 --> 01:42:57,750
Voters authorized the bonds, but the city council still needs to authorize the issuance of the bonds and the related documents by the ordinance.

1240
01:42:59,940 --> 01:43:08,460
Staff have been working diligently on the designs for the renovation of the Bob Burger Recreation Center and the service center.

1241
01:43:09,040 --> 01:43:12,340
We're going to talk a little bit more about the status of those projects in a few minutes.

1242
01:43:12,340 --> 01:43:17,940
At the time of the issuance of tax exempt bonds, we must certify that we have a reasonable

1243
01:43:17,940 --> 01:43:23,720
expectation that we'll be able to spend 85% of the proceeds of these bonds within three

1244
01:43:23,720 --> 01:43:24,360
years.

1245
01:43:25,060 --> 01:43:30,700
So after consulting with our bond council and municipal advisor, we determined that although this

1246
01:43:30,700 --> 01:43:36,060
was past last November, that we would wait to issue the first series of bonds from the election

1247
01:43:36,060 --> 01:43:37,720
until the plans were further along.

1248
01:43:37,720 --> 01:43:51,040
So we've been working on the design and now we're here to expect to issue the first series of bonds this fall followed by a second series of bonds in late summer early fall of twenty twenty seven for the Civic Center.

1249
01:43:54,820 --> 01:43:56,680
So a little bit about the project status.

1250
01:43:57,620 --> 01:43:59,080
I'm going to start with the service center.

1251
01:44:01,560 --> 01:44:08,260
So I'm going to just kind of give you overview of where we are and just to be aware that at our September workshop,

1252
01:44:08,260 --> 01:44:16,720
We will be doing the capital bond tour and this is something that we've been doing for the past couple of years and this will be a part of the budget process

1253
01:44:16,720 --> 01:44:24,240
And it will give you a chance to see first hand each of these facilities that we're working on and kind of the saddest and a little bit more

1254
01:44:24,240 --> 01:44:30,940
Kind of what's on the ground now and what we're looking at so this to the left is a picture of the site of the service center

1255
01:44:30,940 --> 01:44:35,200
This is the current site and current conditions just to orient you. This is north and

1256
01:44:35,200 --> 01:44:40,580
And the service center is located at a south-world road, which is right here, and then

1257
01:44:40,580 --> 01:44:46,560
Avalan Avenue, and the access point is here to the north, and then there's a small

1258
01:44:46,560 --> 01:44:51,600
access point, kind of a narrow access point here down on the south end too.

1259
01:44:51,760 --> 01:44:55,940
This is the building that we're looking at renovating, and this is the city's whole property

1260
01:44:56,960 --> 01:44:58,800
here that we're looking at.

1261
01:44:58,820 --> 01:44:59,960
A lot of this space.

1262
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:09,060
We're not able to do anything on due to the flood plan here with co-creak, and so we're just looking kind of at the buildable footprint here.

1263
01:45:09,520 --> 01:45:24,400
Some of the existing conditions that you see here at the site, very old systems and infrastructure. You can see here a pipe broke when we had, we have poor insulation on site and poor kind of each fact systems and heating and cooling there.

1264
01:45:24,400 --> 01:45:30,260
And so, in winter conditions, we have a lot of issues, you can see a tractor that barely fits

1265
01:45:30,260 --> 01:45:36,820
in the building, our current storage bays don't accommodate the size of a lot of the

1266
01:45:36,820 --> 01:45:41,900
fleet that we have, especially our larger, some of our larger machines, and larger fleet

1267
01:45:41,900 --> 01:45:42,320
vehicles.

1268
01:45:42,860 --> 01:45:47,800
And then you can just see kind of a lot of the aging of these very old bays that we have

1269
01:45:47,800 --> 01:45:49,160
in the condition of those.

1270
01:45:50,420 --> 01:45:57,560
So, we've been working on the conceptual design with our designed build team, we're working

1271
01:45:57,560 --> 01:46:01,900
with D2C, is our architecture team that we're working with.

1272
01:46:02,660 --> 01:46:08,360
And after having several meetings working towards the design, we have the kind of some

1273
01:46:08,360 --> 01:46:10,840
conceptual design in place for this approach.

1274
01:46:11,260 --> 01:46:16,520
This is the north side of the existing building, and we're looking at a kind of major renovation

1275
01:46:16,520 --> 01:46:23,380
here, this section, the north section, and that would be about 15,000 square foot

1276
01:46:23,380 --> 01:46:28,820
full remodel of this section where we would do all of our office space to accommodate

1277
01:46:28,820 --> 01:46:33,780
all of the staff on site. As you know, we'll be adding some additional staff there, including

1278
01:46:33,780 --> 01:46:40,120
our facilities division and our open space staff as well. So this will have office space various types

1279
01:46:40,120 --> 01:46:47,440
of seating and offices, meeting space, training space, some storage space, also workshops,

1280
01:46:48,160 --> 01:46:53,240
a lot of kind of condition space. It'll also have all of the showers, toilets, lockers,

1281
01:46:54,060 --> 01:46:59,780
kind of an area where people can decontaminate when they're coming in from working in an

1282
01:46:59,780 --> 01:47:04,580
operational situation in the field. So that'll be new something that we haven't had. So this

1283
01:47:04,580 --> 01:47:10,740
be all of this area here. This existing space here would be a minor renovation where we would

1284
01:47:10,740 --> 01:47:15,660
keep it as base base base, but it would be better condition. We would improve the concrete

1285
01:47:15,660 --> 01:47:19,740
and drainage on the floor, and we would continue to have that as sweet storage as well as other

1286
01:47:19,740 --> 01:47:25,860
storage space. We'd have improved electric and lighting, but otherwise it would be more accommodating

1287
01:47:25,860 --> 01:47:32,240
sweet space facilities in storage space. This would be a new building, and this new building would

1288
01:47:32,240 --> 01:47:38,660
about just over 14,000 square feet and this is predominantly going to be fleet fleet space.

1289
01:47:38,940 --> 01:47:45,460
So this will be much larger base that can accommodate things like dump trucks, snow plows,

1290
01:47:45,860 --> 01:47:49,860
large fire engines, some of our larger vehicles that don't currently fit into a fleet

1291
01:47:49,860 --> 01:47:56,240
base for mechanical work. And then we'll also have all reflate operations, parks, open space

1292
01:47:56,240 --> 01:48:01,360
fleet operations consolidated with our fleet mechanics in this space and it'll have office space

1293
01:48:01,360 --> 01:48:07,840
the fleet as well as all the storage for tires and all the other fleet equipment there.

1294
01:48:09,160 --> 01:48:15,000
So, that is kind of what the new footprint will look like, and we're also looking at,

1295
01:48:15,000 --> 01:48:20,940
you know, just the same access here on the north shifted a little bit potentially, and then

1296
01:48:20,940 --> 01:48:27,440
just more fluid access coming through and potentially shifting that south access point a little bit

1297
01:48:27,440 --> 01:48:27,860
as well.

1298
01:48:27,860 --> 01:48:30,120
So we're kind of looking at improving that access.

1299
01:48:31,060 --> 01:48:35,700
But otherwise, no significant changes to the state footprint.

1300
01:48:36,260 --> 01:48:40,540
Currently, in next steps, we're working on geotech and title work

1301
01:48:40,540 --> 01:48:42,280
and the site survey is underway.

1302
01:48:43,260 --> 01:48:48,260
Costs destination and design refinement are currently underway as well.

1303
01:48:48,680 --> 01:48:51,020
We will be starting outreach to the neighborhood.

1304
01:48:51,420 --> 01:48:54,980
Well, this is really not an outward facing building.

1305
01:48:55,160 --> 01:48:57,640
We do want to make sure that the neighbors in the media

1306
01:48:57,640 --> 01:49:02,420
area are kind of aware of what we'll be going on with the site modifications in any access

1307
01:49:02,420 --> 01:49:10,260
point changes and we'll be doing that through our Lafayette Lissons Hub. We have a Lafayette

1308
01:49:10,260 --> 01:49:16,440
Lissons Hub that has each project has its own site and so you can basically go to Lafayette

1309
01:49:16,440 --> 01:49:22,960
Lissons page and click on each project and you can sign up to get updates at each of the

1310
01:49:22,960 --> 01:49:29,540
project pages. So we encourage people to do that. And then we will be coming back with Council

1311
01:49:29,540 --> 01:49:34,820
for Council approval at the final design build contract, which we'll have refined costs for

1312
01:49:34,820 --> 01:49:39,700
the full basically construction contract for this.

1313
01:49:42,220 --> 01:49:43,980
Okay, moving to the Bob Berger Recreation

1314
01:49:43,980 --> 01:49:53,640
Center. We also are still in design phase for the BDRC and you are probably familiar with the footprint

1315
01:49:54,320 --> 01:49:59,920
dislocation. What we're really looking at is the entire location and the parking lot as well because

1316
01:50:00,000 --> 01:50:04,780
Parking is currently an issue at VBRC and we want to make sure that we address the expansion

1317
01:50:04,780 --> 01:50:10,220
at the Rec Center and what the necessary parking needs will be there. We don't anticipate

1318
01:50:10,220 --> 01:50:14,580
looking at all at this gate park, but we're looking up to where the inline-scate rank

1319
01:50:14,580 --> 01:50:20,860
is and what the kind of informal parking has been up there. These are some of the current conditions.

1320
01:50:21,560 --> 01:50:25,720
Again, with the weeks at the pool, I think you're familiar with the conditions that we've been

1321
01:50:25,720 --> 01:50:46,900
and the downtime that we've had and the real significant implications that are kind of infrastructure there and the way that the pool piping was originally built and installed has kind of resulted in a lot of mechanical conditions that are difficult for us to basically act.

1322
01:50:47,160 --> 01:50:53,620
So we're looking to create something that's a little bit a little bit of a more modern system that we can maintain a little more easily.

1323
01:50:54,840 --> 01:50:59,480
This is a kind of schematic design, something that shows what we're looking at right now,

1324
01:50:59,500 --> 01:51:01,720
so I just want to point out some of the additions.

1325
01:51:02,560 --> 01:51:07,660
The additional space that we're looking at is about a 21,000 square foot addition to the

1326
01:51:07,660 --> 01:51:09,380
red center and a couple different areas.

1327
01:51:09,900 --> 01:51:14,440
This would be the N2A, there would be additional bike parking here.

1328
01:51:14,460 --> 01:51:20,260
This is a new space that would be sort of a multi-purpose meeting room conference space available.

1329
01:51:20,980 --> 01:51:26,780
One of the biggest additions is over here, and this is an older adult, and also kind of

1330
01:51:26,780 --> 01:51:31,000
multipurpose space that would have a separate entrance, where we'd be able to have

1331
01:51:31,000 --> 01:51:37,820
any accessible entrance here for seniors and older adults to access for programming, and

1332
01:51:37,820 --> 01:51:41,820
also to access, um, rec center and fitness activities and aquatic activities.

1333
01:51:42,640 --> 01:51:48,680
Um, another large, additional space would be back here, which is an expansion of the

1334
01:51:48,680 --> 01:51:59,500
So this is where the lab pool would be back here and then there would also be some additional space here on the second story with more fitness space added.

1335
01:52:03,560 --> 01:52:15,740
We have had lots of community feedback by a survey as well as three community meetings that have occurred in July and August.

1336
01:52:15,740 --> 01:52:22,000
And through these meetings what we've heard is that people want us to create more places

1337
01:52:22,000 --> 01:52:24,860
for people to engage in the long.

1338
01:52:25,740 --> 01:52:31,980
So this is what we've done through this additional space here, which is kind of an older adult space,

1339
01:52:32,220 --> 01:52:36,440
which also has some significant areas that are multi-purpose rooms.

1340
01:52:37,120 --> 01:52:41,320
So this would have meetings space here as well as multi-purpose rooms.

1341
01:52:41,320 --> 01:52:46,740
And then also some just upgrades to where we have our use spaces.

1342
01:52:48,060 --> 01:52:55,820
We also had have heard that we want it to be easier to use, so more accessibility,

1343
01:52:56,460 --> 01:52:57,800
parking, and circulation.

1344
01:52:58,860 --> 01:53:04,880
So the circulation has been a big factor in really looking at how we can reconfigure

1345
01:53:04,880 --> 01:53:10,560
the space we have, for example, coming in and having, as you all know,

1346
01:53:10,560 --> 01:53:17,460
You have brought a child to the pool, walking through the fitness phase, and then having to go

1347
01:53:17,460 --> 01:53:24,020
to the locker rooms and then coming in through to the pool, now people will be able to come in

1348
01:53:24,020 --> 01:53:29,080
and can either go into the locker rooms change and go workout or go into the locker rooms and change

1349
01:53:29,080 --> 01:53:36,600
and go to the pool. So it's much more accessible experience for people to come in and then get to

1350
01:53:36,600 --> 01:53:40,750
they want to go versus having to walk through fitness to get to where they want to go.

1351
01:53:41,800 --> 01:53:46,820
Also much more accessible for the programming that uses those spaces too, so

1352
01:53:46,820 --> 01:53:55,000
that will be a nice change. Also, you know, 45% of our current users are our seniors or older adults,

1353
01:53:55,680 --> 01:54:00,680
and so this is really going to create a nice opportunity for people who are older adults or seniors

1354
01:54:00,680 --> 01:54:08,320
who do swimming, aquatics, fitness classes are ready to be able to easily then move to either

1355
01:54:08,320 --> 01:54:14,140
services or common areas, common spaces, programming, et cetera, so just, again, bringing

1356
01:54:14,140 --> 01:54:18,720
together those fitness experiences along with those creating places together.

1357
01:54:19,080 --> 01:54:24,320
And then making our aquatics work better, not only from, you know, reliable systems perspective,

1358
01:54:24,980 --> 01:54:27,380
but also for functional swimming and family access.

1359
01:54:28,660 --> 01:54:35,700
And then we have just a more fitness space here, and this is a second story fitness space

1360
01:54:35,700 --> 01:54:39,920
added here, and then we have a party room here.

1361
01:54:40,500 --> 01:54:42,600
So there's a lot of different opportunities.

1362
01:54:43,260 --> 01:54:52,000
In terms of the expansion, it really is quite kind of large equitable expansion in several different areas.

1363
01:54:52,000 --> 01:54:59,940
We see 42% increase in aquatic space, 34% increase in fitness space.

1364
01:55:00,000 --> 01:55:26,240
The locker rooms grow by 31% and that includes putting in more family locker rooms or cabanas, which also are accessible spaces, accessible locker rooms, and then the flexible program space increases by 20% and we have wellness room, which we don't currently have, so that's the space that can be used for fitness or for older adults for several different purposes.

1365
01:55:27,520 --> 01:55:28,080
So,

1366
01:55:30,120 --> 01:55:34,820
more fun to come, we will be refining the design based on the cost considerations.

1367
01:55:35,800 --> 01:55:39,500
So we're kind of getting to that schematic design phase where we're going to start doing

1368
01:55:39,500 --> 01:55:45,440
some posting, continuing to take the feedback from the public and looking at feasibility

1369
01:55:45,440 --> 01:55:52,080
of all of the areas that we've incorporated at this point, defining the interiors so we can

1370
01:55:52,080 --> 01:55:53,560
have sure that Lafayette feel.

1371
01:55:54,120 --> 01:55:57,240
And then we will have additional public input in November.

1372
01:55:58,480 --> 01:56:01,220
And we are currently have interviews underway

1373
01:56:01,220 --> 01:56:04,340
for the construction management and general contractor

1374
01:56:04,340 --> 01:56:06,340
that we'll be using to build the facility.

1375
01:56:07,100 --> 01:56:10,260
And then we'll continue to post updates on Lafayette

1376
01:56:10,260 --> 01:56:12,520
listens as I describe with the service center.

1377
01:56:12,820 --> 01:56:16,920
And we do have that subscriber list place for people to sign up.

1378
01:56:17,040 --> 01:56:18,260
And we also have feedback link.

1379
01:56:18,460 --> 01:56:20,860
So there's a link where you can send in thoughts

1380
01:56:20,860 --> 01:56:27,580
feedback that we'll continue to take for BBRC as well. So with that, I'm going to pass it

1381
01:56:27,580 --> 01:56:29,080
up to Heather Balsett.

1382
01:56:31,300 --> 01:56:34,620
Good evening, Mayor and City Council. Heather Balsett, CFO, here to talk

1383
01:56:34,620 --> 01:56:39,480
about the money part. So I'm going to just go over quickly the authorizing ordinance for the sale

1384
01:56:39,480 --> 01:56:44,400
of the bonds to fund all those beautiful improvements. So the authorizing ordinance approves the

1385
01:56:44,400 --> 01:56:48,520
issuance of the general obligation bonds, certain documents for the financings,

1386
01:56:48,520 --> 01:56:54,240
parameters for which the bonds need to comply with and a legal structure necessary to issue the bonds.

1387
01:56:54,980 --> 01:56:58,540
As long as the contemplative bonds or series of bonds to be issued by the city,

1388
01:56:58,940 --> 01:57:01,840
satisfied the parameters presented in section four of the ordinance,

1389
01:57:02,240 --> 01:57:04,640
Council delegates the ability to issue the bonds to the mayor,

1390
01:57:04,740 --> 01:57:10,020
the manager or the chief financial officer. So again the ordinance parameters here,

1391
01:57:10,120 --> 01:57:15,780
the parameters referenced in section four of the ordinance are not to exceed the paramount of 74 million.

1392
01:57:15,780 --> 01:57:17,260
this was authorized in the election.

1393
01:57:17,740 --> 01:57:20,340
The final maturity for all sales, excuse me,

1394
01:57:20,480 --> 01:57:22,560
for all series of December 1, 2046.

1395
01:57:23,000 --> 01:57:24,280
That's the 20-year term.

1396
01:57:24,600 --> 01:57:27,140
Purchase price is not less than 98% of the bonds,

1397
01:57:27,200 --> 01:57:28,720
although we certainly expect that,

1398
01:57:28,840 --> 01:57:30,500
to at least be 100%.

1399
01:57:30,500 --> 01:57:33,220
A combined maximum annual repayment of 6 million,

1400
01:57:33,640 --> 01:57:35,000
again, from the election question,

1401
01:57:35,400 --> 01:57:37,820
and a combined total repayment of 120 million,

1402
01:57:37,860 --> 01:57:39,420
which was also in the election question.

1403
01:57:39,860 --> 01:57:41,440
So again, these majority of these parameters

1404
01:57:41,440 --> 01:57:44,360
are dictated by the 20-25 election question.

1405
01:57:45,160 --> 01:57:50,500
And then I accompany in documents that are in your packet we have the notice of sale which

1406
01:57:50,500 --> 01:57:54,580
communicates bidding requirements for competitive sale, the bond purchase agreement which is

1407
01:57:54,580 --> 01:57:59,940
a contract between the city and an underwriter for negotiated sale, a paying agent agreement

1408
01:57:59,940 --> 01:58:04,940
agreement with the US Bank for bond payment services, a continuing disclosure certificate which

1409
01:58:04,940 --> 01:58:09,760
outlines the city's ongoing disclosure obligations after issuance and then a preliminary

1410
01:58:09,760 --> 01:58:14,160
official statement which is a primary disclosure document providing financial and legal

1411
01:58:14,160 --> 01:58:19,620
information to potential investors. So a number of these are in your packet. Some of them are still

1412
01:58:19,620 --> 01:58:24,820
in draft form as there are terms in there that won't be finalized until the sale of the bonds.

1413
01:58:26,120 --> 01:58:34,240
And I also just want to mention that Kim Proford with Butler Show, Bond Council prepared this

1414
01:58:34,240 --> 01:58:39,320
document and coordination with very many of our city attorney and it's still be available for questions

1415
01:58:39,320 --> 01:58:43,920
And at this point, I'm going to turn it over to Maddie for the market update, which

1416
01:58:43,920 --> 01:58:47,380
who's with Hilltop, the city's municipal financial advisor.

1417
01:58:49,570 --> 01:58:50,070
Good evening.

1418
01:58:50,230 --> 01:58:51,350
Thank you for having me again.

1419
01:58:52,010 --> 01:58:55,790
I was reflecting on the drive up here that you all have seen a lot of me thinking the last

1420
01:58:55,790 --> 01:58:56,570
year and a half.

1421
01:58:57,170 --> 01:59:01,310
So this might be the last time for a while, which is good.

1422
01:59:01,370 --> 01:59:02,910
That means we're friendly, making progress, right?

1423
01:59:03,270 --> 01:59:04,790
So a little bit on the market.

1424
01:59:06,650 --> 01:59:11,570
I'm assuming most of you would probably open Google or the New York Times or Wall Street Journal

1425
01:59:11,570 --> 01:59:17,830
or something in the last, well, three months but really the last couple of days, you know,

1426
01:59:18,310 --> 01:59:23,310
our municipal market right now, similar to the U.S. Treasury's market, is really driven by

1427
01:59:23,310 --> 01:59:28,650
what's happening in the conflict in Iran. So oil prices go up, interest rates go up, oil

1428
01:59:28,650 --> 01:59:33,910
prices go down, interest rates go down. So as you can imagine the last two days, particularly

1429
01:59:33,910 --> 01:59:37,590
they have not been particularly great for our bond market.

1430
01:59:37,790 --> 01:59:41,250
That said, the market itself is still operating very efficiently.

1431
01:59:41,410 --> 01:59:43,430
We actually are advising on the transaction

1432
01:59:43,430 --> 01:59:45,950
for state-brain school districts tomorrow.

1433
01:59:46,330 --> 01:59:48,730
They're playing to issue $375 million of bonds

1434
01:59:48,730 --> 01:59:50,270
that is still anticipated to move forward.

1435
01:59:51,130 --> 01:59:52,950
Even with the market volatility,

1436
01:59:53,770 --> 01:59:55,110
but the market is still clearing,

1437
01:59:55,330 --> 01:59:56,550
I would say it's fairly orderly,

1438
01:59:56,710 --> 01:59:57,430
they're still investors.

1439
01:59:58,070 --> 01:59:59,970
It's so generous, it's our underlying benchmark.

1440
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:11,560
Mark of that yield curve is moving around a little bit. That said, we are still below. We are above average from a historical 20 year perspective, but we are below from, we'll be consider like a market high.

1441
02:00:12,660 --> 02:00:23,960
Rates are a little bit higher than when I talk to you last in June. I think then I was estimating an interest rate, kind of maybe around 425, 4.25% we're sitting about 4.5.

1442
02:00:23,960 --> 02:00:28,800
right now just with based on rates as of today. So, not terrible. Still well below.

1443
02:00:29,960 --> 02:00:33,140
They're, we use it slightly higher than 5% coupon when we were doing the free

1444
02:00:33,140 --> 02:00:35,880
emitters for the dollar questions. We still have a lot of wiggle room.

1445
02:00:36,160 --> 02:00:40,960
There, those rates do not move one for one. So, like if the yield curve moves up one

1446
02:00:40,960 --> 02:00:44,640
basis point that doesn't mean you're borrowing increases by one person.

1447
02:00:45,320 --> 02:00:49,700
It's from a math perspective. Actually, it's less than that. So, we have more than

1448
02:00:49,700 --> 02:00:55,520
50% of more than 50 basis points of cushion, we're probably more like 75 basis points of cushion

1449
02:00:55,520 --> 02:00:56,600
within there.

1450
02:00:56,600 --> 02:00:59,380
We feel pretty comfortable with that was where the market is today.

1451
02:01:00,480 --> 02:01:05,140
You know, the big headline risk, so to speak, outside of Iran has really been what the

1452
02:01:05,140 --> 02:01:09,420
Fed is, what's anticipated at the Fed, if you know, when I was here in January, I probably

1453
02:01:09,420 --> 02:01:13,680
was talking about potential rate cuts because that was what was being built into the market

1454
02:01:13,680 --> 02:01:14,400
at the time.

1455
02:01:15,060 --> 02:01:19,480
Now, particularly related to the conflict in Iran and rising oil and gas prices, which

1456
02:01:19,480 --> 02:01:26,580
a part of inflation, but just overall inflation really maintaining a higher rate than the

1457
02:01:26,580 --> 02:01:30,580
Fedwood like has caused the market out actually price and rate hikes.

1458
02:01:31,360 --> 02:01:35,220
We are not anticipating one necessarily at the next meeting, but that is definitely in

1459
02:01:35,220 --> 02:01:40,080
the future, and that's a lot of what you've seen from the growth in those interest rates

1460
02:01:40,080 --> 02:01:45,300
over the last month, particularly or so, on the short end is mostly driven by potential

1461
02:01:45,300 --> 02:01:50,360
federal movements on the long end is more just kind of the economic uncertainty and

1462
02:01:50,360 --> 02:01:52,820
volatility that we are operating within.

1463
02:01:53,920 --> 02:01:58,200
And some of that is what I think is going to be a little bit under the line is the

1464
02:01:58,200 --> 02:01:59,400
US debt.

1465
02:01:59,540 --> 02:02:05,480
And what does that mean for ongoing operations, obviously, within the federal government, treasury

1466
02:02:05,480 --> 02:02:06,380
rates go higher.

1467
02:02:06,580 --> 02:02:10,900
That's not good for the federal budget and deficit rate, because that's what they are using

1468
02:02:10,900 --> 02:02:11,560
to borrow money.

1469
02:02:11,560 --> 02:02:16,840
So, a lot of uncertainty that said, deals are still getting done, we're still borrowing it

1470
02:02:16,840 --> 02:02:21,520
relatively decent interest rates, obviously not where we were back in 2020 or 2021,

1471
02:02:22,140 --> 02:02:25,360
but not necessarily expecting to get back there any time soon.

1472
02:02:26,040 --> 02:02:29,020
I wanted to put in a couple of trends, just because I thought some of these were helpful.

1473
02:02:29,260 --> 02:02:32,940
I know I don't really talk about, like, big picture market context, and these are a little bit

1474
02:02:32,940 --> 02:02:37,320
more specific, I think, to sort of what's happened, particularly over the last five years or so,

1475
02:02:37,320 --> 02:02:44,600
And the interest rate environment, you know, on the far left is just the MMD is municipal market data that is our tax exempt yield curve.

1476
02:02:44,940 --> 02:02:47,620
You can see how that's changed over the last year, really.

1477
02:02:48,020 --> 02:02:49,660
So the green line was a year ago.

1478
02:02:49,820 --> 02:02:53,700
The light blue was recently and then the dark blue was about six months ago.

1479
02:02:54,660 --> 02:03:02,980
You know, rates were definitely lower in February and then I have started to kind of create this constant trend upwards since then over the last six months.

1480
02:03:03,160 --> 02:03:07,000
But you'll see, you know, compared to a year ago, we're a little bit higher on the short end,

1481
02:03:07,000 --> 02:03:10,760
which was sort of aligned with that said, you know, anticipated Fed movement,

1482
02:03:11,260 --> 02:03:14,860
and then a little bit lower on the long end, which is beneficial here.

1483
02:03:15,980 --> 02:03:21,540
From the credit spread perspective, you'll see, right? So we price to that municipal market

1484
02:03:21,540 --> 02:03:25,640
data that index that taxes and field curve. That is assumed to be essentially the triple A,

1485
02:03:25,700 --> 02:03:30,160
the lowest borrowing cost, and that's actually created by a survey of

1486
02:03:31,260 --> 02:03:36,440
underwriters of where they anticipate some high credit quality issuers would price that day.

1487
02:03:37,000 --> 02:03:42,920
We then actually price bonds based on a spread to that index and that spread is dictated by a couple things.

1488
02:03:43,020 --> 02:03:48,680
Some of it is the market, but a lot of it is really driven by the credit quality of the obligation that is being issued.

1489
02:03:48,840 --> 02:03:53,080
So in this instance, for the city, it's a AA rated general obligation credit.

1490
02:03:53,520 --> 02:04:01,200
You'll see, you know, where there's a spike kind of in that 22 to 24 timeframe, that was when rates were climbing right from their low points.

1491
02:04:01,200 --> 02:04:08,900
And you saw those credit spreads wide and now a lot of that had more to do with market volatility than it did with perceived credit benefit.

1492
02:04:09,720 --> 02:04:11,240
That has since come back down.

1493
02:04:11,400 --> 02:04:18,920
So while we are at somewhat elevated interest rates, our credits spreads are actually lower than where they were if we were borrowing say two or three years ago.

1494
02:04:19,200 --> 02:04:23,120
Which is beneficial obviously to the city because we try to get that credit spread as low as possible.

1495
02:04:23,120 --> 02:04:27,600
And then just the yield curve steepness, I find this one is just kind of interesting because

1496
02:04:27,600 --> 02:04:32,060
for a period of time we were operating particularly when we were in a high inflationary

1497
02:04:32,060 --> 02:04:38,900
environment, our yield curve was actually inverted but what that meant is that our overall yield

1498
02:04:38,900 --> 02:04:44,200
curve steepness was pretty shallow. So we're talking about like a hundred basis points between your

1499
02:04:44,200 --> 02:04:49,080
one or two year maturity and your thirty year maturity. That can make some bonds challenging to

1500
02:04:49,080 --> 02:04:53,760
cell because if I'm an investor, you know, they're folks that are looking for specific areas

1501
02:04:53,760 --> 02:04:57,260
of the ill-corrupted bass, but they're also looking where they can get the best get the most

1502
02:04:57,260 --> 02:04:59,960
healed for their investments, right? And so it's a little bit...

1503
02:05:00,000 --> 02:05:04,860
A little challenging when we're in a pretty flat yield curve environment to sort of incentivizing

1504
02:05:04,860 --> 02:05:10,700
investors to move to different maturities. We are now looking at more normal, more typical yield curve,

1505
02:05:11,720 --> 02:05:16,960
where if you think back to your finance or economics classes, we're back in the day, we want that nice little

1506
02:05:16,960 --> 02:05:23,840
curve shape that we currently have, which is beneficial as we move into the anticipated pricing for the city's

1507
02:05:25,220 --> 02:05:35,620
So I'm just going to find a same timeline, this has not changed at all, I don't think since I was here in June, so obviously we're here for first reading this evening, assuming that is approved.

1508
02:05:36,060 --> 02:05:38,480
Second reading would be two weeks from this evening.

1509
02:05:39,360 --> 02:05:48,640
We have scheduled the rating call with S&P, I was actually working on that rating presentation earlier today, so we'll be talking to those analysts on the morning of the 15th actually.

1510
02:05:48,640 --> 02:05:54,840
And then we'll get that rating back a week later, over that period of time, one of the documents

1511
02:05:54,840 --> 02:05:57,820
I just want to highlight that Heather mentioned was the preliminary official statement.

1512
02:05:58,680 --> 02:06:03,860
That is the primary disclosure document that is used to market the city's credit to potential

1513
02:06:03,860 --> 02:06:04,480
purchasers.

1514
02:06:04,980 --> 02:06:08,240
It is in draft form in your council package.

1515
02:06:08,320 --> 02:06:12,060
Seedening, there will be an updated version that gets circulated prior to second reading.

1516
02:06:12,520 --> 02:06:14,620
But even then, at that point, it is not final.

1517
02:06:14,860 --> 02:06:18,500
Those documents are approved as to form because we can't finalize that until we're basically

1518
02:06:18,500 --> 02:06:19,920
right before we go in price.

1519
02:06:20,360 --> 02:06:21,600
So there will continue to be updates

1520
02:06:21,600 --> 02:06:24,620
so that your finance team collectively is working on that.

1521
02:06:24,640 --> 02:06:27,300
That will be financed, finished, finalized,

1522
02:06:27,740 --> 02:06:32,040
and publicly posted, Retargeting for Friday, September 25th.

1523
02:06:32,220 --> 02:06:35,200
That is the point at which where the sale now becomes public.

1524
02:06:35,840 --> 02:06:37,900
So other purchasers can start doing their diligence.

1525
02:06:38,120 --> 02:06:40,060
So look at the city's credit and the bonds.

1526
02:06:40,620 --> 02:06:43,860
We are targeting Tuesday, October 6th sitting here today

1527
02:06:43,860 --> 02:06:45,020
for the city's pricing.

1528
02:06:45,580 --> 02:06:48,360
That said, we are not obligated to do anything

1529
02:06:48,360 --> 02:06:52,700
on that date, nor does the ordinance actually obligate or require the city to issue bonds.

1530
02:06:52,700 --> 02:06:55,300
It is providing the authorization to do so.

1531
02:06:55,600 --> 02:07:01,940
We will continue to work with city staff as market trends change over the next month to

1532
02:07:01,940 --> 02:07:04,140
determine an appropriate time for pricing.

1533
02:07:04,280 --> 02:07:09,220
And if we need to potentially postpone what we'll like to be evaluating is just where we anticipate

1534
02:07:09,220 --> 02:07:14,560
interest rates going, which we'll have to press the ball for that right now, but also making

1535
02:07:14,560 --> 02:07:22,080
that we're getting the city funds to reimburse itself for some of these costs that have come up over the last year as you've been working through the design processes.

1536
02:07:23,300 --> 02:07:30,660
The election authorization also included a reimbursement resolution in there, whereby proceeds from these bonds can be used to reimburse the city.

1537
02:07:31,240 --> 02:07:43,940
So we just want to make sure that we're ideally we're kind of tying that bow, I'd say, by the end of the fiscal year, so that it doesn't look kind of wonky in terms of like reserve levels or things like that in the city's financial statements for 2026.

1538
02:07:43,940 --> 02:07:51,220
So long-term goal is to try and have this transaction closed by the end of the year, assuming nothing changes sitting here today.

1539
02:07:51,680 --> 02:07:57,520
I don't anticipate us moving that pricing date, but again, you know, who knows what happens even overnight these days.

1540
02:07:58,800 --> 02:08:04,560
So, you know, we'll be sure obviously to have city staff update if for some reason we materially change from that schedule.

1541
02:08:05,500 --> 02:08:09,640
We aren't anticipating selling the bonds via competitive sale. I think I've talked about this at prior meetings.

1542
02:08:09,640 --> 02:08:15,520
that is where essentially the sale is noticed on a public auction site that is used by our

1543
02:08:15,520 --> 02:08:21,860
industry and interested purchasers are then able to submit a bid to purchase the bonds and then

1544
02:08:21,860 --> 02:08:26,920
the lowest interest rate through that submittal wins. So those are, they are awarded the bonds,

1545
02:08:27,100 --> 02:08:33,580
they then purchase those and are able to sell those to other investors. That is what the notice of

1546
02:08:33,580 --> 02:08:38,100
sale, which is a form document that is included in your packets as well, that will dictate the terms

1547
02:08:38,100 --> 02:08:42,820
So if that sale, and again, that won't be finalized also until the 25th, as we'll work

1548
02:08:42,820 --> 02:08:47,600
through different scenarios and things like that to make sure that we're providing flexibility

1549
02:08:47,600 --> 02:08:53,100
to the city walls of kind of meeting market trends at that time, the ordinance is flexible

1550
02:08:53,100 --> 02:08:57,180
and that it allows the city to utilize a negotiated sale, which is slightly different in

1551
02:08:57,740 --> 02:09:01,360
that an underwriter would be selected ahead of time, but for just service, essentially,

1552
02:09:01,360 --> 02:09:03,360
and we negotiate with them on the sale.

1553
02:09:03,960 --> 02:09:07,620
We don't think that is needed at this time, but we want to provide the flexibility primarily

1554
02:09:07,620 --> 02:09:11,600
because this is authorizing one or more series of bonds.

1555
02:09:11,700 --> 02:09:13,800
So when we come to do the second series next year,

1556
02:09:14,160 --> 02:09:16,880
if for some reason we are in a market period

1557
02:09:16,880 --> 02:09:19,100
where we think a negotiated sale would be beneficial

1558
02:09:19,100 --> 02:09:21,680
at that time, we have the flexibility to do so.

1559
02:09:22,640 --> 02:09:25,000
That the document related to that is the bond

1560
02:09:25,000 --> 02:09:27,320
purchase agreement that essentially becomes a contract

1561
02:09:27,320 --> 02:09:31,060
between the city and the underwriter in a negotiated sale.

1562
02:09:31,700 --> 02:09:32,780
So if we're doing a competitive sale,

1563
02:09:32,940 --> 02:09:34,320
that document isn't needed at all,

1564
02:09:34,940 --> 02:09:37,200
but it's in your pack, it's just in case we do pivot.

1565
02:09:37,200 --> 02:09:41,920
I just wanted to make that clarification and then sitting here today from a ratings standpoint

1566
02:09:41,920 --> 02:09:46,200
the city's general obligation bonds are rated AA plus those bonds that are maturing

1567
02:09:46,200 --> 02:09:47,140
this year.

1568
02:09:48,060 --> 02:09:52,440
We don't anticipate any material changes to that rating particularly based on some of the

1569
02:09:52,440 --> 02:09:56,580
analysis I was doing earlier today for that rating presentation but we will have that call

1570
02:09:56,580 --> 02:09:59,660
in two weeks and the results from that in three weeks.

1571
02:10:00,440 --> 02:10:10,300
We can work with staff to make sure that it's communicated to you all and if there needs to be press releases and things like that to make sure folks are aware of the great financial work the city is doing.

1572
02:10:10,920 --> 02:10:13,280
And so with that, I think I'm passing it back to Heather.

1573
02:10:16,520 --> 02:10:24,620
So, our next steps here, you currently have over 212,000 spent to be reimbursed, and the

1574
02:10:24,620 --> 02:10:29,220
city's 2026 budget for bond projects in the capital fund is a little over 4 million.

1575
02:10:30,000 --> 02:10:35,060
Once the bond sale is complete, staff will work forward a supplemental budget request in November to reimbursed

1576
02:10:35,060 --> 02:10:40,040
the capital fund for the 2026 expenses and appropriate proceeds of the bond sale.

1577
02:10:40,040 --> 02:10:51,020
And then we'll issue that second series of bonds for 34 million for the Civic Center in the fall of 2027 with design and public engagement to begin in 2027.

1578
02:10:51,860 --> 02:10:54,080
And we're all available for any questions.

1579
02:10:54,720 --> 02:10:55,840
Great, thank you.

1580
02:10:55,940 --> 02:10:58,920
Questions from council for staff or help top?

1581
02:11:03,690 --> 02:11:04,130
No questions.

1582
02:11:04,390 --> 02:11:04,750
Mayor Brota.

1583
02:11:05,530 --> 02:11:06,770
Thank you.

1584
02:11:06,770 --> 02:11:07,270
Thank you, Mayor.

1585
02:11:08,110 --> 02:11:08,910
I just had a question.

1586
02:11:09,030 --> 02:11:10,010
What does it look like?

1587
02:11:10,050 --> 02:11:12,450
I guess this is probably for.

1588
02:11:15,030 --> 02:11:23,750
So when we do, when our bonds go up for sale on this kind of site, what does it look like?

1589
02:11:25,090 --> 02:11:26,170
What's the draw?

1590
02:11:26,270 --> 02:11:28,210
What are people going to be looking at?

1591
02:11:28,430 --> 02:11:31,050
The first thing is the city of Lafayette or something.

1592
02:11:31,250 --> 02:11:38,770
So it'll say, you know, for, so that this, there is a, it's a, it's a, it's called Ipreo,

1593
02:11:38,910 --> 02:11:44,350
which is where all municipal bonds like wires and like all of our sales basically take place

1594
02:11:44,350 --> 02:11:50,290
on that infrastructure, and when that shows sales shows up, it'll show up there, as well

1595
02:11:50,290 --> 02:11:53,350
as in a couple of different market calendars.

1596
02:11:53,510 --> 02:11:57,390
So there's one that's produced by the bond buyer, which is, like, our industry newspaper,

1597
02:11:57,390 --> 02:12:03,690
basically, and then TM3, which is another, like, market data point, basically, and yes,

1598
02:12:03,710 --> 02:12:08,310
so it'll say, you know, have a date, and then it'll say, have the dollar amount, so $40

1599
02:12:08,310 --> 02:12:13,950
million, it'll say, City of Lafayette, Colorado, general obligation bonds, series 2026, and

1600
02:12:13,950 --> 02:12:18,950
then it'll have the rating next to it, basically. And so, when a potential purchaser can click

1601
02:12:18,950 --> 02:12:22,770
normally, it's a kind of, depending on which site you run. It's a clickable link, you can

1602
02:12:22,770 --> 02:12:28,810
see the information that's in, like, the notice of sale as an example that has the bid requirements.

1603
02:12:29,330 --> 02:12:32,170
It will also usually have a link to that preliminary official statement, that disclosure

1604
02:12:32,170 --> 02:12:38,490
documents that they can scroll through that and read through that and evaluate their view of the city's credit.

1605
02:12:40,450 --> 02:12:40,690
Thank you.

1606
02:12:41,130 --> 02:12:44,390
And what are the other questions of appreciate the trends and love that?

1607
02:12:44,570 --> 02:12:51,310
Are there any annual trends that you would expect to see that weren't that you didn't talk

1608
02:12:51,310 --> 02:13:05,930
And is there an expectation after an election after an election year like this kind of work the next year to years from now? Are there any expectations generally?

1609
02:13:06,310 --> 02:13:08,070
I mean, yes and no.

1610
02:13:08,470 --> 02:13:10,890
To like expect the unexpected unexpected I guess.

1611
02:13:12,690 --> 02:13:38,650
I think this fall, a lot of what that election dictates, is what does that mean for the current presidential administration is there, are they left with another two years to kind of do what they will, you know, both from operational economical, et cetera, or is there some perceived check that gets placed by like a, you know, changing within Congress.

1612
02:13:39,670 --> 02:13:47,730
That we have seen that have different reactions, candidly, depending on what the flip is and

1613
02:13:47,730 --> 02:13:53,130
what the markets perceive change or no change means for interest rates and for overall

1614
02:13:53,130 --> 02:13:54,090
market volatility.

1615
02:13:54,490 --> 02:13:57,670
So, would it be fair to say no impact is unusual?

1616
02:13:58,690 --> 02:14:01,050
Yeah, I would say no impact is unusual.

1617
02:14:01,610 --> 02:14:07,430
I would also say, candidly, I don't know how much either impact though would really have

1618
02:14:07,430 --> 02:14:14,490
at this point in time because a lot of what is influencing the market has been put in place

1619
02:14:14,490 --> 02:14:21,770
without going through Congress. So there is a bit of a question of like even if Congress flips

1620
02:14:21,770 --> 02:14:29,190
what checks do they really have on some of the items that have that are taking place right now.

1621
02:14:29,510 --> 02:14:35,990
Right. And so from that same point we don't totally know but sitting here sitting here today

1622
02:14:35,990 --> 02:14:39,810
that nobody candidly is really focused on the election from a market perspective,

1623
02:14:40,590 --> 02:14:44,770
whereas I think what they market doesn't like is unexpected things to happen.

1624
02:14:45,030 --> 02:14:51,190
So like if you go back to 2016, the market went crazy after that November election

1625
02:14:51,190 --> 02:14:54,530
because the market said all anticipated that Hillary Clinton was going to win the election

1626
02:14:54,530 --> 02:14:58,670
and then she did not, and it's not necessarily that they didn't like Trump's policies.

1627
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:03,600
So what his policies were because they hadn't really looked into it because they didn't think he was going to win.

1628
02:15:04,800 --> 02:15:11,100
And so sitting here today, I don't anticipate much movement, but you know, I've not gone one from this election cycle.

1629
02:15:11,360 --> 02:15:15,540
2020, it's like a whole other ballgame because we don't even know who's running for president.

1630
02:15:15,720 --> 02:15:23,380
At this point in time in that election, you know, we don't know the state of the world that we are will be in at that point in time.

1631
02:15:23,740 --> 02:15:28,900
Presidential elections do tend to have a bigger movement than a midterm election cycle.

1632
02:15:28,900 --> 02:15:33,280
And then we'll try and there's no real annual trend, we're going into winter, nothing really.

1633
02:15:33,520 --> 02:15:39,940
Totally, yes, I mean sometimes we see, you know, if you were talking to me probably six or seven years ago,

1634
02:15:40,060 --> 02:15:46,240
I would say we see kind of this creep up in rates as you go towards the end of the year and then a reduction in rates in January.

1635
02:15:47,400 --> 02:15:56,360
That trend has not been consistent though for the last six years, like some years, it's on trends, sometimes it's not in rates actually spike in January that happened two years ago.

1636
02:15:56,360 --> 02:15:59,780
So, it's just very unvertable.

1637
02:16:00,360 --> 02:16:08,540
Yes. And like what we typically have historically followed for data points as an example that dictate

1638
02:16:08,540 --> 02:16:13,540
usually market reactions have just been way less influential in consequential and consequential this year

1639
02:16:13,540 --> 02:16:19,220
because of the other noise that's happening. Like inflation and PPI and all those things that come out

1640
02:16:19,220 --> 02:16:24,420
on a regular schedule, those used to be much more influential in the market.

1641
02:16:24,420 --> 02:16:30,560
If we missed CPI by 0.2%, you know, that would mean like, oh, people were concerned

1642
02:16:30,560 --> 02:16:35,300
and nowadays it doesn't really seem to be much of anything candidly.

1643
02:16:36,160 --> 02:16:41,280
Our market sitting here today, the biggest influence on it and the tracking of trends

1644
02:16:41,280 --> 02:16:42,380
is oil prices.

1645
02:16:43,760 --> 02:16:43,780
Okay.

1646
02:16:44,780 --> 02:16:45,700
Thank you so much.

1647
02:16:45,980 --> 02:16:46,640
Councillor Ginole.

1648
02:16:47,240 --> 02:16:47,720
Thank you, Mayor.

1649
02:16:48,180 --> 02:16:54,400
Just to follow up on this discussion, you talked earlier about bond rating, that

1650
02:16:54,400 --> 02:17:00,060
city has a good bond rating. Yes. Don't expect that to change. Yeah. Can you talk a little bit

1651
02:17:00,060 --> 02:17:05,400
about the factors that would make that improve the degree. Go up for that. Sure. So you are

1652
02:17:05,400 --> 02:17:09,700
a double A plus reading is one notch below the best possible reading you can have right of

1653
02:17:09,700 --> 02:17:15,920
AAA. There are a handful of cities within Colorado that are rated AAA by either S&P or Moody's,

1654
02:17:16,020 --> 02:17:22,020
but not a ton. A lot of it in your instance likely would have to do with your size. So your

1655
02:17:22,020 --> 02:17:27,100
of your tax base, both on like a sales tax and property tax base, because of your size,

1656
02:17:27,100 --> 02:17:32,920
you'll see that rating typically applied to a slightly larger city because they can weather

1657
02:17:32,920 --> 02:17:38,100
through changes in different industries a little bit better than potentially the city could.

1658
02:17:38,980 --> 02:17:45,260
From a going down perspective, yeah, the biggest driver that is within the city's control

1659
02:17:45,260 --> 02:17:49,040
from a rating perspective is fund balance in your general fund.

1660
02:17:49,040 --> 02:17:52,000
So you are in the cities, obviously,

1661
02:17:52,120 --> 02:17:54,280
been spending some fun balance over the last few years,

1662
02:17:54,960 --> 02:17:56,780
but you're still in a really good place.

1663
02:17:56,780 --> 02:17:58,720
Is it really to their reading methodology?

1664
02:17:59,980 --> 02:18:04,620
In particular, through the budget target of 25% of reserves

1665
02:18:04,620 --> 02:18:09,120
is a great place to stay at, because that essentially puts you

1666
02:18:09,120 --> 02:18:13,120
at their top level of their scoring for fun balance metrics.

1667
02:18:13,760 --> 02:18:16,020
Once you start to get down, certainly,

1668
02:18:16,280 --> 02:18:17,500
I mean, that would be a big drop.

1669
02:18:17,500 --> 02:18:19,680
But once you start getting closer to like 10%,

1670
02:18:19,680 --> 02:18:22,680
then we start to have more of a conversation

1671
02:18:22,680 --> 02:18:24,920
about what's happening similarly,

1672
02:18:25,580 --> 02:18:27,660
if you were getting down to that level,

1673
02:18:27,660 --> 02:18:31,420
and it was because of year over year of imbalance

1674
02:18:31,420 --> 02:18:34,180
for operations, meaning you're drawing on reserve

1675
02:18:34,180 --> 02:18:37,180
to pay ongoing expenses versus one time expenses

1676
02:18:37,180 --> 02:18:39,140
that influences it.

1677
02:18:39,140 --> 02:18:41,440
And then the other piece is leverage,

1678
02:18:41,480 --> 02:18:44,300
like your debt to six and other leverage factors.

1679
02:18:44,940 --> 02:18:52,320
You don't really have much of a, if anything, of a pension liability, so that is not as relevant for you as it is for some other entities.

1680
02:18:53,380 --> 02:18:59,360
And then debt you are very, I mean, this is your really, they don't count, I should say, like utilities in this evaluation.

1681
02:19:00,280 --> 02:19:05,420
So the wide reclamation bonds don't count, those are self-supporting through service charges, user charges, et cetera.

1682
02:19:06,160 --> 02:19:11,080
So really, it's only going to be these bonds that are outstanding that would count towards that metric.

1683
02:19:11,080 --> 02:19:14,660
So you're in a pretty low liability factor.

1684
02:19:14,780 --> 02:19:17,240
Thank you.

1685
02:19:17,320 --> 02:19:18,360
Councillor Johnson.

1686
02:19:20,520 --> 02:19:25,900
I, I, I, I'm interested in this election cycle and what it could mean.

1687
02:19:26,580 --> 02:19:32,440
We are going to do this first round of bonds previous to that election.

1688
02:19:33,100 --> 02:19:43,880
But the next one, if anarchy breaks out, you know, we will be impacted by that. Is that correct?

1689
02:19:44,860 --> 02:19:52,460
Yes and no, I mean, so you are, we are planning basically the ordinance authorizes both series of bonds, so to issue all 74 million.

1690
02:19:52,800 --> 02:19:58,480
That's that if something were to happen and we are not in a place to issue bonds next year within that one year period,

1691
02:19:58,480 --> 02:19:59,960
or this

1692
02:20:00,000 --> 02:20:14,660
City determines it's not ready to start on the Civic Center project or what have you. We can always come back. That's the, you know, that we are not obligated to stick with this one ordinance. We can always have a second ordinance that authorizes if the one your clock runs out on this ordinance, we can always come back later.

1693
02:20:16,500 --> 02:20:28,600
So in that regard, if if you know, interest rates are going crazy or we're not comfortable selling or the market isn't functioning at all, you know, we are not obligated to move forward in that environment.

1694
02:20:28,600 --> 02:20:36,160
The other thing I would say is from overall historical market context, you know, while we do

1695
02:20:36,160 --> 02:20:41,920
enter, we have entered periods of, I don't know, say inoperability, but you know, the market

1696
02:20:41,920 --> 02:20:46,620
has been more challenging to actually execute transactions than others, for the most part

1697
02:20:46,620 --> 02:20:53,620
that doesn't last all that long. And by what I mean is like two weeks maximum. So, you know,

1698
02:20:53,740 --> 02:20:58,400
like COVID is an example, the market effectively shut down for a couple of weeks.

1699
02:20:58,400 --> 02:21:03,200
And a lot of that was because everybody was figuring out like how are we paying for anything?

1700
02:21:04,380 --> 02:21:07,380
Because, you know, we have no idea if people are going to go out shopping ever again, kind of thing.

1701
02:21:07,580 --> 02:21:11,940
And then once the dust settled and everybody realized, well, you know, Amazon still exists.

1702
02:21:12,220 --> 02:21:13,400
And people are still picking up groceries.

1703
02:21:13,680 --> 02:21:14,600
You know, we're okay.

1704
02:21:16,000 --> 02:21:23,420
Similarly, like with the tariffs last year, there was pretty crazy market chaos for a week after that.

1705
02:21:23,420 --> 02:21:32,480
Our underlying index is moving like 30 basis points in a day for several consecutive days up, not in our favor.

1706
02:21:34,040 --> 02:21:38,460
And a lot of that was just uncertainty of what does that even mean from a tariff standpoint?

1707
02:21:38,800 --> 02:21:41,000
What does it mean from like a retaliatory standpoint?

1708
02:21:41,540 --> 02:21:44,620
What is our overall financial picture look like now?

1709
02:21:45,740 --> 02:21:50,100
That took a week or so for the market and analysts and such to absorb.

1710
02:21:50,100 --> 02:22:17,200
And then rates kind of set you down, and then they actually ended up sort of, they went down after that after, but everybody kind of, I guess, figured out what they thought and some of it was that they didn't think that they would actually get implemented, right, I mean, that was a lot of the market reaction. So what I would say is even if there is some chaos happening after this election or another market event over the next year, we have the ability to navigate that somewhat unless we enter into a period that we've candidly haven't seen.

1711
02:22:17,200 --> 02:22:23,680
even in the financial crisis in 2008, you know, it took some time, but the market eventually

1712
02:22:24,300 --> 02:22:27,120
functioned, again, you know, people's old bonds, people bought it.

1713
02:22:27,120 --> 02:22:32,460
Well, and I guess my question is, has there been any consideration of doing the whole

1714
02:22:32,460 --> 02:22:39,420
bond package now and sub-splitting it into to avoid whatever that uncertainty is next year?

1715
02:22:39,520 --> 02:22:45,500
The challenge there becomes the spend-down requirement by the IRS, so to issue tax exempt bonds

1716
02:22:45,500 --> 02:22:54,260
Kim, if all there's no, is going to make the city sign a document that says it has a reasonable expectation to spend 85% of proceeds within three years.

1717
02:22:54,800 --> 02:23:01,800
The challenge is lumping in the Civic Center project with where the city is at right now in the process.

1718
02:23:02,720 --> 02:23:06,760
We, the city can't reasonably make that expectation sitting here today.

1719
02:23:07,340 --> 02:23:09,140
Thank you.

1720
02:23:10,120 --> 02:23:10,860
Councillor Bullier.

1721
02:23:11,520 --> 02:23:12,060
Thank you, Mayor.

1722
02:23:12,620 --> 02:23:16,080
And it's pretty every time we see you give us worse and worse news.

1723
02:23:16,220 --> 02:23:16,620
I know.

1724
02:23:17,000 --> 02:23:18,240
I need to stop talking about that.

1725
02:23:18,340 --> 02:23:19,720
I think that's all just welcome back.

1726
02:23:20,000 --> 02:23:23,480
Thank you so much.

1727
02:23:23,480 --> 02:23:25,080
No, thank you so much.

1728
02:23:25,220 --> 02:23:27,380
I really appreciate the questions that I'm in service.

1729
02:23:28,320 --> 02:23:32,420
So I want to make sure I understand the 85% and maybe this is a question for Kim Butler.

1730
02:23:32,700 --> 02:23:33,040
No, instead.

1731
02:23:34,200 --> 02:23:37,440
But if we were to not be able to make that, what happens?

1732
02:23:37,880 --> 02:23:40,500
Yeah, so Kim can provide more detail.

1733
02:23:40,500 --> 02:23:52,120
So in this it does happen that they people don't meet that spend down requirement right like you have delayed COVID was a great example where most folks at issued bonds in 2019 did not meet that requirement because I mean you can

1734
02:23:52,120 --> 02:23:54,660
advise flies you could write everything kind of came to a halt.

1735
02:23:54,940 --> 02:24:04,060
It's really more of a reasonable list test and so like the example I always give is if you are certifying on a tax form for Kim that you can build a high school in six months

1736
02:24:04,060 --> 02:24:10,140
like that's not reasonable. And the challenge really becomes when if the city's bonds get

1737
02:24:10,140 --> 02:24:15,240
audited by the IRS, they can make a determination of taxability, which creates a tax

1738
02:24:15,240 --> 02:24:20,700
that issue for your bonds, which is not going to be great for you or the investors that

1739
02:24:20,700 --> 02:24:28,680
purchase them. And so that it's not like on the third year anniversary, if you didn't spend

1740
02:24:28,680 --> 02:24:34,960
85% now all of a sudden your bonds are taxable or they, you know, have a sticker next to

1741
02:24:34,960 --> 02:24:35,180
them.

1742
02:24:35,340 --> 02:24:36,400
So people don't buy them or whatever.

1743
02:24:36,800 --> 02:24:41,140
It's truly just essentially so that you don't have over-issue.

1744
02:24:41,280 --> 02:24:48,260
And so IRS doesn't want you issuing more than you need to to be able to earn investment

1745
02:24:48,260 --> 02:24:50,840
earnings on those proceeds.

1746
02:24:52,780 --> 02:24:53,140
Thank you.

1747
02:24:53,260 --> 02:24:57,180
And then my one other question I think is more per staff related to the very beginning

1748
02:24:57,180 --> 02:24:59,960
in the presentation, just with tremendous depreciation.

1749
02:25:04,900 --> 02:25:15,640
I guess the question I had is, when we received feedback from different cohorts and aspects of the community, how we're balancing and prioritizing.

1750
02:25:16,500 --> 02:25:21,340
Again, abstain presentation. I know a lot of work has gone into pivot given the feedback we've heard from the public.

1751
02:25:22,520 --> 02:25:27,960
So, community feedback is one aspect of everything we're balancing, you know, so we're

1752
02:25:27,960 --> 02:25:31,160
certainly looking at we have a budget that we're working within.

1753
02:25:32,200 --> 02:25:39,340
We have, you know, timelines, we have a fixed space spatial area that we're working within.

1754
02:25:39,600 --> 02:25:41,020
We have, you know, the footprint.

1755
02:25:42,020 --> 02:25:47,200
We have limitations to what we can, you know, realistically modify at the REC Center.

1756
02:25:47,200 --> 02:25:54,920
So we're really having these conversations with the community and looking at balancing the needs

1757
02:25:54,920 --> 02:26:01,940
of each of the different user groups and trying to address how can we ensure that everyone

1758
02:26:01,940 --> 02:26:11,660
in the community gets some additional needs, so I think we've heard from a lot of different

1759
02:26:11,660 --> 02:26:16,460
user groups and the first meeting that we had was really difficult and part of it is that

1760
02:26:16,460 --> 02:26:22,920
had some lack of clarity and communication with the older adults because they have the existing

1761
02:26:22,920 --> 02:26:26,760
center and we don't know yet what we're going to do there and I think a lot of that is

1762
02:26:26,760 --> 02:26:33,680
going to be ongoing conversation with you all about the operations of that building and

1763
02:26:33,680 --> 02:26:39,460
you know and what happens with the new facility and I also think the new you know the new

1764
02:26:39,460 --> 02:26:44,540
older adult center is it's going to be quite nice and it's going to have a lot to offer

1765
02:26:44,540 --> 02:26:50,700
And so I think we're going to, you know, we might have to see what happens when that opens and what that looks like.

1766
02:26:51,520 --> 02:26:56,800
We don't have staffing budget at this time. So I think there's a lot of things we're going to have to look at as we move forward.

1767
02:26:57,500 --> 02:27:02,780
So I think we've heard a lot around that. We've heard a lot from families. We've heard a lot around fitness.

1768
02:27:03,180 --> 02:27:12,380
And so I think we're taking in all these pieces and we're trying to really look at how we can meet each of those different needs to the best of, you know,

1769
02:27:12,940 --> 02:27:16,600
with our design team and within all of those other constraints.

1770
02:27:17,460 --> 02:27:19,640
So it's just the sign-going conversation with the community.

1771
02:27:20,000 --> 02:27:20,440
Thank you.

1772
02:27:20,460 --> 02:27:24,140
I really appreciate that a concern I had early on in the summer

1773
02:27:24,140 --> 02:27:26,840
was would only this weeky wheels get the grease.

1774
02:27:27,160 --> 02:27:30,640
So I really appreciate that there's this very broad effort

1775
02:27:30,640 --> 02:27:32,420
to make sure all the different user groups are considered.

1776
02:27:33,200 --> 02:27:34,300
You teed up my final question,

1777
02:27:34,560 --> 02:27:36,720
which is that there is this concern,

1778
02:27:36,800 --> 02:27:37,900
particularly among the older adults,

1779
02:27:37,900 --> 02:27:41,600
about the potential closure of the senior center on Iowa.

1780
02:27:42,760 --> 02:27:44,260
I just want to make sure I heard you correctly.

1781
02:27:44,440 --> 02:27:47,560
As of now, we have no plans to close that down.

1782
02:27:48,100 --> 02:27:51,900
We have no, we have not had any conversations with Council about that.

1783
02:27:53,400 --> 02:27:55,740
I, you know, Director Heizel is working with her team.

1784
02:27:56,000 --> 02:27:58,120
They're looking at all the programmatic pieces.

1785
02:27:58,440 --> 02:28:00,720
We're looking at programming at the new facility,

1786
02:28:01,080 --> 02:28:03,700
programming at the old facility, sort of what we have,

1787
02:28:03,900 --> 02:28:05,260
what we need, we're looking at numbers.

1788
02:28:05,260 --> 02:28:08,080
So we will need to have those conversations with you

1789
02:28:08,080 --> 02:28:09,380
about what that all looks like.

1790
02:28:09,920 --> 02:28:11,120
And I look forward to those conversations

1791
02:28:11,120 --> 02:28:12,420
with whatever appropriate attack.

1792
02:28:12,700 --> 02:28:15,040
I guess maybe my request would be in our communications

1793
02:28:15,040 --> 02:28:16,660
to just kind of continue to hit.

1794
02:28:16,860 --> 02:28:19,500
There is no plan currently, because if I,

1795
02:28:19,500 --> 02:28:20,760
as I was listening to you earlier,

1796
02:28:21,140 --> 02:28:22,480
and if I wasn't tracking this very closely,

1797
02:28:22,540 --> 02:28:23,780
I could see, ooh, wait a minute.

1798
02:28:23,940 --> 02:28:25,540
Maybe they are thinking about doing that.

1799
02:28:25,580 --> 02:28:28,260
So I just want to make sure that we have no plans currently,

1800
02:28:29,140 --> 02:28:30,520
but as the new center comes online

1801
02:28:30,520 --> 02:28:31,780
to several years down the road,

1802
02:28:31,980 --> 02:28:34,180
then maybe we'll revisit it, but as of now.

1803
02:28:34,180 --> 02:28:35,760
I just want to make that ask.

1804
02:28:36,360 --> 02:28:37,120
Thank you.

1805
02:28:37,220 --> 02:28:38,120
Thank you, thank you very much.

1806
02:28:38,440 --> 02:28:39,080
Councilor General?

1807
02:28:40,940 --> 02:28:45,260
I think we've had a lot of public engagement

1808
02:28:45,260 --> 02:28:47,880
on the Brexit make sense.

1809
02:28:48,480 --> 02:28:50,900
We've not talked about the public engagement

1810
02:28:50,900 --> 02:28:53,820
on the service center, but you raised it in your presentation

1811
02:28:53,820 --> 02:28:54,480
tonight.

1812
02:28:56,200 --> 02:28:58,740
And there is a residential neighborhood immediately

1813
02:28:58,740 --> 02:29:03,080
to the west of that development project.

1814
02:29:03,080 --> 02:29:05,960
And if this were a regular development project,

1815
02:29:06,420 --> 02:29:08,380
what would that public engagement look like?

1816
02:29:09,080 --> 02:29:11,620
Are we obligated to kind of follow that process?

1817
02:29:11,820 --> 02:29:13,140
Where there's a neighborhood meeting?

1818
02:29:14,560 --> 02:29:17,300
And if there's going to be a site plan that comes to council,

1819
02:29:17,960 --> 02:29:19,480
and those folks are going to have an ability

1820
02:29:20,440 --> 02:29:21,920
to raise their concerns.

1821
02:29:22,840 --> 02:29:25,180
Yeah, so it's a good question.

1822
02:29:26,260 --> 02:29:30,880
And we have talked about with some of the things we're looking at.

1823
02:29:30,880 --> 02:29:33,620
I don't know that we foresee any major changes

1824
02:29:33,620 --> 02:29:37,840
with the configuration, but if we do have

1825
02:29:37,840 --> 02:29:41,760
that access point in the south, if we enlarge it

1826
02:29:41,760 --> 02:29:44,040
so that we have vehicles coming in,

1827
02:29:44,180 --> 02:29:45,580
we will be doing a traffic study.

1828
02:29:46,160 --> 02:29:47,380
And so we'll have a traffic study

1829
02:29:47,380 --> 02:29:50,040
that we have information to share with you

1830
02:29:50,040 --> 02:29:54,180
with the community and to inform kind of

1831
02:29:54,180 --> 02:29:56,660
if there are gonna be any changes or impacts

1832
02:29:56,660 --> 02:29:59,520
and if those changes are impacts, necessary.

1833
02:30:00,000 --> 02:30:29,880
necessitate any operational changes there, or, you know, anything like that. So that would definitely, we would want to have community conversation around that. I think our starting point for the conversation is to the community that were, we're doing these improvements in renovations that they know that the service centers there now, from an, again, from an operational perspective, there won't be major impacts to them, adding facilities as for staff, and adding open space is,

1834
02:30:30,580 --> 02:30:35,520
five or six staff so it's not it's not really a major change in terms of the huge

1835
02:30:35,520 --> 02:30:40,340
operational impacts we're not adding giant field staff teams there so it'll

1836
02:30:40,340 --> 02:30:44,680
really be business as usual to what they're see they'll see but there will be

1837
02:30:44,680 --> 02:30:48,980
construction happening and you know there will be a new building being built

1838
02:30:48,980 --> 02:30:53,120
there that'll be fleet so just so that they know you know this is what's gonna happen

1839
02:30:53,120 --> 02:30:58,060
on site we have that fence there that is not in great condition and so we're talking

1840
02:30:58,060 --> 02:31:03,140
about do we need to improve that fence and you know what can we do to kind of address that.

1841
02:31:03,280 --> 02:31:08,740
So I think our initial touch point is just to inform those neighbors about you know this is

1842
02:31:08,740 --> 02:31:13,500
what's happening and and you know here's what we're looking at and let them know kind of this is

1843
02:31:13,500 --> 02:31:18,120
what's happening and then and then start to kind of engage with them so that they are aware.

1844
02:31:19,940 --> 02:31:24,820
Thank you. That's our chosen. I know we're supposed to be talking about issuing the bombs.

1845
02:31:25,720 --> 02:31:39,940
But I did have a couple of points that I would like further information on for our future meeting about the BBRC, which is how does the group exercise space that we have?

1846
02:31:40,020 --> 02:31:47,180
We have several different sort of new spaces. How does the largest space that we have compared to what we have now?

1847
02:31:47,180 --> 02:31:51,860
how many more people does it serve so in the future if you could answer that for me.

1848
02:31:51,940 --> 02:31:57,760
And then when I went to the community meeting one of the questions that was coming up with

1849
02:31:57,760 --> 02:32:03,860
is really a programming question but perhaps some guidance to how to answer this.

1850
02:32:04,100 --> 02:32:10,320
So there's this very large room in the senior wing that could hold the very large fitness class.

1851
02:32:10,660 --> 02:32:16,240
But there's a presumption that seniors would have priority for those facilities because it's

1852
02:32:16,240 --> 02:32:19,500
more of the senior side and not the rec center side.

1853
02:32:20,120 --> 02:32:24,180
So having some general guidance about who gets to decide,

1854
02:32:24,740 --> 02:32:26,680
like, I have a really popular fitness lesson.

1855
02:32:26,840 --> 02:32:28,800
I'm going to use that facility, you know?

1856
02:32:29,360 --> 02:32:33,260
And do I get to or do the seniors have first dips on it?

1857
02:32:33,460 --> 02:32:35,340
And that makes a difference

1858
02:32:35,340 --> 02:32:39,320
because the way that those fitness rooms

1859
02:32:39,320 --> 02:32:44,360
are currently configured, there's not a real giant room,

1860
02:32:44,360 --> 02:32:46,580
there's several smaller groups.

1861
02:32:47,440 --> 02:32:50,320
And if there is not access to that larger room

1862
02:32:50,320 --> 02:32:52,700
for some of the more popular fitness classes,

1863
02:32:53,380 --> 02:32:56,000
we may have a problem, and so I'm just,

1864
02:32:56,320 --> 02:32:59,000
those are a couple of things I would like further information

1865
02:32:59,000 --> 02:33:01,480
on in the future, and I know we're not supposed to be talking

1866
02:33:01,480 --> 02:33:02,280
about that now.

1867
02:33:03,440 --> 02:33:04,820
Yep, we can definitely talk about that.

1868
02:33:04,940 --> 02:33:08,220
Okay, Melissa and her team are working on those programmatic issues

1869
02:33:08,220 --> 02:33:09,040
and ideas.

1870
02:33:09,960 --> 02:33:10,060
Yeah.

1871
02:33:10,160 --> 02:33:11,660
Perfect, any other questions from Council?

1872
02:33:11,660 --> 02:33:14,980
If not, there is motion language on the screen.

1873
02:33:15,320 --> 02:33:15,660
Thank you.

1874
02:33:16,500 --> 02:33:17,700
I'm going to approve them.

1875
02:33:17,700 --> 02:33:21,280
First reading ordinance number 16 series, 2026,

1876
02:33:21,740 --> 02:33:25,580
authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds.

1877
02:33:27,700 --> 02:33:28,040
Second.

1878
02:33:28,980 --> 02:33:29,120
Great.

1879
02:33:29,220 --> 02:33:29,600
We have a motion.

1880
02:33:29,760 --> 02:33:30,600
We have a second.

1881
02:33:30,980 --> 02:33:32,360
Any discussion on this motion?

1882
02:33:34,240 --> 02:33:34,720
Seeing none.

1883
02:33:34,840 --> 02:33:35,860
I was in favor say aye.

1884
02:33:36,840 --> 02:33:37,280
Anyone opposed?

1885
02:33:38,660 --> 02:33:39,080
None opposed?

1886
02:33:39,160 --> 02:33:40,060
That passed unanimously.

1887
02:33:41,260 --> 02:33:42,400
Thank you for that.

1888
02:33:42,400 --> 02:33:49,880
Let me move on to our final agenda items tonight, which is a purchasing policy update.

1889
02:33:52,100 --> 02:33:53,300
Turn it over to our CFO.

1890
02:33:53,540 --> 02:33:55,060
So yeah, good evening again.

1891
02:33:55,600 --> 02:33:57,240
This is purchasing policy update.

1892
02:33:57,380 --> 02:34:00,380
We're going to talk about Oregon's number 17 series 2026.

1893
02:34:01,700 --> 02:34:05,960
Myself and November the city attorney and I'm probably the deputy attorney as well,

1894
02:34:06,100 --> 02:34:07,240
help with where these documents.

1895
02:34:08,400 --> 02:34:13,260
So the objective and agenda this evening is to consider approval of Oregon's number 17 series 26.

1896
02:34:13,260 --> 02:34:22,800
to amend chapter 44 and chapter 5 of the municipal code regarding purchasing procedures and city manager authority to negotiate an execute certain contracts.

1897
02:34:23,400 --> 02:34:30,860
So we'll give you a little background, an ordinance overview, and then offer any time for questions and discussion and then propose motion language.

1898
02:34:32,440 --> 02:34:41,640
So just some quick background here proposed ordinance will update purchasing limits within the city's code of ordinances to better support the implementation of upcoming bond funded capital projects.

1899
02:34:41,640 --> 02:34:48,260
It's also intended to align city purchasing authority with best practices and improve the efficiency of contract approvals.

1900
02:34:50,100 --> 02:34:54,780
So in overview, so based on the June 23rd, 2026 City Council workshop discussion,

1901
02:34:56,200 --> 02:34:59,900
we set the rules, revisions to chapter 5 and 44 of the municipal.

1902
02:35:00,000 --> 02:35:06,960
Code, including the following. Section 44, dash 42, which was required as competitive bidding for purchases

1903
02:35:06,960 --> 02:35:14,780
above 100,000 versus the current 50,025,000 limits. It also meant section 5, dash 2, dash 5,3,

1904
02:35:15,000 --> 02:35:20,020
which authorizes the city manager to negotiate an execute contracts for the following. So, a purchase

1905
02:35:20,020 --> 02:35:27,360
of tangible property purchases or professional services up to 250,000. That's currently that current limit is 100,000

1906
02:35:27,360 --> 02:35:32,060
and a capital improvement project up to the amount of 1 million, that's currently set again the

1907
02:35:32,060 --> 02:35:37,780
$100,000 limit applies here, there's no distinction between capital and other services in a current program.

1908
02:35:39,560 --> 02:35:46,330
And I'm happy to answer any questions and I have a couple examples of some projects that

1909
02:35:47,430 --> 02:35:53,150
recently came to you for approval that would no longer come to City Council under these new limits.

1910
02:35:53,150 --> 02:35:59,770
So B2 excavating, it was 120th Street Ditch repairs for 123,000 so that would no

1911
02:35:59,770 --> 02:36:05,270
lot of come to you. West Coast systems, it was for basically an HVAC, it's called the

1912
02:36:05,270 --> 02:36:10,070
mixed air unit at the golf course, for $119,978.

1913
02:36:12,250 --> 02:36:19,430
Yarrow Park with a contract with A to Z recreation for $170,000, DS construction group,

1914
02:36:23,130 --> 02:36:23,130
that's

1915
02:36:23,130 --> 02:36:30,770
So that was for 736,000, so those are largely capital, a good example of that 250,000 limit.

1916
02:36:31,430 --> 02:36:37,910
We have an annual lawn mowing contract, which is 120,000, which would not come to council moving forward if these limits change.

1917
02:36:38,410 --> 02:36:44,870
So that's just some examples and happy to answer any questions, as well as RC attorney staff.

1918
02:36:46,820 --> 02:36:48,040
Councillor Chuch.

1919
02:36:48,040 --> 02:36:59,160
I thank you for bringing those examples that really helps to put some mindset around what we're changing, and I guess with regard to the year-up park.

1920
02:37:00,520 --> 02:37:01,360
Garra, y'all.

1921
02:37:03,180 --> 02:37:06,360
If somebody, for example, would live near that park, said, you know what?

1922
02:37:06,380 --> 02:37:13,040
My child is disabled, and I don't think this is an adequate disability-friendly park.

1923
02:37:15,060 --> 02:37:20,820
They can come to us as counsel and speak to that, but if we're doing this new contract

1924
02:37:20,820 --> 02:37:26,680
process, is there an opportunity for somebody in the public who feels left out or doesn't

1925
02:37:26,680 --> 02:37:27,460
like something?

1926
02:37:27,460 --> 02:37:31,300
How would they engage under those circumstances?

1927
02:37:33,400 --> 02:37:38,400
They wouldn't have any, there would be nothing in the public eye when they wouldn't have

1928
02:37:38,400 --> 02:37:41,180
an opportunity to speak to what's happening.

1929
02:37:42,750 --> 02:37:53,430
Yeah, I mean it would be the project would be below the limits, so typically we would go through our internal process and follow our policy procedures for procurement.

1930
02:37:53,990 --> 02:37:56,430
I don't know if you want to add anything, Marilyn.

1931
02:38:00,200 --> 02:38:09,800
So I guess I would add that putting contracts on the agenda does provide public notice of how the city is spending funds for certain projects.

1932
02:38:09,800 --> 02:38:29,080
It might provide notice of that project, but it's, there's internal city processes for how those contracts are sought and rewarded and awarded, I should say, and then the form of the contracts that doesn't usually involve public inputs.

1933
02:38:29,540 --> 02:38:37,240
I understand your point completely. It's just somebody I could sort of out a project. They probably go to staff. What's that starts?

1934
02:38:37,240 --> 02:38:40,960
We today in Dr. Haisel, can talk a little bit more about what we typically do engagement with

1935
02:38:40,960 --> 02:38:44,780
Parkley Placement anyway and ask community members what they are interested in seeing.

1936
02:38:44,780 --> 02:38:46,180
That's how some of the year will work.

1937
02:38:46,600 --> 02:38:52,500
Well, but that's just an example of getting taken in away from council in some way.

1938
02:38:52,600 --> 02:38:58,280
I mean, not that I'm arguing that we shouldn't do this, but taking it away from council takes

1939
02:38:58,280 --> 02:39:04,440
away the public input opportunity where somebody doesn't like something we're doing or does

1940
02:39:04,440 --> 02:39:07,540
like if they have an opportunity to engage with us,

1941
02:39:07,700 --> 02:39:09,860
which if it's a staff level decision

1942
02:39:10,560 --> 02:39:13,680
isn't open to the public and there's no engagement

1943
02:39:13,680 --> 02:39:17,040
from them about, you know, we like this or we don't.

1944
02:39:17,240 --> 02:39:18,660
Cause that is that correct?

1945
02:39:21,940 --> 02:39:24,660
There will be correct unless staff makes a decision

1946
02:39:24,660 --> 02:39:28,860
to go do engagement before they

1947
02:39:30,760 --> 02:39:32,660
or finalize the contract.

1948
02:39:33,040 --> 02:39:34,700
But that's not a public hearing

1949
02:39:34,700 --> 02:39:36,660
where anybody and their brother can come.

1950
02:39:37,040 --> 02:39:41,480
And so that's why only has, there's no problem here with me

1951
02:39:41,480 --> 02:39:44,040
feeling lack of trust in the staff.

1952
02:39:44,580 --> 02:39:48,280
There is some concern on my part that we've taken away the opportunity

1953
02:39:48,280 --> 02:39:52,080
for public engagement at these levels.

1954
02:39:53,240 --> 02:39:56,600
And a million dollars at a capital improvement project

1955
02:39:56,600 --> 02:39:59,480
is a pretty significant thing.

1956
02:39:59,480 --> 02:39:59,980
And I...

1957
02:40:00,000 --> 02:40:26,800
I just am wondering, is there a middle road where it could be noticed on our agenda with opportunity, if anybody wanted to speak to it, where we did have to decide, but there were opportunities for public engagement and I don't want to, you know, I know we've talked about this before and this is throwing a monkey wrench into it.

1958
02:40:26,800 --> 02:40:34,800
But I feel like one of the things that's so good about Lafayette is that we do make a strong

1959
02:40:34,800 --> 02:40:42,300
effort to include the public and things and with this decision, we would be excluding the

1960
02:40:42,300 --> 02:40:44,760
public from more of these decisions.

1961
02:40:46,120 --> 02:40:52,280
If I could, it's not necessarily the decision making, it's also the public notice function.

1962
02:40:52,280 --> 02:40:56,900
Like, that cherrywood project that you mentioned, director Balsett, that's my street.

1963
02:40:57,060 --> 02:40:57,980
I live on that street.

1964
02:40:58,460 --> 02:41:01,980
That project was thought to be a short project.

1965
02:41:02,360 --> 02:41:08,720
It turned into a six-month construction project in my neighborhood.

1966
02:41:09,520 --> 02:41:14,740
And so the public notice function of letting that neighborhood know

1967
02:41:14,740 --> 02:41:17,820
that this project is taking place is significant.

1968
02:41:17,820 --> 02:41:21,680
So I do appreciate your suggestion about

1969
02:41:21,680 --> 02:41:28,220
informing the public when these kinds of projects go on, even if we don't necessarily as

1970
02:41:28,220 --> 02:41:34,260
a council decide on that, but to have that information actually put out there into the

1971
02:41:34,260 --> 02:41:41,060
public realm for purposes of transparency and notice, I think I would support something

1972
02:41:41,060 --> 02:41:42,340
like that.

1973
02:41:44,180 --> 02:41:44,660
Councillor Roller.

1974
02:41:45,140 --> 02:41:45,500
Thank you, Mayor.

1975
02:41:46,720 --> 02:41:50,260
I'm a little confused because I agree with the point you're making, but I didn't interpret

1976
02:41:50,900 --> 02:41:52,740
the presentation that way.

1977
02:41:52,740 --> 02:41:57,780
So I'd love to hear more, because my understanding is there's the 250 for the tangible property.

1978
02:41:58,300 --> 02:42:04,000
There's the 1 million for the Capital Project and we discuss the numbers, Mayor.

1979
02:42:04,600 --> 02:42:08,640
But then what you're talking about in terms of things underneath whatever threshold is established.

1980
02:42:10,240 --> 02:42:18,320
The making notice, I would presume that the city continues to conduct regular public notice regardless of the threshold.

1981
02:42:18,520 --> 02:42:19,500
That would be my assumption.

1982
02:42:20,940 --> 02:42:23,040
I would assume that, too.

1983
02:42:23,640 --> 02:42:24,360
I would hope that.

1984
02:42:24,600 --> 02:42:29,780
But it sounds like there's no requirement for that notice under this new guidance.

1985
02:42:30,040 --> 02:42:35,740
The requirement under the current system is that the notice comes in that it's put on

1986
02:42:35,740 --> 02:42:39,860
our consent agenda, it's listed in the Council packet.

1987
02:42:41,020 --> 02:42:46,680
And so someone who's paying attention and is interested could find that information, but

1988
02:42:46,680 --> 02:42:51,100
under the proposed system, we don't currently see

1989
02:42:51,100 --> 02:42:53,800
you or talk about, you know, I don't know,

1990
02:42:54,280 --> 02:42:57,200
and you know, a 10K project that's not really impacting,

1991
02:42:57,380 --> 02:42:59,920
but when you're getting up to these, you know,

1992
02:43:00,000 --> 02:43:02,280
250,000 dollar project, maybe that's significant.

1993
02:43:02,400 --> 02:43:04,080
It's going to impact your local park,

1994
02:43:04,420 --> 02:43:07,460
a million dollar project that's going to disrupt, you know,

1995
02:43:07,560 --> 02:43:09,880
road service in your neighborhood for six months.

1996
02:43:10,540 --> 02:43:12,860
Like these are things that I think warrant

1997
02:43:13,460 --> 02:43:15,720
some kind of public notice function.

1998
02:43:15,720 --> 02:43:17,680
I greatly appreciate that point.

1999
02:43:17,840 --> 02:43:20,820
I think the question of this raises for me is,

2000
02:43:21,020 --> 02:43:24,260
when we established the current 100,000 threshold,

2001
02:43:25,620 --> 02:43:28,040
when did we establish the current 100,000 threshold?

2002
02:43:28,760 --> 02:43:29,220
2019.

2003
02:43:30,680 --> 02:43:33,400
So 100K then is not 100K today.

2004
02:43:33,960 --> 02:43:36,920
And so considering how home values have doubled

2005
02:43:36,920 --> 02:43:39,240
in a lot of the country considering what things cost,

2006
02:43:39,500 --> 02:43:40,580
I kind of look at the 250,

2007
02:43:41,160 --> 02:43:43,400
and I know it isn't exactly their gone.

2008
02:43:44,020 --> 02:43:48,920
But 250, you meet seems reasonable relative to 2019, I take that point.

2009
02:43:49,720 --> 02:43:52,980
I'm certainly comfortable with adding some kind of a heads-up function,

2010
02:43:53,160 --> 02:43:56,660
but what I really don't want to do is slow down

2011
02:43:56,660 --> 02:43:59,300
staff's ability to move out on projects,

2012
02:44:01,260 --> 02:44:04,100
particularly considering I think for project like what you're talking about,

2013
02:44:04,300 --> 02:44:09,860
there should be notice of that neighborhood regardless of whether it's a 10K project or a 10K project.

2014
02:44:09,860 --> 02:44:13,830
Yeah, and then the notice that is currently as like seven days

2015
02:44:15,880 --> 02:44:18,510
They tell you when construction is happening and it's

2016
02:44:19,880 --> 02:44:25,710
It's a nice example thing, but that seems like a different issue. Yeah, it's nice to just have a little longer heads up for these

2017
02:44:26,580 --> 02:44:36,610
Projects like a million dollars going from 100,000 to a million is it is not a 100,000 to 200 so I think it's and I don't know that it changes my view on

2018
02:44:36,610 --> 02:44:40,090
the ordinance and making these changes I think they're all reasonable.

2019
02:44:40,770 --> 02:44:50,930
It's just a separate ask that would be nice if the city would engage in developing maybe it's a portal or maybe it's a, you know, just something to kind of list these big projects.

2020
02:44:51,590 --> 02:44:53,230
Yeah, so I'm not trying to guide us here.

2021
02:44:53,610 --> 02:44:59,770
I think it's interesting and I appreciate everything that's being said just to be clear, we already have this, we just have it at different numbers, right?

2022
02:45:00,000 --> 02:45:04,620
We're talking about anything under 100,000 right now to not have that. So I think there's two conversations

2023
02:45:04,620 --> 02:45:10,240
going on. The first is I see council being generally supportive of what's in front of us. However,

2024
02:45:10,600 --> 02:45:15,580
it's more of a communications thing. Right. More notice. And maybe now that if this past

2025
02:45:15,580 --> 02:45:22,560
is tonight, the projects that would have fallen to our agenda now don't because they're under

2026
02:45:22,560 --> 02:45:28,360
these new numbers. Maybe just have staff look at the potential different way of communicating this

2027
02:45:28,360 --> 02:45:30,860
to the communities that are in fact.

2028
02:45:32,460 --> 02:45:33,440
Did I get that right, Council?

2029
02:45:33,960 --> 02:45:34,220
Okay, Council.

2030
02:45:34,460 --> 02:45:37,600
I did have one more question about the competitive bidding,

2031
02:45:37,960 --> 02:45:39,300
just kind of to that previous point.

2032
02:45:39,380 --> 02:45:44,140
When was the 50,000 and 25,000 limit previously established?

2033
02:45:44,520 --> 02:45:46,080
Was it that kind of same time frame?

2034
02:45:48,820 --> 02:45:50,120
Maybe it's okay, so that's fine.

2035
02:45:50,460 --> 02:45:55,360
So we had the current 50,000 and 25,000 competitive bidding

2036
02:45:55,360 --> 02:45:59,120
that requirement, anything that's more than that requires that.

2037
02:45:59,120 --> 02:46:05,140
And then we're those $50-25,000 limits put into place that we're now asking to move to 100,000.

2038
02:46:06,800 --> 02:46:12,340
I know for certain, as are from the 4 or 2019, it could have been much longer than that, but I will get that answer.

2039
02:46:12,420 --> 02:46:18,120
I kind of got the impression that that's what that number came from.

2040
02:46:18,260 --> 02:46:20,240
So I have no concerns there.

2041
02:46:21,060 --> 02:46:24,240
I think just to wrap my mind around it, Mayor.

2042
02:46:24,240 --> 02:46:27,340
and Dr. CFO Balsek.

2043
02:46:27,900 --> 02:46:30,920
Our city's budget is north of a hundred million, right?

2044
02:46:32,160 --> 02:46:36,500
So, a hundred thousand dollars is 0.001.

2045
02:46:36,700 --> 02:46:37,660
There's two or three zeros.

2046
02:46:38,180 --> 02:46:39,700
So it's like an infinitesimal amount.

2047
02:46:39,860 --> 02:46:41,380
So I just want us to be very clear

2048
02:46:41,380 --> 02:46:43,960
that we're talking about an extremely small amount of money.

2049
02:46:44,480 --> 02:46:46,340
And so that's what I'm comfortable and excited

2050
02:46:46,340 --> 02:46:47,580
for the raising level.

2051
02:46:47,580 --> 02:46:49,660
But I really appreciate the concerns that you

2052
02:46:49,660 --> 02:46:50,760
have in Councillor Jensen have raised

2053
02:46:50,760 --> 02:46:52,180
in terms of notifying the public.

2054
02:46:52,180 --> 02:47:02,060
But 1 million is 1% right if we're 100 million budget and that's that's not a significant in my mind.

2055
02:47:06,000 --> 02:47:23,300
And I I I I'm just sort of struggling a little with that one because I think it is significant and I do think at some point in that process engaging the public in a conversation about whatever.

2056
02:47:23,300 --> 02:47:29,600
I'm thinking capital improvement project in particular, not so much services or contracts,

2057
02:47:30,060 --> 02:47:36,220
but something that changes the landscape in our community seems to gather a lot of attention

2058
02:47:36,220 --> 02:47:38,380
when we try to do that in our community.

2059
02:47:39,380 --> 02:47:45,840
So a million dollars there feels like something the public would be potentially not, you know,

2060
02:47:45,920 --> 02:47:49,920
but there would be potentially some people would be interested in talking to us about that.

2061
02:47:49,920 --> 02:47:57,140
So I'm happy to leave that up to staff to come back to us with ideas about how to engage around that.

2062
02:47:57,940 --> 02:48:07,700
We don't have to decide it tonight, but my particular concern is that one million capital, because that is the most significant.

2063
02:48:07,700 --> 02:48:07,840
Yeah.

2064
02:48:09,920 --> 02:48:10,260
Great.

2065
02:48:10,320 --> 02:48:10,980
Any other thoughts?

2066
02:48:11,400 --> 02:48:11,840
Any other notes?

2067
02:48:13,400 --> 02:48:13,880
Council?

2068
02:48:13,880 --> 02:48:14,700
Uh, for.

2069
02:48:14,920 --> 02:48:16,500
You're the greatest one to answer, Councillor.

2070
02:48:16,620 --> 02:48:18,420
You know, it's question about when the competitive

2071
02:48:18,420 --> 02:48:22,340
Bittyglomits were put in place in those state back to 2010.

2072
02:48:22,920 --> 02:48:24,740
So it's about 16 years old.

2073
02:48:25,180 --> 02:48:26,460
Sounds like it's time.

2074
02:48:27,120 --> 02:48:27,600
Mayor Pratum.

2075
02:48:28,260 --> 02:48:29,460
I'd like to make a motion.

2076
02:48:29,980 --> 02:48:30,140
Please.

2077
02:48:31,140 --> 02:48:34,700
I moved to approve on first reading ordinance number 17 series 2026.

2078
02:48:34,700 --> 02:48:40,980
26th Amendment, they are in a full three purchasing procedures of chapter 44 of finance and

2079
02:48:40,980 --> 02:48:48,740
article 2 of city administrator of chapter 5 administration of the code regarding city purchasing

2080
02:48:48,740 --> 02:48:56,400
procedures and city manager authority to negotiate and execute certain contracts and renembring

2081
02:48:56,400 --> 02:48:59,340
chapter 5 administration of the code.

2082
02:49:02,540 --> 02:49:07,400
The motion we have a second for purchasing policies update and any discussion on this motion.

2083
02:49:07,840 --> 02:49:16,800
Just to reiterate, Mayor, I think there's been some really interesting interventions from colleagues in terms of requesting it's not directing staff to have a notice feature.

2084
02:49:17,500 --> 02:49:20,680
I really appreciate that, but I'd love the one million to move this along.

2085
02:49:22,100 --> 02:49:22,800
Any further discussion?

2086
02:49:24,100 --> 02:49:25,540
Seeing none, all those in favor say aye.

2087
02:49:25,840 --> 02:49:26,180
Aye.

2088
02:49:26,440 --> 02:49:27,720
Anyone opposed saying no?

2089
02:49:27,940 --> 02:49:28,260
None opposed.

2090
02:49:28,460 --> 02:49:29,080
I passed unanimously.

2091
02:49:29,080 --> 02:49:35,180
Thank you. That concludes our regular business for tonight. We'll move on to staff reports,

2092
02:49:35,500 --> 02:49:37,140
beginning of course with our city attorney's report.

2093
02:49:37,660 --> 02:49:41,920
Thank you, Mayor, just a quick note for Council. Last Friday, I did send you all as well as

2094
02:49:41,920 --> 02:49:47,260
I'll say you employees and members of our boards and commissions are annual memo of the

2095
02:49:47,260 --> 02:49:52,140
city attorney's office regarding the Fair Campaign Practices Act, just regarding restrictions

2096
02:49:52,140 --> 02:49:57,020
that apply to use the public resources so I want to let you know that should be in your inboxes

2097
02:49:57,020 --> 02:49:59,420
and I would encourage you to review it and let me know if you have any questions.

2098
02:50:00,000 --> 02:50:16,840
I do have a question about that. So if I am going somewhere and I am identified as a Lafayette city council member in that meeting, which is maybe not city business, but a community meeting of some kind,

2099
02:50:19,580 --> 02:50:21,340
somebody asked me about

2100
02:50:23,160 --> 02:50:31,380
or anything on the ballot, what are my obligations when I'm, I'm not getting paid obviously

2101
02:50:31,380 --> 02:50:37,560
for that meeting, so it's not taxpayer dollars being used and it may be a meeting

2102
02:50:37,560 --> 02:50:42,940
like I went to a Tom Hall yesterday that disposed ballot measures, right?

2103
02:50:44,320 --> 02:50:50,480
And I can't remember if I had my name tag on or not, but it doesn't really matter,

2104
02:50:50,480 --> 02:51:06,540
I guess people know I'm on the Lafayette City Council, so but that's so my question then is if somebody is asking me something at a community meeting knowing I have Lafayette City Council, what is the restriction on that?

2105
02:51:07,480 --> 02:51:16,920
So as long as you are not acting in the course and scope of your official duties as a counselor you're attending town hall in your personal capacity.

2106
02:51:16,920 --> 02:51:30,840
So as long as you see a personal capacity on your own personal time and you're there for your own personal information and not because you've been set by the city council or you're doing so as a liaison for the city council or for the city.

2107
02:51:31,140 --> 02:51:35,900
You're on your own personal time and you can speak about measures now.

2108
02:51:36,960 --> 02:51:42,740
If it's a government meeting kind of like the town hall you're mentioning.

2109
02:51:43,400 --> 02:51:49,940
Just be clear that you're there in your personal capacity on your own time and you're speaking in that capacity as well

2110
02:51:49,940 --> 02:51:51,760
and not as a member of the Lafayette City Council.

2111
02:51:51,940 --> 02:52:00,820
So as long as you're clear about that and you're on your own time and not performing your duties as long as you're free to speak

2112
02:52:00,820 --> 02:52:03,920
about ballot measures and your personal opinions on those.

2113
02:52:04,500 --> 02:52:12,360
And I think that on your own time thing is a little unclear to me because I go to a lot of meetings

2114
02:52:12,360 --> 02:52:18,360
in the community and I go because I am a Lafayette City Council member and I want to know

2115
02:52:18,360 --> 02:52:26,940
about things going on in the community. So I am struggling a little bit with because I do think

2116
02:52:26,940 --> 02:52:34,940
people there see me with the hat of Lafayette City Council member. I do think they know at least

2117
02:52:34,940 --> 02:52:40,580
right now that the City of Lafayette has taken no positions on any ballot measures and that I am

2118
02:52:40,580 --> 02:52:43,740
representing any perspective of the city of

2119
02:52:43,740 --> 02:52:48,400
Ophia. So I think that's really clear at this point.

2120
02:52:49,640 --> 02:52:53,960
And so I just wanted, so right now it sounds like what I'm doing is okay.

2121
02:52:54,280 --> 02:53:01,280
So long as I don't sort of seem to imply that anything I'm saying or doing is an

2122
02:53:01,280 --> 02:53:07,460
official city of Ophia act or persuasion or anything like that.

2123
02:53:07,460 --> 02:53:10,940
and that you're not there wherever you are on city business, right?

2124
02:53:11,360 --> 02:53:13,620
Even though you're you're going there to get information.

2125
02:53:13,620 --> 02:53:19,920
And that's a part of that's a little touchy because I feel like everything I do that's a community

2126
02:53:19,920 --> 02:53:26,040
or a internet activity in some way is city business, you know, right?

2127
02:53:26,840 --> 02:53:32,660
Well, so just to answer, let's just let you know, and the memo says this that city attorney's office

2128
02:53:32,660 --> 02:53:37,120
is here to assist. So continue to reach out to me and we can discuss any specific

2129
02:53:37,120 --> 02:53:38,920
situations or concerns about.

2130
02:53:39,280 --> 02:53:40,380
Great. Thank you.

2131
02:53:40,580 --> 02:53:42,080
Moving on to our city managers report.

2132
02:53:46,590 --> 02:53:47,430
Good evening, Council.

2133
02:53:48,310 --> 02:53:50,650
Mayor, thank you for tonight.

2134
02:53:51,250 --> 02:53:54,010
I just want to say passing those bonds is the largest bond,

2135
02:53:54,530 --> 02:53:56,310
and it seems like just rudimentary,

2136
02:53:56,450 --> 02:53:57,310
but thank you for doing that.

2137
02:53:57,390 --> 02:53:59,930
I think it's going to be a huge community asset and project.

2138
02:54:00,530 --> 02:54:03,130
So that's a big thing that Council just did tonight.

2139
02:54:04,090 --> 02:54:10,330
We, you move on with, but I just wanted to say thank you for Council support on that and all the staff work.

2140
02:54:11,250 --> 02:54:15,090
going forward. Some of you guys may have heard Sundance is coming to Boulder.

2141
02:54:16,030 --> 02:54:19,270
And so I know that there's been a lot of talk about different communities and what we're doing

2142
02:54:19,270 --> 02:54:22,390
and we're going to be talking about a short term festival license here shortly,

2143
02:54:22,670 --> 02:54:26,460
but we wanted to say that we just launched Soft Launch today because it's still in progress.

2144
02:54:27,170 --> 02:54:33,070
Kind of a hug for Sundance resources at the Lafayette CEOgov.backslash Sundance.

2145
02:54:33,250 --> 02:54:37,270
So we are going to be having this one stop shop pointing people to here.

2146
02:54:37,270 --> 02:54:42,810
It'll have a variety of resources like how to write your home, what a business is doing.

2147
02:54:43,030 --> 02:54:47,410
We're going to have the GDA's working on a different kind of passport programs throughout

2148
02:54:47,410 --> 02:54:47,770
it.

2149
02:54:48,530 --> 02:54:49,490
So, check that out.

2150
02:54:49,670 --> 02:54:55,350
A lot of things are still kind of under construction, but we are excited to see how we can

2151
02:54:55,350 --> 02:54:59,850
benefit from increased kind of regional participation while supporting our local businesses.

2152
02:55:00,000 --> 02:55:07,080
And kind of promoting Lafayette as the artsy little sister of Boulder, and so having folks come to that.

2153
02:55:08,420 --> 02:55:18,660
Okay, yep. One thing a couple of people have asked me is how to volunteer, so if you could put a link to, I know there's information on how to volunteer on the summons.

2154
02:55:19,260 --> 02:55:21,840
If you could share that link with folks, I think it'd be open.

2155
02:55:22,040 --> 02:55:25,020
Yeah, if it's not on there already, and it's got a whole lot on there already.

2156
02:55:25,020 --> 02:55:26,740
So, okay, that's great.

2157
02:55:27,280 --> 02:55:32,060
And then, you heard tonight, the pocket park survey is open, it opened yesterday, and so

2158
02:55:32,060 --> 02:55:35,260
it's on Lafayette, Los Angeles, it closes on Thursday, September 17th.

2159
02:55:35,940 --> 02:55:42,400
So, we are not asking necessarily people to rank their choices, but really kind of what resonates

2160
02:55:42,400 --> 02:55:44,420
with those four different options that are provided.

2161
02:55:44,640 --> 02:55:49,460
We will then come back to council likely your second meeting on October once we compile all

2162
02:55:49,460 --> 02:55:54,240
those, and the choice will be up to council at that point in time, but we are really excited

2163
02:55:54,240 --> 02:56:01,880
get that going? Is there a timeline for when the park is supposed to be completed?

2164
02:56:02,400 --> 02:56:06,440
I believe it's late fall for a substantial completion.

2165
02:56:06,920 --> 02:56:11,280
Yeah, so it's kind of in that same time frame. Yeah, we'd like to have the name kind of wrapped up

2166
02:56:11,280 --> 02:56:18,520
around then, so we can do a fun opening ceremony. We also had a very successful board commission

2167
02:56:18,520 --> 02:56:23,760
and can you open house about 30 people attended last week already?

2168
02:56:24,240 --> 02:56:30,100
Applications close Friday, September 18th, please check out online for those various openings.

2169
02:56:31,160 --> 02:56:35,460
And then finally, please join us for an art on the street walking tour.

2170
02:56:35,760 --> 02:56:40,580
So it's a tour guide if I remember so the public art committee has about an hour and a half

2171
02:56:40,580 --> 02:56:46,160
and covers about a mile and a half of public line baseline and Emma, they begin the tour outside

2172
02:56:46,160 --> 02:56:49,580
that can be arts collective, check out online

2173
02:56:49,580 --> 02:56:52,320
under our events to register, that's highly encouraged.

2174
02:56:53,000 --> 02:56:54,940
But the first one will be September 19th,

2175
02:56:55,040 --> 02:56:57,600
and then there will be one on October 25th

2176
02:56:57,600 --> 02:57:00,200
that I'll remind the community about as well.

2177
02:57:01,080 --> 02:57:02,420
And then if you notice in the packet,

2178
02:57:02,900 --> 02:57:03,940
I have two pages of look ahead

2179
02:57:03,940 --> 02:57:07,060
because we're starting to kind of get into really busy seasons

2180
02:57:07,060 --> 02:57:08,380
so I wanted to give some awareness

2181
02:57:08,380 --> 02:57:10,120
of what's coming up over the next two months,

2182
02:57:10,400 --> 02:57:11,380
versus just the next month.

2183
02:57:11,580 --> 02:57:13,940
So September 9th, you will be having your joint workshop

2184
02:57:13,940 --> 02:57:19,100
with the Planning Commission on the Land Use Code as a side note the working group is meeting

2185
02:57:19,100 --> 02:57:25,080
tomorrow and so we will have some information provided from the working group to share with you

2186
02:57:25,080 --> 02:57:31,100
next week. September 15th again we will do a presentation first on the short term rental festival

2187
02:57:31,100 --> 02:57:37,100
license so we'll provide kind of what our current short term licenses, what this festival license

2188
02:57:37,100 --> 02:57:41,740
to other communities are looking at and some differences. We'll also based on the Land Use Code

2189
02:57:41,740 --> 02:57:48,500
feedback, give a presentation on a potential moratorium on data centers and air mobility areas.

2190
02:57:49,540 --> 02:57:54,580
And then again, based upon that September 9th meeting, we are still tentatively planning

2191
02:57:54,580 --> 02:57:58,020
and having that September 15th, second reading for the land use code update.

2192
02:57:58,900 --> 02:58:04,060
And then as was noted, your September 2nd, 20 second workshop is your capital improvements

2193
02:58:04,060 --> 02:58:13,000
to her. And then looking into October 6, it'll be your first reading on the 2027 budget and then

2194
02:58:13,000 --> 02:58:19,880
again, depending on direction for the short term festival license and air mobility. We would plan

2195
02:58:19,880 --> 02:58:25,280
on if council support of moving forward, putting your first readings onto those meetings as well.

2196
02:58:25,420 --> 02:58:32,380
October 20, it'll be a kind of larger budget meeting in that you adopt a variety of other things

2197
02:58:32,380 --> 02:58:36,640
that you don't do on first reading, so you adopt the paid plan, you adopt the budgets for

2198
02:58:36,640 --> 02:58:40,580
your general improvement districts, and then also your downtown development authority.

2199
02:58:41,540 --> 02:58:47,700
And then October 27th, we did get a public comment this afternoon about our automatic license plate

2200
02:58:47,700 --> 02:58:53,860
readers with flock, and so as this is Council's where we have done sort of our cop talks with this,

2201
02:58:54,320 --> 02:58:59,200
but given the recent interest and increased traffic of hearing from our community members,

2202
02:58:59,200 --> 02:59:04,920
we wanted to make a public presentation, says you know that Coptoc wasn't televised, so I

2203
02:59:04,920 --> 02:59:08,080
have an opportunity to kind of talk a little bit more about what was discussed in those meetings.

2204
02:59:08,800 --> 02:59:13,960
And then, I'm not noted here because we are still trying to decide, or not decide, but here,

2205
02:59:14,080 --> 02:59:21,060
if we have a availability from our special council, but we would maybe try to slate a oil and gas update

2206
02:59:21,060 --> 02:59:25,340
with our special council list with Pronos. We know we have several outstanding items that

2207
02:59:25,340 --> 02:59:30,160
Council wants to get to, and so that's one of the options for this workshop as well.

2208
02:59:30,920 --> 02:59:31,940
I think that's enough for me.

2209
02:59:32,300 --> 02:59:32,420
Thank you.

2210
02:59:32,920 --> 02:59:33,600
Thank you.

2211
02:59:33,820 --> 02:59:37,260
I can include several boards to move that to Council, of course, or sort of Councillor Bullard.

2212
02:59:37,900 --> 02:59:38,300
Thank you, Mayor.

2213
02:59:38,580 --> 02:59:44,860
Not many from me this week, just huge kudos to all the cross country runners who came out

2214
02:59:44,860 --> 02:59:46,480
to want to go lake on Saturday.

2215
02:59:46,620 --> 02:59:48,980
It was a zoo in the best possible way.

2216
02:59:49,620 --> 02:59:53,860
My wife and I went out to cheer on some friends kids, and it was just a great time.

2217
02:59:53,860 --> 02:59:56,340
I know that there were excellent signs there.

2218
02:59:56,460 --> 02:59:58,500
Lafayette police was out managing traffic flow.

2219
02:59:59,060 --> 02:59:59,960
There have been social media posts.

2220
03:00:00,000 --> 03:00:12,200
I was struck that there were a few members of the community who disregarded the cross country meet with hundreds of children running. So perhaps something I talked to one of the organizers while there, perhaps something we think about for the next go around.

2221
03:00:12,620 --> 03:00:23,660
Since the gentleman who lives in the neighborhood, baked into oncoming runners, and fortunately known as hurt, it was bonkers. But that aside, the cross country event was a spectacular success and a really good thing for our community.

2222
03:00:24,160 --> 03:00:27,920
And I just want to give Kudos again for the outstanding workshop last week.

2223
03:00:28,420 --> 03:00:31,380
I've shared the link on YouTube with a few members of the community, and you're like,

2224
03:00:31,680 --> 03:00:35,680
I want to pay more attention and get more involved, and at least a handful of them told

2225
03:00:35,680 --> 03:00:36,480
me they watched it.

2226
03:00:36,540 --> 03:00:38,980
They said it was really interesting, but huge Kudos for that.

2227
03:00:39,480 --> 03:00:40,160
And that's all for me.

2228
03:00:40,340 --> 03:00:40,700
Thank you, Mayor.

2229
03:00:41,220 --> 03:00:41,300
Good.

2230
03:00:41,300 --> 03:00:42,000
Councillor Gianneau.

2231
03:00:42,740 --> 03:00:43,280
Thank you, Mayor.

2232
03:00:43,840 --> 03:00:45,060
Just a couple of quick items for me.

2233
03:00:45,260 --> 03:00:46,320
Just another reminder on that.

2234
03:00:46,320 --> 03:00:51,700
And we're just super paired to workshop Tuesday, September 8th at 530 at the Starkey Building.

2235
03:00:51,740 --> 03:00:52,840
That's next Tuesday.

2236
03:00:52,840 --> 03:00:58,700
we come from today and then just thanks everyone for your support of the little

2237
03:00:58,700 --> 03:01:03,000
league team co-creat Little League team who came today that was really fun to

2238
03:01:03,000 --> 03:01:07,600
have them and I hope we can do things like that more often and then I guess I'll

2239
03:01:07,600 --> 03:01:12,260
end that my update by saying you know we're continuing to work on the

2240
03:01:12,260 --> 03:01:17,040
Council norms discussion I think the mayor for example have more to say

2241
03:01:17,040 --> 03:01:21,560
about that, so it's continuing on.

2242
03:01:22,460 --> 03:01:23,660
Speaking of, never a time.

2243
03:01:23,660 --> 03:01:24,300
Thank you, Mayor.

2244
03:01:24,840 --> 03:01:29,360
Yes, we are continuing on, working to address the wars.

2245
03:01:30,320 --> 03:01:32,460
And our council handbook does have a great deal

2246
03:01:33,740 --> 03:01:37,720
of guidance for us, but we have reviewed that

2247
03:01:37,720 --> 03:01:40,240
and look to see what is most appropriate one.

2248
03:01:40,240 --> 03:01:41,900
We'll eventually bring forward

2249
03:01:41,900 --> 03:01:45,860
after we have our deputy city attorney look at

2250
03:01:45,860 --> 03:01:47,120
what we've come up with.

2251
03:01:47,320 --> 03:01:54,380
But we have not limited ourselves to just council conduct,

2252
03:01:54,480 --> 03:01:57,580
because there's no way to exclude members

2253
03:01:57,580 --> 03:02:02,840
of the council chambers from our activity without realization.

2254
03:02:03,040 --> 03:02:05,140
Like this is not just a business meeting,

2255
03:02:05,440 --> 03:02:08,820
but it's also a time for the public to see the business meeting.

2256
03:02:09,220 --> 03:02:11,000
And that's there for us to be compassionate

2257
03:02:11,640 --> 03:02:14,100
and with each other and open.

2258
03:02:14,100 --> 03:02:27,340
So we were lucky enough to be able to start to transition into how do we also address the expectations of the public who are participating in the meeting with public comment.

2259
03:02:28,900 --> 03:02:34,260
And there's even a piece that we found from our sister city, look, well, I don't know if there's sister city.

2260
03:02:34,260 --> 03:02:41,180
our neighbors see those, though, with council norms of what we should keep in mind is our responsibility.

2261
03:02:42,040 --> 03:02:44,820
And there are, there's words to describe those bits and pieces.

2262
03:02:45,260 --> 03:02:49,640
So I think what we'll bring forward is something that helps us better understand the context

2263
03:02:49,640 --> 03:02:57,620
of what is happening in this space and some realistic expectations that we might consider for what

2264
03:02:57,620 --> 03:03:00,480
we would expect from the public, what we expect amongst ourselves.

2265
03:03:00,480 --> 03:03:03,380
and we've gotten in some real,

2266
03:03:04,120 --> 03:03:07,480
with the real nuts and bolts of the efficiency of the meeting,

2267
03:03:08,300 --> 03:03:13,330
potentially even offering a time when the meetings must end.

2268
03:03:14,440 --> 03:03:15,260
Ooh, what's that mean?

2269
03:03:16,640 --> 03:03:19,560
So, but we left nothing on the turn,

2270
03:03:20,440 --> 03:03:24,620
and we will let our city attorney definitely see the attorney

2271
03:03:24,620 --> 03:03:28,700
and the city attorney if she would also like to see it

2272
03:03:28,700 --> 03:03:29,840
before we get to it to make sure

2273
03:03:29,840 --> 03:03:35,640
what we're suggesting is it's nothing new challenges and what we legally need to do.

2274
03:03:36,940 --> 03:03:41,420
So I'm excited to get to that. It's just taking a minute to make sure that we're really

2275
03:03:41,420 --> 03:03:47,300
thinking through this before we bring bits and pieces to you. I would also like to

2276
03:03:49,240 --> 03:03:56,420
mention that I was lucky enough at the community solutions meeting to find out that there is a plan

2277
03:03:56,420 --> 03:04:05,280
any schedule for a bus taking residents from off yet to the airport. It's the AL line and

2278
03:04:05,280 --> 03:04:10,340
the final stand. Correctly, it starts on September 22nd and it will come in at just 27.

2279
03:04:11,180 --> 03:04:15,600
27. There it goes. It's September 27th and it will be stopping at the Lafayette Park and Ride,

2280
03:04:15,860 --> 03:04:21,820
coming up public road, off at 287, turning around, going back to 27 and down under the bridge

2281
03:04:21,820 --> 03:04:26,580
and hitting T470. So there's one other stop. Only one before it actually gets a very

2282
03:04:26,580 --> 03:04:32,540
report from Lafayette. And I did ask if these transport will be ADA compliant and I was

2283
03:04:32,540 --> 03:04:39,000
told yes. Yes. So there's cross that actually plays out. So I'm excited that we're finally

2284
03:04:39,000 --> 03:04:45,180
going to have that. And I know the older adult advisory board, one of the former members made

2285
03:04:45,180 --> 03:04:52,720
a critical point and I believe he was one that we community solutions had a guest speaker

2286
03:04:52,720 --> 03:04:59,960
who was named, oh it's the governor, that's right, who was called that one on that bit.

2287
03:05:00,680 --> 03:05:11,500
So, it's nice to see and he called out RTD and they made it happen. So, I'm just proud of the fact that it's something that's going to really be on a federal community and please share that.

2288
03:05:12,000 --> 03:05:14,120
I don't think it's all I had, Mayor, thank you.

2289
03:05:14,360 --> 03:05:15,100
Councillor Johnson.

2290
03:05:16,700 --> 03:05:20,220
I would like to piggyback at Mayor Pro's hand.

2291
03:05:20,740 --> 03:05:27,540
That came up in the Highway 7 corridor meeting and I think we wrote a letter in support of it last spring.

2292
03:05:27,540 --> 03:05:35,780
And so I say that because those regional meetings which sometimes can feel cumbersome and long,

2293
03:05:36,720 --> 03:05:39,780
but they resulted in something positive for us.

2294
03:05:40,840 --> 03:05:44,280
So I'm pretty sure that that's what happened.

2295
03:05:44,660 --> 03:05:46,900
I'm getting all my memory is fuzzy.

2296
03:05:48,060 --> 03:05:55,460
I went to the open house for boards and committees and I just want to say thank you publicly

2297
03:05:55,460 --> 03:06:01,920
because all of those booths were staffed by current people who sit on the boards and commission

2298
03:06:01,920 --> 03:06:09,460
who were the external face of those boards and who did the work to encourage people to participate.

2299
03:06:11,380 --> 03:06:16,880
And, you know, we've got a huge group of community volunteers who really care about our city,

2300
03:06:17,400 --> 03:06:24,480
who were all there, and it was pretty impressive. And I met a lot of new people who, you know,

2301
03:06:24,480 --> 03:06:28,960
somebody just moved here and was like, I think I'm thinking about, you know, how do I

2302
03:06:28,960 --> 03:06:34,860
serve my community? And it was kind of fun talking to people like that. And so I

2303
03:06:34,860 --> 03:06:41,160
think, I mean, it wasn't a huge huge, you know, hundreds of people event, but the quality

2304
03:06:41,160 --> 03:06:46,520
of participation of Losey work there and the engagement was really good. And that's all I

2305
03:06:46,520 --> 03:06:52,860
have to say. That's a good idea. I was also going to share the news about the new RTD

2306
03:06:52,860 --> 03:06:58,000
service but mayer protein beat me to it so once it does get started on the 27th

2307
03:06:58,000 --> 03:07:03,660
please utilize it so it stays and that bus route is going to go from Longmont to

2308
03:07:03,660 --> 03:07:09,820
Denver stopping at DIA and I'm in two other quick pieces of info our library is

2309
03:07:09,820 --> 03:07:15,900
close to 10% for labor day drop boxes will close Sunday at 5 p.m. and reopened

2310
03:07:15,900 --> 03:07:21,800
Tuesday at 9 a.m. so plan ahead if you have materials that are due back and I

2311
03:07:21,800 --> 03:07:27,900
forward to working with the new lease warning youth advisory board tomorrow at their first

2312
03:07:27,900 --> 03:07:34,550
work session. Thank you councillor. Okay one thing for me, it was going to be too

2313
03:07:34,550 --> 03:07:39,530
but I'll add myself to the list of people that the mayor put on beat me to for the bus and

2314
03:07:39,530 --> 03:07:44,250
something councillor you said is actually really important. R2D looks at ridership so share

2315
03:07:44,250 --> 03:07:49,110
with your friends share with anyone you know we should use that for us as much as we can because it's

2316
03:07:50,370 --> 03:07:58,050
One thing for me, however, there was something that was supposed to be on the agenda tonight and I asked staff to pull it back for a few reasons.

2317
03:07:58,270 --> 03:07:59,950
It was us taking a position on ballot measures.

2318
03:08:00,170 --> 03:08:04,750
We were going to look at that tonight, but there are a few reasons for why I didn't think it was ready.

2319
03:08:05,370 --> 03:08:08,690
First and foremost, there's just, the timing wasn't right.

2320
03:08:09,170 --> 03:08:14,710
There was one in ballot measure that actually got qualified today, like a couple hours ago.

2321
03:08:14,710 --> 03:08:19,130
So there's no white sapphire to turn that around, we just, we weren't there in terms of timing.

2322
03:08:20,190 --> 03:08:24,650
The other part is this is nothing we've never, this is something we've never done before as a city.

2323
03:08:25,250 --> 03:08:28,870
So trying to think back and then having sapphire to look back in the years.

2324
03:08:29,330 --> 03:08:35,090
There's only one time that we've ever taken a position on a ballot measure that's been something outside of the city.

2325
03:08:35,190 --> 03:08:37,510
It's something that we put on the ballot. It's only one time.

2326
03:08:37,890 --> 03:08:41,710
But even in that case, it was something that we were very much involved in.

2327
03:08:42,590 --> 03:08:49,810
And then finally, the last thing is there are currently 17, possibly 18 ballot measures going on.

2328
03:08:50,170 --> 03:08:56,890
So I thought let's pull it back and try to have a conversation that's counsel just to see if this is something that we want to move forward.

2329
03:08:57,230 --> 03:09:09,490
It's a very, very heavy lift that we go with all of them and try to see each one and then ultimately if we want to pass a resolution on each one, whether we oppose or, or anything, whatever position we take, it's just a heavy lift.

2330
03:09:09,490 --> 03:09:14,870
So what I wanted to see is very broad, not talking about anything in particular, is this something

2331
03:09:14,870 --> 03:09:16,650
that Council would like to take on.

2332
03:09:16,910 --> 03:09:23,570
And the second part of that question is more procedurally what we would do is not necessarily

2333
03:09:23,570 --> 03:09:29,110
look at each one, what we would want to look at is through maybe an email through our staff

2334
03:09:29,110 --> 03:09:37,050
or some sort of procedure, as the word I'll use, we will find a way to get gauge interest from

2335
03:09:37,050 --> 03:09:43,190
counselors. We would give you, actually, maybe, Katie can speak to it a little better than I

2336
03:09:43,190 --> 03:09:46,090
can, but we would give you some information on each ballot measure and then we would just

2337
03:09:46,090 --> 03:09:51,790
kind of gauge what the interest is for council. Because, as I said, 17, possibly 18, it's just

2338
03:09:51,790 --> 03:09:55,550
far too much, especially because we don't have dedicated policy staff. There's some cities like

2339
03:09:55,550 --> 03:09:59,850
Aurora, like Denver, who had dedicated policy, even colder, has that, we don't necessarily.

2340
03:10:00,000 --> 03:10:05,400
We have that, and land use code and everything going on. I just know it's a very busy time right now. So forcing that

2341
03:10:05,400 --> 03:10:13,920
on to our staff is something that I don't necessarily think is the best function of our staff time. So very generally,

2342
03:10:14,820 --> 03:10:21,760
is there any interest in trying to tackle this and trying to maybe look into taking positions of ballot measures?

2343
03:10:30,570 --> 03:10:30,970
I'm

2344
03:10:30,970 --> 03:10:36,870
You framed it perfectly, Mayor, that the weight of all of these different ballot measures

2345
03:10:37,350 --> 03:10:42,050
to me, this speaks to a failure of our system in our state legislature, but if you can do

2346
03:10:42,050 --> 03:10:44,010
18, you can do 40, and that just seems unreasonable.

2347
03:10:45,210 --> 03:10:48,930
But I do think that, and I've heard from a number of members in the community to this effect,

2348
03:10:49,070 --> 03:10:51,270
that there is confusion about, like, what does that mean for us?

2349
03:10:51,370 --> 03:10:56,510
Since many of the ballot measures don't really affect the ballot measures, do affect the

2350
03:10:56,510 --> 03:11:03,010
President, so I guess in response to your question, I would love for us to be able to gently

2351
03:11:03,010 --> 03:11:03,910
grapple with it.

2352
03:11:04,010 --> 03:11:08,970
We're not going to solve this issue for Denver, but I do think it would be potentially helpful

2353
03:11:08,970 --> 03:11:13,550
to our community for us to maybe help them understand it.

2354
03:11:13,770 --> 03:11:17,850
As I try to work through, I'm definitely with a handful of them, but the rest are still very

2355
03:11:17,850 --> 03:11:19,170
Greek to me.

2356
03:11:19,310 --> 03:11:20,670
I don't know if that's a helpful answer, Mayor.

2357
03:11:21,750 --> 03:11:25,170
I'll clarify, this isn't necessarily us saying we were definitely going to take position

2358
03:11:25,170 --> 03:11:25,590
on anything.

2359
03:11:25,590 --> 03:11:31,470
This isn't us saying do you want us to start the process of potentially going forward with taking a position on something?

2360
03:11:31,630 --> 03:11:37,270
So what this would eventually turn into is some sort of communication to council and we would individually all of us

2361
03:11:37,270 --> 03:11:41,910
Try to figure out which one is interesting to us and we wouldn't have this discussion outside of public setting

2362
03:11:41,910 --> 03:11:45,510
So this would just be individually each council kind of letting staff know

2363
03:11:45,510 --> 03:11:50,610
I'm interested in this. I'm interested in this. I'm interested in this and then we get enough in and we can't have interest in any

2364
03:11:50,610 --> 03:11:54,570
particular ballot measure, we would then come back to public meeting and take position on it.

2365
03:11:54,670 --> 03:11:57,490
But we are not choosing tonight whether we are doing it or not.

2366
03:11:57,730 --> 03:12:01,870
It's kind of the decision before the decision, before the decision, if you will.

2367
03:12:02,550 --> 03:12:07,770
So that's just kind of where I want to understand if Council is interested.

2368
03:12:11,140 --> 03:12:11,960
Council Johnson.

2369
03:12:13,060 --> 03:12:20,580
One thing I'm aware of is that there's, most, there's only one of these that's a referred

2370
03:12:20,580 --> 03:12:24,140
measure by the legislature, all the rest are citizen and initiated.

2371
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And there is at least some groups in the state who are intentionally blooding the ballot

2372
03:12:31,480 --> 03:12:38,340
with a variety of different ballot measures so that the public will have only the opportunity

2373
03:12:38,340 --> 03:12:44,300
given that they're 18 or however many to do a superficial glance at each one.

2374
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And that is where I think we could come in potentially is some of these look on the surface

2375
03:12:51,260 --> 03:12:56,060
like one thing but if you look deeper might be something else and two the extent that we

2376
03:12:56,060 --> 03:13:02,760
have the ability to share with our residents the impact that this has on them. In addition,

2377
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there are three that target specific members of our population who I think would love to hear

2378
03:13:10,300 --> 03:13:17,940
from us that they support them, that this effort to punish them

2379
03:13:17,940 --> 03:13:22,800
or be punitive to them in some way for their city to say,

2380
03:13:22,900 --> 03:13:27,120
nope, we stand with you at one of which is the immigrant community.

2381
03:13:27,860 --> 03:13:31,260
And for us to say to the immigrant community, we're with you.

2382
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I think it's a valuable thing in building our community

2383
03:13:34,920 --> 03:13:38,940
and making the people in our community continue to know

2384
03:13:38,940 --> 03:13:45,740
that we are not that kind of community where we persecute people for some characteristic up.

2385
03:13:46,420 --> 03:13:54,380
So that being said, I also don't want to overstate that our position on something has this huge

2386
03:13:54,380 --> 03:14:01,340
amount of weight to the community because I'm not sure anybody even reads our stuff or even looks at it.

2387
03:14:01,660 --> 03:14:07,480
So what I think would be helpful is if we took a position and the campaigns on those issues could

2388
03:14:07,480 --> 03:14:11,080
take our resolution or whatever we did and share it with the

2389
03:14:11,080 --> 03:14:14,600
broader world because our simply taking position on a

2390
03:14:14,600 --> 03:14:18,040
resolution isn't going to have a ton of weight and I don't

2391
03:14:18,040 --> 03:14:21,980
even know who will read it but it could be useful to whichever

2392
03:14:21,980 --> 03:14:25,920
side of an issue that we decide with and then taking our

2393
03:14:25,920 --> 03:14:28,640
resolution and sharing it with other communities and other

2394
03:14:28,640 --> 03:14:33,840
people but I think in the case of the two targeted groups that

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03:14:33,840 --> 03:14:37,460
I think are being persecuted I think it has value to

2396
03:14:37,460 --> 03:14:45,660
with them. And so that is my... I appreciate that. Just one person I've ever heard from was

2397
03:14:45,660 --> 03:14:52,000
Councillor Gallegos. Where are you on this? I feel that we have a lot of heavy

2398
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agendas in the near future so I don't want to give staff the additional work.

2399
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All right. Councillor Jeno? Yeah, I very much appreciate that. Councillor Gaye goes in and I'm with you. That said, Councillor Jensen, I'm persuaded, actually, that there are, you know, potentially, some things that we maybe do want to take a position on. So I'm open to reviewing to review at this point, I guess.

2400
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That's what I want to hear, review to review. So we'll move forward with that and we'll find a, that's what I do. That's what we want to jump in.

2401
03:15:31,560 --> 03:15:38,500
Yeah, I'll say if possible, we can do a quick write-up of each ballot item with the link to it,

2402
03:15:38,600 --> 03:15:43,440
and then if council, since I'm out of town, I can send it tomorrow,

2403
03:15:43,780 --> 03:15:47,080
and then if you could just get to back to me by kind of the end of the Labor Day weekend,

2404
03:15:47,300 --> 03:15:49,560
and just just reply me.

2405
03:15:51,680 --> 03:15:53,640
Just any of the ones you want to talk about,

2406
03:15:53,800 --> 03:15:56,620
just you could just list by name, and then I could go with the mayor and see whether

2407
03:15:56,620 --> 03:16:02,060
might be kind of like a bigger lift of view. And then if the ballot end that you really want

2408
03:16:02,060 --> 03:16:06,480
to talk about doesn't necessarily make a council conversation, you guys always have on this

2409
03:16:06,480 --> 03:16:11,400
platform to speak about it, you know, tell the community to get educated themselves and all

2410
03:16:11,400 --> 03:16:15,380
of that, even if the full council doesn't necessarily want to move forward with it or much

2411
03:16:15,380 --> 03:16:18,960
or if council's so. That would be the game plan if you guys are open to that.

2412
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When you say on this platform on the council day is, yes, we could say go vote for this

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That was my one thing tonight. Thank you all. I will adjourn. Thank you.