good evening
good evening it is six o'clock on
Tuesday August 1st 2023 and I'm going to
call to order the regularly scheduled
city council meeting for the city of
Montrose and if you will please stand
and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance
I pledge allegiance
and to the Republic for which it stands
for all
and can I ask the city clerk to please
take role
Barbara Bynum present J David Reed
president Dave Frank president Doug
glass Bell president at Eula Berry
all council members are present thank
you very much
um
mayor Pro Tim Reed are there changes or
any additions or deletions to our agenda
tonight yes mayor we have one item item
number nine resolution
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2023-13 that we would like to remove
from consideration this evening
okay thank you very much
um we will be removing that from the
agenda
um next up is uh the call for public
comment
um and this is the call for public
comment agenda item is a time when
members of the community may publicly
voice their concerns comments are made
during this time should be addressed to
the council and pertain to matters of at
least General importance to the city and
its operations please stay on topic and
limit comments to three minutes also be
aware that neither city council nor City
staff are expected to engage in a
discussion or debate however the city
May respond when appropriate at a later
time is there anyone here this evening
that is here for public comment great
then before I ask you to come forward
I'm going to read a little bit more
legal language
personal attacks and disagreements
personnel and employment matters the use
of profanity or ethnic racial or
gender-oriented slurs are prohibited as
is any disorderly conduct which violates
state or local law so having said that
welcome please come forward come up to
the podium and if you could tell us your
name and then either your address or
your subdivision your neighborhood that
would be great can you hear me yeah yeah
okay uh I'm Judy bunyard and I'm at 1664
wetterhorn Street Vista sanlon
subdivision I'm here representing the
fork and trails genealogical Society
also here is Myrna Shira chiri seated
beside me uh
our Organization for contrails is a
non-profit that sponsors the Montrose
genealogy center which is located at 700
East Main Street
we have an extensive collection of
Montrose city and county records and
archives and we currently do occupy
about 800 square feet of that building
we've been at this location for 13 years
however at this particular point in time
we are concerned about our building it's
also called Coronado building being more
actively promoted for sale it's always
been for sale but apparently currently
it's being pushed harder
and so we are considering we are
concerned about the future of our
genealogy center whether it will be able
to remain there or not and our other
concerns are whether we will be able to
continue to manage the center as we all
our board members are getting on
uh we're looking for a permanent
location for this valuable collection of
materials uh we would uh hope that the
space could be
available uh and it would be available
by the city and that if the city would
view it as an asset in that uh it could
be open to the public as a research
center and at least on a appointment
basis and our our society could probably
continue to be some assistance in that
manner as far as research of these
materials
um
for now we do invite you to come visit
and see what we have at 700 East Main
Street and we could talk with you
further about what our need is and why
we are asking for the city's help
uh there was an article in the Montrose
press last March 30th that described our
facility very nicely
uh
we do we wish to preserve these records
we don't want to see them thrown away
because we have no place to put them
so I'm going to leave you a letter that
has our contact information and says
pretty much what I just said to you now
and a little uh flyer that has with
pictures we figure pictures are worth a
thousand words and I'd like to leave
this with you and hopefully you will
take our organization into consideration
please
thank you and you can leave those with
the city clerk and she'll make sure we
get copies okay thank you thank you very
much
and then I think I saw another hand go
up for public comment
maybe maybe not okay
if there's no other public comment for
the non-agenda items if you're here to
make a comment on a specific item then
you can do that when we get to that item
in our agenda tonight
um then we'll keep going with our agenda
next up is the consent agenda and we
have four items on our consent agenda
and these are grouped together so that
um it's to be expedient with our time
and it takes one motion and vote on
these
um and these four items are the council
consideration of the minutes from July
18 2023 Council of consideration of the
approval of a special events alcohol
permit in conjunction with the closure
of Apollo Road for the Funk Fest on
August 12th and 13th
third Council consideration of an
application for special events alcohol
permit in conjunction with the closures
of North 6th Street North 7th Street U
Avenue and selig Avenue adjacent to La
Raza park for the Monte De Rosas
Festival on August 19th and lastly city
council consideration of the disposal or
sale of six Police radios to the Olathe
Police Department
so we could do one motion to to approve
all these together mayor I move to
approve the consent agenda as presented
second
so we have a motion and a first um uh on
the consent agenda
doesn't say public comment but we take
public comment on anything and even the
consent agenda so is there any comment
on this
uh seeing none um please vote
and the consent agenda and those four
items passed unanimously
next up is a liquor license change of
location
this is Council consideration of an
application from Bliss Beauty Bar
company LLC doing business as Bliss
Beauty Bar to change the location of a
lodging and entertainment liquor license
from 431 East Main Street to 1544 Oxbow
Drive Unit 156 and assistant City
attorney Chris dousey will tell us about
this item
thank you madam mayor members of council
before city council is an application to
change the location of bliss Beauty bars
lodging and entertainment liquor license
from 431 East Main Street to 1544 Oxbow
Drive Unit 156.
is a public inquiry for the change in
location of the license the permit is in
order and the fees have been paid from
City staff's review of the application
we have seen nothing that would prevent
Council from changing the location on
this license notwithstanding this
inquiry
Council can make a decision at the end
of the hearing or defer for up to 30
days I believe we have the applicant via
Zoom Miss online can you hear me
can you hear me
so we can hear you now mayor do you wish
uh do you and the counselors wish to
examine the petitioner at this time or
would you like me to ask some of the
preliminary questions
uh so miss online could you please tell
us about the Bliss Beauty Bar
um it's a salon here in Montrose
and you've had this license for a couple
of years now is that correct
yep
um have you had any violations of the
liquor license
no we haven't
please
um so how have you kept miners from
purchasing alcohol from Bliss Beauty Bar
um ID and everybody
uh have you personally taken the liquor
law education and server training class
I have
uh have all of your employees attended
these trainings
yes
and would you be willing to commit to
the council that if the change in
location is approved that all new
employees attend such training at the
earliest availability after higher if
they're not already certified coming in
yep
perfect well thank you madam mayor
council do you have any further
questions
any further questions from Council it
looks pretty straightforward
I do not see any um any additional
questions however we do hold a hearing
on these liquor license
um uh items so I'll open a hearing
and this point I would accept any public
comment about this change in location
seeing none I'll close the hearing and
accept an emotion Madam mayor I moved to
approve the change of location of the
lodging and entertainment liquor license
for Bliss Beauty Bar company LLC doing
business as Bliss Beauty Bar to 1544
Oxbow Drive Unit 156 as presented I'll
second that
thank you we have a first and a second
so please go ahead and vote
and that passes unanimously
next on our agenda is resolution
2023-12 this is Council consideration of
a resolution authorizing the city of
Montrose Police Department to file a
Victim Assistance law enforcement or
Veil Grant through the seventh Judicial
District victims assistance board for
the total of fifty five thousand one
hundred and fifty dollars to cover a
portion of both the current victim
Advocate salary and a new victim
Advocate salary authorizing the chief of
police to act in con connection with the
application and to provide such
additional information as required
authorizing the city manager chief of
police and finance director to sign the
Grant application and their reporting
documents police chief Hall
Madam mayor and city council yes I come
before you tonight with exactly what the
mayor just read and I know we've
discussed this at work session I come
once a year with this same type of
asking for permission for a grant
proposal to the bailboard so happy to
answer any questions but um Madam Mary
summed it up nicely
I was just reading
questions from
previously
okay I don't see any questions from
councils so I would accept any public
comment about the veil Grant
and seeing none um would entertain a
motion I'll make a motion to adopt
resolution
2023-12 as presented second
great we have a first and a second
please vote
no it's not saving
I'm going to scroll up so you get to the
same button
yeah there it is
got it
that passes unanimously and we'll go on
to item 10 on our agenda tonight
resolution
2023-14 this is Council consideration of
a resolution authorizing assignment to
the Colorado Housing and Finance
Authority of a private activity Bond
allocation of the city of Montrose
pursuant to the Colorado private
activity Bond ceiling allocation act and
I will turn this over to our community
development specialist Chris ottinger
who will remind us we just talked about
this but give a little bit of an
overview of what this means
absolutely good evening Madame mayor and
city council the item before you today
is consideration of resolution to
allocate the city of montrose's private
activity Bond cap to the Colorado
Housing Finance Authority as it has done
for the past five years
for the benefit of the public I will
briefly explain what pabs are and how
they work
a private activity bond is a special
class of tax-exempt bonds that that
benefits private non-government
borrowers that can be issued by States
local governments such as Montrose or
housing authorities these state or local
issuers are bound by very specific
restrictions
as to the use of the bonds and the
compliance requirements related to these
bonds the benefit of the pabs are that
the interest paid to the bondholders is
exempt from the federal income tax which
generally results in a lower borrowing
cost for the eligible project or a lower
interest rate mortgage in the case of
single-family bonds
population-based formula establishes the
maximum amount of pabs that a state can
issue annually
which amount is referred to as a cap or
volume cap currently the formula is 120
dollars per capita which allows about
700 million dollars in PAB volume cap
for 2023. and it is important to
recognize that the allocation of volume
cap to a state or local issuer is only
an authorization to issue bonds and has
no cash value
traditional components of a bond issue
include a source of repayment collateral
and reserves as well as eligible
investors are all required to utilize a
PAB
in Colorado pabs are administered by the
division of Housing and 47 percent of
the bond cap is allocated to
municipalities and counties with a
population higher than 19 048 people and
that's related to the uh per capita
uh once assigned local issuers can
decide how to use the volume cap they
issue the bonds assign the cap to
another local issuer assigned to chaffa
color housing and Finance Authority or
do nothing and let it revert to the
Statewide balance
in 2022 the allocation for the city of
Montrose was one million one hundred and
twenty five thousand six hundred and
sixty seven dollars in 2023 the
allocation for the city of Montrose is
one million two hundred and forty five
thousand two hundred and eighteen
the city of Montrose has not desired to
issue bonds directly as there is risk
and administrative burden doing so
allocating the PAB directly to chaffa
allows our community to benefit from the
PAB allocation without the city directly
issuing bonds
examples of PAB at work include in 2020
traffic will work with the city Montrose
to use the city's PAB allocation to
support steel properties llc's
Rehabilitation of the San Juan
Apartments which serves seniors 62 and
older a Section 8 and residents with
disabilities in 2021 the city in 2021
chaffa funded 20 or long 20 loans in
their single-family tax exempt program
first step for a total of 5 million and
5.3 million to the city of Montrose in
2022 chaffa also funded 17 loans
totaling 4.5 million Adam and median
income of 70 000 for a median loan
amount of 268 000. the city staff this
year again recommends that the city
council consider signing our PAB
allocation to chaffa and request that
chaffa use the PAB if there is
opportunity to support first-time
homeownership investment multi-family
affordable housing project or use it to
support jaffa's home ownership program
known as first step if the city council
allocates PAB to chaffa chaffa will
ensure that the funding is used within
the city of Montrose to benefit our
community
and I'll be happy to take any questions
thank you
um that is to say we take our roughly
1.2 million dollar allocation and
instead of administering them ourselves
or issuing bonds we give them to chaffa
who on our behalf does all the work but
in our community correct we make that we
make that distinction that they have to
use it here in our local area
questions
comments okay
then um would accept public comment if
anyone wants to comment on private
activity bonds
see none
I would accept emotion
and a mayor a move to adopt resolution
2023-14 as presented second
thank you please vote
and that passes unanimously
moving on the next item on our agenda
tonight item 11 is the El Dorado
Financial asbestos abatement assistance
this is Council consideration of a
request from El Dorado Financial for
fifty thousand dollar fifty thousand
eight hundred eighty one dollars and ten
cents For assistance with asbestos
abatement in conjunction with the
construction of a new office building
and city manager Bill Bell will cover
this item
thank you madam mayor in the packet is
the letter describing the project El
Dorado Financial is looking at taking uh
dilapidated property along
kind of mid Townsend area
tearing that down demoing and removing
all the debris
Asbestos and some soil that's
contaminated in the area clean all that
up and build a new building for not only
their headquarters to allow them to
expand and grow with new employees but
also to add a few additional commercial
office spaces
important things to keep in mind for us
is we have tried to be consistent as a
city to help building business owners
with things like asbestos mitigation
hazardous contamination removal junk and
debris removal anything that will make
our community look and feel better and
this application is along those lines
other applications that are similar for
the Public's benefit are when we see
facade Grant applications but those are
really just to redo the exterior of a
building and make the building itself
look better this one is more of a
general property Improvement situation
which is why we're seeing it tonight at
city council rather than at a dart board
meeting as part of our Main Street
program so total project budget as
outlined in the in the letters two
million dollars approximately for El
Dorado Financial the request of fifty
thousand eight eighty one and 10 cents
is to cover the extract Environmental
Services as best as abatement portion of
the project
and I can answer any other questions you
might have
I think we've pretty well covered it oh
I think we pretty well covered that in
work session yeah we we talked about
this at work session a little bit longer
yeah
any other comments or questions yeah I
would you know this is pretty typical
we've done this on several other uh
buildings in the community also so I
think it's
Falls very much in line with it
yeah we've done very similar projects up
and down Main Street and other places in
the community
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buildings that could use asbestos
abatement that we're giving money away
to help
another business that I'm sure that they
have probably taken into consideration
at least they've done their due
diligence on the whole process of
building and uh I think that at that 50
or 50 000 would probably be uh in my
opinion better suited to
help with the asbestos abatement of the
new building that the city just Acquired
and we're going to have to uh Abate a
demolition as well as uh this The Old
City shop was built in the 60s and I
believe that there's so uh asbestos over
there
that
City Crews have been working with and
I've just not comfortable to just keep
on giving
asbestos abatement money to Private
Business some that especially one that
uh
there's uh the sales revenues in tax
wouldn't we pay back the city
but that's just how I feel
any other comments or questions
okay I would accept public comment on
this item
seeing none would accept emotion
I'll make a motion
consider approval of the 50 881.10
for as fast as abatement for El Dorado
finance office building project as
presented
second
we have a first and a second please vote
thank you that passes a four to one vote
next on our agenda item 12 ordinance
2634 on first reading so all ordinances
require two readings this is the first
time we will read or vote on this item
this is Council consideration of
ordinance 2634 on first reading which is
an ordinance of the city amending Title
IX chapter 4 section 1 and title 6
chapter 1 section 21 regarding the
removal of snow and or ice and
unreasonable noise and I'll turn this
over to our Public Works director Jim
Scheid who is joined by some of his
great team members
thank you madam mayor I'll take this one
myself tonight I guess first I'll start
off by addressing why are we talking
about this in August and July
so we are updating our code related to
snow removal and Ice removal it's
formalizing responsibilities between the
city and private property owners and
doing it now allows us time to get those
notifications out prior to snow falling
we didn't want to do this mid snow
season to make sure contractors are
aware of how to remove snow from private
property and where to not put it in the
right away
um so we reviewed this at work session
but I'll kind of give a brief overview
generally there's
um an ordinance obviously related to
snow nice removal there's also a policy
and that's a internal operations policy
that will be promulgated into our
regulations manual as well
um and that's that's done by through the
city manager's office but the ordinance
is what council is considering and the
ordinance is related to there's a red
line version in the packet and then a
final version but the changes and
additions are related to mostly
depositing of snow in the right-of-way
and that then that's what we are
requiring is not to be allowed because
the depositing is known the right away
cause lots of problems with our storm
sewer systems and Ice build up and then
right away
visual lines around corners and things
like that and so that's why the reasons
behind requiring that snow is not
deposited in the right of way
um and we work with a lot of contractors
locally that do snow removal on larger
scale so they're including parking lots
and things like that we we are working
with them on where they can put it where
they should put it and and obviously
where not to put it
um
and and then again the policies
explaining um the city operations side
of that and what and what the city is
doing the level of service that we are
providing as a city operation
um and what has changed in that that is
that's also uh bringing us forward is
we've transitioned a lot of our
operations Into the Night
or very early morning and have
um missed some of the time that the
contractors have been depositing snow on
the roadway and so now that we are
transitioning our operations until
earlier in the morning
some issues are occurring where
contractors are installing pushing snow
into the right of way after we've
already gone by and so that's that's
what's also bringing this forward at
this time rather than uh five years ago
there's been an issue we've been dealing
with but now we're really starting to
address the issue moving into early
morning operations for us is a lot to do
with safety for our for our crews and
also for the public traffic has become
more and more intense and and definitely
by the morning Rush of 7 A.M
um by that time we really like to have
our tier one and two routes cleared we
can do a better job our level of service
is higher if we can get that done prior
to traffic hitting the roads and also
against just safer for for our crews and
the public if if we are done moving and
picking up snow prior to that kind of
morning Rush
um and so again there is the redline
version of what was added to the
ordinance in the packet and also a final
clean version and that also included the
policy in the packet as well just for
information on on our operation also
some other documents in there regarding
liquid pre-treatment that we use and
also the state statute that also
supports this ordinance there is a state
statute regarding
not installing snow in the right-of-way
and then references local ordinances as
well so all that's in the packet for
information purposes but I'd be happy to
answer any questions about that or
anything that's come up since work
session
Council does anyone have any comments or
questions
a pretty robust discussion on one of
those 99 Degree Days about snow it's a
nice relief it was nice to know that
what you're really saying is there's not
any major changes coming that the public
will be like oh no they're changing the
law about snow removal but we're putting
into law our current best practices
and making sure people know about that
months before it snows right yes um this
has been a request and um a notice for a
long time
um we are now making ordinance to those
enforceable when we have some that don't
don't follow that request to to not push
their snow on the road we have the
ordinance allows it to be enforced okay
okay great
seeing none
um
oh yeah that's called a hearing since
we're making up new laws here it's a
good idea
um I will hold a hearing
and now accept comic
thank you and close the hearing and
accept emotion Madam mayor I moved to
adopt ordinance 2634 on first reading as
presented second
first and second please
please
and while we got a lot of votes on that
one we are so excited about snow just
the thought of snow that passes
unanimously
um next is ordinance 2635 on first
reading and this is Council
consideration of an ordinance regarding
the cable franchise agreement between
the city of Montrose and Spectrum
Pacific West LLC an indirect subsidiary
of Charter Communications Inc City
Attorney Ben Morris
thank you madam mayor members of the
council
what you have before you today is the
ordinance which is the vehicle Council
would use to adopt the franchise itself
we discussed the franchise in
considerable detail yesterday morning at
the work session this is the same
agreement you saw then
as with last time we have Mr Ken Feldman
appearing here remotely I can see him on
the zoom and I'm prepared if necessary
to display the agreement on the big
monitors if you'd like to see anything
in particular or talk about it with me
or with Ken
one thing I do need to point out and Ken
has not heard me say this but I I don't
think it's going to be too big of a deal
our city clerk caught a typo in exhibit
a she says the address for the Montrose
Pavilion is 1800 Pavilion Drive not 800
Pavilion Drive so we got it wrong we
missed the number one in the address
um so we will need to change that it's
on page 117 of the council's packets if
you want to look at that
um
with that I I'm
such a pleasure
thank you
um we did talk a lot about cable
franchise agreement and um
in this just yesterday right wow we
talked a lot about about franchise
agreements yesterday
um any further questions from Council
tonight before we take action on this
I believe between Mr Morris and Mr
Feldman we were provided very
substantial information I would suggest
that if any member of the public would
like to dig deeper on this that they can
access our recordings of our work
session and and they have a lot of
information they provided for us so if
you're really curious about the nuts and
bolts of franchise agreements There's an
opportunity to look into that you're
absolutely right and I ask that the
documents that were handed out in regard
to that discussion be attached
retroactively to our work session packet
yesterday so that if someone was looking
to dig deeper into this and wanted the
full scope of information they have the
recording as you say and they have all
the attachments right there that we
talked about during that recording so
that's helpful
um I will open up a hearing if there's
no further questions from Council
okay I will open a hearing
opportunity for public comment look at
this please come forward state your name
and your address neighborhood or
subdivision Madam mayor council members
Attorney Morris Mr Feldman John Lee with
Charter Communications I'm the senior
manager for government Affairs I just
want to thank the city Ben and Ken for
the great work on this this came
together I think very quickly very
efficiently and I think we're happy with
the agreement we look forward to
continuing to serve the citizens of of
Montrose thank you great thank you I
hope it you say quickly it seems like
we've been talking about this for a
really long time so I guess Everything's
Relative right okay any other public
comment or I will otherwise I can go
ahead and close this hearing officially
closing the hearing
um
before we take our vote and move on I
want to I want to thank Ken Feldman for
joining us yesterday for our work
session and tonight for our council
meeting and for providing the
specialized legal knowledge that the
city needed to get to this Finish Line
so thank you very much Mr Feldman
okay entertain a motion I'll make a
motion to pass ordinance 2635 on first
reading as presented second
please vote
and that passes unanimously five to zero
we only got to vote once on that only
got to vote once okay moving on to item
14 which is ordinance 2636 on first
reading this is Council consideration of
an ordinance authorizing the conveyance
of an interest in city-owned real estate
pursuant to section
1-9-2 of the official code of the city
of Montrose this is a clear networks
easement and I will turn this over again
to our City Attorney Ben Morris
I think I can take this one
at work session if you'd like absolutely
um so yeah as you said this is for uh
deed of easement to clear networks for
to run fiber underground it's near uh
the Black Canyon Golf Course so there is
a map in the in the packet showing the
exact location but it is
um it's along the southern edge of the
Black Canyon golf course near the
roundabout at Hillcrest and Sunnyside
the easement is on city property outside
of the right-of-way and it's also
already encumbered by other easements
such as the Bureau of wreck drainage
easement and a dmea electrical power
easement
um the location of these men does not
affect the golf course operations it's
again way on that southern Edge along
the fence line
and the installation of the fiber
underground may require removal of some
of the fence panels but those obviously
would be put back in after that's
completed and there would be no effect
to the operation of the golf course
we are recommending approval of this
deed of easement
and if you have any questions I could
answer them
thank you
um we talked about this for a while we
talked about all sorts of reasons that
we would do it this way and why
underground and why we we're seeing this
and it's unusual and all that stuff at
work session so again if you're watching
city council and you're really peaked by
this
um go back and check our work session
because we really dug in no pun intended
okay
then if there are no other questions
wasn't it
is
I vaguely remember something through all
that conversation that we've had about
the FCC of the new regulations so
concerning
the internet or
what you're talking about here is that
we would not have a franchise agreement
with a purveyor of Fiber Optic internet
cable TV is different and it's regulated
differently by the federal government I
think that's what you're referencing
right okay um
it was kind of confused about that sure
thank you excellent question
um mayor Bynum I had passed along a
paper copy of the ordinance on first
reading the ordinance was written for
actual public hearing but the agenda
didn't mention that so I wanted you to
know we will have a formal hearing I
think the difference is the word and the
gavel I'm I'm all for it okay
any other questions from a council on
this item okay then then we will hold a
hearing
and accept public comment
seen no no close the hearing
and accept emotions the mayor moved to
pass ordinance
2636 on first reading as presented
second
thank you please vote
and that passes unanimously thank you
moving on our next item is item 15
ordinance 2630 on second reading again
every ordinance takes two votes of
council to become law the second reading
is for an ordinance and this is Council
consideration
of an ordinance updating Title 1 chapter
2 General provisions and Title 1 chapter
14 Municipal Court of the official code
of the city of Montrose repealing and
replacing Title 1 chapter 2 Section 3
1-2-3 regarding General penalty
repealing and replacing Title 1 chapter
14 section 4 parent 1-14-4
regarding sentencing and repealing and
replacing other code Provisions to
standardize cross-references in the
official code of the city of Montrose
regarding sentencing and it looks like
assistant City attorney Matt and agriaro
came to the diae so you are going to
take us through this one and and tell us
what all that meant
thank you madam mayor of course good
evening
I'm here on a second reading on
ordinance 26 30 uh in general this is to
update our code Provisions regarding
sentencing in Municipal Court
um we this was discussed at a recorded
work session held June 19th and a
regular session for first reading held
July 18th we're passing unanimously
there's no changes made or to highlight
to you tonight if we once at bar
in general in summary the changes are to
conform
1-2-3 and 1-14 for the general
sentencing provisions of the Montrose
Municipal Court to conform them to state
law
and there's the other Provisions uh are
intended to be replaced and basically
cross-reference the other two so there's
only two penalty sections in general
left in the code to increase efficiency
and also to to the extent that uh future
Council switch uh future changes that's
more easily done
and with that I'll take any questions
great thank you I think I really
personally like seeing us clean these up
and get rid of things that aren't lining
up and I really appreciate the fine
tooth come with which you've gone
through the code to make these kind of
changes thank you any questions or
comments from Council
pretty straightforward then I would
accept public comment about this second
reading
okay then would accept emotion Madam
mayor I moved to adopt ordinance 2630 on
second reading as presented second thank
you please vote
and that passes unanimously so we'll
move on to item 16 which is ordinance
2631 a second reading of an ordinance
for the annexation of the dry Cedar
Creek 2 Edition
and I will turn this over to our planner
or William Reese
actually I won't he's out of he's he's
on vacation I'll turn it over to our
planning manager Jace awkward thank you
Madame mayor will Reese is on a
well-deserved vacation and it's good to
be back I think this is my first
presentation actually in front of you
since I took off I've got a presentation
to share
um and I'll I'll make it very brief I
know you all have seen this one a number
of times so let's
welcome back by the way thank you thank
you
yep
your disciples are learning
there we go
um like I mentioned yeah this is really
the the fourth and final time you'll see
this and I do want to mention that this
item uh tracks the item number 17 with
the annexation and zoning ordinance so
um that's just something to keep in mind
as I go through this pretty quickly
so what we're looking at is a 5.06 acre
site that uh the applicant is looking to
Annex into the city limits
um this is within the city's Urban
growth boundary the city of Montrose
sewer service area the city's water
service area and is it's urbanizing in
this general area adjacent to the West
is the recently approved residences at
dry Cedar Creek that's actually under
construction that 60 unit apartment
complex
here's a zoning map of the subject site
and the surrounding area and the
applicants requesting an r3a Zone
district for this property which is
intended to provide for single-family
homes duplexes or and or multi-family
residences the adjacent properties zoned
r3a there to the west to the east you
see some County Zone properties that are
again still within the County's
jurisdiction
uh we brought this application to the
Planning Commission on June 28th where a
unanimous recommendation of approval was
had for the applicants r3a request
this is uh the annexation plat map
nothing no really noteworthy here you
all saw this at the last meeting as well
just shows that the property is
contiguous to City Limits both to the
north and to the West
this is the comprehensive plan feature
land use map it does designate the
area's residential mixed density low
that said the area is changing has been
changing a little bit just over the last
year to two years
um and and so you know don't take that
into full consideration tonight I think
that being said this does meet a number
of comprehensive plan goals
um and that includes infill and
Redevelopment sites well served by
utilities and infrastructure it provides
additional housing a variety in the area
so you have multi-family residences
single-family duplexes it really
provides for that which also provides
for the possibility of an increase to
affordable housing which we know is much
needed within the area
uh this just shows uh that the sites
within growth area one which is really
uh representative of the most cost
effective area to uh Annex uh quite
frankly it's uh welsher by utilities and
infrastructure and
um is in generally these areas that
aren't annexed are kind of in enclaves
and just have all services very close by
so this is really an ideal area for
annexation
uh just to summarize the area is
urbanizing as I mentioned it meets
continuity requirements that one-sixth
state requirement
an annexation agreement has been
completed and the proposal is consistent
with public health safety and Welfare
City annexation policies and the
comprehensive plan as such staff
recommends approval of both ordinances
2631 and 2632.
uh happy to answer any questions
thank you very much let's your
presentation is for two items but now
we're going to go forward and and
consider them separately because they
are separate votes so if we can first
start with does anyone have any
questions about the annexation portion
which is the the first ordinance we're
going to vote on for the second time
okay I will hold a public hearing and
this hearing is for any public comment
for the annexation of dry Cedar Creek 2
Edition
any comments
see none I'll close that hearing and
accept emotion
and a mayor I moved to adopt ordinance
2631 on second reading as presented I'll
second that thank you please vote
and the annexation ordinance passes on
second reading unanimously so now we'll
go to item 17 which is ordinance 2632
which is the ordinance for providing for
the zoning of the dry Cedar Creek 2
Edition as an r3a medium high density
District any questions from Council on
the zoning of the annexation or the
parcel that we just annexed
see none I'll go ahead and hold a public
hearing any comments relative to the
zoning of this parcel
see none I'll close a hearing
metal mayor I moved to adopt ordinance
2632 on second reading as presented
I'll second that
please vote
everyone hit save on their vote to make
it count
okay
I hit save
there it is okay and the zoning
designation is passes unanimously on
second reading okay next up is item 18
ordinance 26 33 on second reading this
is Council consideration of an ordinance
designating the Methodist Episcopal
church and I said that correctly wait
for it we'll explain why the Methodist
Episcopal Church of Montrose at 19 South
Park Avenue Montrose Colorado as a city
of Montrose historic property pursuant
to section 11-3 of the official code of
the city of Montrose and Jace are you
going to also cover this one for the
planning department I will thank you can
you start by explaining why we give it a
weird name
yeah I I will say this is William
Reese's bread and butter and he does an
absolutely phenomenal job of these
presentations so I don't even want to
try and butcher it okay okay one thing I
will say uh is there hasn't been any
changes since you last heard this on
first reading
um this is a building that's uh both
within the the national and the state
historic register or registered with
both of those so uh seems very fitting
to have it locally designated uh in this
capacity and again I think William
really crushed out of the park last time
around so I'm happy to attempt to answer
any questions but I think that's about
it for me okay I think you did a fine
job
thank you he explained that throughout
history
um you know I think people today call it
the Methodist Church but that it had a
history that goes back or it was
officially the Methodist Episcopal
church and so it isn't a typo on our
agenda um that's what it's officially
called
any questions from Council to follow up
on this
um okay great then I will
um hold a hearing
and accept any public comment about this
historic designation for a beautiful
downtown building
seeing none close the here
got a mayor I'll move to adopt ordinance
2633 on second reading as presented I'll
second that thank you please vote
and that passes unanimously moving on
item 19 is a fuel and oil contract award
and this is Council consideration of an
award of a contract to Parish oil of
Montrose to supply the city with bulk
Fuel and oil
Public Works director jimside is going
to tell us about this thank you madam
mayor and Council yeah so this is for a
an award of a contract to Parish oil
our previous Fuel and oil contract is
set to expire this year and so that
actually was with Parish oil for the
last three years they've been a great
vendor to work with and very responsive
and um and great pricing as well
we issued an RFP for this service
earlier this year we received one
complete proposal and that was from
Parish oil
and the pricing within it was um with
within what we expected to see and is
very similar to what we're paying now
um fuel pricing is part of this RFP is
based on a rack rate that
um that we get pricing from throughout
the country and so we're able to
recognize price decreases or increases
as the market changes so it's not a flat
rate we we are it's based on a market
rack rate
and then of um perish or any other
proposer would have the opportunity to
mark that rate up higher for their own
profits but in this case they were very
similar to what we've seen in the past
um and so again nothing unusual here
this is a similar as we saw three years
ago and had good experience over these
past three years so we're recommending
Award of this contract this is a
budgeted expense within our Fleet
internal fund and we you know with the
current fuel prices we don't anticipate
that our budget will be exceeded by uh
by Fuel this year so
thank you very much and we did talk a
little bit about this it seems like we
had just done the contract but we had
made a change in the last year but prior
to that we did have a three-year
contract with Parish that's right yeah
we amended their contract about a year
ago thank you yes any other questions or
comments
okay then I will
um let's see on this one we're holding
public comment any public comment about
our fuel and oil contract award
seeing none would entertain a motion
Madam mayor I moved to award a contract
to Parish oil of Montrose Colorado to
supply the city with bulk Fuel and oil
as presented
thank you please vote
and that passes unanimously so we'll
move on to item 20 which is Cerise Park
storage building expense authorization
this is Council consideration of the
authorization of the expenses for the
construction of a storage building in
Cerise park near the Montrose rotary
Amphitheater in the amount of 183
574.72 cents including a con including a
contract with Striker and Company for
the design and construction Public Works
director Jim scheids yep thank you madam
mayor and Council uh so yeah as you said
this is for a storage building near the
rotary Amphitheater this is a pole barn
style metal building
24 by 48 be sectioned off into four
different
sections of the building that have
multiple uses because that area is
becoming more and more active there's a
lot of different things going on down
there it'll be used by our Police
Department for you know assisting with
events and other Patrols in the park
system
it could be used for storing of
temporary fence panels for large events
and also storage for event organizers
there's many different types of events
that happen there obviously a lot of
non-profits in town utilize a facility
and and would would benefit from a
storage area near the building
um so we did Issue an RFP for the design
and construction of this structure as
well
um and the design on this is is
relatively simple as it's a it's a pole
barn style building we've utilized this
approach on other simple buildings like
Park restrooms and it had had good
success with that style and actually the
last one we did was the north connect
Trail restroom and Striker was the
contractor on that as well so we've had
good experience with this process and
and Striker and Company on this style of
project
and in this case we we only received one
proposal and it was from Striker
um and again we're comfortable working
with them especially on this this type
of project
um if awarded now the project would
likely be completed in the spring of
2024 where we would order building
materials immediately but with the lead
time on those likely we would we would
begin Construction in the early
Springtime as the ground thaws out in
the area
um and that would mean I mean
construction of the building is
relatively short we're only looking at
about a six week time of of construction
so actually we should be completed with
a prior well prior to event season by
time we start kicking off events at the
amphitheater
um hopefully this building is is
completed by then
um but it would likely split over two
years of budget and that
um brings me to the financial portion of
the project
um in that there is a portion of the
project budgeted this year in the police
department admin budget for forty
thousand dollars uh we will receive a
donation from the Black Canyon Rotary
Club in the amount of a hundred thousand
dollars for the project which actually
originated as arpa funding was given to
the club originally from the city I
think we clarified that and explained
some of that at work session in a little
more detail I think Bill does a better
job of explaining that part if if any
more is needed there
but we may see a portion of the project
budgeted in 2024 budget as well
even though the expense would likely be
offset by the the donation we'll receive
the sense the project is spanning two
years we will see a budgeted item for
that expense on both budget years so
with that I can answer any questions and
if and if you have any questions more
about the funding portion I think Bill
could help me on the art book portion of
that
great thank you very much we did talk
about it quite a bit in work session any
follow-up questions from Council any new
thoughts or ideas that you want to talk
about on this
okay and then um I would accept any
public comment on the Cerise Park
storage building expense authorization
seen none would entertain a motion Madam
mayor I moved to approve expenses for
the construction of a storage building
in Cerise park near the Montrose rotary
Amphitheater in the amount of 183
574.72 including a contract with Striker
and Company for the design and
construction as presented I'll second
that
thank you very much please vote
and that passes unanimously 5-0 so we'll
move on to the last
um
item that we're going to be voting on
tonight which is item 21 flashing
crosswalk signage expense authorization
you know I'm really excited about this I
think this is one of those things that
we've all on Council heard folks say we
need better pedestrian Crossing and
specific intersections and it's super
exciting how we're going to go about it
um this is Council consideration of 61
100 in expenditures for the purchase of
solar powered flashing crosswalk
equipment
um and I was going to tell you all this
more about it but really that's um city
engineer Scott Murphy's job so I'll turn
it over to him thank you mayor
um so yeah no major changes since work
session but I'll give a quick overview
for anybody joining
um fresh uh yeah you're exactly right so
it's been a priority for the city to
improve pedestrian safety and mobility
throughout town you combine that with a
lot of the traffic growth we're seeing
it's something we really want to stay
ahead of obviously promote safety and
quality of life for people using our
Trail networks and such
um so this would purchase four different
sets of push button activated flashing
crosswalk beacons so these are similar
to the ones uh that are downtown I think
they're on Cascade ceiling and uncompage
right now
but the style is a little different so
um it they go in at existing crosswalks
with the idea that they would just
improve pedestrian or improved driver
yielding rates
um right now you really catches their
attention as you come by to try and you
know say hey there's someone on the
crosswalk the crosswalk has the
right-of-way
um but they do differ from those style
and that it's in the style of the beacon
so the beacons we're looking at we
researched a lot of different styles
sounds like this is the best to catch
people's attention so instead of being
around the perimeter of the sign like
the ones that are downtown these are
kind of a concentrated block of beacons
so you get a more intense light to catch
the driver's attention
the intersections we're looking at are
main injunction where you have a lot of
traffic kind of coming across between
you know coffee Trader on one side
felonies uh pawn shop and uh
um horse fly there East Oak Grove at the
Rio Grande Rec Trail Crossing so this is
the one near the southern end of the old
Stovers building where you kind of get
onto the old rail bed there and go down
towards the river that Crossing is on a
skew where Rio Grande turns to East Oak
Grove there because of that skew we see
a lot lower yielding rates and we'll
angle those to you know catch the
driver's attention chapita Road this is
technically chupitas technically a
county road but the wreck Trail is kind
of a city maintained asset a lot of our
residents use it going to and from the
southern end of the trail Network or
Cobble Creek neighborhood that one's
kind of unique and it's a mid-block
Crossing it's kind of out there out by
itself a lot of people don't anticipate
pedestrians just popping out so that's
what's brought that one to the top of
the list and then Colorado Avenue and
Rio Grande there was one there it's been
unfunctional for a while this will be a
replacement for that one that's the one
by the field house
and uh
within the packet there is a photo of
what those new style look like we
budgeted 80 000 this year for that so
that does leave 19
000 approximately left over we'll use
that for installation these are
primarily depending on availability be
installed by City cruise we may use some
on-call support for some of the concrete
work but that should be plenty to cover
the balance so that should come in under
budget so
construction product under budget in
2023 that's it's an accomplishment
and uh yeah happy to answer any
questions
great thank you any questions comments
said she was pretty excited about this
and I am too good if you really want to
get me even more excited replace those
ones on Main Street those uh
I've tried that one quite a bit but
sometimes that might go around like this
with the little trees next to them makes
them a little more difficult to see so
thanks
I think we talked about how if this new
style was a lot more effective we could
look at
um
redoing some of the ones we took a first
stab at and and trying to do them over
again if this worked but I think we're
it'll be interesting to see if this is
more effective if it is easier for
drivers to see certainly yep yes this
gives a chance to try both see how the
residents like them see how we like them
how they pulled up like anything we
Implement on traffic we collect data
before and after to kind of see how
they're doing so we can use that to
inform future purchases and the nice
part about the Main Street ones they're
all self-contained units so you know
maybe those if if turns out we like
these better that's not a lost cost or
anything those can get moved to uh
um intersection that maybe has a lower
volume or better visibility without tree
issues or something that um you know
future changed out because there as you
see um you know
between 15 to 20 000 a piece so it's
they're no small expenditure so I want
to make sure we Implement them
effectively throughout I would imagine
that when when you identify that need
and you go out shopping for the best
type that you look at a lot of different
options because I know again it's one of
those things people talk to us about as
much as anything else I get I get emails
with pictures of they've they saw some
cool crosswalks somewhere in the world
and they think it should look like this
I would imagine you look at a lot of
different options and you figure out
which ones are going to be the best fit
for our community can you talk a little
bit just a little bit about that process
so people know you've looked at a lot of
different options yeah absolutely um and
thanks for bringing that up because yeah
we love to talk about this stuff
um so yeah the sky's the limit when it
comes to crosswalk treatments we we work
to standardize it so it meets adoptive
defendable standards so you know there
is some weird stuff out there like they
paint these long 3D crosswalks that look
like you're going to fall off the face
of the Earth if you go through it and in
doing that it catches the driver's
attention well we don't want people to
slam on the brakes thinking they're
going to fall off the edge of the Earth
and Montrose and it's not adopted by any
kind of traffic standard so you know we
get some kind of unique ones like that
that um we we consider but don't
Implement for various reasons mostly
liability
um and then there's other kind of
in-between stuff so you know embedded
flashers in the streets some of those
work a lot better in climates without
ice and without snow removal
and some of the challenges that come
with once you lose that circuit those
those are really high intensity
maintenance so we always try and find
that sweet spot of you know not bleeding
edge not over the top expensive to where
we Implement you know as many so we want
to find that sweet spot of adopted
standards that are defendable because we
want to make sure that if you know
heaven forbid something happened we have
we've done it to a defendable standard
and was done right
but also yeah the economically feasible
so we can do as many as possible because
we don't want to spend a whole bunch of
money on one and completely ignore two
or three others um so I think we're
finding that sweet spot and we resonate
on that and and yeah we've essentially
researched and study and it's a lot a
big part of our job to feed a lot of
calls about these kind of requests and
we got to make sure that we can
Implement consistently
um because everybody would want a
flashing crosswalk on every crosswalk in
town and that's just not feasible
economically
um
and so yeah again trying to find that
sweet spot and we do spend a lot of time
on them um if anybody has any questions
um you just Google city engineer on the
on the city's website um feel free to if
you have ideas of changes too we're
always open and always trying to improve
so feel free to call us anytime perfect
thank you so somebody goes through
crosswalks R Us or cross crosswalk Mart
and see something exciting they can
contact you about it certainly if yeah
if it looks cheap we give them a lot all
these are only two thousand dollars yeah
they last a week you know when you start
getting into commercial grade that lasts
so even you know those downtown ones
they were about 10 000 a piece so you
can see just this jump you know brings
you up five to seven thousand a piece
um and uh yeah and I guess one thing I
forgot to mention too we are also adding
them as part of separate projects on the
new 6700 extension we have two
crosswalks there oh
um on the rec Trail Network and one near
the schools and then we're also adding
one as part of the north six sidewalk
project another mid-block Crossing um
yeah I forgot to mention those they
aren't covered in of this authorization
because they're covered elsewhere under
other authorizations but yeah so we'll
see a significantly large jump in these
being implemented this year great thank
you very much thank you for that
explanation too I think that helps us
give a good answer to people when they
shoot us here's one you could buy on
Amazon you know you could do these
everywhere and yeah okay thank you very
much I would accept public comment on
the flashing crosswalk signage expense
authorization
seen none I would accept emotion I had a
mayor I moved to authorize 61 100 in
expenditures for the purchase of solar
powered flashing crosswalk equipment as
presented I'll second that thank you
please vote
well briefly I saw it it was a 5-0
unanimous vote on authorizing the
expense for
those crosswalk things I'm really
excited to see those around our
community okay
moving on the next item we move on after
all the things we vote on we finish our
meeting with staff reports and city
council comments so I'll start with
staff reports do any staff members have
anything they want to update us on Chief
Hall did I see yeah
and while you walk to the podium let me
say on behalf of all of council because
I think we all made it out to National
Night Out to visit with your officers is
that what you were going to talk about
am I taking your okay okay well the
National Night Out was going strong when
we all came in here for a meeting it
looked like good attendance and it was
really great to see the staff from the
Montrose Police Department out there and
the dogs and all the kids it was really
cool Incredible attendance actually I
just texted Commander Woody it's still
going and it's
still going strong so right after this
if you want to go for round two please
do also just a reminder today we
released the theft reduction in
prevention Grant I think we've talked
about that quite a bit but that's using
2A funds to help support our local
businesses to install security
infrastructure it is a competitive grant
program application the application
process is now open and will close
August 31st
not just a community reminder that's all
I have okay that that's a great
opportunity for businesses in our
community to take advantage of some
grant money to improve the security of
their of their business and if they put
a little bit of money in the city will
put even more in that's correct if they
uh if they put in up to 2500 the city
will match uh that Grant with another
twenty five hundred dollars so uh the
initial uh Grant offering is 2 500. if
you uh put in 2500 of your own we will
offer up if you're accepted in the
program another 2500 so 7 500 total
between both entities it's a lot of
money to put in some needed security
improvements you have to go through a
crime prevention through environmental
design analysis that our officers will
provide free of charge and whether
you're going through the application
process or not just give us a call we'd
love to do that anyway so great all good
stuff okay thank you thank you other
staff who want to make comments does
someone want to talk about Montrose U
because I believe the application period
for that is open now
okay maybe I'll talk about Montrose
University
um I I heard this morning that the
application period is open for people
who want to participate in the Montrose
University program it's a leadership
program and a Montrose 101 type thing
that meets once a month from the fall to
next spring and the applications and
everything are on the Montrose the city
of Montrose website if folks want to
know more about that I think quite a
number of us have done the program and
could tell you it's a great way to get
to know a cohort of peers that you do
the program with but also learn a lot
more about our community so that's cool
anything else from staff
okay
and then we'll move on to come yeah
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effective and helping to keep Montrose
its rule
rural designation USDA
and it was through his effort that we
are continuing to be considered
and thus uh
grandstand and other
benefits to the city itself where we're
going to keep them for a while uh thank
you sir appreciate that and certainly
not a single-handed effort we've got a
staff member here Chris ottinger who
helped out tremendously have a number of
housing partners that we were in touch
with on this but yeah at the end of the
day it helps us out from a city
standpoint but it helps the community
out this is a big deal as far as that
designation goes in terms of grant
funding and and really keeping a lot of
the programs alive so we're happy that
that was retained
thank you
staff comments I'll move on to any
additional city council comments
you guys all thought this was going to
take two hours but here we go
um I do want to make a comment first off
um counselor Frank and I had the
opportunity to attend the Montrose
County Fair and to attend the junior
livestock auction on Saturday and it was
really great to see the youth in our
community who have put a lot of hard
work into raising their animals and we
have a few folks within the city of
Montrose city employees whose kids
participated and so I just want to give
them a shout out
um
Zachary Johnson Works in as a trash and
recycle operator for the city of
Montrose and his daughter Carly Brock
she participated and was awarded grand
champion in the market beef category so
that's really impressive our Deputy
police chief Tim Cox his daughter Haley
took first in her Market class with her
hog and Grand Champion intermediate
Showmanship for showing Hogs and grand
championship cake decorating in her
class multi-talented young woman
daughter Mackenzie got third place in
fifth place with her Hogs and did well
in Showmanship with her hog and Haley
um I think that means McKenzie Mckenzie
was also in the top 10 in the state in
livestock judging and Becky scriffney
with our tax and accounts receivables um
department and I got the pleasure of
sitting with her while she was so proud
of her daughters she has three daughters
Amy May and Sophia and Amy took first in
market for her weight class and was a
Reserve Grand Champion in beef
Showmanship daughter May was fourth in
market for her weight class and daughter
Sophia a third in market for her weight
class and after sitting with her and
sitting with the girl's Uncle John's
Arcus who also works for the city I kind
of now know what that means and we had a
wonderful time and thank you to Tei Rock
drills and you and your wife who
purchased a steer and a hog at the at
the auction it was really enjoyable so
my hat's off to those kids who work
really hard
any additional comments from Council
okay then we will entertain a motion to
be adjourned so move we're adjourned
that's good we're done thank you