These kids are just doing this spitefully.
It's just like a drag strip right there.
Right on. Victoria.
So that's my comment for today.
Thank you very much, Miss Wiggins Council.
Bear with me for a second.
This is my.
Feel free to reach out to individual.
Yeah, we can talk about it.
Thank you so much.
Thank you
to the two community members to addressing your government.
Is there any other member of the public wishing
to address your government this evening?
Seeing none, we'll close public comment at 709 and move on to item three.
Reports, items and comments from Mayor and Council.
Councilman hefty, like to start us, please?
Yes. Good evening.
Thank you for coming.
Members of the public that and appreciate your comments as well.
We always like to hear from members
of the public what's happening in our community.
Thank you.
We did have the Civic Center celebration at the for the Civic Center
of Town of Parker Academy this past week, and all of us made that.
That was a four hour kickoff at the schoolhouse,
and the mayor and the town manager spoke along with other leaders at that event.
I also attended the Parker Advent Hospital in Patient
advocacy meeting for a separate board that I'm on.
That hospital asked me to be on to discuss how to beautify
the hospital, the interior of the hospital and the grounds.
We also had the
Confluence Company, Confluence Company topping out celebration
in downtown Parker, right across from the library.
This was a celebration for the progress that Confluence Company is making
on building out downtown Parker, one of the main contractors.
And we also had the Town Hall opening celebration as well
that all of us came to.
The mayor did speak at that, as well as our town manager
and the construction company JH construction.
Thank you.
Thank you, Councilman to Mr.
Franzen, please. So.
In attendance
with Council member Heft on several of those events.
One that I also attended was the legacy campus ribbon cutting.
Really exciting to see what
what the school district has done with that campus out on on Lincoln.
It's in The Lone Tree, but that facility serves a ton of Parker students.
Really neat to see.
Excited for
that educational opportunity for kids who maybe don't have a college path.
So that's it.
Thank you, Mr. Franzen. Mr.. Please.
Thank you Eddie, for 70
the the or the item of note would be continuing the road
widening on E4 70 north from 104th to I-76.
The early stages.
It's a design build GMG.
CMC is is the term.
That's where the authority works
hand in hand with the contractor to get the best pricing.
That is just starting up.
We we passed a contract amendment and a task order to get construction
management services on on the team.
So look forward to that
within the next couple of years getting going and hopefully creating more,
you know, more roadway to reduce congestion on the north side of town.
Thank you.
Thank you sir. Miss Wilkes, please.
So I attended
a ribbon cutting for the Grade Power Learning Center, which was phenomenal.
They do catering or.
I don't know if caterers is the best word we're going to say.
They do customized tutoring for people from all ages.
And one of the things that I loved about it
is they actually have somebody on staff that is tutoring our, our military.
So in order to move up in the military ranks, you have to pass a certain test.
And so he's actually tutoring these military people, and two of them scored
the highest out of their whole group after doing this tutoring.
So they get to move on and apply
for different leadership levels in the military, which I didn't even know,
you had to take a comprehension test to do that.
So I just thought that was incredible.
I sit on the Denver Metro Association of Realtors Government Affairs
Committee board, and we had our meeting last week,
and we're specifically focusing on saying attainable housing and affordable
housing is too broad of a picture.
We're specifically focusing on what does it take on a legislative side
to make adjustments to the laws that are prohibiting these entry
level homes from coming in?
And so that's our that's our main focus with that.
And then the Parker night out with our PD, I wasn't able to attend
because I had a sick kiddo.
However, I heard it was a phenomenal night and I saw the pictures
and it looked like everyone had a great time with that.
So I just want to give kudos because we always do a wonderful job
of making sure that people
can come and interact, and our citizens
get to see what it's about, and the kids just have a great time.
Thank you, Miss Wilkes. Miss Barrington, please.
I did a lot of those same things, too,
and I will just pass the mic to you had one that I left off specifically.
Oh, I also attended the Downtown Business Alliance monthly meeting on Wednesday.
But a lot of the things that other council members have already discussed.
So I'm opening up the mic to council Member Hendricks again,
because he's always got such a full schedule to report and did a.
Thank you, Mister Hendricks.
Thank you, Miss Barrington, for myself, last week started on Wednesday.
I had the Metro full caucus, which is 38 Metro mayors meet together
in a room every month and discuss issues pertaining to all of us,
whether that be e-bikes or or whatever the case may be.
And great meeting.
We actually had nine news
there to talk about the organization and then followed on.
By Friday we had the city of Commerce city came down
and the city manager for elected officials economic development team to walk
Main Street to see what it is we've done down here and how it's sparked
the art and the different things that have that have happened downtown.
And so there are very curious and wanted to know what we did.
So we spent three hours with them and had a great
mid-morning with Commerce City.
Got to show off our town, which is always fun.
Let's see then the Tuesday the 11th, I had the honor as a mayor to sit down
on a panel of seven mayors in front of a young leadership group.
25 of the members were German exchange business people,
and the other 25 were American business
folk aged between 25 and 35, I believe.
And we talked about our communities and the issues facing us and
and what we can do in our, in our state to, to make it better.
Great group. Incredibly brilliant. Great questions.
Got to do breakout and sit with a table of them for half an hour.
And just incredible young minds.
Then I was on a CML zoom, the last step to CML hiring
a deputy manager, and the decision was made.
And Kevin Balmer has hired Evelyn Baker to be the new deputy manager of CML.
The legacy
campus ribbon cutting, as was stated, is being topping out
and then the town hall ribbon cutting incredibly well attended.
Got to see some old faces, although
for the town of Parker we got to see some
some folks from the state and some other towns were here.
So just an incredible event.
I started that morning though,
with a ribbon cutting for Shake Shack, which is in the former Wendy's space
next to when next to chick fil A up by the hospital.
So great business, great core
principles and honor stand there.
The GM by the way as a Parker eight.
And so really really cool that he got his store in his own town.
And then I headed Thursday
I headed down to Alamosa and spent all day all evening,
Thursday evening and Friday in Alamosa with the Metropolitan.
I'm sorry.
Municipal Leadership Academy learned about good governance and sat
with a room of 23 other elected officials to share what we do
and how we do it and why we do it. And just an incredible event.
And anytime I can get down to the Valley, truly enjoy it.
It's a beautiful, beautiful part of Colorado.
And that was my two weeks.
Next up in front of US Council is Consent agenda.
Consent agenda items are considered to be routine
and will be enacted with one motion and vote.
There will be no separate discussion for consent agenda items
unless council votes to remove an item for individual discussion.
Ordinances on the consent
agenda are for introduction only and will not be removed for discussion.
Council.
In front of you are three items I would entertain a motion on consent agenda.
I move to approve consent agenda items A through C.
I have a motion from Wilkes to have a second.
Second.
I have a second from Hendrix. Hendrix. Have you vote?
Yes. Berrington. Yes. Wilkes.
Diack. Yes. Franzen. Yes. And have to. Yes.
And consensus passes unanimously.
Next up are one and only item in front of us this evening.
Item five.
Ordinances, ordinance number 3.375.1.
On second reading, a bill for an ordinance affirming the passage of Emergency
Ordinance Number 3.375.
Series of 2026, a bill for an emergency ordinance
to impose a temporary suspension for nine months in duration
on the acceptance and processing of any application for any land
use approval or building permit for the development or construction
of drone dispatch and delivery facilities, or related use
within the corporate limits of the Town of Parker.
Present tonight, acting Town Attorney Lindsay Jordan, ma'am.
Good evening, Council and mayor.
We're here tonight for the ordinance that was just read into the record,
which is the completion of a formality of a charter provision
in which you will vote on whether you will affirm
an emergency ordinance that you passed on July 20th pursuant to your charter.
Section 7.6.
All emergency
motions shall not be in effect longer than 90 days after passage,
unless Town Council by subsequent ordinance, affirms the emergency ordinance
for a longer period than 90 days.
That's what we're here to do today.
We're here to affirm the emergency ordinance that was passed in July
or on July 20th, which extended an emergency that 90 days.
So the emergency motion that you emergency
ordinance that you passed in July goes for nine months.
And so without this affirming of that emergency ordinance
to go past 90 days, it would expire and community development
would have to come back in 90 days and get to that emergency order.
I keep saying motion.
So sorry old litigator in me ordinance before you.
What this allows is this allows for that emergency ordinance
that puts that temporary suspension on accepting and processing
land use applications for drone delivery facility
or dispatch for 90 or for nine months, rather than the 90 days.
The reason that community development needs it for the nine
months is that this will give it adequate time for them, adequate time for them
to work with consultants to find out what are the best regulations,
you know, that would comply with the FAA, with state law.
Also, it
allows them to have proper outreach with the community so that they can talk.
They can have community public
feedback on what it would look like to have this kind
of facility and dispatch centers in Parker,
as well as having interviews and working with stakeholders.
If the 90 days won't give them enough time,
then we're also going to run into holidays, right?
So as we get closer to the holiday seasons, it's harder to coordinate
schedules.
So allowing this nine months suspension gives them
the adequate time that they don't do a knee jerk reaction regulation, that it's
something that can be worked with and it best serves the community.
It has been in the past, used before
when the town needed to consult its ordinance on storage units.
So this is not a new thing.
This is something that you have used in the past.
This is now just that formalized formalizing
the emergency ordinance to go past that 90 days.
So you've already discussed the merits of what that temporary prohibition is.
Now we're just here
to affirm the fact that it's okay for it to go for nine months out,
other than the 90 days.
And so I would move for you to approve this ordinance.
Thank you, Madam Attorney.
We'll start with questions for the staff.
Todd, you'd like to start us, please?
No questions, Miss Barrington.
Any questions? A couple questions.
Do we even know
what we can regulate?
And that's a pretty broad question.
But because the FAA
regulates the airspace,
we can we can just talk about noise.
What?
That's just like an example. But
so part of it would be for them to work with consultants that have done this
in other jurisdictions where you can regulate hours of operations.
We can we can regulate the
where the facilities are located, things like that,
which right now is not in the code right now.
It's basically all you could regulate would be screening and noise
and that's it.
So this allows them to work with the consultants who have the experience
with this kind of facility on where's the best place to put them.
How does it how do you
how can you regulate it
so that it doesn't interfere with public safety or privacy?
Like it just shows you like, yeah,
you can't regulate the airspace per se, but you can put regulations in place
to make sure that that kind of business is best suited for the community.
And so they can do their job, but also not, you know,
have it in locations
that are not desirable for the community.
Okay.
And so that's going to take longer than 90 days.
Sure, sure.
So but instead of waiting for the whole nine months,
will we get an update before as as it's going?
Or does the whole study have to happen first?
So the goal is
that they would have the ordinance to present to you within that nine months,
but there will be updates if there's needs for a study session
to to tell you this is the direction, what it's going.
I am sure community development would be on board with that, but
the goal is like when this expires is that there will be an ordinance
that they have ready to present to you so that it can go into effect.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mrs. Wilkes, please.
Yeah.
I just want to make sure everybody is clear.
We're not saying no to these businesses coming in.
What we're saying is we need time to make a highly educated decision.
And we don't have the time to do that right now.
So rather than making a knee jerk decision or allowing something
to slip through the cracks, we need time to do our due diligence
to make sure we're educated before we can make a decision
that's going to impact the town, which is correct.
Would you like to frame that?
Thank you.
Never mind that. That is that is correct.
Technology has evolved quicker than the code has.
Okay, perfect. Thank you.
Thank you, Miss Wilkes. Mr..
No questions.
Sorry, Mr..
Franzen.
One question. More.
More clarity.
So this is
we have we have a current emergency ordinance that we passed in July.
As you outlined,
town chat or home rule.
Chapter.
Charter. Charter. Thank you. Charter.
Our home rule charter basically says that we have to then now pass
a secondary ordinance that extends beyond that 90 days.
And we're doing this before the 90 days expires.
Correct. And we're pushing it to nine months.
Correct.
In total, not nine months from now. Correct.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Franzen.
Miss, have to please. No questions.
Thank you very much.
With that, we'll open up public comment.
725 any member of the public wishing to address Council
on this specific item, please make yourself known.
Seeing none, we'll close public comment at 725 and go back for deliberation.
Miss hefty, let's start us, please.
Yes,
we heard the merits of this matter
back in July about the drone delivery system.
So we really don't need to go over those anymore.
But what I would like to say in general is that Parker
and this council strives to be thoughtful
about what we introduce into the town.
And this is something new with the drone delivery.
And when we need to make improvements to
existing things in the town as well, we do that.
We are a proactive council.
We listen to our residents and we do take action.
And the mayor is excellent
about getting back to our residents on a variety of matters.
And this is something that we need to take our time with right now
to figure out how we're going to move forward
with drone delivery, and that's what we're doing.
Thank you.
Thank you, Councilwoman, very much.
Mr. Franzen. Please
know again, you know,
I kind of set this up in the question, right?
We already have a 90 day ordinance imposed.
The intent when we discuss this in July was nine months,
and this is just ratifying what we had already intended to do,
so that we're meeting our charter.
Thank you, Mr.. Friends. Mr..
Yeah.
To build you know, I think I think for us as,
as technology or opportunities are presented to us,
we want to ensure that the long range effects or unintended
consequences are not negative or detrimental to the community.
When when things like this come, the first of its of its nature, of its sort,
we we need to make sure
that we fully understand research,
get with consultants and do things in the best interest of the community.
So we don't have any things that we approved
that would ultimately create challenges for our citizens.
So thank you.
Thank you. Mr..
Councilwoman Wilkes, please.
I mean, I don't need to reiterate what's already been said.
At the end of the day,
we're going to we're going to do what's right,
and we're going to take our time to make sure that the decision we make
is right for everybody.
So I'm in support of this.
Thank you, Miss Wilkes.
Miss Barrington, please.
I continue to support this
moratorium.
I just think we don't even know what we don't know.
And the technology is moving so fast that I think it's it's very reasonable.
Nine months is a reasonable time to figure this out.
Thank you, Mr. Barrington.
Mr. Hendricks, I'm going to support as well.
Thank you.
Yeah. Thank you.
Council, I understand I wasn't here in the 20th,
but looking into this prior and then and then after the fact,
there are a lot of towns that are facing this very question,
and this nine months gives us a chance to let some of those challenges
work their way through.
And maybe there is more powers than we recognize currently,
but we'll find that out in a later date.
And we don't want to be first to the table.
So I'd appreciate a motion here.
I move to approve ordinance number 3.375.1
on second reading, second of a motion from Wilkes, in a second from Franzen.
And how do you vote? Yes.
Barrington. Yes. Wilkes I duck.
Yes. Franzen. Yes. Yes.
And that passes unanimously.
And unfortunately for the gentleman in the back that just walked out,
there was no further business in front of this council. And we are adjourned.