[7:57] These kids are just doing this spitefully.
[8:00] It's just like a drag strip right there.
[8:02] Right on. Victoria.
[8:04] So that's my comment for today.
[8:07] Thank you very much, Miss Wiggins Council.
[8:10] Bear with me for a second.
[8:17] This is my.
[8:20] Feel free to reach out to individual.
[8:22] Yeah, we can talk about it.
[8:25] Thank you so much.
[8:33] Thank you
[8:33] to the two community members
to addressing your government.
[8:36] Is there any other member of the public
wishing
[8:38] to address your government this evening?
[8:40] Seeing none, we'll close public comment
at 709 and move on to item three.
[8:45] Reports, items and comments
from Mayor and Council.
[8:48] Councilman hefty,
like to start us, please?
[8:50] Yes. Good evening.
[8:53] Thank you for coming.
[8:53] Members of the public
that and appreciate your comments as well.
[8:57] We always like to hear from members
[8:58] of the public
what's happening in our community.
[9:00] Thank you.
[9:01] We did have the Civic Center celebration
at the for the Civic Center
[9:06] of Town of Parker Academy
this past week, and all of us made that.
[9:11] That was a four hour kickoff
at the schoolhouse,
[9:16] and the mayor and the town manager spoke
along with other leaders at that event.
[9:22] I also attended the Parker
Advent Hospital in Patient
[9:26] advocacy meeting for a separate board
that I'm on.
[9:31] That hospital asked me to be on to discuss
how to beautify
[9:34] the hospital, the interior of
the hospital and the grounds.
[9:38] We also had the
[9:39] Confluence Company, Confluence Company
topping out celebration
[9:44] in downtown Parker, right
across from the library.
[9:48] This was a celebration for the progress
that Confluence Company is making
[9:53] on building out downtown Parker,
one of the main contractors.
[9:58] And we also had the Town Hall
opening celebration as well
[10:02] that all of us came to.
[10:03] The mayor did speak at that,
as well as our town manager
[10:06] and the construction company
JH construction.
[10:10] Thank you.
[10:12] Thank you, Councilman to Mr.
[10:14] Franzen, please. So.
[10:20] In attendance
[10:21] with Council member Heft
on several of those events.
[10:24] One that I also attended
was the legacy campus ribbon cutting.
[10:30] Really exciting to see what
[10:34] what the school district has done
with that campus out on on Lincoln.
[10:38] It's in The Lone Tree, but that facility
serves a ton of Parker students.
[10:45] Really neat to see.
[10:46] Excited for
[10:47] that educational opportunity for kids
who maybe don't have a college path.
[10:51] So that's it.
[10:53] Thank you, Mr. Franzen. Mr.. Please.
[10:55] Thank you Eddie, for 70
[10:58] the the or the item of note
would be continuing the road
[11:03] widening on E4 70
north from 104th to I-76.
[11:08] The early stages.
[11:10] It's a design build GMG.
[11:12] CMC is is the term.
[11:15] That's where the authority works
[11:16] hand in hand with the contractor
to get the best pricing.
[11:21] That is just starting up.
[11:22] We we passed a contract amendment
and a task order to get construction
[11:27] management services on on the team.
[11:31] So look forward to that
[11:33] within the next couple of years
getting going and hopefully creating more,
[11:37] you know, more roadway to reduce
congestion on the north side of town.
[11:42] Thank you.
[11:43] Thank you sir. Miss Wilkes, please.
[11:46] So I attended
[11:48] a ribbon cutting for the Grade Power
Learning Center, which was phenomenal.
[11:52] They do catering or.
[11:54] I don't know if caterers is the best word
we're going to say.
[11:57] They do customized tutoring for people
from all ages.
[12:02] And one of
the things that I loved about it
[12:03] is they actually have somebody on staff
that is tutoring our, our military.
[12:08] So in order to move up in the military
ranks, you have to pass a certain test.
[12:12] And so he's actually tutoring these
military people, and two of them scored
[12:16] the highest out of their whole group
after doing this tutoring.
[12:19] So they get to move on and apply
[12:21] for different leadership levels
in the military, which I didn't even know,
[12:25] you had to take a comprehension test
to do that.
[12:26] So I just thought that was incredible.
[12:28] I sit on the Denver Metro
Association of Realtors Government Affairs
[12:32] Committee board,
and we had our meeting last week,
[12:34] and we're specifically focusing on saying
attainable housing and affordable
[12:38] housing is too broad of a picture.
[12:39] We're specifically focusing on
what does it take on a legislative side
[12:43] to make adjustments to the laws
that are prohibiting these entry
[12:46] level homes from coming in?
[12:47] And so that's our
that's our main focus with that.
[12:50] And then the Parker night out
with our PD, I wasn't able to attend
[12:55] because I had a sick kiddo.
[12:56] However, I heard it was a phenomenal night
and I saw the pictures
[12:59] and it looked like
everyone had a great time with that.
[13:01] So I just want to give kudos
because we always do a wonderful job
[13:04] of making sure that people
[13:05] can come and interact, and our citizens
[13:07] get to see what it's about,
and the kids just have a great time.
[13:10] Thank you,
Miss Wilkes. Miss Barrington, please.
[13:14] I did a lot of those same things, too,
[13:17] and I will just pass the mic to
you had one that I left off specifically.
[13:22] Oh, I also attended the Downtown Business
Alliance monthly meeting on Wednesday.
[13:27] But a lot of the things that other council
members have already discussed.
[13:31] So I'm opening up the mic to council
Member Hendricks again,
[13:35] because he's always got such
a full schedule to report and did a.
[13:42] Thank you, Mister Hendricks.
[13:43] Thank you, Miss Barrington, for myself,
last week started on Wednesday.
[13:49] I had the Metro full caucus,
which is 38 Metro mayors meet together
[13:53] in a room every month and discuss issues
pertaining to all of us,
[13:56] whether that be e-bikes or or whatever
the case may be.
[14:00] And great meeting.
[14:02] We actually had nine news
[14:03] there to talk about the organization
and then followed on.
[14:07] By Friday
we had the city of Commerce city came down
[14:11] and the city manager for elected officials
economic development team to walk
[14:16] Main Street to see what it is
we've done down here and how it's sparked
[14:20] the art and the different things that have
that have happened downtown.
[14:25] And so there are very curious
and wanted to know what we did.
[14:28] So we spent three hours
with them and had a great
[14:32] mid-morning with Commerce City.
[14:34] Got to show off our town,
which is always fun.
[14:38] Let's see then the Tuesday the 11th,
I had the honor as a mayor to sit down
[14:43] on a panel of seven mayors
in front of a young leadership group.
[14:48] 25 of the members were German
exchange business people,
[14:54] and the other 25 were American business
[14:57] folk aged between 25 and 35, I believe.
[15:00] And we talked about our communities
and the issues facing us and
[15:05] and what we can do in our, in our state
to, to make it better.
[15:08] Great group. Incredibly brilliant.
Great questions.
[15:11] Got to do breakout and sit
with a table of them for half an hour.
[15:15] And just incredible young minds.
[15:17] Then I was on a CML zoom,
the last step to CML hiring
[15:22] a deputy manager,
and the decision was made.
[15:26] And Kevin Balmer has hired Evelyn Baker
to be the new deputy manager of CML.
[15:34] The legacy
[15:35] campus ribbon cutting, as was stated,
is being topping out
[15:39] and then the town hall
ribbon cutting incredibly well attended.
[15:41] Got to see some old faces, although
[15:44] for the town of Parker we got to see some
[15:47] some folks from the state
and some other towns were here.
[15:50] So just an incredible event.
[15:51] I started that morning though,
[15:53] with a ribbon cutting for Shake Shack,
which is in the former Wendy's space
[15:57] next to when next to chick
fil A up by the hospital.
[16:01] So great business, great core
[16:05] principles and honor stand there.
[16:09] The GM by the way as a Parker eight.
[16:10] And so really really cool
that he got his store in his own town.
[16:15] And then I headed Thursday
[16:18] I headed down to Alamosa and spent all day
all evening,
[16:21] Thursday evening and Friday in Alamosa
with the Metropolitan.
[16:25] I'm sorry.
[16:26] Municipal Leadership Academy
learned about good governance and sat
[16:30] with a room of 23 other elected officials
to share what we do
[16:34] and how we do it and why we do it.
And just an incredible event.
[16:37] And anytime I can get down to the Valley,
truly enjoy it.
[16:41] It's a beautiful,
beautiful part of Colorado.
[16:43] And that was my two weeks.
[16:45] Next up in front of US
Council is Consent agenda.
[16:48] Consent
agenda items are considered to be routine
[16:50] and will be enacted with one motion
and vote.
[16:53] There will be no separate discussion
for consent agenda items
[16:55] unless council votes to remove an item
for individual discussion.
[16:58] Ordinances on the consent
[16:59] agenda are for introduction only
and will not be removed for discussion.
[17:03] Council.
[17:03] In front of you are three items I would
entertain a motion on consent agenda.
[17:07] I move to approve consent
agenda items A through C.
[17:10] I have a motion from Wilkes
to have a second.
[17:13] Second.
[17:14] I have a second from Hendrix. Hendrix.
Have you vote?
[17:16] Yes. Berrington. Yes. Wilkes.
[17:18] Diack. Yes. Franzen. Yes.
And have to. Yes.
[17:21] And consensus passes unanimously.
[17:24] Next up are one
and only item in front of us this evening.
[17:26] Item five.
[17:27] Ordinances, ordinance number 3.375.1.
[17:31] On second reading, a bill for an ordinance
affirming the passage of Emergency
[17:34] Ordinance Number 3.375.
[17:38] Series of 2026,
a bill for an emergency ordinance
[17:41] to impose a temporary suspension
for nine months in duration
[17:45] on the acceptance and processing
of any application for any land
[17:49] use approval or building permit
for the development or construction
[17:53] of drone dispatch and delivery facilities,
or related use
[17:57] within the corporate limits
of the Town of Parker.
[17:59] Present tonight, acting Town Attorney
Lindsay Jordan, ma'am.
[18:02] Good evening, Council and mayor.
[18:05] We're here tonight for the ordinance
that was just read into the record,
[18:08] which is the completion of a formality
of a charter provision
[18:12] in which you will vote on
whether you will affirm
[18:15] an emergency ordinance that you passed
on July 20th pursuant to your charter.
[18:21] Section 7.6.
[18:25] All emergency
[18:26] motions shall not be in effect
longer than 90 days after passage,
[18:30] unless Town Council by subsequent
ordinance, affirms the emergency ordinance
[18:34] for a longer period than 90 days.
[18:36] That's what we're here to do today.
[18:37] We're here to affirm the emergency
ordinance that was passed in July
[18:41] or on July 20th,
which extended an emergency that 90 days.
[18:46] So the emergency motion
that you emergency
[18:49] ordinance that you passed in
July goes for nine months.
[18:53] And so without this
affirming of that emergency ordinance
[18:57] to go past 90 days,
it would expire and community development
[19:01] would have to come back in 90 days
and get to that emergency order.
[19:06] I keep saying motion.
[19:07] So sorry old litigator in me
ordinance before you.
[19:10] What this allows is
this allows for that emergency ordinance
[19:14] that puts that temporary suspension
on accepting and processing
[19:19] land use applications
for drone delivery facility
[19:23] or dispatch for 90 or for nine months,
rather than the 90 days.
[19:27] The reason that community development
needs it for the nine
[19:30] months is that this will give it adequate
time for them, adequate time for them
[19:35] to work with consultants to find out
what are the best regulations,
[19:39] you know, that would comply with the FAA,
with state law.
[19:43] Also, it
[19:43] allows them to have proper outreach
with the community so that they can talk.
[19:47] They can have community public
[19:50] feedback on what it would look like
to have this kind
[19:54] of facility
and dispatch centers in Parker,
[19:57] as well as having interviews
and working with stakeholders.
[20:00] If the 90 days
won't give them enough time,
[20:04] then we're also going to run
into holidays, right?
[20:07] So as we get closer to the holiday
seasons, it's harder to coordinate
[20:10] schedules.
[20:10] So allowing this nine months suspension
gives them
[20:15] the adequate time that they don't do
a knee jerk reaction regulation, that it's
[20:19] something that can be worked with
and it best serves the community.
[20:23] It has been in the past, used before
[20:27] when the town needed
to consult its ordinance on storage units.
[20:31] So this is not a new thing.
[20:33] This is something
that you have used in the past.
[20:35] This is now just that formalized
formalizing
[20:38] the emergency ordinance
to go past that 90 days.
[20:43] So you've already discussed the merits
of what that temporary prohibition is.
[20:47] Now we're just here
[20:48] to affirm the fact that it's
okay for it to go for nine months out,
[20:52] other than the 90 days.
[20:53] And so I would move for you
to approve this ordinance.
[20:56] Thank you, Madam Attorney.
[20:58] We'll start with questions for the staff.
[21:00] Todd, you'd like to start us, please?
[21:02] No questions, Miss Barrington.
[21:03] Any questions? A couple questions.
[21:08] Do we even know
[21:11] what we can regulate?
[21:13] And that's a pretty broad question.
[21:15] But because the FAA
[21:18] regulates the airspace,
[21:22] we can we can just talk about noise.
[21:26] What?
[21:28] That's just like an example. But
[21:31] so part of it would be for them to work
with consultants that have done this
[21:35] in other jurisdictions where you can
regulate hours of operations.
[21:38] We can we can regulate the
[21:42] where the facilities are located,
things like that,
[21:44] which right now is not in the code
right now.
[21:46] It's basically all you could
regulate would be screening and noise
[21:50] and that's it.
[21:52] So this allows them to work with
the consultants who have the experience
[21:56] with this kind of facility
on where's the best place to put them.
[22:00] How does it how do you
[22:01] how can you regulate it
[22:02] so that it doesn't interfere
with public safety or privacy?
[22:06] Like it just shows you like, yeah,
[22:07] you can't regulate the airspace per se,
but you can put regulations in place
[22:11] to make sure that that kind of business
is best suited for the community.
[22:17] And so they can do their
job, but also not, you know,
[22:22] have it in locations
[22:23] that are not desirable for the community.
[22:26] Okay.
[22:26] And so that's going to take longer than 90
days.
[22:28] Sure, sure.
[22:30] So but instead of
waiting for the whole nine months,
[22:34] will we get an update before
as as it's going?
[22:38] Or does the whole study
have to happen first?
[22:41] So the goal is
[22:42] that they would have the ordinance
to present to you within that nine months,
[22:46] but there will be updates
if there's needs for a study session
[22:50] to to tell you this is the direction,
what it's going.
[22:53] I am sure community development
would be on board with that, but
[22:56] the goal is like when this expires is
that there will be an ordinance
[23:00] that they have ready to present to you
so that it can go into effect.
[23:04] Thank you.
[23:05] Thank you, Mrs. Wilkes, please.
[23:07] Yeah.
[23:07] I just want to make sure
everybody is clear.
[23:10] We're not saying no
to these businesses coming in.
[23:13] What we're saying is we need time
to make a highly educated decision.
[23:17] And we don't have the time to do that
right now.
[23:19] So rather than making a knee jerk decision
or allowing something
[23:22] to slip through the cracks,
we need time to do our due diligence
[23:25] to make sure we're educated
before we can make a decision
[23:28] that's going to impact the town,
which is correct.
[23:31] Would you like to frame that?
[23:32] Thank you.
[23:32] Never mind that. That is that is correct.
[23:36] Technology has evolved
quicker than the code has.
[23:38] Okay, perfect. Thank you.
[23:41] Thank you, Miss Wilkes. Mr..
[23:42] No questions.
[23:47] Sorry, Mr..
[23:48] Franzen.
[23:49] One question. More.
[23:51] More clarity.
[23:53] So this is
[23:56] we have we have a current emergency
ordinance that we passed in July.
[23:59] As you outlined,
[24:01] town chat or home rule.
[24:08] Chapter.
[24:08] Charter. Charter. Thank you. Charter.
[24:11] Our home rule charter basically
says that we have to then now pass
[24:15] a secondary ordinance
that extends beyond that 90 days.
[24:18] And we're doing this before the 90 days
expires.
[24:20] Correct.
And we're pushing it to nine months.
[24:23] Correct.
[24:23] In total,
not nine months from now. Correct.
[24:26] Thank you.
[24:28] Thank you, Mr. Franzen.
[24:29] Miss, have to please. No questions.
[24:31] Thank you very much.
[24:32] With that, we'll open up public comment.
[24:34] 725 any member of the public
wishing to address Council
[24:38] on this specific item,
please make yourself known.
[24:41] Seeing none, we'll close public comment
at 725 and go back for deliberation.
[24:45] Miss hefty, let's start us, please.
[24:48] Yes,
[24:50] we heard the merits of this matter
[24:52] back in
July about the drone delivery system.
[24:55] So we really don't
need to go over those anymore.
[24:58] But what I would like to say in general
is that Parker
[25:02] and this council strives to be thoughtful
[25:04] about what we introduce into the town.
[25:08] And this is something new
with the drone delivery.
[25:11] And when we need to make improvements to
[25:15] existing things in the town as well,
we do that.
[25:18] We are a proactive council.
[25:20] We listen to our residents
and we do take action.
[25:25] And the mayor is excellent
[25:28] about getting back to our residents
on a variety of matters.
[25:32] And this is something that we need
to take our time with right now
[25:37] to figure out
how we're going to move forward
[25:39] with drone delivery,
and that's what we're doing.
[25:41] Thank you.
[25:42] Thank you, Councilwoman, very much.
[25:44] Mr. Franzen. Please
[25:47] know again, you know,
[25:49] I kind of set this up in the question,
right?
[25:52] We already have a 90 day ordinance
imposed.
[25:55] The intent when we discuss this in
July was nine months,
[25:59] and this is just ratifying
what we had already intended to do,
[26:04] so that we're meeting our charter.
[26:07] Thank you, Mr.. Friends. Mr..
[26:09] Yeah.
[26:10] To build
you know, I think I think for us as,
[26:13] as technology or opportunities
are presented to us,
[26:18] we want to ensure
that the long range effects or unintended
[26:22] consequences are not negative
or detrimental to the community.
[26:27] When when things like this come, the
first of its of its nature, of its sort,
[26:33] we we need to make sure
[26:36] that we fully understand research,
[26:39] get with consultants and do things
in the best interest of the community.
[26:43] So we don't have any things
that we approved
[26:47] that would ultimately create challenges
for our citizens.
[26:51] So thank you.
[26:53] Thank you. Mr..
[26:53] Councilwoman Wilkes, please.
[26:56] I mean, I don't need to reiterate
what's already been said.
[26:59] At the end of the day,
[27:00] we're going to we're going to do
what's right,
[27:02] and we're going to take our time
to make sure that the decision we make
[27:05] is right for everybody.
[27:06] So I'm in support of this.
[27:08] Thank you, Miss Wilkes.
[27:10] Miss Barrington, please.
[27:11] I continue to support this
[27:14] moratorium.
[27:15] I just think we don't even know
what we don't know.
[27:19] And the technology is moving so fast
that I think it's it's very reasonable.
[27:25] Nine months is a reasonable time
to figure this out.
[27:31] Thank you, Mr. Barrington.
[27:32] Mr. Hendricks,
I'm going to support as well.
[27:34] Thank you.
[27:35] Yeah. Thank you.
[27:36] Council,
I understand I wasn't here in the 20th,
[27:39] but looking into this prior
and then and then after the fact,
[27:43] there are a lot of towns
that are facing this very question,
[27:45] and this nine months gives us a chance
to let some of those challenges
[27:49] work their way through.
[27:50] And maybe there is more powers
than we recognize currently,
[27:53] but we'll find that out in a later date.
[27:55] And we don't want to be first
to the table.
[27:56] So I'd appreciate a motion here.
[27:59] I move to approve ordinance number 3.375.1
[28:02] on second reading, second of a motion
from Wilkes, in a second from Franzen.
[28:06] And how do you vote? Yes.
[28:08] Barrington. Yes. Wilkes I duck.
[28:11] Yes. Franzen. Yes. Yes.
[28:13] And that passes unanimously.
[28:15] And unfortunately for the gentleman
in the back that just walked out,
[28:17] there was no further business in front
of this council. And we are adjourned.