[1:07] Good evening. I'd like to call the order of our city council meeting for Tuesday, September 1st, 2026. I'm going to ask council member Snyder to lead us in the pledge of allegiance.

[1:49] Madam City Clerk, please call roll. Mayor Mills. Here. Mayor for the time pity it. Here. Council member Carbohol. I heard she's running late. Council member Collins. Here. Council member Fiddler. Here. Council member Green. I'm here. Council member Snyder.

[2:08] That's a member today.

[2:09] Reset, council member worth.

[2:12] I'm going to call him here.

[2:13] Thank you.

[2:14] Next, Madam City Clerk, please read the consent agenda

[2:17] into the record.

[2:21] Item two, a approval of the August 4th, 2026 City Council minutes.

[2:25] Item two, b, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton,

[2:28] Colorado, appointing Sophia Imperioly as a professional member

[2:32] of the Brighton Historic Preservation Commission

[2:35] with a term to June 2029.

[2:37] Item 2C, final reading of an ordinance of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado,

[2:44] approving a zoning map amendment from case farms PUD to the following R2, mixed density residential,

[2:51] R3, multiple family residential, C3, general retail and services, and open space and parks.

[2:58] comprising approximately 232.183 acres, generally located south of Bromley Lane, west of

[3:06] South 27th Avenue, north of east 144th Avenue and east of the south 19th Avenue alignment,

[3:14] more particularly located in the east half of section 17 township one south range 66 west of the

[3:28] final reading of an ordinance of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado,

[3:32] amending sections of Article 2-33 of the Brighton Municipal Code to allow Brighton Youth Commission

[3:39] members to serve as members of the Sustainability Advisory Board.

[3:44] Thank you, Mr. Pledge of Council, Council Member Green.

[3:46] Again, I moved to approve the September 1st consent agenda.

[3:50] And then Mayor Perthum.

[3:52] So, first and second to approve the consent agenda as red, we'll call both.

[4:07] Motion passes eight to zero with one absent.

[4:11] Next, approval of the regular agenda.

[4:16] Would like to make that motion.

[4:20] Council member Snyder.

[4:23] I'm going to approve the regular agenda as president.

[4:27] And then council member worth.

[4:28] Well second pen.

[4:30] There's a first and second to prove the regular agenda as presented.

[4:35] We'll call both

[4:40] motion passes a zero with one absent moving ahead to ceremonies.

[4:45] We have one item item four a world Alzheimer's month proclamation I'll go and read that into

[4:53] the record.

[4:57] Whereas Alzheimer's disease is the other form.

[5:00] Of dementia represented global, a growing global and local health priority impacting memory, thinking, behavior and ability to perform daily activities for millions of individuals worldwide and residents within our own community and whereas the world Alzheimer's month is an international campaign dedicated to raising awareness, challenging the stigma that surrounds dementia and fostering a

[5:30] more inclusive and understanding

[5:31] of environment for those affected.

[5:34] Whereas early diagnosis in access to acute information

[5:41] for critical to our critical to helping individuals

[5:46] and families at understanding the challenges

[5:49] they are experiencing and connect with the essential care,

[5:54] guidance, and support systems.

[5:56] And whereas the city of Brighton recognizes the profound dedication

[5:59] of family members, caregivers, and medical professionals who provide compassionate care and support

[6:05] to neighbors living with dementia. And whereas by participating in the global movement,

[6:13] bright and joined communities around the world, in wearing purple, sharing educational resources

[6:19] and advocating for continued research toward effective treatments and the ultimate care.

[6:25] here. Now, therefore, we resolved that our Gregor Mills mayor, the city brightened on behalf

[6:30] of the city council, do hereby proclaim September 26 as world Alzheimer's month in the city

[6:36] of Brighton, and I call upon all the residents to learn more about brain health, support, local

[6:42] caregivers, and help build a community that embraces and protects the dignity of everyone living

[6:48] with dementia on this first day of September, 2026, and I'll just say, having had my father

[6:56] that had dementia later diagnosed with Alzheimer's and later that was revised to some other

[7:03] dementia in Parkinson's. I can tell you that this is very important that we all get out there

[7:09] and support our community because almost everybody in this room will, if you don't already,

[7:16] will likely know somebody that's gone through some sort of a dementia or ultimately Alzheimer's.

[7:23] City Manager Martinez, who is here to receive this? Thank you, Mayor. Here tonight to receive

[7:27] this is Ashley Wilk, the Suvac Manager. Come on over.

[7:36] Good evening, Mayor Mayor Potem and members of

[7:39] Council. Thank you for the opportunity to be here this evening as we recognize world Alzheimer's

[7:45] awareness month and the importance of supporting individuals and families affected by Alzheimer's disease

[7:50] and other forms of dementia. Alzheimer's reaches far beyond a person who receives the diagnosis,

[7:56] it impacts spouses, children, grandchildren, friends, caregivers, and entire communities.

[8:03] Already in 2026, it's estimated that 7.4 million Americans, each 65 and older are living with Alzheimer's

[8:10] dementia. While millions of Americans are providing unpaid care for someone living with Alzheimer's

[8:16] or other forms of dementia. Those numbers remind us that awareness matters because chances are,

[8:22] like Mayor Mills said, we all know someone who's been affected by this disease.

[8:26] At Eagle View, our mission is to create more than a place for senior support to

[8:30] the patent activities. We strive to create a community where seniors can learn, build relationships,

[8:35] say active and most importantly, say connected. This month, we are proud to offer several

[8:41] opportunities focused on awareness, education, and connection. On September 4th, we will

[8:47] host building brain health, facilitated by the Alzheimer's Association. This program will provide

[8:52] information about dementia, building brain healthy habits, and ways to support ourselves and others.

[8:58] It will also promote a new support group starting in October. Beginning in October,

[9:03] Eagle View will begin hosting in Alzheimer's Caregiver Support Group, facilitated again by the

[9:09] Alzheimer's Association. This will provide caregivers with a welcoming space to connect, share stories,

[9:15] and find support and practical resources. These opportunities are made possible because of the

[9:19] dedication of a program coordinator, Madison Westmirland. Madison has built meaningful partnerships

[9:25] with Alzheimer's Association and works to bring resources and support to a community and support

[9:32] that we haven't had in Brighton before.

[9:35] More broadly, the entire team at EagleView works every single day

[9:39] to create an inclusive environment where every senior has an opportunity

[9:42] to participate, connect, and feel that they belong.

[9:46] And I'm incredibly proud to be a part of this team.

[9:49] We are so grateful to the City of Brighton for allowing us to recognize

[9:52] this important month and share the work that is happening at EagleView this month as well.

[9:57] Tonight, alongside me receiving this part.

[10:00] Commission. I have a Madison members of my team at Eagle View and I'm also honored to have a couple members from our senior advisory board.

[10:09] I would love to invite them up and we would love to snap a photo with you guys as well. Thank you.

[10:14] Great. Thank you.

[10:19] Before we do that, I think council member today I'll head something to say to go ahead.

[10:26] I'm going to try not to cry.

[10:30] Thank you.

[10:32] I know this is something that the communities needed for a while, I believe, and thank you for making it happen, and I just wanted to say, yes, it affects everybody.

[10:43] Everybody at some point, you're going to be affected by this and I forgot my purple light for God, I'm sorry.

[10:48] But I'm so happy, and I did the other thing I wanted to say was just, give the word out.

[10:53] Hello everybody and anybody that you know that this is happening because I know I went looking and there wasn't anything here and I know my family personally desperately need something and then so I know that there's numerous amounts of other people in the community and thank you so much for

[11:12] of course happen and I know it's going to be very helpful for for many people.

[11:19] Absolutely. Thank you for your support, too, Anne.

[11:22] Let's go ahead and have all all that are here to support this humble.

[11:27] Let's come on over and we can even get Council to get a little closer to.

[11:33] I'll come down with the proclamation

[13:01] that is all I have for ceremonies.

[13:03] Next item is public invited to be heard on matters not on the agenda.

[13:06] I have four people signed up to speak on items that are not on the agenda.

[13:11] We'll start with Pete Fibbs.

[13:13] I'm on over Pete.

[13:15] State your name for the record. You've got three minutes.

[13:20] Thank you, Mayor.

[13:21] My name is Pete Fibbs. I'm from most of you guys know me.

[13:24] I'm a long time bright and resident.

[13:27] Unfortunately, I was unable to attend the last public meeting.

[13:30] I looked like a very busy night.

[13:32] I did take the time to listen.

[13:33] No, I'm my fellow citizens concerns regarding dates.

[13:36] Data centers in our community.

[13:37] And I believe it was only touched on once, but I came tonight to remind most of you you voted to approve in 2024 under a consent agenda.

[13:46] This is state ability plan.

[13:49] And if you I've got some highlights from the state ability panel like Doritia.

[13:54] This is from City Manager Martinez's letter.

[13:58] I encourage you to join us in collaboration effort towards more sustainable future.

[14:01] Small actions taken by each of us whether it's conserving energy and water,

[14:06] participating in local sustainability events, advocating for environment or friendly practices,

[14:11] contributing significantly to our city's sustainable goals.

[14:15] Based on the city's 24th, 24th sustainability plan, the city of Brighton adopted

[14:20] in a plan, established a clear vision, reducing resource consumption, protecting public health,

[14:26] conserving water, improving air quality, and ensuring new development supports long-term

[14:31] community sustainability, a large-scale data center,

[14:34] may conflict with several this plan-stated objectives

[14:37] and priorities, unless you can demonstrate

[14:40] substantial migration measures and community benefits.

[14:45] Conflict with water conservation goals,

[14:49] reduce commercial industrial water use,

[14:51] incentive, advise water-conserving features,

[14:54] and new developments update water conservation plans,

[14:56] improving public stewardship and limited water resources.

[15:00] These people aren't bringing their own water with them, you shouldn't allow them. Increased energy consumption.

[15:09] Faced on energy consumption reduced residential, commercial, industrial energy use, increased renewable energy throughout the community, increased building,

[15:17] electrification, access, and manage, energy, consumption,

[15:24] ability. Based on energy, too, I would recommend that

[15:27] councilman on green, recuse himself, many discussions of

[15:31] voting on this, based on he represented power.

[15:34] Potential air quality issues in consistency with community

[15:37] priorities, our community said 74% were concerned about

[15:42] our water. Water conservation, water reduction, renewable

[15:47] energies, increasing our energy costs, and efficient water use, wildlife and ecosystem disruption

[15:55] or air quality, environmental and justice and quality of life, I wish I had more time

[16:02] to read this.

[16:03] First of all, I've heard a written notes here.

[16:05] I usually speak from the heart, but I wanted to make sure I got all my details out to you.

[16:08] Most of you all voted for this sustainability thing.

[16:11] If you haven't read it recently, I'd like you to review it.

[16:13] Read what you guys committed to when it wasn't somebody throwing money at your

[16:17] promise in property taxes. There's a lot of unfifilled blanks on the

[16:21] preservation. I read that didn't that's wanted to state goals, but

[16:25] there's no goals set or no goals accomplished. This is your

[16:28] chance to meet. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[16:32] Next Tom Lampo.

[16:44] All right. Hello to everybody. Hello to

[16:46] Brighton. Good to be here again. I'm Tom Lampo and I'm here to

[16:49] you lift Brighton up to Lord and Prayer. So please join me in

[16:52] prayer. Heavenly Father in Jesus name. We thank you for giving

[16:55] us this day. We welcome your presence here now as city businesses discuss and we welcome you wherever

[17:00] we are. Brightness is your city. Bless it with prosperity. You fill our lives with experiences that

[17:06] cause emotions and feelings within us. You let us experience growth through the life we live.

[17:11] Sometimes there is pain and disappointment and are the times there is joy and fulfillment. No matter

[17:16] you are always with us. Joshua, one, nine states, heaven and not, commanded you, be strong and courageous.

[17:22] do not be afraid, do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.

[17:29] We can't see the future, we don't know what lies ahead. We'll walk with you and find comfort

[17:33] knowing you are always with us. Our schools are in full swing. Some parents rely on others to

[17:40] transport their children to school. A lock can happen on the roads. Conditions change quickly

[17:45] and decisions need to be made just as fast. So to all the drivers of our buses, the transport

[17:51] our children, we give them Proverbs 3-5-6, which states, trust in the Lord with all your heart,

[17:57] and lean not on your own understanding, in all your ways, submit to Him, and He will make

[18:02] your path straight.

[18:04] Keep our drivers in tune with you, focus their attention on the safety of our kids, grant them

[18:09] wisdom and changing situations, and keep everyone safe on our busy roads.

[18:15] There are a lot of messages that confront us each day because there is a spiritual battle

[18:19] our souls. The deceiver would like nothing more than to keep us from your presence. And even with all

[18:25] our wisdom and knowledge, we still fall for the schemes of the devil. So tonight we claim for

[18:30] our lives Ephesians 5, 6 through 10 which states, let no one deceive you with empty words for because of

[18:37] these things, the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore, do not become partners

[18:43] with them. For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children

[18:49] of light and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord.

[18:53] We seek you tonight to walk with us and to keep us from messages that bring deceit and

[18:58] lies to us. Let our trust be in you. You are God and we are your people and Jesus name

[19:05] we pray. Amen. Thank you guys. Have a nice night.

[19:09] Thank you, Tom. Next, Natalie Bolders.

[19:14] Come on over. You're all three minutes.

[19:15] You

[19:21] have to forgive me Mayor, it's been a while since I've done one of these.

[19:24] My name is Natalie, and I'm here on behalf of M.B.

[19:26] Towing.

[19:27] We are a family owned and operated business established in 1985, and we've established a working

[19:32] relationship with the city of Brighton and Police Department in 1995.

[19:36] The reason for my being here tonight is we recently were not selected as a towing operator

[19:41] for the city of Brighton after 30 years.

[19:44] We believe that the proposal that we submitted didn't accurately reflect the 30-year subservice that we have providing to the city.

[19:54] My reason again for me being here is to ask council and any city officials.

[20:00] If we are able to residmet our proposals so that we can, again, be reconsidered to be put back on the toy rotation. Again, the proposal that was submitted on our behalf is not an accurate representation. I know that when we spoke to some city officials and other city officials who also didn't respond, they expressed to us that they felt that we lacked the confidence in the ability to do our work.

[20:28] Again, I believe that is an inaccurate representation of our company.

[20:32] We have done all of our operations for the city with 100% professionalism, 100% responsiveness,

[20:41] day and night.

[20:41] We've always been there for the city of Ryan, as well as the right and police department,

[20:46] again, so for I think the city to say that they feel the lack of confidence in us is a little

[20:55] This morning, and if I'm being honest, a little hurtful, again, after 30 years of service,

[21:00] I think we've earned the right to be heard, and I think to be reconsidered, again, to

[21:08] be able to submit our proposal, as far as being put back on the rotation for the city

[21:13] of Brighton and Brighton Police Department.

[21:14] Again, I think 30 years of service, we've earned that right, and if we were a new company,

[21:21] I could understand one minute.

[21:23] not being, you know, not having the confidence, but again, I believe working alongside with you

[21:30] guys, you guys know our company, you know, or equipment, you know what we're capable of.

[21:36] Again, I believe that we've earned the right to be heard and for our proposal to be

[21:43] able to be resatmitted. Thank you. Thank you, Natalie, for bringing that to our attention.

[21:49] Next, Laurie Morris, one over, you'll have three minutes.

[22:02] My name is Laurie Morris, 1733 Wildflower Drive.

[22:06] I'm an almost 20-C-E resident of Brighton, and I showed up here two weeks ago with around

[22:10] 150 people in addition to an approximately same-sized crowd at anything great farms library

[22:17] a few days later to talk about data centers.

[22:20] Thank you to the Council members who showed up from Commerce City, Thorton, and Brighton.

[22:24] It has been two weeks and we haven't heard anything about discussion for moratorium.

[22:30] 75% of Americans are against data centers, especially the large ones for AI in their communities.

[22:38] I did see the city of Brighton has a new draft 2026 comprehensive plan with an industrial area on the north side of Brighton,

[22:46] around the same size as the whole city when I moved here.

[22:49] And the only code potential we see the planning department addressing is sound.

[22:54] I was hoping the city was going to take this seriously.

[22:58] To piggyback on peats comments, yes, the 2024 Sustainability Plan is not filled in with baselines or growth.

[23:05] And any water, a data center needs, is in direct competition to water rights for farmers,

[23:10] and the central Colorado Water Conservancy District.

[23:15] We continue to ask for a data center moratorium for five years.

[23:19] We will continue to come back in larger numbers again if we need to.

[23:23] Thank you for your time.

[23:25] Thank you, Lori.

[23:26] That is all I have sent it to speak.

[23:28] We will move on.

[23:30] Next is item 9A.

[23:33] A resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado.

[23:38] Authorizing assignment to the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority of the private activity bond.

[23:44] allocation of the city, pursuant to the Colorado private activity bond, ceiling,

[23:51] allotment, allocation act, authorizing the mayor to execute said assignment on behalf of

[23:58] the city and authorizing the city manager to execute such documents and undertake such tasks

[24:04] as maybe required to effit, effit, effituate, set a, set assignment, city, manager Martinez.

[24:14] Thank you mayor here to inform you about the change to what you originally authorized back

[24:21] in April, is finance director, Katrina Azure.

[24:26] Thank you Michael, good evening council members.

[24:28] This is largely an administrative update too, and I admit that you approved earlier this year.

[24:33] I don't have a presentation because it is a pretty brief item, but I'll walk you through what the key points are.

[24:39] So in April, I came to you with a proposal to assign the city's allocation of private activity bonds to a project developed by Dominium.

[24:47] They're a developer of affordable housing.

[24:49] They presented to you a project for senior affordable housing that could utilize the city's allocation of private activity bonds.

[24:56] So on May 5th we proposed to you a resolution to formalize that.

[25:00] That went through everything was moving along, and then we heard from Dominium just a few weeks ago that, well, Dominium is a developer. They're not an authorized issuer of the bonds. So this is not terribly uncommon. They often times developers work with organizations like the Colorado Housing Finance Association to issue the bonds for them in support of the project. And that's the situation that happened here. So what they requested was that we re-do that resolution to assign the bonds to Chaffa. Still in support of the same project. So the project you heard about in April and

[25:29] approved and may that's still the project that's being proposed.

[25:33] We just need to redo the assignment to Chaffa because they are an authorized

[25:36] issue of the bonds and dominium as an organization is not.

[25:40] So the Resolutionary packet would rescind that original resolution and then

[25:44] reassign the bonds to Chaffa.

[25:46] So happy to answer questions.

[25:48] Questions?

[25:49] Council Member Green.

[25:50] Thank you very much.

[25:51] Does Chaffa take any sort of administrative fee or anything from this for the

[25:54] issuance?

[25:55] That I do not know.

[25:57] Thank you.

[25:58] other questions not this is before council for consideration it

[26:10] looks like

[26:11] there we go council member today I

[26:19] move to approve 9 a that's number

[26:24] worth thank you mayor I'll second to there's the first and second to approve 9 a

[26:30] roll call vote

[26:37] motion passes 9 to 0 thank you

[26:44] not even 6 30 we're to

[26:45] reports.

[26:48] I'll be brief in a couple of things.

[26:53] I was at our Dr. Cog meeting a couple of weeks ago.

[26:56] There was an update on the 2050 regional transportation plan, and there was also a presentation

[27:04] that talked about both micro mobility, which is, you know, like your e-scooters kind of thing,

[27:09] and also micro transit, similar to what we're doing with the bright and bald and what areas

[27:14] do it with 8B and otherwise it was a pretty short meeting. The week after that I was at

[27:23] the Dr. Cog Awards along with Council Member Worth. And then I also attended a chamber after

[27:30] hours last week over it was at the Wingshack. And then coming up this week, next week, it's the

[27:41] 25th anniversary of 9-11, and Brighton Fire is a very nice ceremony every year at their

[27:48] fire station 52. So plan on being there to that. There's also next week a ribbon cutting

[27:55] to the new i25 and highway 7 beginnings of their mobility. But I say beginnings because it's

[28:04] kind of a abbreviated version of what they intend to actually build out into the future. And so

[28:10] excited that that project is in full swing. So otherwise that's my report. Go on next to any

[28:20] reports by department directors before 630. And I'm kind of sad to say this because I think

[28:25] the record is 631 if I'm not mistaken. So we're not going to beat that tonight. But I do have to

[28:30] we need to call for break. I mean we do actually let's take a break now. We actually have two reports

[28:35] by directors tonight. So first I'll call a director of the break who has a couple of updates on some

[28:39] projects for you. Director LeBree.

[28:48] Right. I've got a PowerPoint. I'm like the

[28:49] lack of information. Not information. I believe in pictures. So hopefully

[28:53] pictures come out well. I went out there today to take them. I actually flew in a

[28:57] drone. So good evening Mayor Mayor Pro Temp and City Council. I just want to

[29:03] give it up date on two projects. Mainly the disabled bullet, disabled boulevard

[29:07] intersection improvements. And we're also going to talk a little bit about the

[29:10] micro-transit program and give you update or where we are with those.

[29:15] So first, save a boulevard intersection improvements.

[29:18] As you can see, this is really correct.

[29:19] This is some of the activities happening at 136 right now from this picture.

[29:23] We got heavy equipment out there.

[29:26] We got utilities company out there, relocating utilities, and we're moving.

[29:33] And so we'll go one by one on what to save a boulevard look.

[29:37] So the first intersection that's actually completed where we still may have some striping to do is the east one thirty second avenue and stable.

[29:46] There we just did a pavement widening.

[29:49] We did added additional turn lanes and we did some restriping.

[29:53] So that one was easy slam dunk got it completed.

[29:57] Intersection we currently working on right now.

[30:00] 1.36. We're going to convert that intersection to a roundabout. We're going to have some curb gutter to the intersection,

[30:07] some drainage infrastructure, which is key. That's always the challenge that we have. It's trying to get the drainage pipes in and in and around utilities that may be in our way.

[30:16] And then around about, actually, we'll be able to accommodate future for laying stable, but right now we'll be able to accommodate four lanes, but we're going to be building it as a two-lane roundabout.

[30:28] And in 144th, again, we're just wide in that area where new signal in the ultimate location,

[30:36] we're going to add turn lanes, left and right turn lanes, and all directions,

[30:40] except for the southbound direction, there will be no dedicated right turn lane

[30:45] for the southbound direction.

[30:48] Again, drainage infrastructure is to be installed, we're doing a curb intersection.

[30:53] And then finally, the Bromley Lane and Sable in fourth, again, replacing those spanned wire signals with a new signals and pulls, we're going to improve the lane alignment at ADA compliant ramps and all four corners.

[31:11] Repave the South half intersection of half South half that intersection and then add a pedestrian refuge island in the area

[31:19] That's planned for early 2027

[31:24] So here's the actual project schedule

[31:26] We working with the along with utilities the drainage outfall now was on winter 2025 all way through the summer

[31:34] 26 that's with all the activity has been going on for the last several months

[31:39] The stable intersection design was completed by December of 2025.

[31:45] Then we began to procurement process as well as the right-of-way process.

[31:50] The right-of-way process was completed summer of 2026,

[31:55] where we got access to all the property we need.

[31:58] We're still in the stages of closing out some of those property acquisitions,

[32:02] but we least got their approval to access it.

[32:04] That's why we're able to get the equipment going.

[32:07] And then the stable intersection construction again started this summer, and it will go through early 2027.

[32:15] And so that's actually the plan that we have, and I can open it up for any questions that you may have.

[32:22] Wow, it was amazing in that first picture.

[32:26] There was a house there one time.

[32:31] Yeah, it just happened it felt like.

[32:33] Questions for Dr. Libri, anybody?

[32:37] That's a member greener.

[32:38] Can we go back a couple of pictures of them?

[32:41] Wait, wait, one more.

[32:43] Go forward.

[32:44] Go forward.

[32:45] One is going to look like this.

[32:47] So the one 36 Avenue should be done, we're all scheduled to have it completed about

[32:52] the end of the November, early December that that day of the section should be completed.

[32:56] We're all scheduled to have that completed.

[32:58] That looks like that with the roundabout.

[33:01] With what?

[33:02] With the roundabout?

[33:03] Yes, with the roundabout.

[33:04] Yes, sir.

[33:04] and I'll go to go forward one more this way yeah okay oh this is 144 thank you that's

[33:15] all it's getting confused I was like wait a minute I thought we were going to wait for this

[33:22] thank you and we'll this be done and that's the challenge I'll right now I plan to have it done by

[33:28] December again we are experiencing some delays with the utility relocation and then mainly

[33:35] because of the property acquisition and stuff like that.

[33:37] So we had the power on board ready to go.

[33:40] We still had to finalize the property acquisition

[33:43] for the parks property as well as protracco.

[33:47] And once we got that completed,

[33:49] we had to reschedule the relocation.

[33:51] If you own that South East corner,

[33:54] there's a lot of United Power Equipment

[33:56] that needs to be relocated.

[33:58] We're in a process of working on it.

[33:59] Get that move out the way.

[34:01] Once that's moved out, we could put full force to it.

[34:03] Right now, we've just been, I have a limited resources that they're making some improvements in that area now.

[34:08] And I have nothing to do with that today.

[34:11] No, it's not a United Pire, it's just, it's just, it's just, it's just really the challenge that we have when we're trying to,

[34:18] uh, uh, get these projects done in a timely manner, especially we got utilities, is that coordination effort.

[34:23] So we had right away, uh, negotiations that we're doing, we're working with utility companies in their resources, and of course,

[34:33] we often anticipate, but we're moving forward and everybody's working together. That's the great

[34:39] nest of good news. And I want to commend the crews on 136. They're really keeping the traffic flowing

[34:45] you know back up too much. When you're stopping it, it's for real closures and everything else

[34:49] they're doing a really good job. And then they're opening it up again at night and in the morning.

[34:53] So you're still really allowing for traffic to flow there. Right for the little bit of an eruption of

[34:57] what you're trying to get done here. Yeah, we had a little hiccup.

[35:00] I hope what an early one morning, and our staff and J.R. engineering was on top of it. We learned about it. Got down there and got it corrected. They were responsive.

[35:08] Thank you.

[35:11] Did I hear you know your powers delaying the project?

[35:13] I didn't hear that.

[35:15] It's their contractor.

[35:19] I'm here for Ward 1.

[35:21] Council Member Carvehall.

[35:25] I want to thank you for taking care of that.

[35:27] So I just have some questions about contracts in general following.

[35:29] that so if we are in negotiations we create a contract what is our liability in them doing that

[35:36] and do we have rules and regulations around them doing that so what happened is I drove down

[35:43] stable and there was no flaggers and it was still one direction so cars were self mandating driving

[35:49] on one side trying to figure out when they were going to dance essentially that's why we required

[35:54] the contractors to pull a bond, but when they take over the roadway for construction, it's all on their liability.

[36:01] So any time a car, you know, any kind of misapp that may occur, we have to, we send them directly to the contractor, they have to resolve it.

[36:09] It's ultimately their roadway as they are constructing it.

[36:12] Is their traffic control and that kind of thing.

[36:14] For liability.

[36:15] Yeah, for liability.

[36:15] And I feel appreciate you reaching out and making sure people were saying.

[36:18] Yeah.

[36:18] Now we got word right away, you know, it starts phone calls start coming in and staff was

[36:23] going to top of it and we appreciate that.

[36:25] Thank you.

[36:28] So, yeah.

[36:31] Another questions.

[36:33] Yeah, more.

[36:34] Okay, got going to the Brighton.

[36:39] Oh, yes.

[36:41] Yeah.

[36:42] Brighton on the man, local transit.

[36:44] So here we go.

[36:45] Top destinations.

[36:46] I'm going to get, I'm going to go through a couple of slides.

[36:48] I'm going to ask for you guys the vote on which you guys think is the top destination for the vote.

[36:55] Only one person got to write a, please chief got to write in our hotel today, so he called it right off.

[37:00] But anyway, without further ado, right now we're experiencing our right,

[37:05] August, we experienced our right, largest ridership of a year.

[37:10] We had 1,750 rides for the month of August, and as you can see, it's been a steady increase

[37:17] uh... for the most part of the city increase there's always going to be some ups and

[37:21] downs but uh... we've definitely had uh... this summer has been really positive

[37:24] and maybe do for some of the for some of the uh...

[37:28] uh... programs that we implemented for the summer and i could get into that later but again

[37:32] record high and it continues to grow

[37:36] um... this is the interesting map uh... that the vehicle provided me is uh...

[37:43] um... the ridership is primary concentrated in the western in the city

[37:46] Those several riders use the service to cross the entire service zones.

[37:51] So, the trip represents each line on this map represents an individual rider trip.

[37:57] The thicker the line represents higher volumes of trip traveling on that specific route.

[38:02] And again, the highest concentration is clearly visible on the western end of Brighton.

[38:09] And this is another map kind of showing that the darker red is the higher population density.

[38:16] and in the darker green, in the case of higher density of car-free households, and you

[38:21] can see where that larger density is, is where we have most of the, most of the riders.

[38:31] And then I think the next slide, I'm not sure, but the next slide, we're showing the top location.

[38:35] Anybody have a guess on what's the time?

[38:37] Oh, Walmart.

[38:41] So yeah, close.

[38:42] King Super the second.

[38:43] So Walmart was the top destination for our citizens,

[38:47] King Super, say, if a lot of the grocery stores

[38:49] and a shopping area, so they'd not buy that out.

[38:55] And yeah, the next one, even track the origins, the top origins

[38:59] or where people are calling their rights

[39:02] and rich squares of big plays, then

[39:04] of course there's shop in areas and and then finally just kind of slums it up. Retail

[39:11] another commercial. We got 28% of our riders are going there, restaurant and dining, 22%

[39:17] grocery, 17 government education and research, 16% medical aid and then other aid.

[39:25] And again, I just put together a note for your information. We have been to least I've been told

[39:32] that we have been awarded funding from RTD to extend the program to 2029.

[39:39] So that's a great news.

[39:41] We also started to implement free rides to and from the Sue Corbett Act of Adult Center.

[39:47] And that's permanent.

[39:48] So anybody who's going to go to the Adult Center are coming from the Adult Center

[39:51] is a free ride.

[39:52] And that's already programmed in India in the app.

[39:56] And then our summer promotion, which may have helped our ridership.

[40:00] We had offer free rides to it from those following those destinations, as you see, the Brighton Sports Complex, Benedict Park, the Recreation Center, Oasis Family, so a library, so a lot of family oriented areas is where we thought would be beneficial to families through it.

[40:20] So that's going to end by the end of September.

[40:22] And so we'll be tracking and to see about the end of September,

[40:25] if our ridership goes down and kind of see how that impact it,

[40:29] you know, what we're doing.

[40:30] So this is, I think this is the great benefit of how flexible our program is.

[40:34] You can, you know, we can turn things on and off fairly rapidly.

[40:39] It depends on what we like to do.

[40:41] So it's very flexible.

[40:42] And then finally, the riders satisfaction and feedback,

[40:47] we had four point eight out of five stars.

[40:49] 92.3, 5 star rating and I found it interesting.

[40:54] I had used the boat last week to drop a car off to Leswap and that middle comment from

[41:01] a customer is exactly how I felt that so much weight is better than waiting for a bus.

[41:09] The apple super easy to use in advance are spotless.

[41:12] I was in a very clean van.

[41:13] I couldn't get over how clean it was, it's almost like it was brand new and then I love

[41:17] seeing exactly where my ride was as I was waiting for it.

[41:21] So that's not my comment, but it's exactly how I felt.

[41:23] I was confused you.

[41:24] That was your comment.

[41:27] No, when I read it with me on the Google Review, I literally just got this report from

[41:31] view this morning and I thought it was interesting.

[41:35] But yeah, and then drivers, I like to mention when I had used the state, used it

[41:41] boat.

[41:42] One of the drivers had been with the program since December and he's from Brighton, lives

[41:46] the Brighton and he's really excited was really a pleasure to ride with him and he, like

[41:52] say, he'd been with Scythdy Simmer and then when I used the boat to, you know, come back

[41:56] to the office, the other driver was from Brighton three weeks into the program and he's getting

[42:01] extremely excited and it was just nice to see a video was telling me today that they have six,

[42:06] six drivers for the driver's live and work here in Brighton through the boat. So I thought that was

[42:12] That's another great benefit, I think we are offering too with this, so yeah.

[42:16] So that's the update, I'm hoping for any questions.

[42:20] I love the updates, it's been something I've been wanting to see for a while.

[42:25] I know that the bulk is more door-to-door for people with mobility issues and if you don't

[42:31] have a mobility issue, sometimes they have you go to a meat point or walk a certain

[42:36] short distance, do we have stats on how many actual have, actually have door-to-door versus

[42:42] is having a meet at a meet point.

[42:45] I don't have that information.

[42:47] I probably can get it, but I think one of the things we did once we were all getting

[42:52] familiar with the app, we identified locations where they should like city hall.

[42:59] You should come instead of picking us up off fourth or southern, you should come right into

[43:04] the parking lot.

[43:05] It's safer.

[43:06] So we have identified a lot of locations.

[43:08] is like, oh, mainly the locations,

[43:10] free locations where they should go into the park

[43:13] and lock the pickup to people.

[43:15] And then the other key part of this, what we said,

[43:18] if, because sometimes it's hard to read the map of exactly

[43:20] where they pick you up, their drivers will call.

[43:24] If they don't see a person there where they think they need

[43:26] to pick, they will call that person and say,

[43:28] hey, where are you?

[43:29] And make sure they try to get to them.

[43:32] So those are some of the things we've done,

[43:34] but I can ask for that data to find out

[43:37] how many are door to door, but they have improved that service, I think, and making people know

[43:42] where to go to get picked up or dropped off.

[43:45] Well, you go back to that slide with the graph of the bar graph.

[43:53] This one?

[43:54] Or it was at the beginning of the...

[43:56] Okay, this one.

[43:58] Yeah.

[43:58] I know there was a time that a lot of those events were on recall.

[44:02] And do you know when we got the actual bands that the intended mobility needed bands back?

[44:10] Is it that when we started seeing the spike in April and onward or good question?

[44:17] I think it was kind of, so yes, as I understand it was a may time frame when we actually got the

[44:24] see end of Toyota vans back online. It wasn't still not the vans that we've actually had, but they

[44:30] they were they were like for like, or they still our actual vans are getting repaired, but they

[44:35] replaced it all like for like fan, which I know was true. Consider the key is sold out. Yeah, yeah,

[44:39] key was in the four runners, they were all offline. So that came along online in May, and which in

[44:45] June was the same time we started offering free promotion. So the kind of figure out was it the

[44:50] or motion or was the van around no fee being a single question.

[44:53] I'm just trying to see what led to,

[44:55] oh, suddenly in April onward,

[44:57] we're gonna have more rides, this is before, so, okay.

[45:00] Thank you. We got others. I have questions and or comments. Council member today.

[45:06] Thank you. And thank you for this information. I've been wondering about this myself. I see the vans out quite a bit. Can you remind me again what days, what their hours are?

[45:15] Oh yes.

[45:15] times and when they when they don't run. Yeah, thank you for that. Because, Axia, right now,

[45:20] is 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday. We actually are looking at what's costing us to do that.

[45:29] And now we work with Vio. We think that we can extend this Friday hours under our same budget

[45:34] for 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. So we're looking at that change relatively quickly. And then we're looking

[45:41] that we're really looking to do at least a Saturday service, but we're not there yet, but

[45:49] that's that would be our next move. I love that, because I feel like, I mean, it's all important

[45:54] times, right? But I feel like there are some people that could really benefit for the later hours

[45:59] in the weekends, of course. And I get it. We have to get there. I'm thrilled that ridership is up.

[46:12] I'm going to have to come back to me.

[46:14] Well, I know.

[46:14] I thought it would.

[46:15] Okay, sorry.

[46:16] So I'm a few weeks ago.

[46:17] I was a hostel at the ER.

[46:21] And outside there's a lady.

[46:23] I don't know if she'd been in the ER.

[46:25] I don't know if she was waiting for her ride.

[46:27] But I know the people came and got her.

[46:29] Grot her back inside.

[46:31] And I'm just thinking to myself.

[46:33] This would be a perfect opportunity if it were the right

[46:35] time and day and all this kind of stuff for, you know, something

[46:39] in that situation for somebody maybe they had to, you know, go the ER and they don't have

[46:43] a ride or a ride there. I mean, for me, I guess my points better spoken to say, is there

[46:51] a way I would love to get the flyers something on paper? I know it's advertised. There's

[46:56] no one's out there but, but I would love, I would love to personally take some flyers into

[47:02] the receptionist people at the ER and go, hey, do you know about this? You know, just

[47:07] them to offer it or at the tire shop or, you know, some of these other places that maybe

[47:13] somehow we could get them to help us get the word. She's willing to advertise where you

[47:17] just get rid of the flyers all the time. Yeah, I agree. We've just talked with the via transportation

[47:25] folks and staff and that's our next move is really to try to get out the air and get the word out

[47:31] with flyers and you're right because I was a big user with the tire shop. I think that's a great. It was

[47:37] great. I didn't have to bother anybody from work to say, hey, I'm jumping car, can you come

[47:40] get me? I was actually doing the other day, but I ended up getting a ride. I was going to do

[47:45] that. But the tire shop would love to build. I would think businesses would love to be able

[47:49] to say, hey, you know, about this service. And it would increase, you know, because what I'm looking

[47:54] at is, I want, I want this to keep going. I want us to be able to justify it to keep, to keep, you

[47:59] know, past 20 to nine, right? Well, exactly right. Yeah, you're right. And that's what I think I've

[48:05] step two is to really get that word out and and see and work with our PIO office too as well

[48:10] just to see what we can do that get that door. You could just make a QR code that you just have

[48:16] scan my square. All right next council member green. Thank you, Mayor.

[48:24] Doug, you're wrong. I think this is great service. I'm happy we're offering it. How many of those

[48:28] free rides were in the 1750? I don't know that. They didn't break it out for me.

[48:34] but I can definitely find out.

[48:37] Okay.

[48:38] That's important for us to track this.

[48:40] And then each trip counts as one ride.

[48:43] The episode of the right two key supers.

[48:45] Yeah.

[48:45] Right.

[48:45] That would be two rides.

[48:48] And then it's $2.

[48:52] $2.

[48:53] $2.

[48:53] $1.

[48:58] $2.

[48:59] $2.

[48:59] couldn't do this without the RTD grant right now. Yeah, I'm sure we're about to just stay

[49:04] and know we we definitely depend on RTD grant. Yeah, and then now we had an average we

[49:09] had to have so many trips per hour per day. Are we meeting that? Yes, we are. Okay,

[49:15] we are. We have exceeded it. Well, we started exceeding it here this summer. This summer. Yeah.

[49:19] Okay. Yeah. Very good. Thank you. Again, like I said, it's a great service to

[49:23] glad we're offering it, but I just want to be clear on the finances here. It's not making

[49:27] it's actually costing as money, but it's important service.

[49:32] I don't know a micro-transit program that is making money in the area.

[49:38] Any of them nationwide, next Council Member Worth.

[49:42] Thank you, Mayor.

[49:43] Thanks, Greg. This is great information.

[49:45] Like I said, we've been waiting for this.

[49:48] I really like to see it.

[49:50] I need to get that rating up to 100%.

[49:54] I think we'll have any data on what the average wait time is for people.

[50:00] So the goal and I know they meeting their objective. The way I don't know what the average is, but the goal and what they have done, once you call the ride, they'll pick you up and deliver you within 30 minutes total.

[50:21] And the numbers are seeing I know we've met that.

[50:25] Every time I've used it, it's more three to five minutes late at the

[50:28] Mose you get in and they take you.

[50:30] They actually, when I were picking me up for City Hall, they actually

[50:34] Pick me up went to Walmart to pick up another rider and actually

[50:38] You know, turn back around dropped her off and then dropped the off and

[50:41] still was within, yeah, it was less than 30 minutes, even doing all that.

[50:45] That's awesome.

[50:46] Awesome.

[50:47] And how many?

[50:47] So you say we have six units now, but we have six drivers?

[50:52] Six drivers.

[50:52] Yes.

[50:54] And how many of those four units are on the road at one time?

[50:57] That's a great question.

[50:58] I don't know all of a four from seven to six to seven, or is it?

[51:04] Yeah.

[51:04] I think they look at their peak hours and try to put the drivers during the peak hours,

[51:08] but I do not know exactly how they got it scheduled or run in quite a

[51:12] time.

[51:13] So we back to all having the Toyota Vans only now.

[51:17] We do have Toyota Vans.

[51:19] It's not our original Vans, but we do have Toyota Vans just like

[51:22] our just like the ones that we had with branded and all that.

[51:28] Yeah.

[51:28] There's no 400 still seeing with the stick on.

[51:36] Yeah, it's definitely, it's not our permanent vans that we have, but they are, they are

[51:41] same thing, they're Toyota, CNN events that we have throughout the city.

[51:46] I want to be expecting our real ones, but so I was, it was reported that Toyota has finally

[51:51] picked up and they didn't say all of them, but picked up some of the vans and brought them to their

[51:55] shop, but we're still waiting for Toyota to complete the repair.

[52:00] So I think that some of them would be returned here real soon, but progress has been made for that.

[52:06] So we cool.

[52:07] All right, hey, thanks very much, I think this was a winner.

[52:10] All right, thank you.

[52:12] You said there's an expansion till 10 coming up for sure, or possibly coming up.

[52:18] So yes, we're looking at a podcast unless something, unless the numbers just don't work out.

[52:23] But right now, based upon what we're seeing, and what we're planning to do by the Intercept Timber.

[52:29] we hope to extend the services on Friday from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. that is actually the plan

[52:36] to move forward and we've been discussing it get that done. That way people can go to

[52:40] a night performance as the armory for example is there a desire or not desire but is there

[52:47] room to do that for special events like we'll have like the you know tree lighting ceremony in December

[52:54] in the parade and all that stuff, is there any room for expansion, then for special events that are

[53:00] high traffic events?

[53:02] You know, I can't give you a definite, but it's definitely a discussion, it's the flexibility

[53:07] to have, and I'm sure talking with VIA, and we give them, I think, advanced warning and that kind

[53:12] of thing, I think they can accommodate us. I know their drivers want to work weekend, as one

[53:18] of their complaints is that we're ready for extended hours so they can get more hours to work.

[53:23] So the drivers are eager, I'm sure via wouldn't, you know, I'm sure via will be willing to do it.

[53:29] It's just a matter. Can't we handle it in our budget? That's all.

[53:32] And that's what we have to always balance. There's one more comment that's popped in there.

[53:35] Yeah, special events would be a good way to screw up the metric.

[53:39] Yeah, if 500 people who suddenly need a ride home at this point, it's said eight o'clock.

[53:43] I'm Saturday. Thank you very much. This is a great program. I'm so glad to see it up and running and thanks for sharing all the information.

[53:52] All right.

[53:53] Thank you.

[53:54] And again, it was for Council and how, you know, the pressure you put on RTD, it helped

[53:59] very help them in application and getting funding two years ago when we were going through

[54:04] this process.

[54:05] So it was definitely a joint effort and we appreciate that.

[54:08] Thank you.

[54:09] All right.

[54:10] Thank you.

[54:11] Next director.

[54:14] Not to be done by Director of the Bre, our police chief has a video that he would like

[54:19] to show you.

[54:20] Yeah, come on, you should follow that on a video tonight, he actually has a pretty quick update for you.

[54:33] Yes, yes, I'm quite good at dancing, so you'll all be very impressed.

[54:38] Good evening Mayor Mayor Portem, members of Council.

[54:41] Thank you for the opportunity to provide you all with a brief update about our local and corresponding regional efforts on the front range wildfire initiated community

[54:51] the Conflagration Initiative, aka WIC.

[54:56] What is the front-range WIC initiative?

[54:58] It's a regional effort to assess community content.

[55:00] Complications caused by grassland, wildfires along the front range. Specifically, how to communities prepare for fast-moving

[55:07] fires that outpace current systems, leading to cascading failures, in detections, alerting, and evacuation.

[55:14] This initiative has identified the need for agencies across law enforcement, fire, emergency management, and

[55:19] dispatch centers to establish a shared doctrine, terminology, and regional operating picture for high-tempo, multi-ger

[55:26] sectional events. You may have already seen some communities put out some press information about

[55:33] evacuations. We have been active in that event the entire time, but you'll see in the next couple

[55:39] of weeks, a press release from the Front Range Week initiative going out to alert the public to the

[55:44] work that this group has been doing. Our Office of Emergency Management and Coordination with Brighton

[55:49] Fire have been actively engaged with this regional initiative and have been working diligently

[55:53] to prepare our community to prevent and respond to one of these events.

[55:58] More specifically, some of the things that we've done, we've adopted the common regional

[56:01] alerting language and protocols related to evacuations, including evacuation warnings,

[56:07] which is basically telling residents to prepare to evacuate.

[56:11] If it's residents that might need more time, they might consider evacuating now.

[56:16] Vacuation orders, which means go now, shelter in place, which is stay inside, take protective action.

[56:21] We have also adopted the use of the high-low siren tone to be used only in the event of an evacuation,

[56:29] high-low time to go, a little slogan to remember.

[56:33] This is going to be used on patrol cars and other emergency vehicles in conjunction with

[56:37] dordid or notifications.

[56:39] These will always be accompanied by verbal instructions in Spanish and English.

[56:44] Also in conjunction with Brighton Fire District, we have established all hazard evacuation polygons

[56:49] across the city and fire district.

[56:51] That consists of about 116 different polygons across the fire district, which incorporates a city.

[56:57] These have been loaded into emergency notification systems to allow for quick alerting.

[57:02] This can be used for all hazard evacuations. This is not specific to just wildfires.

[57:07] And we are working on a public interface map that is in progress right now, and we'll be rolled out soon.

[57:13] So why am I here in front of you tonight? You will be seeing information going out hopefully on September 8 from the front range,

[57:19] and I wanted to make sure you all knew that we were actively working on that as well.

[57:25] Subsequent to that short video that press release going out.

[57:29] Your local trusted emergency officials, i.e. me and Chief Garrison,

[57:33] will be explaining these changes in a video that we're working on.

[57:38] And there will be publishing additional resources for evacuation and fire mitigation along with preparedness

[57:42] on the cities and the bright and fire districts websites.

[57:46] So, again, this is an initiative you may have heard about as other jurisdictions have rolled it out.

[57:52] The evacuation stuff specifically has been in use in California for a long time.

[57:57] The high-low-siren stuff, it took us a little bit of work to get our fleet changed around

[58:01] and the sirens all reprogrammed, but we're in good shape now and we're ready to roll this out.

[58:07] But that I'm happy to answer any questions you all may have.

[58:09] I doubt there'll be as many as there were for bolt.

[58:12] Any questions for police chief?

[58:16] I'm ready sir.

[58:19] Perfect.

[58:19] Looks like I did my job.

[58:21] Thank you!

[58:22] Alright thank you chief.

[58:24] Any other director reports?

[58:26] No sir.

[58:28] Report.

[58:31] The board and commission vacancy update.

[58:38] Let me pull up the

[58:39] is magnificent, important commission update.

[58:43] Just literally exit it off and it's

[58:52] true.

[58:55] I actually

[58:56] had it pulled up and then I just exit it off and so my apologies.

[59:00] It was expecting cheats report to be longer so we didn't have it ready. I was mesmerized by the

[59:07] definition of WIC.

[59:11] So we

[59:17] still have three members of the Brighton Urban Normal Authority open and

[59:22] available. We have three members and one alternate member of the Historic Preservation Commission.

[59:29] We have two members and two alternate members. That's not right. We have two members, and I believe one alternate member, the Brighton Housing Authority.

[59:38] We have one district plan commission member and we are yet to find our two youth members for the sustainability advisory board, but I know that there is some promise there as well.

[59:48] And that's it, the list continues to, it's smaller, which is awesome, but we still have positions available on some of our very important boards.

[59:57] So if you know anybody who is interested, or you, if you,

[1:00:00] Yourself, or interested in joining one of our boards? Please visit our website. As far as updates, my guess for

[1:00:07] where the bolt, where the most frequent was Jordanellies, but I was wrong, based on my own experience.

[1:00:15] Wait, tell us open Friday night. Yeah, exactly. That'll be a separate metric for the night.

[1:00:21] Right. You see, exactly. I just wanted to give a quick update on a very cool event that happened this weekend.

[1:00:27] And as many of you know, Christian Flores, who was one of our employees who lost his life

[1:00:32] earlier this year, we had a little employee car show this weekend where some of our employees

[1:00:39] came out to the MSC and brought their cars.

[1:00:42] The Flores family was there.

[1:00:44] Gary Montoya actually cooked food for the entirety of the group.

[1:00:48] I can't remember how many hamburgers that he cooked, hamburgers hot dogs.

[1:00:52] But it was a very awesome event, a very cool way to remember Christian.

[1:00:58] He was a avid car enthusiast.

[1:01:00] Some of his friends showed up with some amazing cars.

[1:01:03] I did promise our Police Department of Lamborghini this year, so we'll have a revised

[1:01:07] budget for you.

[1:01:08] You'll see that.

[1:01:08] They're not getting any increases, but that would be a fun exam for some day.

[1:01:13] Potentially.

[1:01:14] Chief has volunteered to drive it to and from work too, so you'll have that.

[1:01:18] But no, I just wanted to recognize the employees

[1:01:21] who did it behind the scenes,

[1:01:22] did it on their own time.

[1:01:23] It was actually very amazing to see everybody come together

[1:01:26] for a very awesome event,

[1:01:28] and an excellent way to remember a Christian.

[1:01:31] That's all I have, thank you.

[1:01:34] Very good, thank you.

[1:01:36] All right, next reports by City Council,

[1:01:40] we'll start with the Council Member Collins.

[1:01:43] Nothing for me tonight.

[1:01:45] Okay, Council Member Snyder.

[1:01:48] The other thing I'd like to mention is the Bridge Street and 85 project has begun, and

[1:01:56] you can see the wall going up, and I'm sorry, I couldn't help it.

[1:02:02] It's really exciting, and I think they hope to be done by December, going to the top.

[1:02:09] So, except for, because of budget restraints, they're going to get the main landscaping

[1:02:14] and I think they're going to have to push the actual finish landscaping to 27's budget in the

[1:02:22] spring.

[1:02:23] So some of that's dependent on C dot 2, by the way.

[1:02:30] Probably be done if there wasn't a C dot.

[1:02:33] That's another battle.

[1:02:35] Councilmember Fiddler.

[1:02:37] Thank you.

[1:02:37] We are nothing to report.

[1:02:38] Then to thank Mayor Pro Tempidia and I believe Councilmember Carval, no, just Mayor Pro Tempidia

[1:02:44] for being in the lock booths of reward while I was absent from that, I mean, so they

[1:02:49] could be different on it. So you went, can't wait to hear the update.

[1:02:52] With that, Mayor Poodell.

[1:02:55] Well, it was entertaining. We didn't have any actions to take, but the consulting firm

[1:03:00] came back to the lock booths to reward with updates to the rate study with no more basis

[1:03:08] in reality than the prior rate studies.

[1:03:12] So still three variables, what's the growth rate,

[1:03:15] what's the consumption rate, and what's the cost

[1:03:18] for foot or per gallon for the updated wastewater treatment

[1:03:25] center, and the rate study didn't take into account

[1:03:29] in any way, shape or form, variances to that,

[1:03:32] or variances in the city's participation.

[1:03:34] So really it was a useless update,

[1:03:40] but I enjoyed sitting through it on behalf of both of you, so it was fine.

[1:03:44] We didn't have to take any action.

[1:03:48] Just another pause button.

[1:03:50] But the good thing I think out of that is that the Lockwood City Council members,

[1:03:56] thanked me for asking the questions that they also had been wondering about where are these numbers coming from.

[1:04:04] So I can't blame the company that is plugging the variables into a fully functional formula,

[1:04:09] just the one that gave them the weird numbers to begin with. Okay, so that was last week,

[1:04:18] coming up this week is the housing authority, but more interesting in the near future is the

[1:04:25] weekend of September 11th and 12th is going to be all kinds of exciting. So I'll see how many of

[1:04:34] But the Firehouse Memorial and Ceremony for 9-11 is the morning of Friday, September 11th.

[1:04:41] That evening is almost home's concert for a cause out here at Carmichael Park,

[1:04:46] fantastic fundraiser and a great band, the cover-alls who cover all of the music from the 60s through

[1:04:53] 2000s. It should be a really, really fun event. The morning of the 12th is the

[1:05:00] 13th annual card show at the Sue Corbett Active Adult Center at Eagle View, and I haven't figured out how that became the Suevac, but somebody had an acronym earlier today that I cannot make sense of.

[1:05:11] That's in the morning, and then beginning at 10 is Art and the Park at Carmichael Park, which is always a fun event.

[1:05:19] And then Sunday, the 13th at Riverdale Regional Park is Festival Latino.

[1:05:25] So great, great weekend next weekend and then just because I think it's still on his list

[1:05:33] the following weekend is trash fast and the eco event for E-Waste and document

[1:05:41] shredding is the 18th and the 19th. That's what I've got for tonight. Thank you.

[1:05:46] Very good. You guys can repeat this. I mean the more you say the more people will go

[1:05:55] this trash bash and the shred of it. I'm looking forward to tomorrow for the first

[1:06:06] run. I really sort of real DDA meeting tomorrow afternoon and that's all we have.

[1:06:14] Is that it? There's anything else you want to talk about?

[1:06:16] It's a member green. I found some things. You forgot the bird fest. Did barleg state park

[1:06:24] Saturday the 12 which is just you know flying fun feather full of excitement there and you know

[1:06:30] This past week I had the pleasure of going to the army. I mean they had the disco

[1:06:34] What Friday night and they had the

[1:06:37] Tom Petty Stevie Nicks trivia band and Saturday night and I don't even know how that place days

[1:06:41] Oh, but because those people blew the roof off that place. I mean the doors are around

[1:06:45] I mean that place was just broken and

[1:06:48] I don't even know how we keep it open because that is just incredible credible show

[1:06:52] they put on. And Friday, September 18th, the ultimate Elvis experience will be at the

[1:06:59] armory, Victor Trevino. I'm telling you, that guy's a hunger burden. That is the best

[1:07:05] thing I've ever seen. And I got to really give Kudos to Gary Montay and all the armor staff.

[1:07:11] They put on a heck of a show there. We can wake out. They do. They're there all the time.

[1:07:16] And he was there cooking food during the day. Boom at that show that night. So I really

[1:07:21] priest there's now yeah don't be afraid to go to that nine eleven ceremonial and pancake breakfast

[1:07:26] that's fire station fifty two are right there and brightening i know those fire department loves to

[1:07:31] cook pancakes maybe the police department could start you know stepping up to the plate here a little bit

[1:07:37] okay yeah you know seriously what do you guys offer a little piece of paper yeah no

[1:07:44] invitation to come see the judge. Yeah, thanks a lot. All right, thank you. That's all I got.

[1:07:51] Next, Councilmember Worth, follow that one. Thank you, Mayor. You know how to

[1:07:56] curb to me when you're talking about the birds. Can you imagine that birds also

[1:07:59] found feathers ticklish?

[1:08:04] So I got to join the mayor and first lady at the Dr.

[1:08:10] Kaga Awards program. That was a great event. And then also made it over to the

[1:08:15] getting next experience and what a talented band they are just really good entertain with

[1:08:20] there. So it was great. So anyway, that's that's my week two weeks. Cool. Council Member

[1:08:28] Carbohall. Yeah, I again want to thank Peter for covering that meeting in Lachbuy. The two things

[1:08:34] that I have coming tomorrow is going to be Parks and Rec meeting and so looking forward to getting

[1:08:39] some updates there. And then yesterday was the 27 J internships and I just want to give Kudos to

[1:08:44] city right in your staff specifically. The number of, I was there on my own business account

[1:08:49] taking in turns, but the number of departments represented by the city of Brighton taking

[1:08:53] in internships was pretty incredible. I think maybe the most of all the cities. So pretty

[1:08:58] cool to see that partnership and to give those kids an opportunity to come work in our municipality.

[1:09:04] And I think that is all I have for reports. Thank you. Thank you. I know this is not breaking

[1:09:09] any records of getting out early, but this is probably the first time we've had like reports

[1:09:14] go longer than the real meat of the meeting so I agree and for the record

[1:09:18] Sioux Vax sounds better than Skack so we're gonna leave it there. Oh my gosh

[1:09:26] All right accuracy with that we come back study session upstairs next week we are adjourned

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