There are city council meeting for Tuesday, April 16th, 2024. I see some voiceouts in the audience. I'm going to ask you all to stand up and lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance today. All right. Thank you. It's been a while since I've seen scouts in the audience. I thought that would be great Madam City clerk, please call roll Mayor maus here may a pro tempidia present council member Fiddler here Council member green in person councilmember Johnston he had an emergency Councilmember Pulaski here councilmember Snyder Councilmember Pulaski here. Councilmember Snyder. Councilmember Tadeo. Present. Councilmember Worth. Here. You have a quorum your honor. Thank you. Next is the consent agenda. Madam City Clerk please read that into the record. Item 2A approval of the March 19th, 2024 City Council minutes. Item 2B, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, accepting the proposal of DHM design corporation and approving the procurement of the sports complex design services for the contract amount of $932,212 and authorizing the city manager to execute the contract on behalf of the city. Item 2C, a resolution of the city council of the city of Brighton, Colorado, approving an intergovernmental agreement, IGA, between the city of Brighton and Brighton Crossing Metropolitan District Number 4, Brighton Crossing Metropolitan District Number 6, the Brighton Crossing's Operation Board and Brookfield Residential, Colorado, LLC, authorizing the mayor to execute said IGGA on behalf of the city and authorizing the city manager to undertake such tasks and execute such documents as maybe required to implement said IGA on behalf of the city. Thank you, Mayor. I would move for approval of the consent agenda. Councilmember Green. Thank you, Mayor. Second that. We have a first and a second to approve the consent agenda is read. If there's no other discussion, roll call vote. Motion passes 8- 0, 1 absent. Next is the approval of the regular agenda. Anyone want to make a motion on that? Council member Poloski. Thank you, Mayor. I move for approval of the regular agenda. And then council member Tadeo. Thank you, Mayor. I'll second that. We have a first and a second to approve the regular agenda. And then Council member Tadeo. Thank you, Maro. Second that. We have a first and second to approve the regular agenda. There's nothing else. Roll call vote. Motion passes 8 to 0, one absent. Moving on to ceremonies. Item 4A National Arbor Day celebration proclamation. I've asked council member today to read that into the record. Thank you, Mayor. National Arbor Day celebration, whereas in 1887, Jay Sterling Morton proposed to the Nebraska Board of Agriculture, the special day be set aside for the planting of trees. And whereas this holiday called Arbor Day was first observed with the planting of more than a million trees in Nebraska. And whereas trees can reduce the erosion of our precious topsoil by wind and water, cut heating and cooling costs, moderate the temperature, clean the air, produce oxygen, and provide habitat for wildlife. And whereas trees are a renewable resource giving us paper, wood for our homes, fuel for our fires and countless other wood products and whereas trees in our city increase property values enhance the economic vitality of business areas and beautifier community and whereas trees are a source of joy and spiritual renewal, and whereas Brighton has been recognized as a tree city USA for each of the past 38 years by the National Arbor Day, woo-hoo foundation, and desires to continue its tree planning ways. Now therefore, on behalf of Gregory Mills, Mayor of City Brighton, on behalf and on behalf of the city, you have by hereby proclaim April 26th 2024 as National Arbor Day. Thank you. Do we have to accept this proclamation city manager Martinez? Thank you Mayor. Good evening Mayor Mayor Pro Tem and members of Council tonight with us is our city forester Patrick Lifelp. Come on up Patrick and so we're going to have you speak and then we'll come down and get a picture along with the Arbor Day poster winner poster winner as well Those growth rewards basically are given to tree city USA cities in recognition of their demonstrated capacity building efforts in urban and community forestry. So we're really thrilled to have gotten that. I want to just also mention a couple of upcoming events that we are doing in celebration of our Rode. This Friday and Saturday is our annual Tree Brighton Tree Program distribution. It's an event where we provide trees to residents at wholesale costs through the Colorado Tree Coalition, which is a nonprofit dedicated to leading Colorado's efforts to preserve, renew, and enhance community forests. They mentioned to us that this year is the largest purchase of trees that they have made. So go front-range cities. largest purchase of trees that they have made. So go front-range cities. As well, we have the Rec Center is hosting a seed swap this Sunday. So please reach out to them for additional information on that. Then next Monday, we will be teaming up with sustainability to host an Earth Day celebration from 9 to noon in front of City Hall. So we'll have free tree seedlings and then other swag available as well for that. As well we have our upcoming high school beautification project that's going to take place at Water Tower Park with the Brighton High School senior class. It's going to take place from 9 till about noon on Friday, May 3rd. It's a great event. It's basically an event that's done kind of in lieu of the senior skip day for the Brighton High School seniors. So it's a great tradition that we have and a great way for the departing students at Brighton High School to kind of give back to their community and make like a lasting impact. So with that, I will take any questions anyone has? For the eight questions? I don't have any questions, but I was chairman of the Parks and Reg Board 38 years ago, so I had a little something to do with this. I like to brag. Thank you, Jan. I had a little something to do with this. I like to brag. Thank you, Jan. All right. Well, if not, we'll go ahead and come down, get a picture, and then are you also doing the Arbor Day Contest when it's well? Okay. You want to tell us a little bit about that before we go down? We'll just put your one shot. Yeah, sure. So every year we host this annual Arbor Day poster contest, which is one of our long time programs that we that we do with our fifth grade students, they basically the fifth graders participate all around the state in a poster contest organized by the Colorado Tree Coalition. So the winners of each of the schools around the state, also those winning posters have been set up on display at the Denver Botanic Gardens, at the Helen Fowler Library right now through May 4th. The display is free and open to the general public. No admissions required. So I guess with that I can introduce our winning student. I think they are here today. That is Trinity Corb of Miss Bros' fifth grade class at Bromley East Charter School. This is Bromley East what? They're on a roll right now. Three years in a row. So with that, there we go. Come on down. APPLAUSE Do you want to say anything before we take a picture? No. OK. Well, does it come on? Yeah. Do we have the picture? Can we put on the screen? Or? Yeah, there should be. Yeah, do we have the picture? Could we put on the screen? Or? Yeah, there should be. OK, it's coming now. All right, look at that. Good job. Well, we'll come down and get a picture with all the council members. Today it'll come down with me. Sure. Let's see what one did. But in front of that, do you want to do a picture of what you did? Yeah. We'll try not to block it. Sure. Sure. I'm going to go over here to see. Can I get involved in the council here? You're in the middle. You're the star here. I'm going to do it. You can get up there. Come on. Do it. I'm going to do it. Okay. Okay. There's enough space. the these are the fun celebrations of our meetings we'd like to do next item 4c national earth day celebration proclamation I have asked mayor pro tempadita to lead that. Read that into the record. Proclamation for National Earth Day celebration April 22nd, 2024. Whereas the first Earth Day was enacted in 1970 and engaged over 20 million Americans to advocate for a thriving environment. And whereas Earth Day is now a global celebration consisting of numerous events that highlight the importance of protecting the environment on the world stage. And whereas Brighton is blessed with a diverse natural environment, including open space, agricultural lands, parks, and an expansive trail system. And whereas the City of Brighton is committed to taking positive actions to preserve our natural environment so it can be enjoyed by the community for generations to come. And whereas Brighton is leading by example and supporting projects that promote a higher quality of life through water conservation, energy conservation, waste diversion, emissions reduction, and resiliency. And whereas the City of Brighton challenges every resident to follow our lead and engage in green activities that protect the environment such as recycling, water and energy conservation, use of multimodal transportation and active education about environment stewardship. Now therefore be it resolved that Gregory Mills, the mayor of the City of Brighton, Colorado on behalf of the City Council does hereby proclaim April 22nd, 2024 as Earth Day. Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem. City manager Martinez, who is here to receive the proclamation tonight. Thank you, Mayor. Our sustainability coordinator, Tracy McLean is here tonight to receive this. Let's go ahead and get a picture with Tracy first, and then we'll let her have some words on the mic. Do you want to, or do you prefer to talk first? Whatever you prefer. Go ahead and talk first. Well, I know this is the moment that you've all been waiting for. I'm sure this is why everyone's here tonight. So thank you. So good evening, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem and members of council. It is so wonderful to be here with you this evening. So last year I mentioned how proud I was of the progress that we were making towards advancing sustainability. And I can say I'm proud I was of the progress that we were making towards advancing sustainability and I can say I'm even more proud of the work that we have done so far this year. We have maintained our commitment to community engagement and sent out the first citywide sustainability survey and will be presenting the city's first comprehensive sustainability plan at the end of May, which is going to provide a blueprint of all of our sustainability programs and projects over the next five years. We've also been doing work leading by example in crucial areas such as energy conservation and have identified projects that address gaps in essential sustainability services and improve the quality of life for all bright and residents for generations to come. To celebrate Earth Day, this year we're going to be doing a little event outside of City Hall, a little outreach event. So that will go from 9 a.m. to noon and I will be joined by our Parks Department for their annual tree seedling giveaway. I will also be joined by the city's Water Conservation Specialist and I will also be joined by United Power's water conservation specialist. And I will also be joined by United Power that's gonna do a really cool LED street light demonstration. We will also have some free giveaways and some educational opportunities. So I encourage all of you to attend. And I will once again end my remarks this evening by saying I'm still very much excited for what is to come and reaffirm our collective responsibility to take care of the world we live in. Thank you. Good. All right. The next is item 4D National Day of Prayer Proclamation. I'll go and read that in the record. Whereas the history of our nation is endubitably marked with the role that prayer has played in the lives of individual Americans and indeed the United States as a whole. Whereas Americans of many religions and belief systems have turned to prayer for strength, hope, guidance and prayer as played and prayers played a role in many fights against racial injustice, child labor, and the infringement of rights of the disabled women and other groups. And whereas we acknowledge that prayer is a deeply personal and individual experience, the way in which it finds expression, deepens on our individual dispositions, as well as on our religious convictions. And whereas the virtues of prayer have a common bond, our hope and aspiration, our sorrows and fears, and deepest remorse and renews resolve and we can come together to overcome adversity, rise above our differences and come together as one city and one nation. And whereas America was found upon the freedom to worship, not to worship according to the dictations of our own conscious. Now therefore I Gregor Mills, Mayor of the City of Brighton, on behalf of the City Council here by proclaim, Thursday, May 2, 2024 as the National Data Prayer, in the City of Brighton, encourage our citizens to give back or give thanks in accordance with their own face and consciousness for our many freedoms and blessings. You are welcome to join in prayer as you choose to ask for courage and wisdom and justice on the day of the 16th day of April 2024. City Manager Martinez, who's here to present or receive this proclamation tonight? Thank you you Mayor. I believe Lafita is an audience to come up and speak on this. Come on over and you're welcome to say a few words and we'll take a picture after that. Okay, thank you. Greetings Mayor and pro-tem and council members. I would just like to take just a brief moment and give thanks to our floor now. Most gracious and loving, Heavenly Father, thank you for this glorious evening with wonderful proclamations being read and young ladies being recognized for her beautiful artistic abilities. Lord, we thank you for this day of prayer. That is being recognized tonight. And we thank you for the blessings you have given to Brighton for so long in Jesus' name. Amen. Thank you. Again, I would just like to welcome everybody to join us for the National Day of Prayer. It will be on May 2nd at the Alley Events Center here in Brighton at 8 a.m. If you are welcome or if you can make it, you are welcome to join us. This is the 73rd annual National Day of Prayer. Brighton has been doing this for 35 years by our wonderful leader for many years, Ernie Marcus, who handed the rain over to me last year at this council meeting. And so here I am before you as the rookie. And again, I just would like to thank you all for taking the time to consider this matter. Thank you. Thank you. I'll go ahead and come down. We'll take a picture together. And then next is the Elk's National Youth Week Proclamation. I'd actually ask Councilmember Wurf to read that to the record. Thank you Mayor. This is Proclamation for the Elk's National Youth Week. Whereas the benevolent and protective order of Elks has designated May 1st through 7th as Youth Week to honor Americans, Juniors Citizens for their accomplishments and to give fitting recognition of their services to community, state, and nation. And whereas, no event could be more deserving of our support and participation than one dedicated to these young people who represent the nation's greatest resource and who in the years ahead will assume the responsibility for the advancement of our free society. And whereas our youth need the guidance, inspiration, and encouragement, which we alone can give in order to help develop those qualities of character essential for future leadership, and go forth to serve America. And whereas to achieve this worthy objective, we should demonstrate our partnership with youth, our understanding of their hopes and aspirations, and to sincere willingness to help prepare them in every way for the responsibilities and opportunities of citizenship. And whereas it is our responsibility to guide, inspire, and encourage our youth to go forth to serve America, our privilege to manifest a lively interest in all their activities and ambitions and help prepare them for the duties and opportunities of citizenship, which is the objective of ELK's National Youth Week. Now therefore may it be resolved that Greg Mills, Mayor of the City of Brighton, on behalf of the Brighton City Council, does hereby proclaim May 1st through 7th, 2024, as Elks National Youth Week in the City of Brighton. Thank you, Council Member Worth. City Manager Martinez, who do we have to receive this tonight? Thank you, Mayor. As you can see in the audience, we have a lot of our friends from the Elks, including Tim Watts. Tim Watts, come on up. Come on down. You're welcome to say a few words, Tim. Oh, I'd say on it. Let's start this. As the clock started, thanks. You know, first off, thank you, Mayor Counsel, and our phenomenal city manager. For all the dedication and contributions you do to support our community and the youth and the community. Tonight I'm joined here tonight by fellow officers, Tanya, Cisco, Des, and representatives from our troop 105 that operate out of our building. Mayor Pro Tem, I think you have an interest in that too as well. In the past. I knew troop 105 and lots of friends that I was part of troop 355. I know, but you still had a consideration. I'm very thankful that you took the time to recognize this as our National Elk Youth Week. But I'd also like to, at this time, just also thank the Brighton Youth Commission and all they do for the wonderful youth in our community as well as statewide and nationally, because they're phenomenal as well. In the early 1900s, the Elks made a commitment to lay a solid foundation for the future, building the moral and physical character of American boys and girls, the leaders of tomorrow. Since then, the Elks have done so much to fulfill that self-charge responsibility and not for fanfare publicity, but simply because they know it is the right thing to do. One of the order's most impressive youth programs is the Elks Hoopshoot, National Free Throat Contestest with more than 3 million annual participants between the ages of 8 and 13 that takes place here in Brighton in the fall. Winners at the local level will move on and have the opportunity to move on to national level. Look at begins other winners in the state. We've done this for years here in the area and again like I said in the fall it'll come up again and coming soon toon, we'll be looking to start up our soccer shoe program. Just stand by for that. Again, thank you guys for doing this and thank you all for everything you do in our community for the youth. Well, stick around. Let's get a picture with the youth, the scouts and just one picture. Whatever you want. We'll count some member Green becoming down. I mean, he was, he says he was here when he, you know, I mean, he was, he says he was here when he, you know, still real and about the whole present thing, though. He's still that. Yeah, I mean, I want you down there. Hold this right now. I said one of nine. Oh, I was in 105. 109. On three say 109. Thanks guys, thank you. the the the next is the recognition of the Adams County mayors and commissioners youth awards nominees. City Manager Martinez, who's gonna introduce us to the youth. Thank you Mayor. Coming up is our manager of youth services, Don Neurussel. Thank you. Good evening Mayor and Council, thank you so much for your time tonight. I know some of you joined us downstairs in celebrating these amazing young people, but I am excited to introduce them to you formally now. So Adams County mayors and commissioners youth awards is a program that works to recognize young people who have not only overcome adversity, but continue to make a positive impact for themselves and their community. So we have an amazing special group of people today. I'm going to go ahead and call them up real quick. So we have an amazing special group of people today. I'm going to go ahead and call them up real quick You guys can just stand right here Before I have each of them introduce themselves I want to let you know that this program is kind of a two-tier program So we recognize everybody that was nominated locally and then of the nominees, some will move on to be recognized at the county level. So as they introduce themselves, I'll let you know if they were also recommended to be nominated, to be recognized at the county level. Before I move forward, also I just want to make sure to thank their nominators and their parents and their friends and family that continue to support them in the community as well. So I'm gonna have you guys all introduce yourself you just have to say your name the school that you go to and what grade you're in. So we start on this side and then when you're done you can just step right back. Hi my name is Keith Matthew Robinson. I am a sophomore I go to Brighton. I thought you'd be a senior. Hi I'm Giovanni I got a prairie high school. I'm a senior and hmm. Oh, thank you. Okay. Hi, I'm Colton Johnston. I am a sophomore at Brian High School. I'm Isabella Burra. I'm a sophomore at Brian High School. My name is Lani Lamparker. I'm an eighth grader at Bromley East Charter School. My name is Luis and I'm an eighth grader in that I go to a pinnacle charger of middle school. I am Dixie. I'm a sophomore at Bryan Middle School. I am Dixie. I'm a sophomore in high school. I didn't mention the ones that were also being recognized. So I'm just going to have them go ahead and raise their hand and wave to you. If I call their name, Dixie, Colton, and Laylaani also will be recognized at the county. We'll go ahead. We have additional nominees that we're not able to make it so I'm just going to read their names real quick so that we can recognize them as well. Riker Kenneth Hansen Gustavo Reyes Alexis Rubioio, Alex, Raycelle, Jensen Silva, Emma Gonzales Buckner, and Keshal Paul. So once again, I am super proud of the hard work that these young people are doing. And I hope that you'll join here and we'll get a picture. If you can maybe come over here and we'll kind of tighten up the group. Can I give them these certificates real quick so they can have it in their picture? I've been able to walk. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the Thank you. I'm sorry. All right, congratulations to all those that were recognized today. We're going to move on. Next is the item five. Public invited to be heard on matters that are not on our agenda. I have two people signed up to speak. First one is Tom Lampo. So Tom, come on up. Stay your name for the record and you have three minutes. Name's Tom Lampo. Tom, so you can see you again. Everybody else? I'm here to lift up Brighton and the people in prayer. Before I begin I want to say we are seeing truth being revealed and justice being served. We are living in unprecedented times all glory be to God. Please join me in prayer. Heavenly Father in Jesus' victory's name we invite you here to the city of Brighton. Your presence is known by Brighton and we are your people. No one is above you. No one can come against your plans. No matter how our situations appear, no matter how we perceive outcomes, you work all things to your glory. In Ecclesiastes 7, 13-14, it states, consider to the work of God who can make straight what He has made crooked. In the day of prosperity, be joyful, and in the day of God who can make straight what he has made crooked and the day of prosperity be joyful and the day of adversity consider God has made the one as well as the other so that man may not find out anything that will be after him. Your plans are perfect, your victory is assured, your glory reigns on. Lord we lift up all our first responders to you. They are constantly faced with unknown situations and required to make quick decisions. In your words, you state in 1 Peter 5, 7, cast all your care upon him because he cares for you. Bless our first responders with assurance in you. Protect them as they do their work to your glory. Guide them in their decisions and actions and bring peace to them. Our world is in great transition. The evil one and his followers are desperate for any sign of hope. Day by day, their hopes of total enslavement of your creation is slipping from them. We know that for a time their destruction will continue, but all things work for your glory and the victory is already yours. In Psalm 34, 17 through 19, it states, the righteous cry out and the Lord hears and rescues them from all their troubles. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. The afflictions of the righteous are many, but the Lord rescues them from, rescues him from them all. Let these words comfort us, Jesus, you are alive, you live on. You have destroyed the power of our enemy, and now we wait on you to expose all the corruption that has come against us and stolen our joy. And you're precious in your victorious name we pray. Amen. Thank you and have a nice night. Thank you. Next, Cory Moll. Come on over Cory. State your name for the record. You'll have three minutes. Hi, my name's Cory Moll. I am here tonight on behalf of Brighton Youth Baseball and Softball Association. We represent over around 800 families and 1200 kids and over 50 youth umpires that are ump in our games in the Brighton area. I just wanted to come and thank all of you in person for approving the money to be used towards the sports complex in Brighton this year. And thank you for approving the first step of the design plan and all that. With that, the reason that I wanted to come tonight was I was watching the study session last week when you guys all talked about the the complex and what it was going to include and all the stuff. And I know that the design is a design that was done 10 years ago or however long ago when they first talked about doing it. But in the entire conversation during the study session, not once was baseball or softball brought up in that entire time. Our program represents, like I said, close to 1,200 kids in this community in the spring and another 800 in the fall that play baseball and softball. We work with the city closely with parks and rec department to help run and manage several tournaments a year. I just want to make sure that baseball and softball fields are a very large part of that complex. We have we've doubled in size in the last five years. We've went from 800 kids to close to 2,000 kids since pre-COVID. And there hasn't been a single new field built in that time or even longer. You guys have done awesome and you've approved money in this parks and wrecks has improved the fields with the turf and the lights and the playgrounds and redone the bright and Japanese American park. And you've done all that nice stuff which we greatly appreciate all the turf and the lights and the playgrounds and redone the bright and Japanese American park and you've done all that nice stuff which we greatly appreciate all the work and money that's been put into it but we do not have enough fields and enough practice spaces for what we need in this community we're having to work with with the city of Hudson the city of Fort Lukton the city of Comer City Henderson and Thornton to be able to use practice fields for our teams to be able to be able to use practice fields for our teams to be able to have enough places to practice and play games because we do not have enough space. And with the tournaments that are being played in Brighton, there's 30 to 40 weekends a year that we have tournaments at Pulaski and at the adult sports complex. All of the tournament organizations that work with with the city of right and the host tournaments could double the amount of tournament teams and games that are played here if we had extra fields at the the new complex. So I just want to make sure that while the design is going on with all that that we definitely think about and make sure that baseball and soccer are part of it. Thank you guys for your time. Thank you, Cory. Yep. I totally agree. Madam City Clerk, that's all I have who signed up. Do you have anybody else? I do not. You're on the thank you. Okay. Next under Public hearings, item 6A, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton Colorado amending certain accounts in the general fund Parks capital fund lodging tax fund Cemetery fund water fund waste water fund storm drainage fund and fleet internal services fund and Internal Services Fund and appropriating money for expenditures in the amount of $49,216,682 to support changes to how financials are tracked, support grant awards, address growth in fleet operations and adjust for updated project timelines and amounts. So this is an official public hearing. I will go ahead and open up the public hearing and ask our city clerk to verify all the necessary postings and if all the publications were done. Yes, your honor. The notice of public hearing was published in the Brighton Standard Blade on April 4th, 2024. Thank you. City Manager Martinez. Thank you, Mayor. Here to present this item tonight is our budget and performance manager, Kayla Barber-Parata. Thank you, Mayor and Council. I know that was a mouthful, but I promise I will try to simplify this amendment for you as best I can. Just as a reminder, we are doing this amendment because we do need Council permission in order to spend anything that was not originally budgeted for, so we are looking for that additional appropriation. I did try to provide greater detail in your staff report this time because there are a lot of items on here But I am going to consolidate them into four categories a general rework of how we are doing some of our financial tracking grants Some adjustments to our fleet operations and then finally some adjustments to existing projects So the first I'm going to start with the financial items because it's not a particularly exciting one It's really more of an administrative one. So we are currently relooking at how we are tracking a number of items in our financial system. Really as we look at moving into a new ERP, we are looking to streamline a lot of those processes not only for ourselves, but also for the departments that interact with our financial system day to day and manage their projects. So the first item you see here is $75,000 to the general fund for victim services reimbursement. This is an item that has been previously done through what is called a liability account in order to increase transparency both for you as well as for the managers of that program. We are looking to move that into a revenue expense model like many of our other programs. And then next is lodging tax. So if you'll remember, we fully redid how we account for lodging tax last year. As part of that, we initially planned on tracking all of those through the lodging tax fund. But in practice, we have found that is very, very difficult for our department because they're having to look both in the general fund and the lodging tax fund in order to understand the full budget of a project. So we are looking tonight to simply switch that to a transfer to the general fund to make that easier for them. This is not allocating additional award. The next item, much more exciting. This is our grants item. So we have actually received good news, a couple of grants over the last couple of months. The first is an Adams County grant to help us build shade structures over at the adult sports complex. And so we are looking for an additional 500,000 appropriation to be matched by that award. Additionally, we also finally were awarded some Congressional Directed spending for Core City Pipeline Replacement. Just so you know, this is actually a process that started way back at the end of 2022. That's how long it took for that funding to go through. But we are looking for 960,000 in appropriation to support that grant. And you will see more information and that agreement coming forward in the next several weeks. Next is 120th and US 85 match. So back in March of last year, Council did approve a match with Commerce City who was applying for a grant to design an interchange at US 85 and 120th. They were excitedly awarded that funding. So we do now need to provide that match and it is a $400,000 match. And then next we will switch over to some of our own grants. First is lodging tax BCAC, so a couple of meetings ago. You did extend out the timeline for BCAC to use their 2023 lodging tax funds. So we do need to match that within appropriation to support that. And then we are also including this in here $20,000 for contingency in the lodging tax fund. With us reworking that, we have actually seen over the last couple of years more mid-year requests for grants. So we just want to set up that appropriation ahead of time. So if we get those mid-year requests, we can act on those quickly. And then finally, the tree trimming. As you will remember, again, a couple meetings ago, you did support a program to assist our residents who are going to be impacted by the changes to the tree height requirements. This is the appropriation to support that program. Moving over to fleet operations. So we have seen fleet operations grow significantly in about the last six months. So for a long time, we were seeing that area really restricted by supply chain issues and the inability to get parts and other work done. If you can't get it done, you're not spending on it, you're not doing that maintenance. We saw that release kind of towards the end of last year and really started to see that number go up. So what you're looking at here is additional appropriation for two items. One is for additional maintenance. To be conducted, we are seeing that we are going to trend higher than what we initially had budgeted in there because we are able to get so much more maintenance done and 2 is additional appropriation of 31,000 for fleet software that is going to allow us to better track those transactions now that we are having so much more maintenance go through for our fleet The software that we've been using just simply cannot keep up and cannot give us the reporting that is necessary for fleet of our size at this point. The other items below that where you see vehicle maintenance fee because the fleet internal service fund is an internal service fund, its revenues come from a payment made by all of the departments who have vehicles into that fund. So that is simply that charge out to all of those departments. So that is simply that charge out to all of those departments. And then finally, adjustments to existing projects. So the first two items are pretty exciting. We are looking to move funding forward from 2025 to 2024 for both the water treatment plant construction and for sports complex field design. So you can see the amounts there, 45 million. That is the bulk of this budget amendment for the water treatment plant as well as the 750,000 for sports complex field design. Final item on here is the South Adams Agreement. So we do have a couple of sewer connections that we are obligated to construct as part of an agreement with South Adams. While that was budgeted for in 2024, the bids unfortunately came back higher. So we're looking for an additional 487,000 in appropriation to cover that. So this final slide is just a summary slide. You can see an overview of all of the funds impacted and the total amounts that they will be impacted by. Overall, we are looking for just over 49 million in an increase to the appropriation for 2024, bringing the budget to just under 308 million. And with that, I will turn it over for questions. I guess you Kayla. This is when I usually ask that. Couldn't if they went out anything, but where the applicant is. This is when I usually ask the act couldn't if they want to add anything but where the applicant so um I don't have anybody signed up to comment on this so we'll move on from that and if you do want to comment they're signed up sheets of vac um Madam city clerk are there anybody that sent any correspondences in favor or against this request? No, you're on her. All right. Any questions by Council? And if there are none, we'll close the public hearing and ask Council. Oh, Council Member Green. Thank you, Mayor. Great presentation, Mayor. Great presentation. Kayla, this is just for my own piece of mind. When we move that lodging tax to the general fund, how can we ensure transparency for the lodging tax disbursements? Yeah. So we actually create project codes within the general fund that actually help us to track each individual grant. And that's what we are setting up for these lodging tax. So you'll still be able to see everywhere that it goes to and how much of it is lodging tax. Thank you. One thing I just thought about. So the 120th and high-weighty five match. Yes. Back in 2017, we put in money for that interchange in the design. It was before you started working here. We haven't seen any movement on that. I know C.Dought had an open house on how they want to redo all that, you know, 120th, 104th everything back in 2019, but obviously nothing's moved forward from that. So are we throwing money at stuff that's not going to happen? I mean, it's really a dream until we see something happen. So are we investing this money appropriately? If I had imagined, if I had a crystal ball, I would be able to tell you whether or not that is ever going to happen. I think it's a good movement to see that we are getting some funding for the design. I wasn't here in 2017 for the bright portion of it, but I was at Thornton at the time and they also committed funds as well. And I will tell you, there's a significant amount of lobbying that happens from all of those parties on trying to get that interchange done. But the feds move at a glacial pace when it comes to funding. So to see dot. Yes. All right. Anybody else have any other comment? If not, this is for consideration. Who'd like to make a motion? May I put them? Thank you. I'll move item six a. I think how some member green? I will second that motion. The first and second to approve 6A if there's nothing else. Roll call vote. Motion passes 8-0, one absent. Thanks. Next, item 7A and ordinance of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado and many sections of Article 3-8 of the Brighton Municipal Code regarding contracts and purchases. City Manager Martinez. Thank you mayor for this item. Our procurement and contracts manager Kelsey Archileta. We're presenting. Can you hear me? Okay. Yes. Good evening. May or may I approach 10 members of council. I am Kelsey Archileta. The city's procurement and contracts manager. I am presenting tonight on code updates related to the contracts and purchases portion of municipal code. This is a summarized version of the presentation we gave in detail last week during study session. It will be very short. We have proposed revisions to municipal code to increase the city manager's signing authority from 50,000 up to 500,000. At council's request, we did add into the ordinance that the city manager will report periodically on contracts executed in value of 100,000 up to 500,000. This is different than what is in your packets, but just pointing that out we did add that into the ordinance and our presentation here. Acquisitions over 500,000 will still be presented to City Council for approval. We also propose increasing the City Manager's authority to approve a change order up to 10% or $500,000, which ever is greater. Change orders higher than City Manager's signing authority will continue to be presented to Council for approval. We also propose authorizing the City Manager to approve an extension to an existing master price agreement as well as establish suspension and debarment standards. The other proposed clarifications that we have presented are specifying requirements for collection of bid bonds, clearly defining award limits, correcting punctuation, and removing redundant language. We have options for City Council approve the ordinance as written to be presented at a future council meeting for final consideration or decline the ordinance as written with no changes to municipal code. With that, I'll open it up for questions and feedback. Questions and feedback? It's not. This is before Council for consideration. Councilmember Ploskey. Thank you, Mayor. I move for approval of item 7A. 7A. Thank you. What's the member Fiddler? Thank you, Mayor.. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you All right, there's no general business. We'll go under reports. First of all, like to thank our mayor pro tem for filling in last week at our study session and running the meeting. I rewatched probably 70% of it. It went well. I'll see you on the set. Okay, I'll watch the end of the later. And then this morning I had a Dr. Cog, a regional transportation committee that I'm on. Metro mayors met a couple weeks ago. About to give a tour, about a week and a half ago to students of the Williamsburg Academy. They came to City Hall and heard from some of our key staff on what it takes to run a city. Karen Serene did a really good job hosting and given out swag to them and people from communications did a great job too and even our police chief came in the stole the show. So chief came in the Stolish show. So good job. I was at the Brighton Chamber luncheon last week when I got back into town and then coming up this week I have an EDC board meeting. Dr. Kog for me. I have a personal matter to attend to tomorrow night. Thank you. Any reports by department directors? I do have one this evening. This time I'll ask Chief Domenico to come up and give a brief presentation or comments on an item that we've been discussing internally. Good evening mayor. Mayor Pro Tem, members of Council. I appreciate the opportunity to come up and address you tonight. My hope here is just I want to raise some awareness and let you guys all know about some issues that we've discovered with our outdoor warning, our outdoor warning siren system. So last year we discovered some pretty significant issues with a couple of our outdoor warning sirens, specifically the one over at the fire station near 27th and Bridge Street and then a second one, the one located over by the high school. We determined they were no longer functioning well and we engaged our only authorized vendor in the state of Colorado to come out and take a look at the system. After taking a look at the system, it became pretty clear in relative short order that much deeper assessment and analysis of the system was going to be required to figure out what was going on with those sirens. So again, we commissioned that vendor to come out and do a full assessment of our outdoor warning siren systems. to a full assessment of our outdoor warning siren systems. We are still waiting on the final report on that assessment, but what we know now is the cost to get those sirens back up and functional is going to be really very significant. So as of right now, during this process, the system continues to degrade. We continue to have problems with it. And as of right now, those outdoor warning sirens are not working. We do not have the ability to conduct our monthly tests. And we do not have a reliable ability to launch those. So mainly wanted to make you all aware of that. And put it out there that there are still ways and we are still actively working. We'll be sharing some information with our community in the coming days about the fact that those sirens are no longer working. Information on how to sign up for code red, the emergency alert system that we use, along with other mechanisms in which we can share issues about dangerous weather, other significant events in the city. So complicated issue. We don't have all the answers yet, but it is clear that it's not going to be as simple fix as we were hoping. So with that, I'm happy to answer any questions that I can or give some additional detail if you all would like it. We will likely be up here discussing this issue in more detail, but just wanted mostly right now to make you aware that they are not functional. That council member Greens got a question. Thank you, Mayor. I was wondering what my Wednesdays were so peaceful. You said there's only one approved vendor. Is there the opportunity for another to get approved? Or are we kind of a victim of having only one approved vendor in the entire state? There's really not another opportunity to get anyone else involved. There's only one company that services this particular brand of tornado siren and that is the vendor that we have to work with. They are doing what we've asked them to do. They're providing us the information while we don't necessarily like what the information is that we're getting. I don't believe that it's not accurate information. I think the information they're providing us is accurate. I'm satisfied with their services. I wish they were a little faster as we do with many vendors that we deal with, but I am not, I don't have any issues with the vendor at this point in time. I think it's really just an issue of lifespan on some of these devices and changing technology. So do you suspect we'll ultimately pursue an entirely new line of warning sirens? Well, I think ultimately that's probably you all's decision on what we do long term with that recommendation. Well, and I'm not prepared to give a recommendation today. And I think there is a real good opportunity for us to come to you and provide some really detailed information so that you all have the information that you need to make that. And I'm happy to provide a recommendation at that time. Really right now what our focus is gonna be is raising awareness of Code Red, which is our best tool to alert residents, community members about significant issues that are occurring in their community, which side note we do have probably, as of the last report I saw, the highest participation in opt-in rates in Adams County for that system. So our residents are signing up for it and we're gonna continue to aggressively market that, and make people aware of other ways that that information can come to them. The National Weather Service, many of you have received them on your phones. They will send those emergency alerts to cell phones. They are still coming across TV broadcast, radio broadcasts. So I think right now our job is just to make sure that residents are aware that these are not working and that there are other mechanisms to get that information. But I think there's a broader discussion we had. Chief are we legally required to have the warning sirens active? That's probably a better question for our city attorney but I'm aware of no obligations to provide outdoor warning sirens. There are communities in Colorado that do not have them. There are communities that once had them, that no longer have them. There's a really a variety of approaches out there when it comes to alerting the public of significant issues. Chief, do you have any examples of cities that dismantle their warning system due to the same kind of situation? The only one I'm aware of locally is Longmont. They had them and moved away from those sirens in favor of other technologies and other approaches. Do we know of any negative backlash to doing that? I don't know. I don't know, but I'll be honest with you. I've not watched their council meetings when they discuss those topics. I have not done a real deep dive into that. I know for myself, I've never relied on that system is a technology from before everybody was even carrying a landline for them, I think. And so I have weather apps. I'm kind of a weather nerd. I like to see, I like to know when there's lightning and everything coming at me. So I have apps that turn on and tell me there's even lightning in the area. Some people have even heard that you just go off when we've been in council meeting when I've run meetings. So I think they're helpful. A lot of them are free. So I recommend people actually subscribe to those that are especially the free ones. So no, great points. And I think there's always been a little misunderstanding about what the intent of those sirens were You heard me say intentionally a couple of times outdoor warning sirens. They're not designed to alert people inside their homes They're not that loud. They are designed solely for outdoor purposes within about a mile of siren Great point Council member Fiddler Thank you, Mayor. Just she just for clarity. You have one vendor that will service this outdated technology. That's what I'm here you say. Yes, there's one vendor that services the brand of siren system that we currently have. I assume is old. It is. I mean it's not the old side And there's a good chance, and I mean, to be funny, it's not funny, you're gonna be fixed. There's also good chance, at some point this vendor for lack of a better term will also age out. And you may not have anyone who will service the existing system. Is that fair? That is a fair statement. Thank you. Side note, Chief Garrison did say he would reinstall one of those hand crank sirens on top of the fire stations and he'd run around personally and crank it maybe Yeah, I hope you do sir I'll look forward to him talking about that at my mornings with the mayor next time he has that with me Councilmember Polowski. Thank you mayor. Well These sirens came about when I was mayor. I was not for these sirens and the reason that I wasn't was because that we were one of the experts who came in and spoke said because of our location here and the the hill that is west of us we're in a very protected area so I thought it was a lot of money being spent needslessly. Thank heavens we have never had a need for them really, but I mean they've been there functioning most of the time. But I really do think because of today's technologies we need to be looking at what makes far more sense and not spending money redoing an outdated system almost. So anyway, that's just my thoughts. Thank you. Thank you, man. I appreciate the feedback. And I think the warning signs were not just for weather, but they were for like some emergency also, something attacking of the world or something like that. I remember as a child, when I lived in Las Vegas as a small child for part of my life, and they had their age sirens too, but the only weather that happened out there was hot, so it was definitely for some men. Yeah, they are an all hazard siren system. You can use them for a lot of things. The challenge is there's no ability to communicate additional information when those sirens are launched for any other purpose than tornadoes. So yeah, if it's an outdoor threat and unfortunately what does happen when they get launched is people go outside and look up in the sky. You get more people going out than seeking shelter. So it's a real challenge and definitely a tactical decision when it comes to launching them for other purposes. I think it's wise to spend our money in different ways, but we'll look forward to seeing the solutions come into us in the future. Thank you. Thank you all. Appreciate your time. City Manager Martinez, are there any more directors that want to entertain us tonight? They're all dying to entertain you this evening. However, we have no further reports But I do want to mention though just a comment a little known fact that the Sirens are also to warn us in case of a lock buoy invasion. Oh Still appropriate Yeah, I could comment further, but I'm gonna stop Reports by city attorney. No, thank you mayor. Can't top that. Reports by city manager. I just have one thing to mention since we won't have an opportunity to report this next week. I want to remind all of our residents that are trash bash. Our annual trash bash will be happening next week, next Friday and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the former wastewater treatment plant at 325 CUNer. So bring your trash out. It's always a popular event. We really do encourage you to get all of the waste out of that garage that's been sitting around. I know I did that this weekend. I probably have a couple truck loads, but I'll manage one, but I really do want to remind our residents that it's a fantastic thing we offer. Please take advantage of it. Thanks. And so for clarity, it's not this coming weekend, but the following weekend. Correct. Not this coming Friday and Saturday, a week from this Friday. Okay. Thanks for clarifying that. Sure. We all have something we can clean out. for clarifying that. Sure we all have something we can clean out. Go on to reports by our City Council. We'll start over here with Council Member Worth. Thank you Mayor. I had the pleasure since the last meeting of going to the Parks and Rec Advisory Board. I'm going to, since I'm the alternate on that, I'm going to leave that commentary to councilwoman Palowski. I also went to an AC rep event talking about AI and the effect of AI on kind of society was fascinating. The the the the scaringness and the cool stuff about it. There's a lot a lot involved and there really a lot of people saying that AI is basically going to be about as big as the invention of the internet. It's the next thing that's going to make a dynamic change in the world in general, hopefully more for the good. So that was pretty fascinating. I also attended the Chamber luncheon. And we had the BYC while the kids are still just really hitting the home stretch here towards Speak Week, which is exciting. They are really cranking it down. We also took a little bit of a time out for a holiday party. They were always working so hard during the year that our holiday parties don't usually happen at the holiday time. So this was our holiday party. We went to the Adam's Mystery Playhouse. And the kids really seemed to have a great time there. And I did, a wife and I did so it was awesome Other than that I've got nothing else. Thank you. Thank you Then Councilmember Blosky. Thank you Mayor. Well, I came in late to the Parks and Rec meetings I don't know if there's anything you wanted to report before I got there or not, but anyway, one of the biggest concerns that I have regarding that, I had to pick up my daughter and her family from the airport and that's why I was late. But anyway, I totally agree with what Corey who suggested to us tonight that we have to be thinking about the growth that we're experiencing here in Brighton and the need for those fields to also include softball baseball fields. That's a must in my view. And I also was able to attend the Chamberlion and that was very well done with interesting things that are ahead with the United Power for us starting, is it the first to May? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, you're ready out there. And then just a little more history. My son was in the else scout back in the day. And he's now 56, so it was a long time ago. But anyway, we loved it. I helped out with that too. And I remember making Christmas decorations with the scouts It was a lot of fun. But anyway, I still have them on my tree today Anyway, I think that's all I have so thank you very much The next council member green. Thank you mayor. Yeah, I should hope we have three future Eagle Scouts right here sitting in front of us man. Look forward to it. Again I attended that super informative chamber luncheon. That was a really informative one. I would encourage all the electricity users in the city of Brighton to attend the United Power Annual Meeting which is tomorrow night out at the Riverdale Regional Fairgrounds in another informative meeting. If you wanna know about those changes that will be happening, I would encourage you to attend the meal, free meal, starts at 4.30 and the business meeting starts at 6.30. I also attended the Brighton Housing Authority, which is an informative one. I sure hope we can get going and get them motivated to create more affordable housing in Brighton because we have a problem and it just doesn't seem like we have the momentum yet at the Brighton Housing Authority. That's all. The next council member today. Thank you. I would like to bring up the help for homes is coming up on May 4th and council has a team so get your spot now. Best team. It's very rewarding. You meet some of your neighbors. They are very appreciative. You help them fix up their house. However, they require and I've done it for about four or five years now. It's always a great day. Hopefully we'll have good weather again. So if you want to be on the team let me know. I also attend the Chamberlainton for United Powers birthday. It was very nice. The crumble cookie did not make it home. But I really did enjoy it. I mean that we had those, right? Yeah. And I was this last week able to go attend, sorry, I'm trying to find it, with the chief and the deputy chief. Went to a facility and now I can't, yeah, porch light family justice center that's in Jefferson County. And they'll be more to come on that, but fabulous facility program for people the who are victims of domestic violence or sexual abuse and it's it's I hope we can get one of those in our community someday and that'll be more to come Thank you Thank you the mayor put them Thank you. Thank you. Mayor Patel. Thank you. My family makes up about a third of Anne's team for Hope for Homes. So definitely we can use assistance coming out for that on May 4th. It is a fantastic team. This morning I got to see a press conference for the launch of an airline passenger protection partnership between our attorney general and the department's transportation. Really kind of a cool deal with where complaints and customer issues, consumer protections for people who are experiencing trouble with airline travel or with the airlines themselves. The state resources of the Attorney General's Office are gonna be available to be able to start to resolve problems that have had to be referred to the feds before. So kind of neat program that they're decentralizing the ability to administer resolution of rescheduling or refunds or loss of things that happen when you can't travel or can't get back home, very neat partnership coming out of that. Tomorrow morning, I'm going to the Brighton Housing Authority's participation in the HUD moving to work program to find out exactly how we're participating in that and what that means for us as a community. And then tomorrow afternoon at Platt Valley Hospital, I'll be attending the Public Health Department discussion of the Adams County Health Assessment and prioritizing the, helping to prioritize the needs that were identified in that health assessment. So also some pretty cool stuff going on in that arena. I am happy to report that the single staircase bill in front of the legislature died in committees, so we won't have to deal with that one this year. Very excited about that. I am still worried about the fact that the one that eliminates the city's ability to set minimum parking standards is still up for conversation. Although my understanding is that a lot of communication on that has some people who were ready to vote for a re-considering that. So continue to talk to your representatives about the importance of having adequate parking at our apartment complexes. And hopefully that will be effective as well. And then I would just mention as the last thing for anybody who was worried that we would have jumped way down into the step of designing those fields without baseballs and baseball fields in consideration. Remember that that illustration was put into the slide deck for us last week as an example of what they thought of when they were originally talking that wasn't a final design. We just kicked off the design process. So there's no design that has to be adjusted and the team that's doing that design is taking into account all of the merriot needs for those fields. It's not just the baseball ones but there aren't enough soccer fields, there aren't football fields, there aren't enough rugby fields, all of the city. So, it's not just the baseball ones, but there aren't enough soccer fields, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so. Yeah, exactly, but because I remember when we couldn't, back when Jan first came to the city and you know, we couldn't, the two Rackable courts were reserved a month in advance and you couldn't get into the Rackable courts at one point in time. So the parks and Rack Department is doing a very good job of looking at all of the needs but never fear. Nobody's jumped all the way down into design without taking that into account. Looking forward to also next week is going to be the most exciting concert of the year at the Armory. It's a Mariachi rock revolution so it's a Mariachi band that does heavy metal music. Gotta be worth seeing. Thanks. Wow. Sounds like fun. It it it it almost sounds like we need a pickleball court for every three homes being built the way the demand has become but councilmember Fiddler. Thank you Mayor. First of all, Cor things come in tonight. He reached out to me and making like real man's questions. I did share that that was just a concept design and we are certainly going to be considering the ball fields, but I encourage Cor to come in and speak about half of the students, other athletes that he discussed. And let's be honest, there's a lot of talk about Pickaball last week. But nothing, no one mentioned saw a ball or baseball. And that's probably on me, do it mentioned given my boys as activities. But Cory, thanks for coming in. That matters. We appreciate you taking time with practice. Nice to do that. Congratulations to our youth award winners from the different municipalities who won, and we have three tonight, that'll be there. So that's exciting, and then I would be in old. My retirement party is May 4th, there's all kinds of conflicts, so I'm told I got Lloyd and Tom time trying to bail out, but that's a big choice. May the fourth view with you, 70's theme. Please join council members. This is an all call council members. Please join join us. Ferryble and then I would be in big trouble at home if I did not mention May 10th is the almost home spring out of homelessness benefit at the way my home so well I got I got I get at home and then live with that so but no she's super excited I know you are as well as board members and then as exciting as the Marionchi rock band sounds I will be in Nashville next week on the 26th celebrating my wife's birthday at a Tim McGraw concert for the 57th for the 57th time she's seen Tim. Oh man, it's a problem. Always got a one-up everyone now, huh? All I was going to. Councilmember Snyder. I don't have any reports this week, but I would just like to compliment our city staff, the Parks Department, Public Works and Michael Martinez. You know, we had parking lot at the south end of right in Park destroyed and they've got a contractor in there. It's torn out. It's going back in. Probably be done by the weekend if the weather holds out amazing job. Very rapid response and I just really appreciate it because that was a really dangerous situation. It was in bad shape and we're gonna start renting those for the end so it needed to happen quickly. So thank you, thanks to your staff. Thank you, thank you to all that is commented tonight. Next week we have study session and then in two weeks is a fifth Tuesday, we will have no meeting. We don't have anything planned with the school district either, which is a good time to go to that Adams County Youth Commissioner awards in two weeks at the dome. If there's nothing else, we are now adjourned.