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Council Member Johnston. Present. Council Member Padilla. Here. Council Member Pulaski. Here. Council Member Pollock. I'm also happy to be here. Council Member Tadeo. That's why I'm happy. President, you have a quorum, Your Honor. Oh, it's good to have everybody here. Next, approval of the regular agenda. Anyone want to make a motion? Council Member Pulaski. Thank you, Mayor. I'm happy to approve the regular agenda. Councilmember Padilla. I'll second that motion. Move to approve the regular agenda. If there's no other discussion, roll call vote. I'm going to move on to item three that consent agenda deputy city clerk will you please read that into the record. Item three a approval of the November 7, 2023 City Council minutes. Item three b approval of the November 9, 2023 City Council minutes. Item three c, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, accepting the proposal of American West Construction, LLC, and approving the procurement of the North 10th Avenue and Midland Street Storm improvements. Project number 23-008327, or the contract amount of $38,835 and authorizing the city manager or designate to execute the contract on behalf of the city. Item 3D resolution of the city council of the city of Brighton, Colorado, accepting the proposal of American West Construction LLC and approving the procurement of the baseline road wire replacement project number 23-008335 for the contract amount of 378,595 dollars and authorizing the city manager or designate to execute the contract on behalf of the city. Item 3E, a resolution of the city council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, accepting the proposal of AERS associates, Inc., and approving the procurement of the EPA Brownfield Assessment, Project No. 23-008309, for the contract amount of $464,200 and authorizing the City Manager or does it need to execute the contract on behalf of the city. Item 3F, a resolution of the city council of the city of Brighton, Colorado appointing current alternate Ashley Callaway as a member of the Brighton Housing Authority with the term to November 2028. Thank you. What is the pleasure council? Mayor Pro Tem. Thank you. Mayor, I'd like to make a motion to approve the consent agenda. And then councilmember Blosky. And thank you, Mayor. I'd like to second that motion. There's a move to approve the consent agenda is read. There's no other discussion. Roll call vote. Motion does pass. 8-0. Moving ahead is ceremonies item 4-A recognition of the 2023 name that Snowplow contest winners. City Manager Martinez. Thank you Mayor. One of my favorite events of the entire year I assume that we have some folks in the audience who are interested in this so without further ado I'm going to ask we have a few staff members who are going to present this so at this time I will ask our staff to come up and introduce our winners. Is this the point that we, one of us needs to come down? Okay. Not yet, okay. We're excited to be here with you this evening for this special occasion. Tonight we'll be recognizing the winners of the 2023 named that Snowplow contest. So a little bit about the contest. Last month, elementary school students in Brighton were invited to submit their best and most creative names for the city's nine snowplows for the 2023-2024 snow season. We received nearly 30 submissions, and let me just say the names were so good that it made it really hard to narrow it down to nine names. A judging panel that included Council Member Padilla and Council Member Tadeo and City staff plowed carefully through all the submissions and selected our nine favorite names. But before we bring up the winners, I just want to mention that in addition to the snow plows having the names on them this snow season, the winners will also have the opportunity to participate in this Saturday's Festival of Lights Parade. Hopefully our snow plows are there and not outplowing the streets. That's our plan. So I'm going to turn it over to our streets team to bring up our winners and may or yes, if you'd like to come down. We'll take pictures and family that's here. If you'd like to come and take pictures too, we welcome that. And then we'll do a group picture at the end if that's okay with everyone. I'm jealous you're gonna have a hat. You want to name them? Okay. All right. Yeah, I get to name them. OK. All right. You make it. OK. All right. Well, I have the honors in to name our winners. First winner this evening is Cara Neely with the Snowplough name of Scoopy Doo. Scoopy Doo. Yeah. I'm going to turn around here. There you go. Greg, you want to do this? All right. Oh, it's not going in. Come forward. OK. All right. You got to shake your hand real quick. Alright. Our next winner is Joshua Craft with a snowplough name of SpongeBob Snowpants. pants. I'm going to pass the pick that counts. All right. The next winner is Kimberly and help me with YEPPS. Kimberly YEPPS. And OK, thank you. And the snowpow name is Frozen Sprinkler. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no So our next winner is Landon Trion. the name of the Brighton Fall Enforcement. Thank you. Thank you, sir. I'm going to look over here. Can you let's turn it around? There we go. I love this. Okay. There you go. Thank you, sir. I'm going to look over here. Can you let's turn it around? There we go. I love this. Thank you. Okay. There you go. Okay. There you go All right. The next winner for this evening is Isaiah Geer with no more Mr. Ice Guy. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Our next winner is Cesar Vasquez with the snowpow named of the implouter. The implouter. All right, I won't get in there. Congratulations. Good job. All right, our next winner is Mr. Cruz Vasquez with the snowplow name of plow chicka plow plow. There we go. Well this handshake is done. There we go. Congratulations, Michelle. All right. Our next winner is Skyler Beary with the snowploughed name of Milton John. That was a good idea. That was a good idea. That was a good idea. That was a good idea. That was a good idea. That was a good idea. That was a good idea. That was a good idea. That was a good idea. That was a good idea. That was a good idea. That you. Thank you. Thank you. Let's get all the winners to come up. We'll do a group shot with all the council. All right. We'll have the goal over here. Yeah. Go around. I get't breath. I can't breathe in. I can't breathe in. Are you okay? I'm ready. I can't breathe in. I can't breathe in. I can't breathe in. I can't breathe in. I can't breathe in. I'm going to squeeze in a little over. If you want to go to the next floor. I'm going to have to go to the next floor. I'm going to have to go to the next floor. I'm going to have to go to the next floor. I'm going to have to go to the next floor. I'm going to have to go to the next floor. I'm going to have to go to the next floor. I'm going to have to go to the next floor. I'm going to have to go to Dorothy, stay up here. Not you could sit down. Bennett, come here. Come here. Come here. Come here. Come here. Come here. Come here. Come here. Come here. Come here. Come here. Come here. Come here. Come here. Come here. Come here. Come here. Come here. Come here. Come here. Come here. Thank you. All right kids. Beautiful. Thank you. Okay. Very nice. All right, we'll give it a moment to let the room clear up a bit. The next item on our agenda is item 4B historic preservation commission 2023 brick awards city manager Martinez. Thank you mayor another awesome event. At this time I will ask the historic preservation chair, Tony Kyle, to come up and present. Welcome, Tony. Literally a break. All right. Am I trusty iPad so I can actually see? All right, guys. So tonight is very unique awards because the BRCA words are were created to be able to honor those that have done significant work in the area of historic preservation in the city of Brayne. And the awards themselves are actually just as unique because even though they do come from buildings we were not able to save. They are still buildings that were important to the history of the city. So having one of these is history in of itself. Our first honoree tonight is Sage Naman. Sage and Sarah Naman moved to Brighton from California in 2017. They purchased a historic home in the Walnut Grove neighborhood. Sage had briefly served on the Beach Preservation Commission in Carlsbad. Sage served on the Brighton Historic Preservation Commission from 2019 to 2023, including a year serving as the chair of the commission. During his time on the commission, Sage learned about the preservation process, but also about Brighton's history, the people, the farmland, and the industries that have come and gone over time. He completed extensive research on his own house's history, from the architecture to the families and it's more than 100 year life spam. Sage has also been an advocate of the city's museum and hopes to see its stories and artifacts grow. Please join me in celebrating Sage now with the historic preservation commissions 2023 brick award. I'm going to say that part of the beginning. Sorry Emma. Don't run away please. We're going to take a picture at the end with everybody. Councilman today and with you. Our next brick award is for Robin Kring. Robin and Michael Kring have lived in Brighton since 2001, and in that time, Robin has made immense progress in documenting Brighton's history. Robin served two terms on the historic preservation commission and has also led numerous tours and presentations regarding Brighton's history. She has written numerous books about Brighton, including books on Brighton Cemetery and the Great Western Sugar Factory. Robin was involved in creating profiles for historic figures buried in Elwood Cemetery as well as historic figures involved on the Founders Plasma mural. She has been a long time steward of her historic home, which sits on the site of Daniel Carmichael's home and the original site of Brighton's First Courthouse and Jail. Please join me in celebrating Robin Kring with the historic preservation commissions 2023 brick award. the community. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And then our final honoree tonight is Barbara Human. The Historic Preservation Commission would like to award Barbara Human with the brick award for Museum Volunteer of the Year. Barbara is an active part of the City's Museum volunteering more than 150 hours of her time to museum activities. She has helped organize the museum's research files and has been instrumental in planning museum events. Barbara is always looking for ways to increase awareness of the museum, engaging with local businesses and the community. Barbara has consistently been an example of example of exceptional service as a volunteer and the museum would not be able to function as effectively without her service. Barbara was unable to make it tonight but please join me in celebrating Barbara human with the historic preservation commissions 2023 brick award. And just as a side note, the museum actually has its very own committee now for the BHPC. And I think that has a lot to do with the hours that the volunteers are putting in at the museum. So that is a huge success this year. So we get the winners will come and do a quick picture. I'll do a quick picture with my videos and Councilman Tadeo. Well, you can't hide. No. Oh, we do. All right, there we got it. Congratulations again. Dispensing. Hi, Dan. Over the counter. That's what they all say. All right. Moving forward next is the performance and leadership academy graduation item 4c city manager Martinez. Thank you Mayor last but not not least, amongst our celebrations is the 2023 City and County Managers Association's award winning performance leadership category graduation. That's right. I will turn it over to Tracy for this. Awesome. Here's the air horn. Good evening Mayor Mayor Pro Tem and City Council. It is wonderful to be here with you this evening to be celebrating our next performance in Leadership Academy graduation. It looks like a few people did clear out after the first two ceremonies, so the remaining people will have to be extra loud as we celebrate the graduates tonight. So for those of you that aren't familiar with performance in Leadership academy, I'm just going to provide you with a brief overview of what the academy is. So participants attend one course per week for five weeks. And the academy was developed in response to some major events that were really impacting our workforce and our culture, including COVID, obviously, and leadership and staff turnover across the organization. So the curriculum is designed to teach employees how to build stronger teams and kind of play to their strengths to be effective team members. It teaches the basics of lean six sigma process improvement. It helps people to embody the customer centric value that we have at the city of Brighton. And it also teaches people that it doesn't matter what role you have within an organization, anyone can be a leader. So to date we have 35 completed projects totaling $575,000 in annual savings. So that is, that deserves a little bit of a proper air. It's a pretty big deal. All right, so with that, let's jump into our graduates this evening. So first graduate that we have is Laura Morris, our risk manager in our human resources department. So prior to Laura's innovation, there was no set policy for how to calculate anniversary dates. So this was causing a lot of issues with retroactive pay for salary adjustments and also missing awards. So Laura created a standard operating procedure so that anybody could kind of walk into this process and find a homogenized way to calculate those anniversary dates for promotions and reclases. This is also created quite a bit of clarity for everyone across the organization in terms of anniversary dates. So Laura come you're already up here. Yeah, so come you're already up here go on up yeah so uh so we're going to take a group picture at the end. All right, Laura, don't go anywhere because we're going to take a group picture at the end. All right. So next graduate that we have is Erin Bonner, our network administrator in our IT department. So prior to Erin's innovation, there are basically 36 signalized traffic intersections. In any time, there was any type of hardware update that was installed. Erin had to do all of those manually. So this was a process that was not only labor-intensive, but it was also very subject to human error because it was a manual process. Erin very impressively wrote a script that automatically updates these intersections. So that resulted in a 95% reduction in time and a 75% reduction in programming errors. So go ahead and come on down, Erin. Let's get your picture. Erin's not here, darn it. All right. Well, sure for Erin anyway. Give her for Erin. All right. All right. So next, graduate, we have is Shasta Baka. She is lead victim's advocates specialist in the Brighton Police Department. So prior to Shasta's innovation, orientation for new victims' advocates, which is very confusing for everyone involved. There was no standardization. People were not connected to resources. So Shasta worked with her team to develop this kind of standardized onboarding process. So she identified all of the new information that new victim advocates would need. She also developed training materials and curriculum. I saw all of the materials materials and it is quite impressive. So is Shasta here? Okay, well, it is the season to get the flu, I guess, but everybody give it up for Shasta. Okay. All right, and then I'm gonna hand it over to Catherine to go over the rest of the graduates. Hopefully we've got a few more who aren't sick. Okay, next we've got Eric Lewis, our service desk specialist from the IT department. Luckily he is here working for all of you tonight, so he is here. The pain point that Eric identified in his process is that deleting old users and setting up new ones when an employee either left the city or moved to a new job was very time-consuming and very manual. Sometimes it could take up to 30 minutes just to change their permissions on the back end of all of our systems. And so he also wrote a script that would actually go through and make this process a lot less manual and took that sometimes 30 minutes per user down to just seconds per user. So come on up there. Okay, next up we've got Maggie Ayala from a tax auditor in our finance department. So Maggie identified the pain point in her work that the city did not have a voluntary disclosure agreement program for companies who wanted to voluntarily begin remitting taxes to the city. This was done really case by case. It was kind of they would call in, ask us how they would do this, and then we would figure it out from there. So what she did is actually just developed a standard program for that and a bunch of resources for that. So that was a lot of good customer service for all of these businesses who wanted to begin remitting those taxes that they can do all of this stuff a lot more easily and just by finding it on our website. And it actually also helped increase our sales tax remittance, which we always liked some extra revenue, so that was great as well. So come on up Maggie and... All right, moving along, we've also got Marcy Embarger from our IT department. She's our IT Operations Manager. The process that Marcy identified as a pain point is that the onboarding process in IT could sometimes feel a little bit overwhelming, which would lead to missing items sometimes and a little bit of frustration between the new employee and the trainer. So she worked through our internet and created kind of a dashboard that has a lot of those. Frequently asked questions, the information that you might wanna know in your first few weeks, and standardized a lot of that stuff too. Make people feel a lot more welcome and help people get onboarded a lot faster. So Marcy, there she is, come on up, Marcy. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, All right, next up is Rosangela Schroeder from our Finance Department. Rosangela works on the cities grants on the tracking and reporting on the back end. And she noticed that we get grants from various different organizations and agencies and they all have different requirements for when their reports are due and when we get reimbursements, all of those kinds of things. And it could be a problem if we were to miss some of those deadlines. So in order to better track this, the solution she implemented was to create a centralized board on the software Monday.com. And this way it puts through all of the deadlines for everything so that both her and the grant manager can see when all of that is doing. It also gives some automated reminders to make sure that those mandatory reports do get in on time. So I believe Rose Angel also could not be here tonight, but we'll cheer for her anyway. Next we've got Yasmine Agibans from our City Attorney's Office. The pain point she identified is that the city did have a template for our professional services agreements, but it had been kind of added to year over year without being fully re-looked at. And that led to some confusion, sometimes some extra work or duplicated questions. So her solution was to actually go back through that template and create a much more streamlined, cleaned up version of it. This has led to a lot less questions, made our requirements a lot more clear, and has saved everyone really a lot of time and difficulty. I believe Yasumina is also not here tonight, but we have her some claps. Applause. And that actually brings us to our last graduate of the evening. And we have Pierce Miller from the City Manager's Office. The pain point that Pierce identified is that the filing system in the budget and performance team virtually on our computer was a little bit clunky and Confusing similar to the last item from the city attorney's office It had kind of been built on by multiple people over time and it wasn't very easy to figure out which folder something would be saved in So Pierce went through reorganize some of that to make it a lot more clear Not only that, but he also developed a file-tree visual as well as a standard operating procedure, which is basically just a document that details how you should continue to put things into the folders in the new structure. That way, not only is it fixed now, but people can reference those and continue to put them in the same places, so that's a lot easier for people to find. Pierce should be here. So, come on up. Good job. And then what do you think is right now? Well, it's getting a massive picture. I'll just get on one side over here. I'm going to say that. Yeah, I'm going to say that. It's great recognizing employees that contribute and also save money for the taxpayers of writing Good job Mayer, I'd like to point out that somebody actually did say that people do voluntarily pay taxes and just want to make sure that you heard that It's not that wasn't a misstatement All right next Item five public invited to be a heard on matters that are not not on the agenda I only have one person signed up to speak Tom Lambo Tom come up state your name for the record. You know how it goes Tom you got five minutes All right Tom Lambo Good to be in front of you guys again. Hope everybody's having a good day. I'm back here, lift up Brighton and Prayer. Please join me. Heavenly Father and Jesus, Victoria's name. I want to lift up everyone to you in the city of Brighton. You're a God and no being is greater than you. The psalms declare as your kingship above all others. In Psalm 953 when it's written for the Lord is the great God, the great king above all gods. You create it all. You know the beginning from the end, no being has come to power that you didn't let them have. Nothing stands in your way to deliver the outcome you desire. We can rest in the insurance, the assurance that nothing escapes you. So we will rest and find peace in Psalm 953 for the Lord is the great God, the king above all gods. We are a diverse group with many different challenges. We view and perceive our world differently. Our life journey is at different places and there are some eight billion of us, but you know all of us because you created us all. In 1 Peter 2 9 it is written, but you were chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession, that you made declare the praise of Him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. And Psalm 139-13-14 states, for you created my innmost being, you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. I know that full well. Out of all creation, we are, humans are, your special possession, fearfully and wonderfully made. You were intentional when you created us, where're created with great reverence and heartfelt interest. We're unique and set apart. No other creation of yours can claim this. But worst of all, we don't know it. We are lost to this world. So father, we come before you and open ourselves up to you. Meet us where we are. You created us. You know everything about us. You can meet us where we are. You know what makes us tick. You know every little unique part of us. You know our innermost thoughts, our challenges and hang-ups. You know what our thoughts are of you. So meet us wherever we are. Whatever our thoughts are of you, meet us because without you we are lost and this world will devour us. In Jesus' precious and victorious name we pray. Amen. Thank you guys and have a nice night. Thank you Tom. Deputy City Clerk will you confirm anybody outside of it to speak? There are no others, Your Honor. Thank you. Next we move forward. Item 7a and ordinance of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, Grantee, Nay, perpetual easement to United Power and Corporate Over-A portion of real property located in the South East, one quarter of section 5, Township 1 South, rain 66 west of the 6th principal meridian, County of Adams, State of Colorado, and authorizing the city manager to execute said easement on behalf of the city. And I know council member Green recudes himself due to some possible conflicts. City manager Martinez, we'll take a minute. Thank you, Mayor. This was presented to you in a previous study session. At this time, I will ask Christopher Montoya to come up and answer any questions you may have. time I will ask Christopher Montoya to come up and answer any questions you may have. Anyone have any questions for our staff or Mr Montoya? If not, this is before Council at your pleasure. Mayor Pro Tem. the motion. Mayor Pro Tem. Yes, I'd like to make a motion to approve item number 7a. And then councilmember Padilla. Second that motion. We have a proper first and a second to approve item 7a. If there's no other discussion, we'll call vote. I think the flowers are in the way. Oh, there we go. Motion passes 7-0 with one recusal. I have to say something. So thank you so much and have a wonderful weekend. Thank you for keeping it. I think Mr. Montoy is as happy he wasn't challenged with too many questions on that one tonight. Next item is 7-B and ordinance of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, and many of the municipal code related to the licensing of businesses. City manager Martinez. Thank you mayor. I just want to add that this was a team effort and putting this together so you'll see a lot of names on the city staff representatives page here that's in front of you. But really the bulk of it was led by the city attorney's office and the city attorney will be presenting this item. So I'll turn it over to the city attorney. City attorney color own. I don't lead. I follow. And it was very much a group effort to review our existing municipal code. Make updates. And it did impact, as you can see, quite a number of different departments. And I want to thank all the directors because it really started with Anna sitting back there saying, you know, we kind of need a process for hearings and, you know, we kind of need a process for hearings. And, you know, we kind of need this. And we kind of need that. And as we kept meeting, we kept finding other changes. But primarily, we wanted to update the code. So there was a review of which licenses were not needed. So we're removing those. We are also making amendments to either reflect current language or practice or changes in the law that we've had. We're adding a process for the denial, suspension, or revocation of a license that we did not have. And we're locating all the, well, hopefully we found them all, all the licensing requirements in one location in the code. So all of the business licensing requirements we're hoping to have in this section. Your ordinance is, I don't know, 15 pages long, so. The two that we identified as not being needed were cabarees and circuses and carnivals. Not the very many cabarees or circuses and carnivals exist. Or together. But we staff felt that we didn't need separate license for cabarets because there is a definition in the land use code if it's a sexually oriented business. And otherwise it would fit under other categories in the land use code. Similar reasons, circuses and carnivals are a temporary use, which we also have a process for so we don't need a separate license for that on an ongoing basis. So we're removing those. We required licenses for individual, they were called merchant guards and patrols and industrial guards. So the language made it more confusing and difficult than we wanted it to be. As a matter of fact, he's not here so I can talk about our current police chief. He was like, what is this? It says I have all these responsibilities personally. See, our, uh-huh, AmeriCorps time is nodding his head. So we are trying to change this and make it a true business license and we'll be licensing the businesses going forward. And then we're putting the burden on the employer to make the meet all the requirements for their individual employees such as background checks and then that kind of thing. Our police department will still review these applications because we we wanna always be sure that their logos, their vehicles, their uniforms do not look too much like law enforcement. So in all of our business licensing processes, we have the ability to have other departments review them and essentially have kind of a supplement to just a standard business license. This will be one of those. The other change that was a large change, oh, and we're calling them security guards or security services because that's really the language we used today. So this was a language update as well. The second looks like a big change, but really it isn't. We've been kind of toggling between municipal code and state statute, but with all the changes that the state legislature has made in terms of sentencing, the more we can align our municipal code with the state statutes, the easier it is for sentencing purposes and citing folks. So our police department asked us to mimic the state statute as closely as possible. Our judge also appreciates that because that allows her to do a certain type of sentencing like holding people with bonds and requiring bonds. So those are two, they look like large updates but they really are mostly technical and they are the reason that the city attorney's office ended up having to be so involved because it was you know writing a few pages. As we went through it the tree care license this is just a change in the municipal code to reflect the current practice in the application for those licenses. We already were allowing that reciprocity with certain other cities and we were accepting certifications that are accepted in the field. So we've updated that to allow that. The state legislature took away our ability to regulate group homes. legislature took away our ability to regulate group homes. So we're removing that because we really actually, no longer have that in our code, but sober living homes. We found out this past year, our deputy city manager found out personally that the state actually had no method of enforcement, but they do have a certification requirement. So by putting that requirement that they get the state certification into our municipal code, we can give it some teeth and some ability to enforce that. And the final one is of course the one attorneys talk about all the time. This little thing called due process. We like people to have the ability to be heard and we did not have any process if we wanted to revoke a license or suspend a license or even to Nile license. We had no process for hearing a case or how to proceed with that. So we've created a hearing process that's fairly detailed and we will include in our upcoming RFP for hearing officer who knows what will happen with marijuana but we will be asking for a hearing officer that can handle liquor, marijuana, if it passes and business licensing coming up in the beginning of the year. So the options for City Council tonight is to approve the ordinance amended or deny approval. Questions. Questions. Mayor Pro Tem. Yes, thank you. Mayor Pro Tem. Yes, thank you. Mayor, this is great. I think it's really overdue for kind of a revise. My question is, how many pages is this new ordinance and compass? How many? 15. What are we going to do to summarize these and put them on the website so that our customers, our citizens, can quickly find answers to their questions about how they go about hitting these licenses and without having to contact an individual every time. Well part of what was driving this change is our new online business licensing software so folks can go online and fill out the application. I don't know if finance has other plans for publishing any of this. That's where for the most part we're not requiring really anything different. We're removing things but there's not a whole lot of additional new requirements that we've added. But it would be through the application process that finance is doing. And I don't know, did you have plans? I'm sorry, I'm going to have to ask on it to come up to put it on the website or anything like that. Good evening, everybody. Yes, we're going to be putting that on our website. There is a section for sales tax and licensing. So we'll do all the updates there. And then like our city attorney mentioned, we will be working with our vendor to get these new license applications on the portal so people can apply and do everything online. I applaud you for having it filling out the application so I just want to make sure that let's say someone comes to the city and they don't know anything about a process most of the time. They'll say I want to get a merchant guard license or a security guard license. What are the requirements? And they'll be able to get on the website and find out what the requirements are before they get into the application? Yes, they will be able to see all that information on the website and then click into the application. And if they do come in, our staff is available to walk them through that and help them. That's great. I think having an available on the website, though, prevents a lot of waste of time for staff and our citizens are trying to get these. So thank you very much. I appreciate it. Yeah, I think we're just trying to prevent them from having a higher an attorney just to read the paperwork. Yeah. We have a couple people that would like to make a motion. Council Member Green. Thank you, Mayor. I move to approve item 7B. Council Member Tadeo. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to second that. There's a proper first and a second to approve 7B. Is there any other discussion? Do not roll call vote. approve 7B is there any other discussion? Not real call vote. Motion passes 8 to 0. Moving forward. Under resolutions item 8A resolution of the City of Bright or a resolution of the City Council of the City of Bright in Colorado. Approving the placement of a plaque on Memorial Parkway, recognizing Guadalupe Brizzo Niel. Thank you. For her service to the Brighton community. City Manager Martinez. Thank you, Mayor. For the next two items, I will have parks director Travis Haynes present them Travis Good evening mayor mayor pro-tam members of council. We are excited to be here tonight. We have two upcoming Dedications for Memorial Parkway the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board recommended bringing these to you for approval at the October 4th meeting We have Joe and Elena here. They're going to speak on their nomination and to get your approval on that one. And then we will move on to the next one. So I will invite them up to give you a little information and history on their recommendation for the parkway. Come on up. the the the the the the the Thank you mayor, Mayor Pro Tempe and City Councilman. Raise your hand if you know Colorado Hall of Famer. Well, Joe Pinto and I know one who is a long time resident of Brighton. Her name is Guadalupe Lupé Blasenio. She is an organizer, humanitarian and activist. We are quite proud of her bravery, organizational, and activists. We're quite proud of her bravery, organizational skills, and humanity. That is why we want her recognizing the memorial part. We, in 1968, she started a union to help the suffering workers at the Kittyama Flora plant where the conditions were deplorable. Her and four other women went on strike to bring attention to these conditions. Lupita was a leader. She is a born leader. When her children were in grade school and the school just decided to close down Northeast Elementary, she petitioned to keep it open. Not only did she do that, she asked others to donate school supplies for the underprivileged children. After the kiddie armistrike, she went to work at a nursing home where the patients only wore gowns. She found that undignified, and again, she went into action. She collected funds and found a seamstress. Soon all the patients were wearing pajamas. She's a epitome of humanity, and with bleak, she deserves to be recognized whenever possible. Thank you. Thank you. Joe, would you like to say anything? Okay. She helped me write this. Councilmember Pollock. Your mic's not on. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Your mic's not on. Oh. For God's start over. Thank you, Mayor. I would like to approve. Motion for resolution. I'm sorry. 8 a. Yes. 8 a. Council member green. Thank you. Thank you. Marin. I'm happy to second that is a proper first to the second approve 8 a There's no other discussion roll call vote Motion passes 8 to 0 all right. Yes All right. Yes. Applause. I'll put them. I think it's important to also recognize that she is now on our newest mural. And so this kind of memorialized for all the future, we can see what you look like was really, I think a great honor for us to put that up there and for have her present when that when that was dedicated. So that's another cool thing. Thank you for highlighting that. And then next is item 8B, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton Colorado approved the placement of a plaque on Memorial Parkway, Memorial Parkway, recognizing Beverly Palmer for her service to the Brighton community. City manager, Memorial Parkway, recognizing Beverly Palmer for her service to the Brighton community. City Manager, Martinez, or Travis, Director Haynes. I'm still here. Yes, Dick College is here to speak on this one and this was also recommended by the Park and Recadvisor Board on the October 4th meeting. Okay. Dick, come on up. Thank you for having the hearing and having the process to allow us this to move forward. It's testament to Bev Palmer that we can do this. I can go a bunch of different directions, but I just, the main thing I want to do is ask, well, start with asking who, who knew Beth? Raise your hand. This is why we need to write things down, especially ask an old person, then you might get an answer to like I would give you. You need it written down at the time. You need to recognize what's going on. We all need to do this so that we can accurately remember how things worked and what our lessons were. Bev worked a very short time in the relative scope of things she applied for a vacancy on city council was appointed to a two year term in the year 2000. 1990? 2000 decade. It's 1990. I'm sorry. No, 2000. It was 2000. See, that's why you write these things down the year 2000. She promised during her interview with the existing City Council, who appointed her to that two-year vacancy, to work on improving the process of historic preservation, including the establishment of a certified local government. Now that I didn't know what that meant at the time when the first time I heard it and believed me over the next two years, I learned what that meant because Bev never passed an opportunity to tell us what a certified local government was and why we needed one. And somewhat because we needed it and somewhat to shut her up, the council at the time agreed to that. And in fact, it turned out that we strongly needed that action to take place. They have served on council for two years during which she also strongly represented her neighbors on North 7th, she lived in a house that had been at 4th and bridge and was moved instead of being torn down over to the 100 block of North 7th. Two-story gray brick house, you can see it still. It was on the corner when Valley Bank was built and the Valley Bank folks made sure that house was preserved and the woodwork in the house is currently original. It's quite a thing, but Bev was the reason that that house, when she moved in and restored what wasn't already restored, restored it to historic status. What historic, what this, what this commission allows us to do, what the, what the outcome of it is is we have a connection to a recognized process to deal with the history of our community. We have licensure, we have inspection, we have rules for how we record and how we run our museum. Our museum therefore has the opportunity to trade artifacts, certify artifacts, investigate artifacts and take all sorts of other actions that are recognized by other historic groups around the country. That lets us borrow things and make our own statements. Bev, in addition, worked very hard as a member of the first couple of terms on the Historic Preservation Commission. She worked very hard on the establishment and development of the Bromley House. She brought a cadre of followers including me and Jen Poloski and Jen Maeda and just a whole flock of Beth and she really, really put it together to support the city in doing that action. And I'm asking to recognize her for that. She in a very short time made a big difference in our community. And I can't find her. I don't know where she is. I can't find her. I don't know where she is. Robin carried this afternoon, found two addresses for her after I lost her. So we still have some tracking to do to find for sure where she either is or was. But we need to recognize her nonetheless. And recognize her because we don't all know her. She was a minor figure, but she had a major impact. Questions or comments about? About Bev? Well, thank you, Dick, for the history. And we've got a couple of people that would like to make a motion here. Council member Plosky. I'm very happy to motion for approval of item 8b and honor of Beverly Palmer. Thank you. And then council member green. Thank you mayor. I don't even remember signing this petition deck but I am happy to second this motion. I took it to some public events. All right, we have a proper first and a second to approve 8B. Hopefully we can track her down before the plaques are out. We will know where she is or was. Roll call vote. Motion passes 8 to 0. May I comment a historical event, a question for the audience, which comedian gave the quote, never follow kids or dogs on stage? Who said that? It was either Gracho Marx or WC Fields, and I don't know. That's why you ask questions like that is because somebody made me. Thank you very much. Oh, man. Moving forward, it's not George Carlin, I just found out. All right. Item 8C, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, I'm not going to be able to I'm not going to be able to I'm not going to be able to I'm not going to be able to I'm not going to be able to I'm not going to be able to I'm not going to be able to I'm not going to be able to I'm not going to be able to I'm not going to be able to I'm not going to be able to I'm not going to be able to I'm not going to be able city manager Martinez. Thank you mayor. So for this item we have both our assist our deputy city manager Marfalkenberg as well as Travis Haynes but once again this was a lift between a few departments cleaning this up and I will say it's nice to have this on the agenda tonight with the snowplow the naming of the snowplow contest winners I think it's pretty fitting so with that I'll turn it over to Deputy City Manager Falconberg. Thanks, Michael. I had to grab Travis before he got too far. And I heard it was hard to follow Dicach. That's what I heard. That's hard to follow. Yeah. Well, good evening, Mayor, Mayor Potim and City Council. It's a pleasure to be here. I'd like to say thank you to Travis and his team as well as the City Attorney's Office for their work on that of this tonight. They did most of the heavy lifting to tell you the truth. It's my pleasure to present an update to the policy for naming public amenities and parks and recreation facilities and consideration of naming the new municipal service center in honor of former public works director Michael Woodruff. So there are two resos in front of you 8c and 8d. The policy for naming public amenities has not been updated since 2005. The proposed policy has been cleaned up in streamlined and Council will still have opportunities for public input and discretion in naming facilities. So some key provisions included the updated policy is attached and the count into the council packet and the procedure for naming public amenities other than parks and rec facilities the procedure for naming public amenities other than parks and rec facilities by the council has been added that's never been in this at all. So everything Travis brings you, parks, recreation facilities, buildings are all parkulated. So anything outside of that which I can't recall in recent history, maybe Terry Lucero, police building was not included in this resolution or policy. So the procedure for naming Parks and Recreation Facilities and Memorial Parkway recognitions with Parks and Rec Advisory Board recommendation and Council approval remains in this draft. Similar to the previous two items you the same process. So in summary, staff is recommending approval of the attached update to the policy for naming public amenities and parks and rec facilities. Staff is respectfully requesting your consideration of naming the municipal service center in honor of former public works director Michael Woodruff, who passed away in October. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. requesting your consideration of naming the municipal service center in honor of former public works director Michael Woodruff who passed away in October. Thank you very much. Councilmember Pollock. Thank you, Mayor. It would be an honor and a pleasure for me to approve H.C. We all knew Mr. Woodward will so admired the work he done. So with great honor and pleasure I move to accept. Council Member Padilla. I'm happy to second that motion. Is there any other discussion? Or there's a proper first and second recall vote? Oh hold on one more coming. Motion passes 8 to 0. Thank you. It's kind of a somber moment here. Next is item 8D, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, approved in the policy for naming public amenities and parks and recreation facilities within the City of Brighton 2023. City manager Martinez. I'll turn it back over to Deputy City Manager Falconbird. And I covered both of those items, so unless you have any questions, we're all available for any comments. Any further on? I don't know if you if it needs clarification, but the new policy replaces the defunct and inoperating committee that had existed. So under the new process, anyone that you think is Maritorious of being having something named after them can get a petition and 25 signatures and then it will come directly to City Council. So we're just getting rid of a committee that doesn't exist. Thanks for clarifying that. Council Member Padilla. I won't elaborate this or pose the policy, but I find it extremely weird to be naming living people to a memorial parkway. I don't know what's missing in this that we have either the name of the parkway is wrong, or the people we're putting on there still being alive should be worried a little bit about being committed in the parkway. And it's a trail. Yes, it's a trail and not a parkway. So I guess I guess it's neither here nor there and and and where we have consistently named people who are living to the memorial parkway. So a memorial means something specific. It means for somebody who's gone. So, oh well. Well, fine. Ironically, the second presenter was one of the petition circulars that actually is also on the memorial parkway. So, so you know. You're coming up here. We're gonna get one on you. All right, Mayor Pro Tem. I'm gonna make a motion to approve it, but I'd like to just address that. I don't disagree. Maybe we need to really look at changing it. But sometimes I feel that the people that have made an impact on the city I never get to see that they got a new recognition. It feels like you know Michael for example He he knew that that's gonna happen But he didn't live long enough to actually see it happen. I wish he could be here tonight To see it officially happen and sometimes you know, we we need to do the same thing Convictual is another one that you know, we need to do the same thing. Uh, can Mitchell is another one that, you know, got recognized after he passed. It would have been nice for him to see it was before. See, I'm getting old. That just makes it an honorary part play and not a memorial part. I think that's an excellent idea, excellent idea. And with that, I like to listen to rename. I like him. oh my goodness make your motion make a motion to prove HC okay councilmember today oh thank you bear I'd second that oh 8D see James correct me once again 8D and you can Okay. There's a motion to prove 80 with a first and second. Where's the reluctantly? No other discussion. Roll call though. This is coming We're just having meetings. There we go. Motion passes eight to zero. Thank you. Next, item 8E, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, acknowledging the Certified Abstract of Votes cast for the November 7th, 2023, coordinated election. City Manager Martinez. Thank you Mayor. I will turn this item over to our Deputy City Clerk. We have no presentation, Your Honor. It is just certifying the votes from Adamson Weld County. Okay. Council Member Padilla. I'll move the resolution under 8E. Okay Council Member Johnston. Be happy to second. There's a motion to approve the certified ballots that happened a month ago. Item 8E, roll call vote. Motion passes 8-0. We're excited to serve with the incoming council and it sounds like we'll hear about one more later this evening. And the next item 9E or 9A, an ordinance of the City Council, the City of Brighton, Colorado, amending section 13-4-10 of the Brighton Municipal Code regarding water dedication or payment of fee and lieu of water dedication, and this is a first reading, City Manager Martinez. Thank you, Mayor. Once again, we had a pretty lengthy conversation about this in a study session. Scott Olson is here to just give you a brief presentation on the item tonight and answer any questions. All right. Good evening Mayor Mayor Pro Tem and members of City Council. As the City Manager alluded to, an in-depth presentation was given to you all at the last study session. The item tonight is the first reading of an ordinance related to the water dedication requirements of the city. I'm joined tonight by Austin Cresswell, the city's water resources. So just quickly city staff and consultants wish to provide updates to the city's water dedication and fee and lieu of dedication requirements. The fee and lieu amounts will be removed from Brighton Municipal Code, will be placed in the annual fee resolution via amendment and updated to reflect current costs. That resolution will be presented to you all at the next City Council regular meeting. The raw water dedication amounts will remain in Brighton, Minnesota Code and be updated by ordinance. And this is tonight's agenda item. Additionally, this ordinance tonight will remove the one acre size limit on low annual water use projects and allow them to pay fee and loo. As we discussed at the last meeting project or parcel size is not always correlated to water usage of the end user or the property. Also, the ordinance will remove section 13410E. As we discussed, this section was giving me as the director of utilities the authority to reduce somebody's water dedication amount based on water conserving measures that they implemented on the property. As we discussed that section places the city at high risk and is not administratively feasible. And lastly, the ordinance tonight will differentiate the raw water dedication amounts based on either changed or unchanged water share status. So on the screen before you now is the table that will be placed in Brighton Municipal Code via this ordinance and you can see that the two columns on the far right differentiate between the changed and unchanged water status. City staff recommends the proposed ordinance be adopted by City Council to ensure the city's water resources are secured for the existing and future residents of the city of Brighton. The options for city council this evening are to adopt the ordinance as presented, reject the ordinance as presented or request that modifications be made to the ordinance. And with that, Austin and I will take any questions from you. It's got questions. Mayor Prutem. We had a apartment complex, I don't know, 10, 12 years ago on South A, I believe, that convinced us that they should have reduced the dedication of water because of the fixtures they put in because of the landscape and so on. How did that turn out? Was it just a nightmare to try to follow up on that and make sure they were doing it? Absolutely. So that's what we're getting out here with the rule of the section 13, 4, 10, e. It really turns out to be basically an administrative nightmare where Absolutely, so that's what we're getting at here with the rule of the section 13 410 E. It really turns out to be basically an administrative nightmare where our city staff is really reviewing their usage on a monthly basis and trying to keep up with that that accounting. The other thing that we haven't quite run into yet, but potentially could happen in the long term is when some of those water conservation measures that they installed in the apartment complex start to fail and they start to replace them, nobody has really control over if they're replacing them with in-kind water-conserving measures. And so unfortunately, their water use could actually go back up over time and then we don't have the water dedication to cover for that usage and they may continue to pay fees into the future for that. So that's where kind of the administrative infeasibility comes in there. And I guess lastly, I don't know whether you addressed that, but there are occasions where we would allow fee and loo like with housing, with affordable housing projects that we talked about. That's also in here. So the affordable housing project is not specifically in this. That will be brought to council sometime in the future. So right now the only two ways that a development project would have the right to pay fee and lieu would be one that there's already an existing agreement such as a development agreement or an annexation agreement that gives them that right. The other is if they are a low water user which is defined in the ordinance as basically five acre feet or less of annual water usage. That wouldn't this wouldn't have been the right place to put that. At this point. So perhaps the city attorney could help us a little on that. There's some other sections of city code that talk about other fee waivers and stuff associated with affordable housing projects and I think it sort of needs to be addressed all as once. once. If I may, Mayor. Yeah, what we do anticipate is bringing forward a comprehensive change to address affordable housing. Right now, what you have is a matrix for waiving just impact fees and it doesn't address impact fees and it doesn't address paying fee and low. And so the idea is we would address all of that and bring it as one package. This is just a really a small cleanup and yeah, we're not addressing affordable housing. That less than five acre feet is just a small project, right? A small project can't go find a water share. It's not practical. The only question I have is if we pass this and then we pass a affordable housing which will be in conflict because there's just no law for it. It's not anticipated here. Won't we have to go back and read amend this again. No. You won't have to amend this because we'll put it in its own. The plan is we're going to create a section that addresses affordable housing. And it won't be in conflict with this because you as the city council can already override this, right? We bring you resolutions. That's what you did with that, the one project that came a couple months ago. You always have that ability, but no, we will create a section and when we write it, we have ways of writing things to make it compatible. Okay, I trust you. Thank you. That's questionable. I won't be here then. That's okay. I was dwindling there. Councilmember Johnston. Thank you, Mayor. The issue I have is actually in section one in the actual resolution 1b. It says all water dedication or fee and lieu amount shall be based on a firm yield analysis calculated by the city or city designated consultant. Period. Then it says the city manager shall develop a policy outlining acceptable water sources and other requirements related to water dedication and or the enlub payment. That's troublesome not because of this city manager but in 10 years when he's finally smart enough to get out of Brighton and many of us won't be here. Remember these documents live. We get a city manager here as we had in the late 90s that said, build, don't care. We don't care about water. We are going to end up in another predicament with water because that city manager now, it says here, that doesn't even allow City Council to see what the city manager does with this policy. May I incorrect? I mean, this allows the city manager to develop a policy outlining all water sources and other requirements related to water dedication and or fee and loop payment. That means that taken out of our hands for city council is the idea of controlling the fee and loop which has been an issue consistently been an issue for 20 years here. So the policy that we've developed, it doesn't go into who can pay fee and loop or who has the right to. The policy directs the reader back to Brighton Municipal Code for who can actually pay it. What the policy really addresses is the timing of when the dedication or payment is due, the sources that we accept, that type of thing. I don't think that the city manager could write a policy overriding something in city code. I think that that would only be available to you all as city council members to override something in there code. I think that that would only be available to you all as city council members to override something in there. That's what I would hope, but that's not what is here. If we amend this and approve this tonight, we are giving the city manager the ability to develop the policy for acceptable water and the dedication and or fee and loop payment. So not this city manager. I'm not worried about city manager Martinez making an issue out of this. I'm just in five years, 10 years. When it's someone else, and even when this is sitting with the affordable housing, which is definitely a question I have, and I still don't understand why we can't put this in here. I've heard the explanations I heard it at study session and I said that then, that I don't know why it's not in here. But I'm not going to agree to this until I see the city manager shall develop a policy. I'll let any except water sources and other requirements related to water dedication and or fee and loop payment with approval of the city council. So so normally the city manager can pass policies all the time. What this language is saying is so the first part of it, acceptable water sources, this city council relies just like we rely on our outside water attorneys and water engineers to assess whether a water source is an acceptable source, right? Whether a water share or a water dedication is something that the city of Brighton can use is something that that is what we use our outside technical experts for. If it's not a water source that we can either access, convert to municipal use for irrigation, then we don't accept it. So that's what the first part of that is. And the second part is saying that the city manager would develop other requirements, but you have already stated in the first one and throughout this code that watered dedication and fee and lieu when it is required. The city manager can create additional requirements, but not change what you have in the code. So you already have in the code, what requirements are. And they are that they will bring water except for those few agreements we still have outstanding where you know previous city councils allowed them to pay fee and loo. So this is only saying additional requirements, which sometimes right that can be how we can accept the water, it can be our own internal procedure for assessing what comes to us. Our current policy is a very detailed document. All of our policies are subject to anyone who wants to ask for them. And frankly, when developers or anyone else is coming to the city, they are given a copy of that policy. We give our policies out freely. But I would not recommend that policies start coming to the city council because that really is usually an internal process and that the city manager has control over unless the city manager wants to say something. I agree with everything that was just said and I also want to address the fact that I plan on being here to have my name on a moral part. I can happen right now. You're still alive. Only 25 signatures. I see what you mean. I just I mean the writing is the writing in a city manager could take this though and say I can develop and requirement for the water dedication since it's been accepted because it does have to be accepted still because the line above by the consultant, but then they can say and it doesn't say and or or it says and or a fee and loop payment. So I mean, I don't understand how that wouldn't lead to the ability for the city manager to create the policy even a one-off for let's say and this has happened in this city. I'll just say it. The city manager hires their friend to develop something not you this did not happen with but this literally happened here not that long ago and their friend came in and started a development. The name was Fitzgerald, you can look them up in the newspaper if you don't believe me. And when he said this, they started doing things like this. And one of them was Fee and Lou for the water. And if we put this in, I just, it's one sentence I know. And I've, I've combed this. Fee and Lou is a big deal. And I think it's a big deal to all of us. There's no other issue that I see on this except for this taking power away from the people which is the council and the voice and just leaving it in an administrative hands with a city manager way past us being here. So I mean am I am I wrong to say that if we do this that we are allowing the city manager to set aside water dedication and or fee and lieu payments for any development that does come in that says it is calculated as a true water dedication from the consultant. So, um, I, you're not going to like the answer. This council already passed that language. That's actually existing language. That sentence is already in our municipal code. Um, but you also have to read the ordinance. So what you get in an ordinance is the parts that we're changing. Section A is very clear that a dedication of water rights is required for all development and redevelopment projects unless City Council has previously granted by sign agreement the right to pay fee and low. So that comes first. This sentence in in B isn't actually already. It's not one of the changes that's being proposed tonight. It's just that because there's the other part of that the first sentence was being changed. She included the second sentence, but that is actually in code, that ability to pass that policy. And so for the record, the city manager cannot develop a policy in order to create fee and loop payment for individual or large or any development over time, they have to go through the city council process. Correct. A comes first. Well, you saying that makes it to where it is policy and it will continue even when we're gone. So anyone that's here, when I'm gone, remember this conversation happened. If any feudalew comes up, yeah, Thursday, right? No. Thank you very much for the explanation. This has been recorded. Great. Thanks. That's a member of Padea. Thank you, Councilman Johnson. I was reading through the same thing and I was recalling that each thing has to be within the context of the thing prior. So when we set the policy, the other requirements are things like what's the deadline, what's the method of payment that's acceptable, it couldn't set aside section A. But that was important. The second comment I'll reiterate, I understand the timing need for this one. The first one of those is getting our fee resolution managed so that it's in place within our billing system and fee structure before the beginning of the year. And since we're removing some of that fee structure out of the ordinance and into the fee resolution, I understand the timing. I also really don't want to put aside for one moment longer than we have to, getting that process for fee and lieu for affordable housing in place because the only mechanism available to avoid that is to come to the council. It makes a subject to the council and a political whim and it could be based on that developer, that particular site. Somebody, I don't want that to be the case for a second longer than it needs to be. So I would have loved to see that in this one at this time, but I understand that this one needs to be done before the end of the year. So I get that. Thank you. And I'll support it given that it's a partial piece that needs to happen. But I'm expecting the second piece to come as soon as it can. Thanks. Absolutely. That's a member green. Thank you, mayor. With all that clarification. I move item 9a, I'm not going to be in the next meeting. I'm not going to be in the next meeting. I'm not going to be in the next meeting. I'm not going to be in the next meeting. I'm not going to be in the next meeting. I'm not going to be in the next meeting. I'm not going to be in the next meeting. and the commission passes 8 to 0. All right, thank you for your time this evening. That a thousand tonight, folks. Next is under General Business Item 10A. A selection of two City Council members too. Interview planning commission and Brighton Urban Renewal Authority applicants in 2024. Will we pass this on to our City Attorney? Planning Commission and Brighton Urban Renewal Authority Applicants in 2024. We passed this on to our city attorney. Oh, it's ours. Okay. So, um, annually now we select two people to interview for these, um, for future positions. Um, and then it comes before the council approval after that. It's been council member Pulaski and Padilla and we wanted to move it so we can alternate the wards that represent that annually too. So we would need a representative from wards one and two represent that. And I could do it too if you want. It doesn't matter to me. So, Council member... Mary Ellen volunteers. Mary Ellen, you and I will follow. Maybe the mayor wants to say starting in January? Starting at the new council year, yes. So, member Johnston. Yeah, thanks, Mayor. I usually don't volunteer for things like this, but I do, I would like to do this. I'm about to be done with council, whether I like it or not. And I would love to be part of starting to set up what will be when I'm gone, like a memorial, but I'm happy to do it. Happy to do it. If in less time, you're crazy enough to do it. I don't want to fight you on this. No, it's the one thing I'd really like to do as I head into the last part of my term. You shall receive. Thanks. So we have one for Councilmember Johnston. Councilmember Padilla. I'm actually just curious whether this is an appropriate action to take tonight or it should be done with the new council since there will be a new person seated in board to. City attorney called her own. I'm guessing is up to us. Yeah. I'm pretty indifferent about it here and to do this but that's a very good respond. Council member green. I guess I would say do we really want a brand new council member conducting the interview without any history of the previous. So I mean I I'm not throwing I don't want to throw you into the bus here. It's okay. I'll do it All right, so it sounds like it's on the table to have council member Johnston and council member today, oh To be the interviewing committee for these two physicians in 2024 councilmember Padilla. I would move that we appoint Councilwoman Tadeo and Councilman Johnston to interview planning, commission and Brighton Urban Renewal Authority applicants for the year of 2024. Councilmember Plausky. You know, I'm gonna second that motion, but one of the things I'm always out there saying to new council people as they come on You have two years of You're just green at the job and learning Council issues and what takes place and goes on so I I appreciate having Somebody there that has the experience all second that motion all right If there's nothing else so just just to review, it's Council Member Johnston and Council Member Tadeo for 2024 to be the interviewees. Roll call though. Motion passes 8 to 0. See we're still batting 1000. Wow, we're already to the tail end of this. We're going to go on to reports, start with reports by the mayor. So some of the activities over the last couple of weeks, yesterday I had a meeting with a subcommittee on mon with the Metro Mayor's Caucus called the Transportation and Mobility Committee. They spoke of some items that might be coming to the new year's legislative session. There might be some reform at RTD coming and how that is structured in their governing body. And then they also talked about the possibility that's been talked about for many, many years of front range passed into rail. So we'll see where that goes as we progress into the near. I was able to over the last couple weeks or actually last week tour Vestus and they got to show their production facility and where they're at today versus where they've been. It was a good tour. The last time I was there, I got to tour the Blade Manufacturing, which was many years ago before I was on council. And then I was at CML over on Thursday and Friday for a mayor summit. We had mayors from community statewide to discuss a few items. Let me bring up a couple of notes I got. We talked about your mayor or your your council and city manager relationships which I thought that was pretty healthy to have and it featured the city manager of Grand Junction and the mayor of Grand Junction talking about, they had a rocky start in their first little bit in their time being together, but they talked about how they smooth those relations over and then some other items that were discussed. If anybody's seen a presentation from Bob Weingarde, he's, I see his last name right, he's the city attorney out of a centennial. He's got a presentation about something called Bob's Rules versus Roberts Rules. And it's an interesting thing to consider as we move into this new council here. And then, um, then we talked about the, the, the need to have a good comprehensive goal for councils. And so we'll be discussing that into the New Year's out well when we get into the new council. I was also at the Brighton Chamber after hours last week. The eye for art show on Friday night. And of course our tree lighting that happened just its past Saturday. It was a good turn out. It was a little cool. The wind blew I heard in the afternoon. That's why I didn't arrive till later. And then coming up, I got the CML Policy Committee on Friday. Maneda meets next week. Festival of lights is coming this Saturday. Please come and support our annual light parade. And it's one of the best in the state. And if anybody's hungry tomorrow night, go to Texas Roadhouse. The tip of cop is happening where our finest and blue will be pretending to be a waiters and waitresses and we tip them and those proceeds go to special Olympics. So that's a good noble thing to be a part of. I'm going to propose one theme for next week being our last meeting of the year. If you have an ugly sweater that you'd like to wear to council meeting, we'll have maybe an ugly sweater contest to wear. We'll see who... maybe we'll have the new council members judge that coming up. So remember that in two weeks, not the study session next week, but in two weeks at our regular business meeting. Next is reports by our department directors. We have none this evening. Thank you. None this evening. City Attorney. No, thank you, Mayor. Thank you. None this evening. City Attorney. No, thank you, Mayor. City Manager, maybe talk about board and commission vacancy update. Yes, I don't have too much of a change from the last board and commission vacancy updates. We actually filled one this evening, which is good. I will just remind everybody who's still paying attention and listening that your participation on boards and commissions is a wonderful thing to participate in this community. It really does give you a good perspective on how things operate and it gives you a chance to participate. So I encourage you to check our website for board and commission vacancies and apply and tell your friends. Other than that, you basically took everything that I was going to say. Thank you for that. I do want to mention it. I think we have some folks in the audience who are interested in some information about the election tonight. I do have an update. The votes are being counted. Still, that's my update. Thank you. Some people are waiting on pins and needles tonight. I know the feeling. Man. All right. That's it. Is it from City Manager? pins and needles tonight. I know the feeling. And. All right. That's it. Is it from City Manager? OK. Yeah, I met with our resident today. And at the end of the conversation, I encourage you to apply for any boards and commissions that we might have vacancy on. So as any of us are meeting with residents, and I encourage you to do the same thing Reports by our city council will start councilmember pedia. I Really don't have anything to share tonight What a night when you make Councilmember Padilla speechless. All right. Councilmember Polausky. Well, I want to apologize for all my coughing and carrying on tonight. I did do a COVID test. It was negative this afternoon. So anyway, I just have a bad cold, I guess. So anyway, sorry about all that. I just wanted to, number one, I was able to attend the the Vestus meeting last week or the tour. And one of the things that has happened over the years is because the blade factory has gone away. They're doing the most important part of the work of the blades now. It's the motor, it's the whole unit, and people need to understand that it's a bigger deal than the blades. We could see the blades, I know, passing on the rail or highway or the rail. But anyway, they did a great job. And what I did was I shared at that meeting a story I'm going to share with all you now. When all of this happened, the Princeton Princess of Denmark came here. And I took my big, my lovely book of memories and shared that with anyone who wanted to look at them. And what happened was I wanted me, I'm responsible. I wanted to name the Prince Boulevard after the Prince, after his name. And we got a hold of Denmark and they said, oh please don't do that. We don't honor anyone with names until they passed. So guess what? I said, okay,'s gonna be principal of art anyway. So anyway that's how that came about. I just want to share that with you and then this week I have a Parks and Rec board meeting tomorrow night and next week you for 70 so I'm gonna be busy so I want to get this cold behind me. Thank you very much. Alright thanks councilmember Johnston, thanks mayor. It's good to know that you made the Prince of Denmark unhappy. I hope he knows that's so funny. I have a serious thing of 27th and bridge. We've got an issue that continually happens and it's easy to solve. And you're going to, I'm starting to hear from constituents every day and we always knew we would. But when I went and drove it today, it's again to hear from constituents every day and we always knew we would, but when I went and drove it today, it's again and again, we're at night. They're cutting off the left hand turns and it was a 20 minute drive in less than a quarter of a mile, just because of these two points on 27th in bridge to the left and right at the firehouse. I forget what street that is called. But there's no reason for them to be cutting off one left hand turn, keeping the light one on. And what's happening is the contractor doesn't want to do the work to create the turning lanes that people are normalized at night. It's easy to solve. Just take away a couple of things. And what's funny is someone else decided to do this without their approval and smash the crap out of those orange, the orange pylons and just ran them over to the left and I applaud that citizen in certain ways because that is nonsense. And it really does create a 20 minute quarter mile for no reason. But other than that, I have to say it has been very good and they've done a great job. It's just at that pinch point and it's a big issue. Other than that, good job. Tell Montoya for me. Thanks. It's just at that pinch point and it's a big issue. Other than that, good job. Tell them on toy-of-formy. Thanks. Yeah, I think as we progress along over the year, so it's gonna, we're gonna have some challenges, but we didn't make the improvements. Thank you for mentioning that. Mayor Pro Tem. I usually don't have a report, but I attended the Metro wastewater operational committee today and some information that was quite a surprise to me. Todd Creek is joining Metro sewer. And the reason they are because they have plans or a pretty dense housing north of Welcony Road 2. And Fort Lepton has already joined and that's the same reasons is that they plan on doing development the other side of the river and annexing it in. So I think maybe some point I would suggest that council maybe take a look at our boundaries when they start going to Christmas. Most of the time we don't think about the North of WorldCatero 2. We just couldn't, you know, that's farmland up there. But I know our neighbors are very definitely looking at that and planning for that and see what kind of an impact it has on us. Great info. Thanks for sharing that. Yeah. What I say it's great to call on Council Member Pollock. Great to have you back. Thank you so much, Mayor. I would like to thank many people from City Council for their kindness and their compassion while I was out ill. City manager's office, the City manager, all the kindness and compassion was unbelievable. You kept me going and Councilman Padiya, I actually missed you for two months. So I would like to hear from you, but just I can't explain what that meant to me. It was like I say the kindness and compassion and as ill as I was met so much to me, it just kept me saying you will get through this. And I am and I will and I'm not done yet. I've still got a couple weeks, right? Right. So a couple weeks, it'll be our city manager sent a great meal. And so some of you did that. Some of you sent flowers, beautiful flowers. I just can't tell you how grateful and appreciative I was of all your kindness. People really don't understand what City Council is all about or what the city is about. But you made me see what it's really about and it's about caring and kindness for other people. So thank you all and God bless you and look forward to even seeing you after the new year that I'm gone. I'll be watching. So I may drop by. So I'm going to drop by. So thank you all. Good to have you back. Thank you. Thank you. That's my McGreen. I can't follow that. You know, I was just so happy to have my partner back here, you know, and our smiling face. And I just encourage all those residents of Ward one to get those Christmas lights up so we can kick Ward 4's butt. Again, this year, because we have the best lights and it's hands down. All right, council member Tadeo. Thank you. I was also able to attend the tour at Vestus, which was very interesting. Had not been able to attend the tour at Vestus, which was very interesting. Had not been able to do that before. Let's see. I'm going to be part, I have a right now is the authority meeting on Thursday and I'm also going to be participating in the tourism stakeholder workshop with the chamber. I'm looking forward to that. And that's about all I got. Oh, I went to the tree lighting and it was awesome. It came on right away. Wow. Yeah. That's a good thing. We paid our power bill. Thank you. Yes. All right. Can I add something else? I'm sorry I should have done that. I'm probably not going to be able to attend the parade this Saturday. My cousin lost her husband this last week and she lives in Burlington and his services are on Saturday. So I'll go as long as it doesn't snow a lot. Plan on going down there. So I probably won't be here for the parade. I just wanted to share that with you. And the other thing I wanted to share is December 5th, 1919, my mother was born. So she would have been 104 today. Anyway, I just wanted this year. A little fun memory. Thank you. Thank you. Family first, that's what's important. Today would have been my dad's 79th birthday, so I get it. All right, if there's nothing else, we are adjourned.