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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 page. I'm going to go to the next page. I'm going to go to the next page. I'm going to go to the next page. I'm going to go to the next page. I'm going to go to the next page. I'm going to go to the next page. I'm going to go to the next page. I'm going to go to the next page. I'm going to go to the next page. I'm going to call to order our City Council meeting for Tuesday, November 21st, 2023, and I'm going to ask Mayor Prattem Blackhurst to say the Pledge of Allegiance. allegiance. the Madam City clerk please call roll. Mayor Mills. Your may a proton blackers. Present. Council member green. Only place to want to be. Council member Johnston. He's ill. Council member Pradilla. Present. Council member Pulaski. Here. I'm going to ask for a question. Is I'll Councilmember Pradilla. Councilmember Pulaski. Here. Councilmember Pollock. She's also ill. Councilmember Today. Present. You have a quorum. Next is the approval of our regular agenda. Councilmember Today. Yes. Thank you, Mayor. On this this I would like to postpone item 11A to a later date. I think we have so many council members absent that I think it would be prudent to postpone it to another date so that we can make a decision with a full council. So you'd like to make a amendment to the agenda? Yes, amendment the agenda and postpone 11 a and accept the rest. Okay. There's a first or hit the emotion button. There's a proper first to approve the agenda with a post mo the postponement of 11 a. We have a second council member Plosky. I'd like to second that motion. All right. There's a proper first in a second. Councilmember Tadal you have a, yep there's this off. We'll call vote. Motion passes 6 to 0 with two absent. the motion passes 6 to 0 with two absent. Okay. Moving on next is the consent agenda. Madam City clerk, please read that to the record. Item 3A approval of the October 17th, 2023 City Council minutes. Item 3B, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, setting the 2024 City of Brighton holiday schedule. All right. Councilmember Ploskey. Yes, Your Honor, I would like to move for approval of the consent agenda. Councilmember Green. Hello, holidays. I'll second it. So that proper first and second to prove the consent agenda's read. There's no discussion, roll call vote. Motion passes six to zero with two absent. All right. Next we'll go on to ceremonies. Item 4A is small business Saturday proclamation. I'll go ahead and ceremonies. Item 4A is Small Business Saturday Proclamation. I'll go ahead and read that into the record. Right. Whereas the government of Brighton Colorado celebrates our local small businesses and the contributions they make to our local economy and community. According to the United States Small Business Administration, there are 33.2 million small businesses in the United States. They employ 61.7 million Americans, and they are responsible for 62.7% of net new jobs created from 1995 to 2021. And whereas small businesses employ 46.4% of the employees in the private sector in the United States. 88% of US consumers feel a personal commitment to support small businesses. And whereas 72% of shoppers said small business Saturday makes them want to shop and dine at small independently owned retailers and restaurants all year long. Overall small businesses or overall small business Saturday drove an estimated drove an estimated 17.9 billion dollar based on projections from the US consumer reported spending with more than two thirds or 72% of shoppers strongly agreeing they will continue to shop small business throughout the holiday season because of the impact it has on their local community. Whereas in 2022 studies found that $0.68 of every dollar spent at a small business in the United States stays in the local community and that every dollar spent at small businesses create an additional 48 cents in local business activity as a result of employees and small businesses, purchasing local goods and services and whereas the right and Colorado supports our local small businesses and create jobs, boost our local economy and preserve our communities. And whereas advocacy groups, as well as public and private organizations across the country have endorsed the Saturday after Thanksgiving as small business Saturday. Now therefore I agree with Mills, Mayor of the City of Brighton. On behalf of the City Council council do hereby proclaim November 25th 2023 as small business Saturday and urge residents of our community and res in communities across the country to support small businesses and merchants on small business Saturday and throughout the year. Data this 21st day of November 2023. There is no vote needed on this and throughout the year. dated this 21st day of November 2023. There is no vote needed on this proclamation. So I'm gonna ask city manager Martinez who is here to receive this tonight. Good evening mayor, mayor, mayor, pro-tem. And members of council tonight, we have our president and CEO of the Brighton Chamber Natalie Cummings in the audience who will receive this and speak about small business Saturdays. So come on up. Let's get a picture Natalie and anybody else that is a part of the Chamber that might be here and we'll then we'll let you have the mic for a few. Okay, you might just be me. Right, we're here with us. We're going to. There we go. Come on over here. Anyone else want to join the pictures. 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. My name is Natalie Cummings. I am the president and CEO of the Greater Brighton Chamber of Commerce and Tourism Bureau. It is my honor to humbly accept this proclamation on behalf of our small businesses and our small business community here in Brighton, Colorado. As the proclamation itself states, there's a lot of great stats why we should shop local with 68% of every dollar stain in Brighton, that is spent in Brighton. I think that's very compelling for us to consider how we can support our small businesses. So with that, I just want to say thank you again. I encourage our community to continue to shop local. Not just during the holiday season, but all year round. So thank you again. Yes, thank you. It's definitely important to stress to shop all year round. You can shop tomorrow to small businesses. Don't have to wait till Saturday. All right, and then the next item on our agenda, item 4B, recognition of the Brighton Office of Victim Assistance and receiving the Leadership in Victim Services Award. City Manager Martinez. Thank you Mayor for this item. I'll have Chief Domenico come up and introduce commission. 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. I would, if it pleases you all, I would love to invite our victim services team and our deputy chief to come up here with me while I talk a little bit about this. Because it's certainly, it's their work that resulted in us getting this award. It's not mine. So, good evening, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, members of Council. I want to start by thanking all of you for taking the time this evening to recognize the Brighton Office for Victim Assistance for being awarded the 2023 Leadership and Victim Services Award from the International Association of Chiefs of Police. Just to give you a little bit of background on this award, it's given to agencies that exemplify an organizational philosophy of placing victims at the center of problem solving efforts and utilizing effective partnerships, training methods, and performance monitoring tools to enhance law enforcement response to victim of crimes. Given that description, it comes as little surprise to me that our victim services unit was chosen for this award. As the services that our organization provides to victims really does set the standard for others to follow. I was honored to be able to attend the IACP conferences year along with Kim Messina and Soyla Rodriguez and I was really humbled. I was able to attend and then also able to speak on some victim services programs as well. And I was really humbled to hear from other law enforcement leaders about the innovative approaches they are taking in their communities to better serve victims. Hearing these stories also helped me to appreciate our victim services unit even more, as most of the ideas being presented as new and innovative are things we have been doing here in Brighton for years. Some examples are on-scene crisis response on all victim rights crimes, building regional partnerships that leverage finite resources to serve victims more effectively, and providing services well in excess of what is required by law. It's easy to take for granted the high level of services and commitment to serving victims that our staff has when it's just part of your everyday practices. But I want all of you to know that what our victim services division provides and what they do in our community is far beyond standard. Believe me when I tell you that. So a little bit about the IACP. IACP is the world's largest professional association for police leaders. IACP has more than 33,000 members across 170 different countries. It's an incredible honor for our agency to be selected from the many thousands represented as a recipient of this award. I want to sincerely commend and thank the members of the Brighton Office for Victim Assistance as they deserve all the credit for this award. The staff of this unit do not do this work for the recognition. They do it out of a sincere desire to help those who are experiencing some of the worst moments of their lives. Our community is truly stronger due to the work as is dedicated team of professionals. So I want to thank them and give them a round of applause for their efforts. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. It is a well-deserved standing ovation for this group. They are really outstanding, and we are lucky to have them. Do we have the award? Oh Oh wonderful. Here's our award. Hold that award up. I'm going to let Kim hold it up. I didn't earn it. They did. So pretty. Very good. Nice. So anyway, Kim, anything you want to say for I turn it over? Real quick. So I just want to say that it was such an honor to receive this award. When I came to the City of Brighton 13 years ago, there was one victim advocate, and that was me, and through the leadership of our department, and through the innovation and the support, we've been able to build this. And so it certainly didn't happen by one person. It happened by an entire department. And so I just want to just say thank you to all of our staff and leadership as well. So thanks. Kim, would you remind everybody in the room and those listening, how many communities we serve? Yes, so we serve the communities of Brighton, Commerce City, Fort Leopton and Lockwood. Amazing. Yeah. Good job. Thank you. and luckily. Amazing. Yeah. Good job. Thank you. Thank you all. Have a wonderful evening. And Mayor Potem would like to say a few words. I was trying to get out of here without that. I know. History history. You know, I really hope that our, I know our council appreciate it. And I think many, many of our residents that have had the opportunity to receive the services, the victim services that appreciate it. But the history of victim services goes back in this department right back to the original victim services legislation that was passed. And we've had some fantastic, innovative and progressive people who have been in charge of that. But when we stole Kim away from federal heights, that's an interesting story. Sometimes Kim and I will tell you how she wound up here, but she's done a fantastic job. It takes a great deal of dedication. It's not an easy job to be an advocate. You see things, you deal with things that are not easy. You don't go home at night and go to bed and forget about those tragedies that you've had to help people deal with. And so I want to sincerely thank all the ones that volunteer their time and the ones that are working here and really make this program what it is today. I think it's the best in the country and obviously IACP agrees with me so thanks to all of you. Thank you. Thank you. Well everybody disperse where they are going to go and As they do that the next item on our agenda is item Five which is public invited to be heard on matters that are not on the agenda I have two people signed up to speak We'll start with Tom Lampo Tom come on up welcome again. Stay your name for the record. We'll five minutes. Tom Lampo, it's good to be back in front of you. Good to be back in front of Brighton. I'm here to pray for Brighton. First, I want to go back to Exodus 14, 13 to 14, which we read a couple weeks ago. It's important in today's world. St. Moses answered the people, do not be afraid, stand firm and you will see the deliverance, the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today, you will never see again. The Lord will fight for you. You need only to be still. As we live through these unprecedented times, God wants us, wants two things from us. He wants us to know him and as Exodus stated, to stand firm and to be still. Please join me in prayer. Heavenly Father in Jesus Christ holy name, we invite you here to the city of Brighton. I lift up all people to you and ask that you make your presence known to each and every one of us. You're needed and welcome in our daily lives. You reign over all. You're God Almighty and nothing escapes you. You set the foundation of the earth and you have reached over its four corners. We can rest in the insurance given to us in Isaiah 46, 9 through 11. Remember what happened long ago for I am God and there is no other. I am God and no one is like me. I call a bird of prey from the east, a man from my purpose from a far country. Yes, I've spoken, so I will also bring it about. I have planned it. I will also do it. I will also do it. I will also do it. I will also do it. I will also do it. I will also do it. I will also do it. I will also bring it about. I have planned it. I will also do it. You are the master planner. We'll go where you lead us. Your love for us is immense. While you knew we would hate you, you loved us. Romans 5-8 states, but God demonstrates His own love for us in this. While we were still sinners Christ died for us. Your love covers all wrongs. Again, show us your love. We are still stubborn and headstrong. We need for Psalm 25, 4 through 5 to come alive in our lives. The Psalmist wrote, show me your ways, Lord. Teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth and teach me for you are God, my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long. You want us to be still and rest as our faith and trust are in you. You will fight the spiritual battle. Victory is yours. We will wait on you. We will stand firm and we will draw closer to you. In your precious and victorious name we pray. Amen. You guys have a nice night. Thank you Tom. And the next person, Senator to speak, Verlaine Saxon, so come on up Verlaine in five minutes. I've missed you all. I just want to say it's Thanksgiving time and so I want you all. It's Thanksgiving time. I want you all to know. I really do appreciate you. I appreciate what you do. You step up. This is a big calling for all of you. I know each of you take it seriously. We have varying opinions about things, but you're all here. I appreciate those of you that have stepped up and listened. And I just want to thank you for that. I do want to let you know too. I don't know that I've told you before, but Adams County prayer team has included you in their prayers. And they meet once a month, and so that's a good thing. So with each of you, I do appreciate you, and I want you to know that. I do know that we're here for the truth, and the truth of serving each community member and the needs that they have. And I know that sometimes it's not easy for you to respond to those that reach out to you because you have more than two or three people that are asking you. But anyway, I just want you to know that, you know, I do appreciate the effort that you're making to come to a correct decision, the right decision for those of us around the high school. And I think it's good because we want to do what's right for the people around there. So I appreciate you guys. Thank you. And happy Thanksgiving. Thank you, Verlane. That is all I have signed up to speak. Well, Madam City clerk, do you have anybody else that's signed up late? Okay. We will move ahead. Item six A. It's a public hearing. A resolution of the city council of the city, bright and Colorado. I'm meaning certain certain accounts in the General Fund, Capital Fund, and benefits internal services fund, and appropriating money for expenditures in the amount of $2,141,200 to support additional water usage at the Oasis and award of a state's mission for assistance in recruiting and training the smart grant, an engineering assessment for the city's tornado sirens, early purchase of de-icer higher than normal health care claims and emergency purchase of replacement uninterrupted power supplies. It's also known as UPS if you didn't know. And so I will open up the public hearing. We'll ask of our city clerk will We'll open up the public hearing. We'll ask of our city clerk. We'll verify all the necessary postings and publications we're done. Yes, your honor. The notice of public hearing was published in the bright and standard blade on November 9th, 2023. Thank you. City Manager Martinez, who do we have to present? Thank you, Mayor. I think for the last time this year regarding budget amendments will be our, oh, you're going to need those words now. We won't have time because I think it's just public hearing. So I don't know if we have enough time from a noticing standpoint, but nonetheless tonight our budget and performance manager, Caleb, Barbara, Prada will be presenting this budget amendment. Thank you, Michael. And thank you for jinksing me now. We love hearing food, by the way. And apologies, Mayor, for that one being a mouthful for how we have to word that resolution there. But getting into the fourth and hopefully final budget amendment for 2023, words, oh my word. Most of this you did receive in your packet ahead of time. And I will go through each item with a high level overview. The one item that you did not receive because it's been an evolving situation over the last 24 hours is that uninterrupted power supply units emergency purchase. So I will spend a little bit more time on that and I will note for you that the amount has changed from this time yesterday so you do have the revised version of the resolution at your seat tonight. So with that, I'm going to start with the items you did have in your packet for the full period. Starting with the smart grant, as mentioned in the resolution title, our police department was lucky enough to be awarded a smart grant from the State of Colorado, and that is a grant that is allowing us to hire some of the officers that were planned for 2026 a little bit earlier by covering those first two years of their salaries. Now, the piece that you are seeing in the amendment tonight is just some uniform and equipment purchases that need to be in place before those officers start. The bulk of this is going to be addressed in the first budget amendment for the 2024 budget. So more to come on that one. The next item is the Oasis Water Overage. As many of you know, we did have an ongoing leak at Oasis this season. Now that we have finally wrapped and closed that up, we have that final Overage number, which is 84,000, which we are looking for appropriation for tonight. Good news is they are underway on making those repairs and those are expected to be done in the spring. The next item is an engineering assessment of the city's tornado sirens. So we did have a tornado siren go down earlier this year and bringing out our consultants to take a look at it. It turns out that our sirens are too old to just be repaired. So this engineering assessment would allow us to get the full scope of what the options are for the city so that we can bring that back to you in 2024. And half of this will be reimbursed by the Brighton Fire Rescue District as well. And then the final item on this slide is that early purchase of deicer. So as you may remember, earlier in this year we had a more, more snowfall than we normally have in a winter, which used up more of our deicer for the year. Given what we are now hearing will likely be another bad weather year for us. Our public works team is recommending that we go ahead and purchase our DICER earlier than we normally would have done that in January of 2024. So this is simply moving that forward. The next one is in our Benefits Internal Service Fund. This is one that you don't get to hear a lot about usually because normally it runs pretty well like clockwork and pretty consistently. We see about 400,000 on average in claims in our benefits internal service fund for a month to month. However, in August and September, we actually did $1.2 million worth of claims, which is highly unusual for us. In meeting with Hub, our insurance broker, we did talk through what was causing that and we are recommending an additional 800,000 in the appropriation for this fund in order to cover those additional claims. Good news is they are not tied to ongoing medical issues so we do not expect this to carry into 2024. Okay and then the final one, the emergency purchase of uninterrupted power supply. I'm going to hopefully say all the numbers right in this one because it has changed three times in the last 24 hours. So as you may know, yesterday we did have our uninterrupted power supplies go down for our server room. That is something that is highly disruptive to our daily operations, regulates our power, cause a lot of outages for our network. That is something that we do need to get replaced as soon as possible. So we were able to add this in. Now, what I want to draw attention to is you see actually two items happening here in relation to this one. The first is a transfer from the general fund of 250,000 to the capital fund. That is because we are not confident in the level of fund balance. It would push us a little bit lower than we feel comfortable with. To simply pull that straight out of capital fund. So we are backfilling the capital fund with that transfer from the general fund. And then going ahead and making the purchase out of the capital fund so that all the records related to IT equipment are kept in that same fund. So you see two of those items happening there. But just to note, while it will show it's overall 500,000 in the appropriation, it is only actually 250,000 leading the city. We just have to show it as an expense on both sides. OK. So normally we just show this slide as a due diligence slide, but I do want to draw your attention to this slide because it is the first slide to total that general fund and capital fund amendment. So you can see there the total of 555,000 to the general fund, the 286,200 to the capital fund, and then the 800,000 down there in the Benefits Internal Service Fund. So with that, we are seeking approval of that fourth budget amendment tonight of bringing the overall 2023 budget to $320.1 million. And with that, I'll turn it back over to the mayor for the public hearing and any questions. All right, well, this is the time I usually ask if the applicant wants to add anything, but we are the applicant, so I'm sure we're good there. And then I don't have anybody signed but to speak on this, but is there anybody or against this or against this I should say? All right. And then Madam City Clerk, are there any correspondences either in favor or against this? No, you're on. All right. Questions from the council? I don't see questions. I only see, oh, no, we're going to council member green. Just to verify, the water leak is being fixed, has been fixed, we've identified what the problem is. So, you know. They're currently working on resurfacing out there, which is expected to be done in the spring. And that should fix the leak. I couldn't speak to that. That would have to be. I'm not an expert on leak fixing, but right now they're doing the resurfacing in order to address that. It was it was a big overage. So it is. So it's why it's very important that we go ahead and get that fix. Thank you. All right, if there's nobody else, I'll close the public hearing. This is before council, Mayor Brotem. Just a comment, I see we have our... Travis was shaking, yes, it will fix the leak. Make sure that's understood. So I would like a micimotion to approve 6A. Council Member Badea. I want to thank you first for the absolute clarity and understanding what's happening to the budget in each of these amendments and why we've had to do them and what the amounts are where the money is coming from. I think that is a tremendous benefit to the city. There's that much clarity around what's being done why and how. So thank you very much for that. And then I'll second the motion. There's a proper first and second to move item six a. There's nothing else. We'll call the city council of the city Brighton Colorado amending certain sections of article two dash forty of the Brighton municipal code regarding the composition of the Brighton housing authority. City Manager Martinez. Or actually, City Attorney Calderon. Thank you Mayor, Members of Council. Item 7A is a follow up from a study session that we held on July 25th of this year, where we talked about and had a robust discussion about the housing authority. We looked at various options after discussing some of those options with the attorney for the housing authority, reworked and revamped and created an ordinance that we're bringing here this evening. Primarily we are making three changes. One is to clarify, it doesn't make any actual change, but it clarifies that the mayor appoints a city council member for two years, and then the mayor can reappoint council members throughout their term but that they serve for two year terms at a time. We're adding the second change is adding the city manager as a voting member of this housing authority and we third are broadening a bit the definition for the non-resident commission members to allow them to have significant ties. So right now there are two non-residents, but when those positions are open again, we're broadening that to possibly allow more folks who may have significant ties to the community. So in this example, there is someone who's been attending their meetings regularly, but who did not meet the previous definition, but who works closely with residents of Brighton, but their business is located just outside the city limits. So this would allow that individual if the opportunity arises to be appointed as well. And under the general powers, we did add some of the statutory language that can be found in the state statute. So basically, this is the ordinance before you this evening. and we would ask for approval. Oh, I was asked to add that the housing authority board did consider it. They are in support of the ordinance, although their attorney mentioned that he had some concern about what city manager or does a knee might mean. And I clarified that at any particular meeting, if a commission member is absent and alternate would fill in. But if for some length of time our city manager was unable to attend those meetings, he would be able to identify someone else such as our deputy city manager to be the designated person. Councillor Member Padilla. Thank you. So I think that this does hit the spirit of what we wanted to do in the discussion on the Brighton Housing Authority Board. We had initially discussed asking to put a second City Council member onto the Housing Authority Board and that does appear to have a conflict with the state statute. So if anybody was looking for that, that's why that's not an addition at this point. I had not picked up on the fact that we broadened the definition for a non-resident. Did we change then the fact that any number of the members could be this significant tire or is it still limited to the two members who can be non-residents today? It is still limited to the two. So the number did not change. So unless there's an opening, correct, there's no change. Okay. So just just the definition of what is the resident. Okay. Is it all? No, I'm trying to remember what my second comment or question was. Oh, just that I appreciate the clarification on the powers and duties because that has been also a Challenge for us to understand sometimes as the City Council where the intent or belief that we had in creating the Housing Authority didn't always match What the housing authority believed its mission to be. So I appreciate the clarity in the code. Okay, Council member Green. Just wanna clarify this. So the Assistant City Manager can attend and vote, or does it have to be designated or does it need any formal action? So if the City Manager cannot attend, can the Deputy City Manager just attend and vote? So the city manager is the appointee. The city manager would only designate if for some extended period of time he would be unable to attack. And he whenever he does ignite someone, he's supposed to do that in writing for multiple purposes. So I think his other peak can't be there. We still don't have that vote then. City Manager's vote would go to one of their alternates. That is correct. The alternates would fill in at any if it was one particular. Thank you. All right. There's nobody else. This is before council. Council Member Padilla. Thank you. All of those things being discussed. I move item 7A. Then council member today. Thank you. I'd like to second that. First in a second to approve item 7A. We'll call vote. the city council. Motion passes 6 to 0 with two absent. Moving forward item 8a and ordinance of the city council of the city of Brighton, Colorado approving the Bromley Farms zoning map amendment from the Bromley Farms planned unit development to the zoning designations R1A, R1B, and R3, and 04, and 04, and approximately 142.72 acres of property, legitimately located south of Bromley Lane, east of Chambers Road, west of the Brighton Oasis Family Aquatic Park, and north of the Indigo Trail's subdivision, and more specifically located in the northwest quarter of section 17, Township 1 South, Range 66 west of the 6th Principal Meridian, City of Brighton County of Adams Adams and State of Colorado. City Manager Martinez will you introduce who's presenting if there is? This is a second reading so staff is available to answer any questions but we don't have any additional presentation at this time. Thank you. Anybody have additional questions before we vote? If not, Mayor Pro Tem. Thank you Mayor. I'd like to make a motion to approve on final reading 8a. I can count some member green and I will second it. Proper first in a second to approve 8a. There's nothing else. Roll call vote. Motion passes 5 to 1 with 2 absent. Right? So we don't have 11a that's been moved to a future date. We are 2 reports. Wow. That's a short meeting. All right. I'll go to reports by the mayor. I've had meetings with, well, my monthly nata meetings been canceled for the month of November. We usually don't meet in November because it's too close to all the holiday fun. But my AC rep meeting, if those that are not familiar with that term, it's the Adams County Regional Economic Partnership. That's kind of a marketing kind of organization that promotes everything in Adams County, where a member of it, we had a lot of a review of some of the marketing events that the organization has had and talked about what's been productive, what's not so productive and trying to figure out what we'd like to do for the new year in 2024. There is a legislative breakfast there putting on on December 7th. If I know members of Council were invited to if you want to go that, except the invite. But it's a good way to preview from our local representatives what they're expecting in the upcoming legislative session. So that's coming up on December 7th. We had airport coordinating committee meeting a couple weeks ago, not too much going on there. I'm a city attorney called her. I don't want to say add anymore to that, but that was kind of a it was a quick meeting we'll just say. So I was able to be at the Chamberlunch in gosh two weeks ago. The county did a veteran salute on Veterans Day or the day before Veterans Day was on Friday. If you haven't been to the Memorial for Veterans, it's a great place over by the fairgrounds. I had the opportunity, I think all of us were invited to the church that's over on about fifth and Romley, the Seven of the Tate of Innoc Church. They had a nice appreciation event for members of the community. We had one of our police officers there, Thornton and Westminster Senate couple, police representatives there as well. We had people from the fire district were there. It was like this nice appreciation event of what appreci of appreciating the community, they had a fire about two or three years ago that is some major damage to their chapel. And they're just showing some great appreciation to the community and all that. And I got this cool car that they made. The kids that go to their school, they made this cool car that says, you're awesome to be, or wait, you're awesome to the core. You are appreciated. So it has this apple here. And when he opened it up, it says, we just want to thank all the city workers, mayor, city council members, managers, water, electric, street, trash, recycling, parks, city staff, and everyone who tirelessly works for our community. We appreciate you all so much. We are blessed to be in this town to have so many caring and dedicated city employees. This is from the kids, this card is actually from the kindergarten through second grade class, but there are older kids that had other appreciations for different groups. And I just wanted to share that there are some great kids that appreciate the, I'll just pass this around, that appreciate our community, those that weren't able to go. You missed a cool event and only lasted an hour, it was early in the morning. So I didn't tear up into your work day too much and I was just glad to go I didn't know what I was walking into and it was a great event. So it was great That's a lot of what I did this week or the last couple weeks. I was at oh, I can't forget I was at the National League of Cities obviously last week and I think our youth are gonna report next week. I think I'll do a little bit of reporting then too. It'll just be better than to do the report with them. So it was in Atlanta with a great time. Representing Brighton had a lot of great collaboration with people in the not only Colorado, but throughout the nation. There's some people I know from other states that I like to get with in Pass on ideas so And Before I end well here. I'll pass it down this way. Let's check out the card It's a good card and then before I end my thoughts Every time there's we get past Election time or we get into a new year. I really enjoy meeting with everyone that's willing to meet with me, all the people on council. I try to, especially the new ones that got elected, I try to get in and meet with them. And just see what the goals are. And I appreciate those that have been able to take the time to do that. There's one particular person in this room that won't do it, I don't know why, but I hope that person will come around and meet with me sometime soon. So I just wanna say that. Next is a report by the department directors. I have two this evening. Let's do it. First I'll bring up Tracemaclean, who's our sustainability coordinator. Come on up. All right. Awesome. Well, good evening. Mayor Mayor Pro Tem City Council is great to be here with all of you right before the holidays. So I'm here this evening just to provide you with an update on a pretty exciting and somewhat long overdue project that sustainability streets and United Power has been working on to switch out the light bulbs on the street lights along our major arterial roads to LED light bulbs. So this will be going into construction here soon. So I just wanted to give you a heads up before you see people up in ladders on those street lights changing out all those light bulbs One of the major drivers of this project is the LEDs are simply becoming industry standard for municipalities and utility companies across the country So unless we align with this Common practice. We're just going to keep experiencing these really high energy costs and then general maintenance on the street lights will become increasingly more challenging and expensive as well. So the project will be broken down into two phases. First phase will include all of the major arterial roads across the entire city so it'll span all four wards and then the second phase will focus on the decorative light poles in the downtown area including fourth avenue main street and parts of bridge street. So as I mentioned before energy savings is obviously one of the biggest benefits to this project. Council's been hearing all about these elevated energy costs for the last couple of years. So LED light conversion is just one tool that we have in our tool belt to kind of get ahead of this trend. So to give you a bottom line number of what we're anticipating in terms of cost savings for this project over the first two phases, we'll be looking at about a cost savings of $78,000 in 2024. In addition to that, the project qualifies for use of undergrounding funds through our franchise agreement with United Power, so we're not going to have any impact to our capital project funds, which is also great. We're also anticipating some reduced maintenance costs, which are going to be really good as well. Typical lifespan for our high-pressure sodium bulbs right now is about five to seven years, but with LEDs we're going to be extending that lifespan to 15 to 20 years. And in addition to that, typically the maintenance that you're doing on LEDs is just simply for knock downs. So I'm going to save a lot of staff time as well. Another thing that I wanted to highlight is, you know, staff council always you know, asks for additional lighting throughout the city for safety reasons. So this is really going to provide us with that really reliable lighting in the areas where we need it most in the community. So, so project will be shortly. And so we can start taking advantage of all these great benefits. Thank you. Thank you, Tracy. We also have another update from Chief. Good evening again. Hey, I just wanted to come up and share a little bit of information, kind of a feel good story about an equipment upgrade that we were able to do. And then at the same time, help a bunch of smaller law enforcement agencies across the state. So earlier in the year, our G-TAC computers, we issue ruggedized laptop computers to almost every one of our staff members in the building. They were coming up on their replacement schedule. I don't want to call them end of life because they still function quite well but there was a number of functionalities that we felt important to add in on our next purchase. So we went through the purchasing process to get all the officers outfitted with new Dell ruggedized laptops, much faster processing speeds, more powerful machines have been a really big benefit to the officers. But we were left with a large quantity of these, many of them in pretty good shape, GTAC, ruggedized computers. So we were looking at what the process would be to dispose of those responsibly, talked about putting them on GovBids, they're really not worth a whole lot of money. But after the approval of the recent policy that allows donations to nonprofits and other government agencies, we went ahead and put them out on the Colorado Association's Achiefs of Police website. And seeing if anybody could use those for those agencies and we got an overwhelming response from across the state, from agencies that were interested in them. And most of them agencies that have, prior to that, were not issuing their officers, the MDTs, the mobile data terminals. So they were operating off radios only. So getting these in their hands is a substantial step forward for them. So just to run down the quick list of the agencies that were able to provide these to, we gave some of these, and I say computers, but this also consisted of chargers for the computers, docking stations for the vehicles, docking stations for the desktop to plug into monitors, really all the stuff that's needed to fully outfit these programs. So we gave some to Meeker, Cherry Hills Village, Yuma, Eaton, Morrison, Rangelie, Brush, Eagle County, and Sedgwick County. So really substantial step forward for all these day or that I'm struggling overwards tonight too. All these organizations make the officers able to do their job safe for put some technology in their hands to help them be more effective. So just wanted to provide you that update and thank you all for the ability to do that. I think it's been a really good benefit to other municipalities across the state. So thank you. Any questions for me? Questions? All right. Thank you. Thank you Chief. Then I'll come to the city manager. Okay. City Attorney. Nothing. Thank you Mayor. City manager. Thank you Mayor. Just want to remind our residents that city hall will be closed on Thursday and Friday. So you have any business that you need to attend to here at City Hall. Please do that tomorrow, and I like to wish all of our residents a happy Thanksgiving. Thank you. Thank you. Well, one more thing I didn't mention Saturday night. I had the opportunity to attend the Brighton Japanese American Association gathering. It was their 75th anniversary. Great celebration. I learned a lot more about the history of the organization and it was a good event and it was that we weren't able to go. You missed a good event and I know we're all busy in different ways but that was a great event. So, but reports by City Council. Council Member Bidia. But reports by City Council, Council Member Bidia. Great, thank you. Only a couple of things today. Some of the meeting schedules get a little bit lighter during the holidays. The Adams County Water Quality Association met recently and really the most important thing is a change that allows for us to place an alternate staff member to cast votes. Sometimes getting a quorum for that organization is a challenge. And the City Attorney and I are discussing whether we need to take any action to be able to support that. And then the next is that next Wednesday is the next meeting for the Adams County opioid abatement council, which we have roughly $6 million this year to give out in grant money from the various settlements for opioid abuse from pharmaceutical companies and pharmacies to the different organizations that have requested that funding for education, for treatment, for harm reduction and for ongoing recovery. So that'll be a great opportunity next week to see how we can spend that money best in the county. Thanks. Council Mayor Blaske. Thank you Mayor. Before I do my little remark thing, I wanted to just ask because of what was brought up regarding our street lights. The Christmas lighting apparel that go on the poles and such. I noticed that many of them seem not to be lit anymore. Are we looking into trying to remedy that situation? Yeah, if they're not lit then we're looking at or obviously we'll make sure that we have lights that work. I mean it's very obvious. There's a lot of them. Yeah, and we have and I know they'll look They've been there lights out. They're old. I know too, so some of them are pretty old. I'm pretty old. Okay Well, I I too attended the BJ a a bright and Japanese American Association 75th celebration and a Versus celebration it was a lot of fun. It was very cool. And of course, my history here, I mean, it goes back to all the many people over the years and the Japanese families that I've known. And so it was very reminiscent for me. And Chris Horyuji is now at age 28, the youngest to ever head up the BJAA. He did a great job. He was nervous, but he did a great job. So anyway, I very much appreciated that. And then the other thing I wanted to throw out at approaching age 80, Mayor, I'm not going to be able to continue doing Dr. Cog downtown at night. It's just very difficult late at night for driving the downtown area. When I lose a vision of the mountains, I don't even know what direction I'm going. So anyway, I just wanted to tell you, I'd be happy to work with anyone who wanted to, you know, I could go down with them and kind of get them settled into what goes on, but it's just becoming very difficult. So I would just throw that out. Thank you. Yeah, we'll be revisiting those assignments very soon. Special, I would know who's coming to work for. Mayor Brotem. I don't have anything. I can just return for being out of town for a few weeks, but looking forward to the holiday season, wish everybody a very happy Thanksgiving. For sure. That's my green. Yeah, I also attended the Chamber of Luncheon and as an Army veteran, I was happy to attend the first annual Veterans Memorial celebration. I'm sure that's going to be a great event from years to come. As far as street light goes, all they have to do is report them. If you can give us the number on the base, United Power will send a crowd to get those fixed. It's usually within five days. So if you just give, again, you have to let us know if it's the light above it, if it's United Power's light, we'll do it. And sometimes it's the United Powers like we'll do it and sometimes those it's diffuses blown that's why the crypts is light doesn't go and the light above it doesn't so again we just need to report it we can take a look at it and we'll look at them and I'm also this Saturday and Sunday honor to attend the Hamang New Year's celebration it's gonna be a Riverdale region all-park at the Bay Myard home just glad to have those people in our community and honor to attend that they invited me. So thank you. Council member Tadeo. Thank you. I was also able to attend the Chamberlainton and this last or this Monday we had right legacy foundation, which is a board that I sat on way before I got on council. Near and dear to my heart was our October, I'm sorry, November meeting, where we address all the grants and give out all the money for that. And so I wanted to thank the city and council for making that possible with more money this year. We were able to help a lot more organizations and it's a good feeling, especially this time of year. So that was fun. That's it. All right, there's nothing else. We're adjourned, thanks.