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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 ask Councilmember Johnston to lead us in the pledge of allegiance. the Thank you. Madam City Clerk, please call roll. Mayor Mills. Here. Mayor Pro Tem Cushing. He is excused. Council Member Blackhurst. He is also excused. Council Member Johnston. Present. Council Member Padilla. Here. Council Member Blaskey. Here. Council Member Pollock. Here. Council Member Tadeo. Present. You have a Choir Meir. Councilmember Poloski here Councilmember Pollock here Councilmember today I'll present you have a quorum your honor thank you next is approval of the regular agenda anyone want to make a motion on that Councilmember Poloski thank you mayor I'd like to move for approval of our agenda and then Councilmember Pad. I'll second that motion. The proper first and the second. We'll call vote. Motion passes 6 to 0 with two absent. Next is the consent agenda. Madam City clerk, please read that into the record. Item 3A approval of the June 14, 2022 City Council minutes. Item 3B, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado. Accepting the proposal of J.R. Engineering Engineering LLC to design water lines for fire flow for the contract amount of $338,191 and authorizing the city manager or designate to execute the contract on behalf of the city. Item 3C, a resolution of the city council of the city of Brighton, Colorado, approving a memorandum of understanding regarding homelessness, services, and authorizing the mayor to execute the agreement on behalf of the city Item 3D a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado Reappointing Marjita Murphy as a professional professional member of the Brighton Historic Preservation Commission with a term to June 2026 Thank you. We'd like to make a motion and the second. Thank you. We would like to make a motion. I will move the consent agenda as read. Council member today. Second that. There is no other discussion. We will call vote. Motion passes 6-0, 2-0. Next is ceremonies item 4-A. Introduction of growing grads, spotlight on young entrepreneurs. City manager, Martínez. Welcome back. Thank you. Good evening from way down here. I can see you all a little bit But I was just joking with the member of the audience. I was I'm in time out for taking vacation And so you're leaving me on the edge here For this presentation. I'd like to ask our manager of youth services Ms. Tony Russell to come up and introduce the item Welcome Tonya. Good evening. Mayor and council, thank you so much for your time tonight. I'm sorry, we look a little bit crazy tonight. We're doing a little bit of multitasking that you may have seen as you walked in. We're going to use Commission Party out back in this tonight. So I'm so, so excited to bring before you tonight members of our growing grads entrepreneur program. It's all just our second year doing it. We had such success last year that we decided to do the program again. So we have a new group of young entrepreneurs that are so excited to be learning about business ownership. I'm going to show you a quick video about the program and then I'll have them each come up and introduce themselves. I want to be able to learn more about business. In June, Royce Armstrong, along with 18 of his peers, came to Brighton City Hall to begin the journey of starting a small business. I don't think a person within the structure of my business. It was kind of nerve-wracking, I guess, you could say it. And now I kind of feel more comfortable. Is she your first can identify a problem? Armstrong says his grandpa signed an ad for Spotlight on young entrepreneurs. And then a once or a need of your consumers. And thought the program was a great opportunity for him to learn about starting a business. So we invented this, the nose we know more. Last year had a series of four workshops for the young entrepreneurs over the course of a month and this year we condensed it into a one day bootcamp style training. Get that! Go! Youth Services Manager, Tanya Russell, says the one day bootcamp allows young people across Bryan to learn about what it takes to begin a successful business and become financially literate while simultaneously having some. More workshops all geared around all things business owners. We had somebody teaching about creating a business that aligns with your values. We had an ideation of workshops so that young people could learn how to create new ideas. We did elevator pitches and a profit and loss workshop. In between the workshops the young entrepreneurs are able to have some fun and build camaraderie through several team building activities. I enjoy seeing young people light up when they're talking about their businesses. The young entrepreneurs are excited to share their products at the city barbecue. Products vary from jewelry to paintings to rice crispy treats. So I'm selling ice cream. Armstrong is taking over his grandpa's ice cream cart and using the skills that he learned from spotlight on young entrepreneurs to serve up the cool treats. Pretty excited because I new tires for my bike. So now I'm gonna let them introduce themselves and tell you a little bit about what they're gonna be selling on Thursday. Hi, my name is Ava Ziegobom and I'm selling barbecue sauce. Hi, my name is Roy Armstrong and I'm selling ice cream. Hi, my name is Anna Brecken and I'll be selling handmade greeting cards. Hi, my name is Ellie Larson and I will be selling Jory made out of recycled materials. Hi, my name is Stole Romero. I'm going to be selling handmade jewelry. Hi, my name is Declan Alky and I'll be selling Rice Krispie Treat. Hello, my name is Malibu Lasquez. I've won Air Soil. I own Air Soil Oats and this year I will be selling Spring Paynuts and Hydro Dip. Hi, my name is Madeline Griffiths and I will be selling Keychains and bracelets. Hi, my name is Sereratis and I will be selling key chains and bracelets. Hi, my name is Sereratis and I'll be selling art. Hi, my name is Gaby and I'll be selling reselling products like toys and stuff like that. My name is Gail Felix and I'm so lean paintings. Hi my name is Camille Derray Brooks and I will be selling jewelry and I just want to say thank you so much for your guys this time and we'll see you on Thursday. That'll all be out of the barbecue on Thursday and I hope that you'll stop by and see us. That's something exciting to look forward to. You know the first people that came up, one said ice cream and then they said barbecue sauté. That was a weird combo. But yeah, this is great. Congrats on being entrepreneurs and being a part of this community event and kudos to all of you that are willing to do that and participate. So thank you for your willingness to be involved. I know it's a little scary to get in front of a group like this or even the big group coming up on Thursday. But the more you do it the more comfortable you will be at doing this so thank you for doing that. Council remember today. I would like to to diddo that comment and I can tell you I used to be one of the very shyest people you would ever met and I know that's hard to believe but my my question for you is do you guys take credit cards? Because you might make me broke Thursday. We're working on a VenMal situation. So we understand that we need to accept credit cards. We're working on a VenMal situation. Yes, and Kudos to you for what you're doing. Takes a lot of guts to do this. Thank you. Nice job. Well, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Nice job. Well, thank you. Apalda, we're going to sneak out because they have something going on in the back. It looks like it's more fun out back because they're a big slide I saw back there. All right. Next on the agenda, it's a proclamation item 4b, disability, pride, month Proclamation. I'll go ahead and read that to the record. Whereas Disability Pride Month is celebrated nationally in the month of July and honors the diversity and uniqueness of each person in the disability community. And whereas the Americans with Disabilities Act, one of the most important civil rights laws in our history was passed by the U.S. Congress on July 26, 1990, to ensure the civil rights of citizens with disabilities, whereas with more than 160 million people living with a chronic illness and disabilities in the U. US. Disability Pride Month builds on the celebration of the law by celebrating something just as important. The visibility, contributions, and accomplishments of the disability community. And whereas the disability Pride Month serves to amplify the voices of those with disabilities to help lift one another with their uniqueness, and whereas disability pride month empowers those with disabilities to define their own identity, reshape false negative perceptions of those with disabilities, and serve as a tool to tackle ableism that is still all too common today. And whereas people with disabilities are valued with or valued and vibrant members of the Brighton community and this month serves as a time to recognize and celebrate our disability in a natural part of human diversity. And now there are four of you resolved that I Gregor Mills the mayor of the city Brighton on behalf of the city council who hereby proclaim July 2022 as disability pride month dated this 19th day of July 2022. City manager Martinez I don't believe we have anybody to receive this so we do not have anybody to receive this in the audience tonight. Okay I'll just make a quick comment before we vote. Well, let's go ahead and vote. Council member Padilla. Yes, thank you, Your Honor. As a person who is temporarily able-bodied, I appreciate this proclamation and the need, well, no, actually, that's an actual acronym. So I think it's important to recognize people who are able to address challenges, engage fully and fantastically in our community. We have amazing leaders in this community who would identify as part of that 160 million people with various chronic diseases and disabilities in the community, I think this is very important to recognize, I appreciate you bringing this to us at this time this month. So I'd be happy to move for approval of the proclamation as red. Thank you. And then Council Member Pollock. Thank you, Mary, and I would be honored to second that motion. Thank you. There's a proper first and a second. If there's no other discussion, we'll call vote. Motion passes 6 to 0 with two absent. Real quick, as a father of two of my boys that have disabilities, I think this reads very well in the proclamation. We have a lot of resources for the disability community and maybe not all of it's tapped in, but at Brighton High they have a really good program for the special needs students and they have also a sports program. It was a lot more active before COVID. And I hope it becomes more active as the new school year comes along. It's called Unified. And that's through special Olympics, they go play in the fall, flag football. It's a co-ed program and they play flag football. And then in the winter, they play basketball and then in the spring, they play soccer. And it's a good way to bring the disabled community together with partners that help them play the sports properly. Maybe they need a partner that's not so disabled and help with maybe throwing the ball or whatever. And it's such a good program. Also, I'll make a quick comment. My boys with fragile X syndrome, this Friday, I was gonna mention at the end of the meeting, but I'll say it now since it seems somewhat appropriate. This Friday is a fragile X awareness day on the 22nd of July. And that's the day that worldwide, they recognize those that have a condition called fragile X syndrome. It's a genetic disorder of various types and That's what my boys have and People that have disabilities have ability to still do good things in our community Maybe not all of them can work at the grocery store, but maybe some of them can do some things with certain super visions. And they can be great contributors to our society. Thank you for having this brought before us. Thank you. Next on the agenda, public invited to be heard on matters that are not on the agenda. So I have be heard on matters that are not on the agenda. So I have before me two people that have signed up on items that are not on the agenda. And then one other individual that signed up for an item later on the agenda. So we'll get to that person when we get to that point. We'll start first with items not on the agenda. Errol Myers. Come on up. You know the drill. Stay your name. In our city clerk will let you know when your five minutes are up. And I'll hold her to it. I think that you will. I'm sure. All right, their own buyers for a 64-voils drive right here in Brighton. Even before I begin, I just want to say to the mayor, appreciate your remarks about the challenges of young people who have disability and older folks. And I know you and your wife have had those challenges for years. And I think it really says something about parents too, that are able to tap into the resources and do what they can. And years ago, there wasn't too much in the way of resources. So I honor them. So to the honorable mayor and members of our City Council, thank you for the opportunity to share a few thoughts and concerns with you this evening. Having served our community in the past in a leadership position as you are doing now, I understand some of the challenges that you face. I also know the decisions you make will never satisfy everyone, but hopefully the majority. Speaking on behalf of myself and the building a better bright an organization, I do have concerns regarding expenditures over the past few years approved by the city council. That could have been used in a more constructive way, I feel, for our community. Most of these funds were used to pay consultants for a second opinion on matters whose outcomes were similar, if not the same, as though is already known by city leadership, particularly those within those departments being examined. To use community revenue and hiring consultants is always an option. But to use outside firms to confirm that which internal resources have already verified as accurate with very little doubt is definitely questionable. And now another expenditure will soon be underway, which is, well, this is questionable. The ballot, the election process to Filovacant Ward 1 Council seat costing upwards of 40,000 or more. I'm sorry, but I'm not quite following the logic behind this expenditure. Before he was elected last year, I seemed to recall, I could be wrong, correct me, that our current mayor was appointed to a two-year term filling the then vacated mayoral position. So why then has the council suddenly decided that an election is needed for a period of approximately 14 months, and the appointment for approximately a two-year period was not. and the appointment for approximately a two-year period was not. Is there not some inconsistency here? There may be more in this community than you realize, including the BBB organization, who could be in favor of a council appointment, rather than an unnecessary $40,000 expenditure. Oh, oh, and by the way, I was appointed for my first two years of this very City Council. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Myers. The next person that signed up is Lynn Norton Lynn welcome Let's finish this real quick thank you mayor city council Please take your name and then you'll have your five minutes all right, but I have two issues. I did five minutes for both It's five minutes total There's no way I can do that. I'm sorry. My name is Lynn Norton. I live at 419 Walnut Street in Brighton. I've lived there since February 2007. I live across from the post office. And I just recently they have covered up this the needing a permit to park in front of my house. And they never told me why they were doing it. And I finally, after calling many times and finally getting somebody because I had to come up here to have somebody call me. They said that they have never held those permits and that they were going to do away with the program. My car has been hit four times, hit and run over the last 15 years. There is only one spot that I can park at and that is very vulnerable in its own right. But if they move those signs and they don't have any way to protect my car. And no one has ever paid for the damages and it's never anyone's fault. I want to talk about zoning because I've been studying the zoning and the post office is C0 so it's commercial office and I don't have a problem with the post office whatsoever. That would be perfectly fine. I'm in R2. They're allowed to have commercial offices mingling with R2 homes. I don't have a problem with the post office. I have a terrible problem with the distribution center attached to the post office. That is a seven day a week 24 hour distribution. It is semis coming all through the night. It's the semis that are hitting my car. I don't believe that they are should be there. I think that that distribution center needs to move. And then I wouldn't need the signs and I wouldn't get the attitudes of the police that I'm getting constantly. I'll let that go. Now I want to talk about July 4th. There were two families that were shooting off illegal fireworks tremendously amount. I waited till 10 pm. I finally got dressed. I went and I investigated. I found the two addresses of the people that were shooting off illegal fireworks. It's the kind that go up into the air. It explodes in color. And then there's a pop that sounds like a gunfire. My animals were totally freaked out. We were so dry here. They could have started a fire. I told them they needed to stop. If they didn't stop, I would sign a complaint. They got mad. They made it worse. I called the police. The police did nothing. They accused me of stealing their fireworks and then ghosted me and never called me back. I had videos. I had addresses. The vigilantes came to the front of my house and were trying to intimidate me, harass me, calling me Karen, calling me un-American, telling me I stole some bucket of fireworks which I did not, and the police did nothing. The next day I called, I got Officer Garcia, he came out, he viewed all my videos. He said he would talk to the sergeant, the sergeant that came out that night, said that it was an inconvenience. It was not an inconvenience. In 15 years, I have never, ever called the police on fireworks, noise, music, parties. Never. This year was different. I talked to my neighbor the other day, and was out of the country and he told me his wife laid in her bed and feared for her life. That's how bad the fireworks. There was only two families. If I can sign a complaint on those two families and they have to pay a fine, that should stop them from doing it year after year. And instead of telling, I told them, I'm going to sign a complaint. The police won't let me. If the police won't let me sign a complaint, I've been I come here. I want to sign a complaint on those two families. I have the videos. There should be no reason why I shouldn't sign a complaint. And they go in front of a judge and pay a fine for shooting off illegal fireworks and scaring all of our neighborhood if only two families are doing it and we hold them accountable they will stop and then we will go back to just regular fireworks which is what has been in the last 15 years this was a really bad year and they ended up accusing me that police didn't do anything. I can't sign a complaint. So if I can't get a complaint sign now, I'm just going to go over everyone's head. I'm just going to keep on doing it. I am looking at doing a civil complaint in a district court against the Brighton Police Department and the City council because of the distribution center at the post office. It's been going on for 15 years. Our population has increased 10 fold since I moved in. It's your time. Thank you. We appreciate you bringing your issues to us. And I've made notes. And some of us have also made notes of it. So thank you. The next item on the agenda is the item that we're going to have to your issues to us and I've made notes and some of us have also made notes of it. So thank you. The next item on the agenda. Oh, yes. Go ahead and go ahead and councilmember Johnston. Thank you, Mayor. We appreciate what we just heard. If we could get a police report as soon as legally and ethically possible so we can see what transpired that night at my front of Miss Norton's house on one thing. On the previous speaker, there's a big difference with what happened with the mayor. And I just want, I think, must have been this. Mayor first to a point of order. What is that? We listen to the citizens during this time. We don't argue with the citizens. I don't find any of this argument. No, I just want to point out the fact that we were forced this time we don't argue with the decisions. I don't find this argument. No, I just want to point out the fact that we were forced to appoint the mayor. There is no part of the charter that allows for us to go to an election. I totally respect everything that was said, just want to let you know that. We can. We had to appoint someone from the current council. Thanks. Thank you. And then councilmember Pulaski. Since I had my surgery and had to spend a few nights at Avamir and the Stanley Cup all all that transpired it seemed to me like there was more fireworks this year than ever. And and I love fireworks. I grew up with them on a farm and we always had them. But because of our world and the way things have changed, we need to honor what we have that is illegal and not allow them to be shot off. And Avameer, it wasn't even fourth of July. It was like the Thursday before. And these booms happened and the patients laying there were scared to death and so are the workers of the big booms that they had. So I actually talked to the chief the next day and he said they would I don't know how it was addressed because I left the next day so I don't know what happened. But we need to address beforehand since something out in water bills or something or some some way to let people know we're going to be tougher on illegal fireworks. Thank you. Thank you and I would also appreciate maybe an update in the future study session to show and have the police kind of share the the challenges to the enforcement of the fireworks that would help. Okay. Moving on. Next is item 8A. And the ordinance of the City Council, the City Brighton Colorado, approving the Brighton what's that? You put it on 9A, so I'll go ahead and that's one will hear from you. And ordinance of the City Council, the City of Brighton, Colorado, approving the Brighton Ridge Zony map, amendment for an approximately 103.57 acre property, generally located in a portion of the east half of section one, Township 2 South, range 67 West, and in the Northwest quarter of section six, Township 1 South, range 66 West, all of the six principal Meridian, City of Brighton County of Adams, state of Colorado. Eddie, manager Martinez, I'll turn this over to you. Thank you, Mayor. At this time, I'm going to ask our director of Community Development, Holly Prey Prather to come up and discuss this item. Thank you. Good evening, your honorable mayor, ladies and gentlemen of the council. Holly Prather, community development director for the city of Brighton. The applicant for this application has requested a continuum to be able to make a decision to make a decision. Thank you. Good evening, your honorable mayor, ladies and gentlemen of the council. Holly Prather, community development director for the City of Brighton. The applicant for this application has requested a continuance to a date certain. Sorry, I hear you asking me to speak up. The applicant for the rezoning request has asked for a continuation to a date certain for the next meeting of August 2nd. So to clarify the request, do we continue this to August 2nd? Yes. Which is in two weeks from now. Yes. Okay. All right. We don't need a motion on that, do we? We do need a motion on that, okay? We'd like to make a motion, Council Member Johnston. I'd be happy to make a motion to continue at him 8 a to a date certain of August 2nd Councilmember Padilla. I'll second that motion We'll probably first and second to continue to August 2nd There's no other discussion. We'll call vote Motion passes 6 to 0 with two absent. Thank you. Thank you. And then the next item is item 8B. In ordinance of the city council of the city bright and Colorado approval the rezoning of a portion of the Bromley Park Plan Unit Development. second and sixth amendments to the Brownley Park Plan Unit Development, 26th Amendment for the approximately 18.9 acre property, generally located to the south of Bridge Street, west of Interstate 76, east of Golden Eagle Parkway and north of the Spear Canal south of Longsburg Drive, and being a part of section 11. Township 1 South range 66 west of the 6th principal Meridian City of Brighton County of Adams state Colorado. Manager Martinez. Thank you mayor once again Holly Prater. Welcome back Holly. Long time no see. Thank you again mayor honorable city council. Holly pray through community development director. This applicant has also requested a continuation to a date certain of August second. So feels like you're on a holiday we're seeing this again. Okay. So two weeks from today continued. I'd like to make a motion councilmember Johnston. Thank you mayor. I'd like to make a motion to continue this item to a date certain excuse me 8b to a date certain of August 2nd. All right councilmember Padilla. I'll also second that motion. Proper first and second. There's nothing else. Call vote. Thank you. Motion passes 6 to 0 with two absent. Thank you. Moving right along to resolutions item 9a a resolution the City Council of the City of Brighton Colorado Approving participation by the City of Brighton in the coordinate election to be conducted by the Adams County clerk and recorder and the weld county clerk and recorder on November 8th 2022. Any manager Martinez? Thank you Mayor. I'll turn it over to our city clerk to introduce this. Thank you city manager Martinez. Good evening Mayor and council. At the request of city council, a resolution has been prepared to participate in the coordinated election with Adams and Wealth Counties on November 8th to fill the open ward one seat. Great, and we do have one person that asked to speak on this, Mr. David Gill. Come on up. You know the drill, state your name, and you got your five minutes. See, the wait wasn't that long. Oh, I was just saying that. I said, my God, this is great. David Gil, 4441, North 16th Avenue here in Brighton. So I appreciate being able to come and speak with the Council this evening. And I'm very happy to see Council Member Plowsky that you recovered from your surgery. It's wonderful that you're from your surgery. It's a wonderful year back so soon. I'm not going to echo a lot of what Mr. Myers statements were, but I do concur with him. I think we have a real issue here and a real concern. The United States, for the most part, the Adams County, the City of Brighton, we're all going through some tremendous financial difficulties right now. And is it really, and anybody's best interest to have an election that's gonna cost an excess of $40,000 for about one year when anybody that would choose to run, if they were to submit one mailing to their award, it would be over $10,000. So how much is it really going to impact somebody to want to run for a year, to only then turn around and have to rerun to hold onto the seat? It just makes a lot of sense to me to do something like that. And I'd echo again what Mr. Myers had to say, but the recall election for the former mayor can Can criteria I guess that probably cost about $40,000 to now we have another $40,000 for a ward Of which the entire city will not participate in We had a issue with water several years ago Without going to all the details, which then necessitated a forensic audit of over $106,000 to obtain her and to bring her to Brighton. So with all that we're looking at about $250,000 in the last couple of years that really hasn't been spent on things that have really been beneficial to the citizens. And as a member of the BBB, we would like to meet with the city manager and it's been difficult to get into his calendar. But one of the things that we wanted to bring up is that the BBB is more than happy to get together and interview candidates for this council and make recommendations and submit as many names as you all would want that would be pre-interviewed and see if that's something that you all would want to look at. And I think that's a great question. and submit as many names as you all would want, that would be pre-interviewed and see if that's something that you all would want to look at. Part of my concern is that, recently, and I appreciate the mayor's comments about the disabled, because I also had disabled children. And so one of my, myself and my child went to play basketball at the Montoya Park. And if I could just maybe hand out some pictures to the council. Here's a park that's at second and ninth and it's in total this array. We couldn't play basketball because the entire court is torn up. The bathroom facilities have been closed and they've been closed for some time. The park has not been maintained. There's weeds. It doesn't look like there's been any water going onto the park at all. And this isn't Ward 2, and this is my Ward. And this is a Ward that I've been very happy to have represented back in the day. And you know, a lot of the people, this is not the most wealthiest ward. And a lot of the people that live in this ward can't afford to have nice things as far as being able to go out and do a lot of things with their family. It's very much a blue collar I think working ward. And so I think that we depend upon having our parks, something that our kids can go to and enjoy and play in. With if you look at this park, would be something that would be a liability for the children to play in, they'd get hurt. And so I think that $40,000 could maybe be spent better with repairing some of our current infrastructure than going on and spending $40,000 on a election that is only gonna be for a year and likely is not going to really put forth a whole lot of value to this council. So that's kind of what I wanted to talk about today. There's other projects I could bring up as well that need help and I would hope that we just spend the money wisely and not spend the money wisely, and that spend the money just for the sake of spending it on something, you know, such as this. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Gil. All your note, all of what you said has been noted and thank you for your concerns. What's before us tonight is really to, it's not specific to just the Ward one vacancy, but it's just to overall participate in the coordinate election with the county, the two counties that fall into the city of Brighton. And so that's what's before us tonight. Is there anything else to add from city staff? Okay, Council Member Ploskey. Well, one of the other things just so you know, because it happened with our vacancy that was created. We've discovered that we probably should join the rest of the world and do background checks. So my hope is that we'll be able to maybe place that in our charter and have that voted on. So that would also be part of the county election process. So I just wanted to throw that out. There is a possibility. OK. Thank you. Thank you. If there's no other comments, someone would want to make a motion. The purchase is just to participate in the election of any sort, so whether it's fill in a vacancy or anything else that we're doing. Councilmember Padilla. Thank you. Sorry, moving my way backwards to make sure that I was saying the right one. I moved item 9a. And then Council Member Pollock. Thank you, Mayor, and I will second that motion. Thank you. We have a first and second. If there's no other discussion, roll call vote. All right, motion passes five to one with two absent. Okay. Thank you. Next on the agenda, item nine B, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, accepting the proposal of wilderness construction LLC, the construction of ADA compliant bathrooms $1,919 and resending resolution 22-061 and authorizing the city manager or designee to execute and sign the contract on behalf of the city. City manager Martinez. Thank you mayor. This may sound familiar because this has already been brought before you. As you'll recall a few months ago we proposed to the bathroom remodel for Historic City Hall and US Council approved that remodel. As Eric will explain, the original contractor winning bid, it's no longer able to perform the, or complete the job. So we have additional bidders who bid on the original contract who are willing to accept the work and all that Eric explained that. So Eric. Thank you, City Manager Martinez. Good evening, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem and members of Council. Thank you for having me this evening, although I do confess that they're under different circumstances. As you'll recall two months ago, I brought forward before council a resolution to award, vendor the contract to redo our historic city all bathrooms on the main floor. So they are ADA compliance. And this is to rescind that resolution from the May 17, 2022 presentation and to award it to the second bidder that bid in that bid. Someone didn't change the batteries. Or turn it on. There we go. Thank you. Without further ado, this was a strategic focus area of facilities and amenities in open space. So just to provide a brief recap of the grant timeline. Council approved the grant agreement with Adams County CDBG in April 2021. Between April 2021 and October 2021, we secured the services of an architectural firm to provide the design, cost estimate, and permitting. We then engaged in three separate bid attempts to secure a vendor. And on May 17th, we award the resolution to American Construction Services LLC. And in June, we were notified that American Construction Services could no longer provide services due to issues subcontracting and finding qualified labor. So since then we've been engaged with the county to make sure that we have the there approval before we find before we bring forward to council the alternate vendor. So this is wilderness construction companies bid so this will still be covered the vast majority by CDBG. So, the original amount was $257,850. From that, we used $18,919. So from that, the city has contributions of $10,016 towards the project. This will be from savings from our capital project. So again, our federal grants require usually a competitive bid. Our first solicitation was highly over our budget. Our second solicitation brought in no responses., our second solicitation brought in no responses, and our third solicitation resulted in two responses. The first bid that we presented to Council on May 17th, and the second bid which is before you now, which is in the amount of $240,000, $919. And staff's recommendation is for Council to accept bid to submit by wilderness construction company LLC as the alternative most responsive and responsible those received received they still fulfill The requirements that are procurement department uses to evaluate candidates And with that being said so before you you have the following options this matter to approve the resolution to reject it or require a new proposal Be submitted and with that I leave it to council for their input Thank you Eric well, I only see a motion so far so councilmember Padilla Thank you. I think this is still important work. I am sorry that the first group was not able to do it You've been at this for quite a while and I see no reason to hesitate further so I just for quite a while and I see no reason to hesitate further. So I move that we approve item 9B. Thank you. And then Council Member Polowski. I'd like to second that motion. Appreciate it. This is a proper first and a second. And if there's no other discussion, we'll call the motion passes 6 to 0 to absent. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next on the agenda, we're going on to general business, not even 7 o'clock. Item 11, a ward boundary update maps. We manage our Martinez. Turn this over to you. Thank you, Mayor. So as you recall at the last study session, there was discussion regarding ward redistricting. Tonight before you, Kayla will be presenting the two options that we've come up with with the consultant. I should say the consultant has come up with with our input in terms of our growth patterns as a city and how our population is going to move roughly over the next five years. So as you may not know, or may know now, our consultant is not able to join us this evening, but we've had extensive conversation over the past week or so regarding their methodology. And so Kayla is prepared to answer to the best of her abilities, the questions that she can regarding the maps that you have in front of you. So with that, I'll turn it over to Kayla as the maps load. You know, when I opened my map, it took a while to load, too. Yeah, there's a very large amount. But if we could open the presentation first. That one. I can't confirm this is on, so we should be good to go. No, I get the feeling this is probably the one you guys are most excited to talk about tonight. But as our city manager did mention, Northline GIS unfortunately is not able to join us tonight. Like many other cities, like us, many other cities are actually going through the same process right now. So they're actually up in I think Clear Creek County tonight doing their ward redistricting. But I will try my best to walk through. I spoke with the consultants to try to give you guys a good overview of their thoughts. Okay. So looking at what we're going to cover tonight, I'm going to go high level through an overview of the requirements, what's driving this process, what are some of the things that we have to consider and have the consultant consider as they put together these two scenarios. I will then move into a high level overview of scenario one and scenario two. You did receive those in your packet ahead of time, so I'm sure you guys were looking at those in preparation for this discussion. And then finally, we'll end with a bit of a discussion around what we are looking for in terms of next steps for the council. So as promised, I'm going to do a high level overview of those requirements. So really, it's a combination of charter requirements for the city as well as the state constitution that drive both the necessity to redistrict and the process we must follow when redistricting. Key to this is that 5% deviation between the largest and smallest ward. In this case, the difference between Ward 1 and Ward 4 is what is driving this coming out of that 2020 census. Additional requirements include the fact that we have to make sure that the words are compact, that they're contiguous, you don't have a little strand coming out here to try to capture a particular group. And now we're also keeping together groups that are culturally identified together. Additional items that we asked that the consultants consider as they were moving through this was this idea of keeping neighborhoods as connected as possible. Now, this doesn't work out in every single scenario because obviously if we move one block, it has a domino effect across all of the wards. But we did have the consultants look at our neighborhood maps and try to minimize areas where neighborhoods were split between different wards. They also had to consider current and future growth. So if you're looking around right now, you might think, OK, there's split between different wards. They also had to consider current and future growth. So if you're looking around right now, you might think, OK, there's a lot happening in Ward 1 right now. We've got a lot over there by the King's Super, that's going in. But that is actually going to be done within the next year to 18 months. And most of that growth is then going to move into when you're actually already seeing it now in wards 3 and four. You've got developments coming in such as farm lore, prairie centers got development going on, a number of big items that are coming online in the next couple of years. So what you're seeing is that population move south and east, and you'll hear that as we go through the two scenarios that they were trying to accommodate that growth. Okay. So in terms of a timeline, I just want to do a brief catch up here. two scenarios that they were trying to accommodate that growth. OK. So in terms of a timeline, I just want to do a brief catch up here. So this topic was first discussed with City Council back in February of 2021. At that point, Council did give direction that they wanted to utilize an outside consultant. They really wanted to hand this over to the experts and have minimal involvement from staff. In February of 2022, you did award that contract, as I said earlier, to Northline GIS. And over the last couple of months, they have been running the numbers, looking at all the different layers from the census and R-Maps in order to build scenarios one and scenario two. Tonight, we will go through those two scenarios. We will hopefully hear from you on what your preferred scenario is. And that is going to move us towards this early part of August of being able to do the first and the second reading of the Ward redistricting ordinance. Okay, so let's jump into what I think you guys are most excited about, which is the actual scenarios. So here you can see a scenario one and there is movement, I'm sure you've noted, in all four wards, though there is less than you will see in word two. And that is because this scenario is primarily focused on minimizing movement today. So what can we do to accommodate that future growth so we're not having to come back in just a year or two years, but disrupt residents the least amount we can today. And that's really the driving factor here. but disrupt residents the least amount we can today. And that's really the driving factor here. You will see Ward 1 and Ward 2 do have most of the population. There's not expected to be a ton of growth in those two areas. And then again, building in that capacity in Ward 3 and Ward 4. By contrast, scenario 2 has a lot of movement today. So this is more of the long-term game plan. So we are moving more people today so that we can go a longer period before we have to do another word redistricting. In both of these scenarios, what you're really seeing is that poll, south and east of the center point of our population. And word, excuse me, scenario 2 is really aimed at the long-term picture. So moving us towards where we inevitably will be at build out for the cities, trying to accommodate that. Okay, so what we're looking for in terms of next steps tonight is really to hear feedback from the council in terms of what is your preferred scenario. Is it scenario 1 where we move fewer people today, but we probably have to come back and do more movement later on? Or is it scenario two where we do more movement today, but provide sort of more stability in the long term in terms of the war district boundaries? And from that we'll be able to do a first reading on July 26th and a second reading on August 2nd. So I will turn that over for what I'm sure will be a great discussion from Council on this. Great. Thank you. We'll start with Councilmember Padilla. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. I'm so excited. I'm excited. I'm excited. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I turned it off instead of on. So apparently if I had been whispering before, I would be picked up. You can start over. OK, thank you very much for the presentation. And thank you for the work that we've asked you to do in a rather hurried fashion. I always hate it when we ask people to do some of the most important work in front of us with tremendous speed, but the speed was important. I'm sorry that the gentleman who spoke about engagement in the election this fall, but the reason we're asking for speedy work is to be able to do this in the coordinated election and not spend $40,000 on an independent election. So I appreciate the work put into that. The second principle that I really wanted to call forward that several council members have expressed in study sessions in council meetings is that we want this to be as much as possible an objective and mathematical process and as little as possible a political process. That said, I think that redistricting is an uncomfortable thing for the city to do. And I would seek to do a longer term solution, something that will carry us farther forward into the future. And I would look for something that seeks to develop or provide the opportunity for newer growth and development of the new development of the new development of the new development of the new development of the new development of the new development and not necessarily engaged in it. And I think the second plan does a better job of providing for growth opportunity in in ward two. I also think that it does a better job of aligning what's happening at the very far east on the east side of 76 in in ward one rather than dividing the newer industrial areas into two. So minutiae, we want to be engaged as little as possible, and we want to have this question come before us as few times as possible. So I would speak in favor of the plan, which carries us the farthest distance into the future. Thanks. Thank you. Councilmember Johnston. Thank you, Mayor. Thanks for presenting this. We really appreciate this this week. We turn around. We do not blame the consultants for already having something scheduled. Even though we're better than clear Creek no matter what anybody says. No, I mean, the math is the math it always is. And I really am into scenario two because of the future. And us not having to hand this off, because most of us, if any of us will not be on the council when it does come back to them in 10 years, that's a big deal to hand it off a little bit better than what we had two councils ago, just if it's no one's fault on old councils. That's so I definitely am in with scenario two. My second comment and maybe a question for our city attorney is I hate that we we do this. I really don't like the idea of people in the political sphere holding political office are making decisions on redistricting in any way reapportionment. is there a way, what would be the way for us as a council to remove this from being in our hands? Because here right now, I'm very proud to say this council is not doing what I've seen other councils do and state legislatures and everything else that has had political seats since, gosh, the 1300s that we know of. But so, yeah, what could we do to change that? How would we go about that if it pleases you, Mayor? City Attorney Keldorone, go ahead. Thank you, Mayor and members of council. What has happened at the state level is a change to the state constitution creating an independent commission. And certainly here at the city level, you could do the same and create a commission that would review the proposals and make the decisions. At a minimum, that would be an ordinance that would require two reading. So that can't happen today, but you could create a different process. Great. Great clarification. Thank you. Go ahead. Yeah, that's great to hear. I didn't know if it would be a tougher process, but to go through ordinance alone. Is that XYZ? Was that the amendment that changed that that we voted on? Sorry. For the state legislature. Yeah, maybe we need an XYZ? Was that the amendment that changed that that we voted on? Oh, sorry. For the state legislature. Yeah, maybe we need an XYZ or something. But yeah, I definitely am for since we do have to make a decision. I'm with Council Member Padilla with scenario two. Thanks. Thank you. Anybody else have any comment? I'll just say real quick We're going to city manager Martinez At first when I looked at both these scenarios. I thought ward one might have needed a little more dramatic Change really a third of the vote that comes from the city comes from ward one and I saw the growth over there But later the explanation like you said the future growth is going into three and four. And so we need to take that into account. So I appreciate that clarification that does really help over here. So I'm not tied to any one scenario or the other. It doesn't matter to me. I mean, I represent everybody no better what. I live in two. Most people know that. There's not going to be huge change in two. There is a small little housing development that's about to be built kind of about 19th and baseline. I know probably adds like 30, 40 homes. I'm guessing. So that's not a huge change over there either, but city manager Martinez, go ahead. I just want to echo Councilmember Johnston's sentiment about public input and political input as it relates to processes like this. I think it's important for the public to understand that this process was at least internally was really more of a technical exercise than anything else. We didn't consider politics. We were never pushed to change boundaries or awards. Staff did a wonderful job of thinking about this from an analytical perspective, taking information from most of our departments, especially our community development department in terms of growth patterns, and just applying what we know is going to happen in the short term and the long term of the community. So for the community and for the residents who are watching, I would like to promote the fact that what you see in front of you tonight really was an excellent technical exercise that took into account growth patterns and did not take into account any of the other political things that may happen in other jurisdictions. So I'm proud of what we have in front of you tonight. Thank you. Thank you. I'm Council Member Tadeo. Thank you, Mayor. I really appreciate hearing that. And I do think that we need to think more into the future and scenario number two is what I'm in favor of. Thank you. Well, of who's spoken, I'm hearing too a lot. I was going to say it sounds to me that the general consensus is that we bring back an ordinance for scenario two. And this isn't anything we're voting on tonight. This is more of a general business item to just look at, consider, and that is it. So bring that back. And I think we'll make a decision on that next opportunity. Thank you. Next is item 11b Schedule a special City Council meeting July 26, 2022, 6 p.m. for award redistricting, City Manager Martinez. Thank you, Mayor. It's a pretty cut and drive. We would like to have a special meeting prior to your study session to vote on the scenario you just mentioned. Is it just the scenario or is there any other business that I know, sort of just this? And then we go on to our study session correct Okay councilmember Johnston Thank you mayor. I'd like to make a motion to schedule a special city council meeting on July 26th 22 at 6 p.m for word-read district. Thank you and I'll go ahead and second that motion If there's no other discussion, recall the... Motion passes 6 to 0 with two absent. Right? Thank you, everyone. absent. All right thank you everyone. Moving right along that just after 7 o'clock we're going on a reports. I've been gone the last couple weeks so I and a lot of my committees have not met the last couple weeks so I will say as we go to reports by the mayor there was a ribbon cutting I got to go to reports by the mayor, there was a ribbon cutting I got to go to the day after I got home, at the Donut social. So everyone celebrate, we have our own Donut shop that's not just tied to the grocery stores. So go support local businesses. As I said at the ribbon cutting, if anybody was there, I have a, when I'm on road trips, like I was the last couple weeks, I have a rule to try to go to places that we don't have, we all have McDonald's or Burger King, whatever. And I try to support something unique that's not in my area. And a lot of times it is a local business, like the donut social in this case, although I didn't go out and get donuts last couple weeks. So it's important to, like I said, celebrate and support the local businesses that come in and invest in our community. So please go do that. They have more than just donuts. So go check out the menu and see if there's something that you like if you're not just donut person. There's like I said, there's other things. Go do that. The next week I have my Highway 7 Coalition meeting next week. We have the ad cog dinner next week. My NADA, my North Area Transit Alliance also meets next week. And then, two nights from now, Thursday, everyone go to the city barbecue. We expect you all there. Okay. With that, we'll go on to reports by the department directors. Thank you, Mayor. We actually do have one report tonight from a department director. In the past meeting. Thank you, Mayor. We actually do have one report tonight from a department director. In the past meeting, study session, there was some discussion regarding speed safety around the city. And so Mr. Woodruff has done a pretty good job of coming up with some ideas about how we can address some of these issues moving forward. And tonight he'd like to just quickly present to you some of his ideas and some of his thoughts as it relates to speed mitigation around the city. So with that, I'll ask Mr. Woodruff to approach the podium. Mr. Woodruff, the best dressed person in the room. Thank you for coming in. Thank you, City Manager Martinez. Good evening, Mayor, members of the City Council. I know that you recently received the end of last week a report from assistant public district director Christopher Montoya memo that kind of outlines some of the traffic calming practices that we're currently undertaking. What I'd like to do is just briefly kind of highlight some things for you tonight and obviously answer any questions you may have. So the traffic calming measures that are currently available in use are upcoming include signs, striping and marking, enforcement, engineering devices such as speed tables, bump outs, traffic circles, islands, medians, etc. Code changes will be on the way. Also roadway design changes are in the works. As far as speed feedback signs, that's one of the areas in the signs. They've proved very successful for us. We've installed speed feedback signs and you may have seen these on old Brighton Road, Sable Boulevard, Egbert, Baseline, and 50th. And we have noticed in our studies that those have had an effect on lowering speeds in those areas. We have the building that is building up and building up and building up and building up and building up and building up and building up and building up and building up and building up and building up and building up and building up and building up and building up and building up and building up and building up and building up and building up and to you. As far as striping and marking, PED crossing signs, you notice in the memo there was a PED crossing sign that was mounted on a rubber pad. We've actually given 60 of those to the school district and they have those now and use those at their PED crossings. The one thing that we're going to be looking at doing over the course of this summer is, do we want to start permanently affixing those ped crossing signs at ped crossings at the school areas? Some cities have gone ahead and just mounted those to the pavement in the center of the crossing, not actually in the crossing itself, but it's center of the crossing as you get there and they're there all the time. So you don't have to worry about dragging them in and out. They have found that those permanent signs have a tendency to slow traffic 24-7. People do pay attention to those. I know I drive through some of those in some smaller communities and they do catch your eye and they do slow you down. So we're going to take a look at the possibility of doing that. Obviously, so there's going to be some locations where that might be a little bit more difficult to do as far as fixing them to the pavement permanently, but we're going to explore that option. We've also installed bike lanes. You've probably seen a lot more bike lanes over the last couple of years as we go through the city and as we look at revamping and striping some of our roadways and retreating some of our roadways and improving our roadways. We look at bike lanes and as associated with that, that's lane narrowing also because people are not accustomed to seeing those bike lanes. A lot of times those bike lanes are set off the curb. Two lines, if you've seen them in the street on each side of the road, actually narrowing up the road, which we found that it has been proven that narrowing driving lanes also slows traffic down because people are more cautious driving next to another vehicle or passing another vehicle in an opposite direction. We're also looking at continuing to look at crosswalk markings. You notice downtown we have the red cross walks those attract attention both from pedestrians and motorists. and motorists. We're looking at some other crosswalk designs in some of the school areas, some of the park areas, some of our more busy intersections, especially in the 50th and bridge area, looking at the possibility of doing some upgrades. I don't want to use the term artwork because it's really not artwork, but you can do some pretty fancy things and you probably saw that in the presentation I made about a year ago on traffic calming. We're not going to have the Beatles walk across the roadway or anything like that, but we will look at some crosswalk designs. And the other thing is center line marking. One thing we're going to do on long peak from 4th to 19th is we're going to do a double yellow line because we are also going to add bike lanes. Right now it's Sheros. If you notice on that road right now, there's a dash yellow line. And then we have Sheros for bikes. We're actually going to be installing bike lanes and a double center yellow, which we know will narrow up that roadway. And that's been proven also to help slow traffic down. So from a striping and marking standpoint, that's what we're looking at. Some of the pedestrian crossing enhancements, the main and bridge area like I mentioned the painted crosswalks, the eggbert trail crossing I think it's right up around 20th where the trail comes across at eggbert. If you notice that that has bump outs on it and then we also installed the push button pedestrian crossing signs. I will tell you that that gets pushed over a hundred times a month. We're able to track that data and that particular crossing gets pushed over a hundred times a month. So they do use that that crossing and they do use those safety devices on a regular basis. At 50 longs peak we installed oversized lighted pedestrian signs as well as pre signs Associate that intersection. I will tell you we have about 21 crossings a day at the 50th and long peaks Crossing Unfortunately, we have less than 10 push buttons a month So what that tells us is as people are not using the safety devices that we've installed there is, as people are not using the safety devices that we've installed there. When you have 21 and average of 21 crossings a day, but only an average of about 10 push buttons a month, that tells you that they're just not using the devices that are installed for them there. And they really need to be using those. We just finished a traffic warrant signal study at that location. That location does not warrant a traffic signal at this time. It's probably going to be a little bit longer before that intersection does warrant a signal. But we are looking at the possibility in the median at that location of installing those flashing pedestrian signs in the median, too. So not only do we have them on the sides, we'll have them in the median, which we think will help traffic also. But people have to use those. You know, that's the critical thing. We can install all the safety devices we like, but if people are not gonna use them, they don't provide a benefit. The other one we installed at 8th Avenue at Brighton High School, and I will tell you the first month that that was installed, it was only push seven times. And we know that that was installed, it was only push seven times. And we know that that crossing has been used a lot more at the school than seven times. So it's a matter of using those devices once they go up and making sure that they're used which provides safe crossing for those pedestrians. We're also using speed trailers. You've probably seen those out. We bought some speed trailers. We found that those are really effective because the number one. We found that those are really effective because number one people think they're getting a picture taken. Which they are not. The only drawback to that is they're good while they're out there. But once they're gone, people have a tendency to resort to bad habits again and we may see some increase in speeding in those areas. It's not a large increase. But sometimes we do reach to 85 percentile of five more five the area that we're working on on the trees and speeding in those areas. It's not a large increase. But sometimes we do reach the 85 percentile five more five miles per hour or more on a street once those signs are those trailers have been relocated. But we have had streets where they've been relocated the there traders haven't been there for months. And speeding is not an issue any longer. We also have bump outs. We're working on installing bump outs. We installed the ones on Eggbird at the trail crossing. We're also looking at, and we are going to install bump outs at 19th and Long's Peak. And we've also installed pet islands on 19th down by the school. We're finding that bump outs are good too, because they do narrow the road up, and they do bring attention. It also provides a higher visibility for pedestrians because you see the pedestrians from a longer distance away if there's a bump out and there's a pedestrian standing at the bump out versus standing back on the curb. Lane narrowing we've done that on Eggbert main Southern Jessup and eight so far. Speed reduction I will tell you that we're examining right now in the the city's budget for the budget. We're going to be coming back to you and recommend that that be lowered to 25 miles an hour. Unless otherwise posted. That would mean that all your residential streets, basically any street that's not posted would be a 25 mile an hour speed limit. And we're seeing that happen a lot across the state, actually across the nation with all the traffic and pedestrian use and bike use, especially in the Colorado area, we're seeing more and more cities going to a 25 mile an hour unless otherwise posted speed limit. So we'll bring some information back to you towards the end of the year. That requires a code change. We're also going to have to change signs. We don't have signs on every street obviously, but we do have a number of signs in town that reference 30 miles an hour unless otherwise posted. Those would all have to be changed. We are working with budget right now to get that into 2023 budget to take care of that change. A few other things we have revised our public work specifications to include traffic calming in the development design process now. So as developments come in we do ask them to look at traffic calming measures and we do look at those as a part of our review. We've already modified road sections in the land use code to enhance traffic calming. We're looking at that. And those are things like many circles or roundabouts or bump outs, narrowing roadways, things like that or in there. We'll be performing an updated study of our Vision Zero Program in 2023. If you remember that took place in 2018 it's on a five-year track so obviously in 2023 we'll be looking at updating our Vision Zero Program. You know that program focuses heavily on parks and schools and also the high-end record on our city. So we'll be working on that over the course of the year next year and I'm sure we're going to get some new recommendations that come from that and some new ideas. I've noticed a number of cities in Colorado now have gone to the Vision Zero program and actually the state has also adopted the Vision Zero program and we have a member of our team that's working on the Dr. Cog portion of that right now. We'll also be performing enhanced traffic studies in certain areas, things like Sable Boulevard and 144, Sable to 136, also in the school areas, also in the park areas, also in those high injury corridor areas. An interesting fact is we've collected over 2 million data points since the first of the year and a data point is vehicles and what that means is we're capturing speeds and volumes. So we've collected over 2 million data points so far in the city in regards to speed and volume of traffic in our city. We do that with the speed tubes, which you see sometimes on the road. Now we've moved, we still have those, we've moved to a radar type system now, where basically the boxes are just radars and they track stuff as it moves through the beam on the radar. For example, a major roadway like bridge, we average over 25,000 plus vehicles a day on bridge street. So you can imagine as we're tracking on bridge street, it doesn't take long to rack up a couple of hundred thousand vehicle points when you're tracking bridge street. But that also goes for the simple fact, we have some local roads that have no more than 150 cars a day on them that we also tracked data points on in cases. So to kind of wrap up our 2022 Street Preservation Program, we're doing major ADA sidewalk and crosswalk enhancements. We're doing lane narrowing. We're putting in bike lanes. We're going to be installing three speed tables on Longspeak from 4th to 19th. One will be associated down by Baja Park. Two will be located around the school along Longspeak. We're gonna try those speed tables. They're a three inch speed table. You basically drive up and over them. They really don't impede emergency vehicles. They're not six inches high. They're three inches, but they've been proven effective. We'd like to try those to see how those work in that area. We're also putting a brand new crosswalk in at Baja. And that came about from the traffic study that we did at Baja Park where we actually did traffic and volume and speed counts in the vicinity of Baja Park Park we found that the locations on basically the locations on north 12 bright and drive and north 14th Avenue did not warrant any traffic issues we did not have a speeding issue in those areas we did have an 85% auto issue on longspeak as you know that's a pretty wide road as you drive down through there and some of the enhancements that we're going to do to that road which if you've been out there they've already started. We started replacing concrete and putting in new ADA handicap ramps at the curbs and that process will be going on all summer to do that work out there. But we did find some issues on Longspeak. We felt we had a dangerous situation at Longspeak in regards to the park. We had a dangerous situation at Longspeak in regards to the park. There was no crosswalk across Longspeak to get to the park. We're putting in a mid block crosswalk on Longspeak that ties into the parking lot. That's a long long speak. The sidewalk is there. That will provide access. That will also have push button pedestrian crossing signs at that location. And then like I said, three speed tables at that location. We're also looking at a many round about on 19th. As I mentioned before, the recent studies at 50th and Long Speake don't warn a traffic signal at this time. I mentioned the recent study at Baha Park. I hear the discussion regarding speed bumps. And obviously, speed bumps and you know obviously speed bumps are typically what you find in a parking lot or a safe way or a king supers. We try to stay away from the term speed bumps that kind of freaks people out at times. They think of this huge hump that they've got to drive over. We'd like to refer to those as speed tables or speed cushions. You see very few cities that install what would be a traditional speed bump on a street. They do do speed tables and cushions and we are going to be experimenting with that and looking at how effective those are. Speed tables cost about $5,000 each. So about $15,000 in speed tables is going in on long peak. So each speed table that we would put in in the city would run us about 5,000 each. They have to be installed by a contractor. We're not set up to do that in-house. But these particular tables are about $5,000 a piece. They will be decal'd in low-goats so you know going over them what they are before you get to them. You have to be careful with speed tables. We're going to look at these and monitor these. Speed tables don't work in all situations. You can drive over to Thornton and have some speed tables over there. They're a little bit higher than the ones we're putting in. And you can see the gouge marks on the other side of the pavement where the cars come over at two highest speed and gouge into the pavement. We've received information from over there of residents complaining about the noise. People get mad, they'll drive over them slow and then gun it as soon as they get over them creating noise. We had a resident that had told us he'd lost his fence twice from people coming over, getting airborne and then driving into his fence. So you have to be careful with them, but they have to be installed properly and you have to look at appropriate locations. We'll continue to look at traffic measures which include street type locations, speed and volume studies, bike and pedestrian interactions and studies, accident history is a big one when it comes to traffic calming, and the neighborhood needs and feedback is another item. We also follow the MUTCD which is the manual and uniform traffic control devices, guidelines and requirements or we face liability issues if we don't follow those. That's why we do warrants on pedestrian crossings and we do warrant studies on traffic signals. If you typically in most cases if you install a signal or a pedestrian crossing that does not meet warrants there could be liability issues for the city. So we have to make sure that we follow those warrants. I will tell you that staff solely fully supports warranted safe and appropriate traffic calming installations. And if you will remember about it a little over a year ago, I made a presentation on a traffic calming program that received positive feedback from I'm not sure all of you are and I know all of you weren't on council at the time but I received positive contact comments in regards to that and that is currently in place at this time. If you have specific concerns of a particular area please notify us. We'll take the appropriate measures. Look at the studies. There are guidelines and parameters that we have to follow and that we outline in our traffic calming plan that have to be met before we can do different types of traffic calming. Obviously, one of the first things we'd like to do is do the speed feedback, the signs, the markings before we get into what we call engineering mechanisms and those are the things that go like bump out speed tables, many circles, things like that. And again, we want to make sure that the residents, we just don't want to go pop a speed table with a school and have the residents not know about that and then they're upset because they didn't want a speed table in front of their house or on their street. So it also inquires residential involvement or resident involvement in those areas. So with that, I would be happy to answer any questions for you. Well, Director Woodruff, that was a very comprehensive review and we appreciate that. That I remember the presentation from a few weeks back and I was looking forward to all the traffic improvements coming up. And like you said, Longspeak's been started. I've already noticed that just yesterday. So we're going to, we have some questions here. Council member, today. Thank you for a great presentation. Great information. Thank you. Good to know. I want to first say that. I, since I've been on council, I have been reached out to by several residents on North 11th, and I have not been quiet about it. I wonder if there's a way we could get what is it? A speed tell, Zonya speed feedback sign is out with those are called anything on that road. Speed table. Yeah, that that those people have contacted me over and over and over. Sure, Mayor Council member, to do well, what we typically do is again, we follow the protocols, we do a study out there, we'd set the tubes of the radar is out, we need to find out first if there is a speeding issue. As you know, it's and I'm guilty of it too. I'll see a car coming down the street and I'll think, well, that car's doing 40 miles an hour. And when they're actually doing 25 or 30, it's hard to differentiate, but we'd like to look at doing the study first to determine exactly what needs to be done. Yeah, and in this situation, it's drag racing. Drag racing? And that's something that obviously we'd want to work with the police department on. That becomes more of an enforcement issue versus a traffic calming issue. Because in most cases, that's a one off type of an issue. It's not an issue where it's a constant driving at a fast speed. It's more of a like you said, a drag racing issue. So we're going to want to work with PD2 as well as conduct a study. I have literally been invited to sit in a driveway on any given Friday night and see the drag racing going on constantly. That was their words not mine. Is there a particular area of North 11th? No. I think it starts from bridge and goes all the way to long speak long speak to row two or row two I mean row two okay yeah yeah I had another question oh 50 at the long speak I've also been approached by a resident in that area you're saying that it doesn't warrant a stop light. Right. And you're talked about that you were possibly going to be putting in flashing signs, because I've the person that contacted me said that they've been there trying to get across and that people don't mind the fact that there's somebody waiting to cross. And so any kind of flashing might help But what about stop like a for-way stop? For-way stop runs the same thing as a matter of fact a for-way stop at that location We know definitely would not meet warrants. That's a dangerous condition and you never use stop signs to control speed You just you know, I don't think it's a speeding issue in that area It's a people can't cross because people are not seeing them there. The four-way stop would probably not. If a signal doesn't warrant, we definitely know if four-way stop would not. We do have flashing pedestrian signs at that location. They just need to push the buttons to use them. Now, like I said, we think that by adding some additional signage in the mediums, we may get some more attention. We did a little travel out there and we notice when you have both lanes have traffic. And if you just happen to have a vehicle a little ways in front of you and we had somebody push the button you don't necessarily see that sign quick enough flashing on this side for this travel lane. So we thought well if we put one in the medium then both lanes have an opportunity to effectively see the sign which may help. But again at that particular location, and I would say that if I going back to that location years ago, I would never have put a pedestrian crosswalk in there until a signal was warranted. Because if you know, if I can tell you that we've had requests for like night hawk for southern and fiftieth, night hawk, Tanner Peak for crosswalks and they do not meet warrants for that. They meet and they don't meet signal requirements. That's just one of those things on a road like fiftieth with that arterial type roadway. Without a signal we probably should never have installed a crosswalk there. I'm sorry I wasn't here at the time but that probably should not have taken place. But we can certainly look at beefing up the signage, which we are intending to do with two new median signs at that location. And if the 50th, the drag racing, I'll work with the chief and PD on that and we'll also get some radar counters out there and see what effectively we're getting on speed out there. I appreciate that. Sure. The residents there will really appreciate that. And I have one more question. And it might not tie all together, but when you're talking about lowering the speed limit to 25 miles an hour throughout the city, the ordinance that we just passed with the where we put the signs up on 85 or the people can't hang out there was part of that something to do with that they couldn't be anywhere where it's 25 or over miles per hour. What am I trying to remember? Does anybody know what I'm trying to talk about? I remember a speed limit. And there wasn't a set. There wasn't a like speed, but it was actually the excuse of the public. Okay, maybe that's when I'm getting mixed up. Okay, and it doesn't apply. And those signs are up in the mediums, by the way. Yeah. And now we're looking at putting signs up at Fulton and Bromley on those four corners. And if you notice any other places, please let Michael know. And we'll make sure that signs get pushed. I appreciate you guys doing that and getting those out because I really felt like that was a tragedy waiting to happen. And yeah, thank you. Thank you. Can I also move to the public? Thank you, Mayor. Well, Mr. Woodruff, we've been discussing speed bumps or speed tables or speed cushions, whatever you wish to call them for a couple of years now. I've gotten a lot of excuses. There's been a lot of studies done. I know this speed sign thing. Speed signs might save you money, but they're not gonna save lives. They gotta pay attention. The. They got to pay attention The driver has to be pay attention not looking at a cell phone or being preoccupied Hit the damn bump. You're going to wake up and pay attention. I want lives changed. I am so tired Of asking for these Don't know what else to do with you folks that you continue to give me excuses and you do studies. Every city around us has them. And like I said last week, we copy every city every time they do something we say, well, Comer City does it. Thornton does it. Why can't we do it? Let's take care of the issues. Schools about to start. We don't have just one school in Brighton, 27J as a lot of schools. And one other's children protected. And we don't have just one park, which is a Baja Park, which is one of the parks I represent. We have more parks and not all of them would immediately need speed bumps because they're not right across the street from housing developments where children run and willy-nilly and we all know they do. We want children to pay attention. Well, we try to teach them that, but it doesn't always happen. But that life we save is very important. It seems to me. We went Johnny on the spot fixing those lanes for those scooters that y'all were so excited to have. So from what I'm seeing, you got scooters sharing with actual vehicles on the road. I don't know how that's gonna work, but okay like I said I'll see you in a year. We'll talk about it. You know it's continuous I don't like excuses. I don't give excuses. There's no reason why we cannot put protection for our children, for our residents, for people that are walking across the street, that are running across whatever they're doing. Not how many children from Northeast Elementary that go over to the boys and girls club. How many children run across there after school? I'm paying attention to the traffic. They're glad to be out of school and over to the boys and girls club. I've seen them. I want something to slow people down. I don't want to dam sign and hope that they can see it. But they're gonna pay attention. Yeah, it's probably a little bit costly. But all the many in the world would not replace the life of a child or a person because we neglected to do what we're supposed to do. I just I don't know how to get through to anyone anymore. I'm saying I want them. We need them. Two years now. And they're still not up. Oh, we're going to have one though. It's not good enough, Mr. Wooder. It's not good enough. It's not just my ward. It's all the wards that have schools or parks that need them for protection for our children or our young. You know, it's just, you know, all these studies, are they free? Are studies free? Are all these studies you do? Are they free? Oh, no. So why can't we invest that money in the real deal? You know, it, I think the gentleman, before during when he got at him spoke about us doing studies on different things. Well, this is a perfect example of that's all we do is studies. I want action. I want to see him. I want him being done. We're in July two years after the beginning of this conversation. Children are about to go back to school. Okay, we're taking care of Northeast. Wonderful. What care of the other schools. I don't know about these other council members. Do you not care about your schools? I don't care about your parks. I hope tech you do. But if you don't, I do. How many bikes do you see up and down the street every day that we made the expense of putting up signs and sharing a regular street with a bike? How many bikes do you see? Let's be honest, this was all done simply for the scooters, wasn't it them for the bikes? We've had bikes all day, we have bike nights or whatever it is they do. You know, Mr. Woodruff our responsibility on this council is to care take care of our residents and try to do the best we can for them to protect them to the best of our ability and to push for those things that we think is right for them. And I want these children protected him. The best way we can. And that's the best way we can, in my opinion, because the negligence that's out there, you see it? They're running around on their cell phones or they're not paying attention. We had a little high school girl killed a couple of years ago. I can't forget that. I cannot forget it at Brighton High School. Signed didn't do it any good. Crosswalks didn't do it any good. She's dead. Can't bring her back. I don't want us to talk about that kind of stuff without us trying to prevent it. That's... I don't want excuses. Let's just get it done. Bring us the budget. That's all you can do. Bring the budget and we'll either approve it or not. But I think everyone on this council wants protection for their wards, for their children. And we all consider them our children. If they're in our ward, they belong to us. We're responsible to a point. And so bring us the budget. Now, the government's 5,000 or whatever it is. Maybe if you get a whole bunch of them, it'll be cheaper. I don't know. I'm think you know. But bring us something. Give us something to work with. Thank you. Councilor Merriploski. Thank you very much and thank you for the presentation and I know that you go through a lot of numbers and seeking and trying to do the right things for the right reasons and I appreciate that. But I agree with Council Member Pollock that these schools, unfortunately, drivers just are not paying attention. I mean, it isn't just schools period. I mean, you pull up and stop and they're always on their phones and it's like, oh my god, pay attention for crying out loud. So anyway, I that and one of the things I wanted to point out too though is and I think Travis Haynes I'm assuming had did this because one of my first meetings with the Parks and Rec board was a concern about the speed coming off well County Road 2 down 11th Avenue. I mean and it wasn't necessarily racing it's they just they're driving fast on two and they just continue on 11th. As the RICS center will we have all of our youth and every in that. And that's a very big concern of mine too. So I just wanted to make you aware of that and make a note of that night. Thank you very much. And I know you're probably feeling a little beat up, but I think you've done a great job and I appreciate moving forward. And if we have to go through a bigger budget ask or whatever, let's discuss it and try to make our kids as safe as possible. Thank you. Thank you. That's a member, Johnston. Thank you, Mayor. The one, it's good to hear that 50th and Longspeak that there will be something in the middle for the sense nobody stops. You'd have to see the reason no one presses the button is because it doesn't matter if we do. It really doesn't matter. And I think complete non-scientific thought processes, people are going from 76, often into another city, headed out of Brighton and they just don't care. So two ideas I have is one, you said one of them and I like it in the middle, something more flashy there to make people know. Across walk, difference change in what the crosswalk looks like on there. You're correct, there shouldn't have been a crosswalk right there, but there is now. And here we are. But doing something on the ground there, you're correct. There shouldn't have been a crosswalk right there. But there is now. And here we are. But doing something on the ground there, on the actual surface of the ground there would be beneficial, I think. And something in the mediums, like you said, but it's way worse than you think how many people actually do cross. And the school, the new school, Padilla Elementary is right across the street and most of the citizens that use that school for any reason have to cross from long speak Through over 50 We it's also an issue just because I don't think people what are the What are the what are the what's the word I'm looking for? What kind of ticket do you get if you go through a crosswalk? It's probably not too Too big if you go through a crosswalk, right? I'm sorry, I could mention that. I have four accounts for every. That's something we as a council, we don't need to find that out right this second. I'm saying this is something we as a council can deal with is make the punishment for cars going through those when they're lit up more than it is now. There's also two areas that are not in my ward that I notice that are not being followed that need to even worse, probably, than in 50th. It is in the on Main Street. Right on Main Street, no one stops for anyone going from, let's say, Jordan Nellies to Alex's karaoke Main Street, no one stops there. I mean, the pedestrians are coming across the road, and I have to stop, and I saw three cars going just yesterday and Alex that owns that place actually was walking by. It's like, what the hell, man? I'm like, I know, I don't know. This is this wild. So we I'd like to do something else there to make it more flashy. But the other concern I do have is with Councilor Pollock in a certain way is that I went back to my notes. In 2019 that we have the whole council looking for speed homes and then we were said speed bump speed homes are bad and I understand that now after the education that you gave us. But then the speed tables are perfect. North Glenn, I never will say this about anything in North Glenn. Not a fan. But I'm going to say that North Glenn has it right with their speed tables through their residential areas. It's very hard to drive as fast as the chief and others know that I do through North Glenn. So yeah, I mean, it's hard to do that because, and they're what your time up their speed tables there, but it's enough to where I would jump the car and I won't go that fast. So I think that we need to really attach, let's send us, and this is to City Manager Martinez to send us a package of speed tables across all wards, ask where are they necessary and we'll give it to you. And please count some members. Don't put them right in front of your own damn house or anything. But like, find out where they're needed the most in our work. And send us a package. I think we'll get approval very quickly. The studies are showing things that I don't. There's another thing 21 a day crossing 50th. I think it's more the I think people would cross more if it was safe. And I think that's always a problem with these studies. There's a reason people aren't crossing. It's not safe. So that's another thought is to replace all the study money with let's do this. I'm I agree. But I know you've worked really hard on this and I appreciate your time with this. And I'm glad we got to do this tonight when we have a particular early night in a way. So thank you very much. Thank you. Thanks. City Manager Martinez. Thank you, Mayor. And I just want to thank Council for the feedback. Obviously, in every city, speeding and traffic calming is perennial issue, right? We deal with this every year. And it's important. It's obviously one of the most important things we can do as decision makers is to look at how safe our roads are and what we can do to continue to make them safer. And so working with Director Woodruff, he's obviously committed to making sure that we're doing something, right? We need to, we always can do more. I recognize that and I think Director Woodruff does too. So the reason why we're bringing this to you tonight is to tell you, I mean, obviously to give you an idea of some of the things that we're pursuing and that we've done, but also to engage the conversation about what we continue to need to do, right? And so listening to the suggestions tonight, Director Woodruff and I will go back and discuss how we can get some other things in front of you so we can start putting some of your ideas into action. So we'll take that into consideration and bring something forward to you. Thank you for listening. Thank you. Director Woodruff, I've seen progress compared a year ago and three years ago. And you've heard a lot of feedback. And I think we also appreciate what's been done. There's also feedback on what else could be done. And we appreciate you and your team considering that and showing us in the future what we could be doing to make things better throughout the whole community. Now, real quick, there's been all these ideas about this crossings and the issues with crossings, like for example 50th and Longs. Some best practices I've seen in a couple of other communities I've been. One, and maybe this works for a street that's not so wide. I've seen where a pedestrian can take this red flag as they're crossing so they can be seen as they're going across the street and there's a place to place it on the other side. I've seen that work and I've seen that in action in a neighboring state. Another thing, this might work at 50th and Long's, we bring this back to the conversation please. Another one that might work at 50th and Long's is I think they called it an owl light where you have the two red lights up above and they're flashing. A pedestrian has to push the button for that to be activated. And it makes the auto, the car, it makes them see, hey, this is the red light, I gotta stop. But it's not a normal signal that's red, yellow, and green. Right. I think they call it out light, maybe you're familiar with it. They're called rapid flashing beacons. Yes. And so that might be a solution to consider if that's something that can work in that area. Maybe you can check that out. I don't know. I'm glad you brought that up because that is a solution that we are looking at. Again, warrants have to be met in regards to MET-TCD, but we are going to take that information that we have and roll that in and see if that works. Rapid flashing beacons, if you've been to Boulder recently, a lot of their crosswalks on, I think it's 28, which is the main drag through. They used to have the rapid flashing beacons on the signs. Now they've got them overhead. And that's exactly what you're talking about. And you can get rapid flashing beacons that do yellows or you can get rapid-fliced beacons that do yellows, or you can get rapid-flicing beacons that actually do red and stop the traffic. We're continuing to look at that. So I'm glad you brought that up. That is something that rapid-flicing beacons is something that we are looking at. And it's not just for 50th and longspeak, there's some other locations in town. We think those might be beneficial. Perfect. Thank you. Thanks for listening to the feedback tonight. I appreciate it. And I would like to say to Councilmember Pappallik, I hear your concerns. I respect your concerns, and I'll work with the city manager to address those as quickly and as promptly and as thoroughly as possible for you. Perfect. We look forward to receiving your budget for your request. And one other comment in regards to Main Street. If you remember a few months or maybe a year ago, we did bring a grant application to Council to look at doing elevated crosswalks on Main Street, which would help in that issue. Unfortunately, there was not a vote taken on that, that we have been doing for the last two weeks. We have been doing a lot of things that we have been doing for the last two weeks. We have been doing a lot of things that we have been doing for the last two weeks. We have been doing a lot of things that we have been doing for the last two weeks. We have been doing a lot of things that we have been doing for the last two weeks. We have been doing a lot of things that we the city. I'm going to go to the city. I'm going to go to the city. I'm going to go to the city. I'm going to go to the city. I'm going to go to the city. I'm going to go to the city. I'm going to go to the city. I'm going to go to the city. I'm going to go to the city. I'm going to go to the city. I'm going to go to the city. I I think that's a good idea. Mine's coming up. Oh, you'll be coming. Okay. We'll pass. City manager. Thank you mayor. It's good to be back. I have to admit that I hate humidity. I have to be back in the fine city of writing where the air is dry and beautiful. I just have one update for you as council. I have to give a shout out to deputy city manager Falconberg for following up on the Wells Fargo situation at Founders Plaza. He met with their VP of Real Estate. They will be taking some action. At least they've told us they'll be taking some action on the wall within the next three weeks. So if we don't see progress, we have some other tools in the tool belt to get that moving, but that is promising and we're hopeful that we can finally get that thing, but that is promising, and we're hopeful that we can finally get that thing cooking so that when we're done with our current renovations, we can have that wall as something that we can start to put our dawn as well. We're talking the wall at the Plaza. Found just Plaza. Okay, yes, sir. Good. I also wanted to thank Karen for sitting in my seat. I don't think she ever wants to sit in the seat again. She knows what it's like now, but thank you Karen for sitting here and feeling the seat. We had an event for a week last week and so Karen did a wonderful job of keeping everything under control and I appreciate that. Thank you. Let's give a round of applause for Karen. She did a great job. I watched it from thousands of miles away so I even talked around the phone. Yeah, it was a very challenging week for anybody that's sitting in that hot seat. And so we really thank you for handling it very well. And then the communication was very open. So thank you. Next we'll go to reports by City Council. We'll start on the sin of the room councilmember Pollock. I Don't have anything there. Okay, councilmember today. Oh I A lot of my meetings have been canceled I had bright and housing authority meeting there was not really a whole lot Going on in that meeting I was able to go to the was this small berries ribbon cutting to be already talked about that No, I was out there. That's an outtown. Yeah, they made me speak because you weren't there. Thank you. On the fly. And I have to say I have been to the donor shop and it's amazing. And so is Mulberry's, of course. But so if you haven't checked it out, do that. But that's about all I have. Thank you. Councilmember Johnston. Yes I had a meetings council also and then I was wondering about the safety committee. It hasn't been mentioned is there something coming up on the agenda? Yeah we're looking at putting that on a agenda with the next few weeks. Okay great. That's all I have. Thank you. Councilmember Blaske. Thank you. Thank you very much. I wanted to since I have been out of commission since June 20th, not able to attend very many things and the fact that I haven't been given legal permission to drive I'm somewhat per-tailed and have to I have to count I have to count on my family members So I don't know how I'll continue being able to attend but I'm gonna try my darned us and I want to thank the city for the flowers, the beautiful flowers that lasted, they were wonderful. And the many kind phone calls and everything. And I really think I'm moving forward. Even at age 78, I think I'm gonna be okay. So, thank you very much. Nice. Councillor Moira Padilla. Yes thank you just a few things this evening the first is that we had I wanted to address something regarding Montoya Park because we got received pictures of Montoya Park tonight. We did approve a budget item to repair the basketball court and restrooms at that park. I wanted to call out that we have paid attention to and did do. I didn't want to intervene in that particular conversation. I did want to mention that on the record. The second is that in the next week I have tomorrow is the Adams County Regional opioid abatement council. We're having a conversation with some of the other municipal leaders in Adams County because the council determines that it wanted to have two voting members from municipal leadership. So we'll be discussing where the second of those leaders will come from. I am the first. I have a two-year term there, but we're working on where the second voice will come. And of course, all of the usual suspects are very interested in seats. So Thornton, Commerce City, Aurora, I'll wanna make sure that they have a voting seat there. Unfortunately, our more rural communities did not respond and take part in that. So it's gonna be interesting figuring out how we represent them adequately in what is Adams County funds. So I believe the mayor is going to be in attendance at that tomorrow evening. I don't know if city manager is also attending. So, excellent. That's being sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Partnership. They are the partner contracted with Adams County to help coordinate and facilitate what Adams County is doing with those funds. And then the second coming up before we have another meeting is the airport coordinating committee meeting at which we will discuss the Denver contribution to our topless marketing as we discussed last week. So that's coming up. And then unfortunately, while it was out of town last week, I missed the Cultural Arts Commission meeting and neglected to communicate that absence to Councilwoman today, so that she could attend in my stead, so I'm making that up to the Council. That's all I have this evening, except that I wanted to call people's attention to the fact that I don't think I've ever seen the majority of the people sitting on this ISB women before. So out of the nine people on here tonight, five are women, out of the six council members active in voting tonight, three are women. So I think that that's a sign of where we need to be pushing representation in this community. So fantastic to have the five leaders sitting up here tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Our city attorney wanted to say a few words before we call on the executive session. Thank you mayor and members of council. I wanted to present the City of Turnies first annual update and I'm calling it the first because I do expect to do this perhaps every year around this time. I suspect this may be something that wasn't done before. As attorneys, we have this ethical obligation not to share attorney client communications and so attorneys by our very nature are very cautious and don't really like to talk much about what we do. And in executive session following this public presentation, I will be able to answer some more specific questions about specific projects that there's interest and we will be able to answer some more specific questions about specific projects that there's interest and we will also be talking about litigation. But I also wanted to share with council and everyone else kind of what our office does. What the charter says we do is serve as the chief legal advisor, advise council and other city officials, only in matters related to your official powers and duties. And we supervise the city attorney's office employees and we can also recommend special counsel in certain situations. This really doesn't capture or explain what we do on a day-to-day basis. We do spend a lot of time giving legal advice, but we do a lot of different things, and we needed a way to track requests. So when Jeanette was hired almost six months ago, one of the goals that I set for her was to help us get organized and stay organized. And at that same time, the city was adopting a software I know you've heard it a couple of times called Monday.com. And the city department used it for various things. And so Jeanette learned how to use it and set it up for our office. So, the purpose of this presentation is to provide you with some aggregate data and reports on work that the city attorney's office has completed and show you a little bit about how we track that. To share with city council and the public, some of what our office actually does. Explain some of the changes we've made like this tracking of data since I became City Attorney and then later we will talk about litigation as I mentioned. So since I first became City Attorney there have been a few changes and challenges. Let me just start with on my first day, the acting City Attorney resigned. Tell me she'd resigned the Friday before. Let me just remind you, that's where I started. She got two weeks to try to teach me everything she'd been doing and she was gone. I got to work reviewing the job descriptions and getting the position posted. I have to say luckily for me, Yasminea decided to apply and she has been a wonderful addition to the office. She jumped in with both feet. She had no time to ease into anything. She's been a great asset and her positive attitude is always welcome. And what I've really learned is she has very solid legal skills and I have, I can trust in her legal advice and I hope that everyone else in the city is comfortable as well. Then within a few months, Sam also decided to find a new position and she left. I am very lucky that Jeanette decided to apply and join our team. She's also been willing to take on anything. And you're going to actually see some of her work today in the charts and the information that we've pulled from Monday.com. But next week, she's actually also going to present on the boards and commissions because she has done a lot of that work. So she's going to help with that. It was a little tough, though, for Yasmine and I both to learn what Sam did and how that's done because although we're attorneys, there's a whole bunch of other stuff that legal assistants do and we were like, huh, we have to do what? We learned the finance software a little bit. So it has been wonderful for for almost six months now be fully staffed. And setting up Monday.com has been a helpful part of how we track it and you're going to see our llama farm next. But not only do we track things electronically, another goal really has been to organize also just generally. So we inherited about 40 boxes for Margaret, and we have been going through them. We spent one day going through them all together, and then Jeanette has finished it. We have now shredded or set aside for scanning about 26 of those boxes. So we are working on cleaning that out. Another goal that I set for Jeanette when she started was to take over supporting our municipal prosecutor. And she is doing that. She provides support to Adam Galen, our municipal prosecutor. She does motion, she helps with discovery. That removes it from the municipal court clerks having to do it, which I think I've mentioned a few times to folks that's maybe a problem. This is what the llama farm looks like. I don't know. Do I find it? Oh, no. So when we look at it, they're moving all over the place. What you see is they're different colors. So a gray llama is when we start a project and it's been assigned, those little orange ones are ones that we're working on, and the green ones are all the ones that have been completed, and then there's different shades of green, and that's because some projects are the gift that keeps on giving, and so a project and has a sub-project, and has another sub-project. So this is our dashboard, and this is just from one of our dashboards. We actually have three and other departments also have a variety of them. So this is one of the charts we're able to pull and you can see that this is only from January to June, probably even late January, but in that time our office completed 108 projects. There's 64 others that have been assigned or were working on them. Like I mentioned, some of them take a lot of time. Some of them take a couple hours. These can be questions, research requests, requests to draft a legal document. Not every project gets added sometimes, especially I'm moving at a pace that's a little too fast and I don't take the time to sit down and enter this information. But we are tracking it for, you know, every department in the city, city council, the city manager's office may have a request. We help with open records requests, we help with easements, we help with intergovernmental agreements, annexation, zoning, pretty much everything you see that comes in front of city council. We've probably touched in somewhere or another. There's a whole nother set of Monday.com dashboards that track procurement. From those, there's three dashboards. We can determine we helped review and execute 185 contracts. And another 56 are under review right now in one form or another. And every contract in the city gets a legal review at some stage of the game pretty much. One of our new processes that should not create results in this chart. Someone in the city may need a resolution. They can go onto our internet page, complete a Google form that then populates the Monday.com dashboard. And then everyone can stay up to date on what the status is of that resolution. Did they get to see the moving llamas? Some, if you get permission to view our dashboard, you can see the moving llamas. And there's baby llamas, there's all kinds of llamas. So this is a newer process and you know, a few people have started using it, but this data is just marched through June. This is all the resolutions and ordinances for the past six months. You can see how much it can vary, right, from a low of eight in January to 20 in April. Ordinances definitely take much more time to prepare. We've worked on six, but as you'll recall, one didn't pass. That would be, you know, that ethics one that isn't passed. But the other ordinances were like the model traffic code adoption, the fire bay and ordinance, electric scooters, water rates. And so those take two readings. They also take our office much more time to draft. My office also has the municipal prosecutor in it. From January to May, the municipal prosecutor and municipal court have handled 486 traffic cases, 123 criminal cases, and 104 juvenile cases. Adam is the prosecutor, of course, is involved in each of these and Jeanette then assists him with many of these, whether it's a motion to amend the charges or to fix the spelling of someone's name to putting out discovery for the defendant or the defense attorneys that ask for that. So that is the end of the data report. And so, yes, at this time I would request that we go into executive session to discuss the most recent litigation report and pending litigation, including some possible negotiations. And then I believe we need to have a small discussion on some personnel matters. Thank you, Councilmember Tadayle. I'll be call that. Thank you, Mayor. I'm honored. An executive session to provide, oh, is that just it? Just read it. I'd like to make a motion. I would like to make a motion. To start an executive session to provide legal advice on specific legal questions relating to a city attorney report and a litigation update, pursuant to CRS section 24-6-4024B and city charter section 5.4, subsection C3, and for discussion of a personnel matter related to the city attorney evaluation process, pursuant to CRS section 24-6-4024F and city charter section 5.4, I'm not saying that right, it's okay. C3. Thank you. And there I go. Thank you. And there I go. Thank you. We have a proper motion to go into executive session. Councilmember Padilla. I'll second that motion. All right. I'll be first and second. We'll call vote. Motion passes 6 to 0 with two absence. For the council, this will be our 10 minute break as we're preparing to go into executive session. And then when we're done with the discussion, we will come back. Councilor Mayor of Proto-Mcushin and Missing Councilor Member of Blackhurst. You also had City Manager Martinez, City Attorney Calderone, Assistant City Manager Karen Burkowski Serene, and director of human resource Evan Young for the record of any person that participated in this executive session believes that that any substantial discussion of any matters not included in the motion to go into the executive session occurred during the executive session or that any improper action occurred during the executive session without any improper action occurred during the executive session in violation of the open meetings law, I would ask that you state your concern for the record. All right, no extensions there. If there's nothing else before the council, we are adjourned. Thank you, everyone.