I'm going to ask the council member Pollock to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which stands one nation under God in the visible liberty of justice for all. Thank you councilmember. Madame Deputy City Clerk would you please call roll. He's excused. Present. Present. He's excused. Present. She's excused. Here. Councilmember today, President. No, the quorum, Your Honor. Thank you. Next item on the agenda is approval of our regular agenda. Anyone? Are we? We're waiting for a backup. Okay. Councilmember Blackhurst. I'm going to go ahead and move. Anyone? Are we? Councillor Bipper Blackhurst. Yes, I'd like to make a motion to approve the regular agenda as posted. Thank you. We have a proper first. I'd second that. Thank you, Councillor Bipper. We have a first and a second. We'll call vote. Motion passes 5 to 0 with 3 absent. Okay, next item on the agenda is our consent agenda. Madam Deputy City Clerk, could you read the consent agenda into the record? Item 3A, approval of the May 17, 2022, City Council Minutes. Item 3B, approval of the May 24, 2022 City Council minutes item 3b approval of the May 24, 2022 City Council minutes and item 3c approval of the June 7, 2022 City Council minutes. Thank you. What is the pleasure of Council? I think we're having problems with our motion buttons. Council Member Padilla. I'll move the consent agenda as read. Thank you council member. We have a proper first. Council Member Tanya. I'll second that. Thank you. Roll call vote. Motion passes 5-0 with 3 absent. Next item on the agenda. Ceremonies, parks in Recreation Month Proclamation. I'll go ahead and read that into the record. Whereas parks and recreation is an integral part of the communities throughout the country, including the city of Brighton. And whereas parks and recreation promotes health and wellness, improving the physical and mental health of people who live near parks. And whereas parks and recreation promotes time spent in nature, which positively impacts mental health by increasing cognitive performance and well-being. And alleviating illnesses such as depression, attention deficit disorders, and Alzheimer's. And whereas parks and recreation encourages physical activities by providing space for popular sports, hiking trails, swimming pools, and many other activities designed to promote active lifestyles. And whereas Parks and Recreation is a leading provider of healthy meals, nutrition, services, and education. And whereas Park and Recreation Programming and Education activities such as out of school time programming youth sports and environmental education are critical to childhood development and whereas Parks and Recreation increases a community's economic property through increased property values, expansion of local tax space, increased tourism, the attraction and retention of business, and crime reduction. And whereas parks and recreation is fundamental to the environment, environmental well-being of our community, and whereas parks and recreation is essential and adaptive infrastructure that makes our communities resilient in the face of natural disasters and climate change. And whereas our parks and natural recreation areas ensure the ecological beauty of our community provide a place for children and adults to connect with nature and recreate outdoors. And whereas the U.S. House of Representatives has designated July as Parks and Recreation Month. And whereas the city of Brighton recognizes the benefits derived from Parks and Recreation resources. Now therefore be it resolved that I Gregory Mills mayor of the City of Brighton, Colorado on behalf of the City Council, do hereby proclaim July 2022 as Park and Recreation Month in the City of Brighton. Council Member Pria. Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem. I am extremely proud of our parks and recreation department in this town. I think they add incredibly to the community and development of the community as whole to the health and well-being of the people in the city. I am proud to move that proclamation has read. Thank you, Council Member. We have a proper first. Council Member Pollock. Thank you, Mayor Procurement. I would definitely like to second that. Thank you, Council Member. Roll call vote. the motion passes five to zero with three absent. City Manager Martinez, who do we have to accept this proclamation? Thank you Mayor Pro Tem, good evening Mayor Pro Tem, members of council. For this I'll bring up our director of Parks and Recreation, Mr. Travis Haines. Thanks. Do you need everyone? I sort of think. The report. I'm ready to. All right. Thanks. Let's grab a picture real quick. All right. Yeah, we do have great parks and bright and I love that. Next item on the agenda is public invited to be heard on matters not on the agenda. And we have two on the agenda, two not on the agenda. So we'll do the ones that are not on the agenda first. And then we'll invite the public on the items on the agenda when that item comes up the first person will be Tony Ted And you'll have five minutes Sure good evening counsel Brighton and residence um I've been a resident in the Brown Republic area for close to 20 years now since 2002 when it was developed. My issues are in concerns. It's showing where with roads, bridges, water quality and quantity. The increase in population, I've taken up more of the space available out there. I'm not sure if our schools could handle this. And I don't see how the larger population would help decrease on any of these issues that I have. Thank you. Thank you very much. The next one we have is Erie Wright. He's approached the podium and state your name in you of five minutes. Good evening everyone. My name's Terry Wright. I live in Bromley Park also and I just had some comments about illegal firework usage and for the first time in 20 years I've. Not just one night, but for two nights. And the first night I spent in the parking lot of the comfort in over by Hobby Lobby. And the second night, we decided that we just best leave town. And so I spent it west to town. And I was absolutely shocked driving down Bridge Street about 8 o'clock that evening. There were aerial fireworks going off, even over traffic, as I left town. And I just want to make the point that I kind of understand about the Fourth of July, because it's almost too overwhelming to handle. But my issue started on the first of July in an overwhelming park where I live. Typically, the illegal firework usage starts like a week before and it straggles to about a week after. And I've got a dog that tries to dig her way through China. It's upsetting to me. I've had hard issues. And I guess the second complaint, there was an officer Molesky with a Brighton police force who did do a great job. He contacted, I knew right where it was coming from. And after two complaints and he went over to visit with them, he called me later and said he didn't have probable cause to issue a citation. And I'm currently gonna work with Officer Malesky now on developing maybe some citizen ideas that maybe we can solve this problem. But I just had some things I wanted to run by you guys. And I will say first the couple of things. I thought about the Marshall fire up in Lewis for the last year. And I worked as a wildland firefighter for 20 years for the state of South Dakota. And also for about 10 years for US Fish and Wildlife Service in Commerce City. And what's interesting about the Marshall Fire is that was primarily caused by wind and embers. You know you had these flames come in but it was the embers that caught the houses on fire. And when we drove out of town last on the fourth and I looked to brighten from the west I was shocked it was just a sea of aerial fireworks going off and all those ashes come down and you know my windows rattle. We picked the debris up off the yard the next morning and I can see them going over the house and the first night I spent in the parking lot by the hobby lobbies I was driving. I passed the residence that I complained about and there were three guys in front shooting off illegal pop ball rockets that go right over the house and these are big ones you know they boom pretty loud. So I had some things that I just wanted to run by you guys that you might want to consider for actions that could potentially be taken. Yeah and there's only five of them so let me just run through them real quick through them real quick, and I don't want to eat up your time. But I just felt like, for me personally, there has to be some sort of a rally point here in the community, because it's, I think it's just totally out of control. You can't look anywhere and go any place and not see these things just going off everywhere. So one of the ideas that I had, I'm working on Officer Moleski with coming up with some more things. There he's a good man to work with. But I wonder about instituting an emergency, zero tolerance policy for next year that gives these guys, that gives police officers the authority to issue citations on the spot. And they'd have to choose the amount maybe $250, $500 fines. And that would be an automatic thing. And the way I thought we could maybe do that is I'm going to call it focus enforcement where I realize that resources are scarce and there's not a lot of officers and people that can do this. One minute. Okay. And basically what you do is you figure out where your complaints are the worst. Focus your resources on those areas and you post officers on patrol. They can do that for the entire evening, not just drive through for an hour and get that done. The other thing is, is there any cooperation that could be done with other entities, our Vata, Westminster, Thornton? There's a lot of expertise out there that other cities we may be able to join together and develop something. And the other thing would just be the fireworks stands and cells. These are little shanny shacks we all see around. I don't know if it's codified in the law as far as selling fireworks in Brighton. I know you're not supposed to use them, but can you sell them in Brighton? If you can, then I think that needs to be changed or you shouldn't be able to sell that. And I think, yeah, people say, well, I'll drive up to Wyoming, but I think Brighton needs to send a very clear message not in our town. So that's basically all I had. And I think I ran out of time. So thank you very much. Thank you. Okay. The next item on the agenda is a public hearing. An ordinance of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, approving the rezoning of a portion of the Bromley Park Plan Unit Development, second and six amendments to the Bromley Park Plan Unit Development, 26th Amendment, or 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 of Colorado. And this is a first reading that I'll open the public hearing. Madam Deputy City clerk, can you please verify the publication and posting requirements were completed? Yes, Your Honor. The notice of public hearing was published on the City of Brighton website on June 14th, 2022. Thank you. City manager Martinez will be presenting the item. Thank you, Mayor. For this item, we have our associate planner, Mr. Nicholas Demario. Nick, come on up. Nick, come on up. Nick, come on up. Nick, come on up. Mayor Pro Tem 10, thanks. Thank you for reading that very long legal description for me. Before we get started, I just wanted to let the council and the public know that there was a small revision made to the ordinance that was included in your packet. All the revision was just to add an additional owner to the owner section. So it was revised to say, whereas on far metals real estate LLC and frontage equities LLC. So that was just the minor edit was adding frontage equities. So if any would of you would like, I do have a revised ordinance if you would want one. I'm going to go to the committee. Good evening, Mayor Pro Tem, members of the council and members of the public. My name is Nick Demario. I'm an associate planner here with the City of Brighton. Tonight I will be presenting on the proposed zone change, also known as the Brownley Park Plan Unit Development 26th Amendment. In relation to this strategic focus area, the proposal mostly aligns with recognizable and well-planned community. The subject property highlighted here in blue is generally located to the South of Bridge Street, east of Golden Eagle Parkway, west of I-76 Frontage Road, and north of the Spear Canal south of Longsford Drive. The subject property is approximately 18.9 acres in size. The purpose is to rezone the property via a PUD amendment. Zoning is the second step in the land development process. As a rezoning, the property has already been annexed and it has already been platted. As stated, tonight's application is just for the zone change. Outlining the process, the Bromley Park PUD allows for major amendments. Staff also use the plan development criteria of the Land Use and Development Code for review purposes. The owner desires to change the allowed uses from those allowed under the commercial and office research and development designations of the Bromley Park Land Use regulations to those allowed under the single family detached and single family attached designations. Moving on to some background of the subject property. detached and single-family attached designations. Moving on to some background of the subject property. The subject property was annexed in 1985 as part of the Bromley Park annexation. It was platted in 2000 as part of the Bromley Park filing number five residential subdivision. It is zoned under the Bromley Park PUD second and sixth amendments. The surrounding zone districts include the Bromley Park PUD second and sixth amendments. The surrounding zone districts include the Brownlee Park PUD first amendment and the Brownlee Park PUD second amendment. Speaking more to the current zoning and allowed uses, the current designation of commercial, the extent of which is shown here in red, allows for uses such as retail, services, and office. allows for uses such as retail, services, and office. The commercial designation of the Bromley Park PUD also allows for multifamily uses up to a maximum density of 40 dwelling units in acre. As a portion of the subject property is designated as Office Research and Development, the extent of which is shown here in blue, this designation allows for medical, dental, professional, and governmental activities, but can also include light manufacturing, fabrication, and processing. As mentioned, the current zoning conditions allow for multifamily residential development up to a maximum density of 40 dwelling units to the acre. Existing acreage of the zoning condition is 12.63 acres, allowing for up to a maximum of 505 multi-family units allowed within the existing commercial designation. Under the proposed PUD amendment that is before you tonight, the allowed uses would then change to those allowed under the single family detached and single family attached designations. Those uses being single family dwellings do plexes zero lot line patio homes triplex four plex townhouse complexes and any associated accessory uses These residential uses would be allowed to develop at a maximum density of 12 dwelling units to the acre. I would like to reiterate also that this PUD amendment proposes to cap that density of 12 dwelling units as compared to the current zoning which allows multifamily development at a cap of 40 dwelling units an acre. Under this proposed density and with the subject's property size of 18.9 acres, up to a maximum of 227 total units would be allowed under the new zoning designation. Those units being single-family detached and attached in nature as stated above. Looking to the city of Brighton Comprehensive Plan, the subject property is designated a mix of high-density residential, commercial, and low density residential. Surrounding designations include low density residential, public land, parks and open space, and industrial. The following criteria taken from section 2.04 of the Land Use and Development Code should be used while making a decision on the proposed application. In relation to sub letter A, the proposed PUD amendment will encourage development at the site that meets a number of policies of the comprehensive plan and will allow the property some flexibility to further encourage development that a general's only district would not. In relation to sub letter B, with the proposed decrease in density and change of use, the proposed PUD amendment will allow the property to develop with similar uses and densities to the surrounding residential neighborhoods. In relation to Subletter C, the proposed PUD amendment will allow the project to develop as outlined in the Bromley Park Land Use Regulations, single-family detached and attached designations. These same-based districts allowing a mix of single-family detached and attached residential uses have historically been used for multiple residential areas in the adjacent neighborhoods. In relation to sub-letter D, the proposed standards do not undermine their original intent or design objectives. In relation to sub letter E, the proposed PUD amendment will allow the property to develop in a manner that will support and advance a number of policies of the comprehensive plan and widely held sound plan and design principles. Additionally, the plan must meet the criteria for zoning map amendment. In relation to sub number one, the proposal is in accordance with the goals and objectives of the comprehensive plan and any other plan, policy, or guidance document adopted pursuant to that plan. In relation to sub number two, the development of the land is allowed under the proposed PUD amendment will ensure that the site develops similarly to other properties under the Brownie Park PUD. The surrounding allowed uses are compatible with the use of the property as single-family detached and attached residential. In relation to sub number three, the property can be adequately served and any future site developer will pay the applicable costs to connect to city infrastructure. In relation to sub number four, the property is currently limited to commercial office research and multi-family uses and the proposed PUD amendment would change the allowed uses to those listed under the single family detached and attached designations. This will serve a community need for housing diversity and in relation to sub number five City staff finds this site as appropriate for single family detached and attached uses given its specific location and Based on the desires of the community as expressed in the comprehensive plan and based on the desires of the community as expressed in the comprehensive plan. Site development, including buffering and building design, will occur in accordance with the applicable standards as outlined in the PUD amendment. Any project on the property will only be permitted with a design that to all property owners within 1,000 feet of the subject property. And notice was published on the City of Brighton website. On June 15th, 2022, four signs were posted on the subject property. Planning staff has not yet received any formal comments in advance of this hearing. In accordance with the Land use and development code, and prior to the initial project submittal, a neighborhood meeting was held on November 17th, 2021. City staff also posted notice of the meeting on various social media websites. City staff also posted and appropriately updated the project on the city's current development map. The Development Review Committee has reviewed this project and recommends approval. The Planning Commission heard this request on May 26, 2022, and unanimously recommended approval. Staff finds the PUD amendment is in general compliance with the requirements as outlined in the Land Use and Development Code. Staff recommends approval of the Brownlee Park planned unit development 26th Amendment. Before you are the options for the City Council, please note the first two options will require a second reading. Thank you Mayor Pro Tem, members of Council, and members of the public for allowing me to present tonight. I'm free to fill to any questions. I believe our applicant has a quick presentation also. Thank you. What's the applicant wanna come up and give their presentation? Good evening, my name's Lauren Brockman. I live at, I don't live at 3300 East First Avenue Denver Colorado. Quickly I don't want to go over a lot because Nicholas has gone over most of it. A little background on the firm we built quality communities for far north as Longmont and as far south as Colorado Springs just a representation in the communities we've finished recently. for our north as longmont and as far south as Kara Springs. Just a representation of the communities we've finished recently. You've seen this, Nick went over it pretty clearly. We did do a density study early on. This is a show what could be built there based on the current underlining zoning of multi-family, three and four story, and commercial. And here's our proposed conceptual site plan, which we've vetted many, many times and feel pretty comfortable that this is what we'll do. It'll be a mix of single-family detached and duplex type product, and it'll have its own clubhouse pool so it doesn't put services onto the city. Beyond that I'm here for questions I don't want to duplicate next comments I appreciate your time tonight and again I'm gonna be here for anything you have. Thank you. First I'll ask if there's any questions from the audience. This would be specific questions about what was presented I still have the people who want wish to speak up next, but are there any questions from the audience? Yes, please approach and state your name for the record I'm going to go to the next slide. Yes, my name is Terry Wright and I live on Prairie Falcon Parkway pretty close to this and my question would be if I were to look at this area five years from now, what would I see? You would see what's been shown on the screen right now is kind of a conceptual site plan so nothing's been reviewed but you would see a community mix made up of single-family attached products and single-family dwellings. Okay, when you use the term single-family disattached, what is what exactly is that? So single-family detached is your single-family home it has its own yard it's not attached to any other any other structure single family attached is what you'll see in the village of Southgate or other parts of Brighton Crossing where the units are made to share common walls with one another. That's in the form of duplexes town homes whatever it may be. And when you talk about population densities and estimates, how many actual people do you think will be living in this area? In terms of the amount of people that would be living there or even the amount of structures we are unsure about the moment, as mentioned, the caps that are density of 12 dwelling units to the acre. However, we have not done a site plan yet to determine how many dwellings would actually occur within this development. Okay. Okay, well thank you for now. Thank you. Is there any other questions from the audience? Tom Kendall 283 longs for I live in Bromley Park on the HOA board. My question for the city would be, how do you see this tying in with, excuse me, like bike paths, how do you see the transportation issues that we already have? Sorry, we already have some issues on the front end road. We've tried, we reached out to the city this year to try and get them to put some pressure back onto the state to fix the eight inch D poles that we had. That's an every year thing. We're now going to have anywhere between 200 and 300 additional cars probably going in and out of the front end row there on a daily basis So that's gonna add to the issues that we already have signage as far as No parking because we don't really believe there should be Parking from with in this group out into the rest of the neighborhood because they are kind of their separate thing They're not part of the HOA We don't want to see the residents of sunflower meadows get inundated or not be able to park in you know in front of their units. So how do you see that happening? Or how do you how do you have you planned for that? So at the current stage we're in right now and with tonight's presentation tonight's presentation is purely zoning. So we're discussing the types of uses and types of structures that can occur within this development and the type of density that we can maximize at. When it comes to transportation, the developer will be required to build any associated bike lanes, although with this application, we haven't got much into the weeds on that. That comes with plating and with the site plan also. In terms of frontage road, that's an issue that they're under the jurisdiction of the Colorado Department of Transportation. So not much we can do there without their consultation. What I will say is that they were an external referral agency on this. They will be an external referral agency on the various applications for this project we have moving forward also. In terms of parking, all parking will be required to remain on site of this development. And that's really all I can say at the moment. And we have plenty of water for this. The developer will be required to pay fee and lieu of water dedication. Parking Rick month, but we don't have enough water for our park city park. That's already in the neighborhood. So that's where you know, kind of worry about these kind of. At this moment was zoning. These aren't really topics we cover at zoning, for a city park that's already in the neighborhood. So that's where you know, kind of worried about these kind of things. At this moment was zoning. These aren't really topics we cover at zoning, but they will be covered at site planning at administrative plat. Will there be open opportunity to discuss that at that point? There for the site plan and administrative plat, there will not be another opportunity as it will not go to public hearing. Those are administrative processes. However, we are requiring the developer to do an additional neighborhood meeting. So if you would like to voice your concerns there. Okay, thanks. Thank you. Are there any other specific questions? If not, I'll move on to Jack, live in the Grady. These approach in your five minutes. Thank you Mayor, Pro Tem and City Council for hearing me out. I've lived in Bromley Park for nearly 20 years. My husband and I have raised our son. We're very concerned about the addition of nearly 700 homes and families in the community. As other speakers have stated, there are challenges with infrastructure, staffing of police to cover the neighborhood. I'm also concerned as a member of working in the bank. a member of working in the bank. Mortgage rates are now 6% on average. So are these houses just going to sit vacant for who knows how long because people don't want to give up their 3% mortgage and move into a 6% mortgage? I'm very concerned. I'm concerned about the school kids because they're looking to build more houses right on top of the school. There's currently challenges I know from living across the street from the school kids because they're looking to build more houses right on top of the school. There's currently challenges I know from living across the street from the school. There's already challenges with that. I have more concerns and answers. The traffic, for example, on I-76 when exiting at Bromley Lane, it is backed up at rush hour all the way to the interstate. And it's technically a one lane exit, but yet folks are making it two lanes by using the shoulders because there's not enough infrastructure. There's no exit at 168th, so folks can't get off there. Your choices to either go all the way to Lock-Booey and backtrack around or try to get off at Eagle or 136th. And those streets are starting to fill up also. I just, I don't think this is in the city's best interest to add residential. It needs to stay commercial so that the traffic and the zoning can be stricter and forced, and it will be better for our schools in our neighborhood. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And then Thomas Kendall, did you have, did you want to speak on this more? You have five minutes? I think some of my questions were already, or. I need to give my name again. It's Thomas Kendall 283 Longsper. I think I kind of put some of it into those questions. We just, I think for my viewpoint, we want to see it done right. We've been told in the past when trying to add, I live on Longsper, we have alleys behind us. We've had kids get hit trying to come exit the alley because they can't see around the cars that are parked right up against the alley on the little feeder streets going out off the long spur. And we were told signs are too expensive. So, a sign is more expensive or is ranks above a life. And so I think there's going to be parking issues associated with this. We want signage. Sounds like Lauren is kind kinda open to that. We were talking about it earlier, but I think it's the city's job to make sure that those things happen, that the water is there, that we're already on a non-potable system for most of our, of the city-owned parks, that the HOA maintains, that line comes underneath the highway, I believe. So, and I believe it's in their area. So that's a, if they're gonna get put on a non-pottable and they're gonna be on that same system, we already fight for that water. We have to water around the times other neighborhoods and staples and the other the school, you know, we all have to work around each other and now we have another possibility of having the bike lanes and or the bike sorry bike paths into consideration and gets tied in. I think it's really close. I'm on lungsburn I have a school in between me and the highway, the interstate and these guys are going to be even that much closer. We don't have a wall that everybody in Commerce City has going up by 76. We're like the only neighborhood that doesn't have a sound barrier wall. We don't have the no train horn zone like Commerce City has and everybody else has the city needs to go after that. These guys are even that much closer to the train tracks than I am just across the other side of the school. So things to consider, things to put into doing this right. Don't just let the developer do how he wants it, but let's do it right for the entire community. Thank you. Thank you. Is there anyone else from the audience that hasn't spoken that would like to speak on this matter? Okay. Um, with the applicant or staff like to clarify or about any comments that were made? Yes. Um, so a couple of points that were made, um, just kind of some of the big ones with schools and whatnot. 27J was an external referral agency on this project and they will continue to be moving forward on our subsequent applications. They protested no issues with this development. In fact, they gave a sheet saying where children would go to school, the amount of children that are expected to come from there. And way down the line at building permit, they will also be required to pay a fee to the Capital Facility Fund Foundation to offset impacts to the school district. In terms of keeping it commercial, not wanting to add residential, again, I'll reiterate, it's currently the majority of its own commercial and that allows multi-family development up to four dilling units in acre. Yes, it does allow commercial, but it also allows for, even then, still allows for residential development up to a much higher maximum, 505 units compared to 227 units. I don't know the math, but at a maximum house capacity of 2.9, an average of 2.96 persons per household and Brighton. That would be a big difference. So this is dropping it down to the to the 12 in terms of signage that will be reviewed by our public works department at time of site planning. The appropriate signage will be denoted on the site plan and required to be the budget. The budget will be denoted on the site plan and required to be put in before any permits are issued. Those are my responses. Thank you. Madam deputy city clerk. Oh, just want to go ahead. I'm sorry. Yes. Thank you. There were a few things. I'm not sure where the 700 homes came from. Right now we've designed 128. We know plan on going over that with this current design. Non-pottable system, we talked to the city about that. Our design is, is that we'll put in the non-pottable system to be connected later once the city can get pressure's up. So we know an effect from we part. Noise within units, they have to meet the HUD standards, which is a DML of 45. Basically, that means a medium average between train horns, traffic noise, sirens, et cetera, that don't go above 45 decibels. Traffic study was performed. It's current. There's some impacts. We have trade we have to pay for our contribute to a traffic signal but other than that the traffic is less in the current zoning and as far as signage is concerned I don't want to say it's insignificant but it we're open to signage to help anything within the community from a standpoint of no parking signs along the street, stop signs, additional, anything we can help with the community. That's what we're here for. We're not going to, oh, I can't put that sign in. So other than that, unless you have other questions for me, that was my only comment. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Madam Deputy City Clerk, have there been any, has there been any other correspondence received regarding this matter? There's been none. Okay. Questions and comments from council. Council member Blackhurst. Thank you Mayor Brurtum. Kind of a review on some of the world we're at on this situation. I think that our citizens from Romney Park have some some valid concerns. All of us have that I have certainly the same concerns, but I think there's some realities that you should be aware of. And so I'll kind of remind you with some of that. This was annexed in 1985, same as your properties were, the same time. And my understanding from the presentation that we've received is that currently is already zoned, PUD, and platted. So I see changing the plating, excuse me, the zoning to allow less than half the number of residents is a big improvement, a big improvement, because they could build 505 multi-family apartment complex on that land. And I think that would be far worse for the traffic, far worse for the water situation, water for schools, everything else. So the opportunity for us to get a better quality product, a more diverse product for our residents, duplexes, triplexes, that can be a little more affordable for folks or other single, all single family residents, who we all know the prices are pretty outrageous. When I was looking at the proposed schematic, I realized that was only a beginning, but I noticed the one corner on the south end of that piece that had been designated to change to commercial, there was nothing on there but more houses. I don't see anything there that would indicate any of that's going to be used for commercial. Sorry, I'm having a little trouble understanding clarify a little. Which switch corner are we talking about? The very end piece when you're a regional map for the change. Uh-huh. The proposed change. That's pardon? Yeah, so if you can go back to my presentation, thank you. Okay. Okay. Yep. So I'm sorry, which portion of it? That red piece is commercial? Yes. On the schematic that he, you just put up there, it showed just regular houses that were no commercial building there. Yes, that's the developer's conceptual site plan. Correct. That was if they were zoning where to go through tonight. Okay. Yeah. So there may not or there would not under the zone change be any commercial? Correct. This is getting rid of the office research and development and the current commercial designation. Gotcha. Only limiting to SFA and SFA. Make a lot of sense. That looks like a really odd corner to even try to do anything commercial. Right in the middle of a residential streets. It will be completely rezoning the land to residential. Now I think I'm a little more clear on that. As far as the non-pot systems, I'm certainly hope that they wouldn't try to tie into an existing non-pot that didn't have adequate water. We're trying to get all of our new developments to use non-pot systems for irrigation as much as possible. But we also know we have to acquire some non-pot water that we're looking for right now. It's an ongoing problem, it's a lot cheaper. So for the developer to be willing to put in a non-pot system for future use as soon as we get that water available would be a huge savings to the city in terms of processing water, potable water. So, let me think. You said that this land was already plattered. Correct. So if this zoning takes place, would there be, they'd have to replat? They would. So that start over on that schematic, zoning again and go to a flat. Correct. The issue being right now is you kind of have this up here as one property. The commercial, the one that says it's commercial with the comprehensive plan is does, it's own property. And then this is its own property as well too. This will remain its own property because you have a road going through it. But it would be just to bring these lots together as one lot because this is a multi lot subdivision, but it's not like you're typically seeing in Romy Park where they're all separated under lots. It's kind of a one lot subdivision. All lots are occurring on the one. Okay. A mix of all that sense. And this, what we can see from the aerial, that would be the charter school right now. Correct. This is the, the score right here. And so I can get a little bit of picture of what this one gentleman who apparently lives across the street and has the alley entrance where you're at, right? Right. Okay. It's, it's, yeah, I move there. I know there's a place right now. But if definitely a lot closer, I think I keep up the school. I wait. Right. Now you're. Okay. I don't know how you're ever going to open a window. Okay, I have to remind us that we've closed the public comment. So. Okay, that that was pretty much. I just want to get a better understanding and I think you you've scored a way to understand Thank you very much Thank you councilmember blackress councilmember pedia Thank you very much. Thanks Nick for this presentation. I appreciate this tremendously This is the neighborhood where my kid goes to school plays on the soccer team with with Tom Sun So I get the area this isn in my ward and I feel this deeply. So a couple of questions. The first, I just want to clarify, you said under the commercial development as it's currently zoned, it can be zoned for up to what you estimated as 500 different family units of housing of housing. Correct. So the existing commercial acreage multiplied by the maximum density. And then the change in zoning would bring that down to about 227? It would up to a maximum. The developer doesn't always necessarily build up to that maximum, but it is the maximum allowed. Good. And I'm sorry, sir. I think you said it was about 128 that you had planned currently. Okay. So for the people in the area, the only piece that we're acting on tonight as the council are looking at tonight is changing the zoning such that we would reduce by half the number of units that could be developed in this area. And then the proposal that's in front of you from the developer is actually at about half of what he could develop post zoning. So if we left this alone and did not change the zoning, he could still build exactly what's there, but a developer could build something. I think there was a picture up there that was designed to make my heart stop for a moment with four very large buildings, a large commercial building and three large apartment buildings that would not necessarily fit the area. that again we're voting only on the zoning and not on the specific proposal, but I think that those were presented as single family attached and detached rental properties more than So individual homes for sales that correct? That's correct. It will be a four-round community. Okay, so it's intended as four rent which which I having attended an HOI meeting a long time ago on the topic, those are essentially mortgage level rents. You're not looking at real cheap apartment homes and as many as densely put in as possible. Maybe you have an answer of the type. But looking at that picture and remembering some of what was talked about with the HOA, some time ago, it fits the style of the neighborhood, fits the feel of the neighborhood. Yeah, I mean, our rent started 2,500 and go up to 3,800. Right, and again, I don't want to get into, before the city attorney reminds me, I don't want to get into specific things around the development. But I just want to say that the ideas that are sitting in front of you at the time of zoning are probably bringing things closer into what the neighborhood feels versus some of the things that are possible to be built if we don't take that zoning action. So what we will essentially do by making the zoning change is restrict some of the things that would be even more frightening for our development and for our neighborhood. I am again, you may not have an answer to this yet, but my most significant concern for the area is that the access, there is not a good access at Ridge Street to go and come into and out of that neighborhood, and in particular, if you want to make a left turn in or out. And so there's some pressure on some of the existing townhomes, the sunflower meadows townhomes, if we end up with less legal, let's say, turns into and out of the neighborhood that there may be some danger and some increased traffic on what are some private roads and not city roads. So I would address that I would bring that up as a concern that I want us to make sure when we get farther into plating and street planning that we take that into account. I also realize that we can't restrict people across the board. We can't restrict certain people from parking on the streets unless we turn the neighborhood into a permitted parking area. So it's not as if you can exactly say all residents who don't have a title to one of these homes can't park on Longspur. But we do need to look at parking on Longspur as an issue because it certainly is one. I love that neighborhood. I love the curve of the streets. I love the fact that that controls the speed of traffic. That also means that people have very narrow spaces in front of the house and parking is absolutely at a premium in the area. And there are some very, very large vehicles across very, very small driveways. and there are some very, very large vehicles across very, very small driveways. Overall, I think that this feels like it is bringing the development as a whole in line with what we want to have happen. The ideal in everyone's mind once there's an open space in front of you is to keep that space open forever and ever and not ever have anything appear on it. Unless it's planned as an open space in front of you is to keep that space open forever and ever and not ever have anything appear on it. Unless it's planned as an open space that's not necessarily a reality. So we have to look at the fact that properties are owned, the properties have plans that cities continue to change and the face changes. But I think looking at it, I would prefer to see something that is certain to be residential than I would to look at something that has the potential to be commercial or potentially drive four times as much traffic as the restriction would be. So understanding all of the concerns that our residents have around wanting to grow correctly, wanting to grow intentionally and wanting to grow with real thought. At the bottom line today, I would speak in favor of making a change that would reduce legally by half and logically by three quarters the number of homes that would go into the neighborhood. So I appreciate everybody coming to the table with that idea because I think that helps to protect the existing neighborhood as much as possible in the face of growth in an area that is going to see growth one way or another, but best to keep it in tune or in line with what we hope for the neighborhood. So I hope that that represents the interest and desires other than somebody coming forth with lots and lots of money to buy it and not develop it. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Council Member Padilla. I have a couple questions. So theoretically, the zoning allows for up to 505 multi-family units. But if we didn't make this change and a proposal was to build apartments with 505 units, from what I'm hearing and understanding, there would be a lot of requirements that we would need to fix to satisfy safety and for that community to accommodate that kind of development. Wouldn't the developer still be required to meet those standards in order for that to be approved? That's correct. If whether the proposal comes forward as commercial or single family as this or even multi-family, they're required to meet all standards of the land use and development code, the master transportation plan and any other technical codes that have been adopted by City Council. So whether the use doesn't matter, they would still need to meet civil and public work standards for safety. So I'm just concerned that I don't know, I guess I'm wondering how likely that is, that they would be able to meet those standards in order to build a 500 unit apartment complex on that land. in order to build a 500 unit apartment complex on that land. We wouldn't know until they go forward into the site plan and engineering processes. And then we're on our 26th amendment, I think is what I saw. So I guess what I'm wondering is what the original plan for this was. Yeah, bear with me for one second. Let me pull up the original PUDs. Because it seems like 25 times people decided we should change it. And I'm hearing that this is a great idea and it likely is and yes, a lot of time has passed, but I'm just kind of curious what the original intent was for that area. So the original intent I'm seeing here, the property was originally zoned, partially, I bear with me. A very originally a very tiny portion of the land right up here was zoned commercial. And this PUD amendment is from 1994. Okay. And then the rest of it is office research and development that was modified in the probably part PUD 6th amendment, which is from 2002. And that memorialized the majority of it as commercial allowing for multifamily and then these two as office research and development. Okay, and then one of the questions was asked was water and I thought you said they would be required to pay a fee and lieu of water. Is that because this is grandfathered in as part of their original plat or why wouldn't there be water dedicated they are grandfathered in as a development in bromley park there else will the pay for fiend okay and uh... and if i may add one more yeah absolutely uh... going back to your original question the bromley park land use regulations allow for amendments, whether they be, we have minor in major. So minor ones are done administratively. They do not come before an elected or appointed body. Major amendments such as this do. So we have provisions for lane use density transfers, lane use transfers in general. If they do not exceed a certain threshold, they can be done administratively. And we've seen that in other parts, in general if they do not exceed a certain threshold, they can be done administratively. And we've seen that in other parts, like you said, there's 20, this is the 26th amendment. So I can't quite recall which ones are minor. But this one, due to the fact that it's completely getting rid of the office research and development zone district, it calls for a major amendment. So the land use regulations themselves and the Brown Heart PUD specifically references the opportunity for property owners and developers to pursue amendments to the existing zoning. Yeah, so these are always kind of like Councilmember Blackhurst pointed out. We're in this position of things that have happened, like I mentioned, 26 amendments that we haven't voted on. This was originally done in 1985. And so we're faced with a micro decision here and it certainly seems, there's concerns or valid. I mean, I'm also in word for, this is in my word. And I've spent a lot of time in that that neighborhood You know the parking is an issue and some of the houses that were put in that have very short dry boys that you can't park a car on so either you have Your garage completely empty in two cars in it and the 90% of the rest of the people that use that for storage have nowhere to park. So I hear all these concerns. I've been in that neighborhood, the water pressure. But unfortunately, that stuff's really not in front of us. It seems to me that apartments would not be a good fit for that area. And it even concerns me that other commercial uses could provide. We already have, you know, one of the traffic issues is that it's a school and it has a lot of people coming in and a lot of people dropping off. Commercial businesses could be a daycare that has a similar problem or some other type of business that would draw traffic through that community even more. So I feel like there's some, I feel like it would be worse to leave it as is. I feel like this makes sense that continuing with the smaller density homes that that community already is seems to be a better fit and cause less issues in that community. So I think that's all I have. Council member Dia. Yeah, just a quick follow up that I also believe if I was looking properly, correctly, that those commercial uses also would authorize things like light industrial, light manufacturing, I think it was called to occur in that space. Not in the commercial, but in the office research and development, you get mostly lines with kind of office and governmental activities, but you can, you do have the opportunity as a use by right to get light manufacturing, processing, and fabrication. My hope was always that Rumble East would decide to add a high school into that space, but it never really came to fruition. So given that, I would certainly want to protect things that to me look, well skirt that edge out of research into manufacturing and have those owned out of the area and be able to stick to things that are residential and particularly right around the school. I think that was low density residential as that was finalized in this, right? Uh, occurring around the school. Yeah, that last little lot south of. Yeah, it's desert. It designated on the comprehensive plan. Uh, the future land use map is low density. Which doesn't change anything from the potential plot or the preliminary draft of what might happen there, but it does keep that from becoming, say a large apartment building, for instance. Okay, that's all I have. Thank you. Thank you, Council member. If there's, if there are any other questions or comments from Council? Seeing none, I'm gonna officially close the public hearing. The site is before Council. Council Member Blackhurst. Thank you. I'd like to make a motion to approve. Six A. Six A. Okay, we have a Motion on the floor to approve item 6A council member today. Oh, thank you. I'd like to second that you have a proper first and a second roll call vote This item passes 4 to 1 with 3 absent. Thank you for everybody who spoke and for coming. I appreciate that. The next item on the agenda, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, finding substantial compliance of an annexation petition and setting a public hearing for August 16th, 2022 to determine if the proposed approximate 95.105 acres of property to be known as the Magpie annexation complies with statutory requirements for such annexation. Did he manage her Martinez? Who do we have to present on this item? You can mayor pro-10. Nick Demario will be presenting this item as well. We get you twice. Yes you do. All right. Good evening mayor pro-10. Oh. Thank you Sean. I wasn't prepared for that one so. I'm going to go to the mayor of Pro Tem. Thank you, Sean. I wasn't prepared for that one. Good evening, mayor of Pro Tem and members of the city council. Tonight I'll be presenting the Magpie property annexation petition for substantial compliance with Colorado revised state statutes section 31-12-107. in the area of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the Burlington, Northern Santa Fe Railroad. The property is approximately 95.105 acres in size. For those in the audience are watching from home, annexation is a legal process of taking unincorporated land outside of city limits and bringing it within the city limits. In order to proceed with the annexation, city council must find that the petition is in compliance with Colorado State Statutes 31-12-107. Includes a criteria for annexation eligibility. The eligibility requirements are as follows. Contiguity, that not less than one-sixth of the perimeter of the area proposed to be annexed, is cont6 contiguity is 16.67% or 1,835.42 linear feet. The proposed annexation is 22.80% contiguous or 2,510.87 linear feet. For community of interest, a community of interest exists between the area proposed to be annexed and the annexing municipality. For community of interest, a community of interest exists between the area proposed to be annexed and the annexed community municipality. That set area is urban or will be urbanized in the near future. And that set area is integrated with or is capable of being integrated with the annexed community municipality. If annexed, the property is capable of being urbanized in the near future and the property is capable of being integrated through zoning, plating and can be adequately served by city utilities. Additionally, a proposed annexation is deemed to conform to the just mentioned requirements if it is one six contiguous with city limits as mentioned prior. Some background on the property. As mentioned, it is 95.105 acres in size, and is currently zoned A3 or agriculture 3 under Adams County. The subject property is designated as agriculture under the be- oops, sorry. The subject property is designated as agriculture under the be bright and comprehensive plan, and the subject property is also within the city's growth boundary. Outlining the process, the city council must determine whether the annexation petition complies the section 31-12-107 of the Colorado revised statutes. If so, the following procedure applies. Number one, council passes a resolution finding the petition is in substantial compliance with the state statutes and sets a public hearing to decide if the annexation meets statutory requirements. This hearing is to occur within 30 to 60 days. Number two, staff will prepare and publish notice of the public hearing. And number three, the city will hold a public hearing. City staff finds a submitted annexation petition meets the requirements outlined in section 31-12-107 of the Colorado Revised Statutes for substantial compliance and that August 16th, 2022 is an appropriate date for the public hearing on the annexation. The proposed annexation complies with the Bebright and Comprehensive Plan as a property is within the city's growth boundary and there is adequate infrastructure to serve the property. Publication and notification of the future public hearing should it be deemed appropriate by Council will be provided to all applicable entities as required by CRS section 31-12-108. The options for Council are as follow. Approved via resolution the petition for an annexation and set the date for public hearing, or denied the petition for annexation with specific findings to justify the denial. Thank you Mayor Pro Tem and members of Council for allowing me to present tonight. I'm free to feel any questions you may have. Thank you. Questions from Council Member Padilla. Thank you. I just have one question for you. Thanks for the presentation. This is relatively simple and straightforward. I'm just looking at the requirement that indicates that we must be able to provide city utilities to that space and wonder what our answer. Certainly such things as power and water can cross over rail road lines, but in the past that's been a concern on our annexation limits. So how are we proposing to provide utilities? So at this moment, it's for the resolution before it's announced for substantial compliance, making sure the petition complies with state statutes and that the contiguity and the community of interest, I just meant it. At this moment, there are utilities adjacent to the property, as you said in the other side of the railroad track. But at this moment, I'm not sure if I'm able to speak to these yet, there will be multiple public hearings moving forward, where these things will be delineated, but at the moment, this is just for substantial compliance. Okay, that was just my question as a component of substantial compliance. So the idea would be that even without knowing the answer to that, the contiguous line and location of it is sufficient to reach that answer of substantial compliance. Correct. Okay, thanks. Thank you. I guess my question is you mentioned that we're able to provide infrastructure to this annexation. Once it's annexed, we'll be required to provide city water to this, but it doesn't look like there's a whole lot in use there now. So imagining that there's not much demand for water if people go onto our system. Currently at the moment there's not. Being that they're in the county there under a well system. So then again, that will be delineated at further public hearing examinations. Okay, thank you. Council member Blackhurst. I'd like to make a motion to approve 9a Thank you. We have a motion to approve item 9a council member pedia as second the motion we have a proper first to the second roll call for them Item passes 5 to 0 with three absent the next item passes 5 to 0 with three absent thank you next on the agenda is utility business items city manager martynez we have none tonight thank you next we have general business city manager martynez thank you mayor pro tem so as you all know, we've been working on a co-responder program at some level for quite some time. Given that we're getting closer to actually putting something together, I asked our chief and deputy chief and command staff to give you an update on where we are. Some of the ideas that they're working on and some of the things that we'll be moving forward with. So at this time, I'd like Chief Seller to come up as well as Chief Dominicano to give an update. And Commander Portillo as well, sorry. I brought the whole crew. Thank you Mayor Portem, members of Council for having us here tonight. We want to give you an update on our co-responder program and where we are at the stage of development. We've started this a few months ago and actually rolled this into a project for candidates who are in our commanders testing scenarios. So this is something that's kind of paid us to dividend in addition to allowing us to help with our testing. So with that, I'm gonna turn this over to Commander Ortillo. Thank you, Chief. Good evening. As Chief mentioned, several members have tested for command staff, myself, and two other colleagues. And actually, five colleagues did a lot of research on this project. So I'm going to give you a big overview of what co-responder is, and what our idea is, and what's going to, what we think will work good for our community. So as we focused on this project, this falls under the safe active and engaged community, supporting all members and residents and safe community for both to live, work and play. As you see here, there's four goals listed here. The idea behind each of these goals is to provide services to people experiencing both mental health crisis and substance abuse crisis. And not just the on-site services, but then prolonged-long services, hopefully, and the goal is to hopefully change their life and help them be a safer community totality. A little bit global view on what a co-responder program is. It's the police department partnering with mental health conditions and responding to calls for service for people experiencing mental health crisis and substance abuse crisis They've been in existence for several years throughout the country We would the idea behind it is just really appropriate resource allocations Oftentimes police police officers and police departments aren't best suited to help people in these crisis People with the mental health background, substance abuse background, or those that could better serve our community and better help those folks at NETI services. Some benefits that we've identified is cost savings, connecting people with resources, freeing up hospitals in jail space. I think a study out of this Boulder County, they estimated $3 million cost savings over the course of Boulder County, they estimated $3 million cost savings over the course of a year and that's saving up or freeing up hospital beds and jail space. For our community specifically, 20% of our calls last year in 2021 were related to mental health and substance abuse crisis. So it's definitely a need not just on the state level but also in our community specifically. In 2020 we placed 161 individuals on mental health holds and in 2021 we saw a 30% increase. As of May of this year we already had 79 people have been placed on mental health holds that we got and that's just a little tidbit of what we've done. This does not count the substance abuse problem that we face and the narcan deployment that we do weekly, sometimes daily. The other piece here is that repeat call for service. I think the true code respondent program will help us alleviate those repeat call for service. Out of those 20% cost for service, a majority of those calls were repeat customers, if you will. We would help these people over and over again. And so a true COVID-19 program, the goal would be to stop that and hopefully get those folks the services that they need to hopefully stop having to have services from us. As I mentioned a minute ago, some pros on the COVID-19 program is, you can see on on-scene behavior health assessment, which is huge, appropriate diverting hospital visits and are sending people to the jail, ongoing support and resources. The color health has found 30% of co-responder programs resulted in new behavioral enrollment. So what that meant when those co-responder programs went out and responded to people in crisis, they were able to get 30 of those folks into new services. And it's exactly what those folks need is to be able to get services rolling and that prolonged ongoing services to help them. Another interesting fact is that 86% of all those contacts resulted in some sort of on-scene service, often time that was the mental health condition making that assessment on scene, avoiding us, a hospital ride, or ambulance ride, or a hospital stay. And then some cons that we found in our struggle or in our research was information sharing was a huge thing. As you can imagine, HIPPA protects a lot of the information that is shared with the clinician in the police department. And then, personally, finding adequate personnel to both serve in the clinician role and the case manager role, and in the funding pieces is expensive. It's not cheap to support one of these programs. As I mentioned earlier, there were seven different models in the state of Colorado that currently practice some form of correspondence program. There are several variations of these programs. A true correspondence program would be where we would put a clinician in a police car with a police officer and they would only respond to mental health crisis and assessment abuse crisis. That would be their sole purpose. There's other models with conditions on duty and and so if we needed them, then we would call them They would be maybe at their office doing something completely different tied up to other responsibilities Some agencies do clinician response only as you can see that could be some struggles because they're responding to into the community With potentially violent situations without any police support. That's definitely not a model We'd want to go after and then there not a model we'd wanna go after. And then there's a model that does clinician a police officer in a paramedic and essentially they write around in an ambulance and the three then respond together. Douglas County's model does clinician case manager and a police officer. We would do a similar model to this. I think what would work best for ours, our organization or community would be having a police officer, or police officers responding to the scene, then they would call the clinician who was housed at our police department and working contract work through the police department and assigned to the police department. So they'd be in contact with our agency, they'd be familiar with their police officers, they'd be familiar with their advocates, they would know our system. They would also listen to her police radio, so if they heard a police call, come out, they could get on the radio and they could come out and self-dispatch if you will. And then we would be there jointly and we would provide those resources together. The other piece that we would incorporate into our model, I think, that would be very successful is having a case manager. And so that's an ongoing continued support for the folks that were serving. So they would have the initial contact with the police officer in the clinician, the clinician would then assign to the case manager, the case manager would keep in regular contact with this person and ensure that the treatment was being offered, that resource was being offered, that there's medications, whatever their referrals needs to be happened, that case manager would ensure that that's happening and that's being done. Another piece that we've also found successful that we would incorporate here is the model after our sex assault task force. Part of that is we partner with community partners and we take a holistic approach of you all. So we take everyone that would potentially help this person come to the table and we would meet about this, about whatever cases we have. So in this situation we'd have our clinician, we'd have the police officer, our victim services division, substance abuse, technician would also help in the case manager and then at times when appropriate we'd also invite the school district in to offer the best services and make sure that we're taking that holistic approach to ensure that these folks are getting the services that they need. So I'm policy considerations to consider for us. We have a system already in place at our police department where all of our officers, the majority of our officers are patrol officers or CIT certified or Christ intervention train. Essentially what that is, it gives them the skills and the knowledge to help people in crisis, help people with mental disabilities and identify those and be able to appropriately respond to those situations. All our officers are also trained in de-escalation techniques. This is adding a co-responder program, but it would become a layer of programs, right? The Denver Police Department takes this model where all their police officers have that basic level of training that our police officers have in CIT and de-escalations and then to add to that and to make it a little better is the co-responder program. So the clinicians, the true experts in this and this matter can help and respond. Another piece that we would add is the information sharing. As I mentioned earlier that that was a huge problem with the agencies saying that they had a hard time sharing information from clinician to police and police clinician. The system here that we would hopefully be able to buy it's called Jota, and it's set up specifically for co-responder programs. It has C just compliance, and it also has HIPAA compliance. So as a police officer, I can enter information with my contact with this individual into the system, and then the clinician could then enter their information, and then that, both of our referrals could be and sent to the mental health clinician or wherever we're sending them to get services. So that way when that person goes to get services, doesn't have to retell their story again and may not tell exactly the entire story once the crisis has passed. Jolota really just helps with the information sharing and ensuring that the folks that are getting the services or getting the adequate services that all the parties involved are speaking to each other and sharing information. This past year we got fortunate and we have the ability to apply for a grant. We hope to hear from the result from this grant later this summer, hopefully into this month or later next month. We applied from $525,000. And so the way the grant is set up is it's a step down process. So there would be a match from the city. It does, it's a three year project. So the first year, the grant required, first and second year, the grant requires the city to match 20% and then 30 or 40% match. So the total project would be just over $600,000. The city's grant, match I should say, would be about $131,000. And then, like I said, what we asked from the federal government was $525,000. And those donations could be in in-kind donations or cash donations. Or cash match, I should say, I'm sorry. And so what we would do, we would also, we would incorporate, the model we set up would be staff donations in kind donation In kind match I should say And I mentioned step down so they said the way the grant set up is it sets a subs away at third fourth year Hopefully we can incorporate it into our city budget So kind of gave you a big overview there. Any specific questions on any interior covered? Yeah, we have a few council member Paul. Thank you. What's the function of a police officer? To protect and serve ma'am. Correct. Or it's been my understanding for 40 years. Now we're going to get into the mental health evaluation. We're going to... You know, I understand that many people out there that are committing crimes have mental problems. I get it, but I don't think it's a police officer's job to evaluate them. Put them in the jail and that's where they should be evaluated. That's where somebody should check their mental capacity be. And on the street where we have you serving and protecting us, I don't want you evaluating some guy for some mental problem. When people are dialing 911 because they need you and need you now, I think this is a horrible program. I don't know where it came from. It's maybe I'm old school. You know I'm looking for a change because of crime going up like it is and I understand it. You're trying to figure what to do but this isn't going to do it. You know what I'd like to see? I'd like to see two police officers in a car, not one. I'd like to see more cars up and down the street police cars. I'm on bridge street. When I first came to Brighton to that location I'd see at least five or six times police cars going up and down the street. I'll bet you I can go a whole week without seeing a police car. That's not serving and protecting. Sorry, that's not serving and protecting. Cause I'm out, I see it. Why do I want two police officers? Well, you need it. You know what? You have my back. We should have yours. No, I don't want to be doing mental evaluations, paying for that or asking for grants. When asked for grants, I asked for grants to get more cars and more officers. I'd like to see that. I'll jump on that one. Victim services, the courts have that. Now we want a piece of that. Help people in crisis. We have people that do that too. Do your job and let them do their job. Serve and protect us because it's just it's going to get uglier. I'm not telling y'all something you don't know. I'm telling you nothing you don't know. I've been pretty much next to you for 40 years. I know what's going on out there. I know what you're up against. Better don't want you doing a bunch of other stuff. I want you to serve and protect us, the public. That's what I want. I've been doing all this to me. Wasting your time, your efforts, and your life. So, yeah, I'm totally against this. I'm totally, totally against it. Come to me with what I suggested, not be the first one to jump on that bandwagon, but I'm not going to jump on this. I think this is terrible. I know what you folks do. I know what every one of you do. You couldn't pay me enough to be a police officer today, because you have enough to deal with what's going on out there. Without having to do mental health evaluations, without having to look up and see what crisis center you're gonna send them to. Have people to do that already? Why are we going to add to you? Why? I just don't understand it. Maybe I don't understand. Like I said, I'm old school. You care about it? Can I answer that or explain it real quick? So it is exactly what you're saying. Yeah. It is on our plate already We are actually already doing that so by adding this program and adding clinicians They're going to hopefully take over that role and that will go to there to them versus the police department doing it because Right now, man. We are doing it It's okay if they take over the program let them do it. I want you doing what you're doing great And so absolutely so that's what I want I want you doing what you're doing. Right. And so absolutely. And so that's what I want. I want you. Okay. I want you. I want to I want to see two of you in a car. That's what I want to see. And I want to see more cars. Now, this is a lot of money. I would buy a few cars. We could hire a few more officers. That's what I want to see. And so, I know you've been working on this for a while. You know, I don't know what Brighton does. I mean, Commerce City does, or Thornton does, or I don't know. And I don't care. But I do care as what happens right here in the City of Brighton. You and to our people. Priority for me and I'm sure most of the people on this council. But anyway, I'll take care of that. Sorry, I couldn't go with this one. If I could to just maybe to elaborate a little bit on what Commander Portillo said first off, thank you. You've always been a big supporter and we certainly appreciate it. I think just the one thing that I want to makeillo said first off, thank you, you've always been a big supporter and we certainly appreciate it. I think just the one thing that I wanna make sure everybody's clear on is we have very little, we have very little control over the requests for services in our community. 911 calls come in, we're gonna send a police officer to the vast majority of those calls. And a huge percentage of our calls on an ongoing basis is driven by mental health issues, substance issues, and really the intent behind a co-responder program is to shift the responsibilities for these things away from law enforcement into the hands of people that have the skills, the resources, and the services to provide some long-term support and hopefully some problem solving there. So I do not want to disagree with you. I just want to make sure that everyone's clear. I think this is a large benefit for our community. I think this is a large benefit for our department because I do think that it will start to divert some of those repeat calls for service that we get on an ongoing basis. And the grant funding is a way that allows us to do that at a much lower cost. Co-responder programs really are the trend we're seeing across the country. Law enforcement are the de facto providers of mental health services to many in our community. We're not trained for it. We do have a base level of training. Commander Portillo talked about it with the crisis intervention training. But we do not have the skills and resources to solve these problems on a long-term basis. And so what we really are at the end of the day talking about is shifting law enforcement services to law enforcement concerns, to law enforcement issues that we can impact and shift mental health, substance abuse, homelessness, all the attendant factors that come with that to the professionals that can address it. So hopefully that makes sense, ma'am. And it does make sense. And I understand. But that's taking the focus of what we want from you. If someone you're called in, you can see the guy needs mental help and put it on the report and take him over to the jail and let them figure out what to do with him from there. Because you haven't got time to start doing that. You see what I'm saying? Yes. It's very time consuming and while you're tied up trying to deal with all the craziness Other stuff is going on it could take you away from what your job truly is and that's to serve and protect That's all I'm trying to say I understand that we need all those people But I agree I just as an example, our officers came into contact last night. Don't quote me on the times because I don't have the specific facts. They put a gentleman on a mental health hold. That's our current, that's currently what we have available to us when we're dealing with somebody in a mental health crisis. So we put them on a mental health hold. The paramedics come. They take them up to plant Valley Hospital several hours later that gentleman is back in the lobby of the police department. We're putting him back on a mental health hold. So if we had an ability to connect this person with some services and some resources that would help him address the underlying issues, we wouldn't have to spend two and three hours on it twice. We might be able to do it once. And I understand that. And that's the whole system has to work together. What I'm trying to say is, I don't want your time taken up with it. I want them off the street and I want somebody to deal with them. But you know, we have to set it up. So bright and PD is not responsible for that. You put the mental health hold on him. That should have been it. That's where it stopped. Somebody else should have came in Supposedly we have those people all over the place. Where are they? I know many's going out. I just I Don't want you doing more than what I We depend on you doing I did we depend on you Appreciate that man. Well, absolutely and I don't want you tied up with other stuff. I'm saying you're not capable of it. I'm sure you are. I just don't want you tied up doing that. That's like asking me to be up here and go write a bond. Well, I'm still working. I can't do both. I'm gonna do one or I'm gonna do the other working. I can't do both. I'm going to do one or I'm going to do the other, but I can't do them both. I just can't. And so I don't want what I don't want is you being overwhelmed because you can get to that too much. Don't put too much responsibility on yourself. We can give you more responsibility. You know, it's getting crazier out there. And you all see it. I'm not telling you anything. You don't see things we've never seen before happening. And we look all over the country. A lot of our officers aren't safe. And I'll be damned if they're not going to be safe here because they are. I don't care if we have to hire an army. You will be kept safe. Do what we do here. We or the best that we can. But I don't want to, you know, concentrate in other things. I'm sorry, I just don't. And I'm sure some are not going to agree with me. And that's okay, too. I'm pretty much used to that, too. Anyway, bless you. Thank you. And I wish you well. Thank you. Council Member Blackhurst. Thank you. Council Member Blackhurst. Thank you. Just a couple of quick questions. What are social services in this discussion? So at this point they're not in the discussion, but let's say we have a case where children are involved, then we would obviously invite them to the table and have a discussion with them. It isn't just with children, though, they have other responsibilities. I'm sorry. It isn't just with children though they have other responsibilities. I'm sorry. It isn't just with children they also have other responsibilities right? Correct with the adults right so if we find a system where a time where there could be useful we definitely buy them to the table and have that discussion with them. It's probably not a proper forum but I just wondered why they're not at the table. I know them. Well, if I'm going to use, you used to be a problem getting them to respond. Yes. If I may, part of the, the clinician's job is to help connect them with, the available suite of services, which sometimes very much would include Adams County Social Services. They're just not, they don't have the staff or manpower to send out on mental health issues, but they would certainly be involved as one of the community stakeholders in the project. Thank you. So the money in the grant, is that primarily going to be used for personal costs? Correct. It would fund a clinician, the case manager, and also a researcher component. The researcher would just ensure that what we're doing is best practices and evidence-based, that we're really meeting our goals in supporting those folks in the crisis. So the original plan for your, at least getting started with the grant would be three additional FTE. The researcher would be part time, I think it's a total of 80 hours per two weeks, if I can correct, and then two additional full-time employees. And you're right, it is contract services. We would contract through community reach and be partner based, but they would be housed out of our agency. So you'd be able to get 24 seven coverage? Initially we would not aim for 24 seven coverage. We would ask for 40 hours. We have already afternoon to evening. Correct. Afternoon to evening. So what the research shows that they're better utilized or those calls for services are coming in Tuesday to Friday from about 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. So that's when we would best or we'd employ those folks. So to Councilman Pollock's point, would you keep in mind and see, I don't want to be a, maybe a very difficult question for you to answer, but as you go forward with this program, which I, by the way, totally support. If you could keep track, if you can, about how much time it saves the officers in terms of getting them back on the street to do what they're supposed to be doing, and not babysitting up from the deputy chief's description of the individual, I'm sure many hours were spent between those two contacts and dealing with that situation. Yes. That's definitely going to be part of the research job as well and unfortunately Again, I wish I wish that our jail was willing to accept Evil they should be accepting but we know they aren't So that's another resource that sometimes is not available to us. It hasn't been lately So we're looking for other answers. But if you kind of keep track of them, I know there's no magic formula, but those are my questions. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Council Member. Council Member, today. Thank you. Great presentation. For a shot, I think it looks like a really great program, for sure. I can see how it would save you guys free up your time from having to deal with certain individuals. And again, over and over. My initial question, one of my initial questions was going to be how to get around that information, sharing that you talked about. But then there was the program that you could input the information. And I think that's a great idea. Is there any cost to that? or is that included in this amount that you've showed us? So the total amount you see at the end there, it is covered in that cost. But there is a cost initial set up cost for that program. I have that here. So initially that program will cost $34,000. And then there's not going cost for that. And then there's probably an annual fee. Correct. And so in this proposed amount is for a three year period, you said correct. That's correct, yes. Do you anticipate that at the end of the three years, we would be able to get another grant? Or do you think at that point then it's going to fall back on the city to put it in their budget? Grants are always available potentially. So currently for the state, they offer a grant through the Colorado Department of Behavioral Health. But all the money allocation for this year and next year has already been spoken for. But potentially. I know you can't predict the future, but I was just curious about that. And is there any way to use ARP for this? I am not sure. OK. Oh, my next question is when you're talking about this in-house, if we did, you know, have an in-house clinician that would be somebody readily available. So say you had somebody three shifts, three people to cover 24 hours a day. Is there, and is that what, is that part of that model that you talked about having that in-house person? I think eventually yes. Initially, like I mentioned to Chief Counsel and the Black Herstery is that, the biggest need is that Tuesday through Friday, 10 to 7 years ago. Right, okay, and that was what I was gonna get clarity on, for sure. Okay, that kind of really answers my question because my question was gonna be, is there enough of that type of situation going on to be able to justify somebody 24 hours a day. Well, and to add to that is, so let's say there's clinician not on duty. A police officer would still go responding. They typically do. They would gather the information, and then they would give the information over to the clinician in the case manager. And then when they're on duty, they would go back and they would follow up and offer those resources and do what they do to the next that. But then on the backside the condition would still follow up with the person. And I agree with council member Blackhurst about you know let's let's track that and see how much time is it really saving you? I mean obviously in one instance that you talked about today there's hours there like you said but um definitely would be beneficial in for the future right?? Going forward to really be able to track that. If I could just add one thing to just help clarify, I think because I've heard a couple people talk about it. I mean, obviously best practice, ideal situation, we would have a clinician 24-7, but there is not the call demand that would support that in the middle of the night. I mean, that's just the reality of it and we do have to look a little bit at value for the money that's being spent on it. So, Commander Portillo did a good job of looking through the current calls, when those calls come in. And I just can't stress enough what he talked about that even though that clinician may not be there and this person may have to be put on a traditional mental health hold like we would. There's still an identified person who's available to follow up with that person after the fact provide that supportive care after the fact and connect them with resources that will still hopefully have that positive impact that we're looking for long term. Thank you. I am in support of this. One of the things I think we need to remember when we talk about treatment and we talk about dealing with the situations with the clinician and all of that is these situations can get ugly. I mean, there's the bare facts of it is they can start with one incident, two incidents, three incidents. The next thing you know you have a Particularly violent encounter where someone has hurt or worse and I think that we won't we want to avoid going there and being in that position Thank you Councilmember Padilla Thank you mayor pro tem Thank you gentlemen. I did this is an update, but I have great hope associated with it because I think that Council and Public is absolutely right. You have an incredibly difficult job. It's very difficult to find people willing and able to take that on effectively and all of the means, all of the meanings associated with protect and serve are difficult to discern the number of things that you need to understand and know in terms of policy and action and options available to you are incredibly complicated and you have to be able to think of all of them in a moment and never second guess yourselves who have to take the action. It's always challenging. And I appreciate the fact that that protection and that service is also focused, as I've talked to people in the department, on victims and on the people who are adjacent to the crimes, as well as those who may have perpetrated them. So programs like this, I've seen, do help us to reduce recurrence. They help us to reduce crime. They help to make us safer in the city. So I certainly appreciate that. And grants like this really serve to help us try before we buy, help us to prove out the program before we turn them into things that are regular commitments in our budget. I certainly look at that as a three-year program and our match on that is pretty tremendously a bargain compared to trying to invest and develop that full program up front and contracted services certainly makes some sense. Social services does try to respond to everything as quickly as they possibly can, but I know what the typical case worker workload looks like, and there just aren't any more hours or arms or eyes or anything else. I also know that it takes about six to eight people to staff something 24 seven, so I appreciate all of the effort into figuring out how to cover the highest risk areas. I would encourage looking at an on-call add-on to that as something that could be potentially done to support so that on-demand for high impact or high risk situations we could add somebody else into that picture. I guess my biggest question, as you mentioned, if some of that grant money in this program is already largely taken for the near future, is there a version of this program, a pilot or proof of concept that we could start to look at in our own funding as we look at the next two years where the budgeting in the very near future, I would encourage you to look at how can we introduce something potentially in advance of getting that grant money that maybe slimmer or may introduce something or may help to qualify us for the grant because I'd hate to go a year and a half before we start thinking about how to bring this about. So I appreciate very, very much that this is a grant intended to take workload in one of those specialties off of all of you and move it to those people who are expert in that field, because I don't expect you to be experts in every possible thing that you could encounter. So thank you very much for the presentation. But I would say let's see what we can do perhaps sooner than more grant funding might be available. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember. I have a few questions. You mentioned 911 calls. Do you, when someone calls the state suicide hotline or posts an anonymous safe to tell who does that go to that comes to us as well okay so oh and you showed the statistics on how many mental health calls I mean is there a guess on how many of those rise to the level of a criminal offense that you could arrest someone for well think going back to councilmanetya's point is that we have to be those experts, right? So we have to go there and we have to evaluate the situation and see if it is a criminal episode or if it is a true mental health crisis and decide what's the best for out for this person to go to. Is it going to be a summons? Is it going to be jail? Is it going to be mental health and going to the hospital, really just, I don't have the exact details on which way it goes right now, but that's part of the way you could go. Certainly, you could throw someone in jail for being suicidal. No, we can not. So, and unfortunately, they call you. So it's, do you have any idea on how many of these calls of all juveniles? I do not have the specifics on that. No, I don't. Because I'm thinking another source of these calls to service will be through your SROs. In other words, if there's a kids in crisis and he's at school, you might not even get a call. You just might know about it and be involved in it. And that's a good point. Yeah, my prior assignment was supervising the youth services officers, the SRO officers, and the majority of their day was dealing with youth in crisis. And so they would work much with their clinician there on school campus and work through those problems. There was times where they would have to call mental health holds from the schools for the juveniles there at the school. When you get a call for a juvenile, I would imagine oftentimes you've got parents that are also not super prepared to deal with the situation that's happening. How time consuming is that for the officer on scene that they have to supervise this juvenile until it's safe for them to return home or they have a solution? Maybe it doesn't rise to the level of a mental health hold but they've got a parent that's saying, you know, I can't deal with this kid, you know, you guys deal with them. Do you get calls like that pretty often or? Yes, we do. And how? I mean, I imagine that time is up an officer who could be doing these other things to protect us for a significant period of time. Right. And so we have some other options. We have the link that we could potentially go there with. We do our best to try to really brainstorm and come up with the best solution with the family. The officers do a really good job of trying to work through those as quickly as possible. But you're right, some of the marks from me time consume me. So then we've got Platt Valley, which is probably the go to resource. I don't think people understand. They're thinking of hospital. They'll get the help they need. Platt Valley, their only mental health worker, is not even a clinician. It's a social worker. And that person's job is to evaluate if the person is a danger to themselves. But if they're not, they're going to get released like you mentioned. But the underlying mental health problem isn't going to be solved. And they won't, they don't have the resources to line you up with those services either. So it's literally just a, like you mentioned, a game of M1 hold release. M1 hold release. I don't think people understand that the hospital doesn't have a mental health staff. We don't have a mental health unit in our hospital. And if the problem is significant enough, it puts the police officers in the position of having to drive transport people to other hospitals in the Denver area or the link or places that aren't close that officers out of commission for hours I do want to suggest I mean, I think this is a great idea having a clinician would really help But we might look at hiring social worker because I think it would be less expensive. And I think legally, I mean, we can set the qualifications to be whatever we want. But I think really a clinician can do an M1 hold and a social worker cannot. But and I think there's absolutely situations where a clinician can have those extra tools for emergency counseling and stuff. But like you mentioned, sometimes we just need someone to line people up with the right services and it doesn't need to involve a police officer. And maybe it doesn't even rise to the level of a clinician, but just someone who can kind of be like, you know, you're, you're needing these resources. We need to get you maybe lined up with community reach. And here's how we do that. Or maybe we need to get you on Medicaid because you're not on it and you need services. And that might be an inexpensive way to free up some of that time for those things. I also think it might prevent things from rising to the level of involving the police. Someone who's kind of need some help managing their life and neighbors are calling the police because their yard isn't being kept up and maybe there's a bigger issue, a deeper issue, we can get them lined up with services that would help with that. But I really think this is a great start and I think having someone who can free up the officer to I was gonna say prevent crime and disorder. This is disorder, like this is taking an officer off the street to deal with a situation that we can better use those limited resources. We all know that there's not a lot of you and having you back out on the street, that is gonna help all of us, I think. And that's really gonna be a benefit to our police department. And maybe prevent us from having to just keep adding cops to deal with things that cops shouldn't be doing. That's not your, that's not, like council member Pollock said, that's not your job. We don't want you doing that. We want to have someone that's capable of doing that. You can go back and do what you guys do best. So I really appreciate the thought and the presentation. This is a really great start. Thank you. Thank you. Council member Pollock. One more time. There's two people on this council that have been involved with the judicial system or law enforcement, me for 40 years. Blackhurst as chief, as you know, two people. At a night. Did they have any idea, the danger that you're in every day that you put on that badge or put on that uniform and go out on a call. They have any idea. No, they don't. They know why you're out there. They have any idea. Just because we have to have police officer. That's not why. We have to serve and protect us. That's something we not need it. Some have no idea what goes on in the judicial system, what's legal and illegal, that have no idea whatsoever. It just sounds good. It's just money. Yeah. And we can use money. You know what I want to use it for? I don't, I don't want to add more responsibility to you. I'm not going to have you go get some more training on mental, how do we evaluate mental cases? I'm sorry, I don't know how else evaluate mental cases, I'm sorry, I don't have an office to call them, but whatever, is that where we're gonna need next? Because they're gonna say, how could you say he needed a mental evaluation? You weren't qualified, right? I mean, you think these lawyers won't come up with that? In a second, you know, my priority is to provide everything you need to keep you and a safe, my 100% priority. Anything over and above that? I don't know. They have to deal with it. You have the legislators. You see what they're doing? They've totally ignored the rule of law. I'm not telling you anything you don't know. How many could you pull over or have to try to arrest that you really can't? Not because you're not supposed, not because the law isn't there as they've changed things So just keep putting you at risk. That's what they're saying. I'm saying. I don't think so Not ours You can put the other ones away You know you want to put them at risk. I care for all law enforcement This law enforcement is my priority Now if I were in Adams County, and sometimes I am, I care about them too. But I want things to go as smooth as possible, but I don't want you to have more responsibilities than you already do. That's all. So let them both the way they're going to or whatever they're going to do. I already heard maybe they should learn and watch a few shows about what you folks really do and how you keep them safe. Maybe they'd want to return the favor. Well, again, I can't thank you you enough I always feel supported when you're speaking about law enforcement and I very much appreciate it. The one thing I guess I just want to to go back to again is is where are right now what is happening is we're the ones that are evaluating these people and and what we're suggesting is really bringing in professionals who can make these evaluations in a better way to reduce the workload on cops and make sure that the people get put on mental health holds are really being evaluated by professionals. So I really do believe that we're looking for the same things and I think that this program does offer more training for the people that need the training, not the police officers and I believe it will free the police officers up to be out there providing the services that the men and women of this council expect. So we'll have our own department to take care of that. So we'll have our own people to, if you get called out, they come out too or you recommend that they come in contact with them. So you're not actually going to be doing it. The police would respond, because we're going to respond to not every 9-1-1 call anyway. The officer's job would be when the clinicians are available is to respond, make sure the scene is safe, and then get the trained mental health clinician there to help provide the immediate on-scene services, and then to have a, you know, council member cushion called it a social worker, we're calling it more of a case manager that can help to work through all the different things that this person might need, connect them with the services they might need. But ideally in a perfect scenario, which research has shown does work out a lot of the time. This will allow the law enforcement officer to leave once the scene's been made safe to respond to those other emergencies while the mental health clinicians and the professionals are there to deal with the mental health issues that we don't have the training skills or ability to solve. Okay, I'll get it now. Just a minute. I just wanted to make sure. So if that's what you believe is going to help you, because that's my priority. Yes, ma'am. Then I'll say yes. my priority. Yes, ma'am. Then I'll say yes. You changed my vote. Hey, it's a win. It takes a minute because again, being in the system for 40 years, I know what goes on out there. I know how they are. I know what you have to deal with. I've had to deal with them myself. Then I would get lucky too, and I can call 911. Anyway, thank you. Thank you both, thank you. And let's give it a try. Maybe it will. Thank you, Council Member. And yeah, you know what? Council Member Paulic has a good point. You know, I have friends and law enforcement family I respect for it, but I've never been there. I've never done it. You think of not putting down any other first responders, but firefighters are... No one's mad that a firefighter shows up to save your house from getting burned down. No one's mad when a paramedic shows up and saves you from a heart attack, but law enforcement, you guys aren't greeted with smiles every time you show up on scene. And then to double down on it, we put you in a bad position. We're putting you on first response for every kind of thing that can come up and it's not law enforcement. It's mental health support and all these other things we're sending you guys out and you know, it's a tough position to put you guys in and well I haven't been there. I can appreciate council member Pollock's point that you know you guys get put in some tough positions and I certainly appreciate it and yeah, my goal is to take some of that off your plate because it's a lot on your plate. It's just a lot on your plate. But I appreciate you guys and appreciate the presentation. Thank you. Appreciate the sport. Thanks. I think we're good. All right, moving on to reports. I'll just mention that the 4th of July festival was great. Our city staff did a really amazing job holding that together, because the weather lately has been a little hectic. It was great, it was super awesome. Turn out the band was great, but they were worried about their guitars getting a little wet and Michael worked very hard to instill the priority of the national anthem being done. And they did a beautiful job. The band was really amazing. It was a great national anthem. It really brought tears to my eyes because they did such a good rendition of it and city manager made sure that was done before they bailed out of there. It looked like maybe it was going to be bad and then all of a sudden the rain kind of just cleared up and the fireworks show went off with a lot of lightning in the background. It was really fantastic job by our staff and our city managers want to thank them for that. It was really amazing. You have reports by department directors. None this evening. City Attorney. No, thank you. City Manager. Thank you Mayor Pro Tems. The reason why the National Anthem was so good and I mean I threatened to sing the National Anthem if the band didn't do it I was going to do it. It brought tears to people's eyes in a different way but it worked out everything went well just quickly obviously I need to give kudos to the staff that made it happen yesterday. I had the good fortune of getting there a little early. They gave me a walkie talkie, so I felt official. But I got to hear everything that was going on. I got to witness everything. I spent a lot of time with staff yesterday and to see the amount of work that they put in for just a few hours. I mean, it's from five to 10 o'clock, right? So it's five hours, but they were there Saturday. They were there at 6 a.m. Sunday. A lot of pre-planning that went into it. And just the logistics of the day as it's happening, it made my head spin yesterday. So I was lucky. I was just an observer. But the staff goes above and beyond and making sure our events are fun, are safe and engaging. And I'd like to thank the PD who is now outside. They did a fantastic job of keeping it safe too. They were around when they needed to be around. They were all over the place. It was just a perfect event and can be happier with it. So big thanks to the staff. And just a reminder, this Saturday is the Police Awards banquet. So if you're interested in attending, please RSVP was Cheryl. to the staff and just to remind her this Saturday is the police awards banquet. So if you're interested in attending, please RSVP with Cheryl. Thank you. Thank you. Reports by Council. Start with Council Member Padilla. Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem. So I always look forward. I don't have any meetings from this week, but I always look forward to the first meeting to want to see what of the myriad things we could celebrate and honor for the month we're going to pick and then to see what we didn't pick as a result of that. important in July and things that our community does a great thing around or does great work around. So July is according to our Department of Social Services, National Department of Social Services, the month for purposeful parenting and the month for bereaved parents. And so I think it's important to call attention to both of those. I'm aware of local people who are volunteers in foster parenting, as adoptive parents, is kinship and guardian parents, single parents, parents with tragic situations. There's so many people who really need to be very intentional about how they go about parenting in summer as a great opportunity to do that, which is the point of that happening in July. And then things don't always go exactly as we have planned. And we've talked some about the more violent or criminal or victim-oriented areas in crisis and mental health. I think there is nothing more frightening to parents than the idea of losing their children or hitting crisis. And we have three just amazing charities in town who help parents in crisis. So the Richard Lambert Foundation is one of the best nonprofit organizations I've seen in a long time specifically helping parents who have lost children. The PENEC centers, a fantastic nonprofit counseling center, and community reach has a number of services that affect parents in need. So I wanted to call attention to those as we enter into a month where we're parenting, purposeful parenting, and then focus and attention for parents who have suffered loss is important in this time frame. So that's my only report for this evening, but I wanted to share those organizations. Thank you, Councillor Bermuda, Councillor Bermuda-Blockers. Thank you. So far it's been a slow month for me for the committees, but I just want to make one comment. It seems like as one of our citizens came up and discussed, it seems like we're getting a proliferation of illegal fireworks in the city. And by I'll tell you, that's a tough one for me. I don't know how you overcome that or how you deal with it. The things he was describing and then talked about local stands, none of those are illegal legal fire words that you can buy here in Colorado. They're all ones that leave the ground. Pop out of rockets, Roman candles, all that kind of stuff and the big stuff. Pop out of rockets, Roman candlestick, all that kind of stuff and the big stuff. Enforcement wise I can tell you that it's a nightmare because law requires that either somebody is going to tell you who stepped that off or you're going to have to witness it and then the night when you've got 50 people standing around watching it. How do you give more summons that you can prosecute? It's a tough thing to do. But it's maybe something that we can discuss with our police department. It seems to be getting worse. Maybe I'm the one who went this noticing that but it I would hate to have a tragedy where a hall was burned down because of fireworks and then we're going to be put under. I know that Commerce City a couple of years ago completely banned all fireworks, everything and that did not work either and they had such pushback from the community, they had to rescind that ordinance and go something a little more reasonable. So anyway, something maybe to discuss in the future. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Blackhurst, Councilmember Pollock. Thank you, Mayor Perotem. Well, I really don't have anything to say. I think I've said enough for the night, maybe for the year. But of course, I got heard a lot of good things about yesterday's Fourth of July event. So of course, our staff always does a good job. And thank you, Michael. It'd been okay. We don't let you sing. It's okay. Maybe next year. Maybe next year. We'll see. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Pollock. How's the matter today? Oh, I don't have haven't had any meetings since last meeting, but I do want to make a comment to the fireworks as well. I think this this year was worse than any any year ever as far as like the huge cannon That we're going off around me at my home. I have an idea. What about drones? If we could get some drones, have it manned by a police officer possibly. My analogy to this would be a few years ago I accidentally ran a red light in Aurora, and I got a red light ticket from the camera. So I immediately called an attorney and they said, yeah, in Aurora you probably should pay that fine and not fight with it because they have hired a full-time police officer to watch those films and issue citations. So maybe a drone, maybe a drone that could fly around, I mean, it's probably dangerous for the drone. In my neighborhood, they would have been shot out of the sky. Yeah, I guess. It would be dangerous for the drone, but I mean, I don't know. I mean, I'm not the idea person, but maybe there's something that can be done. So there's got to be something that's working somewhere because I have the same concerns. I have, there's dead trees around me. Can catch on fire? That's my house. I mean, not to mention what it does to everybody's nerves and the animals. I have animals that don't like it. And it's horrible. I mean, horrible. So anyway, that's my two cents. How many fires do you have? We've been lucky that we haven't had any significant fires. No. I saw some unsolvable media today that was a couple of trash cans that melted because people had put their fireworks in them before they were extinguished and so they woke up to big 90s you know those 96 gallon thing melted. Anyway. All right. Thank you Councilmember. But today we've reached the end of our agenda. So unless there's anything more, we stand adjourned.