I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go the like to call to order our study session for this Tuesday. May the 24th 2022. We said the pledge downstairs so we'll go straight into policy items and then everybody have any policy items they'd like to bring up councilmember Padilla. Yes, I think that this is already consistent policy but I've had several requests from people in my ward and I wanted to make sure that I was requesting. I've spoken to Chief Southered the Western most boundary of my ward which runs very close in connection to the the . The residents in that area are concerned about code enforcement in particular unlicensed, uninsured vehicles, things on the lawn, and probably for the 7,000th time, the burnt out RV that seems never to disappear except that now it's disappearing in parts. So somebody is parting it out a little at a time. The request is to make sure that we are paying attention and that we're enabling our code enforcement group. I guess they in response to questions from the community have said that they felt it was unclear what they could or couldn't do about things that were a clear code violations. So I want to make sure that we're making it absolutely clear what they can do and that they are encouraged to do so in that area. Thank you. You didn't tell where I built a museum right there in that spot, right? Okay. Just joking. Anybody else? Council member, Blockhurst. Thank you, Mayor. I have two issues that I've had requests from citizens to bring up. One of them is if we could have, I'm not really sure who controls or whether it's the PD or whether it's the Street Department, but the radar unit that kind of keeps track of what's going on with traffic and speeding on that stretch of Brahminly from, well it's the way to I think it's Markingbird. I think we can have somebody put that radar unit out there and see. The second one is a I think an issue that we've kind of ignored for a while. I think an issue that we've kind of ignored for a while, when we put in the South Outfall drainage channel, the 100 year or 500 year, the big wide channel, it goes down to the middle west, and then it goes into an underground tunnel that goes under 85, doesn't come out until I think on the other side of Old Brighton Road. That tunnel is large enough for people to walk in if you're if you're under six foot tall and it's it's it's now being used by homeless it's full of graffiti. The city has been asked if they would put some kind of great over it so that people couldn't go in and use it for shelter. But the response has been that that would create a problem if we did have a big flood for things catching and that's true. I'm sure it would diversion. I think Mr. Olson has had that request before. But the problem is that 365 days a year when we don't get 100 year flood, it's used by vagrants and homeless and it's creating a real hazard for the businesses that happen to be on the downside. Nevertheless, I don't know if they've had any problems, but I know that some of the businesses just off all bright and low to have. We do have greats over that same channel a little further down. So I don't know what the difference is. There are that's where it is probably I'm trying to think of the maybe that parking lot right there. Can you think of that Mr. Olson that yeah I think the parking lot that you're talking about is the like Southern Street Trailhead. Yes the Southern Street Trailhead thank you. They do have great trouble that one. Can we take a look at that? I understand it would create potentially a problem, but as it is now, it is a public hazard because of people that use this for traveling back and forth and doing bad things. Yes, so we can definitely look at that. The concern that we have is, really if you put them on the upstream side of the culvert and we do have like a large storm event or something and we have debris that's going to be pushed up against those that it would clog the system and then therefore create flooding that's going to happen behind the culvert instead of actually conveying the flows. But we'll certainly go down and look at the ones at the trailhead and see if there's something that we could do. The very least if we could make it so people couldn't use it to traverse back and forth. They had to come and go from the upstream side. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, so we... Because actually the problem is being generated down and down. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, so we'll certainly take a look at that. And just so you know, I there's there's a lot of overgrown vegetation and trees and stuff on the kind of the western edge there that may kind of be hiding some of the activity too. So I met with my high flood district must have been last week and we're putting together a plan and we'll bring that back to Council here later this year in the form of an IGA to go in there and mitigate some of that overgrowth and vegetation and then really regrade the channel and try to address some of that standing water that has been in there as well. So I think cleaning the overall area will kind of help with that as well. We can look at some sort of disillusion for keeping people out of there. Thank you, appreciate it. Thank you, Mayor Patin. Thank you, Mayor. Couple things. A little disappointed as we read about the Oasis, not opening on time. Sure, there's very good reason, but if there's anything we can do to help that, I know the kids are really excited. And I also wanted to bring up, have we been selling season passes for that yet? Yeah, the passes have went on sale and they will get some information out on this. Okay, cool. and they will get some information out on this. Okay, cool. I also wanted to make sure the school's own sides don't stay active after the school's out. I think we had some issues with that before. I definitely don't wanna see people getting tickets when school's closed. So I don't know. I heard one time this had to be manually reprogrammed or something. Just wanted to throw that out there. That's all I have. Thanks. Warren Mondays. Yeah. Anybody else? How's the member Johnston? Thanks, Mayor. The I want to reiterate what council member Padilla is tying him out with the Bernard V. It's been weeks. We got to try to do something about that. I have a time I hear from one of you and it had nothing's been done. We need to really back each other up and make sure. Because I know it's never easy, but let's try to make it easy because it's been mentioned. Oh, it's part of the tape. It's part of the tape. Right, I know. Yeah. on eBay a lot. Yeah, it's going back over there. So let's try to get on that because that's probably a simpler issue than needs to be continually discussed. The other thing is, if I could, Mr. Mayor, I'd like to ask the city manager, is who is in charge of the, what departments in charge of construction traffic going on during construction and things like that. It's a good question. The answer is it depends. The monitoring of traffic typically falls under our streets department. So I know that when we have issues with some current developments, oftentimes I'll send off to Mr. Montoya or Mr. Woodruff and that'll help me address the issue. Other times, if it's a responsibility that's laid out in the development agreement, then Comdev also gets involved too. So it depends answered, but it's all hands on deck too. Great, no. If any of you have the chance on council, or anyone in the community that is listening, please go out toward one right now and go witness the construction off of Longspeak all the way through the sunshine way and call around. And you can see what happens and I asked this not knowing what happens when a department of our city is doing their job at the level that they that we all dream that they do. I have not gotten a complaint for months now about construction issues. And if you see the construction that's happening there to think about that that I haven't got at first it was I got a flat tire on a nail, it's this is crazy loud, what's going on, there's more construction going on, but I just wanna say to that department, Mr. Montoya, whoever, Mr. Woodrow, whoever, director, Prather, whoever's in charge of that, well done, because it has been totally different in the last two months since I got those complaints and handed them to your office. Just good job. That's a big deal. Let's keep on it because as long as we do that then that scar of development that happened to, I mean we got a wheat field taken away from us, the beautiful wheat field, a lot of word one on both sides and they're not unhappy about it. So let's just keep that part up. Thanks. My help with the tumbleweeds there too. No problem. No problem. All right, if there's nothing else, we'll move on. The next item on the agenda is a amendment of the land acquisition service for Ag preservation agreements. City manager Martinez has turned turning over to you. Thank you Mayor. For this, I'm going to have Travis. But I do want to mention one thing that we've kind of been talking about just in general and rather than having staff continuously ask for the option to place things on consent agenda. The reason why we're presenting things now is because we would like to start putting things on consent agenda just in general as a rule unless otherwise specified. that we're going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going you're going to get the right answer. I'm not sure if you're going to get the right answer. I'm not sure if you're going to get the right answer. I'm not sure if you're going to get the right answer. I'm not sure if you're going to get the right answer. I'm not sure if you're going to get the right answer. I'm not sure if you're even have a presentation tonight. So they told me to quit, you know, not talk too much. So here we go. We are here to discuss an amendment to extend the contract for the Conservation Fund. Christine Quinlan, you know, she was here a few months ago and we applied for the Adams County grant. What we did last year, we extended this contract for a year. We anticipated being closed on the next property that we're in the middle of purchasing, but that was when we had the private conservation buyer as part of the equation. As you all know that did not happen which is actually going to work out very well for us because the city's not only going to own the property but we get the water rights and the mineral rights as well with this. But we have to wait for final grant approval which will not happen until the end of July. They're going to have to rework the conservation easement to put the city as the owner. And then it's going to have some other clauses in there. So when we expand, say, we'll undo the stormwater channel. All of that will already be worked into the conservation easement. So that's taken a little bit more time as well. So what we would like to do is extend this contract. Christine's anticipating being done hopefully by January, February, the latest, but we were going to see if we could go till March 31st of next year to ensure we can get the conservation easements all settled up and in our name and get all the closing on the property down and then get a transfer over to the city for city's ownership. The contract itself, it pays 5% of the appraised fire market value of the property with an 5% well exceeds $200,000. So it will have a not to exceed $200,000 amount on it. But the Conservation Fund has been very good in the last two transactions about working their fees into the fees that have been paid through grants. Adams County grants and GoCo grants, that funding has pretty much covered all of the fees for the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the just of it. It's not real tricky. We just need to extend that out so we can get the closing done and then get the property and everything turned over to us in the end. So I'll be happy to answer any questions. And as Michael said, if it's good with you, we'll put that on consent for the June 7th meeting. Questions for Travis? Everybody's good? All right. All right. consent? Okay. All right. Great. I just realized I can give Kyle and Ryan all the fun projects with the pretty power points and the, you know, the turf and the playgrounds. And I get to talk about contracts, but that's all right. This is good too. Oh councilmember Johnson that's really quick thanks mayor. Can we get just so that we have a record of everything that like can we get the contract put on the agenda that's coming up and any bid of any presentation or something for the consent so that we can see it beforehand. Yeah I'll add to that everything that you would normally have in your packet is included. And the difference is just that it's on consent so you don't, we don't have to then just vote for it. But you'll have everything. Yeah. Thanks. Great. If nothing else, thank you. Next is the water conservation subject. City Manager Martinez. Thank you, Mayor. So tonight, I've asked our team 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 city the community. We are continuously hitting new records. I sent this in the city manager report. This may was the highest volume that we have ever experienced in terms of water usage on certain days. We are noticing that we are going to have a pretty intense summer when it comes to our water usage. So tonight, I just wanted to bring some of these items to your attention for your discussion. My intention is not to tell you we need to do mandatory watering restrictions or anything in that nature. My, the idea with this is to start the conversation so that you know where we stand in terms of our water usage and some of the things that U.S. council and our residents can do to help us better manage these things. So with that, I'm going to turn it over to Scott. All right. Thank you city manager. Good evening mayor, Mayor Pro Tem and members of City Council. My name is Scott Olson. I'm with the city's utilities department. So tonight what we're going to be talking about is the city's water management plan and water conservation. So this item tonight it supports three of our strategic focus areas, the first being supportive and sustainable infrastructure, the second is safe active and engaged community, and then the third is innovative governmental action. So our plan is to utilize all options to maximize the impact. So if you guys recall, City staff presented on several of these items back in February of 2022. We went through each one of them and kind of gave the guidelines for each of them. And tonight, the specific one that we would like to talk about is a residential water or irrigation schedule. So that's not currently defined in city code at all, but per bright municipal code, it could be adopted by resolution. So this is just an example of one of our yard signs that we could have throughout the community. It has our QR code on there so residents can use the camera on their smartphone. They can scan that and that will bring them to our web page that will list out all of the programs that we do offer. How they can get involved in those programs, any applications or anything like that. So what is the goal? The goal is to achieve a 20% reduction in water demand over the irrigation season. So here on the screen we have what is our 2022 projected to project a demand and that is at 13.21 MGD or million gallons per day. We multiply that by 20% to get the savings that city staff believes that we need to see in order to avoid the likelihood of any water service interruptions. So this graph here is the month of May and the city's water demand over the last four years. I do want to point out that this graph doesn't include anything like amount of precipitation or average temperature, daily temperature highs or anything like that. It's just purely the water demand. As you can see, that top yellow line there is the demand for 2022, and we are tracking higher than any of the other months that we have seen in the last four years, or sorry in May. So this is an example of a proposed irrigation schedule. So this is an example of a proposed irrigation schedule. The irrigation season could be defined as May 1st to September 30th. There would be no residential irrigation or watering from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. That's when we see the daily high temperatures and our evaporation is going to be the highest. We would also ask that the residential irrigation be somewhere around three days or less per week and we'll get into that more here in just a minute and we can open it up for discussion and input. We would also propose that there be no sought installation June 1st to September 30th. So addressing noncompliance. So there is a force that process to address noncompliance that is already defined in Brighton Municipal Code since section 134-180D. And really right now the only thing that this force that process is used to address is waste of water. So basically applying irrigation or pointing sprinkler heads or something at impervious areas, such as driveways, sidewalks, streets, something like that. So for the first and second offense, it is just a warning. For the third offense, it is a $22.50 cent fine that is added to their water bill. And then for the fourth offense, it's a written citation, a mandatory court appearance, a minimum 50 dollar fine that would be added to their water bill, and then payment of court fees, whatever the court would apply there. This is an example of door hangers that we could use to let residents know that they have violated and he proposed schedule. So the advantages of a residential water or irrigation schedule. So it would allow for a scheduled usage. I would put less strain on our water treatment plan. Instead of running it 100% all the time, we could reduce it down from that 100. When you get up to around 100%, and you're pushing the plant super hard, there could be like breakdowns or something that would happen. So we would also reserve adequate water supply for emergency situations such as the wildfires that we just saw happen in Boulder County. We would have the ability to take enforcement action for non-compliance per those four steps that I just discussed. And it would also reduce the risk of system pressure loss. So if we were to have a system pressure loss, the CDPHE may become involved, there may be a boil order or something like that. So the next two slides that I have for you are just examples of irrigation schedules from other municipalities. These are voluntary. One is from Denver water and one is from Aurora water. I do want to point out that these are cities that are in a much different situation than the city of Brighton. They have a much larger water portfolio. They do have the treatment capacity available. But these are just two examples of what they put out to their residents. So in summary, what staff is seeking from you all tonight is input that we could bring back in a resolution regarding some sort of a residential watering or irrigation schedule. So the options that we would like you to consider that we can talk about and get input on are the definition of the irrigation season. So right now just the example up there is May 1st to September 30th. No sought installation from June 1st to September 30. No residential irrigation or watering from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. And then of course there's either the voluntary residential irrigation schedule, prescriptive residential irrigation schedule which we would set the days per week that residents could water. And then of course as it's up to you guys there could be no schedule at all. Any schedule that you guys talk about or would like us to bring back in that resolution would be evaluated annually and could be brought back to you annually. With that, we will take any input and thank you guys for your time and anything that we gather here tonight. We will work on drafting a resolution and then bring back at the next city council meeting. Thank you. We'll go to Councilmember Blackhurst first. Scott, thank you very much. I appreciate your presentation. A couple of questions way back. I don't know how many years, but at least 15 years, maybe 20 years ago, we had a similar program. Another what happened to it. maybe 20 years ago, we had a similar program. Another what happened to it, it kind of felt through the crack, but we were talking about concerning water. And back then they used to have a diamond circle square, which is every third day. And everybody knew that the first, well, one, if your address ended in one, two, three, it was anyway, you know what I'm saying? That's how you determine it. Which is pretty much what you're doing now as far as three days a week. I noticed that you said the irrigation for residential, but I've seen some of the worst offenders when it comes to wasted water on some of our commercial properties. So it's okay for commercial properties to irrigate it noon? So again, this was just an example. If you guys are more interested in talking about HOAs or commercial properties or whatever entity is in charge of like median landscaping, we could certainly bring that back in a resolution as well. I don't know the internet, but it seems to me that there shouldn't be any free passes because irrigating in the middle of the summer between 10 and 6 is waste of water. I think everybody would agree whether you're in a HOA or whether you're commercial business and definitely residential. Same rules, at least on that very easy one to enforce. I know that parks has a different sort of a problem because of limitations in how many different zones they have to deal with. And sometimes to get through all of the water, they have to run the odd time. But I don't think that same thing applies to h or ways and median watering. And I hate to say that we have an exception, but there is a difference when it comes to large turf areas that the city is responsible for. I sort of wouldn't make that. Do we have anybody that routinely drives around the city to see all these violations? So the only one like I said that is currently in Brighton Municipal Code is just the irrigating of basically impervious areas. But no, we do not have a dedicated person that drives around and looks for these violations. I know that there are communities that do have like dedicated water conservation people that their sole job is to drive around and look for those violations. It's a little bit concerning that we put these ordinances into place or whatever we have to do to make this an important thing. But we really, I think we're really upsets people when they know what the rules are, but they see violations of the rules and nothing ever happens to those folks. And I know it's an added expense, but I think as part of this kind of a program, we have to look at some sort of a routine kind of drive. I mean, you can find the easy ones drive around noon every day and whoever's irrigating and irrigating the street we should be able to do something. So I would encourage us to look how these could be enforced. I don't want us to become water Nazis if we could call it. You know, you were, you know, was only, was, nine or 10, oh five, and you were watering or something like that. But there's some easy ones. You can see that are wasting water that we should be able to address upfront. Absolutely, and I think that the way that we would handle kind of that now is we would work with the staff that we do have until we could explore if we need somebody to do that full time, or if it maybe it's a seasonal position or something. But we would try to work with the staff that we have and make sure that they are out and looking for those violations or at least responding to the complaints that are received of people watering at. Like you said, blatant times, noon, one, two. I agree that it would be just an educational thing with our current employees, because we have city vehicles all over the city. We do. And if we have some sort of a program that they would be encouraged to just jot a quick note, make it easy for them. So make it too complicated or they wouldn't want to do it. But anyway, thank you. I appreciate it. I think it's a great idea. Like I said, this is something that is really not, in my mind, drought-related. We live in an arid state, regardless of the snow pack or what's happening at the moment, because it goes up and down, we need to conserve water. We just do. Yeah. Right now, especially since we don't have the treatment capacity. So this is a great program. Thank you. Right, absolutely. And if I could just add, you know, that once we do say we do have the capacity here in a couple of years, you know, when we get this new treatment plan on, on board, it's not something that we just want to get away from water conservation. It needs to be enforced all the time. It's not something we can just say. We have the capacity now, everybody can irrigate whenever they like. No, council member, Blackhurst makes a great point. You know, we got to get the large water users outside of the residents to comply first. large water users outside of the residents to comply first. Nothing bugs me more than driving around at the middle of the day and seeing the water go off, not only by the individual users, but the large water user. I want to call a couple people out. I did last week. I text the store as city manager. Adams County Diffitention Facility on Thursday last week passing by 1130 in the day they're watering. It's a big user. We know the people there. Why are they watering at that time? And I passed by the Prairie Center out there by the Villa, those apartment homes. They're watering at 2 p.m. I think it was that same day or the day after. These are our partners. We work with them. Let's get them on board with watering during the evening hours after 6 p.m. before 10 a.m. whatever it is. Before 9 a.m., July gets hot by 9. Could you go back to that slide where he had the summary? I'll get there everybody in the moment. Sorry. Here I'd just like to add I don't know anybody in that. It's kind of correctional facility. Well they are out actually maintaining the lawn with stripes on. We know that people are running. All right. I have no problem defining an irrigation season. That's when I water May 1st to about the 30th of September. I might do the first week of October, but still 85 degrees but otherwise I'm done. Now no sod installation. Does that mean a whole yard or does that mean I can't even patch an area? So yeah that's a great question that's that's certainly something that we so when we put in there something like no sod installation we have to really break down and define what sawed installation means. Does that mean a new home that is installing, 300 square feet of sawed? Does that mean a single patch in your backyard that you're hand watering? And we can certainly break those down and define them more clearly. Because otherwise you're really left with the question of what does that mean? I have no problem with even a new home having a whole yard waiting till September. Yeah, I guess in this take case would be October. What my brothers' home was built a couple years ago. They didn't put in the grass till September. You know, better that way. All right. I think the biggest one I can get behind is that no residential, and I would define that as not just residential, just no irrigation between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. That's our commercial users, that's our residential users, that's our government partner users, that's our parks. Anyway, that's why I wanted to point out. Council Member Padilla. Thank you. My biggest question for you on watering restrictions for three days a week or less. I want to start just with a comment for the people used to the Diamond Circle Square. My current irrigation system will not handle a Diamond Circle Square requirement. I need to tell it Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday. I can't do every third day in the system that I have now. That's brand new. So when my mother sent me out with the sprinkler in the hose, yes, we could do every third day in that prescription. Not the case now. So watering three days a week less, we need to make it compatible with most of the systems that people. But my question on a three day a week watering restriction, it is what is the expected water savings difference if that's voluntary versus that being prescriptive? How close to the target do we get if that's voluntary versus how close would we expect to get if that's prescriptive? Absolutely. So we looked back at us. So in 2014 or well, 2013 after the really big drought in 2012, the city did a drought mitigation plan and really what they did when they did that was a a drought mitigation plan. And really what they did when they did that was a large literature review of what worked and what didn't work. And they found that a voluntary watering schedule did not provide any savings, any substantial savings or reduction. They found that three days a week typically saved three to five percent and then it was really the two day that saved the 20 percent. Okay. So a voluntary watering restriction to three days a week as much as that's my sentiment the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost of the installation until the end of September is a tremendous idea. At least let's not make the demand worse than it already is. I certainly agree with no residential watering from 10 to 6 and I guess I'm sort of deputizing everybody in the city. I guess I would call for the assignment to any of the city vehicles around for any purpose anywhere in the city to act on that or it really will have no effect whatsoever. So if it's whatever truck, whatever vehicle we have from the city, whether or not the part of the water department or code enforcement should be obligated to call that in. And then I guess the last piece of that is 50 some years of living in Colorado and living in a high arid climate. This is the only place and the only time that I have ever lived without some kind of watering restriction in the summer. Again, the entirety of my upbringing in Brighton, the entirety of my adult life, everywhere else that I have lived. In Colorado, we restrict, or I have had restrictions on how often and how frequently and how long I can water. I can't see why we as the city brighten, city brighten are the one exception to that in the world. So I would firmly, firmly call for, let's be responsible partners with all of the rest of the communities around us on the front range. And I would be in favor of a prescriptive restriction to three days a week. Thanks. Thank you. Can I just remember Paulic? Thank you, Mayor. Now, do you send out notices to the commercial users on our schedule or what we will allow them to water? Do they know or do we just want them to guess? So, if we were to implement some sort of a prescriptive watering schedule, yes, we would launch the campaign basically to let everyone know in the city. Residents, commercial, HOA, metropolitan districts, all of that. And it would all be on our website and everything. Right. But a notice in the mail would probably work more. They don't have time to be looking at your website when they're trying to run a business, just my opinion. Can you not tell which businesses are using more water than they should or than it's normal? Is there some way to tell? So with the AMI system, yes, we could tell basically what water demand they're seeing and what time of the day they're seeing it. So then couldn't you instead of asking our employees and staff to turn into water police, could you not maybe just send and notice and say this is a warning, knock it off or we're gonna find you. You know, let them know that someone is paying attention. Yeah, I think we could absolutely we could absolutely do that is use that system to look at at what time we see like a peak or something at a residential home. Yeah, yeah. Of course we don't know for sure if it's irrigation. We would assume it's irrigation, but yeah, we can certainly we can certainly look at our system. Yeah, I'm not talking about residential homes because I think they know and with inflation hitting us like it is And possibly their water going up I don't think we're gonna have that big a problem with overusing the water, but it was mentioned about commercial Businesses and so forth about you know the water going over the sidewalk to jail. I don't know mayor out putting a call to him and see who can take a call over there in charge of the water. But anyhow you know the and I have seen it myself. And not only just watering their lawn, but they're watering sidewalk and the pavement, I've seen it. And some of this is because they have broken sprinklers. So, and of course, you can expect that when you have the inmates mowing the lawns. They didn't have those things happen. Just a way of maybe just giving them a heads up and us kind of saying, we're paying attention, I didn't know how those things happened. Just a way of maybe just giving them a heads up and us kind of saying, we're paying attention, we see it and this is your warning, you wouldn't weigh over what you normally use or what you need to use or what you should use. And we're gonna find you if you do this again. Don't you think that might work? Absolutely. Just my thought. No, I think that's a great idea. And we can absolutely look into doing that. And just to answer your question about which customers can we see. So if they're a bright and utility customer, they have a water meter. Every customer has the smart reader meter reader. We can see whether it's Metro District H.O.A. commercial residential, it doesn't matter. Yeah, you know, it happened to me one month I got like a almost $400 water bill. And I'm like seriously, I haven't watered any more than normal. And so finally, someone from the city came out, they checked and they said, yeah, it's running right now. And I'm like, where? So it was in the office bathroom, and you couldn't hear it. When you, you know, it was that quiet that it was running continuously. Of course, we fixed it. But, you know, those things happen. And so if you see something that doesn't look right, give them a phone call, give them a heads up and say, you know, you're going above what you should be using or are used to using, let's kind of help them because again, as I say, we're going to have some financial issues heading us real soon. And so maybe working together we can figure how to help people out and conserve our water as well, just kind of working together kind of thing. Absolutely. Thank you. And for the sod I agree with the mayor, you know, maybe I might sound possibly, may have to replace a couple spots that just won't come to life and we'll even less now with three days a week. But I may have to replace them, but I wouldn't replace the whole sod. So something we should know if we can do that before he all send me a ticket. Absolutely. Thank you. When he sent send send the bill out. Yeah. May I put them. Thank you, mayor. So are we are we considering making all of these restrictions mandatory? Yes, that's correct. Okay. the city. So, the city is the city. So, the city is the city. The city is the city. The city is the city. The city is the city. The city is the city. The city is the city. The city is the city. The city is the city. The associations, the city, and businesses. And the three days a week I'm a fan of. I do understand the concern about the diamond square circle. They're definitely our controllers that don't support it, so we should probably be sensitive to do. I'm going to have to do that. I'm going to have to do that. I'm going to have to do that. I'm going to have to do that. I'm going to have to do that. I'm going to have to do that. I'm going to have to do that. I'm going to have to do that. I'm going to have to do that. I'm going to have to do that I would throw out there the cool thing about those is if you're out of town and it starts pouring rain, it shuts off for you automatically and and it's Good about giving you notifications to kind of keep you more engaged with your your watering So I think you know, it's very inexpensive. They're pretty easy to install. Everybody should really look into that because it's much much more efficient and Detroit right on your smartphone. But, you know, we're in a pretty dire situation, unfortunately, with our water plant. And while we're doing everything we can to get that built in meantime, you know, we need to make sure we have water. So I'm in favor of doing it it but I definitely agree with some of the other comments about businesses and H.O.A.s. they're the worst. I'm on one and you know sometimes we get a little detached from what's going on because we're paying a management company or a landscaping company, probably both. And they're not on top of stuff. In my H.O.A. we just had all of our controllers replaced with rainbird controllers. And they're the commercial version of a B-hive or whatever. They have a cellular SIM card in it. And that thing can alert me if it's spraying too much water out. And it was the easiest thing in the world to justify because twice last year we had stuck valves and we got thousands of dollars in water bills. If that one occurrence paid for the whole upgrade. So any H-o-a-ways that don't have that system should really do it. I mean, there's just no question. It can give them a text alert that says, you've been watering more than you're usually supposed to be or you're using too much water. So I definitely want to include them in this because they can be a large user of water. So I definitely want to include them in this because they can be a large user of water and we see it on social media where we're asking our residents to do this and do that and they're taking pictures of some sprinkler running at noon and like a park that's you know either not city owned or sometimes even city owned. So we need to be sensitive to that and I want to include the city in that too. We need to make sure we're asking people to do. I don't want to see one of our parks getting watered in the middle of the day or something. We have to be really on top of that. The second offense being a warning. I don't know. I feel like one warning is enough. And it's a $22 fine. It's not huge. but I can support a second if that's controversial. I guess I also feel like the fine should be maybe commensurate with the square footage of the property. If, you know, target is, that's probably that example. So if somebody has a huge area of grass and they're watering it in the middle of the day. A $22 fine isn't going to do anything. So if it's, I would say if we're dealing with larger square footage property, so they just don't care, we need to make that fine kind of applicable to them. Anyway, that's all I have. Thanks. Thank you. Councilmember to deal. Thank you councilmember Tadeel. Oh, our city attorney would like to chime in first. Just just just a couple of points of clarification. The violations and penalties are in the code we're not actually talking right now about changing the code. That would be an ordinance that we would bring separately in another time if that's something that we would like to do. And also in terms of notifications, absolutely, we need to send them letters and my preference is two or three because there's this little thing called due process and we can't actually find you or anything until we've met. You know, we've actually tried to talk to you and actually tried to notify you. Thank you for clarifying. Council member, today. Thank you. I am in favor of all, when I moved to Brighton in 1999, we were on watering restrictions. We were for a very long time and it was just our life. And it was very freeing when we didn't have to be but I don't think it's a big deal to go back to it. And I'm in favor of all of these rules. I would not be in favor of two days a week watering. Unfortunately, I know that's where you get your good numbers or percentage of savings. But I think we had that restriction at that time and I couldn't keep my grass alive. And so I would be in favor of the three days a week. And I would also be in favor of the three days a week. And I would also be in favor of, you know, commercial properties getting a bigger fine because you're right. 2250 or 50 bucks to a huge commercial property is nothing. And they're going to be the biggest water user. So I think that penalty should be bigger. You know, however that looks, if it's a percentage of the water they use or the square footage of their property or however it looks, I think it should be a little more serious. Could it be a figure in the free floor of the cab? the . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . that we can address. It sounds like most people want that to be addressed. It just wouldn't be able to be done by the next council meeting. I think the last statement I would like to make is that I do think that, unfortunately, I think it's extremely crucial that we do water instructions. I mean, with the situation that we're in and the water usage, it's crucial. We have to be able to do that. We have to be able to do that. I do think that, unfortunately, I think it's extremely crucial that we do water in restrictions. I mean, with the situation that we're in and the water usage, it's crucial. We would rather have some water than no water, right? So that's how I feel about it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. So now I'm the fourth for sure that has said this out loud. I don't want to do this on just fourth for sure that has said this out loud. I don't want to do this on just residential. It needs to be commercial industrial. That word hasn't been used industrial. Back, one of our biggest users was industrial. Especially when Vestus was here and running heavily. I don't know if that's still true, but. H OAs, the Metro districts, do not forget the Metro districts that were has not been used enough. They are one of the worst users of the water. But I'd say the one that I get the most complaints about is the city. I got a picture here on May 8th, Sunday, May 8th a video. Four hours we were watering Donaldson Park is spinning wheel and long speak four hours I didn't believe it so they use their video camera on their on their house and they sent me the full video just to say look from point one to the end of this it was four hours that was then this is now I'm saying we have to live up to our obligation for water restrictions as much as if not more than residents if we're gonna go out finding them That is a big deal I Also need to make I've say this all the time But word one grass in East Brighton bright and crossing bright and East farms at least a special water tower park I've heard the same, but I don't know as much We have an issue with the grass and clay that was used. There was clay used, and then the wrong grass seeds were plant, or the wrong sod was used in a lot of our neighborhoods. Not just that. The developers. This was when it was the Wild West out here, and developers were not held accountable. What they left was, you know how when you plant a tree, there's a metal basket you're supposed to take off, but then you leave the sack on. They left the metal baskets around. So if you go down Longspeak Street on the east side, look down that street. Every one of our yards had this huge tree planted in the front of our homes. Now one of them exists. They've made them into art pieces. I ripped mine out and replanted one ten years ago and it's now thriving because the way we dealt with it, we didn't put the dam metal basket around it so it, the roots grew. So we're dealing with a water issue out there that's a little bit different where I don't know if three days will actually get along green at all. That is my only concern about the three days is to really investigate and look into that because we're watering bad grass on clay. And when we had this discussion three years ago, gosh, longer, it was four years ago that they this was not only confirmed, but they were saying it was worse than they thought when they started testing the soils out there in these yards. Up mine was one of the voluntary ones on it. So that's something to consider. I don't know what to do about that but you have to be aware that if we can't keep our lawns green right now, the HOA can find us. Think about that whole predicament. The other part is I disagree with some comments here. Councillor Blackhurst said this the last time this came up and I want to be very clear the last time this came up, it was we are in a drought when we weren't. We were told we were in a drought and we have to do this now. This is the way it should have been discussed back then and it wasn't. It was we were told we were going to have to do that so I'm definitely apt to listening to this now. It's presented differently. Councilor black her said back then and it's true. And that's what I think is the most important thing to do. And I think that the concerns of the blackers said back then and it's true. Ask nice first. No one's been asked nicely to do any of these things in a long time to prescribe these now before we've even asked for voluntary compliance. I disagree with. I think we need to ask voluntarily before we go forward. The best part of this conversation mind is what Councillor Pollock said. We have the technology. Director prays their ones I asked her to do how good are the AMI and for some reason she was the one answering the questions. She goes, we can tell if you're flushing, you're toilet at 2 a.m. And I didn't like that because personal reasons. I think the best thing we can do is I would like you all to come back to us with the ideas of how we use that technology. I'm saying if we can see the water being wasted and used, forget about looking around at yards at all because we also have another issue in Brighton and Colorado is that I'm preparing to make one of these. I know a lot of my neighbor has. It's rain barrel sprinkler systems. Are you telling me that you're going to find me when I'm watering my lawn at noon with my rain barrels I use from the rain storm the day before? I'm saying a site test can not only be politically motivating for people to do bad things when lawns are being used against what their neighbor is setting up their sprinkler at noon and there's pictures being taken I've seen bad neighbors and good I think we need to be careful about that when we do have that technology sitting there and we can see who's using too much water sometimes I don't know why we're using only irrigation is the issue. I don't know this for a fact I don't know why it in my head, but a meth lab probably uses a lot of water too, but we won't see it. And what we'll see is that, wow, this house right here is using 1000 gallons extra water today. Why is that happening? So, we're concentrating too much, I think, on irrigation and not water usage. Because my wife says I shower for too long and maybe I do, and that increases our water usage too much and then we get a nice warning not a warning towards a system of a failed system of saying we're going to find you this in this because Councillor Cushing said something great too. We definitely have excuse me Mayor Prattin Cushing we definitely have to make sure that when it is the commercial users that they're not only a part of this, but we have to make sure that they are fine at a higher level. I don't want to be have like, that's where, I've said this about the whole water situation. I mean, it's true, most of this council's about to do a raise on bottom line water bills of 19 to 30% is the raise that's about, that's going to help with a residential irrigation um the average water bill we've been told is $27.19 I believe so that means that we're many of you are about to vote to raise water rates 19 to 30% is that untrue? but that's what we're headed can I hear from our city manager is that a true number that's correct in the winter usage yeah in winter usage. So we're already going to have winter usage hit at 19 to 30 percent. What summer usage is going to do? We don't know because we haven't seen that number. I've asked our city manager to see what that summer number is because we found the winter should be really easy to find the summer number. But here we are where I'd like to do all those things first before, like let's do everything first before we go to residents. That's what I'm asking. Before we go after the residents, that's a low-hanging fruit where we can put door hangers on and all that, but I'd like to use all these other mechanisms. Thanks. Council member Pulaski. Well, having been around too many years here. I am not for the voluntary. I think it needs to be prescriptive. I just think that everybody knows from the top, from the get-go, get it going. We know we have shortages and issues. So just use the prescriptive. Also, my thought processes, because I'm old. Oh, shoot, I was it. Oh, when you were doing the lines of the colored lines, did you take into consideration the increase in population or home numbers those years? No. So there's no variables taken into account. At all, not temperature, not precipitation. That probably should be something thought about too of maybe those increases where we had more homes being built or businesses or whatever. And one of the biggest also I think not just the city is the schools. School districts and around schools you see that. Them as being part of the. Watering. I mean they just need to be brought in to be sure that they're under the same. As the commercial and whatever so anyway. I think that's all I have. Thank you. That's follow-ups here. May I put them in councilmember Patia? Thank you. Are classical city attorney questions? I'm confused if we're making this mandatory. How are we doing it with that ordinance? You have adopted a water management plan and in your code you have adopted the ability to pass a resolution based upon the water management plan, which honestly the water management plan used to be addressed every single year and as those who've mentioned and were recalling it every single year the city council used to decide and put in restrictions and various things. None of us know why the annual resolution stopped in 2007. They just stopped and then there was a drought management plan in 2013. But because of how it's been done in the code, you can pass a resolution that addresses whatever limitations you've decided for that year based upon the original water management plan. But if that's not sufficient to cover the businesses we can pass an ordinance to, right? Well, and I don't, to be honest, I'd have to go back and look at the water management plan. I don't think that it's limiting us to residences at all. I thought we were saying we couldn't find more than $22.50 to even a business. The actual fine amounts of violation and penalty is spelled out in code and that's always the case because if we want to find you and have a penalty, that part of it is in the code. We could change that. Correct. I just want to clarify because it sounded like we were saying we can't do that. I was thinking we should be able to. We can. What we were contemplating was looking at this part of the code and probably bringing you a bit more of a more comprehensive code update to since it's a little written, a little weird. We update it more than one way. Okay. I'd say if we're not able to do what we want to do, we can... let's get an ordinance together, but again, a $22 fine isn't going to do anything for someone who's got a large user, and then I would like to correct Matt, Councilmember Johnston's analogy to a grow house. She was a lot of water. Yeah. Thanks. You know that power can tell us who's the grow house is right now. Council member Padilla. Thank you just a couple of things. The first one on the AMI system. There's a a. Quandery on enforcement mechanisms and what are the best things available to us. There's a reason that if you drive 35 miles an hour and a 30 mile per hour zone and nobody catches you, there's a problem or you get away with it versus running a red light where there's a camera. So there's a little bit here that I'm worried about making the assumption about what an increase in water usage is. Is it a leak for which we need to assist people versus is it irrigation that they're doing outside of the consistent? Do they know the size of my yard and we really want them analyzing that the increase use is clearly related to watering more than the number of minutes times the number of hours per day that is prescribed by a restriction. That becomes a bit more big brother-ish versus the somebody sees the violation. So I would say we need to think about enforcement mechanism and think about penalties in such a way to balance those two things. I don't want people making assumptions about what I'm doing with the water at two o'clock in the morning. And I don't think that our major increase in water consumption has to do with people taking longer showers in the summer than they do in the winter. So I think that there is a relatively safe assumption that the jump from 4,000 gallons of usage per month to 14,000 gallons of usage per month is probably not related to the duration of the showers in July. But it could be a leak and that's what it could be. That's exactly why I don't want to penalize. Why do you want to penalize? That's why I don't want to penalize on the leak. I want to notify and talk to people about the leak. But I don't know that that's necessarily the only enforcement mechanism. But I think our goal should always be just to conserve water. So what does it matter which water is being used? If it's too much of a peak and we have the technology to say, so much of a peak, we might be able to tell them that is, or we can go, wow, that's a big peak then you can send someone to their house to see if they're watering. That's a great thing. I see you. As we can see this, so we need to look because this is where offenders are occurring. But I still think you have to be caught in the act to get the penalty. So what I would say in terms of summer increase of the water bill is this is probably a tremendous way to lower your water bill while the water rate goes up because if you're watering five days a week and you switched to watering three days a week and your rate goes up 9% the average expected increase in the summer water bill for this year is about seven bucks. So this is about 21 bucks over the course of the watering season. If I water three days a week instead of five, I'm going to save more than that $7 each month. So I think the fact that a water rate increase that's being considered this going hand in hand, there's an opportunity for people to actually save that and have a lower water bill instead of a larger Water bill, but I would I would go back just as the last piece on that the voluntary water programs Have been shown repeatedly on the front range not to work. I think that in order to work In the time frame that we need We it'll have to be made Prescriptive I I think that by the time we as a council learn that people are not cooperating with the things and we get to the sixth week ahead in schedule another study session to talk about it and then get something on for a resolution. The watering season will be mostly over by the time we can correct the fact that a voluntary program isn't working. So I don't think that I don't think we can afford the water to wait that long. I understand hesitation. I definitely agree with asking people nicely. I think this one is going to have to be asking nicely with a little bit of firmness behind the ask. Thank you. Councilmember Polesky. While we're on this subject, can anyone here tell me front yards besides lawns? As I, and this goes back to, in the 2000, early 2000s, 2005, whatever, on the books, I think there's an ordinance that says that 30% of your front yard needs to be greenery. Is that correct? Is it 30%? Anybody know? And someone confirmed that. My recollection is that we changed that. We did. Requirement. To what? That there wasn't a 30% requirement for grouping. I used another percentage of it. I was like, because we do do zero escape now. Yeah. And HOAs cannot pass resolutions that don't allow for zeros capes. Yeah, what I'm concerned about is There's too many homes if you pay attention to them their front yards are crappy their weeds They don't take care of their front yards it affects In some respect The value of properties are surrounding them. So that's why I thought that was 30% was in in the first place, but if that's gone away, I don't know, but it's just a concern I have. Looks like a way of people looking for that 30% if it's there or not or if it's another number. So, and we can certainly look into that more and get back to you. I'd appreciate that. I just think we need to have our residents being more responsible for their front yards. I don't care what their back yards look like, but they're friends. Okay. Anybody else? Mayor, if you don't mind, I was just going as far as watering, some things that we've looked at is instead of doing like a 20 minute cycle per zone, what's kind of recommended with a little bit more of a clay soil is to do a little bit of the water. So I'm sorry I was late but as far as watering, some things that we've looked at is instead of doing like a 20 minute cycle per zone, what's kind of recommended with a little bit more of a clay soil is to do two cycles so you would do a 10 minute watering and let it absorb and then do a second watering. So you give that water a chance to absorb in so you don't saturate the ground to a point where it runs off and runs into the like into the curb and gutter or onto a sidewalk. So it's actually suggested to do multiple shorter cycles so that you can allow that water to absorb in so it doesn't run off on the grass. The second thing with the water smart, I came in a little bit late but it seems like that's kind of a big question. We're looking into, currently the AMI system works great. The problem we're having is we have a water smart program that communicates. It's a separate software that communicates with the AMI system. We're having some communication issues where the numbers, the usage numbers that are being converted over don't convert properly. We've been working over the last couple of months to try to get this program integrated, get it out. We just actually implemented a small portion of the city about a month ago. And we had errors where people were getting notifications that were false notifications. So we since turned it off, we're re-evaluating the software to make sure that this software works so that people, you know, we don't want to micromanage people, but we want to alert them if you have, you can set parameters. So if there's a flow, a constant flow of let's say five gallons a minute for more than 12 hours, it will send you a notification and you can set those parameters or the city we can set those parameters. The tough part right now is just that usage data when it converts over to the new software is it's adding the city. We can set those parameters. The tough part right now is just that usage data when it converts over to the new software is it's adding on a zero or it's converting the number so it's not accurate and so people are getting notifications and they're calling us saying hey, we use 15,000 gallons and it's 1500 gallons. So we're working through that that software right now to get those kinks out so that we can get this the system out and working for our residents. That would be great to give that AMI updated because obviously you know we've been bested in that technology. what if we incentivize by having tier one at night and tier five during the day, you know? I mean, I would think the AMI could support something like that, even if you had to do maybe a small software upgrade. Yeah, and it's something we're looking into with the company. I'm honestly at a point where if we can't get the software to work properly, we're going to look at getting a software that will actually work for our residents. The program's been here since before I started with the city and it seems like we've had difficulties. I'm trying to work with them but we are at a point where I don't feel like moving forward if we can't get it fixed is an option for our residents. And I'm glad you mentioned the watering in short cycles. I've been doing that for gosh since I lived in a neighboring state every season. I do these short cycles. I want it 2 a.m. 4 30 a.m. and 7 a.m. and I'm done every well in the mid-summer every third day right now. I'm doing every, well in the mid-summer, every third day, right now I'm doing the fourth day, but I would recommend everyone to figure out a way to do that on their irrigation controls. I figured it out on two different ones I've had. So most programs have it like an ABC, so you can set the different cycles. So it works well and it's better for our clay soil that is here. Mine has an ABC and a skip days in My system is definitely more than 11 years old since I've owned it for 11 years. So Council member Padilla we've had two rounds very quick thing. It's just an apology that My it spoused texted me the UI for our system and we can't indeed set it for every third day. He knew better than I did how to get there. However, he did not figure out how to do it on my father's. So the same problem still applies with the older one. I know. It is an issue, but I was wrong. The system was capable of doing every third day. It's just much farther down in the interface. Thanks. All right. If there's nothing else, thank you. Thank you for your help in your presentation. Great discussion too. Next item on the agenda. There's some people in purple waiting for. Proposed updates to the Brighton Youth Commission membership code. City Manager Martinez, so turn it over to you. Thank you, Mayor. The purple people will be joining us as you mentioned. We have some so dedicated. We got purple hair too. Purple and we have green in the audience as well. So if you'll recall, I mean, it's we've been discussing the Brighton Youth Commission over the past year. So, and there's been a lot of discussion about membership and about cleaning up the ordinance to include more people. You've asked and we listened and we convened a group of folks to help look at the ordinance including the City Attorney, including Council Member Blackhurst and other folks as well the city attorney. We are looking to be looking to be looking to be looking to be looking to be looking to be looking to be looking to be looking to be looking to be looking to be looking to be looking to be looking to be looking to be looking to be looking to be looking to be looking to be looking to be looking to be looking to be looking to be looking to be looking to be looking to be looking to be we'll present to you what the Youth Commission has come up with in terms of the ordinance update and we're happy to answer any questions, concerns or anything else that we can answer. But with that, I'll turn it over to Tanya. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor and thank you, Council, for your time tonight. As you mentioned, as you may recall, we've had a lot of thoughtful discussion over the past year about how we could improve our Brighton Youth Commission and create more opportunities for young people to serve in our community. So that's what brings us here tonight. Hi, my name is Diana Hernandez. I go to Egor Giacademy and I'm a soon to be June a senior. My name is Christian Morales. I was a past youth commissioner and now a service and adult commissioner Hi everyone, I'm Andrea Don McKis. I will be graduating from Brighton High School tomorrow Good evening Mayor Mayor Pro Tem and members of the council. My name is Rachel newly and I'm the youth services coordinator for the Office of Youth Services Thank you for your time today. I am Crune of Interpule and I actually graduated from the 27J online academy this morning. Thank you. So before we can even sit here today and present our recommended changes to the ordinance, it was a long lengthy process for us. We had to take it to the Brighton Youth Commission and even see if we wanted to do that. And we all agreed it was the next best step for us as a commission. We put together a committee of young people, you service staff. We had our city council liaison, Clint Blackhurst help us, our 27J board representative, Lloyd Worth help us, and the city attorney team. After we got, we looked at all of the BIC ordinances from the past and we put them all together to simplify and clarify the municipal code into one clear ordinance for us. We then presented the suggested changes to the rest of the Brighton Youth Commission for their approval and now we are here to present our drafted changes. And we will have space for questions at the end. The Office of Youth Services provides initiatives under the following strategic areas. Safe, active, and engaged community, strong, regional relationships and partnerships, and strong local employment opportunities. relationships and partnerships and strong local employment opportunities. Today we're bringing you updates to the Brighton Youth Commission. But that's not my slide. I'm sorry. So the Youth Education and Families Master Plan created the idea of the community. Council member Polaski, who was mayor at the time, played an active role in the process. Council worked with the consultant and many members of the community, including the school district and nonprofits, utilizing the platform of the National League of Cities. Out of the plan came the ordinance, utilizing the platform of the National League of Cities. Other than the plan came the ordinance that created the Brighton Youth Commission. Now I'll go, sorry guys. Today we're bringing you updates to the Brighton Youth Commission, but just as a recap, the youth commission falls within the Office of Youth Services. The Office works to create community partnerships in order to provide programming and initiative serving young people in the Office of Youth Services. The Office works to create community partnerships in order to provide programming and initiative serving young people in the community. When I was bought on board, in 2010, I was well aware that the Youth Commission came out of the master plan. At the time the master plan was created, there was a number of initiatives that were, they were hoping to create in order to serve young people, but the economy crashed shortly after the plan It was kind of just put up on the shelf When the city brought me on board full time that he just gave me the plans that here dust us off and Creates him initiative serving young people. So that's kind of the jury that we've been taking since then Um a common misconception of the office is that the office of use services is the youth commission and that the youth commission is the office of use services and all that the office does is the youth commission. However, the office of use services works a number of different initiatives and although the BYC might advise them, they're not responsible for planning or carrying them out. The office of youth services is often described as a big umbrella that covers a lot of important initiatives such as the Geringress Interest and Program, the Image Summit, the Brain Youth Commission, the Youth Corps, and the Adams County Mayors and Commissioners Youth Awards. The illustration that you see on the slide is not all encompassing of the work that the Office does. Many of these initiatives have programs that run year round. The Brighton Youth Commission was established in 2005. The current makeup of it, which has remained the same since inception, consists of 20 commissioners to alternate members, one City Council representative, 127J representative, for adult representatives, and one non-voting staff member. The purpose of the Brighton Youth Commission as per the original ordinance is as follows. The BIC has been created to study, investigate, plan, implement, and advise the City Council on matters related to youth. In particular, the Commission is charged with developing and promoting policies, programs, and services that empower, support, and inform youth. That creates a family-friendly environment, and that enables and encourage youth to be productive members of the community. The Commission shall serve as an advisory body to the city council on all matters dealing with youth. In order to accomplish this, generations of the youth commission have created many programs, a few of which can be seen here on the screen. First, we have the Youth and City Board's program. Through this, youth and the city have the opportunity to serve on boards and commissions where they can represent the youth perspective during policy making and learn extensively about the topic their board covers. We also plan our annual Speak Week, a suicide prevention program that includes resources to help break down the stigma surrounding mental health and is implemented in the 27J School District. Thirdly, we have the well, the Brighton Youth Commission provides a variety of developmental opportunities, including life skills I will use in the future. For example, I have learned about grant writing, which will be beneficial as I go into my college career as a social work major. Lastly, we also provide the youth core of volunteers, which is a separate body of youth that works similarly to the Brighton Youth Commission. Many years ago, the Brighton Youth Commission noticed that there were more applicants than there were spots available. And instead of turning these Bright individuals away, they created the youth core to allow more youth to get involved. The youth core give back to their community with members as young as 10 years old. The Baray and Youth Commissioners are important leaders on a local level but also on a state and national level. So a few examples of some of the boards and committees we have gotten the opportunity to serve on as leaders and chair voices on are national League of Cities boards. We have the Colorado Municipal League and then we have the Colorado Health Supposium. I'm sorry if I said that wrong. Another example of a local board that's not listed up here is the Superintendent Student Advisory Council, which I am a part of, and I am still a Brighton Youth Commissioner. Since the ordinance was created, Brighton has grown by 50%. The growth of a school district has mirrored this increase. We are coming to present a change to the makeup of the Brighton Youth Commission based on this. As we took a deep dive into the past ordinances and the city code, we quickly realized that we wanted to also make changes to simplify and clarify the language. that we wanted to also make changes to simplify and clarify the language. We will give a summary of some of the changes we have reviewed with the City Attorney. The full red line document is available in your packets for reference. The first changes I will be highlighting are in section 22540. We would like to expand the commission to have up to 46 voting members. And we are also suggesting that the criteria for the members is changed to include members who live within the city limits or within 27J school district boundaries or if they can show they have significant ties to the city. Recommended changes for section 22550 of the municipal quarter as follows. the committee changes for section 22550 of the municipal quarter as follows. These recommended changes are to simplify the language and the current practices of the commission. Much of this section was created in order to assist with establishment of a functioning group. Since that time, the Bryan Youth Commission has created a policy and procedures manual that addresses much of these. procedures manual that address as much of these. In section 22570, many of the changes were made in collaboration with the city attorney changing language in order to maintain consistency. Letter D is an addition to the ordinance that clarifies that our attendance procedures will be covered in our policy and procedures manual. that clarifies that our attendance procedures will be covered in our policy and procedures manual. Lastly, in E10 BIC members may be appointed to other city boards and commissions. Currently there are members sitting on city boards that may or may not be voting members of the BIC. Thank you Mayor Pro Tem and members of council for your time and for allowing us to bring our recommended changes to you. We plan to bring this back to you for the first reading on June 7th, but at this time, we would like to open it up for questions from you. Got questions for our youth. We're a potent. Thank you for the presentation. Congratulations, graduates. My only questions are, I'm a little reluctant to set hard numbers like 46 or 10 on youth boards because our city's growing. So are we better off? I mean, this is a question for our city attorney, leaving that number open ended. Or I mean, is a static number the right move, I guess is my question. Do we need to cap it at 46 or can we in that, why do we have to have a limit? Because I just think, you know, I can add some insight to that. Why do we have to have a limit? Because I just think you know I can add some insight to that. We talked a lot about not adding a limit or adding a limit but. In order to maintain the cover it could be a capacity issue so. Maintaining the commission is a lot of work. And if we were to have 100 voting members, there wouldn't be this staff capacity to support that. That's not what I mean. I mean, can we leave it up to the Youth Commission and decide how many members they have? That's what I was more asking, sorry. Is, you know, if they've got capacity for more than let them have more. Since Council member Blackhurst was on that committee, I think that's the reason why I think that's the reason why I think that's the reason why I think that's the reason why I think that's the reason why I think that's the reason why I think that's the reason why I think that's the reason why I think that's the reason why I think that's the reason why I think that's the reason why I think that's the reason why I think that's the reason why I think that's the reason why is much more cumbersome when you get rendered changed because circumstances change. But the pot that we all agree that there needs to be numbers. But it's where those numbers reside and the ordinance in my opinion is not where they should reside. Right. That's right. And they should be within the policies and procedures. And because you're right. We can't. We don't have a place for a hundred kids to meet. But then they can vote on that. If they say, hey, we have 46, can we up at the 54 then the youth commission can vote up at the 54? I think that would be better. And then I don't love the idea of the expanding outside of Brighton just because it's a city-funded thing. I think it would be good if we could keep those spots open for city of Brighton residents, but that's just my opinion. Thanks. I appreciate the presentation. It was really good. You know, I would agree with keeping it either at Brighton residents or those that go to a Brighton school, not necessarily like, say, Quest and then you live out in Thorne, you never come to Brighton school, not necessarily like, say, Quist, and then you live out in Thornton, and you never come to Brighton, you know. But I could be open to someone that might be coming into Brighton High, but they live east of I-76 or whatever. They have an interest in what's going on Brighton, obviously. Councillor Moura-Pedia. Thanks. First, I would echo the idea that the membership limits should be within your own governing documents and not in the City Council ordinance. I think there are some things that we should contemplate the ordinance creation of this more as the idea of the constitution and your policies and procedures more as the bylaws to your membership. The idea of numbers outside of Brighton, I think it's there has to be some explanation or has to be some demonstration of that significant tie. I think that we have some people on adult boards and commissions say who live right on the outskirts of town who are leaders in the town who are active participants in the community, all of their sales tax dollars are spent here. There may be some need for that. in the town where active participants in the community, all of their sales tax dollars are spent here, that there may be some need for that. If there are people who say live in the area that's unincorporated, immediately south of us but are on bright and water, attend the Brighton Schools, this is their community, they're not part of Thornton, they're not part of some other community and setting that hard restriction may do us a disservice with people who would be good leaders in the community. So I'm supportive of that from the same perspective that I am for members on the DELT boards and commission. So people are engaged here and this is their community. I think they should have the opportunity to participate in that. We don't give them discounts as residents for the Rec Center, for instance, that's a hard line, but allowing them to sit on a volunteer commission, this is the community that they're helping develop. So I would be supportive of that, would ask that the policies and procedures include some explicit language on how you determine that significant tie. That's all I have. I think this is excellent work. So proud of the things done by this and some of the members sit on some of the boards and commissions where I attend and are valued members. And of course, I was incredibly impressed by the group who went to the National League of Cities event in DC where you all are obviously leaders not just in this community but leaders among the youth leaders of other cities. So I think it's a great program and I love the idea of being able to expand to recognize where we're a bigger city than we were when this was first invented. And I'm sorry, I first woman there left the room during that chance, but again, great fourth thought, a fantastic chance to include this. I'm so glad it exists. Thanks. Thank you. Councilmember Blackhurst. I probably shouldn't have been sitting on the other side of the table because the very things that we're discussing here were things that came up and were discussed at length by the youth commission. other side of the table. Because the very things that we're discussing here were things that came up and were discussed at length by the Youth Commission. And some of the examples, for example, a person could live in that commerce city area on 120th go to school, bridge, school. Thank you. Excuse me. And be as much a part of the city of Brighton as any of our residents are. And so they have to have that flexibility because that actually happens. I mean, people down there in that area, for example, have a Brighton mailing dress. They do all their shopping. It's very issues you're bringing up are the ones that the youth commission talk long and hard about and I think they've worked out in their policies procedures actually how to do those things so. Thank you. Thank you. Let's move on. Thank you, mayor. Have a couple of questions. In 2004. When the Brighton Youth Commission was approved by. have a couple of questions in 2004 when the Brighton Youth Commission was approved by this city. What was the budget at that time? What was their budget? I apologize. I don't have the information for 2004. I'm sure that we couldn't find that. So there was an enrollment of 10,450 kids in middle school and high school. Was it this year? The increase in the school in 27J. That's who you, this is all about. Correct. Okay. So this enrollment was 10,450 children. Is that right? 20,000. 20,000. 20,000, okay. So, right here. Okay, so 20,000. Wow, and out of those 20,000. You're probably thinking back in 2004, it was about 10,000 now it's doubled. Okay, so, okay. You're probably thinking back in 2004 it was about 10,000 now it's doubled. Okay, so I okay. So 20,000 some kids are enrolled in our schools in 27 day. Out of those 27,000, 46 belong to the right youth commission. Wow, is that as a correct? Only 46 are voting members. Currently it's 20 members and two alternates. We're asking for an increased of 46. So you want to. I don't even think that's. 1% of the total amount of residents in the city. Now, you receive your budget for the Brighton Youth Commission is almost in half a million dollars is that correct? About 440,000 in my right. The budget for the full, the office as a whole, the umbrella, the office of the whole, of my total budget in 2022, about $60,700, what spent on the Brighton Youth Commission and the Brighton Youth Corps volunteers. So there's currently 20 members of the Youth Commission with two alternates. That's 22 and there's 10 young people sitting on city boards and that also includes the Youth Corps of Volunteers. Rachel, how many current youth corps members do you have? We currently have about 20 on the Youth Corps of Volunteers. 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The amount of money that the city uses towards a bright youth commission with such a small number. You know, usually the city is not a charity organization. And so just spend what I consider really substantial amount of money on such a program is kind of it may have made sense in 2004, but it doesn't make sense today. We are approaching not even approaching. We're going to have some financial issues here soon. The city is not going to be exempt from that. And instead of looking to spend more money, we should be looking for ways to cut back. We have inflation. And there's no denying it unless everybody's got their heads buried and aren't looking what's going on around them. It's a concern. I have people complaining because we have to put in a new water treatment plant and it's costly to the tune of about $150 million. And they're wondering why they have to pay for it. And that's with the question about water that they need, that it's a necessity, it is a necessity. Does anybody see what's going on around us at all? At all. You know, I have to answer to people because I voted yes to raise the water rates. It hasn't been a pretty week for me. And then I sit here and say, oh, I approve almost half a million dollars from 46. Well, going to be 46 residents. 20 right now. It's it would be 46. Tell me it makes sense. Somebody tell me it makes sense. I have nothing against young people. But you know what, every one of you, a very intelligent, this, sure, this helps. Which have school, obviously, all graduating. It's pretty sharp. And of course, it will hopefully benefit you in the future. And I think if times were different and money was more plentiful, I may not have that big a complaint. But I don't only have 20 people to answer to. And if you're keeping up with anything like I said, we need to put in a new water treatment plant so that all of you can drink good clean water, just 20, just 46, but everyone. And I just wonder how do I answer to the people that are complaining to me? How do I answer? It's okay to give half a million dollars to a small group of people what, what about the money that they need for them? Because the water is for them, for all of us actually. You may think I'm being mean or hateful. You know what a city council person is, what their responsibility is. Their real responsibility, not to make friends, not to make everybody happy to control the budget, the purse. We're in a position that we're in with inflation on top of us. You think we shouldn't be a little bit worried? And say, we respect too much. Not how do we do. How do we provide the services we have to provide? And we have no choice but to provide. We don't have the money. We're going to get into recession here real soon. It's going gonna get worse But we've already approved all this ready to say now people What do you tell your constituents? We ran willy-nilly with your money and we didn't give it darn Too bad because we like those kids. Yeah, we like them If I personally had half a million dollars to give me, I would be my money. I'd give it to you. It's not my money. I have to answer to the people I represent. And like I said last week was Pure Hell because I had the audacity to vote, to raise the water rates so that we could get a new treatment plant water treatment plant. I have the audacity Well very intelligent young people Doesn't doesn't surprise me at all and you understand you really do understand and I'm sorry if I have to go against that. Maybe we can figure something else out, but that amount's not working, not right now. Again, it may have worked great in 2004. I wasn't here. I don't know. I'm sorry. He was just saying about the whole program. Well, it's what you're going to change in ordinance. It's in the program. Is it not? It's in the original. It's not talking about. But you can't. Yeah, let's say I can't support even the change of ordinance because I'm just leading them on. That's all right. Well, your guardian angel just stepped in. So for the meantime, we'll let it go at that. Councilmember Johnston. I'll never call you an angel, Councillor Blackor. He's far from that. No, I've got a couple of questions that are off of that trail. One is, I actually like the idea of the increase for the numbers overall. I agree, definitely, first of all, sorry that I think Councillor Blacker's answered the question that I was going to ask at you a lot of the times. I've been an intern for two different city councils and a lot of the times I was spoke at when I had the answer. So I saw that in a lot of your faces. So the question I was going to ask I think was answered is how did you come up with that number of 46 and what would you, that's one part of it. And the second part of it that is even more cool and I wanna hear how this happened is, how did you come up with the thought of, we don't wanna just limited to people in the city and what was your thought process if you don't mind? You want to go on me too. Yeah. You can. Well, I can answer the second part to your question. I am a great example of a kid who does not live in the city limits of Brighton, but I'm a Brighton Youth Commissioner. I go to school up here. I work with the vice president of our school board up in Brighton. I spend all of my time up here in Brighton. All of my friends live up here. I spend majority of my money up here. So going to like Tanya and asking for this ordinance change, that was one of the biggest things for me is I don't live here, but my whole life is in bright and it has been even before I was on the Brighton Youth Commission. So that was the biggest point to expand to the whole school district because there's a lot of us kids just because of our mailing address or like our house address. We're being left out just because, you know, we're left, we're not in city limits. But I spend all of my time here and I can in the city attorney's words demonstrate significant ties to the city. And we have a tons of kids who are just like that, who we, they are being denied the opportunities like the rest of us, just because of our mailing address, even though we spend all of our time here in Brighton is our home and it's where our hearts are at. I see that's what I wanted to hear. Well done. Thank you. But that's the biggest problem is a lot of people don't understand even. I think council members that there's pockets of our city that are in the middle of our city surrounded by the city where there's these homes. I have a lot of them, a few of them in my ward. I think there's more in ward two than there is our mine. But yeah, I think that's very applicable to this moment. The membership numbers and to Councillor Pollock, there is something about being fully inclusive. There was moments where over the past year, two years, that there's been a feeling, and I just wanna speak frankly, because we're in this room, is there's been a feeling of a lack of inclusivity in certain facets of what was going on with the Youth Commission, and me not being a part of it, or never being on the board, never being around it as much as I would have liked to. That's against my entire morale standpoint is, and I know the individuals that I know better than others, I know you try to be inclusive, but even the thought that they were not being inclusive of all, that it can look as if you're not. So I want to make sure that we head that way as a, as ethics of morals, I would argue if you ever were in one of my classes when I was a professor, that they don't exist unless they're in your own mind. But the idea of an ethical guideline of that to make sure we stayed on that line is really important as we go forward beyond this. The other part of this is making sure that if we have 46, I would like to increase the number overall up, not up to, like what was said, but a minimum increase maybe. Right now it's kind of a set number so maybe think about that. But I want you all to do as you need to and want to. I think that you all can come up with decisions and thought process beyond ours as a council, especially this specific council. But the idea of having you all, the way that you took this and went about it is great. The one other concern I have, and I've heard this, and so tell me if I'm not correct. Are the meetings open to the public when you have a meeting? 100%. Our meetings are open to the public. They're posted on the city website. When we transitioned over here from historic city hall, we never had a person over there letting people in. So we just kept with the same practice, but we put sign on the door immediately saying if you're here for a youth commission meeting, contact one of the three staff members. So they are open to the public. Good, yeah, that's what I'm just to address the inclusivity part two. I think that that is something that's so near and dear not only to my heart but to their hearts as well. So I just wanted to highlight when I first came to the Brighton Youth Commission years ago in 2010, my background was working with that risk individuals. And so we had this little torrent and the valedictorian of every local school serving on the youth commission. And we had so many talks then about the importance of being representative ways for the young people in the city and so we made a lot of changes then and have continued to do our best to recruit a very diverse group of young people. I think sometimes hourly it seems like we have a select kind of exclusive group. The power of positive peer pressure is really, I mean, it really works. So we have recruited young people in the past who have had some run-ins, you know, with the PD are not doing well in school, but they get in the room with people who are the salutatorian and valvittarian and kind of by default behavior is change. So I just wanted to take a minute to address that as well. Well, great. Well, that's great. Thank you very much for your time and thanks for the and the and the and the and the and the and the and the and the and the and the and the and, at the state of the region, the governor spoke. So what I'm thinking, and this is just I'm just throwing this out for just food for God. If we're approaching 45,000 population in the city of Brighton, and if I figure there's probably about 18,000 of those are adults, According to the governor because of the taber amendment, every person, adult person is to get $500 back this year from the neighbor. So if that's true, that's $9 million coming to City of Brighton. So maybe we shouldn't be worrying so much about a half a million dollars. Anyway, I just wanted to show that out. Just more information than probably you don't care to have, but it's there. Thank you. Got some fellow ups, Mayor Patel. Yeah, just real quick. I appreciate the comments on the out of Brighton. And I think it makes sense to leave that up to the Youth Commission. I like the mayor's idea of Brighton schools. I was thinking of like he mentioned Thornton where you might not come to Brighton all, but definitely don't want to exclude people who are going to Brighton schools. And then I want to thank you for just looking at the city's website and saw them all the minutes in the meeting notice. That's really awesome. I know that was something that came up before and I'm enjoying reading your minutes since it's very good. Thank you. Councillor Member Padilla. Yes. So I would just reiterate something that I've said in the past talking about youth services in general and about the youth commission in particular. I think that you are the critical thing we invest in. Yes, we need water. I would just point out that we can't use general funds for water treatment or for provision of water anyway. the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the as they look to leave their homes and move on to what's next. We want to develop you so that you continue to be leaders wherever you go representing the city and we want you to be leaders who come back and serve this city. This is why we care about youth soccer programs. This is why we care about parks. This is why we care about paths for people to develop themselves and be physically healthy. This is, you are the reason we're investing and you are the most critical investment we make. And I value you incredibly. I think it is disingenuous to claim that we're spending the entirety of the Youth Services program on the Youth Commission. We were just told that that's roughly $60,000 out of that $450,000. And that's for the commissioners who serve on it, but it isn't for the 20 commissioners who serve on it or the soon to be 40 commissioners who serve on it. It's for all of the people who are benefiting from the programs that you're putting together and creating. So this is not a program designed to take care of and spoil 60 kids. This is something that's designed to help you provide services to all of the rest of the people around you. That's critically important to the events that you put on speak week was a marvelous event. The kids who received awards recently from the Adams County program, that is an amazing thing. We should not. Mistake and overlap. the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the community that we're begging adults to do. They're sitting on our commissions and helping to make decisions around the investment in cultural arts around the housing authority. I don't know all of the things that you sit on, but you are sitting on the boards and commissions that are making decisions and doing and applaud and celebrate that and be grateful for it at every opportunity. So I think that you are doing the right thing and looking to expand. I think that the city is doing the right thing suggesting that some of these things need to be in your policies and procedures and not up to us to keep deciding you should not come to us every time you need to make an adjustment to that membership. You should function as independently as many of the other organizations we support to, and you should continue to do this amazing work. So thank you. Hey, everybody else? Council Member Bruckers. I just have to sum up the great job that you do on a regular basis. I'm never, every time I think that I'm impressed, I find I'm more impressed by the next time that I see you work, your dedication. You influence so many people around you. It isn't just a youth commission that, everywhere you go to school, I think most of the kids that you go to school with know that you're on the youth commission and the contribution you make on a regular basis is amazing and if my colleagues want to call me a guardian angel, I'll take that with a great deal of pride. So thank you again for all you do. Anybody else? Yeah, that sounds like the city. It sounds like they're support to maybe build it in so you have a little more flexibility. City manager Martinez, do we have the direction? Yes, sir. You're looking for? Yep. You just summed it up nicely. It sounds like there's support for those things that you mentioned. Maybe consider if we're expecting outside the city limits limit to more brightened school interests. Yeah, we'll come up with a better that we're going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going decision making there and how we can mitigate that. Do you want to answer that? Yeah, we did talk at great length about all of these things. And the reason we chose and landed on significant high-scese is because we have examples currently. So we have a young person currently serving on the Legacy Foundation. She can only serve on the Legacy Foundation. She lives east of 76. Forgive me, I'm terrible at directions. She lives east of 76. Brighton is her only home. And her parents have chosen to make her go to Stargate. And so if she could attend the 27J school, she would, but she attends Stargate and does all of her business and all of her friends are here in Brighton. And so we would be at a huge loss without this individual, the community would. She has served hours and hours and hours. So significant tie, that's an example of a significant tie. Somebody who does not attend a 27J school does not live within the city limits, but contributes greatly. Well, I would agree that's a significant tie, but those that, you know, like the example I said, somebody in my eight-code of quest, they live in Thornton, they shop at the Walmart and go back, they don't come to Brighton for anything. And those are the interests maybe you need to look at as a case by case basis. Yeah, but it's certainly more of the exception than the rule. I mean, if you look at the makeup of the Youth Commission, now we have a few, but ultimately, the vast majority are bright in residence. And of course we'll continue to input that scrutiny into the selection process. We understand that it's important so we'll make sure that we get it in there. Great. Thank you. Is that it? Thank you. All right. The next item on the agenda is Business License Fee Update. So City manager Martinez. Thank you Mayor. Just real quick. I like the Guardian Angel comment and I would, since we're doing that, if you can refer to me as St. Michael, I would appreciate that too from here on out. I do, you're correct. This will be quick. So Anna and Katrina will come up to talk about our business licensing process. We have good news for businesses that we would like to discuss with you. There is an impact to our budget, although it will be a slight impact. We want to make sure that you're aware of what that impact would be with respect to removing our business licensing fee. So with that, I'll turn it over to Anna and Katrina. You have the presentation up. Oh, I think you're out where it went. I will. All right. So we are here to propose amendments to the general business license fee resolution. Specifically, we will be proposing that the business license fee be reduced to zero and that is in order to comply with Senate Bill 22-032 and also to facilitate compliance and the business licensing process. Our strategic focus areas are financially responsible and strong regional relationships and partnerships. So first a brief overview of our current business licensing process. So a business submits a license application and which application they submit depends on what type of business. They might be a home business, they may be a commercial business, and most are actually remote sellers. The business license fee is currently $10, so they would pay their $10, and then that application will be reviewed. And again, the review depends on what type of business it is. We are currently now using Monday.com for our review process. You've heard of this management tool before. It has been really great to track this especially because depending on the type of business license application, we might have multiple departments that need to look at it and approve. So we have a great way now to keep track of that. Once all approvals have are there and we've received the license fee, then the license gets issued to a business. Most businesses are in a two-year cycle. So the license would expire at the end of every odd number year is what the code says. So if a remote seller were to apply today, they would get a license that would be good till the end of December of 23. And then the renewal for an active license would be free. The annual revenue from business license fees is only about $6,000. So it's not a lot and most of it is coming from remote sellers. So the bulk of this is coming from remote sellers paying that $10 license fee. Today we've issued 175 licenses and 134 of those have gone to remote sellers. Let's talk about why we're here proposing this now. So you heard me talk before to you about the 2018 Supreme Court case, Wayfair versus South Dakota. This is the case that allowed jurisdictions across the country to start requiring remote sellers to collect and remit their sales tax. And what we've found has happened, particularly in our state where we have 70 plus home rule cities, is that remote sellers, both big and small, are now finding themselves having to get licensed in a lot of places and navigate different rules and different fees. So they may be paying $10 to us, they may be paying $50 to another city, another city may be free. And so it can get a little bit complicated for them. In some cases, the license fee may be more than the tax they actually owe to that jurisdiction. And so that is how the Senate bill came about to simplify that and make it easier. This Senate bill requires that local jurisdictions eliminate the business license fee for remote sellers starting in July. Given the amount of revenue that we receive from business licenses and that the bulk of it is coming from these remote sellers. We are recommended that the business license fee be eliminated for all general business licenses. This also will allow staff to focus more on making sure that the business is in compliance, that they're remitting their sales tax and not having to follow up with $10 fee payments and process $10 license fee checks and things like that. I'm also going to note that this Senate bill also requires to eliminate the license itself for remote sellers effective in July of 23. So we will have to come back to you within the next year to propose some code changes. We want to make sure that we comply with the Senate bill, but we also want to make sure that we're looking at the businesses we need to look at. So we will be coming back to you for that. But for today, we are just proposing that we eliminate the business license fee. And if everyone agrees, we would like to put it on consent for June 7th. And with that, we'll take any questions. So real quick, if we do nothing, then we're out of compliance as of next July. Well, if we do nothing, we would be out of compliance a little over a month from now, because we would still be charging a fee to those remote sellers. Whatever we were to find that fee is the water treatment plant fee. I appreciate your creativity there. I got no that's not gonna go far. It's not even a drop in the bucket. Oh nice. Go to questions who had their hand up first? Who got ladies first here? Oh, we'll go to be at first. I think this is fantastic that we're proactively working on this. The only thing I would comment on consent agenda is that I think this is worthy of communicating clearly to people. And so I like the idea of having it in the record outside of the consent agenda, but I don't think unless people are determined to ignore what the Senate passed that there's much objection to it. So that's the only reason I would consider not putting it on the consent agenda. City Manager Martinez, as a compromise, we would post something on Facebook and also Senate tall business license holders if it passes so they would still have that same amount of communication too. the community. We have a committee. We have a committee. We have a committee. We have a committee. We have a committee. We have a committee. We have a committee. We have a committee. We have a committee. We have a committee. We have a committee. We have a committee. question in July of 2023 when we're eliminating the local license for remote sellers if they're licensed through the state. What happens to that sales tax revenue? They would still have an account with us. So we would still get the sales tax revenue. They just wouldn't have the license. Oh yeah, we can't. Well we can't do is require them to come to us separately, fill out our application, pay our fee. Okay. But we would still set up an account to collect that. So somehow took away our tax revenue from them. I didn't like that part. No, we actually have a number of those remote sellers that already do license through the state and pay us through the state. Okay. Through the states they call the SUTs system. And to be clear, we're just eliminating the license fee for remote sellers. So anybody else that has a brick and mortar or anything like that, there still have to follow the other rule. So the fee would be for everyone. Even commercial home business, we're eliminating the fee for everyone. Of course, when we come back next year, that's gonna look a little bit differently because we still want commercial and home businesses to go through a licensing process. So you just be clear we're proposing we remove the fee for all businesses partly just due to the administrative burden of doing this and the lack of revenue because if you think about that so the 175 businesses businesses licenses we've issued this year 76 76% of remote. So $410 has come in from brick and mortar, you know, it's just such a small amount. And we've worked your time to process it. Right. We'd like to focus on the compliance analysis. So if we can focus on compliance and getting them licensed, we want to get the sales tax revenue more so than the $10. Do you feel like the $10 fee really restricts people from filling out their application to be licensed? It depends. It's going to really make people step up and do it as my question. It depends because like I said, you get some businesses that will call us and say, I owe you five bucks in sales tax and then it $10 fee. So if you're in that situation, then yes, it might motivate you to fill out that application. Right, if you think about businesses, you know, there's been this surge in online sales, as we talked about at the strategic planning session, we did the financial update. Online sales tax from online remote sellers was up 137% in 2021, right? So it's a very big portion of our sales tax revenue, a rowing portion of our sales tax revenue. But think about the fictional Grammys handmade doiles right, selling through Etsy to, you know, 100 different cities around the country. And if that, if Grammys handmade doiles had to get a license with every one of those cities because of the one Doilies, she sold she may not license it all right so we would rather them license and remit their sales tax and and make it easy for them to do that through the state and then to be be the outlier there. I'm on board. Mayor Putem. Two quick things. Yeah, it's just no brainer. And I wouldn't want to charge our local shops of fee that we're not charging to Amazon. So, like, yeah, let's support them. And let's cut some red tape. I'm all for that too. So, sounds great. Okay. Anybody else? I don't hear any opposition. Okay. I think our question though is do we want to see this on consent or would you like it to be consent as opposed? Let's do the consent. We'll put it on Facebook or whatever. Okay. Okay. Thank you. All right. Councilmember Johnston has a real quick. The question was brought up and it's really important to the previous topic about the percentage that Councillor Pulaski brought up and it's true. It still is in our code today. It's 8.02 and landscape design in the land use and development. It says, irrigated turf in front of areas shall be at least 400 square feet, but are limited to no more than 1000 square feet or 40 percent of the front yard Whichever is less so we need to talk about getting rid of that first that is step one I did not know that that existed But good bring it up Me too I thought it's right here. So it needs to be done by us So or does it is? So city manager martina's could we get is? So, city manager Martian, could we get that? Yeah, we'll have, we'll make sure that. I also looked at it and there seems to be a nuance with that number, but I'll make sure that, if that number is correct for the purposes of this discussion, we'll make sure that we... We never saw this table, I think it was just missed by all of us. Yeah. This table, it's the table at the bottom of 802. Let me make sure that. Yeah. Okay. We'll clarify. Great. If there's nothing else before everybody, really quick, RTD meeting combined next Tuesday. Otherwise.