you you I want to call the order of our City Council meeting for this Tuesday, December 7, 2021. Happy runoff election day and like like to ask councilmember Humber to lead us in the pledge of allegiance Thank you. Deputy City Clerk, Holy Police Call Roll. Here. Present. He is excused. Is your mic on by the way in? Better. And then he blockers is excused., here. Council Member Tadeo. Today is also excused. Council Member Watts. Yeah. Okay, we have a corner. There you go. Thank you. Next is the approval of the regular agenda. So anyway, when we want to make a motion? May I put them? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'd like to make a motion to approve the agenda, as seen. It's a proper first to approve the agenda. Do we have a second? Council member Watts? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'd like to second that. We have a proper first and a second to approve the agenda. Any other discussion? Recall vote. Motion passes 6 to 2. No, sorry, 6 to 0. What with 2 absent? Excuse me. We're missing 2 people. Next is the consent agenda. Deputy City Clerk will you please read that into the record. Item 3a approval of the November 2nd 2021 City Council minutes. Item 3b approval of the November 4 2021 City Council minutes. Item 3c, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, approving the lease again. What do you bring, the mic closer to you? It's really hard to hear. Approving lease agreements with almost home, American Highland Cattle Association, Rocky Mountain Quarter Horse Association, Colorado Horse Council, and Colorado Thurough Bread Breers for City on real estate. Property located at 22 Southforth Avenue, the historic City Hall and authorizing the City Manager to execute steadily agreements on behalf of the city. Item 3D, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado approving a contract for the municipal prosecutor and authorizing the city attorney to sign. Thank you. What is the pleasure of council? Council member Humbert. Mr. Mayor, I'm moving approve the consent agenda as read. Thank you. Do we have a second? Council member Watts, please may I have it to second that? Proper first and second if there's no other discussion. Record vote please. Motion passes six to two six to one zero with two absent. Oh boy, here we go. Next is ceremonies out in 4A. Recognition of the name that Snowplough contest winners, you know, turn this time over to our city manager, Martinez. Thank you Mayor, good evening Mayor, Mayor Post-Ten and members of Council. I'm extremely honored to bring up our Director of Communications and Engagement, Christian Trenowski, and also our Director of Public Works, Michael Woodruff, also known as Olaf to present this item. Good evening, Mayor and Council. I'm Christen Shunaski, the Director of Communications and Engagement, and I'm joined by our Public Works Director, Michael Woodruff, or Olaf, and our street supervisor, Bob Younger. We're super excited to be here with you this evening for this special occasion. As you can see by the audience, we will be recognizing the winners of our inaugural Name That Snowpile contest. So a little bit about the contest. Last month, elementary school students in Brighton were invited to submit their best and most creative ideas for the city's nine snow plows for the 2021-2022 snow season. Hopefully we're going to get some snow this Friday, just in time. We received 59 submissions and let me just say the names were so good that narrowing it down to just nine names was extremely difficult. A judging panel that included Councilman Watts and Councilman Cushing, several youth commission members, and city staff plowed carefully through all the submissions and selected nine or should we say ten best names. Before we get to naming the winners, we just want to mention that in addition to the winning names, being proudly displayed on the city's snow plows, the winners will get to participate in the parade this Saturday. So now for the part that you've been waiting for, I'll turn it over to Michael. Thank you, Christian. Good evening, Council. I'm going to stay in this casting room now, just to bring some levity to the meeting. If I can tell you that my point now is it's taken a bit near, but we'll work on that. First off, I would like to say thank you to City Council. I'd like to say thank you to our city manager, our deputy city manager and our assistant city manager, for allowing this type of activity to take place in the community, it's great that you support this, it's great that it's supported by our administration. The communications department has been excellent in helping put this on, getting us through this process. And tonight we have the winners for you. So without any further ado, I'd like to announce the winners. First off, we'll start with Darth Blader, and that is Brett, a fifth grader at a key institute at 10-off element three if you want to come up. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. You can hold your... You're tipping all the... You're tipping all the... You're tipping all the... You're tipping all the... You're tipping all the... There you go. All right. We'll have another guest, Labour. We're going to introduce a mission for Darth Blader. And of course, I've got it there. I'd like to announce Richard, a fifth grader at Padilla Elementary. We'll explain the Richard. to announce a Richard a fifth grader at Padilla Elementary. Here he comes. I won't miss out on your side. Thank you very much. I'm going to grab me a mic. What are you seeing, too? Oh, you're putting a mic in the wrong hand here, I'm telling you that. Well it's handed to me when after you've announced that you can take it. Are we on this? All right next we have Blizzard of Oz and that's Madeline of this greater ever union elementary. Now I've got it. Thank you. And next is Pablo Valkosso. And it's Harlem, a third grader at Turnberry Elementary. Oh, hey. Oh. Oh. Oh, there you go. I'll have to give a job. There we go. All right. Thank you. Thank you. All right. thank you. And next we have Plowey, Patipus, Lincoln, fourth grader, and I'll hold you sign on my side around there. There you go. Make sure it's not covered by your fingers. I'll help you. Go. All right, thank you. There you go. And next we have, Snow Busta, Ren, a fifth grader, a westered elementary. Can we hold that for you? Got it? Thank you. And next we have the Blizzard Blaster, Venice, the third grader at Brownlee East Charter School. You hold that. I'll hold your certificate. Great. There you go. Thank you. And next we have plowmouth, MacPlyface, Dylan, First Grader at Foundation's Elementary. He's ready. You see that right there? He's getting it right there. Let's take one more. Oh yeah, we don't want to cover that. There we go. There we go. Fantastic. We got it. The next we have polar express, Harper, a third grader at the D.E. Elementary. Thank you. The meow plow Zoe a best greater at Zion Lutheran school She painted a picture of the mouth Don't accept that down a little bit long All right. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Thank you. All right. Thank you. All right. Thank you. All right. Thank you. All right. Thank you. All right. Thank you. All right. Thank you. All right. Thank you. All right. Thank you. All right. Thank you. So let's have another round of applause for this great name. Applause What an awesome job. This is our first year doing this. It's our inaugural year program. We're going to do it again next year. The signs are going to be much larger than the ones that the children received tonight. They'll be placed on the front of each snow plow on each of our trucks and they'll remain there for the entire season. So Saturday night, festival lights, our trucks will be in the parade with the snowplow names on them. The children and their parents are invited to ride on the float ahead of the truck so you'll be there Saturday night. Please come out, see them at the float, see the parade, festival lights, and be great. So and again, I just want to thank everybody, all the students, all the parents, everybody that participated in the program. It was just an awesome experience. I'm an old guy, but I love doing this. I love the opportunity to serve the community, and this has been a joy for me. I can tell you that right now. My nose is a little scratchy right now, but other than that, hey, I'm in pretty good shape right now. So thank you very much, but thank you for allowing us to have your students participate in this contest. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. Let's have all the contest winners come up for one big picture with the council up here up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up Yeah. I'm not sure. Look how's that? Yeah. I'm just like a son. I got it. Yeah. Please get the call. Ready? One, two, three. Have you guys ever told me a word? All right, all right. Good job. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We'll give everyone a few minutes to ship around if they were gonna leave or not and then Of course welcome to stay as much as you'd like to. We're not kicking anyone out. This is definitely the highlight of our meeting tonight. Should we just adjourn now? All right, well, everyone's exedino ask a deputy city clerk of anybody signed up to speak on matters that are not on the agenda. I have not received anything. I have not received a. So there's nobody here to speak on matters items not on the agenda. I know there's some items on the agenda. I believe some people are here for that will be later in the meeting. So be sure to sign up for that if you intend to speak. With that we'll move on to item 6A, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton Colorado approving the first amendment to the Prairie Center Village 5 filing number 1, development agreement on the Prairie Center Village 5 subdivision filing number one described as portions of the Southwest corner of section 16 and the Northwest corner Quarter of section 21 township one cell the rain 66 West City of Brighton County of Adams, City of Colorado, authorizing the mayor to execute said first amendment on behalf of the city and setting forth other details related to there too. City manager Martinez will turn that over to you. Thank you, Mayor. For the next two items, which will be items for sequential review, we have our assistant director of community planning and development. Mr. Mike Tilka, who is not in costume, but maybe I'll make that requirement moving forward. Since it seems to be a crowd favorite. Mr. Tilka. The month of December requires staff to dress up in their favorite character. Is that all of the thing character? The parameters. Keep the clean, Mike. Thank you, Mr. Senator. Thank you, Mayor. Good evening, my poor Thank you Mr. Senator. Thank you very, very good evening, my pro-tom members of council. As you know, we've been waiting for this item for a few weeks. Our second item, 6B, was continued twice in order to allow staff and the applicant team to get this queued up. Various members of the development team from the district of the Prairie Center Metro District 3 and the developer property owner THF Prairie Center in the audience tonight. And, you know, I often don't editorialize here, but, well, never, except maybe now. This was a really, really collaborative effort and I know both sides are really pleased that this item is coming before you tonight. And I'll get into the details on that. All right. So there is an in place agreement for Prairie Center Village 5, and we're looking to amend it. City staff finds that this item that's being brought before you tonight meets the strategic focus areas of recognizable well-planned community, financially responsible, and supportive, sustainable infrastructure. The agreement that you'll see tonight set for us an agreement on specific improvements in dedications associated with the Village 5 development agreement. So, what am I talking about? Well, there are two subject areas as part of this application. The first is the Village 5 area, which is highlighted before you in red, and that is where we have two of the four available sites that are undeveloped. So now is the time to bring the agreement before you to iron out a few of the details. The other item that's subject to this is the are the Lutz parcels which are highlighted in the blue square before you on the screen. Why these two disconnected pieces are joined together is that with that original Village 5 agreement it allowed some of the open space dedications to be met through the future planned dedication of the Lutz parcels. As these are planned to be part of a regional, we call it open space, it's a really nice ground if you haven't been out there yet. And so the parties back when the original Village 5 agreement came forth decided that these would be areas worth preserving and dedicating to the city. So the timing of those was ironed out in village 5 and this amendment tonight will tweak that. And some of the other big items that we're addressing in the amendment are the drainage and stormwater that's currently going into the Lutz Reservoir highlighted as parcel 2 on the map. And it's to get that out of there and send it to a real line system. Here's the biggie so that that reservoir can be used for a future non-pot system for our regional infrastructure, which we know is a priority for everybody in this room and hopefully everybody in our fair city here. So that's an overview of what we're looking at here tonight. And just for those in the audience, I want to mention that that Village 5 Agreement was approved by a previous City Council in 2015. All right, so moving on into the staff's analysis. A draft agreement, I'm going to go through the highlights here for the good of the audience and the council. The, lots parcel one, denoted on your map within that blue square, is approximately 36.72 acres, and that shall be dedicated by the city no later than December 31st of next year. So the city would take that over and maintain that as part of our open space system. The second parcel in there under lots noted as reservoir. Well, that is approximately 20.34 acres and that's the one that's going to have the stormwater removed for it. In our agreement goes through three different benchmarks for the timing of that. So it steps through getting that stormwater out of there. So the first is that the city and the developer will agree on a route and a proposed route right now was included in your packet. In that route would be determined. In a greet to by March 31, 2022. And both engineering teams are confident that we will be able to meet that and we're working forward on that final alignment there. And then within six months of that, after that alignment's approved, we'll look for that final construction design and that'll highlight include all those items of infrastructure, the details to get that stormwater out of there. And then after all of that work has commenced, we'll work with the district and developer to, by the end of next year to get an outline of all those other items to turn over that reservoir parcel. So that's the big chunk here and again it's integral to our future non-put system. I just want to note for the good of the council that nothing in this amendment alters the comprehensive funding agreement for the Prairie Center development. One other piece in this amendment alters the comprehensive funding agreement for the Prairie Center development. One other piece that this amendment goes through is on track C right there. It loops around the eastern side of the development. There's a portion of the trail that's unfinished to the south of Lot 3 in this alignment. So I this amendment realigns and retimes that to make sure it gets in place before a substantial amount of resident's move into lot three. And then lastly, another really important item in this agreement is it sets forth the water dedications for lot three and four. There's undeveloped ones and I want to know and highlight everybody. We are getting raw water shares and dedications for both of those parcels. No fee in lieu. So this agreement memorializes that. All right. Well, moving on. You all know I'm a repeater by this point, but the non-pod system has financial implications citywide in this helps further that system. As terms of criteria by which council should consider the item or comprehensive plan, calls for supporting the development of prairie center with a mix of housing, retail, and other amenities. And this would allow those developments to move forward. As for our next item, no public notice was required outside of its inclusion in this agenda packet, but staff made sure that it was posted on the city's website where you would typically see notices and then also to our various social media pages. Staff has painstakingly reviewed this amendment. We are recommending approval of this, and this was after a lot of good communications between the party and internally, and including all those from our development review committee. And a number of those are here tonight, if you'd like to dive into any more details, such as Stormwater or Non-Pod, if you want to go in any further details. And our Parks and Open space team is here tonight too to talk about their staffing and et cetera for the future maintenance of it. They are prepared to take over that parcel one and parcel two under the time frames as outlined in the agreement. All right. Well, with that said, the following four options are now before this council. Proof is drafted. Proof with any changes. Deny is drafted. We'll continue to a date certain. Thank you all for your time. And myself and the applicant are definitely available for any questions you may have on this item. Thank you. Thank you, Mike. Questions from the council? That's a member cushion. Thank you for the presentation. Just a side comment. I've been walking the sidewalks on all these neighborhoods the last few nights. And this one is pretty good. There's sidewalks all the way up and down 27th, all the way up and down 27th all the way up and down, broadly going east. And you could theoretically get to the oasis on sidewalks if you cross-bomely, walks to the other light and cross again. I really would love to see like the oasis be able to connect on bromelain to these subdivisions. So we're all connected, but that was my only comment I appreciate the presentation thanks. All right hopefully we'll get that connected. Next May I put them. Thank you Mr. Mayor appreciate that question from the councilor Cushing. Along some of the same lines is connectivity as we've discussed heavily and appreciate staff listening and developers coming in knowing what we demand now no more half streets, water's dedicated, not fees and lieu, great job. We love that but when it comes to the trail itself there's a trigger that needs to be hit. How many residents will be there before how many residents will be there before that troll is built. I notice it looks like they're we're talking about 77 homes. That correct? Total. Thank you, Mr. Mayor Pro Tem. For let me pull up on the slide right here. So right now the next agenda item before you was for lab 4 and that is for 77 single family detached homes. The trigger for the trail is with the 50th certificate of occupancy for lab 3 to the immediate east which will have an end total unit count of 192 units. So it will be the trigger is the just to repeat for lot three. It's the 50th CO. So when people can move in just for the good of those in the audience, the 50th out of 192. That is great. Well done. I have no more questions. This looks good. Thank you. Anybody else? If there's nothing this items before council for consideration. Council member Watts, thank you. I'd like to make a motion to approve item 6A. Proper first to approve 6A. Move the second. the oh yeah oh councilmember humburt that's really the second that motion proper first and the second there's no other discussion we'll call vote hit the second again other each she's got it the motion passes six to zero with two absent thank you and then the next one is a public hearing so we got to go through the public hearing motion so item six b a resolution of the city council the Brighton Colorado accepting a subdivision plan for and approximately 9.92 acre property generally located in section 21, Township 1 South, within 66 west of the 6th principal Meridian, City of Brighton County of Adam, City of Colorado, commonly known as the in-spraud subdivision and this is from a public hearing was published on the city of Brighton website on September 28, 2021. Thank you. And then city manager Martinez take it over to you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank 2021. Thank you. And then, City Manager Martinez, take it over to you. I'll turn this item back over to Mr. Tulpa. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Sitting on it here, thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'll protect members of Council. As mentioned before, this item was continued from October 19th and November 16th for those that are following along at home in the audience. This is for a subdivision plan. And I want to say for these land use applications, it's necessary for me to note prior to proceeding city staff's role in these presentations and these particular items. Our role from the community development department is to act as an unbiased reviewing party, just to ensure that these development proposals meet the city codes that are adopted by City Council. And we review them accordingly. Our recommendation is not a opinion. It is a recommendation based in the materials that we provided and their alignment with the applicable codes that were adopted by the public body. And we outline their allowance in terms of the legal land entitlements. So with that said, I will move into the presentation. The applicant with us here this evening represented by a few parties, a prosper land and development. They're the ones looking to develop this area and the property owner is THF Prairie Center. Going into the purpose of the night, this is a subdivision plan and in the big picture of the land development process with the city, this is now part of the plotting process. This is the first of the two parts of the third part of the land development process. This is the process where our public entities have the most say about what infrastructure goes in when and really has the most shaping of how the particulars of that neighborhood at Subdivision will look when they are built. All right. And again, this is a new process that's only been in place for the last two years. And this item can be thought of to meet our strategic focus area of recognizable and well-planned community. This parcel is generally located, south of, it's directly south of the Aveda development, and it's generally southeast of the intersection of 27th Avenue and Redtail Way. Digging into that property a little bit more, you'll see it's bounded by 27th Avenue, Redtail Way, in Paragrin, and it's approximately 9.92 acres in size. The property itself was annexed in 1986 and is plated as part of that Village 5 subdivision, and it is zoned as part of the Prairie Center mixed use PUD, and it's been part of that which would allow this density since 2008. All right. And moving forward, that's a little bit of background on this. In the comprehensive plan, it designates this area as mixed-use residential. So what that says in the comprehensive plan is that the uses here should be compatible with development patterns that support a variety of different densities in the housing options in close proximity to commercial areas. And as you know, we have the development elements apartments in the Avia, which are two separate types of products in this area. And then this product would be single family detached so there would be individual user. So again it's a different type of option than those to the other two already developed parcels in this area. Another part that this is an alignment with our comprehensive plan is for new growth the support areas of existing infrastructure and I think as we all know there are roads along the outside of this, utility lines, focusing to an existing drainage system. So we're filling it in where we have those infrastructure services in place to support it. And again, it will work to create a distinctive neighborhood with lots of housing options in that area. So let's look at the proposal itself. This is an outline that's included as part of the subdivision plan. And it will have a total of 77 lots with a minimum lot size of 3,200. And the, so let's get into the specifics now. The area is highlighted before in orange circles, our landscaping tracks, will serve as end caps maintained by a common entity to provide beautification efforts to the entranceways and kind of those those buffers here. The next item that I just flew in with with some green symbology there and that highlights our landscaping tracks. So all of these homes are planned to front one of the three public roads or one of the highlighted in green privately maintained landscaping tracks. So everybody faces a road or faces an internal park space. The next item flagged in purple there highlights guest parking. My count is 33, guest spots there that would be available for the general public use. As the roadway network internal to the subdivision is all to be private, alley maintained. Each of these will have an in-unit garage as well. The next items are how I didn't read. That's where a lot of our utility connections are made and our sidewalks. I do want to note that the regional trail is maintained along 27th, but then there's also a sidewalk that runs adjacent so that people coming out of the front doors aren't moving on to that regional bike traffic they're connecting to that at designated spots. All right, so that is a quick overview of that. What I mentioned, we staff took considerable time with the applicant that make sure that the access points, the one in Redtailway was aligning with the access point to Avia, and that the Paragren Drive Access Point was aligning at a spot which would allow provide a visual turning movements. And then in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen, that is an emergency access only given its close proximity to the intersection at 27th Avenue there. Moving into our review criteria, so this is what your city staff compares the application to as we go forward here. And the items up on the screen are taken straight from our city code and I'll just give a brief summary as to our response a full summary was provided in the staff report and I'm more than happy to go into any more detail. As for the first item here, staff finds that this proposal does align with a comprehensive plan as it supports provisions of managing growth policy, given that it will be built into that existing framework of infrastructure, and given the variety of residential densities throughout this, which aligns with another policy of the comprehensive plan. As for the second one, we found that it's in compliance with the land use and development codes and it meets all requirements for its zoning district being the Prairie Center mixed use PUD. We find that the block and street pattern layout will provide connectivity with surrounding development and in turn, those sidewalk connections and linking up the internal network there will create a more walkable environment and including that to the neighborhood park adjacent to the elements apartment site. And as a side note, phase two of that park is currently in the works as well to get that park finished. All right, moving into the next item here. Number letter C. The applicants, proposed documents, do meet all of our requirements for the billable lots is set forth. And now that the agreement was passed before this item that per peri-centri-village five, were in line with all of open space and public land's dedications. And I do just wanna highlight again that this developer is looking to satisfy that raw water dedication, and this council just memorialized that. So they will be dedicating that raw water and it's from acceptable sources to our utilities department. Another piece worth mentioning is it comes up frequently is that this developer has agreed to all of our request for the 27J Capital Facility Fee Foundation and all the applicable items. Moving on to the next two criteria. The letter D, the developer plans to do this in one phase, so that one is pretty simple there. The next one, going into our specific studies and technical reports, I just want to note that our stormwater and drainage impacts are identified and city staff founds that will be mitigated with the accepted engineering and design work that's been submitted as part of this. And I do want to note that our public works team analyzed the traffic impact study submitted with this and found that the existing Worldway Network has the capacity for the trips generated by this product project. Moving into the last three other review criteria here. City staff finds that this application does not deter from any of the development possibilities or from the city or in its residents, not meeting any policies of the comprehensive plans. So we find it to not be detrimental to either of those. And the next one. It is relatively similar to the last one actually, but we find it does not deter from anything and everything is in line with our public infrastructure plans. And lastly, for letter H, our Development Review Committee made up of all the various entities from Parks, Utilities, Stormwater. Public Works finds that we are in line with the application as presented before you tonight. Moving into the next item, public comment and notice was conducted in accordance with the code. As the site was continued twice, we made sure that for tonight's meeting the social media sites were updated and the public hearing information was sent out on those other various forms. A neighborhood notice was held prior to the application on February 24th of this year. This item as a subdivision plan does go before our city council, prior to coming to our planning commission, prior to coming to the city council and it was approved unanimously at its Planning Commission meeting after a public hearing. And all notices were conducted prior to that meeting as well. At this time, City staff, including the Development Review Committee, is recommending approval. We find that the application isn't compliant with the requirements for a subdivision plan, as I'll end in the Land Use and Development Code under the sections presented before you, and that it is in line with the zoning district regulations, as outlined in the applicable zone district. We find that it also is in line with the comprehensive plan, and as such city staff is recommending approval of the application, now before you with the following four options to accept the I. Scept with conditions or continue to a later specify date. Thank you again, Mr. Mayor, Mayor and Mayor of the members of council and myself and the applicant will be available for any questions should you have any. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Tilka. Would the applicant wish to add anything to the presentation. Come up. Thank you. Good evening mayor and city council. I just wanted to do a quick introduction. My name is Shane Rugg, director of Land for Prosper Land and Development. Joey could not be here tonight. I do want to introduce our team a little bit. Prosper Land and Development is a locally owned, locally operated company out of Longmont actually. All our employees, ownership, all live in the northern Denver, northern Front Range area. We are a small group, a small team, but we take pride in developing communities that are both efficient and beautiful. Tonight we do have our Planner Landscape Architect, Tom with Matrix. He'll continue this presentation. We have our engineer, Kurt with Rothling Engineering, and our traffic engineer could not be here tonight, but as well. So I will hand this over to Tom. Good evening, Mayor and Council. My name is Tom Miskoff and I'm Director of Community Design for Matrix Design Group, located in Denver, Colorado. Prior to that, I was a part partner at DTJ Design in Boulder. And in that role, I actually collaborated with the City Council, Planning Commission, and staff and wrote the Prairie Center PUD and helped it get approved back in 2010. Also wrote the design guidelines for Prairie Center and currently serve on the Prairie Center Design Review Committee. So this project has been a passion of mine for well over 10 years and I'm so excited to see that it's coming to fruition and it's turning into the type of project that we just think is a great benefit to the city. I wanted to just touch on a few points in a little bit more detail from Mike's presentation. I think what's really important here is that this project, this small community of 77 single family detached homes, is within walking distance of quite a few very important amenities. It's within simple walking distance with an underpass under Eagle Boulevard to the future elementary school in village one. It's directly across the street to a future high school and municipal park facility to the west of this project. It also is across Perramon, just the kitty corner to the three acre neighborhood park that's already half built in Village 5. It's within simple walking distance to the retail center, and pretty center retail center, immediately to the east. And that connection is actually through the park and then along the continued trail that will be built as part of future development. I wanted to just share a couple of photographs for existing site conditions. It's been overlaugated. It's very relatively flat, generally slopes from each to west so you get decent views of the mountains on a clear day. Unfortunately, when I took this picture on the right side of this, it was pretty smoggy and you couldn't see the mountains, but generally every day you can see the mountains. There were a few small poor quality Russian olives in the ditch and those actually will be removed and improved with significant landscaping along south 27th. When we designed, we wrote to the PUD for Prairie Center. There were several design considerations that I think are important and we tried to express them with the design of this neighborhood. One was we wanted to create smaller neighborhood clusters. And the North cluster here is 45 units. This out is 32. What that does is it allows those people to really get to know each other better and create a stronger sense of community. The plan has multiple view corridors through the major parks and open spaces to the west and with that slight grade from east to west, we think that people can gather in those open spaces and view the mountains. Importantly, we wanted to minimize or eliminate fence canyons along the arterials and this community has no fence canyons along the arterials. And this community has no fence canyons along cell 27, or any of the adjacent streets. Instead, there's that additional setback on cell 27 that will be landscaped. And the fronts of the homes, the front doors and the porches now will face those streets. It creates a much more welcoming environment for the city of Brighton. Those homes actually are set up a little bit above the street as well, which gives them a greater sense of privacy for their front patios and porches. The small neighborhood centers are open spaces within each of the clusters are really meant to be quite gathering places and place bases for younger children. Our proposal is to minimize the amount of irrigation of turf areas and we have drought tolerant landscaping and throughout most of it which is very isolated and important pockets of turf. I've already mentioned the pedestrian access around the neighborhood, but we also have, we've located the parking areas to be within close proximity to the front doors of homes. There's easy access from those parking areas to the male key asks, to the park spaces to small gathering places. And we think that varying the orientation of homes along South 27th, somewhere the front doors are facing South 27th, somewhere there's a side lot, really creates a little bit more interesting street scene along South 27th. A couple of highlights for the actual neighborhood design itself. This isn't 100% garage mitigated, every home is an alley home. There are 33, as Mike mentioned, 33 off-street guest parking spaces within the community. A long red-tailed way in Peragon Drive in front of the homes, there's actually another 62 on street guest parking spaces. These are basically parking along the curb and the fact that there are no driveways interrupting that makes that for a much more efficient guest parking experience. There's 1.715 acres of open space, almost 17% of the site is common space and 61% of those homes face that common area. Our landscape concept is really designed to reinforce the whole Prairie Center feel, the Prairie Center master plan, and design guidelines, talk about sort of flowing grasses and general berms, and that's what we proposed on this project. As I mentioned, reduce water use. We're proposing some colorful accent planning in key locations, high visible locations, and we're minimizing the amount of fencing significantly through the community to make it a little bit more open. So with that, that concludes my presentation, and thank you for considering your consideration, and we're available to answer any questions. Thank you for adding to the presentation. Is there any questions of the applicant from the audience? Questions only from the audience for the applicant? And if there's not any. Is there anybody here to speak on behalf or gets the request? Is there anybody here to speak on behalf or gets the request? Okay. Is there anything else? The city staff would have wanted to add. I guess no one else is commented. So not at this time, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. We'll go on to questions from the council. May I put them? Thank you, Mayor. So there's 77 homes and it sounds like less than one spot per home. It's hard to reach to these locations it looks like unless you have that garage space. Is there any reason you didn't add one per home? Thank you. I neglected to mention that each of the homes has a two car attached garage in addition to the 33 guest parking spaces that are spread throughout so there's almost a 50% guest parking ratio per house as well as two cars per unit plus the additional on-street parking spaces along red tail and paragon. And that's what I not concerned about, but I just want to make sure that the on-street parking doesn't become a problem. Is the dedication of those spaces? Why would there not be one per home, I just wouldn't that be... I think the typical gas parking ratio is generally much less than than even what we're providing here. Guest parking I don't know if the code actually specifies the amount of parking, guest parking, but generally it's either provided on street or in I think for a via might be a good example there's probably I would say somewhere about a 20% maybe not even that much guest parking ratio for a via or even elements. So in these types of communities single family homes in particular guest parking is typically provided on street in front of the home we're providing an additional 33 spaces within the community itself. Okay. It's still the same fear that the street could get packed with parking. I mean, how many bedrooms will be in these homes? I'm assuming, well, actually, I'm going to turn it over to the developer to answer that question. Yeah, we are just the developer. Sorry. We are just the developer. This will be sold to a home builder, which is a sister company of ours. But I would, without knowing the plans, I would say anywhere from one to three bedrooms. But I think I will also add with the two bedroom, or two parking spots per garage, plus the guest parking meets and exceeds. I can't remember what percentage of the town code. So that was the idea is, at what percentage of the town code. So that was the idea is at least designed to the town code and then we added those additional guest spots to go above and beyond that. But it's trying to find that fine balance of we also don't want entire parking lot on the site either. So yeah, of course not. No, and I appreciate everything happening here. This is when we get to the nitty-itty, we just, we've been forced to from past development things that have happened here. And that's why it's very important to know that we will have enough parking because we, that's why I'm asking a three bedroom home. Let's say there's two driving teenagers in that home, two parents, you're going to see that parking disintegrate pretty quickly and what's necessary and needed. So, um, am I missing something or is there a reason that we can't add that many parking spots per home? I think the other thing to add to is we're kind of developing this, obviously we don't know through our hearing process. Something else we did do and you can see on the northeast corner of the site, it kind of seems like a dead end alley. That's actually going to be a little landscape end cap. And then we, I think we had another two or three spots there. So we're definitely looking to add more spots were available. But once again comes the balance of how do you fit spots? You got to meet ADA requirements for all that. You got to, you don't want to take away from open space either. And greenage of water. Yeah, I mean, that great example is that Senator Drainage that goes through the middle of the east west That's a lot of sent our drainage goes through that parcel right there. So it's trying to find that fine balance of everything But anywhere we've like said through this process we've even added a few more spots just Finding spots for them. Well, and I think if you if you combine the 62 spaces that are on street strictly in front of the homes along Redtail and Parabrine with the 33 On-site spaces You have more than one guest space for home plus the two garage spaces per house Right, we're just projecting not knowing if there will they will all be three bedrooms Which obviously might change the projection in some homes If I if please as you may or like to ask the staff a question, right? Mr. Tilka staff do you feel comfortable with the parking spots 100% that we are in a good spot and Won't have an issue on those streets, especially Paragrid Thank you mr. Mayor Pro Temp for the question. To answer the first question before answering that one directly, it does meet the parking requirement as outlined in the PUD, which is two parking spaces per dwelling unit. It does not go in depth any further into bedrooms. For the good of the audience, that PUD was adopted by a previous City Council, but we must still legally follow it. So it's one of our findings for the evening. We find that it meets those minimum requirements. To your second question, the one asked directly up me, isn't regards to the guest parking. So we, uh, Joey, um, sorry, um, Mr. Raga, Mr. Koff, uh, accurately outlined that, uh, we sat down together and looked at that plan and said, where can we get more guest parking in that'll make sense? So he is right that we are, uh, obviously looking at nearly 50% on site and close walking distance on site and then 62. Uh, in time, that is just on the adjacent curbs correct that's not even looking across the street. That's correct. Just adjacent on red tail and peregrine in front of the halls. So our finding Mr. Mipletem is that it meets and exceeds the parking requirements of the code and the PUD. Great, thanks. Thank you very much for that. The last question I have is water dedication. How much would that cost the water dedication that was just completed? What are we looking at for the return on that? Mr. Marpratham, that may be a question best answered by our utility staff. If it pleases to mayor that in the city manager to bring them up. Yeah, bring up Mr. Sherman if he's willing to come. Surprise. And so for the to give Mr. Sherman an introduction, if it pleases the council, looking at that unit count and what was memorialized in our agreement we are looking at 17.8 acre feet of water required What do you think that would be worth if it pleases you mayor director Sherman? Sorry, I'm having a hard time hearing you. It must be the face mask. Yeah. But typically, that's worked out by our water resources department based on the demand of the development and so on. And in this case, our water resources department determined that the amount of water that they were offering was sufficient to meet the need that they were creating. Is that? Yeah, I'm asking this is for the benefit of the project and the public. How much would this, what are we getting? I mean, this is a heck of a gift for us to be able to have dedicated water coming in. It's a must from now on and we just appreciate it. But I want to make sure the residents understand the cost of this. So is there any idea that you could come up with? I have one in my head, but I have no experts. I have a slide on my computer. But I'll try to go up top my head. I believe it's about $27,000 per acre foot, is where we're at. Perfect. Thank you very much. You bet. I appreciate it. And that's all I have. Thanks, Mayor. All right. Next, Council Member Cushion. Thank you, Mayor. Thanks for the presentation. I like, I mean, I like this project. It's nice to see some kind of different options for not making everything a ginormous three car garage home that's that's unaffordable for a lot of people. But along the mayor pro-tim's questions, is there any indication that like you know we I've heard guest parking a lot? Is there going to be a requirement from like an HOA that requires the residents to use their two car parking and not, you know, fill it with Christmas decorations and park on the guest parking around the street? That's not something that has been contemplated at all. So, I think that's probably the short answer. Yeah, I just could see people's, you know, not using their garage for parking and then, say, and while parking on the street or like, you know, Mayor Pro's Tems says, you know, family with a teenager could easily have, you know, three cars or whatever. I was just curious if the homeowners are allowed to park in the guest parking. Those will be strictly reserved for guests visiting. That was my question. Yeah, I know what I'd do that. We haven't set up the HWA or anything on all those lines. So that's definitely what we consider as we get along through that process. I assume that was the case, but just because there was such an emphasis on guest parking, I didn't know if there was something to, you know, make sure that's reserved for guests and not just taken up by the homeowners because they wanna use their garage for storage. Absolutely, no, it's no mechanics and inputting place to consider that yet. But thank you, I appreciate it. Thank you. Any other council members have questions? Seeing none, I will go ahead and close the publicane. This item's now before council. Council member Humbert. This will be a move for approve item six B. Motion to approve item six B, Council Member Cushing. I'll second that motion. Proper first and second. If there's no other discussion. Role cobble. Motion passes 6 to 0 with 2 absent. Thank you. thank you everybody. Thank you very much. Next is item 6c, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado adopting the Fiscal Year 2022 budget and appropriating sums of money to the various funds and spending agencies in the amount specified below in the amount of $155,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 I will officially open the public hearing and ask of our deputy city clerk will verify all the necessary postings and publications are done Yes, you're under the notice of public hearing was published in the standard Brighton standard blade on November 24th and December 1st of 2021. Thank you for clarifying that City manager Martinez. Thank you. Good. I appreciate it. We have our interim finance director, Kayla Perotta, to present this item. Welcome, Kayla. It's a Kayla show tonight. Yes, and I'm actually really, really, really, really, really excited to see you. I hope we can see without the glasses because they're fogging. But I'm actually going to get some help tonight also from Tracy McLean, our budget and performance analyst. So, the agenda for tonight, we'd like to start out with a little bit of the 2021 budget in review. Just to set us out for how some of those items will be working into some initiatives in 2022. We will then move into changes to the initial budget recommendation in the final recommendation before you tonight. Before moving into a second item which is the Mill Levy which does set the Property Tax Collection for the year and then we will finally turn it over for Council Action and Questions. So as promised here's a brief overview of some 2021 accomplishments. As a reminder the 2021 budget as it stands right now is $138 million, $198 million, $197,000. And a couple of the items I wanted to highlight here, purchase of body cameras. And that was completed in 2021 and as you will have noticed in your budget book, we did include the continued lease of those body cameras throughout the five-year CIP and we've actually modeled it out for the next 10 years so that we can continue that program. Also in 2021, we did have employee restorations. If you'll remember during COVID, we did have to reduce the number of positions as those workloads decreased because we had different facilities closed. So, alongside that reopening of Oasis and Eagle View, we did restore those positions in 2021. Those are continued into 2022 and they are modeled out over the next 10 years. So, with that, we're going to move into the 2022 budget. So, first off, I just wanted to give you a little bit of highlight for the process. So while this just started a couple months ago for Council, staff has actually been working on the budget since the beginning of the year. Way back in April, our staff did go through and look at trends for spending over the last several years to help our departments understand what their typical uses and give them a starting point for the 2022 budget. We then had department level discussions with every single department to go through their pain points and how those may be addressed through the 2022 budget. And then we got Council involved on just throughout October. That's where we had those three budget forms with Council getting lots of great feedback. We had those three budget forms with Council getting lots of great feedback. And then over the last two months we have been incorporating that. And then tonight we are here at the budget adoption, including the public hearing tonight. So with that, I'm going to turn it over to Tracy to go a little bit more into the 2022 budget. Thank you. Good evening. So first thing I want to highlight is there have been a few changes to the recommended budget since the August presentation. We do have some recommendations coming out of that October meeting as well as some recommendations based off of Council feedback. So first reappropriation across all funds has been dialed in. We did have our quarter three capital project updates with each department. So those numbers are a little more dialed in now. Next, we have staff and salary adjustments. So per council feedback, we did go ahead and add a senior planner, an assistant public works director, and assistant Parks and Rec Director. And to offset that, we did remove an Assistant City Manager position and a Senior Financial Analyst position. Next, we did add Brighton Park Irrigation and Turf conversion. And then we have some online customer service options that were also incorporated. We are incorporating the new permit dust software, which is pretty exciting. And then online sales tax filing has been expanded so that businesses are now able to remit online. Sable Boulevard E470 design. That was originally in the five year CIP but we did move that forward to 2022 per council request. And then non-POT is something that we've really been hearing quite a bit about. Council talks about it and is wanting to implement it. So we are recommending a non-pod rate study and this is just going to give us a better idea of the cost of implementing and maintaining the system so that Council can be informed going forward. So next this is just some budget highlights. You can see these in the budget book but there are a couple of things that I wanted to point out. First, the employee training and certification bonus program. This is something that we did add per council request in order to develop and retain our workforce. Next, sidewalk connectivity. That's we increased the amount that's in that line item to 600,000 per year each year in the five year CIP starting in 2022. And then we are also recommending adding sports field turf conversion for all of our youth and sports and adult sports complexes. As you can see in the middle there that also highlights the total budget that we are recommending tonight, which is the $155 million, $140,000 in $18. So, with this slide, this is the 2022 budget by type. And I did want to highlight something that's a bit unusual on this slide. So typically, if you look, personnel is going to take up a majority of the expenditures, but this year, as you can see, capital outlay is making up a majority of that percentage is just under 50%. So this is driven by two things. One, the reappropriation that you've been hearing about all year. And two, we have two large projects that are going into the construction phase in 2022 including the municipal service center and water treatment plan. We're anticipating that this trend is going to continue through 2023 and potentially normalize in 2024. Last on 2022 budget, I did want to, we wanted to do our due diligence and just highlight the 2022 budget by fund. This is also located in the draft budget book, but we did want you to have a breakdown of the budget that you will be voting to adopt. And with that, I will turn it over to Kayla to discuss the millivio resolution. Okay, so this is actually a second item on the agenda tonight, the Millivio, but because they are so interrelated, we are going to go ahead and present on this as well before moving into questions on both. So the Millivio is something that Council has to adopt annually in order to set the property tax collection for the city for the coming year. We are recommending for 2022 that the Mill Revy be set at 6.65 mills as it has been for the last two decades and that is expected to result in a little over $4 million in revenues for the 2022 budget. So tonight with that we are first looking for adoption of that budget resolution for the $155 million presented tonight and then second we will be looking for Council to adopt that Mill Levy resolution setting that property tax and with that we will turn it over for any questions. Thank you Kayla. Thank you, Kayla. Questions from the count... Oh wait, first we're still in the public hearing. So, you are the applicant, so I'm not going to ask if you have any more. Anybody here to speak on behalf or against the request? Or any questions from the audience regarding the budget? If not, we'll go on to Council questions. We've got questions from the Council. May I put them? Thank you, Mayor. I just want to make sure that the public's aware and everyone's aware that we have, we had a full day going over this budget. This is not the first time that we've seen this. And this is different than previous years. That was said and I understand you have to not be so grandiose about what just happened, but this budget is a capital outweigh plan to build what should have been being built. And we are building it. It actually is more than we are paying our employees with. That doesn't happen a lot. Not just in municipalities, but in a lot of places. It's a big deal. And I just really appreciate the work that's come from this council and the staff at this point. These things could have been done. And I do want to say thank you so much to our new city attorney, our city manager, Michael Martinez, for being able to get to this point this quickly we were told this can't happen and here we sit about to do it after waiting for 10 to 12 years for some of these projects to happen. It's really proud of the council and the staff and I haven't always been like that up here but I really too appreciate this work that's done. So thanks to the finance team and to everyone here. So there's that. The thing now let me be normal. The other question is about the Merlevy itself. We have not changed that for two decades, correct? 20 years? Yes. And the recommendation is that that's hard to see. We don't see governments doing that any entity. So we're holding this and I'm glad we are to not give me wrong. Is this a more than thing that other municipalities are doing, holding that mill after budget year for a 20 year span? So it's really dependent on what the revenue makeup is necessarily to support outgoing expenditures. So we are never going to bring a recommendation to you to increase revenues when we don't need them to support outgoing expenditures. So we are never going to bring a recommendation to you to increase revenues when we don't need them to offset those expenditures. So since we can through our other funding mechanisms cover our general operating expenses, there's no need for us to increase that this year. That's great to hear. Well, once again, all great answers, great presentation. Thank you very much. Thanks, Mayor. Yes, thank you. All great points. Thank you very much. Thanks Mayor. Yes, thank you. All great points. Anybody else? If there's none, we'll go ahead and close the public hearing. Item is before council. Council member Watts. Thank you Mr. Mayor. I would like to make a motion to approve item number six, C. All right, motion approves item six, C, and then Council Member Pollock. Thank you, Mayor, I would also like to second that motion. Good job, guys. Thank you. Definitely good job. If there's no other discussion before the council, roll call vote. roll call vote. Motion passes 6 to 0 with two absent. Great job everyone. Thank you. And then we've got to read this other one. And even though we've talked about it, item 6D, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, Levin, General, Property, Taxes for the year 2021 to help defer the cost of government for the City of Brighton, Colorado and City fourth the Mill Ravi at 6.65 mills for the budget for the 2022 budget year City manager Martinez, do we have any addition to this? We do not have any additions to this item and Caleb Pratt is here to be on behalf of this item Sounds like we've had the presentation. Yeah, there's no additional presentation If any questions for the council and if there's none Council member Watts make a motion. Thank you. Smirr. I'd be happy to make a motion to approve item 6d Council member Humbert and I will second that motion We are happy to make a motion to approve item 6D. Council member Humbert. And I will second that motion. Motion to approve. If there's no other questions, roll call vote. the motion passes six to zero and with two absent. Thank you everyone. That was quick. All right. Next item seven a resolution of the City Council, the City of Brighton, Colorado, amending certain accounts in the Cemetery Fund and appropriating money for expenditures, or expenditures in the amount of $35,000 for the general operating of the cemetery fund. Hold on just one second. All right, so this is also a public hearing. So I will officially call the public hearing and ask if our Deputy City Clerk will verify all the necessary public postings and publications were done. Yes, here on the notice of public hearing was published in the right and standard blade on November 24th and December 1st of 2021. Thank you for verifying and city manager Martinez will turn it over to you. Thank you Mayor. Once again we have Kayla Pratt to explain this item. It's the Kayla Show. I'm telling you. Yes, you get to see me for the next couple items. So before you tonight, as was said just a moment7,981 dollars, that is how the 2021 budget sets today as was adopted last December. And you can see here, Cemetery Fund at 744,000 is one of our smaller funds under a million dollars. So what's driving the need for this budget amendment? Well, part of it is the fact that this is one of our smaller funds, which means when we have different things changed in the market, this one has less wiggle room to kind of absorb those items. Specifically, we've had three items that have impacted this fund this year. The first is that higher than anticipated inflation you've been hearing about all year. We had originally estimated in the 2021 budget a 3% inflation. We are actually experiencing closer to 7%. In addition, we had turnover of a long time employee. And when we have long time employees, when we have employees leave, we are required to pay out any unused PTO. So we did have to do a large payout for that. And then finally, we had a longer hotter irrigation season that resulted in more water usage than anticipated this year. Now, the budget and performance team actually does monthly projections throughout the year to kind of track where we believe that we were going to end the year at. And so we actually believe that this fund, if it continues current operating trends and historical operating trends, will end up about 20,000 over the initial budget. However, we are asking for 35,000. In case we have any emergencies between now and the end of the year, we would not have enough time to properly notice another public hearing. So we want to make sure that we do have that coverage. If that is not used, any remaining funds would return to fund balance at the end of the year. So that would bring us to $779,381 for the Cemetery Fund, a total of $138,232,981 overall for the 2021 budget. So with that, I will turn it over for questions. All right, first of all, I need to ask if there are questions of the applicant, or in this case, the city of the audience, questions from the audience. Sir, state your name and address for the record. I'm Alfred Neckerson at 4645 Longspeak Street. I don't understand when you do a budget, because I've done budgets. Okay. I've never seen do a budget saying this is what I want for 222 and they come back, I need to increase hard enough budget I've asked you to increase. It doesn't make sense. Are we gonna take line on them,, line on them, on the budget, bring it up to the council to vote to increase it. Why don't we just do a budget? This is what I need. I anticipated I'm going to have over on this account, so I increase it. I can explain it. Sounds like you can't. Sounds like you need to stop or let's hold it to Catherine. Crescis is a separate entity. It's not. It's the same budget. I mean do you think people are that stupid? When they do their budgets, they don't go out there, somebody else give me an increase. If you don't, we have to figure out our budgets for the year. I'm retired, fits income. So I have to a lot more money for every single month, for everything I budget. Right there. You use more water. So did we. But we didn't go to ask anybody to give us an increase. But here we are. I usually have water in degrees. And that's and the other one is the one of the other one is the one of the other one is the one of the other one is the one of the other one is the one of the other one is the one of the other one is the one of the other one is the one of the other one is the one of the other one is the one of the other one is the one of the other one is the one of the other one is the one of the parking, everything else. I have not heard one of you members asked what about the handicap. Yes, we're building a only subdivision. Housing's a raise. If they have a fund that comes over with a handicap, we'll have to have them to get in. Oh yes, we give a parking spot. is about three blocks down, they can come back way. And for Brighton, your maintenance, there is no budget for maintenance. Don't you do maintenance in Brighton? I mean, I asked Brighton to change his sign in the new self division. All I got from Wharton was, it's not our job. Who's job is it? I see Wharton half the day with six or seven trucks sitting in that self division. But yet I can't get one of them to swap one sign. Then they make it on a street light across 50th. I can't walk that far. So I use a wheelchair. They're out there one day fixing those signs with the lights. I said, what are you doing? So if we're trying to make it easier for you to cross street, I said then hit the button. I'm sitting in the curb to get out. Not a single car stopped. And I said, you expect me to trust that light? Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions from the audience regarding this item? Okay. Okay. Is there anybody to speak on behalf or against the request? All right. Do you have anything to add Kayla? No, I would just say we have we have to come back before Council for every single one of these as per charter. We are required. We can't spend money that has not been appropriated by Council. So we do as I said do those monthly projections. And so we've been able to deal with these offsets in other larger funds. It's simply because the cemetery fund is so small that we do not have that wiggle room in this fund. Okay, thank you. Questions from the council? Seeing none, hope you got one. May I put them? Thank you, Mayor. I appreciate the comments just made. In a lot of ways, rebudget amendments have been in the past a way to hide money in certain accounts in this city in the recent past. I don't believe that's what's happening here, but there's a good point made by Mr. Nickerson in my opinion that can I ask why this couldn't, I kind of understand what's going on here. I know that we've changed policy as a whole for the city when it comes to paid time off, correct? So we've actually always been required to pay someone out for unused PTO when they leave. We're just unfortunately with the way that the market is, is working right now. We're experiencing higher levels than we have in prior years about occurring. So we have dealt with this in other funds across the city budget and we've been able to absorb those because they're larger and we've had other offsets with supplies not getting in and not being able to spend those funds. But we haven't had that happen in the cemetery fund because it is so small and there are so few projects, we just have not been able to find that offset. And when it comes to any of this being done for PTO to be paid out to people leaving the workforce, is much of that in here part of that? I believe about 40,000 of total, so we have offset part of it, about 40,000 I believe about 40,000 of total, so we have offset part of it. About 40,000 I believe is the payout. We had someone who was a great employee who never took any time off, so. And I just want to make it very clear, we've changed that policy where there's caps on PTO. We're forcing people to take time off because that's been an issue. The United States for a long time, let alone the city of Brighton. People not taking that required amount of time off. So a lot of this is based on that. But I think that it's time that we start to take a stand and we removed the idea of budget amendments being part of the mix. There's something to that, what was just said. Where we do, we just stick to or, but especially when there's ways to move funds around wherever we can. I know this is a smaller fund but this is the I believe the third or fourth I've ever seen and the two of the first three that I saw were nearly meferious and that was at the beginning of my term my first term on council. So I'm asking that we as a council review these at a higher level and that we don't let these come about. If this budget is not correct coming up that we just passed, then we're going to have to eat the funds of whatever is happening. Or if we don't pass this, what happens? So, a couple things. There's a one year 2022 budget does include 40,000 in contingency for this fund because of the volatility of the market. So what this is pulling from, this proposal here, is pulling from fund balance. So it's not as if we're going out and asking for additional revenues or anything like that. What we do as part of the budget process is we try to dial in as close to possible what we expect you're going to spend. We don't want to over budget because that opens us up as the friends that got it found to potential fraud. So we don't want to do that. So we dialed it in as much as we could. That's where we predict, you know, the 3% inflation. We look at historical averages for water usage, those sort of things. But because of the market volatility of this year, the behaviors of those key factors that we were trending in change. And so that is what has put us in this position today. Now my experience in prior cities is that you typically do four to five budget amendments a year. It's a perfectly normal part of the budget process. This is actually only the second budget amendment since I started with the city that we have brought forward to you. I totally get what you're talking about in prior years. They would bring budget amendments to council. Outlooking to see if there were savings prior that we could pull from elsewhere, that's the very first thing we did. So that's why even though it was a $40,000 PTO payout that we weren't expecting, we're only asking for $35,000 here. And in fact, $15,000 of that is just in case there's an emergency between now and the end of the year because we were able to make up for those over just in other areas by working with our Parks and Recreation Director to dial back spending in other segments of the cemetery fund. Well once again that's what I like to hear. It's just gets better and better because of what has happened in the past and where we stand now with the comments You just made the total different viewpoint that we've needed in the city So I'm definitely okay with this one, but if they come back if if these Memments come back at us a bunch or four millions of dollars like that in the past I will be a no a large no and I hope that the rest of councils with me on that But I doubt it will come from this staff and council. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Next city manager Martinez. Thank you Mayor. The Mayor Potem's point. We're making some changes internally as well to our structure or internal structure so that we have a better handle on our budgets more frequently. I think that potentially in years past, the city management office hasn't necessarily been allowed to have a really good solid handle on the budget and wasn't necessarily able to keep tabs on the budget as frequently as it probably should. So this coming year, we're going to make some changes that will improve the amount of oversight that we have over the budget so that we're staying on top of each department more frequently so we have less of these over just thank you. Thank you City Manager Martinez. Any more questions before the council? And if not, I will go ahead and close the public hearing and this is before council for consideration. There we go. Mayor Prattam. Thank you, Mayor, with what was just said and explained well, I'm gonna go ahead and make a motion to approve it. Seven A. All right, there's a motion approved seven A. Council member Pollock. Thank you, Mayor, and I would like to second that motion Proper first and second if there's no other discussion we'll call vote the city of Brighton. Motion passes six to zero to absent. Thank you. And then next we'll go on to item eight a an ordinance of the city council the City of Brighton, Colorado, and Mending Section 3-8-90 of the Brighton Municipal Code regarding bidding procedures for contracts and procurement of supplies and services. City Manager Martinez, I'll turn that over to you. Thank you, Mayor. Once again, we have Caleb present this item. Well, you'd be hearing from me a lot tonight. OK, so this next item, procurement and contracts ordinance, this is a little bit of a complicated one, so I'm going to try my best to distill it down so that council can understand, but please, if you do have questions, do feel free to ask. And so what we are doing here is not actually changing any process. What it is doing is changing how we get to that process. What it is doing is changing how we get to that process. So over the last several years, the city has operated under a streamlined procurement process when it comes to certain capital items. And it's essentially been done through a series of waivers that were passed by Council. You specifically see the two we are referencing here, resolution 01-107 pertaining to certain capital equipment and then resolution 2020-32 software and hardware renewals. As was noted in your packet, we have had some recent changes in leadership at both the City Attorney's Office and the Finance Department. And as part of that, we are trying to work more collaboratively to look at all of our processes and programs to make sure that they are being executed properly and that they are as efficient as possible. The first area that Alicia and I identified was the series of resolutions in relation to the procurement process, because we've never really seen where resolutions have been layered on to adjust code, and in fact, we don't believe that's the proper way to get to this process. We believe that if it is the intent of council to change the way that code is implemented, that that should be done through an actual change to the code, not through wiring on these exceptions. So, the two resolutions in question are Resolution 01-107 and Resolution 2020-32. And what we are asking tonight is to simply take the process outlined in these two resolutions and actually implement that into the code through an ordinance. So the first resolution, 01-107, as I mentioned, streamlines the procurement process for certain operating and capital equipment. Specifically, this has historically been used for vehicle purchases of which we average about 35 per year and then utilities renewals such as United Power of which we have six of those utility renewals each year. What this has allowed us to do is that Council essentially gave administrative authority to the city manager in certain scenarios to go ahead and sign those contracts. So generally speaking, if a contract award is to be over 50,000, it has to come before council for you guys to vote on that actual award. In these cases, if the item was already approved through the budget process, so voted on by council through that budget process, otherwise followed procurement code, meaning it was competitively bid and it is in budget then the council has awarded the city manager the administrative authority through this resolution to go ahead and sign those without having to come back in front of council. The resolution 2020-32 was passed by this council in 2020 and this extended this streamline process to our software renewals and maintenance contracts. So for example our G Suite renewals, we just recently used this for renewal of that program and this has been particularly helpful over the last several years because one when we do those software renewals those maintenance renewals, typically they give us those renewals documents with a very short period and it's hard to get back in front of Council in a timely manner to get those executed. We actually ran into this year that gives a very short window with G Suite and if we had not had this resolution in place and had to bring that back before Council to award. We may have been without our email services for a couple of days. Also, in light of the supply chain issues, this has become particularly useful on the vehicle side because we have run into problems just this year trying to order our police vehicles because supply is so low that ordering window opened up and was only open for one day before they were sold out of all of the stuff that they were going to have. So again, that's one where we wouldn't have been able to get the quotes from the vendor, bring it back before council and execute that in order to get those vehicles. So again, tonight what we are doing is really looking to take these two resolutions, take that process and put it into ordinance. We have been very careful to make sure that we are not asking for any additional authority. And because this is an ordinance, it does require first reading, which is tonight, December 7th, and then a second reading, December 21st. So with that, I will turn it over for questions. I know this is a more complicated one. Thank you, Kayla. Any questions from the council right now? This time? Well I guess if the order in the window was one day are we down to like you know Ford Fiesta's or something for our police vehicles? I would have to talk for the police supervisor to figure out exactly what he was able to get an order in for, but it was really concerning. And that's not the first and certainly won't be the last time with the supply chain issues that we face that. Well, I know what their preference is, but I mean, we don't want them to be short of vehicles when we need to. Absolutely. So I would be creative there. All right. If there's no other questions from the council, this is before you for consideration. Council member Humbert. Yeah, I move to approve item 8A. Motion-proof item 8A, do we have a second? We'll go ahead and second that motion. Proper first and second. There's no other discussion. We'll call the... Motion passes 6-0 to absent. Thank you, Kayla. I think you're done, right? At least for the moment. And I'll go ahead and we'll call a 10 minute break. Come back at 718. you the session. the City of Brighton, Colorado, accepting all public improvement associated with a major subdivision and approving a subdivision plat agreement for an approximately 167.53 acre property generally located on or in Section 20, Township 1 South, range 66 of the 6th principal, Meridian. County of Adams, did a Colorado, commonly known as Farmore North Subdivision. And this is continued from November 16th. So, all right. We'll turn this over to City Mayor Andrew Martinez. Thank you Mayor. As you mentioned, this is continued from November 16. I would like to take a second to thank the applicant as well as staff on working collaboratively to come up with some of the solutions that you'll hear this evening. They listen to council and they have some innovative solutions to present to you this evening. So without further ado, our long-range planner, Shannon McDowell to you this evening. So without further ado, our long-range planner, Shannon McDell, will present this item. Thank you, City Manager. Mr. Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem and members of City Council. As City Manager said, we're bringing this back after hearing on November 16th, and are addressing some concerns that City Council identified at that time. So this is the Farm Learn North Major Subdivision Plan and Subdivision Plan Agreement. The applicant is Michael Richardson or Mick Richardson of Brighton Lake, ZLLC. He's also the property owner. And as the City Manager mentioned, I'm Shannon McDowell, your senior long-range planner. The strategic focus areas that this project can be thought to meet are recognizable and well-planned community as well as strategic supportable infrastructure. And tonight we're going to be following up on a public hearing that happened November 16th of this year. At that hearing, City Council asked staff and the applicant to incorporate two revisions. First, being requiring City Council approval for the use of eminent domain, and second being adding a pedestrian connection that connects the subdivision directly to the city. So I'm going to go through eminent domain first. In light of the discussion that happened last month, the applicant after the hearing asked for the paragraph regarding eminent domain that was included in the subdivision plan agreement to be removed. So essentially that nullifies that paragraph and eliminates all mention of eminent domain from the subdivision plan agreement. In its place, we'll be putting a new paragraph about the pedestrian connection that was requested by City Council. So to determine that connection, we got together staff from community development, parks, streets, and utilities, and discussed a number of different potential alignments. We identified four potential alignments, those being one along Chambers Road, so that's the one shown in pink, one along the Fulton Ditch, which would be the one in yellow. One along 144th Avenue, being the red alignment. And one through the Prairie Lakes Open Space, which is the green alignment. So I should mention that all four of those potential alignments are in areas that have not yet developed, meaning that significant grading could occur on those sites causing a permanent alignment to have to or a permanent trail to have to be torn out and replaced when development actually occurs adjacent to that trail. So for that reason any of the four choices staff would be recommending an asphalt trail that would be at least eight feet wide so that we could facilitate snow plot operations. Some attributes of each trail alignment include that both the Chambers Road alignment and the 144th Alignment could potentially fit within an existing right-of-way. So no acquisition of right-of-way easements or very few acquisitions of right-of-way easements will be required for the purple and red alignments. However, the yellow and green, there is no existing easement or right-of-way for either of those trails. So to build that trail, the applicant would have to go through the process of acquiring those easements. The green trail actually would go through a narrow strip of land that is owned by the developer. However it's not currently dedicated to the city and there is no easement so we would still have to dedicate an easement. The full-end ditch trail, the yellow trail, is about two and a half times the length of the other three at 6400 linear feet, and the other three are ranged between 2600 to 2800 linear feet. The Prairie Lakes has a green alignment, has a water ditch that kind of meanders through that narrow strip of land, which could be problematic in locating a trail. That ditch may need to be relocated if that alignment were chosen. And it also goes through areas that are still private property, yet they have access roads or trails there that people could take in private property. So there's a potential conflict there. And then along 144th there is a roadside ditch that would have to be navigated and one property in particular has some good stand of dense mature trees that are right along the road that would likely have to be taken out to facilitate a trail. So with all of that in mind, our preferred connection or recommended connection tonight is the Chambers Road Trail. It's what we would call the most shovel ready project that could be accomplished with phase one of a Farmland North. So because it would be located in existing right of way, there's also a crossing of the Fulton ditch that has to happen, but there's already what looks to be enough concrete there over the ditch to facilitate a trail connection with no modification to the bridge. And it's also the shortest distance to connect the Farmland North development to the existing city. And I think you can see on the map, it will bring people up to an established sidewalk and trail connection that could go west. But there's also a pedestrian connection right about here where they could cross the road and go back to connect into our fuller parks and open space system and really the remainder of the city. So we think that's a really good connection. It also is a more direct connection than the Fulton Ditch to the commercial here at Bromley and Sable. If we connected the Fulton Ditch, there would still be a gap here, which they could cross the street and go over. But all things considered, Chambers Road is our recommendation. So as I mentioned at the November 16th hearing, city staff and the developer team worked diligently on this project since April of 2020. And we've overcome a lot of hurdles and a lot of issues and feel like we have a really good project to present to you for approval. The project meets all of the requirements of the Land use and development code as well as the comprehensive plan and specifically advances some of the provisions in the comprehensive plan that the city has prioritized like water conservation, parks and open space, provisions and connectivity. So with the modifications described in the presentation, which I should clarify one thing, that paragraph in the subdivision plan agreement requires the Chamber's road connection to be constructed in phase one, which would mean it would be built prior to any homes other than maybe a model home being built in the subdivision. So it will be in place before anyone lives in the subdivision. So with that modification, we are recommending acceptance of the major subdivision plan in approval of the subdivision plan agreement And sorry, I'm behind on my clicking and You have four options tonight first being to accept the major subdivision plan and approve the subdivision plan agreement Second being to deny acceptance of the major subdivision plan and approval of the subdivision plan agreement acceptance of the major subdivision plan and approval of the subdivision plan agreement. Third, being accepted the major subdivision plan and approve the subdivision plan agreement with edits and last being continue the item to a later certain date if you feel like you need more information to make a decision. And that's all we have for you tonight. We'd be happy to take any questions and thank you so much for your time. Well Shannon thank you so much. I'm off first go. I'm actually very pleased what the changes that are here and I think that's going to really benefit not only the future residents of the farm world but the other existing subdivisions that are in that area. So thank you very much. We'll go into comments and questions. Mayor Brutten. Thank you Mayor. Yeah, I'll tag off that. So we asked for a few things. I didn't know that we would be handed all of the things that we were asked without any kind of back and forth going on. I am very impressed. I mean, these are things that didn't used to be included into these plans. And I appreciate the staff doing this, but you know, no disrespect. That's your job. It's the developer. Thank you. So you're saying we have connections coming, water in, coming. We've got no problems with any of this from any council perspective because you've solved all four of the things I had listed in the menu. Right here. very impressed. I'm definitely a yes on this thank you. It's great to have great developers improve in our city thank you. Councilmember Humbert. This is just another example of a developer who is not just a good citizen but a good neighbor but I do have a question for the alignment of chambers that trail on 12th. As I recall there's no traffic control there. There will be another pass, the winter pass or a light there. Is that just frugger? So there is currently a light. It's not at 12th. Eighth. Right. So they would have to walk west to 8th and then cross the street to get to the bigger connections in the city. Is that it? And then the council member cushion. in the city. Is that it? And then I count some member cushion. Thank you, Mayor. I have a question. These students are going to have to be bus to school. Where will the buses stop? And this concern was brought to me by a resident. The concern is that they're going to stop on one of these streets and there's already really some concerns about traffic and accidents. And so the question is, are the buses, would they come into the subdivision to pick up students or would they be having to come out and line up on like chambers? Of course, I'm not with the school districts. No, I don't. I'm just, um, this is a concern though because the developer, and I'm gonna bring up another thing about buses, but if we don't, if the developer doesn't put a place for that to happen, the school districts likely just to park on the side of a street. I mean, if there's not a spot for them to go, a giant bus, there's, I mean, they can't really turn around in like small streets and things like that. So in my neighborhood and I am in 27J, my kids, their bus stop is at the mailbox down the street from my house. You know, and so I think they, in general, the transportation department for 27J tries to pick a spot that's either near a common space so that there isn't like a direct impact to residents or they're picking like an end cap of a of a street so it's where you wouldn't have kids lining up in front of someone's house. It's on the side of the house. Does that make sense? Yeah, I mean, that's just my experience and so that's all I can speak to at this point. It's just a concern that came up that I wanted to mention. Thank you. And the other concern is the RTD service. The only RTD service near the subdivision is on Sable. And I would grow about there and kind of walk around that area for a while. Sable again has no sidewalks. So there's literally bus stops just on the side of the road in the field. And buses are stopping on the side of Sable. So we're going to add to that because if you want to take a bus, you've got to walk down the Sable and stand on the side of the road and wait for a bus. I've heard this complaint before where we complain about the lack of bus service in Brighton, but we don't have proper bus shelters or bus stops or a bench or even a sidewalk to get to there. And it makes us a little bit not welcoming for public transportation. And then my last thing is again related to schools, a lot of these kids are going to go down south to Prairie View. If a kid doesn't take the bus home because they're in sports or they're in after school activities, I'm really concerned that they're going to be riding a bicycle up chambers or sable. And those roads aren't going to have sidewalks. They're not going to be wide enough. And we already have a lot of accidents in those areas. I'm just really concerned about the kids in those situations. So that's all I wanted to mention. Thank you. Anybody else have any questions? OK. If not, then this is before council. Would like to make a motion. Councilmember Humbert? I'm here approved. I'm here approved. I'm here approved. I'm here approved. I'm here approved. I'm here approved. I'm here approved. I'm here approved. I'm here approved. I'm here approved. I'm here approved. I'm here approved. I'm here approved. I'm here approved. I'm here approved. I'm here approved. Any other discussion? It's a roll call though. Or are you waiting on any wood. There we go. So motion passes 5 to 1, 2 absent. Okay. 2. Next is item 10B. Resolution of the City Council, the City Brighton Colorado, accepting the bit of L.J. Landscape and Design Incorporated in approving the procurement of Founders Plaza the construction landscape. Project number 21-006-990 to LJ landscape and design and corporate for the contract amount of $613,000 and $10 and authorizing the city manager or designee to execute and sign the contract on behalf of the city and the city clerk to test their two city manager Martinez. Turn it over to you. Thank you Mayor. For this item we have our director of parks and recreation Mr. Travis Haynes. Thank you city manager Martinez. Good evening Mayor Mayor Proton. Members of council. You have to excuse my voice tonight but we are here to discuss for Anders Pazlifase to construction and this fits into the strategic focus area of facilities, amenities, and open space. Like I said, we're here seeking approval of the resolution to accept the bill of arrow jail landscape and to complete the construction of phase two. In this picture, this is the entry sign in the northwest corner. You can see the crusher fine areas, the two triangular pieces in the back. Those are the areas that Phase 2 will be constructed in and those are the ones we are wanting to get taken care of. Parks and Recreation staff along with Norse Design held public input meeting at Founders Plaza in the late 2020. We received input from the citizens, City Council and staff. After discussions about all the input we got Staff directed nor is designed and they begin working on face to design at the end of March of this year The Parks and Recreation Department applied for an Adams County open space grant for $385,000 Which is 55% of the budget of the $700,000 amount for the project. At the end of July, we were granted that grant. So we're looking to put in quite a bit of enhanced colored concrete in an advanced area. We're going to add more shelters covered picnic tables. We're going to put in the overhead festoon lighting that will help to light up the plaza. Give us a little more security down in the area. We have a bunch of additional seating proposed in this phase of the project as well, additional landscape areas, more trees for shade, that was one of the big things that people said they wanted for us was more shade down there, and we also have a permanent location for the Christmas tree. This is the original design that we showed you the first time. The green and gold area over on the side was originally to be a poor and placed rubber surface with climbing apparatuses after those public input meetings. Those were removed. I will go to the next picture. I'm sorry it's not colored like the last one was, but you can see that green and gold area is. It's a seating area now. The pie shaped pieces will be colored concrete. There are more planter beds along the edge of that with seat wall seating. That area will be designated for more seating. You can bring lawn chairs. We could bring bleachers in if needed for special events. You can put pop-up tents in there. A lot of different things there. We have an additional tree down on the southeast side. There are more landscape bed areas along the bank wall. The two trail of shelters coming down the middle will match the one that is currently there. Those will have lighting underneath those as well. And then in the Northwest section, these are larger tree areas. We will have more paper walkways in that area. And then in this section right here in the center where the tree is at now, there will be a permanent location with the electricity for the tree to be put in those. In that area, and then we also have the zigzag overhead festoon lighting for security purposes and to light the facility up. So it's a little more light and in the evenings. Founders Plaza phase two bids and recommendations. Like I said, we have $700,000 in the budget for the project. The bid from arrow jcape is for $613,810. We also received a bid from ADMOOR for $688,314. We did receive one bid from the TCC Corporation for $579,455 and 20 cents. They were deemed non-responsive after working with procurement. They did not supply to do that. We did not have to do that. We did not have to do that. We did not have to do that. We did not have to do that. We did not have to do that. We did not have to do that. We did not have to do that. We did not have to do that. We did not have to do that. We did not have to do that. We did 76,000 to 14 and 50 cents and the grant covering up to 55% of the project will cover $337,595 and 50 cents of the project. In addition to this at the end, I've been working with our design team to put a safety railing fence capped on top of the wall that runs along the perimeter of the north end of the facility. It's 135 foot. It's the large landscape area on top of the three foot tall wall. We're going to put a 42 inch railing that basically is mounted on top of the cap and we're looking at different decorative designs. Some of them are kind of wavy in nature to keep people from trying to get up on those. We want to keep people off of those with the savings we have coming in under bid. That'll fit easily within that budget amount. They are working on that right now. And I should know more hopefully in the next week or two on what it's going to take to get that up there. But that's in addition to what we have here this evening. I just actually had a meeting with them earlier today and they're moving along very quickly on that piece of the project for us. So options for council approve the proposal as presented, reject the request or request staff to look at any other options there might be, and with that, I'll be happy to answer any questions. And I'm steaming up. Thank you Travis. There's gonna be a lot of questions. I'll go ahead and start with Mayor Potem. Thank you Mayor. How was the lone person back in the day to vote against this what I call the concrete monstrosity? What it has been had a great event there this last week. Let's be realistic about what happened. It was awesome. Loved it. I had never purposely never stepped foot into that area. Now that I have my shoes came out pretty dirty. It's not even a concrete monstrosity. It is a dirt pad. I was unaware of that. Saying that, none of this that I'm seeing takes care of that. It's still going to be dirt. No, I'm sorry, I'll go back. I didn't see the pull-in play. Yeah, we took the pull-in play set that was the rubber, which is the screen area. This area here where a lot of the crusher finds out where that green, those are all going to be colored concrete sections. And then up where the picnic tables are, you can't really see the pattern on this colored picture, but on the black and white, up where the Christmas tree is, those patterned areas, those are all pavers. We're going to get rid of all the crusher find that is there. It's going to be all hard surface, a mixture of pavers and colored concrete. So, you know, brighten up the area, give it a little look and help to keep your shoes and get it on best and covered. Because yeah, but that's one reason we really want to, you know, we, as you know, be original designed for Phase 2 was 1.5 million dollars. We paired that way down. I think we have a great plan here. It's going to add some to it. It's gonna make the space all very usable. Get rid of the dirt areas. We're not gonna have any dust blown around downtown when the wind blows. We'll actually be able to take that material out and we can refresh some of our soft surface trails with it because it's the crushed refined material. So we'll use it in other places, but we will get you're out of all of that and we will have all hard surface down in that area. That's good to hear. And it's one thing for me to sit here and pretend like I'm gonna be political and keep voting now on something. I voted now, I was voted down. I was the one to say I'm not going to improve the things that I think needs improvement would be a detriment. So I think this is valuable. I wanna definitely say you've done a great job even with my Negative behavior through this whole process, but I really feel like I've been speaking for the citizens here with what this park was and How what it was designed for originally compared to what we see it becoming now And I hope that the residents that that I still can make sure that Ward one and the residents are Understanding why I might actually vote yes for this because I think they would too see this. However, would you tell us how much we've spent as a whole and how much we've gotten grants on this whole thing before I decide to go that way? I do not remember the exact amount of the last grant. This one's 385,000 with the building to purchase the demolition. What is there? I believe we're around 1.2 million on there. I would have to get that grant money, the total for that grant funding, for the last one. I'm not sure what that was, but I can definitely send that to you. And this, does that include the 600 that were being asked to? This is the set. That's what is there currently in phase one. When we brought this one down, I believe the grant in the first phase was about 55% as well, just like this one is. That's typically what we go for on these larger grants. Okay. Well, you've done the best you can to see where we go from here. I definitely wish that we would do other things here with this, even though it's sitting here, but I'd like to hear from other council members before I make a decision for my constituents. Thank you. Thank you. And council member cushion? Thank you, Mayor. I have a couple questions. First, does this include doing something with the Wells Fargo Wall? The Wells Fargo Wall is actually all on them. And I do know that our chief building official has really been working with them to get them going on their project. The design is done and has been approved. They've had to make a few modifications to it. But I do know that they are actually looking into that and moving forward now. But it is, that is their project. Once it's done, we would still like to get a mural put up on that wall. Right, that's what I meant. Yes. So once they get their portion of it complete, we, their separate funding for that. And I know that there's been some grant funding looked into for the mural project as well, which will be a separate project from this piece. Okay. And second is, why was the poor and place eliminated in favor of more, not more, but we tried to eliminate anything that would attract smaller kids to this area and have them runnin' and the chance to them runnin' out into traffic. So those were eliminated and we went in with the colored concrete instead and added more seating area and a place for people so they wanna pop up tents, you know, do a small farmers market or something like that in the area. But we did that to eliminate the draw for any really young children. And that's I'm assuming the same for any, we talked about some farm themed climbing equipment. The only concern I have about this railing is, will it become that attraction since there aren't any other attractions to climb on will we have kids swinging out over bridge? I know my kids will climb on about anything in front of them. So we're set back six feet off a bridge, we're going to go with the design for the fence that tries to alleviate that problem. We're gonna, like I said, look at something that probably has some wave or curvature to it, to keep people from getting up on top of that or trying to. Okay, thank you. So let me make that problem. Oh, and one more question, the picnic tables. I mean, what do they look like? Are we talking just pretty plain Jane, off the shelf picnic tables? Or is there anything? No, they're covered about it. They're covered. They're foresighted, a couple of Maria D.A. compliant, and the other one's foresighted. So they're not just your run of the mill picnic tables. They're a really nice powder coated table with a shade canopy over the top of this as well. Okay, thank you. Yes. All right, thanks. And then, Council member Watts. Thank you. Thanks, Travis. The mural, touching the Council member Christian's point, I was going to ask about that and I'm glad we're working on that. We have a lot of great artists here in town and around the area that you know do a lot for our thing. Are we looking to the local artists to put something up with that mural? Is that how we're going to do it? Yeah, the artisans. The arts committee is working on that David and his group. They're looking into all of that So I'm sure they're exploring all options and all different kinds of outstanding and If this is approved tonight How long do you think this would take to complete and this is the final phase is that correct? This is the final phase Obviously, we're gonna wait till after the holidays the tree is up Depending on I mean with this crazy weather we're having right now, we don't have any freezing issues with the soil there. So once they get going, they can come in and do the excavation. Most of this project is all hard-scape and concrete work. Once it's warm enough, they can pour concrete, they'll start going on it. It shouldn't take more than probably three to four months to get everything done once we get going, depending on the weather, as long as you know, mother nature cooperates, they can get it done fairly quickly. Well, yeah, it's also, thank you. And it's also very nice to see that you're taking all the safety concerns that I mean, may have pro-temps brought up before and some of the council members have brought up before, so that's great. It is nice to see that we have a permanent home for our now. Right. Until the other one can grow in a few decades from now. But in one of the earlier phases of the many phases we've seen of this project since even before I was on council, many of them, there was a section in there about parking for food trucks to have events out there. Is that still something that's on the table? The bump out that's on the corner of Main and Bridge right here is designed with this curb along this area. There's room to get two to three right along there for events if we're not closing the streets down. When we close the streets down, you can line them up and put them on the other side of the street. The original plan, I know which one you were speaking of, it was the very first plan, showed an area right along the bank wall, but with the United Power boxes and everything that are along there that just would not work into it. And the access is so close to Bridge Street where you would have to pull in, there wasn't good access coming in and out. So we went with that design right there and that's where they would park. And not to change your design because it's great. I don't know how to start adding, change the blue prints as we go, but the performance area you have down there, I thought it was really nice, the event Saturday was incredible. It could just everybody had to do that, but they had a nice stage there. Is that something that can go up there? There's a room for that, and we're going to have a permanent fixture there of that. We all have permanent due to the cost and stages out there is like that are very expensive to maintain things get under them. Yeah. Stages out there is like that are very expensive to maintain things get under them. Yeah, you know a lot of different things can happen With the permanent structure like that, but there is space along there Between the two planning beds to get stages put in there There's a couple areas you could probably even locate it in if you wanted to move them around a little bit But that's what that area is intended for and I think it's safe to say that it is no skating rink at this time. No, there's no skating rink at this point. Awesome. Thank you very much for all this work. Thank you. Thank you. And then Councilmember Pollock. Thank you, ma'am. Hi, Travis. Hello. So it sounds good. I'm glad we're getting close to finishing it up. I'm not too excited about what we're using for ground cover, cement, colored concrete. If you were there, Saturday, you saw the children that are running all over the place, are falling all over the place, deliberately, or whatever the reason is. Did we not consider maybe some artificial sod with some padding underneath that to not only to add some color to the area because I call it a seaman park for a reason because that's what it looks like. I understand there's going to be some flower pots or whatever, but they only go certain times of the year and it's going to be pretty dull. And so was that ever considered maybe putting some kind of sod or some green, some color or something like that? Because it's pretty dull. As far as sod know, once we decided to take the pouring place forever out to alleviate the issue with the kids, we definitely artificial turf was brought up, but you put a patch of that in there. It's gonna do the same thing, the pouring place for rubber dust. It would pull kids to the area. So we did not do that. The colored or the payvers are, they're going to be different colors. It'll be alternated coloring in there. It's not, I know it's all concrete. It's not all going to be gray. We're trying to give it some color. The flower beds are going to help. We can do a lot with annuals and plantings in those. But once we decided to pull anything out for small children that would attract them to the area, we didn't look any further into the artificial turf. Well, I don't know how it would attract them to the area that might sit on there, instead of sitting, you know, some of that sitting area is kind of high. A little one has to jump just he sit on the edges there and it might attract him to sit there and maybe even have a little picnic or what have you Yeah Aside from that it's gonna still look very dull and it's gonna certainly keep its name of a cement park. You know, I listen to what people have to say. It's not just about me lately. I haven't gone playing at parks or any of those things. I don't know what the hell happened to me. But anyway, I don't. So I have to listen to my constituents. But that's just what I'm hearing. Thank you. Great points. And then council member Humbert. I love you, Van on Saturday. And it seemed to be a success at every front. One thing we could do to make the bank hurry up is leave the sign for the competing bank next to the wall. It was rather humorous, but someone pointed out to me and maybe I'll get them working on the wall, but I can't wait to see the art go up. It will definitely improve the looks of all of it. Thank you So I'm looking at the what you have up on the screen Travis and then I see the trees in I'm imagining our event on Saturday The tree's gonna be in the way of the performance. I mean, that's one of my concerns. It would depend on what you said, because shade was one of the biggest things that people asked for. The tree down here in the corner, it will grow up. It could block a little bit of the view from over on the side. If you're setting underneath the shade trees on this side, you just have to position yourself where you can see it. But, you know, we were trying to give a little bit of everything that people were looking for. And shade was one of the biggest requested items that we had in that list for seeding for shade. You know, if we had monthly concerts down there, we can look at other options. But most of the time trees going in those type of conditions and those smaller planner beds, they're not going to get as big as some of the other like out here in the park anyway. Yeah, I mean, I mean, I'm all, I hate questioning the tree thing because, you know, we're now like a tree city USA. But I hate for the obstruction of the event as well. That's one of my concerns of this. Otherwise, I have no problem voting to move forward with this. Okay, we have some follow-ups. Mayor Patel. Thank you, Mayor. After hearing from all of council, I still don't feel comfortable with this. One of the main reasons is when you look at the price tag for what this has cost us, I'm sitting here thinking back on how much, how many actual parks the kids can play in, we could have bought. This was a bad idea, and it wasn't your idea, director, hands, and I know you wouldn't care if it was. You're attached to the city and it's best not the projects they you bring before us. So no disrespect to you and your team. But the event should also have shown us that that event was spectacular. And we spent zero more dollars on it. We're trying to build into a park where if we're going to spend one point something million a year for a place where there is an event held once a year that's good maybe twice a year, maybe three times a year. But this is not going to be what the previous council pretended like it's going to be. They pretended as if this was going to be some kind of meeting area for adults to come. What it has become is a great one time, two time, three time a year venue, which I'll give them credit for even though they didn't know that that was going to have. And therefore I would urge all of council to not go forward with phase two. I'm going to vote no just as I voted no on phase one. And let's move on from this and go spend this money on kids and parks where kids can play. We're literally spending parks and recreation budget right now if you vote yes for this. You're literally spending it to make sure kids don't want to come to a park in the city of Brighton. We don't want them to come for safety reasons which I respect but we should be spending any of our dollars on the actual children that can be part of parks and rec and I think that's what parks and rec and the department has been made for not for us to convene in a park once a year. So I totally appreciate what you've done with the project but I urge all of council to vote no as I will. Thank you, Mr. Marin. You know, as I greet someone with mayor pro-tems comments, what's going to be the total out of pocket to finish this phase? The city portion is 276,000 to 14. And if we don't approve this tonight, it's just going to sit there as a dirt lot. So one of the things, there's other entities within the city that can help pay for this, and we actually pay the whole amount of this. And that's, you know, like Urban Renewal, it's in an Urban Renewal area. We could talk about that at our next meeting next week, and we can look them to pay the 276214 and the city's not on the hook for anything because it's coming out of that budget So I agree I mean I wasn't in favor of this part from beginning as well I wasn't on council that voted for it that mayor pro-tentive vote against that but I've always been and I've also been a proponent of it's already there Let's fix it. It's gonna cost more money to tear it down and turn it into something else And then we're gonna be hampered with that later on down the road. The 216, or 216, 214, that can be paid for by other entities without the city doing it, I think is a win-win for everybody in this situation, and it's not gonna cost that much. We still have, I mean, there's other money we have that we haven't even spent yet. We have the COVID funds that were put aside that we can have to the end of the year to spend. We have $2.5 million that was repaid for the South Main Street Project for the Burrow Loan that's still sitting there that we can use. I mean, I agree we need to revamp all of our parks which you've done a great job with observatory parking or working on other ones. But I also don't want a gateway to our city to just stay a dirt lot until we figure out what we're going to do with it. And I don't want another council coming on board to be hampered with it because me, when I came on in 2020, I was hampered with this. And it's because the previous council didn't do a phase two. They pushed it onto the next one and it went on and it went on. And I don't want to do that moving forward. I'd like to get this done. If it's a if everybody's a no vote and I'm voting yes in favor of it because I think we need to move forward and get it done so our gateway looks nice. I don't agree that the park is there. I don't like the park being there but it's there. And unfortunately that was not my decision to do that. It wasn't the mayor pro-temps decision to do it either. But it's there now and I think the 276214 can be paid out of a few other non-city entities that we willing to put their name on that. It's my sake on that but well I got it. I appreciate your work on this. I just don't want to sit get my shoes dirty like the mayor pro-temps. We go to another vendor. So thank you. So you know council member Watts brought up some ideas of other ways to fund this. And I'm going to turn this part over to our city manager since he is also a part of the Brighton Urban Renewal Authority and some other entities. And what's your take on what was suggested by Council Member Watts? Yeah, as Council Member Watts mentioned, I think there are other entities, and in fact, if you would call the joint meeting that you had with the Brighton Urban Authority a few months back, they actually mentioned this project by name. And so I think that there is actually some merit to approaching the Urban and Oil Authority to talk about funds that may be available to help with this project, because ultimately I think, again, it falls within an urban and anual authority. It falls within kind of the bounds of what projects an urban and anual authority would undertake. And I think from a partnership standpoint that'd be something that they will be willing to also take a part of. So I can't speak on behalf of the authority, but we have a meeting next week and I can certainly approach this topic with them. But we have a meeting next week and I can certainly approach this topic with them. So if this was this was continued to two weeks from now and well, would that dole? How would that affect our grant? Is it is our grant need to be spent or approved by the end of the year or can this be considered in two weeks if we were to rework the funds? I'll ask Mr. Haynes to answer that. We have a couple years for the grant. Okay, that's not in jeopardy. We just signed the contract was signed for the grant either in August or September. It wasn't given to us and approved until the end of July, so we're good there. In addition, there are other funds as Councilmember Watts mentioned that aren't necessarily general fund monies that are non-appropriated currently that you could also look into as well. But I think to the point that was made, we can certainly look at other entities participating and helping to lessen the burden of the city. Okay. Councilmember Pollock. Thank you, ma'am. Well, it's good to hear that urban renewal may want to help with that project. And if that's true, I think they should and how we finish it up. Just to comment, Councilman Watts says it's the gateway into the city. You can't even see into the city with those trees in the way. You can't see it all. So, if you pass by, you can't see nothing into the city. That's a horrible. I would like to spend the money to take those trees down and maybe put up a nice little statue, some lighting, something colorful, but those trees and they're getting bigger and worse. Now, that particular round about, I don't know about the other ones on the other side of town. I'm talking about my side of town. Several people have been killed there. You can't see the traffic until it's right on top of you. So that's a horrible thing to even say. It's a gateway into the city. It's a gateway into hell the way I look at it. But then again, you know, I'm kind of different. So I would like to see what urban, you know, renewal and get their take. They're going to pay for it. Then they should have some say. see what urban renewal and get their take, they're gonna pay for it, then they should have some say. Maybe if they're listening, they might consider some kind of greenery or something, some color. So I don't hear that cement park y'all built. Well, I personally didn't build it, but we get accused of it. So anyway, yeah, I think we should come back to but we get accused of it. So anyway, yeah, I think we should come back to it in a couple of weeks. I kind of agree with Mayor Pro Tem. And I think we'll go from there. There's obviously no rush. I think we're done with the, it was beautiful Saturday. It worked out perfect. And that we can thank you folks and our new city manager and our staff, everyone. Just done an amazing job and the people were happy. But we've got to see different things that we can do there and maybe use it more than two or three times a year. But we'll see. We have lots of beautiful parks and brighten so anyway okay I've said enough I'm quite laughing at me okay thank you what happened at your welcome with yes We did have a great event there on Saturday. In other cities that are our size in Colorado, they have plazas like this, probably even more concrete in them. And they work on a day-to-day basis. They are the other places, they are gateways. And the latest one is Loveland. And the latest new one is Loveland. But we have six people here tonight. So I think the delaying is talking to you, and we know, this is a lot better than the park that we spend $100,000 on. Which I was. You went there. So, and this will, we'll do the things that the department couldn't do. But let's continue this and if, if please Mayor, well, council member Watts wants to speak again. So, I'll stop. So, the member Watts has already had a couple, did you say you need to speak again? Okay, it was just, okay. Well with that, if everybody's spoken, I mean, I would think we should entertain a motion to continue until we get some other options after discussion with Berra and other entities. Did you, someone else want to talk? Okay. May I put them? I see you have a motion to be made. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to make a motion to continue this to a date certain of December 21st. Motion to continue to December 21st. Councilmember Watts. Since I serve on the post-parklet for a 40, we will discuss this at our meeting next Tuesday, so I'll be happy to second this motion to continue. Probably first and a second to continue. There's no other discussion. Roll call vote. Motion passes five to one with two absent. Okay, thank you. Next is item 10, see a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, accepting the bid of civil construct. Do I say it wrong? Yes. No wrong vote. Ronco. Civil constructors incorporated and approving the procurement of downtown Main Street pedestrian and bike improvements. Project number 21-007042 to Nauraro. I just said it wrong, and I'm sorry. Navarro? No. No. Yes. Civil, excuse me, civil constructors and corporate afford the contract amount of $222,752 and 40 cents in authorizing the city manager or does it need to execute and sign the contract on behalf of the city and the city clerk to attest there too. So city manager Martinez. Thank you, Mayor. For this item, we have Public Works Engineer, Noa Martinez. Good evening. Today I'll be providing a presentation on the Downtown Main Street Pedestrian and Bike and bike improvements. Now to start off the presentation I do want to read off a quote from our website regarding downtown. It goes it like this. Downtown Brighton is the heart of the city and for more than 100 years it has linked town and country together by providing citizens with a trade and commerce district. Now, I wanted to show that quote just to highlight the importance of this project. Taking a look at our strategic plan, it does fulfill two different categories. The first one being supportive and sustainable infrastructure. And the second one is being financially responsible. For today's presentation, I'll be looking at the project background, providing details for structure and the second one is being financially responsible. For today's presentation, I'll be looking at the project background, providing details regarding this project and going over a proposal process and results and wrapping it up with final recommendation. To provide some background regarding this project, the city applied for a revitalizing mainstream, small-mo-type model and economic resiliency grant. This grant was developed by the Colorado Department of Transportation. It was funded through two different funding sources. The first one being SB1 multi-motor options fund and the second one being SB 110 billback better. be 110 bill back better. The mission of this grant is to improve safety. It's and create new community spaces to encourage healthy activity and mobility in Colorado's towns and cities. Now brainstorming, taking a look at different options on what would apply for this grant. We did take inspiration on some of our previous improvements that the city has already carried out. Improvements such as pedestrian improvements, also traffic calming measures that we have carried out, and providing infrastructure for mobility and active living. This project was constrained to the downtown area. Now, here we took a look at all the different design options that we had, and we were able to narrow down to two to three different options. The first option being a pedestrian improvement which will be a race pedestrian crossing. Now this does help reduce vehicle speeds and also provide to pedestrian in the field of vision of the vehicle incoming. The Federal Highway Association initially provided a percentage of how much pedestrian crashes reduction it does. And effectively reduces pedestrian crashes by 45%. In addition to this, our second option that we consider was the flashing beacons. Now this are some measures that we have already implemented in other locations and we have seen them as very effective. And it does enhance the crossing, highlight it, and notify the vehicle of a pedestrian intent to cross. And last but not least, infrastructure for making sure that we have bike racks in the downtown area. Based on the downtown area, we wanted to take a vanage of what's already existing there. One of the things that we take a look is at the three different crossings on the street and the fact that they have curve extensions of these crossings. Now the race pedestrian crossings will be implemented in this three separate locations. For the bike racks, it was a little bit more involved. Now in order to know where we could effectively implement bike racks, it was a little bit more involved. Now, in order to know where we could effectively implement bike racks, we have to know where our existing bike racks were. So with that, we took a preliminary bicycle inventory of where some of the locations of the existing bike racks are either through businesses or to parks and we were able to narrow down the locations to places such as the movie theater implementing some bike racks there. The other would be the RTD park and right location and other locations such on Main Street such as and other locations on Main Street such as Strong. Now, we did consider making sure that we minimize the amount of impact to pedestrian crossings or not having an effect on any parking spaces. This will be all located in public right away. Going into more detail about the rights pedestrians, we could further highlight this crossings by providing color concrete. Now, it will also implement all the required striping and signage and also make sure that all the ADA requirements are met. We also make sure to provide a design that minimizes the impacts to emergency vehicles or power and services and protect any of the infrastructure such as the existing drains that are on earth's crossings. Now to summarize the project, we'll be implementing three race color pedestrian crossings along Maine. This will be further enhanced by providing rapid flashing beacons and just our push activated. So to a total of six different rapid flashing beacons and providing bicycle racks at eight separate locations. Now the intent of this project is to make sure that we promote pedestrian safety and encourage active transportation in our downtown area. For the construction, the RFP was issued on October 12, 2021, and the city received two firms, well, two firms submitted proposals on November 12. Narangho Civil Construction Zinc and nor concrete construction cooperation. After evaluating both proposals, Narangho Civil Construction is going to be the recommended contractor. Taking a look at the fiscal impact, we certify that there is a sufficient appropriation for this project to be carried out. The final recommendation about to you today is to award the contract to Narangho Civil Construction and as the most responsive and qualified bidder in the amount of $220,752 with $0.40. Today you have three separate options. Your first one is approval as presented. Your second one is to reject. And your third one is to require new proposals to be prepared. Now I do want to show my appreciation to everyone that was involved during the grant process. So I want to say thank you first to the Colorado Department of Transportation for the funding and support through the grant process. I also want to say thank you to the Brighton Downtown Partnership Committee and nature and bronze for their great feedback and letters of support for the grant. I also want to say thank you to the Brighton Economic Development Corporation which helped coordinate and facilitate the communication between staff and the business owners. And also I want to say thank you to the city staff for providing assistance, support, and making sure all the available resources were there to make sure that this project is carried out. available resources, where they're to make sure that this project is carried out. Now with that, I'll open the floor for any questions. Thank you for your time. Thank you for the presentation. Questions from the council? We'll start with council member Cushion. Thank you, Mayor. So I'm all, I like the crosswalks, crosswalk ideas. The bike stuff is concerning though because I don't believe main street or any of the streets down there have any kind of bike lanes. I can't figure out a way that I would ride a bicycle downtown. Let me go back to our map. So the map that you have to the right does show all the trails that are available and the fact that Main Street does have a Shadows bike Shadows that you could go down. So we make sure to take a look at all the connections and all the paths that a cyclist could take around the downtown area. So, the green is the trail, a foot wide and then the gray you could barely see it but that's the shows. So that will be all throughout me. So all these lines are where you would write a bike? Where you have the designated infrastructure to write a bike. So like I can't imagine writing a bike down Bridge Street right there. You could do that. So one of those, when that was passed, So one of those, when Ellis Pavs does incorporate just writing on the sidewalk, it wouldn't be... But that sidewalk is the smallest sidewalk. Like I could see down like on Bromley we have real big fat wideside or 27th Avenue or Bromley. Nice big wide sidewalks. These sidewalks are, I mean, if you fell over, you'd get hit by a car coming down bridge. And Main Street, I mean, it's a narrow street and it's got parking on either side. You're going to be riding right down the middle of the street. Worth is pretty good, but even going across Maine, there's no bike lanes or anything. So I just think to have this many bike locations to park bikes is good but and I want to be bike friendly but I don't want to encourage more people to be riding bikes around there until there's dedicated bike lanes and places for them to ride and I definitely don't want this map of people riding down the bridge. That scares me. But like I say, the pedestrian stuff I'm all in favor of, it's pretty pedestrian friendly, but I don't see it as very, and certainly I wouldn't want to see bicycles riding down main on the sidewalk when people coming in and out of bars and restaurants and businesses. So that's my concern. Okay. thanks. Those are valid concerns. Thank you. Council member Pollock. Thank you, Mayor. I agree with Councilman Cushing. I know. Put it on the calendar. Okay. Okay. But yeah, you know, we don't need that kind of bike parking. I would not encourage anyone to ride the bikes down these streets. They're very narrow. There's hardly any room for cars. Now you want to add bikes to that. We have plenty of of trails that they can ride bikes on. You know, I don't mind spending a few dollars on some, you know, things that may not be totally necessary. This is insanity. You know, I got a board that I could use some of that money on. And that is my word, but not for those things. I just, I don't agree. I think we're taking this bike thing too long. This is not California or Denver, Boulder. Yeah, we're not Boulder. You know, we're kind of a country town and we just kind of, we don't wanna go too crazy at once. Mm-hmm. And yeah, I'm absolutely, you know, absolutely, you know. Yeah, I'm absolutely, you know, absolutely, you know. Just not a good idea. It's dangerous areas. Regardless, regardless what you say, and if with all the work you've done, and thank you for that, it's dangerous areas. It's my area. I see it all the time. I very seldom see any bikes down there. Why would we put all these bike parkings to take up space as all they're doing, especially when people walk out of those bars, how they don't even know which way they're walking. It could be breaking their necks on those things. You know, they're sitting there soon. You know, we've got to think about all that. And again, I appreciate you putting all this this together but I'm just an absolute no thank you I do want to share one example of let's say pavilion's place so during let's say full moon bike ride or whenever there was a group of people biking down just up or we have I have participated in those bike rides and one of the locations was down to the field I think is the Philly Cheesesteak location. It's near the movie theater here on Pavilion, yeah. So, let's say at that location, you do have the proper bike with that striped on Main Street, South of Bridge. I do understand the concern on Bridge but on main we do have that separation between vehicles and bikes and that's one of the locations that we identified. This are locations that we took a look as potential locations. We're not, I'm not trying to say that we're gonna put one next to right out to the bar. It will be more of making sure that there's a bike locations near the business centers, where we do have that either the bowbell on the corners and we have no space to implement those without getting into the pedestrian pathway or blocking any businesses. That's another thing that we got feedback is making sure that there was no bikes directly on main on the business centers because we don't want to obstruct or create any potential hazards for pedestrians walking that way. That really wants to be a health purposes. Good. I'll step in. I'll get it. Okay. Health purposes. I get it. But we have, again, we have other locations, we have other trails. I don't think, you know, you need to mix the apples and oranges here. Just my opinion. I, you know, we know word we're somewhat generous Obviously we approved the budget But don't take advantage of us Okay, and I can help provide some clarity on some of the concerns of right if that's fine Some of the no I did takes gets all the credit for this project and the funding for the grant working with everybody. The primary focus of this project is pedestrian improvements. The allocation of the funds associated with the project for the bike racks is a relatively small cost. It is part of our transportation efforts to make sure that we have adequate connectivity and facilities. So the intent with the bike racks was for the option to also be able to bike Understand the concerns with the trails and that's valid input that we could take to look how to improve that stuff over time Some of the areas like the RTD facilities a great example where At rise right now there is nothing so if you were to ride your bike, let's say Or you don't live in bright and you you come by bus and you want to leave your bike And bike or downtown and you actually ride you would have a place to lock your bike up. There is currently bike lanes that we did install on main so I don't know if everybody recalls or driven the old main street used to be a 5 lane road. It is now currently a 3 lane segment with one in the middle for turns, one northbound, one southbound and full dedicated bike lanes. We actually tried to implement that on the north side of Bridge Street on Maine as well, and yes, it is tight. We were unable to have adequate right away to put a full dedicated link, because you have a room for cars at the time. So as we've transitioned, we did add bike signs and sharrows, which is intended typically for on street riding with cars. And again, I do know the safety concerns. There are a lot of more professional bike riders or experienced bike riders would utilize that type of infrastructure. And it's just trying to make that transition over time. But just for the primary focus of this project, it really is a pedestrian improvement. The bump outs offers substantial enhancement for the downtown area so you can actually visually see somebody crossing, which if you see all the cars parked, the setback allows that approach. And additionally, the raised crossings, lower speeds, increased pedestrian safety and the signs provide the visibility. That's the bulk of the cost of this project. I want to say that the bike racks are under $1,000 and guessing with elegant bid documents around, let's say 700-ish. So it's a very, very small portion of the project. Our target area was especially like RTD and working with the businesses where could these be. But we hear the input. I just wanted to provide some additional clarity on the project for evaluating how the phones are being allocated primarily. Well, RTD has a big parking lot that no one's ever there. You never see any cars there. I never have. I don't put a couple in there if they're going to jump on their bus and if their bikes park there or would have you, but I, you know, because it's a grant and it's not all coming out of our pocket, but in reality it is because we're all taxpayers. At the end of the day, it is our money. And I just have a little problem with a lot of waste. I want us to have everything that we can. But it's going to make sense. And it certainly got to make sense to me. I don't know why aren't we looking at ways to improve downtown? By the way, you know, not a place to park your bike but to improve their business. Why don't we do that? Why don't we figure those kind of things out? Right, it needs a lot of improvements and it needs a lot of help and we need to you know get with the times but we're We're just doing some things to waste money And I just I can't go along with that and and I appreciate you doing the research and and knowing that there's a Hell there was just a bill signed for all kinds of infrastructure money, lots and lots. More than we'll probably be able to use in our lifetime, but not for waste. You know, we don't have that many shops downtown, we have bars downtown. You know, I don't know anybody letting their kids go downtown have bars downtown. You know, I don't know anybody letting their kids go downtown and have a drink or two, I don't think so. And I think it's to give you a D something, AI or something if you're on a bike and drinking. So that's not, we have very few shops. Why aren't we helping those people? You know, why don't we help how to get business into them? Not block the sidewalks or take up space. They don't have that much space. They're small areas. You know, use our brain for other things and our grants anyway. Okay, I said it enough, I'm getting nudged. Thank you. Give me anything to add. If not, City Manager Martian's wanted to chime in. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to bring back context to the discussion. This is a project that has multiple things involved in it. I don't want to detract from the larger items that the grant is hoping to fund, which are the raised pedestrian crossings, as well as the pedestrian signs. I mean, that's probably 85% of the funding that could be going into this. The bike racks are minimal in the scheme of things. I understand completely the concern with that, but in terms of the parameters of the grant what we had to play in when we went when the state put out puts out the grant and then how we respond back We're just trying to fit in some of the improvements that we see necessary, but again the bigger picture is with this project specifically but again the bigger picture is with this project specifically the vast majority of the funds that will be utilized goes towards the pedestrian crossings and the other improvements not necessarily the bike wrecks they're very small in scheme of this So if we were to remove portions of this that may not be agreeable to this body How about affect the grant I'll ask Mr. Montoya. So strategically if there is a huge concern with placing a lot of the bike racks, what I like to do on stuff, it's a small line item. It stays within the scope of the project and work. So we could always propose that we just basically don't install a portion of the bike racks. I think we have a few locations that, speaking with everybody that was desired, such as RTD, and we're unsure they don't block any walkways and maintain ADA compliance and such, but we could actually not incorporate those into the project by simply notifying the contract, not to purchase nor install them, because it is a small amount, which allows the project to still be executed, generally speaking, and I don't believe we'd have any issues who are grant funding or anything. I have to double check, but we can verify that. And if that's the case, it's something what we could do. Okay. Mayor Patel. Thank you, Mayor. Appreciate the work put into this, but I need to explain why I feel the way I do. The city applied for the revitalizing main streets, small multi-modal and economic resiliency grant. And we got it. Good job. The issue with me is that a third of the city, which I'm trying not to occur to anyone, a third of the city still cannot connect to main street. A lot of them are in this audience out here. Word for on Word 1 on the east side. Why can't this be used to actually have some kind of walkway? Let's walk before we ride. We can't even walk from our home. I know you aren't aware of this. I appreciate you getting the grant and Mr. Montoya will have talked about this at length, so you won't take offense to this This is the key I will not and I hope my word one May I hope that he does he feels the same way I do I'm not gonna go for any of these connectivity things if they're not connecting from the worst connection in Brighton is still East Brighton We cannot especially from Ward 4 on the Easternmost side. Ward 4 is unable to go from A to B I it makes me more frustrated because of today I saw a teenage boy walking down trying to walk across through a roundabout Cunnet and wartime I-76 in the frontage road was walking through the field and I could feel the goat heads going into his foot myself like I could feel what he was and you saw in his face and we're talking about improving bike lanes and I like some of the other things here. I don't like the location. Let's connect one third of our city because word for and word one on the east side are numerically one third of the city and we're still being ignored. I've spoke to the city manager and about this very recently and it sounds like there's a plan to do all of this but I and I appreciate that and I know I trust that there is a plan but I don't feel like word one wants to send more money downtown for connections when we cannot connect to downtown. Until that's done, I'm going to be a no we could use this grant or repurpose this grant for what I'm talking about because it's still multi-modal economic resiliency. Hell, downtown would really appreciate if one-third of the city could easily get there. So that's my feelings and I hope that we can move forward from this and light grants for all of the city as much as we can, but thanks a lot. Good points, thank you. City Manager Marquise. Sorry, I would like to point out that this is a Main Street grant grant so you can only utilize it in downtowns and in Main Street. So I agree with Mayor Pro Tem and that we need to look at connectivity throughout the city. But again in terms of the parameters of this grant specifically it can only be only be utilized in quote unquote Main Streets which as no I pointed out in the beginning of the slide, it's that defined area that was discussed in the beginning of the slide. That's the state parameters of the grant. So that's why this is applied specifically to downtown. So when you're saying main streets, you're talking like the core old town areas, you're not talking like main art or artilleries. Yes, correct, that's correct. Okay. Council Member H's correct. Okay council member Humbert. Thank you Mayor. Last Thursday I attended the downtown partnership meeting and bicellically came up there and the connectivity of it and and the merchants went back to downtown. I would say they're demanding them, but they're amenable to having bicycles come downtown. There's a ride that's going to continue in April where they want to go into downtown and we will probably work around Main Street. We and not and take that ride but it will probably go around Main Street but the merchants are in favor of it and what they're working for is places to park them and again I'll bring up that park foot again. There's a space that hasn't been used for much of anything and that would be a great place to put to parking spaces if you put bike racks there. That's all. Thank you for your comments and then Councilman McCushion, you got to follow up. Thank you. really that concern about the cost ratio between pedestrian and the bike lanes. I'm concerned about encouraging people to ride bikes down there. Like Mayor Pro Tem mentioned, it's not just for one, but even three in the go trails doesn't connect. No, you can't ride bikes down there. But even if you could, like I said, coming down bridge is nuts. And it's not also people crossing 85. We don't just encouraging people to ride their bikes. I heard we did a presentation on shared micro mobility. And I was told that we might be scraping children off the grill of a semi truck. So the last thing I want to do is in entice people to do more bike riding down there until we address those safety concerns. If we want to eliminate, I think you're right, a bike rack in the pavilions would be good. People ride the park and ride in and they could get off and park their bike if they want, walk across. But the one's down, all those bikes, I mean, it would be great to be able to do that, but my concern is the safety. It's not really the cost. So the cost ratio doesn't really change my opinion on that. So I just wanted to clarify that point. If we want to eliminate some of those downtown bike parking so that we don't encourage people to go, you know, if we want to just leave it over at the pavilion, I think that would be okay, but other than that, that was my concern. Thanks. Thank you. And then City Manager Martinez. Thank you, Mayor. To Council Member Cushing's point, if it's amenable to this body, I'd like to ask that we remove a majority of those bicycle areas that we've been discussing out of this. You can amend it so that we remove the bike racks, but you will out for the pedestrian crossings and the additional signs to be put in. So anyone want to make a motion with some amendments? And then just on one comment regarding any type of revision, if we were to do so, we may look at a furnish. So we would have the equipment. We could put it in storage in case it affects the grant to give us some flexibility if needed. I don't know if we would just write that through the procurement and contract remaining process and obviously entertaining that idea. Okay. What is the pleasure of Council? Oh man. Nobody wants to's a motion. Nobody wants to make a motion. With no motion, this does not move forward unless there's some probably some revisements that we need to consider in the future. Okay. All right. All right. moving on. Item 10D, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, acknowledging the Certified Abstract of Votes cast for the November 2, 2021, Coordinated Election. City Manager Martinez, turn it over to you. Thank you, Mayor. We have our Deputy City clerk, Aaron, Aaron, to present this item. I'm here. This item is just being brought to certify the abstract votes for the Adams County election held on November 2nd. It's the coordinated election. This is just the final results. Okay, so we're just certifying the final results from the election five weeks ago. So Mayor Pro Tem what's the make a motion? Yeah, if it pleases you Mayor, I'd like to make a motion to approve item 11, or excuse me, Tendi, Tendi, yes. We'll approve the Tendi Councilmember Polk. and excuse me, 10D, 10D, yes. Most approve. 10D, Council Member Polk. Thank you, Mayor Nadel. I'd like to second that motion. It's probably first and second. The proof, 10D, if there's no other discussion, roll call vote. Motion passes six to zero with two absent. Next we'll move on to utilities. Item 11A, an ordinance of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, amending and recodifying certain sections of Title 13 of the Brighton Municipal Code, and this is a first reading. So City Manager Martinez will turn it over to you. Thank you Mayor, we have our utilities director,. Brett Sherman to present this item. Good evening Mayor. Thank you City Manager. Members of City Council I'm happy to be here. We discussed this briefly last week at a study session. I guess it was a couple weeks ago now at the last study session. And what we're doing here tonight is basically some housekeeping of traditionally the water dedication that we've discussed in the past of that the developers bring to the table has been housed under the same section as the plant investment fee. We talked about this extensively and decided it was probably the wrong place for it to be and that the water dedication really should be in its own section of the code. So that's what we're here to do tonight is to move it into its own separate section of the code. So it's a little clear, the implementation dates of the water dedication are different than the implementation dates of the PIF. And so that's why we're making this change. In regards to our strategic plan, this is a supportive sustainable infrastructure. There's a lot of verbiage here. So as presented in April, actually it was codified in June, but as presented in April of 2021, the water dedication requirements were updated under the code chapter 13-4-90, the plant investment fee. Water dedication realistically should be listed independent of the PIF due to different requirements of implementation. Basically, the PIF happens at building permit time and water dedication happens at final plat time. So, it made sense for them to be under separate sections. This amendment clarifies this as a best practice element and places water dedication under code section 13-4-10. We moved it for more it was under 13-490-13-410. 13-410 was a very brief minor language corrections were also included. The previous 13-410 up to 13-420 and it fits very well there. The previous 13 410 will be merged with 13 420 to facilitate this shuffle. And 13 490 will similarly be cleaned up to remove the water dedication language that was embedded in there. Primary modifications. I'd highlight a few things here. We changed section one to section two. Following amendments shall be effective for permits issued. We change that to final plots rather than permits issued. And we changed the January 1st, 2022 or later to just January 1st, 2022 2022 so it wasn't redundant. Special consideration for a dedication amount or fee and loo may be granted that language. We added the dedication amount into that language because the fee and loo and the dedication amount are tied together. And then there was some minor spelling corrections. So with that it's very simple, very short and sweet tonight. Options for City Council. Proof as presented. Reject code remains as written or request modifications to the amendment and approved with changes. Any questions? Wow. Which council members are shot is this here? I'm not gonna say confidential Okay Questions for council start with me. Oh, Tim. This is probably him back in 1984 something There's a little bit of a difference Wish I was that good looking as a baby or not There's a little bit of her adept ones. I don't got that in me. I wish I was that. Good looking as a baby or an adult, but no. The fee in lieu is an issue and I appreciate this language heavily. I asked the city attorney something and she rightfully laughed at me. I asked how much can we possibly raise the fee in lieu. I used the number 50,000 per point 27 acre. We need to I'm just asking this council is this I'm headed towards the twilight. I was in my time here anyone that is here after I am gone please stop as much as you can our staff has already been doing this but fee and lieu for water we need to dedicate water from developers or we can't develop we can't feed them water our streets are packed I'd like to do something about development as a whole, but you all voted that down a while back. I'm so many of you did. So like I just love this and I love two of the changes. Wish you could be 50K for every 0.27 billion. Well, and actually I went back and did some research. You asked me the question earlier about how much, you know, I actually do have that slide on here. Oh nice. Oh, he's ready. This is a, this is a, we're all rates were approved back in, what I meant to say was 27,000 per half acre foot, up to 0.5 acre feet. And it's actually, so it's closer to 59,000 per acre foot. That makes more sense. And yeah, that's that number that fee and lieu the more we can ethically legally raise that the better it does turn out for us because the developers will have to bring that water. So, but this is a great amendment. So I'm totally on board. And thanks for bringing this up director Sherman. You're very welcome. Great. Who else has got questions? else if not this is now before you for consideration Mayer per temp Thank you mayor. I am happy to Make a motion to approve item 11 a Proper first approval item 11 a council member humburt this will second that motion It's probably first and second. There's no other discussion. Roll call vote. Motion passes 6 to 0 with two absent. Thank you. Thank you, Director Sherman. Next is under General Business Item 12A. Vistas at Donaldson Park. This is a public comment portion. First of all, I'm going to turn a small portion of this over to our city attorney to update us on where we're at on this tonight. Oh, do you need a friend to bring her quickly? No, I don't. Yeah. We'll break in the nose. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to give some explanations before we start this item. As everyone knows, at regular meetings, there are always specifically designated times for public comments for those items that are not on the agenda. That time, for this matter, has been set aside as agenda item 12A. Each person is limited to five minutes, as usual. This time it was moved to later in the agenda due to the large business agenda, which is permitted by your rules. The commences evening should be focused on concerns about the project and information that City County you want anyone who speaks tonight to hear about the project. It should not be about individuals involved in the project. City Council can receive this public comment because the appeal that is pending will be heard and decided by the Planning Commission, per the municipal code. So City staff who is involved in the appeal process will not be able to comment on the appeal and will not be able to answer any questions specifically about the project. The City Attorney myself or staff can answer questions about procedure if those come up. So thank you mayor for allowing have to make sure we're reminding everyone to be respectful here and I'll put some other reminders out if I find we need to as necessary. City Manager Martius, do you have anything to add to this before we hear from the public? I do not, sir. Okay. Deputy City Clerk, who was signed up to speak? Nobody signed in to speak today, sir. Okay, so I know people are here to speak, and it's fine if you haven't signed in, so who would like to speak first? If you could come up and state your name for the record and The city clerk will start a timer when you have it will be a five-minute timer. So go ahead Thank you, Mayor. My name is George Ryan. I live at 352 and live 42nd Avenue. I'm losing my voice Losing my hearing and falling asleep so pardon me a falling asleep so pardon me. My wife and I have lived where we live now, or for over home for a decade and a half. When we moved here I was lied to. I was lied to by my realtor, by my HOA and by my city. I was told that that lot will vistas at Donaldson Park, I'm going to address that in a minute. I was going to be an extension of the town homes that are already just south of that park at lot. I purchased my forever home based on the premises of lives. Keep doing about it. I just want to make sure that that was understood. I know a lot of my neighbors have been told the same thing in a lot of them have left, so they won't be able to comment. That lot, it's been a point of contention for the last two years. I'm the one that made the appeal. So I'm not going to go into details because it's going to be part of my presentation at the appeal. But I just want to say that this was shelled down or threw it out. I really admire the resolution you all heard earlier. Because we had a, we, the resident's had an opportunity to hear what was going on. What we got was a pamphlet in a mail, a 35-minute virtual session where the builder had nothing to say. The city was the only one to talk basically. We don't know what's going on. If we had a presentation like that, we wouldn't have to have this. So I'm going to re-link which might turn into the next speaker and I thank you. Thank you, Mr. Ryan. And then who would like to speak next? Come up and state your name for the record, please. Mr. Ryan, and then who would like to speak next? Come up and state your name for the record please. My name is Matthew Hilbert, I live on 372 Ziningas Street. As a previous person mentioned, what I thought my home, the understanding was those gonna be town homes being built on this lot. Not 12 apartment buildings. That's the amount of people and vehicles that that would put on these residential streets. Doesn't seem logical. It doesn't seem logical. It doesn't fit with the other communities in the area. And I know that there is more people here to speak on that, so I'll let them. Okay, thank you, Mr. Hoover. I'd like to speak next. Come up, please state your name for the record. Wouldn't you get to the mic? For a Dawson, I live at 354 Tumbleley Drive and I purchased my house April of 2019. I Did buy it over the internet, so I wasn't aware. It looked like a park to me at the time. But shortly after we moved here, heard some of the neighbors talking about that it was going to be an extension of the town homes. If I had known it was going to be for 12 or 13 three story apartment buildings, I never would have bought there. I have a previous experience from Denver. I moved to California and I just came back about two years ago. I lived in a little town called Mantika, California. It was smaller at the time than even Brighton. And it was just those, I understand growth. I do understand growth. But they told us they were going to put a park in a certain area and they didn't. They ended up putting an apartment building. Crime went through the roof. I'm terribly concerned about our quality of life. If this apartment goes in, the parking, the traffic, I waited for 13 cars the other day, five something in the evening to go through so that I could get in the roundabout to go down to bridge. It's just too much for that little post stamp area. Thank you. Thank you. Would like to come speak next. State your name for the record. You want five minutes? I'm William Bowball and now I have a four-in-one, 80-con bind place. A couple of years ago, I tried to put apartments in there. And everybody in the neighborhood spoke out against it. And this is actually designed for residential single family because all the residential single families are around there. Now the apartments would cause a real problem with traffic because you have no light up there at 42nd. No light at all. Then you got you a line of people that are waiting from clear down on longspe speak all the way up there. This is going to last up the traffic. You got another problem. If there's no H or A like we have, they're allowed to put their cars on, blocks the apartment, they're allowed to bring in all the motor homes and trash, and they're going to mess that area up. And then all the property, all you go down. That's all I have to say. Thank you for coming up. Next please state your name for the record in the five minutes. My name is Amanda Black and I was not really prepared to speak tonight, but I threw something together. So I am a mother of three young children. One of them has a very serious processing disorder which involves constant treatment. When my husband and I decided to have our house built, we chose rural Brighton to meet my son's needs. This apartment development is being built directly behind my home. I live on Zuniga so it literally backs up to my home. Excluding the inconvenience this is going to prove to my husband and my neighbors and everything else with all the construction and the traffic and everything else. This is going to seriously overstimulate my son. I'm sorry. We are looking at over 1200 temporary neighbors moving in, literally behind my home, trying to explain this to my kids. They don't understand what's going on. We were also told when we built that it could be an extension of the town homes that are already there. I would have never purchased knowing that there was going to be apartments there. That's why I did not purchase in Thornton. That's why I did not purchase in Westminster. That's why I did not purchase in these areas where apartments were being built. I moved out into rural Brighton to avoid any of that conflict. And here we are today trying to fight this conflict that's happening. It's already a drag strip behind our house, and I'm sure you guys know that please are sitting out there all the time to try to break this up, adding minimum 1200 cars and going back to what you had said earlier with, okay, and say there's two people that live in the house that doubles it. Now there's three people with a teenage son or daughter that now it's another 1200. You guys are putting that into a residential housing development. There is so much ample real estate in Colorado that this could be developed on. I would really, really appreciate a reconsider of the location. Thank you. Thank you. Next, please state your name for the record. You'll have five minutes. Hi, yes. So my name is Kelly Shulti. I live at 4236 Clover Lane. So I'm right there at the roundabout that's going to be one of the exits to this development. I have a number of concerns. The very first one is parking. We have a discussion about that and some of the traffic studies associated with it. From the plans that I actually got from the planning department here, it actually looks like they approved knowing that there isn't the correct amount of parking spaces in this development. Council, the city actually approved spaces to be on Long Street and on 42nd. I don't understand why we would do that. Why we would have a development where we're approving additional parking spaces outside of this development into a residential neighborhood. I don't know if everybody on this council is really familiar with where it is that we're exactly talking about. So this is a completely you know single housing development area with one side has some town homes where people are thinking that those were going to be extended. That was my impression as well. I just recently bought. I actually just bought this summer and that is what the Reader told me. And so when I was looking for stuff, we couldn't really find things very easily about what was going to happen in this housing development. I could find some stuff previously but it looked like it got shut down. So I just bought this home and had no idea that this was happening. Same impression, townhomes are being extended, which I was okay with. I'm not opposed to the apartments that are going up over by King Supers. I know it's still going to add congestion, but it makes sense where it's at to some degree. It's by mean arteries. We're talking about in the very middle of an neighborhood completely surrounded by residential properties, you're dropping in three-story apartment buildings. With regards to some of the design standards, you see all these nice things in there about soft transitions and about having buffer zones. We're talking about three stories, literally being one sidewalk away from a residential house next door that's looking straight out of three-story building. There is no transition. There is no buffer zone built into these development plans at all. So the parking is one piece. There's some open space. It looks like potentially that they're going to do some like in lieu things for it. So I'm concerned. There's a nice open space there that everybody kind of appreciates. You get beautiful sunsets every night. And the fact that it's going to be completely as hard on neighbors, I know that. I enjoy seeing the mountains and that sunset there. And knowing you're just going to have a great big tower is hard to imagine. So we also have something that's really personal from just buying the homes very similar to the sensory processing piece. I have an autistic son and I can see that they also have a development for a detention pond that's going to be going in. It's going in on the corner of 42nd and long. I'm sorry, 40 second and long. That's less than a block from my house. My son has autism and Down syndrome. If anybody really knows much about autism, there is like this draw to water. We have alarms on all of my doors, all of them, to try to prevent him from going out so that we get bells jingling, alarms going off, and have really strict rules with regards to going outside. He continues to get older. And if you look at studies, it shows that kids in that age group especially have a tendency to just go to these places. I don't think that the design standards that we have for this development were really very well thought out. When I see some of the things that are put up there by Prairie View, I look at that and say why can't we have that? Why can't we have that? Why are we not rethinking through the development and having something along those lines? Why don't we have thoughtful design going into whatever it is that's going to go there? Why can't we even just have the extension of the townhomes that already fit in our neighborhood. This just does not fit the design standards at all. I'm also concerned about the traffic report. It feels dated. In the actual engineers discussion, they flat out say that there is no long range planning for these streets that they're looking at. So there's no long term planning that's been done by the city. For those particular streets, they're using stuff from Dr. Cog. They don't say when it's from. I think that there really needs to be some more traffic studies that are done with regards to this. I just think that we need to slow down the development some and be a lot more thoughtful about how the design work is going to happen going forward. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Next. We'll come state your name for the record in your five minutes. Good evening. My name is Brenda McGee. I live at 35 Pioneer Place, which is not directly next to this proposed development. But I appreciate what I'm hearing because I use the roads that they're talking about a lot, 42nd and Longspeak, to go out of my subdivision. And when I come out, what I call the back side of my subdivision, on to 42nd, the traffic is awful right now. If we build these homes, apartment homes, the traffic is going to increase. We don't even know what it's going to increase at this point in time. Just take these apartment buildings and set them in the middle of this subdivision where they don't fit. Traffic to point out what other people have said today, I've said here all night and listened to what you said on other subdivisions that are going in. You're concerned about parking, you're concerned about presentation. Where was all that thinking when this thing was approved? I realized that perhaps you guys weren't there, but where was that thinking when this was approved? That is totally wrong. So you got traffic, you've got parking. We've had a lot of discussion on the next door app about this and people are like, well, are you against having good housing or affordable housing? against having good housing or affordable housing, I have kids that live in Colorado. They can't afford to buy a home. They can barely afford to pay rent. I'm not against having affordable homes. That's not the problem. But as the person said before me, put them in an area where you have major thoroughfares. Put them in an area where you have major thoroughfares. Put them in an area where you have access. Put them in an area where you're not cramming 1200 people into this little small area. Again, if I look at this, I'm okay with the town homes. I like I said, it's not get back up to my house. So I can't say it's a wonderful idea, but I can say putting in that type of apartment dwellings in that area was piss poor planning. Thank you. Does anybody else want to speak? Okay. Oh, wait one more. Alright. Come state your name for the record in the whole five minutes. Hey guys, Ron Wolf. I live at 4th P4 Stesson Court. I moved in in 2007 and we were told by our real order too that it was gonna be an extension of the town homes, which is great and I really agree with affordable housing. My son is a Denver police officer and he can't afford to upgrade from a one bedroom home that he bought, which is a town home. You know, there's drag races that go on in our neighborhood. I live six homes up on Stetson Court for more of this is happening. I can hear the kids racing up and down that street. Now when you start adding in apartment complexes where people just really don't care. I've talked to Greg about it. He's come over to my house and at him. I know you are concerned about it, but it is an encroachment on what we strive to be in bright and east farms. My wife and I are even considering moving because it's just not a good situation. I have a friend that does pest control for apartment complexes. And I will tell you it is a horror of rats and mice and cockroaches and trash that builds up all around the apartment complexes. Even the nicest ones have a lot of problems. I've gone to apartments down in Cherry Creek and these are really nice apartments. They have rat problems because they have trash and it infiltrates into the neighborhoods. So as a person that was in pest control, this is great business form because not only do they have to serve the apartment complexes in charge of $1,000 a month to mitigate and eradicate rats, but they also get all the other money from all the residents all around these apartment complexes because you have mice and rats in your house. You know, when Brighton East's farm was building, we had some homes that weren't built. The house behind us was a vacant lot. The house of Crossdust was a vacant lot. Two houses down were both vacant. Every time they did construction, we ended up getting mice in our garage. And John came over and treated our home. And it isn't just something that you just put a rubber stamp on it and it's gone. It took months to get rid of this. Now they're going to take all of this acreage and they're going to tear it all up and they're going to put in apartment complexes, high density apartment complexes with trash that comes out every single day and causes more problems with rats. So traffic, I was impressed with this traffic thing about down at Prairie Center. And I'm like, wow. Mayor Pro Temu or Matt, you were concerned about the parking. There's no concern about the parking here. You know, it's all right. Somebody parked in front of George's house, you know. I went over and had a meeting with George and I had to park across St. because his footprint is very small and we are going to start having more and more problems with that. And I'm just looking at walking out and telling some kid to move his car because he's blocked my driveway and I'm five houses away. So I appreciate your time and I would really appreciate your consideration in listening to all of this and just throwing it out. Spend the money for the park, put a park in. You know, instead of the bike racks and us driving right in our bikes and getting one over, put a park in. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else want to speak? There we go. Come on up, Sean. State your name for the record. You'll have five minutes. All right. I'll be pretty short, but pretty much everything I would say. Everybody has said the floor, but six years ago we moved in, and that was not what we understood that to be. It was Sean State your name, please. Sean, no, if I'm before, of course, that's incorrect. Sorry, you're an ass man. Good enough. But yeah, six years ago we moved in, and that was not what we expected. We were expecting the town homes to be extended down. Same kind of concerns, worried about crime, worried about theft, worried about parking, worried about the traffic, worried about high concerns currently. We live right in that corner. We can see that lot. We see the racers going through there all the time. We see the police on the corner already. We've got kids that range from higher teens to just becoming teens. Really just don't want to see that change occur to our neighborhood. It wasn't designed for it. It wasn't thought through. Definitely would love to see some more community planning for that area. You know, whatever you can do to kind of reevaluate, but the right thing there, a park would be great. I know that's not a, not a return on investment, but townhomes would be perfect. A lower density property system would be perfect for that area. So thank you for your consideration, and I appreciate the time. All right. Thank you. Come on up. Please state your name for the next. I'm Jan Ryan. I live at 352 North 42nd Avenue, which is directly across the street from where the apartment buildings are supposed to be going in. I'm concerned about safety. We have a number of walkers in our area. Walk their dogs. We have kids playing, and already the traffic is bad. The stop sign at the corner of 42nd and Long's Peak, it's difficult to see traffic coming from each direction. And trying to cross the street is you take your life in your own hands. You talk about putting pedestrian crossings downtown. But we almost need them in our part of the city as well. It would slow the traffic down if they had the raised ones and with the lights and all of that. Putting this much traffic in there is going to make it unsafe for us to walk the streets. It's going to make it unsafe to try to cross. The corner of Longspeak and Fortyth is a huge, huge interception. It currently has stop signs, but it's difficult to see people coming from all the directions. Safety is the major concern for me. I enjoy walking in my neighborhood, but it's not going to be as easy or as safe as it is now. Thank you. Thank you. Then also stay your name for the record. You want five minutes? Yeah, my going for two, three, six, um, Clover lane. I just wanted to kind of echo what everyone's been saying here tonight, especially with the traffic issues, the 1200 spot. They're all going to be coming down 42nd to bridge. I don't imagine too many of them as far as going to work are going to be going further north. Um, up to, I don't know what I'm facing the name of. 160A, thank you. We're all coming down to that uncontrolled intersection where we have to the west, you know, one-way streets that are already very, very congested, especially with that other intersection there right next to the fire department. So just all that traffic is going to bring a complete problem to our neighborhood, as well as the parking, looking at the parking spaces, looks like they included as far as their requirement in their parking, all the garages, which we know not everyone's going to pay for a garage to park. A lot of them are to bedroom. People can't afford rent, so there's going to be room mates. So there's going to be two to three cars part Possibly put these two bedroom apartments They're all not going to fit in the proposed parking spaces that they have now like I said I don't have a lot of information back that up, but just looking at it from common sense no one apartments are not going to fit Partments do bring increased crime house police officer for six years. I get there's areas for departments, but how this is structured in the middle of the residential community is just gonna cause issues. I know the issue's it's gonna bring. We've already talked about moving. We've lived here less than a year. I like the quiet community that we have. I'm not discriminating against people that move into apartments or live in apartments. I lived in one myself. This is just not the community for it in this particular area right down next to the King supers okay with but in the middle of our quiet community I have my window open you know at night and you don't hear sound these apartments go in there and no one's gonna want to keep their windows open at night but I'm just writing now so I appreciate it. Thank you. All right, thank you. Who's there? Someone else? There you go. Please state your name and address for the, or. OK. Never hear me. My name's Diane Miller, and I didn't prepare anything to say, but I'm going to echo what all of my neighbors have said. We didn't move into that area thinking we're going to live with 288 apartments. We like the sunset, we like the mountains, we like the quiet, we like the safety. We want more people in our neighborhood that are going to help pay property taxes to pay for everything that's so expensive. I think 280 apartments right there just does not make sense with all the stress on the schools, traffic, noise, safety, trash. It does not make any sense and I'm not down for it. I don't want it. But it's somewhere else. We're already getting on the end of town. We're getting hit so hard with so many apartments going up everywhere. I just right in the middle of our community, it doesn't work. We don't want it. So thank you. Thank you. Is there anyone else? Oh, here we go. Please state be back in a minute. We will be back in a minute. We will be back in a minute. We will be back in a minute. We will be back in a minute. We will be back in a minute. We will be back in a minute. We will be back in a minute. We will be back in a minute. We will be back in a minute. We will be back in a minute. We were also told when we bought the place that same thing. It was going to be a park or it was going to be more units like the ones we live in and now it's turning into something else. I agree with the gentleman that talked to you earlier about you know, it's just gonna turn into a disaster with insects and everything else probably around that area. I mean and not only also with the traffic I mean you already have a lot of traffic coming in and out of there You have a lot of traffic coming out of the preserved residential area Because of the reason that the entrance off a tell your right down there with a pond is that's flooding all the time that's shut down it's been shut down for quite some time I don't know what the deal is with that or what's going on with that but nothing seems to be getting done with that you know so all the traffic's detouring out on that north end of the subdivision out there and out into 42nd. You know, I like to say again, I don't know what's going on with that. You know, you guys have the street barricaded shut down, it's been shut down for a while because of that pond issue that the Jews are having there. And all the traffic has to detour on the north end out there and out into 40 seconds so that you know the traffic's gonna be horrible and also I think with having all the units in there is just gonna be more issues more more problems for everybody not only for us but also for our police department my boys and police officer here in town. When they first built over on South Athe down here when they first built Salar, there were some nice units, beautiful units, very nice taking care of a lot of real decent people living there. And then they built Windmill right next to it. Windmill apartments. Now you got those. Those were also nice, you know, when they built them. I think they've only been built two or three years or something. Just fairly new. One of my twin daughters lives there. She lives in the second floor, in between the first and the third floor. She lives in the second floor. And she says, now there's a lot of issues there. You know, you hear the neighbors fighting, you know, fighting with their kids or fighting with people coming over. We have our police department there all the time. That's a layer, windmill. I mean, what do you want to do? Start taking into bright and police department to those units all the time. You know, seeing them there every day, like you do over here now. You know, when they there every day, like you do over here now. You know, when they were first built, like I say, they were nice units, nice places. Now they're going down. You know, they're going down, you know, like I say, where my daughter lives in windmill. She's like, it's horrible now. You know, it's terrible. It's nothing like it used to be. You know, and I have to say that I think all we're going to do is give our right and police officers more work to do if you move all those units in there. I can guarantee you that they're going to have a lot more work on their hands. You know, so I would say hopefully it doesn't happen. Thank you. Was there someone else I wanted to speak? There we go. Stay your name. Sorry, I could have pulled this right. Hold my neck back. No problem. You know, gentlemen, help them out. That's great. Good evening. My name is Betty Popo. my neck back. The problem. You know, gentlemen, help them out. That's great. Good evening. My name is Betty Bobo. And I live at 4.8-0 Combine Place. And where our home is located is actually right on the corner of these two wonderful intersections of Long Peaks Lane in 42nd. And I don't know one thing that I wanted to address this evening. I don't know how many of you were council members several years ago when this first came into being, because there certainly was another development company that wanted to put the same scenario, another large amount of apartments in. And there were two council members at the time that came to speak with us. It was not an a forum that we have now this evening. And the questions to them were, well, how could this inter residential area be zoned for this type of use? And they said, well, the bottom line is we just over looked at it was never, it was never gone back and re-zoned as it should have been. That is a question that I would like to propose to the council this evening. If you're looking at this seriously, how did this happen? How did this not get re-zoned into residential again where it should be? This is a residential area. We looked at the proposals this evening for the new developments, and it makes sense for them to have their homes and any other infrastructure that is gonna go in. But for our area, it is not meant for that, is not set for that. And I do, I want to propose that I'd like to have all of you look at that and see exactly how that is zoned. And why was that not changed so that this would not happen again? Because here we are facing the same thing again. So I would like to ask you to do that, please. Thank you. Thank you. Was there someone else I wanted to speak? If not, you know, I'm all going to just say this real quick. Based on some of the comments that were made, there was a question of if any of us had been on council, when this was decided. Back in 1989, I was too young to be on council. So none of us was on here. I know a few council members do want to speak. And just for the process, no decisions are being made tonight But the planning commission is kind of the next steps in this so you know appeal process just so y'all know Mayor Protéme you wanted to go ahead and speak. Yeah, thank you I'm so proud of you all for coming here tonight and I'm not gonna sit here and play Kate. Yeah, thank you very much for yourselves. I'm And I'm not going to sit here and play, hey, yeah, thank you very much. Give yourselves a hand. Thank you very much. I'm not going to play, Kate, you and say there's something we can do tonight. There's not. 1989, they did this. That was one of the steps. And also in the early 2000s continued. I have to tell you why they didn't look at parking spots, why they didn't act like this council you saw tonight. They didn't care about us in East Brighton. We didn't exist yet, therefore they didn't care. They built our half streets. They let apartment complexes come up with no plan in the middle of our area because they didn't look at us like residents Because of that this is not comforting to me who live on Longspeak to Councillor Watts who lives right next to this or to any of you But you just witnessed tonight the difference that future residents won't see but that's not good enough I keep getting told that we can't do anything about this or that. I heard that about our half streets. They're built. I heard that about our metro taxes. They're lowered. They're continuing to go down. I'm not going to listen to that. This council is being told by staff that we cannot act. I was also told by this staff and you all were in emails that were condescending at best that I've now received that they would there was no chance for them to stop this because of no chance for an appeal because there was no reason. I'm going to read you all from article one and this goes to our planning staff too. I know that there's one member of our planning staff or director there and I don't I also don't understand why The staff can't comment tonight. This is going to the planning commission The staff's already said no to the residents three or four times and To counsel which I don't understand but the staff let me tell you what you could have said Let me alter cool one of the land use and development code the first thing This is the binding part and what makes all of the others work. This development code is adopted to promote the public safety health and general welfare for the city of Brighton and its citizens. How in the health does this apartment complex improve? Promote, adopt anything, public safety health and general welfare? I don't think that the staff and some council members, I don't think they've gone to these streets that we drive up and down and looked at what this really looks like. Council out of blame. We can't do anything. It's sickening. There's a good reason for it that there's divides between a planning commission and a council, but there is something that I would like to do. This is not a threat, this is a promise. I would hope that if the planning commission does not listen to our residents on this issue or others, that we take action as a council. Because last time I checked, were the ones that appoint the planning commission? And I'm tired of them all planning commission running a rough shot over city complex and the residents. It's really frustrating this isn't the first time I've mentioned this to our current city manager, our previous city manager city manager before yet our planning staff and our planning commission railroads, rough houses right over us every time and we have to end that today council. There's a thought about imminent domain, because right now we don't control the land. We can't just build a park. I'm not willing to let shovels hit this ground easily. It's saying over to those shovels hit the ground. So while we sit here, thanks, but why we sit here now. Why we can't act right now. I believe the planning commission meeting is January 21st. Correct? One second. I believe our city attorney has the answer to that. Planning commission hasn't set the hearing but we'll set it this Thursday and it will likely be January 20th. will set it this Thursday and it will likely be January 20th. 20th? Yeah, most likely will be January 20th. I legally and ethically for good reason I cannot speak individually to any planning commissioner. I should not be able to go as a council member in lobby. But I can sit right here and I can look at every planning commissioner and tell you that if you don't listen to the residents that we should take action as a council on your position as a planning commissioner. And so I'm hoping. I am asking all of you, please, this group and more, please come to that meeting of the planning commission. I'm going to consult with our city attorney and I will be there no matter what. I all do respect, don't care what anyone says, I'll be there. I'm hoping I can speak too because I'm not going to allow this to just occur. I'm going to do everything I can. I wish there was more that we can do. I'm still looking at that too through the charter. So I'm not saying we can't do anything yet until I know it for sure. But I'm so sorry that this is happening to all of you. And I'm going to do my best. I know the rest of us will too. Thank you so much for being here. Respect it so much. Thank you. The next we'll go to account some number watts. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. You know, first off, thank you for everybody that came out tonight. I'm the other, I'm just a little overshadowed by the oak sometimes, right? I don't know quite know who I am as much in the Ward 1. Can I say my address to you? Is that all right? Because I live really, you want it. Literally on sunshine way, which backs up to this. I've met with Georgia for the past. I've been there. I get it. I echo Georgia, everything Mary Pro Tem said. And I got to tell you that when I moved into in there in 2012 it was this I heard the same story that you all heard you know it's it's no different than you and me and all that and trying to hold back on saying certain things that might give me illegal trouble so if I pause you'll know what if I think of your daughter you understand that's the traffic concerns I take a drug or a rot, do you understand? That's the traffic concerns. I 100% agree with you. And I now, when I leave, sorry Mr. Armett, I don't go to my house anymore. I now have to go out the other way because it just does get congested over there. And I have to drive by Lake Chavez. And it's sad that I have to go that way. And it's just going to get worse as we go so I'm looking you know now it's going to have to go out the backside and go up baseline and head out that way just to go south I got to go north. So it's concerning to me and although that I want to find out what Mayor Protin finds out from our city attorney on the legalities of attending the planning commission if we're able to I would be more than happy to be there with them. Only two of us, so not three, we can't have that third person there with us. But I agree with everything that was said tonight. I also agree with what Mayor Prattum said and I curiously agree with the mayor's comments about he wasn't old enough to serve on council at that time because I was just leaving the Marine Corps I think when this was voted on in 1989 so I thank you again for all coming out and I definitely hear you I heard you tonight I've heard you in the past and I'll continue to listen to you and the one thing about this council and this city staff is we will listen to the residents it's evident evident, we've shown it, and we will continue to do so, and we will continue to fight for your rights and your causes and for the betterment of this city. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Cushion. Thank you, Mayor. Yes, I'll echo that. Thanks for coming out. I'm really sorry that you had to stay until 9 o'clock to speak, but I appreciate you guys doing it so we could hear this. This showed up on our agenda. Usually, this stuff's pretty easy to research on the internet. Now I get why it's not. Farber looked for the internet was even a thing. And even farther before cities put things on the internet. So our minutes go back to I think 2013. One of the first things I brought up when I was got on council was actually January 28th, 2020 was people were complaining about the dangers of the semi trucks driving down 50th. And what I discovered is that 50th is a truck route. It's the only way for anyone in this area to get onto I-76. You've got to go down to 50th, as you know, and go through the roundabout and get on the interstate. And so what was my first thing I brought up was we got to get an interchange built there. This is crazy. We got semi trucks coming up and down there and we're working on that. But it's expensive to build an interchange and it's unfortunate that the developers that are building apartment complexes and homes and King supers and everything else couldn't have done that. But it didn didn't happen and so here we are and Now we're we're adding these apartments. We've got no sidewalks between bridge and the rest of the city But we also have no high schools and middle schools over there either so kids are gonna have to Truck on through fields if like I said though. They'll get a bus if they leave school on time, but if they're in sports or any extra curricular, there's clubs that kids are in, there's sports, they'll have to bike on through the field. Same if you need to catch a bus. I guess I'm surprised that there's not much more we can do, that this was already approved. I heard that we had to approve it or there might be a lawsuit. And I'm thinking the amount of money we're staring down the barrel to put in a interchange on I-76, to put in sidewalks, bike lanes, the improvements that are needed, schools that are going to have to go in. I mean, that's not the city, but the amount of expense that's involved in all of this growth out there. I don't know how much we're really looking at risk in terms of a lawsuit, but I think that risk rewards should have been considered at least by council before it was approved, given that this apparently was approved by council 30 years ago. I have no idea how we would look up minutes from those meetings or discussions that happen then, but I'm certainly all ears from our city staff on anything we can do. It doesn't seem to fit that area at all. 12 buildings I'm hearing. That's just... I think about like some of the projects that have gone in, like the apartments and the elements that Prairie Center in there. It's done right. It fits the area. I don't understand what we can do or how we can do it, but certainly we're open to ideas because this doesn't seem to make sense and it doesn't, it's going to be too late once the shovel set the ground. So if there's anything we can do to maybe steer this in a more appropriate way, I'm all ears. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Cushing, and then Councilmember Humbert. I, too, have a listen here in 1989, either. Does anyone know? Even on the oldest one up here. Well, and what I'm going to say is that, this council and other councils before it, one person has come up and spoken to us and made a difference. I appreciate what you've come tonight and so are you said. I respect every one of you. By the way, I won't be on council when this comes up again. Probably. But I applaud and encourage you for making your voices here. Third. And like I say, I encourage you to continue. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Nothing to add to Council City Manager. OK. All right. With that, it's time to move on to the next item. Do we need a call for a break? Council City Manager Martinez. Yes sir. Okay, we'll take a 10 minute break. Thank you. I'm going to hand it over to our city manager for some announcements. Thank you mayor. I'll actually turn that over to our city clerk who is now in attendance with us Natalie Hol. Even though this is in, it's Natalie. I forgot to switch that during the break. Thank you city manager Martinez. Good evening mayor and council. I do have the unofficial results from the election. The runoff election for mayor. Gregory Mills received 2,751 votes and Lori D. Luzano Meyer received 2,340 votes. So we received a total of five thousand ninety one votes. Well thank you. Thank you Natalie. Wow. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. I'm speechless for the moment. I'll save my remarks for the reports. So thank you. The next item is item 12b, Tri-County Health Mask Mandate Discussion. I requested this item. I know I'm not trying to defide anyone on council, but there are some people that would like to discuss this item that's on our council right now. So just so the public knows unlike the last mask mandates that came out last year by Tri-County in state. We cannot legally opt out of this. And one thing I'd like to maybe propose, and let's put this out for discussion, obviously, is not everybody's a fan of tri-county and what may be proposed by the county itself right now. I'd like to consider, and this is obviously up to the council to discuss, maybe form an committee but hiring a consultant to see what it takes to form our own, whether it be own municipal health or multi-jururisticional health authority in our area and I'd like to put that out for for a quick discussion So who'd like to speak first? Open a program. Go ahead Yes, thank you, Mayor. The I Think that that is a good idea at this time. I Been thinking about this overnight and I'm wondering if we choose one one or maybe two or three like we choose a few cities and team up with them and the reason is is because not only because of cost but so that there's a balance of this is now politicized to another level as we all have to admit with health and I want to keep it on the health front with science, math, all of that. But there's also the ability to have local control in every way. And that local control should consist of us and another city. I really would, I think the best thing we can do is talk with Commerce City. There's a lot of Commerce City and us together as a health department. That's something I would definitely consider. If we start to go further different ways from just those two, not only do politics get involved, but there's a large amount of people that now start to be involved and affected by the health and the decisions made by that health department. But tri-county is not going to be tri-county anymore, is that correct? I mean, is that I can easily say that without that looking, we're sounding political. They just don't exist anymore. So we need to look at another option. Adams County doing theirs. That's a very large population base that I don't know how much of Brighton will be part of it. At one point during the pandemic, at the very beginning of this pandemic, Brighton was at a high, high level of cases in the hospital in ICU and deaths all happening at the same time. And we were kind of left out of some of the things that we were at the highest level in Adams County at that point. And we should have been the number one thing looked at, but I didn't feel like that from Tri-County that we were really being targeted as somewhere the help was necessary and I would hope that we just make sure to, I want to do something and I think we team up with one or two other cities and we get together and do this so I think that's great I do. Thanks. Great. Thank you. Council Member Watts. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. You know, I agree with that and I was going to point out the act to a thing. When does their another voted commission was voted just recently? When is there is it June or next December? I believe they've given two years right to unwind. I was at a meeting recently. I'll answer that. They're supposed to exit the Tri-County Health at the end of 2022, however, it could get extended, given some of the complexities of forming a new health department on its own. That takes a lot of time, so that that may be extended. What's kind of like buy-counter, because even Douglass is even part of it, so it's... Yeah, I mean, we're still gonna to call it whatever they're going to call it, but I have other names for them. I mean, I'm in favor of that, but we didn't look into it as a municipality before. I'm with that because I like the idea of joining with other cities. I think that's a good way to it. I think Congress City would be on board with it as well. I know a previous financial director looked at some of the costs and stuff, but we didn't really dive deep into that per se. Also I would say that if Adams County moves forward with that and we move forward with that, we need to have a seat at the table though. I think what's happening is these people are getting appointed to these non-elected positions and they're making a decision. It's just like we talked about the last item a little bit ago, you know, of commissions doing these things and I agree with you. I'm not discounting the whatever strain we're on right now, but I am discounting the confusion as part of this and I think that we need to... That's the thing that needs to be mitigated. I mean, when you go to a Broncos game and you don't have to wear the mask when you're in the stadium, but if you go in to get a drink, you have to put a mask on because that's indoors. The stadium, the seating was not. Or if you go to a grocery store and the people are standing there handing you stuff or a drive-through which I frequent a lot but you go to the drive-through then you know it's just everybody's touching the stuff it's like there's so much confusion with this it needs to be figured out but it's it's going to be hard to figure out because next year is an election year and obviously we want to make sure we keep the fear of God in everybody. But I think we need to look at this and find out what's the best interest of Brighton for this. And I'm in favor of pursuing another item for this because I can tell you the residents that I've spoken to just aren't wearing them. I don't want to. Right. You make a great point if we were to have a say, I spoke with the county. It's going to be the same thing. They are going to point the Health Authority board. We're not going to have a say. And I don't see the point of, you know, separating from Tri-County if we're going to be in the same situation. 100% agree. We just need to have a seat at the table we don't you know i'm not just a bright and like we're privileged the city the municipality should have seats at the table right every municipality in my opinion that sounds like yours needs to have a seat at the table in who these health board members are right and we don't it's it's easier now and i'm not you know Be negative against the county commissioners because some of those didn't appoint the ones that are on there now, but I think that yeah, we just need to have more of a right voices heard We heard our residents tonight now they need to hear the municipalities. That's right. There you go Next we'll go to councilmember Pollock Thank you, Mayor this Councilmember Pollock. Thank you, Mayor. This pandemic has been quite the nightmare. First we were told, mask down doing a good, get about it. Then we were told, were told, get vaccinated and you won't get COVID. Well, that's not true either. You're vaccinated and you won't die. That's not true either. I ran to represent my constituents and what they want. And I do my best to be their voice. It's not my voice that I'm speaking. It's theirs. They've been asking why we didn't opt out so they shouldn't have to be wearing masks. Again, who mandated it? Not the governor. Bureau crafts. Who elected them? I didn't. I don't know who did. At some point, another, we have to get it. If you feel comfortable wearing a mask then wear it. If you don't, you shouldn't have to to this moment. I don't know how long that's going to be. We're still living in a free country. We're not cheap. We're supposed to, we have dictators that are saying when you can, where you can, no, whatever you want. So this is what emails I get and the phone calls I get have set with me because we didn't opt out. We didn't get the opportunity. First of all, and I'm glad that the mayor brought it up because I'm like, what happened here? We're saying everybody in Brighton has to wear a mask. Who's idea was that? Try county, I don't know when they were elected to rule us. I, I don't know. But I, I did, I support whatever each individual wants. If you feel comfortable wearing a mask, then wear it. If you don't feel comfortable, don't do it. Do you see me? I'm not going to wear a mask. First of all, after a few minutes, I can't breathe very good. So I'm not going to wear it or not thinking of others. But it is going to change by changing Tri-County to another name. Not if we don't get it straight. Who are they? They can't get their story straight. Vaccines work. No, they don't. Mass work. No, they don't. Well, in that science, we're in trouble. Seriously, not just with this, but with many things we're in trouble. They're ignoring real illnesses out there because their priority is COVID. That's a priority. Everybody these days is dying to COVID, even if they're not dying to COVID. Because if they put them in the hospital and they treat them to get extra money, anybody aware of that? It's a COVID death or they're taking care of them. It's extra money to that hospital to that medical person. So of course it's beneficial. You died in overdose. No, you didn't need died of COVID. You know, it's up to you. I'm not gonna tell you to wear a mask. I'm not going to tell you to wear a mask. I'm not going to tell you not to wear a mask. I live in a free country. I'm going to do my damn all please. And if you don't let me in your place of business because I don't wear a mask, then I get my money to somebody else. I don't need to give it to them. And that's the way I feel. And I hope that, you know, I hope my people are listening and understand it's not my doing. It's not the council's doing saying that you have to wear a mask. You have to wear a mask when you come into a public building. I think this building belongs to us, to the city of Brighton. You all want to come in with a mask? You go ahead. You're more than welcome to. But if you don't want to come in with a mask, I don't think you should have to. Because you paid for this building. Not the bureaucrats. Not the governor. We do. Everyone of us. Let's not forget that we are free. Today we celebrated pro-harbor. What did that mean? How many thousands of men and women died for this freedom that we're supposed to be having? Think about that. Was that in them? You know, what was it? Well, y'all do what you're going to do and I'm going to do what I'm going to do and let's hope that none of us get COVID. We'll see what happens. Thank you. Thank you. And then Councilmember Cushion. Thank you, Mayor. I mean, this is a tough one. I generally don't get on the extreme sides of any issues, but this masked thing, you know, it's, I think the problem is is, you know, we have a health department. They do a lot of things. Trying to do our own health department, I think it'd be extremely costly. I'm kind of curious to see how Adams County forming their own health department is going to go and where that lands and how it works for us. And it's probably worth doing that before we try to forge our own path in that area, just given what, you know, I don't know that we're prepared to do all of the things from food inspections to... There's a lot of things the health department does. But on the mask thing, I think what's really frustrating is I think a lot of us are willing to wear a mask if it helped. But we just keep going in a random direction. You know, Tric County specifically, their first mandate allowed cities to opt out of it. And if it was that critical, why did they let cities opt out of it? And we it was that critical, why did they let? Said he's out of it. And we kind of went through that with the school thing. They did a school mask mandate, but you could do it if you want to. And then school said, okay, we're not going to do it. And then they said, no, never mind. You have to do it. It is just this kind of inconsistency. I think that's really frustrating. This mask order, I don't know if there's another option to express our dissatisfaction to our health department by a ceremonial proclamation or a letter. But I think the issues are that it puts the owner on a business owner to refuse entry to people not wearing a mask. No business has any interest in doing that. What do they have the manpower to do it? I mean, we're already dealing with people that can't get people to man the register. We want to put a team of people kicking out people for not wearing masks. On top of that, we expected a mask up a two-year-old. I've had two year olds. I would get kicked out of every single store if I was trying to make them worse to wear a mask when I took them shopping. I don't know what the answer is, but it's... You know, the other thing is we used to have a rule in there that said if you were six feet apart, you didn't have to wear a mask. Now it's 12 feet and only if you're broadcasting a news story and a bunch of other really odd ball exceptions. I don't know why. I mean, if the mask helps within six feet if we're both wearing it, then why isn't that the rule? And I guess I'm down to it. If they're not going to enforce it, I don't know what the point is because we've kind of been told time and time again that if you don't wear an N95 mask, then it only works if both of you are wearing it because it only protects the person who has the sickness. It's just getting out of control with this. I don't know. I don't see much. I don't see much point to it the way we're doing it. That's for sure. So I don't know what the answer is, but I support expressing that displeasure to our, to try county. And if they're gonna do a mask mandate that we're gonna get behind, let's, I feel like they just need to use a little more common sense. That's kind of where I'm at with it. Anyway, thanks. Thank you. And then Councilmember Humbert. I think I'll be great. We wrapped it out in November a year ago, because there was no enforcement. That was the, what somebody liked to general consensus of the council. And then the government came in two days later and said, you'll wear them. I personally got a lot of email from after the government was just saying, what was wrong with the council? Why did they go the way they did? But I think that we should follow some kind of cooperative health department, maybe with Brighton and maybe with Arms County. It's a costly proposition regardless I do believe in science And and then first but as you can and I'd be around shopping the last few days and There's the enforcement now So it's up to you or me How you want to do this and how you feel it will be affected now. I will say The mandate was going in the school district did their little turn about When we did that when they chose rules was because there was a kindergarten class at Louis schools and a teacher was unvaccinated, unmasked before a class. Three days after school started and having seen, and this is kindergarteners, they didn't have to wear a mask. She was diagnosed with COVID, kids have to go home. They have a right to be in school. I'm a political scientist first and I look at this issue in particular, but I'm Tri-County has you know it this issue has gotten too full of size for anybody to make a rational decision. Right thank you thank you dollars spoke so with that and let's anybody else has anything to add I would like to Make a motion to direct our city manager to start a you know get with the consultant and just explore the possibilities of having our own health department while whether it be a city or a multi-jurisdictional health department, two, three, whatever it is. And I'm gonna put that as a motion. To, we should put that as a study session, you know, bring it out, you know. Have that on the agenda to talk more about that and see what it's gonna take, but at least let's get the consultant going Councilmember Humbert On the second the emotion. Thank you. We have a first and the second is there any other discussion? Not real call vote Not recoverable. Motion passes, 5 to 1 with 2 absent. Okay. Thank you. The next is a report. It's been a very long night. I'm not going to go too deep. I just want to thank everyone for turning out and for, you know, doing your civic duty this court this fall. And I do have my native meeting coming up later this month. And a few other things I'll be dealing with with week. We have our bi-neconomic development board meeting coming up also really soon. And it's going to be a good month and a great Christmas coming. So next we'll go to the report's by department heads. We have none this evening, Your Honor. Okay. City, Jenny. I have none, thank you. City manager. Make a mayor real quick. I just want to thank all the folks who put in time and effort into making this past weekends all their extravaganza, a really good and safe event. A lot of work went into planning and execution of that and staff deserves a lot of credit for bringing such a cool event to the community. And it's my hope that every year we can make something like that bigger and better. So I think that learning the lessons that we have and seeing how great the reception has been, I think next year we can do even more. And I also want to remind folks that we have the creative lights this weekend at 5 p.m. That's the goal of lights. I said creative lights on another city right now. And that's the number one. It's going to gonna be cold But they do This on Saturday evening so on the less Okay, thank you We'll go to reports by the council start on this end and we'll go to council member Watts who is in a W's and They always complies about being last Unfortunately councilman today couldn't be here so I get to go first. Just a couple things. Burrows next week, we're going to talk about that. Fire District meeting tomorrow night. Senior advisor coming up, we have a Lockwood sewer board this Thursday night. And E470 on Thursday morning. Kind of wrapping up a lot of the meetings. This is the last meetings of the year for all of those particular boards. But I would like to just mention one thing, what a heat-fishing meeting last week. And it had a really nice training session, which opened my eyes. And I think it really got to get more information on it. But it was about the tokenizing of individuals. And we're not seeing a lot. A lot of times the youth are put on boards of commissions, not just in Brighton, but just anywhere, because they have that representation, they're supposed to have that, they're on there, but it's kind of like they're being the token person on that board. They're not having their voice or they're not being really allowed to speak their mind or give their input. I like having youth on boards, I wanted to have one on urban renewal, we just can't really buy the statues. And because boards. I wanted to have one on Urban Renewal. We just can't really buy the statues. Because you want the input of the youth of the house, we're going to impact them, not just us and not just our board members, but what the youth are here. It was a nice article that Tony had shared in Gina. Gina, Rocha had talked about it. If you get a chance to look it up, tokenizing of people in these boards and it's something I think we all need to look into more and I'll get more information on it and I'll share it, but it's just, it was eye-opening to hear that some youth even on some of our boards are just not having their voices heard as much as they probably could be. Again, I thank you to everybody that came out to the Christmas tree lighting and, you know, to our staff. It was an incredible event. It was nice to see us here on Council get up and stage and do the countdown, although I think we should have started at 500 and worked our way down, but we started at 10. And but it was fun. I will say this, my shoes did clean up pretty quickly after being at the park. And it's really seen all this Saturday at festival lights and I just would like to add a reminder that when the council flow goes by please do not throw anything at us. That is our job to throw things at each other and we would appreciate it for the safety that's why we have an elf security guard around the float but before we do see everybody there's had ignite and like Mary said please bundle up maybe I sit on a generator to keep warm and get us fixated again. You don't want them thrown candy at us instead of us. Well if it's candy or big Macs or no grubs, I'm all about it. The grubs, yes. Okay. All right, Council Member Humbert. I'm going through the parks and rake and I just want to talk about the whole thing on the parks and rake advisory board. I'm both reading Parks and Rec and I just want to talk about the UFM on Parks and Rec Advisory Board. I ask intelligent questions at them and you got your daughter or step-caters on that board. And they both do and they involve with the meetings. I don't think we tokenize them. After the parade, the laundry was playing with the laundry, but there may not be tickets left. And one other thing, there is a phrase of the writing history museum that has been formed and soon we meet the first Monday of every month. But it's an augmentation of historic preservation but not really connected totally. That's all. Thank you. Mayor Prattam. Yes, we have Lockwood sewer board, which always sounds like less than what it really is. It's a big deal and we'll have that on Thursday night. On Thursday during the day, we have E470 also, and I just wanted to say this really opened me and publicly what Tim Watts has done for us on E470. We can never underestimate it. As soon as we have the baby, my wife and I both working, it was very tough for me to attend any meetings. And there are 9 a.m. almost every Thursday, every other Thursday max. And you filled in, but you didn't just fill in, I think you did a better job than I was doing on that board. And yeah, we helped with E470 and Sable together. I did the background. What you did with the rates and how you've taken that board on is your baby the way you have. I just gotta say thank you for me and the rest of the residents. Thank you very much. There is other meetings coming up, but I'll pass on that. But thanks, Tim. Well done. Great, thanks. And then Council Member Pollock. Just real quick, our directors have been here all day. Yeah. We're going into after 10 o'clock. That's all I got to say. I'm done. Good night. Go get some rest. Goodness sake. We've talked enough. In all of us hasn't melted yet. Councillor Moura Cushion. Thank you, Mayor. Congratulations to the Mayor on the victory. I enjoyed the event. One thing that hasn't been mentioned is the Main Street Creative has opened their doors at two o'clock and well I was really cool just walked around seeing all that art that I can't afford. It's beautiful. It's just it's just amazing that we have that kind of talent and Brighton. Dick Hodge over there was really pushing that apple cider and hot chocolate. It was really neat that they opened that up and let people get a glimpse into something that not all Brightonites are aware of that exists. Yeah. Appreciate the comment on my daughter. I guess she's a chip off the old block so that's nice Yeah, and then the you know the tree lighting was great the music was great. What a great event really hats off to the staff for For thinking of so many details, you know the way they closed off the roads really kind of thought that all out It was really cool really worked out well That's all I have thanks. Real quick council number lots. Just touch it on that. Next time I'll make sure all of council knows where the face painting booth is. So I'm not the only one again. All right thank you everyone. It's been five hours so let's go. If there's nothing else before the body of the council we are now adjourned. Thank you everyone. It's been five hours, so let's go. If there's nothing else before the body of the council, we are now adjourned. Thank you everyone. See you Saturday.