If you would like to please stand and join me in the place of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivis individual with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, Madam City Clerk. Would you please call roll? Mayor Criter. I'm here. Mayor Proto-Tem Edwards. President. Council Member Baca. Here. Council Member Blackhurst. He is excused. Council Member Humber. I'm here. Council Member Blackhurst. He is excused. Council Member Humbert. I'm here. Council Member Johnston. Here. Council Member Mills. Here. Council Member Pollock. Here. Council Member Wallen. Present. You have a quorum, Your Honor. Thank you. Next item on the agenda is approval of the regular agenda. Mr. Rodriguez, is there any additions or changes to tonight's agenda? Good evening, Mayor Council. There are no changes or amendments to tonight's agenda. We'll ask that it be considered as presented. Thank you. Thank you. What's the pleasure of Council? Councilman Mills, thank you, Mayor. I move to approve the agenda as presented. Councilman Walnut. Be happy to second that. Have a proper motion in a second to approve tonight's agenda. Any further discussion? Hearing none, roll call vote. All votes cast. Sign in, Mayor Pro Temp. There you go. Motion passes by a vote of 8 to nothing with one absent. Next item on the agenda is a consent agenda. Madam City Clerk, would you please read into the record tonight's consent agenda. Item 3A approval of the February 5th, 2019 City Council minutes. Item 3B, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, appointing Michelle Miller as a non- a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, appointing Michelle Miller as a non-resident member of the Brighton Housing Authority to fill an unexpired term to November 2020. Item 3C, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, appointing Catherine Johnson as a professional member of the Brighton Historic Preservation Commission with a term to June 2023. Item 3D, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, appointing Ayaka Hayashi as a youth member to the City of Brighton Parks and Recreation Advisory Board with a term to June 2019. Item 3E, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, appointing Claire Sagura as a youth member to the City of Brighton Parks and Recreation Advisory Board with a term to June 2020. Item 3F, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, appointing Gianna Rocha as a youth member to the City of Brighton Planning Commission with a term to June 2020. What's the pleasure of council? Councilman Humbert? Mr. Mayor, I move we approve the consent agenda as read. Thank you. Motion to have a second. Councilman Mills. Thank you, Mayor, I second that motion. I have a proper motion and a second to approve tonight's consent agenda. Any further discussion? Hearing none, roll call vote. All votes cast. Motion passes by a vote of eight and nothing with one absent. Next item on the agenda is ceremonies. Item 4A. Swering it of new board and commission members. Item 4A. Swering it of New Board and Commission members. Madam City Clerk. All the New Board and Commission members please come forward. I speak to the Constitution of the State of Columbia, the Constitution of the State of Columbia, the Constitution of the State of Columbia, the Office of Board of Education, the Office of Board of Education, and will face the list of forms, and will face the list of forms, the duties of the Office of the Office of the Office. That's all I'm talking about. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations. And first of all Thank you. Congratulations. And first of all, yes. First of all, I'd really like to thank the community members who stepped forward and served on our boards and commissions. We couldn't do our businesses as a city without city input and I really appreciate that. Tonight's especially sweet though is we have three members that got installed as members of our youth commission who are serving on our boards and commission. And I really believe that that makes a statement that we don't have a youth commission just to say we have one. That they truly do have a voice in our community as they say we put somebody on our planning commission tonight folks that really is looking for the future and that just means that we're very forward thinking and I think that it's wonderful so thank you all for your commitment and we look for your input. Next item on the agenda under ceremonies is the inclusion day proclamation and I have a proclamation I'd like to read into the record. This is a proclamation by City of Brighton inclusion day proclamation and I have a proclamation I'd like to read into the record. This is a proclamation by City of Brighton Inclusion Day. Whereas the City of Brighton would like to proclaim Wednesday, March 6 as inclusion day. And whereas inclusion day is in which individuals with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities will live, work and play alongside each other in a fully inclusive community. And whereas globally, more than 200 million people with intellectual and development disabilities live each day, excluded and isolated from their non-disabled peers. And whereas we believe the world will be better when all people are valued, respected, embraced, and included, included in the schools we intend, the games we play, the friends we make, in our community we live and work in. And whereas Brighton High School has a unified program with a participation of 23 students, and with that have with and without intellectual and development disabilities along with five coaches. And whereas the Unifying Program is a part of the Special Olympics program, which provides participation with other athletes to build confidence and create opportunities to participate as productive and respected members of society by increasing public awareness of the athletes' capabilities. Now therefore, it is resolved that I, Kenneth J. Kreitzer, Mayor of the City of Brighton, on behalf of the City Council, do hereby proclaim Wednesday, March 6, as inclusion day, and challenge each resident of the City of Brighton to make a difference by joining in this proclamation. Dated this 5th day of March 2019. What is the pleasure of council? Council member Mills. All right. Thank you Mayor. I move we approve this proclamation as red a inclusion day. And I'll say something after we're done. I have a motion. Do I have a second? Everybody wants a second. I saw councilwoman Bacchus first. Thank you Mayor. I'd be honored to second that. Of a councilwoman Bacchus first. Thank you Mayor, the honor to second that. Of a proper motion and a second on this topic, is there any further discussion council member Mills? I just wanna say, you know, my kids are involved with the unified team and this is a great group of people. I've traveled to several of their games and it's fun to watch them participate throughout the front range in various sports. They do flag football, basketball and soccer and we really enjoy having them in our community and I really want to thank Paula Hogue that's right there in the second row for help and put all this together and all our team. Thank you. Thank you. Any further discussion? Hearing none, roll call vote. All votes cast. Motion passes by a vote of eight to nothing with one absent. Mr. Rodriguez, who's here tonight? No, Paulis. We have some other people. Yes, we have a good group tonight for this. The Brighton High School Unified Program, the head coach, Pauli Hogg is here, as well as inclusion coach, Michelle Rice. And I understand there's several of the athletes as well. And so if you guys would stand up and meet the mayor at the podium, we'll make sure we get your picture as well. What's he doing? Get on in here, kiddos. You can stand in front of me. You'll fit. I'm sorry. Paula, the podium is yours. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Paula, the podium is yours. 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 feel very fortunate to have a program at Brighton High School have been able to so far distribute over 1,300 of these shirts throughout the district and family members that have continued to purchase just to, and we don't do it as a fundraiser. We just want to share the message because all of our kids deserve to be included in everything. And the great thing about the change this was previously national hour-day that's changed to be inclusive national inclusion. And the great thing about that is it's not just kiddos that we service, but any kid that just doesn't fit in that mold or just is quiet or, and so it's a really great message that Special Olympics has changed to to make sure that we are inclusive of everyone in every moment, so. Super. Thank you. And tomorrow night, yes. Is the rumble in the gym. So. Thank you. And tomorrow night. Yes. Is the rumble in the gym? Yes, it is. The big go ahead. So we have the unified showdown. At 630 we play a priori view. And then after that, our team, the athletes and partners will be playing the teachers. All of the athletes have challenged. Seniors got to challenge two teachers, and then all of the other athletes got to challenge one, including Admin. And currently our program is inclusive of kiddos from students, athletes from Prairie View and from Reveal Ridge, because Reveal Ridge is not obviously big enough yet. So we wanted to make sure that we included everyone and give them an opportunity. So there will be admin staff from all three buildings and teachers from all three buildings. Super. And I've been honored to bring the voice of the Bulldog to the game tomorrow night. And we have great sound bits for you as well. So the tip off 630? Yep. 630. Yep, 630. 630 tomorrow. And we'll be doing fundraisers for both schools wish weeks. So we're doing a check-a-duck, where you throw ducks to the center of the floor, tick-tack-toe game, bake sales, and all of the many. We're not taking any of that for our program. We're distributing amongst the wish weeks for both student governments. Well, it is indoors. Yes, it is gymnasium. Bill Gamble Gymnasium at the high school. And I just need to let everybody now, tomorrow night, in my true efforts to be inclusive. I bleed bulldog red. So I'm going to root for all those kids, but maybe a little harder for them bulldogs. I just can't shut it off, folks. I just can't shut it off folks. I just can't shut it off. So congratulations, good luck and good luck to all you. Because you guys have really shown well. You've brought home medals from the National Junital and Pics, and we've been able to celebrate you and another real pride spot of our community. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Next item in the agenda is a proclamation proclaiming National Ag Day. Whereas National Ag Day recognizes and celebrates the abundance provided by American agriculture. And whereas, agricultural council of America and the National Ag Day Program was started in 1973 to tell the true story of American agriculture and remain and remind citizen that agriculture is a part of all of us. And whereas the National Ag Day Program encourages every American to understand how food and fiber products are produced, appreciate the role of agriculture plays in providing safe, abundant, and affordable products, value the essential role of agriculture and maintaining a strong economy, and acknowledge and consider career opportunities in the agriculture, food, and fiber industry. And whereas America's strong agricultural sector is a key component of our nation's robust economy and trade and every one dollar of the United States agriculture and food exports creates another $1.27 in business activity. And whereas Colorado agriculture contributes 41 billion to the state economy and employees nearly 173,000 people. economy and employees nearly 173,000 people. Additionally, Colorado agriculture provides abundant nutritional products for consumers within the state and around the globe. And whereas farmers and ranchers are critical to Colorado ag tourism, welcoming tourists from around the world and give them a taste of the Colorado experience. And whereas Brighton is home to a number of local farms, offering farm stores in a variety of daily activities, as well as special events and festivals. And whereas it is important to recognize, appreciate and celebrate the men and women who dedicate their lives to the growing food. Now therefore be it resolved that I, can the Jay Crites or Mayor of the City of Brighton, on behalf of the City Council, do hereby proclaim March 14th, 2019, is Ag Day in Brighton in support of National Ag Day and National Ag Week March 10th through 16th, 2019 dated the fifth day of March 2019. And I'm going to take the privilege as a little story that people don't know much about me, but I am a proud alum and member of Farmhouse fraternity at Colorado State University. Not many people know that. Where I set it the kitchen table and learned a lot about agriculture as being the only business member in that. So being a proud farmhouse member, I would like to make a motion to approve the National Ag Day Proclamation. And I would take a second. Councilman Humbert. Mr. Mayor, I will gladly second that motion. I have a proper motion in a second on this topic. Senator further discussion? Hearing none, roll call vote. All votes cast. Motion passes by a vote of 8 to nothing went one absent. Mr. Rodriguez, who's here tonight to accept this proclamation. Thank you so much, Mayor Council. I would like to ask these members of these groups to come up, because we have about a dozen or so folks from my understanding that are here for this. And if you'll just come up and meet the mayor at the podium, we have Brighton shares the harvest. We have Brighton Chamber and Discover Brighton. We have Brighton shares the harvest. We have Brighton Chamber and Discover Brighton. We have folks from Lulu's Farm, from Berry Patch, and then a number of our district plan commissioners are here this evening. So if you guys wouldn't mind coming on up and receiving this on this evening, thank you so much. I'm going to go to the next room. Here you go. Can you just go back to the room? Are you done? Hi. Hi. Hi. You're done. You're done. Come on. You're done. Good. Yeah. Yeah. Squeeze in tight. There you go. We got it in Tim, what can you do, the population and the police? Oh boy. Good. Good. What's up? Um, because I'll start a week and a half go with Linda Young with bright and shares, the harvest when she sent this email saying, what's going on? There's a national egg week coming up and we don't know anything about it. So she got on the horn and thanks to Linda. We're here today. So Linda, thank you so much. Appreciate it. Thank you to all the local farmers and the workers. Thank you all very much. Some of you know me, so some of you don't. So it's good to hear it and see you all. Two years ago I was here thinking you all for passing the unanimously the district plan bill. And I had a quote that I wanted to read then, but I didn't get a chance, so now is my time. One of the common things we see about farming on maybe perhaps bumper stickers, no farms, no food. That's pretty basic I guess, but it's very true. But I'd like to go back just back in history a little bit and share with you some of what some of our presidents had said about agriculture. Dwight Eisenhower said, you know farming looks mighty easy when you plow, when your plow is a pencil and you're 1,000 miles from the cornfield. Abe Lincoln said, the greatest fine art of the future will be the making for a comfortable living from a small parcel of land. He also said, don't you find it odd that people put more work into choosing a mechanic or contractor than into the person who grows your food. Other comments Thomas Jefferson those who maybe Binda Monticello have witnessed and read what he did to seed bank. He was the first seed bank in the United States of course at our young history and he said this the pursuits of agriculture are the surest road to a fluency and best preservation of morals. Agriculture is the first in utility and ought to be the first in respect. That's pretty interesting. But lastly, the comment that I was been saving for two years, it says this. The best part of the country's population are the cultivators of the soil. Independent farmers are everywhere the basis of society and true friends of liberty. Two more comments. We'll raise it up to Thomas Edison. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. And then lastly, of course, Mark Twain. We can't leave without Mark Twain. Mark Twain said this. Farming is simply gambling with dirt. Thank you. Thank you very much. Anybody else from the group like the podium? Wayne, we know you well. Just real quick, I want to thank this council for your efforts in saving farmland and working with us. It's really appreciated and I know the citizens of Brighton and the citizens of Adams County are going to appreciate this in years to come. So thank you for all that you do for that. Thank you. Thank you. Very good. It's always my favorite part of the meeting. Next item on the agenda is public invited be heard on matters not on the agenda. And tonight in two different sections we have several people who have requested to speak. I'll remind the audience. We have a protocol that I'll call you to the podium. This is the time for you to speak to us. We don't necessarily respond. This is for public comment. You have five minutes. The city clerk will put that up on the screen there. You'll be reminded at one minute and at five minutes, I'll ask you to stop. First person is Wayne Vulford. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'll be brief. I apologize for missing by swearing in to the District Plan Commission and simply wanted to thank each of you for the honor of serving again for three years in something that I believe in. I didn't know today was Ag Prop Climation Day until our meeting on Thursday. Did not mean to take advantage of that. I simply wanted to say thank you to you and thank you for your support. And I'll do the best that I can to support Brighton with a district plan and I'm very, very anxious about the new branding and marketing that we will be proposing as an advisory commission to you and to Adams County commissioners, hopefully within the next month, worth its tail end of improving the name district plan commission. Doesn't mean a lot to most people and we're developing a logo. So I just wanted to thank you very much for the opportunity. Thank you, Wayne. Thank you very much for the opportunity. Thank you, Wendy. The next individual who's requested time to speak is Bob Iber. Mr. Iber, did I say that correctly? 360th Bridge Street. Hard May. Street. Pardon me? My name is Bob. It's the first time I've done this since school speech. Name and address for the record. Mr. Chairman. I just like the suggestion for the keeping the speed limit at 35 miles an hour going east on bridge street into your past Eastgate Village. the speed limit is now 45 and coming out of the escape to take a left. Cars are so very quickly, not giving us a chance to take a left with the traffic congestion. If it's 35, maybe we will have a chance to take a left before the cars all cut up. It'll be some gap to take left on. Oh do that make sense or do you mind if anybody? Okay. Any other thing I was wondering about for consideration is the Oasis water park pool is so wonderful. Just to think that keeping it open till at, at least one night a week, some moms or dads that have that eight to five job can come in, enjoy it one night with the kids. Just as now I think it's closed at four or four, three or stuff like that, and just maybe start late and close late one night a week. Thank you very much. Mr. Abber, I'm gonna have you go ahead and give your name and address for the record so we can get it into our records. Okay, Bob Iber. And 3060 East Bridge Street, unit 221. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next item on the agenda is consolidated items for sequential review. And this is interesting because we have two items that are going to be covered by the same presentation. So I'll read the first item into the record. We'll hear the presentation and then we'll deal with the second one. So item 6A is a resolution of the City Council of City of Brighton, Colorado, declaring the city's support for evaluating the designation of E470 as a hazardous material route and authorizing the mayor to know find the E470 public authority highway of the city's position. Mr. Rodriguez, who's presenting? Thank you so much, Your Honor. This evening, Mayor Council, I'm going to ask Mike Tilcar, Senior Planner to present the item. I do want to thank Mike very personally for his shepherding of this item for quite a while now. And Mike has done a really good job, I think, of keeping us not only focused on the issue, but also ensuring that any additional viewpoints are brought to the forefront. So Mike, great job and it's all yours. Thank you, Mr. City Manager. Good evening, Mr. Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, Council members, distinguished guests from Adams County and the general public. So we know why we're here. general public. So we know why we're here. Our first item, this fits into our strategic plan focus areas of strong regional partnerships and relationships and building a safe, active and engaged community. So for the public, we've had three study sessions on this in the past couple of months, and this item is before you tonight provided by the direction of the City Council at their study session on February 26th. As mentioned, we're bringing forth a letter of support and a letter of opposition, leaving it up to this Council to decide which one, if any, to send. Why we're bringing that letter to you? We need a formal vote to occur to be able to issue one of those letters to the E470 authority. It's a little bit of background for those in the audience and people that weren't at our study sessions. The map on the right-hand side are the existing hazmat routes in our general area. You can see we have two routes going through Brighton City limits, being 85, a north-south route, and I-76, kind of going diagonally there across the screen. It's also worth mentioning that both of our roadways, both of our railroads, my apologies going through Brighton are also capable of carrying larger quantities of hazardous materials. And those being the one closer to the east of town, the one right through the middle of the city. So moving on, some of the items that we covered in our past study sessions are on the screen before you, and I think it's worth going through all of those briefly. In those past three study sessions, staff has provided materials on these. As did a lot of our distinguished guests from various entities, local and regional and statewide. We've gone through the definition of those hazardous materials, gone through the comprehensive plan designations along the E470 route. We've talked about the economic development concerns of one of the major land owners in that area for the Adams Crossing project, being the Woodbury Group who presented a letter to this body earlier in the process. We've gone through that process to designate how this roadway would get designated starting with recommendation from all those local jurisdictions in moving that on to the Colorado State Patrol in the form of a petition where they would do a route study and analysis. We've gone through the items that that route analysis would have. We've gone through the items that that route analysis would have. We've gone through the potential sections of designation. So the sections that Brighton has to say on are from I-25 to US-85 and then US-85 to 76. A hazmat route needs to have the OK of any jurisdiction. It's going through as the way law is currently written. So Brighton does have, say, the ability to say yes or no on those sections. So we've gone through kind of some of the oversight and enforcement of those routes, of those carriers and haulers when they need to be on those hazardous materials route, and how, you know, the Colorado State Patrol is enforcing those things. We've gone by some of those nearby routes, our closest east-west route being 52 up north, and then parts of 270 and 70 down south of us. We've gone through the different standards, the placards, the amount of materials, the types of materials, and all those different types of designations. We've gone through those regulations supporting that transportation. We've gone through the thoughts of the fire district. We've gone through the thoughts of the fire district. We've gone through the ability of a route to get reversed and how hard it really is to get rid of one of those routes. Once they are designated, and in my conversations with C-DOT, that's because we can't get rid of a route if it's going to impede business. And any route that's been in use is going to impede some business. And that's pretty much what they told me. So we've looked at one of those sample petitions and studies from another route in the state and our thoughts on that. We've gone through a little bit of the pending legislation and what that could do in terms of local control in the future. So for those in the audience and a reminder, a summary to council, staff devised a pros cons list early in the process and from staff's analysis, we still have the same pros cons list. So going through those pros, yes, it's an alternative route to get those trucks off of some of the local roads in Brighton and some of our surrounding locally Missipalities we've gone through that it could get those off of those streets and onto a safer route a route that has more buffer area that's Better designed for something like this possibly and we've gone through the thoughts of the fire district as well So moving on to the cons list the first ones on there are So moving on to the cons list, the first ones on there are about half of our items. One being that we already have four routes through our city. The second being Brighton maybe has taken on its fair share regionally. Another one is staff has continuously asked for data to show how many trips this would create and if it would alleviate anything from our current roadways. Staff feels that we have not been provided with that data yet. There's still the possibility that some of the emergency management and response issues could not be worked out. We are worried about the economic development prospects being that there's a large amount of undeveloped land where brightness expecting significant growth and maybe different growth from what we've seen maybe some sort of tech industry It's employment commercial employment designated and so we're looking To have that area develop in the future Another item we're looking at is This is a local aglan and preservation district could all this route going through there do anything to that The other half is just looking out for the health safety and welfare of the of the residents through there Is this going to bring a lot of traffic from outside of the state or divert it through it regionally through Brighton instead of in other areas outside of our jurisdiction We do have a concern about the commitment this might take from our police department. We know police seeing is his big issue and we don't know if they're going to get diverted down here more than they would if this wasn't designated. And again, I think it's worth highlighting that it's really, really tough to reverse this route once it is designated. So in summary, we want to kind of want to go through some of the major issues, just one more time to highlight where we're at. The other routes in the state, when we analyze the map that have as many routes as are existing and then plus this extra one proposed, our Denver Colorado Springs and Publlo. We really don't think geographically our size fits into those. We'll have a lot more routes in a densely populated area. And those areas have significant large scale industry, refinery, things like that. The other one is again we're really worried about bright and taking on more than it's fair share. And we really don't have that data that this is going to create less truck trips through Brighton. We've asked continuously for that data and we have not seen those. And this will be the last time I promise I'll say this, the reversal of that route being very difficult in diverting that regional traffic through Brighton and East West route. And again, we are worried about the potential economic development consequences of a route in an area where we're looking to attract and seek new businesses. So at this time, there's a lot of topics I kind of brushed on. Staff is more than happy to discuss any of those more. So ask for staff's recommendation tonight, we've prepared both resolutions. We feel that obviously that city council should move forward with whichever resolution if it chooses one, that they feel best ensures that those they serve are benefited. So the options tonight, approve either resolution as drafted, the first being to support the evaluation of the route, the second being opposition of the route. Both of these letters were drafted to be sent directly to E470 from the mayor. The second is to approve either resolution with additional modified language, the Nye either resolution. Determine that the city doesn't need to issue either letter. They could die for a lack of a second on the floor when a city is not going to be there. They could die for a second on the floor when a motion is made. Or continue the item to be heard at a later date. Hopefully you don't send both letters. I will. I know this council wouldn't do that. That's it for tonight. I'm excited to answer any of your questions that you have. That's it for me right now. Thank you, Mr. Mayor and Council members. Thank you. We do have several people in the audience who've requested to speak, and if it would be the pleasure of Council, I think we'll have them go ahead and speak before Council debates issue. First person I have is Christine Nyholm. Christine Nyholm. Is Nyholm, you heard the real name and address for the record? You have five minutes. Christine Nyholm, 13789 Franklin Street, Brighton. Thank you very much for this opportunity to give public comment. I am heard about using the use of E470 as a hazmat route a while ago and I've given it a lot of thought. And when I read in the Denver Post the article that Brighton only has four miles of the highway I thought it did make a lot of sense to me that you're not going to be getting a lot of truck traffic off your city streets, which has already kind of been said. But anyway, today I attended a down at the Capitol New legislation that's up for passage for oil and gas bill that could give more local control. And it might make this whole issue moot, because once you have more control over where all of these large-scale pads go, you may not need another hazmat route, because there won't be as much oil and gas being shipped out. So that was my main thing. The other thing is, well anyway, so I would think that if you waited till after this legislation passes, hopefully it will pass and you'll get more control over oil and gas, then you can make the decision because like I said, it might be a mood point. The other thing is safety is speed on E470, 75 miles per hour. And when I was researching this, I saw an article in the Houston Sentinel that talked about a loop highway they had around Houston. And they had designated it a hazmat highway. And the problem was then everything grew. The communities grew all along that highway. So they ended up still having a hazmat highway through all these suburban communities. And so I think since you already have a lot of hazmat routes and this legislation could pass and you could get more control, I would just ask that you wait to make your decision. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Nyholm, did you have something to add to the room? Just briefly. Stuart Nyholm, 1378, 9 Franklin Street. I have to confess this has been a really an ambivalent kind of issue that I've sort of rassled with back and forth, along with my wife and other friends and colleagues. I don't think we're only looking at Adams County, but potentially we're looking at weld county, counties to the west, Boulder County, Larimer County using the hazmat route to get their products to the market. And I think that's the only way to get the right amount of money. I think that's the only way to get the right amount of money. county, counties to the west, Boulder County, Larimer County, using the hazmat route to get their products to the market. And I think this creates a potential hazard. 75 miles an hour with a loaded trunk of gas or product or something that is incredibly dangerous. And the other issue is you don't have that many entrances onto E470. And I think you're looking at potentially traffic jams, backing up traffic, trying to get onto E470 or off of 470. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next person who's requested to speak is Chief Mark Boudain. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Mark Boudain, Fire Chief, Brighton Fire Rescue District, 500 South 4th Avenue, 3rd 4th. I'm here this evening to speak on this topic because I believe I have an obligation to City Council to do so. And the reason why I feel obligated is because the Fire Protection District has been appointed by City Council to be your DERA, your Desert Negate Emergency Response Authority. And so it is our responsibility to work with issues directly related to the planning, the mitigation, and the response to hazardous materials. And as the fire chief in the community, I believe that you should hear directly from me about this particular issue and what our thoughts are and what our position is. Now what I would ask is that you please not misinterpret anything I say here as being an counterpoint to the presentation that Mike Tilka has given you. I have a lot of respect with Mike and Mike came to me and asked me a number of questions on several different occasions and I tried to to help him prepare his report. But of course this is not his area of expertise and so I think he did the best job he could do for you, but we have to recognize that that's not his particular expertise. So for me, this particular issue started in the summer of 2017, when the County Commissioners approached a number of the fire chiefs to talk about the possibility that E470 would be designated as a hazmat route. And then E470 staff reached out to the various public safety agencies to begin to have a number of meetings to talk about the pros and the cons and the plannings and what we thought about the designation of E470. In addition, we talked to our journey fire agencies to talk about some of how this would impact them and their routes. And particularly, we spent a lot of time talking to the South Adams County Fire Protection District, which we border to the South, and share equal responses to into the city of Commerce City. And we talked about the development that's going to happen within the Brighton Fire District that's in the city of Commerce City, and particularly to the areas south of 120th and east of Buckley. And talked about what that development might look like and the type of industry. What oil and gas production is going to look like in those areas with a number of permits that are already being approved or appending. And so we have been supported of the idea that a study be completed of E470 to see if it should be designated as a hazmat route. And our thought process simply was that we believe that designating alternative routes would be beneficial to reduce the transportation on non-designating routes and may relieve the transportation on existing routes and provide a better east-west movement. Now it's important for me to note to you, City Council, that what you decide to do with this topic is not for or against what the Fire District's position is. Your criteria for support may be different than what ours is. But we have looked at this from our perspective as to what the safest options would be. Now, this point has been discussed before, but I just want to bring it up again. And this is the idea of what the term has whose materials mean. And I think I was at one meeting that Commissioner, I'm sorry, Council Member Johnston and Council Member Baca said, careful that term. And it really bears worth repeating that because it can evoke emotion and fear as to what those materials are. And in general, that term is a catch all for materials and substances and chemicals that are used for various purposes. But the single most item that we see on a daily basis that's a hazardous materials is gasoline tankers, right? We see them all the time. One minute. I'm not going to make it. Keep going. Okay. I would like to use the comparison, if you will, of the lows and the Walmart. We have all gone there. We have purchased a hazardous material. We have taken it home with us in our car and we have stored it in our house or in our garage. It's a cleaner, a pesticide, a fertilizer, paint thinner, bug killer, all those things that you can think of. And those has these materials stored in their store. They receive shipments of those materials by truck. These trucks usually don't have placards, and that store itself is not considered a high hazard building. And that is because of the container size and the amount that they store. There are fire code requirements that dictate how much product they can have. But the fact that they have less product doesn't mean it's less hazardous. It's still a hazardous material, and so if there's a fire in that building, and the fire fires are exposed to those chemicals. Chief, yes. I believe it's important for us to hear the chief unless anybody objects. I think he should continue. Chief. Okay. Thank you. Sorry. If there's a fire in the store and the firefighters are exposed to those chemicals, you know, we still need to be cautious about the smoke and the runoff. So another common hazardous materials is propane. And bottles for barbecue grill are sold virtually everywhere. Those shipments are hazardous materials and must use designated routes. About a fifth of my fire district is not served by natural gas. And they have large propane tanks on their properties to supply their heating and their cooking. I have a fire station, that is just like that. And those tanks must be filled by a truck that is designated to deliver a hazardous material shipment and follows hazardous material routes. And these hazardous material routes are needed so that we can direct the vast majority of shipments on roads that are capable of handling them and are safer than any other routes. We may not want all shipments to go up and down Bridge Street or on Sable, but without desidying Hazmat routes, we cannot control that. It doesn't mean that a truck can't travel on these two roads to make a delivery, but those deliveries have to be necessary. Those roads must be necessary to meet that delivery. We have gas stations on bridge, so gasoline tankers have to be able to travel on bridge to deliver their product. But generally, no other gasoline tankers should be traveling on bridge, unless it is their route to get to their designation. Now, there may be thoughts that the designation of hazardous material routes is only for the benefit of other communities and not for Brighton. And this is simply not true. While there are and always will be pass-through shipments, we, the city and the fire district, have many companies that depend on shipments of these materials to be used in their facilities. The same can be said for the Union Pacific Railroad. We are all aware of the amount of traffic that travels just through Broughton. But there are routes that stop here in Broughton and train deliveries that are made locally and they include commodities that can be considered hazardous. So do be clear. Manufacturing and most manufacturing use some substance or chemicals that can be considered a hazardous material. It is not practical for them to have that material delivered to them in one gallon containers. They need to purchase and store it in bulk. This requires a placard truck or a rail to transport it. It is not just manufacturers though. It is also not a heavy industrial issue. Small businesses throughout Brighton use and store hazardous materials that are used for their business operation. In fact, just in the core city, there are a number of businesses storing or using bulk quantities. The Fire District has a hazardous material response team. All of our firefighters are trained in Hazard's Material Responses. About 20 are trained to the Hazard's Material Technician level, which is the highest level of training for Hazard's Material Responses. We have a team leader and 12 team members for Hazard's materials that are part of the Adams-Jeffco Hazmat Authority. This authority is funded by the two counties, Adams County and Jefferson County, and the Fire Districts and Departments to combine our assets and teams for a more efficient response to these types of incidents. We also work closely with State Patrol and their Hazmat Response humans. The Fire District deals with hazardous materials almost every day. Every car accident can have a mixture of fluid spills that need to be contained. There are spills inside businesses. Every fire can be a hazardous material incident, especially when it involves a garage. Just this this morning, we had a fire outside of the city that involved a repair facility that had adjacent exposures of hazardous materials. However, incidents involving tankers and other hazardous materials shipments are rare. Again, what City Council does to this question, doesn't have really to be related to what the fire districts support is for the study. But our primary focus is for the safety of the community and our ability to protect it. If we thought that this designation would significantly jeopardize the safety of the community, we would not have supported the study. In fact, I would point out that a large economic engine of the city, the Prairie Center, is built next to a hazmat rail. We built a hospital with an a stones throw of a hazmat rail. We built a hospital with an stones throw of a hazmat rail. Hospitals in Thornton, Westminster, and Loveland, among countless others were built next to a hazmat rail. These were all sound decisions on locations and recognized that those roads were determined to be the safest transportation routes available. And that's what we're trying to achieve when we designate a hazmat route. So finally, it is my opinion that without defined hazmat routes, we are less safe as a community. Thank you. Thank you, Chief. We have our county commissioners who've requested to speak. Is this something you want to do together or want at a time? Just Steve. Just Steve. He's got high verbal needs. High verbal needs. Thank you. Go to RISIO. Name and address for the record. My name is Steve Oude RISIO. I'm one of the county commissioners in Adams County. Don't expect the amount of time the chief got. That's right. I'll joined. My name is Steve Oderisa. I'm one of the county commissioners for Adams County. I'm the chairman of the board here tonight with Eva Henry and Mary Hodge who are also commissioners. The other two, we would be all five here, but the other two are actually out of town. But all five of us are shoulder to shoulder asking you to support this effort along with the other communities that you've already heard about are already in support of this effort to have a study done. Let's take a step back and just give you the history. We're here because the effort is, is the goal of this effort is to address hazardous materials on the side streets, particularly oil and gas. And we're getting complaints and saw that there was a high impact of oil and gas, track traffic going through our feeder streets, our side streets, and then also significant concerns from people in Brighton, in Thornton, about all of the traffic that's going along Highway 7. That includes the truck traffic from oil and gas facilities. So in an effort to address this, Adams County Commissioner is implemented stronger regulations for the Adams County unincorporated areas of Adams County. We promote pipelines as much as we can to get the trucks off the roads. And we've implemented a comprehensive impact fee for dwelling gas traffic. But the most important one, and you heard Chief Bodain allude to this is safer routes. And so our policies that we've implemented and work very well with our other municipalities and our other agencies to try to promote safe routes for hazmat materials. All we're asking is that you support the notion that we get the study done. And the study is going to be done by the professionals that work in public safety. You heard Chief Boudain give many reasons why this actually, just doing the study, is a step forward in the right direction, and that even he, and I could say even us commissioners, if the study came back and says it's not going to be any safer, well then you're not going to get us to support it. Making this a hazmat route, if it says that this is going to be detrimental. This is a goal. This is an effort to try to establish greater standards for safety, not to be a detriment. So I think we could go into the details of why it's important for East, West, and stuff. But really this is about, let's let the study be done by the public safety experts. And then let's have the conversation about what our position is there. It's also important to note that you're not going to be alone in any decision you make. Your constituents are my constituents, our even Henry's constituents and Mary Hodges constituents. And we're here today to say that we are all trying to make Adams County and Brighton and the communities that we represent safer. And that's what the goal is today. So we're gonna be standing shoulder to shoulder with you when somebody says, why did you approve a letter supporting the study for asthma and you're gonna be able to say because I heard from the chief of the fire department. I heard from the sheriff. I heard from Colorado State Patrol, which was last week, and I heard from the folks that are trying to work with us. The other agencies involved that we were trying to determine if this is an opportunity to improve safety. Nobody's going to ever fault you for trying to make an informed decision. And so with that, I'm going to ask that you support a letter in support of a study to determine the feasibility of this hazmat. Thank you. Any questions? Thank you, Commissioner. No? All right. That is all of the sheets that I have. Questions and comments from Council? Who wants to go first? A bit of posturing here. Mayor Pro Tem? What I think I'll do is just make a the red that we approved the resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, declaring the city's support for evaluating and designating of E470 as a hazardous materials route and authorizing the mayor to notify the E470 public highway authority of the city's position. And this is which one is this? 7A. 6A. 6A? Yes. 6A. So you're making the motion? Yes. And then I want to have the discussion. We'll push the motion button. So I have a motion to have a second. Councilman Hubbard. Mr. Mayor, I will second that motion. I have a proper motion and a second on this topic. Now we will do further discussion. Mayor Pro Tem. Well, you know, all of the council members knows that I was gone last week. And so I missed all the exciting discussions that went on for, I don't know, hour and a half and whatnot. So I'm certainly glad that we got a quick review and got the snapshot or the Readers Digest version tonight. And I appreciate certainly the County Commissioner showing up tonight and also what Chief Bodain has added to the valuation. And thank you, Mike, for your presentation, okay? And it sounded very soundly to me that we're talking about the safety issues here. And I guess what I would say is maybe the greater good at this point in time to allow through four miles of our city limits versus how many miles go north and south. So this would be a very small portion of any hazmat route that physically goes through our city limits, which at this point in time is very minimal as far as population and growth. I also heard tonight that obviously there's is very limited east, west routes. And so if they so choose they can come right through right town if that happens to be the quickest and best route for them. The safety issue on this particular deal far, in my opinion outweighs any type of, we'll say security or things that will may happen based upon Chief Podan's topic and even though I would agree that we have more than our fair share that's because we happen to locate in the triangle with two major through-affairs. And we've always talked about, oh, this is good for us because it's location, location, location. And we've got train possibilities. Now we've got other major through-affairs that we are expanding in I-76. And I think if we look throughout the metropolitan area major thoroughfares that we are expanding in I-76. And I think if we look throughout the metropolitan area, there's not anybody really shying away from these hazmat routes at this point in time. So anyway, I will certainly probably be voting for this particular study. And this is a study we will be waiting on the results of that study. And I would assume that we'd all be standing shoulder to shoulder if that study comes back and says, this is not a good thing. Thank you. Mr. Edwards. Who's next? Councilman Johnson. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. On a first say, thank you very much for that perspective, Chief O'Dayne. As I say a lot, my father was a fire chief and he was also a hazmat coordinator. I spoke with him at length about this also. He has a lot of the same feelings that you do about what this could be. I definitely respect that, but I have to say one thing that's frustrating to me and I think would be frustrating to anybody is that the process of this is that we as a council trying to help our city and any kind of protection that might need to happen with a hazmat route, we get to say yes to a study, but we don't get to see the study and then make a decision. And that's a big problem, and I don't know how to change that protocol, but I've asked so many times. So why can't we see the study then make a decision if we want the hazmat route itself in our community? That's always Matt route itself in our community. That's always been a question in my mind. I'd like to see the study and go, yep, the study's really respect the fact that our commissioners will be there for us if it does come back bad, if it goes through. I know you won't will. And I really think the county actually for not scurrying past this. I've been thinking about this today, you could have waited for Senate Bill 19032 to pass. You could have left us in the dust and waited and had it happen in May. And I really respect the effort that has came to try to make sure that we know where we're at and make our true decision. But saying that, I have to say no matter what decision we make tonight on 6a or 6b It doesn't matter as in by May 7th May 3rd excuse me by May 3rd the end of general session most likely Senate Bill 19032 will pass and will lose the decision making ability So no matter what happens tonight, that is beyond possible. It's probable. So I just, while there's a motion on the floor, I feel like where this might head is not where many would like to see. But I'm definitely going to, I'm definitely going to make sure that we take item B and if 6A goes the way that I feel like it might, then I'm going to try to get 6B continued until after May 3rd. And make sure that May 3rd after the general session happens and we know exactly what the state legislatures going to put upon us, that we can then make a real decision. Because right now we're making a decision that will matter for a few months and then it's over. So I would definitely urge us to right now because I'm personally going to be a no on item 6A. I want to be really clear about that. While I might do something neutral here, neutral is not what we are going to do when it comes to the hazmat route when we have an actual decision to be made. But right now we're making a false decision that will only be valid for a couple of months until Senate Bill 19032 passes. So I'm personally a no, and I would urge the rest of council to be no on A, but definitely talk about item B separately and try to continue it till after the general session is my goal. Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, council. Councilwoman Baca. Thank you very much Mr. Mayor. Thank you Council. Councilwoman Baca. Thank you Mayor. I just have a question right now regarding procedure. So tonight it is for the evaluation, the designation of E470 as a hazardous materials route and authorizing the mayor obviously to notify E470. So my question is for staff. I thought I read in a previous staff report that once if this were to pass tonight that once the study is conducted that the jurisdictions have a second bite at the apple, is that correct? That you don't have the same question before you. If the study is, and this is based on my understanding, I'll qualify this. This motion would authorize the study. State Patrol would do the study. There would be an opportunity for input, public comment, and Brighton would be very much a player in how that study is fashioned. It would involve information that the city would be presenting to the state patrol in formulating the results of that study. If the study comes back and is favorable, Brighton could take an opposing view of the results of that study. But that study is already in place. We don't have the opportunity to veto at that point the results of that study. But we would have the opportunity to be heard and our concerns would be addressed just as they are in any other administrative process that the state conducts. Thank you for that clarification. So does the study include an opportunity for public comment? So for our residents to speak publicly. Because I think that's what has been left. I mean, we here come, I appreciate the couple that attended tonight, because I think there's a tendency that we don't hear from our constituents maybe as much as we like. So I do appreciate the couple attending tonight. So it does include a public comment. That would include residents and that does include the city. Correct. Okay. You know, public comment as well as public outreach and meetings to get input. Okay. So. Point of order, Your Honor, but the question was about the votes though. There's no vote that can be taken, correct? We do not have a vote after that. I think I think I think he clarified that. So it's interesting. It's interesting. Let me, you know, I heard several presentations last Tuesday at the study session, and it is really unfortunate for the viewing public that those statements and those experts were not their statements and any documentation they wanted to provide or any evaluation that maybe staff wanted to re-analyze is not part of tonight's record. And that includes comments from the Colorado State Patrol. That includes comments from the Adams County Sheriff. The County commissioners came forward. While their documentation is available and it is public record, I don't think the data gives the full picture of what the comments made at last Tuesday's study session. And I think that that is very unfortunate. You know, we started out out the meeting almost every agenda item starts on strategic focus areas of this city. And the strategic focus area, the first one that we heard tonight was strategic partnerships and relationships. Yet the information that was requested by council, given to council, does not include the Office of Emergency Management. It doesn't include the Brighton Police Department. I appreciate Chief Vodain speaking up for the Greater Brighton Fire District tonight. I really appreciate that. I appreciate that Chief Vodane and the other fire districts have talked about this and that as our design as our Dera design that they have put in motion at least the discussion of how are they going to support this if it were to pass. I think the evaluation needs to occur. I think that there are unknowns and that's what was discussed occur. I think that there are unknowns, and that's what was discussed at Tuesday night, is that there were unknowns, information that hasn't been given to council or as public comment cannot be made at this time. So that's where I stand on that. I feel very strongly that our boys as a city council by not having, by not requesting, by not asking that Colorado State Patrol, the very people that are gonna conduct the study were never invited to come to Brighton. And those are the people that have the question. Those are the people that have the question. Those are the people that have the answers. So if we have questions about the process, those are the people we need to call on the carpet and say come to Brighton and come talk to us about this because we don't know. I don't know if this is not all administrative. And I feel that the people of Brighton, the 40,000 residents, put us in office to leverage our political will to have Colorado State Patrol come out, to have the Adams County Sheriff come out, come out, which they did at the end of Adams County, to have Brighton fire at the table, to have our other jurisdictions at the table. And I feel very much at a disadvantage tonight that that has not occurred and those discussions have not happened. So I did have some questions that I asked the city manager and the responses were given at my request to all of the city council members. So I would like to make this document as part of the record. I'm not gonna read it, but I'd like to make it as part of the record. As far as the staff report, I appreciate the uncertainty. I appreciate that you're thinking out of the box, that you're looking out for safety, that you're, but I think what I was given as a council member is a lot of unknowns. And I think the email that was sent by the city manager is concrete. Well, you should be looking at the unknowns. You are also the keepers of the information and you should also be providing us the development standards. Are there setbacks that are affecting our developers and in the response from the city manager? No, there isn't. So I think that the study needs to continue. I think a lot more needs to be looked at. And so I would support the study going forward to see me. Thank you. Councilman Humbert. I will be brief. We're talking about a study. We're talking about a study that will look at environmental impacts, the effect on the deer near Brighton Boulevard, et cetera. We're talking about the effects on traffic. How often, you know, the report that we had in our packet listed the state patrols, statistics on hazmat, accidents, hazmat traffic in various parts, basically our four miles, as well as other places. It's gonna be in depth, we know that. There are going to be experts from all over the state coming in and our people can go and make statements, make comments. I just say I agree with Council Member Baca. It's a study, it's more than a study, it's an evaluation, that's a little more important I guess. And I think we have to look at all the angles before we say no more yes. And we're not talking about necessarily nuclear materials on this road. So that's all. Thank you. Councilor McEls. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you for the presentation, Mr. Tilka. And thank you to our three of our county commissioners that come out tonight. It seems like for a long time, Adams County's been known as a kind of a dumping ground in a way. And I don't want it bright to be kind of the part of that. And I feel like that's kind of what this is going to do. We already have, you know, it's already been pointed out. We already have four house routes come through our community when you count the railroad lines. If we look back at that, we were all supplied a document from the State Patrol last week that shows we have mostly class three has materials that come through the area. That's mostly flammable, supports oil and gas, fills our service stations, et cetera. I don't think that's gonna take away from what's already traveling on our main thoroughways, because that's supporting those entities. It's gonna add more has coming through our area because it's gonna divert off I-25 and come through our community, which is why I will not support this tonight. You know, the CSP data that we're to provide it, it's 10 years old if you look at the data, it was back in 2008. So the data from 10 years ago to today, I don't know what's really going through our corridors right now. So, and that's all. That's all. Thank you. Thank you, Councillor Williams. Councillor Swoon and Pollock. Thank you, Mayor. First of all, I would like to say that staff gave us a report to give us her analysis, to give us the pros and cons. And this is what we have them for, to advise counsel, to do the research that we can do, to advise us to the best of their ability. And in my opinion, to ignore what they've brought forward to us is kind of a waste of time in many. What do we have for them? Is it just relax or what's it? Yeah, I don't like it. So I am going along with staff and I think that we are taking on more than our fair share. That staff recommends and that's where I stand. I'm no vote. Councilman Walla. Thank you. Well, the safety and well-being of our residents is our most solemn duty. The number one thing that we come here to do. We're in a very unique position in Brighton. As has been said, we have four hazardous routes going through our city. There are no other cities that can say that other than the top three largest ones in the state. We are at the confluence of hazardous materials route, and again partially because of our ability to attract different industries and just luck, I guess. But when we look at that, I see no evidence in what we've seen so far that adding this section would reduce traffic in bright, or on our roads, but I think common sense would tell you that it'll increase trips through our area. I think that's pretty common sense. When we, I can certainly appreciate our county commissioners and the duty that they have to the entire area. I can appreciate the responsibility, the greater Brighton fire district has. Both of those areas much larger than just the city of Brighton. Their responsibility is of a larger scope. ours is specific to Brighton. And although we want to work with our neighboring communities, absolutely, we want to make sure Adams County is a great place for industry, but also a great place to raise a family and have a business. raise a family and and have a business. Unfortunately, this is just not conducive with Brighton's vision for the future. It's excellent for our neighbors, I think, and I think any study would show that, right? The study is not just for Brighton's sake, right? The study will be for the entire route. And it would seem that overall, one can see the merits of the project, you know, from our neighbors to the east or west or north. But for Brighton, it simply adds an additional hazardous materials route without reducing our current exposure. That was our first question in our first study session. We already have four. Do we need another one? How about reducing some of the ones we have as an option? Instead of boxing us in further with additional hazardous routes. I mean, E470 is a big safe road. Larger roads can perhaps be safer. We have a redundancy right now. Highway 85 from Highway 52 to where it joins 76 is redundant if you look at the map to where 76 comes through. So if I think that the it's certainly wise to look at what are the best routes through the entire region, what's best regionally, our duty is to make sure that Brighton has the least exposure to any kind of a hazardous issue. That's our responsibility. So I'm not going to be in favor of adding another one with no possibility of eliminating existing ones or replacing existing ones. We cannot just have a system where we continue to add additional hazardous routes through our city. We're at four. A good neighbor would maybe stop at three. So I think we're doing our part, we're overburdened as it is. If there's no ability to even consider taking highway 85 is a very congested road. I don't see that it's a wise choice for hazardous materials. So if there can be no conversation about getting rid of some, then there can be no conversation for me about adding additional ones within the city of writing. Thank you. Thank you. I guess it's my turn. I guess it's my turn. First of all, I want to thank everybody who presented in Mr. Tiltka your diligence on this. This has obviously not been fun for you, Mike. And you come before us with nothing but excellence. And I appreciate you and what you do for our community. This has been a real challenging. I appreciate you and what you do for our community. This has been a real challenging discussion. And I said this last week, but there are several who weren't here. And I'm pretty confident that my words aren't going to sway. Many decisions up in the dias. But I really feel like this came to us almost backwards. I really feel that the very first study session that we had on the topic should have had the county there and should have been, here's what House Mount is, around is, here's what we do, chief potayns, discussion items, if it was there at the beginning. I think this whole thing would be possibly going down a different road. I don't know. I really appreciate the people I serve with in this council and they're concerned for our community. And I want everybody in our community to know that I share the same concerns. I live in a neighborhood that is probably got a 50-foot buffer for a hazardous material of hitting a home. And if there wasn't any homes, my home would probably be about the same length away that E470 provides. E470 provides, I believe, 300 foot easement that allows that. It just, to me, provides a safe alternative. I wish I could answer that it would take more trucks off. Councilman Wallen, I agree with you wholeheartedly that, man, if we could get rid of 85, that would be wonderful. I just see this as being an alternative instead of a truck coming down 52 and then trucking across 85 would stay on 25 and then cut across if they're getting to 70. And I just see that as a slicker, cleaner, quicker route. It provides that east, west route. It provides that east-west route. The chief tonight, I thought, gave very good testimony in terms of our fire departments take on it. And then I would encourage the council to read the individual letters that were prepared for me. I didn't prepare those that were prepared for me on both sides of the issue. And the one in favor of gives all really good reasons why. And to me it was interesting that there were all the reasons why and then when we came to the why not there weren't as many reasons. But I think we've all done the math on our head. We're going to be facing an interesting parliamentary issue here in a few minutes. But I'm in favor of this. I will say once again that when it goes to E470, whatever this council decides, I will 100% support with this council provides. I do think that Senate Bill 19032 is of concern, and I don't think this is going to go away because of that. Because the next question that's going to come up is if Senate Bill 19-032 passes, the next question that's going to come up at the E470 meeting is, are we as, are the E470 board members? Is it going to be a unanimous vote? Board members, is it going to be a unanimous vote? Or is it going to be a total vote? And we're going to be a player at that in this question, is it going to go away if it has to be an unanimous vote? So I don't think that it's going to be done because of that, but I understand Councilman Johnson where you're coming from It I believe we've all set our fair piece and I would say hearing no further discussion without starting a whole nother round I'll call for a real call vote. All votes cast. So motion is tied 4, yay, 4, yay, 48, and based upon our charter, this would fall in defeat. So now let's take on item 6B, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, declaring the city's decision to decline to pursue a designation of B470 as a hazardous materials route and authorizing the mayor to notify the E470 public highway authority of the city's position. Mr. Tilko, do you have anything further to add? I do not, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. So, Council, here we go again. I guess I would ask that any comment you make that we try to reduce the redundancy, but I do want everybody to feel that they've been heard. Consumant, Johnston? Thank you once again, Mr. Mayor. This falls under the same kind of purview in my mind as if we would have went positive with this. And what I mean by that is I just would, I would like to actually make a motion to continue item 6B until Tuesday, May 7, 2019. The first Tuesday following the end of the Cardo General Assembly General Session in order to wait for the state legislature to make a decision on SB 19032, which directly affects this matter. So I have a motion to continue this to give me that date again. Yes sir, it's May 7th, Tuesday, May 7th, 2019 is the date I just came up with. I have a motion to continue this to Tuesday, May 7th, 2019. Is there a second to that motion? Councilwoman? Thank you Mayor. I would like to second them motion. I have a proper motion and the second for their discussion. Councilwoman Pollock. No, I second them motion. Okay. Councilwoman Baca. Thank you Mayor. So I'd like to hear if you can just explain a little more the logic behind why you want to wait until the end of the general session. So if I understand it, if they pass, the decisions taken out of our hands and that's what you desire, is that the desire is that we defer this item and allow the legislative process to continue? Is that, so go ahead. May I speak to that, Mr. Mayor? Yes, sure. Thanks, Councillor Bocca. Definitely a great question. No, the reasoning is that if we're going to sit here and make a false decision, because that's what this is. And what I mean by that is it's not an actual decision that we're able to make for our city until we find out if the state's legislature will trump us once again going back to our lack of ability to hold local control from our state legislature it will be the issue but to me the issue is is that why are we doing something that can instantly in just a couple months positive Positive or negative with this issue, and I've spoke to county commissioners about this and others, is why are we dealing with this issue when we could deal with this May 7th and make true decisions. That's my whole point behind this. Where this isn't an actual decision we're making. This is a two month little bar, and I have to say, I feel like we are kind of a guinea pig in this in one way. And we're being used and tested with some of that legislation. And why say that is I'm going to be definitely speaking to some of the sponsors of that bill. I've already called two, not getting calls back. But the fact is is that why is it that any, in Adams County or in any place in Brighton does not have our name on the list saying that we get a say in hazardous material ever again. It will go straight from private. It says this in the bill and I really urge you Councillor Bocca, everyone to read the whole bill. Some at County and many smaller and municipalities near some at County are able to once again have the power that we should have with local control in that bill. It is expressly stated in the bill. We're not one of those names. And therefore, when that bill passes, which I believe it will, then we end up having zero say, Summit County has a say a lot of the I 70 corridor does so I I mean my reasoning is is to Golabi against the bill that's taking away our local control words we actually do something instead of these fake decisions we're making tonight if that answers your question. Okay. Councilwoman do you have anything for the day? I don't believe, and I know it was a, it was an expression. I don't believe the decisions we make are fake decisions. I understand that if the law passes, that it would trump, I understand that. So I don't want to start a debate. If we made a decision one way or the other tonight, if it were to pass, it were to fail, the state would ultimately trump if they're bill passed. So I feel the citizens put us in a position to make decisions for them. And if state legislature trumps the decision at some future date, I don't see any harm in that occurring. But you've stayed at your case and on why we would extend. and so we'll see what the council have. Other councilmembers have to say. That I don't want to, yeah, I don't want us to go to a one on one debate here. Any other councilmembers like to speak on this? From my vantage point, here's the deal. If we would vote Council Member Johnston's proposal down and then go ahead and take on the decision that is before us, I'm not sure that the vote's going to be any different, and we would be set into what I call purgatory. Does anybody see any different than me? We haven't made a decision to send the letter. We haven't made a sender letter say yes. We haven't made a decision to send the letter says no, because of our protocol of having a tie vote. That would have to be followed up with, well then what do we do? When do we reconsider this? And so I'm inclined to vote in favor of Councilman Johnston's motion to reconsider this on May 7th. We very well could be back where we are now, but further, as I've said earlier, if Senate bill 19032 passes, I I'm gonna need some for the direction as to what to do on the 470 board, and that may be a time that we would do that. Any other comments or questions on that? Good, just. Mr. Majorick. I would just like to clarify for Council's benefit that the item that Councilmember Johnston has made the motion on and there is a second is the resolution opposing. The other resolution is still a fail and would not be coming back unless there was an interest in bringing that back as a a matter of reconsideration and I can talk through the process for doing that so that both resolutions could come back but that depends on what council wants to do. Okay. Let me ask this question of Councilman Johnston. Councilman Johnston, would you consider making your motion that we re-address the whole situation after we see what happens with Senate Bill 19032? I personally don't see a problem with that. I'm saying that both of these issues are, I mean, this is a funny resolution I personally have never seen where it's pro and again. So I'm just saying either one will judge the other so I don't mind. But I really like to hear from other council members on that before I say, if we want to hold the vote that just happened, which did just happen, I appreciate that, to our city attorney that he did find that in the charter and the statute for this moment and for others. But it doesn't matter to me. I'm happy to go either way, but I'd like to hear from other council members on that before I went any further. Thank you. Councilman Hubbard, you had, okay. So, right now we're not voting on the continuance. We're voting on B. No. The motion on the floor is to continue. Okay. To continue B to May 7th. Okay. A's A has been defeated by our charter on a on a tie vote which I understood and I knew okay But so we're voting on continuing B and that was the caution. I believe that our city attorney Was saying if we want to rehash the whole issue or are we gonna just rehash whether or not to but again We don't know what's gonna happen that we could open a whole new can of worms and be the length of even a step further so it might be better look at both sides we'll do that any other comments from the right side here I'm already sitting my piece I know you'll have it. We all have it. Best vote. So again, based on our city attorneys, advice, statement, Councilman Johnston, do you want to leave your motion as to only continuing B or continuing both A and B? I do. I'm going to go ahead and just leave it as it has been stated. Thanks. Okay. Any other discussion? So A would not be considered at all after May 9th. It would only be considered if at that point in time B would be declined and then we're still in purgatory. You like that term don't you? Tell me, say that. I mean that's okay. Any other discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote. Okay. Councilman Wallow. Just for, you know, to make sure that everyone is going to be clear. And so to our city attorney was the suggestion then that we would have to reconsider the prior vote in order to include it in a future item or can the councilmen simply restate his motion to include both of the items for the future? So the question before council right now just relates to item six B. And there's a motion and a second. His motion, he can't modify that motion to include something on six A. He could withdraw his motion. And he, no actually he could withdraw his motion, but he still wouldn't get there. There still has to be two actions. And let me explain what would happen. Say hypothetically, and I'm not encouraging this, I'm not. I'm not advocating. Right, the question was about reconsideration. The way I'm treating this. So, so, Council's already had two, has two resolutions before it. Councilmember Johnston's motion, if it prevailed, if the vote prevailed, that item would move to May 7th. A second motion then could be made by one of the, you know, this is going to get confusing to all of you. So I'll just use names instead of the prevailing side. It would either have to be made by Councilmember Johnston, Councilmember Mills, Councilmember Pollock, or Councilmember Wallen, to reconsider item 6A, also setting that reconsideration for the night of May 7th. So both of them would wind up on that agenda together again. But again, there's two different questions there. One, could councilmember Johnston's motion could prevail? And nothing could happen on the first one. There could be an amendment on the seventh to modify that from a nay to a yay that's there's other ways that this could play out procedurally. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It seems to me to me we've already dealt with a To me, we've already dealt with A, that's over in Denwip, why we're looking at going back and forth on this wave, we're on B. We've made a motion, it's been second. We understand that you can't bring that back. I don't understand what's going on here. I really don't understand. We voted on it. It's done. Now we're trying to vote on B. If I don't get it, please explain to me. We don't need to go back to A. We've already voted and we're not going to change our vote. I don't believe. No, and that's a correct statement. That the only thing I was pointing out is the item that would be continued based on council member Johnston's motion is the negative position, not the positive position. Any further discussion? Okay. Role call vote. And again, the vote is to continue this to May 7th. To continue item B to pay 7th. So the title will be changed. Yes. Correct. The title will be changed. Yes. Yes. Okay. All votes cast Motion cast passes by a vote of 8.8 0.9 with one absent in my come sorry. We're not done. I'll afford to sing it then Okay Okay. We've got just a couple more items. I say we carry on without a break. Okay. Next item on the agenda. Is. And and you know what city attorney I just noticed this is under public hearings this is a public hearing it is not I didn't think so okay it's resolution this is a resolution approving the IGA okay a resolution to the City Council of City of Brighton Colorado approving the intergovernmental agreement regarding annexation boundary and planning cooperation with the city of Fort Le of Brighton, Colorado, approving the intergovernmental agreement regarding annexation boundary and planning cooperation with the City of Fort Loptid. Mr. Rodriguez, we'll be presenting. Thank you so much, Your Honor. Mayor and Councilor, I will ask Mike Toka, our senior planner to present this item. Thank you. Welcome, Mike. Good evening, Mr. Mayor. Mayor Pro Tem, Council members. All right, Brighton Fort Lumpden, IGA. Strategic focus area, strong regional relationships and partnership, this one being between the city of Brighton and the city of Fort Lumpden. So why were here tonight? Hopefully you've all had a chance to review the proposed IGA, and we're looking for a decision to be made. Right now I'm going to summarize the existing and the draft IGA's. So in March of 2009, the City of Brighton, Fort Leopton entered into an IGA. It had a period of 10 years. Right now we're coming back to the table as it's expiring, and we're looking, both parties are looking for a new IGA that's simple to interpret and execute. The current IGA established that growth boundary between our two cities, and that's generally well-county road six with the exception of the areas that we've annexed north of it. It's gonna expire March 10th of this year, and the primary focus of the existing IGA was to discuss annexation language in our boundaries between those two communities cooperating for where we're both going to grow. And that's generally along that well county road six line. So looking a little bit into the draft IGA we're still looking for well county road six to be that boundary line except those annexed areas by Brighton already. We're the only one that's well-county road six to be that boundary line except those annexed areas by Brighton already We're the only one that's currently crossed well county road six in the other direction So we're proposing in this new IGA that it's an adaptive boundary. So if either Entity either city wants to cross that road they would need to seek permission from the other city And we're also looking in there that from the other city. And we're also looking in there that there's two growth areas and either of them, if anybody's coming close to that area, each city would get a referral to know where the city is expanding their utilities, their transportation networks, and growing their city close to our boundaries. So let's take a peek. Here is the current boundary line being World County Road 6. And moving a little bit more, here are those two planning areas that we mentioned. So anything in those areas that Brighton's developing in red will send a referral to Fort Lopton. Anything Fort Lopton is looking to develop, doing a development action in the blue area, looking to start Brighton. develop, do a development action in the blue area, look and start Brighton. So some of the new things that we're proposing in this IGA that aren't in the current one, we're looking to solidify that language on those utility, transportation, and regional planning areas for the planning areas. We're looking at the 10 year term, both city staffs have tentatively agreed to that, and we're both recommending a 10-year term. And this agreement doesn't interfere with Fort Lumpton's IGA with Todd Creek for wastewater treatment. So now on to the item that we spent some time on our study session on this a few weeks ago, the Perry Pit. Part of the language in the Starrantraft IGA is that Brighton won't contest Fort Lump and annexing south of Weld County Road 6 for this one specific instance for these five parcels, south of road 6, if the proposed use is for water storage. Staff has done some research based on some of your questions that have come up since. So, Brighton City staff, the Water Resources Group and our utilities department, has told me that they didn't look at this because at the time back in 05 and 06, we were focused on ergas. It more closely met our needs at the time, given its location and its size of water storage. The water resources group told me that Perry Pit is relatively small in comparison to Ergers pond and the improvements that the city was making at that time. Fort Lumpden is already leasing space in this pit and has already installed considerable equipment. And yes, they do hope to own those pits one day and they would like to annex them into their boundary at some point. So moving past that, Fort Lopton did meet last night and they granted unanimous approval of this IGA. If this council does vote to approve tonight, the effective date would be tonight. Public notice was published in the Brighton Standard Blade. And stuff really, really likes, when we have these IgAs with our boundaries, with those neighbors, we share boundaries with. We don't want to go back to the annexation words where we're all jumping up and down to try to prevent the other from coming into our growth areas, areas that we might be better to serve with our utilities, our trails, our infrastructure. So 10-X 10 years will be set. We'll know where we can grow and where they can grow. And we'll talk to each other if anybody wants to come a little close to each other. So we're trying to form that strong regional relationships. Between those two cities. Both of our staffs have worked diligently together and I think it's a great notion that Fort Lopton unanimously approved it and we recommend that this body look to move forward with renewal of that revised IGA for that term of 10 years. So our options tonight approve the resolution that staff has drafted, approve it with any sort of changes in that resolution, or deny it, or continue the item to be heard at a later date. Thank you all for your time and attention. I look forward to any comments. Questions and comments from council? What's the pleasure of Council? Councilman Humbert. Mr. Mayor, I move we approve a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton Colorado approving the intergovernmental agreement regarding annexation boundary and planning cooperation with the City of Fort Lutton. Thank you. and planning cooperation with the City of Fort Lepton. Thank you, the proper motion of the second. Councilman Johnston. I'd be happy to second that motion. I have a proper motion and a second on this topic, is there any further discussion? Hearing none, roll call vote. All votes cast. Motion passes by a vote of eight to nothing with no, but with one absence. And tonight we have, we're going to do something We have a request for the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask give you maybe a little personal history on the both of us. You all know me, I get emotional, so this may happen. Those mother and my mother became the best friends in the whole wide world the very first day of first grade and held that dear friendship. Although my mother's passed, it's still into forever. They were a part of the social 7 in Fort Leipton. And I believe there are four of them still alive in the social 7. And so those mom has been like an ant to me and my mom was like an ant to her. And so if you'll allow us the privilege, this is one that we'd like to sign together. I have our agreement. If it's not said, it's a word I will win. Hi, Merce Bieber. No, you're gonna make me tear up. Got yours? It's cool. I'm gonna study. I can't wait for the first grade of the first grade of all this best friend. I think this could be a milestone. In seven years, I've never seen a joint signing like they do with the federal government and the president And the two mayor sitting here in front of us, so yeah Here I can give you another one I hope I don't think so. I would like to say thank you, Mayor Prydsor and Council, and congratulate you on the ease with which my staff worked with your staff. There were years, decades, maybe generations of Traveil and Amosity, conflict between Brighton and Fort Lepton, and to put all of that to rest has been something that Ken and I have been thrilled to be part of to be here on the night when you've talked about inclusion, I think, is important. If you want a good neighbor, you first have to be a neighbor. And I'm tickled pink. Obviously. Then our people are going to have to give you a few people to get all the rest of signatures. The two that I've given you, my people, have already signed. Come on, Mayor. Step up. If you would like to ask one copy, um, it means I'm going to help here. Yeah. If you can get. Thank you, Jack, for coming down. if you can get. Thank you Jack for coming down. And Andy says hello by the way. I'm keeping mine my brother gave me this. I made three all together. I'm going to be back. Do you need that? Do you want me to go something in my mind? No, it'd be fabulous. Okay. Can we take your mind? Sure. I'll be watching. We can wait. Do you need this? I'm here. And then here's another one. Okay. Okay. Yes. I can wait. I'm going to go for a call. Do you need me to sign up? I'm here with my hard to. And then here's another one that's the big upside. So we'll have three total. Okay. All right. Hey. Thank you. I'd like to say congratulations to both of the mayors and apparently they've known each other from birth so that's pretty awesome. I'm going to go ahead and move on. Things like that don't happen very often. Thank you, Council. It's going to be cool. Next item in the agenda is item nine, A under resolutions utility business items. Resolution of the city council city Brighton Colorado. Acting by and through its water activities enterprise approving the agreement between the city of Brighton and urban drainage and flood control district. Regarding design and construction of drainage and flooding control improvements to second Creek and authorizing the city manager to execute set agreement on behalf of the city. Mr. Rodriguez. Thank you so much, Your Honor. I'll ask give them a moment to come up here but I'll ask our senior planner Lauren Simmons to come up and also our stormwater manager Scott Olson who've been working on this so Lauren. Yes, good evening So the item before you is a IGA or intergovernmental agreement with urban drainage and flood control district and the city of Brighton regarding Second Creek. Second Creek is located in the south part of Brighton and this portion that we are considering this evening is within the Adams Crossing subdivision. There are three strategic focus areas that this item is related to. The first is recognizable in well-planned community. The second is supportive and sustainable infrastructure. And the third is strong regional relationships and partnerships. So the purpose for this presentation is to present the intergovernmental agreement for the funding of the pulmonary design, preliminary design of second creek improvements within the Adams Crossing project. So where we are with the Adams Crossing project, the first phase of sub-vividing the property is in review with staff. The second Creek drainage channel has a major impact on the project as it traverses the project through a major portion of it. Staff is assisting the developer to resolve several items prior to the next submission, which include C.DOT permitting a master development agreement, design standards, regional drainage, and trails and open space. So, second creek is located in the South part of Brighton, but it really starts in the city of Aurora. It goes through the Denver International Airport, traverses through an incorporate Adams County, Commerce City, and finally through the city of Brighton. The channel empties out eventually into the South Platt River. In 2018, Urban Drainage conducted a study to identify and update the Second Creek Channel. This master study was a pre-right urban drainage and the city of Brighton was a person to participate in that effort. The Adams Crossing is within the basin and will be constructing improvements to second creek as part of their development impacts. So the current condition of second creek through Adams Crat Crossing's first phase is currently degraded. As you can see here in this photo, you can see that the channel has been straightened for form activity. The city would like for the Adams Crosse Project to improve Second Creek so that the creek will qualify for Urban Drainages Maintenance Program and therefore funded by Urban Drainage for the continued maintenance of Second Creek through the city. In order for the improvements to qualify for the program, the improvements must be approved by Urban Drainage. So Urban Drainage has to approve the design and they would like for the city to be the applicant in that design. So that the city has control over what happens with Second Creek since it is within our jurisdiction. the city has control over what happens with second creeks since it is within our jurisdiction. And that's why Urban Drainage has requested that the agreement be with the city, even though the Adams Crossing is funding the study. Adams Crossing developer has agreed to fund the study for the initial design of the project. The city will accept the funds from Woodward Corporation, which is the developer, and will turn them over to Urban Drainage for the initial design. With this process, the city will be the applicant for the initial design, and will therefore be able to approve or disapprove whatever design is come up with by Urban Drainage. With that, staff recommends City Council insert the the IGA, 4-Second Creek, initial design with urban drainage and flood control districts. And I'm here with, if you have any questions in addition, Scott Olson, with our stormwater team is also here. Thank you. Questions and comments from Council? Councilwoman Bakker. Thank you, Mayor. Unfortunately, Councilmember Blackhurst isn't here tonight and he brought up a good point at the study session. So I'm going to try to present a question that he presented Tuesday night. So if the flows are coming from Aurora, is Brighton, and as the region grows and the flows come, they come down here, so they're coming to Brighton. If additional facilities are needed to be built, is that urban drainage, who will be responsible for building facilities? Because this is just primarily this is just maintenance and not new construction or improvements. So was is Brighton on the hook for that or urban drainage? Absolutely. Yeah, so there's going to be when the channel flows through our jurisdiction. We work with urban drainage and they provide some amount of funding with us but we also have to provide funding for that as well. I know that the flows are coming from the Aurora area. Unfortunately, they're coming through our city as you stated. So all the roadway crossings and further channel design will have to be completed by the city, but we'll have the chance to be, have some funding from Urban drainage. Okay, thank you. Any other questions? Matt, it's before council at your pleasure. Councilman Mills. Thank you Mayor. I just want to make a motion to approve item 9a. Have a motion to approve item 9a. Have a motion to add. Councilwoman. Thank you, Your Honor. I would like to second that motion. Have a proper motion and a second for the discussion, Councilman Johnson. Thanks, Mr. Mayor. Sorry, I just found the question that I was looking for. The under background on the PowerPoint in order for the improvements to qualify for the program, the improvements must be approved by UDFCD. My question is since we're handing this off to Adams Crossing in a way, is there any way that they don't get approved for it at a too late of a stage because we lost control as a city of what's happening there? Does that make sense? I'm yeah, I think I understand what you're saying, but as long as we work with urban drainage and we go through their construction acceptance process That it doesn't matter what timing Can be in the future, but as long as we check off the boxes that they have approved the plan and that it's to their standards, then we can get that acceptance into the maintenance program. Great, thank you very well. Yeah, and that's why the IGA with urban drainage directly such a benefit to the city, because then we basically can ensure that the standards are met from urban drainage to standpoint. Makes perfect. Right. And if so all the citizens of Brighton are paying taxes to urban drainage for that. So if we don't take advantage of getting projects approved by that program, then we aren't using our taxpayer dollars to the best thing. OK, great. Thank you very much. Thanks. Any further discussion? Hearing none, roll call vote. All votes cast. Motion passes by a vote of 8 and nothing with one absent. Next item in the agenda is general business in the RISN none reports by the mayor. So I was approached by our public information officers or the Department of PIO to see if I would be interested in helping them do several editions of a television program for channel eight called Inside Brighton. And it is kind of a takeoff of micro's dirty jobs. And I'm the micro. So last week or week and half ago, they took me to the rec center and I did everything there. I was in daycare and I let a boxing class and I did work there. It was just really, really a lot of fun. So, I guess it's in editing. Hopefully not too much. I'll be ending up on the editing floor. But hopefully it'll give the citizens a brighten an opportunity to find out some of the jobs and things that are happening inside brighten. And I understand that it was fun. And I have no clue how it's turned out. I'm a tad Larry. I wish they'd had me at the rec center after I'd been on my diet for a year. Maybe we'll have to do it before and after. But anyway, it looks like it went well. And so look for new ones to come. It was a lot of fun. It's a great way to show what's happening around our city. I had the opportunity to play the role of Roland Rogers, a nine-year-old boy with some mental disabilities in the poverty simulation workshop. And it was very eye-opening. It was done up at Front Range Community College and they had people from all over the community and you were given a role. And I kept getting caught by the Truett Officer, the police department on my way to school because my dad had to go to work. And so I spent some time in JDC, which anyway, I think I'd be used to it. But it was very eye-opening to see what people go through and how you're just faced with these situations you can't do anything about. And there were times that you're really frustrated and it was a really eye-opening experience. I had the opportunity to attend the Pan-Ox Center for their healing, heart-spinifit, it's very well attended and a very good event. Again, our community given. I missed the spaghetti luncheon because I was out of town, but I did make a financial donation. And also because I was out of town, I missed out on the reading that I'm sure many of you will report on, but I did not get off the hook. I'm going to Pennock to read tomorrow and then later next month to Foundation's Academy to read to the kids and so it's a whole lot of fun. So busy times, have a busy schedule ahead and meet with the Adams County Mayor's and RTD this weekend and so what's going on? Reports by department hits. Anybody? City Attorney? No report this week. City Manager. Thank you, Your Honor. Very briefly, I'll just draw everyone's attention at the Dias to a few dates coming up that are sort of atypical to your normal schedules. Your normal schedules are very packed. In fact, that's probably one thing the public doesn't know is that you have a whole host of board meetings and groups that you're part of every single week. So I just want to draw your attention to three dates specifically. Councilor Wallen and I had a chance to visit the other day. And one of his suggestions really kind of caught me, which was giving you as a council a chance to be on site at some of our projects and some of, particularly some of our construction projects, give you a chance to really see what's happening after you vote for the particular item. And so we have a chance to do that with our ground storage water tank up on the hill by a water tower park. And so that's set for the 14th, if you're able. I know it's smack dab in the middle of the day and I know not everybody can be available for that but it is a time when work won't be happening in a way that's unsafe and so we want to try to make that available to you if you're welcome you're welcome to come out just where and they keep telling me this so I have to reinforce this you gotta wear the proper footwear? You can't get there with open toe shoes or anything like that. And we'll have hard hats and all that for you, but I wanna walk you me out there for that. Then the 22nd is your vision and planning session. And so we've got several things queued up for you. In fact, on the 12th, which is your next study session next week. We'll actually give you your full agenda and everything that will prepare you with just a little bit of homework, not a lot of homework, but ready us for the 22nd and then actually the following 26th study session will do a wrap up. So we just have the one day together but we'll prep on the 12th, we'll have the 22nd and then we'll do a wrap up on the 26th. And then last but not least, I got a phone call today from our Dolla representative in the area, and Don Sandeval, many of you probably know him, and they have a new director, executive director, who is going to be touring just a handful of cities in the state to get a good sense of our needs, our concerns, but also some exciting projects that Dull has done in the past. That executive director is Rick Garcia and he's going to actually stop in Brighton for about an hour and a half the morning of April 2nd and I wanted to visit a couple of our sites, particularly the Depot and the Armory, but I thought it would be a really good positive if anybody from the council that's available could meet with him. We'll start here at City Hall 845 in the morning and so I want to encourage you to make time for that. If you're able, I realize again not everybody can, but if you're able, I think that's just a really great connection for us to have a governor appointee here to see what Brighton is up to and to hear from us. So those are a few days coming up that I just want to draw your attention to. And that's all I have for an update. Thank you. Super. Mayor Prokten. I just wanted to ask, what was that date for the for the dollar is April 2nd? April 2nd. Okay. Thank you. Since I took an extended vacation, it wasn't actually vacation, but extended term down in Houston, I'll be happy to report. They get one heck of a lot of rain down there. So when I was down there for 10 days, it rained for eight of those. And we had one day of sunshine for about half of it and then we had one day of full sunshine. The other thing I wanted to thank everybody who participated in the spaghetti fundraiser for EVAC and what not. And that was good. Actually, some other individuals tonight, not to mention the city manager and the city attorney and the mayor all contributed, even though they didn't get the partake. So any of you who feel that your flush, I would take some additional donations. Thank you. Councilman Wong. Oh, thanks. The CML board had an opportunity to meet with Rick Garcia at our last meeting. He was our lunch speaker and real dynamic guy and really knows what he's doing and was very open to. There were a number of questions and suggestions around the table of local projects in various cities and it seems like very receptive and ready to get right to work. questions and suggestions around the table of local projects in various cities. And it seems like very receptive and ready to get right to work. So I'm very interested in trying to attend that meeting to see they really do some great projects. Let's see. So the Public Art Committee is finalizing the selections for the Arton loan project. That'll be going on in the back there. And then I have, my meetings are coming up tomorrow and next week. So that's all I have right now. Thank you, Councilwoman. Thank you, Mayor. My meeting will be until tomorrow as well. So I have nothing right now. Thank you. Councilman Mills. Thank you, Mayor. Tomorrow is our Brighton Urban Renewal Authority special meeting. And there will be a hot topic on hand that we'll be discussing. I'm on the Capital Facility Fe Foundation. And we haven't met yet this year. There's been conflicts in people scheduling. And so we haven't met yet this year. There's been conflicts in people scheduling, and so we haven't met like we would have normally by this point, but we plan, we were gonna have a makeup meeting today and they got canceled, but, so we won't meet again with that until April. Just like a few of you, I read Dr. Susan Penock, enjoyed spaghetti at Evac on Saturday, Just like a few of you, I read Dr. Susan Penock. He enjoyed spaghetti at Evac on Saturday. One to the healing heart's event that benefited the Penock Center. Something coming up this week, the Youth Commission is having their image summit. Anybody that can, I'd encourage you to come out Friday. I think it's at 11 and Speak with the youth they just need an hour your time not the whole day And then this Saturday's the Cajun Boyle benefiting Brighton boosters and my kids are still selling tickets if anybody wants any Thank you. Thank you. Tell us what we're back. Thank you mayor. So I have an important update from NADA. So at the last NADA meeting, Mayor Jackie Malay from Lone Tree did a presentation regarding transportation funding. So Jackie Malay is the vice chair of the Metro Mayor's Caucus. So the discussion that is happening, it is somewhat hypothetical at this point, but it has very strong political legs. So with the failure of 109 and 110 last year, the transportation funding bills, the Metro Mayor's Caucus is having a robust conversation of how do we fund future transportation projects? So they sent a representative to the Denver Council region a robust conversation of how do we fund future transportation projects. So they sent a representative to the Denver Council region of governments. That Dr. Cog has taken on a committee to start looking at if they want to be the repository, if a sales tax were to pass in the seven or eight county region of Denver or of all the Metro counties. Does that make sense? So what what the mayor presented was a couple things one of the items was is that the Metro counties band together and pass a sales tax increase. If they choose, the money would then go to a third body, which has not yet been identified. That body would do one or two things. One or two ideas has come up from that. One of the ideas is that there would be an administrative fee put on each individual city as a past. So the money would come back to the city as a pass-through. So whatever money was collected in Brighton would go to, right now they're thinking it's gonna be Dr. Cog. Would go to Dr. Cog. Dr. Cog would charge an administrative fee and then send the sales tax back to Brighton. So I'm just gonna use Brighton as an example. It's just easier that way. That's one of the proposals. The other proposal is the money's collected sales tax in Brighton, it would go to, I'm gonna use Dr. Cog because that's the entity they're looking at, it would go to Dr. Cog and they would keep 2% of the sales tax for regional projects. And then the 80% that was collected would then come back to the city of Brighton. So I don't know what the council's thoughts are. Right now it is, like I said, it's hypothetical. It's very, it's in the preliminary stages of regional discussion, but I think it can gain political legs fairly quickly. So I don't know if we want to have one of the Metro Mayor representatives that's kind of pitching this around the region, come and talk to us and get their feeling of how serious this matter is and how that would impact Brighton. I have my own feelings on it and I'll withhold tonight. Is that accurate? Yeah, Greg was there. Thank you, Greg. So I just wanted to mention that to the City Council. So you are now aware that there's a regional discussion going on of potentially a sales tax for the Metro counties that would be collected. The other item is the Adams County Transportation Forum. That is the Federal Highway Administration funding that cities in Adams County are competing for. So we have a $34 million pot and cities have applied for that funding. At the last meeting, they had 34 million available. We had about 47 million in projects to be funded. for that funding. At the last meeting, they had 34 million available. We had about 47 million in projects to be funded. So I understand that Brighton submitted a project, and it would be for the design of Bridge Street in I-76. So there's that going on. So those are the two major things that are happening in a transportation. I might add that the Metro mayors, things that are happening in a transportation. I might add that the Metro mayors, they've advanced a lot from our last meeting. I know. It went into committee. We were just talking concept. It's gone into committee. So what you just said, a lot of that snooze to me. And so it's, it counts enough. Yeah, so it's Councilman Well, I also read to on Dr. Sueste and were my doctor Suestai and And I also ate spaghetti the next day and But I wanted to mention that not only was Mr. Mills at Dr. Sathig that our city manager was also reading to kids that day and because he didn't mention it. And you know when Matt learns to read from me there too. But actually I got all the way through. I've never read Read, Eggs, and Ham all the way through until this time. So it wasn't fashionable when I was younger, I guess. And I'm more as a H.B. Getty. And I can't remember what the other thing was. So I won't. Oh, I spent a day playing, creating music at the library yesterday or an hour with some other people putting together a song with their equipment. Their library is an amazing place and and they have a sound studio, and I'm a music studio in there, and they have like, I think they said they had more or about a hundred MIDI keyboards that people could play with, but that was interesting. And I went to the, kind of went to the program before that on worm farming. So, interesting day, and it's sponsored by a place called the Grow House, went to the program before that on worm farming. So an interesting day, and it's sponsored by a place called the Grow House in Globeville. It's kind of serving the purpose to in the food desert, which I'm worried that we have places in Brighton where we could use that. And I guess that's it. Thank you. Councilman Johnston. I will be definitely going to take a look at Senate Bill 19. Well 32 as we go forward invite all of you if you do feel the same way which I know we have disagreement on the issue that was at hand would not that bill I don't think for local control would love to have anyone come with and let's testify as much as we can. Legally, I'm not trying to call a special meeting by any means, but definitely I think that would be important. Have a couple things coming up with CML later in the month, 2HOA meetings that I'm going to be speaking at in this month too, and that's it. Thanks. Any other business to be brought before the council tonight? Hearing none, I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. I have a motion in a second. Moved by Councilman Johnson. Or by Councilman Mills. Seconded by Councilman Humbert. That's all right. All in favor say aye. Opposed nay. Standing adjourned.