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I'd like to call to order our City Council meeting for Tuesday, December 3, 2020, oops, 2024. And I'm going to request Councilmember Green to lead us in the pledge of allegiance. and by our integral liberty and justice, crawl. All right. Thank you. Madam City Clerk, please call roll. Mayor Mouse. Here. Mayor Pro Tempidia. Present. Council Member Fiddler. Here. Council Member Green. I am here. Council Member Johnston. He is ill today. Council Member Pulaski. Here. Council Member Snyder. Here. Council Member Tadea. Present. Council Member Worth. Here. You have a former honor. Thank you. Next is the consent agenda. Madam City Clerk, please read that into the record. Item 2A, approval of the November 4th, 2024 City Council Minutes. Item 2B, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, reappointing Mark Rawlings as the Ward 1 member of the Planning Commission with a term to January 2029. Item 2C, a resolution of the City Council of Brighton, Colorado, finding substantial compliance of an annexation petition, and setting a public hearing for January 21st, 2025, to determine if the approximately 2.859 acre parcel to be known as the Peter's Property Anxation, complies with statutory requirements for such annexation. Thank you. It's a pleasure, Council. Council member Green. Thank you, Mayor. I move to approve the December 3rd consent agenda. And then Council member Poloski. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to second that motion. We have a proper first and second to approve the consent agenda is read. If there's no other discussion, we roll call vote. Motion passes 8-0 with one absent. Next, approval of the regular agenda. What's the pleasure of council? Council member Worth. Thank you, Mayor. I move to accept the regular agenda as presented. All right, and then Council Member Polowski. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to second that motion. We have first and second to prove the regular agenda as presented. Roll call vote. Motion passes 8-0, one absent. Next, ceremonies, item 4-A, recognition of the name that Snowplow contest winners. City Manager Martinez, will you introduce all of our guests? I will not introduce our guests, but I have somebody to well. As our two directors come up, Olaf and our communications director. I do want to mention that I think we all can agree this is probably the most important thing that you all do as council every year. I know it's my favorite. So without further ado, I'll turn it over to our communications director, Kristen Trinowski to introduce our winners. Thank you, Mayor Mayor Perthem and members of City Council. I'm Kristen Charnoski, Director of Communications and Engagement and joining me this evening for this special ceremony. Ceremony is our Public Works Director Greg Libry or Frosty. Frosty is not. The fun thing is I get to coordinate this so he has to dress up. So we're excited to be here with you this evening for the special occasion. This marks our fourth annual name is no plow name that's no plow contest. A little bit about the contest last month elementary school students in Brighton were invited to submit their best and most creative names for the city's eight snow plows for the 2024 2025 snow season after receiving a flurry of submissions. The judging panel, which included several city council members and city staff, had the difficult task of narrowing it down to eight names. And I can attest really difficult to pick just eight. Before we bring up the winners, I just want to mention that in addition to the winning names being on our snow plows, the windows. We will have the windows in the windows. Before we bring up the winners, I just want to mention that in addition to the winning names being on our snow plows, our winners also have the opportunity to participate in the 29th annual festival of lights parade, which is Saturday, December 14th. And now for the part you've been waiting for, I'll turn it over to Greg and we'll bring up our winners and may or if you'd like to come down for pictures. Yes, I will come down. Okay. No way is going to help pass out the certificates. I will call out the winners and if you as I call you out, if you come up and grab your certificate, that would be great. Yeah. So the first winner is Snowway Jose by Colter Pollock. First grader at Brownlee East Charter School. Alright, next winner is is Oh snow you didn't Sammy Hoffler first grader at panic elementary here we can help you hold back. All right our next winner Han Snowllo. Lincoln, first grader at Discovery Magnet School. Our next winner has with the name of Poultrick, Certan II. Sofia Garcia, third grader at South Elementary's. And next we have snowmater by Caspon Puleman, third grader at North Wies Elementary. In the next one we have Noella DeVille by Natalie Silver, kindergartener and I'm going to come down. Yeah, here we go. All right. All right. That's me. Yeah. Okay. And we have the last one who's not here has ice ice baby by Zonya Robison, third grader at Padilla Elementary. And those are our winners. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let's do a big picture with everyone. OK. Let's get everybody closer here. We'll do a big picture. We get all our winners. We'll just line up over here. Yeah. Let's move this TV. OK. Yeah, let's move this TV. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. Thank you. Thank you. You're here on the phone. Thank you. We're here. We're here. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. and John I'd like to thank all the participants for doing this. Good job. My solution to not having a narrow down to eight is maybe we just need more snow plows put that into the next budget cycle. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Good job, everyone. That's it for ceremonies. Next we'll go on to item five public Public public invited to be heard on matters that are not on the agenda. I have two people sign up to speak Before I have you all come down. We'll let people leave if they choose to leave but you're welcome to stay Good outfits, too, tonight. It's Indian music. Why don't we read it on the last time? I think we should read it on the last time. All right. First person signed up to speak is Nick Graham. So Nick, come on over. Stay your name for the record and you'll have three minutes Whatever you want to give okay My name's Nick Graham good evening mayor mayor pro Tim and members of council I'm the vice president of development for DR Horton's Multifamily Division. I'm here tonight to discuss our DHI Telluride Street development at 279 Telluride Street. It's a residential community consisting of 140 paired residential units. At the end of my public comment, I will be respectfully requesting City Council to add our project to the City's study session on December 10th. Per direction from City Manager Michael Martinez, after three City Council members have provided direction for the project to be added to an upcoming agenda, it will immediately be incorporated as a future study session topic. At this study session, we plan to present the detailed timing of this development and the unique justification for the project to be grandfathered into 2024 development impact fees. This justification is due to the significant public improvements. This project is required to construct on behalf of the city. These public improvements were a requirement made by city staff during the subdivision plan process without backing from city code. Without these public improvements, our building permits would be pulled this year and subsequently pay the 2024 development impact fees. To provide some quick background, the Diorhorton multifamily team has been working on this development since April 2021 and finally it was able to commence construction activities in July of this year. Commencing construction was a significant milestone for our company. A milestone that was accompanied by purchasing the property and dedicating $3.5 million worth of water shares directly to the City of Brighton. After millions of dollars in investment into the project, its budget is now set to increase significantly. In October, three months after our construction commenced, City Council voted to approve the city's 2025 impact fees. This effectively added $700,000 to our project budget that was well underway with construction. Impact fee adjustments consisted of a 19% increase to our project budget that was well underway with construction. Impact fee adjustments consisted of a 19% increase to park transportation and storm water impacts. I understand occasional impact fees are essential for the city to fund necessarily public improvements. However, I believe we have been caught in a unique scenario regarding the project's timing and the public improvement requirements. In light of this unique scenario, I would like to respectfully request that one City Council member motion to add this project to the City Council study session on December 10th. Upon one City Council member raising the topic and two additional council members agreeing with a study session presentation The city manager will add it as an agenda item Well, this project is in mayor pro tim padea's ward and council member worst ward he or any council member May raise the topic or start a motion in regards Thank you, Nick. The next person signed up to speak is Mike Boutwell. One up Mike. State your name for the record and you got three minutes. For time limitations, I'll for go to the preliminaries. Hello. I want to talk about reciprocity. I don't know if you know what that means. I hope you do. But to have communication. To have a rapport you have to have reciprocity. And I'm finding that I'm not getting that from the city council. I'm not getting that from you, the mayor. I'm not getting that. I got a call back from Jim Snyder today. That was good. I haven't got anything back from Mr. Martinez or Mark, Mark. And so I would like to have that. And I have requested a meeting to have all these issues that I have with the city addressed. Now I'm in the middle of a situation with the city police department where I have two complaints against King Super's. For being assaulted, not attacked, there's a difference in the parking lot. I had my car keyed and the man they were supposed to provide the discovery for this and they did not. And so the City Police Department decided because they didn't get through discovery, they closed the cases. So I'm going to get them reopened. I'm also going to get the traffic ticket that I got that got dismissed because the witnesses did not show up. The police officer did not show up on the body cam is the admission of the people that said, I wonder where they're going to let me in. Then they admitted fault on the body cam. So I'm trying to get that through the district attorney or the prosecutor for the city. And so when I have this issue going on with several things that I need to address with the city council, with the people of the city in general. You know, because we live, I live in, like I told Jim Snyder, I live in the ghetto, or two. Okay, I don't live in the high-ranked district on North of Denver and I don't live over where Jim lives. And so what I need to know is am I going to get some kind of reciprocity from you people? An entertainment of whether you believe it's frivolous or whether you believe it's unnecessary or I know I assure you that I won't get any more time than three minutes and I'm going to keep ten you to harp on that because you're taking away my first amendment rights. Regardless of whether it's addressed in the civil rules of civil procedure or the first amendment, they didn't address time. You know, too bad. They should have. Even the Congress gets a time. So if you can help me with that, it'd be great. And all I'm asking is a little audience, if you can do that. And with that, I just ask for a little consideration. Can we do that? Thanks. Thank you, Mike, with all the those that came to speak, the next thank you Mike with all the those that came to speak the items that are addressed will be considered in the future Madam City Clerk is anybody else I know to speak no you're on okay that is all I have next item on the agenda item 9a a resolution of the city council Next item on the agenda item 9A. A resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado approving acceptance of a regional transportation district grant from RTD for the Micro Transit Pilot project and authorizing the city manager or designee to sign the grant agreement and authorizing the city manager or designate to sign the grant agreement and authorizing the city to Partly match the RTD grant in the amount of $600,000 City manager Martinez. Thank you mayor presenting this item tonight is our public works director frosty library I always hope you need stay in the frosty out of it I was hoping to stay in the frosty out of it. I was considering it mayor. If you want to come up just to case as we do the presentation, have any questions, but I'd like to introduce her to the council as well. But good evening mayor, mayor pro temp in city council. Again, I'd like to introduce Jane Shreeve. She's been a transportation consultant here with four public works for the past year. She's been responsible for many of the grants that we have received this past year for various projects. The CORE city study that we're doing this RTD grant and I just wanted to commend her work and all the great job she's done for us. Also, I like the knowledge of City Council. It just so happens at the same time that we were applying for this grant, RTD came before you and made a presentation. And at that time, this council demanded that RTD provide more and better service for the city of Brighton. And I think that timing was really on point because I think that played a key factor in having them award this grant to us. So again, it was just all, everything aligned perfectly and I thank you guys for really having our backs in terms of trying to provide better service for our citizens here in Brighton. So thank you for that. So if you want to sit down just in case they have questions as we do it. So what I want to do, I want to begin with a short video presentation from the Long Tree. The Mueller Transit Service in Long Tree is celebrating 10 years and serving as a model for other Colorado cities funded primarily by R. T. D. and the city link on demand provides free rides to anyone within lone tree city limits. Your reporter in Douglas County, Olivia Young took a ride to see how this program works. Imagine getting a ride to anywhere you want in town with just the click of a button on an app. And no, I'm not talking about Uber or Lyft. I'm talking about Lone Tree's Lincoln Demand Program. As Jacqueline Rodriguez calls for a ride, it'll probably pick me up just right up here. Driver, Tyler Westbrook accepts. Different rider names and locations pop up on our app. They'll show where to pick them up from. Within minutes, they connect. Off we go. We can't even where they need to be. Rod Riega's and her family have come to rely on the service. This being a free service was a lifesaver for us. Her son Hunter was left with a traumatic brain injury after being shaken by a daycare provider as a baby. As an adult, this service provides him independence. And it was so incredible that he could do it on his own. He could pull up an app and he could get to where he wanted to be. After years of riding, Rodriguez became a driver herself operating the wheelchair accessible link cars. We have people who are visually impaired individuals and walkers. I love connecting with those individuals because it's near and dear to my heart. The service is popular with light rail users, impaired individuals and walker with those individuals beca my heart. The service is p light rail users, commut shop, they can get to work, school. You can imagine if one of our medical facilities group that wants to go out decreasing cars on the ro improves traffic and reduces environmental impacts. Link on demand has been so successful it recently expanded to serve the meridian area and doubled the number of cars. This last August we increased 77 percent with 6,200 rides within one month which is astonishing numbers and also validating the need for on-demand transportation. Other Colorado cities, including Longmont, Aurora, Berthed, and Manitue Springs have expressed interest in creating a similar program. I think they should grow, grow, grow if they can. In Longtree, I'm Olivia Young, covering Colorado first. And Olivia is your reporter there in Douglas County. She's committed to covering the community because that's where she grew up. If you have a tip or story idea for Olivia, you can always reach out through our website or by calling. Yes, so again, I think that was a visual aid to show or demonstrate exactly what we're trying to do here in Brighton. I got one to just point out. Lone tree's been doing it for 10 years now. And so they started off small and have grown to where They're providing services to two two cities to Buridian as well as a loan tree So ultimately that's where we like to get to but we're gonna start off with the program that I'm gonna present tonight and And try to answer whatever questions that you may have. So with that being said, we guess I have a clicker here. Click it. Here we go. The agreement involves RTD and the City of Brighton. The goal is to enhance mobility and access through a micro transit service for residents and businesses. RTD will contribute up to $1.8 million, providing $600,000 annually for three years, starting January 2025 through December 2027. Now while the city will contribute up to $600,000 of our $200,000 per year for the same duration. This pilot program will be evaluated during the three year operational period to determine if it will be extended, modified, or terminated after the three year period. The city is responsible for the oversight of all the service delivery aspects, including operations, marketing, and maintenance, and must ensure compliance with current laws, reporting service matrix to RTD quarterly. Service must align with the specifications that was outlined in Exhibit A of the agreement, and any changes required, any changes required RTD's written consent. the transit service will be utilized, will utilize an on-demand responsive vehicles targeting the general public within RTD district of the city of Brighton. Operating hours will extend up to 13.5 hours per day. Our plan is to start with a Monday through Friday schedule with specific daily operation times to be determined. The total estimated annual revenue hours for the service assuming a full schedule is 3,442.5 hours. We established right now again is going to start off relatively small but we established the boundaries for the service with start off relatively small but we established the boundaries for the service which start off with 168th Avenue be the Northern boundary, the Platte River, the Western boundary, I-76th, the Eastern boundary, and 144th Avenue that would be the approximate Southern boundary which we will, we also will include the Perry Center and Adams County government center as part of the service area. Now all RTD funded micro transit projects are required to meet specific performance specifications to ensure efficiency and service qualities. These include achieving an average of two passengers, our boarding per hour, ensuring that at least 50% of trips have a wait time of less than 30 minutes and maintaining an 80% reliability rate for rolling stock. The agreement outlines several key provisions regarding invoicing, performance monitoring, insurance, termination, and general terms. The city will submit quarterly invoices detailing service metrics for reimbursement with RTD reviewing and paying approved invoices within 30 days. RTD will monitor service effect of this quarterly and failure to comply may result in the cessation of funding. Each party retains liability for its own actions and the city must include RTD as an additional and short on relevant insurance policies. Either party can terminate the agreement with 60 days notice and funding obligations are contingent on annual appropriations. The agreement also includes clauses for amendments, audits and compliance with transit equity regulations and it is governed by Colorado law representing the complete understanding between parties. And this concludes my presentation. Are there any questions? Thank you. Questions from the council, Mayor Prudem. Thank you. I am tremendously excited for this program. So very, very appreciative of your department working for the Grandfums and to RTD for providing them. I realize that I rarely have a nice thing to say about RTD tonight will be an exception. I think that this is a good program. It looks like it's about 5% of what we as a city invest into RTD as a total. So getting that back in a way that may provide some useful ridership and Brighton is really helpful. My primary question is, I saw in the news article that it was a free service. Is this intended to then also be a free service? Or do we have a copay that's assigned to it in some fashion? And we're going to work through that with our finance department. But yes, low entry was doing a free service. Other cities across the country that provided charge a fee, whether it's a dollar or a ride or $2 a ride. And ultimately, we will have to determine what really works for Brighton and work with the finance part of what that rate might be. I think what our goal is, since we're going to get started somewhere, about June or July of 2025, I think we can offer free rides for the first two to three months to try to get right to build up ridership. And we'll work through those kind of details on the next step as we put together to RFP. Excellent. I think that this, and I appreciate including the the Adams County facilities and a few of the things that are south of that 144th boundary because you can't currently get within say a quarter mile of even the courthouse on an RTD bus today. So there are critical services that we don't have any way to get to on on RTD and I think this helps tremendously with that last mile venture. Certainly looking at my own family, I have a blind sister who had to move within half a mile of the grocery store because depending on Uber didn't work and even excessive ride the weight was too long with frozen goods, trying to leave the grocery store and get back home before the ice cream melted. So that has been a challenge and getting aging members of the family to and from the doctor while people work is a challenge. So I definitely appreciate the shared investment into meeting a significant gap for micro-transportation in town. Definitely I'm hoping that the city will work pretty heavily on what is our marketing campaign so that this happens because I think it will depend on people knowing about it. I'm amazed by the number of people who don't even know how you could get from Brighton to Denver or Brighton to the airport on an RTB RTB bus today. Or don't know how to use accessory or a collar ride so this. to be a great program for the city. It also has an opportunity to be $2 million just thrown down the drain. So we need to do it properly in order to make it work. But this absolutely addresses a desperately needed gap. Thank you. All right. Next, Councilmember Snyder. Thank you, Mayor. They said they started with 10 cars and they just doubled that. Do you have a sense of how many cars we are planning on starting with? Yes, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, but the discussion have been roughly with the area that we have identified by four vans. Many vans, as you saw in that picture, is what we're looking at. And there all would be eight, let's say say at least two of them would be ADA compliant, where you get wheelchair folks and wheel chair and things like that in, and also bicycle racks. So bicyclists would have a chance to call on a ride, put their bike on the car and move forward. So we're looking at providing all those services as part of this. The funding share from RTD is significant for the first three years, and I appreciate their contribution to this. The funding share from RTD is significant for the first three years and I appreciate their contribution to this. What did they do after their three years? Will we go back to RTD for continued funding? Is that a possibility or are we on our own after three years? If we look at LongTree as a model, RTD stayed a partner with LongTree throughout the last ten years. What they're also able to do, when the thing we're gonna be able to do here is collect a lot of data from our writers. Where they're going and their destinations. And one of the things that loan tree also have done, they've created, they had some type of, they got a business partner to contribute to the fund. So you have RTD and a business group, as well as the city of loan tree that's contributing to the fund to sustain it. So I think with this first round as we collect data see where our people are going we will can approach our business partners to see if they want to contribute as well. And that's one of the goals to get to try to create to find other sources of funding and have them contribute. Okay, thank you. Well, hopefully, also, RT's using that data, maybe adjust routes and timing. Yeah. That make it more specific to our area. That's another reason why RT likes this program is very flexible compared to their Fix Route program. Fix Route, it takes an act of Congress, if you will, to fix fixed route program. Fixed route, it takes an act of Congress, if you will, you have to fix a route change. But here we can, as we are evaluated into data and things like that, we are able to change the boundaries and change our routes, or maybe the time of service, we make an extended to Saturday and things like that. So we have that flexibility built in, which is again another attractive feature that our TD likes as well as the city. Sure. Councilmember Poloski. Thank you, Mayor. I simply love this. A year ago when RTD was here and Jean should even I go way back and I want to thank staff and Jean because my request was if we can't get a home run can we at least get a base hit thank heaven you did it it could even be called a triple but I really do appreciate this because this is something we've needed for a long long time and we don't have that and we just keep growing so much so this is a very important feature and thank you thank you thank you. All right and the next council member today. Thank you yes I'm also very excited about this and I think yeah the key is to get the word out because it's only going to be as successful as as people use it right and so I look forward to seeing how that plays out for sure. I'm not sure I heard the answer to how many vehicles we were gonna have. I know you said two of them were gonna be ADA compliant. Four total. Four total at this point, yes. And then my other question is, under insurance and liability, you talked about that the city has to name RTD as an additional insured. On the relevant policies do you have an idea of what that additional cost is going to be? I do not have that figure in front of me at this point. Basically I'm just interested in you know we're getting this money it's being you know but it is going to cost us a little bit. I just kind of want to have a bigger picture of all of the cost to a certain degree you You know what I can tell you is a turnkey operation and so we have transportation companies out there. One in Longchries via transportation which they're also providing a service for us here in Brighton. They're one of the top providers and they're familiar with those requirements and again the higher ideal is make it turn key. So all these requirements that you see, we're gonna put that as part of the RFP that this third party provider must provide. And then we go from there. Okay, great. So it's gonna be wrapped up and two there proposals when they bid in their project. Got it, okay, thank you. All right, next council member Green. Thank you, Mayor. Yeah, great. I'm excited about it, but I also, I'm a little nervous. I don't know if there's gonna be a priority or a hierarchy for eligibility, because I don't necessarily want parents to take advantage of this and say pick my kids up every morning and take them to school and then pick them up in the afternoon and take them home or I got to go to work tomorrow. I need you to be here. And so what if I somebody has a doctor's appointment and they want a schedule in advance? Are they going to be able to do that too? And I guess my other concern is that you know what that two riders per hour you know that means we got to be ready to go or you know if we're having 13 hours a day that's 26 rides every day that we have to accommodate to and is there going to be any sort of accommodation for in a weather delay if I if I can only you know supposed to be waiting let 30 minutes or less and you know I got a foot of snow out there and somebody who says I want to get to King Super's right now So I'm like that's where I'm going a little worried about the devil is gonna be in the details of course and again I want this to be for people that don't have rides or need that kind of thing I just don't want it to be abused by people you know the lo the loantry one so they could drive down to the bar. I'm a little bit leery about this. Yeah. Well, I think what it goes, honestly, and what loantry bragged upon is the number of riders they have. They look forward to having as many riders as possible, showing that it's being well used. And RTD likes to see those numbers up. So I think the performance indicators that they have is relatively easily achieved when you have four vehicles out there and on demand service. But the goal is to really have as many riders as you can see in the city of Brighton. But I think the performance factors that they have is relatively easily achieved when you have four vehicles out there and on demand service. But the goal is to you have is relatively easily achieved when you have four vehicles out there and on demand service. But the goal is to really have as many riders as you can showing that you're providing a service. And we will have to work out. You know, that's where we have to, if we see some abuse in it, that's where we'll look at. Do we charge? You know, how much do we charge for a ride to try to minimize that kind of that kind of use of the thing? But ultimately you want riders for this kind of program. One riders that need ride. Yeah. So my need rides from that established. Yep. Good point. Next council member worth. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. sacrificing if we're taking this on. So I don't know if there's a clear line item, but we had discussed it with the finance department because we knew it in May we were applying for it. So as I would say, maybe the city manager can provide more insight on that, but we had applied for the grant, they knew we were applying for it. So they were prepared to have the funds. And I thought it was part of one of the amendments. If I wasn't, it's like something where we're going to be standing out on corners, ringing bells, trying to get money to pay for this. It is something we had been, had left the city managers office know and they've been working with it. And it was coming down the pipe. So you used a term I'm not familiar with. and it's probably just my naive attack that it's rolling stock. I mean that cattle on wheels or what? I got a highlight in yellow. That's the same thing the city manager asked to. So in the context of public transportation, 80% of rolling stock reliability refers to the percentage of the fleet of vehicles that's your rolling stock that are available and operational at any given time. Specifically, it means that 80% of the vehicles are expected to be reliable and functioning properly for service meeting these criteria is essential for the success and effectiveness of the Micro Transit service. So having at least a percentage of your vehicles ready to go in operation. We only have four vehicles and they've all got to be working all the time. But we better get fifth one so we have that one that goes down. And exactly and as I looked at that definition that might be one of the things we have a fifth one to come in and fill in. So who owns the vehicles? So there'll be the third party contractor with a providing equipment that vehicles. Yeah, that'd be all part of it. Also they hire and they for the drivers. So yes, it's crumb. Um, um, I had one more here. Oh, what if somebody doesn't have the app or a phone to be able to do that? Is there a backup that I call in? They can call it. So the number will be provided where you can call in, you're right. And I download the app, our website. So those are in main three and it could be others, but those are in main three that we've been to. Thank you very much, director. Thanks, Mayor. All right. Will you go to the map on the presentation? And while you're looking for that, I'm going to ask you real quick, that app that they refer to in the news story, that link app, are we using that same app or are we creating our own? It would be an app created specifically for our rideshare program. OK, we can't just link into that app. Again, a lot of these companies, via transportation, I'd use them, but there's others. They have that ability to create that app specifically for your city. All right. So there's the map of the city, it's all in red. And then the area that we're servicing is more in the middle. When are we gonna be able to service the greater portion of the city? Well, that's where we're gonna be evaluating. So, like, I've been told, because I'm like, you may or I wanted to go to the airport. I wanted to go to the rail station. But what I've been advised by folks that's been in it is that we just start off small, you know, start off with a small general area and then build from there. And as for timing, I really won't know until we start getting the daddy in. On the very bottom corner, I know there's some sort of a housing project, maybe deemed affordable under construction. And maybe they're going to need to ride over to a medical appointment at Platt Valley or or something like that in the future and so I'm just trying to think of how people like them would have the same benefit who pay the same taxes as anybody else in the city they'll be able to benefit from that too. Yeah you can, Jean can offer some insight to that. Yeah. Yeah, Mayor one of the things that we want to make sure that we put in the request for proposals when we go out to get a turnkey company is that they do almost kind of an on-demand analytics. And so what Ride with Via, the company that offers the service down in Lone Tree does is that they go and they collect data for trips that they cannot serve. And so on a weekly or monthly basis, whatever public works decides to do in that contractual relationship with a turkey operator that you come up with, I think one of the things will be really dynamic here and great for the city is that they'll be able to show your staff that, okay, you're starting to get a lot of calls down in this area where we can't provide rides. So what we would like to do is recommend that we do a trial period where we may be focused some of the rides down here. And so this blue area starts to become very dynamic. Probably I would say five or six months into the program. Once they start to gather that type of data. So I think that's part of the real, one of the more exciting aspects of this. It's totally different than what RTD does. It's truly dynamic and on-demand. So. Can this be expanded where we partner with the neighboring city to the south because they have the same people that not only shop in our shop, but they also have medical appointments of the medical center that's in our area and other such needs that focus on Brighton and have them also buy an impart partner and then this is a program that's co-funded with another city down to the South. Absolutely. Yeah, if you got long tree, did expand their right, their thing to Meridian, the Meridian. So they've grown to service the neighboring city to long tree and again that's just something that we definitely can do as well. Because I know those needs are down there too and a lot of them have medical appointments here in our community. And maybe they need to shop at a store nearby there at the time and pick up some groceries or whatever. So, because you know, resources are limited in those neighboring communities as well. All right. Any other questions? If not, this is before Council for your consideration. in those neighboring communities as well. All right, any other questions? If not, this is before Council for your consideration. Council member Poloski. Thank you Mayor, I'd like to move for approval of item 9A. All right, and then Mayor Pro Tem. I'll second that motion. We have a first and a second to approve item 9A if there's no other discussion. We'll call vote. Motion passes 8-0 with one absent. All right. Thank you. Thank you Mayor Mayor Pratton. City Council, thank you. I almost held this back and said I wouldn't vote without frosty. Appreciate you guys thank you all right next item item 10 a a resolution of the city council the city bright and colorado accepting the proposal of BT construction incorporated and approving the procurement of the South Brighton utility installation and SACWSD. Yes, disconnect construction project for the contract amount of $4,037,000 in $18 and authorizing the city manager or designee to execute the contract on behalf of the city. City manager Martinez. Thank you mayor. Here to present this item tonight is our director of utilities, Scott Olson and utilities engineering manager and as parks. All right, good evening mayor mayor pro tem and members of city council. Before I turn this over to you and I just want to give us some quick background on this. This project really comes out of many years of settlement agreements, amended settlement agreements, and intergovernmental agreements between the city of Brighton and South Adams County water and sanitation district related to our respective service areas. So those agreements basically tell us to take over some of the service area that South Adams County has previously been serving So, there are some complicated issues that we're going to do. So, there are some agreements basically tell us to take over some of the service area that South Adams County has previously been serving because that is actually in our water and sewer service area. So, there is some complicated history, but really what we're going to focus on tonight is one of the tasks in the most recent and awarding construction to complete some of that required work. So with that, I will turn it over to Anna Sparks, our Utilities Engineering Manager. Thank you all. Your tonight, South Brighton Utility Installation Construction Award is what we're looking at. We're going to go through a project overview, show you the location, describe it a little bit, and then give you your procurement summary that they prepare for us, and then offer for questions. The project overview, you have some pictures here of the local areas to service Sheraba Park in Fuller Estates in accordance with that amended agreement with South Adams County Water and Sanitation District. We need to do this by December 31st of 2025. It's just around the corner. So we really want to get started with this. All of the existing water and wastewater service lines will be switched from South Adams County Water and Sanitation District to the city. Waste water will be directed to the newer wastewater metro interceptor that's going through there. It's not quite operational yet, but it's built. It's expected to be on my next year. We want to be ready to discharge into that next year. South Adams is going to be up sizing. They're piped through there for their own projected plan to span across i76, so they will have to pay for that up sizing with this construction project. Here we have the project location. It's Molene Street to Oakland Street between 124th Avenue and 120th Avenue. That's the Shrabba Park part of it. Boulder State's is down south further east of Purius Street connecting into our Purius Street water and continuing east along 112th Avenue and stopping shy of the C.DOT right away. This is your procurement summary slide. We did a formal solicitation through BIDNet. We had five submissions, three were deemed responsive. They're listed there on the right. Our staff recommendation is to accept bid two submitted by BT Construction. the commission's three were deemed responsive. They're listed there on the right. Our staff recommendation is to accept bid two submitted by BT Construction. This is the most responsive and responsible of those bids received. It demonstrates extensive experience with similar projects and within the timeline and budget that we had for this project. May I have any questions? Questions, comment from the council? So I'm wondering are there, sounds like we're like this, you know, reconnecting our services because it almost sounds political to me just because they don't want to have what's historically Conver City water serving brighten and stuff. Are there any parts of Brighton water serve anything annexed into Conver City? No, we will only be servicing properties that are already in the city of Brighton. Okay. All right. It almost sounds silly the way we have to do this, but whatever. May I put them? the time. Okay. All right. It almost sounds silly the way we have to do this, but whatever. May I put them? Just to make sure I understand the timing right. We have a commitment to be servicing our area by the end of next year. So we need to do this in next year's. Projects. That is correct. And the question that I always ask just because I don't always time myself back to each line item in the budget. We've budgeted for this for next year or we're ready to do this. We just need to pull a trigger to execute the contract. Also correct. Okay. And then I'll end with thank you for sharing with us tonight. Nice job on the presentation. Thank you. And glad to meet you in this context. And it's to the point. It's great. All right, this side is before council for consideration. Council member green. Thank you very much. I approve resolution. And then council member Fiddler. Thank you, Mayor. I'll second. We have a first and second to approve item 10A. If there's no other questions or discussion, we'll call vote. Motion passes, eight to zero with one absent. Thank you so much. Thank you for your time. Next, general business Item 11A, Quarter Three Financial Report, City Manager Markiness. Thank you Mayor, presenting this item is our Finance Director Katrina Asher. Typically you would see this in a study session, but since we have had a few study sessions that we haven't had a few study sessions over the past couple of months, we thought it'd be appropriate to give you this tonight, and especially since our next study session is also jam-packed to. So with that, I'm going to turn it over to Katrina. Like the whole month of November was voted study sessions. Yes it was. So yes I'm here tonight to give you your third quarter financial update. And as Michael mentioned, this is normally a study session item. There's no decisions being requested tonight. This is purely informational for you. So I'll go through my normal caveats. So this is a report covering financial transactions for the first three quarters. So January through September of this year. This is based on data available as of last month. Mid-November was when we were preparing this report. The results in it are unaudited. So subject to change as we continue closing our books and have our audits, but best information we had at the time. And we'll be focusing in the presentation on governmental funds. We don't typically go through the utilities funds in this presentation, but there is a full report that does address the utilities funds in your packet. But the governmental funds is where we see the sales tax revenue, property tax revenue, and that tends to be where we spend our time with this report. So with that, we'll go through some financial results, and then I also have our revenue manager on here to talk through some sales tax trends. So highlights for our governmental funds, and just for those who haven't heard these presentations before, when we talk about governmental funds, that's our general fund, our capital fund, parks capital fund, and any of those areas that are basically not utilities, it's everything else. So our themes for 2024 are continuing from what we saw in the prior quarter. So development is rebounded. We've had a very, very healthy year for development and permit issuances, which is driving some of our revenues. And I'll talk through that. People are spending. We're seeing our tax revenue go up, which means people are spending more. And projects are progressing, so increases in capital spending, which we'll talk through as well. So through the third quarter, governmental revenues are just shy of $70 million. This is 3.4 million more than at the same time last year, so a bit of an increase. And that increase comes from a number of categories. Sales taxes are up about seven and a half percent. So again, that indicates people are spending more in our area. It's also indicative of us doing more work on sales tax auditing to make sure that our online retailers are all remitting what they should be within the city. We've had some really good progress in sales tax auditing this year. Use taxes are charged on construction. So again, directly related to that development. So as we've had a very strong development year, we are seeing a pretty notable increase in use taxes. Two lines down also with licenses and permits. Big permitting year means big activity, big revenue and licenses and permits. So we're seeing some big gains in those two areas. Property taxes also up. This is a combination of both values being higher in the most recent assessment year, but also new developments. So those properties that were built in 2022 were assessed in 2023 and are remitting taxes in 2024. So we are seeing a significant increase related to growth as well as the value increases that we saw on the most recent assessment year. In your packet, in the report, I do go into a bit of how property taxes are calculated. There's a lot of pieces to that, including an assessment rate that the state sets that is down a little bit, but the value of the home is the most important part of that or the biggest part of that calculation. Also note investment earnings. We've had a very good year on investments. This again, a combination of having a lot in reserve, which we are spending down, but also just a healthy year with investments. So our liquid investments were earning an excess of 5%. If you have high yield savings accounts, we do something similar to that with the city with something called a local government investment pool and those were yielding more than 5% this year. So that's been great for our investment earnings. We're having a very good year in that regard. Intergovernmental revenue is looking at grants primarily and you'll see that's significantly down from last year but grants tend to be very project based and in 2023 we had a significant grant for a property acquisition we knew that wasn't going to recur so we knew that we'd see that decline there for 2024. We're going to move on to the spending side so spending through the third quarter, $68 million that is an increase of nearly $12 million over the same time last year, 20% higher, 21% higher than last year. Biggest increases in capital projects, which we've seen around the city, the Municipal Service Center, near- and completion, Bridget Street widening well underway. Those are very large projects intended to spend down some of our reserves, so we expected to see the capital spending be higher this year. We're also seeing increases in personnel in operating due to a variety of different things on the personnel side. That's one of the larger increases there, adding staff and also cost of living adjustments, market adjustments and all of those things that you see as part of the budget process. So with that, we'll go into this next slide, which is just a consolidated income statement for our governmental funds. And that's where you'll see the tax revenues are largest revenue source in our governmental funds by a long shot at $43 million. And then all of those other categories of revenue adding up to that $69.3 million of revenues through the third quarter on the spending side. Personnel is historically, almost always, our largest expense in our governmental funds, but Capital Outlay has met that, has been equal to that this year with those significant projects we've had underway. So through the third quarter, our reserves have increased by about $1.3 million, as these projects continue spending, we anticipate we'll be eating into reserves by the end of the year. So this pie chart here and showing our revenues in just a little bit different way, looking just really to emphasize the significance of that tax revenue and why we track especially sales tax revenue so closely because it is such an important part of our revenue picture. We can see sales tax is making up 40% of our governmental revenues. Property and use tax is making up an additional roughly 20%. So, pretty significant portion. We can see in there how intergovernmental revenues charges for services and interest earnings make up the remainder of that $69.3 million. This slide here is showing those tax revenue trends over the last five years and again looking at the third quarter of the year. You can see the sales tax revenue does tend to creep up each year. We had a bit of a flat year in 2023, but overall, sales tax revenue does tend to go up every single year. Even in 2020, I don't know, so 2019 on this slide, but even in 2020, we still saw our sales tax revenue go up just a little bit that year. So what was that? Thank you, Amazon, right? That is about the time where we started seeing those online retailers come online and Amazon is one of our top 10 taxpayers. So yeah, online retail has definitely been very healthy for us. As more people move to the city, they shop online. They have those goods delivered to their house and we collect the sales tax on that. So we also, you know, as more businesses come here and people shop here from other communities, also benefits are tax-based. You will see in their the use taxes, how they were a little bit bigger in 2022, down in 23, bigger in 24, again very closely tied to development in what we saw in those areas. So with that again because sales taxes is such an important part, a large part of our revenue picture, I'm going to turn this over to Anna to talk about our sales tax trends. Thank you. Good evening, City Council. I am going to start out with an overview of the sales tax rate in Brighton. So Brighton Sales Tax Rate is 3.75%. It is applicable everywhere in the city. Most of Brighton is in Adams County so the combined rate or the total that somebody would pay is 8.5%. If you're in Weld County there's several rates there that do not apply. So the overall rate that somebody would pay is a little bit less but the city is still getting 3.75. three point seven five. If we go over to the prairie center, we still have three point seven five percent. However, we have a credit piff of 1.25% where the city is crediting that part of its rates. So the city is getting 2.5, and then the 1.25 goes to the district. The district is the district. In addition to that, Prairie Center has an add-on piff which is just additional to all the other rates that apply in that area. Overall, in Prairie Center, the overall rate that somebody would pay is higher. Now of that 3.75% that comes to the city, 2% is general fund, 1% is capital, and 0.75% goes to parks. Now that credit piff, it's actually coming out of capital. So you see in the Prairie Center, we still have 2% to the general fund. We don't have anything going into capital and Parks Capital is also reduced. So you see parks there at 0.5%. The Prairie Center also has a rebate that we do calculate at the end of the year based on the sales made in that area throughout the year. And that would come out of the general fund, the 2%. Let's talk about sales tax. As our finance director mentioned, we are up 7.5% compared to the same time last year. Our sales tax revenues were 33 million, and that is before rebates. There are two rebates that ended in 2023, which means we were rebating them in 2023. We are not rebating them anymore this year. We do have three active sales tax rebates, which are additional to any use tax and property tax rebate agreements that we have in place. And the team continues to do outreach to businesses, do education, encourage compliance, and we have had a lot of success. This not only results in audit revenue, which we have assessed over 800,000 this year, but it also results in ongoing revenue going forward. Because we get these businesses license, we get them to correct any issues that they might have with their reporting going forward. And we continue to add new accounts mostly remote seller accounts that we're adding Here are our trends month by month and you can see here how the yellow line is 2024. We are up compared to prior years following a similar pattern of ups and downs through the months for prior years. Our top 10 taxpayers are listed here. They're listed in alphabetical order, they did not change compared to last quarter. And here we have performance by industry. So we are seeing brick and mortar retail accommodations, food, relatively flat. But what we are seeing the increase is those online sellers. So we do continue to see an increase there. Sales tax from construction is also up, and that's to be expected, just given how development is, and it tends to track fairly well with increases in our use tax and development, and then utilities, sales tax from utilities is also up. Next we have sales tax revenues by city area. So overall we are up seven and a half percent. Most areas in the city did not experience any significant increase or decrease with the exception of the North Brighton area that just continues to rebound as existing businesses grow and as we continue to add new businesses. And that is it. We will take any questions. Well, thank you both for your presentation and the break down and update. So if we're the city revenues come in questions from the council council member green. Thank you very much. We got that first slide there where you had the expenses in the revenue. This one here or this one. Yeah, I just want to point out that those increases are from the previous year, but those are still budgeted. So I don't want them to think that we are overspending our budget here by 12 and 11% and 38% I want those to What that piece of mind that's right. So when we're talking about capital projects Those are projects approved in the budget. We can't spend and personnel in operating as well We cannot spend more than council has approved. So yeah, these are all anticipated. And when the budget is being developed, there's also anticipated increases in revenue. Fortunately, we are exceeding some of those expectations with regards to sales tax, which is great. But yeah, that's all contemplated in the budget. We wouldn't be able to outspend council's approval. Correct. And then the next slide shows you that extra money is going into our reserves. So all that actually is real retaining it for future use. Yes, that's correct. Thank you. Right, the mayor put them. Thank you. I don't have any question. I just wanted to comment that I actually appreciate this happening in one of the city council meetings as well. I realize that it's informational and we're not expected to take action, but I think we have a few more people who may see the City Council meetings, then see this study sessions. People have equal opportunity for each, but I appreciate you sharing this, especially as we near the end of the year showing that overall the City of Brighton has had a very good year. We've been good stewards of the funds available to us. We've had a few, we've had some opportunities to make significant capital improvements across the city last year and this year. And this is a chance to showcase that in public. So I appreciate the detail of the report. Appreciate Anna, you as well. Speaking to Council on a regular basis, a fantastic job. So thank you all very much. Any other questions or comment too? I appreciate we're doing this quarterly again. And so we'll expect a quarter four report in the coming weeks, months, two months out, two months out, whatever. Yeah, late February because of the delays and sales tax. It's due the following month. It just takes us a little bit of time to get that information. But we anticipate late February. We should have a year. February 1st and March, whatever ends up being. That's fine. We appreciate that. All right. No action to be taken here. So thank you. Thank you. Next, we'll go under reports. Start with reports by the mayor. I was at Dr. Codd, the Denver Regional Council government just a couple weeks ago. We had a regional housing needs assessment that was discussed. The 2050 Metro Vision update was brought up and what's funny is that sounds like it's so far away but that's really just like 25 years out. Think of that. And then we have, we're starting to discuss amendments to the tip, the Transportation Improvement Program. So more to come on that. I attended the GIS Open House before Thanksgiving. That was in this very room. And I heard that others from the public came as well. So good for them. I was at the festival of trees. I was at Platt Valley Hospital and my son been on a tree. And then, um, I was at the turkey trot just before Thanksgiving and I didn't run because if you see me running something's wrong. But I did the walk. It's awesome, great people there too. And then Saturday, I was at the among a new year celebration at the Riverdale Regional Park. And I hadn't gone to that in the past, so that was good to do that and good to learn about other cultures. And I appreciate Council Member Green promoting that last year when he went as well. And he went this year. I'm sure he'll have more about that coming up. Coming up, I have in my Metro Mayor's Caucus, CML Policy Committee is meeting on Friday. Course there's the tree lighting Saturday. So come one, come all to the founders Plaza, uh, bridge and main and come see the city tree light up. It's been up and decorated for the last couple of weeks, but, uh, we're going to actually light it up this time. And then a week after that on the 14th is our city light parade. So again, come one, come all to that and we always appreciate the participation in that. Even if you're a guest here and not part of our city you're welcome to come to that too. It's a great community event and it's a way to build a community with one another. And then a week from today Drum roll please is the Raising canes grand opening so if you need some chicken fingers for breakfast that day I'm thinking they're having some giveaways so I Think I think city manager martina says gonna be camping there the night before All right So those are that's my report. Next go to reports by any department directors we have not this evening. Thank you. Well, we heard from one today already. That's true. Yeah. And then reports from our city attorney from all our adventures in life. At a great trip. Happy to be back at No Reports. All right. Port's from our city manager, including boards and commission vacancy update. Thank you, Mayor. So with respect to the boards and commissions update, we have a planning commission member in Ward 2 vacancy. We have a park and parks and rec advisory board. We have one at large member and two alternate members. We have two members open for the Brighton Urban and Eurot Authority and I highly, again, highly recommend that if you're interested in serving on a board, that'd be one of the boards that you take interest in as it really does have a huge effect on our community. We have two members and one alternate member of the Historic Preservation Commission open. We have two members and two alternate members of the Brighton Housing Authority, another very important board. So if you're interested, please go to our website. Look for our boards and commissions page. There you'll find the vacancies. And again, I highly encourage you to get involved if you are not already involved So that's that's first of the updates For councils planning purposes. We're looking at February 25th for the Vision planning session this year. So market calendars now or next year next year this year next year. It's all one year So February 25th is a date that we've picked tentatively. So please let me know if you have any conflicts with that, but that's the date we're holding. As Katrina mentioned, one of the reasons why we're pushing it out to later in February. So we have the Q4 update as well. We like to give you that financial update as you're making those future decisions. We're getting very close to the grand opening of the MSC. So keep your calendars open there because I think we'll have a ribbon cutting hopefully by the end of the year. With respect to an item that was brought up earlier, the DHI development, our director of community development told me today that there is a development agreement amendment request in place currently. And so we anticipate that to be brought to you on the 21st of January. At that meeting, you'll also have an opportunity to discuss the, uh, question as well. So with that, I am done. Thank you. And even in January, we could make a change if, if it so pleases this, uh, you as counsel on your grandfather and fees at any point of the year. All right. So no huge rush on that. Okay. It's correct. All right. And note, although vacancies coming again, so we gotta start promoting the boards and commissions, including our award two. There's three of us that live in award two that vacancy seat over there. So tell your friends about it and I hold you personally responsible if we don't have that seat filled ASAP. You will not be getting a Christmas card for me. All right we appreciate that update. Next reports from our city council start with councilmember Snyder. Thank you Mayor. The Urban Renewal Authority, we did a tour because we're planning on developing a DDA for downtown if it's possible. So we did a tour of Greeley and Longmont's DDA and spent some time with them got some explanations of how they set them up and how they're working. Our urban renewal authority is going to expire as you know in 2027 for the downtown area. And if that happens, we will no longer have a funding mechanism to help businesses improve the downtown area, which would be a shame because they've made some strides. We just had huge jewelry completely restuckled. They're building. It looks beautiful. The Hispanic gift shop repainted. They're getting new signs. I can't think of the name of the main building on Bridge Street just painted from black to white. We as faulted the parking lot and their great improvements. They make downtown look better. We're also, there's one last sister and water tower on one building downtown. We're going to help get that painted and actually have it wrapped with a downtown wrap to kind of improve the aesthetics there. So the reason for all of that is to point out that the urban renewal authority is doing great things to help downtown the lighting of the allies those kind of things and if it expires and we have no replacement it's a problem so a couple of notes on Long Mountain Greeley they have some things we don't have that big right wide streets with wide sidewalks and Greeley has a benefactor. I don't know where they got him, but they're a very wealthy family that loves Greeley. And they've put up a couple of downtown live work communities that have really boosted the tax and senate financing down there, boosted the DDA's ability to fund projects. And they have a lot of walkability and Longmont They've got to think of Boulder right next door to them that is so expensive You get a bloody nose if you want to buy a hamburger So people are moving to Longmont and so we need to figure out as we do this What bright and has that unique that we can promote for downtown to build it. And I think we do in the northeast part of the city have a great deal to offer. So one of the things we're looking at in the urban renewal authority obviously we're a ways away but we are looking at trying to provide up to $500,000 a seed money to the DDA once we get it formed because the DDA with no money is useless. This is a seed I'm planting. We do plan to come to the council and ask them if they could match that, if this process goes through so that when we start the DDA, we actually have money to promote the business that's going to grow downtown and increase the taxes that will support the DDA long term. So long report, but that's what we're working on over there. And I think it's very important that we all do whatever we can to support that effort. Great job. Great job on your report. Oh, and January 7th we're going to do a joint meeting with Burr on January 7th. And there will be a lot of updates at that meeting. 7th or the 14th because 14th is a study session. Yeah. He said to sell that ahead. He said the 7th, but now we got it correct. It's a 14th. All right. Nice. Thank you. good job. Next council member Fiddler. Thank you, Mayor. Nothing to report. Okay. Nice report. Mayor Pro Tem. Thank you. This report is looking more at things that are coming up rather than things that are done for the last couple of weeks, because I haven't had very many meetings, but the Brighton Housing Authority meeting is on Thursday and we're looking at what it takes to get huge station construction underway. I want to call attention to the fact that this weekend we have the holiday bizarre from noon to six at the armory at the performing arts center and then from one to something later than that. Is the tree lighting and festival at the corner of bridge and main. So that's fun and exciting. And I think face is performing, yep, at that one this Saturday. The next Saturday afternoon is the holiday season event at the City Museum and the Festival of Lights Parade beginning I think about four o'clock and running up Bridge Street again. So two exciting weekends of holiday events upcoming and then the City Manager already mentioned but we're going to be discussing the the DHI project and potential amendments to that developer agreement and we'll have a chance to hear in a study session format rather than one where we have to take an action and have a debate. What's happening with that project? So I just wanted to the folks who stayed here to know we would only need three city council members if we were going to try to push something onto an agenda before the end of the year. It's already scheduled to take place in January and as the mayor mentioned, if we at that time want to make recommendations to the staff to make adjustments to impact fees, we can do that and still have that be retroactive. So it's not that the only opportunity to make any adjustments to those fees is a week from tonight and a meeting two weeks from tonight. There's ample opportunity to discuss what are the expectations, what's been the full timeline, what do we need to have come, what are the impact fees that we're discussing. So that's already on a calendar and we don't need to take any action to get it on that calendar. And in my opinion, it would be forcing something about which we don't have complete information to try to force that onto our last council meeting of the year. And I don't know that things go well when we don't have full information. So that's why I'm not pressing to make any kind of motion as we already have that calendar. This is definitely a project that we care about. It is in my ward and is in my neighborhood next to my kiddos school. I am certainly paying attention to what's happening there. We want the right things to happen, but we don't need to take an emergency action in order to have the right conversation about it. That's all I have for tonight. Thanks. Thank you. I have nothing this evening. Speechless. That's a member green. Thank you, Mayor Rotem. I really appreciate that clarification on that one. Tonight, I want to do a shout out to the Kiwanis Elks, the Kiwanis, the Elks and our community members including our own Kitty Ladon who spent the nights before Thanksgiving, cooking up dozens of turkeys and all the trimmings and then that morning of Thanksgiving we delivered more than a thousand complete meals to those people in need which is great and it's a full meal. It's the stuffing, the potatoes, vegetables, pie, cranberry sauce, the whole nine yards, corn. It's just, it's a great thing, and it's a great thing to see our community come together and do that, and we couldn't do it without all the community's support in those two great organizations. Like I said, I was at the among New Year's. Tomorrow morning, I'm going to the AC Rep Legislative Breakfast Preview. That'll be in Northland. Tomorrow night, I have to go to the Colorado Association of School Board Conference. But I really want to shout out those Christmas lights are going up. And I tell you what, it's my favorite thing to do, especially when I'm driving home, is seeing all those Christmas lights. And again, we've proven it that Ward one has the best Christmas lights hands down. So if you ever want to take a drive, come on down to Ward one and see all the beautiful lights and all the care and concern that Ward one residents put into making their houses look wonderful for the holiday season. So that's my favorite part. thank you. You know the neighbor at the end of my street can probably top that he's done pretty good every year. It's Ward 2. Someone said it was a ghetto it is not the ghetto it's a gray place in our community. And then Main Street lights are looking good too. Councilmember Poloski. I think I'll take you on on that. I'm not sure. Okay. Okay. Anyway, thank you Mayor. I appreciate this. Tomorrow night I have a parks and record board meeting. And then on Thursday I'm going to go to a business after hours for the Koanus at Independent Bank. And of course next week is E470. So there's many things I had here to do and then I've been prompted by my colleague to the left of me to make sure I get my project done for him. So anyway. So Chris was out. No, you're right. It's not. I'm already so anyway. It will get done. Thank you very much. We appreciate whatever time you choose to put into that. If anybody doesn't want theirs in the my way, councilmember Worth. Thank you, Mayor. I also have not had much going on since our last meeting but coming up I'd also have the Parks and Rec Board meeting tomorrow. The Brighton Youth Commission with their new officers now in place is getting ready to support a number of city events coming up so we'll see him out there at the tree lighting at the festival of lights. And I think there was a couple more on there as well. So they're getting excited about all that. I'm also looking forward to attending the Brighton employee awards next week. And unfortunately, I'm going to be out of town for the festival of lights, but I'll be with you guys in spirit. I'll be warm. And you guys will be here on those floats. So that's all I've got. Thank you very much. I'm never cold on the parade nights because I'm always moving. It's great. Hopefully the weather's still mild like it will be the Saturday. All right, we appreciate everybody here. Reminder, we have study session resuming next week, and then in two weeks will be our last official meeting of the year. I encourage us to wear Christmas sweaters. Please, I'll be wearing mine in two weeks. We are adjourned.