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Questions, comments. Sounds good. Awesome. Okay, and our next item up is our monthly contract update for the month of March. Presenting this item is our finance director. Thank you city manager. Council in your packet is a report of contracts that were executed during the month of March. Again this includes contracts that were executed through our normal procurement process, not smaller items for purchase order that were executed by purchase order. So this would be the ones that were executed either through city council or by the city manager under his authority. Happy to answer any questions you have. Questions, comments? I had one question which was on the change order for Cherry Meadows Park. It just seemed like a large change order and I didn't know what went into that. With elite industries, well I'm going to call up Kyle Sylvester to comment on that project. It's the Cherry Meadows Park construction for elite industries for $2 million just over $2 million. $2 million? Now is this $2 million? A change order of $2 million seemed. So with the change orders this is showing the new total, not the amount added. I don't know what the change was. Okay. Right. So when we're showing a change order, we're showing, again, always the new total of what's under contract. Yeah. Same with master price agreements. We're showing the total amount that's available under those agreements. So yeah, it would be. would be. To me in total for the park not surprising at all to me in change order. That would be different. Yes. That's not normal. It was just for some new grading and some new. The water raised significantly on us and we had to redesign the park basically so the water doesn't go into our path. So we had to reconfigure some things and that's where a lot of that came from. And we had a new soil amendments to the park as well because it's basically a gravel pit. So yeah, so that's that's it in a nutshell, but not two million dollars worth. Okay, not two million new. That's the total. It's a great looking park as I go past. I just you probably saw me turn away when she said two million. Yeah, exactly. What was that? No, you're good. Excellent. I was the only question I had if nobody else has anything. Thank you very much for sharing this with us. I appreciate getting to see the detail without having to dig deep into the detail on every one of them. Thanks. And Mayor Pro Tem, the actual change order was for 21,900. That's a whole lot more sense. That makes a whole lot more sense. And if I had remembered that that's what the headings were, then wouldn't have caused any grief. Okay, next up our legislative update, Mr. City Manager, we have guests for this, yes? We have a steam guest for this this evening. The one of them always had four. Well, right. Right, right. You know, always wonderful purple labels here with us tonight. They've been wonderful advocates for the City of Brighton. Myself, the City Attorney, Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem all represent the and we're going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going over what's happening at our fine capital. And as I mentioned, I do think that the consensus is they've been doing a wonderful job in representing our interests while keeping us informed. So in front of you, you have a memo that has been printed off for your viewing pleasure and Matt and Ellie will both go over what is in that memo tonight and I will turn it over to Matt and Ellie. All right, good evening everyone. Good evening. Thank you, Senior Manager Martinez, Mayor Pro Tempedia and Council Members. Thanks for having us here tonight. Again, I'm Matt LaCruve. Part of the Purple Label team that represents the city's interest down at the Capitol. Very robust. We're here. We're on the back end of the legislative session. We have two weeks in a day left to go. 15 days, but who's counting? We have definitely been, it's been a very different session compared to others. We've seen 700 bills introduced so far. Big chunk of those about 50 plus have been introduced that affect local government. The good news on those, a lot of those bills have either died on the calendar or have been killed by votes. And so we've been very effective working with our partners at CML and other municipal lobbyists to kill bad bills that affect municipality operations in a bad and in a negative way. So tonight what we're going to do in our in a memo that we're presenting this evening, we're going to talk about some of the bills that are still that we say are still in play that affect municipalities and land use. We also have a live bill tracker and I'll make sure that city management, our tennis disperses that link out, but it has all the bills that we've been tracking, we've been tracking about 50 bills that would affect the city of Brighton. And again, good, good chunk of those have been killed. And so you can go through that, that report yourself and look at that. And we'll also be back at the end of session to give you a report of an a rundown of all the bills that were successful and were not. But tonight we're going to go through a few land use bills and we'll talk a little bit about the budget. But some of these bills that are still in play and I'll turn it over to my partner Ellie. Hi, it's good to be with you all. I'm Ellie Reynolds also part of the purple label crew here tonight. You remember this is about our I believe our third year representing Brighton and almost every year that we've came to you, we've talked about housing and land use. So we're gonna have another one of those nights tonight. And some of that you'll hear will be also repetitive or bills that have came back and resurrected themselves from years past and have been split out from maybe some larger bills. So if they sound familiar, they probably are, but they've been changed or altered so that they have a little bit more viability. Starting the first one here is House Bill 251169. Well, it has, you can see housing development on faith and educational land. This is also down at the Capitol. And in podcast and news, you might have heard it called the Yig Bee Bill, which is called Yes in God's Backyard. And it is a bill that has circulated around from different Democrat legislatures and has made its way to Colorado. It's really an idea that came from the state of Washington as well as New York. And it is carried by representative Andrew Basnecker and Senator Julian Zalas, both Democrats. The city and the legislative committee has taken a position of oppose. I will go ahead and start with a little bit of an overview of the bill. And then go through the amendments that have changed from where the start of the bill was. So the idea of the yes in God's backyard was really to increase and have an administrative review for a land that was either owned by a school district, a university, or a faith-based organizational institution. How that started is you can imagine school districts often are land banking land but can't maybe don't have the bonds to build on them. Universities in mountain towns were really eager about this legislation as well as the faith-based organizations were hoping to put some affordable housing on their sites. So that's how the bill started. With heavy pushback from a lot of local municipalities, of course, Brighton being one of those. And really the piece to remember is that this is a preemption of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the policy of jurisdiction to be 2000 plus populations. It insured local governments can regulate short term rentals. That was for the mountain communities. And then most specifically one that we talked pretty extensively about with Mayor Pro Tem was that there was a requirement on housing built that it had to be affordable and could not be a luxury product. And so, those are the amendments that made it on to the bill. And it has passed to the House is awaiting its Senate debate. But we are hearing that it might not have enough votes to pass in the Senate. So, this is one to Matt's point is still in play and we are working heavily on your behalf. All right. The next item is House Bill 1272. This is construction defects in middle market housing. So this bill addresses as it stated the construction defects here in Colorado. This is sponsored by Representative Shannon Bird of Westminster and Senator James Coleman of Denver. And construction defects has been top of a conversation for many years, given that we don't build condos here in Colorado as much as we used to, given that the regulations that were imposed by the General Assembly over a decade ago on construction of new condos and affordable living. And so this is a first good attempt. We've seen different attempts in past years on addressing construction defect and how we can invite builders back to start building condos again. And so they met in the middle and this has some bipartisan support. This is a good start. This isn't gonna solve the crisis. The housing crisis here in Colorado, but we're saying that it's a good start. It's starting the conversation, at least we're getting somewhere to roll back some of those restrictions on affordable housing and bring back those insurance, the insurers back to ensure those developments. And so what this bill is doing is it reforms the litigation process. It adjusts the status choose limitations for construction defect claims to 10 years or six years of a complaint warrant is provided. It also tolls the period during a claim mitigation effort. So it allows now the builder, if there is a claim, it allows the builder to work with the residents to mitigate and fix those issues on construction defect. There's also requirements that they must have a third party inspector that's outside of the developer and then it implements a builder incentive program and establishes a former offer and counteroffer when they want to resolve these claims. And so definitely a good start here. This bill has made it both through the House and the Senate and now just needs to go back to the House to approve the Senate amendments. But I think this is we're going to definitely see more legislation in coming years addressing construction to you fact. I will tell you that this one was a bit of a struggle. I think that even in the Democrat caucus, they did not have as much support as they would like to see something like this move forward. So definitely a lot of pushback from both ends, but this is a good start. The next one we have for you is one. This is one of the ones that we have brought back that died last legislature. And this was it's this year. It is House Bill 251273, residential building stair modernization. This is the stairway bill. We brought it to you last year, said that it had died in committee. This is one that was brought back to life. Still have some heavy opposition. The legislative committee has also taken a pose on this position. It requires a municipality with a population of 100,000 or more to adopt a building code that would allow for a single stairway access in a residential building unit of five stories or less. That change comes from last year's bill was 12 stories or less with heavy opposition. They moved the number and thought that they could move a lot of the opposition. But ultimately there is still quite a bit of opposition on the bill, mostly coming from the fire districts you can imagine for safety. To give you an idea that the goal of the single stairway, just as a reminder for you all, the goal with the sponsors, which is Representative Basenecker and Senator Matt Ball, two Democrats on the bill. The goal is really to be able to eliminate another stairway access point by increasing supply is their intent. So I would just say that is the intent is to increase supply supply but still a lot of opposition to the bill because of the safety concerns. Notable amendments that have been put on the bill in the house are structure and material requirements, size limitations for the stairway width so that if there is an issue fire can come up people are still allowed to come down. Fire safety enhancements in these buildings and then inspection and tenant protections for information on what buildings would have the single access. So this bill has passed the House is awaiting Senate. I think we are also hearing there is a lot of opposition and the committee that it is assigned to is an easier committee for things to not make its way out of. So we're going to continue to work those committee members on your behalf. Otherwise called the Kill Committee. Yeah, that bill is, it's actually going on right now in committee and so we'll find out the outcome of that. But as you can imagine, strong opposition from municipalities, the Cardiff Municipal League, fire worked with the sponsors to get it to a place as far as to address safety concerns. But I would say that the fire cheats association is not fully on board with this. And so there are a lot of concerns. I know this came out of the governor's package last year that really is trying to push for affordable housing Developer will the governor and developers believe that they can get at least one more unit per her floor if they eliminate An additional stairway out of out of apartment building so very interesting concept All right Next item here is House Bill 1295. This has been a fun one that we've been working on. It's the Food Truck Operations Bill. So this was introduced recently. This is sponsored by Representative Mani Routinel out of Carmer City and I believe he does not have a Senate or a co-sponsor on this yet. So we've been watching this really closely. It got introduced without any stakeholder. But essentially what this bill does is it creates a reciprocal licensing mechanism for food truck operators. So if you own a food truck and let's say you receive permits and licensing from Adams County, that automatically means you can operate in the city of Brighton without oversight from city officials. So that's definitely a no-no. And so we've been pushing back very hard on this. We have everybody working down at the Capitol on this. We think that it's gonna go for discussion tomorrow. We are counting every vote that we can't. We have a lot of Democrats. All the Republicans have committed to vote no on this. Our goal is we need to get 11 Democrats to vote no on this. So we're counting everyone. Everyone counts on that. There has been some amendments, but nothing in concession on what we need. You know, local governments are prohibited if this bill passes from prohibiting food trucks and zones where food establishments are permitted. So essentially you can have a food truck parked outside of a restaurant. Restricting the number of days a food truck can operate yearly and you cannot prohibit imposing any distance restrictions between food food trucks and other establishments unless it's 50 feet. So definitely concerning there, we have been opposed and been strong opposed. We do not want to amend this. I don't think there's a really good way to fix this. But we have all municipalities on board to oppose this as well. Questions? Not only food trucks, I understand that, but what I'm seeing in our city are far too many individual cars pulling over selling food. They're not licensed, they're not properly. Who knows where this stuff is being prepared. I have a real concern for that too. So I just wanted to throw that in while you were talking about that. Excellent. Thank you. Other questions? Okay. Well those are the bills that are still in play that we're still watching. Obviously there are several and I'll make sure that you all get the link but we have about 50 bills that we've been watching and some fun ones I know that the legislature this year tried to extend the hours that bars could stay open an extra hour that bill did die There were a couple bills that limited You know police power but those bills were were effectively killed as well and so A lot of local government preemption bad bills did fall in the way site so thankfully on that But we'll share our build tracker here. It looks looks like a spreadsheet and you'll be able to go through and it tells you the the premiums and bad bills did fall on the wayside. So thankfully on that. But we'll share our bill tracker here. It looks like it's spreadsheet and you'll be able to go through and it tells you the bill title and what happened to the bill. And then lastly, we'll just talk briefly about the state budget. I know you've probably been seeing it on the news and in the papers. Obviously it's no secret that we are in serious trouble when it comes to budgeting. We are the state itself this year was in a deficit of $1.2 billion. It seemed like from when we ended last session, it just kept growing and growing and growing. We were at like 900 million, then we went to a billion, then 1.2 billion. Finally, when we got to the budget season, they did have to balance it. The legislature has to do two things each year. They have to balance the budget and pass the School Finance Act. So they did pass the state budget last week, went through both chambers and went through the Senate and the House. And usually budget season is fun. You work with legislators to amend to add things, you know, for special projects, whether it's for municipalities or different programs in the state. There was none of that this year. There was no debate. Obviously, legislators tried to move money from different pockets to feel different holes, but there was just no way in doing so. So our total budget this year is $43 billion, $43.9 billion to be exact. Thankfully, K-12 and it was funded not to a good place that we wanted to, but there was no major cuts there. Medicaid as well, there was 1.6 increase in Medicaid provider reimbursement rates. Consuming as far as transportation projects go, they delay certain projects until 2030. So that's a little that's alarming there. But in your memo here, I won't go through all of these, but it'll show you that all the State departments that essentially have programs that implement programs that affect local governments are in here and so you'll see each individual cut for the 2025, 2026 fiscal year and you can't all the way down and you look and we're at total cuts we're looking about $138 million in cuts for municipalities this year. A big one we'll see to go for other funding. They cut the severance tax fund. There was about 15 million cut from that that municipalities received to fund first responders radio program. And so it's things like that, but I welcome you to read that and see what's been cut. And I think we're gonna be in the same situation for the next year or two as far as budgeting goes. I think a lot of it has to do with shortfall from, you know, we got a lot of federal funding when COVID hit. We had a lot of programs set up and now we can't afford that. So. And I will say the silver lining in the doom and gloom on the budget that we will have continued issue for the next couple years is we have seen to the point that Matt was talking about where we've seen a lot of these bills that we will have continued issue for for the next couple years is we have seen to the point that Matt was talking about where we've seen a lot of these bills that we maybe would have opposed in the past dying in committees. A lot of that was due to the fiscal note that was attached to them. So if there was a heavy fiscal note that required either a new department within a division, it required some FTE or whatever the case may be, it had no path forward. And so it has definitely slimmed the amount of bills that are successful in the legislature this year. And it has also made the legislature need to be more fiscally conservative on what growth that they're gonna see within their departments and the divisions. And if you look in this, the majority of them when it came from either CDP, H or dole, we're really attached to an FTE. All right, that's what we have for you this evening. Any questions? Hey, questions, comments from council. Okay. I would just say on the budget one, I think it's sort of in the good years, video game parlance is sort of save the princess. Let's go do this. Let's go do something more exciting. And this here really is more of the energy of slaying the dragon. Keep back the enemy at the door. I would thank you both as representatives, our view from as a legislative committee representing the city of Brighton really is fun, is on two core principles. The first one is to preserve local control wherever we possibly can. And then the second one is to defend against unfunded mandates wherever possible. So those are the things that we drive on. We don't get into red and blue politics. We leave that to our lobbyists to go and deal with that, but those are our core principles. I would urge those of us sitting here on council and any of our folks in the community to note that while the single staircase bill got some amendments that the fire departments and fire chiefs pushed really hard if you're going to do this for the love of God at least put these protections in place but their position is still strongly don't put people in that kind of danger we will see people die. So the fire unions are steadily still in opposition while the fire chiefs have said, okay, we've gotten the best compromise we think we can get. So definitely those are worth context to Senator Bright and to Senator Molica to Daphna, Michaelson, some of the people who represent around this area and may still be able to help keep this from passing the Senate. It did pass the house. And then the food truck operations, again, we're looking for maintaining local control, making sure that the standards we've set for businesses in the city are those that a restaurant would have to meet because there may be more, say more rural or less urban areas, counties versus cities that have more or less rigorous standards for the food trucks than we might put forth and the importance of being able to protect our residents with those standards is critically important. So that one I think still has an opportunity in the house and so representative Barone is our representative for House District 48 and potentially worth contact to do something. Yes, ma'am. You know, I just wanted to add, when you see these individual cards that are selling goods, they're competing with our restaurants that are paying sales tax to us. So that's what bothers me is they're not on the same level as the restaurants that are having to pay. And anyway we need to see how we can go about addressing that. Right. Certainly the food trucks that have businesses, business licenses in town are paying sales tax. They are are paying all of that. You're right individuals who don't go through that that registration would be a different story. But we realize sales I'm sorry, I was just trying to get rid of all of that. You're right, individuals who don't go through that, that registration would be a different story, but we realize sales tax revenue from all of them who pay the sales taxes, I suppose there are some who fail to do that, but we have a fantastic audit team that cases after all of them. But definitely appreciate the representation. I think that this team for the last several years has been very good at advocating for us at telling us when it's time to come in and advocate on our own behalf and we've gone and done that. But I think we've been pretty successful in mitigating some of the legislation and in killing some of the legislation as has come through. So I appreciate you very much. Thank you. We look forward to coming back a couple of weeks, probably maybe in June after the session is wrapped. And we've invited Senator Brighten, representing Burrana join us as, can't be here tonight. Obviously they're working late nights. It's kind of the race of the finish now, but we'd like to have them with us so we can talk about that. And we love talking about next session because it starts the day after that. I will say, Kudos to your enforcement team going back to the food truck bill. Part of the reason the bill was introduced as well, really was used as a, I guess in their eyes, a negative example that our city of Brighton has strong enforcement and that they want to be able to override that. And so, Kudos to the City of Brighton, your team for making that, making sure that your residents and communities is safe and protected. Excellent. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, our next item, item. Here's pension board bookkeeping change. Mr. City Manager. Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem. Tag team effort. We have our finance director along with assistant city manager, Serene giving the next presentation. So our current record keeper has been, they are belong before me, 1998. We have updated the plan obviously many times. And as required by procurement, we look at it every five years. And then the board itself looks at it at least every quarter. So we have a pension board consisting of three employees that are elected by the members. And again, the members, if you read the packet, are not the police officers, but all other full-time benefited employees. We have an invest serving as our financial advisor. They get paid a simple fee to do that. And they look at all of our items regularly. Every quarter we get a huge report, and we make decisions based on their recommendations. We have the responsibility to monitor the investments and the providers, and we receive fiduciary training regularly. Go ahead. So as Karen mentioned, we'd been with Mission Square as our record keeper for quite some time and periodically based on our procurement requirements, we are required to revisit that contract just like any other contract. And in this case, we came up on our five years and did an RFP formal request for proposals for record keepers. We had a very good response, five different firms responded including our current firm. We evaluated those carefully. We interviewed our finalists, did a lot of reference checks, and through that process, the board is recommending making a change for Mission Square as our record keeper and going with Empower as a new record keeper for our pension retirement plans. They were a very strong respondent and had some really great services that they provide employees that we'll talk about as well. But this slide to show that we went through and get a pretty extensive and we felt very thorough process thinking about it from the perspective of our members which includes both current employees as well as our retired employees. Right, and it is a big deal, obviously, it doesn't happen very often. So we were very careful to do our due diligence and an additional considerations where the overall cost of the plan. And again, it doesn't cost the city. The fees are taken out of the employees' contributions. So the record keeper with empower is in house. The record keeper with missionower is in-house. The record keeper with Mission Square is not. They hire a third party. So we felt that that would save our members money. Their customer service, they go through even longer training than most places in the industry. And Mission Square does not offer specific advice outside of managed accounts. So you have to receive a certain amount. You have to have a certain amount in your retirement account for them to give you that kind of advice, whereas Empower doesn't matter how much you have in your plan. Empower has a strong assist with the transition. It's going to take a while. We also were, which is why it's taken a little bit for this to come to you, is that we just had an ERP such system put in, which you're supposed to do for your pay. So we're doing our due diligence and make sure that this really is the best plan there is based on the recommendations of the board. We would love to bring it to you on consent next time and yes you have the wrong version of that in your packet. This is the correct version. From a contractual standpoint I wanted to reiterate so the cost of this is Karen said is paid by the members through their contributions. It's not a cost to the city. So we're not necessarily bringing it to you because of a cost to the city meeting a certain threshold. But we are bringing it to you because code requires council approve benefit related plans like this. So because it does also get affect every every employee all of our retired employees that are still invested. It does have a pretty broad. And again, I feel like we went through a very thorough process and empower had a lot of nice benefits, a great new interface and really fantastic support for us to transition and for our members. And we do not contribute to social security. We opted out of that back in 1998, which is why this is really important. This is your retirement and employees can be as conservative as they want or as risky as they want its their choice. So the action that would come to the City Council as a resolution to change this? Yes, on consent. Really, I'm coughing less except if you asked me to. We are changing the plan and the record keeper and both and the plan is what you have to approve Okay Council member Polesky. Thank you Mayor Portemps. So what what exists currently? With mission square roles over into empower. Yes now some of their plans are proprietary. And what we as the pension board will be looking at with our advisor is similar options. So they have about four proprietary plans, but the rest are very similar and an easy switch over. So at least we're certain that mission square will allow. I mean, is there any? Yes, that was part of our reference checks as well. When we checked with five other municipalities that recently made the change to see if there are any concerns and how it went. We do have a good relationship with our representatives currently and I don't foresee any issue but we are going to be sending out a lot of information to our employees so that they will keep track of what they're currently doing before we switch so that there's no confusion. Thank you, appreciate it. And I think one of the primary roles that we have on the pension board is reviewing those investment options to make sure that they're good options and over the right variety of options, that there's the right amount of options and all of that And that's what in a vest is our consultant really helps us do they keep an eye on those and as we move from mission square to empower Many of those options will stay the same but as Carrie mentioned there are a few there are proprietary We'll be looking at what is as close to a one-to-one match for those so that those members When they switch over are getting you know similar risk profiles similar options is what they had before. And we'll have a lot of on-site training with Empower. so that those members, when they switch over, are getting similar risk profiles, similar options as what they had before. And we'll have a lot of on-site training with empower representatives. That was another thing. They are located in Colorado, not all of the other ones are. And we thought it was very important that our employees have the option to have some face-to-face opportunities to Thank you. I'm curious what percentage of the employees have this proprietary plans? I mean, how many is that gonna affect? I don't know off the top of my head. Those are basically target date funds, like employees that decided, hey, I'm gonna retire in 2035. and you pick it, you pick it for me. So a lot of them we're going to try to find it something very similar. And I'm sure there's a product out there. And they'll all get a notice of the change. Thank you. Yeah, so they'll be told this is what you're just going to go to. And if they wanted to choose a different option within the plan, they could obviously do that. People can make changes in their retirement options at any time. Gantzman Bavarth. Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem. I'd say in my business I've had quite a bit of experience with Empower and they are very good at doing this. They're among the best out there in doing this. The other companies are fine companies. Nothing wrong with them. But Empower is really strong in this area. So just if anybody got any questions about that, it really, and the, it's like said, the plans like the certain target date funds, especially, Empower has got a target date fund too. It's a different fund, but it's certainly a one-to-one match. Right, right. So thank you. Good to hear. Go ahead. Sorry for my coughing fits. They're almost passed. I did want to clarify. So when we talk about the plan, that's a legal document that is adopted under IRS rules that sets out like eligibility requirements. who's a part of it, how it works. So we are transitioning the plan and then as we transition to empower, then we will also be transitioning the investment options. So when we're talking about like the target date funds, those are the investment options that are part of it. But one is a legal document and that legal document because it is the document that allows us to opt out of Social Security, that's why it's very important that you are aware that we're changing our plan because that's the big, big step. Any other questions? I'm just the general scaryness of trying to make any changes to anything associated with the retirement account at this time. And I was worried about any sale cementing a loss. On the other hand, it's a good time to buy in the transition. So it probably doesn't affect anybody negatively in the process of moving from one to the other just scary personally. Yeah. Yeah. And we took it very seriously. We believe me that we take our responsibility to heart. Okay. Did you have another question? Okay. Excellent. Thank you. I didn't see any opposition to putting that on consensus agenda. Yeah. Okay. and Council on Earth has in the follow-up. Just follow-up to our attorney's comment. Are there any major changes to the plan? Part of that, forget the investments. We're trying to make it as similar as possible, and the fees will be lower to the persons. Okay, but there was some like we're taking benefits away, or adding benefits and we're just trying to. No, changing eligibility and anything like that. This is just switch over to record keeper and updating investments to. All right. All right. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Okay, city manager Martinez, it looks like we are next talking about our strategic plan. We are talking strategy now. So, Pierce Miller from the budget team is going to give you an update on our strategic plan. Real quick, going back to that last item, I talked to the mayor earlier today and he wanted me to start a rumor that the reason why we're moving to empower is because the Broncos are moving to Brighton, you know, the Empower Field thing. So if you're listening, I'm starting that rumor personally. It's no truth to it, but it could be a rumor anyway. Turn it over to Pierce. Okay, yes, sir. Okay, good evening, members of the Brighton City Council. Again, I'm Pierce Mill, the budget and performance manager, Analysts in the City Mayor's Office. And I'm here to discuss the proposed updates to the 2023 through the 2027 strategic plan that we just recently discussed back in February for the council's strategic planning session at the MSC. And just a reminder for those that might be unfamiliar, the way we do strategic planning here at the City of Brighton. We start off looking at our vision areas, which is like in a 10-year outlook, where council asks themselves where Brighton sees its future state going forward, and then moving on into the goals, those are more of looked at through a three to five-year lens, where the city asks, how do we need to move forward to achieve the vision vision. How do we need to move these goals forward to achieve the vision areas. And then tasks are reviewed on a one to two year basis where we ask how the departments can help advance these goals. So since that meeting in February, we have been working closely with the as well as a city manager on Incorporating all the feedback that you guys provided us And the proposed changes to the existing city plan reminder The majority of any changes or updates were really in the measures of success Where we just updated the progress and the statuses on those so I I'm not going to get into those details today. I will show you guys the one major change that we had and that is going to be in our economic acceleration vision area. I passed it. So the one change that was made was had to do with our downtown area. You guys mentioned the desire to see a task that stated basically the city support for a downtown development authority. And we felt that this would fall perfectly under the current goal that states downtown features vibrant businesses, residences, and civic services, and is a regional destination. So we added that task to support the downtown development authority underneath that strategic area goal. And that is really the only major change that we had based on your feedback. So I'll now turn it over to you guys for discussion. I'm going to introduce what I hope is not a pedantic comment on that, but it's really supporting the creation of a downtown development authority because we don't have a downtown development authority to support today. Okay, so just changing the language a little bit. Yeah, I think we need to support establishing a downtown development authority. Other questions, comments on strategic plan? I also caught the one task that wasn't a verb, but we'll leave that alone. Okay, excellent. I guess there are not questions. I think some of the folks who are here tonight were here for that strategic planning session. So I hope that they are also helping us to carry out the idea to the community that we are looking not only at what's happening today, but what do we need to do for five years from now? How does that lead to where we envision ourselves being 10 years from now? And this is very visible. It's on the city website. It's pretty easy to get to. If you click on the dog and ask for the strategic plan, it will take you directly to the strategic plan. And there are status reports on all of those goals and tasks and what's in progress, what's coming up next, what do we have some lot of data and data and we have a lot of data and data and we have a lot of data and data and we have a lot of data and data and we have a lot of data and data and we have a lot of data and data and we have a lot of data and data and we have a lot of data and data and we have a lot of data and data and we have a lot of data and data and we have about half the utilities team with us this evening. Director Olson's here tonight with us, as well as our utilities engineering manager, Anna Sparks, and our utility staff engineer, Jamie Dempsey, to discuss this next item, and I will turn it over to the team. Yes, thank you. Good evening. My name is Jamie Dempsey, utility staff engineer, and tonight we will present the core city phase two water line replacement construction services award. This will consist of the project overview, the project location, the procurement summary and staff recommendation, and then questions at the end. The project overview is that the project will replace and remove and replace old and ageing undersized water lines existing water services and replace and relocate fire hydrants. We will target the school area during summer break. In more particular, this school area will be along eighth Avenue. The project limits will be along 8th Avenue between Southern and Bush Street, along 7th Avenue, again, between Southern and Bush Street, and on 6th Avenue, between Southern and Skill. We went through a formal bid process through BITNET, which received 10 submissions, seven of which have been deemed responsive. And the staff recommendation is at the future City Council meeting to accept a bid 10, which is submitted by Wagner Construction, as it has been deemed the most responsive and up those received. And with that, I will go to questions. Thank you, Council members, questions. What is our go ahead, Council member, today? Oh, a lot of this is in my words. So I'm going to get questions for how long for each stretch, like, say, eighth or seventh or sixth between Bush and Eggbert, how long will that last the construction? Like how long is it going to be? I don't remember the exact schedule, but I would say in general they're going to work blocked to block and I would say a block would take about two to three weeks in general. Okay, that's great. It just gives me an idea. It's on one of a time range. Thank you. Okay. My questions are less about the finances themselves, but more about how do we communicate to people who are impacted as we're doing the construction on that block? How do we tell them what may be the impacts to the road? How often or how much do we repeat that? How much advanced notice and then is there an impact to water service in any of the houses and would we inform people of that as well? So generally before we go to construction we will we will snail mail a public meeting invites it'll probably be here at City Hall for and that will be to all residents within a certain locate within a certain feet of those who will be affected by this. There will also for road closures be electronic signs put up before Put up before the construction movement with type three barricades and Did I answer all your questions do you have one more? I think so and we we've got a male notice Do we also do a door? Tag or something to that effect telling people So door hangers will generally go up as well I do remember you asked about a disruption to service lines. With this project in particular, we are doing temporary above ground water line in which the outage of water should be very minimal. OK, so we're not looking at long-term disruptions to service. And do we do say half of a road at a time, or do we close an entire block at a time? I would guess block to block. Yeah, so, sorry. When we meet with this contractor and have our pre-construction meeting, those are going to be the kind of things that we're going to go over is really their plan of attack. A lot of these things we leave up to them because really they know how to do the construction the best. So we'll make sure that what they're telling us they're going to do is acceptable to everybody here. So. Okay. Just trying to be as as whereas we possibly can for accessibility for ensuring that that people are able to take care of formula, take care of families, whatever they may need to do during that time frame. And I think this zone doesn't catch the libretto construction but trying to also look in some of the core parts town, we have more elderly population, more senior population. Absolutely. So when we meet with the contractor, that's what we'll be reviewing for. Make sure that we're not violating any ADA. People will be able to get into their driveways. People will be able to take their trash cans out of those sorts of things. Excellent. Okay. I think that was all I had. Anybody with any more? Excellent. Many emails that's going to be disappointed in the lack of questions. That's all I'm going to say. And if you guys don't mind, I know this is a high dollar project, but we would like to add it to the consent agenda if nobody has any objections to that. Do we have any restrictions on high dollar for consent? I don't remember. You don't have a set limit. I believe our former council member had one that he used to enforce. Yeah, and private individual council member standards are less applicable and irrelevant. Okay, council members, I'm not seeing any raised eyebrows to that going on consent agenda. So, okay, thank you. And one last second while Jamie is still up here, I'd just like to take a second and congratulate him. He just passed his FE, which is Fundamentals of Engineering Exam. So that's one big step on his way to becoming a professional engineer. Thank you for your time. Excellent. I reserved my 42-part questions for other issues. Nothing there tonight. We have exhausted those line items, Mr. City Manager, do we have policy items that were submitted to discuss? We don't, but I'd just like to point out that Jamie puts the fund in fundamentals. So good job with that. We have no other policy items that have been submitted to me, although I will say that looking at some upcoming meeting dates, I know that it is the 20th in particular of May. The school district is having their graduation, well let me back up bright and high schools graduation is on Tuesday May 20th and I know that there are a few council members that will not be able to attend the meeting because of the graduation ceremony so we may have to do a bit of moving around from the 20th. I know that we canceled the 27th and the 27th should be on your calendars because we have a wonderful water treatment plant and let's property tour. We still want to keep that tour. But we also might need to squeeze in a meeting in lieu of the 20th because we'll have council members out. I just want you to be aware that that's happening as well as it was brought to my attention today that. The opportunities for meetings in November are pretty crazy. And I know it's weird to talk about in November. But if you look at November's calendar, we have the election that falls on the Tuesday. If you remember last year, we took that Tuesday off, but we had the meeting on a Monday instead. We had a short meeting followed by the National League of Cities conference followed by, oh no, I'm sorry, Veterans Day, which falls on the Tuesday this year, followed by the National League of Cities conference, followed by, I'm sorry, Veterans Day, which falls on the Tuesday this year, followed by the National League of Cities conference, which many of you will be attending. And then typically, we haven't done that Tuesday after that because of Thanksgiving holiday. So we'll have to make some maneuvers in November. I wanted you to be aware of going to be able to do that. I'm not sure if he's going to be able to do that. I'm not sure if he's going to be able to do that. I'm not sure if he's going to do that. I'm not sure if he's going to do that. I'm not sure if he's going to do that. I'm not sure if he's going to do that. and do two meetings on the first two Tuesdays of May instead of moving on to the Memorial Day weekend. But we can still address that later. OK. of May instead of moving on to the Memorial Day weekend. But we can still address that later. Okay, other council members with other items besides the continuing need for an additional dog park. Okay, seeing nothing else, it is not a record, but we're done at $655. you