Council session to order. It's a regular session. Please start with the roll call. Good evening mayor. Good evening. Here. Council members Christensen. She's here. She's here. I see her. Council member Idaagl faring. Here. Here. Council member Martin. Council member Peck. Here. Council member Rodriguez. Here. And council member Waters. Here. Mary of the Quorum. All right, great. All right, let's go ahead and say the pledge. Who would like to start us out tonight? Why don't you start us with the pledge, buddy? See how hard it is going first. I did that last week. Let's go ahead then. All right. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, for which it stands, for which it stands, for which it stands, for which it stands, for which it stands. That is amazingly hard when those different cadences are in your ear. All right. Just a quick reminder, anyone wishing to speak during first call public invited to be heard will need to watch the live stream of the meeting and the instructions for how to call in to provide comment will be given during the meeting and displayed on screen at the appropriate times during the meeting. Comments are limited to three minutes per person and each speaker will be asked to state their name and address for the record prior to proceeding with your comments. So let's go ahead and approve the minutes of May 5, 2020. Do we have a motion? I'll move. All right. Council member Peck. All right. Council member Peck, is that a motion? All right. Council member Peck. Second. Through head nods, his mood approval the May 5, 2020 regular session city council minutes. Okay, I'll move. And council member Peck will second it. All right. Great. All right. All in favor say aye. I say nay. All right. The motion carries unanimously. Do we have a motion to approve the minutes of May 12, 2020. So moved. Second. Second. All right. It's been moved by Mayor Pro Tem Rodriguez and seconded by council member Christensen. Seeing that there's no further discussion or debate. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed say nay. All right. The motion carries unanimously. All right. Council member Peck. It sounds like you have a motion to make, but are there also other motions that anybody has? All right. Yes, I have. Okay. Let's go with council member Peck first and then we'll go with you. Council member Christensen. Is that okay? All right, John. Who is yours? Thank you, mayor. This isn't a particularly easy motion to make. And in no way do I cast aspersions on the kids and parents who built the BMX trail on the riparian area at left hand creek. My motion is about the code and the ordinance, which is law to stay on the designated trail. So Susan, can you put up the sign? This is for the parents, the people watching. This is only one sign that is on that left hand creek. There's another one behind it that actually has the municipal code on it. So whether or not a person agrees with this ordinance or code, we still have to comply with it. And there is a process if you want to change it. So therefore I moved to direct staff to reverse the decision to leave the BMX trail and left hand creek open through the summer. The municipal code <IP_ADDRESS>. This motion is also a directive to the kids and parents who built the BMX trail through restorative justice to meet with city staff for education and codes ordinances, the process to change laws, and a plan to work with city staff to create a site and the possibility of building a trail within the city of Longmont. Second. All right, it's been moved and seconded by council member Martin. This is just to come back for discussion at a future meeting. We're not making a decision tonight. Any further discussion? Mayor Pro Tem Rodriguez. Mayor Bagley, when we do bring us back for discussion, there's two things I would like to see one that the restorative justice be specifically for those who can't a poll or follow the municipal code as in any future violators, if you will, would be subject to this code not retroactive to anybody that may have expressed opinions on it. And that also we'd be specific about working for a future trail in the same part of town, not just any other part of town, because obviously we've seen a need in this part of town specifically. Thank you. Councilmember Christensen. I would like to emphasize as councilmember Peck said that this isn't to punish kids who just want to have fun and are being very creative. It's to help them work with city staff to do exactly that. And city staff has done this before. If we can find, as councilmember Rodriguez said, if we can find a place that they can use in their own neighborhood that would of course be preferable, but we already do have three bike parks. And if they, it seems from their comments that they found them less than desirable. So, if they work with city staff, everybody will learn something. And that's what I would like to see too is work, have the kids who are very energetic work with city staff to try to improve the bike parks we already have. But also work with restorative justice because two acres and $10,000 with damages is a lot for the city. And, you know, we have to balance everybody's interests, and nobody wants to stop kids from having fun bikes or freedom but we have to balance the interest of the city. That's our job and we often also have to uphold the law. That's our job. Thank you, Mayor Bagley. So, the whole point of restorative justice is that I know that when, when a law is broken there is some, there is some disciplinary action and I, I specifically don't want to necessarily slap the hands of parents or kids on this, but to actually educate them with through restorative justice, so that we don't start setting precedents that wherever there's a sign that says stay on the trail or this is off limits that people start ignoring that we need to, we need to pay attention. And that is my hope with the restorative justice part. All right, I guess, I guess, I guess I'm going to vote against it. Here, my thoughts are that again, we are allegedly in the midst of a pandemic that is world changing and designating city resources to deal with this particular issue at this time, I think is wholly inappropriate. I think that waiting till the fall would be just fine, which is what we've already decided and what we already talked about doing. Did we take a vote on this before? We didn't vote, right? Yeah. So, but we discussed it and that's what city staff had suggested. We're having a 13, 14 and 16 year old group of teenage boys. Oftentimes, we talk about how hard this quarantine slash safe shelter at home issue has been for adults. Our kids as so often as the case because I think it's lost and all this they're dealing with depression they're dealing with things to do that are not having things to do. They decide playing Fortnite and Xbox and arguing with their parents and not seeing their friends and it's bad. It's bad time for everybody. And so, yes, I agree that this shouldn't have been built there, but it's been there for a while, and I would question the timing. That's just my opinion, but I also vehemently object to a city council anywhere in this case ours dictating to the city manager or the chief of police how they should enforce a law. I think it's inappropriate. If someone breaks the law, it's up to the city. It's up to the chief of police and how they go about enforcing it, whether they press charges, whether they do restorative justice. I don't think city council should anything to do with how how Chief Butler decides to move forward with this. All right, Council Member Waters. Thanks, Mayor Bagley. Just to unclear. Our voting on is to bring something back right. What happens. Yes or no on restorative justice and however much guidance there is and what the timing is all would be determined when this comes back on an agenda. Yeah, we're not debating anything other than. Bring this back for consideration. Is that true? Okay, so all that can be decided, right? So the speechifying and the rationale we're going to hear again. But that it's when it's on the agenda is when I would think we'd want to be drilling down on the issues. All right, there's a motion on the floor. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed say nay nay. All right, the motion carries six to one with myself dissenting. All right, Council Member Christensen. I want to bring up something that was. We have talked about for several years. I've been unhappy with for, since I've been on Council. And Waters was very unhappy with it since he started. And this has to do with the way Council deals with Board and Commission interviews. I think we need to have a Saturday discussion for an hour and just sit down and discuss what we would like. What we cannot do is simply ignore it and not come because our job is to come to City Council meetings and do all the things that City Council members are supposed to do. But we do need to have a far more organized methodology as Councilman Waters has talked about. And as I have talked about, we need to codify some questions that we ask each candidate for the same position. And this is usually done in any kind of hiring process. Granted, these are these are volunteers serving on boards, but nevertheless, they do work, and they are, they should be treated with respect but they also need to be have a fair process for everyone's getting the same question. And then we need to afterwards be able to sit down and talk briefly about our opinions rather than just show up at City Council for weeks after we've interviewed them and vote on something that isn't the way normal people hire people or choose people. And I just think we should we should have that discussion for an hour or an hour and a half. Let's limit it otherwise we'll go on and on and on and on. Just have a discussion Saturday morning, coffee and donuts and hash out what we want because what Councilman Waters says is exactly right. This is not a normal hiring process. And when I was at CU, we did this any number of times to hire people and, and we've all been hired. And we never went through this. So, I think we need to have a discussion about how to evaluate it. So, I would move that we have a Saturday morning discussion of no longer than one and a half hours on discussing the protocol for board and commission interviews. Do I have a second second and I have a remark. Okay, just real quick Harold is this currently set for a city council agenda because I know I asked it to be put on the agenda. And if so when Don can you come in on that one I know it is I just didn't know when Mayor Bagley we were going to put that on the 62 agenda. So next Tuesday, next week. Right. I personally rather just get it done on Tuesday rather than wait, especially since staff is managed to squeeze it into our regular time rather than a Saturday but I'm only one council member Martin. Yes, thank you Mayor Bagley. This would work on a Saturday meeting. This suggestion I'm about to make would work on a Saturday meeting but not necessarily on at a council meeting a regular council meeting. I was wondering if we could ask the chairman or, you know, someone from each board to comment on the process and let's hear their suggestions. Does that need to be a motion and amended to amend or something? If you want us to do something it needs to be a motion but right now there's a motion on the floor and your motion would be to amend the motion. Yes, I would like to ask council member Christensen if she would consider that a friendly amendment. I would. I would consider asking them however remember these are advisory boards to provide public oversight of most of these boards and so we don't want the advisory board to be choosing the advisory board but I think that's a very good suggestion council member Martin because they've seen things come and go and I think all of them could offer a helpful helpful suggestions so I would consider that a friendly thing and there isn't a rush on this. I do think it would be better because for us to each come with the board that we are the liaison with with some suggested questions. That way we have some stuff already there rather than to try to sit down and from scratch off the top of our heads try to rehash this stuff which I think we've tried to do before a little bit and that doesn't work very well. So, yes, I think that's a good suggestion. So, we can send out. I'm not sure how we would word that just say to the heads of these boards and commissions. Okay, we are in the process of rethinking our and analyzing our protocol for how we select boards and commission members, and we would like any input you have. Okay, do you second that one. Yeah, because she doesn't need to because she was her friend. So, Dr waters. Okay. Thanks man badly so does Councilmember Martin's amendment Nina second. No, no. So, it's no secret how I, you know what my feelings are about this because I've expressed Council moves. And I'm down with a Saturday morning meeting I, if it's a now and a half we're going to put an hour and a half time women on it. I don't know how you get how you squeeze 22 boarding commission members into the conversation. It now it creates an issue for if it's going to be this Saturday, the next 48 hours for. So it's not this Saturday. Okay, well then, we got to be clear on what Saturday I guess. Saturday is from now. If you're going to put 22 board of commission members into that conversation. It's going to be a, it's going to be a long session. Now that said, I guess for me, whether or not it's a Saturday session or a Tuesday evening second session for me. The criteria would be which is more likely to enjoy some public scrutiny where applicants for these positions might be likely to tune in and listen to our conversation. And I'm guessing that Tuesday, not that we have a huge audience on Tuesday nights. But my guess is they're more likely to do it on a Tuesday night than on a Saturday spend on a Saturday. But I do think we owe it to the applicants for them to hear the conversation to know what's expected what they could expect of us. What kind of standard we're going to hold ourselves to the criteria in the protocol we're going to use, especially if it's virtual interviews. And that that should enjoy as much scrutiny of applicants as they would like to bring to it. The question is that more likely Saturday or Tuesday, and then, you know, how much time are we willing to spend listening to input. I'm certain it would be rich and valuable input. We don't have very many options here and I, for me, it's not a big puzzle about what I think we need to do to raise the standard and approach this in a way that that demonstrates the respect for the people applying and the work they do in the boards on which they serve that what we do honors that. And I think how we approach this should reflect that respect for that process. And I don't think it's a big question about what that means for us. So what I'm saying is, whenever we do this is fine. I think Tuesday night would make more sense Saturday morning, especially if we're going to spend a half a day in it, which we likely would with 22 boarding commission members participate. Council member back. Thank you, Mayor badly. I'd like to tweak marshes amendment just a bit because Councilman waters suggestion made a lot of sense about what the board is even be interested in doing this so how about if we as liaisons. Contacted the chairs of the boards we're on and asked them to write to send us rather than appear in person, send us their list of what they would see like to see in a liaison or a board member, I mean, not a liaison, because I bet you will see duplications and that many people would have different boards with would want the same things. All right, so the chair let's let's do this let's break out the two. It's just officially got a little too complicated issue number one is we're going to meet on Tuesday or Saturday. We'll vote on that. And if it passes, then we'll talk about who we invite and how, whether it be written or oral, if that's okay. So let's just vote real quick anybody have any additional comments on Tuesday versus Saturday Council member Christensen. I, I would prefer Saturday because this is really straightening out protocol that has to do with this city Council board and how we do things it has. It'll be a public meeting of course, and it'll be on zoom but I don't think we really need to take up public, you know that the entire city's time talking about things that really have to do with the six of the seven of us. I think it needs to be a separate meeting on a Saturday, and that way it will also be limited in time and my idea is not to have every single person discuss from every single board, discuss what they want to see in a, in an advisory report as I said, these are to oversee these, these city entities, not to create little groups of cronies. So, I'm not interested in them talking about what they want to see in a board member. I'm interested in them, commenting upon our process of selecting. Okay. Mayor Pro Tem Rodriguez. Thank you, Mayor Bagley. I guess I could see either way, the initial hash out of details and procedure amongst us as colleagues could take a while. I think that regardless of whether we do that hash out on a Saturday, or we hash it out on a Tuesday night that we do have to on a Tuesday night, bring forward for clarity for applicants, whatever the final decision is of those details. We feel it's more appropriate to spend that amount of time hashing out the details on a Saturday. We're still going to bring on Tuesday, the final results of that, that, you know, determination of procedure. And so, I'm not really, I guess said on one Saturday or Tuesday but either way it's going to take a while but still on a Tuesday we need to present the results. Council Member Martin. I think the Mayor Pro Tem has a good suggestion. We will clear our decision in the form of a resolution. Henceforth, this is the new process, but we shouldn't make the public who likes to watch on a Tuesday night sit through the whole thing. That's why I preserve, prefer Saturday.  I'd rather just do it on a Tuesday night rather than give up another Saturday morning. But anyway, let's vote on it. You have a vote that says we do this on a Saturday, limiting it. What? Oh, sorry, there you are down there. Sorry. You got to move Doc. Get a move. Council Member Waters. So we ought to be clear about what Saturday. Because, because I honestly, I do have some obligations coming up oddly in this time of safe at home. So, if it's Saturday, June 6, there are times on that particular Saturday I am already obligated and would have to work around that. I mean, it's, it's something that I'm committed to doing. And I, and there are most circumstances I would rearrange that for this, but that happens to be something I can't rearrange. So, let's be clear about which day we're talking about. Is there a Saturday dawn that's clear. Mayor I think we don't have much scheduled for the same reasons. Things are canceled. Yeah, and I just had a question about who seconded that if you. It looks clear to me. Everybody okay with the 13th. I'm just counting votes here. I see hands going up, I know, but I'm counting votes and Council Member Christensen. Yeah, I think the 13th is fine and that will way everybody right now needs to start writing a letter asking the boards that they're the liaison on to comment upon a procedure. Okay. And we should have then we should have those answers back by the 13th and they should be writing them to all of us. Okay, so that we all have the same information. Alright, anybody here have a conflict on the 13th. Alright, so that's not part of the motion, but we'll go ahead and make it the 13th. The motion is we can do this on a Saturday instead of a Tuesday. And it sounds like we're going to set it for the 13th. So all in favor say aye. Hi. Hi. Opposed. Nay. Alright, motion motion carries six to one with Mayor Bagley, the lone dissenter Council Member Christensen. How about if we have it around 930 in the morning so it's not too late. It's not too hot. We'll figure that out. 930 10 o'clock. I mean that's not not too bad for me. So anyway, all right. Then what was the other thing? Ah, yes. And then it sounds like it sounds like we might just be emailing and asking our chair people and staff members to give us their input on what they think is that we all is there a consensus on that rather than inviting them to the meeting. And if they are to attend that's fine. But they're just going to listen. All right. Okay, we have consensus unanimous consensus on that, Don. So if we get it. And I guess instead of us, can we have the city? I mean, I guess it would be easier for Don to go ahead and just send out an email requesting their input. Council Member Christensen. I think it would be better if we had one consistent question. I think it would be better if we could do it briefly. That's what I mean. Because that way it would actually get done. It would get done on time because we can count on city staff to do it on time. And it would all also be the same language instead of each one of us sending out different language. Is that okay with you, Don? Would you accept that task? Could you do that for us? I will. I just want to make sure I'm getting the right person. So you want that to go to the board chair. And then copy the staff, write it to the chair and then copy the staff lays on maybe. I can absolutely do that. All right. Anybody get the idea? All right. That's got, we got consensus. All right. Any other agenda revisions? All right. Great. City Manager, do you have a report? I assume you do. I do have a report today on changes that have occurred. I also have Jeff Zayac here with us tonight. And so Jeff is going to give you all a presentation regarding what they're doing Boulder County Health and some numbers. Jeff, are you online? Jeff, can you unmute yourself? Got you. All right. Now I should be good. All right. Just tell me, Jeff's going to start out and go over his information and then I'll cover a couple of points. Jeff, just tell me when you want me to change slides. Sounds good. Thank you, Mayor and council members. Appreciate being invited back. And Harold, just leave it on this one for a little bit. I'll probably stay here for about five minutes. In terms of tonight, what I wanted to do is a couple of things. Just provide an overview of county trends and what we're seeing in our data so that you can see. Excuse me. One minute. We're not seeing anything. All right. Thank you. Okay. Great. And again, you can just leave it there for a second. Harold. But what I want to do is go over county trends and show you the data that we've been tracking and then talk about, just do a brief update on the orders themselves and what's changed. And then what I'll do is I'll just want to make sure that everybody is aware of these high level trends. So we are continuing to see very positive trends. Overall, we're seeing decreasing cases in the county right now. And as testing continues, we do expect that cases will increase. We have not yet significantly expanded our testing, but we do have a community wide testing plan. We've been able to get some tests and test supplies. So we expect that that testing will start to expand as we move into the next couple of weeks. And when we do that, we'll expect to see some increases in cases. We are continuing to see decreasing COVID-19 hospitalizations. And our hospitals still continue to have great capacity for surge ability. And certainly can meet all the current needs that they have and I'll go over a couple slides. Once we get into that, that demonstrates that as well. As I had noted, testing capacity slowly increasing. We appreciate we've been working with Salud UC health. Longs Peak is doing community wide testing and we are really appreciative of the efforts that those folks are putting in place. And we do have some urgent cares as well doing some community wide testing as well. So again, from the data standpoint, we're really looking pretty good. And I'll go through again some of those slides in just a second until just a reminder until we have a vaccine or a widely available treatment. We're going to continue to stress the need for the social distancing and face coverings where it's hard to maintain that social distancing. And I would so much appreciate it and long months have been great, but just continuing to share that focus and messaging. I know you all have been working with our public information officer really closely, I appreciate that. And that's going to help us make sure that we can continue to build back our businesses and our economy and do that in a way that keeps people safe. The worst things that we can do is to have large gatherings, not follow social distancing. And we saw an example of that with what happened at Boulder Creek a little over a week ago that we don't want to do that. Obviously that that again puts our society, our economy and our businesses as well as our most vulnerable people in our community at risk. So that's the kind of thing that we definitely want to stay away from. We have to remember too that not everybody shows symptoms of this disease so we could have people that are in a gathering like that, who are positive, who could spread the disease. That could be spread to somebody who is more at risk and they end up having symptoms and exposing other folks so it's important to really focus on that social distancing. And it's definitely up to every one of us to continue to push that and keep our economy and our society moving in the right direction. So I appreciate all the support for that as we continue into these next weeks. And then just a quick update on a couple orders. So the Board of Health approved an extension of our existing county phase covering order that expires actually this evening. And we're extending that to June 30. And we conducted a survey of 375 of our businesses gathered feedback on the phase covering order to gauge the level of support. We were seeing from businesses and what they were seeing on the ground in their businesses relative to social distancing and people wearing phase coverings. So that was really helpful for us to see. We also conducted a Sentinel survey where we had staff that went out and observe compliance with mass and social distancing and grocery stores and other retail establishments. And we also asked all of our law enforcement partners about what they were seeing from a qualitative standpoint. So those were really the three things that we've done moving into making that decision of extending the order. We definitely in general saw less. There was still challenges with finding social distancing happening, especially in areas of stores where it was crowded or where there was difficulty maintaining that distance when they were going, let's say through a narrow aisle or something like that. So we definitely did those see a really great adherence to mask wearing much higher than we had expected. So I so much appreciate those of you who are tuned in here tonight watching this. Thank you for following through and wearing the mask, especially where it's difficult to maintain that social distancing of six feet and continue to focus on again finding the ability to maintain six feet of social distancing is an important thing to do as we move forward because if we can do that then the disease can't spread. So, so again want to thank folks who are who are continuing to support that. The last order I wanted to just give a quick update on is the governor's order and he issued an executive order, which is not an actual update to the public health order yet which we expect to happen by June 1. He he extended an executive order that basically made announcements yesterday that were related to restaurants summer camps and camping. And we know that our restaurant guidance is out so restaurants are have been encouraged to work with each of our municipalities and towns to try to create more ability to use outside areas as an example to cry try to create more social distancing so that restaurants can continue to open up to open up and that there is adequate distance to keep it safe for their patrons so just wanted to share that. Also summer camps and camping were included in the executive order and again, we expect that we expect that the state will actually issue revised orders around the the current safer at home order and that we're expecting to see that prior to June 1, which is when the existing order is going to expire itself. So I'm going to go now Harold to the slides. If you want to go to the first slide and I'm going to I'll clip through these freely quickly, but I did want to illustrate just the data that we're seeing because it's very positive, and we want to obviously keep this trend going. This is a quick one total case count in Boulder County at this point is 923 people in 61 of those folks have deceased. Unfortunately, every death is really difficult, especially for the people that are related and the families associated with those. And again, the majority of those deaths are in our long term care facilities at just a little bit less than 80%. We shared with all of you before we have liaisons working with every single facility to continue to support them as we move forward in these months ahead. Next slide. This just shows the total number of new cases per day. And the orange bars represent our long term care facility cases. So a couple things to note here. Again, our general trend was up and then is starting to tail down the sampling or the number of cases that you're seeing on the 22nd of May. There is a spike there and that's because our long term care facility, one of our long term care facilities was tested. So there was a significant amount of testing that occurred at that facility. So what we saw was as would be expected, we identified more positives at the facility and that's why there is a spike on that one day. And the majority of those cases actually came directly from that facility. But in general, downward trend with new cases per day. Again, as we test, we expect that we will see more positives. And I want to see because when we know and have identified folks that are positive, we can then help support and make sure that we're isolating quarantine people and then supporting them in those in that isolation and quarantine and preventing the spread of further disease in the community. So testing and increased cases is not necessarily a bad thing when it's associated with testing directly. Next slide. This is just the five day average for the general trend so you can again see that we've peaked and we are coming back down. Next slide. This is the number of people who have tested positive or are considered probable or who have deceased by race in Hispanic origin. And the unfortunate thing that we're seeing here is we continue to see a high impact in our lab. We know that many of those folks are our essential workers. They're out on the front lines and have been throughout this entire, this entire COVID disease process and they are bearing the brunt of the impacts of this. So we are having conversations both within Boulder County and within the state to develop strategies to help reverse these type of impacts which we know are significant and we're seeing definitely higher, higher, not just higher impacts in people's, the number of COVID cases in this category, but we do not want to see increased deaths in this category as well. So we're continuing to focus on that. Next slide. This is the number of residents who have tested positive or positive and it's by municipality and it's per 100,000 population. So there is, Longmont has a high number here as I know you can all see. And I did a little bit of digging in because I thought you might have questions about this before I came to the meeting tonight. And what I found out from our epidemiologist is that several things are driving this. Number one, as I just said, we know we have a higher impact in the Latinx population. We're seeing a fair amount of household spread that's occurring. So we have in Longmont multi-generational families. There's lots of household members in those families. And when somebody is positive in their back in their household, it's really difficult to control the spread of the disease in those types of scenarios. And we're seeing a lot of spread happen in that that type of scenario. The other places that we're seeing spread is long term care facilities. Sorry, my phone is ringing in the background there. And I didn't have a chance to break that data out by Longmont specifically, but I'm happy to do that and send it as a follow up to council members and to Harold. We also, as I think you're all aware, saw an outbreak in the Walmart in Weld County that has impacted some Longmont residents as well as in-circle graphics. Those are the places that we've seen specific outbreaks between long-term care facilities of Walmart and circle graphics are really where we've seen some more of the outbreaks happening. And I want to give Salud a big thank you here because they're really doing a great job at providing testing and making the testing accessible to our Spanish-speaking community. And we're able to identify and support the folks in that community. And Salud has done a great job, really focused on that. So, next slide. This slide just demonstrates where the impacts are in terms of the total number of people who have tested positive for COVID-19 or are probable by age. And although it impacts a lot of people in multiple age categories, the orange that you're seeing on the graph itself is the actual deaths that we're seeing. And you can see that the highest number of impacts continue to be on our older population that has underlying conditions. So, we're continuing to see those impacts in those populations, hence the fact that we have a high death rate and long-term care facilities. Next, this is our testing results for Boulder County, and it's total tests per day. And again, on the 21st there or so, there's that big spike, it was actually Thursday of last week. There's a big spike in the total number of tests. That is because of the tests that were done at that long-term care facility. We've had a slow decline in tests per day.  So, you see spikes throughout the graph and those are times when testing, community testing is made more available. As I said before, we just received a large number of tests. We expect that those tests will go up in our community and that will continue to see some more positives associated with that. Next slide. This just shows the total hospitalizations for the Denver Metro area and Boulder is down here in the red line. We've remained relatively flat for a long period of time here, which is great. That's exactly what we want to see. The number is slightly ticking up. That is partly because we have hospitals now who are able to do elective surgeries as well. So, this is total hospitalizations. And the next slide going forward, you'll see the total number of COVID hospitalizations in Boulder County. And this is just for Boulder County specifically. But you can see that we've been on a downward trend for our hospitalizations. And this is exactly what we want to see as we're moving forward is for this trend to continue and stay down. Next slide. This slide and the two that follow this are really just a demonstration of some of the things that we're tracking. Some of this data is available daily. Some of it's available weekly. But it's the type of data that we're tracking for all of our hospitals across Boulder County to make sure that we're in a good place, that our hospitals are in a good place in terms of the surge capacity. So this one right here is the number of medical and surgical beds that are available at Boulder County hospitals. And as you can see, it's fairly consistent. Even though we've opened up more elective surgeries, we still have a positive trend in Boulder County. Next slide. This one's a positive trend and has been number of ICU beds available at Boulder County hospitals by date. And then the last one is the number of adult critical ventilators. Available for Boulder County hospitals and again you can see that it's a drop down for a little while but has been a slow and steady increase since since that point so our hospitals and we meet with our hospitals on a weekly basis. So we ground truth what you're seeing here we make sure we talk with them. They tell us if they're having challenges or problems we can look back and see if the data is is accurate and if we're hearing something different from our hospitals but our hospitals are really in a great place and again we continue to meet with them on a weekly basis and I think that's my last slide. And I just wanted to again take the opportunity to share with you that the trends look good for Boulder County. We want to continue to see those trends increase and it really does come down to each and every one of us and the folks who are listening to this, following that social distancing guidance is really really important. The virus can't spread with when you're when you're more than six feet apart from each other. And if we can continue to focus on that will continue to move in the right direction. That's all I have. All right, thank you very much. Any questions for Jeff. Before he leaves. Because we're waters. Jeff, you may have said this and I missed it, or it's more likely going to be in the June 1 updates. But any, any speculation or forecasting about cool softball baseball, other kinds of team sports when, when there would be some movement in terms of what can happen, and what the parameters would be. There you go Jeff. Thank you appreciate that. So we have been asking about that over and over and over again because we're getting asked about it. And what we are hearing from the state is that we will hear some of those things, we could hear some of them in the June 1 order. And if we don't hear him in the June 1 order we're hearing that it's going to be around mid May. But those are the same questions that we have we do have just so you know how hard we're working on this we have a group of regional attorneys. On a daily basis we meet with the AG's office involved and CDPHE legal staff to continue to press on these kinds of questions. Because there are questions that I know each and every one of you are hearing about locally in each of your municipalities so we're pressing on it but I don't know exactly when those answers will come. Jeff you said June 1 or mid May. I think maybe you meant mid June. Yes, I'm sorry. I mean mid June and the order will come out on June before June 1 so we know that will happen but we may not have all the answers at that point. Thank you. Council Member Peck. Thank you Mayor Badley. Jeff, thank you for that update. Can you give us any reasoning for not opening up the team sports and softball. Not the stadiums or the huge venues. Thanks and Harold I won't mute myself again so thank you for releasing that. The reason being is that that is prohibited at this point under the state order so that is not our local order that prohibits that we again have been I think that may come in the June 1 order, but we have been asking about that as well. I know that's a big issue for both of our school districts and school districts across the front range so that is a question that we have out to the state as well. So, the reason as to why it has not been updated is is what we don't understand the reasoning behind that one particular sport. Am I missing something. No, I don't think so and when you say that one particular sport you mean. Sorry, I'm sorry can you say that again. Baseball locally. Okay. My understanding is from a team sport approach in general is the issue. So it's not just baseball but it's baseball soccer. It's any any team sport we are bringing a lot of people together and potentially having close contact or even contact with people around that type of thing so that's my understanding from the state is that they're and their concern is obviously that they don't want this they want to open things slowly and they want to don't want to move things to quickly because we none of us. I know none of us on this call. None of us across the state want to go backwards. So they want to make sure they're taking things slowly and measured and I think I believe that's the main reason why they've held back. Thank you. Well, I just so I guess what I'm hearing is I guess my so we're still our hospital still remain clear right. Yes ventilators I see a beds right that our hospitals here locally in Boulder County ever get over burdened see a wave of of COVID patients that threatened overrun capacity. The only time there was a concern was when our long term care facilities were starting to see a surge and the reason for that but no we did not hit we never hit a point where we had to go to critical care standards as an example. That would have been an issue that was where you're clearly in a surge. I mean the only the only challenge they had from a hospital standpoint was the concern that with so many long term care facility people being hospitalized. They're typically on vents longer they're in the hospital for a much longer period of time. And they were worried about that but we never did hit a critical care approach so we did not hit a surge. Right. And then I have another question I guess had we've had 61 deaths, 80% happening in long term care facilities, which would mean that 12 or 13 were not in long term care facilities right. That's correct. Okay, so I guess my question is what what were they practicing social distancing masks etc in these facilities. Do you know. Yes they are and part of the challenge is early on some of these facilities some of the disease got into his facilities early on before we knew as much about the disease as we know now. And once it was in the facilities it's really difficult to control which is why you see the state now saying they're going to they're going to test all the asymptomatic facilities, largest the smallest because they want to prevent it from getting in the facility and that's actually why they passed that the governor passed that order at the end of May to I'm sorry the the end of April to require long term care facilities to make sure that they can isolate patients. Because it's so difficult once it's in there to stop it from spreading. Okay, they do have met they do wear masks. They are a long term care facilities have worked really hard to try to come to try to control the spread none of them obviously want to see this happen. Okay, right counselor Martin. Thank you Mayor Bagley. I wanted to know, in terms of the hospitals never having exceeded capacity. Would that have been true if we had not deferred electric elective surgeries and and other non critical admissions, or were we home free and we could have kept doing business as usual. We would have been so if you look back at we have a little dashboard indicator. That's not the graphs I showed you but it's like a little dial that shows red, yellow, green. If we had got if we had elective surgeries in place. Plus we had the coven and we're at the end of the flu season, when they started, we probably would have pushed some of those indicators into the red area. And it would have been, but I don't think we would have hit a surge. I haven't evaluated that data to see if that would happen, but we were on the verge we had, we had a few that were yellow and close to the red at times and I think if we had elective surgeries happening, plus that happening, we would have been closer, but I don't know that we would have been in a surge that we would have had to move to critical care standards on. Jeff, thank you so much. You do good work. We appreciate all your work and effort and I wouldn't have wanted your job over the last two, three months. So you're handling it like champ. We appreciate it. Well, thank you, Mary. I appreciate all of you and thank you council members. All right. Good. Good to go. Do you have anything else? I do. All right. So as you know, the governor has released some new orders. And we've been working on those. The one thing I do want to say to council is, and again, reiterate, as you see, when you saw us coming into this and they were issuing orders and they were, and we were saying it's changing constantly. And what I will tell you unequivocally that it is even harder now in terms of these orders and how they're removing them just because of the nuances in each one of these orders and the work that we have to do. Truly understand what it means and communicate those and making sure that we're following. So we're really in one of the situations where coming out of the processes is is is harder and more time consuming than it was when we moved into the process and we're moving through these things. So the two big things that actually came out tonight are over the weekend and then was the governor talked about was restaurants and then summer camps. I want to talk a little bit about restaurants and what we're doing just to get some feedback from council. So one of the things that we've been working on with our economic development business group that you all have met is really working and taking the lead from the governor in terms of how do we work with restaurants to make spaces available for them to use so they can actually add capacity to their seating areas because it's been reduced by 50%. And so generally you have two issues that are coming into play. One is just the restaurant itself and seating capacity and we've worked with and this gives you a sense of how many people have to get involved. We had Ms. McCourt and the liquor authority, city clerk's office, planning and development services, legal, my office and then a few others trying to tease through and really understand how can we move forward in this. So what you will see is take liquor completely out of it is that if a restaurant needs to expand their business and this is really speaking to areas that are near the public and you're going to see most of it in the downtown area when they don't have a lot of parking lot space in some other room. We're going to run them through the UOPP process for business expansion and again that's going to be a temporary process that we're going to use for folks following the governor's orders and Joanie can run that through her office administratively. Now, if you're going to have to have a liquor permit extension into those areas, then you have to work with the municipal court judge and our liquor authority and Don in her office to move through that. And talking to the judge, we're going to move through those because of what they've done with the liquor enforcement division and waiving those hearing requirements we've created a form where folks check off saying, we want to waive that requirement and they're going to look at those administratively and the whole attempt at what we're trying to do is actually to move or move these businesses through the process as quickly as they can so that they can become operational and maximize their seating capacity while it's been reduced indoors by 50%. And so that's the direction that we're moving on. If you're on a private property, so for example, Village of the Peaks or some of the other places, you have to have permission from the owner to expand. They don't have to go through the UOPP process, but if they go through the extent the expansion component and in terms of the liquor laws, they have to show that they have the authorization of the property owner to expand in that area. And I forgot folks we have police and fire involved in this to from a public safety perspective. So at this point, what we wanted to talk about and based on what we heard from the state, what the governor was saying in terms of working with folks that we continue pressing forward to streamline this process to the best of our ability. So that's what we're doing at this point as staff I wanted to throw this out to you because again it's moving quickly to see if you all had any questions regarding this process. All right, Councilor Martin. Quick one, what's UOPP use of public places. Sorry. I'm stuck in acronym world these days. Any questions are concerned about the approach that we're talking about Council Member Christensen. General I think this is a wonderful idea. It's really, as I think everybody knows restaurants operate on a very, very small profit margin. So, when you tell them, well, you can open again but you can only be at 50%. Well, they can't even afford to open really. So if we can expand their use of public space that's really useful. And I just wanted to share to a little bit of what, you know, Louisville has these, they expand onto the sidewalk in the summertime. We've all been there which is very cool and a very good community thing. The way that arose because one of the city council members who the city council member initiated that was up in some mountain town. And the restaurant was full. And there was a guy out in the parking lot who he just took his food outside to eat. He had a lot of pallet. And so because the parking lot was muddy. So he flapped the pallet down and then he sat grab a chair that was around and sat on it and she thought, huh, we can do that. So she got people to contribute pallets. She got Home Depot to give a reduced supply of lumber. So that hardened it up and made it something suitable that you could also disassemble when there was no longer a need for it. So I'm just thinking is the fastest we can get these things through and the most innovative use we can make of various resources is what we should be doing. So thank you for doing all this. It's a lot of people to get together to expedite it, but it should help everybody. Thanks. And if I can be clear, I want to really give a big shout out to, you know, the DDA and Kimberly, the Latino Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber of Commerce, LADP, and all of those folks because there's a lot of individuals and then the restaurant owners themselves and communicating with this. There's a lot of folks that have really come together quickly on this. And so I wanted to give a shout out to all of those folks doing a lot of hard work to move this through. All right. You have a cat's where peck. Thank you, Mayor badly. Harold, I don't know if you are looking for suggestions or whatever, but I always have input. Would it be possible to use the elliscapes as well for extra seating because not only would that be attractive on those red bricks, but it would really expand it as well as the sidewalk out front. And in Harvest Junction, the right angle parking that is, for example, up next to Pinocchios and Panera, they've got such huge parking lots there that are never really full. And if we could just take those first right angle parkings next to the buildings for Tokyo Joes or even next to Tokyo Joes and the coffee shop Red Frog is that huge space that really is never used. It would be incredible outside eating area forever. So just, I really appreciate what you're doing in any way we can expand this eating restaurant capacity. I'm all in favor of. So great suggestion. So yes, we are looking at the alleyways. In addition to the sidewalks looking at parking, you know, is there the potential to use some of the parking lots in certain areas it depends what each individual location has. And then working, you know, I want to reiterate working with. So the example that you used of Harvest Junction, working with the owners of those properties to ensure that they can work with their tenants that have these businesses so that they can give them the necessary approvals they need so they can move through the process. In that case, it would only touch us from a liquor authority perspective, but they still need the approval of those property owners. You know, this is first phase, we knew it was coming and we had to move quickly. You know, there's some good ideas coming out and we have to engage in conversations with CDOT about do we look at, you know, Main Street, you know, this was really something Kimberly talked about. Can we look at Main Street, you know, certain days or a day on a weekend or something to where we could do that sort of like Festival on Main but they can use that capacity. So there's a lot of these ideas coming and I know we'll bring more to you all. But I wanted to bring this one to say this is what we need to do now in order to facilitate their opening as quickly as possible to make sure you all were, you know, in line with this as we were moving in this direction. But definitely you'll be hearing other creative ideas coming forward. Great. Keep up the good work. The other thing that I wanted to touch on you heard summer camps and we're starting to talk about this to Jeff's point and some of your questions about what does this mean in terms of sports summer camps. Those are questions that we fed in. Once again, based on the information that we've seen, again the nuance in the summer camp piece. If you I was going to call this afternoon so if it's an indoor camp it's 10 people but if it's outdoors 25 people. And then we also I talked to Karen about wanting to really find out via some type of survey mechanism to see how many parents would actually enroll their kids in a summer camp. We're seeing different trends right now in different communities. Some are not wanting to do it and other communities they are so we really want to understand what that's going to look like for us and so to let you all know we're just plugging away at that. To get more clarity and we'll be updating you and what that looks like for our community. I had a couple of talking points. Jeff covered them. Jeff did a great job covering that information. I wanted to let you all know that like. Council member her dog will fairing. We haven't forgot your presentation from Carmen that's going to be coming. But it actually is going to be a good point because in my conversation this afternoon when we were going over the numbers. We went a little more in depth in terms of looking at long months numbers and what that really looks like why. And they're going to be breaking those down for us and then we're actually going to create. I'm not saying create we're going to enhance our partnership that we have with them now to really understand. What's happening in those numbers so that we can be more targeted. From a public information standpoint in a community involvement standpoint of which. We're going to be involving all of our cultural brokers in various aspects of the community once we start getting. More detail and so that's a follow up for me and some of the others on our team. In terms of really looking at that what we're going to do. I'm specifically related to those numbers but the one thing that did come out in that meeting. Today was that while we looked different in terms of numbers as a community. In the past weeks we actually now are looking a lot like the other communities in terms of the numbers. So there has been a shift in our community. But again I think it's really managing social distancing. The face mask component. I know we have the ability for me to extend that to well County. I will tell you all we're evaluating and watching it but what I saw this weekend at least what I'm hearing. Is that our folks did really well and so if there's not a need to do it I'm not going to do it but if I get different information. From our folks at Union and sandstone then I will obviously need to make the necessary decision on that but. Right now it seems like everyone's really respecting that even in those areas but if I hear more. Then I'll take the appropriate action. All right thanks Harold anything else. Any other questions for me. All right nope. Good job thank you. All right let's go ahead and move on to first call public invited to be heard. And so let's go ahead if you would like to speak at first call public invited to be heard. Go ahead and call in the number is<PHONE_NUMBER> when prompted enter the meeting idea that is currently being presented on the screen. And make sure you mute your computer when you call in and then yeah just we're going to go ahead and take a five minute break and we'll see who's in the queue so. Council let's go ahead and take a five minute break. Can we get back on the computers and get going again. I don't see Aaron wait for Aaron. Mayor you're muted. All right Aaron's back. All right let's go ahead and do public invited to be heard. Susan do you want to read off the phone numbers please. Of course mayor we've got looks like four guests this evening. So the first guest I will be unmuting you your telephone ends in 637.  Hi. Hi. Yes. Hi. My name is Pearl Spinharty. And did you say my address I'm sorry. Yes please. My address is 1910s Bruce Avenue Longmont Colorado. Thank you. Go ahead. And I sent all of you. Letters in regards to what I'm calling in about tonight. So good evening council members. I'm calling in regards to short term rentals within the city of Longmont. And. I want to state my frustration in having one in my backyard as my backyard neighbor. I'm frustrated in having new guests every three or five days. It's been frustrating for my family and my neighbors and I'm pleading for help in ending this in neighborhoods where it negatively impacts residents. And homeowners. I'd like to have better restrictions and ability to enforce rules for these short term rentals. What can you do to help this issue and help put rules in place to help this from happening in other community. In the community with other homeowners. Thank you. Thank you. For the record. That was textbook right there. All right. Do you want to go next? Yes, mayor. The next caller, your telephone ends in 820. You've been unmuted. Do you hear us? Hi. Can you hear me? Yes, we can go ahead. Please state your name and address for the record. Hello. My name is Catherine Baylog and I live at 1920s Bruce Avenue. I'm calling in today for a plea for help. My name is Catherine Baylog and I live at 1920s Bruce Avenue. In the second March, the house behind us at 1883 or Rapaho was bought and at the end of April turned into a full-time Airbnb short term rental property. The house sits on a hill above our backyard and has decks on the second and third story, which overlook our backyard and house. When the guests are in this backyard or up on the deck, we can see them looking at us and on numerous occasions talking about us. On numerous occasions, we hear everything that is said and echoes. This has become a nightmare for my family and our neighboring family, whose backyard also backs up to this home's property. In this short time that the house has been rented out as a short-term rental property, things have happened that have made us feel violated, unsafe and feel we have no privacy in our own backyards. On numerous occasions talking about us. On numerous occasions, as our children have played in our own backyards, they have been made fun of and taunted by children of different parties from the decks, making them feel extremely uncomfortable, which prompted them to get embarrassed enough to come inside. On numerous occasions, guests constant smoking cigarettes and pot have made our backyard air intolerable, which has forced us to go inside. On numerous occasions, there have been drunk, slurring, drunk guests all day and night up until midnight. On two different occasions, we have heard the guests say loudly, we are on vacation. We don't need to be quiet for the neighbors. We have wanted to call the police on many occasions, but are afraid that the drunk guests will retaliate and do something to our backyards. My husband and I have worked very hard, him as a firefighter and myself as a teacher at a local elementary school to be able to afford our house, which we believe is our forever home. Having what we feel is a hotel in our backyard has made us emotionally upset and we are considering selling our forever home so we don't have to deal with our lives being affected by this situation anymore. City Council, what would you rather have in Longmont? A family who works hard and very hard to be neighborly and takes pride in their home and community or an investor whose sole purpose is to run a money-making hotel in the middle of our quiet community and does not care about the neighbors or the integrity of the community. I am asking for your help. I am asking you to please reconsider the Airbnb laws in the city of Longmont. Airbnb was made for family sharing of a house. This house behind us, sole purpose, is a money making hotel. We don't live in a resort community. We live in the middle of a quiet neighborhood. Why is it that when I look around my street, everyone else's house is quiet and neighborly and when I look out in my backyard, I have new people every week on vacation, safety and noise levels. Would you please consider changing the rules so we do not have new neighbors every week that we don't know watching over our children and us partying on their vacation and help make our backyards and lives create private and safe again? Please consider changing the laws so houses can only be rented out maybe once in a three month period or something like that. Thank you for your time. All right. Thank you. All right. Next. Mayor, next caller. Your number ends in 975. I'm going to unmute you. If you can please state your name. Do you hear us? Yes, I can hear you. My name is Thomas Fanring. And I do also live in 1920 Spruce Avenue. Thank you. I am the husband of Catherine, who just talked to you and I would like to confirm what she has been talking about. And I would just like to reiterate the frustration that we've been dealing with ever since the property in our residential neighborhood was purchased in March and has turned into a full-time Airbnb. And it feels like we live very close to a mini hotel. And the situation is unique because the property I'm talking about has a rooftop deck and we're here somewhat on a hillside and it's basically we're dealing with new people every couple of days that basically watch us and our neighbors and our children every day. And it's become an issue not only because of them watching us, but we've had numerous instances where people have made fun of our children. And I've had my six and nine-year-old daughter come inside uncomfortable and feeling unsafe, not wanting to play outside anymore. I've had my family come inside and not being able to spend time in the backyard because there was a strong smell of smoke of cigarettes and pot in our backyard. We've had instances of parties going on all night. And I've had to deal with me being at work and working for our shift work with having my wife calling in tears and telling me situations where she doesn't feel safe at our home anymore and she's afraid that the party in our neighbor's backyard gets out of control. And it's been very frustrating and I would like to express that and I would like to I would like you to revisit the laws and regulations of the Airbnb currently because I do feel there's quite a few loopholes in these regulations. Especially one the one that we're dealing with the person that purchased the home lives in Boulder works in Boulder and purchased this property as an investment only it seems. And for a long long law in order to do a short-term rental you have to live there 180 days a year. But who can prove that that person lives or doesn't live there half the year. I'd like to quote Don Hermsen from the Code Enforcement Department and quote he said unfortunately this is one of the most unenforceable sections of our code as we would have to prove that he spends more than 180 days of the permit term not staying at the property before we could do anything which is not something we have any capability to monitor. End of quote so basically that that law that you have to stay at the house 180 days a year is pretty much you know it's easily bypassed and then he also mentioned that the person who purchased the property mentioned that well if he decides to not live there for the next 180 days after renting it out short-term he could just put his mom on the title as a co-owner and then he could again and she lives in Longmore and then again she could rent out the they could rent out the property a long short term which does clearly some loopholes and I would like you to reconsider these laws and regulations in order to protect the neighborhoods and the residential neighborhoods and their feel and characteristics. Thank you sir. Mayor we have one last guest your phone number ends in 370 I've just unmuted you if you could please state your name and your address for the record. Call her 370 do you hear me?  No that was the last guest that I put back in the waiting room that caller has already spoken when people are done I put them back in the waiting room and I hope that they just hang up on their own if I remove someone they can't come back into the meeting. Got it okay cool then we're done that's it for first call public invited to be on the consent agenda Don can you go ahead and read it for us please. Yes I can mayor item 8a is ordinance 2020-25 a bill for an ordinance making additional appropriations for expenses and liabilities of the city of Longmont for the fiscal year beginning January 1 2020 public hearing and second reading scheduled for June 16 2020 8b is resolution 2020-44 a resolution of the Longmont city council approving the intergovernmental agreement between the city and Boulder County for the 2020 financial and housing counseling program funding through the community development grant program. 8c is resolution 2020-45 a resolution of the Longmont city council approving the intergovernmental agreement between the city and Boulder County for parenting education services. 8d is resolution 2020-46 a resolution of the Longmont city council approving the intergovernmental agreement between the city of Longmont and Platte River power authority. 8e is resolution 2020-47 a resolution of the Longmont city council approving the intergovernmental agreement between the city and state of Colorado Department of Transportation for design of the Kaufman street busway. 8f is resolution 2020-48 a resolution of the Longmont city council approving the intergovernmental agreement between the city of Longmont and the northern Colorado water conservancy district and 8g is resolution 2020-49 a resolution of the Longmont city council authorizing loans from fund balance in the city's fleet fund to the DDA construction fund and the DDA arts and entertainment fund providing for repayment of the loans from the DDA tax increment income fund. All right. Do we have a motion to move the consent agenda except for F. Second. All right. It's been moved by council member martin and seconded by council member waters. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed say nay. All right. The consent agenda is moved by council member martin and council member waters. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed say nay. All right. The consent agenda minus F has been approved and passes unanimously. All right. Let's move on to ordinances on second reading and public hearings. Same rules for the public. If you would like to call, if you're going to be saying anything for anything on the agenda during the second reading portion, please call in now. Again, the number<PHONE_NUMBER> and the idea code is popping up on our screen. So I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to go ahead and read it while we get ready. And so for any public wishing to speak on any of these three items on public hearing, again, please call in now. When I am ready to hear public comment on each item, the last callers to hit star nine on their phones to raise their hands to speak on that item and we'll then call on you to speak based on the last three digits of your phone number. I won't do that, but Don or Susan will. Each speaker again will state their name and address for the record and will be allowed no more than three minutes to speak. So let's go ahead and start with 9A ordinance 2020-24 built for an ordinance authorizing the city of Vermont to amend the leases for Vance brand municipal airport hangar parcels known as elite aviation FBO hangar parcels 1 and 2 and elite aviation FBO hangar parcel number four. Is there a staff report on this item, Harold? No, correct. I can't hear you or see it this time, Harold. You'll have to say something into your mic. Harold, there's not. I mean, Mayor, there's not. Perfect. All right. Any questions or comments from council on this item? All right. Seeing none, let's go ahead and open the public hearing on ordinance 2020-24. Is there a caller Don? Mayor, this is Susan. No, I do not see anyone that has called in yet. All right. Thanks, Susan. All right. Then in that, in that case, we're going to go ahead and close the public hearing. Can we have a motion pertaining to ordinance 2020-24? I'll move approval. All right. It's been moved by council member Waters and it's been seconded by council member Peck. Right. Council member Peck, is that what that hand was for? Yeah. Okay. All right. All in favor say aye. Aye. Let's say nay. All right. Ordinance 2020-24 passes unanimously. Moving on to the item nine B public hearing on 2020-24 regional consolidated plan and long months 2020 community development block grant or CDBG program action plan. Are there any questions from council on this? Councilor Christensen? It's not a question. It's just I'm very much in support of this. I'd just like to remind the public how really important this is, even though we are contributing $200,000 to help businesses from this fund this year, which is a lot of money, but it's also very necessary right now. However, for the most part, what this does, what the community development block grant does is a lot of counseling to help people buy homes, stay in homes, get homes. There's nothing more important to the average working person than actually owning a home. It's two-thirds of most people's wealth. And so it's very important to counsel people and let them not get into something they can't afford and also help them if they should get in trouble but also just help them develop budgeting and sensible practices and understand what they can do. That's exactly what this program does and it's really a wonderful, wonderful resource that people have in Longmont. So I'm very much for this and that's all I got to say right now. Thank you. All right. Is there a presentation, Harold? Kathy, do you want to go ahead with that? Sure. If you want to bring up the presentation. So this is for the 2020 through 2024 consolidated plan. Every five years, HUD requires that we do an analysis of the housing community and economic development needs in the community and then that we set strategic goals and strategic direction and then that informs how we spend each year's CDBG funds when we get that and we use it a lot to direct our local affordable housing funds as well. Can I have the next slide, please? So the consortium, the Boulder Broomfield Home Consortium was formed in 2007 with the City of Boulder, Boulder County, City and County of Broomfield in Longmont and this brought additional funding into this consortium area to the tune of about 200 to 300,000 for a year since it was formed. Again, like I said, this covers 2020 through 2024. Next slide, please. So together with our consortium partners we did some community engagement and input. We actually started back in gosh, I think it was August, September of last year gathering community input. We had a resident survey designed to collect information on housing, community development and human service needs. 2,350 total people participated in that survey. 1,171 of which were Longmont residents and this just gives you some information on some of the breakout of the residents that did respond to the survey. There was also community meetings with residents and stakeholders that were held. We're over 30 Longmont residents attended those. We also had interviews with stakeholders of the agencies that work with residents that have low income to discuss their policy and program interventions for addressing needs. And then this public comment period and this public hearing that we're holding right now as well as several others that were held for the 2020 action plan in the past. It's important to note that the resident survey was conducted during February and March of 2020 before the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus. So while it isn't inclusive of some of the needs that have changed since then, it does address the short and long-term policy responses to the healthcare crisis which has affected housing situations. Can we go to the next slide, please? So some of the significant findings from this community engagement and census data and other data that show that rents have reached new heights probably not surprising to anyone increasing by 27% during the past five years and right now or actually in 2018 a $57,000 income was needed to afford the median rent in Longmont. The rental values were almost triple, the rent increase at 64%. This is the largest increase in the consortium area was in Longmont. Residents have higher incomes than in the past, so rising rents seem to be forcing out lower income renters and new buyers have to be wealthier to purchase. Next slide, please. Rental vacancies are practically non-existent in Longmont and throughout the consortium region. The region has lost a significant number of privately owned affordable rentals since 2013. These units are renting at higher rates which has broadened the income brackets in which the rental gaps exist. In Longmont, half of the rental units affordably priced for households with income between 25 and 35,000 in 2013 shifted to higher income brackets by 2018. The private rental market in Longmont largely serves renters earning between 35 and 75,000 a year. 66% of rental units are priced within that group's affordability range. The market does fail to adequately serve the 28% of renters earning less than 25,000 each year, even when accounting for the impact and the inclusion of subsidized housing programs. Next slide, please. Longmont has a shortage of over 300 rental units to serve households earning less than $25,000. This is increased from 1,500. I think it was the last time that we did this kind of survey. There is a gap. A surplus of rental homes available to those with incomes 35 to 75 which accounts for the fact that lower income households are renting above what they can afford and leads to the high numbers of renters earning or paying more than 30% and 50% of their income for their housing. You can go to the next slide. 53% of Longmont renters are about 7,500 households are cost burden meaning they pay more than 30% of their income for their housing and 25% of Longmont renters or about 3,500 households are severely cost burden meaning they're paying more than 50% of their income for their housing. Next slide. Homeownership is virtually unattainable for the majority of renters. About 70% of renters earn less than the amount needed to purchase a homeowner and lower income homeowners often cannot make needed repairs with 2,500 renters or owners cannot afford to make repairs to their home. The survey results that we received the pediments to purchasing a home is too much debt. They can't afford a down payment and or about 25% were told that they won't qualify for alone with the housing prices. Around half of large families and older adults who own a home want to sell but can't afford to purchase something else in the current market. Next slide please. In addition 12% of Longmont homeowners or 4,000 households are cost burden again that's the 30% of their income is going for housing over 30% and 8% of Longmont homeowners are about 750 households are severely cost burden with paying more than 50%. Next slide. The primary housing needs in Longmont boiled down to a rental gap of 2300 units that would be affordable at a low $625 a month in a shortage of homes to purchase priced at less than $375,000. About 30% of households with disabilities worry about rent increases that their rents will increase to an unaffordable level and we also I want to say got a lot of great info information on from the surveys from on respondents financial stability transportation needs housing challenges service needs health care needs child care employment and education needs so a lot of that information will be bringing forward and making it available to folks but we got a lot of great information from the survey. Please so all of this leads into preparing for the next five year time period and in the boxes on the left are the goals of the consortium as a whole and then on the right hand side in the white is how Longmont would be addressing those strategies. So increasing the amount and affordability of rental housing while preserving existing affordable rental units for the lowest income renters is the primary goal so we would be looking at increasing the number of affordable rentals affordable at or below 50% area median income some of this could be through new construction land banking our inclusionary housing program obviously might feed into this as well also purchasing existing rental housing and converting it to affordable maintaining our existing affordable through refinancing and rehabilitation of units providing rent assistance when needed and this would feed into our COVID funding in particular and then innovative things like our ADU program if we ever get to have it I get time to ever work on it with everything else that's going on next slide please the next strategic goal is to preserve existing affordable housing keeping the home safe and habitable helping owners age in place and providing for closure prevention services which council member Christensen was talking about so in Longmont we would maintain our inventory via our rehab programs and then the housing counseling and closure prevention program in particular next slide the third strategic goal is to provide home buyers and increase the supply of affordable ownership units again this in Longmont would happen through increasing the inventory through our inclusionary housing program continuing to provide down payment assistance housing counseling again with home buyer classes budgeting and financial classes and land banking as well next slide the fourth goal reducing homelessness providing services to assist in their transition into housing this will be in Longmont supported through the homeless solutions for Boulder County which helps to provide permanent supportive housing is one of the ways we can support those efforts and directing shelter housing and services and then of course the human service agency funding is used to support agencies that address these issues next slide the fifth goal is to revitalize and invest in communities to ensure that neighborhoods enjoy a high quality of life and health for their residents so supporting and creating facilities that provide residents support this might be something like the COVID Recovery Center or CDBG CEV funding and then supporting low and moderate income neighborhoods is something we've done in the past in the future for this five year period and then the next slide the last goal number six increasing economic empowerment both for residents to help them secure stable income and build wealth as well as for businesses to provide and maintain employment for residents so again we look at assisting businesses that create or retain jobs for low moderate income residents and supporting programs that train residents for better jobs so this again would feed into some of the COVID Recovery funding as well next slide so looking at the 2020 CDBG funding recommendations and yes this is the third time I believe that I have brought the 2020 funding recommendations to council because things keep changing February 25th was the last time you saw it and council approved the proposed use of funding our regular CDBG funding totaling $610,926 in grant money in March we had COVID strike April 2nd we found out our CDBG CEV award allocation of just under $360,000 we are allowed to repurpose 2020 funding as a result of the COVID we took this time between April 2nd and now to gather data and review needs and on May 14th we presented these recommendations to the housing and human services advisory board next slide so what we are looking at doing is repurposing 2020 some of the 2020 CDBG funding $328,388 we were going to fund housing rehab and contingency funds we are suggesting repurposing this money for a couple of reasons folks don't really want workers in their homes right now to repair their homes unless it's an emergency situation so we have put that program in advance I think I said this last time and are only working on an emergency need or something like that that's happening or we could work on exterior exterior of the home we also have some funding that is not totally committed yet from 2019 so we think we are good going through 2020 by not allocating additional funding for the housing rehab program right now so what we are proposing $258,000 for individual assistance which could include rent assistance utilities etc likely through an agency like the R center and then our long month share of the COVID recovery center operations in the amount of $70,000 so that would be the repurposing of our existing 2020 funding and then for our new CDBG $875,000 would go towards individual assistance for a total of $345,000 and $200,000 for small business assistance and then we are setting aside up to 20% for administration of the grant so this column the third fourth column over total is by activity for COVID shows the total amount that will be allocated to support COVID recovery activities which is the total of $687,775 with the repurposed funding and the new CV funding and then the final column just shows how much is going 50% of that COVID money for individual assistance 10% for the CRC 29% for small business assistance and then it works out to be 11% for administration just from the $687,775 next slide please so this is a public hearing to take comments on the consolidated plan as well as the hopefully final 2020 action plan and CV plan so I would be more than happy to answer any questions you have about the needs or proposed goals or strategies anything around the 2020 funding or the use of the CV funding and then after the public hearing provide action that's all I got all right thank you very much Councilmember Christensen thank you Kathy I think this is an excellent presentation I and I hope that a lot of people from the public are listening to understand how many resources really do put into trying to get people into housing to buying their own home which is the only way to get out of poverty for most people and also to finding ways for the rest of the people who can't afford to buy a home to get counseling and support in their rental situation I do think it points out your chart of where the gaps are in housing I think points out to some issues with the inclusionary housing ordinance that I think we need to address but that will have to happen later here are two handy little things that I keep because I'm such a Nord this is from the American Community Survey which is done every year and it's part of the U.S. Census and it tells people how what the median it's very interesting to me tells you what the median interest or the median income is for Colorado the median housing price things like that this is from Chapa which is also a little bit more granular it breaks it down by county it does not unfortunately break down Boulder County Boulder County skews high but we're part of Boulder County but of course the incomes look high because the city of Boulder which is larger than any other city skews everything a little higher but I personally find those tools helpful to understanding what's going on thanks again Kathy I think that was a terrific presentation thank you for all the hard work thank you Mayor Bagley Kathy I also appreciated this presentation and as I look at the strategy that you've outlined it's very similar to Habitat for Humanities strategy for keeping people in their home the financing model that they go through to help them understand everything about banking foreclosures etc and Habitat has a very good record of getting people in homes and letting them stay there so thank you I have every confidence that this is going to work thanks a lot Council Member Waters thanks Mayor Bagley Kathy I have several questions first of all also say I appreciate your presentation maybe for reasons in addition to what we've already heard here are my questions the do you say 30% of Longmont residents are housing burdened and 8% are heavily burdened at the 30% and 50% of their income what were the percentages for Longmont for homeowners 12% are cost burdened at 30% paying more than 30% of their income for housing and 8% of Longmont homeowners are severely cost burdened so 20% of our homeowners are burdened or heavily cost burdened 12 oh sorry so 20% of existing homeowners are burdened or heavily burdened number one here's the second question one of the shortages you mentioned in terms of the housing market were homes priced at around $375,000 did I understand that yes that's the amount that they used I think that would be affordable at 30% of their income at 375 30% of AMI I believe so I can find out for sure it's pretty close and that's what struck me when I saw the number that falls into that in the inclusionary zoning ordinance homes that are market priced 80 to 100% of AMI don't have to pay the fee and we created an incentive if you will by not creating a charging to encourage builders to build more of those homes because that is clearly a market need right there's a shortage of homes third question and you probably don't want to answer this one because you'll know where I'm going with my next question any policy that this council adopts that makes it more difficult or more expensive for people to get into homes or reduces the probability of homes market priced at $375,000 would not help you achieve your strategic goals would it I think it would depend on what it is so yes you're right from the standpoint of adding additional requirements to the cost of building increases it but if there are some subsidies that are provided like the inclusionary housing program where it's a requirement to make the fee in lieu or to build homes that are less expensive that does help a certain segment of the population but it increases cost for somebody else sure I'm not well I'm not honestly I'm not thinking in this case about people who qualify for subsidized housing I'm thinking about people who do not qualify for subsidized housing as much as they might like to buy a home or have purchased one and they're now housing in that 20% that are housing burden because what we are going to do the first time we're back council members based on an emotion that was passed at our last meeting we're going to come back and the majority of this council is going to want to eliminate the possibility possible use of metro districts as a way of financing the cost of homes that's exactly what we did last time we approved bringing that back the next time we're meeting together and when we do when we approach that if you would go back one more time and look at the amendments that were proposed the last time we discussed this there were several of them that you wouldn't even consider that would help Kathy achieve the strategic objective set in this plan council member christian said I would love to engage in a straight up debate with you tonight or any other time on the specifics of what I proposed and what you would see as an alternative what you would offer as an alternative because we're going to approve a plan tonight with objectives and we're going to bring a plan back that sabotages the very objectives that Kathy is presenting to us to achieve tonight and for some reason we don't make that connection with the council if we care about working families in attainable housing council member teachers in this community who would like to buy homes when we come back to that other right into this category when we come back to that other item voting to eliminate that opportunity is contrary to the interest of the very families who I've heard you talk about wanting to support so you can give that a fine job with this for all kinds of reasons one of them is you make the strongest case in this report for why we need to be so much more thoughtful and reflective when we approach the other issue and that is how we support the financing of homes that would reduce costs not raise costs which is what we're proposed to do by the way council member peck I believe supports the use of metro districts when done properly properly regulated especially if you can bring the land conservancy into the mix but we're eliminating all those options if we do what I think a majority of this council intends to do when we bring that item back so Kathy thanks for your report we're going to revisit this item obviously pretty soon I'm going to call a point of order and let's push this discussion off until we come back and shake it we could literally go down a rabbit hole right now and be here until one when we're asking the when we're asking the community to pay close attention I want the community to pay close attention and we will be discussing the community needs to know we will be discussing this at the first regular session when we come back you guys voted on that that's true Harold when are we going to be discussing this it's failed the vote failed is it a calendar yet or no that's right failed three to three you're right does that mean we don't have to deal with that at all anymore no that's not what it means well alright well I'll talk with Harold it's coming back at some point and we'll figure that out but for now let's focus on public hearing on we do not have a motion but let's go ahead and open the public hearing on 2020-24 regional consolidated plan community development block grant program action plan are there any callers wishing to speak of this item Susan no mayor I did not display the screen although they may have had the information previously we need to display the screen on this one since it's that's fine we can do that but they were instructed to call in at the very beginning so if somebody calls in we were at pretty clear on that we were supposed to call in and kind of be on the line for both A and B let's go ahead and throw it up in an abundance of caution and wait 60 seconds or so mayor I'll let you know when it becomes a live screen yeah it just went live so we'll give folks about a minute waiting it just dawned on me that actually I was gonna say that I'm sitting here in my house and there's windows on all sides I could invite people to come protest during the council meeting okay let's go ahead and move on can we get the screen back all right thank you all right do we have a motion for 2020 actually let's go ahead and close the public hearing councilmember christensen I would move well this is a public hearing it doesn't have an ordinance number we close the hearing yeah okay so I would just move that we move this forward do we accept the report correct and submit to HUD I'll second it's been moved by councilmember christensen and seconded by councilmember dogell-fairing that 2020-2024 regional consolidated plan along with 2020 community development block grant program action plan be approved and submitted to HUD all in favor say aye aye opposed say nay all right item 9B passes unanimously let's move on to the item F I believe it was councilmember christensen on the consent agenda yes I just for the public interest I just wanted to point out how very very helpful this will be it will not help the people who still think that we need to make Longmont look like Ohio or New Jersey who are very beautiful very green states because they have lots and lots of water but colorado is geographically classified as a high plains desert and we have to stop over watering and this is a very good experimental program that I applaud our city for for working on and collaborating with it will help us to create a better environment using less water and create something that is more hearty and resilient today I went down to get tested for COVID which I finally could do without having to have a doctor's permission or pay for it and this was down in Lafayette and there's a trail adjacent to this between the target and the health images center and it's really beautiful it's a swamp it's a kind of swamp that I used to hang out in when I was a little girl and I had many we're talking about the BMX trails and things like that earlier this is the kind of swamp that every kid hangs around and harasses the ducks and catches frogs and stuff like that but it also I saw just in a short amount of time a couple of magpies a hawk something else I don't know and that was just while I was waiting for my son to get a chest egg sorry this is a perfectly natural environment it doesn't require any water because it is along a creek that's what we can do here and although there will be some people who won't be happy with it it looks like a golf course golf courses are nice but we don't need to turn everything into a golf course this uses native native plantings and it will be beautiful because if you go out walking around anywhere in Colorado and the mountains it's beautiful that's what we want here because it's beautiful here too I just want to applaud the city staff for doing this would you like to make a motion Sure as soon as I can go get out of my ineptitude here I would move um a passage of resolution 202048 do I have a second I'll second that it's been moved by council member Christensen and seconded by council member Martin that's resolution 202048 all right I all right resolution 202048 passes unanimously all right let's move on to the grand finale general business commercial benchmarking program overview Harold that one is going to be um David Hornbacher in his group David David you're unmuted Ian are you doing this um Dave Dave was going to um Sorry about that um good evening Mayor Bagley members of city council David can you turn your video on there sorry about that uh so good evening Mayor Bagley members of city council tonight we're going to provide you with an overview on a commercial sort of the beginning of a commercial benchmarking program and so with me tonight we have Ann Lutz and we have Debbie Seidman and Debbie will be doing the power point presentation all right good evening um good evening mayor and council members um my name is Debbie Seidman and I'm here to introduce you to building benchmarking I'm relatively new to Longmont um I work for Longmont power communications I've been here for four months I'm actually very pleased to be working for the city um I do work in the energy strategy and solutions group um in my current role I'm looking at strategies for saving energy and this is to support Longmont's renewable energy goals uh currently we are developing a building benchmarking program so I'm here to introduce you to building benchmarking and explain more about it um my background um includes HVAC engineering building systems I've been a facilities project manager I've worked with high tech buildings I've worked on data centers all over the world and um I've also worked in the utility industry so I do want to clarify that there is no action required for city council this evening this is only for informational purposes I just want to give just want to provide information um we would come back to council before we did have any um launch of a program and related to this next month there will be a city council presentation about a program called partners in energy and that program um will require action for city council um next slide please so this is a slide that I believe you have seen if not you will be seeing it again um often as you know city council passed a resolution for 100% renewable energy by 2030 um next slide please to get there we have a set of seven systems we have an integrative set of systems that will work together to help us get closer to that goal and of these seven elements um tonight we're going to focus on one of those which is the built environment um specifically we are trying to save energy and the more energy you save the easier it is to get to that renewable energy goal next slide please so the agenda for this evening is to explain what benchmarking is like to share actions being taken at other communities how would a building owner benchmark their building what are benefits to benchmarking and then current actions that we in long month are taking to develop such a program next slide please so what is building benchmarking um by definition benchmarking is a measurement or a rating relative to a standard baseline typically an average and um in this scenario it's a rating relative to similar type buildings it is a rating of energy use the basis or the way you would gather information to determine this rating is to track energy use or energy consumption over time click please the purpose as I mentioned is to reduce energy consumption um click please now um we will be using a program a software program and out of that and out of the entire program that I'm presenting a building owner would receive a building energy score so way to think about this is you're all familiar with fuel efficiency ratings cars have a mile per gallon rating and if you are for example looking to purchase a new vehicle you may compare multiple vehicles and one of the factors you might consider for your purchase is miles per gallon so similarly we can get a building score or an inefficient efficiency score um this is an example of a building with an energy score of 71 and this is on a scale of 1 to 100 and um the intent of this is um the old adage of you can't manage what you don't measure so the intent is to really develop some awareness as to how your building performs relative to other buildings um of course we do already have other existing energy conservation programs but through benchmarking owners become aware of their building energy use and it has been shown they take measures to improve their score um now what impacts this number or this score so many things that's how efficient your home is I'm sorry how efficient your building is so what type of windows you have um maybe the ceiling around the windows insulation maybe your heating equipment or cooling equipment another big factor now is the number of computers in the building and how well those work um next slide please so what is being done locally and nationally well nationally there are 34 cities in the US and three states that have a benchmarking requirement ordinance now locally Denver next click please um Fort Collins has an ordinance Denver has an ordinance and click please Boulder also has an ordinance to give you some examples on this um click please here is a municipal building in Boulder it is benchmarked and has a rating of 60 um click please there is another building it's the Student Union at University of Colorado it is not currently benchmarked but it was benchmarked as far back as 2005 when it had a rating of 92 um although Boulder has an ordinance the university is on state property so it currently is not required to benchmark um I'd like to emphasize that 50 again is average on a scale of 1 to 100 better than 50 is greater than average our intent is really not so much that a number is good or bad our intent really is more that this be a useful tool and regardless of what number you're is you may wish to take action to improve your rating and to improve your number next slide please so how would a building owner benchmark and initially we would be focusing on large commercial customers for such a program and EPA has a software called energy star portfolio manager we would use um over 40 percent of real estate um customers uh typically use this software have been using the software it's now expanding to other types of building segments but this software um click please uh there's no charge and it is a secure software um click please um so to benchmark information needs to be input into energy star portfolio manager this needs to be done by the building owner it is self reported we can help them get information um but they do need to input the information themselves and um yes click please thank you um a building owner would need to input 12 months of utility built data into the software and this would be both electrical energy consumption and natural gas consumption building types such as this is an office building is at a hospital is at a warehouse et cetera gross square feet and additional basic data which varies based on your building type um but typically this is number of occupants number of computers and a few uh small measures so um out of the software you would receive a score this shows an example of a building that has a score of 86 so click please and again click please this is as I mentioned to scale on um a 1 to 100 so um I'd like to indicate that the software itself doesn't save the energy again it's getting awareness you get a score and building owners typically or it's shown a lot of where cities have done this a lot of cities a lot of building owners have followed up um with additional measures to save energy and examples of that could be modifying operations in your building um could be some basic maintenance uh could be modifying your controls uh retro commissioning and or maybe some larger measures um I should also mention that buildings with a score of 75 or greater are eligible to become an energy star rated building that does take some additional paperwork or it takes some official paperwork um but many companies such as target and Kroger for example a large percent of their portfolio are actually energy star rated buildings you can think of this then most people are familiar with an energy star appliance in that case it could be an energy star building that is strictly optional we are only looking at actually achieving a number not necessarily becoming an energy star rated building um um you can also get a lot of input a lot of output out of the software so in addition to a score you can get a lot of use information for your building you can also get greenhouse gas emissions information out of the software um next slide please so what are the building uh the benefits for building owners and for the community well as I mentioned the intent is to save energy of course if you're saving energy you would save cost um there's marketing advantages building owners can differentiate their building in the marketplace hence that's why a lot of real estate property managers do use this program already um a potential tenant looking at a building may or looking to lease the space may want a higher rating knowing that their utility bills would be lower also business owners can help use this to attract to retain um potential employees because there is a segment of the employees that are interested in working for an employer that would have this type of interest um also uh there's operational improvements you can get data from this program that lets you see that you've got issues with your building that you otherwise did not know you had um you can prioritize projects so you may have two projects you're looking at and you can look at some historical data uh for past projects or projects that other building owners have done and that could help you to determine what project would be good to implement um future tracking um back please future tracking is another benefit so this can give you information year over year or multiple years in addition to just comparing your building to other buildings it's also um looking at similar climate so it takes anomalies due to the climate out of the number so you can compare buildings to buildings whether it's a hot year or cold year warmer climate cooler climate um it gives you an apples to apples rating um next slide please so additional benefits for the community as a whole um this does um show that there's an estimated savings um for cities that have participated in this program not just building owners but cities as a whole have seen a 2.4 percent annual savings which is the same as 7 percent over three years and again I'd like to emphasize it's not just getting a benchmark number but taking additional actions to save energy in the building um and to put this in perspective this 2.4 percent for long month 79 percent of our greenhouse gas emissions come from energy use in buildings of that energy use um the most effective way to save energy is to work with our commercial customers at least to start this program um so only 7 percent of the electric customers in long month are commercial customers yet um that 7 percent uses almost half of the energy so if we work with our commercial customers we have the potential for the greatest impact um we can get a lot of savings by working with a smaller number of customers that really um gives us the greatest bang for the buck so to speak um click please um again another benefit is this does support city council resolution for 100 percent renewable by 2030 and click please this also supports other programs in the city such as work being done by the climate action task force and it ties into objectives with the sustainability plan um next slide please so next steps for the program click please we are developing a program and the approach to that program click please currently we are working on a demonstration project that is in this year 2020 click please that will include 12 to 15 buildings we are benchmarking 9 municipal buildings and then we will add commercial customers 20,000 square feet and larger and a lot of this is to get feedback on um overall what um building owners think of the process and then also um it's process related not so much the numbers coming out but what worked well what didn't work well um we'll be working with some key accounts and large commercial customers in this exploratory phase um and if that phase is successful we would like to come back and look at increasing the program to include more buildings um so um um click please um again we would come back to city council with any updates or additional recommendations after we complete our demonstration project and additional development thank you all right thank you Susan can we have the screen back cool all right councilmember peck thank you Mr. mayor sorry so what I want to know is just out of curiosity have you looked at something that portland's doing which installing the turbines in the water pipes for electricity that I have not looked at um portland does have one of the more established benchmarking programs so I am familiar with that and they're looking some other um equity type measures but um you see the turbines in in the city water pipes to create free electricity they're basically using the water that goes through the pipes to create electricity no I'm not familiar with that that's really interesting I've actually done a lot of research into um in previous positions in hydro power and a lot of small scale and run of the river hydro so um this looks very interesting this sounds really interesting I don't know if we're aware of that but that would be worth looking into would you mind if I set you some literature on it oh please do and I can share that with Dave Hornbacher okay thank you thank you councilmember peck I've also looked at at my last place of work because we did have quite a few lines that have significant elevation drops and so any place that you were looking to dissipate energy was a potential for that and so especially in areas where you have a lot of great changes here in Longmont we'd have to look at that very carefully since we're a little bit flatter and so we tend to try to minimize our pumping oh okay create the pressure and then let the system utilize the pressure but we'd love to see what information you have thank you councilmember christensen I want to thank you I think this is a very good report and a good program I like what you said about the you know you can't you can't well whatever anyways you can't you can't change something you can't change your behavior if you don't really know what's going on right and that's that's part of the problem with COVID right now is that we don't really understand and we're also not testing anything we're four months late doing the testing we should have done four months ago but with this we have the potential to learn and as you said commercial properties really use up an enormous amount more because people are there more often to have more stable environments than perhaps your home because everybody's using it I worked at the University of Colorado and we had a six-story building that had been built in 1970 when I many things built in the 70s were I don't know what they were thinking energy was just unlimited but these had jealousy windows one single pane it was the whole place was awful and I was talking to the Department of Sustainability or Energy and they have a very good Department of Energy at the University and he said well that building uses $160,000 a month in utilities and that's just one building the University has over a million square feet of property of buildings so imagine how much that cost the University and I think that a lot of businesses don't really understand you know everybody sees a little part of it but only the accountant actually sees what they're paying for the bill and when they see that they will realize that there are numerous things you can do to cut down on that that's better for their business but it's also better for the environment thank you for what you're doing to get this started and I hope that then businesses will understand how much money they can actually save by you know over time planning for a few substantial changes that will actually save them an enormous amount of money I when I found out that they were this is where my potential raise was going into heating you know I was like working outside I could have gotten as much done working in a tent outside in the summer and the winter in the winter it was freezing in the summer it was blisteringly hot and anyway so this will be helpful for not only the businesses but also the people who work there too who it may be a decent building but there's still many many things the technology has changed that will enable them perhaps to rethink what their strategy is economically long term in terms of updating things in terms of their building so thanks for initiating this thank you what building was that at CU curious oh it was the well and we were always the last to be considered because we were just staff and staff is like the redheaded stepchild you know we were the we were across from Scott Carpenter Park in the old area that used to be witchy right then became in store was next to us we were right the administration building so so called not on the main campus all right main campus so we were no one's mind all right thank you thanks all right let's go ahead and move on thank you very much folks for that report let's move on to 11b Longmont housing authority resolution 2051 a resolution along with city council proving government agreement between the city housing authority city of Longmont regarding future relationship and agreement between the city and LHA so do we have a motion Councilmember Christensen I would move that we appoint Harold Dominguez as executive board member of Longmont housing authority do I have a second we can skip to be that's fine but Mayor this is Karen Roney here community services director do you want to do a presentation Karen I want to do like 11 quick slides there you go let's do 11 quick slides I promise I promise I'll go quickly that's all right so basically earlier there are obviously two actions that we are asking city council to take this evening that enhances and changes the working relationship that the city of Longmont has with the Longmont housing authority and earlier this year Gillian Baldwin the Longmont housing authority executive director for one more day was really the major catalyst behind this IGA that will be discussed in this evening she really guided in her lesson two years with the housing authority guided the housing authority through some challenging times really stabilized the agency and helped us as city staff to understand that there is more work to be done she helped stabilize things but there is more work to be done to really have a sustainable housing authority into the future so we are very sad that she is not going to be working alongside us as we take on these challenges but you know we're really grateful for the many accomplishments that Gillian has made and contributed in the short time that she's here so I think she's in the watching the meeting and I think Carol was going to make just a couple of comments before I go into the presentation Mayor Counsel what I wanted to do is talk a little bit about the position that we're in today and it is really because of the work that Gillian's done over the last two years she has had no easy task as she's moved through that time period but to put it in example when Gillian started in August 2018 at that time there were 21 vacancies and about 102,000 outstanding and delinquent rents and there were 396 vouchers issued after 19 months under Gillian's leadership there was a 7% increase in vouchers issued a 28% decrease in vacancies and an 88% decrease in delinquent rents across the properties and so that's really just outstanding work that she's done the financial portfolios and more stable grounds the end of year cash totaled about 170,000 and it's projected to be in the neighborhood of 375 an increase of 121% she put protocols in place to address damage units and make them rentable and more importantly she served multiple HUD inspections and monitoring as well as from CHAFA which is the state division of housing and as a result made the agency stronger by revising and developing policies and procedures to really accomplish that she's also partnered with the city to set aside 5 vouchers for adults experiencing homelessness she's working with the she worked with the city to offer locally funded vouchers to the same populations that helps folks exiting homelessness and into stable housing in essence she stabilized the housing authority and made it possible to build on the foundation that we're talking about today the worksheet that she's done really brought many of these items to all of our attention and when Karen talks about where we're going to go from here it would be a much harder road for Jillian not done the heavy lifting that she did so I just want to personally thank Jillian for what she's done a Herculean effort in many ways so Jillian I just want you to hear from me while you're going on to another adventure I want to thank you for what you've done because without that this would be a much harder road for us as we move into the next phase thank you so much Harold thank you guys very much for that I'm going to mute myself thank you Karen? okay Susan if you would bring up the PowerPoint please no when Karen says that we've got a lot of work ahead of us and you're going to see that as Karen talks through this alright thank you so you can go to the next slide Susan so we're here today for really to figure out and to work on creating a more sustainable business model for the Longman Housing Authority so as we mentioned Jillian helped us to identify that we've come a long way but there are still additional financial and operational challenges that we really need to look at to make sure that LHA operations and that the agency is really positioned to continue to be successful in many years to come because really the Longman Housing Authority is a critical housing provider affordable housing provider in our community and we need it to be thriving and successful so to us as staff it made sense that the City of Longman and the Longman Housing Authority explore a stronger working relationship we we both have visions and commitments to make sure that people in our community have access to a variety of things but certainly access to housing and shelters so that so they can thrive all residents can thrive in the community next slide which is also the Housing Authority's vision so working together next slide please is that earlier this year we came together with the Housing Authority staff and City staff and really talked about a vision for really having a model of working together that leverages all of our human resources, our financial resources so that we can ensure a continuum of housing opportunities for all of our community members who are in need of affordable housing so I think the City and the Housing Authority have both have histories of working together being efficient and effective and we're really excited about the opportunity to create a sustainable operational and financial model that we hope maybe could be replicated with other communities throughout throughout the state and country next slide please so these are the kinds of things that we discovered again with Jillian's assistance earlier this year that we really need to continue to work on in the next several months and years to come and it has to do with really expanding our financial capacity and staff capacity at the Llama Housing Authority addressing what we call some of the challenges and we talk about culture, it's really about how we do business around here not just what it is that we're here to do but the way in which we approach that and we've identified some areas that we can enhance that organizationally as well as within our residential communities within the LHA portfolio. The LHA Board I think earlier I think it must have been last year did start to work on a vision strategy and we believe it's really important to take that work to the next step. We also want to pursue ongoing development opportunities as well as expansion of housing choice vouchers so that we can continue to grow and offer additional affordable housing opportunities to members of our community but we really need to kind of change the way we do business in order to do those opportunities and then I think last what it really provides us with an opportunity to integrate the work that we're doing as a city with affordable housing goals with the long housing authority goals. Next slide please. So we've identified some immediate actions some intermediate actions as well as some longer term strategies to work on in the coming months. So these next two slides really just in the high level identify the immediate actions which really has to do with first kind of shoring up some of the operations at the Longwood Housing Authority in terms of staff training making sure we have the protocols in place that we need there is I think as Harold talked about the multitude of of site visits that we had and just to make sure we are in compliance with all of the regulations that are required of our various funders and to really study and look at what are the optimum staffing levels to be able to operate the Longwood Housing Authority. Next slide please. Plus some of the immediate actions will involve financial stability and just really continue to make sure fees are being collected and to really have an overall analysis and review of our budgets of financial systems and just making sure that we are as strong as we can be in our financial area. Next slide please. So this is our initial timeline for for accomplishing this work and so we started this right before we had a pandemic so we got sideways a little bit but we are now back on track we hope to in the next three to six months address the immediate needs and start to look at what could a new operational model be for the Longwood Housing Authority it helps us meet some of the goals that we had identified. So we have anticipated possibly a 36 month timeframe here but that was our best guess at that point in time but what we do know is that the next six months are really critical for addressing some of the immediate needs that Gillian helped us to understand and to start and to really try to identify what a new operational model can look like. Next slide please. So why we're here tonight there are two things one a test that's included in your packet is is a proposed IGA that outlines the immediate work that needs to happen within the within the Longwood Housing Authority so we've identified that we also imagine that there will be additional more specific service agreements that will be taking place between the Housing Authority and the City of Longwood but this IGA that you have before you this evening gets the ball rolling, gets us started with our work with more specificity to come. So we're asking for the council to consider the resolution so that we can get started with our work. The second thing is and this is really what the Longwood Housing Authority addressed in their board meeting today which was a change to its bylaws. So one of the things that the Housing Authority and the City of Longwood our legal teams both looked at and really advocated that within at least these first several months is that we need to make sure that while we're exploring, discovering figuring out how we can best work together that both the LHA and the City of Longwood need to remain separate and independent entities and and not take on the liabilities of the other and so in order to be able to do that it required a change to the bylaws for the Longwood Housing Authority that in essence adds a an executive board member to the Longwood Housing Authority board that will basically share and have the same authority as what the Longwood Housing Authority Executive Director would have what's a little bit different than what it says in your hit list on your agenda which says to appoint Harold Dominguez as the executive member of the Longwood Housing Authority board we really need to modify that this was a last minute change to the bylaws with the Housing Authority is that what we're asking is for the City Council to appoint Harold Dominguez as to the Longwood Housing Board and then the Longwood Housing Authority board would then in turn be responsible for selecting the Executive Board Member which we would intend that to be Harold Harold Dominguez so I think next slide Susan I think that's my last slide so again what this would do is to keep the two organizations separate, maintain independence as I talked about before with each entity being responsible for their own liabilities we really continue to figure out what is the longer term sustainable operational model for the Longwood Housing Authority so that concludes my comments and Harold Kathy Fendler Karen Roney would be glad to answer any questions that you might have Council Member Peck Thank you Mayor Bagley or Harold we have a lot of different boards in our different organizations some of them are advisory some of them are commissioners some of them make decisions can you tell me what the role of the Longwood Housing Authority Board is for the state statute or for the city what is the role of that board so maybe I would invite Kathy or Harold maybe to talk about that or Eugene so so anyone that would love to answer that correctly for Council Member Peck would be fabulous I'd be happy to take a shot of it Mayor and Council Eugene May City Attorney so the Longwood Housing Authority is a statutory entity under state statute to statute vests the board with governance responsibilities for the Housing Authority and so that's not to be confused with charter boards and commissions which are advisory to city council this is a board that is vested with authority to govern an independent public entity known as housing authorities created by statute okay so they actually have the ability to make decisions for LHA correct thank you all right we've got a motion but I'm going to rule the motion out of order and ask for a motion on resolution 20-20-51 before we vote on that next motion and 20-20-51 is approving the resolution of the Longmont City Council to basically merge LHA and the City Council Mayor Pro Temer Rodriguez thank you Mayor Bagley I move approval second it's been moved by Mayor Pro Temer Rodriguez seconded by Council Member Peck all in favor say aye aye all opposed say nay all right that passes unanimously now we can deal with the motion appointing Harold Dominguez as Executive Board Member the Longwood Housing Authority and that was made by I think Council Member Christensen yes I jumped the gun a little and as Karen has clarified that we will elect him as the Executive Board Member but to elect him to the Board of the Longwood Housing Authority and we presume that they will then appoint him as the Executive Board Member Karen is that true or I thought we were appointing him as the Executive Board Member because we now you are which is it you are appointing me to the Board right and then because of the legal components that Eugene that Karen talked about the Board will appoint me as the Executive but it's all happening right now part of it's happening now and part of it's going to happen tomorrow based on that all right I got it all right Council Member Christensen go ahead and restate that motion okay because they just to clarify Brian is there bylaws to add that position of Executive Board Member today this morning so I would move that this body appoint Harold Dominguez as a Member of the Longwood Housing Authority Board second all right it's been moved by Council Member Christensen to appoint Harold Dominguez as a Board Member of the Longwood Housing Authority and it's been seconded by Council Member Farring on favor say aye aye opposed say nay congratulations Harold you've been appointed unanimously all right let's move on to final call public invited to be heard let's go ahead and take a three minute break we'll let people call in all right is everybody back do we have anybody in the queue no Mayor all right that's it for final call public invited to be heard let's move on to Mayor and Council comments Council Member Christensen I hope Jillian Baldwin is still here I don't see her but anyway Jillian Baldwin came here from Gary Indiana where she had banished a very difficult situation and she knew this was not going to be easy but she had no idea how difficult it was and she really really worked so incredibly hard and she's so she's so intelligent and skilled and has a wonderful sense of humor aside from being pretty and funny very funny I don't think if she had didn't have such a good sense of humor she would have probably hung herself but she really helped straighten out a huge mess and I want to thank her and wish her