And invited to speak please remember to mute the live stream when we when you are called upon to speak 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 their comments All right, let's go ahead. Do we have a motion to approve the July 20 20 20 minutes? So move All right, it was but it's been moved by councilmember christensen and seconded by councilmember martin all in favor say aye Hi, hi hi the post a name All right, the motion carries unanimously all right. Do we have any agenda revisions or motions direct the city manager to add agenda items? Dr. Waters Apologies, I'm muted. But still thanks, ma'am. Yeah, there are two two items on the heels of our our conversation discussion about the short-term mental ordinance and and what and whatever we see back now in terms of the the sense that staff made out of the direction we gave I think we need to mind you and I've heard from residents that we need to take a look at our adu ordinance on the heels of that Especially if we're gonna expect to see more adu's used as short-term rentals So I'd like to move that The staff find a time on the agenda on the heels of the the update of the short-term rental ordinance that we take a look Soon at the adu ordinance second and Dr. Waters, I assume that you're talking about the variants the five feet and the ongoing. Okay, good Yeah, I was just hearing from a concerned citizen via text wanting to know why that hasn't been put on an agenda Harold just out of curiosity if this motion I'm gonna put it on anyway, so it doesn't matter, but when can we bring this back? Oh, no, I need to get with Joni. I know that was I know it was on their list and they were moving through Because I know The reason why it's urgent is there's two other there's two other adu's going up in the downtown area And I know that there are residents who are concerned about You know five feet from the property line Beginning to be the norm and it could alter the feel of downtown if everybody just starts a famine in adu's And so if there are people if there's one there and more on the way we should probably act before they start throwing them up so It's it's urgent. Yeah, Johnny's on so let me get with her tomorrow. All right, great I'm gonna put it on but let's go ahead and take the vote since this is a motion all in favor say aye. Aye. I Opposed say nay. All right the motion carries unanimously I had a second And it's not an ordinance But a year ago, we authorized the city manager to engage a consultant to do an external evaluation of the rewind program and As as we did that what I expressed at the time was my interest Ultimately in knowing what we learned I don't care about the report. I think the report is for staff But I do think if there's something that we that we learned from the evaluation of rewind we rewind That should inform us at a policy level and and help us understand dynamics of Relationships between other programs like the community justice partnership and restorative justice. It would be useful So what I'd like to know if other council members share any curiosity in knowing what what we learned not what the Not the recommendations and the findings of the details of the report Just what staff learned and how we'll use what we learned to kind of continue to improve what we do with rewind and in the relationship with Community justice with restorative justice in the community justice partnership Is that a motion? I'll second it Well, if there's other yes, it's a motion. Yeah, I think and plus the other thing is I think again This is one that I was going to put on anyway. So but The other thing is I would actually not only we're going to vote on it But when it comes back Harold, I'd also like I know that there's been I've gotten a lot of calls People upset On some of the findings believing that they got some things wrong As well as some things, right? So I'd like I'd like to hear full report on the report, but Um, there's a motion on the table all in favor say aye I Pose say nay All right, uh, it passes unanimously So just bring it back as soon as you can Harold. I know you're busy All right, anything else All right, say nothing. Let's go ahead Harold. Do you have a COVID-19 report tonight? We do. Um, I'm going to start off with um, susan motika from boulder county health Um, and she'll and she'll give a report then we're going to move to reberto luna There's an item that you're voting on today. We wanted to talk a little bit about What um, regarding our wastewater system? And then I have a quick update on the restaurant token program. So susan Think it away. Thank you, Harold. Thank you Uh, good evening everyone. I am the strategic initiatives and policy director at boulder county public health and jeff zac Our director was sorry. He could not be here tonight Uh, but asked me to share some facts with you about the COVID situation always evolving So an update on the state mask order As you may know, I'm sure you get feedback on this the state mask order has been Interpreted to require that people wear masks in cubicles and this has generated a lot of feedback So this is not outdoors indoors in offices that don't have closed doors The state's mask order is due to expire on august 15th And our county attorney's office has advocated and asked the state for clarification And some modifications. So we'll see a Assume this order gets extended. That's what we're thinking from governor polis and to see if there are any modifications that are going to make helpful to people things like the plexiglass barriers that they've already installed and Uh, social distancing measures and things like that. So I would say look for an update from us Early in the week. We're expecting an answer on before honor before august 15th and then perhaps clarifying information Shortly thereafter So I wanted to let you know, we've been doing our sentinel survey This is where we sent out a team of people to monitor masks all over the county We go to sites all over the county and we actually observed 2603 people in july for mask wearing compliance and these are at places like parks stores Service places and we're seeing 95 compliance in those places and Um However, um, the social distancing is significantly lower And this is you know, this is a bit of a concern for us So the mask wearing is in a very strong position But as you might expect in the summer some retraction on the compliance with social distancing outdoors so another point that I update I wanted to make is The metro denver partnership for health and i'm sure jeff has reported on this before This is a collection of the metro area public health directors in the seven area counties So they've been collaborating with cdph On um interim guidance for schools. That's k through 12 handling outbreaks So, um, we know that bvsd and st. Frayn are going to be starting remote and jeff Reaffirmed that for me today that that's still the plan with our school superintendents But assuming things do go in person again having a plan for recommendations interim guidance for schools to handle Those really inevitable outbreaks that are going to occur as important. So This will be something we can share in the next few days as well I would think by early early next week. We'll have more information on that I'm sorry is that i'm sorry councilperson hidalga Yes, um, I wasn't sure if I can interject in between. Oh, please please and if I don't know we'll figure it out Go ahead. Sorry mayor I was just I was just gonna say I was just gonna say let's let's wait till the end of the presentation And then we can go ahead. So just let's just let's all write down whatever notes or comments wait till the end And then we'll you'll be the first one that I call. Okay. Thank you And it's okay our two outbreaks with um, even though we're online Okay I'm sorry, mayor. I should have asked you what your protocol was. Yeah, let's just go ahead I I prefer to get through the presentation And then we'll then we'll have questions because we might a lot of times we get those questions answered Okay, fair enough Okay, uh, susan if you could go to the first slide please Uh, the next slide please Okay, so this is our cumulative cases and information about our cumulative cases I want to call out a couple facts Um at the end of yesterday, which was monday we had 26 cases Sunday we had eight saturday 16 friday 19 So as I um shared with herald a few minutes ago We are in general seeing higher case counts and you're going to see this as I go through the presentation Um, and we need to keep a very very close eye on that. So right now 14.2 percent of cases Um are in long-term care facilities and we see 77 percent of deaths from long-term care facilities And that says of yesterday next slide please This is that kind of confusing slide that is showing if you look at that upper right hand corner It's showing that seven county area in the metro region um So in terms of raw numbers You want to look at the red line because that's boulder county We are now lower than all but broomfield and douglas county However, as I said, we are still seeing um an uptick in cases Next slide please So this is our five day rolling average of new cases So our five day rolling average of cases is about 13.6 cases per day Next slide please We have some good news on testing um Our current five day average percent positive of people who test it is two point who were tested is 2.4 percent And our five day average percent positive is three point three percent And i'm sorry for that typo. It says on seven one that number 3.3 is current right now Next slide please So this is our five day rolling on COVID tests and again We see that the percent on positivity has remained steady and is heading downward next slide The next slide looks at our positive cases per 100,000 By municipality and you can see that boulder city is now neck and neck with longmont in a case rate per 100,000 Next slide please This is a slide i'm sure you've seen a number of times, but it's the age breakdown the presenting rate per 100,000 So you see a high spike in the 20 to 29 age group And what we what we would think of is very predictable the 80 plus category being high as well Next slide please This is our sources of transmission And we're continuing to see community transmission with limited person-to-person transmission And that's typically people among the same household where a clear source can be identified And we're also starting to see some cases associated with travel. No surprise since that's the summer We're in the summer now next slide please So this is showing our racial ethnic breakdown and in the past 10 days, we're seeing 51 of our cases With a known race and ethnicity Being hispanic latin x So this as you know in boulder county Represents four times the latin x proportion in the boulder county Population We've been seeing that number go up and that is a great concern to us So moving on to hospitalizations and deaths next slide please You can see that the most significant source the orange is has is uh deaths and the blue Is hospitalizations you can see that And this has been a very constant finding that the most significant age groups are elders for hospitalizations and deaths Next slide please So current hospitalizations have been trending upward We've got 15 people hospitalized as of yesterday Um, we had a higher higher count of people hospitalized Last week, but we're continuing to watch that very closely Next slide Next slide and just to remind folks that we are currently in Safer at home following the governor's orders Stay at home is the most restrictive order And we are we are striving to get to the protect our neighbor, which as you know is the governor's plan Where counties actually have to satisfy and meet Certain criteria in order to advance to protect our neighbors So that criteria that we're tested on if you will by the state Includes or I should say that we have to you know submit these results to them Include hospital capacity case counts testing case investigation and contact tracing Next slide please So out of these protect our neighbor metrics We have four that are met Four that are partially met And one that is not met So where we are strong includes sufficient hospital bed capacity, although we keep a very close eye on that sufficient PPE supply sufficient testing capacity And documented strategies to offer testing to close contacts So where have we partially met? This would be fewer new cases the ability to implement case investigation and contract contact tracing documented surge capacity plan for case investigation and contact tracing and mitigation and containment plans developed and finalized so I should say that we are in a very strong hiring phase of Trying to get through and hire 10 case investigators right now. This is going to be extremely helpful along with the people we've previously hired So, you know, we're on our road to satisfying a number of those metrics Um, we have not met the stable or declining COVID hospitalizations to a sufficient percentage yet Next slide please so these are Key COVID data resources that help direct you directly to our web page to the exact Pages and sources that are dealing with illness and recovery the summary dashboard hospital resource dashboard And the CDPHE COVID data. So this can be very useful to bookmark for you So that is what I have for tonight All right, let's go ahead and uh counselor without a fairing. Do you still have a question? Yes, so the first one I had was um, when you had talked about schools and handling the outbreaks um Though we don't have Students we're not doing the hybrid or Or mix in person online. It's full online. However, we do have daycare That is occurring in each of the buildings throughout Um, you know, my biggest concern is and correct me if I'm wrong um, st. Brain Valley school district is the largest employer of lawmont residents And so, you know, it does have an impact for the community at large All right now all teachers are required and I'm not sure of the case for um, Boulder Valley school district I think it is that teachers are required to be in the building for to conduct online learning lessons And we are and they are allowed to bring their own children to the classroom So we do have a mix of daycare students and staff children in the building along with all staff So, um, is there anything In place right now how to mitigate or handle outbreaks? In the event that does, you know, god forbid that does happen Have they explain that to you what that plan is?  Um, I was just wondering from your you know, so we've been We're still right now. It's we're going back and we're getting our training I had some meetings today and we have more tomorrow and the day after Um, so I was just wondering what um the county Okay, stipulated or all right consider So I think that the best thing I could say is providing that interim guidance just as soon as we get it because it is going to um address those issues and it sounds like even though you don't have the kids coming back that you have other situations involving People's kids the daycare. I'm listening to what you've said. So you're just wondering what the If there is a um recommended protocol or guidance for that So I will find out and I will raise that question With our community mitigation folks that deal with education and on the metro denver partnership for health Call, which is tomorrow. Okay. Okay. And then the other piece is has there been any projections? So as we start opening up more and more facilities Um, has there been a projection on okay? We anticipate so many more cases or so many more hospitalizations Um, has there been any dialogue or discussion around that? Um, the biggest fact that I would have on that is the modeling from the colorado school of public health Colorado school of public health just as a couple weeks ago. They found that our Percentage of social distancing was at in the like 41 percent and they projected if we keep that up We're going to be at a potential surge capacity by labor day And then just in the last few days that number has improved to around 70 71 percent And we think that you know, no one has a crystal ball here, but that may have been predicated or Encouraged by the state mask order people got very serious about wearing masks and we've heard that anecdotally all over the state Um, but as the state epidemiologist said she said I can't get real excited about this 71 percent number because as you can see even from the data that Jeff and I present Things go up and down and we have to keep monitoring on a very very frequent basis Um, so the other thing I would say is no, we don't have like if this than that if that than this, you know Some kind of you know, very mathematical formula right now. That's very specific to our community But what I would say is, you know, we're very concerned about this confluence of factors You know the return of bvsd the return of st. Vrain eventually Um, cu is coming back next week and then shortly after we've got the flu season starting So Jeff and the team at public health are monitoring data and I presented a selection of slides for you Not the whole we have other other slides and other data that we're monitoring on a daily basis So we'll just be keeping in touch with you and we have a You know a direct Line to to harrell to talk about developments that both of us are seeing Okay, thank you. And then I guess this is more towards harrell Um, and you know, if you've already sent it to us, I apologize, but the links that she shared For the other data resources Those are in the marica sends those to you all I'll make sure that she sends that The other thing I would add to what susan said based on and you heard the surgeon general say this yesterday There's three things that they're really hitting on wearing masks socially distancing and washing your hands And the data is now really starting to show that if if we do those three things those are really powerful And so I think on the modeling question at least my conversations That I've had with folks it's really how well we do In terms of what the model will look like and so Past is there, but you want to really look at how well we adopt Those three principles in terms of how that can adjust the model. Okay that accurate susan Yeah, I'm glad you brought that up harrell because Jeff and I were just sharing that a couple of Studies on masks have also indicated that where government is stepping in and saying look folks You have to wear masks that we are seeing better results and we've seen better compliance in colorado as a result of that But um, we'll have to keep a very close eye on this I'm sorry. There's another question. Yeah councilmember martin Thank you, mayor bagley. Um, this is my bad because I got interested in considering the areas of attainment and partial attainment And I completely missed. What was our area of non attainment? Oh, okay, hold on Our area of non attainment. I think was the It was the stable or declining COVID-19 hospitalizations It's the team calling you that you're seeing. It's the up and down Are there any other questions for susan? Okay, now um the next Um update that we wanted to give you all and susan you're free to go or you can listen to reberto's because it's about the meeting We're gonna sit up You can turn your camera off if you want The the next update reberto luna reberto. Um, you want to go ahead and turn your camera on? So you have heard us talk about the work that we're doing in our wastewater system And in what we've called the biobot testing and there's an item today in terms of the work that we're going to do with them CSU um, and and i've asked for burdo to talk to council about this because Um, what's happening is we're actually now scheduling a meeting with jeff and susan and boulder county health staff to then take our data and take reberto's data and start seeing where we can See if there's connections because This data really is probably a true leading indicator Reberto take it away Can you don't mute yourself? There you go. Thank you herald Uh, mayor bagley members of council. Good evening. Um, reberto luna water quality laboratory supervisor With the business environmental services and the public works and natural resources department I'll be presenting information on an ongoing project for monitoring the cobit virus in wastewater Susan can you start the presentation? uh, next slide Back in march of this year a company named biobot Sent out a invitation national invitation to wastewater treatment plants Asking them to participate in a program to monitor wastewater for the virus that causes uh, cobit 19 This project was based upon research that had been done in australia and the netherlands Uh, that indicated two things one was that you could find the presence of the virus or detect the presence of the virus in wastewater and the second one which uh, I think was uh Particularly interesting was the netherlands, uh, uh research indicated That you could detect the virus days prior to the first clinically confirmed case of cobit 19 um The city of loma was not selected for the first round of testing Uh, but we were selected uh for the second round of testing that second round of testing started in may Uh, and there were approximately 400 wastewater treatment plants throughout the united states that were participating in this study Uh, basically it involved sampling the wastewater entry in the wastewater treatment plant Once a week and sending that sample to biobot for analysis of the cobit, uh 19 virus Next slide susan biobot Really experienced a tremendous increase in its demand in the demand for its services uh and It was over capacity and and this was really more clearly demonstrated by the fact that it was taken over a week for us to get uh, results Uh, the second incident that happened was biobot increased its price by uh 10 fold um There are several front range wastewater utilities that were participating in this project with biobot They did they did not think this was a viable uh path forward So 17 front range utilities including the city of loma um And the colorado department of public health and environment collaborated and putting together a proposal for monitoring doing wastewater surveillance of the cobit 19 virus monitoring for the cobit virus in wastewater uh The 17 utilities represent over three million people in colorado or Approximately 60 of the population in colorado The proposal itself includes the services of a epidemiologist that is going to help with the interpretation of the data federal funding to the extent of five hundred twenty thousand dollars was approved and the colorado department of public health and environment Is working on finalizing the work plan, uh, and we believe it'll be Completed in a couple of weeks The next slide susan the project, uh, uh with the The front range collaboration involves sampling of the wastewater Entering the wastewater treatment plant twice a week for one year The analysis will be done by the colorado state university laboratory With a three-day turnaround, which is fantastic Our price for this is in kind contribution That in kind contribution is in the form of us doing the sampling and us shipping Uh the sample to uh the colorado state university laboratory Our participation in this project is going to result in consistent generation and use of the data consistent public messaging And provide comprehensive statewide information regarding the cobit 19 virus Will we will be returning in a couple of weeks a few weeks, uh with an iga, uh for approval of an iga next You know short presentation, uh If you, uh, thank you for your time. If you have any questions, I'd be happy to try and answer them Right, I don't see any but thank you very much creative very scientific based way of tracking the virus Appreciate your work. Yeah, Roberto actually caught me. I got my meetings mixed up. It is on the 25th where we're bringing this So good catch Roberto And um, I think the value is we're seeing the results now, but the delay in the testing Actually is hard for us to figure out what's going on The real value in this is twice a week in the three-day turnaround Which really when you then couple that with the case data when you can start overlaying it you can see I hope some really interesting perspectives Um to be very clear how many people will talk about this as being a way to determine how many cases you have in the community The science isn't there For that and Roberto has drilled that in my head. It's really to just look at the prevalence in the system Um to understand maybe what's coming at you in the future Um and as we start, um entering into this and getting more data To his point, we'll have an epidemiologist working with this and we can share that with you all And it'll be more timely in terms of looking to the future the um The next thing I wanted to update you all on and this is um, actually really good news um I've got to find the email on this To make sure I I get all my facts correct But as you all know the council voted to To do the tokens for the um Food for the food program for the 25 dollars Um, we actually partnered with a number of groups to get this done. So the chamber of commerce operate agreed to Manage the program. We worked with the tinker mill and they created 200 of those 25 dollar tokens We then gave those out to the folks that were in the free mill program. This is where I lost Sandy's email where she gave me all the specifics, but the groups that we work with on a normal basis That we assistant with providing food and The good news is We're also partnered with about 50 local restaurants and they're starting to report back that they're actually Seeing those tokens come into the restaurants. They're really excited about participating in it Getting really positive feedback from those individuals where we That received them But here's probably the best news. Um, we recently were contacted by two apartment complexes And they indicated that they wanted to figure out how they could purchase those tokens So that they could give them to their residents and I think that's really the positive side to this story is where you're actually seeing You know private businesses in our community saying we really like this idea that The council developed and implemented and we want to be part of it. So I wanted to share that with you all Because that's what you like to see when you when you do these types of things It's really getting the public to be involved in supporting those those projects. So that's a bit of good news as we Try some of these things out That's my update for today. If you all have any questions generally about the covid world. I'll be happy to answer All right. Well, we appreciate your updates. So we don't see any hands. So thank you very much Let's go ahead and move on to first call public invited to be heard Oh, did you hear me? I said, let's take a three minute break as we wait for people to call in here. All right Back in three All right, everybody. Let's go. All right. How many people how many are in the queue? If we could wait just another 30 seconds or so, please Sure, how many in the queue so far? We don't have anyone at this moment We're just gonna let the slide come down from the live stream which takes about another 30 seconds. Sounds good to me. Okay I can't remember a council meeting where we didn't have any at least one member of the public Must mean they're all happy with this All right, the slide just came down from the live stream. You may begin All right, I mean begin or go on go on. All right, great Let's move on to consent agenda an introduction and reading my title the first reading in order of ordinances Can you go ahead and read that for us Don? I can mayor I'll need lots of breath. It's a long one tonight. It is Ordinant item 9a is ordinance 2020-30 a bill for an ordinance Making additional appropriations for expenses and liabilities of the city of Longmont for the fiscal year beginning January 1st 2020 Public hearing and second reading scheduled for august 25th 2020 9b is ordinance 2020-31 A bill for an ordinance amending titles 4.04 point 4.05 and 6.08 of the Longmont municipal code on sales and use tax Larger's tax and retail business licenses and creating a new code section 4.04 point 105 For the purpose of enacting the colorado municipal leagues model ordinance on economic nexus And marketplace facilitators for self-collecting Home rule municipalities as part of a statewide sales tax simplification effort public hearing and second reading scheduled for august 25th 2020 9c is ordinance 2020-32 a bill for an ordinance amending titles 6.08 of the Longmont municipal code on retail business license public hearing and second reading scheduled for august 25th 2020 9d is ordinance 2020-33 a bill for an ordinance submitting to the registered electors of the city of Longmont, Colorado at a special municipal election to be held on november 3rd 2020 An amendment to the city of Longmont home world charter to allow for the lease of city property for up to 30 years public hearing and second reading scheduled for august 25th 2020 9e is resolution 2020-69 A resolution of the Longmont city council calling a special municipal election to be held tuesday november 3rd 2020 Concerning issuing bonds payable from the city's water utilities enterprise revenues to finance water capital projects And an amendment to the city of Longmont home rule charter to allow for leases of city property for up to 30 years 9f is resolution 2020-70 a resolution of the Longmont city council approving the intergovernmental agreement Between the city and boulder county for the contact and administration of the 2020 general election to be held november 3rd 2020 9g is resolution 2020-71 a resolution of the Longmont city council approving the intergovernmental agreement Between the city and weld county for the count conduct and coordination of the november 3rd 2020 election 9h is resolution 2020-72 A resolution of the Longmont city council submitting a ballot question to the registered electors of the city of Longmont, colorado At a special municipal election to be held november 3rd 2020 Concerning issuing bonds payable from the city's water utility enterprise revenues to finance water capital projects 9i is resolution 2020-73 A resolution of the Longmont city council approving the amendment to an intergovernmental agreement between the city of Longmont and colorado department Of human services office of behavioral health for a grant to support the Longmont public safety lead program 9j resolution 2020-74 resolution of the Longmont city council approving the amendment to intergovernmental agreement Between the city of Longmont and colorado department of human services Office of behavioral health for a grant to support the Longmont public safety crisis outreach response and engagement team core team 9k resolution 2020-75 a resolution of the Longmont city council approving the intergovernmental agreement Between the city of Longmont and the colorado department of public safety for the emergency management performance grant 9l is resolution 2020-76 A resolution of the Longmont city council approving the project partnership Intergovernmental agreement between the city of Longmont and department of the army for the st. Brain Creek flood risk management project under section 205 9m is resolution 2020-77 A resolution of the Longmont city council approving the first amendment to the fiber use license intergovernmental agreement Between the city of Longmont and Platte river power authority 9n is resolution 2020-78 A resolution of the Longmont city council approving a voluntary alternative agreement for the spoke apartments as satisfaction of the city's inclusionary housing requirements And 9o is approved loan term extension request from the Longmont housing development corporation on their hover crossing land to purchase loan Phew All right councilman martin I move the consent agenda I'll second it Mayor I apologize in your script staff would like to remove 9n for the for a presentation Uh, okay Um, okay, we can do that. That's fine. Dr. Waters Uh, can we remove item uh 9 Uh, oh as well. I have a question about the length of that extension. I think there were a couple of options So, uh, I'm going to take the motion as being moving the motion is to move the consent agenda Less n and o unless there's an objection All right, all in favor sir. I I I I oppose and a All right, the motion carries unanimously and we've got a I've got my my phone has kind of blown up at least by two people Um, can we just can we double check? So there are two members of the public and they're both saying the same thing they said, um it says that, uh Uh, when I tried calling in for public invited first call public invited to be heard The system was telling them the meeting is not started yet and they call back later If that makes sense Councilmember christensen Yeah, I just got an email with the same message. So there's something uh wrong So could we could we look at that susan and then uh, take a brief moment? and I'd like to go back before we move on to The items on second reading and an item and an o I'd like to have that public First call. Yes, mayor. Give me one minute. Great Let me just double check that our meeting id is correct okay Mayor so it does look like we displayed an incorrect meeting id and that's why they weren't able to Join us Okay, then I'm gonna go ahead. Let's go ahead and go back. I'm gonna open up First call public invited to be heard and uh, we apologize to those members of the public looking to get in So so happy to know that people aren't all happy with the job we're doing Let's go ahead and take another three minute break as people call and get in the queue And um, if you can't get in the queue, um, those of you who texted me and those of you who texted or emailed um Councilmember christianson if you could reach out to us if it's not working We'll we'll fix it. So all right great, then we'll be back in three minutes And I am being told it's working now. So That's good The callers are coming in mayor. So looks like it's working All right, let's go ahead and start then let's go ahead and close the the call in line How many do we have in the queue at least three? Mayor it's telling me nine, but I'm gonna let nine. Okay. Let them all cool. Let's go for it Those of you who are in the queue, um, I'll go ahead and you're gonna have three minutes to present At which time I'll have to cut you off no matter how awesome your your statement Our first caller to be unmuted your phone number ends in three five three I'm gonna ask you to unmute caller three five three can you Unmute I'm having a hard time unmuting you Let's go. Let's come back to them. Let's go on to the next one The next caller your phone number ends in three seven zero I'm gonna ask you to unmute I'm wondering if our system is still not down Or something is not working Yeah, I'm not sure mayor. Let's try again. Caller three seven zero Can you unmute yourself? Okay Hello Yes, you may begin three spot. Yeah, okay Uh, my name is pat davis 1709 harvard street longmont Mayor and members of the city council I wish to speak to the bill amending chapter four Dot 10 of the longmont municipal code on special districts policies and procedures I ask you to vote yes on this bill I understand that a yes vote will reinstate the previous ordinance as amended in 2012 Thus rescinding the current ordinance approved in february 2019 that allowed for residential metro districts However, I am confused about one area that may be a part of tonight's bill Did the council approve of changes in language to this bill? Changes that are now identified as amendments one two three four six and ten I went back over previous meetings and I could never find a time where you had Actually voted approval of these amendments I don't believe they're necessary and would like to see them eliminated Regardless this discussion has gone on way too long almost a year and five months now It is time to wrap it up and lock in the ordinance of 2012 There are many other important issues that have taken a back seat to this subject and it is Past time to move forward. Thank you so much Thank you. Ms. Davis. All right next The next caller we're going to try again is three seven zero. I'm going to ask you to unmute Can you unmute your phone? All right, let's let's keep let's just keep if they don't answer immediately Let's just keep rotating him to the end. Okay caller four seven zero. I'm going to ask you to unmute Four seven zero. There you go. Hello. Hello Are we connected? Yes, we are you may begin? Please state your name This is Michael Belmont at 841 tenacity drive Greetings all and thanks for the opportunity to address council I understand that at the upcoming august 25th council meeting you will be deciding on whether or not to renew the contract with debt lives Helmete for air monitoring at union and long line airport This monitoring has been never really been more important as you know Our air quality has been showing spikes In dangerous ozone levels triggered by pollutants such as vocs as well as other compounds extremely destructive to human health So please consider the following We have consistently received an f rating from the american lung association for air quality in our area in recent years In order to hope to correct this we must have a thorough understanding of the trends sources and causes of these Unacceptable levels which can only be determined By persistent monitoring with the best available equipment and expertise I believe you initially conducted several community presentations around monitoring and debt live made a couple of presentations to council After which you recognize the community support as well as the importance and timeliness of air monitoring when this A year ago or so Is my understanding that we now own the expensive equipment that is required to continue air monitoring So it would not make sense to simply abandon that equipment at this most critical time Now some may say that we can save money by not properly and accurately monitoring our air But I say That degrading air quality unchecked has been widely proven To trigger massive increases in the cost of health care from the devastating physical harm It reeks upon local communities And finally if we cannot show that we care about failing air quality in our or potentially failing air quality in our community And that we are resolute about monitoring and improving it How many desirable businesses that otherwise would consider locating in and around lawnmower will decline to do so Because of our negligence around one of the most important quality of life factors clean air I need to not reiterate What is now known among you as the extensive resume of debt live helms expertise and experience as one of the country's finest Most respected scientists in atmospheric research Thus I urge you to vote to renew the contract with him at the august 25th council meeting to continue The critical important monitoring of our air quality. Thanks so much Our next guest your phone number ends in seven seven seven i'm going to ask you to unmute Caller seven seven seven there you go Can you hear me we sure can you may be Yes, uh, good evening. My name is abo lenders. I'm at 1543 south coughman And thank you for the opportunity for letting us let us speak. We are calling on uh, the street that I've been there since 1981 but and they're with Uh, they're making us now with the light going in up on pace and south cough and we're sitting a lot seeing a lot of traffic that's coming through and it's just uh, our community is is uh Now mostly there's families that have have children and we're starting to see a lot of a lot of traffic a lot of speeding a lot of vehicles and uh, we'd like to see if we can get that looked at and and uh See if we can do something to slow that down or not have not have the high speed You know the the amount of cars that go through there. So That's what we're hoping we can get done If the council can look at that for us, please Okay Thank you very much. Thank you Our next caller your phone number ends in 795. I'm going to ask you to unmute 795 Hello, can you hear me? I sure can you may begin. All right. This this is megan williams 1213 spruce avenue I'm here council and uh, karen roney and uh, nancy kerr to ask you to look at In uh, increasing the access to the library There is a very large sign that hangs on the outside of the library that states because access equals opportunity I do not think that our library is currently providing that access especially to our more vulnerable populations Next week parents will once again be forced to play a much more intensive role in the education of their children All of this while providing nearly no access to the public library for a working parent Our library is currently open 10 to 4 monday through saturday for curbside and limited inside services With the kids and teens section only open from 10 to 1 with a limit of only 10 people inside This provides virtually no opportunity for a two-parent working household to access materials for their kids I'm an educator my own two kids sixth and ninth grade Will be at home all day on their own doing online school while i am in the school building teaching other kids Trying to teach them keep them excited engaged and motivated about learning proved to be very challenging in the spring Especially without the resources of our library Thank goodness private entities in our communities like the used bookstores and little free libraries existed to help get materials I've done a search of the libraries in our surrounding communities like loveland irdy carbon valley for collins boulder and greeley The longmont library has the least access of any of these surrounding libraries I feel as though everyone should have ample access to the library Especially given the fact that i'm still paying taxes for these services Perhaps if the library and their staff were in danger of losing their jobs and having to shut down Like our local retailers and used bookstores were They would be in more of a hurry to increase usership and access Please expand ours so that more people can access our awesome library I think there are plenty of ways that our library can still prioritize safety And expand access for more people just like our private retailers have had to do Our kids are going to be asked to once again sit in front of screens for the majority of their days this fall I would love for them to be able to engage in a written book The only opportunity to get the materials currently for a working Daytime parent is on saturday from 10 to 1 with 10 people at a time If each person let's say is in the library for 30 minutes That only allows for approximately 60 people a week to access the kids and teens section outside of average working hours Once again, please consider expanding the library hours to provide more access for our Entire community, especially our families with children. Thank you so much for your time council Thanks, Megan Our next caller your phone number ends in nine three two. I'm going to ask you to unmute nine three two All right, I'm going to go on to the next caller your last three digits of your phone number ends in six one six I'm going to ask you to unmute six one six Hello It's probably best that you stop the live stream Oh, okay. I will do that Okay, uh, yes, this is linda schlocky. I'm at 2307 sherry mars street and I would like you to um Please bring to a vote to show that we would no longer have special residential Metro districts in our community when I attended the colorado Real estate school my instructor was not was also a real estate attorney and he Said said for us to beware of special Metro residential districts because they could be a real financial problem for Homeowners and home buyers and Just recently I talked to a friend out of firestone who was in one of those districts They sold her the house a couple years ago Emphasizing that there would be no homeowners association However, after she purchased the house she just got realized that She was paying all these fees or taxes to the developer or owner of the metro district Without having a vote on it and without having much say as to where it goes Not so long ago an investigative reporter for the Denver Post pointed out There are numerous problems with Special metro residential districts in the state of colorado um My friend in firestone and her neighbors are trying to find a way to change it, but unfortunately It's going to be very difficult under colorado law For the most part these Special districts have not been at advantage to the homeowners home buyers or the community at large Thank you for your consideration of of that Issue I think our community would be better without special metro districts. Thank you Thank you All right, our next caller is 927 927 I'm going to ask you to unmute Can you hear me? If you're listening to the live stream, it's probably best that you turn the live stream off and just listen to your phone Looks like you're unmuted. Do you hear me? Yes, I can. Can you hear me? We sure can you may begin My name is laurlie hinton. I live at 1242 judson street I Was going to speak to the municipal districts But I asked for your yes vote and that's that I won't go on with that but during Previous times you said the the statewide band en masse is due to expire I would like the city to put in a citywide band En masse I believe that is possible I'm not sure but I believe it's possible and You opened up main street And they are not the restaurants are not Following the guidelines and keeping the table six feet apart uh I have I'm old And I have clpd I have been stuck in this damn house since march And it just really annoys me. I am doing my part And I do not think the council Has gotten tough enough on gatherings and masking exceptra And i'm speaking to the woman who talked about the library If I can I will give my telephone number and I would like her to call me there are ways you can access The catalogs online and they will deliver the books to your car I do not think we should put the librarians at risk because of children I mean They need to be educated But there are other ways to get the books if you have the title You can go online And put a hole down them drive up to the library and they will bring the books to your car And I really Took umbrage to her Same things about the librarians. They work their tails off And it's not the librarians that set the rules for the library. It's the council Thank you. Stay happy. And I'm sorry. I said I would like a courage month Thank you All right our next guest We're going to try 3 7 0 again. You should be able to unmute your phone Your phone number ends in 3 7 0. Can you hear me? There you are Jim Gibson. Can you hear me? We sure can. Thank you. You may begin Good evening. My name is Jim Gibson of Denver. I'm um with a group called uh citizens for metropolitan district reform It's a group of metro district homeowners and other concerned citizens around the state currently in most states until the 1980s in Colorado the cost of infrastructure for a new residential community has been paid for with the cost of the lot The cost of the lot equals the cost of the land The cost of the housing the cost of the infrastructure and profit for the developer And often the average cost of the infrastructure has been about 30 000 a lot including profit to the developer In the 1980s developers in colorado persuaded the state legislature to enable them to create and run a separate government As you all well know, it's called a metro district Why because metro districts allow developers to shift the risk of their investment from themselves to the homeowners The developer creates and runs what becomes in effect a private government The developer eliminates the right of the residents to vote on future taxes and bond debt The developer decides how much to tax the residents the developer takes that tax and pays it to himself All the while there's no accountability the residents for how the money is actually spent The development community claims it needs the money to pay for infrastructure But the cost of the lots is just as high as it was before metro districts And the developers refuse to again account for how the money is spent The end result is disastrous for homeowners Metro district taxes are much higher than non-metro district taxes for the same house and infrastructure Homeowners lose control over their financial future because they're stripped of their rights to control their taxes and debt In some cases district residents have become like credit card holders who cannot make their minimum payments Not able to even keep up with the interest on their debt. Their debt just continues to grow and grow over time Homeowners must also pay for the additional costs of lawyers, accountants, engineers and management companies To run metro districts with no real attic value to the community Importantly, homeowner tolerance for other taxes becomes exhausted After paying higher taxes and fees residents are unwilling to pay more taxes For other important priorities like police, roads, schools, mental health, etc As we know there's only so much taxes taxpayers will pay Finally, cities and counties have to pay for additional staffing costs if they're to responsibly oversee metro district financial governance City council members, please restore a long month's ban on residential metro districts Thank you very much for your time this evening. I'm more than happy to answer any questions you might have All right, was that the last one? No mayor, we have two more. All right, let's keep going Uh, the next caller i'm going to unmute your caller 932 932 are the last three digits Can you unmute yourself? There you go. Hello, okay. Can you hear me? We sure can Okay I'm caroline tower. I live at 1534 south kaufman street Good evening mayor bagley and the council members I'm speaking once again tonight regarding the traffic signal being placed at the intersection of bike road and south kaufman street I along with many residents along south kaufman street have concerns about the placement of this signal There are many questions city staff are unwilling or unable to answer relating to how this decision was made As it is disregarding a number of local state and federal guidelines requiring many exceptions to the code Indeed it goes against much of the envision lawnmont growth plan and both retaining the roadway characteristics by functional classification Minimizing risks to the health and safety of residents in existing neighborhoods And by protecting the distinct character and quality of life of the existing community There is not another traffic signal in the city At the intersection of a local residential street After weeks of communicating with city staff and not receiving adequate answers Our street is now listed on the traffic mitigation website collector street prioritization list The city staff told us several times that the signal would not change the functional classification of our local our local residential street The city made the changes to the pike road improvement project without allowing the public an appropriate chance to comment The changes were made because of a few local residents in the area without informing the residents that will be most affected by this change In fact, there were meetings in which our neighborhoods specifically were not invited to We have residents that need to access their properties in which their driveways are just 20 yards from this future traffic signal This busy this street is a busy bicycle connector between the Louisville trail and the st. Brain Greenway We have 25 to 30 children growing up on the street Which of most of which are under the age of 10 There are 28 households that will directly experience increase through traffic due to this traffic signal We're legitimizing Our street as a through street and another 62 households living on the side streets whose children also utilize our street to travel to school And visit friends and neighbors This street should not be a cut through for other neighborhood residents and people commuting into town I am asking the council to please look into this matter and to help our neighborhood Understand why so many codes were just just regarded and why we were left out of these discussions Thank you for your time And I'm also against that The district I don't like that idea at all The metro district. So I just thought I'd throw that up in Have a good evening. Thank you Thank you our last caller You're only identified as call in user So I'm going to ask you to unmute. You're the last one go ahead and unmute yourself I see that you're unmuted. Can you hear us? Can you say something? Let's go ahead and wrap it up. Sounds like it's uh, might be a phantom number. They come up Um, they muted and then they unmuted one minute mayor. Can you hear me? Call in user Can you hear me? I sure Yes, we can hear you now Perfect. Thank you. This is lori family at 1015 long peak avenue and um I am calling regarding the issue of the five foot setback And I thank councilman waters and mayor bagley for bringing back the issue of the five foot setback specifically related to the adu which is an accessory dwelling unit in specifically this neighborhood of old town and which is a single family neighborhood And a few years ago it was the rules or regulations were changed so that the Side setback in this neighborhood was five feet and did not require a variance So any building Needing a five foot setback in our opinion should need a variance to allow neighborhood input prior to the permit being issued the The regulation passed a few years ago making it so that a five foot setback was no longer needed Um has caused hardship in this neighborhood, which is single family old Houses with large trees and limited access from the streets And a very large adu was permitted five feet from our back fence and impacts five to six houses Not counting the kitty corner houses from their yard So no neighborhood impact or input was allowed even though I specifically called several times ahead of time But when we saw that he was considering building something So it's caused undue hardship for our neighborhood. There's two more potential adus in the works within one block of here And so I ask that you urgently consider To make a variance required for a five foot setback And I know there's been concern that there's not city staff to handle the number of variances that would need to be issued But it really does Impact our neighborhood and if you would like to see a negative impact, you're welcome to come knock on my door And see through our backyard. I know the argument has also been made that we need more affordable housing And I don't think in our it doesn't have anything to do with affordable housing when they're charging $1,600 at least for a 900 square foot house So if you would please urgently consider this I would appreciate it. Thank you for your time and for all your hard work Thank you All right, was that it? Yes, mayor All right, so we caught that mistake now. Let's move on to ordinances on second reading and public hearings on any matter Let's go ahead with or uh item 10a ordinance 2021 a bill for an ordinance amending chapter 4.1 out the long mark municipal code on special districts districts policies and procedures Mayor puts him Aaron Rodriguez. We're going to go with you Thank you, mayor bagley Thank you for the opportunity to speak real quick on what has Unfortunately become somewhat of a wedge issue for city council Don't know if that's so much the case for our residents of long line Anyway, I would just at this time like to give a brief statement and followed by a motion So just a quick history of the conversation The november 2017 to november 2019 city council Changed city code to allow for residential metro districts In a split vote. I believe at the time was four to three Then an election happened in 2019 and the city council revisited the item With I believe somewhat similar split vote bringing a motion to I guess bring us back in time to the 2012 ordinance saying that residential metro districts were only allowable in the case of a mixed use Development So as you can see The councils both last council and this council have had very different views on the subject And unfortunately as somebody who Spent a decent amount of time calling all of the various council members and and trying to see if there's any way we come to a consensus Of compromise on the issue. I just am not convinced at this time that There's any but any way to move any of the our council members my fellow colleagues off of their particular viewpoints concerning metro districts And so it kind of brings me to the point that Things can change the 2017 2019 council changed the the law This council is essentially probably set up to change it again and my guess is that depending on how the election goes in 2021 next year There's a possibility you could change again So I hope nobody feels that on whichever side of the argument you fall on that This is a permanent Solution one way or another Which actually brings me to the statements made by council member martin in the media From I believe the times call at least that was the one that I read stating that These ordinances are likely outdated I think council member martin is probably correct that Both the allowance for metro districts as it stands as well as what we're about to likely vote on are probably both outdated Once we come through this pandemic once we see what the actual challenges Are facing long month Knowing that this is all going to change It's it's very likely that Numbers could change in many different ways And so it's possible and likely that both ordinances will be outdated at which point I hope that whoever sitting on council Makes the right and sane choice To continue to address What I am only assuming will not just be a long month problem, but A colorado problem in general addressing affordable and attainable housing Um I'm hoping that my fellow colleagues will recognize that We've pretty much discussed this ad nauseam for a couple years now and we're probably all well aware of each other's Points and I I don't feel that any council member Is being Uh disingenuous or nefarious in their points of view. We all just have in my opinion Different best interests At heart for What's best for long month and I don't think that's a shortcoming in anybody's character As such I'm not here to castigate anybody's point of view on the issue Rather just to acknowledge that we're not going to agree And that we should just come up with some closure on the issue until Potentially another council decides to bring it back up again with that I move to approve ordinance 2020 11. Thank you second I'm going to go ahead and call the question So it's not debatable We're going to vote on it if five of us vote to vote on the motion without debate We can do it All in favor and it hasn't been seconded so it doesn't really matter second All right, okay, so it's been moved by myself and seconded by councilmember Rodriguez All in favor of just voting without debate say I I Those opposed say nay, nay All right, are you going to have to take it? I'm going to have to take a Hand in the air about okay, raise your hand if you called the question I Okay, the motion path and then nay was council dr. Waters and councilman martin. So The eyes have it. It's a supermajority. So debate ends. Let's go ahead and vote on the motion all in favor of councilmember Rodriguez is Go ahead councilmember Rodriguez. No getting ready to vote Oh, okay All in favor of the motion of passing ordinance 2020 desolate 20 ordinance 2020 desol dash 11 say I I Opposed say nay Nay All right, I want to raise a point of order. Okay. Hold on one second. So eyes have it five to two That is and with council dr. Waters and councilman martin Opposing go ahead dr. Waters. I I'm curious why we didn't have a public hearing on this Wasn't it's a public hearing. You know what you were absolutely right dr. Waters I was so anxious to avoid the vitriol on the discontent that I forgot So we're gonna actually go ahead and open it up for public hearing at this time And if there's so there's this so we have a vote that's already been taken before no, no There's no there's no there if there is a public hearing we will revoke That is absolutely true. You're spot on So how many people are in the queue for public hearing actually, let's go ahead and take a three minute break And uh, we'll come back. Thank you dr. Waters We're not back from break yet. How many people are in the queue? Mayor I'm seeing no one at this moment and we're about a minute and a half in All right, let's give another 60 seconds So about 30 seconds on the delay We'll bring us at about four minutes Mayor we have two callers when you're ready Let's go ahead.  Well, we're gonna have to re-vote because dr. Waters is correct. So with uh Uh, I can call the we can call the question What we can't do is skip the public hearing so we'll have to go ahead and re-vote that vote was out of order So let's go ahead and start and open the public hearing at this time on ordinance 2020-11 And can we just take it in the order that callers called in place? Yes, mayor the first caller. I'm gonna let time out some out. Let's wait till councilmember waters is back Mayor he appears to be ready All right, let's go ahead First caller. I'm going to unmute your phone number ends in three five three. I'm gonna ask you to unmute Three five three. Can you unmute? Can you hear me? I sure can you may You may begin. Okay. I'm not quite sure but I would I'm just calling in to support the vote Of councilmembers rod rickus. I'm sorry. This is pat davis 1709 harvard I'm calling in to support the vote of councilmembers rod rickus. Heck Hedalbo fairing and christianson On this and I can't remember the number as you explained it on the agenda, but it relates to the 2012 ordinance going back to the 2012 ordinance. Is that correct? Yes Okay, so Um, I'm not sure anyway. What else I can say except I support Those members who voted uh, yes. So, uh, thank you very much Thank you All right next the next caller your phone number ends in nine two seven. I'm going to ask you to unmute nine two seven Yes, shall I proceed? Yes, you may This is larlie hinton again and I support going back to the original ordinance The 2017 I believe ordinance Do I have to say more or is that it? That's all you got to say.  Thank you larlie That was the last one All right, so we're going to have to revoke councillor martin We'll go ahead and close the public hearing at this time And then there was there was that we have to revote on the matter But go ahead councillor martin Well, do we how far back do we have to start? I also would like to introduce a motion All right. Well, there's a we called the question and we voted on it And so no, I was there when that happened mayor bagley But that was out of order because you hadn't had the public hearing So you have to call on on erin and does he have to make his statement again? Or does he have to make his motion again? I think he does have to make his motion again No, we just can't we just can't vote on the motion until we have a public hearing But but go ahead councillor martin Oh, if you're not going to let me introduce a motion of my own then it isn't worth my making the statement either I have other outlets. Thank you Okay. All right. So let's go ahead and let's go ahead and vote the motion submitted by councilor mariportem Rodriguez was A motion to pass on its 2020-11 is written bill for an ordinance emitting chapters 4.1 Oh, the long missed code on special districts policies and procedures on favor say aye Hey, aye Opposed say nay nay All right, so the motion carries five to two with council members martin in waters against all right tough that that was a easy vote for a very Difficult what lengthy discussion over the last year plus. So thank you All right, let's move on to ordinance 2020-29 a bill for an ordinance emitting chapter 14.52 section 14.52 point 030 the law month municipal code on compensation for disposition of open space property Um, let's go ahead and open the public hearing and do this one right this time All right, let's go ahead and take three minute break as we open up the phones All right. How many have we got are we gonna wait? Let's wait another 60 60 seconds Susan you have one that needs to be admitted. Do you want me to admit them? I will admit them when the mayor is ready I'm uh waiting for the slide to stop displaying on the live stream and then we can begin All right, do we have anybody on the line for the public hearing? Yes, mayor. We have one caller. I'm gonna let it And I'm ready to begin when you are let's go ahead and let's go ahead and start okay Caller 927. I'm gonna unmute you. Do you hear me? There you go I'm sorry. I shouldn't have called in because I have Just a knee jerk opinion and that shouldn't be how This goes. I'm sorry to have taken your time That was the only caller mayor All right, let's go ahead and close the public hearing Um, let's go ahead. Do we have a vote from or a motion from council? Mr. Mayor Uh-huh councilmember uh councilmember rodriguez. Thank you. I move approval ordinance 2020-29 I'll second All right, there's a motion all in favor of passing ordinance 2020-29. Say I I Both say nay All right, the motion and passes unanimously All right, um, let's move on to item In on the consent agenda resolution along with city council proving a voluntary alternative agreement for the spoke apartments is satisfaction the city's inclusionary housing requirements Uh, city staff has a presentation Good evening mayor and council. This is kathy fedler with that housing and community investment division and um I will try and keep this as short as possible because it would be nice if um We would get get to the point especially on these that it's a Stays on consent Um, so if you could start the the slides, please And go to the next one So this is um for the spoke apartment, which is on um 518 coffman It is um, the developer is the boulder county housing authority And this is the voluntary alternative agreement in order To allow them to build affordable rental homes on site If you remember per our ordinance develops developments of units for rental housing Have to use the alternative agreement under e6 Because of the telluride decision In order to be able to move forward and Volunteer to provide their affordable housing They'll be providing 73 total rental homes. Next slide, please This just shows the the layout and the proposed look of the building From their site plan On the far left side Guess you can't see my pointer over here. Um, there is the apartments Um, which um are uh to the north is um that Six sixth avenue plaza And then in the middle is the um And towards the end is the parking garage structure And the bottom um Perspective shows what it would look like from the I guess you'd say the alley side Um, where you can see that there's three really separate Structures looking from that on the east The top picture shows from the west on coffin street. Next slide, please This property is um falls under the density cap So only using the 1.17 acres of housing land times the 20 dwelling units per acre Shows that 24 units would um have the inclusionary housing applicable to it. So it exempts 49 of the units because of the high level of density that they're achieving When you apply the inclusionary housing requirement of 12 to the 24 units that are applicable that's um just Under three total affordable housing Affordable homes would be required and the developer is agreeing to provide all 73 Of their homes as affordable, which is um a lot more than the minimum that's required Excuse me. Next slide, please So again 73 affordable homes 23 of those homes are about 31 percent are affordable at a below 50 percent of their immediate income 50 homes or 68 percent are affordable at a below 60 percent of the area median income The units will be um have 59 one bedroom units 10 two bedroom units and four three bedroom units next slide As usual an annual reporting will be required The property will be de-restricted to provide the 73 affordable homes This project is convenient to main street with access to transportation options It is across from the st. Brain hub, which is a one-stop place shop for human service needs of all kinds Um and uh just as reminder the ldda the city and the county contributed land to this project Next slide Um some of the unique public public private partnership That this is containing is the structure parking garage will be shared between boulder county the dda are let um or um Properties and the tax credit partnership that will be building the housing And a common interest community is formed within the parking garage structure allocating a certain number of parking spaces to the residential housing and to the The non-residential parking the commercial space and then a leaseback option Of the parking to the dda and the commercial structure next slide So this does address council work plan's goal B 1.1 having a diverse housing stock with higher densities access to high quality public transportation food and jobs It um exceeds the goal of 12 by providing 100 of the units as affordable It is increasing our affordable homes by Um 130 a year which is our goal by adding 73 affordable homes and it does sustain our commitment to meeting our 2035 affordable housing goals next slide So if there's any questions, I'd be more than happy to answer them or I think Brian Schumacher is also available if you have questions that I cannot answer All right, let's go ahead and take it one at a time councilmember christensen Um Kathy, I don't really have any questions. I just think this is an excellent, um project Uh by boulder county housing services um Housing authority. I'm sorry. Um, it'll give us more parking downtown It'll give us a lot more affordable housing downtown. It's a It's everything that affordable housing should be. It's a broad range of affordable income levels and um It's on a bus line if we can ever get our transportation improved So um, anyway, thank you very much uh, dr. Waters Kathy just a quick question in the In the breakdown of the percent percentage of units affordable at 60 percent And in the other levels of affordability Uh If we if in our ordinance, uh, we were still at um 60 of am i being the Being the requirement in the ordinance to comply with the 50 of am i to comply with our ordinance rather than 60 Would we would we see those these units in this project? Uh, would we see a shift would we see 58 units available at 50 of am i as opposed to 50 at 60 percent and eight at 50 percent Um, so I think what you're asking is that if we shifted our Minimum requirement to 50 percent am i To be considered affordable under our inclusionary housing ordinance. Would we have seen more Units available at 50 percent am i thank you for turning my Correct Um, I would suspect that we would see some more units at 50 um as long as The tax credit allows up to 60 percent um It probably wouldn't have made it like 100 affordable at 50 percent am i um But I think it definitely would have probably increased the number of 50 units in order to um To meet the minimum inclusionary housing requirement and to get the maximum fee waivers and fee offsets Well, I think sometimes we discount how valuable That subsidy contribution is Yeah, I'm gonna It's too late tonight to ask for our ordinance to come back, but that's That's a change that we need to I I I advocated for the 60 percent I think we've learned enough that we ought to move that back to where it was And um, but we'll come back to that later. It's just it plays out pretty vividly In in this plan which I agree with councilmember christianson. I think this is a great project Um, um, I'd like to see more of it available at 50 percent or below. So thank you All right, seeing nothing else I'm gonna go actually go ahead and move Uh resolution 20 20 78 a resolution along with city council proving a voluntary alternative agreement for the spoke apartments is satisfaction The city's inclusionary housing requirements second All right, seeing no further debate all in favor say I I post a may All right, the motion carries unanimously dr. Waters. It's for the time over to you for oh the consent agenda Thanks, uh, mayor bagley. Um Let me open the open up the item Uh Kathy are you the are you the uh staff member on this one? That is me um in the uh in the Counts communication There was a reference to a one or three year extension And among the options or the recommendations In the recommendation section there were four possibilities for council action One was to extend for a year one was to extend for three years Um, and and they're I'm not certain what we would have done had we passed that On the on the consent Agenda would that have been a one year extension or a three year extension? So I would take it since the recommended option was a three year if you would have passed it on consent That it would have been going with the recommended option, but I that's what I wanted to clarify um, so I'll move uh item eight Uh, oh with the three year extension Second um I think it was nine. Oh is that what you meant? I'm sorry nine. Oh, yeah. I'm used to our other numbers Sorry. Yes. I know right approve the loan term extension requests for the loma housing department corporation on their hover crossing land purchase loan for For three years specifically correct and there was a second by council member martin All right, so you know for the discussion all the papers say aye Hi. Hi. Hi opposed say nay All right the motion passes unanimously All right, let's move on to um General business housing human services advisory board recommendations for second quarter 2020 affordable housing funding Staff has a presentation. I believe This is me again. So thank you for grouping me all together Can we pull up the um the slides please? um, this is our second quarter um affordable housing funding um application cycle that we went out for um starting in um Next slide please um May I believe it was this is a little bit of background just to ground this again We had about 2.2 million available for 2020 which was made up of 858,000 from 2019 carry forward a million that's added for the year 2020 an estimated 137,000 from the marijuana tax for 2020 and an estimated 30,000 in program income for 2020 to make up that 2.25 figure next slide please um So what we've allocated so far an affordable housing funding is 1.425 um million 100,000 was allocated for the element um pre-development cost project 100,000 for the in-between property acquisition project 500,000 for longmont family apartments new construction of rental housing 250,000 for senior housing options cinnamon park um independent rental housing new construction and about 475,000 was set aside for fee off estimated fee offsets um for the spoke um apartments for longmont family apartments and for cinnamon park This leaves us with a balance available of about 800,800 dollars next slide please On the cdbg funding available that was all allocated in 2020 um or in early 2020 um I think it was in february or march maybe as late as may i don't know I came back we i know we came back several times on the cdbg funding with the kovat money that was added to it and everything Anyway, we had about 460,000 available for 2020 competitive applications and those were allocated to with 160,000 160,000 to the in-between property acquisition and 300,000 for um longmont housing authorities aspen meadows apartments refinance and rehab And i'll just give a brief update the in-between property acquisition They did find a property um and are in the process of acquiring it. I think that's a total of 12 Units so that is moving along and the aspen meadows refinance project We are are moving forward with that too. We expect to um have a closing in mid to late september Next slide please On the home funding um if you remember we allocated our entire um 2021 um Set aside for longmont um that is the year that we would get um the home consortium funding So we set aside that for the the spoke apartments um for the the county's new construction project So that's already um happened as well next slide please All right, so we did take applications um for affordable housing funds um in the april 20th to may 2020 second time frame We received two applications one withdrew their application because they were looking for grant funding Which isn't available until we get cdbg funds again and the other one um the was um requesting home chotto funding um, this is a new term Not new to me, but new to you guys probably we don't talk about it much because um, we didn't have a chotto eligible um agency until um habitat Meant the requirements to become one so a chotto is a community housing development organization. It is a special um eligibility criteria under the home program um and the the benefit to becoming a chotto is that their 15 percent of All home funds each year is set aside specifically for chotto. So if you qualify as that you compete for the that funding in a much narrower or um It's a smaller pot of money, but it's also only a couple of organizations that are competing for that So um habitat requested $120,000 in chotto grant for their mountain brook new construction project Next slide please Um, I went through this already has to be proved as a chotto 15 percent is set aside And um you can allocate it as part of your local share of home funds Next slide So the funding recommendation from the housing and human services advisory board and the technical review group Is to provide a hundred twenty seven hundred and twenty thousand dollar grant From the city's 2021 funding it may come from Out of the consortium's 2020 funding the city of boulder is working out exactly where it's coming from It'd be considered part of our 2021 funding And it will help create those eight housing units um So next slide Okay, so this just catches us up on um exactly where we stand with the current Uh 2020 funding from all sources So again the cdbg funds have all been allocated that we had available and there's a zero down at the bottom in that column the affordable housing fund is um Showing what we have allocated to date um For the project specifically and then also what we are setting aside For estimated fee offsets and the blue that goes across the the towards the bottom is the new funding that would um provide Support the mountain brook project habitats mountain brook project So the 93 000 is the estimated amount of fee offsets For this project so we are going ahead and setting those aside And that's why that is increasing the amount um and lowering the amount that's available now From the affordable housing fund for the rest of 2020 And then we did increase the um The home funding uh for 2021 to uh total of 860 and we're done with the home funding There's nothing else we can ring from that that stone So right now we're looking at carrying in um for the fourth quarter application cycle $707,800 um in affordable housing funds next slide So there was a lot of discussion um as the housing advisory board and the technical review group were considering this project Whether or not the city should um be further subsidizing a non-profit who is providing The affordable housing on behalf of a for-profit developer um So if a developer is fulfilling the inclusionary housing requirement If the non-profit still is a developer fulfilling the inclusionary housing requirement as required If the non-profit still needs additional city funding to provide the housing Above and beyond the fee waivers and fee offsets that everyone is eligible for under the program So there was discussion around that and where they ended up was um They felt that in this particular instance without further direction from council um that the um habitat was intending to have the For sale housing prices hit about 55 percent AMI instead of the required 60 percent So it'd be an even lower sales price um if they if they can meet it um and they think they can So that was the compelling reason why they went ahead in our recommending this For funding at this point in time But what we would like to do is have a discussion around these questions with council Probably not tonight So you can think about it a little bit, but we are intending to bring back some proposed Inclusionary housing code changes in september likely the end of september So we could include it for discussion at that point in time Otherwise I am more than happy to answer questions about this All right. Thank you very much for your presentation. We really appreciate it All right, let's move on to final call public invited to be heard Let's go ahead and take a Two-minute break while we go ahead. Sorry. I do need a motion if you want to accept the recommendation for funding habitat I move that we accept. I move that we accept the the recommendation Funding habitat and that's been seconded by councilor redougal faring councilor christensen Are you opposed? Yeah, I definitely do want to have a discussion about that. This is um Exactly why Well, we'll have that discussion in the future, but um I'm I'm always going to be standing by habitat for humanity because they have a long and Very good history, but I Don't think that this is a particular. This is a good project. It's just wrapped into other More difficult things that We need to have simpler things rather than more complicated and fragile things so anyway, but I'll be voting for this because habitat does an excellent job of providing Homes built with sweat equity and with the education of the people who will be living there and with community input literally with hammers and so They're a great organization All right, councilor peck Thank you, agli. Um, I would actually like to have the discussion before we vote on taking a position um Mainly because I want to know if we are setting a precedent for the for developers And is the developer actually providing the Is this just land and lube? This is what I don't quite get or is it actually the developers uh affordable housing project Because if it is the developers um Giving us that amount Then I think we need to discuss where Where do we do going forward if this happens again? um Because I I was always under the assumption that if they gave land and lube Then whoever built that was responsible for the uh For the development so that habitat for humanity would be responsible for that but if in fact It is still part of The inclusionary housing um requirement Of the developer Then there's a question of of why isn't the developer developing his own? affordable housing so I would I would like to have the discussion before the vote All right. Well, there's only discussion if people have things to say Either for or against the boat councilman martin um The question of of whether the subsidy is being double dipped is separate But I don't think there should be any rules against a developer um outsourcing part of his obligation to a another developer who has more expertise in in the type of development that is fulfilling the uh affordable housing requirement All right, uh councilmember christensen I don't want to have this kind of a situation come back again ever we right now. They donated some land um But and they are going to put in some infrastructure. It's a very small piece of land that could not be really used anyway um And there'll be 24 veterans community project homes and eight uh shared Their duplexes I forget the The term now um Those are good ideas, but both of those entities are paying for That and that's why they need it. That's why habitat needs a subsidy from the city um I don't think that in either case that meets the inclusionary housing. It's not a matter of outsourcing it. They're not paying for the cost of the construction or the uh materials or the labor And so I don't really understand I've never understood how this makes the affordable the inclusion All right, we've got a motion on the table and the motion was to Accept the housing human services advisory board recommendation for second court 2020 affordable housing funding So let's go ahead and vote all in favor say aye I I'll oppose say nay All right, the motion passes unanimously. Thank you very much. All right now. Let's move on to uh Last call public invited to be heard if we could go ahead and throw up the number Let's give it two minutes Mayor i'm going to give it another 30 seconds so that slide can leave the live stream. All right great And nobody's in the queue yet, right? We have no one in the queue. All right. That just cleared our live stream There's still no one in the queue All right, let's go ahead and move on to uh mayor and council comments Okay, councilmember christensen uh I read in the paper today that kony steffen died saturday in an accident in greeland. Wait, who did? kony steffen unread steffen was a steel professor a scientist um And a foremost international expert in the arctic through research writing And photography He probably did more than anyone alive to inform us about the arctic And the damage we're doing to it and to the rest of the natural world I worked with him on one of my favorite projects To publicize his cooperative institute for research in environmental studies He was brilliant. He was funny and he was utterly gracious He was that rare human being who absolutely loved what he did His family has suffered a terrible loss. And so have we I think anyone else who ever met him will also miss him enormously Councilmember rogerius Thank you, mayor bagley. Just want to say real quick. I know that we all on occasion Let staff know how much we appreciate all the work that they do And especially now during these very difficult times in the pandemic and all the anxiety around social justice and all the You know upheaval that's kind of going on in our world these days But I don't think there's enough that we look at each other and I say to all of you That I respect you all tremendously And I'm very proud to serve with all of you and while we may disagree and sometimes very emotionally with each other That I think that we do all have the thing the best, you know, the best intentions For the city of longmont and I would hope that Anybody serving in these seats would also have that but I just want to let you all know that I very much appreciate serving with you I respect you all tremendously and Regardless of of disagreements, you know, I hope that we can continue with the next year and change to Make really positive changes for the city. So that's all I want to say. Thank you. All right. Anyone else Right councilmember martin Yes, well since we are appreciating the staff um I just would like to say something about the traffic light at Pike and Kaufman which is that The number of people who demanded that Traffic light was not a vocal few It was many people Um who live in the that neighborhood Who came to public invited to be heard for weeks on end to try to defend the character of their neighborhood um, and I will also say that the People of southmore park were invited to the same set of meetings as the people of of prospect rainbow ridge and renaissance and One of the women who wrote to me about Uh, the the stop light this time around even said she looked at that invitation and decided not to go So I just want to remind the public That if you really have the expectation that nothing ever changes in your neighborhood That you need to take the opportunity um of public engagement that the city of longmont offers you because We work really hard at it and Not everyone can always agree But if we don't hear from you in time, you may not like the result Oh councilmember pack Thank you, mayor bagley. Um, just to piggyback on what councilwoman marsha martin said we got an update uh in our email from jim angstead and um He said the city has no plans to change south copman street from a local to a collector The city's document that designates roadway classification classification And a change to a roadway classification Requires council action So we have not voted to make that account a collector street nor has it come before us So I hope that, um eases the Pain, I guess that some of the residents are Assuming that will not and is not a collector street. Thank you All right. See nobody else City manager harrell Anything? Yes, mayor. I do have a couple of comments one. Um, the council members did. Um You all have an email from jim angstead. Um, explaining the issue that came out. Um Yeah, shortly after those comments the other thing I wanted to talk about you also Will receive an email from nancy cur regarding some of the questions concerning the library What I can say is I um one of the things I do is I do a weekly WebEx with staff to tell them what's going on and in that nancy mentioned that they were evaluating How they look at the library hours in in the future. Um, and so they are specifically going to look at Children teen hours and some of the other You know, maybe expanding it more broadly But the big issue there is you know, when everyone to know when we work with the opening plan on this We had to work with boulder county public health In terms of those plans and there was a tremendous amount of conversations back and forth on that issue in terms of What meant the intent of the executive orders? Every library is different in many ways. And so there may be some that have longer hours And maybe have some that have shorter hours But there are a couple of things that come into play in that conversation one is space and how they operate And two is the number of staff you have in terms of meeting The requirements within that order. So for example Every one of the conference rooms is full of books because of the disc disinfecting protocol that you have to go through We've had to move a lot of staff into that arena to do it. So what I can tell you is she's evaluating that Um, and they will be working with boulder county health But there are many factors that come into play in in terms of what we can and can't do And you'll get a more detailed email on that tomorrow There's any questions I can answer now. I'll be happy to Other than that no comments All right, great. Thanks. Uh Eugene anything No comments, mayor Great. Can we have a motion to adjourn? So moved All right, I'll second that all in favor say aye. Hi. Hi. All right. Thanks everybody. Have a good night. Good night. We're adjourned


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