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Longmont City Council – Regular Session – December 19, 2023
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Speaker 1 2:43
Good evening and welcome. I would now like to call the December 19 2023 long months City Council regular session to order. The livestream at this meeting can be viewed at the city’s YouTube channel. It also can be viewed in Longmont public media.org forward slash watch. Or on Comcast channels eight or eight ad. Can we have a roll call please.
Speaker 2 3:07
Mayor Peck here. Mayor Pro Tem you toggle Ferring councilmember Martin McCoy, Rodriguez Yarbro. Here Crist. Mayor you have a quorum.
Unknown Speaker 3:18
Thank you. Let’s stand for the Pledge of
Speaker 3 3:25
Allegiance. The United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty justice.
Speaker 1 3:41
She wasn’t as a reminder to the public, each speaker is limited to three minutes and one person may not give her a sign their time to others on public invited to be heard. Only Longmont residents and employees of the city of Longmont may speak during the first call public invited to be heard which is item eight and they must sign up on the list prior to the meeting. Anyone may speak and no signup is required to speak during final call public invited to be heard. We have minutes to approve. Can I have a motion for the December 5?
Speaker 1 4:21
Been Moved by Councillor who dog? No, I’m sorry. Counselor McCoy seconded by Councillor Crist. Is there any discussion about the minutes? Seeing none Let’s vote. And that passes unanimously. Now we have agenda revisions and submissions of documents motions to direct the city manager to add agenda items to future agendas. Do we have any agenda item or I’m sorry revisions.
Speaker 2 4:55
We did not have any revisions or new documents.
Speaker 1 4:58
Thank you Do we have do any councillors have anything they want to add to a future agenda? I do, I would like to move to direct staff to hold a an executive session to discuss a strategy an exit strategy from the Fast Tracks portion of the RTD district. So, I made that motion. It was seconded by Councillor McCoy. Is there any discussion? Seeing none Let’s vote
Speaker 1 5:43
that passes unanimously. City Manager, you report
Unknown Speaker 5:50
no report. Mayor Council.
Speaker 1 5:52
Thank you. We do have one special one presentation. It’s the Longmont public media quarterly update is surreal Angeles here Sergio.
Speaker 4 6:54
Good evening mayor and council Sergio Angeles. I’m the Executive Director for la ma public media. I’m here tonight to give you an update on q3 And what we’ve been up to. So we’ll just focus tonight on q3 data as well as q3 updates. So let’s get into data. So we ended q3 with 150 Total paying memberships and 331 free memberships. So a little under 500 memberships for up to Q three Q three membership revenue grew to just a little under 11,000. That’s most that one plug me is made. For from membership revenue since we started. We ended q3 With just a little under 25,000. So that’s now more than what we did in 2022. As of today, we’ve made about $33,000 in membership revenue. In regards to space usage, so q1, q2 and q3, we have just a little under 2200 hours, which is just a little bit shy of what we did last year. Again, this is taking into account by aggregating all the reservations that people have made our reservation system doesn’t take into account any walk ins or anything like that. So we are expected or we are expecting to obviously increase in surpass what we did in 2022. In terms of total hours watched so q1 q2 and q3, we’ve people watched a total of 4451 hours on Lama public media. So that’s our YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, Roku, and our website not included is Comcast cable channels, we still cannot get data from them and also not included as any city vomo viewership and data. And the total hours watched of all time so since we started January of 2022 is 31,605 hours. So now let’s talk about some of the most popular videos so top five in q3 alone. First was roelens past road and needles I Moffat tunnel. This was a video that was submitted by the Lamont senior video club. Second was Nepali Yatra 2023 The sample sessions with Alexa Wildish I don’t know if anyone’s been watching the voice but Alexa Wildish to the voice and she performed here in Longmont before she went on there little fun fact. Then we had artists of Lamont episode number two and then Persian classical music night. The most liked videos in q3, very similar to the most watched so again roelens past or is the format and Polly’s Yatra sabko session and then a video that I made with a friend of mine to find the best Mexican restaurant in town. In terms of the most disliked videos again this is just coming from YouTube. All we know is that they were disliked we don’t know why. The first one there was the candidate video that We produced for Steve all Schuler at three dislikes. Terry goons had two dislikes. And that again was just q3. I’m gonna go over the whole list, but this is some of the new shows that were produced and our broadcasts along on public media just for q3. Continue to try to diversify and get as much local content or locally produced content as possible. Some other viewership and metrics so we had to total users or viewers are just a little under 30,000 total impressions of 223,000, the average percentage of a video that and help you in viewer watches previews about 9%. And the average view duration is two minutes and 28 seconds. So now for q3 updates. We did finish our second high school summer internship program. We had three students this summer, we’re going to continue doing those for the foreseeable future. We did hear back regarding our congressional directed spending application that we submitted earlier in the year. And unfortunately, that is not moving forward. We did install a 24/7 access control system for improved security in at Lompoc media. And we also held our first gear sale event. This was something that was member created. And we basically try to sell off any of the older equipment so that we can invest it into new gear. We also hosted students from the crossroad school in Longmont. That’s a photo of of that event. We partnered with Tinker mill and both Tinker mill and Crossroads School hosted students for about half the day. We partnered with boredom fighters so that students can learn how to create music as well as teaching them how to produce a live stream in video production. We did participate during lonmark Art week this this year, this was something new that was created by the llama Creative District I believe. And I was between llama Artwalk and rhythm at Roosevelt. And we had a bunch of different events going on that week. We had a booth at llama Artwalk as well as with Matt Roosevelt. And we got a lot more promotion that way and people find out about what we’re doing. And lastly, we held our quarterly Lomo public media Short Film Festival. So looking ahead to 2024 I’ll be presenting the year and update in q1 of next year. But we do aim to partner with more local schools to expand our offerings and services to students. We’ve already partnered with Boulder County prep school in Boulder, they’re going to be bringing in students so that we can teach them about live streaming and video production. We’re also working to partner with Crossroads school here in Longmont to also provide internship programs for their students. We’re aiming to partner with more local businesses to provide more local content. We’re going to restructure our class offerings, add more streaming platforms such as Android TV and TV, Apple TV. And then lastly, increase corporate sponsorships and grants awarded, not just the amount that we apply to but hopefully increase the amount that is actually awarded to us. And on that note, does anyone have any questions?
Speaker 1 13:16
Any questions from council or comments? Sergio, I’m really, really happy to see that how you’ve grown.
Speaker 4 13:24
Thank you. Thanks, man. Yep.
Speaker 1 13:29
Yeah, I bet you are. It has become an integral part, I think of our city from where I’ve seen you in our first conversations. To to now. So good, good on you.
Unknown Speaker 13:44
It’s great. Thanks, man. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 13:47
See, no questions. I want to thank you very much for this presentation. Thanks, everyone. Good night. We now have a presentation from Aaron Fosdick. And this is about the chips incentive program.
Speaker 5 14:36
Good evening, Mayor Peck members of city council. I’m Erin Fosdick with a one line Economic Development Partnership. Thank you for having us. And thank you for your patience. We had to reschedule this from last week and have some continued illness on our end. So we appreciate your flexibility in letting our presenter and headliner down Sal vetti from the Office of Economic Development International Trade join us I don’t plan on speaking a lot tonight, you really want to hear from Dan, who is the semiconductor industry manager, he’ll go through a presentation, sort of on what the chips act is bringing to Colorado and then more specifically, what forming a chip zone or a series of chips own in Longmont might enable us to do so I will stick around and engage if there’s questions more specific to Longmont and how we think this might help some of our primary industries that are either already located here or are considering Longmont for businesses that are within that semiconductor supply chain. But I’d like to turn it over to Dan, who will go through a slideshow and then we’ll have some time for questions.
Speaker 6 15:57
I’m gonna start off by apologizing for moving this one, one week back, I was sick last week. And then at the end of this past week, my wife and daughter both tested positive for COVID. So it didn’t really think it was wise to come up to you guys in person I normally would. But here we are in the new the brave new worlds. And so thank you for accommodating me. I’m really happy to be here with you guys today. So thank you so much. So as I said, I’m here to present on the chips act, what it means for Colorado and what the chip Zone program can potentially do for Longmont. So we’ll dive right into it. Dallas is going to the next slide, please. We do have three sort of three sections that will be going over basically what’s going on? Just a fun way to say what are the opportunities? So we’re actually seeing semiconductors in Colorado? What does the ecosystem actually look like today? And then what is the state strategy to help capture this growth? And what are the chips on? What does the chips own program actually do? So Dallas? Next slide, please. So what’s going on? Skip forward? Okay, so this is a political cartoon from the Financial Times, it’s similar to The Wall Street Journal in London, essentially. Essentially, we are at a point where the US is finding itself in a position where it needs to maintain its technological supremacy throughout the world, and in particular, we’re seeing this sort of race between the US and China and developing technological industries that can advance our position into the future. And so this, this cartoon is sort of depicting a Cold War type situation. And we really are seeing that. So some of this started in 2018, with the tariffs under the Trump administration in the section 301. Tariffs, which under the Biden administration really have remained in place against imports coming from China, we’ve now also under the Biden administration have put up export controls specifically for semiconductors and other enabling technologies, and have asked some of our allies like the Netherlands to do the same. You saw, you may have seen that the Dutch put up export controls on the theraphy machinery to China, which is absolutely crucial to the development of the most advanced chips in the world. So we really are in this position of trying to maintain US global technological supremacy. So if we move forward, please tell us. So that brings us to the federal industrial policy that we’re seeing now. So the government while trying to, to maintain this position is putting out massive programs in order to catalyze growth in semiconductors, but other advanced industries, build capacity, and make sure that production is happening on American soil. And so the main three that have come out over the last two years or so are the infrastructure investment and jobs act, the inflation Reduction Act, and then the chips Act, which is what we’re mainly here today talking about. But I do want to note that together, these three bills put over 2 trillion into building capacity and infrastructure for advanced technologies moving forward into the future. And so we do believe that this is going to cause a major restructuring of supply chains around the world. It’s going to bring manufacturing into the US and also other operations that are complementary to that manufacturing. And then it’s also good to point out that these programs also contain many plans and requirements around workforce development. Partnering with academia and industry, and others such innovative pathway is in order to build out a broader ecosystem. So there really is a lot happening here. And we really believe it will catalyze growth in the US in the future. Next slide, please.
Speaker 6 20:19
And not only that, not only the federal action by the US government, but we’re also seeing other governments around the world put out similar programs. So if you see we have eight Flags Over here on the right at the top is US and China. But we also have Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Korea, India and the EU, they all have put out similar pieces of legislation to the chips act, that is trying to do the same thing that we are trying to do build out the capacity of the advanced industries ecosystem within their borders, secure this growth for the future and move forward. And so globally, which is what this chart is on the left here, it’s anticipated that we’re going to see extreme growth in the semiconductor sector over the next 10 years or so. This this chart that we’ve taken from the President’s research is anticipating between this year and 2023 12.3%, compound annual growth rate. And the industry fully expects to be over a trillion dollars globally, by the end of 2023, for 2023. Next slide, please.
Speaker 6 21:31
And so this is creating massive opportunities. And now we’re going to take a step back into what the chips Act actually does. So we’re highlighting here basically four opportunities within the chips act that we are focused on and trying to pursue, and make sure that the growth that these programs are going to be pushing forward will happen in Colorado. So the first two there, the reason they’re connected with a line is that they’re there for basically the similar entities. And if you take advantage of one, you probably are going to take advantage of the other. The main one there, and this is the one that’s in the news a lot is the chips manufacturing incentives. So this is a program that is for companies within the semiconductor value chain. So that includes companies that actually fabricate the chips themselves, but it also includes materials providers, equipment, suppliers, and then research and development facilities as well. And that that piece has yet to come out but will be coming out very shortly. And what it does is it offers 39 billion in funding over the next five years to go directly to these companies as grants in order for them to expand modernize or construct physical locations where they could fabricate either the semiconductors or manufacture the products that are going into the fabrication facility itself. An important piece to note on that is that any of the companies that are seeking this, this funding, they must also have a state or a local incentive in order to be eligible for that federal funding itself. And the other thing to know is that while we have a 39 billion in direct funding, there’s also a pool of about 75 billion for these companies in loan and loan guarantees. So the the estimates for what will be given out is about 15%, of a capital expenditure of a project will be direct funding, and up to 35% can be the total package between all of these different vehicles. The advanced manufacturing tax should I won’t get too much into it. But it’s essentially for the same pool. It’s run by the IRS. It’s a tax credit rather than a grant that goes to these companies. So long as they’re, they’re doing the proper investments for these projects. And then there’s the chips, r&d and workforce development programs. This is the development of several different federal control centers around the US has been described by the Secretary of Commerce as a beehives of innovation, where we’re going to be taking the time to go from design and r&d to actual fabrication of the products, they want to half the time half the cost. And really make make us a leader in the actual full supply chain there. And the important thing to note about this program is one of them is the chips metrology r&d program that has already been based at the boulder Nest Labs. So we’re very excited about that. And then the final program, the main program that we’re pursuing, there are others that we’re pursuing as well, but these are the main ones. It’s a it’s a program that was authorized for 10 million so far has only been appropriated 500,500,000,000. But it’s the regional innovation hubs. You may have heard it as the EDA tech hubs, we have V supported Through the tech hub now initiative, sort of stakeholder convenings and the formation of different consortia. And through that process, we we the state attached itself to to specific applications, we understood that there were another three or four that went forward as well. But we attached ourselves to to one of them made it through this phase one designation as a tech hub for quantum technologies. So we do have that. And now that they have the phase one, designation, phase two, which will end in February, after that application process, we could see grants coming into that consortium of up to 70 million, so we’re pursuing that as well. Next slide, please.
Speaker 6 25:50
Think we may need to go the other way. There we go. And just to give you a sense of what the impact means for Colorado, so this is just from that that first opportunity that we highlighted the chips manufacturing incentives. Again, that first line is showing the direct funding in millions. So this is 39 billion in direct funding nationally, Colorado, you could say we’re somewhere between two and 3%. And depending on the segment, maybe even a little more than 3% of the National Semiconductor ecosystem. And so if we’re looking at that benchmark, you know, that’s somewhere between 780,000,001 point 2 billion in direct funding coming to the state from the government, federal government. That next the next slide is sort of what we estimate the private capital expenditure will be on the projects that that 39 billion is looking to incentivize. This is a rough estimate, it’s essentially, as I mentioned, the direct funding can be up to 15% of a project’s capital expenditure. So if we take that 15% applied to that 39 billion, we’re looking at a total of 260 billion, you could take that as a sort of a lower estimate, because of their certain projects or certain projects, they’re only giving 10% of the capital expenditure, indirect funding, then that total rises. But but with that low estimate, again, at that two to 3%, we’re looking at somewhere between 5.2 and 7.8 billion in the state, direct permanent employment, there’s been several studies, one of them is pointing out that after the entire program, we’ll have about 42,000, direct new employees in the semiconductor industry. And then the next line, there’s 280,000. That’s the total employment impact in permanent jobs, which includes direct indirect and induced employment. And so in that first line, two to 3% is about 840, to, you know, getting close to 1300 employees, and then 5600 to 8400. And just to give you a sense, we already have several companies pursuing this funding in the state, and their combined capital expenditure, private capital expenditure. So again, looking at that second line is nearing 3.5 billion. So we’re already nearing that low estimate from what we know, certain companies are doing in the state, and their combined employment is actually surpassing that 3%. And right now, their plans are closer to the 1500. Mark. So we are already seeing the investments that we’ve thought would be coming from the chips act. And we’re here to spur those on even more and make sure we get the growth. Next slide, please. So what is the semiconductor industry look like in Colorado, so it goes straight to the next slide. It’s important to note that we are among a handful of places in the US that’s leading in this industry. It’s not really well known, but we are ninth in total facilities in the US have those were fifth in design and r&d density. So that means the share of our activities that are in r&d and design are the fifth out of all of the states that actually have facilities dedicated semiconductor manufacturing. We have two major fabrication facilities. We have the only flat panel semiconductor foundry outside of Asia. Just a unique just a unique piece of our industry here. We do have a robust ecosystem of electronic design automation. So these are the companies that create the software that then the chips, designers and fabricators used to actually build the chips. You could think of it as sort of like AutoCAD for the semiconductor industry. And then supply chain companies. So as you mentioned, Materials providers and equipment providers are also here in the state. And then as I mentioned before that chips metrology and r&d program is already here. And this is just a map of semiconductor industry establishments by Mexico 334413. We know that this data is not perfect, but we think it does show that we are one of these main spots in the US. And we’ve sort of circled some of the other ones as well. Next slide, please. This is pointing out some of the main names and just sort of showing the, the, the Genesis across the value chain there. So as I said before, we do have the full value chain here from r&d and design, materials and equipment providers, actual fabrication, and then packaging and testing. Some of these names are among the largest and most well known semiconductor companies in the US. I think seven of the 15 top valued semiconductor companies are actually in Colorado and their logos are here now, some of them that you may know are Broadcom Analog Devices AMD the video, if you’ve been watching any type of stock market analysis has been sort of a darling of those recent months. But actually haven’t seen haven’t been paying attention to last month. So hopefully I’m not biting my own words. And you know, the stock market go up and down pretty quickly. And then Infineon pretty, pretty large names. So of our some of our materials and equipment providers include Integris, course tech forge Nano. And then we also have solid dime, Cadence. And some of the other ones working, it’s more in the software side of things. Next slide, please. Excuse me. So getting down to what’s actually in Longmont by the numbers. And this is pulling from light cast, which is formerly EMSI. If anyone’s familiar with that data platform, they’ve gone through a couple named cheeses here recently. But then also the semiconductor industry association, we’ve pulled in some data from there. From that we’re seeing about 12 Taylor payroll locations for from semiconductor industry association. So those four are sort of more of a given. We know that that that has been more rigorously checked. This is a claim to 193 million in total sales 569 total jobs and a location cushion of about 4.22, which is very strong for this industry. So essentially for the size of long line this industry is is a large concentration within within your borders. And then some of the names that were on the other side, but are also in Longmont or Indy, which has a pretty substantial facility out on the Diag or highway, micron, Western Digital solid dime and Seagate as well. Next slide, please. So getting into our strategy and what the chips are actually chips zones actually are, go to the next slide. To be quite blunt, you know, Colorado, we’re going to capture this opportunity, we are starting with a growth from within strategy. And of course, because all strategies have to do this, we gave it a acronym that is reflective of what it’s talking about. So chip, chip is convenient stakeholders great opportunities to Connections heighten awareness of Colorado in the global semiconductor narrative, invest in communities to bolster competitiveness for semiconductors and advanced industries, and provide support to local entities seeking CHIPS funding. And so within that, that sort of four pillar strategy, we’ve taken several actions already, we’re expanding our incentives with the refundable credits and ship zones. We’re launching other programs that are hopefully coming out very soon the Colorado ships community support programs, we’re looking to reduce non financial barriers. So we’re working with cdphp to expand their air permanent capacity through an interagency agreement. We’re also participating globally. So semicon Europa was mid November that we went to and we will be going to some iconic Korea, but then also engaging with folks in Taiwan. And then encouraging consortia. So we’ve we’ve supported the tech hub application that got us the Elevate quantum consortia for the funding through the Regional Innovation Program. We’re also working with a finalist in the NSF engine program. And then we’re trying to figure out ways to make sure that we capture the National Semiconductor Technology Center and the National Advanced packaging and manufacturing program, or at least part of those national programs that are coming out to the chipset So next slide, please. So getting into actually the chip zones, so the chip zones came to us, it was one of two programs that came out of HB 23 1260. The other one being the chips, Colorado chips, refundable tax credits, which do have a little bit of an overlap, but they are separate programs.
Speaker 6 35:27
Basically, the processes that a municipality and or excuse me, a county work to identify an area in which they want to establish a chip zone. And then they pass a resolution stating, as such, we want to put a chip zone, we want to put it in this area, all that all that detail. They don’t apply to my office, the Office of Economic Development and international trade, I do have a application template that Eric and I will be working on later is so long as we get to that point a lot, it will present this to the Economic Development Commission, in order to designate the area, then the EDC will have the opportunity to approve, deny or modify the area brought forward. And then once that is established, a semiconductor company that is operating in that area can access credits from the Enterprise Zone program that already exists. So in order to do that, the semiconductor company has to pre certify for the eligible credits each year. And then when they file their taxes, they certify that they’ve made those investments. And then they they’re able to get their their credit from the Department of Revenue. And so let’s get down to the benefits first. So I can I already kind of started on that the semiconductor company that’s in the chip zone, they have access to five of the about nine or 10 Enterprise Zone credits that currently exist. So this is a state program of income tax incentives. But there’s also one that is a sales and use abatement tax, but we won’t tax abatement, but we’ll get into that one, the five that semiconductor company can specifically access or the business facility, new employee, the business personal property, commercial vehicle investment, job training, and research development tax credits. And so these are 1100 for a job 3% of a qualifying investment 1.5% of the purchase price of commercial vehicles, 12% of the training costs, and then 3% of expenses for r&d. And so these are real. This is a real value for a company operating in an area that is not covered by an enterprise. But now can have access to the this program for the application to the state in order to to make a chips on reality, the locality has to include a resolution for each impacted locality. So for instance, if a chip zone were to be in Boulder County, unincorporated area, but also Longmont and then you know, also city of Boulder, the City of Boulder, the city of Longmont and Boulder County would all have to have a resolution attached to it. But if it’s all within the city of Longmont, borders, then we would just need a resolution from the city council here today. We will need a proposal on boundaries, which would include a description and a map, potential business development and job growth estimates. So description of how the chip zone would actually help in this regard, and then estimates on the number of jobs, number of cutbacks, things like that, that would come out of establishing the chip zone, we’d want it to be consistent with the area’s economy. So again, this is just a description of, you know, this is the vision of the leadership of the of the area, and having a chip sown and, and helping grow this industry is within that vision. And then of course, a point of contact for us to maintain communicate communication and assist us in reporting on the program in the future. Next slide, please. So boiling this down to sort of hopefully five simple points, you know, why establish a chip zone at all? You know, it really is a pretty low risk, high reward action. There’s a massive federal job down potential. So the access to state incentives for local companies. This helps them meet the eligibility requirements for the federal incentives. And so having you know, able, being able to access to Enterprise Zone credits can count for their coverage and set of requirements to help them bring in federal funding funding to the state. business attraction, you know, the chip zone is set up. And a company is considering operations and they’re in semiconductor ecosystem, that location becomes that much more attractive for them to potentially move into jobs and capital expenditure. Like I mentioned before, the existing plant expansions that we know of with our companies are already in the state are totaling over 1500 jobs, and 3 billion in capital expenditures right now. Community Investment, they didn’t really get into it, but the chips Act, and the the applications for the direct funding must include workforce development plans, childcare plans, and other wraparound services, and also must have some type of community investment or commitments piece as well. So these companies, they have to be doing something to develop workforce, provide childcare, or an in another way to commit to the community that they’re growing. And then the last point is that they’re performance based. So we set up this these chips, this chip zone, a company is operating in there, but they don’t make any of the investments that they have been sort of estimating or planning to do, then they don’t get any of the funding on the back end. So it really is based on the company hiring workers and making investments in order for them to get the credits at all to see any benefit. And with that, we’ll move to the last slide Dallas, will say thank you very much for your time. This is my contact information, if you could share this around afterward. And anyone feel free to get in touch with me and happy to answer any other questions. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 42:01
Thank you, Dan. Very interesting. Do counselors have any questions or call comments? Councillor McCoy.
Speaker 7 42:14
Thank you, Mayor Beck. I think this is really exciting. And I think this is an opportunity. It’s it’s nice that Colorado is one of the states that’s already leading in this industry. And I think that if we can get that overlay of of where we want to put our our chip zones, that would be great to just start to establish, and, you know, I think that’s something that we really need to pursue vigorously. Thank you.
Speaker 1 42:48
Seeing no one else. Can we go back to Slide seven? I do have one question.
Speaker 1 43:09
Thank you. So in your second circle here, the 24 billion, you say 25 tax credit. This has to come from? No, I’m sorry, the first circle must have state and local incentive. Going to the second circle. Does that incentive include or can the state tax credit be the incentive? Or is this something different?
Speaker 6 43:41
So for the first circle in the chips manufacturer, in fact, manufacturing incentives, they, the actual term that they use in the statute is a covered incentive. And the way they define that is any local or state incentive. And then they identify like several different types, which includes like tax abatements, state income tax credits, but then also, and they’re sort of detailed list with or anything that the CHIPS Program Office, who’s running this whole program deems appropriate. And so really, it’s a pretty wide swath of what would be applicable, this chip Zone program, we are fully intending it and believe that it qualifies as a covered incentive, which is why we want to make sure it gets out. And these companies that are already operating in a community now have a state instead of in order to meet that covered set of requirements.
Speaker 1 44:46
Okay, great. It’s not something separate. It all works together.
Speaker 6 44:50
Basically all works together, right. So they have the incentive from the state than they don’t need a local instead of
Unknown Speaker 44:56
Thank you for clarifying that.
Unknown Speaker 45:00
Absolutely. Thank you,
Unknown Speaker 45:02
Councillor Crist?
Speaker 8 45:06
Dan, do you have any idea of what institutions of learning are training and studying semiconductor manufacturing?
Speaker 6 45:20
Yeah, we see Boulder has a rather rigorous program. They are one of the facilities identified actually in the semiconductor industry Association’s data of being r&d facility for semiconductors. But mines, Colorado State University, they all have programs. And then a really important piece for for the chips Act is that it’s not just one type of employee that they’re looking for like a chip designer or chip engineer or something like that. There’s also a lot of technicians that are working in this field. So programs in electrical, and computer engineering, even at the technician level are really important. So we’re already seeing that. We know that some of our companies are already partnering with Front Range Community College, Pikes Peak State College down the springs, and others doing similar programs as well. So as long as there’s a computer and electrical engineering department, that’s a good sign for us to work with and push forward. And I should say, the workforce development piece is one that the state is still looking to better support. And right now we’re we’re sort of in the midst of bringing everyone we can together from the education and academia world to better understand how everyone can work together. But that’s, that’s sort of where we are now. And but those all those large schools have programs have sort of lab facilities that are doing r&d. So a good one to mention too, is the microelectronics research lab down at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs campus, they have their own research lab down there as well.
Speaker 8 47:22
I agree with that this is an interesting field. But there’s been a reason why Taiwan has been the leader in this area. And that’s because this type of manufacturing is not very easy. So I just wondered, a lot of what you mentioned, is in research and development in this area. So we don’t have a lot of people that are actually in full scale manufacturing yet. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t pursue it. I just think it’s not an immediate, something where we can open the doors and hire people. I think it’s going to take a little on ramping to get up to speed on this. I
Speaker 6 47:57
completely agree. And I will say that is why we’re that we’re focused on the full value chain as the chips act itself. So a lot of the companies we’ve been working with, you know, we have a couple that are actually assist, we have three that we’re working with right now they’re in Colorado, have manufacturing operations. And our alternate. And I should say manufacturing is fabrication of semiconductors, and they’re all trying to expand. We also have like another cadre, probably a larger and more well known group of companies that have r&d and design centers in the state. And that’s the piece that we’re still trying to figure out how to activate because we know that’s a really good benefit. But as you say, the actual production is a really tricky thing to balance. And so we’re trying to work with that. And then we also have this few supply chain companies that are all expanding here. And so totally agree in its upward battle. And even the chips act is identifying a large gap in the workforce of the future that we’re trying to figure out how to fill but we’re trying to get there for sure. Thanks.
Speaker 1 49:13
Seeing no other questions, thank you so much for this presentation. It’s a lot to digest, but it’s a huge opportunity.
Unknown Speaker 49:23
Absolutely. Thank you, Mayor Peck councilmembers
Unknown Speaker 49:25
hope your family gets better. Yeah. Me too.
Speaker 1 49:35
So we’re going to move on to the first call public invited to be heard. Once again, the first person on the list is James Kenworthy. Jim, I want to just remind you that you have three minutes and we need your name and address
Speaker 9 50:06
You have to press the button to turn on the microphone then that sound level would be great. No, not yet. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you. James Kenworthy 107 caribou place. I’m here to ask the city council to label the city of Longmont ceasefire city.
Speaker 9 50:40
As I understand that the United Nations tried to declare a ceasefire. US vetoed the resolution, and a few other countries also vetoed. You can imagine which ones come Hamas is a terrorist organization. Netanyahu and his cohorts are also a terrorist organization. They’re both descendants of Abraham. That makes it a family feud. And that makes it a family tragedy. Netanyahu said the three hostages who were accidentally killed was a terrible tragedy. And he never said anything about the 19,000 Palestinians that have been killed so far. There are Israelis that don’t agree with Netanyahu whose actions and there are a lot of innocent Palestinians. Joe Biden went to Israel to give that terrorist Netanyahu a bear hug. Kim Jeffries also shook shook hands with Netanyahu, our representative Jonah gooses, quiet on the matter. I don’t know what happens to people when they get elected, but it seems to go that they go deaf or maybe it has something to do with money. 10 large cities have called for a ceasefire. Three or four of them in California, Chicago, Seattle, and Detroit. There was a survey in the New York Times today this morning. The question, Do you approve of President Biden’s handling of the Israeli Palestinian situation? Approve 35% don’t know or refuse to ask the question. Live in percent. disapprove 57% So 57% of the people that were surveyed disapprove of Joe Biden’s actions with Israel I think it’s time for us to speak up. As always up to it’s up to us ordinary people to make our voices heard. We live in a democracy we can speak I have the hunch the majority of the thinking citizens in the city that mean I’m done. It does.
Speaker 1 53:28
Okay. I’m sorry but thank you for your comments. Thank you. The next one on the list is Lance Whitaker.
Speaker 10 53:57
Mayor and council My name is Lance would occur live at 1750 Collier Street. I’ve been along Longmont residents for about 45 years. I’d like to remind people today that today is National oatmeal muffin day. And it also national hard candy day and national magic magic day. So if you have any magic tricks, please show me um I like it. I would like to put a shout out just before Christmas to all those people out there who are separated from their family and may not have kids. God loves you and Merry Christmas. Thank you.
Unknown Speaker 54:48
Thank you Lance, straighter Bidston
Unknown Speaker 55:08
Sorry, I thought Stan was ahead of me. Anyway. Strider bench done it on.
Unknown Speaker 55:21
Yes, it’s on Strider
Speaker 11 55:24
951 was seven Tate’s several things. Today, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that the former president did engage in insurrection. And consequently, under the 14th amendment is not allowed to run for public office again. Of course, that’s gonna be further adjudicated. And we basically know how the corruption at the highest levels are that basically, every people currently on any side is voting in terms of who they think is going to win the Civil War, that the former President is trying to incite. And he’s already been quoting Adolf Hitler regularly almost every day. I mentioned this seven or eight years ago here, but it’s really dangerous to speak truth before. The people know what what it is. I do have a master of Humanities and philosophy and history and political science. Therefore, I have never been allowed to have a job other than heavy labor. And it’s all connected. And Judge Michael ludecke, who was supported by Herbert Walker Bush president, recently retired from the US Court of Appeals said there is no Republican Party, it’s merely a Trump cult. Is this still on? I can never get an answer. Anyway. 24 days to go. I was hit head on by a truck intentionally. And I didn’t know because I was knocked out for four or five seconds. I didn’t realize that I had been run over. There was absolutely certain attempt to kill me by hitting me. I knew it was intentional, but I thought maybe he just hates old people on bicycles, whoever was driving the truck. And there were five high witnesses. So it it may turn up destroyed my eighth bike. I’ve got some difficulties related to it. And the that’s just real life. Most people don’t study history and education is being abolished in this country. So people only vote on single issues. You got immigration, you got abortion, but we need to be voting for democracy and the survival of the United States of America and the Republic. Thank you.
Unknown Speaker 58:25
Thank you Strider stand tall.
Speaker 12 58:45
Council, I guess this is this is our what is the second session of the new council? Is that the mic correct? I think you are, okay. Well, what happened? Coming up here and advocating what are the things that happens I go by intersection where a young girl was hit and killed by a car. Now what I’m talking to the city council about is to try to change how this city council thinks about it and interacts with doing their traffic in the town and how to keep pedestrians and cars safe. The main thing about that young girl what came up is well fed driver did set you know took some sort of substance And in the substance in the driver was blamed for the accident. And now change has ever been made with that intersection. And that is what I’m trying to say when we have these accidents. And when we do things in town, we kind of think about it. We don’t even think about it like how we’re doing our stop signs, and how we’re doing our intersections with stoplights. And what I’m asking the council to get them, I use the term woke, which means to be educated and aware and pay attention to this issue because instead of just blaming the driver or I had a car get got hit. And it seemed like the thing that the city was most interested in was impounding my vehicle and having it towed. Because they make $125 for that. And so what I’m advocating is that whenever we have these accidents, is that the city council really ensure that not a police report on who was at fault. But what can be done, if somebody makes a mistake, that people aren’t getting hurt. Things like roundabouts, things like instead of having the stop sign on the other side of the sidewalk, have it like they’re doing some of the newer stop signs like on Terry and 19th, where the stop sign is out where people can see it. Thank you.
Speaker 1 1:01:59
Thank you, Stan. Seeing no one on the list. I’m going to close first call public invited to be heard. We’re now at the consent agenda and introduction and reading by title of first reading ordinances. Don, would you mind reading the ordinances into the record? I’d
Speaker 2 1:02:17
be happy to marrow if we could please take a five minute or so tech break we need to reboot some equipment, of course not functioning properly. Okay,
Unknown Speaker 1:02:25
well take a five minute break.
Unknown Speaker 1:02:27
Thank you.
Speaker 2 1:10:42
23 103 a resolution of the Longmont City Council approving the boundaries of a proposed area of the city to be submitted to the director of the Colorado Office of Economic Development. For designation as a chips zone under the Colorado chip Zone Act. Item nine B is resolution 2023 Dash 108 a resolution of Longmont City Council authorizing the agreement between the city of Longmont and document Inc. for the provision of pet licensing software. Nine C is resolution 2023 Dash 109 a resolution of the Lamont City Council approving the intergovernmental agreement between the City and Regional Transportation District for eco pass contract.
Speaker 1 1:11:25
That was short. Are there in councillors want to pull any items on the Consent Agenda? Seeing no one can I have a vote? The motion? Thank you. Moved by Councillor Martin seconded by Councillor McCoy to move this consent agenda. Let’s vote.
Speaker 1 1:11:54
Thank you That passes unanimously. We’re now at general business. A on our general business agenda is an appeal of denial of certificate of appropriateness and certificate of hardship by historic preservation commission regarding proposed window replacement at 545 Collier Street. And thank you.
Speaker 13 1:12:22
Good evening, members of the council Jennifer Hewitt, Apperson principal planner we developed Planning and Development Services. here tonight to discuss an appeal of historic preservation commission denial for a certificate of appropriateness and certificate of hardship. At 545 Collier Street. I was notified this afternoon by the appellant that she is traveling back to Colorado today and had a flight delay that has prevented her from being here tonight. And she has requested that we postpone this hearing. So at this point, I’ll defer to city attorney may to discuss the appropriate way for the council to handle this.
Speaker 14 1:13:07
Aaron Council Eugene may city attorney given that it’s on the agenda. I think the recommended approach would be to open the hearing and make a motion to continue. I think we looked at February 13. So continue it to a date certain and see if there’s anybody in the audience that was here for that hearing. I don’t think so. But
Speaker 1 1:13:35
we’ll open it anyway. Sure. Thank you, Eugene. So I would like to open the public hearing on the appeal of denial of certificate of appropriateness. Is there anybody in the public that would like to address this appeal? Seeing no one I will close the public hearing on this appeal and ask for a motion or it looks like Councillor McCoy.
Unknown Speaker 1:14:05
The Thank you Mayor back. I’d like to move that we what was that? Eugene February 3. Move this to February 13.
Unknown Speaker 1:14:17
Second,
Speaker 1 1:14:18
all right. It’s been moved by Councillor McCoy seconded by Councillor Martin. Is there any discussion by council? Seeing none Let’s vote.
Speaker 1 1:14:36
Passes unanimously. Thank you. The next thing on our general business is a presentation and approval of the 2024 Human Services, funding allocations.
Unknown Speaker 1:15:19
Oh
Speaker 15 1:15:29
all right. Good evening Mayor pack and members of Longmont City Council. I’m Christina Pacheco, Human Services Director. I’m gonna go ahead and get us started tonight as we talked about our human services agency funding recommendations. I want to give some background, talk about our framework. And then Alberto Mendoza, our Human Services Project Coordinator, who also provide support and facilitate the process. We’ll talk about the elk allocation process itself, and the recommendations that come from our Longmont Human Services Advisory Board. I then want to talk about what our funding has looked like from 2020 to 2020 24. And call out some specific measures that we’ll be taking to address the challenges we foresee in the next years. So let’s start with some background. So in 2024, will have 3% of the general fund to allocate for human services funding, that’s about $2.6 million 56%. Of that, about 1.4 million will go to support safety net services through this competitive application process that we just completed. And so we’re here to talk about that tonight, primarily, the other 44. About 1.2 million will be used to address housing insecurity and adult homelessness. So, in terms of our funding framework, it’s meant to assist low to moderate income community members with their basic needs. These dollars really fund a range of services that assist individuals and families in stabilizing and thriving. This funding is linked to what we learned from our 2020 community human services needs assessment, and it prioritizes the following pillars and really aligns with social determinants of health, housing stability, food and nutrition, health and well being self sufficiency and resilience, resilience, education and skill building and Safety and Justice. The Longmont housing and Human Services Advisory Board coordinates this overall process, and then brings forward the funding rapid recommendations to City Council for approval. So now I’m going to turn it over to Alberto and he’s going to talk about the allocation process and funding recommendations.
Speaker 16 1:17:51
Good evening, Mayor picking Council Alberto Mendoza, human city along with Human Services Project Coordinator. So our allocation process for the least the last five years, we have worked to make it as fair and equitable as possible. We made it formulaic to try and remove as much as possible the subjectivity of our process, we have scores, our board, reviews and evaluates each application reviewing program outcomes and program, how the program delivers IT services throughout the community and who it delivers it to. And so they have a range of questions that they review and score a basis of one to five staff looks at a lot of the financial peace of the agency, including how much of the ask how much the agency is asking Longmont to fund its program. You know, long month city funding isn’t meant to fully fund a single program in this process. We do we are we are a part of the help. But we are not the only funder in nor should we be the main funder for any of these programs. And so that is taken into account as well. Then we have like I said, a formulaic allocation process where we take the scores and create ranges based on those scores. So some of the principles that we work with one is we the board made a decision a few years ago to reset the funding to zero in the past, the board use historical funding to set funding amounts. And the board about five years ago decided to go to we’re going to reset every year. We have priority ceilings for each aid for each area. And we say that any agency cannot cannot receive more than 50% of whatever that priority ceiling is. So we keep to some of those principles. We also want to make sure that we we take into account the ranges and funds appropriately based on how well the agency scored because it is a competitive process after all. So in 2024, we received our We received applications from 40 agents to fund 58 programs. The Total Request amounted to 2.4. And this is after staff reviewed some other agencies and screened out agencies based on them not being totally aligned or them asked the agency asking for funding that, traditionally, we don’t fund with the Human Services Program. Typically, our human services funding is meant for program support. And so even after we screen, we still had 2.4 million in requests, and we only had 1.4 in available. So it was a very hard year for staff and the board, as we struggled with all of these agencies that made it through our wonderful agencies doing really good work. And you know, it was a challenge to do the evaluations and then to do the scores, understanding that, you know, some agencies were doing great work, we’ll lose some funding from what they had, even though we do always go back to zero. And we tell folks, it’s competitive. Of course, it’s hard on the board and staff to do this really difficult work. But the board, I always come in the board for doing it, they do their job, they had over 14 hours of hearings, plus whatever hours they put into reviewing the application, so I always come in. It’s not an easy board to be on. But they do good work. So let me just finish up. So we are recommending 141 point 4 million to 45 agencies and 55 programs, that is an increase from last year, we seem to be increasing every year, we’re going to talk a little bit more about that, as an increasing challenge is before us. And we have some data on that to share. But we did increase as well to see the number of agencies and fertility programs that we funded. So as you can see, here are their priority areas. And here’s how much of the funding went to we always would like housing study to be the highest but we we don’t control the staff or board. We don’t control who applies to this, this to this fund. And if more agencies that are providing education and skill building programs apply, and they are aligned and meet the criteria, and score well, they will be funded. So you can see that even though our housing stability is our is our biggest priority, it did not get funded as much again, we don’t tell agencies how much to apply for as well. So that also comes into play. We just we just review and we allocate based on a formulaic process. So it has been, you know, typically, we don’t always follow our own priority guidelines, just because we can’t control who’s going to come to the table with what program they’re going to ask for. So I think I’m gonna turn it back to Christina to talk about our challenges.
Speaker 15 1:22:38
So as you’ll notice, and this chart, the only time that we had such a high difference between the percentage of amount requested and the amount available, was in 2020. The increase in the amounts requested from 2023 to 2024 was 34%. But the amount available to allocate only increased by 2%. So between 2020 and 2021, the amount requested reduced by 3%, between 2021 and 2022, increased by 9%. And between 20 and 22 and 2023 increased by 26%. So really, the bottom line is what this tells us is that human services set aside is not keeping up with the growing number of requests from our local nonprofits. And we anticipated some of this dynamic. You know, knowing what the economy economy has looked like knowing those struggles that our nonprofits have. And so given that, beginning, in September of this year, we began a series of nonprofit engagement sessions and counsel across that corresponding white paper, report out from those sessions and staff is going to continue to work with our advisory board and nonprofit partners to leverage the funds that we do have to make the biggest impact in the community. And so we’ll be providing updates from the work on that report and the outcome and our work with nonprofits. So next, I want to talk about some work that has come out of the year end process that we go through with the advisory board. We know that as Alberto said there was a million dollars more and requested funds that then we had to allocate and that was after we screened out some programs and some organizations at the end of the application and hearing process. Once the initial initial recommendations are ready to be brought to Council staff always takes the opportunity to do a debrief with the With the advisory board to check in about the process, what worked really well, what are some things that they would change if they had the opportunity. And what we heard is a desire to change some of the questions on the application themselves on the application itself, for the board to then be clear on the work that the agencies are doing. And as a side note, we also heard some feedback from organizations that they also would like some of the questions may be streamlined, maybe an easier application process. So staff is going to bring this back to our funders collaborative, with our other municipal and county government partners, and really voiced that need and work through that. The board was also clear that the human services funding process needs to to change. And so staff is charged with bringing back different options on how to make process changes, and present that to the board in early 2024, to really address how we could, as I mentioned, leverage the resources we have and meet the need with what with the information that we have at this point. So at this point, what we have are, you know, any questions you have about our recommendations, and we’re here to ask council to adopt the recommendations or provide further direction.
Speaker 1 1:26:36
We have any Council comments about the allegations. Councillor Crist,
Speaker 8 1:26:48
I’m happy to see greater funding in education and skill development. I think that’s a great, great place, you know, leads to a lot of economic development and a lot of advancement in income. So I think that’s a great place. And it looks like you’re doing a fabulous job in terms of being very equitable and, and really addressing what people are providing to you in terms of need. So thank you.
Speaker 1 1:27:17
As I look at your diagram, and the different pies that are on there, I think it would be incredibly difficult to figure this out, because so many nonprofits merge into all the areas, and how do you separate that and prioritize? So I think he did do a great job. And I would like a motion or counselor, McCoy.
Speaker 7 1:27:51
Thank you. I just think I just want to compliment you as well. You know, I think it was in the 90s when I was serving on that board. And i i I know the process and I appreciate it. And so I’d like to move approval of the 2024 funding recommendations as presented by the Longwood housing and Human Services Advisory Board.
Speaker 1 1:28:18
So the recommendations have been adopted by emotion are going to be adopted by motion by Councillor McCoy and seconded by Councillor Yarborough. Any more discussion? Seeing none Let’s vote. Soon as I change my screen
Speaker 1 1:28:43
so can we do a question my screen just won’t let’s do everyone who? All those who approve. say aye. All those? Yes. My screen is giving me fits. All those opposed? Seeing none. Thank you. That passes unanimously. Now I can see the screen. Thank you. Thanks for the presentation. It was great.
Unknown Speaker 1:29:21
All right.
Speaker 1 1:29:29
Now we’re at the board and commission appointments and our city clerk will take our recommendations. Good
Speaker 2 1:29:38
evening, Mayor and Council. Thank you. So this past Saturday, you all interviewed some applicants for the city advisory boards. You interviewed applicants that were recommended by the boards as part of the inter applicant in vetting process that we follow. So I have sent you all an electronic ballot, which is also on the screen just a few inches directions for starters, we will vote only those contests or those boards that are in a with a bold title like this one for airport advisory board. I have some backup ballots with not a bold title in case we hit a tie or something of the sort along the line. So I have those prepped, but you don’t need to vote those yet. So please vote only the bold questions. The board provided you a recommendation for applicants that they felt were qualified for the boards. Those applicants are in bold italic in the list of applicants as you can see on the screen. A couple of the boards provided a ranking of their recommended order of preference that they would appoint those applicants because there were more applicants than seats available. In those two cases, that’s airport advisory board and planning and zoning. I put the names in your ballot also in the rank to order just to help you have a visual there that looks very similar to the items you’ve been seeing in your application packet. So if you would please take a few moments and vote your preferences. Yes. Did you want to mic on councilmember McCoy thank you it’s hard to hear on TV Land.
Speaker 7 1:31:23
Thank you for your pick done on this like the second one if you voted for somebody in the in the first ranking there you had the italicized old if you wanted to vote for one of those people again just in case that didn’t come out you can do that
Speaker 2 1:31:44
you could do that yes we will see how that would turns out so I will pause for a moment is the form is functioning for everybody you’re able to vote there’s one I confirm.
Unknown Speaker 1:32:22
This video.
Speaker 2 1:33:29
So I am seeing four of you have voted so far and I will wait until I see seven up there and then we’ll do you need a sticker I voted I should have thought of that.
Speaker 2 1:34:28
Just to be sure you have to hit Submit at the bottom for it to enter your votes.
Speaker 2 1:35:59
Tada, we have the magic number seven. All right, thank you so much. Let’s see how this went. So on airport advisory board to regular member terms ending December 31 2026. I will show who voted how in just a moment. But I just want to show you the tallies first. So Richard Malcolm Dean has received five votes. And then Melinda Jordan has received seven. There’s a visual of how those votes went down. And so those will be your two regular member appointees. Moving on to the unexpired regular member term ending December 31 2025. This is for that resignation we just got that we told you about on Saturday. Here we have four votes for Dan Meester, two for Matthew Menza and one for Patrick Dylan. So voted for will work and Dan Meester will be your unexpired through 2025. And there’s the result of how those votes went. Moving down to the last airport Advisory Board, one looks like we’re gonna get a revote this one. This is the unexpired term ending next December, December 2024. We have quite a split going. So one person voted for Malcolm Dean, one for Melinda, one for me, or two for Meester, two for Matthew, one for Patrick Dylan. So Malcolm Dean and Melinda Jordan and Dan Meester were already appointed. So if you would, please go to number six, it’s already there. And vote ballot number six. Oh, Sandy deleted those that you shouldn’t vote for Thank you
Speaker 2 1:38:10
Do you not have the ballot? Still pulled up? So click the link again? Yes, please. Thank you. Those are the technicalities. I’m not Yeah. Number six, we’re on number six. And hit Submit Yes.
Unknown Speaker 1:38:44
It’s barring you from answering that we’re required to
Speaker 2 1:38:54
because they’re all required. Okay, I can’t fix that on the fly. Would you like to do this by motion? I mean, I could it take a few minutes.
Speaker 2 1:39:19
That will mess with how we capture because we will document these. Yeah, so please don’t revote once you’ve voted. Yeah, if you. Your two candidates are Matthew Menza and Patrick Dillon. Those are in order of the ranked order from the board of in terms of their recommendation. Would anybody like to make a motion to appoint one of those persons to the December 31 2024
Speaker 2 1:40:06
Yes and vote please. No. Yes. In favor of Matthew Menza to the 2024 unexpired term. And Mayor, I’m sorry, I didn’t capture your vote. No, no. Okay. Thank you. That is a technical detail. We’ll figure out for the next round. Yes. Okay. On to number seven, art in public places you have two unexpired vacancies ending June 30 2026. You have selected two candidates, the two recommended sage, Alexander and Eve Lacy, by a vote of six and seven respectively. So let me display that for you. And you can see how those votes went. So both of those people will be appointed. It works when it works. We will skip the extra ballots. On to Callaghan, you have two regular member terms, but just one applicant, Karen Cruz. All seven of you voted for Karen Cruz. So unanimous. I don’t necessarily need to display that one. Golf course advisory board, same again, two regular member terms ending 2026 one applicant recommended by by the board and door Zemsky and by unanimous vote she is appointed. Moving on to historic preservation to regular member terms ending 2027. Again, one applicant recommended by the board and you all voted for herb Fenster unanimously so this works well in those instances. We’ll see how we do on housing and Human Services. Now bad very good. We have three regular terms ending December 31 2026. Jeffrey boring received five votes. Katherine Lau received seven and Kimberly string will be reappointed with six votes. So those will be your three regular member appointees and let me display that vote for the record.
Unknown Speaker 1:42:17
Keeping Eugene and the public happy so we don’t need to vote the extra ballots. We have a one unexpired regular member term. And this one we will need to revote and we’ll have to do that by motion and hand vote
Speaker 2 1:42:41
based on our previous experience with that not working well. So your your candidates would be Manzo, or Sandoval, Robert Manzo or Michael sandbelt because the others were appointed. Is that right? Yes, yeah.
Speaker 1 1:43:07
Move by Councillor Yarbro seconded by Councillor Martin that we vote for Michael Sandoval for housing and Human Services. All those in favor say aye. Opposed? passes.
Speaker 2 1:43:24
Okay. Moving on the master Board of Appeals, three, regular member Trump’s ending December 31 2026. You all voted by a vote of six for Adam Goldstone, Andy Omer and Chris VAs wig. All our current members, one of them is an alternate will become a regular member. And there’s that vote display.
Speaker 2 1:43:56
Moving on to parks and recreation, you have three members terms and in 2026 and only two applicants who were both recommended. Scott Conlon and Nick Novello were both appointed by a unanimous vote of the council. Planning and Zoning has one regular member term ending December 2028. These are five year terms. The board recommended an alternate be promoted if you will, to a regular term member. And so it looks like we don’t have a clear answer on this one. We have two for Selena, three for Jerry, one vote for Amy and one for Don Russell. Let me display that
Speaker 17 1:44:51
I just wanted to point out that we were informed during the interview process that Selena Koehler was no longer wanting to be over regular member or is no longer interested in being a regular term. She wanted to stay as an alternate, so I just want to point that out.
Unknown Speaker 1:45:10
Okay. So would you like to make a motion?
Unknown Speaker 1:45:19
To me make a motion?
Unknown Speaker 1:45:24
Would you like me to display that again?
Speaker 1 1:45:25
Yes, please. I did. And Chiquita did. So do we. Do we need to make a motion or can counsel Yarborough and myself change our vote?
Speaker 2 1:45:41
If you would do a motion just for clarity? That’d be okay. best for me. Thank you.
Unknown Speaker 1:45:47
Okay. I moved Jerry pointed as the regular member
Speaker 1 1:45:55
Okay, so um, Councillor Rodriguez moved that Jerry Boone be appointed as the regular member for pnz seconded by Councillor Yarborough? No. Dog and fairy. All those in favor? say aye. Aye. All those opposed? So that passes.
Unknown Speaker 1:46:25
Five to two five to two.
Unknown Speaker 1:46:28
Did you vote for that too, as well? Okay, I didn’t look down there. Okay.
Speaker 2 1:46:32
I captured Yeah. Kristen McCoy. dissenting. Okay. Very good. Thank you. Moving on to your planning and zoning. Because your alternate Jerry has been appointed as a regular now we have an alternate vacancy. So we eliminated the all the alternates because they already serve. They already have a term and Jerry now has a regular term. So here are your two. And it looks like we are missing a vote. There’s only six votes cast on this one. So let me see who’s
Speaker 2 1:47:11
Yeah, Councilmember Martin. So we have a tie three, three with councilmember Martin. Her vote missing.
Speaker 2 1:47:36
Tom Lange or Don Russell and Don Russell also applied for masterboard Did we appoint him? No, no. Okay.
Speaker 1 1:47:55
Second, sip counselor Martin moved that we vote for Tom Lange as the alternate member for planning and zoning. And I second that all those in favor? say aye. Aye. All those opposed? So that passes five to four.
Speaker 2 1:48:17
Who was the third? I apologize. You double faring Rodriguez. Okay. You are knee okay. Yes. Okay. Three is. Moving on to senior citizens advisory board you have three regular member member terms ending 2026. A lot of great candidates do to leg work done by the board. So let’s see where we got the recommended applicants again in bold italic. Eric Brack received six votes, David Brynna. Three votes. This is a tiny screen. I apologize. Sheila Conroy three votes Maria Cortez six and John Higgins three. So from this vote Eric Brack and Maria Cortez will go forward or will be appointed and then we don’t have a clear result for the third person. Let me just show you those results. I apologize. They don’t fit on one.
Speaker 2 1:49:30
taken my computer playing
Speaker 2 1:49:42
I didn’t even know that the computer had volume. Okay. Councilmember McCoy, you voted? You motion.
Unknown Speaker 1:49:51
I move to John Higgins. Second.
Speaker 1 1:49:57
John Higgins for the Senior Citizens Advisory The board seconded by Councillor Crist, all those in favor say aye. Opposed. So that passes six to one with Councillor Martin in opposition
Unknown Speaker 1:50:19
yep makes sense.
Unknown Speaker 1:50:22
Did you find the corporate Sandy?
Speaker 2 1:50:31
super strange. Number 29 senior citizen advisory board unexpired to unexpired regular member terms and in 2025 So looks like and Coakley received four votes and then we’ll need a second one by motion. Let me show you how this Eric got to David Brent Irwin and Coakley got four votes, Sheila Conroy to Maria Cortez to John Higgins one. So a couple of those people already appointed. This will give you an idea
Speaker 1 1:51:17
so do we have to do two more or are we just doing one?
Speaker 2 1:51:20
Just one and Coakley received four so that is that is the majority and that works. So
Speaker 1 1:51:27
I’m going to move that we appoint Maria Cortez, she’s
Unknown Speaker 1:51:31
already she was and Higgins.
Speaker 1 1:51:52
Can you go back to the close this window? Yes, there. Okay.
Unknown Speaker 1:51:57
I wonder if it’s my laptop Sandy. No.
Unknown Speaker 1:52:05
Maybe it’s your phone
Unknown Speaker 1:52:11
I wouldn’t feel I
Speaker 2 1:52:22
already got the four votes. David.
Speaker 1 1:52:36
I’ll second. Counselor, Hidalgo. fairing nominated. Sheila Conway for the Senior Citizens Advisory Board. And I seconded that. Let’s vote. All those in favor? Aye. Those opposed. So that passes unanimously.
Speaker 2 1:52:54
Thank you very much. And that is all of your appointments.
Speaker 1 1:52:58
I liked this process. But I do I miss weeks of runners. Yes.
Speaker 2 1:53:07
Thank you very much. So we will notify those who were appointed tonight and boards tomorrow, starting tomorrow and get to work getting people going. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 1:53:17
Thank you. This was great. So now we’re on to final call public invited to be heard. Is there anybody in the public that would like to address Council? Seeing none, I will close final call public invited to be heard. Do we have any mayor and council comments? Councillor McCoy.
Speaker 7 1:53:44
Thank you, Mayor Peck. Earlier in our meeting, I at the very end brought up how we had a incident in 2020 to the corner of Nelson and hoever, where a young man got shot after a impromptu racing sort of meet up. And my concern is is that I’d like to know if we could get a general ballpark dollar amount of what the safety department spent just on that one incident in regards to having to, you know, track down people, detectives and everything else like that. Because that spot there has been kind of a blind spot for a very long time. Almost a decade. And we’re covering that as a city. And I think we need to show the public what’s one instant just one instant and runs especially serious when like that, so that we can Talk to those folks and say, we’re covering your security in that lot there. And I’d like to get $1 amount, I realized that we really don’t have an immediate until the 23rd of January. So I’m not asking for it to be.
Speaker 1 1:55:18
So, um, can I just ask, do you want this? Just
Unknown Speaker 1:55:23
information?
Speaker 1 1:55:24
So I’m okay. Go ahead.
Speaker 18 1:55:28
Yeah, I’ll work with public safety chief and, and staff and pulling that number. And then we may have to talk about what the immediate cost is versus the long term because, right going, but we’ll definitely have that information
Speaker 7 1:55:45
for I think, I think people would be interested in seeing how much, you know, public funds were spending on on a spot like that, that has sat there for a long time. We’ll
Speaker 18 1:55:57
also provide some adjustments that we made after the fact to try to manage those issues. And so I would probably give you a little more depth to the to the response will greatly
Unknown Speaker 1:56:07
appreciate. Thank you.
Speaker 2 1:56:08
I’m sorry, ma’am. Ma’am. I just also wanted to make sure you, we have a meeting, January 9 is our next meeting. So okay, I just didn’t want to not show up.
Speaker 7 1:56:17
No, no, I knew that I just, I was looking at the calendar. And it seemed like some of those that might be I didn’t want to push our city staff.
Unknown Speaker 1:56:34
Okay, counselor crest.
Speaker 8 1:56:37
I, I just wanted to share my I had gone to a Christmas party. That was a high tech Christmas party and I had individuals there from some of the same agencies we just discussed for the CHIPS program. Gentleman even came up from UCCS. And we talked about what it would take to do semiconductor manufacturing. And there is there is quite an on ramp to it in terms of technology is the reason why Taiwan has been number one for a while. So there will be some on ramping, that will be required. But it’s important to get started. You know, you have to start one foot in front of the other. But so isn’t going to be something that by next year, we have a lot of people hired, we’re still going to be aggregating the talent and the materials. But so I just wanted to share that because I’ve had the advantage of talking with some of these individuals that they’ve been wrecked or talked about. So
Unknown Speaker 1:57:39
Councillor Yarborough?
Speaker 19 1:57:40
Thank you Manpack. I wanted to just throw out there if there was a chance at the retreat that we can have Aaron Fosdick to come and just talk about our partnership with them and how that benefits the city. When we make these decisions with these corporations. And like today, we talked about chip. That’s just I mean, we I know we’re going to talk about that later on. But I just want to suggest that if we can have her to come in at the retreat, just to talk a little bit more about our partnership with them so that we all can have a clearer understanding of what that means. And what that looks like moving forward, especially since she’s new in that in that in that position. Second of all, have we ever thrown thrown a holiday party together as counsel? Ever?
Unknown Speaker 1:58:37
Can we do that in the sunshine? No.
Speaker 19 1:58:39
I mean, here or something? No. I don’t know. I was, huh. No, not
Unknown Speaker 1:58:45
that I’m aware of.
Speaker 19 1:58:50
Okay, well, I just thought about that. And I just wanted to ask that question. Maybe one day in the future. Okay. Thanks.
Unknown Speaker 1:58:59
Councillor Martin.
Speaker 20 1:59:01
Thank you. I actually because we discussed the chips act. And the chips zone today wanted to give a little bit of a shout out to Front Range Front Range Community College, because they have been very visionary in terms of training technicians in two year programs. And I think some even shorter in certifications, although I’m not somebody say yes about that. Yeah. And the good side of that is that that means that they are already providing people who are credentialed in electronics and advanced manufacturing, and some of the very persons that we need to be hired early on, as we get semiconductor, you know, expansion that we hope for Are there they’re training at the specifications of already local companies like Seagate that can benefit from this. And so, what I have heard from numerous, you know, stakeholders in the EDP is is that there is more of a need actually for technicians than four year degreed and advanced degreed engineers. So we do have we are really already producing people who can be hired into this expansion that we hope for.
Unknown Speaker 2:00:44
City Manager remarks.
Unknown Speaker 2:00:48
No comments, Mayor, Council, City
Unknown Speaker 2:00:50
Attorney, no comments, Mayor. Can I have a motion to adjourn? All those in favor say aye. Aye. We are adjourned.
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