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City Council Pre-Session – January 16, 2024
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Speaker 1 0:00
So, you, let’s just do a roll call. So we’re gonna who’s here? Go ahead and start?
Unknown Speaker 0:13
Diane first present
Speaker 1 0:17
that comes to people just seeking names. Yeah, that’s precession. Oh
Speaker 1 0:29
there you go first, because of the last recession we had that was actually called by her own new one and update. So we’re just like
Speaker 2 0:43
okay, so talking about the train. What I wanted to mention was the North i 25. Coalition is still in existence is gone virtual? Oh, okay. There’s actually 114 people on the list, but not all were called. And the big push for them is that frbr, the Front Range passenger rail. I guess what was interesting to learn about that is point 8% is the maximum sales tax that the state can ask for. But their study in 2020 indicated that point 5% Shouldn’t be adequate. Which we currently pay point 4% For RTD. So I’d be swap those dollars for the eparchy are open. Yeah, yeah, that might be a kind of a neutral effect. So anyway, that’s mostly what I had to say. And then I handed out about the minimum wage, that we’re going to 14 or two, super like fifth in the nation of the 23. States that that changed the minimum grade or like fifth out of that, and that you want to see New York City in terms of minimum wage changes from 30 cents to just just an observation, what’s going on in the country? All right. That’s my two cents. All right.
Speaker 3 2:20
So sister cities was canceled. So I didn’t get a chance to go to that meeting. But this Thursday, were having an annual our annual meeting, where we get to talk about all of our trips that we’re going to, you know, having chaperoning to Japan, still, hopefully Thursday, I don’t know the date for that. But the annual meeting is this Thursday. And unfortunately, we would not be bringing a cohort back from Japan. So for whatever reasons that I’m sure we’re gonna hear about it on Thursday as to why that’s not happening. Um, so the only meeting I really have was transportation meeting. They hired a new coordinator, and the coordinator will be starting January 27. For Vision Zero. So yay, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So and then next Thursday at the library, we will be having they are having transportation mobility meeting at the library. It’s next Thursday, and I think that’s from 530 to seven. Not this coming. Thursday, I don’t know. I think it’s the 20. Was is that? I think so. Yeah. Unfortunately, okay, for me. And then on February, the ninth from seven to nine is the winter bike. I don’t know how that’s gonna work, but I don’t bike like that. Anyway, that’s what they February 9 is when you come by to work. Yeah. I have a different stations throughout town for people from 7am to nine. But I think the main thing is the new coordinator that’s coming on January 27. For auditions. Yeah. Very excited. Yeah. When
Unknown Speaker 4:36
are they going to open it up to the
Speaker 3 4:37
task force to? Well, I’m pretty sure they’ve waited until that coordinator gets settled. So her first day like me through Kyle and for, right, exactly, exactly. Yeah. So we’ll see. Hopefully soon. Yeah,
Unknown Speaker 4:55
it’s your legs under.
Unknown Speaker 4:59
hands now. had a meeting.
Speaker 3 5:02
We will be meeting towards the latter part of this month. I think I have it on my calendar. Oh, yeah, we need I think that’s also on Thursday, man that Thursday is going to be a big Thursday, busy Thursday. But yeah, it would meet in at a different location. Only for this month next month, it will still stay in Adams County at the Adams County.
Speaker 1 5:30
Yeah. Would you do me a favor and something as to the FRP er has ever presented to them? I know that Phil asked. And I asked Andy, if they could get our PR because we would like to start.
Unknown Speaker 5:51
NIDA is
Speaker 1 5:52
northern Area Transportation Authority. It is a group that was formed along i 25. So it’s just the municipalities that are i 25, because I wanted one point to bring Lewis Hill in. And they said they’re not really i 25. So it’s a different mindset. But we all work together. Okay, thank you.
Speaker 4 6:16
So I started new on the parks and open space commission. And their first issue was having price and Bryce, the two parks. They were updating, assign a new municipal codes for chapter 13.20. And things around paddle craft and what that meant. And then then some issues around trash and storage of items, and how they were going to there were some folks that they didn’t want to put trash and storage items and things like that. In with also, people spreading their families remains in that so they are separating that out to add another amendment to it.
Unknown Speaker 7:19
Is this what you were talking about composting bodies?
Unknown Speaker 7:22
Yeah,
Speaker 4 7:23
we’re doing? No, we’re not doing we’re we’re making sure that if you do that, because, you know, people will be out there trying to go to the golf course or to different places and drop off remains around the trail to button rock or places like that. They’ll they’ll spread the ashes of their love.
Unknown Speaker 7:50
Chopped up fingers.
Speaker 4 7:53
It’s that sort of stuff. If we had people that were doing, we use ammunition boxes for geocaching. And they had to bring in the SWAT team and stuff like that, the bomb squad for that. And they had people that would take metal things to do Geograph caching that look like pipe bombs. So they finally got people to understand that if you wanted to do that, and you had to put it in a clear, clear container so that it was not construed, you know, that it said, Yeah, this geocache type of thing. Because that, and then issues around camping and permitting. You know, and the issue around sales of goods and services on public lands and stuff like that. So there’s no this is all going to come to us and counsel, after they get a few of the things hammered out. There were a couple of things that we suggested that the that the board suggested the change, and they had to then take it back to to the legal counsel, city legal counsel and make sure that those things were appropriate. And then we’ll see if here, issues around wildlife, then they had some issues around you know, the levels of the class one class two class three electric bikes on some of the trails, and everything. And then the last thing was charging people with you know, changing the language of a ticket, you may get that if you want to go ahead and pay it. You can and you know, basically plead no contest, like you do with your traffic tickets, but if you want it that way, what they were finding is that people will come to court, price and price would come to court and have to I have to go and always show up to court, unlike our police officers that don’t always show up have to show up to court because they’re not that the tickets are being challenged or anything. And so instead, they’re getting it. So that’s a little bit more in line with that, certainly, that if you want to challenge it, you can, then they’ll show up to court, if you don’t want to challenge it, then you can just pay the fine. Now, hearing things from people out there, I heard my daughter, say her friend with a button rock and made the mistake of bringing the dog with them, and it ended up they got a ticket. Not awarding but a ticket for around $400. And you either pay the $400, or you went to court to see if you can get a get 90 days probation, and then pay 100 Dogs well, like a lot of people, you don’t want to pitch anything that would show that you hit probation, and the court system. So you know, that’s something we probably need to look at a little bit to see how how steep that fight is. We certainly don’t want people out there with dogs if we told them not doing. I’m sure we’ve got plenty of signage up there. But but it’s something to realize that we’ve got to probably keep that in mind. So there’s some issues around around that. And the levels of fines like the first defense $100, second pence for certain things, $200, and so on and so forth. I don’t think this person that my daughter has told me about had been the third offense. So I think just like our first first offense was pretty high. So it’s something that, you know, I’d have to look at specifically to see what they were getting written for other than having a dog with them on the trail. So that’s,
Unknown Speaker 12:02
especially before we discuss that.
Speaker 4 12:05
Details. Yeah, yeah. So, so it’s going through legal, I make sure that it’s all, you know, in line with other departments that issue tickets, and that type of thing. So, then, in December, I had a meeting with the consortium of cities. And that was pretty interesting, we went to the emergency unit where they, whenever they have a serious emergency, maybe they have these screens that are larger than that computer, have a net big screen there, six of them around the room or even around the room. And you can see, you can see the different maps and the different things that are going on in different areas, they’ve got, you know, computers that are just as needed to, you know, animal collection. So somebody who needs that, from the county, another one around, you know, different varieties of of problems, they run scenarios. They run what they call a fishbone of every incident. So what and do some practice incident delegation so that people kind of know what their part is, and how they’re, you know, distributing materials. So that was set up to add to the site. And where the incident command starts and everything where they fall back to. It’s just really, really interesting in South South Boulder or near the airport. So it’s kind of an interesting place to check out so near the jail. But it’s if you get a chance to check it out. It’s it’s got some cool features to it.
Speaker 2 14:05
Can I add one thing, when it came up on my calendar as February 1 for the transportation mobility?
Speaker 3 14:11
Yeah, I was gonna tell you that it’s February. It’s on the Thursday. I was half right. Yeah. But February 1 530 to seven.
Unknown Speaker 14:18
What is that?
Unknown Speaker 14:19
That’s a transportation mobility plan.
Unknown Speaker 14:22
We’ll have an Open House Forum.
Speaker 2 14:27
But also, I wanted to add on to what you were saying Shawn, and that in transportation, we always talked about red light cameras. And the engineers have always said, you get a lot of backlash from citizens. Anyway, a lot of contested situations. So it’s, it’s almost better just to have law enforcement catch them. The cameras because you know that that no contest is a problem that people feel like they need to have the day order they
Speaker 4 14:58
find reasons was in Fort Collins in Boulder, we must not have too much of that going on because they’re there. They keep them around and expand on them. So, in that years ago, my daughter got. So I’ve begun, okay, I’m thinking that there’s probably some value to it. It’s just around the idea of how expensive each one is like some 30 $40,000, maybe I’ve got that nobody
Speaker 5 15:33
Council gave us direction to look at them before. And it’s $40,000 lipo or some version, so it’s pretty expensive. There’s some other things occurring state legislature on some of these issues. So they’re, they’re looking into it again. From a public safety standpoint, when we look at the number of crashes that we have at intersections, I think you know, if we can manage costs, it makes sense to make people aware of it. Because if even if you don’t generate a lot of tickets, it’s really about stopping those folks that are blowing the lights based on the amount of T bones that we have, but they’re trying to figure out the
Speaker 4 16:24
worst accident. intersection is Nelson and
Speaker 5 16:29
I don’t think it is anymore. 66 in Maine, as well as 17. In Maine as another one of you pace as one will regret. So are some of our most significant accidents now, are people running red lights? The challenge is, it’s almost impossible to have all of these intersections. And so that’s the utility in it. But we’re trying to figure out what costs
Unknown Speaker 17:00
maybe isn’t zero will help with that.
Unknown Speaker 17:08
To the minute, I mean, do you need a minute or two to get?
Speaker 6 17:11
Yeah, is there somebody else to want me? Okay.
Speaker 1 17:17
So, the first thing I want to say is that I have the ethics thing done the ethics code, I sent it to somebody to edit it and make sure that I mean, format it make sure that I have all of the ones twos ABCs in the correct order. And then are you still willing to edit it Susie, Susie, and the medical view, and then we’ll come to us the recession, and everybody had it and decide whether you like the way it says or whether it doesn’t say and then they’ll go back to the drawing board or it will all be okay. So I’m happy that’s done. Also, there’s been a lot of input from the Colorado sun did a thing on all of the utility companies as they were moving forward in to meet the state’s greenhouse gas emissions timetable, and PRP was at the bottom. So there was a lot of backlash, a lot of backlash for that and that PRP is not meeting goals and standards, etc. So I reached out to another mayor and actually Javier from PRP sent out a news release as to what that was about. I considered if you’re interested. But I got another Mayor ginyard from Fort Collins, I got hurt in Philadelphia, just because sometimes I think maybe I’m not understanding it correctly. So here’s what she wrote. She said PRP is following all laws, the laws that have an interim role, and also said that for entities not reaching that new, that new goal in 2027, they need to file their plan with the state for reaching the 2030 goal, which PRP has done and it is on target to reach the 2030 goal. The transition is not smooth. We did. According to the Colorado sun, they feel that we are at a place where we can’t in three years. Well it’d be two years now meet the 2027 goal. But there’s nothing really definite saying we can’t. So it is still our goal, but we put in a plan to meet it for 2030. I do have some questions I’m going to ask at the next meeting. And you know, let you know what that is all about. So a lot a lot of talk going around PRP which is in a way I’m glad So I just got an email Susie, that the formatting was done. So I’ll just send you that. And the other thing is she the historic Commission Board is, it’s interesting that they are going to have their retreat the same time that the council retreat, same day, same place, same time. But I think we’re now in the process of changing them, I think it’s gonna be up to 70. So, we found that at the airport, and that, well, we’re using that room. So at the same time, we get priority. And so they change that around. That’s an interesting board to be on. And I’m glad I’m on it, I can’t really report much because it was only the first meeting and they were kind of looking at the new year and what they were going to do. And so at the retreat, I’ll learn more specifically, since it was the first one. I think that’s, that’s no preparation passenger rail district. Okay. There’s also a lot of talk about Mr. PR, and there’s a lot of support. But as Diane had said, the taxes for F for RTD and FRP are if they both go into effect, that’s going to be about point 9%. For us, just for rail. So that’s that is one of the reasons that we need to look at RTD very closely and say, We can’t do this, you’re either going to, you’re either gonna build it or you’re not. And because we need to have our service delivery plan and the SDP done by April or May, that RTD has no plans. And I talked to our director, Eric Davidson. Last week, we have RTD has no plans for path forward for for average passenger rail, none. They haven’t made any input on it at all. So I think it’s only fair to the residents that we look at and say FRP Rs, the real deal. It’s a real railroad operator, it’s a real BNSF. It’s a real railroad RTD is not they, they never have made plans to do the average passenger rail. I’m very sorry, said they’re cheap they’ve ever made plans to build or complete the Northwest corridor. And 20 years, we’ve been on hand at 2050 and B 46 years. I personally cannot be in the seat and say that’s okay. So there’ll be another meeting. And I’ve also been doing some research. I think there is a way in my
Unknown Speaker 23:10
professional legal knowledge. I’m not a lawyer, I just need to be so
Speaker 1 23:19
at recess. So that these are these are all pretty heavy duty things I can think of the other things I said to both Harold and Zach, that the Supreme Court is hearing sometime this week, if they haven’t already. I haven’t kept up with it. The the ordinances and the issues on homelessness, and the things that I read about and heard is that they want to undo all ordinances on homelessness that local municipalities and counties have put in place for not arresting that you can arrest homeless people. This is a Colorado Supreme Court. No, I think this is general. But no, Colorado wouldn’t do that. I’m not exactly sure of the details of that. But I think we should keep our eye on it because it’s it’s going to affect us. Definitely going to affect. There’s also been some legislators working on a universal health care bill for Colorado. We now have a bill number for that. So they asked me to bring that forward so that we can read it. Let me let me tell you what the double number is and you can look it up if you’re interested.
Speaker 1 24:48
Because I want to testify. So we need to have a good discussion on counsel about is this something that we want to see Report
Unknown Speaker 25:08
is there a date set for appearance?
Speaker 1 25:10
No. Yeah, right now they’re looking for different organizations, individuals will write letters to the editor. But I, at this point, I don’t know. If I do I want to write it as a mayor. And I can’t do that unless the Council adopts this and supports. So the answer’s no.
Speaker 1 25:41
So there’s a separate folder didn’t come out on my phone, somebody on my laptop. So I can also do that.
Speaker 6 25:51
For concerning the analysis of universal health care system,
Speaker 1 25:55
it’s the same bill that we supported last. Okay, what happened was House Bill 23 1209.
Speaker 6 25:59
Yeah, but but this has been an issue, the one that was sponsored by McCormick.
Speaker 1 26:07
Yes. And Marsha, and right now. What you know what happened to that last one? That last bill, it was it was sent to the committee, but the committee chair, didn’t pull it and read it, because he didn’t understand that he kept putting it on the bottom. Okay, so
Unknown Speaker 26:30
it’s never invade to Maine. And he got it.
Speaker 1 26:32
And then I guess Karen was furious with the guy. Okay. That sounds when she explained it to him that it wasn’t to actually, it was only to study other states that had universal health care. Was it working? How did they get through? You know, the ins and outs of, Okay.
Speaker 4 26:51
Well, now they can’t afford this family. We can’t do that. The valuation software that they were using to determine which bills came forward, and had priority. So maybe Eugene have some input on that to explain. I thought it was. Yeah, that’s public policy. Is they prioritize which bills today.
Speaker 6 27:31
House Bill 2410 75. So we were just eating where I was at, we were discussing that just didn’t have it on this note,
Speaker 1 27:40
I made a folder for it on my laptop, because I was getting all these emails didn’t come on my phone for some silly reason. So the gods.
Speaker 6 27:51
So well, I have so library is meeting next week. So I had already updated counsel, from the last time we met, the museum advisory board is tomorrow, I have already updated you all for that our cab will be this will be this month will be my first meeting with them, they meet the fourth, the fourth Wednesday, and then our public places meets on Thursdays. So this will be my first meeting with them as well. However, I do have a couple of updates, one with the youth council, they are interested and wanted to collect Council feedback. I kind of mentioned a little bit about this before, but to actually have a roundtable with city council and Youth Council. You know, one of the things that I was talking to folks about is, you know, maybe coming up with questions if they would have for us, and that we can say so, you know, I just kind of wanted to throw that out there to see if there was interest. I mean, we’d have to set it up ahead of time, have it open to the public, and because it would be from our side, having to have an open meeting. So if there is interest in that we can kind of work out dates and times.
Speaker 2 29:13
Like that idea. I think more boards need to talk to each other, just to counsel. So
Speaker 6 29:19
invite other related boards to Yes. And so and this one would be led by high scores. So that yes, and can you know, some of them have really invested interest in local politics and, you know, they’re they have a lot of good, good questions, very inquisitive. So I will let them know. Okay, and then we can get the ball rolling on that component. So in addition to the other boards and commissions, I also sit on the core and leads steering committee, and we had our meeting last Friday and I just I felt that it was very prudent to bring forward the information we’re talking, talking about. out on this. So you know that we do have an annual report that will be sent public. And I’ll forward it to our all at Domino’s, once that comes and see if she can forward it to the rest of the Council, as well as newsletters, one of the things that we felt over the last year and a half that we’ve been that I’ve been meeting with them with getting this information out to the public, and really having people understand what the dynamics of core needs, I know I’ve heard from constituents and, and being in a place where we’ve had core come out to our house, and you know, it, it can be intimidating, if you don’t understand, you know, because there are, you know, there were four individuals there. And you know, they have their vests for protection, and it looks intimidating. However, there’s only one that is a police officer, you have your core, you know, your core person who’s also an officer there as well, social worker, you know, clinician, and so it’s a lot of mental health people. So by having them come and talk to my son, it was really diverting from jail, and having him you know, calm down, you know, he’s having a meltdown are getting very accelerated. And, you know, and he’s six foot, so we can’t, we can’t restrain him, I mean, when he was little, and he could have been, you know, a meltdown, I’d be able to wrap him just blanket to the purrito thing. And I can’t do that now that he’s an adult. So being able to call somebody who can work with him and calm him down, rather than going to the ER or having, having him arrested. So that that kind of piece is really helping the public to understand that it’s not a bad thing when they come to your door, and how to how to utilize that service. So so we were kind of, you know, one of the ideas was to have the newsletter that comes out and kind of update the public on that. So we have those going, and I can share those with you as well. One of the things that, you know, as we were discussing with Emily Van Dorn, right? Yes, she was mentioning that as far as statistics wise, 40% increase in case referrals to core needs, with 50% increase in connectivity with enhanced. So when I think about, you know, legislators or Supreme Court, making these rulings, the impact that it has, on services that we’re already providing, can be, you know, having a negative impact. And, you know, we’re working with unhoused individuals to get them in that correct line of service. So I think the work that we’re doing with the impact teams and core leads team, that I think we’re making positive headway in addressing this, it just it takes time. And then it also breaking down those barriers and, and perceptions that people have these biases that people have towards seeing police presence and kind of breaking down that and I you know, I think stop that’s kind of one of the things that we’ve been discussing as a group and, and how we want to address that moving forward. So on the team, we have different representatives from UC Health from we have someone from the DAR these a DEA office, can cut poor. He met with us when we were dealing with the tutor or not the tutor on the Purdue sorry for review issues. So that’s where I met him. And I knew that I had seen him. When I finally connected the two, we have Andy Feaster, who’s the core 14 leads for public safety and as well as a paramedic, Omar Maresi. You can say these names, right. So that, you know, we have, you know, just not within the city but other community agencies involved in this work. One of the questions that we’re working to address for this next quarter is are we as trauma informed as we think we are? So we’re evaluating? Meaning that I think we’re operating on a lot of assumptions. You know, one of the things that is brought up in from the DHS office is work that’s happening in the jail and then conversations that I’ve had with the county commissioner, Ashley stoltmann, about money going towards expanding the jail and I think you know, really okay, what are we what are we why are we let’s let’s look at what what what are we looking to address, we’re looking to address mental health. So if we’re looking to address mental health olve are we wanting to go the jail Avenue? Or are we wanting to provide services? So that’s why really, we really need to know how much money we’re getting from that. There’s not that much isn’t that more money, the opioid money. So getting that dollar amount, because there are opportunities for us to be able to tap in to, you know, if we do something, were expanding the jail or maybe have like an in between, right, where people are transitioning out of the jail system, because maybe it’s mental health related, drug drug addiction related, and transitioning them is just something that has more wraparound services that address needs. One of the issues that we discussed, and I talked to this spoke to this is, you know, the human mind is not a silo. There are many different aspects, whether it’s mental disability, in line with mental disorder, along with drug addiction. So there’s multiple things, but we have service providers that maybe specialize in mental illness, but not the other, or they, they can deal with mental disabilities, but they can’t deal with drug addiction. If there’s somebody who’s disabled who has a drug addiction, how do you deal with streamline those two services? So it’s less about? They’re not there are no beds available? It’s finding people who can provide those services in these facilities. So kind of filling in those those gaps.
Speaker 3 36:36
Have you thought about Reentry Initiative? That’s
Speaker 6 36:39
what they do? Yes, yeah. Okay. Yeah, no, no, because we were. So we were an analysis, analyzing our processes, and how we can collect feedback from people who’ve been, who went through the process. And one of the things that, and you know, it’s like that Facebook is toxic, I’m sorry, but I have, you know, I feel like, okay, it’s kind of good to know what people are saying. But some of the things that people are saying, you know, the complaints, I read one piece, and I want to try to find a way to reach out to that individual, but I can’t find their real name. But, you know, complaining about how the core team needs to be disbanded. And you know, that that interaction was like, Well, I really want to come, you know, let’s, let’s find out why that that bad interaction is happening. And, and what what was it? Was it perception, you know, because your perception is your reality. So, was it a perceived issue that, you know, we kind of want to navigate that piece? I think by the time things come to counsel, they’ve already exhausted all other measures, or they’re just wanting to complain. So how can we elicit you know, a streamlined system where people can provide specific feedback that would help us as an organization improve what the Korean leads team is doing? I think, from my own personal experience, I’ve not had bad experience, and this is talking about years before I was on council. So it’s not like, they’re giving me specialized treatment, it’s like, they didn’t know what to do, you know, back in 2017, or 2016. So. So I think just getting that education piece out there, as well as giving people an opportunity to provide feedback. So those were some of the big things that we are talking about. I think staffing is also a challenge is that’s, you know, so what what can we do to get more people in if we’re trying to move people from patrol to core team, but we don’t have new people coming into patrol. We can’t you know, there’s
Speaker 4 38:57
a shortage of yes, people that are qualified to actually be that caseworker psychologist on site general.
Speaker 6 39:09
And so then, you know, gets us thinking okay, we need to go back even farther to the educational institutions where people are you know, what’s what’s happening in our people even going to school for these things and not much less applying for these for these roles. So how can we connect with area universities and schools to
Unknown Speaker 39:31
well, we’re seeing we’re seeing that the pay zero statistics for the amount of school that you need to have
Speaker 4 39:46
this, there’s no it’s a four year payback correctly. Yeah, pretty. Close Yeah. See
Speaker 2 39:58
easier. You’re already on that path. And then you’re just adding
Speaker 6 40:03
10. That’s and that’s cut. That’s as far as the core team goes, they’re looking at patrol, you know, moving people from patrol who have who gain that experience. And then just move them over to the core team. But it’s finding the patrol staffing. So actually finding officers to come in is when a challenge, so that recruitment piece or even retention, because there are people who say, Oh, yeah, I’ll, I’ll join going on. And then they ended up not just took a job somewhere else for my score. So yesterday was a pre session, but joy helped me with the core team acronym.
Unknown Speaker 40:51
Sure, this was part of my orientation.
Speaker 6 40:55
lot to take in. It is is so yeah, I can, I guess call it that up? Do you know, response? Is a response responses is a word. So what does that crisis outreach response and engagement? There’s a new response. I didn’t know anything else.
Speaker 1 41:21
Do you? Was that the only one that you have to report on? Or is there?
Speaker 6 41:27
So it was the library? Is there all meeting this week or for at the end of the month, so it was just Youth Council and core is what I have. But I felt like it’s important that council knows, oh, I’m glad, especially as we are approving or setting priorities. You know, I want to make sure that this order is how we how we’ve operated with this lens is
Speaker 1 41:56
reaches so many things. Le J, many of the residents. I mean,
Speaker 6 42:05
really as a separate Yes, lead, lead, do you have the acronym for lead? There’s too much stuff from it. So
Speaker 5 42:13
once more crisis and more ones more kind of that transition into case management. Yes,
Unknown Speaker 42:19
Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion. And then the angel distributes
Speaker 5 42:25
this. So if I can add to some of what the mayor for 10 is saying. That’s the group that has come in in terms of another’s Center of Excellence to where they’ve all now. So Christina convene, core in the senior services, housing services, they were reducing mental health touch, and they’re starting to work on building that center of excellence. So they’re now not operating in kind of silos, which historically has occurred, and there’s more limited integrated operation, which will tie into the three clinicians that council approved in the budget that we have when they kind of what’s on the housing authority side to the marijuana funds, all of that all counts together, that support the broader community. And
Speaker 6 43:19
there’s also going to be a collaboration with the school district that was also brought, so they’re going to be allocating, you know, clinician FTE to be able to work with schools. I think it’s at one more time.
Speaker 5 43:35
I heard that. Yeah, I think the initial kind of work with the SROs Generally, yes, and they may be housed somewhere. But if there’s a situation, move to that location, we find that this is really working in the school district was finding more of these coalition’s to go in other schools.
Unknown Speaker 43:57
Is Mental Health Partners fully staffed?
Unknown Speaker 44:04
That’s probably going to tie into the next. Yeah, definitely some studies.
Unknown Speaker 44:14
And then we meet quarterly so our next meeting in March, April. No joke.
Speaker 3 44:24
I forgot I had an email. I got an email today. I talked about this. Probably over the summer, I don’t remember. But the life skills are Yes. Yes, yes. Yes. So the life skills. I call it the life skills kind of well, I don’t know what what the kids are going to call it or children, youth and families are going to call it but I got an email today. Asking if they’re getting ready to put they’re working on the marketing for it. I’m now going to create an Instagram rule to promote the event which will be in April, at the fairgrounds, which the two Commissioner Ashley and Martha were the ones who supported it. And we got this, you know, covered in Christina has really been working really hard and Hilda, and is it does sound he sounds he does down close, close. I didn’t get a chance to meet her when we first started all of this. So I mean, I can’t remember I have met her. I’m sorry, I haven’t met her anyway. So they want to schedule a time where we, where we, they all have the students, the kids, the kids at the center, and then all of us to be a part of this video, this Instagram video. Livestream skills. So for for you, Diane, the life skills is about teaching young teenagers and kids how to change a tire, how to tie a tie, just regular lifestyle things that I know probably our age group, we knew those things, we had to learn those things. And some kids nowadays, you know, everything is on your phone. And there’s no practical learning that’s just trying to figure it out through your phone or our YouTube videos, which there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. But it also brings the community together. So like Ace Hardware said, let us know what you need. Because at the end, whatever the life skills that we’re able to do that day, I would like to create a basket like if someone shows them how to thread a needle or have a basket with a needle a wrench and and all those things that they learn at the life skills. I call it carnival, I don’t know what they’re gonna call it. Just have community businesses, local businesses come together and and teach these kids how to do some regular skills that we some of us know, and some of us don’t like, I don’t know how to tie a tie. But, um, but yeah, how to turn on the stove. You know how to wash your clothes. I don’t know who’s gonna do that. And I let them decide on what it was I had a whole list of things that were much cuter when I don’t have time to do all that. But, um, but that’s okay. And what we can do, we will do, and I’m totally excited about it. And it’s going to be in April. I don’t have the we don’t have the date yet. But it will be at the fairgrounds. So the commissioners approved that for us to utilize that space at the fairgrounds for life skills. Yes.
Speaker 1 47:39
So when you say they are going to do the marketing who is Tuesday? So
Speaker 3 47:43
children youth and families? Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. So I she wants they want to get it done by the end of the month. So they want to have the video done by the end of the month. Our marketing?
Speaker 1 47:56
is Erica doing that video. No, it was there two or three years here. So
Unknown Speaker 48:02
character, took the job. took a job with the organization. So they’re probably working on that we’re working with. Yeah, I
Unknown Speaker 48:13
really liked her. Yeah.
Unknown Speaker 48:16
So what he needs to do a tick tock,
Speaker 3 48:17
I know, Instagram, that’d be good. And then also we’re gonna get a new I forgot to mention this. I don’t have a meeting with DDA until Lador. The 24th But we’re going to new pizza place. I can’t remember the name of it. But the guy on Main Street and he is also in a permanent Alliance now as as disparte. He said he sells 600 pizzas a day. And so New York style pizzas Yeah. an ounce. I don’t
Unknown Speaker 48:59
know when it’s really
Speaker 3 49:01
so long man. We are where we are truly lucky to have him to come on Main Street. When
Speaker 1 49:07
he called me I got a call from Estes Park. And I and I answered but nobody was
Speaker 3 49:12
so he’ll be on Main Street we’re going to get a new deli on Main Street the magic fairy people bought the building or whatever. So they kind of have a deli right next door. Yeah, which is right across from Chiba high which is kind of weird, but it’s going to work. So but I’m excited about the piece. I’m like, Hey, I you know we don’t do gluten free. I’m not gluten sensitive. But if you it will be appreciative if you did gluten free and also vegan like I don’t have to have a vegan cheese. It’s give me some veggies. And I forgot to tell you all they said in spring so hopefully by April, both cool that both of those businesses should be up
Unknown Speaker 49:57
on Main Streets to count Was it
Unknown Speaker 50:01
yeah that one too What is to county?
Speaker 5 50:06
It’s it’s kind of like the bass festival it’s kind of more of a California and Mex Oh okay. They’re in Lafayette and then they’re about I think Harold’s excited for that price excited for that
Unknown Speaker 50:25
are they going to be
Unknown Speaker 50:27
deterred cetera
Unknown Speaker 50:28
oh okay I mean
Speaker 5 50:36
if you don’t have reservations it’s hard to get a walk
Speaker 4 50:43
where you actually have reservations but suelos correctly that
Unknown Speaker 50:51
rarely got him on camera okay
Speaker 4 51:01
that’s over to the tiki head over new Edward the old al backwards yeah
Speaker 1 51:10
good people complain we only have good place to eat and well, they’re very, very quickly. People. Okay. So upcoming events it is. It is in cement yet but we’re planning dinner bye for now I talked about as well as Javier compare PA, a tour of the PRP a solar panels where they have all their solar panels as well as the coal plant, and it’s gonna go out of commission, because I think it’s really important to see what we’re actually doing, you know, hands on type of stuff. So, hopefully about depending upon whether March or April from April. Is that wrong?
Unknown Speaker 52:07
I always think of Bonanza when you say and you
Unknown Speaker 52:11
have a legislative breakfast
Unknown Speaker 52:13
that we attended. Yes. I don’t think
Speaker 6 52:15
there Yeah. No. Did you get a chance to talk to counsel? No. Okay. No, because I went to that it was interesting. It
Unknown Speaker 52:23
was it was interesting. I
Speaker 6 52:27
I had never gone to one. So I didn’t know what to expect. But, you know, we heard from the governor. They’re really the top three priorities, climate, transportation and housing. Right. However, my thought is, but I didn’t really hear anything concrete. And what are they going to do to help municipalities achieve those goals rather than you know, because I see it with the education all the time unfunded mandates. That’s what Phil and I were looking at each other. That’s not gonna happen. or so? Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Allow us to get it done. Yeah. Also, not not micromanaging.
Speaker 1 53:06
It’s really it’s fun to go because you can network and people are there. But yeah, it’s it’s a lot of what what have we achieved, which I think is really good, because we complain a lot in all of those areas, about what we need to do. So that part of it was really good. This is what this is what cleaning solutions has done over the past year. And it’s always interesting to the governor. He’s very excited about all of it, but there’s no teeth. That’s it.
Speaker 6 53:44
I just I wanted to be I was waiting to hear something specific that
Speaker 1 53:47
he would say and to make this happen. We are going to Yeah, that was a part of it. So we’re just really back to basically what he says, This is what I want all of you to do.
Speaker 6 54:03
But we need the funding, and we need, you know, just the respect that we know what we’re doing for our locality. Let us do what we have to do. It’s
Speaker 1 54:15
always interesting to walk out with like Jodie Marsh and she says, you only knew we’re planning but through to get there okay, so it was good. I like seeing if
Speaker 6 54:34
it’s good. So yeah, so if anybody has came I think it was open to counsel. Or I just invited myself I don’t know because I’ve done that too.
Speaker 1 54:45
Yeah. Yeah, listen, yeah. member of team so we shall see. Yeah. So see you there next year Daya. So that that is cool. Yeah, something to throw out there. Okay. I’m gonna go through the change
Speaker 1 55:14
okay. Okay, so we’re done unless you have something else you weren’t too.
Speaker 2 55:19
Well, I had heard that the governor is kind of pushing for the point 8% tax for the Front Range passenger. I feel like we’ve already done our point 4%. Right. Without any Sydney out without any product
Speaker 1 55:40
in there, and that point has been made with the FRP our board. And they’re very well aware of that, because we’re not the only ones. There are three other communities or I guess counties that have been promised rail and haven’t gotten it and won’t. But whatever. What are the things that we’re batting around is doing a segmented rail and you don’t pay the taxes until your segment is being built? Will that give us enough money to start? We don’t know. So, again, they’re all kinds of interesting things, discussions, I guess. And how do you put that on a ballot measure, because they’re so hard to read. And to understand from the general public’s point of view, so the marketing has to be great. The other thing is that fake Winters is in charge of redoing our TD coming up with some big fiscal ideas for transportation in general. And she did they are taking a new to our account my my point of having a transportation fee for everybody in the stadium especially or an event fee. For you know, if you’re gonna go skiing and you’re from Texas, you have pay for roads as well. We’ll be using our solar roofs so much on your
Speaker 2 57:17
eight winners as the new RTD director, no
Speaker 1 57:20
case winners as a senator, stage manager, and she’s been on transportation for a long, a long time but when the governor broke up his land use bill into three sections. Land use transportation and housing. He put her on the transportation part all over the land use umbrella to 13.
Unknown Speaker 57:50
We have just a minute or two before they come in you
Unknown Speaker 58:00
know, just draining.
Unknown Speaker 58:06
Attorney then we can let them come in. Oh yeah.
Unknown Speaker 58:09
We are adjourned.
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