just and i still don't have the script for that okay one second here i can read send it to you okay i move to hold an executive session pursuant to section two point one five c to see three and c for the city of lakewood home rule charter and section twenty four dash six dash for two for a b and for d of the colorado revised statutes to determine a position relative to issues subject to negotiation received reports on the progress of the status of negotiations you develop strategy and to instruct negotiators to consider the purchase or sale of property by the city and for matters of attorney client privilege related there to all with respect to the westland town center i further move that we adjourn meeting from the executive session second a we have a motion a second please cast your votes yes now the clerk will send us an invitation to enter a breakout ro me just a scond that's all right we're all learning together do we go back to email to get to the breakout room or how do we get there okay all riht looks like that it is now up does everybody see that please click on your join breakout ro i don't see what i'm supposed to do i don't need that okay so there should be a pop that says the host is inviting you to join breakout room well we we should have been automatically placed in it normally it's session prior to this to discuss things related to the westland shopping center and just let the community know that that conversation will continue and that you're welcome to reach out to your council  ball again i'd like to thank everybody and welcome you to this evening we have three great topics and presents and i'd also like to commend the city team for their hard work in putting these out on lakewood speak so if you want a full version of what we're going to be revealing tonight please go to lakewood speaks dot org and you'll be able to see these presentation sessions in their entirety and again i want to thank on this hot senator team for getting those together they're very well done and very informative as with any study session we have a public input portion so if you'd like to participate you can dial three one two six two six six seven nine nine w ida nine one five six seven six three five two eight zero press pound to join the meeting and then star nine to request to speak  six to mute and just let the record show that miss springs is now on with us as well so we are all hee and we are ready to rock and roll so item three presentation state of the court and i believe that will be mis presiding judge and static will be here for any questions that you might have and miss hodson just to clarify is there a short presentation on this or just  the main one that was on lakewood speaks it's really just the main one that was on liquid speaks but i think judge stanek will as soon as she is on will just make a couple of introductory comments having said that i don't quite see her yet push one button but it's more complicated than that well hello everybody it's good to see everybody i'm i'm hoping that next year we don't have to do it this way cause i sure appreciate seeing you in person rather than doing this but technology is amazing so thank you mayor paul and council and i do appreciate the opportunity to be able to answer any questions or  give you might have after seeing the video i know you've been meeting for quite a while so i don't want to get into too much maurice since you have have watched the video this is the point when i would normally turn around and say here is my wonderful team of managers and coworkers they are here with me there in the the other room but i do have judge nicole both cyrus and judge  hoor so i would just thank you and your team and you know we didn't have an opportunity to really formally welcome judge both those are two to the city of lakewood i think that was probably our last meeting that we had was when we  had the evening interviews and put her forward so certainly a welcome and a challenging time what i'd like to just say is i'm so proud of of all that our court is doing through these challenging times with the help of the i t department to really continue on with your mission but the mission of compassion it sounds like from your report and really trying to help those most in need get through challenging times whether dealing with opioid abuse the teen's and some of the obstacles you face and i think what was two points that i think that resonate one is dealing with speeding that's something that counsels then trying to kind of address as well as the police department and if you follow the police department twitter feed you regularly see people doing over a hundred miles an hour on city streets and it is so so dangerous and and i know we have challenges all over but i appreciate the extra attention to that going forward and then also the issue related to the jail and something that that you've touched on and i think something that council will probably continue to have conversation about going forward as well and the ability to try to lodge people that we need  when appropriate and not what that balances but i certainly understand the challenges that creates for you so again i think it's about a forty minute report that you did online and it's very thorough and thank you for all that and with that i we should do a disclaimer but so whenever you're elected the city council or mayor the first thing you're told is that you are never able to ever advocate or change an outcome for a speeding ticket or any other court appearance that you will not be seen within the lakewood courts but well judge i just also wanted to thank you so much and then also for just that your history of work in our community and i'm just really happy that the programs that you've been able to create over the years this aren't going to be impacted by the budget i think they're really important and you really important for the people tat need them most and so i'm just really happy we're going to continue to have those programs online information that's really important to our community and also just want to ask one quick question i have had outreach now from two citizens who have heard about innovative programs in other parts of the country and just wanted to find that's just something if we get that information if it's the best avenue is just to send that over guys for part of your you know as you analyze sort of the trends in in kind of providing of services to our community oh thank you i would love to get information about new programs in fact we we are always trying to watch the latest trends and look at the latest research and so if you can email me emails got h really any of us are probation chief probation officer is very much on top of a lot of what works and what doesn't and she's she's actually been doing a lot of research this summer it's a perfect time  to be looking at different programs that we could be could be trying and starting and things are changing i mean we we don't have the jail space now and so we are having to make adjustments i think it this is a good time to have innovation and and fresh ideas so so thank you we would very much appreciate that thank you i really thought you guys would be open to that and just so proud of all the work that you do thank you so much  good evening your honor thanks for being here with us tonight just a couple of questions i had one of the things i'm hearing a lot in the attorney community is just concerns with trials and motions hearings being outside the courtroom being remote and whether  constitutional rights can can be adhered to in that situation for instance if if a jury is spread throughout the courtroom and everybody's seeing something different maybe not seeing people's faces or reactions or things like that and i don't know if it's something you've run into yet but i was curious about your take on  with concerns about jail space i was wondering if you could maybe just speak to how in and yes people may have seen your video but just speak to the public about sort of your theories on getting people out of the system a little bit and then finally i don't know if you have  followed what i have been doing over the last couple of months concerning the use of ketamine on civilians who are found to be in quote unquote excited delirium and what we have seen in the state of colorado with elijah mcclain with with many things that have happened in the city of aurora concerning that issue and i have had i have tried to bring that issue out in the city of lakewood as well because it's something that west metro fire is doing frequently in jefferson county and i i just wanted to know which your take on that is and whether you're seeing a lot of cases of people who are being found in a state of excited delirium and who are being administered ketamine coming through the lakewood court source that's something that kind of gets passed on to but i'd love to hear your take on that as well thank you all right thank you and you know those are two good questions and concerns first of all the concerns about the trials and the constitutional rights the defendants have been foremost in our trying to decide how to do those trials we've now done three jury trials which i think is probably more than than any other municipality in the state and they've actually gone very well and have been very smooth the the witnesses have have been able to testify in in in the courtroom with the six jurors in the courtroom where they can see them and we've made sure throughout the whole trial to let the jurors know that if they can't hear they can't see that they need to let us know we do have some screens so that if witnesses need to be identified or if anybody is having trouble understanding someone or feels the need to be able to see the whole face without a mask on we can use those those shields now and we have that for defendants or witnesses or attorneys or anybody actually that feels that that's more comfortable or more appropriate  than than wearing masks we've used the big forums for the jury selection and then the trials themselves are done in the courtrooms and so it's actually fairly similar to what we usually do it doesn't feel that different we do have plexiglass there but you can see right through that and we really have had had no complaints about hearing or seeing the witnesses or the attorneys we're also not doing remote trials and we haven't done many parents remotely most of those are still alive we're doing a lot of it when i say hearings i mean motions hearings i think that's what you're referring to the kinds of hearings where you you need to have witnesses and evidence somebody is needing to judge credibility and most of those are live in court handled just the way they they always have been so i feel pretty comfortable that we're not have the deputies to have the entire seven floors open and so it was really a budget issue and then covered aggravated that they needed to divide  up the inmates and put them in separate cells for their own safety we are trying to be creative with sentences where certainly we've always pushed treatment we've  always tried to get to the root of why a person is offending and so that that's the norm for us and we're still very much doing that we can still suspend sentences we can even suspend jail time though i think it could be kind of an empty threat because i think most defendants do realize the jail's not taking misdemeanor and municipal clients right now we also have been reaching out to  the police department and letting them know that when they run into people who have warrants or if they want to bring somebody into court right away if there's a chance we can try to get somebody hooked up with treatments that were basically always open to having the police bring someone we also have have always had an open door for defendants so even if they have active warrants or it's not their court date if they get here we're going to see them and if if they've shown up that's usually a sign that they might be amenable to getting into some kind of treatment so so we're really really trying to get to the bottom of what what's going on with with each of the offenders and working hard at that and there are enough people that i think covered is open some people's eyes it's been interesting to see peple who have been longtime offenders who suddenly don't want to live like this and so we actually have seen some positive results from that but it's a pretty scary thing and particularly people who are out on the streets they start realizing this might be time to take advantage of some of the things we offer as for the ketamine i can honestly say i don't think i have seen a case where that has been a factor that has been part of the municipal case that's been brought to my attention my guess is that usually comes up after the contact with the police and when there's a medical situation and we wouldn't see any kind of medical records and so i think it could be that those kinds of cases are going to the county but i have i have actually had not one single case that has involved ketamine use that i'm aware of it could well be after the summons was written  didn't have any comments on lakewood speaks pertaining to this presentation so i'll just see if there's anybody in the queue tonight i know there's some folks i want to speak on item for anybody in the queue who wishes to speak on the state of the courts here good evening one four five eight you are on this is the state of the court presentation are you here for this or are you here for the next item unsustainability good evening so we are to speak on item number four not quite concise sounds good on you we'll come back to you that i appreciate it we'll keep you in the queue that's what we figured but wanted to be wanted to be safe so with that your honor thank you again and we will continue on to the next topic tonight thank you appreciate your support have a good evening  ok so the next item is our yearly update on the comprehensive plan and sustainability i think there had been some hard copies as well as a presentation by mister wardell and his team as well as mister walk tell again very very thorough so with that we will invite them into the meeting to see if they can answer any questions if you have any comments mary i think each of them have a real brief kind of introduction ok thank you ok not on mute there you go okay this comedy thing i do unfortunately yeah i just wanted to talk real briefly on the comprehensive plan update and it's really not an update to the plan itself it's a status report on the implementation steps and i know christy and a couple of slides i don't know if we're able to see them but if we're not just wanted to to acknowledge christy ivan off who's really go it looks ten years out into the future and it looks at the the entire range of city topics including parks open space recreation economic vitality neighborhoods and every year we do a check in and we're actually five years out from the adoption and typically like say the complaint looks ten years into the future so what we really looking at are the goals and the action steps and they all tie into the vision and the guiding principles and ideas to kind of keep track of where we are each year in terms of action steps and there are ogoing ones there are short term and there are long term action steps so that's all in the reports and not going to repeat any of that but i also wanted to mention we did we did highlight in the report some key implementation projects for this year and they really reflect i think some good creativity and innovation during the pandemic all departments within the city have had to adjust their programs and put many things  online or look at some different ways of approaching projects so those are highlighted in the presentation and i just said the last thing i mentioned is that implementation i think really needs to be flexible i mean we need to obviously adapt to changing economic factors demographics development pressures obviously the covered pandemic is in a huge example of that but they all kind of tied back into the the overall goals and the overall vision so i think i'll leave it at that and and be available for any questions but really this is a check in and i think you know despite all the challenges there has been some really interesting and innovative projects that have occurred within the last six months to nine months so thank you thank you mister also just does an order here miss hobson i have all this listed under item four do you want to just do comprehensive plan and then go into thank you i think that makes the best sense to buy for kate them so to do first questions  discussion around the comprehensive plan and then close that out and let those good folks go and then we'll have the sustainability update plan update plan update etcetera sounds good so we will open the floor i'll just have one comment  you know it's incredible i think there's four hundred some action steps and certainly year ticking off a lot of different things and a lot of different areas in trying to encompass a lot of different things so hats off keep it up as we continue to move forward five years i did see you know some of these were covered related responses and i guess the question is did other things then get pushed back because we got sent into this or were there parallel meanings to some of these are or you are looking at doing some of these already and coding enabled us to that struck me that i think a few of the slides in there were really related to cohort response and had we not had cove at i guess what would we have been more focused on or differently focused on well i think that  it's probably a range of things but i think maybe the overall theme would be that corbett required a different approach to implementing some of the things that are in the in the plan so like recreation there's some things on other reasons may have had to get delayed a bit but i will say i answered your question but i think it's really trying to unique try not to put a spin on what we normally do yeah okay thank you miss jo thank you hi roger just stock this document is really nicely done and i appreciate the time you did a great deal of thought to put it together i just have a  question in a few comments on page for it talks about the commitment to social equity and if we can please what that definition it and if you have certain metrics to measure  i think that's something i would like to be able to get back to you on with some specifics ok that would okay i'm page twenty for your talking about public art selection process and to determine was to make the process more inclusive and representative of the community where art is located and i just want to thank you for c fying that i think that's very important that people who are going to live near the art that they have a part in that process and then on page twenty four it speaks story preservation and historic preservation commission and i just would like to mention that there is a very dedicated group that's out there a the lakewood historical do they have been part of the process but if you have a contact that would be great ok thank you ward no thank you very much and christy thank you as well again for the community all ofthis presentation is on lakewood speaks dot org it's very thorough a lot of great information so i'd encourage you to please tune it in there if you'd like to learn more i will now again open up the public input portion and i do still believe the four hands that are up are waiting for the sustainability presentation so  with that i will just ask if there's anybody outside that please raise your hand now which would be star nine we will now move on to our next presentation and that will be from mister walk tell good evening mayor city council thanks for the opportunity to provide an update on the sustainability plan very thorough and probably a little bit long presentation was unlike what speaks so i've got a very short shortened introductory version here and i've got some of our  members from the sustainability division here to answer questions as well so i think i'll share my screen here a few seconds hopefully everybody can see that  the two thousand and fifteen s same year as the comp plan was updated we adopted liquids first comprehensive sustainability plan for the community and the intent there the overarching purpose of that plan as a reminder was to was to guide our effort in ensuring that practices and decisions that we make today don't compromise the quality of life for future generations and it's a very robust plan and i'd like to think it's really done a good job standing the test of five years that many of the  current best practices in the field are reflected in the seven chapters the thirty six targets the sixty three implementation strategies and the ninety data indicators that are in that plan i think it was the city's first really metric based plan so that means there's a lot for us to be held accountable to and we did in depth triple bottom line assessments costs and payback and financial feasibility and so to update you on how we're doing all that demands really an annual a pretty hefty lift but is proving to be really informative and helpful as we work through our work plan so i think the fundamental question we're asking ourselves every time we stop and look back at this is how are we doing towards that goal are we doing a good job protecting quality of life for future generations the presentation that's really good speaks gives an overview maybe tries to answer that question  bit goes over key projects and priorities and also about fifteen of those are on track twelve or not and nine we're hoping we'll be able to determine based on future data collection where they might not be applicable anymore one of the realities of setting a metric based plan for a ten year window and of the sixty three implementation strategies twenty five we've seen significant progress thirty one or underway and there's a handful that have not yet started so so we're doing our best we're working through this some of the highlights that are in there that i do want to really quickly or that our greenhouse gas emissions are trending down they're down twelve percent from our baseline so that's great we're heading towards our twenty percent reduction goal community wide it is important to note that we need to do better than that to really at this point match state commitments in national and international best practice we've been implementing our enhanced development menu that really ensures that large developments buildings an investment in that community are supporting our community and that we're able to be implementing that we've taken some big strides in our building codes over the last couple of years solar ready rooftops are now required to be ready parking requirements enhanced energy efficiency waste diversion requirements for construction and demolition that's a that's a big accomplishment we're one of only a handful of cities in the state doing that and that's great big step forward in municipal energy and water efficiency the energy performance cntract community resources is part of it saving us more than one hundred and thirty thousand dollars a year where you've reduced our greenhouse gas emissions by close to two million pounds and that's less than a nine year payback period for those investments so that's that's a great example the efficiency can really help move all of this forward and hopefully we can do more of that that was a good first test municipal renewables we're now at forty two percent of our electrical demand from renewables and we have a long list of facilities that one hundred percent powered by renewable electricity and you're gonna start to see a really cool logo and information at those facilities highlighting ongoing municipal zero waste efforts we diverted almost ninety thousand pounds of waste from the civic center in two thousand and nineteen and of course the sustainable neighbor its program continues to be a powerhouse of innovation volunteerism twenty seven thousand or more participants since we started the program last year almost a thousand hours of volunteer time in the sixty five hundred residents engaged in the last program include a whole slew of efforts that are taing place since the pandemic the innovation here and the way this program  successfully showing its ability to be a tool for resiliency is really exciting it's been amazing to watch so we're even launching with two new neighborhoods so that's exciting o'kane park energy and water efficiency programs we really have a lot to do with sustainable business programs and that's on our radar and waste of course being a challenging issue always continues to be on our priority list taking some different approaches including working through a regional waste shed approach where we can look at making sure that collectively as a region we have the right infrastructure and markets processing facilities to help questions i'll be here we have a list of vogue in our sustainability planner available her area is the community focus and sustainable neighborhoods we also have jeff wong our senior sustainability planner for energy water and climate available to answer some you're moving fast and for some we move to slow right and i think we might hear from some of those tonight but it's a tough job and we're always kind of trying to move forward any way we can one thing i did that did strike me just as an observation was our our struggles look like with water conservation and maybe that's something again i talk about at the retreat that you know how do we with all of these different water providers is there a role that we can play just to help coordinate maybe not coordinated the word but get the word out of how important it is to conserve other ways that we can know the city as a whole through central watering systems and things like that have really taken a large step think throughout the whole community and so we have quite a few hands up and then i just also want to caveat that councilor johnson has a couple of slides that she wanted to share and when we get to those i want to emphasize that those are recently council of appear and myself we met with somebody in the building industry and he said that they do leed buildings but they don't bother going through the certification so i didn't know if there was probably a cost associated with that or whatever but i thought well maybe lakewood is getting is short changing themself a little bit and i didn't know  we could have some interplay or something where these people who are leed certified and are doing things well like flats to creeks in that vein if they could kind of get  administered with really strict standards so if they want to actually earn a lead designation as leed certified or leed gold silver gold platinum any those levels they need to go through green building council's process for that  we have various there's various ways they could be recognized that we do recognize those types of effort one is through our which is still alive and well even though we couldn't come in front of you this year we were did our best innovating did a feet trigger the requirement to meet that new set of standards and under that they have to earn a certain number of points and it's a if you recall from when we went through this there's a menu of potential ways they could do that and when they are thousand square feet or larger they need to get more points and the great thing about that is a lot of those things that maybe they wouldn't they've been doing but are going to get their plaque for can earn them points towards that set of requirements so  they can certainly moving forward if someone's doing those things but aren't going to go through the full certification we're gonna be able to see that through probably their efforts to achieve their required points and what we really like about that  much we're able to really tailor that to the site right so it's a site that is a real close proximity transit or bike infrastructure it's a gap in bike infrastructure we can try to steer them towards those points right if it's a make sense because of its location renewable energy or to provide urban agriculture opportunities or food production on site we can steer them that way it's you know public amenities public ar renewables i mean there's a huge menu right and so we can tailor it so we're excited and the first developments that are being required to do that are in the past process right now so i hope that next year we're going to build a column with pictures a lot  of display of what that's helping helping ok i'll continue working with them then because this is something that's really important to all of lakewood and they're doing it so i would like them to get some sort of recognition for that so thank you this plan was adopted and i think we have a lot of big wins to celebrate as a community and you know it's an incredibly efficient program the amount that's been able to be accomplished with volunteers and you know relatively small budget it's incredible i think you also kind of hit this tone in your your presentation and you know there's the second piece which is but we still have so much work to do and this is something that i am very very concerned about i'm very worried about it you know as i spoke to voters the door i know that clean air clean water it's really important to a lot of people it's one of the top issues that i heard about at the doors i think that if i were to go out there now and knock doors and hear a lot more about clean air even than i did a year ago in so i just want to voice that it's it's still so pressing and so urgent that we continue to make progress on these issues where we're really seeing the impacts right now every day and so you know i i i knw that others communities share this feeling of just being concerned about what future leaving our kids what messes we're leaving continue so i want to thank you for the progress and i and also you know look to the future couple of things that i want to just highlight and then questions that i wanted to ask one thing i really love in th plan is that we have the triple bottom line and that we look at economic sustainability equity on every issue some thing that i would really love to see in every staff report moving forward is fiscal impact sustainability impact and equity impact and the reason why is well i mean a bunch of reasons but i think  that as we face limited budgets moving forward it's gonna be more and more important that every dollar we spend hits as many different goals as possible and that we're just and mindful of every use of every dollar and those are some of our core values so that's something that i may bring up at the retreat now my and i just also want to really thank you for the discussion about equity in the introduction and just the impacts that we're seeing the disparate impacts on our community i think it's really important to talk just the honesty in them the introduction now for my questions and i apologize because i did not submit these early and so if there  is if we need to get answers later that is totally fine as completely my fault and my first question is just on page fifteen about where we've made a lot of progress on municipal buildings is there a plan to further close the gap and i know we had a proposal about rooftop solar and i think that was mentioned in the presentation as well on line that there were some potentials there seems like it might also be a good cost savings opportunity to reduce our  that that's a great question is it possible to bring jeff long our new team member on energy water climate into addressed some of those questions specifically about energy i can i can say we did start some assessments on the  update so last year our energy consulting mckinstry consulting did perform an initial analysis at three of our largest facilities that was carmody and the public safety center as well as green mountain rec center and they found that the recently some their summary was that all three rooftops were viable for solar installation  and they provided some initial cost estimates as well as payback periods and a general idea of how much solar power could be produced as well as what the cost offsets would look like so that's what we receive from them and kind of the net step for me is to take a deeper dove into some of the cost impacts associated with their proposal i know that of course  also really shows the community that we're walking the walk too even though we're doing so much behind the scenes they might may not be able to see all of that so that's great  i also just wanted to voice again i know i always bring up every time but just how excited i will be to see this flash facility it's it's it's something that we already have money the that budget was set aside and will have huge impacts in terms of reaching that goal that we're behind on in terms of waste i care a lot about that in the community as  well so i know that that's being worked on but just would love to see that come to fruition and get those hats start being able use that at some point  the other question i had was paul kind of brought this up too but just about the bear creek watershed it's pretty concerning to look at the potential flooding  for another day there was a natural report i think you saw the article that the bear creek watershed association shared with us we wanted to highlight that because there one of you know a partner organization that has gone through this exercise a running multiple climate models of what the future might look like and i'm using that to assess the potential impacts and when we talk about conducting a climate vulnerability assessment for the city as a whole that's the type  of that's a good example of the kind of information we could glean from like we there's no certain outcomes but here's a variety of outcomes that could we could see based on various scenarios and there's some common themes that showed through that right and regardless of the i do have a couple more questions but i'm going to i feel like i've been talking at one time so i'm going to turn it over to someone else and then if there's time at the end of circle back with a few more questions would you springsteen hi there thank you for being here the work you're doing is is super important for our city pressing urgent as we're seeing this summer with so many fires around the country and in our state temperatures are soaring this kind of work is so important to bring to our city i wanted to ask you your opinion about something because it's something that's been brought to me by constituents that there is a perception out there that because the sustainability division is under the planning department that this presents a conflict of interest and that perhaps a separation of the departments would create more progress more independence a lot of people view the planning department as as very partial toward developers who might not be so sustainability minded and i just wondered your take on that and how i can respond to my constituents who have those concern thanks that's a that's a hard question to answer i will say that there's been no i can't think of a sngle example where our work in terms of moving forward to implement the sustainability plan is at all at odds with or been hindered by being part of the planning element in a lot of ways it's advantageous we are doing a lot of work to ensure that new development is sustainable as possible and that work  i mean there's kind of two big buckets when we look at the community right with when you think about energy we think about water and think about the built environment it's we've got what's come before us and that's often the hardest piece retrofitting and changing making buildings more energy efficient right finding room for bike infrastructure when roads are already built a certain way over a long period of time our inherited legacy infrastructure and then there's the new stuff that's coming online and so being in the planning department really has helped us some of our greatest accomplishments really  to is that we're getting good changes in our codes and ours only ordinance our building codes really help make sure new development does become more sustainable so i don't view that as a limitation there are a lot of different models and a lot of different cities we work really closely with the sensibility folks around the whole state around the country and many those folks are located in planning departments many are in city managers offices some work directly f sorry look like i was breaking up but overall i don't i don't view that as a limitation on anything that we're doing currently and we've got a lot of good conversations about sustainability so i always appreciate your insightful comments and competencies you make me feel bad because you know a lot more about this stuff than i do  but i know i've asked you this multiple times and i didn't get a bunch of questions in early but you know i figured this kind of an ongoing conversation all of these things anyway so i don't feel too bad about that but i know  before about climate change vulnerability studies and climate preparedness plans and or those things that you think we still need to do today or are we getting by with what we have or is that something that  council should maybe be considering as a taking it on because i know that might require some actual council action if we don't just continue to go with what we're using in colorado's  assessments a hundred percent in my opinion we need to be doing that and i wish we had been able to do it earlier i think everybody right you can always look back and wish you already had plans in place the sooner the better and the trick will be how we can get the right people in the room many of these issues overlap with public health and other entities that are busy right now all right and we have limited resources but the good news is we have a one of our new team members who filled the empty position from miscavige caitlyn hasn't bought long if you want to know kind of what this process looks like she's standing by ready and i'm sure we'd be happy to talk about what that might look like but we have someone on board who has been working hard to scope this understand the process involved who needs to be at the table and is hunting actively for resources that we can leverage right there's a lot of organizations in this space there's other communities we can beg borrow and steal their right i appreciate that another question is there are a lot of these a lot of these issues just are going to require council action and i'm just wondering if as a sort of process question a re anticipating that these things are going to just come to us or are these things that we should maybe be engaging in more as a council or maybe workshopping council as what we want to take on well we don't want to take on it really is a matter of our priorities we are planning right and so we have a dashboard that is is very active updated quarterly and kind of goes through what we want to achieve and how we want to achieve it so i'd say for our portion that's something that that needs to be discussed you know at our planning retreat or things along you know as far as our bigger goals of what we want to do or how we want to prioritize and then i would say secondary and i'll defer to jonathan there's action that council you know needs to take or things like that that can be driven up i think that does flow our way as well but i asked that question because for example one of these items in here is talking about the lighting the street lights and you know whether they're reality or not you know that's something that was on council's agenda earlier in the year got pushed i don't know if it's coming back or if that needs us to ask for it to come back or you know what kind of plans are been in talks with xcel and looking at all the options and diving into that so i'd have to defer to that where they are in that process but certainly there's a variety pathways that could be taken and  luckily we can learn from some experiences of nearby communities as well we know some have taken certain pathways and others have taken other talk made other choices on how to do it and that wil help us probably come up with the best strategy but i'm not aware at this very moment that is coming forward any time immediately i appreciate and i know that's a little bit in the weeds some of that's for us counsel to to take a look at because i you know here's my my thoughts just that you know i am i think council woman got one kind of alluded to this and councilwoman springsteen but you know i i'm really concerned  d i was in california just a week and a half ago and it was on fire i couldn't and the whole state was on fire and it was bad and i get here and the smoke has followed us  here and it's been a bad month and i don't think this is fading anytime soon and i understand that lakewood can't solve that problem but that doesn't mean we can't do our part and i know that that's what this plan originally set out to do is to make sure that we do our part and you know some things are on track there's a lot of good stuff happening and some of that and it's for all sorts of different reasons some of it's because xcel energy sped up their goals on providing more renewable resources some of that is because we've really pushed to make some these things happen so i'm just looking for avenues of where  we as a council can lead on this and make something happen you know i really think we need some rocket fuel on this thing and move it ahead and i think if there's other ways of doing if there's creating stronger goals more ambitious goals there's other things that we can do you know i think the council we should figure out a way to engage as a council and do that affordable housing for example as in your you know we've talked a lot about that there's some little things we could do we talked a little bit about the development menu i was thinking this the other day i was like you know we should we should be looking at ptting affordable housing in that development menu as well if people want to use some of their points to build some affordable housing that seems like it could be another potential option but anyway i don't want to keep going on and on because i don't want the council and everybody to fall i just want you all know i want to be supportive i want the council engage as many of these things that we need to engage on to move things as fast way and quickly as we can and if we can set out more ambitious goals i'm all on board and let's just figure out a process to get us to that conversation thanks thank you sir ok so we'll go to miss johnson in just as a side note some of the council members are having a little bit of trouble so if you see them fade out that is their feeds or some other of our technology so they are popping in and out and if you have an opportunity you didn't get an opportunity to just get more all right miss johnson thank you so much i'd like to say that program is also a role for other cities and frankly states and i am especially very pleased with the work at the sustainability neighborhood programs to do that the work on our environment i love it but i think even more is in the work on the environment they're doing is that they create community and in one on page forty one it states the importance of knowing neighbors it couldn't couldn't be well stated any other way i do have a few questions on page ten the documents cites that the upper watershed can expect a temperature increase of five point twenty eight fahrenheit to six point two fahrenheit i don't expect you to have the reference now but at some point i would appreciate knowing with that references on page eight this was interesting to me it's quoted the crisis talking about cove also proved that black and hispanic communities face disproportionate impacts in nearly every metric from the numbers of coke and nineteen cases and death and frankly as a nurse i really want to understand that better myself you know there's something going on there that's important to understand so i reached out to doctor johnson and here is what hesaid it is true that minorities have been harder hit by covid nineteen than whites have there are several theories about why this might multigenerational housing situations they tend to have more front line critical jobs and were unable to stay home and they tend to need to use public transportation all of these things increase their risk and frankly he said that there might be some other associations so the jury is still out however my master's is actually in community health nursing it's like a public health degree and so someone that's involved in health care and public policy when i read through what he had to say there were a couple things that came to mind for me when the minorities did not take the pandemic serious you wonder if there is a lack of trust in government information i think that there needs to be a little bit more discussed about that to find out why have a high nexus to diet multigenerational living frankly i believe this is sweet our families are our greatest strengths and if parents and their children and the grandparents are living together i like it i have a very small family i think that's awesome he talked about front line critical jobs and you know that's double edged sword paramedics and health care workers are also in a critical area but it also meant that jobs folks didn't lose their so that's the good side of t and then the last thing he was talking about a higher public transportation and i know our cities encouraging multi modal transport haitian which includes light rail walter stopped writing it and basically it's empty at this point so there's something there that we need to know more about ok page eleven it says multiple studies and reports for colorado predict average annual temperatures increasing by a minimum of two point five fahrenheit with summers warming by five point seven fahrenheit winters by three point five by two thousand and fifty and you know what that frankly that got me to thinking we are projecting thirty years in years then it's fair to go back thirty years i've sent some slides maybe there they can be up at this point you can look at those slides and maybe the temperature has changed by one degree but it doesn't look like we are imminently warming up it's debatable and you know there are some people that can actually say  serious economic decisions and based on what we see is climate change you know at one point i suggested that maybe we have a study session and invite people that have a variety of perspectives because i honestly think there is something to learn from a lot of voices out there a lot of understanding that future conditions can vary from predictions thank you that's that's very true you know this sustain ability document  policy decisions so it you know getting together some folks to actually get information on a variety of perspectives and in learning from everybody since this document describe how the city's going to do this how are we going to ensure affordable energy it also lists under targets to reduce citywide water use by twenty percent by two thousand and twenty five that's awesome considerable amount of water and electricity on page twenty five it's just lakewood wants to foster self sufficiency and upward more mobility i couldn't agree more but please describe how and when i was looking at our core values there's really not a core value to address this but there is something that's kind of interesting in clo and it says to continually evaluate the purpose and scope of government and adjust programs as appropriate so maybe at some point we could find out how we can make that happen actually on page fifty of it states that there is significant dispair charities between racial and ethnic groups i don't necessarily disagree but i think that we need to have some data to support that for what's happening in lakewood on page thirty we're stating that fifty two percent of households do not earn a living wage that struggling with minimum wage oh on page forty seven it states one of the targets is to increase the acreage functional and healthy natural ecosystems i agree but how are we going to do where we're leaving some things out there but we're not really giving an idea of how we're going to do it remember this document is a public policy document that is guiding conversation and narrative and then on page fifty three we state a target is to lower liquids daily per capital vehicle miles traveled riding bikes so just a couple thoughts to ponder thanks jonathan but actually your document is well thought out it's got a lot of great points in it but i think that we can could be quite interesting all right so we have some folks on the line who would like to speak and we'll know all of it in the public input portion and again this is  similar public comment but geared towards what we're talking about this evening you'll have three minutes and it sounds like the order in which this group like to participate would start with one four five eight then sized down with similar goals a team of three dozen people working to implement their plan and to the question of councilwoman springsteen in a situation where we can't really increase budgets or staff in the department elevating its profile in the management iraqi of the town is a great idea given the current budget constraints we face we want to highlight  first helping city cash flows to work on better community wide energy efficiency starting with benchmarking requirements for businesses other leading portal cities which have done this the city gather new funding balance its budget and catch up with i want to give the next two opportunities for the city lakewood to further expand one is the tree canopy program this produced many benefits related to energy use and reduces the impacts climate first trees provide shade if their position properly they can reduce the use of mechanical air conditioning by at least fifty percent and in some cases up to ninety five percent second trees reduce the heat out in effect temperature can reduce from two to nine degrees fahrenheit in surface temperatures ember reduced from twenty to forty five degrees when shaded third tree data properties fourth trees add beauty to the entire community fifth tree help address the issue of climate change can be part of the solution a recent study  baltimore maryland and washington d c showed that one of the hottest days last summer parks were cooling wastes as much as seventeen degrees cooler than parts of the city trees can minimize flooding clean water around them and clean the air we  recommend the city partnered with xcel sustainable neighborhoods businesses state park and rec departments and others to offer to free ceilings to every metered property in the community and provide printed siting planting and pruning guidance as part of the program number six change the city's trash hauler requirements to help pay as you throw and curbside plus curbside recycling the low recycle rate like that can be drastically increased by requiring trash haulers operating in the city to provide a pay as you throw trash picked up with free and no additional fee from the base rate curbside recycling block customers pay as you throw systems make households that put more garbage pay more you throw encourages not only recycling but also composting source reduction reuse and other responsible methods dealing with waste third the systems have a huge impact on diversion reducing residential disposal by about seventeen percent given the recent failure of the single trash hauler balance question we seek dress more focused and limited changes at the city implement without a ballot process pay as you throw plus curbside recycling requires hard if the city finds these charges still require ballot question we would then suggest more limited question that does not affect people's ability to choose their hauler the ballot question should be should lakewood require its trash haulers to or taxing single use plastics or styrofoam as of april two thousand and nineteen two hundred cities around the united states have rules in place that either forbid or tax plastic bags and bag bans or bag fees have been proven to be quick and effective ways to reduce plastic pollution when washington d c imposed a five cent fee single use plastic bag there was a sixty percent reduction in plastic bags litter in the anacostia river within five months second i wanted to talk about promoting bike use in lakewood as an alternative mode of transportation to reduce emissions and fossil fuel usage biking has numerous benefits including improving personal health and less impact on the environment but also better on the pocketbook and to stimulate bike use the city needs to work on increasing intersections safety and improving connectedness of the bike trails next i wanted to address including sustainability as a part of every conversation or issue in city planning staff reports on ordinances and resolutions always include budgetary impacts but we also need to include sustainability impacts as well as an equity lens sustainability should be an integral consideration in decision making because it has systematic health an environmental cost implications on our community considering the many challenges our communities facing around the current crisis we must also keep in mind that keep in mind that there is a much larger challenge of climate change kind of looming over us finally we would like to point out the tremendous job creation benefits of clean energy in our time of high unemployment see also document with this  bring ever increasing focus on achieving the cty's sustainability goals starting with concrete low cost and budget generating sustainability actions the city can take now this is a win win win win situation win for the environment and what we leave our children win for current residents who reduce their energy cost win for all current residents who benefit from cleaner air and energy win for the city you can take a positive leadership role while helping its budgets and a win for job creation in our community with all positive implications on the community and the city thank you so much mayor and city council thank you doctor all right and i tonight about our unique program what are the problems with getting more solar especially on to low income houses is their inability to get loans to finance a system for their homes and our program  addresses it actually applies to any homeowner who wants to sign up the city would launch the program with our aid we would do most of the work and we cover all the costs homeowners can sign up pay a deposit to the city and get a twenty year program where our contractor install energy efficiency and solar on a toll the homeowners will save about twenty percent off what they would have paid for energy it save almost all of their xcel energy bill they would pay the city and the city would collect the money keep twenty percent and pay our investors this doesn't require credit worthiness on the part of the homeowners or income statement as long as the city accepts them therein we've launched this program colorado and california and plan to launch it in other states i happen to live here and it's near and dear to my heart for this program because statewide so the state gets an income stream and you'll see in addendum to the document tonight what that will be in colorado tentatively energy outreach colorado the nonprofit has agreed to grant the money to low income homeowners to pay the deposit so there's no barrier to this program at all for low income evening caller one eight six five if you'd like to press star six two on mute we'll get you three minutes rolling right hello hello yes thank you your honor this is bill schroeder two three zero seven s great drive i first want to start off and really compliment all of you and the city manager and her staff for keeping lakewood strong during covid and its impacts for the city manager not furlough or let anybody go is a tremendous thing high compliments to  her i support the greater coordination we're now seeing between economic development and ecological sustainability as you meet these challenges you're moving toward a greater capacity to establish economic sustainability this may mean an organic consolidation of economic development and ecological sustainability operations in the near term despite the achievements and potential of your ecological sustainability operations there is a deficiency of its services as applied to lower income ad working class communities this is certainly not intentional or reflective of their high quality nature of the ecological operations it's just that that presently up to now there is greater demand interest and ability to engage in economic sustainability by higher income households i urge less planning and more direct action applied to lower income working class communities and this would help plug this deficiency such as the bike donation effort that i suggested this summer i had the privilege of being a census the numerator i was all throughout lakewood getting two or three hundred households into the count so that the population count is good here and one of the things i saw were just so many idle kids they didn't know what to do if they had just had a bike they could get the parks they could get the facilities they could get to schools and you would be creating a new generation bike riders they'd get their exercise they learn responsibility it's these kind of direct action low cost measures that'll go a long way and they complement some of these high tech higher income services i urge you to look at that but you're doing a good job and we'll be here trying to help you in the best of luck thank you your honor great thank you and again we also received your email also push we appreciate that and again we did receive your comments lakewood speaks so we'll continue with any more questions  thank you i'm actually a number of my other questions were asked by others so just to just a couple more one is just could you tell us a little bit more about the tree can be canopy program  am not as familiar with that program and what it futuristic could look like coverage so far we do not have any specific kind of holistic program in place to make that happen we've had some one off projects take place to try to get more trees planted there's opportunities through site planning and new development to add to the tree canopy coverage and we've had some great efforts through our sustainable neighborhoods morris park in particular has planted hundreds of new trees as part of their projects and morris park so  far as what the future might look like that was a really interesting idea that was presented to public comment tonight might be worth exploring to understand costs and you know water usage and all that that type of stuff but certainly that's that's a great idea we've also got for the first time this year better data on where we are with tree canopy coverage doctor kog had data that allowed us to you  you could actually create revenue or help support tree canopy project by cow calculating the offsets that are generated from carbon sequestration through your tree canopy coverage and allowing that to be bought or sold in the market so i mean i'm not i'm not sure that fits us perfectly but there's just so much happening in that space to look at innovative ways to help communities build out the tree cannot be covered how to fund it how to fifty years ago and the best time is today gardner i think i yeah i love this because for all the benefits mentioned and then again it's it's something where people can really see the you know colfax avenue area has a lot of red showing that there's not a lot of trees and a lot of green space i think we all know that would really be great to get some green up there and then i just  last thing i just want to make it quick or i just address something else that was kind of brought up in conversation i just want to say that you know in terms of racial disparities in code in nineteen there's a lot of research and information that shows it's really about structural discrimination and structural racism limited access to health and we it's and i guess my last comment is sustainability was one of our top four priorities as a council at our retreat it was one of our top five the year before so it definitely it has been by this council you know it it's there it's in the top five so i think that in terms of what we're what we're talking about in terms of planning you  we did pencil this in as a priority in i think it it is just really hard to figure out the best way like should we propose specific things that we want to see who kind of takes to recognize our city clerk because this evening is our last evening with her for fridays michele's last day michelle has been with the organization i think for about eleven years and if you think about the work that she does she runs elections she handles minutes of meetings she handles licensing of all kinds she conducts hearings she handle she has to be very detail oriented she runs the department that's kind of the front line when when the citizens common needs something so she's kind of the information desk as  well michelle has always done her job with such professionalism with such dignity she's very kind she's very thoughtful and we're going to we're just going to miss miss michelle we're going to miss michelle just dearly because she's been a wonderful asset to the city of lakewood and i just wanted to tell her thank you the management team had a chance to give our appreciation to her just last week and i keep trying  begging her not to leave but good for her as she gets to go and enjoy life with her family and spend time with her family i just want to take a moment to publicly thank michelle for just the wonderful spirit that she's brought to this job the wonderful work that she's done we're lucky we have bernie and bernie is not leaving and we've got a really good team behind michelle who are just really committed to this organization and into the city so we're lucky but  if you want to say anything you're welcome to if you'd rather not you're fired well all those wonderful things she said were really because of bernie and the ceo staff they just made me look good and i'm so grateful for them and i'm grateful for my time at the city like what i've loved every second of it so many wonderful people here and i'm super grateful miss everybody but you you're in great great hands with  staff and kathy leading them and been helping them so i'll miss everybody but thank you for everything thank you thanks so much ok so let's go into it before we go to the other reports do you have anything reports or if you're on a committee that you served on and want to give any sort of update on a meeting that you had to be great to thank you you know something kind of interesting i got a phone call today from a lady telling me that the government had mandated that x cell not use coal fired plants anymore and of course got my curiosity so i called and that of course is not true i don't know what she was actually in a cell because when i started asking questions thank you and her up but just know that there is a lot of interesting phone calls out there and please be  thank you mayor i do want to set the record straight during our development dialog meeting last week i mentioned that fossil ridge metro district number three had not place the two i just want to point out first of all to councilman bieda you have this great big white thing behind your head and every once in a while when you move it looks like your head's exploded and disappeared so i thought i'd just thanks sharon and yes thanks michelle for everything that you've done we really appreciate your service and you just let us know who's your favorite counselor before we end the meeting if you don't mind just getting up to answer that  i just want to mention that we had a good meal to greeks had their meeting on saturday they had a lot of good discussions i know they talked a little bit about the the  city requested seventy five thousand dollars for their transportation improvements and it looks like we have a recommend amount of probably sixty thousand dollars that hopefully will will get approved for so just kind of want to give an update on that and then on our board meetings you know we're continuing to try to figure good ways to do it we tried to record one the other day we had microphone problem  messed it up so we're going to try to try again you know we'd like to have good ward meetings but it's more difficult now than has been so anyway thank you everyone and signing off three go first first of all thank you council member vincent for alerting me to the problem however i also appreciate you not commenting that there are those that might feel with my head disappearing and might be  to discuss possible state legislation for banning the use of ketamine statewide we discussed a possible stakeholders meeting and so we are  a smaller task force of people who have been very involved i so aurora city council last monday banned first responders from using ketamine until the the big deal i was interviewed on saturday by the police accountability report folks and  e potentially going to put something out on earth i've also been in contact with clergy in aurora who are making a community effort a they are not able to form the mental culpability to commit crimes if they are found in that state and so my thought was that moving forward this  abuse will cease a bit if people can't be found guilty of criminal charges we will see how that argument saw us but i think it's  it's an important argument and so that's that's kind of what i've been up to all week thank you word for meeting and we're looking forward to everyone's participation if you have comments and things that you'd like to submit you can feel free to send them to any of our counselors on that and it's a six person so you can send it councilor vincent on we have councilor bieda myself and councilor harrison so you could certainly reach out and share your thoughts on also councilor johnson to sorry sorry councilor johnson i was clicking on the screen i we can't see everyone so so thank you hope you can attend thank you lee we had a development dialog committee meeting this last because it seems to be a favorite topic amongst us so part three will happen tbd that is going to be we're going to actually try to get down to the specific recommendations that we'll make to this entire body so look for those to come out and then we are going to move on to next topics and i think we have eighty use and group homes have been agreed to some time ago that those will be the immediate next topics and then there is going to be a discussion about topics after that there's been mention of do we talk about inclusionary zoning different topics like that so if you're  wanting to weigh in on that then go ahead and contact the committee members on that to give your input and that's yeah and five i'll go ahead and start thanks karen so first day i also just want to echo it thanks to michelle and one thing i just want to say is you know michelle as always has to be in the rooms and in the meetings whenever we have a bunch of candidate meetings and this is a bunch of people all running against each other in elections and she just is always unbelievably professional and helpful equally to everyone and just i don't know i just feel like you handle those situations just with excellent grace and i feel like everybody would say that you help all of us so really appreciate i'm sad to know that you're going to leave but i wish you the best in what you do next  secondly karen and i as i mentioned before are working on putting together a mental health zoom meeting that will be welcome anyone from any ward is welcome to join   helping us work through the sign proposal building an inclusive community signs we have some information to share with all of you that kind of clarifies some of the points that we were discussing at the last meeting so we share that with all of you would love your feedback ahead of the meeting so that if there are any changes that need to be made we can address that with your time not scheduled yet but just wanting to touch base with all of you and to highlight please look out for an email about that tomorrow and that is all i have karen all to talk about our board meeting if that's ok sounds good first of all thank you thank you thank you to michelle she's always been such a bright shiny face with a wonderful smile and a kind word for all of us even when we're really acting kind of stupid she always makes us feel like we're stars so thank you so much michelle you've been wonderful and delightful to work with i wish you the very best our ward five meeting will be saturday october  rd at nine a m it will be a zoom meeting and we will have discussion on the marijuana initiative the the what we'll have is twenty minute presentation ones from both sides with q and a at the end of the meeting after both have presented so that we have fair time for everybody and i'm really hoping that you come with good questions and be sure to listen so that's all i have thank you so much all right so i had the opportunity go out to the indy flash development today metro was the newest community i believe and they received a pretty large award from housing colorado on that property so i was able to go out there and check in there which was really cool and congratulations to them census time is running out this is so so so important for our community so please you know get the word out it's safe it's confidential you count no matter what you count and we need to count everyone in the city of lakewood so please get that word out also voting we're go start to get close to that time ballots will go out we have a very safe and proven efficient system for voting here in colorado facilitated by our incredible clerks so please get that word out and i think this year there will be more drop boxes as well to make it more convenient for people who want to drop their ballots rather than mail them shredded day which i'm sure will be very popular is this saturday from co stadium just a heads up these are so popular that sometimes there can be traffic jams sometimes you might get there and you may not be able to shred your stuff but you're limited i think to four boxes in your trunk and it should be contact lists and your stuff will be shredded in the presence labor police department so that's always a very popular event so i appreciate the community doing that and then as far as next goes i think we've had a couple great weeks of just great preparedness by council and miss hots and her team really getting really thorough presentations put up for the community and for coun not just encourage council next week it's going to be a lot and a long meeting so please take the time to get your questions in and it can be challenging when you get those in at three four and five o'clock on a monday afternoon for staff to ensure that they get your answers so please take the time to do that and make sure that we have a much better process and then as far as processes go i think a lot of people are saying how do we what do we when we get back to normal  really smart person who's very skilled and local governments said you know why don't we take a look at doing things different than the way we used to do them formats like this can allow for a lot of other people to participate rather than some of the older formats that we had and so i just want to encourage council to think about that and think about ways that we can use this opportunity this set of circumstances to maybe do things different and set local government in a new direction that hasn't been seen before and it really resonated with me i just want to share that and see where we go that this could really help us in the neighborhoods that may not have an opportunity to participate in city council meetings at p m in chambers so i think we should really take that advice and i want to thank her for for sharing that with me and then last but certainly not least by any means michel thank you so  haven't been amazing and you've just held your head up and plowed right through and done it with grace and you smiled and you know for some of us we're used to having people say mean things but that's another part of this job and you've endured a lot as has all of our staff and it's a rewarding job but i know it can be challenging to all this team especially right now so thank you so much for your tenure here at the city lakewood we will miss you you you operate with honesty and integrity and folks were to see the amount of open records requests that you have had to process through with purses right not ever one complaint maybe one complaint out ten thousand publi public records requests incredible jobs so we will miss you and hopefully you'll continue to check in and then we know bernie will keep us in line and keep us apprised of the bronco score during meetings so anything else here that we have all right well we will adjourn at nine thirty thank you all very much we'll see you next monday night