thank you well good evening to everybody who's come out this evening it looks like it actually might be a short quiet night what do you think oh here they come look  out but again we do appreciate you taking the time to come out we know your time is valuable i also like to welcome those who may be tuning in channel eight or online or checking us out on a later date i ask those in attendance if you do have a cell phone please put it on silence you'd rise and join me in the pledge of allegiance will remain standing for a moment of silent prayer thank you okay so this is the point in the meeting where the public is invited to address the city council on items that did not appear on the agenda all comments should be directed to the city council i ask that all in attendance observe the decorum of the city council chambers and refrain from applause or audible support or discord with the speaker there is a three minute time limit in this little box here on your end will be green until two and a half and then it'll go yellow and then at three minutes it'll go red and i will politely ask you to wrap it up and if you do want to speak on anything that is on the agenda there's no public comment on ordinance twenty eighteen eighteen that's on first reading there will be public comment on resolution six and seven as well as item number ten so with that first up we have shana and then sandy monica matt and lee greeting mister mayor and councilmembers my name is shana fred slur i'm the mother of a freshman at lakewood high school jeffco business owner and the legislative chair for the jeffco parent teacher association who i am representing tonight your concern about youth access to tobacco products is to be applauded in august two thousand eighteen the jefferson county board of health passed a resolution designated youth beeping a public health crisis in our county and in september two thousand and eighteen the equivalent of an entire pack of cigarettes rapid addiction to nicotine long term use of combustible cigarettes as well as an increased likelihood of using marijuana have been correlated with youth vaping in april of this year our board of jeffco council pta formally endorsed an initiative by citizens for a healthier lakewood for strong tobacco free laws in lakewood such laws included requiring retailers to have a license to sell any form of tobacco including e cigarettes requiring retail clerks who sell tobacco to be eighteen years or older prohibiting self service displays of tobacco and implementing effective enforcement of licensure and other tobacco laws we also realized that protecting our youth from the immediate and long term harmful effects of tobacco use requires a multi faceted approach in addition to these strong policies parents have an important role in educating and speaking to their children about healthy choices and school staff must continue to actively advocate for and support drug free environments there is good evidence that licensing tobacco retailers is an effective way to reduce illegal sales of tobacco products to minors tobacco retail licensing trl and lakewood would help decrease youth access to all tobacco products including vaping devices thereby decreasing the likelihood of nicotine addiction subsequent use of marijuana and lifeline combustible cigarettes additionally trl and liquid would not only greatly benefit young people but will also provide health benefits for other residents of lakewood and neighboring cities the city of lakewood has approximately two hundred and fifty tobacco retailers and would be the largest city in the state to pass a trl ordinance setting an important precedent for other large cities in colorado we encourage lakewood to be a leader and to take this important step to help protect its youth the jeff co counsel pta board of directors strongly supports an ordinance requiring trl in lakewood thank you thank you very much sandy good evening my name is sandy weathers i'm a resident of ward three and i had the privilege of attending the ad hoc development dialogue meeting on thursday and i did have a question and i just wanted to echo the the comment that i made that night here and that's regarding the alternate proposal that's being included with the twenty six recommendations made by the planning commission so as a volunteer i just really wanted to say i reckon i truly commend the efforts of the planning commission i know that they took eight months to review and to to come up with their proposals they asked for a lot of data and they were very thoughtful so what i witnessed on thursday night i just felt that those recommendations were being disregarded and that we there was just a sentiment okay we have this alternate proposal and we're not sure about all the details we're going to make a bracket ten to forty percent we don't know what it is yet but this is the recommendation and this is what we're moving forward with if i was on the planning commission i would just be very sensitive to that i would say ok i committed eight months of my time and it seems that my voice is not going to be heard even though that's the whole intent of the planning commission so i just wanted to say from from my viewpoint that that's how i saw it i know these codes and these changes are a sore spot for a lot of people in the community if you go back and you look at the growth dialogue it just you know there's people who have been mad since the days of mike rock and there's just this need to make some changes to the codes and i think the planning commission did a very good job and they looked at it and they looked at the data and i think they heard a lot of voices and hoc even though i think it's great we had about twenty people at the last meeting i think that's great but it wasn't on channel eight not like the planning commission's are like their meetings are so i just i'm here today to ask counsel please however you proceed i just want it to be thoughtful and sincere and please respect the work of the planning commission and that's all thank you  good evening you have a partner that didn't want to join you down here you know what my partner is the reason i do most things that's great well welcome i told her that i was coming to talk to the people who made important decisions about the city of lakewood i am monica bulik and i am the director of community health within sintra health of which saint anthony hospital is part of the century health system as a nonprofit mission based hospital our commitment is to not only provide excellent care in our clinics and in our hospitals but also in communities we're committed to healthy communities and so i thank you all for considering the tobacco retail licensing proposal  we are committed to using data to look at our decisions when we're treating patients and we believe that data can be used well to make decisions about the tobacco retail licensing as well tobacco use in the past four years has increased by two hundred percent among youth and we know that youth who start using tobacco are more likely to use other substances later on so with that we want to share this data and i'd like to read a letter that our ceo peter powers wrote to you all this evening i'm here on behalf of peter adam paul and the members of liquid city council seen anthony hospital partisan chair health is proud to provide high quality health care to liquid residents and to be an active intrinsic member of the lakewood business community as a nonprofit mission based health care system our mission is to both care for the ill and to prevent the health of the communities we serve we strive to inspire health partnering with community stakeholders to deliver personalized care that meets the needs of individuals and providing them with the tools that foster good health in mind body and spirit as a community member with a mission focused on health and our pursuit of building flourishing communities st anthony hospital is pleased to see that the city of lakewood is considering  retailers that sell tobacco as tobacco as tobacco use does not promote the health of our community well this is a choice that residents can make it is important to monitor the sale of tobacco products to youth who do their developmental stage are not yet able to make informed decisions about the use of tobacco substances and who are more likely to become addicted to such substances as a health care provider we look at data to inform our operations and guide our practices in the case of tobacco retail licensing we know that ninety percent of tobacco users start before they age of eighteen the two thousand and seventeen healthy kids colorado survey demonstrated at least thirty three percent of youth are using a tobacco product with twenty seven percent of high school students in colorado using e cigarettes it's well documented the use of tobacco products is associated with increased risks of addiction to other drugs as a non profit hospital with a vested interest in making our community healthier we use  community input to understand the community's priorities substance abuse has arisen as a priority in our community so the community is telling us that this is something important upon which we should can focus please know that we are proud to partner with lakewood community we're grateful for your leadership as you consider requiring the licensing of tobacco retailers as part of your commitment to the long term health of lakewood great thank you thank you very much thanks for coming out matt come on down and then we have lee after that bit of experience in dealing with commercial contractors so i think i probably know a little bit more about what happened here then what first meets the eye but i guess i called miss johnson and she encouraged me to come express my wishes and that probably would be helpful so these are two pictures of a sign that was put on my property fortunately the contractor did come up to my door and asked you know because it kind of fringes us somewhat on the easement of the road as well as my property and when he told me what the sign was gonna say i said that's got to be about one of the dumbest things i've ever heard of and all that sign says is there is construction in the neighborhood you wouldn't know that did you can't read it during the day he agreed with me that that sign was probably that it was ridiculous and he said you know it's cost me fifteen thousand dollars to rent this thing to put it here so you know i think you know knowing what i know about dealing with contractors was that sign probably a very specific line i am probably not it  dressed as a bunch of safety issues i'm sure any kind of given contract but what i think this is evidence of is the people that administer those contracts and the common sense of the end result is missing because when you got to sign up there to cost fifteen thousand dollars that you can't read during the day that's a problem so you know i think the problem is in the communication between how the contracts get administered when somebody sits down and says how are we going to actually administer let's go through this make sure we get the end results and something's missing there in that dialogue so you know this is just one evidence you can also see there there's no sidewalk there for fifteen grand you probably could have a sidewalk there that's all that's and then one other side point in regards the tobacco videogames for high schoolers is a huge problem that all parents deal with and boy if the city came out with some programs that would help a lot of parents so that they don't these kids just don't see it from us so but appreciate the time i know it's a thankless job particularly from the wards i really appreciate miss johnson has a fabulous reputation in our neighborhood that you know what call her she responds and she did so i appreciate that right thank you le good evening welcome first time here all right names lee wall meyer i'm a resident lakewood like the like the area man think everything's been pretty until here recently last year when everybody got the hailstorm i had my roof repaired and it failed at numerous times and problem i was having with your building inspectors is i don't believe they all are qualified to do the job the last last inspection that was done failed the contractor called the city up and said hey i fixed it didn't fix it got a report that the inspector came back and made a note that contractor failed to fix the issue that was promised to myself and the cunt in the inspector so anyways we ended up going to court i have to pay for a roof that now leaks and has not put on properly and because of the inspection reports and getting an approved roof when they know that's never been fixed and the problems have never been addressed i ended up having to pay the contractor for a failed roof and i just think that you know the inspectors that come out there the investigator that came out last tuesday comes up on my roof and sandals and he's pointing out i love this ain't a big deal it's not correct the flashing is not correct he said well you know i don't know how i don't know how buildings go together that's not really you're in charge of all this so i guess my my concern is is that you know the inspectors they need to get some kind of training you know i mean they're there for us to make sure that the contractors are to do what they're supposed to do there's international building codes and when i asked the investigator inspector i guess what he is mike sizemore piece as well we can pick and choose how we want to what codes or what issues we want to address or not use or use this is how can that be if it's an international code you know ice and water sheila's that's recommended everywhere he says we don't recommend you we don't enforce you that you have to do this on your roof well it's a failure that's going to happen if you don't just like flashing i said the flashing needs to go on first well it's there part of it and i said but it's not correct you guys are the ones that are supposed to know what how things go together so that when you come out and inspect stead of looking for nails you ought to be looking for all the other flaws in it and i just don't think they're doing their job correctly and like i say now i had to pay full price for a roof that still leaks and because of the approval reports there's no cause for them to even come back and fix it so now i have to pay another contractor to come back and fix the rest of it so i guess my issue is that there should be more training get qualified people that know what they're doing and some of the comments this guy you made is just he don't know what he's doing and i don't know where you go to address it i talked to ray me and she said that you know only peoples are gonna know is if i come here and tell people so that's what i'm doing cool cool yeah thank you for coming out well that part's not cool but there there's certain i'll get back as soon as we're done so all right thank you thanks okay anybody else who didn't sign up come on things first i wanted to echo what sandy weathers had mentioned earlier about the ad hoc development dialogue i attended the meeting the other night and i wasn't quite sure what the purpose was because it seemed like there weren't enough factual data that the committee had and they were relying on what the data was that the the planning commission had done and i understood they also had spent several months going over the the information to make the planning commission decisions i just didn't think it was maybe the best use of time of everyone to be reiterating and then trying to change without having factual issues there the second thing is we had our board three meeting last saturday and some of my neighbors i live in lakewood estates we brought to the attention of pete and mike that we have a an addiction center that has moved into our neighborhood where we're very concerned we saw so many cars parking in and around the area and we didn't really know what was going on so one of the neighbors not i it wasn't me but they did a lot of research and found out this company has come in from florida they bought the property and have it all set up i think fairly illegal but they they never notified the neighbors and they're it's a for profit business that makes a lot of money in other places the one person who's the head of this has testified before congress he was called to be testified before congress and there's been some issues with predatory practices among these addiction cent companies so we would just hope that the council would consider trying to look into this matter and see if it's a legal use it's a commercial business in the neighborhood residential neighborhood and to see if there's anything that can be done whether it's changing the zoning designations and what is allowed or isn't allowed and also to consider how it affects with  competes with air beam beeves because we think this is a this is not a good thing to inject into the neighborhoods and it's not an indie thing it's it's more wise a commercial business being in a residential neighborhood so thank you very much thank you anybody else all right i will close public comment shona thanks for coming out i think you are all aware all well aware monica as well that we're gonna be having our first blush of the proposal ordinance next week next monday nights we might see you again but we'll also have a lot of folks from your group represented sandy and kathy appreciate well encourage you to continue to come and be part of the development dialogue as it works its way through and then mister osborn i'm not quite sure as far as the message board goes but we can we can figure that out when something like that happens also you can call public works or just call the city right away so we can get somebody out to see if what the sign is doing or not doing because it is a requirement of the contractor we also have request lakewood so you can do it on your app that way you can get right to the people but we can certainly look and have a conversation with the contractor it's i have an old background and road work in construction and those types of things are required whether it's seedot the county the city of lakewood to do some notification but it doesn't notify if it doesn't work so please reach out and we'll get somebody out there right away that happens again and then  we have your information let's see what's going on as far as what happened internally on our end and i will certainly take a look at that we know that you both have much better things to do on a monday night but again in that situation you know reach out whether it's you called your council members but we also have caitlin gault who handles these things immediately and can start to dig into that she's our customer service specialist that operates here too so you can reach out to them so we'll  figure out we have your information and i'll make sure our deputy city manager hangs up okay thank you all right with ben executive report mara just a couple things to cover with you this evening first is a good news item i wanted to share that we had over fifty employees participate with brothers redevelopment inc to provide one as well and we repainted an entire house and garage and about six hours so it was pretty incredible to see about twenty people come together to tackle a project like that we also partnered with west metro fire so it was great to see both organizations working together with brothers redevelopment on that we also i also wanted to let you know that kathy is continuing to work on addressing  homelessness with a regional group we hope to have something come back in the near future on that we're working pretty diligently also to address cold weather shelters as the cooler nights are coming and i think we've started to figure some things out with messick with west metro fire on that and dealing with inspections and and all the as far as upcoming agenda  items we have as i think you all are aware the non cigarette tobacco retailer licensing ordinance coming up next week as well as the ductless bicycle and scooter discussion so look forward to both of those and then one other change on the agenda for october th the short term rental licensing ordinance is going to be delayed to a further date as we continue to refine things there so that's all for the executive report thank you sir i thought you're gonna say we're gonna postpone the october st meeting for the broncos game yeah yes that's not in the car kathy i'm sorry i didn't i didn't mention the group home issue and we can get you more but it's from what i'm hearing and the information we have it's most likely a protected group home under the fa housing act and it's interesting we'll probably see more of these with the opioid epidemic and things along those lines i know there's another community up north that's seeing the same thing so we can try to get you that information and i think mayor pro they looked into a little bit of it as well to get that thanks kelso johnson thank you mayor i don't know if this is the appropriate time actually to say something but i did speak at great length with  the phone regarding his roof and encouraged him to come because frankly i had the very same issue and had to hire an independent inspector actually to come it's cost us three thousand three hundred dollars and we're going to small claims court i have tried for several months to see what kind of credentialing our roofers inspectors have and i hope that we can take a look at this i think there is an issue there and just wanted to back him up thank you yeah certainly nobody was dismissing him at all they want to look into it and get you those answers okay next up we have the consent agenda yeah since we have so we have present eight well will read it in these are the consent agenda has been made acts by council action contains both resolutions and first reading ordinances resolutions are items of a routine nature members of the public will have an opportunity in a moment to comment on any of the proposed resolutions first reading ordinance appear on the agenda only for the purpose of setting future public hearing dates in or during the newspaper publication of the proposed ordinance no public comments will be heard this the public will have the opportunity to comment on the proposal ordinances during the scheduled public hearings on the dates set tonight by the city council any council member may request an item on the consent agenda be removed for separate discussion and action under general plan and proposed budget for the lakewood west colfax business improvement district item seven resolution two thousand and eighteen forty one approving the two thousand and nineteen operating plan and proposed budget for the alameda corridor business improvement district item eight ordinance o two thousand and eighteen eighteen adding a new section two zero two four hundred and two the lakewood municipal code clarifying the definition of a one half term of office for the mayor and members of the city council as ask robert smith our interim director of economic development to come down and lead us into our first two resolutions good evening good evening mayor members of city council truly a pleasure to be with you are on this autumn monday evening i'm with the economic development office as a mayor mentioned um and as you know we carry the banner for a lot of liquids economic development initiatives as we go forward but when we accomplish for truly great things when we get really wonderful things going on in the community it's usually because we're standing shoulder to shoulder with our strategic partners and working collaboratively to make things happen so it's a my distinct pleasure to reintroduce you to a couple of our strong partners this evening one being the lakewood west colfax business improvement district executive director and president as well as the executive director of the alameda corridor business improvement district before you as a business item of approving those  the operating budgets and the actually the operating plan and the budgets for each of those organizations were compelled to do that legislatively once a year and so this is our opportunity these are just individuals and they like to talk a lot about what's going on in their neck of the woods and so we wanted to afford them the opportunity to let you know what's happening in their particular ends of the woods with your kind permission i'll introduce you to all three of these gentlemen all at once and that'll give me a moment of not doing the stand up sit down stand up sit liquid west colfax business improvement district and without further ado i'll bring them on up and let them talk about the good things going on in our community in those areas thank you m good evening good evening mayor and city council tom quinn executive director for the alameda corridor business improvement district happy to be back in front of you again to present our annual operating plan and budget for your review and of course happy to answer any required to submit their annual operating plans and budgets by september th of each year to the municipality in which they're located so that's why we're here tonight and i'm gonna go ahead and start  has identified three key priorities from our board of directors these have remained constant over the years economic development and marketing corridor beautification and corridor safety and i'll talk about three of those in some detail this flight is intended just to give you a little overview of the difference between alameda gateway community association and the alameda corridor business improvement district we sometimes get questions about that they are two different organizations but often lumped together as alameda gateway so the alameda gateway community association is a nonprofit organization under colorado law it has its own volunteer board of directors it's funded primarily through membership dues and advertising revenue from the gateway guide focused primarily on connecting the community so connecting our citizens our nonprofit organizations and our businesses the alame bid is actually a quasi governmental organization under colorado law under what we call the colorado business improvement district act created by and with the district was created by liquid city ordinance in two thousand and three business owners in the district voted to assess themselves property tax five seven mills at that time and that continues to this day on the bid is governed by a seven mm board of directors appointed by you lakewood city council you'll see some new appointments showing up on your agenda in the near future and the business improvement district actually pays the gateway association for administrative and economic development services so i'm actually an employee of the gateway association under contract with the business improvement district so move on to what have we done in the past year now all of you were here last year i know but we'll go through some of the projects that we've we've been working on keeping in mind that any project that we start has what i call an arc of planning to it i mean meaning from the first time you have a conversation about it until the time it's actually built sometimes that process can take a couple of years so economic development marking what have we done in the past  year we've hired a business engagement and outreach specialist of his job is to go out in the community and make regular contacts with the businesses that are part of the business improvement district and she's been quite busy doing that since she started in march  we're also going through a process of rebranding or i should say branding the business improvement district it's never had its own independent brand it's always gone under the alameda gateway brand and our board of directors met back in march for a retreat and felt very strongly that the bid needed to have its own brand to stand side by side with alameda gateway and so we're almost completely done with that process and you'll see our new brand rolling out here  october website redesign our website was quite antiquated and we wanted to create something new that would be user friendly for the residents of lakewood as well as our businesses and people interested in investing in the corridor that you will also see in october it's quite exciting we have a lot of stuff going on right now obviously and a new alameda gateway guide magazine we previously had a biannual publication for the time being it's going to be annual but we're redesigning it to include more content and a higher quality publication so what else we doing and under sustainability our board of directors identified sustainability as a key core value and our first program this towards that program this year it's a five year plan to move from twenty percent diversion of waste to composting and recycling to ninety percent in the fifth year so this was our first year it was an experiment and it was quite successful the councillor frank's came out and helped out one day and we actually diverted quite a bit of waste we don't have the final numbers yet but it's it's exciting it was a good first step belmar was very happy with it and so were the citizens of lakewood who came out to the event near paul you came out to you and thank you well we appreciate it you just come invited to congratulate us really there to volunteer yes getting  hands dirty and by the way that opportunity is always open next year it's only you know eleven and a half months away the other area transportation and mobility so we received a quick win grant from jefferson county public health in the car department of public health and environment to install bike racks we got the first floor installed in the van street garage and bomar the other four are awaiting some permits that we have to get obviously have to go through city permitting processes so we're almost done with that really roll out the bid name and a lot more publicly some people know what the bid does and what it's what it's here to accomplish the whole purpose behind events is to draw visitors to the corridor to create a great amenity for the people of the city of l id earth day we're also a sponsor of saturday's coming up here in a couple of weeks so stop by and see us there another component of the bid strategy community partnerships we're a longtime financial sponsor for the boys and girls clubs in jefferson county as well as young american providing them with funding to be able to operate and that this really cross cuts through multiple areas through economic development education  public safety multiple areas of this impacts and we're really proud to be working with these fine organizations corridor beautification and we continue with the art in the commons program in partnership with with the city heritage culture in the arts so we have six pieces that are currently on the plaza they change out every year in may you may have stopped to see the they're the six we have out there i just put in pictures of the four to save an seconds anyway so it's an ongoing program that we really enjoy arts along alameda is a program to purchase sculptures and place them at different locations on the corridor and we have kind of a new component to it in the past year call it art at your business so the first two placements the tree of life at the village of del mar and near the entrance wonderful sculpture by an artist named carl jensen from wyoming and nick's the lab in front of the goodyear stores have you ever been in the good store he sits right there in front of it and we're looking for some additional placements over the next few months our biggest project this year is at metron with the metro west housing five thousand eight hundred development this project on metro west housing solutions will be opening how its grand opening on october th it's not quite done you can see your artist christopher we designed this lovely piece the guys were out there pouring the concrete a couple of weeks ago it's now cured and they will be placed prior to october th actually the supposed to be placed early next week so you'll be able to see them at the dedication in a couple of weeks and this these sculptures are intended to resemble colorado wildflowers by day and you'll see what they look like by night gently glowing torches the lighting the guiding the way along alameda so be quite quite interesting this piece that it's called american primitive located at young americans center for financial education it's actually been installed landscaping we placed early next week and then we'll have a dedication at some point in the future when we're looking for something to do at this location this is really the sidewalk by young american center is the eastern entrance to b it's the non motorized entrance so if you sit there and watch all day which i'm sure you know probably you have lots of time to do that you will notice bicycles pedestrians skateboarders all manner of non motorized transportation people use that as the entrance to belmar and so we thought that would partner we would partner with young american center to get that done and have to come back and see it when the landscaping is finished a corridor murals program yes we're kind of copying our cousins september and we were very excited about this program we worked closely with the business owners to make sure that the mural that was placed there was something that they felt was important that there was an image that reflected community that were reflected something very positive about west alameda and about their businesses and we're particularly excited about the one that we just finished a panaderia rodriguez worked closely with the owner mister padilla to come up with a design that he liked he was interested in something that would reflect his birthplace in mexico and that would also be of interest to the lake woods very large latino community the next one where am i panoramic view of the history of west almeida and del mar and it'll probably be done by november first we're hoping to get it before the first snow flies so we'll see how give it get you an update on that later  everything is in place he just needs to start doing the work we just got our last permit today and let's see public art restoration and maintenance one of the things i found when i came into this job was that metal does actually where if you put it out in the sunlight and the wind and the hail and so we've gone through and inventoried all of our pieces and started a restoration program this is a good example it's called a girl's best friend in front of d and l a bridal before and after you can see it was quite rusted before and now it's been restored to its original grandeur we're gonna do that with several more the one you might have noticed is no long is missing is joyfully dancing which is in the roundabout by the library that we'll be back the second week in october it's a colorful piece that had to be taken out powder coated and painted and it will it will return other street beautification programs holiday banners in belmar we were unable to do banners on the light poles on alameda itself because of  issues and the policies followed by xcel energy so we decided to work on a partnership at belmar because they had the poles they had the brackets everything was ready all they needed was the banners now with the alameda streetscape project  got them a screen we built on the screen last year we thought you know it just looks boring so let's put some artwork on it so we were gonna do that with some other other things as well so there's seven hummingbirds there and you only have one more week the farmers market closes this coming saturday but then the the hummingbirds will be moved to other locations where the public will be able to enjoy them and let's see and just kind of a summary of what's in our plan in terms of priorities over the next year a landscape maintenance as the alameda streetscape pride streetscape project scuse me continues to move along ultimately the bid will take over the maintenance of the softscape so the plans on the trees once that project is completed once that landscaping has been accepted as you know having taken so in other words once the warranty expires on it that's something that we're still working on it's not finalized at this point art's along alameda three to five new sculptural locations in the next year we actually currently own some of those sculptures already but they we have to finish the details and where they're going to be placed quarter murals two to three new locations sidewalk art this is artwork that's actually sandblasted into the sidewalk and we're l property and one is it pierce kind of down the hill currently they do get some use but it gets really hot in the summer so we're looking at putting some sun shades at those locations to make them nice places for people to stop and linger and enjoy themselves and that's a relatively low hanging fruit and then finally business grants we're looking at targeted business grants to help out some of the areas on the corridor that really need help the most some areas obviously are thriving they don't really need business grants for belmar but they do need them certainly further to the east and quarter safety this is kind of an ongoing thing partnership with a liquid police department i want the community meetings for a gateway we always have updates from our liquid police on ongoing crime trends advice from our police agents on how to best to protect yourself grafitti reporting and removal is an ongoing process as well and thank you very much and i'm happy to take any questions alright mister quinn very nice job a lot of fun things going on any questions were comments nice nice presentation tom do you have a date when all of the construction on alameda will be complete i don't and i would say robert would know more about that but i know that point and very complete it's one page our budget was four hundred pages could we get you to do our budget no it is this very well detailed thank a villa italia is oh i'm sorry well what we wanted to do was was to reflect the history of the area and we know villa italia is a you know it's a great memory for a lot of people so what and what we did was we found something that looks like the a monthly meeting which is the third no you're that's always the first one first wednesday you're the first wednesday and you rotate locations we do yeah so this next month it'll be october rd at the the belmar library at seven thirty  again well done we appreciate the partnership we appreciate all that the the bid and the association do to really promote the corridor i think it really advances the mission of the city in a way that you know i shouldn't say shifts the burden but it shifts the burden you guys carry the burden but you're making two of our most used and storied corridors really come back to life after a lot of years so well done thank you very much thank you thank you   everybody mister mayor city council you know i really like coming to talk to you we're gonna spend a few minutes talking about the lakewood west colfax business improvement district but it's go be a little different this time typically we come in and we talk about what happened last year and where we're headed we did give you a fairly significant document that i'm sure that you all reviewed we also have baked into the our formation of five year review so what this is our five year review so i'm going to kick things off and just kind of make a quick pass through the operating plan and budget hit some highlights then i'm going to turn it over to the bi board president kevin yoshida and then i'll come back and wrap things up let's see here oh there it is it's right behind the mayor's head i'm looking for the there you go girls there we go we're working out one way or the other so everywhere i go before i start whatever presentation i'm gonna give i always talk about all three of organizations so i'm not going to stop doing it but you know about it's our business and community group that's a five hundred and one c six we're all focused on making just a little bit of progress every single day because our goal is to continue to make a difference as we re energize the historic west colfax avenue i gave you our quick agenda for the day so i'm just going to move past that and get right into some of the meat here so before we talk about next year i want to take a look about last year and we're still in the middle of two thousand and eighteen so this is a of the focus areas that we presented to you last year so you can see that all of these programs are in a either on track complete in progress or needs help if you want to go back and look at last year's plan of the details are there i'd like to just mention the two that aren't where i'd like them to be the west colfax ambassador program and visitors center we fell a little short of where we hope to be we've not given up on this we still think that at some point we'll have a visitor center but as i think all of you know we lost a significant ambassador this year in ba ba toby he and his wife chris were integral parts of this program and with his loss we we've taken a bit of a pause but we're going to continue the work in his honor and our commitment is that we will have the ambassador program will continue and we work towards a visitor center in the future the other one i'm i'm certain you're well aware of the loveland house on harlan just off of colfax we worked very hard together to try to find a public private partnership to save the loveland house we've not given up we think there's a possibility that maybe the stars align maybe if we work a little harder maybe there's a way we could acquire that property someday and turn it into just a magnificent little pocket part along the art line on west colfax if you'd like me to come back and talk about all the reasons that that's a good idea please invite me because i'll be at i be delighted to do that the rest of it i think is self explanatory if there's any questions when we get further on i'd be delighted to answer them so i'm going to just do some quick budget snapshots this is a direct screenshot from the from the longer longer narrative you can see  that our revenues from for this coming year are actually down about fourteen hundred dollars from the from the mill levy our mliv is a five mill we went through the same process as our big brothers over in alameda  so you can see we have about a half a million dollar budget it breaks down like in this pie chart and where the revenue comes from so as you can see the vast majority of our revenue comes from the mill levy we work very hard to attract grants and other revenue through igs to help continue to fund different programs and then we do manage some rents to try to keep some of the rents affordable for more of our creative enterprises so if you see our runs here on the revenue side and our expenses you'll see it's a little higher on the expense side some of that's for our own purposes to have a place to conduct business but also in in what then again this is a screenshot directly from the same budget that's in your packet we're trying to keep our our programming investment as high as possible as we continue to try to drive down costs on the g and a side and this year we were actually able to reduce the overall ga and add that money to our programming budget here's what it looks like and if you look at this pie chart you look at sixty four percent of the revenue being spent on programs you could actually add the rent revenue into that as well because that that funds forty west studios and forty west gallery  and i'm going to mention to you a something we call an impact index that kind of measures our performance as an organization that's where i'm going to wrap up but you can see our gna is six percent the other number there that's  baked in number that we have to hold money aside for the treasury fee for the county collecting the money and then a contingency fee as part of the budget that will all get reinvested back into the corridor so that's another four percent that will go into programming these are our focus areas for two thousand and nineteen you'll recognize many of them this isn't all that we do but these are where we try to identify very clear metrics as you look through the focus areas that i think is on page seven through twelve of the document i provided each of those are described there's a purpose and there's a set of metrics that are associated with them i'm not going to go through each one of them the details of there i'm happy to answer any questions at the end this is that impact index so being a bit of a geek and learning more and more about nonprofits and trying to make sure that our our impact is measured we looked at the amount of money that's collect from public sources and then compare that to the money that goes into programming and as i'm sure many of you are familiar with nonprofits if your ratio is somewhere around eight thousand and twenty if your ga is less than twenty percent  eighty percent of your revenue is going into programming that's typically thought to be pretty darn good because of the way we've set this up we're actually more of a one to one or we're spending as much that we collect on programming with that it's my pleasure to turn it over to kevin yoshida kevin is a volunteer he's the president of our board he makes an enormous difference in our community in both his professional capacity as an urban design or an architect but mostly as an advocate for west colfax avenue and all that we do so kevin i'll turn it over to you good evening welcome thank you very much thanks everybody for your time a little bit jealous of mr quinn's presentation and that we usually get to show you some fun pictures but we thought it was important i mean our five year look back to really collect some some data so i'm gonna walk through some numbers that we've collected but i promise they'll be graphically interesting at least  so it's a bit of a synopsis and a little bit more of our background and foundations we thought we'd put together some dates is important benchmarks here and going back to the two thousand and four and two thousand and six when the initiative was known as the blue blue ribbon panel committee focused on west colfax to the bid formation and then some dates along the way including our the certification of forty west arts as a state level as a colorado certified district by the office of economic development and international trade from the governor's office and that's a pretty proud family that's one of in select group that's that's one i think we were the th to be certified and the number has now grown to twenty one certif districts and much like the core partnership here with the city of lakewood economic development arm the state very much views creative districts the same way that they their their catalytic they spur growth and that they're a good  a precursor to revitalization and growth in thinking about business improvement districts as a mechanism you know we also thought it was important to look at forty once had and we're all linking arms to revitalize that and keep that moving forward we've been friend in to be regularly you've helped us helped us manifest and memorialize documents that helped guide that growth all the way back to the original action plan to urban design and placemaking initiatives as well as our current guiding document which is the two thousand and forty vision plan from a couple of years ago and that's certainly available on at the city website and that's the cover to look for if you want to do a deeper dive into that there's some of the five year synopsis that we've collected under our our now section here so one of  analogies we use regularly is that the business improvement district is the intel inside the sticker on the computer that drives everything and our programming outreach arms being forty west and w cca is mister quinn and mister marino both described so one of the interesting things and this isn't a comprehensive list but just looking at the people in organizations who have come to visit lakewood and west colfax in learn get a peek under the hood and learn about what's going about revitalization and and we're happy to tell our story and help them connect connect them with resources and ideas at any point one of our first metrics is the sales tax collection you know this one is  shows good strong growth the one number i don't have but i'd like to get some days looking back over the thirty their decline period of anybody who's been here and can remember it's remarkable to how steady growth even so this is incremental and  good metric to keep track of we both you deal with it regularly here too it's a double edged sword it shouldn't certainly is a good sign of prosperity but we like many businesses and and property owners also feel the pain of an unexpected bill coming in but it is a generally a good sign so that's been growing you know up thirty three percent this last year and up fifty one percent over the five year period interesting to  look at next of that previous slide as well as one of my favorite slide is we've been able to track creative enterprises in the district so from thirty six to one hundred and fifty four even though the the climate of property values has a certain arc to it we're still very attractive to small businesses and entrepreneurial enterprises to to grow so we're up almost three hundred percent there in that five year period focusing on free west and some metrics that a relative to their their world this this is the only pretty picture one that we usually do a deep dive on with you there but alexis moore has and in front of you regularly updating you on the the art line in its development and we're really excited about how that's knitting our parks together and creating a four mile art experience that the whole city can and outside of the city can come and take part in as part of some of our grant applications and other metrics we've put together we've synopsize creative district dependents so that's been growing at a great way as well up over thirty percent in that same period so we're proud of that number and the what's happening in the district that's what th merchants association membership is the best way to look at let that many of you attend or have attended our meetings at some point during the year on that we started out in two thousand and fourteen with us membership for sixty two we're now at one hundred and five when we did this tally and i think one hundred and nine i heard recently an example of some of the other programming and impact projects that the wcc is undertaken we continue to reinforce our core but also think about the new frontiers and the new businesses that are forming outside of our district proper and how can we help so the business beautification project mint and seraph help them work on a patio and  rockley music help them beautify that the front lawn area there that they had and another program that we've been able to partnership in looking east with the edgewater collective group revitalizing one of the  trailers for teachers use and to really become a nurturing space to help support our teachers as they start the school year here so we're very proud to be making new connections both in and outside the quarter and in that five year look back inevitably we from a board standpoint wanted to make sure that we put ideas forward in terms of best practices so we we have the two thousand and forty vision plan that's  our generational document that'll guide our our work but this five year look back was very important so we're definitely committed to looking at that incremental snapshot and measuring our success and just and we're on the consent agenda so happy to come back annually and as we do now and update you on our progress we think that's an important part and for the those monies we we deploy to all of our programming partners to put some more all that impact is really measured by individual stories and individual businesses and and families taking risks and and starting a new venture or moving to a new place and this quote from from anthony the owner of west fax really encapsulated a lot of that he captured the energy that he stepped into and for him it was about embracing it and and at all levels both both as a businessman and as a community member and we're rolling with with with this tide that will lift all of us so with that i'm going to turn bass back to mr marino to close and answer questions thank you thank you kevin so you know we like pretty pictures and usually we present you many of them i'm hoping most of you have this already but i'm gonna leave a set for you there's lots of great stories if you want to know what we've done in the last year we'll try to tell our story in a journalistic way and then point point to the future so there's one for everybody if you already have one give it to a friend as we wrap up here folks often ask me you know what makes the biggest difference what happened how did you get progress how did you create momentum and we have great stories to tell and just not enough time always to tell them here you know the story of these three organizations but where i always end that story when i get that question is right here we are so grateful for the support that we've gotten from our city we couldn't do it without you from the staff level at every level of staff from the top of the management team all the way down to the worker bees they had helped us immeasurably throughout the years i was there during that first action plan in two thousand and four two thousand and five and two thousand and six where it was just a dream that we could have an arts district it was a dream on whether could have a business improvement district or not and we've made that progress because we have a city that cares it makes a difference to have a partner like the city of lakewood it makes a difference when our  policymakers can see the vision of what we're trying to do when they can see mobile hood associations were with businesses with artists working with the community to try to make a difference so i want to make sure that you know and anybody that listens to this because our businesses still need new customers we understand that's a sensitive topic but we're a commercial corridor by and large as a transportation corridor we want to protect our neighborhoods and respect everybody's rights but we also need to to grow and thrive those businesses like anthony who invested in west colfax and put his life savings behind a brewery that's named after west colfax and forty west combined the west facts brewing company so thank you for your support thank you for supporting us along the way and we look forward to our continued partnership thanks very much great i think it can stay for questions yeah please harrison i just wanted to say it doesn't seem like it's been this long ago that bunny mom came to my office and told me a little bit about the bid and what was coming she's been gone what four years five years it'll be four years next another real reason that the bid was  as successful as it is the two of you you and bunny worked hand in hand quite literally to make everything work my hats off to all that you've done bill because without your leadership i don't know that the bid could be as as successful you always have seen the stars in west colfax and i really admire that and i wanted to just say thank you councillor johnson i just want to thank you both for a very nice presentation and kudos to you i could not be happier to see what's going on on colfax happen your metrics speak for themselves you're successful and you're going to continue to be successful and thank you i appreciate it don't forget one thank you for your vision and making it all of you for everything you do you know i live off i drive lamar every single day and i go down alameda almost every other day and the impact is so obvious and it's really exciting to see and i've said this before my interaction and the way i interact with the city has changed and evolved as we've seen the sidewalks coming in and the art lines coming in and the murals coming in and the light rail and all the different changes that have been having mayor first of all i would echo what everyone else is set has said and appreciate all the hard work that y'all are doing so thank you for that also i want to just make sure i understand what we're doing here  as i understand and we as a body are responsible for the oversight of the financial running of the of these organizations is that my understanding  mayor the were basically our our responsibility is oversight and especially in the financial that right there yeah i mean so all of this that we're hearing here is nice to know about how you know how you're operating and the great things you're doing but i financial condition of your organization is there anything that we ought to know as a body that we don't know that we that our snot in here it does and i just add to your question we have a board as well that is very active in detail that that knows where every dollar goes so when we roll this up and present it to you it's it's it's it's thought through and and well documented and so you have confidence in what's there's being the accurately yes sir i do all right and i'm gonna ask the same question for the other organization but we'll let you finish first great yep and i should have started for some fo new your first time approving this so that's that's a great question and in the summary statement i'm just gonna read this out loud for folks who are here with us tonight but business improvement district bids are primarily self governing entities with significant authority including the authority to incur debt and impose fees on commercial property owners within the district and the district people or the the bid is formed by opting in so those property owners have to opt in a certain threshold what is that threshold of property owners in order to form a bit there's both a petition and a special election and in order to even get to special election you have to have fifty percent of the property owners and fifty percent of the assessed value approved  before you can even form a bid great it's great background title thirty one of colorado rise statutes grants the city oversight authority and requires the city to review and approve each bids operating plan and budget on an annual basis this oversight role  critical to ensuring a positive public perception of bid activities so before we call down mister quinn miss vincent you still had a question or comment for mister marino yeah both more of a comment i'd like to thank kevin for reaching out to mall homeschool that was really important the design and and that shows your interaction with it with the community outside of just up and down col and what i think is important probably for council to understand is this is not just west colfax and the and the people who live on either side of it there are so many things that are happening in fact i've been reached out to from people out of state to try to make some connections with what's happened here on on colfax and how its reenergized and neighborhood what i think some of what you can really find out what's happening on west  is i said i was blessed with two years and only one mouth so i try to use them proportionally and with the two years when i was at a function the other day somebody said you know i don't know what's happening but we went along this green line thing to all the parks and that was just terrific and so of course you know i swelled up like i had done it personally and told them so i think it's it's important to hear those kind of things that happen so that's all i wanted to say and thank you and we couldn't have done that without the support of the city it was a joint grant that we got from the national endowment of the arts that a non profit and the city had to apply together so that's that something we linked arms on and now it's an asset for an entire community  and you know i think that council is working on some initiatives to to probably assist west colfax in some form or fashion with maybe some of the businesses around there who may not be as nice as concerned so we're trying to do things to help and assist in the moving forwards there's still plenty of work to do oh yes all right well thank you thank you very much mister quinn think as an over as part of our oversight here statutory oversight i think it's only fair to ask you is there anything about your presentation or what your organization that we need to know or is not included in there that would have an effect on the you know a day to day operating of your organization no everything is everything is included and the budget is reviewed by our board of directors as well as we have a joint finance committee between the alameda gateway community association for the acceptance of the minutes of the boards and commissions order all ordinances introduced on first reading to be published in the denver post with public hearing set for the date included in the ordinance and for adoption of resolution all of which are included in the consent agenda items introduced into record by the city clerk right to fast ones motion a second any more discussion okay i'm just gonna say this one last final word in miss marina i appreciate your presentation and i think councillor harrison said it very well if anybody has continued to dream and tell the story of west colfax and what it can be and what it could be and what it's going to be it's you day in and day out and i know that there's been ups and downs but we appreciate you kevin we appreciate you former who's head of wcc a right now we appreciate all you're doing as well as the folks in the alameda corridor these are very very special very unique corridors to our community and you go about it day in and day out and it is a partnership because we're all we're all out there telling the story trying to get businesses to move in trying to talk to people and say yeah check out west colfax check out where no seriously and then you bring them out and they see what's going on they see that art line and i think the next phase when when mister quinn and i had the opportunity to meet with denver to talk about bike share and now that's already almost something that's you know an ancient technology now that we have all these scooters coming to be but the folks in denver said you have to have something that's going to draw people and make people want to come and if two areas have that ability to draw people and make people want to come it's west colfax and it's the alameda corridor and that art line will be amazing when we can go take scooters and zoom all around the four and a half miles so we'll have that conversation next week i'm getting some love over here on the left there you should wait til the vote related facilities and further authorizing a request to jefferson county open space to subordinate its interest in a portion of sunset park to allow for the permanent easement daniel sanitation district alright thank you very much i'll now open the public hearing on item ten nobody has indicated a wish to speak anybody wish to speak seeing none i'll close the public hearing and ask for a motion i move for the adoption of i wanted to ask here but our a certain city clerk made it really clear that that would be way out of line so i'll just say thank you for the hard s passes eleven i nays alright general business anything all right we'll move into reports had the opportunity and last week was busy for a lot of folks up here so i know there are a lot of events that people wanted to get to and weren't able to do due to community meetings but i had the opportunity to go the boys and girls club annual fundraiser and they met their goal of sixty thousand dollars so that was fantastic they came in a little bit shy and the elks club said that they would help carry them up to five thousand dollars over so they might have gone over to sixty three thousand so congratulations to them  coming up in october there will be a action center match dollar for dollar with the city of lakewood up to seventeen thousand so keep that in mind let's get that done and you will be receiving ballots pretty soon i encourage you to be engaged to read the whole thing to start at the bottom and work your way up because everything that's really important is at the bottom selfishly and i would say as we get in an election season be cautious where you get your information digital platforms we all heard about that but really dig into who's putting the information out and i would also stress even on next door i think next door has a great ability to inform but meeting and thank you for everybody coming also tomorrow we are having our annual veterans fair at the elks club starting at ten o'clock please come veterans you'll you'll find some great information we can share some great information with you and don't forget like last year you know i had to kind of hold my arm a little bit but i got my flu shot so have a good day i forgot to mention this while mister moreno was here but i was driving down the street and i saw someone digging in some trash and i was wondering what was going on and then the guy got out of the the trash can and looked up and it was bill moreno cleaning it out so last time i saw him i i said what were you doing with the trash he'd say uh i was like oh you have somebody that you pay to deal with that and he said well i just like doing i like taking care of things myself so anyway a funny story he those those people are definitely in the trenches doing the doing the work but i will say i went to the west community colfax association meeting it was great meeting they had their candidate forum met a lot of the candidates who are running for office and that was that was good and that's another great thing that w cca does trying to put on those kind of forums and then also went to the boys and girls club unfortunately i wasn't able to stay very long because we had a committee meeting but i was glad i was able to drop oh boy am i ever excited to tell you about something that everyone can do this weekend you know how we love junk well how about a beautiful junk sale held by the action center if you want to get a little jump on your christmas shopping or need have an empty garage that you want to fill this is the perfect place to come it will be at the jeffco farik friday and saturday and let me tell you they'll be at least two things you cannot live without all proceeds go to help support the action center so this is a great place to come and enjoy the day thank you i dropped off a load today and so if someone wants to buy a shirt that says mayor o just just straight mayor in blue our the to public the two individuals heard from public comment have left but maybe they'll watch the recording and others that may have listened to those comments i am the chair of the development dialogue committee it's a committee that i am very proud of in that we spend a lot of time not just here on monday nights but in preparing and attending those meetings and folks it ain't easy a a lot of people have a lot of different views on things and it's it's tough i get a lot i you know i wasn't forced to do this job i did it i wanted to do it and i liked doing it nobody put a gun to my head and said you have to run for this so i take it pretty serious as you can imagine i set out on that committee to make sure that it would be a legacy committee that everything that we do on that committee was not simply the effects of some political winds that those winds if they did change that this would be something lasting and i invited everybody to come to this committee planning commission in particular their chair actually literally has a seat at the table we've invited developers to come and speak and actually take part in it we have the entire planning staff at times is there we've got everybody it's been a very well attended one meeting we had fifty sixty people it's a very well attended by the public it's very well attended meeting we've had i think five meetings two hours sometimes later a piece and so far we've dealt with nothing but mixed use so we take that seriously we've done a lot of homework on it nothing is arbitrary but let me be clear i made it a point that no planning commission recommendations would be usurped by this committee none we wouldn't touch him we wouldn't modify them that by charter and by law that those recommendations come from planning  commission and they will come right to all of us here the the committee does not do that the committee simply looks at those looks at the body looks at all of the issues that everybody has agreed there are problems with some of these mixed use zones and we've made recommendations sometimes we look at planning commission say what you guys do and we bounce off that sometimes we go a different direction but this body will receive all of the planning commission's recommendations untouched it will also receive recommendations made by the committee and you can look at those and say i don't know what dave was doing and what all those committee members and dana and charlie and jake we're doing we don't agree with that we're gonna take planning commission's and you might and mike i he's the sane one of the group you'll have a chance to do that that's not what the committee is about the committee is about taking very complex issues and trying to get a lot of different ideas and i think we've done a good job at that so i just want to make clear we are not usurping the role of the planning commission so sorry for going off on that tangent but thank you we are having our board five meeting on also october th and we are having a sim very similar agenda we gonna have some pros and cons for the local ballot initiatives and really want to make sure everyone feels informed and has a chance to ask questions and get information about all the very many important issues on your ballot this year also wanted to let my colleagues know and everyone in the community at our doctor cog meeting we also had a chance to hear about some of the transportation and statewide transportation measures and cdot has put together a comparison of one hundred and nine and one hundred and ten so if you're getting questions about how those funding what those measures will fund if they are passed it's a very informative and objective presentation of those two items so i will share that with you and if you'd like to pass it forward that would be great thank you thank you paul i just wanted to let the the public know that i am the chair of the housing policy committee and we had a meeting last week in which we started to discuss scope and i kind of wanted to piggyback off of what it's really important for the public to understand that there are a number of ideas about any one topic and our committee has agreed that we will bring forth both the majority and the minority opinions we're not going to hold things back from the entire body of count of council so we are going to be creating something that isn't in place so unlike where we have the zoning code which can be looked at we're going to be trying to decide what the scope and what the membership and what the directory of resources looks like for a housing policy committee and so we certainly encourage participation we don't see the numbers that the development dialogue in fact we had either one or two community members so we would certainly encourage folks if you've got id is if you've came from a community that has a very mature housing policy program in place we're in that building stage and so all ideas are welcome the ideas are is kind of sitting in documents so they can kind of germinate but we will be doing the same thing where we will look at some things and we will say those are good ideas we'll look at others and say they might need to be mature more and we'll certainly discard some things at some point at the council level but our commitment is to bring forth all of that information to the body of eleven and let those folks as a group meaning us decide what the housing policy committee looks like and so just wanted to make sure folks really understand we are working hard to take in as much information as we can and we certainly as the housing policy encourage people to attend our meeting and to absolutely correct on on what he said about our committee our da development dialogue committee and i would like to add it's it's a very difficult process it's tedious it's time consuming and every all the councillors on the committee take it very seriously we have a lot of input from our staff on on the decisions we make and i think that what i want the public to understand is that you know we have no desire to disrespect anything that the planning commission does they do a great job but we have to come at it from a little different direction because we're the elected body we're responsible for making the ultimate policy decisions and some of those decisions that we're looking at like the numbers that are being bracketed they're clearly public policy decisions that revolve around well how much development do you want to encourage or discourage and those numbers are going to reflect those kinds of policy decisions and we're going to bring those to this body let let them ultimately decide that after i'm sure what will probably be a fairly robust discussion so that's not intended in any way to disrespect  the you know the recommendations of the planning committee but we have a different job and we're the elected officials and we have as a ultimate responsibility making those you know difficult public policy decisions and that's what we're trying to do i think and and so anybody that well people just need to understand that that we're just doing what we were elected to do vincent since there's probably looking at the clock there's probably people still awake out there so i said i would do a plug there's the boys and girls club was just wonderful and there's some of us who will be going to fest this saturday it's the only fundraiser that forty west has for all of their programs you can go online to forty west forty west and buy a ticket is thirty five dollars it's called a pop up yeah pop up cocktail party and you go in as an empty building now for those of you who knew where campus cycles was that's the building and you go in and i guess it's just gonna have pop up art throughout the thing and cocktails and food and i guess i was told that people are gonna be hanging from the ceiling i didn't know how to take that but i think you should be fun so i like i said is there only fundraiser so if you guys can see your way to go out there you'd be welcome usually are a lot of fun i give the legislative report now you bet okay i am chairman of the legislative committee and this council voted a year ago that this committee report to you as a body and which is appropriate this committee is is responsible for looking at legislation that comes at the statehouse and reviewing bills we are comprised of five members plus one person from the city administration basically we have one member from every ward and ben goldstein will be working with me now regarding putting together the legislative meetings that i used to meet with nanette weekly on i just want to say that this is a committee that i take extremely seriously in that we unlike your other committees we actually go forward with our recommendations to the state house so we don't come to you and tell you what our recommendations are and we as a body the five of us the six of us actually look at about six thousand five hundred and seventy bills each session  and we come to ideas on how we think about those bills but because of the seriousness of what we are doing it has been important to me that we do not just go forward willy nilly and throw our ammunition out there i'm very careful that we keep basically our gunpowder dry if you will this last session we had seven bills go forward to our state legislators four of them we strongly opposed three of them we strongly supported all of them went in the direction that we advocated for i think that shows a very good  hundred percent if you will batting record and i'm proud of the work that this committee does ben and i have been working on looking at an official document that has never been in place before it's an idea that he has brought from his experience at the city westminster and it's a nicely written document i've been spending actually quite a few hours on looking at it that it would fit the needs of liquid basically what it will do will give us a structure if you will regarding which bills we will be looking at which is frankly something we've never had we look at  a variety of bills so we'll be working on that and i'm i'm i'm actually excited about it i think it's a document that will probably come forward to you for a vote at some point  i just wanted to get it out there that we we've added a hundred percent gang i'm proud of your work thank you thank you very much thank you for that update and and from time to time you've updated the community as well with with