harrison here you have a quorum great thank you i'd like to welcome all of you who came out this evening and for those who may be tuning in at home or checking us on a later date i ask that if you do have a cell phone please put it on silent and as many of you know after our last meeting we had an executive session and tonight we finished that executive session and so folks know that no decisions are made in executive sessions no votes are taken  direction is given and we use these very very sparingly in the case of legal advice employment issues or matters related to real estate so tonight i can report that council did discuss the questions relating to big sky and have directed staff to seek a third party opinion in that nature as to a lot of the information that you have heard so we will be engaging with  a third party to answer some of the questions that we've heard from many folks surrounding the issue all right please rise and join me in the pledge of allegiance remain standing for a moment of silen okay next up is public comment it looks like a pretty seasoned bunch but i guess i'll read through it and just say that public comment tonight is four items that are not on the agenda so first reading ordinances that you may see will actually have their public hearing set tonight and the public hearing will be posted on that date will have a separate public comment opportunity for the resolution under the consent agenda and i would ask that you have the opportunity to have three minutes two and a half this little box here will be green for thirty seconds so they'll go yellow when your time is up it'll go red and i will politely ask you to wrap that up i invite and encourage all to respect the decorum of chambers and direct your comments to city council so first up i have the honorable kathleen stapleton good evening well i decided it was time to to give you a thank you i think sometimes you get a lot of negatives and i thought it was time for ward five for thank you to karen and dana i thank you so much for your leadership and your award five meetings that we have on saturdays are well attended and very informative and i really thank you and it shows we have good attendance and lots of discussion and it's good and i thank you very much also to the mayor i think it's time we thank you for your compassion and your caring and particularly for the homeless i someone told me that you are out there helping our homeless with information to help them have a better life and as a citizen of lakeland i thank you for that it really means a lot to me and many others so thank you also although i'm sorry kathy is not here but  her and staff for their leadership and not only in our community and our state but nationally i know when you go to nlc that you hear that we are leaders and it's wonderful that we are continuing to be there and of course can't leave here without telling you a little bit about senior resource center we have a new ceo and his name is chris  and i hope you will be able to meet him in the near future so thank you again and remember it's valentine's day coming up so it's all love thank you very much thank you thanks for coming out always great to see you mister brown to pursue a third party opinion in the in the big sky matter i'd be interested to know who the rd party ends up being when you make that that choice i'm sure others would as well but anyway thank you for that and for taking that to that measure  just wanted to talk just quickly about some just quick information you know if you if you start looking at special districts and abuses and different ways to fund public services and utilities on the web there's no shortage and it's nothing new the the literature  and the analysis that talks about the potential abuses of special districts a denver law firm the bills itself the leading legal adviser for special district projects says a special district is governed by five or seven member board board of directors who are elected  registered electors we've heard that countless times probably in the last several weeks or months within the district it's a staggered four year terms they also say a special district is authorized to utilize a number of ways to raise revenues including issuing debt levying taxes and imposing fees and charges the kind of things that you all are you know held tightly under tabor by they also are the issuance of debt and an increase in taxes first requires an election approval by qualified voters of the district as required by taber but the thing is with big sky and greentree and a number of other special districts there are none there are no electors they're able to get into unincorporated undeveloped areas set up their own little fiefdoms honestly where they're the they're the leaders that's it but folks in the future going forward does that builds out gets to pay the bill special district is not in the business of making a profit from the facilities and services provided district is governed by local control over the services that are provided on a community basis the special district is responsive and accountable for decisions through the election and the public hearing process the business of special district is conducted of public meetings we all know that's not the case frequently an urban development think tank says that while there are upsides to privatization of public utilities there is one major downside private utilities excel at providing utility resources however they do not excel at conservation efforts no private business anywhere urges consumers of their products to use less allowing the privatization of sanitary sewer in the rooney valley by big sky will not only undermine conservation of resources but also lower likely encourage overconsumption of resources there are ways for council to interpret this situation documents contracts and service plans that will help them manage this situation we're urging you and your legal team to begin interpreting the issue in a way that allows you to stop stop it while avoiding litigation there are ways thank you thank you sir mist came across about increasing homelessness in colorado in particularly in jefferson county and to encourage the council to consider some solutions in the future to address that address that problem first we'll go over some of the statistics and some of the ideas so i recently learned that homelessness in colorado is generally increasing but in jefferson county it's also increasing rather rapidly in the last year according to the housing and urban development point in time survey the increase in jefferson county alone has been almost more than two hundred people and specifically there is an increase in unsheltered homelessness and that means people who are unable to find temporary housing even overnight in shelters or anything like that and new the newly homelessness rate is increasing as well in colorado broadly but specifically in jefferson county and something that was particularly alarming to me is that colorado is third in the nation ranked third in the nation for unsheltered families and that just seems particularly not okay and we have the highest number of homeless families in the rocky mountain region generally including arizona utah new mexico some of that i'm sure it's due to population but some of that is not so you know these are particularly concerning to me and i see direct causes and the lack of affordable housing i know grows is kind of a hot button issue generally but i'd like to applaud you for your former support of the action center and encourage you to continue to support and fund the action center as much as possible so that they can reopen shelter activities one of the significant problems is the lack of available shelters in jefferson county and the next thing that i'd like for you to consider when it comes across your agenda is considering inclusionary zoning practices inclusionary zoning is a type of a type of zoning that requires that developers include a certain percentage of  units dedicated to low income and middle income housing it is a strong value of mine and i would really it's a value to live in a socioeconomically in racially diverse community and inclusionary zoning is one of the ways to encourage that in our communities and i think to create a genuinely sustainable community and that's what i urge you to do run with it thank you so much for your thank you thanks for coming out right seeing none all closed public comment and certainly thank everybody for taking the time and sharing your concerns and comments was not aware that there was a new executive director at the seniors resource center so thank you for that and as far as homelessness goes we are trying to do a lot as with with a little a lot with a little and we've tasked our city managers to work with the county manager and looking at getting some navigators in the cities as well as in the county and then continuing to look from there as well as our very innovative community action team the cat team which i think is  a sergeant who are really making a difference with difference with our homeless day in and day out have already been able to personally get some folks off the streets into a better situation so we're trying it's not an easy answer and certainly going to continue to lean on our partners our nonprofits and our faith based community because we can't solve it individually at our annual state conference for city and county managers and spoke to an incoming class of new city managers about the council manager form of government it was really well received she spoke for about an hour and a half so i just wanted you all to be aware of that and again give her a little bit of kudos while she's not here i also wanted to let you all know that i think you're already aware but we have a very heavy agenda coming for her february th and encourage you all to submit questions to staff in advance and we'll do our very best to answer those and make those answers available to the public as well that's all well said thank you very much and miss hudson is off tonight celebrating her birthday so we wish her the very best tonight and hopefully she's not watching and she would be very embarrassed for the kudos but that was nice thank you alright next up is the consent agenda the consent agenda consists of resolutions and ordinances on a first reading resolutions are ordered tonight to move forward for posting and public hearing on the date set forward there'll be no public comment on first reading ordinances but there will be a public comment opportunity on resolution two thousand and nineteen five the clerk please read the consent agenda the consent agenda consists of item six t twelve inclusive item six resolution two thousand and nineteen five initiating annexation proceedings for certain property to be known as the kelie annexation number two the william frederick hayden park north east annexation and the william frederick frederick hayden park northwest annexation described collectively as the two thousand and nineteen green mountain annexations located in section seven eighteen and nineteen township four south range sixty nine west and in section fourteen township four south range seventy west of the sixth principal meridian county of jefferson state of colorado item seven ordinance o two thousand and nineteen two amending title fi add a new chapter and between first and second reading this new chapter will be number five point five six as we realized we had the same chapter number four short term rentals so  during the public hearing it'll be referred to as chapter five point five six establishing a lodging facility license program item eight ordinance o two thousand and nineteen three amending title five of the lakewood municipal code by adding a new chapter of five point five five regarding licensing of short term rentals in the city of lakewood colorado item nine there's a title difference on this ordinance compared to what was first published online  seven county of jeffersons state of colorado item ten ordinance o two thousand and nineteen five amending chapter two point five of the lakewood municipal code pertaining to initiative and referendum procedures item eleven approving of the city council's special meetings of november th and november twenty six two thousand and eight een and accepting minutes of the lakewood advisory commission executive committee meeting of december th and their full commission meeting of november  two thousand and eighteen thank you i'll now open the public hearing on item six resolution two thousand and nineteen five nobody's indicated a desire to speak i'll close the public hearing and ask for a motion mara paul i moved for approval of council minutes for accepting acceptance of the minutes of boards and commissions order all ordinances introduced on first reading to be published in the denver post with public hearings set for the date included in the ordinance and for adoption of resolutions all of which are included in the consent agenda items introduced into the record the city clerk second thank you all right there's a motion a second any questions i'll just make one comment for clarification on item six two thousand and nineteen five the annexation of properties parts of green mountain are actually not in the of lakewood green mountain frederick hayden park so this is the annexation to bring those properties while we own them and they're protected park lands this will bring those properties into the city of lakewood and our inventory  establishing projects and project funding levels for the two thousand and nineteen capital improvement and preservation program neighborhood participation program all right we have a presentation i'm gonna invite his name down our principal planner and she's going to talk to us about some of the good stuff thank you mayor and councilmembers i'm holly bayne with comprehensive planning and research division it takes just a minute minute okay well what i'm here tonight is to ask council to approve staffs recommendations for six projects that we are okay thank you um and before i before i begin the whole presentation i just wanted to give you an overview it i'll be speaking about tonight i wanted to give you a brief program background a brief  review of our selection process and criteria the status of past projects that have been completed this past year in two thousand and eighteen and then staffs recommendation for the two thousand and nineteen projects generally are we have four project requirements to meet the neighborhood participation program first each project must have a general benefit to an entire neighborhood and not just a single few the project must not significantly increase city maintenance requirements the funding level per project cannot exceed sixty thousand dollars and the project cannot currently be in the five year cip pia budget we do have a competitive process each year we open up project applications in may and generally close in september the applications are then reviewed and evaluated by a staff team from planning comprehensive community resources and public works projects are scored by based on a weighted criteria which i'll explain in just a minute to you and then projects arranged by staff and presented to the council for approval the selection criteria that staff looks at is the benefit of the project versus the cost of the project to construct whether or not the project improves or increases the health and safety of the community if the project is in compliance with the comprehensive plan and the community resources master plan we also look at the amount of neighborhood support that we was received with the application and then whether or not the project does substantially increase maintenance requirements from two thousand and sixteen the final three projects been completed this last year that includes the new steps in sidewalk connection at hudson park the new playground at hilltop park and a new picnic shelter at glen heights park and seventeen we have completed the two final projects from that year one is the art sculpture that was installed at walker branch park and the second is the sidewalk connection that was placed on rob street and eighteen we have completed the majority of the projects the new playground and benches at you trail park have been constructed the outdoor living environment at green gables elementary is complete the improvements to the community garden at green gables elementary school are almost complete they have a few remaining simple items such as a sign compost bins and some banners that they're going to be putting up we've also completed the new playground  school for this year two thousand and nineteen we receive seventeen applications for over an estimated construction cost of six hundred sixty five thousand dollars staff is recommending six projects to you this year for the total cost one hundred and sixty thousand dollars for construction our first gives me this map before you shows the areas of which we received our project applications a little yellow circle up there shows you where the applications came from throughout the community so our first recommended project for this year would be the placement of new pickleball pickleball courts in lakewood estates park our second recommendation boulevard then we are recommending small landscape improvements at mcnab park and our final reckon recommendation would be the placement of neighborhood chaos and trash cans at the entry of the and bike path at the th and gray path in summary staff is requesting or asking that city council approved the resolution to adopt the six recommended projects for funding the two thousand and nineteen neighborhood participation program that's it and i'd be happy to entertain any questions if you have any well thank you very much always a great program and an interesting opportunity for the community to engage and to be honest with you i over under park so easy but honestly the neighborhood has been really doing their best and maintain it for many many years and they have quite a bit of ownership in it so they've just come to us to ask for some help with some of the landscaping improvement asked for some help and community resources is going to prepare a master plan will there be neighbourhood input for that number one and number two is there a date certain that we can look at to have something done there there will be neighbourhood input as we have with all park planning processes i'm not sure of the certain date i'll defer to roz williams with community resources our desires to have a master plan finished before so that the community can submit projects for the next year's neighborhood participation program so that hopefully be by late august to have a plan in place that is acceptable to the neighbourhood up there one of my staff is planning starting to plan the meetings when we're gonna be getting meetings together and working on that along with the master plan for the quail street site that's just around the corner from it thank you very small parking just was very small part could you please keep counselor able and myself in the loop on that and so you're going to be working with them so that next year when they when this comes around again and they can resubmit yes so with me i'm hearing it that's the plan that we hope to work with the neighborhood and the group that we've been working with up there has thought that'd be a good thing because they weren't sure of which pieces of the puzzle and how much puzzle and there's quite a few things that they'd like to see happen out there so let's we thought it would be best to come up with a good plan to improve the site thank you because that area needs a lot of open space and parkland thank abel nice job with the participation program it's always a pleasure to hear it i don't think even we can make a controversy out of neighborhood participation i'm sorry our attorney thinks we  i do want to know who owns the old mountain belle side at colfax and wodsworth that's the landscaping project right the site the the vacant site there is city of lakewood how did we get that i think we got it with the road with the road widening intersection road widening many years ago and it was just left over right away that belongs to the city so great that's why we're able to go forward with this thank you very much and uh i just want to say real quick thank you for your work on this our staff for identifying these projects that are in such need and your prioritization and bringing these to us for approval thank you also just want to thank you and everyone involved including the neighbors who submit these projects and we've had a couple completed in ward five lately the hodgson park steps and we get great feedback about what a difference that's made in the neighborhood and then of course the community garden at green gables and it just these projects really make a big difference in our community so we're very very thankful for all the work that you do to make them happen so thank you  i'm going to be talking about i love that these projects are community driven that's really you know people are saying what they want their parks to look like i would just encourage on the pickleball one now we have a unique situation at green mountain rec center just the topography and how sound carries more in the hills it makes that more of a unique challenge but i know that we had things that we did to mitigate with the types of you know balls that were used and the hours and all that so i would just make sure that as you're planning this out and working with the neighborhoods that you be cognizant of that you know maybe get in front of those issues but i know it's i looked at the topography it's a much different situation but just i would keep that in mind absolutely thank you and i when we looked at this we understood some of the noise concerns that we had come down at the green mountain so we made sure that the applicant got as many signatures adjacent to the park and explained perhaps what this might mean so hopefully you know we'll solve those problems before and barbed myself thank you for these projects especially you trail and you trails and rooney ranch we were out there mayor paul and i were out there for the opening of that and those kids were out of their minds excited about that so that was fun to see i do have a question for ross because i know we talked about what happened the fire truck you trail it went to a fire truck heaven how to  fortune reusing those facilities are very difficult well thank you again for all your work and thank you for the community who brought that forward were you supposed to get th vincent quickly and i'll speak on behalf of jacob and myself before we get any emails or i'm cornered at wcc a on wednesday morning i do want to note that on the th and gray path you just talked about the kiosk and the trash can but yes do not send me an email there is a doggie doo dispenser that will be there also did not mention that but there absolutely will be yeah it was the first thing that was asked for  thank you we'll make sure my letter responding to the neighborhood that i do include that that will save as many emails  overboard five and it was fascinating and then we also did counts or council update and then neighborhood concerns so thank you to everybody for coming to our meeting thank you to everyone who came to our ward for meeting wasn't quite beekeeping but we did have robust community discussion as always and thank you for everyone for your opinions and staying after to talk with us i think we wrapped it what p m that night so but thank you all for that and we are working on our next development dialogue committee meeting we're working on that it's looking like i have one more confirmation to get we're hoping sometime the first week of march but we're not going to do anything between now and the th because that is going to be an action packed next few weeks so look forward to we'll be posting the agenda and when that comes out the agenda will be thursday to the opioid forum it was well attended we had about seventy people i'd also like to thank the panel that came and participated our fire chief lombardi was there the sheriff was there mike mestas a commander from the police department doctor johnson from the health department and also my good friend sue smith from the fbi and i'd like to thank the mayor he came and spoke and also for supporting the use of the council chambers for this forum and my good buddy pete for helping me out that night even as a nurse it's very apparent to me frankly i've still got a lot to learn about opioids and exactly what's going on chemically and and just on every level with that i'll just briefly say given to patients both of them with the same demographics they both have got total knees one will become addicted to the opioid and one won't there's something going on there frankly that i personally don't truly understand so there's a lot to learn there were people that came that night that frankly have a lot of pain and suffering in their lives with family members with opioid addictions and there was some very intimate and difficult testimony that they gave it was it was needed for all of us to hear it became very apparent to me that this is the beginning of a conversation  we really need to put some more time and thought into opioids as a city and again it's just the beginning this thursday the going to have their all day legislative workshop and there will be some of us going to that to learn about some of the the interesting bills that are going to be coming forward to the state legislature some of them will be affecting us some of them won't ben is really helping making sure we get the right bills for the city to be addressing and then just something that happened that was kind of funny this last week during the snowstorm there was a huge plow that came down my street and she's for fun i thought i'd go and say hello to the person that was driving it and lo and behold for cash came pop about thank you that's enough vincent all right well thank you councillor johnson that was a powerful evening indeed and a lot of great information you may have noticed there's new signs popping up all over lakewood so there's some new entrance signs and that's part of a long long awaited i think rollout that we talked about some time ago so you're gonna see a lot more branding in the city of lakewood and different things that let you know or  mind you you're in our great city a lot of fun things going on for the fiftieth anniversary look out you might have a pop up party come your way not quite sure how that works but one was one was thrown but there's a lot of cool things a lot of great history people are sending in incredible things kathy stapleton who was here earlier if you don't remember she was a former council member so it's fun to see a lot of different folks out there  complete count committee this is for city council so an anticipation for the two thousand and twenty census we need to create a complete count committee so i'd ask you to think of some names of people in your community that would be willing to volunteer some time it helps that if they're part of an organization or know of different areas that might be of impact you know where it could be a challenge to get those counts in an accurate manner so in the next couple weeks if you could give me some names that'd be fantastic and then we can continue on that for the community as a whole you're gonna see a lot of job openings for the census bureau which will have an office here in the city of lakewood and will be a great opportunity if anybody's looking for some part time part time work along those lines and lastly i would just like to close with reminding counsel that on the th we have a packed packed agenda sometimes we ask questions because we think the community would like to hear those answer that's great but if there are little questions or things that can really be taken care of in the next couple weeks through staff please do so please get those questions in i don't want to get to the point where we have second reading ordinances and we're trying to amend it eleven different ways if possible sometimes you might have to but it's going to be really important to get through that night and i'd ask the community as well if you have questions or concerns please get them in and then as far as public comment we always welcome it but we also ask that we're not redundant so if somebody is speaking and you agree with that when it's your turn just say i agree and we will mark it down in fact on public hearing sign up sheets it actually states in the record if you support the issue or if you don't so that'll go down in the that's all i have counsel franks did you have a an additional yeah good i'm regarding the complete count committee i think it'd be important for me to be able to solicit the right kinds of folks to know maybe the core responsibilities the amount of time commitment that you estimate is is it two hours a week two hours a month and maybe it's a day time commitment or evening commitment that'll help me make sure i target the right audience and make sure they know what to expect but i can get you that information