staff for joining us this evening for what it's really the end of the budget process but the beginning of the public side of this opportunity for the committee to start to weigh in and for council to start to dig in this will be followed by two public hearings and tonight for your public input participation that phone number is one six four six five five eight eight six five six with the webinar i d of nine seven three one eight zero four zero one seven eight and you will press pound to join the meeting and that the city of lakewood is experiencing unprecedented times due to the pandemic as you know this affects the budget and the budget process the city is adapting to the current circumstances continuing the important work of serving and the residents of lakewood and safeguarding a sustainable financial future this budget presentation is a financial reflection of the communit priorities and a collaborative effort of city council staff and community members to develop a plan that continues to provide quality programs and services for the community to first start with the budget calendar as you know we had a budget night board meeting on august thirteen and today we have a council study session will then have on october t lakewood reinvestment authority and then next steps and answer questions starting off with city budgeting is stating to level out so you can see that this is one of the indications that lakewood is moving from a growth city to an established city moving into the budgeting process as i mentioned this process was done with the input of city council staff and the community continues to ride quality programs and services for the community while addressing significant financial constraints we appreciate the input that all of you have given to us it's very valuable i wanted to give an additional thanks to the directors of the departments there was an extraordinary team effort put in by the directors many more hours dedicated to the budget process to ensure that we have a budget that is sustainable and i focused on the community priorities i also wanted i think ryan diamond for his valuable work on administrating the process and countless hours of put in putting together the budget book as seen it's quite large and last but not least i would like to thank kathy for her unwavering leadership in the process as you can see on this slide the direct actors first started with the community priorities and then we analyzed the different parts of the budgeting starting with estimating our revenues and then we moved into higher priorities  expenses looking at programs and personnel capital projects in construction this is where we identified the reductions that we had to make the seventeen million dollars reduction from the general fund then we moved panelist and let the record note that she is in attendance used for any purpose then we have capital project funds which is specifically for acquisitions or constructions and maintenance of capital facilities or other  two capital project funds we have our capital improvement and presence and preservation plan and then the equipment replacement fund for enterprise funds it is a government owned business that has no more than ten percent state or local government funding lakewood has the golf course sewer stormwater and water utility so the four  ds for enterprise for special revenue funds they are restricted funds allocated to discrete purposes so lakewood has a grant fund tabor open space conservation trust heritage culture and arts and economic development and the last category is internal service funds and its use to account for the cost that ae shared or allocated across multiple departments and funds such as medical dental and other insurance related costs and there are four funds within internal so again this is city wide we're looking at the revenue by fund so city wide this not shows the distribution of revenue by fund that is forecasted for twenty twenty one as you can see the general fund is the largest followed by special revenues here is special revenues capital projects  and enterprise funds and internal service funds the city is experiencing similar challenges in revenue for the capital fund as the general fund as the city infrastructure ages each year a larger percentage of the revenue in the fund must be used for annual maintenance rather than new capital projects since there are not a corresponding growth in  mayor council city manager's office city clark city attorney finance h r municipal courts and planning each individual department is  in all other is less than three percent of the total spending that we have for the city so that's why they were grouped together and then we also have the non departmental which is best twelve percent that's gray and that city wide employee benefits debt obligations special projects and self insurance funding you can also see that each color within the department  eighty percent of public works expenses are non personnel so expenses like you can also see that the community resources has forty seven  the twenty twenty adopted budget the twenty twenty revised budget and the twenty twenty one proposed budget the general fund which is the blue bars here you can see the decline in revenue from two thousand and nineteen of one hundred twenty nine point eight million for nineteen down to one hundred and eleven point eight million in the two thousand and twenty revised budget that's that reduction that i talked about that we had to make for the general fund and then it improves a little bit in twenty twenty one for the proposed budget one hundred eighteen million dollars for the cares act these federal dollars ae being used for response recovery with these funds the city has distributed grants totaling close to four million dollars to lakewood small businesses and nonprofits that were adversely affected by the pandemic lakewood has also you use these funds to ensure the safety of your workers and residents using the visiting city visiting city facilities remote work has been on necessity during the pandemic and accommodations have been made to ensure that lakewood continues to function there are also grant dollars so we're moved from two thousand nineteen to twenty twenty revised they just weren't so it was moved over to the twenty twenty budget the increase in tenty discuss our budget realities for the general fund the general fund has a challenge of a seventeen million dollar funding gap from the two thousand and twenty budget as schools and recreation centers close so  businesses of all types from the pandemic the closure had a profound and extraordinary economic impact businesses and in turn on the city of lakewood there has been a significant decline in sales and use tax revenue which currently represents over forty nine percent of the city's total funding these revenues are critical for the funding of many city services such as police road maintenance city facilities and support services the general fund also has an ongoing challenge of limited revenue growth due due to tabor additionally as an established city the staff are evaluating and adjusting the financial approach for the city longer term challenges with sustaining reenue lakewood is experiencing a flattening and potential decline of current revenue  grow but there is not a corresponding growth in revenue from businesses or new residents because we're not growing as  clear is the intergovernmental that includes state and federal funding and other  tax revenue for twenty twenty one is expected at sixty two percent so this one sixty percent of all general fund revenue property and charges for services ten percent franchised fees and intergovernmental revenue five percent and all other eight percent this is a projected decrease eight percent in sales tax and use tax compared to the two thousand and property tax twelve percent increase compared to the two thousand and nineteen actuals so as a percentage of the twenty one is negative five point seven percent for the office of state planning and for a reference point last year they were for both years so twenty twenty twenty twenty and twenty twenty one with forecasts last year at five point four percent and now it's point three percent and the expected rebound is two point four percent for twenty one twenty two point twenty twenty two decline compared to two thousand nineteen for the year to date on trending for sales tax is ten percent down compared to two thousand nineteen which is an improvement from the last time i shared with you is it still shows a seven percent down and three point one million dollars so this slide gives you an example of property tax for a home valued at three hundred fifty thousand as you can see the city gets the smallest portion of this revenue property tax revenue is the second largest source of income for the city and are expected to be eleven point eight million and twenty one and an increase of six point eight percent over the twenty twenty adopted budget undertaken by jefferson county assessor's in the number of years and property tax are collected in arrears as a result the city's two thousand and twenty one budget reflects a commensurate increase in revenue lakewood and the denver metro region continued to experience strong job growth resulting in higher demand for housing and an increase in the value of properties over we don't know if that will continue with the impact  fund the blue is showing you the reenue and the gold these ones are showing you the use of the fund balance the twenty twenty five ad revenue  forecast as you can see from the development of the reduction plan there is not an excessive use of fund balance to offset the seventeen million dollar gap that needs to be addressed the approach that wa taken was to make a sustainable reductions versus depleting the general fund balance with this plan you can see that the expectations is lakewood will st twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five which i had mentioned earlier that we're expecting that we will see either a flattening or down turn with our current r conservative approach to budgeting healthy reserve fund balance balances and the carers act funding additionally the hiring freeze enacted in two thousand and nineteen has positioned the city finances to be resilient and better prepared to address these difficult times lakewood is committed to sustaining core services to residents while maintaining physical discipline which requires the city to address r revenue expense gap of seventeen million from the two thousand and twenty budget which is affecting every department in the city apartment directors had four areas of focus for the expense reductions approach which are reductions that are sustainable evaluation of resources across all city functions team rec and reorganization to realize operating efficiencies and the blue bars that are here the other colored sections these show you where are the reductions were made to fill the gap between revenue and expense this includes total it reflects the seventeen million so we're still making a reduction of seventeen million but that when we actually got all the details the fall out of where it came from changed a little bit and category by category through this process there were four positions that were eliminated and there were forty seven positions vacant when we started the reduction process and we are expecting seventeen more categories you see the vacant positions is still at three point seven staff attrition one point six savings due to facility closures and one point five non personnel reductions net two thousand and nineteen spending level three million dollars reductions of travel training supplies and other costs two point three million dollars and then reduction of fund transfers out of the general fund seven hundred thousand dollars and that totals twelve point eight million dollar reduction in two thousand and twenty and then for two thousand and twenty one we have staff attrition of twenty four facility closures two hundred thousand reduction of overtime expenses four hundred thousand deferred maintenance and reallocation of resources eight hundred thousand revenue increase in specific area will be one police academy there's typically two per year but the chief has said that he believes that we'll still be able to stay within strength if we just have one service response increases incur creates risk of losing high performing employees was showing in the total city spending it shows how much is spent in each department and the split of personnel versus non personnel after the reductions as you can see the largest areas spending for the general fund is the police department as i mentioned before all departments owe other departments is the mayor council city manager's office clerk city attorney finance each h r municipal court and planning and then non department includes city wide employee benefits dental and medical so we won't be using the six point six but we're recommending that we use eight point two million this is a larger portion of using the fine balance for two thousand and twenty however since we're making a reduction of seventeen million dollars it's not a significant increase amendment that limits government revenue increases to inflation plus a small growth factor so here is that calculation we have the consumer price  index which includes common customer spending items such as fuel clothing food housing costs et cetera and then we have local growth so any new construction that occur transferring to the tabor fund so here's an example of what can happen with the calculation please keep in mind that tabor limits specific revenue so it does not include all however with the decline in total revenue we are expecting that lakewood will not hit the total revenue limit for two thousand and twenty so you can see that here and this is what we're forecasting but it will hit the property tax on it and twenty twenty can totally see it as it's the same scale but it is slightly above so even though there is expected to be a decline in revenue for the general fund operations lakewood will still need to transfer funds over the tabor funds the second impact this will have is the ratcheting down effect which we talked about the last time we looked at  we're not sure that's exactly what's going to happen but if that is to happen then the amount that we can collect will start to decline and the reason that this is showing it's going back up is we're making an assumption so you can see here for a twenty nineteen the general fund piece of what was transferred to the tabor fund wih seven point four million dollars this one point eight million estimate is  based on what we think the property tax amount will be over in the tabor limit and what would be transferred over to the taper fund and that's based on that we are expecting the property tax to be twenty one it's above that line that's this five point five million plus any that goes to any other fund and again we're assuming that we would be able to grow at assets or personnel and then a third for transportation and sidewalks and outdoor lighting so the projects that are listed underneath that are some of the larger projects that are  presentation and i'll be answering some of those questions and the other department director is representing will also be answering some of those questions because we got several questions pretty close to this presentation we're not going to be able to answer all of them but we will try to answer as many as we can and we do appreciate your interest in the budget and asking questions so  the first question that we had was about can council chambers and modify location due to the pandemic and the question was what are we modifying so council chambers were to be modified to ensure the safety of council staff and citizens using cares act funding however the modified nation required could not be completed by the end of two thousand and twenty as mandated by the cares act so remote meeting were determined to be the most appropriate solution so exactly what we're doing right now financial obligation but they were questioning why does that go down in twenty one so is a higher level it went down and then it went back up so the answer to that twenty twenty to twenty twenty one and then also in two thousand and twenty two we have an increase because of the final payment of the two thousand six a copd has a larger payment five point three million dollars the next question what franchise fees does the city have and are there credited are a credited to the general fund and which companies do we charge entities to use city owned right away to deliver their products franchise agreements are currently in place for two point five million dollars for comcast and four point five million dollars for the next question was on page twenty four of the budget book the budget document contemplates drawing down the reserve fund in two thousand and twenty two also but  level of the reserve after two thousand and twenty two is not included do we have that number yes it's twenty point three million dollars projected fine balance at the end of twenty twenty two and one thing i forgot to mention during your presentation is that our fund balance for the general fund will be maintained at ten percent or higher for every year that we're forecasting so the next question is page one hundred and eighty one of the budget book city attorney's office i am assuming these figures do not include legal fees for outside counsel such as defense counsel for self insured property and casualty and worker's compensation etc is there a identified elsewhere in the budget the amount projected for outside and special legal legal counsel it an item in each department budget or is it included in the overall city attorney's budget so the answer is most budgets for legal costs are included in the internal service fund of workers comp and property and casualty i'm sorry not most modest budget for legal costs are included in the internal service find of workers comp and property and casualty and that totals sixty thousand per year public works also has a budget for water rights otherwise all legal costs are consolidated within the city attorney's so i think that's all questions but i will be answering tonight we do have other ones that we will have to do a follow up on and each of  so this is just an overview of some of the things that we're going to be covering tonight just what we're going to be using our tabor funds for sprint to talk about technology and to talk about property evidence thing i want to talk about is computer technology and software updates we believe that we'll use approximately six hundred sixty thousand dollars for our records management system for data conversion we're also going to be converting our current property evidence data system to our new records management system we also have a digital information management system which handles our photographs and recordings and things like that and we're replacing that system that's end of life we're also replacing our training software it's what we track all of our police training with it's required a peace officer standards and training board and they are are going to a new system called benchmark so we're upgrading that system going to that system as well and then we're also purchasing mobile based computers and police radios for new recruits and replacing radios as they become outdated so again that's approx point six hundred sixty thousand that we'll be using that those tabor funds for so holly can you go to the next slide so we're also looking approximate seventy seven thousand dollars to purchase some new freezers our property evidence warehouse  different things such as black blood kids sex assault kids things like that dna evidence and so these current freezers are reaching end of life and they're really an important function that we need to maintain  also looking at evidence lockers to hold more guns securely and looking at supplies such as evidence bags shelving some other things just to manage our property evidence intake and that's approximately seventy seven thousand years that's the that's their lifespan and then we're also looking at some security upgrades for our parking garages garage was built in nineteen eighty four and and we've had some incidents in the past where cars have been damaged in most of our police cars or in their employees park in there and through the years we've added some security fixtures but it's always been a lack of funding that we haven't been able to do everything to we're hoping to finish that off this year and also we have a  add some additional security cameras in high crime areas and then our property or our crime lab crime scene processing lab vehicle was replaced was gonna be replaced because it's also at the end of its life and so we're looking at upgrades to that we need to add additional heating and cooling capabilities lighting interior for the interior and exterior and it needs a very robust vehicle because  crime scenes for a long time so we get the vehicle from the factory but none of the upgrades that we need are included in that so that's what we're going to be doing that that vehicle so  so so we have we will be purchasing body cameras that's now mandated by the state of colorado but we have looked at body cameras in two thousand and fifteen and we also looked at him in two thousand and nineteen trying to purchase but we've never had the funding to really do it and sustain it because it as you can see it's a very expensive program and so now senate bill two hundred and seventeen requires these cameras for all local law enforcement by july  hopefully a lot of this depends on the availability of the of a selected vendor to provide these cameras because there's a high demand for them now especially in colorado because it's mandated but i can tell you our agents are fully in support of this and they we also need to keep up with records released to the public in discovery to the district attorney's office plus we also need to review these footage for investigating crimes and we also are going to be reviewing footage to make sure we're holding our police agents accountable and so there's that there's a lot of a lot of footage that goes with these these cameras also we need support from our i t department and there's some infrastructure issues with our internet that we're going to need to upgrade great as well so that we can download all of this information to the cloud and so we're anticipating ongoing cost of equipment employees and digital storage to be one point five to five million per year so it's a pretty significant expense but it's a good tool and we're moving forward with that so gay i know there were a couple of questions that i wanted to respond to so tabor expenditures on page three ninety three that were fifty seven thousand eight hundred and there was a question whether that was  out maybe if you turn the camera off that might help with the audio maybe we lost the chief there he's right can he's at the very end of his presentation are you back chief yes ok you just has a few more questions to answer right let's see if we can get through these the physical fitness assessments yes sir ok ok that's right where in the next part is just a question about staffing in the police department and we have a sixty to agents listed in the support services we actually have sixty two employees and support services but there's only three police sworn police employees in that division so our police agents are spread to patrol and investigate patients and that division only has three sworn so and then  there was a question regarding our police academy and with recruits be enough next year will part of part of the reason we're looking at is because we had such high class high numbers of classes or recruits in twenty ninete over strength right now so we're anticipating that twelve will be will work out but we're going to monitor that and if we need to hire more we will it's just we're going to evaluate that in april so i believe those are all the questions  i had so with that i'll turn it over to the director of public works j hutchinson thank you chief good evening mister thank you chief thank you mayor good evening city council i'll run through a number of projects public works is involved in we won't cover all the projects we'll focus primarily on projects that are going to begin construction later th i'll start with some roadway projects these are projects that have already been approved by te city council a previous budget as our most of the ones that i'll talk about tonight the picture on the left is an aerial view of the intersection florida  union boulevard boulevard is going up and down slide north and south florida goes only to the east at that location this is a location that's met the warrants for a traffic signal for some time and we've been able to find the funding to build that signal utility work's already begun traffic signal ought to be constructed as we go into twenty twenty one the middle picture is an area where there is significant interest in pedestrian crossings on union boul you go north of alameda avenue past cedar to what's called siri lane which is next to the wendy's it's actually a private drive that's called siri lane that's where the pedestrian crossing would be it'd be much much like the hawks signal it's farther north near the light rail station the third picture is of the heart of kipling actually on the north side of hamden a long line of cars or folks waiting to make a left turn to east on it and that project is also planned is to start shortly the first two of these three projects are tabor objects the third one has a significant grant over about three quarters of the expense d it's about to go to construction in the th in the lamar project this is on the south side of thirteen th going west from lamar i believe its three properties to connect to an existing existing path the bieda are open for construction here actually i think they open tomorrow so those will be under construction in the next mnth or two there's a path from the w a line garrison street station east to sd street today people who are are traveling east and west on that quarter on foot or on bicycle or other means other than a motor vehicle after cross th avenue a couple of times eliminate the need for that crossing and and get them straight into the station this does require a waiver from rtd that we've been working on so but i still think this will be under construction later and this year or next probably next the first avenue project on the south side is  a safe routes to school project that grant covers about seventy percent of the project and that'll be a nice addition in that area where there's buses there's pedestrians it's the main entrance to the parking lots for creighton on the east side the school the next one i highlighted as you and i need to explain what that word means it's newly shown in the budget it's not a new project this is one we received a grant for i think last november and i pass that information along to the city council by email but this will be the first year to actually show up in the budget and about seventy percent of that is a grant also next  bjorklund mentioned and this is the stormwater project that i wanted to highlight it's in the vicinity of th avenue in union drive these are photographs that were provided by some of the neighbors on the upper photograph the white is hale but regardless of the hail the the the storm water crests over the curb cuts across right next to the corner of this home and runs on down the street that you see in the lower picture and affects quite a few properties in that vicinity this project's a hundred percent funded by the stormwater management utility which is an enterprise fund and not affected by some of the other economic situation gyms that we're dealing with right now next slide please another one of the enterprises is the water system lakewood has a small water utility it's about seven hundred and fifty customers in the far northeast part of town but we do have a couple of projects that are about to go to construction the first is a couple of just the blues near th avenue east of fenton and loops simply eliminate dead in water lines and water lines have a couple of challenges associated with them one is that you have to be vigilant about maintaining water quality because you can end up with stale water at the end of the line and so we have to flush those lines using fire hydrants which is a little perplexing to people in arid area where they see these fire hydrants running water out to the street but it's a water quality health issue and that's why we do that this will reduce the need for that the other thing that we'll do is provide a second way for water to get into certain areas instead of being at the end of a dead end line where if there's a failure upstream there's no other way to get water to someone this provides a loop that can allow water to be served from two different directions so we have a couple of doing a fair amount of reconfiguration there instead of just replacing the line in place all the way for that length under colfax avenue we are going to replace some of under colfax and other places we'll be able to provide water from different directions  that is the line that's had the most susceptibility to breaks in the last year or so it'd be good to get that one taken care of again this is one hundred percent enterprise funded work the picture on the lower right is is a picture of le service lines something we've all heard about as the city council knows the water department has an active program approved by the health departments repost place those lines and all of denver's service area including the lakewood utility area as we generally i think they'll be cooperative and be interested and those will be replaced at no cost to the individual property owners next slide please i want to talk just a little bit about future new projects  this too is probably no surprise to the city council but the trend capital projects again this is outside of the utility is the inner prizes has been towards capital expenses being used primarily to maintain capital facilities and replace capital facilities the capital improvement fund has been ahead in that direction for a number of years we've talked about that and other budget study sessions in the past nineteen and its effect on revenues has accelerated that tr d to the pint where these next words that you're about to see we're able t still do some things on next slide please including fulfilling our legal obligations and maintain maintaining and replacing infrastructure to the degree that we have in the past we are also going to be able to finish the approved discrete projects so if a project's been in its path city council budget and the capital improvement fund or the taper fund we will be able to complete those but there won't be many opportunities for additional projects you'll see that here in this next slide there are some exceptions however even though that will be limited there are some exceptions the three enterprises as i mentioned earlier are funded separately projects but other opportunities are to be fairly limited so i want to spend the rest of my time in the presentation before i answer a few questions talking about tabor fund new projects if we go to the next slide i'll introduce as you know in the green gables development occurred in unincorporated jefferson county wadsworth was modified significantly it has three north family and three southbound lanes adjacent to the former country club and then some left turn lanes as well this project would extend that three lane section each direction further south about two thousand feet south measured from the south side of the green gables development that two thousand feet is all lakewood  that eastern leg which has been planned now for some time could be constructed the new traffic signal will provide for fourth leg and that while it won't be completely constructed with this project it'll be all set up for that purpose  so how do how do we fund this well there are a couple of things first of all let me hit that third bullet there morrison this is a proposal from the colorado department of transportation and we've been working on ways to put together this project jointly whch is wadsworth today is a state highway so they have certain maintenance responsibilities the pavement snow plowing there are things that the city is responsible for but not not much with this change four and a half million dollars the state also controls the two million dollar federal grant you see there and so out of this ten million project about sixty percent or so is this provided in state and federal funding next slide please this is an aerial photograph of that area in the yellow areas the project vicinity just north of all northeast of that red line is unincorporated jefferson county where the green gables development occurred toward the lower part of the slide there's also a red line it's a little bit more difficult to see but that's vasser avenue the north side of as er avenue is in lakewood the south side is not in lakewood so you can see this project completes that portion of wadsworth from across the lakewood frontage from the former green gables country club path on that side today there is no part well that's not true there's a dirt path that people use walking this full length that's shown in yellow here this project would create a concrete paved path a shared use path primarily separated from wadsworth by several feet so that there'd be a little bit of a buffer there from the high speed traffic for pedestrians bicyclists and others that would be on the path that is a new project proposed in this budget with that have to happen there will be an igad intergovernmental agreement state there will be some some design work some utility relocation some property acquisitions before the runway actually is constructed in a few years i think there are three questions that have come up from city council members that i'll go ahead and address here before i yield the floor the first had to do with the neighborhood participation program on page four hundred eighteen it shows that an amount of two hundred eighty thousand for the twenty twenty revised budget and then for twenty twenty one through twenty fifteen it shows one hundred eighty thousand per year so it's one hundred thousand dollars less in the later years rather than the two hundred eighty thousand and the first twenty twenty revised and i i greatly appreciate this question because there are two ways that can be understood and it's easily misunderstood since we don't see the previous year numbers the two thousand and twenty revised number  is the one hundred eighty thousand which is the normal budget has been for a number of years also care has to carry forward there are projects that were previously approved by the city council that are not complete to complete those projects that the previously approved projects will be complete the second question i also greatly appreciated it was about whether or not skipping a year of street resurfacing costs might be helpful how much would that be can we do that for the long and it is a large program chosen in capital improvement preservation program at about ten million dollars a year it escalates annually just to deal with construction cost escalation so it's a large program and it's an interesting question it is capital improvement funded not general fund improvement or not general fund funded consequently the reduction or absence of that program for year would not help the general fund it would only be in money available for the capital improvement fund fund purposes we certainly have looked at this question in multiple years this has been one of those years because of the effects on the capital program the covert economic impacts deferring maintenance does result in more cost over time which was also mentioned in the question and so it's not a good thing to do for a long time it's not a good thing to do a large amount however like streets are generally good to fair condition so early in this year as it began to have its early affects think it was in april we began looking at whether we should scale back that program at least for a little bit of time to generate a little bit of breathing in addition we have to make those decisions fairly early in the year because the program here we are in september and the programs have been essentially done for more than a month and so to work with the contractors we had to make some decisions back april may timeframe we did scale back in twenty twenty we cut the program by about two and a half million dollars so that's about a twenty five percent cut of the program for this one year after looking at the options the high uncertainty about the economic situation back in march and apil that was the decision that was made and it's been very helpful it's allowed some of those things i mentioned earlier to continue which is to complete the projects that the city council had already authorized but we don't recommend that we continue that practice either twenty five percent cut level or any other level frankly we investment in the roads is very substantial roadways when they when they have a curve decline that gets steeper and and so deferring maintenance doesn't get proportionally more expensive grows much quicker than that so i would not recommend that that program be cut fully for a year or substantially for another year the third question that i'll respond to was about the effort to find a solution for the municipal organics recycling needs and the community's recycling needs of organics this is primarily tree limbs that sort of thing yard waste this isn't an effort that's been underway for a number of years as you know and it is an interdepartmental and that was the question has the sustainability division of the planning department involved in this discussion they certainly are as it as  community resources department the parks and and forestry folks also have a need for this type of facility occasionally so all of those departments are involved in various degrees and trying to find a solution to this this challenging question i think it is the last question that i had to respond to tonight and with that i will turn the floor over to director kate newland of the community resources department thank  can you hear me now can you hear me now we can hear you now hi mayor and council nice to be with you tonight thanks for the opportunity to share some information about our projects with you so tonight i'll be talking about our completed project and projects that are underway as well as our neighbor the neighborhood participation program projects that we are involved in and  also touch on the tabor projects next slide holly so just recently finally completed was the glennon heights pool renovation and this was a project that started way back in two thousand and seventeen with lots of public engagement which did which did cause us to revisit the plans because we got a lot of feedback that folks didn't necessarily like what we were planning so it took a little bit extra time in planning but we have a beautiful site for people to use hopefully next year the bath was completely renovated and we also did some renovations on the baby pool and that involved adding a couple of small splash features and depth entry when the when the construction crew went in to start working on that pool we learned that there were some significant leaks in those sea in the circulation system so that also added some quite a bit of time to this project idetify where that where the problems were coming from and we were able to replace all the circulation with peavey pdc piping which has been a great a great change so we can't wait to welcome neighbors back there next year and that project was funded through a combination of open space and general funds next like and this is a picture of the old and we have experienced nothing but packed shelter the one on the left since we opened this park after the renovation and since that point in time we knew that we needed to try to accommodate more people in the shelter so we had the opportunity to get some seed funding and this is a great addition to the park again hopefully we'll see lots of people out there enjoying the space next year and next life last year we completed three really great additions to adding brook park and those are we replaced the playground you can see the new playground pictured in both of those pictures there that was an npp project we also added a fiftieth art installation to celebrate the fiftieth of the city of lakewood and that was installed in october of last year that's a really nice area on the southeast side of the park that kind of is sort of meditative and reflective area if you haven't visited you should check it out it's really quite lovely and then lastly we added a fitness court which is on the south west side and sort of southwest side of the park also a really great addition it's been very busy and that was funded with a grant and some open space funds next like the next project that has recently been completed also took quite some time is mount air park new lighting mount a located at fifty twenty west th avenue and this is a park that was poorly lit and an area of town where we see some undesirable activity so we we were able to get funding from open space and allocated it last year and we've been able to replace all the lights there and then add quite a few lights in some areas that were not well lit before so we hope that this is going to help with kind of deterring some of that undesirable activity that park next slide what you're looking at here is idlewild playground replacement wilde is at one zero four zero zero west th place which is basically between miller and lee on th that's a small park and it's due was overdue for a new playground equipment and this is what we're putting in there that's being installed as we speak we're hoping that will be completed by next week by the end of next week and that project was also funded through c the next slide shows cottage park which is currently in progress cottage is located at one hundred and ten south cody street this was our former meadowlark cottages site where we had early childhood education programs for many years it was a former our one school building buildings we got lots of feedback both through public meetings and lakewood together and both on the site plan which you see the concept of right here and then also on the naming of the park this was a naming opportunity that we haven't had before well for many many years and so people were excited to submit ideas for names and they voted and we ended up with a favorite being cottage park that project is being funded through open space and insight plan review right now and next li quail now that property is owned by denver water and we are leasing a small portion of it to put a little park in there and add some park and recreation amenities and we'll also be adding a sidewalk there so that  this project is also in the site plan review process right now when we hope to be building it out next year that project is being funded through open space and then the quail street i'm sorry neighborhood participation program these are the projects that are scheduled from npp for next year we're putting a labyrinth in at chester portsmouth we're adding a playground at westland park and that that playground was part of we we contributed to open space funds to the npp projects so we could do a larger renovation at westlands so it's not just a playground we're using open space funds to add a pedestrian bridge and  quite a few other amenities you can see in that slide there sort of an example of what we're hoping the park looks like we're also adding a shelter at harrison park and eventually getting to doing landscape improvements at the corner the southwest corner of colfax and wadsworth that was submitted by the forty west as an mpp project and were excited about what we're going to be able to do with a community build there but that has been put off it was originally scheduled to be done this had to be put of because of the community built and the covered issue and you're looking here at the  pictures of the taylor property which jay just mentioned in one of his previous slides and he covered very well the access issues that we are very excited about getting resolved so we have set aside six hundred and open space funds to match of the grant the top grant and and then we'll be using some of our tabor funds to develop the park we've working closely with jay and his team and see dot to devise a plan so that we can as quickly as possible get access for folks out onto that site the next slide is pictures of what are hoping for long the bear creek greenbelt trail this is really an exciting project for us we're going to be replacing and realign anything the concrete that is that's gone bad along the trail and then we're also going to be adding a parallel trail that will be for joggers and walkers and then the concrete for cyclists people on wheels if you will that'll be a crush er fine trail where else we'll also be replacing two bridges and rebuilding and realigning some of the areas along the trail that have some really dangerous and scary curbs and so forth along with the tabor funding we are also a plot we've applied already for land and water conservation fund grant the amount of three quarters of a million which we hope will help us to meet the goals of this project and then in october november this year we'll also be submitting for a open space jefferson county open space funding to help to add some amenities such as some restrooms the stone house and so forth so  this could be a really great project it's going to take a while but because of all the funding and the challenging turns and there's a lot of floodplain issues and so forth but once it's complete it's going to be a really really great addition for the citizens and it's a regional amenity as many of you know others not just lakewood residents use this trail but it's been identified in jefferson county's trail plan as a priority project for them knowing how how much it's used across the region so we're very excited about that i also wanted to mention that we we did complete a purchase an acquisition of the toty property which is an addition to the  oh yay which is an addition to walker branch park which we've been working on for many many many and wanted to do that for many years and we finally were able to put that deal together and that really that makes that park complete i think so next year we've set aside some open space funds to do the planning for a new kind of what are we going to do with that new addition and how are we going to improve the park overall so we'll be we and then lastly upcoming projects i just wanted to mention a few of the things that other things we have on our plate next year a building infrastructure improvements we're working on energy improvements you'll probably hear much more about that from  jonathan when he does the sustainability update for you in a couple couple meetings and then we'll be replacing playgrounds at james harrison and morris park i just mentioned the walker branch planning we're continuing to work on the caretaker's c e cottage restoration which is at belmore park and we'll be working on two creeks park development and lastly we we have on our plans on our schedule for next year to start working on the master plan of right street so this is a park over in the union corridor area that has not master plan done on it yet so that is on our plan and i think that's my last slide so and i also got some questions that i can answer right now tonight and perhaps some others that we'll be able to answer a little bit later so let me go through those questions the first ten thousand has been identified we do believe that it's going to be about three hundred and fifty and it's also identified as a site improvement project on page four hundred and forty two it's listed there it's funded through open space on page six fifty nine this was the next question question number two the lakewood park tennis courts eight hundred thousand is budgeted for replacement these courts are operated by a vendor who charges hefty rate how does this fit with our core community values these court these the answer is these courts were built in nineteen seventy three they'll be forty eight years old next year and that's just  physical infrastructure improvement that is one of our core community values and the courts are owned by the city of lakewood it's our responsibility to take care of them and again i think i dd mention that the funding source for those improvements are open  open space and that's exactly what open space funds are intended to do help us care for our aging infrastructure and make park improvements number three question number three is there was eligible area the second part of the question there are no citizen reps it's the committee that goes through the evaluates those projects is a us staff committee the staffers representation from every department and then those projects are also put out for feedback for public feedback for thirty days and that's according to hud guidelines and then the next the last question that i have is why is two creeks park which has open space funds not coming sooner and the reason this has been the you know the detention pond that's at th and wa worth has previously said i wanted to use it and then they weren't and then they were and then they weren't now we are in communication with them and we are working on how to get that everybody's needs met so we're working collaboratively with them which is why we were able to put planning in the budget for next year and park development in the budget for twenty two and that concludes my questions as well and at this time i'll turn it back so in terms of the main presentation this is the conclusion of that and then we will have presentation from robert smith we're looking forward to hearing your reinvestment authorities i'm going to be talking a little bit about that our budget is separate document and you may notice that you get the separate documents in your in your in your package there's the there's the city budget right here and then there's the  budget they have different covers or different documents because the nra is a different unit government if you look real closely too you can kind see that there's a difference between the two budgets right there and we'll be talking mostly about this budget  before i get going too far i wanted to mention in this budget the economic development fund that some folks are robbery are familiar with lodging tax the hotel tax that's taken care of in this particular budget so the economic development fund is up in funds over here lakewood reinvestment authority completely separate and the other other one here obviously we're struggling right now with our hotels and whatnot accommodations are a fraction of what they normally would be so difficult times for the economic development essentially the question was you know what revenue sharing agreements do we have in general and so let me answer that before i get too far into the lrad budget and the answer to that question is that one on four hundred and fifteen has to do with two areas that are associated with the colorado mills and denver west area both of those were put into place right around day out year two thousand when those projects were annexed into the city and that's why they have that kind of recurring basis all the way until to tw twenty five year revenue sharing deals the other ones that i'll mention it's not a tool that we use very often in one in terms of revenue sharing but the other two things that i'll mention is that we have for urban renewal areas and i'll mention all those again when i get to the lrad budget but the that are in general and that's really all the ones there so hopefully that answers that question to the satisfaction so moving on into the l are a budget again separate unit of government so a separate budget altogether holling if you wouldn't mind switching up the  slide in there we're going to celebrate some of the things that we were able to get done in two thousand and twenty i would say overall this budget is what i would call it workman's budget meaning that it's taking care of all of the things that we do on a day to day basis it's based on property taxes or more accurately the increment above property taxes from the base kind of complicated but bottom line is they're based on property taxes and those have not yet been affected by perhaps they won't be into the future but there's not a lot of  fluctuation in this budget from the previous one you see right there the alameda streetscape project that's something that we've been working on for the last great rave reviews from the community on this one lot of green a lot of landscaping sidewalks up both sides of alameda avenue here you're looking at alameda from you can see the staples building right there in the lower right hand corner in the upper corner there is downtown denver and you see that medium that's in the middle there that's landscaped it really is creating  place making sort of an arrangement there that median in the middle do as part of this project so we're able to add to the transportation safety of that you might recall before you were able to transfer your rail make a left hand turn against all three of those  smartphones as they walk along the street they can do so safely because it's a detached sidewalk but hopefully in the future they will be tipping their heads up and checking out all of the great landscaping that we've put into this project next slide please lot of the trees that were already in existence in the background of this particular shot you can see mature trees that have been there those were left into the project kept the project designed and the project and then you see in the foreground a couple of new trees planted those eventually will create shade all lakewood downtown you'll notice the red stone there because essentially this this alameda corridor was designed to be the way in which denver rights would get to the mountain park so the red rocks and  is towards the west towards those mountain parks from from the east and you can see benton is in the foreground there moving from left left to right and again you see those two great sidewalks with the with the distance in between them that detached from the from the highway so you c walk those sidewalks safely along the way and you can see an incredibly large right of way there that that right was actually we we acquired that back in the nineteen thirty in order to get that done and we completed this project in tw twenty so just goes to show you really only need about eighty five ninety years and you can you can get the projects done and get a mob loan there so next slide that's looking the other direction and once again there and you can see kind of have that intersection comes together there's the discount gas and making the foreground of the chase bank and then some of the other properties over towards federal and into denver i would challenge any of our folks to go out to federal turn around and head west on alameda from federal and you will immediately notice when you cross sheraton you work your way into into lakewood much different feel much different vibe for the streetscape that's one of the things the nra has invested into this is a great program because we combined funds not only from th aaf and not only from the lakewood reinvestment authority but also some developer funds from the folks over there at belmont next slide we have finished up this project we sent the drone out before it was done but this is the what we call phase d it's sort of that residential area right arund pearson alameda all of bieda the right way that you see over the side right behind the bus stop all of that's been completed has a great number of trees over there it's going to be a great shade grove that's over there for those folks and you can see some of the improvements that we're put into there those loans are obviously payments that were associated with them every year our finance department being the top not paying attention to detail kinds of folks that they are determined that we could get a better interest rate so we refinanced those those things for the remaining portion of the loan to save about one hundred twenty five thousand dollars for bieda folks there and that will go back into the urban renewal fund and be able to use for blight mitigation in our urban renewal area next line i'll mention that we have a total of four i talked about that at the beginning and if you're looking at that you say well gosh robert looks a lot like three well it's sort of three because two of the areas are in that that lower one in the west alameda corridor you can there's a phase one  years on there so part of what we want to accomplish with the lrt in two thousand and twenty one is to really refine soe of our projects our resource allocations things that we want to do for each of these areas moving into the future so next slide if you please these are some of the things that we've got planned to do in two thousand and twenty one they don't change the budget per save and that's wy we still have that workmanlike budget but we're in the twenty twenty one with the lrt commissioners we'll be talking about planning for those existing areas using those resources to figure out what we're going to do in the horizons that we hve left on those we made use of possible new urban renewal areas along the way we've talked about the fact that this is a pretty good tool urban renewal for mitigating blight in the city there's some other areas that could use that i have my what i believe is the concluding slide we'll find out it is and so i will say thank you express my gratitude for your time and attention you've been gracious enough to give me eleven minutes and five seconds of tonight so i'm going to turn it to miss hudson because there were some that came in and i know steph really tried to get as many of them answered tonight so let's finish out these and then i'd like to you know just ask there's public input we also have members of the budget and audit committee on the phone as well and if they have any and just to reiterate this is a great opportunity to really push this out in the community and i know going forward there's going to be a lot of questions from from community members and council mayor so for a point of reference we will be posting this particular presentation on liquid speaks so anyone who wants to see it between now and first and second reading you're welcome to go to the website and get that at as i think holly said toward the end of the evening we received additional questions and believe travis parker kind of director can answer some of those questions the board and after that we're going to have scott hefty come also on the screen because there were a few questions about the court's and scott is prepared to answer those so travis if you please read the that i can answer which is what do we do with the homeless outreach grant and the answer there is this grant is through the police department's cat team that grant was a one time grant from the colorado health foundation more thing we got noticed today brand new hot off the press that we will be awarded an additional seven hundred thirty eight thousand dollars from cdc g to be used for covert purposes so that's that's on top of the three hundred seventy thousand that we already received that got come in front and view for an appropriation action but this is funding from hud and you may wonder how you're going to spend that money so quick and hud has a different timeframe and we're it looks like about a three year window to spend these additional dollars of course they have to be used only for covered purposes but that's another three quarters of a million so i think that's great news and you'll be seeing that come in front of you in due time so thank you thank you travis and now scott hefty or courts administrator if you would please read the questions that we received about the courts and first read the question and then provide an answer thank you so these these are funded traditionally through the general fund but it's very minor funding the majority the funds are come from personnel costs so for example teen court we have a probation officer who stays from six to eight o'clock twice attorneys we throw a party identity or with pizza and cake so it's those types of funds for supplies and those things if you're looking at the sum the reduction on that that's under services and supplies so we essentially did a lot of reduction of supplies in for the probation department and the courts and the court department number two in reference to the classes are the classes and counseling that juveniles or adults get referred to funded by the city or these state or county program majority the programs that we do every referred juveniles youth to our are nonprofits in the community so they're like for example the jefferson center where we're for juveniles for the road program or for juvenile mental health counseling for adults they go through some abuse counseling anger management relationship counseling those types of things those are done on a sliding scale for that so those there's nothing comes out of the city for those those services those are all those are all referrals for defendants who are convicted and adjudicated for domestic violence they do go to state approved programs do the dv oh and b which is domestic violence offender management  they approve therapist throughout the state of colorado to provide this therapy that is self paid in some instances if they're veterans or other types of low income indigent folks they have reduced sliding fees  that's all the information i have those two those two questions great thank you mister hefty yes sir miss mayor now general questions we don't have ay specific questions ok great thank you all right with that i will now open the public input portion again this is no the general public comment public input on stud sessions is geared towards the presentation that we all participate in for the last two hours really well done very thorough and i also want to thank counsel for getting those questions in so with that i will open the public input portion maybe three minutes and you'll press star nine requests to speak in star six to a mute and miss salazar do we have anybody in the line outside of our budget and this is kind of the first blush so if you have questions that's great any comments or if you think of things in the next few weeks we can do all of that as we move forward so on the line we have an if you do just go ahead and press star nine and then start six two  ok well if you think of something or want to jump in just let me know when we can come back and i'll now turn it over to city council let me get to that screen see i do not have any hands raised at this time core services andg all of that i also i was one of the people or maybe the only person who sent in questions late so i want to thank everyone for already having many of the answers to those those overview there was mention of a potential additional cares funding through the county and i just wanted to to ask about that if we had any information if we were if we are expecting to see additional funding so that's my question thank you counselor good wine mayor if you'll allow me i'd like to ask holly to respond to that she's really been the keeper of all things  our finance department and all of our department heads who participated in all of the staff that participated in putting this budget together it was a very i know it was very challenging given given our situation you know and i think you did a great job and i just want to thank you for all the thought and hard work you know seventeen million is no no nothing to sneeze at when you have to make that up  think again and i've said this before where i think part of that was just because we went into a pandemic situation in very good shape to start with the city with our reserve and with having done hiring freezes and other other things that really put us in very good financial shape to start with so when we came into this we were in a position that a lot lot of other cities would really envy i can tell you that so  and then we made some changes where we needed to i appreciate especially the hard work that was done with our public safety our police department to maintain the level of number of our agents on the street and our certified agents and on patrol and so forth so that we hired folks don't experience a loss in services on that end there's you know we've basically fully fully continued to fund our police department even under these trying times and i i appreciate that and i know our citizens d too so thank you all very thank you i also wanted to say thank you very much to the staff it's it's when we look at these budget presentations and look at the size book that we've all been going through here we really see what's going on in the whole city we can see the quality of the folks that we have and the quality of work that's being done and all the hopes and dreams of the future of the city are sitting right here in this book i want to say thank you so very much to all the people that put it together and really come together and do all this good stuff because i think this is fantastic it really shows us what the city of lakewood is really like i'm sorry that we have to cut this much out of the budget because that's that much more good things that could be happening but i think we've done it in so far in the the most painless way of doing it in a way that we can do it and i just have to say hats off to everybody i think you've done such a great job one thing one idea that i would really challenge all of council for is if we can come up with a really good way describing how the effect affects tabor and the budgeting process i think that is very hard for the general public to understand and if we can come up with a drawing a paragraph or whatever i think we all need to really put our heads together and come up with a way of doing that because that's going to be a hard thing to explain on down the road so thank you very much staff and that's my challenge to council thank you mister harrison and thank you for that i know the budget audit committee has discussed that and i think that's something that could be on their radar as we move forward and i would just echo everything that has been said and just say you know as we look into next year's retreat i think for me one of my my main things will be our financial future certainly and what does that look like with everything changing as well as our urban renewal areas starting to come off and so how do these things all play in the future so i'll save that for down the road but certainly for tonight a lot of information a lot work and one of the smoothest ones i think we've had and i want to credit council for really trying to get your questions early and allow for those to be answered during the presentation so i don't see any other hands up and unless people are watching the bronco game and not the screen i don't think that we might be done with this portion of the budget and just to reiterate miss bjorklund can you restate the dates as to the next two public hearings skilling you had your hand up but i think maybe you were jumping in with the dates numbered okay all right well great well again thank you too to everybody who's on tonight and to miss hodson and her team and we'll just go right into reports and i'll start with ward one and go toward five so ward one mr abell or miss johnson please thank you mayor i just want to remind everyone that district attorney lady who is the director of the drug and alcohol screening program and works with businesses regarding drug free places i was just and we're hoping to share with everyone of course we had some technical difficulties with the bad microphone so we're gonna have to try that again and though i think this budget conversation is a really good one perhaps that's where we can yes can you hear me yeah i wanted to report that i was contacted by the producers at sixty minutes about three weeks ago on the issue of  in excess of use of force and was interviewed by them at length twice over the past two weeks they're doing a story on the use of ketamine on citizens in colorado specifically allegation mcclain deaths i gave them a great deal of my research it was a very great honor regardless of the direction that they choose to take with their their news piece to likely be the first lakewood city councilor ever to be contacted and interviewed by sixty minutes i don't know that for sure but i'm guessing this speaks to the importance of the issue regarding the use of ketamine and denial of civil rights and medical rights in colorado i'm organizing a task force of medical legal activists journalists so for to stop the use of chemical restraint in colorado and pursue legislation on the issue maybe hold the ketamine summit and to that end i am meeting with representative leslie herrod and the grassroots law poject this week on the issue at this very night aurora city council is considering lakewood is deafening i am trying to change the world here and make it a better place and could really use some support from my council and mayor and city leadership thanks all right ward fo thank you i'll go ahead and start i just wanted to let you all know i one of our residents who you all know well james meeks has reached out to me to talk about  suicide prevention and just what what role we can play as a city in this conversation and it's it's a very important topic to him and i know you i'm sure that many of or all of us have been touched by mental health issues and family or friends and so i will potentially be submitting a request for justice study session or update about mental health issues i know that will probably be in two thousand and twenty one before we're really able to address that and so in know residents from all areas to join us in that and we'll be sharing information as soon as we have it but i wanted to let you know that we that is something that we are working on  will alo actually care and i mean you talk about our next word meeting and thank you for setting up our speakers on that thank you thank you dana i appreciate that our next award meeting will be a discussion on the marijuana initiative and we've got two speakers a pro and con that will be there and would be would love to have any of anybody that wants to attend we'd love to have you right a couple quick updates so i wanted to just mention and certainly in the virtual world it's a lot different but we have a lot committees that are meeting and so an idea was brought forth by one of the council members we talked about trying to do committee updates you know once a month or you know as needed and so potentially putting out a little form that just is easy for either the chair of that committee or members to put together that talks about who's on the committee who was there what you did and just be able to help the community understand because you're all on multiple committees doing a lot of different things as well as doctor cog transportation all kinds of other things so we'd like to i'd like to try to pilot that and i know we we're gonna try to do that as a goal this year to have more updates from our committees during our meetings but haven't had the chance so i want to just throw that out there to you all and to the community also wanted to mention that alameda connex is gonna do a bike ride on september th at twenty six and october rd sounds like they're meeting at the village roaster at nine a m and so that sounds like a pretty cool community event and then this i did send to the communications folks in regards to cove it and the information that we put out about  but from hunger free colorado one in three kids are going hungry and there's a deadline on september twenty third to access fifty five million dollars worth of unclaimed benefits for ibt and so that could really be meaningful to a lot of kids in our community and so we'll try to make sure that that is out there for the community if anybody is watching or council you want more of this i'm happy to forward this email it looks like in jefferson county there's thirty two percent are parties painting and there's a gap of about seventeen thousand kids who are not participating in this so we have until next week midweek to get that done and to get people signed up so with that lastly i would like to just give a congratulations to miss hudson who celebrating her th year as our incredible city manager and just want to thank her and i'm sure time flies in your all of eleven years but top hats off to you that's quite a ten year so thank you and i'd also like to thank our lakewood police department for all they do so enjoy your evening and we'll see everybody next monday thank you