and celebratory and who knows where we go from there but that's why you should hang out and see what happens so if you have a cell phone if you wouldn't mind putting that on silent we have some special folks here today who are going to come down and lead us in the pledge of allegiance and also talk to us a little bit about four h so come on down to our wonderful group so when we do the pledge allegiance if you wouldn't mind remaining standing for a moment of silent prayer that would be great  please be seated and if you wouldn't mind going to the mic you can just go back around tell us who you are what school and we're here to talk a little bit about leadership so feel free to share that as well okay i'm ja savage and i'm go to golden high school and i do a bunch of projects in h i do leadership leathercraft small engines and a few others that i don't remember right now that's great  great my name is finn hansen i go to golden high school and i do all of the same projects as jake and yeah she was born in mid january about it alright thank you my name is kayla hampton and i go to devlin junior high school and i do cake soap making very cool well we appreciate you all coming out i learned a lot and it looks like in august i'm gonna be judging or showing your pig so that'll be quite cool but you're doing amazing things and and i learned from all of you that you're also trying to help help your fellow students and in peers and friends so thank you for that and thanks for coming out i hope you enjoyed your day at the city lakewood hensley this is this is really really cool and i asked nicole of all the wonderful places she's been around the world lately lakewood city hall chambers is probably the most impressive nicole hensley attended rooney ranch elementary dunstan middle and green mountain high school's and went on to attend college at lindenwood university in saint charles missouri and whereas nicole hensley started playing hockey when she was nine for the foothill flyers and was the only girl on her team and at the age of eleven started playing goalie full time after coming up through the ranks in the foothills system she played two seasons for the colorado selects girls through nineteen triple a team and whereas at lindenwood university nicole hensley was a four time all college hockey america athlete compiling a career average of two point nine eight goals against four shutouts an all time ncaa division one record of four thousand ninety four saves and a point nine to one saves percentage that's really good and whereas she has played in two international ice hockey federation women's world championships and captured gold medals in two thousand and sixteen and two thousand and seventeen and was also part of gold medal winning teams in two thousand and sixteen and two thousand and seventeen for nation's cups nicole hensley is the number one goalie in the two thousand and seventeen world championships and allowed only two goals in three games and whereas as one of the goaltender's on the us women's hockey team nicole hensley won a gold medal now this is amazing and it's probably the happiest this whole crowds been in here in a long time so we'll certainly take that so we want to present you with a couple other things this is really cool so this was a letter that the vice president of the united states michael pence sent to me but it was actually sending this to the city of lakewood and congratulating you make sure that you had that and we are going to do a couple of other things this year we're gonna get a signed jersey from you that's going to hang in our lobby and we are gonna include you in a anniversary video for the city of lakewood th anniversary which is next year and then we are going to have civic center flags with your number and gold medal hanging throughout yeah so we're really thrilled really excited and if you'd like to say a few words you're probably used to this  i don't know if i'd go with yous to it but i just want to say thank you so much for having me here today and growing up and like what has been a huge part of my success and to grow up in a very family oriented community where i was able dunstan and in green mountain all fantastic schools that my sister and i were lucky enough to attend and and play high school sports in which we really enjoyed and just so thankful to be part of a community that that values family and safety and all those things are so so important for kids growing up today and just yeah thank you so much for having me tonight and in the proclamation we didn't we didn't mention your probably your most favorite shutout which just happened recently yeah please yeah i just i played against the olympic athletes of russia in the olympic games and we ended up winning five to nothing i believe and i had thirteen saves in the game so i wasn't too busy that girls played really really well that game and that helped us secure a  first round by for the elimination rounds and so we went straight to the semis to play finland and then on to the final for canada we wish you all the best and thank you to your family for all the hard work and dedication and they had to sit through my state of the city speech as well so they've been doing the tour for you when you can't but thank you all very much all right read the next item five presentation advisory commission for an inclusive communities annual report all right good evening all right welcome tough act to follow i know but a wonderful act to follow threadable thank you well good evening mayor paul and city council members i'm bruce voice toll the chair of lake woods advisory commission for an inclusive community commonly called a cic with me tonight or vice chair lawrence labor and secretary  explanation of who we are what we do and why we serve a cic is a thirty member commission that advises city council and policy questions such as creating dog parks encouraging recycling or allowing some liquor sales near schools we are lakewood residents a cross section of current or former teachers engineers accountants grocers foresters police officers and the like we are grandparents parents basketball coaches and soccer referees we range in age from a bright and energetic colorado christian university student to a bright and energetic eighty year old world traveler although we have political differences among us we share a love of lakewood and a belief that through careful research and thoughtful discussion we can recommend solutions that make common sense and find common ground we will now report on our accomplishments last year in our plans for this year as we do i encourage you to think of the three eyes that are on your screen in front of you in your guidance to us last year you have suggested that we improve and make more consistent our internal work processes and reaffirm our end up judgment as a commission also we plan to always give you proposals that will have a positive impact so we take these three themes of improvement independence and impact seriously existing commissions and the city council created a cic to allow residents to directly provide public input on selected policy matters and in the ensuing decade a cic has also taken on additional chores such as providing an ambassador program to give council input from relevant area meetings we also and as some of you had mentioned to me already tonight we work hard to stay educated and we take advantage of lake woods educational programs in civics the police department the prosecutors and planning so we do all that in terms of keeping up to be able to vote on those issues since two thousand and seven a cic has presented over seventy projects and assignments including for example awards for leaders we recommended recommended ways to recommend community leaders in lakewood which led to a nomination committee and the mayor's inspiration award on recycling in lakewood parks and open spaces we presented a proposal in two thousand sixteen to encourage the use of big bellied trash and recycling bins in our parks and we saw those big belly bins opening and actually functioning last month and the third example of diversity on boards and commissions we completed research and made recommendations to gain more diversity representation on city boards and commissions also a cic has been a proving ground for additional city so our current executive committee is in front of you in terms of the three of us and also tonight we have jeff porton who's here as part of our sustainability members to please stand at this  and now here's florence thank you bruce the a cic commission is made up of three officers and twenty seven committee members who serve one on one of each each who serve on one of three committees the civic awareness committee makes recommendations that promote civic responsibility and participation through the education and to create more connected citizenry a couple of proposals they've done over the past has included a leadership liquid program and promoting civility in lakewood the neighborhoods committee makes recommendations that create relationships by encouraging involvement with diverse populations to improve neighborhood pride and quality of life some of the examples that they've done over the years have been smoke nuisance like residential outdoor fires and city of lakewood th anniversary ideas which is next year as we've talked about the sustainability committee makes recommendations that support and encourage a bounce for vision of conservation and renewal examples that they've done is bruce talked about as recycling in lakewood park and open spaces and additional community gardens in two thousand and seventeen we had quite a productive year for the a cic and our member a few assignments that we've worked and recommendations that we worked on included recommendations for having a community celebration that includes fireworks and we're happy to see that city council adopted this program through the budgeting process and it's our understanding that the big boom bash will be held at on th of july at jeffco stadium a proposal that suggested ways to help advertise and educate residences on bicycle or safe bicycling in lakewood and recommend the recommended changes to the liquor distance requirement in regards to the relationship between schools and liquor city council adopted the ordinance which eliminated the five hundred foot requirement for hotel and restaurant licenses in an effort to continue our education last year over the past few year our past year sorry over the past year a few of our guests included damron who educated the aci c members on the history of liquid streets and their names as actually quite interesting sally a member of the action center who gave a presentation on the programs and services for our low income residen jeanne ramsey and holly bayne from the city of lakewood historic preservation committee who told the group about the kind of projects and commission the commission works on and criteria for preserving an area or property and  dave appel from the clements community center who spoken to many programs and services available to the seniors within our community we have also started and to revamp our research and proposal variety to share best practices in an effort to increase an increase to the deliberation of topics going forward and speaking on that i'm going to introduce secretary nekoma landry who is now going to speak on behalf of our future plans of a cic thank you lawrence there are a variety of projects currently in the works city council assignments for a cic to research and provide recommendations include examining youth tobacco use state and local laws regarding tobacco use consequences of regulating tobacco products and the possibility of licensing tobacco retailers and liquid exploring the possibility of conducting a car free day event including possible locations around the city where the event could be held grassroots incitements include recommending a possible name change and mission purpose statement for a cic to better reflect who we are and what we do ambassadors for the city of lakewood attending other agencies and organizations public meetings and reporting back to city council on issues that may be that may be pertained to the city of lakewood we would like to for being ambassadors currently ambassadors are attending jeffco parks and open space advisory committee jeff co board of commissioners foothills animal shelter board jeff co public schools board of education and the regional air quality council meetings i'll turn it back over to i want to end with three points first we pledge to continue those three eyes we will improve our process skills and reports we will remain a strong independent body and will make a positive impact on our community also we want to note that we appreciate all the assignments that we do get from city council and we're glad to act as a sounding board or and any other capacity that you ask us to do second a huge thank you to the city for the three wonderful staff who've served us this last year margie who played hurt for much of the year ethan and michelle did a tremendous job they're always positive helpful and knowledgeable and we really really appreciate them and when i was talking about why we love lakewood those guys are part of the reason that we really do lastly we want to invite interested residents to attend an cic meeting on the third wednesday of any month whether you want to see what we do or consider becoming a member please join us at for a committee meeting and six thirty for the full commission meeting more specific information is always available on the city's website and we will make you feel welcome that concludes our report and we'd appreciate any questions you might have great well thank you chairman and to your bo and all the members i had the opportunity to come and visit with you at your retreat which was fantastic and i'll tell this body they're looking for work so and and i explained i explained to them we have quite an agenda as everybody knows but they're more than willing and they're excited to get to work and i also encouraged them to look at things that they see in the community or areas in the community where they can bring things forth as well so again want to thank you every year i mean i say this i said it last year it gets better and better the work you're doing we are very very grateful and wants you to always feel that that you have a great importance to our community into the work that we do so with that are there any questions look at this scaling i guess you shouldn't give him the mic he'll start a sign and work counselor harrison i just want to tell you thank you for all the hard work that you put in as a commission as you mentioned earlier i  got to be on a cic many years ago and it was absolutely one of my best experiences with the city of lakewood it's really fun because you get to think about a lot of things but the best part is you don't have to put on gloves or boots to go do them you you come up with great ideas and then pass them off to other people to do so it's a wonderful way to make a big difference in the city of lakewood and you guys do so thank you so much and since we've actually have we have a lot of youth here and we've had a lot of youth participation is there an age limit as far as membership goes there we go send that out into the community there we go all right well thank you all very much the clerk please read item six item six resolution two thousand and eighteen eleven reappointing members to the lakewood planning commission all right and i'm gonna turn this over to councillor franks thank you i will turn this over to councillor franks there we go is we of the screening committee i'm always impressed with the quality of the folks who come to volunteer their time for us and it's a real privilege to announce these appointments and i'd like to share that with commissioner councilwoman franks tonight so tonight tonight we would like to reappoint the following two individuals to the lakewood planning commission johann cone for as award three representative and alex bartlett as the ward to representative and we'd like to see if you're both in the audience if you could stand to be recognized is there a second second we have a motion i also frank's would you like to make a motion yes no future all will finish through with that i'd like to move that for the accepting of the recommendation for johan cohn award three and alex bartlett ward two for the planning commission second now i'll second it all right motion is second any discussion please cast your vote and the recommendation is to reappoint the following individual to the lakewood historic preservation nicole lane nicole are you here not seeing her i will go ahead and make the motion to accept the recommendation for nicole lane to be appointed to the lakewood historic preservation commission second motion in a second any discussion please cast passed is eleven zero eyes zero nay the clerk please read item eight item eight resolution two thousand and eighteen thirteen appointing and reappointing members to the lakewood board of appeals and the recommendation is to appoint matthew leonard and reappoint robert france as members to the lakewood board of appeals are they both the gentlemen here  that passes eleven eyes zero nay we actually have some work for the board of appeals right keeping me busy so thank you and well the clerk please read item nine item nine resolution two thousand and eighteen fourteen reappointing a member to the lakewood judicial review commission a recommendation is adoption of their resolution will officially appoint patricks and of all andrea point mavis salazar mccall's as citizen members of the lakewood assistance compensation board andrea point mark dietl as an employee member of the victimization compensation board are those in the audience here so they can stand and be recognized not seeing them i move to accept the recommendation second second passes eleven eyes this is zero nay all right well thank you to everybody that was quite a quite a list you guys have been meeting a lot so thank you to the committee as well and are we fully stacked are we still looking for volunteers i have an important announcement and that is that we've recently been notified by gsa otherwise known as the general services administration of the federal government and through this notification they indicated that the department of health and human services otherwise known as hhs has denied the request by the colorado coalition for the homeless for the property the fifty nine acres on the federal center site so just to reiterate  know that may bring several questions gsa is planning to proceed with the public auction where the property that where the property was before the injunction by c that's really all we know at this time i commit to you that as we get additional information i'll make sure that that is distributed to you as well as to our website so folks can stay updated i know this is of great interest to you and certainly to our citizens so thank you thank you thank you to you and your staff for all of your hard work throughout this as well so this is the point where we're going to have public comment and before i go to public comment i'm going to go a little bit out of order and go to councillor skilling who's going to talk about one of the items on the consent agenda thank you mayor so the item on the consent agenda and i apologize i don't know the exact number on the consent agenda as the fee and lieu ordinance that we had on for first reading item fifteen item fifteen so  i'm gonna move that we remove that item from the consent agenda and that we move that into general discussion and the reason that we're doing that is to reschedule some of the upcoming events in particular moving the second reading back two weeks and then in its place on april th putting in a follow up session in which we will consider the planning commission recommendations and some of the red lines that have been presented we'll go through that red line get a consensus and discussion on april th and move forward with the second reading that's what i would propose so council will discuss that and i thought that was important because i know some in the community had thought that there was an opportunity to speak on first reading ordinances and in fact a community members sent out a wide spreading email saying come and make a scene at public comment we demand to speak well we certainly always want to have you have the opportunity to speak but we also have a process in place that allows for first reading ordinances that's the setting that's the notification to all of the community that a public hearing will be taking place at a date certain so there was some questions about that this weekend and i'm sorry that you may have been misinformed but if you ever have those sort of questions reach out to one of your councilmembers we'd love to have that opportunity rather than i think spreading fear and other other things throughout the community so with that i will go into public comment and this is the point in the meeting where the public is invited to address the city council on items that did not appear on the agenda all comments should be directed to the city council i ask that all in attendance observed the decorum in the city council chambers and refrain from applause or audible support or discord with the speaker there is a three minute limit time time period on this so this little box here will go green for two and a half minutes and it'll go yellow for half a minute and then it'll go red and i'll politely try to wrap you up from there so first up mister mace did you mean to sign up under public comment or were you all right that's what i thought come on down good evening welcome city councilmembers i've got a big problem immediately there's been issues at watchable station between the hours of because it used to be better there was a good evening welcome yeah good evening their city council haven't been here in a while but and this is kind of like the first time i wanted to address on a personal matter that affects me personally so i've always talked about general principles before but so i'm the president of westland village homeowners association and i'm speaking today on behalf of the fifty one homeowners of west homeowners association i don't really pretend to know the personal opinion are very one of them but i know that the general consensus that is that we're all frustrated and before i get into the issue personally i feel very fortunate to live in ward one because ever since i've lived here for the last twelve years we've always had at least one member on city council who has empathy for the concerns interests and needs of of the residents of ward one and i  would say that currently we have two members that have empathy so my hope is that someday i don't know when but my hope is that someday that's that the staff will have the same level of empathy and then that level of commitment of sixteen of our fifty one homeowners after reviewing a number of beds over the last few years we finally accepted a bid from western maintenance for the job they dismantled and removed the old car ports and they installed  asphalt for the new car ports and then i don't remember the exact days but it i believe it was in july or august i think probably august then that the city put a stop work order on the project so basically we expecting to have this done in in august maybe september at the latest and if you if you look at your calendar winners already over so they're still holding us up they're still i it may be resolved  that i don't know if so far but so i don't really know the details of why the original permanent was cancelled but that's really beside the point my main point is that that the delay that we've  d from the city over the last eight months is unacceptable i am not questioning the fact that our contractor has probably made some mistakes in the process he probably has not died at all his eyes and crosse perfectly but that's really no excuse for the way that our fifty one homeowners have been punished by the city so and you know if my comments seem harsh it's after months and months of frustration and my main point is you know i don't really know all the details of all the problems i really didn't get involved personally in questioning what was my what was going on until maybe november i'm a little bit more initial problems but my main point is that should not take eight months to communicate to the contractor what needed to have taken place in order to for the permit to go through that's my main issue it should not take eight months and i don't even know how much longer it's going to take so i don't really know whether the staffs job in the matter is to help us out or otherwise but if they're seeking to help us i just i haven't seen any evidence of that and all the communication i've received from the staff there's been a few emails and one personal meeting and a few things like that  communication i've received from the staff has always been very smug and it's always our fault it's never their fault it's always somebody else's fault and that's part of the issue is that you really can't correct your own shortcomings if everything's always somebody else's fault so that's my main point that it's taken so long it should not take eight months i have other issues but don't have time to get it into  now so and i'm not going to stick around to hear a response because it's getting close to my bedtime so i'll find out later thank you for your time so we'll make a quick response we'll have somebody to get back to you we have your information right here and we'll figure out what's going on and have a great night all right m hi my name is laura mcgee i'm a constituent of ward three i live in lakewood do i i don't need to state my address ok no we have it on file you're good so the last time that i came and spoke before a council was more than ten years ago where i brought petitions from students schools parents to fight to keep school resource officers in our high schools i think i've maybe attended one or two council meetings but i'm not really aware of the protocol now for speaking so if i overstep i'm sure you'll correct me i wanted to first thank the council the individual members for everything that you have done in listening to constituents to oppose the development by cch on the federal center property i think for the first time i know a lot of my neighbors and i felt that in many years we have council members who are in fact responsive to concerns and who show caring to those concerns i would like to thank councilmember skilling for over a month ago i was in the city manager's office and he simply overheard me asking questions he stepped forward and gave quite a bit of his time talking to me and redirecting me and helping me learn that my own council members have a monthly ward meeting i have two in fact who they give generously and i've since learned most of you do the same for your constituents i read the i'm not sure the city the city newspaper is called lakewood something alright i read  your statement where you in the beginning this the one that just came out recognized that we do have a lot of fears about the development in our community at our ward three saturday meeting we had a presentation by robert smith of the economic development department where he is very proud and gave us a very entertaining presentation that the city of lakewood has forty four square miles just like san francisco and then as he flashed through thirty minutes of slides for development it occurred to me oh my gosh our fears that you want to turn us into a city like san francisco are may be justified there are fears i think you all heard concerns that we have about the way we are moving in development number one which i never hear anybody talk about is water we don't have the water to sustain this kind of growth we are looking at higher and higher density and i'm hearing a lot about affordable housing being batted around and i don't hear anything about what do you as the governing body consider affordable housing to be because we have the buzzwords of mixed use every mixed use development i've looked at those housing costs are out the window young twenty year old young thirty year old professionals and families can't afford those prices so what is that last summer i guess i started becoming a lot more involved because we tried to just get the hours changed in our neighborhood park we have a lot of people from denver come into the park we are having more crime we are having a lot of drug paraphernalia which somebody from the park department affirmed to me that they're finding a lot of things we have kids etc having sex in the park at night we wanted our part to be from dusk till sunset from sunrise to sunset so what we learned was that the director of community resources i think is the only person in the city who can approve an hour change and they want those hours standard across the city this brings up we have a city council city manager form of government and so in pursuing this and since this ordinance is now removed from the agenda i'm looking at a proposed ordinance for the parks where so much authority is given to that same director so council members establish policy a city manager implements policy and when you transfer policy decisions to the city manager you are abdicating your responsibilities and for citizens to be told that we cool okay so for us to be told that we have no recourse to try to get this done it makes me think how many places in the city code do we have this exact same problem where one person has that much authority which is really council authority so i'm asking you to please revisit that and as you're changing other sections and give us the opportunity to comment on that and hear us about the high density development concerns thank you so much thank you thanks for coming back o pushing the process until it finally got done i think you all have something to be very proud of in that document lakewood citizens have been concerned with the interpretation and lack of enforcement of mixed use zones for several years now because of that city council established mes zoning as a priority at the annual retreat in march two thousand and seventeen in late summer it was then handed off to the planning commission to address along with several other issues that needed to be addressed the planning commission then went to work diligently spending many hours coming up with open houses and study sessions to address all of these issues i think they did a great job i intended one of the open houses and while i was there and i got to address some of my issues i heard some of the planning session where the chairman and some of the commissioners were gracious enough to let the public make comment even though it's not something that they typically typically do at their study sessions it was at that study session that the planning director provided his rewritten ordinance on the mas own to the planning commission he removed some words added some sentences and basically turned it into something that represented his interpretation of the ms and not the citizens intent of the mes so at last city council study session last week city staff brought in a guest speaker to explain to city council why the city planners planning directors interpretation of mes was the correct one it's my understanding that the zoning ordinance is a citizen's document it was developed by the citizens and with the citizens purpose and intent in mind the new rewrite of the ordinance which the city's website and which will be the focus of a planning commission public hearing on april th is not written to protect the citizens intent but rather to benefit developers it is a travesty i don't have faith that the planning staff will make changes to it regardless of the comments made at the hearing due to their inability to respond to the community's wishes up to this point with respect to the m zoning ordinance their development dialogue has been a one sided lecture with this when this ordinance comes before council in the coming months please keep it keep in mind the citizens concerns that you've been hearing over the years and vote to protect the intent of the citizens interpretation if city staff and city council believe that that mes intent is not defensible in court we need to do something about that hi nice to see you again nice to see all of you but i think i hit a button i think you're all right okay hello members of the city district today i come before you with a request a request for a simple common sense regulation a request to regulate the sale and purchase of dangerous weapons inside the city of lakewood specifically we would like to see a halt on the sale of bump stock attachments for semi automatic weapons these attachments can turn legal semi automatic weapons into weapons that can spray bullets like an illegal fully automatic rifle these attachments were used in the murder of fifty eight people in las vegas when the shooter broke through a window in the in a las vegas hotel and used a converted semi automatic rifle to spray gun fire into a into a crowd of people people from all sides of the political spectrum have agreed on this issue donald trump has even taken a ctions to regulate bump stocks most of his actions haven't gone that far and democrat dianne feinstein has introduced legislation that would ban bump stocks but it is not gotten anywhere in congress with the similar when a similar bill was held in the state legislature it was also killed in the absence of action on the federal and state levels it comes down to our local governments in to ensure that weapons which have bit the potential to cause massive damage are regulated we are asking for a ban on selling bump stocks if an ordinance was passed concerning bump stocks it would make our community safer so i stand here as a student a movie watcher a concert attendee and as a concerned citizen asking for the simple regulation to be put in place so that we'll become a safer community for all of the residents that call this great city home thank you thank you thanks for coming out  bum stocks are attachments that allow a semi automatic rifle to mimic a fully automatic right weapon and they can allow these semi automatic rifles to fire hundreds of rounds a minute bump stocks were used in the las vegas shooting that left fifty eight people dead and more than eight hundred injured the denver city council in january passed a measure that banned the sale storage and possession of bum stocks and it's called if you look on the website file number seventeen one thousand four hundred version one and it's a bill for an ordinance amending one of their sections i'm concerning the regulation of assault weapons banning bump stock firearm mechanism and conforming the maximum capacity of ammunition magazines and i'm here to ask for the lakewood city council do the same bum stocks are a threat to everyone in our community while my hope is for a gun  reform nationwide it starts small here with local governments it takes small steps in the lake with city council making this step it will be a step in the right direction to step towards something much larger thank you for your time thank you thank evening most city council mayor i just want say i appreciate all of you in your work very much and i wanted to indicate my support roybal for mayor pro tem believe that he is experienced he has great executive ability he's practical he's energetic he's come up with many initiatives to promote the interest of citizens even on his volunteer and a volunteer basis he's promoted food baskets for the needy he's also developed an app for citizens to file complaints and to be to make our government more transparent and i definitely support him for mayor pro tem i feel he's a person that would meet the needs of our citizens i also wanted to i know this is maybe more controversial but i'd like to speak and behalf of the strategic growth initiative to say i would like city council if it comes before you to vote to put it on the ballot so that voters here can vote on it and then i wanted to bring to city council's attention that i know of someone that recently had two cars cars stolen on green mountain so right off of union right in the middle of green mountain area so anyway three different things thank my concerns with our city attorney's and lack of accountability i know we have a review coming up next month which i think is a good start but i don't think it's been a standard policy i'd like to know who runs a business where you're not openly competing contracts on a scheduled basis i'd like to know who in this room is a full time professional does not face an annual performance review especially in a city or corporate environment i  concerns around our city attorneys not acting on behalf of its citizens and the evidence of this has been obvious as i've been observing these council meetings and proceedings for the last couple years i'm looking for openness and transparency and the selection and the review of the end of the review process of the city attorney's i have deep concerns on how these current attorneys were vetted and based on their performance i wonder why they're still here the problem has been brought forth numerous times by the citizens of lakewood with no apparent corrective actions i would like to i would like the mayor and the council to take the proper steps and actions to back the and get back to us citizens immediately and i wanted to thank you for your time and you know what i know how much of a sacrifice you all make up here so i know i'm a little harsh tonight but thank you for your time and your service right thank you while you're coming down i'm still trying to find that eight hundred million dollars for a train to the rooney valley haven't found it well thank you sir yeah good evening alex plotkin southward court and a few council meetings ago it seemed that we were amidst one of those rare instances aware the public and the council were almost in complete agreement we all realized that it was time to review the rules for the feasts paid by the developers in lieu of the parkland dedication as well as the specific regulations related to how the parkland should be dedicated for developments of a certain size things got rather surreal during the last study session one could not help but wonder as to whether the attorney todd messinger was here to make a flat out sales pitch for a legal firm who primary business seemed to be based on playing that both sides of the proverbial fence ie representing the developers and helping the municipalities to develop zoning ordinances to mister messengers credit he actually seemed to point out some interest in deficiencies in the city's zoning ordinances related to the mixed use developments hands and furthermore one is left to wonder what has the city's legal counsel has been doing all this time while listening to the prevailing public sentiment and not  and properly editing the existing zoning code related to the mixed use development this is the latest in the string of events which leaves the public wondering as to whether the city legal counsel truly serves the needs of the city council and the public one would hope that the legal counsel is at best representative of the interest of the majority of the public and at worst is legally neutral when it comes to numerous legal hot topic issues when it comes to development however one has a very hard time believing the attorney for the town of morrison and we don't need a reminder on how contested that relationship is at this time how could the city's legal counsel allow for an entity which represents the interest of another party in the matter just crucial to the city to be hired in any capacity if the justice is truly blind we implore you to review the contract of the lakewood city attorney based on oversight such as this we the taxpayers would like to have the console and us have legal representation which is in tune with the spirit of the wider public sentiment thank you very much you like alright anybody else okay so i'm getting a little bit lakhs on this i'm going to ask that you sign up so we make sure that we have everybody but we'll bring everybody down but it's important that people get here to sign up we have everybody sign up please thank you dianne duffy i would like to speak about the fee in lieu since it's been pulled from the agenda no ma'am thank you though it was pulled from the agenda it was pulled with first reading still tonight for first reading but it's going to be an expansion so i appreciate it i appreciate you following the rules thank you come city manager and i really truly believe that so you talk in the microphone please if they knew about the problems within the city and they were trying very hard to fix them being the patient understanding person that i am i also believe they wanted to get things done i'm going to go over the goals again and congratulations on getting rid of the federal center problem the city attorney contract zoning problems in parkland the campaign finance the mayor pro tem the initiative and the traffic study also known as the travis parker comedy hour of all these things brought up at the retreat no action and what there has been is and completely screwed up re to the traffic study and the parkland fees that initiative that was going to come out today he was ridiculous i don't think anybody read it i have a suggestion fire the city attorney he is a head of the snake number two fire travis parker he's got his own little kingdom over there he can do anything he damn all want he zoned things on his own he collects fees on his own he writes fees how much they're gonna cost people he puts buildings and put in neighborhoods that shouldn't be there he runs everything why is it appropriate for him to do that why can you do this without council approval is it for the benefit of his developer allies fire the city clerk the last election of all the complaints shutting down the the website until after the expiration date on campaign finance for people did not work failed on their campaign finance report she has failed at this very important task she is manipulated by the city attorney the city manager is misess hudson nice nice to handle this type a personalities within the city is she too we that she can do what has to be done can she take back control of this city and give it back to you guys where it belongs the council as you sit up there on your thrones in a muffled voice no way you've not completed anything but we're gonna have a study session to figure out what we're gonna do  we're gonna study that session to figure out why we haven't accomplished your time is up sir good evening welcome um i was told tonight that i could show something on the overhead and i'm not sure how to access that okay we can do that i'm going to ask our clerk to look at it first since we are on television so we can make sure it's okay good evening mayor city councilmembers this is my first time speaking before welcome could you give us your name and address for the record selena williams thank you miss williams six hundred and fifty independence street lakewood colorado thank you  i brought a petition here tonight for your review this i'm here tonight because this petition was circulated in my neighborhood and we were told to sign either a or b fo changes to the traffic on our street we were not given a choice we were there was no option c there was no write in and i believe that my rights as an american citizen to access my property in the surrounding community are being violated by the proposals i work i'm not retired and these proposals affect my ability to get in and out of my property and go to work or go to medical appointments or anything else i'm also here speaking on behalf of a neighbor we have a lot of neighbors in the in the in my neighborhood that are elderly and could not come tonight and i did contact specifically my next door neighbor who wanted to come and she sailed but she said she wanted me to also share that she feels exactly the same way i do we're being trapped on our property and our rights are being violated by these proposals and my request oops sorry my request at the very least there's two proposals when it was brought around people came up with eighty percent signing proposal b and i don't know how to touch the map and talk in this at the same time  this is lakewood high school and i'm sure you're aware of all the meetings that took place they've been going on for a year because we have a traffic problem as it stands now the way it's working i'm able to tolerate living in the neighborhood and i can get to my work i'm a teacher so i have to access the road in front of my house at about the same time that students are coming to lakewood high school so it's a problem for me personally to get to work on time proposal a was voted down eighty percent went with proposal b so i just brought proposal a so you could see it it was a very strict  proposal the one that was approved at eighty percent there's a significant problem with this proposal because it's going to be instituted in the fall of two thousand and eighteen and what it's going to do is if you study it and look at the piece of work that i gave you proposal b b it's going to have traffic that comes this is sixth avenue this is the fr this is independence it's going to block traffic from making a right hand turn onto independence it's also going to block traffic coming out of the school from making a left hand turn so it's essentially going to become  one way for certain times of the day key times of the day and what that's going to do is exacerbate a problem we have a bottleneck where this frontage road interse main artery of the city and i already deal with a very dangerous and problematic ride to work just trying to get on to kipling because i always have to go kipling i either going to the northern jeffco or southern jeffco for my positions this proposal if it's instituted in the fall will make this much much worse because there's a secondary problem that needs to be addressed by the state and they're not willing to address that bottleneck there for two years and at the very least my request is that somehow council influence the proposal be not to go into effect until we have the the development on kipling because it is extremely dangerous for people trying to get onto kipling and if you've got non stop people on this street and on this service road it's going to probably require that in order for me to get to work i have to go the opposite direction go on th come up harlan thank you your time's up and we let you go over because we were moving some things around so i appreciate it absolutely and we'll take we'll get your information and see what's going on may i ask you one question sir sure i would like to know why the city of lakewood would put a petition like this out in the neighborhood demanding that we make a choice between a and b without consulting you thank you and other members here great thank you thank you and good evening mayor pollen city councilmembers i'm alan healed one hundred and thirty six seventy six west alaska place and tonight i'm speaking to say thank you i want to say thank you to the mayor and all of city council for the hard work on getting policy and procedures completed this is a very important part of the city of lakewood and i think far too to allow it to languish so it took a great deal of effort to get it a process created to move it forward and a lot  eliciting you know interaction and hard work from everybody so i applaud the process and the work that you all did i'm most grateful that the rights of the public to provide input who are alive and well in this document i think that's critical to too many of us and critical to our form of city government communication is is vital so thank you so much for getting it done thank you i appreciate it anybody else thank you i just wanted to finish the last two sentences of mike's talk it says to answer your question who runs this city it's the developers through your city attorney and it wodsworth certainly understand concerns were they to park times i also understand you uniformity as to our parks and people who use various parks but i think if there's safety issues that's something that certainly we can look at cars being stolen unfortunately is something that is really really bad in the denver metro area in the state of colorado so you know just be vigilant and our please see all the time a lot of times they are crimes of opportunity i think where your keys are left in it or something like that so to keep that in mind councilor abel you have  do i would like an explanation of why if we pull something off the agenda we can say you can't comment about it because it's on the agenda because public comment is reserved for items that are not on the agenda but if we pull it off the agenda then it's not on the agenda still the first reading ordinance i also want to touch on something else you know it's hard for everybody to sit up here and you wonder what do you say when you have comments directed at staff members and this is gonna be painful for our staff as well because they don't want to hear it from me but our community is great in yours and yours and your opinion matters just as much as susan that i talked to at the grocery store yesterday there's a hundred and fifty five thousand people in this community and the majority of them love it and the majority of our employees also work in the city of lakewood and also say one thing to say that there's any bit of corruption amongst this group of people are we imperfect you bet every single one of us are we a perfect body no and ironically there wouldn't be a need for government if everybody was perfect and if laws were just straight black and white you wouldn't need lawyers i'm sorry my colleagues would be out of a job but that's why we have these things and they're never going to be perfect and they get to the angst and they cause consternation and they caused this but to come up here and continually attack the staff we have a city manager if you have a problem  staff member don't come here and make an allegation that a thirty plus year member highly respected in our community is out threatening people that's just not accurate that is not accurate and it's not fair these people have wives they have husbands they have kids they live in our community they show you the respect and if they don't show you that then that needs to be made aware to our city manager and to say that this woman doesn't have the backbone that offends me and that is shit offend everybody in this community for somebody who's worked for our city for over thirty five years and is well respected throughout not only the city of lakewood the state of colorado but the the whole entire nation she could get up and leave any day and go work for any municipality and i sometimes question why stay here you should want to come to a place where you're respected by everybody doesn't mean you're perfect doesn't mean that you make mistakes at the end of the day this body of eleven makes the choices so if you have a problem with an ordinance or a rule that's in place that stops with us if you're upset about a zoning thing that was passed in two thousand and twelve some of us members were on the dyess that stops with us we take that blame we are the body we are the body not the staff and so i have got to say if you were somebody that was looking to come work for the city of lakewood would you watch tonight's meeting and say i want to work at that place and shouldn't we be trying to find the best and brightest and empower our staff to be creative and when you get told i'm sorry we don't see it that way that means you're wrong or a council member says my question hasn't been answered for two years no your question has been answered you just don't like the answer well if you don't like the answer let's change the law because we have the opportunity as the elected officials to change the law so i'm going to say the buck stops with us we take responsibility we are accountable to you your opinions matter just as much as everybody else in this community and i would ask actually i would beg that you show the same respect to these people who come here day in and day out who've come here for years and seen this community change and you want to know what if it's been so bad why is the city lake with such a great community because guess who's come and gone elected officials we're here for four years we're here for eight years these folks have been here for a long time and everybody i talked to says they love lakewood well i got news for you ain't cuz of your elected body it's because of the folks who work here and care about our city and i would encourage you when you look at civility think about it think about these folks who have families who've given their lives in their careers to this city and i will stand by their side each and every time  application for and subsequent acceptance of a grant from great outdoors colorado protect initiative to provide funding for the acquisition of a portion of the taylor property item thirteen resolution two thousand  eighteen seventeen adopting the two thousand and eighteen city council policies and procedures manual item fourteen ordinance o two thousand and eighteen three endorsing the projects and project funding levels in the city of lakewood two thousand and eighteen annual action plan for the community development block grant program and item sixteen improving the minutes of the regular city council meeting of february twelve two thousand and eighteen thank you councillor skilling has already indicated that he would like to pull item fifteen and put it under general business and councillor frank's you'd like to pull an item as well yes mary i would like to l one second please so i will  ordinances except for ordinance thirteen and fifteen introduced on first reading to be published in the denver post with public hearing set for the date included in the ordinance and for adoption of resolutions all of which are included in the consent agenda items introduced into the record by the city clerk so we have a motions there a second second okay so there's a motion except in motion in a second to adopt the consent agenda and as amended any discussion seeing none please okay so there goes that just went so we have eleven eyes zero nays the consent agenda passes and the city as lessee for the purpose of financing the acquisition of certain energy conservation improvements equipment and controls intended to result in energy conservation savings in certain public building used by the city to conduct its governmental business and authorizing the execution of documents related thereto thank you mister doar good evening welcome and i want to tell you i think this represents the largest step in the city's sustainability efforts in our history it at least represents the largest step in terms of in terms of dollars and cents i can tell you that  and and you'll find that this project will change what we're doing in seven major facilities across the city so that further ado let me just bring you up to speed on some of the efforts that have happened in the many months preceding tonight's sort of big occasion if i can call it that first in two thousand and sixteen we discussed with city council as a staff the idea of having an energy audit conducted of city facilities so in two thousand and seventeen january the city went out to a competitive request for proposals process and interviewed evaluated and consulted a number of different companies and through as i say a very competitive process selected the  describe with that what that means these are engineers that go from facility to facility to evaluate them in person and of course they went to all of the city's major facilities and then there was an analysis done of the usage of the buildings meaning citizens coming and going what type of activities are happening are they passive offices are they recreation facilities what might they be and then there's an analysis of the consumption of energy natural gas electricity and and water and other other uses at the facilities and then comparing those two statistical averages for facilities across the country with similar uses it's a very intense audit and is as you can see it took a number of months to complete and it's very the results very very intense very technical and fortunately we have the staff on hand to work with khabees consultants to understand the results of that audit and what was proposed was a recommendation for two million five hundred thousand dollars in facility improvements and that right there is what i am referring to in terms of the biggest step forward in the city's sustainability plan in terms of lease of dollars and cents we do have some experience doing this but nothing has approached this number in fact even everything combined hasn't quite and quite got to that level i'll invite in a moment the city's building maintenance division manager wally pak oni to the podium to describe in more detail some of the results of the audit and some of the proposed projects that will be completed through this ordinance if it is approved tonight after the results of the audit and an evaluation of it those results were discussed by community resources director kit nuland at our annual budget study session in september she described a lot of the details as to the hvac units that changes in lighting water consumption and many different things and it was councils consensus at the study session to take the next step forward in the process which was to include these capital projects these two and a half million dollars in capital projects in the city's budget the next step in october was approval of the city's budget which was done unanimously and and we were ready to move forward in the next step in the process at that time i advised council that we would go out to a competitive financing a process in order to have leas purchase proceeds to finance some of the costs of the improvements and i'll give you a little bit more detail on that after mister paconne ii brings everybody up to speed on some of the improvements that the facilities some of the results of the audit so without further ado  this performance plan also addresses some of the objectives in our liquid sustainability plan basically to implement strategies for greenhouse gas emission reductions enhance building and energy and water efficient seas and promote green building retrofits as well as enhanced the occupant when well being in the facilities that we use these are some of the components that the energy conservation will involve fifty six or old erv unit energy recovery ventilation unit at carmindy pool the unit was there when we acquired the building this will also help with the circulation of the air that unit has exceeded its useful life we and the building maintenance has kept it going and band aided it for the last number of years it's a new design it's a long lasting and reliable new system in there it will help reduce our maintenance cost for the air quality improve energy cost as well and we will be putting in d stratification fans if you've been over to the link in that renovate there's a big fan in the middle of the pool and this particular project there'll be two fans that help with the circulation also machines reliable they reduce our maintenance cost as well as improve energy and our costs as well the improvements what i've done here is the improvements are for each one of these buildings so when you look at of the buildings that were looked in that water conservation will be in there with as well as the pool our circulation will be at carmody and then two new boilers one at green mountain and one at carmody rec center so those are two big of the projects and buildings they're led lighting optimization of our h ac systems as well as a lot of conservation so this is where we will see the energy savings that we have in all of the buildings this is the projected energy saving in all of the buildings as well based on the building square foot take a baseline of the utilities from these last couple of years and with the projected interviews from the new improvements there you'll see a reduction in energy use and the percentages there that we have listed so this has been tested and it'll help us show a savings at least for the next four years these are the energy and water and emission savings so when you that there's electric savings and kilowatt hours and all the improvements that we're going to do also gas savings and therms and natural gas the water savings is based on savings in the gallons per year and then the ghg savings which is greenhouse gas per ton eater so these will be the energy water and emission savings that we'll see the next four years these are the annual utility cost savings that we'll see and these are based on the technical audit that was done also these are guaranteed utility cost savings that we'll have from each one of the facilities or a combination of all the facilities that we're going to do these projects and improvements to so these are the numbers over the next three years that we'll be seeing the savings this is the installation and construction time for the work normally in our annual maintenance for both for all of our recreation centers we do weekly closures to do an l maintenance from painting floor work carpet grout tile those type of things in these cases will extend the pool closure at carmody for two weeks and they'll get in there and do the new boiler and the new erv unit green mountain is the same will though extend the closures for two weeks for that boiler replacement and then during the work at the public safety center and the civic center north south and the cultural center and clements center that work will be done during operating hours or off operating hours it won't impact any of the programs but they'll be in there doing all of the work with the lighting and the water conservation for the other buildings and with that i'll turn it back over to mister door council i know that all of the details of the project were settled during the budget process last october but i felt for the sake of the audience and for those in chambers but also our new councilmembers it'd be great to have everyone brought up to speed and remind everybody what we're financing what's happened since our last meeting is we've gone out and done a few things related to the financing of the of the remaining one point five million dollars that are necessary to complete the project and we're ready for your approval tonight so that we can take the next step receive the lease proceeds and then we'll commence with the construction of the project the ordering of all the hvac units the boilers all the lights shower of  heads and all the low flow toilets all of those kinds of things but as you'll see this two point five million dollar project is being financed with one million dollars from the city's capital improvement fund and one five million dollars in lease purchase proceeds now the leas purchase leg of things is all new tonight so i want to give a brief overview of some of the details and answer any specific questions you have about the financing and then we'll take the next steps so first as you would guess we undertook a competitive request for proposals process you know given the complexity and the nature of this particular financing that may not have been the most efficient quite honestly because it is relatively small in the big picture and also because of the length of the term but  we wanted to do a real good job to describe what was needed in terms of the amount financed the length of the term and what the security was and see what bids we would get and as it turned out it the results i'm very pleased with and as you'll see  investment advisor also felt that the results were good you know in this sort of a situation we're really looking for the lowest rate and the lowest amount of fees and all american investment group of denver really provided the best proposal it's really easy to open those bids and low bid will typically well will almost always win because this isn't going to be an ongoing service relationship the city will take the proceeds repay the payments the lease payments through the savings and that'll be it but congratulations to all american investment group we did check their reference and they have a great track references and they have a very good track record of getting business closed and and helping out local communities fifteen year fixed interest rate three point four seven percent that's a very competitive interest rate we're very pleased to see that you know this is the city's first foray into lease purchasing for the purpose of sustainability improvements we did that last decade fact we were as a community one of the earliest to do it we financed five thousand light bulbs to replace the city signal lights from incandescent to led so we're very proud of that that all was very successful and then earlier excuse me just last year we financed the community solar garden in each of those the theme has been as is the case here the improvements should be repaid or financed through the annual savings and that's the case here  as mentioned by mister paconne ii the annual payment will be less than or equal to the savings in fact this fifteen year loan excuse me lease purchase is far shorter in duration than is the estimated savings which m ii referred to as me in about thirty years the other thing i want to mention in the terms and conditions because this is just my area of expertise in my profession we also asked for a response and receive that from all american with no prepayment penalty and that's particularly noteworthy in this era of tax reform because some of the things have have changed in federal tax reform that could could inhibit the city of lakewood and other municipal issuers from refinancing those debts in the future but we're going to maintain that flexibility with no prepayment penalties that's very beneficial to the community i'm i'm pleased to see that i don't imagine interest rates will get lower than three forty seven for such a situation but i've it is certainly possible and i have been wrong on the interest rate  projections for a few times anyway they are still very low security for this lease purchase will be all of the equipment all the property that's installed at the carmody recreation centers mister coni mentioned we're doing about one five million dollars in improvements there from air handling units and lighting and a number of things in between so that will serve as the collateral we've had both an internal and an external legal review that's prudent because we want to get expertise in the area of exempt financing and in lease purchase financing and then we want to make sure that all of those terms and conditions marry into our liquid city charter and liquid city code also it's prudent whenever the city is entering into lease purchase financing with an interest rate with a level of risk with an amount of collateral that the city's external financial advisor review the various proposed terms and conditions because if they're profession they're out in the marketplace they see competitive financings happening all the time and we sought an opinion from stifel to let us know if the terms and conditions were fair and reasonable and that was also included in the agenda packet and that's worth noting because again they're an independent  they have their reputation to stand mine and we want to make sure that we're having a fair and competitive deal even if it's the low bid it still needs to be fair and competitive in the marketplace also mentioned but i want to read it into the record is that the energy savings the money saved i should say will be guaranteed by mckinstry so if for some reason those savings don't materialize the city also has and company to help pay the difference between whatever the savings might actually be and what the payment is from year to year so that's an extra little backstop and it's one of the reasons why companies like all american investment groups are invite technical questions from council i know that the lease purchase document is is long and detailed and can be technical so i wanted to entertain any questions in advance i will also say that these documents if you've ever purchased a new home and financed that with a mortgage or if you've refinanced your own personal mortgage you know that oftentimes the the documents that come well in advance are a template and they get revised as you get closer and closer and closer to closing that mortgage loan and in fact some of them aren't filled out and complete until the morning of your new home purchase or your home refinance you might have noticed in your agenda packet one of the documents is an irs filing eight hundred and three eight g and it can't be prepared until the morning of the closing there are a lot of technical estimates and it's all related to the timing of the payment and so on and so forth so rest assured those will all get filled in and you'll notice in the ordinance there are certain numbers that can't be exceeded the interest rate can't be higher and and you know the amount of the borrowing can't be any higher than a certain threshold so those those certain belts and suspenders are in place and you wouldn't have to worry about that but there may be some small adjustments that come along but in closing and before i welcome any questions on the mayor i do want to recommend and suggest that council consider an emergency clause for this particular ordinance the ordinance the reason being is interest rates have been very volatile and they've gone up he might have seen just on wednesday that the fed reserve board under its new chairman increased interest rates for the first time this year but they were increased three times last year and that gives me concern in the past we we have had some emergency ordinances or some emergency clauses in our lease purchase ordinances so that the city can close its financing as soon as possible and not be vulnerable to increases in interest rates now very commonly we have asked our winning bidders our rfp respondents to give us an interest rate that's locked in this particular instance the lock expires before a non emergency ordinance would be would be valid it typically takes what always takes thirty days for an ordinance to take effect legally so mister mayor i would suggest that you and council consider an emergency clause be added by a council amendment to the ordinance and with that i'll just entertain any questions that might come up and of course the public will have its opportunity to speak thank you thank you thank you mister doar um and like you said we've been talking about this since september october and council we appreciate you getting all this information councils had a lot of opportunity to reach out try to understand some of the technical aspects so before i go into any policy type questions on this i just want to reiterate the emergency ordinance is something that we very rarely rarely do in fact i think in my tenure this is probably the third request and i appreciate the explanation for the and the reasoning to ensure that we get the best deal for the residents of our city with that are there any questions for mister doar all right seeing none i'm gonna open the public hearing on ordinance and eighteen i have four people who have signed up but they did not indicate they wish to speak but they did indicate that they supported the the question so do you favor the question yes yes yes yes did yeah and in fact councillor harrison has the language if you would mind i'll have her read that so i just need to make sure so do we need to make the motion and then i a in the emotion or okay yes make the motion you you have to make the motion first because you've scheduled the public hearing for the ordinance that has already and further declaring an emergency and adding section eleven emergency this ordinance is necessary for the immediate preservation of the city of lakewood speas health and safety for the following reason through a competitive bidding process the city obtained the most favorable lease rate for the lease purchase agreement number the city has guaranteed such lease rate through april th two thousand and eighteen which is less than thirty days after the publication of this ordinance on second reading and three expiration of the guarantee may subject the city to higher lease rates significantly increasing the ultimate cost of the lease purchase agreement our second second so we have a motion in a second to accept the ordinance and amended in the amended version with the emergency is there any comments pertaining to this okay i have just two one is larry thanks for explaining the eight hundred and three ji those helpful things i look for that tax form and secondly just thank you to everybody who's been working on this for a long time so we have great sustainability goals and this is going to continue to help us and i think one of the main things we wanted to do in this world or in this realm is lead by example so i hope that this can help us continue to lead the community by taking care of our own house first comes to a good wine i just also want to take the chance to thank everyone for the hard work that went into this and also i think it's really exciting that in addition to all the sustainability goals there's great financial impacts as well and great cost savings for our community i think it's the way most are a and that passes eleven eyes zero nays thank you all very much the court freeze please bring back in item thirteen resolution two thousand and eighteen seventeen adopting the two thousand and eighteen city council policies and procedures manual all right i'm going to turn this over to  thanks mayor paul i first wanted to give a thank you to all the citizens who you know came out attended the sessions and i certainly gave your feedback and wanted to start out with an explanation of why i pulled this out but first kind of want to go through for maybe folks at home who haven't been tracking this as closely we started out with an aging council policies and procedures manual and one of the first things when i joined council wanted that to be looked at and to be reviewed and so after a period of time the staff put together a really good starting point for us for that discussion to begin and so we took that draft text and we went through a very rigorous and intensive kind of  workshop process where we brought in a facilitator and we really kind of went through the language and we said what do we like what do we don't like and there was just a ton of good negotiation and discussion about all those topics and then we formed a drafting committee i was the chair of the drafting committee and two of the other members were mayor paul and councillor abel and then we would craft language that then would go back in front of the workshop meaning this entire body and we would continue to refine that until we got to language that we could all felt comfortable with and that we could we could agree on to put forth into this document very arduous process and the reason why i asked for it to be  pulled is one we've got a small typo that i want to propose a motion to to fix but we also did not get the harassment policy in enough time to run it through that same ri and it's important that this document is as well thought out or this section is as well thought out anissa as debated as the other sections and even today i heard from our staff liaison that even staff has concerns with some of the language and they would like to propose some changes as well i've got concerns and i know that there's at least a one other council member who had concerns and it's really not appropriate for us i believe to kind of do that from the diet that single text editing which we've all seen is a very lengthy and painful process to get to that good verbage for the citizens so the reason why i have pulled it is so i can make a motion to fix the one typographic error and then propose a second that we on a date certain come back and address both the harassment as well as the administrative piece that way they don't languish they get done in a very reasonable timeframe but those sections get the same attention that every other section got and i believe we came out with a better crafted document based on the fact that we did get in there and do though do the hard work during those workshops so i certainly before i okay so thank you everyone this has been a nice very thorough process and i think it was really important i i want to talk a little bit about the harassment policy  and i think that so i wasn't frankly prepared to for this this motion to pull it so i'm kind of speaking off the cuff here but basically  the reason that we decided to engage this conversation is that currently our elected body is not held to the same standards as our staff we do not have a workplace harassment policy two years ago we decided but you know we really we are leaders of our community and we should at the very least be held to the same standards that the city staff is held  since then in the two years that have passed i think that harassment has been in the news on more than one occasion from the national level to the state level to the local level  we see that in our we had a very long and frankly emotional instance in the state legislature and and i was there on the day that that they made the determination and that the arguments against the the arguments surrounding that issue were about the process and that they didn't like the process so i'll come back to that in just a moment but we also have seen this in next door in in denver so this is to me it is just unacceptable at two thousand and eighteen to not have a workplace harassment policy this is a basic very basic thing that we should all be held to there's a lot of great things in this new policy that include training so that everyone can be brought up to speed on what is expected that way you know people have different understandings what all the language means that we were all on the same page so that we're all set up for success the reason that this so originally we said okay well let's just be held to the exact same standards as our staff that seems  there and we were given that language and the issue was that that language needed to be updated because it didn't include the training portion so we had this new language that we were given and i i think it is regrettable that we didn't get it sooner and i understand that concern but the reality is is that we all agreed that we wanted this in here we all agreed we wanted to be held to the same standards as staff we all saw the language in the original document and we also all agreed that there would be a subcommittee that we it didn't go through the same process because we agreed to have a subcommittee th and myself who looked at all of the council or all of the staff policies and then you know this is what came back that other policies haven't gone through legal review yet  o i do i know it didn't go through the same process but it went through the process that we all agreed to go through so i would like to see this language in here another another point i'd like to make briefly is something that councillor beata brought up a little while ago in reference to the city attorney this is a living document and it if we finish it now it does not mean that we can't go back and say you know what we should update the pilot process a little bit more we can always do that but i feel like if this does not get passed in here now that that word there will it will be very difficult to come to an agreement on the process it's always going to be difficult i think we should use what we have and then if down the road we want to update it when there's all these other issues that we want to update let's go ahead and do that so thank you we finally have agreement and i agree with councilwoman good wine that is not quite there but it will be there quickly and i am just glad that we doing a date certain with the harassment policy to try to get it in and i think from the way that we've had our opportunity to work with miss erickson and the comments that we have and skilling's got a great knack for this this area or this body of law we could probably get this done in the next month and be able to adopt it as a whole i really do think that we have the opportunity that probably have one more meeting and do this but i certainly i think everybody on the diocese the concern and the urgency may be someone up here can provide some assurances to me because here's what i'm concerned about we have been discussing this for how long when did we start this process with two years ago in june of two thousand and  sixteen sixteen and i brought this this issue was the only issue that i was very passionate about i've been bringing it up every time i can all vouch for me that i have been bringing this up so why why are we going to be able to get this done in a month when we haven't been able to get it done in a year so yep direct that to anyone on council i think it was because we received the the inversion last week and had that opportunity so let me there's a couple more counselors and and i think what i could offer is councillor franks can do a date certain to ensure that that happens but again i certainly support more you're coming from councillor gutwein and i know that this is an important part yes  so i certainly wanted to echo this is an extremely important section we should be held to absolutely the same standard this is close to my heart i have personal experience that puts this close to my heart but that doesn't mean i want to rush through and put language in that there's some concerning language in here that i think we need to make sure we all understand what it means and that we're in agreement on it that way we can meet that standard and so i did talk to our staff liaison nanette nealon to say how can we fast track this so it always was in my intent to put a date certain because we don't want this we want to know that we're going to get this done in a reasonable amount of time and so my suggestion to her was that several of us have key points we would then make those points in writing communicate those to her then the attorneys could go back and give us a second draft that addressed those to the best of their ability then we have a single workshop to hammer through as long as we need to sit there that night we hammer through get the single text done that night including all the drafting and then get it back on the agenda to do an amendment to bring that forth as well as the administrative so the point was not to in any way delay this in a way that to not get it done but i am a process person i'll continue to stress that point and i want the chance to rather than from the d tonight pick through the language that i am concerned about i think it's more appropriate for me to give the attorneys a chance to recraft that language and get to a better document that then we can do a single workshop and produce the high quality that i'm so proud of in the rest of the document so i just want to make sure that i'm following the process that we're talking about so we're going to potentially vote on the current policy and procedures manual as has been edited and corrected we would not be including the harassment statement until after we've met and then we'll come back with an amendment for that particular okay thank you thank you councillor but frank's i really appreciate what you've done with this document it's you've gone above and beyond frankly and councillor gutwein i totally understand your concerns this has been your issue all of us understands you're passionate about it it needs to be done right and i actually have got some questions about it myself i think it  more prudent for us to sit down as a body again in an informal setting and take a look it's what some of those potential problems could be i actually support with this going forward with policies and procedures but like you this needs to be done have a date certain when we can get this finished and done correctly we'll do it right the first time and then at it good one so i certainly want everyone to feel comfortable with it so the next question i have then is if we if we go this way is it going to also require waiting for all of the other additional policies so we we looked at other staff policies that we wanted to include as well i would if we can and have this done separately and then the other part have its own separate process then i would be okay with agreeing to this so if okay so if we did that we could is a little less than a month from now or the meeting after that would be may th which is also a regular meeting so whichever you're more comfortable with we can schedule that that be for decision only right that would be for approval so it would need to be posted two weeks before that so that there's a full review and april my thought was sometime in that month is when you would meet and work that through so i'm only speaking of when you would have your final approval but remember we do need the two weeks ahead for notice and you'll catch the mayor up on that question yes i'll do that you tell solutely and then also just want to make sure that that timeline would also work for our attorney's office to be able to yes we would make sure of that okay so if it's amenable to the group and after consulting councillor frank's and my sidebar the th is actually more doable that way we can get the workshop scheduled we can get all the legal reviews done in we could actually try to just get the administrative part done but for sure have the her at the workplace harassment that could give us study session on like xxx oh it's a fifth monday you do you want a study session on this okay so i guess we don't so we need a workshop so i guess what we could do is say no later than may th and if everybody's schedule allows only get it done sooner we'll get it done soon hearing hold on so i'm going to now open up the public hearing on this resolution anybody wish to speak we heard a little bit from the folks who participated also in it with us so that was interesting and again thanks to jody nobody wishes to speak i'll close that public comment and ask for a motion and two amendments or you could just she tie it into one amendment i will do my best  first i want to let council know be sure to as soon as possible the next couple days get all of your feedback if you can to nanette so we can get that piece going quickly so mark that up get that to her let her coalesce all that and i'm gonna try this motion here so i move to adopt resolution two thousand and eighteen seventeen councils policies and procedures with one text change in section four one for committee assignments as it relates to head start changing the meeting start time from five zero p m to p m and further excluding the section on workplace to be continued for a date certain no later than may th at that time it would become an amendment okay before we a second i want to make sure is that okay to have that all in the same body okay i second counselor vinson so there's motion in a second any further discussion i would just echo all the things that we heard tonight for the drafting committee and everybody's time and let's cast your vote fees and lieu thereof this is the revised ordinance is at your place tonight that sets the public hearing for april  session it did comport with a lot of ideas from planning commission and such and that's fine that's the input that we were looking for but this particular ordinance i think needs one more step in the process we're not the federal government we don't have markup committees and so in this instance where we went from study session directly into planning commission and then back again we're missing one step and that's to take a look at the recommendations given by planning commission and rather than just a sir insert them into a draft ordinance we should take a look and see what should be in that draft ordinance and that is what i had proposed that we put on april th where we previously had the second reading the first reading is appropriate tonight because all the information is detailed memos from both staff you've got people can go back to even january th in the draft ordinance that i had submitted that was a red line there's detailed history and tonight's packet so i'm not necessarily concerned anyone's missing out on what we're doing and i actually think this is more appropriate because i think the next ordinance may be closer to what someone counsel may in mind we can put our input and then the public most importantly can comment on that version and that is the most important thing and so i was suggesting that we move that to april rd for the second reading the april ninth will be whatever we need to style that but it will be an update on planning commission's or review on the mark up process and then we can will be discussed is going through each of those red lines and getting consensus on where we're at with the ordinance as it stands now are the draft ordinance we get a consensus april th that consensus is what we'll move forward with on april rd we will have the second reading based on that in the interim period that will give everyone a chance to comment well said and like councilor skilling said we don't have the luxury of a conference committee but a lot of times when legislation moves between two bodies there's a committee that flushes out what is in between we don't have this and it's actually very rare that we send something from our body to planning commission to come back it's usually planning commission to the city council so that's where we got into this quagmire and i'll go to a counselor gutwein only question i have is then whatever we come up with at the april th study session then does that need to go back to planning commission again no okay the final decision maker ok the planning commission comments are recommendations for you to review okay thank you also frank's i just wanted to provide a little bit of information for the community and so by way of an apology to the community this particular ordinance mistakenly made it on the section that we get as council into the quasi judicial section and i turned away a number of people who encountered me in the public who tried to speak to me about this telling them that i could not speak to them and that they needed to come and speak on to this particular ordinance so i first wanted to apologize to those folks that i turned away it turned out that was just an administrative mistake it got on the wrong list councillor skilling discovered it and about a month ago i guess but somehow that did not get communicated properly through all the channels it stayed on that list i kept following the rules and turning people away so i just wanted to acknowledge that it is not a quasi judicial and for everyone who reached out and tried to talk about that i in the future i will be more diligent about questioning those items to make sure i understand and i've already received assurances from staff that they will indeed double check those ones that are not the obvious reasoning so i just wanted to clarify that with folks who were a little frustrated with me earlier thank you mayor i just want to mention that what has occurred here i realize it may be a little bit unusual but it has unduly complicated this process and has unduly i think delayed which i said from the very beginning was should have been a very simple process we had a ordinance that was proposed by a councillor skilling it was ninety nine percent the existing  ordinance that had been in place for quite some time with a couple of fairly minor and clear changes and now we're out here into the end of march and probably sometime in april before we'll ever get to deal with it so i find that very concerning tha taken so long because we're going to have this coming up again there's going to be other proposals from council in terms of legislation and we need to find a way to streamline that process so that this doesn't happen again and i also want to comment that the way this came back i was i was really shocked because when we had our last council meeting it seemed like it was very clear what we were looking for in terms of input from the planning commission which was basically on two issues would are basically one issue are we going to go with fair market value or are we going to go with a set rate and that was the primary issue that we were dealing with and had gone to the planning commission and so i was looking for something along that lines you can imagine my surprise when the ordinance came back and it was totally different than anything we had talked about here than what was originally proposed and so it was like i almost had the feeling like what are we doing here i mean who's proposing this legislation is it is that the elected body here which is i thought was our responsibility or the planning commission and so i think i want to make it clear from my perspective it's this body who proposes and votes on public policy and certainly i welcome the input from the planning commission on that on those kinds of issues we want their input but in the end it's got to come from us we have the not only the responsibility but i think the you know that's what our constituents have that and so that unfortunately that's that's the wheels that turn and that's what we're doing is getting it back i think you're right we sent it to planning commission and they sent something else back that was their perspective ultimately we make the decisions and we can take what they can i certainly understand the concerns in the community although i guess i reached out to try to get a better understanding because there was a lot of that actually in there and i think there are a couple  tenants that were still left out so be certainly happy to have anybody in the community reach out to all of us and share what they'd like to see or what was really different so with that counselor skilling will you make a motion to move this from first reading to second reading on april rd is that accurate miss hobson with a community discussion and public comment on april th update and review of the planning commission recommendations scheduled for april th so i moved to move the second reading from the current date of april th to april rd with a review session in the interim on april th i said is that sufficient mister graham what i would like to actually hear is adopting on first reading and moving the second reading as you discussed okay so i'll make a motion that we adopt this on first reading we move the second reading to april rd in the interim time period we have an april th review session perfect good i second that one all right perfect we have a motion a second any more discussion please cast your  all right that passes eleven eyes zero nays and our last piece of general business as we've adopted policies and procedures technically we have finalize and i have to sign so i want to open the nominations for mayor pro tem and we've had two folks indicate their interest in running and so we'll make sure that that is open to everybody either prior to our next regular meeting or so or on the floor of that evening and miss greer if we could make sure that is in the packets and scheduled that would be for april  correct so we'll make sure that there's notice and councillor roi ball has been nominated and councillor vincent has been nominated so i just wanted i can do it at the end on my council report right this hot sun just briefly next week april nd is a study session you do have council orientation at five o'clock in the cabinet room  we will be getting one of the final installments of the housing study and it's gotten to a point where we're ready to discuss policy implications and then you'll be getting a presentation from our finance  you'll remember we discussed this at your annual planning session this one was kind of fast tracked because of the timing so this will just be educational our finance director will give talk to you about options and please be thank you this has been a little bit of a tough evening tonight last week i had an opportunity to go to a cml workshop on governance and it was very heavily stressed to us really what the roles of city council are there's only three actually that we're stressed and i'd like to just tell them to you real quickly first is wet that we represent the will of the people the second is is that we ensure accountability and responsiveness and th is that we set the direction of the organization and i think we can see tonight that all of those principles are are coming into play with this body  i would just like to make a little comment i received a phone call today from selena williams the lady that come and came to speak on the issue around lakewood high school and one way traffic piece i would just like to ask staff that is a professional courtesy to please notify counsel when we have folks going into our particular ward and doing a petition or a survey in this particular case what's going on in the lakewood high school community in that neighborhood the emotions are heightened and everything becomes a flash point it was difficult for me to tell her that frankly i didn't even know that this was happening i don't know who directed staff to go out and do it i have a little bit of concerns regarding the survey it had two options one was for one way traffic and the other one was for one way traffic with time limits anytime you've got a survey there's also another piece which is that no change and i think that's what miss williams brought to my attention and hopefully that came out in her presentation is that people felt obligated to answer the survey had there been a third option which is frankly what that community wants is no change it wasn't on that survey  so please i'm just throwing that out as a professional courtesy to let us know and i'd really like to know how it all came about please thank you and if i might that was actually done at the discretion of this body after the lakewood high school study session where we directed staff to take the hybrid recommendation and we also said to please follow up and give a little bit more thought to the one ways so that was the process that this understand but there should have been a third option on the survey and as a courtesy councillor abel and i should have known that that was going out and what was being given to them to the people in our community the neighborhood meeting notices i really meant of them are quasi judicial and but it's just nice knowing that i will be aware at the same time that the community's becoming a we're and so then i'm prepared with where the remarks word five meeting on april th it will be an honor of earth day it will be about sustainability and it will be about a everyone's shocked it will be some information therefore they're there for you as well so we just really want to make it useful and hope that people will come out and share what they do in their own homes as well and then i just wanted to also briefly thank the students who came out today to talk about an issue that as a mother has been on my mind a lot and over the weekend there was the the march from students i i think that it's just been an emotional time to be a parent in this in this country and  i just want to the reason i'm bringing it up is that i feel sometimes like there's a little bit of a disconnect from what we're hearing in the community and what i hear at the schools and what parents are worrying about and what's going on in our kids lives and in our  in our lives and some of the issues that we talk about in relation to our schools here on council so i think that i just like to remind everyone on this body that the issues that come to us at public comment are not the only issues that our community is facing and dealing with this it is not easily accessible or equally accessible for people in our community you to come out here on a monday night at seven o'clock and stay until nine thirty when frankly a lot of times we have bigger issues to worry about like lockdowns there were there were two not one two lockdowns in jefferson county the week after parkland and the week that we had the lakewood high school study session so parents didn't particularly feel like that was the priority to come out  it was a hard night for me to be there and have to talk about that it's hard for me to listen to the kids and and for them to have to advocate on these issues so i just like to say you know it is our responsibility to to listen to people more than who are able to make it here on monday nights at seven p m thank you thank you um quick reminder that may is fast approaching and for the folks on this body who signed up to run on the council relay team for the marathon i started running for the first time today and it was not awesome so you know who you have a lot of things going on but one of the cool things as they were just named in ios one agency which is oh one sorry which should result in potential  insurance rates going down for the folks in the city of lakewood because of the the service that they provide so hats off to them and we're gonna certainly want to hear more no matter what side you were on i think it was pretty inspiring to see the march or the marches throughout the nation and to see our young folks get out there and get involved and i really hope that they continue to do that no matter what issue it's really cool to see them out there and i really touched me and touched a lot of folks next study session and we'll do a reports update from council so if you want to give us an update on all your committees that you have or things that are going on that would be great for next week i was able to represent the city last week at the mayor's innovation panel on why transit matters and that was really cool to hear from other communities throughout the nation of a lot of the issues they're facing around transit last mile ironically growth and  things along those lines so there's a lot of commonalities there's a lot of communities especially the folks on the panel where communities where people want to live so therefore they're dealing with a lot of a lot of this stuff that we're dealing with the funeral services for episode where they celebrate festivus they have the grievance of errors and listen there's a lot of smart people people that come to this dyess people that are in this room people that disagree people on our staff smart people who care and you know maybe one time two years ago somebody wronged you or vice versa let's get it out at the end of the day let's come together and work together and that's what's gonna move us forward if you have concerns about planning sit down with mister parker talk to him understand his point of view it doesn't mean he's somehow trying to do something underhanded or doesn't care about the community that's the conversation that needs to change and once we do that and all sides that's up here that's out there that's throughout a city of a hundred and fifty five thousand that's going to begin to help the healing of some of the concerns that we hear today and i'm happy to start at any point and try to move forward with that but let's try to have that understanding and let's understand where your points of view are or his are or where miss hudson's is and that's what i was trying to get across tonight and we're all in this together and if we have great employees it's going to reflect on a great city so if we want to have a festivus where this whole body can get out there grievance of errors let's do it but let's move on and let's look at the future of our city and keep moving forward and i apologize to my colleagues up here for earlier when i was a little bit passionate and had a sidebar with the group so i apologize for that with that said