Board of County Commissioners - public_hearing

All right, everybody. We are going to get this meeting started today. It is 9.30 on Tuesday, August 25th. Erica, can we start with the roll call, please? Commissioner Malika? Here. Commissioner Hanson? Here. Commissioner Malika? Here. All right. And can everybody stand as they're able to join me in the Pledge of Allegiance? All right. All right, team. Can I get a motion to approve the agenda if there are no edits from the board? Move to approve the agenda as presented. All right, we have a motion and a second, and that motion carries. So we are going to be moving on to our awards and presentations. Today, we are recognizing International Overdose Awareness Day. This day is both a solemn reminder of the lives we've lost and a call to action to continue breaking down stigma in supporting care, response, and recovery. In Adams County, we're fortunate to have dedicated partners leading this work every day. The Adams County Health Department and the Project Connect's harm reduction team are on the front lines providing life-saving services, education, and hope. By honoring this day, we are supporting those impacted by substance abuse and ensuring that our community continues to move towards healing, understanding, and resilience. Now I'm going to pass it over to Commissioner Baca to read the proclamation.

Thank you, Chairs. The proclamation today is Overdose Awareness Day, August 31, 2026, whereas Adams County Health Department recognizes the 25th anniversary of International Overdose Awareness Day, highlighting the impact of drug overdoses among individuals, families, and communities, and reducing the stigma of overdose-related deaths. And whereas Adams County Health Department recognizes and remembers those who have died from drug overdose, survived overdose, or responded to an overdose, and acknowledges the pain and grief felt by those who've lost a loved one. And whereas overdose rates remain consistently high each year, in 2025, 1,765 Coloradans died from overdose, including 185 Adams County residents. And whereas preventing overdose and overdose deaths requires strong social safety, that's reducing stigma and increasing social support while recognizing effective prevention, treatment, and harm reduction strategies are essential. And whereas Project Connect's Adams County Health Department's Heart Reduction Program continues to increase overdose awareness and reduce the risk of fatal opioid overdoses with the distribution of 4,798 naloxone kits and engaging in 8,483 community interactions to provide overdose recognition, prevention, and response education. And whereas Project Connects provides vital services including safer use kits and whole person supportive services, post overdose support, referrals, food, health insurance, housing and recovery resources, while promoting health and building connections for all. And whereas every overdose death is preventable, overdoses are reversible. Anyone in our community can help by carrying Naloxone. Naloxone is available at Project Connects, kiosks around the county, and without a prescription at most pharmacies. Whereas every day, we honor and remember those we have lost to overdose, creating space for individuals and families to breathe openly without guilt or shame. While extending compassion, dignity, and unwavering support to those who use drugs or may be at risk of overdose, now therefore be it resolved that the board of county commissioners of the county of adams state of colorado proclaims august 31st 2026 as overdose awareness day and the proclamation is signed by all five county commissioners thank you so much commissioner vaca thank you i would now like to invite down our good friend levon the deputy director of adams county health department to share more about this proclamation and the health department's efforts

Is this on? Yes. Good morning, Commissioners. I'm going to lean into my emotion a little bit today. This is a heavy subject, and I know you all care very deeply about this subject. I want to start with a little bit of a story, which will illustrate sort of my point today. Part of why I entered the field of addiction treatment, which has now been 21 years, is because when I was a 14-year-old boy, I watched my grandfather, who was a prisoner of war in Nazi Germany, shamed and blamed because of his struggle with addiction, he returned. And this was, as you know, the 40s and 50s, where we didn't really understand trauma as much and we didn't really deal with trauma in the same way that we do now. And it left an indelible mark on me as a boy to watch as my grandfather died, not from overdose, but from the effects of trauma and addiction in his life. And as he was dying in the VA in Denver, doctors and nurses talked about how weak my grandfather was. And my grandfather was one of the strongest men that I ever knew. battled his whole life to take care of his family and his country. The point being is that addiction is not entirely but largely the cause of overdose deaths. In Adams County, we lost 185 people last year to overdose. And we want to recognize and acknowledge those lives that were lost. And we grieve along with the family members of those who were lost. And I know you all care very deeply about those lives. crisis of addiction that we are battling is one where, as a society, even today, in 2026, stigma carries a lot of shame and a lot of blame. We still have heaps of shame that people who battle with substance use and battle addiction encounter every day of their lives. And so this proclamation is really important to us. I brought along a couple props this one. You know, as a defibrillator, if somebody needed this in this room today or in our lobby, there would be very little shame that that person would experience for needing this device to save their life. But in our world, when a person needs this, Narcan, Naloxone, there still is a great deal of shame that is associated with the need of that disease. Addiction is a disease. And we appreciate you helping us to tell the story that needing this and needing this in 2026 in America should really be the same. We should be trying to meet people's needs and save their lives. And so we want to acknowledge you all for supporting the efforts of the Project Connects team. I want to acknowledge them. They're in the room today. And just the work that they have done to help people who are struggling with substance use and substance use disorders and preventing overdoses. So I want to thank them and acknowledge them here today. I also want to thank our various partners, Human Services, Katie's team is here, the Adams County Sheriff's Office, the District Attorney's Office, Community Safety and Well-Being, our Parks Rangers, because this is something that has to be done by all of us and all of our Well, and with this, one of the things that I get asked a lot is like, well, you know, I'm not a professional or I don't know much about addiction. Addiction affects all of our lives. And we all probably know someone or a family member or a friend who wants to overdose. And one of the things I think that's really important that we can all do is just help lift the shame a little bit. Whether it's a conversation, whether it's a smile, people that are struggling with the disease of addiction and also just the ramifications, shame doesn't help. It doesn't add anything to their lives, and it doesn't help. If shame worked, then we would have a shame culture where we could just shame you and you'd change your behavior, but we all know that that's not true. this proclamation is about helping lift the shame and it's about remembering those lives and we really do appreciate all that you've done to help support project connects and also just remembering those lost on this day thank you all right now i'd like to turn the floor over to my fellow commissioners if anyone would like to try to comment this morning

I will just say thank you, Levon, for your comments. Thank you to Eddie and every staff member who's here who works in the space of supporting folks, people who are living with addiction or have suffered loss from overdose or have overdosed themselves. Thank you so much for that work. The number was quite a little startling to me. I didn't realize that we were losing, on average, three people a week in Adams County. to overdose based on the number they've all shared. So this work is critical, and I'm sure our board will continue to support it. And just thank you to everybody who's out there working. And you're right, the stigma is the lift we can all make together in understanding that there should not be shame in Emma's condition, and that we should all work to embrace those who need our help and lift Emma and support them on their journey.

I would just like to wrap up by saying thank you, Laman, for sharing those amazing words and your personal story as well. I think that is really the point about this proclamation today is that there is a person behind every single number that is a grandparent, a beloved grandparent. Maybe it's a parent. Maybe it's a best friend from high school. Maybe it's a brother or cousin. Either way, I've... I've also personally had friends who I've lost since high school. But I've also had amazing people like cousins who did recover. And I think that that's what this is really about is we had a great study session on the works of the health department last week. And this is really about disease prevention. Addiction is a disease. It's how do we help support people and really keep them alive so that they can become so good. And that was a message I got clearly in the study session this past week. And it's a message that I hear from our health department team all the time. So I want to thank you guys for your work. I want to thank you for getting out there in the community and doing this work. Not everybody in our community agrees with what we do, but this is public health. And as we know in public health, sometimes there's people who are going to hate us for what we do, but it is what it is because we're trying to save people's lives, and that matters. So thank you all for being here today, and thank you, Leroy, for your amazing words. I do want to gather for a group photo, so if we could have the team come down here. And I know that there's other guests in our audience. If you want to be part of the photo for this proclamation, please come on down. You're more than welcome. Sharon, there was also a suggestion to do this photo in the lobby. I think that could be great. That would be fantastic. So if we could go to the lobby for the photo, that would be fantastic. Thank you. all right thank you everybody who joined us for that photo it was a big group so it was uh there's lots of good energy out there all right so we are going to move on in our agenda to public comment and at this time we're going to do citizens communication a couple things i want to read real quick are comments related to any lane use cases should be reserved for the lane use hearing that we have later on in our agenda the brcc generally does not respond to public comment, but we may ask staff to follow up with individuals. Each speaker has three minutes to speak, and speakers should state their name and address before they speak. With that, Erica, do we have anybody signed up for public comment today? We do not. Yeah, give us a second. So if there's anybody in the room who would like to provide public comment at this time, you're welcome to do so.

I think you forgot to say that we have to state our name and where we live. So, my name is Christy Douglas. I live at 10970 Unity Parkway. That's in Commerce City. And I'm here this morning because The climate change, the climate crisis is real. There was a recent presentation given by Chevron Oil, and it was held in Commerce City. And I know this morning that there is a late-use case that I'll be staying for that is on the agenda.

And I can't talk about that one now because it's a hearing later on.

But if we keep doing what we're doing and letting the powers that be run our lives, then we're gonna be in big trouble. We are in big trouble already. We have let the fossil fuel industry

They have sabotaged the transition to new forms of energy.

And if we aren't the first to stand up and show others that we can stand up against them to make sure that we're protecting our people and not protecting their profits, then we could be the model for everyone else. I know a lot of people, money comes first, and they think that because they haven't had any money, somehow that is going to make them happy. It's not the case. We should all be looking at transitioning, ways to transition, We have to do it now. But the only way we can do it is by stepping up, standing up, and telling this industry enough is enough.

So I thank you for your time this morning. I have one minute left, but I'm not going to take it up at the minimum point.

Thank you so much.

Thank you. All right. Is there anybody else in the audience who would like to provide public comment at this time? Come on down. Please state your name and address, and you have three minutes.

My name is Ann Smith. I live at 8132 Wright Court, Thornton. I just wanted to, this is my first lieutenant setting meeting here, and I wanted to state that I've been handing out flyers regarding data centers at the library, the new library, which is gorgeous, and at one of the local grocery stores. 98% of the people, maybe 95, are concerned about the data centers. We have so many. I was hoping for a big crowd today.

Maybe you never get a big crowd.

Anyway, I am hoping you will seriously consider putting a moratorium on for a period of time. We've built enough data centers around the country. Let's get a track record of how much we really use in water, electricity, environmental hazards, and environmentally okayed. And let me and my kids, my grandkids, their work, like the majority of the population here, they don't, they don't. deal, but there is a real concern to be had here. But based on the fact that we had a meeting at the L.A. and 100 Plains Library, and they had over 100 people on Saturday, and City Council had over 150 people on Tuesday, you've got a lot of people who are concerned about this, and I hope you will take it under consideration. Whatever input you have from this part of the data set is also flawed, but it's another issue. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Do we have anybody else who would like to provide comment?

My name's . I live at 13295 Good Club Road. And I'm just really disappointed on this board. It seems like you don't listen to us. You're taking advantage of a lot of people that can't come or don't know about these meetings and what happens here. I agree with the two previous speakers. We have a climate catastrophe. We're burning. The air is terrible. On my screen, you've approved so many oil and gas operations. The substation, you don't take into account the cumulative effect even though you say you do. And again, those data centers, I can't believe you even, you have them, in what we submitted public comments for. And I can't believe you even have it in there to approve. The building is out of control. All these operations are out of control. We don't have water, enough water as it is. You really do not listen to us, Mr. Odorizo. Last time I came, he was late. Now he's absent. I mean, you don't respond to our emails, our phone calls. I've called, I've emailed. There's one commissioner that has responded that's very unprofessional because our taxes are paying their salary. And some of you have worked in public health, and it doesn't seem like it because you don't take into account

Thank you. Do we have anybody else who would like to write public comment at this time? Are you not seeing any? We're going to move on to elected officials communications.

Who would like to get us started this morning? Yeah, I'm just going to start with thanking everyone for coming in and providing comments. And then I have to own my humanity a little bit. I have a kiddo who is sick at school, so I was a little late this morning.

They have now just called me from the nurse's office, but I need to go get them. So I'm going to stay until our first break and then head out and pick them up from high school. And I just want to, especially given the comment on attendance, own my humanity as a person and defer to my colleagues on attendance. what we do with the rest of our agenda. There are three of you who have quorum, but I trust your judgment. And if anything gets deferred from today, I promise to watch the videos and be caught up. Sure.

Commissioner Hansen.

Good morning, everyone. So we're back to school, which for this board means budget season has begun. We started last Friday, actually. Friday afternoon. we know how to have fun. But yesterday we also convened for about eight hours and heard great presentations, business cases from about eight departments, and we'll have several more sessions like that over the coming weeks. And then we also rely on the expertise of our executive leadership team and our finance team, of course, to collaborate and to advise and make recommendations and then collaborate together to build the budget. I think we might have already flagged this, but just so folks know, we as a county are facing less money available in our general fund than we had in 2026 because voter-approved decreases in property taxes. This is not commenting on that. I just want folks to know that's the reality of where we are. We have a lot of Because Colorado is a state that administers human services by county, all of our counties receive significant pass-through funds from both the federal government and the state government to provide our human services to our residents. And those budgets are also being impacted. The state budget's been in the news. So I just continue to flag those things so that you know that we are aware of the situations our families in Adams County are finding themselves. We shop at the grocery store too. I drive a car that takes gas. I know what gas costs these days as well. And we'll just continue to really work through these big budget issues that are facing Adams County with our staff, and I'm grateful for their expertise. So just letting you know that that's happening, and we're continuing to do our best to deliver those services at the highest quality we can for folks in adams county because that is always our goal i will also say thank you to the residents who take the time to come and speak with us and those who email us and i will confess i do endeavor to respond many times when residents have questions we do then reach out to our staff who are the subject matter experts and so that they can answer constituents' questions in greater detail. We are also copying on those responses, so that is the goal, is that we have open communication and are responding to people's questions in whatever form they present them to us. And I am also tracking, because I hear about it from a lot of folks, the community concerns about climate, energy, all of those things. We are do endeavor to keep those in the forefront of our decision making because anything that impacts the residents of Adams County impacts our work and our staff and how we best serve the folks in Adams County. So thank you again for those who came in and who remain engaged. I just want to say thank you to everybody who remains engaged with the public because we do need to hear from you. We do work for you. And it's great when we hear from you because we're not mind readers and we need to know what's on your mind. And we need to take that into consideration when we're making decisions about the budget or any other land use or other policies that we craft and draft across the county. So thank you for your engagement.

All right. Commissioner Vaca. Great. Thank you, Chair. I want to thank the speakers for coming out today. It's really important, your participation in this democracy and making your voice heard, whether it's here or we've done a couple of town halls. We know that the Adams County Health Department, they are also doing some town halls. I shouldn't say town halls, are doing some subject matter specific topics that they'll be discussing. And so a number of improvements have come from that. You know, we had, this was in 2024 or 5, one residence. said that they didn't care for the format of our town halls, where we talk to you, we give you an update, a PowerPoint. They wanted something that was more interactive. So what we do now is just a quick introduction of the board, and we get right into questions. And so if you're able to join one of our town halls, we do go right to questions, whether submitted online or you're in the room. So that was a suggestion. We had someone come and speak regarding The proclamation today, which is our prevention when it comes to opioid, the Adams County Health Department, and we did a study session on that. We all learned a lot from that study session at the board. We got the perspective of community as well, of what does that program look like. It was just... was disclosed, like, how the funding staff was put together. And so that particular program, the majority of that funding was all grant-funded. So it was not any taxpayer dollars that was in place to put in a program regarding prevention services. So I appreciate the residents coming and speaking about climate change. It is real. This board is taking... serious steps and we're making investments and continue to make investments in our environmental team. We just heard yesterday from one of our departments, we're looking now at a water engineer, so this is not final, but we're taking continuous steps on air quality, on oil and gas monitoring. We're one of the only agencies in the state that does our own oil and gas inspections. So we're deputized by the state. We go out and do our own inspections. We don't wait. We're not on a waiting list for a state inspector to come out, so we have taken some proactive efforts. I understand the concern around data centers, so I just want to state some facts, is that Adams County government, so... In this building, the Adams County government, we are not water providers. We don't provide water. We don't bring our homes. We don't do wastewater. So we're not a water provider. So if you live in unincorporated Adams County, it is most likely that you're with a water district. So you're with South, maybe South Adams covers all of Harbor City. Some of our districts, and I think yesterday we heard that there's more than 70 special water districts just in Adams County. So the likelihood, and not that it's not unlikely, but I don't think that we're a primary source of data centers because I don't know what our, the water situation is that we're not contiguous, like a city has water supply for residents, businesses, all those that are on their system. To my knowledge, we don't have any data centers in process, and this board has not seen or heard any data center cases. So nothing has come before this board at all regarding that. So I just want to put that out there and make that fairly clear. So I appreciate – I also saw the Facebook post. There's going to be a number of our economic development – who is one of them, Adams County Regional Economic Partnership, the I-70 Regional Economic Advancement Partnership, they are all doing, so regionally here in Adams County, they are doing kind of panel format on data centers. So information sharing, they have power companies that are represented, they have water providers, and so on and so forth. And so a lot of information is still going to come forward. And so I appreciate the public coming, I would like to have a conversation with you as well. What does this look like? What are your concerns? I think it's really the cities that are going to be much more targeted because of their water supply. And their infrastructure, they are much more, you know, they don't have to put in the, you know, it's not them, it's electric companies, but the electric infrastructure, energy infrastructure. Unincorporated is populated, but like all of eastern Adams County, so everything east of the airport to County Line is very rural. And so not that it's not impossible, but I just don't feel like we are probably as attractive as maybe some other locations. But it is on our radar. It's something that I think the whole department is also looking at. Our economic development partners are providing panels. And so we're keeping our eye on this, but I just want to acknowledge the speakers. And thank you so much for coming.

All right. I'll wrap up my comments. A lot has already been said. Really, I just want to thank those who come out and provide public comment, who send us emails, who send us phone calls. I really appreciate all those. I have gotten several data center emails recently, probably because of me. that have been happening throughout the community. So I've responded to those. But really, I think following up with Commissioner Baca's final statement is let's have a conversation about this. One of the things that I know I'm really proud of is the renewable energy work that the county has invested millions of dollars into. We've chased... heavy grants and we've gotten them. So I'd love to tell you about the great work that we have to meet our goal to be 100% renewable in our facilities by 2030. So, and we are on that track. So the counties are already doing great work in this space. Would love to share that information with you. But another thing that I think is also really important Um, because I do think that the public needs to be aware of this, is our design standards overhaul work that's taking place. We had a workshop last Monday, um, where we, our staff kind of put us through, they've been doing a great job of kind of breaking it up and since several meetings, I appreciate that. Um, where we continue to continue, continue our conversation on the design standards overhaul for the county. This is how things are going to get built in the county. This is, So it's really important for the residents to know that you can still provide public comment on that or accepting comments through the end of the month. And you can find that information on our website. But again, if you're curious about what does, especially in unincorporated areas, so just clarifying, we only use in unincorporated areas. But if you're from an unincorporated area, you want to have a say in and how things can be designed moving forward. Check it out online. It's fantastic. We would love to have your feedback as we move forward with that. So that is, I think, the wrap-up of our comments. Thank you so much, everybody, for coming out again. It's fantastic to hear from you. At this point, we're going to move forward in our agenda to our consent calendar, and I'm open to a motion when the team's ready. So moved. I'm happy to have moved to have passed the consent calendar.

I don't have one on my screen.

Should we do a voice real? Yes.

So, on that motion.

I will second. Okay, we have a motion and a second. Commissioner Pinter? Yes. Commissioner Henson? Yes. Commissioner Baca? Yes. Commissioner Malaga? Yes. The motion carries. On to new business. We have our county manager with item one.

Good morning, commissioners. Item one is a resolution approving a purchase order between Adams County and Advanced Network Management Incorporated in the amount of $1,717,938.28 for network equipment. Jason Schultz, director of OITI, will be presenting the item.

We have this morning to seek approval for purchase order to advance network management incorporated for network equipment in the amount of $1,717,938.28. This purchase is year two of our 10-year comprehensive network replacement capital equipment plan. because the network equipment's really essential to make sure that we're maintaining optimum performance, security, and compliance. This particular purchase will fund about 260 different devices. That includes building network infrastructure as well as wireless and voice technology. Advanced Network Management Inc. is part of the Cisco Authorized Reseller Program, and this pricing was done through the state co-op agreement NASPO, and it's in accordance with our purchasing policy number 1080, and I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have.

All right. Thank you for that presentation. Questions or comments from the board? All right. Not seeing any.

Chair, I'd like to make a motion to approve the resolution as presented. Thank you.

No screen. I'm happy to make a second. All right.

Commissioner Henson? Yes. Commissioner Pinter? Yes. Commissioner Bulka? Yes. Commissioner Bulka? Yes. Thank you, Commissioner. Thank you so much. That's going to move us on to County Manager Item 2, please.

Item 2 is a resolution approving Amendment 1 to the agreement between Adams County and Windmary and Barbary LLC in the amount of $256,359.38 for six electric vehicle charger installations at three county building sites. Mary Ogierstein from Facilities and Fleet Management will be presenting that item.

Good morning. Good morning, Commissioners. So we have Ariel Gerstein, Sustainability Program Administrator for FFM. In May 2026, Adams County hired Quinn Marion to conduct an EV charger feasibility study, engineering designs, and construction assessments for all charger installations through 2030. The 2030 EV charger plan aims to meet the following target in our 2030 sustainability plan, which is that 50% of new eligible vehicles will be converted to electric. This excludes sheriff and take-home vehicles. Additionally, the new chargers will provide additional charging for staff and the public. Through this plan, Adams County will be coordinating charger installation with the purchase of replacement fleet vehicles to ensure all electric fleet vehicles have a designated place to charge. Adams County is asking for approval to amend this contract to provide much-needed fleet-only chargers at the government center, TA's office, and parks for electric vehicles to be purchased this year. And on May 28th, 2026, this contract for a professional service agreement for EV charger feasibility analysis and design was approved using NASPO cooperative purchasing. And since then, the feasibility analysis has been completed. And when Marion is in the process of completing engineering designs and construction costs. Therefore, it's recommended to approve Amendment 1 to this agreement to include six dual-port electric vehicle chargers at the price that was mentioned, $256,359.38. Happy to answer any questions. Thank you for that presentation. Questions from the board?

Forgive me if I missed it. How many chargers will this install for us? Six dual ports, so each of them, so technically 12 ports.

Great. Six chargers. Thank you. That was my only question. There was a lot of information in your presentation, and I happened to get the number.

Thank you. Of course. I really just have a comment, and the fact that I'm really excited about this. One of the things, especially here at the Government Center, um electric chargers are hard to find um in some of our locations we don't have any so it's exciting that they're getting after parts but it's also really important to note that adams county is investing in this work from a local government perspective not all of our local governments in adams county are taking the initiative to provide electric vehicle chargers and so i really And I can't wait for it to continue to grow as we implement the new plan that we've chatted about in the past.

I would just like to say, Chair, yes, before I'll make a motion in a second, I just also want to echo your enthusiasm. I'm very proud of Adams County for our investments in electric chargers and our work in sustainability and the staff we invest in and the infrastructure we're investing in, and I look forward to continuing to support those efforts as we strive to expand them. And with that, I will make a motion to approve the resolution as presented, and my screen is now working.

all right and that motion carries if you hit the refresh it works so we you've taught us well thank you so much for that presentation all right we are going to move on to our county attorney and it looks like we have two items i do good morning commissioners um both of these items are related to some new authority that we now have in colorado law related to code enforcement

Both of these powers result from House Bill 26-1239 that the county worked so hard on in the last legislative session. And these are kind of clean-up measures that we need to do as a county to establish how we are going to enforce these new authorities as set forth in the statute. The first is a resolution adopting a penalty payment process for violations of the Adams County Zorin Act. zoning ordinances or resolutions and building codes and again this is a requirement in statute that we have a resolution that sets forth how payments are made in this case we're asking that payments be made to the county attorney's office because these are the cases where our office is involved and the court is involved and so I would ask that you approve that resolution

to approve the resolution. I will second, and I would also like to sit with Mike to comment, if that's all right this time. I am extremely proud of of this resolution and the legislation that Adams County was instrumental in passing last session, along with our partners in Grand and Morgan counties. Our teams worked very hard, our county attorney's office, along with theirs, and our legislative directors, with their advice, draft statutes that will give us the authority to really help maintain the health and safety of our neighborhoods and our industrial areas across Adams County. It gave our policies more teeth, so to speak. I've seen this in my other service in local government when I was on the city of Forkham Council, that you have to have The jurisdiction needs the appropriate authority to help enforce the codes to maintain properties and protect our resources and our neighborhoods and our business communities as well. And I'm very proud of this and very happy to support it. I want to thank our county attorney's office and everybody who worked to bring this to fruition. We worked on it a lot last session, and I think it's going to be a big, it's going to really improve things across unincorporated Adams County.

And really, I think Commissioner Henson's being a little modest. She's done a lot of work at the legislature this past year to testify, to educate our legislators on this work. And so thank you so much for your commitment to this. Thank you, staff, for everything that you've done. We've heard loud and clear, especially from our unincorporated communities, that this is something that they need. And we were able to get it passed. It was a huge success. So thank you for all your help with that. Okay, now let's vote.

All right, and that motion carries. All right, and then the second item is also related to this change in legislation, and this is a really big deal for us.

This eight counties the authority to establish their own penalty fine schedules for civil infractions that used to be capped at $100 and now are capped at $3,000.

And it also allows us to do a graduated fine schedule, which is, in our minds, a really important tool, right? The point is that we want people to get into compliance, and we don't want to punish unnecessarily. But for those offenders, they continue to offend and don't take our regulation seriously. It gives us new tools. So the proposed fine schedule that is in the resolution is that the first violation would be $100. The second violation would be $300. The third violation, 998. We had discussed with the board 999, but for purposes of the court having to potentially reduce that, we thought an even number might be better. And then the fourth violation would be 2,500. And fifth and subsequent violations would be at the max of 3,000. And this is within a 12-month period, the subsequent violations. So, again, if somebody had a... a licensed vehicle citation, and then two years later had another one they would start over at the first level of violation. And the resolution sets forth that schedule, and I would ask that you adopt that resolution today so that we can start using those fines for our civil infraction process.

No, move to approve the resolution as presented, and state and county attorney took the words right out of my mouth. The goal is compliance. Compliance, compliance, compliance. But we do, we have found that we need these tools, and so we went and got them, and I think it's going to be a benefit to our community. Thank you. A second.

All right, and that motion carries. All right. You also have an executive session for May 21.

I would ask that we go into executive session today pursuant to Colorado Revised Statute 246-402-4B for the purpose of receiving legal advice regarding public health oversight at the detention facility and the GO group litigation. I move.

Second.

Right, that motion carries. So that is going to take us up to our late news hearing. We're going to take a quick five-minute break so the team can get set up, and we'll be right back. All right, if Steph is ready with the presentation, then we are ready to get started. I'm going to... start off with outlining our land use process so the first thing that you're going to hear is a staff presentation then it returns to the board for questions then we have an applicant presentation more questions from the board then we invite the public to come forward for public comment and then we have commissioner discussion and a motion so let's go with the staff presentation

Good morning, commissioners. My name is Greg Barnes. I'm with the Adams County Community and Economic Development Department. The land use case that's before you today has three parts. The first part is a conditional use permit application to request an 8-inch gathering crude oil pipeline. There's also a conditional use permit application for a 12-inch natural gas gathering pipeline. And then there are development agreements for each of those two pipelines, which cover pre-construction, mid-construction, post-construction, operational standards, and maintenance of the pipeline. These applications were filed by Rocky Mountain Midstream. The requests are for two and a quarter miles of pipelines to connect three facilities, and we'll talk a little bit about these facilities later. But they're the Connor Well Pad, which was approved by the board in March of this year, or March of 2025. The Wakeman Well Pad, which was also approved in March of 2025. And then the Powhatan Compressor Station, which was approved in April of 2018. With pipeline applications for conditional use permits, we require three potential routes to be submitted and evaluated. And pipelines could reduce truck traffic, the need for road repair, dust, noise, vehicle emissions, or other offsite impacts. So first let's gather the area that we're talking about. So the Connor wall pad is here in the bottom left of the screen. Like I said, that was approved in March of 2025. And this roadway is 136th Avenue. And it is also, if you go further east, where you can find a Wake-Minwell Path, which is just on the northwest corner of 136th and Palhutton Road. The Palhutton Compressor Station is just to the north along Palhutton Road. of where the Wake-Manuel County is located. The aerial photos show that this area in between these three stations are relatively not very dense in terms of development. There are a lot of vacant parcels. There are also a few scattered single-family residential uses in the area. It's also important to note that there are two itself energy facilities here for substation and energy production here at the corner of 136th and Palo Alto Road. When reviewing the zoning map, the zoning for each of these three sites as well as all the space in between them is Agricultural 3. Agricultural 3 zoning is where 35 acres or more is required in unsubdivided lands. The county's future land use designation is also largely consistent with that. So the areas in between these sites are designated agricultural large scale. There are a few pockets here along Harvest Road that have agricultural small scale designation. This intends for agricultural and residential development, but maybe at lower lot sizes than 35 acre parcels. When reviewing conditional use permit applications, there are criteria for approval found in our Adams County development standards. That criteria includes whether the use being requested is permissible in the zone district, if the request is consistent with the purpose of our standards, as well as complying with any specific regulations or performance standards for those uses. That there is compatibility with the area. It's not detrimental to current and future development. That the request addresses any offsite impacts that may be incurred by the use taking place. that the site itself has suitability for the use, and that there's a convenient functional layout submitted with the application. And then finally, if there are any services needed to support the use, that they're available. So as I mentioned before, with any conditional use permit application related to pipelines, we do require three routes to be submitted and evaluated through this process. And so the applicant did submit those three routes. So as I mentioned before, Connor Well Pad, the Wakeman Well Pad here, and the Palhacken Compressor Station are the fixed points along these routes. The preferred route is outlined here in green, and it would connect along 136th Avenue, the two well pads. And then it would run north, connecting to the Pelham Compressor Station. I'll talk about each of these routes a little more in detail in a minute. The two alternatives include the connection of the two well pads, and then connecting venturing on to 136th and Powhatan going under the road, and then a possibility of connecting to some existing pipelines there, although this particular route would require additional above ground. structures to be placed in order to make that connection. And then finally, the second alternative, which would connect the two wellpets, and it would run north along Harvest Road to connect to the compressor stations. So first I'm going to talk about the fixed points, and then I'll talk about each group individually. So the Connor WPAP, as mentioned, this is the one farthest west. It was approved in March of 2025, and a notice to proceed was granted last month. So all the conditions and precedent have been mapped at this point. The site is undeveloped. There's no development on the property. It's surrounded by other undeveloped lands. It is zone agricultural three with an agricultural large-scale designation on the future land use map. We talked about this last week, but I won't mention it again. So just south of this site, it does look like there's a subdivision here. That subdivision has been vacated. There are no structures there. It is vacant lands. Moving on to the Wakeman Wellpad, which is the wellpad farthest east. The wellpad itself is proposed to be just behind this utility pole here in the center of the screen. 136th Avenue, which I mentioned, this is what 136th Avenue is. It's really a dirt track running west from Powhatan Road. A notice to proceed has not been issued on this site yet. They're still working through meeting their conditions preceded. But the site is surrounded by other undeveloped lands in the area. As I mentioned, there are two Excel facilities on either side of 136th Avenue. And there's A3 zoning, and it's our cultural large-scale feature land use designation. And then the third fixed point is the Palhattan Compressor Station. It was approved, I think it said April. It's May of 2018. My apologies. This site is fully constructed and operational. From this image, I'm actually standing along the frontage of Palhattan Road, so this is what it looks like from the roadway. There are a few structures here, but they're relatively small, difficult to see unless you're really looking for them. The site's surrounded also by undeveloped land, although there are two houses within some proximity of these sites, so there is a single-family residential use on the east side of Palpatine Road, and then there's another single-family residential use just off of the edge of this picture, but it's on this property here that borders it to the south. This is also agricultural three-zoning and agricultural large-scale future land use designation. So the other fixed point on this is actually 136th Avenue. So all three potential pipelines do run along the north side of 136th Avenue. Earlier on the Wakeman WPAD site, I showed you it was a dirt track. As you go further east, this is taken close to the Connor WPAD. It is a little wider and it sort of becomes more of a dirt track the further east you go toward Powhat Road. But each of the three routes do have pipelines connecting the Connor and the Wakeman wallpads here. And so this is a fixed route on all three pipelines as well. So let's discuss the alternative route, which is this alternative route one, which is the yellow route. This is the route that I mentioned. This is the dirt track that is East 136th Avenue. The Wake-Manuel paddock back here on the horizon. And this particular route would have to navigate along 136th Avenue. to get under Paul Hutton Road and then connect to some existing pipeline networks. This particular route is a little difficult because of these two energy facilities here navigating through existing utilities that are already on the property, getting under Paul Hutton Road, connecting to the existing pipeline network, and then, in addition, there would need to be some sort of above-ground facility to make that connection to the existing pipeline network. So although this is the shortest possible route, this is one of the more difficult routes, probably of the three, in terms of navigating through existing utilities, getting under the roadway, and then building an additional facility. alternative route to the Connor and the Wakeman wallpads are connected, but it proposes going north along Harvest Road, so it would be on the west side of Harvest Road, just on the other side of these utility lines. This alternative would take it up to this point, which is here on the horizon, and then jog to the east to connect to the Powhatan compressor station. This particular alignment would affect the frontage of mobile properties and could possibly also have some effects being so close to the roadway. What's considered the preferred route would be to connect the two well pads and then run north from the Wakeman well pad along the rear side. Really, the rear side of eight properties, although the pipeline would be on the westernmost properties, which all four don't have any development. And then it would run into the compressor station property along the north side of this property line and connect to the Palhack Compressor Station. This image was taken from about right here on Harvest Road looking east. So off in the distance you can see these single-family residential homes. And somewhere along the midpoint is where the proposed pipeline would be. That was considered to be the preferred route of the three pipelines. I also mentioned that each of those pipelines do have development agreements that have been studied by staff and developed to help mitigate some concerns and safety concerns for the pipeline uses. This includes that the applicants would receive or would obtain all necessary permits, easements, engineering plans, stormwater controls. We're looking to make sure that construction standards addressing traffic hours of operation for the construction, roadway protection, wildlife, wetlands, groundwater, and nearby residences are all being met. There would be an inspection process that's being agreed to to inspect the pipeline coating and document the compliance before the operations begin. The agreement also includes the design and operation consistent with all standards for all levels, federal, state, county, for pipeline safety. It requires ongoing inspections, cathodic protection and pipeline markers, valve and equipment maintenance, and integrity testing for at least every five years. where it includes the restoration of any disturbed property during the construction process, drainage facilities as needed, and county infrastructure as well being restored to its pre-construction status. And then finally, allowing through an enforcement process. So if there are issues, the county can issue a show cause hearing and result in the revocation of this conditional use permit. So with any conditional use application, it's a public process. Upon receipt of these applications, our department notified everyone within one mile of all three pipeline routes. We sent a total of 168 notices in this area. And we received nine comments on this particular application. Those nine comments included five which were supportive. Those comments included economic benefits as the reason for supporting the request as well as identifying the pipelines. may have less impacts than trucking. Of the nine comments, four were opposed, and those comments stated that there are cumulative impacts for these sorts of developments. There's risks to public health and safety, and then there's the perception that there would be diminished property values as well. We also notified referral agents through this process, CDPHE and the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Division. They recommended compliance requirements if this is approved, including avoiding raptor nesting season. Denver International Airport and United Power provided comments, but mostly those comments were requesting continued coordination through this process. The Planning Commission held a public hearing on this request on July 23rd. There were two public comments made on this request. Both were opposed to the request. They stated the compounding effects of these types of uses being improved along some rural character and concerns with public health. The Planning Commission did have some discussion topics, including how access along the route and then a construction timeline to avoid raptor nesting season, and then a question about how a discontinuation of this use could happen if the pipelines are constructed but eventually not needed. So the staff and planning commission recommendation before you is that the request is permissible in the A3 zone district through the conditional use permit process. Pipelines are proposed to be underground. They're compatible with the surrounding agricultural areas as there would not be above ground development. There would be no offsite impacts like dust or noise and traffic once construction is completed. The preferred route does provide adequate space and minimizes the impact on agricultural lands, nearby residences, and roadways and infrastructure. And then finally, the request that potential impacts are being addressed as provided in the packet. There's an emergency action plan and other materials submitted by the applicant to help mitigate those impacts. So the Planning Commission and staff are recommending for approval of these conditional use permits with the preferred pipeline route for eight findings of fact, two conditions of approval, and two notes to be updated. That concludes the staff presentation, and I'm available if you have any questions.

All right. Thank you for that presentation. Questions from the board? Can I share my time? Thank you.

Thank you for the presentation. Do we have a timeline of how long this pipeline will be necessary?

Great data oil and gas industry. So the pipe cleanse will be in place with the life of the wells. So the operator anticipates the wells could be producing anywhere between 10 and 20 years.

So 10 to 20 years. And I understand it could be longer.

It could be longer. Longer.

OK. What is our requirement for decommissioning or removal? We are looking several decades out when the wells are no longer active, no longer producing. What happens to the infrastructure that's gone underground if this is approved?

Yes, so pipeline decommissioning is entirely regulated by the Public Utilities Commission and federal PIMSA. So the Pipeline Safety Administration regulates the liquid lines and the state Public Utilities Commission regulates the gas lines. So Adams County does not have specific requirements for decommissioning of pipelines. The default is typically that the pipelines will be abandoned in place unless they have a specific agreement with the service owner to remove them. The applicant can probably speak to any specifics that they might have in a service use agreement with the landowners that are impacted, but the county doesn't have any requirements because we don't have authority over pipeline division.

So we don't have authority, it's not under our land use purview to require removal or to...

Unless the county was the landowner. Unless you have rights as a landowner.

Okay, and we're not the landowner of any of these. Okay, I didn't hear that stated, but I just wanted to make sure that I was clear on that. Can you, and if this is a question for the applicant, that's fine. speak a little bit to the, back to one of the first slides, several benefits or potential benefits were listed to the pipeline. Can you speak to any of those from your position, or is that for the applicant?

The applicant can speak to specifics of this project, but typically the county prefers pipelines over trucking, so when we evaluate oil and gas facility applications, we often require I think every application we have approved requires pipelines. And so we require pipelines for at least crude oil and natural gas takeaway. Obviously, you can't truck gas because it's a gas. But for crude oil, we require them to reduce impacts to traffic or impacts on the roads and then all the ancillary impacts regarding trucking, so vehicle emissions. So this is our standard procedure to require for...

Okay.

For everyone in the gas utility that this board's ever approved, and I think every location in Adams County, pipelines are required. Okay. For those reasons. For those reasons. Traffic, emissions, and turnpike safety.

Okay.

Thank you. Those are my questions for right now. Thank you.

All right. Commissioner Vontae. So, you answered one of my questions, which is the remediation plan. And so, PUC's gas lights, who's the other authority?

I think so.

That's the federal agencies. The pipeline has its material safety instruction.

Perfect. Can you talk a little bit about, and if this is not you and the applicant, I'm fine with that as well, is the contact with the private landowners along the pipeline route, the route that's being proposed. So we contact with them. Our applicant does that. Of course, I'm an applicant. Okay, perfect. I think that's all I have right now.

Thank you for your Thanks for coming out. All right. I do have a couple questions. I don't know if they're for you, though. So it's actually, I think, going to go to Steph about the route. One of the things I wanted to kind of dive into a little bit more, because I don't really understand what you mean for the alternative route number one. What do you mean that if you were to go across this route, You would have to have a structure on, what is that, the east side of, oh, sorry. Oh, hold on. Hold on. Sorry. I don't know. It's going to mess that up. What does that mean? Like, what kind of structure? Is that a bump ground structure? How big is it? Like, what does that look like?

So I would much rather the applicant answer that because they're going to be very technical. But it's my understanding that it would be some sort of structure, much like a compressor station that you see. And there would maybe be fencing required.

So there will be more visibility. Okay, so yeah, I will definitely save that question then for the applicant. And then when staff look at these different routes, what do you guys put into the consideration of which one is best? Is it, just to clarify, is the applicant telling you the preferred route and you just kind of present it to us? Or are you guys telling us what the preferred route is, alternative route one and two?

So it's a little bit of both. When the applicant submits an application, they do identify what their preferred route is. Because when this initial application came in, staff's first round of comments were, give us a little more information on why this is the preferred route. Because visually, it does seem like alternative route number one is shorter and may have less impact. But in their resubmittal back to us and answering those questions, it became apparent that navigating through the existing Excel properties there along 136 was very complicated. They would have to pour under Palm Hut Road, which is an important roadway to get north-south in the area. And then with the additional above-ground structures that would need to make that connection happen. It did seem to staff that perhaps the was the best route.

Okay. One of the things I want to clarify, and maybe when the applicant comes up to present, I don't want the preferred route to be the green one, as we're looking at on the screen, just because it's cheaper or because you don't have to deal with Excel because nobody likes to deal with Excel. So explain to me a little bit more about why I preferred route versus alternative route number one. I'm not really interested in alternative route number two at this point, but I'd love to understand the difference between them two. A quick question, where are the Raptors? What? Okay. Where are the records in this? Can we get a star? Can you point them out on the screen for me?

If I can have a few minutes, I'll look through the Colorado life letter and see if they identify a specific location. I don't think that they do, but we do.

Okay, if they're talking about rafters, I just want to know where these rafters are so that we can also take that into consideration. Okay, I did have one other question, so sorry about this. So there are, there's a lot of infrastructure in this area. Is it our purview or is it under CDPHE who does air quality, noise, emissions for kind of this whole area? They have multiple well pads. You have the compressor station. What are we able to oversee in this space when it comes to some of those air quality, noise specifically? And then what belongs to CDPHE? Just trying to clarify those lines, if anybody has an answer. We can phone multiple friends if you need it.

I might ask Katie to come in if there's an additional question, but so it's... Yes. Also, CDPHE broadly regulates air quality statewide, so they have a hand in everything. Adams County can regulate air quality at the gas facility, so we did that. requirements for air quality is very robust, above state standard air quality monitoring requirements. Same thing with noise. So noise is Energy and Carbon Management Commission for the oil and gas facilities. And then noise for everything else is the county. So for the compressor station, the county would be the only agency that regulates noise from compressor stations. I think that was the first one. That makes sense. There's multiple agencies. So CDPG is air quality broadly. ECMC also has the air quality specifically for the oil and gas facilities. The PC also requires air quality as it relates to inspections of pipelines. Same with PHMSA has requirements for inspections and leak detection for pipelines of aid that's an air quality adjacent issue i've seen that pipeline is late game that can impact air quality it's also a safety issue um so it's multiple federal and state and local agencies that all regulate multiple aspects multiple aspects of this but we i do remember now for the well pads we did put in some pretty robust air quality monitoring what about noise monitoring for the well pads yeah so um The condition of their county permit requires them that during all pre-production operations, they have to have continuous noise monitors all around both facilities. So while they're drilling, fracking, completing, they have to have noise monitors in the direction of the closest homes. So that was a requirement of the county. Okay, where are the oil and gas?

And these wells are drilled, right? They're in both facilities? They're in both. Okay, thank you. Wow. Yeah, so that's important. And then the compressor station, is there noise related to the compressor station? I'm just curious.

I mean, it makes noise, but it's a bullet. They're required to do the low state standards for noise.

State standards, okay, for noise.

Which the county adopted in our regulations. And we have not received any noise complaints from the compressors. Obviously, their weapons don't exist, so it's undeveloped at this point, so there's no complaints from those. Yeah, okay.

Perfect. I do have a quick question for you specifically, and that is leak detection systems. So we don't have any authority to, I mean... I guess, how are the dictation systems going to be put in place for this? Do we have authority over that, or is that something that belongs to the POC or the other one you were talking about, PHMSA?

PHMSA. So, correct, the county does not and cannot regulate air quality from the pipelines once they're in service. Okay. Is that solely the state and the federal government that regulates that? POC just amended the regulations last year to strengthen their requirements that include more frequent inspections and surveys to make sure the pipelines are functioning properly. We do have some conditions in our development agreement that little wires them to share all inspection records with the county. So if there is a leak detected, they have to share that information with Owens County. And then we have some requirements during the construction phase for air quality. So if we get a complaint or something like that, but it's only during construction, we typically wouldn't get anything because OPEC wasn't doing anything. But we just have that in our case. But what's the role of the once the pipelines go into service, the regulatory authority shifts to the state.

You have an amazing team who does great work, and that's why I wanted to know if we are able to go and do any type of leak detection, because I trust our team, because we're pretty amazing, versus the state. Do you have an idea of how often the state comes to check on or review any of these pipelines once their production rates are once it's in the balls on their court. Do you know how long they come out?

I'm not 100% certain. I don't think the applicant might know a little bit more about their frequency. I know there's the state QC staff is not as robust as, I mean, they have as many inspectors as we do, which is shocking, because they cover the entire state. But there is such a requirement for reporting to the state that, and then the conditions on the pipeline, that if there was a leak, they had to shut the pipeline in, things like that. Those are all now new state requirements that went into effect, I want to say 2024 or 2025, but the applicant can speak to that. We have inspected pipelines. If we're out in the area, we will certainly go over there. We have our HopGal gas imaging camera. We take it out there. We have discovered leaks at old pipelines that weren't regulated by the state at the time, just by happenstance. So we do sometimes discover leaks from pipelines and we report them. But we don't have any enforcement authority, so we found a leak.

And the pipeline operator fixed it. But we don't have any authority to enforce on that. OK. All right. That's more like it than it is.

OK.

All right, no more questions for you. My final question is actually, I wanted to, I didn't see it in the packet or on the slides. Maybe I missed it somewhere, but what was the final planning commission vote? Was it a unanimous? It was unanimous. It was unanimous, okay. I appreciated the conversation on the discontinuation of use, but we've kind of talked around that already. And I think that is all of my questions for right now. So I think we are good to move on to the applicant presentation, please.

Sorry about that. Good morning, commissioners. My name is Joe Kidwell with Rocky Mountain Industry, a subsidiary of the Williams Companies. Our address is 13781 Pacific Circle, Meade, Colorado, 80504. Greg has already gone through a lot of the details of the project and what would be mostly this presentation, but what I'd like to do is just hit a couple of high points and then really focus on the purpose and need for the project, as well as our emphasis on safety, and try to address the questions that were asked And of course, any that I don't get to, feel free to stop me and ask me. So we'll be a six-inch crude oil gathering pipeline and an eight-inch natural gas pipeline. It's like we've already stated, connecting the approved Connor and Wakeman well pad sites to an existing interconnect west of Pine Road. That's approximately two and a quarter miles that will be underground in Adams County. And all the private easements have been secured. So all the landowners have been contacted. worked with and the private easements are taken care of.

And that was for the preferred route, correct? For the preferred route, yes.

And I will get into a little bit more on that, too, when I get to that slide. But as far as the purpose and need for the project, so we're talking about two approved well pad sites. And what we do with the pipeline project is connecting those to existing gathering and processing infrastructure. And so what that does, it eliminates truck traffic from the local roads, which will reduce wear and tear on local roads. It reduces taxpayer maintenance dollars. It enhances safety by getting those trucks off the road. It reduces emissions by getting those trucks off the road. So overall, just the reduction in that truck traffic is what we're trying to emphasize, you know, the benefits of moving the product underground through these existing pipelines or through the pipelines that are being sold. we've gone through extensively on the route, but what I will say, when we were considering the alternate routes, what we like to look at, multiple factors come into play, but what we are looking at in the preferred Route 1 is the most direct route with the least impact to the land. And so... Maybe I should bring that up. Okay. So when we are looking at that route, alternate route to the south it does it is a little bit shorter but like rick mentioned what you would be adding to that is trying to navigate through that existing utility corridor as well as adding another crossing under powhatan road and that would require also adding an above ground valve site to these to connect into the existing pipelines to run it into the current system. And so what that would look like would be maybe like a 30-by-30 above-ground found site on the east side of the road there. And so overall, we're looking at a little bit longer route that takes us into an existing interconnect that already is there. And so that's the main reason in determining that route. Go ahead.

I have a quick question. Sorry. Thank you. So I see along the yellow line, obviously, what you're talking about, how you go under Palhattan Road. Up north, do you have to go back under Palhattan Road?

No, we're staying west of Palhattan Road. The interconnect is west of the road.

No, I mean, if you did the, I'm sorry, alternate route one. You're saying you have to go east of Powhatan, right, to connect?

On the yellow. Are you talking about the yellow one? Yes. Yes. So, no, what it would do, it would connect to an above-ground site. There are existing pipelines that run into that system. So it would just be the addition of the four under Powhatan Road as well as the above-ground site on that road. And then you've connected the Kinects up to the stations. That's right. So not a second, you're not going back up to the line roads. And then you get the number. Okay. No new construction. Okay. Thank you. And then I really want to focus on this, but we have a safety-first culture at Williams, and that starts with adherence to all federal, state, and local regulations when it comes to pipeline safety. So with the BAR Integrity Management Program, we hourly patrol the pipelines regularly, and we have continuous monitoring of our leak detection systems. So that's 24-7 that we do. internally within Williams. That's just a part of our process. And we're dedicated to ongoing certifications, trainings, and always try to be proactive and identify anything that could potentially be a problem and address it head on. And I mean, I think this says it all. We are committed to protecting people, infrastructure, and the environment. And it's a top priority for us as a company.

Can I ask a question? You said you do 24-hour leak detection?

24-7. 24-7. It is continuously monitored. And how is that done? It's connected out of our Tulsa office. It's connected to monitors in the system. And how often does a human go out to inspect? Well, it's done through the pipeline, so it's connected to the office. So it is continuously monitored. It's not done in person continuously. Okay. No, I understand that, but I'm asking how often some of the human goes out on site then.

Not, I don't believe, for that process. Okay, not for that. Didn't say it was monitoring. So the monitoring is done remotely? Yes. Through, okay, through your system. And then what is the process if, what happens if a leak is detected?

Well, it's immediately able to be shut down, and then it can be addressed. That's, since they have that continuous monitoring, they also have the ability to shut it down and address it right away. Okay. So, so from wherever, so from Tulsa, that they can, if there's leaks attempted, they shut it down right away? That can happen right away, yes. Okay.

And then, do you know how quickly that someone could be out there, too, preparing?

I mean, I'd like to say it would just be as soon as we could get to it. I mean, it would be, it's within a day. Yep, as soon as we could get out there, we would address it because we would take that very seriously. Because you obviously have staff here in Colorado. Yes, we do. as far as my presentation goes, but I'd be happy to answer any other questions or address anything that I didn't cover.

I had one that I wanted to pull over. Okay, so I had a question about stake frequency of leak detection. Do you have an idea of how often the state comes out to review these? What's their production?

I'm not sure. As part of our continuous leak detection, I don't know if there's anything else.

Does the state do anything in this space?

I don't know that I can personally answer that question.

Yeah. We'll definitely, yeah, follow up on the state questions specifically. I might not. That's obviously not under your authority, so you wouldn't be.

Right, but yes, we're very confident in our policies and procedures and our safety management plans. And of course, since that's being monitored 24-7, don't anticipate that, you know, being an initial issue. But I do understand the question.

Yeah, yeah. No, it would be interesting to get an answer for that. So, but we'll, I'll have staff hunt that down this week. Maybe we can call and ask them. Quick question on the hours of operation. So as you're doing construction of this pipeline, who enforces these hours? of operations so that, you know, families who do live in this area, you know, don't have to listen to construction all night long? Like, how does that work?

Well, that's, I guess it's enforced by our team that we set up the plan. And, of course, we abide by all of the rules and regulations that have been agreed to within the development agreement that will be signed. And so, that's how that happens. It's just strictly from a Williams management perspective. Okay, a Williams management perspective.

violation of that then it gets enforced I would assume by the county okay yeah and then so quick question about the so if you can go back to your previous slide about the routes again I just want to clarify so alternative route one is not your favorite because you have to go through the existing utility corridor with the excel coming over here you have to go under a road and then you're gonna have to have some valves that are above ground here um is there is there like is there a problem with it going under a road i guess i'm just trying to understand like

a little bit more of like is it longer time is it more muggy or what was it that that's not that decision was not made based on the financial impact of that route we are truly trying to determine most direct but also least impact to all of the the land so so yes adding another more under a road a is a concern as well as having to go across that to the east side of Powhatan and then construct a new, might be a 30 by 30 bounce site that is not there currently. Currently it's all underground and there's nothing there. And so by taking our more direct route to the north and we go to the existing interconnect, it's already there and we're not adding anything to that existing property. And so that, in our opinion, that was the least impact route.

Okay.

That's how that decision was made. Okay, thank you.

I just wanted to clarify, like, why are we choosing the alternative route one? It's a straight line.

I am, if anything, adding a little more distance. It adds cost.

It does. So, just to confirm that it's solely a bit financial incentive, yes. Yeah, the green line is longer. Right. Check. All right, other questions?

So, you did answer my question first. regarding remote monitoring and the shutoff. So I appreciate that. And it's easements, not setbacks, or right-of-ways. Is that correct? So our private residents, they're...

talk about easements? Well, there are easements or right-of-way agreements on the private land, yes, that we negotiate with each landowner across the round, preferably. Okay.

What would be, let me stick with alternative one for now, and I know that's not the preferred, it's not the proposed. Which street is this? Is this 136th?

That's running along.

Yes, that's 136. Is that the collector street? Because from the pictures, it looked like it was just not even a road. So can you help me out with either staff or what does that look, the length of that look like? Because it didn't even look like a dirt road. It just looked like track.

Yes, you saw pictures of both sides. A little more developed on one end and a lot less developed on the other. All right. But what was the question?

So help me out. If this was, which is not even our regulations, I am not, and thank goodness it's in our regulations, I am not for trucking at all. I grew up on a dirt road. It is impossible. The conditions change drastically depending on weather. Wind, rain, snow, you know, the volume of traffic, the weight of the traffic. So I see alternative route one could be a shorter route, but I also don't care for something being above ground there. I think one of the comments was losing its rural feel, and I think having a visual there, something there on that corner, would not be acceptable. I don't care for that route. I do like the proposed route. I'm glad that, you know, all the easements have been secured for that, that there is remote monitoring and shutoff. What does the construction timeline look like for you? I think I might need to...

I want to look further. I don't know how much I'm looking at the current department. So, I don't know. Excuse me. Westman Sellers. We're looking at this point, January through March, April 2027. That's in Q1 next year.

Okay. There was a note. I know Denver International Airport was one. I think Division of Wildlife was the other. Did we hear direct concerns from Denver International Airport? Was that a height requirement? Was it piping? They just want to coordinate?

I can answer that. They really just wanted to coordinate through the construction process and to encourage that. They didn't have any specific concerns.

Okay. What's the distance for this from Denver International Airport? I'm not sure. How long is that? I think they're pretty far south of here.

So I would say the intersection of 136 and Harvest is roughly about three and a half miles north of the airport. And if I can chime in on the raptor nesting question, since I have the mic. We looked at the letter. The letter did not state a specific area. It just said that raptor nesting, particularly red-tailed hog nesting, had been cited in the area twice within the last five years. We did look at some GIS that Colorado Parks and Wildlife has on their website, and it appears to be much further than the is what the recommendation is. So if that mapping is accurate, it may not necessarily impact this particular proposal. But I would encourage the FDA to go look at them, and if this is approved, that is a condition.

Thank you for digging into that. Unfortunately, they didn't provide some more information in their Raptor comments. But I think we can go with your analysis. I appreciate that.

Okay, I think that's all my questions for now. So do you have a de-tuitioning policy when these wells are at the end of life and no one producing?

Do you?

what do you do with pipe underground pipeline so I think he explained it perfectly they are designed and maintained oh sorry they are designed the pipelines are designed and maintained operating for the life of the well and then once you get to that point and it actually does get decommissioned at the wellhead then it is addressed via the regulations and then any private agreements that we have with the landowners

That was my other question. So I know you said you secured easements for the third round. Was that discussed about what would happen at the end of the life of this pipeline?

Those provisions are generally negotiated in the easement language, yes.

Okay. But again, that's also the new staff that the county does not have. So that's state and or federal. Okay. What does the state and or the federal government require at the end of the life of a pipeline?

Well, I think that will start with whether or not the will gets decommissioned, and then I don't think that there are requirements as far as removing them. So, as I said, a lot of times they are left in place, and then depending on that private agreement, if you need to go back in and do anything else with it.

So, those $10,000 of those easements were negotiated individually with the individual property owner, so they may not all be the same? That's what you're saying?

No.

I was going for the question about staff, so I don't know if we're going to ask each other this. OK. No, it's not. OK. Several years ago, I think it was more residential. Are we documenting the route of these pipelines? Is it on every lot going forward? So as ownership changes, I don't see this portion of the county really developing. You're catching just the ends of property lines. It's not going through a property line. Like we've seen in some occasions it was proposed that way, but are we documenting these pipelines as we go forward? Because I think that's a safety concern as ownership changes.

Yeah, it's a really great question. So easements will be documented on the title, so they'll show up on the property's title report. In addition, we do map the case number on all of our properties. So whenever we click on our parcel report, whenever we're doing property research, we'll see that there was a pipeline application, and we can go through and determine if that was approved and all of that. I might defer to Greg Dean on what type of pipeline mapping the county retains. I do believe that's for county eyes only, but I do believe that we have the maps of the pipelines.

Yes, as it relates to pipeline mapping. So part of the development agreement that's also part of this case is that they have to share the GIS data with the county. So for planning and emergency response purposes, we're contractually not allowed to share that pipeline information with the public ourselves. We do have links to all the things on the Public Utilities Commission and the ECMC website. So they, as the state agencies that regulate the pipeline mapping, they maintain the pipeline maps. And so we have links to all those things. resources on the Abt County website so if a landowner is curious they can click on the link on the PHMSA website link zoom into their property and see what pipelines are across it it's just we are contracted we're contractually not allowed to provide that ourselves because we Most of the time, local governments don't get access to GIS data for pipelines because they're regulated by the federal government and the state government. So as a condition of them sharing that information with us for planning purposes, we agree not to share it with anyone else. But we can share where people can access that information themselves. So that was your question. Thank you.

And I have another question for staff. Probably in the development agreement, have we set parameters over the hours of operation for construction? Yes. They are 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Saturday. Monday through Saturday.

Okay.

Thank you.

I actually have a quick question for the applicant. How do you guys notify nearby residents when you're going to start construction? Because, right, there's going to be some probably road detours and things like that. Or during any type of incident that happens during the construction process, how do you guys let the community know what's going on?

well then notification on construction would generally just be going to the landowners that were impacted by that construction that they're on so that that's who we get notified particularly for construction start dates anything else that would happen beyond that it would just be a policy in-house that we would try to notify everyone in the affected area if anything did happen just notify everyone in the affected area i'm sure we We would send out mailings. We would reach out and try to make sure everyone got contacted and knew what was going on. It would just be an internal policy, though, to make sure they all got contacted.

Okay. And then contact via mail or phone or? Probably both if we were dealing with that, yes.

Okay.

All right. And then, let's see, I did have another question that was in here. Property owners talked a lot about diminishing property values. Have you done or seen any study on pipeline proximity and property values in Adams County or anywhere in the Front Range? That was a specific question and concern from residents. Is there something you can speak to on that?

I haven't personally looked into that, and that's not really my area of expertise on how it would have impacted, but, I mean, what we're talking about here for this pipeline project like we say there's two approved well pads that we are just connecting those wells to existing gathering and processing infrastructure so our impact to those lanes would just be the the underground pipeline Okay.

I figured I'd ask just to see if you know anything on that. That is actually a common comment we get from the public when it comes to these types of land use cases. And so I'm curious if anyone ever comes up with a study or something, I'd love to see it. Okay. I don't have any other questions at this time. Are we good? All right, so thank you so much for your presentation and answering our questions. Our next step is actually to move into public comment. So Erica, do we have anybody signed up to provide comment for this case today? We do not. We do not, but we got a couple hands up. So I'm going to invite anybody who would like to provide comment at this time on this case, please come down to the front.

This is going to be on 136th and Gulf Club. We already have stuff on 128th and in every direction. I don't see why, one, I'm opposed to this, but I don't see why option one, you're already going across harvest and you're going to be impacting ag properties and impacting how you do agriculture and farming on ag properties. I don't see why crossing the road is making it worse. You already know. When they were drilling and everything on 128th and Good Club, it was noisy at the beginning. It's noisy afterwards. It's really hard for residents to know where to contact. I didn't even know we could contact Adams County. And we don't have a list of, okay, contact this person for this, this, and this, because we have pipes running along the front of our property. We have the substation now. We have those other properties. So you were asking people, you have resources here. And as a resident, it's really hard to navigate this whole system. I don't know what we can do, but this needs to really stop. I don't understand why you're allowing so many chemicals to go underground that are trade secret in such close proximity. We know about the benzene. We know about cancer. And you say you have air monitoring, that area has really strong winds, so all that stuff gets diluted by the time somebody goes out there and inspects anything. So those monitoring stations really don't do us any good because we're already breathing that stuff in. And it's so hot nowadays, we have to open windows at some point during the evening or morning, and we're breathing that stuff in continuously.

Thank you. Welcome back, Christy. Thank you for taking this before without signing up. My name is Christy Douglas. I live at 10970 Unity Parkway, Commerce City, Colorado. So you have definitely put the cart before the horse here.

And I think it was done by purpose. It seems like deep permits for the wells were given waivers and balances, and they were rushed through.

Now you're doing damage control.

asking for the pipelines to be approved. And I can understand why that's happening now, because you need the pipelines in order to avoid truck traffic. I want to read out of a statement that was, a comment that was sent to The last sentence is, we can't even get internet because they can't dig underground with everything that is in the way from these oil and gas sites. They can't get internet.

I know for a fact that the 24-inch high-pressure pipeline that carries natural gas from Fort Down that road, through Congress City to the Cherokee Pipeline, the power plant that provides electricity for Taffer runs right along her property line.

You have to drive over that pipeline to get into her property, which is right off the road.

That's already there.

Nobody takes into consideration the accumulation of risk and danger that is put upon these people by passing things that shouldn't be passed in the first place. I feel like this has become a dumping ground for all of the industrial activity that benefits others, and those people are not taken into consideration. Their quality of life is changed forever and not for the better.

I think going forward, you need to look at what you're doing, and I would say do not pass this until you find a way to put in pipelines to get rid of the produced water that is contaminated and probably has radioactivity in the material before you move forward. Do not pass this until that is part of the ask. Thank you. Yes, please come on up.

My name is Gail Jordan Wakelin. I live at 13721 Powhatan Road. The Wakelin bed is on the southwest corner of my property. I understand why they don't want to go under Powhatan. There are fiber cables, phone cables, United Power cables. All our power lines are underground out there. They have to go into that. 136th is what we call a cow path. There's two tracks where the tires and pickups go through. I don't down take my car down here because the catalytic converter needs don't match. Do you know what I mean? The other thing, the Raptors. The location of most of the Raptors is at Bar Lake, which on your map would probably, it's but it's a mile west of Piccadilly, so it's quite a bit, at least a mile west of the car period. If there's any other questions about the probably out there, I agree with their proposed route, because where that pipeline is going is across wheat fields. I sit and watch them put the pipeline that one would go through out in the middle of my neighbor's field several years ago. He's farming on top of it with no problem. Our problem is no rain. That's something you guys can't handle. of the pipeline that they want to do goes through the back corners of pastures or weekends. So they're not going to be buried in a year you won't even know it was there. So that's all I have to say. Thank you.

Thank you so much. Are there any other members of the public who would like to provide public comment at this time? Not seeing any. We're going to close that public comment period and move on to Commissioner discussion team. Do we have any other questions or comments for either the applicant or staff that we would like to ask at this time? All right.

We'll do Commissioner Baca. Okay. Thank you so much, Chair. Thank you for those that came and talked under public comment. So the first thing I've notated here has to do with noise navigation and notifications. So help remind me again, Greg, I'm so sorry, on the noise, isn't this primarily during construction? Do we monitor the noise there? Is there, like, during the construction period, is it?

Are you talking about the pipeline specifically?

Yeah.

So we wouldn't have someone out there monitoring construction. We don't typically have any noise monitoring for construction projects. However, if there is a complaint filed, good compliance can go out and respond and determine whether or not the noise levels, the decibel levels for the zone district are being met.

So, having lived in unincorporated Adams County, I guess my question, and it doesn't need to be answered right at this moment because I know Commissioner Hansen has questions as well, is I would be okay modifying the hours of construction if the applicant was open to that. The other thing is navigating and notification of once project is underway, one of the public comments was it's difficult to be notified. So whether that notification is us or applicants to the public or to those property owners, what does that process look like currently?

So we wouldn't be notifying property owners of construction. We don't do that for regular construction projects. So if we want to add a condition that the applicant provide notice, we can help provide those property owner mailing labels so they can provide mail letters.

So I would like that to be a condition that would also be considered by whether it's the board or the applicant. Let's see. I think the applicant, or Greg, if you want to answer, address this. So going forward, it was noted, I wrote down that the pipelines need to be built again. Basically, water waste. Is there any water waste related to this particular project? I think those are mostly the oil pad, oil sites, the pad sites.

That's correct. Produced water is from the drilling process.

It isn't collected on those oil pads, even though that's out of the scope of this approval.

Yes, it's temporarily stored on location for produced water specifically for big. hauled off to be disposed at an injection well. It's typically a well to carry. Okay, I appreciate that. Thank you so much. I will also note that notice for construction of the oil and gas facilities is already required. So when the operator starts building the pads for the oil and gas facility, which will likely occur simultaneously with the pipeline, there's notice out to a mile required as part of the OGF operables. So the operator has to submit notice one mile forward at the start of the construction, at the start of drilling, and at the start of completion of operations. The boiling gas facility itself. I imagine the pipeline, the applicant has mentioned the pipeline is going to be installed Q1 of next year. That will be the same time that the construction of the pad is happening simultaneously.

that. I would like to see, yeah, I'm going to leave it at that. Since that's not related, that's out of the scope for this, but I appreciate the explanation. Moving on, so... I know we're trying, we're doing, I don't want to say it's a fiber optic, the county is for our county facilities. So I understand that there's probably a number of utility easements of many sorts that are underground. I do want to recognize the speaker that's talked about 136. I've not heard that termination before. The cow path, that's what it looked like. It's not great for travel at all, having cows. up on a dirt road. I also want to acknowledge the speaker that the Raptors are at Bar Lake, not that they, you know, stay there. We have no control over that. There is a large, the Rocky Mount Bird Conservatory is a partner at Bar Lake, not related to the county operation, but they do a tremendous amount of work and education for a lot of our school kids out there. So just want to notate that and see... the Colorado Division of Wildlife. Unfortunately, they were not specific on this, but we will have the applicant coordinate with them as best as possible. So, Commissioner Henson.

Thank you. So, a couple of quick questions. Do we provide on our website resources a list of numbers you know as we've discussed today we have purview over certain parts of this land use and construction of the pipelines and the state and the federal government also do so do we list those phone numbers i know you said we have links to certain websites about information do we have phone numbers so that people can access if they have a question they know which agency to call certainly they can and they can always start by calling us i'm assuming

Yes, so we can certainly clarify it on our website, but on the whaling gas information page, there's my phone number for complaints, and then there's also both a phone number and a link for filing complaints with the Energy and Current Management Commission, public noise during drilling, and then there's also a... I believe it's just a website link to an e-complaint portal for air quality related index to CDPHE. We can certainly expand that more, provide phone numbers on our website, but there are at least links and information for my contact information directly, ECMC and CDPHE. Thank you.

And I think, I would just say that, you know, I think as a county, we're happy to be a resource for all residents, if they aren't sure who to call, and to alert us to concerns that you have, even if it's not something that's under our land use purview, because that... We want to be transparent. We want people to have information, access to information to get their questions answered and to lodge any complaints that they have about any construction operations and also particularly in this realm of energy development. Can somebody please speak to the harvest, the question brought up by one of the speakers about why is it okay if it goes under Harvest Road and when Powhat is under Harvest Road? was not part of the preferred route. I don't know if that's staff or applicant.

Yeah, it's a great question. There's been a lot of discussion on Route 1, preferred route, alternate Route 1. And we have the same questions internally when you look at the map up there. You know, obviously, going directly east across Pat is the shorter route, and so people inside our team are asking some of the same questions. You guys are like, hey, why don't we just go this way? and that's actually where we started you know so hey this is the most obvious kind of connection point right here and the method we use for what we call trenchless you know open up the trench and then put the pipeline in you just kind of drill underneath this old pipeline without having to open up the ground it's called HED horizontal directional drill right so and that can be done It's a method implemented, you know, very, very common, you know, so it can be done. We're looking at, I think the biggest drivers are really the two things that we've talked about. It's the, we have an endeavor above ground site. And so instead of just creating another above-ground site, just, you know, southeast from each other, then you'd also need, like, an access road off of Powhat that you have to maintain and that. So construct and maintain. And so then there's just more impact to landowners. And instead of just combining with, you already have, there's already the existing access and an above-ground facility interconnect site there.

Thank you. But the comment, From the public, was that, you know, all the routes actually go under Harvest Road? And maybe is this also a question for staff? Is Harvest Road, does that see the same amount of traffic as Powhatan? Is that, does it see less traffic? Will the disruption, are there infrastructure disruptions that would happen, say, with power lines and things like that going under Harvest Road? Is that... Is that a concern?

I think generally speaking, any time we can limit impacts, the county right-of-way is preferred. So if they can avoid boring under the county's property, I mean, that's something that we'll try to avoid. And then I would ask Lauren Clark, our senior engineer here, to talk about maybe impacts, I mean, harvest versus power. Thank you. Thank you to the acting group. So Harvest Road does see less traffic than Powerhouse Road.

My other question I have is about, as was stated, but I don't know if staff can confirm, if the pipeline's going along or that you have easements on agricultural land, is that area over the pipeline able to be active agricultural land after the installation of the pipeline?

Yes, agricultural activities can resume after construction. Okay.

Thank you. And then also I just wanted to touch, do you want to discuss production and hours for construction. Is that what you were interested in? Or unless I lost some chair's questions. I'm sorry. I need to jump the gun.

I do have some quick questions, and then we can talk about any changes that we want to make to these conditions or other ideas. Quick question about... I felt that the... City Council member had a good question, and it was about process. Former, sorry. And it's about process of, you know, we saw the well pads come across our desk in 25, and now we're looking at the pipelines. Is this typically how we see these types of cases? become brought forward? Is there a reason why we should have seen the pipelines first versus the well cuts? I'm just curious about staff's process and how we guide the applicant through our lane use process. I'll start, and then maybe Greg can jump in as well. But I think that the well pads are a much more significant use in our perspective, and finding the right location for those well pads is the priority. there are alternative locations for these wellpads in addition to these pipelines so we want to nail down the final location of these wellpads before we start planning any additional infrastructure as you see in the development agreement there's engineered plans that are associated with the pipeline routes, so that's a significant expense, and to have multiple kind of factors when you're trying to determine which well pad location versus which pipeline route, we're requiring three routes for each. It's a lot of things to think about, so we wanted to really nail down the well pad location first. and then look at the preferred pipeline routes after that. And so that's generally why I think we can evaluate the process if that's something the commissioners would desire, but that's why we have the process we have today. I think that that's helpful just to understand. This is the first time I'm seeing the whole thing kind of play out, so it's good to just understand the process as it sits. I do have a random question that came to my mind about drainage. So the applicant described very neatly that they're not opening up the land to place a pipeline in, right? It's kind of like a horizontal drilling process. Is there any... Concerns we should have about drainage changing or anything regarding to these pipelines? A lot of these are cowpath roads or gravel roads, which, you know, drainage is always a big issue in these areas. What kind of impact specifically to drainage do we need to be concerned around pipelines? So the applicant is required to restore the area to previous conditions, and so we would not expect to see any new drainage impacts from construction. Okay. All right, so restored to the way it was originally. You're not doing any type of improvements to any drainage to any of these? No, we are not requiring any drainage improvements with this. Okay, all right. Thank you. I just wanted to clarify that. All right, so where are we headed?

Do you, we wanted to do... Yeah, could you go back to a map so it shows the residential area I'm wondering if there's maybe two residents that might be impacted. That's my first question. So, on Harvest, okay.

So, it's you on Harvest, the two on Harvest. On the back line, okay.

I think whoever's maneuvering the arrow, I appreciate that. Do you, so these property lines, these are 35-acre lots, is that correct, as they exist? That is correct, or greater than 35. Or greater than 35, okay. Do we know the approximate distance between the back end of the lot and this first residential, or there's also one at the top where the Powhatan Compressor Station is notated?

Yes, so I've looked at this before. So the closest residence to the preferred route would be between 1,500 and 2,000 feet.

Yeah, from the pipeline to the house or to the property line or another magic number? It's not what I'm saying. It's always good to clarify those distances between matter. And while Greg's looking that up, I'll just provide a little bit of information. You might see in the southwest corner a flooded subdivision. Just to provide information there, Denver International Airport actually purchased all of those lots and demolished all the homes there, so that is no longer a residential subdivision. There are concerns that the noise might impact that subdivision, so they took care of it. And I don't know if I can remember how long ago that was, but there are no homes there.

So the closest residence to any of the preferred group would be this property that I'm identifying here. This is about 375 feet. The number I gave you before was the distance from the Wakeman Walpet to the closest residence, but 378 feet is what I estimate this distance is.

Thank you for that, Greg. I know I need to know that the construction time period was anticipated January through about April. Is that correct, applicants? Yes, I'm seeing nods from the applicants team. If we have a real winter, I think that we would more likely be I would like to maybe see just a modification. If the board approves this, it's just my proposal at this point, of maybe 7 to 5 p.m. or 8 to 5 p.m. just be the only modification. Or maybe include Saturday, because I think it was Saturday hours, too, or 7 to 7.

I would suggest 6 p.m. Okay. I think that's a reasonable hour. I don't know. It's because in Q1, it's going to be after dark anyway. It's just a reason I wouldn't start someone with it. It actually could be happening with lights, you know, with things like that. I guess my only question for Stafford is that, would that reduction be, you know, would that add a significant length of time to the build?

I think I would like to have a discussion with the applicant to see if that's going to create difficulties. There's also... Yeah, I think, yes, we should definitely have a discussion.

Yeah, of course. Go ahead.

I was going to say there's also a provision in the development agreement that allows some activity outside of that, particularly like boring under roads. And so I think we might need clarity as to whether that provision would remain. And I'm happy to pull that up on the screen if you'd like to review

If you have a provision, Jess, if you want to pull that up, Greg.

So it's item C on your screen, and it does limit construction to within those hours. However, inclement weather, hydrostatic testing, there's certain provisions where it could be approved to operate outside of those hours.

So just to clarify, they could drill outside of these hours currently? So if they wanted to drill at 8 p.m., they could? They could. Is there a reason why the drilling is not found? Okay.

Excuse me, Commissioner, just to clarify, any of these activities outside of the 7-7 as currently drafted would require prior approval by the Director of P&A.

That is not a public.

Okay. So it's not a public.

I actually agree with the hours of drilling. It's very specific, including weather, you know, testing, emergency. So I actually agree with those conditions. So...

If we were talking about a neighborhood, I don't know, I guess the question is how much noise, how loud is it going to be? There's the one property, it's within 378 feet. Otherwise, it's a further distance from any residential structures based on what I'm seeing on the map. Is that correct? So there's potential that, is there, I guess here's my question, is there potential that should that one property owner who's within, you know, 300, 400, less than 400 feet from the pipeline where there would be pipeline construction, and those easements have already been secured, and so the property owner is obviously well aware of what's happening. Is there some room for negotiation with the applicant or that, you know, to, disruption to that, to the homeowner there.

I will say that particular homeowner is not directly affected with the pipeline on their property, so there would be no ease of that negotiation.

Oh, they're not? Oh, right, because it's the lots on, and then on the north side of their property, it's also, I mean, so it's also not their property. That's correct. So they stop and contact it. Okay. But that's the only residential structure that I think is really impacted. And I'm not saying that doesn't matter. I'm just wondering if staff would have a recommendation for a condition regarding, I guess, most any noise from the construction or disruption to the residents.

I think the addition of requiring notice of construction, as was suggested, would maybe help with that. We would require, at that same time, the provision of a phone number that they could call with concerns, both probably for the applicant side, but then also the county side. So we would be able to track any kind of complaints that come through. Okay.

I appreciate that. Thank you. You know, on the construction, you're right, Commissioner Henson. that it's first quarter and it will be dark soon I agree with what's written in section C this is also not an open wound to the land and I'm not saying that it truly will not be noisy but we only have that visual and all the equipment that goes if it was an open wound to the land it's going to be a horizontal drilling effort so um there is that one resident that would be affected they're the closest and so I don't know if you want to continue at 6 p.m. or wait. You're okay at 7? Okay. But I do support the condition of notice of construction. 100%. Yes.

All right. I don't think we have any other questions or concerns at this point. So would it make sense maybe to take a quick break and let staff connect with the applicant on that proposal and then we can come back? That would be fantastic. Yeah, we'll do a quick break. Thank you. Like, we may have, have to, okay, a couple minutes. All right, thank you. According to Commissioner Sally Daggett from the county attorney's office, an applicant has agreed to an amendment to the development agreement. It would be to add to Roman 1, section 1, to add a new subsection I that would read as follows. I was trying to get it up on the screen, but I'll read it and hopefully you'll be able to get it up on the screen.

But prior to commencing construction of the pipeline, the applicant or operator shall notify all property owners within one mile of the preferred

pipeline route to provide a construction timeline and emergency contact information. In addition, contact information for complaints shall be provided for the operator and county. And so I think you can approve the application with the amendment to the development agreement to add that language. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Thank you guys for considering that. Can you excuse me for a minute?

The applicant just wanted to clarify that when they were referring to the boring, the boring would be specifically for going under any runaway or any roads. The remainder of the area for the pipeline would be an open trench method. So I just wanted to clarify that because that was discussed while we were talking through the hours of operations. I just wanted to clarify that for the record.

Thank you. Thank you for that clarification. All right. If folks do not have any other questions or comments, we can do a motion.

I'll go ahead and make a motion. Is it my district? Approval of the conditional use permit PRC 2026-3 for the preferred pipeline route with eight findings of that, two conditions of approval, and two notes to the applicant.

I will second. I will just say I want to thank my colleagues for their questions. I want to thank staff for their work and applicants for their collaboration, especially on that amendment. I know we had some members of the public here earlier who not everybody has remained through the course of the whole hearing. I hope everybody understands that the time we've spent just discussing this today, but also the policies that we have in place that we take public health and safety very seriously. We've dedicated resources to it for years since before I've been on the board. We are broadening the scope of our sustainability and environmental strategy and policy that work is commencing, and we're very committed to that. There are a lot of moving parts and a lot of stakeholders in our county as we continue to grow. And we just, we definitely, this board is committed to doing the best for the residents of Adams County in every circumstance. Thank you.

Thank you. All right, with a motion and a second, that motion passes. Thank you so much for everybody's hard work on this. With that, we have nothing else on our agenda, and we will adjourn at 12.01 p.m. Thank you.