City Council - Regular Meeting

All right, good evening. I want to call to order our City Council meeting for Tuesday, July 21st, 2026. I'm going to ask Council Member Collins to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Next, Madam City Clerk, please call roll.

Mayor Mills.

Here.

Mayor Pro Tempidia.

Here.

Council Member Carbajal. Present. Council Member Collins. Here. Council Member Fidler. Here. Council Member Green. Mr. Aki. Council Member Snyder.

Here.

Council Member Tadeo. Present. Council Member Wirth.

Here.

You have a quorum, Your Honor.

Thank you. And next is the consent agenda. Madam City Clerk, please read that into the record.

Item 2A, approval of the June 16th, 2026 City Council Minutes. Item 2B, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, authorizing the Parks and Recreation Department to solicit the sale of the naming rights to significant amenities at the Brighton Complex.

All right, thank you. What is the pleasure, Council?

Mayor Pro Tem?

I'll move the consent agenda as read. Council Member Worth.

I'll second that.

We have a first and second to approve the consent agenda as presented. Roll call vote. Motion passes 9-0. Next is the approval of the regular agenda. Who would like to make that motion? When your screen changes over. Council Member Snyder. I'll move to approve the regular agenda. And Council Member Fidler?

Thank you, Mayor. I'll second.

First and second to approve the agenda as presented. Roll call vote. Motion carries 9 to 0. There are no ceremonies. We'll go straight into item 5, public invited to be heard on matters not on the agenda. I've showed two people signed up to speak. We'll start with Tom Lampo. If you come on up, Tom, state your name for the record, and you'll have three minutes.

All right, thank you very much. Good to see all of you in front of me. Good to be in front of Brighton. We've entered into the hottest part of our summer here in Colorado, so please find plenty of shade and popsicles. I'm Tom Lampo, and I'm here to lift up Brighton to the Lord in prayer. So please join me in prayer. Heavenly Father, in Jesus' name, be with us here in Brighton. You continually fight for us. We can't see the spiritual war that is around us, but it does manifest itself where we are. It touches all of our lives. Isaiah 41.10 states, So do not fear, for I am with you. Do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. continually be with us, make your presence known to us, make us mindful of your words, and with confidence let us cry out to you to give us strength and help. Keep your righteous right hand upon us. Father, we have as many as 29 wildfires burning in Colorado at this time. Psalm 46.1 states, God is our refuge and strength and ever-present help in trouble. Our land is hot and dry. We need your presence because we are in trouble. Brighton Fire Rescue has sent crews to assist in fighting these fires. Some members are still fighting these fires tonight. We lift up the Brighton Fire and Rescue teams and all those that are fighting these fires. It's difficult work in extreme conditions. Please be with them and keep them safe. Be the strength behind all the firefighters. Energize their minds and their bodies and bring all those fighting the fires safely home to their loved ones. We lift up the families of those firefighters to you. They are making sacrifices that we are not experiencing. Bring strength and comfort to them. Let them find refuge in you. These are truly incredible times, and you have blessed us with life. But don't just let us blindly and unknowingly move through these times. Bless all that call Brighton home with an awareness that we have not known. Awaken our senses so we can participate in what you have laid out for us. Let us view life from your perspective. Your word in Ephesians 5, 14 states, For the light makes everything visible. This is why it is said, Awake, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will give you light. Change our worldview and align it with your view. Show us a future with unlimited possibilities. You are our God, and we are your people. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Thank you, guys. Have a nice night.

Thank you, Tom. Next person signed up to speak, Ashlyn Templeton. Come on over, Ashlyn. State your name for the record. You'll have three minutes.

Hi, I'm Ashlyn. I'm not a public speaker, so I am going to read this to you all. I live on 120th Place here in Brighton, and I first want to thank Council Member Worth for responding to my email last week regarding this matter and encouraging me to come here to talk to you all tonight. Here tonight because I recently learned that though I'm a Brayton resident, I don't currently qualify for the Brayton Recreation Center resident rates because I pay the city of Thornton for water. When I contacted Thornton to try to get their resident rates at their recreation center, they told me I can't get theirs because I pay city taxes here, unfortunately. As a result, I fall into a gap where I'm considered a non-resident by both cities for their recreation center discount rates as a resident. despite living in Brighton and paying Thornton for water. I completely understand that discounts exist because they're funded by residents, and I appreciate the clear need for policies between residents and non-residents. However, in this case, the policies between Brighton and Thornton don't really seem to align, and they create a gap for some residents that exclude us from discounts in either city. so my address my community involvement my residency they all belong here in brighton and for every other purpose i'm considered a brighton resident um except for being allowed to go to the recreation center um I'm represented by this council here in Brighton, and I contribute to the community as a Brighton representative. The reparation center eligibility appears to be the only exception to this rule. I believe that there may be an opportunity to address what appears to be an unintended gap affecting residents like myself. While researching this issue, I did learn that there was recently an intergovernmental agreement between the town of Lock Bowie and Brighton, allowing the Lock Bowie residents to receive Brighton resident recreation rates. And I think this agreement between them shows that the city is willing to work collaboratively and creatively to expand recreation access when it serves our community. I'm not suggesting that my situation is identical to Lock Bowie, but I do believe that it shows that You're able to make exceptions when possible. My request tonight is simply that the city review the policy to determine Brighton residents in neighborhoods that are served by other cities. Water should continue to be excluded from the resident recreation benefits solely because of their utility provider. I thank you for all of your time and appreciate your willingness to consider this issue. Thank you.

Thank you, Ashlyn, and thank you to all those that came to comment tonight. I will quickly comment on this one. Judging based on the address that has been provided on 120th place, that is actually not incorporated in the city boundaries of Brighton. You might have a Brighton address because the USPS has deemed your zip code as Brighton, but the incorporated boundaries of Brighton are different. If you ever go to Google Maps, look up Brighton, Colorado, and look at the Drawn out boundaries, you will find that you are likely in kind of a area that's unincorporated county, but in a zip code that says Brighton. And so one one solution similar to. The idea of the agreement with lock buoy would be to maybe even have an agreement with the county for those that live in certain parts of county and have them have an agreement with the rec center. And that could be worked out on the, you know, with, with the parks and rec staff, but. regarding the agreement with lock buoy lock buoy the town actually pays the difference in the rate for a Resident versus non-resident and that's how come that agreement exists. So just a little comment on that I'm happy to connect offline if you'd ever like That is all I have signed up to speak. We will move forward. Next is public hearings, item 6A, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, adopting the second amendment to the 2026 budget to amend certain funds and appropriate money for expenditures in the amount of $2,848,339. So I will go ahead and open up the public hearing. Ask the city clerk to verify all the necessary postings and publications were done.

Yes, Your Honor. The notice of public hearing was published in the Brighton Standard Blade on July 9th, 2026.

Thank you. Deputy City Manager Falkenberg was here to present tonight.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. Happy to have Catherine Mortensen, our Director of Budget and Innovation. She's up here ready to present. Very good. Welcome, Catherine.

thank you good evening so i think most of you know the drill by now but i'm gonna go through the same thing that i typically do when we have these budget amendments so as a reminder the city can only spend money that has been appropriated by the city council there are times when we have some items that need to be spent that would exceed our appropriation and so we come to you to request the authority to spend on that in this case this is for a few items one is the use of some of our lodging tax fund balance on a drone show the next is carry forward of a 2025 grant award that is a multi-year grant and we had it budgeted last year we just need to re-budget this year since it is going to occur this year some developer reimbursements per a few developer agreements and then one that is not actually bolted on here but is on the next slide is actually an ossuary construction for our cemetery sufficient appropriations do not exist to cover these items and therefore i am here in front of you tonight a little bit more detail about these the first item is in our general fund it is part of our scfd grant award that we get these grants will often they are just operating dollars that happen in one year they do have a three-year time limit on some larger items or capital items at times in this case we have a statue that is going to be put in a city park And that was part of our 2025 award, but isn't actually going to be spent until this year because our funds lapse at the end of the year. And the general fund, this is just rebudgeting that, but it is fully backed by grant dollars in this fund. The largest portion you'll see here is that $2.6 million that is in our impact fees fund. This is for several planned developer reimbursements that were already improved in developer agreements that have already gone through the process. Sometimes these are hard to predict exactly when all of the requirements are going to be met. So we didn't know that at the time the budget was created last year. At this point, we do. So we've added that into this budget amendment. the 40 000 there for the lodging tax and general fund this would allow us to do a drone show at our last flicks and kicks program that we do every year we did this last year with lodging tax dollars as well and then the last item there is utilizing some of our fund balance in the cemetery fund that has been transferred from the cemetery perpetual care fund to you know continue to operate our cemeteries And this would allow us to construct a new ossuary in one of our city cemeteries. We already have these. These are just much cheaper methods of burial for our residents, but we are running out of capacity. So this would build an additional one so that that option remains on the table for residents who need it. And with that, the action requested is to approve the second amendment to the 2026 budget that would allocate an additional about 2.8 million as shown in the table there and bring our total city budget for 2026 to $345 million. And with that, I will turn it back over to you, Mayor.

Thank you, Catherine. Before I go on, any questions from the council? This is a time for public comment, and those who have signed up to speak will be called up one by one. Nobody has signed up to speak. There are sign-up sheets in the back if anybody wants to. Madam City Clerk, any digital public comment to be shared?

No, Your Honor.

All right. So we will move on to questions from the council, if there are any. And if there are none, before we go on to motions, I will officially close the public hearing. And this is before council for consideration. Council Member Fidler.

Thank you, Mayor. I move to approve item 6A as presented.

And then Council Member Tadeo.

Thank you, Mayor. I'll second that.

We have a first and second to approve item 6A. If there's no other discussion, we'll call vote. Motion carries 9 to 0. Thank you. All right, moving ahead, item 8A. an ordinance of the city council of the city of brighton colorado approving the right-of-way vacation for an approximately 0.495 acre portion of right-of-way generally located north of east bridge street south of royal pine street east of apache plume street and west of the spear canal or particularly located in the southeast quarter of section 2 township 1 south range 66 west of the Sixth Principal Meridian, City of Brighton, County of Adams, State of Colorado. Deputy City Manager Falkenberg.

Yes, thank you, Mayor. We have no changes at second reading. The staff is prepared to answer any questions that you might have.

If there are any questions, please state them. If not, we'll go on to motions. We'll do a motion now. Mayor Pro Tem.

Thank you. I'd like to move item 8A.

Council Member Snyder. I'll second 8A. We have a motion and a second to approve 8A as presented. Roll call vote. Motion carries 8 to 1. Next, item 8B, an ordinance of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, for the regulation and the licensing of haulers engaged in the collection, transportation, and or disposal of solid waste within the City of Brighton. city manager or deputy city manager falconberg thank you mayor um all of council's feedback has been incorporated in this uh that's before you and we have no presentation for second reading unless you have any questions any questions before any motions to be presented not we'll entertain any motions on this council member tadeo

Thank you. I move to approve 8B.

And then Mayor Pro Tem. I was told it would not be funny if I tried to add fees or add junk haulers into this tonight, so I'll second the motion as presented.

All right. So we have a first and second to carry the motion as presented. Roll call vote. Motion passes 9 to 0. All right, moving forward. Item 9A, a resolution of the City Council. The City of Brighton, Colorado appointing Councilmember Snyder as a member of the Downtown Development Authority with a term to December of 2027 and appointing Councilmember Tadeo as an alternate member of the Downtown Development Authority with a term to December 2027. Do we have any, well, is there a presentation? No presentation. All right. I didn't think so. We have some comments. We'll go to Council Member Carbajal.

Yeah, I just want to speak. Thank you, Mayor, for the mic on this. I just want to speak about how we got here and why at the meeting two meetings ago, we had not passed consent agenda around this item. Because in the policy, it just states that everyone on the board is going to have an opportunity to voice kind of or have a discussion around who should serve on these boards and commissions. I really hope that moving forward we have an opportunity to do that. And as a member of eight sitting up here, I represent constituents and we're all equal voices. And so my hope is that it doesn't come as a consent agenda item without all of us having an opportunity to voice that. I do understand that last week this was brought up and talked about and my frustration is not in the appointment of Snyder to this board or Ann to this board. but just the idea that we should all be talking about what's happening on this dais together collectively as voices of the City of Brayton.

Okay. That will be considered in Council Member Carbajal. Or, I mean, Council Member Collins.

Thanks, Mayor. Just to kind of piggyback on what Melinda has said, I think that it's really important that we all get the opportunity to kind of collaborate and discuss. And especially when two of the five that voted against this, when it was on the consent agenda two weeks ago, were absent. I feel like it might have been a little bit more appropriate to have that conversation with everyone there. I think it was also mentioned that everyone that had showed interest in the positions was contacted and things were discussed with them. Now, I don't know if that's referring to back right after elections or whatever the case may be, but if that is, then I know for certain that I expressed interest. I'm not trying to throw my hat in the ring by any means. I just want to of point out that maybe those conversations weren't had and i think for good process and for transparency um those things should be discussed with everyone that um has shown interest so that's just my two cents on maybe a little bit better process going forward okay

The next council member today.

Thank you, Mayor. I have my two cents as well. I've been here quite a while and been through several of the processes that happened during the normal course of the elections. I know when I got seated the very first time, your position was new, so was mine. There was a discussion had. um at least for me personally and always has been every single round um there's always been a discussion with the mayor and as me personally and i i'm sure anybody else that chooses to meet with them has that opportunity um there have been boards and commissions that i've wanted to be on in the past that i wasn't appointed to and i i respected the process i trusted the process and it's been fine I think this one was a little different, obviously, because it was thrown in the middle. But I also had a conversation with the mayor afterwards about his reasons. And as usually is the case, he's got good reasoning behind his decisions that he makes. I may not always agree with him, but again, I trust and respect the process. So I'm very happy to take this appointment. I didn't...

solicit for it but i'm very happy to be there and i will be a good alternate jim is the best choice obviously so um thank you and then council member snyder i have no sense worth at all but i do want to ask our attorney a question since i am the nominee should i not vote on this

that's a good question councilmember snyder in the past we have had all council members vote on these even though you are the person named because when we consider conflict of interest we're looking at how is it benefiting you personally and this is not something that benefits you financially especially personally it benefits you in that you get to go to extra meetings

Council Member Fiddler.

Thank you, Mayor. I would just go back to a couple of things. Thanks for reconsidering the initial appointments. Appreciate that, Mayor. I'm still confused by the process. I'm glad that it's not a consent agenda so we can vote on it tonight and not pull that off. I'm not going to get in the way of the appointments. Obviously, conversations have taken place. We didn't do that as a council. So here we are. I'm still kind of in the dark on how we got here, but not bothered enough that I won't vote to support both of your nominees.

Okay. It's been a different process since this came midstream. We're creating a new commission, and so, you know, some things probably fell through the cracks, but I think we've found hopefully an agreement here. So if there's no other comments, there's some motions. Council Member Green.

Thank you, Mayor. I move to approve Resolution 9A.

And then Mayor Pro Tem.

Thank you. I'll second that motion.

First and second to approve 9A. We'll call vote. Motion carries 9 to 0. And then moving ahead, item 9B. Resolution of the city council the city of brighton colorado amending resolution 2026-03 and appointing off official representatives and alternates of the city council to various boards and commissions So all this is is just we're redoing the boards and commissions a little bit. We created the dda with with um With Council Member Snyder as the primary and Council Member Tadeo as the alternate. And then we're moving Council Member Green over to the Brighton Urban Renewal Authority. And that is the main changes. Council Member Carvajal.

Yeah, I just want to kind of, this is similar to the last one, reiterate. I think that if this isn't a Tom Green thing, I'm obviously going to pass this. This is great for me. But without having this conversation ahead of it and it coming here, the same thing is kind of true. When we look at the number of boards and commissions each ward is serving on, I really hope that that's part of consideration. So in Ward 3, which is Fidler and I's looking at both alternative seats and regular seats, there's only five seats that we currently hold, Dr. Fidler and I. And in all of the other wards, there's a lot more people holding those positions. And I just want to make sure that we're equally voiced in representing our constituents across the board.

Okay. Any other comments? Council Member Fidler.

And I respectfully say that depending upon what your schedule allows in terms of committee appointments, I am not dying to serve on more committees since I failed at retirement. I ride Boulder every day. So I will put on my old hat. superintendent and i would tell board members these other duties as assigned it just depends on what you're able to do so i'm not worried about you know if someone has five and i have two or if i have ten and someone has one it should be at their discretion because i know that bear does ask always are you willing to serve i hope that's always the case in terms of who he chooses i think that's true um it's not a contest right it's all around what you're able to do i think it's fascinating that many of us that sit up here are retired or have We're having a lot of control over our calendar. It's one of the shortcomings to community service. I can be really honest about it. But I appreciate your point. I'm not keeping track on how many councils and commissions I'm on. When I spoke with the mayor when I came on to council, you'd like pretty much night meetings, right? Yes, because my days, as I like to joke, they're no longer my own. They were my own when I was superintendent. I set the calendar. Now people do things to my calendar, which has been an adjustment even two years, going on three years in. So I'll make the second. I'll support Tom. And I'm glad that this conversation is happening in public and that we're all here, right, which is better than it happening, showing up on a consent agenda and no one knows what's going on. So we're making progress. I'll take progress to perfection.

lots of lessons learned if we have to make another midstream change but hopefully we're good for the duration um i will say not every person is available nights or not every person is available during the day everyone's got different commitments and sometimes when you want to put someone on one board it might conflict with another board that they're already on and so it is a challenging thing to spread these out the way people intend them to be spread out but We'll go ahead and entertain a motion to approve. We've got Mayor Pro Tem.

Thank you. I will note that this afternoon I took a look at all of the board and commission assignments for the members of council, and each individual has close to the same number. Most people on the council have three or four appointments. There's one with one fewer and one with one more. But generally speaking, Each of the members of council has the same number of appointments, including the mayor. So those aren't made on a ward by ward basis. They're made by an individual council member by individual council member basis. And it does appear to be pretty equal across the board. I'm obsessive enough that I went and looked at the spreadsheet to make sure the workload was balanced. And generally speaking, there are 32 appointments to be made. So discussing and writing the draft of who might be appointed to each of the 32 in a committee meeting would make for a really, really, really long meeting. So the process is generally to meet with people ahead of time, find out what they may be interested in, and try to map that out for the whole council to approve, as opposed to saying, I'd like to do these three and trying to figure it out in a meeting. So there's something that requires some individual work ahead of time. But I also want to point out that the only thing in this resolution is the appointment of Tom Green to the borough board. We already took the action that named the people to the DDA board. So this is only Tom Green who is quite capable of serving on the borough board and I think is a great replacement for Council Member Snyder and will be able to oversee the transition of the downtown region and keep all of the rest of Borough moving. So lest it ever be said that I had spoke weak support for Council Member Green, let me say that I am strongly in favor of this and therefore happily move, now I've lost track of what item it is. 9B. 9B. All right. Do we have a second?

Full-throated support.

Council Member Fidler.

Again, happy to have the conversation in public together. That means a lot to me, and I'm happy to second.

There's a first and second to move 9B. Roll call vote. Motion passes 9-0. We got through that one, everybody. Okay. Okay. Going on to reports. Last week I had a Dr. Cogg meeting. Oh, did Council Member Green want to say something from that real quick?

Yeah, I'm sorry. Before we jump right over to the utilities business items, I noticed that Aurora recently printed out or had an article about how much water they were saving by their watering restrictions. I would be interested in seeing if we have similar data for how much water we are saving through our water restrictions, if any.

Yeah, we have the data. We can put it out. A future report.

I would like to see that. Yeah.

Yes.

All right. Well noted. Thank you. All right. Next, moving on to reports. Reports by the mayor. I had my Dr. Cogg meeting last Wednesday. As always, they have several items, but I'm not going to touch on them all. But one item that they touched on was a presentation called a community-based transportation plan. And Brighton was highlighted on there because they talked about our pending Bridge Street project that's going to improve the sidewalks and everything that Mr. LaBrie's been doing. talking about over the last few months and so that's something that'll move into the next year and so we're excited we have the support of Dr. Cogg with that pending project they also talked about things like fast tracks and you know that's kind of a fairy tale out here so I'm not going to talk much about that but For council, we have, if you want to go, we have an ad-cog quarterly dinner tomorrow night over in Arvada. So I encourage you, if you have time, to go swing by and connect with your peers throughout Adams County there. And then for everybody, the City Barbecue is coming up on Thursday. We all got new shirts that are purple in color. That's the time we show off our new polos. And all of us that are going to the barbecue, hopefully we'll wear your purple shirt to the city barbecue. Hopefully the weather holds. I'm hearing that's our highest percent chance of rain as well this week. But just try to go and hopefully there's no lightning. So... And then there's some other stuff next week, but I'm not going to touch on all that right now. So that's it for me. Deputy City Manager Falkenberg, do we have any director reports?

Well, we actually do. You're so efficient with your meeting, and I know it's so hot outside. We want to save you from that. We have the Director Labrie coming up. He's going to do some public works updates on four projects, very quick kind of things that we've been talking about. We want to make sure you're fully in the loop on.

And I didn't touch on this because I knew you'd be up here promoting it.

Okay. Yes. Thank you. Mayor, Mayor Pro Temp, City Council, thank you for this opportunity. A lot of exciting things are happening with Public Works and glad to be able to share it with you here this evening. First and foremost, the E470 is going to a grand opening next week. Of course, for those who may not know, the E470 Boulevard Interchange Project is bringing major transportation improvements to Brighton and Adams County. This project is designed to enhance mobility, reduce congestion, and support long-term growth for residents, businesses, and commuters. So the key project features is what we call a new full diamond interchange with four ramps, providing complete on and off access to E470 in all directions. the widening of Sable Boulevard Bridge over E470, and then utility relocations to support future development, including the Aurora's water, Prairie Waters pipeline had to be relocated, and the City of Brighton's regional sanitary sewer and scepter. So those were some of the things that were done. And again, the grand opening for this project is scheduled for Monday, July 27th, where community members and project partners are invited to celebrate the significant step forward for regional transportation, It is very important to note, though, that the signals will be operating in flashing mode for that first week from July 27th through the 4th. And so I just want to give everybody a heads up about how that's going to work. The next project we got that's right following the E-470 upgrades, we're going to be doing significant improvements to our intersections. As you may remember, you approved the contract award to SEMA Construction, and that's where we're going to be doing improvements at the Onsable Boulevard at 132nd Avenue, at 136th, 144th, and then 4th and Bromley. The improvements will, at 132nd, essentially consist of creating or building a southbound left turn lane and a northbound left turn lane. That's at 132nd. 136 is a roundabout. 144th is essentially widening of all four corners, if you will. 144th on both sides and, of course, Sable Boulevard, where we're putting left-turn lanes and right-turn lanes along that intersection. Of course, a new signal there. And then on Bromley and 4th, we're exchanging the signals from the wire-held signals to signal poles and mast arms. So that's the improvements we're doing on 4th. And again, our focus is going to be making these improvements on 132nd, 136th, and 144th. The goal is to have it done by the end of this year. We have a schedule that it will be completed, again, pending upon weather. One of the concerns we have as we are finishing all our earthwork and utilities is going to be in the late October, November time frame, and whether it's going to play a role as if we can complete it in time or not. But we'll keep monitoring it, we'll keep pushing it through, and we're pushing the contractor to get this thing done. And then the Bromley and Forth, we're looking at pushing it into the 2027 year and getting that done at that time. We want them to focus on 136th, 136th, and 144th, and we push Bromley and Forth. Same contractor to do the work. That's the game plan, and we'll keep you posted if anything changes from there. But we're moving forward. We got the construction trailer out there. We got getting the BMP settled. We're getting the permits. So things are moving along, and we're pushing it to get it done. It's been a priority by the city manager's office, and we're trying to make that priority. The next big project is the T-PIP. And let me go to the – I guess I could have – I'll go on to my other slide here if I know where I'm at.

Yeah.

Well, anyway, the TPIP, I got a map. Oh, there we go. I guess, here we go. And then that's the Corsable. We talked about those. And you've seen that picture before when we've got the contract. And then the next one would be TPIP, which is the map of all the locations. Yeah. All the locations that we're planning to do for this season. This project has been awarded. Again, we presented it back in late May, early June, got the contract awarded, contractors out there. And the biggest thing here, they're starting on all the concrete type stuff, the ADA ramps and things like that. So they have completed at this point, they started it early July, they have completed ADA ramps on 18th Avenue. 88 ramps on 40th and Farmhouse, 88 ramps at Mount Cameron and 50th Avenue, and we completed a trail connection at the Justice Center. That was just done last week. And so those are the areas. We're starting with the concrete first. We have done some striping as well. And then in the next several weeks, the contractor is scheduled to complete asphalt work and striping on the following corridors. Of course, 11th Avenue from Bridge Street to Baseline, Bromley Lane from 4th Avenue to 8th Avenue, 40th Avenue from Lone's Peak to Baseline Road. Now, Public Works is in the position to amend this contract because the projected construction costs are currently tracking below, giving us the opportunity to accomplish additional work within the planned 2026 budget. As a result, the Public Works administrative team is working on a contract amendment to include street and sidewalk improvements in downtown Brighton and support a borough. So we plan to bring this amendment forward to the city manager's office in the near future. We're working on the details of that now. And other projects and programs that we're completing, the 50-50 sidewalk program is a very well-oiled machine. We have a staff engineer who's done a great job with that, and it's near completion for this season. It's a nice program where we 50-50, we spent 50% of the cost to do sidewalk repairs for homeowners who are ultimately responsible to do these type of repairs, but we offer a 50-50 program to do it. And we have a lot of people who are signing up for it. The final design work for the planned connection between 40th Avenue and Garcia Street, I should say 40th Avenue from Garcia Street extending from Bridge, that design has been completed. Public Works will present this project for a construction contract award to City Council at the upcoming study session. So you'll be seeing this next week. And in this summer, the Brighton On-Demand Local Transit, the boat service is offering free rides to select family-friendly destinations as a special promotional opportunity. These free rides are available only during the summer months and include stops such as the Oasis Family Aquatic Center, the Brighton Sports Complex, anything Brighton Library, the Prairie Center Shopping Center, and downtown Brighton. So if you go to the app and you plug in, you go in that destination, we won't charge you. And so we try to encourage more families, especially with kid-oriented, to go to the places that we have available. And then alongside all these programs, our team continues to maintain the city's inventory of signs and traffic signals. We're pothole repair. We just had Pazilla out there on Bromley. And, you know, the guys are just staying busy and staying active and trying to stay cool. So I think that concludes my update, and I'm prepared to answer any questions you may have.

Yeah, thank you, Mr. Libre. We do have some questions. We'll start with Mayor Brookham.

Thank you. I'm always excited by the TPIP projects. It's just fascinating how much we do, and I love watching Potzilla on LinkedIn on the videos, so keep putting those out. I had some questions because I'm also hearing that as part of the borough work, we're getting some work done in the roundabouts at Bridge and 85, and I think there are expected to be traffic impacts there. I'm trying to get a preview of what's going to happen.

Yeah, well, you're exactly right. We've worked closely with CDOT on this one. And essentially what the plan is, it's a beautification in the both roundabouts area. And what they're planning to do for traffic control is essentially take out that inner lane all around. So you have one lane that's going through the roundabout. And that's ultimately the plan. The duration is for four months is what they're telling us.

Okay.

So we'll want to pay a lot of attention to how to manage traffic in those roundabouts coming into town at 5 o'clock when we can't control the trains.

Exactly. And so you definitely got us concerned. And I would say Joseph Wurta, our signal manager, one of the things he's going to be looking at real closely is timing of that signal there on Main and Bridge. to keep maybe traffic flowing as best he can. So he's going to be monitoring it and seeing what he can do from a signal programming perspective to try to keep things flowing. But we have some strong concerns, but I guess we don't have a whole lot of alternatives here. Yeah, so we don't have a whole lot of alternatives.

And I don't want to wait until next year when we don't have the borough funds, and I don't want to wait. So I get it. And then I also heard through the grapevine that we got all of this year's traffic signal boxes laminated and that put on. So that is my favorite public works project, but I appreciate your staff getting those up and done.

You know, Kristen and the communications team really takes the lead on that. We just offer support.

I like them too.

But it's great. I do like seeing them as well. For some reason, I think we got some of the best painted boxes throughout the metro area. So I see everybody else who, like, is faded and things like that are still, say, pretty glossy and shiny. So anyway, I'm biased, of course.

And so I'm always glad when that project is out and done, and I have to go drive around and look for them. Thank you very much. Thank you.

Next, Council Member Snyder. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. What a great presentation. I'm amazed at the amount of work you and your staff are going to get done in the next six months. This is absolutely wonderful for the city. And I wanted to thank you again for working with Borough because downtown is important and there isn't a next year for Borough. So I'm really happy about that. And the traffic concerns are real. They're not just going to do the roundabouts. They're also going to build walls and landscape the exit ramps and the on-ramps to the highway and beautify that whole entrance to our city. And just so you know, the contractor was on site and ready to start work a week ago. And CDOT is also concerned about the traffic impact. So it's been put off. We do have an owner's rep. He's working with them to try to fix this. The bottom line is, no matter what we do, there's going to be a traffic impact. But the end result is absolutely necessary. And I believe the contractor was scheduled to finish by November 1st. But with this delay, they're kind of looking at the middle of November weather, depending. So... You know, it's just one of those evil things you have. Just like I travel Sable, you got the lights up. You have to have them. You have to have a little traffic impact. But people are clamoring for the city to look better, and they're also clamoring for better traffic patterns. You have to build them. So thanks for the hard work you're doing. We appreciate it.

Thank you.

Next, Council Member Fidler.

Thank you, Mayor. Greg, just to comment, I thank you for your continued responses to my many questions from my constituents. You're not the only one with those questions, so I understood it. We're only in 85, but thank you very much. I appreciate the updates and your responding. I forward those on to the folks who are asking, so thank you.

And we're really going to try to stay on top of it and get you more answers. I know it's just kind of – I'm trying to stop it from dragging out. So we're going to try to get something going here.

And I know you're only one half of the partnership. Thank you.

You mentioned the Sable will be kicking off soon, but there is something going on. I think it's related to like a pipeline or something.

Yeah, the outfall work that Utilities is doing, it's been an ongoing project, but they're doing that outfall piping along Sable Boulevard.

That's what you've been seeing really for the last year. That's why it's down to one lane with that signal.

Yeah, they're actually crossing over. They were coming so close to Sable, they went down to one lane, but they were making a connection up there where they got to one lane. But it's outfall work that's going on.

Well, hopefully we can all get down stable so we can go to the grand opening on Monday.

Yeah, I know.

All right. Thank you very much. I think that's all questions, at least for you. Thank you, guys.

Thank you. Appreciate it.

Do we have any more director reports?

We actually do. Chief Domenico has some stats on 4th of July. Always a hot topic. Yes. Looking forward to this one. Yeah. Give you an update on all the activities that day and night.

Yeah.

He's going to start speaking Italian.

Well, Spanish. I was in Spain. Oh, that's right.

Yeah, keep...

Is it on? I can't hear myself. Okay, good, good.

Good evening, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, members of council.

I'm just up here to provide a real brief overview on kind of the state of calls for service over the kind of 4th of July operational period, which for this year we really count as between July 1st and the 5th. So just share kind of a little bit by the numbers. So between July 1st and July 5th, Brighton PD responded to 223 different fireworks-related calls for service. Activity remained relatively low during the first three days of the reporting period before increasing significantly on July 4th when officers handled 141 fireworks-related calls for service. So as you can see, the vast majority of the calls for service related to fireworks this year came in on the 4th, which does not always hold true. We frequently see a pretty high volume before and after, and we've not seen that so much this year. Of the 223 fireworks-related calls during the reporting period, 124, which is about 56% of them, resulted in officers being unable to locate an active violation or contact the reporting party upon arrival. Officers documented 91 different fireworks complaints and conducted a number of on-site enforcement activities during that operational period. While fireworks certainly represented a significant portion of the department's workload, officers also simultaneously continued responding to all the other calls for service that we generally get on any single day of the week. So again, I think I ran down through the numbers for you, so I'll jump ahead just a little bit. So just to elaborate a little more on kind of the volume of calls we saw on actually July 4th compared to the days previous and the day after July 4th. On July 1st, we got a total of 11 calls for service related to fireworks. July 2nd, we got nine. July 3rd, we got 25. July 4th, jumped up to that 141 number we talked about. And July 5th dropped way down to 37. And you have to consider that July 5th also includes those calls after midnight on the 4th of July, which if I dug a little deeper into the numbers, I suspect most of those were probably in the very early morning hours. As mentioned, it represented the department's busiest day for fireworks, July 4th. Sorry, bear with me as I work through my kind of scattered thoughts here. Of the total number of calls for service that day, we received about 290. That's close to double and sometimes substantially higher than double, kind of our average call volume on a day. And of those, 141 on July 4th were related to fireworks. So nearly 50% of the calls for service period on July 4th were represented through fireworks complaints or enforcement action of some sort. As mentioned, we responded to a variety of different others. A bunch of traffic stops, animal complaints. As you can imagine, we get quite a few of those on 4th of July with the dogs barking and being bothered. A number of medical calls, suspicious incidents, criminal violations, all of the above. Officers documented on-site enforcement activity across the city in various different locations. And as mentioned, July 4th accounted for 63% of all the fireworks-related activity for this operational period. Of the 124 incidents on July 4th, more than half of the calls were with reporting parties who refused contact, did not want to provide information, making it pretty difficult to further investigate those. As that compares to other years, it's really kind of interesting. You know, stats can say whatever we want them to say. Anecdotally, before I jump into the numbers, anecdotally from talking to my staff that was working that day, they all felt the volume of fireworks complaints during that operational period were significantly lower than previous years. However, the numbers contradict that a little bit. 2024 had about 127 different documented reports. 2025, 138. This year jumps up to 223. But again, that really high volume on July 4th is interesting. So it's interesting that volume seemed to be down a little bit. However, calls for service were up. We've been pushing people very hard the last couple of years. As you can imagine, that huge volume times multiple different law enforcement and fire agencies coming into our dispatch center really has the potential to bog down the 911 system. So we're steering people more and more to the online reporting platform that ADCOM, our dispatch center, administers to try to keep the dispatchers free to handle those other 911 calls that come in that often involve real-time emergencies. And with that, I will open it up for any questions you all may have.

Any other questions for Chief? I appreciate the statistics that you're sharing. I felt like I heard less fireworks the month leading up to Independence Day compared to other years. But you talk to other people, they feel like they hear fireworks nonstop. So I don't know. But that's why I wanted to hear the hard facts of this year versus the previous couple years. So I appreciate that.

Absolutely. And the numbers really do bear out that kind of anecdotal experience. Right. We generally receive more calls for service in the days leading up to and after the 4th of July than we did this year with the you know, with the drought conditions, with everything that's going on. I'm not terribly surprised to have seen the volume of calls reference fireworks coming in on the 4th of July as higher than than other years. So I'm proud of my team. They did a really great job at the event. and responding to all those other 911 calls and all the various fireworks complaints. It's a tough job to be a cop on the Fourth of July. Nobody wants to go out and ruin Independence Day celebrations, so it's a really challenging balance for them to strike, but I think they do a pretty good job of it.

Fourth of July and major city events like the parade are probably very challenging for your force, but we really appreciate what they do to improve our public safety and our community. Thank you.

Thank you, sir. Y'all have a nice night.

Any other director reports? Nope, that is all. This is fun. Next time we'll have to tell when the city manager's back that you provided very good director reports.

We just saw how short the meeting was. We didn't want you to get bored.

I know. This is amazing.

All right.

Next report, Spire City Attorney.

Nothing, Mayor. Thank you.

Or it's by the city manager, Deputy City Manager Palkenberg.

Thank you, Mayor. The only thing I will promote is, you've already talked about it, Mayor, the city barbecue. Kristen and her team, as well as all of the city departments, are excited to host up to 1,500 of our residents right here in the backyard behind City Hall City Barbecue. And we're actually serving barbecue, so it's appropriate. Have a band lined up. and uh that's at 5 30 thursday night so it's a pretty fun event everyone loves it and a bunch of our community partners i think we have 36 total tents that will be set up including all the city departments and all our city partners so come on down we're excited to have you we'll be ready to have a good time and talk i have no information about the weather of no prognostication

And we also appreciate the Youth Commission that plays a big role in helping handing those out and the setup and the takedowns and the staff that does all that. And don't forget the store, of course. We've got the entrepreneurs that are out there. So come with your wallets ready to open up and support the youth out there. We encourage everybody in and out of Brighton to come and enjoy the city barbecue. And it's always a fun event. We appreciate it.

I'm glad you brought the entrepreneurs up. Michael forgot to leave his credit card with me. So I'm going to have to contact him.

I'll find out if I can go pick it up.

Yes. All right.

Next, reports by our city council. We'll start with Council Member Carbajal.

Nothing to report. Thank you, Mayor.

Okay. Council Member Wirth.

Thank you, Mayor. I've been a busy couple of weeks. I went to the E470. I didn't go. I... called in to the E470 meeting. I'm going to let Councilman Green speak to that. We had our sustainability committee, which right now we're working through kind of all departments trying to prioritize what possible projects there are in sustainability. And so we're trying to see where we can provide positive impact as pretty much department by department. Got the extreme pleasure of going on the BYC retreat, which was a three-day event up at Calwood Education Center up above Boulder. And that's like the first major team-building effort with the new and more experienced commissioners together. So that's always fun to see that gelled together with that. Great retreat. Then had the BYC meeting after that, and they're preparing for their officer elections. And then attended the legacy meeting, and I'll let Councilwoman Collins report on that. One thing I would like to point out is that Sue Corbett, in the last year, has joined us. Some of you might have heard of Sue Corbett. And she's just really been a very positive impact on that. She's very thoughtful and comes up with ideas that some of us just haven't thought about for a while because it's a way we've always done things. So I like to get that perspective, and she's really been very positive. So that's all I've got for the evening. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Green.

Oh, thank you, Mayor. Yeah, Greg, let me reinforce if you're still here. They're doing an awesome job on that slurry seal in Bromley Park. I mean, there used to be cracks that my dog's paw would fit in, and those are all getting sealed up and fixed. And I've been really impressed with it, and he has been too. He's just happy to go on these three-mile walks every day. Which I hate. Yeah, the A470 meeting, they're getting ready to undertake a full renovation of their headquarters. I mean, taking it down to the studs, a multimillion dollar rebuild in there. And so they're basically going to be relocated. But however, you still have a customer service center at that headquarters building. It'll be in the parking lot. And they're also going to be conducting some new bridges over the next two years on Quebec and also on The York Street of the Washington Street bridges there was going to be redone and that's pretty exciting one of the The new changes that's going to be happening, and you might have gotten an email about it if you are an E470 customer, is a group called Plenary that basically is in charge of the toll lanes on Highway 36. Those are not E470, although they are under the easy toll banner. Those aren't E470's roads. They're going to be taking over the tolling for those. However, if you do have an easy pass in your car, you will still be billed through that. If you do not have that easy pass and your license plates toll strictly, you're going to receive a bill from Plenary. You may in the past have been receiving bills from E-470, so you could feasibly get two bills for your total road usage, depending on which roads you're using now. So that's a change. But again, if you have the easy pass and you continue with that, you'll still be billed just as normal, same way as your accounts. And so sometimes that's a discrepancy. Sometimes you'll see where those tolls on... Highway 36 can get pretty high. Sometimes they're like eight dollars to get downtown sometimes. That's not E-470. E-470's totals have actually been going down over the past few years, but that is a change that you're gonna see this fall. There's just so much I got in here. Yeah, people are always telling me to take a hike, and so Sida did. She made me go on the Donor Alliance 5k, which is to support organ donations, and yeah, I know. She actually let me come home. And I will say, I started last. I was the last person, but I did finish middle of the pack. It was over an hour, but I did finish a 5K. And I got through it. I did. I walked the entire way. I didn't even take any shortcuts.

I'm telling you.

No, I didn't golf part at all. Exactly. This is kind of a rarity for me. You know, A really big day for the Oasis this Friday is Customer Appreciation Day. All afternoon, they're going to be giving away swag and gifts and everything. So when people are telling me I'm all wet, yeah, it's because I'm going to the Customer Appreciation Day at the Oasis Water Park this Friday. And you also, at the Bird Sanctuary, they're going to teach you how to create a backyard bird sanctuary this Saturday. Check the Bird Sanctuary website. They'll tell you all about it. The Strawberry Stroll in downtown Brighton. There's just so many great things happening in Brighton. That's Saturday afternoon. Next week is the Adams County Fair. I will be there with a corn dog in one hand and probably cotton candy in the other. You guys know me. So, and then... Like you said, come Thursday night. We'll buy you dinner. We'd love to have you there at the Citywide Barbecue. That's all I got. Thank you, Mayor.

I'm surprised it's a corn dog and not like a fried cheesecake. I'm watching my weight. Council Member Tadeo.

Thank you, Mayor. I don't have anything. You can't top that.

All right. Mayor Pro Tem.

Thank you. Well, the human resources director had asked me to see how long I could possibly make this meeting run tonight, but apparently Tom has beat my record on that, so I can't do a thing. This Saturday is the resident appreciation for his station for the housing authority, so I think that's the only – oh, and then this Thursday morning is the almost home – donor and supporter appreciation breakfast so those are coming up thanks very good council member fiddler

Thank you, Mayor. First and foremost, I want to thank Marv and Karen for filling in this week and last and giving Michael the time he needs to be with family. So thank you both for stepping into that role for him. Lockwood Sewer Board was canceled this month, much to my disappointment. I'm looking forward to the city barbecue on Thursday evening. I will miss the almost home donor breakfast because I'm back to work. Summer was wonderful. It was really wonderful.

I didn't have that as superintendent.

And then next Tuesday, I checked with Marv on a side text. I will not be here for the study session because I will be in Empower Field for the ACDC concert.

Wow. Thunderstruck. Very cool. I'm going to have to come. Council Member Snyder.

I don't have tickets. I can't top that.

You can't top it with ZZ Top?

Well, I saw them last year, but I'm not seeing them this year. Anyway, I would just like to make a couple comments. It's been an absolute honor to serve on Borough. They've gotten a lot of great things done. They have a lot of great things they're going to finish before Corps Borough expires. And there's more Borough. There's South Borough, and there's Prairie Center Borough, and there's the Borough up north. So there's more work to be done. And I couldn't be happier that Tom's taking that role. He's a great cheerleader, as you all heard tonight. And they need a cheerleader, you know. I appreciate you jumping in there and I'll do my best to serve the DDA well. I think it's going to be an important addition to the future of downtown. Burra is going to make a couple of changes. I'll just say a couple things about it and then next month leave it up to tom but um one of the things we're doing is we normally give grant applicants six months to do whatever improvements they want to do but because of the sunset that's going to be cut to 90 days if they apply for a grant and they get it they're only going to have 90 days to finish the project we don't want projects um uncompleted when corbura sunsets The other thing that I there's a couple things. I'm really excited about you're all familiar with the really big planners at Founders Park and Aaron has ordered a bunch more of those That the same planner that are going to be placed on Main Street and plan it to kind of enhance Main Street and and pretty it up and And I'm very happy to say that he was extremely careful to make sure he got some for South Main to make that inclusive. He's doing everything he can to pull South Main into that and kind of make that whole area cohesive. So cheers to Aaron. I won't be on the board anymore, but if you guys need anything, Tom, you know where to find me. I'll be right here. Thanks.

Very good.

And then Council Member Collins?

Thanks, Mayor. I think I'm just following Councilmember Wirth around to board meetings this week. I had a youth commission. Like he said, they're talking about elections. They're getting ready to do those elections, which is actually kind of fun to hear them talk about it. They're learning what all the different positions mean and I feel like I'm fresh off an election. So it's kind of fun to see them and see who's stepping up to do that. Because it is a scary thing. And they're all out of their comfort zone. And I'm really excited to see who's going to run and who will get elected there. legacy foundation we have been reviewing our funding policy and kind of doing some updates there just some cleanup because we haven't looked at it for um quite some time we have some funds that we've been able to do some mini grants so we did now i already can't remember at least one Maybe two mini grants we're awarding and then we try to have recipients come and visit every once in a while and tell us what they're up to and what they're doing. So we had Precious Child this week and it was really fantastic to see all the great work they're doing. They are a very large organization but they are really contributing very nicely to our community. They've had a little change of hand. I think the gal that we were in contact with has left and we've got a new contact. So she came and talked to us and told us all the great things that they're doing. So that was really nice. I think that's it for me.

Thank you and thank you everybody for representing our community. Before I go on to the next item, just for informational purposes, after we dismiss this meeting, which will be after the executive session, we will start our GID meeting, the South Brighton General Improvement District meeting. So stick around for that. Mayor Pro Tem, call the executive session.

Thank you. I move that the council recesses to an executive session pursuant to Colorado Revised Statutes section 246402, subsection 4F1, and Brighton Charter section 5.4, subsection C5, to discuss personnel matters.

There's a first to go into executive session. Can we get a second? Council Member Wirth.

Thank you, Mayor. I'll second that.

We have a first and second to go into executive session. We'll call vote. Motion passes nine to zero. We will go into executive session and then return to the open meeting. And this will be our 10 minute break as well. The time is now 7.49 p.m.

This executive session has been concluded.

For the record, the participants in this executive session were all of the current city council, HR Director Kevin Young, and City Attorney Calderon. For the record, if any person who participated in this executive session believes that any substantial discussion of any matters not included in the motion to go into the executive session occurred during the executive session, or that any improper action occurred during this executive session in violation of the open meetings law, I would ask that you state your concern for the record. Don't go yet. We are adjourned from this meeting. And the city clerk will let us know when she's ready to change over to the next meeting. We'll give it a moment.