City Council - workshop

Good morning, welcome to the City of Colorado Springs work session meeting for Tuesday, May 26th. Today we will start with our work session and we will end with our regular council meeting as yesterday was a holiday. Will the clerk please call the roll?

Council Member Casey.

Here.

Council Member Crowe-Iverson. Here. Council Member Donaldson.

Here.

Council Member Gold. Here I am. Council Member Hengim. Present. Council Member Lineweber. Here. Council Member Rainey. Here. Council Member Risley. Here. Council Member Williams. Here. All nine present.

Moving on to the changes to the agenda. Are there any changes to today's agenda? Seeing none, moving on to the regular meeting. Are there any changes to the regular meeting?

The regular meeting? I just have a comment about minutes in the regular meeting. The regular meeting. Okay. Yeah, Councilman Hensham. Well, I don't know if this is the right place to bring this up, but the minutes reflecting from the last regular meeting, of the last regular meeting, I just wanted to make a correction. Is now the appropriate time to do that?

No, we'll get it in our meeting, thank you.

Okay.

Moving on to item 4A, will the clerk please read item 4A into the record?

City Council Work Session Meeting Minutes, May 11th, 2026.

Are there any changes to the meeting minutes from May 11th? Seeing none, let me silence. Moving on to item 7A, staff appointee. Will the clerk please read item 7A into the record?

Agenda planner review.

Does anybody have any changes or questions to the agenda planner review? Seeing none, Councilman Donaldson.

Yeah, thank you. I just did have a couple questions about, it's on page two, some of the items on consent for June 9th. There's a zone change consisting of 203 acres. It's a portion of Ute Valley Park, and it would go from multiple types of zoning to, just public park, who owns it now? Is it, and I'm not sure if we can, if Kevin is comfortable answering this, but is it city, all city-owned property right now, even though it's zoned for residential and other stuff?

Kevin Walker, Planning Director. I'm 95% certain.

Is your green button on? Thank you.

It is. It's not working. Oh yeah, it's working. I'm 95% certain that that is all owned by the City of Colorado Springs, but I will get that clarified for you.

Okay, it's just being cleaned up and all zoned as part.

Some of that was gifted and it was gifted with the existing zoning in place.

Okay, and then another question, just the very next item, number three on the consent calendar on the 9th is five and a quarter acres, it's near UCCS at 4625 Stanton Road, and public facilities, if something is zoned PF, is that essentially utilities?

In most cases it is utilities, yes.

Okay, and this is gonna go from residential, estate, and public facilities to just looks like public facilities. Is it, do you know, is that all owned by the city already also?

Again, I believe so, and it was an additional piece that was purchased, but purchased with the existing zoning in it, which was residential.

Okay, and then I think this is my final question. There's an annexing to the city of Colorado Springs. This is not until July 14th. The area known as PTAA, addition number one, 14 acres. Where is that?

That's out on Mark Shuffle Road, already been heard once by city council and gone through the process. It's just being, there was a modification in the ownership in between readings, and so there's a mistake to be cleaned up.

Okay, that's all the questions I had, Madam President. Thank you, Kevin.

Moving on to item 8A. Will the clerk please read item 8A into the record?

An ordinance amending multiple parts of Article 8, Stormwater Quality Management Discharge Control Code of Chapter 3, Public Property and Public Works, the Code of the City of Colorado Springs 2001 is amended pertaining to Stormwater Quality Management Discharge Control Code and providing penalties for the violation thereof.

Good morning, Erin. Good morning, City Council and President Crow-Iverson. My name is Erin Powers. I'm the Stormwater Enterprise Manager for the city. Today, I am presenting an ordinance to amend parts of Article 8, Chapter 3 of city code. So this is code related to our illicit discharge program. So the City of Colorado Springs MS4 permit, that's our permit with the state and the EPA, requires the city to maintain an enforcement program to detect and eliminate these illicit discharges, where illicit discharges are essentially anything that is not stormwater going into our storm system. So the recommended code changes strengthen our enforcement options and then they also change the exclusions that are listed in code to line up with our MS4 permit. So things that are excluded like firefighting waters and other things that just common sense should be allowed to enter our storm sewer when needed. um so i did want to mention that there is supposed to be a second administrative or second ordinance that was presented today regarding enforcement for permanent control measures and this would have been a change to chapter seven that was kind of a companion ordinance but due to administrative an administrative issue that didn't end up making it on today's agenda so i will plan to to bring that back on june 8th and hopefully we can get that resynced up for a first reading on June 9th, if possible. So with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions on the illicit discharge code or anything else.

Councilman Hingham. Thank you, Madam President. Good morning, Erin. Are those two ordinances then really kind of intended to be paired? Are they supporting one another?

They're not directly supporting one another. So permanent control measures sometimes use illicit discharge enforcement to get to where they need in certain circumstances. So they do kind of support one another, though they're not directly referencing each other, I will say.

But it's the enforcement side is the side that you're making changes to that will come back?

Correct. Okay, thank you.

Aaron, I don't see any other questions at this time, so we'll put those on there and try to get them done on the June. Thank you. You're welcome. Moving on to item 10 a. Will the clerk please read item 10 a into the record authorization for out of state travel for council members? Is there any council members that would like to ask for out of state travel?

Yeah, well, thanks, Madam President. This is Councilman Donaldson, and I would like to participate in the Chamber of Commerce is having a trip down to Huntsville, Alabama, to meet with and learn from business and military programs and decisions that they have made there. I'd like to be part of that group.

Can I get a show of thumbs up if you're in support of this travel? Looks like you're good to go. that does conclude our work session for today so we will now adjourn and take a 10 minute break to flip the room change our technology that we have to change for the regular work session so we will um resume the regular council meeting at 9 20.

Madam President, if I could, I think it might be useful if you would kind of point out when we would expect to get to citizens' comments, because there may be some people here who don't realize it will be after lunch, I think.

Probably closer to 4 p.m., 3 or 4 p.m. is my guess right now. There's no way to actually know. maybe come back at two, you might be in luck, but there is no way to know with the topics that we have and the citizen's comment signed up for those topics.