City Council - Regular Meeting

council meeting for monday august 3rd 2026. my name is mark clark i'm the mayor i'm going to call the meeting to order please stand and join me in the pledge make it roll call please

Mayor Clark.

Here.

Mayor Pro Tem Plucka. Here. Council Member Johnson. Present. Council Member Neill. Present. Council Member Crabtree.

Here.

Council Member Delaney.

Here. All right, next item on our agenda is a proclamation for National Night Out for 2026, which would be tomorrow, August 4th. All right, whereas the National Association of Town Watch held that the first National Night Out in 1984 by encouraging neighbors to turn on their porch light and sit in front of their homes And whereas this year, over 38 million neighbors from 17,000 communities will participate in the event. Whereas National Night Out provides a unique opportunity for the city of Evans to join with thousands of other communities across the nation in promoting cooperative police community partnerships to keep our neighborhoods safe And whereas the citizens of the city of Evans play a vital role in assisting the police department through joint crime and drug prevention programs. And whereas the police community partnership and neighborhood safety and awareness are important themes of the National Night Out program. And whereas the city of Evans encourages the citizens to organize block parties and other events to bring neighbors together and celebrate this event. And whereas members of the City Council and City staff will visit many celebration sites and meet with our community members to foster positive relationships and dialogue. Therefore, be it resolved that the Mayor and the City Council of the City of Evans do hereby formally designate Tuesday, August 4th, 2026 as National Night Out in the City of Evans and encourage all citizens to join with our Police Department in keeping Evans a great place to live, work, and play. In testimony, the Mayor of the City of Evans has hereunto subscribed his name and has caused the official seal of the City of Evans to be hereunto effected this third day of August 2026. And I will provide this proclamation to our Chief of Police. Come up. All right, next item on our agenda is audience participation. Is there anybody in the audience that wishes to address City Council on any item that's not on the agenda or of a public hearing? If so, please step up to the podium, state your name and address for the record, and limit your comments to two minutes or less. All right, not seeing any. All right, next item on the agenda, Madam Clerk, any changes to the agenda?

No, Mayor.

All right. Seeing that there is no change to the agenda, I would entertain a motion. All right. I motion a second to approve the agenda. Your votes.

You're

All right, and that motion carries. All right, next consent agenda. I'd entertain a motion.

Mr. Mayor?

Yes.

I would like some staff to give a little bit of explanation for 7D, 7E, and 7F, and G, because I have over 400 pages here in the packet to deal with that, and I think for full disclosure and transparency to our citizens, we should have some kind of an explanation on the record for why there's so much paperwork for this. Are you asking that to be pulled off the consent agenda and put it in your business? I don't think it needs to be pulled off. I'd just like to get some kind of explanation because it is rather routine, but there's a lot of paperwork, and if we have citizens that are looking at all this paperwork, they're probably wondering why it's on the consent agenda. Okay. Does anybody on council agree or disagree with that?

I don't see anybody here. Is anybody good with that?

I'm good with that.

Good? Yeah. Okay. Sure. All right. Cody, if you can provide a brief explanation regarding those items that Council Member Neill brought.

Yes, Mayor and Council, we have those items that Council Member Neill called out are on-call engineering contracts. They are similar to the contracts, the on-call contracts are similar to the on-call legal contracts the City Council approved on February 4th, 2025 that included legal services with Kim Crawford, Butler Snowe, legal services with CROB Law Office and legal services with Amy Penfold as a backup prosecutor. So what these are are on-call contracts that we have solicited through the city's procurement process. We received 11 proposals that were submitted In response to the RFP, six firms were interviewed and four were selected for on-call services. These on-call services give engineering staff the ability to supplement their engineering manpower, but also to call in specialized engineers for projects when we need. It also gives us the ability to move quicker on emergency items rather than having to go through a procurement process at the time that we have an emergency failure of any sort, similar to 49th Street ditch repair or County Road 394 culvert. Having these on-call contracts allows us to be able to select through our procurement process an engineer to serve as the design consultant for that repair. It's important to note that I put them on the consent because no money is being expended through this approval. This is simply Council's authorization for us to use these on-call engineering contracts in the event that staff needs to, whether it's to supplement manpower or to pull in a specialized engineer for a special circumstance or an emergency circumstance. Any future contract awards for on-call services will continue to follow the adopted procurement policy, that spending threshold, whether it's executable under my threshold or if it's then something we need to bring to city council. But that is the reasoning behind those on-call engineering contracts.

Great. Thank you, Cody.

Councilman Muehl. Thank you, Cody. I believe that provides greater transparency on this matter.

All right, seeing that there's no further discussion on it, I'd entertain a motion. All right, I have a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda. Let's write your votes. All right, that motion carries 6-0. All right, moving on. Old business, item 8A, public hearing, consideration of a beer and wine on-premise liquor license for L. Hoyle Ranchero, LLC at 3625 23rd Avenue. I'm going to go ahead and reopen the public hearing and we will hear from staff.

Thank you, Mayor Clark and Council. The city received an application for a new liquor license from Enrique Mendez Hernandez, registered agent of El Polo Ranchero LLC for consideration of a beer and wine liquor license to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises located at 3625 23rd Avenue. City Council will be acting in a quasi-judicial role as the local licensing authority to consider the approval of this beer and wine liquor license. The Council's role as the liquor licensing authority The approval of the new liquor license must be based on findings regarding the reasonable requirements of the neighborhood, the desires of the adult inhabitants of the neighborhood, and the moral character of the applicants. The license application was submitted for concurrent review with both the city and the state. For the record, the following findings from the report submitted by staff for this license have been determined. The city received the application on May 29, 2026, from El Polo Ranchero LLC for a beer and wine liquor license for on-premises at 3625 23rd Avenue, Evans, Colorado. The notice of public hearing on this matter was posted on the property and published in the Greeley Tribune on or before July 20th. The applicant is entitled to possession of the premises. The applicant has applied for a state sales tax license and city business license. The property is zoned C1, neighborhood commercial, indoor retail, includes restaurants, are allowed in the zoned district. The location does not appear to be within 500 feet of any public school or principal campus of any college. There has not, within the previous two years, preceding the date of the application, been a denial of an application by either the state or the local licensing authority for a beer and wine license application at this location. The applicants conducted a survey within the one mile radius of the premises to convey the needs and desires of the neighborhood. The petition returned 47 residences in favor, zero residents opposed. Upon review of the petition, it was determined that eight addresses were outside the one mile boundary. There is one other beer and wine liquor license within a one-mile radius of 3625 23rd Avenue, as well as four hotel restaurant, three retail liquor store, and four FMB wine licenses. Attached to the packet was a memorandum from the Evans Police Department, which shows that no information was found when they conducted their background checks on the moral character of the applicant. And the public hearing was opened on July 21st and continued until this evening with regards to this application. And so staff find that the applicant has submitted all the necessary information for a new liquor license application, and the applicants are here to answer any questions.

Great. Thank you, Julie. All right. Does anybody have any questions for staff? And I'm assuming the applicant is here as well. Does anyone on council have any questions for staff and or the applicant?

I don't have any questions.

All right. I don't see any questions. All right. I will go ahead and close. Oh, actually, before I close the public hearing, is there anybody in the audience that wishes to come up and address city council that would like to speak for or against this item? Please come up to the podium, state your name and address for the record. All right. Seeing none, I'm going to go ahead and close the public hearing. Is there any council discussion? If not, I would entertain a motion. I'll give her just a quick second to get logged back in. I'll see if there's any. Well, we don't have any questions.

All right.

I'll use your request to. All right. Go ahead, Council Member Johnson.

I just want to mention it's exciting to have your business within Evans, and I look forward to eating there and seeing you be established. I don't think we have anything like that, so it would be nice to have a pollo ranchero restaurant in our community and adding to our businesses, which is fantastic. And I love the fact that it's like a sit-in restaurant, so that's really good to see. So welcome, welcome to our community.

All right, I've not seen any other discussions or I'd entertain a motion. All right, I have a motion and a second to approve the beer and wine liquor license for El Polo Ranchero LLC. No, it's.

Double L is Y.

Located at 3625 23rd Avenue. All right, and that motion carries 6-0. All right, next item on the agenda, item 9, new business, 9-8, City Council Ward 1, vacancy appointments. And I would entertain a motion for that.

It's asking to speak, go.

All right, I have a motion and a second to approve Consuelo Lopez to fill the ward one vacancy until November 3rd, 2026, regular election. You can submit your votes. Come on up. Get your sworn in and get your seated. And that motion carries six, nothing.

All right.

You can sit your, if you like, up at the dais there. Gotta get her sworn in. Well, she can sit her stuff down. She can sit her stuff down, yeah.

I solemnly swear that I support the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of the State of Colorado, the Constitution of the State of Colorado, the Honorable Charter, the Honorable Charter, the Honorable Charter, the Honorable Charter, the Honorable Charter, the Honorable Charter,

Welcome, come take your seat up here at the dais. Glad to have you here. Thank you so much. Well, welcome up to the dais. So do you wanna just let the council know who came in attendance to see your swearing in?

I have in the back row my husband sitting in the middle, Manuel Lopez, my sister, Loretta Inskeep, and her husband, Ron Inskeep.

Hi, hello.

Thank you for being here this evening, thank you. Thank you. All right.

All right, ready to jump right in? All right, here we go. All right, next item on the agenda, 9B, consideration of resolution number 20-2026, approving an intergovernmental agreement with CDOT for the 37th Street widening project phase three. And we'll hear from staff.

Good evening, Mayor. Good evening, Council. Shantanu Tiwari, Director of Engineering. I hope my computer works.

You don't have it memorized, or you could just do it off the top of your head? I'd tease in the back of the room.

All right, so I would like to discuss the Colorado Department of Transportation intergovernmental agreement with City of Evans with you today. So this is with respect to the 37th Street Phase 3 widening project. As you can see in the map, And these are approximate limits. These are not accurate. These are for display only. On the western side of the town, we have intersection of 65th and 37th. So as you know, on the eastern side of 37th, we have widened the street from two lanes to four lanes. And we would like to do the same at this intersection. So with this widening project, we will be looking at widening 37 from two to four lanes, but we will also evaluate traffic patterns to configure the turn lanes at this intersection. So it's approximately 0.55 miles on the east side. The limits are towards the Arrowhead subdivision and on the west side it terminates where the school entrance is. So So we had received a grant from Colorado Department of Transportation back in 2021 that was scheduled for fiscal year 25 and 26. So we had received an initial delay for that grant and we'll be using that grant. The grant is called STBG or Surface Transportation Block Grant. So we'll be using this grant for construction purposes only. So we anticipate the design of this project to begin sometime in fall of 2026. We anticipate the construction will start somewhere around summer of 2027, and we anticipate the conclusion of this project in summer of 2028. So with that, we will be receiving $1,536,462 from Colorado Department of Transportation. If you have any questions, I would love to answer them for you.

Great. Thank you, Shantanu. Appreciate it. I do have a question. So anticipated start for the construction in 2027 going through the summer. How much of a major impact is that going to have on the middle school? I mean, I know that's going to have a significant traffic. Has that been coordinated with District 6 and all the bus routes and...

So that will be part of the stakeholder management. So as we begin the design process this fall, we'll reach out with all the stakeholders. That means the neighbors who are going to be impacted by this project, but also the school district as well. And we'll keep them up to date on all the project milestones as well as the construction phases. And we'll do the construction in phase in such a way that it will have minimum interruption or minimum impact on the school district as well as the residents of Evans.

Great, thank you. Council Member Neill.

Yes, Shundu. Since this money has been carried forward for so many years now, is it possible to go back to CDOT to see if we can increase this grant amount?

I'm afraid I don't have an answer for you, but what I can do is I can reach out to Colorado Department of Transportation to my contact and ask this question to them, and then I can get back to Cody. Thank you.

I'm not sure if they would be willing to do that, but I think it's worth a shot because I think we've carried this forward now about four or five years, so this money.

That is accurate. We received one delay. And one thing I forgot to mention that Northern Front Range MPO was a critical partner in receiving this grant. So I think I would like to start the conversation with them first and then go to CDOT and see what we can do as far as the grant is concerned. Let me know.

Yeah, when do their requests open?

Calls for projects should be opening up a couple months. But it wouldn't affect this project though. It would be for more of like fiscal year 30, 31. All right, Councilmember Delaney.

Yes, just want to check with the city manager. If we go back and say, hey, we'd like more money because we pushed this off, does that in any way risk the money that we have on the table? I'd love more money, but I definitely don't want to lose what we already have.

That's a good question. If we go back and ask for more money, does that jeopardize this $1.5 million? Is that your question? Mr.

Yes, because I guess what I'm saying is we go back to them and we say, hey, we'd like more money because, you know, it's been three years or five years.

Ms. Inflation?

Mr. And they take a look at it and they're like, oh, yeah, but on second thought, we actually aren't going to give you anything. Ms.

So, from an NPO perspective, yes, that can happen because, That money was allocated specifically for a certain fiscal year. Yes, it got delayed, but if we go back and ask for more money or to try to delay it more to get more money, they could pull the funding and say, no, it's possible. I'm not saying it will happen, but it's definitely possible because they're saying you've already been given one extension or one delay. Now it's a delay. We might pull the funding back.

We do have to have this money obligated before the end of next year. And so before we can get started with the design, because Shantanu has been working on the solicitation of bids for a design consultant. Before we can award that design, then they're requiring this updated IGA. I will say, while I think it's great to try to get more money, I do think the chances are very slim. Just understanding where the money is coming from, whether that is CDOT or USDOT, those those funds are very very competitive funds um we we've rewarded these funds back in 2021 have carried them forward for a few years now to the point where if we do not have them obligated uh by 31 december of next year uh then we will we will lose these funds so i i understand that we'll lose them if we delay again but given the fact that i agree with your assessment that

the chance of getting any more money is gonna be slim to none, particularly from CDOT currently. If it at all risks the money we have in hand, I would not want that question asked.

And I can't tell you definitively that it won't risk it. So therefore, from my perspective, the risk is higher. Because I can't guarantee you that it won't cause a problem.

Yeah, so then I think that I would like the direction to staff to be-

not to ask the question my suggestion would be from from an mpo perspective is ask for some more money through the mpo for the next calls of project yeah right that would be my suggestion as the mpo rep so yeah i agree thank you hey i'll stay here for time all right i'm not seeing any more questions or comments from council so i would entertain a motion All right, I have a motion and a second to approve resolution number 20-2026, approving the intergovernmental agreement with the Colorado Department of Transportation to support the construction of 37th Street widening project phase three. Go ahead and submit your votes. And that motion carries seven nothing. All right, next item, item nine C, consideration of resolution number 21-2026, authorizing the acquisition of Neville's Crossing Subdivision Outlot Q, Neville's Crossing non-potable pond from Tierra Land Works LLC.

Good evening, Ty Borowski, Assistant City Manager. Today, I'm presenting on the acquisition of what we generally refer to as the Neville's Crossing non-pot pond. This is something that is normally done after the completion of infrastructure in a subdivision. Here we are 20 years later, kind of cleaning up some of the administrative oversight of the past. Not exactly sure why it happened, but before we start putting money and investment into the Nevels Crossing Pond, it's very important that the city owns it first. So originally when the Nevels Crossing subdivision was built, it had a plat that was approved by the Planning Commission and City Council in 2002. I've specifically highlighted a note from that plat that covers the outlot, which is the lot in the center of the screen here, Outlock Q, the pond. And it specifically says, Outlock Q to be dedicated to the City of Evans for use as an irrigation system impoundment. Maintenance of Outlock Q will be at the expense of the City of Evans. We have been maintaining and operating this pond. We have been billing for water service. It was just not realized until recently that the formal dedication of the outlot was not sent over to the city. I'm unsure exactly why. So this is part of our cleaning up some of the records that came to our attention when the HOA actually asked us about maintenance elsewhere. And we realized, hey, we don't have this parcel under city ownership. So the property itself is approximately 3.14 acres. It includes the non-pot irrigation pond and conveyance infrastructure that connects the pond to the adjacent pump station on the adjacent outlot, Outlot K, that's owned by the HOA, which we'll discuss in the next agenda item. So there's no direct financial impact associated with this action. It is just providing an outlot that was meant to come to us all along. However, as it has been for the last 20 plus years, we'll be responsible for maintenance of the structures that we've treated as if are ours and now will formally be ours. So happy to open it up to any questions or I guess I could bring up a couple other maps too if this one doesn't serve the purposes of council.

All right, any questions or comments of staff? Council Member Johnson.

It's more of a comment. I'm just glad that it's now a part of the city and we can continue moving forward and maintaining it as we have, but it's under our portfolio. That's all I have. Thank you. Thank you for getting this done.

Council Member Neill.

Yes, this is another problem from 20 plus years ago from the same administration that dumped a lot of this stuff on this council to take care of. I would like to thank Terra Firma Land Works for contributing for the past 27 years of property tax from this out lot to the city of Evansville. That's it.

My question mainly has to do with why why do we need to acquire this. I mean I know we've been maintaining it and it's never been deeded to us. So why do we need to take on another project that's already has issues and continue to spend more taxpayer money when technically it has not ever been deeded to us in a proper manner.

FRED PODESTA. Yeah and we've had a lot of internal conversations over the last almost a year before bringing this in front of city council. And it was the legal opinion at the time that because we have been operating, charging for this service, we did accept dedication of the water rights feeding into it, that we have all but assumed this liability. This is more of a paperwork cleanup before we make some of the infrastructure enhancements that are necessary out there. I really just consider it a check the box before we put some money, of which you saw some potential investments included in the recommended budget to start making some improvements that are much needed out there.

Right. No, I just wanted to ask that question because I know that's been brought up in conversation as why take on another project that's failing with our growing infrastructure problems already that we have. It's another cost to the city, which never really was properly conveyed to us in the first place, so.

And Mr. Mayor, I think that's a fair question. I would point the council back to note 19 on the face of the plat with acceptance of that plat, there was the acceptance of that liability. There was the acceptance of that responsibility. And because the city of Evans has been operating that as a business for the last 20 plus years, you can't take the benefit without the liability, right? And so making sure that if we're accepting the money, if we're charging for the service, then it, and especially in line with the intention of Note 19, it is our responsibility to make sure that we are maintaining the system. And as we've seen with North Point and we've seen with the Ridge, you know, these non-post systems and these pump houses are in pretty rough shape. And I certainly understand and I respect the question, but I would, to lead the council back to, I would direct the council back to Note 19 and acceptance of that obligation.

Completely understand. All right, great, let's all head. All right, I have not seen any other questions or comments, so seeing none, I would entertain a motion. All right, I have a motion and a second to approve resolution number 21-2026 authorizing the acquisition of Neville's Crossing Subdivision Outlook Queue Tierra Firma Land Works, LLC. Submit your votes. And that motion carries 7-0. Thank you. All right. Next item on our agenda, 9D, consideration of resolution number 22-2026, authorizing the acceptance of a non-exclusive utility easement from the Nevels Crossing Homeowners Association. We'll hear from staff.

Thank you, Ty Boreski, Assistant City Manager. This is a follow-up to the last agenda item. I'll draw your attention to the Nevels Crossing Pond in the center of the screen, the property located to the right where you can see the pump station, the driveway. That is the area that we are specifically focused on. As part of reviewing the dedication of the property itself, we quickly became aware that it was landlocked and there was no deeded easement that provided connectivity for our staff to access the pond from Charleston Avenue in the Nevels Crossing subdivision. We did have a driveway there. We have showed open and continuous use. We have the pump station. We have pipes. There's an argument to be made that a prescriptive easement exists. But since we were already doing the survey work associated with the pond dedication, it just seemed like a really great time to make sure the easement was deeded. It also gave us the opportunity to set the terms of the width allowing for the future improvements that that the city is interested in in pursuing. Mainly moving that pump station above ground versus currently a lot of the the operations of the pump station happen below grade, which is. not something our operations team loves. So as we look to make some improvements out there, we look to clean up the pond and do some additional work. This just allows us that deeded easement, that surety that we'll have the space we need to operate that pond and improve it. Once again, similar to the last item, there's no direct financial impact associated with this easement. It's just really formalizing what has existed in the past. So I will open it up for questions. Thank you.

Great. Thank you. Any questions or comments of staff?

I just have a question.

All right, Council Member Johnson, go ahead.

Is the easement going to be where the pump station's at?

Yes, so you can see on the right side of the screen, that's Outlock K, owned by the Nevels Crossing HOA. The area that's shown in basically the driveway and 30 feet in either direction is the easement itself. And I think in your packet, you have the easement specifically identified in the map. The maps vary slightly between the two agenda items. So it just shows a little rectangle.

I know I'm trying to see it clearly in my glasses.

I need a, it's, it's not on this one. I think it's, it's on the other one by the easement is right here. Yeah. Yeah. Right there. It's 60 feet wide. Um, basically extending from Charleston to the pond out lot.

Okay, yeah, so I'm looking at the same thing. It's from Charleston, because that's where the pump station is, so yeah. So that's one side of the easement, but you said the opposite side will also need it where there's houses, or just that one area?

It'll just provide connection between the roadway and the pond itself, along with giving us the width needed to move the pump station above ground at some point in the future.

So just that area, but not the opposite side? because it's right next to a road.

Can you clarify that question?

Because you had mentioned earlier the easement, it's on both sides because it's landlocked, right?

Oh, both sides from the driveway. From the driveway, right. So 30 feet basically north of driveway, 30 feet south. The driveway is kind of the middle line.

For clarification, I'm just mentioning the one that you'll technically be using is the one off of Charleston Avenue.

Yeah, we'll access as we do currently, which is Charleston onto that driveway. We don't have any plans to change that driveway unless the engineering with the pump station improvements dictate a change there. Apologies.

Awesome. No, no worries. Thank you.

So, Ty, just for clarification, it would essentially be 30 feet from the center line of that point right there, 30 feet north, 30 feet south.

Approximately, yes. Yeah, and in one of the surveys that's provided, it does specifically show that rectangle. Okay.

All right. All right, not seeing any additional questions or comments, I'd entertain a motion. All right, I have a motion and a second to approve resolution number 22-2026, authorizing the acceptance of a non-exclusive utility easement for the Nevels Crossing Homeowners Association. Let's get your votes. And that motion carries 7-0. All right, next item, reports. City Manager.

Yes, Mayor and Council, just a couple things for you here tonight. Nomination packets for the upcoming City Council election will be available beginning tomorrow, August 4th, here at City Hall. And then those packets will be due back to the City Clerk's office before the close of business on Monday, August 24th. Building off of the discussion from the work session, the North Point Pump Station staff is working to get that back online. We have last, I wanna say last week, I signed roughly a $24,000 emergency sole source for a new VFD and a new PLC to get that pump station back online. We have received the PLC, the programmable logic controller, or the brain of the unit, if you will. We're waiting right now for delivery of the VFD, or the variable frequency drive, Once we have both of those components in our possession, then Quantum Pump and Controls will be able to get out and get that installed for us, get that pump station back online. We had about a day between getting the ridge fixed and North Point, so I'm going to be watching that next day very closely. So hopefully we can get that back up and running. I know it's an inconvenience to the public. My sincerest apologies. My team is working on it as quickly as they can. We have the order in. We've received half the components. We're waiting on that VFD. Once we get the VFD, then our contractor will be out to get that pump station fixed, get the non-pot irrigation back online. And then lastly, the police station, we're moving along on that project. We are so close to taking delivery. We're very excited about that. Brian has done a fantastic job managing the construction of that project. Chief Darling and the team have worked very closely with Brian to make sure we've got a great product. Once that is completed, took the mayor over this afternoon so he could sign the beam. So I think everybody on council now has signed the beam for that. So we're very excited to be able to move forward with that. Just a few more touches, and then hopefully here in the next week or so, we'll be able to take possession and start moving into that building Once we do that, then construction will start over here in the existing police space for the renovation to expand the administration area over here at City Hall. So a lot of exciting projects are taking place. And so we'll see how this finishes up here very quickly. Last week, I sent you guys a very detailed update on all of our capital projects rather than, Yes, thank you. Rather than going through that, I'll take this opportunity to let you know that not only are we going to be handing out packets tomorrow, will packets be available, but this Thursday, August 6th, that's 6 p.m., we'll have council orientation here at City Hall. So 6 to roughly 7 or 8. about eight. So six to 8 PM this Thursday here in this room, uh, here at city hall, we'll have a council orientation for anybody who's interested in running for, um, for the city council here in the November election. So Mr. Mayor, with that, uh, I have nothing further. I'll turn it back over to council.

Great. Thank you, Cody.

So the attorney. Thank you, mayor and council. I'm, I actually have nothing new and or interesting that I can publicly report at this time. Uh, Thank you.

All right.

All right, next item on the agenda is the council discussion. I want to say, first of all, since I wasn't here the last couple of council meetings, I want to say thank you to Congressman Gabe Evans for the $600,000 in the congressional director's spending for the Nevels Crossing to help us out with that project. He actually did call me personally and delivered me the good news. It actually will be an actual line item in the congressional budget that they are going to be voting on later on. So that was really great news and everything like that. And obviously tomorrow is National Night Out, so I look forward to hopefully seeing you all out there as we go through the community. That's all I have. Council Member Johnson.

I just wanted to state that we went this Saturday to the 250-150 event at Bittersweet Park. The city manager, his wife, the mayor, Mayor Mark was there, and myself. It was a nice event. It was extremely hot, but it was very nice, well attended, and it was great to see other legislators and fellow councilmen there and former Mayor Rudy was there as well, so it was great to see him. I also attended, representing the city, at UNC, the new medical building, the ribbon cutting. So it's a nice facility. I think we all should definitely go and see it. The tours, I took my kids, so they were able to tour the entire building. It's a great addition to our community, so hopefully that'll produce a lot of future educators.

I think there was one last thing.

I believe that's all I have. Oh, and lastly, North Point, I appreciate you being on top of it, staff being on top of the pump and getting that taken care of. I do live in North Point. I believe things happen, and so definitely waiting for that part and for that to be back online, hopefully sooner than later. I was hoping we got rain, but it looks like we're not getting any rain this week. But thank you. I appreciate you all.

All right, seeing nothing else for council discussion, I will entertain a motion to go into executive session. All right, I have a motion to second to go into executive session pursuant to CRS 24-6-402, subsection 4A and B and E for the purpose of conferring with city attorney to provide direction to negotiators regarding the possible acquisition of real estate. Attending in the executive session will be City Council, City Manager Cody Sims, City Attorney Ed Bohl, and Economic Development Director Brian Stone, and Assistant City Manager Ty Bereski. I'd entertain a motion for that one. And I got that, and go ahead and submit your votes, and then we'll do a motion for the second executive session. That motion carries 7-0, and I need a motion for second to go into executive session for CRS 24-6-402, subsection B and E. For the purpose of conferring with the city attorney regarding matters to Mountain Cement Company and provide directions to negotiators attending the executive session will be the city council, city manager Cody Sims, city attorney Ed Bull, director of engineering Shantanu Tiwari, economic development director Brian Stone, and assistant city manager Ty Burris. And that motion carries 7-0. All right, we'll go ahead and go to the conference room for executive session. All right, the time is now 8.13, and the executive session has been concluded. The participants in the executive session were the city council, the city attorney, the city manager, the deputy assistant, the deputy city manager, the economic development director, and the engineering director. For the record, if any person who participated in the executive session believes that any substantial discussion of any matter, not including in the motion to go into Executive Session occurred during the Executive Session or that any improper action occurred during the Executive Session in violation of the Open Meeting Law, I would ask that you state your concern for the record. Seeing none, I request the City Attorney make his notation for the record regarding the Executive Session.

Thank you, Mayor and Council. I'm Iad Bull. The City Attorney was present in both Executive Sessions. They were on topic according to statute and subject to confidentiality per statute.

All right. Having completed the executive session, the next item on the agenda is to adjourn the