City Council - Regular Meeting

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I call to order the Florence City Council meeting for Tuesday, February 17th, 2026. Please rise for the pledge. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Roll call, please. Councelor Van Halton, here. Councelor Stifel, here. Councelor Mglman, here. Councelor Gardner, here. Councelor Stone here. Councelor McKinnon here. Mayor Wolf here.

Item three, public comments. Joan Elliot, please remind you to say your name, address, speak loudly into the mic. Joan Elliot, 404 Wilson Avenue, uh, Florence, 81226. Um, what I have to say is very short. I want to thank you at the last council meeting that uh to give us encouragement to get uh Chris uh music in the park again and thank you for uh helping us with the fees for the park. We will have uh in June we'll have June 1 and seven and each in June we'll have a band and at the park uh at Pioneer Park and uh thank you very much for your support.

Okay, you're welcome. Item four, consent agenda, considering approving the minutes, expenditures, a temporary use permit for the Florence Chamber of Commerce and Merchants for Junctique and Car Show. Uh authorizing the police chief to enter an agreement for towing and awarding a contract for some chip seal project. At this time, uh does any council member wish to pull any of those items? I'd like to pull item D and item E. Would anybody like to pull any of the other items?

Could we have a motion to approve consent agenda items A, B, and C? I'll make a motion to approve consent agenda A, B, and C. Do we have a second? I'll second. All in favor? I. Any opposed? All right. Motion passed. Item D, consider authorizing the chief of police to enter to a contract agreement for towing services with Penrose Tractor and Towing LLC. Chief Humphrey.

Good afternoon. Um, I'd like to enter agreement with uh Pinrose Towing because I want to get out of the car business. Um, [laughter] we're done with the car business. We're towing and all that. head and did. So, I would like to enter a contract with uh Pinrose. Okay. Questions? My question was I I think the concept's great. I read the whole thing and there was not a dollar mentioned. No,

I came back in and talked to it and I said, "How's this funded?" So it it really helps and that's one of the main one that really helps out because if we have storage or if we need to like have a long-term storage for a vehicle in a building, we don't have that access with the towing company with Pinros, we do. And um with the no fees, what end ups happening is if we towed the vehicle when we had the tow truck and doing all that, we'd have to have a fee and all that versus Pinrose, they take the vehicle and they do everything. They deal with the amount, the owner, the vehicle owner, storage, everything. All of our hands are wiped of it. That's why.

So we we don't handle any money. We just refer them to Pinrose. Well, like if we have a crash, we'll request we will uh request Pinrose. Now, if Pinrose is not available, then we'll do next rotational tow. But um Pinrose will handle everything, especially when it goes over 30 days or however long it is. If the owner doesn't come pick it up, we have to go through paperwork. We have to go through all that. Pinos will take care of all that. Now, as far as expense goes, there might be a spense like if they bring out the heavy wrecker, the big old semi-truck. I mean, obviously, we have to pay there, but anything else normal size, we will not have to pay. I think that's great because we got to get out of the car.

Yes. Okay. C can you give me some examples of cars um that you call to get towed? Uh well like um man like car accidents um if an officer has like a DUI or anything like that and both vehicles are disabled and they can't be moved. Um then we call the tow truck company and they come out and move it. So okay, how about abandoned cars in Wait, they would do all that. Abandoned cars, everything. I'm trying to get out of the car business. Okay. Well, what if it's what if it's in the library's parking lot and somebody has a bandit there? Can you get that towed for them or is that different?

Oh, well, will an officer respond and then we'll come out there and then if it's deemed where it needs to be towed, then um not if it's on like it's on private property. It really deters uh depends. But if the officer comes on scene and determines that, we can call a tow truck and they'll come and get it. And no charge. One last question for you, Chief. So, if we have a vehicle that's impounded, incident to arrest, um, is that going to go to our lot still or is Pinro towing gonna man procurement of that vehicle? Yep, it it's going to go to Pinro.

So, so I'm James. I'm the uh representative. I'm the tow manager for Pinro Tractor and Tong LLC. Um, as far as um, heavy goes, I want to just clarify something. There will be no charges to Florence City at all. You guys will not pay me a dime. I collect all mine from the insurance agents or the car. Um if the car is deemed abandoned um after 30 to 60 days, we follow PUC guidelines and state law. Once we follow that, then we get the vehicle and we're made whole. So if a vehicle is not picked up for 60 days, we'll be made whole first and then um if there's a lean on the vehicle, they'll be picking it up. Um, as far as anything on private property, um, there's been talks about trying to get into that. It's a very difficult process. Um, there's got to be a lot of signage and everything else. Um, and it's not just something that we can go and do at a blink of an eye. It's a lot harder for us to do that. Um, I am in talks with PUC trying to make it easier, but also it's it's just it's a lot of signage. We put signs everywhere for in order to do private property towing. Um, as far as any of the abandons go and all of that, [clears throat] following PUC guidelines, we have to do it in a certain way. If they call us, we drop everything we're doing and we come and respond. We take the car away and that's the end of it. We handle everything from there.

Sorry, I missed your name. I'm James.

Sorry, James. I just wanted to add, you guys may know this. There there are a lot of regulations about what tow companies can and can't do. So, at the very least, they're required to follow certain processes. And I just had a question. Um, do you do this with or similar arrangements with anyone else or is this your first? No, this is not my first. I work with Kuster County, State Patrol. I work with Kuster or Canyon City, Fremont County, um Salida City. Uh my heavy goes all the way up to the divide and then back down. Um we have contracts with hundreds of people with different private um companies. Um he's absolutely right. Our our regulations are completely indifferent. Matter of fact, um, how this came about was we've towed in the past for you guys and we had vehicles that are left in our impound lot for the last three years and it's no one's fault. Um, I took over management over a year ago and I put on a class for all law enforcement agencies in Fremont County, Kuster County, Salida, and I'm working on another class that'll go further um, working with Bureau of Land Management, the Forest Service. Um, and basically it teaches them how to do the abandoned vehicle process. And then it also taught me a lot more regulations that I had to follow. So, we corrected ours. I put it on for other tow companies. So, if there's any questions for that, you guys are more welcome to ask.

And I want to get out of the car business. Okay. All right. Thank you. I I got one more question for for the chief. Just for the chief. Okay. Do we have a tow truck? Yes, we do. What are we going to do with our tow truck? I would like to get rid of it or sell the tow truck. Okay. Yes, cuz I am If you're getting out of Well, they get out of the car business. Yeah, if you get getting out of the car business. Yeah. Then maybe we could sell that and Yes. Correct. Yes, we will be selling the tow truck. Yes.

Um, one last thing is it is very labor intensive to uh work the impound yard for officers and for the admin staff. Amanda, um, Pam, it's very labor intensive. So this will free up hours for them to do other things. So this is a a win-win on um different uh levels. Yeah. And James mainstream, but when they had a training, Amanda Jones is here. She's in the audience here and she went to the training and learned a lot. So it' be all on the computer and paperwork. I mean, it's just mainstream. It's correct. All right. Thank you.

Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? Roll call, please. No. Oh, we got to make a motion first. Yeah.

Um, I'll make a motion to authorize the chief of police to enter into a contract agreement with Towing Services with Penrose Tractor and Towing LLC as presented. Do we have a second? Second. Roll call, please. I think it's consensus. It's a consent agenda item. Oh, okay. Happy to do roll call if you want. No problem. All right. Um, all in favor? I. Any opposed? Okay. Motion passed. All right. Next one is the chip seal and fog coat project.

Uh, I pulled that. A question I had on that was the bid came in a third over what we had originally asked where we had sent out a bid hop for one about 200,000 came back 298,000 I thought that was too big that we needed to go back and reconsider that and I we feel comfortable and we had planned ahead with the 200,000 I would like to suggest we go back and this is for street improve Yes. That we peel back some of those streets maybe on a priority and get it down to 200,000 and proceed with

Yeah. Yeah. Lori and I had to discuss it already to exclude Victory Lane in Needm Road. That'll take another $140,000 off of there for you to get it down below your $200,000 mark. Victory Lane and Needam are kind of rural. they're out there, but we can really use the blade to accommodate and take care of those roads out there. This is so much longer stretch than is here in town. So, the rest of them would get you probably right around60,000 below

what you needed. So, we had already talked about that and stuff. So, that's what we had thought about, right? Yes. To get to exclude victory name and need them out there. The rest of them are here in town that go ahead and take care of those. Okay. Great. So, so if we do that, we'll have to rebid the project. No, no, we left it open. Yes, we will rebid. Okay. Um, we uh we will rebid without those two. Okay. Just so we can come back and give anybody an opportunity. Um, my for that. No, that's okay. My bad.

That's okay. Yeah. and uh stay under. Um we should have originally done it without the bigger roads. We really didn't think it was going to be that much. Exactly. So next time we will take that. I think we got so excited to get these gravel roads done that we all or nothing and we did learn we will not do that again. Um but uh we will re we will rebid this tomorrow based on what you guys decide. But we definitely would recommend rebidding. Um it stays within our gravel project that we want

and then we can go in and um go for the other street pavement within the budget that we said. And these two roads that are left with the gra with the gravel grater being fixed, they should be able to handle that. And we maybe do that down the road as more houses get in those these areas. Yeah. And we add a lot of material to victory lane and need them this last few years and they're they're fine. They just we need to clean up what's here. You are absolutely right. Yep. Okay. All right. Thank you, Sam. You bet. Any other questions at all?

Well, the only thing I maybe people out there understand what we're talking about. We're going to chip seal some of these old gravel roads in town. Yes. So then we they won't be quite paved, but they'll definitely be improved over gravel road.

Yes. Yes. Yep. We we talked to the contractor and everything. We had a mandatory pre-bid meeting before this and I I recommended 916. When we talked to him, he says the base course would be a half inch and 38. and Ashley helped me get out the addendum to the the bid before we before the uh bid come back in and a fog coat and all that. That's what they do. I'm used to 916. I guess that's old school. Now they do

they do a bottom course of half inch and a top course of 38 and a fog coat over the top of them. So, yes, it'll be a lot better than the road base and dirt we have now. Good. How many bids actually came in? Ju just the one. Um and that fog coat um is something really neat and it will make it long last longer.

So, it will really add some because they're not really tra a lot of traveled roads. So, but this fog coat when we did the addendum was pretty cool and we just learned about it. So, that will add a lot to the longevity of these roads and maybe by then it would be something that we can grab uh actually pave, right? Yep. Yep. It just another seal like Lori say another protection on top of it and for aesthetic it turns it black obviously but it also seals up those two layers. going on top

the Colorado Cup. I mean, you guys seen North Maple, Santa Fe, and those we had those chipsy old a few years back. If we do left it in just plain rock, the 38 stuff, it look like like a dirt road, if you will. So it's for it's it serves a purpose to seal the top and for aesthetics. It's it's black, you know. So but more importantly, it's for to seal all three coats together. Okay. Very good. Thank you. Thank you.

Any other questions? Do we have a motion to approve item E? Oh, need a motion. retain. I have a I have a motion. Well, we have a there's an option two in here. Yeah. I move to direct the city manager to rebid the 916 ships seal and fogco project with the intent of remaining within the budgeted amount. Okay. Do we have a second? I'll second. All in favor? I. All right. Any opposed? Motion passes. We get her done tomorrow. Okay,

next council reports. Gail, I just want to tell these two people responsible that I like the hearts at Main Street. That just kind of put a put a smile on my face when I saw the heart. So, I just want to say aha moment. Oh, I just want to say thank you. James, anything? No reporting. Okay, Tammy.

Um, I attended the Florence Chamber meeting, the merchants meeting, and the arts council. Um, and I have to say they're just working on positive collaborations um together and just for the good of the city. All right. Thank you, Matt. No report. I'm gonna add to Gail. I like the hearts on Main Street, but I'd like to see Shamrocks in March.

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I went to the county planning workshop. [snorts] I went to the taco talk with the sher with the chief. I went to the mayor's round table and I did attend the art council, too. Uh, it's fun to be on the crew with Sam and his his help and and uh Tammy's hearts. Had a lot of fun putting them up. All right. Very good. Um, I attended the Fremont County uh tourism council meeting for the first time and I I don't have much to report yet because I'm still getting it figured out. um ho how that whole thing works. U but it was interesting. I'm going to go to go to one more and then see [snorts] how things fit in for the city and where we might go from there. Um like to thank Brandon uh you know had a bunch of questions on water, invited me out to the water plant and was able to show me some some things and that's what I really like about the staff here at the city and you go through Lori, she'll get you in contact with the right people. Um questions are always asked uh are always answered and really appreciate that. Um the other thing I had was the mayor's round table and [snorts] the only thing I really want to report on that is the discussion that we had surrounding oh it was originally um Senate Bill 23116 called the Colorado Wildfire Fire Resiliency Code. And we had a workshop on that a while back. And if you read it, it says uh all communities are required to adopt it in 2026. And uh I've been talking to the county and you know, county commissioner Bell told me that their lawyer, their attorney says, "Yeah, we need to adopt it." But they haven't yet because they got lots of questions. Um I know some of the smaller uh entities had lots and

lots of questions. You know, I've come up with a whole bunch myself. Um I think it's something that we need to I don't know discuss or have some questions because you know it will raise the cost of building pretty substantially and you know I you know what they have designated as a class one and a class two you look at the map and you go uh why is this a class two? Why did it make it a moderate to high area for the wildfires? And so I I think we need to take a step back and take a look at it. Um, you know, I've got questions like, do these requirements override our 2006 building codes? Um, you know, we've got some developments going on in places where developers may came up might come in and say, "All right, I want to do this lot." And if we've approved this, do they have to follow these new codes and is it going to be 10% more for this house, or is it going to be, as the builders tell me, 20% more for this house? Um, I talked to the folks who run the U.A. Cog and the self-help housing that we just completed. They had those six up there and they said south of town it's it's class one but they they've already um estimated how much more those houses will cost with these new regulations in there. And so it's something that we need to we just need to maybe discuss a little bit more. I know I see Dan over there shaking his head that we're required to, you know, to to adopt in 2020 26 or 2026, but there's a lot of questions that go along with it. So, I know I'm going to be in asking asking questions of the building department and uh before

I know, I can make any type of decision. So, all right, that's it for me. City Manager

Council, I'd like to uh invite Brandon up. Um there has been a lot of discussion um and a lot of um reporting in the news about PAS. So I thought let's uh have Brandon come in and uh do a little presentation on that kind of to show us and tell us what that is. So I thought this would be uh good. So, Brandon, [snorts]

good evening, council. Uh, so this was actually perfect timing when uh Lori talked to me about doing uh some kind of POS talk or or presentation to you guys. uh because I believe it was the week before she had talked to me, we had gotten the results of our last round of samples that we had to take uh to complete our requirements of the EPA under the UCMR5 um which stands for unregulated contaminants monitoring. Um this is the fifth uh goaround of the UCMR and this has everything to do with POS. POS are per and poly floral alkal substances that they have found uh in a wide variety of things from uh foods to waterproof clothing, fireproof clothing, fire retardants. I mean, it's it's everywhere. It's found all across the world in the air, in fish, and animals, in dirt, and in our water as well. Um, excuse me, let me back up. Not our water. I will get to that. Uh, but in in some cases, uh, in drinking water supplies. Um, so I came up with a a little bit of a fact sheet slashreport from for you guys uh that discusses all this. I don't want to just read it, but I'm going to hit some some topics here. Um, most of this information I got straight from the EPA's website, and there is a plethora of additional information on the EPA's website. Um if you just look up EPA UCMR5 it'll take you directly there and there is an

unbelievable unbelievable amount of information um on POS. So uh per the EPA's uh UCMR5 requirements, we had to sample uh for an entire year uh one sample set per quarter and it started in the first quarter of 2025. We had to sample for 30 chemicals 29 per and polyfloral alkal substances which is PAS and one uh additional which is lithium. Um the results frankly came back pretty good. Uh the last four pages um are the results of our sampling from 2025. Uh if you pay attention to uh each each phase each quarter is on one one page. Uh the fourth column is uh titled the sampling event. Uh so on the first page is SE4 that's sampling event four. That would be the fourth quarter of 2025. So they're kind of in reverse order, but the very last page is SE1 sampling event one done in March. As you can see with every single sample set in all four quarters, we came back below the minimum reporting level on all PAS substances. Um the minimum reporting level in layman's terms is essentially the the lowest that the majority of laboratories certified laboratories in the US can detect. Uh so they they can only detect so low

so many parts per billion or parts per trillion. And so they they took an average of the lowest the the average lab out there uh can can test at and that's where they set the bar for the MRL minimum reporting level. All of ours are below that. Except for the last round of testing um we did hit on lithium which is not a POS it is lithium. Um the MRL for lithium is nine parts per billion and we had 10 parts per billion. So still quite [snorts] low. Quite low. And um I just want you guys to keep in mind I'm I'm not trying to fearmonger or anything. I want to ease minds. the this unregulated contaminant monitoring is simply stuff that they're concerned will have health risks um or could have health risks uh with prolonged exposure at what levels. So, they're doing this testing and doing more research and studies to try and figure out what levels to set because right now all of this stuff is unregulated uh as far as what we can have in our drinking water. Um, we test for a ridiculous amount of substances in our water from um inorganics to volatile organics to synthetic uh organics uh and compounds, synthetic compounds. We test for it all minerals and there's MCL's maximum contaminant levels for

everything we have to test for those maximum contaminant levels. If we're below that, no danger, you know, everything in in moderation, right? Um, so when we hit those MCLs, when something becomes regulated, they stick an MCL number to it, a maximum contaminant level. And anything over that exposure at those levels over a long period of time can have adverse health effects. Not necessarily will, but can. Uh so none of those MCLs have been set for any of the POS right now and lithium. Um but I am happy and and very proud to say that our sample results for the entire year last year came back great. There's a lot of communities that are scrambling to figure out how to fully remove PAS uh from their water because they've popped hot for samples uh that they've taken. And I'm happy to say we we haven't. So um any questions? Sorry that was might have been long and confusing.

Thank you for all that information. Yeah. Cool. Well, if there is other questions, I know that was a lot of information real quick. Uh, please feel free and reach out to me. I'll be happy to answer. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Brandon.

Okay. Um, something else I want to share with you that kind of came in late is we uh were invited to be uh with the regional managers meeting. So, these are all the managers from southern Colorado and the regional area. We were invited to uh become a part of that. And with that, Courtland's extremely excited. Um, I offered for us to host the first one of the year for the first quarter because I want to reintroduce Florence and reintroduce the team and all of us on all the wonderful things we're doing to bring them all down. And what's important is these are from all the big all the cities big, small, and uh in between. And these are great resources for us and a great um group of managers from new to long-term that can help us and grow. So I was very excited when we were uh asked to be a part of this. Uh so we will have that on March 26th. So when you see the parking lot full, that's all of them here. And I'm super excited uh to show uh Florence off. So I wanted to tell y'all that. Um, couple things I want. We did get the sidewalk assessment back from Three Rocks. We're looking at it this week with them. So, you should see it. Um, I'm hoping next meeting um if everything goes and we don't have to send it back for any errors, but we're almost done with that. So, we can start working on that sidewalk uh project. I'm very excited about that. Um it's very very thick. So we have a lot of sidewalks to look at. But um now we'll have them and we'll know exactly where they are. So that is almost ready for y'all. Um couple things

I do want to talk about. Um you did get a copy of the master plan dashboard. I apologize it didn't print off. Uh very good. Uh, I'll I'll email you guys a copy of that so you can have that and a little better copy. That way we can look and see where we're going. I used that appendix to do it. So, I'll get you a better copy of that. So, um, I attended a lot of meetings um, in the last 45 days. Um, and one thing that did come up in almost every every single meeting, even when we're talking about crime, even when we're talking anything, code enforcement is a huge a huge topic, a huge opportunity um for our citizens. It's something I could say everybody has um has an opinion, has a topic, has a concern. Um, and I see that as everybody is just wants Florence to be the best it can be and be proud of our town. So with that, I was doing a lot of thinking on what we could do. Um, and I think there's a couple things we need to look at. So I wanted to have maybe a short discussion um, and share some things with you guys. First, let me get my stuff. We have one code enforcement officer um and she works anywhere from 28 to 33 cases. And when I say cases, I'm I mean addresses. I call them cases. Right now, since uh the 12th, she's had 28 cases that she is actively working on in some

level of code. our code um is very forgiving and it hasn't really been looked at for a while. So my question is do you would you like us to relook at that? Is there anything you'd like to look at? Would you like to have a workshop on it? Um the problem is it gives there's a lot of time that it gives and there's a lot of steps to it. It's very administrativeheavy. So you have one person going out taking the complaints and driving and looking and then you have all the administrative side of it and we have one person doing that. Um, I am looking at how much that labor costs to see about adding additional staff. So, that is more to come on that because I do think when you spend most your time doing paperwork, you're not able to go and really get boots on the ground. That's one aspect of it. The other is, is it more about compliance? Is it more about just fixing it? Is it more about fines and fees? um where where does it go? So that is a that is another question. And the third as I was looking at other cities, I do a lot of that. I look at a lot of what some of these bigger cities are doing or different cities to see do they have some of the same issues that we have. So I did find in a in several cities different sizes that they do how we do our outside agency funding.

They do um citizens they help the citizens. Now, not all of them, but one in particular that I thought was very interesting and worth a conversation was um we have I truly believe there are some people that really want to fix things, but maybe they can't. You have uh senior a lot of senior citizens, disabled, so forth that may not be able to do that. So, one town um I found does this program called City Cuts where they help underdeveloped citizen not maybe not underdeveloped um underrepresented citizens, senior citizens, veterans, disabled. They help them with code enforcement, basically weeds, um, lawn care, and they have a budgeted line item where they contract, they contract, um, a lawn service to help them. It's a very specific program for a very specific reason. and it helps the dynamics of the city plus it helps the citizens. It's just a different aspect of funding. So when I saw that I thought, huh, it's definitely worth talking about. One uh in one of my meetings, I had one person come up to me and say, Lori, what are you doing to help today? What is the thing you're doing that can help citizens today? Well, I could talk about code enforcement. I can talk about all these things, but what it

what are we doing today? And I really do think that this program could help citizens today. Um thoughts? Is it something you would be interested in? Is it something to look at a different budget year? Do you want to look at code enforcement any different or do you just want us to keep um going forward? Because I will tell you we are working the cases. It is happening and I do see improvement but it is on the mind of almost every citizen I've had a conversation with in every meeting. So I thought it would be a good discussion. My two cents is yes. I believe that we need to uh look at those codes. I believe they do have too much time. Um that is the complaints that I get from people is why can't you do something? You know, you're asking them to cut your weeds. You're sending them for code enforcement. And um the weeds are growing. Well, here comes fall. Those weeds are still growing. I've seen that in several places and and why and to use um an old-fashioned term and all of a sudden it came to me and I've heard you use it. PIP, pride in property and there's a lot of individuals that don't have pride in property and it it to me it's not that much time. So, I would I would be willing to see it shortened, tightened, because I think there's too much time. I think there's too much leeway. Uh, you here, cut it. Not two weeks

later. Cut it. Not two weeks later. Oh, let's go see the judge. Oh, I don't show up. Okay. I think let's set a workshop for it or we can have a better discussion. I don't think we're going to decide on Nope. Definitely. Let's go down the trail a little more. Okay, good. Because I just wanted to open the conversation since it was in every meeting I went to. Okay. And I'm in agreement. I'd like to see a workshop on that.

Yeah. And and maybe for some information going into the workshop, if you could put together like a just one page, you know, primer on code enforcement. Here here are the steps. Just, you know, like one page. here are the steps, here's where the hang-ups have been, um here's where, you know, we get stuck or here's where most of the problems are. Something like that. So we can just you know focus on that in the um if we have workshop and you know and the other thing I'm you know I think we try to as much as possible you know people have to have some skin in the game and uh you know we can help out where we can but we also need you know people need to help out there too. Um but I also think there's some organizations out there might be able to help. Uh you I've talked I know you talked to Dr. Wilson. I've talked to Dr. Wilson, community service from kids. I know you get in some liability issues and all that, but you know, I think there's there's a way to maybe get school districts, some faith-based organizations that might be able to put together, you know, groups that if there is somebody that truly just flat can't do the work that we give them a call and they've got a lawnmowing crew and you know, they go out there and hit it. You know, you get you know, half a dozen people out there with a lawnmower and some rakes and couple bags and knock it out and and do it that way. So, I'd like to see us maybe try to pursue that.

More volunteers. Yeah, volunteers and and again, I know we have to be careful through the way you do it. And maybe it's maybe it's not under the umbrella of the city, but it's underneath the umbrella. You know, I'm thinking of how some of the faith-based organizations do that. And you know that may be have the minds of the organization saying here contact these people for this service. And a lot of organiza a lot of cities use like a senior advisory uh or 311 or uh that. So maybe that's something we could look into too.

Sure. And when do you have dates?

I'm glad you asked that. Um, so it's the third week of April. Um, with that, I would like to add I do think this will help. And, um, we do have some budget lines. Uh, we have a code enforcement line. Um, I would like to add a second cleanup. Uh, do one in spring and one in fall. I think that could make a big impact. You'll have uh one I think we said April and September Sam when we were brainstorming um city staff could take care of it then because what we're seeing is people are putting things out and just saying oh it's going to be it's going to sit here until next one and sometimes next one may be eight months. So, uh, we would like to do, um, two spring a spring and a fall cleanup. Citizens really like that and it really does make an impact quickly and I think we could do that. Um, all right. Uh, we council retreat. Um I will be asking you all about some days. We did reach out to SGR. They had offered within their contract a free one. Uh the only thing we have to pay is travel. So Courtland has been working on that. We just need to tie down some dates and uh we're going to do a retreat the council retreat with the SGR le. So, we'll also include Cersea for some training on that. So, um be on the lookout for that. We're all we're ready to c to schedule that. So, I'm super excited about that one. And let's see. Courtland, were you ready? So, what in taco time? I

wanted to show you some of you guys this that didn't get to see and you will start seeing a report from this. This is citizen contact. This is um on our website. This shows the contact for the police officers whatever it is. So if you were not in uh at Taco Time, if you look at your screen, this is on the website. any citizen at any time can look and see what's going on in the city based on police. So when it comes up, you can pick what you're looking for. You can send alerts to yourself if you're concerned. I want to know in my neighborhood if burglaries are coming on. It will send you the alerts. This is a really cool feature that lets the citizen dictate what they want to look for. And it's

it's anything is it not coming up? It's anything from uh actual arrests or just incidents. It's very cool. It also gives us crime statistics. And here it is. That is super cool. So, this comes straight from Freecom. Freecom, you know, is our dispatch. Uh, our dispatch is regional. So, it's uh Fremont, Fremont County, uh, Florence, Canyon City, and Kuster County. So, you can dial into your neighborhood. You can go a bigger section. You can click on incidents. It'll tell you where the burglary is. There are only a few things that are not on here because they're victim based protected. Um, so you could probably think of what what that kind of thing is. Um, so cool. You Yeah. Yep. So, if you're concerned about burglaries in your area or menacing You can set the time and it will show you what's going on in your neighborhood. Now, if you want arrest information of who was, you just go to Crime Watch, Crime Watch on Fremont County will show you all that and the mug shot. So, you can set up as many as you want. It's right on the website. So, if you have email, if you have anything on the internet, you have this. Ain't that cool? Um, and that's just part of the Tyler

system. So, we're just tipping into what we've learned about this. So, um, I'm hoping there's a lot more. Now, when you go to the side, Courtland made the screen big. You can do crime statistics where it says data and that's where me and Sean will go in and look at, hey, what are the patrol times? Hey, do we need to change anything? That'll give us some some data. Is there anything that you all would like to see included in a council report? Is there any report you would like to see that we could include? Ain't that neat? It kind of tells you everything. I would encourage you all just to go through it. Yeah. Look at it. And if you decide there's something you'd like to see or a report on or that maybe we'll do something quarterly then just to kind of give you a recap. Um, but that is very cool. Yeah. I can we add that on there? Get with dispatch speed record for East Maine. And the best part, there's no labor with that. So, and people can get what they want. It's not just what I think that everybody wants. So, that's pretty pretty neat. All right, I think that is all I have unless you guys have questions about about the recap. There's a lot going on in the last couple weeks.

Um, and I I am happy to say though, I'm scheduling interviews for finance manager. We got nine applications. We're so happy. Good. I just want to say thank you to you and and the distribution and and everybody who helped when we had those uh water mane breaks and got right on top of things. It was uh good and and uh it was we used that model from it was last meeting, wasn't it? Where we missed it. We used that the two days later for the hit on fifth of mechanist.

Yeah. Yeah, but I will say this. I think whatever was said to the group or to whomever was in charge that it changed some attitudes and and they seem to be taking uh a little more pride in their work and it's I I don't feel like they're a bull in a china shop anymore. They're they're I think they're talking to to people and and to residents a lot more. So, we appreciate that. We were very clear with what we expected. All right. Anything else? Okay. Anybody have any Oh, uh, city attorney.

Yeah, I just want it came up earlier, but I did want to mention, I forget if it was last week or two weeks ago, but, [clears throat] uh, Lori and Ashley and I did meet to talk about the wildfire resiliency stuff, and Ashley's known that's coming, and it is coming. Florence is not alone. A lot of communities don't know and are asking a lot of questions and the deadlines are fast approaching and you hear rumors even of of a potential legislation, but um we are ready to tackle it when and if we're required to and we're making the steps to to go down that road, but it is going to be a significant change and uh the map hits Florence pretty squarely. So,

is that the same study they're going to use for insurance rates? I don't actually know. I've seen the map for that.

All right. [clears throat] Any other any other reports out there? Any need for executive session? Hearing none. Do we have a motion to adjurnn? I'll make a motion to adjurnn. Do we have a second? I'll second. All in favor? I. Any opposed? All right, we are adjourned at 7:22. Thank you everyone.