City Council - Regular Meeting

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Okay. All right. Let's get this thing going. You guys ready? All right. Call to order the Florence City Council meeting for Monday, May 18th, 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 Hton, here. Councelor Stifel, here. Councelor Mglman, here. Councelor Gardner, here.

Councelor Stone, here. Councelor McKinnon, Mayor Wolf here. First item, presentations, recognition of junior senior high school welding one class. All right, Ashley and John.

Good evening. Thank you for being here. So, as part of the city's ongoing historic preservation efforts, historic preservation commission um coordinated with Florence Junior Senior High School welding one class to design and fab and fabricate plaques for designated historic properties listed on our local historic registry. These plaques will serve as permanent markers recognizing the historical significance of these sites within the community. The city would like to recognize AI Carner and Can sorry Cadence Martinez from the welding one class for their work in fabricating these plaques.

Thank you. If you would like to come up here, come on up. Here they are. That's Kat. All right. Wow. Those will last. Yeah.

Hey, could we get a picture of you guys? Just right up there front of the Get up there. Yeah. With with both. Yeah. Bring up both plaques and we'll

There you go. Again, another good example of coordination between the the city and the school district. You know, being a longtime person up there, I just love to see that groups working together. Yeah. And uh the other thing was the signs at Pioneer Park, right? That new one. Yep. So, lots lots of good things going on there between the between the two. Uh, we had no public uh comment.

Uh, Steve, can I jump in here? Pardon? It's me. Oh. Oh, yeah. That's right.

I just had one note on the agenda and in case anyone was going to stay till the end. Um, we had a slight typo or transposition on the first item under nine for executive session. Uh, one of those addresses is incorrect. Uh but since the point of this notice is that the public has 24 hours to decide if they want to be here or talk about it, um we're going to need to move that to a future meeting. So we will not be I don't think we need to make a motion now to clarify that. But when we get to number nine, uh we will only be going into executive session if you guys want for the second item listed which is at the top of page two.

All right. Thank you. All right. Item five. consent agenda. Consider approving the minutes uh for the regular city meeting and the expenditures for May 7 and May 12th. Uh would anybody like to pull either of those hearing? None. Do we have a motion? I'll make a motion to approve consent agenda A and B. Do we have a second? I'll second. All in favor? I. Any

opposed? All right. Motion carries. Old business. Consider approving ordinance number 2-2026, an ordinance uh adding chapter 15.13 wild fire resiliency code to title 15 of the Florence Municipal Cold. All right. Good evening, city council.

Um the wildfire code was originally um required to be adopted April 1st, 2026. However, following a workshop discussion on March 24th, council voted to table the item to May 18th, 2026 in part to allow additional time to monitor pending state legislation. Um, House Bill 26-1334 proposed extending the required adoption date for the code for the code to December 31st, 2026. However, House Bill 26-1334 was postponed indefinitely, effectively ending further consideration of the proposed legislation legislation. Um I want to point out that the attached ordinance um the proposed ordinance uh would adopt the wildfire code by reference and incor and and incorporate it into the m our municipal code and and um under title 15 buildings and construction. Um the new code the code would apply to new construction and substantial improvements. Um the provisions of the code would not uh replace city's current adopted building code and the Florence uh building department would administer and enforce the code through existing permitting and plan review. Existing structures would not be required to retrofit unless they undergo substantial improvement. Um, the ordinance also adopts by reference the official uh Colorado wildfire resiliency code map which identifies wildfire hazard classifications. Um, I know that several of you had questions tonight, so I do have a guest um, speaker as well. This is Kim. He is from Colorado Division of Fire

Prevention and Control. He is a WOOI educator. So he can help me out. Okay. Good evening. Good evening. Um thanks for having me again. Yeah. After the first work session. So um Mayor, you had some great questions and I think we can answer them for you. Okay. You want to just go through those if you want me to go through those? Well, yeah, you might. Um you know, because I I started out with the section on ground truthing. Yeah. And there stuff. So

yeah. um ground truthing on the with the map. One of your questions involved why does why isn't anything within the town have any color to it when the Colorado State Forest Service and that's the map that we use for that it doesn't take into account it's only vegetation topography fire weather is what it's looking at it doesn't look at the town itself the buildings the structures so That's why there's no color within the town itself. Once we get the surrounding areas, yes, now we're getting into the requirements of what the state forest service map looked at. So, but that's you'll look at if we look at most towns will have no color in them. So, and that was the reason for that.

So, building within the towns does not fall under any either of these this code at all. Then if it's not in class one or two, no. Yeah. Okay. And and the other question was the locally adopted maps is actually the the state map as it is right now.

Yes. And you you know adopting the code if you do the resolution now your jurisdiction the authority having jurisdiction within the town has the right to come back at a later time and change that and look at changes to that map. Um within the ground truthing it's more for the individual lots um that somebody wanted to make a change. It is up to the homeowner, the developer, the builder to apply to the local HA to make those changes. And there is within the resency code board on the website, it does give a checklist of how that should be done. That was your very first question how to handle that. But there is checklist of who can do it and stuff and that would they would have to present to your building official and the planning if they wanted to do that. So it's for the lot itself and then the surrounding 300 ft around that lot. So that's how they looked at it because you know you make the changes to the the lot itself is the surrounding areas that within that 300 foot buffer area going to meet the requirements. they may be um completely overgrown and it wouldn't help that person within that.

Okay. So, what is the cost of doing this ground truthing and who that's up to the developer, the contractor or the um homeowner themselves? So, so they have to pay for it. Yes, sir. Is there a fee schedule out there? Are there not? And that's the thing is the code board in it when it was being developed did not want to get in because every jurisdiction is different how they look at charging fees, how they're doing their permits. So they left that up to the local authority um local to make those decisions because every jurisdiction is different.

Okay. So it'd be up to our planning department and the city to develop a plan. Yes, sir. for ground truthing and contract with people who have you the wildlife or wildfire expertise to do that.

And that's one of the things we're working on at the at the state level is to try and come up with a list of jurisdictions or of people who can work within the different different jurisdictions um with the different training. That's why there's three different levels of checklist that the state has put on the website to address that issue of who's actually going to be doing that ground just to try and make it easier for a local authority having jurisdiction to be able to go this is what it's looking for. Okay. any any estimate on how much of like a case would cost the the city to

know you know they're they're right around $100 is what they're charging to review it up to3 $400. Okay. All right. Okay. Has there been any study or estimates on how much this is going to cost to build a house to these new regulations?

So, we've worked with we met with some different building associations, Denver being the last one I spoke to, and it covered for the city and county of Denver, so surrounding areas for the class one, it's about $700 we're looking at because um in this jurisdiction, head. Um the roofing, it's almost all class A roofs to begin with. So, it's changing the gutters and downspokes to a non-combustible or ignition resistant and then doing the venting on on the structure going from quarter inch fence down to 8 in fence. Um I just bought it. It's hard to preach what I'm doing. I've got an existing home. So, I'm actually I just did the gravel around my home and I just working on my venting now. I bought a roll cost me about $14 at Lowe's of the stainless steel 6 in and I apologize I couldn't I tried looking up how long it was but it was enough to pretty well do my home but I paid $14 for that for the stainless steel that met the requirements of the stuff. So so you figure about 700 by you paid for the gravel for that initial that zero to five foot zone in the class two which covers moderate and high that's the yellow and the red zones to your building remember this is just on this is on new structures um adds about 2% we worked with IBHS um building and home safety who represents about 80% of the insurance companies in within the state and through their studies and we're still waiting they're about to publish a study specific to Colorado but 2500 foot home, it averaged about 2% of the cost of the structure.

Okay. In my talk with with some builders, they thought it was going to be substantially more than than that. I it's within that aspect because within your jurisdiction, you're like I said, you're already requiring roofing, class A roofing. um within you know getting your sighting you've got ultimate choices from the suppliers that we've been talking to

is that they're already supplying a lot of the the different whether it's cement board different aspects like that once again that falls under what your jurisdiction requires the windows double pane windows when you read it it's it's hard to read within the code because it talks about blazed windows 20 minute ratings on it or tempered, but it comes down to double window. So most jurisdions already requiring that. So it makes it easier for the decks. Um it's the walking surface only. When we look at the dimensional lumber that's coming out of the building code, it already addresses the sizing of the the supports for that deck. So all we're is it's usually class A for the walking service, but you can use a class B if you're using the synthetic and I'll just use TX as an example. Rex makes three different levels of um decking. The first two would work fine. It would meet the class A or class B requirements but not the lower level. So within that and we've been working with talking to a lot of the suppliers, they're already meeting the requirements for other jurisdictions. So it's not that somebody has to go out and find brand new suppliers for

my question would be to to Ashley or and John would be, you know, we have five subdivisions where we have building going on. I believe um Willow Creek, High Meadows, Last Mile Estates, Hayden's Hideout, and I think it's is it Pike View? That's the other one. All of them fall under either class one or class two or both. Has there been any talk with the contractors out there about how much it would are they aware of that if we pass this ordinance and somebody goes to build at let's say 209 High Meadows Drive up in High Meadows that they would now be under class two. Yes,

we've talked to them about that. We have talked to them. Have they estimated at all how much more it would cost? You know, are they building close to these things now to these specs? contractor.

Sorry. No problem. Uh yeah, some contractors do know about it. There's some that I've been talking to that don't. So, but most of them are building to the standards above the mic on. Just pull it closer. Sorry. Okay. You guys can hear me. Can you hear me? Okay. Can you guys hear me in the back? Okay. Okay. I apologize. Okay. Test. Test. Okay. All right.

Okay. So, I have talked to several contractors. There's some that know about it, some that do not. Um, as far as the standards that are being built now, they are building above most of them are building above our standards at the 2006 building code anyway. So, some is some is good. As far as there was some concern by some of the contractors of what this was going to cost, I didn't have information to give them. So, they were going to do some research and go from there.

Yeah. You know, because I guess my biggest concern, I'm sorry I'm talking so much here, guys, but my biggest concern is like like last mile estates. You know, we have houses that have been built out there, nice houses, and they've got lots in between them and they've been built that are from our code. You know, again, they've built above our code, but then if they come in and start to build in between these already existing houses, they've got to follow these new rules. They do.

And Yeah. And then like at High Meadows, that High Meadows Drive, you know, you build a house on the lower end of High Meadows Drive. I think there's four or five lots there. You're in zone two and you just go up the street, four houses, and you're in zone one,

you know, and that's because there's a line drawn on a map. And I guess that's that's probably the the biggest concern I have is because there's a line drawn on a map, there's also and they're all with these hexagonal shapes and so you're looking at the edge and you drop down like uh mechanis goes into the river road down there because of the hexagonal shape. If you're trying to build down there, you're in you're in zone two. You go around the corner a little bit, you're in no zone. You go down a little bit, you're in zone two. you go down a little bit, you're no zone. And I guess that's what bothers me the most about this is that, you know, there's I don't see there's a lot of consistency and how it would affect, you know, the subdivisions that we have going right now. Um, and that's, you know,

when there's an existing subdivision and the the zones cut through without any real reason, that's just the way the zones fell. Is there a way to appeal that? Yes, sir. you could actually um come up with your own map and to be able to do that. Um the code it does allow for you to do work on your own map

and you can submit um we've got a lot of jurisdictions. We've got eight or nine jurisdictions that have already submitted their own maps. Eagle County um Colorado Springs and there um town of Avon did it separately from the county. So they they've been working on it. We've got some others that are going to be submitting maps in the within the next year. They're doing the code adoption now and then having their staff work on the maps itself. Um the map itself will be they're going to start redoing it in 27. Um a new map will come out as part of the act. It has to come out every three years. So there'll be a new map in 28 that we'll be looking at. We're trying to look at the different aspects of, you know, Mary, you had a you had a great point. It we we did the smoothing on the map. That's why you're getting seeing those shapes that you're seeing. Before it was just, you know, there be it was just cut and dried. It was it was actually harder to read and stuff. Does it work everywhere? No. And we we realize that that's why the state forest service is working going to be redoing the map, you know, and looking at different ways to do it. So, would you have to approve this to be able to do your own local map or can you create your own local map, submit it, get approval for that and then pass the ordinance?

You can do it either way, sir. Thank you. Any other questions? How many how many municipalities have adopted this already? So, we're working on our list. We've got about between the fire protection districts, um, municipalities, county commissioners, we got about 650 that we're looking at for adopting and we're just a little over 300 right now. So, 300 out of 600.

Yeah. And that's but that's with all the fire protection districts added in there. Um within the municipalities we're probably right around 400 out of that 600 stuff. So well thank you. I I was glad to hear that the possibility of developing your own local jurisdiction, your own map for that. Um you know I think that'd be a possibility something we could look at. Um, so any other questions here from councel or clarifications?

All right. Thank you.

Thoughts or ideas up here? Discussion within the council. somewhere. I guess I would like to see us start somewhere with um um protecting people's homes and the person um from fires. Um and I know it's going to be a mix of um to code and not to code, but that's just going to have to happen. Any other thoughts? You guys being quiet?

Yeah. And I, you know, and yeah, I want to protect people and protect property, but I also want to keep it fair for the builders and the and the developers there, you know, that have put all that into and uh not make it any more restrictive to sell your property because you've got these additional requirements that you have to meet. All right. Well, I guess we really don't know the the total price of it, correct? No. Right. No, I know because I Ashley, you have down here um staff does not anticipate a significant fiscal impact to the city.

Um but you do anticipate some fiscal impact. Yeah, a little bit. Yeah, especially with uh reviewing um the plans like um Yeah. And and that's where I really saw the impact would be on the the code official. Um there would be a little bit more. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It could be the finding the staff to do the updates to the code, the mapping. So there could be significant cost down the road, especially if you wanted to do a local a local map. That would be that's going to be sufficient.

So So there could be down the road if those changes come. So yeah, well my thought was that you grandfather all of our subdivisions and uh and the outlines of the subdivisions can table it though that would protect your your developers and builders. Yeah, you are able to t table this agenda item to a further date. Okay. Well, Ashley, is there um a specific time when we need to have this um without penalty? Um not at this time. No, there's no there's no talk of that yet. So,

and I know the surrounding municipalities um a lot of them have have not addressed this. Um some have said no, some have just ignored it completely. So, yeah. Okay. If if we table it, what would we want to discuss?

I think I think my main concern is uh the cost of housing, you know, building a house. How much is it going to go up with this? you know, talk to some contractors or something and have them say, "Well, you know, I'm all for the the mission of this, you know, the fire mitigation, especially where we live, but I don't want to go in here and sign off on something that's going to double the cost of living, you know, to build a home." Yeah.

And so far, I'm not getting that. But, uh, yeah, but some of these are ambiguous, like hardened surfaces and stuff like that. If you're not a builder, you're not an architect, you don't know what that means. You don't know what it costs.

Yeah. And the one specific development that concerns me also is the UA COG self-help housing. We just just uh dedicated six homes uh up on Arrowhead for that. And the plan is for six more and they've got commitments for two of those lots already. And this would increase the cost of those houses, you know, and you said like maybe $700 um you know, between the the vents and the and and the fencing and all that. So, but it but it would be an increase and we're supposed to have affordable housing trying to make it affordable for these folks.

Okay. Ashley, is is that um do they fall under this regulation or are they federally No, they would fall under this. Y and that was $700 for like the lower class um class one and then two would be, you know, higher. Okay. All right. Anybody like to make a motion? Can I make a motion? No. Okay.

Well, I I think seeing that we have the opportunity to potentially construct our own map to potentially lessen the burden for some home builders, developers. Uh I think the planning director should investigate that, see what that process would look like. I think it might be beneficial for us to table this for now if we can submit our own map in conjunction with approving this lessen the burden for everybody. I think it would be a little more cop aesthetics potentially we table this for now conduct another workshop

and just before there is a motion on pardon before there is a motion on the floor you could make a motion there. Does anybody in objection to potentially doing another workshop? Okay, please just uh we need to give Ashley enough time to research at that. That'll be something brand new that we'll be working on and probably need to get some outside help. Okay. June 15th be enough time for you, Ashley? Oh, August 3rd. Okay. August 3rd. August. What's the next one? August 17

17th. Uh move to table uh item 6A until the August 17th city council meeting. Do we have a second? I'll second that. Roll call, please. Councelor Stifl, yes. Councelor Gardner, yes. Councelor Van Hton, yes. Councelor Mglleman, yes. Councelor Stone, yes. Mayor Wolf, yes. Thank you. Okay, new business. Consider approving the temporary use application for America's Parade Committee. Uh, it says administration here, and I'm not sure if that's Corland, is that you? It sure can be.

All right, it is.

Okay. So, the temporary use application came in. We ironed it out between public works and the police department. So everything in front of you is accurate uh per the applicant. You'll see that there was an additional uh page of petition signatures in support thereof and then also the event details. I highlighted some pertinent information and we also of course have representatives here to speak on the issue. Um you'll see a parade waiver that was approved by the clerk's office that all of registrants of the parade would complete similarly to how we would manage the wet and dry parade. There's a twin envirro invoice showing that they have scheduled additional portaotties and trash service for the main street for their um influx of people. And I believe that's it. So if there's any questions we have the applicants here and you can ask them directly. You got it.

Yep. Come up and introduce yourselves. And hello. Thank you, mayor and city council members. My name is Amy Don Berlin Hilterbrand and I am co-chair of the America's Parade Committee. Jim Sheran, also to assistant chairs of the trade committee.

Thank you. Questions here from from councel. Okay. Um, it's a it's a great plan. I like it. I'm afraid it's good. Um, is there any possibility that we could get the street um the highway opened before 2 p.m.? Um, thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Stone. So, one of the reasons why we put 2 PM um was to capture several different things. number one, the potential for a larger parade. Um, once we hopefully get the approval from city council, uh, but also because our committee will be going after the parade, cleaning up, collecting the trash totes, emptying the city trash containers, and putting all of that trash over at the parking lot at Pikes Peak in Maine. We know that that process will take at least 30 minutes uh, or more. So, we wanted to make sure that we had an hour of time where the the festivities and the activities are over, but our committee and our volunteers are there to clean up, make sure that um the streets are are clean and that the trash recepticles are placed and that they're the city trash uh receptacles are emptied. Um you know, so that way city staff doesn't have to incur that burden. And so that's one of the reasons. Um it's not because we wanted to have a parade till two. We really don't actually feel like the parade will last as long um as we projected, but we would rather uh have that time um submitted to you guys rather than than maybe potentially go over because we had more registrations.

So, you're saying 2 p.m. is the We would like that. We also noted uh that public works would shut the streets off at 3:00 a.m. We don't need you to shut them off at 3:00 a.m. Um we have a handful of people that would volunteer. I don't know if they would do it at 3:00 a.m. to help with anything, but we don't need um that time lock. I don't know if they could maybe close the roads at 5 um and then that way there's not so many hours involved in staff. But realistically, we feel like 2 p.m. to to open the street back up, especially the highway is is fair. Uh given that we want to make sure that we clean everything up. Okay. Um what I was looking at was the flow of traffic.

Um because we are starting the band at noon. Um and 11:00 a.m. is the nature's educators in the park. Um and then we have the duck release, which is another party. Um, and they're doing that at 12:30. It just seems like a lot for our public works and the police department to try to do both jobs to keep all the pedestrians going back and forth when there's going to be a lot of flow of traffic on Second and Third Street when the highway is closed. So, I was just just seeing if you could, you know, wrap it up a little quicker maybe. At this time, based on the number of um registrations that we currently have, we believe that we have approximately 1 hour parade. Um so from 10 to 11. Uh we believe that with the additional registrations that it potentially could go as late as noon. Um we don't know once that is over. We are allowing for one hour of cleanup. So we wanted to give worst case scenario uh because we don't want to go over the time that we present to you.

Questions I had on you have down here um music live performance for awards voting. Where is that going to take place?

Absolutely. Thank you Mayor Wolf. So Pikes Peak and Maine at the Rocky Mountain Bank and Trust parking lot will be the central area. That will be where the inate uh parade announcer is. It's where we we will present the community awards and the veterans awards prior to the parade and it's where we will present the parade awards after the parade ends. So we will while we are tallying the votes we will have um potentially CCHS vocal sing the Star Spangled Banner or just a short live live music um something to fill the gaps while we're tallying the votes for the parade awards. Okay. So that that'll happen at Pikes Peak and in Maine

in the parking lot at Pikes Peak and Maine. And we have spoken to Rocky Mountain Bank and Trust and received their permission. Okay. And what did we say starts at 11 o'clock at the

Nature's Educators? 11 o'clock. Nature's Educators Entertainment preceding the band scheduled for 12 at the park. Good, good, good to see you, sir. Good to see you.

So, the reason being we shut it down at 3:00 to give a lot of advanced notice for things. Obviously, we not a whole bunch of places open for breakfast anymore and gives us time, god forbid, for uh towing vehicles off of Main Street. We've never done it before and we don't want to do that again. But thing for you know people do work on the weekends and that type of nature and you're interrupting their daily business. You know they want to get through town now they got to figure out how else to get through so we can give them directions how to do so. That's why we shut it down so early you know and understanding it's going to be down till 2 o'clock

right estimated. Okay. So, are we keeping it closed until two? Keep your people safe. Okay. If I can answer this, Mr. Mayor. All right. The projected time of 2:00 p.m. That's getting the worst case scenario, right? All of our volunteers, we get them across that street, we start picking up that trash and everything, getting dumpsters and everything done straight. If we complete way before that, then we will turn the streets over to you and the police and say, "Hey, we're done. It's clear." if it starts at 1:15 or 1:30, but like I said, the 2 pm is a drop dead time ver worst case scenario,

but we will have a lot of volunteers out there that's coming to help us to do this. Yep. Yep. As long as coordination. Yes, exactly. Yes, we will have a coordinator with you and that. And we absolutely need that. So, the parade starts at 10. I need to get with you all to figure out where we need to where you lining up your firehouse like we had done for right over by Fremont Elementary and Church Avenue. Just the traditional lineup pattern. We're following the exact route that has been established

on the other side of Yes. Hey. Hey Sam, these are details that are already on the the parade map, correct? And these are the earlier we could Yes, we could go through those once approved because it looks like they're already mapped out pretty good on there. Okay. I just haven't seen it. Huh? I haven't seen it. Yeah. Okay. No, no, no, no. You're good. Let me know. I want to keep you everybody safe from running across the streets and pick up the trash. Dearly appreciated by public works and rescue services.

Thank you very much. Sounds like we're going to have a parade. Okay. I I appreciate you trying to open it up before too for the flow of traffic, for the safety of everyone. Um and your food trucks are they will they be parallel on Pikes Peak?

That is correct. So, uh it is we'll do alley to alley and so we will have um just a small group right there parallel parked uh between Main Street uh right off of Pikes Peak and then they will be broken down um to leave as well. So, they will they will leave by 1. So, they're supposed to shut down and leave uh by 1 uh again so that there's no activities or or any reason for anybody to stay unless they want to help stay and pick up trash, which we welcome. Thank you. Thank you.

My my only concern was is that overlap of time between the end of the parade because events will start in the park at 11 and uh so that's so everybody knows that. Yes. The only thing that I can think of that might Sam can maybe answer this is when they take that big front end loader full of ducks over on Second Street

and we got traffic going down it. Okay.

All right. Any other questions?

All right. Thank you. Thank you. All right, we have a motion. Oh, okay. I make the motion to approve the temporary use permit for the American Parade Committee as presented. Provide the parade with special event coverage. Provide street closure, setup, breakdown, police officer presence at Colorado Highway 115 entry closure points, and collaborate city resources with the committee volunteers. Okay. Do we have a second? A second. Roll call, please. Councelor Gardner, yes. Councelor Stone, yes. Councelor Van Hton, yes. Councelor Stifl, yes.

Councelor Mglleman, yes. Mayor Wolf, yes. All right. like to thank you guys for all your hard work and uh the last part just continue that communications with city staff. We want this to to run smoothly. I know it's the first time you know you run through something there's always a snag or two, but we just communicate about it and uh we make it happen. All right. Thank Thank you.

Thank you very much. All right. Okay. Next, we have consider awarding funding under the city of Florence's outside agency funding request program for 2026. We had a workshop before uh council meeting and worked hard to go through all the requests. Um, you know, I guess you can look at our our work up there on the whiteboard. um you know started off at 40 thou over 40,000 we had to take it down to 20,000 we we even had some discussion about you know um you know Lori brought up the point that we could expand that if we chose to and do a little bit of a budget amendment but I think it was everybody felt that would not be a wise thing to do considering the economy right now and um you know the you know projected income come into the to the city. Um, you know, I think we just have to be cautious at this time. So, we stuck to our our 20,000 there. Um, so what we have to do now, we have to uh vote on these individually. So, the motion will be motion organization name and the amount of then roll call. And uh

what do what do we refer to the fund as in the motion? The amount no funding in the amount of we have to be specific what the funding from nonprofit. Yeah. Yeah. We award funding in the amount of Okay. All right. Who's going to start off here? Start off here. Um, I'm going to award the emergent campus cyber club program funding in the amount of $1,000 under the city of Florence outside agency funding request program. Do we have a second? I'll second. Roll call, please. Councelor Stone, yes. Councelor Gardner, yes. Councelor Vanhton, yes. Councelor Stifl, yes. Councelor Mglman, yes.

Mayor Wolf, yes. Okay. um award Florence Arts Council funding in the amount of $3,000 under the city of Florence's outside agency funding request program. We have a second. I'll second. Roll call. Councelor Stone, yes. Councelor Mergleman, yes. Councelor Vanhton, yes. Councelor Stifl, yes. Councelor Gardner, yes. Mayor Wolf, yes. Okay. uh Florence ban booster funding in the amount of $1,000 under the city of Florence outside agency request program. We have a second. I'll second call. Councelor Stone.

Yes. Councelor Van Hton. Yes. Councelor Stifel. Yes. Councelor Mergleman. Yes. Councelor Gardner. Yes. Mayor Wolf. Yes. Pick it up here. award Florence Chamber of Commerce funding in the amount of $3,000 under the city of Florence's outside agency funding request program. You have a second. I'll second. Roll call. Councelor Stone. Yes. Councelor Mgleman. Yes. Councelor Van Hton. Yes. Councelor Stifl. Yes. Councelor Gardner. Yes. Mayor Wolf.

Yes. Award Florence Historical Archives funding in the amount of $1,000 under the city of Florence outside agency funding request program. Second. Second. Roll call. Councelor Stone. Yes. Councelor Mergleman. Yes. Councelor Van Hton. Yes. Councelor Stifl. Yes. Councelor Gardner. Yes. Mayor Wolf. Yes. Okay. Award Florence Merchant Merchants Association funding in the amount of $1,000 under the City of Florence's outside agency funding request program. Second. Yes. Second. Roll call, please. Councelor Stone.

Yes. Councelor Merkelman. Yes. Councelor Van Hton. Yes. Councelor Stifl. Yes. Councelor Gardner. Yes. Mayor Wolf. Yes. Award Florence Pioneer Museum and Research Center funding in the amount of $2,000 under the city of Florence's outside agency funding request program. Second. Second. Okay. Roll call. Councelor Stone. Yes. Councelor Mgleman. Yes. Councelor Vanhton. Yes. Councelor Stifel. Yes. Councelor Gardner. Yes. Mayor Wolf. Yes. Okay. um award Florence Senior Community Center funding in the amount of $1,000 under the city of Florence's outside agency funding request program. Have a second. Second. Roll call. Councelor Stone,

yes. Councelor Van Hton, yes. Councelor Stifl, yes. Councelor Mergleman, yes. Councelor Gardner, yes. Mayor Wolf, yes. award gold belt tour scenic and history historic byway funding in the amount of $1,000 under the city of Florence's outside agency funding request program. We have a second. Second. Roll call. Councelor Stone. Yes. Councelor Ben Hton. Yes. Councelor Stifel. Yes. Councelor Mgleman. Yes. Councelor Gardner. Yes. Mayor Wolf. Yes. award JJ's helping pause funding in the amount of $1,500 under the city of Florence's outside agency funding request program. Second. Second. Roll call. Councelor Stone.

Yes. Councelor Mgle or Van Hton? Yes. Councelor Stifl. Yes. Councelor Mgleman. Yes. Councelor Gardner. Yes. Mayor Wolf. Yes. Award Nature's Educators funding in the amount of $1,000 under the city of Florence's outside agency funding request program. Second roll call. Councelor Stone. Yes. Councelor Vanhton. Yes. Councelor Stifel. Yes. Councelor Mgleman. Yes. Councelor Gardner. Yes. Mayor Wolf. Yes. Award Pioneer Day Association funding in the amount of $2,000 under the city of Florence's outside agency funding request program. Second. Roll call. Councelor Stone, yes. Councelor Vanhton, yes. Councelor Stifel, yes. Councelor Mgleman, yes. Councelor Gardner,

yes. Mayor Wolf, yes. Award rural startup day funding in the amount of $1,500 under the city of Florence's outside agency funding request program. Second. Roll call. Councelor Stone. Yes. Councelor Vanhton. Yes. Councelor Stifl. Yes. Councelor Mglleman. Yes. Councelor Gardner, yes. Mayor Wolf, yes. Thank you, Tammy. Good job. April fools.

All right. Next new business adopting ordinance number 3-2026, an ordinance amending sections of chapter 5 of the Florence Municipal Code relating to contractor licensing. city clerk.

I have begun some code revisions. Um, this code revision in particular is moving all of the some of the licensing facets from the code into one condensed area. And so there was trash licensing, there were tree trimmers licensing, and there was also contractor's licensing just kind of spone about um the Florence Municipal Code. So, what I'm doing is I'm removing them from those sections, putting them with the contractor's licensing, and just kind of condensing that. And coming soon will also be a fee schedule where we are also pulling the fees out of the municipal code and putting them on a fee schedule so that they're easier to maintain, change, and update um as needed. So, you'll see that coming in June. One of the only changes that I made was making sure that the limited contractors and the general contractors both had to provide the same insurance requirements. That is the only change here.

Okay. Any questions from council and I know this has been reviewed by uh city attorney and everything's good. Correct. Okay. Any questions? I have a motion. I'll make a motion. Um, adopt the first reading of ordinance number 3-2026, an ordinance amending sections of chapter 5 of the Florence Municipal Municipal Code relating to contractor's licensing. Okay. Do we have a second? I'll second. Roll call, please. Councelor Stone, yes. Councelor Gardner, yes. Councelor Vanhton, yes. Councelor Stifel, yes. Council Merkelman, yes.

Mayor Wolf, yes. Okay, council reports. Um, Brenda, good job on the junk and a lot of people here and the car show was amazing as usual. Brutal. I went to the mayor's round table and we had cars parked clear up on our house, the 600 block, the car show. I think that's a first. Okay, Tammy.

Um, yes. Um, a lot of people in town over the weekend. I think all the events downtown were um amazing and a lot of people were here. Um, so thank you to the merchants and the chamber and the all the city crews that helped every everywhere. Um, I know that there's a couple of um business after hours going on in June, but Joan left. So, um, anyway, that'll be happening. We'll get we'll get a list of that. Okay. Get that information out. Yep. Matt, no report. James, no report.

Okay. Uh, mayor's report. Uh, we did we had a town hall on our drought response plan. Um, pretty well attended and I think we answered a lot of questions and got some information out there. And I'm not sure if Lori was going to expound on that at all later, but you can. Um, I kicked off the Armed Forces Art Show at the bell tower, the 7th annual one of those. And they've got art um throughout town and various uh businesses and down at the bell tower. Um so if you feel like you want to go and see some art that's done by by veterans, it's a you know, good show down there. Um obviously we had our workshop on the Fourth of July parade and then we came back with the decision today. I'm excited about that. um attended senior coffee a couple times. Good just to to talk with people and and hear things. Um did the mayor's roundt I was out at Williamsburg. Um and uh and again just good to hear everybody, you know, just bring up those issues that they have and then the coordination there is between the county, um the cities, the coal camps. Um I think that's work up. Uh I helped MC the car show. I signed up for MCing the car show, but I got assigned and duties as assigned. Ended up doing trash patrol and toilet paper patrol and and just a little bit of everything. So, all the volunteers had to get out there and do what you had to make it happen. But, it was a big event. Had lots of comments afterwards from from people from outside of Florence saying how much they like this car show and they like coming down here. And a lot of them talked about how they come down here every once in a while for the antique stores. They come down here to to visit our restaurants. And so, you know, it's just again, it's one of those one of those feature events for the city of Fort. All right, Lori.

All right. Thank you, Mayor. Um, first of all, I wanted to start out. I don't know if y'all seen and he's not very happy about it, but we're doing it anyway. Sam's retirement party. So, we we wanted to make it a, you know, a community event because Sam has been such a huge part for the last 35 years. And uh we're just going to have a little barbecue, Sam. Just uh just a hot dogs and something simple for our Sam, but very important for our Sam. Uh, I know you told me no, but I don't listen.

I don't listen. Um, so we do invite everybody to come out and celebrate Sam's 35 years. Um, to uh say hello, thank you, and uh enjoy retirement and for John to always know Sam will be at the end of the block watching you. Um, so we will uh post that. Uh, and uh I wanted to also uh thank John. He's jumping right in to his new role plus the building plus everything else plus events all weekend. So he has jumped in and uh I really appreciate that and Sam appreciates it and the crew. So thank you. Um I think we uh we did a good job. Um,

huh. I know. I know. Uh, all right. So, wanted to also thank Chief for his taco talk. Um, I am getting a ton of feedback on how well people enjoy that. I did uh put it out on LinkedIn to show what Florence is doing. And I got a ton of responses and calls on what the heck is taco talk and how do I get that in my community. So, it was such a cute idea, but it brings people out and it shows what community policing is. So, Chief, thank you so much for uh what you do for this community. Um, yes. All right. Uh, let's see. Um, I wanted to also say great job uh to our code enforcement uh Pam and um Matt Valdez. I hope everybody is seeing the hard work uh that they are out there doing. They are really making a difference and they are really doing um education and compliance at the same time. So, I hope you guys are all seeing that. We had two additional cleanups this week. Plus, people are just in compliance because Matt and uh Pam are really hitting hitting the hitting the sidewalk. So, I wanted to thank them and uh let y'all know there was two additional cleanups that they did. Uh also, uh let's see. Um, I do want to uh just I'm so happy that we are we have citizens coming and this parade how the whole process worked makes me really happy and excited and it shows

what we can do when uh when things may not be going the way we want. We all have a voice. we listen and uh here we are now having a parade that we didn't know we could have. So that's very exciting. So I would encourage everybody to share that whoever's watching, whoever sees the process that uh everybody has a voice and and there is ways to use it. Uh all right. Uh did y'all see the new sidewalks that were fixed? We had the triangle sidewalks all over. Well, we got all four of them, five of them fixed. Um, front of Fremont Motorsports, Dollar General, uh,

Loaf and Jug. Thank you, Sam. Loaf and Jug, and then we had another one that was a little bridge. So, we fixed those very quickly, and that came out of a citizen complaint. So, we are listening. So, please continue to let us know what you see. Um, 4,000 eyes are better than my two. Uh the flag coloring contest, please everybody get excited about that. We want all those flags all over. Uh that coloring contest um I'm thinking is going to be so cute with the kids coloring and doing that. So please uh if you are artistic, please get into that uh flag coloring contest. It is officially open and we want to make sure we get lots of those.

Lori, Lori, where do you get the flags? Uh they're at the library. library, city hall, shoot me an email, I'll send it to you. All right. Um, but we want to see how creative people get. So, we thought that would be a fun way uh to do that.

Um, also with Three Rocks. So, we me and Ashley, John, we met with Three Rocks um to get some help on some just some some contracting and engineering needs that we have. So, we kind of put him to work right away. Uh so right now we're really looking at uh some issues in High Meadows with the speeding and what we can do out there to help address that issue and Johnson Hill. So we're looking at some drainage with Johnson Hill. Um I don't know how that looks yet, but I just want to mention it to that's another one. We hear you. We're looking at it and we're trying to find solutions. So I'm super excited about that one because that that's a that's a tough one, Sam. that Johnson Hill. Um, let's see. I will be interviewing this week for building inspector with Ashley and John. So, we have some good applicants. So, we'll start that process and I uh get that done. Um, and then I'm also looking at some advertising. So, now that we got the parade going, um, looking at where we're going to do some advertising. So, um I will I should have a really good report on you on what we're doing to get some of these things out because we got 250 the parade all of these uh things that we are doing. Um so we did have a town hall meeting for the drought plan and um I was so pleasantly surprised that all kinds of people showed up um and we had great questions and great dialogue and answered lots of questions. So, it was another testament to these town hall meetings when uh when we can't talk about it here having these meetings really get people to come out and I think each time we have one there's more that come. Um so we talked about it was really interesting. A lot of a lot of them were um from Rainbow Ditch East Florence. Um so I was pleasantly

surprised that they were very interested in how that looks for them. Um, so it was just a great meeting and then, uh, Brandon and myself went to the county and presented our, uh, drought plan to them. Um, and it's also on their website. So, our our drought plan is very specific. So, I was very proud of Brandon and all the work that was done on that. So, um, I think that is all I had unless you guys have some, uh, questions for me. Not on the council reports part. Yeah, she's doing a great job. And we h we have a new project uh tracker report, a new uh revenue tracker report. She sent it to me uh today. She finished it up, so you'll see a new one with that to where it's not just taxes, it's all of our revenues. So, we're really trying to streamline that. So, she's she's she's she's taking it all in. She's taking it all in.

All right. Very good. At this time, Okay. This time, um, we have a, uh, item that we'd like to go into executive session for.

Yeah. Yeah. And I just again wanted to jump in and um remind anyone that wasn't here at the beginning that uh we will not have cause for the first paragraph for the first potential uh reason for executive session. Uh did want to say thank you to staff for identifying that. And uh if it was discovered any sooner, we would have got a modified agenda out there, but it was late in the game. So just thank you for that. Uh, and then I don't know if city manager or council would be interested in deciding who we might want in this executive session. Envisioning. Yeah, I I would like to invite the the city clerk. Um, and I think that's it right now. And you and myself,

city manager, city attorney. Yeah, sorry. And city clerk. Yes. Not used to this one. So, okay. A motion to enter into executive session pursuant to Colorado Revised Statutes 246424B and determining positions relative to matters that may be subject to negotiations and instructing negotiators pursuant to Colorado revised statute 246424E regarding the expired Sumo water lease extension option and road infrastructure requirements inviting the city attorney, city manager, and city clerk. Do we have a second? I'll second. Okay. Roll call. Councelor Stiflel. Yes. Councelor Mgleman. Yes. Councelor Van Hton. Yes. Councelor Gardner. Yes. Councelor Stone.

Yes. Mayor Wolf. Yes. Okay. Meeting is

suspended and going to executive counsel. You're going to have a barbecue. talk to you about something. Have a great day.

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We have returned from executive session at 8:11 and the regular council meeting is back in session. Do you want to do a roll call vote to close executive and open? Okay. All right. We have a motion to close executive session. I'll make a motion to close executive session. Second. I'll second. Roll call, please. Councelor Stone, yes. Councelor Mglleman, yes. Councelor Van Hton, yes. Councelor Stifl, yes. Councelor Gardner, yes. Mayor Wolf,

yes. Uh, just for a brief statement, we received an update on the sumo memorandum of understanding uh with the city that expired in early May 2026. Um, this update was concerning the water agreement with the city for the use of water on the golf course. And we just got an update on that and we'll go from there. All right. Do we have a motion to adjurnn? I'll make a motion to adjurnn. Have a second. Second. All in favor? I. Any opposed?

All right. Motion carried. We are adjourned at 8:12. She gets that.