City Council - Regular Meeting

All right, let's call the meeting the order to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands nation indivisible with liberty and justice for Roll call. Ma'am. Mayor Sasha here. Todd Kad here. Oh, I forgot. Council member Council member Brian ErdiLes here. Council member John Caper here. Council member Bill Garcia here. Council member Lauren Boyette here. Council member James Parks

here.

All right. Next on the agenda is public comment. Audience participation for items not on the agenda. Public comments are limited to three minutes per speaker. Speaker must sign in on the sheet next to this podium and address the council from that podium. The council will not take action at this meeting in response to any public comments. Anybody out there want to shoot the breeze with us? Nobody. All right. Next here is a proclamation for foster care month. Um whereas children are key to the state's future success, prosperity, and equality of life. Whereas children have a right to thrive and learn and grow. Whereas foster parents provide the love, safety, and stability that young children need in order to overcome past traumatic experiences in order to reach their full potential. Whereas Colorado foster parents are caring for and nurturing more than 2,000 children and and youth in the foster care today. Whereas must come together as a community to recognize the important role foster parents play in caring for children who have experienced abuse, neglect, supporting families, re reunited re yeah gosh dang reunification and building strong communities. Whereas there is always a need for more foster parents in order to ensure children especially older children, children with complex needs, siblings have a safe, stable home in their community. Whereas there are numerous individuals, nonprofit organizations and public servants who are dedicated to raising awareness about the needs of children and the youth in foster care as well as invaluable contribution of foster parents. Therefore, as mayor of the city of Fort Morgan, I do hereby proclaim May 26 foster care month.

You want to say anything?

Thank you, mayor and council members. I'm Carrie Schmeckley from the Department of Human Services, and I appreciate you proclaiming May Foster Awareness Month. Um, we are always looking for foster homes in our community to help keep the children that we need to support in our community. Um, and we're fortunate that we have a lot of foster homes that have come through so we don't have kids sleeping at the department or in hotel rooms with our staff watching over them. So, um, but we also thank the community for their support. There's a lot of businesses that, um, give discounts or free things to our foster parents. There's 4 clubs that support us, religious organizations, and year after year, we appreciate your continued recognition. Thank you. Thank you. [applause]

All right, we got a double proclamation month. Uh, next one is mental health month. Uh, whereas mental health is the essential part of over well-being impacting individuals, families, and communities across Colorado. Whereas one in five American adults experience mental health condition each year and everyone faces challenges in life that can impact their mental health. Whereas despite the prevalence, mental health remains shrouded in stigma preventing many from seeking help. Whereas early intervention and access to quality care are crucial for managing mental health conditions and improving quality of life. Whereas May is recognized nationally as mental health awareness month, providing an opportunity to raise awareness, combat stigma, and promote mental health resources. Now, therefore, I, Doug Shaw, mayor of Fort Morgan, do hereby proclaim May 26 as mental health month in Fort Morgan. I encourage all residents of Fort Morgan educate themselves and others about mental health conditions, treatment options, and available resources. Challenging stigma by speaking respectfully and inclusively about mental health. Seek help if they are struggling with their mental health and encourage others to do the same. Support organizations that provide mental health services and advocacies. Create safe, supportive environment for open conversations about mental health. Together, we can create a community where everyone feels empowered to prior prioritize their mental health being and seek help when needed. And witness today, Doug Shasso. Ready? Anybody from there? That's it. Thank you. All right. Item number seven, recognition of business of the month, Miss Sandy.

Oh, you have to do the minutes first. Oh, I'm sorry. My bad. Yeah, we're trying to get the avalanche thing done then. I know. A approval of the minutes in April 21st, 2026 meeting. Miss Curtis, your minutes from the April 21st meeting are in your packet as presented. Resolution. Your honor, I'd like to make a resolution to accept the minutes of April 21st. Second. I have a resolution by Jim Parks, another one by Bill Garcia. Roll call, please. That resolution carries unanimously.

All right. Now, Sandy, good evening. for 42 years is a long time, especially for a small family-owned and operated business. For more than four decades, our business of the month nominee has quietly operated in the same location, 217 Main Street in the heart of downtown, offering affordability, environmental, sustainability, and the thrill of the hunt treasures for shoppers. Tonight, it is my honor and privilege to announce that Rupat Boutique has been selected as this month's business of the month recipient for its valuable contributions to our community. Each month, this distinction is given to a Fort Morgan business that excels in such areas as pride in their business, top-notch customer service, operational growth, active involvement in area organizations and programs, and community contributions that assist in creating a better quality of life. It must be in the blood. Store owner Cheryl Ruple opened her legacy retail storefront after a short time operating an antique store with her aunt further down Main Street from her current location. For years, she combed yard sales, estate sales, and other outlets to find those unique items that still had purpose. She also worked with others in finding rare, slightly used, but coveted items and offering space in her shop for them to display their finds and wares. By the end of 2020, Repeat Boutique had developed partnerships over

the years with 21 additional 2100 additional co-signers. Her daughter Shelley joined the sole proprietor and store operator at the end of 2020 to help Cheryl after she experienced some health challenges. Popular items that the business carries include clothing, shoes, jewelry, purses, kitchen wear, collectibles, glassear, records, CDs, and DVDs. Cheryl has spent countless hours organizing and ensuring that the displayed merchandise looks like new, is in good condition, and customers feel that they're shopping at a place that provides more of an upscale feeling than is expected from typical thrift stores. Since the debut of Rupe Boutique in the 1980s, thrift shopping has exploded into a 56 plus billion dollar annually industry. According to experts at Capital 1, in fact, the apparel portion of sales in such retailers is projected to continue to grow approximately three times faster than the overall clothing market. The popular online retailer Poshmark recognized the growing opportunity and value that vintage and secondhand markets could bring, and the company has quickly grown into a household name, rivaling other clothing manufacturers and retailers. Approximately 16 to 18% of Americans shop at thrift stores each year, largely comprised of millennials and Gen Z generations. And this surge in secondhand shopping is expected to grow into a 79 mil billion dollar business in the United States by the year 2029. Um, according to news media giant CBS. However, as our business of the month

business will tell you, this craze and prominence wasn't always this way, especially for our Fort Morgan retailer. Challenges such as Amazon, eBay, and other large online retailers entered the scene. Home life was almost always disrupted since a oneperson operation required more than 40 hours most weeks. In October of 2021 and during the pandemic pandemic, the unthinkable happened. Broken pipes led to flooding and water damage in the storefront business, thus causing much of her merchandise to be destroyed and the business to close for several months during its restoration. And most recently, the family has mourned the loss of close family members. Yet, Rope Boutique overcame these times of adversity to remain open and provide a welcoming place to shop for both locals and visitors, resulting in positive online reviews and comments such as, "My go-to, always friendly, clean, and has a variety of awesome items. I have found some beautiful pieces for my glass collection," says Jacqueline Unfonte. And Marilyn Thomas adds, "I got some really cute earrings and salmon colored bag from this store. They have a nice selection of antique porcelain figures, especially Christmas themed for the holidays. I recommend visiting this cute family-owned shop. You just might find that next hidden gem." Although not boasted about, Cheryl has helped several charities over the years with donations, including the Salvation Army, Share, Golden Star, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and various Indian reservations. On a broader scale, she has helped the community and environment to reduce, reuse, recycle, and repeat. Please join me in congratulating and thanking our

May business of the month selection, Repeat Boutique, for the outstanding efforts and contributions this business provides in order to make Fort Morgan a great place to live, work, and enjoy. [applause]

Thank you, Sandy, for your kind words. And thank you, council members, for giving us this honor. We appreciate it. You're welcome. Congratulations. [applause]

Okay. Next on the agenda um is a possible action on inind services waiver for Popstock. Mr. Wait, is that you? Okay. He's either coming up to beat us up or he's going to one of [laughter] the two. Those days are long gone. Okay.

All right. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Thank you for having us up here tonight. Um, special event season has started, I guess. So, in front of you in your packets tonight, we have the application for the bobstock event this year of July 9th through July 12th, as well as the inind request that we've all come up with as department heads is for what we are offering the Bobtock community to pull off this event. Um, it is our recommendation that if you guys so choose, we'd like to go ahead and proceed with the inind request as is in your packet.

Okay. Any questions? Right. Entertain the resolution. Your honor, I'd like to make a resolution on the request for inind services, fee waivers, and request a to allow a beer garden on public property for the Bob Stock Music Festival. I got a resolution by Jim Parks. Another one by Brian Yuralis. Roll call, please. That resolution carries unanimously. Nice job. Thank you, guys. Wayne, since you're here, would you like to get up and say anything? [laughter]

Thank you guys very much. Um, we do want to Everything's pretty much the same now. We've pretty much taken all the city we can take. So, five stages, um, two days. Um, of course, the Thursday closing down the street. We appreciate that a lot. But the only thing that's different this year is um I suppose most of you know, but Sandy turned us I believe Sandy did uh nominated us for a to be one of the states uh 250 drone show uh events and we were selected. So they will be u doing a drone show on Friday night. Um not sure what all that coordination is going to take. I don't know that that's really on us. I think it might be with other people from the city, but that will take place on Friday. And uh other than that, pretty much everything's the same. The big deal for us um gosh, all the help we get from all the departments. I'd start naming them, but there's just too many of them, you know. But everybody bends over backwards. And what I love about it is I feel like this event's grown big enough that it's more than a media logic or a Bob FM thing. It's a whole city. It's a whole town. And we get so many people that catch us at the event that don't even know who we are and say, "Man, I can't believe Fort Morgan puts this on and we don't tell them any different." Yeah, the city does it. We don't care.

Yeah. You know, it's it's our event. It's everybody. So, that's the part we love. So, thank you guys for your part in it. And thanks. Uh you're welcome. And see you then, right? Yeah. Is this after the show or before the show? The drone show. Yeah, it'll be after after. Um as what from what I understand, I don't know that. I was gonna say last time I talked to Lindsay there was a possibility that they may coordinate with your Friday night musical act and so well that'll well it's going to be perfect. It's [laughter] going to be perfect. So he's in charge of weather. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. He he was really bad at it last Friday year on Friday. So try harder. [laughter]

But yeah, it's supposed to be Friday. Um the the act that we have, Color Me Bad, is the headliner on uh Friday night, and they play a little shorter set. Anyway, we're going to try to uh work with them and see if we can get some of that tied together with the drone show and stuff. But we're working with Lindsay um from the radio station and the school district because it looks like we'll be using either Baker or Sherman School to stage the drones at. And so they won't be directly over the park, they'll be that direction. So over the stage basically is how it'll show up. So So this is all with the 250 years or 150 years 250 celebration.

And the the state does it's an 8minute video or a presentation I should say a presentation they do. We get two minutes within it. So we'll have to figure out but we want to highlight the city maybe the mayor. We don't know. But [laughter] remind me of the stay puff man. I've seen that. I've seen that one. Yeah. Thanks. We don't know what our part's going to be yet, but we're looking forward to trying to figure that out and put it together. And it's going to be something different. So, we're excited about it. All right. But thank you guys. You're very welcome. Thank you. Thank you, Wayne. You got to stay up if you want to watch the drone show. Yes. You'll have to stay up late. A lot of work. That is a [laughter] big event.

Alrighty, enough of this. All right. presentation and possible action on a generator intercom agreement with Fort Morgan Solder. Mr. Nation. Yes. Very good. Okay.

Just in case you're curious, it's 1-1 in the early in the first period. Um anyway, I can provide updates as the night progresses. Um yes. Um I think we've mentioned this before. We've got our community solar project over here by Cargill that's up and running. um and we are receiving that electricity directly into our system. We pay the developer for that electricity. The same developer is looking at building another facility over by the county shops and by the raceway over there. And so they refer to it and you'll see it in some of the paperwork. It's referred to as raceway solar. And um they still this electricity and that deal is directly with mean themselves. It isn't with the city of Fort Morgan. So, we aren't technically buying any electricity out of this project, but all the molecules that are produced out of this solar field will go right into our distribution system. And so, we'll see it as a benefit in Colorado. Um, but part of the part of the deal is that we are connecting them into our system and then they've got to connect over by the substation over there. That is Wapa substation. We rent a corner of it basically in simplistic terms. And so they needed to draw a line of demarcation of where our part of the project is and where their part of the project is. And so we needed to enter into this agreement to basically allow that line of demarcation to put some of the equipment technically into the city of Fort Morgan to help them with their tax credits they're getting basically. And so the equipment that is backordered is basically on our side of the line. So it allows them to get their tax credits even though the facility won't be up and running until sometime in 2027. Uh we told them we were willing to do that as long as there was no financial burden to the city of Fort Morgan. And so the agreement that you had have in front of

you tonight is basically that agreement that allows all that to take place. Um puts the financial burden on them. Our attorneys have gone through this. Um, Brandon Dipman with Nenah's firm is our utility side of things. Brandon has gone through this, redlinined it and come back and forth with the developer and everybody's agreed to the changes that you have in front of you. And so tonight, we're just looking to approve the resolution that allow the mayor to sign this and allow us to move forward with um the development of that facility over there. Any questions? Okay, seeing none, entertain a resolution. Your honor, I'd like to make a resolution approving a generator interconnection agreement with Fort Morgan Solar LLC and authorizing the mayor to sign the agreement.

Second. I have a resolution by Jim Parks, second by Bill Garcia. Um, roll call, please. That resolution carries unanimously. All right. Next on the agenda is presentation and possible action on contract amendment for Fort Morgan Land One LLC. Mr. Nation.

Okay. Very good. Um alluded to this at our our work session last meeting when we were talking budget um things. This is the developer that is um currently has the contract to buy the corner of the old Cold Connect property. Um Bobby Harvey is the gentleman's name that we've been dealing with on this. Um they have been in the middle of their diligence period through the wintertime and as I indicated last week, they've because of the conditions of the economy and everything right now. They've had some um deals that haven't worked out like they thought were going to work out. And so they are not wanting to give up on this project yet. And so what they're asking for tonight is they would really like to get a 90-day extension for the remainder of the contract. So we extend the diligence period by 90 days and then it extends the closing and everything that happens after that. And so what you have in your packet is a resolution that moves forward with the extension. Uh Bobby was comfortable enough with it. He has already signed this if we're okay with it tonight. um if we approve it, um he's already got it with his name on it and then we can get it signed and get the extension in place. So, um at this point, without having somebody just beating down our door wanting to buy that corner, I would say this is probably our best option to go ahead and let them continue to work their channels that they have and see if they can find us the best option for retailers for that corner. Still, any questions,

John? Can you explain to me why 90day and not doing a 180 instead just so we don't have to come back to this? They they felt 90 days was what they wanted. This was their request was the 90 days would get them what they need. They've got people they're working with right now, but they just needed a little more time. 180 was I think just they thought too much. 90 days is what they think will it'll take. So, yep. Any more questions? All right. All right. I entertain the resolution. Your honor, I'll make a resolution to approve a contract amendment for Fort Morgan Land One LLC. Second.

I got a resolution by Jim Parks, a second one by Brian Dallas. Roll call, please. That resolution carries unanimously.

All righty. Next on the agenda, uh, presentation, possible action on first reading, adopting the 2025 Colorado wildfire code, Mr. Nation. Okay, this one I promise to be nice and not say too many bad things about the state of Colorado. Um, this is another one of these that has been legislated into existence. Um they because of the wildfire situations throughout the state um the state of Colorado through the adoption of Senate Bill 23-166 has basically now forced everybody that has a wildlife wildland urban interface area a WOOI for short um to basically adopt these codes. They did the maps. The city of Fort Morgan now has a WOOI designated right in the middle of Riverside Park. And so now that we're on the map, we now fall underneath this the rules of this statute. They when they passed the law, they basically put the onus then on everybody that has a designation that if you feel you were mapped incorrectly, we would now have to pay experts to go in and prove that it's not a designated WOOI. and therefore then petition to have it removed and all this stuff. So they broadstroke the entire state with where the buoys are designated at. The rest of Morgan County has a lot of designated areas to be honest that anything that could burn is in that and everything. So we've got this one area. We have a requirement to go ahead and get this into place. It's part of the Senate bill that we have to adopt these standards. Now, what we've done with this and why we feel comfortable with staff with moving this forward is that these rules for basically building within a wildlife

urban interface area will only apply to construction in that wildlife interface area. So, only if we would decide because it's on city property, it would only apply to us as the city if we ever decided to build something basically in the middle of the river. So it basically becomes nonimportant. So but it puts us into compliance with the the bill and therefore gets any repercussions off of our back if they add repercussions in the future with it. So all right. Well, that answers a lot of questions I

It's one of these things, and you've heard me bring this up before. The state feels that those of us that have home rule authority shouldn't necessarily have home rule authority. And so they legislate these things into place and kind of force us into the box. And I've had the discussion with our legal team before about is this the hill I want to die on and spend a lot of money to prove the state wrong, but this isn't the hill I want to die on, especially when it's this minimal of impact and everything to the city. So, so my recommendation is we go ahead and adopt the rules and make it compliant and then we'll decide where we want to fight the state on home rule authority at some other point.

So, this is just in that little yellow area that's not outright, not up the hill, correct? Okay. All righty. No sense of beating this up. Uh, entertain a resolution. I guess it fails. There's no way out of this. So, um this I would offer resolution on first reading of an ordinance adopting reference the 2025 Colorado wildfire resiliency code and request set a public hearing for May 19th. Second. I have a resolution by Lauren Boyette, a second by Jim Parks. Uh roll call, please. That resolution carries unanimously.

Thank you for that. We'll have more conversations about these type of things when we have to bring the building codes back in a couple meetings and discuss instituting building codes too that are kind of along the same lines. Okay. Okay.

All righty. We're going to move into public hearing. Um next on the agenda is public hearing to consider a special use permit for 502 NSON. Um this is a public hearing. Please keep public comments to the issue before council. Each speaker is asked to limit comments to three minutes unless the speaker represents a group of citizens in which the event additional time may be allocate allocated. Please report these limit or please respect these limitations. I reserve the right to limit public comment that is inappropriate under these guidelines or otherwise improper. I also reserve the right to limit testimony or questions that are repetitive, communive, or argumentative or not pertinent to the issues that are set a limit on the duration of the testimony if I determine it to be necessary in light of the number of persons who have signed up to testify. First, is it been legally noticed, Miss Curtis?

Yes, mayor. It was posted on our city website April 20th. All right. Next is the presentation to the application. Mr. Akre,

good evening, mayor, and members of council. This is uh Verizon has requested to install a monopole at 60 foot tall at 502 Enzyme. That's a northeast corner of Enzyme in Biju. Currently, there are uh antenna there is an antenna array on the uh building's chimney. They're wanting to upgrade that. the chimney they don't feel is uh structurally sound for holding the new array. So they've requested to install a 60 foot monopole which will be located on the north side of the building near where they've got uh telecommunication facilities already. Um uh telecommunication facilities require a special use but they're allowed in each zoning district. So that's why this is before council and uh a representative insight who's doing the work for uh Verizon is here then can answer any detailed questions that you may have.

Okay. Next, we'll hear from the comments from the applicant, if any.

Hello, I'm Jenny Robbins, council. Thank you for having me tonight. Um, as Tom mentioned, we are requesting approval of the special use permit to relocate the telecommunications facility from the smoke stack to a new 60oot monopole on the property. Uh, the current antennas that are mounted on the chimney uh are it's no longer no longer structurally uh able to take any further upgrades. Uh, so uh the proposed installation meets all the zoning and land use criteria consistent with the surrounding area and is not expected to create a negative impact. So, I am here to Oh, and the planning commission has reviewed and request um reviewed the request and unan unanimously recommended approval with no no uh public concerns have been raised. So, I'm here to answer any questions if you have any.

Anybody have any questions for the applicant? All right. Thank you. Thank you. Uh next we'll hear any public comments if anybody's here to wish to speak on this issue. All right. Seeing none, um, if there is no one else public comments wish to speak this issue, I will ask the city clerk if any oral or written comments have been submitted to the clerk's office prior to this hearing. There were none. Right. Now, we proceed to council discussion. Is there any questions from council or discussion of the council? All right. Seeing none, if there is no further discussion by council, I will entertain a motion to close.

Motion to close. Uh, see we all in favor say I. I. Anybody oppose say no. Okay. Okay. Council action. There you go. [laughter] How do you say this? Sali. Salaji. Okay. Okay. [laughter] All righty. I didn't want to even attempt that one. Mrs. S. Mrs. S. Okay. Okay.

Street. All right. I'll entertain a resolution. Your honor, I'd like to make a resolution on a request for special use permit for 502 enzyme. Second. All right. I [clears throat] have a resolution by Jim Parks, a second by Bill Garcia. Roll call. That resolution carries unanimously. All righty. Thank you. You're welcome. All right. Next, uh we have another public comment and same rules apply as the first. Um do I need to go ahead and read uh all that to describe what it is or?

Yeah, you need to read the title of what we're Okay. Next on the agenda is the public hearing on ordinance 1335 authorizing an issuance of wastewater enterprise revenue bond. Rule same applies. Um, first is issue a legal notice. Miss Curtis, has this hearing been properly noticed? Yes. On April 22nd on our website and it was also in the No, just on the website. Sorry. Okay. Next, the presentation of the ordinance, Mr. Nation.

Uh, yes. This is a second reading on the bond ordinance. Um, I won't go into any more detail other than this is will allow us to go out and pursue the bonds that we need for the wastewater treatment project. Uh, very thorough. Um, I see Andrew Ma did make it on Oh, there's our both of our guests for this one. So, uh, we do have our um team, finance team that's available for questions, too. But nothing has changed on this lengthy ordinance ordinance. This just allows us to go out and get into the bond market and get the funding necessary to build the project that we need. So, with that, that's all I've got for you.

All righty. Thank you. Uh, next we'll hear any public comments. Is there anybody here wishes to speak on this issue? Seeing none. If there is not anyone else in the public who wishes to speak on this issue, I will ask city clerk if any oral or written comments were submitted to the clerk's office prior to this hearing. There were none. All right, we'll now proceed into city council discussion. Are there any questions from council or any discussion of the council? I I would like to say thank you for um the information that was sent out regarding monitoring bond rates. Oh, yes. I appreciate you addressing that for me. No problem. That was Andrew Ma did that for us.

And I guess my other question is what kind of a window are we looking for for the completion of that. Are we talking 30-day? Are we talking a 90-day? It's um I know we're waiting. We had our meeting with S&P for our rating. Our rating will be back, our bond rating will be back on the 12th and we'll finalize that on the 12th. And then when do we Andrew, when do we go to the market?

Yeah. So, once we get our rating, we'll um go to the market with what we call the preliminary official statement or POSOS. And that's kind of like a stock perspectus, but the main offering document that we use to market the bonds to investors. So, we typically take about a week to market the bonds. And so, we're currently scheduled to go to the market on June 2nd. Uh that'll be the pricing day. And um on that day, we will finalize the interest rate of the bonds and your uh borrowing cost and your repayment over the next 30 years will be locked in. Thank you. Appreciate that.

Any other further questions? Uh, none. I will ask the council entertain a motion to close or continue the public hearing. Motion to close. Second. All right. I have a motion to close and second by Brian your Dallas. Um, all in favor? I. Any oppose? All right. Mrs. S,

mayor and counsel. Oh, I have my mic on for this one, too. You've [clears throat] heard the presentation on ordinance 1335, uh, which is authorizing the issuance of wastewater enterprise revenue bonds and the authorization to publish by title only. The proper action is by motion on the ordinance by resolution. All righty. Entertain a resolution. Your honor, I'd like to make a resolution authorizing the issuance of wastewater enterprise revenue bonds and authorization to publish by title only. Second. I have a resolution by Jim Parks, a second by Lauren Boyette. Roll call, please.

That resolution carries unanimously.

Yes. Thank you very much for that. I do want to thank our our friends at Butler Snow and at Piper Sandler for helping us through all this. You could see by the length of this ordinance just how detailed it really gets. Um the S&P call was interesting actually getting kind of interviewed. Andrew did a great job of having staff prepared to go through and answer all the questions that we got a asked over about a 45m minute period that goes into this whole process. And so, uh, definitely a learning experience, but, uh, it's been, I think we definitely hired the right group of, um, professionals to help us through it. And so, appreciate all their help and glad they were able to join us tonight. Thank you, guys. Thank you, sir.

Thanks, Brent. Thanks, everyone. Thank you. All right. Reports, Mr. Nation.

Okay. ABS are up to one. That's the first thing. We'll get that off the books. Um you have in your table file tonight the first quarter financial um statements. Let you read through these. Um thanks to Casey for getting these done for tonight so you could have them. Uh nothing there isn't anything happening in there that we weren't anticipating. Um but if you have individual questions as you go through them and review them, just uh shoot me a text or an email or something and I'll try to get you the answers that you're looking for on that. uh did want to um point out that you also had to request the next district CML meeting is in Brush here shortly and so let us know if you want to attend that. Um it's at the fairgrounds I do believe and so and then um I was going to do a a quick update on where we are with the storm water project on Main Street. We continue to move. Um we're about twothirds of the way through in installation now on that on the pipe and everything. So we are making progress. They've made pretty decent progress. We've been fighting in Riverview Avenue XL gas line. Uh very nervous when you're dealing with those. It's a little bitty thing when you see it in the ground, but um it's yeah like an inch, inch and a half in diameter, but it's um very high pressure. Serves the entire north side of the river. So, they were doing everything they could not to um break that or damage it while they were working. We had multiple water lines that did suffer some damage, but um those were shortlived outages that we had to get in there and fix some things, but they're making good progress. Um we'll go to one crew working as we move back into Main Street and move up to the south and Main Street and everything. and we continue to work um with all the businesses, keeping the businesses as informed as we can about closures and things like that. And so appreciate all

the efforts that are going in to keep everybody apprised of what's happening. Uh the one thing that we did get kind of thrown at us as a wild card at the construction meeting with everybody on Monday is that um we made SEO aware when they came out for their inspection two weeks ago that in 2027 we would be looking at replacing the water lines in that same intersection. um we just kind of chose not to include it in this permit because of the fact that in one area it's on the other side of the road and it was going to complicate what we thought we were requesting of C dot and the closures and everything. COT has now come back to us and said why don't you you guys see if you can just get it done all at the same time. They don't want us to go through this again next summer. Um granted waterline projects go a lot quicker than what this is. Um, so we may be bringing back a change order on this project if we can get all of the parts and pieces and everything and can coordinate this to work. Um, at this point still just don't know if we can make that happen, but we are in the process of that. So don't be surprised if I come back either through an emergency request or some other type of additional request to get the water lines handled. At the same time, um, aging infrastructure, we knew we were going to have to do some work. We also have to upsize the water line heading to the west down 144 because of Western Sugars fire flows. Um that's part of that project and so we'll manage to do everything we can if C dot's going to let us. So anyway, stay tuned more on that. Um the meeting on May 19th, we've been trying to keep this agenda light. I will be in uh Las Vegas at the um it's a trade show for retail businesses and stuff with Sandy promoting the city of Fort Morgan and meeting with some different people. And so u Matt will be in charge at this meeting. So uh you'll get an update on the aquatics facility and where we are with that design. Uh we'll be bringing the bids on the street projects so you'll be able to see the

list of streets that we're looking at repaving this year. Uh we'll also do the public hearing on the Colorado wildfire resiliency code. And then the bad news, uh we mentioned this last year that we were going to have to do another rate adjustment to get the electric fund back into where it needs to be at. Uh we will have our rates consultant here to walk you through what that adjustment is going to look like. Uh we're not asking to put that into place until October, but we wanted to go ahead and make the presentation now because we have to go through all the public notifications and everything this summer to make that happen. So you'll get that at the next meeting. And that's all I got for you. Alrighty, Chief Sharp.

Well, it's that time of year again. We talk about this every year with snow coming right now. We know what's going to be happening next Tuesday after it warms up. We're going to have weeds everywhere and everybody's going to be complaining about those. Um, we've already been working on them. We've written a couple tickets, been trying to address that early on. Uh, but there's going to be a lot more coming in the next couple weeks with the weather changes, I'm sure. So, uh, we're going to be aggressive with that. And, and with that, I will also say, uh, our refu has been something we've been working on. Um, I think I might have sent something to you guys a few months ago or a few weeks ago, but we have been working with several places, several individuals in the city over refues and working on abatement. Um, we gave them a significant amount of time, been doing everything we can to work with some of these people before the city comes in and abates the problem. In many cases, these are people that we've had problems with many times over the years, over and over and over, written tickets, we've done everything we can to stop it, and it's not stopping it. So, knowing that the city did the trash cleanup and all of the the city cleanup in a couple weeks ago, we gave them through the month of April to help with that, we have several that have taken no action and have not made any contact with us. I do want the public to know we do work with these people. We don't just go in and abate it or write them tickets. We've been working with them trying to get it done and some people just aren't doing anything. So, you will probably see through the city attorney's office us reaching out through the city attorney's office and abading some of these properties at the taxpayers's expense. And of course, a lean goes on the property to those property owners who don't take care of it. So, we're going to the next step with several people. So, just want to make you aware of that. I think that's all I have.

Awesome. Thank you, sir. Uh, next one. Bids meeting announces. Miss Curtis, there are currently no open bids right now. So, I'll just go through calendar. Uh May 11th, there is a senior center advisory board meeting at 1 PM. Uh May 13th, there is a airport advisory board meeting at the airport at noon. May 18th is a library advisory board meeting at the library museum community room. And May 19th, we'll be back here at 6 PM for the regular council meeting. Alrighty. Anything in the back? All right, guys. Looking good. All right.