Town Council - Regular Meeting

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to the fly of the United States the way we go. Yeah. We have to do it in a couple. for which stands, one nation, I'm your god in the visible world. when with energy and justice for all. - Why is it so bad? - Why is it so bad? [BLANK_AUDIO] All right. Thank you all. Welcome to our meeting. Thank you for bearing with us. Appreciate you. The appreciation to Parker Water for allowing us to use their room, a beautiful room, but we had make room for all of our students and thank you to for all, presenting their best and brightest in those interested in government. free to write your questions down and we will be over there afterwards and we can answer everything for you. First, I'd be a business is public comment. No action would be taken on these items. for town residents and other interested individuals to speak about items that are not on the agenda. This comment period is limited to 30 minutes of total time with each individual a lot of maximum of three minutes to speak. You must sign up ahead of time in order to make public comment and that sign up 30 minutes prior to the meeting. The Council will accommodate as many speakers as possible during this time with preference. to town residents. But if a public comment extends beyond the illotted 30 minutes, Continue the comment period at the end of the meeting prior to adjourning for those already signed up before the meeting. There is raised by individuals during the public comment. are not on the agenda and other potentially in the to support us with their support. Not be aware of discussion of these matters. Town Council will not. In. engage in dialogue regarding any items raised during public comment. I have nobody signed up for public comment. But I welcome anybody to a person, podium if you're willing to, if you want to make public comments. very wanting to address this council. Seeing none will open and close public comment. 702 PM and move on to reports items and comments from Mary. Council. Councilman Hefty, he wants to start us off? Yes, thank you Mayor. So this

past week I had the opportunity to do some outreach with Lehman Academy here and Parker and I properly directed that to the town managers office for more information. on that matter. I also went to a CML webinar on security. and how we need to have security with regards to elected officials. very informative and I am a member of the Colorado Municipal League. everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Franz and Sir. over the past two weeks. chamber with the chamber board with several. other council members and then we also I'm gonna be very brief. But leave it over for somebody else, but we did participate in flag racing. reasons at Legend High School and Semar on High School for donate life month and hoping. perhaps Councilmember Wilkes would be willing to speak about that.

Thanks, Jadakse. >> Thank you very much. On the first, we had a Douglas County Transpartition. one of the items was front range passenger rail, a lot of discussion. discussion. We had Councilmember Mollavi from Castle Pines. share the form as well as she is on the front-rings passenger There was also a staff member to give a presentation something of no One of the questions was how, how are the Douglas County citizens going to going to be affected in terms of a taxing district and the response was the record. to the overall board is that it'll be isolated where the stops are. So the feedback or the recommendation is that Sterling Ranch would be the only the only stop so the taxing district would center around the Sterley Ranch cap. And then on the we also do work session. We had a regional housing strategy update and that is all bear. Thank you Today I can miss work, please. So, um, yeah. Hang on real quick, for you, I want to make sure you've got that one covered. Okay. So I'm just going to talk about the donate like flag raising ceremonies at Legend and at Summer if you guys aren't aware what that is when you get your driver's license which some of you might have. and some of you might be getting. There's a little box that says that if something were to happen to you, you want to donate your org. to potentially save the life and help other people. And so this organization They raise the flag and raising the flag at a hospital means that somebody is actually receiving life saving transplant at that time and so it's a way for us to honor those who have not receive the transplants, but for the people who have died who have given their organs. I myself lost my cousin a couple years ago and he was a donor so it's very near and dear to my heart. but it was wonderful just seeing the kids get involved in the students and having us there to support a wonderful

organization. If you guys want more information on it, I highly recommend looking it's DonateLife.org. I believe. It's a great cause and it's something that you can do in the event that something tragic happens to you to potentially say the life of someone else. So that was a wonderful ceremony to get to be a part of. And then I I also met with Sean Gann, who is one of the directors that just served. are Mayor's Day of Service, but she's also doing a youth day of service on April 25th. So you guys will see around your schools here starting tomorrow, flyers for t-shirts. drives what that means is they're looking for you guys to bring in gently owned pre-owned t-shirts that you don't want anymore and instead of donating them to, you know, one of our you're going to donate them to them. They're going to turn them into, what's the reusable bags and they will donate them to the Parker Task Force and they will donate them to see core cares and it's just a good way to get back to your community, get some can be service hours and other. also if you guys can get some t-shirts and collect those up, that would be great. >> Thank you, Brenda. And listen. [INAUDIBLE] So on March 26th, I had a Douglas County Housing Partnership board meeting. And along with, I think, all of us made it to the Chamber of Commerce. up Europe. It's nice to get to know our chamber board members and just other community members and then on April 1st. I attended along with the mayor. and Councilmember Wick Wilkes, a new officer swearing in. So that's a always kind of a fun part of our job to get and go, go, get to go see that. And then also on April 2nd, I went to the donate life event. That's all I have. Thank

you, and Todd. Thank you very much for the report. Thank you for myself. Let's see last Thursday. Pretty Thursday sorry. the 26th. I started with a lunch with the mares and the commissioners. of Wisconsin County. So the three commissioners in the five mirrors meet every month and have lunch. and we usually be in case of plans because it's central and talk about whatever is going on in our communities or county. and bounce ideas off each other and it's always a very good productive meeting. and then that evening as was stated we had happy hour with the chamber board again. and then you will event I think we all look forward to getting to know the new board members that are new. board members that are coming on and thinking those that are leaving on Friday. had CML as with mentioned CML is called a municipal league housing committee. talk about outreach to let everybody know what we are doing to answer the housing. needs in our communities and then I have the same executive board right after that. and then on Tuesday the 31st I was at Legends speaking lessons of local government. For some of you I was in Mr. Futman's class this morning. I did the same thing last week. Sorry, don't do the same thing last week. And that's something we enjoy doing as a season. And then you guys are here tonight, so we appreciate that. And then on Wednesday, the first of April, I had Metro Maris caucus, which is a gathering of 38 Maris in the middle. metro areas. So the dinner regional area, all the mirrors, get together and same thing we talk and I'm sure ideas learn together. or commiserate together in this game. have the honor of Senator Bennett was in town. He may or might not be on the campaign trail. But he did talk to us as a senator and was there to chat with us. about Washington and the lake. And

then that afternoon as was said we had have a swearing in for a new officer that we borrowed. from now we stole them from Quemplea. He's ours now and so we're very honored. to have, I'm forgot his name, I was going to write it down. Anyway, very honored to have So with that, we'll move on to item number four, consent agenda. Consentage and the items are considered to be routine. We'll be an active one motion and one vote. there will be no separate discussion on consent agenda items unless a council member votes an item for individual discussion. Ordances on consent agenda are for introduction only and cannot remove. for discussion. Council and front of you are items for A through G. emotion. I moved to proof consent agenda items for a through G. I have a motion from Wolks in a second from Hendrix Hendrix. Yes. Burrington. Yes. -Dioc, friends and, yes, and have to. -Yes. -And consent to gender passes. unanimously. Next in front of us, the one and only business item, resolutions, item 5 resolution number 26-030 a resolution of proving the intergovernmental agreement among the town of Parker, Douglas County, and the Parker area has been historical society, DBA Parker history, for the renovation of the Parker Heritage Center. presenting today Ms. Glassburn. You kind of just said it all. just a bit. Hello, Marion Council. I'll introduce myself for the rest of you. I'm the cultural director for the town. And back in July, we We were in front of all of you and luckily got your approval for us to move forward. forward with making upgrades to our Heritage Center, which resides in the schoolhouse. We requested money during the budgeting process to be put aside in the 2026 CIP budget and of course we don't get. that money until the

start of the fiscal year. So here we are now taking steps to make that upgrade happen. The first thing that we need to do is create an intergovernmental agreement or an IGA between the town. Douglass County and in particular that's the historic preservation team. and then also the Parker area historical society which is now going by Parker history. So that IGA allows all three of us to work together and it will be under the the guidance of Todd McMayhen. He is a consultant with. Douglas County Historic Preservation, but he's going to be helping lead that for us. And probably around the next four months will be defining our vision and our goals for space. The target audiences that we want to reach, the desired experience that we want those audiences to have. We'll be laying out the themes that we want covered. in the hierarchy for those themes will be doing an inventory of the assets. That's both what pause has and then also what Douglas County has and the collections. and how those what we want to keep, what we want to use, there will be a community. the community engagement process as well. I don't know what that's going to look like yet if it's community. meetings or if it's a survey but we'll have community input and then we'll also be consulting with the Native American tribes that were here on the land before. All those efforts are going to culminate in a written The first phase of this project. And that's what tonight. night's resolution covers, but just so you know, okay, what happens after that. We will enter the next phase of the renovation and that's where we will take this written and interpretive plans so it's really all of the information the stories the history the but that's great. It's just in a piece paper. So instead we need it to come to life like you see out there. So

we'll be working with a company and display company to design, you know what what the exhibits look like. Will they be on board? They have, you know, display cases with artifacts and, well, it will be interactive, it will be a movie. So that's what it will be a separate company that we will contract with. We'll put a bit out and they will manufacture. and install those displays. So that's phase two of it, and then really phase two. 3 is announcing it celebrating it. We will have probably a grand reopening sort of celebration and then make sure that we've got a marketing plan. in place so that we, some people don't even know this exists and honestly to get the word out about it because there hasn't been much new in there. So we will have a media plan so that people know about it and how we inform and educate them. So we will also from an ongoing basis. is when it is up and reopen we plan to continue working with pause and with Douglas County because they have a lot of artifacts in storage. hope is that we'll have some sort of rotating piece of that as well so that it continues to have, you know, fresh exhibits. So tonight though again what I'm asking you to do is is just to prove the IGA or the first portion of this, the IGA through resolution. 26-030 that allows us to begin this >> Thank you, Kerry. We'll move on to Two staff questions, but first I have to ask is this our first IGA for resolution? after the citizen vote. Yay! I will fill you in, teens. Questions, please? No questions. No questions, thanks. - Thank you. - John, I have none. Thank you. - I have

questions. - No questions. Laura, do you want to see us? Question? Come on. I have a question. So you mentioned that the Native Americans you were going to work with. be local the local tribes? Yes. Yes, there are there's a concern. of tribal leaders and so we will work with them. and make sure that their stories are told properly and that we're representing the history like it should be. And so on that same vein, it looked in here. that lived here from the mid 1800s. that Parker history historical society would if there is any family's left, aside not Native American that would be fascinating if there was a family lineage here from the mid 1800s. would surely know about that right? One would hope I'm not entirely sure everything they do have that's going to be part of this process is what do we know but there's also I mean Douglas Kenny Library has pretty extensive history. They've got census data. I would imagine that's going to be part of this process is that we're going through all kinds of resources. sources to find what we can. Thank you, Curie. Thank you. Appreciate that, Kerry. We'll go ahead and ask if there's any public comment. public wishing to rest Council on this specific resolution. Please make yourself known. See, none will close to the comment at 17 and go back for. deliberation Todd anything to add straight forward a >> Yeah. I think this is something that I'm going to do. I think this is something that I'm going to do. is going to be a fun process to watch. Thank you.

Randy.

Diving into our history is important to all of us and your team and you have done such a wonderful job already that I'm excited to see what you're able to do. forward with all of this in place. So thank you. Yeah, no, I mean, I think. as a lot of history, but we haven't put it together yet. So interest to see the result. So this. Thank you, John. Eric. This is the first step of realizing our vision. collectively, right? This is great. I'm excited. It'd be very I'm curious to know how many people in the audience actually knew that there was a history center in Parker? you with any. Yeah. The Laura please. Yes I do. I think this is going to be great. I mean, I can envision school children coming. different types of groups coming and and thank you for your hard work of collaboration on this. - Carry, thank you. - Yeah, that this, I think John, put it. put it well, we have an incredible folk history and Parker but we do not have a lot of documentation. I am ecstatic that the first step will be to have a professional historian start to gather. and document everything that we do have. I know there's a wealth of knowledge on both at our library, Denver Public, and other places, but getting it all together. This is the first step. I am a executive counsel decides to vote yesterday. With that I would entertain him a little I move to approve of resolution number 26-030 as part of the regular agenda. Second. I have a motion from Wilkes in a second from Havta Hendrix. Yes. - Yes. - Yes. - Books. - Doc. - Yes. And that passes unanimously with no other business in front of this council. We are adjourned at 7. (upbea