Board of County Commissioners Business Meeting - workshop

Good afternoon, everybody.

Good afternoon.

We're here for our afternoon study session. This is going to be the first quarter budget review and CIP update. We'll go around the room with introductions, and I'll start. Jeff Baker, commissioner.

Jennifer Stauffer, county attorney's office.

Michelle Halstead, commissioner's office. Rhonda Fields, commissioner.

Callie McCourt, director and reporter. Carrie Warren Gulley, commissioner. Leanna Quint, finance. Jessica Safko, finance.

Todd Weaver, finance.

Great. Thank you. And online, we have?

Jessica Campbell, commissioner district 2. Thank you for allowing me to attend virtually.

No problem. Hope you feel better.

Thank you.

And just for the record, commissioner Sumi is absent and excused since I'm pro chair chair pro tem. I'll run the meeting, and I'll kick it off to Todd. Yeah.

Thank you. Good afternoon. As as commissioner Baker said, we're here for the first quarter budget review. We'll go over some of the projections and economic conditions, and then we'll run through the supplemental request for quarter one and then bring it home with updates on some of the CIP projects that are ongoing. So with that, I'll turn it over to Jessica and the budget staff.

Alright. So we'll look briefly at the economic outlook. We've talked about historically how Colorado for unemployment has trended below the national level. And then once we got into the pandemic period, we got in line with the nation and then went a little higher, and we've kind of had some fluctuation. So for unemployment for 2025 at the national level, we're projected or it ended up being 4.3% and for Colorado, 4.4%.

Throughout the forecast period, Colorado is actually projected to be lower than the nation, which is the first time we're seeing consistency in that projection for a little bit. So that's ranging between 44.1% for 2026 through 2028. Looking at inflation at the national level, that's 2.6% for 2025 and was 2.3% for Colorado. And then for the forecast period, going up to 3% for the nation and then declining through the next couple of years down to 2.4% and then projected to be 2.6% for this year for Colorado and then declining to 2.4% also by 2028. Looking at the housing permit growth, we had a significant decline in 2024, a slight increase in 2025.

That's projected to be a decline of seven and a half percent for this year, a slight decline next year, and then a little bit of an increase in 2028. And then looking at the nonresidential building growth, we had a significant decline of almost 28% in 2024. We had a large increase in 2025 of over 41%. It's projected to be a decrease of about 11 and a half percent this year, a slight decline in 2027, and then an increase of six and a half percent for 2028. So looking at the projection assumptions for our revenue, we know that property tax is our largest revenue source.

The chart there on the left is showing the actual values, and the new construction is the line in that chart. So you'll notice how the values kind of stair step as we have the reassessments and then those intervening years. And then the new construction, we had a pretty significant increase over $2,000,000,000 in 2024. That backed off to about 1,500,000,000 in 2025, but we're seeing slight increases again since then. And then in the chart on the right, we're seeing the assessed value in the bars and the budgeted revenue in the line.

So of note on that chart, again, you'll see that stair stepping of the assessed values increasing when we have the reassessments and then staying fairly flat in those intervening years. But you'll also notice our revenue, that orange line, has more of a gradual increase. So because of the way the TAVR formula worked, we were able to not grow significantly but have that be kind of slow and steady. We have the significant increase in the assessed values of in 2024, but then you'll notice our revenue didn't have a significant increase. That's why we were still under TABOR.

And then when one a passed in the fall of twenty twenty four, that allowed us in 2025 to collect our full 15.821 mills in 2025. And then you'll notice that we don't have significant increases in the next couple years. There's actually a projected slight decline for 2027 in the property tax revenue and then a slight increase in that next reassessment. But we don't until 2030 see another big jump in the property tax valuation or that revenue. So we really are gonna be dependent on that one a funds that we set aside for this year to get us through those next couple years. Yeah. Then Mister chair?

Yes. Commissioner Warren Duff.

I'm sorry to interrupt, but I think it's not only and correct me if I'm wrong. Some of this also is trying to correct for some of or to get in alignment with some of the changes that have been happening through special sessions from legislative sessions over the past couple of years. So we're still feeling the effects Yes. Of those changes.

Yes. And on the commercial side, that started out at 29%. And then by next year, we'll be down to 25%, and that's where that will hold. So we have another step down there. It's been going down 1% per year. And then on the residential side, they'll be putting back in the exemptions. So we'll have a 10% exemption up to 75 or up to $70,000 per residential Okay. Location. Thank you. Yes.

Then on the expenditure side for the assumptions that apply to all of the funds that we'll look at today, we have a salary increase assumption of four and a half percent. That's just based on what the last couple years of actuals have been. The assumption for retirement is 10%. We do have a quarter percent increase added through 2030 just based on the discussions you've been having with the retirement board of trying to get that overall contribution to 11% for the county to have the overall contribution for both employers and employees to get to 20%. And then for health insurance, that's been increased to 8%.

That had been at 5%. And due to the large increase we were going to have this year, you know, that was negotiated down, but then we'll see higher increases the next couple years to compensate for that. So we've adjusted that to 8%. Dental insurance is assumed to be a 1% annual increase. The last couple years, those increases have been absorbed by the fund balance in that fund, but we're projecting a slight increase for those in the out years.

And then all other expenses are held at their baseline levels. So we don't have any estimates for ongoing budget packages other than these estimates for total compensation. We did include with the commitment to have the $25,000,000 per year investment in the capital expenditure fund. We did include the $15,000,000 annual transfer through 2030 for that to account for that portion since that was a commitment, but no other budget packages have been included in these projections. So moving on to the general fund, looking at the comparison of the adopted and amended budget.

The revenue was adopted at $320,300,000, and the amended budget is 323,100,000. On the expenditure side, we adopted at $313,200,000 and that amended budget is 320,200,000. That variance is primarily due to what we added at reappropriations from projects that weren't completed last year and then any changes that we had at the fourth quarter budget review. So we show using or adding $2,900,000 to fund balance instead of the originally adopted budget addition of $7,000,000, which would bring the fund balance from a 166,600,000 up to a $169,400,000. And you can see down below there, have the board designated reserve that increased to 42.9%, which that was 28% last year.

That was due to a combination of the increase in overall expenditures as well as increasing that reserve from 11% to 15%. Then there at the bottom, you can see what the set aside of those one a funds were. So for 2025, essentially, everything we received for one a passing and additional property tax mostly fell to fund balance. There was about $8,000,000 in ongoing expenses that had been added. So you can see for the 2026 adopted budget, we still had $35,800,000 of ongoing funds that were set aside.

We've used a bit of that year to date, so we're at $34,900,000. And then looking at the projections for this year, revenue is projected to be $325,800,000 so $2,700,000 over what the amended budget is. That's primarily due to an increase in investment earnings compared to what we have budgeted. Then on the expenditure side, we're projecting to only spend $306,100,000 of the $320,200,000.6000000 dollars of that is due to vacancy savings across county. The highest portion of that is in the sheriff's office.

And then we do currently have $3,600,000 of that savings in the services and other category. So that is an area where we tend to see the largest amount of projects not completed. They get reappropriated. So a good portion of that 3,600,000 will most likely be requested to be moved forward to the 2027 budget. And then on that other adjustments line, we reflect the $1,300,000 in supplemental requests that we'll get to here in a little bit.

So we're showing that our ending fund balance would end up being 185,000,000 by year end. And then looking to the forecast period, you can see the reflection there of the slight decline in the property tax where we're showing we'll go from about $325,800,000 in 2026 projection to 325,100,000 for next year. And then you can see our next substantial increase is in 2030 when we jump to $341,600,000 on the revenue side. On the expenditure side, as mentioned, we just have the total comp adjustments included in there as well as the additional $15,000,000 through 2030 to capital. So we're showing an addition to fund balance of a little over $9,000,000 for 2027, and then you'll see a deficit reflected for the remaining forecast years.

So when you assume what we typically would approve in terms of budget packages, we're gonna have a much different look than what you're seeing here since we don't have those included. This shows our ending fund balance going from about a $194,000,000 in 2027 to a $177,300,000 by 2031. You can also see the board designated reserve growing as well, so by 2031 we would end up at almost $52,000,000 Then looking at the capital expenditure fund, the adopted budget had $26,900,000 in both revenue and expenses. And we had a fund balance of $14,800,000, and that's due to all the projects that were not complete in 2025. So you'll see a significant change in the 2026 amended budget of $39,300,000 on the expenditure side when we reappropriated all those projects.

So it shows we would have an ending fund balance of $2,700,000 by the time we get to the end of 2026. And the projections are in line with that. We have $27,100,000 projected on the revenue side. On the expenditure side, $38,500,000. Then the other adjustments line of 700,000 is a supplemental request we'll look at in a little bit, but shows total expenditures being $39,200,000, still remaining at $2,700,000 going into 2027.

And when we look at the forecast period for a capital expenditure fund, this looks significantly different than it has in previous years. We now, with the $25,000,000 committed through 2030 for this fund, have a much more balanced look in that forecast period. That other expense line shows what the gap is between what's been requested and what the revenue will be. So the executive budget committee had talked to the CIP committee about going back, and they relooked at all the projects for the five year forecast for the five year plan and readjusted that and calibrated to that $25,000,000 investment through 2030. So this is a much more realistic picture of what that's going to look like over the next handful of years.

Obviously, with adjustments as things come up throughout the year, but a much more solid plan than what we've been able to depend on in in prior years. And you can also see because of that, it is showing that we remain at that $2,700,000 throughout the forecast period for that fund balance for projects that may have overages that we need to cover or if other projects come up throughout the year that we need to address. I'll turn it over to Liana to start talking about the other funds.

Up next, we have the Social Services Fund. They started 2026 with the adopted budget of 96,500,000 in revenue, 96,700,000 in expenditures for a use of fund balance of about 300,000. The amended budget, the revenue did not change and there was a slight adjustment in expenditures for items that were not completed at the end of last year, including a little bit of the HS Connects project. And that would bring it to 97,000,000 in expenditures for a use of fund balance of 500,000, which would bring the fund balance to 11,000,000. Actual projections are showing 90,500,000 in revenue and 91,500,000 in expenditures.

This is mainly due to vacancy savings of 2,300,000. They have about 57 positions that are currently vacant. And then they have reduced some of the county paid contracts, so the community programs category is trending a little bit lower. And if the expenditures are lower, this results in lower reimbursement, which is why the revenue is a lower amount also. This would result in a use of fund balance of about $900,000 and bring their fund balance to 10,500,000.

Looking ahead, they are projecting very little growth in their revenue for next year. So their revenue would go from 96,500,000 in 2027 and grow slightly to a 105,500,000 in 2031. The expenditures follow the same assumptions that Jessica discussed and this would result in a increasing use of fund balance from $3,600,000 up to $11,000,000 if no changes were made. This would cause them to fall below fund balance or below the policy reserve in 2028. So adjustments would need to be made before that happened.

Looking at the Road and Bridge Fund, their amended budget is 29,200,000 in revenue and 28,800,000 in expenditures, which is a decrease from the adopted 29,900,000 in expenditures, and that was to get them closer to that policy reserve amount for this year, which results in an increase to the fund balance of about 400,000 in the budget. Current projections are showing 29,700,000 in revenue. HETF is still currently trending a little bit lower than budget, but some of their other items, including reimbursements for projects and specific ownership tax are making up for some of that. On the expenditure side, they're looking to spend 27,600,000. Of the 28.8, some of that, about 63,000, is vacancy savings and a little over 500,000 is in the central services category.

This is for some of their larger equipment that hasn't come in, so the IG rents being lower and some of that maintenance cost. So this would result in an increase to the fund balance of $1,800,000 bringing the fund balance to $5,400,000 at the end of this year. Looking ahead, the growth that you see the revenue is from the HUTF. The state, as you can see, is not projecting that that's going to grow very significantly. The expenditures do not include any large increases to their, like, payment maintenance or anything other than what was already approved this year.

So this results in anywhere from a 700,000 to a $900,000 use of fund balance each year. As you can see for 2027, current projections still show that it would be below the policy reserves, so some adjustments will have to be made to get them above that number for next year. The LEA fund has had no adjustments since the budget was adopted at 14,500,000 in revenue and 15,500,000 in expenditures for a budgeted use of fund balance of 1,100,000. Projections are showing 14,800,000 in revenue and 15,300,000 in expenditures. They do have some savings in the benefits category, but this is mostly being offset by overtime costs.

The overtime costs though are lower than what they were last year is how they are projecting at this time. And then due to a delay in vehicles they also have a little bit of savings in the central services so far. This will result in a projected use of fund balance of $500,000 and an ending fund balance of $8,400,000 Looking ahead, this is one of the funds that is impacted by decline in the assessed value, so they don't have growth or 27 or 28 in the revenue. And the expenditures continue to increase because a few years ago we transferred about eight positions from the general fund to a lia fund and then the last two years we've added several FTE. So you see that use of fund balance grow from $1,000,000 up to 3,000,000 by 2031.

This would put them below the policy reserve in 2030 if no changes were made.

I think it's important to note. I think we talked about this at the at the fourth quarter review too. The ALA not only has a fixed levy, but by virtue of the special session and the changes in the property tax limits, this one is subject to the limit too. So in the future, even if there were to be dramatic growth in tax value and in reappraisal following year reappraisal, it's likely that that would be limited to that that formula, which is about 11% over two two two years to capture that assessment cycle.

Moving on to our featured revenue for this quarter, it is the building permits. The chart on the left is the number of permits by type. That other category that is the largest includes smaller items like furnaces, HVAC, things like that. And then the chart on the right shows the revenue trends. As you can see on the left, the number decreases from twenty eighteen to 2022.

While it does not do that on the right, this is primarily due to the type of permit that is being purchased each year. So, like, in 2021, I believe that was the solar farm. So even though that number was lower, we did have a large spike in revenue. So I see. Yeah.

So while it's decreasing, it depends on the project. So right now, it's pretty much leveling out since 2024 is how it's looking right now. And we've received on average around, like, 4,300,000 the last five years for building permits. Moving on to our featured fund, and that is the Conservation Trust Fund. Colorado State Constitution requires that the state lottery distributes 40% of its proceeds to local governments and this is for acquiring and maintaining parks, open spaces, and recreational facilities.

Each year, we receive anywhere from 800,000 to 900,000 for that, and then we also have investment earnings. So we're getting around $1,000,000 each year now. On the expense side, the about 560,000 that comes out is the fairgrounds debt payment, and that's currently the only thing being paid out of this fund. If you look at the projection column, you'll see that there is another expenditure of 550,000 that is a supplemental request that you'll be hearing about shortly. And this would result in an ending fund balance of 3,600,000 for the fund.

There would be a use of about 64,000 rather than adding to the balance a little over 400,000 like we've been doing the past several years.

Just to pause there for a second. So you might be wondering to yourself why we let the conservation trust fund balance get to 3,600,000. So let me give you a little history on that. When the debt was extended for expanding the fairgrounds, this fund had a fund balance of about 7 or $800,000. And at the time, the revenue that was coming into this fund was only about 650 to $700,000 a year. So we left those shelves a little bit of cushion. That's why the debt service is at 560,000 a year. Since then, there is some peaks and valleys. There was a number of discussions with the state legislature about sort of reapportioning some of the conservation trust fund monies for other purposes statewide. So we we dodged that bullet.

And then over time, we've I think since we did the debt on the fairgrounds, we we had Powerball, and then we added mega mill so the amount of proceeds that we're getting from conservation trust fund has gone up. So that's why the fund balance has grown from, you know, about 1,000,001 half back in twenty twenty one, twenty twenty, right, to around $3,600,000 today.

So

just a little bit of historical background on that.

Alright. We have a number of supplemental requests. We'll start with the discussion needed items. The first one is a request to appropriate a 140,000 in the general fund admin services. This is for the consultant cost for public works to assist with the transition since the department director retired.

There's a request from the clerk and recorder's office to transfer $90,500 from the central services fund to the general fund, and this is to purchase some printer carts. They are below the asset asset threshold, which is why they're asking to transfer the funds back. Facilities and fleet is asking to appropriate $8,114 in the general fund for some updates needed for the DA's diversion team. This is for soundproofing in the offices and to address a fire code violation correction. The DA is also asking to appropriate and transfer $79,335 from the general fund to the central services fund to purchase two new vehicles.

This is for two vehicles that have their lease ending soon to get them actual vehicles like the rest of the county.

They do have actual vehicles. This

is Yes.

Well, through the county. This has been part of the transition.

Right? Yeah. Switching from least to Bali. It's okay.

I just didn't want any

other driving around toy cars.

The DA is also requesting to appropriate $9,000 in the general fund to purchase some computers and equipment for three positions. This includes the PIO that was transferred over there and a few temporary positions. They also have a request for $38,000 to be appropriated in the general fund for additional expenses associated with the 12 FTE that were added during the budget process. This includes 3,900 for dues, licenses, and registrations, a little over 21,000 for training and conferences, about 1,500 for travel and transportation, and 11,000 for additional supplies. FFM is requesting 675,000 from general fund balance to be transferred to the CIP fund.

This is for the solar project installation. This number may be reduced. They're still getting final figures on that, but there may be a change, in the next few days.

It's a placeholder figure for something that may be coming before the board here in the next month or so.

We'll be bringing forward a study session in June to have this conversation, but we need to do a placeholder before it's okay with this.

The next request is in human resources. This is to increase the headcount by one FTE for a leave's administrator position. This would take place of using the standard that they've had some concerns with the level of service for tracking leave and accommodations. They're also asking for $55,000 in one time cost to help with the transition from the standard to our the position taking over. HR and the sheriff's office have a request to transfer $15,003.75 from each of their budgets into the IT budget for a total of $30,007.50.

This is for the management of the Apps and Soft software. Sheriff's office is requesting to transfer a $129,554 from the general fund to central services fund for the additional cost of 10 vehicles. This was discussed at a study session and approved on April 13. They also have a request to transfer $39,802 from the general fund fund to central services fund to purchase a total station traffic unit. This is a GPS and laser technology item that measures crash scenes for reconstruction investigations.

Sheriff's office is asking to transfer $46,195 from the general fund to Central Services Fund to purchase a Surveillance. Surveillance unit for the Public Safety Bureau. IT is asking to appropriate $251,415 from the capital expenditure fund fund balance and then transferred $298,585 from the tech modernization project to increase the project funding for the enterprise service management system. This was approved at a drop in on April 20. Facilities and Fleet Management is asking to appropriate $86,090 in the central services fund for assets that were added at the third quarter but missed during reappropriations.

Facilities and fleet is asking to transfer $319,868 from the countywide space study project to the HR finance admin one office improvement project. This was discussed and approved at a drop in session on April 27. Sheriff's office is asking to appropriate $87,000 in the central services fund to purchase a Chevy Tahoe that was totaled recently. They're also asking to appropriate $1,642 in the Central Services Fund to increase the asset for the new security cameras that were recently approved. This was just a change in the total amount that came in under the allowable percentage difference for our policy, which is why it's such a small amount.

Just clean it up. Open Spaces is asking to transfer a $104,639 from their event rental income revenue to the fair fund for the anticipated need of fair costs. The district attorney's office is asking to recognize an appropriate $750,000 for in the grant fund for a grant award from the Office of Violence Against Women for the Arapahoe County Domestic Violence High Risk Team Project. This will be spent over three years and will include the addition of two temporary grant funded positions. Sheriff's office is asking to reduce the revenue and appropriation by a $132,036 and the head count by one in the grant fund for a grant that's no longer being received.

It ended a handful of years ago and the position has been vacant since then. Road and Bridge Fund is Public Works is asking to transfer from the Road and Bridge Fund $32,426 to the Central Services Fund for the increased cost of a work truck. This was approved during the annual budget process, and at the time, there was a person on staff that could do this work, so they did not include it in the quote. And that person is no longer here, so an outside vendor now has to do it. So that's why the increase is needed.

County attorney's office is requesting to transfer $95,563 from the self insurance liability fund to the central services fund and this is to cover for total vehicles. Open spaces is asking approval to use $550,000 in the conservation trust fund or gravel parking lot refresh project at the Fairgrounds. This will be done conjunction with the gravel project at Dove Valley and will be completed in the fall. They're also asking to approve the increase to the Kiowa Creek open space CIP project using $680,000 of their existing funds in the open space sales tax fund, and a proven increase to the 17 Mile House barn and restoration CIP project using a $185,000 of their existing funds. The sheriff's office is requesting a fixed asset number to purchase a communications service monitor from existing funds for $55,463.

This is for radio testing and alignment system that is needed for radios in house. Any questions on the discussion needed items?

Any questions from the commissioners? Comment. I I have a comment on the Commissioner. Grant funds for the sheriff's office. The one where it's about the they're no longer receiving grant funding. Mhmm. And I just really appreciate that being highlighted. So it gives us a better sense of accuracy with the budget to record. And I don't see that in any other departments. Do we have other supplemental requests that kinda highlighted a lack of funding needed because of reduction or FTE not being funded.

We've had a few where, they've lost grant funding and asked to have it moved to the general fund, so we've moved some positions So that's how we're taking Yeah.

Public health, I think, during the 2026 budget process identified a number of public health funding sources that have been diminished. And then we they requested moving some of that spending for that position or that program to be funded with county funds.

Okay. And community resources. Yes.

Thank you. Any other questions? Nope.

Alright. Moving on to the new revenue and budget cleanup items. Request to recognize and appropriate 40,000 in the general fund admin services for plan review activity that is being reimbursed by the applicant. Recognize and appropriate $22,522 in the general fund for the sheriff's office for funds received from the twenty twenty five wildland fire reimbursement. Open Spaces is requesting to recognize and appropriate a $127,435 in the fair fund.

This is to true up the anticipated revenue after the ticket price increase that was determined, after the budget process was finalized. Sheriff's office is asking to recognize an appropriate $6,790.96 dollars received from two DEA cases in the forfeiture fund. Also requesting to recognize and appropriate $272,088 for reappropriation of expected actuals for homeland security funds. Public works has several requests for the infrastructure fund, including a reduction to the revenue and appropriation of a $111,533. This is to account for the Piccadilly Radcliffe project being completed.

Recognizing and appropriating $86 for an overpayment of closing costs that they received and recognizing and appropriating $248,873 for the rural and regional impact fees received this quarter. In the Road and Bridge Fund, they had several reimbursements for work that they've completed for different groups that they want to recognize and appropriate. This includes $1,700 from Arapahoe County Water and Wastewater Authority, dollars 25,679 from Centennial Airport IGA, dollars 15,600 for some manhole adjustment reimbursements, and a $104,100 from East Cherry Creek Valley Water and Sanitation District. There are a few areas in the community resources that are requesting to appropriate the annual rollover funds for various grants to support their operations for 2026. This is $95,616 in the AD Works Fund, dollars 200,000 in Community Development Fund, and $12,790 in the grant fund.

Then there were several funds that had adjustments completed or changes made after reappropriations, and this is to correct those. Reduce the appropriation in the capital expenditure fund for facilities and fleet management by $400,029. Reduce the appropriation in the communications network replacement fund by a $168,631. Appropriate $52,502 in the forfeiture fund for the sheriff's office. Appropriate a $142,385 in the building maintenance fund for facilities and fleet management.

Recognize a $142,335 and appropriate $131.07 98 in the DA forfeiture fund. This does also include some of the forfeiture funds that we have received so far this year. Reduce the appropriation in the open space sales tax fund by $543,606 and recognized $342,009.23 and reduced the appropriation by 1,100,000 in the infrastructure fund.

Alright. So the UBC met a couple weeks ago to go over all these requests. They did recommend that they all be moved forward for your consideration today. The one comment they did have, the open space request to do the parking lot refresh out of the Conservation Trust Fund is deviation from those funds historically have only been used on that debt service as mentioned earlier. So they're okay with this project moving forward, but they did want open space to come back and have a policy discussion with you in the future about how to use the CTF funds versus open space funds for various projects they have.

But overall, recommended everything moving forward. And in total for the discussion needed items, this would add one FTE the general fund. We would have $90,500 added on the revenue side, about $1,200,000 on the expenditure side. For all funds, it would be an addition of $1,900,000 in revenue and about $3,500,000 in expenses. With the reduction of the one FTE in the grant fund, we would have no overall net change to the total FTE level.

And then for the new revenue and budget cleanup items, it would be adding about $1,200,000 in revenue and reducing expenditures by about $832,000. So with that, are there any questions on any of the supplementals or recommendations that you'd like to

Questions from the commissioners?

Thank you, mister chair. Commissioner Warren Gulley. Thank you. Just in regards to the conservation conservation trust trust fund, fund, I I did did share share with with the the commissioners the other day that I had had a conversation with director Pengeneau. And so they're aware of that and also aware of kind of we were thinking of how does this fit in with kind of a master plan out at the fairgrounds.

And that is in that is in the CIP plan. So I think planning was gonna start next year with a CIP master plan being done in 2829, if I remember correctly. So I think that that conversation around the conservation trust fund will be happening, you know, towards the end of this year or or next year to kind of have more of a policy decision since it has been a a fund that really hasn't been touched for anything much outside of the the Fairground Building, I guess. Right.

If I had a question about the previous slide. The the sheriff's office was releasing one FDR as well. That's not on

That's the grant fund line. Oh, okay. The yeah. The reduction in the grant fund is for them, and then the addition in the general fund is for HR.

Got it. Thank you. Miss it.

Commissioner Wingley. Thank you, mister chair. And I guess as a follow-up to that, that's partly part of what I think commissioner Fields was asking about in the DA grant, how we handle grant funded FTEs versus non grant funded. So they're actually considered temporary grant positions, so we don't see them here. Is that it?

Correct. Yes. For the DA positions, the temporary grant funded ones do not show up. This position was an actual authorized head count and had the funding with it, so that's why this one is is being reflected for a reduction. Okay. So in general, we don't tend

to see grant funded positions on this

It depends on the type of grant. So, like, some of your more formulary grants, like, for human services or community resources, those would be full time equivalent positions when we have an increase or decrease in funding. For grants where there's an application process and an award where there's a like, the DA grant, it's $750,000 over a finite period of time to three years. So in those cases, we generally recommend that they be temporary grant funded positions. Sometimes it depends on the type of position that's needed, you know, so it can vary from from grant to grant.

Okay. Thank you.

Any other questions? So the question we're being asked is can these requests be brought forward for the public hearing on June 9? I see three thumbs up in the room.

Thumb is up online.

One thumb up online. Thank you. So, Kelly, if you'll make sure that that reflects with commissioner Summie being absent and excused that there were four thumbs up in moving forward.

Alright. Well, then with that, we will move over into our CIP update. So we had kind of gotten away from this a little bit with last year's focus on the one a process and all that funding. So we've asked all the subject matter experts to come in and give a brief update of what their CIP projects are looking like. So we kind of broke it down looking at projects that have been rolled forward from last year and then also looking at the new projects Okay.

That were funded for 2026. So we have kind of a quick snapshot look at all of the projects that show the blue portion of those bars show what the year to date actuals are. Encumbrances are in orange, and then the gray portion is available funds that have not been committed yet. So I wanna just give a snapshot, look at what those projects look like as they're going through and giving you a quick update on what is is happening. So we'll start out with facilities. So we'll have interim director Halstead

kick us off. I'll put the occasional hat on. Alright. So and I have Keith and Ken with me. And so if there's specific questions, they'll come to the table. Good. So what we this is we'll start with the continued projects, as Jessica said. The ones that are asterisked, you can kinda see the little the little asterisks on the screen. Mhmm. Those are projects that we've actually closed.

And we worked with finance and implemented a new process this year that we're essentially sweeping and closing projects every quarter now. Mhmm. So as we identify savings or any un unallocated project funding, the board and the EBC in the future can have conversations about how to use those funds and reprogram them. Nice. So I'm not gonna talk about those.

I'm just gonna start going down the list. So the detention center infrastructure improvements, that, if you recall, is an annual programmatic allocation to complete various projects identified or approved during the annual budget process, and we are confirming vendor quotes and implementation timelines as we speak. The next one is the Justice Center, courthouse miscellaneous may maintenance, bathroom, and safety upgrades. This is to resolve identified deficiencies from annual fire inspections from our South Metro Fire partners, and we are moving forward on those. The detention center medical expansion, our final punch list, and our inspections are underway.

This is a very large project I know all of you have been a part of and have toured through that. We did identify an issue with the exhaust system with our South Metro Fire Rescue Friends. So we may need some additional unallocated CIP funding to complete this project because of that issue, but we are on track for a completely done done in q two. It's a technical term. The next one is the sheriff's office headquarter data center rooftop unit.

This original scope was actually to replace it, but this is tied to our data center and our server storage with IT. And there's been an evolution over the past couple of years of whether we're gonna do on premise or cloud storage. So it's gone back and forth, and the project's been on hold for a few years. Our energy performance contract recently identified as a potential opportunity. So there's more dialogue that we need to have with IT and the energy folks so we can move this project along or wrap it into the energy audit work.

The next project is the county wide space study consolidation. We are in closeout of this project. This project, as a reminder, include a consolidation of public health and AD works at Lima, the treasurer's office, and the public trustee, and some small scope at Altura Plaza for public health. We're using savings from this project to add additional space for finance and human resource FTEs. So just a reference to that there.

The Justice Center Courthouse one Innovate Elevator Project is in closeout. The Altura Plaza makeup air unit, the equipment has shipped. We're awaiting installation. We expect that to be done in q three. The CenterPoint fire alarm control panel is in project closeout. We have a phase two on the courthouse inmate elevators for the justice. The vendor's been selected. Contracting's underway. Elevators are a big issue for us in this county, and we're always trying to figure them out. The district attorney's office remodel is a project that you approved late last year. We've submitted construction drawings for the permit, and we're procuring the general contractor as

we speak. Yes, sir. Can I just remind me of the scope of that DA project remodel?

Oh, it's smooshing It's mainly for more You approved FTE. Yeah. You approved 18 FTEs over the last year, and we just don't have space for them without doing some tenant improvement work.

Is there any work being done in the lobby?

Are we lobbying work? No. We're not lobbying work.

No no soundproofing or anything like that. Okay.

But we're getting pretty close to being at no room in the inn at the VA Building.

Understood that. Yeah.

And then the last one on this list is the canine enclosure. This is site work associated with the 2023 and congressionally directed spending grant that the sheriff's office got, which is currently in progress, and we're anticipating a q '3 completion.

Mister chair?

Yes, please. Sorry.

So can we go back? So the additional courtroom. Uh-huh. I see there's a lot of gray there, meaning meaning that we didn't use every correct. We did not.

So we've closed that project out.

What was what is that?

Like, Ken, do you wanna Courthouse. The additional? Yep.

Up to the

Well, before before Ken can, though, let me just explain this chart a little bit more. So this isn't the total cost of those projects. This is what was left. Left in the project. So when you see $500,000 left for that additional courtroom, the additional courtroom, I think, was budgeted at a little over 3,000,000. So we probably spent somewhere around 2.4, 2,500,000 on it. This is just what was rebudgeted in 2026 and give you an idea of where we're at closing it out.

I see.

So this isn't showing you the total cost of some of

these projects.

Thank you. That that that

I wish the detention medical expansion was only $23,100,000.

Yeah. I'm like Yeah. Can a courtroom like that only be

So this is money that's rolled over. So essentially, for some of those closed projects, what we hope to get to is being able as part of the next quarterly update and the part of EPC process, showing with you what's unallocated in the CIP that allows you then to reprogram it Okay. And be able to move projects up or down Thank left or right.

So just for reference of the first quarter twenty twenty six kind of update, this is just kind of what is continued and what is new that is in the '26 budget, not necessarily what the total project budget was.

I see. Okay. Thanks. Thank you. That's very helpful. Okay. Alright. So in terms of new projects, I just wanna flag a lot of these. Our approach for the five year CIP was really in year one to finalize project designs and refine the scopes. So we have better costs in construction the following year.

So a lot of these projects are planning design work that then will be constructed in subsequent years. So the remodel of the old communications center in the jail is on schedule. Our design is underway. We anticipate construction in 2027. The courthouse roof replacements at the top of one and two, those are also on schedule.

We're procuring design right now, and we'll have contractor bidding later this year. We're replacing a chiller at Courthouse 1. This project, we're sitting tight until we get the energy performance audit data back in June or July because this could be rolled into that project and process. The head the coroner's interceptor tank replacement, it is what you think it means. We design is underway, and we're hoping to refine pricing in June.

So that's the stuff that we need to fix. The fire alarm panel at the sheriff's office, we do have a design vendor selected, and we're doing contracting. Design is also underway at the Clerk and Recorder Motor Vehicle Call Center in this building. We are starting to remodel APZ East. Public health is going in where FFM used to be over at Arapahoe Plaza.

We have a contractor selected, and long lead items are being ordered, and that will anticipate during construction in June. And just a reminder, this move will free up the Broadway public health space and eliminate the worst building in our county's portfolio. So we're very excited about that. We're also doing an expansion for concealed handgun permit handgun permit I literally said it. So we're doing handgun permit expansion. That's tied to senate bill three. I failed. We've got construction documents completed and submitted for permit, and we're picking contractors as we speak. We're also doing electric systems infrared scanning. We that's on schedule as well.

We're procuring this quarter. We anticipate completing that in q four. The countywide facility master plan, we have an RFQ on the street right now for a prime consultant, and we are working with a project manager to develop a governance structure and bringing that to e team tomorrow with a project charter. We're excited about that work. The IDEC units at the detention center, another project we're waiting for the analysis of the energy performance audit. Those could also Can you oh, kill with that. Well, I I'm gonna need to phone a friend. What's an IDEC unit?

So it utilizes

Come up to

Just one. It utilizes water. It's like a typical swamp folder on one side and also indirect on the other side. Cool. So it doesn't actually add the humidity into it. That's what we have on for the pods. Two pods are air conditioning.

Okay. Let's keep our patients cool.

Yep.

Got it comfortable. Great.

Thank you.

So that may or may not be part of the EPC, and we'll have that data for June. We're doing a training remodel city of Centennial for approval this quarter. We're also doing a reconfiguration of space at Lima Plaza for public works FTEs that were approved in previous budget cycles. Drawing review of design drawings are in progress. So we're just plugging along. Yes. You are. That's cool. Team effort.

Alright. Next up, we have technology and safety projects. So director Sabina, I'm gonna check your portion as well. And, again, the first slide is the projects with the continuing budget that was rolled forward from last year, and then the next slide will be new projects for 2026.

So this is the taxation and appraisal system that started last year with the assessor and the treasurer and the IT partnership. Obviously, the vendor has completed the customer relationship management ticketing and cashier training this week. The vendor is currently on-site and has done the tax fit a guest gap effort with a three day fit gap tax session planned for early May, and power user training will be scheduled for June. It's about 15% complete. This is a three year roughly project.

It's a pretty long, large, complex project, but we are scheduled well, not years. A little bit less than that. But we are scheduled for, completion in September 2027. Now there'll be a little bit of an extenuation to that. It'll go live this September, then it'll be ninety days afterwards before the project is complete or at least labeled as complete. Human capital management. This is the HCM. Again, this was started last year. This is a the team has continued project coordination activities across I'm sorry. I'm reading from the wrong one.

I'm across elections, SAP, and service desk integration efforts along with ongoing vendor invoice review and approval activities. The performance and goals is the next module, that remains on this particular project, is on track for, 09/15/2006 for go live with a project close target of November 2026, so later this year. We're looking at some AI functionality within this particular project to add on to the project scope. It's related to change orders that we currently are assessing within the project. It's about 70% complete and seven due to 1% expected completion.

This is an adjustment due to the new scope changes taking place consideration. It is still in the considered green, which is on track in December 2026 completion, so later this year again. The ACGC access control system, these

are

the controllers for the the justice center over over there. These are the, basically, the computers or the brains of the access control. This is actually completed, and it is fully implemented, and there has been, you know, no outstanding issues

or concerns. Question. Yeah. Bank film. Is that the same bad badge Yes. Card reader? It's nothing biometric? No. Okay.

Alright.

So restricted housing.

I'll take restrictive housing. That that project is something that came out of, house bill back in 2021. What we have done is made some significant facility updates and process updates as well, to make sure that we're meeting the requirements of this bill to keep people out of what is defined as restrictive housing. We have, the funding has been used for the facility improvements. We've done that, done made some significant changes to doors, to some of the pods, just the day rooms, and so on.

What has been left over, we've been working with Lisa and team to finish up what we need to do as we can to to continue helping people stay out of restrictive housing. And then what the last thing we've identified that we would be able to use is to implement our very much needed, jail management system upgrade. We've known it was needed to happen for a while. The the current version is due to or is not being supported any longer. The new version is is is what their what our vendor is using moving forward.

We're using this money because it very much this upgrade very much will help us better house people in the facility overall and keep people out of restrictive housing. Keep them safer, be able to monitor who's housed where, what activities they're getting, what they need to do, provide our staff alerts of like, oh, this person needs their time out. We do it sometimes by handheld timer now. This will be a significant upgrade update for us on a number of different levels, but this will help us keep people out of restrictive housing. We anticipate that we won't use the entire amount that's still there that's available yet with any software upgrade that we've ever experienced Yeah.

There's been an an additional thing here or there and a peripheral device that we need or weren't accounting for whatnot. We need five things instead of three that we even thought about, you know, a handheld device or something along those lines. So we anticipate not using the the remaining balance, but we'll see where we land. We believe we'll be able to train and implement this by October, and have it have it done by the end of the year. Okay.

Questions?

Oh, me again. Access control control security this is the other set of controllers as generally county wide. These are aging devices. All major equipment including the new access controllers have been received and they're securely stored within the warehouse and installation. Installation and commissioning at the Fairground Campus have been completed successfully. The remaining project work is being planned, and the project is currently on schedule and within budget and in anticipation completion of fourth quarter of twenty twenty six. And there is no outstanding issues or concerns at this time reported to this project. Jared, do wanna cover the portable radio?

I'll take care

of portable radio replacement. So this has been a complex thing we've been working through in the last let's see. It's two and a half, five months. Well, really, for a couple of years now. We asked for the money, and, thankfully, we we got that through the budget process to replace all of these. Well, many of these. 429 is what we needed, right, to a new version. Well, in January, we learned that this new version is no longer going to be supported in three years. Yep. Right? That that

Following it keeps saying it.

Was a

little more dramatic than that.

Yeah. Yeah.

So, like, what are we

going to do now? The

the good news that came out of this is not only did we get this piece funded, again, I'm very grateful for that. We got a a solid amount 1 point something 1,200,000 funded for radio upgrades or portable radio work through congressionally designated funding. Mhmm. So we put all that together, and we will be able to replace the 429 with the model that is is going to be supported very long term. It's the the next model of motor is portable radio that they're they're using.

Adam has been doing some remarkable work to get that cost to where we need it to get the 429 replaced. Plus, we've been working with Lisa and the rest of the finance team to replace the rest of the radios as either they they time out, they break, or we just are able to replace them on with our yearly budget that we already have for radio work already. It's gonna take a few years. We think the strategy is gonna work out, and we will have not the latest and greatest, but because that's ridiculously expensive. It doesn't no. It it doesn't it does so so much we don't need. But this model we're moving to will do what we need long term.

Yay. Yay. Yes. But

they will change battery pack.

Oh, yeah. That's right.

The FEDSR valve

or something. Antenna or something. Exactly. Not be compatible. Right. Yeah. That's how they keep getting it. Yeah. Yeah.

Next one would be the sheriff office asset management system. This is the project they've been asking for quite some time. We approved it through IT steering. Project project team has completed requirement gathering. It's currently working with purchasing to finalize procurement approach.

The team is moving forward with an acquisition of asset tracking software for the sheriff's office, about 5% complete as a project, 5% expected completion early in the project. It is scheduled for completion total of December 2026. Tech modernization, this is the remaining money from when the board approved the dedicated funding for the technology modernization. We have absorbed all of that for the enterprise service management system up to date. Let me scroll down here on my spreadsheet my cheat sheet.

Enterprise content management system. This is the the upgrade from the revised to Granicus platform. The final training for the public engagement tool, there's a little bit of more that we're doing with this too. There's some add ons. The engagement public engagement tool is one of them has been completed. Website migration activities are underway with estimated completion by May 2020 oh, I'm sorry. May of twenty ninth this month. The project remains to be on track. CMS' go live is in September with content validation training and post implementation monitoring activities scheduled through October. 50% complete to date, 55% expected completion.

DA site decisions are taking a little bit longer as planned, but still this project is considered in the green for September 2026. Enterprise service management system, this is ties back to the tech modernization money. This is our enterprise service management system that's used by multiple departments. Planning activities for the ESMS system, are substantially complete. We've selected a vendor, with a statement of work and service agreement approved and signed.

Data preparations are underway. So we're going into the current system. We're cleaning up the data, making sure that the data is good because some of the AI capabilities are, quite beneficial, for the county once we get those in place. This project is, transitioning into implementation activities for ITMS and, also our, project management platform with vendor kickoff system configuration migration, testing, training, and deployment activities scheduled through September go live. So we gotta get this, completed quite quickly.

As a percentage, it is 10% complete, 15% expected. We'll need to make up time due to procurement and funding taking a little longer, but that's partly under IT's fault. It's currently in the yellow due to just a limited time of implementation, but we are expected to, complete, September, October 2026. Finally, land development permit case system. This project continues to be worked on, the project charter while the planning team finalizes requirements due to additional time needed for requirements development.

This project may have been swapped out with the Accella service request management project. So we're working with PWD kind of from a resource standpoint and a little bit of a moving target here as to what the prioritization at that department level is for this particular project. The project manage manager is working with support service division manager to determine the best order with the given timelines. It's only 2% complete, 10% expected completion. It is in the yellow.

This project may be switched for one of that, one for the one that is, ready to implement sooner, unknown at this time. So, again, we're working with PWD as they reprioritize what they would like us to complete. To be deep. Any questions on any of those? Questions? I'm sorry. Thought you

were gone.

That's okay. More the merrier.

I have keep looking up the screen, make sure no hands there? No. Sounds to go to continue. Alright.

Have Ryan come up and talk about the infrastructure projects.

Alright.

So I won't go through everyone, but if you see one that you have questions on, please let me know. These are the projects that we're anticipating closeout in 2026. You'll notice some of these, like Dry Creek and I 25, Arapahoe Buckley Medians, Dry Creek Ops, Inverness Bike Path. These projects are all open to the public rocking and rolling. Everything's good.

It's the process of closing out with the DOT on the federal funds. So if you remember back last week, that is one thing that tends to take a bit of time. That and getting grass to grow in certain areas. Next to the roads is not a great spot. So some of the others, the County Road 38, FEMA mitigation, the bridge from the twenty twenty three floods, we repaired the bridge, had that open, but there were some stream channel work that need to be completed. That is all done now. Waiting on getting our money from FEMA for that, so that'll be a good one to get off

the

list. Go back Hawk Signal. This is just south of I live on the High Line Canal. That is also open for use. That project's just getting ready to close out. Should be closed out pretty soon. Otherwise, Quincy Gun Club, that's one of those ones. That thing has been open for quite a few years. We are still waiting to close out with some swap permit on that. That's one of those ones getting grass to grow, especially turfed areas that do not have irrigation. Colorado tends to be tough.

Can you the hawk? Yes. Signal. Tell me what that is.

So that is a one of the push button activated signals that a trail user can use at an accurate crossing. It has the big overheads. Gotcha. Right? That lets traffic know that somebody's crossing there. It's not the little post on the ground. These are the big ones overhead. If you've been on Quebec in that area, it moves quickly. So it's a pretty big safety. They did look at doing an underpass there, but the cost in some of the other site constraints there is pretty significant. So this is tends to be that middle ground that we go to when we can't get the preferred option of going underground or over, like I think. Yeah.

Thank you. Alright.

These are the ones a lot of these are either approved in 26 or previously approved projects. One of the ones to point out looks there's a lot of gray up there on is the Holly Intersection. Alright. That this is one. This is strategically pushed off simply due that Denver is working on a project right now to get the Highline Canal under you. Our project is to the east of them. Having two separate contractors on top of each other is not typically a good thing to do. You get a lot of finger pointing. So that one's gonna we're gonna go out to bid with that one later this year. They are a little bit behind on the Denver project, but we're hoping to go out later this year.

Plans are done. We're ready to go, and then we'll get construction kicked off on that in the spring of next year. There's also you're familiar with that area. Holly has a major sewer line being done by the the district there. So we're trying to time things out with them. We might get some free asphalt. County Line Inverness, this is another one. 90% plans are done on this. Looking to go out later this year with it and time it up to also construct in the spring. It's been a a long go with this.

If you remember, this is one that was looking at much major a lot of major changes in that area to prioritize the County line to the Inverness Drive East. That was sort of scrapped due to cost, so we're upgrading. Those are, I think, two of the oldest signals in Douglas County's inventory. So we're gonna get those upgraded, make some pedestrian upgrades, and also some pretty significant bike path improvements in that area to make it a little safer to get through. Some of the other ones to highlight, 26, sidewalk missing gaps, that sort of phase one up in the Copperleaf area.

Again, design moving on that one. Gun Club Alameda signal, that's one that we are probably about 20% through. That's another, I think, much needed improvement in that area. It's there's quite a few accidents at that intersection, so this will be a big improvement for that. Let's see. Reconstructs is another one I know everybody's interested in. So reconstruct project will hit the street on Thursday. So we will be out to bid on Thursday and hopefully get bids back towards the end of the month and get somebody on board to get that going. Let's see. How many other highlights?

Highland Canal Broadway Underpass, that is a funding oh, that is a design only funding for that one, working with open spaces, the little South Suburban Park And Rec, and Centennial. So that one's moving through probably about 20% as well through design. It will be picking up throughout the rest of this year, and we'll keep our eye open, looking for grants, looking for other things to hopefully get some funding for it to get it constructed.

Questions? Yes.

Yes, sir. Commissioner Warren Gullen. Thank you. So the Highline Canal Broadway Underpass, is that the one that's just south of Garathavo Road?

Yes. Okay.

Yep. Thank

you. Just south of there.

Because they're doing one further down by the hospital.

Correct. Yeah. There's another one. Construction. That one was that one was an emergency repair. They had a I forget what utility line it was, broke in that area, and they were planning on putting one in that area, they were able to get funding scrap together and Okay. Do it all at once, which is great. Sometimes things work out. Yeah. And that was a good one. So this is a farther upstream from there, and it'll be a good improvement.

It will.

Yeah. Yeah. There's a bridge in that same area that is at its current life, And that's a Centennial and Littleton thing. It's theirs to maintain, but we're working with them through the design. So they're paying a little bit extra in design, and we're looking at the whole thing with them together, both projects.

Great. Any other commissioner questions? Alright. We're ready to go ahead.

Thank you. Is that it? Thanks.

I think no. You don't want me to talk you the new ones. Yeah.

New ones.

Oh, shut

up. You even more. So

these are the newer 2026. There was some on both. So Tallgrass was on both. That's why you're seeing the actual numbers there. Gun Club Whiting, this is a design only being led by Aurora. So we're a funding partner. We're sitting in on designs, the access control. That at lunch. Okay. Oh, there you go. That was this this is a very much needed project in that area. We're currently working for some right away in that area as well as part of this. Piccadilly Lehigh is a funding only. It's part of a shared agreement with Aurora. We've got two drainage projects, one on County Road 50 Cool Creek and one on Walk Walk Ins, Muskrat.

So those are both in design. They're moving along. We're working with Sam Swan. One's in their jurisdiction as well as some other folks trying to see what we can do. ADA transition, this is funding that Broaden Bridge receives that they do as part of their overlay program in the county, and they've due to the very dry spring, they are completed on their stuff.

That's one good thing, I guess, that can come out of this. Yeah. The bike ped and, let's see, NTMP safety school programs, those are program funding type of projects. So we're identifying different projects throughout the county and seeing where where we can best utilize that money to make improvements. So we've got three or four different projects. And it's funny. We were just talking about this the other day, how those three tend to correlate with each other. Right? Safety, bike pad, neighborhood traffic. They those buckets can almost be any of the three.

So we're moving through. We were hoping to have at least four projects done in those categories before the end of the year. And, also, to with now that you sort of get the program up and running, you start to build a stable of projects that as funding becomes available, you can look at utilizing it. Quincy median improvements, that is now completed. This is up Quincy just west of E 470.

So these were some medians that get a lot of calls about weeds in those medians. So these ones have been completed. It's a much needed improvement working with city of Aurora on those improvements. Sidewalk gaps, we said before like I said before, those are kicking off. We're getting moving on those. There's a lot of different entities that own the properties. So some of them, we have full right away. Some of them, we need to go talk to the different property owners, see if we can work with them, if we can get them to help out a little bit. And then Florida Avenue Signals is another one from our traffic group. They've started ordering all the equipment.

And since there's a long lead time on those, they're starting to get equipment ordered so that they can get that done this year.

Thank you, Ryan.

Yeah. Okay. This one is long. Okay. Yeah. Because you're we we

sucker you into a lot of our

Super. Okay. Thank you, Olga.

Alright. So following the lead of everybody else, I'll just go through with them all. You can pick and choose. Yeah. Just So I have three highlighted, but then I can do to finish it in about ten minutes.

Okay. And then I can defer to you guys if you wish to for me to dig into any of the other ones. So the three that I was gonna highlight is the first one, seventeen Mile House, the acceleration lane. So this one was caught in the to do list for a long time with no movement in part because of we were kinda tying the deacceleration lane to the Kings Point development that was supposed that is still slated to occur, but we just don't know when it will ever materialize. And then we realized that we could bifurcate the two, that the deacceleration lane when you're coming down south on Parker did not implicate the development and the ultimate traffic lights that they're gonna have to push in that area.

So once we came to that realization, we moved forward with CDOT and PWD to get that up and running. We we might have hit a record of the ninth submittal with CDOT. But just this week, we put in a traffic plan. Thank you again, PWD, for doing that. And we have a secured construction company, and we're ready to rock and roll on on that in, like, the next two months, I think.

Yeah. Most likely, they will start on that within the next month as soon as CDOT gives a final step.

I'm really excited about that project because it's gonna make the the speeds on Parker going southbound are crazy. Yes. They are. And it's not safe to slow down and try to get into a 17 mile house. That's gonna be a huge improvement.

We really appreciate the public works itself on that. The next one I was gonna highlight was the Kiowa Creek master plan. This is another one that kinda got us tripped up a tad in part because we realized we needed to do some pretty thorough work with Bennett Watkins Fire Rescue. And we did that thorough work, and they were raised for us some concerns around just wildfire danger. And so the outcome of that was basically expanded trails to accommodate emergency vehicles and to kind of play the long game for how we would respond to situations of an emergency type.

So now we got that all tied up, and we're putting together the construction bids on that project to go out here shortly. So finally getting some momentum underneath us on that one. The next one that I was gonna highlight is the 17 Mile House, the house and the barn renovation. Again, this is another project we're excited about just because the 17 Mile House and Barn has not received a lot of TLC in recent years. And so we have some things that if we don't get on top of sooner as opposed to later, we're gonna be in a role to hurt.

So the roof, for example, the gutter system needs to be replaced, the windows need to be fixed. We have cedar shingles that need to be replaced. And so FFM's team has been helping us with some of that short term of work, like painting. I'm really excited to go see their their handiwork here soon. And then we this is the one that we intend to go forward and get a a state historical society grant.

We you'll be hearing more about that in the coming months, but October is when we would need to get that request in. And that is our, so we've got some short term stuff that we're gonna just take care of in house, and through existing funds, and then longer term items, that we're going for the grant for. So those are the three that I was gonna highlight, but I'm more than happy to talk about anything else. Questions?

Not seeing anything. Stuff.

Yeah. Good. Great. Okay. Easy. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Alright.

Well, that's all we have. So I'd like to thank all of our CIP friends for coming and giving updates on their projects. And if you don't have any further questions, then we'll plan to see you at public hearing on June 9 with supplementals. Alright.

So we don't look there's any questions. Do anything at this point.

Great. Thank you very much.