City Council - Regular Meeting

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Miss Curtis, roll call, please. Mayor Doug Sasha, here. Council member Jeff Morford here. Council member Brian Eriales here. Council member John Caper here. Council member Bill Garcia here. Council member Lauren Voyette here. Council member James Parks here.

All righty. Next on the agenda, 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 uh next to the podium and address the council from the podium. The council will not take any action at this meeting in response to public comment. Uh, honorable mayor and councilman, good evening. I'm so happy to see you tonight and so happy to have the opportunity to formally invite you to United Way's first uh community town hall event. It will be this Thursday at 5:30 from to 7:30 at the Gan Dodie um community center. I'm going to use my notes because I fear going over the three minutes and I don't want to like test that trapoor rumor. So, I'm going to check this out here. Um so this is the first of many town halls that we intend to to provide for the community to really um engage folks um and learn um how they are feeling about what is happening in our community. So I would love for you all to come out and join us. This first event is focused on affordable housing. At this event you'll hear about the housing work that's been going on in our county for about 10 years. You'll hear about some of the current challenges we're facing. Um, and then you'll hear about a lot of the progress that we're making. What will be really interesting is we're going to spend some time talking to folks about what affordability means to them and not just about affordable housing, but about what kinds of challenges they're facing in their lives right now around affordability. Um, that'll help us really to to determine what our next conversation is going to be about. But

why a town hall? you know, across the country, United Ways work to connect folks to resources, and we do that in the unique ways that are best suited to our unique communities. So, here in Morgan County, we often hear that our neighbors say they don't know what's going on. They don't know where to find out what's going on. Um, even when we have great media outlets, we have great print media, but people still don't know. So, we understand that people in our community are looking for information and conversation about important issues that affect their lives. We also sense that many of us just don't want to get our information from social media. And so, this is an opportunity for members of our community to come together and learn and share and speak out and imagine how this community can be better for each of them and for their families. So, I hope you'll join us and join us for this opportunity to share a meal, um, share a story, and to share your vision for our community. So, I have some flyers that I'm going to share with you all.

Any questions about this awesome event that's coming up? Nope. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you, too. Alrighty. Next on the agenda. Hold on, your honor. I think we have more from the public that would like to say.

Okay. Good evening, Marian Council. I'd like to first of all congratulate those that are sitting in either a new or different seat this evening. Uh, my name is Roger Cox and I'm here um because I submitted a letter to the library advisory board dated December 8th which I shared with then mayor Lindell which is my understanding may have been forwarded to council and I wanted to verify that but I do have hard copy of that letter if need be. Uh, since I'm getting a lot of nods, I'm going to uh forego reading the letter, I'll let it stand on its own merit. But I would like to kind of go beyond the letter and saying that my endeavor started with a question of why is it that we have as a city recognized Glenn Miller in multiple ways? I mean, you can't drive past the interstate without seeing a sign saying that this is his boyhood home. We've got a city park named after him as long as well as a uh auditorium at the high school. And yet we have another personality that's here in and the thing about Glenn Miller is he's not even here. But we have another uh worldrenowned personality that is here in Fort Morgan uh that resides frankly at the same address that I listed at 601 West 8th Avenue. That's for you John Caper. If I was told once a cop always a cop.

uh and that would be uh Philip K. Dick, a worldrenowned author. Um and and yet there hasn't been any recognition with the city of Fort Morgan with uh with his uh accomplishments. Uh and I, as I say, Philip K. Dick is here. Uh his f he wasn't ever he never lived here. His his parents never lived here. But his grandparents were here. Um, thus the story of how he came here um because of his twin death. His grandparents brought her here. Uh there are comments that he's in his uh books about the phantom uh which is referring to his his daughter uh sorry his sister. Uh, and so, uh, I just the idea of renaming the Fort Morgan Library in honor of Philip K. Dick just seems to be, um, well, you know, you've got city of Fort Morgan and the libraries in the city of the center of the city. Uh, and it would be quite the acclimate to have not only the Glen Miller Park next to the Philip K. memorial library. Uh, it would be showing the country basically since it's worldrenowned that Fort Morgan is more than just a small sleepy cow town that grows sugar beats, but rather that we have a uh excellence in both genres of music and literature uh throughout the community.

Thank you. You're right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Hi. Hi. Um, I'm Pam Bland and I've never been to one of these meetings, so I don't know if I address this now or if I I'm supposed to wait until it is uh it comes up. It's number 12. The um possibility of um having a grooming and boarding in Fort Morgan. Do I do I Yeah. So you will wait until that item comes up and then during the public hearing part there is a section for public comments and so that'll be the time that you can speak to that. Anybody else?

All righty. All right. Next on the agenda tonight is uh election of the mayor pro Tim. So at this point um somebody want to nominate somebody and second it and we'll see how many we have. Your honor, I'd like to make a motion to nominate Jeff Morford. Do we have a second? I'll second it.

We have multiple options here. Yes. Um, I would make a nomination to um to or a resol I would offer up uh John Caper as a a mayor prom candidate. Okay. I second. Okay. All righty. Well, I guess we have our ballot right here, right?

So, put your name up and then the person you're voting for. Okay, your mayor pro 10 is John Caper.

All righty. Congratulations, John.

Alrighty. Next on uh agenda is presentation by John Caper for uh senior center advisory board. All right. Um we have a slot for three names um during our recent meeting last week. The board met and approved the applications from Cindy Everheart, Don Benham, and Joe Westoff as appointments to the board. And I'm bringing that to this council for approval. Alrighty. Do we have a motion? I'll make that motion, your honor. Do we have a second?

Second. All right. Uh vote. I motion. Just call. Say I. All righty. That passes. All right. Um Thank you, your honor. You're welcome. Uh, next one is Chief Sharp introducing some uh, new officers.

I'll come up here in front of the council so they don't have to stand up here in front of you anymore than at least there's somebody here with them. This is Brandon Leak. Um, he's our newest recruit. A lot of people don't know what our recruit program is, but uh, we started it in about 2019. We've modified it quite a bit over the years, but the idea behind the recruit program is to have somebody ready to go to an academy when we have an opening. Traditionally, over the last 20 years or so, we average about two and a half openings a year. Um, over the last few years, there was more because we added five positions plus we had a lot. So, we've hired a lot in that time. Luckily, unluckily for Brandon, we are fully staffed and we don't have that right now. Um, but we brought Brandon on board and he works part-time. he does full-time at the kids at their best. Um, and then he comes over and works with us part-time to to learn about the job and to try to get a little leg up. So, when there is an opening, we can send him to the next academy and we're ready to roll. Takes us about a year to get somebody hired through the academy and train. So, this just gets that process going. So, Brandon started with us in October, middle of October, so he's not really new, but he was one of our newest employees. So I know there is no time limit here. So I did ask them to keep their speech less than 30 minutes. If you anything say anything.

No, it's nice to meet everyone. Uh I look forward to coming back when I'm an officer and meeting you all again. Glad to have you here. Appreciate it. On up, Mo.

Next person we have is our is our last officer. This is the one that got us to fully staffed. um for the first time. We've never been this fully staffed. After we added those five positions, we finally got there. Um and this is Mohammad Abdderman. Goes by Mo. Um Mo comes to us from Aurora. He was in Aurora. Steve Brown, our deputy chief, does academy visits every year. Um we don't usually find good candidates out of an academy because these days everybody hires people and sends them. But Mo was a little unique in that Mo wanted to find a he put himself through an academy and wanted to find a department that fit him. And so I don't know that he'd ever really heard of Fort Morgan. Um heard Deputy Chief Brown talk about what our community offered and he said, "This is what I want." Came in, explored it. And you know, we're proud to have Mo on board and um our last officer.

Thank you for this opportunity. Um it's a pleasure being here. It's a pleasure meeting you guys. Um I enjoy the city. I've learned a lot about the city in the last two months and I would definitely sit here and say I love this community and I'd proudly like to serve the community. What academy did you did you go to? ACC Arapjo Community College. He must be a good guy then. He must be really good. We don't hold that against him.

He he did start also December. Well, he started in December. We or November we paid him to finish out the academy. We hired him as a cadet. He finished out the academy as an employee, graduated on December 5th and started the academy. So, um, he was actually sworn in that first week after he came to work with us. We got him sworn in. Tonight, we did a ceremonial swearing in for so his family and people could be here to see that as well. So, thank you. I'm going to have to put some weight on if you wanted. Just so you know, that's in the works. I just have Doug, you and I had no problem. I know. I know. Thursday with one more flashlight.

Good luck and be safe. Thank you. All right. All right. Thanks, Lauren.

Uh, next on the agenda tonight is a resolution on first reading on the ordinance adopting the 2024 model traffic code. Chief Sharp. This model traffic code change just addresses a couple things that we've been seeing over the years and and a new law that changed recently. The state this last year passed a law to allow us to actually write people for expired tags into the city. Prior to this, it was a state violation only. We could only write them into county court. It's now authorized to write into city court. Um, so it does that. Allows us to write that into the city. But one of the problems we've had, and we've talked about this with abandoned vehicles, is it's a moving violation when a vehicle is driving, but a vehicle with expired tag sitting there expired for years, it doesn't matter. Wasn't illegal sitting on the street um unless it's abandoned. So, we couldn't cite somebody that has a park that drives every day if we don't catch them driving at that time. So, this ordinance would allow it would make it illegal to have a vehicle that's not registered in the city and parked on a street as well. And then the other thing we have is I talked to Mr. Akre and we've seen the issues with semis that park on a city street where there's over in excess of 7,000 pounds. Same thing. It's a moving violation. We can write him a ticket if we catch them driving there. Often for example by fieldhouse by the police department there semis that park on Beaver and they'll sit there all weekend. We didn't see them drive in and they're gone when you see them coming out. We have been able to make contact and get a lot of them to move to railroad but they continually park. So, they're obviously driving where it's in excess of the 7,000 pounds. Um, so this would allow us to site somebody for parking their semi when it's in excess of 7,000 lbs on those streets where it's weight restricted.

Alrighty. Any more? I think that okay, sums it up. All right. Do I hear resolution? Your honor, I'd like to make a resolution on first reading of an ordin ordinance amending the previous adopted 2024 model traffic code addressing truck parking, expired tags, unregistered vehicles, and a request to schedule a public hearing on the ordinance for February 3rd. Second. Awesome. Have a resolution by Jim Parks, second by Jeff Morford. Roll call. That resolution carries unanimously.

Alrighty. Next on the agenda tonight, um, resolution carryover budget, Miss Edson.

Good evening, mayor and council. So, what you have in front of you is a resolution to carry over funds from the 2025 budget. These were all originally budgeted in 2025. Um and for various reasons, we were unable to either finish the project or weren't able to get um to purchase um the the items in 2025. So, we're asking to carry them over and purchase them in 2026. Um we have for the police department, we have the qualifying range, the vehicle replacement, and MDT replacement. for the streets department, a dump truck, the road past Walmart design, and um the old beef plant road cleanup and traffic light at Railroad and Sherman. And for planning and zoning, the comprehensive plan update. So for the capital improvement fund, the total we're asking to carry over is 1,110,376. Sorry, let me get to page two here. Um, for the electric fund, we have the Excel substation expansion for $2 million and then legacy town homes, which would just be the electrical work that were um that we would need to do for the next phase of the town homes kind of by the police department. Um, so for the electric fund, a total of $2,30,000. And then for the water fund, all for the water treatment plant, we would have the solar bee, the SCADA updates upgrades, and engineering on the new reservoir. So, I might need Brent's help if you have specific questions about any of those specific items. So, does anyone have any questions?

Okay, seeing none, do we have a resolution? Your honor, I'll make a resolution to approve the carryover 2025 budget to the 2026 budget as presented. Second. All right, we have a resolution by Caper, a second by Parks. Uh, roll call, please. That resolution carries unanimously. Thank you. Thank you.

All right. Next resolution uh or next agenda is resolution on first amendment ordinance amending the municipal code concerning fireworks. Mr. Nation. Uh yes. Uh late last year I mentioned we were trying to do some clean up on various ordinances and different things as we see the attorneys are helping us on different things. Uh this is one of those where uh you'll see in the resolution that um originally the fireworks regs that we have in place were adopted in 2010. Uh the attorneys have found that there's some outdated and inconsistent things with current state statutes. And so what you have in front of you tonight is um a ordinance on first reading that would um get those things in line with where the state statutes are. It really doesn't change anything. Uh the one question I'd got was were we trying to, you know, abolish fireworks altogether in the city limits? That's not what we're doing. We're trying to stick with the same rules. So when you go in there, we have limited dates that you can have that you can use fireworks from July 1st to July 5th, um 10:00 a.m. to midnight. Um and all that all that language is basically stayed the same. Um, you do have in your table file a cleaner copy of the ordinance. Uh, it was discovered there was some uh numbering problems in the the packet ordinance and so the table file has that corrected in it. The attorneys got that changed this afternoon, but the substant substantive nature of the ordinance is still the same of what was in your packet to what was in your table file. So, I would be happy to answer any questions. I guess uh I'm not sure if it's a question I'm sorry.

No, you're fine. I'm not sure it's a question for you uh Mr. Nation or uh Chief Sharp. Um permissible fireworks may be possessed, sold, or used between the 1st and the 5th of July every year. So, does that mean if I have some in my garage, you could confiscate those? Is that ordinance giving you that right to do that? I suppose it would. I I'd never read it that way, but yeah, I suppose it would. Somebody pushed it that level. Mr. Wilson, you looking at me like Yeah, the word is possessed. I agree with the chief. That's that would be my interpretation as well. Okay. Because the word is possessed. Yeah.

I guess I better hurry home before this passes. And and I don't have it in front of me. Does it talk about that with just the illegal? I mean, with all fireworks, you couldn't have any fireworks. That's the way I read it. Define. Yeah.

Okay. I just want clarification on that. Just Thank you. I might in light of that, I might I don't know how we s change the wording, but I might suggest we do change that wording. I don't think we want to get in the habit of confiscating people's fireworks on July 6th when it was rainy on the 4th and the 5th and now they have them on the 6th. I mean that they're holding for next year. Um I don't anticipate that we would do that, but I think anytime you have a law on the books, you may have somebody take it literally and and and do that. I don't know how we we reward that, but open for your thoughts. Yeah. No. Do we want to table this in for another

I I'd make a motion to table it until it's rewarded. I think that's I would second that. I I think it's bad wording. I apologize. I never saw that. Never read that before. So, yeah, I never thought that. Uh, two options. We could go ahead and table it if you want us to, or we could go ahead and pass it on first reading and give the attorneys two weeks to change the language. Your choice. I mean, it doesn't matter. I was just going to say that's another you said it. Yeah, that's another way you could go. So pass it.

We're more than happy. There's no I mean obviously the 4th of July is still a ways away. So we've got time if we want to take a little person on January 1st for shooting off at midnight because they're not allowed to possess and I have a problem with that. Trust me, that's even further off than July 4th. Yeah. But does two weeks give legal and chief sharp time to go through and make sure we find the other bugs in this? Yeah. Your motion and I'll amend it to give them the attorneys two weeks to reward that. All right. So, you want to go through and pass it and so you just approve it on first?

Yeah, go ahead and approve it on first read on this discussion. We'll prepare an amendment. Okay. I hear a resolution. Your honor, I'll make a resolution uh to amend the hold on one second for the fireworks code with the corrections needing to be made by February 3rd. Second. All right, we have a resolution by Jim Parks, a second by Jeff Morford. Roll call, please. That resolution carries unanimously. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, we'll get that changed.

I didn't. No. All right. The next one is a resolution authorizing the sale of some vacant property. Mr. Linton,

I was hoping I can make a business deal with Caper. I live in the county, so storage opportunity. Anyway, good evening, mayor, council. Tonight, and I have for you a resolution to uh sell a certain vacant real property, and it's an abandoned well site. Um the abandoned well site, and it does not currently serve any purpose for the city. So, um the Diaz family has uh offered to purchase that piece of property, which runs adjacent to their property. So, I'm asking for a resolution to pass that. All righty. Do I hear a resolution? Your

I'll make a resolution to approve the sale of vacant property that is an abandoned well site to the Diaz Ray as presented. Second. All right. I have a resolution by Caper, a second by Parks. All in favor? That resolution carries unanimously. Same way on this resolution. Um this this is a an abandoned well site that uh 506 Uklid LLC has agreed to purchase which runs adjacent to their property as well. Um so I'm asking for a vote on this resolution if there isn't any questions. Um we do this on each and every one of these. I know we did one here a while back. Yeah, we had I think when we brought these council originally there was seven or eight

eight eight total. And so we're just picking them off one by one. Both of these tonight were actual um carveouts from one lot in particular. And so we just took the back part up against the alley. And so this just allows them to have a rectangular lot. Once again, um in most cases when we pulled the well site, um abandoned the well, these people have been kind of overseeing use of the property anyway. And so it kind of puts it back in line with who's using it. And so we just are trying to recover enough in the sale that we're handling our attorney's fees and the survey costs for doing the work and that way we're not maintaining weeds throughout the year. So

awesome. All right. Thank you. Uh we have a resolution. Your honor, I'll make a resolution authorizing the sale of vacant property that is abandoned well site at 506 or by 506 Uklid LLC as presented. Second. All right. All right. I have a resolution by Warren Boyette, a second by Jim Parks. Welcome. That resolution carries unanimously. Thank you.

Alrighty. My first public hearing. Here we go. Huh? There we go. All right. Uh, it's a public hearing for resolution ordinance of I got to read this, right? Yep. Yep.

All right. Next on the agenda is a public hearing on ordinance 1328 amending the chapter 20 land use code addressing the regulations and land use of kennels, pet daycare, overnight pet boarding, and small animal grooming. This is a public hearing. Please keep all public comments this issue before city council. Uh each speaker is asked to limit their comments to three minutes unless the speaker is representing a group of citizen in which event additional time may be allotted. Please respect these limitations. I reserve the right to limit public hearing or public comment that is inappropriate under these guidelines or otherwise inappropriate or improper. I also reserve the right to limit testimony or questioning that is repetitive, limitive, argumentative, and not pertinent to the issues that set limit on the duration of the testimony. If I determine to be necessary in light of the number of persons who have signed up to testify first as legal issue, Miss Curtis.

Yes, your honor. That was posted on December 11th. All right. Next, the presentation of the ordinance, Mr. Raker.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. This is a public hearing and second reading of the ordinance I presented a couple of weeks ago. Um, we were recently approached by a potential business owner about operating a um operation that had dog grooming, pet daycare, overnight pet boarding training uh business on Burlington Avenue. They're proposing to use the former vet building for this operation. It's in the general business district. Some of these items are allowed, but a lot of things did not align with our current codes. So, staff worked with the applicants and with our attorneys and um did some reworking of our existing code and this ordinance reflects that effort that we've jointly done. Uh what we are proposing is to change the definition of kennel catery and rabbitry by adding the word overnight and refining the exclusions in the definitions. It would read now as kennel catery and rabery means any establishment where domestic animals usually dogs, cats and rabbits are boarded overnight, bred or raised for sale or trained exclusive of veterary hospitals, veterary clinics, veterary offices or an animal shelter. We also propose to change the definition of doggy daycare to include other pets and deleting the word grooming from that section. So doggy daycare would mean um a facility providing such services as dog and cat daycare for all or part of the day obedience classes training andor behavioral counseling exclusive of

overnight boarding. We have then added def definition of animal small animal grooming and overnight boarding. Small animal grooming would be permitted in the urban a and industrial zone districts and allowed as a special use of if approved in the B1 and B2 zoning districts. Overnight pet boarding would be permitted in urban a and industrial zones and allowed us a special use in if approved in the B2 zoning district. Small animal grooming means providing services like bathing, brushing, clipping, or trimming a small domestic animal such as dogs or cats hair and nails. Overnight boarding would be defined as a service that provides temporary housing for dogs and cats and includes but is not limited to contain to pertain with supervision, food and care which extends beyond daytime hours. We would also amend the use table 4.1 to uh point out that dog that animal clinics, animal crematory and small animal grooming are permitted in urban a special uses in B1 and B2. Those are existing but we'd add industrial zoning. And then under Kennels's rabbit cateries raperties pet daycare overnight pet boarding we would add that in B2 zoning district it's a special use and it is currently a permitted use in urban a and industrial and with that I can answer any questions.

Anything for Mr. Aker? All right I have a question. Okay. Does it do we go now or is it public remarks first? Go ahead and do public comments first and then we'll do written and oral and then we'll come back to council for comments. All right. We have any uh Thank you, Tom. Thank you. Um we have any comments from the public?

Excuse me. You'll have to sign in dear up there. Yeah. Yep. That's what it said.

Hi, good evening. Um, as a uh citizen of Fort Morgan, I want to say that I would greatly benefit from having the this kind of business, the boarding, the grooming, and I fully support having them be in Fort Morgan. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you, lady. Same routine. Good evening. So, me and my mother are the ones that are proposing the business opportunity. Um, we've been working very closely with both uh the Fort Morgan Vet Clinic and the Fort Morgan zoning and planning office. And it's as it's been a quite a process, we are very grateful for the opportunity that was presented from uh the Fort Morgan Vet Clinic themselves to us. Um they brought up the the idea of us opening after our previous business closed. Um and they offered to allow us to use their old business building since they opened up right next door. And we're very grateful for the opportunity and we've been trying our best to get everything situated and organized so we can do it the legal way and the correct way and jumping through all the hoops and everything. And we're main goal is to provide exceptional boarding, grooming, and daycare services. Um, when we had our old business, we had a lot of clients that worked from Cargill, but with the distance from Cargill to our old business, it was kind of hard for them to get to work on time. And with the new position of the uh new location, it would be perfect for

anybody within this neighborhood or uh the surrounding neighborhoods to have, you know, uh services of uh emergency dog boarding or daycare services. And we'll strive to be affordable and give your dogs the comfort that they need in order to be able to be boarded overnight and not panic or have discomfort or be unsettled. And young lady, what is your name? My name is Ishnala Cross and this is my mother. I'm Carrie Cross.

Thank you. And if I could say a few words too, I'd like to add that um we've uh haven't been in business for close to a year. We have a lot of clients that are eagerly waiting to hear if we're going to be reopening. Um our bu building that we were rented sold and we haven't been able to find a location in town. That's why we've gone to this route of trying to get this spot to open because it would be perfect for us to be located right next to the vet. we would be a good business companion, you know, co-op to get, not we'd be separate businesses, but helping each other work in a safe way. And um I've been grooming 35 years. She's been grooming five. Um, we know how to take care of animals really well and just raised that way and have, you know, have that in us to we work better with dogs and cats than people. And um, but I just I just wanted to add that that, you know, we've already had a business established, so we are just really needing a new location. and it's been quite a struggle for a year and would like to get back to being self- sustaining and and we appreciate the magnificent help of the zoning department and and you guys. Thank you.

All right. Thank you. Thank you. Is anybody else wanting to make any comments? All right. Uh let's see. Uh Miss Curtis, has anybody made any written or verbal? There have been none. All right. Thank you. All right. Um, we will now proceed to council discussion. I have a question. So, this is a special use, correct? For the B2. No, this is this is actually request to change the zoning code to allow um for this type of business in that zone. Okay. Yep. No, that that was it. Sorry, Tom. You waited until he stood up.

Yeah. Right. All right. Any other further discussion? If there's no further discussion, the council will entertain a motion to close or continue. Motion to close. Second. Okay, we have closed the the hearing. Now, Mr. Wilson, mayor and council, you've heard presentation of this issue. Proper action is on ordinance 1328 amending the land use code of the city of Fort Morgan. All right. I'll entertain a resolution.

Your honor, I'd like to make a resolution on ordinance 1328 amending the land use code of the Fort Morgan Municipal Co addressing and regulating the land uses of kennels, pet daycare overnight uh per boarding and small animal grooming and authorization to publish by title only. Second. All right. I have a resolution by Jim Parks. Another one by Brian Uridelis. Vote for roll call. That resolution carries unanimously. All right, moving right along. Thank you guys. Thank you.

You bet. All right. Uh consent agenda, Miss Curtis. Thank you. Your Thank you, mayor. Um, consent agenda 13A, approval of the dispersements and payroll for December and 13B, approval of the minutes of the January 13, 2026 city council special meeting are in your packets and there is a spiel I'm supposed to tell you, but I do not have it in front of me. Um, if there's any discussion, I do know that um, there's not going to be we you just vote on going to be Long story short,

is that legal? You can request to have anything removed from the consent agenda if you deem necessary. Otherwise, you can vote on the heard it. Right. Yeah. All right. Entertain a resolution. Your honor, I'd like to make a resolution to accept the consent agenda A and B. Second. All right. I have a resolution by Jim Park, second by Jeff Morford. resol or all whatever that is. Roll call. That resolution carries unanimously. All right. Reports by official and staff, Mr. Nation.

Okay. Uh a couple things for you tonight. Uh I did want to point out that uh we did get our sales tax numbers in through November. That's in your um your packet for tonight. And um so depending on how December shakes out, if we have a a fairly typical December, we should end up being up a little bit on sales tax, but still pretty flat overall for the year. Um with that slow start that we had. Um just happy to see that it did rebound some. So we'll have those final numbers in a couple more weeks for the year on that. Uh, also wanted to point out, uh, some of you may have received a letter in your table file from somebody from Gley, uh, making reference to a, uh, frack sand operation. Um, if it's the one that I was aware of, that thing died like 20 years ago. So, I'm not for sure where this gentleman got his information from, but um, yeah, you can do whatever you want to with that information or that letter. Uh, the other thing I was going to check with, um, we are, as you heard, we are moving forward with the comp plan. Um, we're more than happy to invite everybody to the public meetings. We were kind of looking for maybe one of you to be the council person on the steering committee. Um, as we move forward with those meetings. So, if there's one of you in particular that has a passion for the comp plan, if we could add you to our regular email list, we will. Um, do I have any

Brian? Okay, it doesn't matter.

We'll let you know about all the public meetings, but we're looking for somebody just to be on the steering committee. Uh, we have numerous people from other agencies in the city. Uh, we've also reached out to like Cargill and LRO. they've said that they would put somebody on the committee and so so we'll be moving that process along here in the next couple weeks. Brian, we'll put you on the official mailing list and then we'll keep the rest of council informed um on those. Appreciate that. Uh the other thing that I was going to hit on, this is um a request that um the new mayor has asked for. We always do include at the back of your packets and I realize some of our meetings our packets are extremely long and so as part of my report every meeting I'm just going to hit on um some of the primary agenda items that you will see in two weeks at the the next meeting. So um next uh February 3rd is the next council meeting and you will see we are getting ready to approve bids on a bunch of the materials for the XL substation um update. Uh we're have a couple new members coming on to the airport advisory board that will be up for approval and then you'll have two public hearings on the two um ordinances that were brought tonight. The fireworks um and then the changes to the model traffic code. So those are the items that we have on the agenda. Um I do remind everybody that we do end up having to add things on these ahead of that. So this is obviously preliminary and it's subject to change. Okay, that's all I got for you.

All right, Chief Sharp,

I just have a couple things, your honor. I I uh included these in my report to you last week, but I think they might be worth mentioning. And one of them is part of our training every year. Um not every year, for every officer. Part of our training plan includes training in CIT, which is crisis intervention training. Um as you all know, we deal with many more people with mental health problems today than we have in the past. And often when you turn on the news, you see police interactions that are negative. And so we try to train our staff and we we've made it a priority to get everybody trained in CIT. And this last couple weeks ago now, we were able to send two officers. Um, Officer Cameron Gonzalez was named the top performer in that that class. So I think that's pretty impressive. Um, it's pretty intensive class. It's about 40 hours, but they actually hire um professional actors to come in and they act through these scenarios of psychological distress so that the officers have to learn how to deal with that and not agitate them or or create more stress. So, um he was named a top performer and I think that's something worth noting. And then lastly, we've had a bicycle program or bicycle police program for probably at least 32 years or so now. I'm thinking is about 32 years ago we started. We purchased bikes over the years a few times. Uh, of course, like anything, they need to be replaced. This year, we're able to get a grant. Um, that was kind of unexpected, but we got a grant for three new ebikes. So, now that we have staffing and we have people that will be able to ride bikes for the first time in several years, we should be able to be out there more. We're able to get three more ebikes, which will be fully upfit with flashing lights and sirens and all those things that go on them. Um but also um there's about $21,000 in in grant funding. So pretty excited to add those to the fleet here in the next few months probably.

That's all I have. Chief, do you have ebikes right now? We do not. We have pedal just regular pedal bikes. Yeah, I used to kind of laugh at him saying we're never going to get ebikes with the cost of those things, but here we go. They're definitely beneficial. All right, thanks Lauren. Uh, bid meetings and announcement. Miss Curtis,

thank you. Uh, January 22nd is at 4 pm is the Museum Heritage Foundation meeting at the library and museum community room. January 26th is the planning commission here at city hall at 4:30. And also on January 26th at 4:30 is the library advisory board meeting in the library museum community room. And February 3rd is our next city council meeting here in the council chambers. We have a lot of bids, so just bear with me. Um, there is the 2026 XL substation expansion construction bid due on February 10th at 3 PM. The next one is the con construction manager, general contractor for the Foran Aquatic Center edition and that closes February 6th at 3 p.m. Then there is the Excel substation expansion tubular steel bid closes February 12th at 3 p.m. The electric department engineering services RFP closes January 30th at 3 p.m. The parks department has a PTO driven turf sweeper bid that closes January 23rd at 3 PM. The golf course has a fairway mower bid that closes January 30th at 2 p.m. That's all

really. All right. Any comments from the group in the back? The little one. You want to stand up? There you go. Okay. Are you standing up?

All right. Um the next uh we're going to go into executive session uh for a conference with our city attorney for the purpose of receiving legal advice on specific legal questions under CRS section 246 4024B and for the purpose of determining positions related to the matter that may be subject to negotiations developing strategies and negotiations and or instructions negotiations a lot of attorney stuff under CRS 246 4024 for he we're going animal shelter contract with the humane society. Do I hear a motion to adjurnn to executive session?

So moved. Second. All right. We will adjourn to executive session.