City Council - Regular Meeting

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You know me, I wouldn't do that. Good evening and welcome. Welcome to Westminster City Council meeting of May 11th, 2026. Please stand and join us in the pledge of

allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you for joining us this evening. Please remember that our meetings are governed by the rules of decorum posted inside the chamber doors. We ask all attendees to maintain a respectful environment. No disruptions, threats, or audible expressions of support or opposition are permitted. Signs and placards are prohibited and all attendees must remain seated in designated areas. If you wish to speak during public comment, please sign up in the lobby. Signup closes at 6:45 p.m. Uh, city clerk, roll call, please. Councelor Barahas,

present. Mayor Carmelia, present. Councelor Zadi, here. Councelor Hot, present. Councelor Ireland, here. Councelor Johnson, here. And Mayor Prom Nurmela here. Thank you. Do I have a motion to approve the minutes? Mayor Prom. I move to approve the minutes from um I'm sorry, I'm looking for my paper. No, you're good. April 27th uh 2026 from the city council meeting. Thank you. Second, councelor hot. I second. Thank you. Any further discussion? All those in favor? I.

Any opposed? Okay, that moves us to six uh presentations. We have six presentations this evening. And uh we are starting first with a proclamation to recognize and acknowledge the graduating seniors of the youth advisory panel. Councelor Rosati, will you please present the proclamation? Can all the yappers come up, please? Hey, how are you? Good. How are you?

Can you all introduce yourselves? Um, my name is Hagen Vang. I just graduated from uh Northland High School today. Um, and yeah, I used to be a senior. So, My name is Emanuel Bacum. I just graduated from Stargate Charter School.

My name is My name is Akim Gao and I also graduated from Stargate School. My name is Victoria Croll and I graduated from Broomfield High School. My name is Brenn Sorus and I'm about to graduate from Jefferson Academy. I'm Lily Morgan. I'm the youth advisory panel program coordinator.

Well, thank you all for being here and thank you for your service to the city. These are really brilliant minds who have been part of the youth advisory panel for several years now. I've had the honor of being the liazison for this group this year and I can tell you that it is such a fantastic um organized young set of creative minds that are really helping the city with a lot of things, a lot of projects. And I'm just really proud that you all have had the opportunity to add a lot of value to us. So I'm going to read this proclamation. Sorry for my voice, by the way. I'm losing it. Whereas the city of Westminster believes our youth should share with the community with their community members the responsibility in addressing their needs, desires, challenges, and issues which mold their own futures. And whereas the city values its youth and seeks to advance and promote their special interests and needs and therefore created the city the Westminster youth advisory panel on September 13th, 1999. And whereas currently the panel has five graduating senior members appointed for the 2526 school year. And whereas it is important to acknowledge the contributions made by outgoing seniors. Now therefore, I, Claire Chameleia, mayor of the city of Westminster, on behalf of city council and staff, do hereby recognize and extend appreciation to the following youth advisory panel. Outgoing senior members who are currently serving on the youth advisory panel representing their schools and Westminster youth, Emmanuel Bum, Stargate Charter School. A Akime Gao Stargate Charter School, Victoria Croll, Broomfield High School,

Brena Sores, Jefferson Academy, and Hehagen Vang Northland High School. Signed this 11th day of May, 2026. Thank you so much.

Now we will recognize provider appreciation day also presented by councelor Rosati. Can ECPAC folks come up please? How are you?

Can you introduce yourselves? Sure. Hi, I'm Lisa Jansen Thompson, the executive director at the Early Childhood Partnership of Adams County. I'm Julia Brink. I'm the director of workforce development at Triad early childhood counselor in Jefferson County. I'm Ariana Reese. I am a teacher for Westminister Public Schools. My name is Nicole Gonzalez and I'm career navigator with ECPAC.

So, as we all know, childc care is a very important issue right now. There is a crisis in the state and in this city. Um our biggest need are the children between six weeks and six months and um and six years. And right now we have a huge gap in providers. We have a gap in wages for the teachers who work in these schools. We don't have enough slots for infants and toddlers. And these heroes that are standing right here are part of a coalition of stakeholders who are helping our city every day um to try to solve this crisis and it's really important that we're doing what we can as a city to to do that. So I'm proud to be up here standing with you and I will read this proclamation. Whereas the Early Childhood Partnership of Adams County and the Triad Early Childhood Council and organizations nationwide are recognizing early care and education providers on this day. And whereas the early care and education system supports children's growth, development, and educational advancement while creating positive economic impacts for families and communities. And whereas early care and and education providers are essential to the health of our communities by fostering safe and welcoming spaces, supporting working families, and creating enriching environments where children develop lifelong skills. And whereas early care and education providers work in various settings including centers, family childhood homes, and preschools, offering families a choice in the type of care that works best for them and their child. And whereas the city of Westminster recognizes that early care and education have been and continue to be a lifeline for families, communities, and the economy. And whereas Westminster has provided much needed support to

providers to help sustain the viability of early care and education by elevating child care as a formal a formal priority in the Westminster strategic plan, by adopting a landmark amendment to the Westminster 2040 comprehensive plan, recognizing child care as essential infrastructure and opening all safe zoning types to childcare facilities, and continuing to explore new policies, partnerships, and investments to expand child care access and affordability for working families. And whereas support for affordable, accessible, highquality early care and education represents a worthy commitment to help families work, support children's healthy development and learning and keep our economy growing. Now therefore, I, Claire Chamilleia, mayor of Westminster, on behalf of the entire city council and staff, do hereby proclaim May 8th, 2026 as provider appreciation day in Westminster and urge all citizens to recognize early care and education providers for their important work and value to our communities. Sign this day, May 26. I do. Is that okay?

I didn't. Well, some cities allow comment and some don't. But councelor Zat said I can't. I got to put my glasses on now. All right, mayor and council members, on behalf of the Early Childhood Partnership of Adams County and Triad Early Childhood Council, we want to thank you for recognizing May 8th as early care and education provider day. Um, another piece I just want to note is today is actually day without child care and there are many families in this community who actually don't have child care so that they can work. Um, what we see right now in Adams County is that we only have the capacity to serve 8.5% of the infants who live here in licensed care, 18.6% of the toddlers. And even with universal preschool, we can only provide 71% of uh openings for three and four year olds. Last year, twice as many child care programs closed than in 2024 or 2023, with burnout and economic pressures being the topsided reasons. Um, these low capacity numbers uh in our metro, they are the lowest in the entire metro area, meaning that families who live here are scrambling to figure out child care, often having to go out of the county or out of the city for care, and sometimes having to make hard decisions about whether they can work. What may be contributing to this lack of capacity is over the past 5 years other industries such as fast food and retail have increased wages by 5 to 9%. While early care and education provider wages have only increased by 3% and these provider wages are in the bottom 5% of all occupations. However, these providers come to work with love and passion for the work they do. Despite the challenges noted, they recognize the importance of their job on the development of children and the economic stability of our family and our community. They provide safe, nurturing, and educationally rich environments for our youngest citizens. And because of this, we want to recognize them not only on May 8th, but every day that they work. And finally, I do want to thank uh

the city of Westminster for all your hard work in um elevating child care as a top priority for your city.

Thank you. Our next proclamation is for National Day of Prayer. Councelor Ireland, will you please present the National Day of Prayer Proclamation? I want to Is it working? Can you hear me? Okay. I want to ask Pastor Nice Shannon to come up and Dave Deont and Tom Lampo. He was shy but he's coming up. And President Bill Sharp. And I also invited uh Pastor Romero, but he had an emergency tonight. So

maybe you all can introduce yourself before I give the proclamation. This is Tom. He always comes and prays. All right. So I'm Tom Lampo. Phil Sharp. I'm a president of the u um the Church of Jesus Christ here in Westminster. Dave Deont.

Reverend Denise Shannon of Westminster Presbyterian Church. Thank you for all you being here. Um Dave was a strong advocate while on city council for National Day and Prayer and he would say it even if it the city council didn't agree to have it. So I appreciate him being here and being a force for good and faith and belief in God. So I appreciate his his Christian beliefs. And this is is this is the stake presidency from my church, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. and the Presbyterian Church in Westminster does wonderful things for our community. That's where the fish um food bank

food bank is. So, I appreciate them. And Tom, I can't thank enough for coming and praying for us every single city council meeting. It means a lot to me. So, I'll do this with trying not to cry. Anyway, whereas the National Day of Prayer was first proclaimed by the Continental Congress in 1775 and the current United States Congress has called on our residents to recognize an annual National Day of Prayer. And whereas in an address to the constitutional convention in 1787, Benjamin Franklin proposed that prayers imploring the assistance of heaven and his blessings on our deliberations be held in this this assembly every morning before we proceed to business. And whereas the clergy, congregations, and religious groups in Westminster play a vital role instilling values and promoting the common goals of the community. And whereas we are concerned about the youth of our community and wish to focus on providing a safe community that will promote their growth and development in the best possible way. Whereas our Christian churches in Westminster that are part of the Westminster cares works with and prays for our country, national, state, and local governments, first responders, children, our community, and each have programs within their congregations that reach out to all residents to help make our city a great place to live. Now therefore, I, Claire Chamilleia, mayor of city of Westminster, on behalf of the entire city council and staff, do hereby proclaim Thursday, May 7th, 2026 as citywide national day of prayer, and further encourage every residents of this community to pray, seeking strength to face the challenges of today, requesting guidance for the uncertainties of tomorrow, and giving thanks for the rich blessings that we enjoy. I appreciate this so much and I know

God is in charge. So I I I appreciate prayer. I I pray always. So that's what I keep a prayer in my heart for this city and for all of you. So anyway, you want to say anything more guys? How about you Dave?

Um sure. First off, thank you guys. Those of you who I worked with and those of you who are new, um, and everybody who came out for this, I would like to at least also thank former mayor McN, her group, Westminster Cares, they do a lot with the different faith-based community in the city of Westminster. She's done that since uh the first goround that she was mayor. Um, a church here in town, the crossings over on 104th, they always do National Day of Prayer. So, that's how I kind of got involved in this and I do think it's very important. So, I very much appreciate the fact that they did this this year. So, and thank you for championing it while I was gone because, you know, I would have kept kept at it. But,

thank you so much, Christine. We uh appreciate prayer and share our desire to uh with other religious communities to call upon God for help in all matters, including civic matters. and we're very grateful for your consideration of the religious communities in Westminster and uh their shared uh desire for uh prayer and for asking for divine help in all that we do.

I just wanted to say it's really special to to get this uh proclamation for National Day of Prayer. I've often think that sometimes we say, "Well, all I can do is pray or all, you know, I can just pray." And I want to take that word out of with with prayer because what we can do is pray um for our city council, for our state, for our world, um our nation, and those kind of things. So, it's a very strong, it's a very big thing to do, and I just appreciate um you bringing it forth and to highlight that for city council. Thanks so much. Thank you for all being here and I want to thank the Crossings Church because I was able to do the proclamation at their church this year and I appreciate them appreciate them inviting me and I think Dave and Nancy had a lot to do with that. So I appreciate that and thanks for all all of you coming to accept it. Thank you. This way tiny I will now recognize the pollinators pledge, the proclamation for B city USA, and the proclamation for world migratory bird day as part of the birds City Network.

Thank you. You got more. All right. Thank you both for being up here. Um, let me go look for one. I'll do these one at a time here. I'm gonna let you each introduce yourselves. And uh before I uh do the first one, which is a pollinators pledge, feel free to join if you care about our natural world, our ecosystems, and um the health and well-being of the city of Westminster. You two are welcome up here. So, I'll let you introduce yourself.

Lance Johnson, Parks, Golf, and Open Space Manager. Eric Oselberger, Parks, Recreation, Libraries Director. And we want to give a shout out to our team. They're doing the real work this evening with a stakeholder group of community members working on an ecosystem management plan that'll further our pollinator efforts. So, um, Joe, Arian, Liam, Merilla, the whole crew, they send their regrets, but they're rolling up their sleeves with our community members literally as we speak right now.

That is really exciting. I did not know that. Fantastic. Okay. Well, uh, for those in the city, we have a lot coming this year because we're taking this drought very, very seriously and we're also taking our responsibility to live as one, uh, in cohesion with our natural environment very seriously. Uh, and so this is our first pollinators pledge, a commitment by city leaders to support the health and abundance of pollinators. Pollinators such as bees, butterflies, moths, beetles, flies, and birds are essential to healthy ecosystems, thriving gardens and farms, and resilient communities. Cities have a unique ability to protect and expand habitat through the way we plan, maintain, and connect our public lands and rights away, and through the partnerships we build with residents, businesses, and community organizations. Therefore, I, Mayor Clare Carmelia, on behalf of the city of Westminster, Colorado, pledge to take meaningful action to support pollinators and the habitats they depend on. We will pursue this work with leadership, practicality, transparency, and communitywide benefit so that every neighborhood can share in the ecological and quality of life gains this commitment brings. I won't read through the whole thing, but I'll list pretty briefly here the commitments. Uh we commit to create enhance habitat, to design and connect our green spaces, to partner and build relationships, to invest and incentivize, to educate and train, and to celebrate and recognize achievements. And uh for those who don't know, a lot of this is already in action and we're really really excited about it. So much to come. You're going to see some um really beautiful parks opening up soon that have pollinator districts within them. We will implement this by advancing land management practices that reduce reliance on harmful chemicals using integrated pest management principles and prioritizing effective non-chemical methods whenever possible. We will establish clear roles and accountability for implementation and public communication of progress. We will encourage and support residents, HOAs,

businesses, and institutions to create pesticide conscious pollinator friendly habitat on private lands. By signing this pledge, I affirm our city's commitment to measurable sustained action that supports our pollinators, strengthens biodiversity, and improves the health and beauty of our community for current and future generations. Thank you so much. All right, here I'll let you hold that. You never know. It's rolling. I don't trust it. Are we Yeah. You want us.

All right, we have a few more. So, um, we're going to do B City USA next. I don't know if you're staying up for all three of them.

Okay, we've got a lot to get through then. Okay. Um we are also a bee city here in Westminster. So whereas the mission of B City USA is to galvanize communities to sustain pollinators responsible for the reproduction of almost 90% of the world's flowering plant species by providing them with healthy habitat rich in variety of native plants and free to nearly free pesticides. And whereas to the more than 3600 species of native bees in the US along with introduced honeybees, we have a very diverse dietary choice rich in nuts, fruits, vegetables. And whereas bees and other pollinators have experienced population decline due to a combination of habitat loss, poor nutrition, pesticides, including insecttoides, fungicides, and herbicides, parasites, diseases, and climate change. Whereas pollinator friendly communities can benefit local and regional economies through healthier ecosystems, increased vegetable and fruit crop yields, and increased demand for pollinator friendly plant materials from local growers. And whereas ideal pollinator friendly habitat is comprised comprised mostly of native wild flowers, grasses, vines, shrubs, and trees blooming in succession throughout growing season to provide diverse and abundant nectar and pollen. Since many wild pollinators prefer or depend on natives with which they co-adapted and B is free to nearly free of pesticides as many pesticides harm pollinators in their habitat and C comprises undisturbed spaces, leaf and brush piles, unknown fields or field margins and fallen trees and other dead wood for nesting and overwintering. And D provides connectivity between habitat areas supporting pollinator movement and resilience. And whereas integrated pest management is a long-term approach to maintaining healthy landscapes that facilitate and minimize risk to people and the environment by identifying and removing the cause of pest problems rather than only attacking the symptoms. Employing pest natural enemies along with cultural, mechanical, and physical controls when prevention is not enough and using pesticides only when no other

method is feasible or effective. And whereas the city supports the opportunity to enhance understanding among local government staff and the public about the vital role that pollinators play and what each of us can do to sustain them, the city of Westminster chooses to support and encourage healthy pollinator habitat creation and enhance enhancement. Now therefore, I, Clare Carmelia, mayor of the city of Westminster, on behalf of city council and staff, do hereby present this proclamation for B City USA. And all right, there's a lot there. I don't know. We should just take one photo. Is one good? Okay.

All right. We'll keep on going here. It's not our fault. We have uh butterfly pavilion right here in Westminster, you know, so they're watching us. If you didn't know this, I I only learned a couple years ago, they are the world's only and largest invertebrate ecological zoo. And so, they're housed right here in our city. And they are doing important global work. They work with global researchers around the world to protect and preserve our invertebrates which are uh truly on um what's the word? Close to ecological collapse is where they're at. It's it's very very scary where our invertebrates stand and of course they are responsible for our food sources. So um it's a pretty dangerous situation and we happen to have them right here housed in our city. So we're really proud of that. Okay, last one. Uh whereas uh this is for our urban habitat committee. Whereas 2003 Urban Habitat Committee of the Wisconsin Bird Conservation Initiative created Bird City Wisconsin and based the initiative on Arbor Day Foundation's Tree City USA. Bird City is the next project created by the Environment for Americas and is modeled after Bird City Wisconsin. Whereas adopting a resolution to recognize World Migratory Bird Day and holding a public event, program or activity to celebrate World Mig Migratory Birthday is a requirement of renewing Westminster as a bird city. And whereas World Migratory Birthday is an opportunity to discover, recognize, and celebrate migratory birds that share our vibrant economy. And whereas migratory bird species are declining due to human impact, habit destruction, and a lack of conservation awareness. And whereas birds are responsible for pest management, pollination of native and ornamental plant species, soil fertilization, and more. And whereas the existence of diverse bird species contribute to a healthier and more vibrant community. Now, therefore, I, Clare Carmelia, mayor of the city of Westminster, on behalf of city council and staff, do hereby proclaim the second Saturday of October as World Migratory

Bird Day in the city of Westminster. All right. Yeah, I got you. Thank you all so much. That moves us now to public comment. Public comment is an opportunity for the public to address city council on any issue or item pertaining to city business. During public comment, each speaker will have up to three minutes for their comments. Staff will follow up with questions and outstanding issues. If you are here to speak on the public hearing item, please wait until that item is called. City clerk, would you please report the number of email and voicemails comments received and the number of individuals signed up to speak and then call the first speaker to the podium. We did not receive any emails or voicemails and we have 14 people signed up to speak. The first one is Cindy Stout.

Good evening. Um, mayor, mayor prom, councilors, and staff, my name is Cindy Stout. I'm here representing the Westy Dog Park Guardians. You should have several handouts from us, and I'd like to start with our 2025 annual impact report is what it's called. First off, you can see over 6,000 hours of volunteer time dedicated to our beautiful off leash area, plus additional hours serving the community through vaccine clinics, library events, and food drives. Um, our donations to this cause have come in just short of $5,000. Some of that has been inind through corporate donations to the food drive, um, website hosting. A lot of it is just real costs that we all donate. Um, our second annual pause giving, which we had last Thanksgiving, uh, the week before Thanksgiving, netted an astounding 4,610 pounds of dog and cat food. Councelor Rosati, apparently I've got what you've got. Sorry. uh plus many other supplies that were donated to shelters. To wrap up, the estimated dollar value of both our hours plus our extended community is $243,94. This is based on a nationally recognized assessment of the value of volunteer hours. We'd like to recognize our community partners, um, Fish Food Pantries of Broomfield and Westminster, Foothills and Riverdale Animal Shelters, Almost Home Cat Shelter, and the Arvvada Community Table. In addition, special thanks go to our business sponsors,

Mountain States, Toyota, Petco, PetSmart, G's Tacos, and Front Range Gardens. Now, if you would please check the second handout. Um, this is titled Dog Park Guardians Pup Event Digs Deep at Westminster Hills. Um, this was an article from the Westminster window last week. Um, reporting on our latest pup party. So, PU sounds really fun, but it stands for pickup poop, so we have to make it at least a little entertaining. Um, we accounted for 150 volunteers, uh, giving approximately 175 hours to pick up an estimated 500 pounds of waste and trash. Um, they also went through the Dry Creek Valley ditch and picked up trash in there before they turned that on. Um, we were just overwhelmed by the community's support on that. Um, we're looking forward to continuing caring for our park and community and appreciate your support. Thanks so much for your time.

Thank you. The next speaker is Beth McBride.

Good evening and thank you for um letting us speak. I'm also with the dog park guardians and I gave you an envelope and I don't mean to have us read it all at once but I just want you to read mainly the first page which is our announcement for our next event which I would like to invite you all to attend. I know it's a busy day but we've talked um a couple of the counselors to come in. Also, I'd like to personally thank uh Adam for being at our pup party because we had a lot of citizens come up to him and ask him a lot of questions about our drought and u what the city's doing and what they can do and they're worried about water and you know so it was really valuable um on this uh educate and celebrate. This is our first year that since we've adopted the park and um we're having community tables of people employees from the city and if you notice here it's Westminster city councilman and I we also talked to Mr. Rosati into um coming too for a short time. And um but if you look at the very first this is your draft um but a lot of people have no idea at the park what we're talking about. They kept and and they come up and ask questions and there are numerous information sheets especially at the library. I've got to tell you it's a wonderful place. But here is something about water assistance. you know, payment assistance for water and there a number of ways you can fix, you know, take care of um that the to relieve the people's worries about that. The um another thing is how to prepare your house and and um your watering. Anyway, animal management um is coming also and they're going to talk about pet safety, especially the heat. And if you notice here, animal management provided us with this uh

flyer showing that a dog in a car for like a short period of time at even 70 degrees could get up to 104 degrees. And also then they also provided the next this is sponsored by the chief of police and the animal management. We have the next vaccines. The last one, the second one or the third one I guess it is Stanley Lake uh rangers and they have their own flyers and I didn't get any of them except we have a bird specialist orthologist come who does the bird walks out at Stanley Lake. He's coming also. But one of the big concerns is snake. It is snake season and people are worried about coyotes. I do have to say that um people that are middle-aged and closer to my age um a lot of them are very worried about the drought. Younger people are worried about the snakes. you know, it's um concerns out there and they're expressing it. I'm pleased that that they did that. One of the most wonderful men we have in the city, as far as I'm concerned, is Greg Moer with a um police uh fire department. He has made the Genesis system project app for the phone and it you put it on your phone and a police officer or a fireman can be in a location where there's a disaster or an emergency notify you by pushing the button he's on site. It's incredible system. So I do um strongly uh ask you all to look at that. Also, the library also has how do you prepare for your own home in case of the drought and fires. Um, they also have we gave the FEMA has a whole thing of what to take uh when you need to leave. Um, and it just lists everything from food, water, and even u uh things for your pets. Finally, this is just one example.

I'm so sorry. I think I completely I've been listening to everything you're saying and we're way overdue on the timer. Oh, I'm sorry. That's the first time I've done that. I'm sorry. No problem. Just I I provided this so you could read it on your own and I thank you all very much and invite you to attend. Thank you. Thank you. You're a great engaging speaker. I'm I'm listening and not All right. Next speaker. The next speaker is James Instrom.

Hello. I am here to just express my appreciation to the city council for your support of the um National Day of Prayer. I recently attended the uh Colorado prayer lunchon. The opening speaker was Governor uh Polus who acknowledged the value of the faith community and addressed the in addressing the tone of discussion that we see in our in our civic discourse. Uh he mentioned that he was uh teamed up with the governor of Utah who was a member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and furthering agenda of more civil discourse. Um this lunchon was supported by several of the other faith-based concert um congregations in the front range. The keynote speaker was a Colorado native Joel Clott who played football at the Colorado uh university uh the Buffaloos and then also is now a top sports analyst for uh Fox News. He spoke on the merits of prayer and the value that it plays in its life. I just want to admonish that uh a day of prayer brings faith, government and business leaders together uh to address some of the needs that we cannot that we cannot accomplish alone. Uh so we can bring our uh we can accomplish things together if we do that. And so I I noted some of the other earlier challenges that we were facing and and I believe that will be a a big support for that. So I thank you.

Thank you. The next speaker is Travis Cop.

Welcome. Thank you. Good evening, mayor, city council members. Um, my name is Charles Cobb. As was said, I am a servant of Jesus Christ. I want to say that I support the city of Westminster in its national day of prayer proclamation. It has been well said that God is still on his throne and prayer changes things. Thank you. Thank you. The next speaker is Kathy Straoud.

Welcome.

Hi. Hello. Let's begin with $50,000, shall we? Exactly two years ago, the unelected city manager could spend just with his signature $50,000 on any contract without city council approval. Then a year and a half ago, it was raised to $250,000. But apparently, one cannot spend tax dollars fast enough at that level. So, city council wants to raise what the unelected city manager can spend without approval to $750,000 a pop. Wow. During the last study session of city council, I heard the rationale for this. Apparently, since city council always passes any shiny new spending idea that the unelected city manager presents to them, then why not raise the limit to almost a million dollars? After all, the guardians of the Westminster taxpayer, you on counsel, all just agree to anything. Or do you? No. There is one common sense Westminster counselor that asks questions on behalf of the taxpayer and most often says no to these constant asks for questionable spending of taxpayer money. The only common sense cons counselor that stands up for the taxpayer is Christine Ireland. Raising what the unelected city manager can spend without approval will result in less discussion in this public forum on why the city needs to spend these huge amounts. You basically want to shut up the one person on council who stands up for the Westminster taxpayer. In addition, you really don't want to hear from those pesky taxpayers like me who might oppose the spending ideas as well. Raising the limit guarantees no public discussion and no public disscent. Are you so afraid of those you are supposed to represent that you are just approving this so you don't need to hear from them? If you pass this huge spending limit for the unelected city manager,

which I am sure you will, you are also contributing to the bloat of government and inflation in the city of Westminster. The unelected city manager and staff will continually come up with more and more ways to spend our hard-earned tax dollars. Now, the unelected city manager will tell you that he has a four or fivestep rigorous approval system in place. Unfortunately, every person or department that approves these expenditures ultimately reports to, yes, you guessed it, the unelected city manager. There is no impartial approval system. Heck, if you raise the spending limit, each one of you, our elected representatives, have stepped back from your duty to the taxpayers and the citizens of our city. I'm not sure why at this point we even have a city council and mayor. Are we just going for the ceremonial look of Great Britain's royalty? Do you really represent the taxpayers of Westminster? You say you do, but your actions speak otherwise. Thank you.

Thank you. The next speaker is Christine Wears call. I'm sorry there is no applause or otherwise allowed. Thank you.

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Hello. Greetings, mayor and s city council. Thank you for the opportunity to once again address the ongoing safety and concerns impacting the Solaris Center, downtown Westminster, and residents due to the Rodeo Nightclub. Earlier today, I emailed each of you several visuals highlighting the significant impact these events have on our center and nearby residents, showing frequent need for police intervention. Data used in the report was sourced from the city of Westminster, police reports, and rodeo social media. Over the past several months, I have shared information regarding several severe legal illegal activity, including p public drug and alcohol use by rodeo patrons, some of whom are minors, in our parking lot and surrounding areas. This is before, during, and after events. These disturbances have resulted in multiple police calls and even arrests that are now public record. The situation has escalated dangerously. Most recently, six gunshots were fired in the parking lot during a Saturday night rodeo event. Some residents witnessed this incident and heard the shots and it was posted on local social media. There have been multiple sightings of individuals waving guns from vehicles and consuming alcohol while driving through the parking lot. This continued escalation presents a major safety risk and is actively deterring people from visiting the area. If left unressed, I am concerned this will cause a negative impact on the broader downtown Westminster area and its residents. Must we wait for a serious injury to occur before action is

taken? In addition to safety concerns, the increased noise and traffic threatens the viability of local businesses and residential property values. Residents voiced their concerns two weeks ago, but yet have to receive a response or a proposed solution. These individuals invested in the city of Westminster with the expectation of safe and quiet enjoyment of their property. The current situation resulting the city's decision to allow a high occupancy venue to operate in a nightclub capacity is becoming unsustainable. I believe the situation will negatively impact the reputation of Westminster, which is otherwise an outstanding place to live and operate a business. I urge the council to prioritize this matter immediately. Community safety is essential to protecting the long-term investment in our downtown district. While Cocoelli and other local businesses remain committed to the success of Westminster, we require a safe environment in order to operate effectively. It is essential that the residents feel secure living and growing within this community. We ask that you please take the necessary steps to restore our community to the standards maintained prior to February 7th. Thank you kindly for your time. Thank you.

The next speaker is Julian Bentonelli.

Welcome.

Thank you. Good evening, mayor, council members. Um, members of the community I felt were somewhat encouraged after our last meeting as we heard and saw the mayor and council members trying to participate and engage with some potential solutions for the rodeo. We left understanding that outside of an annual renewal process, our only other recourse was to call PD, complain, report, and wait for the chief. I believe that there's a Colorado statute that gives uh this board and the local licensing authority to act now. It's Colorado Revised Statute 443601. Any local licensing authority has the power on its own motion or on its own complaint to initiate an investigation, to hold a hearing, to either issue fines, or to suspend a license. I believe we have what we need here. uh if we can act. Westminster MUN code 5163 lays out eight factors to consider. the character of the Lency, the Lency's prior experience, traffic volume and parking, the potential effect to the piece of the neighborhood, compliance to zoning and building regulations, police activity in the business, the character of the business in relation to surrounding areas, and the reasonable requirements of the neighborhood and the desires of its inhabitants. Um I believe that we have all heard uh the overwhelming evidence. We have assaults and drug and alcohol use um shootings, public and private destruction of uh destruction of private and public property. Uh upon information

and belief, they are serving full bottles of alcohol with the lid on. Uh regarding reputation, they were kicked out of Aurora. They didn't pay taxes. Aurora had to file a lean and seize the building. I believe Gley is having a problem right now. In 2020, the Colorado Attorney General, this is online, um had to issue several cease and desists to the Aurora locations because they were in violation of executive orders. My understanding is based on the categorization of their licensing, they have to have 15% of food sales. They do not sell food. They have some food trucks sometimes that are not licensed. The parking based on uh Westminster MUN 1174, it should be 3:1. should have 550 parking lot spaces. The parking lot holds 400. Based on that code, Cocappelli should have 96. Uh we see the overflow into the Alamo to the church parking lot. Their occupancy was approved based on a prior layout. We estimate that they have uh between 2500 and 3,000 people, nearly twice the amount of occupancy. Again, based on a prior floor pan floor plan, they remove the tables and chairs. We would ask that um a motion we would request that a motion um is initiated to bring this before the liquor licensing board and a motion to hold a hearing and to issue a summary or a temporary suspension. Please protect us. Please and thank you.

Thank you. The next speaker is Tom Lampo. Welcome. Thanks a lot.

All right. Hello to everybody. It's good to be back Westminster. I'm Tom Lampo and here to lift up the city in prayer. So, please join me in prayer. Lord, in Jesus name, we invite you here tonight. Be with us here and let your presence be known at this meeting. Your will be done in Westminster. Holy is your name. Righteous are you. Nothing can approach your majesty. You put everything into motion. Your love for us is beyond any measure. You're the only one worthy of all our praise. And yet we transgre trans transgress your perfect plan for our lives. In your word, 1 John 1:9 addresses this and states, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. We'll take you at your word and ask for forgiveness for thinking our ways are better than what you know is best for us. Restore us and place us back on the path of righteousness. Father, you've sent us moisture again. Your provisions are intentional and timely. We asked you for moisture for our mountains and here in Westminster. You provided because nothing is too great for you. In your word in Jeremiah 32:27, you give us a word we can depend on. You state, "I am the Lord, the God of all the peoples of the world. Is anything too hard for me?" No, there is nothing too difficult for you to accomplish. Your word then states in Matthew 7:7-11, "Ask and it will be given to you. Seek and you will find. Knock and it will be open to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened." Or which one of you, if his son asks asks him for bread, will give him a stone? or if he asks for a fish will give him a serpent. If you then who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your father who is in heaven give good g good things to those who ask him? You are our provider. All good things come from

come from you. And with all things being in your control, you can do far greater things than we can imagine. So with praise and thanksgiving upon our lips and in our hearts, we ask you in faith to continue to provide the moisture for us. Do not lift your hand of favor that is with us. Continue to be our provider. You are Jehovah Gyra. The Lord will provide. You are our God and we are your people. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Thank you guys. Have a nice night. Thank you. Nice. The next speaker is Chuck Hut Hutchcraft. Sorry. Chuck Hutchcraft, welcome.

Thank you. Um, I'm been living here in the city for 28 years and uh I've been very proud of uh what the city stands for and and what the city is uh doing and most of the uh work and things that they do and that your city council has done. Uh, but I've been disappointed lately to uh discover that the city has decided to honor a small minority group by flying a flag uh other than the Colorado flag or the city of Westminster or US flag. Uh that it does dishonor to the rest of the people that live in the city. Not that there's anything against the group that is honored, but uh to show honor to one group without showing honor to all of them, I think is a mistake. And I would just encourage the city council to uh give some further study to this matter before uh continuing with this action. Thank you.

Thank you. The next speaker is Dave Brown. Welcome.

Thank you, mayor, council, taxpayers. Um today I am here uh to talk about the rodeo uh also known as a convention center. I personally have been to many convention centers around the country and I've never found one that has drunken fights and drug use and condoms on the ground that my four-year-old has to see. That's what we have here. And that's what this organization, the police department is doing their best to keep a lid on it, but the city, the mayor, the council has granted this travesty to exist. And if it was a regular bar, it'd be shut down. If it was anything else than a protected minority minority group running in the joint, it would be shut down. The fact that it slid under the radar as a convention center, those are air quotes if you didn't see them. Basically, this is something that should not be allowed to exist. Last night, by my watch was Sunday night. I bet everyone on the council was having a nice quiet evening with their family. My wife, my four-year-old, and my dog sat trying to watch a kids movie. Hootin, hollering, and truck races and gunfights. That's not an exaggeration. You've seen the evidence. I don't need to I really don't need to go on and on, but I will. This is something that it's going to involve death, gunfire, gang fights, etc. Our building, I live in the town homes on Harlem. My neighbors are here with me. We've already had one bullet go into our building into a building. It's documented. It's I'm not making it up. Police know about it. Fire department knows about it. A bullet went into one of the homes. Luckily, this time no one was hit. If my daughter is injured by inaction of this council, there will be consequences. That means legal. That means liability. I'll also tell you, and this is not a threat, this is a promise. I am going after the insurers of the adjacent b of the adjacent parking lots

because they don't know about the liability that the city is allowing to exist. I promise you the overflow over by Ovation Church which is 9075. Um that overflow is not part of the shopping center where Rodeo and Coappelli exist. Okay. So the overflow is going into the other parking lot behind it which is directly in front of me. I've got 42 seconds. I've been waiting for three years now since I bought three of the town town homes on Harlem. I was sold a bill of goods by the city of Westminster that this is going to be a big deal. There's going to be regional park. You're going to spend $20 million, a lot more than some people think you should have spent on this downtown Westminster thing. Well, I went all in. I must be a fool. I bought three town houses, $2 million. Anyone ever done that? $2 million of my money. And now I have a cause of action. 14 seconds. One of my tenants is not renewing their lease, which I sold at top dollar 18 months ago. They had an option to renew with only a $100 increase, and they're not going to do it. You know why? Because of rodeo. That is called economic impact on David E. Brown. Cause of action. I'm going to take action. The city's going to hear about this. Please don't make me do what I'm going to do. Thank you. Thank you. The next speaker is Alex Tersy. Good evening. Wow, there's there's been a lot said about my neighborhood. Um, I live by the rodeo and the legacy event centers, not one but two in our little neighborhood. My concern is

um we're approaching the Aristat Park opening that we've been waiting months and months and months for. My concern is that every event of rodeo has more destruction than the prior event. Sorry, I'm yanking on this thing. Um, the pavement besides VTO's Tacos was all wrecked and um the Legacy Event Center is right behind like the rodeo location. So, they're getting louder seeing that the rodeo is louder. Um, there's been a lot of talk about a noise ordinance and I feel it's a two-pronged approach. um you know, we need way more stricter business licenses and then then issues like this wouldn't happen to our um involving so much police. Um uh please protect us and um thank you for letting me speak.

Thank you.

The next speaker is Grace Haney. Welcome. Hi, I'm Grace Haney. Um, I want to first thank the police department and the fire department for their excellent service. Every time I turn around, they're they're doing something. And the 911 service for the city of Westminster is excellent. I've had to use them a couple of times for my neighbors and for me, and they've they're right there. They're right on top of it. And also, um, we got 10 new trees today at Coil Crossing Park. Thank you. It's really nice to see some nice activity going on there. Um, I started teaching at Westminster High School in 1972. One of my students at an adult class that I taught, not at Westminster High, but an adult class that I taught was Leverne Glassman, who was the secretary to Bill Christopher, who was the city manager for city of Westminster. He put together and the city council at that time had put together the budget to do this structure, this building and the police department next door. In all of the efforts that they made, there was never a request by the city manager to have an allowance of $750,000 on his signature without approval of city council. You are elected to represent me. I'm 84 years old. I cannot afford to pay anything more in taxes. And we are seeing so much corruption and fraud going on throughout the United States, including here in Colorado, just to the north of us, with city managers overspending and doing taking advantage of things. You're giving license to that city manager to to commit fraud. You're just you're handing it to him. So,

please please don't don't allow that. I can't afford to do this. I'm 84 years old. I can't do it. All my neighbors asked me to come here tonight. So, Coil Crossing, thank you. Thank you. The next speaker is Janette Deers.

Good evening, Mayor. Good evening, Mayor and Council. I'm pleased to address you folks and um share the thoughts that I have about the National Day of Prayer. Thank you for voting to draft a proclamation. Recognizing the National Day of Prayer for the City of Westminster in 2026, recognizing the power of prayer that all who are people of faith in God practice. Our country was established by the founding fathers who all prayed for inspiration and guidance from God to establish this great nation as well as the documents that bind our nation and states together as one nation under God. The National Day of Prayer was established in the official establishment was in 1952 by a joint resolution of the United States Congress and signed into law by President Harry S. Truman. On April 17th of that year, it was created as an annual national observance to invite people of all faiths to pray for the nation. Selecting the first Thursday in May was amended to the law by President Ronald Reagan in 1988. It has been my personal opportunity to be a interfaith specialist in the city of Westminster for over eight years for my faith, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. That means I've had the opportunity to visit many different faiths through the years to establish relationships with their faith leaders and their congregations. It has been a rich experience for me and I have witnessed the sincere prayers and devotions to God everywhere I go. People of faith are increasing, many of whom have sought for the religion that best resonates with their soul's desire for peace and strength from God. as they navigate through a very troubled world.

Faith communities are a strength to our city by establishing a lifestyle where serving one another and with each other is paramount. The selfless service for one another is nearly all-encompassing. From working with the unhoused to the the economically fragile to the rest of our population, the foundation of praying to God for strength, wisdom, and guidance to meet our community's needs is sincere, vibrant, and powerful. My hope is that the city of Westminster continues to stay committed to acknowledging that the faith-based communities of Westminster are a vital arm of our city and continue to recognize that prayer is the foundational principle that strengthens each individual contributor which positively impacts our city as well as our state and nation. Thank you.

Thank you. The next speaker is Don Oopa.

Welcome.

Good evening. Good evening. I have two issues. One, I want to thank you for your support of the National Day of Prayer. Um, the other is that I've got no other connection to the rodeo thing than what I've heard in the city council meetings here, but I find it an interesting contrast to what happened to my neighbor some 30 years ago in the city of Westminster. His his crime was parking two trucks with signs on him in front of his house and the city of Westminster came by and drove him out said he couldn't do that. And this what I hear about the rodeo seems to be a whole lot worse than what he was doing. Just having some meetings and um parking a couple of electricians trucks in front of his house. So that's all I have tonight. Have a good evening.

Thank you. And that was our final speaker.

Thank you speakers. City Manager Andrews, do you have a report this evening? Thank you, mayor. I do have a report this evening. Um it is a busy week or two ahead of us, so uh bear with me. I do have a few city updates uh to provide to you and the community. Um first, an update from this past Saturday. Um uh city council of course met on Saturday and set the priorities for the 2027 budget uh for the city of Westminster. Um and that was the beginning of the implementation of the city's strategic plan. Um and city council uh established uh funding priorities for the upcoming 2027 budget in direct connection to that strategic plan. City council discussed the budget process, economic forecasts, infrastructure funding, utility affordability, and set priorities for uh the strategic plan's outcomes and um tasks. City Council will discuss the next phase of the 2027 budget development at its June 1st study session. So, I wanted to uh highlight that and tie it together into upcoming budget preparation sessions with the city of Westminster. Every dollar spent um by this city is approved by city council in the budget and every dollar spent uh is tracked on our city transparency portal. So, if anyone has any questions about um how the city's uh budget is prepared, uh budgeted, approved, and spent those two uh resources are available. Next slide, please. U by way of city update, uh this is a community, uh neighborhood announcement. There is a temporary closure that's coming for one block of 73rd Avenue. Um that will begin tomorrow, May 12th. Um and that will be closed uh for approximately 3 weeks, and that will be weather and uh soil conditions dependent. Uh what to excuse me, what to expect. Local access will be available via v via Oyola Street and Bradburn Boulevard and the sidewalk on the north side of 73rd will be closed while the sidewalk on the south side will remain open. So there's a graphic

there and more information of course being u circulated and communicated to the local community. But I did want to flag that uh for our broader community. Next slide please. I want to also uh let our community know and city council that there is a second tree limb recycling event uh now scheduled for this Saturday and that's in response to last week's snowstorm. So, we've added that second event. Uh we did have the scheduled event this Saturday which was well attended. Um, and with the volume of limbs that came down with our recent snow event, we do have another event that's at the Brow property this coming Saturday. Uh, that's 1,00 sorry, 10,0001 Alky Street and that will run 8:00 a.m. to noon. That is a service that is provided free of charge to our residents. Um, and um, some people don't know this, but those tree limbs that you drop off, they are mulched and then uh, delivered to our free mulch pickup site on Westminster Boulevard. So, um drop off your broken tree limbs and then come back later and get free mulch that you can use um on your gardens and your um yards. Next slide, please. Uh by way of city update, uh we do have an upcoming uh armed forces service day celebration. So, uh join uh city officials uh elected officials um and members of our community to celebrate Armed Forces Day and honor all branches of the US military. And this year's ceremony will take place again. Uh it's this Saturday, May 16th, starting at 10 a.m. Sharply. Um and that will be at our Westminster Armed Forces Tribute Garden, which is at 601 West 104th Avenue. The ceremony will include a flag presentation, a 21 gun salute, a keynote speaker, and reading of the names of all of our new brick honores. Personalized engraved bricks are available to all service members. And for more information, if you want to purchase a brick for a loved one and have their name inscribed and set into that uh memorial garden, you can visit uh www.tributeguarden.org.

Next slide, please. I'd also like to announce another big community um uh project uh ribbon cutting. That's the celebration of our Big Dry Creek Steam Bank Restoration and Pollinator Corridor. So, please join us to celebrate the completion of that project um at a ribbon cutting ceremony this Thursday, May 14th, and that will be from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. right at the City Park pavilion adjacent to the city park pond. The celebration marks the completion of a multi-year investment in revitalizing Big Dry Creek's waterway, wetland habitat, and pollinator corridor. And on behalf of the city, uh we'd like to thank the local neighbors uh who were very very patient with us uh as we undertook that very very significant restoration of that of that creek um corridor. So uh please do join for that. Um and I I want to welcome those neighbors to join us as well that night uh for food and refreshments that'll be provided by Big Fork and Snowy Churo food trucks free of charge. Next slide, please. For tonight's agenda, we've heard um six presentations uh covering four proclamations. We have one item on consent agenda, and that um has been removed uh upon request, and we will we will have that uh talked about uh by city council with a very brief staff presentation. That's the Northwest Water Treatment Facility Projects Construction Manager contract. Also tonight is a public hearing in uh certification in support of the Edward Burn Memorial Justice Justice Assistance Grant Program. And then finally in postmeating study session uh we do have a brief presentation from staff to provide an update on the city's rental housing committee and that'll be a verbal update. Next slide please. This week uh tomorrow, Tuesday, May 12th, we have uh our third water task force meeting. So, this is all about water affordability and water rates uh in the city of Westminster. That will run here at city hall from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Um,

cancelled this week uh for Tuesday night is the planning commission. So, no planning commission uh sorry, no planning commission meeting this week. On Wednesday, May 13th, uh we have a number of things happening. The Irving Street Library uh is hosting the Irving Street Library renovation openhouse. So, if you're curious about upcoming uh changes and renovations to our uh important library at on Irving Street, uh please drop by that open house anytime between 4 to 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 13th. We also have an inclusivity board meeting this week on Wednesday. That will run uh from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. here at city uh hall, right in these council chambers. And then also that night, a special permit and licensing board meeting. Uh also here at city hall, this is a hybrid meeting and that starts at 6 pm. And then finally, we saw some of our graduating members of our youth advisory panel and recognize them tonight. Um that panel does meet uh this week again on Wednesday and that starts at city hall right at 6 p.m. as well. Next slide, please. Also this week, I've mentioned the uh ribbon cutting at Big Dry Creek. So, if you are wanting to learn either learn more about that or join in the celebration of the completion of that uh milestone project, uh please make sure to be there by 5:00 p.m. That's when the um ceremony starts. Uh we also have a parks recreation libraries open space advisory board meeting and that's at the Legacy Ridge Golf Course Clubhouse and that starts at 6 p.m. And then on Saturday, of course, our armed forces day ceremony that I described that starts at 10:00 a.m. sharp. We also have uh service to the uh public which is a shreddathon that's at our public safety center right uh where our police um are and that's at uh right here at city hall campus 9110 Yates Street and that's a free of charge service to have anything um um that you want to have shredded shredded and that that will run and be open to you free of charge from 8 till 11:00 a.m. And then finally uh for those of you interested fire station number five is holding an openhouse um that will run from noon to

3:00 p.m. on Saturday and that is the one at that's located at uh 10,100 Garland Street. So, Fire Station 5, our our firefighter professionals and support staff will be happy to meet with you and show you around the station and um host any questions that you may have. Next slide, please. At our next meeting of City Council, that will be next Monday, May 18th, right here in City Council Chambers. That's at 6:30 p.m. We have two proclamations that night that city council will be um uh announcing. Uh the first will be national gun violence awareness and the second will be spinal cerebo cerebrros spinal fluid leak awareness. Finally on consent agenda there will be four items um and there is an appointment and resignation uh that evening and that's regarding the metro water recovery board of directors. That's an appointment. Next slide please. There will be a post meeting that night as well. Two presentations, Westminster public schools forward together facilities initiative as well as the front range passenger rail including station location and connections to regional transit. Uh both of those very important to the community. And finally, an executive session uh proposed development assistance agreement for a proposed income aligned development located at 3,300 West 72nd Avenue. Next slide. That's all I have. You can uh always report an issue uh to the city at westminsterco.gov uhacesswestminster. Um get the app if you don't have it. It's very very uh useful. Our phone number is 3036582400. Our website is continually being refreshed and updated. So that's westminster co.gov. And then finally, I mentioned earlier if you have any questions at all about how the city spends its money on a dollarby-dollar basis, please do check out our transparency portal. That's westminster co.gov/ gov/903/transparency. You can go straight to the main page and click on that icon and get right into

that portal and that's updated daily. That's all I have. Mayor, thank you so much. Are there any uh questions about the city manager's report? Okay, moving on to city council comments. Councelor Ireland.

So, I want to talk about the rodeo first. Um, we talked they talked about sending it to our licensing board, their licenses. Can we do that? Make a motion for that. Uh, thank you, counselor. The special permit and license board is the licensing authority for businesses and liquor licenses, and they are in charge of taking complaints. And I would recommend that people contact police if they have concerns because the police can investigate those complaints and present evidence to the special permit and license board for their consideration. That's the way the process operates. And you know that's why it's important to refer concerns to the police so that the investigations can then be the source of evidence to take into consideration. So evidence needs to be presented to that board and that's why the police uh play their role.

Well, it sounds like we have plenty of evidence. So I don't I don't know how long these people can hold on to their businesses. So, um, maybe we need the police to come talk to us. I don't know. But this is this is out of hand. Anyway, I'm going to go on. I hopefully we'll come go to the get to the bottom of it. I want to thank the guardians for all their service to our community. I'm sorry I'm I'm a busy person. I don't get out to all those events, but thank you so much. Um, I want to thank everyone that came to speak. Uh, what else? Of course, the National Day of Prayer. I want to thank everyone who came out tonight, the ones that came up here with me. Um, I am thankful for our constitutional right to pray and worship freely. I also want to residents to know there is now a pride flag flying over our city hall. I have consistently supported the idea that the three flags representing all of us should be the US flag, the Colorado flag, and the Westminster city flag. However, after the council majority approved flying the pride flag, I believe fairness required at least discussing whether a Christian flag or other faith-based pres representation should also be considered. At the city council meeting when the pride flag was approved, many the residents who spoke supported some form of Christian flag representation as well. I have also received many emails from residents who support only flying the US flag, Colorado flag, and Westminster flag, but who also believe that if the city is going to allow the pride flag, then a Christian flag should be treated fairly as well. They also do not want government deciding which viewpoints or beliefs are acceptable to display and which are not. Because of the input, I have asked for a coun council poll during Saturday's strategic planning meeting on whether a Christian flag could also be flown at city hall.

Every city council member except for myself voted against it. I respect that others may disagree, but I believe equal treatment and viewpoint fairness matter, especially when government buildings are used to display messages or causes beyond the official flags that unite our entire community. Um, I also wanted to talk about the time for um signing up to speak at city council meetings. I saw a Facebook ad that said it was from 5:30 to 6:15. Is that what it is? The new sign up time is 6:00 to 6:45.

Okay. Thank you. I thought it was people were getting upset about it. They thought we were trying to keep them from speaking. So, I'm glad to hear that that's not the case. Um, Kathy Strad's concerns are my concerns. I looked up on the city code what the city manager can do. There's nothing about 50,000 for a lime item. It's 50,000 has to be bid out. Anything above 50,000 has to be bid out. This is not a line item thing. If you can find it for me, I want to know because I was told that anything is 50,000 was still a line item thing, but there's nothing in our uh code that says that or our charter. So, if you know where that is, I want to read it. I think 750 is totally out of line. There isn't hardly a city in the state allows more than 50 to 100, but we cherrypicked the ones that we brought back. There were around 500. one of them being Broomfield, which is also a county and a city. So, I think just because someone else is doing it doesn't mean we should be doing it. So, I'm totally against it. It will be coming forth. Um, I'm going to talk about what I went to this week, which was a lot. Um, now that we do it, we don't have premeating. We're supposed to talk about what we did this week. I attended the water task force. Um, we were shown different ways to build water and that we're delving into that right now. Um, I attended the Westminster Citizens Academy for Fire. It's always a good experience for those that do that academy and if you haven't done it, I suggest that one and the police one. It's great. That was their graduation. I attended the National Day of Prayer, which I told you at the Crossings Church. I went to the Adams County

um breakfast where they give out the checks to our city for open space tax. And I meant to bring the big check that they gave me. It's in my car, so I will bring it in and give it to the city manager. But it's a million79,000 that goes towards keeping our open space. I think that's something every citizen in this city enjoys. That's why they agreed to the sales tax. So, it was great to get the check and it was great to be there for that. Um, see, I went to the strategic planning meeting. Um, I attended the city lobbyist meeting this morning for legislation. Um, I won't go into that, but they had to do a lot of budget cuts. $1.5 billion dollars were in hole at the state. A lot came out of Medicaid, affordable housing, um, higher education. They've agreed to fund 12 K through 12, but lot everything else had cuts. So, and we have to remember that our city, the economy is fragile. And so, we need to be mindful of what we spend. And so, even if they agree to the 750, I want I want a print out of everything we're spending monthly. And I I think that is only fair that and or it's on our website that all of you can see. Anyway, thank you for your time and thank you for coming. Thank you, uh, councelor Mayor Pertilla.

Thank you. Um, one, I I do want to thank everybody who came tonight. I really, um, love seeing the progress that the Westy Dog Park Guardians have made over the past year. It's amazing how many volunteers and volunteer hours have been, um, donated to that time and effort. So, thank you for doing that. Um I too I you know we hear the community's comments about what's happening over at the rodeo and um so it is it's difficult to hear I know we all feel the same way about the impacts um I think just one clarification um city attorney Frankle with respect to councelor Ireland's question um I know there was a assertion that we could make a motion here on this council to potentially send the um or I don't know like call the their license up for uh investigation to the special permitting board. Is that or does that have to happen by the special permitting board? Is that can you clarify where that happens? I believe that the police investigate complaints and bring evidence to the special permit and license board and it's the special permit license board that considers the evidence and can take action against a license. So to clarify, we're waiting for the police to develop an investigate like a full investigation and evidence and then they would initiate the um or sort of activate the special license board with the invest w with um I don't know the new hearing or

Yes, I I believe the police are investigating every complaint that comes in and when there is evidence to justify bringing a case against the license that it will be brought forward by the police.

Okay. I think we're all probably hoping that's tomorrow. Um Okay. Uh thank you for that. Um with respect to the the budgeting process and um we all were in attendance for our budget workshop this past Saturday. And I do want to emphasize that through that budget process is how we identify what is being spent on each element of running the city. So if that means that we're going to spend $18 million on contracts for improving our streets, um that's the conversation we have. We put that budget out for review from the community and then we vote on that budget and then city staff will implement that budget. And so the contracts that are in discussion are the result of us already approving those amounts for those those efforts. And so I just in and with respect to how much transparency we have, I think we have some of the highest transparency of any city that I've heard of with um I mean daily updates to the information that we have available on all of our spending. Our contracts are available. And so I just want to underline there was a question of our staff's integrity. And um I really want to make sure that our community knows that our staff is highly dedicated. They are some of the best experts that we can have financially for all of and for every aspect of our you know provision of our city services and um they are they don't

deserve to have their integrity questioned um especially with the amount of transparency that they work to provide. Um, and I'm hoping that when that does come to us in um at a council meeting that we can have a clear representation or presentation from staff on just what that um circle of life with respect it looks like with respect to establishing budgets and and how that gets implemented. I'm hoping we can do a lot of communication on that. Thank you. Thank you, Councelor Hot.

Um, yes. I'd also like to thank everyone who came out to speak. So, um, I just have one request. Um, I am requesting an executive session with the chief of police about the rodeo convention center at our meeting next week. And we just adjusted the agenda for a place for motions such as these. Um, however, we can go ahead and Well, sorry. Before we go ahead and do a poll, do we have any insight from our city attorney on this topic? Is this something that we would have content to provide?

So, if city council would like, under the open meetings law, there are limited number of categories that an executive session can be convened in and um a status of a pending investigation by law enforcement is not one of those categories. However, if city council would like an exeact session for legal advice concerning uh enforcement procedures, absolutely uh that could be agendaized. Yes.

I second. And then also I wanted to ask about that statute that was brought by up by Jillian, the state statute 443601. Can that be in the executive session along with act 516A3 traffic activity? He's a lawyer so I think he knows a little bit. So I want to know

I was waiting on some feedback around that but sounds like we're good to proceed then. Um, so with that, I'll just go through a quick poll. Um, sorry, can I just clarify, councelor? Hot, do you, is that all looped in to your motion? Yes, I would like to know what legal avenues we have, any legal avenues that we might have. So, I'll Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Any further clarification? Okay. All right. Let's do a quick poll. I heard a yes from councelor Ireland and coun yes yes yes yes yes yes yes

fantastic okay thank you so much we will schedule an executive session uh to cover everything brought up and that's it for me thank you thank you no other council comments uh I I okay council brahas

thank you uh I was uh gonna skip comment and bring up the executive session during the next part of our agenda. But I appreciate uh the counselors for getting that done. Um uh but in light of that, I guess I should say something. And I just wanted to thank the dog park guardians uh for coming out uh for sharing pardon me uh for sharing a lot of the good work that they're doing. And um just to to give a special thank you for um your continuation uh the continuation of your participation in um all of the discussion with the city. uh and that space. So, uh your voice is important and I I appreciate you all remaining at the table and then when as that table shifts and moves um you kind of continue coming back and I think it's a a great model of of what kind of activism looks like in our city and I I appreciate the modeling that you all are doing for that. So, thank you.

Okay. Well, then I'll go ahead with my own and I have a lot to cover. So, um I'll just start there. I'll echo the sentiment for about the dog park guardians. You uh really continue to blow me away. So, thank you for how incredibly um important you've become to this community. Um you have decided to use the energy to serve and to protect and preserve the land out there as well as take care of um you know others' animals through um donations etc. on and on. So, thank you. Um goodness, there's so much. Okay, I'll also start by saying that uh unfortunately I will be out of town over the next week. It's not easy ever to schedule myself to be absent because there's so much that we do. And I'll say that I am a big part of making us so busy for the community. I keep finding new ways to engage with folks. Um but that does mean that unfortunately um due to family reasons, I am going to be um going back home visiting my father who's not doing so well. Um, so I will miss the armed forces celebration this Saturday and I'm very sorry about that. And um, there is a community update this coming Tuesday as well. Um, so please come and see the counselors that are speaking there. And then of course there is a very big celebration this Thursday for the Big Dry Creek stream bank restoration. And that is a a huge milestone for our community, three years in the making. I'm really excited about it and just an enormous thank you to all the staff that have worked so very very hard on that project. I want you to know that um my gratitude is there and um I would like to celebrate with you. So I'm very sorry. And uh I want to mention it was asked uh by some residents whether I will still be having my coffee chat this month because it falls on Memorial Day weekend and yes, I will be there. So I look forward to seeing you too. Um that will be at Nava Coffee. If you want to have a one-on-one conversation, I'd love to see you there. Um, it was mentioned the

different items that are coming up this week. I'm just going to add to that that this Wednesday, um, the Sustainability Council meets at 6 PM in Superior. And I bring that one up despite it not happening in Westminster because that council was formed two years ago. Uh, and Westminster led that effort and it is a combination of our environmental advisory committee with all of the other environmental advisory committees around the Front Range from Boulder to Longmont to Superior. It is an incredible effort and I'm really proud of uh the difference that our city has decided to make in leading that effort. And so we rotate cities uh and speak to each other about what we are putting in place, what ordinances are happening. And so everyone's welcome, especially the environmental uh advisory board to that 6 p.m. Superior at their um public center on Colton Road. Um okay, just continue to make notes here. Okay. So, now I'm going to go ahead and address the comments this evening. We I too am am it's I'm frustrated and I'm just going to share this tiny little piece that uh is what I have about the rodeo situation is that from what I understand I mean this is something that I've been checking in on every week to understand where it is. Um, and what we hear at council does not match what we hear from police reports. And I checked in just this last weekend and I was told we got one call. And so, um, you know, to be fair to our what you just heard from our city attorney, we don't know what that ongoing investigation is. We get the same response as you do on that. Um, we can't get very many details because it is considered an ongoing investigation with the police. Um but we are continually told to advise that folks call the police. And all I can say is that um from the different items that we've

looked at, we've looked at um you know, is there are they taking over um the parking? We've told no, you know, technically that parking is within their, you know, range that they've been assigned enough. Is there the overcrowding? We we checked that. Apparently the answer was no. They're well within what was assigned to them. Um and so I just say that to voice that you know I am just as very interested in figuring out our way forward as you are and we will now have an executive session to discuss this further. Um thank you for bringing to light some other options that we might have. That is appreciated and um it is just top of mind and we're trying to figure out what way we can do what we can do next. Um let's see. I do want to know from staff, were we able to ever confirm whether this rodeo, because last time this was brought up, um, we were not able to confirm. Do we know for a fact that the owners of this rodeo are the same as Aurora and other cities? Uh my understanding is that the background investigation of the operator did not reveal any information that would disqualify them from having a

license. Okay. Thank you.

Okay. Um well and as you can see you know our information as well is somewhat limited. So we will continue to dig on this um individually and as a body. Um with that I will leave it uh to say that you will notice the agenda this evening is slightly different and that is because um one we moved it a little bit earlier because we're really hoping to make sure that folks can u make it to these uh nights so that they can voice their public comment. Um but then two, just in a moment when our uh city council reports are complete, there is a spot in the agenda to bring up future items for policy discussion. And that is something I am credibly excited about because uh my aim is to ensure that our government for the city can act with fluidity and expediency and make sure that we get things done. And it has been it's it's somewhat difficult with the layers of bureaucracy that we all have to work within uh to make changes and we tend to work in an environment um of tradition and you're going to see uh one minor change that I'll bring bring up in just a moment when we get to that section uh for something that I really hope that might be able to move us forward at least slightly with the issue on the rodeo. So, um, it allows us now to say, okay, we have something that we want to accomplish now, today, or within at least the next month, right? Um, so we're trying to make things faster. Um, and I'll leave it with um a very uh big congratulations to all the youth youth advisory panel uh graduates this year. Thank you for contributing your time and momentum to our city's council. And um a happy Mother's Day to everyone in our city. Um, to all you mothers out there, I hope you had a great weekend. With that, we will move on to our next section. All right, I'm getting a request to take five. So, uh, we will meet right back

here at 8:15 and then we'll move to the next section. Oh, hey. Oh, uh

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potential agenda items for a future agenda discussion. And remember, the aim is to keep this um to three or less items an evening so that staff can keep up with the requests and be prepared for the next item as it comes. Councelor Brahas. Thank you, Madam Mayor, and thank you for the uh uh advocacy to uh put this on the agenda. I have two uh two questions I'd like to ask. First is around protocol. So, if I bring up a policy discussion or policy question right now, say the city should erect a gold statue of councelor Barahas in Central Square. Does that mean do we need is that just automatically on the agenda or do we need a fourperson majority to get that approved? We would need a majority.

Great. Uh, thank you for clarifying. That is not my policy question for tonight. Uh, it's my favorite one to use, though. Um, I would like, um, for this council to discuss, uh, or at least get feedback from staff, I'm okay with kind of a given, uh, liquid nature of noise ordinances or noise um, pollution. I I think a good process would be kind of some education, uh some history, and then um getting feedback around a policy discussion from council, maybe at a study session for potential ordinances to discuss. Um I don't have a specific ask on like I think we should cap it at this kind of decibel. I I I would like a lot more, but I I don't think it's agendaized in any future event. So, I'd like some sort of noise ordinance. I'm open also in in case it needs to be like very, you know, like noise from cars or noise from houses or artificial noise. I don't know. Anyway, that's that's kind of what I'm thinking. I can clarify if needed, but that's what I would like to add at some point.

And this is new for all of us. So, high level is okay um at this time because we're taking a general poll to put it on the agenda for discussion. And uh this is what I was also going to put on our agenda for future discussion. So, thank you, councelor. Uh, with that, I'll do a quick poll for any interested. Council Ireland. Yes. Yes. Sure. Very much. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Thank you so much. We will agendaize that. And I don't think that we have a clear um process as far as when that will come up. I know that staff will do it at their earliest convenience according to agendaized items. So it does not necessarily mean it will come up next week. Yeah, that is not part of my ask. Thank you. Any other items? Councelor Aati. Thank you, Mayor. I would like a discussion. We've talked about this for a while, but on sprinklers uh study session. Thank you. We'll do a quick poll. Council strong. Yes. Thanks for bringing it up. Yes. No. Yes.

No. Can I ask clarity? This is sprinklers in terms of um building fire suppression sprinklers. Yes. Okay. Um yeah, thank you. We have two items. Anything else? Okay. Fantastic. Well, I'm glad we're moving that off to a strong start. We will now move on to the consent agenda. The item on consent agenda has been removed so that staff can provide a brief presentation with additional detail. Could we please have the presentation prepared for agenda item 9A?

Mayor, thank you. I'll call up our city engineer, Mr. John Burke, and he does have a brief presentation and is available to answer questions and provide any other information council may seek. Thank you. Welcome,

Proim. councilors, thank you for the opportunity to share more about this exciting project. So, the uh Northwest uh treatment uh facility major repair and replacement project, a lot of words. Um many of you are familiar with our two water treatment facilities. Uh one being the Northwest, which is located at the northeast corner of Forth and Wsworth Parkway, as you can see on the left image. uh ser which is located at 88th in Pierce which is the facility on the right. The uh total construction uh budget for this is 10.3 million and the project will begin to kick off uh with your approval of the contracts tonight uh later this year. Again, it's important to notice that this uh note this project uh focuses on replacing aging infrastructure that is essential to maintaining uh compliance with state and federal drinking water regulations while continuing to meet uh the city's service goals for safe, reliable, and high quality drinking water. Both Northwest and Simper operate as a system together uh to provide water throughout the city. Simp was built in 1969. and currently has a treatment capacity of 44 million gallons per day as seen on the right. The Northwest treatment facility was built in 2001 and has a 15 million gallon per day treatment facility. And as with any major infrastructure, routine maintenance is critical uh and necessary to prolong the lifespan of these facilities while keeping them 100% operational. at the Northwest Treatment Facility. This project replaces or rehabilitates essential treatment components, including approximately 27% of filtration membranes, membrane

prefilters, strainers, chemical mixing and feed systems, and plantwide flow meters. The photo on the left shows the 7 foot tall uh filtration membranes that remove microscopic material from the water. The photo on the center is a three-foot diameter uh kettle strainer that removes larger sediment before it reaches those membranes. And on the right is a trackback that actually removes sludge that is accumulated at the bottom of the sedimentation basin. The ser portion of the project again because these two facil facilities work in concert together. This project will deliver smaller targeted improvements to the ser water treatment facility. These include replacement of deteriorating sanitary uh sewer line, repairs to the south sedimentation basin drain and valve systems, replacement of solid removal pumps, and general sight and ground improvements to support a safe working conditions for our staff. The photo on the left shows an existing staircase that's deteriorating. Uh in the middle is a sludge pump that also needs replaced and then some piping that is rusting and needs to be uh replaced as well. Now in order to evaluate the existing conditions of both the Northwest and Simper, the city hired J&T Consulting in December of 2023, just over two years ago. And through this evaluation, the items previously described were identified as critical and timely replacements. This resulted in an RFP process uh through our procurement team for construction services in October of 2025 and Oldman Shudy was selected as our general contractor for the construction manager at risk contract. Now, due to the long lead times that are literally up to a year on some of this materials and equipment such as the membranes in this contract tonight, you'll see in

addition to their pre-construction services, which is $130 some thousand, a significant amount of dollars for actually purchasing some of the materials and equipment. Should the city council authorize these contracts, J&T will finalize the design work and Olman Schulty will prepare a guarantee maximum price contract for city council's review in Q3 Q3 of this year with construction starting later this fall. That concludes my very brief uh presentation and overview of this particular project that again is complicated enough to keep both facilities operational 100% of the time and still replace some of the critical infrastructure. Thank you.

Thank you so much. And I'll just say it, you know, I pulled this off uh just to get a more in-depth explanation since it is a larger sum of dollars that we're asking for um and to better understand what the changes are that are happening at this Northwest uh plant because we spend all our time talking about SER and the new plant. Um so thank you for putting this together in a you know half a day. That's also I'm grateful for that. So these changes that are happening, will this what is the expected time that we might foresee new follow-up changes needed? You know, how long will this get us for this plant?

It's a great question. So one specific item that I had the team evaluating further in depth is those membranes that kind of that first borrow with those seven foot tall membranes. Industry standards to have those replaced every 8 to 10 years. We had a consultant come out and do a more deeper dive to find out what's the condition. Very specifically, those membranes get replaced based upon the quality of the water that's intake into the plant. Stanley Lake provides exceptional water quality because our Clear Creek basement comes in, things sediment, they deposit out and so we actually have really clean water, no POS issues, things like that. And so through that evaluation, we're able to identify that those membranes can actually be extended to 10 to 14 years. So right there you see about a 50% increase in the lifespan of some of those facilities. So uh with this team now on board they're not just taking the uh kind of the I want to say uh industry standard for replacement. They're literally looking at it pulling things apart and saying yeah that needs to be replaced or no that can last a few more years. Again budget conscious making decisions that aren't just because we'd like to have it. It's things that we need to have done.

Thank you. Other questions from council? Okay, thank you so much for the presentation. Uh, may I have a motion on item 9A? Councelor Johnson.

Thank you, Mayor. I move to authorize the city manager to execute a construction contract construction manager at risk contract with Ulman Chute Construction LLC for the Northwest Treatment uh facility facility major repair and replacement project in the amount of 2,498,772 plus a 10% city held contingency of $249,877 for the authorized total expenditure not to exceed 2,748,649. $9. Thank you, Mayor Prom Namela. Second. Thank you. Roll call, please. Oh, I'm sorry. Any further discussion? Okay. Thank you.

Councelor Barahas, yes. Mayor Carmelia, yes. Councelor Rosati, yes. Councelor Hot, yes. Councelor Ireland, yes. Councelor Johnson, yes. And Mayor Promla, yes. Thank you. And now, may I have a motion for the second item uh for 9A? Councelor Johnson.

Thank you, Mayor. I move to authorize the city manager to execute a contract uh a contract amendment with J&T Consulting, Inc. for the construction management services for the Northwest Treatment Facility major repair and replacement project in the amount of $85,496 and authorize a 10% city held contingency of $80,555 for a total of $886,46 increasing the total authorized expenditure from 44 $454,949 to1,340,9995. Thank you. Councelor Brahos, second. Thank you. Any further discussion? Roll call, please. Mayor Carmelia, yes. Councelor Rosati, yes. Councelor Hot,

yes. Councelor Ireland, yes. Councelor Johnson, yes. Mayor Promela, yes. And councelor Baras, yes. The motion passes on a 70 vote. That moves us to appointments and resignations. There are no appointments or resignations this evening. And then we will move to our public hearing. It is now 8:34 p.m. I will open the public meeting. Does staff have a presentation which I see that there is no presentation. No presentation for this evening. Thank you so much. And do we have anyone signed up for public testimony? There is no one signed up for public testimony.

Okay. Well, in that case, it is now still 8:34 p.m. and I will close the public meeting. May I have a motion? Councelor Brahas. Oh. Um, I move to authorize uh the mayor to execute a written certification uh in support of the city's application for the 2025 Edward Brian Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program. Thank you. Councelor Hot. Second. Any further discussion? Roll call, please. Councelor, yes. Councelor Hot, yes. Councelor Ireland, yes. Councelor Johnson, yes. Mayor Promla, yes. Councelor Barahas, yes. And Mayor Carmelia, yes. The motion passes on a 70 vote.

Thank you. There is no new business evening this evening and there is no old business to cover this evening. And so uh with that, it is now 8:35 p.m. And that concludes the business of our city council meeting. We will now move into the boardroom for the rental housing committee verbal update. Thank you all so much.

Nothing. Hey. Hey. Hey. That's cool.

All right, that brings us to our post meeting. And city manager Andrews, do we have a presentation? We have a brief presentation. Thank you. I'm going to turn it over to Lindseay Kimell, director of community services to uh walk through an update and then answer any questions council may have.

Thank you, city manager Andrews, Mayor, Mayor Prom, and counselors. Lindsay Kimell, community services director. I'm happy to be here tonight. I'm filling in. I'll do my best to fill in for uh deputy city manager Larry Door, who unfortunately is not feeling well. He's under the weather, so I am um just a substitute tonight, but I I'll do my best. And um I I wanted to we wanted to give you a quick update on the rail housing adhawk committee meeting updates and where we are where we're going. Um very quick it's two slides. Um we have um all the meeting dates there that we've we've had so far of the committee and it's been a much more um open broadbase committee than there was a committee that was meeting in 2004. We expanded that greatly. invited every property owner, every um community organization, everyone was welcome. There wasn't a limited invite. It was very open, democratic. Um and also there you can see some pictures of the groups that we've worked with, particularly Ooni has been an amazing partner in this journey. They have provided us with some really great feedback. Um happy to say we're incorporating I think every every bit of it. Um, but they've been just really great at every single one of these meetings getting tenants engaged, which has been really nice. So, I'm very grateful to them and staff has a great relationship um with them with Charlotte and her whole team there. And um, you know, we've we've also held these meetings around the city. We've tried to go where people are. We've always made sure that we have child care available, translation services. We've done these on Saturdays. Thank you, Councelor Zadi. I know you joined us for the Saturday at the um swim and fit when we did the meeting there and um we have online availability. Staff is always available. So um we've really tried to go above and beyond to be out in the community and to engage and be as open as possible and and welcome everyone who wants to be a

part of the conversation. Um you can see a picture there that's from the council chambers of deputy city manager door. Um he's so wonderful. has been wearing his property standards officer uniform to every meeting and thank you to everyone. I know almost everybody um has had Thank you for those who have been able to join join us and see this in action. Um but that was a night when we were talking about the size of dumpsters. So we actually wheeled a dumpster into city chambers. It was quite a sight. Um so we had a lot of attention but um so we've tried to be as interactive as possible. We've gone line by line through the code update with this entire committee um and really done a very thorough job um in in my opinion of engaging and um having people actively literally line by line we are reviewing the code and taking in the feedback and um our plan here you'll see next steps here is um a final committee meeting we're going to just wrap it up um provide everyone with the overview of all the work that they have done and um then we will present final recommendations to the committee at that meeting and in July we hope to um come to a council study session also present those final recommendations of the committee and um that would be coinciding with the adoption of the international property maintenance code that's what the IPMC is and um evaluating the also in addition to those things which are the first thing that we can do. The first step is we can adopt the IPMC. We do it as I say by reference within our code and those comments that we've received will become exceptions that we will incorporate actually into the Westminster code. So again, it's um we're not taking everything at its face value. That's what the work that this committee has been doing. They have been working on addressing well what's different about Westminster? What do we

agree with? What do we not agree with that's in the the code? and those exceptions are what we're going to bring to this body for your consideration and ultimately um you have the authority to adopt those changes. Um we do believe it's going to make things very much um more streamlined than they are now. Right now some of the rules and regs live in different places. It's it's part and parcel with our um um UDC conversation where we're talking about streamlining from seven documents to one document that makes it easier for folks to understand and get projects completed in the city of Westminster. Um so this is um as I said part and parcel with that. We are trying to make it as as simple as possible and um also we are going to look at after that a big recommendation of ONI and some of the community focused groups was evaluating stricter penalties for lack of a better term bad landlords. Um we want to be able to use a tool that some other communities have used. We're going to explore it with our our friends in the city attorney's office of course and make sure that we are doing things correctly and that we can but there are communities who do hold rent in escrow and that is one thing that I know is very um keen on seeing us to see if we are able to adopt something like that. So um that definitely becomes a motivator for some of those um consistent bad actors in that space to get their attention. Um and accomplishments. I'm super proud of the team. They've worked so hard. Um really really amazing work. Um the committee has worked really hard. Um we have done instructional videos um online for what to expect during your inspection kind of a plan what to expect when you're expecting if you you know that book. Uh so we have what to expect when you're being inspected and uh we've just tried to make it a little light-hearted less intimidating in everything that we're doing. And then um public rental registry is online. So that was a that

was a first initial ask of the committee. Why aren't these things public? Why why isn't that public? It's public record. Why isn't it on your website? That was easy. We flipped a switch and it's on there. Uh also um as I said, review the entire uh international property maintenance code and um discussed program capacity and training for all of our property standards um officers. And um as you'll recall when in our process of looking under every rock and stone and boulder, we wanted to make sure that um we could crossrain people. So that's what we've done with the team. Um and they are going through that cross training. They meet weekly on that. They're also getting official professional certification um in inspection and really taking up the level. You saw the the uniforms people we have standardized uniforms now. the cars are marked and standard procedures are used. So, um I really want to commend the team of the leadership um Wattie Bergos and Sam Ever have done an amazing job really elevating um the level of of professionalism and training and uh results. At the end of the day, that ends in results for our residents, faster, clearer expectations and getting them the resolutions for in this case for our tenants in the rental housing program. Um, finding resolution for them. And um, with that, I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you.

Thank you, councelor Rosati. Thank you. Uh, thank you. This is fantastic. I I've been hearing from a lot of stakeholders involved that these are this was a breath of fresh air for a lot of people. Uh my question so I'm glad I'm so happy to see this because I was going to bring this up the legal use of rental of um holding rent in escrow. Yes,

is really really important. Um and I would my my question is is that going to be part of the July study session? Um, we will be able to update you on what we know so far. I do think it's going to require um more research and work um of course with our city attorney's office. We um we it's definitely a priority for us and we can update you on where how far we've gotten, but I I don't think it would be um you know I don't think it we would be able to have it completed by that July. But we didn't want to hold up the progress on the IPMC. So, we thought we'd bring that. We're happy to give you an update on that um use of escrow and then we will continue to plow forward.

So, we'll get an update on the escro thing. Yes. But not it it won't be ready for us to vote on her. Correct. So, to pull in. Yes, sir. Okay. And the IPMC when you bring that only ask is if if you can color that with uh with dimensions of the benefits, right? So is it so for each change there are economic benefits there are operational benefits you know if you can kind of group them so that it's more digestible for the community and for us to understand why you know that'll be a big help okay but thank you thank you councelor Brahas

uh thank you madame mayor um and thank you director Kimell for the presentation and the whole process you know I wish uh deputy city manager was here. Uh I mean he knows how grateful we are, but uh if you're listening, you know, just super grateful for um his leadership in this process. I really do think it's it's a pretty great model of best practice and how to kind of do community feedback, community engagement, community buyin, like all of these things are uh in terms of the process. And so when we have kind of big heavy lifts from the city, heavy changes, I think this is a great system. So thank you for modeling that. And um please feel free to to share our celebration of that. Uh we were talking budget. So um if there's just a question around FTE um in enforcement. So if this if the adoption of whatever iteration of this code that we have will become a higher burden. Do you have any insight on if that's going to be if there will be a kind of like a more rigorous inspection process and so we're going to need more FTE.

So, um, in the spirit of trying to make what we have go as far as we can. Um, I know that there was really good conversation um, thank you on Saturday at the budget workshop about this and that's exactly what we plan to do is prioritize the trouble. We we know the um constant offenders for lack of a better term. Uh we know who is always kind of in our uh complaint base. So um we prioritize those and we also currently our system runs on the age of the property. So anything over 20 years is getting inspected every two years um systematically and then those complaint based but you know we of course are tracking all of where the complaints are coming from hotspots and so forth and different subjects at different properties being an issue and also um you know there's been great collaboration with our building department because as they are doing their work just hey maybe someone's installing a new air handling unit or something over here they are keeping their eyes out for that stair doesn't look like it's and Even though no one's turned it in, it's not time. We can still have that communication and be able to say, "Hey, rental inspection folks, you need to go out and check out this this building and make sure that their stairwells are appropriate." So, um, also that's been a way to leverage other staff. Um, so through prioritization, through the use of um, frankly online tools that were not in place a couple years ago, we've been able to, you know, expedite the process of report writing. Um, we've been trying to use technology and leverage that so we don't have as much time in the office typing, retyping reports that were done by hand in the field. And um, so we're trying to help with with all of that. That all that to say there's a lot of apartments being added, a lot of multif family being added. As things age, more

problems are going to come up. So, um, you know, we we currently have a 0.5 FTE. Um, I can definitely see where that would probably be need to turn into a full-time Okay. FTE at least to help us um, you know, with the influx and the building that that is going on.

Thank you. Um and that makes me feel confident in kind of like the future projection. I just want to share with this body that um in the stakeholding that I've done around this process uh both rentals uh both renters sorry and like you know groups like UNE you know are pushing hard rightfully so for for for kind of an enforcement mechanism um the rent and escrow being kind of chief among them. also from property managers I've heard uh a lot of them are saying hey look if we're playing by the rules if we're updating and following this code we want to ensure it's a fair playing field so please use um whatever kind of mechanisms you have in place

to ensure that enforcement is is appropriate so I think there's buyin you know of course there's going to be hesitancy and reluctance from from you know people in general but uh particularly Greyar and other kind of large uh groups who um have they've also been advocating on behalf of this process so I just wanted to share that with this Thank you, councelor Ireland. Thank you for your questions. Those are kind of what I was thinking, but the only thing I have to complain about is I have been trying to get in these meetings online and I could never get in.

I don't know if I had the wrong link. I did go see our IT department. Just so you guys know, they took me off of 5G, but that I don't think that had anything to do with it because I could get into other meetings. So, I don't know what the deal is, but I can't run over here because I teach after. So, yeah. Um, that's the only I'd like to come to the one on the 28th. I mean, online,

it is possible. Um, and Una reached out to me to see a apartment complexes close to me and it may be the one I started out in. So that will be interesting if it is my husband and I 40 years ago. So that might be that'll be interesting. Um, anyway, if we can look into that. By the way, 5G is costing $60 a month. So if you're not using it, they're they're deleting people that are not using it. And I thought, well, at least they're looking into that and trying to save money. So yeah, kudos to them. Very good.

If I just might offer I I believe because I've had similar issues. It might be that the initial invitation that we RSVP to just had the one like that that it's just an old uh I don't know event outline or whatever, you know, with all of the stuff that that our calendar sends us. So, I think the link if there is an active link, it's not getting updated into that newer invitation because it's a recurring event. Thank you. Thank you. And council, we'll do everything we can to fix that prior to the meeting. Thank you. Thank you. Because we've heard that before. Uh, all right. Anyone else? Councilor Johnson. Oh, great work. Okay. Councelor Hawk, I just want to say thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you.

I'll add to that. Thank you so much. Um, I'm really excited and you've done so much incredible work with this over the last year and so well Larry Door, I'll give my shout out to him and also just a shout out to Larry in general. I'm sorry he's not here to hear this, but of course he dressed up. He's always allin and I really appreciate his enthusiasm for his job and the city and he's just amazing. So yeah, love it.

Thank you, mayor. Um, all right, with that I think we are done with this presentation. Thank you so much. And we are now adjourned at uh 8:51. It's been a long time since I've had to not read a digital right at all. Forgive me. All right. Thank you all. We are gone.