The Brighton City Council held a study session on January 13, 2026, at 6:00 PM in the Study Session Room, with the Planning Commission joining for the Comprehensive Plan update. The agenda included presentations on the monthly contract listing, the Comprehensive Plan engagement results, city facilities, and an amendment to the water treatment plant owner's representative contract. No formal votes were taken, but council consensus directed future actions.
City Manager Martinez. Thank you, Mayor. Good evening again. And good evening to the planning commission joining us as well. Our finance director, Katrina Asher will be presenting our monthly contract listing and is available for questions. Thank you, Michael. Good evening, Council and Planning Commission. So in your packet, Council is a listing of the contracts that were approved by the city in the month of November for new council members. This is an informational item that we present every month as a matter of transparency, both for council and for the public to let them know which contracts were approved and executed during that month. The listing does include both contracts approved explicitly by council and also those that are signed by the city manager in his capacity under uh approved under municipal code. So relatively short listing for uh November, but I do want to point out two different um two of the items on there. So there's one for Let's Reservoir, it's a fairly large contract, but this is an example of a change order. So you'll see these on there as well. With change orders, we include the change order amount and then also the total new contract amount. So when you see that 11 million dollars, that's the total contract amount, but the change order was only about 11,000, and that was signed by the city manager under his authority. Uh the other item I'll call to your attention is the last item on the list, which is a banking RFP. So in Q3 of last year, City Council approved um an ordinance that authorized staff to move forward with an issuance of certificates of participation. Um that's a form of financing that provided the city with six million dollars of funding for the purchase and renovation of uh the the building that will be now used in the future for uh police operations. That's on um uh South 27th Avenue. So when we did that, we issued an RFP or a request for proposal to determine which bank we would partner with, and then based on the terms that the banks proposed, we chose the bank that had the most favorable terms, and that was Webster Bank. So that's why that's on here. It's not a typical contract that you'll see on there, but um we did include it because it was a procured contract, uh, previously approved, uh authorized by city council. So I'm happy to answer any other questions. Anybody have any questions for our director of finance? Mayor Potem. Thanks. I was curious when we saw this about the COP being on there, because I don't remember ever seeing those listed on the contract. And it may simply be that um the last time we did issued one was before we started doing this report. That's true, and we we don't issue uh data or do financings of that nature very often, and we do, we would always be coming to council for approval via ordinance. Okay. Makes sense. Um the other comment is probably less for finance but appreciation in in general. I'm very excited to see uh explicitly the owner's representative for the Reclex because I I think we have learned our lesson that that is an important part uh of all of our new projects. Uh certainly our bigger projects, but thank you again for sharing the information. Uh and thank you for including that change order amount so I don't have to go look up what the original was I was doing that. So thank you. Yes. All right. Any other questions? All right. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Now the reason why so many cool people are here today. It's the comprehensive plan update to community engagement window one. City Manager Martinez. Thank you, Mayor. As you mentioned, we have so many cool people here this evening for the main event. Um as staff comes up and our friends with design workshop and consulting firms. Uh just want to mention that I'm very pleased with the continued efforts uh behind this project.