The City Council held a study session on February 10, 2026, covering a legislative update, the Downtown Development Authority formation, a proposed graywater prohibition, utility master price agreements, an intergovernmental agreement for the US 85/120th Avenue project, and discussion of term limits for boards and commissions. No formal votes were taken; items will return for action at future regular meetings.
No public comments or testimony were received.
Like a few line items. It is a little bit of a short one. Yeah, we tend to see fewer procured contracts happening towards the end of the year. We'll see a lot more in January and February as we uh get into contracting the things that were adopted in the budget. Of course. Mayor Putin. I just wanted to comment on Ann's behalf how exciting excited she is to see a dog park construction on the list. And thank you for sharing this. Good thing to highlight. All right. If there's no other questions, thank you. Okay. Next is our legislative update, City Manager Martinez. Thank you, Mayor. At this time, I will ask Matthew LeCrew to come up and give the wonderful legislative update, as you may or may not be aware. Matt and his team, Purple Label Solutions have been our lobbyists for I think going on four years now. Is that right, Matt? That's correct. They've done a wonderful job lobbying on behalf of the City of Brighton's interests down at the Capitol. I did send you a link earlier today to the legislative bill tracker that's provided by Purple Label. So if you have your laptop in front of you now, you can feel free to click on that link and follow along to the bills that Matt will discuss tonight. Matt's here to give a high-level overview of some of those bills, but not necessarily dive into the dozen or so bills that we have been tracking. But I do encourage you to take a look at that link as we move through the legislative session because uh they often change or the positions change. So definitely take a look at some of the bills that may be more impactful to us in Brighton. And I will turn it over to Matt. All right, thank you, Mr. Martinez. Uh good evening, Mayor, members of council, staff, um Matt LaCrue with Purple Label Government Solutions. Pleasure to be here tonight. Um my partner Ellie Reynolds sends a regards. Uh we'll make sure she's here at our next meeting with join me. Uh we're just getting started. We're in the uh really the first month of the uh four and a half month uh legislative session this year. We kicked off in January. Uh we're in the second half of the 75th General Assembly. And so really what's what's um what's setting the theme and the tone of this session is uh we're in an election year, and so we're we're dealing with quite a bit. We're dealing with uh upcoming primaries, we're coming with um we're in a we we have a lame duck governor where the governor polis will be termed out um by the end of this year. And so that really kind of drives the agenda and the tone for what's happening down at the Capitol. Um and what you're seeing is um, you know, we are I wish I could come with better news that there are bills that are really um uh supportive of city government and local jurisdictions. The theme of this session is really affordability and looking at um addressing what's going on at the federal government. But with that in mind, it they're really the legislative body in the last few years has really gone after local jurisdictions and trying to preempt your authority as a home rule jurisdiction, um taking away your authority to regulate. And so we are seeing um several bills. Right now we're tracking over 25 pieces of legislation. There's about 300 bills that have been introduced to date. Uh typically in a session, we see about 600. So we're just getting started. Uh we'll have more to address with you um when I return um later this season. And so really looking at uh land use authority, uh taking away your authority as a governing body um to address the affordability crisis and and um uh you know, finding homes for affordable, but at uh at what stake and taking away your authority to regulate and and land use authority. So um uh uh that's a segue into House Bill, which is what they're considering the home act. They're calling that the home act.