We did that.

Okay.

So do you want to make the one?

I couldn't figure out how to stand used this.

I don't know that he's the one with the keyboard.

You need your car to authenticate.

Do you have to authenticate on your phone?

I forgot my phone calls if I had to pay them.

If we get all cultures, Mayor Tapia Vega.

Here.

Mayor Pro Tem Barnes.

Here.

Councilor Friedman.

Councilor Gallegos.

Good evening.

Counselor Gianola.

Here.

And Counselor Jensen.

Here.

Mayor, we have a quorum.

I move to excuse uh Council Friedman and Councilor Friedman.

Counselor Friedman.

I second.

Great.

We have a motion.

We have a second.

Any further discussion?

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Anyone opposed say no.

We will move right into the public input.

For those of you who wish to speak, please fill out a speaker request form there in the back through that glass door right there.

Will you come up?

Please just state your name and address, and you'll have five minutes to speak.

We'll start with Frank Archelletta.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Um, council members and staff here.

I'm directing uh this this evening to the new council members so they can get a better understanding what transpired at the Loftus Cemetery.

Education and results.

New council members, I will contribute knowledge to you about the Loftus Cemetery, so you will be able to understand this tragic history.

The story of the Lofty Cemetery needs to be told.

As we admit and concede that the situation at the cemetery was serious, and it was a mistake and illegal to dig up babies who were buried and were dug up to allow other human beings to be buried in the baby's plots.

Is there any regret, sorrow, remorse, and a sense of guilt for the past wrong causation and motivation?

The only reason why this mistake happened is because the clerks, the Saxons did not log in their record books, maps, or database, they hang burial plots of a hundred or more.

Do not forget they pay and they own these burial plots.

150 letters went out, but there could be 300, 400, 500 people still need to be buried at that cemetery.

Council, your voice and words matter.

You must apply moral clarity, common sense, and judgment to the critical cemetery issue.

With that being said, here folks, I know for a fact for over 70 years what transpired at the cemetery.

If they did hit a coffin there by any chance, they would move over.

My cousin was a clerk, Beverly Smith here for the city of Lafayette here.

And she said what they would do, they bored up to the side.

So the coffin would slide over and they would bury to the left or to the right side.

That's common sense, folks.

But we went ahead basically did as far as the moratorium here.

If somebody would die today, right now, and they own a plot up there, you should allow them to go ahead, the city to dig up and just see if there is a coffin right there.

Do not punish the people who have paid for these plots.

I know families back in the 70s that pay for plots up there.

It would be a crime, a crime to not allow them to bury their loved ones in their sacred ground.

We have five plots myself up there.

My sisters are buried up there.

I have the Mazanaris family, cousins, the Garcia families, the Montoya families.

Our families are buried here in the cemetery, folks, and we all have plots up there.

Let's not make another mistake and just say no more bear roles.

A lot of people, the city can dig, and if they do hit a coffin right there, well, then just slide over to the right side or left side.

It's been going on for years.

I have a friend, John Vickles, he was a grave gigger here, and I'd go up there at nights with him with this little lantern up there when he's digging by picking shovel up there.

And when they would hit a little grave plots right there up coffin, they just slide over.

That's been common sense, folks.

It's been going on forever in this town.

It's been going on other cemeteries across the nation.

But to close it down is a big mistake.

That moratorium here.

That's why I'm asking to reconsider it.

Somebody dies today, tomorrow, or whatever.

Let the city go in and dig where their plot is.

If there's not a coffin there, allow them to be buried.

It's common sense, folks.

It's been going on.

Let's not punish the people that own and pay for these plots.

They own it.

The city doesn't own the plots.

Well, that's all for tonight, folks.

But I just want to address this to new council members here.

That way you can get a better understanding of what happened.

And that happened in basically the Hennings Parts field area where most of these plots were.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Up next, we have Samantha Brown.

Um hi everyone.

Um, in the public forum, I would prefer to go by Samantha Brown.

And I'm standing here in front of you.

I would rather be at home, and I would rather not to be here.

And I definitely not a fan of public speaking.

Um, but the concern I would like to bring to everyone is the conflicts, rising conflicts between the bicycles and pedestrians on uh on the trails.

Um considering uh especially the Col Creek Trail, the wooded part as from about uh South Public Road to the border with Louisville.

Um the pedestrian traffic stays the same, increase with all the uh new developments and the bicycles are coming fast and furious.

The collisions and near misses and altercations happens on the trail very often.

Uh, the particular trail is also located next to the schools, St.

Laris High School, and more closely to the Rhine elementary, so it's big throughput for the people with the young kids and um in the in young young children's inn uh in general.

So um now that we have uh wildlife plan um in place, so the side side trails get blocked, and there is nowhere for pedestrians to go.

Um so the side trails is only a part, the closure of the side trails is all only a part of the issue, but um the high speeds of the bicycles and slow um maybe pedestrians are cannot be tolerated on those particular trails.

So we may consider some solution like um reducing the speeds, putting more signs, maybe we redesign the trail completely, maybe we'll put um some barriers to slow down the bikes or uneven surfaces so they can naturally um uh slow down.

But but we will talk about that in more details.

I just like you to attract this attention, and I have a little bit more in writing.

I don't know, some of you might receive it.

Um I mean, let's let's start thinking how we make trail is enjoyable for everyone, and most importantly, safe.

Safe.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Up next, we have Thomas Glenn.

Uh good evening, and thanks again for your time.

Appreciate it.

Uh kind of back on the same subject as I've spoken at uh previous uh city council meetings.

Uh this is regarding the deterioration or the quality of life impact from the airplanes from the Rocky Mountain Airport.

Just want to make sure that we're getting city council leadership.

Uh this is a very important time as far as trying to take actions and uh help shape the future of Lafayette effectively.

Uh the FAA is basically having the flights return down 287 to go to Rocky Mountain Airport.

So again, it's needing your leadership.

Uh, we're having all the citizens, the children and the wildlife affected by how these airplanes are going overhead.

Uh my neighborhood as well as the uh 287 corridor and other parts of Lafayette.

It's not uncommon to have periods where there's an aircraft going overhead every one to three minutes if effectively.

So that can be very frustrating when you are sitting in your own home.

You hear the constant buzzing going over your head.

Uh you can hear it very well even inside the home.

Um as well as some of the warmer months of the year, try to sit out in your backyard uh every one to three minutes.

It's very disturbing as far as the impact of the quality of life for Lafayette.

So looking for your leadership to continue all the community joint efforts uh as far as trying to come up with strategies and plans to basically fend off some of these decisions that have been made without community input from those that have been affected.

Uh so again uh the only days of relief basically are windy or cold weather or storm kind of days.

Uh it shouldn't be that way, should be able to have a normal life on a day-to-day basis and not being affected by these aircraft on a constant basis.

So that's all I have for now.

Uh please keep your uh joint effort with other communities, cities, as far as uh trying to uh come up with a strategy and working out uh getting this resolved for the citizens of Lafayette.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next we have Ron Spald.

Good evening, Mayor and City Council.

Sorry, I last city council meeting I was late, but I did watch you all get indoctrinated here and congratulations on your first to me official meeting without any background and look forward uh to good years to come.

I just wanted to mention a few words coming up.

You're gonna have a proclamation for former mayor, Lady Mangay.

And I just wanted to speak from uh personally, uh I've attended city council meetings for 14 years.

Now I can remember back looking at the proclamation.

I think it's been about seven years when he first came on board.

And I remembered this young guy, look like a baby almost, you know, teenager on the youth advisory board, and and uh he was you know run the show at Centaurus High School with all the youth, and and uh I remember attending the meetings.

I said, This is a sharp guy, and then lo and behold, when uh you know vacancy came up, he was appointed, and I said it man, it's this guy's you know looks like he's gonna lead the way.

And uh for one is attend a lot of meetings.

Uh and the proclamation lays out you know all the nice things he's done.

But from someone who sits here, I really respected his work, and I think it's hit deep in that this collaborative approach, consensus building.

Uh he's always tried to pull the council in for a perfect vote seven to zero.

I wouldn't put up with all that.

I would just look for majority vote.

Give me uh four, you know, but that showed the uh uh the depth of his uh trying to keep the whole community together, and uh what what uh what I like was the youth, and now see another youthful people up here, the mayor and all from you know, for an old guy here, when I look at looked at uh the council, he he he brought a lot of new stuff into it, and the councils have been uh very very good uh over the years, and uh we have a good diversified council and a good mix too, and I can see the transition Karen on and uh uh I think it the whole council that we're under him and all work together, and I didn't have a chance for our former council lady Nicole Sampson air last time.

I want to congratulate her on all the hard work.

I didn't agree with everything that went on, but I know that uh tried to build up you know a unifying approach, and uh I know you all are gonna do the same thing.

I just wanted to say that uh uh I wish him well in his new endeavors, and I know you're all going to carry on very well.

So thank you.

Thank you.

I don't have any more speaker forms.

Is there anyone else in person who would wish to speak?

I don't see anyone, so we will turn it over to Clerk Beck to see if we have anyone online who would wish to speak.

Mayor, we have no one online.

No one online.

With that, we will close public input and move on to our consent agenda.

A short one tonight, only one item.

Item A, the December 2nd, 2025, City Council meeting minutes.

Is anyone on council want to pull this item or discuss this item further?

If not, I will take a motion.

I move to approve the consent agenda.

Second, we have a motion, we have a second.

Uh, any further discussion?

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Anyone opposed say no?

Passes unanimous.

Moving on, two proclamations.

Uh one proclamation tonight, honoring JD Munget's service on the Lafayette City Council.

I believe Councillor Gallegos.

Whereas, after serving on the City of Lafayette Youth Advisory Board for many years, JD Mangett was appointed to fill a vacancy.

Including the youth advisory board, public art committee, employee retirement board, one Lafayette Committee, an audit committee, as well as multiple regional boards, including the Metro Mayor's Caucus and Northwest Mayors and Commissioners Coalition.

And whereas Mayor Mangett has been involved in several transformative projects and initiatives, such as the hiring of two city managers, the development of many strategic plans guiding the community's trajectory for many years to come, the establishment of the city's first sister city partnership with the Kidos Peru, and the passage of a capital bond to invest in municipal facilities, benefiting all residents, and whereas under his leadership, the city successfully navigated tremendously difficult times and circumstances, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the unexpected passing of the late counselor Tanya Briggs.

And whereas Mayor Mongett has always demonstrated a collaborative and consensus-based leadership style and made sure to advocate for Lafayette's youth and historically underrepresented populations, and whereas the city of Lafayette and its residents will reap the benefits of Mayor Mongett's dedicated service for years to come.

Now, therefore, the City Council of the City of Lafayette, Colorado, do hereby commend and honor Mayor Mongat for his dedicated service to the Lafayette City Council and community.

So moved.

Second.

We have a motion, we have a second, but uh I want to make sure to open it up for discussion.

Does anyone want to speak on this proclamation before we vote?

I would like to, Mayor.

Go for it.

Okay.

I would just like to pile on to everything you see in this proclamation and what we heard in public comment and more.

I don't I don't think it's possible to capture everything that our former mayor uh did for this city.

And he I owe him a lot.

The reason I'm here is because of him as well.

And you know, I can't tell you how many times we were presented with something from city council during COVID, the cyber attack, um, lots of opposition about something we were doing.

And you know, we we go in the back, we'd have a meeting, and we'd sit stare at each other like, what are we going to do?

And he wouldn't tell us what to do.

He'd say, like, he'd look, he'd do the same thing that always does, try to get consensus and get everybody's input.

He's constantly asking us like, what do you think should happen?

And there were some really hard decisions that we had to make.

So um again, I don't think this proclamation catches it all.

And there were times when we lost Councillor Briggs, it was hard for me.

It's still hard for me, as you can tell.

I can't even talk about it.

Um it's hard for everybody who was here doing that.

And I appreciate his leadership, but that at that moment, everybody on the council, you know, struggled to get through it.

Um, so that's one of those things you don't expect.

Um I remember getting the call, and the f I had to call, I had to call the mayor, and he said, Are you serious right now?

And I said, Yes.

And he's like, This is not okay.

And then he asked me again, like, is this actually happening?

So it did.

Uh, we had about an hour, you know, to get everybody uh aware of what was going on.

So these are things that aren't written in a council handbook.

Sorry to let you know, but that's not in there.

Uh maybe we'll add it what to do.

Um, so I thank you for all your service.

And um, I don't know if anyone said it, but I'll say it.

That um I know how much you love this city.

Yeah, I don't remember you saying, like people are asking me like when we did the branding, and they said it's almost as like you know, the brand was something like, it's almost like I'm going home, and you were like, I am home.

I thought I don't want that to be my slogan.

This is what this is my home.

Um you've always loved this city, you always will love the city.

I do wish you the best where whatever you do at this point, and you have you have paid.

So I appreciate everything you've given uh to the city, and I and um there's a lot I could talk for an hour about what the things that you've done working yourself to death, and people would always tell me, like, I can get a hold of the mayor at any point.

And I was like, yeah, that is a little weird, but yeah, you can get a hold of the mayor at any time.

And I go to events and he'd show up, and there he was again.

Um, so thank you for all of the work you put in.

Um, and I know you're not gonna disappear on us, so uh thanks.

Counselor Gaygos.

Yes, so your legacy and your leadership has been inspiring to watch, and it's amazing to go into so many schools in this community, and somehow they figure out that the two of us are connected, and they say, Oh, Mayor Mongett's amazing, or I want to be like him in the future, and it's just beautiful to see your love of your hometown, even when I had the opportunity to cover one of your classes too, just to hear how much students love you and members of the community love you, and how you've always been accessible to me.

If I would send you a text at midnight, you would respond, and I really appreciate that, and I appreciate appreciate your making me feel welcome uh the entire time we've had the opportunity to work together.

So thank you.

Counselor Jensen.

So I didn't have the privilege of serving with Mayor Mongat, but I was a community advocate, pressuring him to do certain things or not.

Um I just want to say the folks that I worked with, which was the faith community, um, felt very attended to, responded.

They felt like his door was always open to them.

And that is a real precious thing in a democracy to know that the leader of your community will listen to you.

And that doesn't mean he always did everything the way I wanted him to as an advocate.

But it means that I we, the groups that I was working with felt heard, and felt like attention had been paid to what we were trying to talk to them about, and I'm grateful for that.

And I think it's really valuable.

Thank you.

Council Janal.

I've known JD for a few years, probably primarily in his role as a city councilor and mayor, um, but also just as a community member.

Uh he was, you know, was a teacher at Angevine for for several years, and my daughter was in classes with um Mr.

Mangat, and she, like many other students, would sing his praises.

Uh, there's uh a particular anecdote uh that I'm happy to share, and this relates to my presence on the city council, because without uh Mr.

Mangat's uh encouragement, uh I wouldn't be here.

But it was really my daughter who kind of pushed me to run for city council, and uh she said, you know, Mr.

Magat's the best, he's a great teacher.

Wouldn't it be so funny if you got on city council with Mr.

Mangat and became best friends?

And I am devastated that he resigned.

I am I am just really disappointed that I didn't get the pleasure to serve with you because I've I've you know I've been out there watching you and inspired by your leadership and you know everything you do for this community.

So thank you so much for your service.

Amazing.

And I'll just counselor guys.

Did you want me to uh and I'll just say a few words uh before we vote uh because I I think most of you know JD from being a teacher, but I know I know Mayor Maggette from a in a very different way from the same school.

So I I remember J D, little JD, when we were in middle school and high school together.

Um so I I think it's just absolutely incredible.

I I'm gonna echo the words of Mayor Pro Tem Barnes.

This this proclamation does not do justice for the work you've done for the city.

And that goes back to when we were children on youth advisory board.

You were you were always out there.

I wasn't on youth advisory board, but you were always trying to get me on youth advisory board because that's what you did.

Uh you try to get everybody to do everything, and that's why you end up being mayor.

And I've told you this before.

Uh, I could talk about just what we've done together for for hours, but uh I've told you this before privately.

I think being a young person uh that was kind of in the political sphere and kind of looking at at the at a future life as possibly an elected, uh possibly running for something, possibly joining some sort of board.

I always you always want to look for for which model do I follow.

Who do who do I look which with which path is there to take?

And for the longest time there was no path to take.

Uh you need someone to kind of be brave and and be courageous and take those steps to really kind of guide the people behind them.

And I've told you this again privately, but you were that person for the city of Lafayette, and you will be that person for a very long time for everybody that I know, all those young people that are currently jumping into these races statewide, all those people who are currently on their youth advisory board who will one day be in the same seats that we are now, the same seat that you that you just left.

That's because of you.

So the work, the work you've done and the time you've you've put in to the city is not something that will soon be forgotten.

You will go down as one of the most influential mayors for those underrepresented communities and those people who truly didn't feel like they had a path.

I feel like you you made that path for us.

So thank you for that.

Uh also we want to go ahead and bring you up if you're if you're willing to give us a few words.

I I think uh at our last meeting I said everything I needed to say, I put it all out there.

So I'll keep it brief.

I just wanted to say I appreciate the uh acknowledgments and thank you for um uh the flowers and the plaque and the kind words.

Happy to hang out anytime we can still be basties, you know, maybe after after meetings.

Um so I just uh really appreciated it.

Um thank you for sharing all the all those words.

I uh the only thing I wanted to say is, you know, as you search for uh my replacement uh who's gonna fill that extra that vacancy.

Um I just hope that you select someone that's um obviously dedicated to the to the community, but also um someone that's genuinely um kind and looking to make connections with each member of council, and even behind the scenes behind closed doors, someone that's uh wants to uh you know wants to be a collaborative partner and not someone that's looking to divide the council and in is looking for, you know, has these uh you know other things in mind when it comes to like maybe it's uh their own intentions and what they want to see, whether that's for their own political uh benefit or whether that's on their their own personal benefit or for other reasons, but just choose someone that's a collaborator, choose someone that will uplift others, choose someone that'll be a friend outside of council meetings, and choose someone that you think uh will represent the community well.

So thank you all so much.

I've uh had a crazy couple of weeks, even though I'm off of council, I'm still staying super busy, uh, but I appreciate this.

And um, I'm gonna go home and uh maybe sleep for a little bit.

Thank you.

Do you want to take a picture?

Come there?

We gotta take a picture.

Okay.

All right, fine.

Let's do it.

Oh, wait, did we vote?

No.

Let's vote.

We'll take a picture.

All right.

We have a motion, we have a second uh for the discussion.

All those in favor say aye.

Anyone opposed, say no.

Passes unanimous.

Thank you.

Oh, I'm like, okay.

And with that, we will move on to presentations.

Uh first up is our winter mobility plan.

Good evening, Mayor and uh Council members.

My name is uh Callie Hayden, and for those of you that don't know me yet, I'm the operations and maintenance manager for public groups.

Would you repeat your last name since I haven't met you before and I didn't hear what you said?

Yeah, sorry.

Um my name is Callie Hayden.

Okay, yeah.

Okay.

So tonight we're gonna talk about, and I don't know why that's up there.

Sorry.

Um tonight we're gonna talk about our winter mobility plan and go over kind of the purpose of it, um, including our uh external partnering agencies, our internal team, community roles and programs, communications, winter emergencies, future considerations, and continuous improvements.

Um, and then leave some space for questions and um thoughts.

So overall, the purpose of of our winter mobility plan is a comprehensive um strategy for how the city and its its kind of partnering agencies tackle snow and ice events.

Um we're bringing it to you guys.

We bring it every year.

Um the hope is that you have an opportunity to learn a little bit more and ask some questions before we put it up on the website for the coming um snow season.

Umitably we'll all get questions about kind of why and who and what and where.

So trying to give everybody a little bit of an opportunity to kind of learn a little bit more.

So our external partnering agencies, um we have quite a few.

Um CDOT, as we're all familiar with, has multiple um primary roadways in our city.

Um so they handle some of those, and we um kind of coordinate maintenance and ownership of who does what, why went in there um adjoining those properties.

Boulder County is similar.

We butt up to um multiple Boulder County roadways and in fact share a couple sections of roadways with them.

So coordinate um the work on those areas.

RTD, we work with them on kind of getting their service interruption and feedback on you know things that they're encountering.

Boulder Valley School District, same same thing, right?

Trying to accomplish the same goal, and so trying to trying to do it without hindering anybody else.

They have a role in the old town, primarily parking lots and in the business district, keeping those areas clean.

So internal team, one of our internal teams is parks, recreation, open space, and golf, which is now a part of community services.

They focus on city facilities, which includes parking and walkways.

They also tackle sidewalks adjacent to city owned properties, and then hard surface trails and open space trail heads.

The other internal team is public works.

So they need help.

So if you know anybody looking for something to do, JD has nothing to do now.

Maybe maybe he wants to maybe he wants to help out.

Sorry, JD.

He's in the hall if you need to get them.

Yeah.

And then another internal partner is our communications team.

And so we try to keep folks aware and abreast of what's going on.

We send out social media posts, especially if we're preparing to get kind of a bigger storm or those brutal cold snaps or things that folks just aren't really ready for.

So we have multitude out a multitude of outlets for those including including social media, our website, and then we will also post citywide closures and delays.

So we try to balance safety with our first responders getting out and about town and doing their job along with the safety of our staff commuting to and from while providing city services for the community.

So we take those closures extremely seriously.

So we have four levels of kind of response efforts in public works.

So what what's coming in, what's here, how much longer, what's the temperatures, what's it doing kind of citywide.

Sometimes we get pockets in different geographical locations of the city.

And then timing again, when is it coming?

When is it leaving?

If we get to that point, it's usually when we take any big piece of equipment that we currently have or any contractor we can coerce into coming in, and then we'll do one pass down every residential road.

The city had to do that in 2020 and 2021, and I think just for that one storm, it was an additional 46,000 dollars, which is a significant amount of money.

So when you when you see a road like this where the objective would be to clear the walking surface, clear the the bike path here in red and the roadway, you rapidly run out of space to put any snow.

And so in those larger snow emergencies, they kind of create big bigger problems for some lower profile vehicles trying to get out of garages and cool de sacs and all that fun stuff.

So we try to limit that as much as possible.

Yeah, see there, that's the storage and that's parking.

So some future considerations that we're trying to keep our eyes on as we kind of adapt to everything going on, is there are additional de-icing options.

Some of them are provide more sustainability benefits and are a little more environmentally friendly.

So we're trying to keep our eyes on that.

We are working on replacing equipment, which I'll get to in in a little bit, but to kind of add some of those options, we don't currently have the infrastructure to support that.

And so with the work that will be done at the service center, we'll try to keep an eye out for what we can kind of also accommodate while we're tearing and moving and all that.

Um, and then as we replace equipment, we're replacing it with tools that will give us a wider variety.

So once we actually can utilize those different materials, we'll be ready to do so, which is great.

Um the change in climate is kind of always on our mind.

I feel like the last couple years we've had more significant just icing storms or impacts where uh that those response efforts can get really expensive because we're driving around just dumping down slicer and and trying to get the road back, get any grip back to the road.

Um, so that's been interesting, kind of see the evolution.

I think we've also seen a difference in the larger impact storms, right?

So we might not have as many, and then all of a sudden, Mother Nature reminds us that she's still hanging out.

Um, so just trying to trying to keep ourselves aware and educated on any can any alternatives to deal with a wider variety of storms.

Um, and then like every everywhere, right?

Everyone, um budget constraints, right?

So all these new tools and technology are great, but they get expensive pretty fast.

They're one of our new trucks cost three quarters of a million dollars and took three years to get here.

So another consideration that we're we have and we're really trying to focus on is um through the implementation of our multimodal transportation plan, there's um more projects coming in with multimodal features, right?

So this is a draft of an intersection improvement at 95th in Arapaho, um, which is awesome, and um provides uh a slew of benefits for people, right?

So there's a bus station here, there's bus station here, we've got some protective um corner islands for pedestrians, we've got um multi-use pathways, um, these multi-use pathways are in this picture 12 feet wide, um, so bigger than you know, uh a normal um 48-inch side uh wide sidewalk.

So um right now, as we're growing into these, we have kind of a lack of continuity of adjacent services, um, and then they do take some specialized equipment.

And so what we're doing this year, and as some of these start to come online, is we'll be working on contracting those areas out to give us a better fiscal sense of as we add it cost X, right?

And then at some point we will need to do some analysis on is there business case to actually bring that in-house once we have more, right?

Does it make more sense for us to add FTE and that specialized equipment versus paying a contractor to do it?

We're not quite at that point, right?

But we're trying to go into it with our eyes wide open so we can try to be prepared instead of reactive.

So enhancing our toolbox.

I swore it.

And so these guys have finally arrived three years later.

So this truck over here on the left is a wing plow.

So it allows the operator to cover one and a half to 1.75 times the amount of surface when they're driving.

So where we've deployed this currently is on all of our primaries.

And so before before this one got here, we were tanding up, sorry.

And so we'd have all four trucks hit kind of baseline and South Boulder Road and our larger larger primaries, and then they would break off to do their smaller primaries.

With this last storm, we were able to send this one out, and it did a heck of a job knocking out those bigger roadways, which allowed the smaller units, the smaller trucks to get into the residential areas faster, which was great.

And I I have some video if you ever want to nerd out on it because it's pretty pretty fun to watch.

And our work order system.

So again, trying to see those hot spots of where we we might be missing with the community as well as how can our shift supervisors be extremely responsive.

So this last event we were able to see kind of where everybody was and then that way dispatch people to areas that hadn't been done.

And then when we switch over staff shifts, then we're able to say, hey, um, we got to the south route, all the primaries, but here's the secondaries we didn't get to, and it's visual, and it's something you can just give the next operator coming up.

It's it's awesome.

Um and then staffing.

We are fully staffed, which is a big deal.

Um we have had the um ability to hire some trained or already trained and seasoned staff.

Um, so we have four five new staff on different routes, um, and only two of those we had to um get their CDL.

So we've got some folks that have done things for a while just in different communities.

So that's awesome.

Um, and we're we're pretty excited about that.

Um, and then the other uh improvement area last year was the first time we looked at kind of spatially what we serve.

Um the uh the dark blue area is any roadway within 500 foot buffer of a plowed route, and then the light blue is a thousand feet.

So we started off with a half a mile and the the whole city's covered, so we went down to a quarter of a mile, the whole city's covered.

Um so we broke it down even farther and and really tried to kind of see if we had significant areas where we didn't have service.

Um, so we we feel pretty confident that we're providing our emergency services a pretty high level of service, allowing them to get kind of everywhere they need to.

Um then data and analysis.

So snow and ice is a funny program where it's different every year.

Um, so we can keep metrics, um, but couple storms will throw those metrics off.

So if we, for example, if we have multiple icing events where it's it we spend more money per deployment, it'll change our average cost year through year.

If we have a significant amount of snowfall, it can change kind of all of our averages.

And so trying to read through those and look at some different trends and and try to get some base baseline measurements of what we feel is kind of appropriate and what we're trying to shoot for just because it does kind of change a little bit with every every winter.

So with that, got any questions?

Any questions from council?

Council Johnson.

Hi.

So my question is about uh emissions from the both the smaller vehicles you use on you know uh sidewalks as well as the trucks.

I don't know very much about this.

I know diesel is considered you know more polluting than cars.

I'm just wondering what's going on in the way of technology improvements in this arena that we might look to in the future for uh how to improve air quality through the use of the vehicles we use.

Yeah.

So unfortunately, well, people are working on it.

Uh there's not the technology for um alternatively fueled or or electric only or hybrid um only or hybrid larger vehicles.

They're starting to bring some of those out in the larger street sweepers, um, but for for the snow plows um and other winter um equipment, it's pretty hard because of the temperatures, they kind of um wear and tear.

Um we have several um Ford Lightnings in the fleet right now, um, and they're wonderful.

I will say, as somebody who who drives one of those, um, my range kind of cuts in half depending on the temperature.

So on those really cold snaps, um it can kind of cut the range in half.

So while technology's not there yet, it's something that we all kind of um pay attention to.

Um our mechanics, believe it or not, are super in to all the fun new technology.

Um I worked at a place before where it was kind of a harder sale, um, but that's not the case here, and so they're constantly trying to see um, you know, boulder got an electric fire truck, they want to go check it out, um, and that type of stuff.

So we'll keep that in mind as we keep as we keep going.

Um, and then as far as the emissions, so our newer equipment right meets um the newer, stricter standards.

Um it comes with a little bit of issues operating wise because sometimes it has to recharge and clean its its system out, um, which is fine.

We haven't seen significant um issues with that as far as time how long it takes.

Um we do have some older uh and wiser equipment that doesn't meet those standards, right?

And so um as we're able to through our fleet replacement fund replace those, we will kind of keep striving towards what's there.

Um snow removal is is one of those ones where it's right.

I mean, it can have a big impact.

Um we you know, we also can look at some additives to our diesel fuel, but because we have an a pretty big mix of aging um equipment and newer equipment, um that aging equipment doesn't handle um the biodiesel as well, and so we have to kind of slowly step into it.

Um otherwise we're we run a risk of our other emergency response equipment, such as our sewer vaccines and our backos um of not operating.

So yeah, we're not there yet, but we're paying attention.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Any other questions from council?

Council do you know?

A couple.

Um on the multimodal example, you talked about specialized equipment for that.

Can you just talk a little bit about what that is?

What kind of specialized equipment?

Yeah, so um in public works, we have really big toys, right?

And um bringing our really big toys uh into areas like this clearly is not gonna work.

Um parks uh they have some smaller equipment, um, but it's gonna take a lot for them.

And so I think we would look at more of the utility type vehicle or UTVs, um, either with the brooms or the plows um a little bit wider and and then a little more graceful.

Um this intersection, for example, um, and talking with our um teammates in in parks, they don't they don't have a piece of equipment out there currently that goes anywhere close to that that's that size, right?

And so then again, it's like okay.

Well, right now it doesn't make sense for us to have that equipment.

There's no business sense behind it, but as we continue to kind of expand, we'll we'll need to get you know different things.

Yep, yeah.

Uh another question I had, you know, on your on your um data slide, you had you know 251 miles for the last three years.

Yeah, how is that changing?

How do you see that changing in the future?

So these are um these are changing.

We uh during the cyber attack, we lost some GIS data, and we've spent the last couple years trying to get some of that back.

So the 251 I is low, I know that, but I don't feel completely comfortable with with raising it up, right?

So we know that this 251 doesn't include the new section of Silo or the new section of Willoughby.

And so as we're able to kind of get GIS fully going, they have been awesome.

They've um had great interns the last couple years, and so we've really been trying to build that back up.

Um this will continue to climb with and you know some of the bigger developments coming coming online.

Um our neighbors are also you know, eerie, we butt up against and we share roads with them, and Boulder County wants to get out of some you know things that they don't have continuity of service to.

So I would see that doing nothing but going out, unfortunately, or fortunately.

Just one more.

Um great to hear that you're getting some trained personnel in.

That's really nice.

I assume the training that inexperienced people get is just they're out on the road and they're doing it, and that's because this is not something that you could go to a class and learn how to have a roads.

No, uh-uh.

No, there's not a class for how to drive a 90,000 pound battering ram.

Um so we we try to keep uh our newer folks in our yard area.

Um that way they if they're screwing something up, they're they're not hurting um much.

And so we try to keep them out and about um doing the plow operations.

We have uh contractor uh come in.

Um a lot of these newer trucks are equipped with um kind of a whole smart system where you can adjust the um slicer per miles and all these things, and so he comes in for free, free because we buy their products, but he comes in and does a training, um, right?

So goes through all the remotes and all the sensors and how to make all the things work, and then we send them out dry, right?

When it's dry out and have them uh go through their routes, and so if you ever see a plow truck out driving around on a lovely day, it's it's usually because somebody's learning a new route or or feeling what it is to be that big um on a smaller, smaller roadway.

So that's how we try to do it.

We also um because we have enough staff, we've been able to team up um some more senior um operators with some of our newer folks for for a couple couple shifts, which has been really good.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Any other questions from council?

Mayor Proton.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um that would explain.

Thank you for explaining why I saw that plow and a bright sunny day, and I was like, I gotta talk to Kids.

Uh for maybe a murder team or something, but yeah, glad it was raining.

Um I can't thank you enough for your responsiveness.

I got in.

Yay.

Um over the years, there for the rest of the council, there was uh a resident who asked about a path from Centaurus into I figure what the park is called on the other side.

Yeah, but it um it wasn't safe really to get through there, and the children had to get through there, and it was dark and icy and all kinds of other things, and your crew put that forward and she's just blown away though.

We were so responsive, so thank you for that for finding out um how to take care of that.

And uh I have another one.

Uh just interestingly, and it's curious to me, I'm just curious, because there is a a path that flows south of Silver Creek.

Sorry, I want to take notes.

Yeah, I'm ready.

So it's a multi-use path that goes south, and I think the HOA is responsible for clearing that.

Um, but then uh North Vermont tees with that, and there's an emergency pass-through through there.

Um I happen to be walking through there, and someone in uh a recliner bike, it was a person with um another person in back.

It was a double recliner bike.

It's it's amazing.

And um, they couldn't get through because the snow is piled up in the emergency pass through.

But I don't know if that's something that we would take care of.

I'm not sure whose responsibility that is.

I'm not sure, right?

The other one you and it wasn't clear.

Yeah, the other one you brought to our attention was a defunct HOA, right?

And so we didn't we didn't know we needed to pick up some things.

So I can follow up though.

Okay.

And uh I might need a little more clarity on the video.

Yeah, sure.

I can email you about it.

I can follow up.

Um, I was also wondering did the snow angels uh the people who are volunteering, do they travel to places that need snow angels, or is it pretty much the people that live in the neighborhood that's my understanding is that they try to get the folks that are close because I think it's harder to convince people to drive across town um to help out, but I think it I think they'd take either.

Um but I the last time I'd asked that question, it's it's sounds like it's your neighbors and or your you know half a block down.

Okay, or the kids down the street.

Okay, so we gotta talk to our neighbors a little bit more.

Um I remember that we were experimenting with slushing, moving some of the snow onto the street to get the sun to melt.

It helps how was any results?

Personally, I think we saw some success with that as long as the conditions warranted.

Um we did it this last time actually on uh South Boulder Road, um, and then parts of Emma.

So um for those of you uh that don't know um when we first go through roadways, we try to widen them up, right?

And if you go back to that balancing act um screen, we go through the middle, worry about the road, make sure our fire trucks and our um police can get through there, and then we come back and we try to widen it out for um the bike the on street bike lanes.

Um you end up running out of room, right?

And so what we've tried to do um when we have kind of the warmer, warmer temps is uh try to come back and slush out some of that that builds up in there, um, which allows us to widen out that uh bike lane faster than um just the sun can.

Um the only drawback to that is you have to have pretty decent temperatures, otherwise you're just throwing chunks of ice out into the road, and people don't appreciate that um very much.

So we try to do it um as as we can, and there are right, Colorado's great, we get a lot of sun, and so whenever we can, we can we try to pull them back out and try to help kind of that melt off.

And uh just two more things.

I I really appreciate what you do for our city.

I I work in the city of Boulder, and there's some people who don't aren't really happy with the way the plowing goes in the city of Boulder, but I think we've got it really covered.

And I'm gonna finish with thank goodness we are fully staffed.

Thank you all the city staff for making that happen.

I remember 2021.

Yes.

We were calling everybody and their grandma to come out and start pushing stuff around and uh backhoes and everything.

So yeah, this is great news.

I've really appreciated it.

Thank you.

That's awesome.

That there's a there's a team down there that I mean I'm super pumped um to get to hang out with, but it's great to be fully staffed, and it's great to have some folks that are engaged and prideful in their work.

Um we talked this morning with them about um uh myself coming here tonight and offer I gave them a warning.

But if you ever want uh a ride along, it's it's pretty it's pretty fun, it's pretty wild.

Um city manager Doling uh experienced one too.

So um if that is something of interest, uh please let us know.

It's it's it's kind of wild.

And and the service center's coming.

And the service center's coming.

Oh yeah.

So when we said thanks for hanging on, but we'll get it forget her done.

Yeah, it's getting there.

Yeah.

Okay.

Amazing.

There doesn't seem to be any other questions from the council.

Thank you so much for joining us tonight.

Thank you.

Moving on.

Next is our 2025 year in review video, which is brought to us by our interim communications director, Natalie Miller.

Good evening, Mayor and Council members.

Um just to get this ready.

Um since 2019, we do a year review video, and it's kind of a tradition that we all really like to do, and staff really appreciates because it's a reflection of all the progress we made over the years, all the accomplishments and all the things that we brought to the community.

Um the community is brought to us as well.

So without further ado, before you show that, where does this live or who do you share it with?

We usually present it at council tonight, and then tomorrow it'll be on our website on Lafayette Co.gov slash year and review, and then we plug it in the news flash and all our social channels, so basically all our communication channels will be available.

Hi Lafayette, I'm City Manager Katie Doling.

Here we're proud of our small town city and big town community spirit.

2025 was a year of connection, creativity, and meaningful progress where neighbors, businesses, and city staff came together to make Lafayette shine.

I'm excited to share what we've achieved together.

Across the city, we saw innovation and collaboration that continue to strengthen Lafayette's future.

Let's start an old town where energy and excitement continue to thrive.

This year, we launched the Downtown Development Authority, creating new opportunities to invest in the heart of Lafayette.

We're also continued a key planning effort to update our land use code.

This multi-year project is modernizing standards that will guide future growth to align with community values.

The new farmers market brought local flavor and friendly faces downtown each week, while plans for a pocket park are taking shape to add another welcoming space for our community to gather and enjoy.

Through programs like Vacant to Vibrant and Small Business Assistant Grants, local entrepreneurs are turning ideas into reality, supporting jobs and strengthening our local economy.

And after a year of planning and construction, we celebrated the ribbon cutting of the historic Starkey building, a new collaborative space in Old Town.

We're also continuing to build a sustainable Lafayette.

Through our climate action plan, we advanced citywide energy efficiency, air quality, water-wise initiatives, and are expanding our EV charging station at the library, fire station, and golf course.

These sustainable investments are made possible through nearly one million dollars in grant funding that we're putting straight into the community.

This year the city began filling the Goose Haven Water Storage Reservoir.

This expansion will strengthen water reliability to meet our long-term supply needs.

We also began developing a comprehensive drought plan to conserve water and prepare for a more uncertain future as the climate and population continue to change.

The plan balances water conservation, infrastructure investment, and emergency preparedness to safeguard long-term water security.

Our climate action campaign, so hot right now, reminded all of us that small everyday actions can collectively make a big difference for our community and environment.

Adopted earlier this year, Lafayette's new Vision Zero Action Plan is helping create safer streets through the five E's engineering, enforcement, education, equity, and emergency response.

We're using data and resident feedback to guide improvements such as new sidewalks, crossings, and other priority safety upgrades.

This year we continue to invest in improve in transportation.

The 120th Street Bridge over Cole Creek received updates to enhance safety for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians.

We also completed the State Highway 7 and 119th Street Intersection Improvement Project, adding bike lanes, sidewalks, dedicated turn lanes, and safer signalized crossings to improve safety and accessibility for all users.

Thanks to Lafayette Voters.

Next year the city will advance three major facility projects.

The renovation and expansion of the Bob L.

Burger Recreation Center, modernization of the service center, and a new civic center will support our community for decades to come.

We look forward to continued opportunities to connect as planning and implementation begins.

Lafayette earned national recognition as one of GoBanking.com's best places to live and celebrated the ribbon cutting of Willoughby Corner.

This year, Willoughby Corner was also honored with the Dr.

Coggs Metro Vision Award for excellence, innovation, and collaboration.

With the continued dedication of our city council, residents, and staff, this year has reminded us what's possible when we work together.

There's a lot to celebrate, but we've also experienced loss.

As we close out the year, we take a moment to remember former city administrator Fritz Sprague.

A trusted kind leader and mentor whose influence is still felt throughout our organization.

His love for Lafayette and its community remains at the heart of who we are.

Lafayette is a place that welcomes you.

A place where people care, creativity thrives, and community comes first.

Thank you for being a part of what makes Lafayette great year after year.

And while interim director said I uh everyone enjoys making this, the least of it is me, but I do wanted to give a shout out.

That video was produced all in-house with our wonderful communication and bilingual communication specialist um Sebastian Acevedo.

So thank him for all of the hard work and beautiful coverage and to Natalie Miller for putting it all together too.

Amazing.

Um thank you so much.

Thank you.

Moving on to regular business.

Um agenda item E, resolution number 2025-81, declaring a vacancy on the city council.

We have the assistant to a city manager, Alex Nelson.

Thank you.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

I have a very brief presentation for you tonight regarding resolution number 2025 81 that would establish a vacancy on the city council.

As you'll recall at your last meeting, uh Mayor J.D.

Mega resigned from City Council, and his term was scheduled to end in 2027, so that does create a vacancy on the city council.

Our code of ordinance contemplates the situation and um outlines a process for how to handle it.

And it begins by City Council declaring a vacancy via resolution at the city council's next meeting.

And once that resolution is passed, uh council shall fill the vacancy within 45 days.

So if the resolution is passed this evening, that starts a clock of filling the vacancy by January 30th of 2026.

In your packet, we have more information regarding some of the background and um components related to this timeline, but we also included a proposed timeline for filling this vacancy.

I'll walk through two separate options.

Option one is what was in your packet and is focused around doing this process around the two regular meetings that are scheduled for January.

Uh, this would begin uh tomorrow morning following the vacancy where we would post the application, and that application was included in your packet for your awareness, and then those applications to um for people to apply to fill that vacancy would be due at five o'clock on December 31st.

Um, those applications would then be posted online for council and the public's awareness and then discussed at your January 6th meeting where council would determine who of those applicants to interview for the vacancy.

From there, we would coordinate with the applicants to conduct the interviews, and then council would make the selection and swear in that new new member all of the January 20th meeting.

Alternatively, council may choose to hold a special meeting where the process remains exactly the same except for after determining the applicants on January 6th, uh, we would schedule a special meeting where council would hold those interviews, make the selection, and then the swearing in would occur on January 20th meeting.

So there is a motion after this, but we are looking for two items of direction this evening.

Uh, first is of course determining which of the two options you would prefer, and if you would prefer to hold a special meeting, which date might work in January, and then a small matter, but we're also curious during this process last time.

Uh, resumes were not required of applicants, but were then asked to be provided.

And so if council wishes to see those resumes as part of the application, we'll just ask to know that tonight so we can include that requirement in the application.

So, as I mentioned, there is a motion for the resolution, but I'll turn it over to the mayor to see if there's any questions.

Thank you so much.

Before we uh get into discussion, any questions from council?

Councillor Johnson.

So, as I read the relevant ordinance, we have 45 days to complete the process, but we could complete it faster.

Is that not correct?

That's correct.

And and what I don't know is we're we're planning a council retreat in February.

Are we planning it in February to accommodate this process or do we normally have it sooner than that?

The well, yes, in part to accommodate this process as well as we're also um implementing the new board and commission work planning process that'll take place in January, so that February timing will accommodate that as well.

Okay, so just to understand there's nothing that we would change if we had a person sitting in here now about the timing of the way we would do the uh work planning.

Is that correct?

Let's say we have seven people today.

Would we still be doing the same schedule, or is the schedule changing because we don't have a person?

You're talking schedule of the retreat.

Yes.

Um I imagine it would still take place early February, but that's contingent upon schedules of council and the facilitators as well.

Okay, so there's no reason to try to tighten that 45 days is really what I'm asking.

Since we have a maximum of 45 days, we could make it quicker, but I doesn't sound like there's a real reason to is what I'm hearing based on the what you're saying.

Correct.

Yeah, so the mayor and the mayor pretend will be interviewing potential facilitators tomorrow.

They have all indicated um availability in February, but by this point, because we um elected the mayor mayor for Tem at a later date, um they they're all booked for January.

So we have done it in the past early February and even up to mid-February if I recall.

Okay, good.

Any other questions from council?

Okay.

Oh, question?

Uh I have a conflict on the January 20th date.

Um, and my so my preference is if it's possible to use the option two so that I could participate in the interviewing process in person.

Uh I would ask for that accommodation.

Yeah, let's get right into the discussion.

So option two works for Councilor Giannola, and we also spoke to uh Councilor Fridland, who's not here tonight, and he said option two works for him, knowing that Councilor Gianola will not be able to make it if we go with option one.

How does the rest of council feel?

I I could do either, and I don't have any constraints.

Councillor Granigos I'm fine with either method.

Okay.

I think we're good with option two.

Um, but that requires now us to find a date that works for that special meeting.

And that would be after the 6th before the 20th, ideally the week of the 12th, correct?

Correct.

Okay.

And assistant to Nelson, can you remind us what day there is a conflict with um broadcasting?

Yes, currently in this room, uh the downtown development authority is meeting that Monday, which is the 12th, I believe.

Um, and they use this room because they broadcast their meetings.

So ideally council would not do that night, but we do have availability on Tuesday and then that Thursday and Friday that week.

I'm going to throw Tuesday the 13th out just because we regularly meet on Tuesday, but I'm uh any thoughts from council.

So I have a potential conflict on the 13th.

I have a child having surgery that day.

I think we do have a senior advisory board meeting that day, or is that accurate with that?

Uh that might be the case.

I believe they meet starting at 4 30, so most would not be a conflict if this started at 5 30.

Unfortunately, there was this handy calendar that was passed around.

That's right.

Um, and it looks like the Thursday there are no conflicting.

I have conflict every Thursday.

I can't ever do a Thursday.

Wednesday is the looks like the public art committee is meeting that day.

Wednesday the 14th or Friday the 16th.

So the youth advisory board may be meeting on the 14th.

I don't know if that's been set yet in preparation for the MLK event on the 19th.

So it sounds like the 16th or the Friday of the 16th is Friday the 16th.

Does it work for all of council?

Mayor Proton?

Can't do Friday the 16th.

Um I have a service I have to go to for my father.

So we'll be able to make it on the 16th.

What was our conflict on Thursday?

On on Thursday, I have a class from 5:30 to 7.

So if we did it uh after 7, I could come.

I just have a standing class.

Looks like maybe the 14th, the Wednesday might be the best for council.

I think the only conflict is the public art committee, correct?

Yeah.

That's what it seems like.

Do everybody else do the 14th that Wednesday?

Um so I was just informed the planning commission will have their meeting on that day because of the holiday.

So and they will be televised as well, which I apologize we didn't notice before.

So you will um the senior advisory is not televised, so from a conflict, yes, you'll be overlapping that, but from a broadcast perspective, there won't be any issues.

What day is that?

The 13th, certainly Tuesday.

But that's the you said you couldn't do that.

I have a child having surgery, so I don't know.

I can come possibly could we possibly do the following Monday before the 20th?

So the 19th.

That's MLK day.

Oh, is that MLK Day?

Oh, I'm looking at the wrong album.

Can we do a send out a doodle or something and include David and um get the best available date?

Could I throw another date out?

Friday the ninth.

Is that enough time to review?

I think so.

I think we're getting the we make decisions on the candidates at the 6th, right?

Yes, but you'll have the application starting the second.

So that would be a full week's review.

Can you put your schedule back up?

Yeah, go back to the should we would determine the applicants on the sixth.

I think the ninth could work.

Does the ninth work for everybody else?

Right.

We'll go with the ninth.

Okay.

That same regular city council time.

That works, yep.

5 30.

5 30.

Thank you.

And our second question is do we want to require resumes for applications?

Can you remind me again?

So we didn't require them, but then we asked for them once the applicants were chosen who we're going to interview.

I believe that's correct, isn't it?

Yes.

Okay.

I think that's I like that because then you're not wasting time with resumes that you don't need to read until you get to the that stage of things.

So no resumes.

So at the applicant when we choose the applicants.

Got it.

At the second stage, not at in the initial initial application.

Okay.

I think we should just go ahead and ask for them personally.

I agree with counselor Gianola.

Everyone's good resume.

I think we're well asked for resumes.

And now we have a motion language up on the screen.

I move to approve resolution number 2025-81 declaring a vacancy on the city council.

Second.

We have the motion and a second.

Any further discussion?

No further discussion.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Anyone opposed say no.

No one opposed.

It passes unanimously.

Thank you so much.

That concludes regular business.

On to staff reports, and we will begin with our city attorney's report.

Thank you, council.

Um mayor, I our charter, since you just decided on a special meeting date.

Our charter has a unique requirement that requires the city to serve you with personally serve you with notice of special meetings or to post your home with the meeting notice at least 24 hours in advance.

Um and many of you are probably aware of that.

Uh you do have the ability to waive that requirement.

And so I just wanted to put that out there to at least the counselors present, and I can ask counselor Fritland separately, but if you're willing to waive personal service of that meeting notice and posting at your place of residence, um, we will still publicly post it and and um publish that agenda.

Uh but I just wanted to see if there were any objections from council this evening to waiving personal service and posting.

Okay, thank you.

I appreciate it.

That's all I have.

Thank you.

Now on to our city manager's report.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

Thank you for this evening.

Uh first I want to say happy holidays.

This is the last meeting of the year.

So I want to wish our community members uh for whatever you celebrate to just be safe, enjoy your family and friends.

And um kind of piggybacking on Callie's presentation tonight.

They do a lot of work around this time around snow plowing.

What you might not notice behind the scenes is this time of year is also full of waterline breaks.

And this past weekend we experienced three almost simultaneously in a row, with one being occurring Monday on baseline affecting a school.

So I just want to give a shout out to the staff that work you know 24-7 to get those repaired this time of year with the freezing and thawing and these 60 degree days are kind of brutal in addition to our aging infrastructure.

So please pass that message along to staff.

With the holidays, we have several upcoming closures, both on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve, and New Year's Day, and I just encourage the public to look at our website as various facilities have different closing times.

The majority of facilities will be closed Christmas Day and New Year's Day, though.

So it's those Eve days for our community members to go look and see what is open.

And then there has been a lot of discussion over the past 24, 36 hours around a potential Excel public safety power shutoff.

So I have asked our fire chief uh Bradshaw to give a brief presentation about where we stand as of about 415 this evening, um, which looked different than it did at noon.

So we're gonna kind of be there, give um questions, but for those that don't know, Chief Bradshaw also serves as our internal um emergency manager for these types of events.

So I will turn it over to that and then feel free to answer any questions.

That's all I have personally tonight.

Okay, good evening, Mayor Council.

Uh nice to see some fresh faces and different seats.

So uh congratulations.

Um yeah, as Katie mentioned, uh, this is probably the freshest PowerPoint you'll see.

Uh this is hot off the presses.

So on Saturday, we were notified from Excel through Office of Disaster Management of the impending public safety power shutdown uh for Wednesday.

Um a little work was done on Sunday.

Uh we really hit the road running on Monday, trying to make plans.

Um just gonna take a few minutes to talk about what a public safety power shutdown is.

Um talk about some of the preparation that we uh went through up until about 4.15 today.

Um what the weather is looking like coming forward for the next few days.

Uh while we're not gonna be doing a public safety power shutdown, uh, we're not out of the woods exactly on uh weather.

So uh I thought we'd start with the good news.

Uh we were in the uh power safety public safety power shutdown map zone uh until today at about three o'clock.

We finally got that formalized at about four.

Uh the shutdown uh shrank significantly over the last uh 36 hours, I would say.

So uh we are not inside it.

Uh the closest it gets to us is kind of the southwest side of superior, so there's a pretty good distance between us and the outage.

So uh we have pretty good reliability that uh it will not impact us directly.

Uh this is the map of directly from XL's website.

Uh I'm not a cartographer, so please excuse my red map drawing.

I hope the GIS team's not here.

Um just to show you some relativity to where Lafayette sits.

Uh the closure areas are all in the black dotted lines on the left side of that map.

So pretty good distance from us to them.

Um, and that um that did not change.

I just checked it a few minutes ago, so that is uh that is accurate to the minute.

Um so we just want to talk a little bit about what a public safety power shutdown is and kind of what it is not.

So pretty new to Colorado after the Marshall Fire XL and some other utility providers uh got serious about this technology, this approach.

Uh it's been happening in California for several years.

Uh if you remember the brown house in California years ago, it was kind of a second iteration of that.

Um, and they've done a lot of work in their power grids to refine that process.

So we're pretty early on here.

Uh we did one in uh 23.

The shutdown went great.

The re-enterization re I'm not gonna say that again.

Re-energizing the lines took a lot longer uh than we anticipated.

So uh so since the Marshall Fire, the first thing Excel done has done as our power provider um has put in in hounds power line safety settings.

So that uh in general terms, this means the power lines are more sensitive to short circuits and interference and things like that.

So the the safety mechanisms are more sensitive so that when two lines get closer together or there's a small failure, they cut off uh when this is turned on.

So this will be on uh this will be on in pretty much the whole front range starting tomorrow morning.

Um then the second step is a public safety power shutdown.

That's where they proactively turn off uh feeder lines uh that have pretty can have some pretty significant impacts into different areas.

Um they use they look at three different things.

Uh it's not too far from what we look at in terms of metrics for wildfire.

So the first thing to look at is wind speed and direction.

Um the second one is relative humidity levels, and the third one is is fuel moistures on the ground.

Um wind speed and direction, of course, is a prediction.

Um relative humidity levels is forecasted, uh, but we also know that high winds dry out RHs uh very quickly.

So while you can have a pretty good RH, a relative humidity coming into something, uh, a high wind event can really uh decimate that.

Uh fuel moistures are um ground-truth with uh you know tests on the ground from wildfire science.

So uh they use all those three things put together.

Umce they make a decision, uh, one thing we learned from the last one was uh they started giving us more notice, so 72 hours of notice to local governments.

Uh XL works through County Office of Disaster Management's or Office of Emergency Managements.

That's kind of their point of contact.

Uh, we're very fortunate to have a great relationship with Boulder County, so we got the information almost immediately.

So uh that's that's how that worked.

So this timeline looked a lot different this morning.

Uh I was about to tell you that we that things will be different tomorrow.

But uh, this is kind of um what we did internally.

Uh we took all the information from emergency management on Monday.

Uh we kind of hit the ground running, put together uh uh what I would call a short team of department heads and subject matter experts developing um some planning and some contingency planning and um some thought processes about uh some recovery.

That was probably the next phase we were headed to.

So uh you saw some public uh messaging go out yesterday.

Uh we were this close to rolling out some pretty aggressive messaging today with lots of information, uh, but we held just long enough.

So um uh some more of that coming tomorrow, just kind of rolling this back and providing some education to residents.

Uh, there will be a power shutdown on the west side of Boulder.

Um we certainly could experience a power outage with the high winds, um, but at present uh we are not in that in that area, and I don't think we'll be rolled back into it.

Um pretty we're pretty confident of that.

Uh so just I just wanted we just want to highlight some of the things we did and some of the uh we have a great staff department heads.

Uh we pulled in some subject matter experts uh throughout the city.

We came up with some pretty uh some pretty cool stuff happened in about 36 hours, I would say.

Uh we tried it, we we started increasing our water treatment and storage plans in case we had a power outage, we would be kind of in a better position going into the outage.

Um many of our facilities have generators, so uh they get normal service, but we made sure that they were all operational and ready to go.

Uh Chief Rosapillion and I made sure that uh staffing was adequate for emergency services, as did public works and uh with their team.

Then we really looked at how what was essential in city government to run, what had to keep going uh Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, uh, and we were crafting plans to keep all those things running.

Um we had a very uh very thorough pre-event messaging plan ready to go.

So I feel like the community would have been much better uh informed than last time.

We last time we were kind of trying to keep up with Excel.

This time we we had a leg up on them, so we were we were in a better position.

Um as I mentioned, we were talking about uh deputy city manager Davis and I were talking about uh recovery planning and kind of starting to forecast all of the things we could be dealing with on Thursday and Friday and Saturday.

So uh we're still talking about those things in terms of the wind event, just not the power uh re-enerization.

So the good news for us is it was a good exercise in emergency management.

It was a pretty intense 36 hours.

Uh we did some good work.

Uh we held, I think we held steady to the principles of emergency management uh and really relied on our subject matter experts.

So we let everybody work within the fields that they normally live in, which is far more efficient than trying to teach new skills on the fly.

So I just want to end with what uh what you all and what the residents can expect uh starting tomorrow midday until Friday and maybe into Saturday.

Um temperatures uh during the day, highs 50 to 60, roughly, 50 to 65.

I should have gotten a green screen for this part.

I realize that now.

Um low temperatures overnight 29 to 43.

So it will be cold but not uh not concerningly cold.

Uh it'll only dip into 29, you know, for a couple hours.

So that was good news.

The winds are really the story here.

Uh the 75 to 80 mile an hour gusts um in and around Boulder and kind of into superior is really the concerning part.

This is a very similar wetter weather pattern to what we saw during the marshall fire.

Uh we learned a lot from that event because we got to learn how uh wind and air compresses it because as it comes down in elevation gets faster and stronger.

Uh we also learned that uh we sit on just kind of the other side of the Boulder Valley, so we get a little bit of a break coming into Lafayette.

So I don't think we'll see winds quite this high on on this side of town, but it will be extreme.

Uh the last chart I saw uh at 5 30 was uh kind of 40 mile an hour sustained winds in Boulder uh Wednesday between five and eight.

Uh that's a that's that's a lot.

That's gonna be a windy afternoon.

Um and then we'll see some some gusts to 55 and a few peak gusts to 80.

This the winds over the last uh 24 hours, the the forecasting has gotten a lot more the confidence.

They've built a lot of confidence in what they uh what they project.

So these numbers are high confidence, or they wouldn't be sharing them with us.

Uh on Monday morning, it was a little different story.

So good news there's no precipitation coming, maybe a little bit of light rain on Wednesday, but uh no snow to move her off the streets.

So Wednesday to Friday, just in terms of what we can expect in Lafayette, um, we would not be surprised by some sporadic power outages uh here and there from high winds and damaged lines and down trees.

So we'll keep an eye on that as we always do.

Um a lot of Christmas decorations out this time of year.

So uh, you know, we would we would suggest to our residents that they batten down the hatches, uh, we'd hate for something to get damaged just from a flying uh yard chair or something like that.

So um the fire danger will be critically high.

Uh the fuels are are dry, uh there's no snow on the ground, um, and the wind over the next three days will if there's any fuel, if there's any moisture left in the fuels, it will take care of that.

So um, you know, by Thursday and Friday, it will be warm, dry, and windy.

So uh we do anticipate some damage to trees and infrastructure.

Um not specifically, uh, of course, if uh if there's trees or roadways damaged, please contact public works or or get a hold of the city.

Uh damage to private property is responsibility of the property owner.

But if it's a public safety hazard, or uh, you know, feel free to feel free to give us a call to come try to help you.

But uh generally private property damage is the responsibility of the property owner.

So uh that is uh that's the conclusion of that presentation.

I'm happy to answer any questions.

Uh lot lots of people in this room worked on this, so if I don't know the answer, there's somebody here that does.

Any questions from council?

Counselor Jensen.

Is BBSD gonna stay open tomorrow?

I don't have a confirmation on that.

Um they have schools inside the outage and outside of the outage.

I know.

So I I don't know what their plan is.

I I maybe there's hotter information up there, but yeah, as a mom of a BBSD kid.

Uh parents probably received within the last hour email stating them that while they're unsure, um, they most will likely remain open.

And so it's plan on going unless you receive a notification that they're closed otherwise.

Any other questions?

Council?

Counselor Jenno.

Thank you, Mayor.

Uh, thank you so much for all the information, all the planning pre-work that you know, this exercise basically that you can run through for this.

Um, one of the issues that I was thinking about as we you know heard about the um the snow angels in the event of a power outage.

Do we have a community resource?

Well, maybe like the snow angels to help folks get their cars out of their garage in the event that they don't have power and want to get their cars out of the garage.

Uh that's a good question.

We ran into that during the marshall fire.

Uh it's probably some good messaging we could probably do uh in terms of manually opening your garage doors uh and things like that.

So um and it's not I don't think it's anything that came up in our contingency planning, but it's a good point that we'll uh we'll put into our after action.

I mean, we we might consider you know recruiting the snow angels as someone who's got some you know muscle and willing to go and help their neighbors because those doors are heavy.

If you have a big garage door, it is not necessarily easy.

So I could see some of those folks who might need help with snow shoveling might also need help with uh getting out if they were so you know if we can put that into the plan at some point somewhere.

Um maybe that's a good idea.

Yeah, it's a good point.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I have another question, sorry.

Go for it.

Um when I was getting the pre-notices, um, I was thinking about people who need oxygen or other uh medical devices, and wondering is there a place they can go that we should be telling them that you know you can go to the lobby of this hospital or wherever if you need somewhere that you your medical device can be hooked up.

And I didn't see that in any of the messaging, and maybe it doesn't exist, but I was curious.

Uh it was that message was coming.

Yeah.

Um, the the first piece of advice we would have is if you have something that is necessary and it plugs into the wall, uh, that you should start making plans within uh your own set of networks and friends to find another put find a place to go with power.

Um you can't, you know, we there's we can we're pretty police and fire are pretty cool, but we can't make power in the middle of the night.

Uh it's one is one limitation we have.

So we were working on other city facilities uh for temporary power and recharging.

A lot of, I mean, we were pretty much a group that lives on things that are charged overnight.

So we were we were working on that, but uh for medical durable equipment, uh, really the message is think early, think often, uh, try to come up with solutions to your own equipment.

Um, and uh during the last outage, it was one of the things that came to the top.

So it was it was top of mind this morning.

We felt like we were we were gonna hit that with some just in time messaging, but uh shifted at about 4 15.

So thank you.

Yeah.

Any other questions for the chief?

Mayor Proton.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um I I can't thank you enough for getting ahead of what we were getting from XL Energy, and I'm trying to be nice.

So thank you for just going ahead and doing it.

Uh a notch.

I'm not really impressed with the initial uh information we got from XL.

So thank you for going ahead and getting it started.

Uh I was uh there's such a stark difference between this and what preceded the Marshall fire.

I really really appreciate the incredible progress we've made towards understanding uh what are they called pods, octagon, pentagon, polygons, that's it.

Polygons.

Uh one of those.

Um, I really appreciate this.

Prepared this.

Um I think it would be imperative if we had this as a case study to uh tell residents what all the city had done.

Maybe the slide deck, maybe it's just a summary of what it looks like.

But each one of the slides is super important informative.

Uh I think that would be uh helpful for us to convey that uh we have the plan and former counselor mayor for Tem Walton kept asking about the continuity of the coupe plan.

This is the emergency plan ahead of time.

The uh she also mentioned going upstream.

So I think we have swam upstream to the place where we got ahead of what could potentially happen.

And um the but we do we're not out of the woods per se because the marshall fired precede, you know, happened during a wind event.

So I'm I'm so glad that everybody's watching and hopefully soaking everything they can, so to skip wet tomorrow.

Um I I have some other comments, but I'm gonna save those for counselor comments.

Uh so thank you for letting us know what you did in advance.

Yeah, we we made we made a couple of really good decisions.

Uh the first one was we assumed the worst case scenario moving forward in our planning, which turned out to be super useful.

Uh, I think there was a lot of him and on, so city manager Doling was kind of the leading in the charge there.

So I appreciate that.

And uh Deputy City Manager Davis and I were just talking uh about coup planning continuing content operations.

So uh definitely all front of mind stories, uh, just trying to get some capacity to work on some of those things.

So I appreciate the comments.

Great.

Doesn't look like there's any more questions.

I just want to say uh I I watched in real time.

We well, we all saw in real time what Excel the information that was coming to us, and I saw in real time just how uh diligently and quickly the staff worked on the emergency response here.

So just thank you for all your work.

This I know it's an exercise because of what it turned out to be, but uh you did amazing work in actually getting us prepared for this.

So there's a good team.

We have fun.

Great.

We will move on to council reports.

I understand we have one agenda item under council reports, but what we will do is we will just go uh through council reports as we normally do and then circle back to the agenda item if that's all right, and we'll start over here with Councillor Gallegos.

Sure, I have an update regarding the MLK event coming soon.

And if it's okay, I'm just gonna read so I don't miss any of the important details that I want to share with you.

So the Lafayette Youth Advisory Board is excited to host the 21st annual City of Lafayette, Martin Luther King Junior Day celebration.

The Lafayette MLK celebration is an all ages family-friendly event organized by Lafayette's youth leaders and will be held at the Bob Elberger Recreation Center Gymnasium from 10 a.m.

to 1230 p.m.

on Monday, January 19th.

The Lafayette Youth Advisory Board welcomes community nonprofit organizations and agencies to join us in honoring Dr.

King's legacy of racial justice, nonviolence, equality, community empowerment, and to promote the community's engagement with their organizations.

Organizations will be provided with table space free of charge to actively engage with the community and provide information about the work of their organizations.

This event is nonpartisan, and we request that community partners not actively engage in campaigning and soliciting votes.

We welcome voter registration and voter education tables to promote civic engagement and informed participation in our community.

Space is limited to reserve a spot.

Please email the Lafayette Youth Advisory Board staff liaison, Melissa Heisel, Melissa.

At Lafayette CO.gov by January 2nd.

Hope to see you all there.

Thank you.

Councillor Jensen.

I had two items.

The communication we got in our council email about the power lines and the shutting down, uh, you know, was from a restaurant.

And it did make me realize that there are segments of our economy that are gonna really suffer more when we have to shut down power.

And the folks who communicated talked about burying power lines, and I know nothing about that.

I have no idea why we don't bury power lines, but I was wondering because of its impact on certain segments, like at people who also have you know medical equipment, if we could get sort of a staff report on why we don't vary power lines, what the the restraints are from doing that, you know, what would be safer?

Because I I I mean, if we have these several times a season, I could see it really hurting some of our small businesses that really rely on power to do, you know, manufacture something or make their product.

And so I I don't know if the rest of you would support that, but I'd like to know more about why we're doing I mean obviously Excel doesn't want to get sued again, um, as they have, and I don't blame them, and they also don't want a fire to happen.

But are there other options besides shutting down the power, like bearing the power lines, and what are the obstacles to any of those other options?

So I spoke before this meeting with Katie about you know bringing this up to try to just learn a little more about the circumstances and what else we might do besides just shutting down power.

So I don't I don't know it's you know what needs to happen next to explore that further, but that that's one comment I have.

Should I stop there or pardon?

Keep going.

Okay, the second item is I went to and and so did Tim, the commuting solutions uh meeting last week, and uh there was a presentation about what's called the RTD, what is it?

Accountability committee, do I have the right word?

I uh anyway, um, so there's this group that's been meeting as sort of experts looking at how RTD is structured and its governance, and they are going to be recommending some changes in legislation this next year, which I believe will impact us.

So I just wanted to put a pin in as we deal with CML and whatever is going on statewide that we pay attention to that because I think we may want to weigh in, like if they're changing the districts, you know.

Do we like who if we're in in a district where it's all Weld County and then us, that might not be where we want to be, you know, if they rechange the district.

So we I think we just need to pay attention to that legislation as it goes through the process and make sure it doesn't negatively impact us.

And they're talking about um fewer board members and some slots on the board for people with certain kinds of expertise, which right now it's just uh everybody runs in their district, there's no at-large members, and there's no uh criteria for who can run, like do you have to meet certain criteria?

So, like, I don't know, would it be a transportation planner needs to be on the board or an attorney or somebody who is a bus rider?

You know, I don't know what they're gonna come up with, but I think it's worth us paying attention to as it goes forward.

So those are my two comments.

Thank you.

Mayor Proton Barnes.

Uh, thank you, Mayor.

And uh thank you um Councillor Jensen for reminding me I was there.

Uh it's been one of those weeks.

And one of the um there were a lot of eye-opening comments at that meeting.

I really appreciate the uh the opportunity to attend, and the legislative breakfast is coming out for community solutions in January, so I think we uh should consider uh somebody representing and being there for that.

One of the other statements made was that they potentially could make a an increase RTD and increase in taxes for next year to in order to cover some of the costs they're incurring.

So it's another reason to pay attention, it's not a statement like that to say if is this something that they're actually going to do.

Um so that we are aware of what potentially could happen.

Um I'm gonna transition into my comments, uh, or I guess I already did.

Um I did want to mention to everyone to please take a look at the extended producer responsibility program, which is a really truly a stunning uh advance for us in Colorado.

And you can find information about it on the Colorado or CBPHE Health Department of Public Health and Environment.

And this was really a game changer.

House Bill 2211 uh created recycling for the whole state of Colorado for free.

Um this the cost to do this is put back on the producers after a lot of research and support from many different eco-cycles in in in Boulder County and even support from other nation national uh institutions where they figured out how to do this.

Um they made the point that the return for businesses is that they can have the raw materials they need for packaging and take away those transportation costs if the recycling is done right here in Colorado.

So this will provide it to rural communities that do not have the capacity to do recycling.

Uh and this is really a game changer that Colorado is about to have this in 2026.

So again, that's the EPR or extended producer response or producer responsibility program, and that's on the CDPHE web page if you're interested in learning more about what is about to happen.

Uh I was also fortunate enough to extend the or sorry to attend a lantern walk at Wanaka Lake with the uh person who spearheads um friends of Cole Creek Hasting Lions, and it was just a magical event.

I I highly recommend uh our residents attend.

There were free range children running around barking at each other and screaming and running through the uh the vegetation.

Uh there's a little poetry or a story about what the turtles go through as they winter over, um, some poetry and um musical enhancements.

Uh there's a trumpet player standing on one side of the lake blowing music across the lake towards us.

It was really uh heartwarming to hear uh that and uh some music.

So anybody again, that's the uh lantern walks uh at uh Wanaka Lake.

And I would like to dip a little bit more into these are the comments that I had uh when we were talking about the preparations for this wind event, and I I'm not sure if this is captured in our climate action plan, but this is one of the right now, it's one of the vulnerabilities that we have.

If our ore infrastructure is vulnerable to this vulnerable or what was being indicated to a wind event, we need to consider that, especially if we're looking at resilience, how do we move forward?

And and with as Councillor Jensen mentioned, like what is the plan?

I would love if we could get more detail on that.

What I was told is that the soil's too rocky, so it's too expensive to put power lines in the ground.

And I'm not sure if that's actually.

But our internet's under the ground, isn't it?

I as I said, I'm I I would like clarification of that.

You know, what all is a reason for not um incurring the cost to bury all of those power lines.

But uh I do think it's something we should keep in mind when we look at our climate action plan.

Like, are we ready for this in the future?

And it's it's arguably a connection between our changing climate.

If maybe you've noticed these 60 degree days breaking water means and uh freezing at night.

Um that's what drives and from what I've seen.

There we there's last forecast I saw is a 52 52 degree change in temperature tomorrow night going into Thursday.

And that's enough to spoil anybody's tea party.

So this if this is something that's coming forward, uh it's something we need to consider like how vulnerable are we to not just wind events but these dramatic changes in climate our infrastructure.

And again, I'm not sure if it's in our cap plan, but we could get maybe as for adds a to lean in to some of that.

And luckily, we don't have to reinvent the wheel around supporting our own power needs because our former mayor, right?

Um a microcrater using the solar uh equipment that we have already to provide some type of power.

So it's it was it's been thought of before, and I can bring that forward to show you what what some of the ideas were uh when they were initially brought forward.

But uh I just wanted to put that on everybody's radar that uh we we shouldn't just sit back and um let things happen because it's uh it's it's there are some things that we can understand and maybe uh be aware of so that we don't get caught off guard.

And I think that's it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh Councilor Gianola.

Thank you, Mayor.

I I don't have anything specific tonight other than you know, want to wish the community happy holidays and a great end to 2025.

Um I would be in support of learning more about varying power lines if that is something we can ask the staff to you know get some information to us.

I I would support that.

Amazing.

Thank you.

Uh okay, moving on to me.

I just have one thing before we move into our agenda item.

Uh it is about the boards, commissions, and committee assignments.

So you should all have received an email from me.

Uh, for the public, we are, as I'm sure you're aware, there are many boards, commissions, and committees that uh are here within the city, and there are many others that are regional that this council either serves as liaison sewer service members on um regionally.

For council, this is just a reminder.

Please reach out to me and let me know of the preferences availability by this Friday.

We're hoping to have these finalized and appointed by our next council meeting, was it January 6th?

And uh staff did an amazing thing.

You all have a color-coded calendar in front of you that actually lets you know when the meetings are, so if there's any sort of conflict, it's just uh great reference, guys.

So just let me know by this Friday what your preferences are and what your availability is.

And we will move on to agenda item H, which is a selection of planning commission interview panel and interview date for the public city council voted to reopen the planning commission application uh in the hope of bringing more candidates in for the one vacant seat currently on planning commission, and that application closes this Friday, the 19th, from my understanding.

Um so what happens is the application closes, and then there will be a panel of three-person panel of members of this council that will then interview the candidates.

Uh and our job today is to find out who that panel is from speaking to counselors individually.

It sounds like we have our three.

Uh I just want to confirm Councillor Gallegos has volunteered, Mayor Pro Tem Barnes has volunteered, and Councilor Gianola has volunteered.

So we have our three-person panel for these.

The only final thing we need to do is pick a date.

There was two dates that worked for our city staff, and those were Tuesday, December 23rd, and Monday, December 29th.

So I'm just gonna kind of ask the three members of the committee.

Which which one of the are those two dates still good with staff before?

Yeah, there's a different you could do the 30th.

We're just looking for um some capacity to be able to post the agenda, and then with the um applications being due at midnight on the 19th to be able to post notice would require tight time frame for the 22nd.

So ideally 22nd, 23rd, if those um what I say, 23rd, 29th.

If those don't work, we can look at different options, but then I'll be council could find one of those two.

So to the three members just running through these.

The 23rd, does that one work?

So yes, they both work for me.

Almost there.

And we'd pick a time of we have we don't know the time of day yet, right?

The time would be, I'm assuming around 4 p.m., 4 30 p.m.

That's correct.

Uh the should that should work on now.

23rd.

Great.

So we have a committee and we have our date.

Preferences on four or four thirty.

Four thirty.

How many interviews are we doing?

Currently there are two applications.

Um, but again, they have um until the nineteenth and midnight to apply.

And is the one person who already applied still in that mix?

Or does that person okay?

Okay.

And yes, two applicants currently, uh, but the application closes on Friday.

So if anyone is interested in serving up planning commission, please get your applications in by this Friday.

And with that, we are finished.

So I will adjourn the meeting.

Thank you.