foreign [Music] foreign foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] all right um let's see uh the study session for the Aurora city council for Monday November 7 2022 is called to order for the clerk please read the rule mayor Kaufman yeah mayor bro Tim Bergen here councilmember Coombs present council member Gardner here councilman verdrinski councilmember Lawson here councilmember Mercado president council member Medina here councilmember Mario present councilmember stemberg here and councilman risavanick here there's a card no mayor's update are there any issue updates no issue updates uh is there any objection to from moving the consent calendar forward item 2A through 2N seeing none the consent calendar item 2A through 2N will move forward items from the policy committee's uh 3A uh Adams and Arapahoe County's Public Health Department updates Roberto venangas mayor uh Roberto Venegas Deputy city manager I'm here more to introduce um of representatives from the Arapahoe County Public Health Department as well as the Adams County Health Department they're here to provide updates with regards to the transition from the Tri-County Health Department in 2023 so with that I will um Jennifer Ludwig on the call we can start with Arapahoe are here Arapahoe and I'm actually going to kick it over to commissioner Nancy sharp to start us this evening thank you very much for the invitation great thank you um I hope everybody can hear me um good evening and thanks to everybody for allowing us to join you tonight it's a great opportunity for us to be able to share the um I what I think is impressive work that's been done so far the Arapahoe County Health Department to be ready for residents and we say January 1st but actually it's January 3rd our first day of business so on behalf of the board of County Health Arapahoe County Board of Health we really do appreciate I think we've got a couple of board members commissioner slash workouts director commissioner Nancy Jackson who's on and also director Sean Davis and there may be others but I'll introduce everybody who's a member of our foundational board in just a few minutes so and you already were introduced to Jennifer and she's going to take over the program in a few minutes we are really excited to be with you tonight to be able to share this information and um what resonance to let you all know what uh residents of Aurora um and can can expect and next slide please there we go okay thanks when the um as we know the departure of Douglas and Adams counties from the Tri-County Health District Health Department Arapahoe County had to declare that it intended to leave the district also consistent with State Statute then we were on our journey to creating Arapahoe County Public Health Department and it's been a really interesting and fast Journey so far as the board of County Commissioners we felt it was important to Anchor the formation of our new health department in alignment with the County's current guiding principles and the public health values that have been used in Arapahoe County in the past the intent of these guide posts that you see on this slide was able to to help us think about the complexities of our recommendations knowing that some values were and are more relevant to certain decisions making to our decision-making processes we've used these to inform decisions throughout the planning phase and have continued to do so as we move through implementation to ensure alignment with our values and Community expectations next side next slide please okay this is our time frame and we are on schedule to be ready to go January 1st January 3rd of 2023 so in 2021 the board of County Commissioners directed the formation of a special project team and that was made up of a consultant as well as a number of our department directors and obviously Tri-County Health employees at the time to make recommendations to form this new Public Health Department we established a very clear timeline processes and plans and to complete a lot of work to position the County's new Public Health Department for tremendous success and some of those things that you see on here including included exploring core Public Health Services with subject matter experts decided organizational and governance structure met with Founders funders to establish transition options and engage the community and elected officials throughout surveys town halls and individual conversations and that took months for us to do and trying to listen to All um to the residents and businesses across our County so next slide so our implementation plans and actions we're going to talk about one of the most important things we've done was to establish a foundational Board of Health in June to guide the detailed implementation work over the last six months and months and I want to give credit to the current Board of County Commissioners because they've been invested for more than a year on with multiple meetings sometimes many in a month to along with now the foundational board to get us ready for January so we want to be consistent and will be consistent with State Statute the Board of Health has oversight over of the County's Public Health Department and the responsibility for hiring employees and you'll see here that commissioner Nancy Jackson and I are who are term Limited at the end of this year we'll serve on that foundational board as well as as BB Kleinman and Dr Heather signorelli and Sean Davis and I think commissioner Nancy Jackson and director Sean Davis are on joining us tonight but I can't see everybody so just to let you know and so on behalf of our board which includes Health Care non-profit public health professionals as well as the two of us who are outgoing commissioners um bring the expertise in Behavioral Health and organizational development finance and Human Services as a result as a result the board of our Board of Health using the guideposts I just shared um earlier to ensure that decision making reflects an appropriate balance that meets the needs of Arapahoe County and this is an opportunity with our own health department to really focus on the needs of our community and only our communities across Arapahoe County the foundational Board of Health members are focusing exclusively now on ensuring that Arapahoe County Public Health is operational by January 1st because of that Focus the Commissioners felt it was important to um in this initial startup phase to have some elected representation on the board to ensure that accountability community responsiveness and fiscal responsibility future Commissioners will ultimately decide long-term board composition one of the first and I think one of the most important decisions we made was to hire director Jennifer Ludwig who brings a very strong administrative and practice-based experience to our lead team I'm going to turn it over to her and she's going to take us all through and hopefully you all will have time I I'm not I hope we'll have time for some questions but we'll move on Jennifer go ahead please thank you so much commissioner and and thank you all it's great to be here um and I'm a Monumental point in history we are down to seven weeks until opening day so next slide please just very quickly want to review our structure um not too dissimilar uh to Tri-County Health Department structure and or most public health departments across the state in the services and the functionality of the agency don't want to spend a whole lot of time looking at the structure but really can it take some time to go into the programs and services and to just reassure you that uh that many of the programs and services that Aurora has come to count on in their health department they will be able to expect from their new health department so next slide please to date um and when we sent this in we had 128 staff hired I have sent since received several more acceptance letters so we're around 131 staff who have been hired our plan to get to fully staffed is initially around 180 full-time employees and right now we're at 131 the majority of those staff are coming from Tri-County Health Department so the great news is been able to hire bring on that expertise so the continuity of service to the clients and to those businesses restaurants Child Care water will be you know they'll they have a relationship and they'll be able to continue that relationship with their WIC educator or with their restaurant inspector so that's good news for us next slide a bit about the programs and services that many have come to rely on with Tri-County Health Department will be also available and and um offered at Arapahoe County Public Health we will have an environmental health emergency preparedness and communicable disease Division and that is you know our restaurant inspections Child Care inspections we'll have a solid hazardous waste program our emergency preparedness and response on our covid-19 response team will stay intact and provide the services that we're all used to as well as disease investigation and control other services that many are used to uh birth and death certificates are issued by the health department and we will continue to do that out of our Greenwood Village office and then in Partnerships planning and strategy every Health Department is required to have a public health Improvement plan conduct a community health assessment we will have a tobacco education prevention program we will also be doing a lot in community engagement it will be up to every employee at Arapahoe County Public Health to be engaged with talking with listening hearing the community bringing that back to make sure that we are meeting the needs of the community next slide and we also have a placeholder for a digit a division called community health promotion we right now we're not big enough we know we won't have all of the staff in place as well we're actively seeking grant funding and this allows us in our model in our our structure to grow right now our planning division director will also oversee Community Health but this gives us an opportunity to look at options and funding and programming for substance use prevention mental health healthy aging healthy beverage education so some of the initiatives that Tri-County has been involved with funding necessarily didn't transfer over to Arapahoe County Public Health so we are actively seeking funding to be able to offer additional programming and this area gives us that room to grow nursing programs are one of this is our largest division at Arapahoe County Public Health and many of you might be familiar with the nurse Family Partnership we also do a nursery liaison so these are nurse home visit programs we also will be offering immunizations in two of our four clinics and I'll share with you the um the locations and we will have sexual health clinics as well in two locations and then our HIV harm reduction program this also offers syringe exchange and a mobile unit so we'll be out in the streets traveling around Arapahoe County the Maternal Child Health program as well as our child fatality prevention review which is a mandated program by state statute and then in our nutrition division the women infant children food supplemental program this is one of our our largest programs and we we see and take care of many many families this is for pregnant women postpartum women and children up to age five and what's great is uh this is fully staffed by Tri-County Health Department Rick current WIC employees who have been in their position many many years lots of knowledge they'll be able to continue the same service to their families that are that are seeing Tri-County now so should be our goal is for this to be very seamless for our clients and the community our the staff we're the ones seeing the most chain but our goal is to try to make continuity and make this as easy as possible for all the clients next slide we currently Tri-County Health Department has five locations in Arapahoe County and one of them was set to SunSetter to close it's a WIC only office consolidating that office into Altura Plaza so that was already planned we will be maintaining four locations in Arapahoe County um Inglewood off of North Broadway Altura Plaza is in Aurora Aurora South and then our Willow office is in Greenwood Village so Inglewood and Altura Plaza are our two large Clinic sites where we have sexual health immunization WIC um in both of those at Altura Plaza we have more with our HIV sir injects to access program environmental health and then WIC is in three of our locations including Aurora South with our nurse liaison program and then Willow is our big Administrative Building but that is also where our nurse Family Partnership will be housed and this program will also be serving Douglas County Douglas County was not large enough to have its own program and so we do have an agreement with Douglas County to be able to continue to serve those programs those families who are already in our our caseload in will or Willow Street office in Greenwood Village will also be where you can obtain a birth or death certificate in person it's also something you can do online and then we'll have an environmental health Team at that location next slide so we are actively doing quite a bit of Outreach now um including tonight letting you all know what is happening where we are what's going on how how has our progress been we've started Outreach to our regulated facilities such as restaurants body art and Child Care Centers we were out on the streets today introducing ourselves to restaurants letting them know what they can expect come January they're used to getting their invoices uh this month from Tri-County Health Department that won't happen until January because of the change so we want to let restaurants and businesses know who and what they can expect come January 1st and so we are doing direct mailers emails walking the streets um so we were out and about today more to come but we've designed quite a few different pieces of communication and starting to do a lot more just as we get close to the end of the year so that hopefully you know through repetition people will hear and know what's going on next slide so that is it for our update on Arapahoe County Public Health and if you haven't signed up and don't follow us yet on Twitter or Facebook please do um we've been posting today on some of the outings that we've had and Outreach that we've had with folks so thank you very much again appreciate the time and I think now we'll turn it over to Adams County so really appreciate uh you all and everything that you do thank you all mayor I don't know if you'd like to take questions at the end or if you'd like Dr weidenbach with Adams County to begin her presentation we can do questions for both departments at the end um if you have a preference please let me know otherwise we'll continue I think it would be um I tell you what let me uh Let Me Entertain a few questions uh and then we'll move on to Adams County uh questions from Council mayor um I'm sorry oh council member codes no I believe it was mayor for attention thank you mayor um just um thank you for the presentation I know you guys have put in a lot of work to get this um established um on the four locations you mentioned um the South Aurora and uh Greenwood Village Englewood Willow where's the willow it's I-25 and Orchard so Denver Tech Center is there any I represent Southeast Aurora is there anything that is closer to us that um I mean I don't I don't even know if Tri-County had anything close to us we so we had um Aurora South is Chambers and Hampden we have the one that we're closing was at Colfax and Chambers and yeah that's Way North okay so it didn't it seems like there wasn't anything down south anyway no and we I know Tri-County had over the years has had moved around and moved sites we will be um two of our locations so that Aurora South location as well as our Greenwood Village location are leases so Arapahoe County uh is conducting a space study right now we will be looking at not just you know space available but where like can it do in the hot spot mapping and looking at where do we need to be and and projecting where's the growth where might we need to be in the future and really thinking many years out and down the road where are our Mass locations because the opportunity that we have with two leases is to think differently about where we are well thank you so much I appreciate it thank you a quick question uh and that is I think uh you just mentioned that um the the site at um uh Chambers and Colfax was closing I think that one's remaining open I think it's the site tool on Colfax towards the border with Denver that's closing am I correct amount you probably have them backwards it's the one that's in currently in the Wells Fargo over by children's okay okay a further questions mayor uh councilmember McCall thank you sir uh and thank you Jennifer for your presentation um I do have a question for you regarding Outreach you mentioned you've been you know already going out and speaking with business owners um I did hear a concern from one of our Behavioral Health Providers who specifically works for the with our homeless Community they're trying to make contact I guess it would be with you since you're going to be heading up the new agency they're based in Adams County this is out of the Aurora day Resource Center um they're based in Adams County but they most of their clientele actually comes out of Arapahoe County so they wanted to make sure that you had a chance to connect have you already made a connection yet have not so I'd be happy to make that connection and maybe Kelly and I could make that connection together uh since there's there is that crossover yeah I think they would really appreciate that so I'll go ahead and DM you their information then perfect thank you so much thank you uh further questions mayor Sundberg uh council member thank you Jennifer for the presentation had a question about the programs and services area there where there's a placeholder future programs uh can you elaborate a bit on the substance use prevention topic there the intended audience and what that would look like we so we don't have yet a program designed to developed but looking at um so right now we are our uh Tri-County Health Department has some programming really around education Coalition building um stigma reduction campaigns raising awareness right now I'm part of the regional opioid governance Council and thinking about you know monies will be coming in or are in and how do we distribute those monies across the county and what programming is needed so Arapahoe County Public Health thinking and we'll be looking at what's available in Arapahoe County as part of our community health Improvement planning process what might what is needed where's the Gap and what is the role of Public Health so we think about prevention and education not in the area of treatment but what is you know what is it that we need to do to raise awareness provide education is it in schools is it you know building out on the on naloxone training and distribution so we have opportunities with our some of our programs that are already in place but where do we need to build and where are the gaps and what is the role of Public Health is what we will be assessing and thinking about um you know what funding opportunities are available further questions thank you further questions we're seeing none thank you very much um now we'll go to Adams County right uh thank you all for uh inviting us here today to to speak and um thank you to Arapahoe County for kicking off the presentation and providing a nice foundation for our discussion today as well I am Dr Kelly weidenbach I'm the executive director of the Adams County Health Department and uh formerly Tri-County and also have a lot of experience with Public Health Administration and practice uh next slide so today we'll give a little bit of an overview and introduction to our Health Department's leadership our Board of Health uh like Arapahoe County will be giving an overview of those programs and services um discuss our staffing and our locations and also give a little bit of an overview of budget as that is a common question that comes to mind and then also discuss Partnerships and Outreach next slide um so many of the faces at the Adams County Health Department are familiar faces if you're familiar with Tri Counties leadership team I came over from Tri Counties executive management team and prior to that I was a health department director in Wyoming many of you also would recognize Dr Albanese Bernadette Albanese who is our medical officer she served in a similar role and as a medical epidemiologist at Tri County Health Department and Melissa Sager who is also with Tri-County is our assistant County attorney for health she was in an intergovernmental Affairs and um and uh policy role at Tri-County we have not yet posted or hired for our deputy director so that position is yet to be filled but we'll be excited to introduce you all to that individual once that person is hired next slide uh our division directors again some of them are familiar from the Tri-County leadership team and also some new faces we have Adam Anderson who is over our epidemiology and data science division he was in an informatics role at Tri-County uh in its uh responsible for many of the wonderful and vast uh Tri-County data dashboards um Annika bulig she is over Health Equity and strategic initiatives division Michelle Harris over nutrition and family health Brian lavasek who is in over our environmental health division also formally with Tri County and Dr Darcy Martinez who is our Public Health nursing division director next slide our Board of Health was established in August of this year it is a transitional board until January 1 of 2023. we received 21 applications 10 candidates were interviewed and our Board of County Commissioners selected these five individuals um it's notable that uh no elected officials or Commissioners are serving on our inaugural Board of Health our commissioners really wanted to raise the voices of the community to this board and really have a board of experts over the Board of Health we meet regularly monthly on the third Thursday of the month at 5 30 PM those meetings are both in person and virtual and our uh our board president is Dr Sheila manke our board vice president is Dr Dede Gilliam and then we also have Brett kyling and Jeremiah Lindemann and Dr Lisa Winkler who are serving on our on our board next slide please this is very small print I can describe what's in each of these buckets for you all um very similar to Arapahoe County's Public Health structure similar to Tri-County and also other local Health departments um what is notably different though is our office or division of Health Equity and strategic initiatives where we're really looking at um what we would say is policy focused and social determinants of Health focused work and programs this is where we have our Public Health policy and governmental Affairs our health enrollment and access to care Team food security and Food Systems team we have a focus on Health Equity and Community engagement mental health promotion Maternal Child and Family Health Systems work and our community prevention that includes tobacco opioid prevention and other substance use prevention efforts under epidemiology and data science you'll see a an investment in public health data and informatics we have that population Health epidemiology communicable disease epidemiology so these are the folks doing disease investigation outbreak investigation are components of coveted response are still in that Division and then just a strong focus on public health informatics project management Performance Management and that accountability piece quality improvement and our community health assessment and planning under our nursing division we have immunizations Sexual Health Family Planning harm reduction and syringe access we also have those nurse home visitation programs including nurse Family Partnership our nurse Support Program very similar nurse liaison program also programs addressing Children and Youth with special Health Care needs our child fatality review which is required through statute and our medical records and clinical informatics piece under nutrition and family health we have WIC breastfeeding support diabetes education and prevention some work around healthy eating and active living are what we term heal programs and also dual Wick and snap enrollment under environmental health we have our retail food inspection body art inspection school and child care inspections Pool and Spa water quality and on-site wastewater treatment systems solid and hazardous waste industrial hygiene vector-borne disease and then our environmental health operations and business analytics piece and to the very far left on the screen on the org chart this is our office of administration and accreditation where we have Vital Records uh public health emergency preparedness and our interaction for business operations and interaction with the rest of the County's business partners that includes our HR Finance Grants contracts purchasing that sort of thing um next slide so I reviewed many of these programs um these are programs that we get asked about often and have a lot of Public Health interest um the vast majority of programs and services currently provided by Tri-County will be provided by the Adams County Health Department there are a couple of exceptions one of which was a program that was sunsetting anyhow with employer-based health initiatives or worksite Wellness type programs and then Community nutrition program that was increasing healthy food access within Child Care uh facilities but as you can see we're covering a lot of the both mandated and Innovative services for public health next slide locations uh we are Tri County had four locations in Adams County and we are continuing to have all four of those locations and then our administrative office so those client-facing locations include the office in Brighton which predominantly serves WIC clients um the Commerce City location which is in the South flat Crossing building owned by the county it used to be Adams County Human Services location um that's where we have Vital Records WIC some nursing services and also environmental health our North Broadway location that has a Denver address but it's located in unincorporated Adams County which houses WIC and nursing Services the Westminster location which is the largest client facing in clinic location in Adams County includes WIC and nursing services and then our admin Administration office will be located in the Adams County Government Center in Brighton next slide okay just an important thing to note is that um Aurora residents can seek public health services at either Health Department for most Services um that includes WIC Family Planning immunization Sexual Health harm reduction as Jennifer mentioned we're hoping that Aurora residents and other clients really see the transition as very seamless in many cases they'll be going to the same offices that they were going to before for the same services in most cases seeing the same staff there are some Services particularly those geared towards businesses where um the the health department will need to be accessed based on their business address this includes Health inspections so brick and mortar businesses will need to be inspected by um according to the address in which they are located septic systems are another great example of that and Jennifer and I work well together and are continuing to explore ways to best serve the city of Aurora and we co-authored a Grant application together for collaborative efforts and receive funding from cdpg for Community Health Improvement planning focused in Aurora next question or next slide stuffing very similar to Arapahoe County we're opening our doors with about 176.75 FTE we will have all of those positions in place for our opening in January we have hired about 135 or 76 percent of those positions to date about 50 of the positions are Grant funded not fully Grant funded maybe partially or fully Grant funded about 120 of our staff are transfers from Tri-County with start dates of January 1st so a very similar tactic in that we wanted to keep the vast majority of Tri-County staff who are currently serving the communities in place and doing the jobs that they do well and they have that historical and institutional knowledge so we're off to a really great start and um yeah similar to Arapahoe our WIC staff for example 100 of those client-facing positions are being held are filled by Tri-County staff experienced Tri County staff the remainder of our positions will be recruited through an open competitive process and there are some temporary positions through temporary coveted funding from the CDC from January to June and which we anticipate a team of 20 to 25 staff next slide yeah just another word on locations we're retaining all of those locations that Tri-County had in Adams County we're retaining all of those client-facing services and we're largely keeping the same staff in this service or in those locations so same Services same locations same people next slide so the question I get asked often is what's different um and in the organizational chart and in our staffing model you see an increased investment in the unique needs for public health in Adams County again this is sort of per capita um so as we know Adams County has some additional need in the environmental health area so you will see increased Staffing and environmental health compared to per capita levels at Tri-County Health Department also more Staffing for Community engagement efforts more for mental health promotion Health Equity work Public Health informatics and data analytics also more Staffing for harm reduction and substance use and overdose prevention and already we're experiencing some increased collaboration with other County departments this includes our community safety and well-being Department working on poverty reduction homelessness wraparound Services mental health our community and economic development we're working very closely with them around air quality land use planning water quality also and very deeply engaged with our human services department around child maltreatment prevention Medicaid WIC snap enrollment and focus on early childhood next slide so we get asked a lot of questions around budget and funding um in just making some comparisons of general fund contributions so we our fiscal year 23 our operating budget is around 27 million and we're bringing in an estimated 17 million in external Revenue our Revenue funding is very diverse includes grants and contracts fees for service and competitive and non-competitive awards Health departments in the state of Colorado a lot of the same funding sources that Tri County had we will also be receiving the county general fund contribution will be more than what it was historically provided to try count to Tri-County Health Department the budget is very comparable to similarly sized jurisdictions with single County Health departments some of our comparators in in reviewing with the board of County Commissioners where Boulder Jefferson County El Paso County and really looking around the metro Denver metro area the inaugural years of the health department may require more County General funds as a proportion of the total budget and we will be more competitive for grant funding over time so we anticipate being able to bring in more funds as time goes on next slide and I just want to acknowledge all the wonderful partners that we typically have in public health including our Municipal governments school districts other governmental organizations community-based organizations our health system Partners Community residents and the list goes on and on and this is where we've been doing a lot of work around Outreach um oh you know we have the traditional forms of Outreach including newsletters social media um doing these formal presentations but also just sitting down and having lots of conversation with our Community Partners um and also a lot of messaging for incoming staff and as Arapahoe mentioned we'll be doing a lot of ramping up of communication here in the next couple of months assuring that residents and clients understand how to access Services how they know where to go and continuing to work uh to be visible and responsive to community need and requests next slide our vision is to create a healthier and more Equitable Adams County to address those disproportionate Health outcomes to actively engage our communities to strengthen our relationships within the community and build trust to listen to our community members and partners and with curiosity and iteratively explore what the role of the health department should have within our communities and focus on that Innovation and inclusivity to address ongoing and new health challenges facing our communities looks fine my contact information is below and to uh sign up for newsletters or see any new updates for the health department our website is linked there and I will pause and take questions so let me ask the first one uh and that is do you take uh do you do Medicaid enrollment we do yes okay and so for Medicaid enrollment can somebody who's in Adams County part of Aurora uh go to uh they're on Arapahoe County uh office uh because it's it's a large quote I think the Arapahoe County officers are a lot closer for our Adams County residents and going to Brighton um and maybe Jennifer can answer that question around um what's offered with the Arapahoe Public Health Department um for for our team we are uh agnostic to where those folks live so if they were to seek Services um with Adams County uh we we don't have any requirements around residency to get them enrolled no wrong door okay Jennifer so coming into for enrollment um depending on what the program is Arapahoe County Human Services is the main Agency for that and we are you know we have some co-location with Arapahoe County Human Services so we would make that connection for them if it's not a service that we provide um on on site there at one of those clinics so you don't do medicated Arapahoe County Department of Human Services with dual correct yes for other questions mayor um uh yes thank you also for the presentation um same thing you guys have put in a ton of work um I guess my question is kind of back to the same one on locations I noticed there wasn't an aurora um location and I guess you didn't have Tri-County didn't either um before so I'm just you know interested in when you go out for funding do you include the Aurora population um because it looks like there's only one one Aurora location and that's in arapa in the Arapahoe County right so that's a great question and something that we're very aware of and um looking at uh how we might expand Services into Aurora from the Adams County side um so we're working on discussing uh co-location of services with the uh Adams County Human Services office in Aurora and also participating in a larger County space study as you might imagine the counties interested in in looking at comprehensively you know what services are needed and where and so we're excited to to participate in that study and really look at where additional Services may be needed throughout the county yeah I'm I'm just you know obviously we're a huge city of 400 000 population and and um it just would hope that that between Arapahoe and Adams County I know Douglas County further south but that we would maybe be able to um down the road have um maybe another location that would be ideal for our constituents but thank you so much appreciate it further questions uh seeing none thank you very much for the presentation thank you for having me mayor uh yes uh councilman Memorial question yeah um sorry I wasn't quick enough to draw um it's I I was trying to compare um the the two um I think we're we're gonna have to know you know how to direct folks how to help them navigate um so I guess my question is is there um do y'all have the the same kind of prospective departments between the atoms and Arapahoe County um Health departments um and you know one example that stood out was there was a one mentioned at Arapahoe County related to communicable diseases for example is there going to be a counterpart um in atoms and yeah Jennifer do you want me to answer or do you want to answer first um so so in most cases there are analogous departments across both Health departments um almost identical Services there may be some smaller uh differences um so yes communicable disease is a requirement under statute for uh for any local Health Department to cover um and we're working on some Communications around how do you reach the the right staff members for the for different needs and really garnering that Less in terms of language around the organizational structure and more around the function um so uh and then we're working on some uh joint communication thank you further questions mayor I have one question I'm sorry yeah I guess it's for both but I just wanted to find out did you take into account um on your fee structure for like um restaurants food licenses are are you um are you coming in at what Tri-County was at have you guys raised those fees what can what can a service industry expect for their fees go moving forward that's a great question and I will speak on behalf of Adam's first um we kept the fee schedules exactly the same as Tri County we felt like that was the uh you know best thing to do in this situation with a rapid transition and uh so both the right the regulations for uh body art for example are the same the fees are the same uh other regulations such as on-site Wastewater receptic systems are also the same and for Arapahoe County Public Health is exactly the same our Board of Health adopted the fee schedule that mirrors tri-county's current fee schedules so that there wouldn't be a change and there are certain fees that are set in statute that we're not allowed to change and that would be retail food establishment so those we we have no control over but the fees in which Board of Health has control over we adopted the current fee schedule of Tri-County so that there wouldn't be any kind of a change for constituents business owners um and individuals will be assessing that over the years but we wanted to make this as Kelly said it was very rapid and we we don't want this to be a huge shock to the community great thank you running questions uh sitting down thank you very much for the presentation now we'll move on to odd number 3B um CNA damn site Historic Landmark nomination presentation has that been uh moved yes okay uh very well then we'll go to item number three C Aurora Economic Development strategy overview uh resolution and I'll turn the virtual um gavel over to the mayor Pro Tem thank you mayor and um since the mayor is the sponsor of this um mayor did you want to go ahead and start with a opening statement about it before we get to the presenters I'll give opening statements to an including remarks after the presenters okay then um I'm trying to figure out who's who will be first would it be Marcia mcgilly actually uh Janine rastad director of planning and development services and Daniel if you can bring up our presentation I have uh the authority to do that Adrian so while he's bringing that out again my name is Janine rustad I'm the director of planning and development services and Daniel krasinowski is with me from the city presenting tonight we have several others on uh the the the meeting to help answer with questions we are also uh very well excuse me we're excited to give you an overview of the economic strategy uh we may be suggesting a name change after the aedc strategic planning session so if you can advance the society you know what we'll do tonight is give you an overview of our partners who are lift listed here here an overview of the strategy these partners are also going to present who they are what they do some recent successes to give you a an overview of the landscape of Economic Development within the city so next slide we are very fortunate to have these partners and others uh working for us and with us I should say in the city that helps us make Aurora the best place to live work and play what I want to stress is that the purpose of the strategy is not to supply and what they do but rather is to hit on the following items one we want to make sure we're working in Partnership to best load leverage the strengths of each of these organs organizations two as zavonic council members of Onyx said coming out of ped we want to come up with a North star for the economic economic growth in Aurora something that captures the ecosystem of Aurora's economy and the work of the city and each of these partners we also want to review the work being done and see if there's any gaps that we need to feel if there's any redundancies that can be eliminated identify areas that we can better partner and leverage each other's work and then also increase understanding and coordination between the city and its partners and stakeholders finally we want to ensure we are creating a healthy ecosystem for our economy this is from recruiting the primary and retaining primary Industries supporting businesses for those primary Industries local Enterprises and the education system that's necessary to attract and retain businesses employers and employees so next slide again here are our partners and our presenters what we'll be asking for at the conclusion is approval from Council to move forward with developing an economic strategy for the city of Aurora and with that I believe turn it over to aedc thank you Janine thank you Council mayor so if you can go to the next slide please I wanted to give you a quick uh overview of who we are just as we were asked to Define our role and go through some successes uh and then highlight a few recent wins so we are a public-private partnership that works to attract and retain primary employers as they're defined and we love when we do that with a variety of ways that we'll go through with the next slide and just as a quick snapshot we've created over 5000 job 5200 jobs since the pandemic started so our services include site selection and Market intelligence and Workforce Development and government relations and we can go to the next slide and then our Network includes consultants and Brokers and higher education institutes and other local and Regional and state Economic Development offices obviously our primary employers that are within the city and outside the city that we're trying to work with the development community and developers our members other elected officials at the local and state and federal levels and utility providers as well next slide please uh recent wins just a summary of this we brought in 41 companies uh which have created the over 5200 jobs uh all of those deals uh will bring in and generate 1.6 billion dollars of capital investment uh and that's uh not including payrolls so that's just the investment that those companies make uh within our community here I wanted to uh break a little bit from an ad that you know in terms of our our site selection efforts our Workforce Development Partnerships are uh advocacy efforts at all local level local and state and federal levels and our marketing efforts right which include traveling Nationwide and internationally and going to conferences and meeting with companies one-on-one uh we tout that Aurora is the place to be we have six industries that have local education potions which is industry to speak but those of you who know location quotients are those that strong industries that we have right in terms of bioscience and Aerospace and Logistics and we've been really targeting Advanced manufacturing and high-tech Industries and emerging Industries uh in data centers right as I think most of council has heard us talk about over the last few years and so we've really been tracking the trends and working with all of those partners that I listed and more on creating strategies we had just as you heard took some of our members to strategic planning Retreat to talk about what is on the horizon what we've done well um what we could be doing better and ultimately you know the trends in looking into 2023 are a lot of what we have and and what we can build continue building on and so with that the next slide I think is a couple of companies and examples uh of who we've worked with recently and all all of these companies within the last I think eight or nine months comtech is a advanced manufacturer that works on creating those 5G polls that we're also they're all seeing pop up everywhere emergy is a turbine manufacturer that's actually reshoring some uh processes from overseas in Asia and bringing them Stateside GTS is a data center uh palliate is an advanced manufacturer that's creating smart pallets for the transportation industry working with Shamrock Foods and the like RK Mission critical uh are as a company that make modular containers for either data equipment or housing or vertical greenhouses that can go on site Calera is a vertical Greenhouse that has a permanent location here in Gateway Park and WIC are Engineers that are creating custom systems for a lot of Fortune 500 companies they're building a new headquarters in porteous this year so that's just the quick snapshot of some of those companies uh just wanted to also point out before we we give up give it up that a lot of these companies that have come in make up 50 percent of Aurora's employers so the top 100 companies the largest 100 companies in Aurora a lot of which we've worked with to bring in make up about half of Aurora's employment and base and also that the average wages of generally speaking of Aurora's companies has grown 50 percent in less than the last decade which is a pretty good clip I know the last year and a half wages have gone up uh a lot throughout the country and not counting that really they've gone up 50 percent over the last decade and so that's a tremendous Testament to the industries that we have on trade and professional and Technical Services that's the Aerospace and bioscience folks and then some of the manufacturing industry has been growing that last year actually saw manufacturers grow at about six and a half percent so with that I don't know if we're opening this to questions or moving on so I'll stop there thank you so I believe we have visit Aurora next at the end good evening Council Bruce Dalton visit Aurora next slide please so defined by destinations International a professional association that directs over 600 dmos worldwide we are responsible for Destination stewardship brand importance and strengthening the economic impact position of the city next slide please this last year our board of directors redefined the Mission Vision and the values of our organization our mission is to build and Empower a world-class destination our vision is to be internationally known as the gateway to the Rockies and we value Adventure collaboration creativity diversity and service next slide please this highlights some of the recent successes in partnering with the community last year we worked with the city and the Chamber to exhibit and promote at the Geo conference at the Gaylord we've been working very closely with the city Partners to bring other high-profile groups like recently we hosted Naco we're also hosting the Colorado Municipal league and we also just hosted the Colorado Association of Chambers of Commerce exposing or uh just gaining recognition to the city of Aurora and we also hosted meeting industry Professionals for meetings today in July promoting Aurora is a meeting and Convention destination to those planners next slide please we work with several data Partners to collect information on visitor spending economic impact jobs and market share the slide includes numbers from 2021 and I'm happy to dive deeper into any of these numbers at a later time next slide please uh this last summer we sent out a community perspective survey to the residents of Aurora in the metro Denver area we received approximately 2 300 participants and received a comprehensive report um from our consultant with the resorts with the results the report was sent to the Council on the city staff and here are a few of the highlights Aurora residents did not have a strong sense of pride in where they lived but what we found to be true is the longer residents lived in Aurora the more sense of Pride that they had people that lived in Aurora for more than 10 years had more some of the highest Civic level of Pride and people that lived for the shortest period of time had the least amount of civic pride the majority of residents believe Aurora is an important uh tourism uh tourism is important to the city of Aurora and the residents believe that our parks are very good but there's a desire for more fine dining options and lastly the residents believe the personality of Aurora is centered on family community and diversity um next slide I'll turn it over to Kevin Hogan the president of the Chamber of Commerce actually mayor Pro tem before we turn it over do you want to pause after these two for questions uh then I don't know if everybody else wants that um I just may not be able to remember my questions at the very end so whatever the mayor wants to do that's right let's go through the uh the whole presentation uh good evening I think my video I'm not sure if I can get on oh there we go I clicked off excuse me uh good evening mayor city council and staff the Aurora chamber has been around for many years about 130 years the chamber is of course a focal point for concentrated business leads and newcomers relocating to the area we actually do the Buckley newcomers uh every month we just introduced the new Aurora eats app the guide that's very popular and we also just were able to get Uber on to the Buckley space space the first uh military base in the United States that's allowing Uber to bring food on the base from ubereats and others um we could go to the first slide excuse me the next one thank you our business growth focuses has always been on the development of small businesses and the support of major clusters like healthcare hospitality and Aerospace the chamber is a 501c3 membership organization with about 1100 members we have a 501c3 also for our leadership Aurora program and a new emerging leadership program starting uh January 1st we have about 13 committees uh that really bring people together uh one was just last week we had 127 members out to the Lockheed Martin plant at Waterton Canyon for a tour on the new satellites being built and of course visiting with Lockheed knowing that they need 3 000 employees here in the metro area we're also working with probably their largest need and that is child care so over the past year of course the chamber's been very engaged with opening up springboard Child Care is really an economic development opportunity and yet a challenge we have our first daycare at the Salvation Army reopened here a couple weeks ago with the ribbon cutting and we have a new one uh uh just opening up here in the next week so we have a total of four we've gotten a large Grant about a 700 000 grant that was actually a combination with springboard and we hired a lady named Gloria Higgins to do that so working on that is very uh rewarding to be honest with you the chamber also received a grant from the cdle the Colorado department of labor and employment that focuses on the Aerospace industry we have hired a full-time employee in another halftime employee that'll be working with the Community College of Aurora on credentials certificates degrees and especially their security clearances we just completed our fourth job fair just over a month ago with 47 employees being hired and we did that over right over here at the county building um we have two more veteran hiring events uh in this uh 2023 uh we'll have a number of them with over 200 veterans leaving Buckley space base a month it's a great Workforce opportunity that we can capture we did over 53 ribbon cuttings this year which would have a total of 1360 new employees and we're excited that uh those uh ribbon cuttings include those new day care centers we also host PTAC here PTAC is a procurement technical assistance center we have two full-time Consultants on how to do business with the government last year this office along with the second office in Colorado Springs did over 640 million dollars of contracts that would have possibly gone uh to uh individuals out of the state we had 900 individuals that we counseled here we recently actually just signed up a number of large chamber members to help us with that Workforce shortage Kiewit Jacobs RK Mechanical just to name a few uh going in with PTAC who again concentrates on our minority contractors and our um our small businesses that are disadvantaged women uh disadvantaged from everything from Wounded Warriors through the minority and entrepreneurs that we have coming into this state another opportunity that we worked on real hard was space command the chamber does three good things we're a catalyst for business growth a convener for leaders and influencers who make things happen and a champion for a stronger Community our mission statement is pretty easy to remember Community First business hours so if we could help out with any type of bonding for our schools or Transportation we're usually at the table um if you could go to let's see the next uh one please and then we go oh we could go back I'm sorry you were on the right one we had the first apprenticeship program in the State uh Katie Anthony is our first uh apprenticeship working with the county the cares program the last two years we were able to give out a lot of rent rescues and two and a half million dollars to small businesses uh over 67 businesses in Aurora and over 30 in Adams County a lot of them were up at the Stanley Marketplace we were able to bring in we also have of course a very strong farming and ranching Community east of us we work with May Farms a lot of the people in Adams in Arapahoe County in the eastern part of our community of course that's where they shop and of course we're still working to be the center for U.S space command so it doesn't go down to uh Huntsville Alabama and we're working daily on that um just a lot of committees a lot of opportunities they get engaged didn't want to go too much over five minutes I think there's one more page maybe I have left and uh of course uh we're working with the uh opportunities to open new businesses but also to retain and grow the community as one of our goals thanks so much so next up is sbdc and our own Andrea eminek sorry good evening council members um I'm Andrea aminick the manager of development services and I'll be making the presentation this evening for Marcia mcgilly the spdc executive director she could not be here with us this evening as many of you know however the city is the host of the Aurora South Metro sbdc and so she's asked me to fill in next slide please uh I think that the council members we at least try to keep you updated on the services that the sbdc provides we do one-on-one business Consulting it's free it's confidential we do it by appointment but uh during the pandemic we expanded our services to be uh on video and so that has expanded our reach to a number of businesses who couldn't always leave their businesses to come in and visit with us one-on-one we also provide business educational webinars and events posting a number of educational seminars and starting people on their way to one-on-one counseling we also provide a number of business resource referrals including financing um marketing resources Etc and I would point out that we are very proud that in our diverse Community all of our services are provided in both English and in Spanish next slide please some of our recent uh accomplishments uh these are for January through September and just for our services within the city of Aurora we've created 36 jobs and retained 25 we had Capital formation that's investment um four new businesses of over two million dollars and we increase sales within the city of Aurora by 4.7 million uh our small business clients had contracts in the amount of over 3 million dollars and I would point out that one of um the Prides of uh the Small Business Development Center is that we partner with a number of the economic Partners in the community recently we just hosted a veterans conference that we worked with uh very closely with the chamber and we're working with visit Aurora to bring that same conference back next year in person at our own Hyatt Conference Center and hotel so we pride ourselves on partnership and we like working with all of our partners here in the economic Vitality Community next slide please delays so the sbdc did want to express its support for the economic development strategy plan because we believe it will provide a clear written strategy that will assist all the partners in aligning in the same direction to provide the best economic Vitality for not only the citizens of Aurora but the city as a whole so and that concludes my presentation thank you so last but sorry last but not least the Fitzsimmons Innovation community welcome uh uh thanks for inviting me uh Steve vanderden the president and CEO of the Fitzsimmons Innovation Community uh as the mayor would remember and what our goal is is to take a one square mile old army post that was closed in the in the 90s and turned that into a health and biotech International Center uh as mayor um as the mayor would recall when the base was closed about 4 500 jobs was were lost today there are over 27 000 people that come to campus uh everything every day um with uh the ability to grow and potentially build out at 48 000 people as the projections of what we would have someday the ecosystem we're building here has four components that we work to integrate into a single campus those four components are Health Care biotech support services and infrastructure in healthcare as you know we have three hospitals two of them are nationally ranked the UC Health is a nationally ranked hospital and the latest that came out for children's hospital they are now ranked fifth in the nation as for for hospitals that that are have there and then we have the VA hospital as well we also Garner 700 million dollars worth of research every year that's primarily comes from Government funding but also from from industry to support research on the campus and we have five degree awarding schools so for example last year there were 13 000 applicants that applied to the medical school there they only take 184 slots so that's the largest number of applicants that that they've had in their in their history as far as a number of medical school students on the biotech side we currently have 81 companies in four buildings and we will shortly be announcing uh breaking ground on a fifth building to support those companies our goal is to grow that to 150 companies within the next six years there's no reason why that campus can be an international center and we're seeing that now where there's startups on campus but also we are now housing companies that are from all over the country and now getting guarding International attention as well on the support services side we call that live work play aimco Corporation will be opening a beautiful new hotel next year in 20 mid 2023 they'll also have plans for adding additional Apartments to the 850 that we currently have and the two schools that we have that support preschool all the way up to to 12th grade are also expanding on the campuses there we're also adding retail that would support uh the the tremendous amount of growth that we're seeing uh on on the live work play side in uh uh in the growth of what we have we also need to support infrastructure and so we are continuing to build roads and continuing to look at ways of funding the infrastructure to be able to support this uh to support the campus at full build out so a lot going on on the campus and a lot a lot of growth that we're seeing a lot of cranes on the on the campus which in my 10 years here I've never not seen a crane on the campus and so we continue to grow and what I like to say you know not too bad for an old Army Post thank you Daniel coming down the home stretch this is Daniel krasinowski with the city's planning department I've got four slides that describe sort of four important elements of actually developing this Economic Development strategy for the community the first of those is addresses scope um the the strategies really intended to be a very comprehensive look at Economic Development Investments uh development um and economic growth in the community and what you see on the screen here are some of those major categories of uh uh or topics that this strategy will get into um starting with sort of sector development uh a number of those have been mentioned uh bioscience Healthcare um Yuri talked about logistics and advanced manufacturing um we'll dig into those sectors uh that Aurora has had great success in attracting and growing those that Aurora would like to continue to grow and dive deeper into some of the other categories of some of the topics are of course commercial and Industrial Development that's a major part of of uh development that's ever happened recently in Aurora uh we do want to look of course at tourism Hospitality conferences uh we had a speaker on that topic as well as small business and how important that is to the community as well as you know the individual uh business owners and households that that run these businesses we didn't have a speaker tonight but we do want to talk about Workforce training and education we have Aurora or Arapahoe Douglas works is a partner that will rely heavily on as well as Community College of Aurora and some of the other educational and training uh Partners in the community they'll play an important role in that now we want to talk about marketing marketing to the business Community marketing to the development Community marketing are really on all of these topics um we want to also dig into um developments in key areas you know where are those areas that are seeing new development Redevelopment where where's most ripe for a lot of investment in jobs and and new investment new businesses of course we'll touch on retail attraction retention and expansion and we will also discuss um the role of public incentives in encouraging and meeting other City's goals um the second slide here is um really kind of the steps that we'll take to develop the strategy uh the first uh starts with really doing our homework um it's reviewing some of the current economic conditions some of the challenges and opportunities that are facing Aurora the Denver region and the nation as a whole I'm really understanding those and how those affect Aurora and Aurora's future uh we want to look at existing resources and organization both within the city and all of the many partners some of which you've heard here uh tonight really kind of understanding what resources are available who's who's addressing those major topics um and and do those do those uh um Partners have the tools and resources and Direction they need to be very effective we'll also be looking at sort of best practices and economic development as well so that really kind of uh it creates a foundation um after that we'll start to engage with stakeholders and I'll talk a little bit about who those stakeholders will be but we'll have a pretty extensive stakeholder engagement process I'll use a number of different tools and techniques to really talk about what you know what are those North Stars what are those guiding principles for Aurora's uh you know economic well-being in the future and then dig into specific strategies goals projects and opportunities um this all is these are all really the ingredients um of actually developing a strategic plan identifying goals recommendations action items and measurable outcomes and really this has been sort of an iterative process we'll develop these we'll continue to work with stakeholders to refine these um to the point that all of the partners and as well as the city can can feel very very uh strong and very supportive of the uh of the strategy moving forward I mentioned stakeholders which you see on the screen here are just a few of the stakeholders that we intend to engage with and our approach um is really to kind of engage stakeholders and sort of three sort of three tiers and stakeholders uh the first of which are really those primary develop Economic Development Partners those organizations that those sort of sole purposes Economic Development obviously the city of Aurora we've got a number of departments and divisions that play a very important role in that urban renewal planning our retail team budget and others um but also leaning heavily on um some of those other partners some of which we heard here tonight uh aedc they were a chamber uh visit Aurora and sbdc as I mentioned at Arapahoe Douglas Works uh addressing Workforce Development and of course Fitzsimmons Innovation community and what we staff sort of envisions these this group to be this first tier is to really form um a steering committee that can help guide this process um you know the rules they'll play is to you know to advocate for the the process to provide expertise and uh experience and also really ensure that uh you know the voices of those of those partners are being heard and the voices of the community are um are being heard as well yeah second tier of key stakeholders some of these are other organizations or entities in the community who benefit from a strong local economy or have perspectives that could really benefit the process these are some of the major employers like Anschutz Buckley Kaiser or some of the other sort of employers and other institutions in the community like I mentioned educational and Workforce training Partners including Community College of Aurora Aurora on Cherry Creek School Districts and then some Regional or state agencies may have information and perspectives that that could benefit the process Dr Koger the Regional Council of governments or even looking to some of the state agencies that have opportunities and information and and help contribute to Aurora's Economic Development and then finally um reaching out to the general public to community groups and others um whether it's residents neighborhood organizations I'm talking to the business community and development Community um looking at for some of our business organizations like the Havana bid or others and really just look reaching out just really broadly to organizations individuals and stakeholders really representing all parts and all aspects of Aurora um like I said this is just a handful of uh intended stakeholders and this is something that if the mayor and Council have additional groups that we do not want to miss uh we'd be certainly happy to uh um to reach out to those folks and pull them into this process and finally uh proposed schedule um this uh presentation was given to PED in August um tonight we're sharing that with the full Council for study session as you saw in your packet there's a draft resolution in support of this process if Council direct staff to do so we can bring that forward for a formal review and adoption this winter into the new year one thing we do want to include in the process is to bring in some consultant expertise both as a subject matter expert but also as a as a facilitator someone who can bring together these different groups and different stakeholders and kind of go through that stakeholder engagement process um we would look at initiating this project in the spring um doing a lot of public engagement through the summer uh developing some of those uh draft strategy and draft content in the fall um and aiming at bringing um completed a strategy back to council um yeah in the winter of 2023 into 2024. so that concludes uh tonight's presentation as Janine mentioned uh we've got two really two questions for Council uh one to staff bring forward that attached resolution on an upcoming agenda um and even more importantly it's just staff move forward with this project and of course we're happy to answer any questions or or field any additional input that uh Council may have thank you thank you I forgot I was running the meeting so I will now open it up for questions yes mayor well thank you mayor for Jim uh and uh I took this issue to Jim twombly uh um for quite a while ago and uh um a concerned that the city didn't have an economic strategy uh in terms of growth and we had a number we have a number of disparate entities that are defining their own strategies uh so which some of whom probably could do better in terms of working together but I think that it's really important for this city uh to understand uh really what is capable of in terms of an economic strategy and where do we have gaps in terms of economic growth and so I I think this is the staff has done a wonderful job I want to thank Janine a Russ Stan for her leadership uh the city manager assigned this to her and I think she's done an actual really extraordinary job and I certainly plan on bringing it forward for a vote uh next week and uh I appreciate everybody's support thank you mayor uh questions um yes um I have a question what is going to be you're bringing in a consultant to do the RFP so the question I have is what's going to be the cost to do this um if I I assuming it's probably going to turn out to be some type of study or evaluation what's the cost to the taxpayers on this and if my audio breaks out or the estimate to cost to the taxpayers on this um no and I'll try turning off my video can you hear me yes okay I'm gonna keep my video off because I seem to have Frozen we're estimating um that this is going to be 2 to 250 250 000 and we are looking at the development review funds because this is going to help further development in the city be at use of that funding okay further questions oh go ahead please please go ahead is that Steve sunberg yes go ahead council member semper uh thank you mayor Pro tem I just uh wanted to point out that uh Ward 2 where I believe a lot of this plan could benefit you know Ward 2 is the largest Ward it's larger than all other five combined with the most available land so exciting things can happen there and when I took on the position you know there's it's almost overwhelming the the amount of growth and opportunity and Industry that's that's occurring there and I did recognize the need for a vision you know what what should this look like in 5 10 20 years rather than just kind of a willy-nilly approach to things popping up in certain areas so I do recognize the need for a plan and a vision I also recognize the entities that are here with us tonight the aedc visit Aurora chamber sbdc Fitzsimmons I've probably benefited from each and every one of these I've known the chamber for 27 years and I know that each of these organizations have a passion for what they do they have a love for Aurora um and you know they have their own strategies in a lot of cases these strategies are working well for these entities uh not to uh say that they they couldn't benefit from an overall arching vision and plan uh but I want to play The Devil's Advocate just a little bit here I got a phone call today from a from a non-profit in Aurora that was a little concerned about about this and Don't Kill the Messenger I'm just relaying some of this information uh this is a little non-profit in Aurora Mighty but small that bring that brought in 13 million dollars in Grants and donations and and benefited people and that money was dispersed in the community uh but this you know this individual was saying you know what's this about that seems a little rushed I'm not sure it passes the smell test for me right away I'm wondering what the real motivation is behind it um you know is it is it too much government intrusion well well these stakeholders uh be beholden to the city and will the city have control over them can they still work with anonymity and uh and do their thing that they do so well uh I only heard just I'm just I heard from one of the entities tonight that they are in support of it I may be wrong but I I you know that could that could come out if somebody wanted to audibly voice their support um so just wondering uh you know if everyone is aligned you know if not everyone is aligned you know then we don't have strategy but uh again these are just me looking I'm looking at the big picture of things here and just expressing some concerns that I had that maybe that maybe it's too rushed maybe it needs to go to a workshop first and I do support a study they do support looking at this and having consultants and because truly truly this is a great opportunity for our city to move forward but just just trying to express some some a little bit of concern from some outside entities thank you further uh comments or discussion yes mayor so um the the responsibility uh for developing an economic strategy it rests with the elected officials it's your leadership my leadership it defines the future of the city that gives the city a vision in terms of what it should look like in terms of economic policy it's the role of all these entities to carry that Vision out right now we don't have a vision and I think that's a problem and this and this isn't Rush this is going to take a very long time and then you have the ability to accept it or reject it the work product uh but to say I don't want to know uh I think it's problematic and so I think we have a responsibility to do this I've noticed gaps uh in terms of uh of developing our economy between these different entities things that are falling through uh geospatial intelligence is one example of that where we have Buckley space Force Base we have uh opportunities with Buckley Buckley space Force Base to do uh to do that area but but it is a gap and so um I'm sure there's going to be a lot of other gaps we're going to discover through this process but I think I want to thank staff did a good job it's not rush and we will with a fairly lengthy process in it but at the end of the day it's up to us as elected officials to accept or reject the findings of this study so I'm going to recognize myself mayor um and I understand what you're saying that it's leadership's job to make sure that we have a good Economic Development strategy for the for the city of Aurora and I appreciate all the partners that we have obviously you know they have uh different different missions and offer different value propositions from each other um obviously or economic development focuses on primary jobs um and and I don't know if we've had the right conversations with each of these entities um first so I also feel like this is Staff driven you said that it's leadership that needs to go ahead and I'm I'm not done um that leadership needs to drive this and so my I I appreciate all the work that's been put in but I think it's been a little bit um not a little bit backwards it should be it should be that this is fine that staff brings us forward but I feel like we have to have input we are the policy makers and so I would suggest and I would like to know if my colleagues support this that I would like to move this to the winner Workshop which is held in January we typically do vision and um priorities and strategy during that Workshop we haven't in the last couple years because of covid and we had to focus on arpa and Keras funding but I I would like to propose to delay the resolution until the January Workshop I think we can absorb all this information that we've been given today it also gives us time as a council to make sure that we align um you know as a as a team um for for the right strategy and then um then ask staff to go forward with a with a consultant um I don't think we should have a consultant first I think you need to First Define what what we're looking for in that Consulting agreement and then we as counsel um um basically lead that charge to ask staff to go forward with the RFP for a consultant mayor Pro tem yes uh council member Coombs um yeah so as mayor Pro tem mentioned we have not in my entire time on Council had that Council goals Council priorities and Council strategy discussion where we can all try to get on the same page um which I think is really problematic in terms of a lot of areas of our Direction as a council I think if we have that time to actually hash out goals and direction that we share um we could be much more productive as a council overall and I think this is clearly one of those areas and it's very important I do think that we could have staff bring like some of those initial phases that were discussed um in laying out the process I think could be completed to bring that information to us at a winter Workshop to then kind of look at the consultant and setting the the rest of the direction but some of the initial kind of fact-finding I think would be helpful for us to have available at the winter Workshop as we're talking about our Direction and goals so I would support um kind of moving some of those later steps most of the steps basically from the consultant forward all of those steps to after the winter Workshop but I think the initial fact finding um would be helpful to us in making those decisions thank you further discussion uh council member Gardner thank you um yeah I agree um with your comment I think um we need to have a much much further um conversation on this a deeper dive and you know really decide if we want to have uh Economic Development as one of our Council goals and strategies and if so what that's going to look like and um you know I having just seen this resolution because of course it didn't go through policy committee um I I think there's a lot more consideration that needs to go into it and so I would support uh delaying this until uh the January winter Workshop which at this point is only two months away uh thank you for further discussion uh yes councilmember Mark Connor yes ma'am thank you um so first I want to say that I agree with the mayor that we certainly do have gaps when it pertains to economic development in the city um we leave portions of our community out of these kinds of plans and we omit non-traditional business structures from consideration but that said I think what you all are seeing is also spot on I think we need a little more time to fully hash out this idea and I support delaying so we can make sure that we can include all of these voices who typically get passed over in the conversation so that we're you know planning out an economic future for the city that includes everybody in further discussion yeah I'm sure uh yes mayor thank you I it will move forward I want a recorded vote on this because I think this is a question about leadership and I know there's been pressure uh by the um ADC uh to do nothing and so uh there will be a vote a recorded vote so so that the public will know where everybody stands on this and um since I did ask if there was support to move this to the winter Workshop I would like to get a feel from Council who is supportive of that so I'll start asking who is in support of moving it to the winter workshop and I'll recognize myself first Coombs Clawson Marcano Gardner Medina Sundberg okay I have Coombs Lawson Marcano Gardner Medina Maria Sundberg zavonic gerinsky I think said drinsky also I couldn't hear I'm sorry I assumed it okay um one two three four five six seven eight nine and ten I think that's unanimous I don't think it is uh Madam chairman um I've met with council members go ahead mayor uh you will have an opportunity to vote on this and there'll be a further discussion okay so maybe I could ask um our attorney Dan brosman how does this work when Council has just unanimously asked for this to be moved through the winter Workshop so you you could the mayor Pro tem actually under the council rules sets the workshop so you can set the agenda and you you should after that last vote do that now the mayor's resolution he has the prerogative to put that on the agenda for the next meeting if he would like to okay okay but I so it's on the record that the there was a unanimous vote to have further discussion about this and to delay it until the winter Workshop but the mayor will be bringing um his resolution uh to the next meeting it sounds like okay any further discussion all right I will turn the gavel back over to you mayor thank you odd number 3D uh 2022 fall supplemental ordinance jockey Ayman budget program manager from the budget office bringing you the 2022 fall supplemental ordinance would you like to go straight to see if there are any questions or do you want a brief background first uh black problem first all right um the process of identical needs begins early in the annual budget process when departments prepare a mid-year expenditure projection the 2022 projection included in the 2023 budget informed the budget office and Council of potential supplemental needs which were noted in the budget document these needs can be addressed in one of two supplemental processes some of the needs that were identified for 2022 are included in this fall supplemental and others will be included in the spring process once we have final actual data like you the budget office does not like surprises so I'm happy to say that many of the items included this fall were projected you may have noticed as you read through the detail that some of the technical amendments were not projected in this case they were not projected due to timing and are all either requests to appropriate grants and other outside funds or our transfers and in any case there's no impact to the fund balances for the items that were not projected so with that I'm here to facilitate any questions there are a lot of people on this call if you have any detailed questions about these supplemental budget requests questions about on the supplemental budget request is there any objection to moving out of 3d4 a seeing nut out of the 3D will move forward item number three e rocking horse reimbursement agreement yeah good evening mayor and city council this is Sarah Young deputy director Aurora Water planning and engineering there's a reimbursement agreement for the rocking horse development which was developed by the Nash inspiration LLC as is standard practice when a developer builds a piece of regional infrastructure they are eligible for partial cost reimbursement in this case rocking horse development built a large Regional pond so they're eligible for reimbursement for the Palm structures and partially for the grading that was done to build this um the total eligible reimbursement amount based on our staff's look at the total cost of construction is 1.494 million dollars um the um in your in the council commentary it mentions 1.346 million dollars that was um doesn't include the 11 soft costs but that's the total amount they've already been credited 596 000 for um in in stormwater development fees so the outstanding balance is about nine hundred thousand dollars the intent is to pay that back over five years uh with the first few reimbursements being 200 000 in the last year being a reimbursement of a hundred thousand dollars all right questions to staff I've seen no no thank you very much is there any objection to moving item through you forward item number three e will move forward item number three F Colorado State Forest Service funding agreement uh presentation by staff yes good evening um this agreement and the next item both come out of an earlier agreement that this Council approved to work with the U.S forest Service and the Colorado State Forest Service on Forest health treatment and projects to make to mitigate and reduce the risk of wildfires in the watersheds above our water infrastructure this particular agreement will focus projects in MacArthur Gulch and the Deer Creek forest and is a commitment of three hundred thousand dollars over three years uh questions and staff I see none is there any objection to moving out of number three and forward sitting down item number three F will move forward I'm number three G stewardship West a memorandum of understanding uh stewardship West is a non-profit organization that assists the forest service in accomplishing uh Health water Watershed Health projects and thinning projects in the forest by doing them through a non-profit structure instead of the U.S forest Service structure so this as well as the previous project is to protect our Watershed above structure Springs Reservoir this project we will fund Force thinning projects in over 500 acres in the Miller Gulch drainage which is as I said above structure we will pay approximately a hundred thousand dollars for this project foreign questions and staff seeing none is there any objection to moving out in our 3G forward I'm saying none item number 3G will move forward I'm number three h item 3H is at least with the Pueblo Board of Waterworks uh Council may remember that we have or is likely familiar with an ongoing lease that Aurora has with Pueblo Board of Waterworks this is for an additional 9 000 acre feet at the same price as the underlying lease for a total of 7.4 million dollars this water is high quality Mountain Water that will come into the Otero system by gravity and it will be fully reusable and consumable water I said we consider it quite valuable right now due to the hot dry summer and fall of last year and this year we're very excited about an additional 9 000 acre feet to bolster our water supplies question as a staff seeing none is there any objection to move to moving on number 3H forward uh saying that I don't know 3H will move forward out I'm number three I 2023 state and federal priorities uh council member Lawson thank you mayor I'm going to for pass this over to Roberto and he's going to go over the memorandum that everybody should have received there was time given to add additional input we didn't receive any additional input but from council member zabonic so I will uh for I will bring let Roberto go ahead and tee up everything and bring up the memo for further discussion thank you member councilman uh thank you councilmember Lawson uh Roberto Venegas again Deputy city manager um I have the memo that I provided to council should be under your backup and I also provided it uh last Monday um as councilmember Lawson indicated uh we did receive uh revisions from council member zavonic but since sorry October 17th study session we did not receive any additional revisions so what I've provided here is essentially enumerated the uh specific changes that are being requested to the state and federal priorities at the fsir committee has forwarded to the council for consideration so um my suggestion uh it is okay with the mayor is we can go through those items and I have outlined the specific language that was offered or the specific new item that was offered uh and we can go through them individually with discussions questions debate and then vote on each of them majority to Adam or to not Adam would be our suggestion so um with that we have some in the state priorities to begin with um and uh council member zavonic if you would like to speak to these uh we can do that as well um I I don't want to speak for you but these are items that you had added so I will defer to you if you'd like to explain the changes you made uh first in the affordable housing one and then you had an additional change in the mental health one side I would defer to you if you'd like to explain and walk us through those sure I got to be happy to so for pulling this up is that what you have on the screen Roberto if I'm seeing is not all of the stuff in the uh the ones that as we scroll down there's the public safety items all of the ones for the state and then the federal ones are at the end so these are the ones that provided um for for the um State priorities at least yeah yeah let me open up the state one that I had so do you want me to go through the ones I've um but I suggested we omit or just sure okay yeah so the initial uh so under affordable housing um on the state priorities um sorry I'm sorry what was that I was just sorry I just asked Adrian to scroll back up to where where we have those changes there in affordable housing so um I made an addition of adding construction defect reform so I put in there the Colorado housing shortage continues to contribute to increase in cost of living throughout the state current construction defect laws decentivized building um from where Builders from bringing more high density multi-family units to market for sale we should be actually looking for ways to work with the state legislature in order to increase supply of housing um uh in order to to help address the affordability so that was an addition the two that I um uh crossed out was the preserving affordability and the mobile home protection and I want to explain because they're they're they both um for the same reasons last year the Colorado legislature passed house bill I think it was 12.78 um which gave which created a significant amount of um mobile home protection and I think it's important to note that that I I believe the manufactured homes and mobile homes are an important source of unsubsidized affordable housing and that bill there was a lot of back and forth early on about some of the things that got pulled out because Governor polis at the time had threatened a veto if they didn't and the reason that he had threatened to veto for some of the provisions that were being offered was that his concern and I share this is that if you over regulate the mobile home and manufactured housing sector what ends up happening is you're going to end up just like we've done with construction defects you over regulate it and you end up hurting those who you're trying to help and so what I I believe that the the protections that were put into place last year by the legislature went further than frankly that than than I would like to believe but I'm not going to Advocate that we roll out up and back I would just suggest that we shouldn't be in a position as a city advocating for more regulations of these types of affordable homes because my concern is that we'll end up just limiting Supply at a time when we need more of them in order to enforce and in order to address affordability and it's the same thing with the on the preserving affordability it talks um about um Pro rent control on some of these other eviction support the legislature again has done has taken a lot of steps in that and I believe in the right direction and and creating some guard rails around this and what I don't want to do is again over regulate and what ends up happening is then you you create a a situation where there's going to be less Supply you're going to have developers Builders of whether it's Apartments mobile units um that there you're going to see less of those types of of units available less Supply available and you're going to create a needy for more subsidized government subsidized housing in order to in order to be able to meet the the market rent or market rate rent of these apartments so that's why I asked those two out is that I don't I believe that the legislature has taken the necessary steps in recent years um to put those protections into place and I don't want to over regulate them because we've seen with construction defects what over-regulation can do to affordable housing and then so that's all I have for affordable housing so I'll stop there the questions mayor uh councilmember thank you sir um so I guess I want to start by saying that the paragraph that you're adding or the section you're adding to the affordable housing paragraph I don't think it needs to be exclusive of the existing language I would actually be fine with having that be added in um as a separate sentence so you'd keep that by utilizing local land Authority and supporting housing options across the Continuum of housing needs including keep housing affordable keeping people in their homes and providing shelter for those experiencing homelessness I don't see how those two are contra you know contrary goals so I'd be fine with having both of them in there with regards to the point on mobile home protections the fact of the matter is that mobile homes are not really being built anymore certainly not in Aurora or really in the Denver metro part of that reason is because of zoning which is something that we're going to I think be taking a closer look I know staff's already been reevalidating how we're utilizing our zoning um because I do think that there would be demand for that but the other portion where I have strong disagreement with you on is that uh I I get regular contacts from folks who live in mobile home parks and they're terrified of losing their homes most of these folks are on fixed incomes elderly are disabled um and they're basically being squeezed by a lot of out-of-state companies who tend to buy up these mobile home parks and jack up lot rents so I completely disagree that the state went too far because we're going to end up having a very vulnerable population more likely to enter homelessness within the near future here if nothing is done so I would advocate for leaving the mobile home protections portion and frankly the preserving affordability portions in there and as I mentioned with the construction defects reform last time we talked about this I'd need more specificity again given my background in this industry the folks who I know who work on the construction site and the design side they have not identified any issues with our existing code I know there have been reforms to construction defects in the past already so but yet the you know folks continue to harp on this and my big concern is that we're going to get to a point where we're just basically eliminating consumer protection so without more specificity on that I still can't support that for further discussion mayor um I'm sorry is evonik sorry yeah so just uh one quick point and the on the mobile home for protection that bill was passed just this year um so that I'm certain that there were people who it um were had been impacted by it but again there was probably some of the more um strict protections that were passed by our state than in most other states and it and again just past this legislative session um and and so what I would not advocate for again is to your point if we create new zoning um opportunities for uh manufactured housing and then we overregulated people aren't going to want to build there and that's exactly um the wrong direction we want to go because as I said I do believe that um mobile homes do offer a great source of unsubsidized um affordable housing so I don't want to over regulate and again this state just passed it this year uh or this past legislative session um on on the construction defects I'm happy to flesh that out more I I think that there's there have been a lot of proposals in the past that have done this it I think that you can have a balance between protection protecting consumers and having um you know a regulatory environment that allows for more condos Town Homes those types of starter homes that allow at a more affordable level for people to get into Home Ownership um and so I think that having that as part of our a lot of these are abroad even before even not counting my rewrites I think that as we move Beyond this initial conversation of that being a priority the the Pfizer committee having conversations more specifically about what we like those proposals to work with and and working with legislators to bring them forward so that would be I would suggest that we keep them in there and again avoid those two others because I think over regulating the affordable housing market is going to lead to a need for more subset subsidized housing and a lower supply of affordable housing at a time we need more of it mayor um okay may I pretend yeah thank you um you know I know we we have to address um trying to get more affordable affordable housing into the city as well as just a really uh a diverse um type of of housing but I kind of agree with council members of onik on Maybe we want to sit out this year on the mobile home and just see what the the new laws that were passed just this past year how they affect the market um and then and then you know then maybe look at it next year I just I also fear that if we over regulate we're going to drive out any Investments that that would be put into manufactured homes or mobile homes um I think even the mayor's task force on um that that you brought forward on affordable housing might address some of the options that we have in in terms of reducing costs so that we can bring down the cost of affordable housing um so yeah that was the only point I wanted to make is that maybe we just set it out for just this year um with respect to the eviction protections and eviction prevention I think it's incredibly important that we keep that in there um as a city we have the highest eviction rate in the state of Colorado um and have consistently had that and so I think that just as a matter of serving our residents and protecting them from homelessness and also in that way um getting Upstream of the homelessness issues that we're facing um that we absolutely should not remove um eviction prevention and protections against eviction from the priorities that we're supporting um and then with respect to mobile homes we also have quite a few of the mobile home parks in the state and so we have a number of people that we really need to be representing them um and focusing on making sure that they're able to stay in their homes I understand that they have more rights than they had before um but I think if we say we're just going to sit this one out then if a bill comes forward that enables us to Advocate on behalf of our constituents um then our hands are tied we've already said no we're not doing that or we're not in support of that so my concern is that we're putting ourselves in a position of saying were not going to step in on those issues even when they would benefit the people of our city and then finally similarly on the construction defects by putting this in here vaguely um then we might be giving direction to our lobbyists to support anything that comes forward on that even if what ends up coming forward isn't um ultimately what we would support so I would agree that it would be best to flesh this out more say What specifically we want to Advocate on regarding construction defects rather than just saying anything because what if a Bill gets brought forward that's actually not very good okay on that subject let me just say this that at any point in time uh during the legislative session uh we can revisit any of these issues uh and and take a position where the records of support yeah mayor zabonic just one last thing so you know to your point about the the vagueness of it then the mobile home protection it's vague right and so it's the same type of it's It's suggesting that we could end up supporting an additional regulation that comes forward something that was actually proposed earlier in the bill last year in 1278 that was pulled out at the governor's request because of the well-documented evidence that that type of over regulation hurts that that market which we want which as you pointed out we have residents who live in them so all of these are relatively vague in terms of of what they are to the mayor's point we can we'll evaluate individual pieces of legislation as they come forward but I don't think that the city should have a proactive stance that we are going to continue to over regulate a market that is now going to be more regulated than in almost any other state in the country further discussion mayor councilman O'Connell thank you sir um I just want to point out that under the mobile home protections portion there's actually some specifics in here so that Society supports additional protections and financing options for those in mobile home parks to purchase land build stability and limits on rent increases to ensure residents are able to stay in their homes um and I have a hard time believing that limits on rent increases for people who already own their homes is somehow going to at you know contribute to their displacement in fact quite the opposite so um I I just don't understand the rationale or rather I don't think there is a rationale to remove the mobile home Protections in all sincerity here and preserving affordability again um that's something that is an absolute priority for the residents of our city um I encourage you to come knock a couple doors in any apartment complex uh in Aurora and you'll hear that from people whether they're in Ward six or in Ward one um so I just don't see why on Earth we would get rid of those two Provisions again if you want to have construction defects reform in there I'd appreciate more specificity but if you're really just wanted to add it in there and we can work out the specifics later fine but I don't see the reason or any reason to get rid of preserving affordability or the mobile home protections um um what I I for rentals is that if we do have too many regulations you actually drive that market away um you're going to end up with you know landlords that say I'm not I'm not able to make any money um I'm gonna just sell you know to to the highest bidder and and and then you and then they really don't have any place to live um and same with the mobile home parks you know we don't want to drive owners of mobile home parks that make a decision to sell the entire park that they own um because they feel that they're over regulated I think you know there's a fine balance that we we want to achieve and and so I'm I just I just think we need to be careful on on that point mayor mayor all right councilmember Lawson yeah I I just kind of want to you know once again this document is more of a framework that we develop as a council to have what our lobbyists could be looking at when we get advisor committee whoever's on that committee and you know we can go and and Advocate through whatever option whatever things that are coming up on the legislative agenda and that's also brought for before Council as well I think we're getting too much into the weeds I understand that there's going to be differences here but this is really just to me a framework a working document that is not just bonded just by what we're doing in our partners yes this is we have specificities in here but when it comes to the Pfizer committee and things are brought forth that comes through that committee and then it's also coming through the full Council legislative items where we're looking at so I think you know we're kind of getting into the weeds here this document needs to move forward we're talking once again about doing more specificity for the um for the um you know the construction defects well can't we just make that a broad concept and then essentially work on it as we're moving forward and see what legislative items are coming before the next legislative session so I I just really think once again this is kind of a stalemate to not move this document when it is really on a time sensitive thing that we need to get to our lobbyists because legislation right now is being drafted uh further uh councilman comes yeah um so I hear that councilmember Lawson and that's fine if we want to not again add that specificity my concern is still primarily with removing those other items um specifically the eviction protections and on the point of the um mobile home parks um mere Pro tem um the legislation that was passed actually gave the opportunity to purchase to the residents of the mobile home parks which would help them to stabilize um their investment in their homes so if there were folks selling mobile home parks that would not be bad for a mobile home park residents um that would potentially create an opportunity for them and stabilizing rent in the meantime is a way again to make sure that they're staying in their houses again these are homeowners that invested in their homes but are being displaced because of the rent on the land underneath their home is becoming so exorbitant it's like paying rent for an apartment so you're paying rent for uh you're paying a whole rent for the home that you already own um and it's extremely problematic and and again would be more likely to lead to displacement if we don't support those additional protections I'm supporting those protections is not going to result in displacement and I think that the over regulation language um really I think misses the forest for the trees where it comes to uh to mobile home parks specifically because it is a unique situation where people own their homes and don't own the land um unlike other rental situations I think we've had a pretty good discussion here I just want to get a sense of the council all those in opposition if they could identify themselves foreign opposing what can I clarify are we just we have to blanket oppose all the changes I guess we got on multiple ones uh council members what's the first one do you want me to do one at an answer let's break them up and let me get us yes okay so let's go with construction defa adding construction defect reform First Construction defects all those in our position to solve no opposition okay construction defects will move forward next one the next one is uh striking the preserving affordability section uh all those in uh opposition for that section to move forward opposed to that Medina Coombs let's see um I've got um Mark council member Marcano Medina Combs and uh council member Barrio anyone else Lawson miracle anyone else very well okay um so that provision will move forward next provision mobile home for striking the mobile home protections uh section mayor sorry when Porter that was five votes against how does that move forward right six votes am I correct yeah so is there any no one else is uh well I can just go all those in affirmative to move it forward councilmember savonik yep who else Bergen Berg so right now I've got council members uh zavonik mayor Kaufman uh mayor Tim Bergen and councilmember Summers is there anyone else in the affirmative uh then um that provision does not move forward but it can move forward it can't go to a vote um uh with the discretion um a City attorney does this go to a vote on the floor I'm sorry so if it has six affirmative it would move forward to the floor if it doesn't the um the sponsor have discretion anyway and and even if it didn't have enough the a council member can use that prerogative to bring that forward themselves uh next provision please mobile home protection uh removing it okay um all those in opposition Medina comes Lawson uh I have council members McConnell Medina Coombs Lawson and council member Maria reserve and anyone else in opposition all those in the affirmative uh councilman Arizona anyone else in the affirmative to support that provision okay then that provision fails mayor um I'm sorry who's that councilman McConnell yes thank you sir um councilman savonik were you amenable to keeping in the opening paragraph um your addition but also the original language yep yep in the opening paragraph that's fine good deal yeah okay um is there any opposition to doing that there are well then that will pass as a go for it as a friendly Amendment any uh council members yeah so that I want me to keep going on to the next step Roberto the next sections yeah um there's really only one board it's still under the affordable half like on the affordable housing he was under the grant uh opportunities for navigation Center I struck permanent Supportive Housing uh the reason I did that is that as we look at that campus or the potential co-location of a bunch of uh services that would support our homeless population we have permanent Supportive Housing opportunities throughout the city I don't believe that we should be at adding additional programming to Supportive Housing to that potential uh navigation Center campus whatever that turns into is the mayor continues to work through what his proposal will be bringing here that he'll be bringing forward so I have a strike permanent support of housing from that keep everything all those in opposition mayor uh councilman McConnell thank you sir um I just want to point out that this is a good this is going to be a competitive Grant and if we strike specific strategies from um what is written here it might make it much less likely that we end up getting that Grant so I would strongly um oppose striking permanent Supportive Housing from the language here for the opportunity Center um further discussion I've seen on all those in opposition do you know um all those in the affirmative obviously uh thousand support for that provision of striking permanent Supportive Housing I'm sorry Sundberg and karinsky picked up Bergen is there anyone else then the provision fails for lack of having six votes further uh further Provisions so the next one Roberta I think on this uh the funding accountability I don't know why it was strike we can keep that that must have been it was it possibly an error on my uh and when I was editing it but I'm fine with keeping that so I'm not going to talk through that so I'm going to go down okay see withdraw that one yeah I'll withdraw that one so the next one is under so under Behavioral Health um I'm gonna go to the increased access of care I strike the increased funding resources to ensure that people have access to care cross Behavioral Health Continuum um so this go and there's the first part is adding reform Colorado's Community Mental Health Centers uh in our last discussion we talked about the fact that Governor polis had brought forward through his Behavioral Health task force a list of recommendations um a lot of those focused on the need to ensure that the dollars that are already in the system which there are a significant amount of of dollars for Behavioral Health um are getting to the the patients to the end users um and part of that is reforming the Colorado Community Mental Health Centers I my recommendation would be that the city because it said ask for additional information that we take the position that we support the recommendations that are coming out from the governor's task force on Behavioral Health uh discussion uh is there a objection by saying no objection then that will move forward uh next one so uh can you scroll down Adrian just to where number one is the uh misdemeanor reform and then all the way to the fifth to fentanyl so if you want to go through those five items were additions to the public safety uh priorities yeah I will go through them one at a time and uh mayor we can you know have the sense after each so uh motor vehicle theft uh obviously a significant challenge that we face in the city we passed our own ordinance um I I've stated that having a city um ordinance on Motor Vehicle theft is is not the end solution that ultimately we need a Statewide solution so what um I'm recommending here is that we that the so-called the misdemeanor reform that made car theft more permissive in the state of Colorado that we looked at um repealing that and creating stricter penalties I know that Governor polis has recently suggested that he wants to get rid of the value base Provisions in Colorado law around motor vehicle theft and increased penalties and recognizing that motor vehicle theft is not just another property crime it has a significant impact not only on those who are victims of Motor Vehicle theft but the fact is that car theft or Carthage then use those cars in secondary crimes and it's a secondary crimes that can become even more tragic these so I would suggest that we continue to to work with our our partners in the state to have a Statewide solution to motor vehicle theft to ensure better Public Safety for our community um discussion this thing not as anybody in opposition let's see none of that we'll move forward next one next one is the uh palpo which is possession of weapons by previous offenders so earlier this year we did an IGA with the U.S attorney's office and we talked about doing one with our DA's office the reason for that is that under again state law that made things a possession of weapons by previous offenders more permissive it allowed for drug dealers and those convicted of felony car theft in the state to possess a weapon and we need the state to recriminalize that so that our state prosecutors can in fact try those cases as opposed to cities having to do igas with Federal authorities in order to prosecute those types of crimes um the further discussion I think that is their opposition seeing none that provision will move forward next one parole reform so this is a challenge where um what we've continued to see and hear from law enforcement is that there seems to be a revolving door of violent criminals um and so we need to stop letting violent criminals out of prison early um we should there should be some sort of uh whether there should be no early parole for violent offenders um people should be uh the sentencing laws need to to be restructured so that we are there's a guarantee of time served for those who are convicted of violent crimes um so again we're not just re-victimizing um our community by with this revolving door through our parole system uh discussion mayor councilman yeah so when I saw this I took a quick look at I could not find anywhere where we are letting violent criminals out of prison early on parole for non-violent crimes I do know that that's been the case but not for violent crimes so I'm not sure why this needs to be on here because it's adding legitimacy to something that's not happening of further discussion um mayor mayor for Tim well I don't know if it's happening or not happening I don't have those facts but I guess it wouldn't hurt to have it I mean if they're not doing it then it's not a problem uh but I believe that it is happening but uh it's part of the discussion mayor councilman McConnell yeah again so the best that I've been able to find here it is not happening and by putting it in here we might give people the false impression that it is happening and we should not be doing that so yeah can I a City attorney um I believe that they are they do parole uh violent offenders can you confirm that and I'm going to hand it over to Pete who's got a better a better handle on that uh mayor Pete Schulte city attorney's office um there I mean each case is determined by the parole board about whether or not they're going to be released but uh historically not violent offenders are not released uh early on parole like as council member Marcano stated property or you know property crime uh defendant so um I think it's good maybe to remind the legislature that's one of the priorities of the council but I would agree with councilmember Marcano that I don't see it widespread happening further discussion all right I'm sorry who is this Memorial yeah I mean just like if this is going to be an official document we're including language that says so-called and then Pinky Promise in an official document I I have a little bit of heartburn there right like this is us being professional you know uh uh a professional you know document to another organization um that seems a little silly and unprofessional to include that type of language further discussion uh is there opposition uh to moving this provision forward mayor councilman McConnell yes we're still on Pearl reform right role reform yeah okay so no this isn't happening so I don't think it needs to be on here uh further officers Medina further up opposition I have council members McConnell Coombs Mario and Medina those in support members who I support summer further out of that provision fails uh next provision so um the next one is carabond reform so the state legislature um must also what we're suggesting is that again this goes back to some of the same conversation around parole reform and that is that people there's a revolving door of people who are committing crimes and it is frankly nothing more than a pinky promise that they're going to show up for court they're not doing it they're they're they're breaking their personal recognizant that since they're going to actually show up and so we need to see if we want to to see fewer victims in our community if we want to crack down a crime we have to make sure that those who are committing crimes are actually showing up to court and serving their full sentence and not being led off um so the this is um encouraging the legislature to look at reforming our PR Bond system mayor uh Council May Overton yeah on the last one you since we didn't really have stats I was kind of fine with it not going forward on this one um I I truly believe it is a problem we've heard that from um some District Attorneys and um we want to make sure that you know that they do show up um and not break their personal reconnaissance so I I would support that one further discussion mayor O'Connell thank you sir I'd actually like to know from Pete or the City attorney if or another City attorney sorry um uh are violent criminals being released on bonds I thought that was just for property crimes so council member Mercado I I have heard complaints uh from other parts of the state and even in the 18th that that depending on the person's ability to be able to bond out of jail if they're in jail for for a certain period of time a judge will release them on a PR Bond and mainly a lot was that to do with covid right to keep the jails empty so as we're getting out of code but and the jails are going back to normal holding parameters it's going to be interesting to see what happens but I I have heard as mayor Pro tem stated um the pr Bond issue is a problem right on a variety of crimes but I would agree that it's mostly property crimes that's happening but it's not just limited to property crimes further discussion mayor uh councilmember comes I would just like to Echo council member Maria [Music] 's one just either strike that last sentence or maybe take out Pinky and just say more than a promise to show up just so that we can be presenting ourselves more professionally than talking about legal arrangements as pinky promises I'd agree with that is there on any opposition uh mayor I have another question okay but is there any opposition to changing language I apologies very well uh further discussion that uh councilmember McConnell thank you sir um I do have another question for Pete um with regards to folks having to post bonds um it's my understanding that at this point um if you're not using a PR Bond you're just using a standard Bond then someone could just bail themselves out if they have the means even if they committed a violent crime right that's correct depending on the bail amount uh there's a couple ways they could do it by paying the full bond amount right that they would get back once they completed uh their case out the other thing is to use a surety which is The Surety will charge it's usually around a 10 fee of the bottom amount and then The Surety will promise to get the defendant uh to to court uh so yeah it's all dependent and that goes kind of hand in hand with with the amount of bond uh that the judges are setting when these individuals are seen at the jail by the judges right so I guess what I want to ask councilman zavonics and Cesar has reforms here is your position that we should just keep poor people locked up in jail or it's okay to leave violent criminals who can't afford it to allow them to get out of jail foreign no that's not it it's just that we we need to do a better job of of keeping our community and our residents safe um there's the the level of violence and crime in our city and our state um are are unacceptable and when you talk to people in law enforcement whether it's uh District Attorneys um or a you know our officers they they are continually running into the same people um and their story after Story in fact there's it you said nobody uh committed a committed a violent crime is out on parole the the person who's involved in the shooting um with an Aurora police officer last week and was out on parole there's a number of stories that people are out on parole that are you that are abusing the pr Bond system that are abusing our parole system and getting out and re-victimizing our community and that needs to end um and so what I'm I'm hopeful is that we will because as much as I want to continue to do the things that we're doing at the city level to keep our residents uh or immunosa level to keep our residents safe I believe a Statewide solution is needed and PR bonds have become um a leading way for people to get out and it's not just violent crimes it's also motor vehicle theft there's a revolving door of people who are stealing cars over and over again re-victimizing our community needs to stop okay if you didn't answer my question so I'm going to try again is your position that we should be opposing PR bonds period or that we should be allowing people who have the means of committed violent crime to get out of jail it's to reform our PR Bond system so that people can't continue to abuse them and re-vict right do you believe that we should okay that's not what you just said and that's also not what this does so do we want to maybe reward this and bring it back mayor oh please proceed councilmano is it your position that we want to continue to have the pr Bond system in place that is allowing people to re-victimize our community I mean do you beat your wife Jesus I mean that's the kind of question he just asked the same thing no yes you did no because you were saying two different things with regards to PR bonds and then you just moved into bonds and then went off I'm asking you specifically what the language you have here all right um the customer was Monica and then we're going to move on yeah I I'm ready to move on very well um all those in opposition to this provision mayor all right councilman nice to be clarified currently that I don't think it's doing what the sponsor is intending further opposition mayor I I oppose and again I oppose the language which is really unprofessional well now the the language in terms of the pinky that was already amended correct right um Council okay councilman McConnell or councilman Clinton are you still in opposition yeah although I didn't hear council members Monica agreed to take that out I still think yeah we have some concerns here um okay with with specificity I think that this is one where we want to be specific we don't want to just blank it say we don't need PR bombs okay further opposition from Murio real Medina further opposition uh then uh those in the affirmative in support and I support this one Lawson Gardner Bergen Mary I think jarinsky is having some connection problems okay uh six habanerism uh that provision will move forward next but so this is the final one uh it's fentanyl uh this is a a dangerous poison this isn't like any other drug that we have out there the synthetic opioids are becoming um uh are being manufactured to be addictive um and in this case being manufactured to to kill people and uh the legislature four years ago or two years ago decriminalized um fentanyl this past uh session they made some progress towards making penalties around possession slightly more punitive but I don't think it went far enough this is this is not a typical drug this is a poison and I believe that possession at any level ought to be a felony and I think that we ought to encourage the legislature to go back to the way that it was before they decriminalized it further discussion or discussion mayor uh councils um it's well documented that criminalizing simple possession small amounts of drugs only harms the people that you're hoping to protect with drug drug prohibition which is people who could be killed by the drug and I agree that um that people using fentanyl recreationally is across the board dangerous and a bad idea but criminalizing simple possession actually pushes those people further into the Shadows makes it harder for them to get the kind of help that we're hoping to provide through the opioid settlement funds that we've received and actually makes it harder for them to get access to the types of things that can reverse potential overdoses so what we're going to see by criminalizing simple possession of any amount is more people dying of overdoses whose overdoses might have otherwise been medically reversible so I don't support this because what we're looking at is making it so that people end up not seeking help when they need it further discussion mayor uh councilman there are other types of substance that um that we this isn't a simple drug this isn't this isn't even math um there are other types of substances that that we criminalize completely because we know that we recognize that it's only unless and until we completely felonize them that we get to the point to where they're no longer in our communities and and creating the type of Havoc they are and taking the lives of of people of all ages so fentanyl is different than any other type of drug that's out there right now and I think that that doing anything less than criminalize or or making a felony for any level of possession is really the only way to to address this issue in the long term one of the ways that fentanyl is different is that we do have the ability that it's highly susceptible for people to overdose and we have the ability to reduce those overdoses so again simple possession and the felonization of simple possession what that leads to is just people not seeking that treatment that can reverse those overdoses it's not just different in terms of being manufactured to be highly addictive it's also different in that there are clear ways that there are Community providers in place that have successfully helped people reduce those overdoses and if we push the people who are using into the shadows and tell them you're going to become a felon if you try to seek help then we're not reversing overdose and we're not decreasing the problems that we have we're also making it harder for people to see treatment and treatment is essential when people are dealing with addiction so I just I I understand the urgency of the issue and felonization of simple possession is not what is going to provide the solution um to the Urgent problem of Overdose deaths and addiction further discussion mayor uh councilman McConnell thank you sir I just want to add strong agreement with council member Combs this is basically retreading the failure of the drug war um this is not a serious policy if we're actually trying to preserve Public Safety and save lives here um all those in uh opposition McConnell Coombs Medina what are you uh further anybody else in opposition those in support mayor uh that's what I was like I suppose Gardner Gardner here I support Lawson Lawson sunberg sunburn Bergen okay uh six have resident support so that provision will move forward there are I understand there are no further provisions there's three more that council members has in the federal priorities so you can scroll down Adrian to those three and those are the final three okay yeah so all three of these um really work together so the the idea is that well we've the the federal government for the past decade has placed a priority on housing first as a homeless strategy and housing first only as a home as a strategy and what we've seen we have plenty of evidence now where the cities have tried housing first it always starts off as showing some promise and then late stage housing first fails and so what um I'm suggesting is that we ask the federal government to reprioritize trauma-informed wrapped around services for homeless assistance and and by ensuring that a percentage of all of the continuums of care funding is directed towards those types of services with uh for no less than 40 percent and no greater than 60 funding for housing the other um two Provisions are requiring participation in treatment and Training Services whenever you're enrolled in a federally funded homeless assistant program similar to what we do with grants unemployment assistance and tan effort temporary assistance for needy families what I'd like to see and then the last one talks about requesting a block grant I think that the it's it's beyond time after a decade of failure of having a one-size-fits-all policy from the federal government for cities and and states and and I know other states are starting to do this to ask the federal government for flexibility with the funding as it relates to homelessness and ask for us for the ability to be the Laboratories of democracy that cities and states should be and to try something different that doesn't mean that housing shouldn't be a part of our overall strategy to address homelessness the housing first for all has not worked and so what we need to to identify and the council member Marcano mentioned this earlier that the that the competitive Grant by not having permanent Supportive Housing we might jeopardize our ability to get those dollars that shouldn't be the case we if we can come up with a program that meets the emergency needs of our homeless population that allows them to get into transitional housing and to uh to provide them with the services that they need whether it's behavioral mental health addiction recovery or Workforce Services if we can provide those that type of program we shouldn't be forced to use a program that has failed in so many cities before I would rather fail trying to do something different than fail trying to do something that we know is going to fail in the long run and so as part of our federal priorities I'd like to suggest that that we take the lead as a city and say federal government we want some flexibility to do something different than has been done over the past decade because it's not working uh discussions mayor that's right yeah I just I don't really know where to start with that aside from the fact that you were completely wrong I guess we need to take a trip to Houston uh since you didn't come with us last time so that you can tell them that what they're doing is you're going to fail in I guess the late stage if you will I mean they've been doing this for 11 years though so I don't know when they're going to hit the late stage or we can go to Helsinki if you like and tell them that what they're doing is not working and the entire country of Finland in fact is just engaging in an exercise in futility um what you're proposing here would make us a laughing stock and an outlier and going against evidence-based best practices and you're absolutely right you're you all left you struck permanent Supportive Housing out of the previous section you're likely jeopardizing any state grant that we would be in competition for and by putting this into federal policy no one's going to take us seriously it's a department Supportive Housing does work it is by far the most effective path to getting people off the streets and into self-reliance you just have to continue to fund it same as any other program same as a campus same as our roads same as our fire department Etc so I this has no merit this is not based off reality so I will strongly oppose this um see that this um doesn't support the other model I think it adds flexibility so that if you have a different model you can still get grant funding I think what what we currently have it it precludes that so I mean I don't think it's one or the other I support this further discussion mayor all right that's where it comes um number one very specifically um is intended to exclude one model and also council members of Onyx said that he intends to exclude that model so um I think that it's pretty clear that when you're saying you have to use this funding formula that actually reduces flexibility um I understand the state block grant system you know what if some states want to pursue a different approach um that's fine um and that gives more flexibility but point one and point three are in conflict because point one removes flexibility and point three asks for flexibility so I would strike the percentages in point one um if we want to keep this consistent with what's being asked for in point three which is the flexibility to for communities to do what works best for them I would and point two um is saying that there is a whole group of people for whom we just aren't going to provide services so I would strike point two completely um because at least at that entry level like there needs to be some low barrier service available it doesn't have to be an apartment it doesn't have to be you know permanent housing but there has to be some type of low barrier service otherwise there's a whole group of people that are going to continue camping out on 225 and everywhere else that we see them and that's just the reality of the situation trying to force people into treatment does not work some people are not going to accept treatment if we don't have any low barrier Services then there's a group of people that we're just giving up on so I oppose point two and I think that point one and point three are in conflict prayers ebonic that's what was wrong so to your point councilmember Combs uh it says required participation in treatment Training Services when enrolled in federally funded homeless assistance programs so there would still be um as we've discussed just like they have in Colorado Springs a low barrier um uh shelter that that does not actually provide Beyond those emerging Meeting those emergency needs and that that decision by the individual to then seek treatment would be up to them but once they get into that um to that level that next level of accepting whether it's Behavioral Health addiction recovery or or job training services that they would then um have to meet those same requirements that those who already receive federal dollars which is the Pell Grants unemployment um and kind of to your point about the one and three being a conflict I don't think they're in Conflict but I would be fine with removing one and just saying two and three because at the end of the day what I what I think is most important is having the flexibility as a city and and frankly it would it would help us to have the flexibility for the state because then they they wouldn't they wouldn't be um they're hamstrung to the the federal requirements to mandate housing first or permanent Supportive Housing on uh our location are not on the campus that that we might build and instead allow us to do something different because while I do believe Houston is on the on the front end I mean you look at cities like San Francisco abject failure it is a city that just like so many other housing first communities is defined by poverty economic Despair and hopelessness and we don't want that for our city we want something different and so getting the flexibility from the federal government to build a program that isn't a one-size-fits-all uh mandate from them I think is most important so I would be happy with just keeping two and three in there okay um so on two and three uh is there opposition mayor I still I still opposed to two okay then okay well the sponsor hasn't several are you severing uh council members yeah that's fine yep being server one I just do two uh is there opposition to two I opposed to [Music] um uh all those uh and supportive too uh mayor supports I support two sunburn Lawson Gardner Bergen Sunbury councilor over sunward is there any other Gardner Gardner so six have a resident support is Raising her hand I think we can't hear her number two we'll move forward number three uh all those in opposition number three uh seeing no opposition number three number three can move forward um I believe that there are no other Provisions am I correct correct that's correct okay um mayor one point of clarification um historically we have taken these to study session for uh revisions and edits and moved forward based on the discussion of the council and since the full council is here we have never brought these forward to a formal vote we can do that as a resolution if you'd like to do that yeah I don't think that's necessary I think that the um is there any objection to uh moving forward at a study session with the provisions that we've um decided on mayor if I could just get some clarification from Roberto because I know that on the the state priorities there were some who might not have been able to voice their support for it um can I can you can we do a recap of what just quickly what uh moved forward and what didn't sure and and I have a notes here but in the interest I can basically put them together and send them back to you via email to the council members so they can all see them in paper all in one place so the reason I ask is it very effective so the reason I ask is that if if in fact there were some Provisions that were left on here or not added because the of inability to to raise their hand because of uh connection issues I would rather do it tonight than bring it back if that's possible otherwise my preference would be to to bring it back later so that we can have their votes cast or their uh voices heard I will edit that document provided back to the council and if there's areas where we did not get and I'll go back through the audio just to make sure if there are folks who didn't vote we can we can Circle back with those individuals to see if they would like to do that and bring it back to uh to get a final vote on that would that be in the next study session or would that be in a regular meeting I would prefer a study but we could it studies easier just to have the more in-depth conversation if we need to but uh it's really opposition to doing it in the next 30 session come here um remember Tim question um so that can't be done by email just asking I I think that's we would need to affirm those votes in a public meeting I don't I think that's not yeah which the city attorneys always advised us never to take votes via email very well um then that's the way we will proceed uh thank you Roberto sure let's see um uh item number 3j performance and uh entertainment venue study and process Laura Perry evening mayor see council members Laura Perry Deputy City the purpose of tonight's presentation is to walk city council through a proposed phased process in meeting the objective of completing a study on a new performance and entertainment venue so first off just wanted to highlight that the superworld does have several cultural facilities that seek to enrich Aurora's quality of life and enhance its economic Vitality these facilities include the Aurora Fox Arts Center on Colfax Boulevard there were a history museum which provides educational opportunities regarding Aurora's past the bicentennial Arts Center which provides popular Arts programming and the People's Building also on Colfax Boulevard there are also other privately run venues in Aurora that support our entertainment and cultural fabric of the city the concept of constructing a new venue in Aurora has been in discussion for the last 45 years beginning in 1977 the idea of a new Cultural Arts Complex was introduced and following that introduction it was introduced to the ballot in 1979 as a 500 seat theater which failed at the ballot at that time and then subsequently following that a task force was convened in 1992 to review the project and then in 1996 a council authorized a citizen cultural complex initiative which studied the feasibility of a 400 000 square foot facility which involved a performing slash Visual Arts Center the History Museum and Central Library at the time then in 1997 the cultural complex uh was produced by William Hinckley and that included a 600 seat theater a 2200 seat Auditorium and other amenities at that particular facility jumping to 1998 city council approved the group to move forward with a community survey and a financial management study and that study really looked at several things in terms of the financial and management of the proposed facility and as a result of that study the proposal at the time was scaled down to a smaller facility for a Performing Arts Center the museum and the Central Library and then in 2002 we had another ballot measure where Council referred a question for a new Cultural Center Museum and the Central Library facility expansion that ballot measure failed so as you can see throughout history the types of facilities its sizes its programming uses all of those have changed and over the last 20 years since our last ballot measure failed we've continued to evaluate the opportunity of adding a new venue to enhance quality of life and economic development in Aurora that has continued today uh with several of our stakeholders from various commissions and advisory boards bringing forward various ideas and proposals to city council for performance and entertainment venues and we've listed a few here uh several brought forward by the citizens advisory budget committee uh the business Advisory Board in terms of a new centrally located arts and entertainment destination and our cultural Affairs commission for a new Cultural Center for our library and cultural services division the cultural and arts programming continues to grow resulting in needs for additional classroom performance and rehearsal space and you'll note this common theme throughout all of these is a common desire for a new performance cultural and entertainment infrastructure to drive Economic Development and expanded programming in Aurora it's most important to note that we currently do not have a defined project scope or identified locations these are simply concept ideas that have been brought forward to city council back in June the uh the PED policy committee unanimously granted approval for a study to investigate a future Aurora arts and entertainment destination Center that was for a venue and an Associated District which included four things taking a look at the types of venues and audiences it would serve how much that venue would cost potential locations and of course how to fund the particular venue in addition in August staff presented an update on the process for the city's Cultural Arts plan and proposed collaborative working sessions regarding current Arts and Cultural facility goal that's within our plan the Aurora Cultural Arts plan guides the department work of the cultural Services Division and it is the one living document in the city that documents goals for a new Central facility in Aurora and that plan has traditionally included stakeholder and public input to inform its planned goals and has been adopted through city council the third plan which expired in 2020 uh was set to be updated in 2020 but due to the pandemic was put on hold and so the department is seeking to update that plan currently as mentioned the PED policy committee endorsed moving forward with a study for a performance and entertainment facility to complete a feasibility study two phases are recommended to be completed in partnership with a consultant the first phase is phrased as the alignment phrase and in this phase the goal is the focus on developing aligned goals and a mission and items included in this phase are reviewing and analyzing programming needs in the community various types of venues and audiences it would serve taking a look at comparable venues in the region and how they are managed and operated and last and most importantly developing common definitions for the types of venues that we that Council would like to see in Aurora so for example a multi-purpose venue that can host Garth Brook concerts and ice skating is very different from a theater that supports Broadway musicals and symphonic performances there are differences in size number of seats and square footage based on programming desires that would be identified in the alignment phase the cost estimate to complete the first phase of work is twenty four thousand dollars and this is obviously in one time funding city council will set the goals vision and definitions to develop the next phase of work which is the feasibility analysis and a feasible ability analysis will include work with a consultant who will review the market demand for the defined facility its goals its Vision its estimated economic input impact on the region in Aurora suggests funding opportunities engage the community and determine if the facility needs to be right sized to meet that identified market demand and or sites within the city the cost estimate range to complete the feasibility analysis is anywhere from 55 000 to a hundred and twenty five thousand dollars and that's really dependent on the breadth of the evaluation that's undertaken and it's also important to note that that range is net the twenty four thousand dollars that would be undertaken for the first phase of work city council guidance and discussion is embedded in each step of the process through study sessions workshops and Council meetings and as I mentioned earlier as the cultural arts plan is currently the one city document which has documented the various goals that they've evolved over time of a needed facility we would seek to concurrently update the cultural arts plan with the goal to reflect the outcome of council's discussion and Direction and of course as the plan is adopted by city council we would also bring forward other non-infrastructure related recommendations to council as well for feedback and approval a little bit more on the alignment phase itself again this is the first phase in defining the Baseline for the facility feasibility analysis and its Associated elements for the alignment phase we are proposing to invite stakeholders from the business Advisory Board the CABC the cultural Affairs commission visit Aurora Etc to participate in work sessions and these work sessions are collaborative fact-finding sessions which will help frame questions for Council and these sessions will include panels with Front Range venue operators to evaluate comparative venues their management models programming and also interviews with promoters and entertainment companies like AEG in Live Nation to seek insights into the current market and operations both of these companies also have experience in entertainment districts this phase will include a workshop to gain stakeholder input on ideas and again all of which will come together to frame questions that we will come back to City Council on add a future Workshop to really hone in on definitions of facilities operation models and potential locations to inform that next phase of work which is again the feasibility analysis so that concludes the proposed approach I do have Andrea aminack our development services manager and then Midori Clark our director of library and cultural services in case there are any specific questions related to their various aspects of work um questions of staff mayor Gardner councilman Gardner thank you um yeah I I I don't have questions I have some comments um and I want to provide a little bit of context for some of the comments I made um previously on this topic I you know I I think the the starting point is Aurora clearly does not have facilities arts and entertainment facilities on par with the city of our size and I think there's several reasons for that you know Geographic diversity is is one of them Aurora is a large city land mass wise um you know also I think um the disparity in the scfd funding is another reason why um we we provide a lot more in-text Revenue to the scfd than we get back in benefit and there's certainly benefits to a Metro area-wide um you know cultural scene but Aurora has one of the largest disparities in terms of what we pay into that system versus what we get back and you know ultimately my goal is is continuing to diversify our Revenue um you know facilities Arts entertainment facilities typically um attract bars restaurants hotels and other businesses around them that continue to bring in revenue for the city while also not costing a lot they don't require libraries and very much police coverage or fire coverage or things like that and you know so it's continuing to look for ways to diversify that revenue and also you know I think it's a point of civic pride it's you know it's giving Aurora there um right now you know I I don't think it's controversial to say there's not a lot to do in Aurora entertainment wise when you have somebody coming in from out of town for example a lot of our residents are going to Parker and Lone Tree in Greenwood Village in Denver and other cities to spend their entertainment dollars and so we're missing out on that and I think this is a way for us to um bring that Revenue back to the city as well as bring uh you know people from other other cities I think you know one of my concerns originally with with what was put out by staff was that the cake was already baked um you know the the goal was to build an Arvada Center type facility or a Parker and arts center type facility check the box and move on and um you know I really appreciate Laura and her team um kind of reworking this to because I think the focus really needs to be a couple things that needs to be improving quality of life it needs to be Revenue generation and um you know it needs to be giving Aurora residents destination facilities and you know this is something that I've um even as a candidate put a lot of time and energy into and um you know I want to recognize my CABC appointee Daniel lammon who made the presentation to council to convert the theater in the Aurora Mall um into a a entertainment facility as well as Shannon Fender my business Advisory board appointee that made the presentation to PD um so with all that said um I'm certainly supportive of this because I think it's moving in the right direction of Ensure hearing that Revenue generation is the ultimate goal and also providing facilities on par with the city of our size further discussion mayor Jim uh yeah I'm glad we're taking a look at this I have been on Council for seven years and um have continually um talked about when I was on ped and actually before Council when I was on the CABC about the lack of entertainment that we have that we you know in the city um in fact when I went to the icsc conference a few years ago with with staff that was another thing that was a discussion with some of the Brokers and and developers was how we could bring something forward um I I'm a proponent of trying to do something with private entities so that operations are not on the taxpayers but I definitely want to see us look at you know what our options are and so I appreciate the the presentation thank you very much further discussion man uh council member code students also our coach go ahead thank you um so yeah I absolutely support this as well this is one of the areas um that visit Aurora has looked at as a strategic goal um in terms of improving tourism in the city as well and it's also something that I heard about a lot from community members as a candidate as well um is having this kind of space in our community so I'm very much in support and interested in seeing what uh what the results are of the work that staff are going to do so thank you for the discussion mayor that's right Memorial thank you yeah I'm I'm excited to hear that um we're taking a step back in um trying to understand kind of feasibility and kind of the full range of options I would say um my interest in um seeing how this moves forward um it definitely includes Concepts around Community wealth building and I don't necessarily mean like oh we are hiring a bunch of people and therefore we are building Community wealth like they're actual like principles around Community wealth building um in deeper ways that we can collaborate with our diverse communities disadvantaged communities um and making some clear connections to different anchor institutions um you know so I think um I that that tends to be um I feel like an afterthought so I think if we're gonna be really like truly Innovative and really trying to explore our options I think just consideration around how we um really direct the dollars to to stay in the community and really benefit um our local community and um uh working with you know subject matter expertise around um tenants of community wealth building um but otherwise I think I'm I'm excited um you know obviously having the rural Cultural Arts District in in Ward one um I just don't want to see that um you know uh the the people that are there now and and are in the community and um are not also benefiting from kind of the economic development conversation and I think there's some um strong Partners in the area um that have been focusing on that um thus far um and you know I think there are more subject matter experts that can help kind of guide that um considering operation as we as we move forward otherwise I'm excited to see where this goes further discussion mayor thank you councilman Lawson yes and I support this as well and what I kind of didn't see in the presentation is some public private Partnerships I think that that's really important when we're thinking about this even if we're looking at the building of it but actually having some of those private Partnerships involved in this is going to be essential for success as well I didn't really see it in the presentation but I'm hoping that that's something that's going to be in consideration um sorry I'm sorry who would like to speak oh there if I may respond to councilmember Lawson well please please do all right councilmember Lawson the public private partnership opportunity that would really come through in the feasibility analysis phase and certainly we will continue to take a look at that and as we move forward very well um those in support of moving uh this provision forward markana Lawson Gardner Medina very well uh we'll move forward um item number 5A um High Convention Center in parking garage hello this is said Mack before we start um soon to share the presentation thank you uh good evening mayor and Council my name is Jason Batchelor Deputy city manager I'm going to go ahead and start us off on this presentation uh we know the hour goes late so we will do our best best to be brief uh we're here today um uh when we were doing uh refinancing of the outstanding debt associated with Hyatt Conference Center Parking Garage there's a request from Council to come back with information on how we got here the operations of the Conference Center parking garage and what we're doing to Market them and be successful so that's what we want to walk forward through you with tonight so next slide who we have here tonight uh is we have City staff myself Andrew Jameson from Finance Scott malman from Polo quirks our parking manager we have Bruce Dalton from visit Aurora as well as a number of our partners from Commonwealth hotels as well as the Hotel and Conference Center that we're speaking about so next slide uh this is the agenda we're going to go through a brief project history uh go over uh the priorities uh that was given to uh staff by city council when we established the project we'll go through some of the due diligence and feasibility that we did as well as uh how we Finance the project then the performance of the project and then we'll go into again what we're seeing in travel Trends marketing and then answer any questions that Council may have next slide so a brief project history uh the base realignment enclosure process resulted in the closure of the Fitzsimmons army base in the mid-1990s the Fitzsimmons Redevelopment Authority was created uh after that closure to implement a master plan for the Fitzsimmons campus and then in 2001 the Aurora city council adopted the Fitzsimmons urban renewal plan and that plan always included the development of a conference center and hotel the original location was on the campus but it was actually relocated to off the campus what we call the boundary areas of the area off of the the campus itself when there begin to be discussions about moving the VA hospital and creating space on the campus for the VA Hospital next slide uh the location uh for the hotel conference center was discussed as part of the Fitzsimmons village where it's currently located in as early as 2008 and became a part of the original Fitzsimmons Village master plan uh approval uh in that same time frame uh the location uh of the hotel conference center on that site was considered optimal because it was directly opposite of the University Hospital directly off of uh the major highway I-225 that had great thoroughfare access to Colfax it was near bus and Transit um including the Colfax Light Rail station which was in planning at the time so again so that was location was discussed as early as 2008 and was considered optimal so next slide this is a map just in case everybody let everybody know where we're talking about um you can kind of see there so this is uh the area on the south portion of the map you'll see um the Fitzsimmons uh village properties there is is shown in uh the dark green as well as the light green at the bottom of the map slide uh then when the uh proposal came forward city council had identified uh the development of that conference center making it a reality as a priority and they did give us direction that they wanted to see that included as a public-private partnership between us and corporex who's the developer of that site at the time we were seeing a number of functions including the state of the city the chamber Awards and other events were being held in Denver and this project once completed would allow for them to take place in Aurora we conducted a number of due diligence studies as part of that including a Medical Campus lodging market research that kind of let us know what um for large major medical campuses what lodging um was like around those campuses and so we looked at a number of different campuses across the country we then also did a hotel Market study and Conference under demand analysis so what is the need for Conference Center as well as a full service hotel in that area and then we also did a parking demand and financial feasibility study and then finally we took those all to develop an economic and fiscal impact analysis the results of all those studies were that the project was deemed to be self-supporting over time and then that is what the aura board approved the project financing and Council approved the moral obligation that has recently come back to council for Renewal so that was kind of the due diligence that we had done and then we then talked about putting the financing mechanisms in place and so Andrew Jameson's going to walk you through what those financing mechanisms were and then the financial performance of the project Andrew so yeah we employed a tax increment financing method where we aura brings about a study to um to basically pledge the revenues from a certain area for sales taxes property taxes and Lodgers taxes that go back into the project instead of going into the city general fund um that was deployed and then if we go on to financial performance effectively the the tax increment financing Revenue supported the project through 2019 where the sales tax Lodgers tax and property tax basically supported both the conference center operations and The Debt Service on the loan to construct the conference center and the parking garage um 2020 and 2021 were obviously very poor performing um but we see some positive impacts in 2022 and our projections for 2023 and Beyond um I have more detail on this you know if we have more questions on it but uh yeah sorry to throw so many numbers at you and then if uh if Scott is on the line it to talk about the parking operations yeah good evening my name is Scott Bauman I'm the city's parking manager I Minister and oversee the operations and vendor service agreement on the Hyatt Convention Center parking garage should not be providing some basic details about the garage the high garage is an above ground facility that is six floors tall it has a total of 506 parking spaces it has 12 electric vehicle charging stations that are free to use by any of our garage EV driving guests the higher garage is fully automated and gated just simply pull a timed stamp ticket upon entry and pay for the parking fees upon leaving the garage either by using the walk up a Lobby pay stations before heading to their vehicle or they can use the automated drive up pay stations located at the garage exit Drive Lanes other payment options for hotel guests include putting their parking fees directly onto their hotel folio account which includes their room fees additionally Convention Center event organizers have the opportunity to prepay all the garage fees if they want to offer free parking to their Convention Center guests the garage is a public facility built with 24 7 to all possible users with parking fees of six dollars for up to six hours and 12 dollars for a 24-hour period monthly parking permits are also available to any drivers who wish to park in the garage for 75 a month apparently there are approximately 45 outside monthly Parker monthly permit Parkers that are primarily and shoots campus staff members using using the garage the day-to-day management of the Hyatt garage is currently under the direction of the Commonwealth hotels via a garage management service agreement this on-site Hyatt team provides all the necessary ongoing services customer service needs and Light maintenance duties of the garage and Commonwealth began this Garage operator back in January of 2019. and lastly financially the garage operational performance has historically been very strong uh the six in the last six years with the loan exception of a year in 1900 covid resulting deficit in the year 2020. the garage has realized a positive profit center for the city with cash revenues exceeding operational expenses good evening again everyone um next slide please so this this is a national travel Trends information uh this information is being pulled from a National Database through U.S travel and as you can see in the column on the right the travel industry still lags behind 2019 performance and air passengers Auto trips Hotel demand and Leisure and hospitality jobs big part of this negative performance is based on the lack of international travels and travelers in the market and specifically in Colorado uh next slide please uh these are Colorado travel Trends beginning in April visitation reached somewhat normal levels and I say normal which tends to be pre-coded conditions we saw an increase in Auto trips a slight Improvement in Leisure and hospitality jobs for the state we also saw a 0.3 increase in travel spending and tax revenue at the state level uh next slide please so these are year-to-date visit Aurora sales impact numbers locally we've seen a strong Rebound in year-over-year lead opportunities this graph Compares 2022 numbers over 2021 numbers uh to extend even further in 2019 we had only two or 418 leads at this time um this is a result of pent-up demand in the group and meetings market and we're seeing this trend straight across the board for all hotels next slide please um this is visit Aurora monthly sales impact so these are the number of leads that we produce on a monthly basis um showing the the lead volume and hotel bookings month by month uh next slide please so this is the direct impact visit Aurora has had on the Hyatt property I'm very proud of the relationship that we've established with the Hyatt ownership uh the management as well as the city leadership over the last five years I'm involved in all of the city meetings on a monthly or quarterly basis I've worked very closely with the last three general managers who have served on our board of directors and the last two that have served on our executive committee um I was also actively involved in supporting the third party marketing agency to promote the Hyatt to the Ancients Medical Campus and lastly we promote Hyatt um on all of our uh group marketing campaigns as well as we highlight them on the distribution platforms event uh next slide please and now I'd like to turn the presentation over to Derek Shelley who's the general manager of the higher Regency Aurora hi good evening mayor and Council thank you for the opportunity to speak this evening I'm going to talk a little bit about the marketing efforts that have been underway um in in since my time in position we've uh and even before we've really been focused on diversification of our business portfolio so we'll talk about the marketing efforts by segment tonight starting with the the CU answered Medical Campus just across the street from us in the space Force Base so some of the key things that we've done to we've done to support the conference for the conference center and marketing forward is a sponsor we were a key sponsor for the Ann shoots block party uh recently in September which was just put back on after a couple years of a Hiatus due to covid we're targeting those events on campus with 600 plus in attendance and although the campus has their own meeting space they really like the convenience of of having their meetings and set and forget at the Hyatt um and have found more success with that so we did we had some great presence there at the at the block party we educated and familiarized those on campus with a conference center of course with that opportunity and also targeted holiday parties which we are seeing a little bit of an uptick in uh this year and a little bit more confidence in those events taking place as far as the space Force Base is concerned we sponsored and hosted breakfast for the defense Council in August as well as well as the Aerospace this resulted in a holiday party RFP which is a request for a proposal along with the booking for the Marine birthday ball in November so we do lots of business with the space Force Base we also hosted a breakfast for four retired star retired four-star generals and other men and women on the space Force Base they produce a lot of room nights for us as well which which also bring in tax dollars through the room side we also updated our Bridge sign over Colfax to ensure that we have great visibility uh from the that busy thoroughfare next slide please uh Citywide which is another segment of our business obviously we work a lot with Bruce and the team at visit Aurora and we've uh We've really grown our partnership and exposure to Meeting Planners through that that juncture we capture some meeting overflow from the Gaylord um when otherwise those events may not be able to take place in Aurora we target pharmaceutical companies and other events that are not only hosting their event at Gaylord but ones that we can host on a self-contained basis um and finally we follow those leads from visit Aurora looking to stay close to the Gaylord with ample meeting space there's not many options in Aurora Association and corporate segment of course we we customize proposals uh we our sales team is focused on finding out the needs of the groups and the in the corporations that are coming to town and make sure that we offer the not only the fastest response time but the best bids uh we address the client's main to sit by addressing the client's main decision making factors we even did a personalized drone video of the convention center space which if you haven't seen it on our website is really cool it sits right on the home page of our of our website at hyatt.com uh we hosted recently a Hyatt Salesforce fam which is uh short for familiarization event on property and we brought Hyatt um basically Hyatt has Global sales um people around the country that are responsible for specific markets when it comes to business travel corporate business travel to different cities we brought them all on property um you know so that they weren't only marketing downtown Denver so that we really put Aurora on the map as far as the facility and the services that we have to offer which was a very successful event we've already gotten some business leads from that and then we attend conferences to network with Meeting Planners and educate them on the Hyatt Conference Center as well next slide please um as far as catering alone so outside of the hotel room plus food and beverage contribution and Conference Center Revenue contribution we just do catering of alone events of course and um so we're really focused on the holiday Blitz as as the fourth quarter tends to be a little bit slower uh in the area um so we're looking for those repeat clients that have had successful holiday parties where have some special offers out there to get some things on the books and then we also have set up fee with rental to include centerpiece and decor for events which is an appetizing uh offer for to book a holiday party and then finally social media public relations and print advertising we do print advertising with Colorado meetings and events the Aurora chamber of converts and of course visit Aurora we post on LinkedIn we feature our drone videos wherever we can and to our network of reach and again just diversifying that business mix for us has has brought a lot of successful business back on the books and really Amplified our Pace over 2022 and especially into 2023 next slide please so this is just a list of some of the events that we've done uh in the history of the conference center here from 2016 to 2019 just a couple that stand out there we work with the sister cities International um anything from Big corporations down to local organizations and everything in between and then recently from 2020 to 2022 Turner Construction built our hotel they also support us in events and in rooms groups Reliance electric was a big one one that was really honorable for me to be a part of was the Taps tragedy assistant program for survivors which was a really cool event and they're coming back to us as well and then the Rocky Mountain fiction writers which is a multi-year contract we'll have that over the next three years so lots of stuff of course with the campus as well so really great diverse mix of business there for us next slide so that completes my presentation and I welcome any questions to staff sure Chancellor Jones keep oh thank God I don't know if you can hear me on my phone or my um laptop so I'll just talk into both um can we go back to uh can we go back several slides please keep going next one that one right there so oh wait go go forward one yeah right there um Can somebody help me read that how much is occupational privilege tax contributing to this parking garage okay so it uh the occupational privilege tax is actually for the entire uh Hotel project and so again since it's in a tax increment financing area we take all of the taxes uh coming off of the project and so this would be for any of the hotel conference center um or the parking garage I would say the parking garage is probably the smallest portion of that but those are the numbers that are coming off of uh the entire uh project and so that's what those numbers are so those are and in the range of uh five to seven thousand dollars probably pre-pandemic uh post pandemic they're probably in the 2500 to 3 000 range three thousand a month a year ma'am three thousand three thousand a year and also Jason helped me remember is occupational privilege tax does that go into the general fund uh in this case because it's in a urban renewal area uh those dollars would go to uh the urban renewal Authority and then they would go to they've been pledged to the project which is why we're showing them here so they would not go into the occupational so occupational privilege tax dollars go to the urban renewal project if the project is in an urban renewal area because I specifically remember being told that no dollars from the general fund go to pay for this parking garage I specifically remember being pulled back is that that's no longer true no ma'am it's still true again the entire um concept of the uh urban renewal area is that the pro the revenues all of the revenues including sales tax property tax and occupational privilege tax as well as large tax that are generated within the urban renewal area uh don't no longer once the urban renewal area is declared uh those those revenues no longer flow to the general fund they flow to the urban renewal Authority uh and then are for use by the urban renewal Authority in this case they've been pledged uh to support the project for ultimately the parking garage is what I'm saying boy we've come a long way with this occupational privilege tax being for police and fire to go for a parking garage um I just wanted to find out also this Common Wealth Hotel Collection LLC um that has is running have we approached them and asked them if they would be interested in purchasing this beautiful parking garage uh we have not uh we have not uh asked them if they're interested in purchasing that foreign yes Mr Mayor uh any any other questions thanks appreciate it uh number five b the Excel Center High School for adults hi mayor I'm just gonna set this up perfect so we're gonna presenting um today as Patrick Boyle he is the president of Nexus policy group and Gary Smith who is the vice president of human resources and Workforce Development for Goodwill of Colorado um I just this is for information only only there was a question on here but this is really for information um they're thinking about bringing the school to Aurora um in 2024 so I just wanted Council to be aware of this project and um to if they have any questions that they may want to ask so welcome Patrick thank you for being here and thank you Gary as well well thank you for the opportunity to present um mayor members of the council my name is Patrick Boyle and I am here tonight representing the Excel Center which is a project of Goodwill of Colorado uh thank you for uh giving us this audience this evening we're pleased to have this opportunity to address a study session what we want to tell you about is an adult educational program that the Excel Center wants to bring to Colorado and specifically to Aurora to assist in development of the workforce and to expand educational and economic opportunities for coloradans so with that to address the details of the program I'd like to call upon Gary Smith Chief Mission officer of Goodwill of Colorado who with his team can explain uh the details of the program Gary thank you Patrick and thank you everybody for allowing us some time this evening to to bring you some information about the Excel Center my name is Gary Smith I'm a chief Mission officer at Goodwill of Colorado we would like to bring you some information tonight about the Excel Center the high school for adults that want to re-engage in their education the school model started with the Goodwill in Indiana about 13 years ago it's changing lives every day Excel centers are now actually they've expanded they're now in seven states and over the next few minutes you'll hear some amazing outcomes and we want to bring those same results to Colorado so for over over 100 years Goodwill has been a leader in Workforce Development in Colorado Auto and we're well positioned to bring this adult education program along with a host of wraparound services to coloradans in need I'm going to turn it over to James Sanchez he's our uh director of Workforce Development at Goodwill of Colorado he'll provide some additional detail great thank you Gary um real quickly um I'm actually going to turn it over to Sarah Thomas who is going to talk a little bit more about the Indiana model and uh some of the stats that they've been experiencing there in Indiana and I will finish up with some information about the Colorado location thank you James um I'm going to bring up our slides here Maybe I guess I'm not going to ring up our slides that's fine um hi everyone I'm Sarah Thomas I am with the Excel Center national office in Indiana um and so like Gary and James mentioned the Excel Center is a high school for adults about 13 years ago Goodwill of Central in Southern Indiana was working mostly in Workforce Development and we were placing adults in entry-level jobs and then we noticed they were coming back to us every like 30 60 90 days later um so obviously what we were doing wasn't working so we took a step back and noticed that about 50 of the people we served didn't have their high school diploma um so together with the mayor of Indianapolis we developed the Excel Center model to really help people achieve their education and career goals the Excel Center has two unofficial mantras the first one is we meet students where they are so we don't expect our students to start with a certain reading level or any high school credits we have built remediation into the model in order to serve all students regardless of their previous education and then our second Mantra what comes next really focuses on our College and Career Readiness components so we're serving students who need their High School diplomas but typically for adults a high school diploma on its own is not going to be enough to get that good family sustaining wage so we really focus on serving students who can um that prepares them for their future success so ultimately we want our students to have good jobs ones that offer living wages benefits and opportunities for growth we're like Gary and James mentioned we are in seven states now there's about 30 Excel centers across the country we partnered with the lab for Economic Opportunity at the University of Notre Dame and their findings found that students who graduate from the Excel Center are more likely to be employed more likely to go on to college and our graduates are earning 39 more than their peers five years after graduation a lot of this wage growth is due to the sectors that our students move into grads are more likely to be employed in health care construction manufacturing as opposed to the service industry the other part of the study that Notre Dame found that we're really proud of is that wage growth holds true across all demographics so regardless of age gender race all students are seeing that same wage growth students we serve about 46 percent of them are unbanked 48 carry some sort of credit card debt um 64 identify as a minority student 83 percent are single and then 68 have school-aged children so we serve a lot of parents we have five core model elements the first one is we remove all barriers to education so we offer free Transportation assistance free on-site child care and then flexible and accelerated scheduling we also provide life coaches so they help students navigate their education journey and really build their confidence they provide academic counseling but then also really help students navigate those non-academic challenges they face like finding stable housing ensuring they have food navigating the mental health care System things like that all Excel centers award a state recognized high school diploma so it's the same diploma any other traditional age student would be earning in Colorado as I mentioned earlier we have a big focus on College and Career Readiness and so all students are offer opportunities to earn industry certification and or dual college credits so that they're leaving ready to go on to a career or post-secondary about 38 of our students do matriculate into a two or four year degree and they have a 76 two-year persistence rate so not only are they going on to college but they're doing well there and then our last core model element is continuous Improvement so we are all always seeking feedback from our students to ensure that what we're doing is effective for them and when we learn things that show we need to make changes we do that uh I mentioned earlier a lot of our students are unbanked um and because of that we've had a lot of our coaches become certified credit counselors and that's allowed them to provide even better support to students in terms of like budgeting increasing their credit score things like that I'm going to throw it over to James to talk about site selection in Colorado great thank you Sarah um Mr Mayor uh council members thank you for your time this evening we appreciate it um Goodwill Colorado had two site locations that we were looking at one in Colorado Springs area and one in the Aurora location we've actually landed on the Aurora location for several reasons we did our site analysis we were looking at a location actually at the corner of Iliff and Chambers if you're all familiar with that area Goodwill owns the entire strip mall there and we do have a site that is sufficient for this project we landed on that site because there is transportation readily available on both the Iliff and the um Chambers streets through bus routes and Nine Mile Station is not that far away as well so Transportation it removes that barrier of Transportation uh additionally as Sarah mentioned earlier um for school of this size this is going to be an in-person school and so we expect somewhere between 200 to 300 students at any given time for that size of student body we need a location roughly 18 to 20 000 square feet the facility that we've chosen uh actually meets those requirements and we'll also have enough space not only for about a dozen classrooms computer labs space for students study areas but also the the space required for drop-in day care center to that end Goodwill is very committed to this project and we are going to retrofit this building at a cost to Goodwill of roughly two to 2.5 million dollars to help support this project as part of our public-private partnership um and at this point I will stop and I think I will open it up for any questions any other questions mayor um uh thank you for the presentation it sounds like you have a wonderful um school program um and you're looking at sites in Europe can you tell me how you're funded are you funded um you know through private donors or government grants uh this is Patrick Boyle I think that's one for me um as you've heard from the folks from Goodwill uh they will be providing the uh the real estate the facility and we'll be providing uh support for the program on an ongoing basis the public school Finance Act only reaches people under the age of 21. so we will have to seek an appropriation from the general assembly and legislation in order to provide the ongoing per per pupil if you will expenditures uh to provide for instruction of uh of students attending the Excel Center it's important to remember the one thing that Sarah didn't touch on is these are adults and in many cases they're people in their late 20s they're people who have been Limited in their growth potential because of the absence of a high school diploma but who recognized that they need it if they're going to move on and and uh have a career and support a family so we will be going to the legislature and um we're happy that uh that uh Senator Janet Buckner has uh has agreed uh to be a prime sponsor of the legislation and uh we're looking for allies to support her in this effort so but we get money from from the um the state school system is that that's what you said correct the public school Finance act will not uh provide Appropriations through their formula we'll have to seek a separate appropriation uh for this uh adult education okay well thank you so much hey Patrick uh Mike Hoffman um are you are you I'm familiar with the location uh so you're on the you're back in the northeast corner of uh Chambers and I love but um and they're I'm familiar with the existing buildings for Goodwill are you adding on to those are you utilizing an existing building uh I can answer that one Mr Mayor um we are utilizing an existing building um as I mentioned we own the entire strip mall at that location and it's um it is right actually behind the Walgreens um that is on the corner of Iliff and Chambers if you're familiar with that area that entire L um strip mall there which does include the Goodwill store we do own that facility we are looking at the westernmost building which is actually a two-story building uh that we have available to us that we would we would convert further questions uh seeing none uh thank you so much for the briefing I believe that this was uh for information only if I'm correct in that that is correct mayor okay uh thank you very much for the presentation I really appreciate it thank you very much for the opportunity thank you item number 5c creation of ad hoc citizens Charter review task force uh uh councilman raccoons um yeah thank you mayor so this is fairly self-explanatory I had um brought a version of this to the council ad hoc Charter Review Committee um but it was for a standing committee and my colleagues had said they didn't really want a standing committee um so I brought it back to them uh to discuss having an ad hoc committee so some folks that can look at the recommendations that we're making as a council out of that committee as well as providing any other areas that they believe should be looked at and it will be one appointee per council member and one appointee for the mayor just to simplify that appointment process and it will have a four-month term um folks will again review what council has done look at Charter sections to see if they have any other recommended um changes that we should bring to the ballot and then then the committee will dissolve after that point so just a way to get a bit of a deeper dive than what was going to be possible with only having public hearings held by the charter Review Committee that is the justification for having this task force um just to get additional public input on these items that are going to end up going to the ballot mayor um remember Tim yes and um as council member Coombs stated it did go to the Charter committee and so um since it it didn't pass on the original committee structure I'm in support of the changes that council member Coombs has has brought forward uh further uh comments uh seeing none is there any opposition to moving 5c forward assuming not item privacy will move forward item number five D I dedicate the city council chambers in the name of former mayor Paul Tower um councilman Carter thank you mayor um yeah this um resolution is is obviously straightforward um you know I I think um to me um it would be important as a city to recognize uh the contributions of of Mayor Tower to the city um between his service on city council and as mayor served the city for nearly 30 years but I think you know more importantly than that years and years of service to our community by him and his wife Kate uh as well and I think also you know Aurora um saw dramatic growth um the building of the new new municipal center um the the Anschutz Medical Campus um and I could go on and on about um changes in our city from um the time that Paul uh served um starting in 1979 on city council and then from 87 to 2003 as mayor um and you know obviously um everyone on Council knows but the public may not know mayor Tower recently passed away and um you know I really um think this this would be a nice way to honor him and his contributions to our city um I have spoken with Kate as well as his son Ed and their family and they are very appreciative of council considering this um and so um I I you know I I I I think also it's important to recognize there are other public facilities that we've named after folks in our community obviously the Beck Recreation Center Stephen Hogan Parkway William Hinckley High School maracek Middle School I could go on and on but to me I think mayor Tower made significant contributions to the city and because of his length of time on Council and his mayor and I think naming the city council chambers after him is an appropriate way to honor his legacy in our city questions of the sponsor the city none is there any opposition to moving 5D forward staying on 5D will move forward five E rolls of water procedure a backup material council member sponsored items uh Council membersky Tina's hear me yes all right the two for two um so this is a revolution uh basically stating that when a council member brings something forward and it requires backup material from City staff that it needs to be um submitted in accordance with a schedule to be developed by the city clerk but basically the council member needs to know about the presentation and or the backup material it needs to be included in our packet in our backup information and it needs to be submitted in a in a timely manner that's basically what this is stating staff cannot just present something that the council sponsor themselves don't even know about uh questions or comments uh is there any opposition to moving 5e forward seeing that 5V will move forward 5f resolution to establish if it's Simmons Innovation Community subcommittee to update the master plan and GDP uh council members yeah thanks mayor um so we heard a little bit um this evening from Steve vanderden who is the president CEO of the Fitzsimmons Innovation Community which is a part of the angiits Medical Campus and frankly holds the potential of being a leading health and life science campus not just um in Colorado or the country but frankly across the globe Fitz and Innovation Community which is formerly known as the fra or Fitzsimmons Redevelopment Authority has long been in need of an update to their master plan it's over a decade old in fact in in 2019 the board commissioned an independent review that was done by a real estate committee they came forward with recommendations late 2019 um of course we know what happened in 2020 so like many plans that um those recommendations were were shelved the the current board um there's three of us on Council myself the mayor and council member Gardner who served on the current board and um when I started at the beginning of this year that report was brought to my attention and the recommendations um that were made uh in in my asking where it was it was discovered that nothing can move forward and it was simply a matter of uh the pandemic happened um and and it got you know forgot about for a lack of a better term um so I had suggest that given that the fact that this board only meets quarterly um and that there is an urgent need to update the master plan that we create a subcommittee and I brought this recommendation to the full board this past month that we create a subcommittee of board members they can meet on a more regular basis with the intention of um updating the master plan an updated master plan will also allow us to update a Mobility plan to make sure that we have the right infrastructure and transportation infrastructure to support uh the campus but it'll give us a vision for what that campus can be and and should be is an incredible asset to the city and frankly to the region and to the state the board approved created this subcommittee in order to move the mat the updated master plan along what this resolution does is it asks it directs the city manager to assign the appropriate City staff to support that subcommittee and and the reason for it is this that as we go along the process of updating the master plan updating the Mobility plan I'd like to have the appropriate plan running Public Works and any other staff that is is necessary I've had conversations with our planning director about this with our Deputy city manager and others to say that to ensure that as we make recommendations and changes if there are needs or if there are changes needed to the GDP uh the general development plan or any other city code as a result of the the master plan and the Mobility plan that would be created and updated that we are that they're a part of that process on the front end as opposed to reviewing it after it's been done and saying these are the changes you needed so that we can be kind of proactive and moving this along in a more timely fashion because again it holds so much potential for our city for the region for the state that I think that moving it in a more timely manner would would make a lot of sense and so the resolution is simply directing city manager to determine the appropriate staff to to help support this new subcommittee created by the fic board uh questions of a sponsor a city known as her opposition to moving the resolution forward uh seeing none of the Opera the resolution will move forward uh seeing you know further business uh before uh the study session uh the meeting is adjourned [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign 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