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[Music] welcome to our pre-meeting i will go around and see what counselors have questions or anything on counselors [Music] i have i don't have questions per se but um i'll just say that i did attend the work session last week for dr cogg and um that was helpful because we were able to get a lot of questions asked about just as we're looking at these um uh overall mitigation measures and how the state greenhouse gas roll is going to be applied um it's in essence the mitigation measures that are proposed by the state which include things like adding more providing for more dense development or um reduced parking ratios or just the number of a wide number of things they are voluntary so it's up and i think a lot of the cities in the region were kind of happy to see that they had some choice on how to apply these um with westminster being ahead of the game with a lot of these mitigation measures it was um helpful to also understand that um we wouldn't be necessarily required to go further it's just you know we we are setting a good pace for the rest of the region actually um yeah so it was um i'll shut up my phone [Laughter] your husband might need something well down the stairs uh yeah anyway so um it's more to come on that but i think that's and there's all uh there's i think a fair number of cities too that are interested in um yeah well how do we uh ensure that we're actually getting results for uh reducing our greenhouse gas and um so that's something that dr cogg and thei [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

[Music] welcome to our pre-meeting i will go around and see what counselors have questions or anything on counselors [Music] i have i don't have questions per se but um i'll just say that i did attend the work session last week for dr cogg and um that was helpful because we were able to get a lot of questions asked about just as we're looking at these um uh overall mitigation measures and how the state greenhouse gas roll is going to be applied um it's in essence the mitigation measures that are proposed by the state which include things like adding more providing for more dense development or um reduced parking ratios or just the number of a wide number of things they are voluntary so it's up and i think a lot of the cities in the region were kind of happy to see that they had some choice on how to apply these um with westminster being ahead of the game with a lot of these mitigation measures it was um helpful to also understand that um we wouldn't be necessarily required to go further it's just you know we we are setting a good pace for the rest of the region actually um yeah so it was um i'll shut up my phone [Laughter] your husband might need something well down the stairs uh yeah anyway so um it's more to come on that but i think that's and there's all uh there's i think a fair number of cities too that are interested in um yeah well how do we uh ensure that we're actually getting results for uh reducing our greenhouse gas and um so that's something that dr cogg and thei [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

[Music] welcome everyone it is our pre-meeting and i'll just go around and ask counselors if they have anything to report first counselors i do uh an outstanding week at cml and i will be preparing my notes in a readable fashion there's some outs yeah i'll have to read them and then ask somebody else to read them but uh i have some slide decks on there too so um yeah outstanding breakouts i guess the good in the mat of cml is is you um [Music] we're very lucky here for the resources that we have in our city and the people we have there was one of the breakouts where they discussed some of the smaller towns and cities where you know people do regularly the director of this and the snowplow driver and it's just whatever it takes to get that town moving along so good i uh i have a lot of admiration for those public servants and staff that keep colorado moving that's it though it was a great conference i'll write up my notes um just didn't get it done today we had our 16 year old plug decide today was her last day on earth so it was a tough day i'm not at my best i told um acting city manager opie just bring it on if i miss something because i i am not totally present tonight um but it was a great conference their 100th year anniversary was wonderful with hazel miller on stage and abs game going here she'd even stop the song and they'd play the music but she'd watch and see if we scored it was a great time great food great camaraderie that's um what you mean when you don't get to [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

[Music] welcome everyone it is our pre-meeting and i'll just go around and ask counselors if they have anything to report first counselors i do uh an outstanding week at cml and i will be preparing my notes in a readable fashion there's some outs yeah i'll have to read them and then ask somebody else to read them but uh i have some slide decks on there too so um yeah outstanding breakouts i guess the good in the mat of cml is is you um [Music] we're very lucky here for the resources that we have in our city and the people we have there was one of the breakouts where they discussed some of the smaller towns and cities where you know people do regularly the director of this and the snowplow driver and it's just whatever it takes to get that town moving along so good i uh i have a lot of admiration for those public servants and staff that keep colorado moving that's it though it was a great conference i'll write up my notes um just didn't get it done today we had our 16 year old plug decide today was her last day on earth so it was a tough day i'm not at my best i told um acting city manager opie just bring it on if i miss something because i i am not totally present tonight um but it was a great conference their 100th year anniversary was wonderful with hazel miller on stage and abs game going here she'd even stop the song and they'd play the music but she'd watch and see if we scored it was a great time great food great camaraderie that's um what you mean when you don't get to [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

there we go at 6 30 we'll call this meeting to order and first order of business is an executive session thank you mayor michael yes the first executive session proposed for the evening is for a discussion of a personnel matter the city manager candidate application screens this could be convened pursuant to westminster municipal code 11133c1 and colorado revised statute 246-424-f1 i will go around and pull council that you want to go into executive session and you'll keep what is done there um confidential counselor baker yes and i will sponsor seymour yes i'm the same that's like yes now yes yes and we will excuse everyone else from the meeting thank you and we'll come and get you when we're here so i'm going to start the recording i'm transferring you over welcome thank you for your patience um we just came out of executive session and uh what is this yeah we will have council reports now um i just report that saturday we had a wonderful station five open house it was fantastic um everybody always has so much fun and then that night we had the father-daughter ball and the energy in that room my videos they dance from six o'clock to nine o'clock the only time they aren't is when they're on their carriage ride it just was a magical evening and i slept 10 hours after all that because they drained my energy it was great any other council reports counselor normally um i have notes from our from the doctor cog meeting that i need to send out so i apologize i'll be on that but i [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

we're going to start out here and then we'll call executive session go into the other room and then we'll be back up can't hear me it's 6 31 is it okay to start oh okay um she was quick [Music] to those coming in we're just waiting for counselor numella's computer to get rebooted she's doing remote tonight so we're here so that we can go into a quick session come back out run the meeting and then we have post-meeting stuff that will be out here and executive session so that's our night [Music] let me click on um okay we will begin tonight's um pre-meeting and we need an executive session our first question is to allow uh councillor namella to participate um be virtually so do i have a motion so moved second it's been moved and seconded to allow counselor demo to be remote this evening and attend um executive session uh roll call please [Music] that's okay councillor baker yes councillor emmons yes councillor zadie yes mayor mcnally yes councillor nirmela yes councillor seymour yes and counselor smith i'm sorry [Laughter] this is the motion and mayor pro time is monday the 13th okay the motion 7-0 vote i apologize okay we will move into executive session and be out shortly yes then we have to why do we have an executive session sorry thank you mayor uh the proposed exec session for the pre-meeting tonight is to discuss the possible acquisition of real property interests located near the southwest corner of west 116th avenue and huron street and to instruct negotiators as autho [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

we're going to start out here and then we'll call executive session go into the other room and then we'll be back up can't hear me it's 6 31 is it okay to start oh okay um she was quick [Music] to those coming in we're just waiting for counselor numella's computer to get rebooted she's doing remote tonight so we're here so that we can go into a quick session come back out run the meeting and then we have post-meeting stuff that will be out here and executive session so that's our night [Music] let me click on um okay we will begin tonight's um pre-meeting and we need an executive session our first question is to allow uh councillor namella to participate um be virtually so do i have a motion so moved second it's been moved and seconded to allow counselor demo to be remote this evening and attend um executive session uh roll call please [Music] that's okay councillor baker yes councillor emmons yes councillor zadie yes mayor mcnally yes councillor nirmela yes councillor seymour yes and counselor smith i'm sorry [Laughter] this is the motion and mayor pro time is monday the 13th okay the motion 7-0 vote i apologize okay we will move into executive session and be out shortly yes then we have to why do we have an executive session sorry thank you mayor uh the proposed exec session for the pre-meeting tonight is to discuss the possible acquisition of real property interests located near the southwest corner of west 116th avenue and huron street and to instruct negotiators as autho [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

we're going to start out here and then we'll call executive session go into the other room and then we'll be back up can't hear me it's 6 31 is it okay to start oh okay um she was quick [Music] to those coming in we're just waiting for counselor numella's computer to get rebooted she's doing remote tonight so we're here so that we can go into a quick session come back out run the meeting and then we have post-meeting stuff that will be out here and executive session so that's our night [Music] let me click on um okay we will begin tonight's um pre-meeting and we need an executive session our first question is to allow uh councillor namella to participate um be virtually so do i have a motion so moved second it's been moved and seconded to allow counselor demo to be remote this evening and attend um executive session uh roll call please [Music] that's okay councillor baker yes councillor emmons yes councillor zadie yes mayor mcnally yes councillor nirmela yes councillor seymour yes and counselor smith i'm sorry [Laughter] this is the motion and mayor pro time is monday the 13th okay the motion 7-0 vote i apologize okay we will move into executive session and be out shortly yes then we have to why do we have an executive session sorry thank you mayor uh the proposed exec session for the pre-meeting tonight is to discuss the possible acquisition of real property interests located near the southwest corner of west 116th avenue and huron street and to instruct negotiators as autho [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

the counselors just joining us you do have to log on tonight like it's a regular meeting instead of we have i.t to help you welcome everyone it is june 6 20 22 and it is our study session for this evening um are there any reports from oh i guess i'm first i forget i have a long list uh last week we had made a meeting and just want to remind everybody bike to work day is june 22nd um we rich seymour and my counselor seymour and myself met with folks about the national lao hmong monument and with parks and rec folks so uh had some discussion and we'll be having more we had ribbon cutting at legacy dentists and i just don't know if anybody's here from community development but they want to be involved in community and know how they can help so i passed that along fall aerospace was last week and it was a fantastic tour there they showed us their aerospace area and where people have ideas you take those ideas see how they will manufacture out and times and everything and they keep refining it until it gets into a new product and got to see some of the areas that they are working on specialized aerospace pieces and i shared with them i thought they should offer to call every cell phone tower operator in the city and use their antennas for the phone antenna so that we had service on 144th on huron and 112th so they laughed they said they'd never probably get a call from those people uh we then all had a reception for fire chief canada the final list for the fire chief candidates th [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

anyone have um counselors have anything to report city manager andrews do you have anything tonight free meeting not for pre-meeting mayor thank you questions no one has any questions we sit and twiddle our thumbs till 7 that's post break till 7. welcome to tonight's meeting of may 23rd um 2022 please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all roll call please counselor baker here mayor pro tem dumas president councilor emmons president dancers here mary mcnally counselor namely here counselor seymour here brings us to uh proving minutes of the preceding meeting from may 9th mayor potem thank you mary move to approve the minutes of the may 9th 2022 meeting as presented councillor seymour second it's been moved and seconded to approve the minutes of may 9th is there any further discussion all those in favor say aye aye aye opposed motion carries that brings us to presentations tonight and counselor izadi you're up [Music] can you hear me testing testing good evening everyone how are you today so today i have the honor of um is presenting a very special proclamation and before we get started i just wanted to say a few words and then i'll invite um some folks here who are um who was safe as well so story time once upon a time when i was a little toddler or a late toddler pre-teen i'm not sure what that age is called in [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

anyone have um counselors have anything to report city manager andrews do you have anything tonight free meeting not for pre-meeting mayor thank you questions no one has any questions we sit and twiddle our thumbs till 7 that's post break till 7. welcome to tonight's meeting of may 23rd um 2022 please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all roll call please counselor baker here mayor pro tem dumas president councilor emmons president dancers here mary mcnally counselor namely here counselor seymour here brings us to uh proving minutes of the preceding meeting from may 9th mayor potem thank you mary move to approve the minutes of the may 9th 2022 meeting as presented councillor seymour second it's been moved and seconded to approve the minutes of may 9th is there any further discussion all those in favor say aye aye aye opposed motion carries that brings us to presentations tonight and counselor izadi you're up [Music] can you hear me testing testing good evening everyone how are you today so today i have the honor of um is presenting a very special proclamation and before we get started i just wanted to say a few words and then i'll invite um some folks here who are um who was safe as well so story time once upon a time when i was a little toddler or a late toddler pre-teen i'm not sure what that age is called in [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

anyone have um counselors have anything to report city manager andrews do you have anything tonight free meeting not for pre-meeting mayor thank you questions no one has any questions we sit and twiddle our thumbs till 7 that's post break till 7. welcome to tonight's meeting of may 23rd um 2022 please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all roll call please counselor baker here mayor pro tem dumas president councilor emmons president dancers here mary mcnally counselor namely here counselor seymour here brings us to uh proving minutes of the preceding meeting from may 9th mayor potem thank you mary move to approve the minutes of the may 9th 2022 meeting as presented councillor seymour second it's been moved and seconded to approve the minutes of may 9th is there any further discussion all those in favor say aye aye aye opposed motion carries that brings us to presentations tonight and counselor izadi you're up [Music] can you hear me testing testing good evening everyone how are you today so today i have the honor of um is presenting a very special proclamation and before we get started i just wanted to say a few words and then i'll invite um some folks here who are um who was safe as well so story time once upon a time when i was a little toddler or a late toddler pre-teen i'm not sure what that age is called in [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

great [Music] you're good okay welcome to tonight's meeting of may 16 2022. it is a study session and we'll go around and ask any reports from counselors if you have anything that's happened answer your time counselor emmons councillor seymour uh just quick fill ins uh from this last week um monday was uh tuesday was the chamber government affairs committee and myself and council emmons were on that and gave an update a great deal with that chamber has at that time of year as many other meetings during the week had to do with closing sessions of the legislature same was true on jefferson county economic development corporation that was on wednesdays they've completed their combination with west metro chamber and leadership jeffco and so a lot of that had to do with the budgeting part of it and they were in the black and engaging investors at an outstanding pace um attended the parks rec library and open space board on thursday evening they're working on they got a great update from director mitchell herrera they approved some grants and sent some grant applications back to associations for some updates they were finalizing edits in their by-laws that they'd been working on the city attorney's office and they are prepared and ready to move forward with strategic plan alignment and they know they're ready to go in the june onboarding along with most my many of my colleagues at the police week ceremony always a very solemn occasion great opportunity to participate in that and on [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

great [Music] you're good okay welcome to tonight's meeting of may 16 2022. it is a study session and we'll go around and ask any reports from counselors if you have anything that's happened answer your time counselor emmons councillor seymour uh just quick fill ins uh from this last week um monday was uh tuesday was the chamber government affairs committee and myself and council emmons were on that and gave an update a great deal with that chamber has at that time of year as many other meetings during the week had to do with closing sessions of the legislature same was true on jefferson county economic development corporation that was on wednesdays they've completed their combination with west metro chamber and leadership jeffco and so a lot of that had to do with the budgeting part of it and they were in the black and engaging investors at an outstanding pace um attended the parks rec library and open space board on thursday evening they're working on they got a great update from director mitchell herrera they approved some grants and sent some grant applications back to associations for some updates they were finalizing edits in their by-laws that they'd been working on the city attorney's office and they are prepared and ready to move forward with strategic plan alignment and they know they're ready to go in the june onboarding along with most my many of my colleagues at the police week ceremony always a very solemn occasion great opportunity to participate in that and on [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

you welcome everyone um this is our study session and welcome mr rich and um we'll let you go here did you have anything for pre-meeting no i do not thank you uh yes see uh i have the rmma roundtable community noise round table this morning and they i i don't know when i believe it was maybe last month um or maybe somewhere in between they decided to table the vfr study um which then brought about the which is the egress and digress and noise into and out of the airport and which brought about the discussion on the dues because the one of the main reasons that we approved the dues was for the study and for the consultant and so um it was decided that we'd keep it since we're not doing the vfr study we keep the fees currently as they are which is 3600 for the year so we'll be invoiced later this city will be invoiced later this week for 3 600 for annual dues and per the iga bylaws but the discussion is that they would like to increase dues to 12 000 and that's in my understanding perpetuity starting next year and that will help fund uh the work plan items that are approved by last meeting and uh could potentially help fund a vfr study on this noise but one of the uh consultants that they were going with um decided to back out and i think it they think it was because it was such a low number um we had about 25 000 set aside or the group had about 25 000 set aside for the consultant for facilitation and uh they ended up backing out so we lost two studies the vfr and then the fac [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

you welcome everyone um this is our study session and welcome mr rich and um we'll let you go here did you have anything for pre-meeting no i do not thank you uh yes see uh i have the rmma roundtable community noise round table this morning and they i i don't know when i believe it was maybe last month um or maybe somewhere in between they decided to table the vfr study um which then brought about the which is the egress and digress and noise into and out of the airport and which brought about the discussion on the dues because the one of the main reasons that we approved the dues was for the study and for the consultant and so um it was decided that we'd keep it since we're not doing the vfr study we keep the fees currently as they are which is 3600 for the year so we'll be invoiced later this city will be invoiced later this week for 3 600 for annual dues and per the iga bylaws but the discussion is that they would like to increase dues to 12 000 and that's in my understanding perpetuity starting next year and that will help fund uh the work plan items that are approved by last meeting and uh could potentially help fund a vfr study on this noise but one of the uh consultants that they were going with um decided to back out and i think it they think it was because it was such a low number um we had about 25 000 set aside or the group had about 25 000 set aside for the consultant for facilitation and uh they ended up backing out so we lost two studies the vfr and then the fac [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

you welcome everyone um this is our study session and welcome mr rich and um we'll let you go here did you have anything for pre-meeting no i do not thank you uh yes see uh i have the rmma roundtable community noise round table this morning and they i i don't know when i believe it was maybe last month um or maybe somewhere in between they decided to table the vfr study um which then brought about the which is the egress and digress and noise into and out of the airport and which brought about the discussion on the dues because the one of the main reasons that we approved the dues was for the study and for the consultant and so um it was decided that we'd keep it since we're not doing the vfr study we keep the fees currently as they are which is 3600 for the year so we'll be invoiced later this city will be invoiced later this week for 3 600 for annual dues and per the iga bylaws but the discussion is that they would like to increase dues to 12 000 and that's in my understanding perpetuity starting next year and that will help fund uh the work plan items that are approved by last meeting and uh could potentially help fund a vfr study on this noise but one of the uh consultants that they were going with um decided to back out and i think it they think it was because it was such a low number um we had about 25 000 set aside or the group had about 25 000 set aside for the consultant for facilitation and uh they ended up backing out so we lost two studies the vfr and then the fac [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

welcome to tonight's meeting of January 10th 20 2022 would you please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance stes roll call please councelor Baker here mayor protm deat here councelor aadi here mayor MCN here councelor nurella here councelor Seymour here and councelor Smith present is there a motion to approve the minutes of December 13th 15 20th and 21st in the special meeting of January 3r mayor prend mon thank you mayy I move to approve the minutes of December 13th 15 20th 1st and special meeting of January 3rd 2022 as presented second there any discussion all those in favor say I I opposed motion carries that brings us to a special presentation councelor Smith um will present and honor one of our former councilor B right I'd like to invite Bob briggs' family Christy Meyers her husband the name I apologize and then chip r well I will certainly say it's an honor tonight to be reading this Proclamation on behalf of your family for Mr Briggs he was a special person to all of us impacted us in many ways impacted our city and our states as I was explaining a little bit earlier uh we are Cs and so we shared that as well as our love for public so uh just wanted to uh allow you to say anything that you'd like um if not we can reserve that for on Saturday uh at 10:30 am on January 15th at the recreation city recation um well I will get started and then if you have any other words to share whereas Bob breaks dedicated many years of public service and whereas Mr Briggs held ma [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

welcome to tonight's meeting of January 10th 20 2022 would you please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance stes roll call please councelor Baker here mayor protm deat here councelor aadi here mayor MCN here councelor nurella here councelor Seymour here and councelor Smith present is there a motion to approve the minutes of December 13th 15 20th and 21st in the special meeting of January 3r mayor prend mon thank you mayy I move to approve the minutes of December 13th 15 20th 1st and special meeting of January 3rd 2022 as presented second there any discussion all those in favor say I I opposed motion carries that brings us to a special presentation councelor Smith um will present and honor one of our former councilor B right I'd like to invite Bob briggs' family Christy Meyers her husband the name I apologize and then chip r well I will certainly say it's an honor tonight to be reading this Proclamation on behalf of your family for Mr Briggs he was a special person to all of us impacted us in many ways impacted our city and our states as I was explaining a little bit earlier uh we are Cs and so we shared that as well as our love for public so uh just wanted to uh allow you to say anything that you'd like um if not we can reserve that for on Saturday uh at 10:30 am on January 15th at the recreation city recation um well I will get started and then if you have any other words to share whereas Bob breaks dedicated many years of public service and whereas Mr Briggs held ma [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

welcome to tonight's meeting of January 10th 20 2022 would you please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance stes roll call please councelor Baker here mayor protm deat here councelor aadi here mayor MCN here councelor nurella here councelor Seymour here and councelor Smith present is there a motion to approve the minutes of December 13th 15 20th and 21st in the special meeting of January 3r mayor prend mon thank you mayy I move to approve the minutes of December 13th 15 20th 1st and special meeting of January 3rd 2022 as presented second there any discussion all those in favor say I I opposed motion carries that brings us to a special presentation councelor Smith um will present and honor one of our former councilor B right I'd like to invite Bob briggs' family Christy Meyers her husband the name I apologize and then chip r well I will certainly say it's an honor tonight to be reading this Proclamation on behalf of your family for Mr Briggs he was a special person to all of us impacted us in many ways impacted our city and our states as I was explaining a little bit earlier uh we are Cs and so we shared that as well as our love for public so uh just wanted to uh allow you to say anything that you'd like um if not we can reserve that for on Saturday uh at 10:30 am on January 15th at the recreation city recation um well I will get started and then if you have any other words to share whereas Bob breaks dedicated many years of public service and whereas Mr Briggs held ma [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

you okay welcome to tonight's meeting of december 21st 2021 would you please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty roll call please counselor baker here mayor pro tem dumas president councillor azadi here mayor mcnally here councillor nirmela here councillor seymour here and councillor smith president uh there are no minutes presentations mayor pro tem come on [Music] emily littlejohn i.t director larry garlick i.t services administrator hurray software engineering manager shares it systems now thank you very much so um the reason we have these folks up here tonight is for the 2021 digital city survey award um this is putting on in partnership by cdg in the national league of cities so for 2021 westminster is only is one of only three colorado cities in the 75 124 000 um population category winner posted on the center for digital government website um so this is a pretty good award and i believe it's not the first time that you've got it um so we are very proud of all the work that you guys do i'm sure that you've actually seen that for the cameras in the boat we're gonna give them a round of applause we have a relatively large group [Music] thank you so much we do have about 35 people so this is just a small representation and larry garlick [Music] but this is also showing what our city has done in the area and the city [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

you okay welcome to tonight's meeting of december 21st 2021 would you please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty roll call please counselor baker here mayor pro tem dumas president councillor azadi here mayor mcnally here councillor nirmela here councillor seymour here and councillor smith president uh there are no minutes presentations mayor pro tem come on [Music] emily littlejohn i.t director larry garlick i.t services administrator hurray software engineering manager shares it systems now thank you very much so um the reason we have these folks up here tonight is for the 2021 digital city survey award um this is putting on in partnership by cdg in the national league of cities so for 2021 westminster is only is one of only three colorado cities in the 75 124 000 um population category winner posted on the center for digital government website um so this is a pretty good award and i believe it's not the first time that you've got it um so we are very proud of all the work that you guys do i'm sure that you've actually seen that for the cameras in the boat we're gonna give them a round of applause we have a relatively large group [Music] thank you so much we do have about 35 people so this is just a small representation and larry garlick [Music] but this is also showing what our city has done in the area and the city [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

for it's for [Music] f for e e e good evening welcome to the continuation of the the December 13th and 15th land use hearing we close the public testimony at the close of December 15th meeting so tonight we are asking for the applicant to Prov rebuttal and answer any of our questions that we have and then after that we will have staff terrific good evening mayor council members thank you very much for this opportunity if we may go to slide two I will note um as I call out slides I'll probably just jump into the material so it doesn't take additional time I also have two additional handouts that maybe I'll hand out if that's okay with you at those resp respective times in the comments I will lead uh most of our rebal this evening and then we'll refer to other specific members on our team first of all ladies and gentlemen I'd like to thank you on behalf of the entire Uplands team I want to thank each and every one of you for three long nights to fully vet this proposal I also want to acknowledge this remarkable Community uh we know and fully understand that a change this significant brings out strong emotions from both supporters and opponents alike but we assure you that's why we have spent several years and thousands of hours creating the best possible version of this plan we didn't want to come back and before you until we were confident that we addressed the concern shared with us in over 200 meetings and that we met or exceeded all codes plans and guidance set forth by the [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

for s oh for don't than see good evening everyone it is December 15th and we are continuing the meeting from December 13th at this time I would ask interim city clerk to please summarize the number of participants this evening and introduce our first four speakers there are 39 remaining speakers and our first speakers our first four speakers are David sinki Jason siners Brian head and Tina frankone and if the first person will come to the podium and the other three sit in the reserve seats that way we can just keep moving welcome thank you good evening mayor and city council uh my name is David sinki 712 Main Street lville Colorado I a past resident of Westminster and the president of Boulder Creek neighborhoods I'm here to speak in favor of the Uplands Community Development plan and urge city council to approve the questions before each night at Boulder Creek neighborhoods our mission is to add to the diversity of the housing Supply since 2006 we built over 2,000 homes across the Front Range of Colorado and all of them have been designed to appeal to the non-typical Suburban family for many years we focused primarily on the lack of housing options for seniors and empty nesters we have developed a reputation for building Innovative single single level homes that feature access enhancing Universal Design low maintenance materials low water usage and High Energy Efficiency while we remain dedicated to this type of targeted senior housing in Westminster I'm here tonight to provi [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

we'll call tonight's meeting to order the city has resumed meeting in person for city council meetings with the option of virtual participation by council and staff as necessary in addition to in-person attendance the community may also participate remotely by watching the live stream on the city youtube or by dialing in by phone with instructions on the meeting agenda webpage we continue to support multiple opportunities for public comment including personal testimony email voicemail and live remote audio the agenda section of the city website is the best place to check for the details on participating city council meetings the web address is www dot city of westminster dot us slash agendas would you please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the plan for the united states and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible roll call please counselor baker here mayor pro tem dumas president councillor izzati yeah mayor mcnally here councillor nirmela here councillor seymour here and counselor smith president is there a motion to approve the minutes of the november 22nd 2021 meeting councilor seymour thank you mayor move to prove the minutes of the november 2022 meeting as presented councillor smith second it's been moved and sander to approve the meetings of november 2020 is there any further discussion see none uh all those in favor say aye aye opposed thank you that brings us to public comment portion of the meeting is [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

we'll call tonight's meeting to order the city has resumed meeting in person for city council meetings with the option of virtual participation by council and staff as necessary in addition to in-person attendance the community may also participate remotely by watching the live stream on the city youtube or by dialing in by phone with instructions on the meeting agenda webpage we continue to support multiple opportunities for public comment including personal testimony email voicemail and live remote audio the agenda section of the city website is the best place to check for the details on participating city council meetings the web address is www dot city of westminster dot us slash agendas would you please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the plan for the united states and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible roll call please counselor baker here mayor pro tem dumas president councillor izzati yeah mayor mcnally here councillor nirmela here councillor seymour here and counselor smith president is there a motion to approve the minutes of the november 22nd 2021 meeting councilor seymour thank you mayor move to prove the minutes of the november 2022 meeting as presented councillor smith second it's been moved and sander to approve the meetings of november 2020 is there any further discussion see none uh all those in favor say aye aye opposed thank you that brings us to public comment portion of the meeting is [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

uh such as limiting the number of signs one may have on a property charging a fee if a sign is over a certain size on a private property i believe those are unconstitutional taxes on free speech and in violation of the first amendment as i continued to read through the side co sign code i also noticed some references that were quite vague no blinking flashing signs unless you're in the downtown area or the station area where are those areas what are the definitions of those areas what is a snipe sign they're prohibited i couldn't find anywhere in the code a definition of a snipe sign so i had to go on a snipe hunt to find out what a snipe sign is a citizen shouldn't have to do that um we have a lot of important issues coming up in the next month or so with recall elections which you just can't find much about on the internet from the city website but be that as it may i think that our sign code um has some very serious constitutional flaws and i think it would be incumbent upon this council to charge your city attorney to do some investigation and make some changes to the ordinance and pass an emergency ordinance and get in uh conformity with the constitution of the united states of america thank you thank you mr valente miss parker that concludes our live speakers at this time uh we'll ask it to please queue up our four voicemail public comments [Music] it's quiet um oh unless he called in i think this isn't [Music] working um my name is [Music] we ask for a little patience [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

uh such as limiting the number of signs one may have on a property charging a fee if a sign is over a certain size on a private property i believe those are unconstitutional taxes on free speech and in violation of the first amendment as i continued to read through the side co sign code i also noticed some references that were quite vague no blinking flashing signs unless you're in the downtown area or the station area where are those areas what are the definitions of those areas what is a snipe sign they're prohibited i couldn't find anywhere in the code a definition of a snipe sign so i had to go on a snipe hunt to find out what a snipe sign is a citizen shouldn't have to do that um we have a lot of important issues coming up in the next month or so with recall elections which you just can't find much about on the internet from the city website but be that as it may i think that our sign code um has some very serious constitutional flaws and i think it would be incumbent upon this council to charge your city attorney to do some investigation and make some changes to the ordinance and pass an emergency ordinance and get in uh conformity with the constitution of the united states of america thank you thank you mr valente miss parker that concludes our live speakers at this time uh we'll ask it to please queue up our four voicemail public comments [Music] it's quiet um oh unless he called in i think this isn't [Music] working um my name is [Music] we ask for a little patience [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

so does it appear we ever had audio if you could stand by for a moment i'm trying to figure that out give me one minute all right so sorry about that we have audio now it appears we did not when we began uh and i apologize you if you'd like to begin again we can certainly do that i think that would be appropriate um good evening everyone and welcome to the westminster um study session for june 21st um we apologize we've had a little bit of audio trouble on our live feed but we appreciate you joining us now and sticking with us as we solve it we've already taken the roll call all members are present except for counselor bowles who will be joining us later this evening the first item on our agenda tonight is the report from the mayor um i i do believe um many of us are aware that there has been a tragedy in our vata um a police officer was shot and killed and fell in the line of duty paying the ultimate sacrifice to keep the community safe i did ask our police chief tim carlson if he had any additional comments or information to add and he does not at this time other than to let the the community know that our police department has offered any resources or assistance that our arvada may need at this time um and we are ready and willing when they they let us know they need that so i would ask at this time on behalf of our police department and the entire city council that we take a moment of sign of silence in memory of this officer thank you and i ask that you join in sending p [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

the webinar will begin shortly please remain on the line the webinar will begin shortly please remain on the line you the webinar will begin shortly please remain on the line the broadcast is now starting all attendees are in listen only mode good evening everyone welcome to the march 8 2021 westminster city council meeting we would appreciate very much if you are in a position where you can please join us in the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you miss parker would you be kind enough to take the role certainly mayor atchison here councillor dumont president mayor pro tem sites councillor seymour here councillor scully here councillor smith president and counselor bowles thank you council first out on our agenda tonight is a consideration of the minutes of february the 22nd is there an emotion from someone mrs kelly thank you mr mayor i moved to approve the minutes of the february 22nd 2021 meeting as presented okay is there a second mr seymour we got no voice on you rich thank you second okay thank you we have a motion in a second all those in favor of the minutes being approved as written please to signify with it i i any opposed hearing none the motion is carried tonight we have no presentations we do have a number of people who either have signed up to speak personally or to provide a recording and one email t [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

the webinar will begin shortly please remain on the line the broadcast is now starting all attendees are in listen only mode all right good evening everyone and thank you welcome to the westminster city council meeting of february the 8th 2021. the beginning of each meeting we take the pledge of allegiance i will ask you all of those who are able to please join us at this climb in the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you mr parker at this time would you take the role please certainly mayor anderson here councillor dumont president mayor pro tem sites here councillor seymour councillor scully here councillor smith president and councilor bowles here all right thank you council on moving on to our next item on the agenda as a consideration the minutes of the january 25th meeting if someone would like to make the motion we'll get started miss scully go ahead thank you mr mayor i move to approve the minutes of the january 25th 2021 meeting as presented counselor smith second okay on my motion in a second all those in favor please signify by i i i i opposed hearing none emotions approved moving on to item four presentations we have none scheduled for tonight uh miss parker just confirming the public comments that we have are all associated to the public hearings later on in the agenda is that correct that is correct mr [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

the webinar will begin shortly please remain on the line the broadcast is now starting all attendees are in listen only mode all right good evening everyone and thank you welcome to the westminster city council meeting of february the 8th 2021. the beginning of each meeting we take the pledge of allegiance i will ask you all of those who are able to please join us at this climb in the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you mr parker at this time would you take the role please certainly mayor anderson here councillor dumont president mayor pro tem sites here councillor seymour councillor scully here councillor smith president and councilor bowles here all right thank you council on moving on to our next item on the agenda as a consideration the minutes of the january 25th meeting if someone would like to make the motion we'll get started miss scully go ahead thank you mr mayor i move to approve the minutes of the january 25th 2021 meeting as presented counselor smith second okay on my motion in a second all those in favor please signify by i i i i opposed hearing none emotions approved moving on to item four presentations we have none scheduled for tonight uh miss parker just confirming the public comments that we have are all associated to the public hearings later on in the agenda is that correct that is correct mr [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

the webinar will begin shortly please remain on the line the broadcast is now starting all attendees are in listen only mode all right good evening everyone and thank you welcome to the westminster city council meeting of february the 8th 2021. the beginning of each meeting we take the pledge of allegiance i will ask you all of those who are able to please join us at this climb in the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you mr parker at this time would you take the role please certainly mayor anderson here councillor dumont president mayor pro tem sites here councillor seymour councillor scully here councillor smith president and councilor bowles here all right thank you council on moving on to our next item on the agenda as a consideration the minutes of the january 25th meeting if someone would like to make the motion we'll get started miss scully go ahead thank you mr mayor i move to approve the minutes of the january 25th 2021 meeting as presented counselor smith second okay on my motion in a second all those in favor please signify by i i i i opposed hearing none emotions approved moving on to item four presentations we have none scheduled for tonight uh miss parker just confirming the public comments that we have are all associated to the public hearings later on in the agenda is that correct that is correct mr [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

the webinar will begin shortly please remain on the line webinar will begin shortly please remain on the line the webinar will begin shortly please remain on the line you the webinar will begin shortly please remain on the line the webinar begins shortly please remain on the line the broadcast all attendees are in listen only all right good evening everyone welcome to the westminster city council study session of february the first 2021. we have a reasonable agenda tonight uh first up on our agenda will be council reports followed by the city managers report we have uh two presidents first will be the city's response to coven and our next steps following that we'll have a federal land access program update on the greenway regional project and after that we have an executive session to deal with a leftover from last week but this i'll turn to the council members and see if anyone has any updates from any items that they have from last week that's our scully thank you mr mayor um just a few things with the flat stewardship council meeting and it was a it was a good meeting there were we did an election officers we talked about the new tractor we had a report on surface water groundwater and site operations as well as the ecological report um the next thing was supposed to be in april but because the new contractor will just be starting at that time they have moved that meeting to may 3rd that meeting will be on climate impact and so to be a very interesting meeting i highly rec [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

the webinar will begin shortly please remain on the line the webinar will begin shortly please remain on the line remain on the line the broadcast is now starting all attendees are in listen only mode this is the pre-meeting for the westminster city council meeting of january the 25th of 2021 we've got two items to cover during the pre-meeting the first is the selection of the city council 2021 strategic plan and consultant it's my understanding that several council members have been participating in this event today i know that we all received the proposals from the three groups about 30 minutes ago so that everybody has it ms herb are you leading this tonight if so it's yours thank you sir um thank you mayor mayor pro 10 sites and city council we spent this afternoon a panel of three of your colleagues and three members of staff interviewing six strategic plan consulting firms who all offered a variety of options for city council during the 2021 strategic planning process as a result of that in conversation the team has narrowed down the selections and i'll ask the counselors uh councillor damont councillor smith and mayor protem sites to talk about their recommendation to you all and then i will follow up with a couple of questions who'd like to lead off i'll go ahead and lead off so we had as mr mentioned we had a full day of interviews we had six very talented term firms that wanted to work with the city of westminster to assist us in our strategic plan process and so it [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

the webinar will begin shortly please remain on the line the webinar will begin shortly please remain on the line remain on the line the broadcast is now starting all attendees are in listen only mode this is the pre-meeting for the westminster city council meeting of january the 25th of 2021 we've got two items to cover during the pre-meeting the first is the selection of the city council 2021 strategic plan and consultant it's my understanding that several council members have been participating in this event today i know that we all received the proposals from the three groups about 30 minutes ago so that everybody has it ms herb are you leading this tonight if so it's yours thank you sir um thank you mayor mayor pro 10 sites and city council we spent this afternoon a panel of three of your colleagues and three members of staff interviewing six strategic plan consulting firms who all offered a variety of options for city council during the 2021 strategic planning process as a result of that in conversation the team has narrowed down the selections and i'll ask the counselors uh councillor damont councillor smith and mayor protem sites to talk about their recommendation to you all and then i will follow up with a couple of questions who'd like to lead off i'll go ahead and lead off so we had as mr mentioned we had a full day of interviews we had six very talented term firms that wanted to work with the city of westminster to assist us in our strategic plan process and so it [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

the webinar will begin shortly please remain on the line the webinar will begin shortly please remain on the line remain on the line the broadcast is now starting all attendees are in listen only mode this is the pre-meeting for the westminster city council meeting of january the 25th of 2021 we've got two items to cover during the pre-meeting the first is the selection of the city council 2021 strategic plan and consultant it's my understanding that several council members have been participating in this event today i know that we all received the proposals from the three groups about 30 minutes ago so that everybody has it ms herb are you leading this tonight if so it's yours thank you sir um thank you mayor mayor pro 10 sites and city council we spent this afternoon a panel of three of your colleagues and three members of staff interviewing six strategic plan consulting firms who all offered a variety of options for city council during the 2021 strategic planning process as a result of that in conversation the team has narrowed down the selections and i'll ask the counselors uh councillor damont councillor smith and mayor protem sites to talk about their recommendation to you all and then i will follow up with a couple of questions who'd like to lead off i'll go ahead and lead off so we had as mr mentioned we had a full day of interviews we had six very talented term firms that wanted to work with the city of westminster to assist us in our strategic plan process and so it [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

the webinar will begin shortly please remain on the line the webinar will begin shortly please remain on the line remain on the line the broadcast is now starting all attendees are in listen only mode this is the pre-meeting for the westminster city council meeting of january the 25th of 2021 we've got two items to cover during the pre-meeting the first is the selection of the city council 2021 strategic plan and consultant it's my understanding that several council members have been participating in this event today i know that we all received the proposals from the three groups about 30 minutes ago so that everybody has it ms herb are you leading this tonight if so it's yours thank you sir um thank you mayor mayor pro 10 sites and city council we spent this afternoon a panel of three of your colleagues and three members of staff interviewing six strategic plan consulting firms who all offered a variety of options for city council during the 2021 strategic planning process as a result of that in conversation the team has narrowed down the selections and i'll ask the counselors uh councillor damont councillor smith and mayor protem sites to talk about their recommendation to you all and then i will follow up with a couple of questions who'd like to lead off i'll go ahead and lead off so we had as mr mentioned we had a full day of interviews we had six very talented term firms that wanted to work with the city of westminster to assist us in our strategic plan process and so it [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

the webinar will begin shortly please remain on the line the webinar will begin shortly please remain on the line the broadcast is now starting all attendees are in listen only mode good evening everyone welcome to tonight's the january the 11th 2021 westminster city council meeting i would ask all of you who are able to at this time to please join us in the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you miss parker if you would please take the role certainly mayor atchison here councillor dumont president mayor pro tem sites councillor seymour here councillor scully here councillor smith here and counselor bowles here thank you council first item up for considerations nice item 3a this is the minutes of the seating meeting of december the 21st i need a motion from council please counselor to mott thank you mayor i move to approve the minutes of the december 21 2020 meeting is presented mayor pro tim sykes second i have a voice in a second all those in favor pre-signify verbally by saying hi hi any opposed hearing none the motion is carried uh there are no presentations scheduled for tonight but we do have a number of public comments uh these were submitted as you're aware there are some were received by email those were considered uh attached in your package but i believe we do have at least three recordings and three peopl [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

the webinar will begin shortly please remain on the line the webinar will begin shortly please remain on the line the broadcast is now starting all attendees are in listen only mode good evening everyone welcome to tonight's the january the 11th 2021 westminster city council meeting i would ask all of you who are able to at this time to please join us in the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you miss parker if you would please take the role certainly mayor atchison here councillor dumont president mayor pro tem sites councillor seymour here councillor scully here councillor smith here and counselor bowles here thank you council first item up for considerations nice item 3a this is the minutes of the seating meeting of december the 21st i need a motion from council please counselor to mott thank you mayor i move to approve the minutes of the december 21 2020 meeting is presented mayor pro tim sykes second i have a voice in a second all those in favor pre-signify verbally by saying hi hi any opposed hearing none the motion is carried uh there are no presentations scheduled for tonight but we do have a number of public comments uh these were submitted as you're aware there are some were received by email those were considered uh attached in your package but i believe we do have at least three recordings and three peopl [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]

the webinar will begin shortly please remain on the line e the webinar will begin shortly please remain on the line remain on the line e the webinar will begin shortly please remain on the line remain on the line e the webinar will begin shortly please remain on the line remain on the line e the webinar will begin shortly please remain on the line remain on the line e the webinar will begin shortly please remain on the line remain on the line e the broadcast is now starting all attendees are in listen only mode all right good evening everyone would' like to welcome you to the very first city council meeting of 2021 uh tonight's study session agenda is not that long but we have several very uh important items to talk about we have uh reports of the city council we have our Co updates uh for now there's also a presentation on the open space at acquisition process and then we have one executive session following that so I'll go ahead and open it up to the council my comments all be covid related so I'll hold those till later and I'll go ahead and open it up if the council members have any reports they would like to do from last week other than all the parties you went to all right we could get through this early see no reports from any of the city council members Mr trip do you have any reports yes first of all uh welcome to 2021 uh mayor and Council mayor protim um we're excited about moving into this year and uh the opportunities that exist for all of us to serve um to get Bey [Excerpt truncated on this listing page; use the official record for the full text.]