Transcript: Wellington Board of Trustees Regular Meeting - May 9, 2023
11:58PM May 22, 2023
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I now call call to order. I now call to order the May 9 2023. regular meeting of the town of Wellington Board of Trustees time being 6:31pm Please rise for the pledge of leaders
United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
Mr. Clerk negative roll call please.
Certainly. Trustee Gator. Here. Trustee Daly? Present. Trustee Mason here. Trustee teets here. Trustee Wiegand? Here member to McDonald. Miss Josie here. Thank you.
Are there any amendments to the agenda this evening? Are the conflicts of interest?
I'm sorry, I would like to remove the crack seal off of the consent agenda 2023 Old Town street repair item number asphalt
concrete repair.
Thank you.
Are there any conflicts of interest related to the items on the agenda CB?
Excuse me trustee Gator. Could I just clarify you wanted to pull that item from the consent agenda? Is that correct? Correct. Yes to the action items understood I believe that that requires a motion. No. Okay. My mistake. You're good.
All right, now we will move on to Item b one public comment. Individuals wishing to speak on non agenda items are asked to sign up form with podium when at the podium please state your name for the record you will be limited to three minutes.
Now we'll move on
to Item b to the Proclamations there are going to be four proclamations this evening. The first one is going to be for police officer week. Whereas deputies of the Larimer County Sheriff's Department stand watch over our citizens selflessly risking their lives to protect individuals, families, neighborhoods, and property against crime. And whereas it is important that all citizens recognize the duties, responsibilities, hazards and sacrifices of law, local law enforcement agencies, and whereas Monday May 15 is observed nationally as Peace Officers Memorial Day in honor of those law enforcement officers who through their courageous deeds have made the ultimate sacrifice in service to their community or have become disabled in the performance of duty. And whereas the deputies of Larimer County Sheriff's Office, by their faithful and loyal devotion to their responsibilities have rendered dedicated service to the community. Now therefore, I Kaler shozy, mayor of the town of Wellington, Colorado, do hereby proclaim the week of May 14 through the 20th 2023 as peace officer week in the town of Wellington and hereby publicly salute the service of the law enforcement officers in our community. I'd like to welcome you two gentlemen up here.
The next proclamation we have is for Mental Health Awareness Month. Whereas prioritization of mental health is essential to the well being of our town as life is filled with many difficulties and stressors. And whereas prevention and awareness of mental health issues are an effective means of reducing the burden of mental health conditions in our residents. And whereas, each business school government agency, health care provider and resident in our town shares the responsibility to acknowledge mental health issues and support prevention efforts while encouraging healthy living. Now, therefore, I Kaler shozy, mayor of the town of wheeling to Colorado, do hereby proclaim the month of May as mental health awareness month. As mayor I call upon the citizens, public and private institutions, businesses and schools in our town to recommit to advancing understanding of mental health issues in our community. And I encourage our residents to support the need for appropriate access to services for those affected with Mental health issues. I don't have anybody to hand this off to
Oh yeah, the next one that I have is going to be for childcare provider day. Whereas a Saturday before Mother's Day is celebrated nationally as provider Appreciation Day. And whereas it is important that all citizens recognize the time, energy, dedication and commitment necessary to raise healthy children. And whereas less than 1/3 of children in America have a full time stay at home care provider, and many parents choose to seek external care providers in the community. And whereas the parents of our community place their trust in childcare providers that bill this vital role of sharing child rearing responsibilities with parents. Now therefore, I killer shows the mayor of the town of Wellington, Colorado, do hereby proclaim May 12 as childcare provider day in the town of Wellington, and encourage all citizens to think childcare providers in our community.
And then, last but not least, is going to be kids to parks day. Whereas may 20 2023 is the 13th kisah Park State organized and implemented by the National Park trust held annually on the third Saturday of May. Whereas kids the parks de empowers kids and encourages families to get outside and visit local parks, public lands and waters and whereas kids the parks day will broaden children's appreciation for nature and the outdoors. And whereas kids the parks they will recognize the importance of recreating or recreating responsibility while enjoying the benefits of the outdoors. And whereas kids parks they will foster future outdoor and third enthusiast and help with developing the next generation of park stewards by encouraging kids with memorable outdoor experiences. Now therefore, Kaler shows Meredith town of Wellington, Colorado, to do hereby proclaim May 20 2023, as kids depart stay in the town of Wellington and urge all fellow citizens celebrate our community's youth and nature by going outdoors.
Okay,
on to the consent agenda for the CD. It's going to consist of the April 25 2023 Board of Trustees regular meeting minutes. Negative motion to approve.
Make it make a motion to approve the April 25 2023 minutes.
All right. And then before we move on to the action items, I know last meeting we started the time limits for Trustees decided that we will have three minutes to ask questions solid three minutes and then the answers will follow. If more time is needed or you believe more time is needed at that point, you can request it and then at that point, I'll say yea or nay. That being said please keep typing mister moves closer. All right. So next we'll proceed the action items from receiving three items or now four items in this section will be presented or three of them will be presented by the Deputy Director of Public Works Miss Megan Smith. First we will consider ordinance number 05 Dash 2023 and ordinance repealing ordinance number six dash 2021 for municipal utility fees.
Getting a Mr. Mayor and trustees anybody can sniff Deputy Director of Public Works like to make a fast jokes and normally it's the Cody show. And today it's Megan show.
And he's not even
here. Good for him. So this evening, we do have three kind of interrelated ordinances resolutions for you starting with an ordinance to repeal and existing ordinance number 620 21 from the municipal utility fees. So the purpose that original ordinance was adopted in 2001 to sell water and wastewater tap fees, water meter charges, raw water dedication and cash in lieu rates all in one. And we have since moved forward with separating these items. The water and wastewater rates were already superseded by Reza ordinance number 1620 22. And that of the remaining portions will be bringing with you my third resolution this evening. Moving the meter fees to be set in our fee schedule, which is a more appropriate place for that and then we're looking to separate out the cash delu requirements and the raw water dedication requirements to its own resolution, as the both the timing and the need for updating of these items kind of hinge on separate impacts in the community and the economic drivers. And so it makes sense to be able to have those be looked at separately, not always all together.
Do you have
any questions as it's being presented to you this evening that repeal ordinance to repeal? Questions? Yeah, Dan might be able to explain the necessity a bit more. I don't know. But
I think Megan did a great job there. But it's we're doing a lot of cleanup of, you know, as we talked about, with the last one, we're doing a lot of cleanup assessment of the code and cleanup. With this one. We have some ordinances that have she said, it's been partially superseded. And we also have the fee schedule, especially around the fee schedule and setting those fees where sometimes we have to repeal ordinances and then put those in the right place. So the first one here is an ordinance, just repealing that old one. And then the second two items, reset some of those items. And then on the fee schedule itself, it brings the meter charges in line with other with other items that are on the fee schedule. The idea there is it's the fee schedule is to be looked at annually. Of course, we're right now adjusting it a little more often than annually as we kind of catch things up. But that'd be a good win that's brought up kind of at the at the same time, it's a good idea to review those sorts of charges, like near charges. So really, this is just a procedural item to kind of clean it all up. And that's why it's three separate votes.
Questions, comments? All right. Are there any comments from the public on this agenda item we have a motion in a second on this agenda item
I'll make a motion to approve ordinance number 05 Dash 2023 an ordinance repealing ordinance number six dash 2021 for municipal utility fees second.
At this point, we'll go back or do we need to do?
Yeah, okay. We need to take take each item in perfect so
roll call please. Certainly trustee Mason. Yes. Trustee. teats.
yes
Trustee. We did. Yes.
Trustee Gator? Yes. Trustee Daly? Yes. Miss Josie. Yes, thank you. All right,
next item will be the consider resolution number 17 Dash 2023 resolution establishing raw water dedication requirements for water taps, servicing residential units and establishing payments for cash in lieu of raw water dedication requirements. Smith.
Thank you very much. So as you guys are all aware of town code actually requires what raw water dedication to set or excuse me requires dedication to satisfy our raw water requirements. For utility customers, it does also allow for at the town's discretion, our ability to accept cash payment in lieu of that dedication. So this resolution is setting both of those, updating that based on direction that that I received from a work session presentation in March of this year. And it does reflect those recommendations. So in terms of the raw water requirements, so that is the amount of of for I guess a water resources term of wet water that's required to be brought to the utility in order to meet the requirements for the long term demand of a new utility customer. We're looking at reducing that indoor only residential requirement 2.25 acre feet. Currently, it's set at point three two acre feet, we're looking at reducing the standard single family requirement to a point five acre foot per unit or per dwelling unit, reducing that down from point five, eight and then we're also introducing a more separate we had separated in the previous resolution that there we had or rather we had lined it out in our schedule that there was a multifamily. But now we're actually looking at that multifamily dedication separately able to do some analysis separate from that to set that dedication and raw water dedication at point one acre foot per unit. And just as a reminder that is for in that multifamily scenario that is for indoor only multifamily developments coming forward in the future we'll be required to have a separate irrigation only tap to handle all the irrigation needs. And then there it does note in the packet material that raw water dedication for commercial developments will be set on a case by case basis at this point still and then for irrigation requirements will be set based on the A conservative estimate of the irrigation and the proposed irrigation requirements for the landscape standards that we have put in place. That's for those irrigation only taps. So it'd be part of larger HOA developments or again, large commercial or multifamily. And then beyond that, we'll be looking at updating the cash in lieu value. I know you're all aware of the rapid increase in cash and price associated with all water along the front range. So the value of the shares that we have historically been taken, which was North pooter irrigation company shares, and that is what our raw water requirement and rather a cash only requirement has been set on. Based on especially starting in 2020, there was a new methodology that was developed for that latest update in 2020. Staff is utilizing that same update, or excuse me, that same methodology that utilizes the last three years of share prices, to to estimate and predict what next year share price will be allowing the town to try and have some increase. As we know, it's increasing at a rapid rate.
And,
sorry, I'm just trying to go through my material making sure I apologize, you didn't have a slideshow presentation this evening. But to propose cash in lieu equivalent in your packet, and this resolution is set at $124,000 per acre foot, that's about a 20% increase over the existing cash in lieu rate of 102,800 per acre foot. One thing that is a little bit different, just to clarify is that I'm looking to move away from identifying a per unit cash in lieu rate, just because it just increases the chances of like fat thumbing something, the more times you have to repeat a number in a document, you just increase the chances of making an error. And fundamentally, we're saying it's that acre foot requirement times however many acre feet you're looking to turn in. So it's not in any kind of a different methodology or proposing a different way of talking about it. It's just how it would be reflected in in the resolution itself. And I am open to answer any questions that you have. On this I did I actually do want to highlight one thing, there was in the previous packet material Network section session material, I made a mistake in the commentary that I put in there and identified that the last update to the cash in lieu had been in 2020. But there had been a second update a subsequent update in 2021. And I did make sure to put that in this packet material. And I acknowledge that oversight on my part. So I do apologize. And do you have any questions related to
this proposed resolution?
Any questions? Trustee? Good.
So just to clarify, because I know I believe it was back when we did the REAP right of chapter 13. We reduced the acre feet per share of North pooter. And this is kind of the other half of that. Sorry. This is the other half of that correct? Where it's kind of those are you had mentioned and when we go through the workstation that kind of balances out, even though we're reducing the requirements for lots based on usage, we're also reducing the the yield because that's what we're seeing for North pooter. And roughly those balance each other out when it
there. Yeah, there is a balancing effect. Absolutely. Okay.
The other question that I have is just clarifying. So typically, we had seen, I think you had in here that the price and 22 of a share of North pooter was roughly 224,000. So if we were to look at our cash in lieu, if we were to go with the number and 124 that would be roughly 240,000 for the two acre feet, because we're now saying that yields two acre feet. So that would roughly be 240. A set or 248 200. Is that correct? Yeah,
that is correct. So and that doesn't assume an inflationary factor as part of that. Right methodology that was developed.
Okay. I just wanted to make sure that we still have that in there, because I know that was one of the big things is making sure that we had that highlighted. I think those were the only questions and then this is again, at our discretion, this isn't saying Oh, you just come and ask for cash. And we we give that to you. That's still the town saying, Hey, we feel like it would be better to have it in this case, but the requirement is still you have to bring water unless we say otherwise. Exactly.
Thank you. Proceed. No, I'm just concerned on what this is going to do to encourage development with those fees going as high as they are. But that's my concern.
I like what you're doing. I think we need to cover all aspects on that. And again, building has to pay its own way and I think you did a good job. Thank you.
Good thickness, but thank you.
Are there any calls from the public on this agenda item Okay, get a motion and a second on this agenda item please.
I'll make a motion to approve resolution number 17 Dash 2023. A resolution establishing raw water dedication requirements for water taps serving residential units and establishing payments for cash in lieu of raw water dedication
requirements. Second, I'm assuming no further comments and negative roll call please.
Certainly, Mr. American trustee Mason. Yes. Interesting weekend. Yes, trustee. teats. No. Trustee Daly? Yes. Trustee Gator? Yes. Miss Josie. Yes, thank you.
Alright, next is going to be consideration of resolution number 18 Dash 2023 resolution town Wellington, Colorado, mending the adopted fee schedule for 2023. Listen. Thank you again, welcome back.
So that this is alluded to, and as we spoke about in the repeal of the original ordinance, the town did recently adopt a fee schedule in November of 2020. To others, there has been brought to one amendment to date, I believe. And that was in February of this year. So as of November 2002, and then came back in February of this year with one amendment, and as we've talked about is we're kind of cleaning things up. And we're especially updating some code requirements and identifying some items that don't necessarily, it's not the most effective way to institute some of those fees, it's best to move them to the fee schedule, so they can be reviewed on a more regular basis. A couple of those things that came up as part of bringing this resolution forward for the raw water requirement was that there were meter fee that was originally adopted with that raw water requirement resolution in previous years that we're looking to pull out and include that into the fee schedule. And then as part of the municipal chapter 13, municipal code updates that were brought forward and adopted at our last board meeting, there were a couple of subsequent changes to the fee schedule that would come from that where we identified some items to be moved to that fee schedule. So those items that are changing were highlighted in green, in the very many pages, the fee schedules adopted to the packet, but then also kind of summarized, at least to topic wise bulleted there in the packet. Again, it was
updating or
updating Yeah, for the fees removed from code, updating the fee for utility billing, the water disconnect fee, the reef just continuing to reconnect fee, and then that meter fee. And at that point, I'm happy to take questions and I have charity canceled here as well. There's some additional questions for trustee Mason and
Miss Smith, I was just wondering if you could clarify as far as the reconnection fee goes, I think we had a resident that was curious about whether what what what all that was involved with and what the whole $100 There is, as far as that goes.
So there is, you know, probably about an hour of staff time and consideration of of, you know, two man crew to go out, just connect, come back and then reload and go back to turn back on. There's staffing, that she could cover the staff that what happens in the building side,
we also have to factor in the vehicle time, gas mileage, wear and tear. In terms of the utility billing coordinator, we have to factor in the time he spends in creating the shut off list, calling people getting a hold of DNC, all of that now this is a variable because the data that I was working on was with historically how many door knockers we've had sent out, which is averaging about 100 or more a month. Because of the chapter 13 code changes of sending out a delinquent letter instead of physically going into changing door knocker, there's some wiggle room there for your guys's discretion. But that's the data that I had to make the calculation with.
Great, thank you. Because you did
no questions. I feel like these are online well with other items that we've considered already. So thank you. Interesting cater.
So just to kind of follow up, the only real question I had was similar untrusting Masons. So thank you for getting the breakdown of that. So we've got an hour of staff time for travel. That seems to be like on the public work side. That's they're going out and back the vehicle time. And I know just I think that I think we should look at what the amount is there. I think the $100 seems high and that was the resident had reached out to us. Because if you figure out an hour of staff time plus the billing coordinator now obviously in the past, we're sending out 100 door knockers, so if you just divide I don't know how long it takes me to make the list. Would you say an hour is too long, too short to create the list like total or
say, each shut off cycle, there's probably about three hours of staff time involved just in terms of talking with reaching out trying to be proactive, creating the list. So it's more than just putting something
in go and go, okay. So roughly four hours of staff time, but then the three hours that's divided against anyone that's on the list. So I think that, and then the vehicle, obviously, that's a variable. But even if we just use the standard rate for mileage and the Federal witches, I don't know is that 65 cents, five cents, 65.5 cents. And I think the farthest point that you could get possibly in town would be five miles, I don't think you would. So even we just say 10 miles at $6. Max. So I would say, somewhere in the 50, to 75 range would probably be more something I would be willing to look at. So I'd ask that we consider adjusting that down. And then obviously, as we get more data, if we find out, we're spending more on that with the new process, we can absolutely revisit it. And it's on the fee schedule. So it's not hard to change that. But I would say let's look at starting that a little bit lower down there, rather than starting at $100. Thank you. Because he did,
I'm going to also agree with starting out at the lower tier. Typically when I look at this, and people are needing to have their water reconnected, it's not because they couldn't just get it reconnected. It's because they're struggling to pay their water bill. So the success of $100 fee on top of whatever they might owe when their water bill, I'd love to see it start at the $50 range. And then if we see we're losing massive amounts of money on this, then maybe address it then but we're going to be sucking up those fees again, if they just go and reapply for the HUD grant and receive those funds anyways. So I'd like to see it start at 50 and move up from there. If we can.
Trust me, we can
question how many times you see the same person over and over and over again, on this? And is more that they're I mean, and I we got the HUD grant, I think that's a good safety net. Correct. And, but you know, we don't might be good to reduce that amount. But I still think we need to cover ourselves. And if it's just because people are irresponsible at times, not all of them, let me probably 50% are just really running into hard time. But there could be some irresponsibility that we're funding to. So we need to be careful on that also.
answer your question in this way, I would say that staff's main goal is to work with the resident as much as possible to not get to that point. So there is a lot of contact involved, we have implemented new internal processes where we are working with certain residents where we can break down their bill over time. And you know, if if you don't make this payment that we agreed to this month, then we're gonna have to reassess it next month, to give them the option to not go to that immediate route. So I would say, we are doing everything we can internally to prevent just the immediate shut off Route.
And we do reach out to them for letting them know about the HUD and different things on that order to
Yes, right now, now that we have the finance staff fully staffed, and we have a dedicated utility billing person, he has really excelled in this role. And he's very, very proactive, and he's very analytical. So he's watching that data and he's looking at these reports every month. And he is sometimes just reaching out because he sees a problem with the belt. So you know, we're doing everything we can to make sure that our residents are not undergoing any future hardship that's unnecessary. Thank you
one question I would like clarified is how many of these individuals or I guess repeat contacts? percentage wise Do you have the MN
M. The ad can get shut down. It's variable every month, because they'll make that payment to avoid Shut up one month and then you don't see them for the next month or two. Okay, there are consistence. accounts on the report. I can pull a specific report that can tell you how many times each count has been on the shut off list. But there Are certain data trends that are recurring?
Okay? And so on average 10 Out of the 100 each month are getting shut off. Yes.
I mean, I'd be. And then. So this calculation is based off the old door hanger method,
which is part of the reason why we brought you the chapter 13 code dates. Yeah, we do some of that staff time, but that's to date I had to work with. So that's why I say there is some room for discussion. If you want to reduce that.
I think it'd be worth discussing dropping it down to 75. I want to play the middle. So that way, we're not called tail between our legs at the same time covering cost. Thoughts. I would agree. Yep. See,
that works. For me. I'm just like trying to do math in my head.
I think that's a good compromise.
Yeah, I think let's see where it starts off. And then once we have more data, we can look at assessing and if it needs to be further, great. If it doesn't, then we can leave it.
Perfect. What Yeah, and
I think just to add to that, I think Miss Canfield mentioned that it was roughly three hours of staff time, that's already I mean, if we figured $25 an hour, and I don't I don't know what that staff members getting paid. But that that already gets us to the 75. So I think that makes sense.
Yes, the remainder is that that's broken out. So that's like, you know, if I'm, you know, if all of us get shut off here that three hours of staff time is divided amongst all
six of us. Yes.
So it's not the full 75 for each person. And that's where I think if we can just work on getting the data with the new process, and what that actually looks like that would be helpful. That's just what I'm trying to run through my head, because then some of that staff time is also involved in communications to the other 90 that aren't shut off. So it's not that 100% of that time is spent on the 10 that gets shut off. So it's like within that three hours, how much of that is distributed amongst everyone else on the list too. So that's where I'm just like trying to like the time that yes, the driving to and from, that's only for those people, but then all the other stuff is kind of shared. So that's where the thought process in my head is. But I'd be open to starting at 75 and then see where we're at.
Perfect. Any calls from the public on this agenda item? Okay. May I get a motion and a second, on this agenda? And please,
I'd like to move that we approve resolution in the town of Wilmington, Colorado amending the adopted fee schedule for 2023 with the amendments.
Hold on. I have to find it now. 303. Thank
you, Trustee Daly amending on page 303
subsection 13 dash one dash once one.
Thank you. Yes, code section 13. There's one dash 120. Reconnect the file. Reconnect fee from $100 to $75.
Per Second may get a roll call please. Certainly trustee Gator? Yes. Trustee Daly? Yes. Trustee Mason? Yes. Trustee teats. Yes. Trustee Wiegand. Yes. Michelle Z. Yes. Thank you.
All right on to the final action item of the evening. It is going to be we're here. Contract proposal for the 2023 Old Town asphalt and concrete street repair.
evening. Good evening board engineer public works. So tonight I am presenting the town streets asphalt and concrete repair contract, the CIP project annual projects, although we skipped last year, so the last time the contract was approved was 2021. This year we selected five locations throughout old town to do sidewalk repair millon overlay, curb and gutter, drains, pans, things like that. That nature in your backpack, a journeyer. Board package. I did have a map showing those locations. Don't have a presentation tonight. Unfortunately. Generally, you know, we did solicit RFPs request for bids from qualified concrete contractors as well as asphalt contractors. We had quite a good turnout this year. Quite a few more than I was expecting. As you can see in the tabs that are also in that network package that we ended up selecting O L for construction for the concrete contract there, give a little background on them, they are new to the project. This was the first time I had seen them come through. So I did spend quite a bit of time talking to him on the phone, called all their references, all very positive references. You know, I spoke with that contractor probably four times over the last two weeks, just making sure that they know what they're getting into and getting comfortable with them. Because we do have two other construction projects ongoing and I wanted to make sure I had some confidence in them. So I feel very confident about L four, for the concrete work. The asphalt contractor selected on all resources, again, low bid, their contractor that we're familiar with, they've worked here in town quite a bit, and they did have the asphalt contract back in 2021, as well. So that's sort of a high overview. I guess. If you guys have any questions, I'd be happy to answer
or start with trustee Gator.
Yeah, so I did have just a quick question like in regards to when we receive RFPs. I know that
the two low
bids I mean, canellos was the lowest by quite a bit, but it was about 15% below the average. And it was way below the high bid. Is that fairly normal that we see that range of prices? And are we are they still doing the same scope of work
as everyone else? Yes. So they are they are doing the same scope, everyone bid the exact same scope of work, I believe on that asphalt contract on those bids. The first thing you always do is check contractors map. And there is a note at the bottom of that bid tab, I did adjust the the not the quantities, but the price for the base bid, I had an error in my in my bid form. And so some of them had included the hydrant replacement in the base bid, and I just adjusted that for everyone. So it was an apples to apples comparison I don't, I don't change their unit prices or anything like that, I just check the math and make sure everyone's gonna get the exact same way. Everyone's bidding the exact same scope. Sometimes if you do see some discrepancies, you can call them and try and talk through but there was none of that this year, it was just just the hydrant was I incorrectly had a one on the base bid. And it really should have just been on the alternate bid. Which by the way, we are doing the alternate work as well, because prices did come in low. As far as you know, the spread through the through the bids, I'd say it's probably typical to see that big of a spread in prices where they are now it's really difficult to especially for me to try and get an engine engineers estimate on that. Just you know, everything varies with with oil prices and where you get locked in and things like that, especially with the asphalt. So that that adds what I feel is a little bit more variability to, for instance, the asphalt stuff, asphalt, concrete maybe isn't the same. I mean, concrete, everyone uses typically using the same suppliers such as SRM or ag industries. So there's a likelihood of less variability in concrete work and there isn't the asphalt there's probably a bigger spread with the concrete
there is Yeah, it's like a 22% spread versus a 15 from average for the low and then the highest.
Exactly. And that's in that's what I spent a lot of time talking about. Okay, they came in really low. Unfortunately, it's tough to say you're too low. Right. Right. And so I spent quite a bit of time talking with them and making sure they're comfortable with their unit prices. Because the last thing I want to do is get in there and have some change orders. Right. I don't want to see that. I don't want to deal with that. And I you know, they understand that. And they were very comfortable with their unit prices. Okay.
The only other question I had, and this would be for Dan. Does this have any impact at all? Because I know Cannella is working on other things with planning commission, does that have any impact with this contractor? There's nothing they're completely separate things
is are completely separate things.
Okay, thank you.
Trustee tends to weaken.
I do want to make a statement. I know that we didn't do this project last year. But from my perspective, this is constant need for work. And it's something that we need to continue every year to make sure that we're maintaining our streets. So there's a question out there as to should we or should we not do projects like this? I just want to make it very clear that, you know, we're responsible for the infrastructure including roads, and I am familiar with a lot of these streets in this project for this round. And there are significant improvements that are needed. So I I am happy that we're looking for and found such low bids. So I do appreciate the work on that and I'm looking forward to continuing improving our roads.
Are there any questions from the public on this agenda item?
Pristine data. I just had a question about the quality of work. I don't know who did our work before. But we had issues with the manhole covers rising over time, and I just don't want that same thing to happen again. But I don't know who did that. I don't know if that's what their part of what they're doing the scope of what they're doing, but I'm just saying to consider the quality of what we don't like that has happened on our streets and whoever did that. Pick someone else that will do better quality.
Thank you. You get a motion in a second on this agenda item.
I'll make a motion to approve the 2023 Old Town street repair asphalt and concrete concrete contracts.
Thank you. All right. Are there any reports from the town attorney Mr. Cepi, and
I have no report for you today. Thank you.
Are there any reports for the town administrator?
Well, I'm happy to report that Senate Bill 23 Dash 2213 was defeated. And we don't have to worry about it right now. Information from CML indicates that they'll be working with those the proponents of that bill over the next year to see how we can make some adjustments to that and maybe make it more amenable for local government to pursue. There will be more information coming from CML probably in June. I can work with Mr. SAP Ian's on providing a report to the trustees on any legislation that affects Wellington. Thank you. Thank you.
Are there any staff communications
additional staff reports No, all right.
On the board reports start with trustee weaken No report.
Trustee teats
now report.
Trustee good. Um, the
only thing that I had I did want to thank our staff forgetting the financial payment of bills and continuing to keep that in there so much charity still here. Thanks. She jetted. Oh, okay. Well, thank you, our finance staff for getting that all together. I think that was
all that I had. Thank you. Trustee Daly.
A couple of things regarding our proclamations, we talked about kids to Park Day. I wanted to give some more details about that so people know where to go to celebrate with the town of Wellington. National kids park day, of course, we talked about through proclamation. We have a park and play event scheduled of course on that day, May 20. This year and it's at well Ville Park, Balboa Park is where the ponds are on the east side. There. The the condos, I think are condos, townhomes. I don't know the right word, okay. But they're ponds there. And it's going to be matched with the fishing derby that Kiwanis is doing this year. So it's going to be a full fledged event there's going to be fishing, and all the cool fun stuff that Parks and Rec brings out like the foam blocks, bouncy things inflatable toys Connect for I'm just looking at the pictures at this point. But there's tons of gear that they bring out for these events. And they're super fun. So we'll we'll park on the 20th and it's from 8am to 1pm. And do note that the parking lot, the little circle parking lot will be reserved for ADA parking. So that's information on national kids the park day, that's how to celebrate. The other one I have is also an event it's going to be in two days may 11. It's going to be an open house discussing a medical services potentially being available to Wellington Middle High School, and to discuss some of the survey responses that came from the community regarding this endeavor. So if you want to know more information about that, learn more and see what the opportunities might be and whether or not we can participate. Our our Wellington Middle High School is built with facilities that would offer would be able to offer medical services out of our school. So there is an organization that is willing to pursue that and they want to tell you more information about it. That is going to be on May 11 Ain't at Wellington Middle High School at 530 to 7pm. And then the last thing I wanted to do just as an addition to our proclamations were so important this May. So I really appreciate it, of course celebrating and breaking the stigma of mental health issues. And I'm really proud of the town of Wellington stepping up and taking a stance on that. The other thing that we have a huge problem in Wellington is accessibility to childcare services. Not everybody can find childcare services. And it's hard work. It pays little. And it's the most important work. So thank you very much, those child care providers, and we really appreciate you. Thanks.
Thank you. Mason. No,
I have nothing to report either other than, like working with you guys and towns doing great. Thanks for your hard work. Thanks for presenting. Thank you for the Weber County Sheriff's Department for being here. It's awesome. And the residents they came into without you guys so appreciate you. All right. I mean, no further business may have a motion to adjourn the meeting.
