Wellington Board of Trustees Meeting - March 28, 2023

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May I get a roll call please.

Certainly. Trusty Mason here. Trusty teats here. Trusty weekend here. Trusty Daly. Present trustee Gator here. Mayor Pro Tem McDonald. Mayor Josie here. Thank you.

Thank you. Are there any amendments to the agenda this evening? No. Are there any conflicts of interest?

No. All right. At

this time we'll move on to item b1 Public comment. Individuals wishing to speak please approach the podium. State your name for the record. This once again is for non agenda items and you'll be given three minutes to speak.

Good evening, Mayor

trustees, Lisa Sholay, 7424, homestretch Dr. Have not attending board meetings lately, but like many in our community have watched them via zoom, or later on YouTube. From that what stood out to me and others in my conversations are these words diversity, suicide attempts, depression, suicide success, veterans, trans teens, 2%, crazy and scared. These words represent what I've heard in these meetings and amongst my neighbors, friends and fellow parents. This week, we are once again reminded how awful the world can be when we get emotional sorry, as three nine year olds and three adults were killed in Nashville. This weekend, Willington parents waited to see if there was a credible threat to our kids. At the middle high school, when last Wednesday there was an unknown person who gained access to our school. And then again, earlier this week, a threat was called into the safe to toe. Fortunately, both of those instances were resolved without any issue. I recount this to you here because it's indicative of the division and animosity we see in this room at times, in our community, and in our in our world. As the adults in the room, you, me, and all of us, we need to set it a better example for our kids and to and to one another, as our elected officials, it's your responsibility to lead. It is your responsibility to set your personal beliefs and your personal wants and opinions aside, so that you may lead through the lens of our entire community. I urge you to choose your words carefully when discussing discussing issues. Speak without judgment, show kindness and respect to those you may disagree with. And I urge all of us to start doing the same. Our children are watching and if the bullying and disrespectfulness and cruelty they show to one another and their teachers is indicative. We the leaders, we the leaders and the adults in the room are failing, we must do better before tragedy knocks on our doors. It's time to start acknowledging and accepting we don't all believe the same, we don't all look the same lived the same, or experience the world the same way. Our experiences are unique to each and every one of us. But shame on us if we believe ours is the only experience that matters. I encourage you to listen to your constituents, and not just the ones that you agree with. We all need to start building bridges in Wellington instead of burning the whole place down. Thank you. Thank you.

I'll ask you to refrain from clapping and to keep order in this room especially with it as crowded as it is at this moment.

Anybody else like to There we go.

I was up there. Yesterday is

Karen I heard I live in the nose. I just wanted to get up. I have talked in the past about some of my own disabilities along with my children's disabilities. Next month is Autism Awareness Month. And so we've been in communication with Patty about that and what we can do to help celebrate our children that have autism in our community. And I'd like to let you know that when I do these things. I do it for all of Wellington if you have a child, if you have a loved one an adult and I'm character Edie two or 902 or three or five, if you have autism. Please be sure to attend the meeting at this location at the leaper Center at 630 on April 11. Is that right Petey? Yeah. Because I think that people should be able to celebrate their diversity and celebrate what their abilities are. Because as we all know, probably hear me say it all the time. It's not about the disability. It's about the abilities of the person. And with that, I think I've told several view of Sony Pictures of my service dog in training. And he is away right now. And it's driving me crazy, but he's getting extensive, more tasks learned. So, here shortly within probably, probably next month, he'll start to show up to these meetings with me. And I know he's cute and gorgeous, but his man, you can't touch him. You can't hug him because he's on duty. So please, just respect his space. He's working for me. And I really look forward to being able to hopefully be able to do a little bit more in these meetings and calmer demeanor with my service dog helping me but please, if you or anybody you know, has autism and lives in the Wellington community, please come to the meeting on April 11. As we celebrate Autism Awareness Month, and our mayor will be signing a declaration, right, no proclamation, a proclamation about April being Down Syndrome Awareness month that

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more further comment. All right, first up is going to be Miss Laurie stolen. She'll be presenting to us on Larimer County's Behavioral Health Services. Welcome Miss Stone to the podium.

Good evening. It's working. I don't I don't know if they're really that loud tonight.

Okay. You can't hear me in the back. Let me know. Is this a good volume for you all to hear me? Well, okay. Good evening, Laurie. Stolen Larimer County Behavioral Health Services Director. I was invited by your town board member Mr. David weekend and I appreciate the opportunity to come and share with you this evening about some updates around the beaver health initiative that is a county wide county wide including Wellington and the other seven municipalities as well as our rural and more frontier areas around Larimer County with a point two 5% dedicated sales tax to behavioral health. It's 20 years started in 2019. And we have been busy at work putting those dollars back out into the community around Larimer County since that time, so if you would let me pause for one second and pull up my presentation. We'll get going with the slides

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to the meeting meeting to accept my invite interested as a panelist Yes, I'd be able to share your screen now okay.

Okay, there we go.

So with this 20 year ballot initiative, we have three funding pathways that we have created a 20 year strategic plan in order to distribute these dollars back to the community. And one of them is through a campus that we've recently named the behavioral health services at Longview campus. And it is located at Taft Hill and Trilby roads 20 to 60. West Trilby road. We have a dedicated 40 acres of land that over the 20 year initiative, we plan to build out services that would range from acute care crisis services, the first building that we'll plan to open in December of this year 64 bed facility, we've contracted out the services to that to summit stone partners. I'll go into that a little bit more in the presentation here. The second building that we are anxiously awaiting to find out from the state if we receive some ARPA funding to fill out the the funds that are needed to build an adolescent care facility for our community. I don't know if you know, but we have over 1000 youth a year that are sent out of county and oftentimes out of state to get the care that they need and our hopes are that we would build out those services so we can provide the care to those youth in community, support families support schools, and support those youth that are struggling. The second funding pathway that we have is an annual grant program we call our Impact Fund. This grant program is authorized through our Board of County Commissioners currently at $2.8 million a year. Your former mayor Troy Hammond was on our policy council and helped make some of those decisions. Um, currently, David is on our board of our policy council and helps make the funding decisions and awards of grants around Larimer County, to a variety of different behavioral health providers. That is intention is to increase awareness and access to affordable and appropriate behavioral health care. That grant program opens in June of this year, Applications are accepted for the month of June. And then we close the grant cycle and we start reviewing the applications bring them to our Board of County Commissioners after they've been reviewed by our Policy Council, and then make financial awards in the fall of each year. The third funding pathway is a bridge fund. And our plans are to build the front the structure and the framework for that after the facility opens. And we start to learn what the biggest barriers are to people that are leaving care and reintegrating successfully to the community. We're thinking things like transportation co pays deductibles, it might be a variety of different issues around med compliance or affording medications. Our hope is, is that we'd be able to build a fund that helps support folks in their recovery in their stability, with their mental health or substance use disorder, challenges that

they're facing.

So I talked about that campus, this is sort of a master footprint. And the building in the middle, the largest building is the first building that we plan to open the acute care. And then we have renderings and some early programming for that adolescent care facility, which is the second building on the right hand side of that picture. future expansion includes possibly having partnerships with our housing, catalyst, or our housing authorities in creating public or sorry, permanent supportive housing, where we would provide the case managers for folks that needed that longer term support to to maintain their community engagement, to also have training conference space, and then possibly in the future have primary dental vision for folks that struggle with behavioral health issues that this campus might be beneficial for them. There's pharmacy and lab that will be included as well as food service in the first building. And that's planned to be able to serve the entire campus once

we build that out.

Talked a little bit about this already. I want you to know that this is a subdivided parcel of land, we went to the commissioners, and we asked knowing that they serve a four year term, we wanted to make sure in the future that this parcel of land didn't get reallocated to something else. And we asked them to dedicate it and they were in full support. And they happily dedicated this land to the purpose of behavioral health. And you know, in the future, we don't know Maybe there'll be another campus that's that's needed to expand out services. But for now, this is a county owned Behavioral Health Campus in perpetuity. So I brought along a few renderings of the acute care facility, if you get a chance to drive south on Taft Hill Road, you get to Trilby to the right, you really can't miss this very large, beautiful building that's connected to nature, beautiful views of Horsetooth rock, and we will have tons of walking trails that connect to Coyote Ridge open space to the south Kathy from Prairie to the east. Um, it really is very nice connection to nature out in that space. Some of the services that will be provided in this facility are there six different levels. And honestly, there are none around the country that exactly match, we've had to cut and paste from different best practices around the country. When it first opens, summit stone is going to phase the opening of this building as they have to bring on about 200 new staff to operate this facility. They're working on the licensing that they need right now to become an an opioid treatment provider and be able to do medication assisted treatment for those that are struggling with addiction issues. There will be an urgent care or kind of like a psychiatric emergency room, if you will. So we can reduce the usage of our emergency rooms and our jails, obviously overly priced, extra expensive for people that don't need that level of care. So the intention is that this facility would be the right level of care for folks that were that are in a psychiatric emergency. We're working on destination protocols with our first responders and an EMS folks right now to make sure that they know when they come upon a scene and somebody's there, how to make the decision of whether to go to the emergency room or to the acute care facility. So there's not questions about trying to get the person to the right location the first time. There will be a lot of care coordination. I think they're going to have 14 care coordinators in the facility. The idea is there that the minute someone comes into the facility, they are connected with a care coordinator that starts a discharge plan to make sure that they are connected to all of the services that they need. And we're really intentional about that warm handoff to what they need when they're released from the facility. Oh, obviously lots of talk around withdrawal management, also known as detox services. This will be the first dedicated detox services in Larimer County. Currently, we send folks over to Weld County to do that. We'll also have crisis stabilization there. And again, the pharmacy and lab, things that will be added to the facility. Once that first phase is open, and we've got a smooth running of this new facility, they will add intensive residential treatment. So that's intended for folks that need a little bit longer stabilization after they withdrawn from drugs and alcohol. We will have the intention of a teaching facility if you will, we're calling it a center of excellence. We're creating relationships and partnerships with universities around the country. For example, Macquarie University in Nashville, Tennessee, historically, black university, starting in 2024, will send all of their pas their physician assistants to our facility to get trained up in behavioral health if they want to stay job opportunities, but nonetheless, they will have training and behavioral health to take back to whatever program they decide to work for. The intention is that this Center of Excellence will be the location nationally for anybody that wants to have training and behavioral health. Larimer County is the place to come to get that training. Working with CSU UNC Front Range aims, a variety of different universities. So we have student experiences through internships, fellowships, and even residencies for the for med students, relationships with UC Health. So their Doc's can come in and do rotations. with primary care physicians, they can come in and do rotations to get more familiar with behavioral health meds, some of the criteria that's used in diagnosis, and really reduce the stigma of folks. Over 85% of primary care physicians say that their primary care clients come in with behavioral health issues, and that they admit that they are untrained, and they don't know how to best serve their patients. So we look forward to being that partner. Um, yep, there's still a little bit of snow on the ground there as well. But the building is coming along. Again, it's about a 60,000 square foot building 64 beds, we joke about maybe needing some rollerblades to get around the facility. It's it's one floor and then a partial second floor. So the detox and the price stabilization are on the first floor. And then the residential treatment, the longer term stay is upstairs as well as some admin space. We're also going to have a community resource a conference space. So we welcome to have our community members come and hold meetings. We'll have catering abilities there. And we really want this to feel like it's a public space. It's paid for by public tax dollars, and it's for the community by the community. So there is a space in there for folks that are interested in holding a meeting. And we'll have a reservation system to do that. Here's the front entrance. What's missing from this front entrance that I'll hope to add in a future presentation is a dedicated sculpture that we had commissioned through a local artist who lives in red feather, her name is Laurie a cot if you haven't heard of her name, and her husband, Adam Schultz, they have dream big sculptures. And she created a unique piece that will be placed in front of this facility is called the journey. And it's three humans, that could be anybody. And the symbolism of lorries work is that they have long legs to overcome life's obstacles. And the first human is holding a lantern that will be lit at all times. And his hand is out. And he's welcoming. And providing support to this second gentleman that is leaning down and reaching for the hand to help up the third gentleman that will be climbing up on top of a rock. It's a really wonderful symbolic story of the journey of help and healing that we think represents what the intentions of this facility are. And we will be having a ribbon cutting where that sculpture will already be in place on September 29. So we would, it's open to the public and obviously to all of you there will be invitations coming out but we love to share that when the time comes. There's physical fitness space, there's a large beautiful open lobby with contemplation seating, and a space for visitation and folks to come and go, whether you're there for visitation or to get services at the facility. This next slide is just a couple of few renderings of the renderings of the adolescent care facility. Looking at it as a one storey building, about 30,000 square feet, it will have 16 beds in it. Those 16 beds are intended for short term respite care, not intended to be longer term residential care for for adolescents. Our hope is that we work with our families and our community in our schools to get kids regulated again quickly and then back home The adolescent care facility will be funded with through a variety of different means. The county has some ARPA dollars that were earmarked for it. Behavioral Health has some dollars that have been earmarked. And then our hope is to get this ARPA funding. And I just saw on the website that announcements should be made pretty soon about those ARPA dollars. So we're excited to hear about that. We have a program schedule for that adolescent care facility. And once the money is secured, we will immediately go into the program design and construction documents, bringing on architect and our general contractor with a planned opening in 2025. So it's a pretty quick turnaround. Of course, when you need the services today. You know, tomorrow sure feels like a long way off, we will again be contracting out for the services that'll be provided in that adolescent care facility. So a few words just quickly about our advisory councils, and committees that help us make decisions around our Impact Fund. Program. We have 27 member Technical Advisory Committee, a 15 member Consumer Advisory Committee, and then a 15 person Policy Council, made up of eight elected officials, one from each of our municipalities and Larimer County, Commissioner liaison and then six at large members, all of that information is gathered and compiled by our behavioral behavioral health staff. We get recommendations from our policy council and then take that to our board for approval and decisions. And then the staff go back and implement that

work. The funding priorities

that were established for these dollars to make impacts on and really to, to kind of drive our results, if you will, are listed here. We feel like it's a pretty comprehensive list that through the 20 years, we should be able to create some outcomes and some data measurements that show that we've actually moved the needle in the right direction, I can share with you that our suicide rates and Larimer County are down. For the first time in in five years, we're seeing a 10 to 12% Decrease in suicides each year since 2019. And that's encouraging to know that we're going in the right direction on our suicide rates.

To date, we've done

152 grants to over 60 organizations with just close to $9 million of funding going out to those organizations and and you can kind of see each year, the amounts that we've distributed and how many grants that we've given up to different organizations. And I'm proud to say that harvest farms here in Wellington has been one of our funded organizations since 2019. Doing some really incredible work in we've helped them fund a program called their peer leadership program, where they've been able to bring folks on at an entry level, and then bring them on his peers and mentors to new members that are coming on board and then build out their leadership to take out into the world of work to get a you know, a job wherever their interests and talents allow. But it's been an exciting program to be a part of, and we're proud to be their funding partner for that. This is just a quick display of sort of a scatter of where the dollars have gone. My favorite thing that this graphic shows is just because there's not very much in some of the areas as you can see, it doesn't mean that there's not a priority or a need in that area. What really it shows us that there aren't that many providers in those levels of care. And this is where we want to focus on building out increased services around Larimer County to ensure that we've got a really broad distribution of services across the spectrum from prevention through recovery. We'll continue to keep track of where our grant funding goes throughout the years with this kind of a graphic. And I already talked about the bridge fund and some of the things that we hope to be able to incorporate into that bridge fund. As we look at the barriers when the facility opens, you can see that rural behavioral health is on here mobile behavioral health. And ultimately, we're working with our school districts now to build out a comprehensive school based health care system and using our schools and our communities as a hub for families for health care for activities. And it's kind of like going back to the old days. For some of us, we can remember when schools were a community hub of activity and organization. And we would love to work with our school districts to build out their health care support in a school so all students had opportunity to get not just health care, but behavioral health care at the place that they spend the most time. That was my quick presentation and overview of where we are with the Behavioral Health Initiative. I'd love to answer any questions if you have

started trustee Daly.

Thank you so much for this presentation. This is so important. And it's an amazing facility. I've watched it grow. It's right next to the dump if anybody's curious of where it is and I spent a lot of time I'm talking about solid waste. So I mean that area a lot, so, but last time I did drive there. It took me 15 minutes to get there from here it is in Fort Collins, but it's on the most opposite further side of Fort Collins from Wellington. And given that we're right along the interstate, generally we can get a lot of places in Larimer County quickly, but that is not. So I asked, we are in Wellington, and I represent the people of Wellington. I am so overwhelmed with amazing facility. Unfortunately, the items that you mentioned that are really big, with this bridge fund, for example, primarily those kind of items about affordability, transportation, rule care, school, bass, all those items. Those are the things that really would impact our our community that most and we are talking about the most vulnerable members of our community. So given let's say somebody did have services there, a round trip of an hour and a half to two hours is not a viable solution to receive care, especially in scenarios where it's it's just such a difficult situation and they are so vulnerable, as everybody in Wellington does contribute to the costs. And this is a facility I suppose to serve all of Larimer County. I wonder what is in the plans in the future, to make sure that Wellington is a priority, and that we have a facility near or serving our community, because we're also part of Larimer County. And I'm encouraged by the bridge fun items. But I can guess that the millions and millions and millions of dollars that are going to the facility, what if it's, these are next priorities? You're talking about 2025 When it opens? And that seems like so close. But if we're not even on the plan, then what? What are our plans for Wellington residents? So that's, that's my first comment there. I don't expect you to be accountable to that or be able to tell me what all future plans are. But I'd have to in every county meeting, where we talked about amazing facilities that are coming online, the only county facility we're getting is a dump. So it says something right, so I have to make sure that that is known. Regarding grants, you did mention that this facility has great connections to nature. And it is obviously proven through several studies that connection to nature, outdoor recreation trails contribute to positive mental health. So my question is, if we were to consider a grant application for the impact grants that would support our build out of trails, and outdoor recreation and gathering spaces for our community, is that something that we could potentially pursue as an impact grant on behalf of the town?

I love that question. Thank you very much for your comments. They were heard. And if I had time, I would love to respond back

in there, sorry.

So there are six different priorities and targeted projects that we fund each year. And what I'm hearing you say sounds like it would fit within behavioral health in diverse settings. And that's one of our funding partnerships. And I would love to see a creative grant application that was innovative and incorporating nature into the health and healing of people that have behavioral health issues. I think that that fits perfectly within that behavioral health in diverse settings. And so I would highly recommend the consideration of a grant application for that. Our grant applications go through six different levels of review. It's a very transparent and very thorough process. So we've got pre screening and alignment screening. And then we have 16 subject matter experts that look at them and score them and then some executive reviewers. And so they go through multiple layers of review. So I obviously couldn't promise you any funding on that right now. It would go through its normal grant process, but I would love to see that application.

Okay, June, another recipient of the impact Grant was our Community Services Center. That project as well, that received half a million dollars. So through that same grant. So that is something impacting Wellington directly. So very appreciated there. The other thing you mentioned how this will be a training grounds for many universities. I'm happy to hear that local universities are also a priority in there rather than just ones from Tennessee. That was worrisome when you first said that go, what about everybody here? Okay. But what kind of are you guys considering offering or have any partnerships with pooter School District for similar training and opportunities?

Yes. So the idea is that we build out these partnerships for the school to work pipeline, right. We know that there's behavioral health workforce challenges, and so a continual partnership is really to build out the interest of our youth in obtaining a career in behavioral health. So we do talks and we've got very close partnerships. There's taskforce because all of our school districts, the three school districts are working together historic like they've never have historically, it's phenomenal how they've come together around this issue of behavioral health. And so the goal would be to continue having those conversations with our school partners, to build out the the information that students are getting on how to create a pathway to not just become a PhD, or a psychiatrist with an MD and in behavioral health, but all of the different employment opportunities there are from peer to a case manager, to an MA to a behind the scenes grant writer or accountant that's in behavioral health. So there's a whole plethora of job opportunities that our selves as well as many of the behavioral health partners are working on presenting, we just got finished doing a career exploration event at CSU. And it was first, mainly for college students this year. Last year, we did it, we kind of rotate year over year to high school students. And so our interest is is in kind of quenching their thirst about interests that they have around behavioral health and then providing them with a pathway to employment.

That's wonderful. And then the other part of that, too, is like support services or support for teachers perhaps or those kinds of things in addition to career oriented kind of training. So that sounds wonderful. Within your seven priorities, one of them that I was hoping to see there, and I've been I've been wondering about is the equitable piece that comes back to the affordability and the transportation. So given that, just on behalf of Wellington, my hope is that when the ribbon cutting happens, and the facility opens in 2020 25, that

it actually opens in December of this year. Okay, great. Yeah.

Okay, great, yeah. That we could maybe rely on having free transportation at that time, not something in a distant future. But something immediately that would serve our community because that's the top that's a top barrier. In general, overall, there's so many others to be equitable, but I think that would be one that would have an immediate impact on our community.

Transportation has been at the top of our conversation, since the beginning planning of this facility at this location, being aware that it is just one location. And the intentions are that it works as sort of a hub of services, and then we build out satellite services around the county. And so transportation is a critical piece to that there will be dedicated transportation at the facility, and through a phone call through an arrangement of either to 988, or to 911 through our CO responders, which I know that the sheriff's office is an integral partner in that for Wellington, through mobile crisis that summit stone provides as well. So there will be a multitude of different transportation options, options for folks in Wellington to get to and from the services at that campus until we have the opportunity to build out more of those satellite services. Okay, well, we

have amazing staff that can work with you on the location for the satellite services in Wellington. So we look forward to those continued partnerships. Thank you so much. I didn't mean to just to be critical. This is such an amazing project. And I love it. I just want to make sure it serves us.

I appreciate you doing that. Thank you

Trustee Gator. No, I think you did a great job and presenting information. It's great to actually hear I know trustee Reagan gets to be a part of this all the time. But it's great. And I appreciate you coming out to give all of us an update on it.

You bet. Thank you.

I am extremely grateful for your presentation. I want to say in here for harvest farms to receive $280,000 of your grant funding and 2022 that directly affects Wellington and people in this area. It's wonderful. We actually personally get to hire people from harvest farms. So we get to experience the treatment and future sobriety for somebody to hear it. Yeah. So I want to say that is huge. I also know that there's also two other facilities that are available for seven stone that are super close to Wellington, which is great for access. Having a relative that has used to summon stone for that access. It was really convenient and right on North college. So that one I am grateful for other than that 200 new employees that is amazing in general and all in focused careers, all the way down from a CNA base up to see CFOs and other people that are joining in on this team. So it's I think this is wonderful and I have absolutely no issue with my tax scholars going towards something that supports mental health but also the opioid issue that we have had here. For a while now. And even in Wellington, we've seen an increased effect of fentanyl and methamphetamines in our area, anything that can help get that a little bit more under control, but also assist our officers and supports after the fact. So they're not returning to reusing I think is huge. Thank you so much for your presentation.

Thank you. I appreciate the presentation. And the one thing we got to realize here, this is a beginning. And it's going to be a building block for many, many, many services down the road. So I think you guys have a great insight and appreciate what you're doing. Thank you.

Fantastic presentation was stolen. Lots of really exciting things happen in here. And I just want to thank the Larimer County as well as the Behavioral Health Policy Council. As far as that goes, you guys are doing some amazing work. And certainly as on my regard, I look forward to continuing to work with you guys as far as the opioid abatement Council and BH PC, and really get some good stuff going. So appreciate it.

Thank you for your partnership on that as well.

Yeah, this is great. Thank you for coming out. I mean, without people like you, and those that are wanting to help others, get out of addiction and move forward in their lives, and we'd be stuck. And so I just really commend you and everybody that works with you and what you guys are doing, and then doing it here in Larimer County. Getting a detox center here is going to be huge. Going all the way out to Greeley doesn't make a lot of sense for a lot of people, and actually turns them away from a lot of the cases that I've personally dealt with. So thank you. And thank you for all your hard work, and I appreciate the presentation.

It's an honor to be here. Thank you very much.

All right. We have the

consent agenda next. It consists of the minutes of the march 21 2023 Board of Trustees special meeting, the minutes of the march 14 20/23 Board of Trustees regular meeting, a resolution appointing the members of the boards, grossed or parks, recreation, open space and trails advisory board, and may I get a motion to approve.

I move to approve the Consent Agenda.

Second. Make it a roll call.

Certainly. Trustee Daly? Yes. Trustee Wiegand? Yes. Trustee Gator? Yes. Trustee Mason? Yes. Christy teats? Yes. Miss Josie. Yes, thank you. first

action item this evening is going to be an update of the town's financial policies, and will be presented by our finance director charity Castle, Miss careful. Good evening,

since I came to the town of Wellington, the message has been very clear from the board that you wanted increased financial transparency, the administration has made it very clear that they want us to move forward to adhere to financial best practices. So part of that is having adopted financial policies. This is our first crack at it. We have been working with the finance committee for the past several months to develop these policies. In my memo, I did state that best practices also to reevaluate them on an annual basis. And we will be including them in our budget as well. So we would like to provide an opportunity for public comment on the financial policies prior to adoption.

Perfect.

Any comments or questions from the board? Trust together?

Yeah. So as Ms. Camfield, shared, the finance committee has been working with staff and I think we started from some policies and Ms. Canfield pulled from other municipalities of similar size. So we kind of had a good starting point. And then really took a look at that and said, Okay, what in here fits what Wellington needs specifically. So for example, there were some things that were in there that were on. So we just adopted a fine balanced policy that was separate from that. So they tweaked some of that. And again, it's just been great to have that feedback from the finance committee to go through with Miss Canfield and say, Okay, what about this? discussions around it? And I think that this is and I think that was one of the things that came up was that this isn't something that's just set and done, but it's something that we start with it and then we realize, okay, where are the areas that we have deficiencies, because we get through here and say, hey, you know, we should have something around this. And then you go in and adopt that. So I think the important part of that is what makes Camfield said that every year when we're going through budget, we should also be reevaluating our financial policy. The other thing too, is that this will help a lot when we're dealing working through future audits, to actually have a financial policy that we are falling as a town and I think from a standpoint of our job of being fiduciaries to the to the residents is that this is what we're doing and this is how we are spending the time excluded dollars. And I think it's important to have that as well. Because, you

know, I'm grateful for the fact that we have a finance committee set up now to look at this sit down as some incredible minds with Ms. Camfield. And actually agree and bring it back to us with a mutual agreement among them. I think that's huge.

I appreciate the quality and the expertise that you and the Finance Committee have brought, and pretty phenomenal.

Thank you. Really appreciate you guys putting this together, I think, obviously, to the board, financial transparency, and being fiscally responsible is obviously very important to us, and certainly our residents. So yeah, I appreciate you guys putting this together. I have no issues with it as far as that goes. So

because you do. I really appreciate this effort. And I know it's been a priority. I appreciate that, you know, our town has been trained with wonderful leadership that we have within our staff. So and then this is an example of that coming to fruition. So I really appreciate your efforts on this, when you were mentioning items on fund balances within this policy, and then maybe I didn't read it closely enough. There isn't any. Is there any changes associated with fund balances? That would actually impact our existing rates or calculations based on very specific items that we use fund balance for this last year?

No, that was a great question. That was one of the reasons there was some just stock wording, it wouldn't have changed anything. But we realized it was going to be kind of redundant, because we had already as a board adopted those fund balance policy specifically. And so the recommendation from the finance committee was let's just pull those completely from this. And when we can just reference over to those existing fund balance policies that the board already passed in conjunction with the water study that was done.

Fantastic. Because when the one that was mentioned, I was like, I didn't read anything here that defined doing fund balances.

Okay, that was intentionally pulled. So we could just keep with what we'd already done studies around and had found to be in a good place. Okay.

I misunderstood from your comment. And the fact that I hadn't read anything like that. So no, but I really appreciate all the efforts and of course, to our finance committee, of course, for that group of volunteers that have painstakingly worked through a lot of these items and issues too. So thank you for your efforts. Appreciate it.

Thanks, Mr. Canfield. Now, we will open this up for any public comment.

once going twice, sold.

All right.

Any final comments from the board? No.

No further comments, make it a roll call please.

You would you like a motion for all? Yeah.

Why do I do that?

I'd like to move that we approve the town of Wellington financial policies as presented.

Second.

Now make it a roll call please.

Certainly Metro seat. Trustee Gator. Yes. Trustee teats? Yes. Trustee Daly? Yes. Trustee Mason? Yes. Trustee Wiegand. Yes, Miss Josie. Yes, thank you.

Alright, so the next item on the agenda is a public hearing on amendments to the official zoning map of our town a separate action item. A second action item to be considered by the town ordinance will immediately follow and will include Board of Trustee deliberation on the official zoning map amendments. Members of the public will have the opportunity to provide comment during the public hearing only so this first portion, Individuals wishing to speak during the public hearing. Please fill out the list name, put your information down there. And then he will give you give him three minutes to speak. Before we open up for public comment. We will have a presentation by Mr. Cody bird the town's planning director.

That's my cue. Good evening, Mayor and board. I am Cody bird done planning director. And as we get going here, I want to also point out around the room tonight's public hearing is on the official zoning map of the town. I have put copies of the zoning map around the room for reference and the board members received a loan by 17 copy in front of you for ease of reference. It's the same version that's in the packet for this particular item. As the mayor alluded to, there is a public hearing tonight, I'd like to go over the public hearing procedures. Just so everyone is aware of how that process works. We'll start with conflicts of interest and any ex parte communications disclosures. And then if the board has any questions, you can ask general questions after the presentation And I will present the item. On behalf of the town for background in history and what's happened and why we're doing this. Then we'll open the public hearing for public comments, and anyone with an interest can speak. following the close of public comments are no more comments to be heard. The mayor will actually closed the public hearing. And then there's room for questions from the board. I can answer any questions, I can come back and speak to that. If there's questions raised from the public, I should be able to speak to most of those and they'll happy happily do so. And then they'll we'll move on to we'll close that public hearing. The second item on this agenda is the actual action. These are separated purposely so that the public hearing can be closed. The second item is the ordinance for consideration by the board. And that is where you will do your deliberations. Any questions on process for public hearing procedures? Okay, then, at this time, I would request if there's any conflicts of interest, or ex parte communications, if the board has those if you could disclose those for the record?

I do.

So we have received multiple emails for and against certain areas of the zoning map as we move forward. Looking at this, the emails have all come to our trusty emails. So I just want to make sure that we do note that in case it has any effect or need to do about ex parte communications, I have just had a few meetings and discussions with people that are looking at specific types of zoning that will fit them best as they move forward opening businesses here in town or maintaining the businesses that they do have here in town. They've all been emailed to me and asked if I would schedule meetings with them and hear their side of everything. So I just want to also disclose that I have had several meetings about all of the zoning changes

what type of meetings

so it was more

explanation on what they were looking for. And what they were trying to do with say the some of the outlawed lots in detention areas. I've spoken with one gentleman that is on the further north side of town related to how his property is zoned, and what he's looking at going forward with how we'd want that zoning going. So it was more about communications of what they were looking at when they are discussing what they would like to see in zoning. So I pretty much stipulated that if anyone would like to have conversations with me related to any items that they can reach out to me and I will try my best to have discussions. Anything that came before the Board of adjustments related to asphalt plant, I have not had those communications and have reassured people I cannot have those communications. But when it comes to like zoning or land use those conversations I have had with multiple people have reached out to me to discuss it with me. Okay.

Yeah. Given that is ex parte calm communication, it would be required for us to be also receive all the same information. So we all have the same information to work with. So I'm curious if that were to be resolved, how that would happen. Dan?

You have a list of those meetings that you've had?

I do. We also have received the same emails from the people that have reached out to me related to the outlaws located down for this.

Can you use your mic as well, please? Yeah,

so these are outlets that are located further down on the South side of town. We've received all of that in the email. So it's the same conversations just explaining it. I know with Travis Redman came and actually spoke to us with the same items that I had spoken with him about, he came after when him and I had spoke, he came to that meeting to let us know what he was looking for on his property that's on the north side of town. So this communication has been received. I just wanted to make sure that I also put that out there that I have had conversations with them and have asked them to come and talk to all of the trustees.

ex parte communications with regard to the zoning map are an interesting one because zoning is inherently a legislative act and so often when the public is coming to talk to you about zoning in general that is legislative item. What this is really about is what we really need with regard to ex parte communications is any very focused communications with interested parties related to specific parcels. Would you say, that's what we're looking for? You're correct coding.

I do agree with that the zoning by its nature is legislative as Mr. sappy Ns is set and the board has acted in the past on the zone, or the land use code updates that affects zoning districts have a broad category and what requirements are affected there? This zone map effort is, in large part a consequence of changing the land use code and making sure that the map is current reflects those changes reflects a number of other things that I'll get into here regarding voting. This map looks a lot different than the current map, we've updated parcels we've cleaned things up. So this is primarily a legislative action. The reason why we have gone above and beyond in terms of public hearings, public notifications, and procedures is to out of an abundance of caution, make sure that there's you know, full disclosure of all the information, there's not been any effort to hide anything, or act in any way that's going to put a property owner in a position where they didn't know what was going on. So we have taken an approach of preserving this as a public hearing process out of abundance of caution.

So what we're looking for, I think you've done a very good job of describing the variety of your communications, the nature of them who they're with, and especially the items that have been shared with the rest of the board. Many, that's really what we're looking for making sure that the decision of the board with with regard to any particular parcel is based on the record that's in front of us and see all everybody including the board and the public knows what information the board's has access have has had access to. But because this is a legislative process, of course, the board is going to hear from a variety of people. So it's gonna be almost impossible to say all of the contacts you might have had. Really, we're just trying to cover all our bases. So I think this is a great. You did a great job of disclosing all of that.

So, all right.

So anything from anybody else? No. Okay.

Okay. So I'm going to start with a little bit of background information. Again, the tonight's public hearing is considering the or considering amendments to the official zoning map of the town. This official zoning map is a legal document, it defines every parcel within the town limits in which the town has jurisdiction for zoning authority, and identifies each of those parcels and the zone district by color. And then I find which uses defined the land use code are applicable to each property within the town. In 2021, the town undertook a pretty significant effort to update our comprehensive plan. And in 2022, the same effort was made to update the land use code. Both those documents have been adopted by the town. And the last step in that large process is to clean this map up to make it consistent with the comprehensive plan in the land use code. So that's our current process, we're in the zoning map. After the adoption of the land use code, the planning commission took on a series of work sessions. And the Planning Commission's role in this process is to really kind of dive into the details, evaluate properties across the town, look at areas where the zoning map was maybe out of date and needed needed a refresher. They provided a lot of policy level guidance to staff in terms of what information was needed for them to evaluate in order to form a recommendation. And the Planning Commission's recommendation is forwarded to the Board of Trustees and the Board of Trustees has the the authority to take final action on changing the official zoning map. So as I alluded to the planning commission met in a series of work sessions beginning in May of 2022, following land use code adoption. They met in those work sessions through September November timeframe. And in December, the Planning Commission conducted a public hearing, again out of an abundance of caution to make sure that we had notices out and everything else and the Planning Commission conducted that public hearing and formed a recommendation or proposed amendments to the zoning map. Those changes recommended by the planning commission reflected changes in the land use code including a couple of pretty substantive items that came out of the comp plan, land use code process, as well as a few items that were pretty insignificant in nature, but we felt the need to go ahead and notify of those things to make sure that out of full transparency, these are all the things that are changing. Some of those larger items included the transitional zone district that's currently on our zoning map some of the They're purple or pink pink on the current zoning map. That zoning category was completely removed from the land use code didn't provide clarity or direction as to what uses are allowed on those properties what they were supposed to be been providing the assurances to neighbors, what could be there. And any new use requires a conditional use hearing, which is positive judicial proceeding and a pretty big encumbrance for anyone to know what's going to happen. So that zoning district was completely eliminated from the land use code. So now all those pink properties are in need of a new zoning designation. So the planning commission looked at each one of those properties individually looked at the surrounding environs and the adjacency the corridors and identified a recommended option for each one of those those transitional properties for what they might become. Those recommendations are reflected on the recommended zoning map that's in your packet packet in front of the board tonight. The another substantive change was out of the Comprehensive Plan land use code process, a brand new zoning district was created, the art for downtown neighborhood zoning district was created specifically as a result of public comments heard. During those earlier processes. There was a desire expressed to preserve the historic and residential character of the downtown neighborhoods, and in particular, long Harrison Avenue McKinley Avenue, Harrison and McKinley avenues were currently zoned transitional and those pink properties. And at the time of the Comprehensive Plan, those areas were identified as an area where the downtown businesses might naturally grow. And we heard very loud and clear from from owners in the public that that that was not the current desire and the desire instead was to protect those residential properties so that our four zone district was specific to those needs. And that's how Harrison and McKinley are reflected on the recommended zoning map, as well as other residential properties between Washington and.

Roseville Thank you, Washington and Roosevelt. And between the railroad and Sixth Street, generally what many of our residents have referred to as Old Town? Sorry for that one. The some of the the lesser changes included the our four zoning district category under the old land use code was for multifamily projects and the title changed to R three, under the new land use code. The differences between the old R four and the new R three were really very minimal. But there was a change in title that's important for some property owners and management companies with in regards to their legal documentation and what their uses are. So we notified them as well that that change was occurring. And then the Planning Commission in an effort to be completely thorough and making recommendations when looking at the official zoning map, also identified a number of properties that had other zoning categories, not transitional, but other commercial, apparently commercial land uses. And the commission identified that maybe those uses weren't the right land use for that corridor or that specific area. A lot of those were light industrial type uses under the old zoning map, and they're recommending either C to downtown, commercial or C one community commercial for some of those districts. I think there's a couple of C threes in there along Highway One, that the Commission said these really are kind of out of character with everything else around it. Let's aim for consistency and continuity in those areas. So those were the Planning Commission's recommendations from December, we presented some of that information to the Board of Trustees, Board of Trustees had a work session on the zoning map and provided some feedback to town staff and took that we made a few changes and updated some things based on that feedback. And subsequent to the board having that presentation and work session. The Planning Commission also requested some additional time to think about the the public zone districts the commissioners have identified. There's an inconsistency with how that public zone category had been applied across different properties in town over time. And largely that pattern seems to be that anytime a new development was proposed, if there was any kind of open space whatsoever, the town identified, that's a public property zoned public, and that pattern isn't necessarily serving the town well, under our current set of regulations and land use development, so the planning commission looked at every single property town wide if it was known to the public or might be zoned public or could be something comparable to public and then looked at definitions from the land use code for what are public spaces. What's the intent of that district? What are the uses currently be allowed on those properties? Then the recommended a series of changes to some of the properties that are zone people Public, the direction from the Commission was largely looking at what is the existing use of those properties? What's there now and today? And is it appropriate to for public access public spaces, parks, playgrounds, facilities, things like that. And if it wasn't primarily drainage areas, was the biggest category was if it's used for nothing but drainage and public isn't supposed to be in there. Why are rezoning public? What's the Commission's direction was on those something comparable to the surrounding land uses. So if it was a residential neighborhood, and there's a stormwater detention detention pond in that residential neighborhood, that pond should be zoned residential same as the surrounding community. So that that was a pretty significant change that happened in March, the planning commission made that recommendation, and those changes are reflected on the map that's in your agenda packet.

So

we're here tonight, I wanted to point out, we did go above and beyond on our procedures and processes. We included in your agenda packet public notifications for newspaper publication that happened for both the planning commission hearing in December, as well as the this hearing for tonight. Those were advertised in accordance with our land use code. And we also sent notices to individual properties that are affected by these changes. I was 816 individual notices that were mailed both in November for the December Planning Commission meeting. And in March for tonight's hearing. We do get some of those back not every single property on that list. received the notices, some of them are due to Pio boxes. Some of them the county records don't reflect current ownership. So we do have a handful of those letters that came back. And those are in our office. But for the most part, those letters were being received because they're not coming back to us. The draft map and all the versions of it have been updated on the website continuously. So that information has been available beginning in May, when the planning commission first took this charge on and began considerations here. Throughout this process, and this is the last piece of my presentation. I thank you for your patience. But I wanted to highlight a couple of specific properties that were new launched throughout the public hearings and Planning Commission considerations. During the December Planning Commission meeting, a couple of property owners property law on Sixth Street had received the notification and came to that hearing and said, You know what, you're the planning commission had recommended properties along the west side of Sixth Street, be zoned C one community commercial. And those individual owners said we'd really like to keep the residential zoning categories. And the planning commission heard that request and said you know that makes that makes sense. There's adjacent residential are for zoning. And so the Planning Commission said we'd be comfortable with either see one community commercial for our for downtown neighborhoods. And so the owner said we would like our for downtown neighborhoods. That change is reflected on this map. It's keynote number A in your agenda packet. The map has ABC and D. So a was the three properties that had ever requested that residential zoning along Sixth Street keynote number B, or letter B, excuse me, is a property on Second Street. It's behind Papa's table. The owner reached out to staff specifically said we bought that property as a commercial investment we'd really like to maintain the commercial zoning Planning Commission looked at it said, you know that property is adjacent to the downtown. It's adjacent to other C two properties. So that makes sense from a planning commission standpoint. And they reflected that on the map. Keynote, letter C reflects all the public properties that were identified that had changes proposed for adjacent zoning considerations. You know, D, the the property was incorrectly identified as to parcel boundaries on one of the Planning Commission's draft maps. The Commission brought that to staff's attention we looked into it said yep, you're right. There was a discrepancy in the property lines and it also affected the zoning. So planning commission recommended clean that area up and zone the the individual owned parcels the same as the same owners contiguous parcels which was agricultural. And zone the other portion of it are to same as the adjacent residential subdivision. So that was keynote D. I also want to speak to that keynote, D because the owner of that property on several contiguous parcels that are large tracts that are zoned agricultural, there's one of those properties on West Harrison and the owner identified correctly that that property has previously been zoned C one community commercial. It's how other business uses in the past and they would like to retain that. See one community commercial zoning. That conversation with town staff happened after the Planning Commission's recommendations so the planning commission wasn't able to weigh in on that. Staff has looked at that. And we are comfortable at the staff level with making that recommendation to keep the C one community commercial zoning based on some of the conversations that planning commission had. It's generally in context with that direction. It is a single parcel. There's a Jason C, one community commercial, and it seems to make sense to staff, obviously, a board consideration discussion. We've had property owners here tonight, too, who may want to speak. But I wanted to bring that to our attention that's different than the Planning Commission has not weighed in on that particular request. Yes, it is. It's in the corner of West First Street and Harrison, west of the railroad tracks. I'm sorry. It is Garfield. Thank you. My apologies. corner of North of Garfield, Weston West Fourth Street. Thank you for trusting. And then a property owner at the corner of Washington Avenue and county road nine has spoken at the Planning Commission has spoken, excuse me spoke at the Board of Trustees in a public forum and has spoken with staff. There was a desire by the owner of that property to keep that property or to sell that property see three mixed use commercial, the planning commission member had an opportunity to weigh in on that. And staff has looked at that the Planning Commission's recommendation was see one community commercial being next to residential in that area and see one community commercial being available across the street across county road nine. The other thing that's a little nuanced on that property is that the when that property was originally developed for self storage uses it went through a conditional use approval process through the town. Conditional uses are when they're approved by ordinance after planning commission review and Board of Trustees consideration. Those ordinances run with the land, meaning once it's approved, it stays that way that conditional use carries year to year. It's transferable across owners ownership doesn't change the conditions of approval. So that conditional use does protect those existing uses on that site subject to those conditions. If it's if there's a desire to redevelop that property in the future, a request can be made to change the zoning district category at that time, depending on the owners desires and needs. And lastly, I wanted to highlight I believe another owner is here tonight who will likely speak I heard from a representative of the Boys and Girls Club. Regarding the property along Sixth Street, that property is jointly owned by the town and the Boys and Girls Club. And the boys got some new information that wasn't really considered in this overall update that maybe there's a desire by the Boys and Girls Club to consider a broad range of uses for that site for the future. I didn't get the impression that that a definitive direction had been decided by their board. But largely that conversation was what can we do to preserve the Boys and Girls Club ability to utilize that asset. In prior conversations, the basis for the recommended official zoning map amendments was based on prior conversations that there was a desire to sell that property for revenue. And if that position has changed, then that's kind of new information this board hasn't heard. So I want you to be aware of that. I think a representative from Boys and Girls Club will also speak to that. But I wanted to acknowledge that conversation. Thank you. That was lengthy. My apologies. Any questions that you have regarding the information? Trustee? We can? Not at the moment. Trustee Mason because you daily

confirming all C's are those that were previously public that have been reconsidered. Is that correct? For CS?

You're referring to in your agenda packet there. There is a map that identifies I'll call them keynotes ABCD. Yes, and so those are not the zoning categories, but the keynotes. The parcels identified with the yellow seas are the properties that were zoned public, and the Planning Commission has recommended a different change reflected by the color on the on the recommended that.

Okay, so those are real out town. Yes, the

planning commission looked at those public properties town wide and their their goal was to create consistency across town and not have one offs where the zoning didn't make sense for the intended use of the property.

Okay, thank you.

Pretty good. The only question I have at the moment on we're just just wanting to confirm on changing of zonings the area of industrial but North side of town that is not a new zoning that is just an existing zoning that's already in place. Correct.

Correct the properties on the existing zoning map and I'll refer to the one on the wall. It's not the same as the one in your packet. But the the areas here.

Yeah, purple,

some some form of purple, beige pine trees have been zoned industrial. So there was no change recommended. As part of this effort. The the recommended zoning map was carrying that zoning forward for industrial.

See,

Michelle, see if I may move it to McDonald joined the meeting via zoom at 730. We may we may wish to ask her for a conflict of interest are experts on communication? Carrie?

Yeah,

we'll ask him before she's talks. Go for it.

Okay, so I just have a few questions to make sure that I'm verifying and understanding correctly. So we have 3530 Garfield Avenue is requesting the C one assignment because they've operated commercially on that property? Correct?

I don't have the address in front of you. Is that the one referenced in the staff report? It is Garfield in West First Street.

Yes. Okay. And that they're wanting to see that see one assignment because commercial already operates out of that area.

Correct. Essentially, the request was it's already zoned see one commercial, they just like to not see it change.

Perfect. Okay, so and then the other question comes with a C three request over on that corner property. And it's mainly because of the fact that when I did look, a lot of this stuff stuff up, if you flip to page 73, in our packet, and you go down to many storage facility, it's not allowed in C one or C two at all. And we're recommending remaining in a C one. But it is conditional and a C three. So that's kind of my question. And concern is we've received a lot of requests from multiple businesses, people in the area that would like to see their property zoned one way or another, I would really like to, if this decreases the amount of time that this person has to spend, if they do change that use to something in that C three thing. If it is assigned C three, then they don't have to continually come back and apply requests, the zoning changes, pay those zoning fees or pay for a variance if they want to see something different, correct. Can I

just want to confirm your notion? So which you said a corner property? And could you just help me identify which one I

can? It's 3143. East County Road 64. So it's one of the only so there's two of them that came? Um, you'd said there was two people that had reached out that the planning commission haven't had a chance to look at yet.

Yeah, this was the property that I had mentioned, was this storage, conditional use approval.

Yes. Okay. Yeah. So and when I look at it, if we recommend, see one, it's not allowed and not use MC one at all, even if it has a conditional use permit, I understand that and it travels with that piece of property. But if they were to eventually want to do something to combine something else, or build upon that option, C three, is a conditional use for the many storage.

I think I follow what you're asking. So the the existing uses on site have the protection of the conditional use approval, if they would, if the owner desires to change that in the future, and they maybe request to see three to accommodate a different type of use, we would need to look at the overall development plan, how much of it stays how much of it goes. Generally speaking, if the property is zoned C three, and they're adding maybe a second phase, or something of that nature and leaving the rest of there, those existing uses and existing buildings would still be protected under the nonconformity clause of the of the land use code. They wouldn't need to come back and get additional approvals for something that's already there.

Got it. But say they wanted to add a different kind of business, would that increase the complications, the applications, the public hearings, items like that? That's what I'm trying to figure out. So if they're trying to explore more than one option for that property, or if they sell it and try to explore more than one option besides just the mini storage, are we making it much more complicated on a property owner that they have to apply? They have to pay a lot of fees when they look at variances, change of zoning, public appearances and public hearings. I'm just trying to figure out how we streamline this process for not only one but the the second one, and you said we might possibly hear from Boys and Girls Club to how we streamline this process. So they're not having to come and do these public hearings as often. As you get

a question from a procedural standpoint that this is a good and valuable conversation to have, I think it would probably best belong in our deliberations. And we can invite Mr. Byrd backup. So I think perfect. So I think it's good conversation. Just think maybe during deliberations is the right place to do that, and lecturing, because I I'm sure we all have a lot of questions, and then we can hear public comment to go into

more questions. Perfect. Mipro 10?

Yes, sir. No questions.

You have any conflicts of interest or ex parte? No, sir. Perfect. One question, I have maybe clear up a lot of misinformation that went around this weekend. You know of any residential daycares that are within the track f. So, you're within 2000 feet, I'll refer

to the to the map real quick. So I'll step away for a minute. Track track def is a stormwater detention pond on the south end of town. I'm gonna point to it here. At the bottom of the map, it's so they the official zoning map, the planning commission recommended change in that zoning from public to see three commercial which is consistent with that corridor. The question was, are there any residential daycare facilities there had an opportunity to review residential daycare facilities within the town limits as of today, and this state of Colorado has a licensed childcare facility on globe flower that was issued in December of 2022. And that property is within 2000 feet of of the tractor. If that's was the subject of your question. Thank you

might solve a lot of issues for reasons why people showed up tonight. Okay, I guess we go on to public comment at this time.

I'm gonna have a seat right here and I'm gonna take some notes. I'll be available after their public comment. Thank you.

Thank you for your patience if you could open the public hearing. Oh,

yeah. Okay, now, I will open the public hearing on the amendment of the official zoning map town Wellington time being 7:52pm. Yeah, you'd like to speak from the podium, put your name down. State your address for the record.

I want to get it over with

I am Korean Brewer. What was I supposed to say? Oh, yeah, I brought it down. I live 6679 Cranesbill streets. So I'm here to talk about tract F. Columbine. And in preparation for tonight, I read through the 2014 master plan, the 2015 parking trails master plan, the 2020 comprehensive all that all the plans website as a strategic plan updates. I've lived in Wellington over nine years half that time isn't the Old Town area. The other half is in that mountain view Ranch neighborhood. And anyone who's been here is known we've seen phenomenal growth. We've also seen great increases and other issues going on too. And the attempts to work through all those challenges in small town. But at the same time, we're trying to not be a bedroom community. We're trying to be a town, maintain our own identity, our fiscal viability, all that other stuff you guys already agree with that. I don't have to tell you. And I know you're working to address those. And thanks for doing that because I don't want to be in your seats. But I want to voice my opposition and concerns for rezoning that wastewater tract F. Columbine, from public to commercial or any other zoning. I live in that southernmost part of Wellington and the original assessments that were done back in 2014 and 2015. They even said that that was a that assessment mentioned that our section of Willington that so there's sections this is not my words. It says it's considered below threshold for walkable level of service for park and recreation opportunities. I'm not saying there's not recreation opportunities in Wellington, I'm saying that the southern section has not been as developed, which is understandable. And just recently we saw more than 50 homes just in our neighborhood added and the town of Wilmington, the residents, the homeowners, I really believe would be best served by considering not zoning that commercial, but how to utilize that tract of land. And I realized it's a wastewater detention facility I realized we poured money into it had problems. But it could be a walking trail or biking trail around it, picnic tables, all those kinds of things, we should be opening it up to public use, not just we're throwing balls for our dogs, we're really not supposed to be there. It could be soccer fields, I know that the previous meeting is shown pictures of it being full of water. Truthfully, I live there it is dry. The majority of the time, I'm not saying there's never water. But I think there's options that could be looked into. It's the southernmost gateway to our town, people walk or walk, they drive in that way. So there's opportunities to really be an attractive feature a welcome to our town, and the neighborhoods there are going to be affected by that as well. Right now, the neighborhood doesn't have any trails. We don't have any our neighborhood. We don't have any paved trails we don't have, we don't connect to the rest of the Wellington trails. And if you look in the documents, the town has produced a facilities and program goals and strategy talks about creating more attractive and resilient environments incorporating environmental conservation, recreation access. So I mean, just your recent cohesion goals and strategies, developing and upgrading upgrading and trying to talk fast because I know there's other people. Oh, okay, I'll try it wasn't watching the clock, if I can just say my conclusion that so anyway, I really wanted to say we should be looking to preserve and expand our parks and trails system in South Wellington. We should be promoting community gathering spaces, and buffers from development. Not that we don't need business we do the zoning track to F seems like more like a political maneuver because most businesses can already go into those business zoned areas.

How much longer is this going to be? That's That's it, thank you.

The representative he was talking about Good evening.

My name is Pete Meyer live at 5621 Cajun wood drive in Fort Collins. I am the current board, Chair board president for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Larimer County. First of all, I want to say, you know, I can share with you how proud we are to be operating our facility here in town is a pleasure to provide the services that we give for the kids and the families in this community. Not everybody knows this, but we are also landowners here, we own a property in conjunction with the town called attending property on on Sixth Street. And unfortunately, due to circumstances, kind of get into, we've only just recently learned about the rezoning requests. And I was able to meet with Cody today to understand it a little bit. And I understand its purpose. And I get it. However, the new zoning is I would interpret it, especially as we look at the uses would not allow the Boys and Girls Club to do what it was what that land was originally intended for and what it was originally gifted to us for which is to be a Boys and Girls Club facility. When we purchased the church property and converted to a Boys and Girls Club, five years ago now probably yes, our intention was to sell that land. But you know, things change and the club has expanded its services. We are now under will be under construction on a facility in Loveland that we hope to replicate in potentially Wellington is campus that will serve children from three months of age 18 years of age, we'll take care of kids that have physical and mental challenges. We will provide mental health services we potentially will provide health care services there too. It'll work just calling it a community kitchen but it will be able to serve families that have all kinds of challenges that was that have multiple kids that need to go to different services. Can you all go to one location no matter what their challenges are? financial and physical mental. We're getting national recognition already and we haven't even broken ground that will happen soon. And again, that's why our thinking on that land has changed. You know, as I mentioned, it was our intention when we bought that the most likely sell it and use the funds for operating Wellington and other clubs. I guess what I'm getting to is I would like to oppose the C three zoning because on that parcel because it doesn't allow The Boys and Girls Club to provide services that can be an absolute benefit to this community. Thank you

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Ken pedia. I'm the property owner 3530. Garfield property was brought up in question about C one zoning that property has been CE one zone for as long as I've ever owned it. I also own the several adjacent properties to that property that are zoned agricultural, which we do utilize and operate in cattle for this facility there. And I would just like to say that, at this point in time, in my operation, I would like to just keep 3530 as a C one. Classification, it is most beneficial to me to keep it that way, rather than to attaching it to buy agricultural operation from a resale standpoint. And so I would just like to say, I'd like to just keep it that way. I just don't see any real sense in changing it at this point. I did try thinking from the previous administrator administration when I acquired the property and trying to get pulled into my agricultural operation. And I was told that had to go through a complete zoning process application, public hearings, etc, etc. And so I opted not to do that. And so at this point, and be forced into that agricultural adoption just does not make economical sense for me at this point. So I would like to keep my destination has this. Thank you, folks. I appreciate your time. Thank you.

Good evening.

My name is Aaron Bradley and I live at 6563 Glow flower street speaker honoree on the issue of rezoning the retention pond that is offered below flower for for commercial purposes. The current current retention pond is the southernmost area down here, the green is the retention pond and the purple area is a commercial, they're looking to rezone all this as commercial, which would eliminate our retention pond for the Mountain View ranch district. And that is holding for the sole purposes of wanting to put a marijuana plant or a pot store there in the area. This is located within 500 feet of a residential area. And I would prefer that we do not eliminate that retention pond for the purposes of putting in more commercial areas. And a marijuana store there. I would prefer not to have the Mountain View ranch in my own home having insufficient drainage issues or have the area flood for the for the purposes of having those businesses down there. We do have a daycare that is often blood flower that was previously mentioned. And so if we rezone that for commercial and to have a marijuana plant, put there that would eliminate that daycare, that would also reduce drainage for that area. Yes, sir.

So the daycare being there would make it so marijuana can't go there. Yeah, that's what I was trying to clarify that before. So just keep that in mind. rezoning it with a daycare within 2000 feet does not allow marijuana to go in there.

Yeah. And so that would be within that 2000 feet. So that would affect that daycare that would affect that retention pond.

No, the daycare would stop marijuana from coming in. Today, we have theoretically,

let's make a suggestion. We share all our past precedents and public comment and not engage. Yeah, I just I just wanted

to make sure that we weren't going into the weeds on on the marijuana for the zoning map. But we just had

a we just had a flyer that was stuck on our door that said they were trying to put in a second pot plant. And the only thing that is stopping that marijuana store is the rezoning of the retention pond that was misinformation. So that needs to be corrected then because that's what it was the information that was provided to us in the Mountain View ranch district for rezoning of the retention pond for the purpose of putting in a second pipeline. So as I said, I would prefer not to have one the marijuana store there. I'm strongly against that. And I would also like to continue to have the area zoned for the retention pond for the purpose of adequate drainage during thunderstorms and snow all the melt off right now that is slowly starting to fill with water. So I just like to keep that consideration to keep that retention pond zones to one, keep adequate drainage for that area and also to to keep the marijuana store away from that area. Put it in a different spot. That's too close to schools, too. To close to schools residential, and it just doesn't need to be right across the street from my house. Thank you. Thank you.

Hi, my name

is Ben Lysenko. I am at at 605 citation court. And I would just like to thank you all for your time, I want to address the industrial section north of town there. And how that is not necessarily in ENCODE are in line with the non residential zone best practices to have light industrial, separate with that heavy industrial, right, we're starting to get that residential up there, there's a park right there. And those are now adjacent rather than having them like a separate with the light industrial. And I think this will inevitably cause friction between the two different uses in such close proximity, proximity, I apologize. And then finally, what I've asked you all is to postpone a decision on leaving that industrial or approval with conditions and make that conditional use instead of a right by use for the industrial section up there. Giving this town some more control about what goes in there. In case of an asphalt and I guess. Yeah. So that's all I had. Thank you for your time. And yes, please think about what

I said there. Thank you.

Good evening, Travis

Redman i on the property that's been discussed on the corner of 64, and nine cannonball cell storage. And I would like to state that I would request that to be C three I've requested with the town, that's a better fit for what it is. And for my plans in the future. I also own a property on West Harrison Ave, Avenue 3506. And I'm also friends with some of the neighbors in there. And that's the one that was transitional and set to be C one community commercial. I think there's a necessary item of clarification there that we need to make. And it's a question also, will those properties be considered non conforming when the zoning map changes? And that's maybe a

question for Cody.

I read through the code like six times, and it's not clear.

You say it is a well, yeah, well, let go, Julian,

can you pause my time,

what we'll do is he'll, maybe he'll record the questions you have, and then he'll come up and address those. Okay, we'll continue talking, or the address just one more time.

My property is 3506 Harrison Avenue. It's between it's at block between first and second, and Garfield and Harrison. The reason it's significant. And in the code, it's unclear, it says that non conforming uses any use of land that was legally in existence, and non conforming on the date that code was adopted, which is a year ago. But if, for some reason it kicks these properties into non conforming, it puts quite a few burdens on the property owners to first of all, see they've got to register those with the town. They can't add on, they can't rebuild if there's over 50% of loss. And the non conforming use can be terminated anytime by the board of adjustments, it kind of puts the properties on the chopping box block. And the purpose is to push them to commercial, which I understand but there's quite a few residences in there. And many of those, they've those people have put everything into their that house. My one neighbor is a retired elderly lady. And if she had to leave that she would be she'd have nothing. My other neighbor is a Hispanic couple that's in the process of buying the house and they they have plans to build a garage and they want to add on which they couldn't do if it's considered non conforming. You can't add on or build anything to it. So I'd like to have that clarified. And if it is the case that those are non conforming, I think we need to make some provision around that because I don't think it's it's kind of a unique neighborhood. There's some commercial stuff mixed in with it with some residences and some of the houses or you know, trailer houses and some double wides and stuff so, but I think it needs some attention. Thank you. Thank you

all right. I had a spread out some notes. Sorry, I guess. Okay, darling peacock.

Um, so I watched some of the planning commission meetings and honestly, sorry, but I nearly fell asleep. They literally went through each parcel one by one, and cleaned up a ton of inconsistencies. It was tedious and it was boring, but they did it and kudos to them. I think I'm not on their zoning should not be based on how it may affect a single business, the changes or the blueprint for the entire town and using it to harm or benefit, one business type will likely backfire down the road, it would be irresponsible to apply a different set of standards to a single detention basin that was applied to every other public zoned and attention track. The Planning Commission in their work session that is recorded, applied a very specific set of criteria to each property without bias to change. One property regardless of the methodical method would be spot zoning. And I use that word on purpose spot zoning. Having said that, the board of adjustments needs to do a better job, in my opinion, representing the residents when it comes to approving variances on heavy industrial businesses within 800 feet or so of residences, where Noxious Fumes would be released in could be released and homeowners could be affected by it, especially those with asthma. Yes, keeping it short for you tonight, because I know you got a lot. But also be wary of misinformation. Thank you, thank you

going once out of bed

every level,

here's some of the things people are saying. And I I am not sure about what people said about the zoning this into see three here. And I am concerned about a hot shot being put in anywhere in the town. But I want to under understand if there is plans to put in a pot shop there was my understanding there. There was a plan kind of circulating to, to go in there. And I would like to know what the the people here know about it.

So this is public comment, not public question. So I cannot answer those questions. At this time, so I just wanted to clarify. Yeah. Standing so I can't I can't I just can't

coming in? Well, because i i Can I could give a speech about marijuana and how bad it is.

Right. Whatever you would like. I just can't answer your question. I'm sorry. You can't you I cannot answer a question. That's correct. All

right. Well, you have somebody here clarify it for us all here.

This is public comment. So questions would have had to been sent prior. And we will be having discussion on marijuana at a later date. Right now this is rezoning.

Okay, so this is rezoning but it's not rezoning that will result in having a pot shop in town.

So once again, this is public comment, not question. I will, I will try to do what I can. Okay. Ask proper questions. Cody,

do you feel that we should not have

business? Ladies and gentlemen, this man has a hard time hearing. I would appreciate if you could keep it down so she could hear I have

sight problems too. So I can't really see the screen load times like see the numbers up there are my time remaining. I'll just say that I will I do not want a pot shop in town. And especially well, I know there's already one I would I am speaking against any other further pot shops. Because on behalf of the half of the people of this town, or more, who do not want it and voted against it, that we not have any more in town we are I don't know what will be next. I don't know if it'll be the magic mushrooms or some other drugs that are planned to come into our town. I feel that there are a lot of problems with marijuana, it causes problems with the, with the brains, the behavior of the people who take it and smoke it and so on or take another forms. It also causes probably behavioral problems which we are now dealing with. And there are a lot of evidence that it causes all kinds of other problems, homelessness, suicides, other kinds of things. And I've lived in a neighborhood with lots of drugs. And there were constant attempts to rob people. It wasn't safe to walk in the streets. I don't want Wellington to be like that. I want it to be a very good conservative town like it was a few years ago. So thank you. Thank you

Hello, everyone, I'm

Christopher grant, I live in Buffalo Creek. And I would like everyone to read a CDC review of health effects of occupational exposure to asphalt, this report was by the CDC, the US Department of Health and occupational services. In this report, we have health effects of occupational exposure to asphalt. And I would recommend all of the trustees and all of our community members to read this report. It is extensive, tells you all the chemicals, everything, all the carcinogens it's amazing how much information is in here, and it took me literally 10 seconds to get this information. 10 seconds. So I hope everyone in the community reads this. Because I don't know how this got zoned heavy industrial and big, zoned heavy industrial because of a chicken plant. There should have been city amendments that said, Hey, we're gonna make it heavy industrial because got

Excuse me, sir. Can you get close to your mic so they can hear you online? Got a chicken plant? Okay, sorry.

Okay, those city amendments should have been reviewed by the city attorney. Because you know what kind of liability you're gonna have. Making that heavy industrial. I got a child has asthma. He's 10. I waited for 10 years for the park to be built that was promised 10 years ago. The parks built we love it. We enjoy it. We have a blast. We have an absolutely amazing time in that park. And that parks going to smell like tar. everyone hear me? That part is gonna smell like tar. Enjoy the tar. Okay. CDC report 2001. And if the planning commission had a clue, and no offense to anyone, personally, Okay, where were the city amendments with a variance for the chickens back for the chicken. Okay. Making this I mean, now we just, everyone over here is getting cancer, Z.

That's cancer. I'm moving.

You want to expand this town? You want to keep putting out building permits? One after another? Where's the water coming from? Okay. Let's get to real business. Take care of the community. The people, not the plants, the people heavy industrial means chemicals. carcinogens. I want everyone to do their homework. Okay. Now many people complain to me about we have no idea what carcinogens are in an asphalt plant. Really? Read the report took me 10 seconds to Google. You know why people can't find it. First, I Googled. And I know my time is up. But first I Googled thank you for your time carcinogens. Thank you. Okay. Read the report. Your time.

Going once, going twice.

Public comment is now closed. Hearing no further comments closing time at the official public hearing for the amendments to the official zoning map to town time being 6:18pm 818. What am I doing 8:18pm.

Now we'll deliberate.

At this point, there'll be no more public hearing. And Cody will come back and address questions that were brought up issues with the zoning before we as a Board have further discussion.

Thanks, man. So this next part is consideration of an ordinance. The ordinance was drafted based on the Planning Commission's recommendation for the map that was included in your agenda report. Obviously, we've heard some information from from the public and individual property owners tonight. So one of your motion options is to make changes to the official zoning map. If you choose to adopt it or adopt it with changes we can certainly help you craft that motion appropriately. did take notes throughout the public comment period and I would like to try to go through and address some of the questions or topics that I heard information relative to And of course, I would stand for any questions that that the board has relative to that. Questions on the ordinance before I dive into some responses

not to pick on the individuals to kind of go in order just because that might be easiest to follow along with

a herd

and not trying to quote anyone. So I'm not putting words in mouths. But I made a note that there was some opposition and concerns regarding potential rezoning of tract f. That was the property on the south end of town. It's currently zoned public planning commission after an evaluation and recommended change in that property to see three commercial mixed use commercial. The that was Planning Commission's recommendation was based on an evaluation of all the properties town wide. And it was pretty I mean, we the planning commission spent probably a two hour long meeting on that one topic of the public zoning districts. I didn't mention it earlier, but in your agenda packet, there's a table of of each of those properties that the planning commission evaluated and some criteria for what was being considered. My apologies for not mentioning that earlier, but that was in your agenda packet and available. The there was some some comments about while I'm on that topic, a later comment came up on the same subject matter. And the one of those comments was that if that property was rezone to commercial or any other zoning category, that it would remove the stormwater detention for the neighborhoods. And that would not be true. The stormwater detention pond. First of all, tract F is a property owned by the town. So the town has that property in its control. There's also a drainage easement covering that property. Drainage easements are planted and recorded. They protect that that area for drainage purposes. So there's that level of protection there to ensure that that stormwater pond remains a stormwater pond. And I say stormwater pond pretty vaguely, there's a lot of other drainage facilities infrastructure that ties into that as well. And furthermore, a tract is not a developable lot. A lot is developable. I mean, a building permit can be issued, a tract cannot be issued a building permit, it would have to go through subsequent development review processes in order for any any building permits or change of use or anything else for that. So I wanted to kind of tie those two things together, since they're both related to the same subject matter. The representatives from Boys and Girls Club brought up concerns about the future uses of regarding future uses of the property line to sixth street. I don't want to interpret much of what was said I think it was said pretty well from from that. Representative Mr. Meyer. I think Mr. Proteas comments speak for themselves, wanting to preserve that existing see one property for their property in Fairfield inn, and whisper Street.

Heard a question about the I'm paraphrasing, but I think the substance of the question was relative to what is the effect of making amendments to the town's official zoning map in relationship to marijuana topics. And so I am certain I won't be able to answer every question regarding that in one fell swoop, but I'll I'll take a first step there. And then if there's follow up questions or discussion, I'm happy to circle back. The official zoning map as we discussed earlier, as a legal document identifying the uses allowed within town on each specific property, updating that zoning map has been undertaken to clean up some corrections make some necessary changes regarding consistency with a comprehensive plan and land use code. That's a broad legislative act. It's not intended to be a site specific rezoning development proposal or otherwise. So the effect of making those changes is broad in nature as opposed to site specific. I know that the topics regarding marijuana and allowed uses are under a separate ordinance that was approved by the voters. The marijuana ordinance has has protective overlay buffers around identified property types and zoning categories. And so those were still in effect today regardless of of actions on the official zoning map. So the two topics are really not related. I certainly understand that there's some nuance that can be read into that and future decisions down the road could be Come a factor on site specific development plans. There was a question about industrial light industrial uses for properties on the northern area of town. I think the comments were pretty well made by individuals regarding general best practices for transitioning from areas of heavy industrial to light industrial to Commercial to Residential. That's a well documented zoning and development strategy to help separate incompatible uses and integrate compatible uses. So I don't disagree with those comments. Certainly some of the nuanced information relative to site specific proposals that are still in the process of review. I can't speak in detail on those. But I can speak to the board of adjustments having taken action on a topic there recently Tober 2022 did look very specifically at the existing land uses and the entitlement of those those land uses relative to there being no separation, dating back a couple of decades. And so certainly some of those transitional areas, I shouldn't use the word transitional because we've eliminated that zoning, but they stepped down from density and intensity of uses didn't exist in our prior land use code. And that an effort was made to provide some separation from incompatible land uses moving forward. So a lot of the question has come down to what do you do with those that are already entitled for uses in there? You know, a buddy. There was also a question about, or I heard, I heard a request for the property at the corner of Washington and kinda wrote nine to be zoned C three. That's certainly something that this this board can consider. We spoke to it earlier in the presentation materials. The Planning Commission had not considered C three for that property when the planning commission went through their initial review on uses around town. property was previously zone transitional, so they had to assign a new zoning district recommendation to it. They specifically chose C one because of its compatibility with that corridor and adjacency to residential neighborhoods. They did not consider c three because there's no other C three along that particular corridor in that vicinity. So it would be a single property with that different zoning designation. It might also be worthy of considering in the board's deliberations that certainly C three zoning could be considered for for a specific use. And we don't have a proposal and application review at this time identifying what exactly would be proposed there, so rezoning it something different. Without a proposed development plan may be a little bit premature. That same individual brought up questions about see one's own properties on Harrison avenue west of the railroad tracks. Those properties are currently zoned transitional. It is certainly an area with a variety of existing uses with a broad spectrum of uses there. The Planning Commission did look at this area pretty specifically in making their recommendations. And as you can see on the map, that was recommended, and in your packet, they looked at the area closest to Highway One being Zone C three, and then stepping down to C one for the mid block and inter residential kind of matching existing uses and expected development intensity moving away from the highway. The C one category does identify a variety of neighborhood uses that would be allowed as a use by right. If that C one zoning is approved, it would not affect the existing uses of those properties that would be protected under the language and land use code regarding non conforming uses non conforming structures. Those protections are pretty broad. There is some nuance that Mr. Redmond had alluded to that is confusing or can be challenging to understand if you're not familiar with that vernacular, town staff is certainly available and happy to answer any of those questions for as individual property owners on what their rights are, how they're protected and what their options are moving forward. We already kind of commented on the public zoning Planning Commission did spend a lot of time specifically talking about that topic and some of that information is in your packet. Happy to answer any questions as we move forward. kind of already alluded to the effect of the zone map changes relative to marijuana topics. And I watched I know that a comment about how the Industrial Property north of town became industrial and wasn't associated with the chicken plant. The infamous Chicken plant wasn't here for that, that history, I have heard a lot about it. Based on the information and research that that I have done through the town's records, that industrial zoning was in place at the time that chicken plant was proposed. They did go through a development review process. The property was originally one large lot about 30, or plus or minus acres, and there was a minor subdivision approved to specifically identify one lot for a specific development purpose, and that did ultimately receive approval, the zoning of that land had been industrial throughout that process from the time it was annexed and zoned into town. Again, that's based on the information that that I've been able to find in towns records. I was not here at the time, but I've certainly done quite a bit of digging into that topic. And those were the high level questions that I heard that I wanted to respond to, again, not believing that I captured every single question or comment, but that was my first take on it. And I'd be happy to respond any further questions.

Thank you. Trustee weekend, I've

got a couple of things that I'd like to consider on here. As far as rezoning the rolls attract app for the detention pond, right, the retention pond, I live over in the meadows. And we have on the south side of the meadows, we have a retention pond, we got our pond over there. And in the retention pond, we have uses baseball field, that would be a good place for Grails could be I mean, just because right now the development has not completely went to that spot and to develop it doesn't mean it does not have uses for a park. So to eliminate that and to change it to see three where it should be. I don't see why it should be anything different than what the retention pond baseball field park that we have over in the metals, why it should be any different than that. Second thing is the Industrial Classification up north. You know, you have all the residents are right, close. And, you know, again, not even considering the asphalt plant, which I know where it's at right now. And I really don't want to have that ugly thing in our town, really. But I know. But that's good. But there is a lot of problems that could happen there. I mean, you got again, the carcinogens everything else. I mean, I had lived on a property one time that I didn't realize was a landfill. The two kids that was born on that landfill. We had problems with you know, we had heart murmurs. We had one or, but was not quite right. And we had to do some medical intervention at that point. So these things can affect the people. And I don't blame for our people being nervous about it. So again, I think we should I mean, there's plenty of room up north of that, that would probably be more conducive for that plant. You know, I'm all for bringing in business. But we want to make sure that it's the right business and it's right business location.

Thank you. So you're talking about moving the football industrial, you're proposing a light industrial instead of the chosen?

Can we use our mics? Oh,

sorry. I'm just clarifying. So is that what you're proposing? Is that purple industrial transition to the light industrial? That that was my question. Thank you. As you teach

I want to hear additional questions first before is that okay,

I would like you to go now. Okay.

So I guess my proposal from hearing Boys and Girls Club would be to support their request for that see one zone zoning across from the elementary school. If in fact that is what's being brought to us. That's my suggestion on that one. As far as going up north I would support Dave's suggestion on light industrial looking at adds the property request on Highway One and county road 64. I would support the C three request because we've taken everybody else's requests and supported a lot of them. I don't see why we would not. My question for Cody, and you can answer this just as you're going down your list, the red days highlighted here in community commercial. Is that not allocated for an elementary and middle school? and Future Planning and Development? We're talking about tracked here. Yep.

I can answer that question. Now, if that's desirable. So reference the map. Properties. Yes. So the the the two parcels north of the existing middle school high school, when at the time those were annexed into the town of Wellington by pooter. School District, the current land use code had not yet been adopted. So the categories to choose from were different. And the discussions with the school district was they have intent to develop for a future Elementary School, future Middle School potential transportation facility, there's some other things in their master plan. And the C one community commercial at the time that was adopted supported all of those potential uses. The Planning Commission looked at this the C one zoning is existing, there's not any need to change that currently. And there's nothing developed there currently. It's general best practice to to preserve vacant parcels for uses that they would be suitable to. So restricting those to public zoning, even though they are owned by the school, we understand that's the school's intent, if they chose to rezone that to develop it in the future that have to go through a process. So we've just kind of the direction was to leave it alone, because it doesn't have to be changed. Got it.

So my suggestion would be to transition that corner lot to see three as property owner requested. The clarification that was brought up today, because this was actually something that was new to me the properties that we are looking at transitioning in. So the ones that came under question by Mr. Redman, the red box and see one right behind the C three on Cleveland. So those ones, you're verifying that those property rights of those owners would be protected. And if they did want to go and build a garage, they could go and do so if this transitions.

If the SU if a C ones, I'm sorry, if the C one zoning or any other zoning is approved for those areas, the existing uses and structures are protected under the non conformities language of this land use code

that I'm talking about a new building on that property.

And any new structures would have to conform to the existing land use code. So the that's referring to like setbacks, building height, things of that nature, the existing use of the site, if it's identify if it's already a residence, the use doesn't change because they had a garage, it's still a residential use. So they would still be able to construct additional structures as long as they conform with the setbacks and other requirements. Got it?

And then the other one would be my recommendation for this see one from the gentleman's request earlier, right across the street from that block of red property and question,

the one that's got all the agriculture around.

Yes. And my other question was, is in that the, in your see identifications, right. kitty corner, it says that this outlawed the detention area that was previously public is transitioning to that C three. And it said in the future planning, it said here that future planning there is a parks and trails suggested through that area. Would that not be and I know I talked about this at our work session. Was there a reason that it did not transition from the planning commission to stay that public instead of the C three if a trail is planned through that area?

Refer to the map make sure I'm in this absolutely. This room. This is West first street with Cleveland. There's a DNA storage

Yes. Yep.

Repeat for the microphone. Properties that was first street beside a and a storage there's a town owned property between that existing commercial development and Boxelder Creek The property there was recommended to be zoned C three consistent with the Planning Commission's other recommendations for that corridor being along Highway One and being able to support a higher intensity commercial development. It is a town owned property, there are no current uses on it. A large part of the Planning Commission's considerations and looking at the the public zoned properties was identifying what's there today, what is their existing for, especially for town owned properties, the Planning Commission, the recommendation was based on the knowledge that for a town owned property, the town has the authority to change its zoning district for its uses at any time. And so their guidance was, when there's a Park proposed when there's a trail proposed, and it's been accessible for public uses, go ahead and change that. You make that change on the official zoning map at that time to reflect that, in the meantime, zoning that public now would prevent someone from coming back and redeveloping that property differently for commercial uses if the town desired to sell it. So that again, kind of consistency with the adjacent subdivision. The Planning Commission recommended C three for that corridor, zoning the property adjacent to it as C three because there's not an existing use was their recommendation. I.

Think that's, that's all I have right at this time.

Perfect. Investigator.

All right. So I'll start with that one, because we were just discussing it. I think that the only concern I have, if that's something where we envision so I know, we've talked a lot about trails coming through town. In a lot of cases, I think the town has shot itself in the foot by not setting something up for a future plan. And then we go to make that future plan and no other stuff is in the way. So if we do zone it is, again, I understand it's owned by the town right now. So obviously we can change that if needed in the future. But if the thought process is, hey, we think that this would be a good location to have a trail through town. It wouldn't make sense to leave that as public so people aren't looking at that. And again, speaking towards this specific one here that we just finished talking about is something I think that we do need to consider. If we're going to rezone something is commercial. The other question too hot as if there is a detention pond? I don't know how much of that is taken up by the detention pond, would that even be able to be built on without losing that use of the detention pond?

Are you referring to the same property?

Same property?

Yeah, there's there's not currently a detention pond constructed on that property. It is adjacent to Boxelder Creek some of the areas encumbered by floodplain. And I'd have to research to be sure it may be encumbered by a drainage easement as well. But there's not currently a stormwater facility on that property. Got

it. Okay. So it's not currently stormwater. Okay. But that's the thought process that I think that would be wise of us to look at if we are talking about and I understand we're not doing a trail tomorrow. But rather than saying, well, let's just rezone it when we get to that point, if we're talking about property that the town already owns. And we think and I know, I think we're doing our parks master plan. This coming year, we're actually working on through a grant process for that right now. And I don't know if that's going to incorporate trails or not, I don't know if that's part of that. But I just My concern is that if we're going to put it as commercial that we're basically saying this is our ideal, but this would be used for and if we're thinking that is actually should be used for something else, it would not be wise to put it as commercial. The second question is that block of see one right behind that those which was to transitional prior to

this, that's only storage, right?

So this portion, right here?

Oh, okay.

I believe is transitional currently. Is that correct? That's correct. Okay. And those are those residential uses.

There's a mix of a mix with that block. There's there's some contractor commercial, it used to be Randy's tire. Okay, that was an existing? I believe that's correct. It's been a little while. There was a tire shop there for many years. There's existing single family residential, there's modular units there stick built units, there's used to be wish landscaping was located over there. And there's some some unique approvals that happened. Back can I say back in the day because I don't have a specific date for kind of some live work type of units. So there's definitely a variety and the storage uses the cell storage around there. So there's definitely a wide range of existing uses.

Okay. And then, did all of these property owners receive notification about the zoning process that their properties were proposed to be rezone to see one community commercial

I can't speak to whether they received were sent but notices were sent in. Again, we sent individual notices to the addresses of record for any property that was being affected by a change in the zone map and include all the transitional properties. So we did send notices to those individual property owners based on the county records we have available to us. We also published the advertisement for tonight's public hearing in Colorado and the town's official news newspaper. And I already reiterated the history of information on the website via the town's social media and prior meetings and agendas and discussions.

Okay, did we receive any feedback from property owners in that area of that little block there requesting that they not be included in the see one commercial.

Within that block we town staff, a little bit of myself a little bit from Paul Whelan, our Senior planner who have had some conversations with Mr. Redman. And as he alluded to, we didn't make contact today when he was reaching out with some of those questions on the see one, we'd be happy to follow up on those. We didn't receive any other correspondence from or communications from anyone else in that area. There was one individual that owns the old saddle shop along Highway One that attended the planning commission public hearing. And his comment after the meeting was, I don't have a problem with the recommended C three zoning right there along Highway One, he bought the property. This was his words to me after the meeting, but he indicated that, that that made sense for him for an investment purpose that he's living there now, but down the road, he sees more value in the commercial asset. So those were the only property owners that we've specifically heard from.

And then I, if I recall correctly, because we talked about this when we were going through the zoning, not the zoning, but through the land use code. We did make some adjustments with the regards to non conforming uses for residential, I believe, in regards to being rebuilt. Is that correct that we added some additional protections that weren't initially in there because of the concern that if you owned a home in an area that got rezone to commercial or was zoned as commercial, and your house burned to the ground, you would now no longer be able to rebuild your home? If I recall correctly, we did put some additional protections in for specifically those examples.

There were some specific examples, and I don't have the land use code in front of me. But as I recall there,

because I was looking at that, if you want to Yeah, that'd be great.

Yeah, absolutely. While you're looking for that, I recall that some of those specific nuance was related to existing religious land uses and protecting their ability to to rebuild if they choose to do so I believe the same was true for residential properties in a CTU. downtown district. I believe those were the two changes that were specifically made. Christie Daly find that section

Yep. So it's on one page 184 of the land use code section seven 110 e to damage or destruction if the structure in which non conforming uses house operate or maintain is destroyed by any means the extent of more than 50% of its fair market value. The use may not be reestablished except in compliance with all regulations applicable to the zoning district in which it's located. This is what scares people that part right? And that we acknowledged scares people and we agreed was not right. In certain scenarios, those scenarios were okay, so I'll continue B if the structure in which nonconforming use have a use house operated or maintained, is partially destroyed, or the damage does not exceed 50% of its fair market value. The non conforming use may not may be allowed to continue and the structure may be rebuilt but not enlarged upon approval of the building permit. That's not gonna help you feel better yet, but that's just B. C. In the C to downtown core commercial district only residential uses lawfully existing as of the date of this code adoption are deemed conforming uses and may be reestablished upon approval of a building permit. D in the C to downtown core commercial district only religious land uses lawfully existing as of the date of this code adoption are deemed conforming uses and may be reestablished upon approval of a building permit. Those are the things that we put in specifically to protect those rights.

Okay, perfect. Thank you so much, Trustee Daly. Okay. So that would apply to C to that wouldn't those protections would not apply to those C one though. Those see they would have the normal 50% but they would not have the special protections that were put in place for the C two downtown because these are proposed to be zoned a C one right here. So C two would be along Cleveland, basically C two is along Cleveland Avenue. And then these are on harfield RC one. And so that's just something.

But the issue with that issue is that

we haven't heard anything. We haven't heard anything from anyone saying, Hey, I don't want to be zoned to see one. I know Mr. Redmond shared that he had had some conversations with his neighbors. But that's the one issue I have with that just, I'm not sure what to do with that one. Another thing too, I mean, I appreciate members of public coming out. This is the emails that we received earlier today was a total of 78 pages, I think was some study. So I appreciate that being sent was 19 pages of just actual emails from residents with their concerns about the zoning and a lot of that applied specifically to the setbacks that were brought up today. And moving from higher intensity uses to lower intensity uses. So there's two sides of it that we have to look at number one, when we look at zoning things are people's based on requests. So for example, you know, request to have C one instead of agricultural, its existing C one not a big deal. The request to have the C three, commercial up along County Road nine, that would, if it, if we're going to look at trying to not have high intensity use as next to residential, zoning a C three property immediately adjacent to residential would kind of fly in the face of that in that portion, the industrial portion that's been brought up, well, this neighborhood has not been built, the site plan has been approved for this higher neighborhood, and that is immediately adjacent to the industrial. So that would fly in the face of that. The C three that's proposed on the timming property is immediately adjacent to residential, which would also find the face of having lower intensity uses next to residential. We do also have the other C three below that that is kind of on the main intersection, but that again, and then as you come down Sixth Street, we have the C three immediately south of Cleveland, but that is again, that's up against C two downtown commercial that's up against primarily the C four or sorry, our four downtown neighborhoods, which is still residential, but it's a higher density residential, so that wouldn't really be an issue. But then we start to get down by Jefferson, we have all this C three, again, it isn't long highway or the frontage road or Sixth Street. But again, we have high intensity C three use immediately adjacent to low, low intent, low density residential, which again, flies in the face of that. And then you continue that down, we have the C three at the very south portion of town, we have this entire section here that zoned C three, which is again a high intensity use immediately adjacent to residential. And so from my perspective, I would agree with statements that are made, we should not be making decisions based on one individual property. But if we are going to be looking at trying to actually have a setup where we have lower intensity uses that gradually work their way up to higher intensity uses. We should really look at doing that. Across the board. Because we've got a lot of areas where we don't have that we've got high intensity uses immediately next to residential or low density residential is which is problem. So it's the industrial, and then kind of our C three. But then it becomes a question of if we don't do those there. Where do we put those? The other question is, if we're going to look at adjusting our C three to be more consistent on that standpoint, what effect is that going to have on existing uses on those properties? And that's the question I don't know the answer to. So obviously, when you look at the quarter on Cleveland Avenue, we've got a bunch of gas stations and drive throughs those are obviously going to be affected by changing from a C three. I don't know as you kind of go down Sixth Street. I don't know what uses we have in there if they would be affected. I know most uses within C three are also allowed within C one which would be that lower use but some notable exceptions are drive throughs. I believe gas stations would fall under the C threes as well would not be approved on C one. And then like hotels, things like that. Marijuana is another one that was brought up tonight is also but outside of those. I don't know if any of the uses existing. So I think we need to look at that.

The other

theory I had was with the tuning property, the request by the Boys and Girls Club. I don't think you specified what they would like to see it zoned as okay, maybe he did say see one? I don't I I know he did not specify okay. I don't think he specified a zoning that he wanted it done as just said he had concerns that if it was zoned a C three, they may not be able to do some of the uses that they wanted to do on that prior Pretty. Again that does the question mark there of should we have C three immediately adjacent to a low density residential? My concern is that, if we're going to try and have it

spaced out,

this would be the time to do it not wait until well, let's do it later. Because as we keep things as whether they're C three or industrial, we're going to get more and more uses on those that once we try to change it, it's going to be problematic. Now, I don't know what we currently have existing uses in the industrial area up north. So I don't know if we have a bunch of uses in there that would be made non conforming, if we were to change that to light industrial. So that would be a question that I would want to have an answer to. I appreciate the concerns that were brought up by the residents with, you know, just the what can be put in place and high high intensity industrial, and their concerns around the health, especially with it being that close to residential, that is a concern. But then the question is, if we're not going to, is where it comes to, we have to we have to stagger things, if we don't stagger things and start doing that, we're going to constantly run across this problem, because we'll allow residential to be zoned alongside heavier uses. So those are my concerns. It's important. And I think that we need to talk to property owners, because if we're talking about changing things from like industrial to light industrial, we obviously need to let property owners who wouldn't necessarily have come because they were like, Oh, my property is not changing. So I don't think it's something that should be changed today. But I think that if we need to discuss whether or not we think that should be done, and if that's the case, we need to give opportunity for those property owners to weigh in on that. And I think that we do need to take seriously the concerns have been brought up by the community.

Thank you, Trustee Daly

trying to group and organize my thoughts, because there's many the first thing my laptop died at the most amazing thing. Oh, no, but luckily, I've read the land use code many times, not gonna be able to quit it perfectly like it did before. But that was also good timing. So one thing that I am using as a tool right now, is our comprehensive plan map. available and comprehensive map, because it shows kind of the expected outcomes or growth or, you know, what would could be expected in the future. And a lot of those are designed very specifically based off of many inputs. And so the inputs I want to acknowledge right now came up in many comments and questions. And there was questions about why or where what could happen. So some of those questions were relating to trails. So within the comprehensive map, a comprehensive plan, map on page 14, there is likely in designated trail routes that are strategically placed for the purpose of purpose and area to connect to regional trails from Larimer County, for example. So it kind of shows what that path would likely be in the future. So when we have questions of Do you think this this place would likely have a trail in the future or not? I could not completely, definitively say no, but I could say it wouldn't make sense that it would, based on where regional trails are, and what our plans probably would be to connect them. In 2024. This, this board has committed to do a strategic plan for parks and trails, and open spaces, and all those the fun recreation items. So that was also a question of whether or not that's happening. We've committed to make that happen next year. Okay, I wanted to answer that question. The other thing is, why is industrial properties where it is? And why within our map, is it very, very clear that it's going in that same direction? It's because it's the railroad. So that makes sense for industrial properties to have access and use to or connection to a railroad potentially. And then those aren't necessarily suitable properties for homes, for example. And the majority of the properties that go along there in the current industrial area are also in the 100 year floodplain. That's another consideration and why that's designated that way. And then the other major questions I heard that came up, that I would say would be beneficial to reference to the comprehensive plan is the growth area. So right now we're looking at a zoning map, obviously, of only what is Wellington now, but what is expected to happen of the Wellington of the future and part of a specific property that was mentioned, that's very clear direction what's kind of expected in the future is to see three properties that go along the frontage road. So, and that based on our comprehensive plan, it's expected to continue, because it's right along the frontage road. And I want to relate that to a couple of questions regarding transitions or step ups from density and uses. So what looks alarming on your map, when you look at the pictures, it's purple backed up against yellow. So low density residential touching, high traffic based, mixed use commercial. So what we have to think about in this transition, is we're not transitioning from low density to medium density to C, one to C three, right here, what we're separating and this transition period, this transition area is really crammed in, because on one side, the C three is essentially doing the work of all this stuff ups, because on one side is a freeway, on the other side is residential. So how do you make that gap? You can't step up a million ways, what you do is you put the high traffic commercial along the frontage road, which is our highest traffic capable road. So when we're looking along the frontage road along the freeway, it makes absolute absolute sense that that step up is so significant, because it's separating a freeway from low density housing. So that makes sense to me. And so talking about that specific property that we're talking about that's currently public. Within our comprehensive plan, it's expected that that C three or that commercial area will likely grow along the freeway along the frontage road that makes absolute sense. There's no reason why I would deny that I wouldn't imagine that we would go put large acreage residential properties right up against the frontage road ever in the future. I think that path is going to continue that way. So we have to think about the future uses of what's potential there. What I do want to know and other people brought up earlier is the retention ponds not going away. It is required to be there is required for that development. So no worries about that. And the cool thing about C three is that recreation, indoor and outdoor is permitted in C three. So the idea of having a softball field or a trail that I haven't, I have no reason why would ever go there. But if a trail did occur there, that's you know, those are permitted uses. So outdoor recreation, indoor recreation are all out there, whether it be a good use of land that's underwater, some of the time I am not going to answer that question. But for the concerns that came up, I wanted to answer that. Okay. So that's a big step between residential C three to freeway, I wanted to acknowledge that I don't think any of these changes need to occur the property for Boys and Girls Club that to me property, it makes sense that you could make a good argument that would be c one, which would accommodate childcare uses and also public and civic uses, which I think would apply to all the uses that have been, you know, very vaguely mentioned, but definitely opened up a lot more opportunities for use of that property. If you look at that property, it is adjacent to residential. So a step up from that would make sense that it would go C one C three. Also it has crossed the street from school, but most closely to that is other C one properties on the same road. So it is the closest to C one properties currently. I think it makes a very good argument that we could do a step up there c one, I don't know if they owe the north or south property on this one.

The Boys and Girls Club in the town jointly owned the property closest to the residential.

Okay. So in my mind, it could it could make very good sense that it would be C one and that South property and then C three in the north property as it's transitioning up to light industrial. I think that would be an easy argument to make that that's a good step up process and also accommodate the needs and be adjacent to other C one properties and residential low density. So that would be my recommendation for the for the Timok property is to be C one from a maintain that North property C three. Okay. The other step up concerns that trustee Gator brought up that I also share is the industrial backing up against low density residential that we see in the very north of Wellington currently in our map here having those back to back I know that there's specific setbacks for specific uses that would separate those but That is the most extreme step transition that we have in our entire map, in my opinion. And it matches a lot of the recommendations and concerns of the public that we've seen. I would like to explore if it's possible to either for the properties that are west of the road, those could be light industrial, potentially, and then going into industrial. I understand why those areas industrial, like I mentioned railroad floodplain, there are so many reasons why that area is some type of industrial. But could we do a easier or more comfortable step up from the low density, low density to potentially light industrial to industrial? I'm just gonna throw that question out. I don't know the answer to that. And I think those lots expand? I don't I don't know. So I don't know which lots are separate. Regarding County Road nine, and 68. I think C three for that property is not appropriate, as it is does is across the street and adjacent to low density residential. I am I feel very comforted that they have conditional use already applied to that property for the existing business use, meaning that that property can maintain that business use forever. So in no way is that taking away that capability, but let's say they were to sell that property in a month, would the C three uses be appropriate backed up against and across the street from residential uses? No. So I would I'm I'm this is the forward thinking future planning that that is too big of a step or transition to be appropriate. It's across the street from other C one properties. That makes sense. So keeping it as c one is great, knowing that there's conditional use granted for that land for its current use and business needs. Even better. The pedia video property, requesting C one that's agriculture, correct. That's across the street from C one. That's an easy if they want that. And it's right across the street from C one and its boundaries and separating C one from C three to medium density. That's a that's a no brainer right there that makes complete sense that that would be permitted. I'm looking at my list. And then I hope the whole comprehend everything came back to the what I was going to bring up earlier for non conforming uses, and the protections within C three for religious uses and residential uses. So I repeat that over and over again, because it gets quote back to us wrong all the time. But it was something that was really important to people when they came and talked to us. And we implemented it immediately into the land use code to protect regular residential uses and religious land uses downtown to make sure that those could always be what they want to be, whether it's residential or religious, so I don't want that to be wrong. So if anybody tells you otherwise, they're wrong. But it's in the land use code and specifically protected that scares that's used to scare people a lot that we're like going to burn down a church and then they can never build it back. That's a horrific vision. But I think that's what's being used to scare people. So I don't want you to be scared about that. Also, I don't want any churches burned down. That was signed. No, I felt like I was being really inconsiderate by saying something like that. That's those are my notes. That's what I got. I can get very specific responses and zoning suggestions for every property in question that's come before us today. If we're going to catalog that in the moment, I'll just think that'll just be my statement.

Thank you. For us teammates and

Oh, boy. That's Can we get some clarification clarification from Mr. Meyer as far as what he would like to see the property zoned as I

don't see why not. I think that'd be a wonderful idea

wasn't better before what I would like to see is if and again, this is how I'm interpreting what I read today. Boys and Girls Club in practical purposes is a school in the sea three zoning the school is not allowed. The college's Technical School is but school is not.

Neither is to be

permitted in the C three zoning and we're Good. That's all I'm really ultimately asking for is to allow school as a permitted use within the seed rezoning and fine that it protects, protects the potential of a future club.

Okay. Okay. Thank you for that information. Appreciate that, sir.

For the two properties in question that the planning commission wasn't able to review 3530 Garfield Avenue, I think that was Mr. piteous property. I would agree that keeping that as C one rather than agriculture makes sense. There are adjacent properties there. And considering the past Houston, that only makes sense for 3143, East County Road 64. That's one that has the approved cash conditional use. When we compare that to their surroundings, I, you know, we've currently got it as recommended as C one. But considering the land use codes, specifically mentions, the C three district should integrate various commercial and multifamily uses while transitioning from the highway to adjacent lower density neighborhoods. Well, that property is not even close to the highway. So I believe that should be C one considering the conditional use and if the landowner would like to come and, you know, apply with us to have that changed at some point in the future, we can certainly look at that. So I do have some concerns about the drainage pond stuff. And I apologize for the audience, because this is probably going to get pretty confusing pretty quick. So I am not sure that I agree that changing public drainage ponds listed on map a that's in the packet, which you guys probably can't see right now. To be zoned at the same as their adjacency. I trying to follow some of the logic there. If we're considering adjacency, then I do have some questions. One would be item a 26. And again, that's not a map that the public would have to see in the packet. But item 826 is current is recommended to be zoned as public. But I would say in terms of adjacency shouldn't actually be zoned within our two. There's real no public access to that particular detention pond as that one actually does hold water pretty frequently. And it's kind of marshy and full of grass Tallgrass as far as I go. So whereas some of these properties. Some of these other properties that are recommended to be changed actually do have some public public access. So for example, Trustee Gator had rightly pointed out properties eight four properties a five earlier were listed as future trail possibility. Why would we change those from public to r two and R three, if we want to use them for trails in the future, that doesn't make sense to me. Also, I regularly regularly see residents throwing frisbees to their dogs on property 18. If it was me, I would have considered that to be both open seats, open space and drainage there is in fact no signage on that track that suggest that residents should stay out of that area. And in fact, it's that's one of those detention ponds in town, which is pretty much dry all the time. So you know, if folks are out there throwing frisbees and that sort of thing, I would call that open space and drainage and that should be zoned public. So if we're going to apply this same logic, to all of this stuff, I would also say the same would apply to property a 20. Because it's usually a bunch of dirt bikes out there. That's our site. And I would also say that for property a 28. Now, that's tract if that's the one I don't live on that side, but I'm guessing when the pond is, isn't full of water. And as to Ms. Brewers point when she was here earlier. I'm sure that people are using that probably to throw Frisbees to their dogs when it's not full of water. So I suppose the overall point I'm trying to make is that it's I would not be incredibly comfortable with changing the drainage property considerations from map a. And just to make this real easy as far as my views goes, I would like to see the original Planning Commission draft map adopted Cody that was the one from December I believe, plus map these changes, as well as item a 16. That one I believe is private property, a 30 and a 31. From map a so seem to be in the same spirit as the rest of that be. The drainage properties, though, I think are well classified under public zoning and I'm not sure we should change those.

Yeah, so essentially, I would be recommending that we pass the original draft map. And not the PC considerations map. The PC considerations map is the one that includes the changes from map a and map B.

That's this map.

Okay, so I would say My opinion, I want to see the original PC draft map adopted plus items from map B, as well as item, a 16. That's private property, I believe, and a 30 and a 31. From map a also, because I think those are kind of in line with what map B is trying to pursue.

Mr. Mason, what were your thoughts on the specific requests made by property owners about their specific properties being changed? Because those weren't on the I don't know if those were on the original Planning Commission? Map?

Yeah, that was the ones that I mentioned. Just at the beginning of this. I said that 3530 Garfield Avenue. That was Mr. Diaz property. I do agree with that as C one. Considering the past use 3143, East County Road 64, I would not agree with changing that to C three, considering its location, it would not in fact, in the past have ever been picked to be C three considering its location. So considering the approved conditional use, I think it makes sense that that remains C one. Yeah, as far as the Boys and Girls Club request goes, I I'd be fine with seeing that as well. I think the bigger issue was that? Yes, we can somehow we're in that they can have a school, whether it's C three or C one.

We'd have we'd have to we'd have to be public

should also be noted that the town of Wellington jointly owns that property we like and technology. And so they know us can be made of that property really, without further, considerably more work on it to have the town of Wellington be. It is, we're 5050 owners of that lawn. So just keep that in mind as you're discussing what the Boys and Girls Club may or may not want to do with that. They there's a lot of discussions that we need to have. The town needs to have with Boys and Girls Club potentially with the church that owns the other parcel that are joins that in the past that have been considered though there will be some sort of joint use among the three. So I think before any decision is made about how to zoom that something different perhaps

taking that discussion, or joint ownership. Yeah. Okay.

And then Mayor Pro Tem.

Thank you, Mayor. It's obvious that the planning commission spent an extensive amount of time building our recommendations and putting a lot of thought. I would say that staff did the same, they did a great job and their presentation has been very thorough this evening. Also, I really think that the public hearing portion this evening provided some very thoughtful and respectful comment. I agree and share and value the arguments expressed by my fellow board members this evening. I would say that my thoughts align mostly with trustee Wiegand and Trustee Mason. And I do have some concerns and I would agree with being forward thinking about how we think about those public space pieces. After we went through the development of the community park we were able to use some innovative thinking to repurpose that drainage pond and turn it into a dog park. So I think that there's a lot of information to be taken into consideration this evening. But I don't have any additional questions for staff or need any additional clarification from fellow board members. Thank you

when it comes to the technic property, I say we need we need further further discussion there before we move forward with changing any zoning whatsoever. I don't believe that C three fits at that 64 Nine that would be out of place. Especially if you're able to sell it that would put those neighborhoods into a bind

without a doubt

when it comes to C three been zoned along the frontage road. Comprehensive Plan or comprehensive plan lays that out clear as day that's supposed to go there up and down. And then the see the one What did the what the parks say for the C three section up by a storage what what in parks say for that in our comprehensive plan you have right there yeah to do. What was there? Did they have a trail recommended to go through there

Gotta find that because there's a demo. Right here. There's a trail that goes along County Road. 64. But like along the road,

there's one right there by the railroad tracks in Cleveland. Yep. Yes.

Okay. We could

change that anytime.

I mean, this isn't this isn't where the trails are gonna go, but it's what makes sense. Yeah, I

don't

I don't think I had anything further to think about her discuss there that hasn't already been said.

Oh, yeah, pedia definitely. As requested by him. Keep that that was C one.

Instead of agriculture, yes.

That makes sense.

Yeah, that would that's

that's where I'm at.

On your microphone, please. Thank you.

On your comprehensive plan when you're looking at that intersection of Tony Rhodes, 64 that you were just discussing? What is that that corner? He right, where what is it identified for future planning?

It says residential load,

load. West northwest. Northwest on that county road 60. Ford corner. Commercial. So that was the reason that it was suggested is because in our future planning that corner over there is projected as commercial.

Adjacent corner Yep. Not up against residential?

No, because that other that following corner right there to the southwest. Yeah.

Within this, this map to it doesn't distinguish says commercial want to or, you know, it doesn't say which zoning because it's not related to zoning is related more to use. So it doesn't say c one versus C three, it just says that around a corridor of major streets, you would expect commercial. So that's more of what it's in line with. But it doesn't say C three, which is usually related to or transitioning to highways, or those kinds of high traffic kind of things.

What was the other thing you had?

And just so I would want to ask that we make sure that if we can verify the same wording we did for C two and religious land use if there's a way to protect that C one section of that block, if that's possible.

Not not not what we're doing right now it's not.

So they won't have just talking No,

because that would be land use. So

we could do a separate, we could bring something separate back. If we wanted to add similar protection, we just can't do if you want it would be separate from the zoning conversation though. Bring it back,

bring it back to make sure that we could protect those property residential property owners like what we did in the CPU, and residents

just have to follow the land use coaching process. So that would go through stet we'd work with staff that would go through the board can initiate that process. And then we go through the planning commission, and then it would come back to the board for approval. If we wanted to do that. That is an option. Because I know

we did it for the C two and religious but we didn't do it for C one. So and that's what that block is of that commitment. So that's what I'm kind of concerned about. I just want to make sure they have protections put in place.

It's outside of downtown.

The city's zoning was specifically for downtown Cleveland corridor.

Okay,

Mr. Mayor, could we potentially take a recess for about five minutes for us to regroup a staff and and put our heads together about where where we think you guys are going and then we can report back?

Yeah, absolutely. I would love a recess. Anyways. Thank you. Thank you.

Want a third?

Order meeting back in session time me 9:36pm. At this time, I would like a motion for an Executive Session for advice on the zoning district map.

Second,

hold on, I'll read a prepared motion for this executive session for the purpose of receiving legal advice pursuant Section 24 6402 For BCRs. Regarding the adoption of the land use code, or excuse me, the land use map as required by CRS 24 64022, D point five, two a and two E the Executive Session proceedings will be electronically recorded and the record will be preserved for 90 days through June 26 2023.

Made a motion or

dance or Dan just read it. I haven't got anybody make it yet. Okay. Second.

Second. All right. Make it a roll call.

Certainly, Trustee Daly? Yes. Trusty teats? Yes. Trusty Gator? No. Trusty Mason. Yes. Trusty Wigan? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem McDonald. Yes, I see. Yes. Thank you.

All right. So at this time, we are going to Executive Session. So everybody that's in this room now that is not on the board? Or will please have to leave. For the time being a

question. Could we possibly just go into the library with the staff to have the executive session or need to record it and we need to bring a recorder with us that way? We're not pumping people out of the room and then back in.

Just recorded on my own, we need to be able to bring in trusted Mayor Pro Tem McDonald as well.

Yeah, so if everybody in this room could please leave the room and then we'll bring this meeting back. time being 9:50pm. Yes,

trust to get in. So I would like to make a motion. I'll explain the motion in a second. I would also like to ask if Mr. sappy and I can explain as appropriate some concerns with some of the ideas that were brought up by the members of the public as well as thoughts of the board about rezoning industrial area if you can explain some of the ongoing concerns as appropriate. Mr. Sapienza and then I'd like to explain a motion and then make a motion.

in very broad terms, trusty Gator. We discussed rezoning properties and potential legal issues surrounding rezoning properties and more specifically, the the proper criteria that the Board may use in certain decision making processes and potential liability related to that. My recommendation with regard to the industrial property there was to not rezone that at this time.

Thank you, Mr. sapiens. For doing that, the motion I'd like to make we're at 951. Right now our time is 10 o'clock. And then we can do 215 minute extensions to 1030. We do have other items. I think that there were some adjustments separate from that portion that requested by the board. I don't think that we can hash those out to have a good clean motion within 15 minutes. So I would like to move that we postpone this to our April 15. Board meeting or April 11. Board of Trustees meeting so that we can make sure that staff has clearly defined all the other areas where the board is making adjustment or recommendations to the map. We can have that cleaned up and then we can still finish up our agenda for this evening. So I'd like to move that we postpone

the

ordinance number three dash 2023 an ordinance of the town of Wellington Colorado amending the official zoning map of the town to our April 11. Board of Trustees meeting.

Second, May a roll call please. Certainly Mr. Mayor,

Trustee Gator? Yes. Trustee Wiegand? Yes. Trustee Daly? Yes. Trustee Mason? Yes. Trusty teats? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem McDonald. Yes. Michelle. See? Yes. Thank you.

All right.

We will now close our regular meeting

and open the liquor license Authority Board. time being 9:54pm. may get a roll call please.

Certainly. Trustee Gator your trusty daily present. Trustee Mason here. Trusty teats. Yes. Trusty weekend. Yes. Mayor Pro Tem McDonald. Yes. Miss Josie. Yes, thank you.

First item on the liquor license thority agenda is an application for modification of the premise of the Wellington Manor liquor license is from this.

Good evening, Mr. Mayor, Members of the board I'm Ethan moose, I'm the town clerk I'll be presenting the liquor license authority items to you this evening. The first item is an application by kale seek cumin KLC, two LLC doing business as Willington manner, they've submitted an application to modify the premises of their current establishment which is located at 339 22 Cleveland Avenue. The current liquor license that they have will expire on August the ninth of this year. Basically, what they're what they have done is acquired additional property in the vicinity of their establishment and are requesting to expand the premises of their current liquor borders to include that property they've included in their application and you'll find in your packets, the appropriate paperwork for the application as well as the payments. And you can see in the application or excuse me in the packet as well the proposed outline for the border of their modification of premises. With that said, this item isn't for you, I'm happy to answer any questions before we proceed through this through the rest of this item.

Thank you as you get her the only question I haven't I believe I just I just wanna make sure I have it correct. So they they will be fencing the area around that new property is that correct? And having a boundary there?

Okay, yes, chain link fence. Perfect. Thank

you. That was my only question.

The applicants are here if you have questions okay.

As you teach um, the only question I have that I have highlighted here is it says by Andrew Andrew to free I apologize if I'm butchering his last name it says all noise is shut down by 10pm. Can we set noise ordinance and an agreement

it's 11. Okay, I just

wanted to verify that really quick.

I don't know the answer that off the top of my head interesting teats, but I couldn't certainly get you an answer.

Got it? Well,

I think that was pretty much answered. Thank you. It was a weekend.

No questions.

Trustee Mason, no questions. No pro 10.

No questions. Just a daily.

No questions, but excited for additional investment and opportunities in our town looks like a great application. So I appreciate all the components being completed. Thanks.

I have no questions either in case anybody was wondering. Now it's time for public comment on this agenda item.

Don't pick up

and I just want to throw my support behind this. I think it's a wonderful addition to the town. Having meeting spaces or gathering spaces additional gathering spaces is great. And for those who do enjoy a cocktail or two it's just another location to be able to do it and for weddings and gatherings. I'm just I'm just really excited. So yeah.

Troy Hammond 63 Six McClellan chamber chair, representing the beauty renewed and manner tonight as well. They got a great plan expanding this area could venues of weddings, bar mitzvahs, parties, birthday parties, not just liquor, but they have to have that option just for grownups to do this kind of thing. It's gonna be class act. So I'm hoping that we get a good dose support molecule net and you're gonna Just seeing good things happening. It's gonna be a lot of fun.

Thank you for that. Thank you

Lisa Sholay.

Don't do it. No. Just kidding. I'm actually I just kind of want to echo what former mayor Haman said about having space for families to have events like, you know, college graduations and things like that so that we don't have to travel down to other municipalities to spend our money. So I think both Lisa and Christie have proven their dedication and investment to our town and they've been very responsible people. And so I'm excited to see what they're going to do with this event space and I hope that you'll approve their expansion. Thank you. One further comment. may get a motion to approve.

I will make a motion that we approve the modification of premises for KLC to LLC doing business as Wellington Manor.

Second, may get a roll call please.

Certainly, Trustee Mason. Yes. Trustee. teats. Yes. Trustee weekend. Yes. Trustee Daly? Yes. Trustee Gator? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem McDonald. Yes. Mayor Josie. Yes, thank you.

Next item on the agenda is an application for the modification of premise for the come and go. License. Mr. Moose,

I'm just going to present that

item from my chair over here. Real quickly, we are at 10 o'clock. So I'd like to motion that we continue our meeting for 15 minutes to 1015.

Second, all in favor, aye.

Okay, the second item on the liquor licensing authority agenda for this evening is the expansion again, a modification of premises for the combo that is located on property 81506 Street, the requesting the addition of a approximately three foot square location in their premises to be able to sell wine is immediately adjacent from the location where they're currently approved to sell beer. And this this request is in accordance with the previous or the recent approval by Colorado State for local grocery stores and similar establishments to sell wine. You can see the location of in their diet and the diagrams included in the packet location where they would like to include this. This area and all paperwork for state statute requirements is included in their application. Happy to take any questions regarding this issue.

Any questions or comments from the board? Any comments from public on this agenda item?

I get a motion to approve.

I moved to approve the modification of premises for come and go LLC doing businesses come and go number 934.

I'll second. Make it a roll call please.

Certainly. Trustee Daly? Yes. Trusty Mason. Yes. Trustee Gator? Yes. Trusty teats? Yes. Trusty Wiegand. Yes. Mayor Pro Tem McDonald Yes. Miss Josie.

Yes, thank you. Alright, on to reports. Mr. Sapienza, extra liquor

license board.

Oh, yeah.

It wasn't it. Sorry, you know, stuff doesn't happen all the time. I now close our liquor, licensing authority meeting, time being 10:02pm. All right. Back to our regular meeting. counterparts, Mr. sapiens. A

very briefly regarding Municipal Court last year due to a clerical error that fortuitous clerical error on behalf of Larimer County Sheriff's Office. One of our tickets that should have come to municipal court in the town of Wellington actually went to city of Fort Collins Municipal Court, which normally would be a bit of a crisis but the fortuitous part of that is that ticket connect to the town of Wellington's Municipal Court with Fort Collins restorative justice programs. Two miners from the town of Wellington were able to participate in this program that's funded through the city of Fort Collins and Larimer County specific for miners. For shoplifting offenses. The to two miners participated in the program involved therapy involved meetings with their parents, rather long process and it ended in a really positive result for those two offenders. So just one of those one of those things. It's new for the town of Wellington, where we've now connected with the restorative justice programs and work Collins in through every County District Attorney's office to participate, participate or have defendants participate in more of those programs. So just a great example of kind of Wellington's Municipal Court and other services kind of merging and being able to take advantage of the larger community. So wanted to share that.

Thank you. Miss Garcia. So Megan, and Bob were here, and I didn't know how long things were going to go. So I went on ahead and sent them home. Because they were going to talk about the water quality report that is in your packet. So this document will be sent out with utility bills, and we wanted to get that in front of you before, before it got out to the public. And it'll be you know, included in your electronic bills, things like that. So, Megan will be sending an email out to the trustees to provide a really good overview of the process what happened and why we're here. In the document that was in your packet, it talks about some violations that we've had, and the violations aren't aren't related to water quality, the violations are related to reporting. We've had some turnover and staff things have happened where, you know, maybe we didn't provide the reporting on time like we needed to, which that has been taken care of Megan and Bob are well aware of, of what needs to happen and are working with their managers and supervisors to make sure we don't have any problems like this again. But because it was reported, it is something we have to provide to our residents. We know that transparency is paramount. But we are concerned that there will be you know, someone will see this and think, oh, there's something wrong with our water. There's nothing wrong with the water. The issues were strictly related to the reporting, the reporting requirements where we missed a couple dates. So just wanted to give me Megan, Megan will give you a full full download of it all in an email either tonight or tomorrow, but wanted to make sure we get this in front of you before that sent out into the pack into bills. Thank you.

Thank you. So

gentleman started at Cherry lemon County Sheriff's Office, I will try to make this very brief. But I first want to apologize for my radio earlier. It was your radio, it was my radio. I do it. I'm wondering why I'm hearing an encrypted radio that sounds very similar to my dispatcher near me and like what is going on. And apparently my earpiece came disconnected. And it's started talking to the speaker, so I apologize for that. Somebody else has a radio in here. It's weird. Right really, really quick. Because I don't want to take a bunch of your time, I did want to talk about page 99 of your packets. The February 2023 calls for service. There are some pretty sizable increases in various things I did address the municipal code violations, an increase of 40 400%. And that was just because we changed how we were calling out parking violations. If I if I got on the radio and says I'll be out with this vehicle, my dispatcher would type it in as a traffic stop. So we started changing that so that we can more accurately catch how often we're we're we're dealing with some of these things. And it doesn't just parking violations, it could be anything. That is a municipal code violation. Looking at mental health calls, three for the month of February, which is pretty darn good. But as an 800% increase over previous months, nothing too earth shattering there. We contacted some individual over the loaf and jug who was having a crisis. We helped that individual and then to two calls at the same address to separate two separate days, and we got that person to help that they needed. Looking at sex offenses, we had five reported in the month of February, that's a 400% increase. These were all calls related to juveniles juvenile sex offense that happened in 2022. Some unwanted filming some unwanted touching some some family issues, and it's safe to tell nothing that you would look at and think there's something going on in the town. These are these are random things completely unrelated to each other. Looking at some weapons offenses, we did have 500% increase, which is two weapons offenses and February juvenile waving around a pellet gun that looked real. He got a very large presence of law enforcement officers from Wellington and outside of Wellington. But we released him to his parents that were not very happy. And then we had a reported stabbing over at the common go. But it turned out to be self inflicted, and he had some mental health issues as well. Real quick, traffic, nothing, well, you're going to start seeing more citations being written. But you'll notice that traffic stops, we're down. We're just kind of reprioritizing a little bit, the types of traffic stops that we're doing. If I left here, right now, I could stop every car, you know, that drove past me from no license, no front license plate, to no turn signal to this and that we're just looking for the most serious offenders and stopping those and dealing with those as best we can. That is all I have. Do you have any questions for me?

I have a quick question. Online here.

Thank you was

about parking violations and traffic stops. Out of curiosity, have you identified? Or will you be looking into further people that are parking in the turn lane in front of the post office? It impedes the line of sight? Quite a bit. And it's also pretty dangerous, because you can't make a right hand turn there, safely,

sometimes even see in my truck there.

I do it to

our naughty that is so naughty. You guys. It's

I mean, it's parking. Yes, ma'am. Ah, we've recognized that this is an issue, we do get complaints about it. This is this has been something that the citizen citizens of Wellington do quite frequently, I think that it's probably gonna have to be one of those things where we put some signage up or we paint the curb, and a red, so that we can address that there. There are a slew of parking issues throughout Wellington that I drive by and I go, I gotta take care of that, from cars, parked the wrong direction to people parking too close to fire hydrants, people parking too close to stop signs within the Cleveland corridor, if you really want to call it that, because it is super, super dangerous. So I have been in contact with the town just as far as, hey, can we buy a lot of red paint. So we can start touching things up, and hopefully solving some of these issues. So but the parking in front of the post office is something that we've looked at, we've already we've made some traffic stops or traffic contacts there. We haven't written any tickets, because obviously, this has been an ongoing issue. Education is our first step.

Excellent. Thank you so much this matter.

So our mayor has been David. I just have one simple thing. And that is to say that I not being a parent of a kiddo going to our middle school, high school here. I want to say that the acknowledgement of your increased presence at the middle school high school over the last, I'd say week has been noticed by all of our community. I don't know if you see the pages, but you guys have been greatly thanked as well. I want to say thank you not as I have a child that attends that school right now. But for all of the parents that are not sitting here right now, but are still saying thank you for that increased presence at our schools during a time like this, so thank you so much.

We're proud to do it.

My question was, actually, if you could give us a quick summary of the response of the fax, I've been hearing some some strange things that don't quite match the reports I've received of the incident, or the reported incident from Willington Middle High School.

Last week, we've had a couple of incidents with the last week one was of a student escorting a friend of his who happened to be an adults 18 at the at 19 years of age, escorting him into the school. And there were rumors about another student seeing this particular adults with a handgun and as waistband. Those were discounted. Our investigators did interviews with those that were involved. And the person that said, oh, yeah, I saw this they couldn't definitively say and the second person who was a witness the video that we saw that that person wasn't even in the area when this particular individuals walking through our investigators did contact and identify this this young man down Loveland is not associated with this area. And unfortunately, as much as I like to say, Yeah, we we can charge this individual for for really stirring our emotions here in town and frightening our parents with you know, sounds of you know, somebody that as unwanted coming into our school and being in possession of a firearm, unfortunately, there's there's a thing called probable cause. And unfortunately, we just didn't have probable cause actually charged him with anything. But he was contacted as as was the young man who was uncooperative and in a uncooperative and cooperative with our investigators. He was the one that brought this other individual in the school has been dealing with him as well. There was a second safe detail on Sunday, where someone was reportedly on social media saying that he was going to come and shoot up the school that was quickly identified and that day, Deputy Remington, who was off duty, she put her uniform on. And Wellington deputy they they both went contacted him and determined that he had no access to actual firearms, he did have what appear to be a pellet gun that looked like a shotgun, and a fake knife. Those were quickly taken away. His parents were super cooperative with us. And that information, and that information was not only provided to the school, but this individual had already been expelled from four previous threats. So although these, all of these things were deemed not credible, not credible threats at this point, we still up there, our presence, we wanted to make sure that everybody knew that we were there. Because although I'm not on social media, I hear the rumors about hey, everybody's talking about this and talking about that. And I want to make sure the parents are reassured by seeing lots and lots of patrol cars and in in all three schools, not just willing to Middle High School. But we were also walking through the schools and just trying to be the biggest presence that we can. So sometimes that makes people more nervous. Oh my gosh, there must be a reason why there's six patrol cars in the parking lot. But I'd rather have a much larger presence than, you know, Deputy Remington standing in front of the school.

Thank you. So

sure. In heels,

any other questions?

Yeah, one quick one. SROs, especially with what's happened here? recently. I know we're going to be looking at hopefully expanding on that. We're gonna have

order we're at 1015. So I proposed another 15 minute extension to 1030.

Okay, this just be real where?

I someone on a second? Second. Okay.

Is that going to cause a delay? or harder to get a more SROs? Out there?

Is this type of I'm sorry? Is your question is Are these

going to delay getting? If we wanted to get another Sr? Oh, and if we delay it too long, they're gonna make it go even longer. Sorry. Well, so we got

to bind the public is is kind of finicky just as far as when they want law enforcement when they don't want law enforcement. You know, it's usually if law enforcement officer makes a mistake. Nobody wants us around. They wanted to, well, I won't go down that road. But But these types of events certainly get people's attention and they want us more of us around I would love to have, you know, five SROs in every school. They think the school district I think is, is kind of put their foot down as far as how many they want in the Middle High School. But of course, as you recall, they were also talking about, well, we need more data, we need more information to be able to substantiate it.

They haven't come to you lately. They have not come to me know

but I'm not in charge of this or or program either. So we are having additional conversations with just with Lieutenant Harkin. He oversees this our unit to kind of talk about that. I know Miss chalets has also been a champion for adding a second SRO. I think that it's it's warranted. I think that it's convincing the school district to rent to allow it Sunday.

Thank you. Absolutely do. Thank you. Reports.

Keep them short and sweet. estimates.

Oh, yeah, real quick. I made a slight error tonight. I did have in my notes that I wanted to thank the planning commission for the countless hours that they've put in on the zoning map. Really, we we owe a lot to you guys and I really appreciate the work that you're doing so

no report. Just getting

the word safe to tell I've been brought up several times. Is this evening, my favorite way to access safe to tell is through an app that you can download on your phone and kids can to. And as a way to anonymously report concerns, they it could be bullying all the way up to a really significant problem so that we're alerted. The response to them is very quick. And it involves school administration and law enforcement, and so many other resources. So if you don't have the app installed yet, please install it. There's also ways to call and things but we I know kids, and I know me, I will do it through an app. It's a very simple to use. And, you know, when in doubt, report it, see something, say something. So if you don't have that installed yet, please do and tell everyone it again. Safe number to tell, safe to tell. My other updates are I've been information has been requested of me a lot lately regarding some of the statistics that I've reported regarding our high school students within our district within Colorado, and alarming and very scary survey results regarding suicide rates, attempted suicides of youth in our community. There recently have been some other statistics that were shared, that differ greatly from the surveys that I reference. So since I've been asked this repeatedly, and I've been clarifying with those people and providing these resources, I wanted to let everybody know that the surveys I most frequently reference are from the Healthy Kids Colorado survey. These are results from 2021 trends are showing that all the alarming and concerning trends are actually getting worse for youth. Tonight, we heard overall suicide rates are improving. That's great. That is not the case for either School District, high school students, specifically those in vulnerable and oppressed units, including the queer community and, and other unfortunate groups that have higher rates of concern. The other survey that I reference frequently is the pooter school district engagement surveys that are completed each week each year, excuse me. And then just because I have kids at Boys and Girls Club, another one that I like to look at really to differentiate the experience of kids who attend Boys and Girls Club versus those who do not, you could reference their yearly report, and they just completed their most recent youth engagement survey as well. To celebrate they had a pizza party and laser tag. So it's, those are three really great resources that I would reference including some support for Boys and Girls Club in the amazing work that they're doing in Wilmington. Those are my updates.

Trustees

Miss Garcia has sent out the invitations for the volunteer appreciation dinner for all the board's so I'm really hoping to see a lot of our local volunteers that give so much be able to come out and enjoy dinner with all of us as trustees, so thank you for getting that done so quickly. I know you did it over the weekend. So that's I appreciate it.

Because we can no report

no report. Mayor Pro Tem is still on it.

Oh yeah. No report. Report. Now adjourn, meeting all in favor?

Aye.

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sick for so long, but I'm feeling a lot better

today I need to go get surgery. It's not big enough. Because I also said who we extended let's sorry.