July 26, 2024 — Boulder Junction Access District Regular Meeting

[0:02] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: We are recording. It is Wednesday, July 24, th 2024. Welcome to the Boulder Junction Access District. Travel to band management and Parking commissions joint meeting. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: I will call Roll. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Susan Brant. Sue Prant: Here. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Jennifer Shriver. Jennifer Shriver: Here. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Rebecca, Jim, Michelle. Rebekah Dumouchelle: Here. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Stephanie Pip is not here. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Brian book is not here. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Kevin Knapp. Kevin Knapp: Here. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Remind me that again. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: you know, and Roman Rodan BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: present. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: I will now hand the meeting over to the chairs for procedural ones. [1:01] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Robin, that's over to you. Robyn Ronen: Okay, that's a that's a new, that's a new that's a new one for me. So I apologize and Robyn Ronen: forgive me if I have to ask help Robyn Ronen: on a couple of things. But let's start with the meeting minutes. So Robyn Ronen: does anybody have any changing changes for the meeting minutes for the last meeting. Robyn Ronen: Can we get a roll call on approving last week's minutes or last month's minutes? Robyn Ronen: I Robyn Ronen: I move. I see Jennifer. So everybody seems to agree. Robyn Ronen: Rebecca. Okay, so that passes. Robyn Ronen: And do we have the elections for Robyn Ronen: chair and vice chair this this time, too. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: So we've been putting this off for a number of meetings. Wanted to make sure that we had everybody in attendance, especially our newest Commissioner Stephanie is on a train that's running way late. [2:06] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Which is why she's not here. So again. Ryan also last minute, was not able to attend. I will leave it up to you all to determine whether or not you wanna continue to push that conversation. Robyn Ronen: Do we have any comments from the Commissioners on that? My preference would be to push until we have the the group or do it asynchronous. If that's allowable. Sue Prant: Yeah, I would agree. If we're allowed to push it, push it. Jennifer Shriver: Agreed. Jennifer Shriver: We can. Robyn Ronen: I'm not seeing anybody. It sounds like a unanimous. We want to wait for the whole group. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Great. Robyn Ronen: And that's all I see in the procedural items for public participations. Do we have any members of the public with us here today? BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: We do not. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: You don't have a better choice. [3:01] Robyn Ronen: Okay, no members of the public. And with that I will kick it over to Will Robyn Ronen: for the transportation connections. Update. Rebekah Dumouchelle: Actually Sue, can you maybe mute? Okay. Rebekah Dumouchelle: Great. Will Shepherd: Hi, everyone sorry just arrived. There's a fire on the Goose Creek path at 29th Street. So if any of you are in the area. Please Will Shepherd: be cautious and steer clear. Will Shepherd: so I've just arrived. And to Tdm. Will Shepherd: I'm sorry for the rattle Will Shepherd: bike to work. Day was phenomenal. At the Chamber we had over 500 people. Diana, at Cassie's Cafe in Boulder Junction, had a unique challenge that morning, so we were off to a bit of a late start, but the Count was somewhere between 80 and 100. She proved 100 of her amazing Belgian waffles, and there were only a few left at the end of the morning. So there's a pretty good count, despite many unforeseen [4:02] Will Shepherd: situations Will Shepherd: in terms of the the community. Will Shepherd: That she's trying to foster from Cassie's cafe to Cassiopeia the female forward community cycling Hub is expected to open late August, and this is where Meredith and 34th Street meet Will Shepherd: sort of between Splunk and where Twitter was formally across the little 34th one, or Will Shepherd: from sundry dragons. Will Shepherd: So that's a big point of excitement for us is to see that community hub really take shape for everyone who lives in Boulder Junction in the entire community. Diana has visions for a a larger sort of Tdm celebration which I won't get into here. But just to kind of keep that in mind from a city permitting standpoint, and another great community. Hub! Will Shepherd: She's she's excited about what we talk about here in the meeting. The city has announced the on the Rise Music series which I attended up on the hill [5:00] Will Shepherd: last month. There's another one the Saturday, and it's gonna be in Boulder Junction. So just to make sure everyone on the call is aware of that. I'll put the link in the chat, but it's a Saturday night from 5 to 9 pm, the other events rental 10 and it's gonna be, I, I believe, in the plaza. The the city is taking point on this, and it's the Roots Music Project, who's doing all the coordination? So we're really excited to participate in some Tdm capacity, possibly some tabling. Will Shepherd: so I'll coordinate with some others on the call Will Shepherd: but wanna make sure that that's on everybody's radar. And, Rebecca, if you have friends who are still in the community and you could help distribute that. I'll put the link in the chat Will Shepherd: admittedly, just arriving a little late. If there's any questions I'm happy to field stuff that I might have missed right then. Sue Prant: What's the name of it? Again will the arise. Will Shepherd: So the series is called On the Rise, and the concept is is highlighting the past, present, and future of boulder music. I'll I'll put the city's link to the event series in the chat, and we'll be able to see. But it's a it's an impressive series [6:04] Will Shepherd: and I'll I'll pause with that if there's any further questions. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: But just on that, if I might, will. If that's okay, I think the the Boulder Junction event for all the unrest to September 28, th BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: so we still have more time. But come to the hill. That's gonna be great. Will Shepherd: Yes, indeed! Rebekah Dumouchelle: Do we have another meeting before then? Probably not right? So we probably need to cover this here and Rebekah Dumouchelle: still make those connections. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Yeah, we will have that. We will have our September meeting before the actual over junction concert. Yes. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: and I will. While we're on the topic of music. I got my dates. In fact, there are 2 fans in the bricks left. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Do not have an eagles cover band this evening. It is someone I've never heard of before. What kind of music is it really good? So Robin, I hope that's not terribly disappointing. We still want to see you on the bricks, but there's also next Wednesday will be the eagles cover band the long run, and we'd love to see there, too, and I will [7:19] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: hopefully. I'll have drink tickets still available unless there's a bug. But. Robyn Ronen: You'll actually probably see me next week then. But yeah. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Okay. Great. Robyn Ronen: Also, I just found out from Will that there might be a fire on my bike right home. So Robyn Ronen: like I'll I'll figure that out. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Pretty good shape. Robyn Ronen: Jennifer. Jennifer Shriver: Hey, everyone just wanted to mention that it looks like the one this Saturday is up on the hill. Maybe everybody already said that and it's not the next one that will be at Boulder Junction is in September, and I I threw the the link in the chat so you can relax about that will Jennifer Shriver: and catch. Continue to catch your breath. I'm glad you're okay. [8:07] Robyn Ronen: And I just want to give a shout out. The last month's bike to work. Day was fantastic. I went to 3 different things throughout the course of the day. It was really wonderful fantastic job team, and I got to see Sue in person, which I never do, even though it was a soap, sad, wet Robin walking around with my bicycle. But it was really really fun. So I really enjoyed it. Robyn Ronen: Do you have any other questions? Comments for Will today. Y'all. Robyn Ronen: thank you. Will. Sue Prant: And we also, I'm sorry, some trouble and meaning. We also have the byte work day, happy hour in the junction at Zeal. Robyn Ronen: Sale. Robyn Ronen: It was fantastic, really good job, even soaked, even tents falling down. Sue Prant: Oh, yeah, sorry we got soaking wet. Yeah. Robyn Ronen: Yeah, it was a good time to have by all, even despite that. So you know, you did a great job. Will Shepherd: It wouldn't. It wouldn't be a Boulder Junction Tdm. Oriented event without at least one severe down tour within an hour. [9:03] Robyn Ronen: Exactly. It's it's like a rule. At this point Robyn Ronen: other rooms. Will Shepherd: 1. 1 final point I will put out for the good of the group. The boulder clean commute program continues with effort. And some engagement. So 3 of the Boulder Junction businesses are now signed up receiving rewards. So folks who are participating from downtown or boulder Junction businesses can redeem their commuter rewards, points on a digital wallet. Cassie's cafe, 0 restaurant and Curtis Park Deli on 30th facing Google. Will Shepherd: And then there's there's more work happening where Zeal and Cassie's employees are also participating by not driving. They're earning some of the Grant funds that the Chambers provided along with matching funds, that the city is provided for a reward of $5 a day for the 2 commutes that they're not driving alone. Will Shepherd: So we're starting to see that uptake. And we have the very large Global Act Association for Commuter Transportation Conference in Denver on 2 weeks. And so Karen Warminghouse from our team and several of the community staff are actually giving a panel to. [10:09] Will Shepherd: I would say dozens, and maybe hundreds of conference attendees specifically focused on this. Will Shepherd: Tdm wallet Will Shepherd: commuter Awards program. So Boulder Junction will certainly be highlighted at a international conference which is going to be hosted in Denver this year. That's on Monday, August 5, th and the panels at one Pm. If anyone on the call is planning to attend. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Robin. I wanted to share to you that I'm working with Diana Freeman. For the grand opening of cast European. On Sunday, August 25, th from 11 am. To 3 pm. So BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Warner area that's near her shop. That would be [11:00] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: site, for BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: there. Robyn Ronen: Very nice. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: And there's. Robyn Ronen: Very nice. Robyn Ronen: Guess we'll get that in minutes as well. Oh, thank you for sending that. Will Robyn Ronen: any other comments on this topic? Robyn Ronen: Okay, I want to move on to do. We have any questions on any part of the consent agenda or the fund financials. Robyn Ronen: Okay, I'm gonna take the deafening silence as a No. Robyn Ronen: and let's go ahead and bring that over to matters and staff. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Thank you, Robin. 1st on our agenda today is a preview of the draft recommended budget for community vitality specifically for the older Junction [12:02] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: funds. So we have Elliot Levante here. Business services been working hard over the past several months with his team and the broader community vitality team on building a budget for the department, and we are glad to present what we put together so far for you all for your consideration of the motion. So with that over to Elliot. Thanks, Chris. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Evening Commissioners. We'll be going through a few slides here, some specific to Boulder Junction, and it's 2 funding sources and also kind of the department as a whole. We'll get into a few different items. Here, if you wanna go on to the next slide, please. That'd be great. You can kind of take a peek at the agenda. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: So we'll 1st kind of look at the formation of Boulder Junction. It's kind of neat to do a little history there, touch on that. Briefly, talk about a few things we've been able to achieve in the Boulder Junction area, as well as within just community vitality as a whole. Some of the other districts that we serve, and then, of course, the budget [13:01] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: overall from the process of it to community vitalities budget our capital improvement plan, and then this on specific revenues and expenses for 2 lower Junction funds. We will have time for feedback and questions. And then, to Chris's point, that last step will have some suggested motion language. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: So the formation of Boulder Junction. Parking is technically older by one ordinance number, which I thought was really interesting. You can see performed in 2,010 BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: the purpose of the district. You can see there it's it's the same actually, in both districts. According to the ordinances and the formation of them. Although Tdm has a little bit more broad reach in terms of the transportation demand management. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: We can go ahead and go to that next slide. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: So some of the key accomplishments that we had, and also some work in progress that's going on right now. So we did a lot of signage and wayfinding at over Junction this year, really helping customers find places to park writing the kiosks for them to be able to pay for that parking, and then also really activating those public spaces. As you alluded to, we also happen to introduce for rain to events with that area. For some reason. [14:22] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: and then another program that we set up this year was commutify and that's ever growing. And it's a great way to get people kind of encouraging folks to get out of the single occupancy vehicles and try to find some alternative transportation. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Some work in progress is we will be doing some striping of the on street parking. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: That's Tbd, that's gonna be completed. We're currently working with the vendor right now, and some other locations as well. And we're gonna hopefully have that last feature way finding sign here very shortly. They look really nice, and it's a great way to come into the the district. [15:01] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: And then one of the more I think big, impactful things that customers will recognize. Hopefully, they won't recognize much, but is our conversion from sp plus as our parking 3rd party company to metropolis BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: metropolis is currently who manages and runs all of the kind of communications and products outside of our Cajun garages so hopefully, this will be pretty seamless for residents and visitors of boulder as a whole, so that they have that same continuity of service between Cagered and Boulder Junction, and then the roots music events with on the rise. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Yeah, Rebecca. Rebekah Dumouchelle: Yeah, a couple of quick questions. The change over to metropolis is that that's probably just the garage. Rebekah Dumouchelle: Okay, is that coming out of the jobs budget for that changeover is metropolis like, do they? They pay the implementation and just recover it from fees? Or how does that work. [16:05] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: So it's kind of a unique situation. Metropolis actually purchase sp plus BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: so there's kind of like a business merger, if you will. So from a cost standpoint. They're going to be covering a lot of those costs. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: It's a revenue sharing. It's BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: shared and bundled. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: So there are no budget implications for the Bj Parking Fund. The management of that garage is contacted through the Owners Association, which Bj. Parking is one of 5 owners. Of that garage. And so it's all being handled by the Owners. Association, and Metropolis will actually little equipment fees associated. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: What they do have is a 99 cent user fee. So every time a visitor parks in the garage, we will need to be working through some conversations with you all, and understanding how it's gonna play out in price of visitor parking, which you all do have [17:14] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: say, and how that plays out. So we'll work with the owners association with a decision there when the time is right. When we don't have a timeline yet of when the transition is going to happen. But it will happen, because everything across the country that is currently Sp plus will over time become metropolis. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: So more to come on that, but no financial implications as far as our budget. Rebekah Dumouchelle: And this is the same vendor where drivers were having a difficulty at sitting, because there was no tickets from the downtown garages, and getting like 50 or $80 fines. And then some kind of guidance was implemented for their 1st time. Is that correct? And Rebekah Dumouchelle: that's not an issue anymore. Rebekah Dumouchelle: Is there going to be a grace period, as we add a new, a new garage that people aren't used to and maybe haven't encountered the ones downtown, and this will be their 1st encounter. [18:08] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: This are all things that we consider in a conversion. We will always have people complaining about something and say that the the response, the downtown change that overwhelmingly positive. It doesn't mean that everyone's had a positive experience. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: We've tailored a lot of our messages for those complaints do come in occasionally, and we do have a way to wave our fee is $30 in the city of older branches. There isn't a troubles garage privately in the downtown. They have a $70 fine for failure to pay. We don't have any control over that, but still know the difference between BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: our metropolis garages and the private metropolis garage, which does lead to some confusion. Absolutely. So we have tailored a lot of messages. We continue to have a a decent number of complaints about the current operation at Boulder Junction. Really looking forward to transitioning to a system that will work better doesn't mean that we're not gonna still have some folks with learning curve. But at least we'll be able to have a consistent [19:17] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: experience among the assets that we manage. Rebekah Dumouchelle: Okay, for the user fee of 99 cents like that's, you know, that's definitely if somebody comes in for an hour to to go to a deeper restaurant or anything like that. You know, that's a pretty significant like percentage of the hourly cost, especially compared to on street parking. So what I would like to do as part of that conversation is, make sure that we have parity Rebekah Dumouchelle: with on street parking, and that we are driving people to to use the garage Rebekah Dumouchelle: and not not on street parking, because it's always cheaper, something like that. So. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: We will certainly bring that to the Commission. When the timing is right as an example, what we did the downtown garages is, we subsidize 50 of the [20:08] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: 99 cents fee for that 1st hour. So instead of having this previously the 1st hour was a dollar 50 BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: dollar 50 per hour, instead of increasing that to 2 50 per hour. Essentially, with the 99 cent fee we met in the middle of it. No, it's a dollar 25. Sorry there's a dollar 25 for the 1st hour previously. So we met in the middle, and so it's a dollar 75 for the 1st hour in our downtown Roches. So we will analyze some options for you all at the right time. Rebekah Dumouchelle: That's that's a nonstarter for me as a taxpayer in the district. I I do not want to further subsidize parking. I'm already subsidizing it through the mill. Levy. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Sure. So again. We will bring the option to the Commission for certainly a vote to balance both the the parity between the on street prices and that 1st hour of parking for the the shorter term business. So more info to come when the [21:17] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: conversion is more than. Rebekah Dumouchelle: Okay, just real quick check on my fellow commissioners. I don't see any hands raised. Does anybody else have any questions on Metropolis? Otherwise I have a question about the on street Rebekah Dumouchelle: parking as well. Okay. Still, on the other side, there was some on street parking. Painting that was going to go on. Is that going to affect the on street parking that is bricked. Rebekah Dumouchelle: or just areas that are not bricked. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: The only places where we're doing striping is where parking is angled or headed parking and I think that is only on Bluff. If I remember correctly. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: and we've been coordinating pretty well with our our striping vendor has been great about [22:03] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: doing it during the non busy hours by not busy hours being like 2 in the morning. Kind of thing. So there shouldn't really be a big impact. And of course we'll be putting out signage and communications. Well, for to make sure that everyone's aware of where it's happening, but yeah will be only anything that's considered non parallel parking so perpendicular to the curve or angled to the curve. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: There is parking behind the roadhouse BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: that is in desperate need of striping. That is, responsibility of the owners. Association, not the city. So we're going to be working with the Owners Association to get that working restrict as well as it's in pretty sun shape. Rebekah Dumouchelle: Okay? And then I'll ask the same question, is the striping project? Does that have budget impact to be jet? Or is that city budget. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: That is general fund budget. Rebekah Dumouchelle: Okay. Thank you. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Eric. [23:00] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: So little bit of the budget process here, and kind of how it gets where it's been BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: officially approved and adopted. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: so we kind of start at that top there, the Commission Council priority setting with those letters to Council from over junction, helping us kind of understand what some of the priorities there. Then developing that into what a work plan would look like looking at the financial projections. Can we afford it? What are we trying to accomplish with the money that we currently have, and doing some strategic planning BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: that then leads into the development of the budget which then gets submitted to central finance. That's kind of where we are right now, and that they're reviewing everything against everyone else BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: and seeing what we can afford from an organization not just the department or funding source. And then that last final piece is the Council Review and Adoption. In September we will be having a study session we being City Council, so BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: central Finance staff, the Budget manager and cmo. Will be working with council on doing that presentation, and it's an opportunity for council to see that and ask questions, and then we will have 2 public participation readings at a minimum and [24:15] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: October with both of them available for public participation. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: So these are our different funding sources in community vitality. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: You can see, Boulder Junction has 2 there in the district column along with Cajun Eugen. We also have some funding from the general fund. So it's Chris's point about this. The on street parking the revenue from on street parking goes into the general funds. The general fund helps support those costs. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: and then starting next year, we will have a new funding source, which is the arts, culture and heritage sales tax. So it's a portion of the sales portion of a sales tax that goes to arts, culture, and heritage. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: And then we do still have some carbon funding and some community culture, safety culture, resonance, even safety funding as well. Which was also sales tax. [25:09] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: different types of revenues and expenses that we have across the board. Not a lot change from previous years. We still have the same revenue sources and same expenses. The biggest change, though, is that new sales tax? That will be dedicated to our school trip. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: And then, looking at the the 2025 budget and some of the highlights. That we've BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: kind of come across if you will. So there is a big focus this year, as it was last year on doing a realignment. So taking what we currently have that hasn't necessarily been spent all the way and repurposing it to find either where we've had shortcomings with the budget or what we need to. Enhance some programs. So really focus on that. [26:00] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: we have a very heavy expansion of capital programs. So we're really getting ambitious about taking care of the assets that we have in Cajun. So you'll see that reflected in our budget this year. And then we're really trying to also find some funding to focus on the businesses and the employees within our districts as well. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: I will say there is a little bit of Admins. There is initiative 50 that's going to be coming out for voter approval to retain anything over 4 that's collected on property taxes. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: So this could have a big impact in Lower Junction. Lower Junction is not currently limited by Tabor. In other words, we do not have to ask for the additional money above our original projections. However, if this passes, that may change that, and if it does go up by more than 4, you would have to ask voters to approve that additional revenue again. That's that's if this initiative passes. [27:00] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: So our biggest changes. In 2,025. So, looking at those realignments, we found that we're just not spending as much on the Eco pass programs as we have in the past, or thought we were going to. A lot of that has to do with ridership being down. I know Boulder Junction is still in the throes of not having a depot bus depot there right now. But we're seeing that impact across the rest of the districts. There's just the ridership just does not rebound BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: after Covid, and then, furthermore, the model for which we are billed also changed the year before. Covid went from a number of eco pass holders to the number of rides on those Eco passes. And since that's based on ridership, we're seeing that decrease there BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: something else we're doing is we're decreasing the general fund transfer. So Cajun currently gets a general fund transfer to support some of the citywide efforts that Cajun funds directly part of that is paying for credit card fees, the credit card processing fees for our general fund products. So we're shifting that from Cajun back to the general fund directly as well as the revenues. It's kind of a 0 sign [28:18] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: big enhancements that we're trying to achieve from 25 and hoping for approval, for it's the continuation of our investor program downtown as well as on the hill. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: looking at expanding our outdoor dining program. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: And then we are really going to to do an even pass expansion to part time employees not just full time. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: So we have built that into our budget. I just mentioned that we realized some Eco test savings. But that is not a portion that we realize. We wanted to make sure we had enough to support that expansion. That is currently in practice right now downtown, and we will be requesting that expansion for over junction as well as the kill. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: The last big enhancement we have a bridge here, not a gap here for arts and culture. As we finalize the [29:06] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: quote, the cultural plan update BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: and looking at doing some program expansions just in the interim. And then our capital highlights again mentioned the garages Cmgc is the construction manager, general contractor, kind of helps kind of a quasi design build process that helps us kind of streamline some processes and get a little bit better. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Sense of what it's actually gonna cost, manage our garages and maintain those we're looking at doing some streetscape renovations up on the hill, and then some security enhancements in our garages and continuing the 1% for public art on capital projects. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: So this is our overall budget. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: for community vitality. So this includes all of our funding mechanisms. You can see it's a pretty big jump overall budget just from an operating side. We're doing about a 16% increase. [30:04] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: That is not necessarily all the arts, culture, and heritage, but that is a big portion of it. The transfers and the internal services. Those are both directly related to the admin allocation. So it's paying our share of the general fund support that we get from. Like the attorney's office. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: City manager's office, central finance it, etc. So they redid and looked at a the numbers that were used to calculate that cost recovery and those they go up pretty significantly across all funding mechanisms. So that's in part why we have such a large jump there BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: the asterisk there for the capital under the 25 proposed. That's just indication that it is not 100 coming out of the funds that we manage. We have a BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: quasi savings account that we contribute to every year, and it's going to be drawn upon next year to help fund that. But it does show that in our budget, so overall about a 33% increase [31:07] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: with the largest of it being in capital. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: So looking at our capital program, you can see there, we have a pretty big task ahead of us in 2025 we've consolidated our affordable commercial program that used to be spread out over 6 years. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: We're actually over 5 years did not have a 2030 number in it last year. And we consolidated that all into one year for next year, hoping that we really have a good sense of what an affordable commercial program looks like. So we can do a large investment. And then we also have some funding this year that can be combined with that BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: for you all, and the Commission, the biggest one is our Boulder Junction improvements. So we continue to budget $100,000 out of parking to help contribute to any sort of public improvements. So things like the way finding signs that came into Boulder Junction, that was in part by this capital funding [32:05] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: and we're constantly working on ways to to do public improvements in that area. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Couple of other programs. I mentioned the security enhancements, the Hill street, and our 1st garage will be the spruce garage downtown. So that's the one at Broadway and Spruce, between 11th and Broadway. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: So that one may have some impacts and customers there. But we're sparsing it out. So we're basically trying to do a garage a year. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: And that is our biggest one that that will say in 26. There is the Pearl Street refresh, or we're currently, I guess, aster working on a better name for that we're avoiding the downtown 16th Street refresh that happened. So we're learning from our partners on ways that we can better do the refresh for downtown. [33:02] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: So that's going to be in 2026. And that's combination of pages. And Ccrs, I think BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: so. On the next slide we have specifics about Boulder Junction. Specifically the Tdm. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: I will say none of these property tracks projections include any, no levy rate adjustments. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Given the headman that may come with initiative. 50. We're hesitant to really do any sort of middle levy adjustments at this time. It'd be nice to know whether or not that's going to have an impact, and then also understanding the future of parking and Tdm. As 2 separate districts. And what that would look like. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: In the future, I should say so. You'll probably remember from the fund financials you're seeing that our revenue is currently outpacing our expenses. So that means 2 things. One. We have room for expansion programs. So think of things like communication [34:00] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: transit oriented programs through Tdm, and then from a parking side, you know, is as we look at what that district looks like in the future that gives us the flexibility. If we need to do any sort of pivoting with partnering, with many other businesses or developments to provide additional parking and what resources we have for that BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: real quick. I wanna chime in while Ellen suggested, I guess we're not. We are cautious about the BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: initiative. 50. What's it? The initiative initiative? 50. Is it a referendum? Is it a anyhow? We are still exploring. What a change in the levy levels will look like through the work that match Zansky is leading, and he'll be presenting on that work. And timeline after the budget. So well, Elliot, being our BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: tobacco chief financial officer for the Department certainly has reservations about how much capacity we actually have for adjustments. It doesn't mean that we are not still pursuing efforts to at least analyze and understand what that could look like. Initially, 50 certainly will play into that conversation that we'll be having over the month as we seek to make some decisions, not just for the older junction, but also university. [35:23] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Yeah, absolutely, and the the timing of the budget submission. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: for this year. Well, I should say for 2025 it's a little bit ahead of the timing of where we would be able to have any sort of good understanding of the district connections and the efforts thereof. So it's a it's kind of a chicken and the egg little bit of concept here. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Yeah, Rebecca. Rebekah Dumouchelle: While the property tax you Rebekah Dumouchelle: headwinds may may influence some stuff that wouldn't affect, for example, actually shifting the cost of parking onto the people doing the parking correct. I mean, you can [36:03] Rebekah Dumouchelle: change parking rates without running into any problems with that Rebekah Dumouchelle: possible regulation. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Initiative. It is types that the actual property tax revenue change over time, not not revenues that are generated. In other words, correct? Correct? Correct. Yeah, that 4% does not limit revenue growth on non property taxes specific to property tax revenue. Rebekah Dumouchelle: Okay. Alright. So there are other possible revenue sources. Even if we ran into that issue later. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Prostitute. Rebekah Dumouchelle: For the for the parking issue. Rebekah Dumouchelle: Thank you. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Yep. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: And then on the next slide you'll see kind of the breakdown of the specific budget for the parking district. Again, just like we saw with tdm. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: the transfers had a relatively big change. However, in parking, it's hard to understand how big of a change it was for those [37:05] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: central services, because the largest expense for parking was paying back its obligation to Tdm in 2024. So you may all remember, or if you're looking at fund financials. There was an inter fund transfer between Tdm to parking to help kind of get it through. It's it's silver growth. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: As the the district was developing everything we have now seen that has now changed. So we are currently starting to see some revenue. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Speaking of revenue, the parking revenue, from 2024 through 2025. There is a pretty significant decrease there, mainly due to the timing of when we receive revenues. So some of the 2024 budget was based on 2023 revenues. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: The Condo Owners Association was a little late paying us some revenues [38:02] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: by a year late. So it threw off our projections. And we wanted to make sure that we did that right size on the revenue side for 2025. So we had a better understanding BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: of where we were, with BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: the actual revenues coming in investment earnings, you'll see, has a very significant increase. Kind of the same thing. There we were budgeting very conservatively on the investment earnings, and we took a better look at actuals and worked with central finance to understanding what kind of growth we may see and given the fund balance we are seeing that there's relatively significant. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: $8,000. So it's not a whole lot of money. But it is a pretty big change in from year over year. So that's 1 of the big increases there. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: So in total, we're looking about a 5% decrease in what we're expecting for 2025 on our revenue side. But we're also seeing a big decrease on our expense side. [39:03] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Yeah, Rebecca. Rebekah Dumouchelle: I mean, it's great to see that balance there, and and things are decreasing. And lock stuff. One thing I would like to see when we're looking at things like this is more visibility into how much of the on street parking going to general fund that isn't visible right? So that is part of the district that the on street parking is going to general fund, not to Rebekah Dumouchelle: the Bjad parking budget. And I feel like that's kind of obscured when we look at numbers like this without seeing that. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Sure. Yeah. So yeah, you're absolutely right. The on street revenue that is within Boulder Junction, as in with pages with Uj, does all go to the general fund. That is large part because it's on the public right of way, and that public right of way is managed by the general fund. So we basically contribute to the management of the right of way through the parking revenue. [40:00] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: There's some other programs that we could probably expense out of that, if you will. And that's something we're going to be working on next year is really defining what the revenue pays for and what it's actually providing BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: But yeah, so the one of the reasons why you do not see revenue per se in this parking budget is because it doesn't actually contribute to the Boulder Junction parking fun. But we can absolutely provide you. We could share what we are collecting. We do keep that separate in our accounting. The different districts. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Are all kept separate as far as where we're collecting the on street revenue, and we do have that information. Rebekah Dumouchelle: It's they think it also would just be interesting to see like what the usage is compared to the garage as well as maybe trans and and timing of day, that kind of thing, just as a holistic view of the distance. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Yeah. So we do provide the annual analysis that Sam Bromber produces. So you will be seeing an information item, and the 4th quarter or annual update of [41:05] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: utilization. For on street parking, as we use to consider where we should be raising on street parking prices because we do have the the latitude BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: the direction from council to increase austerity, parking prices by 50 cents BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: per hour every year up to $5 per hour on the highest use box. Our analysis so far over the past couple of years shown that utilization on street and Boulder Junction is on the lower end of the spectrum. So we have not done any increases to on street parking rates. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: In Boulder Junction, but doesn't mean that we won't get there, especially build out is occurring. So we do continue to monitor monitor that we do collect a lot of data, utilization and revenue, and we'll share that in our annual reports to all of our missions [42:03] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: pretty. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: So that takes us into questions and feedback. Was there any specific questions or responses that we were hoping to share BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Haley. Great! BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: We'll move on to that last slide. Lisa, did you pull up that last slide? Actually, one more time, and then Robin. I think you are technically both right? So correct. No, Robin. And who is BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: technically BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: share? Rebecca is shared circuit. So yeah, we look BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Well, as long as it's unanimous, I think the the minutes can reflect to join mission meetings, so we don't need to do 2 separate motions. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: we both will use this before is to communicate to Council and their materials. You know the feedback that we received from each of our commissions, and whether or not they supported the draft budget. [43:06] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: There are changes that could occur between now and when we prepare materials for council, and we will make sure that you all are informed. Of those changes. September meeting. We did the similar thing last year, but we wanted to get the budget in front of you all before we started preparing materials for council. There still could be changes. But we will make sure that BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: the feedback that you provide in the boat. If you do vote to approve the drop budget that will be communicated to us. Robyn Ronen: Okay. Do you need me to to call the motion. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Yeah, it. Robyn Ronen: Were. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Anybody can. Anybody can make the motion and second it, and then just step or both. Robyn Ronen: In that. In that case I'll make the motion to take the with the current suggestion motion language. Can I get a second. [44:01] Jennifer Shriver: Second. Robyn Ronen: Jennifer Shriver. Robyn Ronen: And can we take a vote. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Right. You never. Robyn Ronen: I don't. Robyn Ronen: Okay. Unanimous, fantastic. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Rights. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Thank you so much, Elliot. With that we can move over to Matt's item, the update on the district outlook analysis work. And specifically, if you remember, the last time we talked about this, we were looking for a couple of volunteers. From the Pj commissions to participate in this process. So I think that is what Matt intends to figure out now. So over you, Matt, great, thank you very much. And I'm gonna say a few words of reminder about BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: if anyone needs to dig into the details and get the full presentation again, reach out to me individually, that'd be happy to sit down with you. But the short version is that the District Analysis project is a chance for all of our general improvement districts to analyze our current needs and our future needs [45:12] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: in the context of the financial tools that we have our vision for the future, our current shortcomings. And the capital needs that we have over the coming decades BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: in response to very specific new opportunities, new challenges in each of the districts. For instance, the retirement of some debt, the new hotel and conference centers coming in up University Hill. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: the challenges in transportation options, the Boulder Junction. All of these things are crashing together right now. To give us an opportunity to really examine that along with our community stakeholders, to understand, what we need going forward to be most efficient to have the right level of revenues in order to afford what our vision is so [46:06] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: very brief, we could talk for hours. I generally do talk to ours about it, because it's very exciting. This is great work. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: so a quick update on what's happened since we last talked about this we will be presenting this along with a lot of other information about the Community Vitality Department to City council in mid September in a meeting. And we're gonna use that up as our opportunity to kick off the the engagement around all of those questions. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: And so, we're working right now to find a consultant. And do all the background work we need in order to build up to that moment. After that meeting with City Council and the advice that they give. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: we will go to engaging with the community and engaging with each of the districts and to the the taxpayers in those districts and build out the vision part of that before we get back to the tools that we need in order to accomplish that. [47:11] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: And that engagement is gonna have some important questions for Boulder Junction specifically. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: And so. In a second I will ask if there are any volunteers ideally, one volunteer from each of the commissions. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: In order to sit on a advisory panel along with representatives of cages. And you can't see BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: because, there's going to be some detailed questions. We're going to need specific advice. We're going to need people to read over some of the documents and make sure that we're talking about that detail in a a depth that would do for full commission meetings. We will be continually coming back to the commission meetings to report out and get your advice. But we do need someone who's ready to dive in deep with us on this [48:00] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: for Boulder Junction that has a little bit of pressure on it, because, as we sort of talked about here. There's some detailed questions that we need to answer by the way, as BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: initiative 50 and BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: and the deadlines for some decisions on changes in tax rates. There's all sorts of things that really are coming on one on top of another. And so when you do, and I hope you were ready to volunteer to help us out. There, there will be some detail questions that we're gonna ask. And so we want to get started soon to ask those questions. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: And so that may be something that happens before that September council meeting and start to get our heads around that. But certainly afterwards we'll just regular meetings, have some homework to do, and then help staff to report back to the full commissions BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: during meetings. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: I just wanted to add one big note concurrent with this work. If we're doing kind of a micro economic planning and financial analysis level, the planning department is going to be leading their update of the [49:10] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Boulder Valley comprehensive plan. So we are going to be working in tandem tandem with them in their public in involvement process where they're. You know, the comprehensive plan is more of a 30,000 foot level planning effort. We want to work with them and make sure we're incorporating more of that 15,000 to 10,000 foot planning BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: level for the the commercial districts that we serve in that process. So just wanted to to let you know that we're thinking strategically about how we work BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: with other big visioning conversations happening in the community and how we can insert ourselves and have a comprehensive conversation with lots of different people at the table in our deployment of our engagement strategy. [50:05] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: So are there any questions of Rebecca. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: We can't hear you. Rebekah Dumouchelle: Yeah, yeah, sorry. I'm I'm still getting over jetlack. So okay, yes. A couple of questions. It sounds like there's an initial question. Then a longer term. Project here. What is the time? Commitment expected? What time do those meetings happen? Are they all like mandatory in person? Are they virtual Rebekah Dumouchelle: for the longer term engagement stuff. I think we have a couple of people here who are serving out of civic duty and or don't have an official like extended Rebekah Dumouchelle: term date. So you know what happens if they leave or replace before the project finishes. I don't know how long that long tail is so Rebekah Dumouchelle: I'll repeat any of those Rebekah Dumouchelle: if you need me to. But. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: No, no, I I think I got it so I I won't answer them in the right order. But [51:04] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: The project will run about 18 months. Rebekah Dumouchelle: 'kay. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: And we're gonna craft the engagement grounds Commissions Advisory Group to meet the needs of the people who volunteer for that. I know it is, you know, an extra lift, and it's we're asking a bunch of busy people to weigh in, so we will make the accommodations to for it to be hybrid. I'm expecting BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: that it will be a monthly meeting. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: And there'll be some homework in between perhaps BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: maybe an hour each meeting, but that that's a guest we all get together the 1st time we'll design that, and then we'll work with the consultants and kind of map that out as a project as well. I I do want to make sure that it's as flexible as it needs to be. To make sure that we get your good advice, so that just be determined. But we'll we'll be accommodating as much [52:00] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: hour. But certainly, you know, with it's hour hour and a half and hybrid BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: option, so it would not require everybody to be in person, for sure. Rebekah Dumouchelle: Okay? And then the second part was, it's going 18 months that extends beyond some commissioners term dates. What happens if they leave the Commission, and but are part of that project. Is it more important to keep the the consistency of the same person on that project? Do we have another representative that comes in from these different commissions. What is the plan? There. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: So I don't have plan. So I would say ideally, we would love to have someone who will be a Commissioner through that term. I don't think that's a actually quite necessary, because this isn't like an official subcommittee or something. So if if the option was to BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: have the transition of a commissioner halfway through to keep someone engaged after they cycled off, and then still come back and report. I think that we have some flexibility there, so I don't think it would, should prevent anyone, and certainly anyone cycles off the Commission should still stay involved, because, you know Boulder Junction there. So even if you're not on that commission after this, you're not only Advisory Board, you still want to talk to so I I think that's a flexibility. [53:26] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Yeah, I'd say that BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: I I agree that I mean the preference would be to have consistency. The nice thing is, if you volunteer, and then you're off the Commission. You're no longer subjected to the open meetings rule. We'll continue to welcome you to participate in this level of the process because we it's not strictly Commissioners. That we're wanting to involve in that advisory steering BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Committee level. But we what we really want is folks who have kind of that. The knowledge, the institutional knowledge of the purposes of these districts. And can help us with that conversation. So whether you're on the Commission or not, we want you to be involved. And then, what the benefit is. If somebody rotates off. [54:14] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: then we could invite another person in from the Commission without having the open meetings concerns that. Which is why we only have 2 folks currently, because we have 3 of them because of public meeting that needs to be noticed and recorded and minutes taken, and all those types of things. So BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: just yeah, as Matt said, we're we'll, it's not all fully baked yet. But those are. Those are some of our considerations. Rebekah Dumouchelle: Is that correct? Sorry? Is that correct Rebekah Dumouchelle: unopened meetings? If Rebekah Dumouchelle: only 2 people are on one commission and the other person is on the other. One. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Yeah. So with your commissions, it's a little fuzzy because they are allowed to meet together. We don't. We don't want anybody to get any wrong ideas. So that's why we're just suggesting one from each [55:13] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: from Bja, just to stay in really clear territory. Rebekah Dumouchelle: Okay. Rebekah Dumouchelle: Thank you. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Any other clarifying questions I can answer BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: and put your hand up. It's a little Fuzzy. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: not hearing any other questions, so do we. Wanna do our call for volunteers? Anybody wanna raise our hand and be on Matt's list? BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Anyone want to nominate someone? BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Should we just nominate the folks who didn't make the meeting. [56:05] Robyn Ronen: I don't believe with my current time commitment at the beginning, like right now that it's feasible for me. Having said that later on, if someone needs to cycle off, I'd be completely willing to step up at that time. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Well, it sounds like there's there's no one who's able to do that. So I'll come back at our next meeting, and we'll talk again. See if maybe that's better time. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: And in in the meantime we'll do our best to keep everyone updated. The best we can within the rules. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: And anyone tries to change a heart reaches out. Or when we start the engagement and send out some invitations. If you just yeah, you want to participate in other ways. We'll be here for you. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Yeah, that was the winner. Robyn Ronen: Question. Perhaps we could share the invitation, and people can go. Even if they're not committing upfront. They can go to the initial meetings. [57:02] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: There'd be a lot of ways to engage. Rebekah Dumouchelle: You all. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: We'll we'll send that out to everyone. Make sure that you have a good opportunity. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Yeah, if we need to spread the love, if you will on that way of, you know, Robin, if you're available to attend one of them, but not all of them, and we at least have some representation. It means probably we'll set some meteor agenda items in our actual commission meetings to make sure that you all are able to stay up to speed on the work that's happening. Which is totally fine. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: And we'll just we will adapt as necessary. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: But. Rebekah Dumouchelle: Matt, I will tentatively agree for this initial push. Rebekah Dumouchelle: I obviously I don't know if it conflicts with a couple of dates. I'm out of town, but. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: We'll be flexible for you, but I appreciate that. We'll we'll make it fun. We'll make the rest of these people regret for not volunteer [58:01] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: absolutely just kidding everyone. Thank you so much for your time. Robyn Ronen: Thank you so much, Rebecca. Robyn Ronen: so is that the last of the discussion of matters from staff. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: That is like inspirational stuff. Robyn Ronen: In this case I'm going to open it up for matters from Commissioners. Robyn Ronen: and I see Rebecca. Rebekah Dumouchelle: Yeah, this is a question for both staff and my other commissioners. I I believe there has been at least one, maybe more public emails to the Bejad email Rebekah Dumouchelle: address. I have not seen that come through. I do not see that represented in this packet. So Rebekah Dumouchelle: a was it received? Rebekah Dumouchelle: I think there was one at least one in June, probably June 10.th Rebekah Dumouchelle: And Rebekah Dumouchelle: a can we get them earlier? Forward? A different if nobody is receiving mine, I didn't receive it. [59:02] Rebekah Dumouchelle: I also be Rebekah Dumouchelle: okay, and then be make sure that these are showing up in the packets. And I I don't know if if we didn't get this one. I don't know if there are other ones we may be missing. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: This is alright. This is all news to to us on the staff side. Rebekah Dumouchelle: Okay? Well, then, I guess the action item is to go and check that email, alias around the June 10th date. Maybe you know. Give or take a few days, and it would have come from a neighbor in Boulder Junction. Rebekah Dumouchelle: I can give you that name. Rebekah Dumouchelle: It's Eric Barry. I don't know if other ones have, but he specifically reached out to tell me that he was contacting the the commission. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: If you don't mind forwarding anything that you've received to Lauren or Lisa and Lisa, then that would be a way for us to document. Anything that [60:14] Rebekah Dumouchelle: Yeah, hopefully, it's not some weird IP issue or something, but. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: I think, to the like. Lisa and I are not on the email aliases. It's just the Commissioners. So if you get something and we're not on it, and we don't get it. So we just need it to be forwarded to us. Rebekah Dumouchelle: Oh, we didn't get it either. Rebekah Dumouchelle: So I thought I thought actually, perhaps the alias might be going directly to Staff. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Yeah, if you have that, you know, we can investigate it. You can forward it to Luca. And I. Rebekah Dumouchelle: Thank you. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: There was a point of privilege. I was let everyone know this Lauren's last meeting BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: because she's been accepted to a graduate master's program in Finland. [61:01] BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: So as much as we we are. We are very sad. We're also very happy for in her short duration, vitality. Great asset, dear, dearly, and she'll be back. But obviously can't pass up an opportunity. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Northern Europe. Robyn Ronen: They are lucky to have you. Kevin Knapp: Yeah. Congrats. Robyn Ronen: Grass. Robyn Ronen: I am keeping an eye on the chat. Did anyone else have matters that they would like to bring forward of the meeting? Robyn Ronen: I am not seeing any hands. I do wanna double check the dates of our next meeting, which I have as September 18, th 2024. Is that still correct everybody. [62:00] Robyn Ronen: and aside from a lot of fun. But boulder Robyn Ronen: boulder concerts going on outside. Robyn Ronen: I think that's everything. If we're ready to adjourn. And, by the way just special thanks to the staff, y'all are always doing a great job, but special thanks, Rebecca, for stepping up and Robyn Ronen: You are a very competent voice. I'm very grateful that you're volunteering Robyn Ronen: album. Robyn Ronen: but with that, if there's nothing else, are we ready to adjourn. Kevin Knapp: Makes sense. Robyn Ronen: I hope you'll have a great time. I'll see you all next. A couple of months from now. Kevin Knapp: Thanks. Everyone. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: That's what I say. That's the bricks. Robyn Ronen: Never mind, I'll see y'all next week, but I'll see Robyn Ronen: couple of months. Take care now. BJAD Joint Commissions Meeting: Bill! Alright. Robyn Ronen: Bye.