November 13, 2024 — Boulder Junction Access District Regular Meeting

Transcript

Captions from City of Boulder YouTube recording.

[0:01] Okay, we are recording. Right? Secretary. Can we get the roll call? Yes. so it is. 4 0. 5. On Wednesday, November 13.th This is the Boulder Junction Access District Joint Commissions meeting, and I will call roll Rebecca du Michelle. Here. Stephanie Pike. Not here yet, she's expected. Let's see Stephanie Pike. Not here yet. Sue print. Here. Jennifer Shriver. Here. Ryan cook is not able to attend Robin Ronan. Here. And Kevin Knapp he is expected to attend. He may be maybe a little bit late, and I will pass it over to the chair.

[1:05] Apologies for a second. I have the updated agenda, but it seems to be only one page, so I don't actually have the meeting minutes in front of me. I'm going back through Lisa's emails to make sure I have the full packet. There is a full packet. I had the same issue. It was in the full packet which was sent on November 8th by Lisa. Alright. I now have them both open. alright. So procedure items. We have approval of the September 18th meeting minutes. anybody have any questions about those in the full packet.

[2:04] Questions. Unless there's other discussion, I would move that we approve the minutes. Second thought all the data that probably gives us approval for Tdm. But not for parking at this time. I wasn't at that meeting, so it's a little hard for me to approve it. But okay. Good. I understand, Sue. I've had to sign a couple that I wasn't at before, so alright. We have approval of the proposed 2025 be job parking and Tdm. Meeting dates. Anyone see any conflicts with those dates that are coming up

[3:02] that we know of. What's the second Wednesday? It conflicts with better boulder like today did for me. But maybe I won't be on the Commission by November, so. Okay. I don't have a conflict at this time. Alright! Yeah, I, any conflict. Okay. Motion to approve. I move. Vacuum. All in favor. I. Bye. And Jennifer, just because you're off camera and silence. Maybe we could get a hands up or something. Yes, I did, say I. But let's see. Thank you alright. And then we have election for chair and vice chair.

[4:04] Oh, well, we get. We're not gonna be able to do that for parking. Wanna know Kevin has arrived. Sorry I'm late. So now you have a quorum for both permissions. Thank you. Kevin, if I backtrack for a second, do you? Do you also approve the meeting minutes from the last meeting. I do? Thanks. And then, did you have any questions or conflicts with the proposed meeting? Dates for 2025. I do not. Okay, so we have your approval on that one as well stuff can capture that. Thank you. Alright. Election for chair and vice chair staff. Did we have any nominations. I did not receive any nominations. Right? Maybe if we start then with parking members, anybody want to put their their hat in the ring or

[5:10] continue, Robin. would you like to get. Happy to continue in my current role. Time. So we have a nomination for vice chair for Robin. staff. Do we have enough people to to go ahead and nominate them? Or do we need to do both chair and vice chair at the same time? Do not need to do both at the same time. I think you know, if we have a phone, folks agree and wanna continue with Robin as vice chair. Then we can make it official today, and we'll note that moving forward. Alright, I moved to to nominate and accept Robin as vice chair of the parking commission. Kevin or Robin, do you want to second.

[6:02] It's weird. But yes, I'll second. All right. All in favor. Wait. Sorry, Kevin. Go ahead. Yeah, if I just have a discussion here, do do we have a nomination for chair like, would we be able to start with the chair and then move down to the vice chair. We don't have a nomination for the chair. Would you like to nominate yourself? I know you're you're the the issue may be with I I'm not looking to nominate myself. But but, thank you. What what I more had in mind was that if we do not have a chair that perhaps Robin would be the most fitting being the current vice chair. I'm. I moved to like. Fine I'm I'm fine with being chair, if there's nothing else but yes, I will, I will! I will accept, will accept chair. Perfect. and I revoke my previous motion, and I. Okay. To nominate Robin as chair of the Parking Commission.

[7:03] I second. All in favor. Bye. I. Okay. Jennifer, would you like to be vice chair. I think I'm vice chair on the Tdm. Side. And. So I would rather just prefer to stay in that one role. But can we nominate Lynn for things, or is is she here as a member of the public. Thank you, Jennifer. Love it. Alright sorry staff I'm just gonna say so. Jennifer is currently vice chair on Tdm, our chair on Tdm is if you, Rebecca, so we can either keep them the same, or if there are nominations for those on Tdm. And so we still would need to identify a vice chair or pardon me, and the options would be Kevin Rebecca.

[8:14] or right. Are Kevin and I still the ones waiting to be replaced. Nails. Brian is also a need to be replaced. Ryan is also waiting to be replaced. Which boards is he on. Just parking. See, we're gonna we're gonna make you vice chair emeritus. Well, I'm not on parking. I'm only on Td. That's true. Yeah. Okay, well, let's let's cover off. Tdm, and then we can come back because, as as the current chair on Tdm, I. I probably don't want to be

[9:10] named position on both. So for Tdm, I'm currently chair Jennifer's currently Vice chair. Jennifer's has expressed interest in remaining vice chair. Sue, would you? Would you like a position. Not really, because hopefully, somebody apply for the position and I'll be off. Alright. Okay. Then I'm I'm fine with continuing to be chair for Tdm, if everybody is, has no other things. Alright. Okay. So motion to appoint myself as share Jennifer advice. Share on tdm. so boom. Oh, second. and thank you for that, Rebecca. All in favor.

[10:02] Alright. I. M. Okay. So, moving back to parking vice chair. Kevin, would you like to be vice chair? Otherwise we need to wait until Ryan is here to see if he would like to be vice chair. Everybody's chair without him. Here. We can draft him. I'm in favor of of new blood. Yeah. Then then that is you right? Because Ryan is currently chair. Well, I think I've. You walked into that. Been passed vice, chair and chair of both commissions at this point so equal. we'll leave it to the future. So. Alright! Yeah, put it on. It seems to make sense to put that position on hold, for now, similar to Sue's spaces.

[11:00] we are hoping that we'll get some more folks. Applying for this commission in the months ahead. All right. Thank you. All. Boards and commission vacancy and recruitment update. Chris does staff have an update for us on that. I do. So I did include in your packets. You probably did see the recruitment timeline. So our next recruitment window starts December 16, th and applications are taken until midnight on Friday, January 31, st and we do have some some seats that that are open. So I know Tdm, Sue looks like your term ended in 2024, Jennifer, your term ended in 2020 ends this year. and we do have a vacancy for seat number 3, which is property owner. Then on Bj. Parking. Ryan's term ended in 2024.

[12:04] Kevin's term ended in 2023, and we also have a vacancy property owner. Slash rep seat number 3. So the city clerk's office. They're working on finalizing the official flyers. Recruitment flyers. Once that's done, I'll send them on to you. But our city clerk's office did say they they were actually considering just canvassing through Bjat and handing out those flyers. and I also included. So the application process changed a little bit, and just that it's consistent now for every board. So I did include that in the packet just a sample of what the application looks like now, not no, major changes really just that. It's going to be all the kind of the same questions. Does anybody have any questions. Thank you. So you partially answered it, which is that they're considered canvassing the the neighborhood and district. Given the the restraints on so many of the seats on these commissions. In addition to canvassing, is the city, considering something like a a mailing right? So that we actually hit all of those addresses. We have a better chance of reaching those property owners.

[13:22] That's an excellent suggestion, and I can pass that on to city clerk's office, and then, let you know. Send their feedback to you all. Yeah. And we have done that in the past. So I don't see why we wouldn't be able to do that again. I think it's really important that we give some of our longtime commissioners some relief. As much as we love you all. We want to make sure that we give others an opportunity. Now that Boulder Junction is getting more built out. We're also hopeful that there's going to be more a larger pool of folks who are interested. So it's incredibly

[14:03] so. I appreciate the suggestion. I think we should be able to make it happen. Yeah, I appreciate that. Thanks. Obviously, the biggest hurdle is a knowing that the the districts exist, that they are seeking candidates. And then kind of understanding the level of effort or not. That would be applied in that role, so that people feel confident in applying so alright moving on to item 3. Public participation. Do we have any members of the public. We do not. Okay. Item, 4. Consent agenda. Does anybody have any questions about the consent? Agenda?

[15:04] I think my question is, what page is it on? Alright. yeah. It starts on page 15 of the packet, I believe, and I don't have any questions. Yeah, I have an emotion to approve the consent. Agenda. Move. Do I have a second. Second. All in favor, approving the consent. Agenda. Bye. Bye. I. Thank you. I do have one question on it for the staff. Hey! Just like citizen curiosity, these affordable commercial grant programs. You said you got 5 applications. Is that what you were expecting.

[16:03] Good question. Matt, do you want to answer? Well, actually, I'll Regan just popped up so. Oh, yeah, Reagan's on. Hi! Sorry, was the question, Sue, is that what we were anticipating? Or that was what we were? Is that what we were expecting. Yeah, were you expecting more or less about that. it's kind of hard to answer. I mean, we conducted a lot of outreach, and I think just received feedback from commercial property owners that it may. I think we learned some lessons along the way, so that we can get more applicants. If we were to do this in a future round. So yeah, we received 5 applications. We awarded Matt, are you gonna chime in. It's okay. I'll talk with you guys. We awarded 3 that we were able to fully fund and so we're gonna see how how those

[17:05] play out. And then that'll kind of inform future programming. Go ahead, Matt. Yeah. And I'll just add, we we don't consider 5 disappointing. We certainly would have loved to have seen an avalanche of applications before we had finished the program we had sort of settled on 4 to 5 to be a good competitive group. and I would also add that it's not an easy application. It was very specific of the types of benefits that could be provided. So it did, narrow in, and a lot of folks that they've reviewed the requirements of the application and realized that they probably weren't even eligible anyway. So it did. The application process did narrow down to just a few folks who saw opportunity in it, and 3 are being awarded. So there certainly are. There's a lot of interest. We had a lot of restrictions, because a lot of the funds are associated either with downtown central area, general improvement district funds

[18:04] or Federal arpa dollars, which have some really specific requirements related to Covid recovery. And so I think just folks weren't sure that it was worth going through all of the effort to apply, because it was a lengthy application for something that they weren't sure they were even eligible for. Are you gonna make it easier next time. We're we're going to evaluate and improve it. I'm not sure if easier is the standard will hold it to. But yeah, as we look to repeating the program in the future. Since it's a pilot, we're going to do some careful evaluation. make it better next time. So if that includes an easier application, then absolutely, we'll do that.

[19:06] I guess that's it. Just as somebody who fills out a lot of government grant applications and knows how difficult and annoying and how many times. They can repeat the same question in 20 different ways. I often wonder, you know. No, no real, no non nonprofit business would do this because they just wouldn't have a development director or an executive director with the resources to do that. These people are actually like getting their work done, not sitting at desks. So you know. Yeah, we we heard that exact feedback, I think. You're totally right. And if the standard is to make it easier than the Federal grants. Then I think we've accomplished that already. Just kidding. Sorry. All right. Well, if you ever want me to discuss with you more, I'm happy to do it as somebody who does a lot of government grants and has a lot of ideas.

[20:03] That would be very helpful. We'll reach out to you. Alright. Thank you, Sue. Any other questions about okay the financials report. I do have a question. The formatting's changed a bit. How can I easily see what the reserves are for? Each of the boards. That's a great question. So yeah. The the report that was provided is more of the actual charges for this year. And not really the fund financials over time. So the fund finances are what basically include the reserves. I I would definitely suggest looking at open Gov where we have the fund financials for that. That being said, we won't be closing this fiscal year until about end of February of next year. So this is more of an indicator of what it might look like once the year closes. So we can use those numbers certainly to predict project fund help

[21:06] but it's really just a snapshot in time just to know you what the performance of Tdm. And parking both revenues and expenses are currently at. Okay? And then my second question is, in the past. We've talked about maybe changing how parking is collected. As far as what that mill levy rate is. And I do see obviously, that our actuals on the property tax for, you know, has grown because values have grown for properties, and we've added more properties. The staff have any updates on where we are, as far as looking to reduce them all of a on the parking side. Yes, we will be tackling that in a later agenda item under management staff to give you an update on our work in that area in the improvement districts, analysis. I appreciate that. Thank you. Any questions from other commissioners

[22:03] on the Financials. Alright, do you have a motion to approve. I move. A second, all in favor. Bye. Alright, thank you. Alright, Lynn, you are up for the Rtd update for Boulder Junction. Thank you so much for coming and talking to us today. Sure, of course. Thanks for having me. It's nice to see so many familiar faces, and nice to be here. I have a little bit of a report. Good news on Boulder Junction, and I know very good news. It's a work in progress. I had to track down the head of our Service department today to get a little more information. But they reported last week to the Subregional Service Council that

[23:07] there the hope is to open the hope, and the plan is to open Boulder Junction Station in September. Which is great. When I talked to Jesse Carter today, he said, yeah, I gotta make sure. I got the customer service, you know, employees and the cleaning and all that. But I think our workforce hiring has been going much better. We've focused on getting recruiters in and I don't think they would be saying this publicly if they didn't think they could do it, because they know it's really important. And I asked him, you know what the what the plan was with the Ab. 2 and the Ff. 4. And I think the plan is to bring both of those back to Boulder Junction. The Ab. 2 is just going into effect in January. Some of you may not know exactly what that is. But they did a modified Ab, for that was supposed to be from Boulder Junction that's going to be coming from downtown boulder temporarily and out Canyon, and then down 28.th So it picks up 28th Street and some of those hotels. But it didn't go to Boulder Junction, and

[24:14] so I think, you know, pushing back on that was kind of where we were making some progress in terms of getting Boulder Junction open. What that does is, it will be on the off the half hour. I'm go to that for just a minute, and then I'll come back to Boulder Junction. But the Ab, 2 will be running, so that from Table mesa to the airport there'll be service every half hour. I think it's from about well, actually, maybe about one or 2 in the afternoon for a little bit in the morning till about 10, and then from one or 2 in the afternoon till about 8 or 8 30 at night. I haven't seen the final schedule, but so we'd have much longer half hour service to the airport, which, of course, is great because it's standing room only all the time. Right? But the the plan is to bring that back. Started at Boulder Junction.

[25:11] and also some service on the Ff. 4. I don't have any details on how much that would be. I think the Ff. 4 was always peak hours down to Civic Center, so it would be that. And then I think the city of Boulder is also planning to have the hop go through. Well, I see you're nodding. You may know more about that than I do. But to have the hop go to the Boulder station, the Boulder Junction station. So great news. Yeah. yeah, I'm happy about it, too. I think it's great. That's really my report. You know, we've had some other good things happen. We we passed and thank you, all of you who were helping. I know many of you were with ballet. Issue 7 a. To debruce, Rtd. And let Rtd keep its money. It passed with 71% of the vote.

[26:03] which is great. We had told it in thanks. We had polled it in April, and it said, had 68% support. But to do better than that was was really good. And I think it was a comment about people's appreciation for Rtd, and also people's appreciation that we're not going to make Rtd better by taking away its money. Right? I know that. You know that service is what everybody, what all of us are wanting, and I think the board is is pretty focused on that at this point. Last night we had when we were passing the budget. They said that the goal is to bring back at least 10% service in 2025. So making progress, we're you know, bringing it back. And hopefully we'll even do better than that. I'm happy to answer any questions.

[27:04] if I can help. All right, thank you. And any any questions from other commissioners. No, but I'm super excited. Good. good. and I. Oppress us. Yeah. When September 2025 is, is 11 months away, or 10 months away. And is there any any scenario where we would open it before then? Somebody from the city asked me that, too. I didn't go there with Jesse today. I will. You know it would be May, and the downside of pushing to open it in May is that the hop goes to a a less frequent schedule. The students are gone, so we'd be open at a time where the numbers wouldn't look great, and the fight we've been having to get this reopened is that the numbers.

[28:00] as Jesse put it today, said, you know, the numbers from that station were never anywhere near the way they were from the downtown boulder station, and you know my response to that is building a lot of new units. There's a lot of jobs in that area, you know. Some are service jobs there. You know. I've gone through all of that, and I think they're hearing. But you know, trying to open it in May. The city may be interested in doing that, too, but I feel like let's open it when they want to open it and see if we get the numbers where we want them to be within a stronger time period. It's only 3 months, 4 months, something like that. It was also a a brand new station, right? It hadn't been opened that long, even for surrounding neighborhoods to really get used to its availability. So I think, with all of the new build out everybody's kind of excited for it to to reopen. Will you have your hand up.

[29:02] I wanted to also share some exciting news today. Myself and Karen Warminghouse met with several staff from Hyatt Place, which is immediately adjacent to the entrance of the station. Several good things to report, but specifically in terms of timing for reopening. The Hyatt had confirmed to us that their busiest season is indeed the summer and most of their clientele, both individual guests as well as businesses, looking to purchase space, and not just out of state, out of county businesses, but some didn't say a name, but on Pearl close by, looking to bring in more of their national staff to the neighborhood. The the May through September, or really may through August, is a peak, demand time that they're looking to see airport service to that station. There are numerous reviews that Kayla will be providing us. She's the assistant director of Operations there to to sort of

[30:04] highlight how guests are individually seeking direct service to the Boulder Junction area, who are repeatedly choosing Hyatt Place as their hospitality choice within boulder as well as the the highlight of many families visiting for the Cu community. A lot of those folks are arriving during the month of August when move-in is happening, and they're looking to fill those rooms. So without taking too much time. There was a lot of positivity and interest in providing support for a May opening consideration of the station. That's great to hear. And you know. Let's stay in touch with that on that wheel. I'm gonna be at the. Certainly. Lunch tomorrow, and then you know, can talk more. I know that that's something Natalie Handles had mentioned to me is that they're not getting much support from the the hotels there in the long canyon, and all those hotels are perfectly located for people taking the bus from the airport, you know, back and forth so.

[31:08] Absolutely. That could make a big difference. Would they help with promoting it? The highest. So I'm happy to continue this with the Commissioners or Lynn. If we maybe carve a few minutes of time after our luncheon tomorrow, which Sue, I hope you can make it. I always like to invite everyone, but it looks like we're sold out so I can't promise space positively. And unfortunately this is very fresh news, as of literally 4 h ago, so I don't want to speak on behalf of the Hyatt, but I heard some really good things, and Karen Warminghouse was very excited for the business willingness, eagerness to participate. That's great, you know I don't. I don't know if you'll all know this or not, and I'm not sure how Rtd got to this because it doesn't make any sense to me. But my client, my constituents love it. I'm not complaining, but if you're over 65, the trip to the airport cost you a dollar 35 I mean, it's a killer deal. There's probably no better deal in the country. So you know, it really filling that Ab bus ought to be

[32:11] so easy. And you know, a lot of that is, I think, getting those hotels. There's obviously not great great parking around there. But yeah, let's continue the conversation. I will add 1 1 final piece just to echo on Rebecca's comment of the build out. So in in my work, administering the Tdm benefits for both residents and employees. A lot of the residents has been completed, and that includes a new business in the Cushman Wakefield area as well as the the additional bluebird, so I don't know exact numbers, but it's something that is a vast majority of where this was. In prior considerations. I think Boulder Commons is the only continuing construction that's immediately across the street from the Depot Square station. And that's approaching completion. As we're speaking, so it's a very different environment than it was even just a year ago that I started administering this. And we've got thousands of people in the just ride portal who are all eligible for the free ecopass program.

[33:16] That's great! But live that live and work within Bjat, I should specify. Great. When, just because you brought up the senior fair to the airport, when did that go into effect? Because, I mean, it's been a few years since I bought a relative, a discounted fare, to to get them into Boulder, but it was, I think, 7. It went. It went into effect in January of this year. So yeah, it's been, in effect for a while. That's amazing! Love to hear it. Point at which you probably you may or may not know, but you know we for the 1st time ever the the board lowered fares, board and staff. I should say it was coming out of there. So there's no regional fare at all anymore for anybody getting on the bus at Boulder Junction or anywhere in Boulder. You know it's it's a single $2, 75 cent fare, except to the airport, which, for whatever reason, is cheaper. So well for people over 65, it's still $5 or

[34:14] 5 50, I guess something like that going to the I think it's 5 going to the airport. Alright. And then, while I have you here, based, you know, just talking about reduced fares. Has there been any any fallout or or issues with the the rollout of my ride. Rtd app versus, you know, some populations that may not have access to their phone or people running out of charge on their phone while they're out running errands and and having problems boarding the bus again to get home. You know I haven't looked at that in a while. I know there was a lot of concern at the time, and I think they did some workarounds for that. But I'd have to ask on that. I'm not sure what the role is on that. I know that.

[35:03] the in the budget yesterday, and I and I don't know a lot of detail about this, either. But there's a a tap to ride function that's coming, so people can just tap there. card and and go. But I don't know the answer. On the on the my ride card. I think there was some sort of sort of workaround, but I'm not sure. Alright. Thank you. Any other feedback or questions for Lynn. Great thanks for all you're doing, and thanks for having me. Thank you so much. I think Will is up. Not so. If you want to hear from Btc. While you're here, you're welcome to stay, but we we're glad to have you here, so. You know I'd love to, but I got a 2 other calls. I gotta call call back before the end of the day. So thanks so much. Thank you. Lynn. Appreciate your time. See you tomorrow. Okay. Alright moving on to Btc update. Well.

[36:04] Well, I'll open with positivity, Robin. Congratulations, and I guess thank you for saying yes, really on Rebecca to your point, just to clarify for the entire group. There are several residents in the well. Any individual is eligible to get a physical card if they do not have access to a smartphone, reliable data connection or just comfortability. Using a digital platform, there is still a physical card. It's now white instead of green, says my ride instead of Eco pass. But that is available. And I issue those something on the order of 5 to 10% compared to the digital passes. So it's a lot easier from an administration standpoint for folks choosing to scan a QR code on their phone rather than be furnished. A code a card, especially now that the Bjad station is closed, because I did have many of the residents from the New Bluebird transitional housing who were going in to get their physical card when that opened earlier in the year that before February could get the physical card printed, so just to make sure from an equity standpoint, everybody's aware of that.

[37:11] I've got some great news from last night. The city of Boulder is doing a core arterial network feedback input, session along 30th Street. It's a very big project in different phases. So we did the Boulder Junction residential community discussion last night from 5 to 7 in the Bluebell Building. It's part of 30 pearl just across the street. From Zeal we had 30 people show up several city staff, 6 or 8 of their consultants. We had an hour and a half discussion, very engaged community feedback on what they are looking to see in terms of Tdm. And just general roadway safety improvements along 30th and specifically the corridor between Pearl and Belmont. I won't speak to the results because there was a lot. But that was a really impressive community gathering there we were able to engage different property owners, some individual neighbors that I know and even utilize some of the myride communications that we've had for eco passes to invite folks, and we had something like a 40% return on our outreach, which was very impressive. So it tells me

[38:21] that I can relate to you all that that our community is is increasingly engaged and interested in the Tdm work that we're doing. I continue to issue the passes and B cycle. I believe I mentioned Prior. But B cycle has gone through an ownership change. So instead of being a subsidy of trek bicycles, they're now part of Bts. Which is a woman owned vertically integrated Provider. That services, I think, 10 or 11 other cities. So you might have some comment on this. Kevin Krause remains our local director of operations there, but from a. as I understand from an infrastructure standpoint, they'll have more in terms of new doc provisioning as well as a consolidated customer service platform. So new residents and employees in Bjad should have faster responses to any issues that are arising, and and ideally a more

[39:16] reliable year-round 24 h bike share service. I think that's about it for me, open to any questions. If if the interest exists. Can you tell me? Oh, sorry! Go ahead and. Rebecca's hand. I was curious, like what would make it more reliable than the current options that we currently have. Is that specifically on B cycle. You just said, like they should have more reliable options. I was just curious like, how? How? So what is what is what is the specific method that's gonna that's gonna change some of the issues we currently had. Honestly, I'm I'm relaying the talking points that I've received. But as A. B cycle member myself an active rider for almost 10 years. I mean, those docs are starting to age, that are what they call.

[40:04] Oh, yeah. And they are starting to change into the 2.0 docs, which are smaller, more modular, and can be added one at a time. So if anyone has been to the new Cassiopeia Boutique at 34th and Meredith sundry is a great little cheese and wine shop within Boulder Junction there are 5 of those 2.0 docks right out front, as well as a few other locations around town, but I think the vision of sort of upgrading some of the docs that are reaching the end of their life phase. Again, I'm not certain on this, but that's what I can see with with this larger business operation and doing that. They have an excellent balancing team. I know Brian and a couple of the other ones on the staff are are like long term dedicated people in that and the the other piece is just the the customer support it. It seems like there's a faster response time on resolving any issues, although it's not as localized as it used to be. So I know Erica was on their team, and and if I were to tell her one thing. She knows exactly what I'm talking about. There's a bike at Rayback that means something

[41:09] to a local person that might not if they're in elsewhere. So I think I won't go too much further, but mainly just to let everyone know that there is something of an ownership change with one of our key Tdm. Benefit providers. That's helpful. Thank you so much. And and I've been a B cycle user for a long time. And so, yeah, I have seen some of those changes as well, but I appreciate it. Sure. Well, just a quick question about the change of ownership, did they? They purchase the current assets so that the current bikes and current docs are being used. Correct in my understanding. From the riders. Perspective, everything stays the same. App bikes, locations, staff. There's there's no material change on the surface level of B cycle in boulder. It's just a back end going from ownership, expanding service and potentially more of this hardware provision.

[42:06] Okay? And is there any future changes to the kind of the percentage of of e-bikes versus huddle bikes. So currently, it is 100% electric pedal assist. There's no throttle on these bikes. They are limited at a 15 mile an hour assist level, so they will actually prevent you from exceeding that speed which I find is relatively sufficient, and also complies with city regulations. So to to clarify that all the red non assist bikes have been retired from the fleet, and everything is electrified. Thank you. And then, if we go back to the the conversation with with Rtd, what is the timeline for bringing the hop across to Boulder Junction?

[43:00] Hat. I'm going to decline to state any specifics on that one. I I have only had hearsay from Karen Warminghouse, who said that the city has. I wouldn't say agreed, but has mentioned to make connections with the hop. Rerouting is the phrase that I've heard. So instead of, let's say, northbound on 30th turning left to westbound on Pearl, there would probably be a turn down Pearl Parkway into the Boulder Junction area, if not station, and then continue on the circulator route again. I'm not directly involved in that. Danny O'connor would would be a better source of information from the city side on that one. Okay, thank you. And then, you brought up the the can plans earlier as well as 30th Street. If anybody else on this call is not aware. Right now there is a be heard survey collecting feedback on 30th Street from Arapahoe to

[44:04] 1, 19. Yeah. So if you can take the time, I think I'm not. I don't remember when it closes to to go ahead and and fill out your experiences along that artery that would be appreciated. And I will say, potentially, in closing. So our community discussion last night was specifically focused on residents within both Boulder Junction and the steelyards, but that geographic concentration which is predominantly Bjad. I believe we will be assisting with outreach for businesses along 30th Street, but also the Boulder Junction businesses to be held in early to mid December, likely at 29th Street. So, Rebecca, I'll likely reach out to you if you know anyone else in the business community and to give the group a heads up that there will be more business community opportunity for input on this core arterial network.

[45:01] In person. Thank you. I think Kevin might actually be one of your your better contacts for businesses in the area. But. I I can try to help. Would sure appreciate it will@bouldertc.org. or will dot shepherd at Boulder Chamber. Cool thanks. Bill. Thank you. Right. Any other questions for Will. Well, thank you so much for the update. Appreciate the transportation. Heavy commissions. I'll let you all do it now. We now have matters from staff. Chris. Thank you so much. I'm going to hand it immediately over to Matt. Who's going to give you an update on the improvement districts analysis. Work. And then we'll be diving into the 2025 draft work plan for community vitality. So Matt, thanks and apologies, it looks like I'm looking into the middle distance dramatically. But it's just that's where your faces are. I I see that the cameras over here so

[46:15] so on the improvement district analysis. Just a reminder. This is the project we presented on last time. That's going to be the near term strategic analysis of all our dental improvement districts looking at the options for governance, and looking at a you know, one to 2 year time horizon on what changes need to be made, and key to that, for Boulder Junction specifically, is going to be in the balancing of the tax revenue. And so that project, after we presented it to you, or actually it might have been a second before. About the same time we presented it to you. We did present it to City Council got some great feedback from them largely enthusiastic, and looking forward to the conversation on that. And so we're moving forward. We have a request for proposals out with people developing bids. Our deadline is November 20, second, to receive those back.

[47:10] and then we'll be starting in earnest, and we have a very short timeline and we're ambitious that we'll have this 1st set of recommendations by April. to line up with the city budget cycle, with probably some things to do after that point. So that is the very brief presentation where we're at and we'll be updating you all as things move forward, and certainly at the January and March meetings they'll be the topic of conversation. So any questions on where the Improvement district analysis is at right now. Matt, just just to clarify that the bids are for firms to do the analysis. Yeah. So the scope of work for the firms is to take a look at our establishing documents. All the research we have on the current state of the general improvement districts and develop. Then work with stakeholders, yourselves and others who are interested in the general improvement districts.

[48:17] To fill in any gaps before presenting different options and calculate the the calculations and outcomes that we can expect from making different choices. So the the consultants will be supporting staff to do all of those things. including producing those documents then working with us. On presenting that as we move forward to the eventual steps of making decisions on you know, for you to recommend to city council on any changes, and then any budget requests or policy changes that need to take place. And the bids and hiring are going to be done by April, or the bids hiring and recommendations are going to be done by April.

[49:00] The 1st set of recommendations. So we are hoping to have someone not hoping we will have someone on contract by the end of the year, and then we'll be working in the 1st quarter to get all of that work done on research and developing recommendations. Okay. And then, just as someone who who hires during, you know, all times of the year and other sales to to enterprises and things like that. Is it common? Or do you expect a really good like response rate during this time of year to to actually hire by the end of the year, or are they too busy closing out their their fiscal year? It's certainly a challenge. We acknowledge that that this time of year is is harder for people, but we've had good response so far to the QA. Step. and so we're anticipating getting good bids back. Yes, and Yeah, certainly, if we don't, we'll take a moment to assess, but I have no reason to believe that that'll be the case. I think we'll have great great proposals.

[50:05] And then just a a side question, are, are most of these firms Colorado firms. Yeah, I think that the ones that we have heard are going to propose, if reading correctly, if I'm not right about this the in the outreach for the Q&A. We have 2 local firms and one out of state firm, and we're expecting even more than that is that we're in. I want to know we're not the 1st community to be doing this type of work. There's a lot of cities have been exploring these same types of conversations. Recently. And so we've been really turning to our peers and making sure we're reaching out to the firms that have done similar work for them. So that's when you're hearing about these firms. These are folks who we know are very capable and so we're looking forward to evaluating some competitive fits to get this work done.

[51:00] I love building upon other people's work, and and also people that are familiar with with Colorado's interesting tax situation. I guess I would say, have any of those firms for those other, for those other cities and districts ever come back and said, Yes, we will reduce taxes or not, whereas the answer always been, yes, we're gonna keep it the way it is. I have to take a look. You know, I think the firms we're getting have done multiple cities and with different circumstances. So I I couldn't say yet, but within their proposals we'll dig in and and it's great advice. Take a look at the variety of approaches that they've provided. Thank you, Matt. I appreciate that. We we obviously we want to balance the district's needs as well as it's taxpayers in the district. But the the city's engaging them and paying their bills. So let's make sure that everybody wins. Yeah. I'm sure.

[52:00] Yep. great any other questions. Okay? All right, I'm gonna move on to the next agenda item. If that's all right and pull up a presentation which would be super easy to do and not a problem at all. See? Alright, this is this is gonna work fine. So, apologies. There's several steps I need to take, and they're not always my favorite steps. Okay? Oh, see, this is, do you? Because I tell you what this is not working out for you trying to get. Take a breath. hey? That looks pretty. Thank you very much. So we're gonna take a few minutes to talk to everyone about our draft work plan for next year. And this is gonna cover the entire department, and then we'll dig into some of the things that will be of most interest to you. Are you gonna cover Elliot's slides?

[53:16] It's gonna be great. You're gonna love this so we're we're. I'm gonna go pretty quickly through some of these things. It is a a slideshow of highlights. So show you some of the things that we think are most interesting, and maybe mention some of the other things. Slow us down if you have any questions. If you see something that you didn't notice before. And you want to talk in more detail or something you're interested in that's not on the slides. We definitely want you to get you as much information as we can already for the next slide, please. So just a reminder that our department operates under 3 pillars. These are focus areas that all of our staff, all of our work plans interact with district vitality, cultural vibrancy and access for all. And so, as we think about the different ways to address that in the districts and in certain cases

[54:18] across across the city. Next slide, please, we divide up our our work areas into these divisions, district management, the office parts and culture and the office of special events parking and access services, which has the 3 work groups that roll up into that work, customer service, maintenance and capital improvements and enforcement. And then business services is the engine that keeps all of that coming along. So with all of that in mind. The 1st area is going to be yours next slide, please. I think you're up. Yep, okay, parking and access services. So this impacts mostly Cajun and Eugene. The way that is designed,

[55:05] boom properties manages a lot of this work that I'm gonna explain to you guys, but we do a lot of different types of work to support Tdm and in parking downtown and on the hill. So we are starting to explore the ideas of a mobility hub in our parking garages and cages. parking garages and cages. It's a long day wayfinding in garages and wayfinding 2 garages as well as we're looking at parking code update with planning and development services this year. So we'll be looking at the way our neighborhood parking program is managed. And in terms of that's that little work group. Some of the stuff that they tackle on an annual basis is the residential access management program evaluation. So that's RAM.

[56:00] And then Chautauqua access management program, which is camp and on streets performance based pricing. So we look at at demand throughout all of our districts, and look at what we should be charging per block based on performance. so in terms of customer service, we have a customer service desk that annually is handling every single question from the community about parking. All the different types of parking permits. Vendor permits garage parking like it. It's a lot and this year what we're looking to do in our for our parking program is to pursue an Ipmi accredited parking organization with distinction award. So hopefully, we'll be getting that until in June, ish of 2026. But we have some tightening up to do. It turns out we're doing really, really well, which is why I feel comfortable pursuing the with distinction. Award. But there are a couple of this is an opportunity for us to compare our business operations with best practices in the industry, and tighten things up and make things even better for Boulder, because we know that we like to compete on a very

[57:15] we just like to compete and be good at things. And then permit pricing implementation. So every year we look at permits and the cost of permits in different garages and lots, and have to implement that. So next slide. Then, again, this is handled by boom properties in your neck of the woods. But in Cajun and Eugene we have a group that technically, it's kind of 2 groups, one folk. One person is, or one group is managing capital improvements and the other is managing a maintenance program. So again, we're gonna tighten up some of our processes with the accreditation in our maintenance team as well as we're pursuing a Cmgc. So construction management, general contractor project.

[58:06] So, looking at our parking garage at 1,100 spruce from top to bottom. We've done facility assessments. And now we're going to hire in one general contractor who's going to manage all of the subs and get the work done hopefully in a 3 to 4 month time period, which is exciting rather than having to piecemeal manage different different vendors if you will. So we're really excited to try that out, and we have to develop a tenure at strategic asset management plan. The city is getting more into strategic asset management. So that is something that we're going to do. And annually they manage capital improvements. We manage capital improvement projects. All of our central area, general improvement, asset, asset management and maintenance, as well as the stuff on the hill, and we also manage all on street parking meters. So that was very exciting. I noticed a question for you, Robin.

[59:02] It varies. I can't remember it off the top of my head. Curious, because you said you're looking into that. Yeah, I can send it to you. If you want to see what we're charging in each one of our garages and lots right? And then enforcement, we're going to do the same thing. So Ipmi accreditation as well as they do the on on street management of special events, ramp, camp everything. So they manage parking throughout the city. Rebecca, Rebecca! Hi! Hi, sorry on the Ipmi accreditization. Sorry. What are the benefits other than bragging rates? Other than bragging rights. It gives us an opportunity to look at best practices within the field and make sure that we are being as effective as we can with with

[60:06] taxpayer dollars. We wanna make sure that we are performing. Well, we're we're we have transparency in the operations. We want to make sure that we are looking at Kpis and making adjustments to our the way we operate our programs based on data. So I think that those are some opportunities that I see for us in the coming year. Otherwise we do a really good job. Okay? And then just do you have any inclination on how they would judge effectiveness or or success? Because I mean, I I imagine that there are private parking operators within this organization, and that they may have a very different definition of what the staff looks like. which might be maximizing revenue versus maybe access, or the other things that a a city might

[61:02] value. Yeah, and there are different. There are different factors that you can decide to participate in or not. For example, in the way that you operate your garages, if you have opportunities to provide. what is it like? Vehicle, maintenance, or car washes, or people have the opportunity to have their dry cleaning done like those that type of the level of service. We're not going to participate in that. That's not something that we're interested in pursuing, but that is something that could earn someone, a higher level level of of accreditation, or at least an add points to their score. So there are options in there, and it's it's interesting to look at the way that they're framing different aspects of programming. For example, again, in the garages, going gateless keeps people from from sitting at the exit and waiting to pay. So it alleviates the level of exhaust, as cars are just idling at the exit, and I hadn't thought of it. That's from that perspective. I thought of that from the customer experience getting stuck in a garage. And so it's just interesting to look at the way that they've they've

[62:19] framed things as well as focusing on wayfinding to the garages, keeps people from circling in and looking for parking spaces throughout a district. And so it also alleviates the kind of the climate impact so just interesting things for us to take into consideration that makes sense. It does. And it does seem, by the way, that that's entirely focused on the garages. So how does on street parking that the city also manages factor into that accreditation. Or, you know, obviously, it's competition for for what's going on in the garages. Sure. I would say that a lot of that on street parking would go along with the the performance of the Enforcement team. And so setting Kpis for enforcement performance, making sure to in enforce

[63:11] based on performance in areas based on demand. And so the way that we could look at or track our kpis on a more regular basis, would inform, should we be in a particular district during this time period, like, we know that on the hill. When students come back in August, we want to make sure to be. Have a strong presence up there to help guide people and train them in how to park in that area and be good neighbors versus during the summer we have lots of tourists, so we have a strong presence down here and up at Chautauqua. So just other opportunities for us to look at the way our program is structured, and and use data to further advance or or enhance our programming. I would note that while there are a lot of private operators that are involved in Ipmi, there are a lot of public operators as well, and on street parking and and public on street parking is part of the mix of things that

[64:10] the the folks who created this this accreditation system are taken into account. So we certainly are going to make sure we're aligning ourselves with the the best municipalities in the industry that also are thinking about. The types of things that older cares about when it comes to greenhouse gas, reduction vehicle, miles travel, reduction, and those types of things. Certainly not just going after this, just to go after it. We want to make sure we're aligning our successes with our peers that share the same values. Yeah. And they ask a lot about Tdm benefits and multimodal opportunities within the parking system. So it is aligned with those sorts of roles as well. That's great to hear. Is there an application fee and a membership fee.

[65:03] There is an application fee. I think the 1st time you do it it's about $2,000. And then, if you achieve accreditation. It lasts for 3 years, and I don't know what the second round is. I haven't gotten there but if nothing else, even if we don't decide to send in the application. I think it's a really good opportunity for us to analyze. Use this as a barometer to test our or just compare ourselves to industry. Best standard or best practices. Yeah. And I'd be clear, yeah, accreditation is not our goal. Our goal is to make sure that we're employing best practices in our operation, and if that gets us to a point where we could be accredited, accredited with distinction. Great! But That's not necessarily the end goal. Thank you, that's all I have.

[66:02] We'll go for me. Great. So we'll dig into our district management work group and we have some interesting projects coming up next year. I I won't read all of these off to you, but some things that are are particularly interesting, at least to me, because it's my time. We're gonna begin discussing the 50th anniversary of the Pro Street Mall that comes to us in 2027. And we're gonna need a little bit of time to collaborate with parts and recreation the downtown boulder partnership, and others to begin that celebration to make sure that celebration is ready to to go in 2027. So that's some interesting things. I mentioned the improvement district analysis and the commercial areas blueprint. That's going to occupy a lot of our time and be really important. If you remember the commercial areas. Blueprint is that longer term document that will guide decisions on the districts

[67:07] far into the future. That one is connected to the Boulder valley. Comprehensive plan most of our outreach, and the sort of strategy and visioning that will be part of that effort are going to be in the update of the conference plan. So while that project will last for a while, and there'll be plenty of opportunity for you to interact with us on that. If you want to start now in prioritizing how we're going to address this commercial area strategy or any other strategy across everything that the city does. I do encourage you to participate in the Comp plan. Outreach. That's already started up. It's happening right now. One thing that's not on here, that's gonna matter. We are going to finish up the last installation of the Boulder Junction wayfinding Icon series, and so wrapping up some of the details on that. So we'll get you details. On exact timing, as that happens. But we have one more, just one more to get in the ground. And so that's going to be something that's important to us.

[68:09] And then in the annual business cycle, even though there's a lot of things that would happen every year 2 things that I think are important. for you is the expansion of the ecopass program. To part time workforce in in Boulder Junction and caged. That's a really big game changing effort. That Lane is working on. And it's going to be really important. To make sure that happens right. And we continue that in the future. And then also, we're really happy with how the activations have gone and collaboration with the Roots Music project with their concert series. So we're going to begin discussion discussing. If we do that again, or what other types of activations we should deploy. So that'll be a part of our conversations as well. I might add to this list we should now add a September brand reopening of the word out about that. Cut a big ribbon.

[69:11] So yes. Fresh edition to the work. Plan next slide, please some of our other work groups the office of Arts and Culture. So this is a citywide effort, but definitely interacts with the districts, and they're going to be launching off next year with the New Fund, the Arts Culture and Heritage Fund. And so the they're going to do a similar effort around the arts blueprint to create a strategy over the next few years. It's also connected to the comprehensive plan effort. and in that the same category they're they're collaborating with the Comp plan team to put together a series of interactive artist led community engagement projects

[70:04] that'll happen throughout the next 2 years, so that we are just embedded with the Comp plan effort and trying to make a more human interaction with some of the big policy land use zoning issues that come up when we do these updates, these periodic updates. and then there will be 9 new public art projects happening across the city. They're wrapping up about 3 that will be installed between now and the middle of next year, and then starting 9 new ones. In addition to those 9, we're at the very beginning stages of a major effort for the Western City campus, the former Alpine balsam boulder County health facility. There's gonna be 3 projects, more than a million dollars in public art. They won't be installed until 2027. But there'll be a lot of work happening on those as well next year in the office of special events. There's going to be an effort now that the recommendations for the program for the office of Special Events and the recommendations after the Boulder Social Streets project, which was that collaboration with Transportation Department and planning and with support from us. Looking at how event streets are built, used, permitted, and add to vibrancy of neighborhoods. We're going to be taking a look at several other streets, including in Boulder Junction.

[71:24] on creating a plan, for if we want to close down streets for street festivals, how we can make that happen. Best, safest, and easiest for people to deploy. So we'll be talking more about that. And they the Special Events office will also be launching a new special events. Guide. If you've ever tried to put on a special event, we have a encyclopedia of rules and steps that we're comprehensive but not very useful. So we're revising that, making that an easier process for people.

[72:01] Yeah. So the let's see, I think that's it for those slides, and we'll pause here if there's any questions about district management, arts and culture, special events. Rebecca. But on the topic of of streets and and special events. Am I imagining it, or did there? There used to be like a block party trailer or something. Does that still exist? Is that something the district is ever entitled to use? Or is it because we're misused or not like what that's what are up. It does exist. It's part of the neighborhood events permitting process which actually is not run through the office of special events. It's it's a. It's a neighborhood permit, and I don't know the exact rules around it, but I don't think there'd be anything to prevent neighbors in Boulder Junction, even though it's mixed use from

[73:02] using it. And they even have a small sponsorship program to help with forwards and costs. So if you know of anyone specific, you should send them our way so we can connect them with the neighborhood services team but this project is going to be specifically about streets that are are purposefully set aside for big community events, not small neighborhoods. Yeah, de definitely a difference in scale. But I didn't know if they were falling under the same department. So thank you. Alright. Let's move next slide, and elliot unfortunately, has to send his apologies. He had to leave early, but I'll I'll tell you about some of the things that the business services team is working on. Like, I briefly mentioned, they work across all of our other work groups, making sure each division has what it's need to be successful, and they're so important to the operation here. Not only in the work that Elliot and does with keeping the finances clean and understandable with each of the districts.

[74:06] but also providing support on a lot of our internal services, needs including the rollout of a new financial system. It's called Workday, that 1st line. And it's gonna improve the efficiency of how we process contracts and invoices. And that's gonna be something that's gonna take a lot of effort. And it's going to be a lot of change for our daily work. But it's gonna ultimately be a big improvement in our efficiency. and then they're gonna be sort of simultaneously building off of that, taking a look at how our memorandum of understanding our agreements, how we develop and manage those those documents, and and take care of the life cycle of our agreements with our partners. And then I'll just say, one more thing is about data and evaluation analysis. So we've been on this multi year, saga with the entire city organization around, how we use data to inform our key performance indicators and how that matters to work planning program evaluation, and especially around budget decisions.

[75:17] And so we're getting enormous support from Elliot and his team to make sure that we enter into this new phase where the data on how our programs are doing is a part of the decision making in in the next budget cycle. So that's something that's coming up as well. so any questions about our business services draft? Thank you. Have anything overall. I just wanted to know that this is the 2025 draft work plan. We've been developing this in preparation for the citywide work plan. There are some things that we might end up moving to future years, depending on capacity and resources.

[76:02] But so there's a lot included in this. I just want to acknowledge that we might, depending on how things go and other priorities across the organization. Some things might shift around, but wanted to give you all an idea of what we're looking at for next year. Great! That's it for me. Thanks very much, and that concludes matters from staff. Thank you. Team. right? We have matters from Commissioners and the 2025 B. Jad, both commissions priorities discussion. which is in the full packet and stuff. I assume you actually put this together for us. So perhaps some background on where this current list came from. or is this year's this past year. So.

[77:03] Page 26. If anybody's looking for it. So this is typically the time of year that we turn to our commissions. If we've been asked by City Council to prepare a letter to inform their priority development. This is the time of year that we'd be doing so. So we check in with our commissions on their priorities, and and use that to inform the crafting of said letter. City Council is not changing their priorities at their you know their midterm point, so they will not be having a retreat in 2025. They're not asking for letters from commissions, but do want to make sure that we provide you all the opportunity to let us know whether you think priorities for the work that you're helping to lead and advise on are shifting in 2025 or maybe they aren't, and they can stay the same. And we just update the year. It's also your opportunity to let us know if there is a complete overhaul needed, based on shifting priorities. You know, the spectrum is, keep things the same. Update the year. The other end of the spectrum is, have a

[78:16] retreat with the Commission, where we facilitate a conversation and process taking some time away in a multi hour plan session, which we've done with this team before. So really want to check in with you all. See where you're at on that spectrum, and we're here to provide service to you all, depending on where you land. Robin. I was just gonna say, I I mean, personally, I don't feel like our our priorities have changed, at least not from what I've I've heard from the group. And it sounds like our biggest priorities have been reevaluating the current, the current makeup of the. for instance.

[79:00] the the parking district, and it sounds like that matter is going through consultant right now, and it looks like I mean, my big thing is having an Rtd option over there that I can just bike over to is gonna be it's gonna save me a lot of time over getting rides over to table, Mesa, when I'm traveling out of town, which is selfish. But also, yeah, I think something. A lot of people that live in that part of town are both in Bj, but also right around directly around there, which is like me, will be. So those are my, those are my 2 biggest big issues. I guess this is completely outside of our purview, but but also kind of linked to it is, I guess, my only other concern as somebody who lives around there and would be using those Rtd services when they come in town, and I can't wait. is the bike lanes have been getting a little out of disrepair. And maybe that's something at some point. I just wanna

[80:01] highlight to city council. And that's I feel like that's just part of that last mile that makes some of that a little bit less accessible. But aside from that, I'm happy with the movement that we've seen on the major measures that we had. So, thanks. Robin, could you? Could you specify which bike lanes is that on 30, th or is that on pearl or. Yeah, I get a lot of flat tires on 30.th I'm up and down 30th lot. I get a lot of flat tires on. I mean, I I feel like I find every pothole in the city of Boulder but it's specifically just me and my bike. But like on 30th a lot. I think I don't know if it's because of construction, which I mean, I'd rather get a flat tire and see see our neighborhoods built up and see a lot more opportunities for housing for people. So it's not, you know. It's a it's a price I'm worth paying. But I have. I have definitely noticed. Some of those have been have definitely gone down in quality in the past. Specifically the past year, but definitely in the past few years has has been a noticeable shift for me.

[81:05] Okay, that's that's good to hear. I think you probably should also fill out the be heard survey, too, just because it is about 30.th Okay. Thanks. 3 things. 1st of all. Well, that's number one, Robin. You can come into community cycles and have your tires slimed with this pump, and that'll help. anyway. So I would say. yeah, something about how. Just the recruitment for these boards. There seems to be no interest in it. So maybe there's a better way to organize them, so that so that there's more interest in that. There's not these 2 different boards which seems causes issues. And then my last issue is, I don't see. Up here was the discussion of reducing the taxes on parking.

[82:08] I think the parking tax is the second bullet here. Reevaluate parking district. Okay. Yeah. Good. Then I'm glad, sir. And I was, gonna say, recruitment, or some solution to that, including marketing aspects, for for reaching a specific district that has these these limitations would be one of my priorities. Somewhere, not necessarily to go to council, but something that we do need to prioritize and get help from the city on. But my second comment, Chris, would be that even though Council has not specifically requested a letter as an advisory, like body of some kind going, going an entire year without having any anybody present to them, or having a council member here. I think it would be lovely if we give them a letter. Anyway.

[83:07] Alright. I can explore that with. See? Managers obviously see how they would like to manage that. So stay tuned. I'll chime in a couple of things. It seems like we've actually made made a progress on a few of these, including well. the news about restoring the bus service that maybe convert to something that should be supported and and celebrated, moving forward and definitely enhancing the the branding and wayfinding and district identity great progress there, thanks to all the staff work. And then I think, what's you know? I kind of echo what Sue mentioned. And what comes top of mind is just really that the community vitality. And I think that's that's multiple things that may be layered into some of these other

[84:03] broad topics, but it's, you know, one, the mill levy 100, needs to be reevaluated, in my opinion. I think that's contrary to our community vitality goals and then the other. Item that I love are the community events, and maybe that's I think we've we've made some progress there and had great events, and maybe that's in the the district identity. But it'd be be great to. you know. Continue on some of the progress and and momentum we had around some of the community events. That's it for me. Thanks, Kevin. Jennifer, do you have anything to add. No, nothing to add thanks. Alright! I guess.

[85:01] Happened in downpours. We had bike to work day, and that was great, and that didn't rain. Maybe maybe it did rain, but it was still good. In the morning was fantastic. In the afternoon I got soaked. It did rain for a bit, but we still. We powered through. It was still a fantastic event, even with the rain. You know, it's a couple of the biggest rains of the year. We're on our community events. I know it's been like it's it's we should. We should. We should sell tickets because we can solve the water crisis. We just have an event. Right. I was. Gonna say, we have an issue with drought, just schedule, more events. We'll be all good. Alright! These are all bulleted. They are not actually numbered. So I guess, before we move on from this discussion, or or I asked Staff if they have any other input on this? Is there is there another way that anybody would like to order this.

[86:00] I think the Reevaluate parking district mill Levy, should be first.st I just think it's the most important topic I do. I know that they're going through the consultant. I just think that should always be the top of the list, especially since Rtd bus station sounds like that's already in process. Right. Okay. I would suck at that any other thoughts on the order here. Yes, I would. I would recommend or re request or offer to the group to consider the the Tdm. Offering. Maybe, now that it looks like bus service is gonna get to be restored, that we could begin to think about that again in sort of a fresh way.

[87:02] So I want to move that toward the top but with the will of the group. oh. Alright. So we have the parking lot at the top. We want to move up Tdm, offering development we're excited about the the good news about Rtd. Eventually, next year. A lot of these other things are are ongoing concerns, right? That we need to stay aware of and and keep an eye on. I do have a question after we're done with this part of the discussion, and while we're still on matters from from Commissioners, is, what is the update on on phase 2 planning? We've we've had members go sitting on that correct. Do we have a liaison to phase 2.

[88:01] Question. I have. No, sir. Sudden. I'm not sure who it was. Can we follow up on that? Because I I seem to recall that we did have a liaison, but I have not heard anything about it, and we have most of our members here, and if nobody is speaking up, that means either either they have not heard anything or nothing has happened, and maybe there's been oversight somewhere. It might have been wrong. But yeah, we can follow up because there has been a ton of work happening in that area. Particularly in transportation and land use planning and land use changes for TV. So we can touch base with our colleagues and planning and see where that's at.

[89:03] Thank you, Chris. Alright! You know. I'll just make one more comment. That kind of came up as we as we were thinking through or talking through. This is, you know, not a top priority of the district. But I'd like to support our kind of the small businesses that are in there that have kind of taken big bets on what we're trying to do in the district. Like before was mentioned like Cassiopeia, which just opened sun dried on the northern end. Some of those ones in between, just north of of the depot. Is that what it's called the depot? I should be supporting it myself. I do support it, I should know them. It's on what we're doing in the you know, our work within the district. And so, you know, when we have events, and I know we do this, but you know. promote them. You know. Encourage, you know. Contract with them for for any of the the services we need, or food and drinks and whatnot. So

[90:06] not not not our our main goal, but but something that we'd like to encourage. So we don't end up seeing some turnover of some of the businesses that have come to the district. No, that's a really good point, Kevin. Not only from supporting them from a business perspective, but also kind of that complete like life around there. So for employees and for residents. And you know people visiting the environment that sorry and visiting the neighborhood, that they can find what they need right without necessarily, you know, driving, or you know, when they do use the parking, they can do multiple errands, whatever that you know. Those kinds of things do actually kind of tie into our our goals.

[91:04] We can certainly take a stab at working some of these comments into these for the next meeting consideration. Another option would be if Commissioners wanted to kind of write up their priorities, if there's anything else that's missing and sending them into Lisa, and we can synthesize them into something so a bit more appointed because it is a lot where we don't want to become a laundry list. I don't want to put words in your mouth. I don't know if you all want to become a laundry list, because when everything is a priority, nothing's a priority. But you certainly again want to make sure that you all are taking the time to consider these things and and redirect appropriately. I appreciate that. Thank you. Okay, so I think we're, we're set on this discussion for the priority list at this point in time.

[92:08] Are there other matters from Commissioners? Alright. then, with that, our next Commission meeting is on January 20, second at 4 Pm. I will see all of you there, and with there's no other objections, then we should adjourn. Have a wonderful.