May 16, 2022 Video Board Meeting

Transcript

AGENDA

Board of Directors Meeting

Monday, May 16, 2022, at 6:00 p.m.

7404 Yorkshire Drive, Castle Pines, CO 80108

CPNMD residents are welcome to Zoom in or participate in person. To Zoom in, please sign up before 12:00 noon on the day of the board meeting and follow the step-by-step instructions at `cpnmd.org/cpnmd-zoom-meeting-sign-up`

Meeting Agenda Items

1. Welcome. Call meeting to order. Pledge of Allegiance.
2. Roll call. Determination of quorum. Disclosure of potential conflicts.
3. Consider approving May 16, 2022 board meeting agenda.
4. Consider approving special board meeting minutes of April 6, 2022.
5. Consider approving regular monthly board meeting minutes of April 18, 2022.
6. First public comment period. (Three-minute maximum per person).

Board Members & Contact Information

David McEntire, President | Cell: (702) 303-8081 | dmcentire@cpnmd.org

Robert Merritt, Vice President | Cell: (303) 717-2852 | rmerritt@cpnmd.org

Denise Crew, Secretary/Treasurer | Cell: (303) 523-8285 | dcrew@cpnmd.org

Chuck Lowen, Director | Cell: (303) 898-3056 | chuck@cpnmd.org

Christopher Lewis, Director | Cell: (303) 641-5249 | clewis@cpnmd.org

District Statement: The Castle Pines North Metro District provides clean, safe, reliable, on-demand drinking water, wastewater, stormwater, parks, trails, and open space services to the people of Castle Pines, west of I-25. Board meetings are available for viewing via live video stream and video recording at `cpnmd.org`. (Page 1 of 3)

1. Parker Water & Sanitation District's response to CPNMD's formal invitation to return to the negotiating table regarding the potential Inclusion of CPNMD's water and wastewater utilities.

A. CPNMD's invitation to PWSD, dated April 22, 2022. (See attached.)

B. PWSD's response, dated April 22, 2022. (See attached.)

1. Review regional comparison of residential water and wastewater bills and property tax rates. (See three bar charts attached.)
2. Parks, Trails & Open Space Manager's report.
3. Water & Wastewater Operations Manager's report.

A. Status of CPNMD's water treatment plant and annual transition to well water.

(NOTE: From October 1st through April 30th of each year, CPNMD utilizes its water stored in Chatfield Reservoir that travels through the Centennial Water & Sanitation District's water-treatment system, through CPNMD's existing interconnect pipeline, and into CPNMD's water distribution system. During this time, CPNMD's water wells are typically out of service for routine maintenance. From May 1st through September 30th of each year, CPNMD utilizes its deep-water wells in the Denver Basin Aquifer System.)

1. Finance Director's report.

A. Consider approving financial report, payables, and claims for payment, including Check Nos. 26862-26936 (April 9, 2022 - May 6, 2022).

Financial Breakdown:

General Fund & Debt Service: Approve $0.00 | Ratify $81,423.53 | Totals $81,423.53

Enterprise Funds: Approve $3,181.10 | Ratify $1,498,804.77 | Totals $1,501,985.87

Electronic Payments (all funds): Approve $0.00 | Ratify $61,052.45 | Totals $61,052.45

Total Expenditures: Totals $1,644,461.85

1. District Manager's report.

A. The City of Castle Pines delays CPNMD's pickleball courts.

1. Legal Counsel's report.

A. Election results.

1. Directors' matters.

A. Recognizing District Manager Jim Worley.

B. Comments from outgoing Directors David McEntire & Robert Merritt.

C. Filing oaths of office, swearing-in, and seating of newly elected Directors Jason Blanckaert and Tera Radloff.

D. Election of officers.

E. Consider authorization to negotiate new district manager contract for board consideration at June 2022 board meeting.

1. Second public comment period. (Three-minute maximum per person).

1. Adjourn.

CPNMD's next regular monthly meeting is scheduled for Monday, June 20, 2022.

CASTLE PINES NORTH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

To: Parker Water & Sanitation District

Attn: Ron Redd, Jeff Parker & Board of Directors

18100 East Woodman Drive, Parker, CO 80134

Date: April 22, 2022

Dear Ron Redd, Jeff Parker & Directors:

CPNMD's vastly improved financial and infrastructure conditions and progress on PWSD's eight concerns about inclusion prompt us to reach out with an invitation to jumpstart negotiations during the first week of May 2022 on the inclusion of CPNMD's water and wastewater utilities.

We have always supported unifying City of Castle Pines residents under a single water and wastewater utility, namely PWSD, as long as doing so constitutes the most reliable and fiscally prudent option for our customers.

We strongly prefer the new inclusion election occur no later than November 8, 2022. If PWSD is interested in CPNMD's inclusion, we are compelled to jumpstart the required inclusion negotiations for the following reasons:

1. First, this week we are paying off all $18.8 million in COP debt we inherited, which makes CPNMD a far more desirable inclusion partner.

2. Second, the City of Brighton settled its lawsuit against CPNMD and Aurora Water; the closing will occur on or before May 31, 2022.

3. Third, we've executed multi-million dollar investments in our infrastructure and have made substantial progress on the other concerns you cited as reasons for terminating CPNMD's voter-approved inclusion. Our infrastructure investments include overhauling, upgrading, and refurbishing our water-treatment plant, which will be available for guided tours shortly.

4. Fourth, our water and wastewater infrastructure investment costs are averaging 17% less than PWSD calculated, further enhancing CPNMD's financial appeal as an inclusion partner.

5. Fifth, to comply with the State of Colorado's 2022 November election ballot-access requirements, we have only three-to-four months in which to negotiate an inclusion agreement and secure our respective board approvals for the same

If PWSD is uninterested in the inclusion of CPNMD's water and wastewater utilities, it's fair and reasonable that we and our other potential inclusion partners know immediately.

Though PWSD and CPNMD will each seat two new board members next month, in no way do we see that altering our board's commitment to fast-track an inclusion. If PWSD intends to be CPNMD's inclusion partner, we believe now is the time to reengage.

If PWSD is interested in negotiating the Inclusion of CPNMD's water and wastewater utilities, then we respectfully ask that you respond to this letter, in writing, by close of business on April 29, 2022.

Sincerely,

David McEntire, President, Castle Pines North Metro District

Robert Merritt, Vice President, Castle Pines North Metro District

Denise Crew, Director, Castle Pines North Metro District

Chuck Lowen, Director, Castle Pines North Metro District

Christopher Lewis, Director, Castle Pines North Metro District

Jim Worley, District Manager, Castle Pines North Metro District

Kim J. Seter, Esq., Castle Pines North Metro District, Seter & Vander Wall, PC

Hoffmann, Parker, Wilson & Carberry, P.C.

511 16th Street, Suite 610, Denver, CO 80202-4260 | (303) 825-6444

Attorneys: Corey Y. Hoffmann, Kendra L. Carberry, Jefferson H. Parker, M. Patrick Wilson, Daniel P. Harvey, Ruthanne H. Goff, Katharine J. Vera, Elizabeth G. LeBuhn, Austin P. Flanagan

Of Counsel: J. Matthew Mire, Hilary M. Graham, Kathryn M. Sellars

Date: April 29, 2022

To: Kim Seter, Seter & Vander Wall, P.C.

7400 E. Orchard Road, Suite 3300, Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111

Sent via electronic mail to: kseter@svwpc.com

Re: Castle Pines North Metropolitan District / Parker Water and Sanitation District Inclusion

Dear Kim:

This letter responds to the April 22, 2022 letter from CPNMD concerning renewing the above-referenced inclusion efforts. The progress made by CPNMD as set forth in the April 22, 2022 letter is encouraging. Parker Water remains interested in completing the inclusion. However, Parker Water believes completion of the inclusion will stand a better chance of success if the following occur:

Seat new board members for both districts and brief them on inclusion-related matters to determine the degree of support by both boards for renewed efforts

Resolve all outstanding issues that led to the termination of the inclusion before setting the inclusion election date

Complete the inclusion immediately after a successful election

If this process is agreeable to CPNMD, Parker Water will discuss renewing the inclusion efforts with its new board of directors after they are seated. Parker Water would like to know whether the new CPNMD board of directors supports renewing the inclusion efforts as this will be a factor in deciding whether to re-engage. If the newly constituted boards strongly support renewed inclusion efforts, we would then commence further efforts to complete the inclusion.

That said, despite the progress set forth in CPNMD's April 22nd letter, Parker Water does not believe the November election date is feasible. Specifically, the following matters among others must be fully resolved prior to the inclusion election:

Resolution of the CDPHE violations

Determination of missing property rights for facilities and the acquisition of those rights

Determination and resolution of ground water rights ownership

Dedication of appropriate well sites

Fully operational system (wells, lift stations, and water treatment plant)

Parker Water believes the time needed to fully resolve these matters will require an election date later than November of 2022.

Finally, a successful completion of the inclusion is not guaranteed. Although Parker Water believes it would be beneficial to the constituents of both districts, Parker Water encourages CPNMD to explore other options with other providers. Ultimately, the inclusion should be the best possible deal for both CPNMD and PWSD. If partnering with another water and wastewater provider is more beneficial to CPNMD, Parker Water has no interest in interfering with any such arrangement.

Please let me know if CPNMD is amendable to the general concepts set forth in this letter. I am available to discuss this further at your convenience.

Sincerely,

Jefferson H. Parker

jhparker@hpwclaw.com

Cc: Ron R. Redd, P.E., District Manager | Board of Directors, Parker Water and Sanitation District

VISUAL INFORMATION DESCRIPTIONS FOR ATTACHED CHARTS

Chart 1: Regional Comparison: Single-Family Residential Monthly Water Bills

Purpose: To inform a listener where Castle Pines North Metro District stands compared to 12 other regional water providers in terms of total monthly water costs for single-family residential customers using 10,000 gallons per month (effective May 1, 2022). The chart breaks down costs into fixed charges, variable charges, and property taxes associated with water service.

Data Summary (Lowest to Highest Total Bill):

1. Centennial Water & Sanitation District (Highlands Ranch): Total $60.51 (comprising ~$18 fixed charge and ~$42.50 variable charge).

2. City of Aurora: Total $70.80 (comprising ~$13 fixed charge and ~$57.80 variable charge).

3. Town of Castle Rock: Total $79.27 (comprising ~$36 fixed charge and ~$43.27 variable charge).

4. Colorado Springs Utilities: Total $90.49 (comprising ~$23 fixed charge and ~$67.49 variable charge).

5. Parker Water & Sanitation District: Total $90.65 (comprising ~$34 fixed charge, ~$35 variable charge, and ~$21.65 property tax).

6. Cottonwood Water & Sanitation District: Total $92.55 (comprising ~$21 fixed charge, ~$45 variable charge, and ~$26.55 property tax).

7. City of Fountain: Total $105.29 (comprising ~$41 fixed charge and ~$64.29 variable charge).

8. The Village at Castle Pines: Total $109.19 (comprising ~$72 fixed charge, ~$33 variable charge, and ~$4.19 property tax).

9. East Cherry Creek Valley Water & Sanitation District: Total $111.54 (comprising ~$32 fixed charge, ~$55 variable charge, and ~$24.54 property tax).

10. Arapahoe County Water & Wastewater Authority: Total $119.53 (comprising ~$70 fixed charge and ~$49.53 variable charge).

11. Castle Pines North Metro District: Total $129.71 (comprising ~$58 fixed charge, ~$49 variable charge, and ~$22.71 property tax).

12. Roxborough Water & Sanitation District: Total $139.38 (comprising ~$65 fixed charge, ~$55 variable charge, and ~$19.38 property tax).

13. Sterling Ranch Community Authority Board: Total $160.00 (comprising ~$66 fixed charge and ~$94 variable charge).

Key Takeaway: Castle Pines North Metro District has the third highest water bill in the region at $129.71 per month. By comparison, Parker Water & Sanitation District ranks 5th lowest at $90.65 per month, showing that an inclusion with Parker Water would noticeably reduce water costs for Castle Pines North residents.

Notes Provided on Chart:

Note 1: Comparison based on rates effective 5/1/2022. Monthly water bills calculated for a 3/4" meter with 10,000 gallons use (average CPNMD customer use).

Note 2: Property tax based on a home value of $700,000. All taxing agency budgets were reviewed and property tax estimates were adjusted to reflect only portion of tax used to benefit the water enterprise.

Prepared by Bartle Wells Associates, Independent Public Finance Advisors

Chart 2: Regional Comparison: Single-Family Residential Monthly Sewer Bills

Purpose: To show how Castle Pines North Metro District compares against 12 regional wastewater providers regarding monthly sewer bills for residential customers based on an average winter usage of 5,000 gallons (effective May 1, 2022). Costs are broken down into direct sewer charges and property tax allocations.

Data Summary (Lowest to Highest Total Bill):

1. Colorado Springs Utilities: Total $15.75 (100% direct sewer charge).

2. Centennial Water & Sanitation District (Highlands Ranch): Total $19.30 (100% direct sewer charge).

3. City of Aurora: Total $24.95 (100% direct sewer charge).

4. The Village at Castle Pines: Total $30.60 (comprising ~$26 sewer charge and ~$4.60 property tax).

5. Town of Castle Rock: Total $41.43 (comprising ~$39 sewer charge and ~$2.43 property tax).

6. East Cherry Creek Valley Water & Sanitation District: Total $48.13 (comprising ~$39 sewer charge and ~$9.13 property tax).

7. Arapahoe County Water & Wastewater Authority: Total $48.69 (100% direct sewer charge).

8. Castle Pines North Metro District: Total $48.85 (100% direct sewer charge).

9. Roxborough Water & Sanitation District: Total $64.63 (comprising ~$46 sewer charge and ~$18.63 property tax).

10. City of Fountain: Total $65.15 (comprising ~$41 sewer charge and ~$24.15 property tax).

11. Parker Water & Sanitation District: Total $66.55 (comprising ~$60 sewer charge and ~$6.55 property tax).

12. Sterling Ranch Community Authority Board: Total $78.70 (100% direct sewer charge).

13. Cottonwood Water & Sanitation District: Total $84.25 (comprising ~$58 sewer charge and ~$26.25 property tax).

Key Takeaway: Castle Pines North Metro District ranks near the middle (8th lowest out of 13) with a monthly sewer bill of $48.85. Parker Water & Sanitation District is higher, ranking 11th lowest at $66.55 per month.

Notes Provided on Chart:

Note 1: Comparison based on rates effective 5/1/2022. Monthly sewer bills calculated for 5,000 gallons use (average winter CPNMD customer use).

Note 2: Property tax based on a home value of $700,000. All taxing agency budgets were reviewed and property tax estimates were adjusted to reflect only portion of tax used to benefit the sewer enterprise.

Prepared by Bartle Wells Associates, Independent

Chart 3: Regional Comparison: Single-Family Residential Monthly Combined Water & Sewer Bills

Purpose: To provide a complete overview of total monthly utility costs (water charges, sewer charges, and combined property tax contributions) for single-family residential customers across 13 regional providers.

Data Summary (Lowest to Highest Total Combined Bill):

1. Centennial Water & Sanitation District (Highlands Ranch): Total $79.81.

2. City of Aurora: Total $95.75.

3. Colorado Springs Utilities: Total $106.24.

4. Town of Castle Rock: Total $120.70.

5. The Village at Castle Pines: Total $139.79.

6. Parker Water & Sanitation District: Total $157.20 (comprising ~$60 sewer charge, ~$69 water charge, and ~$28.20 property tax).

7. East Cherry Creek Valley Water & Sanitation District: Total $159.67 (comprising ~$39 sewer charge, ~$87 water charge, and ~$33.67 property tax).

8. Arapahoe County Water & Wastewater Authority: Total $168.22 (comprising ~$49 sewer charge and ~$119.22 water charge).

9. City of Fountain: Total $170.44 (comprising ~$41 sewer charge, ~$105 water charge, and ~$24.44 property tax).

10. Cottonwood Water & Sanitation District: Total $176.80 (comprising ~$58 sewer charge, ~$66 water charge, and ~$52.80 property tax).

11. Castle Pines North Metro District: Total $178.56 (comprising ~$49 sewer charge, ~$107 water charge, and ~$22.56 property tax).

12. Roxborough Water & Sanitation District: Total $204.01 (comprising ~$46 sewer charge, ~$120 water charge, and ~$38.01 property tax).

13. Sterling Ranch Community Authority Board: Total $238.70 (comprising ~$79 sewer charge and ~$159.70 water charge).

Key Takeaway: Castle Pines North Metro District residents pay the 3rd highest combined monthly bill in the region at $178.56. Merging with Parker Water ($157.20) would lower CPNMD residents' overall bill by $21.36 per month. However, looking at the entire chart, several other districts (like Centennial at $79.81, Aurora at $95.75, or Castle Rock at $120.70) offer lower overall costs, providing vital context for CPNMD's board as they consider all potential merger partners.

Notes Provided on Chart:

Note 1: Comparison based on rates effective 5/1/2022. Monthly water bills calculated for a 3/4" meter with 10,000 gallons use (average CPNMD customer use).

Note 2: Monthly sewer bills calculated for 5,000 gallons use (average winter CPNMD customer use).

Note 3: Property tax based on a home value of $700,000. All taxing agency budgets were reviewed and property tax estimates were adjusted to reflect only portion of tax used to benefit the water and sewer enterprises.

Prepared by Bartle Wells Associates, Independent Public Finance Advisors.

Describer:

The video starts on graphic with a white background and forest green letters which says “Castle Pines North Metro District Board Meeting April 18, 2022”. The meeting opens on a shot of all board members present. There is also a T.V. screen showing the Zoom meeting for people joining the meeting via Zoom.

Board President David McEntire:

Good evening, everyone in the audience. Those that are peering in online. We appreciate your doing so. Welcome staff, consultants, colleagues. Join me this evening as we conduct the Board of Directors meeting on this Monday, the 16th of May, 2022. If everyone would join the rest of us in saying the Pledge of Allegiance will get this party going.

Describer:

The board members and the audience rise from their seats and recite the Pledge of Allegiance. When they are done, they sit down again.

All Speak:

I Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

David:

Thank you, I'm going to conduct roll call. When doing so to determine a quorum, if you will disclose at the same time any potential conflicts. Director Merritt is ill this evening. He, so he will not be joining us. Does so under heavy sedation given an injury that he had and a daughter that just came down with Covid. But extends his gratitude. And said I could say most anything I could about it or wanted to about him and that would be all right.

Board Member Director Denise Crew:

Director Crew. Present. No conflicts.

Board President Chuck Lowen:

Director Lowen. Present. No conflicts.

Board Member Director Chris Lewis:

Director Lewis. Present. No conflicts.

David:

McEntire is here. We have a quorum and no conflicts. Item three and four. Typically, we consider having had the minutes of our special board meeting of April 6th this time. Item five, the minutes from our April 18th meeting. For some time now, and we have posted an agenda as well. In enough time to have considered and made all the appropriate changes and adjustments.

Unless there are any, I'll look for a motion to approve items three, four and five. So moved. Have a motion on the floor.

Chirs:

I second it.

David:

Got a second. Any further conversation? Hearing none. When called upon, please signify your approval or otherwise.

Board Voting All Speak:

Director Crew. Approved. Director Lowen. Approved. Director Lewis. Approved. Director McEntire is approved as well. On to item number six, which is a first public comment period.

David:

I do not have a sign in sheet yet before me. And we don't have any, so we will skip the first one. And maybe I see some faces that aren't here. But maybe there'll be some for the last comment period. So I'm going to close item number six as well. And move on to item seven. Item seven Six.

Describer:

Marv is Tibbitts speaking off mic and off camera to David.

Chris:

David we might have one. Item six.

David:

Is that you Marv?

District resident, Marv Tibbitts Castle Pines Resident:

It sure the hell is.

David:

What was about item six? That was a public comment period. Yes. What about it?

Marv:

Open it up.

David:

Are you going to behave or what are you going to do tonight? We'll see. Be prepared to excuse yourself, okay? The fact is, I opened it up. There was no one here to acknowledge that they had signed up, and I closed it, what's?

Marv:

Excuse me, people signed up.

Ken Smith CPNMD Communications Director:

Mr. President, to be clear, no one has signed up on zoom. There are several people here tonight. I've given the sign in sheet to Jim. You should have that in front of you.

David:

Very good. Thank you, Marv. You’re welcome. We have Laurie Ball this evening that is asked to speak. And I've taken it by Marv’s interjection that it is in the first public comment period. Is that true Laurie? Correct. Feel free to come to the podium, welcome.

Describer:

Laurie is at the podium speaking, but the mic is turned off. Jim walks over to the podium to turn on the mic for Laurie.

Laurie Ball Castle Pines Resident:

Hi, thank you. I just wanted to thank you. Mr. I wanted to thank you and Mr. I’m sorry, I'm sorry. Laurie, would you mind giving your name and your address for the record? Laurie Ball 15 Breamore Ct. HOA #1, Royal Hill. I just wanted to thank you, Mr. McEntire and Mr. Merritt for your service. And good luck on your future endeavors.

And then I also wanted to ask the staff and the board to please look at moving up the mowing of your properties. Because there was a fire in Daniel's Gate. If you guys haven't heard this past weekend. And what I've heard out in social media was that it was part of the metro district grasslands behind the houses in Daniels Gate.

So they're requesting on social media that you guys mow soon, and myself having part of your property behind my house. It hasn't been mode in probably 15 years, and that's a generous, maybe even 20 years. So if you could move Mo very quickly and soon, that would be appreciated, because I know you guys are big on fire mitigation, so I'm making a plug. That's it.

David:

Thank you. Lori, we appreciate the compliment and the salutations as it relates to the fire. And what social media is, is what I, what I've been exposed to anyway. I live up in that neighborhood. And it's my understanding that the open space is a byproduct of not only Castle Pines North metro district stewardship over the open space. But it also does that in conjunction with the homeowners we have offered for years and years to add to the required and desired fire mitigating zones. That are a byproduct of the number of communications that we've sent out and should send out.

Again, given the event of this last weekend authored by South Metro and. But in addition to that, if there are anyone that's desirous of the common area adjacent to their property that would like to be mode, we've also extended that service as well. So the comments appreciate the heads up. Again, we'll send out in our Jensen's five step fire mitigation plan that they've embraced and shared with not only the city. But us in a number of other municipalities and districts.

Unfortunately, the kids apparently were a part of that, as they have also signaled with a lighter and, and unbeknownst us in that neck of the woods, there was even another one where similar to up off of Buffalo Ridge with a, with a group of kids. So it might be that season that I learned to understand when I moved here called mud season or mud mud, mud mudslides up there around that area when the kids are graduating from school. But on top of it will spread the word.

Thanks again. We have Marv Tibbett. Marv, you're up sir, welcome. You'll introduce yourself. You have the floor.

Marv:

Thank you, Marvin Tibbett, 1401 Castlepoint Cir, Forest Park. I would like to introduce our two new board members, Tara and Jason, and look forward to their work on the board. Thank you, David and Mr. Merritt, who isn't here, for your service in the past.

We, find, I find this agenda kind of screwy in that a lot of things that these two people should be voting on, you're voting on. And that's why I'm a little upset. Because it feels like a stacked deck. And I'll hold the rest of my questions for the second period, thank you.

David:

Thanks, Marv. We have a third. Mr. Huff. Welcome, you have the floor.

Jeffrey Huff Castle Pines Resident:

Good evening directors. My name is Jeffrey Huff. I live at 344 Thorn Apple Way, Castle Pines, Colorado, 80108. I just wanted to speak briefly about the planned improvements at Coyote Ridge Park. Specifically the proposal for the pickleball courts and the lighting that is anticipated to be installed. So in general, I think that the addition of four 50ft light poles for the pickleball courts and additional lighting planned for the tennis courts really changes the character and nature of the park. As well as the extension of the operating hours from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. at night.

And, I think activities at the park as late as 10 p.m. under the lights is not what we feel that we should have in a community park. At least that neighbors live close by the Coyote Ridge Park. In addition, the Parks Authority agreement that established the park and created the funding and the land necessary for the park stated that the play fields in the park will not be lighted. And that if lighting is anticipated, it must be approved by the Hidden Pointe Homeowners Association and the North Lynx Homeowners Association.

I don't believe that the board has engaged either homeowner association in any communications regarding the lighting and in order to be in compliance with the establishing documents that establish the park's authority. So just like for you, before you move forward with the lighting and the construction of the courts, both the tennis courts and the pickleball courts, to consider the terms of the Parks Authority agreement. And also the feelings of the local residents regarding the lighting and extension of the hours at Coyote Ridge Park. Thank you.

David:

Thank you Jeff. Having had that brought to our attention, along with your help in the last, I think it was a Planning Commission meeting. We did do a deep dive in that regard, and I'll allow council and we're.

Our district manager to speak to the legalities of that agreement that you're making reference to. We have addressed all of the concerns and are prepared for the meeting on the 26th. And with that, we have already notified all of those that were required to be notified with a full deck of information, including visuals, diagrams, descriptions, manufacturers.

Specifications, etc.. So I think that there's nothing that I'm aware of that we're not prepared to answer. But before we go off the subject, I'm going to ask Kim, if you'll speak to the legal matter of that agreement, if you would, please?

Legal Counsel Kim Seter, Esq.:

Certainly, Mr. Chairman, we looked at the agreement. This district was never a party to that agreement. That was the HOA, the authority which had not been formed.

And somebody else, I don't recall who it was now. The authority's been dissolved. All of the parties to the agreement have been dissolved, except for the HOA and the dissolution of the authority, although I think the existence of the authority had no impact. But the dissolution itself dissolved any obligations that the authority had which would include this agreement. If the agreement would have had any effect in the first place. So that was our legal opinion, and I think the board has acted on that, however they chose.

David:

Thank you sir. Jeff, I will say as well that the lighting was a byproduct of feedback from hundreds of homeowners that not only were the results of the pickleball project and.

Perfectly it's it's development and construction inside of this year. But the lighting was as well. The lighting is an optional component. Understanding and appreciating star preservation as I do, being by product of mountain communities as well. No one understands the concerns. But have used, as Sam Bishop would attest, and I believe maybe the city manager as attested, that the manufacturer that we use to specify those lights and would buy them from and install them are the best in the business.

But the, the operating hours were on demand only. Otherwise they remain off if they're not being used during that short period. Of course, you noticed last night there was only about about a half hour, maybe an hour before which time it was 10:00. And that was when when dark until 9:00 but.

If that helps you understand, and it's also adjustable, you know. If the community decides that they don't want any light whatsoever, it's just a matter of turning the clock off and not allowing the light at night. It's that flexible. But one of the byproducts of having that light even into the evenings without some of the additional upgrades that we have planned for the park, are the security benefits that have been lacking or just not apparent in the skate park area or in that specific area of the park, including the parking lot. Which would become a tandem to the tennis pavilion as well.

So appreciate the comments. There top of mind working through them and look forward to the meeting on the 26th with the city. Anything in between your service? Thanks for coming. Thank you. If there, I don't see any others on item six, so I'm going to close item six and move on to item seven. Item seven is the Parker Sanitation District response to North Metro District's formal invitation to return to the negotiating table. We would have received those letters, as it's noted on the agenda.

The invitation went out on the 22nd. Parker's response by and through council was returned on the 22nd. Passing up on the opportunity to return to the negotiating table, but signaling again their continued interest in observing.

The, the progress in their words that we're making here. And of course, in the meantime, we have begun conversation with, again, again For the second time in my term, the neighbors. It's around the district and have also begun some of the due diligence necessary for this upcoming budget season. I believe that on the website, the posting not only included the letter to Parker, the invitation to Parker, but of course their disappointing response.

And it also included, correct me if I'm wrong, Jim. Some of that due diligence I'm making reference to that is on the easels behind, and that's just a rehearsal of what we knew before going into the inclusion is still a part of the record where given the, the cost of water service, the cost of wastewater service and the tax levy, property tax levy, Parker continues to be about about 20% less.

The water is less, the sewer is higher. And the property tax is a push. It's interesting to watch these. Over the course of the last four years, not much has changed. But neighbors like Centennial that we already have in a relationship with and continuing. I think our agreement with them spans through 2059.

If I recall correctly, and it's appetizing to see how some of the larger districts there about a little north of 100,000 people, Parker's at about $17,000 right now with a build out of about 50. And of course, you know, we're bumping the ceiling when, when everything is built out in about $4000 at least on the west side of the highway.

So I hope everyone was able to take a look at that as a reminder of what's forthcoming in the upcoming budget period item. I'm going to close item seven, unless my colleagues have any other questions or comments about that. Hearing none, item eight, which is the review of the regional comparison of regional water. Yeah, I combine them too. So I will close them both.

Item number nine parks trails open space managers report. David, we've been blessed with your report. You have been incredibly busy. We've had some that have liked your work and gosh some that were like Laurie said. Or was it Laurie making reference to the social platforms out there that didn't like the new grass and the watering today?

And. I'm glad you're keeping it green this time. So, unless there's any comments, questions, concerns, I anticipate that that work along Castle Pines Parkway is wrapping up. Do you have an estimated time frame for which the city will be asking for acceptance of that?

Describer:

David Anderson is speaking off mic briefly.

Operations Manager David Anderson:

By the end of this week.

David:

By the end of this week.

David Anderson:

We do want to walk through on Thursday.

David:

Okay, so and of course, they're going to take out our test strips of cobble and.

David Anderson:

Replace it with cobble, Yeah.

David:

With the, with the. Riprap. The riprap, right? Yes. That looks dynamite. The guys are just busting their tail out there. Really looking good. Anxious to get that together. Or is a district's participation in that going to have wrapped up by the same period of time? End of next week? Yes. There won't be.

David Anderson:

I believe so, yes.

David:

There won't be any additional planting though. Additional irrigation work.

David Anderson:

Well, we got to get the center median drip zones working. And then they'll replace all the dead material. So that's probably closer into mid-June by the time we get that all figured out.

David:

Well yeah. And we rehearsed the math associated with that on an every month basis. So, I'm sure you're looking forward to not only wrapping up in other project, as we've got a number of them left to do this year, but that once it is completed to honor the memorialized deal, if you will, with the city and their contractor is really going to be important. Okay, okay. Anyone else?

Chuck:

David, I was interested in item number six. It's nice to see that the Boy Scouts of America want to do a community service with the Metro district. I'm not sure I understand where South open space is?

David Anderson:

It's basically the corner of Monarch and Castle Pines to the. Southwest.

Chuck:

Okay, okay. And when they plat them, will they be taken care of by them? No. Will they be taken care of by the metro district? Correct. Okay, thank you. You're welcome.

Denise:

One question in light of what she was discussing as far as fire mitigation. Can you just refresh my memory? I know that residents can call and ask to have the most grasp mode. But that's not something we do without requests. Is that correct?

David Anderson:

The last seven years, that's basically how it's been produced. After they've call. And it's usually in the late August September timeframe. I mean, with the drought going on now, the grass, it is starting to green up. But I mean, if we mow it now, we're going to end up moaning again.

Devise:

And understood. However, in light of the drought situation, doesn't that make sense to do that?

David Anderson:

Well, it also starts to dry the material back out. So that's another issue that you come up with.

Denise:

Meaning if you mow the ground, if you mow it, it'll recover? Correct. So what's in your opinion? What's the best case solution to help mitigation?

David Anderson:

I feel that you, we need to wait until, have we always have at the middle of August, September. See how the climate goes.

Denise:

It's a little scary.

David Anderson:

It, it's very scary. Yeah.

David:

Do we have any. It makes sense to remove the dry vegetation and understand the, the process of green being as good, if not better mitigating technique than eradication or dirt, right? Nobody wants the dirt. And so if we're going to have a choice, the green is not going to burn like the brown.

So all of what you said makes sense. It also makes sense to South Metro, who has evaluated and reevaluated are open space management. Isn't that true?. Yes. And were you aware of any place within the community where just using us as a guinea pig, that we're in noncompliance of that fire mitigating recommendations that we have recently posted that we've embraced for years in aware of any of.

David Anderson:

I am not.

David:

Has anyone made you aware of it lately, and have we done anything about it?

David Anderson:

Several residents have suggested that they would like to see it mode and, and, but that's all I had.

David:

What's happened in those situations? Same conversation as you just had with the board? Basically, yeah. And they've opted to in some cases mow. Is it a ten foot strip?

David Anderson:

It's, we mow five foot. We got a 72 inch mower, so.

David:

Five foot five behind the.

David Anderson:

Five foot behind. Okay. And a lot of times you can't get the mower into it. So it's hand labor weed eating type material. And then most of the residents have the rabbit protection fence on their, on their split rail. And the grass grows up through there. We can't get to that. That's the home I feel that's the homeowners job to to eradicate that if they so choose.

David:

The real danger zone is at 30ft. How many houses do we have within 30ft of their rear yard? Very many?

David Anderson:

I couldn't tell you, I have no idea.

David:

And I'm guessing that if all of the inspections that we've had, there was an issue that was of a serious nature or something that had to be addressed. South Metro and the relationship they have with the city as well as the district, they would have said something. But you've not heard?

David Anderson:

I have not.

David:

Okay, I don't have any further questions. Comments? Okay. Thank you David. Appreciate that report, appreciate your hard work. I'm going to close item nine. Open up ten, which is the Water and Wastewater operations manager's report.

Nathan and I, I don't know about you, but I remain giddy over the public tours that we had this morning. There was not. I mean, if you were inside my truck, it's an example. The conversation was just over the top. I asked them to just try to calm themselves. Which time I took you aside in your head? About 100 times bigger than than it is right now.

But, but rightfully so. And duly so. Nice job this morning. Thank you. The plant. The compound just look fantastic. Nice job. We've had your report. We've had an opportunity to review it. Mr. loan was on one of the tours this morning, as well as a number of those from the public. Anyone have any questions, comments or concerns from Nathan?

Chuck:

Nathan, how many? All of our pumps and wells are operating right now. Is that correct? They can be operated. We're not pumping water, though?

Nathan Travis water and wastewater operations manager CPNMD:

With the exception of, well A2 and that one's a little bit delayed, mostly because the village had some pretty heavy, well, issues that they needed to get taken care of on an emergency basis. So Lane has been working over there. A2’s scheduled to go back in the ground a week from this past Monday. So this coming Monday they'll start work on it. Outside of that, all of the other wells are up and running. We do have some preventative testing, some well capacity testing that we want to do just as a matter of normal course.

But other than that, everything else is up and running well or has the capability to run A6. We've ordered a new drive for again, that's preventative. We're just getting ahead of the curve on that one. The one that's currently installed is the original drive and it's past its expected lifespan. So even though it's functioning properly, we're it to have an issue.

We wouldn't be able to repair it quickly. So we're going to replace that one and probably late June right now. But other than that things are, things are going well. We're still waiting on a couple pumps at the treatment plant, but we're producing right around 2.5 MGD right now. And the new dosing systems are going really well. The chemistry is super dialed in.

Centennial was actually kind enough to lend us their lead operator for a day when we fully brought that thing online to help us make sure that we had all of our equations right, that they were tracking, like they showed that all of our equipment looked like it should. And it was, it was fine. It was the first time I slept all the way through the night in a while. So that was, that was nice. Thank you. Jim? I do. Go ahead, Chris.

Chris:

Good information here, lots of good progress. But it looks like we had a good participation by Mr. Peter Bong from CWSD.

Nathan Travis:

Yep, so that's the operator that I just referenced from CWSD is Centennial Water Sanitation District. So you put this in reports, and I'm thinking he went above and beyond spending over 11, 11 hours with the staff, making sure that everything was calibrated properly and the systems were working.

So I didn't want to take this opportunity to thank him for that. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely he, he owes him one. We had a couple of who's operating the plant, had a couple of their junior operators in the building. And Peter went so far as to pull up YouTube in training videos and was doing math equations on boards and walking people through chemistry and really just spreading knowledge that he has to some of the younger staff and helping some of the guys that haven't been, that haven't seen this type of automation before, understand how it works and, and how to make those small adjustments on the front end.

They can make a big difference on the back end in the chemistry. And it's we've been we've been running beautifully ever since. Our chloramine production is probably better than it's ever been in this district. It's cool.

District Manager Jim Worley:

Mr. President, could I make a comment or two, please?

David:

Go ahead. Jim.

Jim:

Most people, except the kind of us in this little small fraternity here. Most people don't know what's going on at that water treatment plant in the last six months. And most of that has been driven by Nathan, which he has been a huge benefit to everybody. Semocor, as he mentioned, is the org operator of responsible charge. Strange way to put letters, but that's what it is.

So is the founder of Semocor, a guy by the name of Scott Monroe. That's how Semocor came. He came into my office, and I've known Scott for a number of years. He came into my office probably five and a half, six months ago. His eyes were bigger, big as sausage plates. And he walked in and shut my door and he said, Jim, you got a problem?

And I said, good to see you, Scott. How you been? But he had just gone to the plant and it was just beginning the work that needed to be done. And so he said, there's a lot of work that needs to be done, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So I said, okay, Scott. I said, come to me in about three months and tell me what you think then.

Well, it didn't even take three months. He came to me maybe a month and a half later and he says, things are going well. It's going to take a while. There's a lot of good people working on that. And Nathan did a hell of a job in coordinating this. So. So I just wanted to put the magnitude of what's been going on at this plant.

It is, as David has mentioned a few times, it's a used car that has been totally refurbished. Be honest with you, the shell is still the same, but it's all been painted. All of the pumps and all of this injection stuff that he's talking about, which is still well, from my head has been put in. It's being tweaked a little bit.

There are things you just have to kind of tweak when the operation of the plant. So but the purpose of me making any comments at all is, is to thank Nathan for the way he has, as they say, belly up to the bar and done a heck of a job in coordinating a multitude of consultants and specialized people that know this type of work.

And so thank you publicly to Nathan for his, his ability to work. He's a great person to work with, great attitude. I don't have to beat up on it too much. I try to keep him out of my office. So that's what I wanted to say. I wanted to thank him publicly for all he's done.

David:

Jim, appreciate your comments.

A bit of a contradiction and in shame. You started off with the fact that in the last six months, right? I think the start date was February 12th. Okay. That was, that was that was termination date by Parker. When the inclusion agreement talked about, contemplated, described, monetized and let everyone to believe that the used car that we had been monitoring, observing, analyzing for the three years prior to that. And the amount of cash that was allocated to refurbish that car was going to be sufficient.

February 12th was the day after the termination. We made the same determination with regard to the used car, but we did something a bit different. Instead of spending three years looking at it yet again, we immediately took action and put the team, the intellect, this board the finances together and moved expeditiously. In spite of the pandemic, supply chain issues, human resource issues, etc. and have. This metamorphosis as you describe it is nothing short of that. On top of the fact that it is cutting edge facility as it relates to security as well as serviceability. And.

The folks that we had, we conducted two tours this morning of the public there, and I'm not kidding, they were just jazzed about it and in fact kept asking me if we would be willing to do a documentary. They just couldn't believe it. We gave them pictures of, that came out of the Jacobs report. This was the mutual study that was done in the very beginning, of which the entire inclusion agreement and the funds associated with that was based on.

And we showed them before, in the after, and they just couldn't believe it. Much like the story that Jim tells with Scott, this is a guy that is wise beyond his years, and his years are long. This is a guy that owes nobody anything but the truth, and I can't wipe that smile off his face. That guy is. He would be the best. Narrator, narrator of this documentary, bar none. Just. Nice job. Staff, Nathan, really appreciate it.

Chuck:

Nathan. One, one quick question. First of all, thank you for your efforts. They've been superb. It's great to have you as an employee on our side on the tour this morning. You were talking about, I think, three major pumps that are on order. High service. One is working, one looks brand new. It's turning away.

We hook up another one. Do we get our water faster? We hope up a third one. Can we shoot it to the moon? These look like pretty expensive, pretty high powered pumps. And it looks like we've got great redundancy, but it's a great safeguard. I'm just curious how they all work in tandem once we get them installed. And is it a supply chain issue, as many of this has been.

Nathan:

So the stage that the pumps are in now isn't necessarily the supply chain issue. We're sourcing them from an outfit in Nebraska. And the issue that we've had come, come down to is the powder coating that needs to go on these. So in order for them to be installed in service and operate for a long time, there's an NSF list of NSF approved coatings that you can put on them.

The powder coating is, was by far preferred by staff by Advanced Mechanical. The guy that does a lot of our installs for us and Kennedy Jenks as well. So we went in that direction.

Chuck:

The powder coating is to prevent rust?

Nathan:

Yeah. Prevents rust degradation, prevents the materials of the metals and the pipe casings from leaching out into the water. Correct. Yeah. And so the shop that is doing the pumps after they got them delivered has one certified technician on staff that has to be physically present, at least when these things are being powder coated. The day before ours went to the line he dropped with a heart attack. So thankfully the gentleman is okay. He started to return back to work, but he's got a couple guys that are working for him at his direction.

He's not fully cleared to do the work, so we're really just waiting for the pumps to finish going through the line to get that powder coating on him. The one pump that we have in service, we did a tenement coating on, which is also NSF approved, but it's just not going to last as long. We went ahead and brought it down to make sure we get the plan operational, functioning and in service.

So once the other three are done, we'll pull those, we'll bring those down, install those three pumps, and then we'll take the one that's currently installed and send it up to get powder coated. And that one will sit on the floor of the spare for redundancy. In terms of the actual plant production, we have a max capacity right now of five MGD.

To produce that, we would need two of the three pumps running. The new pumps are all on variable frequency drives, which allows us to speed up and slow down the individual pumps. So what we do from a process perspective is we tell it how much water we want to keep in our finished water, clear well, and then as well as turn on, turn off to meet that to meet our overall system and tank level demands.

Those pumps will speed themselves up and slow themselves down to keep themselves continually operating. So if it needs a second pump to come on, it'll do that, and then they'll be programed to rotate every 12 hours or so to make sure that the pumps are getting an equal amount of use of in rest. The biggest advantage to all of that is that by keeping those pumps running, were really accomplishing two things.

The, the most expensive part of running a pump is turning it on. You get a really heavy energy charge just spinning that motor and getting that water moving. So when you keep them on, you keep your cost down a lot lower. And then from a wear and tear perspective, pumps love to run. They don't like to stop and start.

It's that talk on the, on the startup that causes the most wear and tear on the pumps. So by allowing them to kind of slowly ramp up and maintain levels and switch back and forth between each other and kind of a much more fluid, choreographed way, it extends the life of the pumps, keeps us more energy efficient, keeps our chemical dosing much more consistent and accurate.

And so all three of those will work in that way. It's a, it's going to be a variation of a lead lag set up. Like we like we had before, just a lot more advanced.

David:

So the, the just add a little more color. The high variable service pumps can pump how many MGD per pump?

Nathan:

At their highest design point. I'd have to. I'd have to do the math really quick, but there are about 2400 gallons per minute each.

David:

And that makes sense given the fact that while we've never used or realized plant capacity, and all the while considering a medium change that might take it to 7.5 or thereabouts at five MGD, two pumps, two on standby, not mentioning the interconnect with, with Centennial, there's a three layer, three layers of, of, of delivery that are incorporated in the.

Plan as we speak, the plant has only seen and put this all in perspective, the plant has only seen maybe as much as 4.5 million gallons per day?

Nathan:

Yeah, the highest demand day I've seen is 4.4.

David:

4.4? And that typically Anthem's on or about July 4th. And, and so you can see that there's not only capacity but intended but there's redundancy.

Chuck:

And I guess that was my point. The, the redundancy that we're developing in the building today is, to me, as a resident of the community, makes me feel good. We have a safety factor. We're we're well covered. We won't, we're not going to run out of water. We're not going to lose our power. And so I was impressed by the size of those pumps and now the ability to to pump what they can. It's pretty amazing.

Nathan:

Yeah, they're fantastic. And the other important layer to that redundancy factor is the installation of the generator. That will happen later this summer. So we're doing all the conduit work actually. They they punch the conduit out through the wall. They're going to run it over. We're engineering the pad. All of that will get set in the next month or so.

And then late July, early August is when the generator is set to arrive. And it is a full load. It's a full load capable generator, so it will run every single outlet pump motor in that entire building as though we had full, full service power. So it'll give the plant the ability to operate at full capacity.

Chuck:

Sounds like we're moving into the 23rd century and beyond.

Nathan:

We're getting there.

Chuck:

Well good. Good job Nathan, thank you.

David:

Anyone else? Very good, hearing none I'm going to close item ten and open up item 11. Is Amanda with us tonight? Hi Amanda.

Describer:

Amanda is joining the meeting via Zoom.

District Finance Director, Amanda Castle:

I am, hello.

David:

How are you?

Amanda:

Well good, how are you?

David:

Good, thank you for joining us this evening.

Amanda:

Happy to be here.

David:

Happy, happy what?

Amanda:

Happy to be here I said.

David:

Oh I thought it was some holiday that I missed and I'm in trouble for. But there you go. There's a benefit to hearing challenge. Anyway, we just opened up finance director's report. You have the floor again. Welcome.

Amanda:

Thank you. Before I get started, I know Mr. Helgeson was here in reference to an earlier item on the agenda. Would you like him to stay on, or is he welcome to jump off the meeting? I just wasn't sure if you needed his participation any further.

Ken:

Mr. President, to be clear, Erik Helgeson did join us in case members of the board or the community have questions with regard to the charts behind you.

David:

I. I wasn't aware of it, but good to see you, Erik, long time no here, or. We like you in person. But man, kind of like star like on the big TV. Have you seen yourself?

Erik Helgeson, Principal at Bartle Wells Associates:

I can sort of see it from the outer camera.

David:

Are you in California?

Erik:

Right out there.

David:

You're in California? Oregon now. Oregon, okay, well we really appreciate the work that you have delivered to the district, incorporating all of the rate and fee information that we typically utilize as a catalyst for setting fees and rates in the upcoming year.

Appreciated taking a look at the compliment or detriment or impact as it's better described of the tax mill levy as well. I think that the charts are self-explanatory and but are awesome reflection of the hard work that you put in over the last handful of weeks. Again, thank you. Is there anyone that has questions for Erik?

Gosh, hearing nothing unless you have a good joke or something that I've missed. We really appreciate you taking the time to join us this evening.

Erik:

I wish I was more clever on my feet, but no, unfortunately no good jokes. So it's good to see you again and, and good luck and keep, you know, making the, doing the things to keep improving the district. It's nice to see the whole crew again.

David:

Very good. Thank you. Thank you again. Have a good evening, Amanda?

Erik:

Have a good day.

Amanda:

Perfect, thank you. I just saw him sitting there and thought it might be beneficial to ask if you would like him to say anything, so thank you for allowing that. So, finance manager's report I do have for the board's consideration the finance memo and some information on the ratification of payment for claims that we can go through from a memo perspective.

One thing you'll note for property taxes is that we have property tax revenues are being collected at a rate that's really in line with what we saw in 2002 or 2002. My goodness, 2021. So we're at 61.25% this year compared to 61.78. So right online for property taxes. One item that I did note as I was reviewing the distribution from the Douglas County Treasurer, was that we had not received specific ownership texts.

So for those who are not aware, the district would receive specific ownership acts every month. When I don't see specific ownership tax, that tells me that there is an issue. As you know, specific ownership tax covers different types of taxes collected on things like vehicle sales. So it's unusual or it never happens that you would have zero. So I did reach out to the county and asked to ensure that that was erroneous and that they would be correcting that error.

They actually said they would correct the error this week, but after reaching out to them, they were able to correct it and get everything distributed to us last week. So the district did end up having an additional $25,000 in property tax revenues in the month of April. Based off of the history of our collections, I would anticipate that those are over budget for the year, which is good to see that continued revenue trend as the economy has declined.

I was concerned that we would see a decrease in those taxes, but as of yet we have not seen that, so we'll continue to monitor that. But right now things are trending over budget, which is good to see from an enterprise budget standpoint. Michele was able to work with continental to get things closed out. There were some issues with the software, but she was able to get that all taken care of.

She did provide usage report after I created this memo and usages trending well above budget, which we've seen for most of the year. I would like to analyze that data a little bit more to see what's really specific to the golf course versus usage for residents of the district. Once I have that, then we'll present that at next month's meeting for the board's consideration.

Really beyond that, we did. The big hurrah is that the district did pay off their COPs. So the final payment on the COPs was paid last Wednesday, May 11th. We closed everything out. We did have some annual fees and stuff that we pay per discussion with Sarah Schmidt, who we work with at the bank. All of those get paid, and then the district will actually receive a wire of a refund.

So any, anything that we paid in excess for those fees, they'll pro rate for the life of the loan this year and then take out that annualized about keep their portion and then remit the rest back to us. Sarah said there wasn't a way to calculate it until it was paid, so they would just remit that back to the district.

So we should have some minor fees coming back to the district relative to that debt, which is good. But that's a big accomplishment for, for the district. As you are all keenly aware, that really leaned on revenues from the general fund. So we had a transfer from the general fund that was noted as well. My gosh, base rental revenue.

And that went into those COPs every year to pay off that debt, which was in excess of $1 million per annum. By paying it off early, it really saves the taxpayers millions of dollars in interest. So it was a really strong move for the district and something I think you all should be incredibly proud of. So, very excited about that.

Beyond that, we've just been working with the auditors to complete the 2021 audit. There are some para requirements that are taking time to work through, so they're going to come back and finalize field work in June. But everything else is pretty well wrapped up. I think we're getting questions answered and hoping to have those reports soon, so looking forward to that. If there are any questions, I would be happy to answer them. If not, I'm happy to make a motion on the item for consideration. Hey, Amanda. Yes, sir.

Chris:

Could you review again the amount we paid off and then the savings? I think the savings was like $250K a month or a year? A quarter. A quarter?

Amanda:

Per quarter, yes, sir. And obviously as the debt pays down, that dwindles down. But in total it was I mean, this past year it was more than $1 million just in 2021 that we paid an interest alone. So when you consider the life of the, the note, that's a pretty large amount. Let me pull up the letter that we sent to Sarah Schmidt, and that will provide the relative information on the total payoff.

It was roughly $20 million for the district, but I want to pull the accurate number for you.

David:

While you're looking for that. Have you ever heard of Dave Ramsey?

Amanda:

Yes, I love Dave Ramsey.

David:

You and me both. You know, he has that part in his show where you, when you pay off your debt, you do the scream.

Amanda:

Yeah. It's, it's a big one for sure. So, when I look at interest savings. You guys. Here. Sorry, it's opening. So the district would have saved an interest alone. Just over $4 million in total interest payments. And then, actually, I'm sorry, just over $5 million in total interest payments. And then we paid off principal. In an amount of. Sorry, I'm going to have to pull a different special here. I'll get that number. The exact number. It was right at $20 million that we paid off in principle.

Chris:

That's good enough, thank you. Yeah absolutely.

David:

Instead of given the item, we ran through the numbers last month, we were at north of 18 million in total COP obligations and at an expense or at a savings of $10.5 million over the course of the term of that debt.

Amanda:

Yes, thank you.

David:

If it, if it varies, feel free to jump in and correct us otherwise. But that's the information we had from last month.

Amanda:

Yep. And that should, should be the same because we called it. You have to call it 35 days ahead. Okay.

David:

Very good. Any other questions? Two quick ones from me. We were talking about the receivables last time, and we had that pesky receivable from. The wastewater lift station. And has that been satisfied, Council. Nothing more there. Have we listed that receivable on our financials Amanda?

Amanda:

Yeah, I added it to the financials. So it will show up when you get updated and updated. Set of financials that is now included on the balance sheet.

David:

Okay I didn't see this go around. If you'll make sure that that receivable is on there. And then Jim. Remembering back about this time last year we were finalizing another good size deal with our friend to the south, where there's an annual payment of $77,000, as I recall doing, payable to the district for.

Providing service when and if that tap is, is made to. I'm about. Jack. Have we received that? Will you get with the man please? And just make sure that both Darwin and, and Jack's accounting is matches ours. So with that done, slip through the cracks.

Jim:

I will, thank you.

David:

Okay, hearing nothing else. Amanda, you have the floor. If you want to make that motion, please.

Amanda:

Thank you, so we are looking for a motion to consider approving the financial report. Payables and claims for payment, including checks number 26862 and 26936 from April 9th, 2022 through May 6th, 2022. Amounts for the General Fund and debt service to ratify of $81,423.53 for the Enterprise Fund to approve $3,181.10, and to ratify $1,498,804.77 and electronic payments of $61,052.54 for ratification. For total expenditures to ratify and approve of $1,644,461.85.

Chuck:

Second, your motion.

David:

We have a motion on, well, a motion on the floor to accept the accounts payable.

Chris:

David, I think one of us has to make the motion even though Amanda said it. So we have to make a motion. Then we know you should have.

David:

Sure, you want to change hers to a motion?

Chuck:

I'll make a motion based on what Amanda reported.

David:

I just felt like if she's going to tee it up for motion, I put her in that position.

Chuck:

The motion is to approve the payables, the claims for payment and the checks paid.

David:

As well as financial report.

Chuck:

As well as her full financial report.

David:

We have a motion on the floor for the financial report and payables receivable. Is there a second?

Chris:

I second it.

David:

Have a motion and a second. Is there any further discussion from the board? You don't have any, nothing? Very good. When I call, if you'll share with the rest of us your. Desire to include not only the financial report, but the payables and the claims payments for that period from April 9th to May 26th.

Board Voting All Speak:

Director Crew. Approved. Director Lowen. Approved. And Director Lewis. Approved. Director McEntire is approved as well. Motion carries unanimously.

David:

Job well done, Amanda. Thank you. We'll see you next month. Yes, absolutely. Okay and things are moving along accordingly with CRS?

Amanda:

Yes. Okay. Yes, absolutely. So do you mind if I just say something to the board really quick? Sure. Well, I just want to thank this board and members of the staff. For me, the transition from Castle Pines has been extremely bittersweet. It was not a decision that we made lightly, even kind of.

I've been with the district for just over ten years and have thoroughly enjoyed every minute. There's been trials and tribulations and, but the work that this district has accomplished in those ten years has been remarkable, and this board was a large part of that. So I hope you all understand how proud I am of the work that has been done and how tough the decision was to to step away.

But, you know, at Pinnacle, we really pride ourselves on being mutually beneficial. And when we looked at the long term success of the district, I think it's in the best interest to have somebody that can be insanely responsive there for all of your needs. And unfortunately, with staffing challenges and the nature of the game right now, we just can't, can't be that for the district.

And so it was a very tough decision, but one that I, I know will be in, in the best interest you're in will be in great hands for the CRS and Sue. They're fantastic and looking forward to starting to work with them. I was telling some people this week, I've already got everything videotaped of me doing things and how to put packets together and, and do things in the system, so hopefully it's a nice smooth transition for them.

But just really want to extend my sincerest gratitude to all of the members of the team, all of the members of the board for an incredible ten years. I'm, I'm it's going to be very hard. I've been trying not to cry next time, but I really appreciate it a lot.

David:

Right back at you. Thank you. I'm going to go ahead and.

Chris:

Can I? So Amanda, I do really appreciate the time that you have put in here. And I've only been here for four years. But I will hold my additional comments and thanks until next, next month. Thank you.

Amanda:

Thank you sir.

David:

Very good. I'm going to with that all deserved close item number 11 and open up the district manager's report again. Mr. Worley, we have had an opportunity to review your report. And at this juncture, while you have something that you want to say in regard to the. Pickleball pavilion delays, you have the floor.

Jim:

Thank you, Mr. President. First of all, I'd like to thank Amanda. Some of you don't know this, but I used to work with Pinnacle and a man and I used to work together. And the lady you see right there, and you see every month is the same lady I used to work with.

She's, she's very dedicated, a great person to work with. So Amanda, thank you from the bottom of my heart. Not only is a district manager as a friend. And so I appreciate what you've done and everybody at pinnacle. So I just wanted to say that. Thank you. As far as the pickleball courts, we've kind of alluded to it a little bit.

We had a meeting or a hearing in front of the Planning Commission, and I'm sorry, I'm drawing a blank on the date about three weeks ago. And so that's where some of the things that Mayor Hough talked about a few minutes ago. So we do have another meeting coming up on the 26th, which is two weeks or a week from this coming Thursday.

We've addressed the letter that was referred to are the so-called agreements. And so we're prepared to, to visit it and hopefully it works out well. So, so we'll do that on my report. I want to talk about number one, but I want to see if there's anything else that you have on any other item before I go into that one. Any particular questions or if something's not on there. But I do want to make some comments.

Good, all right. Thank you. There's a lot of you know, I announced that last month's board meeting that I'm retiring, which I just can't seem to wipe the smile off my face. That's what Chuck has been telling me. So I'm going to try to be serious if I can. But anyway, when I announced that one of the things that that sitting in the office that I occupy there, not only did we get to deal with the good people like David and Nathan, we get to deal with what citizens, people in the community.

And since I am a short timer. I want to make some comments. I'm going to say it straight, and then I'm going to read a statement here. Next door to me is worthless. It is something that has is not regulated. People can say and do anything they want to on that. So I don't look at it here because I don't live here, but I get snippets of it. And so I have found that to be very detrimental to this organization.

And one of the things that one of the things that came up recently was, are you done, Tom? Thank you. Was the termination and we've talked about the termination that happened. It happened on February 10th, four hours after we had a meeting. There was no heads up at all to us. We had a good meeting. Amanda was in that four hours later, we get a letter says terminated.

And there were a lot of law up in that letter. But what concerns me more is a grenade that had been lobbed in this community, especially those that have been lobbed at this organization. President McEntire and myself have been involved in this. Well, that's really why I was hired almost four years ago was to work on this. And so of anybody in this organization, David, and I know this better than anybody.

And we know a lot of things about what has happened. And I read something recently that honestly irritated me big time. So I'm going to read something right now, and then I'm going to shut up. I turned this paragraph community misinformation. As I have stated before, I believe that the water and wastewater services currently provided by the Castle Pines North Metropolitan District should be provided by a surrounding water and wastewater provider for many reasons, but mainly because of an economy of scale.

The almost four year process with Parker Water and San. proved that to be possible. While it's still very disappointing that used chose to terminate the inclusion agreement on February 10th, 2022, without any advance notice to Castle Pines North. I still believe the water and wastewater services should be provided by a surrounding water and wastewater provider. The most disappointing part of this process is that some leaders in the CPNMD and community recently chose to falsely state that the reason the inclusion was terminated was because the current board and staff were not transparent enough, and were unable to fulfill the voter approved inclusion in the Parker Water and Sanitation District.

In a recent publication issued by Castle Pines City Councilman Roger Hudson, it stated that, quote, flipping the CPNMD board and removing the current leadership is key to resolving issues for Castle Pines and several growing communities in Douglas County. Chief among these has been this board's inability to resolve the district's renewable water problem. End of, quote. This entire process has been extremely transparent, extremely transparent.

The current board, especially board President David McEntire, staff and consultants, have worked very hard to do the best they could for all Castle Pines North residents and customers. Their hard work and dedication during this process should be applauded, not falsely ridiculed. So being a short time, I can make that comment. I don't live here in the community I've worked here.

This is my second stance. So I guess maybe eight years total. And so that's been very disappointing. I have to share that with you, because this board, and especially that man sitting right in the middle, and I think the other board members might nod their head on that have been extremely involved for this community. So when you read stuff on next door, please take it with a block of salt, not a grain of salt.

And if there's any questions or anything said in one of those, that is huh, is that right? Call me. I'll be here to June 30th. But then my, my cell phone is still going to be there. So it's important that that information get out there. So I apologize for getting on, on my soapbox, but I took this personally myself because I was involved, as David can attest to. So that's all I need to say right now. Thank you.

David:

Thank you Jim. Anyone else under. District manager's, Chris? Nope, good. Very good. Then I'm going to close the district manager's report. Well, before I do that, Jim. With regard to the pickleball and, and, and it was a little concerning when, when Mayor Huff was here and was talking about the light.

This project has been stalled a number of times. Our consultants and this team have been ready for and made permit application for days, weeks, months and, and with all the green lights associated with all the judicious and, and due diligence necessary of an applicant to pursue a project like this, it has been three times over now beyond 11, 11th and a half hour. But beyond that, that by virtue of one nuance or another, wherever it may have been discovered, was brought to our attention without notice, without warning, at a complete surprise, if not a public surprise.

And. I hope on the 26th that's over, that we are finally able to move forward on this project, as the residents have asked us to, as we committed to, as we are prepared to. Lights were standing. Of course, there. They're optional based on use and the desire of the community. But as I shared with Mayor Huff, what you see in those plans are reflection of the due diligence that this board and staff has done with the residents purely and, and but if they need to be adjusted, why would we put a clock on the lights?

So is there. We've noticed, we've illustrated, we've narrated, we've power pointed, we've done all the things that were requested only after the first six meetings amongst the two teams and given the green light to pursue a permit. Anything else that we should be prepared for, and would you recommend that this board make the meeting? Or is it does it look as if it you have all the tools you need Jim?

Jim:

I think I have all the tools I need to be honest with you. The, the letter that we keep referring to in this agreement was brought to our attention that afternoon. That oh, by the way, there's this out there of which we didn't know. And so that caught us off guard. But now I agree with, with Kim's response to it. I'm comfortable with that.

David:

I think that was actually a surprise by the city folks as well. It was. In all fairness. Absolutely. That wasn't the only issue. There was a laundry list of the same things that we had been reviewing for months. Exactly, exactly. So unfortunately, we don't have a permit in hand. The shovel hadn't hit the ground after the 26th or the 25th, 26? 26th. 26th.

Jim:

It’s a Thursday night. Yeah. And I think we're fine, to be honest with you, Mr. President, I really do. I think there was some good discussion on there. There was a gentleman and well, I can look at him right now, but I'm drawing a blank on his face. He was the one who stood up there and spoke extremely highly of the organization that provides the lighting and how well they're respected in the industry and how they do.

It was Larry. No, it wasn't Larry. I'm sorry, and I wish I could think of his name right now. He's a resident. He's not. He doesn't work for anybody and he's been to our meetings. But anyway, he was very complimentary of the organization. So I think it was a good mood, a meeting, a little surprising. And I understood why they delayed it because there were things that they just didn't know yet, especially the agreement and some other information they want us to send out. We've taken care of all that. So unless there's something hidden somewhere that none of us are aware of, I fully anticipate and of course, hope that they, they approved it on the 26th.

David:

We've gone above and beyond in a number of areas, including the notice that Jeff brought up, and that's why I belabored that just a little bit. That notice, according to staff at the city, is not required, but much like from which it came, if there's an opportunity to garner some benefit with more communication as how we roll. So you bet. Good job in that and keep us posted.

Jim:

I will, thank you.

David:

I'm going to close then item 12 and open up legal counsel's report. Counsel you have before.

Legal Counsel Kim Seter, Esq.:

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The first report I have is on the election results. Tera Radloff and Jason Blanckaert have been elected to fill the seat vacated by Director McEntire and Director Merritt till the 2025 election. Later on in the agenda, you'll have a swearing in. And there are swearing in forms in front of probably Director McEntire, and I'd appreciate it if we could make sure those get signed tonight and return to me. And don't nobody take them home. Nobody take them home.

The second item I want to bring up has to do with the pickleball courts. Again, I'm still having trouble getting that easement issue resolved. So you have in front of you resolution number 2022-5-01. That resolution authorizes me to begin a condemnation action if I need to. I'm not doing it to take property away from Excel because they are disclaiming any interest in it, which is why they don't want to do anything.

What I can do, though, is begin a condemnation action. They can then immediately file a document saying we don't have any interest. Then I can go to the court hopefully and get a court order that that property is ours and, and we're done. I don't know how long that will take, but I'm trying like crazy to get it done by the 26th. So if you would approve that resolution tonight, it'll give me the opportunity to move forward in that direction, as well as the quick claim deed that we've talked about before on both paths.

Denise:

Can I ask a quick question? You can. When you file this is there a timeline that they have to respond?

Kim:

There is, yeah. It's, it'll be 20 days, I believe. Okay. But I'm going to call them well in advance and even offer to I will draft their response because all they're going to do is say we don't have any interest in this.

Denise:

Right, right. So this is the best way to move, push the ball forward?

Kim:

Yeah, it puts a deadline on getting a response. And their response is no different than what they've given us already, which is we don't have any interest in this.

Denise:

Great, thank you.

Kim:

The third item is the Brighton lawsuit. We advised the court today that the settlement is complete. Aurora has approved it. Brighton has approved it. You approved it a couple of meetings ago. The closing documents are all done and everything is now just being scheduled among the attorneys and the title companies. So hopefully within a week or two that will be done and will send some money to Amanda.

The third item that I just want to mention quickly is Senate Bill 22-238 is sitting on the governor's desk. As of Friday it had not been signed, but it will be because the governor promoted it. The purpose of the bill is to save the Colorado taxpayers $700 million over a two year period. It affects our mill levy, and what the bill does is it reduces property valuations.

So when a residential property is valued, you're taxed on a portion of that value. That portion is called the assessable value. This bill does two things. It reduces the assessment rate and it also reduces the value. So what that's going to do is to is reduce the tax revenues during 2023, for the 2023 and 24 tax years. Then the state is going to rebate funds to the county treasurer to distribute back to entities like us.

But because of the size of Douglas County, I think can't be certain of this yet. But the rebate will be about 65%. Theoretically, you should still see increasing revenues each year, but you can't say that quite yet until all of these things start shaking out and we see how much of an increase in property values you have. So there's a fairly complex formula that applies to counties of different sizes. And by amended by August, we may be able to say something I know you won't be here, but we'll keep monitoring that and deal with the new accountant at that point. SB22-2 38.

David:

Isn't there another bill that's running in tandem with that? That pretty much downs? Is that as another Tabor reach of some kind?

Kim:

There was an initiated measure. So you may recall two years ago there was an initiative. The legislature stepped in and passed a bill to head off the initiative. The same thing happened here. And the initiative promoters withdrew their petition in light of this being approved. So now we'll have to see exactly what it means, and it'll be a little bit before we'll know that. But we do. We've seen tremendous valuation increases, which means tremendous, tremendous tax increases and tremendous revenue increases. So it may be fine, but it's going to affect every county differently. Sure. So we'll have to see. But we'll keep monitoring it and let you know.

David:

Thank you for that.

Kim:

And I think.

Amanda:

May I interject for just a second?

David:

Sure, go ahead.

Amanda:

So on that just to put that into perspective. So the, from a residential standpoint, residential values right now, as Kim was saying, are tax on a percentage. So on $100,000 of property you're taxed on $7,115, a 7.15% or $150. Now with this, it would reduce property taxes from 7.15% to 6.765% on residential.

That differential is the portion that would be rebated and potentially at a lower amount. So thankfully the reduction in the valuation is not substantial. It will be probably hundreds of thousands, maybe tens of thousands here at the district. And then a portion of that would be rebated. So it's something we'll have to monitor from a cash flow perspective.

The other piece of that is commercial land. That's typically or commercial, that's typically valued at 9.29% would be at 27.9%. So the district does have a mix of properties in it. So we'll have to take a look at that. But I can definitely put a projection together to pass along to CRS that will show that delineation by type and the potential effects moving into the 2022 or 2023 budget season.

David:

Their one time rebate. Yeah. Okay. Very good.

Kim:

That is it, unless there are any questions.

David:

A couple of questions, if I may. The Jim, you talk about. Nextdoor and the social platforms. You know it people that, that. Don't know the facts sometime get most of the coverage. And we try our darndest to make sure that that doesn't happen. But it at times it slips through. Amanda was talking about the COP payoffs as, as you were, and you were in the context of the sale of the Brighton water rights, ditch rights. It wasn't too long ago before which time we had one considered as credible.

That said, the in a meeting that the only reason that the Parker closing didn't take place was because we couldn't pay our inclusion fee. Well, the inclusion, the inclusion fee, while still in tow, very well intact as a prerequisite. It was the debt first, as it is written and as is memorialized for anybody that digs deep enough to know and understand what the deal was. But evidence again, Amanda, as you've fought so diligently on and proudly as you should have, and making sure that there was transparency and there was honesty that trumped the naysayers, Trump the, the troublemakers.

And but there's evidence. Black and white. Well, green and white. We were able to pay that off 100% and a rebate and still be in a position to pay the fee. So those dollars will be in the district's general fund when?

Kim:

I would think within the, I'll stretch it out to a month, because all we're waiting for right now is just scheduling the closing. Everything else is approved documents already. It's all done. Court has been notified.

David:

Base rental is a function of the gap process. But. And accountability. But those are general fund dollars. And we should appreciate having had given the opportunity to steward that from our previous boards and staffs and the residents that funded that and put it to good use. The other thing is. Do you want a motion on that resolution?

Kim:

Just on that resolution is all I need. Thank you.

David:

May I? I'd like to make a motion this evening to consider approving resolution of the board of directors, approving acquisition of certain property by condemnation. Resolution number 2022-05-01. Is there a second?

Chuck:

I second it.

David:

Is there any discussion, any more discussion comments, questions? Hearing none when I call the vote, you will share with the rest of us your approval or otherwise would be appreciated.

Board Voting All Speak:

Director Crew. Approved. Director Lewis. Approved. Director Lowen. Approved. Director McEntire is approved. The motion carries unanimously. Thank you.

David:

Counsel, nice end around.

Kim:

One more comment. Yes, sir. To Director Merritt and Director McEntire and Jim and Amanda. It's been a pleasure working with you and I. The institutional knowledge we're losing with Director McEntire and Jim and Amanda is going to be hard to cover for. We will do it, but it's going to be difficult. Thank you to all of you.

David:

You're welcome, thanks to the compliments. All right with that, we are going to hasten to our closed item 13. Open up item 14, which is Director's Matters item A. Stealing the show, young man. It says right here we're going to recognize District manager Jim Worley. Welcome, you have the floor.

Describer:

Everyone attending the meeting in person claps as the camera pans right to Jim.

David:

I’ll tee it up with a job well done, sir. And gosh, if you have an encore to the last one, that would be fitting, but you have the floor.

Jim:

Well thank you. I don't know about anybody else. I can only speak for myself, but I know that that retirement has been something I have looked forward to for a long time. Some jobs I've had in my entire life. I've looked for a little closer, but those of you who have made that. Chuck, I told you, you're one of my idols because you retired last year and I've had a number of people come up to me and say, why am I jealous? And I'd say, I know that because I have felt that way with others that have done that. And so, as I said last month, thank you.

Thank you to the board, to the district, to the community. I feel for the most part, I've been treated very well. There are a lot of good people around here, and some even this morning, and when we're doing some tourism, made some very nice comments which are very, very much appreciated. But it is another chapter in my life.

I look forward to it as I've told some of you, and I'll be happy to show you a few thousand pictures. We had our first grandson, a grandchild, about nine months ago, and so I think that's going to occupy some of my time just about as much as I can. But, but I'll travel. I'll do things that as long as I have my health, as long as I've got enough money to eat on, then then I'll be moving forward.

So, but thank you all. You've been a pleasure to work with. And quickly. Almost four years ago, when David and I met up at the Ridge, and the first thing he told me was, Jim, you could work yourself out of a job. Now, I could have just put my iced tea down and said, see around by. I'm still going to work.

But it was very intriguing for me what this board ran on and what you have accomplished, although it's not totally accomplished yet, but what you've accomplished in roughly just three and a half years now, almost four, has been remarkable. I've stated before I'm not aware, and no one I've asked a lot of people this have you ever seen any type of an inclusion like we've been working on with Parker from two healthy districts in the state of Colorado, and nobody has ever said that has happened before.

So I think it will. I think it'll happen at some point. But from a personal standpoint, I'll be watching. As long as you keep video on them. I'll be sitting in my basement watching with a big smile on my face. But I appreciate all the friendships that I have made and will continue to foster over the rest of whatever that is. And that's all. Thank you very much. Again, I appreciate it.

David:

Thank you Jim. Remember, this is not your last meeting. So I'm glad you held a little bit of the comedy back.

Jim:

Oh, I take everything back then. I'm sorry I didn't. I forgot that I've got one more meeting. I did, thank you.

David:

Very good. Anyone else want to poke a Jim before his last meeting? You good with that?

Chuck:

I'm going to save it to the very end. Retirement is not what it's all made it to be, okay?

Jim:

Yeah, but you've already been in Hawaii for six weeks or however long you were there. So you told me once I retire, that's what happens I think.

Chuck:

It comes to an end.

Jim:

Oh, okay. Thank you.

David:

Did you tell everybody that? Item 14 be comments from Director McEntire and Director Merritt? I've already made the comments for Robert again, dosing or taking some kind of a dosing for some pain to, for an injury, as well as his daughter coming down with Covid for me.

You know the. I'll keep it quick by saying. Four years ago as we look back, one of the most genuine experiences I had was meeting my colleagues on the board and, and, and second to that was then staff and the consultants that well, given the opportunity to surround yourself with the very best, only a fool would do otherwise. And, and I'm no fool, you guys are literally the very, very, very best at what you do. And plus some personally and professionally. And I appreciate you the, the unity that we came with that we still have is invaluable.

It's pleasant. And if you do, I do see so and I would encourage you to do. Foster that take good care of it. It serves you well and it serves the residents well. Residents have been a phenomenal, phenomenal resource for me and uplifting at 99% of the time. We all have our bad days, me too. So it's with that again that I just want to say thank you to my colleagues, staff and the consultants, our Director of Communications, Mr. Smith, and his team, invaluable byproduct of the promised transparency and honesty that we keep rolling.

And I hope you guys keep rolling along the same pass and finish up. What we started would be an awesome, awesome feather in your hat. So it's with that, I just say thank you to everybody for the opportunity. It's been my pleasure.

Describer:

Everyone attending the meeting is giving a standing ovation and the camera pans to the attendants and back to the board of directors.

David:

I'm going to close item B and open it up to item C, which is the filling of the oath of the office and the swearing in of our new two elected directors. Jason Blanckaert, Blanckaert. Thank you. And Tera Radloff. It is with that that.

Director elect Jason, will you please stand at the podium and publicly accept the oath of, office? Please raise your right hand, and repeat after me.

Describer:

Jason is at the podium nd raising his right hand. When he is done Tera will stand at the podium rasing her right hand.

David:

I, Jason Blanckaert

Board Member Director Jason Blanckaert elect:

I, Jason Blanckaert.

David:

Do affirm that I will support.

Jason:

Do affirm that I will support.

David:

The Constitution of the United States.

Jason:

The Constitution of the United States.

David:

Constitution of the State of Colorado.

Jason:

Constitution of the State of Colorado.

David:

And the laws of the State of Colorado.

Jason:

And the laws of the State of Colorado.

David:

And will faithfully perform the duties.

Jason:

And will faithfully perform the duties.

David:

Of the office of Director of Castle Pines North Metro District.

Jason:

Of the office of Director of Castle Pines North Metro District.

David:

Upon which I am about to enter, to the best of my ability.

Jason:

Upon which I am about to enter, to the best of my ability.

David:

Director Blanckaert, welcome. Thank you. Welcome. Please take your seat next to Director Crew. And Director elect Tera Radloff will you please approach the podium? It's all in my…

Describer:

The last word David said is briefly inaudible.

And publicly accept the office oath of, office. Please repeat after me. I, Tera Radloff.

Board Member Director Tera Radloff elect:

I, Tera Radloff.

David:

Do affirm that I will support the Constitution of the United States.

Tera:

Do affirm that I will support the Constitution of the United States.

David:

The Constitution of the State of Colorado.

Tera:

The Constitution of the State of Colorado.

David:

The Constitution of the State of Colorado, and the laws of the State of Colorado.

Tera:

And the laws of the State of Colorado.

David:

And will willfully perform the duties of the office of.

Tera:

And will willfully perform the duties of the office of.

David:

Director of the Castle Pines North Metropolitan District Board.

Tera:

The office of, director of the Metropolitan, Castle Pines North. North. Good. Metro board.

David:

Upon which I'm about to enter.

Tera:

Upon which I'm about to enter.

David:

To the best of my ability.

Tera:

To the best of my ability.

David:

Director Radloff, welcome. Thank you. Please take your seat next to Director Lewis.

Describer:

Tera walks up to the board of directors desk and sits next to Chris. David shakes everyone's hand, and walks away.

Denise:

Welcome Directors Blanckaert and Radloff. Colleagues as the remaining officer only officer on the board, let me ask if either of you have any comments you'd like to share at this time? Director Blanckaert?

Describer:

Denise is helping Jason turn on his mic.

Denise:

It's a little face right there.

Jason:

Thanks, no comments.

Denise:

Nothing? And Tera, Director Radloff?

Tera:

I was going to ask for the floor leader. But this is when we. So I do want to congratulate the board and staff on paying off the COPs and eliminating the debt for the district. I want to thank everyone who participated in the election. It's my honor to represent you as a member of this board of five board members. I look forward to working together for the best interest of our customers and my current understanding, based on what the district manager said and the conversations that we had individually before the election, it makes complete sense that we are not sustainable as a small district and that it makes sense to include with a larger district.

A lot of work has done for the Parker inclusion, and so my current understanding is that means moving forward the Parker inclusion deal. I want to thank Mr. Worley for the tour of the lift stations, and I look forward to seeing the inside of the water plant. Oh, and also, since we've been sworn in, I'm just unclear about a couple of things about why a now former board member would need access to the district's email after tonight.

And then second, from the email I received, I'd like to understand why some access may continue after May 31st, so I'd just like to get clarity on that.

Jim:

Those will be disconnected soon. Both of those. Yeah. Wanted to keep it going as long as Saints are still happening. But probably by the end of this month those will be removed.

Tera:

And so is there a legal reason why we don't disconnect them as of this evening or?

Jim:

Legal reason? No.

Kim:

There's no no there is no legal reason. No. Okay.

Tera:

Do we do this every election? Sorry, what? Do we do this every election? Have former board members continue to have access to email?

Jim:

I don't know, this is the first one I've been involved with. Gotcha. Yeah.

Tera:

Well, I would request that it seems pretty standard procedure that now that the board members are gone, that their, their email would no longer be working. And so they won't be involved in making any decisions or getting any further information. Just scheduling with your. It takes a while.

Jim:

That's exactly right.

Tera:

Okay, thank you.

Denise:

So colleagues and council, with your permission, moving on to item 14 D on our agenda, the election of, officers, I hereby nominate Director Lowen as our board president, Director Christopher Lewis as our board vice president, and myself, Denise Crew as continuing secretary treasurer. Do I have a second?

Chris:

I second that any discussion?

Tera:

Yes, so could you share your thoughts on why these are the leaders and should be in those positions? Why they are the best choices? I mean, again, the letter that I read from Parker said that they were clear about looking forward to having new board members. They were wanting to reengage in conversations after their board was seated and after our board was seated.

So kind of taking the same approach and expecting a different result is doesn't make any sense to me. So share a little bit about why that makes sense for you all to hold those positions. Thanks, mayor. Yeah.

Denise:

We do have discussions as, as we all have outside of one on one. We have phone conversations. We talk. I was asked if I would support Director Lowen as president, Director Lewis as vice president, having worked with them and served with them for the past four years. Knowing the level of knowledge that they have, that I have, that we've all acquired, and based on our tenure that we've been on the board, I think it only seems fitting that those of us who have been here longest have the first opportunity to be the officers of the board.

I have no problem with what happens in the future. None of us are here forever. But I think it's I think it's the right thing to do, and I'm 100% behind the nominations that I have made.

Chuck:

I'm not in a position to listen to another metro district, tell us who we can and cannot vote for as officers. This is a decision of this board of the, the three of us. I think it's appropriate because we've been here over four years. We have the experience, we have the knowledge. If Parker is unhappy with that, they're going to have to get over it.

They're not hiring us. I think, though, on a up note that with you on the board, Tera and with Jason, I look forward to some new ideas and some, hopefully some ideas that can be impressive to Parker, if that's who we talk to, as well as other parallel metro districts that we wish to listen to. So I think that it's appropriate for this board to make their own decisions.

Tera:

Well, I'd like to remind you, I am a member with a five member board. There's not just three of you. I don't know what your references are to Parker, but I was elected by the people within our district, so.

Just curious why you guys were interested in serving and why you thought that that was in the best service of the district.

Chris

Welcome, Tera. Thank you. Welcome, Jason. We do appreciate you guys joining the board. I do want to take the opportunity also to thank the past board members that left David and Robert. Robert is not here, but we still want to make sure that he's recognized. So one of the things that, you know, we started this project four years ago at least. And our whole intent was to deliver water for the district at less cost and renewable water.

And that is still our intent. And we welcome all the elected members that the community wants to, to help us join. And our goal has not changed. We're going to do an inclusion and we're going to do an inclusion with a water district so that we can reduce costs and we can continue to serve the community well. The reason why I think we would like to be the leaders of this board at this time is that we would like to continue that. That journey that we started on and make sure that we deliver for this community while we committed.

We also have the, the background in the historical knowledge and all the information that went into the inclusion and to the negotiations. And we're going to strive to bring you guys up to speed on what have happened. And I know once you have learned and being exposed to some of the background, you're going to be just like us.

And I know from what your your position was in a different papers and where you said what you were going to do, now we're all heading in the same direction now, how we get there, we're going to take a very fiscal conservative view on that. We're going to make sure that we're serving the community well, and we're going to negotiate in the best interest of Castle Pines North Metro District.

Right, and, and once we do that, I, for one, and I know the rest of my board members here and now, the two of you who are going to be able to let a straight face say that we have done our fiduciary duty and done what's best for this community. So that's kind of why we want to serve. Thank you.

Chuck:

Is there a second motion?

Denise:

Was there? There was a second?

Chris:

The discussion is over. And then call for a vote. Okay.

Chuck:

So rather than do it all at once. I'll ask each member of the board what their vote will be. With the motion that Denise has made.

Board Voting All Speak:

Director Blanckaert. No. Director Denise Crew. Approved. Director Chris Lewis. Approved. Director Radloff. No. And Director Lowen is a yes. It passes.

Chuck:

The motion passes three 3 to 2. Thank you. All right. The last item on directors matter, by the way. I'm humbled. Thank you very much. Being president of the, of this board is, is very important to me. And I know that my family feels the same way. We live here. We want it to be well, do well and thrive. And I think that where we've gone today, from what David has done with his great institutional knowledge, has been nothing but fantastic.

And so I'm I know we're in good hands with our staff. I know we continue to provide water at a reasonable rate. Clean, clear water. And our our services are as good as any district around us. So I feel very comfortable leading this board. So thank you very much.

We'd like to talk about a district manager position. As we heard earlier tonight, Jim Worley will be retiring at the end of June. We have in your packet. I think the job description. I'd like you to review that. I have no preconceived notions of who I want or who any of us want. We are going to post the job description and I think, Ken, is it right?

We're going to post it on our web page, and Jim is going to post it internally. We'll receive resumes. Hopefully we can put a timeline on that so that we can get this done sooner than later. Once we get the resumes. I would like to work with several board members. If you are willing to go over those resumes with me.

I don't want it to be on my shoulders alone. And I will ask Kim Seter, our legal counsel, to join me in that discussion so that we have some, some good conversation. I hope we get some. I hope we get some resumes. I'm not sure what that markets like. In the meantime if we don't have.

Jason:

Can I ask a question?

Chuck:

Yeah, sure. I'm sorry.

Jason:

So do we not know how long we're going to keep the position open for?

Chuck:

That was a discussion I was going to have with Jim. I'm not comfortable with putting a date on it. I just don't know how long it should be. Knowing what we're looking at for a director of a metropolitan district in this market. If it were any other time, I wouldn't want to do it more than 2 or 3 weeks.

It might be a month. It really depends on how soon we can get the word out and what we see coming back in. But I would like to think if we had a response time. Jim, three weeks. What's what's your what's your industry standard? You're the you're a director.

Jim:

Yeah. I think a month, three, three weeks to a month as far as an open application timeframe is what I think you're at, the question you're asking is what I'm hearing. I've been through that in Highlands Ranch about a year and a half ago. I was on the boards until about three weeks ago, and it took a little while.

We got some applications pretty quick, but the process of interviewing, narrowing it down, and getting to the final candidate took a little bit longer. But I think and I don't have a clue what the market's like. It's like any industry.

Chuck:

I don't think any of us do. We don't get any resumes in three weeks. We probably ought to open it up again, but

Jim:

Yeah, I don't disagree. I mean, you can always continue to do that. But a lot of times in this particular industry, a word of mouth is huge. There are a lot of us that know each other that, you know, I'm manager here. I know somebody over there. So certainly the word will get around, I think, which will be part of that. But I'd say three weeks to a month initially and that's, that's grabbed out of the air.

Chuck:

Let's make it three weeks okay with that. Thank you for your question.

Jason:

Yeah. Of course three weeks is probably good, but four is probably more than three weeks.

Tera:

I’m okay with three weeks.

Chuck:

Okay, we'll set the timeline, Jim, for three weeks and we'll see what we get. And then I will be talking to each one of you individually. We'll, we'll set up a, a group, group to interview.

Jim:

Let me just ask a quick question on the application or on the description it says to send them to me. Is the board okay with those coming to me. And then I'll forward them to your new president and then he can distribute it. Are you okay with that as a board?

Chuck:

I'm okay with that.

Jim:

Okay, All right. I just want to make sure the process is right. So. You bet. Okay.

Tera:

Mr. President, I have a question. Are we going to talk about the job description at all? Love to. Great, so.

Chuck:

It’s rather lengthy.

Tera:

It is the one thing that I compared it to the mission statement and the core objectives and the, the one thing I would love for you guys kind of point out, maybe it's in the essence, I think core objective number one, about securing renewable water future is in there.

But I don't see, really the primary, which is to provide high quality, clean, safe, reliable, on demand drinking water, wastewater. It starts out with the primary goal to obtain renewable water sources. And then the planning and administration is a little oddly specific, but. And then the other thing that I'd like us all to discuss is we kind of set a low bar for our community, and we're only looking for a minimum of three years of senior level metro district management experience.

We're asking for five years for the lower positions that are on the, the, the website for the positions that you're hiring now. So that just seems a little low. And then my other question is about where the see where all of these things are. And it says that these positions report directly to the board president and the district manager.

So I mean, this job description reads, as a CEO position, you know, CEOs typically report to a board, not one member of a board. That's just good governance. So, it's a little unclear why that's written that way. So those are kind of my. Clarifications that I'd like to see.

Chuck:

Jim or Kim, do you have?

Jim:

You know, I can address that. You know, the reality of it is and Kim can address it from a legal standpoint, but the reality of it is the person that sits in my office reports to you five. There is a lot of, a lot of interaction with you five. Our legal counsel Kim Seter, our communications director, Ken Smith.

These gentlemen over here, there is communication with, with Amanda. So I think it's important that everybody had that comfort level that anybody can visit with any of these consultants. That's how I would visualize the reason the asterisk is there. If I had run into a situation with the Kim center and I say we didn't agree on something, then I'd probably visit with the board.

You know, here's what happened, and I'd like to make a change recommending to do that. I wouldn't do it that with some others, you know, that might be just someone. And this is not a cut on it, but somebody just working in the field only or something. Just a Summerhill. But, but I would come to the board on that.

So I don't see a problem in these asterisks here. I mean, if you want to be more specific, that's fine. But I think one of the things that I think this community or this organization has done, especially the last four years, especially in light of trying to do something that has not been done in the state of Colorado, and that's an inclusion with another organization.

Everybody needs to be involved, and everybody ought to be able to have the communications. Our water council. Austin Hamre, I visit with him. So there's a bunch of these. I don't have a problem with it, if that's your question, Chuck, to be honest with you. You beat, microphone.

Chuck:

Is there a reason why we chose three years as opposed to five. Is that the industry standard?

Jim:

No, no. You know, you can find somebody that's been in the business 20 years and you don't want to hire them. So while three years helps, I think they might not have been in management or something, which is what I think is really refers to in management position. They could have been involved. I know some people, especially in Highlands Ranch where I live, that, that could handle that job, be honest with you. And they, they haven't been managers necessarily.

So I don't see a problem in it. It's really the quality of the individual, in my humble opinion. And if they got a great background, that's cool. That works out great. But the quality of the individual, the comfort level of the board has with that individual and then you move forward. That's what's the most important part.

Chuck:

Thank you Jim, Tara, thank you Director Radloff. Thank you for your comments. Have you, as you noticed, this manager's job description as a watermark of a working draft. So I would very much appreciate hearing more of what you might want to suggest. And I'd like to do that in the next several days so that we can put out a, a job description that's, that's fair and complete, as complete as we can get it.

So if you wouldn't mind.

Tera:

One more question.

Chuck:

One more question.

Tera:

Sorry, thank you. And so I noticed from your special meeting notes that you are going to contact third party management companies. So how does that play into this. So if we're hiring individual, individual do we still need to post that? If we're if we're looking at companies. Because it said contact third party management companies to obtain proposals for comparison.

Chris:

All right, can I jump in here. So good question. So here's, here's the plan, right? Jim is going to be here all the way through the end of June. And our plan was to essentially one go down a couple of paths here. We want to make sure that we have a job description for the replacement of Jim. At the same time, we also want to make sure if that process takes longer.

So, you know, we mentioned how long it's going to take to hire somebody. I'm in corporate industry right now. We're having a hard time filling all kinds of positions. So the thought process is that we would also engage with I think it's CRS or Pinnacle, it's CRS, right, to also, while we're doing this to have a a contract manager, which was just how we brought in Jim, if, if we don't synchronize when we bring on this person because, you know, I heard the discussion around how long we need to have this open.

But remember, we have to have a transition period, right? We have to have it open. Then we have to bring on someone, and then we have to have those person work with Jim so we can do a transition. So we'll have an opportunity to determine when to pull the trigger. We want to make sure that we are not left and large, with Jim not being here and us not having a manager, a district manager.

So that's the reason why we have that. And that's really good question. And it allows us to essentially share some of the thoughts that we had as we were discussing this. I do want to add one other thing on the job description, and I think we have that in soft copy. Some of what we do is, you know, we're not allowed to really talk to each other in a group of more than two unless we have a meeting.

So we provide red lines back to normally it's the communication director. So Ken, and he, he kept those red lines. But we also use our president as our kind of our collaborator amongst us. So for instance, when you send back your red lines or Jason or myself to let's just say Ken. Ken can send us all emails, but we can respond back to all.

So we would respond back to Ken. And then Chuck now is a job is the coordinator between us. So he will actually be able to say, yeah, this is what Chris Lewis said, our Director Lewis said. And, and he might call each one of the rest of us, or he might say, Chris, can you visit with, with Director Radloff so that you can share some of those things, a red line like your the things you've brought up, those are easy.

That'll go in and we'll all see it then go, yeah well good, right? But just wanted to share some of what goes on in the background so that we can keep the communication amongst the team going and make sure that we are all working as a team. I don't know, did that answer your question?

Tera:

It's a good answer. I'm thinking, really, none of you know where Jim lives, so you can't go grab them back and make them come to work? Totally.

Chuck:

They're going to have.

Chris:

But we did try. We did try to get them to extend and we had him extend. This is your second retirement date, isn't it, no?

Jim:

No, no. I'll briefly give it because I think it's important to everybody know I don't want someone. And you heard me talk about Nextdoor a little while ago. I don't want someone on Nextdoor to say. Oh, Jim gave a 30 day notice. No, I discussed this last June, right after the great vote of the people in May of last year. For the inclusion, 96% voted. That's the right thing to do. So the next month I sat down with David.

I said David, I'm here until that is consummated date. At that time with January 3rd, that's what we put on there to try to work for him. I'll stay here and hope that goes through. If it doesn't, then I'm going to move on. Well, the morning of February 11th, when I walked into work and saw the letter of the termination, I knew that that was not going to rekindle quickly.

So I had another discussion with him then, and that's when I picked the date. So it has been something that's been potential for quite a while. It's not brand new.

Tera:

You didn't share that with me, that you, that you're anxious to go to your new chapter. So yeah. Thank you.

Chuck:

Thank you Jim, thank you Tera. That invitation to Director Radloff to review the job descriptions extended to each board member.

So if you review that job description, have some questions, comments or suggestions, please reach out.

Kim:

Mr. Chairman, may I add one thing considering Miss Law's question about the asterisk positions and their reporting? So typically in most of my districts, you'll note that these positions are the outside consultants that charge by the hour. So we actually encourage our boards to pick somebody, the district manager and usually the president, as here to be our communicator.

Otherwise what happens is we hear from one board member, we spend time doing something that we hear from another board member. And pretty soon we spent a lot of money and time addressing each individual rather than the board. And the board is the ultimate decision maker, so no individual director really has any power on their own. So this is a way, if you choose to continue this, of keeping really us consultants in check and making sure that we're not billing you for a whole bunch of conversations and work.

Chuck:

Any other discussion questions? Thank you all.

Chris:

Okay, so we had the conversation earlier on the inclusion of, with Parker. And I do want to continue that a little bit so that we're clear and then we're on record. So you know the letter that you have copied this, right? The letter that came back from Parker essentially said pretty much when, when both boards have been seated. Right, if we still desire to continue with the inclusion that we need to just let them know.

Describer:

Chris was pointing to a piece of paper to show Tera the information that is copied.

Chris:

Right over there. Okay. So what I would like to be on record with the board from our board and bring it up as a motion for us to have some discussion is. I would like to staff to essentially respond to Parker and tell them we are interested, right. We are interested in continuing this discussion so they can notify their board that we are interested in that.

In addition, I'd like the staff to extend formal invitations to the other water districts surrounding us to include not only but to include Centennial and Aurora. So that's my motion. Do I have a second?

Denise:

I will second that motion. Discussion?

Tera:

So yeah, I agree. We should definitely tell them we're interested. Extend an olive branch. It'd be great if we could have more of an informal working session and have both our boards get to know each other. I think that would go a long way. And certainly I mean, you know, we are here to get the best deal for our customers that, you know, if that includes discussions with Aurora and Centennial, I mean, that's certainly open.

Chuck:

Jim, I mean Kim, if we were to invite another metro district for a working discussion of inclusion between our board and that entities board, it would have to be an open meeting. Would that be correct?

Kim:

Yes it would. More discussion?

Denise:

One last thing. We didn't touch on it a whole lot earlier, but looking at these charts and if you don't have copies of it, I think Ken have some in the back. But it is important to consider other water districts to look at us when you consider the obviously renewable water is important, but so is the cost of delivering.

Describer:

The three charts showing regional water bills, sewer bills, and combined monthly costs display utility rates scaled from lowest to highest across thirteen districts. They show that while Castle Pines North sits near the top in total cost, Parker Water falls in the middle, with several other regional districts offering significantly lower rates. This visual progression highlights why the directors are questioning if Parker is truly the most cost-effective merger choice or if another district could offer lower rates to residents.

Denise:

And when you look at these charts, you know Parker is not the cheapest. We're not the most expensive, but there are several options that are better priced than what Parker. Parker water is in comparison. So just something to look at. And I think it is important to talk to other neighboring districts and put, put our best foot forward with what's best.

That being said, it it tends to make sense to be with partner B with Parker since they're helping out or running the east side of I-25. It would be nice for the continuity, but what's better cost continuity? I don't I don't know I don't know, just something to keep in mind.

Chuck:

I think that looking at these charts, if we if we didn't invite another metro district into a discussion of inclusion, it would be suicidal because of the rates. And our community is very cognizant of what rates are, have been, will be. Our mantra has always been what David McEntire set out early on, more for less. And I'm, I'm fully on board for that.

I would like to give this community more for, for less, for less dollars. Any other discussion? Call for a vote. Do we remember what, what are we going on? Chris's motion is? You repeat it.

Chris:

Okay, so the motion was to have the staff formally respond to Parker's letter, that we got the response, letting them know that we are interested in pursuing the inclusion with them so they can notify their board and, and also to extend formal invitations to other water districts to include not only Centennial and Aurora.

Board Voting All Speak:

Call for the vote. Director Blanckaert. Yes. Director Crew. Approved. Director Radloff. Aye. And I am an aye and Chris Lewis. Aye. So it's a majority. We'll. Mic.

Describer:

Denise says mic to Chuck to indicate that he needs to turn on his mic.

Chuck:

The motion carries and let's, you want to get with Jim or Ken. Put some kind of draft letter together to invitation to the other districts, and we want to decide which districts we would like to send that letter to the board. If you have any suggestions or druthers on a district, please let us know. All of us, or through Jim Worley effectively on me.

And I can send it to Jim. Okay. All right. Let's close that session. Let's go to 15, which is the second comment period. Do we have anybody that would like to that is present here to address and make a comment? Gary, if you would keep your comments to three minutes, introduce yourself at the podium. You had somebody coming in front of you. I'm sorry. Gary, would you accept a second position? Sure. Okay.

Describer:

Chuck said Gary, but he was talking to Marv Tibbitts.

Marv Tibbitts Castle Pines Resident:

Hi, a suggestion I would have is I believe.

Chuck:

Would you state your name again?

Marv:

I'm sorry. Thank you. Marvin Tibet, 1401 Castlepoint Cir, Forest Park. A suggestion I would have is that I'm pretty sure that Parker's board meeting is this next Thursday. So just in a few days, if you want to carry an olive branch, take your letter to their meeting and say hi, let's talk. It just seems, to me, logical.

On a different topic I was in at last month's meeting, so I didn't know that Jim was retiring until a few days ago. I heard it through the, through the grass. So I called him on Friday and asked him and we had a very good conversation. I'm so happy for him that he's going to retire. I've been retired since I was 62, so I've been retired quite a while.

But I'm surprised that nothing has happened. To look for his replacement. I mean, it's been a month now. We're talking three weeks. You know, I'm sure that there's a finite number of people available and probably, probably all it's going to take is some conversation, conversations through the grapevine to get, to get it rolling around and people will find out there's a need.

Another question I have is Dave, are you going to run?

Describer:

Marv turned to David and is talking to him in the audience. David is off mic.

Marv:

For? For district manager?

David:

Is that an invitation?

Marv:

I'm just asking you.

David:

I hadn't honestly considered the invitation that.

Marv:

No, it's not an invitation.

David:

I might apply.

Marv:

So the answer is yes?

David:

Well, if it's an invitation.

Marv:

No, I'm not inviting you, trust me. You're not? No, not at all. It was a question. So yes or no?

Describer:

David said “tell” and then he said a name that was inaudible. “I said hi.”

Marv:

Oh, I will.

Chuck:

Thank you, thank you. Thank you.

Marv:

You're very welcome.

Chuck:

Appreciate it. You raise a good point about the, the Parker meeting. I'll take that into consideration. Thank you for that.

Marv:

It would be good. Gary.

Gary Jones Castle Pines Resident:

So Gary Jones 1073 Snow Lily Ct, BristleCone Patio Homes. A couple of general comments. One, I think I can safely say that the majority of people here in Castle Pines want to remind you that you have one job as a board, and that is to eliminate yourselves. And I hope you take that seriously. I have one other comment that I was very disappointed in how this meeting turned out, and I'm probably going to get a lot of grief for this, but I'm just going to speak my mind because, you know, when you're as old as I am, he just don't give a shit about certain things.

The confrontational nature that you established coming into this, Tara, I think, is it's I'm surprised. I really, really am disappointed. This is not a political issue. This is not some issued for you to establish your personal agenda. This is for the people of Castle Pines and what you have set up tonight. And I have a lot more experience probably than you do it.

Boards as you is set up a situation where we're going to have a very dysfunctional board, and that is not in my best interest. That's not in my fellow constituents best interest. And I would hope that you can put those things behind you and work with the existing members to get the job done that we need done. That's all I got to say.

Chuck:

Thank you. Thank you. Gary. Any other? Yes, Betsy.

Betsy Steelman Castle Pines Resident:

Betsy Steelman, Yes. 1073 Snow Lily Ct, BristleCone. I first of all, I want to say thank you very, very much to the exiting board members. What a amount of effort that you guys have put in. Everybody on the board. Nobody. Not too many people really wanted to sign up for this job to get it done and to really change things from what they were doing.

And you all, and especially David and Robert, really stood up and said, we're going to make this happen. So was not and they weren't waving a lot of money in front of you. It was because you wanted to do it, because it was the right thing to do. So thank you so, so much. A couple other quick comments is I do echo Jim's comments and congratulations on retirement.

It's awesome. I think Nextdoor, I think a lot of social media is way too much of an easy platform for people to just point fingers and say, everybody else is wrong and look at me and I'm right. But they never show up with solutions, nor do they sign up to do the position. So the next time you're going to write on Nextdoor.

This is wrong, this is who did this. Well, what's your solution? Why don't you show up and talk to that person? So I agree I think a thing not just in our community but all over, things are out of control. And then my third comment is not nearly as strong as Gary, but I too was a little surprised at the confrontational kind of attitude.

And I just it's unfortunate. I mean, you have three board members that have busted their butts and worked really hard and have a lot of knowledge, and please just put that aside and work with them. You can be president of the board next year. You can, you know, whatever you want, but just work with what you have. You just walked into those chairs.

They're not even warm this year right now, tonight. So please, for all of us just not to show that you're great at what you're doing to really get the job done. So I appreciate that. And again, thank you for all your service.

Chuck:

Thank you for your comments. Any others? We'll call the, oh. Any on Zoom, anybody want to add a comment on Zoom, Ken? No, sir. We'll close the comment period and I'll hear anything to you.

Denise:

Keep hitting your mic.

Chuck:

We'll close the comment period and thank you for that. And I'll consider a motion to adjourn.

Denise:

I'll second that.

Board Voting All Speak:

All in favor uniformly say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. I'll opposed?

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