May 20, 2019 Video Board Meeting

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Describer:

AGENDA:

Board of Directors Meeting

Monday, May 20, 2019, at 6:00 P.M.

7404 Yorkshire Drive, Castle Pines, CO 80108

1. Call to order the regular meeting/pledge of allegiance.

2. Roll call/announcement of quorum/disclosure of potential conflicts.

3. Consider approving May 20, 2019 board meeting agenda.

4. Consider approving minutes of April 15, 2019 regular board meeting.

5. Opening public comment period (3-minute maximum per person).

6. Open Space Manager's report.

7. Legal Counsel's report.

8. Finance Director's report.

9. Consider approving financial report and items from Finance Director.

A. Consider approving/ratifying current payables for April 2019

(check numbers 24314 - 24369).

10. District Manager's report.

11. Directors' matters.

A. Consider approving CRS' Payroll & Utility Billing Services Contract.

B. Reflections on introductory work session between Castle Pines North Metro District and Parker Water & Sanitation District boards of directors and district managers regarding the joint water and wastewater service-integration feasibility study.

C. Status of Parks Authority's dissolution.

D. Discuss the possibility of engaging Smokey the Bear as messenger for raising drought-severity & fire-risk awareness.

12. Closing public comment period (3-minute maximum per person).

13. Adjourn.

Describer:

The video starts on a graphic with a white background and forest green letters. ìCastle Pines North Metro District Board Meeting November 18, 2019.î The meeting opens with board presidents David McEntire, Chuck Lowen, Denise Crew, Robert Merritt, and Chris Lewis.

Board President David McEntire:

Good evening, everyone in the audience, consultant and online. Welcome to the regular board meeting. This fine Monday evening of May 20th, 6 P.M.. I'd like to call the regular meeting to order and ask that you join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

All Speak:

I Pledge of 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 very much, everyone. Like to, conduct roll call. And in doing so, ask each one of my colleagues to disclose any potential conflicts when called upon.

Board Member Director Denise Crew:

Denise Crew. Present. No conflicts.

Board Member Director Robert Merritt:

Robert Merritt. Present. No conflicts.

Board President Chuck Lowen:

Chuck Lowen. Present. No conflicts.

Board Member Director Chris Lewis:

Chris Lewis. Present. No conflicts.

David:

Very good. David McEntire is here. No conflicts. We have a quorum. In fact, we have a supermajority. That's what I'd like. I'd like to consider it tonight. That being said, we're going to consider approving the May 20th, 2019 board meeting minutes. For my colleagues, I'm sure that you've had a chance to take a look at it. If there's no comments, questions or concerns, we'd look for a motion to approve. Same.

Chris:

Chris Lewis make a motion to approve the minutes last month.

David:

Very good. We have a motion on the floor to approve the minutes of last meeting. You know what? There's a typo here. Consider approving. Oh, you know what? I jumped ahead. It's my fault. Let me back up. Please consider item #3, which is approving the May 20th, 2019 board meeting agenda.

That's what happens when I take my glasses off. Again, my colleagues and I have had a chance to review the agenda for some time now, working to refine it through, the end of last week. Is there a motion on that I can get from one of my colleagues to approve that agenda? And if so, like, combine item #4 as well in approving the minutes of April 15th of the regular board meeting, which we've just spoken about as well.

Chris:

I'll make a motion to approve the agenda for May 20th and the meeting minutes from April 15th.

David:

Very good. We have a meeting. Excuse me, we have a motion on the floor to approve the May 20th agenda. And the minutes of April 15th. Is there a second?

Robert:

I'll second that motion.

David:

Any comments, questions or concerns from my colleagues? Consultants. Staff. Audience. Hearing. None. Items 3 and 4. Approved. Item #5 is a consideration, of a opening public comment period where there's a 3 minute maximum per person.

Describer:

The District Manager gives David a page.

David:

We have, one lady in the audience that has asked to speak this evening, Kate Mining? Benning. Kate Benning. Come on up to the podium. Welcome.

Describer:

Camera pans to the lady walk to the podium. She speaks, but the microphone was on. She turns on the microphone after realizing.

Kate Benning, Castle Pines Resident:

President McEntire, members of the board. My name is Cape Inning. I live at 7441 Berkeley Court, and I'm a 7-year resident involved in the community.

I live in HOA One, so I follow the fence discussion with passion for some time. And so I have two questions tonight I'd like to ask this board what your current position is on the fence along Castle Pines Parkway. I'd like to hear from from you what what your current position is on it. Referring back to many minutes from August 21st, 2017, the board at the time considered the fence to be an encroachment.

So I'd like to understand if that's the current situation still, and if there's been any change in that. I'd also like the board to consider, if it hasn't already. For a city or district wide fence replacement program, I know historically this board has not been in the fence business. However, it might be time to do that. And just consideration, I might not have the latest information through discussions that you're having with the city and the HOA board, but I think it's time to consider should we be looking at a system wide program for only the major, thoroughfares the same way Highlands Ranch has done?

So that's how I'd like to hear on that, if you could. And if it's not the appropriate form to respond today. I'd like some follow up. Thanks.

Describer:

Camera pans back to the

David:

Sure. Why don't you remain there? Sure. While, Well, let me ask first. I'm intrigued by this community wide, interest that you have. Yes. Is. Where is that stemming from?

Besides the example of Highland Ranch. I mean, I couldn't agree more that Highland Ranch is is an exemplary. Example of continuity and unity, right? And not only in the look of the fence, the design of the fence, the the the, the the design. I already said the design, but I meant the designing and the layout as well as a type of fence that it is.

Right. It it, provides a great deal of, of, value to not only that community, in my opinion, as well, but to each of the homeowners that is adjacent to it. And we're aware of that, for the most part, if not 100% of that is maintained, albeit may not be built by the HOA is the entity described to and assigned to maintain it.

So that being said, is that what you would be promoting in this community effort that you spoke about?

Kate:

A couple of things. My desire on this stems from seeing, community use and the last place I lived before in Colorado was in California. And you can find many examples around, you know, metro Denver, even in Castle Rock, where individual property owners are responsible for their own, their own fence.

Right, maintaining their fence along major thoroughfares. And it can look awful if it is left to the discretion. And I'm not saying that my neighbors in particular wouldn't keep up their property, but you're talking about miles of fencing, which obviously is a big fiscal, you know, consideration for this board and for the city and for the HOA.

But you're possibly or when I say you, I'm this community is possibly setting the precedent that you're going to have. Individual homeowners in HOA fees have varying levels of discretion and authority. And, you know, different standards to replace individual lot lines along miles of fence, miles of frontage through the front door of our community. And that's what I'd like to see avoided, in this community.

And so my interest comes in, I have a background in municipal government and in particular, capital improvement programs. There are there are means and methods to create a program like this. I don't know all the inner workings. I administered some of those programs in a past life. Not a fence replacement program, but something else. So, to me, it seems as as the property owner or adjacent to the fences in this community which the metro district is, and walking into the argument of, is it an encroachment?

Is it not at all. All of that, it seems like you're in a position where there's an opportunity to help keep the aesthetics of this aging community up. So what I'm looking for is some leadership. And instead of saying, no, it's not ours, flip the script and say, what can we do with this community? I think if you put out some kind of vote or something to see if there's a community wide assessment that can be made, you can look at Highlands Ranch as an example of what they need to to maintain their whatever it is, 40, 50 miles of roadway and see what it would take to do.

I'm totally guessing here, but the five miles long Castle Pines Parkway and then expand that to monarch if you need to. So I guess I'm looking for instead of the few to continue and foster on and leave individual property owners, which I'm not one of them. I just have seen how terrible this can look, and I don't want to go there.

I love this community and I'd like to. I came here tonight because I want to be part of this solution. So long winded. But that's where I'm at.

Describer:

Camera pans back to the board.

David:

Kate, very well put. I think that, while your background, can be valuable to us, I can see that you've left your address and telephone number so we know where you live. Yes, sir. And don't be surprised if we access that energy and that insight, and that experience. I, contrary to your experience. And I've had experiences as a homebuilder and a developer where the monotony of that type of single design, single color, is just that monotonous and can be, a discount to some of the values.

When I ask the question, where was this, community fence idea boiling up from? I sense that, you have a I, or at least an ear for some kind of a design that would be appealing to the vast majority of those who live within the community, because otherwise we have about three, maybe four different types of bench.

And the condition of those you handle very well, they do vary. And, I'll let you know that this board has been working diligently on that issue. This board is not the same board that was in place, given the letter that you made reference to. This board was elected thereafter and has a very different opinion and a different, M.O. As it relates to the community affairs like this.

We're not in a position tonight, albeit we have been pursuing, what we believe to be the decision makers in the community, with the city of Castle Pines, with HOA one, and with master association and ourselves, to meet and begin those constructive conversations, we've run into, some delays in that regard. They haven't been on our part.

We're solely one of the others. But there are some concerns and, and and some hurdles that some of the other groups have to address before we get to that meeting where we're striving to get there. Within the next few weeks.

We're ready. And, and, would like to be able to keep you posted. While I'm certain you hadn't heard of all of the rhetoric. Most importantly, we agree with you that to do anything, including spending our time and the residents money in a proactive manner that finds a solution is paramount and key, and we're prepared to do that with you.

Stay tuned and thanks for coming.

Kate:

Thank you. Thanks for giving me extra time to. I guess I kind of went off there. Me too. Anyway, thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you.

David:

Again. Thank you. Kate.

Being the only one to sign up for the public comment, period, I'm going to close item number five and move quickly on to item six. Our Open Space Manager, Craig.

We've seen your report. Everybody is is, busy at the springtime stuff other than Mother Nature. It's almost a white out as we can see the weather behind us. Not happy.

Describer:

Camera pans to the Craig Miller as he walks to the podium.

Craig Miller, Supervisor, Parks, Trails, and Open Space, CPNMD:

It's not happy. We need the moisture, but we don't need the wood needed in solid form. Especially with trees out and leaf. It is going to cause some possible breakage of it.

Continue. So fingers crossed. Anybody have any questions on my report? I have a few things to add if not.

Chris:

So Craig, I don't have any questions on the report, but I do have a question. I was doing some walking on some of the trails and then on the trail actually that comes off from here that goes behind. I see we have removed a lot of the sagebrush and all that stuff.

Craig:

We didn't remove it. That was, that was IREA.

Chris:

Okay. Is that there land?

Craig:

That is there land. Yep. So they have a right of way underneath there. And they, they tore out a whole bunch of oaks last year much to the consternation of a lot of the residents in this community. And I believe that the residents were able to put the brakes on that operation temporarily for a while.

But don't be surprised they're back. Thank you. A couple of things that I wanted to note. I talked about, the bids for rebuilding the Wallace Don Dale drive entrance. We got we put out three, three request for proposals. We got two back. One refused to bid it. We had a proposal from Broken Arrow Landscaping Design.

Who's our landscape designer? He also does walls, $28,855. And we had another proposal from CP&M which specializes in, retaining wall repair, there at $35,000. So yeah, so obviously Broken Arrow beat them by, you know, six grand, but neither one of them, includes traffic control. With the city now, both contractors said we can do the.

We can affect the repairs without having to block off the entry or the street. We'll do all that. We'll just have to block off the sidewalk that's adjacent to it. And if that that's the case, then we won't need traffic control. But otherwise we may need another $3000-$5000 in traffic control. But that's where we're standing on on this.

Nobody else is interested in bidding it. So my inclination is to go with Broken Arrow at $28,855.

Denise:

Ask a quick question. Yeah. In your opinion, is that a reasonable?

Craig:

Actually, I had sort of guesstimate it did, it being $35,000-$45,000. So at $28,855 that's a really good deal.

Denise:

Good to know. Thank you.

Craig:

It's a real good deal. They're both their specifications on both are exactly the same in terms of how they're going to rebuild it. They are going to use some concrete grout to help hold things together so that we don't have this collapse again. Then again, that wall, which is dry stack, it lasted, what, 20 plus years. So before it slumped out. So.

Describer:

Camera pans to the board and zooms to Robert.

Robert:

Craig, could you explain this scope on that for the residents that may be online watching? It's basically a two by two foot area that looks like it.

Describer:

Camera zooms from Robert and pans back to Craig as he explains the scope of the broken fence.

Craig:

It bulged out or collapsed. Yeah. We actually have two retaining walls in that area on the, it's on the north side of the entryway, into Stone Dale, and there's an upper wall on the lower wall and the lower wall. What's happened is over the years, the excess weight of the soil.

And obviously it got triggered a lot by the heavy snowfall we had this winter. A lot of moisture got back in there, a lot of freeze thaw, and it started popping rocks out in fact, the whole wall, which was like this, started bowing outward. So, it's at a danger of collapse at this point in time. So it's something that we need to put back in there during the process of reconstructing this wall, there will be damage to the sod down below, which will be repaired by both contractors.

And there also will be damage to the landscaping in the, in lower tier beds. And that would be repaired on a time materials basis by Broken Arrow landscape and Design. CP&M did not they do not specialize in landscaping, so we'd have to hire a separate contractor to repair that landscaping.

Robert:

And how long will that take? Did they say?

Craig:

We don't have any any time frame on it, but I'm imagining it's probably a two week project. Depends upon a number of people to get out there and also whether at this time of year. So.

Robert:

Excellent. Thank you.

Craig:

Okay. Does the board wish to go in that direction and get the contract rolling?

David:

Let me ask you a question about the scope of that contract. And the treatment of the material that has, moved behind the wall. Yep. Is that going to include a drain or was a drain back there?

Craig:

There was not a drain originally, and typically there aren't unless you see real issues. I think one of the biggest problems with this wall is it was built dry stack. There was no mortar involved in it.

So that's why it's kind of coming apart at this point in time. Like I say, for 20 years, longevity. That's not bad for a dry stack wall putting mortar together. And it will hold it together much, much more firmly. There will be weep holes through the wall to allow excess water to escape. So you don't put any kind of drain system back in.

Describer:

Camera pans to the board as David speaks and back to Craig when he finishes.

David:

And while I have a tendency to agree with you, the the, guys that build those walls that have the, science behind that dry stacking, right, like Parsons Brothers that are nationwide, would argue against the grouting. I'm not going to, get in the middle of of the proposals that you've gotten, the recommendations that you've gotten in the warranties and the guarantees that go with them.

I was just concerned about whether or not they, thought that an additional drain would help or a buffer of, of granular material or any kind of a, commercial landscape type of fabric.

Craig:

Well, we suspect that behind the wall there is landscape fabric. We also suspect that there is a drain layer, but we don't know that until we start tearing the wall apart.

But typically, the way that these will be constructed would be with a drainage layer on the back. They would have landscape fabric separating the soil from the rock. And short of that, there would be some weep holes in the wall that would allow excess moisture to escape.

Chuck:

Craig, quick question not to get involved with your contract, but I would suspect that a majority of this work is labor?

Craig:

A lot of it is. Yeah, we are going to try and reuse as much of that rock material as we possibly can, but we're talking a lot of labor, in terms of moving the rock.

Chuck:

Are there any, warranties that come with this?

Craig:

There are no warranties from from any companies on these walls. So, I mean, acts of God can take them out pretty quick, which is unfortunate from that standpoint.

David:

Is there going to be an engineer of record that, oversees the construction?

Craig:

Not unless we want to pay extra for it at this point in time. It's a pretty straightforward construction.

David:

Well, how tall are the walls?

Craig:

About that tall.

David:

And they're just stacked? Yeah, yeah. Jim?

District Manager, Jim Worley:

I'm okay with it. Yeah, it's it's.

Craig:

Yeah. It's not like a massive, you know, load bearing wall, like some of the walls that we have constructed in this community that have houses built on top.

Jim:

Yeah. I think it certainly is great this thing's lasted 20 some odd years to begin with and with the I think I'm not a construction background, but I think with the concrete grout or whatever you're talking about, I think this thing will last for a long time. I'm okay with it.

Robert:

And aesthetically, they said it's going to look the same as it did before the match. So they're going to use the exact same. Yeah, we only need a couple of boulders.

Craig:

We're going to reuse as much of the, the rock as we possibly can. There will be a need to bring important in some more rock. And there is no guarantee on color, due to age and fading of the existing rock there, but it'll be mixed around enough that it shouldn't be like, hey, this one whole section is brand new and the rest of it's all old.

It'll be blended enough that it'll look natural when it's done. That's our goal in that regard. Thank you.

David:

All right. Thank you Craig.

Craig:

You bet. The other issue that you need to know about this. I do not have any of this money in my budget.

David:

Well that's good.

Craig:

Yeah. So good to know. So if you would like to get it done, let me know. But we also need a financing method.

David:

Man, after my own making, it doesn't start out that way. It just ends up that way.

Describer:

The crowd laughs.

Craig:

Exactly. I thought that was a little detail you might want to know.

David:

Well, I so let me get you back by asking you, how are you going to make up for that the rest of the year?

Craig:

Make up for what? That deficit? We would we would have to cut some major works that we have planned for this year.

David:

Have we looked into that at all?

Craig:

Yep. Sure. Have. Okay. My budget's real tight.

David:

I understand. I know it's tight.

Craig:

I don't have any landscaping money because it's all committed to the projects that we're working on right now. I might have 5 or $10,000 I can carve out of, carve out of tree removal budget. But that may be about it.

Describer:

Camera pans to David as he speaks.

David:

I think it's really important that we move forward, Jim. You feel strongly about that as well. And I know that my colleagues do. I'm of a mind and a bit of an opinion to, take action tonight on approving, was a Broken Arrow?

Craig:

Yep. Broken Arrow.

David:

For the 28-5 or thereabouts. Provided that on a monthly or at least by monthly basis, you keep us apprized of of, your ability to find the nickels, pennies and dimes that may be left over by the end of the year.

We get close to, that being a wash. Yeah, no pun intended. Okay. Right.

Craig:

But we may need to look at borrowing from other, other areas. Jim, you know, Park parks and rec, we don't have that much money.

Jim:

So we'll figure out a way and we'll come back and recommend some ways to, but.

David:

Keep us posted in the meantime, time is of the essence. I'm sure you'll get us on the schedule and let's roll.

Craig:

I'll get them on the schedule. Colleagues, are you good with that?

Describer:

Chris asks if the board needs to make a motion.

David:

I don't believe we need to make a motion.

Jim:

I appreciate. Yeah, because it is a contract.

Chuck:

Craig, real quickly, since this is the low bidder, are you comfortable, Jim, are you comfortable that, if there are any surprises, we we stopped the work, so not to over exceed the $28,000 or. How do we. Since it's not in the budget, how do we, manage this?

Jim:

Let me let me address it if I could. And in the short time I've been here, Craig and I have had a number of conversations about Broken Arrow, and I believe they do a very good job for us out here.

And so, I'm comfortable moving forward with them. I'm okay with that. If that's really what your focus on, Chuck, then, and they're a good group, I don't know. You know, if there's people out there that wanted to do it, I think we would have had another bidder, too. And and so.

Craig:

Yeah LandTech just ran away from it, too

Jim:

Yeah, LandTech is one that does this too. So they didn't choose to do it. And we could spend some more time trying to find someone if that's what you'd like to do. Just to get a couple of bucks less.

Chuck:

My questions. Wasn't as much, as the contractor is. What's what we find as we take the rock out to rebuild the wall, make it stationary.

Are there does it need more soil behind it, or are we going to spend more money than $28,000? How do we control that?

Craig:

That we don't know until we get. I mean, nobody knows that until we start pulling the wall apart.

Chuck:

Well, if we're approving $28,000 tonight and we don't know the end result now concerns me a little bit.

Craig:

Yeah, but this is the way it is with building walls. You just don't know what's inside it until you take it apart. Now, the good thing about Broken Arrow is, as Jim noted, they've been working for the district for well over 7 years. They pretty much do all of our landscaping because nobody can touch their pricing. Their quality is extraordinary. They offer full one year warranty on all plant material that they install for us.

Geronimo, the owner, is a very upstanding man. He's never pulled a change order on me. And the 5 years I've been here, even though he's lost money on a few things, he believes in sticking with his bids. Now, that being said, there's nothing to say that this may not be an unusual circumstance. I want to get behind it, but looking at it from everybody who has looked at it, they did not seem to think that there was going to be any surprises other than the fact that we just have to reuse the soil and and the rock and all that.

So but we shouldn't have to import any soil by any means. And I think the rock importation was roughly, $500 additional for more.

Chuck:

So then you're comfortable with the scope of work they have to do. And absolutely. And how they bid it. Yep, yep. It should be all inclusive unless.

Craig:

Unless there's something really drastic. Now, Chuck, also to just give you a little.

Chuck:

Dinosaur bones or something.

Craig:

Yeah, exactly. I know, just just to elaborate on that a bit. So, Geronimo has rebuilt Broken Arrow, has rebuilt retaining walls for us here in the past. Mainly the median islands that have been busted up. By the way, you all saw that one here on Yorkshire. I can't get a police report till tomorrow, so I don't know what happened.

Like they said. Oh, it was a weekend. I'm like, I thought you guys were here 24/7, 365. So don't let anything happen to you that you have to report to the sheriff's office on a Saturday or Sunday. Okay.

Finance Director, Amanda Castle:

If it if it would make the board feel better. When I look at the budget for Parks and Open Space, specifically, we are recognizing about $23,000 in cost savings just in the employer contribution for health insurance.

Simply because we had estimated at a certain level. And some of those costs came in under budget, which is great. So that alone, coupled with some other small savings, is enough to cover that contract.

Craig:

If we can get $23,000 from that, I can come up with with 8 or 10 from my budget. So.

Robert:

Thank you. Amanda.

Denise:

I just want to make one comment. I realize with any construction there's always the possibility of cost overruns. Right. Savings. And I appreciate that you'll keep us apprized of. Absolutely. And I trust your opinion. And with as much work as they've done in our community, I'm. Yeah, go for it.

Craig:

And I've been in this business for 50 years and I've been involved in a lot of projects like this, and I have a very extreme comfort level with these people and what they're proposing and what I think they're going to find.

Denise:

Great. Appreciate it. Thank you. You bet.

Describer:

Camera pans back to the board as they get ready to approve the contract.

David:

Very good. Well, I think, everyone's questions have been asked. Comments, concerns have been voiced. It's with that then that I'd like to make a motion, according to council's recommendation that we approve, Craig, that you, as representative of the district along with, Jim, pursue a contract with Broken Arrow for the approximate 28 five to replace that, wall.

Did I hear the timing of that? I know it was A.S.A.P, but was it within the next 30 days?

Craig:

He should be able to start at the next 30 days. He's got a separate wall contractor that he works with. He right now he's busy with the landscape project, but his wall contractor should be able to start within the next two weeks. Is my understanding again, weather permitting.

David:

Okay. With the expectation that that won't be replaced, removed and replaced like do in the next 30 days and that, from that point forward, you'll keep us apprized of the money that was expended to correct that wall and, the maneuvers with staff's help to make up that difference inside of this year, if at all possible, is much appreciated. That's my motion. Is there a second?

Board Voting All Speak:

I second the motion. I have a motion on the floor to approve the contract with Broken Arrow and the district.

Jim:

Mr. Chairman. Pardon me. Suggestion to you if you could amend your your motion to say not to exceed the 28, the number that we did. So we have a maximum and we can't spend another nickel until we come back to you.

So if that's okay, a friendly amendment I would recommend whatever the exact amount.

Craig:

It's $28,855.

Jim:

Make it or not to exceed that. That's fine. You bet.

Board Voting All Speak:

I'd like to amend that motion. With regard to the contract with Broken Arrow, that the contract amount not exceed without prior board approval of $28,855. Correct. Is there a second?

Chuck Lowen accepts the amended motion. Very good. I have a motion, to extend the contract with Broken Arrow a second. Any further conversation? Comments? Questions? Concerns? Hearing none. We'll take a vote on the motion. Unless there's someone that is going to object or if there is, wish it now. Otherwise, I'll accept your silence as approval.

Try that one.

Motion passes unanimously. Thank you, Craig. Thank you.

Describer:

Camera pans to Kim Seter as Craig takes his seat, then slowly zooming to Kim as he talks to the board about his report.

David:

Mr. Seter. Thank you for joining us this evening. We've all had an opportunity to read your report, dated May 15th. I know that you might want to, walk through that and address a couple issues. Plus one that appears to have made our desk before, or as the meeting is started. You have the floor and will follow up with questions.

Legal Counsel Kim Seter, Esq.:

Great. So you have the report. There's only one other item on the report that is not otherwise on the agenda, and that is the acceptance, and conveyance of the LA Gay ranch, improvements with the warranty. So you remember, we had that question about the warranty that the board was going to address at some point, the existing warranty says in the documents that the warranty begins when the district takes over the the improvements.

But in the past, what's been happening is the warranty has run from the time of the initial acceptance until the final improvements.

David:

We've had a chance to, talk about that on a variety of occasions where we have been in study sessions. And I have to report to you that, In keeping with the documentation that has been used and is currently engaged with those developing partners, on top of the fact that we have a, ongoing relationship now with Parker Water and Sanitation District in a joint study for inclusion,

This board's, preference is that they're not being amendment, that we maintain the current status quo, that accounting or finance director. Take note that when those, when those assets are conveyed, that's the start date of our depreciation and our useful life that our GIS man with on staff also, document that in in what is a asset life analysis that we're working on currently.

But without going any further, no on the amendment, maintain the current direction, please.

Describer:

Camera pans back to the board.

Kim:

In that event, no action is required on that item.

David:

Very good. Thank you so much.

Describer:

Camera pans between the board and Kim as they speak.

Kim:

You bet. The other item that, we apologize for just bringing that before you is this easement that says Utility Easement A that Beth passed out to you.

So a few days ago, we got an email from the engineers, desiring to get eight easements in place. And if you turn to the last two pages of that packet, the easements are outlined in red.

And the eight easements fit together to complete that package. What we'd request of you, we don't really know what the urgency is, but it sounds like they're trying to move forward with something the developers are. That includes the city. North Pines Metropolitan District and, Taylor Morrison. Those are the ones giving us the easements. We've looked at the easement property.

We have drafted up an easement form. We're okay with you going ahead and accepting the easements from them. Subject to our finally determining what's going to go into those easements. They're non-exclusive. We went ahead and put into the easement form that nothing can go in there without written approval from the district, but at the moment, we don't know what's included.

And we got another amendment to the legal descriptions just a few minutes ago. So we want to kind of, if we can get your approval to accept and sign them, subject to our approval and Jim's review, that would be fine for tonight.

David:

Can we ensure that the conditions of that acceptance also include, as you noted, a mutual, approval or at least a district approval prior to anything more happening thereafter.

But we want to make sure that, we're not, accepting, the responsibility of the final improvements by virtue of this action, but rather they are expected and would be required upon or for final approval.

Kim:

That's correct. This is simply the easement to the property.

Chuck:

I, I think I understood what David just said. We're granting these easements.

Kim:

No. You're accepting these easements. Yes, but there are no improvements in them yet.

Chuck:

They're raw, and there's no necessity for future improvement?

Kim:

At at the time the improvements go in that will come back to the district board, and we'll have an acceptance at that time. So at the moment, all you'd be doing is accepting the the property right.

And then when something is constructed in it before the district takes responsibility for anything that'll come back to the board.

Chuck:

For review and again, another approval or disapproval?

Kim:

It'll be another approval or disapproval, but that that approval will really be based on the engineering making sure the sewer is going downhill, that kind of thing. Okay.

Jim:

It won't require another approval of the easement, I believe. Right. If that's what I think you're asking. Chad. Yeah, tonight's just the easement. The future would be acceptance of of improvements.

Chuck:

I was only concerned about improvements made on the easement. And do they ever become, they're not. They won't be the responsibility of the Metro District? Or they will be?

Kim:

They will not be.

Chuck:

Okay. Thank you.

Chris:

Can you expand a little bit more?

I'm not sure where this is. And it looks like it's backs up to somebody's property here. So what kind of issues can that cause, or would it cause anything at all?

Kim:

You mean backing up to the lots? Yeah. Yeah. No, that that won't. That's very typical of, Water and Sanitation easement. They're usually behind the lots or in front of the lots or in public right of way.

So you want them outside of the lots because then you have access to them easily. You much, much prefer that over having them be part of the lot where you've got homeowners and fences and all that to deal with.

Denise:

Kim, is this pretty standard operating procedure when you're developing? Yes. Right. Like that.

Kim:

Yeah. And you may recall a couple months ago we had we brought several easements that were just little pieces. And what had happened there was something like this was approved, but then a road was moved. So there was a little triangle or a little curve that we had to take care of.

So something like that could come about yet. But at the moment this is very standard.

David:

All of this property, kind of piggybacking on what Chris was talking about, all of this, council is within the boundaries of the district.

Kim:

We did not check that.

Describer:

Elizabeth talks to Kim off-mic for a moment before turning on hers.

Elizabeth, Castle Pines Resident:

It's not granted. It's not. So the three sets of easements are from three different parties. So it sits within the property of the North Pines Vista metro district.

It sits in the property of the city of Castle Pines. And then it sits in the property, that Taylor Morrison owns at this time. And we do have the title work that confirms that. But do you know, both are these properties in Castle Pines North Metro District? Well, my understanding is that it's owned by those entities, and I don't believe it's in this district.

And that's why I don't believe that even, some of those lines will actually be accepted by the district. I think that some of those lines are actually contemplated to be accepted by the city. But. So I don't think that's actually in the district.

Kim:

And regardless of whether they're in the district, you have the power to accept those because you need to reach your plans.

You need to meet your wells. So that's also very common. The statutes provide that you you're entitled to have things within and without your district as necessary to provide service in your district.

David:

And while that's all above my pay grade, the the question I was really wanting to drill down to is, is whether or not, the other entities have approved it first and or are we being asked to take the lead on that?

And is there any consequences of taking the lead as opposed to waiting for those that may be outside of our service area or those that, this would be contingent upon, not signing before we sign any timing issues. Council.

Kim:

So we're being requested to accept the easement. We've drafted the form. It's possible they could come back and say we want changes to the form.

Yeah. But that's why we wanted just a contingent approval tonight. If you're willing to do that.

David:

And, our survey group is is, had a chance to take a look at this. Jim?

Jim:

This information, did it not come from Kennedy Jenks? It did. Yeah. It came from our engineer Kennedy Jenks, and Lisa Swain. So that they've been in communication all day on this.

And so, yes, they're heavily involved in it.

Elizabeth:

Yeah. And and it was requested by Kennedy Jenks that we take the lead on this. They sent the emails to, all the representatives of the various entities, and then they asked that the that the district, start and draft the agreements and get the ball rolling on this.

David:

It looks like a good looping plan. Is a is a generally describe it, to improve the continuity of flows and pressure. Just my guess aloud when you think, okay, so, I don't have any more questions. Colleagues to these question. Council I would, I would, make a motion that we accept, this easement deed, presented tonight, granted by the city of Castle Pines, and, Castle Pines North metro district.

And it does not have a date. The fact that it is presented tonight. Is there any more of the legal description?

Kim:

Yes. Mr. Chairman, I think the cleanest way to do it would be a motion to accept easements A-H. A-H. As presented by Kennedy Jenks.

Chuck:

Is this is this a conditional acceptance? Did I hear you say that?

Kim:

Yes. Subject to final subject to final review and approval by council. Right. Okay, Mr. Worley, and if you want to add, a board member, that would be good too. Not necessary, but you could.

David:

All right. So we want to scrap the initial, motion that I started and start with. I would like to make a motion, tonight to conditionally approve, the easement deed, agreement in hand, and exhibits A-H, authored by and approved by Kennedy Jenks.

Provided that any changes, additions or deletions there to be pre-approved by this district and its district manager. That works. Any questions? Is there a second?

Board Voting All Speak:

I second it. we had a motion on the floor to approve exhibits A-H of this easement deed for utility easements is there is and we have a second any further conversation comments questions, concerns hearing none. Those in those signaling approval when called upon would, will be part of the vote.

Chris. Your wish. I. Chuck. I. Robert. I. Denise. I and David is I the motion carries unanimously.

Kim:

Thank you, board. That's all from us. Unless you have any questions.

David:

I do have a question. Kim. I,

In reading the report, you made reference to, the letter that you. Delivered to Jim. Concerning the options for inclusion and consolidation with Parker Water and sand district. Yes. And and in that it was, an itemization of the pros and car. Excuse me, the pros and cons regarding same, Parker's attorney as you report, is going to provide a memo to their board reflecting his thoughts on the matter.

Albeit you believe that the discussion, of the memos will be very similar. Are we going to be in receipt of a copy of that letter as well? And if so, when would you anticipate receiving that?

Kim:

It depends. The concern was with attorney client privilege that if at some point we get into a dispute, which, frankly, there is no sign of that at the moment.

But if that did happen, they don't want to have their attorneys advice to them available to everyone else. And likewise, we we want the same. Nevertheless, I suspect within the next two months or so, we probably will be exchanging them. We did talk to Jeff Parker before preparing the memo and discussed what we thought would be in each of our memos.

And I don't think there's going to be a lot of difference, but in order to preserve that attorney client privilege until we're sure there's not going to be anything to fight about, we wanted to keep them to ourselves. And you will, of course. Well, I think you will see our memo. We've given it to Jim. But, as far as seeing there's it'll probably be a couple months before that'll happen and maybe 1 or 2.

Jim:

That was actually one of the questions I asked. Mr.. This afternoon was did you already send it to our board? I understand the but you hadn't yet. So is that something you want me to do or do you want it to come from you?

Kim:

Yeah. If you could take a look at it first, that'd be great. But you can forward it whenever.

Jim:

I read through it this afternoon. Quickly. But once I do that, if it's okay, I'll forward it to the board and we're all right.

Kim:

Yep. Yeah. And you should keep that to yourselves until we know what's going on on their side.

Jim:

So if you want to read it tonight before you go to bed, I'll send it to you before I leave the office. No, seriously.

You. If not, I'll do it first thing in the morning. So whatever your desire is, not a problem. Okay. Maybe not as early as 1 P.M. for me. 1 P.M. 1 P.M. I want one that's on record.

Kim:

It'll help you sleep. Yeah.

Jim:

It will ever put you to sleep? Probably.

David:

And I think that would bring, this board completely up to speed with regard to, our status with, our joint study and our, our, our neighbors in Parker, Correct? Okay.

Jim:

Absolutely. I'll send it out to you first thing in the morning. Thank you.

David:

I think that's it. Anyone else for Kim? Thanks, Kim. Thank you.

Item #8 is our finance director's report. Amanda, welcome. Thanks for coming.

Describer:

Camera pans from the board and to Amanda as she walks to the podium and Kim takes his seat--slowly zooming to focus on her.

Amanda:

Good evening. Thank you for having me. On this snowy May 20th, next month, I will be on the beaches of Mexico. So this is making me want to go even more. I will miss all of your faces.

David:

White sand, and light skies.

Amanda:

I'll think of you while I'm drinking a corona on the beach. No. So tonight we have for the board's review and approval of financial statements.

As of April 30th, 2018-19, rather. Sorry. I know that the board has had the packet for a few days, but there are a few items I'd like to highlight when we look at the general fund. There was a change from the audit in how we presented the salaries and wages. So in my years as an auditor, I neglected to remember that when you've got, a termination clause or severance package or whatever it might be, should it occur prior to year end, you must accrue all of that back to that year, because essentially you're liable for that payment at that point in time.

Because of that, we accrued, the prior district's manager manager's termination package back into 2018, amounting to additional expenditures in 2018 of $63,452. That's simply a shift in costs. So I want the board to understand that it's not that we incurred additional costs, it's just a difference in recognizing a portion in 2018 and 19 versus recognizing it all in 2018.

Having said that, the district does have unfilled positions right now that are currently being filled with, CRS, and then we've got some openings in a position that was budgeted for for water and wastewater and storm those positions. In total, are allowing for cost savings across the board and in general alone. The district is recognizing $222,000 in savings.

Now, part of that is that district manager, salary. That was pushed back. So if we pull that off, the district has true, projected savings in 2019 of just over or just under, rather $159,000. So that's going to become important when you're looking at approving that contract for CRS, because it's a direct correlation between kind of cost savings and the cost that you have for for contracted services there.

So, in total, the board will recognize cost savings even with the approval of that contract. But I did want to draw that to your attention, because I know that will be important in your decision making.

Chris:

So, Amanda, I did have a question on that because I was looking at that. And when you netted out to that contract, I know you were alluding, what have we come out to be?

Amanda:

I think the contract is, do you know what their contract that we're looking at approving is tonight, one-something. That's what I figured. So I think we'll have about $50,000 in savings.

Chris:

Overall in savings net?

Amanda:

Yeah. In the general fund okay. Yep. So we'll recognize a decent amount of cost savings which is great I know that was an objective.

And it's good to see that. And that's, that's even taking into consideration the severance package of the prior district manager. So regardless of when t hat's recognized, we would still have that cost savings built in there. Beyond that, I wanted to draw your attention to really, if we look at page, sorry, 4 of the packet, you'll notice that, property taxes are trending right within budget.

One thing I do like to note at this point in the year is that we see an increase in property taxes in the spring because a majority of homeowners pay their tax. At that point in time. We've recognized nearly 2 million of the 3.1 million in projected property taxes. Having said that, when we look at cash balances, the district currently has a very large amount of cash on hand, about $35 million.

That's very common mid-year because you get an increase in revenues and then they'll taper off as the year progresses because we'll utilize those tax revenues. Beyond that, we have our debt service payment coming up on 6/1. A portion of that debt service payment. So that'll reduce our cash balance. And then we'll continue to build to make the final debt service payment on 12/1.

So I always like to bring, attention to that simply because it does seem odd to have $35 million sitting there, but it really is going to be utilized through the year in total. I would anticipate that our fund balance in cash balance does increase throughout the year. Right now, our original budget anticipated about a $4 million increase.

Having said that, we shifted, the water line project that was budgeted at $4 million. So that will leave a portion of additional reserves for the district. But once again, that's reserved for future capital. So I would think of that more as a cost shift than a cost savings. Beyond that, the other few items I wanted to note.

Sorry, find my notes here. We have allocated in the enterprise funds, we have allocated costs relative to the, study with Parker. We do have some costs coming in, and those truly are water, wastewater and storm costs. So those costs are being allocated proportionately to those funds. That's something that is very advantageous as we recognize those costs.

But it's also something that the auditors would want those cost to be recognized in the enterprise Fund, since it's truly an enterprise value. Beyond that, the district did receive a pretty large credit from IREA. We had been overbuild, for high voltage at one of the lift stations. So we received funds back from IREA in the amount of $16,338.

So that was offset against our expenses. This year, beyond that, we did we did revise the projected budget in renewable water investment revenues up to $2.4 million. As a result of the projected rate increase that was approved, I believe, at the last meeting. So as those rate increases go up, so too will that projected revenue as we continue through this spring.

We are working on quite a bit of projects right now. We are meeting semi weekly with Parker Water and Sanitation gyms in on that call with us and we just have a call to touch base, make sure they've got everything they need, make sure we're answering questions, that sort of thing. And that seems to be going really well.

So, that's good. We're also meeting pretty regularly at this point with, Director McEntire and Jim to just go over raw water delivery, capital assets, future capital projections. We want to make sure that we're crystal clear as we move forward with rates in 2019 going into 2020, to ensure the long range plan of the district mirrors the goals and direction set forth by the public and delivered through the board.

So we want to make sure that we're moving forward appropriately. And because of that, we all want to make sure we're having those meetings and being on the same page. I believe I stated this last month, but just to touch on it, Rubin Brown did complete and submit their final report on the audit. So that's complete. And taken care of.

And then they have finalized, fieldwork for the audit. We anticipate a draft within about a week. So normally what happens when we receive the draft, our team will go ahead and review it to make sure that we've gone through and, ensured that there were no errors or items of note that the auditor needs. So we're really looking at not only are the numbers correct, but really are the footnotes correct?

Do they represent appropriately the contracts of the district, that sort of thing. So Kim will look at it, we will look at it, and then we'll get it to the board for review and approval. The auditors will deliver the audit and I believe I'm trying to say draft to the board. So the board will review at the June meeting and you can accept at the June or July meeting.

I'm not sure what meeting. We'll accept that audit that. But either one will work because it's due to the state by the end of July. So as soon as we have acceptance from the board, we file that with the state.

Jim:

Just one piece of that though. Just so you know, you do have the opportunity for a 60 day extension in the event. There was a reason that hadn't changed, has it?

Amanda:

No, it has not.

Jim:

Yes. So so we shoot for July 31st like we all try to do. But if there's something that needs to be discussed or carried on, we can extend that for two months.

Amanda:

And I think we did if I remember right, we may have done that last year because everybody was fairly new.

There was some questions. So we waited while the audit was done. We waited to allow for that time to review and approve. So that's always an option should we so choose beyond that we've got the debt payment scheduled. Actually funds have been transferred. It's at the trustees when June 1st that debt service payment will be made timely.

Denise:

How much is that payment again?

Amanda:

So that's the semiannual interest payment. It's just over $400,000 because we've got the, the new note. And then with Chase, I can't think of who it's worth. And then we've got the copies. So the split in interest there is about $450,000. There's a schedule two in your packet. There's a debt service schedule that shows the total amount of principal and interest that will be paid this year.

So the June 1st payment is half of the interest. The December 1st payment is the remaining interest and the principal portion.

Describer:

David speaks off-mic.

Amanda:

On the COPs?

David:

I think your question had more to do with timing than what did it?

Denise:

I was curious to how much the debt service payment would be. It's a little over $450,000, but at the end of the year, you pay principal there.

Amanda:

Yes, which is $1.5 million. It's in on page 24 of the packet, there's a debt service and lease holder payment schedule. So we've got total out. Principal is much less than I said. So total principal for the year is $655,000, $230,000 in the Chase loan in $425,000 on the COPs. But then we've got excess principal on both.

So we've got $920,000 do principal. Thank you.

David:

And those are specifically for Chatfield and, Plum Creek, correct? Yes. Okay. Those are the only outstanding, debt facilities that are part of our semiannual COP payment?

Amanda:

As far as I know. Yes. Yep. Yeah. And we can look at the agreement to see explicitly what assets are noted in there, but.

David:

No, I just wanted to make sure. Yeah. COP is an acronym that can be foreign to most everyone. Right. And and so just so everyone is aware those, those improvements were made with that and we make a semiannual payment that principal and interest on those. Right. And while the terms we will go through again as a part of our rate and fee study, and, and the audit, just wanted to make that clarification.

Right. The, I think you were about to ask for questions, were you not?

Amanda:

I was absolutely. You know me well.

Describer:

Amanda chuckles along with some in the audience.

David:

The, again, just for clarification, as it relates to Jim's predecessor in that, golden parachute that I've made reference to before, the numbers that you have in this report, that were taken in 2018 and in and are now being, recognized in as according to GAAP or is it GASB?

Amanda:

Right. So we've got to recognize any current liabilities at the end of the year. And typically GASB says that you recognize anything that's paid or payable within 60 days. Technically, it was payable upon termination. And because of that, even though we pay, I'll say a monthly stipend. Gatsby says you knew about the liability. And therefore you must recognize that in total in 2018.

So we simply shifted the four months of expenditures that we were recognizing in 2019 into 2018. Thankfully, that didn't put us over budget in 2018. It didn't cause, it didn't cause the district to force a budget amendment or anything upon, those lines. Instead, it simply shifted those costs into 2000.

David:

So we've addressed the GASB issue. Yep.

The the, final question, in that regard, is, is, that recognition and the advent of the subsequent last five months? We have to be finished with those payments, correct?

Amanda:

Yes, we are finished.

David:

Okay. And then as it relates to the, $110,600 payment, on the Chatfield Reservoir, for Parker. Is that a final payment as well? It is. I hadn't reviewed.

Jim:

Yes it is. It's a final payment. It won't be made until 2019. 2020. I'm sorry, I apologize, 2020 when the six years or however length of time it was that there could be losses. There has been a lawsuit settled this year. Right. But there still is potential of doing it so that check won't be written until that date.

David:

Very good. I just wanted to confirm that we were deferring anymore. Payments there and having heard none. Jim, Amanda is you made reference to in your report. We, along with Eric, have been working diligently to keep the information flowing to Parker, and we, worked since the beginning of May on, on, some debt issues, water and wastewater assets, capital projects, etc. made a lot of good headway in regard to, a method of operating that is, is, different than times gone by, but seems to be, being embraced by, those of us involved at the moment, to be some good sound science and, and,

We haven't heard any objections so far. anyway, we agreed that the any future memorandums, be, pre-approved and, Jim, I'm just wondering, the the in my absence this last Friday, I'm not sure that. And I apologize for not being accessible, but, did you get back to Eric on his May 15th memo as it relates to, the water and wastewater capital projects?

I didn't give a green light. I'm wondering if you took care of that.

Jim:

I did, I got back with him, on my own. On what? I thought of the information on it. But I was kind of waiting for you, and so was he.

David:

And that's how I read it. Exactly. I do owe him. Yes, sir. Okay.

Jim:

Yeah, if you don't mind. And he actually, he and I briefly communicated on it today, so I know you're out of pocket. So. So it has not been sent. I don't think it has. I don't think it has. They just waiting for you. You bet.

David:

It needs a little work. Okay. Perfect. Last one you saw was May 17th. That's when I was out of pocket.

I'm sorry. That's right. I had a chance to look at. There's a few adjustments there, and then we can let it go. Perfect.

Amanda:

And I did bring you copies of documentation for that.

David:

Okay. We can certainly do that tomorrow. He's available tomorrow, I'll bet. And we can finish that up in. Okay. Again, absolutely. Up to date on everything that's given.

Jim:

And just so you know, sir, Eric communicated with Parker to let him know that we're still reviewing it, so we just didn't go silent. We said, we'll get back to you as soon as we can. We're looking at it internally. And that that's a good way to keep the communication line open, that we're still working on it.

So they're well aware of that. And tomorrow as that's possible, we'll be fine.

David:

There's a lot going on and and so it's hard to keep all of the details in order. I, I, was frustrated again by not being accessible. And, in that email on Friday where the proposed communications were that we were currently reevaluate the ongoing capital plans, you and I have had some conversations about how that doesn't work.

We're not reevaluating anything, or reevaluate, etc., etc. So I'll get on this and get with Eric. We'll get it cleaned up. The attachments to that memo. You just made reference to Amanda. You have those, are those reconciled?

Amanda:

They are. So those would be the attachments that we provided for the auditors. Fully reconciled. Yes. No, I will say reconciled from an accounting perspective, I believe I believe Jim has reviewed them too.

And annually we provide those to Jim and Craig and whomever so that they can be reviewed and approved to make sure there's nothing erroneous on there or something that was disposed of, that we weren't privy to that sort of thing.

David:

And that that that statement can be relied on. Beginning on what date? And I am correct me if I'm wrong.

I've taken the position that the only date you can represent is the date that you started with the district.

Amanda:

Right, so we started date pinnacle started, I believe, the same year I did, which was 2012, 2011, 2012. 2012 was definitely the first audit because I took place with that. So that would have been.

Jim:

been. Actually it was before that.

Amanda:

That we were in from finance and accounting?

Jim:

Yes. Okay. Yeah. As a matter of fact, you started two days after I started on my first tour of duty. Okay. So Jim was here five years. I was here almost three years before that. So that's been at least 8, not almost 9 years ago. The first audit would have been 2012.

Jim:

Exactly. Yeah, that's probably right. We can look at the dates. Right. But I walked in here and then you got hired later.

Amanda:

So that would have been reviewed and approved reviewed by like I said, the necessary staff. And then we go through. So the first few years we combed through it quite a bit, particularly trying to assess what assets were where that sort of thing. And then since then we had a pretty big cleanup when Craig came on board as well.

To try and get the capital assets within Parks.

David:

In the general fund.

Amanda:

Yep. Exactly. In the general fund. Enterprise fund. An enterprise fund is probably a little bit, easier to maintain because you either have a huge pipeline that was put in and that was tied to capital acceptance, or a letter from an engineer or some sort of cost that was very concrete and tangible at the time.

That's then depreciated over the course of 30 to 100 years, depending on the asset. Should the asset have repairs and replacements, we would know that if it extended the useful life, we would be privy to that as well. Beyond that, assets are easily seen. So we're talking a vehicle that's used primarily for water. We're going to see that that sort of thing.

But those are audited not only by the auditors from a financial standpoint, but by the team on an annual basis. And that's required. Not only is that something we require of ourselves, but it would be something an auditor requires, period. So that's a direct question that they ask and note every year is to ensure that management has reviewed and approved the capital asset listing.

David:

Thank you for your report. Thank you for the answer to those questions. I appreciate that. You are welcome. Always and, to my ability to comprehend all that you guys put out on a monthly basis. It's a big it's a big job with that report. Is there any other comments or questions? Concern of the board?

Describer:

Camera slowly zooms from Amanda, Kim and Jim as it pans to the board.

Chris:

I have a couple of questions, please.

Sure. So on page I guess 6 just help me understand. It looks like on improvement for Parks and Rec we had actual of like $27,000 right. With nudging budgeted. What is that?

Amanda:

That was that acceptance of costs from CPPA So at the end of 2018 we had.

Jim:

Let me go, let me take this if I could.

If you don't my Chris, I don't know that you were on the board at the time. The Castle Pines Park Authority, approved, the installation of some equipment down on our park, Coyote Ridge Park. And so they wrote us a check for $35,000, I think it was. And then once it got all settled and it was done and everything paid for, it only came out to be the $27,000 or whatever that is on here.

So we wrote them a check, the reimbursement for the difference, but it wasn't budgeted, it wasn't anticipated. And for us to do so, that's what that is.

Amanda:

And it was a direct in and out. So they gave us money for the park. So we or we gave them money for the park. It's this in and out. So you'll actually see in the miscellaneous revenues portion, you'll note that miscellaneous revenues are trending over budget.

And that's for the exact same reason. So it nets to zero within the financial statements. It's simply a recognition of that the asset and cost out sort of thing. So thank you. No problem. Wonderful. Perfect.

David:

All right. With that item nine was consideration of approving the finance report and items from our finance director. It's with that report, and no further comments, questions or concerns.

I'd like to make a motion to approve the finance report as made tonight.

Board Voting All Speak:

I'll second that motion. And that would be the one that was prepared. December 31st, 2018. By and through April 30th of 2019.

We've got a motion on the floor. We have a recommendation for we have a motion on the floor. We have a second to the motion. Is there any other conversation? Comments, questions? Concern discussion. Hearing. None. Please indicate your approval when called upon. Director. Crew. Approved. Were your disapproval. Doctor or Director Merritt. I. Director Lowen. Approve. And Director Lewis. I. I. McEntire is I is well motion to approve the finance report passes unanimously.

David:

Item #10. Or 9A is a consideration.

Amanda:

For the boards note. So I'll be out from the 12th through the 24th. Eric will be here in my absence. And he's obviously available for questions. Peggy from our team Brendan from our team are available for questions. I will apprize them of everything before I leave since I will be completely out of pocket.

But I look forward to hearing what's going on and getting back to it when I get back. So thank you.

Jim:

You can get online and watch it when you're on the beach.

Amanda:

I, you know, I keep telling my husband. I bet they don't have Wi-Fi. So somebody said, do they have Wi-Fi? I'm like, I'm not going to act like I know how to hook up to it.

So, something completely out of pocket.

David:

We would not be opposed to you preparing a draft of what he's going to say.

Amanda:

I mean in my defense, I will have a draft completely ready before I go, so.

David:

I mean, he's extremely competent, has a tendency to, you know, have the same gift of well, you know what I'm talking about, right?

Amanda:

I know you'll miss my bubbly face. I know that's what you mean.

David:

Have a good time.

Amanda:

Thank you so much. And I'm always available. So thank you all. Thank you.

Describer:

Amanda takes her seat as the camera pans back to the board.

David:

Item #9A is a consideration, approving and ratifying of the current payables for April 2019. Check numbers 24314 - 24369. I'd like to make a motion to approve from the General Fund and Debt service $34,937.89

Ratify $35,124.63, for a total of $70,062.52 from our Enterprise Fund, $44,070.36. Ratifying $168,186.08, for a total of $212,256.44. Electronic payments of $123,860.81 for the same total, for a total expenditures, for April 2019, amounting to $406,179.77. Motion's been made. Is there a second?

Board Voting All Speak:

I'll second that motion. We have a motion on the floor and a second by Director Merritt.

All those, approving signify yea or nay when called upon Director Lowen. I. Director Merritt. I, Director Crew. I. And Lewis. I. Director McEntire is an aye as well. Item #9A is approved unanimously. Board. You have all been in receipt of the report from our district manager. Now,

Let me turn to that, Mr. Jim, and make sure I don't get the cart before the horse. Yes. Your report dated May 20th. We've had in our board packages. Appreciate, the timely receipt of that and the contents there. Are there any additional items you want to address before we turn the Directors loose on you?

Describer:

Camera slowly pans and zooms to Jim who walked up to the podium.

Jim:

I just want to expand on a couple, one.

And it's the third one down south. Metro Water Supply Authority, attended their meeting today, so I really didn't have anything to put on it last week when I was doing this. But the interesting thing about it is there was a presentation there made by two people, a gentleman and a lady who have come up with devices. And I'm going to try to explain this as best I can.

To where when you shower, the water from your shower goes down into a device that in essence treats that water and it becomes gray water, and then it runs back through and goes up to your toilet. And when you first your toilet, you're flushing water that has not already gone down the drain. Sounds confusing. The other thing they tried to, they talked to us about today is a device that's about that big that you put on the pipe.

Come in. And I thought about that device that you have that heats. I suppose I'd be interested in knowing that. But this device. It's almost like Big Brother. This thing can tell you that you're pressure. It can tell you when you've got a leak. It can tell you all the water you use, where it's being used. It's a real interesting looking thing.

But the person sitting next to me leaning over says, Big Brother comes to mind. But these are new. We don't have them in Colorado yet, but I wanted to point that out to you because it was an interesting concept to where you can save a little bit of the water, so to speak. Reuse it again through the the toilet.

So there's still a lot of questions on it. But that was interesting today. The other matter I want to do is I want to thank you. You've always been very supportive on what we're doing with Parker. And that meeting that we had last week was absolutely great. As far as I'm concerned, all five over there. You asked some good questions.

The other the board. The other board, it was it was good to see the chemistry, at least in my opinion, of the way we're all working and we're all going down the same road trying to get this right. So, personally, thank you for doing that. I think the meal was okay, too, but but thank you again I appreciate that.

So I'll address any questions you may have if any.

Chris:

So I, I kind of like the first thing you mentioned, which was the water going through the shower and then into the, the toilet. So if you get additional information on that, I think that could be a, a beneficial savings.

Jim:

What we asked for today is the people that gave the presentation to send that presentation at least tip to Lisa at their initial send it out and I'll send it to you.

It's an interesting concept. It opens a few questions, but it was an interesting concept in saving the water. I'll send that to you as soon as I get it.

Denise:

Talk about a step in the direction for renewable water that's starts in the home. It's pretty cool concept.

Jim:

It is. It was very interesting. It brought up a lot of questions, like one question that I had.

What if you didn't take a shower that day? Can you force you? You know, those kind of questions. And somebody asked that question and the answer was yeah, it's got the it's got an ability to have more water. It's got a fill line basically. And if it drops below that it'll it'll put potable water in there basically. So that the concept sounded very interesting to me. Thanks.

David:

Jim. One of the things that I've made mention of tonight, it was this GIS program, as it specifically related to our assets and, and, the age of shame and and for my colleagues and those listening in these this is a specific, facet of the GIS programs that we're currently involved with working, jointly with, with, Kennedy Jenks and our software program folks.

Namely the owner of Ames. But just to provide just a little bit of of, background, we are pursuing a proposal, from these folks to grow to a fully formed asset management program and that asset program to keep it overly simplified. And as it related to the assets, the depreciation of them, and the reserves, and, and the management of infrastructure that ages every day that we age, this software is, is something that some of our neighbors have, began to use, and are deeply involved in, in and some alike types of con concept software, etc..

But the idea there is when, when, this is been fully loaded and, and fully charged, we'll be able to see a map, all the infrastructure that exists under Castle Pines North in the way of, of, water lines and sewer lines and and injection pumps and water wells and you name it, if it's in the ground, if it's on top of the ground, if it's a part of our infrastructure, which of course is a part of the accounting asset base that we have that we reserve for on an annual basis to maintain this program will provide us with a chronology of, aging infrastructure, and it will be based on, not just the leaks that are going to happen, and hopefully not in the first couple years, but shortly thereafter. But it's a byproduct of, of, just good management, with your assets and, and, where ever so close to having finalized that proposal, moving forward, working by and through, cooperating with some of the folks at, at Parker because they're engaged and have begun a fairly, public, campaign with their GIS, programs.

And we want to keep pace with them and not spend any of the money twice, as it were, but have the information available to us have a program where we have the science behind us and accessible at any time. It comes to making the financial decisions that this board needs to on an annual basis. So that's what that was all about.

Have we gotten that proposal?

Jim:

I haven't gotten it yet. No, we're getting it. And I actually asked Nathan about that. I mean, should be any time. Sure. You bet.

David:

And, it's no, no small feat. No it's not. We've got a lot of the data already. Input. We've changed our development agreements to require all other developers, those in Legae, to begin to provide us with the files.

That are submitted to not only our, our engineers to review and approve them as, as built, but to then convert that into the GIS format so that it is automatic and knotted. Our additional expense to, to, to convert that information. And so I, I think, it's been a, Very detailed program and process.

I think we have it, a handle on it and within the scope of the proposal that is forthcoming should be within a couple days. And, and, the idea was, is we talked to, at that point with, with, the finance director and their staff here in the last couple of weeks. With any luck at all, we will have that information available to us.

Where we're leaning on it is a part of our rate and fee study at the end of this year. Absolutely. It might be like pulling the revenue up ahead, but we're going to try. So I, I was just curious if you'd gotten that. If not, not yet. Nathan, but not just you. Background for everybody here. You and I also talked about, the CRS, update and, you're working with Sue over there, to finalize that?

You bet. Thank you for that. You bet. I don't have any other questions for for Jim.

Jim:

If I could follow up on the GIS a couple of things. I had a lot of communication with Parker today on that. So we're making sure that's all coordinated. Right. On ideas. But behind you, those of you who didn't notice, that's a that's a GIS map that was generated, Ken did that for us.

Did a great job on it. But that's the type of product. And information that you can. And this is through Douglas County. So these kind of mappings and all the stuff that, president McIntyre was talking about is just amazing and very interesting. And I'm glad someone knows what they're doing and I can look at it, but it's a very interesting process.

So hopefully you like that little map behind you. Director.

Describer:

Camera pans from David to Jim and back to the board to focus on the map behind them.

David:

Very good Jim. Thank you.

Jim:

Mr. Chairman, I would like to ask a question if I could, right at this point and I kind of pointed to you a minute ago in that heat, on that, that just curious how that since I had that presentation today, if it's okay for the board is I think working? Is that heating your water? Close okay. It was sure promising.

Denise:

It's been an interesting journey. Okay. All right. I think it has a lot to do with our different type of plumbing. Or. I'm not a plumber. I don't understand all the ins and outs of it, but our builder use something a little bit different than what is normal. So the circulation is not working like it does with other types of piping, if that makes sense.

So the, these guys are great. I adore them and, they're back to the drawing board, and soon we should have another prototype to try it. The water is definitely warmer, but not not where it needs to be or where it's. Yeah. So we'll get there.

David:

Thank you for Guinea-Pigging that Director Crew. We appreciate that. It's back to the drawing board. I'm sure he's used to it, but, I'm just kind of wondering if that gray water had any suds in it or.

Amanda:

That's exactly what I was going to say.

Jim:

Well, I gotta tell you an interesting, because when I'm listening to this guy explain it, I was going, okay, comes water comes from the shower, and then it the process, he said, removes hair, removes soap and yeah, this this is important information.

You know, everybody but it somehow and then it chlorinated. You got to put chlorine in there and then and then it and it recycles through back through the toilet. And of course when you first that's when it goes out through the system. But there's a lot of questions but a lot of intrigue in it too. So I'll keep you posted.

You can look at the if it's a video, I don't have just a slide presentation, but you'll see that.

David:

Thank you Jim. Moving on.

Matters. Again, the consideration of approving the CRS payroll processing contract. Jim is working on the the final, issues between, where we were and where we're going to make sure that nothing falls through the cracks and is is days away from getting that reconciled. And I'm sure that we'll be able to, take some action next, in our next meeting item, 11 be the reflection of the introductory work session between Castle Pines North and Parker Water.

Jim spoke to that in his report. With gratitude to the rest of the board, I echo his sentiment. 100%. Including the food. We certainly need to take note of that, as we attempt to upgrade our own digs. Get the name of that restaurant and and whatnot. Already got it. But, curious if any of my colleagues here, have any other additional comments or, about that meeting? Chris?

Chris:

I thought it went really well. Definitely was a lot of interaction between all the the directors that were there and the staff. So, didn't seem to be any issues that came up that would cause any type of concern. Everyone was willing to go down the path of doing the analysis and, and hopefully within the next couple weeks or so or months, whatever it is we should be hearing back some of the analysis.

So yeah, definitely a welcome. And and it's good to meet the other team. And hopefully that'll definitely show some progress.

Robert:

And I could just add and it was a pleasure to have everybody there and see the teamwork, the synergy that everybody was and their camaraderie that was established and look forward to meeting them again and going forward with that intelligent team.

Chuck:

I echo those comments. I was a little disappointed in the fact that it wasn't longer. There's just seems like there's more camaraderie that we could have created and more information. But it was excellent what we did. So I'm hoping, there'll be a follow up of some sort.

Jim:

We were afraid it might be too long, to be honest with you.

Yeah, when we were going to say what? What can we what can we report, so to speak? And you heard what we talked about. So next time when we have more detail, we'll certainly be able to extend it.

Chuck:

I didn't get to finish my sandwiches, is my point.

Jim:

Oh. Could have taken it with you.

Robert:

Less productive and inefficient.

Chris:

Yeah, I would say that there's definitely could have been a meeting just on us and that subject.

And I think the fact that they had a on regular committee, our board meeting following that's what, restricted the time. But definitely I think, I echo what Chuck said, you know, we could have stayed down and not a half an hour. An hour and still engaged and, learn a little bit more about what's going on, but also, created a little more, relationship building.

But I don't think the shortness of it lacked that either. You know, I think we left there with definitely an agreement, and an understanding that we're going to go down the path and we're going to, with all, transparency and commitment to be fair and open. And what we're doing. So that was good.

Describer:

The board discusses off-mic for a little while.

David:

Item #11C is the status of the Parks Authority dissolution, Director Crew.

Describer:

Camera zooms to Denise as she discusses.

Denise:

Thank you. Wanted to give a shout out to Councilwoman Deborah Mulvey. She has worked tirelessly to finalize our intergovernmental agreement and our dissolution of the Parks Authority. There's been a lot of back and forth. And being the attorney that she is, she's been great at wordsmithing and getting things the way that we want it and that it works.

So in my opinion, the IGA is in its final state. There, to my knowledge, has not been any more conversation to make any more changes in that. We set up, another board meeting for June 17th at 9 A.M.. We have invited Mayor Radloff and City Manager Michael Penny to join us. I think some of the other board members would appreciate some face to face time.

With them, just for a little bit more of a comfort level. And with that, my goal and Deborah's goal, is to sign on the dotted line at our next meeting, put it in place, transfer the money, and dissolve the Parks Authority. We feel like we've covered all the bases. As far as no extra fees in the future, the the boundaries.

I think about I think that's our big things. Oh, the the other verbiage part, there's a lot of push towards wanting some outdoor parks and we, we have that noted in our agreement, but we have that noted as preferably, so that we can keep it kind of I don't want to say open, but, who knows what may happen with our city's future.

So we don't want to restrict these funds to a specific within a time frame project. But we do have preferences, and outdoor courts is our first preference. But again, no time frame on that. If that is not the case, the the next step is to, construction of trails, including site furniture, and trash stations, that type of thing.

So we're nearly there. We're nearly there. And I have not heard back. I don't have confirmation if Tara and Michael will be able to join us yet, but they do. They are aware of the date, and hopefully it will all come together in June.

Chuck:

This will probably show my ignorance, but now that the city, is going to be home rule, does that in any way affect what we do ongoing? Are there any issues that we should be prepared to deal with with the city? Do they have any jurisdiction over us? Do we have any less authority? I just don't know how the two entities now will function.

I don't understand how home rule will or will not affect the metropolitan district or won't at all, maybe.

Kim:

I think there will be no effect. The home rule gives them more power to control themselves and control other things. But you are, an independent, branch of the state. So, you know, if they wanted to come in and take over Water and San, there would be a discussion.

They can't take it over. So I, I'm having trouble seeing where there would be much effect at all. Thank you.

Chris:

Chuck, thanks for that question. Because I'm certainly as ignorant. I see you are, how that would affect us. Back to the Park Authority. I think the only comment I want to made on that was, the additional funds that were transferred, and I think that I made my, to Deborah was I was concerned that that doesn't, go towards additional existing projects, budgets from the city and that it was specifically, used for what it's intended purposes were for.

Denise:

Exactly. And that's in the intergovernmental agreement. There's a specific line item with the city's budget, where it will be targeted for exactly what the Parks Authority's mission was set up for. So it's pretty specific. It's very specific. It can't be used for pothole repair or anything like that. It's going to be used for Parks and Rec within the boundaries that we set up.

Fence repair. Exactly. All of the above.

David:

Thank you, Director Crew, I know that, that same shout out is do you and the time and effort that you have spent, and, in the words of our communications director ad nauseum with all parties, including me, to make sure that we get there sooner than later. And we all look forward to seeing that final draft, probably over the course of the next few days.

If not inside of this week. Thank you very much again for your time and your effort in that regard. I feel strongly that one less layer of government, will benefit our residents, in addition to the fact that there will be no continuing park authority fee, in addition to all the other fees that they're paying as well.

I think that is is is the financial benefit is is truly the highlight. The unraveling of of, a variety of, of, individual interests and, and committee interests. Is going to be a positive move. And I have the kind of all the confidence in the world that you guys will have a document that the city can embrace and and will help them guide and direct those funds as they were truly intended.

Again, good work. Thank you. Move on to item D. Item D is is, just the possibility of engaging Smokey bears it says is a major is a messenger for raising drought severity and fire and risk awareness. I'm not going to spend a ton of time on this. I just want to share with with my colleagues again, some of the items that as resident, we are in receipt of, typically these are things that are left on your doorstep.

Here is a eco kit from, Castle Pines North Metro District. We get, full page ads in the connection, we get door knockers from, real estate folks. And these are, you know, magnets that you put on your refrigerator that, for anyone that is interested in water conservation, actually would would would would find by looking on the refrigerator that there's a, a day and a time when during at least of warm months, there's, a need to potentially conserve, if not guide and direct the use of water.

I think everybody, believes that to be, prudent and a good source of the resources that we have. However, I'll just, recount a conversation that we had, last year when, our district manager was giving his report and, this would have been, probably in August. And, and, either August or September.

And he told most of us sitting up here that if we got some telephone calls from the residents because the parks were going brown, just a heads up and, well, that shocked me that, I may be, target, concerned homeowners whose parks are turning brown without hearing about them or knowing something about them in the, initially, I asked him, on that eve, if, if that was typical, way of communicating, that we are potentially in a drought situation or there's a higher risk of fire, or if we're running out of water, if the sky is falling, what it was and and his response was, I've got it here.

In an email, amongst the colleagues and from, from, Mr. Nickel and he says, that's because there has not been a plan, quote unquote. That's not the first time that that he had, that response to one of the questions of this, board. But it is specifically, his response to the question pertaining to do we or do we not have a drought plan within the city, or Castle Pines North Metro District boundaries?

And, and as I read, we didn't have a plan, so I have endeavored, to pursue a plan that highlights, more than anything, the idea of communication. And and so, we can create water devices, that make cold water into hot water when, when the sun comes up and, and and soapy water and to toilet water and, but it's usually only the people that are engaged in being that guinea pig or a user of that successful product that has any knowledge about it.

And, and so in the advent of a less than, precipitous year or where, the summer temperatures are really high, I think that there's an awareness throughout the community that water is a precious commodity, that people should be concerned and considerate of one another in the use of that resource. It is a finite resource.

But to be surprised about any advent of risk or danger, or lack of information is, is, what I'm getting at. And so, personally, I, have, been a part of the great state of Colorado for, almost my entire life. In one capacity or another. And, and, as a property owner, forever.

And that property has taken me through national forests. Every time I venture beyond the Front Range. And one of the things that I've noticed about the national forest is not only a monument that typically says, Welcome to San Isabel or Pike or Gunnison National Forest, but I also see a good friend of mine who is constantly communicating every single time I look him straight in the eyes, he's got a message for me, and it is, without a doubt, some of the easiest conversation that I've had on the entire drive.

And it's our friend Smokey the Bear. And in that presentation that he makes as I drive into that forest, much like the forest that we live here, if people didn't know we live on the outskirts of the Black Forest. Forest. So we truly live in a forest. And and, while we don't have a Smokey, that is informing us of the plausibility of risk of fire, we can thank our constituents in the Ivy League schools who have recently, according to the Bureau of Land Management and the Forestry Service, been able to connect the dots between the relationship of fire risk and drought.

Now, that hasn't been that's recent science, and I'm happy to report I got that directly from those departments. And as a part of our pursuit to try to communicate on an everyday, all day basis to the residents that come and go from the city of Castle Pines North, whether it's to work or from work to school, from school, anywhere outside of the city and back.

We have four entrances and exits to the city. The idea here was how can we convey without running constant advertisements in the paper that not everybody reads.

Imploring people to get on the website to surf the website, pursuing, issues of drought or fire management, etc., etc. whereas the idea that if we could come up with and engage the, fire District, South Metro Fire District, and ourselves and any other stakeholders in the idea of, of a relationship with the likes of Smokey, we may be on to something.

I have had 100 conversations with a variety of people, including, the fire department, as I said, including, federal and state governments and, while this is in the infancy stage, what I've handed to my directors is, is a, just a little photoshopping that I had. Ken, our communications director, do.

Describer:

David stands up from his seat, walks to Jim and hands him a photographic demonstration. The camera follows him until he sits back down.

David:

And the idea here is, is to just demonstrate one of the photographically demonstrate one of our entry monuments as the one, coming up monarch into our community.

Describer:

David holds up the photo to the camera and it zooms to David. Camera crew member holds a copy for the camera to focus on. The camera focuses back on the board after.

David:

And from that, from that entryway on the right hand side as you pass and move into the city, you can see, the possibility of a of a Smokey the Bear. Now, not all of us are of the same age as just, but, I'm sure that he appreciates the nostalgia, of Smokey like myself. Rough crowd. And, the rest of you youngsters, I'm sure have seen Smokey as well.

But the idea here again is, is to communicate with the residents, the visitors, the prospects, the people that are considering the city, a parcel, communicate simply every time you pass by that if there is a risk for fire that is correlated with, drought severity, you know it leaving and you know it coming home, you do it without having to turn the dial on the radio or turn the TV on.

You do it without having to be a surfer of the internet, and it is available. This is a, science in and of itself, as I've come to know. The fire department, is is the only authorized entity to embrace and endorse and in some cases purchase this type of equipment and is responsible for its, changing from the low and the moderate and high, etc..

So, it.

Chuck:

That relieves me.

David:

You thought it was going to be me.

Chuck:

I thought you'd be running out there every morning and moving a little dial.

David:

And I address that 99 of 100 times. It's not going to be it's not going to be me. It it it is actually, becomes the responsibility of the fire department.

And, and as I said, we have made progress to the point where, they're not only interested, but are, have have conveyed to me that they would be, a party to the expenses associated with this kind of improvement. Do they find that that kind of information is desirable and is advantageous, that it's not meant to, alarm anyone, but rather to inform people by simply communicating what the drought situation is so that when the grass turns brown, no one can say, I never knew it was going to happen.

But rather they can see that there was a drought condition as they come in, come and go from the city on a every day, every evening basis. So I'm passing that out. I'll be looking forward to some feedback from everybody as this thing is evolving. We've had, variety of artists involved and, and, coming up with, some, maybe new neat and exciting twist to how to convey this simply without any effort whatsoever other than driving to and fro, and, and, I can share with you some of them were like 30ft stone turtles pulling wagons.

But, I'm not so sure that he wasn't able to finish his sandwich either and was just acting out on paper. But all that being said, if there's anyone that wants to comment on it now. Otherwise, I wanted to give you an update. In that regard, is is, the summer is is, not pressing is tonight.

That will be before two terribly long. Robert.

Robert:

Just before, we start with extensive details and camera, conversations, at this time on record link to put maybe out there that we, entertain a compilation of the 11 metro districts that are in the Front Range, their ideas and their plans, and maybe some good ideas can be spun off of that.

And what the, the norm is out there. In addition to, Smokey Bear, see if there's any other good ideas that were missing as well. And then, and hopefully communicate the, and not, overly scare the, residents just of, Castle Pines of, I'm a fire warning, and I'm sure you have much more detail on this and looking forward to, more talks on this.

David:

One of the nuances associated with where we live, again, as I mentioned earlier, is the fact that we, live in a forest and there's, a number of folks that, I've had conversations with. Not that I'm, the go to person in that regard, but seem to be kind of spearheading, or, the point on this,

Not just because I don't want to get the telephone calls from those that don't understand why the parks are brown, but, because I think that there's a better way to communicate, how precious a resource our water is and how much, we can all do. And the impacts on our life if if we were to do nothing.

That being said, appreciate your comments, and your encouragement. Well, not many of them, again, are part of a forest. Or have residents that know and understand and were attracted to same. I don't know personally that to to convey by virtue of a nostalgic figure, what the current conditions are, throughout the year would would would be, something they would not embrace.

Our neighbors to the south, have this kind of communication tool presently in place, along Happy Canyon Road and, again, we'll look around and and continue the conversation with Metro South and find out if there's, a better idea than a magnet for the refrigerator. Okay. Denise. Excellent.

Denise:

Two quick questions. You said that only fire stations can administer Smokey Bear or decide where he's placed, and. No, no one else.

David:

Authorized fire personnel.

Robert:

It's actually pretty. It's pretty regulated. Right?

David:

Well, yeah, it's very. It's federal. It's federally regulated.

Denise:

I really thought it was just in national parks or state parks. That's why I didn't know that you could even go outside those boundaries.

David:

With with the disapproval and the embracing. And the partnership with the fire department, of which to this moment, I can report that.

While the talks have been, in there have been in the in or in their infancy, their level, of interest is rather high. Okay. And, and, I believe that, it's it's it would be a good application. Keep you posted.

Denise:

Okay. The the other thing I just wanted to state, it's been a little bit ago, but I went to a city council meeting and it might have been a study session because I don't know what was part of the meeting, but they had a really nice presentation on signage in Castle Pines and what they're envisioning in the future, like the bridge over I 25, and they've got some really great ideas, and some of them are, not necessarily neon signs, but but written, you know, maybe you could have a plaque in there that might just light up fire danger high or medium or low. And that's a few years down the road. So I agree with you. The communication needs to be out there. I was a little hesitant with Smokey the Bear.

I'm not 100% sold, but I'm not unsold either. So just something to think about. It might be a good temporary fix until we get some a little more detailed signage in our community report.

David:

Great point. And and, Yeah, we're nowhere. The fire department where the fire department is left. It is that, they needed a little bit, more information, something, in hand, in order to present to their board.

And they're pursuing a presentation to their board, over the course of the next month or so, as a part of their, preparing their budget for 2020. And, and so, that, that that's why you got the picture and that's as far along as we've gotten. And so with a little bit more traction and a whole lot more input, wanted to bring you up to speed on what Ken's been doing.

Thanks. A little bit, not a lot of it. Been a little bit.

Staff questions? Comments. Concern?

Jim:

Not from me, sir. Thank you.

Kim:

Nothing from legal.

David:

Again, thanks everyone for coming in. That, takes care of, agenda item 11A, B, C and D. Our neighbor Kate has left the building, and so I'm asserting that there's no closing public comment, period. And so I would ask for my colleagues, for, a motion to adjourn.

Board Voting All Speak:

Anyone? I'd like to make a motion that we adjourn tonight's meeting of the Metro District. Is there a second? I will second that motion. We have a motion and a second to adjourn the meeting. Monday, May 20th, 2019. All those in favor signify by saying yes. All together? Yes. Any opposed? Hearing? None. Motion carries unanimously. Thank you, thank you.

Describer:

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