May 22, 2023 Board Meeting

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Board Meeting Agenda

Monday, May 22, 2023, at 6:00 p.m.

7404 Yorkshire Drive, Castle Pines, CO 80108

I. Welcome. Call meeting to order. Pledge of Allegiance.

II. Roll call. Determination of quorum. Disclosure of potential conflicts.

III. Consider approving the May 22, 2023, board meeting agenda.

IV. Consider approving the board’s March 22, 2023, study session minutes.

V. Consider approving March 27, 2023, board meeting minutes.

VI. Consider approving April 24, 2023, board meeting minutes.

VII. Public comment period. (Three-minute maximum per person).

VIII. Finance Director's report.

A. Consider approving claims for payment including check numbers 27828 -

27898 and electronic payments issued from April 21, 2023 through May 18, 2023.

B. Update and timeline regarding 2021 and 2022 Audits

General Fund/Open Space Approve $11,562.48, Ratify $53,380.46, Totals $64,942.94

Enterprise Funds Approve $394,906.44, Ratify $193,592.68, Totals $638,367.71

Electronic Payments (all funds) Approve $ —, Ratify $8,839,172.01, Totals $8,839,172.01.

Total Expenditures Approve $406,468.92, Ratify $9,136,013.74, Totals $9,542,482.66

IX. Legal Counsel's report.

A. Consider approval of Denver Parks Service Agreement. (if not yet reviewed

by Denver parks, possible approval assuming no substantive changes)

X. District Manager’s report

XI. Director’s Matters- farewell from outgoing board members

XII. Seating of 3 directors, following the election (Chuck Lowen, Kim Seter)

A. Jana Krell

B. Leah Enquist

C. James F. Mulvey

XIII. Board selection of Director Positions

A. President

B. Vice President

C. Secretary

XIV. Discuss Times for Board Orientation (two, 4 hour sessions)

XV. Director’s Matters (With the newly Seated Board Members

XVI. Adjourn

Board President Chuck Lowen:

Welcome, everybody, to tonight's meeting of the Castle Pines North Metro District board of directors. Monday, May 22nd, 2023. I'd like to call the meeting to order at 6 p.m.. And if you would join me in a pledge of allegiance.

All:

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

Chuck:

Thank you very much. I'll do a quick roll call, and please let me know if there are any potential conflicts.

Board Member Director Jason Blankaert:

Jason. Present. No conflicts.

Board Member Director Denise Crew:

Denise. Present. No conflict.

Board Member Director Chris Lewis:

Chris. Present. No conflicts.

Board Member Director Tera Radloff:

Tera. Present. No conflicts.

Chuck:

I am present and I have no conflicts. We want to, move to number three on the agenda. Consider approving the May 22nd, 2023 board meeting agenda, which is what you're reading from. Do I have a motion to approve that?

Board Voting All Speak:

Motion to approve. I have a motion a second. Second. It was second. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passed.

Chuck:

Number four, consider approving the board's March 22nd, 2023 study session. Minutes.

Board Voting All Speak:

I'll make a motion to approve. Second. We have a motion. We have a second. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed?

Chuck:

No. Opposed. number five, consider approving the March 27th, 2023 board meeting minutes.

Board Voting All Speak:

If a motion. So moved. Second. Second. All in favor?

Tera:

So I have a just a quick question. Yes. So, Director crew, were you here in March? Were you at the March meeting?

Denise:

Yeah, it was February that I was not here.

Tera:

Okay, listen, I think I don't know that it reflects that you were here in March.

I remember that there was one meeting that you were not in attendance, but, I guess I would just, Yeah, I would just say if you were present at that meeting, then we should correct the minutes to reflect your attendance.

Chuck:

So do you want to be reflected? Yes. She would like to be in the minutes. So, let's add Denise.

Crew to the attendees. Thank you very much. Tera. All in favor of approving the March 27th, 2023 board meeting minutes?

Tera:

With the changes. I.

Board Voting All Speak:

I, I I a second I we got a second I got a motion and we got and we the any discerning vote will get it passed.

District Manager Nathan Travis:

Guys are acting awfully anxious to get out of here.

Chuck:

We're going as fast as I can.

Number six, consider approving. April 24th, 2023 board meeting minutes.

Tera:

I make a motion to approve the April 24th, 2023 board minutes with, again adding Denise Crew, director, Crew to the attendees for the meeting. And then I have a recommended change under Directors Matter, where it says the board discussed whether several board members had met with city without notice.

To other directors that I think isn't inaccurate. The discussion was more the board had a discussion regarding Colorado Sunshine law.

Chuck:

Back up Tera if you would please, and tell me where you were reading that from.

Tera:

I am on page three. like maybe three paragraphs from the bottom. Directors matter. Third paragraph down.

Chuck:

Okay. And the paragraph,

Tera:

The paragraph that begins.

The board discussed whether several board members had met with the city without notice to other directors. I think that's an accurate. I think the discussion was around Colorado Sunshine law.

Chris:

Give me page, please.

Chuck:

It's page three of the April 24th board meeting.

Denise:

I think we could add that we discussed sunshine laws, but I don't want to delete the whole paragraph.

Chuck:

Okay, director. Cruz said she'd like to add that we discussed the Colorado Sunshine law, but we wouldn't totally change the entire paragraph. Was that all right with you? Tera?

Tera:

I just don't think that's accurate. I don't think it was. It wasn't the issue. Wasn't that the other directors weren't, I noticed it was that the, the guidelines for Colorado Sunshine law and serial meetings was.

And daisy chaining is actually how I think the, discussion should be reflected.

There wasn't an issue that I wasn't noticed about the meeting or that Jason wasn't noticed. It was the discussion was a discussion around, Colorado Sunshine Law.

Chuck:

Denise, would you that's just not how I recall. And we could go back and look at our video if we'd like to.

But I do feel personally a bit attacked on that issue at the last meeting. So I really don't want to, say anything to the effect that, that was not.

Stated.

Chris:

So I'd like to agree. So for sure we have the last 12 minutes of our last meeting, we can go, let's just go and listen to. And I think anyone who's going to listen to it will be fully appraised that the discussion was not only and I do agree that the Sunshine Law did come out, but I also, think that we also discussed the fact that we have met with the city and we didn't meet with the city with more than three directors, and we met with the city with two directors.

And, it was not, anything nontransparent or was behind the backs of any of the other directors, because we have met with all the other water providers and districts out there individually or as a team. So I would agree that it was a combination of those things that were in the, the meeting and have no problems with adding to the minutes that the Sunshine Law was brought up by members of the board.

But I do not want to strike from the meeting minutes. The information that was recorded here.

Tera:

I again, I'm making a recommendation for a change to the minutes. And I do think that if anybody cares to go back and, look at the video from the last meeting, that will stand on itself and, where a daisy chain process was actually described.

So, again, I'm making I'm one of five directors. I'm making a recommendation to the minutes. So,

Chuck:

Let's thank you. Let's hold off on, changing that particular paragraph. Mr. Seter, would you, have your office review that, verbiage in the prior meeting and, maybe strike this paragraph and have it reviewed at the next board meeting for approval?

Kim:

Certainly. You do have a motion, I think, on the on the floor right now, though, from

Chuck:

So the motion is, for, for Tera's recommendation. Are you saying. Yeah. Okay. To approve the minutes with her change? okay. We do have a motion. And do we have a second? I'll second. We have a second. and since there's a little discussion on this particular paragraph, I'll go person to person.

Jason, to approve the motion.

Jason:

I approve the motion with the changes.

Denise:

Denise. I opposed the motion with the changes. Chris.

Chris:

Yeah, I just want to be clear. I opposed the motion as Tera or Director Radloff stated. I approve that we add that there was also a discussion in the Sunshine Law. So if we were specifically voting on Tera's motion, I oppose.

But if we're making the changes to add the sunshine Law to the existing information that's there and not stricken then that I would approve. And I do have a, I do have a, opposition to the fact that, we're going to go back and essentially change the motion, change the minutes when none of us on the board here are going to be here to even have any type of a discussion,

Chuck:

or where we do have a motion on the board that, is approving Tera's recommendation, as she stated, and if I understand it correctly, you are a no, no.

and Tera, obviously, you have

Tera:

to clarify the motion on the table is to approve the minutes with the change of reflecting directors, Crew, attendance at the meeting and making the recommended change to the paragraph. So that's the only motion that's on the table. And yes, I, I am an aye on that motion.

Chuck:

So, and I am a no, and that means the motion is failed.

I still stand by my request, counsel. I am sure that when you review the video, you will get it accurate. And, I feel confident that when you bring it back to the board, it will reflect what we actually said.

Kim:

If that's the board's pleasure that we will do that. Any questions on whether that's appropriate board?

Jason:

Jason? You okay? Yeah. I'm good. That's okay.

Chuck:

Denise. Chris. Okay. Tera. All right. The board approves, that process. Kim. So, when you come back next month, we'll all be watching.

Thank you. All right. Thank you. item number seven, public comment period. Do we have anybody in the audience that would like to speak or anybody on zoom? Terrence.

There's no one. No one on zoom. Nobody wants to speak. Thank you. We will move to, recognizing that there's no public comment. We'll move to item number eight. Finance director's report. Do we have Phil?

Nathan:

Oh, yeah, we've got Sadie in person with us today. I think Phyllis had a delayed flight and is trapped at an airport, so she's not gonna be able to make it on.

Chuck:

Thank you. Sweetie. Go ahead.

Sadie Whitworth, Accountant, Community Resource Services of Colorado (CRS):

But let's turn on your. There you go. Thank you, thank you, thank you. All right, so the approval of the general fund, open space amount is $11,562.48. We're looking to ratify $53,380.46, for a total of $64,942.94. For the enterprise funds We're requesting approval for a $394,906.44, and to ratify $193,592.68, for a grand total, $638,367.71. Electronic payments all funds.

There is nothing to be approved, but we do need to ratify $8,839,172.01, for a grand total of $8,839,172.01 total expenditures to be approved are $406,468.92. Total expenditures to be ratified is $9,136,013.74, and the total of all categories is $9,542,482.66.

Chuck:

Thank you. Sadie. I'd like to make a motion that we approve the claims for payment, through check numbers 27828 and 27898, and electronic payments issued from April 21st, 2023 through May 18th, 2023.

and the numbers reflected accurately, by Sadie. Do I hear a second one?

Denise:

Quick question. Can you just explain why the electronic payments is so high?

Sadie:

If we go down to if you have the full packet, the full 80. Okay, go to page. seven. It is the, Castle Pines North Metropolitan District CPN electronic payments report.

We had some large wires that went out, specifically the IGA for Parks and Rec. Okay. That was a big portion of that that we don't normally have. It's also broken down for the IGA April payment that was expected plus for stormwater and then the parks and Open Space April tax payment. Okay. Perfect. Other than those three items, everything else is the same.

Denise:

Thank you. Absolutely.

Chuck:

I have a motion on the floor. Is there a second? No, I'll second you have a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none.

Board Voting All Speak:

All in favor of the motion, say I, I, I, I any opposed. No. Opposed. Thank you very much. City.

Chuck:

And you have more do you have. Yes.

Sadie:

My apologies. No problem. You can't logged back in here real quick.

Okay, so the auditors note.

We have Rubin Brown is continuing with their work to complete the 2021 audit. CRS has answered all the questions to date and has provided all documents to support for their additional requests. The auditor audit manager, excuse me, has let us know this week that he is working on one review of the audit test work completed by the staff, and two review fixed asset and work in process updates provided to them.

And number three, preparation of the financial statements and footnotes. CRS is getting supporting documentation prepared and updated for the 2022 audit work, and CRS is also on track to have everything ready to send to Rubin Brown once the 2021 audit is complete. Praying for that day to come. Item B.

Chuck:

Do we have? Do we have a date in the wind somewhere?

Sadie:

We were shooting for the end of May so that we could start 2022 review of the final audit in June, and then hopefully start 2022 in July,

Chuck:

Assuming that they have all the information that you indicated they do have. Yes, sir. Is that a realistic date? That's probably not fair to ask you that question.

Sadie:

It's I'm not sure what's on their workload right now.

Andy Anderson is the auditor, and he keeps telling us that he's going to look at it this week. He's going to look at it this week. Okay. So we're kind of at his mercy.

Chuck:

Well let's hope it's soon.

Sadie:

Exactly. We keep pushing I keep following up with him at the beginning of the week every week okay. Thank you.

My pleasure. Item B is the city of Castle Pines Parks and open space IGA. Initial transfer of funds required under the Parks and Open Space 2023 IGA with the City of Castle Pines were completed on April 28th under the IGA, until such time that the district ceases to impose and collect the portion of the district mill levy related to park operations.

Taxes received by Douglas County will be transferred monthly to the city. Any questions on that page?

Chuck:

Any questions for Sadie? Sadie. Thank you very much.

Sadie:

I would only do item C?

Chuck:

If you're finished.

Sadie:

There's one more okay. Item C is accounting and financial update. CRS will post final audit adjustments and closed 2021. In financial aid, the accounting system, once the audit is complete, we will finalize the trial balance and reconciliations for the 2022 audit.

Prior to audit field work, we continued to record current 2023 activity in the general ledger. Reconcile cash and other accounts each month. Any Questions?

Chuck:

That's it for me. I don't have any. Thank you very much. City I appreciate it. I would close the finance director's report. and we can move to legal counsel report number, not a Roman numeral.

Number nine.

Kim:

You have a copy of the written report. The only action item on there is the, the intergovernmental agreement with Denver parks concerning the park and watering the buffalo and the Indian site and the new I don't know if it's new, but the the park Rangers building. You may recall at the last meeting, I handed out a redline version of that.

We got it from Denver, essentially rewrote it. We cleaned it up, sent it to Denver and got very few comments back. So I think it's ready to sign. I did add, one of your concerns was to make sure that they couldn't use the water for irrigation that was added. And they also added some things about washing machinery.

You know, if there's sounds like they use mowers and things, they couldn't do that either. And that all went through so.

Chuck:

So nothing that came back as of any substantial conflict or. No, the only changes they made to the draft that I had prepared were, were basically, you know, commas and changes in wording, nothing of substance.

Chuck:

Is the agreement ready for signature or. We need to approve it tonight.

Kim:

It's ready for you to approve if you want to approve it tonight.

Chuck:

Based on your comments, counselor, could I hear a motion to approve the agreement with Denver Parks Service.

Chris:

I make a motion to approve the IGA with the Denver Parks Service agreement?

Let's see, is there a date tonight?

Chuck:

Do I? Think. Okay. Do I hear a second? I second, I do have a second.

Board Voting All Speak:

Director Jason, I approve. Denise approved. Chris approved. Tera.

Tera:

Just one quick question. It says so for the operations fees that we're charging them. We are charging them in the same manner in time as we are existing extra territorial service customers. So basically out of district rates and that's that's flexible or something in that kind of covers what we need to charge.

Kim:

Correct. So you charge higher rates outside your district. You have only one out of district customer I believe. So you you charge more to them because they're not paying taxes within the district. And Denver's going to abide by that and do the same.

Tera:

Wonderful. Thank you and nicely done, I approve. Thank you again.

Chuck:

Further discussion.

Board Voting All Speak:

Went off by itself. Third, the further discussion call vote applications I approve be approved. Chris approved Tera. I motion. Motion has passed to approve the Denver Parks Service agreement.

Chuck:

Thank you very much, counselor. Thank you very much.

Kim:

That's everything from me. Unless there's questions on the status report.

Chris:

I have a question.

Chuck:

I have a question. Oh. Go ahead.

No, that's all right. You. I just wanted to know, where we are with, the lawsuit we had with Lagae. The gate developer, that is. We've terminated. Has that been terminated?

Kim:

Yep. It is resolved. And I believe that I have received a deed to the facilities and the lift station in the property, but I just got that, so I'm not sure.

Chuck:

Nathan, is there any further work we're doing for that particular developer up on Lagae that you're aware of?

Nathan:

They did some of the stuff they developed, hasn't been, fully completed yet. From the developer perspective, we don't have any other outstanding issues with them. we've been going through the just the normal process of, doing kind of like the final inspections for a lot of the utility, the work that they've put in.

I think the majority of that is even, it's either well into the warranty period or it's exited the warranty period. So we're starting to take full ownership of a lot of stuff out there. We don't have we don't have any other conflicts or issues with them.

Chuck:

Is that, developer that we were involved in still doing business up there, or is he sold out?

As there is?

Nathan:

There's one parcel that I'm not sure what ownership is that hasn't been developed yet, but basically everything everything's been turned over to builders at this point.

Chuck:

Okay. Okay. Thank you very much. further discussion board. Nothing. Kim, is that it? It is.

Oh, Chris.

Chris:

Mr. counsel, so I sent you a meeting, I think an email, on a status on the exploration of the IGA with City of Castle Pines for the, transfer of water and wastewater for their management. Can I have an update on that, please?

Kim:

Yeah. So I have nothing beyond the status that's in the report, which is that I have not had that conversation yet.

Nathan:

Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So following along those lines, I have had a couple conversations, with the city manager, who's who has given me permission to share. Their basic position is that they're not really taking a position right now. They're not opposed to it, but they're also not super, super for it. They were, mostly wanting to get a new board and get the new board in place and let them get their get their feet under them before they really wanted to even engage in those kinds of conversations.

And then kind of work through the existing LGA stuff. So they're not opposed to it at a later date. But they did want to reiterate that that's something that they want to talk to once the new board is in and moving forward. They didn't want to, put themselves in the middle of any kind of transition around it.

Chris:

Thank you. Travis. Nathan.

Chuck:

So any further discussion board? okay. Let's move to the district manager's report. Nathan.

Nathan:

There's, a couple things I wanted to highlight in the report. One, really quickly on staffing for our customer service representative. Amélie hasn't been with us for about a month. We've been working with Jennifer Vollmer, through our.

Who's our HR director, via contract to get a new employee in place. We actually just had an employee accept, an offer this morning, and so she will start work here on Wednesday, so I'll probably drag her to the next board meeting and parade her around. And then the bigger one is on the Just give you guys kind of a heads up on some issues that we're seeing out at Lift Station three.

Lift station three is the kind of the big, bad Lift station in the district. It handles flows for the vast majority of the district. It's a master station for four other lift stations. All of their sewage flows go to three. So working with Kennedy Jenks and, looking at the, long term solution that we're putting in place for all of the compliance advisories, we definitely have some things that we really just don't want to or can't wait on.

One of those is lining the inside of the wet well, at the lift station. So basically the pit that the pumps suck out of, it's, it's got a lot of, like, pretty severe degradation from, hydrogen sulfide corrosion corrodes concrete. And so we've been planning on doing this for a while. It was included in the capital budget, and nothing that we're doing is going to remotely put us out of budget.

It often falls under that capital plan. But we did end up having to expand this project, much bigger than we expected to. So when we got inside the wet, well. The gravity flow in, So one of the pipes that feeds wastewater into the lift station, we could actually, you know, physically stand up and see it, that same corrosion process about concrete, the line coming into it is ductile iron.

Ductile iron is lined with concrete. And so that lining had been completely eroded. And with all of the rain that we were getting, even though we had that line completely plugged, we were still getting like three, 4 or 5 gallons of water a minute through a line that shouldn't have anything coming in. It's probably because we took it off of pressure, but there's definitely sections of it that just need to be replaced.

So we ended up having to replace about 140ft of that of that line, directly coming out of the lift station. So we worked with Kennedy Jenks was involved in the selection of, you know, like design and all of that stuff. And then we had three different contractors, one doing the bypass,one doing the lining, who had to kind of pull back and come back and line that section after we got that replaced.

And then the bypass contractor, we had anticipated being out there for about a week and a half, had been out there for almost three weeks now. So it's been a very, very busy site for a while. We don't have the totals in terms of what that'll come back on. We weren't able to project anything out. We were just doing it under like we would any emergency repair.

That work is substantially complete today. We're going to finish up the epoxy lining tomorrow, and then it'll go back into service on Wednesday.

Chuck:

Nathan, has there been any, environmental impact?

Nathan:

No. Yeah. There we we because we elected to dig up that entire trench line. it actually was wrapped. Really was wrapped really nicely. Most of the issue was occurring like, right, right at that entrance and that it was more directed by the, the, the stormwater we had, but we didn't have any sanitary sewer overflow events.

Nothing escaped the pipe. We were able to check and make sure that the pipe is in much better condition than we expected to be. But we did need to do a few different design changes. We needed to change the alignment. Add some clean outs. Part of the problem, also was that it was incredibly heavily impacted with grease.

We've got a 12 inch pipe, probably had about a four inch hole through the middle of it. By the time all the grease got built up in sections of it. And it's because it was impossible to clean the way that it was set up for. It was just a completely inaccessible pipe. So all of that's been corrected.

But we didn't we don't have any violations or any sanitary sewer overflows, event events or anything associated with it.

Chuck:

This whole process, with this particular station, is it improper maintenance? Is it age? Is it just the. Yeah. This one nature of the beast?

Nathan:

Yeah. This one's more just directly related to age. Were, in terms of lining the wet.

Well, we're probably right on schedule. So we were we were at a point where we absolutely needed to get that lining done, but we hadn't moved to the point where we were in any kind of like, structural integrity issue. So we didn't have to worry about collapsing or or

Chuck:

What's the age of this live station?

Nathan:

It was one of the first ones that went into it would have been built right around like 87, 88.

Jason:

Okay. Is it the one on Serena or is it, further back?

Nathan:

No, this one sits, kind of across from Stone Mont. By A4, right in the middle of the south to the north open space trail system. It's pretty hidden, unless you walk the trails, you walk by it a lot. It's a big red, red concrete building, about half buried.

Chuck:

It's not necessarily near a homes association of any sort. No. This one's, sort of standalone.

Nathan:

Yeah. It's out. It's out by itself in a field, so to speak.

Chuck:

Okay. Thank you. Questions.

Tera:

So just want to make sure I heard you correctly that this has no budget impact. Correct.

Nathan:

Yeah. It's it's all it'll it'll all be done under the lift station capital budget.

which we've had I think $3 million, allotted for this year. We won't get we won't get anywhere near that on this year for that one. Thank you.

What else? That's all I wanted to specifically draw attention to. Oh, sorry. There was one other thing. The work that we've done on our water treatment plant over the last couple of years. Kennedy Jenks. Alex Paige, our engineer with Kennedy Jenks, for our facility side, actually asked me for permission to submit the renovation of that water treatment plant to the American Waterworks Association.

We found out mid last week, Tuesday or Wednesday of last week, that we have been accepted to basically do a presentation on the rehabilitation of that water treatment plant. So we're going to be at the Rocky Mountain section of the. It's all up in Loveland this September. Alex and I, I think have a 2 or 3 hour presentation, and they actually put us first on the block.

So we'll we'll, they'll have their opening ceremonies and then we'll, we'll jump in with,

Chuck:

Kudos to you and your staff and your subcontractors as well.

Nathan:

So it is, it is currently titled, how to book, how to fly a Plane while you bolt the wings. so

Chuck:

I saw that in your minutes. I thought that was those catchy.

That's very good. Anything further? no further questions. Other questions.

Tera:

Just really quick. So can you, kind of talk about why I'm not sure why the, plan for the city to assume a, the ownership of the storm water system has been delayed, says it's been delayed because they were also assuming ownership of the parks, but I thought they started on the storm water first, so I'm not sure.

And you know what outstanding items we need to do to get rid of our Ms4 permit? Because I know they hold the kind of master permit, if you will. But, I know we also have a permit and then it just surprised me that it's delayed.

Nathan:

Is that one on my report, or is that in Kennedy Jenks. Oh, Kennedy.

Jenks report. Sorry. I hope I'll talk to. I'll talk to Greg about that. We're moving. We're moving right along on that one. I think that's probably a hold over in the engineering side in terms of in terms of Kennedy Jenks is work on the engineering side. They don't really have, anything to do. So there's not much to be on there for that.

Yeah. We don't we don't have any other delays. City's going to start collecting fees. I think in July. So the residents will have a couple months without a stormwater fees. The city's going to start collecting fees. They're already well, and they're well on the way in their process. And then, I've had a couple of meetings, with the city, already identifying all of the parcels and figuring out all of that ownership stuff.

So the, the ownership actual deeding thing is also well underway. We we don't have any other delays. I've just got a rogue engineer writing stuff and reports. Thank.

Chuck:

Any further questions of, Nathan?

Chris:

Nathan, just can you give us an update on what's going on in Community Park on the the Coyote Park on the, paving of the court, pickle ball court.

Nathan:

I can reach out to the city and get, a substantial update. As far as I know, we were still waiting on weather patterns. I think we've had a few areas where we could have kind of ducked in there. We need that guaranteed five days of 50 degrees and so that's 24 hour low of 50 degrees.

So I'm not sure where they're, where they're officially out on it, but I don't know that we've had that weather pattern settle in for us yet. We've stayed a little bit on the cooler side. But really, as soon as we get that weather window closed, the city is going to move forward with getting that thing paved and operational as soon as possible.

Thank you. Absolutely.

Chuck:

We've got thanks, Nathan. Appreciate it. Sounds like we got a lot of work still to do. All right. going down to item number ten, 1111. It's an 11. Director's matters. Farewell from outgoing board members. First of all, I'd like before we get into that, I'd like to, congratulate, the new candidates that are now officially potential board members.

It was a it was a good race. And I congratulate you three for being nominated. We'll introduce you and swear you in in just a moment. I'd like to, kind of hear if if my cohorts are of peace to obeying what I want to say before I leave, and and that's to say a few farewell comments.

And, Denise, if you would obey. Thank you.

Denise:

It's all good.

Chuck:

Maybe I should use a different word.

Denise:

Maybe. Go ahead. Just a thought. Yeah, I'd like to just say a couple of things. I promise not to take too terribly long, but, after being here five years, I'm going to speak a little bit. I want to say to Chuck and Chris, thank you so much for working with you two.

Your, your, your leadership, your expertise, your knowledge, your everything. It's it's been a pleasure. Honestly. I want to shout out to former president Mr. McIntyre and vice president, Mr. Merritt. I really enjoyed working with them and collaborating with them. And, just wanted to encompass that. We had quite a journey together. A sincere shout out and thank you to Nathan Travis, Kim Seter, Phyllis and Sadie from CRS former district manager Jim Morley and former communications director Ken Smith, and our fabulous, fabulous video team, Terrence and Corby.

You guys have all, you've all brought, individual talents to this team, and I appreciate everything you've done and everything we've learned. And always, your judgment, your insight, your ideas are, so much appreciated. Learned a lot. Thanks. To the new directors. Congratulations. I hope you enjoy this. It's a lot of fun. Most of the time.

I trust that you'll continue to provide clean and safe drinking water, as well as remain fiscally conservative. I have no doubt that will happen. And if not, you'll hear from it from the public for sure. As some of you may know, in May of 2020, 96% of our voters in this community agreed to an inclusion of Parker Water, although that didn't come to fruition fruition.

I trust that the new Metro district or the continued metro district, will continue to look for inclusions and or solutions for long term water needs, including renewable water. And just a couple quick highlights just to kind of reminisce over what we've done in the last five years, maybe justify our positions. We have fixed the fence.

I don't know if anybody remembers that, but that was quite, quite an ordeal. We recorded, recorded and broadcast our meetings to the public to to keep our, transparency. We greatly reduced executive sessions. We only had them when we absolutely had to have them. And I think that was, not what it not what it had been in the past.

So, we dissolved the Castle Pines Master Association, which saves everybody money on the transfer of real estate. We dissolved the Parks Authority board and transferred the money to the city, designated to be used still on the west side of I 25. So just so everybody knows, there's 700 and some plus thousand dollars out there that the city I don't believe has spent.

And you may want to voice your Concerns, pleasures, Needs what what would however you want to call it. There's money there to be spent for our Parks and rec, so don't forget about it. We worked jointly with the city on the infrastructure project out here, with the road and the water main. We saved our residents as a ton of money just by collaborating with that together.

We reduced the mill levy, saving customers approximately 17% in property taxes. We eliminated the $15 renewable water fee. Not to say that that couldn't come back into play and that maybe it should or shouldn't. That's not for me to say, but it made sense to not since we didn't have a clear path and we were hoping for inclusion at the time.

We had paid off a lot of debt. This district's in a very healthy financial position. With Nathan's expertise and leadership, this district is positioned to renovate or replace our lift stations. We're on a really good path to get everything just kind of up to up to snuff. We launched the Castle Pines cleanup days. We delivered multiple improvements to Coyote Ridge Court, including the start of the pickle ball courts.

And I just want to say thank you for the honor of, allowing me to serve my community. It's been a pleasure, and I wish you all the best. Thank you.

Chuck:

Thank you. Denise. Chris.

Chris:

Well, said. Denise, I think there's not much I can add to what Denise just said, but my my list is three pages, so we're going to have to sit here for a while.

But, I will go back to, to restate a couple things that they said. We actually started this, about five years ago, and the three of the four of us came in as a slate. They had three positions open and, essentially, Denise, Rob and David and I were, the slate, except I backed out so that we only had three positions.

So I've been involved with this from the beginning, as we were, responding to the, I guess, overwhelming or a, just a terrible a proposal to essentially in increase our debt by $103 million for just 50% of renewable water. And that kind of, got us 4 out of whatever we were doing. And we decided to come in and put our best efforts forward for the community.

And as a result of that, you know, we've had the opportunity to serve. And I've served out some folks terms, essentially Norm's term. And then I had the one term. And, you know, I've had multiple people ask, why is it the three of you are leaving? And we my I had to honestly tell them, well, you know, I am not for the perpetuation of a government organization.

We all ran to essentially come up with renewable water at less cost and reduce government. And that's what we did within the period of time that we were, we had, and nobody else wanted to go and run again just for the sake of running, because we were at a position where I think we've essentially gone forward and we've, had a relationship based on leadership from our last two presidents, including our current president.

So David and, and, and Chuck really, nurtured that relationship we had with the city. And we decided, you know, after the inclusion, with Parker. That, best thing for the community was for us to essentially, figure out what to do next. And Parker was two years after the Parker pulled out of our inclusion, which we were all ready to do.

And, it was in the best interest of the company, of the community, not for us to pay the millions of dollars they wanted for us to close that deal. And I think looking back, it was absolutely the best decision we met made because one of the other decisions we made was to hire Travis. Right. And and Travis has come on board and has, Nathan.

I'm sorry. Nathan. Travis has come on board and, essentially did overhauls and reconstruction on all our plans. So we essentially, when this is all said and done, you'll see that what Nathan has done and the staff has done is they have, essentially for a lot less money than what Parker was asking for, done a full overhaul and reconstruction of our assets.

So based on that, the last the thought process on my part was, okay, what do we do next? Well, it would take another two years for Parker to get back into some position where they resolve their issues, where we can have additional conversations on inclusion. And, we have reached out to all the other water districts, including the city, who happens to be a water district of all the water being provided on the east side of 25.

So we have reached out to the water districts, and as a result of that, it was how do we reduce government? You know, we reduce the masters association. We we reduce reduced parks authority. And the next step was to essentially move to the IGA, which moved stormwater parks, I'm sorry, parks, trails and open space and stormwater to the city.

That's three out of what we own. The last was water and sewer. Right. And at our last two board meetings, we had the discussions of how to, to move the water and sewer to the city and that was through an intergovernmental agreement. And you heard me ask council for a status, and you heard, district manager, Nathan Travis here provide a status on response from the city manager.

That's what I would leave you with. Is that is the next best thing that we can do for our community is to move the IGA of if you think that's in the best interests of the community. But I'm saying that that's my opinion, is that do the IGA with the city to move, water and sewer to the city and then dissolve the district into the, the city.

So with that, I'd like to thank a bunch of folks. You know, we mentioned, Rob and David and we mentioned, Norm was there for a little bit, but all my directors, you know, Denise was it was definitely a pleasure of pleasure being on the slate pressure team. It was a pressure to, And and, Chuck, we appreciate all your leadership, and the guidance and, keeping me calm.

So thank you for that, because I know sometimes I get passionate about things that I want to do. And I do thank Jason and Tera for your service because there is no, gratitude that you get from this position. Right. Everybody will have something that they will say against what you're doing. So thank you for them serving. And thank you for those that are about to.

And you know, and I guess about to take on the new, ownership of what we have done so far. So thank you for that. That's, that's really appreciate it. And that says a lot about you and your character. You know, you look at the people that are in our community, 3500 homes and figure out how many of those are going to put themselves in this position for no type of compensation.

Right. It's a volunteer position. So thanks for those, new directors. Staff couldn't do it. Couldn't have done it without you. So, Kim, our, our Sadie and Phyllis. Thank you. Thanks. And it was nice meeting you and and, you know, Nathan, I, you know, I do believe that, you know, Jim did a great job.

But when we voted to hire you as the new district manager, we did the right thing. And I think the community's better for it. I, you know, I wish you all the best. And I wish that you and the rest of the team continue to do the good work you do to David, Susan and the rest of the staff.

You know, please give them my thanks in regards. And if I didn't say already, Kim, thanks for all that you've done. And last but not least, our transparency, leads over there. Directors of transparency. Right. Every one of our meetings are pretty much taped and broadcast. That's not what you will see when you go to other, boards and other governmental organizations.

And, that's one of the things that was very important to us. Denise mentioned executive sessions. Anytime someone brings up an executive session on this board, one of the three of us or all of us go, why? Why can't can we not have that discussion in the public forum? So it's all about transparency. It's been a pleasure working with everyone.

It's been a pleasure serving. And as we say in the military, you have the watch.

Chuck:

Is it that you have. No, that was good. That was about everything I had to say. So we can move on now. Really? thank you, Denise, for your service and Chris for your service. It's been a true pleasure, being on this board. I've taken the tact that it's a service. It's not a political environment.

I am not running for any other office in Castle Pines. I'm retired. I'm going to go on trips with my wife. So we're, we're done with, service. Unless I get enlisted in the Air Force again, which probably won't happen. But Chris and Denise, what valuable board of directors you are. And, we wouldn't have been successful without you and your service, your ideas, your thoughts, and and your your just absolute friendship that made this an enjoyable environment.

Now, I don't want everybody to think I'm forgetting the other two board members, Jason and Tera, I congratulate you both for being on the board. You're a valuable asset to the community. And I appreciate your your service as well. I want to thank a few of the employees that have done a great job. First and foremost, of course, was David Anderson.

He's not with us now. He is with, the city under the IGA for parks, trails and open space. But I've. I think I echo what Nathan said a month ago. Excuse me? That man is an Energizer bunny. He doesn't stop. He gets in the hole and repairs pipes, and he comes out looking like a mud boy.

And he's. He's just a mess. But he never stops. He goes, goes, goes. What a great asset to the community. and our, park trails and open space. The city is fortunate to have him. One of the most important aspects, I believe, of this metro district is our accounting. We use a lot of money.

A lot of money. We spend a lot of money and we certainly need to be accountable. We certainly need to be audited. I want to personally thank Phyllis. I thought she'd be on tonight, but it sounds like she's at the airport or somewhere inappropriate. That won't be here tonight. Thank you. Phyllis. Thank you. Sadie, I met you for the first time tonight, but I know you've been around, so, everything you do for us and as well as Phyllis, is critical to the continued operation of this, district.

I want to thank Susan in our office. For those of you that, don't know Susan, she's the one that takes the phone calls. Good, bad or indifferent, she gets the complaints, she gets the accolades, she gets, the accusations. She she takes care of the, Martians that are running around the field. She takes care of the streets that are in disarray.

She takes care of the sidewalks that have a bump. She takes care of everything for us. Water. The color of the water. The frequency of the failures of water being delivered to the house. The lawns drying up, the trees drying up. Susan handles it all. She's on the front line. God bless her. Nathan Travis. I don't have anything to say about Nathan.

We are so fortunate to have Nathan as our district manager. I sleep at night now knowing that the, plant is running. I've been there, I've seen it, I've touched it, I've seen the wells. I worry about the lift stations but Nathan is on top of it. We are in good hands. Nathan's been with us,

just a few months. How long you been with us, Nathan?

Nathan:

January 3rd, 2012 and 12. It's 11 years. Time flies here, man.

Chuck:

Thank you. Nathan, your your professionalism, your expertise is unsurmountable. as a homeowner, thank you. And as a board of director. Thank you. You've been a pleasure to work with. I never have thanked an attorney before.

Nathan:

Yeah, you don't have to start now.

Chuck:

But, Kim, God bless you. You've kept us out of trouble. you've kept me focused on the right way to run a meeting. I enjoy your humor, and I enjoy your friendship. Thank you. The district is in good hands, legally, with you at the helm. I appreciate you being here.

A couple of things real quickly that, haven't necessarily been mentioned, that are important to me. As I leave. I've been with the district now for about little less than five years. And it has been a a real joy. I'm from a commercial real estate background. I know that when I get in the shower or the water comes on, I know that when I turn my sprinkler system on, if it doesn't work, I call Susan.

But it's, it was it's been a real learning experience. And for those of you that haven't been involved in something of this nature, in a, governmental environment, it's different than being in the private sector. The transparency is critical. Nothing's hidden. You need to talk with each other in a in a manner that does not of.

Get in the sunshine laws way. And it's a service. That's what I wanted to do.

The other thing. Excuse me? The other thing is, working with the city. In 22 years of managing Village Square, there was always a problem with the city. Many varied problems. but in the last year, maybe the last two years of working with the city in this district, we have become a lot closer. We have shared a lot more information.

I believe that this. District, should be part of the city. Or if not, it should be dissolved and there should be, some, finality to finding renewable water. We do have. And, Jason, put your hands over your ears. We do have lots of water, but it's not finite. And every turn, we every time we turn on a tap, it goes down a little bit in those aquifers.

Someday, probably long after I'm gone, we could run out of water. That's not Jimmy Little saying. The sky is falling. It could happen. So it's critical that we find a new source of renewable water. How that's done, how this board wants to take that process. That's their responsibility. But knowing that Nathan is in charge of our plants, our wells are pumps our lift stations.

And we have already, gotten rid of the. And I don't mean that in a, in a disparaging way, but the, stormwater and parks, trails and open space for the city, we can concentrate on water and sewer now. And that's what the new board should really be focused on. So thank you for allowing us to do what we do, whether it was good, bad or indifferent.

It was a learning experience. And, I hope that, the new group of directors takes it seriously. my wife always likes to say likes to say that we have 18 family members living in Castle Pines. So when the water goes brown, both Susan and I get the call. But, there's always good reasons for it, but we're in good hands, so I am proud to be leaving tonight,

a district that is, very functional, debt free. And I think, something that our neighboring districts, are jealous of. We get along, we make decisions, we operate properly, we're debt free. What else can we ask for? We get good clean water when we turn on our sinks. So, Jason, a lot of that goes to you.

So with that, I just want one. Oh. Chris.

Chris:

Sorry. Can I have an alibi? Oh, we say, I did forget. I know Denise mentioned Ken, but I do want to mention Ken because Ken was actually helping us when we did Ken Smith. That used to be our communication director. That helped us when we were on, the slate.

So thank you. Ken, thanks for all you did. Thanks for all your council. Appreciate it.

Chuck:

Thank you. Chris. And, that was that was appropriate. All right. I'd like to move to. Unless there's other discussion. I'd like to move to item number 12, the seating of three directors. I would like to ask the three, potential directors to come up, in front of me, facing the audience.

I'm going to go up to the podium, and then I'm going to ask you to, repeat after me the swearing in ceremony. That's appropriate. Let's take a minute and make that change. Come on up.

Chris:

Where do you want us to go? We sit here.

Chuck:

Just sit there. We just sit there. Looking.

Denise:

I bet that's what you want.

Chuck:

So, that's to use my my left eye for right. If. Jim Mulvey, Leah Enquist, is that right? And, Jana Krell Congratulations. And I'd like you to repeat after me. The swearing in and state your name when I ask. So scream out so I can hear you. Well, don't scream, but speak loudly.

Please raise your right hand.

All New Board Members Speak:

I and state your name. Janet from. Do swear that that I will support the Constitution for the United States. Do you swear to support the Constitution states the Constitution of the State of Colorado. The Constitution of the State of Colorado, and the laws of the State of Colorado and the laws of the State of Colorado, and will faithfully perform and faithfully perform the duties of the office of director.

The duties of the office of the Castle Pines, North Metropolitan District Board of the Council. And so just very good upon which I am about to enter, which I am about to the best of my ability, to the best of my ability. Congratulations.

Chuck:

Now, it, it would be appropriate if Kris and Denise and myself would pick up our business at the desk. And you three can sit wherever you're comfortable behind the table.

Nathan:

Yes. you guys need to sign this before I do

Denise:

so I'm just a testimony.

Describer:

Board Members chatter during the seating.

Yep. That's not right.

Kim:

So, board. Welcome. Welcome to the new members. The first thing you need to do is to elect a slate of candidates for president. Vice president, and secretary. Any of you can now make a motion to vote on a person for any one of those offices. Or if one of you chooses, you can submit an entire slate. So a person to be president, person to be vice president, and a person to be secretary treasurer, it's up to you.

Jason:

I would like to make a motion to, put, Tara as president if, I can get a second to that.

Tera:

Second.

Nathan:

Yeah. So at this point, how do we do this without a president?

Kim:

We just run it.

Nathan:

Welcome to the Wild West, guys.

Board Member Director Jana Krell:

May I make a motion to postpone this for one month for us to meet each other?

Nathan:

Yeah. So you can you can make a motion to postpone the selection, but we have to clear the existing issue first.

So you can vote yay or nay. It's also open to discussion before you make a vote. So if you guys would like to discuss the motion, you can bring up points like that. And then vote yay or nay. If you'd like to push it to a later date, you can vote no and then make a motion to get to know each other more.

Jana:

So the only way to make a motion to postpone one month would be to vote nay.

Nathan:

Okay, right. Yeah. You have to resolve the current motion first. Okay. But you guys have time. You can. You're in discussion on it now. So there's

Jana:

No I vote nay.

Board Member Director James Mulvey:

I also vote nay.

Board Member Director Leah Enquist:

I also vote any.

Jason:

I vote yay.

Tera:

I'm an I.

Kim:

Tera. Did you say yes? I did. Okay, so that motion is defeated. Is there any other motion?

Tera:

Yes. Go ahead. I make a motion to move forward this item to the June meeting.

Jana:

I'll second that motion. Any discussion? All in favor signify by saying aye.

Board Voting All Speak:

Hi. Hi, I. Hi.

Kim:

It's it's moved to the June meeting.

Nathan:

Just like that.

Your old pros.

Kim:

Nathan, do you want to discuss the, orientation?

Nathan:

Yeah. So for the the only other thing I've got for this meeting is the board orientation. So I did get, a response from everybody the far and away, preferred way to do it would be to do two, four hour sessions for the board orientation. There was also a couple, one comment around, the necessity of that information for current board members.

So the way that I'm going to set that up is, basically make each two hour, each four hour sessions kind of broken into two halves. And so it'll be each one will be focused more on like things that everybody needs to know and then kind of things that are going to be covered by historical data. So if a director wants to, it only wants to attend to have to get the more updated information and less about the this is how we got where we are stuff.

That would be up to them. So really, the only other thing I need from you guys is when, we already have a sitting study session on the books, for the Wednesday prior. We could do four hours that evening. We could do it on a Saturday weekend. Just general thoughts on, availability, and we can we can go from there.

Jason:

Availability is going to be tough for 4 hour windows. I gotta be honest with you, Nathan. Especially with summer being here and kids and, sports and stuff. So, I'll just sit back and wait for other people through what dates, and I'll see if that can work.

Nathan:

And, one of the things that we'll try to do as well is make sure that we've kind of got, you know, like whatever presentations are given will also be available to be made available.

So if there's things that you miss or you can't get to for whatever reason, we can certainly figure out how to get get you caught up on anything that's pertinent.

Jana:

So is one of those options you said, because the next, the study session is June 21st. So that's the Wednesday. So it would be before that is an option.

Nathan:

Yeah. We can do them really whenever we want to. I just need a 24 hour notice to, to post to meetings. Okay. That's enough time to get people like cam set up and ready.

Tera:

Yeah. Because one of the things that we need to do really is, you know, as a board, we need to establish what our meeting schedule is going to be, you know, the set schedule that we had prior to you guys coming on board was a study session for topics the Wednesday prior to our meetings are on the fourth Monday of the month.

So we also need to establish a schedule. But so I don't know if this calendaring item can be if you got I know you sent out an email and I think I sent back availability. I don't know if everyone responded to that and send back their availability. If we can find out times it sounds like it's going to work best to have maybe two hour chunks of time.

And you know, I guess we can determine how high of priority if we wanted to move up that schedule or if we will just handle these items that you have for board orientation, unless. Is that, is that a scheduling challenge with some of the, the presenters for these items or.

Nathan:

No, no, I don't I don't think it would be.

yeah. So if we want to I'm paraphrasing, I'm trying to paraphrase here. So it was the recommendation to just do them as right now our study sessions are limited to an hour. We could just do the next four of them, which would take us about a quarter of the year to get through, which I don't think would be, ideal.

There's also some things we can push back and kind of bring like legal finance up to the front end of it and look more into like historical facility stuff on the back end. We could certainly do that for the next, you know, four study sessions on their current dates and just change the time from I don't I think we'll start at 5 or 530.

I don't remember off the top of my head and just change them, turn them into two hours for that direct presentation. We could certainly do that.

Tera:

I would recommend then that we go ahead and do that with that two hour session until we kind of clear up some of these, if, you know, items like getting our officers in place so that we can have smoother meetings and then we can, that'll get us to next month and get us started.

And that would be my recommendation. Okay. Yeah, that can go from there.

Nathan:

That works. The only one that was really important to get in, relatively quickly was, Kim Seters, kind of presentation on how board operates, rules and responsibilities. So I'll, I'll touch base with him and see how priorities. And then we also might bring in, to just depending on timing, I might also bring in Austin Hammer, who's the district, water rights attorney.

We do have some things coming up, not actually related to water rights, but things that his office has been handling that we need to look at, specifically like mineral rights that are associated with the properties that had the water in them. there's some contracts that we have that with, like water allocation contracts that are of no use to us.

But we also just found out that there may be like $1 million monetary value to them, and they're assignable. So we need to, start moving on those things a little bit more quickly. So I'll plan on bringing in, Kim for sure. And then I might. If nothing else, I can always have Austin come to the next board meeting as well.

Tera:

I think, that might be helpful for the new board members. I'm not sure what capacities they've served before, but sort of doing the board orientation. And I know, you know, talking about specific things like sunshine laws and just kind of that housekeeping stuff, I think would be I don't I don't want to speak for you guys, but I it might be helpful.

Jana:

No. Any of the stuff for the new board. Knock out sooner than later.

Nathan:

Yeah. We'll start with that.

Jana:

You know, we need to have as much background or history or overview of this stuff so we can, you know, we can find four hour slots. So.

Nathan:

Yeah. yeah. So we'll get well, we'll, we'll go with the, we'll be able to get you up to speed where we need to be to run the board.

We don't have anything super pressing that you're going to need to understand some of that deeper stuff. So I think the, the for two hour sessions will be fine. And we'll focus on the legal responsibilities and roles up front and get you guys dialed in. Yeah and then of course, don't hesitate to reach out to me anytime I try to be very available,

very fairly responsive. My cell phone has been doing this bizarre thing that I can't seem to resolve, where it selectively just doesn't give me voicemails. So Tera and I discovered this recently. So if it's been more than a day and you haven't heard from me, I have not seen it. So don't freak. Don't feel bad about poking me again.

Jana:

Nathan, do you ever use doodle poll to schedule meetings?

Nathan:

No, but we can. Well, I think the most of the board meetings need to be scheduled.

Jana:

No that the ones just for the, onboarding or the orientation stuff,

Nathan:

I haven't. Yeah. We could.

Jana:

Okay. It's just an opportunity for us to weigh in on what days work, and then we look for what overlaps for us.

Okay, I'll show you how to do it. No. That's fine. Yeah, I just had I got I got one approval that I don't do much without Kim going. Yeah, that's fine.

Kim:

Even I know how to do a doodle poll.

Nathan:

Ah man we're going to reach a stage where Kim teaches me how to do something technological. It's going south already kids.

But cool. Yeah, That's all I. That's all I had. So we'll plan on bringing, Kim in for the, July study session, and we'll talk about roles, responsibilities of board members. I'll get you guys your email addresses will be, They should be active. I'll get those over to you. So you know how to access all of them.

And then I also have, nameplates for you, but I just ran out of time to go down and get them picked up. So those will be here for the next meeting.

James:

So quick question for you. you know, as far as directing, you know, what we need to know when we need to know it and upcoming things that are important as far as the management of the water district.

What do you have? I mean, is there a listing or things that we have to basically attend to immediately and, you know, it's just looking for that list or things that are on your plate that we need to work immediately. As far as the board's concern and anything I can do as far as forward work and kind of.

Nathan:

Yeah. So, so nothing that is pending absolute immediate action. We will have the audits when those that come across will need to be approved. I don't have those to present until they're completed. So those will be coming up relatively quickly. It'll be more just kind of getting you guys on board with information, even the, like, the mineral rights and the contract assignment stuff that I mentioned earlier.

None of that is really pressing in any real way. It's just things that we need to kind of get off the books. But we don't really have, by design as well, working with the previous three board members was kind of moving to a position where we're coming. We're moving to a place where we're coming out of these two large IGAs and getting them to an executable position, and then really not having much to carry over.

Since we've got, you know, three new positions coming on, really giving us an opportunity to start moving from there without having anything like, oh, man, we have to get this done. We have a ton of information we have to convey. So we wanted to kind of very intentionally make that transition a little bit cleaner in that way.

James:

Thank you.

Kim:

Item 15 on your agenda is director matters. I don't know if there are any, but the old directors I don't call the old directors the continuing directors expired. Know what that means? And it's generally just an opportunity for the directors to make a statement or tell what they've been doing since the last board meeting.

Jason:

I'll start. I just want to thank the outgoing board members for their, for their work.

You know, this is a lot of time and effort and, they deserve to be thanked for that. And then as far as anything is pending that we get going on, there really isn't anything pressing right now. So, you can look. Yeah, slowly grind you up into speed, you know, and it'll be pretty easy.

Tera:

Okay, so I also want to thank our outgoing, officers.

They were all our officers that just left. Thank you for their service. we really did accomplish some great things in this last year. I think we really moved the needle in, in the right direction. And I am, honored to serve with all of you. I look forward to working with you to set, the priorities that we feel that is important for our community.

And, making making those happen. So thank you for signing up to do this and serve your community. And, I look forward to working with you.

James:

I just had one question, and maybe this is Ken. Maybe this is Nathan. The IGA transferring the parks to the city. And currently, right now, that's in a state of. I mean, it's basically been decided on, but, what is the state of the transition and who maintains, I guess, insurance coverage and and where's the maintenance currently for those items?

I obviously there's a transitional period. I just want to understand where we are.

Nathan:

Right. Yeah. So because we have ownership of the parcels, we still have our insurance policy, all of our liability and everything is in place. We haven't done anything in terms of that. The just this last, this last month, it was mentioned in the, financial report that all of the funds that need to be transferred to date have been transferred to the city, full operations and maintenance of those facilities are currently under the city of Castle Pines.

They need to, the way that that document is written is the city needs to secure their own mill levy. They currently don't have one. So our IGA is basically us transferring them 12 mils of that levy. Levy. So the city needs to get one. That's at least that, or really honestly, whatever they decide, they need to run parks, trails and open space.

That's something that's up to them. They're looking to go to a vote in November, assuming that that mill levy passes the final closing date would be, I think, December 31st or January 1st. And that's the that's the trigger point where, like, actual titles and everything get fired over. If it fails, it'll hold on for another year.

Continuing under that IGA, until the city does get a mill levy passed. I don't know that it goes beyond two years. It doesn't. But there will be. And so there'll be a large, joint messaging effort that the city and our, the city and us have been talking about when we really get out there and, it's about making sure that the residents understand, assuming that the city doesn't put any mills above that 12 mark and they haven't said anything to me.

I just can't speak for them. But really doing a lot of joint messaging around like this is something that ultimately makes living here less expensive with a higher quality of or a higher. Yeah, higher quality and more consistent quality of service. One of the things that was mentioned earlier was, the idea that the city already is a water provider.

They are not, but they are absolutely already a parks, trails and open space provider. And so as these things started to come online, over in the canyon side, they actually were reaching a point where they had more parks, trails and open space than we did. And so, combining a lot of those contracts was able to give us will be able to continue to give us cheaper pricing.

You know, they're calling one person every everybody lives in Castle Pines. If you call a park, it's the city. They handle parks, trails and open space. So that's really, really what drove all of that is they were already had a parks planning commission in place and had already done a lot of work to really take that on. And so it made a lot of sense to go ahead and move that over and allow us to just focus on water, wastewater, what the next steps are, how do we get long term renewable resources at the lowest possible cost?

James:

Thank you very much. Great answer. Appreciate it.

Kim:

Any other director matters. If not, we're ready to entertain a motion to adjourn.

Jason:

I'll make a motion to adjourn. Second.

Board Voting All Speak:

All in favor? I, I I I I.

Nathan:

Yeah. If you try to discuss in a motion to or a motion to adjourn, I actually press a button that opens a trapdoor beneath your seat.