October 23, 2023 Board Meeting

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Board Meeting Agenda

Monday, October 23, 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 October 23, 2023 board meeting agenda.

IV. Consider approving the August 23, 2023 board study session minutes.

V. Consider approving August 28, 2023, board board meeting minutes.

VI. Consider approving September 20, 2023, board study session minutes.

VII. Consider approving the September 25, 2023 board meeting minutes.

VIII. Consider approving October 11, 2023, board meeting minutes.

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

X. Finance Director's report.

A. Ratify claims for payment including check numbers 28169 - 28226 and electronic payments issued from September 22, 2023 through October 19, 2023.

September General Fund/Open Space $0 September Enterprise Funds $0 September Electronic Payments (all funds) $19,239.14 September Total Expenditures $19,239.14

October General Fund/Open Space $46,513.60 October Enterprise Funds $662,034.83. October

Electronic Payments (all funds) $55,198.15 October Total Expenditures $763,746.58

General Fund/Open Space Total $46,513.60, Enterprise Funds Total $662,034.83, Electronic Payments (all funds) Total $74,437.29 Total Expenditures for the Period $782,985.72

B. Update and timeline regarding 2022 Audit.

XI. Legal Counsel's report.

A. Update rules and regulations

B. Correct District Designation of parcels- CPMD reimbursement

C. Sale of Farm Properties- consider hiring consultant(s)

XII. District Manager’s report

A. Lift Station 3 SSO violation update

B. December 7th CPNMD Holiday Party

XIII. Executive Session re: Discussion regarding meeting with Dominion Water and Sanitation District

XIV. Director’s Matters

XV. Adjourn

Board President Jason Blankaert:

Good evening, Castle Pines, and welcome to the Castle Pines North Metropolitan District board meeting. Today is Monday, October 23rd. It's approximately 6 p.m., and we're going to call this meeting to order and begin by saying the 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 one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Jason:

And let's do roll call. We'll begin with Leah. Are you here and any conflicts?

Board Member Director Leah Enquist:

Present, No conflicts.

Board Member Director Jana Krell:

Jana. Present. No conflicts.

Board Member Director Tera Radloff:

Tera I'm here. No conflicts

Board Member Director James Mulvey:

And Jim. Present. No conflicts.

Jason:

Very good. And now Jason and I'm here. And no conflicts. So I say for the next, section, why don't we bundle, three, four, five, six, seven, eight together and make that one motion.

Tera:

I approve. I make a motion that we amend the agenda as you presented.

Board Voting All Speak:

Thank you. Second. Perfect. So, having two. Can we take a quick vote?

All in favor? I. I.

Jana:

Well, does that mean that I can't make an adjustment on any of them? No. You can. Oh, I still can. Do I do that now or do I wait?

Jason:

Let's do this motion that we already have on okay the table first, and then, I.

Oh, okay. I didn't hear Leah. All right. So, Yes. So now we look for a motion or any discussion on the board. Minutes. Any of them?

Jana:

I had one, but I have to find it really fast. it was the August minutes. Page three. There was a part that said director Enquist, but it was me that said it.

So it should be Director Krell. So, page three Director Matters Enquist spoke about the conservation program and her desire to continue focusing on the same that was me. So adjustment there please. Yep. Okay.

District Manager Nathan Travis:

And just for my clarity really quick, it was at the August 23rd or 28th. The study session, it's the 28. Perfect. Thank you.

Jason:

All right. Great. Do I hear a motion?

Tera:

Just can I just ask that you're making a motion to approve the minutes with that one change? Yes, please. And I'll second that.

Board Voting All Speak:

Thank you. All right. Let's vote. Jim. I approve. Tera. Approve. Jana. Approve. Leah. Approve. And I approve. So the motion passes, that'll bring us to item number nine, public comment

period. Do we have anybody set up to or wishing to make a comment at this time?

Jason:

Hearing nobody will close out item nine. And we'll move on to item ten, the finance director's report. Do we have, Sadie or Phyllis with us tonight? Yeah.

If they're not with us, maybe we should skip this one and come back to it.

Nathan:

Yeah. Yeah, exactly. If you guys want to amend the agenda to come back to that, I'll reach out to Sadie and Phyllis really quick and see where they're at.

Board Voting All Speak:

I'll make a motion to amend the agenda. They come back to the financials report after legal counsel's report.

I'll second.

And, going for a vote now. Jim. Approve. Tera to approve Jana. Approve. Leah. Approve. And I approve as well. So we've moving item number ten to item number 11. Now, I think, or something like that.

Nathan:

Yeah. Indefinitely. Depending on the response of our finance director.

Jason:

All right. And, moving right along. Let's go to item that's on our agenda as of number 11, the legal counsel's report.

Legal Counsel Kim Seter, Esq.:

You've got a copy of the status report. There's three items to be mentioned. Update to the rules and regulations. We put that on because, at one of the meetings recently, you mentioned, creating a notification plan in the event of spills. We recommended putting that into the rules and regulations. So we'll be working with Nathan on getting that done.

He's doing a comprehensive plan. We'll condense that, get it into the rules and regulations. item B, those are the properties that are in the wrong district. We've talked to Castle Pines Metro District. They are willing to exclude those properties from their districts so that we can include them in ours, but they would like to be reimbursed their cost.

I'm guessing less than $1,000. It's a typical request.

Tera:

I do have a question. I do have a question on that. And I actually have a question on the first item. So you had mentioned that there were significant changes or in 2020 and 2021, could we see those? Is this this current board may not want those included.

If you could outline those. And then regarding these properties, Castle Pines Metro District has been collecting the property tax on that. Yes. That's correct. And then they still want us to reimburse them for the. Yes. I'm not really in favor of that. I don't know about the rest of the board members, but they've been stiffing us for the property tax.

We've been serving them. Okay. And then they still want us to pay. Yep. That's a no for me.

Kim:

So I'll pass that along and we'll see where it goes.

Tera:

I'm one of five so okay.

Jason:

I, I completely support that. I didn't realize that we were giving them something, and then they still want us to pay them to take it, so.

Yeah. Yeah, I know on that, too.

Kim:

The third item, item C sale of the farm properties. If I would like you, if you would, to authorize us to go ahead and employ a, I'm not sure yet if it's going to be a realtor or a water, water broker, or mineral broker, to go ahead and figure out what those properties are worth and get them on the market.

There's no sense in trying to take bids for them because we're going to get under bid. I am going to reach out to Aurora, who wanted them early on when we sold the water, but may or may not at this point.

Jason:

Do we need to make a motion or nothing?

Kim:

No, as long as you're as long as everybody's nodding, I'm okay.

And we'll just we'll go ahead and hire them, pay them and just add it to our bill if that's okay.

Jason:

Yeah. I think the board is completely behind that.

Kim:

Okay. And that's it from me. I do have a quick question about number three.

Leah:

What was the litigation over the bid process?

Tera:

... That was the one with the Aurora water and Broomfield. Oh yeah. We put those the water rights up for bid. And in the bid package it said that there would be no I think it said something like no alternate bids allowed. But when Aurora bid, they bid on there were like 5 or 6 different properties.

They bid on each one of those. But then they said, if we get this particular one will increase our price by a couple of million dollars. Well, they ended up getting all of them. And Brighton came back and sued saying he couldn't accept that bid because was unlawful. So we fight it out and settled it, ultimately, they settled it among themselves and we got our money.

Tera:

And then I have one more question on the city district stormwater services. Just I think it isn't carried forward, but it says item B, the notify property owners of the change. I think that's complete. Yes, I believe it is. Yes. Okay. It just all the other items are, are noted that they're completed except for that one. And then obviously E is going to be removal.

Well we've already transferred that. So we can remove ourselves from all stormwater item number E.

Kim:

Yeah. The properties though are still going to have to be transferred. So we'll see what happens in November okay. And then we'll go from there. Thanks.

Jason:

All right. Any other questions for council. All right. Hearing none. We'll close down item number 11. And it looks like Phyllis is with us.

So we can, jump back now to the finance director's report. Phyllis, are you with us?

Phyllis Brown, Community Resource Services of Colorado (CRS):

Yeah. Sadie and I, for some reason, couldn't get in for a bit there, so we had to log out and then try again.

Jason:

Sorry for the problems.

Phyllis:

Sorry. Sorry about that. Yeah. It's like we're both just waiting around here. All right. That's,

Sadie, Community Resource Services of Colorado (CRS):

My apologies.

I thought you were in another meeting.

Phyllis:

Yeah, that's what it said. It was Said they were in another meeting. Okay, so you want to go ahead and read the claims?

Sadie:

Sure. So we're ratifying claims for payment, including check numbers 28169 through 28226 and electronic payments issued from September 22nd, 2023 through October 19th, 2023. The claims for payments for the second check run in the month of September was included in last month's meeting, so the general Fund and enterprise funds are zero for the month of September.

The General Fund for October is $46,513.60, which is the exact same total. The enterprise funds for October is $662,034.83, again the same total. The electronic payments for September totaled $19,239.14. For October, they totaled $55,198.15, for a total of $74,437.29, for September Grand total expenditures of $19,239.14. Total October expenditures are $763,746.58 for grand total for the total expenditures is $782,985.72.

Board Voting All Speak:

I make a motion to approve the expenses as outlined. Do we hear a second? Second. Having it. Seconded. Let's move on to a vote. Jim. Approve Tera. Approve. Jana. Approve. Leah. Approve. And I approve as well. Thank you for, this request.

Tera:

Before we leave this item, something that I would like the board to consider is, and I know we had discussed it in the past, but I think it just got overcome by events because we're catching up on so many things.

But I would, the bank service charges are pretty high, and, I don't think that we are charging the credit. We're not passing through or charging the credit card fees when people pay with their credit cards. I think the city does. I know when I try to do business with County that they do, but I don't know that we should be, carrying those costs and people should pay their own way.

And I would like the board to consider that. And if you're wanting to consider that, then we need to let our district manager know so that, because it's a financial matter, we'll have to notice a meeting about it. But, certainly from my perspective, I think, we should take a look at that.

Nathan:

Yeah. So what I would need on my end is basically, your board consensus that that is something that we would like to address. and then I can get it on. I'll have to look at the dates, but if I can get it posted, tomorrow or the next day, that'll give us our 30 day notice to actually do an action item.

We don't have to have a specific meeting just for that, but I need to notice that at least 30 days in advance at the meeting, that we're going to take action on it because it, directly applies to rates and fees, and Kim can throw anything you would like at me if I'm wrong.

Tera:

I heard Director Mulvey say that he was interested. A look at it. So

Leah:

I support that.

James:

I do as well.

Nathan:

I'll get that posted the next couple days. And, whichever board meeting we have, it'll get out. It is an agenda and agenda item.

Jason:

Great. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. any other questions on the report?

James:

Just give me a minute here.

I was checking for something that I saw last month.

I should have done this beforehand, but.

Jason:

Well, Jim. Excuse me.

While Jim's doing that, can you give us an update on the 2022 audit?

Phyllis:

Yep. We are, the auditors working. Last week, they were working, and they're continuing to do the work this week. We updated all the capital assets, which is the big piece that was left. And so they're, they've been requesting invoices. And then once they finish that work, we've got to do some additional, schedules for them based on any adjustments they may have budgeted to actual.

And then they're the ones who actually prepare the audit report, and they, Andy indicated he had been working on that, so he'll just have to keep updating that. But we're still, hopefully on schedule to be able to issue by the end of November. They haven't told us anything that would make me think they wouldn't be able to get that done by that date.

Jason:

Any questions?

James:

yeah. Last meeting we discussed. I think there's three line items in the budget, and I'm just wondering if that's been reflected and updated as far as, you know, going forward for next year, that kind of thing. And maybe this is the wrong place to ask that.

Jason:

Yeah, we'll probably discuss that in our,

James:

Okay.

Well, we'll touch on it later. And then, last question was, is, a couple of weeks back, we talked about kind of getting a summary sheet of based on the new, property value assessments and things like that, the difference in their receivables and things like that. I wonder if that firmed up. I mean, we kind of saw that at last meeting, but I'm just wondering if that's been, essentially vetted by you and you're prepared to kind of talk to those numbers and have you created that summary yet?

That basically shows us, current estimate for property values and our current mills and what the difference is between last year and this year based on how much money the district's going to receive, and then that money, will essentially, if the voters voted, we'll get transferred over to the city. And I just want to kind of see the estimates for costs related to the parks and open space versus what we currently cost to operate that or basically pay for those services and that work versus what the future state would be for those same activities.

I just wanted to get a direct comparison to see the Delta, what the city would receive. Literally. We were just asking for, you know, break it down such that the voters could see those two numbers and be aware of how much additional funds the city would get to support those same activities.

Phyllis:

Nathan, didn't we didn't we talk about that when we were looking at the budget, for 2024?

and you could see what was spent in 22 our estimated 23. Yeah, I can go grab that.

James:

There was a spreadsheet like the day before that I sat with and went through at home. But then when we presented, we kind of went through, we found some errors. And then there was a discussion on what level of mills that we would reduce down to, you know, there's four different columns.

So I just like that explicit and clean, so that the people that are paying taxes in the town can see those numbers cleanly and easily. Instead of having to pick through a spreadsheet. I think that's necessary for people to make an informed decision when they go to vote in November.

Phyllis:

Did you have that, Nathan, or is it something we want to,

Jason:

Nathan stepped away to find it. Put that together. Nathan stepped away to find it

Phyllis:

And I'm looking, oh, okay, I'm trying to see, Oh, yeah. And it was you're right. It was in the proposed budget. The four different scenarios you're talking about. Yeah. Right. Yep, yep. So whether the mill would, would have been 4.5 or 4.0 or 3.5 or 2.1 were our four options.

Yeah. Yeah. Yep yep yep.

James:

So and I just want people to understand what they're currently paying in taxes and what the future state would be and how much additional money above what we currently spend on our parks and open spaces would then be forwarded over to the city, because I want People understand that they're getting a ton more money next year to do the same job.

If they keep the mills at the same level.

Right.

Nathan:

So maybe that's more of a question for Kim. But in terms of how the city is going to spend that money. So I mean, we've got and the this is a proposed 2024, section that Phyllis has had down at the bottom of the mill levy, from the main page. But so it looks like the estimated for 2023 is 3.3 million.

2022 estimate was in that same vein, 3.3 million. And then the 2024 proposed is 4.5, roughly. And then that does include the that doesn't that does assume the $4.5 million mark does assume the, temporary, reduction, in terms of how it compares to, you know, we can we can certainly speak to what we spent, in 2023, the way that IGA works, it kind of gives the city.

Well, not kind of it gives the city, discretion over how they want to use those funds. And so I think it would that would probably point more toward looking at the city's proposed budget for their parks and Rec, assuming that same income, to see how they're playing on accounting for that money since there's not really anything we can do to affect how they choose to spend it, capital or operational.

James:

I understand that, but maybe I'm guessing the question kind of made a resolution basically saying that since they're a larger entity and they should be able to get better rates for the same kind of services that they should actually be spending less, and they should be able to do that reduction and I don't want to get into the particulars on how they plan to spend that money.

I just want to see what it currently costs. And what if they kept the 12 mills? What they would currently receive, just so people understand that, yeah, the mills stay the same, but effectively they're getting a significant amount of money and you know, and and what they spend that on is their business. But I just want people to be informed about that process.

Tera:

And so I'm not really sure what you're asking. And if it isn't a appropriate use of our staff resources. And if there are other directors who are also interested in the same thing, we have to keep in mind that we are we function as a body. So we all have to. Before we direct staff to do stuff, we all have to be on the same page.

And I don't know when you think the timing of this would be. I mean, by our November meeting, people will have already voted and the election will already have passed. So, I hate for our contracted staff and our staff to, you know, do a lot if it's not something that the entire board wants to take on and then since we're not in the election, I just want to make sure that, you know, we we should be doing something like that.

I mean, it sounds more, that doesn't really sound like a function that's benefiting, I mean, the city can't do it because they have an election, but I don't know that that really is our role

Kim:

In, in, in terms of, of your ability, ability to electioneer, you've done what you can by passing that resolution.

So, you know, James has made a statement here. People have had the opportunity to hear that, I heard Nathan identify that there is a large delta there. But in terms of doing something officially with regard to the election, we can't do that at this point.

Tera:

Thank you for the clarification.

Jason:

All right. any other questions? All right. Hearing none, we'll go ahead and close out the finance director's report. Thank you Phyllis and Sadie we appreciate it. And we'll move on to the district manager's report. Nathan.

Nathan:

Here we go, off the top, before I get into my report, I had, committed to the board to get, still speaking about the budget, getting the, basically, like, the breakdown for the individual funds, like some paragraphs and some bigger explanations around those.

I do not have it. I was able to get my my outline pulled together. It's honestly just been an insane couple of weeks. And so I just every time I tried to sit down and get to it, I got pushed off. I will have that by the end of the week, and that'll be well in advance of the upcoming study session.

But I did want to apologize for falling short on getting that taken care of by this meeting. And the other thing missing from today's packet, was the operations report. our operations manager, had some, personal family stuff come up that really just took him completely, completely offline for the last couple of weeks. And so he wasn't able to get that to us in time.

So I'll just attach it to next month, next month's meeting. So we'll have two operations reports on next month. Outside of that, I've got the, update in terms of the lift station 3 SSO violation, everything is is going really, really, really well. So we've we've completed our first round of soil soil testing, looking for any potential impacts that we've had from the spill or previous ones downstream.

Everything looks really, really good. The state was happy with the results. The water was the water and ground, anywhere wasn't showing any signs of concerning contamination, but it was actually in better condition downstream of our lift station than it was upstream. So that sampling, that sampling program has three phases. The state has asked us to move into phase two.

So we're we're getting that scheduled bottles, sample bottles have all been ordered. So we'll get that second phase taken care of, it's going to be more heavily focused on soils and a couple of potential pooling areas downstream that we didn't look at in the first round. And they'll make a determination if they want us to move to the third phase.

On that, we still don't have the final official approval for a spill response plan, but it has been submitted. We did have a meeting on it there. we're a couple concerned, Not even really concerns, Just, pieces of information they were looking for, They wanted a finalized graphic for the signage that we post when there is a spill that we needed to add.

So we got all we got that there was one other, Oh, the order in which people are contacted in the case of a spill emergency got moved around. So we made those changes, got them back to them immediately, but we haven't gotten the official approval on that yet. Other than that, we're running ahead of schedule on everything else across the board.

On it, Level Engineering has been doing an absolute fantastic job. The reports have been sending out our insanely detailed. It's been

Jason:

Is the testing for this, like over a year’s period is that what?

Nathan:

No it's a spot test. So the you look at the, spot the the location of the sanitary sewer overflow, what's what makes this a little bit more challenging for us is getting issued a violation for lift station overflows isn't something that happens very often.

And so the statute is really more built toward wastewater treatment plants that are in violation of their discharge permit. And so in the case of a wastewater treatment plant, you know, exactly. You have a bunch of defined metrics like these are what you need to be putting out. This is what's in your discharge permit. Are you meeting it or are you not?

We don't have a discharge permit because we're not a wastewater plant. And so it's, honestly, it feels kind of like the state's making it up as they go on some certain points, but we're we're hanging in there and everything they've asked us to do makes sense. And so what, we're we're not doing, any kind of, like, prolonged testing.

They're just like spot checks. So we did a hydraulic model, from the lifts from from lift station three downstream. A long way. The 3 or 4 miles and then ran those hydraulic models showed where with the increase the level of the storm event that we were having, where that water would have exceeded the banks of the river or the creek and where it could have potentially pulled.

And then we do the upstream testing, and that's what sets our baseline. So we took the test upstream so we can get a good, good idea of what the natural environment looks like. And then everything downstream from that point we compare to upstream. And so they'll all be spot checks. Like I said. So we've got phase one done.

Phase two again, I think it's I can't remember how many samples they're taking. and then they'll determine if they want us to move on to phase three. But once we get through those three, assuming that we don't for potentially three up to three phases, assuming we don't run into anything shocking at this point, since we haven't seen any elevated levels of contamination that will, basically relieve us from the potential responsibility of having to do any kind of remediation projects going in, like removing soil and replacing it with other soils, grading, erosion stuff.

So there's right now it doesn't look like we're going to have to do that. We just have to wait until we get the next couple rounds of sampling done to confirm it. I think that answers your question with a lot of big, confusing operation words. Yeah. And then the only other, thing I wanted to call it, oh, the budget, all of the budgets, presentation dates.

So the budget study session on the 15th, the budget, the public hearing on November 27th, and the, date for adopting the budget on the 13th. All of those dates have been confirmed. This room is available, so it will be rescheduled, and we're good to get in. When I say the, my my packet mentions the December 20th and 25th dates have been vacated.

They're just pulled off of our meeting schedule. We still hold the reservation for this room. So if we did really, really want to have a board meeting on Christmas, we could.

Other than that, do you have, a, Well, I'm going to have to have surgery. It's going to knock me out for probably about a week, Week and a half before I come back in. I was telling, Tera earlier, I just got hit in the face way too many times, starting in, like, middle school.

And so I'm finally at a point where they have to, like, reconstruct my nose. so I've got a doctor's appointment tomorrow, and then I'll know that surgery schedule. I'll let you guys know, what that looks like as it impacts my availability, Availability to be at the office. And that is all I had. certainly, as always, open for any other questions or clarifications or yada, yada.

James:

Just a quick one. This, third stage of testing, when do you anticipate that would happen or you don't have a date.

Nathan:

Yeah, we we don't have a date yet. We don't even know if they're going to ask us to do it. So they're each each progressive stage is contingent on the results of the first one. The only reason that they're the primary reason that they want us to do the second round of testing was there were just a few areas of potential pooling that weren't captured in that first round of samples.

So if everything comes back from the second, from the second phase, well, we may not even need to continue on to the third phase, but, right now, we've been from the time that we start sampling, or from the time we order the sample bottles to when we get the actual results back, there is about a four to 4 to 7 week turnaround, depending on how busy the lab is, what day we drop them off, and all of that fun stuff.

So we should have the second round here results back, I'd expect around mid November. And then they'll make a determination whether or not we need to do a third round at that point. Okay. Thanks.

Tera:

So thanks for getting the, capital projects section of the website updated. And, please pass along my thanks to Kennedy Jenks for putting those same dates in their, report.

I think that's super helpful.

Nathan:

I will certainly pass that along. And the dates went the other way around, so I stole them from them. So if they're they're wrong, I have plausible deniability. Yeah. And there are there are a few updates that I need to make. a few things have shifted in the last week or so, and I'll get I'll get that updated this week.

And that will also be captured in the budget summary worksheet stuff today that I had.

Jason:

Great. Do any other questions for Nate? Nathan I had that no surgery done about, 15 years ago. It's not fun.

Nathan:

So so I did I did have a few years ago. I did get like the I did like a like four different things.

Like in my like I did all of the stuff, and then I was in an airbag deployed car accident two days later. Right. And so I went from the, the version where they can do everything to like, I'm basically getting a nose job at this point. So, I'll be right at home in Castle Pines.

Jason:

Wow. I don't think I would say that.

Okay, let's close out that second segment unless Anybody else has any questions for Nathan? We'll close out item number 12, then, and we'll move on to item 13.

Board Voting All Speak:

Do I hear, motion to go into executive session? I move the board and our executive session as allowed by section 24-6-4024 CRS for a conference with the attorney on specific legal matters... and to determine matters that are subject to negotiations concerning the district's relationship or potential relationship with Dominion Water, as allowed by subsections four, B and E, I will second that motion.

Great. We'll move to a vote. Jim. Approve. Tera. I. Jana, I and Leah approve, and I approve as well. So at this time, we will move into executive session, and we will return shortly.

Describer:

Board Executive Session Please Stand By

Jason:

Okay. We are reconvening after our executive session, and we would like to, make a motion that, Nathan, proceed with, discussion with Dominion Water. I will second that. I don't I don't think we're voting on it. I think we're just making a motion. Or are we just agreeing that. Nathan, you need to proceed with talking to Dominion please.

00:33:27:10 - 00:33:41:25

Unknown

All right, with that, we'll close down item number 13, and we'll move on to item number 14. Director's matters. Does anybody have any matters they would like to discuss?

00:33:41:28 - 00:34:03:29

Unknown

But we did skip over a holiday party thing that's actually on the list. You're all invited to the holiday party. I just didn't know. I mean, Jim is extra invited because he reminded me. yeah. So we we do have an invitation. I'll get sent out to you guys. I think it's, here December 7th. We're just going to do it here, will.

00:34:04:01 - 00:34:28:15

Unknown

There's a, charcuterie catering company that we've used for a couple events in the past, so we're going to keep it simple. Just get some good charcuterie boards out and then probably do some sort of, like $15 limited, like gift exchange. I have been asked to dress up as Santa and see if I convince, our lead operator and our operations manager to dress up as elves.

00:34:28:15 - 00:34:46:17

Unknown

So if I can get them on board, that might also be a thing that happens. But, hey, that could be a scary sight. If you're if you're volunteering. just saying. It's either me or Kim.

00:34:46:19 - 00:35:17:17

Unknown

Thank you for the invite. I'm sure all of us will attend. Do we? If we all attend, though, I'll post it as a meeting in. Okay. Very good. All right, so now moving on to directors matters. I would like to start, if you don't mind, we have, Thanksgiving coming up. And, you know, for some of my, clients in the past for Thanksgiving, I would present them with, like, a turkey or a, gift card to kind of bake them.

00:35:17:20 - 00:35:45:20

Unknown

And I'd like to see if the board would support us doing something like that for our employees. to kind of give them a little gift. Yes. That sounds lovely. I like that. All right, so, Nathan, can we, direct you to, like, I guess choose I honey baked ham? That's probably whatever you think. Well, there's there's only three of us, actually, on Castle Pines payroll, so I can.

00:35:45:25 - 00:36:03:01

Unknown

I could do a quick survey and see what would be most appreciated. But yeah, I mean, I appreciate that as well. So we can we can I mean, I think the idea is whatever would be most appreciated, I don't know, has to be an item of food, but I don't know I don't know if that's like a three of or or three Mercedes coming up.

00:36:03:05 - 00:36:28:01

Unknown

Yeah. yeah. But yeah, some sort of, like primary food item for Thanksgiving. Thanks for that. Thanks for staff is amazing. And they work hard. They are amazing. Does anybody else have any matters they'd like to discuss? Well, that was quick. All right. So we'll close out item number 14 and we'll move to item number 15 and adjourn the meeting.

00:36:28:04 - 00:36:31:23

Unknown

Thank you everyone.