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0:00:05We are recording. Good morning. Today's March 31st, 2026. This is a meeting of the Board of County Commissioners of Boulder County. We have all three commissioners present in the hearing room. And the first item on our agenda is our consent agenda. We are pulling item 4E, the Schlegel Family Farm Conservation easement, off consent, and we'll take that up under discussion items. And so with that change in the agenda, may I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? Move to approve consent agenda as amended. Is your microphone on or move to approve consent agenda as amended? Okay. Second. Okay, we have a motion in a second roll in favor. Say aye. Aye. Aye. So that is approved moving on to discussion. Let's start with what was already on the Agenda 5A. And this is approval of our CPG awards for the year. Good morning.

0:01:17And Benjamin, if you'll start by stating your name for the record. Good morning, Commissioners. My name is Benjamin Martinez, and I'm the Community Partnership Grant Coordinator with Boulder County Human Services. Whitney, if you want to do a quick intro. Good morning, Commissioner. My name is Whitney Wilcox. I'm the Community Initiatives Manager with the Boulder County Human Services Department and oversee the community partnership grant program. Great, thank you. And I'm just going to kick us off with some opening remarks. On December 9th, 2025, the County Commissioners approved an emergency CPG request for applications to address anticipated impacts of changes to federal benefits brought on by H. R. 1. legislation. I'm here today to provide recommendations for the allocation of 2 million dollars in one - time funding related to the 2026 community partnership grant program emergency healthcare access and food security requests for applications. First, I wanted to thank the review committee for taking the time to review applications in a thoughtful and strategic way to get these recommendations in front of you today. We did recruit a diverse committee with the wide range of skills and knowledge. Six reviewers were recruited to the review committee, which was composed of Boulder County Human Services and other Boulder County staff who met during one review meeting to make funding recommendations. Reviewers were selected based on their expertise

0:02:55and direct financial assistance, healthcare navigation systems, the Boulder County nonprofit ecosystem, evaluation, Medicaid and SNAP eligibility and intellectual and developmental disabilities among others. The intent of the emergency RFA is to help stabilize critical components. Boulder County SafetyNet, particularly healthcare and food access, considering anticipated reductions and Medicaid and SNAP eligibility and increases to healthcare insurance costs brought on by H. R. 1. legislation. Boulder County Human Services saw proposals from agencies that can design, implement and manage programs or services that address these challenges by improving access to food and healthcare. The 2026 emergency RFA is being funded through the human services safety net. We received 28 applications with funding requests totally nearly 6 million dollars. The memo before you details the recommendation of eight grant warts for a total of 2 million dollars. Six applications were recommended for full funding to where I commended for partial funding.

0:04:18And there are 20 applications that were not recommended for funding. The projects being recommended will strengthen Boulder County Safety night by providing access to a wide range of healthcare services coupled with projects that promote food security and provide direct financial assistance to offset the impacts of H. R. 1. for Boulder County Community members. And we'll stop there for any questions you might have. Okay, thank you. Commissioners, any questions? Thank you. Good morning. Thanks for both being here. One of the questions I had was, and it's, we're just looking at a snapshot of all of the work that you just talked about Benjamin. So I appreciate that and understand that I don't have all the same information as the reviewers, et cetera. But I was just curious on the food and direct financial assistance. If you could just talk about what that direct financial assistance may have encompassed. Yeah, I think it's, I think it differs by project some of the financial assistants will be related to providing, you know, reimbursements for major medical expenses that folks can't cover. Some of the food assistance looks like, things like vouchers for community members, gift cards to grocery stores, um, anything else that you would? I think I'd only add, um, I think the rent. Yeah, rent's in utility assistance as well. Okay. Thank you. And I just,

0:05:55I heard there's six million dollars and ask is just, it just feels like a similar conversation that we've had here at the Dias a few times on different tax grants and application processes. And so I agree. And that would indicate that the need is greater than what the funding ability is. Um, and I appreciate the, I think what I'm trying to figure out here is what I'm looking at that organizations that were recommended based on the process and the input given. If there's any opportunity to make sure that these, if these are the designated, recommended, um, organizations to just have an understanding or how we're going to maybe make the ask if we could to those partners to really make sure that they're partnered with the other folks that are requesting funding in this particular grant fund that aren't going to receive funding based on these recommendations. Right. So, so how they would partner with some of the organizations that were not funded? Yeah. For example, front range community college foundation is here as an organization that's listed as somebody who wouldn't be recommended for funding. Um, and just experience talking with front range community folks, staff, and, um, different partners there. Students on that campus, um, here in Boulder County campus are experiencing some, um, needs around food and others as well. So I

0:07:21don't, but again, I'm not privy to all that information that you all reviewed with that group. So it was just a curiosity if there might be an opportunity to make sure that anybody who didn't receive funding is connected with these, these orgs that did, um, to meet those needs. And I agree that H. R. 1. has created significant impacts for folks, but just wondering if that would be a way for us to try and make sure folks are supported. Yeah. And I would say that the organizations that we selected were pretty purposefully geographically diverse so that we did cover a lot of different areas. Um, we also did have some applications that were kind of joint applications such as our center and leaf so that they were kind of combining to also start to look at some of those mountain communities. Um, anything else you had on that. Yeah. I think only to add that yes, we can let organizations know that aren't funded the organizations that were funded and to see if they can, um, and vice versa to ensure coordination across the safety net. Great. Thank you. Um, I did not have any questions. Um, and I just want to thank you for getting this money out. You know, and I wear all fortunate that the HSSN tax provides these funds that can

0:08:49step in, albeit insufficient, uh, when, when, uh, Congress and the administration, um, takes a toll on low income people on something as important as healthcare and food. So thank you for your work on this. And I think we're ready for a motion. I had some comments. I just didn't have questions. Sorry. It was framed as questions before. Just want to thank, um, all the applicants for putting in effort, um, it takes a lot of effort to apply for different grants. And we are fortunate to have nonprofits really helping the community. Um, it is, you know, as has been stated by my colleagues, um, wonderful that we have some funding available that we can help soften the blow of the very worst effects of what the federal government is doing right now. And it is not the whole need. So I wonder if when we put out our press release around this, if we could use that message and we use during the government shutdown last fall that was about, you know, if you need help, here's where you can go for help. And if you can help, consider donating to these organizations. And we could list the whole list. I mean, we could just give information to help everybody know that if you are in a position to help out, help is needed. And so

0:10:04just if you need help, we're going to try to help. And if you can help, please help. So I think we shouldn't make that message loud and clear, um, everybody who applied is doing something really important for the community. And as Commissioner Levy said, being able to work on some of the food benefits and healthcare benefits is critical at this time. Um, and so I am supportive of, uh, moving forward with the recommendation. I didn't know if there were any other questions, but I'm also happy to make emotion. Yeah. Okay. Let's, I think we're ready for a motion. I move approval of, uh, item five A. Second. Okay. We have a motion and a second, all in favor. Aye. So we have approved that. We will now go to, uh, what was, uh, formerly 4e.

0:10:54And if I make a mission or Levy, um, so I had sent an email yesterday asking if we could take this off consent, uh, this morning just before the business meeting noticed that it stayed in my outbox and never went to anyone. So I wonder if we might just continue this so that if there's not someone here available, just because it, it never made its way out to staff that I was interested in talking about this. Right. I was just looking to see whether we had Liz Northrup with us, which doesn't appear to be the case. So if we could just continue it to next week, I think then we could have a. Okay. Matt is nodding yes. Um, and I think the motion to continue just before we move to motion, I just want to make sure we don't have any time sensitive issues where this has to be approved. Now. Good morning commissioners.

0:11:46Matt Ramos clerked to the board at this moment. The staff liaison for this particular topic as well as the administrative tree related to this particular, particular topic are not available. They're all in another meeting. Um, but there are no time sensitive requirements to this property conservation easement. Okay. Well then, yeah, I think we can lay it over to our next business meeting. Thank you. So I would move that we continue this to the next business meeting. Second. Okay. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Okay. We've now come to confirmation of executive sessions. Ben, is that yours? Yes. Ben Pearlman County Attorney. And this is just a note for the record that the executive session topics that were noticed on the 24th were held as scheduled. And they were. Okay. And you are going to request authorization for executive session. Yes. I would ask that you authorize an executive session. For Thursday, April 2nd at 11 o'clock, um, pursuant to C. R. S. 24 64024b legal advice. Two topics. The first is department director hiring.

0:12:57The second relates to the Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport case, which is the town of Superior versus Board of County Commissioners of Jefferson County. Colorado Court of Appeals case number 25 CA0836. Okay, we have a motion. Move approval. Second. All in favor. Aye. Aye. Thank you. So we are now going to, uh, address our resolution. Um, for transgender day of visibility. And we will start by reading the proclamation. And then we have a guest who will talk to us about transgender day of visibility. And I will kick us off with this proclamation. Boulder County affirms its commitment to honoring the dignity identities and lived experiences of all members of the Boulder County community. We recognize that transgender and non - binary people are an integral part of the social, cultural and civic fabric of Boulder County who deserve to be celebrated, uplifted and honored for who they are. Every year on March 31st, people around the world observe transgender day of visibility. The day was founded to ensure that transgender people are not just mourned, but celebrated and advocated for. In observing this day, we affirm that every individual, no matter their gender identity or gender expression, deserves to live in a society that respects them, honors them, and treats them with fairness and dignity. On this year's transgender day, a visibility, we encourage all residents

0:14:28to celebrate and uplift transgender people and their families will recommitting to creating a world grounded in equity, understanding, and love. In keeping with that commitment, the Boulder County Board of Commissioners opposes all efforts to limit the ability of transgender people to live their lives with dignity and respect, including two initiatives approved for the November, 2026 Colorado ballots that would limit access to healthcare and opportunities to participate in sports for transgender youth. We, the Boulder County Board of Commissioners, therefore proclaim March 31st, 2026 as transgender day of visibility in Boulder County. Okay, thank you, and Mardi. Moore is with us. The Director of Rocky Mountain Equality. Good morning, Commissioners. My name is Mardi Moore. I'm Head Lesbian at Rocky Mountain Equality, make sure that's on record, I'm kidding. Um. As you read that in today's proclamation, including the ballot initiatives that we'll have, uh, we will be voting on in November. I spilled up with tears.

0:15:37Thank you for being so forward thinking Commissioner Loja Me and I know you reached out right away. Instead, we need to do something. I will add on this very important day for transgender day of visibility that we also urge you to make sure that it's clear that initiative 95, which would make our local police complicit with iCE, not pass the ballot in November. Today on Transgender Day of Visibility, I woke to the news that conversion therapy is now legal and across the United States in a vote eight to one. The hits keep coming. But moments like this, when we know we have electeds who stand with all in the community, and especially trans folks, we have counted on you over and over again, and I appreciate this. It's not a simple resolution or proclamation. It's what Boulder County is. This morning when I walked in and I walked by a national historic site signage that's gorgeous that says LGBTQ plus and we're on the registry.

0:16:41It meant something to me. I walked up the stairs and I saw a beautiful sign that said the Office of Racial Equity. I couldn't be more proud to stand before you today. The work of your predecessors and the work that you're doing matters in this community. Your voices matter. When I got dressed this morning, I thought as it's spring or is it follower? Is it winter. I decided it was a mix. But I pulled out this shirt and has butterflies on. And then I immediately thought of the song Butterflies are free. And in our community today, trans people are not free, nor are immigrants. So this proclamation today resolution, um, means a lot to us. Thanks for stepping forward for all in our community and thanks for all you do for Rocky Mountain Equality and the larger community. Thank you, Mardi. And I would invite my Commissioner Feder Commissioners if you want to say something at this time to do that. It's of course not necessary. Yeah. No, I appreciate that. Mardi, thank you for being here. Rocky Mountain Equality staff, CU and all the folks that are walking into the doors of your offices, the newer building, but also the work you're doing regionally and around the state is so important. And so I appreciate you taking time to come here. And my commitment

0:17:56is to continue to work for folks all over Colorado in this region who, as you mentioned specifically, our immigrant community and our transgender community who are under attack in really, really horrible and horrific ways. And so to be up here on the dais with my fellow colleagues and understand that Boulder County Staff, um, as well as doing the work to try and, as you said, not just put a resolution, um, but do the action that will help us support community. Thank you. For being here, Mardi. Thank you. Um, I'll go ahead. Yeah. And Mardi, just thank you. Thanks for the work you've done with Rocky Mountain Equality. And, um, you know, we, I feel on our, as Commissioner Lutruman said, to have colleagues who are a hundred percent in support of everything this proclamation embodies and the work that you do. And, um, this is not a political statement. Um, although I guess it will sound like one, uh, we all need to show up and demonstrate who, what Colorado is by defeating these ballot measures. Um, back when, what was then known as amendment to past in the early 90s Colorado became known as the hate state. And through years and years and years and years of hard work, we have turned that around to where the leadership in this state, uh, is open

0:19:33and affirming. And we will show the country that that is who we are. So thank you for being here. Thank you for kicking off the rally last night and we'll be with you at your site and have your back. So thanks for being here. Thank you, Commissioner. Okay. Thank you. Thank you both. That was really wonderful. And, um, I think in all the fighting, everyone's fighting so much right now. One thing I would just want to elevate is some little bit of joy and love. And so one thing I'm excited about with this proclamation and effort is really about the kids and the community. And I want every trans kid in our community to know that we love them and that we support them. And my favorite month, um, when I'm coming in to work is absolutely Pride Month because instead of just being in this gray room, we get it to be in a colorful room filled with rainbows and flags. And I can't wait until we have all the colors back in the room. But every kiddo in the community should know that we support them and love them. Every person, but particularly the kids need to know that they're safe here, welcome here. And we love them all. So thank you for bringing this forward. And I hope it brings some joy

0:20:41to people in a time where we're fighting a lot. It does bring joy. Thank you very much. Okay. Thank you. So we will now have our monthly meeting with the Boulder County Housing Authority. And so we will be sitting as the Board of Directors of the Boulder County Housing Authority. And I understand, um, the director is engaged in Lafayette right now. And, um, so. She finished. Pardon. Oh, I'm Susana finished her media. So she's actually sneak in. We'll just take a minute or take as much time as you need to shift gears. And I need to find. The packet. Which I thought I had open. Thank you. I. Don't think so. Correct. More. Good morning. Thanks for having us here today and I'll go ahead and kick us off for the March Boulder County Housing Authority monthly Board meeting. And I think we'll start with Public comment. And we do have one person who has signed up to speak to us and just to be clear, this is a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Boulder County Housing Authority.

0:22:31And are you Lloyd. Okay. Um, then you can come forward and state your name. And you'll have three minutes. To address the board. And you just want to come on forward to the podium here. This wasn't for housing. Authority. This is called a comment. On. Oh, that's not, so that's on Thursday. Um, and it's, uh, yes. So this is a meeting of the Housing Authority and we actually, we look like County Commissioners about where not at this moment. We are, we are the Board of Directors of the Housing Authority. And so you'll want to come on Thursday morning at nine o'clock. And you can, you can make your comments then. I'll. Drop these on for you. Then on the meantime. Yeah. You can go ahead and leave that. And if you'll give them to Matt Ramos, um, our clerk on Thursday then. Yeah. Come back on Thursday and we'd be happy to hear you. And we'll, we'll be County Commissioners on Thursday. Okay. Okay. I don't think we have anybody virtually either. No, yeah, there was nobody indicated. Great. So we've got a pretty robust agenda. We'll go ahead and get started. Next slide, please Kelly. And then. One more slide. Sorry. There's more details of our agenda, but I'll go ahead and get started with the director updates. Um, I did just want to

0:24:03provide a quick HUD policy update. As you know, we have been tracking the F. R. 6524 - P - 01, which is the housing and community development Act of 1980, verification of eligibility status where HUD is asking to change those roles on how we track undocumented households. Um, and serve them. So I just wanted to quick update the comment period remains open until April 21st, but there have been over 2, 500 comments, which is a very big number. And BCHA has provided comment, um, and continues to work with our County policy team to encourage others throughout Boulder County to provide public comment as well. Let's see. We have some updates. I wanted to talk briefly about the national and Colorado Narrow, which is the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials. Um, just as a reminder, this is a membership organization that supports agencies, um, a lot of public housing authorities, providing policy advocacy, professional training, technical guidance, and nationwide network for housing professionals. So over the last three years, we've become more and more engaged with NARO. Um, I'm happy to report that I accepted a leadership, um, appointment to the, I want to get the name right. Cause it's so new for me.

0:25:43To the Diversity, equity and inclusion advisory committee in February. So I'll serve on this national committee and I will turn my attend my first meeting in April. Excited to do that. I wasn't able to attend the Washington Convention, which is where they had their March meetings and my first meeting won't be in April. Um, but also at that Washington convening Colorado Narrow won a national award for our policy work. And I sit on our local policy advisory committee with Colorado Naro. So we're really excited about that work. Uh, that team is really evolved over the last two years. We've formalized and we're actually very engaged now with the state legislature. And very thankful to summer laws. Our own county policy advisor who supports me on that team, um, attends meetings with me weekly during legislative season and monthly when we're not. So very thankful for her support. Um, and then finally, I just wanted to let you know that Colorado Nairo really does stay engaged.

0:26:44Um, on statewide policy, even outside of the legislature. So we work really closely with the governor's office. Um, and just kind of work through things that are problematic for us. We work really closely with Dola and DOH when it comes to a lot of these HUD rules. So we feel really connected with NARO as of late. Happy to answer any questions. Any questions at this time? Susana, I don't have any questions. Congratulations. Thank you. That's really exciting. And it's, it's really important for us in this region to have your leadership. And I'm thinking at the same time, like, how do you manage all of these different commitments? But I think it's really, it's a fantastic announcement and we'll be interested to hear to what degree it kind of overlaps with, um, the vision that you've got for the, for BCHA as well. So thank you for sharing that. Thank you. Um, as a reminder, Colorado Naros state conference is in May. Commissioner Lutzman, you've agreed to attend that with our staff, which is exciting for us. And then as a really exciting factor, um, I don't have the dates yet, but our national conference in the fall will be held in Denver. And so that'll be, um, really nice to, I'll make sure to share that information if you can even attend one day would

0:27:54be a really great thing. Cause it's a huge, huge conference. And I mean, all states are represented. Oh, that'd be great. I'm really interested. Thank you. Okay. And I just have some brief updates on special limited partnerships. Um, as you know, we've been engaged in the spine road project where we have signed on with Cobel as an SLP, a special limited partner. On that project was a bit stalled as the City of Boulder did not want to move forward with the property tax exemptions and sales and use tax pending that comes from the state. But they have changed their mind. So they've worked out a deal now with Cobel and it appears that they will move forward with the project. I have not seen formal details of that yet. Um, but it appears that Cobel is willing to pay any lost tax sources directly to the city. So April and I are staying pretty engaged on that and I'll update you as soon as I know more. Cobel did ask if we would consider reanalyzing the formulas to reduce their financial impacts to us. And we said no. Thanks, Susana. Yeah. I just had some curiosities around. I'd still be interested. It sounds like the more information coming to you, but I would like to have an update on that and want to make sure

0:29:17that there's no, um, contingencies added in there potential renegotiation that would affect BCHA in any way. And or Boulder County. So yeah, that was interesting. Thank you. Right. And I don't know how far along all the documentation was on that deal when, when this glitch came up, um, I think what just jumps out at me is that part of what we require as a condition of entering into an SLP is that they're having that tax exemption really is needed in order to make the project pencil out. And so I just wonder, you know, what has changed in the financial pro formas and want to make sure that as, you know, we consider these in the future that we, we really are confident that, that this they need that SLP tax exemption. So, you know, just kind of wondering where the money's coming from to backfill the city on this. Me too. Yeah. I'll keep you updated. Okay. Thanks. Um, and then finally, I just want to announce that and the picture is where we were at the groundbreaking for a kite route in superior. So that project officially closed in the groundbreaking happened in March.

0:30:38Um, I was able to attend with Michelle Alexander and we, um, we were able to speak to how important public - private partnerships are. And we're really excited about this project in particular. As you know, it's a fully electric 50 unit senior housing development really combining all of the great things that we, um, hold as a value within BCHA around sustainability, quality design, essential amenities for older adults. Um, so, uh, look forward to continuing to see that project work. You might remember that that was also an AHT funded project for 2026. That's exciting. Yeah. It's good to see. And I think it's important as you've stated before just to make sure a community knows where that funding is going and what an impact it's making because 50 units is exciting, especially in that specific category that you've been working on. Thank you. Yeah. No, and it's exciting. This is superior's very first affordable housing. Yes.

0:31:34Uh, and so that's exciting. Um, and maybe, maybe at another time we can hear whether we were exploring a project this precedes your time as ED to do a TOD using, um, this program that Rtd had around, uh, land that they owned at transit stops. And that didn't go forward for a number of reasons. Uh, and I, I have been curious over the years whether that property might still be available. You know, if we reach a point where we have the means to take it on and we can do the work with superior that we, you know, in the moment didn't have an opportunity to do. Yeah. That's a great question. And, um, we are actually meeting with superior in the next couple of weeks regarding the dusting off that TOD. I don't know our partnership would be the same. But I have heard that there is interest from city council that there may be new investments involved. So we're excited to learn more. Okay.

0:32:38Great. I mean, I'd be excited to hear more about that. And, um, you know, it, it happened to ripe and unfortunately post martial fire where the communities felt like they couldn't really focus on this. And, um, see whether it made sense for the community. But, um, but it's, you know, for all the policy reasons that we know so well with transit right there, if that is surplus parking, it really makes sense to do it. So look forward to hearing about that. Great. Thank you. I'm going to hand it over to Michelle Alexander. Morning commissioners, Michelle Alexander, Deputy Director of Housing. Let's see if this doesn't fall on me for one time. So we'll start out here with, um, team operations and updates. We had a great time last month welcoming our new operations manager. Some hang toe and he will give an update shortly on our vacancy and operations. Um, when we had our REORG in the last few months, we did combine the facilities and property management team. So we no longer have a director of both of those teams. We have some hang.

0:33:57Our operations manager. So we are hoping for to see great, um, streamline of the operations and collaboration between those two teams with this new position. Next slide. Ms. Schul, may I ask a quick question on that? Just curious on any change in organization can create some concerns and or questions from folks and just curious how you might be working and just listening and hearing from folks in both the facilities and operations team if there's any learnings that might be helpful that you could share. And if not right now, that's totally fun. It was just curious. There's definitely some concerns from both of the teams. It was a hard transition with the visa, the layoffs. And now this transition. So I think that thing that we are doing the most is just listening to people and we continue to have transition. And I'm hoping that with this new position, it will start to even out. But the teams are working a lot better together and communicating their learning how to cross collaborate and dual manage projects.

0:35:07So they are making a lot of progress, but we recognize that it has caused a lot of anxiety. Thank you for that. Um, number six. So we are excited to welcome Nora. She is on our business systems team and some hang. Holly Dior. Was previously on our property management team. And during the layoffs has now come back as a housing coordinator. So we're really excited to see her back on the team. Willoughby corner phase two. We've seen a lot of progress with phase two in the last month or two. Our PUD was filed on March 19th and the SD has also been filed. So will those are Boltman submitted. Our first spar will be submitted April 10th. And we continue to stay engaged with community. Tonight we've got a tenant meeting at Willoughby from 5.

0:36:0430 to 8. And then Thursday we'll have an outreach event with the rest of the neighboring development from 530 to 8. And I believe you all received that invitation. We are still anxiously waiting to hear back on our TAFA application. There was a originally 35 applicants on that, um, that submission. And we're taking it as a good sign that we've had two rounds of questions from them. So we are really excited and hoping that we're one of the finalists on that. Willoughby corner fees to be. We go back up one, I think we must one slide. Maybe up moved. Um, phase two B, we did a, it must have gone out. So we have redesigned to be the multifamily from four buildings to two. It will really help reduce our environmental impact by building two buildings of the same shape. And increase our operational efficiency without compromising our service or goals. And we're really impressed with the team's efforts to make sure all these packages have been submitted in such a short time. Phase three.

0:37:23Home ownership continues to move through the architectural team. And we are currently waiting on DOH funding and we will be presenting that project next month. Sorry. Dola. Any questions on Willoughby Corner. No, I don't have any questions. It sounded like a question. So I want to at least respond. I did receive the invite for Thursday. Thank you for sharing that. I won't be attending a sound of like maybe Commissioner Solzman is going to be there. So just instead of having all of us at the same meeting. And I did share it out with some of the partners who participated in the home ownership conversation that we hosted at Willoughby, I think in the end of November with Senator Bennet. And so I've shared the invitation just to get some more input from folks around the home ownership. I had been planning on going, but I have a conflict now actually. Okay. Yeah. And I shared that out as well. Uh, so the, um, PewDieMend, uh, I know we're going to talk about a little bit later, but, um, do we know when Council will be, well, does that require Council Approval or is it an administrator requires Council approval approval? And do you know when that is scheduled? There is a scheduled meeting this morning that sounds like it didn't move forward. Yeah. We were

0:38:46scheduled to talk to the city about whether or not this timeline they can commit to it with us. And they unfortunately, I did not attend, but we're trying to reschedule for one. So I hope to have an update for you this afternoon when we meet, um, it's a tight timeline. And so we do have all of the meetings tracked. If we can get them to commit, we'll be able to apply for that, um, if we can't, then it'll delay us by another year, which is a long time. Okay. Well, we'll, I guess we'll learn more about all of those that and the timing implications, et cetera. I did share the information that I got from, uh, Susanna, you know, just with a couple of, um, people in Lafayette about, you know, the reasons why we're doing this. And, well, hopefully all that will, we'll bear fruit. So doing it all for affordable housing. But we will talk about it this afternoon. Moving over to sewer mobile home park. Um, have done a ton of parking lot upgrades. We removed home, sight cleanup, fire mitigation. We've worked with parks to eliminate the Myrtle Spurge on site and educated the tenants and our staff on Myrtles Spurge.

0:40:06We're also working really closely with the town of lions. On rezoning. So this property will be rezoned from an R1 to an R3. And we had our first planning commission. And it was past unanimously. We'll present on Monday the 6th for the next step in this. And we expected it all path. We hope that it will pass. Any questions on Seward. I don't see anything. Thank you. And then we have Cavill Improvements that were funded by AHT for 2026. First, we'll have Catamaran Court. There is an unincorporated Boulder County. Catamaran Court is preparing to break ground and late spring and early construction. We've got hardy sighting. NRT efficient upgrades. Fencing enhancements. HVAC upgrades. And hopefully a new playground. We've got a couple of grants out for that one. Hillside. Is in Louisville. This is also a H. T. partnership. And it will begin in the same timeline of summer to spring construction. We'll be doing new windows, Building Envelopes, citing, insulation, electrical, a few HVAC upgrades and parking lot updates. So those are our two big projects for capital improvements and A H. T. funding for the year. Moving over to the BCHA annual report.

0:41:32We're really excited to see that online. And everybody's got access to that. I don't know if you've had an opportunity to look through it. But if not, I believe that that link works Geneva. Sorry not Geneva Kelly. Yeah. So every year we get to take a minute and pause and look beyond our day - to - day work and look at the bigger picture of the scale of what we're building together. And this year's annual report is a collaboration of stability, resilience, and shows that thousands of lives that our team has helped support this year. This team has managed a portfolio that spans over 90 acres and 39 properties. Representing over 400 million dollars in assets. We have served over 2, 000 individuals from over 1, 200 households. And we've done over 691 certifications. Our maintenance team in rehab teams have done 13, 000 work orders, 2, 400 emergency requests. And they respond at all hours of the night. They've made huge upgrades across the portfolio. And if you haven't seen them, please stop by and see them. Dover Court. Casa diazperonza and lilac. Our voucher team has served over a thousand vouchers, including utility assistance. Our resident services team delivers one - on - one support crisis intervention, financial coaching and community programming, keeping families saved and connected. And I think that that was

0:43:15the end of that one. So I will introduce some hangto. He will talk about our vacancy rights. And then Kelly will talk about resonant feedback. Okay, thank you, Michelle. So welcome, first of all. Good morning, Commissioners. County and Boulder County Housing Authority. We're really excited to have you. Well, my name is Tamito. I'm the new operations manager. Um, my background includes property management, project management and real estate. I have worked in property management for over 10 years, including five years in affordable housing. I've worked for, uh, since 2020, I've worked for a local housing authority where I managed property operations, new development and capital improvement projects. In this role, my focus is on improving operational efficiency, strengthening marketing strategies across the portfolio. Enhanced team coordination and communication. And supporting long - term asset preservation. My goal is to build strong systems, support staff, and help ensure portfolio operates efficiently and as well positioned for long - term success. And currently the VAC C rates for BCHA is 93. 47 percent across the entire portfolio. And questions? Yeah. You know, you can keep going and we'll just interrupt as needed with questions. So thanks for pausing there for a minute. Oh, that was the end. Yeah.

0:44:56Is that your report? Welcome to the Boulder County Housing Authority. I don't have additional questions right now. Thank you. Yeah. No, good job. Good morning, Commissioners Kelly Schulz. The housing division manager. And I'm here just to present on resident feedback. And I just wanted to go back to a comment. I think it was, um, Commissioner Loachamine made about the staff and their concern, like concerns that have popped up because of the transition and everything. And I just wanted to kind of echo on what Michelle was saying that it's one of the priorities that we have been looking at as the executive leadership team is how to connect better with the staff too. And I allow them opportunities to provide feedback and comments. And so we've been doing regular, um, all staff meetings. We do them about once every six weeks and we alternate between in person and online. And one of the priorities that we were focusing on for this first quarter was how to improve those communication feedback loops. And so, um, we recently did a survey with all of the staff on kind of their preferences. If they know how to provide feedback, what are their preferences for providing and receiving the acknowledgement of their feedback? Um, and how would they like to see regular updates from management? And so we got a

0:46:23pretty high response rate out of 101. Um, employees. We got 49 responses back. And it was a very good mix of how people want to, um, provide feedback, how they feel supported right now, where we could make some improvements on that. And so one of the things that was one of Susanna's tops priorities too is to work on updating our SharePoint site for staff to have more resources now that we've separated from human services. And there is a spot on there where we're going to be, um, posting regular updates from leadership as well as a anonymous form where people can't, where staff can provide feedback to management. It can be anonymous or they can, if they want a response, they can include an email too. So that's just another way that we're kind of trying to like, uh, be more transparent as things have changed too. So I just wanted to highlight that. Um, but going back to the resident feedback. So, uh, I did the same thing that I did the last time we met is once we had the draft or well, once we actually have the draft version of this presentation, we sent it out, um, the email to all of the people on our, uh, contactless, which is just, it's over 2000 because it's, it's a combination of anybody that's a

0:47:46tenant or that's a voucher holder as well as we advertise this on the public website too, just so the public has it too, to get feedback. Um, this go around, I didn't get as much response as we did the last time, but we had four comments that came. And for the one of them was just for regular business operations requesting some window cleaning at one of our housing sites that has been directed to property management and maintenance to look at. We, um, got a question about how we're going to be determining the rents for some of one of the properties that we're currently looking at rehabbing. That also was fored on to property management to respond to. We had a voucher holder who's just concerned about the federal administration and disability rights. And she wanted to know how she could get more involved in some resources. So I responded to that one to provide some resources and some areas that she can, um, connect with and how she can reach out to her representatives. And then, uh, we had a general question from a tenant and our property that's not one of our voucher holders, but does have a voucher about, um, getting an extra bedroom for personal storage, not related to medical or disability.

0:48:58And so I just addressed that. But the comments remain live. So at any time we can receive comments. And then as they come in, I'll just collect them and present them at the next board meeting and also, uh, field them out to whoever needs to make a response. So. Any questions. No questions. Thanks, Kelly. Yeah. Appreciate that updates. Yeah. Thank you. And I hope the residents appreciate the efforts that you're going through to, you know, really make sure that we're hearing well from them and able to respond. So things for that. Problem. I'm not sure who's next on the. Oh, Sean. Okay. I'll turn it over to Sean. Good morning BCH Commissioners. Sean Doherty, the finance director for the housing authority. And I think the biggest deal that we had happened, it was actually at the end of February. But worthy of note, um, during this meeting is that we closed on the Aspen Wall Early Accet, which is really a big deal. We kind of went to school on the, uh, on Josephine Commons dime doing that early accet, learning how to do that.

0:50:11And I'll kind of a complexity and the kind of stakeholder engagement and all the partners that are involved in. And I deal like that. And so we had a great template. Aspen Wall went a lot more quickly. Um, we'd actually budgeted to take aspinal on at the beginning of May, so to the extent that had happened at the end of February is great news for us. Um, in that, that's big. I mean, you, you folks have always seen them on our covenant compliance report. And they've always been a part of the vocabulary, but the caveat there was we didn't own them. You know, we didn't don them. So, uh, we do own them now. So that's 200 units of affordable housing. Still is light tech project. You know, still it's a lightech compliance period. But, um, and so those are in BCHA's books now. And we reap the benefit of being able to capture the financial performance on to BCHA's financials. Um, so through, this is just, uh, single month in January, this little snapshot of our financials, uh, lots of detail of which is provided in the backup. Um, in the package. Um, and you can see, we're doing good revenue as, you know, pretty much what we budgeted a little bit, a little bit better, but, um, that's good. Expenses are actually down.

0:51:28To me, that's a timing thing primarily, um, we've got some personnel expenses in, um, or, or a less personal expense than budgeted in January. And that is a timing thing. We had several open positions that we've been filling. Um, so that, so that number will even out over the year. But the, the bottom line is it stands. And one month does not a year make an annualized number make, but we're about 100, 000 ahead of the budget. Um, through January. And I will mention so our auditors are in the office next week. And we, I think things have been going very smoothly. We've kind of restructured with the, um, with one of our key people taking VCEP in 2025 who was really kind of the heavy lift on the audit historically. And so we've restructured internally with staff. And I think they've done a tremendous job. I added some real depth of bench between Kelly in a couple of others. Um, and so we're looking forward to that audit. Hopefully it'll be a good clean smooth one. And we will deliver the draft to OFM on time, which I'm sure they'll all appreciate. So any questions. I don't have any questions. Great update. Thank you.

0:52:45No. Okay. Um, yeah, I think we're good. Thank you. And I do just want to note that, um, you know, are on our poopa, we are below our budget. It looks like across the board, which is really great to see. And, um, you know, despite, you know, occupancy rates being in the 90s, uh, you know, that continues to be a little bit of a concern there, particularly where, uh, well, with the exception of Kestrel and Wilby Corner, it looks like we're still seeing occupancy rates higher than, than we've budgeted. Okay. Thank you. Any other, uh, questions from the board on any of the financial? No. I don't have additional questions from what I've already been asking. Um, just want to appreciate. Your whole team and kudos to the staff as well. Yell are doing a lot of different work and appreciate the follow up from previous meetings that continue to come back. So thank you.

0:53:50So yeah, matters from the board. It looks like we, we have none. Um, and so thank you for making the presentation. And I guess we'll see you Susana this afternoon in executive session. So we're now at the end of our, um, meeting Agenda for the morning. And we have no further formal meetings today. So we will stand in adjournment. Thank you. Thank you.