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0:00:35All right, commissioners, are you ready? Yes, we are. Thank you. And we are recording. When isaiahs were here. For a meeting of the board of County Commissioners. Today is Thursday, October 2, 2025, and Commissioner Stoltzman and myself, Commissioner Lo Tremain, are present. Commissioner Levy is excused. We are here. At the third floor hearing room at the county courthouse at 1325 Folder Colorado, and where I'm going to go ahead and call our meeting to. Order and move us to item number two, which is our public comment session. There is a virtual option for this meeting as well. And folks can either call in that number, 833-35-6864 or we have the hybrid option. Still, we have public comment this morning. And the meeting is set up for up to ten people. It sounds like we may have more. Than that signed up. We have a maximum of an hour allotted to be and county commissioners here. In Boulder county. We do like to give some comments after speakers speak, so it was not a dialogue, so don't wait for us. But if you do want to wait around until the end of the meeting, we do try and at least. Give some response to the comments that are shared. So just by way of kind of direction here. In the meetings. And so we will start with

0:01:55folks in the room, and then we'll go to our online. Speakers and folks who want to give some comments. So we'll start with that and ask that, folks. Share any comments on items that don't have their own public hearing, if possible. And we'll hear what we need to hear. So we've got on the screen a list. Of folks. It's up here. So just kind of be prepared and see where your name is so we can try and get through as many folks as we can. There's a three minute allotment and the clock will show the screen if you are in the room as well Good morning, commissioners. Nice to see you guys again this week. My name is Nicholas Little. With the Nywat coalition, and I'm here to give comment about the local minimum wage. Ordinance. So today, my comment is going to be pretty quick. Thank you, first of all, for starting to look into this issue, and I actually just got the email notification about the October 14 hearing, so. We will be ready to show up and give our comment at that date as well. One of the things I just wanted to say today is I want to clarify our NYWaT. Working Group's position. After listening in on the meeting on Monday. There seemed to be some ambiguity of what

0:03:25our sort of group was saying, and so we are very much part of the pause and catch up. Is our preferred response. I think you guys were calling that option two on. Your guy where? It was showing how, over time, we were going to pause the local minimum wage. And then. We were going to wait for the other region to catch up, and so that we would then achieve a regional wage. So that is very much. What we would like to see as part of our working group is to see a pause and catch up. The one thing that I will add. Is. While we would like to see that, we acknowledge that the worst outcome for us would be no. Change at all. And so seeing some movement. Would be much preferred. Than the status quo. And I will leave you with that. So thank you very much for the time. And again, I will see you on the 14th. Thank you. Next is David Skaggs. Good morning, commissioners. Nice to see you all.

0:04:39I can't imagine what's going through your minds as you anticipate resolving. The minimum wage issue and being rid of all of us for your monthly meetings. And the repetition, though, undoubtedly is causing. A challenge to your patients. I, too, want to thank you for getting started on addressing this issue in a way that we hope will be dispositive and move the county toward a regional approach to minimum wage. As Mr. Little explained, we think that option two that was outlined for you at the meeting on Monday is the. Way to go. It's the fastest, cleanest way to get to a uniform county regional. Minimum wage. And as a liberal Democrat, I would like to say something perhaps counterintuitive, which is to speak in behalf of Prophet. If there is no profit for business, there is no business. If there is no business, there are. No employees. If there are no employees, there are no wages.

0:05:42So in a way that I think is often lost sight of. If we do not create a wage structure. That enabled businesses to survive with, excuse me, at least a modest return on investment profit. There won't be jobs. There won't be wages, minimum or otherwise. So I hope. As you deal with this vexing issue. You will keep in mind. That linkage between. Making some profit for business and keeping costs at a level that permit that to happen. Costs that primarily for a lot of small businesses are the wages that they get their employees. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next is Allison Joffey. Good morning. My name is Alison Daffey, and I've lived in Boulder for 21 years. I've been on the board of North Boulder Little League for three years, and I have probably spent more time at irish fields than in my own backyard for the last seven years. I have an eleven year old, Shannon, who plays baseball, who has played baseball since he was five. During Covid, when my son was six years old. We spent a lot of time in iris. Fields to keep him entertained. He fell in love with baseball during t ball, and since then his love of the sport has only grown. He has represented NBLl the last three summers on the all star team. He

0:07:02has played on the Bison travel team the last three years. In his goal in life is to play professional baseball. Now, my son is an avid baseball player, but the joy of Iris Fields is that they welcome any type of player. We actively recruit kindergartners and first graders to join our t ball in single a divisions so they can enjoy baseball for many years. We encourage differently abled children to join our Challenger League, and we built additional batting cages recently because there are so many teams playing at iris. That we needed additional space. Even high schoolers and softball players for the Louisville Sluggar Independent State tournament use those batting cages to prepare for their games. We have hosted the Ten U All Star tournament for the past three years and we receive comments from other leagues about how much they love the Iris fields, having kids, scoring the games from the wooden scoreboards, watching kids enjoy an ice cream from the snack shack and hearing the national anthem. Played to start the games each day are a magical reminders of what. A community space means.

0:08:06In addition to being a board member of NBLL and the parent of a baseball lover, I also live at Juniper Townhomes, which are located three blocks away from Iris fields. I drive past the fields multiple times every day, and I'm delighted when I see kids playing with their parents or teams practicing for upcoming games since the Iri. Iris fields are in the middle of town. Kids bike there to play, to umpire, and to watch. Their friends play. I feel that a community space is necessary in the heart of Boulder, and I'm eager to work with the academy to continue to offer outdoor options to the kids of Boulder. And as I know all too well, the corner of iris and Broadway is busy all of the time. However, adding elder living to this intersection will not drastically increase the traffic. We welcome the idea. Of a community cafe or restaurant since that location is essentially a retail desert. In addition, studies have shown the benefits of intergenerational wisdom. Both older and younger people benefit from interacting with one another. It alleviates loneliness and boredom and older people, and it fights. Ageism for younger people. So basically, I am supporting the. I'm almost done. Okay, so let me start. Lindis. Even after my son is no longer playing little league, I'm eager for kids to enjoy.

0:09:22Iris Fields and bring them the friendships like my son has forged over the last seven years. Thank you. Thank you, Liliana. I don't see liliana, megan. Neither. Lynn Siegel. It'll be a year now that I've been coming here to speak about my. Retrofit promoted by the county. Over a year ago. Do you mind just stating your name? Lynn Seidel. And this is outrageous that you're promoting. Sustainability. And I am ripped off of sustainability. My retrofit. I won't even use anything. Except my hot water heater, which doesn't get my hot water hot enough, and which has a loud buzzing electronic hum in my living room and my kitchen, which is intolerable. And is not okay. It's not promoting sustainability in the city of Boulder or the county of Boulder. I am in the county, too. This is obnoxious. It's unacceptable that the city, that the county would. Lie, which is what they did. Which is unethical.

0:10:49What they did was when they were installing a solar project, not. With the vendor that I was suggested to. This vendor. Refused to do the job because. It was inclement whether or adverse conditions to do the solar install as a result. It was not done. And the county dropped that vendor, so I can't trust the county anymore to do retrofit. And then ten years later, ten years. I do a retrofit with the city of Boulder for free. Now. I'm on hold for two years now. One year for waiting to see if my application went through, and the second year to get the install done, which was November 14, a year ago, and it's not functional for me. I'm not using it. So excel is. Not getting the benefit of electrification and the county. Is throwing money at nothing. $55,000 worth of nothing on my place.

0:11:55Thank you very. Much county for doing nothing to help me out. This is pitiful that you would let this happen. This is your county. This is David Hashimanji. Who's not there now, who left probably largely because of me and, you know. What? I've got to put in a word for gaza, too. For the babies that don't. Have any water even there. How can you exist in this country, in the United States? Use real, I call it. The us uses israel to do. Their duty of killing people. And amass genocide. This is not just a regular genocide. This is a fundamental genocide that we have never seen before. That is acknowledged by the International Criminal Court, et cetera, and human rights violations. How can you just sit there and do that? Continually. For two years now.

0:12:58And I was 15ft neck from the fire attack in front of your building. 15ft next. Is Steve Gabler. And Steve. It doesn't look like his hair jam. Shafer. Thank you. Not here. Alice and Steele. I don't see Eric Sweene. And we will come back to the folks who are shown there in yellow, just in case someone arrives not knowing about the timing. Thank you. Good morning. Thanks for the chance to speak with you. I'm Eric Sweene. I'm. In El Dorado springs. I've spoken with you twice before about. The house size rule change, which in the town site is 1500 square foot square feet. And last time I followed up with just the sections from the older comprehensive plan. They're about to be able to run our Springs town site. And in there. There's kind of the recommendations for. County or for community input as well as some flexibility for the future of town. I wanted to just fill in some of the history that goes.

0:14:20With the town sites. So if we back up 20 years ago. El Dorado Springs. The other town sites, they were just called. They were just unsubdivided. 2004 to 2008. Planning land use, and the commissioners went back and forth with what they called special character areas. 2008, they were set to implement that. They decided not to, and they created the town site initiative. And Gary Samphison was a lead facilitator. And that was really in depth. Process to try to get more community input. To tailor those programs to the town site. So in El Dorado Springs, that was a series of eight meetings. It was really in depth, tremendous amount of work, and they came up with a plan. 40 page document, two videos. It really went into setbacks. It went into a tiered system. For floor area ratio, kind of sizing houses to parcels. They ended up pulling out the details of that to get the first phase of that put into the boulder comprehensive plan, and that was 2009. The second part of that plan, which was all the details. Implementation just got put on hold. The history on this is a little fuzzy. I've talked to Han Hipley over at planning. It sounds part of what happened is Gary got pulled out on four mile fire, and then after that the flood. 2013. So

0:16:14the implementation, that second phase never got enacted, just got tabled. So I just want to put in that history because I think it's important. And then two of the things I wanted to say. Kind of a strange analogy, but I'm really tall. I'm six foot five. I'd look pretty funny in your clothes. And there's an analogy just. To home size, parcel size. El Rodder Springs is not all small parcels. A third of them are over a third of an acre. I'm on a half acre. Two of my neighbors immediate neighbors are over an acre. Right now. The way this 1500 square foot rule runs, I can build the same amount as one. Of my smaller neighbors and my Parl solo is 20 size, 20 times as big as his. So just a request for. Ask for some flexibility, something like. The sliding scale or to complete the second phase of the town. Is up, Eric.

0:17:23Thank you. Next is Jim Dorby. Good morning, commissioners. I'm Jim Dorby from Nywat. I'm the president of Nywat hall, formerly the historic left hand Grange. And I'm here today speaking on behalf of our board of directors. Nywat hall is a five. Hundred and one C three volunteer led and run organization. Our mission is simple but vital to be a community gathering place for meetings, lectures, culture and cultural arts. We sustain this mission and the preservation of our historic building. By renting the space out for important life events like weddings, memorials and celebrations of all sorts. While Nywat hall has no employees, the impact of the current Boulder county minimum wage ordinance on our town, our farmers and our businesses. Affects us in significant and unsustainable ways. That's why I'm here. Today is to try to convince you to pause the minimum wage increase until the other municipalities catch up recently, we were able to make significant upgrades to the interior of Nywat hall. As you have likely seen in some of the meetings you've attended there. These improvements were funded through partnerships within Naiwat Lid, local businesses, grants and NYWat community organizations as well as the own rental income that we generate. Our customers just don't rent. A building. They choose the hall because they love the quaint town of Nywa and they know that

0:18:49we have a complete ecosystem of businesses that. Are ready to support their event. They rely on our inn, the restaurants, caters, boutiques, spas. Salons and flower shops to help with their events. This network of businesses is our lifeblood. They hire minimum wage workers and they pay into the Nywat local improvement district. That keeps Nawat thriving if they are forced to compete. With businesses and surrounding towns with lower wages. They will fail. If these businesses fail, the entire ecosystem. Collapses, lit funds decline, the charm is lost and customers no longer see the appeal of renting. Nywat Hall. All this is happening at a time when an essential grants are being eliminated and Boulder county is facing its own serious budget crisis. We cannot afford to weaken our independent tax pains and businesses. The negative and cascading effect of this unfair competition has on Nywat hall and our ability to preserve our historic landmark is evident. You've heard the chorus of voices from farmers, businesses and the entire Nywat community. We want a level playing field to compete with businesses in the surrounding towns. We want a minimum wage. That is fair to both employer and employee.

0:20:02Right now that fairness does not exist. Commissioners, you are the elected leaders of Boulder county and leadership requires courage. We are asking you to show the courage require to fix this problem. Our request is simple, responsible and has lasting impact. Pause the minimum wage at the current level. Let the Boulder county municipalities catch up to unincorporated Boulder county and then let the increases happen in unison across the country. Across the county. This solution protects our businesses, maintains local employment, and allows our critical community ecosystem the very essence of Nywat to survive and thrive. Your time is up. Thank you. Thank you for the opportunity to. Speak cherry Malloy. Can we swap and take my spot? No, but you're welcome to come up, and then Gordon's after you, and then. Jeff Lester. I think we've got folks online, so just trying to. They're watching, too. I get it. Sherry Malloy, Longmont. Good evening. Good morning. Commissioners in January, Longman, city council. Directed staff to pursue a partnership with Boulder county to find land for a large scale composting operation following the rainbow n. Nursery hot mess Boulder county is reluctant to build on its 108,000 acres of open space nor should you. Why? Are you okay with building? On some of Longmont's 3200 acres, public works staff has proposed a land exchange swapping distal purchased with

0:21:31open space dollars for tall landowned by public works. This proposal carves out just eight acres for the county's compost infrastructure. And 57 acres for Longmont infrastructure. This is greenwashing, allowing Boulder county and Longmont to develop on land that has been designated as open space. Longman. Friends of open space initiated encamped pain for the extension of our open space. Ballot measure last November. 74% of voters supported taxing ourselves in perpetuity to ensure that our open space lands are honored, safeguarded and remain undeveloped. That includes not being bartered, even for good projects like compost. Hundreds of residents have opposed this swap, saying treating open space is flexible, inventory is unacceptable. Longmont in our entire Boulder county community deserve durable protections that match the commitment voters have already made. Moreover, this land exchange would set a harmful precedent that promotes similar future exchanges. Especially concerning housing. Longman friends wholeheartedly support keeping organics out of our landfills. The strategy for implementing. Compost must be executed correctly and in an appropriate location. It appears you may have lost your guidance principle. As a result of your intense concentration on advancing compost infrastructure. Process matters. Public perception matters. Precedent matters. Microplastic compost contamination matters. Longtime compost and open space advocates matter.

0:23:04When government bodies remake policies. To coopt protection measures to advance projects that industrialized fragment and degrade our open space. Lands, we lose more than one open space property. We lose the integrity of public lands in the fundamental essence of conservation. Furthermore, we erode the public's trust in local government, which has far greater repercussions than our eroded confidence in our national government. At its core, this debate is about trust. Fund open space so it stays open space. When people see land, we pay to protect being positioned. For a different purpose. Confidence and open space programs decline. This puts passage of boulder counties and any future long on open space ballot measures in jeopardy. In conclusion, Longman friends of open space cannot support the extension of the county's open space tax, given that. Boulder county plans to utilize long month's open space for industrial development. We have not yet conveyed this to our supporters and the public as we are still optimistic about a potential change in direction from your end. Thank you. Thank you. Gordon. Pedro.

0:24:14Gordon Pedro 26 39 Falcon Drive long month I served as Longmont city manager from 1993 to 2012. During that time frame, Longmont residents approved the city's first open space program and a sales tax to support it. Last November, our voters extended the open space sales tax. In perpetuity with 74% approval. I'm a member of the Longmont Friends of open space that is opposing the distal. Land toll land exchange that would convert the distal property land purchase for open space into an industrial development for composting facility. Boulder county is the driving force in this effort because it has. Resources for a compost facility. Because of these resources, a part of the city's long month's open space program. Is being targeted. For conversion into an industrial development. If this were to happen, the voters in Longmont will have their trust. Clearly broken. In the program. Open space program. The original language in Longmont's ballot clearly states that once purchased for open space, it can only be used for open space purposes, not in industrial use, like composing.

0:25:35I have heard some of the members of this board. Alleged that since the distal property. Is already. In industrial use. No harm, no foul. Not true. The city purchased the distal property for open space, with the seller committed to reclaim the property and restore it for open space. This is similar to the CMaX operation in Dow flats near the city of Lions. Restoration at that site is progressing rapidly. The Longmont City Council referred to proposed land exchange to the Parks and Recreation advisory board, which is the advisory board. Most involved with long months open space program. Prab advised the city council to reject the land exchange. Of Longmont open space support composting, but not on land purchased for open space. When Boulder County. Attempted to convert the rainbow nursery at Highway 287 in the lockout.

0:26:39Road, it faced opposition and you punted the idea because of potential legal challenges. A similar legal challenge is likely with the distal open space. Commissioners you are. Supporting an attack on a part of Longmont's open space program. To facilitate your composting goal. This makes no sense since there are thousands of acres in both Boulder county and welld county that can be purchased for an open space or composting facility. We will not be able to support. Your initiative. Thank you. Your time is up. Next is Jeff Lester. Good morning, commissioners. My name is Jeff Lester, and I appreciate the opportunity to speak with you today. I am a long time longtime resident of Longmont. I'm here to respectfully voice my strong opposition to the proposed industrial use of the distal open space property. Placing a composting facility or any industrial operation on this land would mark a dangerous turning point. Threatening not only the distal parcel itself, but also the long term integrity of long Naant's. Entire open space program. It would also disregard the commitments made by Longmont, Frederick and Boulder county to protect. This specific land area. The first area of concern related to commitments is the intergovernmental agreement that Longmont entered with the town of Frederick in 2011. This agreement still in effect today. Requires both communities to protect the St.

0:28:33Brain and Boulder creeks through coordinated planning. It calls for preserving riparian areas in their natural state. It also safeguards water quality. And. Wildlife habitat, including the bald eagle roost near the confluence. The agreement requires buffers and setbacks, keeps industry out of the corridor and envisions trails and recreation linking the two towns. The distal parcel purchased with open space funds lies within this corridor. Converting it. To a regional composting facility. Would directly contradict the IGA, replacing a natural buffer with truck traffic runoff, contamination, odor and disruption to wildlife and trail connectivity. A second important commitment to note is the St. Vain integrated. Reclamation plan developed by Boulder county and Longmont to guide restoration of the corridor. Healing the rivers, improving habitat, and building flood resilience. The distal tall lands lie within this zone. Industrializing them would undercut that vision, replacing restoration with degradation and sending the message. That long range plans and community commitments can be set aside when inconvenient. That sets a bad precedent. If open space purchased. With voter approved funds can be swapped or converted to industry. Then every parcel becomes vulnerable. Voters approve the open space tax, expecting permanent protection, not a land bank. For future facilities. Commissioners, I urge you to oppose industrial use at distal by doing so, you uphold.

0:30:33The IGA. You uphold. Time is up. The reclamation plans. Thank you, Jeff. Your time is up. Thank you. I. Want to just check if there's any. It doesn't look like anybody else joined. Us in the room. There were several names on the list. If you don't mind just. Scrolling through them. Stuff. I don't see anybody else that's arrived, so we'll go ahead. And close the in person thank you section. And then mobile to virtual looks like. Similarly, Adiague was signed up, but it's not available right now. That's what that yellow line means, akiles. La Grav is next, and you've got. Three minutes. Hi, commissioners. My name is Achilles Legrav, 35. Five. Broadway street. And I would like to talk about the North Broadway complex. I'd like to talk about it by first. Thanking. You guys, as well as staff and frankly, generations of staff and commissioners for being fantastic neighbors. I have lived for years.

0:31:42Across the North Broadway complex. Right at the corner of Juniper and Broadway. Now, as far as being. Great neighbors you guys are. In the very unhappy position of being forced to putting a price on something priceless. And perhaps in a different time and under different circumstances, you would have had a lot more options. And a more willing partner in the city. To make a transaction that would have been more natural. We fully. Appreciate that. This conversation has inspired a great deal of attention. And angst from not just our neighborhood community, our sport youth sports community, but a lot of other folks. Around the community. And to that end, I've been lucky enough to participate. In a really historic community process. To partner. With you guys to bring you forth a solution. That respects. The community.

0:33:03In fact, for the first time in years, Boulder has before it not just another densification. Scheme, but. A community driven development proposal. This is a genuine, neighborhood led partnership built from the ground up by the community instead of a developer. We have listened to. Neighbors, hoas, youth sport groups and, frankly, county and city staff in order to bring before you guys a proposal. That we believe. Takes care of everyone. It appropriately acknowledges the asset that you have and the position that you're in, we believe it's the strongest financial proposal. That. You will see before you. It saves the baseball fields. It actually introduces the most benign use case by adding senior housing, freeing up single family housing across the county and. That's not to mention. Adding much needed facilities to the neighborhood. So we're very excited about it and we hope in the near future.

0:34:16You will open the doors with a roadmap and a timeline for us to further engage. Thank you. Thank you. Next is Megan Lagrov. Hello. My name is Megan Lagrov, 35, five Broadway. I've been living in this. Home in this neighborhood since 2018. And I'm just on as a citizen to also support the Save Iris fields proposal. I recently, in the last few years, have been one of the stewards of the coveted juniper. Neighborhood email list. With that, we have started to build a community and have held across the street from the north. Complex events on our street like a garden. Progressive 4 July Community Party, a fire safety commissioner party. And in a few weeks here, the pumpkin carving social. And setting up the pumpkin carving. Social over the last few days, I've actually received.

0:35:20A few unsolicited emails knowing that my husband, Achilles Lagrov, is involved. In the save iris fields proposal and. Have unwavering support from us. We're all quite excited to have. A coffee shop and a senior living facility across the street with which to engage and also of course, very excited about saving the Iris ball fields and enabling that to stay in place so that is all I had to say. And I yield my time. Thank you. And I'm just going to give it 30 seconds here, virtually, in case there's anybody that was trying to sign up and didn't get an opportunity or switching devices. If you're on your phone, please hit star nine to raise your hand and then star six to unmute yourself. I don't see anybody else signed up. They're joining, so we'll go. Ahead and close the virtual section of our public comment for today and commissions may have some comments and if not, we'll keep moving into our next meeting.

0:36:35Commissioner Solzman. Thank you. I'm. The team lead on the composting project, so. I'll make a few comments about composting at this time, so just appreciate the comments and the passion from community members. I have a little bit different perspective, so I'll just share it now. The commissioners are huge advocates of open space and have been working hard to protect and preserve our open space areas, maintain them to high degree and improve soil health. So just want to. Say that originally we were looking at all different spaces around the county for options to compost. Years ago, two sets of prior commissioners had looked at some spaces and the community came out not interested in the rainbow tree nursery site largely because of the location. And the town of Erie wasn't supportive of it. More recently, we've been working with the city of Longma and the city of Longmont purchased the dull and distal toll and distal properties for public works uses and for open space uses.

0:37:36And the public works uses are much more expansive than just resource conservation. They have other ideas as. Well. And so we are trying to be good partners with Lungmont, and we'll continue to try to be good partners with all our municipalities. That's something that we try really hard. To work on and in our county we have a good relationship with our municipal partners. In other counties. Sometimes there's more conflict, but we work really hard to keep good relationships. Partway into the investigation on art, and we're still looking at lots of different sites. And considerations. But partway into the investigation, it seemed that there was space for resource conservation and recycling and composting, perhaps on the public works site. And as Longmont staff continued to look at it. They brought forward a proposal to the community to consider. Swapping the two parcels so that the open space would be on what public works as purchase. And the public works would take the open space piece. When they brought that forward, the open space board said this doesn't look like enough of a win for open space.

0:38:32Brings them back. Some other proposals. There was a lot of great community input. And what came from all that community input and ideas was a proposal that. Would have had about 80 additional acres of land that would be managed as open space. It would have protection of the riparian corridor and a trail along the riparian corridor, and it would resolve an issue for water storage for the Longma open space system. They currently don't have adequate water for their agricultural land, so there were a lot of things from the open space. Side that made the swap appealing. There was a great conversation at the parks board, and ultimately. They didn't recommend the swap to the council, but it was certainly a mixed vote. It wasn't unanimous. And interesting little abstentions that may not have been actually allowed by the rule. So definitely good conversation. And if the Wongwatt City Council doesn't want to do the swap, then the Boulder county commissioners won't do the swap. We've never advocated for the swap from the front. We've always been a good partner to Longmont council. And if they do the swap, we'll be able to partner. With them.

0:39:33If they don't do the swap, we could partner with them. So we really are here just trying to be good partners to the community and look for solutions. We have 600 tons of woody biomass that are currently going to landfill right now in our community. That should be composted. And that's sort of tragic that we're not. Dealing with that. So the compost solution is something we're still actively pursuing and trying. To address, and we'll try to do it in ways. That create winwinds if the Longmont council, whichever decision they ultimately make, It will be their decision on behalf of their community. With regard to all the comments, they're receiving and we'll keep working really hard with them. I could see it being a really positive outcome in any event. So I think there are a lot of good solutions out there, and we'll keep working.

0:40:17With the community to try to make it happen. Thank you. Thanks, Commissioner Solzman. And I was going to just note from a staff direction. As the lead on that project regarding compost that. You're doing. I wonder if in one of our upcoming lead commissioner meetings, we could get an update from you. On that because commissioner Levy is not here. Just so that we're all in the know. Oral. Sure, but there's no update since the last update that I gave you. But I'm. Happy to do that. And what I was saying before you jumped in, there was the other option would be we could. Invite her to just listen to this recording, too, just so she gets what might be the ask. Might be about an update, so I just wanted to at least offer that.

0:40:59So thanks for taking some time to share a little bit more about. What you've been involved in on that particular project. And then I think the other one. I just wanted to make sure that folks knew that and. I believe Nick mentioned it, but there was some questions in regards to the minimum wage and commissioner. Levy is not here, and she's the lead on that. Work. But it is true. We've got that change date from the last time some folks, and so our communications director grabbed me this morning just to make sure that I could share. That we had originally said October 28, but it is true that. There is a public hearing on October 14. Instead. And so I just wanted to make sure that that was clarified, and that's at 230 is what my calendar shows. From that initial hearing on that, so I just wanted to make sure that that was clear.

0:41:51And I think that was. The only other piece that I had here. On. My notes. And then, of course, The question around the facilities and our iris and Broadway. Appreciate people's voicing opinion. We've got hundreds and hundreds of emails from several different teams, but just want to appreciate that. And we have a different process that we're going through. With staff. And our deputy. County. Our assistant county administrators is doing a fabulous job in regards to leading network, so thank you. Everybody, and we don't have any other items.