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0:00:04And we are recording Gwenazias. We're here for a meeting of the board of county commissioners in Boulder county. Today is Thursday, November 13, 2025, and we're present here at the third floor hearing room of the county courthouse at 1325 Pearl street. I'm going to go ahead and call our meeting to order and move us from item number one. To number two, which is our 09:00 a.m. business meeting and public hearing. On parks and open space real estate matters. And we'll go to item number three, which. Is our business meeting. Commissioner levy. 's excused. Commissioner Salzman and myself are present. And we'll move to item number. Four board of equalization consent items. So that means we're now setting as a boulder. County board of equalization. I move we approve the consent agenda. All. Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Thank you. That takes us to item number five, which is? Housing authority consent items, which means we're now sitting as the Boulder county housing authority board.

0:01:01Of directors. And I'll move. We approve the consent agenda. Second. All in favor? Aye. Thank you. That takes us to item number six, which is commissioner's? Consent items, which means we're now sitting back as the Boulder county board of county. Commissioners for consent items. All move. We approve the consent agenda. Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Thank you. And that takes us. To. Item seven, which is commissioner's discussion items. Let's start with item seven a, which. Is county attorney's office, Resolution 2025. Four revising the county's local sales and use tax exemptions, which is on page eight of the packet. Good morning, commissioners. Carrie Doyle for the county attorney's office. This is a resolution. That you directed us to do earlier this year. We're adding. Two exemptions to all our sales and use taxes. It's the diaper and period. Products. Exemptions. And so. We waited until.

0:02:14The election was over, so we knew the full bevy of our taxes and now we're. Doing one resolution, and we'll submit that to the state. Thank you. Kerry. Any questions? I just had some comments. Absolutely. I just want to thank our chairperson. Commissioner Lichman for bringing this forward. The state changed the law where we could because the Department of Revenue, collects our sales and use taxes. We don't have complete control over which things are collected through that agreement, and they changed the law a few years ago. Or maybe more recently even, and we could exempt diapers and period products from tax collection and commissioner Lo Chiman brought it to the board's attention, and it's a really important effort just because we have families that are struggling to make it by. And if you think of purchasing diapers. Having to pay additional tax on that put some undue burden on community. Members. So it's a day to celebr. Celebrate, and I'm just really grateful for your leadership and for bringing this forward. So thank you. Thank you. Thanks, Carrie. For the presentation, for being here. And.

0:03:12I wish that the students who had brought this to our attention a couple of years ago were here. And able to just understand and know that. It's a process. Everything and government is a process. But I do want to just appreciate and I know there's a lot of different community efforts in regards to the cost of hygiene products. For folks who identify as women and period products, and it's gotten more expensive. We have folks in Boulder county who are under the poverty line or at poverty line. It does create a burden. So I just appreciate you all following up on that and the timing. We had some folks that were in the hearing room maybe three months ago. Asking about this as well, and so I would just ask if staff. Did get any contact information. If we could follow up and just let folks know that. We did move forward on this. So we've got a discussion. Item seven a, if there's a motion to approve. I move we approve resolution 2025 54. And I second thank you all in favor? Aye. Aye. Thanks, commissioner. Thanks, Carrie. Appreciate that. All right, and then let's move to item seven B, which is office of Sustainability and. Climate resilience, climate equity fund recommendations. Good morning, commissioners, and thank you for the opportunity to present the first

0:04:31round of recommendations for the Climate Equity Fund. This fund represents new ground for Boulder county, both with its focus on. Community. I so apologize. Could you please put your name on the record before you start? Thank you. Sorry. Hi. My name is Brett Fleischman. I'm the senior strategist at the office. Of sustainability, climate action and resilience. Thank you for having me. Thank you. Where was I? Both its focus on community informed climate equity work and its intent to be a participatory grant making program. Through this pilot program, we've learned a great deal. We've learned how to create. A more community driven process, one that better centers the leadership, experience and solutions of frontline communities who live with the realities of climate and social inequities every day. I want to take a moment to thank the many people who help make this first year possible. The community Creation committee, who laid the foundation for this fund's vision? The community evaluation committee. Who devoted countless hours to reviewing applications and shaping the process. Our consulting partners at JSI, who brought professionalism and steadiness to this ambitious pilot.

0:05:47My colleagues at Oscar for their dedication and teamwork, and our attorney for her steadfast legal guidance. Thank you. I would also like to acknowledge commissioner Loachman for her visionary leadership. In helping bringing this fund to life. As with any first of its kind effort, this inaugural round has been both meaningful and imperfect. Balancing a community informed approach with the county's legal requirements, state and federal compliance, and fiscal accountability presented inherent challenges. We recognize that this dynamic understandably created some natural tensions as the process unfolded. The evaluation process also moved quickly to ensure that we met our yearend deadline and we learned a great deal. Along the way, the community evaluation committee has provided thoughtful feedback and showing a commitment to making this process. Even more community driven moving forward. Despite the growing pains, we believe this first year has laid a strong foundation for a fund that not only supports frontline communities, but is guided by them. Okay. Today we will briefly cover the timeline and process that led to the recommendations for funding in this first round of the crime and equity fund. We will then review the recommendations outlined in greater detail. We will then review the recommendations outlined in greater detail in your packets. Afterwards, I'd like to provide an opportunity for one of our community evaluation committee members to make a

0:07:19short statement and then finally, we're seeking your approval of these recommendations to move forward with the grant agreements. And funding. Okay, looking back, may through June, the community creation committee designed the climate equity fund through a series of strategy meetings and document creation. Then, in July, the board of county commissioners approved the climate equity fund process, and on August 1, applications opened for the pilot cycle. Of the Climate equity fund. The community Evaluation committee was formed and trained on the scoring process in August and began scoring once the open application period closed and the initial screening of eligibility was conducted. We received 56 applications requesting over 12.6 million in funding. So this was an extremely competitive process. As you know from the program design, the first round had a ceiling of funding set at 2.5 million. And working with our consultants at JSI, we set a capacity of grant management. At up to ten grants for tier one and five grants for tier two. Each application was scored through the following criteria outlined in greater detail in the grant's manual. Evaluators were asked to score based on guiding questions of which I've provided a few examples here. So, for example, in the organizational background project team and partnerships section, lived experience through cultural ties to the community served. Our equity and justice, part of the

0:08:54organization's mission and history. Our roles shared in compensated equitably. And then after. We looked at the top scoring applications we went through. An additional scoring process to reflect the following values for the fund geographic distribution tier balance, frontline representation, organizational type, sector and project type. And systems impact. I want to say that. All of. This was quite detailed and difficult process. For example, in the geographic distribution we had a high concentration. Of strong applications here in the city of Boulder. But needed to have a more equitable spread. Okay. Here are our tier one projects recommended for funding. Projects range from 17,000 to the tier ceiling of 50,000. And include initiatives that focus on climate, education, community resilience, food justice and civic capacity building. And here are tier two project recommendations for funding. You will see the five largest awards for projects covering food, justice, mobile home, resilient infrastructure. Climate justice, leadership training, low income, community solar. Resident steward tree planting and fostering civic participation. I also thought it might be helpful to put a list of the partners within each of these. Applications up on the screen so you can see. Some of the. Organizations and groups that may not have been in the headline there, but are also embedded in the projects and receiving funding. Grant funding is contingent upon successful completion of the

0:10:53following steps ensuring Boulder county act as a good steward of taxpayer dollars. Number one final authorization from the board today. Two the pre award assessment a thorough review of project feasibility, mitigating risk, and ensuring appropriate contracting mechanisms. The three cost assessment, which is a review of the budget with the grantee, and then finally the grant agreements with grantee, which includes milestones. And reporting elements. Now I'd like to pass it over to Bernice. For a statement from the CEC. Thank you, Brad. Bernice. Boulder county resident. Good morning, everyone. Bonus. My name is Bernice. As I mentioned it already, and it has been an honor to serve on this committee for the climate equity fund and what drew me to this work and what has to stay with me through the whole process is a commitment to centering the people who are most impacted by climate change.

0:12:01Frontline, immigrant, low income, those historically excluded from the voices that we always have at the table. And in traditional funding decisions. From the beginning, I felt a deep alignment with the committee. Each member brought live experience, cultural connection, and a strong desire to make this fund meaningful and accessible. That grounding in community wisdom is at the heart of what equity means, and it really aligns to the work I do. At the same time, I want to acknowledge. What already? Brad mentioned their process wasn't perfect as a pilot year. It moved quickly at a moment, it felt challenging to fully reflect. As deeper questions and build a level of trust and share understanding that true community led processes require. Those tensions are real. But I don't see them as a failure. I see them as. A part of the growing pains of buying something new, something that ships power in a way government. Systems are still learning how to support even with those imperfections. People, there is something incredible happening. Here for the first time, dollars are being intentionally funeral to communities that has been historically excluded. Funding will support projects rooted in neighborhoods where people live and work. Families will see tangible benefits, improvements in their homes, their community spaces, and their everyday lives. That is powerful. And it's a reminder that equity is not

0:13:27just a value. It becomes real when resources, follow intention. One of the most helpful parts of this experience for me has been seeing new county being open. To learning, adjusting and make a stronger process moving forward. That willingness to listen community feedback, even when it's not comfortable, it creates long term trust. As I reflect on this first round, I. Remind myself that equity is a practice. It takes time, patience and iteration. It requires us to balance urgency, with care and innovation, with accessibility, and it call us to build structures that generally support these communities and frontline leadership, not just in who receives the funding but in who has shaped the Dec. Decisions behind. Going forward, I hope we can create space for relationship building, share learning and deeper engagement. I also hope we can continue to make process accessible for smaller grassroots and cvos and those that. Are really impacted by climate change, and we also need to provide technical assistance and navigation to these groups in the grand making process. Overall, I leave this process feeling grateful, encouraged and hopeful. Grateful for the opportunity to serve. Encouraged by the steps we have taken. I'm hopeful for what this one can become. With this continued collaboration and reflection. This really can grow in a model for community rotted climate investment, one that not only talks

0:14:56about equity, but delivers real, visible change where is needed the most. Thank you. Gracias. Thank you. Thank you both for the presentation, for being here. Any questions? I don't have questions. When the time is appropriate, I have comments. Okay. Thank you and I do have a couple of questions. And just wanted to. Let's see here. This is a great topic. This is an exciting time, and I'll just share. Yesterday I was at one of our local schools on a climate project with costumes for climate action, with some of our BVSD schools and students invited us to be there at a town hall to talk about climate action and agrovoltaics. And we're specifically asking Boulder county for change in land use code. But the fact that we have in our community. Folks at all ages, at all stages, wanting to get involved in this climate work was really great. And so I just want to share that because. That was my experience yesterday, and so I'm bringing that into the room when we talk. About such a significant opportunity. And appreciate this description about, like, this is growth and it's change. And we are living in a country at a time right now where everything that has to do with climate action is being questioned and being eliminated, quite frankly. And so I'm just really proud

0:16:16of. The collaboration and the work that you all are leading at Oscar as well. And also know it's hard. So the questions that I had were really just around. We have received some emails, we've got some phone calls, haven't been able to go through all of them, but I just wanted to ask a couple of questions. I got an opportunity to meet with the CCC, which I wrote down, and I might have the name wrong community creation committee, but had been involved in the process and the board's been updated about the process. And just wanted to ask the question about. In the criteria if at Boulder County. And somebody already talked about it, kind of the government structure that we're within, if we are able. To specifically say that we will only fund projects that are by POC as it was described. In some of the emails owned or led. I can answer the question, but I was going to look and see if our attorneys here if you want, like, a more legally specific.

0:17:19And if we could remember to speak directly into the microphone. For the record, thank you. Okay. Yeah. Feel free to move it around if you need to. Thank you. Trina Ruin, Boulder County Attorney thank you for the question, commissioner. No, we cannot legally make decisions on the basis of race. But as you know, the centering of frontline community here was integrated into the process. Thank you. And I think it's important. Just to clarify that, because. We're still living within a governmental. Structure. And the intent and the hopes and that what we're working towards. Is something different, I believe, correct. We are constrained by the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America. Okay, thank you. Maybe I can just expound by one sentence to say. The way that we define disproportionately impacted communities is the state's legal definition. Which is then displayed on the. State's environment green map. We were able to utilize that as a tool to identify populations. Within Boulder county. Okay. Thank you. And I wondered about two things.

0:18:30One, There was some ask about how could. People give community members, organizations. How could folks give some input? In the process as my hope is that this climate equity fund is one going to continue at Boulder county two that it will actually give us an ability to. Influence our neighboring jurisdictions and ask them to join us and build a bigger fund to be able to incorporate more work, and we heard there was more than $12 million in ask, but that is common for all of our grant programs in all the needs and asks to get more asked than what we actually have. But just to be clear, About the process of getting input. To hopefully prep for a 2027 process. Indeed, we're excited for that input and looking forward to. The evolution of the fund for the next round. Our first big step is working with. The community evaluation committee, who's been closest to the process and has a lot of great ideas of how we can move forward. Also, everyone who was not a recipient of awards this time will receive an email today.

0:19:41With an opportunity to sign up for a feedback session about their application and an opportunity to provide feedback to the fund itself with our consultants, JSI. And we are going to be in close relationship with grantees themselves and look forward to utilizing those relationships to help. Evolve the program. And we also look forward to. More community engagement, more community roundtables for this second round. Expanding on where we have started with this first group. Thank you. And the last question I have. On one of the pieces. In this because of the different types of grants that we do. And next week at our business meeting, we're going to hear about some other grants with worthy cause. And our HSSN and other processes that folks are going through. To be able to receive funding from the county.

0:20:35One of the questions that I can continue to receive is about accountability. And so I just wanted to know I did not go back through this. Criteria. For the organizations that receive. Funding. From the climate equity fund. But just curious, and I think that might help with some of the questions that folks have. To what degree does Boulder county as a funder. Hold these organizations to accountability of what they've said that they're going to do. In their work or something similar. I don't know if you could share a little bit. About that and how people will know and what input maybe folks can share with those orgs. As they do their work as well. Thank you. Yeah. Our partners at JSI go through a robust pre award assessment process with each grantee. Which includes a review of the budget. And through that pre award assessment, they identify the appropriate contracting mechanism. Based on capacity and risk. And then. There's a reporting and milestones that are established through their contract. The grantee with JSi, so we feel really confident. About the accountability measures in place. Through this program. And then the second part of your question was. Actually, can you repeat the second part of your question? I believe the second part of my question. Was just like, if somebody wants to. Let's say that the

0:22:11board approves what's been recommended today. And the community members. Or residents when the press releases go out and all those things hear, like, okay, so this organization. Is going to be working on fill in the blank. And they have interest in the work of equity for that organization. And I don't know if in the partnerships that the applications folks have said this is how community members could get a better understanding of the equity work that those orgs that receive fund. Funding are doing. Yeah, we have a few different things on the table of how we were going. To display. The progress of each project. We talked about. A live dashboard. That would be connected to our website, which we will broadcast out newsletters and other ways that. We can continually report on the projects and how they are impacting communities. And then on our website.

0:23:07We have an email address, the climate equity fund at Boulder County, Gov. And folks are always welcome to reach out with specific questions. We'll do our best to respond as quickly as we can. Thank you. Those are the questions that I had. Thank you, Mr. Sl thank you very much. Thank you for the great questions. That's a great way to get us kicked off. I want to start with a big amount of thanks to everyone involved. This has been a lot of hard work that's gone into getting us here. I want to thank the. Community evaluation committee. They've spent many hours dedicated to thoughtful consideration, and we've gotten a lot of feedback, positive and negative, about the process and just want to acknowledge that this is the first year of a pilot, and so getting all that feedback is genuinely helpful to improve our processes go forward and determine how we want to do year two. Of pilot, hopefully 2.0. And include the feedback that we've received and learn from the process. I recognize it's incredibly challenging to create a new grant program. And with full support from the board. Just a lot of enthusiasm.

0:24:15I think it came forward as an idea for a pilot for a few hundred thousand. And the board was like, no, we're. Doing millions of dollars. We're going to figure out how to make a big difference. So I think just the enthusiasm from the community and poured to do something bigger and try to make a bigger impact. Is really meaningful. And it's important as a board that we're responsible stewards of taxpayer funds. And we have laws and things we have to uphold and ensure that we're doing things. In a certain way. And still trying to do something bold and different and pilot something new. So. We have absolutely had ups and downs, and this has been imperfect, and we can learn from those. Lessons. The county's internal processes and approaches don't always community driven approaches don't. Always naturally align. So there were a lot of comments around that that I've received and. The board has received. I know. And so I can imagine the effort came with many hurdles for people. Learning to work together in that way and learning what we can do differently.

0:25:18Both Oscar and the county. Also, we've been navigating financially strained time. I'm sure everyone's read in the paper that we're making reductions on our side. But we've stayed steadfast in our commitment to taking climate action and to the justice, 40 principles to put the frontline community first. And so I'm proud of the board for staying steadfast to the. Financial commitment in this space when we're making other really hard choices for our county programs. And projects. And I'm proud of the Oscar team for taking time to shut down and scale back. Some of their key programs to make this possible. Putting other work aside so we could focus on this. I think the list of projects that we have today is solid and thoughtful, and I especially want to put a pin on the projects that reduce carbon emissions. When we think about climate change and what we all face ahead and what the next generation faces ahead. We have a charge that we must reduce carbon emissions quickly. We needed to have been doing this already. And so particularly the projects that reduce carbon emissions.

0:26:23I would call them and the projects that improve infrastructure. And just to take a moment to talk a little bit about infrastructure, part of why that's so important and why you see government groups focus on that is that there's an intergenerational benefit. And so we can do something today. That the children and that their children can benefit from going forward and not have to go through. The same struggles that we have. And so those infrastructure projects that can create a more lasting effect. For generations to come should really be highlighted as well. And there are a couple in here, so. For the next round, I would encourage that the evaluation criter. Criteria place greater emphasis on those things. Carbon pollution reduction. Which would require Oscar to more carefully or more deeply. Not carefully. Sorry for my choice of words. Deeply engage in that review process.

0:27:15And how we can really invest in infrastructure that generations to come can benefit from the work of the people today that are working so hard. And, of course, it will also have a great benefit to the frontline community today, and that is at the focus and forefront of how we've awarded the grants and how the committee is reviewing them. The other piece I noticed just in reviewing it for sort of future years to come, is there? Is a lot of funding in here that. Is either fully funding organizational operations or. Going significantly to organizational operations. And as this program is designed, it's really not intended to fund staff supports for entire organizations. It really is about reducing carbon emissions and one time projects. So I think thinking through how the criteria and future phases could be changed around that. Because. As a grant program, there are fluctuations in grant funds available, and if an organization becomes dependent on grant funds for funding their staffing supports.

0:28:15One bad year can put an end to an entire organization. So this isn't really intended to provide funding for an organization's full financial needs for staff support. So just reiterating, prioritizing investments in sustainable infrastructure projects. And delivering long term resilience are critical things to look at, and there are a couple of projects in here that do that, and all the projects have a positive effect. Even there were so many more projects submitted than we can fund, and looking through each project, They are laudable and impressive and exciting projects that the community may want to come together and fund in another way, even if they weren't able to get support from this program, so. I support the pilot round of projects. As imperfect as it is, as frustrating as it is to some people. I think it's a good first effort and we can build on that going. Forward. Next year, so I would support moving this forward today. Thank you, commissioner. Solvent that helps us get in conversation here. And I want to add on my thank you to Oscar and the team and. The cCC, and then I'm going to get the other. The.

0:29:27Both those community groups, and I'll just share a little bit from my perspective. Of really. Pushing here at Boulder county to really look at in 2021. When I started here, we had a federal administration at that time who was very clear about the plans of justice. 40 the work of equity, the representation of decision makers cabinet. In all the different areas, and so. I translate that into where we are right now in 2025. In a government and an organization where we are working. And moving very intentionally. With the setup of an office of Racial Equity in August of 2023. And with a recent hire six months ago here at Boulder county of an American Indian and native. American tribal relations manager. And so I share all of that and appreciation to the board, who's. Been open to learning. And considering a different way of work.

0:30:30Really community led. That's where I come from. It's community design, which means we ask people first and really lean into communities of color. Who? Are asking to be. And I say that as a person of color at the dias, this morning. To be part of the solutions and the creation and the decision making and planning from the very beginning and. It's been a lot of work and a lot of learnings for our entire leadership. Team and a staff of 2700 people. And I do believe we're in a much broader place than we were in 2021. I'm just grateful to everybody who. 's been patient and open and learning. I say that because we are looking at an entire budget 600 million dollar bigger conversation as you alluded to Commissioner Solzman in a very difficult time, where we are also right now. Having to make tough decisions. And with this one fund, And I say $600 million, because this to get to a $2.5 million fund.

0:31:29Took some work, as you noted, but I do believe we have a team and community members who are also aligned with how do we do the work of climate equity and climate action and resilience from a struct. Structure standpoint and not from a people standpoint. To lead this work. I agree and appreciate better news. Say, the way that you described. This is growing pains. And I also believe that if Boulder county was to pull back on this fund right now, It would actually send the wrong message about our commitment. To learning. And working together. And thinking about the entire. Work of the county and where we're at, and so I just want to appreciate all of the process and the folks who've been part of all of the work. I understand. There were folks who were evaluating, and that happens. We have 34 boards and commissions, and we have people who. Have to recuse themselves.

0:32:31When it comes to a vote because they are involved in applications or potential funding. For all of the tax funds that we have. And so I just want to acknowledge that that can be hard, and also the volunteer service and ability to use expertises in different ways is really a treasure here in Boulder County. And so I also am in support of what we've got here and appreciate. Brett, I appreciate you. Sharing and being very clear about how folks can be involved in the development of what I believe. Will be a 2.0 and helping us do the work better and also sharing out with our community partners and other jurisdictions like, hey, we've got some really great projects here, and maybe. There's other or jurisdictions that would want to get involved in the work and be partners. As we are all growing together. So appreciate the presentation today and the work to get us here to start building a climate equity fund in Boulder County.

0:33:29Do I have a motion on item seven B? I move we approve item seven B and second. All in favor? Aye. Thank you. And then that will take us. Institutional racism doesn't. I know that. I know. We can take a free to do. This means that you are not changing anything relative to racism. Amendment 14 is continuously used. White privilege, and that's all we've done here. You're a waste of our time. And I am going to just give us a minute here before we go with her. You would? Be taking all these months of our time, and you've done nothing on behalf of our community. The only way that I can be. Commissioner, we could take a brief recess. And we are recording. Thank you. We'll go ahead and move to item number eight, which. Is confirmation of executive session topics. We'll just ask that folks in the room. We're done with recess. And we'll return a business which is item number eight. Do you have your gavel? You could swim. Thank you. Thank you, commissioners. And if I could please have order in the hearing. Room. Thank you. I'm here to confirm that the executive session topics that were noticed that the November 4, 2025 regular business meeting of the board. Were discussed as scheduled. With the exception of the executive session that

0:35:03is scheduled to take place today. November 13 at 11:00 a.m. thank you, commissioners. Thank you. And next, we'll go to item number nine, which is public hearing on parks and open space real estate. Matters, and I believe staff. Had a second during the recess to move. To computer and things, but we'll give just a minute and then I'll walk. Through kind of the process. Commissioners. Tina Berghart was going to start, and she ran to the restroom. Okay, that's fine. We'll just wait for a moment. That's fine. That was great. And then maybe what I'll do is just give kind of a description. Of what's going to happen here while we're waiting. It is a public hearing. On these real estate matters. So that means. There's a few different items and we'll go item vote, item vote. So we'll have public comment for each. One. One.

0:35:57Will be the different items under item number nine. So we'll have public comment here in the room and then also virtual for each of the items before we take a vote so that'll be. The schedule and plan for what we're going to do here for the different items listed. Under item nine. And so, steph, when you're ready, we'll go ahead and start. Yeah, sorry. Good morning. Tina Burkhart, Boulder county parks and open space. Before I start with my first item, I'd like to read our land commitment. For much longer than parks and open space's history of sorting open space. The land in this community has been important to american indian, urban, native, indigenous, and other cultural communities that continue to live here. We are making meaningful changes to how we do our work that include them, incorporate their perspectives, and honor their land stewardship. Legacy parks and open space operates within modern legal constructs of land ownership to stored Boulder county open space and accomplish these efforts on behalf of our community. Okay, so. My first item today is the acquisition of the four mile property. This property. Hold on. This property is just west of the city of Boulder and in the lower center of this map. It is approximately 6.63 acres, and the owner of the property is Michael Sandrock. This map nicely

0:37:26shows the property relative to the county's bataso preserve open space. And on this map, it's easy to see how the property sits at the intersection of Boulder Canyon drive and four mile Canyon drive. Again, the property is approximately 6.63 acres with a proposed purchase price of $1,500,000.01 building right is associated with the property. The property is also encumbered. Sorry. Encumbered by. Historic preservation, conservation easement, which protects the historic structures. And non structural features of the property. So I have some photos for you. This photo captures four Mile creek, which runs along the east. Edge of the property. Looking north here, you can see portions of the structure. On the adjacent adventure lodge property. It's kind of in the center of the photo. Here. We're looking south southwest from the property onto Boulder Canyon Drive and the end of the Boulder Creek path. And this photo was taken from the southwest portion of the property. And as you can see, the property is hilly, and this view is looking over Boulder Canyon. On the top photo in this slide is looking mostly south. And what you're seeing is the road bed for the historic Gordon McHenry Road. This road, but is actually mostly intact up to where the property adjoins Potasso. To the west. The bottom right photo is looking to the northeast. And I'll talk

0:39:02a little bit more about the historic features of the property later. So there are four structures on the property. There are two residences. Detached garage and a detached studio. The two residences are considered nonconforming since only one building right is associated with a property under the land use code if a new residence were desired. The owner would need to. It would need to be built outside of the floodway and existing building would need to be recategorized as historic units through a limited special review impact special review process. So for comp plant designations, the following maps I'm going to show you are intended to be illustrative rather than specific in the following designations or indicators of importance, but not confirmation that these features exist on the property. So there's a lot of comp plan elements on this property. There's a whole list of them, and I'll show you them on the maps. Following maps here. This map shows a few layers. It is partially in a b three biodiversity area. A riparian area and. Purple meadow dumping mouse habitat. On this slide. The purple line designates the riparian habitat connector. Runs along the east side. Of the property along four mile creek. The entire property. Is compressed a significant natural communities and it has a view protection corridor element as well. Due to both Boulder Canyon

0:40:40Drive and formal Canyon drive. And lastly, the yellow shading indicates entire property is an archaeologically sensitive area. And now I'm going to show you some fun photos of the historic features of the property. The property received a Boulder county landmark designation in 1993, recognizing the historical significance to the Oradel town site. This town site was once located at the junction of Four Mile Creek and Boulder Creek. Sorry, my mouse is not working right now. Sorry. The Ordale Town site is historically known for its water powered sawmill rail art and contributed significantly to the development of the ore processing industry, as well as serving as a major juncture for travel and transportation between the mountain and plains. Lastly, the town site was also well known for the Saddle Rock Inn, a public resort that operated from 1932 to 1941 until it burned to the ground in 1941. Shortly after that, in 1953, the construction of State Highway 119, which is Boulder Canyon Drive, Began in the area that was considered the primary part of the town site. So the photo above shows. The hydropowered sawmill. Boulder Creek is in the foreground, and the rail line is coming down. Four mile canyon, and I believe it was part of the Switzerland trail. Here's a shot of the Gordon McHenry road that I mentioned. The road is just

0:42:20above the hydroelectric plant that's being constructed. In this photo here. The hydroelectric project began in 19 six, work stopped in 19 seven during economic depression, and work resumed in 19. Nine. But the facility only operated for one year. And just a few more photos. The house on the top left was on the property. The photo to the right is looking west. Northwest from Boulder Creek. So in 1891, much of Oradell was destroyed by fire and then subsequently rebuilt. In 1894, a major flood destroyed most of it again. And it was rebuilt. And then in 1932 to 41, the Saddle Rock Inn that I mentioned. That's on the bottom left. There. It operated as a public resort and then also burned. And as I mentioned, the town site was further compromised when they built Boulder Canyon Drive highway 119. Okay, some more photos from today. The top left. We're looking southeast from above the structures on the property. Bottom left. We're looking from the south. End of the property. And the top right photo is looking south down to Boulder Canyon Drive and Boulder Creek. On October 23, the Parks and Open Space Advisory committee voted eight to zero to recommend the acquisition of this property.

0:43:55Not surprisingly, staff supports approval of this acquisition due to the property's significance. Adjacent sea to Batasso open space. Possible trail connection from Boulder Canyon to Bataso and its numerous comprehensive plan designations. Happy to answer any questions. Thank you for the presentation. Thanks for being here. Commissioner Solomon. Any questions? I don't have? Any questions? I don't have any questions, but this did also take me some more to the previous conversation back to 2021. And a hike out in this area that I was invited to by some folks in the room. Too, so it's great to see them. Here's process again, and it just takes time, but the relationships and the conversations that your team is able to continue and be part of. To even be able to consider adjacent land. For all the different reasons that I saw in the packet are not determined yet, but just to be in a place in a region where voters have said, yes, tax us so that we can consider how we maintain land. How we acquire a land and allow folks to have access to it. So I don't. Have any questions either. Let's go to public comment, and I don't know if we've got anybody in the room that's interested? Oh, yes, we have a couple. Of people signed up, so just to know your names will

0:45:13show up here. The clock is up. There from a timer standpoint. And we'll start with Wendy suite. And then if anybody, as you're coming up. To the mic. If anybody got here and didn't get a chance to sign up, you'll. Still have an opportunity to speak, and then we'll go to virtual and just a reminder to state your name. Hi. I'm Wendy Sweet. I'm the executive director of the Boulder Mountain Bike alliance. And I'm very excited to be here giving a public comment on this acquisition. I first heard of the possibility of a connection here when Boulder county land use did a feasibility study back in 2016. And it was feasible in the sense, like, not impossible, but it was very unpalatable. It involved a lot of stairs to get over the boulder canyon wall.

0:46:04And not very bike friendly. And then as commissioner locker Lockerman said, we did a hike through the adventure lodge property back in maybe 2020. And the Adventure Lodge has offered an easement to Boulder county for this trail connection, but it still had the issue of. Very steep. Hillside out of that property, and now we have this opportunity. With this property that this construction. Issue would be nonexistent with the road. That old roadbed that's already. There. So myself and the community is very in favor of this property acquisition specifically for. The reason of building this trail connection. And I encourage you to fast track this trail connection. I realized the last time we had a planning process, and a public hearing was back in March of 2024 for Prairie run. Boulder county. Has. Amazing parks and open space department, now funded in perpetuity. And I don't know what plans are going through, but I'm not seeing anything. On the public side. We've got the resources. We have partners like BMA that's stepping up. We will help you wherever you need in this process. So please don't just buy this property. And then sit on it for years. While this is a community need, Bataso is so popular that bikes are restricted two days a week. Instead of managing by restriction, let's see how we can build

0:47:53out this property. And allow the community to maybe enjoy it seven days a week if they're on bicycle. With just a couple new trail connections. Thank you. Thank you. Next is Stan Needle. Hello. I'm Stan Needle. I live in Louisville. I've lived here for 25 years. And. Am a twelve year member of the Boulder bike patrol. Bateso is where I often patrol. Where I typically see more cyclists than I do hikers. Why does this matter? Is because. A cyclists are a major portion of your constituents. We matter. I'm imploring you to purchase the four mile property so that we have a connector to Batasso that is without pavement. So that we can connect from Boulder to Potasso. Cyclists without having to compete with vehicles. So why is this important? Reason number one, safety. I and many others access Potasso by bike, competing with vehicles for 3 miles on four mile canyon drive. Hoping that cars. Hoping I won't have an altercation with vehicles.

0:49:24And hope is really a horrible strategy. This trail. If we build trails on this property, proactively creates fewer interactions with vehicles. I'm sure you've seen plenty of. White painted bicycles throughout the city. And county representing cyclists that have been killed by vehicles, and I'm sure we don't. Want to see any more of those. And buy it proactively purchasing this property. We well proactively prevent the increase of those white bites that we see. Why do we support this? Reason number two. Is boulder is the epicenter of cycling in this country. We value cycling and the benefits it provides to physical health, mental health and the environment. I'll support this. Reason number three. This is why we tax ourselves. We continually tax ourselves to buy properties like this. We want more open space, more trails, more access.

0:50:35We don't need bridges next to existing bridges. We want more property and more trails. We had the west TSA proposal a number of years ago. Turned down the walker proposal years ago turned down. This is an opportunity we've been waiting for for many years, so please. Don't turn this down too. Just like the Benjamin property purchased many years ago. This property will be a valuable gem. Please don't let it pass by. Thank you. Thank you. Was anyone else in the room? Go ahead and come up to the podium. We'll. Get you added to the record. Thank you very much. My name is Rahel Halpern. I live in Boulder. I've been here only three years. I came to this meeting, I was curious about how the county makes decisions to buy a property. So I don't have a pro or against. I just have a question.

0:51:30How is the property actually on the market? Are there other offers? How is the price determined? If you could kind of illuminate something about that. Thank you very much. Thank you. And right now it's just public comments, so we won't necessarily have a dialogue, but it can also respond to questions and staff. May decide to address that question. Was there anybody else? That had comment on parks and open space for mile property acquisition. We'll go ahead and close. The public comment here in the room. And then check in. Nobody signed up virtually, but just want to signal that we're ready. For folks virtually if anyone was changing devices. The phone numbers 833-3568. Six four. And if someone is on the phone, they do need to hit star nine to raise their hand and then star six to unmute. And I don't see anybody else trying to join us virtually, so we'll go. Ahead and close the public comment section of. This public hearing because we have a few more that we're going to be doing here. Today as well, and I'll turn it back to staff if there's. Any additional comments that you had.

0:52:50Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner Solzman and. We're being asked to make a decision, I think we can just go into discussion there's. No other comments. Thank you so much. So just a comment on how we acquire properties generally speaking, the community has worked over the last 50 years. Really? It's our 50th year anniversary. Identifying areas that there's a desire and a need for open space. So the community has identified. And prioritized. And every year we get a list from our municipalities of properties that they're interested in preserving as open space and. We have staff that work to try to negotiate the best value. For the community to be able to acquire them at an appropriate price so that we're not overpaying, but also not underpaying. And. We don't do anything like condemnation or anything aggressive in that way. We try to work. With the community to find opportunities to purchase properties. So if sometimes it's when you see something on the market. I've seen a for sale sign, and I've immediately called. The staff to be like, hey, number two on the list has a for sale sign, and then also, other times a property owner knows. The community wants it and reaches out to staff first before they put it on the market and works to negotiate an appropriate deal with appraisals. And a

0:54:10lot of due diligence and responsibility to ensure that we're not buying. Uranium mine something that we don't know, so there's a lot of due diligence. That leads up to this point. And that due diligence in that process can take a long time, and it can make the community very frustrated. I have heard about this property in particular for years and years and years. And there's always a balance of acquiring property for preservation and having areas that we protect. Biodiversity and that it's not for active recreation or passive recreation, and then it's important also to have properties where people can get out on the land, experience it. Connect with nature and recreate on it this property. There has unquestionably, at least with the comments that I've received over the course of over a decade. The desire for this property is for a bicycle connection. It's a beautiful property. It has a lot of benefit, as we saw in archaeology in the history and all those comp plan efforts, but the community has been focused on this to be able to have a connection. That's safe and allows community to get into nature without having to go through the road. So it's a great opportunity. I want to vote and then get out there and start building the trail. I'm just. Very eager. But we do have

0:55:29processes. We do have to make sure we go through the appropriate processes, but with the roadbed where it is and the opportunity that exists. I am also hopeful, like the community members who spoke that we can make the trail connection happen sooner than later because that is really why the communities wanted this. So I'm wholeheartedly support this purchase today. And I'm surprised the room is not just jampacked with people for how many? Comments I get about this, but I do know it's during the work day. And there's all kinds of things going on in the world. So I know in my heart. The room would be filled with people if they knew we were talking about this. Thank you. Thanks for getting us started. And. I similarly have heard a lot. Of asks about what you're talking about, all the different reasons that we have open space. And they're all really important. And as you mentioned, there's some different places that could create really great contiguous trails and different ways of accessing. So really appreciate the bicycle voices. That we heard that were here today.

0:56:29And I'm sure that as you share, that was from other members of your organizations and groups too. So I would entertain a motion on this item and muslim support. I move we approve nine a. Second. All in favor? Aye. Thank you. Thank you, staff. It's been a lot of work, and we appreciate it. Let's move to item. Nine B, which is the pocket property acquisition. And this is also what Tina is going to do. Our presentation. So similarly, we'll have a presentation from staff. We have public comment both here. In the room and also virtual. And commissioners. We're being asked to make a decision today. Thank you, Tina. Hello again. Tina Burkhart parks in open space. My second item is the small but mighty pocket property. This property is located approximately 3 miles east of lions and near the intersection of highway 66 and North 53rd street, where that green circle is. The property is approximately 1.21 acres and the owner is Tom Thomas. It is adjacent to Boulder county's Montgomery and western mobile open space, and I'll zoom in. So you can see that adjacency here. This close in map shows the Montgomery opens space. To the west in the western mobile space down to the south there, as I said, the property. Is 1.21 acres with a proposed purchase price of $10,500. So

0:57:57this property is encumbered by a conservation easement prohibiting residential development. And the easement was conveyed to the county in 2013 as part of a land use process in exchange for increased density on the parcel to the north across the highway, the pocket property is vacant and unbuildable. Upon fee acquisition of the property, the conservation easement will merge with the fee interest. On this close in photo, you can see the property is bisected by the railroad. And the southwestern portion of the property is the portion that's bordered by county open space. The northeastern portion is adjacent to a privately owned parcel encumbered by a county held conservation easement following. If we were to acquire this property. Staff will explore conveying the northeastern portion of the property. To the adjacent landowner and securing a new conservation easement across the new, larger parcel. This will simplify ownership, structure and monitoring obligations of this property. So here are a few photos. This is a view looking to the southeast to the adjacent property. Here's a view looking to the southwest or the county's open space properties. And I will go through the comp plan designations. There are a few on this one as well. In this map, the pink purple overlay indicates. Indicates the St rain corridor. Critical wildlife habitat element. In this slide. The bright yellow overlay on

0:59:34the map indicates the entire parcel is in a prebbles meadow jumping mouse Conservation area. And in this slide, it's kind of hard to see, but the purple hatching show. The riparian areas. And as you can also see in this map, St. Vane Creek runs just along the southwestern edge of the parcel, and there is some riparian area to the north of the railroad tracks as well. Lastly, the yellow shading over the entire parcel in this slide indicates significant agricultural land of statewide importance and there is also a view protection element present due to Highway 66 to the north. On October 23, Parks and Open Space advisory committee voted eight to zero to recommend acquisition of the pocket property and staff also supports approval of this acquisition today and happy to answer any questions. Thank you, Tina, for the presentation. Any questions? I have no questions.

1:00:34I have no questions. Thank you. Thank you. I just had one, and I apologize. I thought I was looking at it, and I was looking at a different document at the same time. So I may have missed what you said because I thought I was looking at the right. Thing. And the realized wasn't, if you don't mind bringing up one of the diagrams. It was just. What I'm interested in is. So it's that the littler. Triangle in that. Can you just tell me? What is it? That's right. South border of that western mobile open space, and then. To the west of that is the Montgomery open space. Okay. The green shading, is that what you're asking? Yes. Okay. Thank you. The western mobile, then. That's Boulder county. All of that dark green shading on the south end. To the west is Boulder county open space.

1:01:19Okay, that's what I thought. But I thought. And then I thought I heard you say, something different that maybe was a different ownership, so it was just. Curiosity. No, it's totally fine. Because I was reading at the same time. I apologize. I just needed that clarification. I don't have additional questions, so let's go. To public comment. And we don't have anybody in the room that signed up. Was there anybody that wanted to speak to. This. It doesn't look like it. So we'll go to virtual and we don't. Have anybody signed up for the virtual, but just want to give a quick check in. In case somebody was wanting to participate. That number for the parks and open space pocket property acquisition is. 8335-6864. And it doesn't look like we have anybody joining us, virtually. So we'll go. Ahead and close the public comment for this property acquisition hearing. Thank you, staff. And it doesn't. Look like there's any additional comments or statements, so we'll go ahead, commissioner. Salzman. We're being asked to make a decision about item nine B if you want. To get us started. I support the acquisition. Perfect. It sounds like there might be a motion. I move we approve item. Nine B, and I'll second that. All in favor?

1:02:36Aye. Aye. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate. That work, and I'm going to give us a minute. It looks like we might be changing. Presentations here. That's totally fine. I'll just give you a minute, and then we'll go over kind of the. Process. Again. Should be working. I certainly hope so. If it's not, we're in trouble. We are good. Great. Thank you. So I'll just talk about the process while the slides are coming up. And. We are going to. Let's see who we're on item nine c now. And we have a public hearing, and so we will hear from staff, and then we will invite any members of the public that would like to speak to the paintbrush properties specifically. And both here in the room and also virtually, and then commissioner Sulzan were being asked to make a decision on. This property as well, and we'll go ahead and turn it over to staff. Thanks. Great. Thank you, Aaron Clark with parks and open space. Continuing on the P theme, this is the paintbrush property. Here. The proposed acquisition of a conservation easement on this property. The property is southeast of Netherland on Highway 72. Right there near the junction of Highway 72 on the peak to peak property. Here's a bit of a regional map you can see. That the property is

1:04:11in a cluster of land owned by either Boulder county or the US forest. Service nearby. Open spaces include bearberry, off there to the southeast, and elk tracks. Which is immediately adjacent to the east, and then Reynolds ranch a little farther to the north highway. 72 is part of a senior protection quarter in this area. This is my third project in this area. So I'm getting really well, and it's a very pretty drive. So here's a nice picture. Property is primarily forested with some wetlands focused on an ephemeral. Stream that I'll show you in a moment. So here is. More of a site plan, close up. Property is 35 acres. Owner is TJ price. There are no structures on the property at this time. The conservation easement restricts development of a to a small cabin and an associated outbuildings within one of two possible building envelopes when one is chosen, the next will be immediately extinguished.

1:05:09The conservation even also contains a right of first refusal for the county. The agreed. Price is $215,000 for acquisition of the conservation. Eastman Posac recommended this acquisition to the commissioners by an eight nothing vote at their meeting on October 23. Now I'll show you some of the comprehensive plan designations. You've already seen this. Slide nine times today. So here we have an environmental conservation area. Immediately to the north. And a high biodiversity of b three off to the west there. So here we have on the north side is wildlife migration corridor, every landowner I've spoken to in this area has talked about just moose and elk. And enormous numbers of wildlife passing through all the time, especially in wintertime. And then you also see. Critical wildlife habitat to the west and riparian areas passing through the middle of the property that is that ephemeral stream I mentioned to you? Focused on Beaver Creek, which is a tributary to South Boulder Creek. And lastly, here are wetlands again. Focused on metaphemral stream and significant natural communities, which is kind of a lighter lime. Greenheat sort of color. A few more photos. I was up there with the landowner, and I looked to me like there was some pretty good limber pine, other things. That the county is interested in protecting. Come on. We have one more

1:06:47slide. Come on, you can do it. I do not know why I'm not getting my next slide. Here we go. Lastly, the funding source we're posing to use and its purpose. Paintbrush is approximately 5 miles from gross reservoir. We proposed to acquire the easement with funds from a 2021 gross reservoir settlement between Denver water and Boulder County. That settlement allotted $5.1 million for acquisitions of conservation easements, open space and trail connections. Public process was determined how best to spend this money. The board's direction has been to seek potential acquisitions that met community priorities of habitat protection. Undeveloped, passive recreation or both. Response from the public. Also strongly desired acquisitions close to the grist reservoir community, since most of the land right around the reservoir has already been summed rather than developed. We've had to look a little farther afield for properties we could preserve using these funds. Paintbrush meets these criteria that staff have been instructed look for in addition to its resource value according to the conservation plan, it's an excellent candidate for protection.

1:07:57Park supports this acquisition and I hope that you do, too, and I'll take any questions at this point. Thank you. Thanks for the presentation. Any questions, commissioner? Stolen? The last time you presented to us, you had a picture of a moose. And so I was just waiting. Thankfully, I did not get attacked by a moose this time. All right, I have no other questions. The only question I had was just in the presentation, the way I heard you talk about the funding source. You said something about. Public outreach or public process. It was just a curiosity. To what degree? There was an ask for that funding source to community about youth and maybe I misinterpreted. A little bit about. So, as I recall, this was last year. Barb Halpin was the one who was leading.

1:08:45That up, and we had a number of meetings in the area. Surveys were sent out, request asking basically how we have this money. How would they member the community? Like to see it used? And. That was the response that we got generally was undeveloped recreation or habitat protection and. That was your instruction to us to seek that kind of property. Great. Thank you. I just wanted. To understand that process. And Barb. Barb does a lot of that work for us that's a great update. I just wanted to clarify. I appreciate that. So let's go. To public comment. And we'll check and see if we don't have anybody signed up here in the room. And is there anyone in the room that did want to come forward? We've got somebody, you're welcome to go ahead and come up to the podium and then just. A reminder to state your name. You need to get close to the microphone. And we're looking for comments regarding parks and open space, paintbrush, conservation easement. Yes. Hello. I'm TJ Price, the owner of the property, and I've owned it for a little over four years. And really am concerned about loss of nature and respecting them more than human world out there and I see a lot of deer. Elk, moose. Signs of bear and mountain lion up there a

1:10:04lot, and I know. It's an area that wildlife. Passed through various times of the year. I'm actually a psychologist with an office in Lakewood. And I use the property in different ways. One way is I take videos. And pictures and then play them in the waiting room of our office so that help people see. Nature. Undisturbed by a human. Building. And. I select and invite a few people up on the land, one or two at a time for psychological sessions. And it's amazing how people. Get healing or insight or visions out on the property that they wouldn't get in an office, and so I really value. The natural healing process that can happen out there in wild nature. So, yes, I like to keep it wild and. I'm very happy that. There's forest and open space adjoining my property and just makes a wonderful environment out there. Thank you. Thank you. And is there anybody else here in the room? It doesn't look like it.

1:11:19We'll go to virtual. We don't have anybody signed up right now. We'll just. Give a quick invitation. The phone number for anybody to call in is 8333-5688-8888-8888-864. And it doesn't look like we have anybody joining us for joy either, so we'll, close the public comment period for this hearing and. Staff. Any additional comments? No. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Commissioner stole. We're being asked to make a decision. If you'd like to get us started on item nine. C. Certainly. And. I'll take a tiny bit of privilege to just make my comments more broadly about all of them today, if that's all right. Just want to give thanks to the property owners. For each application. For participating and trying to make the community a better place, and that's pretty groovy. And then my thanks to Aaron and Tina and Janice and Ryan in the back, you guys. Have been busy this year, and it's a lot of work, and I mentioned the due. Diligence to the community member that was sort of commenting on how does this work? You guys. Do a lot of work. You make these great packets for us to read and have these great. Photos and all this content. That it must be hundreds and hundreds of hours of work that you all put into this, so. Thank you for

1:12:44all the time you've put into bringing these things forward to make the community a better place. So thanks. Thank you. And I'm also. In support of the item, and I think the other piece, I want to just say so I don't forget it in item 9D since we're focused on nine c, right? Now. I did hear the call out and the different applications in this one as well. In regards to the process with POSAC, and so I want to appreciate the work as community volunteers that they're putting to review all of the information as well, participate in hearings and give their input as volunteers in the community. To help us just give their opinions and expertise and decisions as well. Here. That's great. I would move. We approve. Nine C second. All in favor? Aye.

1:13:30Thank. You. And we'll move next to item 9D, which is longfest lynch power line. Easement acquisition. This is not a public hearing. It doesn't look like. It doesn't say anything on here, so that's. Why? It's actually a question for you. The other ones were described as public hearings, so. Just want to clarify. Looks like it is. Okay. So this is also just not there on the page, which is fine. We will have a public hearing. On this item, so we'll hear from staff. And we don't have any applicants. Or others joining us. Is that correct? No. Okay, so just staff, and then we'll have public comment, both here in the room and also virtual. For this item. And then Commissioner Solzman were being asked to make a decision on this item. As well. Thank you, Aaron. Okay, again, Aaron Clark parks in open space. This one. Is acquisition of a power line easement to service the county's IBM open space. As you know, the IBM open space is right there. UCU as you drive down 119. Actual intersection. Closest to the project we're discussing is 63rd street and Mineral Road. So here's the IBM property and bright green there on the right. It's under an agricultural lease. The purpose is ag preservation. So what's going on here is the grades on the IBM property make

1:14:52flood irrigation wonky. And inefficient at best. And so. The farmer. Our ag folks right now are using different techniques, pumps and sprayers. The large pump that they're currently using. Is powered by a diesel generator, and we love to stop doing that. So we'd like to get three phase power to the property. From Pvrea. Pvrea's closest lines are there in 63rd street on the west. Hand side there. And installation of the line would take it across two properties to the IBM property. So the first one on the west there is private landowned by two neighbors. The second one there is the long Seth lynch conservation easement, private but held by conservation. He's been held by the county and the city of Boulder. Both have approved the use as it supports agriculture, which is the intent of the conservation easement. Proposed easement is ten foot wide, which is wide enough for installation and maintenance of the underground.

1:15:57Line. It comes down to for Pvrea, they will install the line, but they won't maintain it their take is. That the line is the property of anyone who's land it's crossing. So we need to be able to access that. Since it serves county open space, we need to be able to have access to get them there and maintain the lines if necessary. Total cost for the acquisition is $9,866. 61 80 for the western property and 36 86 for the one on the east. Again. Posak recommended this acquisition to the commissioners by an eight nothing vote at their meeting. On October 3. October 23, 2025. And park supports this project, and I hope you do, too. I'll have any questions. Thank you for the presentation. Any questions? I do have questions this time. Great. I just wasn't clear. It was described several times in the packet and in your presentation that we were getting three phase power to the site. So is there single phase power there now? My understanding is that there isn't any power there at all. Bringing power to the site. I just wasn't clear as to why you were calling out. So distinctly that it was three phase. And I just wondered if we were just upgrading or what. I mean, just being a nerd. Sorry. Okay. No, just trying to. I'm

1:17:16also being. A nerd. So I was just trying to understand if I was like, well, where's. The existing single phase easement and just try to understand that and then. Were there alternatives to. Having a connected to the grid system like did they consider for operation of the generator, like onsite solar or other options. I understand that the diesel trucking in of the diesel is expensive and not sustainable. So I just wondered if other alternatives were considered. I didn't hear that solar was considered on site. This is just me thinking that you have to have an awful lot of solar to run a pump that big or bad or batteries to run something that big. But no, to my knowledge, I don't think that was considered okay. And it's simply for the pump. To run this giant pump that handles the sprayers. Thank you. Great. Thank you. I don't have additional questions on this one. Let's go to public comment. And we don't have anybody in the room. Looking to join. We don't have anybody signed up, so we'll move to the virtual public comment section.

1:18:24If anybody is wanting to participate, we don't have anyone signed up. On that list. But if so, that phone number to call in is 833568. Six, four. And if there is anybody on the phone, you'll need to hit star nine to raise. Your hand and then star six to unmute, and we'll just give it a 32nd. Or so here to make sure nobody's trying to change devices. It doesn't look like we're having anybody join us in regards to public comment. For parks and open space, Long says Lynch. Power line easement. So we'll go ahead and close the public comment staff. Any additional comments that you wanted to make? No. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. And Mr. Solzman, do you want to get us started on item 90? Thank you. I support. The easement acquisition. Thank you. And I don't have any concerns or questions on it. So I'm happy to entertain a motion, but I do really quick. If I may just. From a logistical standpoint, and I may be looking towards the attorneys in the room, and it's just as I was looking at.

1:19:38The packet here. The agenda says 09:00 a.m. for all items and then two of the real estate matters. Packets had a 09:30 a.m. erie time on it, so. I just wanted to ask the question because. I think we're fine as a run of time, but I just wanted to ask the question, and it looks like Ryan Malarkey might join us here for a moment. Hi. This is Ryan Larky, assistant county attorney. I would say, given the run of time of this meeting. And the fact that 09:00 a.m. and 930 have passed and held those hearings after that, then we are fine. From a notice perspective. Great. Thank you. I appreciate that. It caught my eye, and I just wanted to ask the question before we finished out. So, commissioner. Solomon. Excuse the interruption. We're just stating that you are in support of item 90. Do you have a motion? And no apology needed. I really appreciate you making sure it was noticed properly so that everyone had an opportunity to be heard. So thank you for checking. And I would move we approve 90. Second.

1:20:40All in favor? Aye. Thank you. Thanks again. Parks and advance. Your real estate team. A lot of due diligence, a lot of work to get us to that place and again to poseac for their deliberation and discussion as well. To provide recommendations. All right. Commissioners. Are you ready? Yes, we are. Thank you. And we are recording. Thank you. We are here for continuation of today's business meeting. It's November 13, 2025, at 1245 at commissioners Loan and Solsman. We are both present. And so for this next item, we'll be sitting as the. Housing Authority board for item number ten. Authorization for executive session. Thank you so much. Executive directors of the Boulder County Housing Authority. Natalie Springt, commissioner's deputy for the record, I'm here to request authorization for the board of the Boulder County Housing Authority to go into executive session with county attorney Ben Pearlman. On Friday, November 14, 2025 at 03:00 p.m. pursuant to CRS 24. 6402, subsection four b. Legal advice. And that would be legal advice regarding the interim agreement. With the Boulder County Union. So moved.