City Council Regular Meeting — February 17, 2026

! Fort Collins neighborhood as next level neighborhoods if you would like to support this please come on down We do have next level neighborhoods so this is a great resolution it's a great proclamation so

We do have next level neighborhoods. So this is a great proclamation.

You can stand wherever you want. Yeah. Great. Great. And then who's going to be accepting that proclamation? Making comments. Is anyone making comments?

Okay. I'll just turn it over to you when I'm done. Okay. Great. Of course. All right. So whereas the city of Forkans sponsors a unique community partnership program called Next Level Neighborhoods.

And whereas Next Level Neighborhoods provides exceptional opportunities for residents in participating neighborhoods to promote neighborhood connections and environmental, social, and economic sustainability through neighborhood-wide events, projects, and activities to earn certification. And whereas eight neighborhoods have completed at least three years of the Next Level Neighborhoods program, demonstrating exemplary leadership, resilience, and dedication. And whereas the eight neighborhoods are Parkwood East, Warren Lake, Oak Ridge Village 8th, Maple Hill, Alta Vista, Harmony Village, Observatory Village, and Hampshire Square.

And whereas the city of Fort Collins plays a vital role in assisting with neighborhood community building, environmental sustainability, and livability within Fort Collins. And whereas the participating neighborhoods have enhanced engagement, increased the sense of community and belonging in their neighborhoods through the Next Level Neighborhoods Program. and whereas I, along with the entire city council, encourage Fort Collins residents to continue to make our community a thriving and resilient place to live, work, and play.

Now, therefore, I am Lee Francis, mayor of the city of Fort Collins, to hereby proclaim the aforementioned neighborhoods as next-level neighborhoods. Congratulations.

You want to say anything? You don't have to. Yeah, of course you can say something.

I just want to say thank you to Lex. I'm Teresa Warnemont with Warren Lakes. That's Byron Laws and Andy Elson. Warren Lakes Sustainable Neighborhoods is made up of actually five associations that surround Warren Lake.

Warren Shores, The Landings, Jamestown, Cove Island, and Harbor Walk. And we are really, really happy to have been involved in this program and thank the city for offering it. and all of the resources have just helped us to put on some wonderful events over the years

and to complete some projects that we're very, very proud of.

So I just want to thank the city of Fort Collins and especially Lex for helping us so much this past year with all of the different work and projects that we've done. We're just very grateful to live in a city as great as Fort Collins. So thank you all.

what a cool program I'm gonna have to get my neighborhood signed up even though I've been here seven years I'm still learning what cool things we have well thank you do you all want a photo or if not you can sit down all right

what cool things we have well thank you do you all want a photo or if not you can sit down all right ! all right all right the next proclamation we have is declaring the month of february

all right the next proclamation we have is a clearing the month of February 20 26 as heart health month if you'd like to support this one come on down anyone can support it who's accepting this one you are all right

All right. Whereas February is National Heart Month and time to raise awareness about heart health, CPR, and AED use through education, empowerment, and community resources. And whereas you do not need to be a medical professional to help during a cardiac arrest, bystanders are critical in the first minutes before responders arrive. Bystander chest compressions and use of an AED is one of the most consistent factors in cases where the person makes a full recovery. and whereas nine out of ten people who suffer cardiac arrest and receive a shock from an AED in the first minute live and Fort Collins now has four new AEDs one in Old Town Square, Spring Park, Adora Park and near Fossil Ridge High School and where and whereas many people do not provide CPR because they are afraid to do it wrong or legal retaliation but it is also almost impossible to do a chest compression incorrectly and Carlos Good Samaritan law protects those who render first aid and whereas hands only CPR has been shown to be as effective in the first few minutes as CPR with breasts you can save a life by placing your hands on the center of the chest and pushing hard and fast and whereas put a fire authority offers free non-certifying CPR aed and stop the bleed classes the first Wednesday of every month at fire stations they teach what you need to know is someone you love needs help now therefore I am Lee Francis mayor of the city of Fort Collins to hereby I proclaim the month of February 2026 as Heart Health Month.

Yeah, thank you. Good evening. My name is Tyson. I'm representing the fire department tonight. And our mayor already said most of the great things that are happening.

But we do want to encourage all of you to learn how to do CPR, compression-only CPR, and how to use an AD.

If you haven't yet, download the PulsePoint app.

That will notify you if somebody nearby needs CPR. And we'd love for you to respond with us.

It's great when the fire department shows up and somebody's already there doing compressions. We can save a life together. And also we're putting ADs out in the community so they're available for you as well. So thank you. And please do sign up for a CPR class. We'd love to see you there. Thanks. !

Thank you. Thank you.

All right, and the last one we have probably because of the size of supports up here,

declaring the month of February 2026 as Black History Month.

If you would like to support this, come on down.

Who's accepting this? Jamal?

Are you accepting it? Who is?

You're accepting?

Whoever wants to make comments. I mean, multiple people can make comments. Okay. All right.

all right now

a lot of peer pressure going on up here

all right is there anyone else for a peer pressuring

Okay. Are we good? All right. Okay. Whereas Black History Month evolved from the Negro History Week,

which was created by Carter G. Woodson in 1926, during the second week of February based on the birthdays of abolitionists Frederick Douglass and President Abraham Lincoln. It expanded to include the entire month beginning in 1970. And whereas Fort Collins acknowledges the nation's and our community's history of injustices against the black community and the continued anti-blackness experienced by black community members. And whereas Fort Collins recognizes the resilience of the original black families that settled in Fort Collins and worked to support other black individuals navigating moving into this white majority city. Black residents are documented living in Fort Collins as early as 1880. By the early 1900s several black families had established a community near the intersection of Maple and Meldrum streets. And whereas Fort Collins recognizes the black-led student organizations that have existed since the 1960s through the present day at carl state university. These organizations pave the way in fighting discrimination and racism in Fort Collins and actively create a strong sense of belonging for black african-american students. These organizations include the cultural enrichment center that creates space for black and and biracial youth and families to connect and thrive. And whereas in acknowledging this month, we honor the courage, perseverance, and resilience of black Americans of all ages who have made and continue to make powerful contributions in all aspects of sports, music, literature, politics, arts, and culture. And whereas we encourage all community members to take pride in the celebration of Black History Month by learning about the culture and legacy of black Americans

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Part of American history and enhanced diversity in Fort Collins. Now, therefore, I am Lee Francis, mayor of the city of Fort Collins, to hereby proclaim February 2026 as Black History Month.

Thank you, Mayor, City Council, guests, all the folks standing behind me wondering who I am. I am I'm Ray Black, associate professor of African American studies at Colorado State. Thank you for the declaration, proclamation, declaration, proclamation, sorry. You ask a professor to speak. You've got to give me a time limit. Just on this day we're remembering we lost a pillar and icon, Reverend Jesse Jackson,

whose main thrust, if you have a slogan to keep on, keep hope alive, which is really telling you about the African American experience in the United States. Appreciate National Heart Month and reminding that the first emergency medical technicians were black trained in Pittsburgh. So they're a precursor to your emergency medical response. And that the community groups behind us, including Jamal and the Cultural Enrichment Center, have been trying to enhance communities for all citizens, primarily African American citizens, since we arrived here many centuries ago. I want to thank my friend and co-conspirator, Jada Holiday, who is the assistant director and normally not this shy of the Black African American Cultural Center on campus. Jamal Skinner, head of the Cultural Enrichment Center. And appreciating in these times when I say this to my students, I say this to my colleagues, I say this to anybody who listens, that you can't erase African Americans, nor much as you would like to erase anything else. We are here. We are going to keep hope alive, and we are proud and thankful to be part of the Fort Collins community. Thank you.

I'm quick. I'm going to be very quick.

First, I'd like to say thank you for even allowing me to speak. I'm the executive director of the Cultural Enrichment Center here in Fort Collins, Colorado. We serve black youth, middle school, high school students who two years ago accepted this proclamation. The last and only thing I want to add to this is, for one, I'm grateful that Ray spoke first

because where I come from, I would have asked my elders if I have permission to speak. And that is a tradition I grew up in.

The community I grew up in New York, learning black history, was foundational to everyone in my community. I continue that legacy here in Fort Collins. And the mantra at the Cultural Enrichment Center, and I hope we all take it with us, is start where you stand.

So no matter where we are, I am constantly at work making sure the young people that I work with understand who they are in this world. and understand who Carter G. Woodson was and others who folLod in his footsteps and also worked alongside him. So that is the purpose of my job here in Fort Collins, Colorado. Thank you.

Thank you.

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We got to start, y'all?

Of course! To be a new mayor. I was like, what? We got a new mayor? !

all right I just have a quick announcement and then we cannot you can all go back to yours but ! !

I thank you!

I do but yeah we'll wait we'll wait I got another thing no I got I got one more thing to say then we're done okay I'll just know that proclamations are also occasionally read Okay, I'll just note that proclamations are also occasionally read in the community, and all are encouraged to attend. A proclamation declaring March 1st, 2026, as day of celebration for the Lunar New Year, requested by the Colorado American and Chinese Professionals Association, will be read on March 1st at CEEC High School Auditorium and Dining Hall. So I encourage everyone to attend. And that is all the proclamations we have for this evening. Please stay tuned for our regular meeting at 6 p.m.

Thanks.

Good evening, Fort Collins. The time is now 6 p.m. And I call the regular meeting of the Fort Collins City Council to order.

Please join me for the Pledge of Allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for

which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Will the clerk please call the roll? Francis? Here. Pinotaro? Here. Nelson? Here. Hoven? Here. Patiandi? Here. Fudge? Here. And Conway?

Here.

Great.

All seven of us are here. We appreciate everyone who has joined us tonight, either in person or virtually. I want to remind everyone that we're here for the same purpose, which is the future of our community, and that's something we all care about. So I want to ask everyone to remain respectful of each other when they're speaking and everyone will have a chance to be heard tonight So thank you for coming. Will the city manager please provide a review of today's agenda?

Yes, thank you mayor. Good evening everyone. Um, there are no changes to the agenda as it was published So tonight's consent calendar includes eight items. We do have one discussion item this evening Which is related to mobile home park requirements and then there are two items of other business One is consideration of a motion to cancel the March 17th meeting, council meeting, and then we will also consider a motion to go into executive session relating to federal enforcement issues.

Great. Thank you. There are no community reports tonight, so will staff please play the public participation video?

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would be helpful. All right. So first we have Bridget. Great. And then we'll go to Gary. Good

evening. My name is Bridget Waldman. I live in Stonehenge, south of Edora Park and Epic. Thank you for suspending the city's plan to open the south emergency exit to the Epic parking lot or from the Epic parking lot. It was a wise decision that keeps our neighborhood safe and preserves our community vibrancy by preventing additional traffic from flowing through our streets. I ask you to make the suspension permanent. I met with Mr. Harris, who represents EPIC and understand that the gate needs to be opened for some big events. I ask you to define clearly what constitutes a big event and therefore would warrant opening the gate at that exit. Mr. Harris also mentioned plans to open the gate on occasion, and that worries me because it's a slippery slope or a potential slippery slope in that the gate might be open occasionally and then more and more frequently. I understand why opening the gate may be attractive from EPIC's perspective, but City Council must look at the bigger picture. In your draft strategic plan for 2026 to 2030, you emphasize vision zero and fostering community and neighborhood vitality. In Stonehenge, Parkwood, and Parkwood East, we are already relatively safe. We have strong community and neighborhood vitality. In fact, our tucked away character is part of what makes our neighborhood such gems. But we're only tucked away when that gate is closed. When it's open, it effectively creates a throughway from Prospect through Epic to Stewart and all the way down to Drake through our north-south neighborhood streets. And that is not safe for our children, for all of us. And it also can destroy neighborhoods. We know that's what traffic does. So please keep the gate closed. Thank you. Thank you. Next we have Gary.

Good evening, Madam Mayor, City Council and staff. I'm here to offer my heartfelt thanks to you for suspending your plans to permanently open

the Epic South Gate. We in our neighborhoods very much appreciate that decision. I've spoken to you before about our deep concern for the safety of our children and every resident who uses our streets every day. We're deeply grateful that you took the time to stop and listen.

As you consider and consider you evaluating access options, we respectfully ask that any future decisions be supported by truly pertinent traffic data and traffic studies.

We look forward to continuing this conversation in a transparent and collaborative way. But I'm afraid that I have not experienced much collaboration so far.

If you want to learn about neighborhood traffic, ask us. We live there. We use the streets

every day. We see the kids walking and biking through the neighborhoods every day. I see that you've announced an open house about this issue on March 2nd. Thank you for that. We appreciate that very much. It's an excellent step. I especially applaud your decision to reach out to us, the residents of Stonehenge and Parkwood, who will be most effective. But I want to go on record as noting that any traffic studies involving intermittent gate openings are 100% invalid, and if they are ever used as justification to open the gate permanently. That must never happen. Thank you for your time and effort regarding this matter.

Thank you. Next we have Pamela and Stacy. Then we'll go to Jeff online. Oh you're in person.

Great Jeff you're next. Good evening my name is Stacy Trunnell and with me are Pamela Murphy and John Jakovich. You are all aware of the Lincoln Center Fort Collins. Each year it draws hundreds of thousands of visitors to shows and events and generates millions of dollars in ticket sales. But you may not know that a small group have been volunteering behind the scenes for nearly 45 years to extend the impact of the Lincoln Center to communities across a broad swath of socioeconomic levels. That group of volunteers until recently was called the Lincoln Center Support League. Since 1980, the Lincoln Center Support League has raised funds for capital and programming improvements that the Lincoln Center itself could not procure. We financially supported the 2011 renovation and subsequent equipment and technology upgrades, we also financed engagement with area schools. Over time our focus evolved toward providing more access to the performing arts. We made it our mission to excite, enlighten, and educate young people through access to the performing arts. The Imagination Series, the Children's Summer Series, and more were made possible due to our financial support. These were often performances that children may not otherwise have had the means to attend. In all, the Lincoln Center Support League has provided access to the arts for more than 6,000 children on a yearly basis, free of charge to them, their parents, and their teachers. But in 2025, at the request of the city's Arts and Culture Department and the city attorney, the Lincoln Center Support League was asked to disassociate itself with the Lincoln Center and move in a more independent direction. We were surprised and disappointed by the oppositional tone of the separation, especially given our amicable and productive 45-year partnership. Even so, we remain optimistic about our future. Tonight, we introduce you to Artspire NoCo. Artspire NoCo will honor the goals of the original non-profit while charting a broader sphere of impact. We believe that artistic experiences can inspire young people and our communities in ways that enrich us all long-term. Thank you. Jeff? And then we'll go to Karen.

Hello, my name is Jeff Ackerman, and I want to thank all of you for serving our community on this council and striving to make it better than it already is. One very important ingredient that makes Fort Collins such a wonderful community are our immigrant residents. They are our friends, our family, our neighbors, our coworkers, workers, and they are living in fear. We can't fix this entire nation, but we can do more than just sit helplessly by while masked thugs abduct them violently off of the street and imprison them without due process. We can take away three of their tools, flock, masks, and their false claim of absolute immunity. Flock is being used to track down immigrants and detain them without due process in inhumane conditions where people are dying. Unless you support that, we must remove every last flock camera in Fort Collins. The second tool that we can take away from ICE are their masks that they hide behind. This will give them a sense of accountability. They won't feel as emboldened to be violent without cause. It will help protect our immigrant community members.

bans if we put a law enforcement to ban masks in fort collins and require that law enforcement display a badge identifying them by name or badge number that will also help hold them accountable

and the third and final tool that we can take away is their bogus claim of absolute immunity

philadelphia sheriff rochelle bilal said that if ice agents come to philly and break the law they

will be arrested. Our chief of police has said that FCPS will quickly arrive to all calls regarding ICE to ensure public safety and de-escalation, and officers are instructed to arrive with their body cameras on. That is great, but I would love to hear a statement from the chief stating explicitly that if ICE agents break the law and kick in doors without judicial warrants, that they will be arrested. Thank you. Thank you. Karen?

And then we'll go to Natalie Karen Bay log district one

! Karen Baylog District one.

! So as we speak, there are proposals being written for bills by members of our Colorado state legislature

! that would prohibit facial coverings meant to disguise the personal identities of law enforcement officers.

! The language specifically includes local state and all federal officers.

! And I believe it's being written ! I found the recent ruling in California by a federal district judge who said that any

who said that any mask ban must be applied across the board to all levels of law enforcement agencies, if we want mask bans for ICE agents. The city ordinance that we're asking for that would ban the use of facial disguises worn by ICE agents would be toothless without a state law behind it. Even then, the size of our police force, as the chief said last week, could hamper any efforts to actually ticket offenders.

But does that mean that we shouldn't have such an ordinance in place?

Having laws, even those with limited enforceability, is and always will be important. In this case, it would be a symbol of what we as a community believe to be right and just and how we feel about protecting the rights of our citizens and residents,

including the right not to be terrorized by masked militia that we lawfully cannot prevent from coming here.

It's a small step that will have a huge impact on how people feel about living in Fort Collins.

It could give a signal to other smaller cities that we can all take a stand when we are able, even if we can't yet enforce our wishes on a paramilitary presence that is forcing itself on us. There's a lot of movement in town for organizing. There's a grassroots level we're going to protect our neighbors. It's beautiful, and it will be the bedrock of resistance.

But we'd like to see the city as it can support us and help protect us.

We know your options are limited, but please do this. Thank you. Thank you. Natalie? And then we'll go to Stacy.

Thank you. I originally signed up to speak in order to thank the city for listening and responding to residents that we've heard earlier, opposed to opening the epic gate on Stewart Street. Unfortunately, after I signed up and was made aware of, I was made aware of some unaddressed issues that I want to talk about. Earlier this year, my husband and I experienced an issue with a new vehicle we bought that led to a number of very uncomfortable meetings at our dealership. I only mention this because that particular interaction gave me a great insight as to why car salespeople are often viewed with suspicion. I'll tell you this for, I'm telling you this for background. Sadly, the additional issues I learned about regarding the epic gate have given me cause for concern that the conversations with the city has with its residents might actually have much more in common with the interactions we had with our car salesperson. In both situations, speakers sometimes seem quite adept at framing a sentence in such a way as to give the illusion of meaning something positive without actually meaning something positive. I was very concerned to learn that the epic rec manager, Aaron Harris, suggested they would not consider opening the gate permanently unless there was a major epic expansion, which apparently is under consideration. Didn't know about that. If this happens, the gate becomes an access point with traffic going in both directions, adding a bigger issue to what we already have. With this in mind, I look forward to getting a full understanding of how and what appropriate future alternatives at EPIC will align with the new Fort Collins initiative of Vision Zero and keeping our school areas safe. I also want to know how the city will ensure a safe and respectfully quiet environment at the Veterans War Memorial, which will be very close to that gate opening. and of how finally how the city plans to meet their obligation to follow the original commitment from ordinance 98 to vacate the right of way thank you thank you next we have Stacy

all right not seeing Stacy we'll go to Carolyn next

and then we'll go to Renee

Good evening and thank you all for giving me the opportunity to speak here publicly. My name is Carolyn Dalbo and I live in the Stonehenge neighborhood. I appreciate that the city has suspended plans to permanently open the emergency gate from the epic parking lot to East Stewart. I've read the notes on the website about issues that at epic and I wonder why these have not been addressed sooner. Patron safety, traffic congestion, suitable, safe access to EPIC can all be addressed without opening the gate from Stewart Street. Additionally, with the cost of such a project in a time when the city is experiencing budget shortfalls, I would think that simpler, cost-effective solutions are available. I look forward to hearing what the city planners have to offer at the open house on March 2nd. What I will be looking for are numbers of accidents caused by traffic or pedestrians, speeds and vehicle counts, historical data on parking and traffic after the 2003 renovation. There is already an emergency access, the gate from Stewart, so that should not be an issue. check that one off. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next we'll go to Renee.

And then we have Andrew.

Good evening. My name is Renee Shaw, District 1. I would like to speak to the topic of no masks for ICE agents should we be faced with the unfortunate presence of ICE in Colorado, including Fort Collins. Why wait until we are forced to be reactionary rather than having local laws in place with guidelines that citizens in our police department can rely on? Let's join the City of Denver City Council Mass Ban, which has advanced unanimously among its city council

members. Let's be prepared and be proactive and take the role of leadership so front range cities can be united. I urge you not to wait to implement protection for the City of Fort Collins citizens and offer guidelines, guard rails, and implement laws for our police force to follow. I would like to see the City of Fort Collins consider and be proactive and adopt the following. Make it illegal

for all law enforcement officers, including ICE, to wear non-medical masks while arresting or detaining individuals in our community. Bear minimum for Fort Collins residents to have a right to know who is detaining them and why, which includes having judicial warrants for entering properties. Require ICE, just like our local agents officers, to have visible badges and ID. By virtue of having laws in place, giving our Fort Carls police the ability to arrest ICE agents

if they violate our local laws. Let's retain the demeanor for our wonderful city and citizens. Thank you. Thank you.

Andrew, and then we'll go to Izraya.

Hello, my name is Andrew Elliott, and I live in the Stonehenge neighborhood near the Epic Recreation Center. I want to begin by sincerely thanking you for suspending the effort to permanently open the Epic gate.

That decision meant a great deal to many families in our area. It showed us that you are willing to pause, listen, and reflect before making changes that affect Fort Collins neighborhoods.

We know EPIC is an important community asset. We also know the city has clearly stated priorities around safety, including Vision Zero. Suspending the permanent opening felt aligned with those priorities.

Taking time to carefully evaluate impacts before making a long-term change is thoughtful

governance and we appreciate that. As this conversation continues, we respectfully ask that any future decisions be supported by clear documented traffic and safety data, including data related to school area traffic

as well as large events.

Making that information available to the public and ensuring that it is gathered using sound, well-designed traffic study methods will help to ensure that decisions are grounded in reliable evidence and community well-being. We look forward to continuing this dialogue in a constructive way.

Thank you for your time and your commitment to thoughtful planning. Thank you. Ms. Raya and then Craig.

Good evening, Council. Israe Shtyar, District 3. Tonight I want to speak to you about trust. I think we all know that Fort Collins is not the most pro-police town, and I think we also know that our police services have been doing a great deal of work to earn this community's trust. And a sentiment I've heard frequently from people who are not generally enthusiastic asking about law enforcement is that they nevertheless have faith in Fort Collins Police to do the right thing, or at least they trust Fort Collins Police far more than law enforcement in general. But trust is a very fragile thing. It takes a long time to build up, and it takes very little time to disappear. And so I'm going to ask you all the same questions I would ask every person in FCPS. Is this really worth it? Is the small utility that you're getting from these flock cameras really worth eroding all of the trust that you have spent all this time building up in our community.

Breakdowns in trust flow from differences in expectations, differences in assumptions, when our police have different assumptions than the general public. And that is something that we have seen very frequently for the flock contract. For instance, at the very beginning, the police did not even think that this was important enough to bring to council, let alone the public. It was just treated as a routine contract. Well, clearly, as you've heard multiple times of the public, this is something that is viewed as should be worthy of bringing to a referendum. So clearly there is a very big difference in how important it is viewed between FCPS and the general public. And another really important

thing is that just because I trust FCPS does not mean that I trust other law enforcement agencies that they're being shared with. I do not trust Loveland Police. I do not trust Aurora Police with our data. And it is the total, do you want our Fort Collins Police to be trusted just as much as those other agencies? Thank you. Next we have Craig.

Not seeing Craig. We'll go to Jostin. And then Connor.

Hello. My name is Jostin Noller. I'm speaking about the flat cameras. I think this is a really important issue specifically because I think that the the flock cameras have Important implications to our fourth amendment rights. I think that it could be considered warrantless tracking of our public movements I think we have the right to move within our community without being surveilled by our government

Needlessly, I don't believe that there's much benefit to public safety as it pertains to flock that warrants this invasion of our privacy in an increasingly surveilled society

and I think that it's especially worrying that flock is sharing our data our movements that

they track with platforms that are owned by Palantir I don't think we really know where

that data is going I don't think that we really know what they're doing with that data and so I think that we as citizens of Fort Collins deserve to move within our society without having our

data fed to nameless faceless platforms when we don't know what they're doing with it I think that technology is developing at a rate that is increasingly difficult for state and federal legislators to keep up with. In these times, I would hope that our local governments and representatives can protect our constitutional rights

and ensure that our rights are not violated in exchange for revenue incentives that are being offered by private companies.

I think that if something like these traffic cameras are important,

that we can have the public weigh in and that we can offer this contract to a company that isn't sharing our data with gigantic platforms like Palantir. So once again, I would just hope that we can trust our local government to do right by us as citizens and ensure that our rights are not being violated.

Thank you. Connor, and then we'll go to Jim.

Good evening. My name is Connor Moore, and I was born in Fort Collins 27 years ago. I reside near Washington Avenue in Mulberry. I have a bachelor's degree in environmental design studying sustainable planning and urban development. I support the community's decision on the future of Hughes Stadium. I'm here tonight to help ensure that vision is implemented safely. I'm speaking today about wildlife health, public health, and responsible land use east of Overland Trail, between Vine and Harmony Road. This area has a unique and concerning environmental history. Chronic wasting disease was described for the first time in the Journal of Wildlife Disease by Young and Williams in 1980. At the Wild Animal Disease Center in CSU Port Collins, the research spanned 12 years and involved nearly 60 infected-diseased deer. Between 1974 and 1979 alone, 57 out of 67 deer at this facility developed CWD, 85% infection rate. The wildlife research facility where these deer were held began operations in 1967. My concern is that the prions can persist in the environment for decades, finding soils, clays, and even plants. Studies have shown prions remaining infectious in soil for at least 16 years after the last known contamination. Recent research has demonstrated that plant roots can absorb prions from contaminated soil and transfer them to the leaves and stems, creating exposure pathways for both wildlife and humans. The plant-by path exposure pathways for both wildlife and humans. The planned bike path trails gathering spaces ! and wildlife rehabilitation facilities will involve significant ground disturbance, grading, excavation ! and ongoing erosion from heavy use. ! This could mobilize contaminated soils potentially exposing park visitors, children and environmental education centers, and animals at rehabilitation facilities to prion bearing material. I want to emphasize the risk to the planned wildlife rehabilitation facilities. Research shows prions bound to plants can be consumed by animals and clay bound prions remain infectious. by animals and clay-bound prions remain infectious, bringing injured or sick wildlife to a site with potential prion contamination to expose them to CWD, undermining conservation efforts.

I am to be an ally to responsible development that benefits the land I call home and my neighbors who I love. My hope today is to protect the community, raising awareness about environmental history.

Thank you.

Jim, and then Casey.

Good evening, my name's Jim Brokish. I served on the PSD school board for the last four years and my term ended in November. I'm here to ask for your support and really your leadership. Enrollment is dropping about 500 students a year in Poudre School District. That's about 2% per year. It's a combination of Lor birth rates, housing affordability for young couples, and charter school impacts. When we look at current enrollment in the kindergarten classes, we know that this trend will continue for the foreseeable future. We all wish that this would magically turn around, but that's just not going to happen. Neighboring districts have closed schools, and we're not immune. State funding is tied to enrollment, and without closing schools, the educational experience of our children and our grandchildren is guaranteed to suffer. A comprehensive long-range planning committee consisting of district administrators and community members has been looking at the declining enrollment and they are making recommendations the committee's first report to the school board was january 26 that's available on youtube and it was summarized beautifully in the january 28th coloradoan article next steps for closure criteria next steps are for closure criteria to be brought to the board in may now closure of any school is a gut-wrenching heartbreaking ordeal for families and as with any loss families experience at least some stages of grief denial anger bargaining depression and hopefully eventually acceptance so I ask for your leadership please take the time to be informed support the work of the committee and the school board as they go through this difficult change help concerned parents understand as community leaders what you say matters. And if we take the right steps, I'm 100% convinced that our kids and grandkids will have better schools in the future. Thanks. Thank you. Next we'll go to Casey and

then Gabrielle online. Hi, City Council. My name is Casey Johns, District 1. Shout out Chris Conway. I'm here today mostly to talk about the flat cameras, but I do think the ban on ice agents wearing masks is a great idea love to see something like that implemented

so i don't think the city should renew our contract with flock safety for two reasons

despite flock telling their customers that they have sole control of their data flock has repeatedly

shared data and footage with ice and other federal agencies without that city's permission or

consent. And then from a technical aspect, their products are terribly insecure.

I won't bore you with details and I'll try to keep it short, but my favorite highlight from

a report which listed over 40 security vulnerabilities from this last November

is that there's a little button on the back of these flop cameras and you can just push it a a couple of times and gain access to them and gain access to all the footage on them. So they're pretty terrible security wise.

Furthermore, they had an incident with an unprotected API key, which alLod access to Aurora PD's officers' names, phone numbers and patrol maps.

What else do we got?

Yeah, the cameras also run on Android 8, which hasn't had a security update since 2021.

So between their deceit and incompetence, flock makes our neighborhoods more dangerous, not safer.

And I think we should tell them to get the flock out of our city. Thank you. Just no outbursts from the audience one way or the other, sorry. We will go to Gabrielle online.

Go ahead, Gabrielle.

Hi, my name is Gabrielle. I live in Council District 5.

I appreciate that at the last City Council meeting you took the time to address people's concerns about ICE and that the Chief of Police did as well.

I don't think I've been to a City Council meeting where everyone's topic for the day was addressed, so that was cool to see.

I, again, appreciate the discussion that was had and that the Chief of Police said that if they are called because of ICE violence, they will arrive with their body cameras on and an attempt to deescalate the situation.

However, I know many people would be worried about calling the police, even with that statement

that, you know, they might deescalate, but then at the end of the deescalation process,

they might still either assist or allow the arrest of the person that ICE was attempting to detain.

The issue with what we're going through right now is not just the violence of ICE agents,

of the ICE holding facilities as well. There have been widespread and extremely credible notes, what is the word, extremely credible sources that say that there's been widespread sexual violence in these detention centers, torture and disappearances of people in these detention centers. So to that end, because you reacted positively to everyone last session asking for the city to act. I would like to ask that at the executive session to discuss federal enforcement issues, one of the things you discuss is the potential of doing a

separation ordinance which would prohibit the collection of immigration status when not legally required and prohibit the use of local law enforcement resources and actions carried out solely to detect arrest or detain a person based on their immigration thank you next we'll go to

john and then folLod by patrick thank you for your time today council i come to you representing myself but i work for the school district and what is probably the second largest surveillance system in the community and this is something that has not come up in the community purview because frankly, we follow two principal rules. The first is data barriers. Our data is not available to anyone for any reason at any time. It is used solely by the district for the district's safety purposes. It is critical when we are talking about our citizens' data that we maintain data barriers who is able to access that data when they are able to access that data and for what reasons they're able to access that data. By giving that data away, we are selling our citizens' information. We may not be making money off of it, but we are selling it. The second big concern that we need to be concerned with is agentic AI and the digital fingerprinting, branding of personal individuals. While computing systems offer many opportunities, surveillance must always, always come with a personal touch, a human intervening. We can list countless times through human history where we have branded people, labeled people, persecuted people based on arbitrary reasons. And those same arbitrary reasons are happening today. Why am I not naming Flock? Because it will be a different system with a different name tomorrow. And so we have to go for the exact targets by building comprehensive data barriers and ensuring that our systems are reviewed by reasonable people within our community. And lastly, I would expect ask that as the council investigates these systems, please reach out to professionals and experts within this system. I understand that we can't be experts in all systems at all times, but through collaboration, we can get to the right answer. Thank you. Thank you, Patrick. And then Claire.

Hello, my name is Patrick. I live on the south end of town. Thank you for doing this. Thank you for housing us. I think there's a very clear theme tonight, and it's a little bit about flock. It's a little bit about data. It's a little bit about we're all feeling watched, and I don't think we really like that. If you've noticed, it's folks, from what I can see, across the entire spectrum, which is very telling. So I think that's something for you to consider. I think you should really listen to us. This is my first attendance. Sorry to say a little shame to that. I should have been here many times before. But it's clear that the town has some things to say to you. Listen to us. Let's get a little bit more organized. I think you need to open this up to something bigger than just this conversation. I don't know what it is actually. I'm ignorant of that. What can we do? Either way, when I think we have some representatives from FLOC coming next week, is that true? Are we alLod to ask questions? No questions. I'm told that's happening next week. I'm not going to be here, but I think we should all collectively, if we really feel this way, gather, get our numbers up, all of us, be represented, use this fantastic opportunity. That's it. Thank you. Thank you. Claire and then Adam.

Hello, Council. Good evening. My name is Claire Phillippe. I live in Midtown. I'd like to talk about the flock camera use in our city. So flock cameras have been proven in a court of law that they are insecure cameras. That is why Eugene, Oregon also turned off their cameras. Austin, Texas also went ahead and stopped their use of flock cameras. So I would like to encourage the council that because of this unsecure surveillance, that we shouldn't be using them in our community, as well as the various ways that it can actually impact our community negatively by making people feel unsafe by being surveilled around. So I would like to, again, encourage this council to stop the use of flat cameras in Fort Collins. Thank you.

Thank you. Adam and then Christina.

Adam Hirshhorn, Redtail Ponds, Mayor and Council. It wasn't my intent to come at this from an attitude of class warfare, but you can see if one bothers to take the most peripheral scan of the world that the Epstein files described, the war has long been upon us. When I look out on Fossil Boulevard and see a blind, old, traumatized, and dispossessed woman wake up on a couch surrounded by a squad of officers, this is precisely what I mean by the collapse of civilization. How is any of this fair or humanizing? Even for the police. This isn't an enforcement issue. There's no harm she's capable of. Are you civilized? The beginning of civilization looks like a proper burial. Dignity to the fallen as a human being. While the end of civilization can be marked by mass disposal from Waco to Gaza to Zorro Ranch and Epstein Island. The end of civilization looks like a barbecue. you. I have asked you not to resemble the pirates of Epstein Island. This looks like April walked the

plank. Thank you. Next we'll go to Christina and then Nicholas. Good evening. Christina Ketcher-Webb.

I live at Drake and College. Mayor and members of council, I'd like to focus my comments tonight on putting a moratorium on development at Drake and College. My husband and I have lived in Midtown for over a decade and have seen the corners of Drake and College ebb and flow. We've waited years for the redevelopment of the old Cade Mart. The new King Soopers redevelopment has created a sense of rejuvenation at this corner, not seen anywhere else in Midtown.

I'm so sorry to interrupt. I just want to note, because you're talking about a specific development project, That's a quasi-judicial matter. We can't bring in front of council right now.

Can I focus on the moratorium and updating of the Midtown plan?

You can. You just cannot focus on a specific project. Correct. And if we can give her back the time that I interrupted, please.

So the New King's Super has brought a sense of rejuvenation to this area. Since the New King's Super has opened, the old Lark Burger, which was closed since before COVID, has new tenants in it. and the strip mall to the north has been redeveloped or is being redeveloped. This formerly housed the Irish pub, a kebab restaurant, an alteration shop, and many other businesses. I'd like to propose a moratorium on this planning area to focus on an update of the Midtown plan, which is over 13 years old, especially since the city has not folLod through with the commitment to incentivize housing and transit-oriented development in this area. We need new public input to focus on the desires of all of Midtown. The Midtown plan states on the front of the cover, urban, vibrant, and transit-oriented. We need these types of uses in this area. Since the new King Soopers has reopened, myself and my neighbors have been encouraged to walk to the King Soopers, to go to the grocery store, farther north even to Whole Foods. It's really brought a vibrancy to this area. We need to focus on transit-oriented housing. We need to focus on transit oriented housing and density to envision the Drake ! Max station as it was. I recently rode the Max station just this weekend again. There's a sign at that station ! that says welcome to Midtown Fort Collins shopping, dining, shopping, dining, ! creating, and discovering. Taste exotic foods from all corners of the world. ! Stock up in supplies from retail stores and enjoy access to the Mason Trail. enjoy access to the mason trail we need to focus on this type of transit oriented updates to the midtown plan and follow through for implementation by the city thank you thank you thank you for

pivoting uh nicholas and then spencer

good evening council my name is nicholas sawwin i'm a resident of district 2 and i'd like to offer you today my thoughts on flock safety. Flock safety is not a boon. They do not have our best interests in mind. They are yet another tech corporation that's attempting to make privacy obsolete in the name of safety, and we're being asked to just give them that power. So let's talk about what safety means to flock. To flock, safety means monitoring every street, sidewalk, park, and public place, and sending that information to ICE to carry out acts of wanton authoritarianism across the United States. To flock, safety means telling ICE exactly where they can find your neighbors, your children, at any time of the day, and what directions they take to get home. It means giving ICE the keys to our daily lives and telling them have at it. To flock, safety means handing over to the highest bidder information tying specific individuals to abortion centers and giving law enforcement in states where abortions are illegal the tools to prosecute someone who might travel to Fort Collins to receive an abortion. Safety means selling the recipients of abortions to a tech company to then sell to law enforcement. To flock, safety means denying external audits, even free audits with promises of 90-day non-disclosures, all while touting that no evidence exists that there are security concerns associated with their product. To flock, safety means making another dollar, and that's it. Fort Collins is, I think, at an inflection point where we get to decide what kind of large city we ultimately want to become. Do we want to be an Orwellian city that puts the interests of tech corporations and authoritarians on a pedestal? Or do we want to be a city that has discernment enough to see through the propaganda concerning safety and the backbone and integrity to stand up to those corporations and say, no, we care about our people first and foremost? I would like to think that we want to be that latter city. I ask you to do everything in your power to see that the city ends all current relationships with flock and precludes any future ones Thank you. Thank you Spencer and then Elsa

Hi, I'm Spencer Burris from district 5 and I'm here tonight tonight to oppose the renewal of flock safety contracts Others tonight have made some great points regarding flock safety regarding individual rights and privacy that I agree with wholeheartedly I believe we must also ask whether Flock is the company that our city should be doing business with, even if it is interested in their product. I believe the company has demonstrated itself to be untrustworthy and unaccountable, and we've seen dishonesty about who may access the data, inadequate security stances, and going behind cities' backs. In the case of Cambridge, Massachusetts, they installed additional cameras without the awareness of the city. This led the city of Cambridge to end their contract. Recently, many other cities have made similar choices, as I asked Fort Collins to do. This includes Stanton, Virginia, Flagstaff, Arizona, Redmond, Washington, Lidwin, Washington, Evanston, Illinois, Olympia, Washington, Denver's looking for other providers, and Santa Cruz, California, and Verona, Wisconsin. Thank you.

Thank you. Elsa and then Ian.

Good evening. My name is Elsa Alcalan. I live in District 5. I am respectfully requesting that the Fort Collins City Council pass an ordinance or, at a minimum, a resolution that tracks the Colorado General Assembly SJR 26-006, which was signed into law in the Colorado House and Senate on February 4, 2026. You're probably familiar with it, but SJR, Senate Joint Resolution 26-006, noted four important things. First, it said that ICE is racially profiling. Secondly, it said that 64% of Coloradans are concerned about ICE detentions. Third, it said that ICE actions have led Coloradans to fear going to school, public transit, health care, and faith spaces. And fourth, in this part I'm quoting, it says, So far under this presidential administration, there have been a reported 20 cases of civilians posing as ICE agents for nefarious purposes. The Colorado Assembly's joint recommendations include three different things. First, immediately end masks. It says that there should be an ending of the routine use of masked or unidentifiable personnel, unmarked vehicles, and plainclothes detainment without identification. Secondly, we must require visible agency identification. And third, ICE must avoid those certain places, courthouses, schools, health care, clinics, faith spaces, and food distribution sites. We don't have to put up with this. I'm a lawyer and I'm a former judge, and we need to fight back. We don't have to put up with this. Thank you. Thank you.

Ian? And then Tyler.

Hello, my name is Ian O'Brien. I live in District 5. And I just had a couple points about flock cameras, or any AI camera for that matter. If a man was following a child with a camera 24-7, you would probably call the cops that there was a stalker. So how's a flock camera any different following all of us 24-7? And then if FLOC representatives bring up the point that our phones track us 24-7, on my phone I can turn it on airplane mode, I can turn it off, I can grant or deny access to apps and how they access my data, but with FLOC we have no say in that matter. We are at the mercy of a private company that can sell our data to anyone and give it to anyone without our say. And lastly, if the point is to aid in crime prevention, innocent people have already been charged and brought to court just because they were in between two fly cameras at the wrong time. A woman down in Denver had to go and prove her innocence, which is the opposite of how the law works, thanks to her dash cam that she had in her car. And thanks to that, she was able to walk away from that, but it took her weeks of fighting false charges. Any AI camera, regardless of Flock or any other company, should not be alLod in

Fort Collins. Thank you. Thank you. Tyler? And then folLod by Wallet. Good evening. My name is Tyler Davidson, and I live in District 5. I'm happy to see that I'm

an extremely good company in my opposition to Flock Cameras. But it does bring to mind a very

important and very basic question. You see, I expect my elected representatives to first and foremost protect my constitutional rights. And you may remember me talking about this a couple of weeks ago, which was the first time I spoke about this. I would like to ask the person who alLod flock cameras to come into Fort Collins, what on earth were you thinking?

How dare you? This is a pretty clear violation of my Fourth Amendment right against search and

seizure. What's going on? I mean, let's just be honest here. Notorious Secret Service agencies across the world throughout history would have felt like they died and went to heaven if they

had half the capability of flock cameras. I mean, Palantir can buy their entire book and probably does. And then they can keep it for as long as they like and integrate it with all kinds of other surveillance and security data that they gather from us all the time. We live drowned in surveillance. We absolutely do not need to be paying for it. Now, I understand Denver is looking at other

providers. That's not solving this problem. We do not need to have 24-7 surveillance of a free people or we are slaves. It is that simple. There is really no gray area here. Thank you very much

for your time and please get rid of flock not only here but in Larimer County and ultimately the entire country. Thank you very much. Thank you. Wallet and then Sean.

Hello, council members. My name is Walid Rahman. I'm here to be another voice of reason against extending the contract with the flock. I'm just going to outline a few points that you may have heard a few times tonight, but I feel like it bears repeating. The cameras track, photograph, and log every passing vehicle, not just those suspected of a crime, creating a database of innocent citizens movements. Beyond license plates, the AI identifies make, model, color, and features, any bumper stickers, roof racks, damage, allowing for invasive profiling for Collins residents. Evidence suggests that data can be shared with or accessed by federal agencies such as ICE or DHS or out-of-state law enforcement potentially violating local privacy ordinances.

I'm also concerned that law enforcement or authorized users could use the system to track individuals for non-criminal reasons such as stalking or harassment. Often there are no strict public or legally binding policies regarding who can access this data for what reason or even when it's audited. I'll stop there, but I just want to end it with we've all seen how the unchecked expansions of powers of local, state, and federal governments can be twisted against the very people we have been told they are meant to protect. I plead with you, please vote no on renewing the contract with Flock. Thank you. Apologies for mince-pronouncing your name. Sean, remotely? Go ahead, Sean.

Sean, we're not hearing you if you're speaking.

Can you hear me now? Yes, go ahead, Sean.

We were hearing you and now we're not. Can you try again?

Can you hear me? Hello? Hello? Try going ahead. It seems it might work.

Perfect. Thank you so much. My name is Shawn Dickinson, and I'm here to ask that you remove the flat cameras from our city. I'm a cybersecurity consultant and have a background in intelligence collection and analysis. Data collected by the cameras deployed in our city can be accessed and used by ICE with no oversight. The technology enables warrantless searches on every citizen, and the potential for greater abuse is too large. These cameras take as many as 12 photos per car and are enriched with metadata that adds data like location, speed, markings, and other unique identifiers like vehicle color and photos of occupants. We have seen reporting from a number of sources that ICE is using Palantir to analyze and exploit information collected by data sources like Flock. I have with me a Palantir training handbook that I received from its use in a war zone. I'd like to read to you the core pillars of Palantir. One is data integration, the ability to take in large amounts of data from different sources and allow a single point for the user to access. Knowledge management allows the user to find the source of any and all data which is within Palantir and tracks user modifications and creations. Advanced search and discovery provides the user with more, with a powerful search capabilities, as well as the ability to find data he or she may not even know exists. Collaboration. It allows users to share investigations, objects, notes, and messages with other Palantir users across the instances. Clock images and the associated data are that single point that allows an authoritarian to find information about any person that they didn't know existed previously. and they can do with it as they please. I join those in my community asking you to reject the renewal of these FLOC security cameras. I ask you to protect our most basic civil rights. And if I'm not clear, I'm asking that you stand with us to protect our community. Thank you.

Thank you. Brandon, remotely? Okay, go ahead, Brandon. Hi, can you hear me?

Yes, go ahead.

Thank you. My name is Brandon McPhail. I'm also speaking about the FLOC cameras. Denver City Council voted unanimously to not extend Flock's contract in May of last year. I'm urging Fort Collins City Council to do the same.

Flock Safety is a company that's demonstrated repeatedly that it cannot be trusted.

State laws prohibit sharing data with federal agencies and out-of-state police departments,

but Flock alLod such sharing for years until news reports exposed them. The Colorado Sun, for example, reported that Denver's FLOC data was accessible to law enforcement across the U.S. until April 8th, when Denver police then pulled their data from FLOC's national directory after opposition from the city council. Denver continued to share FLOC data with other departments in Colorado. Loveland police shared access to Denver data with a federal agent, who then conducted 26 ICE-related searches between April 3rd and April 25th. Beyond the specific company, these collection practices violate our Fourth Amendment rights, and I urge Council members to oppose any similar surveillance contract in the future. Additionally, as I understand these contracts, Additionally, as I understand these contracts, the customer owns the data collected by flock cameras, meaning the city of Fort Collins potentially risk, the city of Fort Collins, ! I will also echo other speakers' concerns and encourage council members to ban I will also echo other speakers' concerns and encourage council members to ban masks on law enforcement officers in this city. And thank you, council members, for your time.

Thank you. Next we'll go to Fahad.

Hi there. My name is Fahad Rahman. I live on the south end of town. Thank you for every one of you who showed up today in opposition to FLOC and all of the surveillance.

I'm here to urge City Council to discontinue the use of Flock safety license plate reader cameras in the city. Fort Collins is a relatively small and generally safe community. The scale of this surveillance technology feels disproportionate to the level of threat we face locally. Installing automated license plate readers across town introduces a permanent surveillance infrastructure that collects data on everyone, not just those suspected of a crime. Even if the intention is public safety, these systems create long-term risks, data sharing beyond local control, potential access by federal agencies, and disproportionate impacts on immigrant and marginalized communities. Once this infrastructure exists, it is very difficult to scale back. I'm also concerned about transparency and public trust. Many residents, as you've heard tonight, have felt this decision moving. Many residents feel this decision moved forward without broad community awareness or meaningful public debate that erodes public confidence. Public safety matters deeply, but so do civil liberties and trust in local government. I believe we can prioritize safety without normalizing mass data collection. for those reasons i urge you to discontinue the use of flock cameras and i think many have already talked through the grave security concerns um and thank you guys for your time and i hope you guys

take this seriously thanks thank you that is the end of public comment tonight i do just want to thank everyone for coming out tonight there are a lot of new faces so welcome to city hall and thank you for coming and sharing your thoughts with us i do just want to say that on behalf of myself and I'm going to assume for council that we are really taking your input seriously. We have a work session next week on flat cameras to get more information and I hope you watch. If you're unable to watch, all of our meetings are recorded and posted online so you can always go back and watch. And then council, as you may have heard from some of the public speakers, is having an executive session tonight where we can ask questions and get legal advice about some of the options about ICE enforcement. So I just again want to thank everyone for coming. Some of you multiple weeks in a row to share your concerns about our neighbors and safety in our city and that know that we are working on this and taking it seriously. So with that, does anyone on council have any follow up to public comment? Councilmember Pottyandi.

All right. Thank you, Mayor. And thanks again to everybody who came out. I don't need this tonight, but I'm hoping that staff could provide a little more context about the context around the disassociation from the Lincoln Center Support League with the Lincoln Center, either tonight or later. And then the other one is just some background on any potential risks of reactivating chronic wasting disease as we, at some point, start construction on the Hughes property. Again,

that's probably not tonight. Yes, that second one for sure, we will do a follow-up, and I'm happy to provide more follow-up on the conversations with what was formerly the Lincoln Center Support League. A little more background there. And again, here, I'll just reemphasize that while I know there have been some challenges with that transition, I'm just deeply appreciative of the ongoing commitment to our arts community as they launch their new organization. So we'll get you

more background. Thanks so much. And then I was hoping just quickly to acknowledge former Board of Education Director Jim Brokish who showed up and for those of you who don't know my day job is in Poudre School District so obviously I am aware of tough conversations that are afoot in the school district and I think all of us on City Council recognize that our public schools are a really important resource in our community and I'm very hopeful for those of you who don't know our Board of Education are volunteers I think there are people who think that they're paid employees they are not they're going to be making some really tough decisions for our school district and I really do hope and hope I can you know be in support of any process they come up with I'm just hoping for transparency predictability and a long-term sustainable and above all equitable process and so I know they're they're gonna put hard work into moving forward with tough conversations in the next few months and we don't make those decisions

but I know that all of us recognize that our public schools are a part of the city we take care of and I'm sure that I at least I am more than welcome to field concerns and chat about the broader implications. Thanks. Council Member Fudge.

Thank you. Regarding the moratorium on development near Drake and College, there were some comments, the commenter made about focusing on transit. it I'm curious a week or so ago we had the work session on designating transit oriented communities I think it was and so I know staff is gonna work on that but will that kind of get to what she was looking for is that kind of the same

issue thank you um it is a relate it is related yes I'm not sure it fully gets at what she's after but it does support that yes thank you any other follow-up

Yeah, Council Member Hovland.

Thank you, Mayor. I just want to thank you all. I'm going to echo what many of my colleagues have already said, how much we appreciate your being here and speaking up for our community and the safety and well-being of everyone. And we are committed to creating a sense of belonging for every individual in this city. And we take this issue extremely seriously in regards to Flock and ICE and the unspeakable things that we are unfortunately having to speak about right now. So thank you again very much for all of your comments and your concern. And we can't wait to provide you with more information.

Anyone else? Okay, seeing none, is there a motion to approve the consent calendar?

Yeah, I move approval of the consent calendar items 1 through 8.

I forgot to ask if any members of council would like to pull an item from consent calendar. Okay, seeing none. Now do we have a motion? Sorry.

Do I have to say it again? Yeah. I do. Okay. I move approval of the consent calendar items 1 through 8. Is there a second?

Second. Great. We have a motion by Councilmember Pignotaro and a second by Councilmember Fudge. Any further discussion? Seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll.

Patyandi? Yes. Fudge? Yes. Pinotero? Yes. Conway?

Yes.

Nelson? Yes. Francis? Yes.

Inhoven? Yes. Okay, that passes 7-0. Do council members have any other comments on the consent calendar? Okay, seeing none, there are no staff reports tonight. Do council members have any reports?

Council Member Pariandi. I'll just be super quick. For those of you who don't know, we are deep in the thick of interviewing the many, many

folks who applied for boards and commissions and just really amazing stewards of our community.

And thank you to people who are putting their names in for that.

And if you did apply and you don't end up getting a slot, please keep trying because

we're really excited how many folks we have who want to serve our city in such an important way.

Thank you. Anyone else? Okay, see none we're gonna take a 10 minute break and then come back for our first discussion item So I'll be back at 7 17

All right welcome back for cons we are on to our one discussion item Regarding amending the code of the city of Fort Collins revised requirements relating to mobile home parts Is there a staff presentation for this?

There is I'm going to turn it over to Jacob Castillo our chief sustainability officer to get us started and introduce the staff team. Thank you, Kelly. Good evening, Mayor and Council.

My name is Jacob Castillo, and I'm honored to serve this community as the Chief Sustainability Officer. I'm joined this evening by my colleagues Marcy Yoder and JC Ward. We're here this evening to talk about Mobile Home Park Licensing Program. This program has the goals of increasing safety, habitability, and overall quality of experience for our neighbors living in mobile home parks, while at the same time increasing accountability for park owners and park managers. The last time that we engaged with council on this topic was September of last year. Since that time, we took the feedback from council. We worked with colleagues from across the organization to prepare the draft code language that you see before you're this evening. I also want to acknowledge and recognize that many council members were not yet on City Council the last time we had this discussion, so we are more than happy to answer any questions that you may have following a brief presentation from J.C. Ward. So with that, I'm going to hand it over to J.C.

Good evening, Mayor and Council members. We're here tonight for the first reading of municipal code changes related to mobile home park licensing and enhanced enforcement. mobile home park enforcement work aligns with adopted city strategies in housing, equity, water efficiency, and urban forestry. As a bit of background, mobile home parks are an important housing choice in Fort Collins. They continue to be a significant form of unsubsidized, naturally occurring affordable housing. These neighborhoods have a divided asset ownership model where residents may own their home but not the land that it sits on. Mobile home parks are private property. This means the property owner is responsible for maintenance, repair, assessments of their streets, water infrastructure, and trees. And in Fort Collins, Mobile Home Park neighborhoods are also home to some of the largest concentrations of historically underserved populations, including non-English speakers, Lor-income households, and senior citizens. Many of you will recognize this slide. the inside the city limits there are approximately 1400 mobile home park sites and 10 mobile home parks in the growth management area there are an additional 14 communities and approximately 2100 home sites most mobile home parks in the city limits were built between 1960 and 1979 in the county and then annexed later into the city the municipal code changes and enforcement discussed tonight only apply to those mobile home parks within the city limits. In Fort Collins, different property types have different oversight responsibilities, regulation, and enforcement levels. This creates disparate outcomes, particularly in mobile home parks. The private infrastructure in mobile home parks, water, streets, and tree canopy is maintained by the mobile home park owner and has a more limited government oversight and intervention authority. This also currently limits the city's ability to abate hazardous trees, maintain or inspect water lines, or conduct pavement hazard assessments. Most other neighborhood types in Fort Collins have public water lines and streets that are maintained by the city. Oversight authority for issues within mobile home parks are dispersed among the city, state through the mobile home park oversight program, and mobile home park owners. Numerous These issues overseen by the mobile home park owners lack consistent standards for enforcement and don't have an appellate authority or a place for residents to go if they disagree with that enforcement. Mobile home parks also lack minimum training standards for their managers, where a real estate broker's license and continuing education are generally required for all other property managers in Colorado. For mobile home parks to have comparable outcomes, livability, and habitability as other neighborhoods, we have to address these differences in regulation, enforcement, and oversight, and calibrate our level of service to meet their unique needs. Achieving this through mobile home park licensing gives the city basic visibility, authority, and coordination tools that we don't have today. This would happen through addressing life, health, and safety risks on private property, allowing the city to intervene, and promoting accountability and communication among the city, mobile home park managers, owners, and residents, tracking data for operations in park conditions and centralizing coordination across city departments the proposed municipal code changes would create a mobile home park licensing program require mobile home park manager certification and enhance oversight and enforcement as discussed in the next slides is my time for public comment up thank you okay the proposed mobile home park licensing. This would be the umbrella to move enforcement components forward. Under the proposed code changes, it would require mobile home park owners to apply annually for a license or renewal, pay the annual licensing fees, comply with all federal, state, and local laws, employ a certified manager, complete required infrastructure assessments and submit reports, and implement maintenance schedules based on their assessment findings and also best practice recommendations. The proposed mobile home park manager certification would require managers to complete required initial training and testing created and provided by the city, participate in ongoing continuing education and renew that certification annually, maintain compliance with applicable standards, and pay certification and renewal fees. Proposed municipal code changes would also improve life, health, and safety in mobile home parks by enhancing Proposed municipal code changes would also improve life, health and safety in mobile home parks by enhancing the city's oversight and authority in several areas. ! ! Abating hazardous conditions in mobile home parks, charging the city's oversight and authority in several areas. ! Abating hazardous conditions in mobile home parks, charging the cost to mobile home parks, and prohibiting mobile home park owners from passing the cost of those penalties or any of the other program fees along to residents. Providing access to water and sanitary services during long water outages of more than 12 hours. This also aligns with the state's responsibility. aligns with the state's responsibility. Inspecting conditions of trees, branches, pavements, roadways, and water infrastructure, and requiring disclosure of maintenance records and repairs. And there's the slide you got a sneak preview of. The timeline for mobile home park licensing and enforcement includes the foundation components that we've already completed. Additional operational readiness work, which could begin if the code changes are passed after second or adopted after second reading and two phases of implementation with required licensing and manager certification launching in q1 of 2027. to make this program as budget friendly as possible the housing and community vitality department was able to trade off existing resources to this prioritized work to support startup costs a neighborhood liaison position was repurposed into a mobile home park senior specialist position to focus on licensing and enhanced enforcement. That position is currently open for recruitment. Staffing efficiencies were created by centralizing the mobile home park work and establishing a single point of contact within the city. Neighborhood programs budget was strategically reallocated to program development costs. And the part you'll be excited about, the licensing and manager certification programs are anticipated to generate some revenue. This would be through the certification and licensing fees and renewals and also penalties for non-compliance. And this revenue would be restricted for use by the program to assist with voluntary compliance and to offset some administrative costs. And that brings us to the end of my materials for tonight. Are there any questions from council

members? Great. Thank you. We don't have any members of the public signed up to speak on this item. So do council members have any questions or comments? Council member Fudge? Thank you.

I guess I didn't follow the discussion prior, so this is a bit of a newbie question, but we currently have a registration process for rental units. And I'm curious if there was a thought to start with a registration structure similar to that instead of a full licensing structure. Can you just talk a little bit about kind of why we've gone this direction?

Sure. For our rental registration program, that data collection was the important first piece because we didn't have a lot of information about rental units in the city and where the landlords are, where the rental units are, market rent, that sort of thing. For mobile home parks, we do have pretty substantial data, and we've been working for about seven years in this space for voluntary compliance, education, and awareness. And we're now at a point where those more administrative things are not getting to those last remaining issues that residents continue to file complaints about. So we are really looking not just for registration, but also for that enforcement authority, especially abatement. The state program does not allow for abatement of hazardous conditions. They only allow for penalizing if the property owner is not taking care of those. So this would be a step in that direction.

Thank you.

Great.

Council Member Nelson.

Thank you so much for the presentation. And I am one of those council members who has not been privy to all of the discussion around this. So I do have quite a few questions just to make sure that I'm understanding all of this. First of all, is there anything that would allow the fee to increase over time? I mean, there are caps right now, but just thinking about long-term market, I mean, you're capping the fees at $50 per lot and the registration is $1,000. But would you anticipate that being able to be increased over time or is that just set for perpetuity?

Thank you for the question. That would be right now there is a cap on that per municipal code proposed change. If we wanted to try to increase that based on inflation or market conditions or mobile home parks increasing rent exponentially, we would need to come back to council for additional municipal code changes.

Great. But there is the way of doing that, right? I mean, we can, okay, excellent. I know in multiple places it says that the fees won't be passed on to residents, but how exactly do you make sure that the rents don't magically go up by $50 a lot? Yeah.

That is an excellent question. Yes. So part of the data collection that we're doing is about rent increases. And so every rent increase right now under state law, folks can only increase those rents once every 12 months. And we are adding an additional requirement that there's a line item description of each of those. And just designating something as like an increase in market would not be sufficient to meet the needs of our proposed code changes.

Okay, great. Yeah, I saw the thing about the line item, but still making sure that that, but you answered my question. This is getting a little bit into the weeds, but in the ordinance itself, why October 30th, 1987? What's significant about that date?

I would love for someone from our city attorney's office to answer that question.

We have Assistant City Attorney Ted Hewitt here who's done all the heavy lifting on this

ordinance. Excellent, thank you.

I'll turn it over to Ted.

Good evening, counsel. Ted Hewitt with the City Attorney's Office.

This language, the Chapter 18 language that's in existing code, became effective October 30th, 1987.

and there are several references in there to the effective date of this chapter.

And so we're just simplifying that language by removing the effective date of this chapter

and putting in a specific date. So it's code cleanup, essentially. Okay, I trust you.

Okay, three more questions, if that's okay. So one of the other, I think, pieces of data that you'll be tracking, I think, are the water outage and boil water notice frequency and duration statistics.

How are those typically are those typically tracked now by mobile home parks and how are they recorded? And is this common to track?

They are required right now to report to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Any BOIL notices, that's actually where the templates come from. And most of our mobile home parks employ a certified water operator who is very specialized and well-trained to do that and is the one who submits those to CDPHE. As far as the water outages, those right now are a little bit more spotty as to who has to report them and to whom because these are private water systems. If this happens in a public water system, there is a mechanism for reporting and record keeping. But right now, there is no such consistent requirement. So we're having water outage notices that last a really long time, boil notices that aren't lifted, or multiple boil notices that are in effect at the same time. Okay, great.

This mentions having one manager certified, I think, right?

Right. And is there typically only one manager per mobile home park or multiple? And in that instance, like, would you require all managers to be certified or is it just one per park?

It's one per park and several parks only have a part time property manager. So less than one per park. But yes, we would require the person designated as the property manager, which is also required under current municipal code and under state law. somebody has to be designated for that role, that person would have to be certified.

Okay. And then last question. And then one little thing that I noticed in the packet. So are all of these in town, are they for profit mobile home parks?

Yes. Everybody in the city limits, all the mobile home parks are for profit. There's one that's in the growth management area called Nueva Vida that was purchased by a nonprofit entity that has residents that sit on that board. And that's the only exception in Larimer County though.

Okay. I was just trying to wrap my head around the fees and the cost of the mobile home parks and trying to figure out what, if we had a sense of the estimated profits per year and how that

impacts the mobile home park. They're right now estimated to collect about $2.2 million per month in lot rent in the city limits. Again, that's best estimate projected estimate because we don't have disclosures currently. But the $50 fee is in alignment with our rental registration fee, which mobile home parks are exempt from, and also with the state's registration fees.

Okay, excellent. Very good. The one little comment was, I think the affordable housing board minutes, which are still in draft form, are for, it says February something, 2025. But I think that should be 2026. Okay. All right. As someone who has to read minutes a lot. And also was trying to piece together the timeline. I was like, wait a second. So okay. Anyway, those are all of my questions and my fun little catch. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Huffin.

Thank you very much. As a newbie on the council too, the previous council did such a great job and I think staff did a great job in drafting this ordinance. My only question just has to do with the certified training.

If you could just give me a little bit more information, please, just that we create the curriculum for the mobile home park managers. And if that's true, is there an existing program internally that helps follow a process for certification?

That's just new to me. So I think all of it's new to me, actually. Thank you.

Us, too. So this would be a new program. We have a number of educational programs that we've offered in the past and offer now. There's landlord-tenant education that would have some similar components. As far as the specificity, there is also some stuff that's related to some old HOA board trainings that we did. That did require a legislative update annually. This would require something similar. Mobile home park legislation has changed at the local and state level about once a year for the last five years. and especially for corporations that own that are out of state, it's really hard for them to keep up with that and to keep their managers trained. We also see quite a bit of manager turnover. So this would hopefully help with that to make sure that managers are onboarded with the same consistent information related to operations, best practices that we haven't been able to offer in the past, and that legislative update. Thank you.

I have a few questions. Okay. Okay. So I was curious, I may have missed it, but I didn't see in there updates for lighting standards in mobile home park communities. Was that in there and I missed it, or are we not updating to enforce lighting standards?

That was not in there. There are some building code standards that are related, but as we were prioritizing the issues for mobile home parks, we started mostly with that water infrastructure, trees, and hazardous pavement conditions. but street lighting, dark skies initiative, aligned street lighting, that all is in the future plan.

What maybe help me understand what why we want to just do it all at once.

There are about 21 really critical issues that mobile home park residents identified over the last seven years and there's just too much with the level of staffing and budget that we have to tackle all of those at one time. So the issues especially where there is some other enforcement mechanism like building code or like utility stepping in to help with some of that those were not prioritized as high as the others that don't have any oversight right now okay that's helpful

thank you um and then somebody wrote a very nice long email but i did have one question about that mobile home parks aren't alLod to have chickens does not does does the city not supersede that

like we do HOAs? We don't. We don't supersede HOAs. All right, never mind. Correct. There are some

mobile home parks that have alLod backyard chickens in the past and I have some excellent

anecdotes to share at a different time about that. Mayor Pro Tem reminded me that HOAs don't override chickens so it's fine. And then as we're for our council priority to be potentially adopted in March with our Vision Zero and our kind of speeding assessment.

Would mobile home parks be included in that? Not as currently written, but because we are working in coordination with other city departments and we are requiring mobile home parks to disclose their speed limits and also their enforcement standards because we do hear, yes, that's the speed limit, but nobody's actually following it. And that's one of those cases where right now there's not an appellate body. There's nobody to appeal that to except the property owner or manager. So that is one space where we can provide best practice, education. There are also some potential tools that are owned by our traffic ops folks, like the fleet speed limit flashers that could also be employed for educational purposes.

Okay. Maybe I'll just flag for the city manager that during that conversation about how we're selecting where to make sure we're including mobile. We'll make note of that. Thank you.

And then I wasn't sure with the redeployment of staff. So to the now we'll have one position and because I know there's always been a long term request to have one person mobile home park residents can contact. Is that going to this that they this one person will have access to all these other departments?

Yes. And we're also establishing a mobile home park working group that will have about 20 to 25 other departments. And especially those technical departments that we haven't had engaged in this conversation in the past, like our water operations folks, the folks who do our pavement scoring. So we're hoping that that will also help with that. ! So we're hoping that will also help with that connection.

! Okay. ! And then how does our license differ ! than the state registration? !

The state registration doesn't have an enforcement component. That authority derives from the Mobile Home Park Oversight Act and amendments. So the body that's doing the registration also has some regulatory functions ! through a different act. So we are able to do abatement specifically to charge back for costs and to keep folks from passing those along to residents. residents. There are also some areas that are gaps in the state law, like speed limit enforcement and pavement scores or pavement conditions. And then the tree hazard abatement is also something that right now under state law, folks are alLod to report or complain about it, but the state doesn't have anybody they can send on the ground to go cut that tree down or fix those branches.

How does the license, the city license, allow that? The licensing component is about data

collection and assessments. So any reports like about hazardous trees is a good example. Folks would have to do that assessment annually and then hand over those reports to us, which would also be public information for residents. So we haven't had that before. The other enhanced enforcement and authority are in other parts of the code. So they're related as the umbrella, but not direct

under the license. And so then how do we verify the information? How do we verify the data

submission that they're giving us through the complaint process primarily, but we also have some on the ground inspection and administrative compliance that somebody could do back checks on. So our water audit, our water rebilling audit, there is somebody who could be a specially commissioned officer who would be able to perform that function. But how do we verify like the lot rent or how much they're charging? We're asking for average lot rent and there's not a good way to verify that unless we put out a survey for residents. And there is a resident-wide community

survey planned for this year. I'm just, I mean, I remember during rental registration that it came up to exclude mobile home parks because of the increased fee. And now we're going back and doing basically rental registration. So we had some pushback from people who work with mobile home park residents and mobile home park residents. So what changed in between when we were going through that conversation and now proposing this.

This is the fees being charged to the mobile home park owner. That is a for-profit corporation instead of the individual landlord who may own that home or may run out portions of their own home. So the cost burden for this program is not on the individual, it's on the umbrella owner.

Yeah. Just a follow-up question to that. So that pushback was coming from some of our nonprofits that work with these communities. And I did see in the write-up that you talked to some of those people, but was it the same organizations? Yes. Yes. Some of our

same organizations that are concerned with housing stability, eviction, and affordability. And then also some of our immigration legal fund partners were involved in parts of the conversation. We just want to make sure we're not displacing people. Like that was a very big concern with this program from the beginning. So we were trying to build in some safeguards so that we're not making housing more unstable or less affordable. And so, because I believe what

happened with rental registration is we passed it. We did one and then everyone came out the second time. So should we not expect that? I would not expect that. During rental registration,

there were folks who had some concerns about the engagement that happened up to the council presentation. And in this case, these are the same folks that have been involved for seven years with us. So the same nonprofits, and I actually did that engagement work with those folks and the small landlords prior to the rental registration that the program that was developed now that was developed with them and in collaboration with them over those couple of weeks in between.

Yeah, thank you. I guess I just, I'm concerned. I mean, regardless of who's collecting it, it's still an increase. And I think to other council members about how is this cost being passed along, I think is of concern. So how are we kind of tracking that or following that to see if costs are, you know, I don't think we can always correlate it, but how are we tracking

costs or increase in work being done? So we, there are a couple of other cities in Colorado who have had something similar, a registration program, not licensing per se for mobile home parks. And right now it is very, very difficult to prove, I'm just going to be candid, it's difficult to prove that a price increase on the rent was not a direct result of the registration fees. They didn't have some of the disclosures and transparency built in that we're putting forward in the program. But even when there is a $50 program fee and a $50 rent increase, it's really hard for the state to prove that that's a direct result of the program fees.

I don't think there's ever a good answer, but yeah, I'm just concerned. Okay. And then I just have one last question about how we're rolling out enforcement, because I believe that one mobile home park experienced a negative response with some building permits being cleared and then some historical issues. And so I don't want, I want to make sure that we're not going in and then like forcing and and people are not having the things that they need, and then having a backlog of expenses. So how are we planning the enforcement of this?

Sure. So the program rollout over this year is really to build that foundation piece and start doing the education with the owners and with our property managers who haven't had a lot of outreach in the past. We're also taking the approach that a lot of our nuisance code inspection does, where we're hoping for voluntary compliance. That's always the goal. And we have these other tools in our toolkit in case that doesn't work. So we are willing to work with people to look at deadlines. I mean, there's some of this infrastructure that you're not going to fix it in the next six months. Like it's going to take a substantial effort and substantial cost. We don't want to burden the property owner or the residents with that. So we want to have some room for negotiation, but we also do want to make sure that we have tools in our toolkit that we just don't have now, because right now we are completely reliant on somebody's goodwill.

Yeah. Okay. Well, thank you for answering all my questions. I do know that this has been long requested by residents, so I'm glad that we're bringing these things forward, especially things with the trees and some of these other infrastructure issues and especially the water billing and clarifying that. So I do appreciate it. I you know it's hard to have both where I am concerned and we do need better enforcement because I feel like When we started the kind of mobile home park work We gave owners a really long time to comply probably too long to comply and and so I'm glad that we have more enforcement And at the same time I'm concerned about the increase of cost being passed down so

Councilmember pot yandy

We'll go Nelson and then pigment are okay. I only have one question Thank you so much for the hard work on this. I know that a lot's been going on over a pretty long period of time. My question is around informing residents of the terms of the new ordinance. Obviously, property owners and managers are going to be informed because they'll have legal expectations. But I am wondering how we're going to inform residents of, you know, who they make complaints to, if they need to, or if they have questions about the terms, or if they do feel like potentially the terms are not being met, or for instance, the costs are being passed along to them. How are we educating residents?

Sure. So there are ongoing Know Your Rights trainings through a number of our housing providers. We will work with them to add this information in. There have been some mobile home park owner, manager, and resident specific versions of that in the past. So we'd like to make sure that those are happening this year. We also are updating the mobile home park handbook, if the code changes pass on second reading to reflect the new changes. And we work with resident groups really closely. So groups like Mivos through La Familia, the Resident Foundation at Harmony. And then we do have some community consultants that we've worked with in almost every park in the city that can help us

get that word out. Okay, great. And I guess my other question is, is our staff member who is, and I'm sorry, I'm missing the senior mobile home park specialist. Are they bilingual by chance,

or do we have options to have bilingual conversations?

That position is currently open for recruitment, so it's not filled right now, but that is one of the qualifications that we put in for preference. Okay, perfect, thank you.

Great. So just a couple more questions as we've had further conversation. One thing that really stuck out to me in the report, which is so thorough, and I really deeply appreciate all of the work that has gone into it, was the statistic about potable water lost to leaks or other infrastructure issues. It's like $174,000 worth 60 million gallons a year, right? Something like that. So understanding that this is a long process, how quickly do you expect that to start decreasing? because you're talking about like 174. No, sorry. I did the math and then I lost it, but that's a substantial amount of money, like $140 or so per year per lot of money that people are spending. How quickly can we start to see a reduction in loss to poor infrastructure?

So part of that is an existing code right now as part of our last adopted code changes, where property owners for mobile home parks are currently required to sign up for continuous consumption notifications through their water utility provider. That is currently not being enforced, so we can start enforcement on that immediately as soon as we get a person to do that work, especially a commissioned officer. As far as the inspections that we would require from folks so that they're doing leak detection, that wouldn't start until 2027, unfortunately, But if we can get people on board with doing some of those voluntary pieces now, so it costs less money in the long run, we would want to roll that out as quickly as possible. That's one of the huge overlapping priorities for us and for the water utility because it really is very inefficient use of water. And if those water infrastructure leaks are within people's individual homes versus in the big park, we need to know where those are and how we can get grant funding or programs to help with the individual homes as well.

Got it. Okay. And then because you are, this would be assessed at sort of year end or following, right? Like you're looking back at all of the statistics for the previous year in order to renew the license. Is it like that municipal penalty if you determine that rents increase unfairly? They've already been like increased for a year. You know what I mean?

So we could enforce on that and then work through our penalty structure. The state also has some authority in that space where the cost of their programs or compliance are not alLod to be passed on either. They right now have more authority for penalties than we do. They just have more teeth currently. So that would be something we could collaborate with them on to see who's in the best position and help residents. I forgot to mention that. sorry, Council Member Pat Yandy as part of the resident education workshops on how to file complaints, both at the local level and the state. And that would help get that information into the right folks so that we can coordinate on the enforcement side. Okay, thank you.

Thank you. I just have a question about, so code compliance, the neighborhood compliance, little cars and stuff, like currently they can't go in mobile home parks, is that

correct? Or can they go in there? They currently can, but only for nuisance code enforcement. So right now, city forestry is not alLod to go in and look at the trees. We're not alLod to go in and abate any issues with trees, but things like outdoor storage, rubbish, expired tags on vehicles, that kind of stuff, currently they are alLod to enforce. Okay. And so with the timeline,

When does that switch over?

January 1st of 2027. Okay. Okay. Thanks.

Council Member Tatyani? Sorry, I have one more. My assumption, and I was hoping I didn't miss something, but this only applies to our parks that are currently within city limits, correct? Do we know if the county is moving toward anything similar? Because I know even within the geographic footprint of the city, some of the parks are not within city limits. So are they doing something similar or would they use the MPOP system if they've got concerns, if they're in county? The county affordable housing

team is the one who's working with mobile home parks. We're doing a lot of on the ground work with them. We haven't gotten in too far to the policy conversations, but the state is really interested in how this goes. And there are several other municipalities and the county that are interested in how these things actually function. Yeah. Okay. That'd be great.

I just I think sometimes for residents it's very confusing when they're right next door to a neighborhood that has City Cone compliance. So it'd be great if this works well if other communities might want to align with us a little bit.

Any other questions? Comments? Okay. Is there a motion?

Yeah. I move approval on first reading of ordinance number 142026, amending the code of the city of Fort Collins to revise requirements relating to mobile home parks.

Second.

We have a motion by Mayor Patan-Prinathar and seconded by Council Member Patyandi. Any further discussion? I just want to say thank you again. And I know that this has been a lot of work with a very small team and really hopeful that this will have the impact that we're hoping on as mobile home parks deserve the same quality of service as the rest of our city and our residents. So thank you again. Will the clerk please call the roll? Fudge.

Yes.

Pinotaro. Yes. Conway.

Yes. Nelson. Yes. Francis. Yes. Hovind. Yes. Patyandi. Yes.

Great, that passes 7-0.

yes nelson yes francis yes hovan yes patyandi yes and fudge yes great that passes 7-0 and now

we're on to an executive session motion okay um i move that the council go into executive session for the purpose of discussing the city's attorneys and appropriate management staff specific legal questions related to potential litigation about federal and state requirements for and limitations on federal and local law enforcement, including federal immigration enforcement, and the matter in which federal and local law enforcement may be affected by existing or proposed provisions of federal state law pursuant to City Charter Article 2, Section 11, City Code Section 2-31A2, and Colorado Revised Statutes Section 24-6-402, Subsection 4A and 4B.

Second. Great. We have a motion by Pignataro and a second by Hoven. Any members of the public like to speak on this? Seeing none. Do council members have any discussion? Seeing none. Will the clerk please call the roll? Conway?

Yes. Nelson? Yes. Francis? Yes. Hoven? Yes. Patyandi? Yes. Fudge? Yes. Pignataro? Yes.

Great. That passes 7-0.

Okay, there's no further or I guess we're going to executive session. We'll come back out in a during the meeting. Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.