City Council Regular Meeting — March 3, 2026

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Okay, I think this is everyone. Okay, here we go. Whereas the Women and Gender Equity Advisory Board was established to enhance the status and opportunities for all women, girls, transgender, gender non-binary, and gender non-conforming persons in the city of Fort Collins and in collaboration with women focus employee resource group. And whereas the Women and Gender Equity Advisory Board acknowledges the continued need for social justice, decision making, and leadership roles in business and government and socioeconomic empowerment of women and girls both locally and globally. And whereas the Women and Gender Equity Advisory Board and Women Focus, ERG, celebrates the achievements and triumphs of women and girls, both locally, oh, I already read that one, whereas International Women's Day was established in 1911 to celebrate women's achievements, raise awareness about gender-based discrimination, and take action to achieve women's rights. and whereas acknowledging international women's day is a step toward validating that women and girls are to be noted for their social economic cultural and political achievements and whereas call for gender equity social justice dignity and respect toward all women and girls regardless of age sex race ability religion immigration status criminal record and socioeconomic status and whereas the city of fort collins has been devoted to increasing equity measures across all identities since the inception of the Office of Equity and Inclusion in August 2021. Now, therefore, I am Lee Francis, Mayor of the City of Fort Collins, to hereby proclaim March 8, 2026 as International Women's Day and call upon all community members to join us in jubilation for the contributions, tireless efforts, and joy that women and girls bring to our community. Thank you.

Good afternoon, community. Today, we celebrate and honor International Women's Day, a day dedicated to recognize the achievements, resilience, and dreams of women everywhere.

This is a moment to acknowledge not only the women who have changed history, but those who inspire us every day through their courage and leadership.

Consider the legacy of Juventa Labado, the first Hispanic woman to graduate in 1932, when opportunities for women were extremely limited. Her determination paved the way for countless others who faced similar barriers.

The Honorable Polly Baca, the first Hispanic woman to be elected to the Colorado State Senate, served in the Colorado Legislature for 12 years.

Her leadership opened doors for future generations of women of color in politics.

Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat on the bus, showed remarkable courage that ignited a movement of civil rights and inspired millions. These stories remind us that progress is possible, but it requires continued efforts from all of us.

Although we have made strides, much work remains to be done, especially in achieving equal pay for women in the boardroom and in the classrooms.

Women deserve to be paid their worth. Let's commit to supporting and empowering women and young girls in every aspect of life,

ensuring that their voices are heard and their contributions valued.

mentor young women in our community, advocate for equal pay in our workplaces, and celebrate each other's successes every day.

By doing so, we help break down barriers so that future generations of young women can thrive. Many thanks to the Women's Focus for the opportunity to receive the proclamation on behalf of women around the globe. Thank you for joining us at this celebration. may we continue to champion equal and create a world where every woman's potential is realized. Happy International Women's Day. Thank you.

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All right, here you go. Thank you, everyone. Thank you. Maybe we'll see you again in another one.

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Okay, next we have American Red Cross Month. If you'd like to support this one, come on up.

Great. Easy to find you. Are you Paul? Of course. Thank you. Definitely have numbers. Oh, no. Equally as important. And are you going to be giving comments? Oh, quick comments. Okay. Okay, great. Okay, so American Red Cross Month. Whereas in March we celebrate American Red Cross Month, by honoring our neighbors who make a humanitarian mission possible across the city. Every day, their acts of kindness change lives, bringing relief, comfort, and hope when help can't wait. The compassionate spirit runs deep in our community, just as it has for 145 years for the American Red Cross. And whereas last year, dedicated Red Cross volunteers opened emergency evacuation centers during wildfires and utility outages, responded to home fires, and brought hope in times of darkness.

And whereas today, those who serve with the across Northern Colorado chapter light the way during emergencies, whether it's delivering shelter, food, and comfort after disasters, providing a safe, life-saving blood supply for patients facing conditions like cancer treatments, childbirth complications, and traumatic injuries, asking military members, veterans, and their families with 24-7 global support, or empowering individuals with skills like first aid and CPR that save lives.

and whereas these collective efforts are a powerful reminder that the strength of our community lies in our shared commitment to one another as we mark american red cross month let's celebrate our local heroes and resolve to continue lifting each other up so no one faces an emergency alone now therefore i am lec francis mayor of the city of fort collins do hereby proclaim march 2026 as American Red Cross Month. Thank you. Thank you for

Thank you, Mayor. Thanks, everybody. And I don't have a big, long speech. I just wanted to say

thank you. And if anybody wants to volunteer to Red Cross, please do. We're at the Northern

Colorado chapter. We're just located down in Loveland. Sorry. We were in Fort College.

and so but no we are a team of great dedicated people and we would love to have any anybody that wants to join us please join us thank you

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Thank you. All right.

The last one we have is declaring the month of March 2026 as Women's History Month. If you'd like to support this one, come on up.

Hi, Patty. Nice to meet you. Thanks for coming.

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Whereas American women of every race, class, and ethnic background have made historic contributions to the growth and strength of our nation in countless recorded and unrecorded ways. And whereas American women have played and continue to play critical economic, cultural, and social role in every sphere of the life of the nation by constituting a significant portion of the labor force working inside and outside of the home. And whereas American women were particularly important in the establishment of early charitable, philanthropic, and cultural institutions in our nation. And whereas American women of every race, class, and ethnic background served as early leaders in the forefront of every major progressive social change movement. and whereas American women have served our country courageously in the military and whereas American women have been leaders not only in securing their own rights of suffrage and equal opportunity but also in the abolitionist movement, the emancipation movement, the industrial labor movement, the civil rights movement, the women's rights movement, and other movements especially the peace movement which create a more fair and just society for all and whereas despite these contributions the role of American women in history has been consistently overlooked and undervalued in the sciences, literature, teaching, study of American history, as well as in their contribution in areas listed above. And whereas Living Her Legacy, a nonprofit recognizing women inspiring girls has been approved to create the first public outdoor exhibit to recognize women's accomplishments in Fort Collins in Colorado, and is creating a generation of change makers who will impact their communities and the girls who come behind them with our women's public art expedition and our education program for girls.

Now therefore, I am Lee Francis, Mayor of the City of Fort Collins, to hereby proclaim March 2026 as Women's History Month and call upon the community members of Fort Collins to celebrate March's Women's History Month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities. Thank you very much.

My name is Patty Smith, and I'm the founder and executive director of Living Her Legacy. We're honored to be here today with this proclamation.

So Women's History Month celebrates the important contributions and achievements of women throughout history.

It acknowledges stories that have often been overlooked and inspires future generations.

So this is going to be very short, but it's very important for what we're doing. The early foundations started with the suffragette movement, the right to give women the right to vote.

and the suffragettes started just by gathering together and being able to share what they needed

and they had fought a very difficult battle to get to that point where women were alLod the right to vote and it took many years for all women to have that right to vote.

Women's History Week began in the 1970s

in Sonoma, California actually and then it spread across

the United States. In 1987

Women's History Week had grown in popularity and Congress

officially recognized March as Women's History Month making it a national

observance across the United States. There is

what's the word I want to use there is a push to have a women's suffragette monument in Washington, D.C. And I wanted to share with you that Jane D. Decker who is a sculptor in Loveland, Colorado started that initiative.

She went down to, they went to the state capital not state, but they went to the federal government and talked to anybody that would listen to them. and the Ngoose helped them with that and they got part of it approved through the

Parks Department and yesterday I received an email that it has been

approved so I wanted to let everybody know that. The email came from the

Women's Suffrage National Monument Foundation and it says this past December we jumped for joy on the National Mall after we officially claimed our two and a half

acre home. So exciting. A milestone that ensures that the stories of our foremothers will finally be written into the fabric of America's front yard. But as the suffragists do, nothing great

is accomplished alone. So thank you very much for being here today.

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We can all, if you don't want the podium, we can do this.

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That is, no, that's okay. That is all of our proclamations for this evening. Proclamations are also occasionally read in the community and all are encouraged to attend. A proclamation declaring March 9th through 13th, 2026 as founded in foco week requested by founded in foco will be read on march 11th at the senior center that's all for the proclamations this evening stay tuned for our regular city council meeting beginning at 6 p.m thank you everyone

good evening fort collins the time is now 6 0 1 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. Pina Terro? Here. Nelson? Here. Holvin? Here. Padayandi? Here. Fudge? Here. Conway?

He is excused. All right. We have six of us here tonight. We appreciate everyone who has joined us tonight, either virtually or in person. I want to remind everyone that we're here for the same purpose, which is the future of our community. Be thoughtful about others as they speak, and tonight everyone will have a chance to be heard. Will the city manager please provide a review of today's agenda?

Yes. Thank you, Mayor. Good evening, everyone. There is one change to your published agenda. I am withdrawing the other business number two item, which was consideration of a motion to waive attorney-client privilege on a legal item. Instead, we are going to be creating a white paper that will provide information to the public rather than releasing that confidential legal memo. So information will be coming in a different format. Tonight's consent calendar does include 11 items, and then we have three discussion items. One of those is adopting Council's 26-27 priorities, folLod by adopting the 26-20-30 strategic plan, and then finally consideration to establish an ad hoc committee on affordable and sustainable growth.

Great, thank you. We do not have any community reports tonight, so will staff please play the public participation video.

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And if you are online, please raise your hand so that we can find you easily. We use a timer to track your comments. When the timer shows green, you can go ahead and start your comments. Yellow means you have 30 seconds, and at red, we will kindly ask you to stop. So we will start with our speakers. And Louise?

Thank you. Good evening to all of you. I want to start out by saying congratulations to all of you that have been elected or selected for your positions. You have the confidence of the people, so cheers. The matter I want to discuss with you all tonight is Senate Bill 26-097. It's currently in committee at our capital in Denver. What this bill would do, it would decriminalize. Well, first off, it would redesignate the term prostitution as commercial sex work. I will go ahead and use that term from now on. It would decriminalize the practice. What I would ask of you tonight would be to talk to the sponsors of this bill. They are Senators Nick Hinrichson and Lisa Cutter, as well as House Representatives Lorena Garcia and Rebecca Stewart. I would ask you to please give them the following input. It would be extremely helpful for us here in Fort Collins and in other cities as well for language to be written into the bill granting maximum authority on the matter, on commercial sex work, for cities to regulate such things, to create exclusion zones or to exclude the practice altogether. And that's all I have for you tonight. I want to say thank you for hearing me out.

Thank you. Marge and then Ryan. Hi, I'm Marge Norska. I live in District 2. My comments are about the agreement with FLOC Services. I used a Quora request to get a copy of the master agreement. The agreement grants us the right to access data collected from the FLOC cameras we license and we own the data that is collected. Plus, the agreement permits FLOC to share our data if FLOC has a good faith belief that such access use, preservation, or disclosure is reasonably necessary. Based on my plain reading of the agreement, we are responsible for the data collected. We are responsible for the proper use of the data, but we are not fully in control of when our data is shared. I ask our City Council to consider the actions taken by Glenwood Springs City Council. Glenwood Springs recently reviewed their flock audit files. They found searches by law enforcement agencies across the nation. And while most were routine, some were conducted for immigration enforcement, which is in violation of Colorado law. These searches involved Homeland Security, Border Patrol, and DHS. And none of those searches were conducted by the Glenwood Springs Police. Based on this and citizen concerns, Glenwood Springs City Council put new measures in place. Effective February 11th this year, Glenwood Springs restricted all outside law enforcement from access to its flat cameras. And now only Glenwood Springs Police are notified when a stolen vehicle or suspect license plate passes one of their cameras. and Glenwood Springs is pursuing enhanced language in their FLOC contract to further clarify and tighten restrictions on city data. Please swiftly put similar measures in place to gain us protections as we debate the use of mass surveillance tools in Fort Collins. Thank you.

Thank you. Ryan?

I want to thank everyone for the time during the working session. I wanted to discuss the implications of the surveillance system in terms of equity and minority-majority organizations. I think that the organizations that are putting FLOC cameras in place, whether they are FLOC or a different vendor, ultimately have a certain amount of power that we, the people, need to make sure we are keeping in check. If we think of what this infrastructure could have had an implication for when gay marriage was not alLod, when people had to determine which water fountain they could use. The infrastructure needs to be limited and we need to make sure that we're not laying the roots for abuse in the future. I think the government as it currently stands and acts today on the federal side makes it clear that the

makes it clear that the

sorry I'm losing my train of thought that's all I have to say thank you of course thank you we'll go to Jeff online hello thank you council members and FCPS for all that you do make Fork Homes better and safer? Last week, FCPS presented the benefits of FLOC. Clearly, it can be used to solve important crimes, but it can also be abused. Over 4,000 times, police used FLOC and entered the reason for the search as ICE or immigration. What happens if instead they use an actual open incident or case number for the reason when trying to use it for ICE or immigration? Will the audits catch that? Even if FCPS only uses the system as they described, can you trust the federal government won't come in and use the system without commission? Can we verify that this data is only being sent to our secure cloud? Even if so, who owns AWS where we store it? Oh, that's right. Jeff Bezos, the billionaire who sat behind Trump at his inauguration, which he donated $1 million to. And then he gave an undisclosed amount to the ballroom bribe. And then he gave a $40 million bribe to the Trumps, which was badly disguised as a documentary on Melania. Do we trust Bezos not to give access to DHS to our secure cloud on his AWS? The U.S. just killed the supreme leader of Iran because they had every camera in the country hacked for years.

Did we lose you, Jeff?

for this kind of mass surveillance to exist, which will be abused by the federal government to hunt down and harm people. Today it's immigrants, tomorrow it's women seeking out-of-state health care. But, oh wait, that's right, those are both already happening. This system is inherently dangerous, proven repeatedly to be abused and not secured. Keeping these cameras up right now is like leaving a loaded gun in the kids' playroom and hoping nothing bad happens. Not only should we not renew the contract with LOC, but we should make it illegal to have ALPRs and other traffic cameras in Fort Collins until such time that the federal government isn't doing its best job to imitate 1984. Thank you.

Thank you. Israeah and then Ash.

Israeah Schneier, District 3. Good evening, counsel. At this point, not counting tonight, you have heard about 28 speeches from people who have come out here to oppose Flock cameras. You've received, by rough count, over 50 emails opposing them. And as far as I can tell, there's only a single person who emailed you setting aside cops or people who are on Flock's payroll, who emailed you opposing, who emailed you supporting me. who are on Flock's payroll, who emailed you supporting the cameras. ! This is not a close or contentious issue. ! This is a small minority trying to impose what they think is best for the city ! Last week was an excellent exercise in changing the subject. Last week was an excellent exercise in changing the subject. ! Of course, Flock is an awful company. I and many other residents made that clear. But to be honest, I don't think you needed us to tell you that. Because to even consider retaining Flock as a vendor at this point would have been insanity. consider retaining Flock as a vendor at this point would have been insanity, and I think you all recognize that. What we didn't hear any discussion of, or even any questioning of, was the process by which this whole program started. For some reason, FCPS chose not to discuss all of the listening sessions they held as they were considering the contract. They didn't mention the public vote council had on the topic. They left out all the surveys and community engagement. Of course they did because none of that happened. And there was almost no pushback on this from counsel. All we kept hearing was that it was an operational decision. This was not an operational decision. This was a dramatic change in policing that affects every resident's daily lives. You cannot make decisions like that in secret and then just expect everyone to go along with it. Chief Sabota mentioned that he talked to a group of anti-Flock students and after he pointed out that Flock might help them recover their stolen car, that two-thirds of them changed their minds and said they would support Flock. Well, first of all, I find that very disturbing if that were true, that many of my neighbors readily traded their most basic civil liberties for a used car, but fortunately, I don't think that that really is the case. But if that's what you think, if you really think that this is something that the people of Fort Collins want, that has broad support, then why don't you prove it? Why don't you put it on this ballot this year, put a referendum on, let the people of Fort Collins weigh in and see what they think. If it passes and they support it, then okay, I'll shut up and I won't bother you again. But you cannot make decisions like this without the input of the people and you need to put it back to the people for something

of this severity. Thank you. Thank you. Next we have Ash and then Spencer.

Good evening, Fort Collins. My name is Ash Ibarra from Harmony Timberline, 2nd District. I wanted to talk to you today about how flock cameras might be affecting the residents of your

city. The city's police department took it into their own hands to implement this flock license

plate reader program. They decided that they were okay with giving up our privacy to a third party company. They decided that they had the right to search up information about you without a warrant with just the click of a couple buttons. They decided that our Fourth Amendment rights meant nothing. They decided to trust Amazon to store the data on their AWS cloud services, the same AWS S cloud services that were contracted with ICE for their deportation machine. Why should we trust Amazon? So here I am holding you guys accountable. I'm here to ask what you could have done with that money. But regardless, the past is in the past. Your job as our city council is to protect the rights of every single person living in Fort Collins. please do think about how this would affect someone who protested human rights. Someone who needed to see a doctor and all they could afford was Planned Parenthood. How would this affect someone who was on their way to get a medication for their autoimmune condition that happened to be the same medication that's used for abortion? How would this affect someone trying to get away from their abusive family? How would this affect someone who receives gender-affirming care? these people they live in your city please don't forget about us now let me address the port collins police department's comments they say that they don't have anything identifying about us that is collected and shared with the federal government but let me tell you about metadata it is literally data about data that was collected this includes times and dates when the picture was taken maybe be a license plate number or color of the vehicle. It would have the location of the camera as well, which means they have the location of you in your car driving at that time during that day. Does the police department or flock wipe this metadata before sharing it with outside departments? Because if not, the federal government may know where you were at a specific time, date, and can inform an agency like ICE where you work. For the sake of me and my community, I don't want a single flat camera or a replacement in the city of Fort Collins. These cameras are dividing us. We fear our neighbors. Instead of talking to each other and going to each other's doors, we are watching every moment behind a stone-cold, lifeless camera. Where's the humanity in that? Thank you. Next one is Spencer.

All right, not seeing Spencer. Tyler. And then Josie.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Tyler Davidson. I think I'm in District 5, 80526. I'm probably beginning to get to be a familiar face up here. I've not gone out of my way to stand for an issue like this ever before in my life, but I hope that helps get across how strongly I feel about this. The more I dig into Flock individually as a company and ALPRs and

mass surveillance in general, the more I see that this is a technology whose potential for misuse

is wildly underestimated. As I might have said before, this is the secret police's

dream come true. This is what they've always wanted. The KGB, the NKVD, the most infamous

intelligence and surveillance agencies in history wanted mass surveillance and built it to the

greatest extent that they could. The idea that we're going to willingly bring this in and then say, well, we're a free people. Well, a free people is not surveilled. Occupied people are surveilled. Prisoners are surveilled. Those under oppression are surveilled. A free people is not. And that's what we have the Fourth Amendment for. So these folks stole my thunder tonight. What else can I say? You know, we've heard a lot of the arguments. To say that this has the potential for misuse, again, is an understatement. We've already watched it. We've already seen national headlines of people, individuals, and companies misusing it. You know, in the case of Flock cameras, the Silicon Valley euphemism is move fast and break things. Well, the euphemism is it's move fast and break the law and then hope that the law changes in your favor. And that's exactly what's happening here. Did you know that Palantir made a $245 million investment in Flock cameras. Is it any coincidence then that the security of flat cameras has been universally judged by security and cyber professionals to be not just poor, but horrendous, terrible, completely unacceptable? And there's only one good excuse for this. It's so that they can avoid taking responsibility when that data inevitably gets leaked. And that $245 million Palantir investment? Well, golly, what do you think they want for a quarter billion dollars? They want your data and they want to keep it forever. Flock might not keep it, but you can bet that quarter billion dollar investment is buying something. Let's not let it buy our faces, our license plates, our children, everywhere we've been and everywhere we're going. We are a free people.

Thank you very much. Thank you. Josie? Good evening, Mayor, members of Council. My name is Josie Plout. I'm co-director of the Institute for the Built Environment based at Colorado State. I'm a lifelong resident of Fort Collins.

I live in the Mulberry Hill neighborhood, District 6, and I'm speaking on my own behalf tonight.

First, I'd like to thank you for your work on setting priorities for the coming term. I appreciate the focus on housing, fiscal sustainability, economic vitality, and safety.

The question for you that I have tonight is, are we calibrating our priorities for the future that we are actually entering, not the one that is familiar?

Wildfire seasons are lengthening. Droughts are intensifying.

Our watershed lands have burned twice in the last 15 years. risk modeling shows significant wildfire exposure across the city not only in West Fort Collins but across at least 25% of our homes. At the same time we're experiencing fiscal shortfalls at CSU and PSD and at the city, declining birth rates, aging population, and technological disruptions that are reshaping workforce capacity and housing demand. These are not separate challenges, but they need to be addressed together.

So what I would like to encourage you to consider as you weigh your priorities are some practical next steps. First, I think we do need to elevate forest, watershed, and urban ecosystem resilience to explicit priority status as core infrastructure risk management while continuing to reduce our contribution to the problem.

Second, we need to ensure housing strategy explicitly targets missing middle, workforce, and age-friendly housing while aligning development with long-term demographic realities.

And third, we need to convene regional partners for disciplined, whole-system scenario planning that integrates fiscal risk, demographic change, housing strategy, economic development, and climate adaptation. future residents will not measure our success by how efficiently we process our building permits they will measure it by whether we protected their water and land strengthen their institutions

and stabilize their neighborhoods thank you all for your leadership thank you is amy here

amy you signed up for item discussion but the items on consent so do you want to talk now okay great

Hello, thank you. My name is Amy Bove and I am with the Colorado Manufactured Housing Coalition as well as the Rocky Mountain Housing Association. I'm also an attorney who represents over 200 manufactured housing communities. So I am here today because of the Mobile Home Act ordinance that is in its second reading today. And I just wanted to express or at least educate about the state program we currently have. Sorry, I just ran up here. Give me one second. So right now we have something called the MPOP program with the state of Colorado. It was sponsored actually by Representative Bazenecker back in 2019. It came into office around 2020 and is now in its about six year. A lot of your ordinance mirrors the powers already granted to the state of Colorado to oversee manufactured housing communities. So, for example, say a tenant has a problem, a bonafide problem in a park, and it's about a tree, and they're very concerned about this tree hurting their home. The tree is owned by the park. It is the responsibility right now in the state of Colorado for that tree to be maintained or removed if dangerous. There's another part that says if the tree is healthy, you're not supposed to remove it, right? A tree is important. So the tenant files a complaint with the City of Fort Collins. The tenant files a complaint with the State of Colorado saying, we need to take care of this tree. I'm really afraid. The winds, the snow, they're going to come. So then the mobile home park community gets two subpoenas. They get one from the State of Colorado and they get the one from City of Fort Collins. And the way that I was thinking about this driving up is, say you have to pick up your kid from school and there are designated lanes on how you do that right well the city tells you to go one way the state tells you to go the other way oh and there are people actively pointing no you go this way you go this way you can see your kid right the park can see the problem tree they want to correct the tree they must correct the tree by law right but now we've got a fully staffed city, a fully staffed state, and one, the city's saying, trim the tree, it's beautiful, it can be safe. The state is saying, their investigator says, take it down. You follow one, you disobey the other. Now, if you're a parent, you just go get the kid. You pick away, right? The mobile home community doesn't have that because the government, the powers of the government, whether it's the state or the city have big fining and penalty and rent freeze powers. So thank you for hearing. I already believe that the communities are regulated sufficiently to the state. Thank you.

All right. That is everyone we have signed up for public comment. Does anyone on council have any follow-up to public comment? Councilmember Fignett? All right. Thank you. Thanks again to

everyone who came out. City Manager, can you remind me what next steps are around

flat cameras from our work session last week? Yes, the Chief and I have had some follow-up conversation. Yes, the chief and I have had some follow-up conversation on this and we are doing some additional research on other options. ! Again, there's some things happening in the state legislature right now that we are also going to be monitoring to see how that might impact what we do. ! We'll have some follow-up information to counsel in the next 45, no later than 60 days, which is well before the deadline when we would have to give a block that we wouldn't be renewing our contract. Okay, thank you. And then from Neighborhood Services, can someone speak to

And then from neighborhood services, can someone speak to with the mobile home park? I think we went through this, but what if there's conflicting with state law, what happens?

So part of that will come in how we create the standard operating procedures as we move through implementation. I think JC outlined at the last council meeting kind of that there that that is correct. There are some overlaps in what the state's doing and what the city is doing. And the intent and purpose behind that is to be able to move forward in the abatement space if we're not able to get action through the state process. So it will continue to be a coordinated effort so that we don't have two different responses going back out to the mobile home park based on where they're coming from.

Okay. Thank you.

Anyone else? Yeah, Councilmember Payone.

Yeah, I just always like to thank folks for coming out. So thanks, folks, for coming out.

Okay, anyone else? Yeah, Councilmember Holman.

I'll just thank everyone, too, and especially as Raya and Marge, you've been really helpful in providing information for us to think about and sort through. So thank you.

Anyone else? Okay. Seeing none, does anyone on council wish to pull any consent calendar items for individual discussion? Yeah, Council Member Hood.

Thank you. I think after just some questions I have, I'd like to pull number five, please, regarding the mobile home park. Sure. And I specifically just still, oh, I'm sorry.

Unless you're going to say why, but you can give a brief explanation.

Thank you for your guidance here. I think my biggest question has to do with under license, well, it's actually number three, improved enforcement and oversight. and that first sentence that states the city would have a clear authority to inspect, require corrective action, and abate hazardous conditions. I just want to understand the impacts of that first sentence, the inspection piece, because I know that we've talked about it, and I appreciate the information, but I'm not 100% sure I have my questions answered.

Okay. Anyone else? Okay, see none. Is there a motion for the consent calendar?

Yeah, I move that we approve the consent calendar, items 1 through 11 minus number 5. Is there a second? I'll second.

Great. We have a motion by Councilmember Pignataro and a second by Councilmember Nelson. Any further discussion? Councilmember Hope?

I just have a quick question regarding item number eight. All of the traffic code, I just mainly have a question about the communication plan. I'm going to agree to pass it. I'm just curious what the communication plan. There's a lot in item eight, and I just want to know how our residents will be informed.

Yeah, so I think I'm going to invite Sergeant Dave Lindsey, who just walked in. Sergeant Lindsey, if you could come up. There's a question just about with these changes, what is the communication plan? How does the community really get notified about the changes?

Good evening. Good evening, Mayor. Mayor Potem and Council, thanks for the opportunity to answer your question.

So in regarding specifically how we're going to provide outreach to the community, we'll coordinate internally with our media relations team and then with the city PIO as well to just to provide general updates that we are becoming in line with current state law by updating these municipal ordinances.

we'll provide the resources on how citizens can specifically access those documents, which is mostly in an online format.

So that way they're aware and they can do their own research as well to validate that.

Thank you. Oops, thank you. And that's all bilingual, correct?

I'm sorry, Steve?

The information that you provide will be bilingual as well?

Sure, absolutely. Yeah, when we coordinate with both of those teams.

Thank you. Thanks. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Any other further discussion on the consent calendar? Yeah, Council Member.

Sorry. I just have a question about item number nine and just curious how in the demonstration, the Lake Street demonstration, just how that location was selected. Yeah.

Yeah, we're going to invite Courtney Geary and Dana Hornkohl from our transportation, couple of our transportation departments to speak to that.

Good evening, Council. I'm Courtney Geary. I'm the active modes manager for the city of Fort Collins. Thank you for the question about our Lake Street demonstration project. We evaluated all of the high priority recommendations in the city's active modes plan to determine which might be good candidates for this funding. and based on the prioritization, the project readiness, and the feasibility, we determined that Lake Street would be a good candidate for this project. There are high priority recommendations in the Active Mode's plan both for bikeway improvements and for bicycle and pedestrian crossing improvements along Lake Street. Lake Street is also one of the few city-owned streets that still runs through CSU's main campus and both the city and the CSU have adopted Vision Zero goals. So this project is really a great opportunity for us to work together to achieve those Vision Zero goals to eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injuries. There have been several serious injury crashes along Lake Street in the past few years, unfortunately. Also, we've heard particular concerns about the intersection of Lake Street and Center Avenue, which sees high volumes of pedestrians and cyclists, especially at class change times, and confusion over who has the right of way. So with the demonstration project funding, that allows us to install removable materials to test a different design for the street, both at this intersection and along the corridor before we would make more permanent changes.

That is super helpful. Thank you. It's very exciting. Yeah, thanks.

Thank you. Councilmember Fudge.

This probably belongs under item K, but I'll just mention the study of the Harmony Corridor from JFK to I-25. I'm really glad that's going to happen because I rarely ride my bike along that, but I see people who do, and I think it's an act of bravery, so really needed and really be interested to see what comes out of that. So thank you for doing that.

Thank you.

Any other further discussion? Okay. Seeing none, whether clerk, please call the roll.

Francis? Yes. Pignatero? Yes. Nelson? Yes. Hovind? Yes. Patiandi? Yes. Fudge? Yes. Okay, that passes 6-0. There are no staff

reports tonight. Do council members have any reports? Council member Patiandi? Thank you.

I just wanted to mention this evening, for those of you who weren't able to show up to council early, our Women and Gender Equity Advisory Board, in recognition of International Women's Day, did a really great reception with a number of community agencies tabling. And I just wanted to thank our community and that advisory board for their hard work on that event. It was really lovely. And then also, I wanted to give a shout out to folks who participated in this weekend's Indian Republic Day celebration at the Senior Center. I was able to pop over and there were just dancers, musicians. I missed the food, but it was a really wonderful celebration of our Indian population here in Fort Collins and obviously a lot of thought went into that and

I was really grateful to be there. Thanks. Any other council members? Council Member Pigmatara.

Thank you. So I also went to a Lunar New Year celebration for the Chinese school on Sunday. That was awesome and read a proclamation. Very fun time. As well as Isaac, one of our local nonprofits had their fundraiser on Saturday, which was very powerful. And it's great to see a lot of the immigration work going on in our community. And then one more thing I did. Oh, yeah, last week, a couple of us in different roles were at the Northern Colorado Leadership, Northern Colorado. They had a luncheon downtown and had different panels. And it's great talking to these up and coming leaders in our community. So thanks.

Great. Anyone else? Councilmember Hoven? I will just add, I was participating in all of those events with Julie, but I also want to add that I had the good fortune of sitting in our municipal court program called the right track and it was fabulous when some of our residents who face many of the same challenges that the majority of us face housing affordability transportation issues and and end up having an infraction with the law the their sentence is the right track and it was a very remarkable program that builds a sense of community. And I just want to thank Judge Hauser for fostering that program.

Thank you. Anyone else? Okay. Seeing none, we will move on to our discussion items. And the first we have is the item that was pulled, which is number five. Oh, we need...

The consent item that was pulled? Yes.

Yes. Number five, right? Okay. All right. So we are going on to number five. Is there a staff presentation for this item?

We do not have a staff presentation, but I will invite Marcy Yoder and JC Ward back up. We are happy to answer any questions.

Okay. Any members of the public like to speak on this item? Okay. Seeing none, do council members have any questions or comments? Council Member Hovind?

I wasn't initially planning on pulling this item, but I think just after hearing some of the conflict, I did have some questions about the community outreach and the service providers. I know we talked about it, and I was really grateful that Mayor Pro Tem and the Mayor brought up those issues in our last meeting. And I feel like some of the organizations, I'm not sure if the outreach has been sufficient just to make sure that they don't have any concerns with the registration or the inspection piece. Because I know we really did a lot of that work a couple of years ago. So I just kind of needed a little bit more information on that, how that was conducted and what your findings were.

So, a lot of the engagement work that we did was prior to the September work session, and that involved several layers of engagement with residents, with our nonprofit partners, with our state partners, kind of across the board.

based on the direction we got in the September work session.

All of those folks were in support of us moving forward as well as council.

So we switched kind of the engagement strategy between September and this last council conversation to really focus in on those residents who helped us kind of co-craft what we brought in September

and also continue to help guide and provide input and feedback on the code changes.

It went to the two different boards before it came to you all. It also was visible to the state. There were regular updates with just those relationships we hold with those nonprofits to say we're still on track. It's coming up. Those kinds of things. After the council meeting, we did circle back with all of those nonprofit providers to say, hey, this was the first reading. Here are all the council materials. Do you have any other questions, concerns, issues? and folks continue to be in support and we've not had any additional concerns raised from any of those nonprofit partners and I believe that's in part because of the work that we did prior to the September piece and this is just kind of the final phase of that and you know if a question was asked about do you know about this particular thing it wasn't in front of them right before it came to you all but they were aware of the direction that we were headed and have supported that throughout and jc was also at the fundraiser on saturday and talked to several of those providers in person everyone is is kind of on board with this moving forward in the direction that we're headed

Thank you. And I think it, I mean, the residents that we've heard from are supportive of it. And that helps answer some of my questions.

Are there other questions or comments? Council Member- Okay, see-none, is there a motion for ordinance number 014. Yeah, I move approval on second reading of ordinance number 014-2026 amending the code of the City of Fort Collins to revise requirements relating to mobile home parks. Second. Second. Second. We have a motion by Council Member Pegg-Nittar and a second by Council Member Patjandi. Any further discussion? Just thank you for the follow-up, and I know that there is some communication, so just appreciate you coming, and I know, J.C., you were second, so thank you for being here, and just making sure that we follow-up. confident about this. I do think it's the right program. I think going through what we've done with retro registration and some of these updates, we really want to make sure that we're not having negative impact. So I just appreciate the extra confirmation.

Okay, any further discussion? Mayor Francis, if you don't mind, there are two cleanup corrections that we've identified in the ordinance that I'm hoping council may be willing to make. They truly are just editorial. One of them is In Section 18-1, the second line references and safe operation. The word safe is not necessary there because it's sort of duplication for later use of that term in that sentence. So we would remove safe from the second line of the 18-1A. And then the second change is on page 15 of the ordinance. in section 26-166E, the third sentence, which begins, in addition to such other methods, there is a word that that is missing before the word are, A-R-E, and that just makes it a complete sentence.

Great. Thank you. Is there a friendly amendment to incorporate the changes by the city attorney?

Yes. Can we please incorporate that? Wait, is that how that works?

can we incorporate the friendly amendment yes and then pot yandy is that okay it's okay with me okay great thank you we have a motion with a friendly amendment any further discussion

okay hold the clerk please call the roll pinotero yes nelson yes hoven yes patty andy yes fudge yes

francis yes okay that passes six zero thank you now we'll move on to our plan discussion items with the first one being the city council's 2026-2027 priorities. Is there a staff presentation for this item?

We do have a brief presentation for this. We'll give our assistant city manager, Rupa Venkatesh, just a moment to pull it up, and I will turn it over to her. Thank you.

Thank you, Kelly, and good evening, mayor and council. So I will start our presentation by this familiar roadmap, and we are almost at the end of this portion. So congratulations for all your work that you have done to get this far. So tonight, council will consider adopting your 2627 council priorities, and then the next item will be on the strategic plan.

So I will pause at the end of each of the priorities. And the blue slides in your packets

are from the last work session. And these white slides incorporate your feedback from that work

session. So the new council, and I should also mention too, that the resolution that you're considering adopting tonight, it's adopting the title of the priority and then the description that you see. So for this first one, the new title for the priority is promote affordability

and sustainable growth by making development predictable, efficient, and cost effective. I won't read the description, but I will pause if you have any feedback on this one.

Not seeing any feedback. Okay, great. The next one, the new priority is bolster a thriving economy

with a focus on small business, neighborhood centers, and quality job creation.

Any changes, any feedback? Not seeing any.

Okay, great. So this next one went from accelerate progress toward vision zero to accelerate progress toward vision zero.

Big changes. Any feedback on this? Not seeing any changes.

Okay. This next one is also the same connect community to council actions.

Any comment changes? Seeing them?

All right. And our final one is ensure the city organization's long-term financial sustainability.

Not saying any. Thank you.

Great. And so also in the resolution, you'll see that we have added the work plan items that you all discussed on AI leadership, marijuana laws, and creative nighttime economy. and the next steps after tonight is to to have work sessions with council and you'll see the tentative schedule on your screen and this really is staff's opportunity to check in with council on progress being made and on those success metrics as well and that concludes this presentation

thank you we don't have any members sign up for this individual discussion item so does council have any questions or comments? Councilman Rupai Yandy. Yeah. Thank you, Rupa, for the

presentation and to staff for all the work wordsmithing and helping to polish up our ideas into a package that I think is clear for the public and will keep us focused. I just wanted to make a couple comments. I don't have questions. With regard to one of our public commenters tonight about workforce housing, missing middle, those areas of our housing spectrum that we're really in need of. My hope is that, and I guess my challenge to staff and us as council and also our soon-to-be subcommittee on housing is that we really do continue to keep our eye on those specific housing types. I think it's come up many, many times that those are areas that we need to pay some special attention to in the community. And then as far as environmental sustainability. You know, I did push during our council retreat to have a specific climate priority. And my understanding, and I think that this is accurate, is that we've got that work ongoing. It's baked into a lot of our broader foundational plans. And we will be vetting all of our priorities through that triple bottom line lens, which includes environmental sustainability. And so that is what made me feel comfortable because I don't think I'm alone on this council in believing that the decisions that we make across all of these priorities need to be vetted in our long-term sustainability, including environmental health of our community. And so that is something that we discussed at length at our council. I'm really struggling here at our retreat. And I do trust that, you know, the organization has their focus there. So do hold us accountable if you feel like we are not using that triple bottom line vetting strategy the way that we should be and communicate. but we're committed to environmental sustainability in everything that we do. And I'm, I'm looking forward to making decisions with that in mind.

Thank you. Other council members have questions, comments, council member.

Yeah. Thank you. Um, I just want to add, thank you to staff. I, so, um, the mayor and I have been through this now. This is our fourth time, fourth time doing this. And, um, I just, I hope the staff feels the same way. I think it's only gotten better, more focused, more, uh, representative as well as considering those things that council member patiandi brought up not just environment also equity is baked into everything we do and i'm really looking forward to what we can achieve the next two years so thank you thank you other men council member nancy

yeah i'll go ahead and stand um so i think that these priorities and the the final draft of them is really a reflection of this iterative process. And again, also a reflection of just the immense amount of work of staff. And we so appreciate that collaboration. I think these are not the only comments that I've heard on sort of what feels like a rough draft of our priorities and wanting to make sure that some of the comments that we received tonight and from other constituents, I think we are aligned in a lot of those priorities. And it takes these iterations to actually pull that out of, you know, a rough draft of like, make it easier to build. And what does that actually mean? And who are we building for? So always appreciate that feedback, especially when it comes to being clear about communication. And that happens to be a priority of ours. So in any case, I'm happy to support this version of the of our priorities. and again understanding just how much work all of us have done to get here. Looking forward to actually rolling up our sleeves and digging in.

Thank you. Other council members? I'll just echo my thanks to staff and council for spending the time and the weekends together working through this. I think at one point when I was on council there was 99 priorities. So now to have five that feel very much focused and reflective of the community, I think the plan, as Council Member Pignotaro said, has gotten a lot better. And due to our budget constraints and our staffing and where the city's at, I think having these really five focuses is really responsive to the community. So thank you. All right. And with that, any other questions, comments? No? Okay. Is there a motion?

I move approval of Resolution 2026-27, adopting the city council's 2026-2027 priorities.

Is there a second?

I'll second.

Great. We have a motion by Council Member Pignataro and a second by Council Member Fudge. Any further discussion? Seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll?

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

Yes.

Okay. That passes 6-0. Thank you. We will move on to item number 13, which is the 2026-2030 strategic plan. Is there a presentation for this item?

There is also a brief staff presentation for this item, continuing on by Rupa Venkatesh.

Great. Thank you. Okay. So first, just wanted to give a quick rounding of what is the purpose of a strategic plan. So first and foremost, a strategic plan establishes a shared vision and priorities. And as you all know, the city has adopted several long-range community plans like City Plan and Our Climate Future. And so the strategic plan can serve as a midterm roadmap that provides a framework for budget and resource decisions. Strategic plans can also help measure performance. And if our strategic plan is clear enough, it can improve communication and transparency by clearly articulating to our community what the city is trying to accomplish. The basic strategic plan structure is we have mission, vision, and values, strategic outcome areas, objectives, and actions. So you all are familiar with our three strategic outcome areas. And in these next slides, the red font that you will see, that's how we have incorporated council priorities into our strategic plan. So high-performing government, this strategic outcome area focuses on customer experience, financial sustainability, employee experience, and asset management. Culture and recreation focuses on inclusive arts programming.

Economic health strategic outcome area focuses on diverse opportunities, supporting small businesses, and addressing barriers that businesses face.

Environmental health is a focus on our climate future, resilience and preparedness relating to our water resources.

Neighborhood and community vitality. This focuses on housing, affordability and sustainability.

The safe community strategic outcome area focuses on community safety and protecting physical and virtual infrastructure. and then our last strategic outcome area transportation and mobility we have a focus

on vision zero transit services and the parking system and then in your packets you'll see the

complete strategic plan for 2026 and 2030 and that concludes my presentation thank you we have no

members of this public sign up to speak on this item so do council members have any questions or comments. Councilmember Fudge. Similar to the last item, I just want to thank staff for doing a great job of weaving in especially our priorities into this plan and making really clear sort of measurable outcomes that we're going to achieve. And I'll just point out, too, that there are items in here related to environmental health and housing choices and types. So I'm really glad that they're included and that work will continue. So thanks a lot.

Other questions or comments? I just have one question. I do have some concerns about the measurements, and I know that this is a new strategic plan. So what is the process for checking in to see if we're using the right tools and the right measurements? Is there like a time when we check in regularly or we wait until 2030? I'm just curious.

Yeah, I mean, I would say I think that's really up to the city council. I think in recent history, we have not really done a strategic plan update with council, but that's something that we would certainly love to do with you all.

Yeah, and I think particularly the ones that are related to the council priorities, I think we can weave into some of those quarterly check-in sessions. And again, you know, right now we haven't sort of presented. And again, you know, right now we haven't sort of presented those to Council. Things that are on the dashboard. They're available publicly but we haven't done routine check-ins. ! That's something that we could certainly build into the process if Council wants to have more regular check-ins on some of those metrics. Okay. That's helpful. Thank you.

! Any other questions or comments? Okay. I'm seeing none. I will say thank you. This is a great update. The strategic plan used to be quite lengthy and it's getting shorter. So thank you. It feels more strategic. Is there a motion for this item? Yeah, I move approval of resolution 2026-28.

item. Yeah, I move approval of resolution 2026-28, adopting the City of Fort Collins 2026-2030

strategic plan. Is there a second? Second. I have a motion by Councilmember Pignotaro and a second by Councilmember Nelson. Any further discussion? Seeing none, would the clerk please call the roll.

Hoven? Yes. Pariyandi? Yes. Fudge? Yes. Francis? Yes. Pignotaro? Yes. Nelson? Yes.

Okay, that passes 6-0. And we are on to item number 14 with establishing an ad hoc committee known as a council committee on affordable and sustainable growth. Is there a SAC presentation for this item?

There is a brief presentation. I'm going to introduce Karen Champine, who is our planning, development, and transportation director. And then she is joined by Sylvia Tatman-Burris, and they will take this item and give a little more information.

Thank you so much. Good evening, Mayor. Members of Council appreciate the opportunity to be here. The item before you is a resolution to establish an ad hoc committee to support one of the council priority areas focused on affordable and sustainable growth. For the benefit of the community, just a little background around this council priority. It's set out to look at removing, replacing, or fixing systems that systems or regulatory barriers that are creating some of our biggest challenges in achieving our goals, again, for affordable and sustainable growth in our community. So the AdHack Committee will look at some of the key problems we've identified, but probably some newer ones or different ones that are surfaced, particularly as we work with our customers. And to your earlier point, Mayor, we can also use the AdHack Committee to keep tabs and talk about success metrics along the way. So a little bit about the scope of the work of the committee. There's a lot of detail that we can get into, and we will take the guidance ultimately from the final selection of the committee. But what we would generally anticipate is some initial phasing of grounding around the problems to solve, the true scope of the work of the committee, frequency of meetings, some of those logistics, of course. And then we'll get ourselves into probably an iterative process of exploring topics, identifying strategies and identifying recommendations for the full consideration of counsel. So it might be more iterative as we bring different topics forward. So we might explore, identify strategies, act, and then come back to another topic and explore it, etc. So just a little bit of what we would expect to see in terms of the work planning. We're also assuming as part of that work planning is we bring in different customers. different stakeholders at the guidance of the committee to participate in that dialogue as well. And I'm here to answer any other questions that you might have about the committee as you decide on the resolution.

Great. Thank you. We don't have anyone signed up to speak on this item, so do council members have any questions or comments? And just as a reminder, we are selecting three members to be on this board, so if you're interested, you should also express interest to help with the motion.

And, Mayor, if I might add, we should also, we were just noting here, we should also select an alternate. So, although that wasn't identified, it would be good to have an alternate just to ensure you always have quorum.

Okay, great.

Council? Yeah, Council Member Nelson? I am interested. Great.

I am also interested, and I believe that Council Member Conway is also interested, even though he's not here tonight.

Is there anyone else who is interested?

I just have a question. Sure. I want to kind of confirm the characteristics of the committee and committee members.

Is it housing regulatory issues, and is it economic development, business regulatory

that the committee will be addressing or discussing or just for my own clarification. Sure, happy to give a flavor. If we wanted to put the slides back up and went to slide number four on, oh, actually, I will do that part. Thank you. Thank you, Taryn. Under exploring, it starts to get a flavor of the subject matter that we would be bringing forward. A big emphasis will be the code update work. So a lot of it will be land use code work and street design standards, historic preservation code, for example. And then we will also come with kind of conversations and questions around fees, the fee schedule that go with the different types of projects that come through our city. And then also a conversation around the different programs that support affordable housing is a great example you mentioned. So we'll have affordable housing focus as well. So a little bit of everything, I imagine.

Well, thank you, because I think just in the vein of some of the things that we've heard about speeding up the process or streamlining the process for just starting your own business, that type of whatever I'm trying to say, observation or just regulatory study or whatever, that's just as long like that characteristic is also a part of the ad hoc committee.

I believe you're asking like starting a business and that kind of perspective yes that is also true

thank you for the clarification oh thank you I'm not speaking very clear so I appreciate your

interpretation so I did have one question um is that under exploring I where would like development

review fit into that? There are components of development review in terms of the, like,

for example, ideas that you all have already started to surface that will be captured in

the land use code. If you're thinking about, maybe if you could elaborate a little bit more when you're saying development review, what specifically are you referring to? I would say

siloed it is and how difficult it is to navigate, things like this? Yes, perfect. Okay, so some of

the difficulties of navigation will be captured in the regulatory layers that we're going to clean up.

Some of the length of the process we'll be exploring as part of some of the

by-write approvals in comparison to things that would have to go to P and Z. So that's also part

of why the process takes long. So again, that'll be a land use code thing. So when it comes to the, like the siloed departments and the structure of the program, we're already implementing some

things now that will simplify the experience to the extent that we can administratively. But ultimately, we really want to see where the regulatory improvements go. Because once we have a better picture of the regulatory improvements, then what we would come back to the ad hoc committee and then ultimately to counsel with would be some of those fees and programmatic improvements and customer experience changes that kind of layer on top of the improved

regulations. I hope that helps. I know that was a lot.

No, that does help just separate out the administrative versus the policy decisions and where you're thinking, and I think it's very similarly aligned, so thank you. And I didn't see in the resolution, but I did hear you talk towards making sure that that we're involving people who use the system and making sure we're bringing them in to know what they think and then getting their feedback on certain changes. I know it wasn't explicitly stated, but I just want to make sure it's staff's understanding that that's going to be part of the committee as well.

Absolutely. We would have recommended that as well. And we have a pretty good pool of stakeholders

to talk with the committee about.

Certainly, you're going to have folks that you'll probably want to recommend that we reach out to if we're not already connected so we can share lists and names

when the committee gets established okay great thank you any other questions yeah councilmember

pinotara yeah i'll just say um i'd be happy to put my name forward as the alternate if everyone is okay with the other three council member and mayor that have okay

any other questions comments okay do we have a motion for this item yeah um i move approval

of resolution 2026-29, establishing an ad hoc committee known as the Council Committee on Affordable and Sustainable Growth, placing the names in the resolution of Emily Francis, Christopher Conway, and Ann Nelson, with Julie Pignotaro as alternate. Second.

Great. We have a motion by Council Member Pignotaro and a second by Council Member Paiyandi. Is there any further discussion? I just want to say thank you for this. I know that creating ad hoc committees can be burdensome and we require more staff time, but I do think it's going to be helpful to move this along more quickly. So I appreciate it. And with that, will the clerk please call the roll? Padianni.

Yes. Fudge.

Yes.

Francis. Yes. Pina Terro. Yes. Nelson. Yes. Hoven.

Yes.

Great. That passes 6-0 and we are on to either other business. Is there any other business to come before council?

Council Member Hoven. I don't know if this is appropriate right here. I just, because I forgot to mention it in my community report, that I'm having my first listening session Saturday morning at 10 a.m. at the Fort Collins Senior Center. And I can't remember the actual room. Sand Lily, I think it is, but just wanted to share that. Thank you. Great. Thank you.

Any other business? Okay. Seeing none, we will adjourn at 7.10. Good night, Fort Collins.

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