City Council Regular Meeting — April 7, 2026

Good Evening Fort Collins and welcome to the proclamation portion of tonight's meeting. The time is now 5pm and we have two proclamations this evening. The first proclamation we have is declaring April 2026 as fair housing month. If you would like to support this proclamation please come on up.

If you want to support it, you can come up even if that's not what you're originally here for.

Come on, Vanessa. You can't just come in and our housing person doesn't come up for it.

Okay. All right. Now I think we have everyone. All right. Whereas Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act, which guarantees fair housing for all residents of the United States, was signed into law in April 1968. And whereas the month of April is nationally recognized as Fair Housing Month, a time to reflect on and affirm national commitment to the idea that fair housing opportunity is available to everyone without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, familial status, and disability. And whereas this year celebrates the 57th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act and reflects on our current efforts to foster sustainable, inclusive communities of opportunity for all. And whereas on April 10, 1959, the state of Colorado was the first state in the U.S. to pass fair housing laws preceding the Federal Fair Housing Act by nearly a decade. And whereas the city of Fort Collins city code prohibits discriminatory housing practices. And whereas the city welcomes this opportunity to acknowledge our many community partners who are committed to addressing barriers to fair housing choice and educating all citizens concerning their rights regarding equal housing opportunity. And whereas this year, those partners are represented by Colorado State University's off-campus life. Off-campus life furtheres fair housing by providing housing education and advocacy for CSU students and housing resources to the public. Off-campus life has supported the community since the 1980s, providing resources to renters and outreach to populations who experience barriers to housing, such as students who have basic who have basic needs insecurity and or do not have a guarantee off-campus life is a valuable member of the housing support system that increases housing opportunity in partnership with others including student legal services in the city's housing and community vitality department now therefore i am lee francis mayor of fort collins do hereby proclaim that every person should live free from the fear of housing discrimination and i declare april 2026 as fair housing month

good day my name is lindsay mason and i serve as the director of csu's

off-campus life thank you mayor and all city council members for this proclamation and for recognizing the importance of fair housing in our community this recognition means a great deal to our team because fair housing is not just a principle. Housing and community is significant for us all regardless of our phase of life. Fair housing is about people's ability to find safe,

stable homes and to feel a true sense of belonging where they live. I want to share this honor with my current and previous team members and partners who do this work every day and notably with

community members who advocate as individuals for housing that is accessible and equitable for all. The Fair Housing Act of 1968 is significant and the efforts for housing justice are ongoing.

This proclamation both affirms our shared values and reminds us of our responsibility to continue

working together to ensure that everyone in our community has the opportunity for housing free from discrimination. Thank you for your leadership and for standing with us in that commitment.

I cannot have said it better myself so thank you for saying that and thank you for your partnership and everyone for being here. Of course we can do pictures, yes. everyone for being here of course we can do pictures yes sure yes

thank you thank you Thank you.

All right, our next proclamation is declaring April 2026 as sexual assault awareness month

If you would like to support this proclamation, please come on up.

Welcome back.

All right. Whereas sexual violence, assault, harassment, and abuse is a life-changing trauma that impacts every community and disproportionately impacts marginalized communities. Sexual Assault Awareness

Month aims to raise public awareness, prevent sexual violence, and support the survivors and victims on their journey to healing. And whereas over 53% of women, over 29% of men, and 47% of

all transgender people reported experiencing sexual violence sometime in their lifetime. And whereas prevention efforts, including education about consent, healthy relationships, and bystander intervention are essential to creating a culture that does not tolerate sexual violence. And whereas we must work together as a community to support survivors, challenge harmful attitudes and behaviors, and create lasting change. And whereas our communities will be safer and stronger by making them more equitable for people regardless of age, sex, race, ability, religion, immigration status, criminal record, gender identity,

and socioeconomic status. And whereas we strive to create strong, connected, informed, and safe communities that care for one another and make decisions to ensure other well-being and end sexual violence.

And whereas the city of Fort Collins recognizes the strength and resilience of survivors and victims, the perseverance of advocates and the dedication of the professionals and community advocates who support those who have experienced sexual violence.

Now, therefore, I am Lee Francis, mayor of the city of Fort Collins, to hereby proclaim in the month of April 2026, Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

I just want to say thank you so much for supporting Sexual Assault Awareness Month. We have a long-standing partnership with the City of Fort Collins.

The City of Fort Collins has a long history of

supporting survivors of sexual violence. This year, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of

the Rape Crisis Hotline,

and we also celebrate 32 years of prevention programming in middle and high schools throughout the city of Fort Collins so thank you for this recognition.

Oh, I'm trying to believe everyone else. We're good. I'm trying to see everyone. Sorry.

Thank you so much. Thank you.

Great. It is both amazing and unfortunate that we have had such great services in our community.

So thank you, Salva, for your partnership and dedication.

Proclamations are also occasionally read in the community, and all are encouraged to attend.

A proclamation declaring April 22nd, 2026, as Earth Day,

will be read on April 18th at 345 at Odell Brewing Company at 800 East Lincoln Lane.

We invite everyone to come out and celebrate.

That's all for the proclamations this evening. Stay tuned for a regular City Council meeting which begins at 6 p.m. Thank you

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

liberty, and justice grow.

Will the clerk please call the roll?

Francis? Here. Pina Taro? Here. Nelson? Here. Hovind? Here. Patyandi? Here. Fudge? Here. Conway?

Here.

All right. We are all here. We appreciate everyone who has joined us tonight, either in person or virtually, and just want to remind everyone that we are here for the same purpose, which is the future of our community. I ask that we all be respectful and listen to each other's viewpoints be thoughtful about others as they are speaking and Everyone will have a chance to be heard tonight. Will the city manager please provide a review of today's agenda?

Yes, thank you mayor. I do have a few things I want to make note of So first we did amend the agenda yesterday to make one minor correction to the name of the board in item number 27 So it changed from being the community development block grant tripartite board to the community service block grant tripartite say that fast board and then we did include a little bit of additional information in the AIS we do have on your count agenda tonight 28 items on the consent calendar we don't have any planned discussion items although we do have two executive items planned relating to police liability litigation and also a potential new economic development opportunity with Visit Fort Collins and other project partners. I do want to talk about one item that is on the consent calendar. It's item number 25. We learned today that we had an inadvertent omission where we're appointing board and commissions. Although we talked about the process and include the names of Julie Stackhouse and Trevor Sheely to planning and zoning for terms beginning on April 7th and ending on March 31st of 2030, the actual resolution for that was inadvertently omitted from your published agenda. So we do have a way that you could complete those tonight. If you want to simply do that as an other business item, that would be the best way to continue that forward tonight. And we apologize for that slight omission. So with that, nothing further from me, Mayor. Great.

Thank you. And we don't need to pull that item off the consent? Okay. No. See, no. All right, there are no community reports tonight, so will staff please play the public participation video?

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that we do not take public comment on any pending development items. Okay, so the first person we have

is Kevin and then James. Hello, Council. My name is Kevin Cross and I live in City Council District 6 and this is the first time I'm seeing a lot of you behind the podium. I am speaking or behind the

dais, I should say. I'm speaking tonight on behalf of the Fort Collins Sustainability Group, which is

usually the group I speak on behalf of. In June of 2025, the Fort Collins Sustainability Group, or FCSG, hosted a booth at the city's EcoFest event at Washington Park. We intend to participate in EcoFest again this year, but want clarification from the city's legal team on what we can and can't say beforehand. Last year, we had, among other things, copies of a letter at our table that we asked people to send to city council members. The letter asked council members to accelerate the city's efforts to address the climate crisis. And it was polite, because we're always polite. After a year or so of tabling, we were approached by a city employee who informed us that making this letter available for visitors to our booth violated the city's rule containing exhibitors' speech at the event. We asked for clarification earlier this year about what the city would allow us to say at this year's EcoFest event. We were informed by public engagement specialist as Tanner Gwynn that, quote, EcoFest is designed to be an educational event. Because of that, we do not allow exhibitors to collect signatures for petitions, letters, or similar advocacy efforts. End quote. The FCSG believes that this prohibition infringes on our free speech rights on public property and thus is in conflict with the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. We would like the City Attorney to issue a written statement either providing a legal justification for this position stated by Mr. Gwynne or rescinding the rule that exhibitors cannot engage in advocacy efforts at the City's EcoFest event. Thank you. MS.

Thank you. James, folLod by Marge.

Hi, I'm James Scott, resident of District 3.

My name is Reed Hay-Hau. I'm actually a resident of Larimer County.

Hi, I'm Monica Lynn. I'm in Chris's District 1. So we are with Indivisible NoCo. We were some of the organizers responsible for the No Kings rally. And we just wanted to extend our sincere thanks to the Fort Collins Police Services for the care and professionalism it brought to supporting the No Kings rally. The team, and especially Lieutenant Kevin Cronin, invested countless hours planning for every detail, and that preparation showed. The safety briefing that Officer Dexter Rowe provided the week before the event helped our volunteers feel informed and confident. and the officers at the rally were exactly what a community hopes for professional friendly and genuinely helpful this is not the first time that fort collins police services has shown up for the community in this way it has supported previous large demonstrations and has been there when we've lined the streets with our what do you call them signs each time the presence of officers has ensured that people could gather safely and exercise their constitutional rights with confidence. We also recognize that this level of support comes at a cost real cost to the city, including the overtime they spent. And we want to acknowledge and appreciate that commitment. And while we're thanking people our gratitude to the city and county folks who scrambled to get us electricity that morning of the rally we knew it took some heroic last-minute maneuvering so today we want to publicly recognize our city for the consistency partnership and example you set for community-oriented police public service thank you for helping make our events safe peaceful and welcoming for everyone thank you next we'll go to Marge and then Janice I'm Marge North

Skog and I live in Fort Collins Council District 2.

At the February 20 work session, the Fort Collins Police Department was invited to make a presentation on FLOC safety systems use in Fort Collins. While there were no published minutes, the slide presentation had this statement, and

I quote, the FLOC system requires authorized Fort Collins Police Department users and is only shared with Colorado law enforcement. I believe the Fort Collins Police gleaned this information, this understanding from the contract. This is important because current law just applies to systems that detect violations like running a light or speeding. There are no laws governing devices like ALPRs that capture any movement as data.

So because there are no laws, our FLOC safety cameras are governed by our contract with FLOC Group.

Therefore, it is important to know if FLOC is honoring the contract.

On February 17th, I placed a CORAL-like request with the Fort Collins Police to get the data to

find out. In late March, I received the FLOC network audit files for October, November, December, and January. I tallied the entries in the column organization name to see who looked at our camera data. As part of getting the files, I learned from Fort Collins Police records that

But although the installation of FLOC began in April 2025, it wasn't until December that access was restricted to just Colorado.

And I could see this change in the data. Each month from October to December, organizations other than Fort Collins Police made 600,000

requests monthly. In January, the number of requests dropped to around 25,000. And after pulling out Colorado requests, there remained 19,000 requests by 38 different states, one federal agency, and two non-governmental organizations.

My conclusion is that while our contract says Fort Collins owns our data, we absolutely do not control it. The September 24th purchase of services from FLOC was approved as an exception to the competitive bid requirement in city code. Because the contract was below $200,000, another part of the exception process states the city manager is not required to bring it to city council. The grounds for the exception was a list of proprietary features that I believe should have been challenged by competition or held up to legal standards. And while I believe there was no wrongdoing in approving the contract, I believe the process was flawed.

And based on the data, I believe we cannot trust Flock's safety to act in our best interests.

I challenge the council to shut down FLOC camera data collection until the agreement can be reassessed and laws get written to govern ALPRs.

Thank you. Janice?

And then we have Glenn. I'm also here to speak about my concerns about the lack of oversight, apparent or not, of the use of data collected by FLOC. I'm sorry, I didn't introduce myself. I'm Janice Ord, and I'm in District 6. So the Master Services Agreement in 4.1 talks about customer data, and they describe it as, between FLOC and the customer, all right, title, and interest in the customer data belong to and are retained solely by the customer. The customer hereby grants to FLOC a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, worldwide license to use the customer data and perform all acts for the sole purpose of FLOC, providing the FLOC services for the customer. And then it goes on to say FLOC does not own and shall not sell customer data. There's another section, 4.3, where they talk about making the data anonymous and what then occurs with it. Once it has been made anonymous, the customer hereby grants FLOC a non-exclusive, worldwide perpetual royalty-free right to use and distribute such data to improve and enhance the services and for other development diagnostic and corrective purposes and other flock offerings parties understand that the aforementioned license is required for continuity of services flock does not own and shall not sell the data and last in section 5.3 of concern is the disclosure of footage. Subject to and during the retention period, flock may access, use, preserve, and or disclose the footage to law enforcement authorities, government officials, and or third parties if legally required to do so or a flock has a good faith belief that such access, use, preservation, or disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with the legal process, enforce this agreement, or detect, prevent, or otherwise address security, privacy, fraud, or technical issues or emergency situations. So it appears we have potentially leaving FLOC a private entity the right to determine when and how to distribute and the use of data obtained in Fort Collins. So my concern is that the council look at this and look at how we can provide some oversight of the use of the data collected by FLOC. Thank you.

Thank you. Glenn and then Ezraia.

Guess what I'm here for. Hi, I'm a constituent of District 5. My name is Glenn Whitacomb. I'm sure we're going to hear a lot about this. I'd like to give a more macro view of this. On November 3rd of 2025, Senator Ron Wyden and also a member of Congress, Congress sent an open letter to FTC chair citing an independent study made by three individuals, the one mentioned being Ben Jordan, into their investigation on flock safety cameras. Ben Jordan, he has a public YouTube video demonstrating how incredibly easy it is to hack these cameras. And basically, he coined it as Netflix for stalkers. And I find this deeply concerning. In their independent study, they found, I believe, at least 60 vulnerabilities in Phlox cybersecurity. And Phlox's response to this was fake news. And this was a direct governmental letter to the FTC. And I believe the Department of Homeland Security also finds this as a high problem to vulnerability.

I would implore you to cancel your contract with Flock as well as dismantle the cameras that are already up.

with the time I have left. In the case that these arguments still do not quell any Orwellian

desires for infrastructure here, I'd say simply wait. It does seem this AI bubble will burst

probably and at that point they'll sell you this for pennies on the dollar if you really really

want to do this thank you thank you azraya folLod by ash

well don't worry this is the model it's not actually watching you um azraya schneier district three member of speaking on behalf tonight on behalf of the noco privacy coalition noco privacy Coalition is a new organization that was recently founded in Fort Collins by a group of citizens who are very concerned about the privacy rights of our residents because it has become clear that there is nobody watching out for the privacy rights of our residents and there was nobody speaking out about master balance and it is clear because there was we trusted the residents of Fort Collins trusted the city to represent us and to stand on our behalf and to defend our privacy rights. And what happened was there was nobody in the city. Nobody thought that we should take a second look at the contract. Nobody thought that it should be made public. Nobody was there. So that is why we have introduced this ballot initiative. So I just wanted to take a moment, and I'm sure that there are other members who will expound on this in more detail, But I wanted to give the broad overview of what this initiative does. It does not specify any particular contracts. It doesn't deal with any particular cameras or methods. This is something that is intended to last no matter what technology we are talking about. It has two basic principles, transparency and accountability. For transparency, it will require that all installations of surveillance technology, any surveillance technology, whether it's ALPRs, cameras, anything, be accompanied by a report explaining where they are deployed, what data they capture, how the data is stored, who the data is shared with. and I'll list it goes into more detail some other pertinent factors but those are the most important things so that citizens of Fort Collins can see what is being done so we need to know before. The important thing, the key point of what was not done with VLOC is that this report needs to be released before the installation occurs, not after. Shouldn't rely on people looking around and saying, oh what are these new cameras sprouting up let me do the quora request and figure out what's going on we should be informed before so we can get our informed consent and that informed consent is ! And that informed consent is the second part, the accountability part. ! All new installations must go to a vote of the people. ! People will have a chance to see the report that's been released, see what is being installed, ! And they will have a chance to determine if that is in fact in the city's best interest. ! If, as it seems, the city thinks that this is clearly a net win, that the crime-fighting benefits outweigh the cost, then it should be easy to win those referendums. Thank you! Thank you! Ash, folLod by Daniel. FolLod by Daniel.

Hello, everyone. My name is Ash Ibarra from Harmony Timberline District 2.

The doctor tells me prevention is the best medicine. That's why we have yearly checkups.

But who is checking up on the police department's rampant abuse of power and authority?

Why is it okay for the police department to quietly install several ALPR cameras throughout our city?

Yes, I have nothing to hide, but I don't trust someone who would be okay with quietly installing cameras behind our back to use that power ethically.

So something I do today that is legal could be illegal tomorrow, and that's the problem with things like this.

we are free only when it is we ourselves who draw the line between when we are seen and when we are not seen i got this quote from timothy snyder's book on tyranny this is me here drawing that line so let's talk about trust or the lack thereof what happens when people start to disrupt the authorities cops are supposed to exist to protect and serve the people who is this serving the wireless network providers who are maintaining flock the ones who make the devices itself they are truly here to not protect us the citizens assets like motor vehicles become more important than human lives this is not meant to improve the lives of Fort Collins residents but to make their corporate donors happy. It's about their bottom line, the money. So I want to ask the city council today, what happened to good police work? Surveillance can make one self-police better than anything a cop could ever imagine. But what does the system want us to self-police for? Well, surveillance is not only a violation of your privacy and freedoms, but it also does one thing in particular that concerns me. It pushes people out of the public space because when people don't want the government

to use this or that against them or employers to find out something about them to exclude them,

people start to get nervous about what, you know, authorities are going to do. So I want to ask

the city of Fort Collins and the city council, the city needs to make the deliberate choice

about whether they want their people to live in a society with or without personal liberty. The city needs to make that choice whether to value personal privacy for its citizens or more efficient or effective investigative technologies, because you cannot have both without violating somebody's liberties. Thank you.

Thank you.

Danielle, folLod by Spencer.

Hello, my name is Daniel Ibarra from District 2. I am part of the Northern Colorado Privacy Coalition that was created in response to the ongoing transformation of Fort Collins into a surveillance city. Many fellow residents have expressed their concerns about FLOC, and while I'm here sharing these concerns, I want to focus on informing rather than repeating points that have been said many times already. Denver is in negotiations to switch to Axon over FLOC, And while no decision has been made yet here, as far as the public knows, I think it is valuable to know the problem doesn't lie solely with Flock, but with mass surveillance in general. So who benefits from these cameras being put everywhere? Is it the person who now has to worry about what they are doing 24-7 for potentially being in the wrong place at the wrong time so a camera can flag them as suspicious? Does it benefit the police department that uses city funds to implement a surveillance system not decided by the city itself? Or is it the billionaire companies and their shareholders like Lo's, Hilton, and Home Depot that profit from having these mass surveillance systems in place? Companies like Flock initially entered a contract with the police department that gave the police access to the network without the need to install cameras.

If their goal was to help, we wouldn't have required the police department to install their own cameras to continue to have access.

That's because safety is the ruse they use to collect what they truly want, data.

This was never made more apparent than when Verona, Wisconsin, ended the Flock contract in November, only to realize their cameras were still up in March. We don't know if they were still recording, and that is where the problem lies. Axon, Flock, any surveillance company does not have the people in mind.

What matters most to them is how they can turn the data that they collect into money in their pockets. Fort Collins Police Services will never truly own the data so long as they use technology owned by the people who profit from our surveillance. If city council is the voice of the corresponding districts and the police serve the people, then the people should decide what to do with surveillance. Thank you. Thank you.

Spencer and then Tyler.

Hi, I'm Spencer Burris from District 5, and I'm here today to speak on concerns about flock axon and similar surveillance devices.

Recently, an article is published on how the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

performed flock searches on behalf of ICE, which does not have a contract with flock and is not bound by its contract. The Northern Colorado Privacy Coalition has

introduced about initiative petition to set safeguards around the use of surveillance devices and require voter approval for further changes to deployment of surveillance technology.

The citizens under surveillance were given neither choice nor notice whether deploying these devices was appropriate. This lack of collaboration with citizens and transparency is the path by which society sleepwalks

into a surveillance state and is why we've introduced our ballot initiative. Thank you.

Thank you. Tyler.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Tyler Davidson, and I'm in District 5. I'd like to open my remarks about my opposition to Flock Cameras with the CEO's own words. Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley has recently drawn criticism for labeling activists opposing his company's surveillance technology as a, and I'm not making this up, a terrorist organization. Now, I find that astounding and I find it to be incredibly dangerous. You may or may not know that under federal law, designating someone as a terrorist removes a lot of their fundamental constitutional rights, including but not limited to habeas corpus, which is the right to appear in court in person in front of your accusers. So labeling people terrorists is extraordinarily dangerous and risks dehumanizing people. And that's just the opening. That's how these people think in their own words. So I'm batting cleanup. There's eight other people, including me tonight, who have spoken out against flock cameras. I've never seen such an explosion of opposition to nearly anything in my entire life relative to an issue in city council. It's been a shock to me. So clearly, I'm not alone. And I had given this some thought. And I came to the conclusion that a lot of people have a visceral response to this because we grew up learning about other societies in history who used mass surveillance techniques. Eastern Bloc countries during the Cold War, for instance, the Soviet Union, East Germany and other places like that, they used mass surveillance to attack their own citizens. One, Laurenti Biria was his name. He was the security chief for Joseph Stalin right after World War II. And he famously said, or infamously, he said, show me the man and I will show you the crime. And that's exactly where this is headed. If we give the information to whoever, they will find a way to use it against us. We have seen it before. We're already seeing it in the headlines. We will continue to see it. This is an outrage not only to our rights to privacy, but to our very freedoms. Once again, I implore to you, a free people are not surveilled. Thank you very much.

Thank you. That is everyone we have signed up for public comment. So thank you to everyone who came and spoke tonight. And we will now end public comment. Does council, anyone on council have follow up to public comment?

Councilmember Pat Yandy.

Yeah, thank you, Mayor. Thanks for everybody who came out. Appreciate it. I was wondering, our first comment from Kevin Cross. Carrie, is that something that the city attorney's office can get back to Kevin about?

Yeah, I think what we'll do is follow up with staff to learn more about their policies and how the events being handled and evaluate those issues. And we can certainly follow up with Mr. Cross after that.

Okay, thank you so much. And then my second question, I think, is probably for our city manager. If I'm remembering correctly, we'll be receiving an update with some more information about flat cameras soon. Can you remind me of when that will be?

Yes, we've committed to having follow-up to council by the end of May. That will allow us to do some additional follow-up on other options to be responsive to whatever is happening at the state legislature and make sure that we're incorporating that. And then we will come back to council again with some options. Okay. Thank you.

I'm wondering if just adding on to that, I know that city staff sent out a memo, a public memo, about the ballot initiative. Can you just give a high-level overview and then if folks want to

read it, they can go online and find it as well? Yeah, I'm happy to do that. So again, I think As one of the speakers referenced, this initiative is much broader than a specific technology. And so we have wanted to just begin to understand what implications that might have on city operations and have done a preliminary assessment of technologies that we think would likely be impacted by this. And it is quite extensive. So I would say there are areas in emergency response and public safety, things like our legally mandated body warm cameras. If you think about our 911 system, some of the GPS data that we use to assist in response. In our parks and natural areas and an environment area, some of our air quality monitoring equipment. We're using drones for wildlife surveying, so areas like that. Traffic management is a big area where we would see impacts in this. And then I'll say utilities is another large area, again, in some of our, like, smart meters for our utilities, water, and electric accounts. So I think we're still seeking to understand the full impact of what it would entail, but again, not focused on one technology specifically. And then we are, I'll just add also for the benefit of the public, and as council knows, having some ongoing conversations about, you know, how might we look at future of technology and some council conversations in that space, whether it's futures committee or other places to really talk about, you know, this very real policy issue out there in terms of public oversight and governance of what's the appropriate level so I know that is underway as well

great thank you anyone else have follow-up all right seeing none does anyone on council wish to pull any consent calendar items for individual discussion all right seeing none is there a motion for the consent calendar

yeah I move approval of the consent calendar items 1 through 28 second we

have a motion by council member or mayor pro time pregnant arrow and a second by councilmember pot yondi any further discussion see none will the clerk

please call the roll Conway yes Francis yes Pina Taro yes Nelson yes Hovind

yes patyanti yes fudge yes all right that passes 7-0 do council members have

any comments on the consent calendar yeah so it was mentioned we are pointing I think 70 members to boards and commissions which is a great way to get involved in the city super excited about all the interviews that we went through thank you to staff for making those happen I believe do we know we have a number of how many people applied it was in the hundreds I want to say 205 if I remember right so yeah thank you to everyone that applied if you did not get in always encourage you to apply again next year and I particularly am excited a lot of the boards that I am the liaison to as well as some of the interviews I helped with we really met a lot of folks that are just kind of starting their civic journey of giving back to the community and i'm so excited to have them serve

the city and you so thanks thank you anyone else all right seeing none we have no staff reports tonight do council members have any reports council member hoven

these officers work really, really hard to help care for people who are unhoused in our community. And I've been fortunate enough to serve on a board within the city, which was the Citizen Review Board. And I highly encourage our residents to request ride-alongs with our police services

to really understand a day in the life of our officers. it might just shed some light provide some additional information but the one thing that I took away from the hope team specifically is that this year they helped house five people in our community so far in 2026 so that

particular community event really resonated with me and I encourage residents to partake in that opportunity as well thank you thank

Thank you. Anyone else? Council Member Potjandi?

Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to mention a couple of cool events that happened last week. Last Monday, there was a community presentation about the Front Range Passenger Rail District, which is, for those of you who aren't aware, a really cool opportunity within the next few years for us to have rail service between Fort Collins and Denver. We actually are fortunate to be in the first phase of that development, and it's going to start slow, but it's a really great opportunity for us to have folks to be able to commute to and from Denver in a route other than I-25, which is my least favorite place to be in Colorado. And then I also just wanted to give a shout out, Habitat for Humanity recently had, or last Wednesday had a fundraising breakfast at Poudre High School and they got to show off some of the skills that students are learning through the partnership with Poudre High School's Geometry and Construction Program. And those students are actually building two Habitat homes that will house families, I believe, in the Bloom neighborhood. And we got to see them actually build one wall that's going to go into one of those homes. And it was just a really great way to highlight one of our strongest partners with creating affordable housing in our community. So thanks to Habitat for including us.

Thank you. Anyone else? Yeah, that's Member Fudge.

Thank you, Mayor. I'll say I went on a ride along too with the HOPE team a few weeks ago and I'll echo Councilmember Hovind's experience. It was eye-opening and I was really impressed by the professionalism, the compassion just how they they treated their jobs and it was a it was a great experience and I'm I think they're great ambassadors for the police So just wanted to say I did the same and I encourage others to do it too

Great anyone else all right seeing none we have no discussion items tonight do council members have any items of other

business yeah i'll start um first this is having to do with the uh names that were inadvertently left out of our boards and commissions so i move that the city council appoint the planning to the planning and zoning commission the following two members each for a term beginning April 7th, 2026 and ending March 31st, 2030. Julie Stockhouse and Trevor Sheely. Is there a second?

I'll second that. All right. We have a motion by Mayor Pro Tem Pignataro and a second by Council Member Nelson. Anyone like to speak on this item? Do Council Members have any discussion? Seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll? Francis? Yes. Pignataro? Yes. Nelson? Yes. Hovind? Yes.

Yes. Fudge? Yes. Conway?

Yes. That passes 7-0. Is there a motion to go into executive session?

Yes. I move that council go into executive session for the purpose of discussing the city's attorneys and appropriate city staff specific legal questions related to police liability litigation brought by plaintiff Andrew Kulas 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. And for the purpose of discussing with appropriate city staff the city's position on a potential new economic development undertaking in cooperation with Visit Fort Collins subject to negotiations with Visit Fort Collins and other project partners developing strategy for those negotiations and instructing negotiators pursuant to city charter article 2 section 11 subsection 5 and colorado revised statute section 24-6-402 subsection 4 e l is that an l or an i it's an l

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second oh i couldn't tell it to lose but go for it nelson i second that all right we have a motion

by Mayor Patel Pignotaro and a second by Councilmember Nelson. Do any members of the public

like to speak on this item? Seeing none, any further discussion? Will the clerk please call the roll.

Pignotaro? Yes. Nelson? Yes. Hoven? Yes. Paduyandi? Yes. Fudge? Yes. Conway? Yes. Francis? Yes.

That passes 7-0. There will be no further business after the completion of the executive session and the FCTV broadcast will now end. Good night, Fort Collins.

Thank you.