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| I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, | 00:11:43 | |
| indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. | 00:11:49 | |
| Good morning and welcome to today's regularly scheduled Board of County Commissioners meeting. Today is Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024 | 00:12:04 | |
| * 9 AM Roll call please. | 00:12:08 | |
| Scott James, what are you saying? For you pay her back. Kevin Ross. Pierre, Let the record reflect. 5 out of five commissioners | 00:12:13 | |
| are here today. Minutes Approval Minutes March 20th, 2024. Second motion from Commissioner Buck for approval, second by | 00:12:19 | |
| Commissioner James. Further discussion. | 00:12:24 | |
| Is there none all those in favor signify by saying aye, aye, all opposed. Same sign and minutes are approved. 5 to 0 amendments to | 00:12:31 | |
| the agenda. | 00:12:35 | |
| Mr. Chair, I will make an amendment to remove item 3 from new business, as this is already been accomplished and it's just. | 00:12:40 | |
| Psychological type of whatever areas of the title, type of area. | 00:12:48 | |
| Have a motion from commissioner, second from Commissioner James, removal of item number three. And just so people know there was a | 00:12:54 | |
| electronic error where we were struggling and we approved this to have the chair sign this, it wasn't allowing me, it was making | 00:13:00 | |
| somebody else sign. So we're trying to correct it, but that issue got resolved earlier this morning. So this isn't needed to fix | 00:13:05 | |
| the situation, so. | 00:13:11 | |
| There's a motion on the floor right now for item number three to be removed and it has been seconded by Commissioner James. Any | 00:13:18 | |
| further discussion on that item. | 00:13:24 | |
| All in favor of removal of new business item number 3. | 00:13:32 | |
| Signify by saying aye, aye, all opposed, same sign. | 00:13:36 | |
| And item number three is stricken from new business and items 4-5 and six will be renumbered accordingly. | 00:13:40 | |
| And apologize, Mr. Chair. Go ahead and turn the move move to remove the 15 minutes. | 00:13:47 | |
| And the majority vote from the public comment and strike that from the section today. | 00:13:53 | |
| Proper time? Really. Would you do that right before public comment? Because we can gauge at that time how many people are wishing | 00:13:58 | |
| to make public comment. | 00:14:02 | |
| But is there any second to commissioner Saints? | 00:14:07 | |
| Motion. | 00:14:10 | |
| Hearing none, that motion fails with no second any further enrichments to today's agenda. | 00:14:13 | |
| No. All right. I'll look for approval of consent agenda please. Mr. Chair, I would move to approve the agenda as amendment second. | 00:14:18 | |
| Thank you. | 00:14:21 | |
| We have a motion from Commissioner Freeman, second from Commissioner James. Thank you for the correction. All those in favor | 00:14:26 | |
| signify by say aye, aye, all opposed. Same sign. | 00:14:30 | |
| And amended agenda has been approved approval of consent agenda, Approved consent agenda. | 00:14:35 | |
| Second motion by Commissioner James, Second by Commissioner Brock for approval of consent agenda. Further discussion. | 00:14:41 | |
| Hearing none all those in favor signify by saying aye aye, all opposed. Same sign and consent agenda has passed. Warrants Item | 00:14:48 | |
| number one, General warrants April 1st and 2nd, 2024. | 00:14:54 | |
| Approved General Warrants of April One and 2/20/24. | 00:15:01 | |
| Motion by Commissioner James for approval. General Warren, second by Commissioner Brock. Further discussion. | 00:15:05 | |
| None. All those in favor signify by saying aye, aye, all opposed. Same sign. | 00:15:10 | |
| And warrants passes 5 to 0. | 00:15:15 | |
| This brings us to new business item number one. Consider standard form of agreement for municipal jail services provider list and | 00:15:18 | |
| rates between Weld County Sheriff's Office and various municipalities and authorized chair to sign agreements. Consistent risks, | 00:15:25 | |
| said form. Good morning, Sonia. Good morning, Captain Turner. Good morning, Commissioners. How are you? Good. | 00:15:32 | |
| For records on your program, Weld County Sheriff's Office Finance Finance Manager Captain Turner and I are here today to present | 00:15:40 | |
| Contract 2024-0761, the standard form of agreement between Weld County Sheriff's Office and the Weld County municipalities for | 00:15:47 | |
| jail services and request approval of this agreement. The Standard Language Agreement addresses the services and communication and | 00:15:55 | |
| costs. | 00:16:02 | |
| Of holding municipal. | 00:16:10 | |
| Only offenders in the World County Jail, the language has been reviewed and approved by the Weld County Attorney and the PA has | 00:16:12 | |
| been reviewed and signed on the 21st of March. | 00:16:18 | |
| By four out of five Commissioners. | 00:16:26 | |
| Excellent. Any questions? Captain Turner, do you have anything to add? Yeah, maybe a little context. There are 33. | 00:16:29 | |
| Municipalities within Royal County. | 00:16:36 | |
| Just over 20 actual police municipalities. | 00:16:39 | |
| If if we don't have to enter into an agreement like this, each of those police municipalities would have to basically have a mini | 00:16:43 | |
| jail within their Police Department to hold municipal offenders that doesn't serve the the citizens of Weld County properly. | 00:16:49 | |
| It would be a huge financial burden, both in staffing and in resources. | 00:16:56 | |
| We do have that ability, however we work out an agreement between the different municipalities want to join us, there are | 00:17:00 | |
| seventeen of those. | 00:17:04 | |
| So doing the standard form means that you guys don't have to read that same agreement 17 times, we can just move them into that | 00:17:07 | |
| standard form and everybody signs the same agreement. | 00:17:12 | |
| That agreement basically says that they reimburse us at daily rate of $75.65. | 00:17:18 | |
| And then it also articulates how we hold those offenders and how long we will hold them according to statute. | 00:17:25 | |
| That rate will adjust on a year to year basis according to the fiscal year of the state, which I think is July through June. | 00:17:31 | |
| And the contract outlines that as well. We don't have to amend this every year because of it. | 00:17:38 | |
| We do, however, notify those municipalities of the rate increase each year. | 00:17:43 | |
| This is a smoother process and we've had in past years and we only do this every five years. So if we do this well, we wanted to | 00:17:48 | |
| talk about this for a long time. That's our goal here today. Do you have any questions of us? Anybody have any questions for Sonia | 00:17:52 | |
| or Captain Turner? | 00:17:57 | |
| Mr. Emma, we approve the resolution. You got a motion from Commissioner James for approval of the resolution. Second from | 00:18:02 | |
| Commissioner Buck, further discussion. | 00:18:06 | |
| Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye, aye, all opposed. Same sign and the resolution does pass 5 to 0. | 00:18:12 | |
| Thank you. Thank you guys very much. | 00:18:20 | |
| Item number two. Consider contract ID 79862024. Paul Cooperdale Forensic Science Improvement Grant application and authorized | 00:18:23 | |
| Northern Colorado Regional Forensic Laboratory to sign and submit electronically. | 00:18:30 | |
| OK, for the record again, Sonia Coolgrave, Sheriff's Office Finance Manager, I'm here today to present contract ID 7986. This one | 00:18:38 | |
| is the 202526 Paul Coverdale Forensic Science Improvement Grant Application. | 00:18:46 | |
| We present this to you for approval. The grant application is in the amount of $26,446 and will be used to cover training for the | 00:18:56 | |
| Regional Forensic Cloud staff. | 00:19:02 | |
| It's basically a yearly grant that we applied for and the Sheriff's Office is requesting the board to approve so that the Regional | 00:19:09 | |
| Lab Director, Darren Ford may sign and submit the application and the certification of compliance, the DCJ Form 30, electronically | 00:19:17 | |
| to the state. The grant application has been reviewed by the county's attorney and the PA was approved by 5 Commissioners on the | 00:19:24 | |
| 27th of March 2024. | 00:19:32 | |
| Anybody have any questions for Sonia regarding contract ID 7986? | 00:19:40 | |
| To approve second motion by Commissioner Freeman for approval of contract. ID 7986, second by Commissioner, about further | 00:19:44 | |
| discussion. | 00:19:48 | |
| Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye, aye, all opposed. Same sign. | 00:19:53 | |
| And contract ID 7986 passes 5 to 0. Thank you, Sonia. Item number three, consider contract ID 7944 Memorandum of Understanding for | 00:19:57 | |
| services pursuant to Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. We owe a program and authorized chair to sign Good Mornington. | 00:20:06 | |
| Commissioners Tammy Grant, deputy director of the Department of Human Services. | 00:20:16 | |
| This request is to enter into a non financial memorandum of understanding with JBX Consultants. They are a contractor to US Forest | 00:20:20 | |
| Service Job Corps and under Weola as the one stop operator for Weld County, we're required to make. We have mandated partners that | 00:20:27 | |
| we are required to partner with and enter into Mous to align and make sure that we have you know coordinated entry into Weola and | 00:20:35 | |
| other partners across that system. | 00:20:42 | |
| Request is to approve this MOU and authorize the chair to sign. | 00:20:50 | |
| Questions for Timmy moved approve second motion by Commissioner saying for approval of contract ID 7944 second by Commissioner | 00:20:56 | |
| Buck for their discussion. | 00:21:01 | |
| Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye, aye. | 00:21:06 | |
| All opposed. Same sign and contract. ID 7944. Passes 5 to 0. Item number four, consider renewal application for brew Pub, County | 00:21:09 | |
| liquor license and authorized chair to sign Tapest Monks LLCDBA Outworld Growing. Good morning, Matthew. Good morning, | 00:21:16 | |
| Commissioner. It's Matt Conroy, assistant County Attorney. | 00:21:22 | |
| E for You is a group of liquor license renewal for Tapas monks doing business as Outward Brewing Out World Brewing. Excuse me, The | 00:21:29 | |
| location of the brewery is 1725 Vista View Dr. Units BC and D near Longmont, Co. There has been a liquor license since 2017 at | 00:21:36 | |
| this location. Staff has no concerns with the renewal and as this is a renewal it is not a public hearing and so we would | 00:21:43 | |
| recommend your approval have been answered your questions. | 00:21:49 | |
| Got a motion from Commissioner Freeman for approval of the renewal of the application. Second by Commissioner Buck. Further | 00:21:57 | |
| discussion. | 00:22:01 | |
| Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye all opposed. Same sign and the renewal application for brewpub for Tapas | 00:22:07 | |
| Months LLC DV8 Out World Brewing passes 5 to 0. | 00:22:13 | |
| Item number 5 Consider adoption of rules of the Board of County Commissioners of World County. | 00:22:20 | |
| Can I move to postpone this indefinitely? | 00:22:27 | |
| The motion from Commissioner saying. | 00:22:31 | |
| Is there a second? | 00:22:35 | |
| The motion dies with county. | 00:22:37 | |
| Rules or procedure does postpone indefinitely mean. | 00:22:40 | |
| So I'll explain the motion then to postpone indefinitely this item until we can discuss it. I've received less than 24 hours. | 00:22:49 | |
| The wording of this resolution, as I mentioned before, I think I need time. This is substantive change to our policy. You | 00:22:57 | |
| reference the county charter, and I need to talk to my attorney again with these attempts to act under the color of law and | 00:23:04 | |
| deprive me of constitutional rights and remove my voice in acting and speaking to inform my constituents. | 00:23:11 | |
| So there's a motion on the floor from commissioner saying she's it's described her what postponement definitely means in her. | 00:23:18 | |
| Definition. Is there a second? | 00:23:29 | |
| I hear no second. | 00:23:32 | |
| Is there any other motions, Mr. Chair, move to approve the resolution? | 00:23:35 | |
| Second, I do have a motion for approval from Commissioner James and a second from Commissioner Freeman for approval of the | 00:23:38 | |
| resolution further discussion. | 00:23:43 | |
| All right, hearing none, I would like to, since I was cut off, I would like to sit and. | 00:23:50 | |
| Explain exactly what my vote is going to be. No, you're you're not being recognized right now, Commissioner, saying I'm calling | 00:23:57 | |
| the call all those in. | 00:24:01 | |
| 24 Mr. Chair of. | 00:24:06 | |
| All those in favor of adoption of the resolution signify or do we need a roll call vote? | 00:24:11 | |
| Roll call go Mike Freeman, Scott Kane. | 00:24:18 | |
| What are you saying? We've always been able to give comments. | 00:24:23 | |
| On an agenda item, this is the first time I've been denied this. I'm about no this illustrates how badly these were put together | 00:24:27 | |
| and at the last minute, to silence my voice and the silence the voice of my constituents. | 00:24:32 | |
| Yes, Mike, Kevin Ross, yes. | 00:24:42 | |
| And that motion carries for approval 421. | 00:24:46 | |
| Now brings us to public comment, just to see a few people out there. If I gauge your hands, how many people do we have wishing to | 00:24:52 | |
| give public comment today? | 00:24:56 | |
| OK. I see four that should be able to keep us under our 15 minutes. So I think we'll go ahead. So we'll go ahead and open up | 00:25:01 | |
| public comment. | 00:25:04 | |
| Good morning. Good morning, commissioners. Natalie Tennant Mountain, Andrew Drive in 7th Colorado. | 00:25:52 | |
| First, I'd like to address Scott James. 3 minutes. I'm going to go off the cuff here and I'll try my best to do 3. Bob is going to | 00:26:01 | |
| take three as well. | 00:26:05 | |
| We had a beautiful conversation. I was on your podcast and we talked about Asians. | 00:26:10 | |
| Today I'm hoping the nation that we have is a celebration, is what I'm hoping. | 00:26:14 | |
| You guys had asked for action from me, the people that a resolution does nothing and my research I realized that this is actually | 00:26:20 | |
| factual, that a resolution just gives a warm fuzzy. Yes, we are non sanctuary. | 00:26:26 | |
| With that being said that I bring today action to you and so I would like to thank Scott, Perry and Kevin for being in full | 00:26:33 | |
| communication with me throughout this entire process since last month. | 00:26:40 | |
| What I would like to address is Commissioner, saying what I ask of you is, when we present this today, that you do not campaign | 00:26:47 | |
| and go off the ways of the people, because the people got this to the board. I asked that you act like a Commissioner and handle | 00:26:53 | |
| this appropriately. I would like to respond to that. | 00:26:59 | |
| We did the research and we feel that bringing this as a ballot initiative to the people and letting them vote on where our tax | 00:27:08 | |
| dollars go is very important. | 00:27:13 | |
| I ask that you guys take full consideration of this. We're going to be more than 1 1/2 days to look at it. | 00:27:18 | |
| Bruce, I do apologize for not connecting with you yesterday. We don't want this to be biased. We kept it to ourselves because we | 00:27:25 | |
| weren't going to give it to one of you and not the others. OK, So we asked that the five of you come together as the Board of | 00:27:30 | |
| Commissioners that we trust. | 00:27:35 | |
| And working together to make this happen, bring it to the voters and let them decide. That's about all I have. | 00:27:41 | |
| Mr. Chair, I'd like to respond to this real quick, Mr. Lacey. | 00:27:50 | |
| The other thing is we're looking at possibly by Monday that you. | 00:27:55 | |
| Have a decision for us. We're going to move forward. If we have to go ahead and get, we talked to colleague, they go ahead and | 00:28:02 | |
| figure out what we need to do to get this on the ballot. This is the easiest way for us to do it. But if we get started on here, | 00:28:09 | |
| we're going to go ahead and continue with what we're going to try to do to get this on the ballot by November. | 00:28:16 | |
| So the citizens can make the decision. | 00:28:24 | |
| OK. Appreciate that. So we'll take that under advisement, we'll review this and we'll continue to communicate back to you and see | 00:28:27 | |
| what we can do. | 00:28:33 | |
| Bruce, did you have anything you need to add? | 00:28:40 | |
| Is there a reason? I mean, could you get back up this by Monday? | 00:28:43 | |
| We'll do our best. Yeah, absolutely. Is this actually something that could be on the agenda for Monday, that. | 00:28:48 | |
| I need to check into what that procedure is, not that I'm trying to stall you or delay you. I've never had a citizen bring | 00:28:56 | |
| something forth to be put on the agenda, so I do need to check that proper procedure and we appreciate that because, again, this | 00:29:01 | |
| is new and very. | 00:29:07 | |
| Yeah, but again, I just want the people to know who is actually working with the community to bring something to our county. Wild | 00:29:14 | |
| County is known where the reputation to uphold. | 00:29:19 | |
| Let's do the right thing. | 00:29:25 | |
| And not be bombastic and not campaign on it. Let's do the right thing for the residents of our county. That's all I'm asking you | 00:29:26 | |
| guys to do today. So I appreciate you. Thank you very much. | 00:29:31 | |
| But you take it seriously on Monday, so you can call me if you want. | 00:30:07 | |
| So I'd like to dialogue some others. | 00:30:13 | |
| Miss missing, Thank you very much. I did present the resolution two Times Now. I don't know if you knew that at two separate work | 00:30:15 | |
| sessions. | 00:30:19 | |
| And on this, the reason I was given that they would not do it is we we have found we are giving funding through the health | 00:30:24 | |
| department to illegal immigrants. And so it's not that the resolution wouldn't do something because it says misuse of taxpayer | 00:30:32 | |
| funds is because we are using funds and that's the reason that the the resolution wasn't signed. | 00:30:39 | |
| So I support what you're doing here. I would put on the about our the agenda on Monday right now and I I take a vote on it right | 00:30:47 | |
| now to do that. But I don't think the other four are in agreement. I I need to correct you. It wasn't that there has been funds | 00:30:54 | |
| going to illegal immigrants that there could be technically. So we need to be fully transparent there through the health | 00:31:00 | |
| department. So with that is there any other public comment that wishes to come forward today. | 00:31:07 | |
| Just state your name and record. Name and address for the record, please. Marion Thompson 445, passport Tacono. Good morning, | 00:31:22 | |
| commissioners. Thank you for allowing me an opportunity to speak to you. | 00:31:27 | |
| This is our Constitution. | 00:31:34 | |
| And as elected officials. | 00:31:37 | |
| We expect you to uphold it. | 00:31:39 | |
| And from what I'm seeing and hearing, that is not the case. | 00:31:42 | |
| So I ask all of you to please uphold our Constitution. Thank you. | 00:31:46 | |
| Any other public comment today? | 00:31:55 | |
| All right. Seeing none, we'll go ahead and close public comment. It's 920. We stand adjourned. | 00:31:59 |