6:30PM City Council Regular Business Meeting @ City Hall Council Chambers

Meeting Agenda
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Public Comment

The meeting begins with public comment. If you want to address Council, you will have three minutes to speak. Any public comments received by email before 3PM will be posted in the meeting packet after 3 (so check back then!).

Items on the Consent Agenda are considered non-controversial, not needing discussion. Everything in this section will be approved at once, with one vote.

Any councilor wishing to discuss one of the issues can request that it be removed from the consent agenda and discussed and voted on separately.

These are the items on the Consent Agenda:

RESOLUTION NO. 3174 (additional $344,305 in architectural expenses)

Last July, the City signed a contract with an architecture firm to design the new city hall for "a lump sum fee not to exceed $2,620,610."

Tonight's meeting packet says "That contract did not include sub-specialties, including, lighting, signage design, low voltage design (re security and IT), and acoustics, but they were all anticipated expenses in the owner’s soft cost budget. In addition, the base architect design proposal did not include structural design for the parking deck that has been added to the design on the east side of the building."

These necessary features will cost an additional $344,305.

RESOLUTION NO. 3175 (additional $176,942 in "pre-construction cost")

Last October, the City signed a contract with a construction firm to provide "Construction Management/General Contractor Services" on the new city hall for "with the award for pre-construction services not to exceed $90,000."

Tonight's meeting packet says:

...it is appropriate now to consider some additional preconstruction activities necessary to assure design accuracy and some preliminary activities related to the anticipated next steps in the project. These proposed additional site investigations include:

Drill one 500’ deep Geothermal test well
Conduct earthwork to do further soils tests related to defining slope shoring requirements, verify the depth of cut off caissons left during building demolition, install and maintain erosion control measures for the overall project
Surveying related to the overall project
Xcel Fees for temporary power installation for the overall project.

...the cost for the additional early action services is $176,942 to be added to the current pre-construction cost of $90,000 for a total of $266,942.00

RESOLUTION NO. 3176 ($184,700 for evaluation of the east zone amenities)

This hires an additional architecture firm "to consider a comprehensive evaluation of the properties east of Washington Avenue, including Parfet Park, Vanover Park, Tucker Gulch, the land west of Archer Street acquired from Coors in 2019, and the portion of the property east of Archer Street between the proposed Police/Municipal Building and the Farmers Highline Canal and Clear Creek."

This does not include the creek trail underpass of Ford Street, which contract will be awarded in April.

This will cost "a lump sum fee not to exceed $184,700."

RESOLUTION NO. 3181 ($336,000 for wastewater treatment plant advisory services)

Molson Coors treats two-thirds of Golden's wastewater. The City shares some of the costs. This contract hires an engineering consulting firm to "support the City’s participation in Whole Effluent Toxicity (WET) compliance efforts, wastewater treatment capital planning, and authorizes HDR to serve as Golden’s Owners Advisory during design, construction, and negotiations of required upgrades at the Molson Coors Wastewater Treatment Plant"

A new contract would cost $336,000 and cover $199,990 for the toxicity evaluation, and $136,010 for owners' advisory services, through December 31, 2027.The City may be required to contribute to long-term treatment solutions depending on the findings of the study.

RESOLUTION NO. 3183 (accepting additional right of way at 24th and Illinois Streets)

*This image shows the corner of the lot that will be ceded as right of way.*

The corner lot at 2315 Illinois Street (map) is being subdivided into three lots. In the course of surveying the property, the owner discovered that a corner of the property should be part of the City right of way. This resolution allows the City to accept the property as part of the right of way.

RESOLUTION NO. 3184 (extending the lease for the Astor House)

Foothills Art Center leases the Astor House under an agreement that currently extends until 2052. In order to qualify for state historic preservations credits, Foothills needs a lease that will cover at least 39 years. Accordingly, the City has agreed to extend the term until 2062.

RESOLUTION NO. 3185 - (replacing the boilers at the city shops for $210,700)

Two Ordinances that were scheduled for discussion tonight will be postponed until April 8th:

Redistricting the wards
Updating several rules regarding Golden elections, including campaign finance, recalls, initiative and referendum and petition requirements

END OF CONSENT MATTERS

PUBLIC HEARING FOR ORDINANCE 2263 (parking code amendments)

Currently, approximately 20% of parking tickets go unpaid. This ordinance allows them to be sent to a collections agency. The City currently makes about $600,000/year in parking revenue. For reasons I don't quite understand, the meeting memo says, "City staff do not anticipate additional annual parking revenue as a result of the proposed amendments." Perhaps that means that the additional funds collection will all go to the parking management firm?

There is one public hearing tonight regarding parking management.