September 24, 2025 Meeting Notes

9/24/2025

Candidates

Tom Griggs PSD School Board
- Job creation
Susan Gutowsky - Council
- Echoed job creation
Tricia Canonico - Mayor
- Job market, affordability
Frank - Human Bean
- October Breast Cancer Awareness Month 20th year of coffee for a cure
  - 100% of Friday 10/17 sales will go to UC Health foundation and MCMC foundation
  - Gap funds
North College Corridor Open House
John Kefalas -
- Draft budget is nearly done with $3M in savings
- 1A transportation funding measure - .15% sales tax
- 1B childcare - .1% tax
- Oct 10 mailing ballots
- New landfill operational July 1 2026
- Current facility at capacity on last cell by mid year next year, moving to transfer station
- LCEMS facility - 50 acres northeast of laporte, replacing current facility on north shields
- Phase II of The Ranch renovations
- Batch Plant cannot be discussed as it will come before the review board. Opportunity to provide input on a hearing before the end of the year.
  - Invitation to Mike
Larimer County Treasurer
- 98.86% collected property tax
- Pink tags are a courtesy notice
Police
- Budget updates are on the current agenda
- Current emergency services building is the oldest building in inventory and in the flood plain
- Fire season seems to have been quite, transitioning to search and rescue.
City Updates - Tricia
- Budget is the theme of the work session - 6% cut across the entire organization
- Freeze for jobs, but no lay offs
- Lack of funds for plowing trails, forestry, parks & rec but looking for limited impact
- Continued eviction and legal defense funds as priorities
- Evaluating mobile home facility requirements - water, management
- Considering rules on electrified mobility restrictions
- Upcoming election with candidates, ballot measures
- Blue book this year will be digital with copies at the City available
URA - Chris
- Open House -
  - Storm Water & Streets - mason
  - Parks - soft gold
  - URA - area projects
  - Planning & zoning
- Be aware of these projects going forward, seeking feedback on how to move forward
- URA - Budget Host
  - Asbestos abatement is beginning, demolished before end of year
- CLosed on albertson’s, trying to involve business owners and community
- Closed on a loan for affordable housing on conifer near the Murphy center
Sgt. Matt Hann- District 1 Police
- Bringing in new team members to backfill internal promotions
- HOPE team - still funded as it was, looking for additional grant approved money that might increase the team
Seth - FC Rescue
- Infrastructure work still going on, Friday is official ground breaking ceremony
- Fundraising had $27M, now has $27.5M goal - at $27.3M for fundraising
- Fire damage in Old Town is still closed, no habitation but goal of beds for winter coming soon
- No 24/7 shelter, 70 beds now instead of 160
- New building opening late 2026
- Looking for a stop gap building to help for a year to close the gap in bed needs
- Loveland is shutting down shelters this month - 60 beds will be gone from inventory of Northern Colorado
Mary Ann - Coats & Boots
- Boots are in at Scheel’s, coats are mostly in. Waiting to transfer inventory when full delivery is ready
- Letters have been sent to schools and waiting on replies
- 2nd-3rd week of October we will need volunteers to pack out coat and boot orders for school deliveries in November
- 1500 orders of coats and boots
- Donations are still open
Greg Dewey - Northern Water
- New road going in, tying in to overland trail
- Northern Water cannot own the project, but manages it for the stakeholders
- New highway will be built before the old highway is switched over - nearly zero impact to traffic flow
- Breaking ground fall 2026
- Slightly bigger than Horsetooth
- $100M in increments going to NOCO Foundation that is managed 50/50 with votes from Northern Water and Save the Poudre
- Found uranium is at extremely low levels - 100x lower than mines. Soil & Dust from crushing are the main concern. Planned treatment - 10% sequester, treatments on site similar to Terry Ranch in Greeley.