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Open Space Advisory Board Minutes November 9, 2022 Page 3 of 6 better about getting the word out and addressing citizen concerns and rumors on Facebook recently. David said that there is a County -organized process of submitting city -level projects to DRCOG (Denver Regional Council of Government) for funding. One topic is underpasses. The proposed underpass at Highway 42 is one of the proposals from the city to DRCOG. https:Hbouldercounty.gov/transportation/plans-and-projects/dreog-subregional-transportation- improvement-program/ David said there is now a joint tiger team between PPLAB and OSAB. Susan said she is ready to start, but she said she hasn't heard from a PPLAB volunteer yet. David told her to reach out to PPLAB directly. The deadline to reapply for the board is tomorrow. There was some discussion of whether Helen's term was up this December. It was later determined that her term is up in 2024. Jessamine said that she talked to some organizations about getting their assistance with the renewal process for the Open Space and Parks Fund sales tax, including the Nature Conservancy and the Trust for Public Land. The TPL team said that they were willing to help with things like polling and crafting the ballot language but that the City needs to formally request their aid. She thought this was a great opportunity to update ballot language and to analyze things like whether the current tax level is appropriate and whether including tax- sunsetting language on the ballot is necessary. Laura and Helen both thought this sounded amazing. Helen suggested that a brief history of the tax might be helpful to put on the agenda for newer board members. Ember said that the City is asking the board to wait to discuss the ballot measure until February. Helen said that was stupid and Jessamine agreed. Helen said that City's proposed timing will ensure that the board will not have time to have any true input before the tax language is due for the ballot. Helen asked Ember to ask the City Manager's office directly whether the board can present the tax's history to its members, saying she would like to make them actually say no to the board. Helen added that all of this history is public record and thought that it was stupid to limit what could be said about it in a public meeting. Charles thought that if it was presented as an information item rather than a discussion item and he couldn't see why it could possibly be a problem, adding that if they want to remove it from the OSAB December agenda, they should have to do so overtly. Susan and Charles both said that they were new board members and needed context to be thoughtful about the tax. The board wants to put it on the December agenda and see if it gets removed. Charles said the new trail pavement at Dutch Creek looked fine and the half-and-half trail looks finished. Both he and Susan agreed that it looked better as crusher fines and wished it hadn't been paved. Susan is trying to talk to the City Manager about the requiring background checks for Weed Whacker volunteers but has not heard back from them yet. Discussion Item: Vegetation Monitoring of Davidson Mesa 2018-2022. Presented by Jesse Dillon, Cedar Creek Associates, INC. Jesse introduced his company, Cedar Creek. They do ecological monitoring and quantification of data is their specialty. His employee, Gloria, was also in attendance. They used the same protocols as were used by previous consultants monitoring vegetation in 2018 & 2019, to make 5