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City Council Meeting Minutes May 21, 2024 Page 5 of 11 program in future years and was awarded funding from the Colorado Department of Human Services Behavioral Health Administration in the amount of up to $230,872 for program cost reimbursement during the State's Fiscal Year 2025. As part of this grant funding process, the State of Colorado Department of Human Services Behavioral Health Administration is seeking to enter into a contract with the City of Louisville to allow the City to receive reimbursement for the co -responder program costs for State FY 2025. Public Comments — None. Members agreed this is an important program for both the Department and the City. MOTION: Councilmember Kern moved to approve the resolution; seconded by Councilmember Hoefner VOTE: Motion passed by unanimous roll call vote. IQ&*9111*1IQZ11111V=10IIs] ►D_TI&0Eel ►MV//_V_1»/_1-11IN1:J1►[eZe]:/_1►M=6*1 Mayor Leh introduced the item. He stated this Council is committed to traffic safety and this is not being discussed arbitrarily. He stated he has been very disappointed in the comments and the personal attacks of staff he has seen related to this project. He encouraged everyone to listen to the presentation with an open mind. Director Kowar stated staff has given this presentation for the public as well. He noted changing the streets does bring out emotion in people and staff has heard a lot of feedback on this. He reviewed Colorado traffic law and how pedestrians should be treated. If everyone followed the law there would be no accidents however the trends over the past few years are showing a big increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths. He reviewed specific traffic incidents in Louisville since 2018, including three deaths. Since then City Council has given staff a directive to improve safety. The goal is to make the bike lanes and pedestrian crossings safer. Director Kowar noted this is not meant to be a final decision but rather is a pilot project before the street is repaved in two to three years. It is simply changing the paint and it is not permanent. We can see how it goes before making any final decisions. He reviewed some of the previous discussion of this project. He noted the three options up for discussion. 1) leaving it as is at four lanes with bike lanes; 2) reducing it to one lane in each direction with wider bike lanes and buffers; or 3)