Busy agenda on tap for Longmont City Council on Tuesday

Matthew Bennett, Daily Times-Call, Longmont, Colo.
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May 13—From the 2025 budget to a more than 170-unit proposed development, the Longmont City Council has no shortage of topics to discuss during its regular session Tuesday night.

First, though, the City Council is scheduled to hear a presentation from the Longmont Multicultural Action Committee concerning the results of its 2023 cultural assessment.

The assessment was created to "gather information about people's experiences, involvement in diversity, sense of belonging and cultural opportunities," according to a council memo.

The Multicultural Action Committee, which is a City Council initiated effort, takes on diversity-related issues in the city and supports a variety of events including Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Cinco de Mayo and more.

Despite 2025 being more than seven months away, city staff will also deliver a short presentation to the council Tuesday regarding next year's budget.

The 2024 budget, at least when the council originally adopted it last October, amounted to $443.9 million.

The city's 2025 budget remains to be seen, and City Manager Harold Dominguez has until Sept. 1 — as is required by the charter — to propose a balanced operating budget to the City Council for the following year.

"Decisions on what will or will not be a part of the proposed 2025 budget will need to be made over the next couple of months," a council memo stated.

Toward the end of the agenda Tuesday, the City Council is expected to decide whether or not to refer the 9.5-acre property at 8809 Nelson Road into the city's annexation review process.

"The applicant has submitted a concept plan ... for a residential development with a minimum of 172 dwelling units and associated amenity spaces, which translates to a minimum density of 18 units per acre," a council memo noted of the proposed development at 8809 Nelson Road.

Located east of Airport Road, south of Rogers Road and west of Andersen Street, the property currently has a single-family home, one barn and two cattle sheds on it and is zoned for agricultural use in unincorporated Boulder County.

"This is only an annexation referral and council is not being asked to make a final decision," Jennifer Hewett-Apperson said in an email Monday. "It will proceed to the full application process only if council gives the go ahead tomorrow."

Tuesday's regular session is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 350 Kimbark St.