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Votes at a glance: council approves budget amendment, donations, easement change and other items
Summary
At its April 1 meeting the Brighton City Council approved a series of resolutions and routine items including a budget amendment, donations resolution, conservation easement amendment and the consent agenda; roll‑call results and brief notes are listed below.
The Brighton City Council voted on multiple resolutions and routine items during its April 1, 2025 meeting. Below are short summaries, motions, movers, seconds and vote tallies for each action taken.
Consent agenda (Items 2a–2c) Motion: Approve the consent agenda as read (minutes and two appointments to boards/commissions). Mover: Council Member Green. Second: Council Member Pawlowski. Outcome: Passed by roll call, 8–0 with 1 absent. Notes: Appointments included Quentin Cash (alternate member, Parks & Recreation Advisory Board, term to Jan. 2027) and Barbara Heumann (Brighton Historic Preservation Commission, term to June 2028).
Item 6A — First Amendment to the 2025 budget (budget amendment / appropriation) Motion: Approve the First Amendment to the 2025 budget to appropriate $1,437,608 to support additional lodging tax allocations, transfers for storm drainage improvements and to transfer interest earnings to cover cemetery maintenance. Mover: Council Member Pawlowski. Second: Council Member Fiddler. Outcome: Passed by roll call, 8–0 with 1 absent. Notes: Staff said $89,304 in 2024 interest earnings from the cemetery perpetual care fund will be transferred to the cemetery fund for maintenance. Lodging tax allocations include up to $35,000 for Brighton Chamber of Commerce administrative assistance and carryover grant funding for a Brighton Cultural Arts Commission sculpture match.
Item 6B — Water Tower Place zoning map amendment (first reading) Motion: Approve the ordinance (first reading, rezoning approx. 14.727 acres to C‑2 and R‑2). Mover: Council Member Fiddler. Second: Council Member Taddeo. Outcome: Passed by roll call, 8–0 with 1 absent. Notes: Planning Commission recommended unanimous approval; next steps include subdivision plan and final plat.
Item 9A — 2025 Donations Resolution (public purpose for donations) Motion: Approve resolution establishing public purpose for city donations included in the 2025 appropriation (items added earlier in the evening use fund balance rather than the normal grant process). Mover: Mayor Pro Tem Padilla. Second: Council Member Fiddler. Outcome: Passed by roll call, 8–0 with 1 absent. Notes: Items tied to lodging tax allocations were added to this resolution because they used fund balance and not the typical grant process.
Item 9B — First Amendment to deed of conservation easement (Wagner Mayhew property) Motion: Approve the First Amendment to the deed of conservation easement recorded April 13, 2023 (Adams County reception no. 2023000020247) to allow removal of a portion of the easement for future right‑of‑way and drainage needs. Mover: Council Member Green. Second: Council Member Fiddler. Outcome: Passed by roll call, 8–0 with 1 absent. Notes: City attorney explained the amendment is a step needed to remove property needed for an expanded Sable Boulevard right‑of‑way.
Item 9C — Bridge Street Change Order No. 2 (construction contract amendment) Motion: Approve Change Order No. 2 with Brennan Sand & Gravel LLC in the amount of $2,933,000 and authorize the city manager to execute the amendment. Mover: Mayor Pro Tem Padilla. Second: Council Member Worth. Outcome: Passed by roll call, 7–0 with 1 recusal (Council Member Taddeo) and 1 absence. Notes: Staff cited underground conflicts, utility relocations, pond regrading, and additional electrical work as drivers of the change order; staff reported sufficient budgeted funds exist.
Item 9D — Appointment of special counsel for protest hearing Motion: Appoint Corey Hoffman as special counsel to advise the council for a protest hearing related to qualifications of a council member. Mover: Mayor Pro Tem Padilla. Second: Council Member Pulaski. Outcome: Passed by roll call, 8–0 with 1 absent. Notes: City attorney Calderon explained municipal code requires appointment of independent counsel when the council is the subject of a protest process.
Votes and recordkeeping: All motions were recorded by roll call as summarized above. When individual roll‑call votes were not recorded in the transcript by member name, the council recorded tally totals only; the article lists those tallies as provided in the official meeting record.
