Council member Dr. Mark Rennie delivered a public summary of City Council actions on July 21, saying the council annexed roughly 90 county “pockets” surrounded by the city and approved the addition of almost 200 acres east of South Greeley Highway and north of Chocoluff Road to extend Bison Business Park.

Rennie said the 90 tracts are mainly small parcels and individual trailers north of the King Soopers area. He described the nearly 200-acre annexation as a southward extension of Bison Business Park.

Rennie outlined several infrastructure and safety items the council approved or pursued: the city submitted a grant request for safety improvements at Pershing and Windmill, approved an engineering contract for design work on Eighteenth Street from House to Schneider focused primarily on stormwater improvements, and renewed an annual $100,000 funding commitment for LEEDS.

The council updated a long-standing agreement with the South Cheyenne Sewer and Water District, replacing two agreements that Rennie said had been in place for about 40 years. Rennie said the updates bring the contracts current but that “nobody’s going to really notice any difference.”

Rennie said the council added a prohibition on feeding seagulls and other waterfowl — including ducks — to the list of banned behaviors after neighbor complaints near Henderson School about food being left out and seagull nuisances.

On parking and facilities, Rennie said the city approved a contract to brighten the Spiker Garage by painting the walls white, upgraded restroom facilities, installed more responsive monitors and retained a security company to do random overnight patrols four times per night. He said the goal is to improve safety and public perception of the garage.

The council also approved a contract to paint three railcars bound for the railway experience on Fifteenth Street and declared the city’s pump house — a building Rennie said is more than 100 years old and built from the same stone as the depot — surplus and put it out for bid with restrictions on future uses.

Rennie said the council approved a one-year extension — effectively “parking” — of a liquor license known locally as the Green Door license. He said state rules allow a license to be parked for one year and, with governing-body approval, for a second year while plans or approvals proceed.

On personnel, Rennie announced that longtime Fire Chief John Copper retired recently and that Andrew Dykeschorn has replaced him as fire chief. Rennie said the department’s relations with the firefighters union had been strong under Copper’s leadership.

Rennie closed with a brief fiscal note: the May sales tax report was essentially flat compared with the same month last year.

Rennie said this was the first of monthly public updates he and the council executive secretary, Jennifer, will provide and that he expects to circulate another update in mid‑August. Residents can direct questions to the City Council offices; Jennifer will route them to the appropriate staff.