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From: TL Welch [mailto:tlw4033@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 10:38 AM
To: Ted Shepard
Subject: Questions on the Avago Economic Assistance package.
Ted,
Could you please forward me Josh Birks email and also forward him the following questions and ask him to please
forward the answers to me and to cc you. I would like to know this information before the P&Z pre -meeting being held on
noon Friday, so if for some reason Josh is not available to respond by early tomorrow afternoon, I request that you follow-
up to answer these questions.
1-1 would like to confirm the amounts of public assistance being granted to Avago.
• 7/19/2011 City Council Resolution 2011-066, Agenda Item #27
appears to approve: $3,2 million in public assistance
• 8121/12 City Council Resolution 2012-080, Agenda Item # 37
appears to approve: $5,9 million in public assistance ( $9,1 million cumulative)
10/16/12 City Council Resolution 2012-096 appears to be nearly identical to 8/21/12... is this a clarification or
is this another $5,900,000 in public assistance being awarded to Avago? ($ 15,000,000 cumulative ?)
2—In which City Council Review meeting was it disclosed that Avago already had a request for or had already received
the building permits for the activities they had professed to require approval of the public funds in order to make a decision
to move forward on said improvements in Fort Collins rather than a competing location? Please comment and
clarify. What was the situation with the building permits?
3-- The 10/16/12 Council Resolution states: `In the last 7 years, the Economic Health Office (EHO) has brought forth
three Business Investment Agreements. The EHO anticipates bringing forth two similar packages — the current Avago
Technologies agreement before Council and another one in the near future. Negotiations with company representatives
started in early 2012. Avago Technologies reviewed three sites — Fort Collins, CO, Texas, and Singapore. "
o In those 7 years, how many of the agreements were with Avago? How many were with other
companies? Who were the other companies? What were the respective values of each?
4-- Each of the Avago assistance packages include the statements:
"Public Outreach: Negotiations of the planned Avago Technologies expansion and related Business Investment
Agreement were conducted confidentially. "
o Is this true for all of the negotiations conducted between the City of Fort Collins Economic Health
Department and all potential recipients?
o Was the public involved in a review or comment of any of these assistance packages prior to when they
became public knowledge per the details provided in the agenda for the City Council.
o The City Council has multiple work sessions and set of information sent to them to provide a great
amount of detail for their decisions.
• Was this same information made public prior to the City Council meetings?
• Was the same information made public after approval by the City Council, or has the information
distributed be primarily the information published in the Council Agenda and follow-on meeting
minutes?
Your assistance will be greatly appreciated.
T.L. Welch
Woodland Park Homeowner
Email: tIw4033(agmail.com
970-223-5094
Ted Shepard
From: TL Welch <tlw4033@g mail. com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 11:41 PM
To: Ted Shepard; Josh Birks
Cc: 'TL Welch'
Subject: Request for sign -in sheet, color prints, and public assistance $s granted to Avago questions
Ted,
First, thank you for the full scale drawings. The SITE/LANDSCAPE PLAN provides more than sufficient detail to answer
my previous questions relating to the trees and bushes (ie. items 2-- and 3-- from the email I sent entitled: Woodland
Park follow-up with Avago.)
Could you please assist with the following:
Please send a copy of the sign -in sheet from the March 251" Neighborhood Meeting and the names of all other
known attendees including the representatives from, Burkett Design and Avago. (If not available electronically,
can pick up a hard copy this afternoon.) A S L
2. Color Drawings:
• I would like to obtain color prints of the 3 drawings you gave me today (full size.)
• I would like to obtain color prints of all the drawings which were presented at the
March 25th. (color, full size.) 1J'tc..A -fK
• If possible, I would like to obtain 8.5"x11" or legal size color copies of each
large scale version is the first order of importance.)
L. S hnoev
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of the drawings above. (But the
• 1 would like to pick them up this afternoon (Thursday), so if the city requires a charge for these, I approve and
agree to pay the charges to obtain the drawings.
3. As an FYI, I have not received any response to the questions I submitted concerning the public assistance
provided to Avago. If Josh is not available to provide this information, could you please identify an alternate
person who is available to discuss these questions. Who is Josh's supervisor and would he be a relevant contact
person?
Thank you very much.
Regards,
T.L. Welch
Email: tlw4033(a)gmail.com
970-223-5094
From: Ted Shepard [mailto:TSHEPARD@fcgov.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 10:50 AM
To: Josh Birks
Cc: tlw4033@gmaii.com
Subject: FW: Questions on the Avago Economic Assistance package.
Josh, could you please respond to the questions posed below by Mr. Welch. Please note that the P & Z Worksession is
at Noon this Friday.
Thanks, Ted
Ted Shepard
Chief Planner