Mayor-Council

Tuesday, September 15, 2026, 9:30 a.m. (Denver time), City & County Building Parr-Widener Room 389

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0:05 Thanks for joining us for this

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0:11 mayor and Denver City Council.

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0:13 city council members here,

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0:18 matters and hear about what's

0:18 happening across the mile.

0:21 High City. Join the discussion

0:22 with your elected officials

0:25 starting now.

1:19 First back from vacation

1:40 watch. 2 are thank from nation

1:42 saying can't and if you can

1:47 it's people.

2:10 It right Good morning. Good

2:12 morning. Council members were

2:14 going to go ahead and get

2:15 started. I know people are

2:16 coming in. Transition joining

2:22 us. I'm gonna talk a very

2:23 Welcome. Hugh Mayor Council,

2:24 thank you for joining us this

2:27 We will start introductions is

2:30 to get settled in for my city

2:30 council members and then we'll

2:32 jump into announcements. We

2:34 don't have our distinguished

2:36 gentleman to my race. So we'll

2:39 We'll go ahead and pass over

2:39 COUNCILWOMAN. Of about

2:45 potential to strict just

2:52 English deserve it. Jamie

2:53 Torres mission for District

2:54 champion Flynn, Southwest

2:55 number morning. Do Watson Fine

3:00 District 9 hits so also cat is

3:01 councilmember at large until

3:03 heat. Good morning to Campbell

3:07 Southeast Denver district 4.

3:10 And will go right into

3:11 announcements council members,

3:18 if you will have I'd like to

3:21 share that. We have Lake

3:24 Thursday at 06:00pm at Habitat

3:26 for Humanity headquarters

3:27 4.30, something that, know, if

3:28 you concerned about the future

3:35 of Thank Yes, can sweep. Thank

3:36 you so Well, thanks to the

3:40 lovely person sitting next to

3:41 me. COUNCILMAN COUNCILMAN

3:42 Sandoval COUNCILMAN Hinds

3:44 County Cashman COUNCILMAN

3:45 COUNCILWOMAN Lewis started up

3:47 this last year. The Budget

3:49 book Club, series as the

3:51 Budget is rolling And so this

3:52 is an event that allows us to

3:54 get meaningful public

3:56 engagement on what is or is

3:59 not in the city's budget and

4:00 has community panelists. We

4:01 would love to have you all

4:03 attend the schedule this year.

4:05 We will have this Thursday and

4:06 will be the virtual event.

4:08 It'll be the city budget. 101.

4:09 It's a 30 minute crash course

4:11 on how Denver's budget

4:14 functions followed by 30

4:15 minutes of open community qna

4:17 that on Friday, SEPTEMBER 25th

4:19 at Tower in District 8 from

4:21 5.30, to 7 is the budget.

4:22 Happy hours. So it's more of

4:24 an informal get-together

4:27 session it will review what

4:29 council members heard during

4:31 the budget hearing. Some

4:32 budget hearings are next So

4:33 this will just come on the

4:36 heels of and we'll be taking

4:38 into consideration constituent

4:40 questions, feedback want to

4:41 make sure that people sign up

4:43 if they're wanting to attend.

4:45 And then on Saturday, OCTOBER

4:47 3rd location is to be

4:48 determined to stay tuned. That

4:51 that will be from 12:00pm to

4:53 02:00pm and that will be a

4:54 community convening and again,

4:55 will be gathering additional

4:56 feedback. Kerry from folks

4:57 what they want to see in the

4:57 budget. So feel free to

5:01 follow. COUNCILMAN Lewis says

5:03 Page and Lincoln Tree. And

5:06 that's where you can find

5:06 places to sign up incident

5:10 comes and wants Thank you so

5:13 much. I wanted to share event

5:16 that's happening on SEPTEMBER.

5:17 26th. It's called for safety

5:20 to be Metro State University.

5:22 It's a collaborative event to

5:23 important event that is to all

5:23 not invite time. It's an

5:25 community members to come out

5:27 and have a free working

5:31 community to encourage health

5:35 as well as within our

5:37 communities. It's sponsored by

5:41 the Nuggets by msu, And I

5:42 think it's gonna be great

5:45 events. A sentencing 26 from

5:46 09:00am to 12:00pm Time in a

5:47 public service announcement

5:49 last night. I want to look

5:50 into the camera. Make it

5:56 There's been articles right a

5:57 proposed 400 shelter That's

6:02 the shelter Want your

6:04 neighborhood law order a

6:05 plate. I do not support

6:10 building 400 shelter.

6:11 Launching community on Clayton

6:13 neighborhood. I look forward

6:15 to having future discussions

6:16 were in discussions with

6:17 community now to set up a

6:20 separate unit meeting just to

6:23 discuss this item tonight,

6:24 having a discussion about

6:26 shelter. All that's going to

6:27 be 41 Katie. Columbine Street

6:31 is a community information

6:32 meeting I'm encouraged

6:33 community members to come out

6:35 there. Hundreds families that

6:37 are awaiting shelter to winter

6:38 is coming. Solution is

6:40 necessary and I am willing to

6:41 lean with community to look

6:43 for a solution for these

6:45 families have been asking for

6:46 shelter for well over a Thank

6:52 you. Council PRESIDENT. Thank

6:54 you. Became so we do. Our

6:56 summer series are south by

6:59 Southeast concerts in the park

7:02 our concert in AUGUST had to

7:04 canceled it because of the

7:05 severe sunder, severe

7:08 thunderstorms and this week we

7:10 are planning on having the

7:11 concert in the park, but we

7:11 are scheduled open rain all

7:15 week long and they're

7:17 predicting rain right in the

7:19 middle of the concert We are

7:21 pivoting so we don't have to

7:23 cancel. Last We want people to

7:25 know that we are and everyone

7:26 in district that we are going

7:28 to do something a little

7:29 different. We're gonna have a

7:39 fall act Tobar. 24 we are.

7:40 Location, tbd, that connect

7:42 with the scoop newsletter. But

7:43 it's going to be on OCTOBER

7:46 24th. Were going to do if and

7:47 a half we're gonna will bring

7:49 people together and it will be

7:50 fantastic. We just won't be

7:53 doing it in the for who are

7:56 planning on coming to the

7:57 concert this Saturday,

7:59 Eisenhower, part it is

8:06 canceled and rescheduled

8:07 OCTOBER. 24th. Thank to get to

8:09 be because make I'm having a

8:11 hard to clean up this Saturday

8:12 from 10 to 11 particularly pay

8:17 for clean is your Florida that

8:19 makes safe to cross the street

8:23 and a intersects with I-70

8:24 coming. A lot of complaints

8:27 trash along the I-seventy

8:28 interstate. So it's kind

8:29 working with the mayor's

8:31 office and areas in northwest

8:32 kind of like no where people

8:34 don't want to take care of

8:38 them. So we're going focus on

8:40 Berkeley. Lake Mead at the

8:41 playground from 10 to 11 will

8:43 have free coffee snacks take

8:46 get ticket to a contract in

8:50 FEBRUARY of in this big we're

8:52 celebrating the captain on the

8:55 jetty from 08:00pm at Sloan's

8:57 Lake. Many of you we have

8:59 figured out with the help of

9:01 perfect finance our partners

9:02 at Denver, bringing learning

9:04 he had a 5 million dollars

9:06 temp work on They can be So

9:07 it's going to be really event

9:09 this year with a lot of

9:11 different type of momentum. As

9:13 we've been working on this

9:14 project for my whole life to

9:18 make to enough that make. So

9:19 think think we all come our

9:22 site and I see this begin.

9:27 Thank Any of their union All

9:35 We move into executive session

9:37 Jim now entertain a motion

9:40 take advantage session. I was

9:40 waiting to believe or not

9:43 here. I will now entertain a

9:45 motion wasn't expected session

9:46 pursuant to c 2 dash 30 for

9:51 high some second. For the

9:51 purpose of started to read the

9:53 whole thing, I want have

9:55 campaign and for the represent

9:57 receiving legal advice

9:58 regarding negotiation of

10:00 contracts the use of real

10:01 estate by the site. Now it

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10:07 second to wonderful all in

10:08 favor. Thank you for your

10:10 patients.