Mayor-Council

Tuesday, October 20, 2026, 9:30 a.m. (Denver time), City & County Building Parr-Widener Room 389

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This brief public session of the weekly Mayor-Council meeting consisted mainly of council member announcements about upcoming community events before the body moved into a closed session. Council members promoted neighborhood happenings including Halloween events, park openings and improvements in southeast Denver, a fall festival, a small business discussion in the 5 Points area, and Oktoberfest at the National Western Center. The chair then announced the Council would convene in closed session to discuss pending labor negotiations with various city agencies, and the public session was closed.

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0:08 joint meeting of mayor and

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0:26 starting now.

4:39 Thank you so much for being We

4:41 have brief public session this

4:44 morning. We do have a closed

4:47 afterwards, but I do want to

4:48 with some introductions and

4:50 announcements for folks to get

4:52 caught up from your council

4:53 members. And so distinguish

4:59 legitimate right Good morning,

5:00 everyone Councilmember

5:00 at-large. Jaime Torres missed

5:01 every district because

5:04 districts that Flint,

5:07 Southwestern District 2 and on

5:08 the Segregated America Council

5:13 meeting their Watson, 5

5:14 district like good afternoon

5:15 or good afternoon. Good

5:18 morning. Diana Romero, campus

5:19 southeast after district for

5:20 great. Thank you all so much

5:21 for being here. Are there any

5:23 announcements and you'll have

5:24 members of the or for each

5:28 other, the council address.

5:30 And we had an amazing

5:32 Halloween parade on Saturday.

5:35 So thank you to the Broadway

5:36 jaded Compost Foundation and

5:39 everyone that participated. It

5:42 was amazing. But the partying

5:45 is not over. And fortunately

5:48 for very tired this OCTOBER.

5:51 24 for having the Halloween

5:52 also come check that out. You

5:53 about all kinds of cars up in

5:56 their Broadway. Have specialty

5:59 drinks, decorations, all

6:01 including adjacent to addition

6:05 to that on police district, 3

6:07 of having their Halloween

6:10 carnival at 01:00pm. And then

6:11 at 04:00pm, the af More Park

6:12 Neighborhood Association is

6:18 having They're round tree

6:19 giveaway, which will start at

6:20 04:00pm at Houston Make. Thank

6:24 you. Thank you, Council other

6:25 announcements, MADAM

6:27 PRESIDENT, I have a few. It is

6:28 a very busy week in southeast

6:29 Denver and we have a lot to

6:33 celebrate. So tomorrow at

6:36 Southmore Park at 4 o'clock,

6:37 we're going celebrate the

6:39 opening and the finishing of

6:40 the park improvements at

6:42 Southmore. So we have a new

6:43 playground and some other

6:45 amenities super excited about

6:49 And then on OCTOBER 22nd at

6:52 04:00pm, we are opening the

6:54 part and this is the first

6:58 park that was purchased by

6:59 Denver Park. Just dollars.

7:03 It's a park. Pocket park in

7:04 North University Hills come

7:05 join It'll be a lot of time.

7:09 There will be activities. Yea,

7:12 and it's going to for it's

7:16 gorgeous. Lots of And then on

7:17 Saturday we're doing a fall

7:18 fest at Thomas Jefferson High

7:22 School from 11 2. It is we're

7:26 going to have won games food

7:29 and a lot agencies will be

7:30 city agencies and other

7:33 vendors will have tables out

7:34 there are doing it. It teach

7:35 it because we are not going to

7:35 get rained out. So if it's

7:38 raining, we're going inside.

7:39 So rain or shine. Please come

7:42 out and visit us sometime

7:44 Saturday from 11 to The tj pto

7:47 is also doing fundraiser

7:48 getting paid, paint. So if you

7:50 have like old paint in your

7:51 garage, something, you can

7:52 take it and drop it off there

7:55 and they will take it. And

7:56 then finally on Monday

8:00 morning, Monday on Sunday and

8:00 we're doing a bike ride and

8:02 it's starting at 10:00pm at

8:07 Bible Park be like a 5 mile

8:08 ride through the district and

8:10 it'll be lot of fun, rain or

8:13 shine. We are doing all of

8:14 these events what is the week?

8:16 What's a fun? Enjoy council.

8:17 Watson, what you got for us

8:18 find a certain I'm alone. We

8:22 got a We've tonight. The

8:24 triangle scenarios Workshop

8:26 continues. And so triangle

8:28 parcel that's in a global.

8:29 There's wants the community.

8:31 One poll are just saw last

8:33 parcels of We're going to

8:34 continue discussions with the

8:36 advisory group and stakeholder

8:37 groups applaud what scenarios

8:39 group is bringing forward. And

8:41 that's tonight from 5 until

8:42 about 08:00pm. It's sad for

8:47 tomorrow. Believe you're going

8:47 national Western Drive

8:51 to be in a 5 9 tomorrow. Mary

8:55 Welton Street, small business

8:59 discussion. Stats, Mango.

9:00 07:00pm. Mainland is right in

9:01 heart of 5 points in 26 and

9:03 Welton. So come on down the

9:05 list. In 2 small business

9:07 owners have a drink. It's

9:08 mangling and the mayor and I

9:10 will be there all having a

9:11 discussion with small

9:13 businesses and talking

9:14 opportunities to provide

9:18 support to And then Saturday,

9:20 Saturday, Saturday as well as

9:23 Sunday OCTOBER 22nd to 25th

9:23 OCTOBER Fest. The Denver my

9:27 son. I think I'm pronouncing

9:30 that that? The data wasn't as

9:32 authentic Oktoberfest that's

9:33 happening at National Western

9:36 Center at 51. 85 National

9:37 Western Drive. Will be all day

9:40 from 11, I think to on

9:41 Saturday and Sunday is a

9:43 continuation from this past

9:45 weekend. I know I saw a lot of

9:46 pictures of PRESIDENT.

9:51 Remember, Campbell, that she

9:53 from Baghdad that the

9:54 Oktoberfest and so please join

9:55 us all of the finest 9 and at

9:57 the National Western Center

10:00 for the final Oktoberfest

10:02 celebration this weekend 22nd

10:05 to 25th and one last thing to

10:06 Bronco fans, I believe get off

10:09 my quarterbacks I think we are

10:12 doing just winning games, even

10:13 if a winning them with with

10:15 small Thank you so for

10:16 PRESIDENT To get proclamation

10:19 back aligned. Appreciate that.

10:20 Councilmember other

10:25 announcements from our council

10:28 members, wonderful. Wonderful.

10:32 Thank you so much for look for

10:32 joining. We are going to

10:34 transition into closed session

10:37 meeting which the council

10:40 education to pending labor

10:41 negotiations with various city

10:42 agencies. And with that, we

10:43 will close our public session

10:45 and Serco session.