The Castle Rock Town Council held a hybrid meeting on August 16, 2022, at 6:00 PM at Town Hall. The meeting included council comments, consent calendar approvals, advertised public hearings, and quasi-judicial hearings regarding the Dawson Trails development. Key actions included unanimous approval of the election coordination, the Douglas County Economic Development Collaborative MOU, and the Dawson Trails Planned Development Plan and Development Agreement. The meeting extended until 9:56 PM.
Oh, my meeting started. Okay. Okay, bye, mom. Good evening. We'll open up with prayer by Mayor or by Pastor Mike Pohemas. All right. Well, first off, thank you. Uh honored to be here with all of you. And uh I I asked Mayor Jason if I could just uh quickly state that uh we have a Castle Rock Day of Prayer coming up. Uh and it is on September 3rd at Festival Park from nine o'clock in the morning to 11. And so first off, I'd love to invite all of counsel to come if you'd like to come. I know Jason is gonna be there, and uh he's gonna kick us off in prayer, uh, which is gonna be great, but uh want to welcome all of you to to join us as well in prayer. So let's pray. Uh actually let me just say, I was just asking the Lord, what do we I was gonna pray over unity because we all need unity in these times right now. Um but I felt just the Lord to say that uh just to pray over love. And uh so let me just read this scripture. It says this a new command I give you, love one another. As I have loved you, so you must also love one another. And it's by this that you will be known as my disciples if you love one another. And uh there's a quote from A. W. Tozer uh that says that you cannot tune a hundred pianos to each other, but you can tune them to one fork. And so I believe that uh that one fork is it's love, and it's the love that that he gives us that we can give to others. If we tune to that, we can step into a place of unity. The other scripture says this. Um I'll just pray this. It says, Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. Bear with each other, forgive whatever grievances you have against one another, forgive forgive as the Lord forgave you, and over all these virtues, put on love which binds them together in perfect unity. So Lord, I just thank you for this amazing town that we live in. I thank you for uh a mayor who uh who seeks you, Lord, and for council members who seek the Lord. And I just I pray for just your blessing. I pray your protection over this town and over our leaders. I ask that you would give them wisdom in this time, that you would give them discernment, that that they would have spiritual wisdom and understanding in this time to walk closely with you and to lead our town in the direction, Lord, that you would have us go. And so I just thank you for that spirit of unity which comes through love. And I pray that love over all of us in Castle Rock, that we would love one another well and walk in great unity together in Jesus' name. Amen. Thank you, Michael. Um this meeting being held as a connected meeting in accordance with town council electronic participation connected in a hybrid meeting policy as a town clerk for roll call. Councilmember Hollingshead. Councilmember KB, here, Councilmember LaFleur. Here, Councilmember Johnson. Present Councilmember Deeds, here Mayor Pro Chem Bracton. Mayor Gray. Here. All are present with the exception of Councilmember Hollingshead. Thank you. Please rise to the Pledge of Allegiance. Uh for the tragic death and deaths and um people who are recovering as well uh from the C V C V students accident. Uh we can just about 15 seconds would be great. Thank you.