The Castle Rock Town Council met on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, at 6:00 PM in the Town Hall Council Chambers and virtually. Mayor Jason Gray presided, with Councilmembers Ryan Hollingshead, Laura Cavey, Desiree LaFleur, Max Brooks, and Tim Dietz present. Mayor Pro Tem Kevin Bracken was absent. The meeting included proclamations, public comments, quasi-judicial hearings, and discussions on sign code enforcement, water quality legislation, and a major water treatment expansion. All votes were 6-0 except where noted.
Good evening. I want to thank everyone for coming tonight, whether in person or online. Let's start with the invocation. Heavenly Father, we ask your guidance, your wisdom, and your support. We begin this meeting. Please gather here today. Sorry, we gather here today too with the intent to do good work. We see to represent fairly and to those fairly and well for those who have been given a task and help us engage in meaningful discussion and give us clarity and strength to use and our best skills and judgment. Please bless this community, residents, businesses, and visitors, and help us continue doing good work in your name. Amen. Roll call, please. Councilmember Hollington. Here. Councilmember Kavey. Yes. Councilmember LaFleur here. Councilmember Brooks. Present. Councilmember Dietz. Here. Mayor Pro Tembracken. And Mayor Gray. Here. Thank you. Please join me in Pledge of Allegiance. Pledge to the flag. One nation. I'll start with council comments and then we'll uh after council comments, I'll be the Arbor Day uh pledge or proclamation. Um first I want to congratulate my wife on a great uh Boston Marathon yesterday. Um it was fantastic. She qualified back last year and qualified again for Boston next year, yesterday. Um I thank everybody. Um there's been a lot of heartfelt messages in my in my emails, um, tons and tons of letters and uh just warm wishes uh for my family um and my on my mom's passing. I do appreciate that very much. Next up, Brian Tullinghead. No comment tonight, thanks. Barbara Cavey. Uh yes, um, not necessarily a comment, but a request of staff. Um having some conversations with some folks in the community around our cattle drive and would like to see what it would take to add in um the Native American Indians as well as the um uh Buffalo soldiers to that event. I think it would add a lot of diversity, it would add um maybe bring in more interest from outside the community. Um and instead of just being kind of the same thing every year, we would be adding to it. So I'd like to make the request that we look into adding that to the cattle drive. Do we need a motion or just the do I need a motion? I think what what we do is take Councilmember Kavey's um inquiry, let's find out about it, and then we'll we'll advise you as to whether or not we think we need any kind of council action. Don't know if there'll be a cost or or programming, but let's find out about it. I'll talk with Jeff. Jeff will work with Jennifer Reinhardt and let's just find out if we can we can do that. I think it's a great suggestion personally. So let's just find out if we can do it, and then we'll we'll we'll advise you accordingly, if that's all right. Okay, so thank you.