The Castle Rock Town Council met on September 5, 2023, at 6:00 PM at Town Hall. The meeting included presentations, public comments regarding PrideFest, financial reports, and votes on multiple resolutions and ordinances, including land acquisitions, budget amendments, and affordable housing commitments. The meeting adjourned at 9:42 PM.
Matter of concern cross rock water under CRS twenty four six four zero two for EI. The time is now five fifteen. Um with no exception. We're gonna exactly session proposed uh just running positions relative to the water matters. Good evening. Oh god, we thank you for uh the wonderful people of Castle Rock. We thank you for all of the folks who work to make um this town human the staff of the town. Thank you also for our council members. And uh we pray that you would give them discernment and wisdom as they make decisions that affect the whole community and uh you would bless this community. We ask in Jesus' name. Amen. Thank you, Sean. This meeting has been held in a connected meeting in accordance with town council electronic participation and connected and hybrid meeting policy. Also town clerk for roll call. Councilmember Hollingshead. Here councilmember KV here, Councilmember LaFleur, here, Councilmember Brooks. Present. Councilmember Deeds. Here. Mayor Pratim Bracken. Here. Mayor Gray. Here. All are present. Thank you. Please join me in the pleasure. And two remote. One nation. Under God. First up, I have a number 23 2023 902 presentation by Dumb Friends League, Colorado Humane Society, and Buddies Center, Katie Parker. Okay. We'll find right now. So we've started. Okay, well, that's fine. I can start anyway because I know you have a big agenda. I'm Katie Parker. I'm the vice president of sheltering for the Dumb Friends League. And we are the organization that runs the Buddy Center in Castle Rock, which does the animal sheltering for the city of Castle Rock. And so I'm going to tell you a little bit about the Dumb Friends League. We are an organization that has been in Colorado since 1910. And so we have a long history of animal welfare. Our primary operations are animal sheltering based, and we have expanded that in recent years to providing subsidized medical care for pets owned by community members. And to equine welfare. So as you may or may not know, we operate Harmony Equine Center, which is in Franktown, so nearby here. And we also operate Colorado Humane Society, which has contracts in most of the counties in Colorado to assist law enforcement with animal cruelty investigations and housing for animal cruelty cases. And so those animals are housed in our shelters or in our equine facility. And I have stats in my presentation, which I'm sure we'll see soon. But it houses somewhere between 4,000 and 7,000 animals each year. We also have a small newer shelter in Alamosa, Colorado. That's our first shelter in rural, Colorado, and that opened during the pandemic.