The Castle Rock Town Council held its regular meeting on February 20, 2024, at 6:00 PM in the Town Hall Council Chambers. The meeting covered approval of consent items, a presentation on joining the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD), legislative updates, approval of a construction contract for Cantril School, the Fire Department strategic plan with an update on Fire Station 156, authorization of eminent domain for Crowfoot Valley Road widening, an intergovernmental agreement for the Cherry Creek Project Water Authority, and a resolution to discontinue hybrid public participation for council meetings. All consent items and most action items passed unanimously, except the hybrid meeting policy which passed 6-1.
Fairly and well, those who have given us a task and help us engage in meaningful discussion and give us clarity and strength using only our best skills and judgment. Please bless this community, its residents, its businesses, and its visitors. Help us to do so in doing good work in your name. Amen. Call to order. Councilmember Hollingshead. Here. Councilmember KV. Yes. Councilmember Bracken. Present. Councilmember Brooks. Present. Councilmember Deeds. Here. Mayor Pro Tem LaFleur. Here. Mayor Gray. Here. All are present. Thank you. Please join me in a pledge of allegiance. Pledge legions to the flag. And to the Republicans one nation. I'll start with council comments. First, I want to thank everyone for coming tonight. I know we have a kind of a fun night and with uh some of the council comments and and with uh having people in the audience speaking as well. Um hope everyone had a great uh President's Day weekend. Hopefully everyone had a safe one. Um and I just want to uh thank every again everyone for coming and uh being a part of the site. Ryan. No comment tonight. Councilmember Katie. No comment tonight. Councilmember Bracken. Yeah, thank you, Mayor. So um I'd like to talk a little bit about um kind of our agendas lately and uh the lack of items. And just just so folks know, like that are here in the community and and in the crowd that that um you know by and large uh uh we we get held accountable to the flux of growth within town, and no one tends to mention when things come in a downturn. Some of our meetings have been like 30 and 45 minutes, which which have been records, and in the and the three ladies in the third row here uh have been showing up to our meetings very regular to very loyal council nerds, if you will, if I may. Um so well done, ladies. You're like me. Um but uh but what that's what happens when the economy and the market takes care of itself in the in the in a downturn, which then it also affects our budgets as well. So we have less for police and fire, we have less money for uh for roads and those things because there's a slowdown in growth. And so I I just wanted to point out um essentially that our meetings have been short and and very uh uh very pointed and lackluster because there's a lot not a lot of items on the agenda because there's not a lot of things to decide, and and the markets deciding that, not us. We don't dictate the market collectively. We decide somebody has to vote and approve uh the items, whether whether we like them or a lot, sometimes or not sometimes. It doesn't matter. It matters if it's going to be approved or not approved because that's the process. So I just wanted to point that out uh that we've been in the downturn. Uh the the agenda's fairly robust tonight comparative to the to the last four.