On April 16, 2024, the Castle Rock Town Council convened at 6:00 PM in Town Hall Council Chambers. The seven-member council (with Councilmember Hollingshead attending remotely) took significant actions including approving the acquisition of Lost Canyon Ranch, authorizing annexation of town-owned parcels, adopting a resolution for a WISE pump station intergovernmental agreement, and voting to opt into Douglas County’s ordinance regarding local law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Public comments, multiple resolutions, and a quasi-judicial hearing were addressed over the 1.5-hour meeting.
Uh we thro we pray through collaborating that we experience greater wholeness for ourselves and for those we serve. Bless the work we do together so that an abundant harvest of your love and justice and peace will be known by all. Amen. Call to order, roll call. Councilmember Hollingshead. Here. Councilmember KV? Yes. Councilmember Bracken. Present. Councilmember Brooks. Present. Councilmember Deeds? Here. Mayor Pratemala Floor. Here. Mayor Gray. Here. All are present. Thank you. Please rise to budget legions. Under God in the indivisible. Justice Raw. I'm gonna go ahead and start with council comments. Um my first comment is again, thanks for everyone for coming. Um secondly, I'd I'd like to um ask the council to be supportive of of um my request of of uh the town council and of um our town attorney. Uh I want to but look how our town attorney look into the option of opting in um to the county's ordinance um and to kind of re report back to us um and for like next steps with that. Also looking into like maybe uh perhaps a support for their their lawsuit as well. And if you can get back to us on May 7th with uh a quick report from yourself and um and Jack Collie if Jack is as amendable as well, that'd be fantastic. Second and uh absolutely I'm happy to to do that, take a look at what our options are and provide you with a report and some advice. And uh we should be able to have it done plenty of time for this. Thank you. And then maybe you can give us a little bit of a uh heads up uh emails in the meantime, and then we can that way we can all discuss it with with intelligence. Uh advised as to our progress. I appreciate it. Um for any further discussion. I'd like to speak in favor of the motion. Yep. Yeah, I think um I think the the connection between the the county's action and the um and the overall subject. Um now that they have taken the action, I've spoken with uh a couple of the uh county commissioners and um they urged us to uh basically support their position and to be able to have uh uh a united front. So I think it's uh I think it's a uh a fair and reasonable ask given our collaboration uh and um so anyways, I I'd like to I'd like to see what comes back and and move forward from there. Thank you. Laura Cavey. I am also in support of this motion. Um just for those of you out there for your edification. Douglas County, I don't know, several weeks ago adopted an ordinance to help deal with illegal immigrants. Um the ordinance, however, only is for unincorporated Douglas County. So it does not currently uh affect municipalities like Parker, Castle Rock, Castle Pines, Lone Tree. So that's why we need to either opt into that ordinance or we need to make our own ordinance um one way or the other, we need to do something moving forward. So I I am uh very much in support of this and and thank the mayor for bringing it up.