The Castle Rock Town Council held a regular meeting on Tuesday, June 18, 2024, at 6:00 PM in the Town Hall Council Chambers. The meeting included public comments, staff updates, and action on multiple resolutions and discussion items. Key outcomes included approval of a police radio purchase, establishment of a youth commission, support for a lawsuit against state immigration laws, and direction to draft a natural medicine business ordinance. The meeting adjourned at 9:56 PM.
We gathered today to intend to do a good work. We seek to represent you f fairly and well. I mean represent fairly and well those who have given us a task. Help us engage in meaningful discussion. Give us clarity and strength to use only our best skills and judgment. Please bless our community, residents, businesses, and visitors, and please help us continue to do good work in your name. Amen. Roll call, please. Councilmember Hollinghead. Here. Councilmember KV. Yes. Councilmember Bracken. Present. Councilmember Brooks. Present. Councilmember Deeds. Here. Mayor Pro Tem La Floor. Here. Here. All are present. Thank you. Please rise to Pledge of Leadance. One is under individual team. I'll start off off with Council comments. We had a fantastic I thought car show over the weekend. It was uh I've attended many, many car shows, and this was uh my favorite one yet. Is it was busy, it was it was uh well attended. Um I thought it was what went went off really well and want to again thank our our our police department for attending that and and being uh a good steward for our town and and in attendance and protecting our town on a big event, especially. Uh as well as I want to um one of the things I wanted to mention, a lot of times I try to mention here is is behavior and how we can treat each other. But uh last couple weeks I've been in a couple of mayors meetings. I've been uh fortunate enough to be elected to an executive committee for Metro Mayors in the front range. And one of the things we were asked uh in that meeting um was what made good leaders, leadership. Um there's about five of us in the panel, and one of the things we really talked about uh was empathy. Um that in our years of being in service for our towns, um trying to be empathetic to our our residents who are going through hard times. So our residents who we don't agree with, I don't say we do agree with. Um, there are a lot of times that that you know I'll talk to residents and um their their life, you know. I'll uh not too long ago I just talked to sucker gentleman. I hadn't seen him for a few months, and he's regularly attended meetings and and I'd see him around and kind of stuff, and I hadn't seen him for a while, and I asked him why, and and he had lost his mother and his wife in the last year. Um and sometimes I forget how hard it can be um for other people and how things get in the way of your everyday stuff and and knocks you off the off the tracks, right? You think you're you're going straight and narrow and and all of a sudden something hits you out of left field, and I think that happens a lot. And we talked when when we talked about that in our one of our mayor's panel was really trying to have empathy for people that you just don't understand what they're going through. And you don't need to understand what someone's going through in order to be empathetic. Um, you know, sympathy is something you have when you've gone through something very similar, and empathy is something you can have, whether you have anything in similar or not, um, and being empathetic with our fellow citizens is I think crucial, uh, understanding that that we don't have to agree to still love them. Uh we don't have to agree to still uh respect them and and we don't have to agree to still want their um opinion on something. So just something food for thought. I appreciate it. Ryan Hollins Ed. Thanks, Mayor.