The Town Council of Castle Rock met on Tuesday, September 2, 2025, at 6:00 PM in Town Hall Council Chambers. The meeting included appointments, proclamations, a presentation from the Douglas County School District superintendent, public comments, and significant discussion on the proposed transfer of a town-owned former school site. The Council also held a quasi-judicial hearing for a new AdventHealth medical office building, reviewed metropolitan district bond issuances, and approved several resolutions. The meeting adjourned at 9:26 PM.
Heavenly Father, we ask for your guidance, wisdom, and support as begin this meeting. We gather here today intent on doing good work. We seek to represent fairly and well those who have given us this task. Help us engage in meaningful discussion, give us clarity and strength to use our best skills and judgment. Bless this community, it's residents, businesses, and visitors. Help us to continue doing good work in your name. Amen. Roll call, please. Councilmember Hollingshead. Here. Councilmember Bracken. Present. Councilmember Davis. Here. Councilmember Bret. Present. Councilmember Deeds. Here. Mayor Pratem KV. Yes. Mayor Gray. Here. All are present. Thank you. Please rise, please. America. And to the Republic for which it's on your God. You know, I'll start with a council comments. You know, uh last meeting I mentioned, I'm trying to go through the uh different departments and kind of sent some of the things they've done over the last recent years or months. Uh one of the things I wanted to mention tonight was uh with uh public works. Uh just recently uh public works uh from the American Public Works Association, uh Dan and his team just got an asset management award, pretty big deal for a nationwide award. Um just managing our assets better, but bless you. Um around the country. And and uh what's interesting on that is um other towns have taken notice. Uh Coddo Springs and Vail have both asked Dan to speak and give his an insight on asset management for those two towns as well. You know, that's many people on Dan's team uh doing ongoing uh certifications and and training and and keeping up up to date on all their uh certifications and training for 2025 and beyond. Uh also recently uh Dr. Cog um made and made a mention of of how their roundabouts actually there's some of the some of the better ones in the state. Um and then uh one one of the things I want to talk about was a little bit about roundabouts. It's kind of funny that gosh, seven years ago when I first became mayor. Um, you know, I I wasn't keen on roundabouts. I I you know just I wasn't. And um, and I I think I was just you know I thought they were a hassle. I thought they were weird and that kind of stuff. And got getting walked through from the town and getting walked through several times in different meetings and over the last several years. Um, you know, one of the things that that have has ranged true is like what we care about a lot of times of public safety or or fire or police or town council here or staff, we care about safety, we care about people's lives and roundabouts are you know about 75 percent of the accidents and roundabouts are less um dangerous than than a regular uh traffic light uh uh accident. And they're just uh they're a lot safer. You're gonna get an accidents, but you're gonna you're not gonna hurt anybody the way you're gonna get hurt on a traffic light where you're getting T-boned. Uh and I thought even more of a of a stat was from the the federal uh DOT was it's eighty-eight percent less likely for a death. Um that's eighty-eight percent uh uh compared to a traffic light.