That's my guess.

Good evening.

I'll open with a invocation.

Heavenly Father, we ask for your guidance, wisdom and support as we begin this meeting.

We gather here today intent on doing good work.

We seek to represent fairly and well those who give us his task.

Help us engage in meaningful discussion.

Give us clarity and strength to use our best skills and judgment.

Bless this community, its residents, businesses and visitors, and help us doing help us to continue in doing good good work in your name.

Councilmember Breath?

Council Member Deeds.

Here.

Here, Mayor Gray.

Here.

I'll present.

Thank you.

Please join me for Puzzle Leaders.

If you have uh forgotten or not voted yet, you're welcome to to take off and come back.

Um so and uh that that way you can get it done if you forgot by now.

Um also one of the things I wanted to mention was uh no November's uh uh men's health health month health awareness month, uh mainly to do with uh cancer and cancer related thing, but also mental health as well.

So you know, uh make sure you keep your your uh your friends who are uh men and women in in your in your thoughts and and make sure we're all doing some good things for everybody.

Uh also uh last several council meetings, I've been trying to highlight a department.

Um tonight's department highlighting is parks and rec.

Um one of the things that right now we're going on is is starting about mid-October was the uh putting all the lights up.

And uh putting the lights up with with uh parks and rec is uh it's yeoman's work.

I mean it is it is you know six to eight weeks of really hard work and planning pretty much year-round because uh some of those lights are left up year-round and some of some are yanked down, and it's it's it's a it's a it's a big job, so we do appreciate that.

One of the things I wanted to highlight as well is Lost Canyon Ranch, um 681 acres, um gonna be open even more next year.

Um right now we're doing special events and stuff out of it, but 681 acres is is no joke.

It's uh one of the biggest uh uh parks in the front range.

Um East Plum Creek reopened this year um nine miles uh uh earlier spring or late late spring this year.

So that was that was great.

Uh we also do a lot of work uh Parks and Rec does with TriArts.

Um what we had they this year they had over two besides besides TriArt partnership, uh mostly at the Kentrell School.

Um that we had over two 20,000 volunteers in Castle Rock.

Um and one of the big things I wanted to make make sure I mentioned and and Jeff wanted to make sure I mentioned this because it was it was really really important to him that he made sure I mentioned that he was the uh 2025 fellow for the Colorado Recreation Association.

Um actually that that is absolutely not true because I know that Jeff does not want the uh attention, but he deserves it.

Um Jeff is Jeff is doing amazing work out there, and you got the fellowship for Colorado Recreation Association for leadership and the things he that has been doing in Castle Rock for quite some time.

So I really appreciate that as well.

And with that, Councilmember Holland said.

No comment tonight, thanks.

Thank you.

Councilmember Bracken.

Thank you, Mayor.

No comments.

Thank you, Councilmember David Davis.

Thank you.

Councilmember Brooks.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Um we all know here in Castle Rock how superior uh we are in every way to the town of Parker.

Uh there are uh they're our Douglas County neighbor and um you know I like them a lot, they're adorable.

Um so i i it's always good to have that that rivalry, but uh but tonight I want to extend uh kind of a heartfelt uh you know just reach out to them.

They suffered a a loss in their community of baseball player um that had recently committed to play D1 baseball at UNL V, you know, as part of the Legend Titans baseball club uh where my son had also played baseball and um you know lost him to cancer.

Uh and it's just it's just you know, we understand how devastating cancer can be and uh hear about it all the time with folks that probably we know, family and and such, and you know every every life that cancer takes is it's just it's it's highly unfortunate.

It just it hits a little bit different when you're talking about you know a young kid as well.

Umcer sucks.

And uh, you know, my heart, our hearts go out to the Parker community and the Legend Titan, uh Legend High School community tonight.

So just wanted to let them know that on this night, and I'll stand arm in arm with them.

Thank you, Max.

That's that I appreciate you doing that.