Denver.

It's time for the weekly general session of your Denver City Council.

Tonight's coverage of Denver City Council starts now.

We need to fix that, Tim.

Okay, thank you.

Alright, good afternoon, everyone.

Thank you for taking the time to join us for Denver City's Council meeting.

Today is Monday, October 27th, 2025.

Tonight's meeting is being interpreted into Spanish.

Sam, Jasmine, or Ruby, would you please introduce yourself and let our viewers know how to enable translation on their devices?

Yes, of course.

Thank you for having us.

Hello, everyone.

My name is Sam Guzmán with the COLC.

Joining you virtually.

And along with my colleagues Jasmine and Ruby, who will be interpreting today's meeting into Spanish.

Please allow me a quick minute while I give instructions in Spanish on how to access interpretation.

Thank you very much.

Muchas gracias.

Thank you very much, Sam.

Welcome to the Denver City Council meeting of Monday, October 27, 2025.

Please join Council Member Torres in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Council members, please join Council Member Torres as they lead us in the Denver City Council land acknowledgement.

Thank you, Madam President.

The Denver City Council honors and acknowledges that the land on which we reside is the traditional territory of the Ute Cheyenne and Arapaho peoples.

We also recognize the 48 contemporary tribal nations that are historically tied to the lands that make up the state of Colorado.

We honor elders, past, present, and future, and those who have stewarded this land throughout generations.

We also recognize that government academic and cultural institutions were founded upon and continue to enact exclusions and erasures of indigenous people.

May this acknowledgment demonstrate a commitment to working to dismantle ongoing legacies of oppression and inequities and recognize the current and future contributions of indigenous communities in Denver.

Albidres here.

As the deadline of October 9th, 2025 for the following local maintenance districts, and therefore council will not sit as the Board of Equalization on Monday, which is today, October 27, 2025.

For 15th Street Pedestrian Mall, 32nd and Low Pedestrian Mall, Del Geney Street, East 13th Avenue Pedestrian Mall, Golden Triangle Pedestrian Mall, Phase 2 West 38th Avenue, Pedestrian Mall, Skyline Park, Tennyson Street 2, Pedestrian Mall, Tenant Tennyson Streetscape, Points of 38th Avenue to 44th Avenue, West 38th Avenue, Phase 1 Pedestrian Mall, West 44th Avenue and Elliott Pedestrian Mall.

All right.

Are there any announcements from members of council?

Councilmember Alvidaros, why don't you start us out?

Thank you, Council President.

I wanted to wish everyone a happy Halloween.

I'm still reeling from an amazing Halloween parade that we had this weekend.

We shout out to Compost Foundation for being a fiscal sponsor for the next few years of the Broadway Halloween parade and all the other Halloween events that we had.

So with that, I just wanted to say happy Halloween and meow.

Thanks, Council President.

Thank you.

Councilman Gonzalez Cutieris.

Uh thank you, Madam President.

I just wanted to let folks know that we are having our kind of last push on the uh neighborhood engagement workshops that we've been hosting.

Myself and Councilman Catherine have been hosting these across the city.

And perfectly enough, it is about our registered neighborhood organizations.

We've been inviting the community at large to uh participate in these engagement sessions.

Our staff have been to numerous events across the city where we have been um asking for people's feedback via survey, and we've had well over eleven hundred responses to our survey, uh, really asking folks if they even know what a registered neighborhood organization is, and if they are part of one, uh what are their concerns?

Is there feedback?

How can we um as a city do a better job here?

So we are in the still very beginning stages of this entire process where we are continuing to gather information, and that's what these neighborhood uh engagement workshops are all about is gathering information from community members, both who know what ROs are and those who do not know what they are, or maybe you've been a part of one before and something has dissuaded you from returning, right?

We want to know everything possible so that we can then continue to work with the community as we move forward with any potential policy.

With that said, um, we're coming to an end of our kind of citywide tour, and this will be a virtual event on October 29th on Wednesday from 6 to 8 p.m.

If you go to the Denvergov.org website and go to the your city or voice empowering Denver, um, you do can just search that in the search bar.

And there is an RSVP link.

I think we have right now over 50 plus people that are signed up.

So we welcome more and we look forward to hearing from you.

Thank you, Madam President.

Thank you.