The Denver City Council met on Monday, May 11, 2026, at 3:30 p.m. (recessed and reconvened later for public hearings) with 12 members present (Councilmember Gilmore absent). The meeting included proclamations, a block vote on several resolutions, debate and amendments to a prevailing wage ordinance, and a public hearing on the renewal of the Five Points Business Improvement District (BID) with extensive community testimony.
Tonight's coverage of Denver City Council starts now. Thank you for joining us and taking the time um to join us at our today's meeting. Today is Monday, May 11, 2026. Tonight's meeting is being interpreted into Spanish. Sam or Jasmine, would you please introduce yourself and let our viewers know how to enable translation on their devices? Yes, of course, thank you. Hello, everyone. My name is Sam Guzmano with the CLC. Joining you virtually through Zoom, and along with my colleague Jasmine. We 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, Sam. Welcome to the Denver City Council meeting of Monday, May 11, 2026. Council members, please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. For which it stands, one nation under God. Council members, please join Councilmember Parity as they lead us in the Denver City Council land acknowledgement. The Denver City Council honors and acknowledges that the land on which we reside is the traditional territory of the U Cheyenne and Arapaho peoples. We also recognize the 48 contemporary tribal nations that are historically tied to the lands that make up the city of Colorado. We honor elders past, present, and future, and those who have stewarded this land throughout generations. We also recognize the government academic and cultural institutions we're founded upon and continue to enact exclusions and erasures of Indigenous peoples. May this acknowledgement demonstrate a commitment to working to dismantle ongoing legacies of oppression and inequities and recognize the current future contributions of Indigenous communities in Denver. Alvidras here. It is one of the ways that this community decided we are going to show how we can activate these underutilized spaces in our community, knowing there's transformation coming no matter what it was going to be. And it's just a really amazing time. So 4 to 10 p.m. this Saturday. And also happening this week, Denver Urban Gardens. I just want to give them a shout out. They'll be doing a ribbon cutting this Thursday at Joe P. Martinez Park. They are establishing a food forest and community gardens and have just installed all the beds. And this is part of their focus on West Area neighborhoods in a lot of their uh food access work that they're they've been doing with us. So that's on Thursday at Joseph P. Martinez Park. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you. Thank you, Madam President. Just a moment of personal privilege. I want to congratulate Redeced Salvadres or Rodriguez. He's high school alumni. He will be he's been working in my office. Salvidres. Oh, okay. Well, he's been working in my office as a Colado Capital Fellow. Um Clado is the Colorado Latino Leadership Advocacy and Research Organization. And he's been assigned to my office as a 2026 Capitol Fellow for the first time was assigned to a City Council office during the legislative session. I've had many uh capital fellows over the years as a state legislator, and they reached out and said, Would you like a Capitol Fellow at City Council? I said, sure. But I want to thank Redecel for his time in our office. He supported us during this legislative process, looking into bills and keeping track of positions.