The Denver City Council held its regular meeting on Monday, August 17, 2026, at 3:30 PM. Eleven council members were present (Alvidrez, Flynn, Gilmore, Gonzales-Gutierrez, Hinds, Kashmann, Sandoval, Sawyer, Torres, Watson, Romero Campbell), with one absent (Lewis). The meeting included the Pledge of Allegiance, Land Acknowledgement, approval of prior minutes, council announcements, one communication, two proclamations, and action on numerous resolutions and bills.
Hey Denver, it's time for the weekly general session of your Denver City Council. Tonight's coverage of Denver City Council starts now. Good afternoon, and thank you for joining us for the Denver City Council meeting. Today is Monday, August 17th, 2026. Tonight's meeting is being interpreted into Spanish. Sam or Jasmine, would you please introduce yourselves and let our viewers know how to enable translation on their devices? Yes, thank you. Hello, everyone. My name is Sam Guzman. 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. Muchas gracias, and thank you very much. Thank you very much. Welcome to the Denver City Council meeting of Monday, August 17th, 2026. Council members, please join Council Member Watson in the Pledge of Allegiance. Council members, please join Council Member Watson as they lead us in the Denver City Council land acknowledgement. The Denver City Council honors and acknowledges the land on which we reside is a traditional territory of the huge Cheyenne and Arapo 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 of an erasures of indigenous peoples. Here. Um also uh there is a bike building going in at 1550 Wawada. Uh I think this is uh pretty awesome too. Uh as um uh many people know I joined the disability community uh in August or on August 26, 2008. So we're getting very close to my uh anniversary. And um I was on a bike, got hit by a car. I really care about multimodal uh trans uh transportation, and so having a uh uh bike facility that'll house 79 bikes um right by the right near the Davida building and union station. I think that'll be great for our those uh getting to that area of town wanting to work in some of those high-rise buildings uh but not wanting to take a car. And then uh third, uh there is also there's an art installation going in at 19. Sorry, this this the uh 1916th Street. This is the one by the Davita building. Apologies. Um there will be eight clouds um with stamped pieces of metal uh at 1916 street, and I'm really excited that we're getting more art downtown, just as we're getting more access to uh multimodal transit and uh even more culture with 120 million dollar betcher renovation. Uh all of that in District 10, um, all on consent. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you. Uh Councilmember Alvidres. Thank you so much, Council President. Um please join us in District 7. We have another Constitution Book Club. We're getting all the way through the Constitution. Uh, we're going through amendments five through nine. We meet at the Habitat for Humanity headquarters at 4 30 South Zune. We'll be there Wednesday at 5 p.m. Another fun community event we have coming on Saturday. The great organizers of Porch Fest have decided to do a free uh concert to benefit the Baker Urban Garden. There's a Denver Urban Garden in Baker that they are at risk of losing. So help us with the fundraiser for that garden by pitching in and joining us this Saturday at Porch Fest, and we'll have our second lineup job for all the exciting local groups that we'll be playing on porches across District 7 for some live music. This garden has been there for 30 years. Um, and it's just so important for the food access for the neighbors.