On November 14, 2023, the Denver Mayor and City Council convened for a post-budget completion meeting. The Mayor congratulated the council on passing the first unanimous budget in 6–7 years (since 2017). The agenda included council announcements, a briefing on Colorado's upcoming special legislative session on property taxes, an update on federal budget negotiations, and a move into executive session for collective bargaining.
Welcome to this meeting of the mayor and Denver City Council. At this weekly session, city agencies brief the mayor and council members on various proposals and projects across the city. This meeting of the mayor and city council members begins now. Good morning, you all. Thank you so much. Welcome to Mayor Council. Delighted to have you here. Welcome to the celebratory post-budget completion. Mayor Council meeting. Sure. Flora Alvidres, uh, Councilwoman Frey Lucky, District 7. Good morning, Diana Romero Campbell, Southeast Denver, District Four. Good morning, Darrell Watson, fine District 9. Amanda Sandoval, Northwest Denver District One. Chris Hines, Denver is perfect. Hi, folks, Sarah Parody. I represent the city at large. Paul Cashman. South Denver District Six. We're just pleased to be here. Good morning, Kevin Flynn, Southwest Denver's District Two. Home of the highest natural point in the city. There you go. Jamie Torres, District Three. We're going to start calling Councilman Flynn the highest council member. I think has to be Councilman Hines this morning. You can tell in natural voice. I did. Exactly. Um, great to see you all. Thank you so much for being here this morning. Um, and congratulations, obviously, on all the fantastic work on the budget. Very excited that thanks to all of your leadership. I think we passed the first unanimous budget in six or seven years last night since twenty seventeen. So thank you for all the incredible work you all did to both uh bring your values to life and get to uh I think a document that's gonna be great for the city over the next uh twelve months. And so uh congratulations on all the hard work that thing paid off. Excited to be a part of that going forward. Uh I do want to open up for announcements, and then I'll just give you a qua the your your uh cruise direction for the morning are um now that you've solved all of city government, that's great. We're gonna now take you up to the next level and see if you can solve state government and federal government. Um so we are going to give uh some briefings this morning. One on the special session that's coming up, uh including the debate about property taxes in the wake of of H H's failure. Uh we want to give you a briefing on what we think is coming there, what the opportunities might be for your update information. The second is we do want to give you an update on federal negotiations that are happening of the next three days over both um budget and continue resolutions and some of the things that directly impact our work. And so that's most of our uh update for for today. Then we do have a special session or executive session uh as well um on uh discussing collective bargaining updates. So that's our that's our agenda for the morning. But before we do any of that, I'd love to open it up for announcements if any council members have those that they would like to make. Yes, Councilwoman Alvidres. Um I will just update that next week. Is the turkey trot and training is going strong.