The Denver Mayor and City Council convened for a weekly session on December 12, 2023, with introductions from council members and the mayor. The meeting featured community announcements from councilmembers and concluded with a unanimous vote to enter executive session to discuss ongoing negotiations for property acquisition for shelter or housing and related legal advice.
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. Thanks to everyone for being here. Um we will start this morning with introductions. Councilman Alvidros, you want to begin? Yes. Um hello, good morning, everyone. Flora Alvidres, Lucky District 7. Good morning, Stacy Gilmore, District Eleven. Good morning, Mayor in Denver. Chris Hines, Denver's perfect end. Good morning, Darrell Watson, fine district nine. Good morning, everyone. Uh, I don't have the voice that will just wake you up like that. Uh Serena Gonzalez Gucci. One of the council members at large. You're welcome. I'm so tempted. Um good morning, Diana Romero Campbell, Southeast Denver, District Four. Good morning, Amanda Sanaval, District One. Jamie Torres, District Three. Uh, Sarah Parody, the other council member at large, the late one. Good to see you, Councilman Parity. Thanks for being here. Um, we have a limited agenda this morning. We do have an executive session uh on tap, but I want to open it up if anyone has announcements that they would like to make for the good of the community before we do that. Councilman of Vidres. Thank you, and thank you, Mayor, for making some time to do a virtual town hall with uh residents uh around the Overland microcommunity this Thursday at 5 p.m. Looking forward to that. Thanks so much for doing it. Other announcements, Councilman Romero Campbell. Thank you. Um, I just want to invite people to come to the community information meeting that you're holding about the um embassy suites um on Saturday at Hamilton at ten AM. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman Watson. Hey, good morning. I just want to invite folks in District Nine to our second uh council in the community at Prodigy on 40th in Cole. So check out our website. Um look for um where we're meeting, but we're looking forward to seeing folks starting at eleven thirty to uh one o'clock on Friday the fifteenth. At which prodigy site did you say it is? Prodigy uh in cold. So that's thirty-eight oh one East Fourtieth. Second. Uh, today is a free day at the Art uh Denver Art Museum and maybe a free day at many other SCFD facilities. I did notice uh as I went by the art museum, uh today is definitely a free day. Um also I am working with Councilmember Consolas Cutieres, um, and on Thursday we'll have a uh community engagement listening session about um healthy meals uh for uh for Denver's kids. So um I should drinks. Oh, uh sorry, healthy drinks.