The weekly joint meeting of the Mayor and Denver City Council focused on announcements from council members, an overview of the upcoming budget briefing process, and presentations from four city departments on their restructuring efforts in response to budget constraints. Department heads from CASAR, Office of Children's Affairs, DOTI, and Arts and Venues explained organizational changes aimed at improving efficiency and maintaining core services.
Joining us for this weekly joint meeting of the mayor and Denver City Council. Follow along as the mayor and city council members hear updates from city agencies and projects, discuss important city matters, and hear about what's happening across the Mile High City. Join the discussion with your elected officials starting now. All right, everybody, good morning, and welcome to Mayor Council. Um, we will start with some introductions and then uh jump into our general session. Good morning, all of us. Distinguished gentleman from district six, like to start us off. Yeah, I would, and thanks for your kind words about uh uh Secretary Penny last night. Thank you for letting me come. Great deal. Uh Paul Cashman, South Denver District Six. Good morning, Mandasawyer District Five. Good morning, Serena Gonzalez Petrez, one of your council members at large. Buenos días, Florida Vitres of Lucky District 7. Morning, Darren Watson, representing the fine district nine. Good morning, Diana Romero Campbell, Southeast Denver District Four. Jamie Torres, West Denver District Three. Great, thank you. Well, good morning, everybody. Are there any announcements that uh members have they'd like to make for the listening public at home or for any of their fellow council members? Councilman Cashman. Yeah, thank you, Mayor. Um, past few years this this council has made it very clear in our belief that we all win when we strengthen our constituents' ability to play a role in their own own governance and uh uh along with uh uh your partnership uh the early stages of standing up our office division of community empowerment. Uh, my office, along with Councilman Gonzalez Guterres has done incredible outreach uh over the past uh few months in and in speaking to people at public events about uh their thoughts on our registered neighborhood organization system. Um September 10th, we're having the first of four public meetings, um specifically uh a neighborhood engagement workshops to get people together to uh uh with with the uh RNOs as a starting point. How can we best uh engage them in their own governance? So that's gonna be September tenth, six to eight p.m. Uh, and at the Westwood Community Center, one thousand South Lowell Boulevard. So we hope people would would turn out, uh, let us hear their voice, um, and uh pay attention. We'll have, as I said, uh, three more public meetings around the city to engage people and uh move this discussion forward. Thank you for doing that. Other announcements. President Protestant. Thank you. Um, on September 6th, uh, we are going to have our final event for the summer series, the South by Southeast, where uh you belong series at Eisenhower Park. We are going to have Denver Jazz Orchestra come and play. There'll be a few food trucks out there. We ask people to bring a blanket and low chairs and maybe an umbrella if it's really if it rains. But it's it starts at four, and we are gonna have, wait a minute. We are gonna have uh who's the opening act. Um Guyana and the street. Yep, that's it. Guayanna acoustica. I'm like, I'm gonna look at it closer. Uh Guyana Acoustica is gonna open at four and um play and we'll have just some live music and gathering and fun. Um, some people have asked, uh, there are some temporary bollards that were put up along Eisenhower uh park for um to allow uh for pedestrians while the Dahlia Bridge is under construction. Um we've worked with Dottie, so thank you to be able to take those down temporarily, and they'll be put back up until the bridge is done. So just kind of setting expectations. The ballards are gonna be down, but they're gonna go back up until the bridge is done. So thank you.