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Good morning.

My name is uh Al Gardner, Deputy Mayor.

Uh, and I will go around, start with introductions to my left at the end.

Councilman, yes.

Perfect.

Jamie Torres, West Denver District Three.

Watson, flying district nine.

Sir, apparently one of your two council members at large.

Uh Kevin Flynn, Southwest Denver District Two.

Diana Romero Campbell, Southeast Denver District Four.

Good morning, Paul Cashman, South Denver District Six.

Good morning, Amanda Sawyer, District Five.

Serena Gonzales Cutiares, your other council member at large.

All right, thank you.

Uh City Council announcements.

Um sorry, we're off our group.

Um I have a coffee hour coming up this Thursday from twelve to one.

Up in District Eleven at the Corner Bakery on Tower Road.

Um, for details, I think.

Thank you.

I got you.

You gotta take it away.

Well, you can add to it.

Um, yeah, so uh myself and Councilman Cashman will be hosting this second of the series of neighborhood workshops that we're doing across the city.

So we'll be in Northeast Denver on Saturday, this Saturday the twentieth, from ten to noon, and we'll be at the MLK uh Martin Luther King Jr.

Um recreation center.

And this is to talk about registered neighborhood organizations.

I won't go into all the detail unless my colleague would like to do so.

Thank you, Councilwoman Soya.

Wait, no cashman first.

The distinguished gentleman.

We're a package.

You got it.

You got it.

I remember it is this.

Way to go.

Thank you, Deputy.

Um, just to uh elaborate a little bit on what uh my colleague was talking about.

Uh, our aids have been um setting a new bar on public outreach this past summer.

Uh they've been like 40 events collecting uh opinions from local residents on how the city does and supporting uh registered neighborhood organizations, how the city does in uh delivering information to to the general public, and the consensus is we're not doing a good job at all on that.

And so these four there's a series of uh uh I believe four public meetings, uh more interactive uh with folks in the community that want to see that situation change.

And as we just heard, we have one coming up uh this weekend at MLK and Southeast Denver, October 15th.

We'll be meeting uh 6 to 8 p.m.

at Cook Park Rec Center, and there will be a virtual session uh Wednesday, October 29th.

And uh, you know, I think it's it's a tremendous opportunity uh for people to begin to play a more relevant role on their own gardeners.

Thank you, Councilman.

Thank you, Councilwoman Sawyer.

Thank you.

Um so for residents of District 5, we do our community cleanup event twice a year in the spring and in the fall.

Fall cleanup, community cleanup day will be Sunday, um September 28th, 8 30 a.m.

at Montclair Rec Center.

You can sign up online um through our sign up genius, which is all over our social media or in our newsletters.

Um we'd love to have you last year.

We had over 400 hours of volunteers that came to help us clean our parks, repaint some of our bus benches throughout the community, and it's a really great event.

So meet us at 8:30 a.m.

on Sunday, September 28th, Montclair Rep Center, and we'll give you a little breakfast, we'll give you some supplies, and then you can head out and help us volunteer.