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Good morning.

My name is uh Al Gardner, Deputy Mayor.

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

Councilman, yes.

Jamie Torres, West Denver District Three.

Watson, flying district nine.

Sarah, very one of your two council members at large.

Uh Kevin Flynn, South West 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 I will do it.

All right.

Sorry, we're off our group.

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

Up in District Eleven at the corner bakery on Tower Road.

Um, for details, we'll have to Instagram email in my office.

Um, let's just drop in anybody who wants to come and chat.

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 posting 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.

I remember 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 page 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 changed.

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

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

Yeah, thank you, Councilman.

Thank you, Councilwoman Soya.

Thank you.

Um, so for residents of district five, 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 um 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 8:30 a.m.

on Sunday, September 28th, Montclair Rec 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.

Thanks.

All right, thank you.

Councilman Watson.

Oh, good deal.

Um we have our monthly community office hours this Friday uh September 19th from 1.30 to 2.30 p.m.

at My Kings Ice Cream 2851 Colorado Boulevard.

Uh, you can go to District 9 at Denvergov.org for more information.

It's a drop-in, so no appointments needed, just come on in.

My staff will be there.

We'll fill you with ice cream and sugar, and we can talk about uh community policy, anything that your heart desires.

Um, and that's this Friday, the 19th from 1.30 to 2.30 at My King's Ice Cream 2851 Colorado Boulevard.

And then I want to do a shout out to a collaborative team regional um uh process that we've been involved in for the last two years.

Um uh Commissioner Andy Kerr, myself, um, Adam Paul, and uh Ian Tofoya have been working with a collaborative uh group of folks between Jeff CO and Denver to identify multimodal options uh to Red Rocks and our mountain parks.

Uh we're gonna have a demonstration this Saturday from um one to three o'clock p.m.

starting at the Jefferson County Um Government Center on uh the RTDW line, the end of that line, and we'll we'll have uh commuter or multimodal options, two Red Rocks and through Morrison and through Golden.

So I wanted to thank the mayors of Golden, the Mayors of Lakewood, the mayors of Morrison, as well as Denver Parks and Rec, Mountain Parks in Jeff CO and in Denver for two years of good work.

We've been talking about this for about a decade to provide um uh additional uh modes of transportation to Red Rocks outside of single use cars, and we're beginning that process with a demonstration this weekend and next year.

We're gonna be rolling out the fall program for activities at Red Rocks and to Rob Morrison and Golden.

So thanks everyone for your uh two-year-long participation in making this uh a process a reality.

Thank you, Deputy Mayor.

Thank you, Councilwoman Campbell.

Uh thank you, Deputy Mayor.

We have tomorrow night um we are doing the Goldsmith Gulch Stormwater Project Open House.

It will be from 5 30 to 7.

Um, the city and county of Denver, my high flood District are watching the stormwater project uh looking at the gulch and the drainage and the and everything from Bible Park to Isleth.

Uh we ask that you come and join and give your input.

It's gonna be a project over the next couple of years.

Um, the location is it says my office, but it's not in building one, it's in building two, which is 7535 East Hampton Avenue.

It's on the main floor, it's the building that has the big brother big sister sign on it.

Um we hope that you can join us.

Again, it's an open house.

Come and learn a little bit more and give your feedback.

Um, it should be very interesting.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilman.

Councilwoman Lewis.

I have uh three announcements.

First, the Budget Book Club is in partnership with the Lumburg Council members.

Um, happen on September 24th from 3 30 to 7 at the Whittier Cafe, which I'm super excited about because I love that place.

On October 4th, the budget uh we'll have a conversation about budget proposals at the Carla Madison Recreation Center from 11 a.m.

to 1 p.m.

And then finally, as my friend here has reminded me, the live 10th annual celebration is from noon to 4 p.m.

Um, but if you're running in the 5k, which some of us are walking quickly, um, that starts at 9 a.m.

And there's still time to register if you're interested.

Okay.

So thank you, Councilwoman Lewis.

Any other announcements?

Okay.

Um I'm entertain a motion to move us into executive session.

Pursue it to our read the whole thing.

Uh the lawyers make you.

I will now entertain.

A motion to move us into an executive session pursuant.

Denver revised municipal code 2-34A, sections three, six, and seven for the purpose of discussing the settlement of pending litigation and legal advice related there too.

Motion probably moved and seconded.

All right, all in favor?

I have it.

We are now in executive session.