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Welcome to Mayor Council.

Thank you so much for joining us.

Um, we uh have both a general session and an executive session calendar this morning.

We will start as always with introductions, and who better to start than the distinguished child expiry.

Thank you.

Good morning, Mayor.

Good morning, folks.

Paul Cash from South Denver District.

Hi everybody, Sedan Gonzalez Cochines, one of your council members at large.

Commandosaurus, five.

Good morning, Diana Romero Campbell, Southeast Denver District Four.

Uh, great.

Thank you all so much for being here.

We'll start with announcements.

If any members have announcements for fellow members or for the public watching at home, the floor is open.

Councilman Sawyer.

Thanks.

Um, just a reminder for all district five residents, it's the fall, and that means our annual survey is open.

So please go to our website, uh Denvergov.org slash district five, or um find us on social media at Denver Council Five, and um take our annual survey you have until the end of the year to do it.

Thanks.

Thank you.

Um, this evening we have a pop-up with Denver Parks and Rec at Bethesda Park.

And so, um, at what will be the new Bethesda Park just to look at some final designs.

Um, ground will be breaking next year in the quarter first quarter.

So we're gonna say it out loud and it's supposed to happen.

Um but we have the pop-up tonight from five to seven.

Great.

Yes, five to seven.

I just wanted to make sure.

Um that's it.

Thank you.

So come join us, look at some final designs of the park.

Councilman Gonzalez, here's thank you, uh Mayor.

Um, well, first I have to wish my husband a happy birthday.

That was yesterday.

Um, second, uh myself and councilman Cashman are hosting the third of the four kind of around the city uh meetings that we've been doing regarding the registered neighborhood organizations, and so these are our neighborhood workshops.

We're going and talking to community members, asking for feedback as we start to explore, you know, what is um how are our communities able to advocate for themselves and and looking at the RO structure in and of itself, and so today we will be in the north side uh at Oslan Rec Center um from 6 to 8 p.m.

So stop on by, we'll have some food, uh, and I think we have kind of all the amenities, so if you need interpretation and things like that, we will have uh everything you need.

Thank you.

As long recenter.

Well, then they can investigate the opportunities for the new pool renovation that might be possible in the bond campaign in case people are tracking that at home.

President Pro Tempen.

I need to jump back in.

It's from four to six.

I thought I was like, too late, it'll be dark.

Um, so from four to six, I live in Bel Air.

Come and check out Bethesda Park final design.

Thank you.

Councilwoman of Vidres.

I just wanted to wish Councilwoman Sawyer a happy early birthday because she is uh not gonna be here at Council on Monday, so happy early.

Your birthday's Monday, Tuesday.

Tuesday, when's yours?

It was Saturday.

Okay, well.

We got a lot of Libras and Scorpios, 22nd.

October of November.

It is.

Uh, here at Scorpio 2.

We have a Scorpio 2.

Yeah, it's Scorpio 2.

We're all basically born the next two months.

Yeah, spring baby.

We're March over.

Fantastic.

Happy birthday to all and to all a happy birthday.

Any other announcements?

I have Mary's energy.

Okay, uh, great.

Well, we will jump into uh general session.

Uh Councilman Sawyer appropriately kicked it off by saying it is fall.

Uh, and so uh consistent with that, we wanted to talk about some of the October events and activities that we have going on uh with Parks and Rec across the city, and so I will bring up our team from Parks and Rec to give us a little bit of briefing on that before we head into executive session.

Thank you so much for joining.

Good morning, everyone.

Uh Seth Housden, uh recreation director with Denver Parks and Recreation.

Seth, go ahead.

Well, it's good to see you all this morning.

Uh uh October is one of our favorite times in parks and recreation.

We especially love the holidays because it gives us an opportunity to engage the community and do a lot of fun things.

So oftentimes what happens is our centers, our pools, and our programs partner together in order to integrate seasonal themes into the programming that we normally do, but it's also an opportunity for us to coordinate themed events.

Uh Halloween is one of those times where we do a lot of activities and have a lot of stuff going on, and those events are uh generally target the the interests of the community.

Uh and a lot of those events also target the multiple demographics that we serve, but especially our youth and our seniors.

So this year we have uh 25 events uh scheduled for the month open to the public, and in most cases, no cost.

Um, and I'll just go over a couple of those.

We've got all kinds of stuff going on.

Uh we we traditionally do the the trunk or treat that most folks do.

This year, new, we have a pup or treat that will be taking place.

I think how at Eisenhower, yes.

There's an announcement.

Uh outbreaks of joy are allowed in America.

Occasionally, so sorry for our present prototype.

It's fun, they're encouraged.

Uh we uh we do a lot of fun stuff in our pools at this time of year, too.

We have uh we do a pumpkin plunge where you get to swim with a pumpkin and take it home with you.

Uh we'll do a splash and bash, and then we also do dive-in movies.

So you can hang out, we've got floaties for you, and you get to watch a movie in the pool.

Um we have some stuff that goes on during the day.

Uh we have a we have several luncheons going on combined with some Halloween-themed bingo.

Uh we also have uh a Halloween-themed carnival that we take in place.

Uh, some new stuff going on.

We have glow in the dark pickleball that will be at La Familia.

So if any of you are pickleball fans, that might be a new take on pickleball.

Uh we also have uh this should be fun.

We have a spooky paddle that will be taking place at Berkeley Lake.

So you'll be able to get out there and get on the paddle boards and the kayaks, and the team will have the lake lit up, and there will be I don't think they're candles, but some sort of lit device to kind of create some ambiance.

We use that one.

Uh I don't have that off the top of my head.

It is on that list right there.

October 17th.

October 17th.

All right, Mike, let's do a spooky.

So let me pause you for one second.

We have a couple of urgent questions piling up from Councilmore.

I want to stop because I want to question about these as they're going.

Councilman Cashman, you want to jump in?

Yeah, this is very true.

When the heck is a puppet tree.

I'm so dog or get a dog or both.

Yes.

So I mean, our department does have a history of uh getting dogs.

I think everyone knows Park Hill Dave.

Yes, but no, we're not giving out dogs.

Uh it's an opportunity for the community to bring their dog uh in costume to to the rec center and good treats.

Thank you very much.

You're welcome.

What also just asking for a friend, what locations have the dive-in movies?

Where do we have uh so I know Scheitler has one, I believe uh 20th Street has one.

Uh, let's see, where was the other?

I believe there was one, I think it might have been G VR, right?

We're not sure in Titanic.

Jaws.

What is a pumpkin?

The pumpkin plunge, the president like more information on the pumpkin.

What's the pumpkin pledge?

The pumpkin plunge is it's an opportunity, they have all kinds of activities scheduled for for the kids.

Uh, they they get the plunge, they get to jump into the pool and pick out a pumpkin that's floating in the pool.

Pumpkins are in the water, so you jump in and save a pumpkin.

Yep.

Oh, any other questions?

These were some important clarifying questions.

Councilman I'll be dressed.

I don't have a question, but an invitation.

It would be great for Denver Park Center to get involved with the Halloween parade.

So maybe we can reach out.

Um one of the biggest events that District 7 holds.

It was started by the director clerk when he was the council member, and it would be great to have you guys involved in that.

So I would love to learn more and see if we can get something going.

Awesome.

Sounds good.

Thank you.

That'd be great.

The other questions before we let Seth go back to his regular program in Councilman Catchman.

Just a question.

If you rescue a pumpkin from the water, you give it PPR.

Wow, that's good.

That's good.

I like some old gadgets.

That was a good cat junk.

No longer distinguished after that one.

So very fair question.

Please save us.

Go right ahead.

Another thing that we're doing new this year, it's uh a partnership between our outdoor rec program and our mountain parks program.

Uh, we're gonna be doing uh some uh mountain parks graveyard tours, uh, which is really focused on on history.

So uh if you're interested in something like that, we'll be providing transportation.

Uh that one is a registered activity because we have a limited number of spots based on uh our buses.

So but we'll be doing three of those.

So a little spooky history.

Uh lastly, then we will do a bunch of activities with partners as well.

Um we'll have uh I believe four rec centers participating at the mile high the stadium's trunk retreat.

Um we'll also be participating in the trunk retreat at the National Western.

And then a lot of our centers partner with uh the local schools near them doing different activities as well.

So uh October is one of our favorite times of the year, and we would love for all of you to come join us in some fun.

Excellent.

Any other questions?

We'll expect to see you at all 17 of those events in October.

Fantastic.

Uh thank you so much.

This is available on the website somewhere.

Seth if you're folks watching at home and want to know exactly where to go to the dive in theater or to the pumpkin plunge, where would they find that?

It is uh go to the DPR website.

Great Parks and Rec website, you will find all of the fantastic events and we will see you there.

Yeah.

Thank you so much.

Um great.

So appreciate that.

We do have a fairly uh full executive session calendar today, and so I will now entertain a motion to move us into an executive session pursuant to DRMC 234A36 and 7 for the purposes of discussing the settlement of pending litigation, formulating a city position on upcoming contract negotiations and discussion of changes in state law and legal advice related there too.

So we'll move.

All in favor.

Any opposed?

We will adjourn into executive session.

Thank you so much for joining us.

Have a great Tuesday.

We will see you at the spooky paddle.

You're still on it.

We're waiting for us to go off the air.

Um, I think that's a good question.