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Good morning, great to see you all.

Welcome to Mayor Council.

Thank you for joining us.

Chris.

We will start with introductions with the distinguished gentlelady to my right.

We will begin.

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Sitting in the seat, that's all.

Uh good morning, everybody.

Sadena Gonzalez Carez, one of the council members at large.

Good morning, I mean, I'm sorry, District Five.

Good morning, Darren Watson, fine district nine.

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

Jamie Torres, West Denver District Three.

Uh, great.

Thank you all so much for being here.

We have both the general session agenda to talk about the downtown development authority.

We have an executive session, but we will start with any announcements that members have for colleagues or the listening public.

Council of Beatrice.

Um, I would like to share we're celebrating Halloween all weekend in district seven.

We have the Halloween parade on this Saturday, the twenty fifth at six PM, rain or shine.

It goes from Sixth Avenue to Alameda on South Broadway.

We also have Athmar Park Rec Center is having a carnival craze candy giveaway on Sunday.

And I also wanted to share that local artist, Bethel Moncardine is having an event in the Fine District Nine, uh, for the Day of the Dead, and that will be at the National Western Complex.

And that will be on Sunday as well.

And on Sunday, the South Pearl Street is having a little kiddies um candy giveaway, not kitties, but kids.

Other announcements, thank you, Councilman Hines.

Um, this week is uh the governor's conference.

GovCon is in Colorado Springs.

I'll be there uh representing the Sasquatch and Quincenten Centennial Commission.

Um, if uh just rolls off your tongue.

So at this point, um, I think it's uh part of the quiz, you know, to become a commissioner, you have to have it roll off your tongue.

But uh uh yeah, so if um if any of you were going to GovCon, uh please I'd love the opportunity to uh share with you about the 250 uh 250th anniversary of America, 150th anniversary of Colorado, and I'll be there at several um uh 250 150 commission.

We'll have several panels, and I'll be uh leading one on Friday morning.

Great.

Thank you for representing us.

The other announcements, Councilman, Zalsky Terris.

Thank you, uh Mr.

Mayor.

Um so I announced this last night, and since uh my partner in Krem is not here, he usually does the lovely intro.

But um myself and Councilman Cashman have been working on um the effort around our um our uh neighborhood organizations, our registered neighborhood organizations, and and what we've been doing is reaching out to community members via like going to different events or have staff have been to over 40 events over the summer.

We've held four um uh in-person uh meetings in the kind of different quadrants of the city, and then we have one final um neighborhood engagement workshop.

That's what we've been calling them that will be taking place virtually.

So it's our kind of last big push here to continue to get uh feedback.

We've gotten over eleven hundred um survey responses on our survey that we've done since the beginning of the summer.

And so this uh next week, October 29th, 6 to 8 p.m.

If you go to uh our Denvergov.org and go to your city your voice.

Um, there is a link there to register for the virtual meeting.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Any other announcements?

Yes, President Pro Tem.