Thanks for joining us.

Thanks for 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.

Thank you for coming to this special Paul Cashman birthday edition of the year council.

We are delighted to be gathered here.

Um we will start with introductions.

Let's start with the birthday boy himself.

Thank you.

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

Good morning, Amanda Soundboard, Northwest Denver District One.

Well, great to see you all.

Thanks so much for being here this morning.

I know you had a late night, so thanks for being back again this morning.

We have a couple of things on the agenda.

One is just an update on progress on citywide goals for the quarter.

We then do have an executive session and a closed session for a couple other items.

But we will start first with announcements.

If there are any council members who have announcements for the fellow members of the listening public, Councilman Watson.

We have a community meeting to discuss Walton Mobility study that Department of Transportation Infrastructure, my team, and RTD will be engaging in.

The meeting begins at 5 30.

They'll be at Glen Arm Rec Center, goes from 5 30 to 7 p.m.

Really looking forward for neighbors that live near the Walton Street Corridor, that live in five points to come out.

Share your thoughts on really what type of mobility you're thinking of for that corridor.

Our hope is to develop a transit-rich corridor across DeWalton Street, our corridor up towards uh 38th and Blake.

Looking forward to gathering with you tomorrow evening.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Thank you, sir.

I think Council Torres, you're up.

Thank you.

Join us in Westwood for the Adelaide Los Muertos weekend.

Umartos and Westwood begins on Friday with altar building from uh 6 to 9 p.m.

And then uh all day Saturday and Sunday will be open for the festival uh noon to 8 p.m.

So that's on Morrison Road and Perry, roughly.

That's one of the great celebrations of the year.

Definitely come join us.

Any other announcements?

Oh yeah, we have important eight.

I was gonna say, thank you.

Vote uh however you would choose to vote.

Vote ballots are due today.

You can drop them off till seven o'clock.

You can still register today if you haven't and vote in the same day, and so try to make it as easy as possible.

If you've lost your ballot, you can still come in to a service center and get a replacement one.

So Denver works hard to make it as easy as possible.

Um, wonderful.

Uh we will jump into our general session updates, which is I just want to give you a quick update on our goals for the year heading into quarter three, as the members of the public know at the beginning of the year.

We set uh big citywide goals that all of our departments are working on collaboratively that we're trying to accomplish that are focused on key areas of resident need, and then each quarter we update both the public and the council on what progress we're making on those, what uh where we're making great progress, where we have concerns, what those challenges might be.

And so we want to update you as some of these as you can imagine are being affected by both federal and state budget cuts as well as by federal government closures.

And so I want to update you on those.

So I'll I'll walk you through this pretty quickly, then happy to take questions as people have them.

All right, here are the six goals we had for 2020 25 uh vibrant, affordable, safe, our all in mile high, focus on homelessness, climate resilient, and family friendly.

I'll walk you through where we are on each of these.

Um Vibrant, as you know, we had developed a comprehensive plan to drive strategic investments across Denver's neighborhoods that resulted in the Vibrant Bond measure, which is on the ballot today.

60 referred projects that are there.

Thank you to the council president uh who also uh helped chair that effort.

We had more than 7,000 residents who gave feedback on that process and more than 50 public meetings to get people's input.

So I think unprecedented levels of really great public involvement there.

The other goal was around our continued revitalization efforts on uh downtown and a plan to fully reopen 16th Street.