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Good morning, everybody.

Welcome to Mayor Council.

Thank you so much for joining us.

We don't have a general session this morning.

We do have some opening announcements, and then we do have an executive session to follow.

And so we will start with introductions and announcements from all of our distinguished members that are here.

We're better to begin with the four gentlemen to my right.

Thank you very much.

You're welcome.

Please do punch to be.

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

Wonderful, great to see you all.

Happy Tuesday.

Thanks for joining us.

Open with announcements.

Are there any announcements that council members would like to make for fellow members and or the public at large?

Councilman Vidris.

Thank you.

You can join us tomorrow from five at 5 p.m.

at the Habitat for Humanity Headquarters at 430 South Navajo Street.

We'll be reading amendments five through nine.

It's been a lot of fun to have these conversations with community.

Another fun community event coming up this Saturday is the Porch Fest lineup second drop will be happening.

And it's also a fundraiser for the Baker neighborhood urban garden.

They're at risk of losing their food garden in Baker neighborhood, and so come support.

You get to listen to great music, find out about the lineup for Porch Fuss, and you'll also get to support a great cause.

And then after that, we have yet another event on Saturday, which we are celebrating the Broadway Bark uh dog park that is now going to continue for the next while.

So come down to the Broadway Park at 6 p.m.

on Saturday and we'll celebrate with our furry friends with hot dogs and real dogs.

Thank you.

And never the two shall mix.

A lot of partying happening in District 7.

What can you do to match that, Council Wilson?

We're not matched at all, but uh want to say um we tonight we're having in the fine district 9 um the Welcome Next Steps um community advisory group, our fifth uh community meeting to discuss uh multimodal options for the outline, and so that'll be from 4.30 to 6.30 p.m.

at the Blair Calwell Library.

And um I shared last night um a little kind of fun uh this weekend on Saturday uh the 22nd um from 5 to about uh 9 p.m.

or if you're really gonna party hard it goes along into that.

Clear Park Robinson Dance has their number one fundraiser of the year.

It's the dancing with the Denver Stars.

Uh last year I had a few friends at the table here came and watched as um the mayor and I showed up and showed out uh for our dancing with the stars.

Um this year we won't be performing, but we'll be there to support uh Cleo Parker Robinson Dance.

So come on out and support uh Cleo this weekend.

Thank you so much.

Thank you so much, Councilman.

I believe it was only a year ago.

Uh all right, next up I have Councilman Cashman and then Flynn and then the president and then Councilman Sawyer.

Are you in as well?

I am, I'm in.

All right, ready.

Councilman Cashman.

Kept that in order.

I appreciate it.

Um thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Um, those of you who have been paying attention, the uh Alameda Avenue lane reduction uh project, the much debated, long-debated project is pretty much in place from about Pearl Street uh to Franklin, and uh the the idea being they've reduced uh traffic capacity from two lanes each direction to one lane with shutter lane turn options to try to uh get people turning more safely.

And uh so uh if you're driving that way, let us know what you think of how the uh lane reduction is going.

Obviously, the the big concern uh from neighbors is if traffic ends up backing up and ends up cutting through the neighborhood.