The regular meeting of the Lakewood City Council on June 1, 2026, covered board appointments, a resolution encouraging gender-neutral restrooms, reports from city officials, liquor permit applications, public comments, and an executive session for appointments. The meeting began at 7:30 PM in Council Chambers.
All right, we will call to order the June 1st meeting of council. If you're able, please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. We'll now pause for a moment of silence. Madam Clerk, please call the roll. Vice President Baker. Absent. Councilmember Bixenstein. Here. Councilmember Bullock. Here. Councilmember Evans. Here. President Keppel. Here. Councilmember Hamilton Steiner. Here. Councilmember Strebig. Here. Without objection, I'll excuse the absence of Vice President Baker. Reading and disposal of the minutes of the regular meeting of council held May 18, 2026. Move to approve without the necessity of a reading. Second. Motion's been made and seconded. Any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor? Aye. And that motion passes. Item one communication from President Keppel regarding council board and commission appointments. Dear colleagues, the following two pieces of legislation are intended to make appointments to the city's community reinvestment area housing council and the local board of tax review. Like most of the city's boards and commissions, these bodies are comprised of a combination of appointments from both council and the mayor. In this case, council has two appointments to make to each of these bodies. Earlier this year, council and the administration put out a joint call for applicants for these vacancies. Though the quality of the applications was high, the volume of applications was low. At this time, I propose that council consider moving forward to fill these positions with the applicants on hand and then strategize ways to identify additional suitable candidates to fill the remaining positions. And I'll just add to this well, first I'll move to receive and file this communication. Second. Motion's been made and seconded. And then in discussion, I just want to add uh because tonight we have such an extremely short docket. Um thought would be to uh move these two items that follow this communication, the two resolutions to the end of our agenda after public comment and do a quick executive session to figure out um figure out our appointments so that these can move forward if folks are amenable to that. All right, I'm seeing a lot of nods, which for the record all right. So any further discussion on the motion to receive and file the communication. Hearing none, all those in favor? Aye, and that motion passes. Um yes. So without objection, let's move uh items two and three to after the public comment section. Item four, communication from Councilmember Streiebig regarding all gender residents. Councilmember Streiebig. Thank you. Dear colleagues, uh, thank you, President Keppel.