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SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES
CITY OF WHEAT RIDGE, COLORADO
ADril 21. 2008
Mayor DiTullio called the Special City Council Meeting to order at 6:03 p.m. Council members
present: Karen Adams, Karen Berry, Dean Gokey, Tracy Langworthy, Lena Rotola, Wanda
Sang, and Mike Stites. Also present: City Clerk, Michael Snow; City Manager, Randy Young;
Deputy City Manager, Patrick Goff; City Attorney, Gerald Dahl; Director of Community
Development, Kenneth Johnstone; staff; and interested citizens.
Council Members Terry Womble and Dean Gokey were absent.
This meeting has been requested by the Mayor pursuant to Charter Section 5.2(a).
The meeting was published in the Rocky Mountain NewslDenver Post on Saturday, April 19,
2008, posted in City Hall on April 18, 2008 and delivered to some Councilmembers on Friday,
April 18, 2008 and others on Sunday, April 20, 2008.
Mr. Dahl briefed Council Members on the events and current status of the Referendum Petition
for Ordinance 1409, as well as the petition protests and injunctions filed in the County District
courts on the matter.
Mr. Dahl recommended to Council, for various reasons, that they appoint separate counsel for
Michael Snow in his capacity as City Clerk, for the Preliminary Injunction.
Council Member Berry recommended and Mr. Dahl seconded the recommendations that
Council Member Sang abstain from voting because she is one of the protest filers.
Dean Gokey arrived at the meeting at 6:15pm.
Motion by Ms. Berry to allow Mrs. Sang to abstain from voting on appointment of hearing
officer; second by Mrs. Rotola; carried 6-1 with Mrs. Sang abstaining.
Item 1.
Consideration of the appointment of Willard Hardesty, Esq. to serve as a hearing
officer to hear and render decision on two protests filed with respect to the
petition for referendum of Ordinance 1409, Series 2008.
Motion by Mr. Stites to appoint Willard Hardesty, Esq. to serve as a hearing officer to hear
and render decision on two protests filed with respect to the petition for referendum of
Ordinance 1409, Series 2008; seconded by Mrs. Rotola; carried 6-1 with Mrs. Sang abstaining.
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Item 2.
Consideration of the appointment of Dean Heizer, Esq. to serve as legal counsel
to City Clerk Michael Snow with respect to Jefferson County District Court Case
08CV1500 and also the April 28th, 2008 hearing on the currently filed Protests to
Referendum Petition to Ordinance 1409.
Motion by Mr. Stites to appoint Dean Heizer, Esq. to serve as legal counsel to City Clerk
Michael Snow with respect to Jefferson County District Court Case 08CV1500 and also the
April 28th, 2008 hearing on the currently filed Protests to Referendum Petition to Ordinance
1409; seconded by Ms. Berry and Mr. Gokey; carried 7-0.
Meeting adjourned at 6:24p.m.
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Michael Snow, City Clerk
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Mike Stites, Mayor pro tem
The preceding Minutes were prepared according to ~47 of Robert's Rules of Order, i.e.
they contain a record of what was done at the meeting, not what was said by the
members. Recordings and DVD's of the meetings are available for listening or viewing
in the City Clerk's Office, as well as copies of Ordinances and Resolutions.