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Councilmember Nosier Beck wanted to announce she will not be able to attend the next
study session.
Councilmember Stites sent notice that there are a lot of shopping carts being left at the
corner of 38th and Ward and believes it's from the recent move by RTD that moved the
stop they had by the old Walmart. He would like explore ways to address the problem,
maybe with RTD or the stores that are located in the area.
Councilmember Hutchinson wanted to thanks all of the people who came out tonight
and would like for them to keep washing their hands.
Councilmember Urban spoke of an item that he brought up with the city attorney
concerning the council rules and procedures about how all meetings are required to be
in the municipal building. He would like to see an amendment to those procedures to
allow, by Roberts Rules of Order, electronic conferencing (E meetings) and or
teleconferencing.
Mr. Dahl responded in short, that council could always suspend the rules but maybe to
put in place a formal amendment to the council rules so as not to have to suspend them
for these items. He will need to confer with staff on the abilities to also allow the public
to attend those types of E meetings. This could complicate this issue as the public
needs to be advised of the meeting and be allowed to attend it.
Councilmember Hoppe supports the idea to have an emergency backup plan and will
look to the future calendars to get that scheduled.
Council member Weaver wanted to remind everyone that the census is live and online,
with flyers already being sent in the mail. There are no long forms anymore, no phone
calls from the census people but you can call them directly for issues or concerns with
the census. It's really important that we all fill out the census. "Go Census!"
Councilmember Hoppe would like to remind the community that we have
wheatridgespeaks.org for the people to participate in from home, instead of going to
planning commission or city council meetings.
Mayor Starker thanked everyone who came out tonight as it's very important to have the
people attend and their voices heard. He had the pleasure to ride his bicycle for the
ATAT group and their Riding to Read program, where he rode to Wilmore Davis
elementary school and helped to deliver around 700 books. Everyone was thrilled to
participate in their program.
ADJOURNMENT
The meeting adjourned at 8:00 pm.
Robin Eaton, Deputy City Clerk