City Council - Regular Meeting

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

The Westminster City Council and local school board held a joint collaborative meeting to discuss city programs supporting families, affordability, and safe routes to schools.

About this meeting

Government Body
City Council
Meeting Type
City Council
Location
Westminster, CO
Meeting Date
October 6, 2026

Published excerpts

Only published remarks appear here. The full transcript is not published.

5 sections

2:15 – 6:55•Claire Carmelia

Thank you so, so much. And I just want to say I deeply appreciate those words, and I think they belong to all of us here at council. I'll do a quick introduction of our councillors in attendance. We have Councillor Haught sitting right here in the center. We have Councillor Ireland right here as well. We have Councillor Izadi over on our far left. And I know we have Councillor Brajas. Aha, there we are. Councilor Brajas as well. So thank you all for joining us. And thank you to our school board members. Thank you, Mary Beth, for hosting us. We're so grateful to you. Really, we're trying to bri

8:48 – 9:01•Claire Carmelia

I can click for folks if you want. All right, Councilor Zadeh, you want to click?

22:11 – 22:30•Claire Carmelia

Thank you, thank you. So thank you, counselors. And our school board folks, do we want to stand up? I have not had a chance to recognize you all. So would you please stand? I just want to say thank you to our community members. I know how to pronounce everyone's name, but I feel like I should let you do it. Christine, would you start us off?

22:38 – 23:27•Claire Carmelia

Thank you. And that's everyone, OK? Is that everyone? And then I also want to recognize our superintendent. Dr. Jenny . Thank you so much, Jenny. OK, so thank you all. And with that, we're going to dive into our group activity. So again, this was really just to give you more information about what we're doing so that you know what it is we're up to. And we didn't come up with these ideas ourselves, right? We heard from our residents that these were areas and initiatives that we wanted action on. And so we took that action. So we're going to take a look right now at safe routes to schools throu

1:02:13 – 1:02:37•Claire Carmelia

We want to thank everyone for coming one last time. Thank you for those viewers online. We appreciate your time. This is what community and collaboration looks like. This is us having the hard, difficult conversations together. And you cannot know how much I deeply appreciate all of you. Thank you, Westminster Public Schools, for helping make this happen. And I truly look forward to a long, strong relationship with you. With that, last remarks by Ms. Mary Beth.

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