Remarks by Chris Leh
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“Good evening, everyone. Tonight is Tuesday, October 20th, and we are the Louisville City Council. We have a regular meeting tonight. Can we get a roll call, please?”
“Here. Councilmember Kern present mayor pro Tim Hamilton here mayor late here If you would please join with me in the present pledge of allegiance All right May I have a motion to approve the agenda? So moved. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye.”
“All right. Next part of the meeting, let's say, do we have any public comment tonight? No. All right. Next part is public comment. It appears we have none, and we're going to move on. Consent. Do we have a motion on consent agenda? So moved.”
“Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? All right. Six is council informational comment.”
“Please. Right, welcome Councilmember Dickinson back to the dais. Do Councilmembers have any informational items or committee reports they would like to give? I went to Metro Mayor's caucus meeting last week sponsored by both the MMC and The Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce is about three hours on the subject of data centers. It's really interesting. I'll be circulating materials from that. Lots to think about for our meeting on the 2nd. We're going to discuss a little bit about that in the discussion of our work plan. Any other comments? All right, city manager's report.”
“Thank you. Move on to regular business. The first item of regular business is public hearing, city manager's final 2027-2028 budget presentation. And this was advertised in Boulder Daily Camera on October 11, 2026. And I'm going to open the public hearing and ask if any of the council members has any disclosures to make. All right. I'll leave it to the director to take us through this, I think.”
“Thank you very much. First, any questions? We have seen versions of this presentation throughout the last several months, and so much of this is not surprising, but if we have questions, Council Member Kern.”
“Why don't we take public comment and then we can, if there are any other comments from council members, we can address those. Do we have any public comment?”
“No public comment. I just want to say, again, thank you very much to city manager, to you, director, to all of the directors, to the host of people that had to do with this budget and the draft and presentations over time. I also really want to take a moment to really thank the Finance Committee, all of whom are sitting to my left, Chair Hefner, Mayor Pro Tem, and Councilmember Cooperman, because they did, every step of the way, an awful lot of work on looking at the figures and the trends and providing terrific discussion points as we went along and discussion points within the meetings that…”
“Other members of the committee? All right. I'm going to close the public hearing. Do we have a motion? Do we need a motion?”
“And just for good measure, actually, the city attorney. Right.”
“I've made one. Second. Seconded. Seconded. Any other comments? All in favor? Aye.”
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“Thank you, Director. Are there council questions on this one? Okay. Is there any public comment? No. All righty. Any discussion related to this matter? Seeing none, do we have a motion for the resolution?”
“Any discussion? All in favor? Our next item is the discussion direction on the board and commission handbook. I think there is a staff presentation by our city manager.”
“All right, why don't we take some council questions. If we have any right now. Yes, Council Member Cooperman.”
“Other questions? All right. Is there any public comment? Take public comment right now.”
“All right. Why don't we bring it back to council? Now, we have quite a number of decisions that... we've been asked to comment on here. And I think it would be good if we could put up the slide, city manager, that perhaps is the best to help us do that. And I think what I would propose is that we just go through each of them and hear from one another about concerns, thoughts, and maybe we can kind of take stock of a consensus if we can reach one on each one of them. Yeah, go ahead.”
“Thanks. Others? Let's see if we have consensus on that general approach or whether we've got some other thoughts. Go ahead.”
“Thank you. Others? Yes, Council Member Dickinson.”
“I just want to offer a brief... Before we do that, are there other... Can I come back to you, or is it literally on that?”
“Wonderful comments so far. I have both some comments of my own and then we can talk a little bit about at least what I'm hearing in terms of a potential consensus on some of these and some clarifications that I'm going to ask, some clarifying questions of counsel. Because I've heard some things that different council members have said and I haven't necessarily heard responses to those and I think that's a good thing for us to do I Like I think just about everybody on the council like the idea of having the Youth Advisory Board be much more active, maybe less active in terms of projects, more…”
“So let me ask, I mean, what I've heard so far is that the Youth Advisory Board, everybody's pretty much in agreement that the direction, I mean, let's put it this way. I think I've heard a lot of consensus around accepting staff's recommendations generally. with a few exceptions or things that we maybe need to talk about. The Youth Advisory Board, I think you've heard specific direction that that was a particularly good thing involving them, much more of a positive thing. We've heard mixed comments about terms for the Planning Commission, I think. And I think we've got a general agreement on…”
“Let me ask you one clarification, and then I think others may have thoughts about that too, because I think generally that people didn't want to merge them, but would you keep the same number of members? How would you deal with the number of members and the concern about...”
“Others about the merger? Any other thoughts? Go ahead, Council Member Fahey.”