Remarks by Dave Woodruff
48 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“ahead and call to order the city of durango city council regular meeting for july 21st 2026 the time is 5 32 p.m and could i get a roll call please mayor woodruff here mayor pro tem lawyer counselor yazi here counselor coso here and counselor gonzalez thank you may i please get a reading of the indigenous land acknowledgement”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you. May I please get the introduction of the translator?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you. Off to agenda item number three, opening remarks by mayor and council. I just had one. I had the opportunity to meet up with Katie Scott. I call it my organic office hours. It means I was at work and somebody hit me up about something. But anyways, Katie approached me. She's doing the Centennial Circuit, the relay for ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease. Her and her family, there's a big triangle, Denver, Steamboat, and Durango. But they're basically doing a relay with these three Colorado hubs, 610 miles, just to unite communities and support families affected by ALS. And some of that…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“All right, moving on to gen item number four, presentation and proclamations. Seeing none, we'll actually see manager Madrigal, do you have anything for Well, actually, no, that would be the next one, number five. How about city manager updates?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Just to piggyback on. Sorry, Joseph, some more time. Yeah, just to piggyback on what Councillor Costa was saying, you know, just when you think you couldn't be more proud of staff and organizations like the Good Food Collective and the La Plata Equity Food Equity Coalition and working with community partners that go in and look at, you know, how could we be doing things better? Just super proud of the work that is being put in. But then, you know, to kind of also piggyback on Councillor Gonzalez's statements of really keying in on stakeholders and constituents and figuring…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you. I'll just add briefly, blown away. I mean, give you all and the rest of staff enough time and energy and latitude to do something like this is incredible. I'm just looking forward to seeing how this progresses and and how this i mean the strategic plan and the vision is everything to us right like we base all of our decisions and all our policy around this and so having a tool that that really helps um just consolidate all that and then really refine why i mean that's what it is it's like how do we solve the why of how we're advancing this i'm just I haven't had a chance to dive…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you, Mike. Alright, moving on to agenda number six community. I'm sorry, Committee, Board and Liaison reports.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Great. Thank you. I had a few meetings this past week. We obviously all had the URA board meeting on the 13th. We talked about a few different things, but the big one was revolving around a potential URA designation for South Durango. And so there's a lot of conversation around that and We'll move forward with that. I'm sure the next meeting, we had a city county joint meeting on Tuesday of last week where we talked about a lot of successes that have been shared by both the city and county. And then we had conversation around a potential library district and kind of the historical narrative…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Alright, would anyone like to pull anything from the consent agenda?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you. And then let me clear this and set it one more time.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you. Moving on to agenda item number 11, resolutions.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thanks, Daniel. Just real quick. Correct me if I'm wrong. Does this site plan need to have something defined as 10% open space? I saw the CDC talking about that in their meeting, but...”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Okay. And so I'm assuming the... The area behind the retaining wall will be designated as the open space. What is the spirit behind the open space requirement when submitting a plot? Is it to have usable open space or is it just to have open space to look at?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“I see. Okay. Thank you for that. And then second question, as part of the traffic access, it said that there was a need to remove a street tree. Is there a plan to replace that tree with a plan of another tree somewhere else, or would it be kind of in the roundabout the same location?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Oh, perfect. OK, great. Alright, that's all I have. Thank you so much. Alright, thanks Daniel. Appreciate it. Any other questions or comments?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Any conversation questions? Councilor Kosovo.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Moving on to item number 12, consideration of ordinances.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Any discussion? Can you get a roll call, please?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Alright, moving on to agenda item 13 public comment on city managers not under consideration tonight. Thank you, Mayor.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Great. Thank you very much. Moving on to Janetta number 14, other new business.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“And financial advisory board to include any council that chooses to be included. Second.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“I just have a quick question. Would they be a voting member of the interview team or they would just be there to watch, ask questions, and provide input? Or would they actually have a vote?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Well, I mean, which would, so they would be a voting member.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Just a gentle reminder, no final decision tonight. This is just a business. If it gets the majority vote tonight, it comes back to and can be fully debated at that time.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Proclamation recognized in the month of July as Parks and Recreation Month. Good God. Celebrate. Thanks everyone for being here as I fumble through this.”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026