A resolution amending the Denver City Council Rules of Procedure. Amends the City Council Rules of Procedure to allow for a general public comment prior to each regularly scheduled City Council Meeting. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 2-11-20.
I'm secretary. Please. Because the voting announced results 13 hours. 13 is council resolution on 34 has been adopted. All right, Madam Secretary, if we move on to the next item. Councilmember Cashman, I think this one is yours. Go ahead with your comment on Resolution 135. Yeah. Thank you, Mr. President. I'd like to thank my colleagues from the previous city council, as well as those sitting up on the dais tonight for their commitment to welcoming members of the public into these chambers and hearing what they have to say about what we should be doing here at the city. Back in 2016, for the first time in council history, we set up a period of 30 minutes before the first regularly scheduled meeting of each month to hear from members of the community. About a year and a half later, based on the reception of that program. It was doubled to 30 minutes before the first and third meeting of each month. What Resolution 135 does is now welcomes the public for a 30 minute public comment session before every every meeting we hold throughout the year. This will do a couple of things. It will offer more opportunities to speak. Obviously, what it also do make it easier on people to not have to remember when the heck the first and third Mondays fall. And it will also add an immediacy. If there's an issue that the public wants to address, that will be time dependent and might be old news a week further down the line. It's something that we've been looking to make easier on the community, and I thank my colleagues for their willingness to do so in probably two week, two or three weeks down the road . I'll be bringing forward and another change to the rules so that these public comment sessions hopefully will become televised, which they have not been since started back in 2016. So with that, thank you, Mr. President.