A resolution amending the Denver City Council Rules of Procedure concerning the time and order of regular council meetings. Amends the Denver City Council Rules of Procedure. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 6-21-22.
Councilmember Black has called out Bill 791 for an amendment under bills for final consideration. No items have been called out and pending. No items have been called out. Madam Secretary, please put the first item on our screens. And Councilmember Flynn, go ahead with your comments on resolution 741. Thank you, Madam President. First of all, I want to recognize and thank Councilman Herndon for the long and tedious work he's been doing on modernizing our meetings. This meeting will look a lot different next week, and I don't know if Councilman Herndon might want to talk after me about how it will look different. But I wanted to. I will support the resolution and the changes. But I do have some concerns about moving public hearings to begin as early as 530 rather than the 6:00 time that we have now to start any public hearings. It used to be Councilman Ortega will remember it used to be that this meeting would start at 630 in the evening and it would give working families and folks coming through rush hour, maybe a grab a little bite to eat and come down here and attend a public hearing at 630. When these meetings were moved to 530. It was with the understanding that no public hearing would begin until 6:00. And so if this preliminary part of the meeting had wrapped up at 545, we would which we would recess until 6:00 to give people a chance to come down here or now with the hybrid model to get online after they've come home, maybe changed out of their work clothes, maybe fed the kids or or did some other business. And I would rather that this resolution had set the Times for the afternoon session of council to begin at 3:00 rather than 330, and for the evening session to start at 530 with the general public comment session and then the public hearings starting at 6:00. I think that would have been much friendlier, much more friendly to our public who comment whether they're online or whether they come down here in person. But nevertheless, I will support the changes because I think they're much needed. Thank you. Thank you. Madam Secretary, please put the next item on our screens. Councilmember Flynn, would you please put Resolution 842 on the floor for adoption? Thank you, Madam President. I move that council resolution 22, dash 084 to be adopted.