6:30-9PM City Council Regular Business Meeting @ City Hall Council Chambers

Meeting Agenda
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Public Comment

The meeting begins with public comment. If you want to address Council, you will have three minutes to speak. Any public comments received by email before 3PM will be posted in the meeting packet after 3 (so check back then!).

Items on the Consent Agenda are considered non-controversial, not needing discussion. Everything in this section will be approved at once, with one vote.

Any councilor wishing to discuss one of the issues can request that it be removed from the consent agenda and discussed and voted on separately.

These are the items on the Consent Agenda:

Public Hearings

Approve a budget of $200,000 for an indoor art installation at the new City Hall. More.

Approve a budget of $200,000 for an outdoor art installation at the new City Hall. More.
Approve a change order on construction costs for the new City Hall. This one is a little hard to follow, in that the numbers on the staff memo differ from the ones shown on the construction company's memo.

Initial Guaranteed Maximum Price Release (7/22/25)
Constr'n Co (p.4): $21,576,566
City Staff (p. 1): $49,862,440
Final Guaranteed Maximum Price (10/28/25)
Constr'n Co (p.4): $27,437,916
City Staff (p. 2): $49,696,966

The Change Order Description (p. 2) includes
• Audio-visual equipment and systems
• Security camera and access control equipment and systems
• Life safety and cell phone distributed antenna (booster systems)
The total for these additions is $1,359,000.

See the staff memo for more information about construction costs.
Raising the hourly rate for deputy municipal court judges from $85/hr to $100/hr and $125 per hour for review of the probable cause warrants and other non-routine work performed outside of regular business hours. More.
The Housing Authority, which owns Canyon Gate Apartments (map), plans to upgrade the building and is borrowing $2.5 million for that purpose. The City of Golden owns the land under the building, so the lending bank is requesting that the City agree to being second in line in case of a loan default. More.
Approve a contract for $250,000 for streetlight maintenance during 2026. More.
Establish Council's meeting and study session schedule for 2026 (more)
Accept conveyance of a parcel of land in Mesa Meadows in exchange for payment of $105,000 (more). This would prevent the current landowner from building on that parcel, which is currently used for drainage.

Proclamation

National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day

Staff Updates:

Community Engagement
Meredith Ritchie, the City's Community Engagement & Communications Director, will describe the City's efforts to gather public input and keep residents informed about City business. (No attachment included in the meeting packet.)

Strategic Plan
Carly Lorentz, the Deputy City Manager, will provide the status of several Council-directed initiatives, including

Net-Zero Energy Codes
Park & Rec Plans
Comprehensive Plan Update
State Land Use Mandates
Affordable Housing Trust Fund
Regional Homelessness Projects
Federal Policy Impacts
Enhancing Community Engagement
Creek Corridor Projects, including the new City Hall, Ford Street underpass, Lions Park improvements & redesign, strengthening Community Marketing (Visit Golden)

See the meeting memo for more information about these projects.