7PM City Council Business Meeting @ City Hall

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:

Award a Street Improvements contract for $1,165,060.22 to Martin Marietta
Approve an updated IGA with Arvada, Edgewater, Golden, Lakewood, Wheat Ridge, and Mountain View for use of a Regional Criminal Justice Records Management System.
Approve purchase of three new new Ford hybrid vehicles ($51,409 each) and one Ford F-150 truck ($49,875) for a total cost of $204,102. These are for use by the police department.
Reimburse Table Mountain Soccer Assocation $330,000. They had contributed funds to install synthetic turf at the Rooney Fields Sports Complex. The City had since decommissioned that area and plans to use natural turf on the Ulysses sports complex (now under construction).
Purchase "upfitting services" for two dump/plow trucks at a total cost of $358,922.

Proclamations

LGBTQI+ Pride Month - June 2025
National Gun Violence Awareness Day - June 6, 2025

Public Hearing

The Community Marketing Committee was established in 2000. Prior to that time, merchants received a 2.5% credit on their sales tax submissions. The merchants agreed to contribute that 2.5% to a marketing fund. This constitutes a significant budget--over $600,000 this year.

The City's full-time marketing manager, who was responsible for running the Visit Golden program, left a year ago. The job has been vacant since that time.

The merchants have not been happy with the City's management of the marketing program, which they have found expensive, cumbersome, and lacking in local knowledge and involvement. They proposed spinning off the program to be a separate non-profit entity, similar to the Chamber or the Welcome Center. They wanted to hire their own marketing manager--someone who lived in (or near) Golden and spent time talking to the business owners.

City Council discussed the merchants' proposal at their January 14th study session and rejected it.

They will vote tonight to keep the $600,000 that the merchants are contributing, dissolve the merchant-controlled board and appoint a new council-controlled board.