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Denver City Council Minutes — November 17, 2025

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Council met on November 17, 2025 (13 members present at various times). The body approved the minutes, adopted proclamations, ordered multiple ordinances published, adopted a range of resolutions and contract amendments (including homelessness rapid rehousing funding, eviction legal services, environmental services extensions, storm drainage master plan, and various on‑call maintenance/snow removal contracts), conducted required public hearings and adopted budgets/work plans for several General Improvement Districts, and placed the Downtown Denver Area Plan on final consideration.

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Approved minutes of November 10, 2025 (Item 25-1905).
Adopted proclamations honoring the 2nd Judicial District CYDC team, recognizing Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, honoring Candyce D. Cavanagh, and recognizing World AIDS Day and The Epworth Foundation's Denver Feed‑A‑Family (Items 25-1910, 25-1854, 25-1911, 25-1906, 25-1907).
Adopted Resolution 25-1580 (amended) approving an agreement with The Community Firm (TCF) dba Community Economic Defense Project for eviction legal services ($2,768,062.50, ending 12-31-2028) as amended to remove the word 'annually'.
Adopted Resolutions 25-1707 and 25-1708 to amend contracts with Jewish Family Service of Colorado to expand Transformational Homelessness Response Rapid Rehousing programming and Rapid Rehousing administration (added funds and extended terms as described).
Adopted Resolution 25-1638 establishing that Denver will continue to use the existing permitting review process for electric vehicle charger permit applications (declining to adopt alternative ordinance/resolution under cited C.R.S. sections).
Placed and passed multiple 2026 Business Improvement District operating plans and budgets, including RiNo (25-1590) and Downtown Denver (25-1594), and numerous other BID and improvement district budget items listed en bloc.
Adopted multiple procurement and contract resolutions for citywide services (examples include appliance maintenance and emergency repair contracts 25-1689, 25-1699, 25-1700, 25-1721; snow removal and landscaping contracts 25-1697, 25-1702, 25-1703), and approved purchase orders for regional bomb squad command vehicles (25-1626, 25-1627).
Adopted environmental and infrastructure items: the 2025 Storm Drainage Master Plan update as the official master drainage plan (25-1628) and contract amendments/extensions for on‑call environmental services (25-1690 through 25-1696).
Adopted Resolution 25-1640 to amend Parsons Transportation Group contract for additional design/post‑design services on the Colfax Transit Implementation — Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project.
Conducted required public hearings and adopted work plans/budgets for several General Improvement Districts (Ballpark Denver 25-1600, Denver 14th Street 25-1601, Gateway Village 25-1602, RiNo Denver 25-1603, Sun Valley 25-1604) with votes recorded in the minutes.
Placed Council Bill 25-1578 (Downtown Denver Area Plan) upon final consideration and do pass, adopting the Downtown Denver Area Plan as a supplement to Comprehensive Plan 2040.

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