The meeting was called to order by INC President, Larry Ambrose at Jake’s, at 38th and Walnut in the Cole/River North neighborhood at 9 am.

1. Treasurer’s report INC October 2015 Treas Report
2. Introduction from our delegate from the Cole Neighborhood (Darcy Wilson)
3. Councilman Wayne New, District 10 made a report and answered questions
   Budget Process
   Requested increase in Police Budget
   Worked with Councilman Kevin Flynn
   Requested 800 body cameras
   Sidewalks Initiative
   Walk Denver
   Colfax Economic Development
   Parking will be an issue to be addressed
   Marijuana Legislation Change
   Will review the 2 year moratorium
   Need strong neighborhood presence to control license allocation
   Homelessness
   Dec 11th – City Council will have a retreat on Homelessness
   Public is invited
   Blueprint Denver is being updated
   Update will start in 2 months (January)
4. Larry reminded Delegates that all members of RNOs can be members of INC Committees and encouraged them to let their members know
5. Zoning & Planning Committee Report – Margie Valdez
   Dec 5th is the next meeting
   There will be a food drive at the meeting
   9:30am @ 1201 Williams St
   INC Academy was a success
   Dec 9th @ 10:30 Mary Beth Susman is chairing a meeting on Air B&B
   2016 Goal: Create a ZAP library in the cloud
   2016 Goal: Provide training on marijuana ordinance
   Margie was the neighborhood representative @ the Marijuana Policy Stake Holder committee
   The meeting was not well controlled
   Restrictions on excise & licences have been lost
   Subcommittee on Homelessness
   Adrian Brown will lead committee
   Will be looking at the problem through what INC can do.
   INC is seen as against housing homeless in neighborhoods
   Will present at the Dec 5th Meeting
   Will have a sweat equity component
   Will advocate decentralizing homeless housing into neighborhood
   Wayne New – District 10 would like to be involved.
   S. City Park – Renters are being kicked out of apartments in order for expansion
   Wayne New is talking with economic development to figure out how the city can help.
   Remember the “under employed” population as well.
   City is looking into Self Cleaning Toilets to be placed in appropriate areas of downtown
6. Chris O’Connor
   Notified the group that there will be a Colorado Court of Appeals hearing on the Buckley Annex Case. One of the issues has to do with whether neighbors have standing to sue to challenge a zoning decision.
   This follows the St. Anthony’s case as well as the Henzel Park case
7. Transportation Committee – Joel Noble
   Brought attention to the nearby 38th & Blake st Station for mass transit
   Sidewalks are a priority for 2016
   Jason Whitlock is leading a 16th St Mall study
   Looking into lingering and increased interaction
   Looking at the bigger goal of reengineering downtown
   The plan is to double the number of downtown users in the next 5 years
   Walk Denver
   Looking at the “last mile solution” – walkdenver.org
   The organization would like to contact RNOs to build support
   March will be the delivery of support for a new funding strategy for sidewalks
   Last Meeting
   Paul Kashman gave a great presentation
   He will be a long term advocate for parts of the INC Transportation platform
8. PARC – Maggie Price
   Katie Fisher has resigned as Co-chair. Cindy Johnstone will take over.
   A year in review
   Trees & Recycled Water in City Park, Cheesman Park, and Washington Park
   Red Rocks public process
   Nancy Francis will be our INC representative
   Zoo Incinerator
   City Park Events Review
   New Sign Dedication at Prairie Park
   Idea: Create a sign in your park that tells the history in your park
   Big changes are coming to downtown parks
   A new focus is coming to a development redesign the downtown DCPA Park
   Massive development, tearing down of Boetcher Concert Hall
   The RNO notifications for park events are not being done
   IDEA: could we podcast the meetings?
   Concern: The new event center in the West Stock Show complex is going to be loud
9. Public Safety Committee – Merce Lea
   Next meeting is Tues Nov 23rd
   Merce is talking to the chief on Mondays for 4 hrs as a volunteer
   She welcomes conversation topic ideas from INC members\
10. INC Awards Dinner – Celebration of INC’s 40th Anniversary
    Theme: Year of the Monkey
    Sponsor: Visit Denver
    Date is Thursday, Jan 28, 2016
    Using BlackTie to send invitations digitally and by email
    Need Silent Auction Items
    Ideas: Baskets
    Instructions on how to collect items are found here
    http://www.denverinc.org/2016-awards-dinner-and-silent-auction/
    http://www.denverinc.org/silent-auction-donation-instructions/
11. New Business:
    Warm Cookies of the Revolution is having their 2nd monthly event tonight
    We request that more neighborhoods communicate their accomplishments

PROGRAM

The Denver Office of Special Events (Katy Stracina) and Denver Parks and Recs (Fred Weiss, Happy Haynes). The topic was “Creating Balance In Our Parks and Neighborhoods”