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September 2019 LCityof Louisville COMMUNITY UPDATE CITY COUNCIL Mayor Robert P. Muckle 303.981.0697 BobM@LouisvilleCO.gov • WARD I Jay Keany 720.280.4805 JayK@LouisvilleCO.gov Chris Leh 303.668.3916 Leh@LouisvilleCO.gov •WARD II Susan Loo 303.665.4945 1 1 SusanL@LouisvilleCO.gov Jeff Lipton 303.665.9776 Lipton@LouisvilleCO.gov •WARD III Dennis Maloney 303.494.9257 DennisM@LouisvilleCO.gov Ashley Stolzmann 303.570.9614 AshleyS@LouisvilleCO.gov City Manager Heather Balser 303.335.4530 HeatherB@LouisvilleCO.gov City Council Meetings are held the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 7:00 PM at City Hall, 749 Main Street. To find out in which Ward you live, please call 303.335.4536. www.LouisvilleCO.gov FAREWELL MESSAGE FROM MAYOR MUCKLE "Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed." "1 claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me." - Abraham Lincoln ear Louisville Resident: As I look back on my nearly 20 years of service to the residents of Louisville, 5 years on the Open Space Board, 14 years as an elected official including 8 years as the mayor, I find myself reflecting on the issues that originally motivated me to run for elected office. My initial campaign focused on maintaining Louisville's small town character, con- tinuing to expand our open space program, and to having a very open and transparent government. Some good things have happened on these topics. In terms of Louisville's small town character, Louisville voters have twice approved a sales tax to help preserve historic buildings. Our historic preservation fund has helped restore commercial buildings downtown like 740 Front and Waterloo, as well as preserving a number of historic homes that contribute to the unique character of the old town neigh- borhood. When we moved to Louisville in 1997, former city council member Arnie Levihn told me and my wife Melanie that there was a plan for Louisville to grow to about 20,000 people. By buying land for a park that could have been a residential development and limiting developments to the number of homes guaranteed by earlier land use agree- ments, we've been able to stay reasonably close to that number. The idea of the impor- tance of Louisville's small town character is now written into the City's Vision Statement, Comprehensive Plan, and program budgeting. Open space is really my first love in government service. Louisville has upped its game with respect to open space management in the last 20 years. When I was appointed to the open space board, the city owned quite a lot of open space, but had no plan for manage- ment. With Matt Jones as our chair, that board developed the first open space manage- ment plan for the city, which over time has been updated and expanded. Then we had no open space experts on city staff, now we have a highly qualified and growing open space division. We are managing noxious weeds, improving our trail system, and providing lots of education programs. When opportunities arise we still acquire new open space proper- ties, most recently the Mayhoffer Farm --the number one acquisition priority for the city since I was on the open space board. Continued on Page 2