A Brief Lakewood Legislative Report

Guest Post by Joan Poston

So this morning 2/8/24,  I went to the Lakewood City Council Building to attend the Lakewood City Council legislative meeting. I made an error as to the time so I showed up at 8:30 and the meeting had started at 8:00 am. I am not my best at early hours. 

The legislative committee is made up of one member of each ward and they look at bills from the 2024 legislature that is considering issues/consequences that would impact the city of Lakewood.

2024 Committee Members
Council member Glenda Sinks – Ward 1
Council member Isabel Cruz – Ward 2
Council member Rebekah Stewart – Ward 3
Council member David Rein – Ward 4 
Council member Jacob LaBure – Ward 5

Rebekah Stewart (Ward 3)  is the chair of the legislative committee.

When I walked in there was a discussion about a bill about occupancy. I believe it was HB24-1007. But could not confirm that was the bill they were discussing. They decided not to put it on the list because the target city was Ft. Collins and college towns and did not apply to Lakewood so they would just watch it and add it to the list later. 

There was a little discussion lead by Councilman LaBure as to the need to define the role of the legislative committee. 

And then Councilwoman Stewart asked if there was any other business and Adjourned the meeting. 

I arrived at 8:30 and the meeting was adjourned at 8:36. 

I went to speak to the Deputy City Manager about how they had not stated when the next meeting would be and he said “in two weeks  if it was not canceled.”

So stay tuned. 

Meanwhile ColoradoTaxpayer.org is a great resource for what is happening at the Legislature