Englewood City leaders met Jan. 14 to finalize preparations for upcoming City Council meetings and to decide which items will appear on the Jan. 20 agenda.

The mayor opened the meeting and read a roster of staff online for the discussion, including Deputy City Clerk Andrina Prado and City Manager Sean Lewis. Staff ran through the Jan. 20 agenda, listing items that include the utilities 2025 annual drinking-water survey results; a City Manager emergency-declaration authority item; recognitions for police academy graduates and holiday-decorating winners; a resolution appointing council liaisons to boards and commissions; a proposed temporary construction easement tied to the "Old Hamden complete sheets" project as stated in the transcript; contract renewals for landscape and snow-and-ice services; and re-openers of labor agreements with the Inglewood Police Benefits Association and the Inglewood Employees Association.

A key procedural decision centered on whether to place several items on the consent agenda. Staff recommended that a mutual-aid agreement—with the Arapahoe County Board of Health for disaster and large-scale public-health response—be removed from consent so council members could "read more about it," reflecting the item’s policy and operational implications.

Council members flagged CB 9, an item described as aligning municipal-court penalties with state law and transferring funds from the sewer enterprise fund to the storm-drainage fund, noting it had generated a lengthy discussion in the water-and-sewer committee. One participant said the item had passed committee but with significant debate and signaled they would speak further on it at the council meeting.

Another scheduling decision addressed an attorney–client privileged executive session planned for Jan. 20. Deputy city attorney McDermott advised staff that the legal update discussion had been lengthy in past meetings; staff proposed moving the executive session to the first or second February meeting to avoid an overlong Jan. 20 agenda. Council members agreed to shift the confidential session while noting quorum and individual availability constraints for February dates.

Staff also reviewed the city’s February calendar. The council retreat is set for the evening of Jan. 23 and all day on Jan. 24. Among items scheduled for February are building and fire code adoption discussions (including accessory dwelling unit language), a code-compliance reorganization discussion, neighborhood traffic-calming updates, and a South Broadway revitalization outreach plan.

Council members emphasized that recent internal changes—particularly to code enforcement and storm-drainage procedures that occurred in October—should be addressed together in the code-compliance session; staff confirmed that item would appear at the first February meeting with those additions.

During board-and-commission updates, staff raised a question heard during interviews about expanding membership on the "Etech" board. City Attorney Tamara Niles said she would draft municipal-code language for the first February meeting that would preserve a five-member minimum while adding optional bracketed language to allow appointing additional members.

Finally, staff considered canceling the Jan. 26 mayor–manager meeting; the mayor asked to keep it on the calendar and reassess after the Jan. 20 meeting.

The session concluded with a routine adjournment. No formal council votes or binding actions were taken during the mayor–manager meeting; the discussion focused on agenda placement, scheduling, and preparing staff materials for the council.