DENVER — Voters on Tuesday passed the Vibrant Denver bond package, meaning several infrastructure projects are now greenlit, including the $70 million transformation of Park Hill Park.
Park Hill Park is Denver’s fourth-largest park and opened to the public eight days ago, but it is bare bones. Paths have quickly become popular for dog walkers and runners.
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Neighbors Chase Wagner and Ellie Cavanaugh enjoy walking their dog, Melo, along the paths.
“Some of the sidewalks around here are a little narrower, so being able to come up here and run the golf course is super nice,” Wagner said.
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Pictured: Ellie Cavanaugh, Chase Wagner and their dog, Melo.
At last week’s ribbon-cutting, city leaders warned that the park would remain in its current bare-bones state without voter approval of the bond.
“This space is opening as a park today, but it will not be a full park if you don’t show up on Tuesday,” said Denver City Councilman Darrell Watson at the ribbon cutting. “Y’all heard me, it will not be a full park if you do not show up on Tuesday. Your vote is needed to ensure that the investments in this space deliver for you and your family.”
In an interview with Denver7 on Wednesday, Watson expressed relief at the bond’s passage. When asked about a backup plan if Vibrant Denver hadn’t passed, Watson said the alternative would have been challenging.
“Well, the Plan B was to try again,” Watson said. “So, within the powers of the city, we would have to find other options to fund it. It would have been very difficult.”
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Pictured: Darrell Watson, Denver City Council District 9
The $70 million earmarked for the park is expected to pay for the first phase of construction.
“I think with that $70 million, they’re definitely going to have it cleaned up,” Wagner said.
While the funding is secured, some Northeast Park Hill neighbors like Deronn Turner are taking a wait-and-see approach.
“I’m cautiously optimistic,” Turner said. “And I’m cautiously optimistic because we have to have follow-through.”
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Pictured: Deronn Turner, lives in Northeast Park Hill
Turner hopes the park will become the crown jewel of her neighborhood, but emphasized the importance of the city following through on its plans.
“I think this is an opportunity for the community, but specifically folks of color to say, you know, we’ve asked you for what we want, now we need you all to follow through with it,” Turner said.
Preliminary plans from the design firm Sasaki include sports fields, a dog park and a field house.
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Pictured: Design renderings posted outside the entrance to Park Hill Park
However, nothing is set in stone. Watson said the neighborhood planning process is expected to take 12 to 18 months.
“My hopes and dreams for this is similar to the hopes and dreams of the folks that voted,” Watson said. “They want to be able to have open space that their families can enjoy and build great memories right in Park Hill.”
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DENVER — When a driver behind the wheel of a City and County of Denver truck slammed into vehicles stopped in traffic in 2024, two of the injured individuals did not realize they may be entitled to compensation from the city. Now, Evelyn Blackman and Ty Delaney wonder when they’ll ever receive a settlement after their attorney was allegedly told the City and County of Denver did not have enough money left for such claims due to budgetary issues and settlements related to the 2020 George Floyd protests.
On April 11, 2024, a white Ford truck driven by a city employee “carelessly struck” a line of cars that were stopped in traffic, according to the crash report.
“It was kind of a really big deal,” Blackman said. “Somebody wasn’t paying attention.”
“We just rear-ended one car. That car rear-ended another, and so on and so forth,” Delaney explained.
Police body-camera footage captured Blackman being put onto a stretcher and taken into an ambulance.
“I was personally sitting in the backseat with my dog at the time, and I ended up flying forward,” Blackman said. “My back was really messed up.”
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Pictured: Evelyn Blackman being treated following the crash on April 11, 2024
After the crash, Blackman said she was not able to return to work full-time and lost her housing while she was pregnant.
“I could not pay my rent. I ended up losing my apartment. I was homeless for a good majority of this past year, just waiting on this little guy to be born,” Blackman said, patting her baby on the back. “Being pregnant and homeless and not really being able to do anything about it really was hard.”
Blackman and Delaney reached out to attorney Eric Faddis, who filed settlement demands in both cases this year. Delaney’s was filed in July, while Blackman’s was filed in September.
“These cases can take some time to sort of come to a conclusion,” Faddis said.
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Pictured: Evelyn Blackman (left) and Ty Delaney (right)
Delaney’s claim is for $60,000, while Blackman’s claim is for $95,000. Both of their settlement demands detail their injuries, which include spine issues for Delaney and constant pain in Blackman’s neck, back, and shoulder.
“The city is going to have their own interpretation of the claim value. But one thing that they did communicate to us was that they were accepting liability,” Faddis told Denver7. “In August, the city attorney called my staff, and they reported to us that due to all the settlements they paid out in the George Floyd incident and the protests that followed, that for all the people they hurt, they had to pay a lot of money to those folks.”
Faddis said the Denver City Attorney’s Office gave him a shocking figure for how much money was left in the city’s Liability and Claims Fund.
“According to the city, they only had, as of early October, $12,000 left in their reserve fund to pay claims for people that they have injured,” Faddis said. “We heard that in October, and basically what they told us was like, ‘Hey, your clients are out of luck. Sorry, we didn’t handle our funds properly, and now you’re just going to have to hang out until 2026, and then maybe at that time, they will submit some kind of offer of settlement…’ It’s absolutely ridiculous. I’ve never seen this happen.”
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Pictured: Eric Faddis talking with Denver7’s Colette Bordelon
Before publication of this article, Denver7 reached out to the City Attorney’s Office on Thursday with a number of questions and a request for an interview. It was the most recent inquiry from Denver7 to the City of Denver in over two weeks about Faddis’ claims.
In response, a spokesperson told Denver7, “That is incorrect,” but did not specify which figure was incorrect in the original email request. The spokesperson said “there is still money in the fund for settlements” and asserted, once again, that Blackman and Delaney’s claims have not been settled due to other claimants involved in the incident, along with “other factors.” The budget was not mentioned as a factor.
“Regardless of the amount of dollars in the fund, we negotiate fair settlements that we are legally required to pay. The city has always paid our settlements — and we do not intend to change that,” the spokesperson said at the end of their response.
Denver7 replied to the email within three minutes, again asking about different figures connected to the Liability and Claims Fund. Denver7 also called and texted the spokesperson’s cell phone, but did not receive any further clarification, despite alerting the City Attorney’s Office that the story would air Thursday evening.
Faddis provided Denver7 with email correspondence between himself and Denver’s City Attorney’s Office related to Blackman and Delaney’s settlement demands.
On Aug. 27, Faddis’ team checked on the status of Delaney’s settlement demand. They received a response from the City Attorney’s Office, which said, “I am waiting on our civil litigation director to respond to me with a settlement approval limit. Because of the recent changes the City has been making this last month, all settlements were set aside, but I am hoping to have a response by the end of next week.”
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On Sept. 24, a claims adjuster with the City Attorney’s Office told Eric Faddis “at this time, due to the budget restrictions, I was not able to obtain a settlement offer approval from our litigation director.”
Then, on Sept. 24, another email from a claims adjuster with the City Attorney’s Office told Faddis’ team that “at this time, due to the budget restrictions, I was not able to obtain a settlement offer approval from our litigation director. This may change once the attorney reviews all your documents, but please keep in mind, there are 2 other claimants included in this incident and this is considered to be part of a global settlement.”
Denver7 first asked the City Attorney’s Office for an interview in mid-October. Denver7 referenced Faddis’ claim about the amount of money left in the fund.
A spokesperson with the City Attorney’s Office replied via email that the “City and County of Denver allocates $2 million each calendar year from the General Fund to its Liability and Claims fund to pay legal settlements and judgments.”
They continued to say that any remaining funds from prior years roll over into the next year. If the cost of settlements exceeds the available balance, the Denver City Council could vote to approve a supplemental appropriation to ensure those payments are covered.
However, the City Attorney’s Office insisted that Blackman and Delaney’s claims were under review, adding that “funding is not the issue.”
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Denver7 asked the City Attorney’s Office about Blackman and Delaney’s claims and was told “funding is not the issue.”
When Denver7 presented the spokesperson with portions of the emails that Faddis received from the office, the spokesperson said that each settlement offer is based on the facts and circumstances of the individual claim. The spokesperson acknowledged that settlement payments can be affected by the City of Denver’s budget and available funds, but again said that the city is “waiting on additional information to evaluate these claims as part of an incident involving multiple other parties.”
On Oct. 13, Denver7 submitted a Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) request to the City Attorney’s Office, asking for the dollar amount the city has left to spend on settlements through the end of 2025. A spokesperson with the City Attorney’s Office said they “do not maintain a list with the data” requested, and pointed Denver7 to Denver’s Department of Finance.
So, we asked the same question to the Department of Finance, which directed us to the budgeted amounts for liability claims within Mayor Mike Johnston’s 2026 budget proposal. On page 267, it shows $8,524,996 was appropriated for the Liability and Claims Fund for the 2025 budget.
Denver7 also learned that $5,734,443 had been paid out of the fund this year as of early October, according to the Department of Finance.
Based on those figures, Denver7 inferred that $2,790,553 should be remaining in the fund. When asked to confirm if that figure was accurate, the City Attorney’s Office did not directly answer the question.
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According to the Department of Finance, as of the beginning of October $5,734,443 had been paid out of the Liability Claims fund so far in 2025.
The City Attorney’s Office has asserted that Blackman and Delay’s claims have not been settled due to other claimants and the need to evaluate all of the claims. Attorney Steven Mandelaris represents one of the other claimants and submitted a settlement demand in July 2024.
“She’s been victimized. She’s been victimized by the city. They’ve refused to provide any sort of settlement offer. They’ve refused to engage in any kind of meaningful negotiations,” Mandelaris said about his client. “She’s stuck in a situation now where she has an inoperable vehicle. The city won’t fix it. She has mounting medical bills. She still has pain and residual effects from her injury.”
Similar to Faddis, Mandelaris provided Denver7 with email correspondence between his office and the city attorney. After many back-and-forth emails about the status of the claim, an Oct. 1 email from a claims adjuster with the City Attorney’s Office said in part, “because of the recent budget cuts, we have not been able to obtain approval for a settlement offer at this time.”
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Steve Mandelaris received an email from the City Attorney’s Office on Oct. 1, which said in part, “because of the recent budget cuts, we have not been able to obtain approval for a settlement offer at this time.”
Mandelaris claims he was also told the city only has $12,000 left in its Liability and Claims Fund.
“There have been representations from my colleagues at the City Attorney’s Office that they have $12,000 left in the civil liabilities fund,” Mandelaris said. “That’s absurd, $12,000 for the City and County of Denver being left in this fund? I was shocked. I’m absolutely shocked… They’ve told us that we’ve got to wait until next year, until the budget resets.”
Denver7 asked Mandelaris if he and Faddis had discussed that figure prior to their interviews.
“I don’t know Mr. Faddis,” Mandelaris said, adding that he only spoke with Faddis on the phone once last week. “We haven’t met in person. We’ve never discussed this claim in any context whatsoever.”
Mandelaris also submitted a CORA request regarding the City and County of Denver’s General Liability Fund, asking for the “numerical fund-balance amount reflecting the actual, unencumbered balance currently available for disbursement toward new or unresolved liability claims as of the most recent accounting period.”
In an emailed response from the City Attorney’s Office on Oct. 29, he was told that the balance is “currently $175,673 of available budget” remaining in the Liability and Claims Fund.
Mandelaris was left with more questions than answers.
“Where’s the money? How’s it been allocated? You should be settling claims for taxpayers,” said Mandelaris. “She shouldn’t have to be victimized by a negligent city employee who crashed into her, and then victimized again by the City and County of Denver for refusing to promptly evaluate and pay claims.”
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Steve Mandelaris received an email from the City Attorney’s Office on Oct. 29, which said there is $175,673 of available budget remaining in the Liabilities and Claims Fund.
Meanwhile, Blackman and Delaney are left wondering when they could see compensation from the City of Denver.
“I really don’t want to be in debt,” Delaney said. “It’s hard to live when you’re in debt.”
“I can’t really go back to work full-time, obviously, because I have a little one, and I’m here by myself. And so I can’t really, I don’t really know how the next three months are going to go as far as rent and paying bills and being able to sustain myself and my kid,” said Blackman. “It’s just getting really tedious trying to trust a city that doesn’t really see the value in actually taking it seriously.”
Denver7 again asked the City Attorney’s Office for an interview about the differing figures regarding the Liability and Claims fund. If that interview, or any update about how much money is left or unaccounted for in the fund, is provided, Denver7 will update this story.
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Flock cameras were installed in Denver in May 2024, and there are now more than 100 cameras mounted at 70 intersections across the city.
The Denver Police Department has credited the license plate readers for hundreds of arrests and recovered stolen vehicles, as well as the recovery of dozens of firearms. But at a packed community meeting Wednesday night, residents called for the city to “De-Flock Denver” and for the mayor to include the community in conversations about the future of the cameras.
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John McKinney, president of the East Colfax Neighborhood Association, told the packed crowd he has a simple message for Mayor Johnston.
“Quit doing this behind closed doors and come out and debate us in the public forum, you f—-ing p—y!,” said McKinney.
The gathering brought together several registered neighborhood associations (RNOs) against the use of Flock.
This meeting came on the same day Johnston announced new privacy protections for the cameras, stating that only Denver police officers can access Denver’s camera data.
“No federal agency of any sort, no federal employee of any sort will have access to Denver’s data,” Johnston told Denver7 Investigates.
Under the updated contract, other Colorado law enforcement agencies can access the information only if they sign agreements promising not to share data with federal agencies. An agency that signs the agreement and violates it will be subject to prosecution by the Colorado Attorney General’s Office.
Flock will pay a $100,000 fine for any instance in which it shares data with the federal government, according to the city.
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McKinney dismissed these safeguards as insufficient protection.
“It’s very weak regulation,” McKinney said.
Johnston acknowledged in his interview Wednesday that he cannot satisfy all critics but defended the program’s effectiveness in reducing auto theft and solving murders.
“For folks who are never going to ideologically believe in any use of a camera system in the country, we won’t find common ground on that idea,” Johnston said.
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Denver City Council members who attended the town hall said they were not involved in the mayor’s contract decision with the company. Councilwoman Shontel Lewis publicly criticized Johnston Wednesday night.
“I want to say that it’s important for you all to identify the kings in the castle in the cities in which you all live,” said Lewis. “And the mayor is one of those.”
The heated debate over license plate reader cameras is expected to continue in the coming months. Denver7 will continue to stay on top of this issue.
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DENVER — After years of debate over the land’s future, Denver’s Park Hill Golf Course is finally on its way to becoming a park.
On Saturday morning, hundreds of neighbors weighed in on what their park and the surrounding area should look like during the Park Hill Open House.
“Today is a really exciting day as we work towards what the old Park Hill Golf Course, Park Hill Park, is going to look like and feel like,” said Jolon Clark, Executive Director of Denver Parks and Recreation.
“I’m so glad that we were able to preserve it, and now we can turn it into something amazing,” said Park Hill resident Jennifer Glitsos.
The City of Denver acquired the 155-acre property earlier this year, following a years-long debate over development.
In 2023, voters rejected a plan to allow housing and commercial development on the site. Then, earlier this year, the city acquired the land from Westside Investment Partners, marking Denver’s largest single purchase of private land for public use.
Denver Parks and Recreation, along with the city’s Community Planning and Development team, is now presenting the draft framework so neighbors can continue to share their feedback.
Some ideas on the table? Adventure parks, shuffleboard courts, zip lines – you name it.
The last time Denver opened a park of this size was 1911, so city leaders say they want to do this right.
“People are hearing each other – isn’t that the definition of community?” said Park Hill business owner Dawn Fay.
Denver7 was there at the Park Hill Open House on Saturday morning, where we had the opportunity to hear some of your ideas.
“Kids are my heart, so anything that’s used for youth and progresses their development is number one to me,” said Herman White, a longtime member of the Park Hill Pirates Youth Football Organization.
“I have a little one who’s two years old, and so it’d be great to have a place to walk around and just enjoy [the space],” said Glitsos.
The ideas go beyond the 155-acre park site.
“I think there was so much debate around this property and what it should be, and there were so many members of the community who did want to see affordable housing and access to food,” said Clark, “we don’t want to just leave behind the rest of the community that still said there are other needs that need to be met, and just because we can’t deliver them here doesn’t mean we can’t find a way to deliver those things for the community.”
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“We must be intentional about how we develop this space and ensure that this park, while a beacon of progress, does not contribute to the displacement of those who have called this place home for generations,” said Councilwoman Shontel Lewis. “The transformation of this land should lift existing residents, not push them out.”
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“There’s a lot of gentrification happening in this community, but the essence of this community, and what makes everyone proud about this community, is the diversity and the opportunities of inclusiveness,” said White.
“If there’s any way to have access to healthy food, I think that would be really important for the neighborhood,” said Fay.
While that transformation won’t happen on the park site itself, city leaders say they’re looking at ways to incorporate those on surrounding streets.
“I think we need to have opportunities for entrepreneurship. We need to have a lot more businesses,” said White, “all I really want to do is ensure that this space is equitable.”
Oh, and remember Park Hill Dave?
He’s the runaway dog that evaded capture on the old Park Hill Golf Course for months on end.
He’s since found a new home with Clark.
Fay told Denver7 she’d love to see Park Hill Dave on bark ranger duty at the new park someday.
“I think that’d be the coolest thing,” she said.
What should the new Park Hill look like? Residents have ideas.
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DENVER — This week, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston announced 169 city employees were laid off and 666 vacant positions were eliminated while the city struggles with a budget deficit.
The city of Denver provided a list of the number of vacant positions eliminated from various departments throughout the city, but didn’t specify the positions.
Through the Colorado Open Records Act, Denver7 obtained the full list of vacant positions eliminated by the city.
Denver’s Department of Transportation and Infrastructure, or DOTI, saw the largest number of vacant positions eliminated, with 108.
Among the jobs cut are equipment operators, fleet part specialists, and even utility workers. DOTI provided the following statement to Denver.
We have worked hard to ensure our residents don’t feel the impacts of layoffs in DOTI. Internally, we are organizing ourselves to prioritize core services to minimize effects on our customers. We are continuing to work through our budget to find cost savings that will not impact direct public services. The Mayor will deliver the budget on Sept. 15, and we will have more to share then.
The Denver Public Library system eliminated 99 of its vacant jobs, including more than a dozen librarian positions.
Denver7 reached out to the Denver Public Library for comment on the cuts. Below is the statement provided.
Denver Public Library (DPL) is not reaching its budget reduction target via layoffs, but rather through position management of the equivalent of 99 full time employees (FTE). Of the 99 FTE, 45 FTE were existing vacancies that were abolished as part of the budget reduction. To meet our 2026 budget reduction number we will also be freezing 54 FTE from planned upcoming branch renovations that are part of the 2017 Elevate Denver Bond and the 2022 RISE Bond.
The 45 FTE that were already abolished do not impact the current level of service the library is providing today.
Additional savings will come from taking locations temporarily offline due to planned upcoming bond renovations. Staff from these locations will be redeployed throughout the system to continue serving our customers throughout the City.
We are continuing to work through our budget to find cost savings that will minimize impact to direct public services.
At the Denver Sheriff’s Department, 61 vacant positions were eliminated as part of the cuts. Some of the positions cut include unlicensed therapists and security specialists.
We worked closely with Mayor Johnston and the Budget and Management Office to ensure our proposed reductions did not impact safety or security. We are continuing to work through our budget to find cost savings that will not impact direct public services. The Mayor will deliver the budget on Sept. 15, and we will have more to share then.
At Denver’s Department of Parks & Recreation, more than 50 open positions were eliminated. A spokesperson for the department provided the following statement.
Over the past year, DPR has maintained multiple vacant positions, resulting in gradual adjustments to staffing and service levels, which will now serve as the baseline moving forward. We are continuing to work through our budget to find cost savings that will have minimal impacts to direct public services. The Mayor will deliver the budget on Sept. 15, and we will have more to share then.
Local Union 158 President Mike Wallins told Denver7 he’s concerned about what the elimination of vacant positions can do to current employees.
“We were already short-handed, and now we’re laying employees off, so it, you know, it’s just the help that you were hoping would come is not coming,” Wallins said.
However, in a roundtable with reporters this week, Mayor Johnston said the position cut had been frozen for months and emphasized the goal was to keep impacts at a minimum.
“The first was to protect core city services, to make sure we’re gonna keep picking up trash, keeping parks and rec centers open, officers on the street,” he said.
A spokesperson for Denver’s Department of Finance told Denver7 the list is still subject to change until the final 2026 budget is approved in November.
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DENVER — There’s no denying how much Scott Gilmore loves a Denver park.
“This park is spectacular. It looks great,” Scott Gilmore said while sitting in Civic Center Park on Monday afternoon. “The parks team that is in this city today is one of the best parks teams in the nation, hands down.”
However, his career with the City of Denver was abruptly cut on Monday.
“Thirteen years and it came down to a few-minute phone call that I’m not needed anymore,” Scott Gilmore said solemnly.
“For the thousands and thousands of employees of the city, they have been on pins and needles,” Scott Gilmore said about the anticipation behind the layoffs. “It’s been anguish. It’s been trauma.”
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In May, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston announced the city was projecting a $50 million budget deficit for 2025 and a $200 million budget deficit for 2026. The city has attributed the shortfall to “national economic uncertainty and rising costs.”
In order to make up for the shortfall, Johnston said the city would implement layoffs and a hiring freeze.
In July, the city’s career service board approved changes to the city’s layoff procedure, making it easier for the city to lay off longtime city employees by removing some of their protections.
On Monday, the City and County of Denver announced it was laying off 171 employees, eliminating 665 vacant positions, and finding new funding sources for 92 positions.
In total, 928 positions (8.4% of the total workforce) are being impacted. The city said the reductions would save $100 million.
Denver city officials said the measures they took Monday were necessary because nearly 70% of the city’s General Fund budget goes toward personnel costs.
Employees impacted by the layoffs will receive 30 days of paid administrative leave, two to eight weeks of severance, 60 days of healthcare coverage, and outplacement services to help employees find jobs.
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The number of layoffs announced Monday is somewhat lower than what some city employees anticipated. However, the city said Monday that its efforts to slow and freeze hiring and reduce the size of government have minimized the impact on employees and public services.
“Due to these efforts, the city was able to significantly minimize impact to employees and public services,” the city said in its release.
Scott Gilmore is married to Denver City Council Member Stacie Gilmore, who spoke about her husband being laid off during Monday’s meeting.
“He is a 61-year-old man that only wanted to serve out the last four years of his time until he was 65, and because of his sassy, loud-mouthed wife, he got let go,” Stacie Gilmore said. “Today is a disgusting display of the power and privilege that men have in the City and County of Denver.”
Stacie Gilmore believes it is not a coincidence that her husband was among the employees laid off.
“I feel like today, there was retaliation for me being a very outspoken critic of Mayor Johnston’s administration,” Stacie Gilmore told Denver7. “It just seems so cruel to penalize someone for doing good work, for always getting good reviews… It’s a huge blow. And I just feel horrible that he was treated in such a derogatory and inhumane way.”
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Council Member Stacie Gilmore (right) during Monday’s meeting.
According to both Scott and Stacie Gilmore, his salary was not tied to the General Fund, creating more questions for the two.
“I was moved to a role that is actually 100% covered by Legacy Funds to help the budget. This shortfall is actually within the General Fund. So, there has to be some questions why I was laid off, because it does not help solve the budget challenges,” Scott Gilmore said.
Stacie Gilmore said no matter what cost the city claims to be saving, they are losing invaluable people.
“I just feel horrible for the other 170 people that were laid off today, especially because the majority of those, I’m sure, helped us make it through the pandemic,” said Stacie Gilmore. “Just those sacrifices that you don’t really think about until it all comes suddenly to an end.”
Right now, Scott Gilmore said his future is uncertain.
“I’m worried about how I pay for my daughter’s college. I’m worried about health care. I’m worried about how I pay my bills,” Scott Gilmore said. “I was four years away from retiring, and now I have to rethink my whole life, my whole family’s life.”
Despite being laid off, Scott Gilmore still believes in the city he loves.
“I just hope the best for the city. I hope the best for the employees,” Scott Gilmore said. “We will get through this. We’re Denver. We’re going to be okay.”
Denver7 reached out to a city spokesperson, who said all of the layoffs should be announced by the end of Tuesday. After that, the spokesperson said the city will be sharing more information and declined to comment until then.
A breakdown of the layoffs, including which departments were impacted, is anticipated later this week.
Mayor Johnston is expected to deliver the full 2026 budget on September 15.
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