Even though City Council hasn’t sent the $950 million Vibrant Denver bond to voters, Mayor Mike Johnston has already embarked on a campaign to drum up public support.

His first stop: a closed-door online meeting on Friday with registered neighborhood organization leaders from across the city. In a recording of the meeting reviewed by Denverite, Johnston pitched the bond as a vital catalyst that needs RNO support to win this November. But he faced criticism from neighborhood leaders he hoped to win over.

“We know bonds are intensely local conversations, because there are specific crosswalks people care about, and specific tennis courts and specific local rec centers and others, and so that’s what makes it exciting. It’s also what makes it hard, because we always want to do more than we ca

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