Updated 4:15 p.m., Oct. 28, 2025.

Denver City Council President Amanda Sandoval, who has attended hundreds of public comment sessions over the past decade, found herself overwhelmed Monday night.

“That was the most intense public hearing I can remember having ever,” she said after residents shared a litany of needs and requests for the city’s upcoming budget.

Speakers wanted more community-based crime prevention programs. Safer transportation infrastructure. Support for youth arts and workforce development, and more funding for the Clerk and Recorder’s election services.

The city is facing a projected $200 million shortfall next year, thanks to a weakening economy, softening sales taxes and growing city spending. But more than 60 people signed up to request changes to his “cut-to-the-b

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