Agenda Date: 10/07/2025
Subject:
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Resolution 96-2025: Approving the 2026 Operating Plan and Budget for Littleton Downtown Development Authority (LDDA)
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From: |
James L. Becklenberg, City Manager |
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Prepared by: |
Kathleen Osher, Deputy City Manager |
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Presentations: |
Jenny Starkey, LDDA Director |
PURPOSE:
The Downtown Development Authorities Act, Section 31-25-816, et seq, C.R.S. requires that the Littleton Downtown Development Authority (LDDA) submit an annual Operating Plan and Budget for the coming year for city council approval.
LONG-TERM OUTCOME(S) SERVED:
High-Quality Governance
DISCUSSION:
The Downtown Development Authorities Act (“Act”) requires that the authority submit an annual operating plan and budget for the next fiscal year by December 31 of each year for approval by city council. The LDDA held a public meeting on September 17, 2025, and adopted the 2026 Budget.
BACKGROUND:
DDAs are quasi-governmental entities that provide organizational focus and financing to support downtown economic development and improvements. DDAs help facilitate partnerships between businesses, property owners, and local governments to champion the beautification, development, and improvements of a city’s central business area for the benefit of the city.
City council sent qualified electors within the boundaries of the then-proposed LDDA three ballot questions that included formation of the DDA, the collection of all revenues, and an increase in property taxes during its public hearing on August 16, 2022. Qualified electors within the proposed boundaries overwhelmingly approved the formation and financial tools for the LDDA on November 8, 2022.
Per state statute, the LDDA must submit their plan of development to planning commission for recommendation and then to city council for approval. The plan of development was adopted by the LDDA Board on March 22, 2023.
Prior Actions or Discussions
• Ordinance 29-2022, creating and establishing the LDDA and determining organizational aspects of the LDDA, was approved on December 6, 2022.
• Resolution 84-2022, approving appointments to the LDDA Board and terms for each appointee, was approved on December 13, 2022.
• January 18, 2023, the LDDA elected board leadership
• The LDDA had met sixteen times to elect their board leadership, approve rules and procedures, approve the Plan of Development, develop an intergovernmental agreement (IGA) for council consideration and conduct the business of the LDDA.
• Council approved an Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) on April 4, 2023, that included an outline of the partnership between LDDA and the city as well as formation funding in the amount of $180,000.
• Council approved the 2024 Operating Plan and Budget for the LDDA on December 19, 2023.
• Council approved the 2025 Operating Plan and Budget for the LDDA on October 15, 2024.
FISCAL IMPACTS:
N/A
STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends approval of the resolution.
ALTERNATIVES:
N/A
PROPOSED MOTION:
Proposed Motion
I move to approve Resolution 96-2025 approving the 2026 Operating Plan and Budget for the Littleton Downtown Development Authority (LDDA).