Agenda Date: 12/16/2025
Subject:
Title
Ordinance 28-2025: An ordinance on second reading amending Title 1, Chapter 9, Section 4 of the Littleton City Code relating to Council Member compensation
Body
From:
James L. Becklenberg, City Manager
Prepared by:
Reid Betzing, City Attorney
Presentations:
Tracy Hooker, HR Director
PURPOSE:
To amend 1-9-4 of the City Code to reference the Denver-Aurora-Centennial MSA from the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood MSA.
LONG-TERM OUTCOME(S) SERVED:
High-Quality Governance
DISCUSSION:
Section 21 of the Littleton City Charter allows for the monthly salaries of council members to be increase by ordinance. On September 5, 2023, City Council approved ordinance 14-2023 which set Council salaries to a certain percentage of the regional Area Median Income ("AMI") for one person and tied to the data published by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ("HUD") for the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood MSA, with an effective date of January 1, 2026.
Subsequent to that adoption Ordinance 14, the Office of Management and Budget ("OMB"), after evaluation of the decennial census data renamed the MSA to the Denver-Aurora-Centennial MSA as the City of Centennial had grown larger than the City of Lakewood, and the MSA is named after the top 3 most populous cities in the region. HUD who uses the OMB data models will also publish data based on the Denver-Aurora-Centennial MSA and not the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood MSA.
The following ordinance only changes the reference from the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood MSA to the Denver-Aurora-Centennial MSA.
BACKGROUND:
City Councils across the metro area are routinely compensated for their service to their cities. Previously Littleton City Council salaries had not been adjusted since 2015. In 2023, market data was collected from other cities with part-time councils with populations between 25,000 and 125,000 people. That comparative analysis led to suggested updates to the council salaries as well as the ability to ...
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