About Our Office

CASR's mission is to:

• Act with urgency to proactively mitigate climate change by advancing science-based strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on a scale and timeline that align with the recommendations from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change;
• Cultivate resiliency in the face of potential climate change-related emergencies;
• Secure an economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable city for generations to come; and
• Ensure that the setting of goals and metrics and monitoring of results considers equity

CASR grounds its work in the following vision statements:

• All people deserve affordable access to the resources needed to achieve a high quality of life.
• We embrace citizen action and collaborate with communities to ensure environmental justice, equity, and affordability.
• Denver is a leader in clean and local energy that comes from the sun, wind, or other innovative renewable technologies.
• Denver is transforming buildings and homes into high-performing, healthy places to live, work, learn, and play and providing the necessary resources for local businesses to achieve their sustainability goals every day.
• Mobility options in Denver allow people to efficiently walk, bike, take transit, or carpool for most trips in a safe, accessible, and affordable transportation network.
• Residents have a direct connection to the natural environment and participate in caring for it for current and future generations.
• Denver should strive to create a circular economy, where all materials and natural resources are preserved, reused, recycled or repurposed.

Requests made under the Colorado Open Records Act must be made in writing and must include the following:  

• Requestor’s full name, address and telephone number
• Subject matter to be searched in as descriptive terms as possible 
• Dates of search
• Types of documents to be searched (email, written documents, reports, etc.)
• A statement that the request is made pursuant to the provisions of the Colorado Open Records Act, Colorado Revised Statutes §24-72-201, et seq. 

If you are unable to provide a request in writing due to a disability, please contact the Denver Office for Disability Rights for assistance. 

DisabilityAccess@denvergov.org
TTY: (720) 913-8475 
Fax: (720) 913-8470 

Staff will attempt to provide records in the form in which they are used by CASR. Generally, staff will not manipulate data to generate a record in another form with the exception of those specific elements in materials such as a public solicitation proposal administered by CASR  where a proposal has been designated by the proposer as Business or Trade Secrets and plainly marked “Trade Secrets”, “Confidential”, “Proprietary”, or “Trade Secret.”  

Scoring evaluations from a public solicitation are a deliberative process and privileged information. CASR shall withhold such documentation pursuant to the deliberative process privilege, and if necessary provide an affidavit asserting the privilege.

The Denver City Charter names the Office of the Clerk and Recorder as the official custodian for all contracts and agreements for the City and County of Denver. If you are requesting one of these documents please submit a CORA request to the Clerk and Recorder. 

Office of the Clerk and Recorder 

Call: 720-865-8400 or 311

clerkandrecorder@denvergov.org 

Requests for records held by other city departments will be declined and customers will be referred to the department(s) believed to be custodians of the records.