A bill for an ordinance designating certain property as being required for public use and authorizing use and acquisition thereof by negotiation or through condemnation proceedings of fee simple and other interests, including any rights and interests related or appurtenant to such property, as needed for the National Western Center Project. Adds two land parcels inadvertently omitted from the legal description in the Land Acquisition Ordinance passed in December 2015, granting authority to acquire them as needed for the National Western Center redevelopment in Council District 9. The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 11-7-16. The Committee approved filing this bill by consent on 10-4-16.
The first meeting in 2017 will be on Monday, January 2nd. Okay, Madam Secretary, can we please pull up Council Bill 898. Let's see here. Councilman, can each honorable fund consider, as you've called out, 1898, would you like to do with it? Thank you, Mr. President. I will be offering an amendment to delete reference to the condemnation of property currently owned by the Denver Public Schools. Negotiations for acquisition of the DPS property are ongoing. That's right. Councilman Lopez report. Please put 898 on the floor. Yes, Mr. President, I move that counts. 898 of 2016 be placed upon final consideration. Do pass. Councilwoman, can each your motion to amend? Thank you, Mr. President. I move that council bill 898 be amended in the following particulars on page two line 47 after the period ad colon. Lions 23 through 47 constitute the deepest parcel on page three, line 22 after the comma ad, but not the DPS parcel. Okay. It's been moved in second and comments by members of council. Because when Ortega. I just want to ask a question. So this is to deal with the actual giving giving authority for them to proceed with the acquisition. Correct. Kelly or someone? Yes. Yeah, I think I think we have real estate. So typically the deal is already worked out before they're brought before us. I don't know if the only sticking point was the reference to condemnation, but if that is not the only sticking point, why are we moving this forward before the deal's been pretty much worked out? Hi, Councilwoman. I'm Jen Wellborn with the city attorney's office. This is actually consistent with the way we've done big project acquisitions, which is that we have brought forward a bill to you all to authorize by negotiation or condemnation any of the any of the parcels required for that project. My office went back and looked, I think when the PDP ordinance came before you all, and I think it's been since about 2008 and at least eight different ordinances where we've done this for where we have multiple parcel assemblages for a four road project or in this case for National Western, where we have done an ordinance that allows us to acquire any of the parcels that are laid out in the legal description or or in this case within a boundary. And we did that for National Western in December of 2015. There were two parcels inadvertently left off. It's because they're east of Brighton and the surveyors just missed it. We are. The purpose of this is just to add those parcels in the same way that we have added all of the parcels and treat them consistently with the way we've treated every other parcel in this project and frankly, every other assemblage project that we've worked on in the last many years. So in this case, where when you have when you have one off acquisitions for a specific purpose, that where you're only buying one parcel in many cases, that's that's exactly the case, Councilwoman, where we bring an ordinance to you and it has the actual contract in it in this case with these kinds of assemblages. That's not what we've done for the past eight or ten years. Okay. Does that make sense? Does that answer your question, Council? It does. Okay. Seeing no other comments or questions, Madam Secretary. Recall can each by Lopez write new Ortega assessment by Black Clerk. All right. Espinosa. I. Flynn, i. Gilmore, I. Herndon, I. Katherine. Hi. Mr. President. I call Madam Speaker, close voting. Announce the results. 3913 eyes. Constable 898 has been amended. Councilman Lopez, please. We need a motion to pass as amended now. Mr. President, I move that council bill 898 series of 2016 be moved and be passed on final, final consideration as amended. Okay. It has been moved in second. It comes from members of council. It comes from our take as this from the prior. It was just hasn't gone away. All right. Madam Secretary, roll call. Can each I. LOPEZ All right. New ORTEGA High Assessment by Black. Clark by Espinosa. FLYNN Hi. Gilmore I Herndon. I Cashman. Hi, Mr. President. I Please close the voting and ask for results. 3913 Eyes Council Bill 898 has passed as amended. Okay, just want to make sure looking down the road, make sure there are no other items that need to be called out. We're ready for the block votes. All other bills for introduction are order published. We are now ready. So council members, please remember that this is a consent block vote and you will need to vote. Otherwise this is your last chance to call out an item for a separate votes. Guzman Lopez, will you please put the resolutions for adoption and the bills for final consideration for final passage on the floor? We put them both at the same time. Yeah. The read through. That's what we did last week. Yeah. And it's easy if you do it from the screen. All right. I motion to approve the consent agenda. So the motion would be. No. No, do I. Do I run through all those resolutions and bills? Yep. Just all of them at once. Yep. All right. Back in my day, we brought it on. Oh, I'm just kidding. All right, Mr. President. Okay. I move that. Our series of 2016, the following resolutions 1000 982 998, 1000 to 8, 79, 33, nine, 34, nine, 92 and 93, 96, 99, 1003. And the following bills for consideration to series at 2016 979 nine 8947 nine 5959 961 974, nine, 75 and 85 831 972 973. And 1978 be released upon. Of do pass in block. Okay. Madam Secretary, I think he got all of them. Yes. Would you concur? Okay, great. Rook for. Black Eye Clerk. By. Vanessa Flynn I. Gilmore, i. Herndon, i. Catherine Kennedy I. Lopez I knew Ortega i susman i. Mr. President. I 3939 resolutions have been adopted and bills have been placed upon final consideration and do pass tonight. Council is scheduled to sit as the quasi Judicial Board of Equalization to consider reduction of total cost assessments for the one local maintenance district.