A resolution approving a proposed Agreement between the City and County of Denver and Mile High United Way for the administration and execution of Denver’s Small Business Emergency Relief Program during the COVID-19 health crisis. Approves a contract with Mile High United Way for $4,400,000 and through 12-31-20 for the administration and execution of the city’s Small Business Emergency Relief Program (SBERF), specifically using federal coronavirus relief funds, citywide (OEDEV-54859). The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 6-29-20. Councilmember Flynn approved filing this item on 6-4-20.
You're welcome. Anything else on this item, Councilmember? Okay. Um, Madam Secretary, if you please put the next item on our screens and that's 530. Councilmember CdeBaca, this one's also yours for questions. Yes. Thank you, Mr. President. Is there anybody here who can speak to the Mile High, a united Way component of this? So I will do my best again. We have been asked not to send people down to the meeting unless bills are called out. And we got this call out too late tonight right before the meeting started to get anybody around here. So I'm going to do the best I can and we'll follow up if we need to. But go ahead and and I will try. And and we make it we we do our call outs on Mondays so we can check in on Monday mornings for the call outs. But we are curious about the equity rubric here. We've been giving out small business relief. We haven't gotten a full account of what each business is getting and which businesses fall under the disadvantage business classification. We also haven't gotten the rubric that we've requested multiple times regarding how we prioritize equity in our small business relief. Can you speak to any of that? So we have sent out a number of materials about how prioritization is going on. I'm happy to present those again. And our report was put out on Friday that talks about the number of businesses that are female owned, minority and female owned and minority owned that was sent out to all of council on Friday. We have about 500 grants that have been made. 75% went to grants of businesses with less than 500,000 in annual revenue, and 65% went to either women or and or minority owned businesses. Half of the grants are more than half are sole proprietors or micro-businesses with five or fewer employees. So that report has been sent out. I can resend it if that's helpful. That's not what we're looking for. That's the aggregated data. We're looking for disaggregated data by districts in a spreadsheet that shows us next to the business. If it is classified as a disadvantaged business and how much each business is getting. That is not data we've gotten and we've made several requests. And so I would like to make sure that going forward, that's something that we're getting because the disaggregated data is critical for us. Right. And that report has listed the individual businesses that have been awarded to your point, that does not identify whether they're disadvantaged. So I will pass that request on. It does identify the council district for each of those 500 businesses and the amount request on. Yes, thank you. You're done on this one, Councilmember. Yes. Okay. Thank you. And thank you, Skye, for pinch hitting on short notice there. We appreciate it. Madam Secretary, if you please put the next item on our screens. Council Member Kennedy I believe this one belongs to you.